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

124 [oc ;TO33En f/` 0 -... dred tip, , I t 'e cl, morning 0.: ,1 1 , 1 1 wling to tlx eve labit ofd lure, indebted to a 1 diSperSe $ th ey sooner tb whi, a sulky, i t N ipon the tetinii of these the better if I,`,Lietl 1 kis woinsos EPA ve heathenh but n sorae sof/. mil writer's ~e ( )1 s e the sti pls. I,3eacti ' K/8 th, til "a llar:tT°11:::::0te )1: twl'i:ell ea t t Portal° ti for: i goge oli all their., o' DI _ ni. „ Ili SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. like lovers after a quarrel, lay embraced in each other's smile ! SHEPHERD : I could speak for hours, days, months, and years, about the wather, without e'er becoming tiresome. 0 man, a cawm ! NORTH : On shore, or at sea ? SHEPHERD : Either. I'm wrapped up in my plaid, and lyin a' my length on a bit green plat form, fit for the fairies' feet, wi' a craig hangin rawer me a thousand feet high, yet bright and balmy a' the way up wi' flowers and briars, and brooms and birks, and mosses maist beautifu' to behold wi' half-shut ee, and through aneath ane's arm guardin the face frae the cloudless sunshine! NORTH : A rivulet leaping from the rock SHEPHERD : NO, Mr. North, no loupin ; for it seems as if were nature's ain Sabbath, and the verra waters were at rest. Look down upon the vale profound, and the stream is without motion ! No doubt, if you were walking along the bank, it would be murmuring with your feet. But here— here up among the hills, we can imagine it asleep, even like the well within reach of my staff!_ NORTH : Tickler, pray make less noise, if you can, in drinking, and also in putting down your tumbler. You break in upon the repose of James's picture. SHEPHERD : Perhaps a bit bonny butterfly is resting, wi' faulded wings, on a gowan, no a yard frae your cheek ; and noo, waukening out o' a simmer dream, floats awa in its wavering beauty, but as if unwilling to leave its place of mid-day sleep, comin back and back, and roun' and roun', on this side and that side, and ettlin in its capri cious happiness to fasten again on some brighter floweret, till the same breath o' round that lifts up your hair sae refreshingly catches the airy voyager, and wafts her away into some other nook of her ephemeral paradise. TICKLER : I did not know that butterflies in habited the regions of snow. SHEPHERD : Ay, and mony million moths ; some o' as lovely green as the leaf of the moss rose, and ithers bright as the blush with which she salutes the dewy dawn ; some yellow as the long steady streaks that lie below the sun at set, and ithers blue as the sky before his orb has westered. Spotted, too, are all the glorious creatures' wings —say rather, starred wi' constel lations ! Yet, 0 sirs ! they are but creatures o' a day ! NORTH : Go on with the calm, James—the calm ! SHEPHERD : Gin a pile o' grass straughtens itself in silence, you hear it distinctly. I'm thinking that was the noise o' a beetle gaun to pay a visit to a freen on the ither side o' that mossy stane. The melting dew quakes ! Ay, sing awa, my bonny bee, maist industrious o' God's creatures ! Dear me, the heat is ower muckle for him ; and he burrows himsel in amang a tuft o' grass, like a beetle panting ! and noo invisible a' but the yellow doup o' him. I too feel drowsy, and will go to sleep amang the mountain solitude. NORTH : Not with such a show of clouds SHEPHERD : No ! not with such a show of clouds. of ill-fame, three beer houses, a milk shop, an old shoe shop, and another heathen tradesman who sells tobacco and chicory, tea, and cheese scraps, and at the corner of the street is a gin shop. My other neighbours are working men — a gun-smith, an actor at the theatre, a mender of shoes, a gilt-toy maker, a lock-smith, a printer, and a sweep ; the rest are labourers ; and there are also two women who go out to wash. I know there is not a single person in the street who goes to church. I know that one or two have been oftener in Moor-street lock-up than in a place of worship—that, to a family, they are all in debt, either to the pawnbroker, the landlord, the sur geon, or their employers. I know also that there is scarcely one person among us who has not been better off, and who is not capable of being better off than he is just now. There are in my street thirty-six houses, and three courts of forty two houses more. I have known more than four hundred men, women, and children living at one time in these houses. I have tried to count up their present number, and it is not far from four hundred now. One family has lost its father ; he was transported for stealing brass from his employer ; the brass was found at his house in the form of children's playthings, which he had made at home, and which one of the youngest in the family sold in the street. The mother, by means of washing, keeps on her house, feeds her five children (or at least four, for one is in the Gem-street school), and pays her way better than any ; the youngest son, who has fits, and whom no one will employ, sings in the street for what he can get. This woman is a fair specimen of all the other industrious women in our street, and to these women is owing all the decency and good feeling which we possess: The principal events which take place among us are the birth of a child, the seizing of a neighbour's goods for rent, and the visit of a policeman. No surgeon is ever seen at the first, and the seizure for rent seldom takes place without a united effort to save the tables and bed of the house that is about to be broken up. The policeman comes and goes without help and without molestation. The man earning the most money as a workman is the gunsmith, and of the heathen family of which he is the head I will say a few things, and conclude this my first letter in the hope that you will let me write to you again. There are seven in this family—mother and father, two sons, and three daughters. There is scarcely a night in the week when this man comes home sober. He has been twice in gaol. His wife goes out to do wash ing, and it is by her labour alone that the house is kept together. I have known this woman be confined of a child on a Sunday, and out again to wash on the Tuesday following. She can neither read nor write—but nothing delights her more than a song, a reading from a story-book, and going once a-year to the play. She is at the side of every sick bed, nurses at least once a-day every new-born baby in the place, and not unfrequently buys a pinafore, an orange, or a carrot, to give to some of the little heathen that are sprawling about. She has come to me many times in a year for help not for herself, but for others, and her falling tears have left her face all the more shining as she has got what she sought. Once one of the girls in the street could not go to the theatre because her frock was in pawn. She made every trial of her good humour upon my friend the pawnbroker to get him only to lend her the frock for the day, and, though she did not succeed, yet, because it was Monday, she raised 18d. among the neighbours and the girl went to the play. For seven years I have known this woman, during which time she has brought up her children in cleanliness and d t• in us y, and there is not a neighbour who needed help that she has not helped, and the last thing I saw her doing she has done a hundi giving a cup of tea in the 111 who seemed i n capable of craw had neglected by his cur sed br Nearly the whole street is 17 certain it is that none can has been attracted by a fight and none can sooner make band turn a friendly face u struck down. So that some susceptible of being made taken for this purpose. Is tL Bad as we all are here, are Nv( can be governed and kept in by a washerwoman ?" The . be gathered, is to repudiate thenism. MARRIED AGAINST PORTS3I9 SIR WALTER SCOTT used ing anecdote : " My cousin Natty," said man some forty years ago at . two other companions had overstaid their leave, spent a. 0 , run up shipan made a immense signalbill a f e t r a s t a a i i v ° i e: bit The i' lady said : " ' No, gentlemen, you cannot`' paying your reckoning,' and 4°9 060 words with appropriate actions,.ant r under the keeping of a s ufficie- 1 d bailiffs. roe an " They felt they were in a se- - ' , I be released. o d ickli'„ B bt No, no,' said Mrs. -. -- „, 1 0. -- ; „, t e satisfied some way or other;.-d is t ii e sse‘ i ruined if you don't get on Int,d 11 " They all made long fac e°- A tic it was true. ,„/0- of " ' Well,' said she, ' I'll PI cstl a .,,l# I am so circumstanced here tha t a 1 0, 7 e l business as a single woman and s tP . somehow to have a husbau'd, - d ri l 'sg . , h O must be able to produce a rll , n ifO lc ."' and therefore, the only terms on any", have leave to go on board te - ITadt e i. of you consent to marry me; 'nod, dons who it is, but by all that's gv ia il, ll " will have or else all three go t ° ' 0 ship sail without, you. Ill d 6 ~ ~1 " The virago Was not to be pac a youths, left to themselves, age; draw lots, and it happened to No time was to be lost, and so: o 0 to the church, and my poor relatlt Co spliced. The bride, on return of V, good dinner and several bottles loraoS and having tumbled them allcilt10:/ $ them off. The ship sailed, an is ecr' religiously adhered to the oath t:'' t yl made previous to drawing lots. . 1 0 5 " The bride, I should have Ow i r propose an eternal separation. Tool " Some months after, a t u „ -- 'S papers reached the midshiP'3l'oicik Watty, who was observed to be O of to' carelessly reading an accoulit w JO murder at Portsmouth, suadel"tioll ecstacy, and forgetting his ebliga s tfer o. • fall iylr 06 cried out— ill Thank heaven, my wife i --- 8 - ------: LITERARY _ES2III v 0 1 9 1 ENGLISH TASTE.-14011d01111111„,du;be4 she can never become Athens. nl' served for Paris. In London there " t (164 material development in the hig,lie,"eritbi fection, a gigantic exaggeration 0 1 e' TILE PICTURE OF A STREET. A correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette, writing from a district which has been called " Heathendom," says, I live in Heathendom. My two next door neighbours are a pawnbroker and a lodging-house keeper. I sell to my fellow heathens salt, butter, red herrings, bread, and other heathen necessaries. Between the two neighbours I see constantly the chiefest features of heathendom. In the same street are two houses Cler, do ne usef