The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-19 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Turner, Liverpool, ironmonger, April 27, May 28, at 1
o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool : solicitor, Mr. Vincent,
King's Bench-walk, Temple.
Robert Harris, Cannon-street, St. George's-i n-the-East, and Leman.
street, Goodman's-fields, bread and biscuit-baker.
Robert Whiteside, Pilling, Lancashire, miller.
James Ebenezer Chapman, Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire,
farmer.

William Tills, jun., Stutton, Suffolk, miller.
Henry Davenport, Kingston-upon-Hull, grocer.
Hobert Brown, Alattishal, Norfolk, general-shopkeeper.
William Johnson, Leamington-Priors, Warwick-shire, builder.
John Lowe, Leamington-Priors, Warwickshire, victualler.

DIVIDENDS.
May 10, W. Grant, Jermyn-street, Westminster, chair-maker. ~
May 8, T. Weaver, South-street, Spittal-fields, cheesempnger.—May
8, A.. H. Ayckhown, Wendover. Buckinghamshire, surge.on.—May 8..
D.F.Tayler, Mansfield-strt•et, Borough-road, Surrey en,gmeer.—May
9, J. Saunders, Corbets-tay, Essex, schoolmaster.—May 8, J.Boucaut.
Albany-road, Camberwell, merchant.—May 7, J. It. Birnie, Basing-
stoke, Hampshire, and Frirnley,.Surrey, wharfinger.—May.7, C. Saxe.
Conduit-street, Hanover-square, tailor.—May 7, T. and S. St:trey
Croydon, Surrey, bleachers.—May 10, W. !rule and It. Eastham,
Lee-mill, Lancashire, woollen-manufacturers.—May 14, W. Arm-
strong, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, timber-merchant.—May 13, J. Andrev
Stoney Stratford, Buckinghamshire, innkeeper.—May 8. T. Stroh,
Manchester, cotton-dealer.—May 8, J. Wright, jun., Nottingham,
jeweller.—June 11, J. Evans, Haverfordshire, baker.—May 14, 3.
Anderson and J. Perry, Worcester, painters.-,M,1: 15, C. Cole and
J. Geridall, Exeter, carvers.—May 9, E. L6es, Manchester, bread-
baker.—May 8, T. Ja.kSon, Hunterhow; Cumberland, miller.—May
11, T. Chandler, ,Bristol, coach-maker.---May 21, G. B. Smith, Brk.,
tol, corn-factor.

ii)octr,y,
Trig DYLIQ REQUEScr OF A, HINDU GIRL.

(ins= Biackwood's Jiagazine.)

Kzar, dear friends, when I am dead,
And green moss above my head,
Cherish with your tender care
My fond birds and blossoms fair,
Mother, father, sisters three,
Cherish them for loge of. me.

Anla, for my spotted fawn,
Gather leaves at early dawn :
AnaSuya, in thy brehst,
1.41 my playful lorLe rent.
Rtly round my, lonely- bower,
Train yon Camalata flower.

3iom, to (by care I leave.
It that shed their sweets at eve.
And all timid birds that tune
Melodies beneath the moon.
Thou, sweet sister, art, like them,
Born the pensive shades- to gem.

Keep, my friends, when I'm no more,
In your hearts the looks I wore ;
bet my memory haunt these bowers,
Shrined in birds and fragrant flowers,
Mother, sister% sire, to you
Acura breathes a last adieu.

VAIIXETIES.

Tun RETORT UNCOURTEOES.—At the last Houghton meet-
ing, a puppy, who pride ttiniAelf on his knowledge of coats and
niuning horses, saw his old tutor, Dr. H—, approaching.
" Ah, Doctor!" cried lie, "How d'yc do? What brings, you
near a course, eh ? Do vou think, now, you can distin-
guish a horse from a donkey, ell?" "Sir," replied the offended
classic, "I perceived you among all the horses."—Gentleman's
Magazine of Fashion.

When James, the seventh Earl of Derby, held for his sove-
reign, King Charles, the Isle of Man, Oliver Cromwell sent
him a letter, offering him his own terms ii he would deliver him
up the island: to which the Earl delivered the. following spirited
answer:—" I received your letter with indignation, and with
scorn I return you, this answer—that L cannot buti wonder
whence you should gather any hopes from me, that I should
(like you) prove treacherous to my sovereign; since you can-
not be insensible 'of my former actings in his late. Majesty's
service; from which principles of loyalty I am no way departed.
—I scorn your proffers; I disdain your favours; I abhor your
treasons; and ant so for from deliveriug this island to your ad-
vantage, that I wilL keep it to the utmost of my power to your
destruction.—Take this final answer, and. forbear any further
solicitations; for. if you trouble me with any more messages on
this occasion, I will burn the paper and hang the bearer.—This
is the iinninfable resolution, aud shall be the. undoubted practice
of him, who accounts it the chiekst glory. to be,
". His Majesty's. most loyal
"and obedient subject,
Castle Taunt, 12th July, 1649. " DERBY."

NAuscorza.—The Monthly Magazine contains a eurious.pa-
per on the art of discoVering the approach of vessels frOm laud
when one hUndred leagues distant f The inventor of this ex
traorcLinary facility is said to have been aM. Bottineau. From
17d8 to 1752, dttring *bleb he resided in the Isle of France, ',lie
had announced, the arrival of 575_ vessels, many of their four
daps before
they Were visible from the shore. 'l'o this fart, in-
credible as. it may appear, a great number of naval and military
officers are said to have borne testimony. M. Bottineati was
trea.i,ed a's a Visitinary or an impostor in Prance, and died some
years. ago without reaping any benefit from his discovery. The
:11onthty has kublished several of his certificates, bearing the
uaine.s.of well-known men of science, and other marks of their
authenticity. The most startling part of the business is, that
M. Bottineau preferred to make his observations with his naked
eye rather titan with a telescope.

Persons tried upon insufficient evidence and. acquitted, can
never be tried again for the same offence, however strong the new
and subsequent facts may be which may have been discovered.
Not so with persons discharged by.magistrates for want of evi•
deuce, who may be again and again apprehended till the facts
are brought home to them. This state of the law renders it ex-
tremely desirable, especially in cases of great magnitude and in-
terest, that persons should not be committed on insufficient evi-
dence, which, of necessity, amounts to an absolute acquittal.
NoVEL RECOMMEISDATION.—One day, when the late Lord
Chancellor Thurlow was busily engaged, a poor curate applied
to-him for a living which was then vacant. "Don't trouble
me," said the Chancellor, turning from him with his frowning
brow, "don't you see I am busy, and can't- listen to you?—
What Duke or Lord recommended you ?" The poor curate
lifted his head, and said, " He had no Lord to recommend him
but ' the Lord of Hosts.' " " The Lord of Hosts," replied the
Chancellor, " the Lord of Hosts ! I- believe I have had recom-
mendations from most Lords, but do not recollect one from him
before; and so, do you hear, young man, you shall. have the
living; and be careful to conduct yourself so as not to disgrace
yolk!. recommendation."
A STRANGE singular circumstance is. recorded
as-having happened in the early part of this King,s reign, or in
the, latter years .of his father's. Bome fishermen of Orford
ca,uglit in their nets what the chroniclers Call a fish, but which
they describe as "resembling' iii shape a wild or sai'pge man:
he was naked, and in all hiS limbs and members resembling the
right proportion of a man ; he had hairs also on the usual
rarts of his body, albeit that the crown of his head was bald,
his beard was long and rugged, and his breast hairy." The
fishermen presented him to Sir Bartholomew de Glanville, who
had then the keeping of Orford Castle. When meat was set
before him be greedily devoured it; and he ate fish, whether
rawor boiled, only pressing in his hands those that were raw,
till he had squeezed out the moisture. "He Would get him to
his couch at the setting of the sun, and rise again at the rising
of the same.* He would not, or could not, utter any speech;
although', to try him, they hung him up by the heels, and miser-
ably tormentedhim." ilia althr usage must have been exceed-
ingly 'kind, and he must have been of a forgiving temper not to
resent this cruelty ; for it seems that be was welt reconciled to
living ashore. One day they took him to the haven, and; en-
closing a part of it with,thcir strong, nets, to prevent, as they
thought, his escape; they let him take the water for his diver-
sion. He presently div_ed under the, nets, rose beyond them,
sported about as if mocking at his keepers, and then, of his own
accord, returned- to them., and:remained their guest about two
months longer; then, being weary or a land life, he took an
-opportunity of stealing-to- sea. Strange as-this story. is, and in-
credible.as it will be deemed by most readers, it is inserted
here, because there is complete evidence that a similar circum-
stance occurred in the latter part of the seventeenth century,
on the coast of Spain, with this remarkable difference, that the
man who had there chosen an aquatic life was recognised, and
the history of his disappearance known at the place where he
was supposed to have eeendrowned in bathing : he was carried
back to his mother's house, remained there nine years, and
then took up again to the water.—Lardner's CgClopedia.

MELaLE. SANDIE GORDON AND WEE SANDIE GORDON--
In the days of the Stuarts, the chief of the name of Gordon, a
good soldier and a steady Catho.ic, resided chiefly abroad, lacy-
niz his Scottish lands to the, care of two stewards of his own
c:au, distinguishedamong the peasantry by .the names of Mei-
kie-SandiOGOrdon and Wee Sandie Gordon. It happened that
one Ramsay rented a small farm on the Gordon estate; and,
though the land.was stony, and rank with broom and thistles,
it was his own birth-place, and, that. of- his ancestors; so he
Nyjsbed,the lease. renewed. The two stewards hadotber views;
thtioly refused to renew the lease, and the old farmer was about.
to emigrate, when his Grace of Gordon came, unexpectedly
from abroad: He asked for.aud,obtained an audience. He, told
his story, tradition says, in, a way so characteristic and graphic,
that the noble landlord was highly' Id renewed the
lease with his own, hand, and invited him to dinner. The good
wine added,to the farmer's joy; he told ideasant stories, said
many cliy..and.humouronA: things, and his. Grace was. sct much
entertained, that he took ltainsay,--a stiff Piesbyteriun:—througli
his house. nom the picture-gallery tiny went into the chapel,
orifatnented with silver images of .the saints andipostles. The
old;inan_looked qn thein with wonder,. and said—L" 1c ho may
thse,gtaitleinen be, and what mav,your,Urace do with them?"
These," said his Grace, " are..ifie.saints-to whoin we. address
our prayers, when we wish God, to bo merciful and kind; they
are oar patron saints awl heavenly intercessors," "I'd test
ve saVs.the ivith the light of a wicked laugh
in liis eve, " 4
end• have, we, if I would trust thein: when I
wanteeinv lease renewed; I went; to. Meikle.Sandic .Gordou
and .Wee.-Sanklie GoKdon, and,all,Lgot, was caunie words, till
I made bold, and ,spke to your. Grace. Sae drop Saint An-
drfw, my,lord. and address his betteri." llis Grace soon after
becarne..a'l",rpte,staiat; and tradition, attributes his.conversion to
tho,,storY of Meikle .Sandie. Gordon. and WeeSatidie.GOrdon ;.
a story that for, a. cciitag,all4.l:96ge.. bo4,been,pppular,in Scot-,
land.