The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

SUPPL straints being withdrawn, it break forth in after-years, and destroy all that education has laboured to erect. The fault of childhood, the sin of youth, and the crime of manhood, in one word, the great error of human nature, is selfishness. It ()Tows with our growth, and strengthens with our strength; it chills every good resolution, baffles every good endeavour, and prompts and animates half the bad actions of a man's life. The whole code of Christian morality is aimed against this fatal and universal evil. "To do as we would be done by," "to love our neighbour as ourselves," and to "forgive our enemies," all alike strike at the root of this great origin of sins, this great destroyer of unity, and love, and social laws. And it is against this, therefore, that early educa tion should direct its strongest efforts ; teach the child to think of others, to feel for them, to pity them, and to yield to them ; teach him to find pleasure in sharing anything he possesses with his brothers and sisters ; discourage too strong a desire to have things set apart for himself alone, to have exclusive possession or enjoyment of anything ; prove to him how useless things are when hoarded together, and how they are only valuable when circulate and made to contribute to the comfort and welfare of others. The great object of parents, from day to day, and from year to year, should be in every way, and in every minute detail, to prepare their children for their position in life, both with regard to their highest interests and to the common events of daily existence. The healthy exercise of all the powers of the mind, is the surest way to procure well-developed intellectual powers; well-balanced feeling, and regularity of life and habits, and forms the safest precaution against dreamy inactivity, the listnessess of indolence, and that con sequent depression of the spirits which leads to the indulgence of idle fancies and unemployed feelings. The cultivation of domestic affection must fill the heart ; the exercise of charity and the offices of kind ness must employ the thirst for activity, and the energy of benevolence; and steady application, punctual habits, grave study, and innocent amusement,must all combine to keep the mind active, but yet peaceful, the imagi nation free, but yet unimpassioned.—Early Influences. NEW BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY. Ax anonymous writer in the New World has some what skilfully grouped together many of the wonderful exchanges which advancing civilisation has effected, and the spirit of enterprise brought to their shores. The . picture is almost equally true and graphic when applied to either hemisphere.' To take a condensed view of the opening of new branches of industry Among the two or three hundred thousand vegetables and animals that God has created to satisfy our natural and artificial wants, there are very few that we have yet acclimated or domesticated, or know how to em ploy. However few they may be, we continue to increase them, and our power to make acquisitions would appear to have no limits but those of creation. A considerable number of the plants which grow among us have been brought very recently from cli mates quite different from ours. It will be useful to notice this fact. Thus, Asia has given us hemp, the cherry, the peach, the French bean, the tarragon, the onion, rhubarb, mint, the mulberry, the citron, the lime, the orange, the chesnut, the pine of Siberia, the pine of Jerusalem, the plane-tree of the East, the aloe, the rose of Provence, the mallow rose, the millet, the cypress, and so forth. Grain and buck-wheat we get from the Levant, and the olive from Africa. Europe has borrowed from America the potato, the maize, tobacco, the banana, the love-apple, the strawberry, the medlar-tree, and a hundred other trees, fruits, plants, and flowers. Within three or four centuries Europe and America have been literally invaded with vegetables from all parts of the globe. We live almost entirely upon what has been borrowed from other countries, and it is but the advance-guard of the im mense quantity and variety which science, and the rapid intercommunication between the different parts of the world will give us. We are at liberty to choose from the general herbal of creation all that suits us. An inventory of all the riches we appropriate would be a long one. It would be almost endless labour to give such a catalogue of creation. To glance at a few only of the alimentary plants,—the arto carpe (so precious to the inhabitants of Tahiti), the sagotier, the palm cabbage, the bamboo of Celebes (of which the .EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN young sprouts have a delicious flavour), the cocoa-tree (of which the fruit is both meat and drink), the gum tree, the bread fruit, the sugar-palm, the plantain, and banana; the tamarind, the papaver, the mangosteen, &c. Among the textile plants may be noticed the New Zealand flax and the abaea (artiea utilis), a kind of flax in the Philippine Islands and China, of which the Chinese make the most superb stuffs. Of the trees for cabinet-making, for building, and for the masts of vessels, a thousand might be taken from the pines, the cedars, the ebony, the sandal and the satin wood. Then there are trees which yield us gums, resins, tinctures, and medicines ; the spice -tea, and tea-plant ; and a number of others, not so useful, perhaps, but which would delight us with their beauty and fragrance. To speak of the animal kingdom : ,how many more kinds might we domesticate than we have ? M. Jeoffry St. Hilaire cites several in his memoir upon the utility of a menagerie of acclimatisation,—those great antelopes, which would furnish an abundance of healthy food ; the Peruvian sheep, of which the wool is so fine and soft ; the tapir, larger than the pig, and as easy to feed, the flesh of which is very agreeable and whole some, and which might be made useful as a beast of burden ; the lama, alpaca, &c. Again, among birds, if we direct our attention to the subject, we shall dis cover many other kinds worth introducing or domesti cating, for their flesh, their eggs, or their beauty. With respect to fish also, our rivers or our streams and small lakes could be peopled with a vast multitude and variety of the finny tribes. Fish increase very abun dantly, and science will teach us to transform those of the sea into fresh-water fish. Carp did not appear in England till the sixteenth century, and the plaice of the North Sea have multiplied infinitely in the ponds of the New World.—The Builder. A ROMANTIC REALITY. (BY MRS, CLEMONS.) IN THREE CHAPTERS-CHAPTER 111. EMILY had now been about two years in India. The eldest Miss Davenport was married ; and the second, though only sixteen years old, was engaged to a gentleman, and the marriage was shortly to take place ; so that she had only to superintend the education of the youngest. Mrs. Davenport had become so much attached to Emily, that she dreaded the probability of her leaving her. She had also insisted upon her being much in company of late, in the hope that she would ultimately settle in India by an advantageous marriage. She considered that a girlish attachment, where there was no hope to feed upon, as she supposed to be the case with Emily, would naturally give place, in time, to one of the many offers of marriage she had had while residing with her. One morning, while they were all at breakfast, Colonel Windham, the Commandant of the Artillery, came in, and after a little conversation, mentioned that he had received a curious letter from the Commander-in-chief, ordering him to parade his men, as it was ascertained, beyond a doubt, that Lord Molestock was a private in the corps. "Indeed," said Emily, "that is very strange ; old Lord Molestock must be dead then, and his eldest son—for he had three—must have come to India as a private soldier. What could have induced him to leave his country in this manner, — for they have all handsome fortunes, quite independent of the old lord."—" It is an odd circumstance," continued the colonel, " I have an immense sealed packet from government, directed to him, besides my private orders regarding the affair; it will be rather an interesting sight. Suppose you all come, ladies ; I have ordered parade at half-past five this evening. "Indeed, I should like to see it very much." replied Mrs. Davenport. " What say you, Miss Grey?—it is seldom that I can get you to accompany me to see sights ; but as you know something of the family," glancing slily at the ring on Emily's finger, " you will feel interested in the discovery of this noble gentleman in the ranks." " It will afford me much pleasure," said Emily. " Well, then, agreed," cried Mrs. Davenport : "we shall be very punctual to the hour, colonel." Emily felt all the day exceedingly anxious, she knew not why ; for she had never seen any of Mr. Harling's family, and consequently could not know the person of Lord Molestock. However, she could settle to none of her usual avocations, and was ready to enter the barouche long before the appointed time. At a little after five o'clock the four ladies drove from the door, accompanied by Mr. Davenport on horseback. When they arrived on the parade ground, the two batallions of artillery were there in full dress ; the men knew not the particular reason why they had assembled, and merely con sidered it as one of the customary full-dress parades which generally took place once or twice a-month. It had been thought necessary by the Colonel to keep the circumstances that occasioned it secret, lest speculations of whom it might be should go through the ranks, or the nobleman himself be put upon his guard in case he still wished to conceal himself. The men were drawn up to form three sides of a square as closely as possible; the officers in the centre; and the two or three carriages that were there arranged on the other side. The ARD. Colonel was the only person who was commanding, handsome -looking man. his adjutant, who was near hira the evening was so still and calm, be heard at a considerable distance; ham's voice was distinctly audible to " Soldiers, attention !" said he, received from government. It one man amongst the eight hunk fore, command you to listen nlos " To Colonel Windham, cowman' am direcetd to inform you that, dent caused by the upsetting of wall, Lord Molestock and his three The title and estates, beside all devolves upon his nephew, Hell, General Harling, and youngest Molestock. This gentleman has India House and elsewhere, and years ago, he entered the Compai establishment, as a private soldi , said Henry Harling, now Lord 3! inches in height, dark hair and v black lashes, a long Grecian na and good teeth. You are furthk, of the above person, to present hi. But should no such person be for directed to communicate the sam governor at Madras, that further European regiments, as the se! exchanged ; and in the event of above description having died are directed forthwith to comma honourable the governor.—l obedient servant, J. DASILWOO. Right Hon. the Governor." Every word of this paper was were present. Emily sat mot . breath to catch every sound. Sh , her anxiety to hear every word. eluded, she started up in the side of it, endeavouring more dish—,_ stood erect in the lines. At length tre...s company broke a little, in the oe 111 " r i call;'i ore' seen, and a man from the second I'o'oo%o 13 front ; he then raised his cal 0 / Colonel, said "I am Henry Molestock." thy"• Emily had seen the movemk the man advance, and watched lifting of the military cap from that well-known face, she forgo) prise and agitation of the momr the carriage to the ground; el , fainted. Colonel Windham was not her leap down and fall. He s' long since ceased to hope till candour towards him ; he s' claimed, " Miss Grey is killed. " Miss Grey !" cried Harlin> ground, and ran to the carriag'e , is !" and he pushed past the Colo' his arms.—" Look up, dearest, you as my own !" Emily opened her eyes. ". 11 ' a you! and she again relapsed diately placed in the carriage:.._., Mrs. Davenport looked at tw' who brought the ring to be r with a smile and tear, "I can the ring ! Come to my house follow us." " No," replied the colonel, you are still for the present mand ; so follow me to my 1 doubt your identity ; Mies G: fact." Lord Molestock, as we mu parade was dismissed, and thf horse, walked with Henry t, vered to him the packet a( letters of credit to a large am , from his mother, one from his the Company's service. Lett ment by that night's post fro , - colonel ; a packet was also pall' when all this business was hands with him, and congra only for his acquisition of of a happy union with his belt you," continued he, "that I ha' sweet girl for a wife, and so h. has been true to you, thong' admirers." We may well imagine the *pared to meet her beloved and all the circumstances at Davenport, she was in an ecstas; dred times, put off the diunel at her watch, and running thinking he would never come. was a prosy creature to keep Ii all about the wedding, and on the sae. an u l;l P v ie As soon asLord Molestock had , w th as e C i s i l s o w n n el, is h t e s p t r i o le ceed ver ed y roo di tu ree S t v i h Y o t° , I'l4 S 'Q u 1 -,‘ 1 ::, [JVLY a) .. ; • 11, 4 , 1 • was mounted; , •,,, man, Ile took 10 ' 11 ra ; not a word iv Ai , , 1144 1, that the leastuF:i , . ice ; therefore C 41 le 11 # 1 ksj all. a 3, to " This Pen , to ' t:t a i i s known dells: li, , ~, sti ndred now pre:r iit, kol:' 4 % tt, ost attenicelY.„fler!v '4, 11„_ an the ant ;2 owing to s 00,„11 1 t a boat off tbeiv aft (7 iree sons luwi t e 4, thILZ% L the persona, J o $ . /let Ivy liarliog, ~ i i i, IP k i d ," t brother of eej „ Nita ,as been tr 3 of Ny Pa ad we fincl,t 0;;01.0 'it4 for ays rtilt,itlier 09 SittitlC dier. l'e 11 1, - e is 6c e ee ; lil et ecl 111olestocki..Abioe_;,# . 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