The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-19 00:00:00

.FASITIOA; FACTS, AND FICTIONS.

During the last week .her .Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent has distributed among the different charity schools and
benefit societies of Ryde, powcs, and Newport, nearly r.,100.
It is said that the Premier has_presented the late tutor of his
son, Lord Howick, to the living of areenwich; vacant' by -the•
death of the Rev. Q.-Matthew. . ' , • * • ,' - •

It is rumoured that the several parties against whom appeals
were decided at the late Clerkenwell Sessions are determined
to resist the several judgments pronounced; on the ground of
invalidity of the session. : • .

The last fortnight has thinned the town amazingly; the Park
on Sunday, which is a fair test, displaying but a comparatively
small sprinkling of fashion.—(London paper.) ,
We understand that Mr. Kennedy has resigned his office of
Lord of the Treasury iu 'consequence of his vote on Sir John
Wrottesley's motion last night. When the government with-
drew the 147th clause Mr. Kennedy tendered his resignation,
as he could not support them in the course which they pro-
posed to adopt. Lord Grey, however permitted him to remain,
provided he did not vote. Last night, however, he fairly
proved by his vote what his real intentions .are, and, having
abandoned Lord Althorp, Mr. Stanley, and the rest of the
cabinet, we hear that he felt himself genii(' as a man of hon-
our to quit his office.—Morning Post.

Among the on dits of the passing hour (says an Exeter paper)
is avert' current one—that an M.P., connected with this county,
who, it is said, has been a more regular frequenter of the pur-
lieus of St. James's-street, and other miscalled -fashionable
neighbourhoods in the metropolis, than of the famed old chapel
of St. Stephen's, has been fleeced by the more knotting visitors
of the hells to a very large amount, varying, according to busy
rumour, from £70,000 to £150,000. It is added, that by the in-
tervention of relatives, the matter has been arranged.
The remains of the lamanted Lord Dover were removed on
Wednesday from Dover House, for interment in the family
vault at Twickenham. The ceremonial, we understand, was
private.
A marriage is understood to be in contemplation between the
Hon. Wm. Henry A'Court, eldest son of Lord Hevtesbury,
and' Miss Worsley Holmes, daughter and heiress of the late Sir
Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes, Bart., of Westford, and
Pitford House, in the Isle of Wight. Previous to the passing;
of the reform bill this opulent young lady possessed the nomi-
nation of members of Parliament fot Newport and Yarmouth,
with a fractional interest in the boroUgh of Newtown.
ELOPEMENT.—The neighbourhoods of Aberdovey, Towyn,
and Machynlleth, have been amused by therecital of the elope-
ment of a son of a captain. The two lovers went off in the true
Welsh fashion, each riding upon a ceffyl, (Welsh pony,) and
were pursued several stages without being overtaken.—Shrews-
bury Chronicle.

DEATH •OF LORD ALDBOROUGII.—Died, at his residence,
Stratford-lodge, Baltinglass, on the 11th inst , the Right Hon.
the Earl of Aldborough. The loss of this venerable and much
esteemed nobleman will be felt by the poor of that town and
neighbourhood, to whom he was a benefactor. His charities
were unbounded, whilst every public institution, calculated to
promote the interests of mankind, literally partook of his
bounty and patronage. He was one of the best of landlords, an
upright magistrate, and as a private country gentleman, was
hospitable without being ostentatious ; he was a staunch sup-
porter of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the uncompro-
mising foe of novelty and innovation.—Carlow Sentinel.

SUDDEN DEATH OF DR. TWEEDIE,-011 Monday au inquest
was held at the Red Lion, King-street, Bloomsbury, on the body
of Dr. Tweedie, aged 63. On Saturday night, *Dr. Tweedie
hearing that the kitchen chimney of his house in Southampton-
row was on fire, ran down stairs, and having procured two pails
of water, with the assistance of another gentleman extinguished.
it. The deceased then went up stairs, but had scarcely reached.
the landing when he fell down, and was heard to groan heavily.
The two gentlemen immediately put him in a chair, but life
appeared to have gone. In about two minutes Mr. Keeling, •
surgeon, Little Ormond-street, arrived, and administeredevery-
thing by which re-animation could be brought about, but without
the desired effect. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God.
A hail storm last week destroyed glass iu the gardens at
Belvoir Castle to the value of nearly £6OO,

There was a strong meeting of conservative peers, at Apsley-
house, on Sunday. Among others, the Marquis Camden,
Earls Roslyn, Eldon, and Bathurst, were of the party, who
were carrying on a rather animated discussion, in full view of
many gazers in Hyde-park.
On Saturday night or early on Sunday morning a sheep was
found in a field on Beechen Cliff, with its hind quarters cut off ;
these the wretches who mutilated the poor animal in this bar-
barous manner carried off, leaving the rest of the bleeding
carcase. We should be disposed to think that there is no crime
under heaven of which the miscreants who could do this would
not be readily capable. The sheep was the property of Mr. G.
East, butcher, of New Westgate-buildings.—Bath Journal.
SYDNEY, MARCH 2.—We have had quite a novelty this week
in the list of our arrivals. A little schooner, 88 tons only, has
made her passage from Glasgow, having touched at the Cape,
which she left 27th December. Her crew consists of six, and
she has for her passengers the wife and five daughters of the
Captain, who is, besides, the owner.
An indigent old woman, named Euphemia Lindsay, residing
in the neighbourhood of Cortachy, Forfarshire, awoke, on Tues-
day last week, out of a sleep of seven weeks' duration ! And,
unless she had at any time awoke unobserved and helped here
self to a draught of water which was placed within her reach,'
and which, it is said, was sometimes found by her attendant to
be diminished in quantity, she existed during this space en- '
tirely without sustenance of any kind. On awaking at the time -
already mentioned, she partook freely of refreshments; and,
after continuing two days in a state of conscious existence, she
again sunk into another slumber, which, though seemingly like
the former on its approach, was, nevertheless, very different—it
was the sleep of death.—Edinburgh Observer.
MONUMENT TO Sin JOHN MALCOLM.—This interesting tri-
bute to worth and genius is now fairly set about. An adjourned
meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held last week, at the
residence of the Viscount Clive, in Hill-street, Berkeley Square,
when it was resolved, that to perpetuate the remembrance of.
the public services and private virtues of the lamented deceased,
a statue to his memory be erected in Westminster Abbey. It
will be seen by an announcement of the design in our front'
page, that the subscription list has already' received some very
handsome contributions. The Dukes of Wellington, orthuni-
berland, and Buccicuch have each subscribed 1100; our coun-
ty member, Sir James Graham, £5O; and the Pacha of Egypt
£loo!—the latter is a most extraordinary circumstance, and
one much to the honour both of the dead and the living. But
Sir John Malcolm was regarded with deep veneration by his
Highness the Pacha; he had long enjoyed his intimate friend-
ship• and had twice travelled with him through Egypt. We
shall' not be surprised to find contributions sent from Persia
also;' and from India we look for an important list of subscri-
bers. How honourable to Carlisle, to have had it inscribed upon
this monument, that the estimable man of whose merits it per-
petuates the remembrance had been its representative! But
the Whigs willed it otherwise.—Carlisle Patriot.

ICON TRADE.—(From the Birmingham Journal. )—We beg
most particularly to call attention to the following important
remarks, from a correspondent, on the present very negligent
mode of manufacturing iron;—" As quarter day is approaching,
and the iron masters will have to fix the price, of iron, I
hope they will fix such a price as will enable them to bestow
more labour upon it and make it better; or it will come into
disrepute not only in England but in foreign countries. The
quick method now in practice to produce it, leaves it only part
iron, the rest rubbish. If the hook which broke as short as an
isicle at the Town-hall had been made of good iron, the men
killed in consequence would probably now have been living;
and here I would recommend an act obligatory upon every
smith to put his name upon every article he makes above a cer-
tain weight, or where it is to be used in a way wherein.the life
of man may be endangered, such as axle trees, drag chains,
irons for coach dick'eys, ships' bolts, and many other articles;
and if death ensued in consequence of any article of the above
description being made of bad, brittle, cold, short iron, the ma-
ker of the article should be tried for manslaughter. Three in-
stances of dickeys breaking off and letting two persons down
head foremost and sadly hurt, may he seen in the newspapers;
and the frequency of drag chains breaking is notorious: the:
coach going down a steep hill, with fourteen outside and four
inside passengers. About two years ago the English ambassa-
dor's carriage broke down going through France; the axle-tree
broke short. It was nuts for the Frenchmen, who exclaimed
"This is your English iron!" Instead of the old way
.of pass-
ing it through the finery and chaffary and well-beating it under
the hammer, it is now coaxed up into a ball just as it will adhere
together, receiving two or three.blows under the hammer instead
of twenty, put through the roller, and at once made into a bar,
kt for nothing but to make pallisadoes, when cast-iron would
do as well. Any iron work which maims bad iron is a positive
nuisance to society, and the master of it ought to be such among
the iron-masters."

THREE GENERATIONS OF JOCEEYS.—There are MOTH Ed-
wardses at Newmarket tlian there were Caesars at Rome, and
they all-ride as it were by instinct. James, or Tiny Edwards,
ai he is called—par excellence of Course—is father of all the
jockeys that bear that name, and also of William, formerly a
jockey, who trained for his late Majesty, and has a pension and
part of the palace and stables at Newmarket, as his reward.
James trains for the Earl of Jersey, and is considered first-rate,
and particularly so in his preparation for the Derby course.
The cleverest of the jockeys is Harry (the one-eyed man, who
lived with the late Earl Fitzwilliam), a very elegant horseman ;
and our Caledonian friends will not forget his winning the
King's Plate on Terror. George is likewise very good, as are
Charles and Edward, young ones, not forgetting Frederick,
little better than a child, but with the seat of an old man.
When his late Majesty saw his own horses mixed 'with Lord
"
Jersey's at Ascot, and. the answer,, to every question the king,
• of " Who
is that?" was " Edwards,"—
Bless me, exclaimed
"What lots of jockeys that woman breedsr !" It happens, how-
ever, that they are the produce of_the e different marriages, sr).
the glories come, as Garter would say, from the Baron, not
time Fomme.—Quarterly Review, No. 98.
Tex AQUATIC SPIDER.—A property of these araneides, not
less singular, is the capacity of constructing for themselves, in
the bosom of the water, a kind aerial mansion, a true diving
bell, where they can respire freely, live in safety, and which
serves as a cradle for their family. • This may be compared to-
a diving bell, not only because he has the same destination,
but the same form—namely, that of a cap; or that of one-half
of the shell of a pigeon's egg. It is . entirely filled with air,
perk. tly close, the under part pt d, where there is atoles
l
tole-
rably large aperture, giving at entrance and
a tissueandexit of white .
silk,
to the animal.
Its walls are slender, and-coinpoeed -
of
strong, and close, a great number of irregular threads fix it to
the stems of plants, or other bodies. Sometimes the upper
part is .out of the water, but most generally it remains entirely
immersed. Its inhabitant is thus euyiraned with air; she re-
mains there quietly, the head usually down—a situation which
permits her to see more easily what passes, to watch tier prey,
and to escape from the least danger. sneer has seen her with
her head upwards, and the feet applied against the body.
Gssaus.—What is genius, but the faculty of seizing and
turning to account everything that strikes us; of co-ordinating
and breathing life into all the materials that present themselves ;
of taking here marble, there brass, and • building a lasting mo-
nument with them? If I were nut assured that Mirabeati pos-
sessed in the highest possible degree the art of approvriating the
knoWledge and the thoughts of those around lorn, I should not.
believe in the stories told of his influence. Tim Most original
young painter, who thinks he owes everything to his invention,
cannot, it he really has genius, come into the room in which we
are now sitting, and look round at the drawings with which it
is hung, without going out a different man from what he came:
in, and with a new supply of ideas. What should I be—what:
would remain to me—it this art of appropriation were considered
as derogatory to genius ? Whht have I done ? I have collected
and turned to account all that I have seen, heard, observed :-1
have put in requisition the werks. of nature and of man. Every
one of my writings has been furnished to me by a tiaouland dif-
ferent persons, a thousand different things—the learned and the
ignorant, the wise and the foolish, infanity and age, have come
in turn—generally without having the least susiacion of it—to
bring me the offering of their thoughts, their faculties, their ex-
perience : often they have sowed the harvest I have reaped; my
work is that of an aggregation of beings taken from the whole
of nature ; it bears the name of Goethe.—Austin's Charaetriitks
of Geethe