The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-10 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—That the O'Connell and'Hume party should use every
effort to overturn the monarchy is.
.perfectly natural—they have
been making the attempt all their lives—but when we see a
member of an ancient and noble house, and that member lately
a cabinet minister, aiding and assisting the faction in their
endeavours, there is no word in the English language strong
enough to.express the disgust which every loyal and good- sub-
ject must feel. And this man, whom the radicals have selected
as their leader!--God save the mark—was lately a cabinet
minister! ! What an escape his Majesty must have had, and
how. clearly does all this show the necessity for the act by which
his Majesty dismissed the whiffs from his councils, it is loped
for ever. However, if honest and loyal men did not suffer, I
for one should like to see the levelling system adopted. Woburn
Abbey would of itself make a tolerable division.. Russell, Bed-
' ford, and Tavistock-squares would also very conveniently divide,
and being divided, I have no doubt the little man would beer-
fectly cured of his levelling mania.

AtToppesfield, Essex, there has lately been. a dreadful incen-
diary fire, by. which was destroyed the entire property;consisting
of farming stock and produce, amounting to 500/., nu part of
which was insured, of Mr. Isaac Davie, a respectable farmer,
and of late a very active and resolute constable of the parish, to
which latter cause there is no doubt this malicious deed is to be
attributed. •
, BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT.—In one of the American
papers lately received we find the following singular announce-
ment The C left this place on. Wednesday for New Or-
leans !" Would' any kind friend oblige us by rendering the
above sentence into intelligible English ? The alligator who
.wrote it cannot surely mean the Sea. Perhaps the C stands for
Chapel, Congress, Cadwalader N. Owens, Colonel Ephraim D.
Boosey, or something else wffi.ced, and
,moving all along shore 1
southwards.
LONGEVITY.—Five blacksmiths live within three miles of ,
each other, near Corwen, 'Merionethshire, whose ages amount
to 415. Three are brothers, and four have the same surnames;
one has lived 84 years in the Same house, and was never from
it a week in his life. A pony, said to be of the extraordinary age
of 45 years, is the venerable friend of one of these Cambrian
patriarchs.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. .
ROME, FEB. 10.—Another very important reform is going
to be introduced. A court of appeal is to be. established for.
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Umbra, Sabina, Patrimoniu, Campagna, Rome, and Corracca;
and it is to decide all civil and criminal causes, the Dacra Rota
remaining, however, the highest court in civil causes,, and no
ecclesiastic is to be a member of this tribunal.
The Rev. Edward Irving acted in . Ryder's company, in
Kirkaldy, a few miles from Edinburgh, about twenty-four years
ago, and was passionately devoted to the stage. The obliquity
of his vision, his dialect, and peculiarly, awkward gait and
manner, created so much.derision that he left the stage for the
pulpit, after about three months' Probation.—Recerds of a Stage
Veteran. New Monthly Magazine.
AWKWARD MISTAKE.-113 the Irish Court of Chancery, last
week, Mr. W.oulfe the barrister, by some extraordinary mistake,
took up the briefof the opposing counsel, and advocated the
cause opposed to his own client. As soon as the mistake was
discovered the court was convulsed with laughter, when the lord
chancellor observed that he had once committed a similar
mistake in England, and advocated the case against his own
client so successfully that he lost his cause. A story, his lord-
ship also observed, was told of Lord Mansfield, that having
stated a case very strongly for a party, and when about to con-
clude, discovering that he was speaking on the wrong side, he
continued, "This, my lord,, is the case that will, no doubt, be
stated on the.other side;,tint now let me state my, client's case,"
&c.
' COURT-MARTIAL.— The general court-martial, over which
•Major-general John Wardlaw is to preside, will assemble in
Edinburgh Castle on Monday next, to try Assistant-surgeon G.
Ferguson of the 71st Regiment. The charges are ten in num-
ber, and we understand they originated in an occurrence at the
mess, table while tilt regiment lay at Bermuda.--Edinburgh Pa.

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MussEusuaGn.—Petitions to both houses of parliament from
the inhabitants of Musselburgh, expressing their warm attach-
ment .to the Church of Scotland, their indignation at the recent
attacks made upon her by her professed enemies, and praying
for add;.tional church accommodation, are now in course of sig-
nature. Musselburgh is a striking proof from what cause the
spread of, Voluntaryism has been so great in our land, as with
a population of eight thousand souls there is only °he parish
minister, and one established church capable of containing
about two thousand five hundred. From the numerous and re-
spectable class of signatures already exhibited, comprising in-
dividuals of every station and shade of opinion, this will he one
of the strongest petitions the honest town has ever yet sent up
to parliament, and we have no doubt its prayer will be duly con-
, siaered.—Edinburgli Paper.
UTTERING BASE COIN.—A woman calling-herself Margaret
Mason was charged with uttering base coin. The prisoner, it
appears, on Thursday last, went to ,the spirit vaults of Mr.
Peppitt, in Dale-street, and tenderea bad sixpence to the bar-
maid in payment for some gin. It was discoyered.to be a bud
one and refused. On Saturday she again paid the vaults a visit,
and offered a bad shilling to Mrs. Peppitt, when she was recog-
nised and given into the custody of Keunedy,.a watchman, who
, conveyed her to Britlewell.—Committed. • •
THE TWELVE REPRESENTATIVES OF SHROPSIIIRE.—As on
the puestion of the speakership, so with regard to the address to
his Majesty in answer to his most gracious speech, the twelve
representatives of Shropshire were in their places; and they voted
in support of the address. Three of them, viz. Mr, Cressett
Pelham, Mr. J. M. Gaskell, and Mr. Lochmere Charlton,.took
apart in tha debate, in support of the address.—Salopian Journal.

GIN, PALACES.—The licensing magistrates for the parish. of
Marylebone set on Monday an excellent example, by suspend-
ing the licences of all houses which had been opened merely as
gin palaces, and' in which the lap-rootns for the accommodation
of labouring men had been abolished. The evil is a crying one,
and demands the• most serious attention of the licensing magis-
trates.
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The newly created Viscount Canterbury- it now in his fifty-
fifth year. and by his first marriage with bliss Denison, of the
family of. „Denison, county Notts, has two sons and one daughter
(the lady.of R. Sanderson, Esq., ALP.), and by. his second
union with his present lady_ has one daughter. Viscountess
Canterbury, by her first marriage, has an only son, Lieut. Home
Purvis, of Grenadier Guards..
AMENCAN LEGISLATURE.—Of the members constituting the
present House of Assembly twenty-three are lawyers, ten are
doctors, sixt-yfive are fanners, twenty-one are merchants, one
currier, one bookbinder, one carman, one saddler, one ship-
joiner, one carpenter, and three are gentlemen.—Arnericon
pripc T.

Importf.)).

C H INA.

Ann. Penrice. fm Canton, with 620 chts 50 hfchts 50 qr elitsbohea,
1343 chts congou, 175 cults ankoi, 216 bxs caper. 510 hxs orange pe-
koe, 128- chts 100 hxs young.hysqn, 92 chts twankay, 136 chts Tyson
and 76 chts hi-son skin tea, 7 hxs 2 pkgs tea, Ila conts unkn, 1 lid
Cape wine, 3 muster bxs; Order-,—Rirer