The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

Jan. 9, ig44.

LONG HOURS IN MILLINERY ESTAB-
LISHMENTS.

The damp hair and pallid features of our young
ners and dressmakers might have told us long ago—et
least, during the season of long and almost sleepiest
hours—that they were taxed beyond their strength and
we were often very sorry, very sorry indeed, for them•
We said they sat up too late, and perhaps rose too early.
We observed to "Madame," with overflowing huineu"
ity, that the work-room (we peeped into it through the
glass doors) seemed ill ventilated ; and we frequently'
perhaps inquired after one "young person" or another,
whose grace and loveliness had created an interest in her
favour. We heard she was gone home, or gone to the
country. She was, however, forgotten after one or two
more visits to the beautiful " show-rooms ;" for other
girls, as gentle and as pleasing, and more fresh, had
taken the places of our favourites, and so we came away,
only insisting that our order, given on Tuesday afternoon)
should be completed by Wednesday evening. " Madame
shrugged and remonstrated a little—just a very little.
She said they were very busy—had never been so bug'
—were up all night, and had been so for the last silr
weeks—that "everybody" wanted their dresses in such
haste; and if "every body" wanted their dresses in such
haste, why should not we have our or der executed to the
time ? We repeated our instructions in a tone which
convinced " Madame" that if she failed she might lose
our custcm ; and, of course, that being the alternative,
she had only to curtsey and promise. The consequence
of this want of consideration was another sleepless night
to the worn-out girls with whom we had sympathised;
and yet, if this truth did occur to us, we consoled our-
selves with the idea " that our dress, our single dress,
could not make much difference." We could have
ordered it two or three days before, but the weather was
too hot or too cold to get out, or we were detained hi
visitors—or—or, at all events, whether we ordered the
dress or not could m ake but little difference ; and dress-
makers are so unpunctual that we were obliged to sal
we wanted it a day sooner than we really did. Hoc
very, very angry we would be if told that, in saying we
required it one day, when really we did not want it till
another, we had been guilty of falsehood! And how our
hearts would have rebelled if accused of cruelty. If aril
one had told us that we were guilty of cruelty towards
those young girls whom we would have drawn wide our
purse-strings to assist, whom we would have given to eat
of our bread and drink of our cup—it it had been told 10
that so doing would serve them, how indignant w• should
have felt ! though perhaps at the same moment the
brocade was trembling in their damp and slender fingersr
and they could hardly open their wearied and aching
eyes ; and, but for the haste our thoughtlessness had
ia-
sisted on, they would have enjoyed a few hours of the
refeshing sleep which, if we lack but for a single night,
our temples throb and our pulses quicken, and we cora-
pain of the long midnight hours, lacking rest.* Our
thoughtlessness (to call it by no harsher name) occa-
soned a practical cruelty to a fellow-creature. We did
not intend this ; but we cause a great deal which we do
not intend. A little consideration will prove that we are
great gainers by looking things steadily in the face--•
looking beyond the present into the future, which (se
rapid is the flight of time) becomes the present while We
are talking. The poor dressmakers have, however,
found many to advocate their cause, but the grand re-
dresser of evils is the public. The modiste of established
reputation will always find young persons, driven by
necessity to the sacrifice, to work during the long hours,
to the destruction of health, both of body and mind, if.
ladies do not give sufficient time for the completion of
their orders. This is the great point; and it is mar-
vellous, when come fo be seriously thought upon, that
simpleon female
e want
f consideration.—Mrs.
o n singde
rethehealth ofanother by a
ar
ou.mr s.
S.
e.
Sall,
Ainsworth's Magazine.

A NEW MODE OF DIVORCEMENT.—TWO country gen-
tlemen hit the other day upon an expedient for dissolving
the Gordian knot, which we believe proved satisfactory to
all parties, but whether it was an original idea, or has
been imported from the land of Brother Jonathan, we
know not. Certainly it is knew to us, and will probably'
be so to our readers. A couple rendered miserable by'
their domestic jars applied to the two gentlemen in ques-
tion to be " parted." After anxiously endeavouring to
remove the acids and restore the sweets between them,
and, after explaining that death only could part them, the
worthy gentleman put the anxious pair to this ordeal. A
cat was procured, and a cord tied round its neck with a
noose. The hu,band was desired to hold one end of the
cord and the wife the other, and both to pull with their
might if they still wished to be put asunder, either party
being, however, at liberty to relent by refraining to pull.
However, their presen. resolution proved stronger than
the remembrance of their former love, and both pulled
away until poor pus, was strangled, and " death " having
thus " parted them," they were declared man and wit.*
no longer, and went their way rejoicing. We fear we
should overwhelm the gentlemen who presided over this
ordeal with business if we were to give a particular indica-
tion of their whereabouts : we deem it only necessary to
say, that the circumstances we have narrated occurred in
the county of Lancashire.—Bla kburn Standard.

DEATH OF A VENERABLE CHARACTER.—Died on
Saturday night, the 31st ult., at an advanced age, an
extraordinary and venerable character,—altho' severely
visited on her first attack with cold, she expired as peace-
fully and mildly as a lamb. She had certainly for some
time been diseased, and a variety of bymetons had be-
trayed a constitution fast brag kin up. Once came the
-Scotch-fiddle; tit d this was followed by an inflamation that
seemed to spring from her Welsh flannel petticoat, and
her illness was much aggravated by repeatedly dining off
Irish stew, a dish strongly recommended to her by a
physician who had too much of her confidence, one Dr.
O'Connell, and by whose advice she strongly and foolishlY
recommended it to her youthful successor.—On the whole,
however, she rallied frequently during her life to a degree
that seemed impossible. She was capriciousin Ecclesias-
tical matters: for altho' fond of Church, she threw her-
self into a fever more than once, upon smaller matters
that must have been nuts to dissenters ; such as black
gown and white gown, crossing or no crossing, standing
up and bowing down : and took delight in setting big
Whigs and Bishops by the ears. She had, however, al
good memory and some understanding, and recollecting
somewhat of the fires of Smittifi 'ld (by the way she was
rather fond of incendiat ism herself) and the virtuous and
respectable Queen Mary ; long before she died, sent
Popery and his first cousin to the right about, the latter
of whom was very anxious to gain her hand. Peace to her
Manes ! in the the spring of her youth she was lively',
joyous, and free; in her summer, cheerful and liberal;
in her autumn, sober and serene; and even the white
locks of her wintry age were more like silver than snow.
Be her pleasantries and worth long remembered, her sins
and her sorrows forgot ; and may no worse at least be
said of her posterity than of her dear old sepulchral ac-
quaintance, dear, long, accustomed, ancient friend,
eighteen hundred and forty three.—Philo.—Jon. 1, 1844.
THE OLD MAN AND HIS Ass.—An old man named
Edward Birkett, residing in Skerton, Lancaster, where he
carries on an extensive trade in the crockery and mussel-
ling line, appeared lately at the judges' lodging to answer
to a charge preferred against him of having broken into
the pound at Skerton, and released his ass, where his
Neddyship had been lodged for having been found tres-
passing
keeper
er whereoft
hee had
pound,n proved
right
the 0
ffe c
e . Jamese ,
and showed
Lancaster,
the
that, by a recent act of parliament, the defendant had
subjected himself to a penalty not exceeding £5. On the
defendant, who, it is said, in early life belonged to a com-
pany of strolling players, being called upon for his defence,
he threw himself into a theatrical attitude, and delivered
himself after the following manner :
" My lords, mine ass is that by which I live.
Take him away, and shut him in a pound,
Robs me of many pounds. 'Tis throug'il his aid,
That, from the tide-left sand and pebbly skeir,
I loads of cockles and of mussels take ;
Whereby I to my neighbours do supply
A dainty feast—and that at small expense;
And, in return, I with their trifling coin
Do buy th it which cloth feed my inward man.
Mine asv. my lords, is thus part of myself—
If Ito him illegal freedom gave,
I pray your mercy and your quittance clear—
For I am old, and miserably poor—
And then, nay lords, whene'er mine ass I drive,
You will be present to my grateful mind."
Notwithstanding this powerful and very affectingly-deli-
yard appeal, the defendant was fined 10s. and costs, or,
in default, sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for one calendar month—

Ts
oe nt
oshillinigs
tlh—e t
ceott farthingso
oh
ke thema couldt not pay,
And when going, he said, " Hard is the lacking of pelf,
For ten-pounding my ass, I've ins-pnunded myself."
DEATH OF A ONCE CELEBRATED CHARACTER."'
An individual died in Edinburgh a short time since, why
obtained an unenviable celebrity more than twenty years
ago. This was the Bishop of ,Clogber, who was indicted
for crime, in 1822, forfeited hail, and fled, was degraded
of
havingri'lo a s
previously WilsonWilson
from his ecclesiastical dignity, and has never been heard
of till now. He kept house at No. 4, Salisbury-placet
torewsihdiecdh he
viduals in the
scarcely any visitors being known to enter his dwelling.
but it was remarked that the post oecasionly brought him
letters sealed with coronets. His incognito was wonder
fully .dfratiutriils.
meTaorhdsee ago,apopf
living
gn
fully preserved. It was only known to one or two indi•
under the assumed name
neighbourhood, who kept the secret till
in the name of Thomas Wilson. There was a plate °VI%
the coffin wasf
or interment extremely
w was private,
m ado
which•he had got prepared a number of year,
before, but without. any name upon it. It bore a Latin
inscription, the sense of which was as follows:—" Here
lie the remains of a great sinner, saved by grace, whose
hope rests in the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Cnrist." The preparation of this inscription years before
shows that he was deeply penitent. He was very anxious
to conceal his true name, having got it carefully obliter'
and from his books and articles of furniture. He gage
instructions that his burial should be in the nearest churl
yard, that it should be co.‘ducted in the most private ao
plain manner, and at six in the morning. His directions
were complied with except in the selection of the ground'
His body was drawn to the cemetery in a hearse with one
horse, followed by five mourners in a one-horse coach, et
seven in the morning. Such was the obscure and humble
death and funeral of the Honourable and Reverend Perct
Jocely it, the son of a Peer, who spent the early years 01
his lite in the society of the great, and held one of the
highest ecclesiastical dignities in the empire. He 118*
uncle to the present Lord Roden.—Scotsman,

Jan.
......._

IWANCIIRSI
and most pe
and in our oi
Tuesday we
and at highe
suppose the
the unexpecl
business has
sincerely ho
encourage t
Liverpool, bi
that some ca
a considerab
Was rarely
Ploy. to pay
preparations
not go too hi
May fairly ar
Many buyers
bonding stocl
they are unE
come down
prices." 27
and 72's. 6s.
and 72's. fis .
66's, Ss• 9d. 1

LEEDS.-1
turday, the 1
but on Tnesi
billy in the
the warehou
to both tner,
their stocks.

BRADFORI
Merchants e
nnfavourabl,
Was done in
the manufac
the late adva
of profit if t'
It Rawl on tl
hand genera
realising bet
then improve
pensive of a
they refused
dates. Agc
but althougt
at fly for hig
hied.

HUDDIC its
tendance of
previous we
freely at pr
out for impr
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been the cas
in the'faucy

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attendance
at this mark
Were very s
to be only Sr
are now cc
ago.

REQUITE
a tolerable
foreign tra c
On Thursdi
extreme.

ROCHDAL
ket to.day, I
acted has bt

Hosinair
state, that
branch, and
two years, t
Of a revival
trade still si
than the am
four-fifths
hose branch
in the -main
the wrougl
Pretty well i
tions which
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