The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 1. WHO ARE THE SANTALS ?—" Who are the Santals?" is a question which, until recently, few even in India could answer. The name is familiar enough to those who have paid much attention to the condition of the aborigines of India, and much light has been thrown on the habits of the people by recent missionary re searches. Thus a very elaborate description of u branch of the tribe—a branch which is not yet, we hope, implicated in the insurrection—will be found in a work lately published in London, entitled, " India as a Field of Foreign Missions," by Mr. Macleod Wylie. It is sufficient for our present purpose to say that the Santals, though possessing many of the characteristics of the real hill tribes, whose similarity, if not identity, as they exist throughout the country from the hills of Assam to those of the Conchn, is so remarkable, are still in many respects distinct from their Highland neighbours. As we have already said, they occupy rather the lower slopes of the hills than the hills them selves, and, extending as they do from Bhaugulpore to Orissa, they form a sort of connecting link between the various hill tribes which occupy the higher regions of that section of country. Thus, although any direct communication between the present insurgents and the hillmen of Orissa would be out of the question, yet by means of the Santals, who are common to both districts, such a communication becomes easy. And to this circumstance it is that the rapid spread of the disaffection seems to be attributable. For the rest, the Santals are little better than savages ; they are for the most part destitute of firearms, but they in a measure make up for disadvantage by their skill in the use of the bow, which they do not hesitate to render more deadly by the cruel device of poisoned arrows. Their religion is a simple and barbarous idolatry, the worship of stocks and stones, without any of those mystical refinements by which the idolatry of the Hindoos is overlaid. Their mythology, compared with that of the Hindoos, is almost a blank, and they have no notions of caste. Their food consists of almost any thing that can be eaten, from toads and caterpillars up to tigers and horned cattle, for the flesh of kine is not forbidden. As to their vices, it is certain from their recent proceedings that they combine cowardice with cruelty to a remarkable degree, for they war with women and children as well as men, and unlike the North American Indian, who prizes most a warrior's scalp, the head of a woman is to the Santal the most acceptable trophy that he can take away from the village of his enemy. But with all this it is remark able that the Santals are distinguished for a love of truth, which exists nowhere else among the natives of India. Their numbers are said to amount to 100,000 fighting men, and if they are joined by the other tribes, the number of Vindhyan-hill men capable of bearing arms against us would become formidable indeed. It is not supposed that any attempt will be made durinc , the present season to do more than drive the enemy t t O the hills and keep them there. Next cold season will be the time for active offensive operations ; and most signal retribution for the damage done must be in flicted, if the shock which this affair has given to our prestige is to be recovered from.---Delhi Gazette. ignored." If conciseness is desirable in expression, " ignored" is better than " left out of the question ;" besides, the word means more than that phrase, and than the term " excluded." To ignore is wilfully and cunningly, and deceitfully, to leave out of the ques tion ; fraudulently to overlook ; mendaciously to affect not to know ; to blink ; to pretend ignorance of a fact that the fact may pass unnoticed, and not be taken into account. It is a word which describes, with beau tiful precision, a thing very common both in the writings and conversation of zealots and bigots, and especially of solemn ecclesiastical humbugs ; it com pendiously expresses one of their artifices ; it neatly bottles off a puff of their smoke ; therefore they don't like it : but therefore it is a lovely word, and well de serving of incorporation with the Queen's English. THE PIOUS PUFFERS.---It must be very painful to a sincere professor of those doctrines by which self glorification is especially condemned, to find himself continually made the subject of puffing paragraphs. We have already called attention to the lamentable case of poor dear Doctor Cumming, who has been so bespattered, besmeared, and bedaubed with booksellers' puffery, that we naturally begin to look for a list of his works in that portion of a newspaper which is devoted to medical and miscellaneous quackery. Some of our friends have become so thoroughly possessed with the idea of a connection between the name of Cumming and newspaper notoriety, that we have been seriously asked, whether the lion-slayer at the top of the Haymarket is the same Cumming whose appella tion has been made the subject of that familiarity which is said to lead to contempt, through the medium of advertisements. We should scarcely be surprised if the pious puffers of Dr. Cumming's books were to take advantage of the popularity of the present con nection between the name of Cumming and the King of Beasts, and were to send forth a list of his works with the words, " Dr. Cumming, the Great Religious Lion of the Day," by way of an attractive '.heading. While we are on the subject of pious puffs, we may as well remonstrate against a paragraph we lately met with, in which one Doctor Close, the idol of the old maids of Cheltenham, has been introduced with the interesting accessory of a bad leg, or something of the sort, for which he has been taking a trip somewhere on the Continent. The newspaper puff informs us that his leg is getting better, and that his " people" at Cheltenham will soon have him back, and that he thinks of his "lambs," or:some twaddle or other, which will, of course, go the round of all the Cheltenham tea-tables. If Doctor Close's anile admirers like to be called his " people," we see no objection to the title ; but when we recollect that the Doctor was one of those who wrote a book to prove the Satanic agency of table-turning and spirit-rapping, we think that a better term than that of " lambs" might be found for those who accept the Reverend gent as their guide ; and we should be disposed, in selecting a word from the animal creation, to describe them as Dr. Close's donkeys. The over-sanctimonious, and not over charitable portion of the public, will believe, or rather will assert without believing it, that we intend to sneer at religion or its ministers, because we denounce the quackery and puffery which make the latter con temptible. It is, however, obvious to common sense, that the clerical profession is only degraded by the unwholesome pandering to personal vanity, to which it is in these days so much exposed, and which has placed a " popular preacher" and a " popular per former" in much the same position. We simply wish to put down that morbid and usually feminine feel ing with reference to parsons which developes itself in working slippers and antimacassars, or in giving silver tea-pots to unmarried clergymen. We recollect an instance in which a bachelor divine had been presented with so many embroidered shoes and tea services by the spinsters of his flock, that he might ;have started with a capital stock, as either a slipper dealer or a silversmith ; but happening to marry a lady out of the parish, he was nearly torn to pieces by his fair adorers, who called on him to return all the plate that had been presented to him for his bachelor piety---his single blessedness. A PROBLEM FOR SOYER. handsome does," how then can one? NATURE has perfections: is the image of God ; and in that she is only His image. HUMILITY must be a yt pride itself puts it on. Prid , deformed, since it dares not forced to appear in a mask. RicHEs.—There is a burl , fear in keeping them, tempt , in abusing them, sorrow in of account at last to be give AN ATHENIAN, who was the army, was laughed at of his lameness. "I am hen run." DRUNKENNESS,—III Swed, four times drunk is deprived and the next Sunday after th , in the churchyard publicly.. EASY ABOUT IT.—At Gi scarcity of water. An Iris . about the matter. If he o n ' mg, and his punch at night; DROLL BLUNDER.—An I end of London, on entering vase of golden fish, exclaim, I ever saw red herrings al' my life." AMERICAN TITLES.---Th Gazette announces the publi titled " New York Naked," York Above Ground and V York by Gas Light." COMPLIMENTIRY TOAST. adopted the fashion of wea brown chip hats, have pro , who toast the fair sex at the to the brim." READY WIT.—A person t, on the stage of the Belville' to the front, said—" Gently have lost his head, do not, bi it at the conclusion of the pk A NATURAL CURIOSITY can immigrant, sat enjoyi: banks of a southern creek, h from the stream. "By thf " that iver I should come to walk." THE NEWSPAPER.—The quent miseries of multituf paper, are so many admo] many beacons, continually bi the rocks on which they Bishop Horne. DRUNKEN BIRNABY.—On , bany, U.S., a professional dr fined, in close succession, ter. dulging his passion, proposed for a year, and offered to pa: cent. discount. " Drunken accepted. " OWER TRUE A TALE."' cise was vain enough to ha horseback, erected in his ga, looking at it, one of them Commissioner had no gloves other, "he never wears th , got his hands in our pockets, INVOLUNTARY TESTIMON communes in France, lately upon his register :—" I may in the forest —, a man by mitting an act against the la surrender ; whereupon he se' insult and contumely, callini a precious dolt, and a scare tjfy to be true." POST-OFFICE LINGO.—W notices adopt the word p adulterous compound, half sheer plusage. When the a letter, what more is to be a letter would be more to t but paid is enough for plain money down for an article y and that is enough. Is not Ii ? enough without any addition t° it "SPIRIT OF PUNCH." A WASHED DuKE.---The Glasgow Citizen, in de scribing the personal appearance of some of the savans assembled at the meeting of the British Association, is good enough to remark of the Duke of Argyll, that he looked " superlatively clean." Did the Scotch reporter muddle the modicum of French in his pos session, and think it was a case of savon instead of savant? Or, is it such a wonder that a Scotch duke should be physically clean ? Some of the Scotch dukes (like some of the English ones) have done very dirty things in their time, but it was hardly a matter of surprise that the Duke of Argyll, who, moreover, is a very estimable 'young man, should have washed his face and put on a clean shirt upon such an occasion. To be sure such a luxurious demonstration might ex cite a :trifle more notice in Glasgow than in most places, but even there the upper classes occasionally set examples of unobjectionable neatness. The Citizen has been showing his freedom rather unwarrantably. AN ACQUISITION TO PLAIN ENGLISH.—The writer of Notes and Sketches [in the Morning Post makes the following remark, among others of a more judicious character, on the subject of " Discourse :"—" To say that some point has been excluded, or left out of the question, is much better than to say it has been VARIETIES. TRAINING A Cow.---An Irish gentleman seeing a boy driiing a cow backward and forward through his own hedge, asked him what he was about. " Ta'ching the cow to get her own living s " was the answer. 126 -OCTOBER-OCTOBER 1 1, ..-:------------ . `6IIER R. —lf gangl 1. b can a good coolc it ;`,htV. t ' ellelTib in order to 504 • t o t t lreh t n defects, in or °' : , thee i . P (acid. 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