The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

to surrender honour. It would, however, he himself set a high price on his integrity, tt used to say that he knew sixty thousand have been offered to him to save the Earl itwater, which he refused from a sense of 8 EPITAPH.—The following is copied from Ise near Portsmouth :—" By the grace of lies moored in peace the hulk of George lo was launched into this ocean of misery on if September, 1801, and who, after sustaining 4f damage during a boisterous voyage through le at last so much impaired as to be rendered krther service, and, in consequence of orders brought to his moorings in this port on the lovember, 1854, in sure and certain hope of re-fit, through Him who hath said, " Be (e, ye shall live also." OF CHRISTMAS BOXES.—The following is 'e been the origin of Christmas-boxes : went on a voyage, the priests had a box the protection of some saint, and the poor td to contribute to the box, that masses id for them. After the ship's return, at Ile treasury was opened, and every such box me, called a Christmas-box, the money it to the e beet laid by, that the priests might saints, and entreat pardon for the the people at this season. It followed that servants had the liberty to get box order that they, too, might be able to pay and get their masses. —Household Words 0 SCOLDING WIVES.—" I dare say you your wife very often, Naaman," I s aid Naaman looked down, and his wife took " Never to signify ; and if he has, I de " And I dare say, if the truth was told, r olded him quite as often ?" " Nay," said °4 )an, with a beauty of kindness which the lot excel, " How can a wife scold her good has been working for her and her little ones It m ay be a man is peevish at times, for its ar s the crosses of the world. But who _him forget them, but his own wife And vt for her own sake ; for nobody can scold the scolding is all on one side." ssEs.—" Do you know," said Dr. Bush he stretched out his full glass to be touched, custom originated ; this ringing of wine ;nig of breakers, sir !" We replied in the ;Men, sir, I will tell you," replied the It was the invention of a learned French et, to illustrate the five senses. The beauti- of wine delights the eye—seeing ; the deli 'Onet gratifies the nose—smelling ; the cool 'eests a pleasure to the fingers—feeling ; and, li t i laking it we gratify, exquisitely—the taste. V ' ouch glasses for the finest chime in the rings out good fellowship, sir, and we have in . sense—hearing ." " Quite a little poem, t five lines." " Put it in verse, sir, put it in tin e you the idea." at tention GARDENERS FOR LONDON.—The k ; ,'tention bestowed by the market gardeners ke i, 4 le to those who have net witnessed it. ': LI of ground is taken advantage of—cul ') ens between the fruit trees ; storming 0~l cabbages and cauliflowers swarm up to the dells of apple-trees; raspberry bushes are ; k i , and cut off by young seedlings. If you kih t : of celery growing in ridges, be sure that, D,, OW inspection, you will find long files of tli' 4B Pick' their • t't la picking err way along the furrows. Vs 4 ....flourishes here except weeds, and you . may . Qii ls i t n o -acre piece of , 'e on e ground without drscove . r k7 t he • But the very high state of cultiva '4l4 e Metropolitan market-gardens necessitates 037._ ta ~ment of a large amount of labour ; and it is L4 et Tat no less than 35,000 persons are engaged tti tropf filling the vegetable and dessert dishes oi,, e lis. This estimate leaves out those in 'll ket, „ es and on the continent, which would, we k ( :f k earlY double the calculation, and s h ow a 1 tili en and women as large as the allied army 00.,q in the East. —Quarterly Review. 00Ve lt d C T RE TIREMENT.—EIeanor Davis having Lane , Before the magistrates to have assaulted by striking her in the street, the bench sity f ° t 4 he rig - h ,t tc four 01. Ipe ffer tile ,Itt ' 4 ' ,very e „ La. ther e 4 'w; on o for , 5011 for kit' s 1 rig ht qon e hat t i - 1 ,, . I. e lieE u se. 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" Oh, gentlemen," continued she, " did she not give me a walloping neither ; I just guess she did, and so I owed her one for her nob."—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Pilkington : Well, have you anything else to say? Defendant : Say, yes, that I was lawfully married at the old church, and although my old man gives me more kicks than half-pence for getting " muzzy," and sometimes " glorious," he never sends me on the streets like that cattle there, I'm lawfully married, and bless my stars, don't he let me know it.—(Continued merri ment, in which the bench joined.) The farce was put an end to by the magistrates fining her 10s and 7s. 6d. expenses, or fourteen days at Northleach. Defendant : Then I'll go to Northleach and live in retirement ; a country life is exceedingly pleasant ; nothing like rural felicity. Here, policeman, take me down.— (Roars of laughter.)—Gloucester Journal. THE HUSBAND ABROAD.— The husband, when travelling abroad with his wife and family, is very little better than a superior servant. He has to engage the rooms, examine the bills, bully the porters, settle the accounts, pay the fares, and, at every fresh halt, to count the children and boxes to see that they are all right. He no sooner arrives at a place late at night than he has to make arrangements for leaving early the next morning. In short, his duties are to look after everything, to run wherever he is told, to fetch everything that is wanted, and to make himself generally useful. He should be the last to go to bed, and the first to rise ; always ready at a moment's call, uniformly civil, and attentive ; he fills all the func tions of a courier without any of the pay or power, or sweet authority and important dignity of one, much less any of the smiles or roadside presents, the delicate attentions and nice titbits, whioh generally made the cushion of the courier such a soft and easy one to travel upon. Like a courier, the husband is invested with the money-bag, and has to get the money pro perly changed into the coin of the country he is pass ing 'through, and to see that there is as little loss as possible upon each new exchange ; but, unlike a courier, it is his proud prerogative to fill, the money-bag as often as it is empty.---Punch's Pocket Book. SCIENCE AND ART. VENTILATION OF THEATRES.—Eventually all the air comes from the street : if then we can convert the passages leadin g to the pit into a series of locks, the same as applied to rivers and canals, by the proper position of doors, and by closing the door leading to the pit, we open that communicating with the street, we shall have our air-lock charnd with a fresh and tolerably pure atmosphere. fiaving charged the passage, let us close the outer street-door, and open the pit-door ; the enclosed air will flow forward to supply the interior demand, while it may have been warmed by a stove placed in the passage. We shall of course have leekage by this as by any other plan, but we stand a much better chance of getting what we want comfortably by taking advantage of necessary passages in this way, and by warming our passages, than leaving everything to chance and draughts.—The Builder. JOHN NASH, THE ARCHITECT.—Of the biography of this noted architect, as in the case of James Wyatt, few particulars have been given.. That he was born in 1752, of Welsh parents, and that for some time he practised as a miniature painter ; that he died at East Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, in 1835, at the age of 83, —thus adding another to the number of octogenarian architects,—and that after all his gains by his profes sion, and speculations in connection with it, he left little property, forms about the whole of the informa tion that is 'supplied to us in print. Some persons have viewed him as a speculative builder rather than an architect ; whilst others do not hesitate to attribute to what they call his sycophancy of character all the opportunities which he had. But those who were his pupils at his house in Regent-street, speak feelingly of him for his constant gentlemanly and considerate demeanour, in a kind of relation which most of all brings out the dispositions of men. What remains of his gallery, and of other pieces of internal distribution —which was that in which he succeeded better than in his exteriors—together with some of the character istics of his work in other respects, go to justify what is said by Mr. Gwilt,—that " the late Mr. Nash was beyond doubt a person of great taste." The fitting up of his °Rice, where each assistant or pupil had his private desk and compartment, we have heard praised for commodiousness and comfort, by those who had experience of it. Still, that Nash failed in some of the essentials of good architecture, is unquestionable,— indeed obvious. THE USE OF IRON IN PUBLIC WORKS AND ARCHI TECTURE.-It is difficult, says Mr. Skidmore, to know where to begin in citing its use. Do we look down on the map of England,—what vast and compli cated network threads its surface ! unlike the great Roman roads of old, it is of iron, and not of stone. Do we wish to span the thundering falls of Niagara ? it is with iron, and not timber, the trial is made. Yet, on the other hand, do we wish to span the roof of a cathedral ? wood is used, though the forest which originally supplied the ancient ones has disappeared, and we traverse the broad Atlantic to make up the deficiency, metallic materials in abundance lying around us. Or, again. Look at the vast covering to the ter minus at Birmingham ; the Crystal Palaces ; the great girdle of iron and glass to encircle London, which has just been recommended to the consideration of Parlia ment ; the roof of the British Museum ; the Menai Bridge ;—and let us ask ourselves if the world is not outstepping us [the architects] in the appreciation of its wondrously constructive powers. It is perhaps in our great works of national improvement, termini of railways, large central stations, and other improve ments, where thousands are dealt with as- units would be in private efforts, that we may expect to see some first—some manly struggle in a direction at present but too slightly attended to. It may be replied- to all this,—iron is not capable of beautiful expression. Have we tried its artistic powers with the same energy as other materials P What is a piece of burnt clay, a lump of stone, without architectural construction and. artistic skill Nothing more than a bar of iron. A wall of rubble has little of interest ; yet a cathedral, with its clerestory and flying buttresses, is but a wall supported and enriched. All these raw materials are alike unpromising : it is genius which rears them into forms of utility, of grandeur, and of beauty. YIELD OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA AND VICTORIA.— At a meeting of the Institution of Civil. Engineers, held on Tuesday evening, a paper by Mr. Evan Hop kinson, "On the vertical structure of the primary rocks, and the general character of their gold-bearing varieties," was read. The . paper abounded with curious and interesting geological details. At the conclusion of the paper the following statement was given, to show the value of gold obtained since 1851, chiefly by ordinary digging and washing, from two of the most productive gold regions iu the world—Cali fornia and the colony of Victoria : CALIFORNIA. In 1851. Value in round numbers.... £6,898,500 1852 If .... 9,155,800 1853 f f 10,781,400 1854 „ .. 10, 302, 000 1855. Estimated (on 9 months' produce) 8,644,000 THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. Value in round numbers 214,000,0 W Par Lod f 1 8 85 5 2 1 . 1853 „ •• • • 1854 „ IP • • • • 1855. Estimated (on the produce of 9 months) .... 8,000,000 The author of the paper expected, that by granting more liberal terms to the systematic companies of diggers, increasing the facilities for obtaining and accumulating water, adopting improved modes of washing, etc., the produce of gold from the colony of Victoria alone would not fall much below the value of £6,000,000 per annum, for some years to come, which was about double the amount of gold now obtained from the Ural, or Siberian gold-fields. 11,500,000 8,300,000 ARTISTIC METAL WORK : NIELLO.—ThiS art, says Mr. Skidmore, almost in disuse for the three past centuries, was practised during many ages and in different countries. There is a singular passage in Pliny, to the effect that by an invention of the Gauls, argentiferous lead was fused into works of brass, and , 185 :ItBER 18, 1855.] SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 215