The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

190 , [NovEnr3Eu V, ' iv t XtER [esisted from feeding' ' „ e, loot the warriors, as th . , d ',l.with 3 trate columns and eri i i,,,' l rtS b bered the ascent to the oj l 6 , sworc it perching-places on 1 d ew the e... ad and flapped their sa' ;.enei their helmets. Once hove the Tarpeian tlt' A thousand year s, it ' ' I id the martial b ug le 1 1 ~ 'gain. But instead o f, , roof s s---clarnouring to be 1. , Gou l. , Parthian---there I, i; repent Is and howling, yelP , , I ltsT p ( shrill cries of ill-oal I ,earried 1 )osts in the sanctum' ,ilaTuDEs id cornices of the Sell 1 ... t l ife ; u For some huraan gun' p () f th e stened again. There to te e is is 1 the Capitol, the CO ~,, . t n t iPle, ai wing under the beali, e tZeott Tarpeian cliff; but tl i e , .11 o f ?tint te, and the Boman P i A, •,,,life, 1 ider Paganism an a cii ` e f, . 1, 47 ent 3IT i s. In the St i t,i; ' 1 44 on o by the dust. In the ' ifi N i than elbows. Then there I Q )' d, wild, an d leprous, ~., hew s -beggars Poapndrunkenudlartei: ndy crying S° : almostlatiekres ' :I I :el. ' 1' I : : : 311°:1 1 :16.e i d:s i 1 at vendors;—har vi ' et, r b. 'kii t : 111 ,- their loads ; Sal' a 4 , 5 ) ,', t ,/ 4 4 5 ,, at SU ' ter in leathern refX,,,,rkOt'.ace , sitar ;—arabas, l ic itll°` \ tr,Y, i n m )ointed caps ; JO ",, 4 •4N, 15 r0 f the old cut, witilAvi;e ik: fon in tunics, and we1',,Y,, , 0 ' ii.N L s`-s: h are the individaatf,,, : 0'41 6 f ' you, and—be car e ,r i , 4 i ti kti; ' then, are the Pa h° ffel ' i 7 0,, tw ltl i'' den embroidery us 7,44 1 4 3' f t , S o ' icorted by feroc i° 4 3 , c 11 tl',t„,llt Ill s inious crowd P - v„„•;,,,, , 0 , .\Pie, l LOSe living r ainal-D7 - (4 i to the bath, Nil larc f ar a ,(' ?,r their veil ? bere ft . ; ~, , ar, 11, 1 palanquins, thoseis°? ' 4 t t ‘ ,'oli 1 1 3 by vigorous hamm a ',, 5 , . h 0 „,'',13)-, -the pure blood of tlivie'o Leo sti ings ? In short, s'' he f tt, "g 4 stit' near which the life 0 , k o tlf 11 Nt ho g , I, so narrow, and 5 ; 34 ,P l it, I,,k fis ti tien there they are ! Ti le i ,', CIO hi, Along, covered wit'4s"',l.' $'0)1- y riders even dirtier' ~t , k k i iito t i you at the Tophany ' ion. for sd. or even 21 41 . 13 c # t,. nd. A saddle. The pai'libliA t tk bu to the old co/wogs° D A 't -.T to Constantinople, 11 , 4 4 ;1% elf a novelty. The l ar l . c 'ld i . 'etur r m o s i t r t e h ll t e c s h e e e sdfoahseilisrai onsneoaitfh ably I) t ir '''', 1 : il 4 14; :y ,, r t r it( : i, f E •- .11.0e.habrmwnwoxca:oaon,wortgd,dhietaebihnisniy:ys,ptebe,isiiaoobd:y:scit,(1)h-yeior,tisec:clries 0 I:7,ttlitl i :tib;: ,w fste a rs, io is passing' (arj boots, (4 ' I V of t ii S an an d v, body, 0 k „ u rers her heat an ' b `l' ox a di s s e gt en f t st, w hie: P re P e r : 3l: l ;,,, ' :hre a ed b * t ile 4 144 re pel_ „?., tile , t, ...e ; t !stales e seray;,,ij ,_ b e 1 ., lin the gateways, of 'pt. q',aina" of foot passengers. j i t l , sch o _ 1, with a vast abdota; . eek til t. ] oiled up to the chin? , ask sting his neck, has a tt 4 ' 1,41 es to which is covered hi P tlY '1; 1 tell d his boots resembke d 0 8 4. e gied, satal (a grocer), lio liv s , ' ot: 11 r. No, he is a pache '• 11 / 4 \S i n ny tails—a general -A ' f it Petic ianlis,—and the thre.e„i,. d 6, 1 N, lowing him are his J a l . no, IA janissaries of form er 1 ( If s " I.. gc Tbov am hile,rl IrhilY SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. fectly certain he could not survive the dilatory pro ceedings of the Neapolitans. For two long hours did he survive, when his voice became feebler and feebler —perhaps as he, by slow degrees, slid deeper and deeper into the crater, hope gradually vanished, until the voice was entirely lost. An occasional groan was heard, until after the expiration of the above time, then all was silent. The body was many hours after rescued by a guide, who descended 200 feet before he found it ; of course it was perfectly lifeless, the sulphur had suffocated the poor fellow.—Captain Chamier's Unsentimental Journey. THE WOLF'S ATTACK.---It is no less curious than amusing to witness their ingenious mode of attack. If there is no snow, or but little on the ground, two wolves approach in the most playfol and caressing manner, lying, rolling, and frisking about, until the too credulous and unsuspecting victim is completely put off his guard by curiosity and familiarity. During this time the gang, squatted on their hind quarters, look on at a distance. After some time spent in this way, the two assailants separate, when one approaches the horse's head, the other his tail, with a slyness and cunning peculiar to themselves. At this stage of the attack, their frolicsome approaches become very inter esting ; it is in right good earnest; the former is a mere decoy, the latter is the real assailant, and keeps his eyes steadily fixed on the ham-strings or flank of the horse. The critical moment is then watched, and the attack is simultaneous ; both wolves spring at their victim at the same instant, one to the throat, the other to the flank, and if successful, which they generally are, the hind one never lets go his hold until the horse is completely disabled, Instead of springing forward, or licking to disengage himself, the horse turns round and round without attempting a defence. • The wolf before then springs behind to assist the other. The sinews are cut, and in half the time I have been de scribing it, the horse is on its side ; his struggles are fruitless—the victory is won. At this signal the lookers-on close in at a gallop, but the small fry of followers keep at a respectful distance until their su periors are gorged, then they take their turn unmo lested. The wolves, however, do not always kill to eat ; like wasteful hunters, they often kill for the pleasure of killing, and leave the carcases untouched.---The Fur Hunters of the Far West. WHY THE KINGDOM OF KANDY (CEYLON) FELL INTO THE HANDS OF GREAT BRITAIN.—In 1812, there reigned in Kandy a monarch who will be for ever remembered for his cruelties. His name was Sree Wikrime Rajah Singha. He had impaled several of his chiefs ; and his adikar, or first noble, fearing his displeasure, fled to the English. The king seized the adikar's wife and children, with his brother and wife, and relatives, amountinc , in all to seventy persons, and sentenced all to death. ° " The children," says an authentic report of the transaction, " were ordered to be decapitated before their mother's face, and their heads to be pounded with her own hands in a rice-mortar. Which, to save herself from a diabolical torture and exposure, she submitted to attempt. The eldest boy shrank from the dreadful ordeal, and clung to his agonized parent for safety, but his youngest brother, stepping forward, encouraged him to submit to his fate, and placed himself before the executioner, by way of setting an example. The last of the children to be beheade was an infant at the breasts, from which it was forcibly torn away, and its mother's milk was dripping from its innocent mouth as it was put into the hands of the grim execu tioner." The mother, having stones fastened to her feet, was pushed into a deep tank. Her sister-in-law met the same fate ; and the adikar's brother, though not supposed to have had the least connection with his flight, was at the same time beheaded. Happily for his people, this tyrant extended his atrocities to those under our protection. In 1814, ten Singalese mer chants, belonging to the English provnacei, were taken up while engaged on business in Kandy, and sent home mutilated, with their ears and noses fastened to their necks. An explanation was de manded—no answer was accorded ; whereupon the governor, Sir Robert Brownrigg, marched a force into Kandy • took possession of the capital and king dom, and relieved the people from such a king and his dynasty for ever. FRENCH " APARTMENTS."—The French, like the Scotch, live one above another, under the same roof, in the separate floors of large houses ; thus econo mising space and money. In the principal streets, the ground floor consists of a shop; then comes the mez zanine floor, or entresol ; then a suite of rooms, on the same level, which includes every convenience for a family; and so up and up, to the highest floor. This is usually divided into two sets of apartments, for residents of humble means. At the end of a pretty tesselated passage beside the shop, there is, at the foot of the stairs, a snug little glass-case or lodge. Look ing in, you will usually see a woman in a clean cap knitting a stocking ; a gilt pendule is certain to be ticking on the chimney-piece ; and a clean bed en sconced in an alcove. This woman's husband—always dressed, in the morning, in a cap and a coarse green apron—is one of the trustworthy and serviceable class of domestic ball-keepers, or porters, for which Paris is remarkable. He polishes the stairs, polishes the ban isters, polishes everything he can lay his hands upon, and has generally polished his own manners too. He is shrewd, steady, observant, and can keep his own counsel withal. Every floor pays him a small, fixed, monthly stipend ; and he is the guardian genius of the whole house. You ask his wife on which floor your friend lives, and she, the portress on duty, takes all sorts of pains to make you understand her directions, if she sees there be any dulness in your foreign appre hension. You ascend a flight of oak stairs (carefully, for the porter-husband is polishing his way down from the top vigorously) by the help of banister supported by bronzed and gilt rails. Your friend's door opened, admits you to a little hall, in which, when it is shut after you, you feel as much isolated from the world as if you were standing on the mat of the private resi dence of the honourable deputy of St. Vitus's Back lane, near Camberwell-green. Little drawing-rooms, dining-room, study, nursery, bedrooms, kitchen (and a back-stair leading to it, for servants and tradesmen), all furnished with an amount of sensible taste highly suggestive to all the deputies in all Camberwell. And all—horrid idea !---over a shop. Yet your friend may be an English baronet or a foreign count, with thou sands a-year, and with some capital horses in a stable close by. Does Monsieur Viteplume, chef de bureau at the office of the Minister of the Interior, who lives in the floor above, or Madame Bonnebonnet, the court milliner, who lives over him, Or M. Burin, the en graver, who resides nearer heaven by the altitude of one story, or Jules Cordon, the journeyman bootmaker, or Mademoiselle Fleurschateau, who each inhabit the attic apartments---ever interfere with the rich baronet, or with one another ? Never. When the cobbler meets the baronet or the government official, or madame or mademoiselle on the same stairs, he claims them as neighbours only by a polite bow, and " bon jour."—Household Words. ROME IN THE SIXTH CENTIIEY.—It was towards the close of this interval that Belisarius felt a desire to visit and survey with his own eyes the ruins of a place that had been the theatre of so much grandeur and renown ; and with this view he sallied forth from the seaport at the head of a strong squadron of his guards. A marble wilderness extended on every side as far as the eye could reach, strewed with the ruins of Vitruvian villas, temples, and aqueducts ; the waste water of the latter had filled all the valleys and overflowed the low grounds of the Campagna, converting into marshes and mantling pools those regions which ere while had abounded with all the delights of the Hesperides. The thoroughfares of the nations were silent and lonely as the double line of tombs through which they passed. The towers and inscriptions over the gates had been torn down, and the bronze portals carried off in the plunder-train of the barbarian. The rock-built walls of Rome lay low ; and the tramp of their war-horses was muffled by the grass, as Belisarius and his troops rode under a succes sion of dismantled arches, down towards the Forum, along the " sacred way." The fox looked out from the casements of the Palatine, and barked sharply at the intruders as they rode on ; wolves prowled through the vacant streets, or littered in the palace halls; wild dogs hunted in packs, through the great circus, through the baths, along the Campus Martins, and on to the gardens of Sallust and Maecenas, through the promenade of the Suburra. Outlandish beasts — as if escaped from the menageries and keeps of the amphitheatres—lay sleeping and enjoying themselves in the sunshine of the porticoes, or tore one another to pieces, as the factions had done o f o ld, aroun d the rostrum, and in the assembly-place of the people ; others growled a n d snar l e d , an d gloated over the un buried carcases and whitening skeletons of the dead. Ravens and vultures desi guinary nestlings, to hoof slowly among the prostr: of temples that encumbe or, starting from their triumphal arch, hovered above the plumage of th, Roman eagle soars abo' eyry from whence, for A forth to carnage ; and field of Mars resound agai like response of legions-- the Samnite or the P hideous medley of yells roar, outtopped by the sh startled from their roosf and from the niches and The warriors listened for they listened, and lister Palatine, the Forum, th tins, and the Tiber flowil mer-sky beneath the Tarp, the emperors, the senate, were they ?---Rome under CONSTA.NTINOPLE AS I' blinded in the streets by have mud up to your elbi everywhere,—dogs bald, about without masters, any a bone to pick. The pop'. rags, sauntering lazily ; —dru resembling bandits ;—ber Backhilk!"—sweetmeat porters, bending under t' carriers, carrying water Spaniard carries his guit: Armenians with their poil robes ;--- 7 a few Turks of t bans ;—a few effendis in of the reformers ; such a: crowd that passes by y 4 watch-chain ! Where, thk resplendent with goldei jewels, and passing, esco: a trembling and obsequii do the odalisques—those perfumed tunics—o.o to eyes shining from under 1 find those sumptuous pl carried at a brisk trot by are the Arab coursers--th, with their silken trappings scene of Oriental life, ner appeared to us so mean, Si The Arab coursers P—thee jades—those lean aborti( . vermin, and mounted by IT selves, which wait for yol station, and offer you, for seat upon an unstuffed 5: litters have given place to barrieres, expatriated to still offer the chance of a I look so closely at them. fashion, upon the seats of he squats upon them, or si divan ; while the coachm: himself upon the coach-bc horses, urging them forw. stick. That woman who but seldom),—that woman, bare feet protected by w, cotton trousers, and covers ample folds of her white you will soon retreat in dis: of her neighbOurhood—a s( of those fermented paste the merchants sheltered in burn under the noses of is this middle-aged man, wi green frock-coat is buttoned cious stoutness, ann ihilatin shoulders to hi s h ea d, wink He wears spectacl e s, and his a cabman. is he the bal, „ corner of the street ? pacha, perhaps, with many _ —one of the noble Osmanli; poor devils who are followi —the successors of the jam _ the kavas of to-day. They are huDgl