The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

LORD WELLESLEY AT HARROW,

The late Marquis Wellesley, above all men, possessed the
enviable talent of conversing well, and no person, perhaps,
in hours of social intercourse, indulged with greater satis-
faction in reminiscences of his early career. Of the many
anecdotes of his boyhood, there is none to which he more
frequently recurred than the following. Often has his lord-
ship dwelt upon the incident as the most important in his
early life, seeing that it placed him in contact with those
whose colleague and intimate friend he became in after

years :

On the death of Dr. Summer, bead master of Harrow
School, in 1771, it is well known that the late Dr. Parr,
then under master, expected the appointment would be con-
ferred on him. Very popular with the boys of the upper
school, to whom he had endeared himself by the conversa-
tional
powers he displayed in illustrating the more beautiful wrote out the speech verb
passages from the classics, which he generally rendered steamer Rhode Island,
doubly so by aptly quoting parallels from our own poets, New. York, on the nits'
particularly Spencer, Dryden, Pope, Milton, &c., his pre- and, arrangements having been ma
eminent attainments as the first classical scholar of the day speech was put in type onboard tt•
seemed to ensure his election. The governors, however, to York, the " form '''
the astonishment of every one, elected Dr. Heath, a man taken to the of
of very inferior talents, one of the under masters of Eton, of an Ext
who was unpopular with the scholars, while every boy any quantity
in the school was in favour of Dr. Parr. Such a flagrant act It was i.
of injustice, as it seemed to he, was not to be passed over by , speech complete, anti _
the boys, who rose up in open rebellion, and seizing upon tancing all competitors.—.L.
the first obnoxious object that presented itself, determined
The new Bishop of Meath, Dr. Edyv,
upon a full and summary vengeance. This was nothing less
S whu.
than the carriage of Mr. Bucknell, one of the governors of
son to that Dr. James
nopford,
earn
topford, of
the school, which was quickly demolished amidst the shouts mention is made as a man of worth, lein6
Poet, and Lord Bolingbroke. On the downfall
of the whole assembled boys. The Marquis Wellesley, re-
letters which circulated amongst Pulteney,
cent!), arrived from Ireland, had been
iniaced at Harrow by . . • •
his father's friend_ A rAmo,.., r.,,..--_ i•

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posed, he was one of the foremost in resenting this insult
offered to the favourite candidate of the boys, and one of the
ringleaders in the work of destruction of poor Mr. Bucknell's
carriage. On the news reaching town, the archbishop im-
mediately despatched a messenger for Lord Wellesley, who,
upon his arrival at Lambeth Palace, entered the room,
shouting " victory ! victory ! my lord archbishop ; behold
what a trophy I bear from the field," exhibiting at the same
time the tassel of the carriage window, which he continued
with boyish exultation to whirl round his head. No time
was to be lost, the carriage was still in waiting, and, ac-
companied by the archbishop, the marquis, was speedily on
his way to Eton, where he was entered at the age of eleven,
and within a few hours of the exhibition at Harrow, and
which would otherwise have led to his expulsion from the
school. To his tutor, the late Jonathan Davies, head
master, and afterwards provost of Eton, Lord Wellesley
acknowledged his obligations in his farewell verses, in
1778 :

bout the

c, oy ruiteney,

viously married

" Non tamem ilia prius discedat, quam tibi sertum
Nexureit, docilem qui, moderare gregem,
Debuit illa suas artes tibi ; rpm canit, bausit
Carmina prwceptis qualiacunque tuis !"

His attachment to Eton continued ardent to the end of his
life, and many passages in his recently printed volume, en-
titled " Primitim et Reliquim," record the grateful feelings
of the man for the benefits conferred upon the boy. Lord
Wellesley was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in
December, 1778, in his 19th year, and, in 1780, won the
Chancellor's prize by his beautiful poem on the death of
Captain Cook. He had been induced to attempt Latin hex-
ameters but a few months previously, by his tutor (Dr. Wir-
limn Jackson, afterwards Bishop of Oxford), who wished
Lord Wellesley to try for the prize.

Ltish coast

AN AMERICAN HOTEL.—There is no smoking-room in
any hotel, and there was none consequently in ours; but the
bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand
and smoke and lounge about all the evening; dropping in
and out as the humour takes them; There, too, the stranger
is initiated into the mysteries of gin sling,,cocktail, sangaree,
mint julep, sherry-cobbler, timber doodle, and other rare
drinks. The house is full of boarders, both married and
single, many of whom sleep upon the premises, and contract
by the week for their board and lodging, the charge for which
diminishes as they go nearer the sky to roost. A public
table is laid in a very handsome hall for breakfast, and for
dinner, and for supper. The party sitting down together to
these meals will vary in number from one to two hundred ;
sometimes more. The advent of each of these epochs in the
day is proclaimed by an awful gong, which shakes the very
window frames as it reverberates through the house and
horribly disturbes nervous foreigners. There is an ordinary
for ladies, and an ordinary for gentlemen. In our private
room the cloth could not, for any earthly consideration, have
been laid for dinner without a huge glass dish of cranberries
in the middle of the table ; and breakfast would have been
no breakfast unless the principal dish were a deformed beef-
steak with a great flat bone in the centre, swimming in hot
butter, and sprinkled with the very blackest of all possible
pepper. Our bed-room was spacious and airy, but (like every
bed-room on this side of the Atlantic) very bare of furniture,
having no curtains to the French bedstead or to the window.
It had one unusual luxury, however, in the shape of a ward-
robe of painted wood, something smaller than an English
watch-box ; or, if this comparison should be insufficient to
convey a just idea Of its dimensions, they may be estimated
from the fact of my having lived for fourteen days and nights
in the firm belief that it was a shower-bath.—Dicken's Notes
on America.

The October number of the American Democratic Review
contains a survey of the financial and commercial condition
of the country during the month of September, chiefly with
the view of showing that the new American tariff has failed
in producing those advantages which the people of the Uni-
ted States had been led to expect from it. At first, it is ad-
mitted, it was highly popular with the manufacturers of those
domestic goods which were supposed to suffer most from
foreign imports, and the prices of the raw material being low,
an impulse was given to the movements of the manufacturers.
It is found, however, that trade has not in fact, been increa-
sed, and that the only actual result of the tariff has been an
advance in the price of some articles of foreign goods, which
can no longer be imported. In domestic goods there had
r. —ould be, the stocks
anticipated result of the
been no advance, nor was it likely the
cioYn, liguhttitaZtsltebx;
being already large,
theand. the only anti
effects
legislativenw a rd ten tendency of prices. Thus
tariff was a check to
limited Were the
. )', and It was
h eance of mone - -
pected 'that the gradual reaction might be brou
the a un ,
the lower prices and
already indications of an improved
thought that there were
" fall" trade. The crops • had begun to arrive in the market
and these, it was thought, would be so plentiful, that, with
specie currency, prices must continue low. It is now the
practice for the western farmers and dealers not to draw
this, it is said, will
against produce till it is actually sold, and
f orm a healthy cash business, giving rise to very trifling
banking operations. A similar change has taken place at
New Orleans and the other great cotton 133
the banks
ofarkete the credit
system having been destroyed by
the
failure
ally demanded
which it ruined. At present specie is
generally
' low : but
for cotton by the factors, and thus prices are p
t
here again the business is expected to be healthy, kept
Great
and the
currency to assume a sounder form. For commercial
pur-
poses there had been no great demand for money.
hopes had been raised of an improved market in this
coun-
try for American corn, but these bad been diminished by the
accounts of our plentious harvest ; and the disturbances n
1
our manufacturing districts had cast a gloom over cotton
the
trade. Notwithstanding the closing of this channel for in-
vestment, the state securities had not improved, with the ex-
ception of a few of the most unquestionable character. The
failure of Pensylvania had thrown new suspicion on Amer-
ican credit, but still the state is commended for her prompt
resolution to sell her public works, and thus relieve herself
of all financial difficulties. Among the other• non-paving
states great apathy prevailed, but it was hoped that the Legis-
lature of Illinois, which will meet in December, would find
some way of coming to terms with her creditors by meansof
her landed property. .

~th of Mr. Webster, in Faneuil-hall, on Friday,
was reported for the New York Tribune by Mr. Raymond,
ant editor of the New York Tribune. That gentleman
m from his notes, on board the

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Lord tuurwwu s sister. 1 his is
red on this family during its last t..
sively held by the Bishop of Cloyne, as
Thomas Stopford, late Bishop of Cork, p.
Bishop of Meath. The bishop's father held the valuable
living of Glanworth, in the county of Cork.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—We have great pleasure
in announcing, that it has been definitively settled that the
great Caledonian Railway shall proceed from Lancaster by
way of Kendal to Carlisle ; and that the London and Bir-
mingham Railway Company have come to a resolution to
promote it by every means in their power. That an act will
be obtained there is little doubt, and with the aid of the I
don and Birmingham, the Grand Junctior

nd the t

railway companies interested in the line, and the assistan
which the landowners along the line are prepared to give
the undertaking, no fear is entertained of the requisite funs
being supplied. As soon as the act h

understood that the work will be be commenced simultaneous
from Carlisle to Penrith, and from Lancaster to Kendal.
second portion of the great project, from Carlisle to Gl
and Edinburgh, will also, it i"
early as possible.—Carlisle Journal

understood, be prosecu

enabled to state, upon the be

is Royal Highness I

HER MAJESTY.— 'yr
authority, that the Queen and h.
Albert have given up their intended visa to Brig..
present, and, instead, will go to Walmer Castle, the
the Duke of Wellington, on the Kenk
stand extensive preparations have alrt
for the reception of the Quo

,romenced