The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

VARIETIES

VALET.—BoreI, in his glossary, says that the term valet
was anciently applied to the Ring's eldest son; and hence the
valet or knave follows the King and Queen in a pack of
cards.

SPREADING AND RAKING.—A Quaker, living in a neigh-
bouring town, having a son, took him to task one morning
respecting his extravagant conduct. " John," said he.
looking him in the face seriously, " I'm afraid thou art
getting a rake." " Nay, father, thou art wrong," replied
the youth, as dry and as unconcerned as could be, " I'ts thee
ats t'rake, an I'm a spreading it for thee."

DISTRESS OF THE COUNTRY.—Several alarming instances
of the prevailing distress have reached us. Mr. Roebuck
was the other day exceedingly distressed, when the St.
James's-park keeper stopped him with a parcel of books, and
mistook him for the light porter. Mr. Muntz declared that
he felt uncommonly distressed—at finding three grey hairs in
his whiskers.—Punch.

"A DISCERNING PUBLIC."—Never was there a greater
farce than to talk of the public thus :—The pubiic is a most
unjust, illiberal, led-by-the-nose booby ' • a foolish goose,
without discernment, without sense, without honesty, with-
out any quality—a proof of which may be found in their
support of that great lubberly, ill-conducted, villanous print,
the Kentucky Mercury: while this paper, managed with so
much taste and discretion, is left to perish for lack of patron-
age ! " A discerning public," forsooth ? The public is
little better than a long-ear'd donkey !—Kentucky rVarder.
—[This is plain speaking enough.]

Three Israelites have been returned as Deputies to the
French Chamber, namely, Crimieux, Cerfbeef, and Achille
Fould.— The Voice of pracob.

freest. A deep thought
ill
itwspilelarlfot be clogged by the form
aillaqnu.arter," that the
will
Dave
whoa thinksfull
utterance;closes closest w
The Times learns,
of speech, or hushed
,b,yfrtohme
ail
many reports respecting visits to be paid by the Queen during
frowns
authentico of
the autumn are inaccurate and that it is onl k th
her Majesty will visit the Marquis of Exetery atßurghley at
,
where preparations are making on a scale of great magnifi-
cence.

L in the course of a conversation with a deputa-
o
tionfrrd Riomtphoen;hopkeepers of Manchester, satd, emphatically
"If I thought the Corn-laws were the cause of the distress;
God knows I would give up my share of them to-morrow.
THROWING STONES AT LORD SANDON.—James Wyatt,
a carpenter out of work, Was,
on Thnrsday, charged,
at the
Queen-square Police-office, with having thrown a stone at
Lorrd Sandon, as that nobleman was leaving his house on
Wednesday evening. The magistrate considered him insane,
and committed him for three
months, at the end of h
nt.
time he was to be put under restraint.
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Four hundred of the inhabitants.. of the long Island of
Harris, which constitutes a middle link in the
of the Hebrides, have just emigrated to North
America.'
interesting
Mon APPLAUSE.—SsmueI Bamford,
in
lhinsoisTin course
and graphic Passages in the Life of a Radiea
stood his trial at
of publication, states, that after having Great Cha i n
classes of Lancashire, he was allowedeueive
the judgment of
York, and worthily represented and
todefadv:dmtihdedlweotoriklionng
foot, for London, to surrender to
green to him by a shop_
that 81 ton money in his pocket, an
empty noto-
riety He thus moralises on this
keeper named John Ogden.
character of mob admiration :
the Court of King's Bench, with butreceive
shilling of Middle-
striking lesson on the fleeting character
taondputbhieie
A young
if be feel a little tickled with the
may be excused but,
whenever I see a grey-headed
shouts of adulation ;acclamations, I set him down as being
—apPlaSuosemoufehmulfotritutdbees.nb"i
orator courting such acclamations, hasuzpziarianngt,
designing person. I have no pa
a very shallow, or
A allow trumpery—with the fools who offer
questionable
it, or the que
fiance with s"-- h° ones who accept it."
oa AND POPERY.—The Lancaster Gazette
on for some time against the
Mau EAsTw°a concludes an article on the subject of an
action whichf that paper brought by the popish priest
in that
proprietor of .
d for the insertion of a number of letters from
of SaturdaYts
neighbou
Eastwood, reflecting on the conduct and interference
Mr. sta in the matter of certain wills bmembers
served those priests been going
y
" On Wednesday •
0 • flocks. morning last we were
of their .
subpoena to appear ~ with a s before the grand jury for
serveu ose of giving evidence of the authorship of M
the PurP ,
p . r.
.4 letters.
Eastwood 5 ln accordance therewith, we attended
duly and made the necessary
depositions, upon which, it will
be seen, the jury have returned a true bill. preferred by
friths She
against Mr. Eastwood, for the publication
matters which laid the foundation of his action
against ourselves. Mr. Eastwood, of course, traverses to
next assizes, and thus the thing stands at the present writing.
Before closing, we must afford ourselves the pleasure of
reiterating the admiration we last week expressed of the
undaunted spirit displayed by Mr. Eastwood, under the
trying Circumstances of his very peculiar case.