The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

tion of eternity."

BRITISH CONSULS.—From a parliamentary return re-
cently printed, it appears that tl,e number of consuls, &c.,
is as follows :—Paid consuls-g nert.l, 23; paid consuls,
121 ; unpaid consols, viz., Rome and Frankfort, 2 ; paid
vice-consuls, 82 ; unpaid vice-consuls, 253 • total, 468.
The salaries vary from £2OOO to £loo.2Bimmonds's
Colonial Magazine.
INGENIOUS MODE OF DETECTING A THEFT.—When
M. Carsten Niebuhr was at Jidda, a nobleman of that
place requested that he would discover to him the thief
who had stolen 200 sequins which he had lost, for all Ma-
bometans consider an astronomer and an astrologer as the
same, and M. Niebuhr had been using his astronomical
instruments in the nobleman's presence. M. Niebuhr ex-
cused himself on the plea of entire ignorance of future
events, and as cultivating the science of astronomy only to
improve the art of navigation. Application was then made
to a famous scheick, whose astrology was much more to
the purpose. The seheik gathered all the servants toge-
ther, ranged them in a line, and after a long prayer, made
each of them take into his mouth a bit of folded paper,
telling them that they who were innocent might swallow it
with safety, but that the guilty person would be choked by
it. They all swallowed the paper save one, who being thus
surprised and terrified, became embarrrassed, confessed
the theft, and made restitution.
NEWSPAPERS.—We think a good deal of exaggeration
which one meets about the world might be spared if peo-
ple would consent to view newspaper literature as what it
really is—a kind of conversationrl expression of the pub-
lic feeling of the day carried on between the various bodies
which compose it. Almost every newspaper represents,
with more or less precision, some shade of opinion, some
party existing, or in process of formation—some vein of
thought and feeling, not individual, but generic, not pe-
culiar to the writer or editor. but common to a number of
supposed readers—and in this representative character
takes its position in, and contributes its share, to the daily
or weekly discussions which are going on in print between
the various sections of society. The writer in a newspa-
per puts on the plural when he takes up his pen—he ad-
vances on the part of a supposed something behind, to
prove that those whom he represents are capable of ap-
plying their principles to the interpretation of daily facts
as they arise, and it is certain, by the way, whether justly
or not, that their competency will be judged of in no slight
degree by his success.—Guardian.
ADVICE TO INTENDING EMIGRANTS.—I am so satis-
fied that there are thousands in England who would dezive
incalculable advantages from emigrating to this province
[Australia Felix], that I will not stop to inquire if there
be better places tor them to go, but will at once proceed
with my advice to the poor, who, constituting by far the
larger class who require improvement, shall engage my
attention first. Even with this class, emigratiou should
not be undertaken without due consideration. particularly
by those having families. I speak indiscriminately of all
colonies whatever. None should leave England who are
advanced in years, or ill in health. It requires an ener-
getic and healthy mind to contend with the troubles of a
first settlement, and not one already bowed down by age
and disease. Those who can compete with their own
particular grade of life in England. should not risk their
happiness by emigrating. The solitude of a life in the
woods but ill accords with a, Englishman's ideas of com-
fort. 1 am assuming now that all who go out intend
devoting themselves to pastoral or agricultural pursuits.
An intelligent man must perceive that occupation in the
towns must for years be very limited, although those
practising the necessary mechanical arts can generally
meet with remunerating engagements. The poor agricul-
ci to work bard and live
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