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

--Lord de Ross in his book
id the people of Odessa are
Tly ; but he finds a most effi-
-Justice is well administered,
Caning is for the male sex.
;served for the women, and is
tstom that, on great estates,
.ning apart in the week for
be administered by a matron,
the case will allow ; nor from
Lousemaid is there any excep-

D MANAGEMENT.---Have you
;like servants have to any-
saving their master's money.
pith great success the other
Insumed a vast deal of soap,
ig chair, and took the soap
Lon, and I found reason to
eery expensive article, where
id serve the purpose better.
Rinds of both sorts, but took
ng the papers on which the
giving them into the hands
, which -soap do you find
:ase, sir, the dearest, in the
lather as well again as the
you shall always have it
nsuspectiug Betty saved me
washed the clothes better.---

20 YEARS AGo.---When the
ust subsided, I strolled out
. I came upon the troops, who
European exercise. Seeing a
'n the middle of the plain, I
that he was the colonel and
so I smoked a pipe with him,
ew as much of tactics and
did, only he did not take
mbject. We therefore con-
of peace on the carpet of re-
entangled themselves in all
loublings and counter march-
. body was so much puzzled,
leap, like a cluster of bees.
the poor men turned round
other's heels, kicked each
They could to get out of the
I more into confusion. At
ick the colonel, who took his
td gave orders, in the name of
lan should go home in the
they accomplished like a
lung and jumping and walking
-ards the town. The officers
from their foreheads, and
~rnoke a pipe under a tree, and
divans and swear at Franks
extraordinary evolutions.--
the Levant.

Ipular sciences we are tau-
perpetually by this science
brethren put together. Sir
a crystal palace, but he can-
rose and violet ; and what
tow, could take an _Eschollyea
? Do you know the oxalis
reader? What do you think
she fairy blossom, the flower
we humbly opine any enor-
we a standing quarrel with a
'ho, to our intense irritation,
when we look up to the
tcia over our heads, that the
is Robinia, and that we are
ionienelature. A .Robinia !
'me respectable Mr. Robins,
finder of it. Of course our
udgeon from the degraded
anathema against the offend-
ria Regia may be a beauti-
eau be the flower of our hearts
botanists have a wonderful
of names--a sadly neglected
moment
lore. Something might
119:i.nent at its leisure would
ton king it penal for any botanist
Ntlabbies but our governors have so
_
,u get through, in the first

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN

place, that we fear public questions of importance like
this must bide their time.—Blackwood's Magazine.
THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.—The cabmen here,
as in every other place I ever visited, made strenuous
efforts to do the new corners. They tried it on me ;
so to show them how knowing I was, I quoted their
legitimate fares. " Ah, sir," says Cabby, " that's very
well, but you see, we charges more at times like these."
I replied, " You've no right to raise your charges ; by
what authority do you do it ?" " Oh, sir, we meet
together and agree what is the proper thing." " But,"
says I, " the authorities are the people to settle those
things." " The authorities don't know nothing at all
about it ; we can manage our own matters better than
they." And they all stoutly stuck to their own
charges, the effect of which was that I scarcely saw a
dozen cabs employed during the ten days I was there.
Nothing could exceed the crowd in the streets, in the
hotels, and everywhere : the whole atmosphere was
alive with the smoke of the fragrant weed, and all the
hotels were afloat with the juice thereof. The city has
repeatedly been called the City of Magnificent Dis-
tances ; but anything so far behind its fellow-cities
cannot well be imagined. It sounds incredible---
nevertheless, it is a fact---that, except from the Capitol
to the " White-house," there is not a street-light of
any kind, or a watchman. I lost my way one evening,
and wandered all over the town for two hours, without
seeing light or guardian of any kind. I suppose this
is intended as a proof of the honest and orderly con-
duct of the inhabitants, but I fear it must also be
taken as a proof of their poverty or want of energy.
Whatever the reason may be, it certainly is a reflection
on the liberality of the government, that the capital
of this great Union should be the worst paved, worst
lit, and worst guarded in the whole Republic.---Lands
of the Slave and Free.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.—An attack, to be prac-
ticable, even here, must be undertaken by gun-boats
and mortars. Last year we had none, or none fitted
for the purpose ; this year the enemy actually out-
number us in that arm. How can this be ? Is there
a suspension of work in our yards P Are our builders
paralysed or rebellious ? Is there no English oak P—
or how comes it that we, the shipbuilders of the world,
should be beaten by the enemy at our own work ?
Were the question asked in the house, the voice of
redtapism would repeat some plausible contradiction,
or recount the list of a paper flotilla, long and vague as
the catalogue of Homer's ships. But the facts are
these—all men, who saw the place last year, agreed,
that the only hope of destroying Cronstadt, its dock-
yards, fleet, or magazines, partially or wholly, was by
an attempt in this quarter ; that the only force avail-
able for is was gun-boats, and that they must be sent
in such numbers as to overwhelm and nullify any arma-
ment of the same description possessed by the enemy.
It would be thought that this was no great demand on
England's energies, or England's resources, and that
they would have come forth by hundreds. Altogether,
there are seventeen of these vessels attached to the
Baltic fleet ! The enemy shows twenty-nine steam,
fifty sailing and row boats, making a total of seventy-
nine. With such disparity, it would be impossible to
assault barrier or blocks, in presence of a force pos-
sessing the same advantages, and strong enough to be-
come the assailant. How could such things be ? Where
rests the blame ? It cannot be with our government,
for they nightly proclaim their impeccability. Whose
fault is it, then, that England's best arm is crippled
from lack of means ? Eheu! Eheu ! It is the old
story, repeated over and over again, of the wrong thing
m the wrong place. Has the curse of perverted judg-
ment and fatuity really fallen upon us P—BI (re/mood's
Magazine.
SHOOTING THE RAPIDS.—The excitement of this
part of the journey was somewhat increased by the
confession of our voyageurs, that it was so long since
either of them had made it, that they had nothing
but their instinct and good luck to trust to. They
therefore told us that they would not risk shooting the
Little Falls, but make a portage ; so we drew to land
and jumped ashore, shouldering our usual packs, and
leaving them to follow with the canoe. Instead of
doing so, however, to our surprise and disgust we
found that they had no sooner got rid of us than they
shoved off. It was an exciting moment to watch them
as they neared the head of the foaming torrent,
tighten their waistbands, make good their footing,
and, standing one at the bows and the other at the
stern, dash headlong with their fragile bark into the

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