The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

..,,.,,.,.....s_OCTOLER 16, 1855.] _ _,___ SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN wl l 4l or the first kiss ; but as the bride was not yet hr 10r and the bridegroom was kneeling be be4,`,7, h_e had the first chance, and won accordingly. ' ; e 31 cake was next produced, and put upon the pi eec ' :file bride and bridegroom came forward, took a tabl e 6,4. ca b and and deposited several dollars on the farw art i Ore tspriest. Each in the room then came for e th ' and_. a piece of cake, leaving a dollar be the% aesPnest, who stood behind the table thanking ktes il, they came up. I had nothing but two dollar- Van ier .T\Y pocket, of which I laid down one, when aryl said:: took it up, looked, shook his head, fiv e . ' A, sir, upon my word that's too much. hoaourPound note ! I was immediately held in great priest betcordit, i is g.3' ; as I could not contradict the aekilovdLrehis flock, I was obliged to receive the could. gents of the people with the best grace I that the -la of afterwards this was his object, and all h ad People would now do anything for me. When while h made their contributions, they stood round stati o P c ollated th e a s h g it at so . money, and declared . its amount, ;, e was pleased hiething under £ which, with my £5,. ' 4. w as in o , A , to call it, made nearl £l5. " Wish sp otise c --, ,or your sake, sir," was the y universal re ecksistioo.nll:„the room. Supper was now brought in, t iT ) e r e, da;oh;:!a a nd hot cakes ; after which there was - sic of ulla inore,c.rog drinkingjust tx(),,,, - nearl to the : Ills 11.,.;',8'qii :.---J4ke's Excursions in 7 Newfo u ndland.. STEAM -SHIP - -A r os of what I m onste r 4served, l l'' - P ° P l than a , a‘ , , , 0 stok4.o what can be more ug y . , I co lle e a th othnglne, or a monster steam-ship r i t i 8 Yard, t p day at Messrs. Scott, Russell, and ex° s s aid to he Li a y in course of construction. vete•Piig Sinba7 largest thing that ever floated, not he "'"aY i a d s wh ale. 1 forgot --it is not aflo t a ship / d 11 not she f thou h it professes to raa listro , ar e not . , or oug he so us,Thass. i t • i s i au e an%cnities • I s /lot afloat yet, and there may assi gn- the gentle sex to such a face hehed, bev el . \ : 11 getting it to sea ; but if ever it membered, luade no it of t he waters Sias sl iell a thing ever before on the _ ra . ast he remembince Xoah's ark s and Noah's ark, In% but that of pretences to any Ziroael i i t, it b:extensive a ccommodation. As you e of slogs ,"ses above twits .k t Zealled , I am and s '-i, carcases t he houses and trees of the suppose, from its detaining the wo ,do wnw ard of those animals in their___ e lik, a ° 'lea hor„ voyages on the Thames) i like it to laael i i ile ' over the walls of Troy. is i n d ear rY it /„.4eant to take a city, and afte l r t tak o ilg s tw ,, , in deed its ob,aY bodily to Australia ; for some such atic i thousam Ject. It is calculated that it will bear s the chattels, behligrantstat once, with all their goods knaWorld with esides the crew ; and there are t ot , as it i, to '° m° the than two thousand inhabitants. a it is cities i n e qesir a h ie t , arry two thousand people, ancl it % 0 1 ,l'eeted 0 '; n ave two thousand sea-sick at once,l the se„," trifai„ at its length, 360 feet 11 7it' ° thai'7lll enable it to lie level on all or %ht,salliiia has 1 this is not the first ship wherewith more thani inary it notified 4 tilled the waves, it is the first wherewith Of a ea s , ,tbeni straight. As to its steam power,..n aiii, ss es, boi' L L° be reckoned by horses, or by any fossilkia of mall extincteuYtbe power of some large it which ' as iceuanodous or m for will h r'aenstr b • • in fact resemble,- • tail, ha to ns efts " it will figure of . , as they Paddi es hk e ~, e y h on each side, and a screw egatherium, the all oth er a g• As to the word of command—for, despotism, and in its io eaPtain . s hiPs, it will be under a of Russia t he w ill be litt to ext ent 0 ,, a sort of floating emperor emperor • yeatt,‘: by sol ,' his dominions m rea 4 a s ieu',e acoustic instrument , flashed along btl i of a q as a great gun, or one end to the e,. 11_11 eleetri t I ',roam T hos e Iv , c e egrapn , from —lin u s s t t ill e t it o h b e e r tihhnee selyea at 4,4n0 have to board it, have to provide them- Ilali t with ~..7.sel at all will 0 and after . if, indeed, you can e 3. aceo:t u i Tes and flasks will be qualified to give div gtet tab a 'Pus-hed th e feat f whiskey, ;erselssiAed2a,,,ent, after the manner of incidents, aa 4 • ' 4/41,17,1in accounts of numerous bice ' 'gricultie . for Albert Sm i it n h : Nils.4"Parison-33/ackwood• 10 co— . s , th e g , mar de la cote" will be _o n _ the .41 Of Ai WILLIA•M'S lIRTIYRN PROM SEA. h,_ the eor;taerY ocilaB%,s met Colonel Manners waiting queen's v _age .leading towards ;veatise prince Is .th.e ki.n ertrrients. the ~ , , w William is corne." g, niaam,he cried I had heard he was no. n, --.and with pin c h conee .it t leave of the king. .rne it was . w , ith- It w ~, the king he sailed to E as m them llness, indeed, nbably, all the ngland, ana when he had, exelise of belie • ' ving his royal father incapable of further governance. * * In the even ing, while Mrs. Schwellenberg, Mrs. Zachary, and myself, were sitting in the eating parlour, the door was suddenly opened by _ Mr. Alberts, the queen's page, and " Prince William" was announced. He came to see Mrs. Schwellenberg. He is handsome, as are all the royal family, though he is not of a height to be called a good figure. He looked very hard at the two strangers, but made us all sit very civilly, and drew a chair for himself, and began to discourse, with the most unbounded openness and careless ease, of every thing that had occurred to him. Mrs. Schwel lenberg said she pitied him for the grief he must have felt at the news of the king's illness : " Yes," cried he, " I was very sorry for his majesty, very sorry indeed,—no man loves the king better ; of that be assured. But all sailors love their king. And I felt for the queen too,—l did, faith. I was horribly agi tated when I saw the king first. I could hardly stand." Then Mrs. Schwellenberg suddenly said, " Miss Berner, now you might see his royal highness ; you wanted it so much, and now you might do it. Your royal highness, that is Miss Berner." He rose very civilly, and bowed, to this strange freak of an introduction, and of course I rose and c ourtsied low, and waited his commands to sit again ; which were given instantly, with great courtesy. " Ma'am," cried he, " you have a brother in the service ?" " Yes, sir," I answered, much pleased with his professional atten tion. He had not, he civilly said, the pleasure to know him ; but he had heard of him. Then, turning suddenly to Mrs. Schwellenberg, " Pray," cried he, " what has become of Mrs,—Mrs.—Mrs. Hogentot ?" "0, your royal highness !" cried she, stifling much offence, "do you mean the poor Haggerdorn ?-0, your royal highness ! have you forgot her P" " I have, upon my word !" cried he, plumply ; " upon my soul, I have !" Then turning again to me, lam very happy, ma'am," he cried, "to see you here ; it gives me great pleasure the queen should appoint the sister of a sea-officer to so eligible a situation. As long as she has a brother in the service, ma'am," cried he to Mrs. Schwellenberg, "I look upon her as one of us. 0, faith, Ido ! I do indeed ! she is one of the corps." Then he said he had been making acquaintance with a new princess, one he did not know nor remember — Princess Amelia, "Mary, too," he said, " I had quite forgot ; and they did not tell me who she was ; so I went up to her ; and, without the least recollecting her, she's so monstrously grown, I said, Pray ma'am, are you one of the attendants ?' " Princess Sophia is his professed favourite. " I had the honour, he cried, "of about an hour's conversation with that young lady, in the old style ; though I have given up my mad frolics now. To be sure I had a few in that style formerly !—upon my word I am almost ashamed! —Ha! ha! ha !" Then, recollecting particulars, he laughed vehemently, but Mrs. Schwellenberg eagerly interrupted his communications ; I fancy some of them might have related to her own sacred person ! " Augusta," he said, " looks very well,—a good face and countenance,— she looks interesting,—she looks as if she knew more than she would say ; and I like that character." He stayed a full hour, chatting in this good-humoured and familiar manner.—Madame D' Arblay. WHAT PETER THE GREAT SAW IN ENGLAND.-- Peter the Great, while in England, was as shy and unwilling to be seen as Peter the Wild Boy. He was present at a ball given at Kensington by King William, in honour of the birthday of the Princess Anne, after wards Queen ; or rather he may be said to have seen the ball, for his shyness confined him to a small room, from which he could see without being seen. When he saw Kin°. William on his throne, in the House of Lords (a sight he had expressed a particular wish to see), it was not from the gallery, nor from below the bar of the house, but from a gutter in the house-top, from which he was enabled to peep through a window into •the house. He retired from this unpleasant point of view sooner, it is said, than he intended; for he made so ridiculous a figure (says Lord Dartmouth, who was present), that neither king nor peers could forbear laughing. He was taken to all our London sights at that time of any-moment. To the lions and armouries in the Tower, to the monuments and wax figures in Westminster Abbey, to Lambeth Palace to the masquerade on the last night of the Temple revels, and to the two theatres in Drury-lane and Dorset-gardens. He was chiefly IARD 141 attracted by the Tower and the performances. at Drury-lane. The wild beasts and imple ments of war were adapted to his rougher nature, while the charms of a Miss Cross, the original Miss Hoyden, in Vanbrugh's Relapse, and the first actress who had " Miss" prefixed to her name in playbills, were so engaging that the rough Czar of Russia be came enamoured of her beauty. Of this Miss Cross the story is told in the Spectator, that when she first arrived in the Low Countries she was not computed to be so handsome as Madame van Brisket by near half a ton. There is a fine old mezzo-tinto which still pre serves to us the beautiful features that won the youth fol heart of Peter the Great. He did not speak English, nor is he known to have been at all desirous of learning it ; few of his sayings have therefore been preserved. Three, however, have reached us. He told Admiral Mitchell that he considered the condition of an English admiral happier than that of a Czar of Russia. To King William he observed, "If I were the adviser of your Majesty, I should counsel you to remove your court to Greenwich, and to convert St. James's once more into an hospital." When in West minister-hall, he inquired who the busy gentlemen were in wigs and gowns, and, being told they were lawyers, " Lawyers !" said he, " why I have but two in my whole dominions, and I design to hang one of them the moment I get home.---. Household Words. VARIETIES. A NOISELESS BARK.—The bark of a tree. " PATRICK, where is Bridget ?" " Indade, ma'am, she's fast asleep lookin' at the bread bakin." A LEGAL QUERY.—Does a landlord give up his right to a house entirely when he re-leases it ? WHEN any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. WHEN the heart is out of tune, the tongue seldom goes right. LOVE can excuse anything but meanness ; but meanness kills love, and cripples even natural affec tion ; without esteem, true love cannot exist. POVERTY isolates. No crowd gathers round him who has nothing to give, and it is much worse for him if his indigence does not covert the world into a desert. A CANDIDATE FOB IVlATiamoxy.—A farmer down west, in announcing his willingness to take a wife, declares that as he is himself in clover he has no objection to take a lady in weeds. THE TRUE NOBILITY. Philip of Spain, asked Jeannin, a plebeian ambassador of Henry IV., " Are you a gentleman ?" " Yes," he replied, "if Adam was one." " But whose son are you ?" " The son of my own virtues." A GENTLEMAN was called upon to apologise for words uttered in wine. " I beg pardon," said he, "I did not mean to say what I did, but I have had the misfortune to lose some of my front teeth, and words get out every now and then without my knowledge. HUMAN NATURE.—" I'm sorry, Mr. Wilson, to see this splendid field of potatoes so seriously diseased," said a sympathising inspector. " Atweel, it's a great pity," replied the farmer, " but there's a'e comfort— Jock Tamson's is not a bit better !" MAGNANIMITY.—PIeasant enough was the magna nimity of the person who, being reproached with not having revenged himself of a caning he had received, exclaimed, " Sir, I never meddle with what passes behind my back I" WRINKLEs.---It is said to have been satisfactorily demonstrated that every time a wife scolds her hus band she adds a wrinkle to her face ! It is thought that the announcement of this fact will have a most satisfactory effect, especially as it is understood that every time a wife smiles on her husband it will remove one of the old wrinkles. WHAT'S that F" asked Mrs. Partington, looking up at the column on the Place Vendome, during her late visit to Paris. " The pillar of Napoleon," was the answer. " Well, I never did !" she exclaimed, "and that's his pillow ! he was a great man, to use that ; but it s more like a bolster. And it s made of iron, I do believe. Ah, Isaac ! see what it is to be great ! how hard his head must have rested on that ironical pillow MONKEY-MEAT.—The sloth and the ant-eater are' scarce animals, but monkeys of many species are to be seen everywhere throughout this district (Manabique Territory). It is pleasing to behold their extraordinary i, 11 _ at& 'odi c le 0 who call 4 hiti, e spaP ° oar' o : Dc BS itti P ;11A' _._• ea d ,aseolo? le ,1 cOO