The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-15 00:00:00

THE THREE SISTERS.-FROM CHAMISSO

[By a Wrangler of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Three sisters were there, marked by destiny
And grey-grown, less with age than agony,
With bitter sorrol
And each of them

night hers the cruellest smart
n heart,

Give ear theu thou that know'st t
And thine be to decide between their trials

d the first, the woe that fell on met
ream of infancy, .

Awak'ning from th-e

breast in sweet surprise

I felt, entranced, a fond soft impulse rife,
Till oh, a hero sought my love ! and life
In all its fullness shone before my eyes.

And deck'd with myrtle my betrothed lord
I was expecting, him whom I adored,

In whom my- raptured self was lost al
The marriage-tapers flung a festive g
Viten, harl the measured steps of 1

Hereat t

itt'rance came
And said, It is of death and not o
That she, :make - -
Yet though a lik
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Too quickly clou
The halo wither'i
I saw him selfish

He viniih'i. ; whiff

Or goaded by en
He lives, I know

Whereon t

As doubting I
Yet to have li
Albeit Al isfor
And suckled 1

to have

that bare

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oved one's head

:onmanied with shame,
iness' flame,

how thy judg-
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can look over the list of the invited, and foretell the
probable refusals and acceptances, and suggest the possi-
ble and advisable enlargements of acquaintances. Besides
all this, he makes a business of keeping himself " well
booked up" as to the strangers in town. How he does it
we have no idea ; but upon the quality, manners, place of
belonging, means, encumbrances, and objects of travel of
all the marked guests at the principal hotels, he ran give
you list and programme, with a degree of prompt correct-
ness that is as surprising as it is useful. Of couree, it is
the list from which invitations are made, and (as no man
who can afford to give a ball can afford also to make morning
calls) Mr. Brown takes the cards of the father of the
family and leaves them "in person" on the distinguished
strangers. A man of more utility, or in the distribution
of more influence, than our friend Mr. Brown. could
hardly be picked from the " New York Directory." His
own stately figure, wrapped in his voluminous overcoat.

and he opens carriage doors, summonses the house ser-
vant with his whistle, and ushers in the guests, with a
courteous manner and a polite word that would well be-
come the nobleman who is the " gold stick in waiting" at
the court of her Majesty.—N. P. Willis.
TOE BELLE STRATAGEM ; OR, A BOLD STROKE FOR A
HOSBAND.—General Gunninc, had a most beautiful and
plished daughter ; her charms attracted many ad-

accom

mirers, among others the Marquis of Mai
son of the Duke of Marlborough, and th
Lo'rn, eldest son of the Duke of Argyll.

Marquis of
At first the

young lady seemed to favour the pretensions of the Marquis
of Lorn, but in a short time she evinced a decided prefer-
ence for the Marquis of Blandford. The Duke of Argyll,
who had married the widow of the Duke of Hamilton, a
sister of General Gunning, inquired of the general
whether the Duke of Marlborough was apprised of his
son's attentions to his daughter, and approved of the
projected 'matrimonial alliance. The general frankly ad-
mitted that he did not know, but would immediately ad-
dress a letter to the Duke of Marlborough on the subject,
and if he disapproved of the match, he would at once
put an end to the affair. Accordingly he wrote a letter
to the duke, and sent it to Blenheim by his groom. He
received an answer expressive of the duke's entire ap-
proval of his son's choice, and of his own deep sense of
the good qualities of the young lady. General Gunning
immediately repaired to the Duke of Argyll, who,
having read the letter attentively, expressed strong
suspicions of its authenticity. General Gunning then
went to Lord Charles Spencer, the duke's brother,
who unhesitatingly pronounced the letter to be "an
.

awkward imitation-of. the Duke of Marlborough's hand-
writing." The seal was either an impression from a
small seal, which the duke bad cease
years, or from one copied from it

d to use for many
General Gunning

returned home, and questioned his wife and c
the subject; they assured him the letter was
they had been imposed on. The general next inteir
gated the groom, who. impelled partly by threats, al
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genuine, or

Miss Gunning, who had furnished him with the letter.
The general then turned his daughter out of his house,
and shortly after separated from his wife. Mrs. Gunning
published a large pamphlet, entitled, " A letter to the
Duke of Argyll," in which she attributed the forgery to
Captain and Mrs. Bowen, whom she had offended by
endeavouring to prevent their marriage, at the earnest
solicitation of Mrs. Bowen's father. But Mrs. Gunning

does not attempt to explain how the Bowens became
acquainted with the general's intention to write to the
Duke of Marlborough, or transmit his letter by his
The Duke of Argyll declined all further inter-

groom

Course with his nisi
niece, Miss Gunning
Caricatures.

Mrs. Gunning, end his
Historical Account of Gillray's

SINGULAR NOTION AS TO THE VALVE OF LlFE.—Life
is a certain quantity in time, which nay be regarded in
two ways—lst, as life integral; 2d, as life fractional.
Life integral is that complete whole, expressive of a cer-

himself. Life fractional is that same whole seized upon
and invaded by other people, and subdivided amongst
them. They who get a large slice of it say,
valeinhles lifer •

" a very va-

se-who get but a small handl

1 for nothing !" I

even to your understanding. When
lyself in my study, having carefully locked
11 of von, alone with my books and thoughts,

ession of my integral 1

I am tofu,

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