The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

SUPPL • • _ , t . CASH . helps along coartino• amazingly. Astonio,ring what balls and suppers, bracelets, " loim of a bonnet," suburban rides and picnics, will do towards expanding the feminine heart, and getting into the father's house. LIE MOST COMMON SI7RNAMES. — The following is the number of births, deaths, and marriages in a single year in England and Wales, of those families bearing the most com mon surnames : • Births. Deaths. Marriages. Births. Deaths. Marriages. Smith 5,588.. 4,044 .. 3,005 Cooper .. 1,103.. 950 .. 640 Taylor 2 , 647..2,275 .. 1,518 Clark .. 1,096.. 952 ..• 635 Wright 1,398..1,142 .. 729 Baker .. 1,033.. 839 .. 513 Walker 1,374..1,070 .. 754 Cook .. 910.. 742 .. 483 I Turner 1,227...1,011 .. 680 Parker .. 824.. 661 .. 471 INCONSISTENCY OF MAN.—I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distin guished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valour cowards to their wives, I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy. MISS OR MisTnEss.—The indiscriminate use of " Miss" and " Mrs." to unmarried ladies is often very perplexing. The "Mrs." was not always accompanied by the Christian name for unmarried ladies, and the custom lasted at least as late as the reign, of George 11. Pope in his letters (about 1719) men tions " Mrs. Lepel" and "Mrs.;Bellenden," maids of honour. The examples are innumerable, but the latest instance remembered is the Duchetsof Queensberry addressing Pattyßlountin 1766 as ",Mrs.l3lount ;" though, no doubt, Patty was, by that time, entitled to what is called brevet rank. PATRIOTTB3I AT A Loss.—A Yankee gentleman, conveying a British , gentleman around- to view the different objects of attraction • in the city of Boston, brought him to Bunker•hill; They stood looking at the splendid shaft, when the Yankee said,'" This , is • the place where Warren fell." "Ah !" replied the Englishnian, evidently not posted up in local historical matters, "did it hurt him much?" The native looked at him with the expression of fourteen fourth of Julys in his counte nance. "'Hurt him !" exclaimed he, "He was killed, sir !'' " Ah, he was, eh ?" said the stranger, still eyeing the monu ment, and computing its height in his own mind, layer by layer " we11, , 1 should think he would have been, to fall so far." ,COUNT CA.YLUS, the celebrated French antiquary, spent much time in engraving the plates which illustrate his valu able works. Whn his friends asked him why he worked so hard at such an almost mechanical operation, he replied, "Je grave pour ne pas me pendre"—" I engrave lest I should hang myself." When Napoleon was slowly withering away" from disease and ennui together, on the rock of St. Helena, it was told him that one of his old friends, an ex-colonel of his Italian army, was dead. " What disease killed him ?" asked Napoleon. " That of having nothing to do," it was answered. " 110ugh,' 1 sighed Napoleon, "even had he been an Em yeror." LIE MORAL INFLUENCE OF ONIONS.—A Paris corres pondent of the Journal of Commerce suggests that the low condition of morals among the French is attributable to the national fondness for, and use of onions. This vegetable con tains, more than any other, an amount of sulphur and phos phorus. The writer contends that a people moving in an • atmosphere of sulphur, an atmosphere in which the great Father of Evil is supposed to be most at home, cannot be as susceptible Of moral impressions as others. Just think of the morals of the community rising and falling with the price of onions, and the milder and higher graces of humanity growing out of a short 'crop of these infernal bulbs. Imagine the mis take of a steak with onions! Think of sipping sin with soup! Think of these things, Cape Codites and Weathersfield onion caters I—Model American Courier (a Philadelphian news paper.) GOD has so ordered the world that those things which we desire should come to us by pain, labour, and degrees. We grow slowly, , we learn slowly. All nature is based upon the same principle. There is a regular course to be gone through, of seed, and shoot, and blade, and stalk, and ear, and ripening. In our dealings with nature we are obliged to follow this law. The husbandman bath long patience, nourishing the ground, clearing it, 'sowing, tending, reaping, thrashing, all in their seasons. There is a wholesome slowness which brings out perseverance, nourishes industry, makes us feel that we are not creators, but simply servants, working by the permission and help of the great Lord of all things. It is a law of our being, that we must work out by time and care every result which is worthy our desire and search.—Speculation, by Rev. E. W. Heygate. MUPFS.—Muffs are human donkeys; they are laden with shawls and great coats at picnics, when the sun shines very hot ; and when the weather lowers and showers come, they have to give up shawls, and even their own great coats, to people they don't care a fig about. I have no doubt, that if asses' skin became scarce, people would excoriate us, and use it to write their memoranda upon. We are the pariahs of the world, have to bear all, and get nothing. Look at the frequency of interruption at meals, by sisters who want one to sacrifice the greatest gratification a muff knows—eating—to run after opera tickets, and knicknacks, which I am not to enjoy! Now am of sufficient importance to escort them in a walk or a •ride, when I am already tired to death ; -but when the lover comes, the muff is discarded, cast into a back seat, like an old coat over a banister ; loses pleasure, dignity, all; and in return for his self-denial, has his infirmity thrown in his teeth, Tom ! what a muff you are !"—say they all. Verily. our species of humanity is but a kind of plank, fit only t. carry people to and fro, to rebound lightly the more it danced upon ; ready to hand for cuts and serapes, and subiTt to be 'perpe.tnalli chiselled I—Fromllome Thoughts, ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN "CHEAP" NEWSPAPERS. (FROM TIM TIMES.) TEE public will remember the peculiar advantages which were promised from the amendment of the Newspaper Stamp Law. Enterprise was to be relieved of its trammels, edu cation was to be wondrously prnnoted, political knowledge was to find its way into every corner of the country, and po pular ignorance was gradually to disappear. These desirable results were to be accomplished by i certain specific agency— viz., that of penny daily papers. Over this point no obscurity whatever was permitted to rest. The one thing which was wanted to insure the perfect freedom, perfect efficacy, and perfect utility of the press, was an issu.; of daily papers at one penny each. It was for this that agitation was so tenaciously maintained. Nobody ventured to deny that the press of this country, as it stood, was more . . independent, more serviceable, and more decorously condtcted than that of any other country. Nobody asserted ta.at either the me tropolitan papers,. or the country papers;- could be called expensive articles at the current prices. Wheat was said was, that a less expensive article was called 147, and that the production of this commodity was prohibited by the com pulsory stamp. Of course, it was obvious tc remark that, as this stamp was only a penny, that alone need not keep the price of a newspaper at sd. If a penny or alralfpenny per copy would in reality suffice to remunerate the goducers of a good journal, it was plain that the whole seller price, even including the stamp, need have been only 2d: yr lid. The stamp could, at any rate, be only answerable fcr one penny out of the five. Here, however, it was replied that the manner in which the stamp operated so destructively wars in prevent ing the circulation of newspapers at the particular price of a penny, and no more. This was the magical figure vhich was to work such wonders. To produce newspapers at 4d., 3d., or 20., was of no use ; in fact, the thing had leen tried without success ; nothing would serve the real turn but newspapers at id. Any advance above this sum Was fatal ; nor was there much difference, for this matter, between- 21d. and sd. The key of the whole argument lay in " the nenny" that single, small, ever-present, and easily-spariil coin, which nobody would begrudge for his daily news. Well, the law was amended,' the stamp was removed, and Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Cobden, and their indefatigable friends were gratified with this enfranchisement of the press. What has been the result ? Tiale sure, the new system has not .been very long in operation, but the experience already acqUired appears to have convinced the managers of at least cue establishment of a very notable fact—to wit, that a penny daily paper such as the public look for, and the " tax-on-know ledge" people designed, can never be maintained with a proper remuneration to its producers. Such, at least, is the published conclusion of the Yorkshire Daily Express, a paper issued on the new system under circumstances unusually favourable. We should not have cared.to assert or defend such commer cial maxims on our own proper authority, but the fact is com municated to the world as the result of actual experiment with more than ordinary promise of success. It seems that the conductors of the Leeds Times, observing that Man chester and Liverpool were getting their "penny dailies" under the new system, resolved on giving their own district the benefit of a similar issue, and accordingly started the Leedt and Yorkshire Daily Express, price one penny. We ,have two or three numbers of this jour nal before us. It seems to be very respectably "got up ;" has its " latest intelligence," its " telegraphic," and so forth, and, as one of tie articles in its leading columns appears in each of the numbers before us to be transcribed from our own pages, we presume we cannot well demur to the " ability" of the productiov, Nevertheless, on Monday morning last the readers of the promising periodical were informed in the " first leader' that the proprietors had " determined to dis continue" the same. They had started, they inform us, with consiierable advantages. Owing' to their already or ganized ettablishment, they were enabled to keep down what, miler other circumstances, would have been the expenses, of such a concern by at least one-third ' • they had the benefit of an existing connexion, and they produced a good ;Aide. The result, however, was, that their returns were oily about one half what they should have been to cover the bare expenses of production, and they have relin quishal the attempt accordingly. By way of convincing those who might surmise that the trial given was not a fair one,-they offer to any person inclined to repeat the experi melt any requisite assistance in making the trial for himself. Ixperience must prove whether the promoters of other sinilar enterprises are more fortunate or more skilful than tin conductors of the Leeds and Yorkshire Daily Express. Br ourselves, we can only repeat what we haVe fifty times ranarked—that, as far as the idea of competition is concerned, ve regard the matter with the most supreme indifference, end that the working of the new law does but confirm in all respects the views we entertained of the public taste and re quirements. We have not suffered, nor are we likely to suffer, in a single particular; but, as we knew something of the ex penses contingent on the production of a daily paper, and of what the public is accustomed to look for in a newspaper, we could not but express our disbelief in the assumptions on which the Manchester politicians proceeded. In the expiring journal to which we have referred we find a very circumstan tial description of the difficaltiea actually experienced. To ARD. make a penny paper pay, it must b; pending to the cheapness 'of its pi presumes a proportionate work of di tion involves conveyance and ages conveyance for a penny paper is, the same as that charged for the the percentage allowed to agents is al: the amount" usual in the case of me while the return upon each issue is outgoings in these respects stand new to be the experience, candidly proclr" Yorkshire Daily Express. Perk that the proprietors of a weekly news) ill-pleased at establishing a case agaii petitors with which they were threw hand, it would be absurd to imagi ment would have tempted them to profit, if profit could be made. A fel will bring all this question to a broa, EARTHQUAKE IN N Ox Tuesday, the 23rd of Januar. visit a neighbour 14 miles off, kit thi the air and very lowering clouds mad tiler, which might have detained ME refused to go, providentially as it woi brick chimney of my friend's only si and no, one in the room could have es, round our table with a friend, when ; at night, without the 'rumbling generally give us, the shock cowmen, and fro, rocked, and jumped, as you • when she strikes on -a a rock; the the table, books, glass, china, &c.., the room, came down; together wit which fell inside and mixed with th 4 &c. Our friend jumped out of the post outside, but was thrown down on the ground. I rushed to open should all be jammed in, with no meal out of the house, but it was some it, and then only by watching the w: when the door was opened, and I let thrown down, and could not rise co was over, which lasted about three - my utmost to get up for the purpo! family. No house, but one built ground, and wooden houses put tool houses in this country are built, coui rattling. Ours, though somewhat.°n ' is not down ; the roof, int however , "' v er 'Bust be put on again before $ steal -a-day, I hardly, know how ap . bedding and other stores, for 's in e a day or two after we had a fire, " 1 in Nchieh we were obliged to live, Ever 3 one in this valley (of the Hutt weeks, as the shocks have continued but nenc have been so severe as many spare miles is rent in every ground of many feet in length, and f ral feet deep, exist over very large si from each other; our horse track to half a mite off, has more than 20 sac', opened awl shut with violence durii water to a considerable height over 1 I saw the water, cracks, sand, and mut, the morning after, and glad I was than nearer to our house than 200 yards : down on us. Fissures opened in two knowledge, and nearly smothered tl besides bringing their light buildings natives, however, were killed in one h( one man only in Wellington, 54 mile: last severe shocks, six years ago—the 3 imagine to be earthquake-proof wood some of them are much damaged and ed, only one or two are down. All a however, and all the chimneys, are not appear to have felt the shocks so lington has, however, been raised by in perpendicular height, and some int subsequent ones. We suppose that judging by the sea coast : where the was it is how high water mark.—Marcl a Private Letter. With reference to this account, Times, who signs himself "a New Z 1 damage caused by the earthquake de pondent was confined almost entire Wellington. It was felt distinctly province to Wellington, where I wa: and caused a slight amount of mis dwelling-house was, as far as I know, Auckland it was not felt at all, at Ne terbury very slightly ; and at Otaga I will not undertake to correct the respondent as to the injury caused by t province of Wellington, but I can state tila ca pt o tunity of perusing a copy of the diary 0 ' c op v ., Her Majesty's surveying vessel Pandora , o a ship in Wellington harbour at the tire/ . r ie r • I immediately after the occurrence, and 110 Ilc titil v ket: ig ki LjUTIY. 31' :, .. 1 .44 • , 4 t ra t have 0 this i , , IJlli a nice, but 0 , .ti t ;it l ea , distributioil, t y, i 4 1, 4 nts. N'lcik , ' j ik iden; , we are. i f , Bare &id i ,e larger 4 1 ,,,, ,' ri a C 4 ilt also a Wing,7 i 'itt ait t Sri lore costly s, 12(.4reea, tiro s large di b! 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