The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. have often perceived, in going that those times in which I , were my best times ; at least, Lured to submit my will to the Lees which opposed it ; and most Eyed anything that was worthy ;ss, from possessing facilities for ; is more comfortable, nndoubt appliances and means to boot, to be happy, one must dwell in the and feeling ; and this cannot be any restlessness of desire to get, different from what we either after all, it is quite certain that happy, we must not concentrate upon ourselves. Whatever you we must in some way or another r other minds—supposing, that Ling in the shape of mind to dif 'n short, hide our light under a ik we shall have need to go out ur light : capabilities of useful called for, by the circumstances but to observe the meek and which these make upon us for we should not get into the con ich so often befall us from taking othing preaches to those who the circumstances of life ; and )ble and comprehensive as that to impart to docile and willing Fireside. .s.---Take any modern London uses in detail, or look at them in Lek brown plastered sides, the Lamentation here and there per td doors, squared windows, angu ,stly array of tin or zinc pipes, rods, and with strange gyrating ihowering masses of p i tc h y car b on Or tu rn , if you please, to the nv ; pay attention for a moment first half-dozen : when you have it eye upon the huge cumbrous 'd the roadway, with their motley me four or five and twenty in ro poor reeking, panting horses, ly flogged in order to outstrip a l up sharply on the hard granite, limbs, protruding but usually Ld bleeding mouths, too plainly Id nothing but the knacker's mg sufficiently inspected this re- British brutality, cast your eye ter train about to start, and an -hether it is possible to conceive clumsy or more thoroughly ;es into which some two hundred stowed, unless it be the snorting lie they are about to pursue.-- eiv. OF PECUNIARY DIFFICULTIES. [happy mortal who has constantly )uniary difficulties ! Of all the there are none that so absorb Len the energies, so paralyze the nature, as pecuniary embarrass lay shine, the face of the earth ' 4 4 114 1 plenty, the birds sing, and the Il k , of ;et perfumes ; but his soul is dark 01, 4 , 4 fre et "thin him, he enjoys them not. The k„ hit heart, may appeal in tones of kindest sym a 4 ,4, - , e art, and perhaps impart a momentary t et 're Bo Ni / e or comfort, but it will quickly pass s o a s we make our couch, so must we lie; itt4 q 11,40/04; but we reap—'tis a just and righteous fe o, .44 the quality of mercy is not strained; el \vithobserve the miserable and forsaken, f or a i 4versity, and, if he can do no more, B ' 4 44 1 ey e, l';! sufferings ; mark his pale cheek, tis hro w ' and 1 40 1 _ 18 hagga r d look ; he was once gay unonling as thyself, his eye as bright, a rt qa,re, r ic led as thine own—he began life 4 a 1 4 an open heart and hand for all, " I wi teci that',, 14, 14 means that insure many friends : e sdoin ; all the world most prizes ; but O'rave h as ' t l l44 s eYond all other things valuable mkt that hisfaulted o lio kn ow hi m b es t ma y, when , ti;„verVi him and all his troubles, " many, were errors rather of the understanding than the heart. God help him ! and well it is for us that His judgments are more just and merciful than man's, on His rock alone the most wretched may safely repose their trust.—Tom Thornton on Last Resowrces. A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW OF LONDON..-London.!— "The needy villain's general home ! The common sewer of Paris and of Rome !" as Johnson called it. Its streets paved with guilt and gold, where honour starves in tatters, and the heart ache is not confined to Chancery-lane ! Yet the arena, still, of mind, energy, benevolence, and withal of selfishness, indolence, and incapacity. It is a whirlpool of endless changes, save one---namely, that care always rises to the top, from the great sedi ment of original corruption below ! It is a current so rapid in the stream of life, that all are swamped by it, except the strong swimmer, whose inborn resolu tion defies it, or the wealthy voyager, whom fortune furnishes with a bridge or a vessel to pass it. It is the pool of seething vice and treachery, where, aided by the thickened scum of fraud and flattery, the knave victimises the fool ; where the largest sharks are most admired ; while the simple gudgeon feeds the pike, and is laughed at, to boot ! Its shores are covered with wrecks of all classes and ages, amongst which we meet a fragment, now and then, of exquisite grace and beauty, showing marks of early care, and of the bright hopes once entertained about the future ; but the noble vessel has gone down, probably from want of a proper pilot, and the stream runs too fast to notice such common things, now ! The anchorage of this great metropolitan bay is treacherous---its shoals innumerable---its swelling waves now rise with youth's fondest hopes---now sink and open into gulfs dark as the abysses of men's unfathomable fears ! Such is London, to the philosopher who stands by the side of the stream, and weeps at, or derides it all !---Free mason's Magazine. A CURIOSITY OF LONDON.—To my mind a certain worthy, honourable, and gallant member of parliament, colonel of militia, and extensive landowner, is to the full as curious as any of the odds and ends of anti quarianism ; as London Stone, at St. John's Gate ; as Padlock House, at Knightsbridge ; as old Bartelmy Fair—shows, sausages, sweeps, and all ; as a Wardour street man-in-armour, or as (the hirsute appearance of our dear colonel being taken into consideration) one of the by-gone lions in the Tower. Old people down in Lincolnshire, too, will, in after years, relate how the gallant colonel, disdaining and denouncing bribery and treating at elections, nevertheless gave each voter's wife a pound of green tea on his own septennial return to parliament, and how he boldly avowed the fragrant gift in Mr. Speaker's presence, and announced his intention of repeating it at every general election until his (the colonel's) dissolution, an event that may be expected at about the same time as the Greek Kalends. Veterans in Chelsea and Kilmainham, veterans in large cuffed great-coats, with wooden legs, with patches over their eyes—" shouldering their crutches and showing how fields were won"—will tell how their first essays at soldiering were made in the gallant colonel's own regiment of militia, and how, after arduous field-days, he was wont to treat each rank and file, down to the very drummers, to a pint of strong ale. Parliament and Palace-yard will tell how the colonel strode over its broad pavement, his umbrella under his arm, his wide-hemmed trousers flapping over his wellingtons,his unbrushed hat at the back of his head, his huge shirt collars so stiff and sharp and pointed en avant, that they seemed couched like lances, and ready to charge any number of windmills, ; his eyeglass, with its broad black ribbon fluttering in the breeze ; his eyes wild staring; his marvellous unkempt locks tangling, flying, eddying over his face. His praises will be sung in the Grand Avenue of Covent Garden Market, and fruiterers and florists will tell how he smelt mellons, and tasted grapes, and bought bouquets of their grandsires. White-headed auctioneers will recount how he bought ancient weapons and armour, strange curiosities and nicknacks at public sales. Ah ! could he but sell himself as a curiosity ! What Bernal, what Hope, what Soane, what Roach Smith collection could vie with the museum where he was placed.—lrouse hold Words. THE REV. SIDNEY SMITH'S " ex tract the following from Lady Holland's memoirs of her father, the late Rev. Sidney Smith :—A man-ser vant was too expensive, so I caught up a little garden. girl, made like a milestone, christened her Bunch, put a napkin in her hand, and made her my butler. The girls taught her to read, Mrs. Sidney to wait, and I undertook her morals ; Bunch became the best butler in the county. * * * Coming down one morning at Foston, I found Bunch pacing up and down the passage before her master's door, in a state of great perturbation. What is the matter, Bunch ? " Oh, Ma'am, I can't get no peace of mind till I've got master shaved, and he's so late this morning ; he's not come down yet." This getting master shaved consisted in making ready for him, with a lirge painter's brush, a thick lather in a huge wooden bowl, as big as Mambrino's helmet, which she always con sidered as the most important avocation of the morn ing. * * I was coming down stairs the next morning (she continues), when Mr. Smith sud denly said to Bunch, who was passing, " Bunch, do you like roast duck or boiled chicken ?" Bunch had probably never tasted either the one or the other in her life, but answered, without a moment's hesitation, " Roast duck, please sir," and disappeared. I laughed. " You may laugh," said he, " but you have no idea of the labour it has cost me to give her that decision of character. The Yorkshire peasantry are the quickest and shrewdest in the world ; but you can never get a direct answer from them ; if you ask them even their own names, they always scratch their heads, and say,. A's sur ai don't knaw, sir ;' but I have brought Bunch to such perfection, that she never hesitates now on any subject, however difficult. I am very strict with her. Would you like to hear her repeat her crimes ? She has them by heart, and repeats them 'every day. "-Come here, Bunch (calling out to her) ; come and repeat your crimes to Mrs. Marcet ;" and Bunch, a clean, fair, squat, tidy little girl, about ten or twelve years of age, quite as a matter of course, as grave as a judge, without the least hesitation, and with a loud voice began to repeat, " Plate-snatching, gravy spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle fly-catching, and curtsey-bobbing." " Explain to Mrs. Marcet what blue-bottle fly-catching is." Standing with my mouth open and not attending, sir." "And what is curtsey bobbing ?" " Curtseying to the centre of the earth, please sir." " Good girl ! now you may go. She makes a capital waiter, I assure you ; on state occa sions Jack Robinson, my carpenter, takes off his apron and waits too, and does pretty well, but he sometimes naturally makes a mistake, and sticks a gimlet into the bread instead of a fork." THE MORNING OF WATERLOO.—In Brussels: the dawn of the day (18th June, 1815) on which Waterloo was fought, saw all afoot, and in spite of the heavy rain which fell the Parc was soon crowded. For awhile all was still. No sound of firing came over the forest, neither were other signs of war afforded to them, save in the occasional arrival of small bodies of wounded from the field of Quatre Bras, and the hurried visits of the medical attendants to such as already occupied the hospitals. But by and by there was a change. The roar of cannon burst upon them suddenly ; they knew that the battle had begun, and from that moment terror became so predominant in every bosom, that the idea of its probably ending in the triumph of the allies seems not to have occurred to any one. A hundred Napoleons had been vainly offered for a pair of horses ; and the scene of confusion which it presented on Saturday evening surpassed all con ception. The certainty of the defeat of the Prussians, of their retreat, and the retreat of the British army, prepared the people to expect the worst. Aggravated reports of disaster and dismay continually succeeded to each other ; the despair and lamentations of the Belgians ; the anxiety of the English to learn the fate of their friends ; the dreadful spectacle of the waggon loads of wounded coming in, and the terrified fugitives flying out in momentary expectation of the arrival of the French; the streets, the roads, the canals covered with boats, carriages, waggons, horses, and crowds of unfortunate people flying from this scene of horror and. danger, formed altogether a combination and tumult, terror and misery, which cannot be described. Num bers even of ladies, unable to procure any means of conveyance, set off on foot and walked in the dark beneath the pelting storm to Malines ; and the distress of the crowds who now filled Antwerp it is utterly impossible to conceive. Even in Antwerp itself many did not feel themselves seem, and therefore escaped as they best could, some to Breda and others to Ostend. 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