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

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/eraise,, ol .lit.
.very,ol teZood deo, before and since these days I have seen
1 fr,
f".otis, I do the Turks ; and though, for many
er,!,lie
•172. t help not respect them as a nation, still I
ktbiancik ii;laents of difficulty
their calmness and self-possession
and danger. There is some-
either °:2lollo°sb.le Ind dignified in their quietness on these
titi7; state' have very rarely seen a Turk discom-
to.. but
When
collected, he sits down and bides his
;Ise h• 'len the
cfB. ktat.taseif moment of action comes, he will
• I
se and the sudden, and become full of fire,
hilyk endant activity. It is then that you see the
°tn. • of those
3511* and conquerors of the East, whose
clew airce courage have given them the
lo were ,ktot OZ
te the nations of Islam.----Curzon' s
't is "11 IG4ToR
°gist -oup ...D
„on r , one • r. Buckland, the distinguished
n . Abe Nip day gave dinner, after dissecting a
11°:ttlitt,' alligator h -a
asked a good many of the
aal crod 11048-guished
we a ov. e ar,d his establishment
classes to dine with him.--
'wage boa and tact ail
.iti.nts establishment were in good
ls guests congregated. " How do
are c't/' 41118114 the son
th,„ his o„,_ P • asked the doctor, after having
re 4 day. ;:u. Plate, addressing a famous gourmand
Europe'
goyttle Very good, indeed," answered the other.
'1 110 t
11 'den fat ~ • I only ask because I do not find
4 it ha • The d
Lble at unie 00Inewt doctor shook his head. " I
ties fa ~epliea easaiit, 'tat of a musky taste," said another ;
or fellow but Peculiar.' " All alligators have,"
L,n.c.Ja cp bonk;',lol4 " the cayman particularly so. The
t°' of the ','l3eea leeted this morning, and whom you
ill 01, . dozen waole atng
There was a general rout
lie 04t start,,,p.ests
3c,i
of of Everyone turned pale. Half-a-
nisiove inach rooh.","1/1 the table. Two or three ran
414' laii, l'etna; -' andonly those who had stout
t -ent. tied
cot ,A / , "Se A Lo the close of an excellent enter-
a Fot 511 Z test 8;40 told then'
What imagination is," said Buckland.
aro", Of a clip, salt nem it was turtle or terrapin, or birds-
)aa jirql fro 'water am
of - oLin In the 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 oti giandudic"
'l6-!C `,',et "ut?" asked- " But was it really
leol, u, answered Buckland.-ckB-1
rtc•osf: as eaten ~ a lady. A ganoodd..a..Acalf'neesehoetaeds asof
.4t r iiiVE Itekiand.
9 0 • 8 ea tARs
een • Among the Tatars Mr. Seymour,
[tlcl2uee.6:l,o +l,4tlss kidertiot_book. on Russia, says he found many
wool tkit Cake' mantic traits of character. As a nation
s(1 see,a ; but one of their princesses—the.
b' of Sheet-Bey —stillin her
°fee' oof fi. as —s lives palace in the
otO of ex Was. who received Madame de Hell in
Tell iotii e of thecluisite splendour, and showed her the
oet°olt: P'ore'lillehalitio• :ace---three girls of wondrous beauty
,„'ltteti her ilia'raee, clad in such attire as Haidee
N,°100,0, i%)'1111 odand, and such as Hafiz might have
a 11t O' tiora tilancl to des bedropped with allusions to roses, to
pie 0, fataily" moon. These angels were sprung
aa .004 eatepl
cof gentle natives of which one chief
;lip? brinZons,.,a_teer by boiling 70 refractory nobles
tit.Pe llt4 invention more successful than
13,ac. 11.:, ItitBsiacliffei.e; soil of the Tatar is now possessed
Lehed andll 11701,,, blood. Mr. Seymour describes
droflr kPbton sak an as a child, who needs to be
tl'el,3o whilet " As an instance of this, Colonel
a 0 4,7 , wheii „ e was building the dock-gates at
I*,ov, he
stone-work was prepared for the
titAt oc t
e ° Ins astonishment, that the parts did
Ws 't le .64, and" he
via 6 tig•th h the as certain that his calculations
,o „ ; he e tho,,,,work apparently correctly executed.
it, tir,"p_lit of measuring his gauge, and
wto 1 wren " his. Russian workmen, having done
h, ught tit Cut his gauge to appear right, and
L 11 to PI or, e5"1,1,4t t there were other parts of the work
ree,.'sogiirj appe',..,,ith theirs, and consequently make
L`klt,"4eilt ivr,l• Apropos of the fortress, he has
/ to :44,:, we hick it would be well to verify in
.0- ti:t at have
olu,y tc, e thefound to our cost how inex-
e e° otf itt‘ still 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 of 'llnan, and particularly on the Prussian
gie 4-44 417
e 0 tbeif 40keth taatter CATIoN,--What is education P asked
1/9 4, R et he day.'' Rugby School at the recent annual
tkltthe h,°41(1:-.__L-r°ee din e g to answer his own ques-
l(r9aAti:l3o 144.1 part-ere I.'"u_.:ely it was a fallacy to suppose it to
a Iwo' do '44e 'War "ing a little information on this or
Its; I,lric, k`kitibL WhiSt jel, or of a few superficial accom-
eln% LiNikight might be practically useful. The
Ise OVA 4'tt of may b he, give us something useful, some-
joir ootir` ° turned 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

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de Mars, defiled before the five members of the direc-
tory, who were placed near the altar of the country,
surrounded by their ministers, by the great civil
functionaries, the generals, and the whole garrison of
the capital.—The Louvre, by St. John.
How A RIISSIAN COMEDY WAS GOT Up.—The only
difficulty was that the season was severe and that it
would take two of three hours to heat the room in
which the comedy would have to be performed. So
much delay would spoil the entire plan, and it was
about to be abandoned, when the host suddenly de-
clared that he had solved the difficulty. He would
guarantee them a warm room in half an hour. Ac-
cordingly, he caused all the serfs, labourers, and me-
chanics in the neighbourhood to be hurried into the
cold saloon, and when it was quite full, shut all the
doors; and left the poor men to establish a black hole
for half an hour—in his own phrase, to communicate
their heat to the atmosphere. The doors were then
thrown open, the serfs were ordered to make a preci-
pitate retreat ; the smell they left was disguised with
a profusion of choice perfumes, and the guests entered,
clapping their hands with delight at feeling the warm
air and smelling the sweet incense. So they shut
themselves up comfortably in the warm, poisonous air,
and played their little comedy.—Household Words.
A FRIEND IN NEED.—I sprang to my feet, flinging
aside my blanket. A fearful spectacle was before me.
Away to the west, as far as the eye could reach, the
prairie seemed in motion. Black waves rolled over its
undulating outlines, as though some burning mountain
was pouring down its lava upon the plains. A thou-
sand bright spots flashed and flitted along the moving
surface like jets of fire. The ground shook, men
shouted, horses reared upon their ropes, neighing
wildly. My dog barked and howled, running around
me. For a moment I thought I was dreaming ; but
no, the scene was too real to be mistaken for a vision.
I saw the border of the black wave within ten paces of
me, and still approaching. Then, and not till then,
did I recognise the shaggy crests and glaring eyeballs
of the buffalo. " God of Heaven ! I am in their
track ! I will be trampled to death !" It was too late
to attempt an escape by running. I seized my rifle,
and fired at the foremost of the band. The effect of
my shot was not perceptible. The water of the arrayo
was dashed in my face. A huge bull, ahead of the
rest, furious and snorting, plunged through the stream
and up the slope. I was lifted and tossed high into
the air. I was thrown rearwards, and fell upon a mov-
ing mass. I did not feel hurt nor stunned. I felt
myself carried onward upon the backs of several ani-
mals,
that in the dense drove ran close together.
These, frightened at their strange burden, bellowed
loudly, and dashed on to the front. A sudden thought
struck me, and, fixing on that which was most under
me, I dropped my legs astride of him, embracing his
hump, and clutching the long woolly hair that grew
upon his neck. The animal " routed" with extreme
terror, and plunging forward soon headed the band.
This was exactly what I wanted ; and on we went over
the prairie, the bull running at top speed, believing,
no doubt, that he had a panther or a catamount be-
tween his shoulders. I had no desire to disabuse
him of this belief ; and, lest he should deem me alto-
gether harmless, and come to a halt, I slipped out
my bowie, which happened to be " handy," and pricked
him up whenever he showed symptoms of lag-
ging. At every fresh touch of the " spur" he
roared out, and ran forward at a redoubled pace. My
danger was still extreme. The drove was coming on
behind, with a front of nearly a mile. I could not
have cleared it had the bull stopped and left me on the
prairie. Notwithstanding the peril I was in, I could
not resist laughing at my ludicrous situation : I felt
as one does when looking at a good comedy. We
struck through a village of " prairie dogs." Here I
fancied the animal was about to turn and run back.
This brought my mirth to a sudden pause ; but the
buffalo usually runs in a " bee line," and fortunately
mine made no exception to the law. On he went,
sinking to the knees, kicking the dust from the conical
hills, snorting and bellowing with rage and terror.
The "Plum buttes" were directly in the line of our
course. I had seen this from the start, and knew that
if I could reach them I would be safe. They were
nearly three miles from the bluff where we had bivou-
acked; but, in my ride, I fancied them ten. A small
one rose over the prairie, several hundred yards nearer
than the main heights. Towards this I pricked the
foaming bull in a last stretch ; and he brought me

.EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN

cleverly within a hundred yards of its base. It was
now time to take leave of my dusky companion. I
could have slaughtered him as I leaned over his back.
My knife rested upon the most vulnerable part of his
huge body. No, I would not havs slain that buffalo
for the Koh-i-noor. Untwisting my fingers from his
thick fleece I slipped down over his tail, and, without
as much as saying " Good night," ran with all my
speed towards the knoll. I climbed up, and, sitting
down upon a loose shoulder of rock, looked over the
the prairie. The moon was still shining brightly. My
late companion had halted not far from where I had
left him, and stood glaring back with a look of extreme
bewilderment. There was something so comical in
the sight that I yelled with laughter as I sat securely
on my perch.—Capt. Reid's Scalp Hunters.