The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-02 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

PxAsANTs orl POOR SPAIN.—The number of spanish
peasants who come over the mountains here from Aragon
add very much to the enjoyment of the place. Their dress,
particularly that of the men, is more picteresque than any
fever saw, though I thought none could be more beautiful
than that of the Catalonians we saw in the valley of Aran.

...
These wear a high conical hat, with a broad brim), embroderad
and tasseled ; a ooat of green velvet, witd richly embroidered
collar and breast ; a waistcoat of brocaded satin, a red or
sometimes blue silk scarf tied round the waist, brown striped
callottes, garters embroidered in gold, blue stockings, and
sandals. Some have a large brown cloak banging over one
shoulder, which does not conceal their brilliant attire, and
they hold it with such a graceful and regal air, that one can-
not imagine those majestic and most independent looking
beings can be peasants.—Lady Cliallerlon's Excursions
into Spain.
SKETCH OF A MANCHESTER WAREHOUSE.—The old-

established firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, Manche
ter, warehousemen, and so forth, had its place of business

a very narrow street, somewhere behind the post-office ;
where every house was in the brightest summer morning
very gloomy ; and where light porters watered the pavement,
each before his own employer's premises, in fantastic pat-
terns, in the dog days ' • and where spruce gentlemen with
their hands in the pockets of symmetrical trousers, were
always to be seen in warm weather contemplating their
undeniable boots in dusty warehouse doorways, which ap-
peared to be the hardest work they did, except now and then
carrying pens behind their ears. A dim, dirty, smoky, tum-
ble-down, rotten old house it was, as anybody would desire
to see; but there the firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son
transacted all their business and their pleasure too, such as
it was ; for neither the young man nor the old had any other
residence, or any care or thought beyond its narrow limits.—
Martin Chuzzlewit.

AN OLD THIEF'S TREASCRIL—For some weeks past the
guardians of the different markets of the Quartier des Inno-
cens had remarked the constant presence of a woman named
Lecointre, whose manners and language excited their suspi:

ciou. They accordingly resolved to watch her narrowly, and
detect her if they could in some of the acts of which thay sus-
pected her to be guilty. They had not long to wait before
they discovered her in the act of committing a robbery of
money and jewellery. When she was take❑ before the com-
missioner of police she confessed that she had several times
been convicted, and that she was still under surveillance,
which prevented her from going to Paris. Having traced out
her retreat they proceeded to search the premises, but found
nothing, until it occurred to the commissioner to examine
the bed ; upon which the woman cried out—" Don't touch
my bed ; there is nothing suspicious there ; but you have no
right to seize anybody's bed. The law respects the bed of
the poor." The commissioner, however, told her she was
mistaken, and continued the search ; the result of which was,
that tkey discovered the end of a stove-pipe under the mat-
tress, containing the produce of a great many robberies com-
mitted by this woman. Amongst the property were three
gold watches, five valuable brooches, a quantity of rings, ear-
rings, necklaces, and other articles of jewellery, besides a sum
of about 3000 f. in gold and silver monies. On being asked
to explain how she came into possession of property so little
according with the wretchedness of the room, she invented
an improbable tale about a man whom she had known in her
youth having given it to her. The money she pretended to
have earned by her labour ; but neither of these improbable
stories being believed she was sent to pr icon, and the property
taken possession of by the proper authorities.—Paris paper.
Tins Warrsa..—He attributes all virtues to everybody,
provided they are civil and liberal ; and of the existence of
some vices he hat no notion. Gluttony, for instance, with
him, is not only inconceivable, but looks ♦ery like a virtue.
He sees in it only so many more " beefs," and the generous
scorn of the bill. As to wine, or almost any other liquor, it
is out of your power to astonish him with the quantity you
call for. His " Yes, sir," is as swift, indifferent, and official
at the fifth bottle as at the first. Reform, and other public
events, he looks upon purely as things in the newspapers,
and the newspaper as a thing taken in at taverns for gentle-
men to read. His own reading is confined to " accidents
and offences," and the advertisements for butlers, which
latter he peruses with an admiring fear, not choosing to give
up a " certainty." When young, he was always in a hurry,
and exasperated his mistress by running against other waiters,
and breaking the " neguses." As he gets older he learns to
unite swiftness with caution ; declines wasting his breath on
immediate answers to calls; and knows, with a slight turn of
his face and elevation of his voice, into what precise corner
of the room to pitch his " Coming sir." If you told bun
that in Shakepeare's time waiters said, " Anon, anon," he
would be astonished at the repetition of the same word in
one answer, and at the use of three words instead of two, and
he would justly infer that London could not have been so
large, nor the chop-houses so busy in those days. He would
drop one of the two syllables of his " Yes, sir," if he could ;
but business and civility will not allow it, and, therefore, he
does what he can by running them together in the swift
sufficiency of his " Yezzir." " Thomas!" " Yezzir." "Is
my steak coming ?" " Yezzir." " And the pint of port ?"
" Yezzir." " You'll not forget the postman ?" " Yezzir."
For, in the habit of his acquiescence, Thomas not seldom
says "Yes, sir," for " No, sir," the habit itself rendering
him intelligible.—Leigh Hunt.

ENGLISH LITICRARY CUARACTERS.—Lady Blessington
is the widow of an earl, with an allowance of £-1,000 a year,
and, though she receives no ladies, she is visited by a circle
of men of rank and political eminence, who would, probably,
know little of her as simply the authoress of the works that
bear her name. Lady Stepney and Lady Charlotte Bury are
also women of rank, and the former gives very fine parties,
that certainly would not be drawn together by her mere lit-
erary fame over a cup of tea at the east end. Mr. I3ulwer
comes of a very aristocratic family, is a member of parliament,
and has £1,200 a year for his private fortune, besides being
an elegant of the first water. D'lsraeli has married a very
rich and very fashionable widow, and in his beautiful mansion
in Park-lane, cares very little for any consequence given to
him as the author of " Vivian Grey." Lady Chatterton's
position is rather damaged than bettered by weak-tea scrib-
blings; and the Hon. John Wilson Croker is a political
whipper-in, and inherits some of the tainted gold of his
friend, the dissolute Marquis of Hertford. Lady Morgan's
husband was knialited in a frolic by the lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, though we are not sure that Sir Charles does not
diminish somewhat the lustre of her very brilliant ladyship.
Lady Emeline Stuart Wortley's productions are the pungent
mortification of her titled husband, and the naval authors
find in literature, as a social influence, neither an advantage
nor a detriment. Christopher North is a professor of moral
philosophy, and Lockhart married the daughter of Walter
Scott, and these are circumstances to which they owe some
of the advantages to their positon. These are most of those

among the literary notabilities whose standing in society is
mainly based on other than literary foundations. But there
is a large class merely distinguished as literary men, whose
social consequence is, in all its bearings, little understood
in this country. Thomas Moore, Mr. Wordsworth, Mr.
Proctor (Barry Cornwall), Tho►nas Hood, Mr. Ainsworth.
and some others, are frequently guests at the tables of the
nobility and aristocratic gentry of England. But, at these
same tables, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Wordsworth, Mrs. Proctor,
Mrs. flood, and Mrs. Ainsworth are never seen and seldom
asked for or thought of. The author and his wife are not
one in the code of fashion ; but this humiliating distinction,
which at the first blast seems, as Dogberry says, "very tol-
erable and not to he endured," is, upon reflection, so much
a convenience to authors, that it is doubtful whether the habit
of inviting them singly did not grow from their own sugges-
tion and practice.—Brother Jonathan, edited by N. P. Willis.

The DERBY STAiet:s of 50 soya each, h ft, for colts Bst 71h,
and fillies Bat 21b, then three years old. The last mile and
a half. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 soya
out of the stakes. (161 subscribers.)
Mr. Bowes's br c Cotherstone (Scott) 1
Col. Charritie's Gorhambury (Buckle) 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Sir G.
Ileathcote's Sirikol, (G. Edwards,) Lord G. Bentinck's
Gaper. (Rogers,) Sir G. Heathcote's Khorassan, (Chapple,)
Mr. Brown's A British Yeoman, (Templeman,) Mr. Taylor's
Gamecock, (Nat,) Mr. Griffiths's Newcourt, (W. Cotton.)
Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock, (Marlow,) Mr. Thornhill's
Dumpling
Elggli (Holmes,) Mr. Bell's \Vine-
nton's Aristides, (Robinson,)
Elixir, (Chifney,) Lord Chesterfield's Parthian, (F. Butler,)
Majoryour,
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Mr. Baxter's Magna Charta, (\V. Boyce,) Mr. Theobald's
Humbug, (Macdonald,) Lord Westminster's Languish colt,
(Neale,) Mr. Theobald's Highlander, (J. Day, jun.,) Mr.
Bateman's Chotornian, (Whitehouse,) Mr. Gratwicke's
Hopeful, (Bell,) Lord Orford's Mercy colt, (Wakefield.)
Col. Wyndham's Murton Lordship, (Crouch,) and Mr.
Combe's Fakcaway, (Bartholomew.)
THE RACE.—It was appointed for half-past two, and
shortly after that time the jockies were mounted.
Precisely at three o'clock, during a smart shower, the
horses reached the post in a line, and the word being given,
got off excellently. Gaper took the lead at a strong pace,
followed closely by Khorassan, Cotherstone, and Gorham-
bury next, and well up with them Sirikol, Newcourt, A Bri-
tish Yeoman, Elixir, and two or three others ; in the rear
were Murton, Lordship, and Highlander, and there they
remained to the end of the chapter. The leading horses
maintained their positions till near the turn, where, so great
had been the pace, we looked in vain for Aristides, Newcourt,
and Elixir—they had succumbed, and the second ruck was
composed of Cbotornian, Fakeaway, and A British Yeoman,
but neither with any chance. Gaper continued; the lead a
few strides over the road, and then, quite beaten, fell behind
with Khorassen ; Cotherstone immediately took up the run-
ning, followed by Gorhambury, Sirikol third, and in this or-
der the race finished, Cotherstone increasing his lead from
the stand, and winning in a common canter by two lengths ;
Gorhambury was three lengths before Sirikol, whe beat
Gaper about a length, the latter having a similar advantage
over Khorassan. Three or four lengths behind were Fake-
away, Chotorman, and A British Yeoman, each claiming to
be sixth. We cannot decide the point, nor can we pretend to
say in what rotation the others ran home. The pace from
first to last was tremendous. Value of the stakes £4,225.
Mr. Bowes and his party are, in figures, very large winners;
but there is a settling day to come, and from what we have
seen and heard, that will awfully reduce the amount.
The EPSOM STAKES, of 5 soya. each, with 35 added; 3 yrs.
7st. 101 b. ; 4 yrs, Bst. 111 b. ; 5 yrs, 9st. 21b. ; 6 yrs and
aged, Oat. 616. ; mares, &c., allowed 31b. Winner to be
sold for £l2O. One mile. Six subscribers.
Mr. Phillimore's Solomon, 4 yrs (Sly) 1
Lord Maidstone's Titania, 3 yrs (Nat) .... .... 2
Mr. Skerratt's Lydia, 5 yrs (Marlow) .... 3
Mr. Thompson's f. by Hindoo, 3 yrs .... .... 4
Mr. E. Clarke's Eden, 4 yrs (Cohen) .... 5
Mr. Balchin's Dromedary. 6 yrs (W. Balchin, jun.) 6
No betting. Solomon made all the running, and won
cleverly by a length ; Lydia a bad third ; and the Hindoo
filly (who lost start) fourth.
The WALTON STAKES, of 5 soya. each, with 35 added ;
3 yrs, 7st. 101 b. ; 4yrs, Bst. Illb• ; 5 yrs, 9st. 21b. ; 6 yrs
and aged, 9st. 61b. ; wares, &c., allowed 31b. Winner to
be sold for £l2O. New T.T.C. Eight subscribers.
Mr. Tayler's Sequidilla, 5 yrs (Whitehouse) 1
Mr. Skingaley'a Hawk's eye, 4 yrs (Nat) 2
The Buaon STAKES of 5 soya. each, with 35 added : 3 yrs,
Bst. 21b. ; 4 yrs, Bst. 111 b. ; 5 yrs, Ost. ; 6 yrs and aged,
9st. 41b. Mares allowed 31b. Winner to be sold for 801.
Last half mile. 16 subs.
Mr. Beresford's Henri Quatre, 5 yrs (W. Boyce) .. 1
Lord Dorchester's John O'Gaunt, 4 yrs (F. Butler).. 2

THE OAKS

BETTING ON TUE DOWNS,

8 to 1 on the field.
10 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maria Day.
10 1
10 1 Mr. Drake's Sister to Jeffy.
10 1
11 1
20 1 Mr. Ferguson's Fanny Callaghan.

ANECDOTE OF SHETLAND LIFE.—It was a beautiful day
last year, early in autumn, before harvest work in this
northern region had commenced, that a young and merry
party crossed the bleak hills of one of the remote Shetland
isles, from the most northerly dwelling of man in her Ma-
jesty's dominions, towards the parish church--for so is here
the custom—to witness the ceremony of marriage between
two of their number. The bride was a lovely girl, in her
nineteenth year. She was in a simple dress of white—white
shawl, white satin ribbons in her neat cap, and the rather
unusual finery for a cottage maid (a present, however) of
white kid gloves. Her whole appearance was strikingly
prepossessing ; and in face, figure, and demeanour, would, I
thought, have adorned a much higher station. Her bride-
groom was a few days older, and their courtship had been
even from the days of childhood. Some circumstances had
occurred to defeat their union for a few months beyond the
time intended, but at length they stood before the minister
who was to joie their lot in one. Part of their landlord's
family met them at the church, to officiate as bride's maid
and man ; and the whole party, including a son of a well-
known and much-respected ornament of the law in Edin-
burgh, who happened to be on a visit to the island, soon
retraced their steps to the hyperborean cottage to spend
the evening in dancing, and other amusements suitable
to the occasion. Healths were pledged to the happiness
of the youthful pair of course, but we rarely find intem-
perance sullying such meetings in Shetland. The newly
united couple were poor in worldly goods, but he was a
clever and adventurous fisherman, and she had been brought
up to be frugal and industrious, and they had mutual love in
strength and purity to light them on their path through " the
world that was before them." So, after a few days, they
repaired to their future home, in the cottage of the bride-
groom's father. It was about the same time this year I saw
the youthful mother carry her first-born to church for bap-
tism, though a little paler than when she stood in the same
spot a bride ; yet she looked all the more interesting. Once
more she was in the same white dress ; and I marked the
blush of modest pride that flushed her cheek, as she sought
and caught her father's eye, while the name of her mother
was pronounced over her child. The responsive tear trem-
bled in my own eye as I marked hers filling, and my heart
echoed the prayer that no doubt swelled in the young and
happy parents' hearts. Not many weeks afterwards, when
the cheerful festivities of Christmass were just approaching,
after many days of stormy unsettled weather, a calm lovely
morning invited my favourite Agnes to visit her own father's
house for the few short hours of daylight which this season
affords. Every object was reflected in the calm bright mir-
ror of the placid ocean, and the air was balmy as on a day in
June. She took her child in her arms, and left her husband
with his father and brother engaged on some little work of
husbandry on their small farm. She called to him cheerfully
as she passed at a little distance, to come for her before the
evening darkened, and he returned an affectionate assent.
Alas, for the young hearts severed then for ever! Very
shortly after Agnes's departure, some of their neighbours
proposed to go to the fishing, and two lads from a little dis-
tance arriving, with their tackle and bait, without waiting for
their own usual boat-fellows, as the forenoon was advancing,
the father and two sons I have mentioned set off, in company
with another boat, to the fishing ground, six miles off the
north point of the land. They had nearly reached the spot,
when a sudden storm arose. The tide was at the full, and
the force of the north Atlantic rushed in with the speed of a
whirlwind on tne poor devoted crews. One of the boats was
well manned, and reached the land in safety ; he and his
brother were the only efficient men—their aged father and
the two lads above alluded to composing all the crew. They
were never heard of ; the deep and turbid sea, doubtless,
overwhelmed them ; and till the day when the " sea shall give
up her dead," how they met their fate can never be
known. We shall draw a veil over the sorrows of the heart-
stricken survivors of the catastrophe—the aged and desolate
woman bereft of her husband and both her sons ' • a destitute
widow and large family of one of them ; a ycuthful bride of
one of the younger men ; a despairing mother of the other,
who has, in him, lost her only surviving stay, having two
years ago, by a precisely similar catastrophe, had to mourn
for husband, son, and son-in-law ; and last, though not least,
the poor Agnes, on whose little story I have been dwelling
with melancholy interest. What were her feelings when the
fierce and sudden storm arose, sweeping over the waste of
waters she was gazing on ? She believed her husband safe on
shore ! First came to her ear reports that boats were gone
to sea. Who were in them? When the one boat arrived,
the hardy crew, utterly exhausted with the efforts for their
lives, the alarm was raised, and very shortly it became evi-
dent that the other would never reach the land. The storm
subsided as rapidly as it had risen; but its appointed work
was accomplished ; and under the all-wise direction of the
Ruler of wind and waves, it had summoned to his dread tri-
bunal the souls of these poor fishermen. Poor Agnes ; with
what feelings shall I look on her pale expressive countenance,
now clad in the weeds of heartfelt sorrow. She remains in
the dwelling of her father, of which she was the pride and
joy, and where she is now not the less tenderly cherished, be-
cause of her irreparable misfortune.—Chamberis Journal.

&Dipping intriltgrnce.

TUESDAY, MAY 30,—Wind S.W. moderate.
ARRlVED.—Brunswick, NV/statrs, from Mobile—Tyro, Mitchell,
from Lisbon—Matilda, Scovansh, from Wolgast.
Sair.xn.—Richfield, Moore, and Argestes, Hannah, for Africa—
Bridget, Archibald, Toole, for Rio Grande—Ringclove, Candlish,
for Laguira—Conte Zichy, Copiatich, for Trieste—Tartar, Zicken,
and Swat], Holten, for Gibraltar—John & Edward, Melhuish for
Barcelona—Unicorn, Crowell, for Hammerfest and Archangel—
Lukkina Margaritha, Hoveling. for Narva—Adelina, Sprague, and
Totnes, Beer, for Lisbon—Pembroke, nankin, for Rotterdam—
Muria, Groenwald, for Danzic—Roelf Glesin, Hasewinkle, ditto—
Jane, M'Lennan, for Brahche and Archangel—Ernestine, Staben,
for Wismar—and Salina, Green, for Oporto.

Acadia, Younger, hence at Arichat
Caledonia (steamer), Lott, hence at Halifax the 17th May
Aisthorpe, Gregg; Sherbrooke, Conrad; Energy, Bullen ;
Llexander, Gregory, and Jessie Miller, Crowder, hence at ditto
Fellowship, Armstrong, hence and Fayal at ditto
Amoy, HarkneFs, hence at Quebec
Symmetry, Gilpin, hence at St. John, N.B.
Lord Seaton, Fitzsimmons, hence at New Orleans
England Bartlett, hence at New York
Rosalind, , from London at Pernambuco
Mary Marsden, Williams, hence at Algiers
Intrepid, Pentreath, hence at Constantinople
Margarita, De Ansoatequi, hence at Cadiz
Jessamine, Jarvis, hence at Lisbon
Hope, Lloyd, hence at Hamburg
Ann Metcalf. Errington, hence at ditto
Bellerophon, Schroeder, hence for Ghent off Portland
Richard, Rogers, hence for St. Petersburg at Stornaway.
Ranger, Hutchinson, hence for Stettin at Longhope
Waakaamheid, Young, hence for Constadt at Stromness.
Isabella, Robinson, hence for Stettin at ditto
Abigail, Griffith, hence for Limerick, is on shore in the Shannon
Strati-Ilion', hence fur Constantinople, was spoken 2nd May, in
at. 40, ton, ti E.

Elizabeth Bentley, hence for St. John, N.B. was spoken Sth May,
n lat. 12. lon. 65.

The Elizabeth Robinson, from Puerto Cabello and La Guayra, at
this ort, sailed from Pureto Cabello 16th April. The Blackaller
and Janet and Catherine were waiting for cargoes. Left La
Guayra 28th April. The Amelia and Ellen German sailed 22nd
April for this port. On the 28th of April passed a brig, supposed to
be the Mary Wylie, from Bernice for Pureto Cabello, 12th May, in
lat. 37, lon. 53, spoke the Agnes and Jane. 29ui, off Bardsey,
spoke the Viola, from this port to New York.

WICK, May 26.—The Friendship, Duncan, from Liverpool to
this port, put into Esdadle, lith instant, with damage, having
!struck on a rock, and proceeded on the 16th for Oban to repair.
Doun cAs, May 28.—The Anna Maria, Oetjen, from Liverpool for
Bremen, put into this harbour last night with damge, but not
making any water, having been run into by a steamer from the
Clyde for Dublin.