The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

--Lord de Ross in his book id the people of Odessa are Tly ; but he finds a most effi -Justice is well administered, Caning is for the male sex. ;served for the women, and is tstom that, on great estates, .ning apart in the week for be administered by a matron, the case will allow ; nor from Lousemaid is there any excep- D MANAGEMENT.---Have you ;like servants have to any saving their master's money. pith great success the other Insumed a vast deal of soap, ig chair, and took the soap Lon, and I found reason to eery expensive article, where id serve the purpose better. Rinds of both sorts, but took ng the papers on which the giving them into the hands , which -soap do you find :ase, sir, the dearest, in the lather as well again as the you shall always have it nsuspectiug Betty saved me washed the clothes better.--- 20 YEARS AGo.---When the ust subsided, I strolled out . I came upon the troops, who European exercise. Seeing a 'n the middle of the plain, I that he was the colonel and so I smoked a pipe with him, ew as much of tactics and did, only he did not take mbject. We therefore con of peace on the carpet of re entangled themselves in all loublings and counter march . body was so much puzzled, leap, like a cluster of bees. the poor men turned round other's heels, kicked each They could to get out of the I more into confusion. At ick the colonel, who took his td gave orders, in the name of lan should go home in the they accomplished like a lung and jumping and walking - ards the town. The officers from their foreheads, and ~rnoke a pipe under a tree, and divans and swear at Franks extraordinary evolutions.-- the Levant. Ipular sciences we are tau perpetually by this science brethren put together. Sir a crystal palace, but he can rose and violet ; and what tow, could take an _Eschollyea ? Do you know the oxalis reader? What do you think she fairy blossom, the flower we humbly opine any enor we a standing quarrel with a 'ho, to our intense irritation, when we look up to the tcia over our heads, that the is Robinia, and that we are io nienelature. A .Robinia ! 'me respectable Mr. Robins, finde r of it. Of course our udgeon from the degraded anathema against the offend ria Regia may be a beauti eau be the flower of our hearts botanists have a wonderful of names --a sadly neglected momen t lore. S omething might 119:i.nent at it s l e i sure would ton kin g it penal for any botanist Ntlabbies but o ur governor s h ave so _ , u get through, in the first SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN place, that we fear public questions of importance like this must bide their time.—Blackwood's Magazine. THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.—The cabmen here, as in every other place I ever visited, made strenuous efforts to do the new corners. They tried it on me ; so to show them how knowing I was, I quoted their legitimate fares. " Ah, sir," says Cabby, " that's very well, but you see, we charges more at times like these." I replied, " You've no right to raise your charges ; by what authority do you do it ?" " Oh, sir, we meet together and agree what is the proper thing." " But," says I, " the authorities are the people to settle those things." " The authorities don't know nothing at all about it ; we can manage our own matters better than they." And they all stoutly stuck to their own charges, the effect of which was that I scarcely saw a dozen cabs employed during the ten days I was there. Nothing could exceed the crowd in the streets, in the hotels, and everywhere : the whole atmosphere was alive with the smoke of the fragrant weed, and all the hotels were afloat with the juice thereof. The city has repeatedly been called the City of Magnificent Dis tances ; but anything so far behind its fellow-cities cannot well be imagined. It sounds incredible--- nevertheless, it is a fact---that, except from the Capitol to the " White-house," there is not a street-light of any kind, or a watchman. I lost my way one evening, and wandered all over the town for two hours, without seeing light or guardian of any kind. I suppose this is intended as a proof of the honest and orderly con duct of the inhabitants, but I fear it must also be taken as a proof of their poverty or want of energy. Whatever the reason may be, it certainly is a reflection on the liberality of the government, that the capital of this great Union should be the worst paved, worst lit, and worst guarded in the whole Republic.---Lands of the Slave and Free. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.—An attack, to be prac ticable, even here, must be undertaken by gun-boats and mortars. Last year we had none, or none fitted for the purpose ; this year the enemy actually out number us in that arm. How can this be ? Is there a suspension of work in our yards P Are our builders paralysed or rebellious ? Is there no English oak P— or how comes it that we, the shipbuilders of the world, should be beaten by the enemy at our own work ? Were the question asked in the house, the voice of redtapism would repeat some plausible contradiction, or recount the list of a paper flotilla, long and vague as the catalogue of Homer's ships. But the facts are these—all men, who saw the place last year, agreed, that the only hope of destroying Cronstadt, its dock yards, fleet, or magazines, partially or wholly, was by an attempt in this quarter ; that the only force avail able for is was gun-boats, and that they must be sent in such numbers as to overwhelm and nullify any arma ment of the same description possessed by the enemy. It would be thought that this was no great demand on England's energies, or England's resources, and that they would have come forth by hundreds. Altogether, there are seventeen of these vessels attached to the Baltic fleet ! The enemy shows twenty-nine steam, fifty sailing and row boats, making a total of seventy nine. With such disparity, it would be impossible to assault barrier or blocks, in presence of a force pos sessing the same advantages, and strong enough to be come the assailant. How could such things be ? Where rests the blame ? It cannot be with our government, for they nightly proclaim their impeccability. Whose fault is it, then, that England's best arm is crippled from lack of means ? Eheu! Eheu ! It is the old story, repeated over and over again, of the wrong thing m the wrong place. Has the curse of perverted judg ment and fatuity really fallen upon us P—BI (re/mood's Magazine. SHOOTING THE RAPIDS.—The excitement of this part of the journey was somewhat increased by the confession of our voyageurs, that it was so long since either of them had made it, that they had nothing but their instinct and good luck to trust to. They therefore told us that they would not risk shooting the Little Falls, but make a portage ; so we drew to land and jumped ashore, shouldering our usual packs, and leaving them to follow with the canoe. Instead of doing so, however, to our surprise and disgust we found that they had no sooner got rid of us than they shoved off. It was an exciting moment to watch them as they neared the head of the foaming torrent, tighten their waistbands, make good their footing, and, standing one at the bows and the other at the stern, dash headlong with their fragile bark into the ; A 1, t i ie t4 4 / , 4 1 1855. E 1 , e llto'° e a llvp q4i'4. tells us tht : 4 0, q - fo e; and order " Nt b , the fact.-- k4wirisary way. 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We ran along the rocky bank, watching the canoe tossing like a cork upon the waves, and escaping destruction against some pointed rock by virtue of the vigilance and dexterity of the men ; and in three or four minutes it was safely moored in backwater, and we arrived breathless to scold our voyageurs for their rashness in risking our boat, and their perfidy in not risking us along with it. We determined, however, to profit by experience, and amused ourselves, while the tea was being made for luncheon, by jumping in about half way up the rapid, and swimming down, or rather being hurled down it, and seeing who arrived at the bottom first—which created much the same interest to those on the bank as boys experience when racing straws in a gutter. After this we found it very little use to dress at all, and B. and I, having naturally amphibious habits, used to spend the great part of the day with scarcely anything on but a pipe ; and rapids or shallows followed one another so fast and furiously that we were almost as often out of the boat as in it. Le Feve was in his glory on these occasions, and when we miraculously escaped going to pieces on a rock, his face expanded into a broad grin of satisfaction ; indeed, our approach to a rapid was a season of excitement to us all, which was worth the whole of our former experience put to gether.—Blackwood's Magazine. THE TELEGRAPH AND }EOLIAN HARP.---The news passes to music ! Whether country folks or city belles listen, the Xolian harps strung along upon the telegraph poles play perpetually the same. To the strange beauty of this music (little noticed or valued) I have become quite wedded, in my life out, of doors, for the last winter. It is more varied and beautiful than people think. You can always hear it, if not as you walk upon the road, at least by laying your ear against the poles ; and by selecting one that stands near a running stream, you may hear a duet of breeze and brook, a capricious outsinging of each other alter nately by wind and water, that is as heavenly to muse by as a voluntary of Nature well could be. The poles differ very much, both in the quantity and quality of sound ; partly, perhaps, from difference of size, or kind of wood, or tightness with which the wire is pressed by the leaning ; but by stopping in your walks, you get to know these with their variations, and you may thus choose your standing-place, and have music fainter or louder to suit your mood_ There is one telegraph post, by a little bridge which crosses Idlewild-brook, where I have heard a great deal of waking-dream accompaniment. Stopping there with the glow of exercise in the blood, there seems a kind of fellowship in the instrument being, like one's self, independent of the wintry air. The invalid's nerves too (as much more susceptible to pleasure as to pain), are ready for harmony in its most delicate caprices. What news was going past on those wires ---what death or marriage, love or business, was being told in those varied vibrations---I did not lose romance by trying to guess or discriminate. The same tune seldom carries the same language to any two hearts. But there it was, murmuring day by day, in changeful contention with the brook, always somewhat audible when closely listened for, and often as loud as a love-whisper, and as changefully ex pressive, and I must own to have grown habituated fo it as a luxury.---.N. P. Willis. A POLICE CouRT.---The beak (magistrate) seated himself, and for some time there passed before him a portion of the grim phantasmagoria of depravity, want, and brutality which every morning surges up to the judgment-seat from the turbid sea of London existence. The wife, foully battered and bruised by her husband, came as usual, and hardly raised her swollen eyes to deny his counter-charge of drunken ness and aggravation. The mother was there to beg the law to protect her from the child that robbed and kicked her, and the vicious cub replied with a lie of starvation and ill-usage. The baby was laid, all bones and bruises, before the minister of justice, to testify that a beast's dam is kinder than some baptised and married mothers. Vile women, hoarse and pert, told their shameless quarrels, and bared their flesh to show the wounds of nails and teeth. A brawny ruffian, his head and face seamed with crimson plaisters, pleaded that drink had maddened him, and hoped that the blows he had received before he could be secured might atone for his having mutilated three or four officers. Children were placed behind a barrier, over which nothing but their shock hair and bright eyes could be seen, to be judged for pilfering, while