The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

VARIETIES

VALET.—BoreI, in his glossary, says that the term valet
was anciently applied to the Ring's eldest son; and hence the
valet or knave follows the King and Queen in a pack of
cards.

SPREADING AND RAKING.—A Quaker, living in a neigh-
bouring town, having a son, took him to task one morning
respecting his extravagant conduct. " John," said he,
looking him in the face seriously, " I'm afraid thou art
getting a rake." " Nay, father, thou art wrong," replied
the youth, as dry and as unconcerned as could be, " I'ts thee
ats t'rake, an I m a spreading it for thee."
DISTRESS OP THE COUNTRY.—Several alarming instances
of the prevailing distress have reached us. Mr. Roebuck
was the other day exceedingly distressed, when the St.
James's-park keeper stopped him with a parcel of books, and
mistook him for the light porter. Mr. Muntz declared that
he felt uncommonly distressed—at finding three grey hairs in
his whiskers.—Punch.

" A DISCERNING PUBLIC."—Never was there a greater
farce than to talk of the public thus :—The pubiic is a most
unjust, illiberal, led-by-the-nose booby • a foolish goose,
without discernment, without sense, without honesty, with-
out any quality—a proof of which may be found in their
support of that great lubberly, ill conducted, villanous print,
the Kentucky .Tfercury: while this paper, managed with so
much taste and discretion, is left to perish for lack of patron-.
age! " A discerning public," forsooth ? The public is
little better than a long-ear'd donkey !—Kentucky Warder.
[This is plain speaking enough.]

Three Israelites have been returned as Deputies to the
French Chamber, namely, Crimieux, Cerfbeef, and Achille
Fould.— The Voice of Jacob.

He who thinks closest will speak freest. A deep thought
will have a full utterance; it will not be clogged by the forth
of speech, or hushed by the frowns of a man.

The Times learns, " fro.m. an authentic quarter," that the
of great niagn:
many reports respecting visits to be paid
is
the Queen during
the autumn are inaccurate ; and t.hat it is only known that
her Majesty will visit the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley
where preparations are making on a scale
cence.

Lord Ripon, in the course of a conversation with a deputa-
tion from the shopkeepers of Manchester, satd, emphatically
"If I thought the Corn-laws were the cause of the distress.
God knows I would give up my share of them to-morrow."
THROWING STONES AT LORD
RI
SANDON.—JaCS Wyatt,
a carp enter out o f work, was, on Thursday, charged, at the
Queen-square Police office, with having
thrown a stone at
Lorrd Sandon, as that nobleman was leaving his house on
Wednesday evening. The magistrate considered him insane,
and committed him for three months, at the end of which
time he was to be put under restraint.

Four hundred of the inhabitants of the long Island of
Harris, which constitutes a middle link in the Great Chain
of the Hebrides, have just emigrated to North America.
tin
MOB APPLAUSE.—SsmueI Bamford, in his interesting
and graphic Passages in the Life of a Radical, riwi, s trial at
of publication, states, that after having °
York, and worthily represented and defended
classes of Lancashire, he was allowed to leave .
judgment of
foot, for London, to surrender to receive
of Middle-
the Court of King's Bench, with butone shilling
given
moralises on this
tvoe l V the
(I d le workingt
o i,. o n
ton money in his pocket, and that
us
keeper named John Ogden.
He
e of mob admiration
striking lesson on the fleeting characteruzzang,
i and the empty
—l' So much for the shouting,gh to him by a shop_
aspirant to public Onto-
applause of multitudes. A J'°11:1 a little tickled witn the
riety may be ifexcusedk f.he
orator courting such accla
designing person. I have no pa_
shouts of adulation ;
with the fools who offer
hollow trumpery
Inawilocenese, v elrselt himsee ad
down Ya-sh ebaet
a very shallow, or
tie n c e with
I.,aaepneeogrnioive rirnseogu:vil
ghohontaccept it."
it, or the questionable ND popEar.—The Lancaster Gazelle
biyo for
he someicp i timesiil)
riest against
MR. EAsTwooa A
concludes an article on the subject of an
.
thatthe
proprietor of that
for the insertion of a number of letters from
an!.
tiSoant Saturday thushab
neighbourhoo,d,efieutiog on the conduct and interference
the matter of certain wills by members
tnorning last we were
Mr. Eastwood, .
of their K On Wednesday
lia subpoena to appear before the grand .ur for
served with of giving evidence of the authorshi ) fyM
the Purp
Fastwoo made°n -In accord p o 1 r.
ance therewith, we attended
-, d the necessary depositions, upon which, it will
of those priests in„
duly an the jury have r eturned a true bill,
preferred by
be seen,
Priest Sherburne against Mr. Eastwood, for the publication
of the matters which laid the foundation of his action
against ourselves. Mr. Eastwood, of course, traverses to
next assizes, and thus the thing stands at the present writing.
Before closing, we must afford ourselves the pleasure of
reiterating the admiration we last week expressed of the
undaunted spirit displayed by Mr. Eastwood, under the
trying circumstances of his very peculiar case.