The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

WRAY CASTLE, WINDERMERE.

[The Castle described with so much simplicity and poetical feeling
in the following lines, was built by Mr. Dawson, formerly a
highly-respected surgeon, residing in this town. The lines derive
additional interest from the fact that they are the production of a
-humble boatman, who plies his slender bark with pleasule parties
on Lake Windermere, and who thus evinces his taste for the
beautiful and romantic, and his high admiration of the character
of the builder of Wray Castle ]

(For the Liverpool Standard )
'Midst woods and waters all sublime,
'Midst hills that mock the wreck of time,
'Midst verdant fields and flowery plains,
Where nature deck d in beauty reigns;
Amid thy splendours, Windermere,
A castle doth its turrets rear.
Its shadow o'er the lake it tl-rows,
Which at its feet in beauty flows ;
Where, with transparent lustre clear,
As in a glass, each object near
In sweet reflection there is seen—
Mountain; wood, and valley green.
This castle, built in gothic stv'e,
Is viewed as some famed . nch -t pile,
By strangers who delight to tr ,ce
The origin of every place,
Which points the retrospecti, e e -0
To times and ages long gone• by.
It seems to speak of deeds of fame
Recording many a noble's name ,
Who, boldly on by valour led,
Has near its portals fought and NA,
Or, fetter-bound, consigned to dwell
Amidst the horrors of the ce'l.
Thoughts such as these associate
With castles of an ,ncient date;
But this fair building now in sight
Knows nothing of the armed knight ;
No frightful dungeons, deep and cold ;
No blood-stained walls you there behold;
No mouldering ashes round it sleep •
Of those whom tyrants caused t weep;
No fleeting spectres haunt its towers,
No sounds disturb its midnight hours ;
No deeds of darkness, black end fell,
No tales of blood it has to tell.
Though at a distance it appears
As having braved the wreck of years,
The Commonwealth to have defied,
And mock'd the power of Cromwell's pride ;
Yet if you take a nearer view,
You find the structure wholly new.
And doth it less deserve your praise,
Because it cannot boast of days
When tyrants gloried in their vuilt,
When human blood was reckless spilt
By base assassin's cruel hand,
And justice slumbered in the land ?
This castle rose in days of peace :
Knowledge had bid oppression cease;
The star of liberty and light
Had chased away the gloomy night,
And superstition, awe, and dread
Fefore the light of truth had fled.
Its boast may be of days more bright,
Of days of peace and Gospel light;
Boast of its owner's name and worth,
That noble mind who gave it birth—
'Tis DAWSON'S kindness. friendship, love,
That stately mansion stands to prove.
And may he live, ann long enjoy,
In health and peace without alloy,
His castle ! May it be a home
From which he has no wish to roam,
Till to a mansion in the skies,
Prepared, his GOD shall bid him rise
Asnbleside• JAMES GIBSON.

On Sunday evening, Lord Teynham preached at the
Baptist Chapel, Myrtle-street.
The Rev. J. G. 'Wood, of Renfrew, is to officiate for a
few weeks, in Oldham-street church.
GUANO.—The sales are from £5 ss. to £5 10s. per ton.
The latest accounts from Ichaboe state that there were
then 293 vessels there with arrivals daily.
Captain Reid, of the ship Sir Charles Napier, who was
so seriously stabbed by one of his crew is in a fair way
of recovery.
NEW TRADE.—At one of the mills, at Glossop, a Mr.
Fox, of Manchester, is making fine paper from straw,
with every probability of success.
CHILD SCALDED.—Patrick M'Quayle, the infant son
of John M'Quayle, of Prince's-place, died on Friday at
the Northern Hospital, from scalding.
Mr. Ashbel Smith, Charge d'Affaires of Texas, had an
interview with the Earl of Aberdeen, on Thursday, and
has since left via Liverpool, en rout to Texas.
The clerk of the peace of this county has received no
fewer than thirty-seven different notices, with plans, of
intended railways and water-works in Lancashire.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATir.--On Thursday evening,
Mrs. Alice Bateson, of Upper Frederick-street, fell down
in Lower Hill-street, and expired immediately.
Mr. Eaton, schoolmaster of the Knutsford House of
Correction, has been appointed governor of the Prescot
Union Workhouse.
A callision took place on Thursday last, off Holyhead,
between the Port Madoc packet,from this port to Pwllheli,
and a large baig, the name of which is not mentioned.
The former vessel sunk, but the crew were all saved.
On Saturday, a person named Joseph Lewis was fined
£4O by Mr. Rushton, on two inrormation., charging him
with having kept an unlicensed booth, in Vauxhall-road,
for dramatic entertainments.

DEATHS OF CHILDREN FROM BURNING.—Daring the
past week, the borough coroner of Manchester had the
painful duty of holding inqu-sts on three children on ope
day (Monday,) who had come to their death by burning.
Nearly the whole of the tickets for the Liverpool ban-
quet to Sir Elenry Pottinger have been sold off, and the
subscriptions for the Liverpool testimonial to the distin-
guished baronet are on the increase. Accommodation
can only be afforded at the banquet for 392 gentlemen.
GAS nENt'AL MANCHESTEI2.—We learn from the
proceedings of the Manchester council that the gross gas
rent Al for the year ended 24th June last was £62,601,
and that the surplus from private rental for the year was
£24,886.

Mr. Edward Tindal Turner, Scluo'ar of Trinity College,
Oxford, whose name has just appeared in the First Class
List, in Literis Humanioribus, is the youngest son of
Charles Turner, Esq., of Aigburth ; himself a distin-
g•uished scholar and mathematician, whowas fifth wrangler
a Cambridge in the year 1799.
THE ARMV.—Four hundred men belonging to the 56th
Regiment of Foot arrived here, in the Dee steamer, from
Dublin, on Saturday night, and have proceeded to Bolton,
Burnley, and the surrounding district. Another draft of
the same regiment will arrive from Dublin in the course
of the present week, and will proceed to Bury and that
neighbourhood.

COBB SI VG.— The Tarlelon Meeting will take place en
Thursday and Friday next. Altear Open Meeting.—An
open meeting will take place at Altcar, on Friday and
Saturday, the -27th and 28th instant. The. Lytham
Champion Meeting commences on Wednesday, the 18th
inst. Excellent sport is anticipated, as some first-rate
dogs are entered. New Coursing Club Lancashire.—lt
is contemplated to form a club at Hornby. The ground
is well adapted for the sport, and the hares are remark-
ably stout.
DEATH FROM INTOXIC ATION.—A man named James
Ward, a labourer, who lived in Bixteth street, went on
Saturday on board of a vessel in one of the docks, where
it is supposed he drank a great quantity of rum. He
was taken home in a helpless state of intoxication, and
although the stomach pump was applied he died soon
afterwards. We have heard that had the deceased lived
until March next he would have come into possession
of a handsome amount, but we do not vouch for the fact.
The inquest will be held this day.
FINES FOR ILLEGAL EXHIBITIONS.—At the police-
court yesterday, Homer Holden, who keeps a beer-house
in White-chapel, corner of Leigh-street, was brought
before Mr. Rushton, by information, for keeping his
rooms open for a show of pictures, stuffed monstrosities,
animal and wax, &c., without permission of the Mayor.
It appeared that in July last the defendant had received
a notice from the late Mayor, Mr. Sands, that he was not
to play music, exhibit pictures or fantastic figures out-
side, or otherwise to collect crowds to the interruption of
the thoroughfare Mr. Rushton fined tne defendant A:2O,
and ordered the same to be strictly levied.—A man named
Powell, in, we believe, Waterloo-road, was fined in the
same amount.

INQUESTS BEFORE MR. CURRY.--Yesterday, on
view of the body of William Smith, aged 59. The de-
ceased resided at No. 30, Williamson-street. On Satur-
day afternoon his wife went out, leaving deceased in the
house, apparently quite well. She returned in about half
an hour and found him on the floor, insensible, and, as
she thought, in a fit. A surgeon was sent for, but the
deceased died before he arrived. On a post mortem exa-
mination it was found that death was caused by apoplexy
of the lungs. Verdict accordingly—" From natural
causes."—On the body of James Handlin, aged 32, a la-
bourer, who resided in Chisenhale-street. On Saturday
night deceased was found drunk in the street by a con-
stable, and was taken home and put to bed. About
three-quarters-of-an-hour after, his wife found him on
the floor quite dead. The verdict given was—" Died of
apoplexy, caused by excessive drinking."—On the body
of Thomas Carson, a child, one month old. The mother,
who lives in Pellew-street, finding him cross and sleepless,
gave him, on Saturday, four drops of laudanum. In a
quarter of an hour afterwards he was seized with fits, and
continued to have them occasionally until midnight of the
same day, when he died. Mr. Burrows, surgeon, who
was called in, but could not get him to rally, stated that
four drops was too much for an infant of that age, and
that death was caused by the narcotic. Verdict,—
" Chance medley against the mother."—The last was on
the body of Ellen Cosgrove, aged five years. Deceased,
who lived with her parents in Woodstock-street, had, on
Saturday, gone into a neighbour's house, where her
clothes took fire, and she was so much burned that she
died on the following morning. Verdict—" Accidental."
—On Saturday two inquests were held. The first on the
body of Thomas Crosby, a lad fifteen years of age, who
was walking along Oldhall-street, about six o'clock on the
evening of Wednesday week last, and accidentally fell into
a large opening which had been made for the purpose of
repairing one of the gas pipes. He was taken up. in an
insensible state, and removed to the Northern Hospital,
where it was discovered that he had received a compound
fracture of the skull and a wound on the abdomen, of
which injuries be died. The other was on an infant,
scalded to death .by a quantity of hot tea falling on it.
DAY'S WINDGUARD.—No greater proof of the utility
of this invention need be given than the fact that 700 have
been supplied by the agent, Mr. W. Bennett, within the
last year, all of which, we learn, have given general satis-
faction.

FRUIT.—The most extensive sales of fruit that have
been advertised during the present season, take place
this-day, by Mr. Badenech, at the Commercial-rooms.
These importations comprise some thousands of boxes of
the finest dried figs, currants, and raisins.

Dee. 10, 1844.

IMPORTANT TO SHAREHOLDERS.

A case tried in the Exchequer Court—Richard e.
Macey—involves several principles of importance to share-
holders in joint-stock banks, and also regarding the liabi-
lity and trnsfer of notes of hand and bills of exchange.
It appears that the late Borough of St. Marylebone Beek
had borrowed £5OOO of the London and Westminster,
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made for a further loan of £lO,OOO. This was refused,
unless upon further security, and unless, too, that tins
sum should be sufficient to pay off the public creditors of
the unfoi tunate bank. A meeting of shareholders in the
Marylebone Bank was called, and several of them gate
notes of hand to a considerabie amount. A portion of
these were placed in the London and Westminster se-
curity for the proposed loan of £lO,OOO, and the payment
of these notes was still further secured by the lodgmen`
of the deeds of an estate worth about £50,000, the pro'
perty of Mr. Walker, one of the directors.
Toe defendant in the present action had given a note Of
£lOO at the meeting above mentioned. This note was
subsequently placed in the London and Westminster
Bank as a security for a further advance upon overdrawnaccount. When due, it was unpaid, and Mr. Henderson.,
the manager of the City Branch of the London and West,
application anfrasvir;
minster Bank, sent the note, according to the routine
businesst to Messrs. Roy and Co., their solicitors, with
out, it will he seen, any specific instruotions. And here
it should be mentioned that in the mean time Messrsi
Roy and Co., who were the solicitors of the London en
Westminster Bank, had become the solicitors of the corn'
mittee who were winding up the affairs of the Marylebone
Bank, and it appeared doubtful in which capacity they'
ceived the note in puestion. This uncertainty was
creased by the fact, that Messrs. Roy and Co.,
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mention the name of their client. Payment, however'
not being made, Messrs. Roy and Co. applied to the
London and Westminster Bank for permission to sue tl!e
party, the account being overdrawn at the time. The
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to some points of law.

The frost is very severe in all parts or the Continent.
The soap-makers are making a strenuous effort tore Pee
the excise duty on soap.
No less a number than 220 notices and plans of Pelf
railways were, on Saturday, the 3th ult., deposited at the
offices of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Joseph Sorties, shipowner, of Da-tmouth, is the
con,ervative candidate for the representation of Dart"
mouth.
The congregation of St. Sepulchre's, London, have_
presented the Rev. Thomas Dale with a handsome Sivi",,r,
epergne.
The Protestants of Bavaria have presented a stroll
petition and remonstrance to his Majesty the King of that
country against the encroachments of Popery there.
On Sunday a number of persons were drowned in the
lakes and rivers in the parks in London. Upwards 0f
5000 persons were skating on the Serpentine river alone'
On Wednesdry last five respectable persons were ee;
fortunately drowned by the capsiting of a boat which we:
proceeding from Whitstable, Kent, to the Isle of ShePPei;
VENEZUELA SUGAR.—The Gazette of Thursday last
contains an Order in Council regarding the admission
sugar from Venezuela into this country.
The Sun states that Sir Henry Pottinger will replace
Sir Stratford Canning, our present minister at Constar'
tirtople.

The Saturday Magazine is to be given up at the exPi
ration of this year, and will be succeeded by a new Pericfr
dical in octavo, entitled, Parker's London Magazine.
POSTAGE TO INDIA.—It has been erroneously stated,
that a recent tre, s try warrant had fixed at 4d. eie rate
on all East India and colonial letters of not more than
half an ounce in weight. The rate of 4d. has reference
to and from places beyond India forwarded from India'
and is in eddilion to the existing rates.—Globe.
THE LEAD TRADE.—Operations, larger in extent than
have taken place for many years, have within the last fel(
days occurred in lead. The quantity purchased by the
leading houses in the trade amounts to nearly ten thou-
sand tons of pig lead, which has completely exhausted the
stocks held by the producers. These large operations
having been induced by actual demand for foreign ship'
meet, considerable advance is anticipated in the value 01
this article.

FURS.—Our fair readers, who have not provided thein-
selves with these indispensable articles of wear for the
coming season. will find an extensive and well-assorted
stock at Mr. Ireland's. Bold-street. As a long and se-
vere winter is predicted, we recommend no time to be
lest. —See advt.

CHRISTMAS PARTIES.—Mr. Stubbs, we perceive, IS
reminding his frierds mid the public of the musical ac-
companiments, which he is so competent to furnish, for
the approaching festive season, and it will not be denied
that his gratuitous services for so many years, in afford-
ing musical instruction and healthful parade exercises t?
the boys of the Blue Coat Hospital, as well as the uni-
versal satisfaction his band has generally given, give hits
a claim to a full share of the public patronage.—See advt.
THE ANATOMICAL PARISIAN VENUS.—This model;
is entirely new, and as a work of art—is perfectly unique
and—far surpasses in beauty and accuracy anything pf a
similiar kind ever introduced to the attentiou of a British
public. The superficial and deep anatomy of the heed!,
chest, abdomen, and limbs, displayed by not less than Su
sectional models—the correctness of which, in the form?
situation, and colour=which they bear to life,—have been
certified by the first authorities in this country and on the
continent.

DIED.
On the 6th instant, at Everton, Miss HARRIET ROBIN
S°S'
aged 58 years.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9.—Wind S.S.E. moderate.
ARRlVED.—Highland Mary, —,,from Ichaboe—Lady
sell, from Terceira—and Elise, from Hambro'. ,0
SAlLED.—Greenock, Fleck, for Mobile—Jubilee, AnderS°
for Genoa—and Princess Royal, Owens, for Calcutta.

Anne. Mearns, and Josepha, Leitch, hence at Ichaboe
Roseana, Creichton, from Ichaboe, at Cove, for Glagg°,3l_
sailed 2oth Sept in company with the Mary, Kingston, Alll.
10r,
bra, and Hawk, all for Liverpool. Left loading the SuPe'.'r,
Clydesdale,Hopkinson, Britannia, Clydeside, Sarah Flerailth'l..
Constellation, Lecnar t Dobbin, Chieftain, Sarah, Ellen, C°.o
merce. Hope, and Catherine. The Maid of Mona, CUVe"
and Elizabeth, had not commenced loading.
B rocket Nixon, from Valparaiso, at Cove

Ellen, B.urnett, from Ichaboe, ditto
ICcanmAa.n,a);
,Hoocotd. 13 Ss ,Tthr oemr e Calcutta,
aorffd
sCoapfe3Coolevaetssels
1101.i:ret
present, and more are arriving daily. It is believed that t
is not more Guano left than is sufficient to load the shiPs ere
here. Stages are erected on every part of the island µ'h --
they can be placed, and 4 or 5 vessels are loading at eafrwe
Sept. 20.—Although there are about 301, vessels now here, t ia
ieis-nniutent Guano, not only to load them all, but as ll'allv!
addition as can be loaded in the next six months, at the a
te
we are now loading'. _ ,