The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

The Richmond Whig is extremely.displeased at the easteru
tour of the president. After ridiculing the pomp and parade
attendant on such journeys, it adds,—
'• 0 for the days of the apostle of liberty ! When Mr. Jeffer-
son had occasion to go to the capitol, he went alone, attired in
his red breeches and white waistcoat, and tied his horse at the
rack. When he came to Virginia, he came in the same simple
and unpretending. style. Nobody heard of his making tours
through his provinces, aping the fashion of European poten-
tates, surrounded by courtiers and dependants, and encouraging
American citizens to debase themselves and the republic by the
exhibition of the ostentation, the flattery, and the servility of
the old world."

BLACK HAWK.—The reception of this celebrated Indian
chief (says the Philadelphia Gazette) almost equals that of the
President. He was waited upon, at Congress Hall, by the
mayor and several members of the city councils; and both
Chestnut and Thiid streets, near his lodgings, at ten o'clock
were crowded with citizens. Several spacious rooms in the
hotel were filled to overflowing; •' and the atmosphere in the
apartment where he had seated himself, with his family, was
almost suffocating. He has a pyramidal forehead, like Sir
Walter Scott's; and there seems a slumbering fire in his eye,
which betokens great mental power and decision. His compa-
nions sat near him, with features strongly marked, and wearing
on their painted lips an expression very like that of scorn.
The manner of all these natives of the western wilds is majestic
and serene. The Indian characteristic of being surprised at
nothing, is plainly exhibited in the indifference which they
manifest at any thing which is passing about them.
RANDOLPHIAN A.—One day I asked him who was his fa-
vouritacandidate for the presidency after Mr. Monroe's time
would expire ? " Why, sir," replied he, "if it had not been
for his w?once vote on the Missouri question, I should at once
say Rufus h.ing; he is the best man north of the Potomac,
and a gentleman, too, of the old school; and, best of all,
sir, an honest man—rather a scarce article now among po.
liticians. A sad mistake, sir, he made on that question ;
but he thought he was right, and I esteem him still, but
be will not now do for President.—The New England men,
sir, would rob us of our patrimonial slaves and our patri-
monial oaks, and they are trying to obtain some of ou: patrimo-
nial acres also; but it will not answer, sir. Old Virginia has
some strength left yet, and must therefore get a Southern m a
for President !"

In speaking of authors, 1 found that he was a great admirer of
Milton. but he did not like Young, Thomson, Johnson, or
Southey. His classification of modern poems was very curious.
" Six, t place first on the list Tom Cribb's Memorial to Con-
ges next ' The Twopenny Post-bag,' and third, Childe Ha-
rolde's Pilgrimage;' but I can't go (a favourite expression)
Moore's songs—they are to9sentimental." In looking over his
books one day, I discovered "Fanny," Mr. Hallea's very
amusing satirical poem, "I am
well
said 1, "that you do not
proscribe Yankee poetry as well as Yankee codfish." "No,
sir," replied he, " I always admire talent, no matter where it
comes from ! and 1 consider this little work as the best specimen
of American poetry that has vet been given to the world. I
sha:l take it to England with me and present it to the lady whose
talents and conversation I shall most admire." When I
afterwards met him in London, I recollected this conver-
sation, and asked—" Well, Mr. Rando'ph, who got 'Fanny ?'"
"Y ur countrywoman, Miss Edgworth—she has no competitor
in my estima ion."

TorrN A DO.—The storm of Sunday, the 2d instant was accom-
panied at Doylestown, (Pa.,) with the most destructive conse-
quences. Fields of grain, orchards, dwelling-houses, and
barns have been destroyed. In many instances the fruit trees
were uprooted, and near Attleborough the hurricane took cff
large quantities of timber, twisted off huge oaks, and carried
their branches- to several hundred yards distance. The whirl-
wind was about three niiles long and three hundred yards broad,
and the extent of the dainage is represented as most injurious-
ly great.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Lord
Melville, from Calais, arrived off the Customhouse, at twelve
o'clock at noon, on the sth of July ; Lady Rendlesham and fa-
mily, Duchess de Coigny, Count and Countess de Castries,
Countess Dembinika. ana-Sir John Osborne, came passengers
by the abovementioned vessel.
An old statute of the University of Cambridge is, that no
man, in data pupillari, is allowed to keep dancing bears and
other sinying birds.
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We suppose the following will surprise nobody, except, per-
haps, Lora Palmerston. Lord Grey is prepared, for he reads
the newspapers :—" Letters from the Russian capital to the
16;h ult. state, that the war department was more active than
customary. A manifesto had been issued by order of the em-
peror, directing the completion of the last levy of recruits in the
provinces of Volhynia, Brelostock, &c.; and also that
a fresh levy of four recruits in every thousand inhabitants should
be completed in the provinces of Rieff, Voknia, Minsk. &c.
The emperor had also directed that the Riga Engineer Corps of
twelve regiments should be reorganised."

EXTRAORDINARY INFANT.—There is at present at Cow-
bridge, a Coale infant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dais ut that town,
of the following extraordinary dimensions:—Circumference of
the waist twenty-eight inches, neck fourteen, thigh twenty, tall
of the leg twelve, ancle seven and a half, arm above the elbow
nine and a half, below the elbow nir.e, wrist five and a half,
across the shoulders twelve, height thirty-four inches, weight
Gilts. He is a very lively child, perfectly healthy, and remark-
ably forward for his age, eight months,—Merthyr Guardian.

THE DISSENTING. StSLEM.—A. rather ludicrous scene took
place at the Presbyterian chapel, at Ilindley, near Wigan, on
Sunday week.. Some portion of the congregation have been
for sometime dissatisfied with their minister, and have frequently
intimated that they wanted a change, but- the rev. gentleman,
unwi:ling to quit, entered the chapel on Sunday, and began the
service. When the •singers commenced with the hymn ap-
pointed by the minister, another party began singing from a
different author. This discordant. tnerlh•y was not finished
when the informant left. It appears that one part of the con-
gregation professes Trinitarian, the other Unitarian principles.
,Blael:sarn Alfred.
Tut SWEET Facirs AOtts•rtoN.—As an instance, at our
.own dOor,—and probably there -are' tlionsands throughout the
country,—of the 'tnischier w rough i upon the Pabouring classes 14
political agitation,
,we:intirtemai k,-thai at the meeting in this
town, on WedneidaiP hist, :to cleVise'intans of more speedy:.6„.
veyante to- Bristol, Mr.' eseph TregOlii Price stated, that the
'Marquess of Bute -Was reStiortitd- from commencing:. the 'exten--
kive.unei long desired improvetoe.nts. at Cardiff, Only by.the pre-
carious tate an Which the..politieal,condition of the .country has
placed all kinds ot,Troperty,--43fert/ly. Guardian.
.
We regret that we' have to 'announce the failure of an old
established firm in the East India trade, Messrs. Fairlie, Clarke,
and Co., whose engagements amount to a very serious sum. It
is much feared that'it will be followed by others, and that it will
cause much distress in their 'private connections, it being said
that in the course of day or two upwards of £62,000 in an-
nuities were due against them. It is lamentable to see these
princely mercantile establishments full; but it affords a moral
leeson to the speculators who are anxious to launch out under
the sanction of freettrade principles. Among some of the
monetary circles we find this unfortunate affair has been rather
anticipated for some time.—Morning Herald.
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One of those scandalous 'scenes which sometimes occur tothe
disgrace of this country took place on Tuesday, in Portman-
market, London. A wife was. sold and bought, if such terms
may he applied to so horrid a transaction. The act of so ex-
posing and giving up a female by one man to another, in a
halter, is a navdeinca!lortr in both buyer and seller; and the
police ought to have interfered and apprehended both the parties.
A severe example b• fine and imprisonment should at once be
made; and it nifty I,e hoped that iu due time'even the memory
of so barbarous.an usage will perish.
SUET, THE C 034 ij.l) I A N.—This person having offended another,
the aggrieved pally was determined on revenge, and waited at the
theatre door to punish him. The night was extremely wet and
darl, and as the actors • passed, most of whom were muffled in
their cloaks, the enrage d roan was obliged, lest he should cudgel
the wrongonc, to inquireif he was whom he wanted, •At length
the wished-for man arrived, who, rushing-in.' wrapped in his
ruquelaire, and drenched with rain, was addressed with the
usual querry—" Are you Suett ?" " No, replied be, "I am
Crippiny g" and pasted. unhurt into the theatre.

Emptrial 13artfanunt.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3
In the absence of the Lord Cuanceilor, the Earl of Shaftes-
bury presided. •

AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' BILL.

On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, the order of the
day for the house going into committee, on the above bill hav-
ing. been read,
The house went into a committee, when the several clauses,
and the preamble of the bill were agreed to. The report ordered
to be received on the following day.
• The Marquis of LANsoowNE presented a petition from cer-
tain inhabitants of Bengal, praying that in the measure relat-
ing to the East India question, their interests might not be
disregarded.