The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

ER MORNING. nivITATIoN. ' at iL e 114 t d ewy. dawn, fey .11e early m orn, The 1 4 ' 4 lustres bend the leaves -11:11Rhe . a ~ t he brairded corn. th e glorious sun tshi l h 18 bright career ; 1 ,' 141 1 ) ,; 11 54 c 1 tree, bush, field, and flower, 11 wh o el gold appear. trl'e t he lark yet sings d eg . 4111 1 morning hymn, 141444 Y above his nest, 4 N, e e ar'y eye grows dim. 11 4 15 . keep in view itg Whose tiny wing ay ow„ 4W , away, away ! "04 " the air swift journeying. tilin g, it inh a l es k f ro the ambient air, ( 0 1 irk list'ning ears beneath— . ei kt.: l, 4 131 r 1 hilt each heart's dull care. 1 h tt ow, w - :livitlat Time is flying ! tit l abour, up to think— . Mith kr tha n sighing. e ett elastic step, k ie th 4 l, o'er road and field, P~ tb °ll the way; and, smiling, soon "Ntith h er c h arms s h a ll y i e ld . ,111114 ting breeze will chase th aflows from thy face ; t tm blood thro' thy veins shall run t k :lft and joyous race ; Ih k ated—freed— I N l Ziad regain full sway; koq Proud Reason take the helm, k`,,v4le thee all the day. kid elPs\k,l‘ti these, indeed, The heart of man, „ Ar ehit e , ' : '' ''lll to praise ‘ate - 'the plan ! up ! n, at . loi he It t he "eWy dawn, . th Q early morn, . • e 6ts i tistres bend the leaves— brairded corn. 'P i~~~ fl stir Le '‘ 117. 1 - ETV'S. 11121ta .......___ itki l lll l 4 9 :zilie. Edinburgh : Blackwoods. ~ y r i es of this popular magazine is more kiNtib n 4 e. 111 1 entertaining variety, with some ia ' It - " 1 " 8 to the p olitical discussions ' e°lAnien with the first part of a Nirt i I tit ill it le Ptary c o e on i “ The Imperial Policy of la 1/4'10(1, iarerving of careful perusal. In the .1141 54 at n•L itl e -- aßomance," the chief scene of e h Oti, i ' 44o n, in Cheshire, the story begins ll 'pl i , a , 4l l the interest in the continuation e th:; 4 * Prom the amusing " Notes on 511 5%. lorth-west States of America," we tt -- f‘. ! 1 4 : t , extracts : L!, l kA,to tt I' 4I t•WEST HOTEL. tl, ,1 th lit ktio e hotel, I doubted whether the solitary 6 u N'sjic L i l l I had just visited was not a preferable lit e " b. '"ging-bouse. As yet it was quite un bkieszltontStil' Dart of the interior was devoted to the .Of :Itll,trB shop. Sawing, planing, and ham keldise`u.tto4's i ntermission. There werepilesof planks I, them l ltili n ' a skets of tools and casks of pork, all , tes,rtiii a ll„ d s }; .a t 3 ' rough logs with rough people ACAlid i 's whi e i l l ngs afoot deep everywhere. There 0 4 „ it wa t , he i t , t had not yet been plastered, and by N ' t Dar tiv i th e beelpices of which, it was easy to du i% „e ePI, i n 'r?olai of mine host and his family. ttlt " thr- le g-ro:_ il 'eh a door had not yet been put, Pere Ill 'e'ita u Nh a t u ' from the dirt and shavings. A wf, I .l'tk n 'l a ni,Ploor to a spacious loft, which, at ' a iali' , eclf t " s ulgular aspect. All round the -ttl. of hot tl shavings upon the floor; and til e roof, were musquito nets of 4 ro SUPPLEMENT TO tt 4 • / - Uthrrpvoi 7 tanbartc ER. AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTIS all colours, so that they looked like a collection of variegated meat-safes imbedded in shavings. Above them, again, were a series of stages, supported by ricketty wooden posts. Each stage was capable of containing two or three occupants, and the only means of access the latter possessed was by " swarm ing "up the posts, to use a school-boy's term. In one corner of the loft there was a small room screened off; this was the land-office; and as we have devoted ourselves to describing our first impression of Superior in its external aspect, a visit to the land-office will afford us a good opportunity of learning something more of its present condition and future prospects. A TABLE D' ROTE. The table d'lz6te was quite in keeping with the hotel in which it was given. Twenty or thirty rough fellows, in red flannel shirts, and knives and pistols stuck in their girdles, sat round the massive table, to wash down a great quantity of hard salt pork with brandy, and garnish their conversation, of which they were very chary, with a singular variety and quantity of oaths. Indeed, so frequently and unappropriately are they lugged into the common parlance of backwoodsmen, that it is at "first very difficult to understand anything that is said; and as, even when used as an embel lishment in civilized conversation, they do not give one a very high estimate of the sense of the speaker, when they also interfere with the sense of the sentence, familiar intercourse with the denizens of the West is neither profitable nor attractive. There was a judge at dinner, who was a singular instance of this ; and if his decisions were framed in such blasphemous terms as his talk, it would have been morally impossible for his suitors to understand him, unless they had undergone a special education for the purpose. He was seeking rest from his judicial labours by a little "prospecting," and had determined to employ his holidays by doing a stroke of business in the copper line. To judge by his appearance he had been a good deal in the bowels of the earth, and had not washed himself since he had started on his explorations. However, it was - difficult' to account for the filth and shabbi ness of his attire, for he had with him an unusually large portmanteau, in which he was always burrowing, competent to contain a sufficient supply of clothes for the most fastidious. Upon one occasion, however, when a group was collected near this mysterious receptacle, he suddenly opened it, and dis played- an enormous bundle, on the top of which were sprinkled a few dirty socks and collars, and which on being untied were found to contain bright specimens of copper, with which he was returning to his native State to induce his friends to advance the funds necessary for his purposes. A second letter to Eusebius, on "Once upon a time," is a pleasantly-written running commentary on a great many things. The following is but too true a picture of MODERN INTELLIGENCE. It is quite amusing to read, as we do, every now and then, a paragraph in newspapers, exemplifying ignorance and super stition, by an anecdote of some poor dupe, in a far country village, victimised by a fortune-teller ; the writer forgetting that in the metropolis, in which he writes, " ignorance and superstition," even of the same kind, may be found, or may have been lately, among those who are classed the prudent, the educated, the wealthy. The poor almanac-makers were innocent if compared with spirit-rappers and mesmeric for tune-tellers. Cagliostro grew rich at court, and among the great Cagliostros still exist under other names. Whoever will have the impudence to assert boldly, and trick it cleverly, that he has direct intercourse with the world of spirits, will not lack believers, followers, nor almost worshippers. In an article headed " Modern Light Literature — Theology. The Broad Church," the writer, in a style of irony and indignation, exposes the absurd reasoning and dangerous doctrines propounded by the Rev. Frederic Denison Maurice, chaplain of Lincoln's Inn. After a romantic story, entitled " Vernier," poetically told by Edwin Arnold, we have a continuation of " The Story of the Campaign, written in a Tent in the Cri mea," an extract from which we gave last week. " Two Years of the Condemned Cabinet" is one of those mas terly political essays for which Blackwood's Magazine has long been justly celebrated ; and the concluding article, headed " Administrative Reform—the Civil Service," contains some judicious observations on a subject which has lately excited a more than ordinary share of public attention. Blackstone' s Commentaries, systematically abridged and adapted to the Existing State of the Law and Constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S., Q.C., London: W. Maxwell. That the author of this comprehensive and well systematised work is a voluminous writer as well as a great and deserved public favourite in the world of literature, is a fact too patent to require corroboration ; it has been long admitted, and is as much rejoiced in by an admiring circle of votaries almost co-extensive with the reading public. How he has Ibiind tibm sQ , amply to explore, so fully to illustrate the recesses of the moral and intellectual world as he has done, while engrossed with the cares and burdened with the duties of a laborious profession, has been a puzzle to those who look only to results, without troubling themselves to inquire as to the vigour of intellect, the indomitable will, and the assiduity of purpose, which are at all times, and under all circumstances, characteristic of the master mind. Those who, like ourselves, have watched narrowly the career of Mr. Warren, will rea dily have perceived a growing maturation of intellect as his progress has been onward in the paths of lite rature, and upward on the road to fame. His earlier efforts were marked by liveliness of fancy, keen discri mination, varied yet powerful delineation, a taste almost fastidious in its refinement, and an inexhausti ble fund of correct and generous feeling. As he pro ceeded on his journey, his tread became more free, his air more commanding,his self-reliance emboldened and expanded. Judgment, with sedate consideration, now followed 'on his footsteps, and the severity of her counsels conferred a graceful dignity on his achieve ments. His writings have lately been attuned to a grander and more solemn harmony than was their early wont, and, guided by the lamp of Christian faith and hope, he has ranged through many of the more intricate rounds of philosophic speculation ; while he has, from time to time, given sonorous exposition to difficulties which embrace many of the recondite prin ciples on which his own profession is based. In each of these progressive steps, the calmly meditative mind has been more and more clearly defined ; the sharpened and comprehensive judgment more revealed. Every step, indeed, has indicated the ceaseless diligence of an acute and anxious intellect bent upon exploring and unfolding the hidden stores of knowledge. On a recent occasion we embraced the opportunity of glancing slightly at his forensic skill, as that was evinced in the felicity he displayed in analyzing evi dence, and out of that rearing up a fabric of massive strength and symmetric beauty —or, by its aid, rend ing the mask from villany and laying bare pretension. In that instance he presented to our view the cautious, painstaking, and dexterous unraveller of plots and factions—the ready detector of the slightest deceit — the able expositor of truth, however overlaid—the persuasive pleader for the beauty • and strength of virtue and of truth—the skilful demonstrator of a case as that is to be judged according to the action of our law. He now comes before us as the occupant of a higher sphere. In the work whose title stands at the head of these remarks, he challenges the observation of his country as an expositor of those principles of law and justice on which hang not merely the rights and im munities of individuals, but on which, in fact, depend the safety of the state, the well-being and existence of the commonweal. The self-imposed task is one of vast importance—the position it implies is one of great dignity ; it is also one involving deep responsi bility, and of this latter fact Mr. Warren feels evi dently the full and impressive weight ; but, having felt the weight of the responsibility, he has not been deterred from undertaking it, 'though the sense of its importance has obviously stimulated him to arduous preparation. He tells us the work is the result of twenty years' unremitted labour, often rendered par tially nugatory by the changes which from day to day the legislature has wrought upon the law, while his labours were in progress. Still, he has manfully addressed himself to the Sisyphean duty, and has suc cessfully attained the object of his ambition. Deeply impressed with the solemn majesty of his coveted position, Mr. Warren feels that " the contemplation