The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIOXS.

GRAND STATE BALL.—Their Majesties &aye a state ball on
Friday evening (the first this season,) at St. James's Palace,
which was attended by about seven hundred of the Nobility
and Gentry. The entire suite of state-rooms were. opened on
the occasion ; the throne room (from which the throne and
platform had been removed,) and ball-room were prepared for
dancing; temporary orchestras were erected in each room,
supported by fluted columns, the fronts of the orchestras were
hung with crimson draperies, corresponding with the furniture
of the rooms. Weippert's band was stationed in the throne
room, and Colinet's band in the ball-room. The latter room
had a raised platform at the end, on which were seats of crim-
son damask aud gold, for their Majesties, the Members of the
Royal Family, the Dukes of Orleans and Brunswick, and the
Ladies of the Foreign Ambassadors aud Ministers. The room
was brilliantly illuminated with a large ormolu chandelier filled
with wax lights. Two candelabra, on superb gilt pedestals;
were placed before the large battle pictures of Tournay and
Lisle, and two candelabra were also placed on the table, in
front of the handsome pier glass. At the ends of the platform
were candelabra, the lights arranged in a pyramidal fora;
which had a very delightful effect. A candelabrum was also
placed on a bracket on each side of the sofa in the middle of the
platform. Additional brackets and other lights, furnished by
Mr. Perry, were fixed in the room. Above the seats on the
platform was a back ground of crimson drapery. The throne
room was also brilliantly illuminated with a chandelier in the
middle, and two candelabra under the canopy of the throne,
on fluted pedestals of bronze and gold, also one on each side
of the full-length portrait of George the Fourth. The room
between the two- bail-rooms was used as a drawing-room. Be-
yond the throne room the King's closet was set out for cards.
The portrait gallery had ices and other refreshments which were
furnished to the guests in the course of the evening. The Yeo-
man Guard were on duty, and lined the guard chamber and
the approaches from the two staircases to the state rooms. The
attendants on duty were the same as at a Court.

Miss Vivian, da'ughter of Lieut.-General Sir Hussey Vivian,
is about to give her hand to Lieut.-Colonel Arbuthnot, son of
the Right lion. Charles Arbuthnot, by his first marriage.
Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, has made a se-
cond donation of £lOO towards completing the river front of
King's College, London.
ANOTHER DEFEAT OF THE WHIGS!—The election for the
Inverness Burghs has terminated in favour of the Tory candi-
date. This is another mortification to the Whigs, and they are
quite inconsolable, poor dear things, at this other symptom of
re-action in the public mind against them.—Glasgow' Courier.
Coos. AS A CUCUMBER.—A grave digger in a neighbouring
parish was busily employed the other day in preparing the last
home for the remains of a deceased parishioner, when two gen-
tlemen passed the man of'. spades and mattocks at his me-
lancholy employment. "`Whose grave is this ?" asked one of
the gentlemen of the venerable and hoary headed sexton. " It's
for my third wife, Sir," responded he of the mortcloth, "and
I'm takin' up my first wife to let her intil her place. There's
her banes (casting them out) rotten eneuch ! and there's my
second wife !yin' aside her, (clapping an adjacent grave with
his shovel,) to kens but I may pit my
,fourt in her place too.
Oh it's an awfu' warld ! Ay, ay ! eh, ech ! Och, och !"
Well may we say with Hamlet, prince of Denmark—" "[is
even so—the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
—Aberdeen Observer.

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.-EXETER, Saturday Night, May
18.—Dr. Hennis, the victim in the duel which has made so
much noise here, died this afternoon, at about ten minutes be-
fore five. His melancholy fate is sincerely lamented by all
who knew him. A coroner's jury was impanelled at half-past
seven, and the inquest was adjourned till Monday morning as
soon as the jury had viewed the body. The body will be ex-
amined by the medical gentlemen to-morrow, in order that evi-
dence may be produCed of the nature of the injury and the cause
of death. Dr. Heunis was a truly benevolent phvsician, a
member of that profession whose exertions on the late dreadful
visitation of cholera have deservedly raised it in public estima-
tion—that respect was caused by none more than by Dr. Hen-
nis. Day and night was his time gratuitously and successfully
devoted to the poor. His door has been beset by the frequent
inquiries of persons to whom he had providentially been the
means of preserving their own lives, or those of their husbands,
fathers, or brothers. All classes lament his untimely fate ' • but
there is one, the gentle and accomplished daughter of the Rec-
tor of Moretonhampstead, and a near relative of the Earl of
Devon, over whose views of happiness the storm of affliction has
darkened. It is a melancholy tale—they were to have been
married in the first week in June.

WORCESTER ELECTION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STiI.ND.IRD.

Sir,—The Tories of Worcestershire are under great obliga-
tions to you for having afforded the means, through some cm,
respondent in this county, of giving publicity to the noble stand
they have made during the late election in defence of a Con-
servative candidate. Sorry am I to say that the press of this
county is either neutral or against us. This cannot be borne
much longer, and it is for this reason that a new correspondent
is emboldened to address you.
In company with a neighbouring elector I drove to the Star
Inn, in Worcester, this morning, in the hope of learning the
causes which have led to the unexpected defeat of Mr: Poking-
ton, and they turn out to be chiefly those which I had antici-
pated—the tyranny and dictation of the Whigs, Whig derelic-
tion of principle, Roman Catholic interdiction, and Radical
intimidation. In proof of Whig tyranny and dictation, among
other glaring instances which have come to my knowledge, I
will merely mention one, because it is of such a wholesale
description. The tenants of the Marchioness of Downshire
had nearly all of them promised their votes to Mr. Pakington ;
when the mandate arrived, that if they did not vote for Captain
Winnington, they would, at the next rent day, rue the con-
sequences of their contumacy. Between thirty and forty votes
are believed to been lost by this interference. As to dereliction
of principle, and the declamations of Whigs against the Tories
for influencing their tradesmen, by threats of exclusive dealing,
&c. &c. • read the following epistle, which was this day handed
about the streets, and the original of which I perused :
" llinksman,—l don't ask you to vote :Or Calrain Winning-
ton; but if you vote for Mr. Pakington, I will never buy of you
a blade of hay as long as I live. If your landlord wished you
to vote for Mr. Pakington, I would not try to change you, but
I have as good a title to ask you as Mr. Turbercille, or Mr.
Berwick Lechmere.

" Yours, truly,
"Tuesday morning. "F. LECHMERE CHARLTON.
"Mr. itinksroan."

Talk of Tory tyranny, indeed, after this. Is it thus that the
Tory visits the tradesman for exercising his independence. No !
It is the Roman Catholic, the Dissenter, the Quaker, the Whigs,
who put in practice exclusive dealing. They have always done
so, and the liberal fools, the tories, never will retaliate, I fear,
till the church is laid prostrate ; and unless the friends of the
establishment will speedily rouse themselies, its downfall is not
far distant. 1 had almost forgotten one instance of Quaker li-
berality. The clerk of the Droitwicli Patent Salt Works had
intended to vote for Pakington, but the Quaker directors of this
establishment ordered it otherwise. Of the nature of the inter-
dicts that are issued from the Roman Catholic community,
priest and layman, the editor of the Standard need not be in-
formed. Captain Winnington was proposed by a Catholic—
the most active members of his committee were Catholics, his
principal law agent was a Catholic • and a Catholic nobleman,
the only peer present, graced the dinner table of the successful
candidate on the day of his election, and bandied compliments
with the only two clergymen of the established church who
joined the party—a father and his son—liberals and reformers,
of course, and both orators. The father declaring that his sim-
ple parish cure had not scope enough for his microscopic eye;
the empire at large was his pariah, and as a clergyman he would
do his duty in it—
" What! shall a name, a word, a sound control
The aspirin thought, and cramp the expansive soul l
Shall one half-peopled island's rocky round
A love, that glows for all creation bound?
And social charities contract the plan
Framed for thy freedom, UNIVERSAL MAN ?
No—through the extended globe his feelings run .
As broad and general as the unbounded sun ;
No narrow bigot he ; his reason'd view
Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru!
France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh :
But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh ;
A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country—hut his own."

The son also, not wishing to be outdone by the father, boldly
calls his opponents the tyrant Whigs! Pretty well this for his
first essay at a public dinner.
The Radical intimidation consisted, as usual, of the yelling
and hooting of the mobocracy. Fortunately, these gentry
were restrained and kept in good humour by the generous, opent
manly, honourable conduct of Major Bung, one of the mos
active and humane magistrates in the kingdom—the soldier's
friend—the prisoner's solace, to whom the poor and destitute,
the widow and the orphan, never pleaded in vain. It was
delightful to see the Conservative cause headed by such a
leader.

I have only to allude to one circumstance more that tended
to our defeat, and that was the mawkish sentimentality, the
affected candour, the duplicity of wavering friends. "Oh, do
not let the peace of the country be disturbed ; these are times
when the lower classses must be conciliated"! !

Let me quote a dozen lines more from the Anti-Jacobin, and
I subscribe myself your obliged servant.
" Much may be said on both sides." Hark ! I hear
A well known voice that murmurs in my ear—
The voice of Candour. IIail! most solemn sage,
Thou drivelling virtue of this moral age,
Candour which softens party's headlong rage—
Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends
With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ;
Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell,
Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ;
Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame,
Convinced that all men's motives are the same ;
And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black not so black, nor white so very white.
Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his slow ;
But of all plagues, good Heaven ! thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the CANDID FRIEND!
C. R.
Old Hills, Worcestershire, May 18.