The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

)oor wo-

man, careless of opinion, of everything, uest.v.,---
into a habit of drinking, until at length she fell under the full
influence of that degrading vice. Meanwhile, the husband
and the late servant of the cast-off wife lived together as a
loving couple, and a numerous offspring was the fruit of the
connexion. At length, however, Mr. Trip gr
second flame, and introducing her to some c
tuted friend as a paragon, he persuaded th

tired of hi:

sly masti-
c fellow to
ize. Thus

take her and all her (his) children as a spec

be was once more a

an, with no incur

of having to pay the pittance which w•e have mentioned for

the sup—port of his Wife

s too just an

affair to suit his taste, and he frequently evinced his dislike
for the exaction by neglecting his payments altogether. On
these occasions, however, he was promptly pulled up by Mr.
Evans of the Parish-office, who generally looks very smartly
after delinquents of this class. _ _ _

'lr. Trip a
aother,

One species of emancipation, it appears, gave
strong disposition to seek the means of procurm

and, as it is said that Satan never deserts a sinner at a pinch,
the fruit of Mr. Trip's cogitations on the subject was .a

scheme which must assuredly have been of-diabolical origin.
We are sorry to say, that cases of matrimonial rupture are
too frequently brought forward at our public-office; and Mr.
Rushton, our excellent stipendiary magistrate, has often to
become the arbiter in disputes

;onetime

a trifling

nature, but more frequently arisir„,
quency. In the course of his adjudicatio
a rule not to compel a husband to support

from ixr

Trip became
age. Some

*Warp.

THE OUTCAST.

DOR THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Cold blows the blast, though the summer is nigh ;
Cold gleam the stars, and all pale as in tears;
But colder this heart in my bosom doth lie,—
This heart that should be in the spring of its years.
Dark sets the storm over wild wood and field,
The herds to their wind-shaken solitude flee;
But darker the woes in my bosom concealed,
And wilder the fortune that waits upon me !

Sad as a wing-broken bird from its nest,
I wander the night, and no shelter I see;
But the chill pining heart of the bird shall find rest,
And sweet is the rest GOD will yet grant to me.

CHARLES SWAIN.

OUR OLD LOVE.

(For the Liverpool Standard.

The mere memory of an old love, is sweeter than a new one."—
New Monthly Magazine.

The mere memory of an old love, so sacred, sad ; yet true
'Tis sweeter far than present joys, of one that is but new,
With hallow'd feelings for the past, for joys for ever fled,
We think and speak of her though false, as friends do of
. .

their dead;
No harshness now, nor bitterness, pervade our soothed breast,
But calm, and tranquil as the sea, when storms have sunk to

rest,
We ponder o'er the scenes of old, and think that all the

blame-
Should not be borne by her alone,—peace rest upon her name!
We call to mind her face and form, so graceful, and so fair,
Her winning smiles, her sun-lit eyes, her rich luxuriant hair ;
Her polish'd brow, like marble white, unfurrow'd then by
care,
The very seat, and throne of truth, seem'd fix'd for ever
there ;
So passing strange, that she'd be false, to us it now cloth seem,
But as some horrid phantasy, some sleep-disturbing dream.
And though the truth so fearfully, strikes home upon our
heart,
Yet the memory of our old love, from thence can ne'er depart.

But the memory of an old love, confiding, firm, and true,
Through evil and through good report, can love that is but

new,
Aught equal this ?—its joys so pure, now temper'd down by

time,
As silver from its drossy ores, new trials but refine ;
Its luserous brightness, shineth most, in darkness and in

gloom.
Its light continueth here on earth, till bid within the tomb.
Oh! this old true love, abideth, when all has fled beside,
It is a tree of goodly growth, with branches spreading wide;
It flourishes luxuriantly, it knows of no decay,
Alike unmoved by winter's storms, or summer's scorching

ray ;
The memory of its former days, it cherishes, and well,
Upon each scene of early love, it oft delights to dwell;
The day, the hour, the very spot, it readily can name,
Yes, 'twas a shaded, sweet, old-fashioned English lane,
With daisies, and with violets its banks were thickly spread,
And the spreading ash, its branches cast, a cooling shade

o'erhead,
While the hawthorn and the woodbine shed a sweet perfume

around,
Oh ! 'tis only in our favor'd isle, such lovely spots are found.
There first, with few and falt'ring words was timidly

confess'd, _
The ardent love, long felt before, but ne'er durst be express'd.
Extatic happy moment ! how replete with heavenly bliss,
When the first pledge of mutual love, is sealed with the kiss,
Which angels might have envied then, so pure from earth's

alloy,
Yes, the memory of that happy time, is cherish'd long with

joy ;
The beauty and the loveliness of person and of mind,
Which then entranc'd our youthful gaze, continues still

combin'd—
Andmany years since then have fled, of mingled good and

ill,
Our old true love abideth yet, unchang'd, unalter'd still.
S. K.

December 21st, 1842.

TO JEANNE,
ON THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HER BIRTHDAY,

17TH DECEMBER, 1842.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

When twenty summer suns had o'er thee roll'd,
I hail'd with joy thy twentieth natal day,
Since then, Heav'n's signs, another year have told,
And one more summer's sun bath pass'd away ;
And 'neath its beams, full many a peerless rose,
Have op'd their full blown blossoms to the eye,
Each emulous its beauties to disclose,
And woo, with looks of love, the glowing sky.
Jennie ! the rose that makes my heart sae glad,
Needs not the rays of summer's sun to bloom,
For in its own innate luxuriance clad,
It bla's fu' sweet, in sunshine and in storm.
And not a rose that ever drank the dew
In Sharon's vale, might with this one aspire
To fill my soul with raptures ever new,
Or breathe through it a holier desire.
Then dearest Jennie ! I'll for aye remember
The rose that blooms sae fair in dark December.
lAGO.

THE CORN LAWS AND MARRIAGE.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

I'm a Corn-law opponent, an unwedded virgin,
And my motive on this score for being so urging,
Is the small chance apparent of e'er being wed,
And all on account of the high price of bread ;
Making young men their wishes averse to disclose—
At any offer we'll snap—but there's none to propose :
Every male is so backward, and apt to declare,
That to take a wife now 's a most serious affair !
And thus I come forth as a staunch corn-law leaguer,
To encourage the beaux, and to make them more eager,
For wedlock must flourish, and ladies keep breeding,
With cheapness of diet and capital feeding ;
So to canvas the town, still collecting the pence
To further our cause, is a proof of good sense;
For how can a damsel inactive remain,
The prize a large loaf, and a husband to gain •
'Tis a sad risk to run, and of which I'm afraid,
To expire of starvation, or to die an old maid !
CLEOPATRA.

STANZAS
ON HEARING THAT THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM HAD

LAID THE FIRST STONE OF A PROTESTANT CHURCH ON

MOUNT SION.

JERUSALEM, Nov. B.—Extract from a private letter :
"The Bishop of Jerusalem laid the first stone of the Pro-
testant Church on Mount Sion on the 2d instant. Forty
feet of rubbish, the wreck of ancient buildings mouldering
into dust, had to be removed in sinking the foundations."

Clear it away, 'tis the ruin of ages;
Let the mattock and bar on the sterile ground ring ;
And the earth, once the birth-place of prophets and sages,
Again rear an altar to Israel's King.
Away with the dust of the Ishmaelite stranger!
This is not his home, and shall not be his rest ;
And the ashes of those who, in toil and in danger,
For the " Holy Land " fought, be with joy dispossessed.
Scatter the fragments of cornice and column,
The relics of temples a Pagan world built ;
When the curse had commenced—how tremendous, how
solemn!—
" Be on us and our children the blood and the guilt !"
Dig deep, and away with the wrecks of His slayers
Who came and who died a world's ransom to pay—
Of Christ, the Redeemer, who, ansi<:ering our prayers,
Has strengthened our hands in the work of to-day.

We are down to the rock, and the dust yet remaining,
It may be of martyrs and prophets of old,
While Urim yet shone, all its virtues retaining,
And the priest to the people their God's message told.

We are down to the rock, and with Christ our foundation,
Our church shall be reared for the spread of His word!
Till the Jew and the Christian unite as one nation :
Then hasten the work in the name of the Lord!
RICHARD JONES.

[We copy the above beautiful lines (from the pen of the
author of several popular works of fiction) from the United
Service Gazette. They are alike creditable to the head and
heart of the writer.—Standard.]

LITERARY NOTICE.

The Book of British Ballads : No. 6. London : Jeremiah

How, Fleet-street.

The number before us complete the first volume of this
splendidly illustrated work ; and we cannot imagine a more
acceptable Christmas present than such a volume, suitably
bound up, would make. No. 6 contains " The Mermaid,"
illustrated by designs from the pencil of Franklin, and en-
graved by Green, Branston, Nicolls, Walmsley, and Arm-
strong. The beautiful ballad of " Lord Ullin's daughter" is
illustrated by drawings by E. Corbould. engraved by Wil-
liams and Whimper—an artist whose name we do not re-
member having observed amongst the host of talent engaged
upon this work. The illustrations of this ballad are perfect
gems.
" Sir Agilthorn" is illustrated by the pencil of Red-
the gravers of Walmsley, Bastin, Branston,
grave, and
Pastin, and Vizitetly. " Johnie of Breadislie is illustrated
by designs from the pencil of Gibson. beautifully engraved by
Linton. " The Dowie Glens of Yarrow" is illustrated by
the bold pencil of Franklin, the engraving ;
being committed
to Branster, Nicholls, and Evans. A frontispiece and vig-
nette accompanies the number, which, as a whole, is fully
equal to its predecessors.
spirited a work re •
We trust that the publisher of so receives
thot seed of support from the public which his enterprise
and taste so signally merits.

THE DISPOSITION TO COMMIT SVICIDE.—FOT some time
before the individual manifests a morbid propensity to sun.
fise his own life, the mind may have dwelt upon the idea of
self-destruction. In some cases the impulse is apparently
sudden in its developement : but it will commonly be found,
upon inquiry, that the notion of suicide has been haunting
the imagination for a considerable time before the act is per-
petrated or attempted. When the mind has been directed or
engaged in a particular train of morbid contemplation for any
length of time, the face assumes a peculiar cast, which is
present in no other state of mental feeling. The practitioner
who has had any experience in these cases can easily detect
the existence octhe suicidal propensity. With the view to
the prevention of self-murder, how important it is that the
physician should make himself practically acquainted with this
indication! Parkman relates that Lord M. having requested
Stuart, a distinguished artist in London, to paint a portrait
of his brother, a captain in the army, he did so with great ac-
curacy. When Lord M. saw the portrait, he exclaimed,
" This is not the portrait of my brother,—it is the portrait of
a madman." The painter requested another sitting ; his
lordship saw the painting again, when he observed, "My
brother appears more mad than before !" Three weeks. after
the Captain blew out his brains. !—F. Winslow's Health of
Body and Mind.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three a' Clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,---This DAY.

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

The import duties for the ensuing week continue unvaried
t.cn the rates previously chargeable on foreign Grain and

Flour.
A moderate quantity of Wheat, with a liberal supply of
Oats, Oatmeal, and Flour, have been received here from
Ireland within the last three days. We have also to report,
during that time, a few hundred quarters of Wheat and
Pease, with 5,455 barrels of Flour from Canada, forming the
whole arrivals from abroad ; but, coastwise, we have scarcely
any fresh arrivals.
From the close of Tuesday's market, and up to this date,
a tolerably steady feeling prevailed on the part of holders,
with limited sales of the leading articles to consumers, on
terms varying little, if in any degree, from our previous cur-
rency, which appeared to constitute the only features in the
corn trade here claiming any remark during that period.
At our Corn Exchange this morning, foreign free Wheats
continued to be held with increasing firmness, and some
parties required rather higher prices ; but having very few
millers in attendance, and little inclination to purchase, any
decided advance, if obtained, was partial, and the transac-
tions altogether extremely unimportant in amount. Of
English Wheat the supply to-day was trivial, and Irish
moved off slowly, each description remaining unaltered in
value.

Home-made and Irish, as well as States and Canadian.
Flour, met a limited demand at late prices.
A serious fire occurred here yesterday morning, in which,
amongst other produce, about 2000 quarters of bonded, and
5000 quarters of duty-paid Wheat were destroyed.
Barley and Malt, upon a slow gradual scale, maintained
our last quotations. Beans and Pease, with scarcely any
inquiry, were the turn cheaper.
Excepting a few retail sales, the Oat trade appeared to
excite no marked attention, and Tuesday's rates were barely
supported. The general price of Oatmeal to-day, was re-
duced to 21s. per 240 lbs. for good marks of Irish, at which
from 1500 to 2000 sacks were disposed of to country buyers.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 20th to the 22d December, 1342, inclusive.

• IRE- I COAST,'CAN'ADA, I
,PO- TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION'. 1 LAND.. —.... --.,v
wi*'••
I .'
•
Wheat .... .. . r.,),rs.i 256:, i 714 32;9
Barley ... ... . Qrsl.' 125 7 ! 132
Ma1t........Qr5. 8 ' 8
Oats ..... ... Qrs.l 9198 221 ; i 9418
Rye Qrs.' ,
Beans ...... Qrs.! 125 : I 125
Pease . Qrs. 1 ' 205 1 205
Shelled Barley . Qrs.,
Indian Corn Qrs.!
Rapeseed Qrs.}
Oatmeal .... Loads' 7897 20 7917
Flour . Sacks 4833. 4933
Ditto . Bris. 5455 5455

Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Bar-
ats, 1012 qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Oat-

Into Runcorn, Ireland and
ley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; 0;
meal, 1455 Ids.; Flour, 581 sac)

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Oats, 10
qrs.; Pease, qrs ; Beaus, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 20 qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, sacks, 550 brls.—lreland. Wheat, --
qrs. ; Barley, qr.; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian
Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ; Flour, sacks 80 kis.—
Coastwise. Wheat, 298 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.- ;
Oats, 12 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 4 qrs. ;
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids.; Flour, 70 sacks 229
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending. Dec. 17, 1842.
Wheat 40s. led. I Barley 265. sd. I Oats.. 17s. 2.. I Rye.. 285. I Id.
Beans.. 295. led. 1 Pease.. 325. 2d.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 48s. sd. I Barley 275. 7d. 1 Oats.. 17s. 7d. Rye.. 302. sd.
Beans.. 305. 11 d. I Pease.. 335. 2d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 203.04. I Barley 9s. Od. I Oats .. . Bs. Od. Rye.. 10s. 6d.
Beans 101.60. Pease.. 9s. 6d. 1 Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour 126.0 id

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... is. od. I Parley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I Rye.... 2s. 6d.
Beaus.. 2s. tid I Pease.. Is. Od. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s od

Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec. 20, 1842.
Qrs 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I, Beans. Pease.
715 844
Prices 445. Od. Os. id. 16s. 4d. I Os—. O. 1 Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK.

A very firm feeling pervades the market to-day ; 5000 bales
have been sold at very full prices. Weekly sales 32,600
bales. Speculators have taken 6000. There is every ap-
pearance of a further advance.

MISCELLANEOUS,

The Rev. Dr. Baily has been committed to Newgate on
the charge of forgery.

Plenty of excellent cod is now selling in Kirkcubright at
one halfpenny per pound.—Dumfries Courier.
Two men publicly renounced the errors of popery in Mul-
laghfad church, on Sunday week.—Erne Packet.
Three persons have been committed, at Manchester, on a
charge of coining.
The King of Hanover has forwarded a donation of £2OO for
the relief of the widow and family of the late Dr. Magian.
It is said that Mr. Newman has resumed the editorship of
the British Critic.

Sir Robert Peel has sent £lOO to the widow and young
family of the late Dr. Magian.
A woodcock, with four white legs, was shot on Friday last
at Keasby, in the county of Cornwall, and has been pre-
sented to the Royal Cornwall Institution.
Braham and his son, by the last accounts from America,
bad gone to the Havana a.id the British West Indies for the
winter.

Most of the Cabinet Ministers, it is expected, will assemble
at the mansion of Sir Robert Peel, Drayton Manor, in the
coarse of the present week.
The insurance offices calculate that of the immense sacri-
fice of life in the baking trade, the average age of those en-
gaged in the trade does not exceed thirty-three years.
A good dish of mushrooms were gathered, on Monday, by
Mr. James Burlton, of Bewdley, at the Bank Farm, in the
parish of Abberley, in this county.—Worcester paper.
The Duke of Northumberland has purchased the Billing-
ham property, adjoining to his Northumberland property.
The purchase money amounted to more than £lO,OOO.
DR. JOHN TAYLOR.—This individual, so well-known as
connected with the late chartish movement, died on the 4th
inst., in Darne, at the house of his brother-in-law, the Rev.
James Smith, rector of Islandmagee.
The Evening Mail says that a threatening notice has
been served on Mr. Bolton, the agent of Lord Stanley, who
resides at Balliskten-house, near Tipperary. Two policemen
are placed with him for his protection.

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte—son of Jerome Bonaparte,
formerly King of Westphalia, and brother of Napoleon—is
the chairman of the committee of an agricultural society in
Maryland.—Glooe.

MOUNT XTNA.—Letters from Catania, of the 30th ult.,
describe this volcano to be in full eruption, emitting enor-
mous masses of lava, and showing every prospect of a flow of
lava, to the destruction of all around.

A large number of forged Bank of England notes are in
circulation. They appear to have been worked from one
plate. as they are numbered 1827, and are all dated June 4,
1842.

Marston's tragedy of " The Patrician's Daughter," a re-
markable fine piece of dramatic writing, to which we called
attention at the time of its publication, has just been pro-
duced at Drury Lane with brilliant success.

THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHUTTING OF THE GATES
OF DERRY.—The Liberal Town Council of Derry have pro-
hibited the burning of the effigy of the traitor Lundy in that
city, as has heretofore been the practice.

At a late meeting in London, Captain Claridge, the " cold
water" translator, said he could see no reason why man
should not live to 200 years. Nor do we, provided he can
manage it.

THE VERSAILLES RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Tbe Paris tri-
bunal have pronounced the Railway Company not guilty, and
condemned the civil parties in the costs, amounting, it is re-
ported, to about £4OO.

His Majesty the King of Hanover has forwarded £lOO,
and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge £5O, to the
Richmond Savings Bank, in aid of the subscription to make
up the deficiency in the funds occasioned by the embezzle-
ment of the secretary, Captain Belstead.
THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—It is stated in quarters
likely to he well-informed, that the official returns of the
revenue to the sth of January, 1843, will exhibit a fearful de-
ficiency—much larger than was shown by the retans of the
preceding quarter.—Globe.
CENTRAL ANIERICA.—The American papers mention that
a Mr. Norman has been following the example of Mr. Ste-
phens in exploring parts of Central America hitherto un-
visited, where he is said to have discovered many stupendous
and interesting remains of antiquity.

The publicans of Gloucestershire have combined to evade
the law passed in the last session of parliament for the pre-
vention of sweeping boys. They put in the sweep at the top
of the chimney, the law saying nothing about descending the
chimey.

We have seen a number of The New World, a newspaper
published in New York, containing the whole of Captain
Marryat's novel, Percival Keene, neatly printed on good
paper, at the price of 121 cents, of about 6d. So much for
Brother Jonathan's " notions" of copyright!

Three pugilists have been found guilty, at New York, of
manslaughter in a minor degree,. for causing, in a pitched
battle, within the jurisdiction of that state, the death of ano-
ther of the party, named Coy ; they had not been sentenced
at the time the last steamer, the Acadia, left the new world.
As instances of the unusual mildness of the season some
apple blossom was picked from a tree in Raistrick a few days
ago; eeveral of the fields in the neighbourhood are partially
covered with daisies ; and a "quantity of "palms" may be
seen upon a tree in the neighbourhood of Willow Hall, near
this town.—Halifax Guardian.
BEET-ROOT StrGAlL—The Moniteur publishes a return of
the produce and consumption of domestic sugar in France,
from which it appears that on the Ist of December there were
still 364 manufactories in activity, that the quantity made in
November last was 6,498,145 kilogrammes, and that sold for
consumption in the same month 6,275,150.

y
811"WREcK.-We are sorry to state that the fine schooner,
Louisa cor,oll
of this port, Captain Kirkpatrick, is ashore
on the bar, aalikely to become a total wreck. We under-
stand she is Partially insured. She was laden with oats, for
Liverpool, by James Teevan, Esq. Part of the cargo has
been savcd, but we fear the greater portion will be lost—it
was also, we lean), Partially insured.—Bailyshannon Herald.

CARRIAGE DRIVE it
ti-- " ARTHUR'S .RTHUR'S SEAT AND THE
CRAGS.—On Friday
intimalLgo r Provost received a letter from
Lo
to thatte
the carriage drive round the Board of Woods and
Forests
Libncn
adola,g
agreed execute
out of work.—Edinburgh
Standard.
with a view of affording
Arthur Seat and Salisbury Crags
employment to the labourers
Standard.
SOUTH LANCASHITIZ COURSING MEETlNG.—Southport,
Mr. King's
14th Dec.—The Fleetwood ..Cup was 1‘
Shiny. being
Stakes was
Bloomsbury, being run up by Mr. Deait'itancb
siatees Distiller. The
Rossall Puppy Cup was won by Mr.
run up by Mr. Chew's Ellen. The Charehtmowru
won by Mr. Slater's Sandy, being run up by King's Fly.
The Southport Stakes was won by Mr. Robinson's. Empress,
being run pp by Mr. Thomas's Yoting Sandy.