The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

CONTENTS

The House of Guise.
My Peninsular Medal. By an Old Peninsular. Conclusion
Chateaubriand's Memoirs.
The Green Hand—A "Short" Yarn. Part XI.
The Jew Bill.
The Pictures of the Season.
The Year of Sorrow.—lreland,,,-IVITC‘
London and Edinburgh cbesl Match.
The Industry of theSoope.

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This day is published

L'SSAYS POLITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
L 4 By ARCHIBALD ALISON, LLD., Author of the " His-
tory of Europe," &c., &c. In Three l't Is. Demy Octave, price
.e 2 ss.

These Volumes contain a Selection from the Contributions
by Mr. ALisox which have appeared in Blackicoad's Magazine
dur•ng the last twenty years, and include the following sub-
jects

Hannibal—Robert Bruce—Wellington—Napoleon—Montes.
quieu—Sismondi—Mirabean—Guizot—Macaulay—De Tocque-
ville—Homer, Dante, and Micl ael Angelo—Virgil, Tasso, and
Raphael—Madame de Stnel —Lamartine—Chateaubriand—
Humboldt—The Fall of Rome—The Roman Republic—The
Roman Campagna—The. Crusades—The Decline of Turkey—
Poland—The Tyrol—The British Theatre,-.The British School
of Architecture—of Painting—National-Monuments—The Co-
tparep.
pyright Question—The Refor Bill—National Treason and
National Guards—The Fre
evolution of 1830—The British
Peerage—The Fall of th o enarnstit ution— Negro Emancipation—
Ireland—The Com ial Crisis of 1837—Colonial Government
and the West Jadia Question—Lessons from the Past—Free
Trade and Ffotection—Thirty Years of Liberal Legislation—
Fall of the Throne of the Barricades—The Navigation Lama—
The Crowning of the Column, and Crushing of the Pedestal—
Crime and Transportation—Free Trade at its Zenith—Direct
Taxation—Free-Trade Reform and Finance—France in 1833—
The Year of Revolutions—The Royal Progress—Ships, Colonies,
and Commerce—&c., &c.

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Liverpool, May 218 t, 1850,

IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the PART-
-11 NERSHIP formerly subsisting between the undersigned
THOMAS BRASSEY and WILLIAM MACKENZIE, under
the firms of "John Stephenson and Company," "Mackenzie,
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tept
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Dated this twenty-siiti day of June, 1850.

THOMAS BRASSEY
WM. MACKENZIE.

CHURCHYARDS : EPITAPHS.—Up to the time of the
Norman Conquest churchyards appear to have been con-
sidered almost as sacred as churches ; but soon after that
period, though regarded as places of sanctuary, they were
often used for profane purposes. I recollect reading of
fairs and rustic sports being held in them as early as John's
reign, but unfortunately I have not been an observer of
your motto, and know not now where to refer for such
instances. I shall, therefore, feel obliged to any of your
readers who will specify a few instances of the profanation
of churchyards at different periods, or refer me to works
where such may be found. Churchyards appear to have
been used in special cases for sepulture from the year 750,
but not commonly so used till the end of the fourteenth
century. Are there any instances of sepulchral monu-
ments, between the above dates, now existing in church-
yards ? Stone crosses, evidently of Saxon or very early
Roman structure, are found in churchyards, but I am not
aware of any sepulchral monuments detached from the
church of the same date. I shall be glad of any notices
of early monuments or remarkable epitaphs in church-
yards. When did churchyards cease to be places of
sanctuary ? What is the exact meaning of the word
" yard ?" and was not " God's acres" applied to Chris-
tian cemeteries before sepulture was admitted in churches
or churchyards ?—Notes and Queries.
CURIOUS CASE.—At Marlborough-street London Po-
lice-office, on Saturday, a respectable silk mercer named,
Wayre was summoned for having assaulted a respectable
female. The complainant stated that she went into, the
shop to purchase a shawl in the window marked a guinea,
and that on being told it was a guinea and a half, the card
was sholn to her, which had printed in the smallest
characters possible ; and, on remonstrating, she was pushed
and assaulted by the defendant. Mr. Wayre stated that'
the complainant was insolent, and that be politely put his
hand on her shoulder in the quietest manner possible. The
evidence on these points was very contradictory. At the
conclusion of the case Mr. Bingham said, be was willing
to give every reasonable advantage to an accused person,
and would, therefore, assume that the ticket produeed was
in the same state as when placed on the mantle, and that
it was really the ticket seen by the complainant. But if
respectable tradesmen in Oxford-street chose to carry on
business in such a way, by having tickets printed with
part of the price in large characters, and the other part in
such small figures that no ordinary eyes could possibly
see them, they could have nobody to blame but theM-
selves if they occasionally caused 'scenes of an unpleasant
character to occur in their shops. Complainant had a
right to complain that she had been misled by the ticket;
and if, under such circumstances, even a little finger was
put upon her to oblige her to leave the shop, it was en
assault, and must be dealt with accordingly. The fine of
20s, was then infiided, bud itoweshotelY paid,