The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

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Feed noble streams, that ample honours have,
From those who of the source know not the name

direct from abroad. Within the same period the stocks
of free foreign Wheat and Flour have been further in-
creased by the payment of 15s. per quarter duty on 4485
qrs. of the former, and Os. Odd. per barrel on 2043 barrels
NATIVE IRISH PARLIAMENT A CENTURY SINCE.—
of the latter.
The Parliament of that century was a jobbing aristocracy, Having a good attendance of town and country millers
banded into different parties, without much, if any, distinc- at this day's market, the Wheat trade opened with a firm
tion of principle. The English government used their pa- aspect, and a tolerably fair extent of business was
tronage to purchase a majority. But the mouths of one
party were no sooner stopped by pensions and places, transacted in most descriptions of English, Irish,
than another rose to complain of profusion in the name and free Foreign, at a slight improvement upon
of their country, and to ask for new extravagance in their the terms of Friday ; thereby establishing an ad-
own. A fresh purchase only led to fresh pretensions, vance of 2d. to 3d. per 701bs. over the rates of this
and the very pensioners themselves had the effrontery to
exclaim against the burdens of which their own faction day week. Of farmers' new Wheat the supply was libe-
and corruption bad been the cause. While they have ral, and the quality and condition being good, such gene-
acutely felt the injury and degradation to which they rally realised a similar amendment. English and Irish
have been subjected by English laws, every relaxation of
undue severity, and every dawn of a kinder disposition Flour, commanding rather a free sale, must be noted ls.
towards them, has been met by a warmth of gratitude and per sack dearer; and Foreign was nominally somewhat
zeal of attachment which seem to have no memory for higher in value.
past injuries, and no suspicions of future injustice.—Cor-
In Barley, Beans, and Malt we have no change to re-
respondence of the Fourth Duke of Bedford.
HARVEST /I omm.—Autuun has been from the begin-
Port; whilst good boiling Pease, upon an increased Be-
ning of rime the season of sports and jollity. Even its mand, were held at an advance of 2s to 3s per quarter.
toils, among a simple people, have something pleasant in Oats moved off slowly at the improved rates of Friday ;
them. When the husbandman sows, his mind rests on and Oat peal, being less saleable, receded to the currency
the long and anxious interval during which an inclement
season, or the devastations of beasts and birds, or a thous- of this day se'nnight
and accidents, may intervene to blast his prospects. But
the reaper already touches the reward of all his cares and
toils; the rustling grain into which he puts his sickle is
already in imagination garnered up; he is on that ecstatic
border-land where anticipation and reality fade into each
other like the tints of the rainbow. Autumn is also. in
such a society, the season when the labours of husbandry,
requiring method and forethought, are about to give way
to the chase and other occupations, which, ft om their
varying plans and unexpected incidents, have quite as
much of pleasure as of business in them. And lastly,
autumn is to them the season of abundance, when the
garner is filled, and the wine-press or the mash-tub runs
over, mid the owner's heart expands with his wealth, and
welcomes all comers to taste of his first-fruits. Hence,
in all climates, of all festivals the autumnal is the most
jolly

SELECTIONS

ARRIVALS OF CORN,

From the 19th to the 25th Sept., 1843, inclusive,

IRE- COAST- , PO
LAND. WISE. iCANADA
REIGN

Wheat .. . Ors. 717 6 278
Barley Qrs. 137 9
Malt Qrs. 38 170
Oats Qrs. 920 205
Rye' Qrs
Beans Qrs
Pease Qrs

Shelled Barley% s.
Indian Corn. Qrs.
Rapeseed.... Qrs.l
Oatmeal .. Loads 62'3
Sacks, 3294
!Iris. I 600

THE BACHELOR'S LETTER.—" It is now ten round
years since I sate myself down at my parsonage, and
commenced to preach and to hold examination, to bap-
tize and bury, and attend to my calling in the power of
my mind and well-meaning of my heart, and permitted
my house, as well as my kitchen and cellar, &c., to be
attended to by any one who for money would be
pleased to see after them. My sister once paid a visit to
me and my house. Brother!' said she, ' this is going
on ill the sugar-box is emptied in two days, and a
pound of coffee a-week is not enough ! The potntoes
are treated as if they were to rain down from heaven ;
but it is no wonder that Madame Oberg's pigs are so fat!
The rolls are brought from town ! It is a shame not to
bake at a parsonage! In the dairy three milk-pans are
standing without cream. My brother! my dear brother!
you are cruelly robbed and cheated 1 I had myself re-
marked that lately the hens had eaten more corn than was
lienlike, and Madame Oberg's pigs were continually lying
in toy way before the steps. ' But,' said my sister, why
do von not live as becomes a minister and pastor of the
Church? Why are you not married? Did not our Lord
see that it was good for Adam—who certainly, however,
bad small hom,ebold cares—to be alone; and did he not
say; I will give him a help-meet, to whom he may cleave'
—` who shall cleave to him, it is written,' interrupted I :
' Women should never meddle with quotations, for they
always quote wrong.'—' Ay, it is just one and the same
thing.' answered my sister; and when our Lord said he
would give Adam a help-meet, He clearly showed thereby
that a man cannot help himself without a wife.' "—From
Mary How ill's new work, '` The President's Daughters."

Into Runcorn.—lreland and Coastwise.—Oats,
meal, Ids ; Flour, sacks.
EXPORTS.—Foreign. Malt, qrs ; Oats. 104 qrs. ; Pease,
qrs. ; Indian Cori. qrs. ; Flour, 619 brls.--Ireland.
Wheat, 1069 qrs. ; Barley, qrs ; Indian Corn, 20 qrs. ; Flour,
sacks, brls.—Coastwise. Wheat, 262 qrs. ; Barley,
qrs. ; Malt, 20 qrs ; Oats. 29 qrs ; Beans, 55 qrs, ; Indian
Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 50 loads ; Flour, 268 sacks 110 brls.

qrs.; Oat-

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending' Sent. 16, 1943
Wheat 505.10 d. I Barley 31s. sd. 1 Oats 18s. 10.1 Rye 30s. Id
Beans.. 31 s. 2d. Pease.. 335. 3d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks

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Wheat 55s 1111 Barley 32s 6d Oats 20s sd. 1, Rye 33 4d
Beans.. 313. 11 d. Pease.. 335. 6d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this week

Wheatl7s od I Barley 6s Od Oats .6s Od Rye.. gs 6d
Beans los 6a I Pease.. gs 6d, Ind. Corn Os Od I Flour 10s Old

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. 4s. od. Parley.. os. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I Rye.. Is. Od.
Beans 2s. 6d I Pease Is. Gd. I Ind. Corn os. Od. I Flour 25. bd
Liverpool Averages, week ending' Sept :9, 184.3._

Barley. I Oats. Beans
964 I 113
475. 11d. Os. Od. 116 s. 9d. us. Od. Os. Od. Os. Od

Wheat,

Pease. 1 Flour

MR. BOYS' FINE ART DISTRIBUTION

(From the Tyne Mercury.)

Among the " signs of the times," one of the most pro-
minent is the rapidly increasing taste of the public for
works of art. The rage (it may truly he called such) for
illustration is in the ascendant. We have books display-
ing all that art can do in this way; wood-cut, engraving,
lithogrophy, chrorno-lithography, and oil-colour printing,
vie with one another to fascinate the eye. Then we have
illustrated periodicals of every form, degree of merit, and
price, from the Pictorial Times and the Illuminated Ma-
gazine to the penny publications teeming with wood-cuts
that inundate the newsman's counter weekly. Twenty
years ago, the single cut in the Mirror did for that peri-
odical what no literary talent alone would have done. It
made it command an extensive sale for a series of years,
till a new era commenced in the annals of art—an era
that we as philanthropists and social philosophers hail
most heartily. We allude to that epoch when art-unions
took their rise from the prolific brain of a few benefactors
of their kind. Nay, think not we speak unadvisedly;
they are benefactors of their kind who turn the current of
public taste into that channel which, in the words of the
ancient " emollit mores nec sinit esse feros," softens their
manners and implants the gentler virtues in their breast.
Rut to the purpose : art-unions have unquestionably done
immense good, by diffusing through all classes of the com-
munity a taste for the productions of the brush, the pen-
cil, and the graver, they have exercised the most health-
ful patronage on native talent; they have also had a moral
influence, that of opening a source of refined enjoyment
to many to whom the delights of art were formerly in-
accessible.

THEATRICAL CRITICISM FORTY YEARS AGO.—On
the s'h of Octoher, 1805, a revival of Farquhar's comedy,
The Constant Couple, was advertised for that evening's
representation at Drury-lane Theatre. Late in the after-
noon h indhills had been circulated, stating that, in con-
sequenee of the sudden illness of Mr. Elliston, who was
to have personated Sir Harry Wildair, the comedy
would unavoidably be deferred, and She Stoops to Con-
quer was then substituted. The following critique (!) ap-
peared in a journal called the British Neptune
" Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. Last night Farquhar's
sprightly comedy, The Constant Couple, was most bar-
baronsly ennui 'red at this theatre. The lively knight
was by Mr. Ell,ston reduced to a dull piece of affectation
—it was Tom Errand in Beau Clincher's clothes.
Clincher was altogether lost in the hands of Bannister—it
approached Farquhar as nearly as the frog resembled the
ox in the fable. Mss Mello❑ was not thoroughly un-
pleasant in her representation of Angelica; hut criticism
has not language severe enough to deprecate the imperti-
nence of Barrvmore presuming to put himself forward in
the part of Colonel Standard. We were scarcely less
off•nded with Dowton's attempt at Alderman Smuoiler
it was only not absolutely the worst thing we ever saw."
Ellison, Barryrnore, Dowton, and Bannister determined
to be revenged, and commenced a prosecution against the
old Aeptune, which would inevitably have brought him
from his coral palace to the dry floor of the Count of
King's Bench, but for the mercy of the very mortals
themselves whom he had so deeply injured. The prose-
cution was staved—a compromise was entered into, the
proprietors of the paper paying, of course, all expenses,
and a suppleme_ital fifty pounds to the Drury•lane
Theatrical Fend.—Raymond's " Elision Papers" in
Ain.s.worth'e Magazine.

Now, what has been achieved by association in the case
of art-unions, Mr. Boys (so favourably known to the
public as one of the most spirited publishers of high class
engravings) proposes to do singly. Nay more, he offers
the public superior advantages to any they receive from
the art-unions, whether British or foreign. lie honestly
admits he is induced to do this in self-defence, and for le-
gitimate purposes of trade: but nevertheless the case is
such as he represents it. Each subscriber has the choice.
of selection, for the full value of the sum subscribed, from
201 engravings, among which are the universally admired
" Bolton Abbey," "The Trial of the Earl of Strafford,"
" The Canterbury Pilgrims," and many other first rate
works. (" The Momentous Question," engraved by
Bellin, after a picture by Miss S. Setchell, by the bye, is
eminently beautiful.) Then after receiving a good quid
pro quo for his money in the shave of one or more splen-
did engravings, each subscriber of a guinea has one chance
out of every twenty of getting a prize varying from £5O
to £5OO in value. If this is not inducement to try one's
luck, we do not know what can be. The subsetibers risk
nothing but the mere fact of laying out well their guinea,
and they have one-twentieth chance of getting 50 or 500
times the value of their money, inclusively. We under-
stand Mr. Boys has met with such extensive public pa-
tronage, that the drawing of the prizes will take place
next month, (October). We wish him every p^ssible
success in his public spirited enterprise, and we recommend
all our readers, whether rich or poor, to take a ticket in
this unique lottery, where there can be no less and there
may be immense gain. We proposed glancing at the
merits of some of the principal works in the list of prizes
and engravings for selection by subscribers ; but as ample
and accurate details may be gleaned from Mr. Boys'
Prospectus, we beg leave to refer our readers to that
source for information.

IRISH SOLDIERS IN THE LEGION.—There are no
where to be found more amusing fellows than Irish sol-
diers, frill as they all are of quaint humour and smart
rep-rtee. " I have heard many droll traits and stories of
the Irish soldiery under Evans. On the 16th of Nlarch,
alien the Queen's troops were in full retreat, my
squadron was formed up on the road to Hernani, occasi-
onally charging down when the opportunity presented
ie order to cover the retreat. Up come an Irish
iefattrti soldier, who, although following the example
,pretty gear rally given hint, and retreating, still seemed to
do is a contreeceur, and kept up a sort of running fight on
his own ..count, perfectly independent of anybody else
the writ Id. The fellow was steaming from what appear-
ed he a mixture of heat and fury, and his face was as
red as Dan o•Cerinell's after a few hours' speech to the
fii,est i.isanthry. His lips and cheeks were black with
biting c etridges. 'Be ! said he, thumping his
no,-,:er--hritt down on the ground, and wiping his face
with a rag he took out of his shako, Be —! and they
call Carlos a pretiiitlher ! What a devil of a fellow
he'd he if he Was in airnest !' When Iron was taken,
plunder as. the order of the day, and a staff officer told
me that he met a sootier of an Irish regiment with a
case r.f bearitifrit Geneva watches in his hand. Knowing
that the fellow would either get drunk and lose them, or
sell them at five francs a piece to the French officers and
others whom curiosity 'brought in crowds across the
Bidassoa, my friend thought be might as well have one of
the toa e-krone rs. Iloilo ! my man,' cried he, 'give me
a w:4(11, aid here's a four-dollar bit for you.' • And is
it 10.0. dellars ye're afther giving me?' said Paddy. 'Ala!
then. sec hr hour, take a handful of em.' And he held
up the box. The r.fficer laughed and took one; but he
derived little benefit from his bargain, for bivouacking a
night or two after some marauder stole it out of the breast
of hi, jacket chile he slept."—Nets Monthly Magazine.
ANFCDOTE OF A GOOSE.—An extraordinary instance
of a goose attaching itself to a man, " following him about
like e doe," was inserted in several journals last week,
copied +rem a country paper, and as an accompaniment
to it an amusing account of a Canada goose conceiving a
violent attachment to a dog is related in Sharpe's copy of
" Withighby's Ornithology." He says—" The following
account r.f a Canada goose is so extraordinary, that I am
aware it would with difficulty gain credit, were not a
whole parish able to vouch for the truth of it. The Ca-
nada geese are not fond of a poultry-yard, but are rather
of a rambling disposition. One of these birds, however,
Was observed to attach itself, in the strongest and most
affectionate mariner, to the house dog, and would never
quit the ketie,. except for the purpose of feeding, when it
would returr: gain immediately. It always sat by the
dog. hut never presumed to go into the kennel, except in
rainy weather. Whenever the dog barked, the goose
would cackle and run at the person she supposed the dog
barked at, and try to bite him by the heels. Sometimes
she would attempt to feed with the dog; hut this the dog,
who treated his faithful companion rather with indiffer-
ence, would not permit. This bird would not go to roost
with the others at night, unless driven by main force ;
and when in the morning she was turned into the field
she would never stir from the yard gate, but sit there the
whole day, in sight of the dog. At last, orders were given
that she should be no longer molested, but suffered to
accompany it as she liked ; being thus left to herself, she
ran about the yard with him all the night ; and what is
par,
ti itilarlv extraordinary, and can be attested by the
•
whole parish, whenever the dog went out of the yard and
ran into the village, the goose always accompanied him,
contriving to keep up with him by the assistance of her
wings ; and in this way of running and flying, followed
him all over the parish. This extraordinary affection of
the goose towards the dog, which continued to his death,
two years after it was first observed,llis suppdosheedrtforohianvea
originated from his having accidentally,shailvee
fox in the very moment of distress. IA • the dog was
ill, the goose never quitted him day or night, not even to
feed ; and it was apprehended she would have been starved
to death, had not orders been given for a pan of corn to
be set every day close to the kennel. At this time the
goose generally sat in the kennel, and would not suffer
any one to approach it, except the person who brought
the dog's or her own food. The end of this faithful bird
was melancholy ; for when the dog died she would still
keep possession of the kennel; and a new house-dog
being introduced, which in size and colour resembled
that lately lost, the poor goose was unhappily deceived,
and going into the kennel as usual, the new inhabitant
seized her by the throat, and kiUed her."

CUSTOMS ORDERS.—By a Board's Minute on the Bth
instant, Workington, in the port of Whitehaven, has
been approved for the bonding of all foreign goods. By a
Board's Minute of the Sth instant, work boxes, tables,
&c., of lacquered ware, and fitted up with other materials,
in future to be charged the duty of 15 per cent. only, un-
less the fittings or materials belonging thereto (not being
japanned or lacquered ware) should exceed the value of
the urticle as a work box, worktable, &c., with ,ut Quch
fittings or materials, in which case the duty of 20 per cent.
ad valorem, to be charged upon the whole, as goods ma-
nufactured and not otherwise rated. By a Board's Minute
of the 13th instant, officers are directed not to act upon
any request for the shipment of goods, duty free, as
stores, until the usual bond shall have been first given.
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MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WlFE.—(in Mon-
day, the 18th instant, the neighbourhood of Dilton's
Marsh, Westbury, Wilts, was the scene of much excite-
ment, occasioned by a report that Robert Cuzner, a
weaver, who resided there, had been killed by his wife.
On the evening abovetnentioned a dispute had arisen
between them, and he was shut out of the house by his
wife. He afterwards pressed in, and on his entering, the
door was closed. Soon after the neighbours heard a
noise, as if they were struggling and pushing each other
about their room. The wife admits that she pushed him
down, though she declares she had no intention of taking
away his life. After a patient investigation, the magis-
trates came to the decision of committing the wife to the
New Prison, Devizes, to take her trial at the next assizes
for manslaughter. It is remarkable that Edward Cuzner,
brother of the deceased, died about two hours after the
above unfortunate occurrence, his death having, it is
believed, been accelerated by excitement, arising from
the intelligence having been suddenly communicated to
him.

ATTENDANCE OF THE LANCASHIRE MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN THE SESSION OF 1843.—
The total number of divi,ions, in the House of Commons
during the sev,ion of 1843, was 220. in which there voted
—l. Joseph Brotherton, Salford, 191 ; 2, Dr. Bowring,
Bolton, 153 ; 3, Lord Stanley, North Lancashire, 129 ;
4, William Sharman Crawford, Rochdale, 120 ; 5, Thomas
Greene, Lancaster, 102; 6, Charles Hindley, Ashton, 92 ;
7, Sir Howard Douglas, Liverpool, 88 ; 8, John Wilson
Patten. North Lancashire, 82 ; 9, J. Ireland Blackburne,
Warrington, 75 ; 10, Viscount Sandon, Liverpool, 69 ;
11, John Fielden, Oldham, 61 ; 12, John Hornby, Black-
burn, 61 ; 13, Peter Greenall, Wigan, 60; 14, Sir Thomas
Milner Gibson, Manchester, 56; 15, Sir George Strick-
land, Preston, 53; 16, Hon. Richard Bootle Wilbraham,
South Lancashire, 50; 17, Edward Cardwell, Clitheroe,
47 ; 18, William Fielden, Blackburn, 47 ; 19, Peter
Ainsworth, Bolton, 34 ; 20, General Johnson,TOrkldphahmil.,
32; 21, George Marton, Lancaster, 31 ; 22,
Na
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lips,P r e tNio na, nle9h ;e 527, R29i a2r3d SirW "a IPeterker,
Francis Egerton, South Lancashire, 9 ; 26, Charles
Standish, Wigan, 9.