The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

THE CHARITIES.

EASTERN DISPENSARY, ROSE-HILL.
REPORT OF CASES FOR THE WEEK ENDING FRIDAY, DEC. S.
—Persons relieved at the Dispensary, 73; Patients visited at
their own homes, 71; Total, 144.
Physician, Dr. Imlack ; Consulting Physician, Dr. Ash-
croft; Surgeons, Messrs. Lockwood, Harris, and Dodd;
House-Surgeon, Mr. Ball; Apothecary, Mr. Lloyd.
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SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL, DEC. 13.

Rittrature.
VARIETIES.

Revolution has added 45 per cent. to the (*ea taxation
of France.

Ninus and Semiramis, who reigned 2017 years before
Christ, had armies amounting to nearly two millions of
fighting men. The first guards and regular troops, as a
standing army, were formed by Saul, 1093 B.C. So says
Eusebius.

CIVIL WAR.—A worthy miller was reading an account
of the first disturbances at Berlin ; and, among other
matters, he read that " the burgher guard and the people,
when the conflict was over, shook hands in the most ami-
cable manner." "Ah (said he) now I see—now I see—
that's what they call civil war I reckon." He had heard
of civil war before, but never could comprehend the civi-
lity of it till then. _ _

HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES OF WALES.—An old
gentleman, who was somewhat of an antiquarian, retired
to spend his evening of life to a remote village in one of
the "Welch counties. He was exceedingly desirous of
picking up whatever information he could fird respecting
the locality in which be had fixed himself. In one of these
rambles he encountered an old Welch farmer, when the
following dialogue ensued :—" Good morning, friend ; can
you tell me if there is anything remarkable in this neigh-
bourhood ?" "Anything remarkable did you say ?" en-
quired the old farmer, not quite sure what was meant by
the word. " Yes, my good man, anthing remarkable
_ _

aye, well, Iss-:-,'(exclaimed the farmer, as a iign
broke in upon him)—is, iss—remarkable—aye, indeed
Do you see that field, sir ?—do you see that field ? Well,
it was there that Oliver Cromwell fought with Julius
Saisar !"

A FOREIGNER'S OPINION OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES
—But what is the University of Oxford ? A cot

vration

composed of ecclesiastics and laymen—of doctors of every
kind, some very Christian, others very little so, and others
again as little as possible so. It is also a body subject to
all the variations of the political temperature, which
twenty years ago turned out Sir Robert Peel on account
of his vote for the Catholics, and to-day adops Mr. Glad-
stone though he votes for the Jews. How beautiful would
be the dogmatic authority of a court presided over by his
Grace Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, Chancel-
lor of the University, and Commander-in-Chief of the

British Army, and doubtless of British consciences also !
—and besides, why Oxford rather than Cambridge ? The
University of Cambridge has also a very suitable Chan-
cellor, 1-,iq Royal Highness Prince Albert. the husband of
the head of the Church. There is an ancient rivalry

" that Oxford had always the honour of burning the
bishops which Cambridge had had the honour of educat-
ing." Who shall pronounce between these two authori-
ties ?—M. Lernoine, in the Revue des Deux Mondes.

AVARICE OUTWITTED.—The case of John Eyre, Esq.,
who, though worth upwards of .£300003 was convictedatthe
Old Bailey and sentenced to transportation, was rendered
more memorable by the opportunity which it gave Junius
to impeach the integrity of Lord Mansfield, who was sup-
posed to have erred in admitting him to bail. An anec-
dote is related of Mr. Eyre which shows, in a striking
manner, the depravity of his heart, and may help to
account for the meanness of the crime of which he was
convicted. An uncle of his, a man of very considerable
property, made his will in favour of a clergyman who was
his intimate friend, and committed it, unknown to the
rest of the people, to his custody. However, not long
before his death, having altered his mind with regard to
the disposal of his wealth, he made another will, in which
he left the clergyman only £5OO, leaving the bulk of his
large property to his nephew and heir-at-law, Mr. Eyre.
Soon after the old gentleman's death, Mr. Eyre, rum-

waging over his drawers, found this last will ; -and, per-
ceiving the legacy of £5OO in it for the clergyman,
without
any hesitation or scruple of conscience, put it into the fire
and took possession of the whole effects,
of his uncle being supposed to have died intestate

in consequence
The

clergyman coming into town soon after, and i
into the circumstances of his old friend's death, as

if he had made any will before he died .
by Mr. Eyre in the negative, the clergyman very coolly
put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the former will,
which had been committed to his care, in which Mr. Eyre
had bequeathed him the whole of his fortune. amounting
l thousand I

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