The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-07 00:00:00

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Published this day,
PART XXXVIII. Price Six Shillings, and
VOL. VII. PART I. Price Eighteen Shillings, of the

NCYCLOPIEDIA BRI'I'ANNIC.V' SEVENTIT
11' EDITION.
" This is. the really cheap that only is
cheap whials- excellent. •• • ' •
" Now that the country is • being deltiged with diluted stuff,
compounded from Germany and America; what hope is ihore
for the'science and the literature of England, that publishers.dare
ever again Venture on such another work as this!' '--Atheaiewn,
Feb.. 9th 1833
Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh ; Simpkin and Mar-
shall; Whittaker, 'Preacher, and Co. and Hamilton, Adams,
and Co., London; and John.Cumming, Dublin.

Our old friend, Mr. Ralph Eden, has recently otained addi-
tional celebrity to that which has occasionally been bestowed
upon him in the Journal ; for we find that in a recent Parlia-
mentary reiutn, the worthy doctor figures under the head
" Privy Seal-Office," as "Keeper of the Records, Receiver of
the Fees," &c., and that he also "acts as deputy to J. H. Fane,
Esq., in the same office." We need not remind our readers
that the " Ralph Eden" who thus puts his hands into the
pockets of John Bull, to the tune of some f.:3(X) a year, is do-
mestic apothecary to the Earl of Durham's family. his services-
being required in mixing bolusses and spreading blisters for
the denizens of Lambton Castle. How the learned apothecary
contrives to effect that which Lawyer Downing panted to ac-
complish, viz. split himself in two, and attend to his important
duties at the office of the Privy Seal, while he is dispensing
politics and plasters to his patients. excites our special wonder;
for are we enabled to divine by what hocus pocus his noble
Vatron contrived that he should be "acting deputy for Mr.
ane in the same office," when we are assured that the said
deputy "receives no salary, fee, or emolument whatever," for
that part of his appointment. Really, the Earl of Durham and
his doctor are worthy of each other. —.Ve ivcaotle Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT .OF A MAG'ISTRATR.7-011 Slln-
day week, a person who hokis the commission of the peace for
the counties of Antrim and Down, proceeded, with two police-
men, dressed in coloured clothes, to the houses of four or five
publicans, in the latter county ; caused the two men to purchase
whisky at each place; and, the next or following day, had all
the persons thus entrapped, summoned before him, and fined
in sums of from £2 to E. 5 each ! The visits of the magistrate
and his two attendants were made so late at night, that, in some
instances, the proprietors of the houses were awakened out of
their beds:. and by the urgency of the party (who applied for
whisky, as 4: requiring. refreshment in consequence of exhaustion
from travelffing,) were induced, at considerable inconvenience,
to supply the alleged travellers With the wished-for beverage.
We are aware that a statement like this appears incredible, but
we can assure our readers that we had the facts from undoubted
authority; and,.
.moreover, that appeals have been lodged
against the decision of the magistrate. What shall we say of
such a procedure as we have narrated? Is the magistrate mad,
or only a mean tyrant ?We really cannot account for the cir-
cumstance, and must look for farther explanation to a full and
public examination of the case when the appeal comes to be de-
cided upon.—Nurthern Jr