The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN dared, to his great surprise, that Auguste had not been brought to the station-house, nor had he ever seen him before. " How came he in the van, then ?" was the question. Policeman Tipper got very red in the face, but said nothing. " How I get in ?" exclaimed Auguste. " dam, I shall say, I vant to go to Saint Jean Vood, I see a bus come. I tell dis snob Igo vid him. Jump in,' he say. I jump. Before I turned me round he lock me into a black chamber. I break my face against de door, my claret fly, I hit my bones, I cry out, nobody come. When de place was open, I pitch into him—l floor him —I knock him into de middle of de week !" Auguste accompanied these remarks by throw ing himself into one of his finest pugilistic atti tudes, and, in the frenzy of his intense excitement, dealing out a round of imaginary facers. "So then," observed Mr. Dove, turning to Policeman Tipper with a severe countenance, though it was with difficulty he preserved his gravity during Auguste's explanation—" so, then, you were the person who provoked this assault— committed one, indeed, yourself, and that of the most scandalous nature. To take advantage of a foreigner's not very unnatural mistake, in order to get him into trouble ! Scandalous ! I shall recommend Sir Richard to dismiss you the Force. You deserve all you got at the prisoner's hands." " Ah, yas !" interposed Auguste with a tri umphant air. " I mill him veil—l give him a full •belly--I cook his goose !" A general roar of laughter put an end to the scene, and the case was dismissed. again about Wednesday next—which was to be demonstrated. " Our weather has been charming and very,' and seems likely to continue so. We are at a delightful inn (locanda I call it when I speak Italian), and live in the public room, which is quite private. The bedrooms are fitted up with peculiar taste ; mine contains an iron bedstead with one leg shorter than the other (which, on the first night of my arrival, deposited me safely on the floor—N.B. stone), a wash-hand basin one inch and a quarter deep and six inches in dia meter, a small piece of broken looking-glass, and half a table. It is an airy room, with four doors, which we should in England call glass-doors, only these have no glass in the openings. However, they are easily closed, for they have shutters which won't shut above half-way ; however, a couple of towels and a bit of board keep them together very snugly. The walls are stuccoed and painted in the same manner as the houses at Pompeii, only that they are quite white, and entirely without ornament of any kind. " We take two meals a-day, besides a luncheon. In the morning a little boy, with dark (I won't say dirty) looking hands and face, brings us some coffee in a little tin-pot. The coffee is poured over into the saucer, which saves the boy the trouble of washing it out. We can always tell how much we have had, for the coffee leaves a black mark on the cup wherever it has touched it. Upon the whole, it would be a very nice breakfast if the eggs were new, the butter fresh, and the bread not quite so sour. But the dinner makes up for all. We begin always with mac caroni--I have learned to eat it in the Neapolitan fashion ; it is the prettiest sight imaginable ; and lam making great progress. We then have lots of little fish (from which they tell me they make eeppia) fried ; they taste pleasantly, and black all your teeth and lips. They dress their fish with the scales on, too, which makes them look very pretty. We next generally choose a pol lastro deliziozo,' because it is the tenderest thing we can get. We each take a leg, and tug it till it comes asunder, which it usually does in a few minutes. They are very fine birds, and when you happen to hit upon a piece which you can eat, it makes a particularly agreeable variety. When the chicken has disappeared, we call for fruit, and they sometimes bring it. The hot-baked chest nuts would be delicious if they were ever warm— they never are so ; but then the grapes are so hot that it comes to the same thing. When we tell the man to bring some water to wash off the dirt that is always about them, he wipes them in his own apron, which is certainly better and surer. "We finish our repast with a ditto of the coffee that we have had in the morning, only thicker and of darker colour. This is not the dinner we always have. There are varieties in the bill of fare which your Ladyship little dreams of. I will mention two or three, with their prices, as specimens : Grains. Frogiolino al brodo—small embroidered frogs 5 Fetti de cazzio carvallo—feet of a cart horse Bolito de vaccina—a boiled cow, only 5 Fetti de Genevese—Genoese feet Calaniaro arostito—a roasted inkstand Frita de negro—a fried negro 5 Other delicacies are to be had by paying higher prices for them ; but as we are only artistes, and not gran' signori, we are contented with little. " I am delighted with my new acquaintance and his well-informed friend. Angell is a very intelligent, amiable man ; I like him so much that I even let him smoke in the dining-room— a thing unheard of, as you may suppose, in these refined regions. Poor fellow ! lam sorry to say that the cause of his breathing so hard is but too well accounted for—he has a decided asthma, CHARLES MATHEWS AND LADY BLESSINGTON. THE following jocose letter from Charles Mathews to Lady Blessington is given among her ladyship's correspondence in Madden's " Me moirs :" " Torre del Annunciato, Napoli, Wednesday Evening. [1824.]—" DEAR LADY BLESSINGTON,—OR Wednesday last, at half-past twelve o'clock pre cisely, we started from Pompeii, and arrived in excellent health, covered with dust, hoping your ladyship is the same. After a scientific walk through a few of the houses, we returned to our quarters, and sat down to dinner, which we per formed with ease in less than five-and-thirty minutes. We then went to bed, thinking that the best way of passing the evening, and though we had no curtained sleep,' we managed un commonly well, and it perfectly answered our purpose. Angell says that I snored ; but persons are very fond of throwing their own sins upon the backs, or rather the noses, of others. _ _ " On the following morning, at break of day, we were again at Pompeii, and spent the whole of the day in combining, analyzing, and arranging our plan of study. The result was this, that we found nothing in the whole city worthy of being measured and drawn architecturally' (by which I mean outlined with the scrupulous accuracy of measurement usually adopted by architects) ex cept the two theatres and the amphitheatre, picturesque sketches and notes of the other sub jects of interest being quite sufficient for our object. " On Friday morning we commenced, and by our united efforts have completed the measure ment of the small theatre, which, by the by, was unquestionably an odium. We are now engaged upon the other, which I hope to see concluded in three days ; from all which it appears probable that I shall have the happiness of seeing you all IARD. which at times troubles h. famously together, and w , " I hope you are all quit gloomy month of Novi back and comfortably se, table, surrounded by kino Lord Blessington for his valuable here. " With best remembra and Miss Power, believe ton, your most affeetionat , " CHARLES LITERARY ELEPHANTS AND FIREWO most terribly enraged eleplll excited condition, may be th ened by letting off fireworks discharged will arrest him impetuous attack; and he fl catherine-wheel or harmless may, therefore, be supposed kept ready for explosion w from the elephants, particu they are most unmanageab. harm.—Private Life of an FEMALE EDUCATION:—Ki the grand and common road or habits seldom succeed. more value on the cultivate( plishments of women, which preciate. It is a common er literature unfits women for thk It is not so with men. You tivated minds constantly devol tion to the most homely obj women a real and proper wei they must use it with discrel blue, the petticoat must be says ; the want of this has in all ages.—Sydney Smith. ORIGIN OF PUFFING.—Fe of the origin of the word puff paper article. 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