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

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'll' I - - Wells, for perscia p,reir'l3.lsg:
schools, for masters and ml
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1 school ; 2nd, grammar
'en,.ll°°ls ;f!r4.(11.' sch°oerbfe who pay ;
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maintenance o.f
4th, free
i'l'oe; -op and youths at college. Here andis the
isikl3l4ll for the diocesan inspectodr,
'evrything
I\ON f:4 Illaster, and every person
441. re,,,r,„,
Ith -1• proper education, throughoanut. the. diocese.
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and orphans
indigent and
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lt)1-eased
tvnt.N A elergY
protecting
of the diocese,. over whom
lif,l-0 A;-°llld throw its sheltering and
it
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t). is enough
' with •
without robbing.
here for the cathedral
funds,
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1555

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Ih'lltlikji,l4°l/1 the Battle Fields. By a Roving
e 'ttilan London • G. Routledge and Co.
l't ~INIIIII . . the preceding title, is
•' 44, tr, Which, under
Ivith '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 spte
bl 'dent'c-.'erY strictly confined to battle-fields, or o
• e hi , s
~
114 v etitt,more immediate)y connected. with them.
'ate' 41tholie,„1 are generally clever and obviously truth-
qlsibly Pil'ila,not invariably apposite to the subject
111 - Nun,. uergoing illustration. The author revelsd
killbiN. Ittearieatures of the misrule introduced an
ittatN and pi. the naval and military Babel of Baja-
timk% indl,„alt,hfully
eviat% -e". by st • • to official order, and
daguerreotypes the conflicting
exeeedi Illg
adhere rict attention
laries Lag, 15' ance to regulated system. He is
.
betA, "utle,h i°,„`tell happily sarcastic on the formu
efficathcy
14Netsuredgeuotoblaeet:i:tse with such repressive
exertion of the soldier and
..e.
q4,11,1f his satir:ithe diplomatic agent. The aPPIsIo
htli as to lead t,,,°:11 these points is sometimes
Ivhi
.18 Writing is t 0 lZe suspicion that the real object
„,rtes 01 as been so full -119"
the
incompetencyhea
s in most of Y exPosed as rampant at _ s
official
ki e!uis of
v_ our lir
—inisterial departments. A
:lisplay 07,1.4: point to his irony, he makes a. play-
%rilltell,,at the Cooskln.tention by representing in his pre-
qt
' 15f abusesls concocted by an
Phl hre he ~ whose habits of prying speakinganedelitor,and
irreverent re-
tko4d in th4ll) ,Check by a lord-lov.ir..g
itR - q thi "r demonstration by a critic. The inven;
4 blaiillig-trnrnS lenntll,.ineri is not very brilliant, yetto tgihrvoeugnoi
TA egr uanty the author continues .
ii • e 01l ee of pungency to many of his pictures..
-rillleae °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-
IfaerzA „ the general officer is a very feeble and elderly
I,Joet.-4,r, who appears to be rather shaky, so to speak.
Ile fie otCetlY head is stretched forward and bent down, as
ho,:arrieselpart of his person was suffering from acute pain.
qt,', th,„,118 legs stiffly, and he appears to totter on his
the • The:-.1 he has got a well-bitted pacer, and a clever easy ,
laitt,kro% u_ there appears to me an odd sort of importance in
Ith',l to
do
is 1, they were riding nowhere particularly, but
(41'atioil. 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
lotho, _ , as if they had a dim idea that there teas
rciiiill'heut:flillecirliiktenerwighntothinin
sogl.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
ikit,teclio2l,dneive to his general purpose of satirising
4411 tile
s'.'Y-protracted Course of events connected
1),41 to a lege of Sebastopol, the narrative being con-
Ni_l,l Nkrhic,llriod antecedent to the brightening pros-
VA then have recently cheered the public mind
,t,c.l over urearY gloom which appears to have
,l n. .nat scene of fatal and misdirected
Ukets
o, thus delineates the arTon,:plishir_ents
r It •
14'411 " 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,
411, of fohl.lat it to possess due cunning in te dcult
q ti, The 1' neatly and orketilillgedespatcbes Inca straight
4% il Wrds of the docket walsob
kfnoou.vndilon thte4firos.elumeas
thotlteh,tZtcll- te should
4 ti.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

DISCOVERY OF A NEW PEOPLE ON
THE CONTINENT OF A3IERICA. •

A DISCOVERY which et en. this age of almost
daily revelations of antiquities and wonders and
remote times and people, must 'strike the world with
Wonder, has just been made by the officers of the
sloOp of war Decatur. The Nov OrleanS Picayetiie
of the Ist inst., publishes a letsr from 0. H; Green,
dated on board. the Decatur, off the Straits of Ma-
gellan, Feb.. 15th," and which Contains the following
statements :—There being no appearance of a change
of weather, I obtained leave of absence fora few-,days,
and, accompanied • by my classmate and chum, (Dr.
Bainbridge, assistant-surgeon, was, 'landed. on Terra
del Fuego.. With great labour and difficulty we -
scrambled up the mountain sides, whiA line the whole
south-east shore of these straits, and after ascending
3,500 feet, we came upOn.a plain of surpassing rich;
ness and beauty,. fertile fields—the greatest. variety 'of -
fruit trees in full bearing, and signs of Civilization and
refinement 'meeting us on every side. The inhabitants
were utterly _astonished at our appettrance, but
exhibited no: signs of fear, nor any unfriendliness...,
Our dress. amused them, and being the first white
men ever seen by. them, they imagined-that we had
come from their God, the Sun, on so'nie peculiar
errand of good. ,They are the noblest race I ever saw,
the men all ranging from 6 to 6.4 feet, 'well propor-
tioned, very athletic, and straight as an arrow. The
women-were amen g the most perfect models of beauty
ever formed,. averaging five -feet high; very- plump,
with small feet and hands, and with a jet black eye
which takes you by storm. We surrendered.; at dis-
cretion, and remained two weeks • with this .:strange
People. Their teachers of religion speak th.e.,.Latin
language, and hate • traditions from successive
Priests through half a hundred centuries -I`hey
tell us that this island. was once attached to'. the
main land ; that about 1900
:years ago, by 'their
records, their. country. was visited by. a . violent
earthquake, which occasioned the rent now knoWn
as the Straits of Magellan ; that on the top -of the
mountain which lifted its head to the sun, whose base
rested where the waters now flow; stood their great
temple—which; according to their description, as cm-.
pared to the one now existing we saw, must have been
17,200 feet square, and over 1,100 feet high, built of
the purest pantile marble. They' number about three
thousand men, women, and children; and I was assured
the population has Tot varied two hundred, as they
prove by their traditions for immemorial ages. As
the aged grew feeble they are left to die, and if the