The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

SUPP. location. An occasional ma inected with Convocation, and )rms in -the English Church. •om Mr. Pound, Mr. Jebb, on the proposed reform in one from Mr. Jebb, ridi rather popular just now, of 1, 'tlrgy" and "school services" dis ervices. Another paper gives a loon service." The writer says, . its seven hours of prayer; our lalpiled from the Matins' and Prayer from 'Evensong' and compile a mid-day service from o'clock and three?' lie .pro may be done. Other papers 'The Churchman' Magazine. admirably adapted for family fiddle and upper classes.—The sr. o n i a z e . All persons inter of the Church in the colo -111041 read this.—The Penny )r parochial distribution, very much excellent matter.—The V. This little periodical has mmber, wad fully keeps up its of the middle classes it is , IiL_EiIIAN IN A FIX. ,E.T' COSTELLO. ;he weather., the Ministry, and , the present season has not ; still, some pleasant things )ngst them may he included, to themselves, if not to the 'riage of Lord Acton to the ;tance Fitzavon, which took ago. Nye, falsifying for their sakes had run smooth, They tra !sire with the swiftness of a spe \o stoppages on the way, and station without t matrons he slightest, whose marriageable hat hand, gave it as their had been performed rather too and hoped, in the fulness of a certain proverb respecting be verified in this instance ; expressed no misgiving, and Le facts of the case into con ; no reason why it should have 'as young, and handsome, rich, had wit, - beauty, youth, and accomplishments of her mind the kindness of her heart. for sweetening the cup of ;hen : the wedding breakfast 'yoking happiness were drunk, 01 departed on a continental no greater retinue than an 'reach maid, who, as a matter with each other before they • • I say "as a matter of course," rn aidS 14 lien and couriers have no option — e a , . , th e te, besides, on a wedding-excur h ,tri i\lr . , resist the contagion ? 41 1 4 th at passing the . honeymoon differs_ tli,Nit m ,7ll :lo , l of our grandfathers and grand -4 p % . l ' t o ` l 4 s e Of travelling from theirs. It was NeOtti, t rrrow a friend's house some ethkq c ge country and stay in it till they ail'tj i Nll' the country, and, now and then, ''Po lN 'eir ; 40 e e ' on the contrary, as soon as we olvr 11 )4 -re 'vd of entirely new faces, mingle IN 4 , CarnentsConduct ourselves not like 1 -, llal at A 4 ,4 :),) Ys e a People of the world, are far ent ielled fr b ation and are em o sery , 4 44 I r elY alone as to feel that our life 'th Ntid is bore.did A ttloth How our gran a ' elm e s Make it out when, departing - ()i n lule ete th th ey too set out on a trip ti's 10dr to + 7 not tired to death with the gI N . ; ai ast CO. did not Benedick etisel, es The Ship " for the first N' l ,,, u oth Tienedick and Beatrice bot tom of the sea while they t 1 .4tt, • o t oa a ~°•/ Ccity . "kat e , 4 ll 'leet s e — ett l t a . 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'thein, a 11 th .141 lees %at :0° e work .1416 it a When o gette ttc ' t re , e a , th e " ta keB t t al i L app he ord A earg PI 4 toti s c.eL on wrs 10 1 ' ' brid oal y anq tt e n.e ac Sst „ }) q4 l , b . 114,!1 Y ei iile n t s (t,,c'tr e 'Bli- for ? t hh a red, , e Nkid r lei! a e,l ‘ lp l b ere a gS Actoi j 0 Nile at with 'po i . 4 ii; e rell ••' t a Pre/ 0 ' of .tz t , ,in to, \ l / 44i -gai 4 e w ~ T a.: • 'A 1 .014 t , 0 0 13e4! ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD were crossing in the wretched sailing-packet that took four hours—and sometimes twenty-four—to cross from Dover to Calais ; was not Beatrice " put out " and Benedick driven distracted by custom-house vexa tions—to say nothing of what he went through as a .consequence of not knowing "the language" and, supposing their destination was Paris, in what state of mind were they when they reached that capital after Jolting for three days on a paved highway, and endea vouring—vainly—to reconcile the British stomach to a diet of (imaginary) frogs and the smallest and sourest of potables ? On the other hand just look at us:! Almost before we know where we are, we find ourselves at Folkestone ; we dine and sleep at the Pavilion in the most comfortable way possible, in case the tidal boat has left, but if it has not, we step at once on board, Mr. Faulkner, in his polite way, wish ing us a pleasant voyage, which is realised ; we have a capital dinner at the Hotel des Bains at Boulogne ; are "impossible d'etre mieux" while we stay there ; and six hours on the rail suffices to land us at the embareadere in the Place Roubaix, where we jump into a nice little coupe and are driven to the Hotel Windsor in the Rue de Rivoli, delighted with all the world and each other ! This last category was precisely that of Lord and Lady Acton. From Paris, after a brief but delightful sojourn, they shaped their route for Germany, the land of dreamy indecision, where " expectancy " is the substitute for action. But lovers, luckily, have nothing to do with politics, and when you have recon ciled yourself to " Kalbsbraten," " Butterbrod," " Kartoffeln," pipes, stoves, and short bedsteads, and can believe that snorting is more agreeable than level speaking, you may get on—as Lord and Lady Acton did--well enough in Germany. The Rhin-gau is, moreover, a pleasant land to look upon ; the Oden wald—as the old ballad says—" is fair to see ;" and the Berg-strasse, crowned by " woo d y M e lib ocus " and gleaming with golden vineyard s , h as c h arms f or even more prosaic folks than brides an d b r id egrooms . Quaint old cities are there, too, to lure the wanderer's footsteps with treasures of medieval art and rare handiwork, all of which—singular enough—can be bought for money—even when the owner is not a Jew ; when he is, it only makes the difference to the pur chaser of being let in for a larger sum. This, for example, was the case with Lady Acton. She was passionately fond of pictures, music, and old china, and passing along the Schloss Gass in Dresden, one morn ing, on her way to the " grune Gewolbe "—that royal jeweller's shop which it costs you six shillings to see—her ear was caught by the sound of a violin, played upon, certainly, by no despicable artist. As she turned her head she saw that the performer was a very respectable looking old gentlemen, a patriarch of Israel, who with no object in view but his own pleasure, was standing in the doorway of a shop, and indulging in the celebrated Professor-Herr-Musikal-Doctor-Kapell- Meister-Screechenheim's last cantata, and smiling all the while---as London hair-dressers say---" quite affable." He played so well that Lady Acton stopped to listen, and when he had finished, she complimented him on his performance ; the next moment see found herself riveted before a cabinet of rare old porcelain of which the old gentlemen was the proprietor ; another tune, and she paid him the price he asked for it, fiddled out of her money, and what ladies of fashion call " utterly ruined." In this manner, after many devarications, in the course of which Lady Acton picked up objets enough to freight an argosy---in deed, the goods were all duly shipped to England with as much regularity as if the sellers were used to it,--- the travellers found themselves at Frankfort-on-the- Maine, as much at home in the Hotel de Russie on the Zeil, as if we were the best friends in the world with the amiable Czar whose dominions are repre sented in the free city by that caravanserai. Lord Acton was of an easy-going disposition, and seldom troubled himself much about those petty ne cessities which millionnaires, very often, look so un commonly sharp after. Although not given to cal-. culate his expenses too nicely, he thought himself wonderfully clever when he took five sovereigns out of his desk after breakfast, and said he supposed that would do for the day. Lady Acton, who never carried money, being quite content to order things to be sent home, supposed also that it would, and so they walked to the Eigenbahn, where, with a loose florin which he happened to have about him, Lord Acton bought a couple of tickets for Bonames, and was provident enough to take the small change to pay for the omni bus from the station to the town. These details may seem trivial to people who, in the language of the turf, are in the habit of " frisking a fiver" without giving the subject a thought ; but, beside the admira tion which I cannot repress when I light upon a pru dent nobleman, I have a particulak reason for men tioning Lord Acton's extreme precaution, which shortly will appear. A twelvemonth before his marriage Lord Acton had been in the position of a younger son, with only a subaltern's rank in the army, and having served abroad since he was eighteen, the usages of continen tal life—as they are displayed at Homburg—were as new to him as to his bride. They were both de lighted with all they saw, and though a day in Ger many is, generally speaking, longer than in most other places, they found an exception in favour of that which they passed in the gardens and halls of the Casino. Be as ethereal-minded as you may—wstheti cal is, perhaps, the better word—you cannot forego the necessity of dining : to tell the truth, most people prefer a good dinner to its opposite, and fortunately it is the fashion now-a-days to say so.' We live so much less at home than we used to do—the grand stands at Epsom and Ascot, the public rooms at Blackheath and Greenwich, the buffets on railways and the coun ters at Crystal Palaces tell such tales about appetite —that it is no longer worth a young lady's while to vow that she never eats anything : we—fathers, hus bands, brothers, lovers—who pay, know better. In Germany, moreover, example goes so far; that although no Englishwoman, if she fasted for a month before hand, could by any possibility play such a knife and fork as the Princess von Schlammerbauch, or the Ministerinn von Schweizer, or any other gormandising German female, with or without a prefix, she may do her devoir very respectably when she sits down to a table d'hdte as they serve in the Kurhaus at Hom burg. Lord and Lady Acton were not, therefore, too fastidious to starve in the midst of plenty, and as it is the custom with the English gentlemen always to order the most expensive wines on the carte—in the delusive expectation that they will prove the best— the cost of the dinner would have made a very satis factory addition to the daily revenue of the potentate in whose dominions it was discussed. But they are infinitely too polite at the Kurhaus to present the bill immediately the debt is incurred : you can't run away without paying —there are far too many eyes on you —and, besides, you have cigars, and coffee, and so forth, to add to the score before you leave, so the pleasure of paying is reserved till that moment. At' all the German baths where public gambling is allowed, play to a certain extent goes on throughout the day, with only slight intermissions ; but the amusement is, for the most part, a tame and languid affair, until evening sets in : then, indeed, it is stirring enough. Let a stranger watch the fluctuations of the game for ten minutes, and, in spite of himself, he be comes interested, and if he has any money in his pocket the chances are he will make more or less of it before he leaves the spot. Lord Acton was like the rest of us ; he had no fixed idea about winning or losing when he threw down a sovereign on the table ; he cared nothing about the result when the croupier raked it into the banker's heap, nor did he seem particularly elated when, after repeating his raise, the coin returned to his possession. But he was amused by the process—and so was Lady Acton, who stood beside him, and who, after two or three alternations, woman like, gave her advice, which, man like (in the bridegroom state of being), he fol lowed ; and having at one time won about twenty pounds, found himself at the end of a quarter of an hour with a waistcoat pocket entirely empty. " Have you any money about you, Constance ?" he asked his wife. " Not a sou, dear," was the lady's reply. " That's unlucky," returned her husband. Perhaps it was, but not for the reason which he would have assigned at that moment, had he stated it, his notion being that if he could have put down on " the other colour " he should have made himself all right again. He looked round the table to see if by chance there was any one he knew from whom- he could have borrowed what he wanted, but the people there were all strangers to him, so he gave his arm to Lady Acton, and, turning away, walked into another •