The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

AMONGST the many secondary supports which
keep us from utter ruin in this world, perhaps none
are more powerful, or more deeply to be lamented
when lost, than taste.—Cleve Hall.

POWER OF LOVELY WOMEN.—How little do lovely
women know what awful beings they are in the eyes
of inexperienced youth ! Young men brought up in
the fashionable circles of our cities will smile at this.
Accustomed to mingle incessantly in female society,
and to have the romance of the heart deadened by a
thousand frivolous flirtations, women are nothing but
women in their eyes ; but to a susceptible youth like
myself, brought up in the country, they are divinities.
---Washington Irving.
THE PRAYER-8008.--I did not carry with me here
the book I brought from Glasgow, and trusted my
reading to such as I could find when I came, and the
one I fell upon was the English Prayer-book, with
'which I was greatly edified and refreshed all yesterday.
It will determine me, I think, to have a great deal
more reading of the Bible introduced into my public
ministration. The prayers, and, with the exception
of two flaws—one in the burial and the other in the
baptismal service—all the other devout compositions
are very admirable, and I do regard the whole com-
position as an interesting monument of the piety and
sound intelligent Christianity of better days.---Dr.
Chalmers.

- THERE are three kinds of distress founded on the
passions, which, if not applauded, are at least admired
in their excess, as implying a peculiar refinement of
sensibility in the mind of the sufferer. Embellished
by taste, and wrought by the magic of genius into
innumerable forms, they turn grief into a luxury; and
draw from the eyes of millions delicious tears. Nor
can I reckon it among the improvements of the pre-
sent age, that, ,by the multiplication of works of fic-
tion, the attention is diverted from scenes of real to
to those of imaginary distress ; from the distress
which demands relief, to that which admits of embel-
lishment ; in consequence of which the understanding
is enervated, the head is corrupted, and those feelings
which were designed to stimulate active benevolence
are employed in nourishing a sickly sensibility.•--
Robert Hall.

CEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN

A TRAIT OF THE TRAGIC MUSE.—" The gods do not
bestow such a face as Mrs. Siddons' on the stage more
than once in a century. I knew her very well, and
she had the good sense to laugh heartily at my jokes ;
she was an excellent person, but she was not remark-
able out of her profession, and never got out of tragedy
even in common life. She used to stab the potatoes."
—Memoirs of Sydney Smith'

EVERYTHING is valuable which tends to elevate
the tone of our habitual intercourse with each other ;
everything is valuable which supplies a source of quiet
thought, and soothes and refreshes the mind from the
inevitable disquietudes and disappointments, which at
one time or another, if not at most times, form so
large a portion of every earthly lot. . . . There is
a close affinity between refined occupation and purity
of mind. The cultivation of taste goes hand-in-hand
with the abhorrence of coarseness.---Early Influence.
A LADY A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.—In the Har-
leian MSS., 980, fol. 153, is the following curious
entry :—" The Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry
VII., was a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Attorney said
if it was so, it ought to have been by commission, for
which he had made many an hower search for the
record, but could never find it ; but he had seen many
arbitriments that were made by her. Justice Joanes
affirmed that he had often heard from his mother of
the Lady Bartlet, mother to the Lord Bartlet, that
she was a Justice of the Peace, and did sit usually
upon the Bench with the other Justices in Gloucester-
shire • that she was made so by Q. Mary upon her
complaint to her of the injuries she sustained by some
of that county, and desiring for redresses thereof,
that as she herself was Chief Justice of all England,
so this lady might be in her own county, which ac-
cordingly the Queen granted. Another example was
alleged of one Rowse, in Suffolk, who usually at
the assizes and sessions there held set upon the Bench
among the Justices gladio cincta."

RUSSIA FULL OF -SLAVERY.---The air of Russia is
heavy and thick with slavery. Man cannot breathe
the breath of freedom there and live. And it is not
mere political slavery, but religious slavery, social
slavery, physical slavery ; of all these Russia is alike
full. In Poland, which is a Roman Catholic country,
the Virgin Mary was wont to be called " The Queen
of Heaven." But this was regarded by Nicholas as
an interference with the divine prerogative of the
Czar; accordingly the Polish liturgy was ordered to
be burnt as heretical ; and the Polish priests who
refused to conform, were first'degraded and then shot !
Thus, even heaven itself is forbidden to interfere with
Russian Czarism. The Catechism used by the govern-
ment schoolmasters and priests in Poland,. contains
these awful words---" The people must submit to the
decrees of his (the Czar's) justice, according to the
example of Christ, who died on the Cross." M. de
Lammenais observes on this, that "it has been per-
mitted to this man to enlarge to the farthest extent
the limits of blasphemy."---Mann's Encroachments
of Russia.
HINTS ON LETTER.-WRITING.---In common, every-
day life, the cleverest people do not write the best let-
ters. Those whose intellectual powers and attainments
seem almost below mediocrity, are often the most
agreeable correspondents. Perhaps we admit gossip
in this form, though we should turn from it in any
other. But the subject cannot be analyzed : it is an
art, " unteachable, untaught." A delicate regard to
the feelings and situations of others, a lively perception
of the amusing, an entire absence of affectation in sen-
timent and manner, an individuality apart from ego-
tism, and a strong determination to abide by what is
true in thought and affection, may be suggestions to
those who find any difficulty in letter-writing. Above
all considerations, it should ever be before us, that this
mode of communicating with others involves a deep
responsibility, inasmuch as it is a great means of use-
fulness. We are often able to write that which, from
difficulty of position, or feebleness of frame, from in-
firmity, or some other cause, we are unable to speak.
When the tongue fails, the pen is often eloquent. It
was said of an ancient worthy, that he never wrote a
letter that had not something good and useful in it ;
an example that all may remember with profit.---Front
Home Thoughts.

THE GREAT Boox.--Two friends, represented as
conversing together on the Bible, held the following
language :---" Shakspeare : Do you call him earnest ?
For even now I read him with as much satisfaction as

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almost any author. But, while
unmindful of the Scriptures ; fol
very properly called not a book
Book. The reasons for this yoi
do. Myself, I can only say wb
that the Old Testament transcel
than the great dramatist does i
I believe I should feel this, and
a Hiridoo, or a French infidel, f
" I am glad to hear you say so,"
mean that I am glad to have
respect confirmed by the opinio
character---a merchant and a
theologian. It is held out to
heaven---the Bible ; and so there
a divine awe, as I read it. But ;
on my table for me to peruse ont
I should feel that it was so mud
Shakspeare, as to be still the
various portions of it, even form
so wonderfully good. Pen and
for such a transcript of the soul.
think sometimes I have his lik
crystal well, which he was ben&
phet eyes to search. And the PSI
piety; and not merely the pray`
dead men. You can now even
them, sobbing and mourning a
clear, and at last joyous. Oh,
A MINIATURE OF TALLEYRAN
laboured incessantly to convince •
was' agreeable, and was very angry
was usually a sign for my depart:'
place, he never spoke at all till he
but digested his dinner, and as ti
asleep, or ought to have bteee7 re\
with him; it did not occur till
so(
speak he was so inartiol%
a word he said.'---' it
f W:clinuch(
Dr. Holland, 'I never -°ll •t, was
him.'—` Did not you? why 1
call it talkinc, at all; for he had ni
no roof to hi:mouth—no uvula—]
—no epiglottis—no anything.
was gurgling ; and that; by-the-1
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reason why Holland underst.
than I did,' turning suddenly ro)
merry laugh.—` Yet nobody's wit
order as Talleyrand's when it did
stood the test of tinie.---zwem"7
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recognised' meal' It is one, is
to be neglected. Long fasting 0
digestive powers; and therefore. 1
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Dr. Doran well Observes,
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howe,
is the devil's man ; and it may b.t,-,
that if it has nothing to do it vau
Early breakfasts and late dinners ..
of people engaged in active Wl'
practice of life. Many make a bar
take luncheon," and forswear ev4
refection, a glass of wine and a be
accounts for the many bad tour!'
home every evening to dinner, and
up into serenity after the first gl
out into cheerfulness with the , '
results from the application of 6,
stomach weakened and collapsed
pleasant as the social effect may.
very injurious one. We doubt '
of long fasting can be maintain'
time without permanent injury to - t.
We have heard an • adverse theatl
never with good success. NV`
staggered by the argumentunt a'
upon by a certain ex-chancellor,
confute what we said about the
by declaring that he had been oll)1
life of unceasing activity in the
almost habitually, from morning
he, he asked, a bad specimen of a
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on his life. Some men, it, is true,
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