The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Nightingall is at present comparatively free; and
in the face of the abundant and most flattering tes-
timonials of his high talent, great experience, and
good character, given by the medical gentlemen
examined during the enquiry, we are satisfied that
neither the Poor-law Commissioners, nor his fellow-
townsmen, will see him sacrificed, to gratify the bad
and vindictive spirit with which it is sought to hunt
him to the earth.

ASTONISHING EFFECTS OF GRUEL !—Our old
acquaintance, Mr. John Brooks, of Manchester,
calico printer and Leaguer, has, we are sorry to
say, been sick, and, at the late meeting of the Anti-
Corn-law League, gave to the world his experience
of the astounding effects produced upon a warm
constitution by the cooling regimen prescribed by
his doctors, and especially by gruel.
" They bled me," said John, " three times, with 32
leeches ; I was not allowed meat, but lived upon GRUEL;
and after having lived upon gruel for four days, and when
my eyes began to be a little easier, I began to think
upon the corn .law ; and as I saw better, I determined to
give the Anti-Corn-law League £5OO this time—(loud
cheers, renewed from time to time). That is what gruel
has brought me to—(shouts of laughter).

After this our friends, and females in especial, who
are most given to gruel-taking, should he very care-
ful how they indulge in this dangerous kind of
spoon-meat: They may venture upon any other
kind of moist food, without the organ of benevolence
—or whatever other organ it is which impels people
to throw away their money at so extraordinary a
rate—being so unduly excited as has been that of
poor John ; but gruel they should carefully eschew,
unless they wish to beggar their children or earn
the protection of a strait jacket. It is recorded, by
the way, of Robert Owen, that the light of Socialism
first broke upon him after having scalded his mouth
with hot flummery. And the case of our friend
Brooks appears to be a similar one. Flummery did
for the socialist and venerable founder of New
Lanark, the Hampshire community and fanatical
speculations, what gruel has just done for the Man-
chester calico printer. These dangerous possets
taught them both to unbutton their pockets for the
purpose of feeding knaves and fools.

SUGGESTED ROYAL VISIT TO MANCHESTER

A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian suggests
that, as her Majesty is abuut to visit Chatsworth, she
should be invited by the Town Council of Manchester to
extend her visit to that emporium of fustian and calico.
It is not hinted, however, by whom or where her Majesty
and her illustrious suite could be accommodated in the
event of such an invitation being given and accepted. The
Town Council of Manchester have neither funds nor an
establishment fit for her reception ; and grand and tawdry
as are the mansions of many of the millocracy, and freely
as they lavish their money in anti-corn-law agitation, the
people of that town would not relish being taxed addition-
ally for the gratification of seeing her Majesty amongst
them. Highly delighted, therefore, as our gracious Queen
would doubtless be to inspect the interior of a cotton mill,
a calico printing works, or a dye house, and to make the
acquaintance of their owners, she must, for the present,
we fear, resign the thought of such enjoyments.