The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

CIIE AFRICAN BUSH PEOPLE IN LONDON

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Allow me to call your attention, and that of your
numerous readers, to a subject which was unaccountably over-
looked by the public of Liverpool, when the best opportunity

for attending to it was presented. I allude to the exhibition of
genuine Bushmen from South Africa, to open about the 16th of
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May, in London, at .ian-hall, Piccadilly. _
that, of the many thousands who crowded to see them lately,
in Manchester, many were individuals from Liverpool, who had
discovered their mistake in not paying them a visit in Bold-st. ;

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to retrieve their error even yet, by taking advantage of the
cheap trains to visit the Lion of London, whicht his sight might
truly be called at any season of metropolitan attractions. I
visited these extraordinary beings both at Liverpool and Bir-
kenhead, and can confidently say that they form h.a far the
most interesting exhibition I ever witnessed. In addition to
the obvious motives which might draw all who, of any age or
sex, take an interest in the natural history of our species, it is
evident that the amount of attention bestowed, in thisfavoured
land, upon these samples of a most degraded race, will pro-
portionably tend to brighten the hopes of their spiritual and
moral improvement. The fact of their picking up English
opens P -t to those who would, in the

ream, _.., a cheering prospect
best sense, care for their welfare. " Homo sum, humani Whit
a me alienum Auto" is still a good maxim.—Yonrs, &c.,
NATURFORSCHER..

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THE SEASON

I'o THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
S►p,—After the splendid rains which fell on Saturday and

yestei:day, the country now presents a most d
ance. This morning I have been riding throe

about nine miles east of Chester; and fean assure-N;(7i:

loth the wheat and oats are sp;

and sec

coining up Well,

not seem to lie the 1

nsion amongst

merb of any recurrence of the which we had last
,on the root: for I fIITI very happy to state that there is
erahly more land planted with potatoes this spring than
previous one. The show for fruit exceeds any thingq

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ever .ciw before. The apple, pear, and ICI kinds of stone fruit
trees are covered completely with buds and blossoms; so that
we see abundant crops in prospect. As a proof that this sea-
son cannot be so late as is represented by some, I send. yon
with this the branch of an oak, which I plucked in the neigh-
bourhood of Mouldsworth, and you will perceive that the leaves
are almost fully expanded. Now, I have seen the oak com-
pletely bare' of either bud's or leaves, in this district, on the
29th of May. M you may imagine, most the farmers are

begin to be
potatoes too-

for I foUnd that many had considerable stocks of both
articles. With a state of things like this in the country,
rge supplies_ of bread stuffs arriving
_from abroad, I sin-

cerely gope that all idea of a famine will be quickly banished.
By inserting this in your highly valued and useful paper, you
wilivblige yours , AN OBSELtVER.
10th May, 1847. . . .

Our intelligent correspondent is known to us. and his state.
rants deserve attention.—E. L. S.l

DEPENDENCE OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY UPON CHA-
RITY FOR SUPPORT.—Quiet observers have been surprised
at the indifference with which, in the parts of Ireland
where the neasantry were sufferinff most, they seem to re-

gard the present. crisis. They feel, not as if they were to
be left destitute, but as if they were about to step into a
more comfortable condition than that in which they were
before. Whereas they formerly supported themselves,
they now seem to think that the land, or the landlords,
must support them. The Irishman in the old song, who,
when caught in a storm at sea, comforted himself with the
reflection that, " he was only a lodger, and that the cap-
tain alone would be the sufferer if they all were drowned,
presents no inapt similitude of the reckless improvidence
of too many of his countrymen of the present day, who
seem to think that their betters in society, by a kind of
vicarious substitution, become responsible for their duties
and their dangers. " Come what may, we must be fed,"
is their language ; " and that we often could not accom-
plish when there was no blight upon the potatoes." It is
within the knowledge of the writer of this paper, that one
of them, who was employed upon a public road, gave as
a toast, " Success to the rot," and that it was vocife-
rously re-echoed by thousands who were working ! about
him. This is a fearful state of things ; and the mental
and moral condition of those who can thus chuckle at the
dire calamity which leaves them dependent upon public
support, is even more lamentable than the physical suf-
ferings which hurry so many of them to an untimely
Publin University MaStazine.

grave,—