The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

MISCELLA EO US.

Scotch ripptvel is all the rage everywh tre ia Paris with
an.; gt ntiewen, and the pi sid , .ceo in every street.
The t, v. Mr. ltahony (so well known as "Father
Prow—) succeed• M. 'Malty, in Malta.

The Norther?, S7.ir contains a letter from Mr. UM
the late edicor, ibing the state of chartism in Scot•
land ; he sacs the agitation is quite dead."

exeavatimis for a nunnery, to contain thirty in-
mates, hetwee,i the village of Sileby and Ratcliffe Hall,
Leice!,ters,nre. Aere commenced last week.

What can more destroy our healths than spending fif-
teen, sixteen, or ,eventeen hours a day confined in a shop,
from Monday morning to Saturday night?
The York and North Midland Railway Company, hav-
ing made their second-class carriages more comfortable,
an increase of 5,400 passengers in that class within six
months has taken place.

The two English Quakers, Alexander and Wiffen, have
arrived at Copenhagen to convince the Danish Govern-
ment of the expediency of abolishing slavery in the
Danish West India Islands.

HIGH-PRICED POlNTERS.—Mr.Croudace, gamekeeper
to Mr. Bowes, M.P., at Streatlam Castle,;has sold four
brace of pointers to different gentlemen for thirty guineas
per brace. The animals are first-rate.

A COMMODIOUS INN.—The Swan Inn, in Gravesend,
has in front a large board, upon which is painted the fol-
lowing announcement : "Good accommodation for steam-
packets."

The postmaster general has issued a regulation under
which any place within the three kingdoms may have a
post-office, with a free delivery of letters therefrom, pro-
vided that one hundred letters weekly may be expected to
reach the Post-office.

SHARP EYESIGHT,—An American, describing the pre-
valence of duelling, summed up with " They even fight
with daggers in a room pitch dark." "Is it possible ?"
was the reply. " Poss►ble sir?" returned the Yankee :
" why I have seen them."

A youth told his father that a situation was a tie to him
and that he wished to be emancipated from it, and to go
into business for himself. "Ah Dick I" replied his fa-
ther, " business is precarious ; and though your situation
is a tie, yet it is a certainty.

A bailiff, calling at the house of a distressed Quaker to
serve a writ was refused admittance. He said to the ser-
vant, " Your master is at home, hut will not see me."
" He has seen thee, friend," said Abigail, " but does
not like thy appearance."
A TEMPERANCE ARGUMENT.—It is said that of all
those who have been engaged in making and vending in-
toxicating drinks in the state of New York, for 49 years,
nine-tenths have become insolvent, and that two-thirds
of them were intemperate.
A remarkable phenomenon occurred a few days ago on
the Brighton railway. A gentleman and lady were sitting op-
posite to each other, the lady having a piece of court
plaster on her lip. On emerging from one of the dark
tunnels, marvellous to relate, the. court plaster was ob-
served to have passed over to the gentleman's lip.
WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE REDNESS IN THE SKY
AT SUNSET?—The air being then dry, refracts more red
or heat-making rays; and as dry air is not perfectly
transparent, they are again reflected in the horizon.
Such is the explanation given by Sir Humphry Davy in
his beautiful Salmonia.

SHEARING EXTRAORDINARY.—WiIIiam Greenhalgb,
alias Deaf Bill, 75 years of age, resident at Wrigley Brook,
Heywood, near Bury, sheared in six days, last week, 252
riders of wheat, in a field belonging to Mr. Robert Ker-
shaw, farmer and cotton manufacturer, Pilsworth, be►ng
21 riders ner day, at 2d. each, for which he received the
sum of 21s.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. On Monday evening, the
men employed at Woodhead, in cutting the tunnel for the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway, were much alarmed
by the falling-in of some portion of the roof. Three of
the men were getting supper just under the roof, which
fell in about twelve o'clock at night, and the men were
killed on the spot.

A COSTLY Drsg.—ln an old manuscript journal of
David Plenderleath, cousin of the Rev. David Plender-
leath, sornetinrs minister of the Tolbooth Church, Edin-
burgh, there is the following entry :—" London, Friday,
3d June, 1757.—We have green peas for this fortnight
past in the markets : the first that came to market sold,
as I am told, at ten guineas aping."
THE BUSY BEE.—Having some difficulty, of late, to
unfasten a warehouse door, I found it necessary to em-
ploy my carpenter to take off the lock, and to our great
surprise found it nearly filled with honeycomb, and that
a small swarm of bees had actually converted the cavity
of the lock into a hive, and had there deposited, in part,
the produce of their laborious gleanings.—Bath Journal.

A REPLY.—The Duke of Marlborough, struck with
the warlike air and fine figure of a soldier taken prisoner
at the battle of Blenheim, exclaimed, " Had the French
army contained 50,000 men similar to that grenadier, it
would not have been beaten." "Eh ! moableu," said
the soldier. " there were men enough like me, but the
army needed a general like you."—Military Anecdotes
in the United Service Gazelle.

WOMAN'S FIRMNESS OF OPINION.—A wife, let her
assert against her husband what she will, and argue as
she will, the husband is not at all in the condition 'to re-
fute or conquer her. For when he thinks to hold her fast
by a chain of reasoning, it is very much as when he at-
tempts to draw up to himself a ball of yarn by one of its
threads. He will get more and more thread in his hands,
but the ball will roll about, and still remain upon the
earth.

A youth about sixteen years old, the son of Michael
Sullivan, gardener to Arthur Lloyd Saunders, Esq., was
bitten by a cat, about ten weeks since, which Was stra yin g
from his father's house, and which he pursued into a field.
The animal was immediately killed, and the wound
promptly dressed and healed quickly. No danger was
apprehended, until the usual and languishing symptotis
set in on Thursday, and became hourly more violent, till
death ended all the torments of the frightful disease. The
boy was of excellent character, and a great assistance to
his industrious parents.—Tralee Chronicle.

A SHARP TRICK.—The other day one of the coroners
of Yorkshire was holding an inquest at Ferrybride, and
requiring the New Testament on which to swear the wit-
nesses, requested the landlord to get him one. Boniface
obtained, and laid on the table without a word, a book,
and then took himself away with much celerity. The
foreman of the jury stood up to be sworn, and the coro-
ner was about to hand him the supposed Testament, but,
as was his usual custom, he examined the book to see if
the gospels were all there, and discovered that it was a
D rectory! Mineihost was recalled, and asked how it was
that he had brought that, and unblushingly avowed, "1
thowt ye wad'nt new ne better."

Preston

Liverpool
Liverpool

QUARTERING ON THE ENEMY.-The chambers of
Sir. Gregory A. Lewin, Q. C., at No. 1, Elm-street,
Temple, London, were entered by thieves, by means of
skeleton keys, between the night of Saturday week and
Monday morning. A number of boxes were ransacked,
and a tin cash-box was broken to pieces in an unsuccess-
ful search for money. A gold-chased seal, belonging to
Mr. J. W. Attride, clerk to Sir G. Lewin, a Dutch do-
mestic quarrel, carved in wood, and a bunch of keys,were
carried of by the thieves ; but a gold chain and seal, con-
tained in a secret drawer, escaped their notice. The da-
mage done to the premises, it is said, will not be less than
£2O.

THE PEACEABLE REPEALERS.—During a recent pas-
sage of the Aurora steamer from Glasgow to Belfast, a
number of the Irish Repealers attacked some of their com-
panions and beat them in a most shameful manner. The
sole cause of the attack was that they were Protestants
and had no Repeal cards. One man was savagely beaten,
because he could not bless himself, another because, hav-
ing falsely declared himself a repealer, he could not any
swer some pass words put to him. The murderous work
did not cease until Capt. Henderson, who courageously
rushed into the midst, threatened to put the hose on the
engine and discharge scalding water on the savages, and
it became buzzed about that, (as was the fact,) the cabin
passengers, who were principally sportsmen, had gotten
their rifles in readiness.—Newry Telegraph.

To LAW STUDENTS.—The Law Times, in answer to a
someadvice
following p
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ahisgusatgued s
wstthose rk like a slave—learn every_
thing—read Lrarnievsepolinkde articlede uatncwlhehreokr
;rneihqt
has
thing—read men as well as books—mingle in all business
—shun all pleasure—for one hour you dedicate to reading
give two to reflection, three to observation. Deem no
art nor science worthless—accustom yourself to act as
well as to deliberate—to speak as well as to think—con-
firm reading by practice, and improve practice by reading
—store your mind with all sorts of knowledge ; you never
know when it will be required, and even that which is not
useful will always prove ornamental—for methods, make
your own—adopt those you find most apt ; experience in
this will be the best teacher, your own habits the best
adviser. There is no royal road to knowledge, and but
one golden rule—work ! work ! work ! "

CHARLES MATHEWS IN BOYHOOD.—The embryo co-
median's education commenced at St. Martin's free
sehool, and the period of his attendance at it is selected
for that invariable anecdote of early manifestations of
after-genius, which few " memoirs" are without. There
was a man who hawked eels for sale in a drawling gut-
tural voice, with which, as Mathews tells us, he elongated
the word e-e-e-e•eels, from one street to another, till
people cried " What a long eel 1" The young mimic imi-
tated him too well to please the original ; and one unlucky
day he was caught in the act, hunted into his father's
shop, and felled with a blow from the insulted hawker.
" Next time," said the perambulating fishmonger, " as you
twists your little wry mouth about, and cuts your
.mugs
at a respectable tradesman, I'll skin you like an e-e "
and snatching up his basket, finishing the monosyllable
about nine doors off.

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of the republic from five wives, not included n the above preaching. The conduct, both of the soldiers and their
number, by whom he had six children. Being asked by auditory, on Saturday, was decorous and exemplary.—
the public accuser if he had many children by the women 7'inies.
not present, though known to have been married to him, WARE.—THE CHURCH.—In consequence of the reso-
he answered very coolly, " I had at least one by each wo- lution (agreed upon at the last vestry meetingib) to quit the
man, and I believe I have as many children as I count
years." He offered to write down the names and residen-
ces of as many of his wives as he could remember, and having
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sons from Hertford and other places attended AVa.re
lone had left
gave in the names of eleven in eleven different places. To WELLINGTON AND 130 N APA RTE.—The Duke of Wel-
gain time to inquire after these women the commissiary of lington on his return from India occupied the house in St. il churchessitlg onui
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the Government proposed, and the tribunal consented, to Helena which was assigned to Bonaparte on his being the church, it was apparent that many of the usual attend-
postpone by
the trial until the Gth Germinal, on which day exiled there ; and subsequently the duke, during the oc- ants were absent, and that their places occupiedowere_iire.
eight of the women, each with a child, came before the cupation of Paris by the allied troops, occupied Bona-
tribunal, and identified their faithless husband, who had parte's palace, which gave rise to the following letter topulpit,umabout 100 persons, compri-
the impudence to declare, that if he had been a Grand Admiral Halcolm, who commanded at St. Helena. It is was proceeding to
appointed
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noiselessly from their seats and quitted
entertained for them all the same affection. After a trial April 3, 1816. My 'dear. ,Malcolm,___l am very. much oif. the town,
.rxhae curate eyed the ceun.garseglaetfito.o
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which lasted three hours he was found guilty of bigamy, obliged to you for Mr. Simpson's book, which 1 will read
and condemned to be punished with a fortnight's impri- when I shall; have a. moment's leisure.
soatoent, and to regard Anne Varois, whom he had mar- have taken the command 'at St. Helena, aldaZogniawedhcyiuc-ni; , precedes. the Sermon. , The strangers, who apreared to
tied nine years before, as his only wife. To this he re- I congratulate ybu—we must neverhe
findV: apartments ,expect some, remarks from
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the preacher relative to he
fused to assent, saying that instead of punishment he avoid it. !You may tell
'Bony'
that •I and rlrat I hope scene that.bad just occurred, remained in their seats,t
deservedis reward, and that many Persons had been made at the Elysee Baurbon ), 9 ! '2
vearieocl n '•..eille it, is a droll sequel tht a tolerable numerous auditory
the sdereel, edifice before he offere
Members of, the Legion of 'Honour for less patriotic I be likes mine :at Say. B
deedi than-his ; •and•that he intended to petition the First r' enough to . the affairs of.,Europe
yours most sincerely, WEL- ante. 'No allusion was made in ti d' so ate appear-
COnsul for permission to choose his-own tvili3 amongst his • pia-ces:'of residence._ I.
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Sir P. Malcolm." fisting differences —ii • le iseourse to the ex-
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