The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

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Vulcan ; Mi. Ardern's Midshipman ran up. On Saturd
the 11th, the match between Mr. Bo:
Sir J. Boswell's Rataplan, the win
WELLINGTON STATUE FOR MANCHESTER.—The model Leger, for £lOO, and £25 for speed, to run t
of the colossal statue of the late Duke, by Mr. Noble, for three courses, was won in two courses
Manchester, is finished, and ready for the bronze foundry. speed to the hare in the second cours
RECEIPT STAMPS.—By a return just issued it appears a was a very splendid one, Breastknot having

of such an odi

Morning Post

The first cours,

that the receipt duties in the year ended the bk
January, 1852, were £174,744: in the next year, work, but not slum... ~—____
£180,491 ; and in the year ended the sth of January second course was a short one, and was altoge
last, £198,243. The penny receipt-stamps came into force favour of Breastknot. This match arose out of a
on the 10th of October, 1863. on the part of Mr. Borron, at the Biggar Meetirq
DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES.—The Northampton the legality of Breastknot being compelled to rui
Herald informs us that as some navvies were engaged in the Biggar St. Leger previous to the deciding
last week at the Glendon works of the new line of railway, when Rataplan and her were the only two left in
they found a kind of well. It had about four feet of mud Borron, who keeps his greyhounds only for amiss,
in it, mixed with some curious pottery, evidently of divided the match money between M.. -
Roman origin. One piece was marked " Co. M." in well- Courser's Annual and the Patriotic Fund
defined characters, stamped upon it while in a plastic
state. It was evidently cast from a mould, and not

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worked on a wheel. The skull, arm, and thigh bone of a
human skeleton were also found in the well, and a few Tuesday, 21st
vertebrae. , Thursday, 23rd
RECRUITING IN IRELAND.—SeveraI parties are actively Friday, 24th ..,
at work in seeking to obtain recruits, and strange to say, Monday, 27th
the greatest success has been obtained in the northern Tuesday, 28th..
provinces, notwithstanding the greater comfort and better Thursday, 30th
employment which prevail there as compared with some Friday, Dec. Ist
other parts of Ireland. In the west, however, an increas-
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HOUNDS will meet
King,:

ing disposition seems to be manifested to to
THE DAVIS' STRAITS WINTER FISHERY
companion ship to the Lady Franklin, u
maud of Captain Penny, has arrived at Al

—The Sopkii, I

Thursday

most successful whale fishery in l, ULU uca ..... ..
Sophia had only 14 hands after the Lady Franklin left in
July, but these, with the aid of the Esquimaux, killed 12 ‘ ,
whales, and could have filled a ship of the largest size
co
with the greatest ease. NOTHING is certain," is a common „__
if nothing is certain, how can it be certain that nOtb.
A CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO LONDON.—Among the
last passengers from ,
wChia, who had ived at Calcutta certain?
en route to Europeeren two Chinesearr mandarins of high TirE NEw BEER BlLL.—First Tippler.—" Well, To.
rank, named Homing and Pan-se-Tcben, who, it is stated, what d'ye think o' the New Bill ?" Second Tippler.—
have been accredited to the British Court on a special " Oh, it's not so bad; a man can easily get drunk afore
'-gion, arisinn. out of the late e'lneute between the ten o'clock, if he makes good use of his time 1"

—Diogenes

mi55i........, 'sing- - _
Chinese and the " Foreigners "at Nankin and Canton-. A SCHOOLMASTER IN ,ORNWALL, advertising
The object of the Imperial Commissioner Houang's mission, establishment, says, "Every boarder must be supplie
is to appeal to Her Majesty's Government against the with a bible and a prayer-book, a knife and fork, thrc
Europeans who have repudiated their debts to the Chinese, towels, and a silver desert spoon ; all of which, except th
in consequence of having suffered in their property by the books, become the proprietor's perquisite on the pupil
late rising, and the insurrection of Nankin. quitting the school." The conscientious pedagogue seem
SHOCKING SIIICIDE.—A young man, named William to think that the bible and prayer-book may be well fc
Ford, second son of Mr. George Ford, of Afton Farm, the pupils—he prefers, however, the steel and the silver
Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, committed suicide under WOMAN'S LAUGH.—A woman has no natural
very distressing circumstances, a few days ago. It ap- more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is 1;,--
peared that he carried on business in conjunction with hi.
brother, and that latterly he had been much depressed in

sparkling rill,
bathed in the cool, exhilirating spring
pursued an unseen fugitive through trees led
fairy laugh, now here, now there, now lost, noes
We have. And we are pursuing that wandering voic
this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of
or sorrow, or irksome business ; and then we turn a
and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like
away the ill spirits of the

spirits. He was consequently humoured in every way by
his mother and brother, who did everything that a
mother and brother's love could devise. He was closely
watched, as it was feared he might lay violent hands on
himself. He got up on Saturday morning and went down
stairs with his brother, when they arranged what each
one's work should be for the day. The deceased went
into the dairy, and shortly afterwards his brother was
shocked at hearing the report of a gun. On going to the
spot he found his brother weltering in his blood. From
the position of the body and the gun, it is believed that
the deceased had placed the butt-end against the wall and
reached forward to push the trigger; so that the muzzle
of the gun having been placed against his breast, the con-
tents were driven with terrific force through the chest,
thereby causing instant death. An inquest has been held
on the body, and a verdict of " temporary insanity" re-
turned.
AN EVENTFUL STORY.—The incidents of real life are
often-times more interesting and scarcely ever less in-
structive than those evolved during the development of a
fictitious narrative or story, and they at times present a
strangeness and improbability which we generally asso-
ciate only with works of imagination. We meet every
day with coincidences as extraordinary as ever the novelist
created for the happiness or misery of his heroes—with
facts surrounded with all the romance of fiction, and much
more of the truth—with chapters in the history of real
life as full of interest as the most touching chapters of
romance, and appealing to the heart with more force, by
drawing it to the contemplation of real sorrow and true
heroism. Fortune, amidst this hurry and bustle of actual
life, plays her strangest freaks—pushing from its highest
pinnacles some, and raising others from the humblest
spheres to unbounded wealth. Of the latter the public
hear more, because they are of a more exceptional
character, and to some
:extent are connected with facts
as instructive as 'they are interesting. Of this cate-
gory is a story communicated to us within the past
few days. Some years ago, a man in the humbler
walks of life was honoured by an offer of marriage
from a lady in comfortable circumstances, which he
accepted, and the event was soon after consummated.
During their wedlock she bore him three sons, a short
time after which her death took place. In the course of a
few years the widower sought another wife, his sons com-
mencing the world with moderate competencies, and
achieving (one or more in the East Indies), by prudence
and frugality, princely fortunes. Whilst thus accumu-
lating wealth, their father was struggling on pith a nu-
merous and youthful family of girls, one of whom (at pre-
, sent the only survivor), after exchanging vows of unalter-
able devotion with a youthful wooer on his departure for
the United States of America, ran away with a tailor, who
wooed and won her whilst a girl at school. Subsequently
the tailor and his wife removed to Leeds, where they lived
' for many years in the humblest manner, and whilst re-
siding there one of the half-brothers died, leaving his
father and his heirs by the second wife, at the death
of oue of the surviving brothers, the whole of his
estates, worth, it was stated, nearly a quarter of a
million, the surviving brother undertaking not to allow
anything to the half-sister during his lifetime. The
father died either previously or immediately after this
event, and, notwithstanding this brilliant fortune in re-
version, the poor tailor and his wife continued to struggle
on against difficulties which only the poor know, and re-
sisting all overtures to give up their title for a present
consideration. Some twelve or fifteen months ago the
poor tailor died, leaving his wife with a family of three
daughters and a son, with scarcely any means of obtain-
ing a future maintenance. The history of that period is
one of deeply painful character—a history of want and
suffering—at times of actual starvation, relieved only by
parish relief—the family barely existing, buoyed up by
the hope of the fortune which the rapidly declining health
of the brother on whose death its reversion depended
placed almost within their grasp. The brother tried the
waters of a neighbouring mineral spa during the past
summer, and had frequent interviews with his half-
sister, who, however, kept him ignorant of her abso-
lute destitution. He found, however, but tempory
relief from the waters, and towards autumn he re-
turned to his home in the north, where he died
last week, leaving his half-sister a shilling and mourning,
to her son an estate in India, and to the eldest daughter
a handsome fortune —the residue of his property going to
an illegitimate son. At this conjuncture the old wooer of
our heroine presents himself after a successful trans-
atlantic career, and with the chivalry of a true knight he

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mind. How much we owe to that sweet iaugn it tur
the prose of our life into poetry, it flings showers of su
shine over the darksome wood in which we are travellir
it touches with light even our sleep, which is no
image of death, but is consumed with dre

shadow. of mortality.
EVERY MAIDEN WILL BE WED—if she can.
sooner has time trotted her into her teens, and she
shed her short frock, than she begins to think about
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trimony ; and the more she thinks about it,
feels—she don't know how. Still she dreams of
Cupids, doves, darts, sentimental moonlights, and all su.
fancy goods. Her pretty little heart flutters in its prison
like a butterfly in a bushel basket. She sighs f.”
thing—'tis nothing of any consequence. ,
'tis nobody in particular. At last her fond affections are
clenched, double-rivetted to an object in trousers an,
shirt collar—she is fast ; and, as for making her le,
you might as well undertake to whistle a grape vim.
from a white oak. Have him she must, and have him she
will, be he as poor as poverty itself, as ignorant as a Hot-
tentot, and as odd looking as a blue pig with a saffron
coloured tail. Poor creature ! with eager heart and
empty head" she rushed forward to the goal, not only hoping
but actually believing, that she will there meet with happy
ness unadulterated with the vile ingredients that make u
the compound of every maidenly joy. What a shadow
what deceit ! Yankee Humour,
A FROLICSOME Gnosr.—During a recent sitting at
private circle in New York, consisting

for somebody

of four p

denouement we know not