The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-21 00:00:00

FASHION, FAC TS, AND FICTIOVS.

The King, attended by Sir Andrew Barnardand one of his
aides-de-camp, dined on Tuesday with the Duke .f Wellington,
at Apsley-house. His Grace gave a grand dinnerin celebration
of the anniversary of Waterloo to the general officers and the
officers of the staff engaged in that battle. Earl llthurst, as Se-
cretary of State for the War Department at that friod, was also
present. The, Duke of Wellington received hi Majesty on
alighting from his carriage. 'Hie party, whicl consisted of
about seventy, appeared in full military uniform, ind the mem-
bers of orders of knighthood wore their respetive ensigns.
The services of plate and china (the latter hiving paintings
of actions and places celebrated in his Grace's canpaigns) pre-
sented to his Grace by foreign potentates, were diplayed on the
occasion. The band of the 1 first or Grenadier Reginient of
Foot Guards were in attendance, and performef a number of
pieces in the course of the evening.
Her Majesty honoured the King's theatre witl her presence
on Tuesday, to witness the performance of Rossin's opera buffa.
Il Barbiere de Siciylia, compressed into one an, a scena from
Anna Bolena, by Madame Pasta, and the histoical ballet Ines
de Castro.

The two young Princes of Wirtemberg, who iave arrived at
Kensington Palace on a visit of a few days to heir illustrious
relative the Duchess of Kent, are the sons of Dike Alexander
of Wirtemburg by the Princess Antoine Ern.stina of Saxe
Coburg, who left his Highness a widower in 1824.
There are various reports as to the object a' the Prince of
Orange's expected visit to this country, and anongst others, a
matrimonial speculation for one of his sons wth a
,v-oung and
illustrious Princess has been freely spoken of. We have reason
for believing that the principal object of his loyal Highness
coming here, is to place one, if not two, of sons in one of
our Universities. Ills Royal Highness has time sons and one
daughter, by the Princess Ann, sister to the Emperor of Rus-
sia, viz.:—Prince William. 16 years of age ; Prince Alexander,
15; Prince Frederick, 13—and the Princess Sophia, aged 9
years.

It is reported, upon good authority, that Mr. and Miss
Fanny Kemble have, by their united performaw.es in America,
cleared 12,000!

APPROACHING NUPTIAI.S.-Sir John Hamner, Bart., M. P.
for the borough of Shrewsbury, is about to be married to Geor-
giana, youngest daughter of Sir George Chetwyd, Bart., of
Grendon Hall, Staffordshire.

Ex-SIIER I F RK I NS.—The commissioners appointed under
an order of the Vice-Chancellor to take an examination of
evidence relative to the state of mind of this gentleman met
yesterday, and three witnesses were examined in presence of
the jury empanelled to try the issue. Mr. Parkins declined
for
in the investigation, either in ersoap or by counsel,
reasons that were stated to the commissioners. The further
examination of the question has been postponed until Monday
next, at half-past four o'clock.—New I ork paper.

DEATH OF LADY HALFORD.—Died, on Monday, at her resi-
dence in Curzon-street, May Fair, Lady Elizabeth Barbara,
wife of Sir Henry Halford, Bart., physician to his Majesty.
Her Ladyship was third daughter of John Lord St. John, of
Bletsoe, and was united to Sir Henry in 1795. Her Ladyship
has left a daughter married to a brother of the Earl of Coven-
try, and also a son (Henry) united to a daughter of Baron
Vaughan. In 1815, an Act passed for conferring to Sir Henry
Vaughan and his issue male the surname and firms of Halford,
agreeably to the will of the late Sir Charles Halford, Bart.,
who died without issue several years ago, when the title be-
came extinct.

One of those relics of ancient custom, the riding to water,
was exhibited at Plymouth a short time since, with all the ob-
streperous hurly burly of vulgar show; the fair false one was
duly represented riding on an ass, at the back of the cornuto
(her favoured swain,) duly caparisoned with the emblems of
his state, by whom she was belaboured with little mercy, and
eventually consigned to the fiery, instead of the watery, ele-
ment. A4host of boys, and not a few of the grown-up mobocracy,
accompanied the procession with torches and flags. A Dutch
colour, with the word Java,' was pointed out to our informant
as significant of the scene of the fatal act which gave rise to the
celebration.
SHREWSBURY FAIR.—Our fair was this week thinly supplied
with fatted cattle, and purchasers being very umerous, 51d. to
6d. per lb. was easily obtained ,• in some ca 10s. per head is
said to have been given over the highest ese prices. A
vast many ordinary store cattle were off. ; and sold at low
prices ; but good barrens sold we 11... With calves were
much the same as at last fair. A good of fat sheep were
offered, and brought 6d. per lb. Lim s were'vather more
numerous than of late, and obtained 7d. per lb. ; the Lancashire
dealers getting the greatest part of, their supply from Ireland.
Small pigs sold excessively low; soljeg stores as at the former
fair. There were many horses, setae good draught animals,
but few hacks possessing figure and action: these sold well.
In the dairy-fair the best cheese brought from 525. to 555. per
cwt.; middling dairies, 465. to 505.; and skim, 305., 355., and
40s. per cwt. ; and all was sold, of every description. A few
tubs of new butter were offered, and found purchasers at 9d. per
It,. Bacon was in good supply, and was nearly all sold at sd.
to 51d per lb. Hams, 6d. to 64d. A number of base half-so-
vereigns were passed in our market on Saturday, by some Nig-
glers from Warwickshire. They appear a tolerably fair imita-
tion, but weigh extremely light, and may be thus very easily
detected.—Shrewsbury Paper.
METHOD OF QUELLING A RIOT IN THE HIGHLANDS.—III
certain burgh in one of the mountainous districts, the important
personage who filled the office of fiscal was one night enjoying
himself over a glass with a friend, when the servant opened the
door in great haste, announced that there were two men fighting
in Mac's (a neighbouring public house,) and the fiscal was
wanted immediately. The night was cold, and the official felt
reluctant to leave the comfortable situation in which he found
himself; turning, therefore, to the girl, he ordered her to "go
and tell Mac to give the men a dram to be quiet." "But what
if they'll no be quiet then, Sir?" asked the girl. " 'Od damn
it!" cried the fiscal pettishly, "just tell hint to make them fight
till I come."—Perth Advertiser.
EFFECTS OF AIR ON LIGHT.—Were it not for the reflective
and scattering power of the atmosphere no objects would be
visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing
cloud would be pitchy darkness • the stars would be vi-
sible all day, and every apartmenti into which the sun
had not direct admission would be involved in nocturnal
obscurity. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the
solar light, it should be observed, is greatly increased by the
irregularity of temperature caused by the same luminary in its
different parts, which, during the day-time, throws it into a con-
stant state of undulation, and, by thus bringing together masses
of air of very unequal temperatures, produces partial reflections
and refractions at their common boundaries, by which much
light is turned aside from the direct course, and diverted to the
purposes of general illumination.—Sir J. Herschel on Astronomy
—Cabinet Cyclopedia.

JANISSARY SANG-FROID.—The day after the victory over the
Janissaries and the storming of their barracks, the Grand Vizier
sat for the trial of offenders. Among the most distinguished for
intrepidity of character and turbulence of disposition was Ibra-
him Agah, the superintendent of fire-engines. He had taken
part in every previous revolt, and had amassed great wealth by
his exactions for the repair and supply of pumps. "Agah,'
said the Vizier to him ironically, "it is your duty to superin-
tend the extinguishing of fires; why were you not present when
the barracks were in flames ?" "That conflagration," replied
Agah in the same vein, "vas too great to be extinguished;
besides, it would appear it was the duty of a good subject rather
to increase than to appease its violence." He was delivered over
to the Mufti, and when the executioners passed a cord of serpent's
skin round his neck, he cried, "Pull, away, my brave fellows!"
and died undauntedly. His body was flung into the street, and
treated with every indignity. Two hundred officers shared the
same fate.—Monthly Magazine.

UNEXPECTED NEGATIVE.—A certain facetious scribe having,
a few days ago, accidentally forgathered, in a steam-boat, with
an old acquaintance, a well-known bacchanal, whose rubicund
countenance by no means belies him, familiarly inquired if he
would accept of a gill. "No !" was the unlooked-for reply,
" I have entirely given over drinking." "indeed!" rejoined
the somewhat incredulous man of law; " why then I would
advise you forthwith to remove the sign."
PEAS AND Ru-PEES.--By the recent mercantile failures in
India, several families, living hitherto in the highest opulence,
have been reduced to comparative destitution. Notwithstand-
ing this, a certain Oriental, famed for his fun, although a severe
sufferer, keeps up his spirits for joking. friend the other day
remarking, "that the present fine weather would bring all the
peas in," was answered by the ci-devant Nabob, with a shake of
the head--" No, Colonel, not all the peas—l am afraid it will
not bring in the ru-peet."

ROGERS' LAST.—This perpetual banker begins to give symp-
toms of declining intellect—as far as regards his skill in pun-
manship. He was asked to Sir C. H. Coote's dinner party on
Monday week, and just before setting out he was visited by
Torn Campbell, who found him sneezing with the influentials.
"Bless me," exclaimed Tom, "you're not going out in that
state?" "Yes," replied Rogers, "Sir Charles has asked me,
and I must go Coote qui Coote." Tom ran away.

THE ENLIGHTENED.—The following short pithy dialogue
actually took place a few days since between a worthy and
enlightened elector of Westminster and his friend. Mr. L.,
"So, Mr. A., you have turned out Sir John Hobhouse ?"
" Yes' Sir," snuffled Mr. A. Mr. L. "But why did you wote
agen him?" Mr. A. "Why, cos he woted for the taxis."
Mr. L. "Oh, lawks! you're uninformed; he woted exactly
the rewerse." Mr. A. " Well, I don't know; but he done
summut, and so we injected him."

There appears to be a very illiberal and unjust clause in the
new Apothecaries' Act; we mean that which prohibits Members
of the College of Surgeons from dispensing their own prescrip-
tions. Its folly is nearly as obvious as its illiberality, for a very
great proportion of apothecaries are also surgeons and mem-
bers of the College. This is worth attending to.

LISTON BUIAVER'S EPIGRAM.—RCaIIY it is too bad of Liston
Bulwer to trifle with the tender passion as he doei; in his last
work he illustrates the heedless way courtships are carried on
and cut off by the lower orders in the following verses, which he
calls an amatory epigram :
Bob courted Molly for some time,
But Susan's charms were in their prime,
And faithless Bobby left poor Mary
In unrequited love's quandary;
And, all her sweetest smiles refusing,
His soul surrendered to fair Susan.
" Oh, wretch !" cried Moll, with angry-look,
" And is it thus that I'm for-Book r'
" No," Bobby grinned, Moll, thou'rt mistaken,
'Tis I'm for-Suk& and thou for-waken."
This is not the way to elevate " England and the English.'

A DOWNING-STREET DITTY,

WITH NATIONAL ECHOES.
How shall we still the gathering storm
That hourly speaks in various brogueo—
How check the cry for more Reform—
Unless the King the House prorogues I
Echo—Root:Ns !

We then might get affairs adjusted,
That would e'en Castlereagh affright ;
Forxeople are just now disgusted
ith those whose zeal they should requite—
Echo—QE ITN I

How fast the nation's tears would flow,
How much the foolish folks would rue.
Should we, their friends, from office go—
Echo—Go !
And leave the work for them to do—
Echo—Do !
Who'd shield them from the Tory Peers,
The dreadful Duke, should we withdraw ?
Folks seem not to have proper fears
Of Inglis, Goulburn, Yorke, and Shaw--
Echo—Psi-La!

No—popular breath shan't puff us out.
A people's tears shan't,quench our fires ;
For us they once again shall shout,
Fur us the poets string their lyres—
licho—Luas I
At any rate, through all disgraces,
Though all throughout the realm repine,
One thing is fixed—to keep our places,
And sign to this—" We'll not resign !"
Echo from all parts of the country—lt Est N.
Weekly Tram Sun,

Emporto.
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.

Collins, Smart, fm Antigua, with 28 hds 11 tcs 47 brls sugar, 439 pns
17 hds 22 brls molasses, 11 bxs 4 brls 1 hf brl 1 keg arrowroot, 2 kegs
tamarinds, J Jones-1 brl sugar, 5 brls arrowroot, said Master—K Dk
Isabel, Griffiths, fm Demerara and Barbados, with 569 hds 3 tcs 1
brl sugar, Barton, Irlam and co—P Dk
Parker, Risien, fm Demerara, with 502 hds 2 tcs 1 hf tce sugar, 60
csks 831 bags coffee, 88 bales cotton, Sandbach, Tinne and co-36 hds
sugar, Douglas,.ylke l:orartzrfamlacmo—i3ca
Jamaica,
H Risien—
with hdsB4tcDsk6l brls sugar,
3 esks old copper, 5 pns molasses, 81 pns rum, 20 t logwood, abt 1 t
fustic, 5 logs cedar, 18 logs mahogany, loose 23651 b old copper, T H
Milner-220 lancewood spars, 20 pus molasses, abt 4 t logwood, 7 t
fustic, order—P Dk
SOUTH AMERICA.

Highlander, Gardner, fm Pernambuco and Paraiba, with (fm Per-
nambuco) 149 bags cotton, 1420 dry salted o and c hides, order—(fm
Paraiba) 16 es 9 bxs 41 brls sugar, T J Lancaster-276 bags cotton,
Mellors and Russell-153 bags do, 27 cs sugar, 120 dry salted hides,
order—G Dk

Niagara, Rigby, fm Maranham, with 300 bags cotton, J Haddon 8:
co—l 6 bags do, buarte Bros-1189 bags do, 1400 hides, Moon Bros—
P Dk

William Russell, Bruce, fm Pernambuco, with 208 c and o hides,
1233 bags cotton, Mellors and Russell-520 bags do, order—P 13k
Thomas Dempsey, Coxon, fm Monte Video, with loose abt 10 t
horns, 8090 salted and 1100 dn, c and o hides, 16 bls hair, 57 lining
hides, Edwards, Hall and co-50 bls hair, M'Crackan and co-8 Dk

Hamilton, Hill, fm Savannah, with 750 bales cotton, Bolton, Og-
den and co-315 bales do, Wainwright and co-349 bales do, order—
P Dk

Montezuma, Cheyney, fm Philadelphia, with 70 bales cotton, W
and J Brown and co-249 Ms quer bark, Lodge and Prichard-1 pck
conts unkn, W Rathbone-1 Win do, Castellain and co-2 bats do, W
A and G Maxwell--abt 3 t horn tips, Hobson and Sons—(for exporta-
tion) 1 bx conts unkn—P Dk
Porcia, Burnett, fm Laguna, with abt 180 t log wood, 3 his jalap, 8
serous cochineal, 1 live deer, order Dk
UNITED STATES.

Cassander, Davenport, fm New Orleans, with 1060 bales cotton, C
Tayleur, Sons and co--4 bxs conts unkn, A Taylor and co—P Dk
Lucy, Bell, fm Costa Rica, (Columbia) with abt 128 t Brazil wood,
Salarteez Muzzieta--8 t sarsaparilla, 97 bls Peru bark, 3 bls contg 202
marks of Plata Pina, and 198 marks of Plata Chappa, Gibbs, Bright
and co--G Dk

Sheffield, Hackstaff, fm New York, with 1021 Wes cotton, Baring
Bros and co-1 bx conts nnkn, T Barber-1 bx do, W and J Brown
and co-1 bx do, Cearns, Crary and co-1 prcl do, It Breed—P Dk
Europe, Maxwell, fm New York, with 11 es 5 csks lead pipes, Ros-
kell, Ogden and co-259 bales cotton, Bolton, Ogden and co-32 bales
do, Waddington, Holt and co-51 bales do, T B Blackburn-7 hales
do, Collmann,. Lambert and co-355 brls turpentine, Cearns, Crary
and co-120 brls ore, Cropper, Benson and co-23 hds tobacco, W
S Irom-5 es conts unkn, A Taylor and co-50 hds quer bark, Den-
nistoun, Mackie and co--2 bxs 1 pkge hooks, W Wotherspoon—a
qnty loose stone ballast, said Master—G Dk
Constitution, Wilson, fm Savannah, with 1317 bales cotton, A Tay-
lor and co-10G bales do, Collmann, Lambert and co-300 bales do,
Wainwright, Shiels and co—a qnty stone ballast, said Master—Q 1)k
Hermann, Leslie, fm Mobile, with 584 hales cotton, Bolton, Ogden
and co-524 bales do, Peck and Phelps-370 bales do, Wainwright,
Shiels and co-34 bales do, A Taylor and co-10 bales do, ordtr—
P Dk

BRITISH AMERICA.
lanthe, Brown, fin Newfoundland. with 334 csks train oil, loose
2000 seal skins, 112 cow hides, abt 11 c old junk, W W Bullcy-2 kgs
codsounds, order—S Dk
Nehemiah, Hutton, fin St Andrew's, with 501 ps fir timber. 7 c 28
deals and deal ends, abt 10 fins lathwood, Cannon and Miller—Q Dk
Benjamin Shaw, Graystoek, fm Miramichi, with 442 ps pine, 19
ps birch and 30 ps juniper timber, cl 4 deals, abt 7 fins lathwood,
Roscow and Rigg—B Dk
SPAIN.

Ark, Srnalldridge, fm Cadiz, with 8 butts 46 hda 26 qr esks wine,
Knowles, Bold and co--4 buts do, R and W Wright-30 lids do, It
buts 4 hds do, T Chaddoek and Son-4 buts 40 hds 16
qr esks do, Ibx conts unkn, order-8 Dk

PORTUGAL.
Ann Paley, Roistone, fm Lisbon, with 4 hds 8 qr csks wine, N
Shelmardine--2 qr csks do, order-38 chsts 306 hf chsts oranges, 12
chats 139 hf chats lemons, E Rae-8 chats 31 hf chats oranges, J Adam
—6O chsts 3 hf chats do, order-28 chsts 101 hf chats do, 7 chats 61 hf
chats lemons, loose aht 40 t salt, J Bibby and co-9 csks conts unkn,
T Martin-16 chats 58 hf chats oranges and lemons, J Collier and co-
-Ihf chst oranges, Ikg wine, said Master—G Dk

SWEDEN.
Forsoket, Schutt, fm Stockholm, with 8040 bars iron, 100 kgs stee
Mead, Wilson and co--1 c 24 dcals,[order—K Dk

EUROPE.
San Jose y Dechoso Vaticino, Tallvira, fm Vindros, with 68 pps
136 hds 256 qr csks wine, R Macwilliam-1 pre silk worm gut, order
—ll Dk

Morck, fm Gothenburg, with 21 c 24 battens, 13 masts,
yards or bowsprits, c2B spars, 11 and J llornby and co--4154 bars
iron, R Airth-1143 bars do, E Maw-960 bars do, Mather, Roscoe &
eo--(for exportation) 28 spars or masts, fin firewood, 3 planks—
AFRICA.Dk .
Lady Durham, Foster, fin Africa, with 929 csks palm oil, 462 ele-
phants' teeth, aht 10 t barwood, 8 fins dunnage wood, 32 es 3 csks 6
kegs 13 goods retd, loose 18 cwt pig lead, loose 262 hats, 46 doz wrstd
caps 342 black jacks, 1 cse genera, 2 pns 1 hd tobacco, loose 116 glass
decanters, 15 cs 2 csks sundries F retd, C Hors&ll—P Dk
_ _ _

Mariner, Low, fin Africa, with 1709 elephants' teeth. 204 seahorse
teeth, 12 csks grains paradise, 4 csks 6 ps bees' wax, 1 bx tortoise-
sbell, abt 100 t boxwood, 2 bxs rctd goods, C Horsfall and T Tobin•—
YDk