The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-09 00:00:00

With a

I's eternal tempests downwards pour,
nd havoc dark oblivion sends, and—time's no more

e not the

v sisters sent

To battle through this life's adversity.
Here, in this world of mortal's banishment,
We find wealth and her bondmaid poverty :
The first, the hope in sad extremity

To her poor starving sister, whose wan brow
Proclaims the heart's core of her agony.
Oh, wealth ! extend thy hand, be generous now,
0 here Britannia may Hibernia's claims allow.
Liverpool, June 5, 1846.

ARIETIES.

The Saxons, as may be seen from some of the illumi-
nated Saxon manuscripts, actually powdered or dyed
their hair and beards blue.
" What right have you to be sick ?" said a schoolmas-
ter to the pupil ; " A constitutional right," was the
reply.

LONDON DOGS.—We knew one who was accustomed
to go almost every day with a penny in his mouth to the
baker's and buy a roll for his own consumption. One day
the baker's man, in a joke, gave him a roll, hot as fire,
just out of the oven, which he instantly dropped, seized
his money cif the counter, and from that day changed his
baker. He never would go back again to that shop, but
spent his penny like a good steady customer with a bet-
ter-behaved tradesman.—Literary Gazelle.

THE Use OF LATIN.—It happened that, soon after the
Queen's late visit to Scotland, the town council of Dundee
were met to discuss how they should dispose of a quantity
of crimson cloth which had been used by them in deco-
rating the council-rooms, &c., on the occasion. One in-
dividual proposed that it should be sold, as they were not
likely to require it again. " Sell it," indignantly ex-
claimed a little conceited body, " Sell it ! an' for ever
bring a reproach on oorsels an' oor gude toon. No ! I
say let's keep it as lang's ae thread hings to anither, as a
►nemento tnori o' the auspicious occasion."

AMERICAN FORENSIC ORATORY.—An American bar-
rister recently commenced his reply to some pungent re-
marks of a professional brother as follows :—May it please
the court : resting on the couch of republican equality as
I do—covered by the blanket of constitutional panoply, as
I am—and protected by the tegis of American liberty, that
great preservative, political mosquito bar, under which a
tiger can shelter, as I feel myself to be—l despise the
buzzing of a professional insect who has just sat down, and
defy his futile attempts to penetrate, with his puny sting,

the interstices of my impervious covering."
Laid CASTLEREAGll.—Castlereagh exhibited a cha-
racter of a totally different order, yet equally fitted for his
Lime. An Irishman, he had the habitual intrepidity of his
countrymen. Nobly connected, and placed high in public
life by that connection, be showed himself capable of sus-
taining his ministerial rank by his personal capacity.
Careless of style, be was yet an effective debater. But it
was in the council that his value to the country was most
acknowledged. His conception of the rights, the influ-
ence, and the servir
the peri

came for deciding on her rank in the presence
of continental diplomacy, he was her chosen and her sof:-
His natural place was among the

cessful representativ

councils of the camps, SN here sovereigns were the soldiers.
The " march to Paris" was due to his courage ; and the
first fall of Napoleon was effected by the ambassador of
England.—Dr. Croly's Soldier and Statesman.
MANUFACTGRF OF PLATE GLASS.—When the compo-
sition, or " metal," as it is usually called, is in a fit state
for being cast, the pot containing it is hoisted out of the
furnace be means of the crane, and suspended over one
of the tables, which is carefully swept down, so that no
edits of sand or dust may rest on its surface. Small
same height as the thickness of the re-
re placed all around. The pot is

ron slips, of t
mired st

then inverted, and the metal allowed to run gradually
over the surface of the table, reaching no higher than the
borders of iron. The heavy cylinder is then

•olied over its

to smooth it down into proper
operation is conducted in per-

grim attentive f

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well as picturesque appearance to the scene. The glass,
as the roller passes over its surface, displays, like the dy-
ing dolphin ,a great variety of brilliant colours. The
process requires to be conducted mast carefully ; for,
should any air-bubbles be produced they will cause blis-

ter to appear on the sur
sequently be cut across at the place where they are seen
"The casting" usually takes place once each day, and
the quantity cast daily at' Ravenhead is generally eieht
tables, or about one thousand square feet of glaSs. The
surface of the plate being left rough by the casting, it has
to undergo various other processes before it can be used.
After lying a sufficient time in the annealing ovens, and
after the rough edges have been cut away. it is conveyed
in large quantities, by means of a railway, to the grinding
sheds. The appearance of these is entirely different from
hat of the building where the casting process is per-
'ormed. The casting.house is gloomy and silent; the

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grinding-shed is full of light and noise. Plates of glass
are here cemented to large stone-flags, which are placed
on supports at regular intervals. Other plates are ce-
mented to frames above. The surfaces of the upper
plates are paced o❑ the surfaces of those attached to the
stone, and the frames are connected by an iron rod with
machinery, which causes them to revolve. The one sur-
face of glass is thus made to grind the other. These
frames are attended by boys, who throw fine sand mid
water alternately on the surface of the lower piece of glass,
and who chant a rude kind of song, to keep time with the
screeching noise of the machinery and the grating of the
plates of glass against the sand and each other. When
one side of the plate has been ground enough, it is re-
versed, and the same process is adopted with the other
side. The glass, on being removed from this shed. pre-
sents a dim, obscure appearance ; the surface is rough
and scratched, and is not yet fit for use. It is then con-
veyed to another shed, where it undergoes a similar but
finer process of grinding. Here the upper plates of glass
ere fastened to a frame, which is mo%ed by women. If
the plate is small, one woman only works at it ; but if
large, two or more are necessary. The glass is then
taken to he polished—one of the most delicate processes
,of all. This is done by small wooden blocks, covered
with cloth where they come in contact with the glass, and
working in frames, which push them backwards and for-
wards over the surface of the glass. By the constant ac-
tion of these polishers, the plate is at last brought to a
beautifully smooth and transparent state, and is then
quite fit for use.— C'hamber's Edinburgh Journal.