The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

vivacity

As a whole, the present number is very promising, and we
can, with it as a specimen, cordially recommend "The

Monthly" to our readers

The Liverpool Policeman, No. 1. London : Dolman and
Co. ; Liverpool: Booker and Co.
We had prepared for our columns this day a few extracts,
as a specimen of the style and material of this publication,
from the pen, we understand, of a Liverpool author. A sud-
den pressure upon our space, however, compels us to with-
draw them until our next publication. We have been highly
pleased with the illustrations which are to accompany it,
some of which have been shewn to us, which are executed in
the first style of art, and of themselves worth double the
price charged for the publication. With respect to the mat-
ter we can scarcely judge from a first number, which hardly
allows space for an author to get warm in his seat ; but shall
reserve our opinion until we see a few more numbers. We
may observe, however, generally that some of the characters
ed ; but that a little pruning, and, above
oetter correction of the press would have been
ery desirable. The author, if we may judge from the copy
before us, which, however, is " a proof," and may not be as
it is issued to the public, has some reason to complain; and
we are afraid that the consequence may be detrimental if
such errors as disfigure this be not amended in succeeding

are forcibly paint
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THE ROMANCE OF EMIGRATION

(From the Buffalo (United States) Advertiser.)
About three weeks since a pretty and interesting young
woman, with two fine children of the ages of one and three
years, called at the office of our city clerk, inquiring for the
inayor. That officer was absent, but her sorrowful demeanour
spoke so affectingly in her behalf, and, although evidently in
humble life, she seemed so intelligent and unassuming in her
distress, that Mr. Lacy, the clerk, was led to ask the cause
of her trouble, when she told him her brief story. She said
her husband, whose name was Evans, left their native place,
Brecknock, in Wales, a year ago, to seek a new home for
them in America, leaving them to follow when he should
have found the desired spot, awl earned the means to enable
them to make the journey. He finally settled at Oakhill,
Jackson County, in the southern part of the state of Ohio,
where he worked industriously at his trade, that of a tailor,
until he had laid by 80 dollars for the passage-money of his
family. This amount he enclosed to his wife, with directions
as to the best route to reach her destination, which would be
vid Liverpool and New York. She accordingly bade adieu
to her birthplace, and started on her lone and distant voyage,
cheered by the prospect of soon joining her husband in their
new western home. On arriving at the nearest seaport on
the coast, she was persuaded by the captain of a trading ves-
sel that it would be much cheaper to go by way of Quebec.
whither he was bound, and she therefore, took passage with
him• It was two long months before the tardy craft reached
port, and during this time, her stock having been exhausted,
she was compelled to purchase from the captain, at his own
rates, a supply for the wants of herself and her children.
The extortion to which her inexperience made her an easy
and the increased expenses of the inconvenient route she
'norantly taken, left her without a shilling on her
at Buffalo. She was still five hundred miles from
journey's end, without a friend or acquaintance,
sly a hapless stranger in a strange land, with her little
children looking up to her for food ! The energies of a
--is nature, so strikingly developed by necessity. did not
She obtained shelter for herself and
in a cedar room in the Towbridge block, for
i she had to pay ss. a week, and succeeded in procuring
.le sewing from a clothing-shop, which barely realised as
,h money as paid for their gloomy lodging and coarse and
,qty fare. She wrote a letter to her husband, informing
.1 of their arrival and destitute situation; but weeks
.rre away in cruel suspense, while she wrote again and
gain ;
and on the return of each post learned with a
,navy heart that it had brought no letter for her. At
length her employer had no more work fur her, and she was
obliged to pledge articles of clothing to procure necessary
food. This wretched resource now failed, several weeks'
`rent were due, and in her extremity she thought Of applying
to the mayor for advice and relief. 'The poor Welch woman's
simple statement touched the manly heart of Mr. Lace. He
commenced a subscription, and Mr. Williams, a countryman,
a worthy mechanic residing here, with prompt philanthropy
took Mrs. Evans and her little ones into his house, when a
discovery that his guest was born within half a mile of the
old home he left twenty years before, and the family histories
she related, amply repaid the kind Welchman for his hospi-
tality. Another honest Welchman soon cheered her with his
greeting. Fifteen dollars, the sum necessary to send her to
Oak-hill, were soon raised, and Mrs. Evans's passage was
aged on board the packet. But while hastening to re-
.eh, during the preparations for the start,
—red still lay on the pawnbroker's shelves, the
at cast off. Lamenting her disappointment she turned
ound and her husband stood before her. He had been in
the city ten days in search of her ; had boarded at the United
States Hotel, just over the low and squalid apartment in
which his little family were staying—he comfortably lodged,
and living upon the luxuries of a well-served table, while
they were famishing only a few feet distant. It was a joyful
matting ; the dollars were returned to the good subscribers,
the reunited and happy family took boat the next day for

she had

r to despair

deem a shawl whi,

he recolle

heir western home

e banking houses of Dorrien and Co., and Curries and
TZ .ndon, are about to be consolidated in one establish-
r • b •vi firm, it is understood, will include six part-
er , Ir. Isaac Currie, Mr. Isaac George Currie,
,h • ien Magens, Mr. Henry Currie, Mr. Raikes
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r.p= 4 t "fr. John Arnold Mello, and will be styled Cu-
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