The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

SIJPP 'XCE OF "PUNCH." ~ yE 11 S BIVOUAC COOKERY. the Times with " some of the most concocted out of the soldiers' rations." 'the Frenchman's cunning exercised on t" 4 , 4 common household onions. He has Turkish General in a dish of "Stewed 10 a ,...ce la 03tem PAsus :" he has, moreover, mess of raisins, fat, treacle, &c., calling the )'et I ,_"'s Pudding." Now these things, with 41,,` 418 made known to the Times. To Mr. ' 443 Soyer has communicated the receipts 411 ftDBEY.—Take the leanest rib of the • sheep : if a sheep is not to be had, try the l ' e ghmental bagpipe. Take three thistles ; n, and carefully skin the thistles. If for iplit two peas. Skimming is not necessary. I:TDDING a la GLA.DSTONE.—A pudding fifty-eight. Take a handful of raisins, the stones into, say a hundred equal parts; them together, divide the parts into five raek three eggs (from any mare's nest) ' Let your shreds of lemon-peel be ex- Take another handful of raisins of the sun, rants of the moonshine. Thicken with with an Exchequer tally, and boil in a ,an Oxford surplice. ta Sin JAMES GRAHAM.—Choose any beef, Aneveh bull, for it is too tough for the j (bully) ? Boil in salt water, and flavour kletherby sort are the best if at hand). With a yarn of any sort. „ 'RekeE PARTY.—If no pigeons or doves la, Russian duck. If a duck is not to be I "is at hand, anything will do as precaution to be taken for a Peace may be contained within the dish, there Peeping out of the crust. These made Shed with egg—(if Manchester-laid the all purposes. 1, in music•shop,who has been expected " Miller's Daughter ")—" No, Miss ! iller's —but here's the Ratcatcher's 'PT OP Manca.—Describing a "Marriage fashionable contemporary says —" The was unequal to the trial, which her pre auld have imposed on her." Trial ! What was no bigamy in the case ; and if there was not one to which the lady, by her )tials, would have subjected herself to accessory. —Scene: A cheap chop-house, not —nd —n.—Waiter. " Paysir ? 4a ls "—Matter-of-fact old gentleman g h 1‘ 4 4 4 4,^ " Quarterly' on" Food and its el l why let me see I've had some atie 4 h red-lead and shop sweepings : a bait c abbage boiled with verdigris : a crust ett with alum and bone-dust : half-a-pint As 'lllati,„ ( lnassia and strychninecup of '"? aild other unknown ingredients." Str aight -Waistcoat, and a Stomach- C ° I CSION WIIEEL.—What is to be done to I ( . 4 the Parli amen t ary d e b a t es ? E very b o dy it i s fl the great obstruction to legislation, and r,, of no use talking, for it is quite int -onabers out of their propensity for long h.tPurth almost any money if a discovery neh to induce Parliament to hold its talkers are looked upon as nothing better 18 ) the effect of which would be invalu be got to act as air-pumps upon one exhaust each other, as well as them '" legislation i s b roug ht t o a d ea d stand atd-so's flatulence stops the way. The )ur able member began by declaring that ile anxiety he rose," and he went on I ti I._--bilities f or near an hour and a half. ' i krliP_o been given to man to conceal . his 'mentary speeches seem to have been given tlll°le their thoughtlessness ; for if they consi tbeY would never allow their love of talk ' legislative action. In matters of ordi lered a sound principle that a thing 4 3 , • than done, but in the House of Com kr nler said, than it is tolerably sure not to iit l east from the date at which it was iyi lltti, ,/'i. 4 ,,vvith tk l Pori A LADY'S ALBUM.—The wings , h e itl ov ,Ve strongest o' pinions. —Jenkins. I , 4 l ishd tt. cP.—lt has been made known . by ,i„ her overnment that, in future, all English , Q, hi e rPeetefl, if made of Manchester cotton. .14,,., il evol e al , t Derial Majesty would wish to mark is en?v,e,_ en deavours of Messrs. Bright and den ee °l t s li 4 ,11 teve woitigestot the Panopticon, in Leicester et P stop s tillekle bins in the world. But, from a Ming emits v,„N 41 , 411 Published, it would appear, ng ay organn.Y,A'llaY have, the vox humana of ', sZtitnable noises. Mr. Best, who Wll O has certainly made the • 0, 10 ' 1855.] f it ' or t l, 0 CE a ott: PAvy,„, "red the ,e, ..44: % -:4 e keoncocted 4 • ittkamthe Fret - 7 4 , 1 414 , 4 .4 , inmost ."4 hs e /a Om I * L'oesa - j e as of rai! 1 .14 . ner 4'B PUddil , 14 8 03. Ale • made , ras Soyer 1 kI ZIZ'f ;II of up she DEE ep : • the kl'epnient al m ' and car •likksplit two p I„, t r ty.eigi A ze the et. , cr; , them tot 0; . L C k thre Let yoi .07' • 1 t lake anot , c urrants 01 ", ki t‘ e ,„,, With an j.f f z 4 an Oxforc to tf ,? la SIR .11: lob 14 4 a Nineveh . y ) ? r qeth er by f e j .• r :q11 With a yar t I .llt a C RACE P be 05 6. l 1 .eat Russian iD V ! 7, if gull i 4• Ilkeilikte;vesary pi 11°4'.141reet peeping may b' 4 1 xcl w i. 'll e ue . pu n )°, re. Nip &irl, in mt. atl: . * ow, mii it .'th e Miller', lo • t i .,'Lsh e d I''' . ' e k i ""r fashion: ofl o f de was nn tk:' would haN ~.,t Z e was no in Wee was no 0 h ll ptials, o t Q an acces a , A Nt k 'N ,7 o 4l,2 . ° I i . 4e eta Ikt‘t. L. • 60 0 p, s ' 4 r 'l4 e icittr kast ElPie m gB 4 ? wl PL°Y_ri and With red - ' 43 , ki t " eabb s . it ' er 6l 4 % 1 ' 4 with lib 4, Nq tt,,uassi and 1110 •S'traig 0 1 ' kt:t: 41 ki4 4 °1 th e p a o ", th at . .11e g, r, th e it la of *oeleraber s r A b h e Wort ‘` oftt which t e l f* e talers ; tog 0,4 !)01121ips, thE quocl• be gc itf e Xhall 1:10 11 . ° Vt. to vs , aonndr-asbles isia.s're.an t A . 0 4 t1t0 k_ 4U illtie t*, kj j ' A t c ,kVve bee ti ppi 4l4ltk k lik ee tz l b te Ze t n ii t e a i r 3r; ' aoo? "‘ ku l th e ., t . wo, oil tlib s 0 legis: e l ' B idered 04:,11.:(1 that el° 1• 14 e k' Z:t l ,er sai i p hs t least iztr t $ p lot tl x.4 4 l th th e Pc Ea (9? str N 1( .% wif 4 h 17e ' or e ssi o Le r G ovel , a t• h, Isn ee titer s°"., xs onc,_°_v/„ _ 1/t e ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. organ discourse most eloquent music, complains of having been treated, by those who had engaged his services, as an artist oughtnot to be treated; and the first time the owners of the instrument send their bellows to mend, they had better send their manners to undergo a similar reparatory operation. Not satisfied with Mr. Best's scholarly exhibition of the varied powers of the grand organ, by the performance of a series of compositions to visitors who listen, the directors of the estab lishment call upon a gentleman and a musician to " play the people out." He is to acccompany the shuffling of feet, the racing down stairs, the calls of parties to " keep together," the requests " not to shove," the squabble for canes, parasols, and umbrellas, and the recitative in which cabs are summoned to the door. And when the last lounger is out, the gentleman and musician may leave off. But this is not all. The direction is good enough to select a composition fit to be applied to this noble art-purpose—and they select Mendelssohn's " Bridal Chorus," which, as everybody knows, is just the thing to be trampled to pieces by a crowd of wearied sight-seers, anxious to escape. If the directors could get a Raphael, they would, in the same spirit, lay it down as a door-mat, for the greater luxury of their departing patrons. Mr. Best, having in vain remonstrated against the vulgarity, very properly resigns. He will not desecrate Mendelssohn, and "play the people out." If the Panopticon people conduct all their arrangements in this fashion, and without regard to what is due to art, the public, which soon comprehends such things, will discover it. And then the next organist will have a very much harder task to attempt than "playing people out," namely, that of "playing them in." The directors have got a Novum Organum, and a noble one, but they need not, therefore, behave like fat Bacons. FLOWERS THAT ARB ALWAYS FALLING OFF.—Bachelor's Buttons. prompts him to soar above the mediocrity which characterises modern representation, where seats are sought to found a trade or ephemeralise a speculation, can have his objects pro moted by one who is qualified, by Parliamentary experience and education, to direct the preliminary studies to such high and important duties. Address, &c.—Gentlemen, whose ambi tion leads them to public (house) life, generally find the house open to them, and their measures are carried without opposi tion—measures which, if not full of spirit, are at least not deficient in "head," although somewhat heavy at bottom ; and these houses offer some advantages which the others do not possess, for the debate is always adjourned at twelve, by which time our " Bill" is most often laid—under the table. To AIITHORS.—He who writes what is wrong, wrongs what is right. SPIRIT OF " DIOGENES." WHAT SAYS PAUL?—It appears that the members of a "Nice Firm," which has lately evaporated in the Strand, are to be rescued by some obsolete clause. We conceive it to be anything but poetical justice that, while the depredators are sheltered by a clause, their victims are undefended from their clutches. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, AND ON THAT.—The number of cheap pictorial papers which are being eventuated will go far to prove that the recent alteration in the newspaper law will not be wanting in illustration, A Lady, whose pocket has lately suffered very much from feline breakages, wishes to know whether the " Plate Glass Company" insures plates and glasses. GENERAL PELISSIEB AN IRISHMAN.—Yes : we knew they would—the Irish claim him. The newspapers inform us that " the Irish claim General Pelissier as the son of a countryman. It is said that his father was a Limerick gentleman, a Mr. Pelissier, who was obliged to fly from Ireland during the troubles of 1798." Of course. It is notorious that from Ad miral Noah down to Admiral Lyons all the celebrated com manders by sea and land—all the sages, artists, orators, — indeed, all the really great men have had Irish men for their mothers, and Irish girls for their fathers. That is to say— well, you know what we mean. Was not Confucius—his real name was Conway—a boy from Galway, who, emigrating during the troubles (and there always were troubles in the old country), went to China and set up a paper ? Is not the appel lative " Grecian," as applied to Milesians, derivable from Alexander the Great, whose parents were of the stock of the Grady's, corrupted into Great-y or Great ? But why these interrogatives ? Assertion, simply assertion, is all that is needed for such undoubted Irish claims. St. Dunstan (query Donovan) was an Irishman. So was Admiral Blake. The Blakes are all Irish. Raffaelle's real name was O'Rafferty. Michael (Mike) Angelo was from Cork. It is beyond dispute that Homer is only O'Meara misspelt. Ossian was a an O'Shehan, Sully an O'Sullivan, Christopher Columbus was originally a Dublin clerk, by name Kit Dove, or Duffy, which he, according to the prevalent practice, latinised into Colum bus in the same way as Linnaeus did his of Lin, or O'Lin. It is a sin against Ireland to spell Raleigh otherwise than Reilly; and, coming to more modern days, what was Cavaignac but a Cavanagh, Lamartine but a Martin, La Moriciere but a Morris? Is not the charming Empress Eugenie a sprig from the genu ine shamrock ? And, coming to a name which unites antiquity with to-day—splicing the old rough with the modern debon naire—amalgamating the sublime penetration of the Cynic of the porch with the acumen of the Reform Club critic—to that of Diogenes, who can doubt that Irish blood is at the bottom of the whole business ? What wonder, then, that Pelissier, now that he is the talk of town and country, is claimed for an Irishman; but let the General beware. Men are to be Irish no longer than they are famous. If, in the end, he tarnishes the brightness of his present glory, and fails to take Sebastopol, a paragraph is in store for him—like a rod in pickle•—in which it will be proved, clear as mud, that it was all a mistake, and that there was nothing Irish about him. FOOTPRINTS of famous men, by one who has had to clean after them ; which, goodness knows ! they're dirty enough, and never half wipe their feet in the mat. A PARLIAMENTARY T(O)UTOR.—That we are in want of an improved race of Politicians few will deny. In fact, if we took the same pains in the rearing of " Hon." members as we do with our Cochin Chinas, there is no doubt but that am im proved race would be the result. Birds with less of the goose, and more of' the fighting cock in them—birds, in fact, whose sittings would be far more profitable. We were led to make the above profound reflection by the perusal of the following advertisement, copied from Tuesday's Times :—PoLmcs.— Any gentleman whose ambition leads him to public life, and SCIENCE AND ART. DE. ROBERT DE LAMBELLE, a distinguished physician of Paris, announces that a shock of electricity, given to a patient dying from the effects of chloroform, immediately counteracts its influence, and returns the sufferer to life. M. HULOT, one of the chiefs in the electrotypic department of the French Mint, has found out that the newly-discovered metal, aluminium, may replace platina as an element of the galvanic pile, and that this metal having zinc as an electro negative element, gives rise to a considerable disengagement of hydrogen for several hours. PAINTINGS AT THE PARIS EXIIIBITION.—The general relative numerical proportions which have obtained between the works of the different nations are as follows :—Austria, 52 ; Nassau and Baden, 14 ; Bavaria, 65 ; Belgium, 224 ; Denmark, 5 ; Sicily, 5 ; Spain, 84 ; the Pontifical States, 13 ; the United States, 39 ; Great Britain, 376; the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 4 ; Mexico, 1; Holland, 98 ; Java, 1; Peru, 5 ; Portugal, 23 ; Prussia, 137; Sardinia, 26 ; Saxony, 12 • Swe den, 28 • Norway, 16 ; Switzerland, 94 ; Tuscany, 6 ; t ' Turkey, 1; the Hanse Towns, 18 ; Wurtemburg, 9 ; France, 2,060, that is to say, nearly twice as many as all the other nations put together. AN ARTIFICIAL AVIARY has lately been uncovered in the Paris Palais de l'lndustrie. Under an immense glass globe is a tree whose branches are covered with stuffed birds of brilliant plumage. On turning a key a spring at the foot of the tree begins to run, the birds skipfrom branch to branch, and chirp and sing in the most agreeable manner. Their little beaks and breasts are in constant agitation, as in life, and not a few who have heard them declare that the notes are preferable to those of the living birds at the aviary of Tattaru, whieh is close at hand. A VERY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY has been made by a M. Petit, of Lyons, of a means of impregnating silk by a chemical process with gold, silver, brass, or iron, so that it can be woven with perfect flexibility, and thus form, as it were, stuffs of those metals. The invention has been secured by patent, and will be worked by a company of capitalists. Permission has been given to place a specimen in the Universal Exhibition. It is said that the price of this new material will not be high. ON BOILER EarLostoNs.—Not a month passes which does not give us some new instance of their fatal effects ; and as almost in all cases the explosion occurs when the steam is comparatively at a low pressure, it must be the effect of a strange force that has by some means or other introduced itself into the boiler, and which instantaneously raises the pressure from several atmospheres to several hundreds, and against which force the safety-valve is nothing. My firm conviction is, that this force is electricity. It is a well-known fact, that boilers contain more or less of the electric fluid, and that the maximum is formed with a low pressure, which fact tends to verify my hypothesis. Now, whatever may be the cause which makes it fulminant, if it could be conducted safely out of the boiler the explosion would not take place, and I see no reason why the application of the lightning conductor could not be made with success. For example, if several insulated conductors, terminating with points made of a metal inoxidable, were introduced into the boiler, the elec tricity could be carried through the sides of the boiler (as fast as it developed itself) with safety, into the tank or elsewhere. POTICITOMANIE.—The new practitioners of this old art take a much higher flight than our good old grandmothers of the sand-bottles, and are content with no less a victory than an exact imitation of everything in the shape of porcelain that falls into their unmerciful clutches. To this all their energies are directed: on this all their talent is displayed. No im provement in the characteristic of the art is sought after, nor the perfecting its capabilities as a distinct branch of repre sentation and colouring of beautiful forms ; all this is cast aside for the tempting ultimatum, which is to make blown glass appear baked pottery, and coloured prints pass as porce lain painting. But no human being could ever mistake the one for the other on close inspection, and painted porcelain invites minute examination ; we must, therefore, pronounce the present practice of Potichomanie as an unmistakable abortion. It is a misfortune that popular favour should have taken this bent, when so many beautiful effects are within its reach, and might so easily be obtained, if those who prac tise the art studied the harmony of colour, the disposition of form, the peculiarities and difficulties of the process of appli cation, overcame the latter, and turned the former to advan tage. I would suggest that the forms of the beautiful Etruscan vases in the British Museum should be reproduced, as the material which Potichomanie is best fitted to render beautiful. These, when produced in clear thick glass, might be decorated with. Rowney's water-colour prints, or the chro molithography of Vincent Brooks, especial care being taken in harmonising the background with its subject, so, that an violent contrasts. may be avoided. This would give us tbe.•