The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-30 00:00:00

TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.

A meeting of this body, summoned by the committee of
the Assistants' Association, was held at the Clarendon-
rooms, on Wednesday evening last ; Mr. FLOWER in the
chair. The meeting, although not numerously attended,
appeared to comprise many of the most respectable and in-
telligent men of that class. The chair was taken at nine
o'clock.

The CnAtumAN, in opening the proceedings, said that it
was his painful task to inform the meeting that the affairs of
the association had arrived at that crisis when it had become
necessary either to dissolve the association, or at once, and
by a vigorous effort, to renovate its funds. It would pain
him deeply to witness the death of this association, for by
its means alone had the claims of the suffering class to which
he had the misfortune to belong been brought to the notice
of the public. A large portion of the British public—that
portion which was elevated above the rest by wealth, by
rank, and above all by education—had responded to their
cry for help in a manner that shed a lustrous honour on the
name of man. The gratitude of the assistants was due to
those truly noble persons who bad generously fought their
battle, regardless of the stings and arrows of outrageous
malice which assailed them from behind the shutters which
enclose the ignorant and vulgar prejudices of a bygone age.
Such gratitude. he said, would ill be shewn by the supine
indifference of the men whose cause had been so benevolently
espoused, and he exhorted them to throw off the stigma
which, leech-like, stuck to them, and sucked the blood away
which ought to flow through their hearts, with an honest,
manly pride, which is the natural right of all who do their
duty. The chairman then entered into a brief statement of
the pecuniary embarrassments of the association, owing to
the members not having renewed their subscriptions after
the first year ; and concluded by entreating every person
present to exert himself to the utmost to obtain subscrip-
tions.

Mr. JACKSON then submitted a resolution to the meeting,
to the effect that the duty and interest of every assistant de-
manded his best endeavours to support an association whose
sole object is the moral and social elevation of the class to
which he belongs.—This resolution was seconded with some
very sensible and manly observations by Mr. DULIN, a gen-
tleman in the employ of Messrs. Promoli and Co., and was
carried unanimously.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, Mr. W. B. JONES, and two other
gentlemen, then delivered very
ofspirited addresses ; and it
was determined that a number the persons present should
be appointed receivers of donations and subscriptions. The
meeting separated at half-past ten. (See advertisement.)

It is in contemplation to write over the door of Dover
Gaol, " Hair cut on the shortest notice."—punch.
VESTED INTEREST.—" I have a vested interest in it," as
the footman said of his master's waistcoat.

®BRIGHT. —" I say, my little son, where does that right-
hand-road go?" " Don't know, sir ; tain't been no where
since we lived here."

SWEET POTATOES.—An exchange paper says that an old
bachelor having been laughed at by a bevy of pretty girls, he
told them they were .. small potatoes," replied one of the
girls, " but we are sweet ones ."' The old bachelor then felt
as if he could eat them up, and he said they ought to be all
" roasted and dished."

SHORT WAGES.—A man out west, by the name of Wages,
who employs a great many bands on his farm, has accumulated
an immense fortune. He is said to be the shortest man in
the country. The usual reply to the common question of
" Where do you work ?" is answered, " I am to work for
' short Wages.' "—American Paper.
A lawyer, now deceased, a celebrated wag, was pleading
before a Scotch judge, with whom he was upon the most
intimate terms. Happening to have a client, a female of the
name of Tickle, defendant in an action, he commenced his
speech in the following humorous strain :—" Tickle my
client, the defendant, my lord. The auditors, amused with
the oddity of the speech, were almost driven into hysterics
by the judge replying. " Tickle her yourself, Harry, you are
as able to do it as I."