The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO TEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. i t, e , l, like ell. ----- -------- t k4 ° Y ord ers : ,ester.ana ' ll' I - - Wells, for perscia p , reir' l3 . l s g: schools, for masters and ml ieh re cs for ini d ,,,ining ii,oBl---lst, ''' ti : and national, so hools : schools them 1 school ; 2nd, grammar 'en,.ll°°ls ;f!r4.(11.' sch°oerbfe who pay ; "' I l: C 1 " Poor 8 Then the maintenance o . f 4th, free i'l'oe; -op and youths at college. Here an d is the isi k l3l4ll for the diocesan inspecto d r, 'evrything I\ON f: 4 Illas ter, and every pe r son 441. re,,, r ,„, Ith -1 • proper education, througho an ut . the . diocese. il v i t t 54 (I to the last point, besides and orphans indigent and k g Poor, are there not the widows the lt)1-eased tv nt.N A ele rgY protecting of the diocese,. over whom li f , l- 0 A;-°llld throw its sheltering and it toy,l'e there • t). is enough ' with • without robbing . here for the cathedral funds, ia Arty th eir men and • .t m an divert- It % t °tit a bastard parochial ss e ... eve "es from their legitimate charmed 155 5 1'i,,14), ______ E,l e Ih 'll tlik j i, l4°l / 1 th e Battle Fields. By a Roving e 'ttilan London • G. Routledge and Co. l't ~I N I IIII . . the preceding title, is •' 4 4 , t r , Which, under I vith 't„ kith the world by Messrs. Routledge and Co., eie K` ll % e pictures of vivid interest, often . mingled ,. the;7iiik' INthished by a glowing fancy : neither sp t e bl 'de n t ' c-. ' er Y strictly confined to battle-fields, or o • e hi , s ~ 114 v etitt,mo r e i mmed i ate)y connected . with them. 'at e ' 41 tho li e ,„1 are generally clever and obviously truth qlsibly Pil'ila,not invariably apposite to the subject 11 1 - Nun,. uergoing illustration. The author revels d killbiN. Ittearieatures of the misrule introduced an it t a t N and pi. the naval and military Babel of Baja timk% indl,„ al t,hfully eviat% -e". by st • • to official order, and daguerreotypes the conflicting e xeeedi Illg adhere rict attention larie s L a g, 15' ance to regulated system. He is . bet A , "u t l e,h i ° ,„` t ell happily sarcastic on the formu effica th cy 14 N e t sured g e u o t obl a e et:i:t s e with such repressive exertion of the soldier and .. e . q4, 11 ,1f his satir:ithe diplomatic agent. The aPPI s I o htli as to lead t,,, ° : 1 1 these points is sometimes Ivhi . 18 Writing is t 0 lZe suspicion that the real object „,rtes 0 1 as been so full -119" the incompetency hea s in most of Y e xPosed as rampant at _ s official k i e!ui s of v _ our lir —inisterial departments. A : l isplay 0 7, 1 .4: point to his irony, he makes a . play %rilltell,,at th e Cooskln.tention by representing in his pre qt ' 15f abusesls concocted by an Ph l hre he ~ whose habits of prying speakingan e d elitor,and irreverent re tko4d in th 4 ll) ,Check by a lord-lov . ir..g itR - q thi " r demonstration by a critic. The inven; 4 bl a i ill i g-trn rn S l e n n t ll ,.ineri is not very brilliant, yet to t gi hr v o e ug no i T A egr uanty the author continues . ii • e 0 1l e e of pungency to many of his pictures.. -rilll ea e °lf,. seret.h as follows, of a general officer in the It t although it might be ticketed, \Via . I' 6 ;e. ~ , , CYTIQUATED IMBECILITY." h' 4) ' "ue away and his staff. I do at,. 0 . 1./ wh rides a general officer ks„ it °W that I smile as my eye rests upon them ; butper- If a erzA „ the general officer is a very feeble and elderly I,Joe t . - 4,r, who appears to be rather shaky, so to speak. Il e fie otCetlY head is stretched forward and bent down, as ho,:arrieselpart of his person was suffering from acute pain. q t ,' , th,„,118 legs stiffly, and he appears to totter on his th e • Th e : - .1 he has got a well-bitted pacer, and a clever easy , lai tt ,kro % u_ there appears to me an odd sort of importance in It h ',l to do is 1 , they were riding nowhere particularly, but (4 1 'ati oil. it handsomely, and in such wise as to create a vi,tile Some tired soldiers, lying on their elbows bb,_.4t,leogri3l,Bll4d, watch the elderly general officer with loth o , _ , as if they had a dim idea that there teas rciii il l 'h e ut : fl i l leci r lii k te ne r w igh n t o th in i n so g l . diering affairs—a muddle, in lt II by numerous Englishman" has enriched his port r,,!'eheB "Inerous portraits of individuals, and faithful tiig4l,B e:f character, most, if not all, of which he iki t ,tecli o 2 l ,dneive to his general purpose of satirising 4 4 11 tile s'.'Y-protracted Course of events connected 1),4 1 t o a l ege of Sebastopol, the narrative being con - N i _ l , l Nkrhic,llriod ant ece d ent to the brightening pros- VA t he n h ave recently c h eered the public mind ,t,c.l ov er urearY gloom w hi c h appears to have , l n. .nat scene of f a t a l and misdirected Uk ets o , thus delineates the arTon , :plishir_ents r It • 1 4 ' 4 11 " tr -OFFICIAL EDUCATION. thiihlo ofa ..lecessary to do more than remind every noble e wieir, nethat it may be laid down as an absolute rule, 4 11, of fohl.lat it to possess due cunning in te dcult q ti, The 1' neatly and orketilillgedespatcbes Inca straight 4 % il Wr ds of the docket walsob kfnoou.vndilon thte4firos.elumeas thotlteh,tZtcll- te should 4 t i . vt l Put it together again with 'its eowciosureff. He "g and careful study to the art of making an ordinary fwd. a flying seal a beautiful . and sublime , (IE6O mystery. Signing 'appointments, unbonneting to deputations, eating- dinners,-and drinking healtlis, with the proper mode of bolding. the knife, fork, and glass, in order to make a fitting impression on the common and popular. Sketching caricatures, and twiddling the thumbs with proper indiffer ence at a cabinet council. Taking a cigar gracefully out of the mouth, to reply with necessary gravity to any absurd spe cial person-asking for employment. The buttoning of official uniforms according to the last tailoring regulation. Acquiring the true art of raising the fore-finger of the right hand to menace a feeble minister in a manner duly imposing, and to learn the real fiddkdedee spreading cut of the palms to express becoming awe and reverence of a strong one. The preceding extract is cleverly sketched, and we greatly fear too true. The volume contains lively pictures of the personnel of the allied armies, including graphic delineations of the Zonave, of the Bashi-ba zouk, and of the Turkish Regulars. Among these latter are found many of our own countrymen, who, having belonged to the scape-grace tribe, have migrated from their own soil, and in the ranks of the Turkish army have found that favour and fortune which they would have looked for in vain among the guarded avenues to promotion in the British service. A PICTURE OF _E BOURNS'. TARE two or three square miles of the most undu lating part of Salisbury Plain ; scalp it of its turf, denude it of everything like a tree ; leave just as much surface soil on the 'rocky sub-stratum as will make a good solid mud-pudding in winter, and a thick layer of volatile dust in summer ; stake out this area into five streets of great breath, and as many of a narrower width, all running in a direct line from East to West, commencing on an eminence, dipping into a valley, and, terminating on another eminence ; intersect these streets by half-a-dozen others running North and South : imagine a belt of " Government Reserves " (open spaces, with timber, bUt without turf, and eligible as the site of future parks or public edifices), surrounding this area on the North, East, and West, and the river Yarra winding along its Southern boundary, and you have the rudimentary site of Melbourne. Erect upon this site the most heterogeneous collection of buildings that were ever grouped together—linen drapery establishments _ (at a rental of £4,000 and £5,000 per annum) worthy ,of Ludgate-hill,—taverns with palatial facades,—sub stantial warehouses of brick, stone, and iron,—wooden houses containing a basement story only,—tenements of corrugated zinc, weather-boarding, canvass, calico., sheet-tin, and old packing cases,—sprinkle it with churches, chapels, theatres, barracks, a post-office, a prison, and other " evidences of civilization," and you have a rough outline of the capital of Victoria. It has for its suburbs two small cities—Richmond and Colling wood—each covering an area scarcely smaller than its own, and between it and the sea —or, more properly speaking, Hobson's Bay—stretches a breadth of level land, two miles in width, on which is growing up another populous town, that of Sandridge, while on the opposite shore of the bay lies- William'stown, shortly to be connected with the parent city by a rail way, which will traverse the margin of the inlet. - With regard to the general aspect of Melbourne, it is neither English, nor. American, nor Continental, but cosmopolitan. There are French restaurateurs, with the tri-colour flying ; American,loowlino• r' alleys, where the stars and stripes are displayed ; German Gas thau:en , redolent of tobacco-smoke ; a Posada Castellana, kept by a countryman of Don Quixote's ; a Chinese lodging-house, with a Chinese sign swing ing before it, and a Polish boarding-house. There are also English club-houses, and any quantity of colonial lodging-houses, capable of accommodating any quan tity of colonial lodgers, and their multitudinous entomological retinue of attendants. In point of climate, Melbourne is on a par with many of the southern cities of Europe, but its founders have neglected to follow the wise example set them by the architects of Spain and Italy, and therefore have not thrown an arcade or cloister over the footpaths, and the shops and the foot passengers are constantly exposed to the unmitigated glare of the sun, or the pitiless pelting of the southern showers, which descend in torrents. In regard to its architectural beauties, Melbourne cannot put forth any great pretensions. The cathedral is a heavy building, and very like the metropolitan churches erected in the reign of Anne ; and the Roman Catholic cathedral is the most atrociously ugly burlesque upon Gothic architecture that was ever devised by the brain of a colonial Pecksniff. The hotel-keepers appear to occupy the most 'externally attractive premises, and the " Criterion" and tlie Imperial" would not disgrace the Rue Rivoli (as it used to be) ; while the auctioneers—the leading ones I mean—seem to think it incumbent upon them to assimilate the entrance of their premises as much as possible to the porch of a Greek temple—that is to say, according to the Victorian notions of a Greek temple. The street population of Melbourne has an aspect and character of its own, interesting to a stranger from its novelty and uniqueness. Drays drawn by six or eight oxen, and laden with cases of pickles, wines,, spirits, and preserved fruits, bags of flour, bales of drapery, tubs of butter, casks of bitter ale, and bags of sugar, traverse the streets on their way to the diggings or the stations of squatters ; the conveyances of woodcutters and water-carriers, dog carts, American phaetons, Liverpool omnibuses, and Hanson cabs, circulate through the leading thorough fares ; and the foot-passengers—English, French, German, Italian, American, and Chinese—in every variety of costume and every diversity of beard, are THE BRITISH I'ASKA.S. It is one of the few pleasant features of the war, that it has used up a great number of these worthies, and given them some chance of doing reputably in life; a chance which other wise, and in our unsatisfactory state of society, they could hardly have had. * * * It was refreshing to see many a rollicking Irishman, or canny lad from beyond the Tweed, who had probably obtained an introduction into public life by means of the rutty stool, and who had long been the reproach and scandal of his elders. It was refreshing, I say, to see them shining away here as pashas, and knights, and generals. They were quite in their element. They could do the bully ing —which, I am afraid, is necessary in Turkey—quite na turally; and their very faults (mostly allied with kindness of heart and natures really genial, and gentle as those of chil dren) looked like positive virtues, when contrasted with the black, unredeemed corruption around them.- There they were—eating and carousing together, like gipsies or moss troopers ; drinking brandy-and-water to keep off cholera, out of their embroidered caps, and cutting up tough fowls with their doughty swords. There they were—lending money to each other, out of purses slender enough probably, squabbling with consuls about unpaid tailors' bills for the wonderful uni forms ; laughing together, quarrelling together, making, it up with tears and ejaculations, that " Jack was the best fellow who ever put on a boot, but, hang him, he is always coming the general over one so 1" There they were—believing in each other, and believing in themselves ; talking about their uncles cr cousins, who lived in parks which were always the finest in that part of the United Kingdom in which they were situated—those " doosid" highly-connected fellows. The book is decidedly clever, as well as satirical ; and on the principle that when circumstances or systems have reached the point at which any change must necessarily be an improvement—a condition which there is reason for believing has been attained in our warlike arrangements—the speculations con tained in this volume are likely to be useful. Of the sarcastic humour of the author the annexed specimen will give a fair sample, as it also indicates THE SCOPE AND TENDENCY CF TEE WORE The author explains the plan of the preSent work, as one of fiction. He commences with a general apology. He. abases himself, and eats dirt after a national custom of the Britons. He discreetly declares his belief in family govern ments, and expresses much affectionate and proper feeling for the noble families of Grey and Elliot. The author judiciously calls attention to his prudent veneration for hereditary legi!- Wien, and some other equally admirable institutions of this great and enlightened country. With wise obtrusiveness he continues to evince his highly-connected admiration for, modern Bedfords and Lauderdales. He contemptuously refers to the late Mr. E. Burke. The author ingeniously asks par don for any reprehensible and vulgar matter which may have unavoidably crept into these reverential pages, and, after the most approved fashion of the Crimean witnesses, indignantly casts all blame upon some person or persons unknown. The author expresses the most highly-connected and hand some regret for having spoken the truth even as a Shadow. He acknowledges this glaring impropriety with contrition and trouble of mind. He speculates for a moment •on the fearful chance which the most cautious writer must always run of incurring the vengeance of " the family," but finally hopes to take refuge in the utter nothingness of book writers, and to vanish in the eternal outer darkness of literary men. The author cursorily mentions Mr. Smith, also Pythagoras, but politely and very properly concludes with enthusiastic praise of the aristocracy, and the hereditary wisdom of the British nation. From the extracts given the reader will be able to form a tolerably fair conjecture as to the matter and manner of " Pictures from the Battle Fields," in which he will find much to amuse, and no little to instruct him. The bock will well repay an attentive perusal, and will, without doubt, meet w!th a wide circle of admirers. /