The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

TETE LAA't.D.6P:otii FATHERS.

We have much pleasure in giving insertion to the following
lines, which rumour attributes to the able and popular repre-
sentative of SouttaiLancashire; Vora Francis Egettoii. Who-
soever may be the author of them, they aro such 'as no,tnan
of genuine principle need be ashamed to
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O land, of yore! the birth-plac'e of the high-minded and free,
Where the rich man and•the peasant felt a'noble rivalry,
Where gospel light burnt pure and bright, and leuruing'S chas-
tening power.
Diffused' a humble thankfulness in cottage, town, and tower.
How art thou changed! abased •in dust thy once,resplendent
brow,
That all, who mourn o'er greatness 'fallen, compassionate thee

now ; • •
Bitter each plagne that chocks thy pride and hastens on thy fall,
But the vermin plague democracy is.heaviest of •them all. .

O could that Queen whose soul to heights of manhood's daring
tuwer'd, . •
Girt with her Raleigh, Leicester, Huntsdon, Walsingham, and
o ward,
Have seen, while casting ,quick her glance 'thro' England's
futuie years, . . • •
A miscreant commons' lazar-hOuse dictate to Britain's peers:
How would that look that never quailed before a mortal eye,
How would that heart where sat enthron'd undaunted majesty,
nave swelled in prescience of the coining degradation's power,
To view thro" nigh three centuries that base and bitter hour.
'Not such the days when as the blaze devours the stubble straw,
The Vanes and Cromwell'B burst the bonds of monarchy and
law,
When courage lent its light to crime and bad and bold com-
bined,
Rebellion's guilt was half atoned by mastery of mind.

,For then in legislation's seat, while England's banner flew
Aloft, were men to England's cause magnanimously true;
The lion's lair, the wolf was 'there—from the meatier reptiles
free, - .
its portals were, '0 Russell;yet unstigmatised by thee.
A heavier yoke—a baser chain—my country now is thine,
'And black the clouds and (lark the .sky lowers o'r thy
,decline
'Phyiioblehcarts' and 114 sty blood have ceased each vain en-
!
And freedouf,s age and glory's page are lost to thee for ever.

THE DINING Room;--This, iri•Enkland is a room of great
importance, .particularly with the rich; for nothing with the
English can be done satisfactorily without the accompaniment
of good dinner ;• and, indeed, some think this-is the only thing
that In its-fruition fulfils the anticipated pleasure. This room
11,2.141 d be Atiet, and unconnected with' any other except a li--
kart' or store room; and with the latter only by an opening at
the back of the side-board, or in some other part where it may
be concealed, and through which the deSsert, &c., may be hand-
ed, thereby preventing too frequent'opehing and shutting of the
door. , There ,honld not be any door of communication with
the store-room; as, being liable to be occupied -by servants, it
will destroy the privacy of the dining room.—Architectural Meg.
eNT.—There is, perhaps, no part of the law of patents
Which ,has been less underitood than that which relates to a ca-
veat. A caveat is an instrument; lodged at certain Offices, re-
questing to have notice of• any party, applying to Secure a patent
tot a similar invention to that named in the caveat. A, has
made an invention relating to a particular branch of manufac-
ture; for instance; improvements on tinaehinery-used for spin-
ning cotton : before ho takes out his patent, he is desirons of
having machinery for the invention male .that he may put it to
the' test of practiCal experiment ; and in the event of, failure, he
may avoid going to the expense of a patent. In getting the in-
vention made, he bus to confide to Workmen : to prevent such
confidence being taken advantage of, he enters a caveat at the
patent office, against hny application which may be made for
improvements' in machinery for spinuing.---liepertcrry of Patpat
Inventions.

•
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDRNCE.—About fifty years ago, at one
of the. Provincial Assizes in England, a gentleman was tried
and cpuvicted, upon eircnmstan,tial evidence, of the-murder of
his.nerce. The circam.stancee sworn to were as follows: that
the neice and uncle were seen walking iu a field; that a person
at a small distance heard the neice exclaim—" Dont kill me,
uncle:! dont kill mel and that at the instant, a pistol-Or fowling-
piece was discharged. The body had never been found, and
was,presumed to have been secreted by the supposed murderer.,
Upon 'these eiretim-Stances the gentleman was convicted and.
eltecuted--protesting, tolhe last, his innocence'of the tritne..-.7-
Abeet tivelve months after, the neice,. who hadeloped, returned
with her husband ;•aml the dreadful error was 'thug explained
by her: ‘"She formed an attachment for a person disapproved
by her uncle. When walking in the fields, he 'eartiestlidis-
euaded heefrom the connexion ;.'when She retitled, that shoi+as
'resolved to have him, or it,,would be b.er.deatfi.; ani thereupon
used the expressions, ." Dent kill,me, uncle. ! dont .kill me !"
At the Moment she uttered these words fowling-piece was dis-
charged by a .sportsman, in a' neighbouring field. That. very
„night she eloped frera.ber,unele's house; end the fortuitous eon-'
CurreneeOf these suspicious
,circumstances, led to the ignomi-
nious death of a near and affectionate relative.
MR. itiCHARDS AND LORD. TOMNINS JENRINS.—The mem-
ber forKnaresborough has published in a second edition of his',
. Letter to Lcird Brougham," another letter to his lordship with
a second and most merciless lashing " on the raw" produced by
his first attacli... It is not, we believe,:geuerally known.;---fop not..
all the puffingin which the learned lord is.sucli wadept has
brought them into anything like 'general reading—that Lord
Brougham has published an anonymous reply to•Mr.,Richarcfs,
after personally displaiming the ,correspondence.. ,It it by way
of rejoinder tp,this that My.. Ricliards.says:.—;" Your lordship's
attack-upon me is altogether so lame and poor—so totally defi-,
cient in argument, and indeed 'in everything else but spleen and
impotent rage, that I realty feel somewhat' at a loss "in what'
manner to handle it. Yon
.say, ' that you should not Wonder to
see Me.die a knight.' Now,
.should I. attain . high
•.• • m
distinc-
tion,
perhaps you might assist me in settling y pedigree, or
naming anew my country-house. I admire the taste 'tvhich, it
is said,; elie.wed in' co iivertin g the Bird's •Nestinto Brought:in
Wall, and in, taking the name of, Varex,. although the head of .
that ji ;till alive, and has net, I. am told, any. knowledge
that any antekdr of yours ever intermarried with' one of
;his, notwithstanding the atithoritviposol:y jicrnished Ly yourself,
and therefore above all dispute, in Burke's Genealogy." Again,
Mr. Ripbards.cuts into the cidieti-when he notices 'the abortive
attempt of. Lord Jenkins to excuse himself' ta'Lord Ttent-lna'j
from, the charge of slandering the aristocracy:: He Yeti
violently' assault, the nobility and gentry, and endediiiiee to
cover them with ridicule; and; -when l‘blame yew' virulence,
and show.thp falsehood and injustice of your eliarges,.you' turn
round and say,. Yon don't, I Par, much serve• time cause of the
,aristocracy by proving that Lord Brougham is ateinibred inan,
a4(l of vulgar manners; for he is one of the Order?: Now, your
lordship knows, no man better, the difference there is between
'an individual and a class—that a class may be polished and in-
telligent, and yet that some paryeunin it nuey have the thinners
of a mountebank and the impudence of, 'a Bound, and•that Nre
May respect.the order and yet -despise the individual." 'We
think that all who " respect the order" of the aristocracy of thiS'
country ler their eminent social and 'patriotic. virtues 'and whO -
despise the individuals" that may disgrace even Such an
viler, will feel deeply-indebted to Mr. Richards for the spirit
and, the talent he has evinced in grappling with this titled atl=
derer, and holding him up to the genera/ scorn he has so' rithly
merited. • • ;

• , BRAIDED RAT TAILS.—A few days since at Darien, New
York, a cluster of eleven rats were found in a stable, with their
tails braided together in such a manner as to forbid the idea of
their eve-r, extricating themselves., :Ten of the rats were alive :
they had nearly consuine'd the eleventh! The ends of the tails
that stuck out from-a half to one inch through the braiding had
perished,_ while the remainder
,Was perfectly, sound.—New Fork
Paper:
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NAPOLEON AT THE TOMB OF FREDERICK.—The court of
Berlin had fled from Potsdam so-precipitately that all the trea-
sures, &c, which it cootainbd. Were left 'for Napoleon and his
army, who tookpossession On the !46th-of October, 18(19. Bona-
parte visited Frederick's tomb, where he.found'his. sword, sash,
arid the badges of several orders of krtightho, d. These he took,
saying that he preferred them to all the treasures of the King
Of-Prussia; that he would send them to the old soldiers who had
Served in theJlanoverian campaign; and direct that they should
be placed in the hospital as memorials of the victories achieved
by tlre grand army; and as evidence .of the' vengeance it had
taken.for the ,disasters of nosbach.— Tilt's Napoleon' Gallery.
AiNEw USE, OF CANDLES.—One' market day several years
ago a femaleJnesSenger, who, two or three times a week, went
errandS to'Nr. flit* the shopkeepers and other inhabitants Of a
village a few inilk4ftorn town, called at the candle shop of Mr.
situated.viithin sight of the Fish cross, and asked fora
half a stone of dips, skrtteen to the lb., for which, she tendered
' the usual price. "Ala, Betty," said he shopman, " ye're fbur-
pence short.: they're up a half-peouy.the pun' since last week."
UP ahawbee the pun', say ye,.and tOtat for that ?" "0, it's
Awing to the war, Betty'."" Gold sail' us," rejoined Betty,
win was not a political economist, " are they fechtin' wi' can'le
held too !''