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bURPLEMENI"IIO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD a tN .2 1 19, le Aot,•s.] ?IL . , q f ro ,t i lYift ( 1 , 1 :: you m , , t t ki ; jt ' uj e. ll , e-hpvtile:‘V-orldhl!,' fortune elsewhere, perhaps in a dis- COURA.GE. - True bravery is sedate and inoffensive: If it refuses to submit to insults, it offers none ; begins no dispute, , sett e, it s e e , . . I,"t ta n ue in ili'' I ° l 'eak my heart to part from you ! but te-s into no needless quarrels ;is above the little trou lF i'"-:e' lh t'- o ;and it;. e wa y of your interests. No, _dear H . Henry, some ambition to be distinguished every moment ; it bears in. Vbs., eit t to ' set the humble Emily ; besides 'tis your silence, and, replies with modesty, fearing no enemy, and l 'l' ' l le eheart-h°eY".r mother for all her fond care of you." making non lee nd is as much ashamed of insolence as cows i - ' An t ° f °4l(l hs rst inn sobs, broke from her ; it was long , ardice.—:Og n; et s 'avie '''''' soothed intAranquillity • she had made an LOVE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.—Men and women Ak Pi 'lerat e • e h im that 4 bee -toe at dut was paramount to every whose life was ceaselessly occupied with ideas and intrigues of ' , l ° aces • ' and she felt that she ought to resolve 10 e s te , Min t . . life were naturally always susceptible of its influence; and if Fle et t, , gai n .0 its dictates. --• • • - • .as Rochefoucauld observes, " there are some people who . would c., t ei li es 4.d he, at length, " I wish I had not toldlove mentioned ' , /€ a 'th t° "Isult , never have fallen ill love if they had not heard , 'th, 'orat 1 you on the best plans for our future many persons, through hearin g . it talked . .of wherever . they 'h.`rnesalle Hoof the name of Miss Thompson ' went, fancied they had found it where it did not exist. Sur :tt'.`tilltegl°ll ee'` persuasion conversation I have had with my will prised at these efforts of the imagination, some men en ;444' tor the t e e or argument you can use voured "'ise4 ( 1 / 1 0 tat .e 4 e o rifice my every hope of happiness in this ' to explain them by causes of a most ridiculous cha racter. In order to prove that the seat of love is in the blood, 41 (1,,n ft, aed s ' n ''' money —to sell myself—No ! I owe my ' Segrais relates a story of a German gentleman, whbse faithless ke t l th sw `lays re ""ection ; 'but not to the extent of debasing mistress, desiring to get rid of him, ran him twice through the 4 qi 'Or •s uss mv mind to leave this ace at the body with a sword. He did not die of his wounds, but, strange •• .. ri t a ° e , ll ' t e t A il aie' e l ' l L l cannot,'after every solicitation and argu- to say, when he had recovered, said Segrats, He felt as much 'ra ze e l t le . er to receive you as her daughter, even indifference for the princess as if he had never loved her, and •,,,1 1 / 2 41 t,,, , e n rl ed, ; and should I gain her consent thus d " C '-ot .he attributed this to the loss of bloo . - 7 sun. . ''"es e , e '"rs'Nef n uearest Emily, consent to a private mar- I DINING IN AMERICA.—A popular author, in his tour ,?ter ? , i ilik.'n°, k r Z'ou the dreadfu , l anxiety of absence Peon- through the States, has recently recorded it as his experience Ea ch /te e toe sereent can induce me to do what ' ic.. a of beloved hat the Americans are somewhat maligned in the reputation ,' es fie ae °red father and mother taught Incme tha they have acquired for the despatch of their meals t but he 'N -1, eate Y kind' is wrong; how much more so inundeceived 'est - ' to 4 e ehry ; I t affair as this. You must doubt my love had only to visit the western provinces to become Ali satin I promise you never to love another, .en this point. In the more highly civilised cities of the East, Vat - n; Yoti - s' e4 to accept another as a husband : will the üblic dinner is of just the proper duration, and a vast i'M's? Ins, ears s Cl aim me years hence, when no int- improvement upon the interminable table d'Ute of the con fluent of Europe, while the banquets at private houses often V I I re . s"t d at l li - ne l s ° , 4 r,union,'and lam yours for ever. V Wan %Use' -randy, I firmly in your truth, even exceed in length these latter repasts. But the ceremony sene „ s e , , , believe of dining upon the outskirts of civilisation is a very different t t he, t efr eet Sms r i ee - uowever distant lam from you. Here affair • and upon one occasion, at St. Paul's, the capital of rte s ll l 'artee. l4 n of ta n " Your finger, and wear it as a pledge i'n),,,se, N ,veeic o _ . '' who will never wed another." Thus Minnesota ota territory, I found it so difficult to keep pace we le my neighbours, that I determined to time them, and recorded, M he eselis.?"ed' as ikrte; with ut t o I , enry Harling again tried to gain his ken ", with e v. l '; li,,, u s wishec - to (ive up her plans s, o, even e the result of my observations, that from the moment when rhe first rnsh into the dining-room took place to the moment t o Place in e,:' elland they an b,._ - ti i res he could say was useless, the first man left, it w . as exactly seven minutes and a-half. fi 'I to the evel l • on both -ides This conversation In ten minutes I remained the solitary spectator of a melan -4 th r e log - ' • had ne choly array of empty dishes, the contents of which had been t e followe ie aatle, ' When Laura Thompson go h • t eakfa s t sh re ele, . ' sufficient, in that short period, to satisfy nearly a hundred e *IN te' e foe ulg,i voracious denizens of the Far West."—Blackwood. o s e h eat : h e had lef'''l a _ when Mrs. Harlin; came down ARAB PHILOSOPHY.—The following is an amusing account Fated'l! she 'll(' ret t f el . l eote on the table from her soh. of Arab sagacity. Immense flocks of pigeons and other birds ~,ti ti p ~ througl7 e said th Tdon and it was qutte uncertain hover about the banks of the Nile, ready to take advantage ne. teen, at he had tie the man•servant being goes-. "lei his which e ic e e d, Mr. Railing's portmanteau .of any grain Cr ether provision which the natives convey to ,i;cAt 14 colimpaster had tals et London coach passed, and had the markets at Alexandria :—" On the present occasion, as the e1 4 :15 3 t e is have be en go 1 3 1 '. 1 'is seat in it. , arm (a large undecked boat) was slowly descending the Nile , lot; the force of the current only, there came off from every li'bt a ' Mari - rna opposition l gt villagess that we pased a large flock of pigeons, and alighted on 1 3' displeasing to a . ghty to an her anxious wishes and ki s and 8. • She thought - le tt to . le s return ; th ought it probable that he would grain, as it was heaped up open in the centre of the boat. groups of these at last entirely covered the whole 1 4 . 4i th 41 11 e uncl e's, at he had only gone fora week,. per- . S t il ie ceessive -. co? rik ki c'cca s i on ~ w here he was in the habit of spending a surface of the wheat, that not a grain could be seen ; and 4 via,Ni. ~nt4' an ~„,,a , "Y, and therefore she contented herself the first layer was soon succeeded by a second, and then by a 'third.lt was amusing to see the struggles made by each of n',3 Z.1 1 ,\'' 4 5! after e iogy to Laura for his abrupt departure. IN hi t . ) s e e , Y wen. on, and week after . -.1 - wit day 4 week passed these ni turnisder layer, .hay.ing tithe their fill, l • as as .4 i sne die "eartl nothing of him ; she knew eot what i were anxious to escape, and take their flight upper ayer, let asste:.vsas unlNlvoitilleke to write to Lord Molestock about mg voraciously hungry, were as eager to get at the grain as„. eee s rity of „. int to show how little her son cared for i bolow, and stretched their necks out, and dived their bills 4 11 41 °4 q gai n his mother. She called at the parsonage, ' downward fcr this purpose ; while the centre layer seemed ek , t ilt no i n f • All this while the kin teis aeve r information. Emily looked pale and likely to be crushed between the two. 1 4"'Et ~,'''''ilethlevensmoking his asked after her son • this showed that rein, or captain of the boat, sat near the helm, t'''lloen 4 ne nee '" g• Another month passed on, and still he ; pipe with the utmost composure, and looking complacently on ~;!ello . • lens . rote. At length she determined to go to 1 the scene. At length I could not . forbear asking him to , ii S l e t i r for .ITously, however, she resolved to q _uestion . whom all this grain belonged, conceiving it to be a cargo te! los e ,' fier u t i Mind was becomin too uneas to admit of ion freight for some corn merchants, and thinking the captain ° 7 4 her l e ' e s• Her kindness to g Emi had n y ever abated ; ' a very indifferent guardian of their interests. To this ques sDetic'e, net a c ni nth as an interested woman could love any 1 tion he replied, ' Belongs ? It all belongs to me.' thel asled , i h tt. , ty eee'rhfoservient to her own wishes. She saw her him whether he did not view with some regret . i .t T o: Nin e " ant et • ', a ura, and her onl objection to the former reense consumption of it going on before his eyes , as, p d 4 111 t'h e Jortune balance,Two hundred thousand pounds was seeded at this rate, full half of it would be consume and Emily was found wanting. 'by the pigeons before he reached Alexandria., and his to LTO BE CONTINUED:I loss would be very considerable. lie then began . 0 you question me in his turn, and asked me first, D not think that God, who made the pigeons as well as man, r intended them also to be fed ?' I could not but say e I . 1,7 , eene—ese e sse, ( ewe -sue death of an old man's wife is like the s ' tren ef an •• • thinly.' 'ls not' he continued, `grain their natural food . confessed it was.. `Can they,' said he, `plough, a , nd reap, as ,, te I I ~ e e es i e e ~... ancient oak, that 'has long shaded the . rt 1 the glare cf the world, with its was we can, to obtain it I.' I was compelled to answer No. ' Then "ese •"u eie : eieeeese i ~ N -'ssinit t - c' <•ti l t nothi n eE, falls - upon tlie cid wi low '' h' t ' n it ?"To this even I could 1 as is of min g to breakear , and early the intention of the Creator that they should take it wherever they could find . their , _• • .7 ? l e , o es . %l ute. . force, c. smelt: it from the offer no dissent. ' Why then,' said he, ' let them eat their fill k ,,.. , ii... , w ii , , ,..., It is as if his right hand was withered and be satisfied. The earth is the Lord's, and the abundance 0 1 4 %0e1y bb ra 9l , ,n eagle was broken, and every movement thereo` and he meant that all his creatures should be par ;esss 'Y ; eed 'lent him to the ground. His eyes are dim " l ose "ben the film of i • takers'Of his bounty.' I said that I could not but admire his 1 to theace4sthased o pt Reeve e _tones which might have soothed his 1 R t l l rae etiot • Lamartine. . ' merchants would act upon this Mairommedan view of the case, but would protect, as they would call it, their property from s e i t, a s been - rsCRIPTS IN Russen—The taste fel' book loss. ' Then,' said he, ' they would act unwisely, for God s a ' N e a llsear st P. ';'"'inn of late years in Russia, and it will never suffers nsan to lose by discharging his duty to any of att2at t rand D ek ai'l e ge to many rf4l e I, s• e vo nst ... of my re d ti t tl• ' his '”eatures. He administers the affairs of whether world with a ers, ia .e im- t. J ape i n , -sa been known anane whose such a resent reputation is more wisdom and justice than this.' . I asked . . o re . k, with t h e to situp a great art f the • ht diminution in the store of grain before me would not inevit , 41.'see_ •le assistance of e pe o , nig • l i kt, t ,.bi kt r , ~:) decipher .an adept in that branch ably invo e .• '4 l e loss P 'ln quantity; he replied, ' undoubtedly, l ei ilalh B et a literary' to the b• but not in value er an ancient Sclavenic wanuscript: for the halt can never be equal eitwe trine of 11 tendency have shown'b the fcr this is the course of commerce. If all the boats laden with pr e ee li sle ~ . MEM. 1 have seen been ~ y Oti t , L ,lste i .,.. wrltten . 6 -3' Catherin'. -- - • arrive at Alexandria without any diminution of their the MS. Memotrs of grain - . I. ; and there is said to car oes, will be a glut in the - . - , 1 ,7 teOsee et t h a volim e of memoirs . g , there -a-Fet and the price will s e , le is , . wife of Alexander written by the late Em-' fall. If, on the contrary, nearly tt "tie I- ter est ' there will be a short supply, 'e es Yoe : 1., which she desired should consumed before it reaches the port, .. ' 4 l ttr'a most • s atv • " ti e . . 3 ea- s after h er eevi Suchwork and prices -:/1 e se, 'lee r , . rmus if it onl , - t•a V t 1 ') f'f ' attributed My half cargo as I should y reveaied the par 4 iculars of as much money at high prices for tt l q a t to Alexander ' e t b pe e e five,.g „ 0 Am ~ soon after his ac- have done as low pricesfor ' ' the whole ; and thus you perceive, by my kindness to his r 4, e arms , _ ~ erica, vnti the hay of his choice, to God does not permit me to be a loser r qk sees e e ss and allowing his Emp— L e. _ _ , ~ , . . ess to do some- creatures,for shall '',e pigeons I be fully remunerated. end t, Plarnson s N2ne Years in .Russia. . 1-;'... 1 1 have had their crops full into the - bargain. " -LIT ERARY EXTRACTS. METHOD.—AII things in us and about us are a chaos with out method ; and so long as the mind is entirely) passive, so long as there is an habitual submission of the understanding to mere events and images, as such,, without any attempt to classify and arrange them, so long the chaos must continue. There may be transition, but there never' cai be progress ; there may be sensation, but there cannot be thought ; for the total absence of method renders things impracticable ; as we think that partial defects of method proportionally render thinking a trouble and a fatigue.—S. T. Coleridge. ONCE UPON, A TIME.—It is a charm whiCh bath kept the child awake even in the best of dormitories, the mothers bosom, and has ever after enlivened the man-child, nor failed of ministering its elixir vitce, even in extreme age. It is that one specific good, for every evil has some beneficial ingredient, which was in the curiosity that tempted first the mother of mankind ; and maternal tenderness has culled it from the sin, and used it lovingly, to this day. And the charm will work as long as time shall last. The traveller, en whatever road of life, and on whatever speed intent, will stay his steps at hearing the words. Their power is. inevitable, as of the " Ancient Mariner," and is embodied in his address, • " There was a ship, quoth he," • —Blackwood's Magazine. SWALLOWING A WRIT.—In Newington Church is buried . Mr. Serjeant Davy (d. 1660.) He was originally a chemist of Exeter; and a sheriff's officer coming to serve on him a pro cess from the Court of Common Pleas, he civilly asked him to drink, While the man was drinking, Davy contrived to heat a poker, and then told the bailiff that if he. did not eat the writ, which was of sheepskin, and as good as mutton, he should swallow the poker ! The man preferred the parchment ; but the Court of Common Pleas, not then accustomed to Mr. Davy's jokes, sent for him to estminster Hall, and for con tempt of their process committed him to. Fleet prison. From this circumstance, and some unfortunate .man whom he met there, he acquired a taste of the l a w, and on. his discharge he applied himself to the study in earnest, was called to the bar, made a serjeant, and was for a long time in good practice.— Timb's Curiosities of London. MARRIAGE CAVALCADE OF THE INFANTA MARIA. TERESA. --On the 15th of April, Philip IV. having made his 'will, and commended himself to our Lady of Atocha, set out from the capital, accompanied by the Infanta, and followed by 3,500 mules, 82 horses, 70 coaches, and 70 baggage wagons. The baggage of the royal bride alone would have ; served for a small army. Her dresses were packed in twelv large trunks, covered with crimson velvet, and mounted with silver; twenty morocco trunks contained her linen ; and , fifty mules were laden with her toilet plate and perfumes... Besides these per sonal equipments, she carried a vast pro Vision of presents ; amongst which were two chests filled with, purses, amber gloves, and whisker-cases for her future brother-in-law, the Duke of Orleans, The grandees of the household vial with each other in the size and splendour of their retinues. The cavalcade extended six leagues in length, and the trump ets of the van were sounding at the gate of Alcala De Henares, the first day's halting-place, ere the last files had issued from the gate of Madrid.—Stirling's Velazquez. EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. — It was on the occasion of a dramatic representation at the St. James's Theatre, some time in the month of June, 1847, that the inci dent to which I allude took place. It was a royal night, and the Queen and Prince Albert occupied the royal box. By their side sat the Duke of Nemours—not then an exile eating the bitter bread of foreign hospitality, but the offspring of a reigning king, the future regent of a great country, the near connection of the sovereign who; in the sunshine of his suc cess, gave him so gracious a welcome to the English court. Below, however, the scene was less flattering to the theory of the divine right of kings. On one side sat the Duke of Bruns wick, with his diamonds and rouge, an exile from his beloved "Iraterland ;" on the other, and opposite him, the Count of Montemolin, the pretender to the Spanish throne. In the first tier of boxes, concealed by the drapery, and shrouded, as it were, with the shadow of misfortunes, sat the dethroned brother of Don Pedro—Don Miguel himself ; and nothing was wanting to the tableau of the defunct sovereigns and ousted pretenders but the presence of the culminating Theodorns of the scene.— Every one was making comments on the strange coincidence that had brought so many claimants of royalty together into one spot, and smiling at the ,mutability of things, when sud denly, by the orchestra, entered Louis Napoleon. The situa tion was striking. There was nothing to break its effect, as the curtain was down, and every 'one was yielding to the train of thoughts naturally engendered , by the spectacle. A Sense of ridicule seized on the whole assembly; a laugh passed from the orchestra through the pit, even to the royal box. The very name of Louis Napoleon seemed to warrant a smile— a smile at the folly of the hero of Strasbourg and Boulogne. Louis Napoleon was not slow to undertand the object of so much merriment. He threw a cold and sullen glance on the royal box, where the Duke of Nemours, the son of the king of the French, sat in smiling mockery at the luckless aspirant to his father's throne ; and then rising from his seat, he slowly and deliberately placed himself on the left side of the theatre, under that royal box, and in such a manner as to break the view of its inmates.. What were his feelings at the moment ! Now that we know the man, we can fancy, at least, somewhat of the bitternees which must have overswept his heart, when thus treated as the subject of general ridicule by a large and crowded audience—when thus mocked by the successful rival of his fortunes and smiled at by the sovereign in whose lands he was an exile. We can fancy somewhat of the dark shadows and the tangled passions, raid the impenetrable throbbings of vengeance and hate, which must have then possessed the soul of the exile of King-street—the present Emperor of France, and the late guest of Queen Victoria.—Chambers's Journal. f. 0 3 1,) of; '!ir 4 y IYJ