The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

23, 1855.] Lt deal of money ; " 'tis the company. .ge, that makes the feast."—Walton, WITNESS.—A lawyer recently testify- New York courts of justice, in rela sanity, said, " I have no doubt of the ieing perfectly sane at the time referred that he refused to pay my costs." 'he courtier who ruins his fortune for )f a title which can do him no good, 1 he can make no suitable or credit- Liser who hoards his useless wealth, who squanders it, are all marked with of insanity. To criminals who are des when the temptation to a sober Iroportion to the horror of the act, or )f detection and punishment, the same les ; and all violent passions, as well termed a short madness.—Sir Walter CATED.—The followinc , is aliteral tran ictually sent to the mistress' of a board :own, by the father of one of the female had a good hedication miself I am hin- Ir to sea the shameful manner in which the fleas, and it is my desire for hur to that she used to do, and not for to in wun bed and then in another, for & .5 40, fleas in the ouse, for I think that is not ni 4 er shall she do it." top kL SAYINGS OF A DYING MAN.—The 4 ef i , e ssor Cad w ell, of Di c ki nson C o ll ege , a s h or t 0 4 ' 1 % his d ea th, a dd resse d hi s w i fe as follows : will not, I am sure, lie down upon your bed 1 ,1 1 1 When lam gone. You will not mourn for ( 1 . Lam gone. You will not mourn for me, be s been so good to me. And when you time w here I lie, do not choose a sad and iu do the dark not go in the shades of the even ark.flight. These are no times to visit t, h ,°l a Christian ; but go in the morning, in Q' s unshine, a n d w h en t h e bi r d s are s i nging ." t e "'N Gazette. t he (3l:t . --- The soul may be compared to a field cev w here two armies are ready every moment , not a single vice but has a more k b :Zei';?unent, and not one virtue but may be q 4 combination of vices. Reason guides 4 11., P ht , d ither ither host, nor can it subdue one pas 1. si d assistance of another. Thus, as a bark th e 'e beset by storms enjoys a state of rest, Nse ill ind, when influenced by a just equipoise L • 4t h:' 4B ., enjoy tranquillity.—Goldsmith. 417, 11 rntus . nis and other errors of painters L ; aing chapter in every compilation on the uare seen an engraving after Morland, in 0 ,,";_ tiful crop of apples is being gathered '6 tree, in painting which that inimitable ( 1 ( E nglish artist was facile prineeps ; and ~ aer th, in his plate of " Morning," represents tenceeding to her matutinal devotions, he e earliness of the hour by making the 4t tli o clock point to seven minutes past five, e on a winter morning, it would be ‘o discern either clock or lady.—Notes and 1 1 ' 1 0 1 V),_ aster and mistress in the United Kingdom l A, 4 maid-servant's "friend" is. Sometimes he k i t , ti t ' sometimes he is a cousin (often a cousin), Ii!l a as a father, who really wears well, and 1 / 4 lir ?t , e amazingly ! He comes down the area, 4 k 4i lll ow, or through a door left ajar. Some- Ot t ,`"servant, like a hare, has many friends. f'ti i , l 4 the house, after washing his hands in 11ii I`ellen, feels behind the door for a jack. to ,kk Oet''s hold of a " friend's" nose. " Friends" %, bl Imes a footman breaks a friend's shins r itAVlto the coal-cellar for a shovel of nobbles. Iti le 1 117 4 1 ingly, our own abode having been once 14 e 4 4. 4 a friends' meeting-house—a fact ,eve Yliqe of through a smoky chimney ; but a smoke when there is a journeyman baker 44 1 k IT 4 ill.' ' 'There is one degree of charity which 14 1)ti l l e ll i l a,r species of merit, and that is where, ?ii ,Ple of benevolence and Christian love, we 1 4 o n another what we really want ourselves; es, o l'ter to lessen the distresses of another, l'e,, ''d to share some part of them by giving ,tr u i s'ur own necessities cannot well spare. t o 0 ,. " Meritorious ; but to relieve our brethren superfluities ; to be charitable rather at B I !?d ik h ttl i a great pe ehar ? P 4 I T EN - T tr, 4 - • ,,, of th e -44' s s` Cl' 4 I be , C Olied ‘ 'f Tl I,N kri ent ol i n tpi 1 / 4 ei t ` g e rai Vak .tySha,''' , de kab a ll 1 16 tp. pr . 4ti .Its o f Le ,' . r q. 1, . ay be tJ~z jlty , Due tett e r a( ti., to ksfi a , ' As b foi tri f l tbit by ' bed plite''' vales i the SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the expense of our coffers than ourselves ; to save several families from misery, rather than hang up an extraordinary picture in our houses, or gratify any other idle, ridictilous vanity—this seems to be only being human creatures : nay, it is, in some degree, being epicures ; for what could the greatest epicure wish rather than to eat with many mouths instead of one, which may be predicated of any one who knows that the bread of many is owing to his own largesses. "SPIRIT OF PUNCH." THE SERVANT'S HALL.—The secret tribunal that sits in judgment over the drawing-room, and every night issues its decrees that are distributed all over the neighbourhood the next morning. IMPERIAL SMALL TALK.---The Emperor of Russia is going about expressinc , his readiness to shed " the last drop of his blood" in defence of his country. We have no doubt that when he makes up his mind to part with the first drop, the last will be quite at the service of anybody who chooses to take it. We sus pect, however, that the Czar has no intention of putting himself on tap in the manner proposed, even pour encourager les autres, who are being hourly drained of all the blood they possess to suit the pleasure of their imperial master. THE POOR MAN'S APOSTROPHE TO CONTENT.---Oh! content, that to the captive maketh his chains as light as feathers ; that to the pilgrim, boileth the peas in his shoes ; that to the maid-of-all-work, levelleth five pairs of stairs to the height of one ; that to the wife, sitting up for her husband, giveth wings to the clock as during the days of courtship ; that to the school-boy, softeneth the rod with flowers ; that to the policeman, toiling on his beat, garlandeth the area railings with yards of blooming sausages, and ropes of the duck-suggestive onion—grant, that I may learn to pay my double income-tax with pleasure, deriving comfort and consolation from the thought that I am helping, with my hard-earned contribution, to give that cantankerous, obstreperous old Russian bear a jolly good thrashing. THE RETURN FROM THE BALTIC.—The Baltic fleet is about to return home ; the playful little salute to Riga (which the inhabitants of that place were per fectly astonished to hear had been intended as a bom bardment) bringing the exploits of the expedition to a close for the 'year. The order in which the vessels will reappear is not yet known, but it is supposed at Portsmouth that the smaller ships, the Cautious, the Discretion, the Hare, the Tortoise, the Fabius, the Inquirer, the Examiner, the Reasoner, the Lingerer, and the Observer will return first ; the next squadron being composed of the Harmless, the Threatener, the Demonstration, the Imposition, the Abstinence, and the Looker-on; the rear being brought up by the Lumberer, the Hulker, the -Wopper, the Colossus, the Floating Castle, and the Preposterous. It is most gratifying to philanthropists to know, that very few casualties have occurred to anybody during the visit of the fleet to the Baltic waters. TAKE CARE OF YOUR COMPLEXIONS ! — The pro cesses of gilding gold and painting the lily are be coming quite surpassed as hyper-superfluities by the means which are adopted by young ladies now - a - days for protecting their complexions. Some few years ago we fancied that the force of preservation could no further go, when those infernal machines called " uglies" were invented. But a recent visit to a watering-place (we will not make the others envious by specifying which) has completely undeceived us ; and although we now imagine that the climax has been reached, we have still a latent fear that we shall find next year - it hasn't. Our readers will, howefer, probably agree with us, that it will require some in genuity to increase the methods of protection which have already been adopted, when we tell them that the other day we saw---or rather, we vainly tried our ut most to see---a young lady, who preserved at once her complexion and incognito by wearing---Item : a round hat, of the first magnitude, doubled down to eclipse all but her chin ! item : An ugly, of magnitude to match ! Item : A veil !! ! Item : A parasol !! ! And the worst of it is, that very many of these young ladies who muffle themselves up in this more than Turkish manner (for the Turkish women do at least allow their eyes to be looked at), have nothing to be ashamed of that they should so hide their he;is for. On the contrary, indeed, it is a cruel fact, that the prettiest faces are in general made the most invisible. SCIENCE AND ART. PROPERTIES OF PURE WATER.—Many of the pro perties which water possesses are wonderfully condu cive to our comfort, to the supply of our daily wants, and to the maintenance of the existing condition of things. Thus, even the unheeded property of its freedom from smell and taste is important to animal comfort. Sweet odours are grateful to our nostrils at times, and pleasant savours give a relish to our rarer kinds of food. But health fails in an atmosphere which is ever loaded with incense and perfumes, or where the palate is daily pampered with high-seasoned dishes and constant sweets. The nerves of smell and taste do not bear patiently a constant irritation, and the whole body suffers when a single nerve is con tinually jarred. Hence it is that water and air, which have to enter so often into the animal body, and to penetrate to its most delicate and most sensitive organs and tissues, are made so destitute of sensible properties that they can come and go to any part of the frame without being perceived. Noiselessly, as it were, they glide over the most touchy nerves ; and, so long as they are tolerably pure, they may make a thousand visits to the ex treruest parts of the body without producing the most momentary irritation or sense of pain. Exter nally, also, they can be applied to the most delicate, inflamed, or skinless parts of the body, not only with out irritating, but generally with the most grateful and soothing effects. These negative properties, which are common both to air and water—though, as I have said, they are rarely thought of—are neverthe less most essential to our daily comfort. —Johnston . ART AND TASTE IN PARIS.—Much of the French furniture is very indifferent in taste (all praise, never theless, to many beautiful exceptions), carpets covered with sprawling flowers of Brobdignagian aspect, and paper-hangings full of very violent contrasts. In the Palace of the Fine Arts, the cold, leadeny tones of the majority of the French painters (more eminent in design and drawing) give increased value to the co louring of the English school, which there shows itself with a power which the most prejudiced Briton could scarcely have hoped for. A walk through the English department is like going through a flower garden ; and notwithstanding the pooh-poohs and qualifications of the local critics, it is quite evident that they feel it so too. Passing up to the gallery— the French architects have omitted to illustrate the present advanced state of practical architecture in France, having confined themselves to academic studies of existing monuments and designs for restorations. Many of these are set forth in drawings of exquisite beauty, which should obtain the attention of our archi tectural students. If, to continue our reactionary observations, we seek out of doors for specimens of bad taste in restoration, we may look at the work done at St. Denis, a few years ago, including most of the modern glass ; and as to new buildings, the details of the church of St. Clotilde are very indifferent, and the ornament on the front of the "Bibliotheque Impe riale du Louvre," opposite the Palais Royale, has a barbaric richness which Visconti could scarcely have designed. Even in the new street, the elongated Rue de Rivoli, wherein this front plays a part, we may ask why there should be no departure from the elevation which formely prevailed there,—the only feature in which is the balcony on modillions to the windows of the first-floor P A mile of this will be more than enough, nevertheless it will be a noble street. And many, many other noble things are there in Paris,--- Paris ancient, and Paris modern,---to some of which we shall hereafter refer. We are not afraid that our observations in the present article will be misunder stood. We have already shown, in the short series of papers on the Universal Exhibition of 1855, how highly we estimate its importance and beauty, and we have during many years borne willing testimony to the skill of our allies, the advantages they derive from early cultivation in art, and the good results which the capital exhibits. But we do, nevertheless, feel it right to protest against the indiscriminate praise of everything French now heard, as compared with what is done in England, tending, as it does, to increase vanity, already sufficiently great, and to justify the opinion, founded in ignorance, which has been ex pressed by one of their popular writers, that in matters of art we are still but " varnished barbarians." Paris is a wonderful city, and the inhabitants are a clever people ; but they have still a vast deal to learn and to do. 151