The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

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visit, but found him so feeble, that he warn't able to raise a
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there are many English debtors in the same dis-

tate of debility

A MISER'S CONSOLATION.—Sir John Cutler was well
known as a complete miser; he boasted that Providence had
showed him peculiar favour in causing his natal day to fall on
the 29th of February, so that he had but one birthday to
Nil on the 29th of February, so that he had but one birthday
to keep in four years.

One telling another that he had once so excellent a gun,
that it went off immediately on a thief's coming into the
house, although it was not charged. " How the devil can
that be?" said the other. " Because," said the first, " the
thief carried it off; and, what was worse, before I had time
to charge him with it."

ORNITHOLOGICAL CURIOSITY.—Did ever any of our
sporting readers know of a landrail or corncraik killed in

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winter, say betwixt November and March ? Rigby Watson,
Esq., of Corwar, M.P.' killed one on the 10th current, on
the lands of Drumlainford, which he has ordered to be stuffed
and sent to the Ayr Mechanics' Museum.—Ayr Advertiser.

IRISH MILESTONES.—A stranger riding along the road
observed that all the milestones were turned in a particular
way, not facing the road, but rather averted from it. He
called to a countryman, and inquired the reason. "Oh,
bless you, sir," replied the man, " the wind is so strong
sometimes in these parts, that if we wer' n't to turn the backs
of the milestones to it, the figures would be blown off them,
clear and clean."

MARRIAGE OF JEWS WITH CHRISTIANS.—The second
Chamber of Hanover rejected, on the 13th instant, a pro-
position having for its object to permit the marriage of Jews
with Christians, on condition that the children should be
brought up in the Christian religion, or, at least, to declare
valid marriages contracted between Jews and Christians in
foreign countries, without any intention on their part of
eluding Hanoverian laws.
Mr. Cresswell, on Thursday last, after the usual ceremo-
nies, was admitted to the state and degree of a serjeant-at-
law, and then took his seat on the bench as one of the jus-
tices of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. His lord-
ship, however, did not sit more than a few minutes. There
was a large attendance of the members of the bar belonging
to the northern circuit to witness the ceremony. His lord-
ship presided at the trial of a few causes at Nisi Prius on
Friday.

THREE BOYS DROWNED AT KNARESDOROUGII.— OD
Saturday last, an inquest was held before John Wood, Esq.,
coroner, at Knaresborough, on view of the bodies of Alban
Leckenby, aged 13 years, James Leckenby, aged 11 years,
and Reuben Ingram, aged 10 years, who were accidentally
drowned in the river Nidd, 'on the previous Thursday night.
It seems that the unfortunate youths had gone down to play
upon the ice before it was sufficiently strong to bear them.
The jury returned verdicts of " Accidental death."

Recent intelligence from New South Wales furnishes us
with some information as to the employment of Bolam, the
assassin of poor Millie. it appears that he is in good health,
and that he has a situation which much resembles that of a
washerwoman's assistant. He is employed to take away the
foul linen from the barracks at Sydney, to a place of some
miles distance, where it is convenient to have them washed.
He then brings it back clean, and returns it carefully as to
quantity to the proper authorities.—Our informant does not
state whether he does anything in the ironing or mangling
department.—Tyne Mercury.
A HUSBAND FOR ANYBODY.—The following communi-
cation, with which we have been favoured, is inserted ex-
actly according to " copy" :—" Deare Sur,—l hop you will
pleas to a blidge Me and I will cal when I do 'lam to Here-
ford and Sattusfey you I have been disappointed having a
wif I went to bristol lust weak to be marrd and the gurle was
marred to anothr man and if you will pleas to put my name
In your paper as soon as you can for any young woman that
will have Me and She must bring her carriter with her and
that Is all I do want for I have plenty for we boath to live
on."—Hereford Journal.

THREE AWFUL. INSTANCES OF SUDDEN DEATH.
Wednesday last, Mr. Mason, wheelwright, of Upper Eati..o
ton, near Shipston-on-Stour, in going towards his shop,
suddenly dropped down and expired. The following day,
Mr. J. Harrison, of Stratford•on-Avon, in going over his
field fell down and never spoke again. On the same day,
Sarah, the wife of Mr. Decimus Slatter, of Ilmington, while
going across the kitchen with a decanter in her hand, sud-
denly fell down and expired immediately. The deceased was
the third wife of the above named gentleman, and had not
been married to him twelve months.—Worcester Journal.

FRACTURE AND COLLAPSE OF A BOILER FLUE.—
THREE MEN KILLED.—About twenty minutes after two
o'clock on Wednesday last, an accident, attended with most
disastrous results, occurred in the boiler-house attached to
the cotton mill of Messrs. John Pooley and Son, Clarence-
street, near the Cavalry Barracks, Huhoe. This was caused
by the rent and collapse of an internal boiler Otte, which
immediately caused the steam, hot water, fire, burning coals,
&c., to be driven out of the fire-doors with tremendous
force, scalding four men so dreadfully that three of them
died the same day, and the fourth is still in a very precari-
ous state.—Manchester Guardian.

DEATH OF MR. Ducnow.—lt is with regret that we an-
nounce the death of this remarkable man, who expired on
Thursday night at his house, No. 19, York-road, Lambeth.
The dreadful shock received by the late Mr. Ducrow from
the conflagration of the Amphitheatre last June, which ter-
minated in the death of one of his oldest servants, and the
destruction of the whole of his theatrical property, induced
a state of insanity, from which he never wholly recovered.
On Saturday week he was seized with a paralytic stroke,
after which he never rallied. Mr. Ducrow was in his 54th
year. He was twice married; in 1818 to Miss Griffith, of
Liverpool, who died some years ago, and was buried in a
splendid mausoleum in the cemetery at Kensal-green. He
was secondly united to Miss Woolford, the celebrated eques-
trian, who survives him, with, we believe, one or two chil-
dren. Ile had no children by his first wife, but adopted, in
his life time, the "petit Ducrow," a brother's child, whom
he treated with the same affection he extended to his mother
and all his relations.

NEW LINE OF AMERICAN PACKET SIIIPS.—The brig
Messenger, Capt. Ellis, has just arrived in the St. Katherine
Dock, from Boston, United States, and is the first vessel of
a line of packets which will run- regularly hereafter between
Boston and London; and if the experiment succeeds new
and large ships of the size and model of the New York, Li-
verpool, and London line, will take the policies of the present
vessels. The Messenger has made a good voyage, and conies
laden with American produce. There is little doubt of the
ultimate success of this new line, as the rapid growth of
Boston, the opening of the railroad to Albany, by which the
vast quantities of western produce can be conveyed at a rapid
rate to Boston, the royal mail steamers from Liverpool, the
Eastern Railroad, which is to be continued to the Bay of
Fundy, the numerous branch railroads, all continue to assist
the trade of Boston, and there is reason to believe that a line
of packets direct to London will prove profitable to the
enterprising merchants who have started the project. —Lon-
don Standard.

It is stated in Mincing-lane that the tenonr of the answer
received from the Board of Trade respecting the memorial
addressed by the coffee importers and others for the reduc-
tion of the duties at present levied on the various descrip-
tions is favourable; that the officials there will be glad to
communicate with the trade on the matter, and that an early
day will be appointed for the consideration of the arguments
the memorialists have to advance. Messrs. Franks and Co.
in their circular speak confidently of a reduction taking place,
the Government being, according to their representations,
desirous of encouraging the article. However, doubts seem
to arise in the minds of parties intimately. connected with the
trade as to the policy of making any further reduction of the
duty payable upon foreign, the reason assigned being that
there is already sufficient competition in the market by the
tr 9d. duty, which brings in large quaities of coffee, the pro-
duce of the Dutch colonies, who are already 89ccessfully
trenching upon the consumption of our West India produc-
tion by such legalized importation.—Times.

FORTUNATE ESCAPE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP VIN-
DICTIVE.—The Vindictive, 50, which got around on the edge
of the Dean Bank, Portsmouth, during the gale of Wednes-
day, was fortunately got off, and has obtained safe anchor-
age, owing to the fortunate circumstance of the wind sud-
denry shifting last night to N. and W., in a heavy squall at
the top of high water, when the Vindictive floated and im-
mediately got under weigh. Great fears were entertained up
to a late hour on Wednesday night for the safety of this fine
frigate. Had the gale backed round to S.S.E., which from
the appearance of the weather it so threatened, the Vindictive
must have been, in all probability, a lost ship. We learn she
makes upwards of 19 inches of water per hour, and that she
is greatly damaged. At an early hour on Thursday morning
every assistance from the dockyard was given to get her into
the harbour, but without succeeding. She is ordered to be
docked, and examined forthwith. Rear-Admiral Sir Tho-
mas Cochrane, C. 8., arrived here last night, having been
ordered to hoist his flag this day ou board the Vindictive, as
Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. Owing to the
Vindictive having been so unexpectedly disabled, Sir Thomas
hoisted his flag on board her Majesty's ship Excellent, and
struck it at sunset.

THE AGGRIEVED PEASANT.—In Frederick William's ex-
cursions the meanest of his subjects was allowed access to
his Majesty. One day, a peasant ran along by his carriage,
holding up a paper. The King ordered the driver to stop,
took the paper, and was surprised to find upon it no writing,
but merely a square, containing nothing but scrawls and
blots of ink. He inquired whet it meant. The peasant said,
that being unable to write, he could not describe his case any
other way than by this drawing. " Well," said the King,
"just explain it to me." The peasant, mounting upon the
step of the carriage, began thus in his low Lierman dialect :
" This here, look you, my turnip field, and those are my
turnips ; ah ; such turnips, Mr. King, you ought to taste
them—they are nice, indeed.""—" Go on," said the King.
Well, there, here, look you, continued the peasant, point-
ing to the blots, are the an-am-antes pigs; they have got in
and ate up my nice turnips, so I am now a ruined man. Dear
Mr. King, the amtmann will not pay me for the damage, and
that's very wrong, and so I want just to beg you to be so
kind as to send word to the amtmann to pay me for my tur-
nips. I shan't begrudge a dish of turnips, and I'll be sure
to bring you some, if you'll see me righted." The king or-
dered the name of the village, of the amtmann, and of the
peasant, to be taken down, and promised to help him. The
village was not far from Berlin, and he sent the same day a
jager to the aintmann, with a very serious admonition to
make the peasant immediate compensation. This had the
desired effect; the amtmann not only satisfied the demands
of the complainant, but gave him more than he had asked.
A day or two afterwards, the peasant laden with a bag full of
turnips, entered the King's antechamber. His majesty or-
dered him to be admitted. The peasant, by way of express-
ing his acknowledgement, emptied his bag of turnips on the
table ; then picking out a few small ones, he handed them to
the Queen, telling her that, if she would keep one of them in
her mouth when she was spinning, it would help her to wet
the thread properly. The Queen was pleased with the good
familiarity of the man, and he was dismissed with a present.
—Campbell's Frederick the Great and his Times.

THE TEXAN LADIES AND GENTLEDIEN.—The Texan
ladies seldom show themselves to strangers, and, like those
of the United States, they use either the pipe or the swab.
They have little neatness or cleanliness 9f person to attract
the eye. Their figures are scarcely to be described ; coarse,
from neglect, or .emaciated by self-indulgence, their skins
have borrowed from the sun the exact hue of the lemon ; and
if the countenance be a true index of the mind, I doubt not
that their dispositions have somwhat of the peculiar flavour
of that sour bullet of the tropic; but yet, to those who ad-
mire silence above everything else in woman, permit me to
introduce the ladies of Texas, par excellence, as mutes. 7 The
usual salutation of the Texan gentlemen is, " How does your
copperosity sagaciate this morning ?"—How are you now ?"
(this is all after an absence of some years.) " A pretty con-
siderable of a jug full of sun this morning,"—A lartiation
up-street sort of a day this, I calculate." On entering into
conversation, they take out their knives and commence
" whittling." So great is their propensity for " whittling,'
that they frequently, if sitting on. a chair, put down their
hand and bring it up again with a long slice off one of the
legs, which they begin to "whittle," and
" calculate" the
exact value per thousand of the wood of which the chairs are
made. When speaking of those men who have been fortu-
nate enough to gain their esteem, they say, " He's an up-
street man that,"-:....,
A right smart man,"—" A pretty
considerable of
- a ma""—" A tarnation tall man :" this last
expression, when applied to some of their eminent men who
happen to be considerably under the middle standard, is far
more amusing than all the rest of their peculiarities, and can-
not fail to thegravity ofa stranger—Maillard's Texas.