The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TURKISH HUSBANDS seldom return home at the close of day without bringing presents to their wives. The present may be small,---a basket of fruits, a paper of figs, a box of scent, or even a cucumber, but he always brings something ; and to fail in this implies that he is offended with his home, or if he be a married man, that he is about to put away his wife. As ob servers of prayer, too, they are a model and a reproach to Christendom.--- City of the Crescent. BRITISH POWER IN INDIA.---0111* great success in India has induced the systematic habit of despising our enemies, and thence we are liable to disasters and reverses from which otherwise we might be preserved by the actual magnitude of our power and extent of our resources. Our Indian Empire is owing solely to our superiority in arms. It rests entirely on that foundation. It is undermined by every reverse, how ever trifling, and would not withstand any serious indications of weakness. All India is at all times looking out for our downfall. The people everywhere would rejoice, or fancy that they would rejoice, at our destruction ; and numbers are not wanting who would promote it by all means in their power. Our ruin, if it be ever commenced, will probably be rapid and sudden. There is, perhaps, no other power on earth, judging from the superficial nature of our tenure, be tween whose highest elevation and utter annihilation the interval would be so short. "Aut Caesar aut nullus." From the pinnacle to the abyss might be but one step. The fidelity of our native army, on which our existence depends, depends itself on our continued success. Its courage and confidence must be fed by victory, and would not survive repeated defeats and disaster. These sentiments are not new. They are applicable to all times in our Indian history, since our power became predominant. They lie dormant, per haps, in days of peace and apparent security ; but the slightest disaster rouses them into active sensibility.. ---Lord Metcalfe. EXPERIENCE 3 OF A JtrNion.---We had the usual kind of juniors in the office, when I was a junior. We had young O'Killamollybo re , ne ph ew o f th e mem ber, and son of the extensive Irish proprietor who had killed the other extensive Irish proprietor in the fa mous duel arising out of the famous quarrel at the famous assembly about dancing with the famous Beauty—with the whole particulars of which events, mankind was acquainted. O'Killamollybore repre sented himself to have been educated at every seat of learning in the empire —and I dare say had been ; but he had not come out of the ordeal, in an orthographi cal point of view, with the efficiency that might have been expected. He also represented himself as a great artist, and used to put such capital imitations of the marks they make at the shops, on the backs of his pencil-drawings, that they had all the appearance of having been purchased. We had Young Percival Fitz-Legionite, of the great Fitz-Legionite family, who "took the quarterly pocket-money," as he told us, for the sake of having something to do (he never did it,) and who went to all the parties in the morning papers, and used to be always opening soda-water all over the desks. We had Meltonbury, another nob and our great light, who had been in the crack regi ment, and had betted and sold out, and had got his mother, old Lady Meltonbury, to "stump up," on con dition of his coming into our office, and playing at hockey with the coals. We had Scrivens (just of age), who dressed at the Prince Regent ; and we had Baber, who represented the Turf in our department, and made a book, and wore a speckled blue cravat and top-boots. Finally, we had one extra clerk at five shillings a day, who had three children and did all the work, and was much looked.down upon by the messengers. As to our ways of getting through the time, we used to stand before the fire, warming ourselves behind, until we made ourselves faint ; and we used to read the papers ; and, in hot weather, we used to make lemonade and drink it. We used to yawn a good deal and ring the bell a good deal, and chat and lounge a good deal, and go out a good deal, and come back a little. We used to compare notes as to the precious slavery it was, and as to the salary not being enough for bread and cheese, and as to the man ner in which we were screwed by the public—and we used to take our revenge on the public by keeping it waiting and giving it short answers, whenever it came into our office.—Household Words. THE LA.I3OURS OF FRIVOLITY.---My mother had need of violent emotions ; and though her life had been steeped in them, they had never been enough to satisfy that sort of strange and fatal hatred which she had I conceived for repose of body and mind. She must ever be refreshing the agitated atmosphere in which she lived by new agitations; by changing her residence; by quarrelling and reconciling herself with some per son or some thing ; by going to pass some hours in the country; and then hurrying back into town to get rid of the country; dining at one restaurant after another ; destroying and replacing her toilette from head to heel every week. She would buy, for instance, a bonnet, because she thought it charming. The evening of the day she bought it, she would find it hideous ; take off the ribbons, and then the flowers take out the lace, and change the arrangement with readiness and taste. Her bonnet would please her all the next day ; but, the day after, there must be another radical reform ; and so on, for some eight days, until the unlucky bonnet, always in a state of metamorpho sis, became totally indifferent to,lier. Then she would wear it with the utmost disdain, professing that she did not care what she put on, till the fancy should seize her to buy another new bonnet !—Her black hair was still very fine. She got tired of being a brunette, and put on a blonde wig ; yet, by doing so, she could not manage to disfigure herself. She took a fancy for herself as a blonde for a while ; then she abused her self for being flaxen, and chose to be bright chestnut. Presently she returned to asheyTale locks; then went back to her own mellow black hair ; and this to such purpose, that I saw her with different hair for every day in the week. This childish frivolity did not exclude laborious occupations and very minute domes tic cares. She had her own delights of imagination, and would read the romances of M. d'Arlincourt with positive frenzy,,far into the night ; but that did not hinder her from being astir at six in the morning, to begin anew her toilettes, her excursions, her needle work, her merriment, her despair, and her fits of passion.— George Sand. HAPPINESS.---I was reading to-day in the Notes to Boswell's Life of Johnson, says Mrs. Jameson, that " it is a theory which every one knows to be false in fact, that virtue in real life is always productive of happiness, and vice of misery." I should say that all my experience teaches me that the position is not false, but true ; that virtue does produce happiness, and vice does produce misery. But let me settle the meaning of the words. By happiness we do not necessarily mean a state of worldly prosperity. By virtue we do not mean a series of good actions which may or may not be rewarded, and, if done for reward, lose the essence of virtue. Virtue, according to my idea, is the habitual sense of right, and -the habitual courage to act up to that sense of right, combined with benevolent sympathies, the charity which thinketh no evil. This union of the highest conscience and the highest sym pathy fulfils my notion of virtue. Strength is essen-' tial to it ; weakness incompatible with it. Where virtue is, the noblest faculties and the softest feelings are predominant ; the whole being is in that state of harmony which I call happiness. Pain may reach it, passion may disturb it ; but there is always a glimpse of blue 'sky above our heads. As we ascend in dignity of being, we ascend in happiness, which is, in my sense of the word, the feeling which connects us with the infinite and with God. And vice is necessarily misery ; for that fluctuation of principle, that diseased craving for excitement, the weakness out of which springs falsehood, that suspicion of others, that discord with ourselves, with the absence of the benevolent propen sities, these constitute misery as a state of being. The most miserable person I ever met with in my life had £12,000 a-year ; a cunning mind, dexterous to compass its own ends ; very little conscience—not enough, one would have thought, to vex with any retributive pang, but it was the absence of goodness that made the misery, obvious and hourly increasing. The perpetual kicking against the pricks, the unrea sonable exigence with regard to things, without any high standard with regard to persons, these made the misery. I can speak of it as misery who had it daily in my sight for five long years. PRINCE TALLEYRAND'S PREDICTION OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—It is a curious and interesting fact that Prince Talleyrand clearly predicted, half a century ago, and heartily rejoiced in the advent of, the time when there would be a close and cordial alliance between France and England. In a work published by Mr. Colburn, in 1848, entitled " Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, by Madame Colmache," we find the following passage :---" It has ever been my dream," said Tallt firm and stable alliance between I cannot live to behold what I ha life long : but you may yet be w' which the events of Europe havt three centuries. There are m. climes in Europe ; there will soon the English and the French. tions have passed away, they wi face alone upon the globe. Tit only allies, but friends. Ahead that their mutual hatred has b( wars between these two great n; taken of the chivalrous character in which the combat was carrie4 thy or thirst of vengeance than and love of glory. Believe m, courage are equal, peace become countries cannot make war upon fall dead upon the field of battl triumph. The good which has si their mutual jealousies, has been has been sown than has yet been g; which has thus been buried will its own good time, to benefit tl You will find, by the study of h. proceeded in the goodly work to; a tacit agreement, working with 1 and the same success, to prom , reason and the advancement of the world. It was at the very cry of horror at the tyranny an , people arose from the heart of ea( did their philosophers and men first alarm at the encroachment: are destined to regenerate the No EAGLE FANCY FOR Clow) (Appenzell) such a daring r obb( , before the very eyes of its paren the Silver Alps (Schwyz) an e l l child seated on the rocks, bee t n o to pieces, and dropped hie" ,d herdsman could drive the Oberland, Anne Zurbucliall4 a thrt taken out by her parents Win n , g placed by them on the g round child soon fell asleep. The fathi face with a straw-hat, and then labour. As he soon after retu. hay, he found the child no longer for it for a time in vain. In the sant Heinrich Michel passed b: ' direction of the mountain brook. he heard a child crying. Procee , of the sound, he speedily saw, frOl an eagle rise, and for a consideral above the precipiece. The peasan and found the child lying on the with no other injury than to the which it had been seized, but wi shoes and cap, dropped in her aeri time the child went by the name e In Muru (above the Lauterbach, bitants show an inaccessible poin exactly opposite to their elevates Thither, across the deep Lutschin. vulture carried a child which Muru, and tore it to pieces on th. For a long time after the little r' less child could be discerned . . . On the Bth June, 1838, Josephine Doler and Mary Lom. together on a smooth spot at tht Majoni t'Alesk in Wallis, and aboi from it. Suddenly Mary appeare(' of a neighbouring hut, where sh( how her companion, a three-year• child, had suddenly disappeared in than thirty persons explored the mg precipices, and at last rem the former a shoe, and on the 4 abyss a sock. It was only on the a herdsman named Franz Favolet of the child in the upper part of half a league from the spot where peared. The body was dried up torn, partly lost. As it was impe could have crossed the abyss alone, sO; or l; been carried off either by a lamb-vult g . f ity./ rock-eagles whose nest was in the vei n Life in the Alps. I t . 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