The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

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DO NOT PLUCK THE FLOWERS.

BY MISS U. A. BROWNE.

(From Me Dublin Unieersity Magazine.)

[An inscription similar to the foregoing is seen in many parts
of the Roman Catholic burying ground, Botanic Gardens,
Cork.]
Oh ! spare the flowers, the fair young flowers,
The free glad gift that summer brings;
Bright children of the sun and showers,
Here do they rise, earth's offerings.
Rich be the dew upon you shed,
Green be the bough that o'er you waves,
Weariless watchers lay the dead,
Unblencbing dwellers 'midst the graves!

Oh ! spare the flowers, their sweet perfume,
Upon the wandering zephyr cast,
And lingering o'er the lowly tomb,
Is like the memory of the past.
They flourish freshly, though beneath
Lie the dark dust and creeping worm ;
They speak of Hope, they speak of Faith,
They smile, like rainbows through the storm.

Pluck not the flowers—the sacred flowers !
Go where the garden's treasures spread,
Where strange bright blossoms deck the bowers,
And spicy trees their odours shed,
There pluck, if thou delight'st, indeed,
To shorten life so brief as theirs ;
But here the admonition heed—
A blessing on the hand that spares!

Pluck not the flowers ! In days gone by
A beautiful belief was felt,
That fairy spirits of the sky
Amid the trembling blossoms dwelt.
Perhaps the dead have many a guest,
Holier than any that are ours :
Perhaps their guardian angels rest
Enshrined amidst the-gentle flowers !

Hast thou not loved one lying low,
No broken reed of earthly trust?
Hast thou not felt the bitter woe
With which we render dust to dust?
Thou hast ! and in one cherish'd spot,
Unseen, unknown to earthly eyes,
Within their heart, the unforgot
Entomb'd in silent beauty lies.
Memory, and faith, and love, so deep,
No earthly storm ean- reach it more—
Affection, that bath ceased to weep,
t These flourish in thy bosom's c re.
Spare; then, the flowers! With ntle tread
Draw near, remembering what ou art ;
For blossoms, sacred to the dead,
Are ever springing in thy heart.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Practical Chernic LI Pocket Guide; being an Easy In-
troduction to the Study of Chemistry. By W. Hope,
M.D, Glasgow : W. It. M`Phun.
This admirable compendium of chemical knowledge forms
one of an interesting series of " Pocket Guides" publis&d,
by Mr. M` Phan. We have no hesitation in saying that this::
manual of chemistry is one of the best that we hose ever
met with. It is literally a complete multum parvo of use-
ful information. In its method and arrangement itlas the
powerful recommendation of extreme simplicity. In its
language it is clear and intelligible. Its illustrations are
evidently the result of practical investigation. Its price,
considering the neat, and even elegant, manner in which it
has been got up, is truly astonishing. To those who wish to
acquire a general knowledge of chemistry, we can most cor-
dially recommend this excellent compilation.

The Pocket Guide to the Toilette.
NV Phnn.

Glasgow : W. P

This is decidedly the best work that we have ever seen
on the subject of personal adornment. The author has. com-
pletely succeeded in divesting the subject of the mystery in
which it has been hitherto usually enveloped. He has fur-
nished us with a copious fund of information on the proper
management of the complexion, the hands, the feet, the
teeth, the mouth, the breath, the lips, the hair, the beard,
the eye, and the ear. He has also given us a variety of use-
ful hints on the subject of dress, and on the use of the bath.
To all this there is appended a multitude of recipes for pre-
paring every description of perfumes, cosmetics, dentrifices,
ointments for the growth and preservation of the hair, &c.
Those who are anxious to cultivate personal beauty and
grace, will find in this elegant pocket volume a store of in-
valuable maxims, the observance of which, we are bound to
add, will be found, in most cases, highly conducive to health.

A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of
Comparative Anatomy. Part 8. B Thomas Rymer
Jones, F.Z.S. London : John Van Voorst.

This valuable work proceeds in the most satisfactory man-
ner. When completed, it will form one of the hest manuals
of comparative anatomy ever published. The talented author
is singularly clear and intelligible in his elucidations. He
has availed himself of the assistance of all the most recent
works on the subject, and, in addition, has furnished us with
a mass of original information, the result of his own investi-
gations, on the organic structure and vital functions of every
class of animals. The present number concludes the des-
cription of the crustacea, and commences the account of the
cirrhopoda; the brachiopods, the tunicata, and the couchi-
fera, in the division of molusca. The illustrative engravings
are very carefully and accurately executed.

The Fourth Annual Roport qf the Liverpool Protestant

Asssciation. Liverpool : Lace and Addison. 1839.

This report contains the admirable speeches delivered at
the great Protestant meeting, held in the Amphitheatre, on
Friday, the 4th of October last. The addresses of the Rev.
Dr. Tattershall, the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, and the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan. will amply repay the
trouble of perusal. They abound with striking facts and
details, illustrative of the workings and secret machinations
of Popery in the British dominions, and furnish a complete.
defence of the aggressive attitude assumed by the Protestant
Association. The extensive circulation of this excellent re-
port will effect much good, especially among the operative
classes in this country.

A Letter on Prison Discipline; addressed to the Mayor and
Magistrates of Liverpool. By the Rev. J. Buck, D.C.L.
London : Whittaker, Trencher and Co. ; Liverpool : Lace
and Addison, and D. Marples and Co. 1839.
This pamphlet contains several very important suggestions,
deserving the attentive consideration of the magistracy and
the legislature. These suggestions are the'more valuable as
they are the result of the author's experience while discharg-
ing the duties of chaplain to the Liverpool Borough Gaol.

The Bank of England and other Banks. London : Simp

kin, Marshall and Co. 1839.

The author of .this pamphlet has boldly entered the field
as the champion of the Bank of England. We think that
he has taken the right side of the question. At all events,
he has proved himself an able advocate, whose arguments•it
would not be easy to answer or to evade.

THE SOI-DLSANT KING OF New ZEALAND.—We have
accounts from New Zealand which are of some interest at
the present moment, inasmuch as they infer that the settle-
ment of the British emigrants to that quarter may not be
without opposition. It seems that the Baron de Thierry, a
French nobleman (whose name is not unknown in this
country) continues to assert the sovereignty of New Zealand,
where he now resides with his family. The baron is " So-
vereign Chief, King of R.ahabeva," and acts in the name
and on the behalf of the aborigines of the island. He has
recently issued a decree from Mount Isabel, in the province
of Hokianga, dated March, 1839, announcing that the tribes
may continue to live on the lands which they occupy ; that
he will dispose of lands every three months at auction, the
minimum price to be one dollar per acre; that 25 per cents
shall be devoted to local improvement, and 25 par cent. to
the benefit of the aborigines. He will not oppose the govern-
ment of the English in his empire, and their purchase of
lands with the condition that his royal rithts be acknow-
ledged. In the year 1837 her majesty's ship Beagle, Capt.
Fitzroy. visited New Zealand. A controversy arose between,
the baron and Capt. Fitzroy, on account of the refusal by
the latter to recognise his sovereignty. la. a protest, ad-
dressed to Capt. Fitzroy by the baron, he presented a history
of his life and the claims which he preferred to the sove-
reignty of New Zealand and Nuaheva. He states in this
protest thataie was born in England of noble parentage, his
father being an emigrant of the French revolution. Educated
at Oxford, he there married the daughter of a prelate, who
now shares with him the' honours of his royalty. He was
at one time an attaché of the French legation in London,
and always had the protection of the royal French exiles.
lie is nergtnially letierwn to the -preMirkiiisi' orthe
Louis Philippe, and to his late Majesty King William, to
both of whom lie intended to send his prbtest against the
conduct of Capt. Fitzroy. During the residence of Mr.
Vaughan at Washington, as British ministeri the Baron de
Thierry passed some months there. In society he was it'd-
mired for his social qualities, and particularly fur his musical
talents.—Morning
SERIOUS ACCIO/i.NT, WITH ASTONISHING PRESERVA-
T 1 ON OF LIFE.—On Saturday last, about five P.M., as Wil-
liam Room, a workman at Mr. Buddie's saw-mills, Ems-
cote, was attempting to adjust a strap which had been
detached from part of the machinery, his left arm becalm
entangled, and was wound like a cord around a horizontal
irun shaft, three inches square. which revolved about fifty
times a minute. Being an athletic muscular man, at the
middle period of life; the muscles and ligaments of the
shoulder did not give way so as to separate the limb from
the body, as has been the case in some instances ;—but he
was forced round vertically from eighty to one hundred re-
volutions, or until the machinery, which, is worked be a
steam-engiue of above thirty horse power could be stopped.
Notwithstanding his appaling situation, he did not lose his
presence of mind, but called to other workmen to stop the
engine, and at the same time endeavoured to prevent his
head from receiving any.. injury ; although, in consequence
of his right leg striking against some wood-work about three
feet distant from the shaft, it became fractured. When dis-
entangled from the nutahinery he was conveyed to the
Warneford Hospital, where he was promptly attended by the
surgeon of the week, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Hulbert, the resi-
dent surgeskt. Upon 'examination there was found to be a
compound freteture of the fore-arm, both the bones being
broken in different places, and protruding through the
muscles and integuments, the humerus, or shoulder-bone,
being in a complete state of comminuted fracture, and as
above-named, a fracture of the right leg. It was considered
expedient, notwithstanding the severe and complicated injury
of the arm, (together with the circumstance that the patient,
who displayed the most heroic fortitude, expressed his readi-
ness to undergo the operation of amputation)—to attempt the
preservation of the limb ; and we arc happy to state that, as
yet, no untoward symptoms have arisen, and hope is enter-
tained of his recovery without having to submit to so severe
an operation. Upon inspecting the machinery, and reflect-
ing upon the manner in which he was suspended, (several
feet above the ground or floor of the apartment,)—the force
with which he was impelled round the shaft,—the numerous
resisting bodies near him, as beams, partitions, tat.—his
escaping with life, not only appears miraculous, but strikingly
exemplifies the protection of a superintending Providence
under such perilous and apparently hopeless eirearnststnces.—
_Leamington Spa Courier',