The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

• 182 SUPP would fall as severely on the man as on the woman. A marchande, therefore, desires to please universally all that come into her shop. She is amiable, cheerful, agreeable, polite, and graceful to all—making no dis tinction of sex, and though perhaps taking a little more pains to please the women than the men, be cause it is a more difficult task. Flirtation, intrigue, or passion, never enters her well-regulated head—she has no moments in which she feels that life is a bur den, that her husband is not so elegant as Monsieur that she is an unfortunate woman, misplaced on earth, understood by none. She never sets her grief to desponding rhymes, for she has her double entries to make. She has very little time, too, to give to literature in general ; but after the shop is closed, and her children have said their prayers, kneeling at her feet, she just reads a page or two of the feuilletons which her careful husband cuts out of the papers, and pins together for her especial use. She is fond of music, too ; but then it is only of a certain kind---and we are afraid it is not of the most scientific kind. Her idea of music consists in those wonderful little tunes introduced into the French vandevilles at the most critical and exciting moments. These, words and all, she catches up with the most extraordinary rapidity, and carolling them about in the most joyous manner, with a tiny little canary-bird voice, to the delight of her children and her husband---the former loving the air, and the latter the little epigram at the end of each verse.---Bentley's Miscellany. LONDON IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.—London, in 1465, consisted principally but of one long straggling line of street, commencing on the river side of the Strand, and terminating a few hundred paces beyond the site of the present Mansion-house. From this line of street there were many off streets to the north ward into the open country; and to the south of Chepesyde down to the bank of the Thames, was a mass of mean mud and thatched residences in such close proximity, and enjoying so truly a republic of filth and dirt, that Stowe might well grievously com plain of the noyous state of ye city, in which there was much danger—" pitfalles a n d m en o f l oose repor t e. " . . . The houses, or rather hovels of the poor, were composed of plaster and timber covered with thatch, while many really noble structures of solid masonry were to be found in and around the ancient city ; these were, however, mingled indiscriminately with the meanest buildings. Henry, Earl of Northumberland, had a handsome mansion in Fenchurch-street. The Earl of Essex's palace, for a palace it was, was in Throgmorton-street, and both the Bishops of London and Ely lived in Aldersgate-street. There were straggling buildings from Lombarde-street to the Tower, but not sufficient to be entitled to the name of a regular street. The Surrey side of the river was a swamp ; and the traffic across London-bridge was ex tremely limited. CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE BELIEF OF ALCHEMY. —The conduct of the scientific alchemists of the thir teenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries presents a problem of very difficult solution. When we consider that a gas, a fluid, and a solid may consist of the very same ingredients in different proportions ; and a virulent poison may differ from the most wholesome food only in the difference of quantity of the very same elements ; that gold and silver, lead and mercury, and indeed, all the metals, may be extracted from trans parent crystals, which scarcely differ in their appear ance from a piece of common salt, or a bit of sugar candy ; and that diamond is nothing more than char coal)—we need not greatly wonder at the extravagant expectation that the precious metals and the noblest gems might be produced from the basest metals. These expectations, too, must have been often excited by the startling results of their daily experiments. The most ignorant compounder of simples could not fail to wit ness the magical transformations of chemical action ; and every new product must have added to the pro bability that the tempting doublets of gold and silver might be thrown from the dice-box with which he was gambling. But when the precious metals were found in lead and copper, by the action of powerful re-agents, it was natural to suppose that they had been actually formed during the process ; and men of well-regulated minds even might have thus been led to embark in new adventures to procure a more copious supply, without any insult being offered to sober reason, or any injury inflicted on sound morality,si r D . B rew _ ster's Martyrs. of Science. .EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN INDIAN FORTRESS.---We did not reach the rock until the afternoon of the next day, and upon my arrival I found that a good house at its foot, in which some of the Rajah's family usually resided, had been emptied for my reception. I followed the Rajah up the stairs, or rather steps, to the upper room, where one of his attendants immediately presented me with a plate of small, thin, fancifully stamped pieces of gold, made from the gold dust collected on the banks of the Indus and other rivers in the country, and another plateful of similar silver pieces, which I showered down from the balcony upon the crowd below. After that was exhausted, we threw down several bits of cloth for turbans, &c., and we all laughed heartily at the furious vociferations and scrambling that took place, even before they had descended. The Indus was visible from my window, and I then turned to enjoy the view of it for the first time. It approached through a sandy plain, from the eastern end of the valley, and here, nine miles from the en trance, it washed the end of the rock within musket shot of me, in a noble stream of more than 150 yards in width. The rock, or killah, as it is called; is about two miles in length, and the peak over the east end rises about 800 feet above the river. The whole of this superb natural fortress, situated in the middle of the valley of Iskardo, which is 19 miles long and seven in width, rises with, in most places, mural sides, from a buttress of sand, loose stones, and broken rocks, excepting at the western end, where it slopes, but steeply, on to the plain ; and on the east and north it is washed by the deep and rapid torrent of themighty Indus. The Gylfo's castle is built upon a small fiat about 300 feet above the river. A wooden mosque and state prison form part of the building. The castle itself is of stone, with wooden framework, and is strongly fortified against musketry. The zigzag by which it is approached is also divided by gateways and wooden towers. Defences of the same kind are built on different parts of the rock. There is a look out-house on a peak a little above the castle, and another on the summit above that. In my humble judgment it could be made as strong a place as Gib raltar, which, in general configuration, it would much resemble, were the east and west end of the killah to change places.--. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, cke., by G. T. Vigne. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS DOROTHEA OF ZELLE.—In Dr. Doran's " Queens of the House of Hanover," there is this graphic account of the way in which her marriage was procured by the Electress Sophia, and which, though it may have come from herself, may not be on that account the less true : " It had suddenly come to the knowledge of the Elee tress that Augustus of Wolfenbuttel had made his re appearance at the Court of Zelle. Coupling the know ledge of this fact with the remembrance that Sophia Dorothea was now 16 years of age, and that at such a period her marriage had been fixed, the mother of George Louis, addressed herself at once to the task of putting her son in the place of the favoured lover. She ordered out the heavy coach and heavier Mecklen berg horses by which German potentates were wont to travel stately and leisurely by post some two centuries ago. It was night when she left Hanover : and, although she had not further to travel than an ordi nary train could now accomplish in an hour, it was broad daylight before this match-making and match breaking lady reached the portals of the ducal palace of Zelle. There was something delightfully primitive in the method of her proceedings. She did not despise state, except on occasions when serious business was at hand. The present was such an occasion, and she therefore waited for no usher to marshal her way and announce her coming to the Duke. She descended from her ponderous coach, pushed aside the sleepy sentinel, who appeared disposed to question her, ere he made way, and entering the hall of the mansion, loudly demanded of the few servants who came hurry ing to meet her to be conducted to the Duke. It was intimated to her that he was then dressing, and that his Highness would soon be in a condition to descend and wait upon her. Too impatient to tarry, and too eager to care for ceremony, she mounted the stairs, bade a groom of the chamber point out to her the Duke's room, and, her order having been obeyed, she forthwith pushed open the door, entered i the apart ment, and discove r ed the di sma y e d Duke n the most neglige of deshabilles. She neither made apology nor would receive any ; but, intimating that she ca p e on business, at once asked, Where is your wife The IARD. flurried Duke of Zelle pointed to a capacious bed the adi the wondering amazement. Ti would seem, that not quite rude ei all communicati , that the Duchess acquainted with language then co. and immediately phrase, which w. and suspecting D' artist desirous ' Half undressed, toilet-table, whiff seated near him. tened with every and conviction. in the adjoining not comprehend was unintelligibl drift of the argu: ter and lover wei that of George helpless beneath pane." SPRING.—The vegetable shootin i WHEN does a fast youth resew chimney P---When he smokes, o' c( " I SHALL be indebted to you foi said to his creditors when he ran aw PRESERVING THE PUBLIC P lollypop to a cross child. WHEN was King John most When he went into the Wash. TOUCHING MODESTY.—" Pray as the man said when he was told b his rates were due. " PAT," said a joker, " why don't cropped ; they are entirely too 1, " Yours," replied the emeralder, an ass." A FULL QUIVER.—Happy is he w. Lord Granville's new version—has daughters ; and happier still if al' quiver meet with the proper bow. CooL ANSWER...." Did it hurt y' to another whom he knocked down all, how is it with you ?" as he cool' same ceremony upon him. DRINK FOR THE HILLS AND Mo, cold tea, without either milk or sugar Mr. Colquhoun, author of " The Nog the best thirst-assuager a sportsnv him. PARENTAL HINT.---When an acci& whether it was through misfortune; wilfulness. Accidents are frequently and children often learn more cautiol ation from their occurrence than from LA.NGHORNE travelled to Chichester of Collins, his favourite poet. Thi shown him the grave, Langhorne affected. " Ah," said the sexton, grieve for Mr. Collins, for he was a t: and first-rate tailor." " I LIKE to see the dear creatures selves," said Mrs. Brown, when her el visitor's new bonnet and affixed it tk kite. " Never fear," said the good visitor, when she saw her bo nn e t in tl as the kite comes down he will give i Humor-R.—No really bad man lies people of very ordinary minds have it, all great men, and everybody enjoys one of the original ties of the human our kindness, relieving our cares, and whole social existence.—Eustace Con, INGENIOUS SUGGESTION. ---The of finding a brace of noblemen whoop to be Postmaster - general and C might have been lightened by fusing ht ha into one, and thou the colo nies mig [NOVEMBER 2 ----. through tent room ~~ I o vtl rh at ti hail W) G t , i I s ell r e )1 [NOVEMBER 2 0, I tl if 0 . 1v11 44 . )f Zelle pointed through an °P. e io _A, , 1 ' tl bed in the adjacent room , Sod ''ller,44ll duchess, lost in eider-devil:l.l4ld' A 1 'he ' old 'Sophia' could have I"sje "541,t0( at she had been further oil i 0 0 1 ?: , 1 41 4 e mough to close the door, an' D obt, 4 „be :$e ion and listening ; but, ren l ,W i ~, c h,Ae, ss of Zelle was but very i llu :lci ° iht'4 its L German, she ceased to sP e ;f4 'l4, one 3 Wil ommon to the German cour ts Teo f ` , kii 4PI 1 , ( 1 - y.l v y roit:teao a rhhuursi d tnecnehhiu d: lfpoeetloed. :ialitedDsslasesrskte.nitluerodeyutacicgttholtuaeaelceltineiensnwel was the .. nar D rufestes Erißeeeualaollildu.bkteenfityeiago,.Eeisetiiilecbihovrithiinteo.loelia,yiessreigtr.toomo,`ft 11,1511 1 11 iti e ti.Aeii leopt,,, , ti t ti , ictti l . it 14,,k ii "4, Te0:4:4.,(14:4 " iiai:il 1 ili iee4,,1111,1, room, could see the actor s, " A r TV lin if tlietiel ,11 lit ble to her, she could 1 111(1 , e b'eri t , t 'r i .1 ,,, ( -,.. 11 ei l anent ; and, as the names a`:,ortio' ' 1 41,'% ' Gilt ;re being constantly pronem"041111 tt,-tri.,ll Louis, the poor lady coar t to ° 1 , .,t Ple 1 h muck alarm and her 9 ' ''' '' 11 (1 ik :./ 4 131 it ttf. 4dll 4 1 kt li i4ll c e V y A eg le eta l- 17l E e shooting-tiEngS-se.asetal rt4qllttll,4lllixtei: a eii: f di a ei s eb t tsei 3 nd -outh resemble a v- l ilp ig ill t P 3 elli o t k o es y , ou o': fo c i o . Iliirfseei, Si i 5) It! , i ; ,t d io : 4 14 i, tors when he ran away t° ' 45 ;i( 114 ; I‘ rit ° l! 4 .4 1 c: '''' 5 t t , 4 tlt el l 4 K T i H iEei 4oe t :41 gisEiTlyiTie.oP_whurma,u,:mlcost pliEkAccdEi•rli ss child. 0 , ! , :l ° li t lir e Ot t , , " 1 0 .41 '4 haeil nto the Wash. il tiolis k i lst i n when P to r l a d y b d y o t n i :t e i ty , i fiecO r i j t,tc .,,Z 8 1 .1 Lie. of h%, ° tl ° t d, lil blx to 1 joker, " why don't your a a - i t tj - es ,' I l i are entirely too lato o too- 5 11(1. ilk , , t , l llite -11 ,'t ' cI the emeralder, ~ ge " ,i , th,`'ve ; (1 ( Jiit,i 1 Ce sib l4o,, ae cor , , t i,p 4 illa ; 4 ER.—Happy is he who",;veri' L , lti te .: e i new version—has aat re , , I 1 ril e 1 ,c 1) happier still if all that 9 0 . q t the ot' l l ti'i (l e t the proper bow. f i _ 4 ' , l tia llst, IV 3.-•-" Did it hurt you P'' () s i l l 1 r V ( 1 11 ' 1 , t o Tel a he knocked down. ‘‘‘l.l.l 3 r ; k r e !s -e th you?" as he coolly per 1t 1 i lt 4 ( 114 s e s i u th ag er ei. milk,or sugar, i s ' rtile Y i": :- '' b pan him. til l ; : I ; t r e( l4 t 1 . 71) pg,' i '4 4 et e FIE HILLS AND M00R.5.-,;rof,l4YA' 1 ?. 111 4 k i 1 : 1' tuthor of " The Moor anti o rrY 04 . , s ‘i il a sportsman c all yi, t t ik v. fif 1.1 0 0 • ' t 4' N '' -' 1 tNhTr.O--u-Igirhh misfortune,e nanaceidencatr°elcee,isreerfostV t \ i : t irJ l l ,si tE e t dents are frequently of gr e ;i io' ► ki: a l l4" ( ki VI . 1 learn more caution and re i e s", li ti m ,eli wcurrence than from fiftY i ,i 10' °e4 ° 'O le Ic 4 L avelled to Chichester to vis l Olt dot t tt.b 1 +Oll le, t , t 1 ,at vourite poet. The se B ol e ' l e, , `:ti t he t grave, Langhorne hee3-001 (/ t,(11, 1 11 1 ,i' said the sexton, " you e st Otilsis m Ens, for he was a truly b °ll ,i.e ft ', l t; h' ci rj tl i e W e )r." . e q' I`S t ' gl the dear creatures a:::::::: , 11 , ::::::': Brown, when her elder 1 1,1 ofii ,N t :iftlii et and affixed it to . the i; to" ~1',., is ° b tr," said the good ;aw her bonnet in the air, t° l'e lF l V l, ' lll .47 down he will give it ball‘ to; 4 ; _i ll !trik -1 - nraearyllymibnadds have nian it, In h ll9/ .., ° 011 . , ,i'll'kt 1 (1 e 4, iu eo w iiiat I 4 t: t Y i I everybody enjoys it; s°. et ", VtLt. 1 1 . , ei4 ties of the human race, il l o i l ig Ylhi t ' 4w ' wing our cares, and sweete 1 1 : 1, , 4 .41,4 4 .1 ,,. ace.—Eustace Conyers. c o N 4 1 4 ,11 104 ";GESTION.---The allege cold ~ Ik tic % i ' l ls , of noblemen who would ,..„.eii k l / 4 .l .t _te,_ , .general and Colonial s''';',,m',4l 1Z Th'e ightened by fnsiLighttlitleaeva 'eV l i , phetti