The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. so lo ngs period, and at such a distance too, sank within her; still such a S t) and it was at length agreed to (Or an immediate journey to London. d eparture for town, Laura placed a l'B hand, to purchase an outfit for le same time presented her with a l ain, and seals, to wear for her sake. ov erpowered by this kindness, and II 1 her neck. they repaired to Mrs Davenport's. ,he outfit was completed, and they ni hoard the " Malcolm." The bustle drs. Grey from dwelling on the forlorn daughter's absence would place her ; 413' ate, and gone, er dreadful lonel came and sh h e determined to iness board at a ire, close to the spot where she so long her deceased husband. Cal:le, where they stayed about a week, bavenport and the girls were to her. fe arrival at Madras, how comfortable happy ; every thing was so new and Mite in good spirits again. These Mrs. Grey for the absence of her le contented, if not happy, and looked ten she should again embrace her child We must now leave Mrs. Grey, who 1 Y mercies which were bestowed upon lg,, who pined in anguish for her lost rt sojourned at Madras only for a short ' India, as he was made collector, and tt v - , agpore. They were both much retiring modesty and extreme beauty of every one. Numerous were the tt's house to see the pretty governess, utment when she did not wake her lY at breakfast and dinner, or a little !;_ould be seen. l e good sense to treat her daughter's as a kind of upper servant, which is England ; but she was made in every , 11,1 by this means the young ladies 'vng instruction from her, and they ' Fe r nand loved her as a real friend. P for the use of the young ladies vhich the musical instruments were qr Is t ‘ ll tones were wafted from thence to st'ela,T visitors would gladly have been e ' tto 4, l 7,aPartment. ~,1 at Nagpore about six months, Le - TY bad received two most eligible ,',.fro4; c olonel from Colonel Townsend of •,ea1,,,,,,010nel Windham of the artillery; Irs ',accepting, though she was much Ja,,. D avenport to accept one of them. pratle k . ' ll Port that her hand and affections rena v an h 1 England, though she thought TO would interfere to prevent ,40 Colonel Windham she also made ':° Ilarling, as she saw that he was i rn ill his addresses to her. T. e that an accident happened to the en her, which she had constantly had Placed it on her finger. It was a ar ound with small brilliants, and ins work manshiphad always been and she supposed that in walking one sh e must have pulled it off with her ;.o. _ her room at night, she found her ° 1 1:1' ' foa4e. A search was immediately made , tit t 4t gieit,i,„,e4 broken in two pieces. . It had 1 1 1 el.t" i4 1)1) felt : ue injury from its having . been '' l t 4 , t le 'l to l b eeedu NlY sorry that this accident ,4(1 ,fit - It 1,,, -er ring, and begged Mrs. Daven• " 4 t '4lleditel . et 4 l 4 alien Loathe repaired for h.er the _ she 4 N lll k , l'eptlie ti ., best workman in place, 4 coal led . 4 1 g. e l i e 1% 4 ' 1 bat Work there was a European in the it tO tt e h way, and had a good deal of 14 ct ° \,ne,Z 1 4. °f th Pri s e sergeants, and he would there tierB p,'l'ciN„ - "e butler accordingly went with the One ,P, l 'er,e 4 j :,tleant at home, and at work, mending l l tip g "' th e 'lag trillerymen were talking to him. On Nl',. / , t ,illy 41 e4 t e ring for the inspection of the ser- S„ oa limed round and said " Let me look iNreplied thehink I have seen it'before." ,le t,r. sergeant ;"it is a very handsome l ik k i ra: lll ivi,,, th,.hir,' , ' %aid ii'n . name was Field, became much ~tZt e lipo rt, s ~ o the butler, " whose servant are Ilk ' 4 11 i ' L l ' i lg I . : Plie d the man "and m young mis ty '''St w ork Z a t zn e ,.. a ~ ~ en and she told y me I was % 4 1 t I N t lpi streza ~ -, and she had a great value for ikt believe 't, o ,, ' t s : 4l l'i eld, " how long has she been ill p• ' ,bus- ,t 4 ,, Ye a ,. ~ . 4,1.,,, ield, s u i d `Aer tv replied the butler ; " they I ll 'iti7i n dojvith you `he sergeant;e arried from England." kli . g, replied p• "sit down, man, what G lel , nod afternoond s ; it 1 ,. d came ag • haserg e ,mly a little curiosity •ia ti., y_ • If r iel i .0 n ere done, and "e r b ,. „,_ ant to* t, and Field left the file sergeant's If b house, and e would oblige him by allowing him to take it back to Mrs. Davenport; "he would pledge himself," he said, " for its safe delivery." The sergeant consented, and Field bent his steps to the collector's residence. On his arrival there, he begged one of the peons in waiting to tell Mrs. Davenport that he had brought home the ring which had been sent to be mended, and if she were not engaged he would wish to see her and deliver it into her own hands. Field stood in the centre of the room, pale and motionless, with his eyes fixed on the opposite door through which the peon had disappeared. At length the door opened and Mrs. Davenport entered. The statue-like appearance of Field startled her for a moment. " Did you wish to see me ?" she gently said. " Are you Mrs. Davenport ?" said he, almost breathless, without answering her question, and with his hands extended towards her. Yes," replied that lady. " Thank God," said Field, as he clasped his hands and turned to leave the room ; but suddenly stopping, he again advanced towards Mrs. Davenport, who was still standing near the door by which she had entered the room, as if to be ready to make her escape should it be necessary. "I beg your pardon, madam," said Field, " but my mind has been wrought up almost to madness, believing you to be another person, and seeing you has quite overpowered me. This ring, madam, is so like one belonging to a dear friend of mine in England, that I have been deceived in imagining it to be the same. I trust I may be forgiven for my having probably, by my unguarded manner, caused you some alarm. " He bowed low, smiled, and left the room. _ _ Mrs. Davenport stood, for a few moments, in astonishment at this address, " Strange !" thought she—" a common sol dier too, and so gentlemanly, so much elegance in his man ners." He had placed the ring in her hand; she looked at it. " It certainly is of curious workmanship," mused she, " few, I should think, would exactly resemble it." She left the room, and joined the young ladies in their morning study. "Miss Grey," said she, "the man has brought back your ring; it is very curiously set. May I ask where you had it from ? Did it belong to your poor father, my dear ?" " No, madam," replied Emily, with her natural frankness ; " it was given to me as a keepsake by the nephew of Lord Mole stock," and she blushed a deep scarlet as she again placed it on her finger. "Then, indeed," exclaimed Mrs. Davenport, " the man must have been mistaken, or else he was mad ; for he fancied me to be some other person, and thought that he knew the ring. His manner really frightened me at first ; but I will not interrupt your studies, my dears :—go on Fanny, with your music." She now left the room. When the duties of the morning were over, and Emily was seated in her dressing room, she could not help thinking on what Mrs. Davenport had said regarding the man who had brought the ring; and a wild fancy crept over her mind, "It is certainly very odd," she kept repeating to herself. At length she sent for the butler, and on his appearance, she asked him to whom he had taken her ring to be mended, and what was his name ; also how old he was, and what sort of a looking person. " He is a sergeant, ma'am, belonging to the artillery," said the butler : "he is rather short and a fat man, and I should think about fifty years old ; he has a wife and several children, ma'am, and she takes in needle-work for ladies, ma'am."' Emily smiled, as the butler concluded, to think how her air-built castles had vanished. "I thank you," said she, " here are three rupees : be so kind as to pay the man. lam very well pleased with the manner in which he has mended the ring." (TO BE CONTINUED.) LITERARY EXTRACTS. DETERMINATION. —" The longer I live," says Sir. T. F. Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insig nificant—is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed on, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in the world; and no talents, no cir cumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it." INFLUENCE OF DOMESTIC HABITS.—The man who lives in the midst of domestic relations will have many opportunities of conferring pleasure, minute in detail, yet not trivial in the amount, without interfering with the purposes of general bene volence. Nay, by kindling his sensibility, and harmonising his soul, they may be expected, if he is endowed with a liberal and manly spirit, to render him more prompt in the service of strangers and the public. THE EmruEss EUGENIE. — Without being by any means the perfect beauty her flatterers declare her to be, the Empress is certainly one of the very loveliest-looking women that could be found. liter face is lighted up with such an innocent, gentle, and vivacious expression, and a smile of such exceeding sweet ness, as render her perfectly charming. Her manner is at once graceful, dignified, and gracious ; she looks absolutely radiant on a public occasion, and performs her part so perfectly and with such a look of absolute happiness, that she seems not only as though she had been born to the station to which her singular fortune has raised her, but appears beside her impass able and undemonstrative partner, as though she was some sovereign in her own right, who had espoused some man of humble rank, and sought unconsciously to atone for his com paratively cold and ungracious manner, by the overflowing of her own royal and native courtesy. And yet, to see her small, sweet, put pale and weary-looking face at other times, one would say that she had already entered upon that destiny of sorrow of which the line of pain across her brow would almost seem to be nature's own propbecy.—Hogg's Instructor. NIGHT.—How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night ! And yet the stillness seems almost audible ! From all the measureless depths of air around us, comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature; decay and reproduction ever begin ning, never ending—the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of time !—Longfellow. NOTHING but dazzling genius can afford to work without punctuality and order ; and even that is impeded and sub verted by the perpetual clogs that irregularity and want of method must throw across the most brilliant path. If man were a being of abstract thought and feeling; if we lived in a fairy world, where to wish and to will were all that we needed ; if, in short, life were not made up of petty circumstances, of a shower of rain, and an appetite for dinner, of suffering a fit of sleepiness, or of taking a wrong turning down a street, then would the smaller qualities of punctuality and order be more beneath the notice of great talents, and be less indispensable for success in life. But where there is no extraordinary genius, •where the mind is on a par with the generality, the only security for tolerable success and moderate usefulness consists in the regular application and the due value of time. —Early Influence. THE WAR IN 1812.—The supplies kept pace with the increasing magnitude of the contest when the campaign of Salamanca had commenced, and the deliverance of the Peninsula in good earnest was being attempted. The net produce of the permanent taxes in that year was no less than £40,000,000, of the war ones £26,000,000, in all £66,000,000; and £29,268,000 was raised by loan, including £4,500,000 for the service of Ireland, and £2,500,000 for that of the East India Company, guaranteed by government. The public expenditure was on a proportionate scale : the sum expended for the navy was £20,500,000, that for the army £25,000,000, besides £4,252,000 for the ordnance ; the loans to Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Sicily, and Russia amounted to £5,315,000, while the interest of the national debt amounted to £23,124,000; and still no less than £13,482,000, was applied to the sinking fund. The navy, during this year, consisted of 978 ships of all sizes, of which 236 were of the line : and 102 line-of-battle ships and 131 frigates were in commission. The army num bered 227,000 regular soldiers under its banners, besides 86,000 regular, and 335,000 local militia. It seemed as if, as the contest continued and the scale on which it was conducted was enlarged, the resources of the empire, so far from declining, widely expanded.—Alison's Europe. MANNERS OF THE TuaKs.—lt matters not at what hour, or in what place you are ; you meet numbers of Turkish wo men rambling about in search of adventures, without any se rious duty calling them abroad, for they have no business to transact. All household duties fall to the share of the hus band, who goes to the butcher and baker, and must furnish the needful money without the wife being required to attend to any material care. The husband is expected also to look after the children, and he generally performs this duty in a most judicious and tender manner. All authorities of note attest, that nothing can compare with the affection of the Turk for his progeny. M. Hell states that he often saw noble old men, with silvery beards, preparing their kief under the shade of plaintain trees, in the company of their children. Few mothers could have a more delicate care, or show a more tender love for their offspring than these aged Turks. It must also be admitted that Turkish children seldom have the mischievous tricks of ours, which makes them often the terror or bore of visitors, and of a number of victims. This probably results from their early education, as well as from their nature. At a very early age, they show a childish gentleness and gra vity which makes their presence a pleasure instead of a tor ment, as with us. We would remark, in this connection, that some admirers of youthful nuisances at home say that all boys ought to be mischievous, as it shows spirit, and that they will grow up manly. We beg, in reply, to refer them to the gen tle Turkish lads who can display the heroism of Sinope, and achieve the glory of Silistria. When will the West learn that noise is not courage, and that fussiness is not manliness.— , The Neighbours of Russia, by J. R. Morel!. THE PRESENT EMPEROR OF RESSIA. — In person the present Emperor looks more of a Russian than the late Tzar, whose fair complexion and fine physiognomy bore distinct traces of his German descent. He is very tall and robust, of a dark complexion, with full round eyes, which though occasionally lighted up by the spirit of merriment, habitually wear an expression of melancholy. The last time I had a close view of Alexander, then Grand Duke, he was waiting for a railway train at the station of Tzarsko Celo ; he walked about the public waiting-room, in familiar conversation with an aide-de-camp, causing apparently as little restraint to the' surrounding public, as he seemed to feel himself in their presence. He looked the very picture of bonhomie, but appearances are often deceitful, and it was impossible not to remember his close relationship to the first Alexander, whom a great master in the knowledge of human character designated " a Greek of the lower Empire." I never heard, however, anything but a favourable opinion of the present Tzar's excellent qualities as an affectionate hus band and father. Au amusing instance of the unaffected way in which he thought of his children, was told me by a young lady, who had charge of a stall at a fancy fair. The Naslednik (Heir Apparent) came to ask her for the largest doll she had in her stock, and having secured it, he strode away with it in his arms, seeming as pleased as such a present might have made him on his second or third birth day. His paternal feelings received a cruel shock shortly after the occurrence of this little incident by the death of .his only daughter; his remaining four children are all sons. —Harrison's Nine Years' Residence in Russia. 1/ 26, 18'5•] oe f 0... r SO `f,4lON. tO ll , \ t't b;l t , Of CI ` 'ikEr7Parer: their 1 p LA and II No s Wat - , 1 , 4 t f4a B 4 - 11 '; chat 6 , 4° k i t hai l i t i s t e 2kl 11, !t 411 4e(i °1v %ell th ' Niclk don Pt , her d 91 do *a s re. • 4 1 1 11, 14le for c e `l olißbire ► 4t too ltll h e ; 1 ' th e c , L s q ice ittl y 41 41 4 safe ) 0 4 G st e , as q / 44 ( ;', 1 1sni e • n eean i I'l Whet NS th e ess. Ps, ma n y 11 6 t :' ba 4 ea? ve ltDo l 'kith lB ta 4r j i val tt o f 0 4). 11 4141 n at i del t",llrtli3;3.herr, .%eea nl ? dh °ll ° Nif: tvPont :3 „/ Atpl iat • . t ,t , tl kl he I, ll B 4 h t i e t tkkii'tti.i,ot!e)ae:eot as d ' tn 1 . 4 : 1 f ; ar Afd o Pr j i w4' to h )1, 0 Atte ' ll ll4 14Y 1% lit: 4 lly t *ltt tt3 V 4l 1 14 :1 1e i,ett , e t ! 1. ' 1Z . 1 4„ t of t e „,-aar ra 03 '4 0 e ; 4 it Whi c h e oth er e i s she d e 1 ?) .1. 1411 to " k s . s‘ lll / %0 1 4t a etiti etre ine en to t e a4e tte • ‘4kikee,e't t . th ,_ re . ,r4t i nn h t 4 i tna l • Sett h g •• , it„ e h t. 1 4 t 4tt '1) se! r o p ` 4 Ne fo r i per i j r," Gro g 104 to tIY k4l G.F_Oll