The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-30 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OF THE LOG

Dec. 16. Wind W. at 2 30. p. m. slipped moorings and
proceeded to sea—moderate breezes and fair weather.
17. Wind N. distance 196 miles, lat. 43. 09, lon 66. 39
fresh breeZes, and cloudy.
18. Wind S.W. at 10 a.m. arrived at Halifax,—morning
thick weather, with snow—afternoon light winds and clear
—2 30 p.m. started for Liverpool-3 30, saw the Britannia.
19. Wind N.W. distance 205 miles, lat. 44.48. lon. 58.57
fresh breezes and cloudy weather.
20. Wind W.N.W. distance 216 miles, lat. 45.09. lon. 53.
—53. strong gales and cloudy, with a heavy sea.
21. Wind W%N.W. distance 240 miles, lat. 45.56, lon 48.
—l4. strong breezes and cloudy, with a heavy sea.
22. Wind N.E. and S.E. distance 223 miles, lat. 46 43, lon.
43—steady breezes and clear.
23. Wind S.S.W. distance 240 miles, lat, 47.14, lon 37.17.
fresh breezes, with a heavy northerly swell.
24. Wind W. distance 218 miles, lat, 48.52, lon, 31,33—
moderate breezes.
25. Wind W.S.W. distance 255 miles, lat. 49. 41, lon. 25.
10—strong breezes and squally.
26. Wind N.N.W. distance 266 miles, lat. 50. 18, lon. 18.
22, strong breezes and squally, with showers of hail and a
very heavy sea.
27. Wind N.W. distance 255 miles, lat. 51. 14, lon. 11. 42
—strong breezes with a heavy beam sea.
28. Wind N.N.W. running up Channel—light breezes and
clear.
22. At 1, a.m. arrived at Liverpool.

LIST OF PASSENGERS

From Boston to Halifax.—Messrs. T. B. Smith, Botsford,
Chandler, Jordan, Cobb, and Edw. Cunard, jun.
From Boston to Live)poo/.--I`dessrs. E. Corrie, Wood-
maney, William Booth, Walter Colquhoun, J. Brailsford,
G. B. Ironside, William Rowe, Murdock, James Owen,
A. Currilleive, James Gilmore, J. M'Kinnon, F. G. Moun-
tain, W. E. Logan, G. B. Tymes, H. Allen, and Edward
Fairclough.
From Halifax to Liverpool.—Captain Rooper, and Mr.
Robert Pow.

We are enabled to state that the King of Prussia has con-
sented to become the arbitrator between France and England
upon the difficult and long-contested subject of the Por-
tendic claims.—Standard.

THANKSGIVING IN MASSACHUSETTS.—ThiS day was a
great day in Massachusetts. It is estimated that at least
200 marriages took place between sunrise and sunset. In
the single town of Ware nine weddings came off.—New York
Herald.

THE TEA TRADE, Dec. 26.—The deliveries of tea laat
week were 316,7601 b, The market is flat, and since this
day week prices have fallen Id. to 2d. per lb., owing to the
further public sales which have taken place, besides more
being aunounced for next month.
NAVIGATION OF THE BALTIC.—The number of ships
that passed the Sound in November was—from the Baltic,
704 ; from the North Sea, 211. Of these the English were
12, from the North, and 323 from the Baltic, or 333 out of
1,005, or one-third of the whole.

STRANGE TALE.—Some few months ago one of our
townsmen left for America, in company with his wife. After
having set foot on the Eldorado of the went they found to
their unspeakable disappointment, that they had travelled
far without mending matters. They tramped over a great
part of America, till they were reduced to ask charity from
passing strangers. One day the husband asked charity of a
black gentleman, who, instead of giving him any, offered
him 250 dollars for his wife. The offer was refused by the
husband with becoming indignation. The wife immediately
turned to him, and said, in an under tone, "Thou fool, take
t' brass, let me go, and then I'll come to thee." Entering
into the spirit of the dodge, he pocketed the money, and
bade farewell to his wife, with the understanding that she
would return to him directly. Three days afterwards he
saw his wife in her carriage, attended by black servants, and
had an interview with her. She told him to go home and
think no more about her, as she had found a good shop and
was determined to keep it. She still remains under the
influence of the black gentleman, and the disconsolate hus-
band returned to our town last week to tell his own misera-
ble tale, and to exhibit himself as a living proof of the trea-
chery and ineonstauay of woman.—Leeds paper.

Additional accounts from Alexandria of the 7th instant
state that the mortality among the cattle still continued, and
it was calculated that upwards of 200,000 oxen had already
died. The Pasha and his son experienced the greatest diffi-
culty in ploughing and sowing the lands, and were obliged to
emplay for that purpose their own horses, those of the cavalry
and artillery, and a number of camels. Mehemet Ali, on
that occasion, caused a chief, named Sheli Belcd, to be de-
capitated for neglect of duty, and Ibrahim treated with
similar rigour several of his stewards who had not attended
to his instructions. On the 28th ult., au artilleryman be-
longing to the garrison of Aboukir was removed to the
Lazaretto of Alexandria, where he soon died of plague.
Three other soldiers of the same regiment having been like-
wise taken ill, were placed in quarentine, and commissioners
were sent to Aboukir to inquire into the nature of their
malady. The sanatory regulations were enforced with ex-
treme rigour. The officers of the Lazaretto and hospital
being ordered to remain constantly at their posts and not
communicate with the city, the latter had all resigned their
situations. The Russian sanatory commission sent from
Odessa, under the direction of M. Wartshko, was still at
Alexandria. They intended to try the experiment of puri-
fying goods and merchandise by means of heat. Pestiferous
articles were to be exposed, in rooms or stores, to different
degrees of temperature, and, after remaining there a certain
time, they were to be placed on individuals in order to ascer-
tain if this process had been effective in destroying the con-
tagion. The Russian Consul, it appears, intended to ask
Mehemet Ali, on his return, to allow the
o commissioners to
make the experiment on some capital convicts. A rich coal-
mine had been discovered near Cossr.

COR RESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAVA

Sia,—Mr. Rushton having, in reply to a note addressed
to him by me respecting the proceedings in the Liverpool
Police-court on Monday the 19th instant, in the ease of
Sergeant-Major Whitebread, stated as follows :—" I have
therefore to inform you that I did not pronounce you guilty,
but that I advised Sergeant Whitebread to tell the whole
truth to his superior officers; and that I merely repeated a
portion of the evidence given by the officer and sergeant

examined."

Now, as this statement goes far to impugn the

of the language imputed by him to Mr. Rushton, and as the
remarks attributed to that magistrate is calculated to inflict
the most serious injury on my future prospects, it is incum-
bent on me to ascertain whether your reporter is or is not
satisfied with the correctness of his notes. The bearer will
wait an answer.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JAMES HOPE.

Lancaster Castle, 26th Dec., 1842

[We had not an opportunity. and if we bad we should not
have availed ourselves of it, of giving a verbal reply to the
above note from Adjutant Hope. We do not see that the
passage here given from Mr. Rushton's note at all im-
pugns, but rather that it confirms, the correctness of our
report. As to the remarks of Mr. Rushton inflicting
" the most serious injury" to the future prospects of Ad-
jutant Hope—with that we have nothing to do. The case
was correctly reported; and if Adjutant Hope feels ag-
grieved at its publication, however unfortunate it may be
for him, we cannot help it.]

[Yesterday (Thursday) we received the following addi-
tional note from Adjutant Hope :
Sir,—As the injury done to my character by the statement
of the Liverpool Police-court procedings, in the case of Ser-
geant-Major Whitebread on the 19th instant, has been GREAT
BEYOND WHAT language can express, I beg to remark that
nothing can possibly repair that injury but the most full and
explicit acknowledgement of the error on the part of the Po-
lice-court, and yourself can remove it. I have been informed
that Sergeant Christian denies the language imputed to him,
written correctly or not, is best known to those who were
present at his examination.

I remain, sir, your most obedient servant.
JAMES HOPE.

28th December. 1842.
[We do not exactly comprehend what Adjutant Hope here
demands, and we are inclined to think that he scarcely knows
himself. But if he means to require us to acknowledge some
error, which he neither specifies nor shews to have been
committed by us, we can only say he has mistaken our
character. We repeat that our report of the case against
Sergeant Whitbread was correct in every part. As to Sergeant
Christian denying " the language imputed to him," we ha
his ipsissima verba.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—I perceive that the Dock Committee have appro-
priated berths for the American liners in the Waterloo
Dock, which, no doubt, will give great satisfaction to a large
majority of those concerned in the American trade. Now
this appears a fit time for a rendezvous to be appointed for
the pilot-boats in port, instead of having them scattered over
two or three miles in length of dock space, as at present—a
great inconvenience in this extended port when a boat ar-
rives in thick weather or in the dark at one end, and the next
in turn to go out lies at the other end of the docks. This oc-
curring about high water, the probable consequence is a turn
is lost ; sometimes more, when two or three boats arrive
together by the crew or crews of another boat or boats being
aware of the arrival or arrivals before a messenger could ar-
rive at the boat whose turn it was to proceed to the station,
and when he did arrive, perhaps, the tide had fallen so much
that lie found her shut up in dock until the next tide. The
superintendent appointed by the Pilot Committee remedies
this irregularity in some degree by ordering the boat waiting,
and first upon the turn, to cast her anchor in the river. This
plan is not without its evils ; a storm may come on, parti-
cularly at this season—or she may be run foul of by another
vessel in the crowded stream before her turn to proceed to sea
arrives. To avoid such evils, and perhaps perfect the im-
proved regulations of the Pilot Committee, nothing more is
requisite than that a dock, having the advantage of locks in
the gut, be selected for a rendezvous for all the pilot-boats
in port. This, or something similar, would be a great boon to
the crews of the boats, and relieve them from the necessity of
being cooped up on the river, and the apprentices from a great
deal of duty they are now subject to while waiting the arrival
of the boat that is to give notice to weigh the anchor. If you
can spare a corner or any part of your valuable paper for in-
serting this, you will much oblige an admirer of

REGULARITY,

27th December, 1842,

DARING ACT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

It is a prominent feature in the English character to seize
every opportunity for rewarding any act of intrepidity or
daring, especially when such an act has been the means of
preserving human life. _

I am induced to make these remarks from having per-
ceived the mention of a testimonial presented lately to a
gentleman of the name of Pyke, for saving the life, most
probably, of a female who had fallen into the river, but at
all events for having risked his own by rescuing her from
her perilous position.
Without at all wishing to derogate from this instance of
coolness and courage, or in the remotest degree to disparage
such meritorious conduct, it is somewhat singular that a case
involving greater danger, and followed by severe suffering,
should be totally neglected—iu fact, so far as remuneration
is concerned, entirely overlooked.

I allude to a circumstance which occurred, about four
years since, near the Zoological Gardens, when a person of
the name of Mayman, observing a bear (which had escaped
from the gardens) making towards a child, rushed between
them. The infant was gallantly borne off, and deposited in
safety by its intrepid deliverer. He, however, was seized
by the animal, and dreadfully bitten and lacerated in several
places, first in the hip, then in the arms. The struggle
throughout was terrific. Mayman, however, being a man
of nerve and power, when the animal relinquished his grasp
there, still continued the conflict, until, weak with loss of
blood, and no assistance being rendered, he was overpowered
by his ferocious opponent, dragged by the hair of his head
across the street, and, but for the interposition of the Great
Disposer of Events, must have inevitably perished.
Notwithstanding this man, I may say this hero's fearless
eandeet, over end above the actual expences paid by Mr.
Atkins for professional advice and medicine, not a sixpence
has he received in the shape of reward.
It is a trite but good old adage, " better late than never" ;
and, though some time has now elapsed since the occurrence,
knowing, as I do, that Mayman was in so precarious a state
for five weeks as not to be able to raise his bead from his
pillow, and was not the same man for twelve months after,
circumscribed as my means are, my mite towards a remem-
brance of his heroism shall not be wanting.

Yours, &c

ADMIRANS

[The hero whose intrepidity is justly eulogised in the pre-
ceding letter now occupies the public-house in front of the
Zoological Gardens.]

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Six,—Permit me to offer one or two observations in reply
to a letter contained in your last publication, and purporting
to have been written by " A Lover of Fairplay."
Your correspondent speaks in a tone of utter contempt of
the few subscribers who are opposed to the retention of the
brass fire-guard in the Lyceum Newsroom ; denounces the
objectors as a " set of old gentlemen ;" is particularly un-
ceremonious in his treatment of one of their number, 'Whom
he consistently represents as " quietly sleeping" all day be-
fore the fire, and yet as disturbing the subscribers by his
" eructations ;" and appears, in short, judging from his
letter, to have arrived at the very comfortable conclusion
that he is " to have all his own way" in reference to the sub-
ject he writes on. Now, will your correspondent patiently
submit to be informed by me why I do not think his expecta.
tions, in this respect, at all likely to be realized?
In the first place, the parties who have objected to the fire.
guard are not, as your correspondent would insinuate, few in
number ; and an inspection of our petition, now lying for
signature at the rooms, will at once convince him that the
names of those subscribing it (including those of Mr. Isaac
Holmes, the Rev. E. Spencer, and a host of others of equal
respectability) cannot fail to carry considerable weight with
them. If our opponents be really numerous and influential,
as is asserted, why do they not, without delay, originate a
counter petition, and invite the attention of the committee
to its prayer ? The reason, I think, must be obvious to the
understanding of every one—they are conscious of their in-
ability to procure an adequate number of signatures. The
paucity of their numbers is attested by the tact, that while
the local press, on all sides, has been literally assailed with
communications demanding the removal of the fire-guard,
they have been compelled to content themselves with the
puny protest, and the tardily advanced arguments preferred
by your correspondent in your paper of Tuesday last.
Your insertion of these observations in your next publica-
tion will greatly oblige, sir, your obedient servant,

- - -
A LOVER OF TRUTH.
P.S.—The assertion that " nine-tenths of the subscribers"
are in favour of the guards, will at once appear so palpably
incorrect to any one acquainted with the actual circumstances
of the case, that I shall not do more than simply contradict
it here.
December 29th, 1842.

A SHREWD REPLY.-Sir Walter Scott says that the
alleged origin of the invention of cards produced one of the
shrewdest replies he had ever heard given in evidence. It
was made by the late Dr. Gregory, at Edinburgh, to a coun-
sel of great eminence at the Scottish bar. The doctor's
testimony went to prove the insanity of the party whose
mental capacity was the point at issue. On a cross interro-
gation, he admitted that the person in question played
admirably at whist. "end do you seriously say,
doctor,"
said the learned counsel, " that a person having a superior
capacity for a game so difficult, and which requires, in a pre-
eminent degree, memory, jmdgment, and combination, can
be at the same time deranged in his understanding ?" "
am no card player," said the doctor, with great address,
" but I have read in history that cards were invented for the
amusement of an insane king." The consequences of this
reply were decisive.

d; DONE Fon."—A wag, a few years since, procureeddstoomae
eye-wash of a quack oculist in this city, to be
glass-eye which he wore. The oculist, e but
sighted, discovered there was some defect inertene
or no pay.
thought it was so trifling that he warranted a c
or so after-
not being
The wag took the wash and departed. 1.,n weekand apparently in
wards he returned with the empty Phla"a be " your stuff
great distress. "0, doctor, doctor !" said gayPePriyi', sel: arp P-
sighted,
time opening the
has wholly destroyed my eye !" at the same
to the horror of the
lids of the empty socket with his fincgeor,
ft it be possible
gasping oculist. "Is it possible ?
p, knew my medicine to ope-
rateclaimed the eye tinker. " I ri-Yeirr, I can do nothing less than
so before. Well, mydel;rs
But you must do more, sir.
return you your money."
What is five dollars to be compared with the loss of an eye ?"
replied the wag. "If Y will give me 200 dollars I will sign
a pledge never to eln's
e°,i vill yon ; hut if you do not, I will pro-
and you, are a ruined man." The
secute you forth witheheck for the amount, and theey
qac forked o r_
voa as
r Tex.—New York Sunday Meer
crti cut.
h uis sktick perhaps e f

„R, REPORTERS.— What most extraordinary
theseNFl:' reporters of Ape English newspapers Surely,
if there be a
menJny class of individuals who are entitled to the
appellation of cosmopolites, it is these ; who pursue their
avocation in all countries indifferently ,land accommodate them -
selves at will to the manners of all classes of society ; their
fluency of style as writers is only surpassed by their facility
of language in conversation, and their attainments in classical
and polite literature only by their profound knowledge of the
world, acquired by an early introduction into its bustling
scenes. The activity, energy, and courage which they oc-
casionally display in the pursuit of information are truly re-
markable. I saw them, during the three days at Paris,
mingled with canaille and gamins behind the barriers, whilst
the mitraille was flying in all directions, and the desperate
cuirassiers were (lashing their fierce horses against those
seemingly feeble bulwarks. There stood they, dotting down
their observations in their pocket-books as unconcernedly as
if reporting the proceedings of a reform meeting in Finsbury-
square ; whilst in Spain, several of them accompanied the
Carlist and Christino guerillas in some of their most desperate
raids, exposing themselves to the danger of hostile bullets,
the inclemency of winter, and the fierce heat of the summer
sun.—Boreou,',l Bible in Spain.

Thither the mighty torrents stray—
Thither the brook

pursues ii

And tinkling rill I
There all are equal—side by side,
The poor man and the son of pride,

This world is but the rugged road
Which leads us to the bright abode
Of peace abov

.r's foot astray

Which leads no travelle

From realms of love

Our birth is but the starting place
Our life the running of the race ;

We reach the goal—
When, in the mansions of the blest,
Death leads to its eternal rest
The weary soul.

LITERARY

Chronicles of the Careworn

NOTICES,

By Edward West.

This is the first number of a new serial, purporting to give

accounts of the miserable portions of the community. It is
illustrated with wood cuts. We can hardly tell what sort of
a publication it will be until we see something further of

it : at any rate it promites well so far

Collegiate Institution. Drawn on stone by Tait, and litho-

graphed by Miller. Newling, London

This is a beautifully-executed lithograph of the new insti-
tution in Shaw-street. We can recommend it to the notice
of all who take an interest in the progress of the institution.
It will, when handsomely framed, adorn any apartment.

BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH COMMERCE

We find the substance of the following statements, rela-
tive to the origin of the commerce of Britain with foreivn

countries, in a curious but somewhat verbose and prolix,
" Memoirs on the Revolutions of Commerce of the British
Isles, from its commencement to the invasion of the Ito.
mans, by M. Melot : read before the French Royal Academy
of Inscriptions, in 1743."

It appears, from Strabo, that the Phenicians first esta-
lished commerce with the British Isles. This writer gives
s the following details of t

brought to this country ear

and Copp

and tin

d cattle; that the

Las sk

for the cl

nations, e

and whi
oved in r

merce might 1

found in I

inexliausti

them very near th,

rocky, it wja;trave

his commerce

The PheniCians
aware, salt, all sorts of iron

s, leather

were 1

❑tained mines of gold, silver

part of their trade

ich were excellent

var. Whatever the extent

even 0.

ars certain that the trade in tin

Les of tin almost everywhere, many o-,
f
surface; and, although the soil was
d in all directions by veins of sand or

gravel, which contained metal in abundance, and nearly on
the surface of the earth. Thus these mines were hot only
numerous, but also rich, and required neither much labour
nor expense to work them. The natives, who knew not their
riches, and who estimated the value of the metal by the
amount of labour which it cost them to procure it, and its
worthlessness to themselves (the Phenicians being, of course,
too much interested to instruct them in its uses), gave their
tin almost for nothing, and took in exchange inferior articles,
for which they paid extravagantly, because they were useful
to a savage and slothful people.
Pliny, according to Bochart, attributes the discovery of the
British Isles to the Phenician Hercules : and w find from

Eusebius's Chronicles, a Phenician Hercules existing in the
73d year of Moses. Elsewhere Herodotus insinuates, and
some critics have thought, that all the tin which was an-
ciently found in Asia had been brought there from the Bri-
tish Isles, by the Phenicians. Now the Bible informs us,
that this metal was employed in ti— -'traction of the ta-

. Lne cons.
bernacle. From these facts it may be inferred, that the
discovery of Britain by the Phenicians must have been about
the time of Moses. The destruction of Tyre, and the es-
tablishment of Alexandria, destroyed the commerce of the
Phenicians ; and, for a time at least, Britain was left without
a trade with the East.
About three hundred years before Christ,
nians discovered Britain. and opened a commerce wu..
but, whether they were less fortunate or less skilful than I.
Phenicians, they did not long preserve their monopoly in this
commerce. Pytheas, an astronomer of Marseilles. in a
voyage which he made to Thule, discovered Britain about
same time as the Carthaginians ; and, by the account
be published, made known the existence of these islands, and
revealed the secret of their commerce.
Diodorus states, that it was the Britons of Cape P
who obtained tin from the mines; which thP-

the Carthaw

reduced into cubical masses (blocks), which they transported
to the Isle of Wight, on chariots at low water, when the sea
let dry the tongue of land which joined that island with
Great Britain. To that island the foreign merchants came
to buy the tin, which they took thence to the coast of Gaul,
where they loaded horses with it ; and, in thirty days after

quitting the cost, arrived at the mouth of the Rhone, at
Marseilles, as Strabo explains in speaking of this commerce.
As soon as Narbonne was built, British tin was carried
thither, as well as to Marseilles. Diodorus also states, that
the Gauls carried away from the Carthaginians the trade with
Great Britain in tin. Caesar tells us, in precise terms, that
the Veneti formed the most powerful state in Armorica
that, by their skill in naval ' • -
'^h they had at

by the large force

torn all vessels in

which ~.. sea, tney levied tributt.
that latitude; and that they maintained a numerous fleet in
the trade with Britain. Probably their port was in the
neighbourhood of Brest, and their commerce with Britain
commenced about 120 years before Christ. It appears, then,
that only three nations are known to have carried on trade
with Britain prior to its invasion by the Romans, viz., the
Phenicians, Carthaginians, and Gauls. Another French
Writer, however, shows that the Marseillese of that early
period were Greeks, and so includes that nation amongst the
traders with Britain.
Anderson, in his " Historical and Chronological Deduc-
tion of the Origin of Commerce," states, that according to
the learned Bochart, in his Canaan, the Island of Britain
was, about the year 904 before Christ, known and traded to
by the Phenicians for the tin of the Cassiterides, there being
then none of that metal to be found in the eastern countries.
The author of " The Rights of the Kingdom, or the Cus-
toms of our Ancestors," says that many Greek authors be-
fore Strabo and
and Massilian Pliny relate the Phenician, Cartbagenian,
[Marseilles] traffic to the Cassiterides for tin,
and mention the story of the Carthaginian pilot, who was re-
warded by the Carthaginian senate for sinking his ship, ra-
ther than he should be forced by the Romans to discover
their traffic for lead and tin found about the British isles.
Speaking of a later p; A
Pe-Pu, Anderson says, that, although
the Romans held Britain about 360 years, yet in all that
time there was but little of a commercial spirit to be found
amongst the Britons, whose shining, regular towns, arts,
and manufactures, it must be acknowledged, they owed en-
tirely to the Romans. He adds, that although neither Lon-
don nor any other place deserving the name of a city or town
existed in Britain in the time of Julius Caesar, London was a
considerable place in
Nero's_ reign, 100 years later ; and
hence conjectures that it was founded in the reign of Nero's
predecessor, Claudius [whom Snet onius supposed to have
been the first contriver of marine insurances.] towards its
close, probably about the year 52. Tacitus, who lived some
time in London about 50 years after this period, says it was
famous for its many merchants, and the abundance of its
merchandise. This would be about the year 102, A.D.

CHARTIST RECREATIONS.-011 Monday night the char.
tists assembled in their hall, No. 55, Old Bailey, not for the
purpose of listening to the " sweet voice " of Miss Ann
Walker, nor to " further the charter to the utmost of their
power," but to take part in a concert and t

The females

The concert com-
- 1.

57 male ar

on this occasion greatly predominated,
menced, and consisted of chartiOrng
artistes of the chartist school ; among them was the favourite
song (among the rhartists) of " O'Connor

's the man of oar

sang a song, the burden of which was " Oh, moth
my gentle mother dear !" Now came the ball. After d
for some time, a subscription was raised among the gentle
men (?), the ladies strongly protesting at being excluded, and
threepennyworth of misletoe was bought. A Air. Hogg pro-

posed to have the "cushion dance," upon which a general
cry of " by all means," many of them not knowing what it
meant. No cushion being found, a " bolster " was intro-
duced, with which the " proposer " danced until nearly out
of breath. The " bolster ' was then presented to Miss
Susannah Cleopatra Inge, who at the same time received a

kiss from Mr. Hogg. Miss Inge then danced with the
‘` bolster," and having received several chartist kisses, sat
down with the_ air of an eastern monarch. she heincr the

Queen of the Nig

t, our

a/-••••is 1,14 I.IIC
shade. The " bolster" having danced for upwards of an
hour, was allowed to retire, as did the other dancers, at the
peep of dawn, many of them thinking it was better to spend
the time in the manner they had done on that occasion than
in agitating for the charter.

THE LATE

to remor

IbNATEIANISM

I avert

his escape from ti

yen he seed a brother prig surroundec
ceterum," as the rat said when he los

k. TABLE TO CAL

cv morn

Pelied

i tail in a trap

all, the nominal wages received by your
calculation, you will find to be the
much. Then subtract the fresh butt,.
the product will show you bow often the best
into the tub of kitchen-stuff. Then work out the sum
the parlour Stilton is to the Dutch cheese, so is the colt
meat to the young man

Divide

doctor, after a second loot
why, doctor, there is a far

western world

ble of t

grass, his r
rod, which

exact half of twice

iet will go

Callia's

who stands outside the area of an
dents of the tea-caddy into what
is used for you, and the Quotient

Jur servant o

aperanc

lati, re

S upon

I.trespass he was makin

rs ; one,day he was

hen seeing a pin

Dyer anything

will you be kind
Lily, sir," said' the
rthincr " 6, Wm.,

I don't

all other known varieties
ising living ornaments t

ut the hills

tavelling
istance,

right or 1

their nos

DID ACQUAINTANCE

ape!, an

'ee of frankness

Ich repr

Id occupation,

ur that removed all impertinence, wt

here primitive c

but, for all th
Dear! I thi

at." Is not this a fit bishop's wife? is no
four and veracity ? I laughed most heartily

have now commenced acquain-tanc

occasional meet

HAEL KELI

Madame D'Arllay's-15Lri

of Pitt's income-tax, and is given in his reminisce
Sir," said I, " I am free to confess that I have e
turn ; but vanity was the cause. nnel n f.„ ;. +l,

I have returned m
in fact, I have no

"I
do, Sir,".l
ansv
' observed another

" I think,
before, "

,--4,,,., yi
A very good

If as having £5OO per
_ _

are you
'," said

tify my- lov

t musi

my examiner,

never paid
said th
rical

ttending it

red I ; but'l have no pupils."
entleman, who had not spoken

have a very good salary at
le, indeed, Sir," answered-

is my repll
end whatevc

rought in, on a wai
and it

_ rrienas. .toe
nerally on ornamented gilt note-t

income

y, vol. i

of their con

y with reproaches, tolc

ter the service o

ere sign(
" Forget me no

nil nis I addres

on Wednes

I am afr

Enat said this, I would knock you
ft learned proctor having detailed the facts to the
oove `..d, read the depositions of Mercy Ware,
it to 3, :; of Miss Amelia Rowley, and of Miss
. onomy Rowlepy,-daughters of the defendant. The evidence
of Mercy Ware stated that a considerable number out of
about fifteen or sixteen letters produced were written by her
mistress to Mr. Rowley ; that her mistress read over some
of the letters to her (Mercy Ware), and desired her to
deliver them to Mr. Rowley, and to nobody else • some of
Constant;" some of them were

t." This witne,,s had seen
her mistress and Mr. Rowley,