The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Half-past Eleven o'clock.

LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CUP

The following are the acceptances for this anxiously
expected race :-
9st 21b Mr. Holmes's b h Vulcan, 6 yrs
Lord John Fitzroy ns ch h Retriever, aged
Mr Bake ns b m Collina, 5 qrs
Lord Wilton ns ch h The Knight-of-the-Whistle,
5 yrs

Major Yarburgh's br h Heslington, 5 yrs.
Mr. G. Payne's br h Johnny, 6 yrs
Lord Howth's b h Morpeth, 5 yrs
Mr R Wardlaw's b elMoss Trooper, .4 yrs
Lord Eglington's b f Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs
Mr J Henderson ns br c Whistle Binkie, 4 yrs
Lord Kelburne's b h Give-him-a-name, 5 yrs
Mr. Frazer ns b h Tbirsk, 5 yrs
Mr J Langshaw us b c Eboracum, 4 yrs
Mr J M Stanley ns b h Forester, 5 yrs
Mr Meiklam's b c Aristotle, 4 yrs
Duke of Richmond's br h Mus, abed
Col. Anson ns ch m Rhodanthe, eyears.
Mr. W. Davis's The Major, by Sheet Anchor, 4
years.
Mr. S. Willoughby ns ch c Vakeel, 4 years.
Mr. Merry's b c Cable, 4 years.
Mr. J. S. Leigh ns Lord G. Bentinck's br h
Naworth, 6 years.
Mr. Osbaldeston's b f Sister to Alexandrina, 4
years.

Hon. E. M. LI. Mostyn's br c Lytham, 4 years.
Mr. Kennedy's gr c The Lord of the Isles, 4 years.
Lord Chesterfield's b c Tiptoe, 4 years.
Mr. Graydon's ch c Recompense, 4 years.
Sir R. Pigot's ch g by Cain, out of Miss Chester,
4 years.

Mr. Burke ns br c True Boy, 3 years.
Lord Eglington's br c Pompey, 3 years.
Duke of Richmond's Lothario, by Giovanni, out
of Moggy, 3 years.
Capt. Harcourt's br c Sir Abstrupus, 3 years.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCES : QUEEN CHRISTINE.
—By one of those remarkable coincidences that assume
the charecter of fatalities, Valencia is identified with the
two most important events in the life of Marie Christine,
the Alpha and Omega of her queenly career. It was there
that she landed when arriving in Spain to be married to
ber uncle, Ferdinand the Seventh ; and it was there, too,
eleven years later, that she signed her extraordinary.abdi-
cation previous to embarking from thence for France.
The Syanish gentleman, who was on board with us, told
us that on the first of these occasions the authorities of
Valencia had prepared for her r(

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wniun was piacea in a private resi-
dence that was set apart for her sejour, there being no
governnient palkce at Valencia. After the departure of the
bride for Madrid. this rich

his own house, previous to his own marriage, and could
find nothing in the place to equal it in taste and splen-
dour. At the period of the Queen's last visit to Valencia,
the authorities of the town had solicited from him,
loan of the same furniture for her Majesty's use :—And
-t is a remarkable fact." he addprl_

by Christine for the ceremony of signing her abdication
was performed before the identical dressing-glass, at
which, eleven years before, the nuptial crown and veil had
been placed upon her brow."-Ilfrs; Romer's The Rhone,
` SURPLUS POPULATION."—ThC extent of territory
occupied by Judah and Israel in David's days did not
quite double that of the principality. of Wales. The king
took a census, and the returns showed the population to
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many as the sand which is by the sea shore for multitude,
eating and drinking and making merry." Here, then,
was a small country most densely peopled, yet rejoicing
in abundance, filled with food and gladness, neither know-
ing nor fearing distress. To what shall we attribute it?
Certainly not to a long course of prosperity, for when
David commenced his reign the land was overrun by the
Philistines who devoured its increase, oppressing and
slaying the people, and nearly up to the time of their
numbering, internal wars had perpetually interrupted the
current of national prosperity. Colonies they had none;
commerce was almost unknown to them ; they do not
appear to have had manufactures sufficient for their own
consumption. And yet " surplus population " would
have sounded strangely in the ears of an Israelite! One
of the main blessings promised to their obedience was,
that there should be neither male nor female barren
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children
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counted without any distinction of classes as olive branches
around the table—as arrows in the hand of a giant ; and
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he was pronounced happy wno had his quiver full of them.
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be as thewhnfe
Circumscribed as was the territory, each family being re-
stricted to its own lot, and prodigiously rapid as was the
increase of population, the man who had ventured to talk
of a "preventive check" would have stood a better
chance of being stoned than eulogised.—Perils of the
Nation.
THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN CORK.—HaIf-a-dozen of
the public buildings I saw were spacious and shabby be-
yond all Cockney belief. Adjoining the Imperial Hotel
is a great, large, handsome, desolate reading room, which
was founded by a body of Cork merchants and tradesmen,
and is the very picture of decay. Not Palmyra—not the
Russell Institution in Great Coram-street—present more
melancholy appearances of faded greatness. Opposite
this is another institution, called the Cork Library,
where there are plenty of books, and plenty of kindness
to the stranger; but the shabbiness and faded splendour
of the place are quite painful. There are three handsome
catholic churches commenced of late years: not one of
them is complete. Two want their porticos ; the other
is not more than thirty feet from the ground ; and, ac-
cording to the architectural plan, ,was to rise as high as
a cathedral. There is an institution, with a fair library
of scientific works; a museum, and a drawing school
with a supply of casts. The place is in yet more dismal
condition than the library. The plasters are spoiled in-
curably for want of a sixpenny feather brush; the dust
lies on the walls, and nobody seems to heed it. Two
shillings a year would have repaired much of the evil
which has happened to this institution ; and it is folly to
talk of inward dissensions and political differences as
causing the ruin of such institutions. Kings or laws don't
cause or cure dust and cobwebs ; but indolence leaves
them to accumulate, and imprudence will not calculate
its income, and vanity exaggerates its own powers, and
the fault is laid upon that tyrant of a sister kingdom.
The whole country is filled with such failures ; swaggering
beginnings, that could not he carried through ; grand en-
terprises begun dashingly, and ending in shabby compro-
mises or downright ruin.—Irish Sketch Book.
FIUME ON Rov-Ar. EXPENDITURE.—We understand
that Mr. Hume is preparing a treatise on royal expendi-
ture, and that the basis of his calculations will be on the
principle of his late astounding discovery that an annuity
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wholesomely pale in the face ; partly, perhaps, from in-
tense thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the
chewing vigorously. He wore his shirt collar turned
down over a black riband, and his lank hair—a fragile
crop—was not only smoothed, and parted back from
his
brow, that none of the poetry of his aspect might he lost,
but had here and there been grubbed up by the roots,
which accounted for his loftiest developments being
somewhat pimply. He had that order of nose on which
the envy of mankind has bestowed the appellation
" snub, and it was very much turned up at the end, as
with a lofty scorn. Upon the, upper lip of this young
gentleman were tokens of a sandy down—so very, very
smooth and scant, that though encouraged to the utmost
it looked more like a recent trace of gingerbread than the
fair promise of a moustache ; and this conjecture his ap-
parently tender age went far to strengthen. He was in-
tent upon his work ; and every time he snapped the great
pair of scissors he made a corresponding motion with his
jaws, which gave him a very terrible appearance. Martin
was not long in determining within himself that this must
be Colonel Diver's son ; the hope of the family, and
future mainspring of the Rowdy Journal. Indeed he had
begun to say that he presumed this was the Colonel's
little boy, and that it was very pleasant to see him play-
inc at editor in all the guilelessness of childhood, when
the colonel proudly interposed, and said, " My war cor-
respondent, sir—Mr. Jefferson Brick I"—Adeentures of
Martin Chuzzlewit, No. VII,