The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

IT}l THE COURT.-

LINGS

Sheriff Swift's chaplain,
een's levee, has been ca

e reverend foreign
itular on his patron's hands. Mr. Swift has found that
he has done the rope's business at court to the effect of
small profit and quick returns.—Punch.

Lord C

SPANISH NAMES.—ASpanU journal gives the follow.
" ',liar names as those of two employis in the finance
at Madrid !—Don Epifanio Mirurzururdun-
gotita, and Don Juan Nepomnceno de Buriona-
gonatotorecagogeazcoecha. The journal, in quoting the
'e of the latter of these hon. gentlemen, would
a well- to have given some directions as to the
pronunciation.

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ewe sheep, of the pecklei face
breed, three years old, the property of Mrs. Davies, of
Tetchill, near Ellesmere, has produced twelve lambs, viz.,
--n lambs-1851, four, and last week five, who,
am, are doing well. Her produce of 1851 are
id are each daily expected to lamb ; and from
~,,zon of experienced judges, are likely to have the
same extraordinary fecundity.—Salopian Jgurnal.
PARLIAMENTARY PRIVACY. —lf Louis Napoleon
wishes thoroughly to stifle the discussion, and to prevent
the publication of the debates that occur in his senate and
legislative corps, he should cause the chambers in which
those bodies meet, to be constructed and ventilated after
the fashion of the British Houses of Psrliament ; so that
• • .ht he close, and the speakers inaudible
y.—Punch.

A PROLIFIC Ev

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How TO COOK A POTATO.—Speaking of potatoes, stop
till I immortalise my old mother's receipt. "To dress a
potato, wash it well, but let there be no scraping. At the
thickest end cut off a piece the size of a sixpence." This
is the safety valve through which the steam escapes, and
all rents in the skin are thereby prevented, just as the
aforesaid skin prevents a rupture in the steam boiler. If
you do this, oh for the mealiness of the potato !—The
Cruise of the Midge.
NEW ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD FOR ANCIENT BRI-
TONS.—" Mr. Punch : A Chapter of the Order of the
Thistle, look von, was held the other day. Now, there is
a herb, and a pretty plant it is to grow in gardens, and
pleasant to smell, and, moreover, is an esculent and
wholesome vegetable. and whatever the Scotch may say,
I will maintain and contend that it is much better than
any thistle. I beseech you, then, to tell me the causes
and the reasons and the arguments why, since there is an
Order of the Thistle, there should not also be a❑ Order
of the Leek in honour to the native land of ' Taffy.' "
Punch.

THE FEMALE FRANCHISE.—In the House of Com-
mons, speaking on Mr. Hume's Reform motion, Mr.
Napier is reported to have said—" It was proposed that
the franchiqe should be given to all persons of 21 years of
age, who laboured under no mental or legal disability.
Why, then, as had been asked before, should ladies be
excluded ?" Ist. Because there is no evidence that any
lady is 21 years of age, inasmuch as no lady will ever tell
what her age is. 2nd. Because, as a poet says of the
softer sex, " Angels are painted fair to look like them ;"
so that they are already represented fairly enough in all
conscience.—Punch.

CRAYON SKETCH A LA YANKEE.—Here is our greatest
legal orator, as seen with a down-cast eye :—" Rufus
Choate is a picture to look at, and a crowder to Spout.
Ile is about seven feet six, or six feet seven, in his socks;
supple as an eel, and wiry as a corkscrew. His face is a
compound of wrinkles, ' yeller janders,' and jurispru-
dence. He has small, keen, piercing black eyes, and a
head shaped like a mammoth goose egg, big end up; his
hair black and curly, much resembling a bag of wool in
' admirable disorder.' or a brush heap in a gale of wind.
His body has no particular shape, and his wit and legal
dodges' have set many a judge in a snicke, and so con-
founded jurors as to make it almost impossible for them
to speak plain English, or tell the truth for the rest of
their natural lives. Rufus Choate is about fifty years of
age, perhaps over. He is considered the ablest lawyer
in New England, or perhaps the United States. His
handwriting can't be deciphered without the aid of a pair
of compasses and a quadrant. His autography somewhat
resembles the map of Ohio, and looks like a piece of
crayon sketching, done in the dark with a three-pronged
fork. He has been in the Senate, and may be, if he has
time to fish for it, President in the United States."
ANECDOTE OF LORD BYRON.—The followirg trifling
jeux d'esprit, in which Lord Byron bore a part, are very
little known, and, it is believed, were never before in
print. Two young officers of artillery obtained leave of
absence from the garrison of Malta, in the early part of
the present century, to make a tour up the Mediterranean.
At Athens they found the wall of a lodging-house scrib-
bled over with names, and, among the collection, those of
Sligo, Hobhouse, and Byron, under which, in an oval
ring, they wrote these lines :

Fair Albion, smiling, sees her son depart,
To trace the birth and nursery of art ;
Noble his object ! glorious his aim !
lie comes to Athens, and—he writes his name

Lord Byron was at Athens at the time, and a few days
afterwards they found the following, side by side with the
former lines, and in a similar rine :

THE COUNTERPOISE

This modest bard, like many a bard unknown,
Rhymes on OUR names, yet wisely hides his own ;
And yet, whoe'er he be, to say no worse,
His name would bring more credit than his verse.
BYRON.

Under the two they then added :
Admiring Athens, as in days of old,
In these degenerate days may still beheld
Two rival bards contending for her cheers—
The name of one concealed, and one A PEER'S !
—Bentley's Miscellany.