The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-09 00:00:00

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He dressed splendidly, played freely, lost good humouredly, took to racing, cock-fighting, masquerade-giving, and other fashionable amusements of the time, with much kindess and spirit. H e speedily became the fashion himself, but did not oust Angelica from her throne ; he reigned with her a twin planet. This was the Count Frederic de Horn, the representative of a noble Swedish family, who had been for some time expected in England. Whether my poor, poor little Angelica really loved him ; whether she was dazzled by his embroidery, his diamond star, his glittering buckles, his green riband, his title, his handsome face and specious tongue, will never be known ; but she became speedily his bride. For my part I think she was seized by one of those short madnesses of frivolty to which all beautiful women are subject. You know not why, they know not why themselves, but they melt the pearl of their happiness in vinegar, as the Egyptian queen did—she in the wantonness of wealth ; they in the wasteful extravagance of youth, the consciousness of beauty, the impatience of control, and the momentary hatred of wise counsel. Angelica Kauffmann was married in January, seventeen hundred and sixty-eight, with great state and splendour, to the Man of her choice. Half London witnessed their union : rich were the presents showered upon the bride, multifarious the good wishes for the health and prosperity of the young couple. And all went merry as a marriage bell—till the bell rang out, first in vague rumours, then in more accredited reports, at last in incontrovertible, miserable truth. that another Count de Horn had arrived in England to expose and punish an impostor and swindler who had robbed him of his property and his name— till it was discovered that Angelica Kauffman had married the man so sought—a low-born cut-purse, the footman of the Count ! Poor Angelica, indeed ! This bell tolled the knell of her happiness on earth. The fraudulent marriage was annulled as fast as possi ble, by a deed of separation, dated the 10th day of February, seventeen hundred and sixty-eight ; a small annuity was secured to the wretched impostor, on con dition that he should quit England and not return thereto. He took his money and went abroad. Even tually he died in obscurity.—Dickens's Household Words. TREATMENT OF THE DEAD IN NEW ZEALAND.--- When death occurs, general lamentations take place amongst the nearest relations, who make deep incisions in their own bodies with broken pieces of shells. The mourners either stand in an upright posture, throwing their arms backwards, and keeping them in a trem bling motion, or they squat down, enveloping their heads in the mats. These violent expressions of affec tion, the streaming tears, and the unbounded show of grief at the decease of the renowned warrior, or of a friend or relation, have something poetical and strik ing in their primitive simplicity. The old bedaub themselves with red pigment, and cover their heads with wreaths of green leaves. The house in which the death took place becomes saered until the period of the cleaning and ultimate burial of the bones, which is not at any fixed time, but generally takes place dur ing the first year, when the flesh is sufficiently decom posed. All the clothes and utensils of the deceased are either left in the house which he inhabited, or are buried with him. The body is placed in a sort of a canoe-shaped coffin, among the foliage of a tree iu a grove, where it remains for several months. It is then taken down ; the bones are washed and cleaned, and finally deposited in a small covered box, which is some times carved, and resembles a canoe ; it is elevated above ground, on a column standing in the village, in the neighbourhood of the houses of the surviving re lations. Sometimes the bones are placed in a hollow tree, in some secret spot of the wood, or in a limestone cavern, of which there are many in the island, or in some chasm of the rocks difficult of access. If the man was of great consequence, such us an hereditary chief, a mausoleum of exquisite carved work is erected in the centre of the village, into which the body is brought in a sitting posture, dressed in the best mats of the deceased, and ornamented with feathers. The human figures on the monument are generally meant to represent him in whose memory it is erected, hii wife, children, and ancestors ; and all the figures are designated with their names. The putting forth the tongue to an enormous extent in these carvings is the symbol of valour, courage, and defiance, and is found in almost all the native sculptures.---Dieffen back's li-eivels in New Zealand. ASTONISHING ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE.---An astonishing feature of the Word of God is, that, not withstanding the time at which its compositions were written, and the multitudes of the topics to which it alludes, there is not one physical error---not one assertion or allusion disproved by the progress of modern science. None of those mistakes which the science of each succeeding age discovered in the books of the preceding ; above all, none of those absurdities which modern astronomy indicates in such great num bers in the writings of the ancients ; in their sacred codes, in their philosophy, and even in the finest pages of the fathers of the Church---not one of these errors is to be found in any of our sacred books. Nothing there will ever contradict that which, after so many ages, the investigations of the learned world have been able to reveal to us on the state of our globe, or on that of the heavens. Peruse with care our Scrip tures, from one end to the other, to find there such spots ; and, whilst you apply yourselves to this exami nation, remember that it is a book which speaks of everything, which describes nature, which recites its creation, which tells us of the water, of the atmosphere, of the mountains, of the animals, and of the plants. It is a book which teaches us the first revolutions of the world, and which also foretels its last. It recounts them in the circumstantial language of history, it extols them in the sublimest strains of poetry, and it chants them in the charm of glowing song. It is a book which is full of oriental rapture, elevation, variety, and boldness. It is a book which speaks of the heavenly and invisible world, whilst it also speaks of the earth, and things visible. It is a book which nearly fifty writers, of every degree of cultivation, of every state, of every condition, and living through the course of fifteen hundred years, have concurred to make. It is a book which was written in the centre of Asia, in the sands of Arabia and in the deserts of Judah—in the court of the templerof the. Jews---in the music schools of the prophets of Bethel and Jericho---in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and on the idolatrous banks of Chebar---and, finally, in the centre of the western civilisation, in the midst of the Jews and their ignorance, in the midst of polytheism and its idols, as also in the bosom of pantheism and its sad philosophy. It is a book whose first writer had been Forty years a pupil of the, magicians of Egypt, in whose opinion the sun, the stars, and the elements were endowed with intelligence, re-acted on the ele ments, and governed the world by a perpetual allu vium. It is a book whose first writer preceded, by more than nine hundred years, the most ancient philo sophers of ancient Greece and Asia—the Thaleses, and the Pythagorases, the Zalucases, the Xenophons, and the Confuciuses. It is a book which carries its nar rations even to the hierarchies of angels---even to the most distant epoch of the future, and the glorious scenes of the last day. Well, search among its 50 authors, search among its 66 books, its 1,189 chapters, and its 31,173 verses---search for only one of those thousand errors which the ancients and the moderns commit when they speak of the heavens or of the earth, of their revolutions, of the elementssearch, but you will find none.—From the German of Gaussen. THE HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF ROMAN LADIES.-- The habits, employments, and even amusements of the Roman matrons, of the highest as well as the lowest grades, had originally been of the simplest kind. Livy describes Lucretia as sitting in the midst of her maidens, busily engaged with her spindle, when she was surprised at a late hour of the night by the appearance of her husband and his friends. Juvenal reminds the ladies of the empire that the matrons of the olden time had hardened their delicate hands with spinning, weaving, and carding wool. In his day, the only spinning-women, he mournfully observes, are - the lowest poor, who earn a scanty subsistence under the shelter of the ramparts. Women had thrown aside the housewife's distaff for the dumb-bells, the boxing gloves, and the foils. Some noble ladies, it is true, condescended to superintend their households ; they carefully noted the domestic expenses of the day in a private diary, kept a vigilant watch over the steward and the eook, and sentenced every offending servant to thO IDA of the flagellator, At her toilet the patri- cian dame, sitting befo: generally provided with which she applied over trembling tire-women, awry. She practised sin lyre, while her slaves, bi petty fault, writhing undk tor, and their cries and discordantly together. B . wine, as an intoxicating dangerous excesses, was and in the first days of th ite draught of the Roman succeeded by a medium be' was extracted from raisil at household merry-making Ultimately the senate er moderate indulgence of th( past their thirtieth year ; the wine was partaken of claiming that venerable verted into abuse ; and Ro: by the spiteful Juvenal of Falernian. A flagon of d small measure for one 0! frequently a second pint • her thirst, but to give a L appetite, that she might decided relish. While th( sally tainted with effeminac great Pompey recoiled fro: with his finger, for fear women delighted in in: Fencing was an ordinary ing fashionable ladies of t, 4 l l' sheathed in half-armour, aeu 5 Y r / ts, heads, and gauntlets drawn t it,;? I hands, they received every nini i elV ti l 4 'cie t h practical gladiator, who taught Oleo 1 „lq ( lounge, and all other postures . 4 ] Before them stood a plastron , o r o l fl o c! 101 l 3 '04 4 4 was the object of their hostility, r esel t l i i d kio their daily lesson was finished,' g„th o fe r e than the body of Caesar. At le a :are / 0 Ol t Pi., tar the the sword, and, weary and jaeleoed ing forms a woollen cloak, C o joir g ;fo ol retired exhausted to their b ° ,.i c not always confine these a thle te t/t j g,;,t,e ll I Ot hl practice-room. After a carer' crd r t ofe. , Erg • 09 tit` their appearance in public, inre, of tll ~0 tre, as competitors for, the Pri o il' f0 14: 1 0( 1 . / a i av ` l, Ar, or even with "". ladies aetliate• proportion that r than on liberal with etowel -lli their water P.... qu'erall •`¢ t!~~ in England is ger joie, How is the a finger give you-glass ? How is it, that 3 ' 44 fOr:01 and-f"ort one knife and fork to do cliwposivitOti of joint,y dishes, consistino• of e'rerive9 tili' cabbage. game, pastry, friiit , pres et ii,,,,t age. If this is the cleauli.netc,.. trio system i of domestic economy practls.e.cin i their best hotels, where everYol Will'fi criticism of srangers, we tremb Je I 0 t otii t it he state of cleanliness, and w" • P awful destitu t io n ootil' of domestic eco ,d them in • lt l 'ii in their own homes • ai l ' DEAD W Per • 0 EI GII to way --,.:bitio .), her very contributions to the Paris 031robject it! the ryextended scale, for the pr ipa' .0 , 1 of,t l ; United States consists of a long 1 V e •e 0 .0 machines. This is quite characteristi ore I i people like the American., h ttach° dife' ._, w o a to the power theili' the European of the balance among .114 balance of power. . 0 0 (Pio THE NUDE IN RAILWAYS --A. Or •cio ty accompanied the ofrailway tratil t ' ' ti ° opening e rf ii , Mofu• • sszlite—a very smartly edited Pf l q r ii 0 1',1 apprises us that the natives hav e ' 6 an e v `, h,_4Z t . ll ‘ , ;' 'be ~.; ~i~~ 7:T itsg h ieill o wro t eic h fod e rorm r, bo o ems r asio e tft v isa e n n , w h i di th e r a e c i t l , l ,,A lc l et ti s l : s, oso for many years, tilhalentdhpeutbEhlem_illloolileelllsctet: ' hibiting such unseemly specto t Y x; iEvh r De? 4 P i TLY P ch lß t Eß w rrl o YT h . °ll'°l.llavil" 1(..'1411).c14 scope,n Svv differ, appear to the obe—as-reMtrsvetrrtihal9°slloi.:ll.e.:7o::oll, 4Y441141:11:44 GERMAN DOMESTIC ECO S I r gic e t i,"e 1, t h i Ll in the German hotels they ve c ' t ot .ts q t than one towel P How Is it, el s , e t t l i t cit liberal with their water P-• -th e ae tte.. l ' ' 11 c)), 4 , proportion that in Englan that at 1 44 finger -glass ? How is it, do o si!',o; 0.117 P IMP knife and fork to cry P . or..rve:e