The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-10 00:00:00

immediate extension of tl

town, a

a more complete
was erected in Paul-street,
highly satisfactory results for several years
and washhouse in Cornwallis-street, which

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scribed. and which are now nearly appr
with the intended establishment in High-park-street,
which we are informed the plans are being considered
will render Liverpool the most completely provided tow
in the kingdom, as regards this important branch of sane
tory progress.

There is still a talk of Lord Normanby going out as
Governor-General of India. The climate does not suit
Lord .Dalhousie, who has been obliged to confine himself
much of late to his mountain retreat, which is found very
inconvenient. Lord Norrnanby, it is said, courts the change.
No one is yet named with any confidence as his successor
in the-French Embassy.
MARGARET TUDOR IN CRIGMIOOD.—When Sir Thos.
More, by the permission of Henry VIII., took the learned •
Erasmus to sisit the royal childisen at Shene, he mentions
-.seeing Margaret with her brothers, Henry and Edmund,
saying that-she was then a girl about eleven years old. He
gives no praises toiler beauty ; indeed, at that period, her ,
portrait by Zabuse, painted in the same piece with her •
brothers Henry and Edmund, presents the appearance of
a little prim old woman, rather than the soft features of
childhood. The costume is very plain and homel, —pro-
bably it might:he the habit belonging to the Carthusian
coovutt at -Shene. All her bright hair is concealed, her
head being covered with a hood, similar in form to those
seen at the present day worn by female mourners follow-
ing the pedestrian funerals of the poor through the
crowded streets of London. Mabuse painted many co-
pies of the portraits of the royal children:: one is familiar
to the public, in the•long gallery at Hampton Court. The
three children .look grave, and even grim., which was the
fault of the hard literal pencil of Mabuseand his fading
colours, rather than the hand of nature—,for the Tudor
royal family had all.vezy bright complexions.; and Mar-
garet, although not remarkable for a classical outline of
features, waslarned:fordilies and roses and a profusion of
glittering hair. In the laampton Court group, her little
brother Edmund, a solemn-looking baby of three years
old, has his head covered with an infinity of pale yel-
low round mrls. He died when he was in his fourth
year. Margaret Tudor-learned to write in her childhood,
or rather to trace certain sgvare-looking• marks, which
would resemble some of .the Oriental characters if they
had more regularity. Her orthography was guided solely
by the sounds she uttered ; and these prove that the per-
sons who formed her pronunciation placed strong aspira-
tions before all the vowels. She played on the lute, and
danced nctively. Her performance of a quick lively
donee, with her brother Henry as a partner, at a festival'
of 'her brother Arthur's marriage with Katherine of Ar.
ragen, was admired by the whole court.—Miss Strick-
latzd:s New Series of Royal Biographies, " Lives of the
Queens of Scotland and English Prinees.ses."
A REGISTRATION OFFICE MARRIAGE.—" Putting up
the banns," and holiday clothes, and white gloves, and
veils, and church aisles, and ringing bells, have been so
long associated with a national idea of a wedding, that it
is not unusual, after the brief forms of a matrimonial en-
gagement at the office of the Registrar have been gone
throughout, and the parties are as legally man and wife as
acts of parliament can make them, for the lady to raise an
objection to the proceedings. "Is it ill over?" asks a
surprised and trembling voice, "Yes," says the Registrar
bowiniand smiling, " that is all. You are man and wire."
"Oh !" is the semi-seasmodie response. "It seems like
no wedding at all !" Then turning to the bridegroom,
the lady may be heard appealing to the happy swain, and
declaring " She would rather go to church as well." And
often the ceremony is gone through according to the old
fashions after the newer and shorter one has been com-
pleted. A wedding at the Superintendent Registrar's
Office is certainly a very rapid and unimposing affair. The
gentleman—says Mr. John Jones—gives notice to tile)
registrar of the district in which they have lived during
the previous seven days, that be has arranged a match
between himself and Miss Mary Smith. A printed form
is filled up with their nausea, rank, age, and place of resi-
dence. This is entered in a volume called the " Marriage
Notice Book." This first step of the operation is per-
formed at the small charge of one shilling. The volume
containing the solemn announcement remains in the re-
gistrar's office, " open at all reasonable times, without fee,
to all persons• desirous of inspecting the same." The
notice so entered is read before the next three-weekly
meetings of poor-law guardians. Unless the wedding has
been '' forbidden by any person authorised to forbid the
same"-rand a sharp papa or mamma would be needed to
find out what had been going forward if Miss Smith
desired to keep the little affair secret—at the expiration of
the three weeks, the happy couple, between the hours of
eight and twelve in the morninr, may meet—accidentally
of course—just by the office of Mr. Thompson, the regis-
trar, and walking in (also accidentally, of course), may, in
the presence of two persons accidentally present—the
Registrar's Clerk and a passing stranger, for instance—
join in the following brief and innocent dialogue : " I do
solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impedi-
ment why I, John Jones, may not be joined in matrimony
to Nary Smith." One minute is enough for saying this.
Whereupon the lady responds, "I do solemnly declare that
I know not of any lawful impediment why I, Mary Smith,
may not be joined in matrimony to John Jones." Another
minute has thus been passed. Emboldened by the lady's
declaration, the gentleman next says, " I call upon flies
persons present to witness that I, John Jones, do talc
thee, Mary Smith, to be my lawful wedded wife." 1
third minute has passed, and the lady's turn has coin
again, " I call upon these persons here present to wanes
that I, Mary Smith, do take thee, John Jones, to he my
lawful wedded husband." Just four minutes have been
consumed, the fee is five shillings' and a shilling fora cer-
tificate, and Else affair is complete. No ring. no kneeling,
no fuss. They are bound man and wife at the small
charge of seven shillings oltogetner, with a degree of cer-
tainty which nothing but an act of parliament, price one
thou.sand poan,4s can undo,----Plame 1 Household Words

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whom the Holy Office had torn their rely
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walls and towers were blown up into the
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The Cheltenham Board of Guardians, at their I
on Thursday last, decided that the dietary for
should be on the same scale as that of the Bath
and that 65. 64. per head weekly should be the ma

allowed for officer
The railway companies have arranged that so so
the Ist July, 1851, as the admission to the Great

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they will convey operatives who form clubs for the
to London, by special trains, allowing -,hem six
London, and will then convey them back, at f

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exceeding one half-penny per mile for the whole distanc
travelled.

CONFESSION or A MURDER COMMITTED FIVE YEARS
AGO.—A servant in the employment of the Rev. Mr.
Butson, of Clonfert, died last week in consequence of his
having taken some drug used for extracting iron-moulds
from linen, which he mistook for salts. On his death• bed
he made a full confession of all the circumstances relating
to the murder of Mr. Mason's steward, which took place
in the month of September, 1845. The confession
made will bring the guilty parties to justice ; severel per-
sons being engaged in the conspiracy to commit the mur-
der, nearly all of whom left for America after the tragedy
was completed.
OF ACTORS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR SALARIES IN
PARTICULAR.--In all ages surcess.ul actors have teen an
uncommonly well paid community. In Rome, Roscius,
and lE.iopus, his contemporary, amassed prodigious for-

tunes by their professional labours. Roscius was paid at
the rate of £45 a-day, amounting to more than £15,009
per annum of our currency. He became so rich that at
last he declined receiving any salary, and acted gratuit-
ously for several years. .lEsopus at an entertainment
produced a single dish, stuffed with singing birds, width,
according to Dr. Arbuthnot's computation, must have
cost about £4.883 sterling. He left his son a fortune
amounting to £200.000 British money. Decimus Labe-
rius, a Roman Knight, received from Caesar 20,000
croxns and a gold ring, for his first and only appearance
on any stage. Garrick retired at the age of sixty, having
been 35 years connected with the stage. He left behind
him above £lOO,OOO in money, besides considerable pro-
perty in houses, furniture, and articles of vertu. Edmund
Kean might have realised a larger fortune than Garrick,
had his habits been equally regular. George Frederick

Cooke; in many respects a kindred genius to Kean, threw
away a golden harvest in vulgar dissipation. The sums
he received in America alone would have made him indo.
pendent. John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons both retired
rich, though less so than might have been expected.
Young left the stage in the full zenith of his reputation,
with undiminished powers and a handsome independence.
Macreedy is about doing the same, under similar circum-
stances. Liston and Mundni were always recounted two

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