The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

On Wednesday the Goldsmiths' Company gave a grand OUT-JQNATHANING JONATHAN.—There is a lady in
banquet' to the Ministry. To those who have experienced Cork who dismissed her cook for sending potatoes to table
the hospitality of this princely company it were needless—to without their jackets on. Hurrah for ould Ireland !
those A who have not it were impossible—to picture the regalcredulous person is like a pitcher—borne by the ears,
magnificence of the hall,—the golden glories of the massive . of
empty itself, but apt to hold whatever is put into it.—
plate, the sparkling splendours of the brilliant illuminations, Butte
or the tasteful elegancies of the entertainment. The com-
pany comprised the following distinguished personages :
Mr. Prime Warden Buttemer, Mr. Warden Hayne, Mr.
Warden Halifax, and Mr: Warden Ashlin, Sir R. Peel, Sir
J. Graham, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Mountca-
shel, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl
of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Ripon, Earl Jermyn, the Mar-
quis of Abercorn, the Marquis of Downsbire, Lord Wharn-
cliffe, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Vice-
Chancellor, Lord Abinger, Lord Colville, Lord Bexley, Lord
Prudhoe, Lord Fitzgerald, Lord Villiers, Lord Sandon, Sir
R. Stopford, Sir R. Inglis, Sir G. Seymour, Sir E. Knatch-
bull, Sir H. Hardinge, Sir B. Vere, Sir H. Halford, Sir T.
Fremantle, Sir G. Murray, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir G. Clerk,
Sir J. R. Reid, Sir F. Pollock, Sir H. Wheatley, Sir W.
Follett, Sir M. A. Shee, Sir P. Laurie ; the Governor and
Deputy-Governor of the Bank, the Chairman of the East
India Company, the Governor of the Russia Company, Mr.
G. Palmer, M.P.; Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; Mr. Lyall, M.P. ;
Mr. Estcourt, M.P. ; and Mr. Baring.
The usual loyal toasts (it is hardly necessary to say) were
proposed and responded to with great enthusiasm.
The Prime Warden then proposed the toast, " Sir Robert
Peel and Her Majesty's Ministers."
Sir R. Peel, in returning his acknowledgements, said, be
had to express his regret that he should have been prevented
from manifesting the punctuality which he desired to display
respecting the invitations of the Goldsmiths' Company; but
he knew the excuse which he had to urge would be readily
received by an assembly like the present, viz., the perform-
ance of public duty,—(cheers)—the performance of which
rather indisposed him to " much speaking." (" Hear, hear,"
and a laugh.) He could not, however, avoid declaring that
he knew of no company entitled to more of public respect
than that of which he had the hononr now to be the guest.
V hen he considered the antiquity of their institution, the
noble use they made of their wealth, their generous exertions
in the cause of education, and their princely endowments,—
(cheers)—he felt the highest regard and esteem for this as-
sociation, the favour of whose constant support he cordially
appreciated ;—(cheers)—and in carrying those measures which
the government believed were required for the national wel-
fare, the greatest support they could receive was the confi-
dence of those respectable and enlightened classes of whom
this company might be considered the most appropriate
representatives. (Cheers.)
-The company (who; in consequence of Sir R. Peel's late
arrival, did not sit down till nearly half-past eight o'clock`
separated shortly before midnight, the general feeling bein;
that a more splendid entertainment could not possibly b,
given

Humility ever dwells with men of noble minds;
flower that prospers not in lean and barren soils ; but in a
ground that is rich, it flourishes and is beautiful.
IRISH PRUDENCE IN MATRIMONIAL AFFAIRS.—IdIe
after dinner, on his chair sat a farmer, ruddy, fat and fair,
when his dear partner came to tell him that, during his ab-
sence from home that morning. Mr. B. had called to speak
to her on the important subject of paying his addresses to
her daughter, and, of course, Mrs. W. could not give Mr. B.
a decisive answer until she consulted her lord. The follow-
ing is an exact copy of a letter addressed to the young man
on the occasion by the young lady s father :—" M—.
near Camolin, June 3, 1842.—lleer Sir—You have been
taulking to my woman a bout some buysness of coortin, and
you now you have no buysness with a wife till you gett a
farm, as you tould the woman—you gett a farm coming
March, gett the farm first, then loock for the gentlemen, and
if there is not too much arrears on your father's ground, and
if we agree, I pays all for you ; and tell then you have no
buysness comeing heer till you have something for her to do.
No more from your friend W. W."—Wexford Conservative.
HYPERCRITICISM.—In one of the poems of Calidasa, is
a couplet which has been thus rendered :—" The intoxicated
bee shines and murmurs in the fresh-blown Milica, like him
who gives breath to the white conch in the procession of the
god with five arrows."—A critic, to whom the poet repeated
this verse, observed that the comparison was not exact;
" since the bee sits on the blossom itself, and does not mur-
at the end of the tube, like him who blows a conch."—
ras aware of that," replied Calidasa, " and therefore
described the bee as intoxicated ; a drunken musician would
blow the shell at the wrong end."—lt is said of Milton that
he made a similar apology for some inconsistencies which
the critics were pleased to discover in the speeches of Satan
to his peers, in Paradise Lost. "It would have been im-
proper," said the bard, " that the Father of Lies should not,
in the course of several long speeches, make some deviation
from truth and consistency.
AMERICAN TIMBER TRADE.—It is not, perhaps, gene-
rally known, that by act of parliament, no part of the cargo
of any ship, wholly or in part laden with timber or wood
goods, and clearit, from any British port in North America,
or the settlement of Honduras, for any port in the United
'Kingdom, between Ist September and Ist May, in each year,

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