The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-24 00:00:00

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DIALOGUES OF THE LIVING.

(FroM Ve. Dublin Tackit,)

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Acres procufrunt Matthaei spetactilum uturgae. ice Sat. 7.
They rush to Densrdefence—,eah a magnificent booby.—Freqi
Tt ans. .

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"A blot that Will be still a blot in spite
Of all that gra re a,pblogists may write;
And though a bishop toil to cleanse the stain,
He wipes and scours the silver cup in vain." •
Coiper's Exportulation.s
[Father Thomas M'Caraham Maguire !mittens Bishop Murray ‘l,ll
embodiedfiustrifiration.] •
Father Torn (with naieette).—We've put our foot in it, your
highness..
Bishop Murray.—Prti!afraid so. ' Who would ever imagine
we'd be so followed to ottr It'll'? Confound Dens and his ex-
posers! We've no hole hut due for escape, 1164 if it fajta:— ••
Father'rom—(interruptin'a filling tip the hiatu- of
the sentence.)—" We may yir to Morn; • for May the brindle
bite/slat her litter, but there nothin else for it ! -
Bishop.Mnrray.—" I'm sorry vou published that fooliditirades
of a chailenge: it did us more harm than good, no doubt; as
not only its •evin ridiculous style, but your not follawing it up,
got us laughed at..;• •
Father Torn (indignantly)— By myreowli your holiness IS
undher a bit of a mistake there, au vhoW ;' my challenge wasn't
by chalks-half so:ridiculous as your letther; neither did i!get off
half so much laughed at, as I'll now Prove : to 7rlt4f my chat.'
lenge wasn't minded, for, it was like myself, coarse and bluster-
ing; but your letther Sods looked toi• amid (witha shrug of dis-
dain) more's the pity! •• ' "'
Bishop Murray.—That infernal Bishop of Dieter has regd •
larly fixed themnus on my shoulders; and, egad, if I can't re-
move it.tri some one else. I'll sink with the weight. He said I
lied. Danny him ! .
Father-Tom (with a long Whistle)—*hers evi! your Holi-
ness! but that sounds mightrlike swarin! '
Bishop Murray (still heated, swearing)—W!to can help It to
bt baited thus—goaded thus—sneered at thus, and not to be
able to return the attack. St. Atigustine him,self couldn't beat'
it with patience! • •
Father Tom—Whootht your holihess! here's one fides
Achates, Mr. Coyne.
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tEister the honest Publisher Den,. • -
Bishop Murray—My dear Mr. Coyne how do you
lighted to see yuu looking so healthy—sit dowu, my dear sir.
Maguire reach a chair !
Father Torn (a /a the hishop.)—Prowl and happy to meet
you, Mr. Coyne—a little this way, sit—there'l a draught Irtins
[bat door. , , o
• Mr: Coyne.—Thank your holiness I Thank ycrur reverence!
I'M very welt in health, bet being concerned. to hear what von
required so urgently made me heat myself in my hurry ! No-
thing serious, I hope ?
Bishop Murray ( fawning.)Wfrv, Mr. Odyne,'Pll be canild
with you. I knots itgentlematt, ieid it'reflgions.
Line, so VII be freak. ,-This.',Dins",•TheolAillyrharing• pnb-
hilted with my einisent, ktyititlsas hivisosimp.aeonsiderabla
finis, and 1 was ishlied to deny. it, •
Father Torn.—Falth; and. fur a right' good tedsori, vas
couldn't help it !
Bishop Mui ray.—This denial 'of mine.
.you are navamthas
caused much discussion. The Bishop of Exeter has brought itt
before the lords, and our church will be eternally scandalised
tint ess my statement be confirmed. • Now, my dear Mr. Coyne,
think of this.
Mr. Coyne.—Well, your holiuess, what would you have me
do ?
Bishop Murray.—Why, if you were just td maks afEdayit the(
I did not countenance the publication.
Mr. Coyne (aghast and startled.)—Perjure myself, your
holinest

Fathti Torn.--,Tut psha! I'll give You absolution.. „ •
Bishop Murray. _why, niv dear Mr. Coynejt'ivforithe goo 4
of the church, and.you know it can't do you any harm.
Father Totn.—liivil a hair it 'ill singe! . ••
Mr. Coyne (ittdignantly.)—Your holiness, I ani itt,testied;
that you'd insult yourself and
.me by such an ()frit; pu did
desire the publication, and 1. can't deny it. As for you, Mt.
Maguire, I don't wonder at any thing you advise. Your ho-
lines,, I take my leave,—( Krit,)
Bishop Morray.—We are.namt, inelefq, in a. hoblile!
Fattier Tom .—ThvOna men Avid /—and after tills efactilatibn
both worthies departed.

ROI4I,RY OF DR. SHRPRURD.--:-Pour persons, bearing tilt!
names of Thomas Howard, Thomas Bilsburv, Robert ?tins-.
worth, and William White, have been taken into custody by.
the police on suspicion of having been concerned in the antrage
and robbery lately committed on Dr. Shepherd. They' were
examined oa Tuesday before Alderman Case and ColonelWil-
hams. The latter, being a personal friend of Dr. Shepherd, as
well as county magistrate, attended with much anxiety to the.
Yin,ie evidenceftth
e'''itne":l whom he scrutinised in every "point
of s tview.inOtitrienced with the prisoners at Run-
tet
corn, whence they were gradually traced to Wavertree. They
were last seen at a place retied Blick-stall, about four and a
half miles from the spot where Dr. Shepherd was robbed.. The
prisoners left Brick-wall about an hour and g :bait'. before the
outrage was committed. A witness named Rushton testified
the disorderly and violent conduct of the prisoners oh the road.
We believe the prisoners belong, to that class of disorderlies
usually denominated Park-rangers. The prisoners were all re-
manded for further examination.

We mentioned last week that the younger Miss Mickle
thwaite, niece to the:Earl..of.Stradhroke, was about to he united
to a brother of Sir J. Astley. On the same day it is expected
that her sister, one of the beauties of Alniack's, will be married
to Mills. Esq.. a gentleman of considerable property, and
somewhat the lady's senior. On these two points ,this match
forms quite a contrast with the other.—liferniey Herald.
Ills MODESTY THE MEMBER FOR Roebdck,,
in the pursuit of that notoriety which .he mistakes for reputa-
tion, has lately taken to political pamphleteering; and to save,
the inconventent charges of advertising, has had the effronter.y.
to put his putts into the shape of a parliamentary attack upon
the press, which he says is characterised, from the highest to,
the lowest, by the most paltry corr..aption.._the basest. cow-
lea,' and the-hVekeif This is' t he, niildeSt...yr r-
sion of the attack ; these words he, owns. to in Mi. last-L."ollrd
pamphlet. The press has. paid him the comptient
ut 1- dis-
charge of artillery, which was hardly worth while; :inch guns
as the Standard, and the Times, the Examiner, anal the Chroni-
cle; are too large for so small an object. It. is like-.sending
troop of horse to gallop over a crawling spider; nr setting the
Houses of Lords and Commons on fire for the purpose of roast-
ing a goo•e, Mr. ltoelmek is one of the most I.ig.headed men
that ever went the wrong road. We always knew him to be a
most petulant, arrogant, conceited, and person, set-
ting up the trade orstatesmauship and philosophy; bid we were
not prepared for such confirmed craziness as he has exhibited.
just at this juncture. The press might break him upon the
onallest of its wheels; it will more cruelly crush hint by its si-
lence. lle is the paltriest of the tribe of malignants.—New
Monthly Magazine.

THE MARS.—The bare is oniv noticed for its extreme timidity
and watchfulness, and the rabbit for the burrows which it eta
antes fur its own habitation and as a nest for its young. But
there is an animal related to them, the rat-hare, which is gifted?
by its Creator with a very singular instinct, on account ofarhich
it ought rather to he calted the hay-maker. since matt may or
might have learned that part of the business of the agriculturist,,
which consists in providing a store of -winter provender; for his
cattle, front this industrious animal. Professor Pallas was the
first who described the quadruped exercising this remarkable
function, and gave an account of it. The Tungusiatot„Who in-
habit the country beyond the lake of Baikal. call it Pikii, which
has been adopted as its Trivial name.. These animals make
their abode between the rocks, and during the summer employ
themselves in making hay for a wiroer store. lailiablting thi,
lowa northern districts of the old world, the chain of Altaic
Mountains, extending from Siberia to the confines of Asia and
Kamtschatka, they never appear in the plains, or in places
exposed to observation, but always select the rudest and most
elevated spots, and often the centre of the must gloomy and, at
the same time, most hu : forests, where the herbage is fresh
and abundant. They, ' ally hollow out their burrow be
tween the stones and in t • lefts of the rocks, and sometimes
in the holes of trees. Sometimes they live in solitude; and some-
times in small societies, according to the nature of the moun-
tains they inhabit. About the middle of the month of .August
these little animals collect with admirable precaution their win-
ter's provender, which is formed of select herbs, which they
bring near their habitation, and spread out to dry like hay. In
Septeinher they form heaps or stacks of the fodder they have.
collected under the rocks, or in other places, shelterett.from the
rain or snow. Where many of them have laboured -together.
their stacks are sometimes as high as a man, and 'store than
eight feet in diameter. A suhterraneangallery Leads .from the
burrow below the mass, of hay, so that .neithet frqst nor snow'.
can intercept their communication with it 'Pallas had the pa-
tience to examine their nrovision of hay piece by niece, and
found it to consist of the choicest grasses aairl the sweetdst herbs,
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all cut when most vigorous, and. dried so slowly,as,to form a
green and succulent fodder; he found in it searcelyory ears,
or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, hut some mixture of bit-
ter herbs, probably useful to render the rest more wholesome.
These stacks of excellent forage ate sought out by the sable-
hunters to feed their hafrassed horses, and the (Jakutes) native•
of that part of Siberia pilfer them, if I may/ so call it, for the
subsistance of_ their cattle. Instead of imitating the foresight
and industry of the Pika, they rob it of its means of support,
and so devote the a'nirisali that set them so good an example I.
famine and death. How milt-it better would it be if, instead of
robbing and starving these interesting animals. they learned
from them to provide in the proper season a supply of hay for
the winter provender.of their busses.-7-Bridgewater_ite,dise.

STAFFORDSHIRE Ef..teTION RIOTERA.--.Thr, %Veit' Broom-
with rioters, convicted at the Stafford sessions list week, for
attacking the friends of Sri F. Goodrieke,•at.the late election,,
()D m
wore brought up for sentener
. Saturday' Arning,-between•
twenty and thirty in nninithr, when Frantic Eeq., the
chairman, suitably admonished them on the character of their
offence. lie said the court had deferred the time' of Pronnunc—
ing sentence, from a wish duly' to h'rthe shitleiel.violencis
in the different individuals; dad that •hfiwater OesPous- they
were to attend to the reconirriendation of mercV ti tfcli ague from •
the jury. they had a duty to tender to the 11.1.614; *hie/Immo bo,
faithfully pet Gamed. In the Indtritenttlie(l4' had to .deliver,'
the court had made every •fair liowapt:e.for the exeiternent of••
the period and the latitude given uttd tahcr oli such riceasions.
Ile then sentenced theta—respectively to atiX, fivii four, three,
and two months hard latintir..;
INCENDIARIS.M.-011 the.ith instant, .0.• .re bro)tt cat between
eleven and twelve o'clock at night, int Jhe,,firetaises.of
Pritchard, farmer, at Tockington, which cousitmett the waggon:
house and cart-house, and injured the stable. By' the great
exertions of the neighbours the remaining part of ine•stabie,
several rici:s of corn and hay, &c., were litoei veil, From the
improbability of the fire
.aceidentally occurring in, the out-,
house's it was suspected that, it was the rink of an incendiary,
and Mr. Pritchard ileterniineil to use (leer% e*,:rttoo to discover
the perpetrator; he, accordiugly, cone t•,, This city,
arm laid his
case before tl?e Bristol Association, who. sent down. Stephens,
put., an active officer,. who, with the assistance of Webb, the
constable of Tockiugtnn, siteceeried in getting aueli infiVmatiou
as justified them in apprehending a luau Or,the4larkt:o of Nehe-
miah Stallard, who worked for Mr. Pritcharrl, and, who, after a
doe examination before S. Peach, Reit:, has been . folly coin-.
Bristol' Journal. •
milted to Gloucester Gaol. The.prisoner was esPlain of a
(111:sitilotttiti.hgc,:.0,z_ff fellows, alio. have .lioett the dread of the
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DYING GAME. —T he I-I(refitrd Jov) lat ia:rt, ..".The corpora-
tion of this city have sithictibed the. shin of
•towards our
race fund, and'alset Ea). to the Herefordshire fox-bounds."
ROYAL. V val. To Woot.wicii.— Grrat prsporation, are mak-,
ing for the reception of the king on Finlaf next; (ibis day,
upwards of two thousand soldiers WHI tie reviewed en the Com-
mon. The royal party are expecred.to arrive §hortly after
twelve. o'clock, and will be escorted f v the Life Guards and the
Bth Hussars. After the review the ;oval visitors will partake of
luncheon at the mess-rooin, vihich is being fitted np in a most
inagnifieent style.- Aftet the departure of the king end queen
the officers or tile regiments necompanyiug their Majesties will.
dine with those of the Revel Artillery; four hundred Lancers
will arrive et Woolwich on Wednesday morning for the purpose.
of keeping the ground. Should the weather prove tine, the'.
number of visitors will, without doubt, exceed any yet un re'
cord to this popular town:- Vete:. .

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