The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

terday's prices.

GlPsins.—One of the most remarkable features in the
history of the gipsies is the striking similarity of their pur-
suits in every region of the globe to which they have pene-
trated. They are not merely alike in limb and in feature, in
the cast and expression of the eye, in the colour of the hair,
in their walk and gait, but everywhere they seem to exhibit
the same tendencies, and to hunt for their bread by the same
means, as if they were not of the human, but of the animal
species, and in lieu of reason were endowed with a kind of
instinct which assists them to a very limited extent and no
further. In no part of the world are they found engaged in
the cultivation of the earth or in the service of a regular
master; but in all lands they arc jockeys, or thieves, or
cheats ; and if ever they devote themselves to any toil or
trade, it is assuredly in every material point one and the
same. We have found them in the heart 6f a wild mountain,
hammering iron, and manufacturing from it instruments
either for their own use or that of the neighbouring towns
and villages. They may be seen employed in a similar man-
ner in the plains of Russia, or in the bosom of its eternal
forests ; and whoever inspects the site where a horde of gip-
sies have encamped in the grassy lanes beneath the hazel
i
hushes of merry England, s generally sure to find relics of
tin and other metal, avouching that they there have been
exercising the arts of t
the tinker or the smith. Perhaps no-
thing speaks more forcibly for
.the antiquity of this set or
caste than the tenacity with which they have uniformly pre-
served their peculiar customs since the period of their be-
coming generally known ; for, unless their habits had become
a part of their nature, which could only have been effected
by a strict devotion to them through a long succession of
gaierations, it is not to be supposed that, after their arrival
in civilised Europe, they could have sustained and cherished
them, precisely in the same manner, in the various countries
where they have found an asylum.—Borrad's Gipsies.
ENGLISH SURNAMES, SX.--Sirnarne differed originally
from Surname. Mac-Allan,v Fitz-Harding,.Ap Tudor, and
Stephenson, are properly Sir-, or Sire-names, and are equi-
valent to the son of Allan, of Harding, of Tudor, of Stephen.
Of Surnames, Du Cange says, they were at first written
"not in direct line after the Christian name, but above
it, between the lines ;'' and hence they were called in latin
Supranomina, in Italian Supranotne, and in French Sur-
noms, from which, I suppose, the English terms is derived.
A Sur-name is, therefore, a name superadded to the first or
Christian name, to indicate to which the individual bearing
it belongs, as Edmund Spencer, John Milton, Alexander
Pope. Hence it is evident that, although every sirname
is a surname, every surname is not a sirname ; a distinction
which is now scarcely recognised, and the two words are used
indiscriminately by our best writers. The termination ward
indicates some office, and is equivalent to keeper or custos—
thus Milward is the keeper of a mill (probably some manorial
or monastic mill;) Kenward, the dog-keeper ; Aylward, the
ale-keeper ; Durward, the porter or door-keeper ; Hayward,
the keeper of a common herd of cattle belonging to some
town ; and Woodward, a forest-keeper, " an officer that
walks with a forest-bill, and takes cognizance of all offences
committed, at the neat swain-mote or court of attachments."
Howard certainly belongs to this family of names, but anti-
quaries are not agreed as to the meaning of the first syllable.
Camden makes it the high-warden; Spellman, the hall-
keeper ; Verstegan, the keepvr of a stronghold ; and Skinner,
a keeper of hospitality- The family of Oakes bear acorns,
(very natural that they should !)-the Butlers, of Ireland, bear
three covered cups, (very proper again !) the Lambs, three
lambs; the Bacons, a boar; the Pines, a fir-tree or pine; the
Parkers, a slag's head; the Calls, three trumpets; and the
Fsatherstones, three feathers. Sometimes the crest cants
when the arms do not; this is the case in the family of
Beevor, a beaver; Ashburnham, ash-tree, &c., &c.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON TIIE IST OP SEPTEMBER, 1842.

(From the United Service Journal.)
[Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which
the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.]
Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 40th Foot—Bombay; Chatham
2d Ditto—Windsor 41st—Madras; Chatham
Royal H. Guards—Regent's Park 420—Cephalonia ; Stirling
Ist Dragn Gds.—Canada; York 43d—Canada; Enniskillen
1 2nd—Nottingham 44th—Bengal; Chatham
3d—Birmingham 45th—Dublin
4th—Dublin 46th—Barbadoes ; Templemorc
sth—Dublin 47th—Berbice ; Castlebar
6th—Glasgow 48th—Gibraltar; Guernsey
1 7th—Cahir 49th—China; Chatham
Ist Dragoons—Manchester 50th—Bengal; Chatham
' 2d—Exeter 51st—N. South Wales; Chatham
3d—Bengal ; Maidstone 52d—New Brunswick ; Athlone
4th—Canterbury 53d—Edinburgh
6th—Piershill 54th—Belfast
7th Hussars—Canada, York 55th—China; Chatham
Rh—Hounslow 56th—Cork
9th Lancers—Bengal; Maidst. 57th—Madras; Chatham
loth Hussars—Ballincollig 58th—Manchester
11th Light Dragoons, York 59th—Trinidad ; Jersey
12th Lancers—Dublin 60th(lst battalon.)— Manchester
13th Light Dragoons—lpswich (ad batt.)_ Jamaica ; Dublin
14th—Bombay; Maidstone 61st—Newcastle-on-Tyne
15th Hussars—Madras; M'stone 62d—Bengal ; Chatham
16th Lancers—Bengal; M'stone 63d—Madras ; Chatham
17th Lancers—Leeds 64th—America;
Nenagh
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 65th—Winchester
Portman-street Bucks 66th—Glasgow
(2d batt.)—Canada 67th—Ca11ada ; Youghall
(3d batt.)—Manchester 68th—Canada; Chester
Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 69th—Ncw Brunswick ; Fermoy.
St. John's Wood. 70th—Canada; Waterford
Scotch Fusileer Grds—(lst batt) 71st—Canada; Isle of Wight
St. George's Barracks 72d—Blackburn
(ad batt.)—Tower 73d—Leeds
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 74th—Canada; Cashel
(2d batt.)—Canada; Charles F. 75th—C. of G. Hope; Chatham
2d Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 76th—Halifax , Newry
3d—Bengal ; Chatham 77th—Corfu , Sheerness
4th—Madras; Chatham 78th—Bombay; Chatham
70,--Gibraltar ; Aberdeen
sth—Gibraltar ; Kilkenny
6th—Gosport Both—N• S. Wales; Chatham
7th—Gibraltar; Dover 81st—Antigua; Athlone
Bth—Dublin 82d—Jamaica; Boyle
83d—Canada ; Armagh
9th—Bengal ; Chatham
84th—Madras ; Chatham
10th—Bengal ; Chatham
85th—Canada ; Limerick
lith—Newport
86th—Bombay ; Chatham
12th—Mauritius; Weedon
87th—Mauritius; Hull
14th—Canada; l Chatham
Londonderry
88th—Malta ; Longford
15th—Windsor 89th—Canada ; Naas
pe & St. Helena ; I.W.
16th—Portsmouth goth—Ceylon ; Drogheda
17th—Aden ; Chatham gist—Ca
18th—China ; Chatham
; Chatham Chatham
92d—Barbadoes ; Dundee
19th—Malta; Brighton gad—Canada; Paisley
20th—Bermuda; Isle of Wight 94th
21st—Bengal; Chatham 95th—Ceylon
22d—Bombay; Chatham 96th—I3e°yrnlobialY;—N.S.Wales ; Chatham
23d —Canada ; Isle of Wight 97th—Carte; Dover
24th—Devenport 98tH—China;
25th—C. Good Hope ; Chatham 99th—Ch
hßrecon
26th—China; Chatham Rifle Brig ade ( t batt)—Malta
27th—C. Good Hope ; Mullingar
(2d i
28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham COlonbatt.)—Haiifax. N.S.al Corps
nth—Bombay ; Chatham Ist W
J Inamaica d. Regt.—Demerara, &c
30th—Halifax; Galway 2nd-
3ist—Bengal; Chatham 3d—Sierra Leone
32d—Leeds Ceylon Rites—Ceylon
33d—St. Vincent; Waterford Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape
34th—Weedon of Good Hope.
R. Canadian Rifle Reg.—Canada
35th—Mauritius; Clonmel
36th—Limerick Royal Newfd. Veteran Company
37th—Dublin —Newfoundland
38th—Corfu; Hull Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta
39th--Madras; Chatham St. Helena Regt,--St. Helena.