The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-06 00:00:00

NEWTON BAZAAR.

The greater part of the articles exhibited at this Bazaar were
disposed of. The gross receipts amounted to £558. Bs. 6d. We
subjoin an account of the sums received at each stand:—
Stand occupied by Mrs. James Heath Leigh, Mrs. £ s. d.
.Ridgway, and Mrs. William Legh produced 127 19 0
Stand occupied by Mrs. Lyon produced 7l 13 6
Stand occupied by Mrs. Landbury and Miss Shear-
son produced
Stand occupied by Mrs. Chadwick and Miss Berry
produced. l2 0
Stand occupied by Rev. Peter Legh and James
Heath Leigh, Esq. produced.. 77 0 6
Contributions from the Queen produced. 4O 0 0
Refreshment stands produced 34 0 6
AdmiSsion money received at the doors 64 0 0
Douation. from Robert Turner, Esq., Manchester 5 0 0
Donation from Rev. J. J. Flornby, Winwick 5 0 0
Donation from strangers staying at Wit:wick-hall 3 0 6

£555 8 0

[ADVIiIiTISEIMNT.I
TIIE POWDER MAGAZINES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL .57"*PDARD.
Si u,--A war of words has, for some weekkyist, been main-
tained in your valuable paper, by several Aottespondents on the
subject of the removal of the powder magieines.
If your correspondent. Conservator "Wants further proof of the
awful consequences to be atifiehended from an explosion, let
him read the papers containing thevmelancholy account of the
explosion at Holbeck 'last tve:s.k, by which several lives were
lost and houses destroyed, antrinjury sustained half a mile dis-
tant, although the quantity of powder there kept was nothing
like a thousandth part of that kept at the Liscard powder store.
I understand that measures are now in progress to obtain a
removal of this dangerous deptit ; in the meanwhile let us hope,
that as we have, so long escaped from injury we may continue
preserved; and that no necessity may arise for compensation to
be made by the proprietor to any who mav be sufferers.
Your's, PAILANTHROPOS.

THE "BIG BEGGARMAN'S" PETITION.

Pity the wretched state of poor old Dan,
Whose craving soul has borne him to your door,
Despised and spurned, a needy lieg,garman— •
Ohl give relief, and priests shall bless your atorb.
This front of brass my impudence bespeaks;
These leering looks my cunning, deep proclaim ;
The round sleek outline of my well-fed cheeks
_ Covers a tongue which speaks but to defame.
The limbs now covered by this coat of greed
A trowel or a hod would not disgrace;
This swashing gait, this swaggering ruffian mien,
,Coneealwaleurt as cowardly as base.
Lured .me with hopes of lucre to its doors,
When popery there lust loosed her tongue of guile
And beggars like myself defiled its floors...
But hard the fate of knaves when indiscreet:
There, whilst I bawled my filthy fetid lies,
The fraud and perjury which procured my seat
A eur,'d committee to lay opeu tries.
Keen is their ire, and bitter is my wail;
My day of pride has dwindled to a span;
And deep the gulf that yawns, and oh ! how frail
The feeble prop 'twixt, infamy and Dan. •
Then ope your purses—ye that purses have—
Rummage the corners of each tattered rag;
My soul, in mendicancy steeped, will crave
Even from the offal of the pauper's bag.
Pity the wretched state of poor old Dan,
Whose craving soul has borne him to your door,
Despised 40. spurned, a needy beggarman—
Oh! give relief, and priests shall bless your store.

The Strada di Toledo at Naples is supposed to be the noisiest
place in the world. " Conceive," says a recent tourist, " the
effect of a thousand postmen's bells ringing at once, and all day
long, and you will attain some notion of the music of the Strada
di Toledo." _ _ _

The sovereigns and princes of Germany and Russia continue
to exchange civilities between each other, and they appear to
be received wherever they go with much enthusiasm. The an-
niversay of the battle of Leipsic was celebra!ed with more than
ordinary solemnity on ;lie 19th instant at Vienna. Fresh nego-
tiations arc said to be making for the transfer of the Duchy of
l'arma to the Duke of Lucca, to whom, according to treaty, it
is to belong on the death of Maria Louisa. We are told that
she is anxious to return into private life, if her present income
be guaranteed to her. Her career has been a chequered one.
BIGAMY.—At the Old Bailey, on Thursday, Robert Edwaid
Bruce, alias Robert de Bruce, aged 33, described in the calen-
dar as a soldier, was indicted for intermarrying with Henrietta
Barber, his wife, Jane Rosalind, being then alive. The circum-
stances of this case having appeared in the police reports only
a few days back, it is unnecessary to restate them. The learned
judge sa►d that, in his opinion, the prisoner had not proved that
any divorce had taken place between him and his first wife, be-
cause he bad not satisfied the court of the legality of the paper
he had produced. The divorce might have effect in Sweden,
but it certainly could not in this country. The learned judge
adverted to a case in which a divorce bad been obtained by a
wife in the Coneistoriat Court of Scotland, and the husband
having married again, he was indicted for bigamy. The judges
all held that a divorce in any foreign court was of no force in
England. That was the law of the case ; the jury would decide.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.