The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

L and the very soul ring again to harmonious sounds.
It is the delight of the good, makes sunshine where
there would be shadow and gloom, promotes domestic
happiness, drives away sorrow, and prepares the mind
for the exigencies of the future ; so laugh on, but
laugh discreetly and in due season.
COMFORT FOR MARRIED MEN.— Lord Nelson,
writing to one of his colleagues on the 21st of June,
1795, on the subject of regulations for the fair sex on
board men of war, observed—" They always will do
as they please. ' Orders are not for them ; at least I
never yet knew one who obeyed your most faithful
HORATIO NELSON." If, therefore, the invincible Nel-
son was no match for the women, ordinary men need
hardly be ashamed of being henpecked by their wives.
ROYAL REPARTEE.--When the King of Prussia,
lately, in his tour through the Rhenish provinces,
passed through a small town near Cochein (district of
Treves), the clergy presented his Majesty with a glass
of fine wine, with the observation, " The sentiments of
the inhabitants around here are as pure as the wine in
this glass." The King thanked the clergyman, and
raising up the glass to the light to admire the fine
colour of the wine, added, " I must suppose that it is
not of the vintage of 1848."
COUNCILLOR LAMB, who was an old man (at the
time the late Lord Erskine was in the height of his
reputation), was a man of timid manners and nervous
disposition, and usually prefaced his pleadings with an
apology to that effect ; and on one occasion, when
opposed to Erskine, he happened to remark that "he
felt himself growing more and more timid as he grew
older." "No wonder," replied the witty but relent-
less barrister, " every one knows the older a lamb
grows the more sheepish he becomes."
How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing
good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in
little things, which would frequently lead to the ac-
complishment of most important usefulness ? Dr.
Johnson used to say, "He who waits to do a great
deal of good at once, will never do any." Good is
done by degrees. However small in proportion the
benefit Which follows individual attempts to do good,
a great deal may be thus accomplished by perse-
verance, even in the midst of discouragements and
disappointments.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANYBODY, SOMEBODY,
AND NOBODY.—" Mamma," said Miss Juliana Selina
Caroline Languish, " who are those Middletons ; are
they anybody ?" Why, my dear, young Middleton
joined the hunt last week, and was introduced at the
last ball, and keeps a tiger ; so you know he must be
somebody." "Yes, mamma, but I can't help think-
ing that they are only retired—very good sort of
people, no doubt, and all that sort of thing; but there
is something about them that makes me think that

they are nobody, after all." "My dear, they must be
somebody." " No, mamma, they want to pass for
somebody; but as everybody knows, there is always a
something which tells you directly whether anydody is
anybody; and it is not a bit of use for anybody who
is nobody to pretend to be somebody."
EATING AND DIIINKING.—If you wish for anything
like happiness in the fifth act of life, eat and drink
about one half what you could eat and drink. Did I
ever tell you my calculation about eating and drink-
? Having ascertained the weight of what I could
live; upon, so as to preserve health and strength, and
what I did live upon, I found that, between ten and
seventy years of age, I had eaten and drunk forty-four
horse waggon loads of meat and drink more than
would have preserved me in life and health ! The
value of this mass of nourishment I considered to be
worth seven thousand pounds sterling. It occurred
to me that I must, by my voracity, have starved to
death fully a hundred persons. This is a frightful
calculation, but irresistibly true.—Letters of' Rev.
Sydney Smith.
GOOD COMPANY.—Endeavour, as much as you can,
to keep company with people above you. There you
rise as much as you sink with. people below you ; for
(as I have mentioned before) you are whatever the
company you keep is. Do not mistake, when I say
company above you, and think that I mean with re-
gard to their birth ; that is the least consideration ;
but I mean with regard to their merit, and the -light
in which the world considers them. There are two
sorts of good company ; one, which is called the beau
monde, and consists of those people who have the lead
in Courts, and in the gay part of life ; the other con-

sists of those who are dist,
merit, or who excel in sol
art or science. For my
myself in company as mil
with Mr. Addison and Mr.
all the princes in Europe.--
DESPERATE REMEDY F'
—Dr. Hand was called 0
patient, who fancied she h,
his entering the room th
doctor ! I am so glad to sl
tress---such pain ! Oh, d,
mouse !" " Swallowed--
doctor, in his mild and pl,
doctor," said the patient,
mouse---a live mouse : he
I was asleep, with my mk
now, creeping about my stogy
out. Oh! doctor, do press'
shall die !" " Prescribe?'"
will prescribe something .
minute." " What is it, d,
take anything you order."
madam, swallow a cat ! if
will." The prescription was
BISHOP ATTERBURY.--0:
taro bill in the House of La
to say that he had prophe
tempted during the sessioi. _ ,e0,1
he had proved a true prophet. Lord 'Alt to
spoke after him, and always spoke in a Wco-t 7 0
the house to remark, that one of the et; '-Ok
prelates had set himself up as a 1:1141,110,4°/
he did not know what prophet to likelos 7
edto that furious prophet Balaam, NO°, \ Wit 11
his own ass. The Bishop, in a reNts'el;,..ed,rl
and calmness, exposed this rude aitcoseie,p4
thus—" Since the noble lord has 6iii co:flog,
manners such a similitude, I am w,eijt, 11,61
compared to the prophet Balaain ; 'therp 11,: tfi.
am at a loss how to make out the (I„vecl 4. A'' A
parallel ;I am sure I have been rePr" le" oil',
do ... es
but his lordship."—Dr. King's .ilmee filiV) '1
Times. / r 0 0'
„Atte tlle A
THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICV,7 , a Ir
tlie 10 lit
been stated, that from the former to ,et- iplor?j,
positions but .one step intervenes ;
e'cji III" A
lowing extract from a recent sPe tiell°l4.,,fr
greater accuracy, come under the pa iii,`,. tor
bathos. It was made during the Peri Alieile
was pending on the construction °,,P,ef
through the section of Virginia <pa 'ile. : i
is convulsed with civil discords, liaW.'lstiol;" I
tremble with internal commotion; %ifig'lltiifc4
tronomers mount the wings of their to.:,„t
soar through the ethereal world, Plu;stell,,l of 'Ol
from planet to planet, and from siereNdli fro
until they have explored the vast,e,ore ll'e 0`,1,4
let us direct our attention to a road ma for, ell coifti
in our own neighbourhood." Sele tail °I fligl/)
could no farther go" than from tuehiglier.. ov:i'r
a Virginian turnpike. It takes 3 bathos' V
than the following specimen of the. , 1).!'
give from memory. It is, we believe' ., die'
Porson : ,•
,
ala W 3 lid' ' 1
"Since mountains sink to vales.' -lurses•oet 44
And seas and rivers mourn th
Welch divi' 1 tiN
When my old cassock," says a rie r ai, .0
Bra`c` "Is out
iattyeilr—s,
Lwl:n-gshbouelf.doil.3l',.g:tolls,ooovf
the trees with red,—before indeed, to_'.e be, je
~
gauze frill unfolded on the brainbleo,l:l,,Dics'i.,ol
• Topod tu' ot ''' yil
range our blackberry parties. ietriale bsofh
took place every day much to the.
ou-_,
`vas il,. 404
studies. Very soon:the whole sch:_its of ,:#s'y
warm. discussion on the relative, ~,Vooafore,_:l4,
Finchley, Wanstead,
blackberry .v ttO ,
able places of resort for ~___4 ,on
_lig
Epping, all° : o.atlievoi: 1
last September came, and the lir;LJo.s, tho,';,:i ,
We took our dinners with us in ocii,..:fitwvithouto?
went without dinners, as they ii a
,iasS 1 0i.,„
permission; and sometimes a wholes.',. juges._ for
wag," and started direct for theloi' of 001,01
tthoessceheoxophedillannsy. canings3faii aanrdedbonTanzikeeo:nelan.citt:o;s 0
betrayed how this or that boy red
his 1010.
his love for blackberries, thc:: .. ~ borelPgro
suffered him to acknowledge it. -6,',- , 010 j 5 ,
rS alio. to .t. lleill Pis;
stains for days afterwardS ; acknowledge
..., go o .0)
to be seen ; and the usual oscillation
_loth t
mouth to pocket and from pocket t ''