The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Thomas Bland £s 0
J. W. Brown 5 0
William tl-ff, Jun 5 0
Wm. B. Falcon 5 0
Eason and Barry 5 0
James Eckersley 5 0
Henry Wood and Co. 5 0
Thomas Endish 3 3
Robert Parry
John Parry
Amieu, per Rev.
Hugh M`Neile 2 10
L. Paulet
Thomas Peake ...... 2 2
Captain Edwards.... 2 2
Johu Eaves
John Jack.
John Martin

J. Sharland ... £2 2
James Hall .
Jonathan Wilson
J. M. Gladstone
Cearns and Brown
Coltman & Co. 2 2
Geo. L Jackson
Samuel M 'Keay
William Rogen,on .. 1 1
Thomas Hague & Co. 1 1
C. B. Elliot
The wife of a Sailor
and a Sailor's
Dau2hter
Miss T. Corrie

Anonvmou., per Rev.

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H. M`Neile
A Friend ....

ceribers to the Ssilors' Home
iortly be published.
Low r Castle-street.

1 1
1 0

1 0
0 10

A List of thii Annual Subs,
is in preparation, and will sill
Sailor's Home Once, 13,

?t al p,ottres.

ITOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Partner-
shin heretofore subsi,ting between us.' the under-
signed. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN and JOHN KEN-
NARD. carrying on Busines., as Hatters, at Liverpool,
in the county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of
" Chrieian and Kennard," was this day dissolved by
mutual consent.—As witness our hands, this 21st day of
November, 1814.

WILLIAM CHRISTIAN,
JOHN KENNARD.

All debts owing by and to the late firm will be paid and
received by Mr. EDWARD ROBERTS. Accountant, 26,
Lord-street, or by the undersigned WILLIAM CHRIS-
TIAN.

WILLIAM CHRISTIAN returns his sincere thanks
to his friends, and begs most respectfully to inform them
and the Public generally, that he will continue the Busi-
ness, as usual, on the Premises, and solicits a continuance
of t heir stinp,trt.
33, Old Haymark'•l, 131 h December, 1844.

ALL Persons having any claims or demands agains
the late firm of L. PIERCE, HALL, and CO.,
carrying or, business in Liverpool, in the county of Lan-
caster, as ship and anchor smiths, are desired to send iu
the particulars of their demailds to Mr. EDWARD ROB-
!MTS. Accountant, 26, Lord-street, on or before the 31st
day of December iti,t;,nt, in order that the same may be
investieat.d. All claims not presented within the time
above limited will be absolutely disallowed and rejected.
Liverpool, 16th December, 1844.

IN the matter of the Petition of ROBERT JONES,
formerly of Russell.place, Warren-street, afterwards
of Heat Wield-street, Renshaw-street, all in Liverpool, in
the county of Lancaster, slater and plasterer and dealer
in laths, in Hill-street, in Liverpool atoresaid, occasion-
ally being a dealer in coals, and now of Heathfield-street
aforesaid, journeyman slater and plasterer, his residence
in Heathfield-street havi,:g an entrance from the Upper
Arcade. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esquire, the Commissioner acting
in the matter of this Petition, will proceed to make a final
order thereon, at the Liverpool District Court of Bank-
ruptcy, at Liverpool, in thecounty of Lancaster.on SATUR-
DAY. the fon, tti day of January, 1845, at Eleven o'clock
in the Forenoon. precisely. unl,ss rause be then and there
shewn to the contrarv.—THOMAS Vs ARDLE, A :.torney for
(he said Petitioner, No. 6, Union-buildings, Union-street,
Liverpool.
SAMUEL DAY. Messenger.

TN the Matter of the Petition of RICHARD GRE-
I GORY. at present and for twelve months last past
residing at number 95, Mill-street, in the extra-parochial
place of Toxteth-park, in the county of Lanc-ster, and
heinz a retail butcher, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esquire, the Commissioner
acting in the Matter of this Petition, will proceed to
make a final Order thereon, at the Liverpool District
Court of Bankruptcy, at Liverpool, in t e County of
Lincaster, on FRIDAY, the Third day of January, 1845,
at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon-precisely, unless cause
be then and these shewn to the contrary.
JOHN DAVIES,
Attorney for the said Petitioner,
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.
SAMUEL DAY, Messenger.

PLAYING CARDS.
EW VARIETIES of Figured, Plaid, and Gold-
.ll backed PLAYING CARDS, of superior quality
and finish, are now ready.
WAREING WEBB,
STATIONER, 9, CASTLE-ST., LIVERPOOL.

NOTICE TO INVENTORS.
Office for PatuntN of Inventions and Registrations of
Designs, 14, Lincoln's Inn Fields. THE Printed INSTRUCTIONS gratis, and every in-
formation upon the subject of PROTECTION for
NINVENTIONS, either by Letters Patent or the Designs
Act, m,y be had by applyine personally, or by letter
(prepaid) to Mr. ALEXANDER PRINCE, at the Office, 14,
Lincoln's Inn Fields

A NOVEL SIGHT TO SEE!
10,000 OVER COATS,
AT THE
MANt7F44C7'URING

MATRIMONIAL HOAX.

(From the Manchester Advertiser.)

A hoax of a rather uncommon description in this staid
town of ours, was played off on Thursday last, in St
Ann's-square, on a gentleman from Liverpool, who bad
caused the insertion of an advertisement in one of the
Manchester paper-, announcing the wish of the advertiser
to meet with a wife with a liberal education, a sum of
money, &e., and all answers to he addressed to Mr.
Augustus Vivian, Post•oice, Liverpool. Suspecting this
to emanate from some sharp 'or designing person, an
answer was promptly sent by a young gentleman of this
tovin, who, for the occasion, assumed the aristocratic
name of Miss Marianne Montrevor, which met a speedy
reply, and after various letters, it was finally arranged that
a meeting should take place in St. Ann's-square, at
half-past twelve on the above day. The gentleman was
to be distingui-hed by a white camellia, and the lady
by a red eeraniurn. Exact to the time appeared Mr.
Augustus Vivian, accompanied by a friend, who, of
course, retired. In consequence of a little purposed
delay, Mr. Augustus Vivian was necessitated to prome-
nade the square by himself. He was not, however,
idle, but setting out his favour and attempting to find out
the lady amid the number which were traversing the trot-
toir of the square, he was noticed by many, and more
particularly from his peculiar manner of noticing them.

After being-
thus engaged for about a quarter of anhour,

a young lady, habited in a tartan dress, with a fashionable
scarf and bonnet, of tall and elegant figure, but closely
veiled, and wearing a scarlet geranium at her boom,
. made her appearance, but the bashful Augustus Vivian
suffered her to pass him twice before he mustered courage
to address her. At length, overcoming her maiden timi-
dity, the lady encouraged him to approach, but, as if
afraid of the crowded numbers in the square, he imme-
diately withdrew to Half Moon-street, where, while en-
gaged in several earnest protestations of the sincerity
and purity of his motives, a gentleman suddenly ap-
proached, seized the young lady, reproached her for
the indiscretion which had placed her in her then in-
delicate position, and calling a cab, hurried her from
the scene. • This was done thinking that a discovery
would be risked, in consequence of a roughness in the
young lady's voice, which was not exactly feminine. Time
Gentleman who bad interrupted the tele-a-tete also
sharply reproved "the gallant gay Lothario" (a gentle.
man of tall and portly appearance, but of Bareiolphian
rubicundity in the face) for thus inveigling his relative
into a clandestine interview of this description. The
would-be benedict declared the honourable character of
his intentions, and after some conversation (in which the
young lady was described as an orphan of high connections
in Scotland, on a visit to this locality, and possessed of
considerable property), a further meeting Was appointed
for four o'clom k, at the young lady's solicitor's, whose
office was in street. True to his appointment,
the aspirant for wedded bliss appeared, gave the highest.
references as to his respectability and independent posi-
tion, and was proceeding into details which rendered it
necessary that the hoax must end whtn the " lady"
appeared in proprid personiias a gentleman, accompanied
by a large number of friends. The candidate bore his
disappointment with apparent good humour. It was
elicited by the young lady from hint that he was in search,
to use his own words, of " Youth, beauty, quality, virtue,
wit, and—steal' we add it—money ;" that he had at least
a dozen more engagements, and if any were true, we
doubt not but that he will at length meet with his match.
The two young gentlemen who answered the advertise-
ment, kindly conducted him to his hotel, in Market-
street, for the purpose of protecting him against the re-
marks which might have been passed upon him, by a large
body of individuals who having, by some means or . ther,
got wind of the affair, stationed themselves outside the
solicitor's office, and followed the unlucky adventurer to
his above-minted temporary abode, and he is now, no
doubt, safely lodged at his home in Liverpool.

Miss CLARA WEBSTER.—Unfortunately, the death of
this accori-plished dancer has not hetn the only evil atten-
dant upon the late sad accident at Drury-lane Theatre.
A nurse of the name of lltuld, supplied on the urgency
of the case from the Middlesex Hospital to attend upon
Miss Webster, fell down the stairs, and upon haatt con-
veyed back to the hospital was found to have sustained a
serious fracture of the knee.

IMPROPRIETY OF LINING WELLS WITH BRICKS.—
Two or three pieces of common brick were st•.cped four
days in a bßsitiful of distilled water; the water was then
decanted and examined by various chemical tests. It
was immiscible with soap, struck a lively green with syrup
of violets, was rendered slightly la, teset nt by the volatile
alkalis and quite milky by the fixed alkali and a so-
lution of saccharine saturni. This experiment affords a
striking proof of the impropriety of lining wells with
bricks, which cannot fail of rendering the water hard and
unwholesome,—The Builder.

A. WELSH BIDDING.—For the benefit of such of my
readers as have neither seen nor heard a Welsh bidding, I
must premise th,t it is a gathering together of as many of
the friends and friends' friends, acqoaititences and ac-
quaintances' acquaintances of the britle and bridegroom,
as a number of bidding letters can assemble. Each of
these individuals is expected to contribute either a gift or
loan of money towards the establishment of the young
couple. If a loan, that. Juan is to be repaid when the
lender, or any fnend or relation to whom he may transfer
it, proposes to enter the holy state. Thus the wedded
pair set up in life upon the gifts and loans of their friends,
and are liable to be called upon for repayment when they
may be totally unprovided with money.—Sketches in
South Wales.

" INJURED IRELAND !"—The rents paid for• land in
Irel ,nd ire at least one-third less than the rents paid for
land in England,—but were it even otherwise, the right
to dispose of propene to the best advantage could not be
by law • interfered with. In addition to his rent, the
English occupier is subject by law to the payment of
telies, which in many instances amount to more than the
entire rent impo ed on the Irish tenant; and by recent
enactments, the payment of the Protestant church has
been transferred trom the Irish tenantry to the landlords,
nine-tenths of whom are Protestants • the English tenant
pry. s all the poor-rite s. while tee Irish tenant is mile
called on to pay Is, 0'; and while the twiner is subject to
county and parochial rates, in addit on to turnpikes,
which are a heavy burden, the fat er pays only the
county cess, the amount of which depends very much on
his own conduct. We cannot, then, discover that the
Irish peasantry are subject to any pecuniary grievances
which legislation has inflicted or could remove ; neither
can we perceive any neglect of their interests evinced by
the British Minister or the Saxon Parliament; but, on
the contrary, we see that they have been especially pro-
tected by par titular enactments against the payment of
charges to which the occupiers of the other portions of
the United Kingdom are still subject.—Blackwood.
MAKING BARRISTERS.—In this country, where the
importance to the public interests of having well-educated
lawyers is the greatest, the provision for legal education
is the smallest. In fact, we bestow upon the process of
making lawyers a very great and a very unjust compli-
ment by talking of such a provision, how scanty soever,
as having en existence amongst us. There is no kind
of provision whatever made for ascertaining that a person
entering into the legal profession, either as a civilian in
Doctor's Commons, or a barrister in the courts of West-
minster, or a proctor in the ecclesiastical courts, has re-
ceived any education whatever to fit him for those pro-
fessions, or, indeed, any education at all. An examina-
tion of a certain kind has, indeed, been recently instituted
for attorneys and solicitors, but a person unable to read
or write may become a barrister by merely entering his ,
name during five years at one of the inns of court, and at.
tending twelve times in i!s dinner hall, at the be ginning
of the dinners eaten on those dae tr, for about twelve
weeks in the year. His name being on the books five
years, he may attend those 12 times duri, g the three out
of the five years. This circumstance is all that the law
requires to make a barrister of any man, however igno-
rant both of law and of every' hing else, toeether with the
payment of certain fees, orders, and certain taxes, dues,
tees to the ion of court, and taxes to the Government.
The question needs hardly be asked if this coure of pro-
ceeding is rational, cr even decent? We believe the
honour of it is exclusively our own. We do not suppose
such an outrage upon all common sense as well as pro-
priety is perpetrated in any other country.—The 4,aw
Rer;Ptv.
MARRIAGES IN THE EAST.—The following :morning
at daybreak, I was awakeeed, by singing voices, which
sounded strangely through those solemn cloisters. On
descending into the open space in font of the convent, I
found a bridal party assembled, and, there brie e some
difficulty on the part of the priests, the villagers wete
amusing themselves with a dance during the deity. Now,
a dance at sunrise is rather a singular occurrence—but it
was net less so than the solemn end cnea•ured step of the
dancers, which David might have imitated without any
appearance of levity. Micnal would scarcely have smiled
at this choral band, that appeared like a procession swayed
about, and slowly undulating to a hymn-like music. All
the performers were women; the men, including the
bridegroom, decorously sat ep trt, smoking their pip .s,
with an air of gentlernatly indifference. Ihe poor little
bride (who was only twelve years old) stood all the while
enveloped in a sort of tent, that moved with her like a
May-bush on a chimney-sweep. Thin singular envelop-
ment, which exactly resembled a large kaleidscope, co-
vered with pink silk, pe mated us no glimpse of its fair
occupant, who was surrounded by a group cf staid ma.
trona. The dance went on, meantime, with perseverance,
if rot with spirit. 'Wreathing their arms round one ano-
ther, they advanced and retreated in two parties, keeping
time to their choral voices—then, forming in a circle, they I
danced round and round without a smile. Their gay and
various drapery floated in picturesque masses of purple or
crimson folds, as they moved along ; their dark tresses
fell in showers behind them, or were looped up with golden
ornaments or coloured beads; their voices were passing
sweet, and the music that they made seemed, to me, ten-
der, though very ,wild. While this was going on, the
fathers of the expectant couple were bargaining with the
priests about the marriage, The dispute was carried on
with the usual violent gesticulations, and arose from the
priests having raised their trice, as I understood. The
villagers bad brought one dollar, the usual sum demanded
for the business; but•the minister required four. The
conference at length broke up angrily. I grieve to say its
issue was unfavourable, and I saw the bridal procession
move off wi'h regret. I would willingly have furnished
the necessary expenses, but I confess I grudged them to
the ill-favoured, harsh-spoken frier, who probably, after
acted only from necessity. As I had had settle con-
versation with the elders of the party, I matte an offering
towards the dowry of the kaleidoscope, and inquired whi.
the: they were going with the bride. "To the Banton,"
"who will do the business quite as well, they replied,and
only charge half-a-dollar." When I returned to the con-
vent, I found the priest still. Aatiding at the door of the
Latin convent, and ventured to inoteire e hether this, would
not afford a dangerous pricelen% " Net so," he skid .
" before a child is born, they'll 'come here to be [Harried
properly ; for they are respectable people, and would not
have a Moslem child for twice the money.—The Crescent
and the arm.