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()clottil 23, 1855 tabl e of ---- table Belliller, whi to d eatl -; a Nall eh the son of Schiller gave 40t S cal e* , oval table with a high rim round It,evi ' Vshis fa fora. solitary student breakfasting, an _ Vi "bIY . lan ulY but some of 8 , Used 10, , alone amid his books, •• 4. kr, 4o re alas ,•;en working too intensely at .. -“teat °ruin kiett / ter g drama s to quit his room for a of the aspe ile kSts fr e \vas the hall, filled with some classical 11 01 , 4 to %Alai the giving a veryhind the w a i l s c e, the ii t c„ Rouse antique'you enter ; and be used to , tithe f . 'le retired ~ 4or hgarden where progress of the teresTsinons o..eurs, working out the This in the ~._4 l h ou t' which he was engage° but strangers ; th e reat h ie s e was formerly open to compelled ? etriet. ellvenience to the family has friends.— kr-, io n ....„ . . . their own , t ,'.o col,/ Dome et this privilege to ta ;OE 8443135 tie Life of Germany. believe that kg. he have reason tor _nsby keep the S ahh a ti, a ,irs Will be more prosperous Hale, in his ktri et 'lkis to ii.''''aoly. Sir Matthew hve found, by a th e , and a ; „ ls childen, says, " I t a a due regard to tpol'itattieB -01?e,ht o bservation, tha to it a blessing Lnls d li t ll ° test of ay, bath ever joined that hath been Am NI h at , toy thne, and the week to me. the ; 1 ,°, 1 1 th e 4, been blessed and prosperou s negligent of bas ' t ies f' 'er Ma de, when I have been hath been lik e 0 thi s the week . keat s 4fiti and Y, the rest of secular empioy €4„ ,so th' L, unhappy to my own .te 0,. my g, ' 4BB et e.AL i Could easily make an estimate 1 Zerat..q4i cia,,';Ll aweek following, by the manner of passing eJiy, but I do not write lightly and incon letience.•,..p?; a long and sound observation and b,,,ollowis-tb iii- "Wriii.x_Darin - IN hof this district, b g the alternate occu il?ps. in 1811, the soldie): the Britillil and French.d ~ i one anotner in a _, B l Y of either party, who vie . ‘lti 41d, More than acts of daring and hostility in , tts Il k • In the n once fraterni midst of th • zed round the wine es • quitted to plu2. u the eir carousals they some the off the preciou- p holes they had bored to I 's i • s hqu oi ~ and thus flooding the tf 4 their intoxicat• th at t , , waste whit ion, they perished in the midst 4., ich they oc • l'aliltm°l.e than one f casioned. The story goes, 4 sB 411 (1 th • o th e worthy friar s to whom these kir en' contents to at th „ then belonged, driven _ 4 N • e exhausti ft la the . on of their stores, joined kliAi l ; s te c .i ,_ orgies, and, like the invaders, were vpi)uhr ll'owned i ntheir own wine. More than I,iatfoa l . §ed t ens of wine of the choicest growths, es between 4s and gallon (i at least • last • It s Present ..• Os. a . o have 1 8 4 0 la th,_ puce), are estimated to . . e°4 te lv cited to e bacchanalia ; a circumstance which t4 e pts dale plain the scarcity of vats whose Itotile Z nyit "i°ll slY to 1814 . —Gatherings from 40 4, 1 p W 1) a. • aN D W 4 trad ile•AltE A. C OMPOSER.—Arne, the . 1 1 a , e stoan 4 I to ) ounce 1 , 1 , Was passionately fond of music, and _ illi e `r serltiantalat' would often-borrow the clothes o l f . !e ll , r a l t ef It 431),,° Fain admittance into the up p_e e 14 k , b s t °i ' the nobli,. °ll se, which was provided for th 14th With a -‘`Y. Without any musical learn t, 141_ deligh t t taste b , - • oot, he listened e ope n i ti,.. 0 thes:_cpalurany correct, from Italy on h e 1 ,, 6 of t hat ,',u,,ers that came of a 1 th e wrote g Lneatre Being something ues e tea. eine . • which were sung litifoi thou garci elis lnetty ballads, the ball ab ° l 4 London. What is more shead , , AlyagB,4Vl a la nguishing view, 4 11 4 41, seet t " . could scarcely discern 1, Ith Y the bade (tit di e bee °to, that de me adieu e , return. I)ltkt,'•Nalp': article she bade m instead of a lawyer, t h 411 , ;; It Y is b i 0 a musician .. tten such a:,1 11 'Re 4 41 -e would never have mi . would ' h "le t e Inelodies ; his natural genius (t 41zap 4 whack, counterpoint ~ liat ti tly t,ed by the laws of tones qeh ,re whip th ,:',B 4 A t, neglect of those endearing heart.—Gar hergt ,T, It ' S 'ic (,),Tke so deep upon the cah oo;,.'ltq E,"`" Prends. man who t 1,,,,';''. th e b ‘tiv , rt me the h EMAI '---Show to listen to ver se l v cant •of t h e young h 4,1. wi t °l ee 00 society hold cheerful con der 418 B, ot e . , s t i age ; wh o can deprived of its i i orr nea oow nee'loom Years have . lr 1- to help the ele who the oiswl ll t' hof ‘‘• I lia es ta n d • - 51 141 4tle in need of help, as who vik„, no n Orsoni,l her cheek ; show me the man . n the th eli a t,tha h 4 th e rudely on the poor girl lad in Nie,7ll; sat Jae elegant and well-dressed unprotected be d moo d w tne the man who treats Bh, Aeiv, alas h e _ . surrounded by A q wonia the heiress .. . k i t , tti „protection mildk, riches, and family , ye ' Ihe \i ly , , Man who abhor the libertines suuns as a blaspheiner the traducer of his SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD 149 ------ mother's sex---who scorns as he would a coward the the cloud which betokened another tempest rose on the ridiculer of woman's foibles, or the exposer of womanly horizon. The representative of the Russian armies reputation ; show me that man who never forgets for at the funeral of Wellington was placed in command an instant the delicacy, the respect, that is due to of a powerful force. It n rem •al ed te be seen how far w oman, as woman, in any condition or class ; show the hi g her qualities of a general were united to those me such a man, and you show me a g entleman : na y , of the martinet. Gortschakoff had no great success in you show me better, you show me a true Christian.--- the Principalities, and, had his career closed with that The Friend. campaign, he would speedily have been forgotten in A FALL INTO THE CRATER OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. _ the west. But, as it is, his name \is joined to the S om e ine S om e Germans of good family had toiled to the summit longest, the fiercest, the most deadly straggle of Mount Vesuvius, and after resting t h e mselves on m odern warfare. The last act of the late Czar was g , - that sulphurous bed, they descended the steep incline e to appoint him to the command which age, failing to the mouth of the crater. There was little smoke health, and weakening resolve induced Menschikoff to that day, and the scientific gentlemen began to get relinquish. Nicholas knew the man. You may well into danger without being aware of it. The guides, say, " A quarter of a century before he had carried on having had quite enough of soft ashes and hard work war in Poland with fearful severity." • The case was in the ascent, sat down on the upper rim of the crater, this : he proposed to his prisoners on all occasions the alternative of the Russian service or the knout. not feeling at all inclined for more exertion. So many people had gone to peep into this chimney of the in- Once a body of 2,000 insurgents were defeated, and fernal regions, day after day, without au accident, that took refuge in the Austrian territory. The Austrians these lazy guides preferred some sour wine and a slice disarmed them and sent them to Gortschakoff. He or two of lemon sprinkled over with salt , a very coin - gave them the usual choice of entering the Russian mon comestible amongst the lower orders of Neapo - ranks ; they desperately refused. It is said that the litans, and a little siesta, to looking after the souls and general was present at the execution which followed. T bodies of those entrusted to them. One of the most The flogging lasted many hours ; ten died under the lash ; seven inure yielded after terrible tortures, and adventurous of the Germans, finding he could bear the from the crater, little sulphur which seemed emitted were borne to the hospital. Gortschakoff stated his determination to go through the whole number, if the resolved to penetrate further ; but scarcely had he execution lasted a month. The Poles then bowed the placed his foot upon an apparently solid projection, head, and were draughted into the Russian lecions. than the whole crumbled beneath him, and he was Such was the stern nature of the man whom Nicholas precipitated at least one hundred feet. The interior sent to defend Sebastopol. of the crater seems as soft as the exterior, for the first A DIVER'S STORY.—I Will tell you of an words heard heard from the unfortunate man were that " he was not hurt." In vain he tried to extricate himself ; rence that happened to my brother within the last few whatever he grasped mouldered in his grasp, he could Years ; he has became a n altered man since, I assure ou, and generally takes a little religio us work down not regain his feet—of this his companions above were y informed ; they seem to have become more stupefied to a West Indiaman that was outward n the bell with him. There was a frienbound ing of his mate few than the unfortunate victim ; for instead of despatch- a ing the guides to the Observatory or the Hermitage days from Cork, and Bill, my brother , and he had a dif for ropes, or assistance of some kind, they stood listen- ference ; what the quarrel began about I don't rightly know, but the mate abused Bill's profession, and ing to their friend below , who g ave them the idea of that, and Bill abused the mate and wished him going elsewhere than where t he y remained useless and called him amphiberous lubber, or something like under the sea, spell-bound. There is everything at N a p les but what with never an air-tube ; and the ship is required ; and at the O bservator y , although ropes sailed without making up. My brother was very sorry when it was too late—for amphiberous lubbers must always be in request, and at least a precautionary has their feelings like other folks---and greatly shook, utility, yet none could be obtained either there or at when news was brought next morning, that the vessel the Hermitage, and the guides were obliged to go to Resina for that which ought always to be at hand. In had gone down not three miles from shore, with every the meantime the sulphur began to operate upon the soul on board. Just at starting as it might be---with poor fellow in the crater, and he fel t h all her passengers so full of hope, agoing to join their himself gradually sinking, not only in strength, but in position ; with a friends again---she struck upon a rock off Early Point, wonderful self-command he took leave of his friends, and settled down, as it was supposed, about midnight, being perfectly certain he could not survive the natural in a few minutes. There was a good cargo of spice, dilatory delay of Neapolitans. For two long hours did a nd Bill was, of course, sent for immediate ; there he survive, when his voice got feebler and feebler— was but few bodies floated to shore , and knowing lie perhaps, as he, by slow degrees , slid deeper into the would see some terrible sights, he was not over-pleased crater, hope gradually vanished, until the voice was _ at the job; but until they could get m ore divers there en tirely lost. An occasional groan was heard, until was no choice, so down he goes to the vessel, and finds after the expiration of the above time, then all was her fallen betwixt two reefs of rock, bolt upright, with silent. The body was many hours after rescued by a masts standing and sails set, just as she settled down. guide, who descended two hundred feet before he found She looked, he said, for all the world like any ship it ; of course it was perfectly lifeless, the sulphur had suffocated the poor fellow."--- Capt. Chamier's Unsen,_ upon the service, except that there was a hole broken in her side, where she had struck ; her boats were timental Journey. slung almost uninjured, coils of rope were lying on the PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF AT THE WELLINGTON I main-deck, the hatches were open, and the door above FUNERAL.—Less than three years since an illustrious the chief cabin stairs, the wet,,swift fishes darted in assemblage stood within the walls of St. Paul's and of ' out it, and the crabs were going about their Cathedral. The occasion - was the interment of the work . already when my brother descended . There were great commander who had so often led the legions of six or seven men in the cabin, gentlemen passengers, England to victory. There were present representa- hadan acard or two that floated about showed that they Lives of all the great monarchies which had been thebeen playing . when the vessel struck ; some of allies of this country in the war which the dead hero them wei:e even sitting upright, just as they started concluded. Among these was a general past the from their seats . when they felt the . shock, and one had prime of life, but distinguished by the energy and a dreadful h oo , with pale, parted lips, as though a cry lk firmness which his countenance expressed. In the i of . agony l ad just escaped them ; a young . man and a interval which preceded the arrival of the funeral car lik e as to be sworn brother and . sister---were this foreigner was observed to be strangely occupied. 'girl ---so - embracing s? for the last time • the heaving of the sea, He passed along the line of soldiers chosen from the scarce felt at such a depth, swayed' to and fro---with various regiments, and, turning up their trousers, out a touch of decay, and instinct with all but life attentively examined the make of their shoes. " What was that ship's company. The captain, in his cabin, is the matter, Prince Gortschakoff P" said some one. slept his last sleep quite placidly. The sailori for the " It is said at home," returned the Russian, " that I most part were drowned within their hammocks, only your Guards are fitted with strong and well-made I those whose duty necessitated their beim.. l , on deck shoes were washed off and driven ashore. The darkness had wishedbut that those of the line are in f e rior. I to learn the truth of the matte r, and therefore been so deep as to render the best look-out futile, the examined them. There does not see m to be an y strongest swimming of no avail. All these things difference." This minute disciplinarian was but an were sad enough, and Bill's nerves, iron as they were, imitator of his master, who with his own imperial were shaken sadly. Wandering about that living hands would open soldiers' coats on parade to see that charnel-house attired so'unnaturally , seek in g for g old, their shirts were clean. But a few months passed , and ' in the very heart of the ocean, it was terrible, and U \vv.ll cpr tr/, 3fo'",f, tvu,