The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

2 1, 15.5' AtGusT 21, 1855.] SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. U'? , ' /er aise , , ol .lit. . very ,o l te Zood deo, before and since these days I have seen 1 fr , f " . o tis, I do the Turks ; and though, for many er,!, lie •1 72 . t hel p n ot respect them as a nation, still I kt b i anc ik ii;laents of difficulty their calmness and self-possession and danger. There is some either ° :2l o ll o ° s b . l e Ind dignified in their quietness on these ti t i7; state' have very rarely seen a Turk discom to.. but When collected, he sits down and bides his ;Ise h• 'len the cfB. k tat .taseif moment of action comes, he will • I se and the sudden, and become full of fire, hil yk end ant activity. It is then that you see the ° tn. • of those 3 5 11* and conquerors of the East, whose clew airce courage have given them the lo were ,ktot OZ t e the nations of Islam.--- - Curzon' s 't is " 11 IG4 ToR °gist -oup ...D „on r , one • r. Buckland, the distinguished n . Abe Nip day gave dinner, after dissecting a 11°:ttlitt,' a lligator h - a asked a good many of the aal cr o d 11048-guished we a ov . e ar,d his establishment classes to dine with him.-- ' wa ge boa a n d tact ail . i t i .nts establishment were in good ls guests congregated. " How do are c't/' 41118 114 t he so n th,„ hi s o „,_ P • asked the doctor, after having re 4 day. ;:u. Plate, addressing a famous gourmand Euro pe' goy t tle Ve ry good, indeed," answered the other. '1 110 t 11 'den f at ~ • I only ask because I do not find 4 it h a • Th e d L ble at un i e 00Inewt doctor shook his head. " I ties fa ~eplie a ea saiit, 'tat of a musky taste," said another ; or fello w but Peculiar.' " All alligators have," L,n . c . J a cp bo nk ;', l ol4 " the cayman particularly so. The t°' of th e ',' l3 eea leeted this morning, and whom you ill 01, . doz en waole atng There was a general rout lie 04t sta r t,,,p.est s 3 c, i of of Everyone turned pale. Half-a nisiove in ach ro oh ."," 1 / 1 the table. Two or three ran 414' laii, l'etna; -' andonly those who had stout t -ent . ti e d co t ,A / , "S e A Lo the close of an excellent enter a F ot 51 1 Z test 8 ; 4 0 told then' What imagination is," said Buckland. ar o ", Of a c lip, salt nem it was turtle or terrapin, or birds )aa jirql f ro 'water am o f - oLi n In th e P 1 or fresh, or the gluten a. _le the eed it maw of a sea-bird, they would have their• digestion been none • ae ot i gi and udic" ' l6 -! C ` , ' ,et " ut ?" asked - " But was it really l e ol , u, answered Buckl and.-ckB-1 rtc• os f : as eaten ~ a lady. A g an oo d d .. a ..A calf' nee s e h o e t a e d s as of .4 t r i ii VE Itekiand. 9 0 • 8 ea tARs e e n • Among the Tatars Mr. Seymour, [ t lcl2 u e e. 6: l , o +l,4tl s s kid e r ti o t_book . on Russia, says he found many w o o l t k i t Ca ke' mantic traits of character. As a nation s (1 s ee , a ; but one of their princesses—the . b' of Sh e et - Bey —stillin her ° fee' o of fi. a s —s lives palace in the otO of ex Was. who received Madame de Hell in Tell i o t i i e of th e c l ui site splendour, and showed her the o et ° olt: P'or e ' l ill ehalit io • : a ce---three girls of wondrous beauty ,„'ltte ti her ilia' r aee, clad in such attire as Haidee N, ° 10 0 ,0, i%)'111 1 o d an d , and such as Hafiz might have a 11 t O' ti ora t i l ancl t o d e s bedropped with allusions to roses, to pie 0 , fatail y " moon. These angels were sprung aa . 0 04 e at epl c of gentle natives of which one chief ; l i p? bri n Z o ns,.,a_teer by boiling 70 refractory nobles t it . P e l l t4 invention more successful than 13 ,ac. 11 .:, Iti tBsia cliffe i . e ; soil of the Tatar is now possessed Lehed andll 1170 1 ,, , blood. Mr. Seymour describes drof l r kP b t on s ak an as a child, who needs to be t l ' e l , 3 o whil e t " As an instance of this, Colonel a 0 4,7 , whe ii „ e was building the dock-gates at I*,ov, he stone-work was prepared for the titAt o c t e ° Ins astonishment, that the parts did Ws 't l e .6 4, and" he v ia 6 tig•th h th e as certain that his calculations , o „ ; h e e th o ,, ,, work apparently correctly executed. it, ti r ,"p_lit of measuring his gauge, and w t o 1 wre n " his. Russian workmen, having done h , ught ti t Cut his gauge to appear right, and L 1 1 to P I o r, e 5" 1 , 1 ,4t t there were other parts of the work ree,.' s og i irj app e ',..,,ith theirs, and consequently make L`kl t ," 4 eilt iv r,l• Apropos of the fortress, he has / to : 4 4,:, we hick it would be well to verify in .0- ti: t at have o lu,y tc, e th e found to our cost how inex e e° o t f it t ‘ sti ll stores of Sebastopol, and yet it is sued 4,:lol74ltOreater amount is laid up in the chain tic Q,:‘ have been erected during the last 20 5 rit o f ' lln an, and particularly on the Prussian g i e 4-44 4 17 e 0 tbe if 4 0 ke t h taa tter CATIoN,--What is education P asked 1/9 4 , R e t h e d ay.'' Rugby School at the recent annual tk l t t he h , °41 (1:-.__ L-r °ee din e g to answer his own ques l(r9aAti:l3o 1 4 4 . 1 par t -ere I .'"u_ . :ely it was a fallacy to suppose it to a Iwo' do ' 4 4e 'War "ing a little information on this or Its; I ,lric, k`kit ibL Whi S t jel, or of a few superficial accom eln% LiNikight might be practically useful. The I se OVA 4 'tt of may b he, give us something useful, some joir o otir` ° t urned to account. And if the one 5 .7 ere.to teach men how money might be most successfully made, we might accept and adopt this theory of education ; but of old they took adeeper and a wiser view. They recognised that great truth, that education must be a work of discipline, not the mere furnishing with instruments—that one who, by a regular course of study, had grappled with and mas tered the difficulties of ancient language and pure mathematics, could in a very short time acquire a mo dern language, learn the rudiments of jurisprudence, and indeed fit himself for whatever his peculiar desti nation in life might be. Accordingly, by our time honoured universities, one fundamental study, called arts, was recognised as an essential groundwork for the pursuit of anything More strictly professional ; and not until a man had graduated in arts, and so laid the foundation of his subsequent professional career, could he graduate in law, or in medicine, or in music, or in that queen of sciences, divinity. The plain common sense of which he took to be, that if a man's mind be first thoroughly cultivated, it will afterwards be able to take any special direction which circumstances might point out, but that if it lack that preliminary cultivation, all its efforts in after life would be, as a general rule (he said, as a general rule, for great genius overrides and supersedes all rules ), puny, meagre, and superficial. An illustration might be drawn from bodily training. Which would be most beneficial, by way of enabling a man to defend himself, to furnish him prematurely with arms before he was competent to employ arms, or to give him by athletic exercises the perfect mastery of his own bodily frame, so that he might afterwards be able to apply himself to the use of any arms which came to hand ? We should all choose the latter alternative. Then why deal on similar principles with the mind, disciplining it in the first instance, and cultivating it afterwards ? A DINNER WITH A VILLAGE CLERGYMAN.---What misery human beings inflict on each other under the name of pleasure ! We went to dine last Thursday with Mr. Jones, a neighbouring clergyman, a haunch of venison being the stimulus to the invitation. We set out at five o'clock, drove in a broiling sun on dusty roads three miles in our best gowns ; found squires and parsons assembled in a small hot room, the whole house redolent of frying ; talked, as is our wont, of roads, weather, and turnips ; that done, began to grow hungry, then serious, then impatient. At last, a strip ling, evidently caught up for the occasion, opened the door, and beckoned our host out of the room. After some moments of awful suspense he returned to us with a face of much distress, saying the woman as sisting in the kitchen had mistaken the soup for dirty water, and thrown it away, so we must do without it. We all agreed ; it was, perhaps, as well we should, under the circumstances. At last, to our joy, dinner was announced ; but oh, ye gods ! as we entered the dining-room what a gale met our noses ! The venison was high; the venison was uneatable, and was obliged to follow the soup with all speed. Dinner pro ceeded, but our spirits flagged under these ac cumulated misfortunes. There was an ominous pause between the first and second course ; we looked each other] in the face ; what new disaster awaited us ? The pause became fearful. At last the door burst open, and the boy rushed in, calling out, " Please sir, has Betty any right to leather IP" What human gravity could stand this ? We roared with laughter ; all took part against Betty ; obtained the second course with some difficulty ; bored each other the usual time ; ordered our carriages, expecting our post boys to be drunk, and were grateful to Providence for not permitting them to deposit us in a wet ditch. So much for dinners in the country.---Rev. Sydney Smith. _ _ MARRIAGE AND STYLE OF LlVlNG.—Numbers do and will remain unmarried, especially among our up per classes, from necessities artificially created or gratuitously supposed. Younger sons are constantly doomed to celibacy ; not because a' marrying income is unattainable by them, but because prejudice, cus tom, pride, or laziness fordid them to toil for its at tainment. By inheritance, or by public employment, they possess, perhaps, just sufficient to permit them to enjoy the pleasures and amenities of a London life; miscellaneous society stands them instead of a domestic circle---the club supplies the place of a home---vagrant and disreputable amours (or amours that ought to be disreputable) make them unambitious of, and unfit for wives ; and they prefer to rest satisfied with a pleasant rather than labour for a happy and worthy existence. Others, again, possess an income amply sufficient for the support of a wife and family, but will not believe it to be so. Their ideas of the style and comfort in which it is necessary to live, are formed on a conven tional and unreasonable standard. They will not con descendto the fancied indignities, or they cannot endure the trivial privations of economy---they will not ask the woman of their choice to share with them any home less luxurious than she has been accustomed to, and they condemn her to live without love rather than ex pose her to live without a carriage. God only knows how many noble creatures have their happiness sacrificed to this miserable blunder---how many pine away their existence in desolate and dreary singleness, amid luxuries on which they are not dependent, and splen dour which confers no joy, who would thankfully have dwelt in the humblest cottage, and been content with the simplest dress, and have blest the one and embellished the other, if only the men to whom they have given their hearts had possessed less false pride and more true faith in woman's love, and sense, and capacity of self-abnegation. A higher and more just conception of the materials which really make up the sum of human enjoyment—a sounder estimate of the relative value of earthly possessions —a more frequent habit of diving down through the conventional to the real, and a knowledge of how much refinement, how much com fort, how much serene content, are compatible with the scantiest means, where there are sense and courage to face the fact and control the fancy—would, in half a generation, reduce the million and a quarter of spins ters we have spoken of to a few hundred thousands, and raise into the condition of honoured happy wives the vast majority of those "beautiful lay nuns" (as they have been called) whose sad, unnatural, objectless existence, whose almost wasted powers of giving and receiving joy, it makes the heart bleed to witness.—. North British Review. How THE TREASURES OF THE LOUVRE WERE COL LECTED.—A singular ceremony took place on the ninth Thermidor, in the sixth year of the republic, namely, the triumphal entry into Paris of the objects of art and materials of science—books, statues, manu scripts, and pictures—conquered in Italy during the early Italian wars. These treasures were landed at Charente ; and during the ten days that preceded the ceremony, from morning until evening, prodigious crowds streamed up along the banks of the Seine to see the innumerable cases containing them. Enormous cars, drawn by richly-caparisoned horses, were prepared, and early on the morning of the appointed day the proces sion began. It was divided into four sections. First came trunks filled with books and manuscripts taken from the Vatican, from Padua, Verona, and other cities, and including the "Antiquities" of Josephus on papyrus, with works in the handwriting of Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Petrarch. Then followed col lections of mineral products, with the celebrated fossils of Verona. For the occasion were added waggons, laden with iron cages containing lions, tigers, and pan thers, over which waved enormous palm-branches and all kinds of exotic shrubs. Afterwards rolled along a file of chariots, bearing pictures carefully packed, but with the names of the most important inscribed in large letters outside ; as, the " Transfiguration" of Raphael, and the " Christ" of Titian. The number of paintings, principally included in this lot, brought from Italy to France was great, and the value was still greater. Fifteen important works by Raphael, seventeen by Perugino, twenty-eight by Guercino, four by Correggio, nine by Guido, five by Titian, and a vast quantity of others by the best masters, are mentioned in the list of General Pommereul. When these tro phies had passed amidst the applause of the excited crowd, a heavy rumbling announced the approach of still more weighty treasures ; of massive carts, bear ing statues and marble groups, the Apollo of the Belvedere, the Nine Muses, the Antinous, the Lao coon, the Gladiator, the Melpomene of the Capitol. All these vehicles were numbered and decked out with laurel bows, bouquets, crowns of flowers, flags taken from the enemy, and French, Italian, and Greek inscriptions. Detachments of cavalry and infantry, colours flying, drums beating, music playing, marched at various intervals : the members of the newly-estab lished institute fell into the line : so did the artists and the savans : and the singers of the lyrical theatres preceded or followed, making the air ring with national hymns. This prodigious .procession—probably not un like a Roman triumph in its general outline—marched along the quays amidst the shouts of the assembled population, traversed all Paris, and reaching the Champ ~'