The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

Standard-office, Half-past Eleven o'clock.

LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CUP.

The following are the acceptances for this anxiously
expected race :-
9st 2lb Mr. Holmes's b h Vulcan, 6 yrs
8 7 Lord John Fitzroy ns ch h Retriever, aged
8 4 Mr Bake ns b m Collina, 5 qrs
8 4 Lord Wilton ns ch h The Knight-of-the-Whistle,
5 yrs
8 2 Major Yarburgh's br h Heslington, 5 yrs.
8 2 Mr. G. Payne's br h Johnny, 6 yrs
8 0 Lord Howth's b h Morpeth, 5 yrs
7 13 Mr R Wardlaw's b &Moss Trooper, 4 yrs'
7 12 Lord Eglington's b f Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs
7 9 Mr J Henderson ns br c Whistle Binkie, 4 yrs
7 8 Lord Kelburne's b h Give-him-a-name, 5 yrs
7 8 Mr. Frazer ns b h Tbirsk, 5 yrs
7 8 Mr J Langshaw ns b c Eboracum, 4 yrs
7 8 Mr J M Stanley ns b h Forester, 5 yrs
7 8 Mr Meiklam's b c Aristotle, 4 yrs
7 7 Duke of Richmond's br h Mus, aged
7 5 Col. Anson ns ch m Rhodanthe, 6 years.
7 0 Mr. W. Davis's The Major, by Sheet Anchor, 4

years.
6 12 Mr. S. Willoughby ns ch c Vakeel, 4 years.
6 10 Mr. Merry's b c Cable, 4 years.
6 10 Mr. J. S. Leigh ns Lord G. Bentinck's br h
Naworth, 6 years.
6 10 Mr. Osbaldeston's b f Sister to Alexandrina, 4

years.
6 6 Hon. E. M. LI. Mostyn's br c Lytham, 4 years.
6 6 Mr. Kennedy's gr c The Lord of the Isles, 4 years.
6 4 Lord Chesterfield's b c Tiptoe, 4 years.
6 4 Mr. Graydon's ch c Recompense, 4 years.
6 4 Sir R. Pigot's ch g by Cain, out of Miss Chester,
4 years.
6 2 Mr. Burke ns br c True Boy, 3 years.
6 0 Lord Eglington's br c Pompey, 3 years.
5 10 Duke of Richmond's Lothario, by Giovanni, out
of Moggy, 3 years.
5 10 Capt. Harcourt's br c Sir Abstrupus, 3 years.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCES : QUEEN CHRISTINE.
—By one of those remarkable coincidences that assume
the charecter of fatalities, Valencia is identified with the
two most important events in the life of Marie Christine,
the Alpha and Omega of her queenly career. It was there
that she landed when arriving in Spain to be married to
her uncle, Ferdinand the Seventh ; and it was there, too,
eleven years later, that she signed her extraordinary abdi-
cation previous to embarking from thence for France.
The Syanish gentleman, who was on board with us, told
us that on the first of these occasions the authorities of
Valencia had prepared for her reception by purchasing
sumptuous furniture, which was placed in a private resi-
dence that was set apart for her s 6 our, there being no
government palace at Valencia. After the departure of the
royal bride for Madrid, this rich ameublement was pur-
chased by our informant himself, who was then fitting up
hii own house, previous to his own marriage, and could
find nothing in the place to equal it in taste and splen-
dour. At the period of the Queen's last visit to Valencia,
the authorities of the town had solicited from him The
loan of the same furniture for her Majesty's use :—And
it is a remarkable fact," he added, "that the toilette made
by Christine for the ceremony of signing her abdication
was performed before the identical dressing-glass, at
which, eleven years before, the nuptial crown and veil had
been placed upon her brow."—Mrs. Romer's The Rhone,
"SURPLUS POPULATION."—The extent of territory
occupied by Judah and Israel in David's days did not
quite double that of the principality of Wales. The king
took a census, and the returns showed the population to
be about seven millions. In the peaceful, prosperous
reign of Solomon they must be supposed to have in-
creased yet more, and so we find it, for the language
employed concerning them is—" Judah and Israel were
many as the sand which is by the sea shore for multitude,
eating and drinking and making merry." Here, then,
was a small country most densely peopled, yet rejoicing
in abundance, filled with food and gladness, neither know-
ing nor fearing distress. To what shall we attribute it?
Certainly not to a long course of prosperity, for when
David commenced his reign the land was overrun by the
Philistines who devoured -its increase, oppressing and
slaying the people, and nearly up to the time of their
numbering, internal wars had perpetually interrupted the
current of national prosperity. Colonies they had none ;
commerce was almost unknown to them ; they do not
appear to have had manufactures sufficient for their own
consumption. And yet "surplus population" would
have sounded strangely in the ears of an Israelite! One
of the main blessings promised to their obedience was,
that there should be neither male nor female barren
among them. The man who feared the Lord was told
that his wife should be as the fruitful vine : children were
counted without any distinction of classes as olive branches
around the table—as arrows in the hand of a giant; and
he was pronounced happy wno had his quiver full of them.
Circumscribed as was the territory, each family being re-
stricted to its own lot, and prodigiously rapid as was the
increase of population, the man who had ventured to talk
of a " preventive check " would have stood a better
chance of being stoned than eulogised.—Perils of the
Nation.

THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN CGRK.—HaIf-a-dozen of
the public buildings I saw were spacious and shabby be-
was founded by a body of Cork merchants and tradesmen,
and is
belief.
Adjoiningreading the
room, Imperial
Hotelch
is
an
great,d allth
the very
Cockneyverlarge,y picture of decay. Not Palmyra—not the
handsome, desolate
Russell Institution in Great Coram-street—present
more
melancholy appearances of faded greatness. Opposite
this is another institution, called the Cork Library,
where there are plenty of books, and plenty of kindness
to the stranger; but the shabbiness and faded splendour
co t
af
thl 101 ipc lc
churches
ae are
commenced painful.
oTh f
lateere areyea three no t handsomeon e of
them is complete. Two want their porticos ; the other
is not more than thirty feet from the ground; and, ac-
cording to the architectural plan, was to rise as high as
a cathedral. There is an institution, with a fair library
of scientific works ; a museum, and a drawing school
with a supply of casts. The place is in yet more dismal
condition than the library. The plasters are spoiled in-
curably for want of a sixpenny feather brush ; the dust
lies on the walls, and nobody seems to heed it. Two
shillings a year would have repaired much of the evil
it
which has happened to this institution ; and
is folly to
talk of inward dissensions and political differences as
causing the ruin of such institutions. Kings or laws don't
cause or cure dust and cobwebs ; but indolence leaves
them to accumulate, and imprudence will not calculate
its income, and vanity exaggerates its own powers, and
the fault is laid upon that tyrant of a sister kingdom.
The whole country is filled with such failures ; swaggering
beginnings, that could not be carried through ; grand en-
terprises begun dashingly, and ending in shabby compro-
mises or downright ruin.--Irish Sketch Book.
HUME ON ROYAL EXPENDITURE.—We understand
that Mr. Hume is preparing a treatise on royal expendi-
ture, and that the basis of his calculations will be on the
principle of his late astounding discovery that an
annuity
of £3OOO to a female of twenty-two years of age is worth
half a million of money. This conclusion was, no doubt,
arrived at by the method that would be used in solving
the well-known problem--" If a bath-brick cost three-
halfpence, what would a sack of coals come to ? Mr. Huiiie's contemplated work will treat of the royal din-
ner table, and contrast its cost with the bill of fare at the
Rupert-street dining-rooms. He will show that the ex-
pensive mode of doing things at Buckingham Palaceis
not at all necessary for the royal comfort, and that the
dinner of her Majesty need not come to more than ten-
pence, which, allowing twopence for the lord in waiting,
would bring it up to the Rupert-street average. This
calculation allows only " a small plate of meat to the
Queen, but it gives her Majesty " two breads ;" and for
the more manly appetite of Prince Albert, Mr. Hume
sets down the sum of sixteenpence, which, with twopence
for gold-stick, would amount to one-and-sixpence. Mr.
Hume devotes a whole chapter to the maids of honour,
and the conclusion he arrives at, is, that the honour ought
to be sufficient remuneration for the maids in question.
In his section on the bedchamber women he enters largely
on the subject of their supposed duties, and gives some
interesting tables of the sues he has paid to the house-
maids in his own employ for the last quarter of a century.
The very difficult subject of a month's wages or a month's
warning, as applicable to the mistress of the robes, the
comptroller of the household, and other highly-paid..
functionaries, is very nicely handled. On the whole, we
can confidently recommend the book of Mr. Hume as in-.
valuable to small German princes and sovereigns, to
whom the art of living upon a hundred a-year would be
of infinite utility. For a country like England the prac-
tical application of Mr. Hume's theory would be at pre-
sent premature. If the author's views prevail his
book may become useful, unless the nation should con-
tract for the sovereign's keep in an hotel or boarding..
house.—punch.
THE. WAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE " ROWDY
JOURNAL."—.Behind a mangy old writing table sat a
figure, with
the stump of a pen in its mouth, and a great
pair of scissors in its right band, clipping and slicing at a
file of Rowdy Journals ; and it was such a laughable
figure, that Martin had some difficulty in preserving his
gravity, though conscious of the close observation of
Colonel Diver. The individual who sat clipping and
slicing as aforesaid at the Rowdy Journals, was a small
young
gentlernan,.of very juvenile appearance, and un-
wh
nseolomely pale in the face ; partly, perhaps, from in-
te thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the
excessive. use of tobacco, which he was at that moment
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brow, that none Of the poetry of his aspect might be lost,
twsholelceehwnhs; of mankind has bestoived the appellation
".snula,' and it was very much tumid up at the end, as
with a lofty scorn. Upon the upper lip of this oun
gentleman were tokens of a sandy down—so very,y, very smooth and scant, that though encouraged to the utmost
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upon his work and every time he snapped the great
jaws, which gave him a very terrible appearance. Martin
be Colonel Diver's con ; the hope of the family, and
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respondent, sir—Mr. Jefferson- Brick 1"--iiirenturqS
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