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

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Abbotsford Waverley, Nos. 13 and 14. R. Cade'
Edinburgh ; Honiston and Stoneman, London.

The illustrations of Nos. 13 and 14 of this splendid edition
are, if possible; better than any of their predecessors ; at all
events, they please us more, inasmuch as they give a visible
form to many objects, especially antiquarian objects, which
we have hitherto only imagined for ourselves. In No. 14
are some perfect gems of woodcutting ; amongst which stand
conspicuous the portrait of Steenie Mucklebackit, Villagers
at play appealing to Edie Ochiltree, and the scene between
Elspeth and Lord Glenallan. The next number, we presume,
will conclude the tale of " The Antiquary."

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The Earl of. Erne at the Cork cattle show took the pledge
of total abstinence, as did Sir Richard Musgrave.
Tim PRINCE or WALES.—An important epoch has just
arrived in the life of the heir apparent. His royal highness
has just hem weaned, and has borne the deprivation well.—
Globe.
New CHORCR.—We understand Mrs. Lawrence of Stud-
ley Park has generously contributed £lOOO towards the en-
dowment.,-£lOOO towards building the Chapel, and £lOO to-
wards building the Parsonage House at Dallow Gill, in the
parish of Kirby Malzeard, near Ripon, making a total of
£2lOO, besides the sight for this good work.
Miss MARTINEAU.—A correspondence, highly honoura-
ble to this lady, has just become public. We learn from it,
that just previous to Lord Melbourne's retirement, an offer
was made her of a pension of £l5O a year, which, though
labouring under indisposition at the time which incapacitated
her for pursuing her usual literary avocations, she firmly de-
clined, on the ground that she could not, consistently with
the principles which she had advocated in her works, con-
sent to be supported out of the produce of taxation.

DEATH OF ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.—It is with extreme
regret we have to announce the death of Allan Cunningham,
so well known as the friend of Sir Francis Chantrey, and
better still for his own poetical and prose performances. His
health had Tong been precarious, but it was not till the
morning of Friday last that his illness took a fatal turn. The
night before he had been both cheerful and communicative,
and went to bed at his usual early hour apparently free from
pain. He rose at 7in the morning with an expressed
consciousness of death upon him• The whole' of his right
arrall-and side was stricken with paralysis, and his brain be-
came seriously affected. He was soon unconscious, and to
all appearance free from pain, lying in an insensible state till
half-past ten on Saturday night, when he was seen to die in
a kind of solemn stillness. Mr. Cunningham could boast
of a large circle of friends; and if his own unassuming vir-
tues and volumes are not enough to perpetuate his name, he
will still live through The Fortunes of Nigel, The Diary and
Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott, and the verse of
Southey. Mr. Cunningham bad completed the Life of Sir
David Wilkie but two nights before his death.
FIRE AT B ARNARR.CASTLE.—The inhabitants of Barnard-
Castle were aroused from their beds at midnight yesterday
week, by a fire breaking out in the lodging house belonging
to Mr. Jacob Solomon. The police and others were soon
upon the spot, and after about half an hour's exertion they
succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but not before a bed
and its hangings had been entirely consumed. The fire was
occasioned by a drunken man having gone to bed with a pipe
in his mouth; and it is to behoped that this will be a caution
to the keepers of lodging houses, for had the fire continued
ten minutes longer, the whole house and many adjoining
houses would doubtless have been burnt to the ground.—
Newcastle Journal.—[But not before a bed and its hangings
had been entirely consumed 1 What would the good Barney
Castle folks think of the fire recently in this town, when
upwards of £700,000 worth of property was consumed.—
S. E. L. S.]

SELLING A CHILD !-A rather singular circumstance oc-
curred in this town, on Saturday last; but as its character
is such as must reflect disgrace on the parties concerned, we
shall forbear mentioning their names. On the day in ques-
tion, a gentleman sent for a woman to a public-house, not
50 miles from Lockwood. She arrived with an infant in her
arms. The gentleman asked her if she was willing to part
with the child. The woman instantly replied, " Yes, with
both hands ; and then immediately gave the sleeping babe,
—her own child, into the hands of the landlady's daughter!
The gentleman said he would pay her for the child, and he
accordingly gave her £25 ! The baby we understand, was
sent off, the same day, to Manchester. It is an illegitimate
child, and the gentleman is said to be the putative father of
it. We are at a loss which to reprobate most—the disgrace-
ful conduct of the gentleman (?) or the unnatural conduct of
the mother.—Halifax Guardian.

FATAL SuirwßEcic.-7-It is our painful duty to record the
total loss of the schooner Friends, of Carlisle, with all bands
on board. The Friends sailed from Port Carlisle for Liver-
Pool on Friday, the 21st instant, laden with alabaster, with a
crew of four hands. There was a stiff breeze blowing at the
time from N.N.E. Towards midnight the wind veered
round to the westward, blowing a complete- hurricane, and
endeavouring to return up the Solway Firth the ill-fated ves-
Ael struck upon Robin Rigg, and in a short time became a
total wreak. ,The master of the vessel, Captain Baxter, was
highly esteemed among a wide circle of friends and ac-
cinailltances on both sides of the Border, and the sympathy
expressed on the loss of so good a man is well worthy the
occasion. A portion of the bulwarks and the foremast haves
been washed ashore at Allenby, but no trace of the hull of
the vessel has yet been observable.—Carlisle Journal.

TARIFF CATTLE.—The Morlasien, a French steamer
arrived in Southampton harbour, on Thursday morning, with
105 cows, 12 calves, and 6 oxen, freighted from Morlaix.
They were of the usual character, many excellent, and some
indifferent. In the evening the Bee's Wing, of Hull, arrived
from Vigo with a freight of oxen. She shipped 71, but six
died of stoppage in the inside, and one had three of its ribs
broken. The ship was fourteen days on her voyage, owing
to the prevalence of head winds ; and though the cattle re-
ceived no damage except as above-mentioned; the delay and
damp had such a depressing effect on them, as to make them
look much the worse for the voyage. We have heard many
curious circumstances of the Spanish cattle in this respect.
If the bed of one is disturbed, or it having slipped, it does
not instantly recover its footing, or any other little incident
at all uncommon occurs, it will be thrown off its food directly.
corn, it
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have been so bOught
good enough for our butchers.—Hampshire
Pedestrians
Advertiser.
SINGULAR ESCAPB.---
to Kilmarnock,
Afew days ago, as two
at that
were on their way from
Moor which liesabout a mile to the
Glasgow
lonely part of Fenwick Moo
beth, they observed ne of
south of Kingswell, where the surrounding heath seems as
barren as that described in e. The
Poor puss i at abound they
those toosie tykes, a sheep dog,Ma in hot pursuit of a hare'
dog seemed to gain rapidly P
crossed the stream which flouw
the spot where the
narrow ravine which slants down
sounepaur the road, pot where
for a
fromtwo men were watching with intense interest the
another harease. As
the dog and hare entered the ravine from below,
dashed across the road from above it, and entered the narrow
pass at a few paces distant from the men, closely followed by
another of the collie tribe, which gave vent occasionally, as
he neared his prey, to a half sort of growl, between a bark
e pursuers
fonf
o
and a howl. Exactly about the middle of the pass they ap-
proached each other, and instant death seemed th .
the two hares, hemmed in as they were by their
close upon their heels; when, with that celerity natural to
p
their race, they both leaped aside just as they, were about to
meet, and the dogs being close at hand, ran a tilt against
each other, which would have done honour to the age of
chivalry. One of the dogs by tile shock was pitched into the
ditch, and the other threw a beautiful somerset in the real
Ducrow style. In an instant they were on their feet. and
fastened upon each other with a deadly grip ; they were
fiercely engaged worrying each other, when the owners came
up and had them separated. One of the muirlan' chiels in-.
quired of the other if "he had seen a bare gam' doun that
gate?" " No," said the other," my dog chased a hare daan
this way.,' " 'eel, that beats a'," said the first • "if it
hadna been braid daylight, an' me seen the hare clearly, I
wad hae thoeht my dog was rinnin after something thatwasna
canny." The two men who saw the whole affair explained
the circumstance to the owners of the dogs, who went away
laughing heartily at the occurrence.—Western Watchman.