The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

THE BOSJESMANS

These singular specimens of a very remarkable tribe of
savages who inhabit the wildest districts of South Africa
are once more making a journey amongst us previously to
their final return to their native country. They are without
doubt the most interesting curiosity ever exhibited in a civi-
lized land ' • and, assuredly, those who permit the present
opportunity to pass will, when they hear from others a de-
scription of the extraordinary and instructive novelty
which they have neglected, be filled with regret. In Lon-
don they excited an immense sensation, we had an oppor-
tunity more than once of personally witnessing. It is not
too much to say that they fully divided the attention of the
public with Jenny Lind. Morning .noon
ta, and evening, llty
hall in Picadilly where they were exaiting was filled with
classes,
aglolodclayssneusm,
biielcrluofditnhge
nmoublitliittyu.de
Inodfeethed:
tlheearnfroedn,
were continually crowded by persons of the highest rank,
who seemed delighted to make the arquaintance of theseex-
traordinary. savages. One noble and distinguished lord
was a veryirequent visitor. We seldom visited the ex-
hibition but he was there with a party of ladies, to whom
he was delighted to introduce ..he diminutive creatures,
whose free, wild manners, boisterous mirth, and extra-
vagant gestures (for, like some descriptions of animals
taken from the forest, they seem entirely untameable)
filled the fair ones with delight. But savages though they
are, the traits of affection which they exhibit towards the
infant, which was born during the passage to England,
are delightful to witness. Their gestures, looks, actions,
and mode of fondling the child all resemble those of
European parents, and show that the language off paternal
lave, the evidences of paternal solicitude, are not conven-
tional, not imitated modes of expression, but the natural
significations of that language of the heart, that instinct
of affection, which is equally understood by the savage and
the civilized all the world over.

The tribes to which this singular people belong have
been frequently alluded to by writers on Africa, ancient
and modern, and many singular stories have been related
concerning them, some of which are true, and not a few
fabulous. It is not at all astonishing, however, that
a people of so strange an aspect, gifted with extra-
ordinary perception, stunted in growth, with eyes that
shine like beads of jet, and powers of vision that
enable them to see an enemy long before the most
space-penetrating instrument would enable the Euro-
pean to distinguish them, living in the wildest part of
the remote deserts of a country inhabited by cruel beasts,
should have given rise to stories which in these days
of universal knowledge tax the credulity of readers. If
ever any race of people realized the curse pronounced on
" the primeval eldest sin," it was these poor little Bosjes-
mans ; for literally, some years ago, every man's hand was
against them, and, in return, their hands were against
every man. The Dutch boors used to shoot them down
for pastime as sportsmen in England do partridges and
pheasants. By Caffre and Hottentots they were alike op-
pressed, so that they wandered from river to river, from
forest to desert, and from hill to hill, with the hand ever
on the •bow, and the arrow ever ready for use, casting
watchful glances around, even while they snatched their
scanty food.

GRANDE EXPOSITION PDBLIQUE.-A short time ago,
a visit was made to Derby by a firm describing themselves
as " Messrs. Towerzey, Lee, and Co., negotiators,
brokers, and foreign agents, Gresham Chambers, Lon-
don," offering to sell in the Lecture-hall an immense
quantity of drapery goods, consisting of shawls, crush
poplins, China lutes, Pompelina dresses, foreign satins,
silks, velvets, &c., at a cost merely to cover "duty and
import ;" and after remaining here for the appointed time,
a removal took place to Nottingham, where the " grande
exposition publique" was announced to take place at the
Assembly-rooms. The drapers in Nottingham, conceiv-
ing that some degree of deception was attempting, applied
to the Customs in London, to know whether any parties
had authority in Nottingham to act as their agents in the
" distribution," &c., and received for answer that " no
person had been authorised by the Custom-house De-
partment to offer goods for sale in Nottingham." Many
attempts were made to get at the name of " the clerks"
superintending the sale, but all proved in vain, except
Mr. Towerzey's name being given, till Saturday afternoon
last, at four o'clock, when Morley, inspector of licenses,
walked into the Assembly-rooms, and demanded the
license authorising the sale. Not having one " the
clerks" were politely requested to go to the Police-office,

Nov. 2, 1547.

This they refused to do, and they were handed over to
the custody of two policemen, and taken to the office,
where they remained until half-past six, when Thomas
Herbert, Esq., Mayer, being in attendance, an informa-
tion was laid by Morley, under the 50th Geo. 111. c. 41,
sec. 6 and li, imposing a penalty of £lO for every sae
without a license. Mr. Rowley appearcd for the prose-
cutio'n, and Mr. E. Petchitt for " the clerks," who gave
their names as " Joseph Horatio Brown, yeoman, 74,
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, London :" " George
Guest, salesman, Chapel-place, Cavendish-square, Lon-
don ;" and " Richard Goodhind, warehouseman, Alders-
gate-street, London." By consent they
_pleaded guilt'',

not to offend again

paid £lO,

Mr.
de-
fendants, but, under the conditions just entered into
being fulfilled, he should not press any further proceed'
ings. Morley produced a shawl said by many spectators
not to be worth 4s. • he had given 12s. 6d. for it at the
Assembly-rooms. Thus an end is put to the " Grande
Exposition Publique " in Nottingham. At Exeter, a
month ago, James Macdonald was informed against
under 50th Geo. 111., cap. 41; and, after paying three
penalties of £lO each, and £5O towards expenses, he pro.
mised not to trouble Exeter again with " forfeited mane"
factures." It seems that Leeds, Sheffield, Harrowgater
Nottingham, Manchester, Derby, and other large towns,•
have all been visited with firms, under various titles, such'
as " Brown, Leon, and Wilkins-;" " Miliford, Canstovre

act sev

tingham gave very great sitisfactic
Mercury.—[An advertisement n

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ie conviction at Not,
the public.—Derby
ring to this subject
column. The trick here exposed
is of great antiquity. A few years since the celebrated
Captain Johnson imposed the worst silks, &c., that could
be bought in Manchester on the Manchester ladies for the
best foreign silks, &c. It is a fact that the wife of a ma-
nufacturer astonished her husband by bringing home from
Captain Johnson's depot some of his own manufacture.]

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(From " Church Melodies,

)R THE FOURTII

ADVENT

by Viscount Afassereen

The Lord's at hand I the Lord's at hand
What doth His church below?
As beacon doth that little band
With her Lord's radiance glow!
His Spirit's Witness on the earth.

To men who

The Lord's at hand f the Lord's at hand
What doth the Christian here?
Doth he a wanderer in the land,
A pilgrim poor appear?
And fearless 'mid surrounding night
Like John, bear witness to the light'

The-Lord's at hand ! the Lord's at hand!
And do His faithful see,
That God and mammon cannot stand,
Nor Christ and earth agree?
The world tiPctrrivori Ma I ..1 T

• • •-• • %as vycu I,IIC IAIJI 11 IJI LAIC,
The Church hath nought with it but strife

The Lord's-at hand ! the Lord's at hand 1
Ye careful ones give ear,
Who sow for profit, and demand
An increase every year:
Is this a time to lay up store
For earth? Time soon shall be more

The Lord's at hand the Lord's at hand
Ye careless daughters rise ;
What do ye in these halls so grand
Where gems delight the eyes
All Heaven but One br
Look up—'tis yours—

- t jewel boasts
the Lord of Hosts

V
The Lord's at hand i he Lord's at hat
His is a searching eye
Professor, learn that His command
Is perfect liberty.

In vain to out"w

He only asli

The Lord's at hand 1 iheLord'e at hand !
With judgment shall He cotne ;
False servants who his love withstand,
Shall have a fearful doom.
Smooth things in vain they prophesy,
They shall—they do believe a lie
VIII
The Lord's at handl the Lord's at hand f
The beast to hell is hurled;
But those Christ finds without his brand,
Unspotted from the world,
Rejected and despised of men,
Shall with him o'er the nations reign.'

VARIETIES

A. beggar in Dublin had been long besieging an old
gouty, testy, limping gentleman who refused his mite
with much irritability, on which the mendicant said,
" Ah, please your honour's honour, I wish your heart was
as tauter as your toes."

THE ASPIRATED " H."—Mrs. Crawford says she wrote
one line in her " Kathleen Mavourneen" for the express
purpose of confounding the Cockney warblers, who sing
it thus :—" The orn of the unter is eard on the ill ;" but
Moore had laid the same trap in the " Woodpecker"--
" A art that is umble might ope for it ere."
INCONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES.—CreditO7%—"SIr, 3;ou
are drunk now ! you have wasted your substance with
tippling; and have turned every thing that belonged to
you into liquor." Debtor :—" Pardon me, sir,—every
thing except my debts, which I regret, for
our cake . jag
well as my own, I see no prospect of being able t au
o zqt '
ate."

Tnn
EXCEPTION.—A gentleman boasted thicsa-ia
drank two, three, or four bottles of wine every day for
fifty years, and that he was as hale and as hearty as ever.
" Pray," remarked a bystander, " where are your boon
companions ?" "Ah !' he quickly replied, " that's ano-
ther affair. If the truth may be told, I have buried three
entire generations of them ! '

ARICANSAS BAGGAGE.—" Boy, run up stairs to No.-7,
and bring down my baggage—hurry, I'm about movinp _

said a tall Arkansas-meat-axe-looking person to a waiter
at one of our crack hotels. " What is your baggage:,
Massa, and whar is he ?" " Why, three pistols, a pax!
of cards, a bowie knife, and a shirt. You'll find them au
under my pillow.—American paper.
A HINT FOR PUBLICANS.—The landlord at Damao:Avg
dock, when a fray is brewing among his customers, puts
quantity of cayenne pepper in a bitof brown paper, makes
the tongs red hot, lifts the packet with them, and holds it
at the bottom of the door. The result seems almost ma-
gical. An inveterate sneezing commences, which is in-
stantly succeeded by a rush to the door and a dissolution
of the company.

.
THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.—The South Sea Company
was a legitimate trade beside some of the speculation
which arose. Schemes were proposed which would have
been extravagant in 1825, and which stamped the minds
of those who entertained them with what may be trulY
termed a commercial lunacy. One was for the " disco-
very of perpetual motion." Another for subscribing two
millions and a half to a " promising design hereafter to be
promulgated." A third was a " Company for carrying on
an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know
what it is ; every subscriber who deposits £2 per share,
to be entitled to £lOO per annum." Even this insolent at-
tempt on the credulity of the nation succeeded ' - and when
hthaendarscohf rtohgeuperoojpeeentoerd;haisndshfropom, the
tha htoduasy h
e was beset beset with
applicants. In five hours £2,000 was deposited RI the
to b
heard of in England. Projects like these enlisted the
lowest with the highest. On some sixpence, and on
others, one shilling per cent. was paid ; and as no capital
was required, the comparative beggar might indulge
the same adventurous gambling, and enjoy the same
bright castles in the air, which marked the dreams of the
rich and the great. Some came so low as to ask only one
shilling deposit on every thousand pounds. Persons of
quality, of both sexes, were engaged in these. Avarke
triumphed over dignity ; gentlemen met their brokers at
taverns, ladies at their milliners' shops.—Francis's His'
tory of the Bank of England.

THE LATE ELECTION FOR OXFORD.—The Oxford and
Cambridge Review for October brings forward rather au
equivocal sort of testimony " of the value and growing
preponderance "of high church principles. In an article
entitled " Revelations of a Poll Book," the writer com-
pares the opinions of the oldest and youngest masters of
arts by giving a tabular statement of their votes for Mr,
Round or Mr. Gladstone, and then triumphs in the fact
of a vast majority of the you having voted in favour of
the " new school of thought.' He then goes on, " Thua
while the masters of an ancient date, even at colleges de-
cidedly favourable to Mr. Gladstone, poll in the propor-
tion of at least two to one in favour of his antagonist, riS.
ing from that ratio till, at one college the proportion
reached is fifteen to one ; the recently-created ma,sterst
even at Wadham, one of the great strongholds of purely
Protestant feeling, support Mr. Gladstone by a majority
of two to one, while elsewhere the majority is more de-
cided, reaching in one instance the proportion of nine and
a half to one. A similar preponderance of the old in favour
of Mr. Round is observable, if we examine the votes of
the Doctors and Bachelors in Divinity ; degrees the lower
of which implies at least middle age, while the higher iS
seldom taken except in advanced life. Forty-one Doctors,
of Divinity voted in favour of Mr. Round, while only
, twenty-five supported his antagonist ; seventy-seven Ba-
chelors of Divinity are found on the side of the former,
on the side of the latter but fifty-five. The proportion is
in the one case rather more than eight to;five, in the other
exactly seven to five, in favour of Round."
A FASHIONABLE BOARDING SCHOOL.—I hadn't been
long at Turnham Green, before I found out that Mrs.
Thimblebee's was no ordinary establishment. It was the
boast of both ladies that no vulgar-tradesmen's daughter
had ever polluted the exquisitely refined atmosphere of
" Chesterfield House,"—even though they had several
advantageous offers upon the "-mutual advantage " syq-
tern. Indeed, they referred with great pride to their
heroic refusal to allow the eldest girl of a highly fashion-.
able butcher at the west end to mingle In their select
circle, notwithstanding her fond parent had generousl
consented to estimate the blessings and graces of Free
and Italian, music and dancing, and Berlin-wool work,
at several hundred pounds—of beef and mutton Per
quarter. No ! the Misses Thimblebee were in no will'
anxious to devote their energies to, the rearing of plebeian
" mushrooms," tho no thing on earth would have given
them greater pleasure than to have bestowed their talent;
upon the training of budding ducal " strawberry leaves.
At Chesterfield House, young ladies rehearsed the part
they were intended to act at Almack's. There the rough
block of the child of nature received its finishing touchell
and was converted into the highly polished statue e 4
fashionable society—fit for an ornament for any drawing
room. There the grave of departed nature was adorne'
with all kinds of artificial flowers ; and there, womllol
tutored in all the facinations of the ball-room—was taught
to shine at night like the glow-worm; in order to attrset
her mate by the display of a brilliance that had no. Warnitit
in it.—aino to Get Married.