The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-29 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

Dec. 3, J. Macnamara, London, merchant—Dec. 19, A. 11. Ayck-
howm, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, surgeon.—Dec. 19, T. Surflen,
Abehureb-lane, merchant.—Dec. 19, G. Williams, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden, boarding-house-keeper.—Dec. 18, B. Guminow and
E. Edmunds, Duke-street, Portland-place, furnishin ironmongers.—
Dec. 20, L. Wood. Willow Dairy, Tabernacle-walk, cowkeeper.—
Dec. 20, J. Langridge, Salisbury, stay-maker.—Dec. 21, A. M. Grei",
Great St. llelens,. Bishopsgate-street, wine-merchant.—Dec. 17, G.
Stovell and R. 11. Maddox, Lower Grosvenor-street, Hanover-square,
upholsterers.—Dec. 23, W. Marsh, J. H. Stracey, and G. E. Graham,
Berners-street, bankers.—Dec. 17, S. Samsom, Stock Exchange,
broker.—Dec. 17, It. Elden, Newgate-street, tailor.—Dec. 18, J.
Furhank, Cambridge, grocer.—Dec. 18, J. Vize, Crawford-street,
Bryanston-square, stationer.—Dec. 17, W. Church, Mark-lane, wine-
merchant.—December 17, J. Whitehead and C. Whitechurch, Lad-
lane, warehousemen.—Dec. 17, T. Robinson and S.S. Robinson, Free-
man's-court, Cornhill, merchants.—Dec. 19, D. M'Carthy, Shadwell,
coal-merchant.—Dec. 17, J. Morland, Broad-street, Ratcliff-cross,
corn-dealer.—Dee. 19, J. Slater and W. Slater, Strand, wax-chandlers.
—Dec. 19, W. P. Litt, J. J. Harrison, and W. Harrison, Lime-street,
in-rehants.—Dee. 20, H. Gibson and A. Greaves,
within Accriniton, Lancashire, calico-printers.—Dec. 18, J.Hellewell,
Wadsworth, Yorkst,ire, worsted-manufacturer.—Dee. 17, J. Norris,
Uttoxeter, Stdffordsbire, draper.—Dee. 19, J. Warburton, Hardwick-
mill, Herefordshire, miller.—Dec. 19, It. K. Snape, Manchester, vic-
tualler.—Dec. 21, J. Hallworth, Manchester, grocer.—Dec. 18, A.Tur-
ner, Halifax, carpet-manufacturer..—Dec. 18, W. Sell, St. Martin's-
lane, book,eller.

CERTIFICATES, DRC. 17.
C. Waud, New Bond-street, conf,4:tioner.—J. Atkinson, Leeds,
dyer.—J. Harrison, Birmingham, auctioneer.—J. T. Lomas and F.
Cook, Dover-street, Piccadilly, tailors.—W. Keith, Manchester,
merchant.

Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Douglas, Colonel of the
58th, and formerly. Lieutenant-Colonel of the 52d Regiment,
died at his house in Holles-street, on Friday last. He was
appointed Colonel iu March 1828.

ENORMOUS ON loNs.—Nine Tripoli onions were gathered the
other day from a bed sown by the
.gardener of Mr. Bolton, of
Wathington, near Stockport, weighing 191 b. 7oz.
As ALCHYMIST.—A man, named Jean Claude Chabert,
recently died at Caluire, in France, at the age of more than
one hundred and one, having been born on July 23, 1732. He
desired that the skeleton of his son, which he had kept in a gar-
ret, should be buried with him. From books, and various objects
found in his apartment, he seems to have been a searcher for
the philosopher's.stone. The performance of the burial service
was refused him by the clergy of the place.
In connection with the great object of securing the means of
learned leisUre to those who can improve it to the best uses of
the church, another scarcely less important might be obtained.
In some instances, it might be, practicable, and expedient, to
append to the chapter (I am confident it might be most usefully
done at Exeter) an institution in the nature of a school of theo-
;legy, at which candidates for orders might be required to reside
during one or two years after they have left the university, and
immediately before their ordination; thus acquiring the know-
ledge necessary for their holy vocation, and giving testimony
of their fitness for it by their previous conduct, under the im-
mediate eye of the Bishop, or of those who are best able to judge,
and to report of it to him.—Charge of the Bishop If Eseter.
_MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.—MarriecI, in this town, on the
10th instant, Mr. John Clarke, of Shamble-street, to Mrs.
Margaret O'Rorke. The bridegroom is in his Wth year, and
the bride in her 89th. After tie ceremony the youthfid pair
and their friends partook of a splendid dejeuner at the Royal
Oak, and the happy couple set off immediately for Annah, to
spend the honey moon among its delightful scenery.—Maye
Constitution.

Upon the 18th instant, Sir William Sibbald, of Rankeillor
Sibbald, Bart., was, before the sheriff of Edinburgh and a most
respectable jury, served heir male in special to Sir James Sib-
bald, Baronet, his great-great-great-great-grandfather in the
lands and barony of Rankeillor Sibbald, in Nova Scotia—who
was by royal charter, dated at llolyrood House, the 21th July,
1630, created a Nova Scotia baronet,.&c.—Edin. Evening Post.
We regret to announce the demise of the Right. Hon. Lady
Mary Lindsay Crawford, of Crawford and Kilbirnie. Her
ladyship died at the Priory, near, Cupar, on Thursday morning.
Lady Mary was the last direct, representative of one of the most
ancient noble families in Scotland.—Edinburgh Paper.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Tuesday, the 19th instant, a young
couple, on their " marriage jaunt" from the south, arrived at
the Fad Hotel, Newcastle. After refreshing themselves the
happy pair retired to rest at an early hour. In their hurry,
however, they unfortunately left the candle burning on the toilet,
which, being near to the windows, the curtains took fire, and
from thence it spread to an empty bed, the furniture of which
was instantly destroyed. The flame next caught the bed in
which the happy couple lay as yet insensible of their perilous
situation ; nor were they awakened from their slumbers till the
mattress, the pillows, and the curtains were in flames about
them. The gentleman, who was rather severely burnt, gave
the alarm In an instant Mr. A. Brown, brother to the land-
lord, and some commercial travellers, rushed into the room,
rescued the lady, threw the burning furniture out of the win-
dows, and ultimately succeeded in extinguishing a fire which,
had it continued a few minutes longer, would, in all probability,
have baffled their efforts.—Sunderland Herald.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—We have before us the draft of
a bill, intended to be brought under the consideration of Par-
liament in the forthcoming session, and which, if passed into
a law, will make it imperative that " every kind of corn, grain,
pulse, seed, meal, and flour, shall be sold by weight throughout
the United Kingdom, and the weight so employed shall be the
lb. avoirdupois, or any multiple of a lb. avoirdupois, ascertained
and established by a certain act passed in the sth year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled,
' An act for ascertaining and establishing uniformity of weights
and measures.' " The draft of the bill also contains provisions
that corn returns are to be made of the weight or nominal
bushel; a memorandum is to be given with the sale of all corn
exceeding a certain weight, to be decided upon in committee,
and inspectors may call for the production of such memoran-
dum, which must be produced under a penalty; inquisitions
may be held by magistrates at quarter sessions, for ascertain-
ing rents payable in grain or malt, &c. in England, under the
oaths Of twelve substantial freeholders, and the sheriff-depute
of each county may summon juries for the same object in Scot-
land. Such is the brief outline of the leading provisions of the
draft of this important bill, upon which at present we offer no
decisive opinion, although we are inclined to think that the
uniform custom of selling ail agricultpral produce by weigh t
would be highly satisfactory. We invite the opinions of our
agricultural friends on this subject.
The Right Honourable John Foster, afterwards Lord Orie 1
married Margaret Viscountess Ferrard and Baroness Orie 1
At his death he was succeeded by his sun Viscount Ferrard, &c
who had succeeded to the honours of his mother, and had mar-
ried the Viscountess Massarene and Baroness Loughneagh.
Thus his lordship's son, who will become of age on the 30th
li instant, and who has succeeded by the death of- his mother to
the Viscounty of Massarene, is heir to the Irish baronies of
Ferrard and Loughneagh, and to the English barony of Oriel—
in all four peerages.
POLITICAL DESIGNATIONS.—We thought the three descrip-
tions of Whig. Tory, and Radical comprised all the politica
sects and parties of the day in this country. 'We have been
amused and surprised, however, by an analytical list of the new
Council of the burgh of Paisley, given by the Glasgow Free Press.
According to this list the Paisley Council contains a Radical, a
double-pledged Radical, an astute Radical, a rational Radical,
a Whiggish Radical; a Whig, a pledging Whig, a Toryish
Whig, an economising Whig; a reforming Tory, a soi-disant
Tory, and a "No politician." Not content with this minute
survey, the ruthless investigator next scrutinises their religious
pretensions. Sixteen of the Council are voluntary Churchmen ;
one is represented as a " keen Churchman another is a
"pliant Churchman ;" another " easy ditto ;" another " clever
ditto ;" one is a " stern Dissenter ;" and another is an " old
Dissenter !" Verily, the Town Council of Paisley has obtained,
what Falstaff and many others desiderated, a commodity of
good names I—lnverness Courier.

THE -113TJW/C OF Nzwcaslrriz.---llis grace, accompanied by
his family, on arriving. at Welsh Pool, from Ilayfod, on his
way to Ciumber, was met by a deputation of gentlemen resid-
ing in that neighbourhood, headed by Captain Gildy, who de-
livered a congratulatory address on his grace's visit to his new
estate. lie expressed the pleasure which the Conservatives :of
Montgomeryshire felt in having so distinguished and amiable a
nobleman among the landed proprietors of their county. This
unexpected compliment was acknowledged by the Duke of
Newcastle in an appropriate and feeling address, and the car-
riage moved on amidst the joyous acclamations of the people
assembled.--DerLyshire Courier.

CHM. CON. IN THE lIEFTAKCHY.—Under our Saxon ances-
tors, by the laws of Kent, when a peccadillo took place which
in modern times brings the parties into the Ecclesiastical Court,
the gentleman became " the property" of the King, and the
lady of the Archbishop. Every widow making_a faux pas paid,
by the same token, " twenty shillings to the King"--a mighty
pretty addition to the civil list.
ANECDOTE OF FoovE.—Samuel Foote, in his dav, was deno-
minated the modern Aristophanes, and nerformed in his own
dramatic pieces the principal parts, which was always a carica-
ture of some notoriously singular character of the day, or an
exposure of his follies, eccentricities, or vices, in consequence
of which few of his farces are now performed, as none of the
parties ridiculed any longer exist. His illayor of Gairett, how-
ever, has been revived, and has always been a favourite farce,
because there are always Major Sturgeons and Jerry Sneaks to
whom it might apply. Foote was so prone to waggery and
ridicule that he neither spared friend nor foe, and wouldat all
times forfeit any one's friendship sooner than lose a joke, re-
gardless of the pain that he inflicted on his victim, as the fol-
lowing anecdote will testify. The house which was his favourite
residence may still be seen at Fulham, where he played many
freaks. After it was built he used to declaim largely on its
comforts, the taste with which the grounds were laid out, con-
sisting merely of a garden planted with shrubs, with a small
pond in the centre. He descanted on these with rapture, and on
the rural scene, and the great beauty it derived from the wood
and water embraced in the view. Ile was in the habit of in.•
viting parties to dinner, to see his grounds and improvements,
and among others, on one occasion, were Garrick, the elder
Colman, Steevens, and Malone, the commentators nu Shak-
speare, Baron Perrin, and one or two others. The Baron
being found of angling, he invited him to breakfast, that lie
might indulge in his favourite sport of fishing in the lake. The
Baron was punctual, and on his arrival placed himself in a
chair,provided with his rod, tackle, and bait, near the margin
of the pond. About dinner-time the other part of the com-
pany.arrived. Foote took them into the garden to view his
iiiagnificent grounds, and approaching, the angler, asked him
" What luck ?"—The Baron replied " Very little indeed.%
" What !" said Foote, " not a bite ?" "No," quoth the Baron,
" not so much as a nibble." " Egad, I thought so," con-
tinued his 'host, " for I only let the water into the pond this
morning."

Empero,
EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4rc.

John Stamp, Young, fm Bombay, with 1327 bls cotton, 306 bgs
pepper, 11 chts gum arabic, 237 bgs ginger, abt 15 t buffalo horns, I
bx musk, J Bibby and co-1 chst cardamoms, 58 chts bees' wax, 688
his cotton, 120 chts gum arabic, 65 chts gum olibanum, 2 chts gum
myrrh, 75 bgs ginger, Order-131 bgs ginger, Earle and co-19 bls
cotton, T Stokes-25 ehts gum arabic, 374 bgs ginger, Dirom, Rich-
mond and co-315 bgs rice, Ibx jewellery, Acraman and Stitt-4 jars
preserves and pickles, J 11'Gregor-1 small book paintings, 2 small
bxs dressing tables, J Young—River