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

1m and

pears to be very impartially

conducted, and

s of the month,

palmy days" of the magazine, to be
its most attractive feature, are written with considerable

' which we rewem-

ber use

vivacity
As a

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

Montt

" 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

ch have been ahewn to us, which are executed in
rle 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
for an author to get warm in his seat ; but shall
reserve our opinion until we see a few more numbers. We
bserve, however, generally that some of the characters
Linted ; but that a little pruning, and, above
tter correction of the press would have been
The author, if we may judge from the copy

the first

allows spa

are fore'
all, a lit

very desirable
before us, whi

h, 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

(Fr
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THE ROMANCE OF EMIGRATION

the Buffalo (United States) Advertiser.)

'ee weeks since a pretty and interesting

with two fine children of the ages of one and-thiee
fled at the office of our city clerk, inquiring for the
l'hat officer was absent, but her sorrowful demeanour
affectingly in her behalf, and, although evidently in
life, she seemed so intelligent and unassuming in her
that Mr. Lacy, the clerk, was led to ask the cause
•ouble, when she told him her brief story. She said

_ -
sband, whose name was Evans, left their native place,
lock, in Wales, a year ago, to seek a new borne for
in America, leaving them to follow when be should
Rind the desired spot, p 1 earned the means to enable
to make the journey. He finally settled at Oakhill,
in County, in the southern part of the state of Ohio,
he worked industriously at his trade, that of a tailor,
Le had laid by 80 dollars for the passage-money of his
. This amount he enclosed to his wife, with directions
he best route to reach her destination, which would be

?erpool and New York. She accordingly bade adieu
Birthplace,and started on her lone and distant voyage.
I by the prospect of soon joining her husband in their
;stern home. On arriving at the nearest seaport on
,at, she was persuaded by the captain of a trading ves-
t It would be much cheaper to go by way of Quebe&
r he was bound, and she the

erore, took passage with
It was two long months before the tardy craft reached
and during this time, her stock having been exhausted,
is compelled to purchase from the captain, at his own
a supply for the wants of herself and her children.
-tion to which her inexperience made her an easy
increased expenses of the inconvenient route she
'1,7 taken, left her without a shilling on her
She was still five hundred miles from
..ithout a friend or acquaintance,
sapless stranger in a strange land, with her little
n looking up to her for food ! The energies of a
's nature, so strikingly developed by necessity. did not
a- to despair. She obtained shelter for herself and
Ten in a cellar room in the Towbridge block, for
e had to pay ss. a week, and succeeded in procuring
wing from a clothing-shop, which barely realised as
ey as paid for their gloomy lodging and coarse and
She wrote a letter to her husband, informing
• arrival and destitute situation; but weeks
,n cruel suspense, while she wrote again and
,d on the return of each post learned with a
heart that it had brought no letter for her. At
gth her employer had no more work fur her, and she was
of clothing to procure necessary
oliged to
resource now failed, several weeks'
food. This wretched Pledge articles
and in her extremity she thought of applying
relief. The poor Welch woman's
r advice
,reple statement touched t of 1r Lace. lie
and
manly heart N .
.:ommenced a subscription, and Mr. Williams, a countryman,
, with prompt philanthropy
a worthy mechanic residing
here-
nk Mrs. Evans and her little
ones into his house, when a
▪ that his guest was born ts ithin half a mile of the
id home he left twenty years before, and the family histories
she related, amply repaid the kind
Welchman for his hospi-
^ -"'"-hnnest Welchman soon cheered her with his
v to send her to

at Buffalo..
irney's end,

to the mayor

discover

(loiters, the sum rfeCCssasy -
Oa nll, were soon raised, and Mrs. Evans's passage wa.
cog ton board the packet. But while hastening to re
le"'" a shawl (luring the t- -*ions for the start
recollected still lay on th-

enzazed

turned
Larne n'ting her dpiasa7pborionkt renresn t
sshheelVeS, tht
I and her husband stood before her. He had been in,
Ity ten days in search of her ; had boarded at the United
a Hotel, just over the low and squalid apartment in
i his little family were staying—he comfortably lodged•
ivilig upon the luxuries of a well-served table, while
were famishing only a few feet distant. It was a joyful
meeting ; the dollars were returned to the good subscribers.
and the reunited and happy family took boat the next day to!
their western home.

The banking houses of Dorrien and Co., and Curries anc
London, are about to be consolidated in one establish
. The new firm, it is understood, will includ six part
ners, namely, Mr. Isaac Currie, Mr. Isaac rz
Genree Currit
Mr. John Dorrien Magena, Mr. Henry Currie, Mr. Raike
Currie, and Mr. John Arnold Mello, and will be styled Cur
ries and Co.