The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

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Henry Wood and Co. 5 0
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Amiens, per Rev.
Hugh
L. Paulet
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John Jack .
John Martin

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Jonathan Wilson . 2 2
J. M. Gladstone
Cearns and Brown
Collman & Co.. 2 2
Geo. L. Jackson
Samuel M'Keay 2 2
William Rogerson
Thomas Hague &Co 1 1
C. B. Elliot
The wife of a Sailor
and a Sailor's
Daughter
Miss T. Corrie.
Anonymous, per Rev.
H. M`Neile
A Friend .. 0 10

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Partner-
-1 1 ship heretofore subsisting between us, the under-
signed. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN and JOHN KEN-
NARD, carrying on Business, as Hatters, at Liverpool,
in the county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of
" Christian and Kennard," was this day dissolved by
mutual consent.—As witness our hands, this 21st day of
November, 1814.
WI M CHRISTIAN,
2
re____
J N KENNARD.
All debts owing b to the late firm will be paid and
received by Mr. DWARD ROBERTS, Accountant, 26,
Lord-street, or by the undersigned WILLIAM CHRIS-
TIAN.
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN returns his sincere thanks
to his friends, and begs most respectfully to inform them
and the Public generally, that he will continue the Busi-
ness, as usual, on the Premises, and solicits a continuance
of their support.
33, Old Haymarket, 13th December, 1844.

ALL Persons having any claims or demands agains
the late firm of L. PIERCE, HALL, and CO.,
carrying on business in Liverpool, in the county of Lan-
caster, as ship and anchor smiths, are,clestreThto send in
the particulars of their demands r. EDWARD ROB-
KRTS, Accountant, 26, Lord eet, on or before the 31st
day of December insta order that the-same may be
investigated. All clet ms not presented within the time
above limited will be absolut_dy disallowed and rejected.
Liverpool, 16th December, 1844.

pilticteionvvaorfrelratVeßt ROBERT JONES,
INfotrhmeeTlya totefr ss of tehlel -
of Heat hfield-street, Renshaw-street, all in Liverpool, in
the county of Lqncaster, slater and plasterer and dealer
in laths, in Hill-stree in Liverpool-aforesaid, occasion-
ally being a dealer in coa nd of Heathfield-street
aforesaid, journeyman slater plasterer, his residence
in Heathfield-street Navin nen aoce from the Upper
Arcade. NOTICE H E REBYN GIVEN, that
CHARLES PHILLIPS squire, the Commissioner acting
in the matter of thi Petition, will proceed to make a final
order thereon, at the Liverpool District Court of Bank-
ruptcy,at Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster,on SATUR-
DAY, the fourth day of January, 1845, at Eleven o'clock
in the Forenoon, precisely, unless rause be then and there
shewn to the contrary.—THOMAS WARDLE, Attorney for
the said Petitioner, No. 6, Union-buildings, Union-street,
Liverpool.
SAMUEL DAY, Messenger.

TN the Matter of the Petition of RICHARD GRE-
-1. GORY, at present and for twelve months last past
residing'at number 95, Mill-street, in the extra-parochial
place of Toxteth-park, in the county-'of Lancaster, and
being a retail but her, NOTIC IS HEREBY GIVEN
that CHARLES LIPS, quire, the Commissioner
acting in the Matte is Petition, will proceed to
make a final Orde e a, at the Liverpool District
Court of Bankr tcy, at tti erpool, in t. e County of
Lancaster, on FRIDAY, the Tht day of January, 1845,
at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon p cisely, unless cause
be then and there shewn to the contrary.
JOHN DAVIES,
Attorney for the said Petitioner,
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.
SAMUEL DAY, Messenger.

PLAYING CARDS.
?STEW VARIETIES of Figured, Plaid, and Gold-
backed PLAYING CAR f superior quality
and finish, are now read
NG WEBB,
STATIONER, 9, CASTLE-ST., LIVERPOOL.

NOTICE TO INVENTORS.
Office for Patents of Intentions and Registrations of
Designs, 14, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
rIPHE Printed INSTRUC gra 'e, and every in-
.'. formation upon t ject of PROTECTION for
INVENTIONS, ei ter by Letters Patent or the Designs
Act, miy be had by applying personally, or by letter
(prepaid) to Mr. ALEXANDER PRINCE, at the Office, 14
Lincoln's Inn Fields• ,

A NOVEL SIGHT TO SEE!
10,000 OVER. COATS,

MATRIMONIAL HOAX.

(From the Manchester Advertiser.)

A hoax of a rather uncommon description in this staid
town of ours, was played off on Thursday last, in St.
Ann's-square, on a gentleman from Liverpool, who had
caused the insertion of an advertisement in one of the
Manchester papers, announcing the wish of the advertiser
to meet with a wife with a liberal education, a sum of
money, &c., and all answers to be addressed to Mr.
Augustus Vivian, Post-office, Liverpool. Suspecting this
to emanate from some sharp or designing person, an
answer was promptly sent by a young gentleman of this
town, who, for the occasion, assumed the aristocratic
name of Miss Marianne Montrevor, which met a speedy
reply, and after various letters, it was finally arranged that
a meeting should take place in St. Ann's-squire, at
half-past twelve on the above day. The gentleman was
to be distinguished by a white camellia, and the lady
by a red geranium. Exact to the time appeared Mr.
Augustus Vivian, accompanied by a friend, who, of
course, retired. In consequence of a little purposed
delay, Mr. Augustus Vivian was necessitated to prome-
nade the square by himself. He was not, however,
idle, but setting out his favour and attempting to find out
the lady amid the number which were traversing the trot-
toir of the square, he was noticed by many, and more
particularly from his peculiar manner of noticing them.
After being thus engaged for about a quarter of an hour,
a young lady, habited in a tartan dress, with a fashionable
scarf and bonnet, of tall and elegant figure, but closely
veiled, and wearing a scarlet geranium at her bosom,
made her appearance, but the bashful Augustus Vivian
suffered her to pass him twice before he mustered courage
to address her. At length, overcoming her maiden timi-
dity, the lady encouraged him to approach, but, as if
afraid of the crowded numbers in the square, he imme-
diately withdrew to Half Moon-street, where, while en-
gaged in several earnest protestations of the sincerity
and purity of his motives, a gentleman suddenly ap- 1
proached, seized the young lady, reproached her for
the indiscretion which had placed her in her then in-
delicate position, and calling a cab, hurried her from
the scene. This was done thinking that a discovery
would be risked, in consequence of a roughness in the
young lady's voice, which was not exactly feminine. The
gentleman who had interrupted the tele-a•tete also
sharply reproved " the gallant gay Lothario" (a gentle-
man of tall and portly appearance, but of Bardolphian
rubicundity in the face) for thus inveigling his relative
into a clandestine interview of this description. The
would-be benedict declared the honourable character of
his intentions, and after some conversation (in which the
young lady was described as an orphan of high connections
in Scotland, on a visit to this locality, and possessed of
considerable property), a futther meeting was appointed
for four o'clock, at the young lady's solicitor's, whose
office was in street. True to his appointment,
the aspirant for wedded bliss appeared, gave the highest
references as to his respectability and independent posi-
tion, and was proceeding into details which rendered it
necessary that the hoax must end when the " lady"
appeared in propricl personcias a gentleman, accompanied
by a large number of triencls. The candidate bore his
disappointment with apparent good humour. It was
elicited by the young lady from him that he was in search,
to use his own words, of " Youth, beauty, quality, virtue,
wit, and—shall we add it—money ;" that he had at least
a dozen more engagements, and if any were true, we
doubt not but that be will at length meet with his match.
The two young gentlemen who answered the advertise-
ment, kindly conducted him to his hotel, in Market-
street, for the purpose of protecting him against the re-
marks which might have been passed upon him, by a large
body of individuals who bluing, by some means or ..titer,
got wind of the affair, stationed themselves outside the
solicitor's office, and followed the unlucky adventurer to
his above-named temporary abode, and he is now, no
doubt, safely lodged at his home in Liverpool.

Miss CLARA WEBSTER.—Unfortunately, the death of
this accomplished dancer has not been the only evil atten-
dant upon the late sad accident at Drury-lane Theatre.
A nurse of the name of Hudd, supplied on the urgency
of the case from the Middlesex Hospital to attend upon
Miss Webster, fell down the stairs, and upon ban con-
veyed back to the hospital was found to have sustained a
serious fracture of the knee.
IMPROPRIETY OF LINING WELLS WITH BRICKS.—
Two or three pieces of common brick were steeped four
days in a basinful of distilled water; the water was then
decanted off and examined by various chemical tests. It
was immiscible with soap, struck a lively green with syrup
of violets, was rendered slightly lacteacent by the volatile
alkali, and quite milky by the fixed alkali and a so-
lution of saccharine saturni. This experiment affords a
striking proof of the impropriety of lining wells with
bricks, which cannot fail of renderine the water hard and
unwholesome.—The Builder.

A WELSH BIDDING.—For the benefit of such of my
readers as have neither seen nor heard a Welsh biddi►;g, I
must premise that it is a gathering together of as many of
the friends and friends' friends, acquaintances and ac-
quaintances' acquaintances of the bride and bridegroom,
as a number of bidding letters can assemble. Each of
these individuals is expected to contribute either a gift or
loan of money towards the establishment of the young
couple. If a loan, that loan is to be repaid when the
lender, or any friend or relation to whom he may transfer
it, proposes to enter the holy state. Thus the wedded
pair set up in life upon the gifts and loans of their friends,
and are liable to be called upon for repayment when they
may be totally unprovided with ruoney.—Sketches in
South Wales.

" INJURED IRELAND !"—The rents paid for land in
Ireland are at least one-third less than the rents paid for
land in England,—but were it even otherwise, the right
to dispose of property to the best advantage could not be
by law interfered with. In addition to his rent, the
English occupier is subject by law to the payment of
tthes, which in many instances amount to more than the
entire rent impo•ed on the Irish tenant ; and by recent
enactments, the payment of the Protestant church has
been transferred from the Irish tenantry to the landlords,
nine-tenths of whom are Protestants; the English tenant
pees all the poor-rates, while the Irish tenant is only
called on to pay half; and while the former is subject to
county and parochial rates, in addition to turnpikes,
which are a heavy burden, the laver pays only the
county cess, the amount of which depends very much on
his own conduct. We cannot, then, discover that the
Irish peasantry are subject to any pecuniary grievances
which legislation has inflicted or could remove ; neither
can we perceive any neglect of their interests evinced by
the British Minister or the Saxon Parliament; but, on
khe contrary, we see that they have been especially pro-
tected by particular enactments against the payment of
charges to which the occupiers of the other portions of
the United Kingdom are still subject.—Blackwood.
MAKING BARRISTERS.—In this country, where the
importance to the public interests of having well-educated
lawyers is the greatest, the provision for legal education
is the smallest. In fact, we bestow upon the process of
making lawyers a vet y great and a very unjust compli-
ment by talking of such a provision, how scanty soever,
as having en existence amongst us. There is no kind
of provision whatever made for ascertaining that a
person
entering into the legal profession, either as a civilian in
Doctor's Commons, or a barrister in the courts of West-
minster, or a proctor in the ecclesiastical courts, has re-
ceived any education whatever to fit him for those pro-
fessions, or, indeed, any education at all. An examina-
tion of a certain kind has, indeed, been recentlyinstituted
for attorneys and solicitors. but a person unable to read
or write may become a barrister by merely entering his
name during five years at one of the inns of court, and et-
tending twelve times in its dinner ball, at the beginning
of the dinners eaten on those days, for about twelve
weeks in the year. His name being on the books five
years, he may attend those 12 times during the three out
of the five years. This circumstance is all that the law
requires to make a barrister of any man, however igno-
rant both of law and of everything else, together with the
payment of certain fees, orders, and certain taxes, dues,
fees to the inn of court, and taxes to the Government.
The question needs hardly be asked if this coure of pro-
ceeding is rational, or even decent? We believe the
honour of it is exclusively our own. We do not suppose
such an outrage upon all common senile as well as pro-
priety is perpetrated in any other country.—The Law
Review. '
MARRIAGES IN THE EAST.—The following morning
at daybreak, I was awakened by singing voices, which
sounded strangely through those solemn cloisters. On
descending into the open space in front of the convent, I
found a bridal party assembled, and, there being some
difficulty on the part of the priests, the villagers were
amusing themselves with a dance during the delay. Now,
a dance at sunrise is rather a singular occurrence—but it
was net less so than the solemn and measured step of the
dancers, which David might have imitated without any
appearance of levity. Michel would scarcely have smiled
at this choral band, that appeared like a procession swayed
about, and slowly undulating to a hymn-like music. All
the performers were women; the men, including the
bridegroom, decorously sat spirt,smokiog their pipes,
with an air of gentlemanly indifference. 'I he poor little
bride (who was only twelve years old) stood all the while
enveloped in a sort of tent, that moved with her like a
May-bush on a chimney-sweep. This singular envelop.
went, which exactly resembled a large kaleidscope, co-
vered with pink silk, permitted us no glimpse of its fair
occupant, who was surrounded by a group of staid ma-
trons. The dance went on, meantime, with perseverance,
if rot with spirit. Wreathing their arms round one ano-
ther. they advanced and retreated in two parties, keeping
time to their choral voices—then, forming in a circle, they
danced round and round without a smile. Their gay and
various drapery floated in picturesque masses of purple or
crimson folds, as they moved along ; their dark tresses
fell in showers behind them, or were looped up with golden
ornaments or coloured beads; their voices were passing
sweet, and the music that they made seemed, to me, ten..
der, though very wild. While this was going on, the
fathers of the expectant couple were bargaining with the
priests about the marriage. The dispute was carried on
with the usual violent gesticulations, and arose from the
priests having raised their trice, as I understood. The
villagers bad brought one dollar, the usual sum demanded
for the business; but the minister required four, The
conference at length broke up angrily. I grieve to say its
issue was unfavourable, and I saw the bridal procession
move off ;dill regret. I would willingly have furnished
the necessary expenses, but I confess I grudged them to
the ill-favoured, harsh-spoken friar, who probably, after
all, acted only from necessity. As I had hail some con-
versation with the elders of the party, I made an offering
towards the dowry of the kaleidoscope, and inquired whi-
ther they were going with the bride. "To the Santon,"
they replied, " who will do the business quite as well, and
only charge half a-dollar!: When I returned to the con-
vent, I found the priest still standing at the door of the
Latin convent, and ventured to inquire a hether this would
not afford a dangerous precOent. " Not so," he said ;
" before a child is born, they'll come here to be married
properly ; for they are reenectable people, and would not
have a Moslon.child for twift the money.—The
and the Cross. Omen(