The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

KNOWLEDGE may be gleaned by reading, but you must
separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.
JENNY LIND'S baby, according to the Musical World,
begins to manifest signs of musical capacity.
"STRIKING" INQUIRY IN HUMBLE LlFE.—What's
the use of their taking the duty off soap, if a feller mayn't
lather his wife as he pleases?—Diogenes.
A TURKISH PROVERB.—There exists a Turkish pro-
verb, which says," Kiss the hand of your enemy until you
are able to cut it off." _ _

A SCAOOLMASTEB in Kendal has lately affixed a sign
near to one of the principal streets—" Reading and writing
to suit the times.' _

THE GOLDEN AGE op LlFE.—Youth is the season for
active exertion; and -all those who emigrate to the dig-
gings ought to be minors.—Punch.
A CHILDISH CONUNDRUM FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
—Q. Of what wood should a Christmas tree be composed ?
A. Of box, and so make it a Christmas-box tree.—Punch.
A DIFFICULTY NOT EASILY GOT OUT OF.—The man
who " fell into raptures" with a pretty girl, was got out
with considerable difficulty.
THE HAPPIEST HUSBAND UNDER THE SUN.—Adam
had one great advantage over all other married couples—
an advantage which has been lost to us with Paradise—he
had no mother-in-law.

NEVER suffer your children to require service from
others which they can perform themselves. A strict
observance of this rule will be of incalculable advantage
to them through every period of life.
AMERICAN WA.SIIING, &c.—With such rapidity is this
done, that it frequently happens a gentleman orders a
bath, and before the process of ablution is gone through,
his dirty shirt is brought to him, washed, ironed, and
completely " got up," the time occupied in such operation
being less than twenty-five minutes !—Bunn's Old and
New England.
CHRISTMAS-DAY ON SllNDAY.—Although the last oc-
currence of the kind took place in 1842—eleven years ago
—yet the coincidence does often occur in briefer intervals
—and must happen four times in twenty-eight years.
Christmas-day was on a Sunday in 1831, 1836, 1842, and
in this year. It will happen on a Sunday in 1859, 1864,
1870, 1881, 1887, 1892, and 1898. The intervals between
the years follow the order of numbers 5,6, 11, 6. If it
happen in leap-year, or the year succeeding leap-year, the
interval will be six years; if on the year preceding leap-
year, the interval will be five years, but if, as in 1842, it
happen two years before leap-year, the interval will be
eleven years, as it now is,

A FEW CLOVES added to ink will prevent its becoming
mouldy, and impart an agreeable perfume.
SUPPOSED TO BE NEAR THE MARK.—The Rev. B.
Brown, a celebrated preacher among the Independents,
made the following bold statement at the recent meeting
of the Congregational Union :—" We are Independents,
yet I have long had the conviction that it requires desperate
courage to be an Independent amongst Independents."
The assertion was received with loud cheers.— Blackburn
Standard.
A CONSOLING REPLY.—Lady Spencer asked Dr. Warren
whether the minds of physicians must not be frequently
embittered by the reflection that a different mode of
treatment might have saved the lives of their patients.
Dr. Warren thought otherwise, "The balance between
satisfaction and remorse must," he considered, "be greatly
in favour of satisfaction ;" and, as an instance of it, he
hoped he should have the pleasure of curing her ladyship
forty times before he killed her."—Household Words.
AN UNPROMISING OLD LADY. The Sunderland
Herald has the following amusing anecdote :—" The
whole of the ladies of the village who were voters, with
one exception, voted against the amendment of Mr. Elliott
in the Houghton contest of the present week. One of
them, entering the polling place with Mr. Hopper, was
about to record her vote, when the Rev.Ablred Lee ex-
claimed, That old lady, Mrs. Shield, pro me to vote
for the amendment.' Bridling up, she responded, with a
look of scorn, ' I never gave a promise to any man in my
life.' This intimation was followed by roars of laughter."
ECONOMY Iry FOOD.—Although it is, perhaps, a matter
which should properly come under our " Reviews," we may
mention in this place that we have received a 41b. loaf of
bread—a most attractive looking and very palatable speci-
men of the flour-and-rice bread. It is evident that
" there's a good time coming" for editors, when bakers
begin to send them half-qmirtern loaves for review ; and
if the butchers only follow the example, with sirloins of
beef and legs of mutton, the good time will be really come
—not before it is wanted, perhaps.—. English Churchman.
WHAT is the use of battering a man's brains full of
Greek and Latin pot-hooks, which he forgets before he
doffs his last round jacket or pats on his first long-tailed
blue,. if he don't teach them the. old Spartan virtue of
obedience, hard living, early rising, and them sort of
classics ? Where's the use of instructing hint in hexame-
ters or pentameters, if you leave bin in ignorance of the
value of.a pennypiece ? What height of stupidity it is to
be ftlfui a boy's brains with the wisdbni.of the ancients
and them turn him out like an omadhettern, to pick up, 14;
victuals among the moderns.—Blackwoods Magazine..
HOME.—I have travelled some little in coq day, and
never yet AV/At the plam over-seas where could say,• hem'
will I live and. die. My steps have bean arrested by
beautiful spots—by savage spots—by great and luxurious
cities ; a week. a, meals, I could spend in nuirty—a year'
in some, and spend it linily ; but not life—not all my
days. This must be•prejne, but it is the milk prejudice.
b have no wish to' art with. I know of no p%sitre that
Will compare with' going abroad except one—returning
home. I pity Enutioli colonists wherever I find. them,
whether at Tours, or' Pau or Lausanne, or Brussels, or
Nise,ur Florence. They ;ill talk of delightful elimates,
andidelicious wirtes,.auttcheapliving, and excellent society; •
and yet, I believe, there may be but two or lint offe•
amonpt them all, wile; if they dared to appear poor,
woulianfrt turn their hicks. upon the climate, and -wines,
and society of foreign lctids;• and seek the shores offEtig-
land. Travelling is a ebarming *creation ; but, after all,
Englandi--to an Englislanau—is the only country todive ••
in.—Dertrent Conway's Tour in Switzerland.
A SKErvir ar MUNicff.--=Holy gay the streets lcok !
Such numbers of butterfly ladies; in gay mnslins and lull
kid gloves, and with brightssolOuredparasols ; such dandi-
fied youngoireers with their cidicnkseslY smallwaists they
lace themselbes tip as tightly as- the. smallest of the girlsl.:
such clean itaryer-Leute ; cacti picturesque groups off
students, their Lair so glossy Vont, its Sunday brushing;.
their scarlet caps set so jauntily on their beads, their gay
corps bands displayed over theirsnewy shirt fronts; such
a pleasant sound of voices and trampling of feet along the
sunny pavemen— I'm quite inspitedi to put on all my
Sunday apparel, anal look as gay carthi3 best. I quite long
to descend intoy usual character of " young lady," and
go abroad for a pleasant drink coffee
with a gay party, Inder,green tree?;, and criticise all the
faces and toilettes :Bak pass before us. I wish Alfred were
here to-day ;we went./ for a few hours lie• as little in the
clouds as he could w*L—The Art Studint in Munich.
ORIGIN OF MINOZ-PIES AND. PLVAIPTDDING.—The
origin of mince-pies. and plum-pudding; objects of such
absorbing interest to 'all of us, must not be forgotten in
our sketch of Christmas customs. It would. seem that it
was, in primitive tinsos,, a practice of the 'bakers to make
presents to their custom era of little images, ins paste, just
as in the present day the tallow-chandlers-present a few
doll's candles to the cifiktres of their eintlisners. These
presents were called yak &Highs or yule cakes, and were
believed to have been originally designed to represent the
infant Jesus. It was alio tile custom at Rome• to present
boxes of sweetmeats to,. the fathers of filet liratiCian at
Christmas. From thy,; it is said, come" the modern
mince-pie and plum-pudkAing. The former was originally
of a low or eoffin-shapes: and was intendmite‘ represent
the manger wherein the Alai was laid. Plum pudding is
our national dish—it represents us in the intagine,tion of
foreigners, who believe fiat -we eat little else Chas " rost
bif and plum-poudin." _ad yet, strange to my,. the his-
tory of this national disk. is, inrolved in the greatest ob-
scurity. Plum-pudding, Tint the Chinese empire-, is defi-
cient in historical evidence, Its dominiuxi over the
tastes and imaginations Englishmen is astablished ;
hitt whence came it? People vaguely imagine that
our forefathers, and the- fathers of those filrefathers,
knew the delights of Chr:eitmus pudding—that it graced
the board beside the baroti of beef—that it was contem-
porary with mince-pie—that its origin must be sought in
the.slim obscurity of the Tr.iskae ages. Error 'Tae origin
is indeed obscure, but apprcently recent. So lake as 1747,
Christmas pudding appeal-A-a thing unknown, to cookery
books. There is a glimmer of tradition abocir it in the
reign of Charles ll.—Famli,Priend.

A.-DOERING CHURCHES /Lip .11ousEs WITH 32ISLICTOE.
—The custom of adorning: houses, .churches,„ &c.,, with
mitiletoe,' holly, and other. winter shrubs and. trees, is
perhaps of older date than any other Christmas observance,
It-had its origin with the Druids who were the priests of
the-ancient Britons long precious to the invasion of this
aeuntry by the Romans, under-Julius Caisar. it was their
wont, at a certain period of rthe year, to resort- to the
arrests in which grew the- largest oak trees, followed by
w great concourse of people• of, all degrees. There; with
many ceremonies, they proceeded to cut downs gliantity
of the branches of the miseltoe growing on. the oaks,
which, having divided into small pieces, they distributed-
amongst the religious students- and votaries whet had ace-
companied them, and who) considering these branches are
so many emblems of goo& fortune, adorned theindwellings.
with them. There was a sacredness attached to ,theeustona.
which preserved its practite.for a long periostand.we find
it mentioned in many of the old records. A peculiar.
sanctity was attached totile.misletoe.—
" Christmas, the ipyous period of the yean!,
Now bright with holly all the temples strew,
With laurel green, and sacred misletoe."'
This Druidical custornappears to have surmiVed,theehockc
attending the incursions, of foreign races, and the over-
throw of the old established religion ; and; Christianity,
loth to wage war with, every ancient usage, consented. to
retain this one as the-most innocent of them all, Indeed
green boughs seem telave been almost universally looked
upon as emblems of purity. Stowe, the. old English
chronicler, relates, that not only the pariah church, public
offices, and houses were adorned with holme, ivy,. bays,. and
other greens of the- season, but that conduits and standards
in the streets were-likewise garnished, He-tells that,, "in
1444, by a tempest of thunder and lightning towards the
morning of Christmas Day, at the Leadenhall, in Corabill,
a standard of trees, being set up in the midst of the. pave-
ment, fast in the ground, nailed full, of holme and ivy, for
disport of Christmas, the pole was torn up and east down
by the malignant spirit (as it was. thought), and the stones
of the pavement all about were cast in the street and into
diver houses, so that the people were sore aghast at the
great tempest." From that time even auto the present,
this customs, with the exception, of the adorning of the
streets, hag remained in all its integrity, amongst high and
low, rich and poor, and long may it be preserved to us and
to our children • for we love the sight of the green holly
and its radiant i•ed berries, even as we love the memory of
our childhood.—Family Friend.
SERVANTGALISM" Ii AMERICA.--Finally, a pretty,
skilful girl of twenty-two did make up her mind, after
hesitating and looking at her mother for a long time,
expressing the fear that she wouldn't be able to satisfy a
" foreign" lady, and promising to think about the matter,
Persia Wheeler—so she was called—had never yet lived
out herself; but her two older sisters were in Boston, one
as cook, and the other as chambermaid. The last time
they came home on a visit, they had worn the most beau.
tiful dresses, and thrown poor Persia, in her shilling-calico
Sunday dress, entirely into the shade! Susan, the cook,
had shown her a card-ease of tortoise-shell, inlaid with '
mother-of-pearl, that she used to carry when she had her
afternoon and went out, just as the young ladies did when
they went out to make calls. It had only cost her the
wages of two or three weeks. Poor Persia had neither
money for buying nor giving away. When, therefore,
Clotilde urged her kindly, and promised her a dollar and a
half, that is, full city wages, a week, she could not resist
any longer. "She only," she said, "wanted to get fixed
a little first; the young man there," she added, pointing
to Hubert, " might come for her with the carriage the
day after to-morrow." Clotilde replied, with a smile, that
if she could not find the way alone, and get her things over
herself, she would send the boy for her on the day
appointed. This was done. But Clotilde was quite
alarmed, when Eli drove up with a gaily-dressed lady
instead of a cook. It was Persis Wheeler in her best
Sunday clothes, in which she hoped to make a better
impression than in the Cinderella costume in which Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert had surprised her the other day. She
wore a white dress, and a string of blue glass beads around
her throat, a blue silk mantilla, lined with yellow calico,
and around her straw bonnet a wreath of artificial roses.
Fortunately, she had brought along a working dress in her
bandbox, and in this she soon presented herself to Clotilde
ready for work. The latter soon saw that her mother had
brought her up to it, and that a quick skilful girl had
entered her service. Persia had soon prepared several
palatable dishes. " Dinner'll be ready right away," she
said to Clotilde. " You can just be setting the table. Or
shall the coloured boy do it ?"—" He has to attend to
the stable." replied her mistress, " and I do not like
to employ him in the house. I expect this
from you, Persis. You can easily move the
dinner from the fire a little until you have set the
table, and we are ready." " Very well," said the girl,
" and I'll set the table for three ?" " For two only," Clo-
tilde directed, with a faint misgiving, and consequently not
without embarrassment. " Only for two—lsn't Mr.
Hubert going to dine at home ?" " Certainly, he and I
are two." The girl's face lengthened. Clotilde, unpleasant
as it was, thought it the best way to settle the matter
at once. " Persia," she said kindly, "a person that
cooks or does the waiting, can hardly eat at the same
table with the gentleman or lady of the house. It
would be entirely improper for her to leave her seat so
often ; and kitchen-work and ashes prevent the dress from
being as neat as desirable for persons who are only ac-
customed to finer work." The tears had come into Persia'
eyes. She considered a while. " Very well," she said,
" I don't care much about it, on the whole. Susan and
Mary Ann can't do it either. I thought people weren't
so proud in the country, but it's a Tact, you get dirty and
sooty before you know it. After all, I wouldn't like to
show myself to Mr. Hubert in this trim," she added,
going to the looking-glass, and smoothing her hair, "
fix it up after dinner."—The

"HIGH STYLE" Ili ILLNESIL—Miss Cordelia used at
one time to come to us, and tell us she had a " pain in
her chest " so often that Ethelinda and I began to be
uneasy, and questioned Mr. Turner to know if her
mother had died of consumption ; and many a good pot
of currant jelly have I given her, and only made her pain
at the chest worse, for—would you belive it P—Miss
Morton told her never to say she had got a stomach-ache,
for that it as not proper to say so. I had heard it called
by a worsiame still in my youth, and so had Ethelinda ;
and we sat and wondered to ourselves how it was that
some kinds of pain were genteel and others were not. I
said that old families, like the Mortons, generally thought
it showed good blood to have their complaints as high in
the body as they could—brain-fevers and head-aches had
a better sound, and did, perhaps, belong more to the aris-
tocracy.—Dickens's "Household Words."
SHELL-CANEO PORTRAITS.—Few persons who go to
Rome return without bringing with them some of the
beautiful shell cameos which are produced there, and it has
often been asked why it is that artistic talent has not been
applied in this direction in England, considering that the
shell out of which they are cut is as readily obtainable
here as in Italy. " Cameo," we may remind the reader'
was originally the designation of a peculiar sort of oynx,
in which figures and representations of landscapes ap-
peared naturally. It has come to be applied to all gems
or stones in which the object is worked in relievo, in oppo-
sition to " intaglio," in which the subject is indented.
The ancients have left us most marvellous works of this kind,
but the time they occupy, the increased value of artistic
labour, and the consequent great cost of what can be ap-
mciated only by a few, have led to the disase of the art.
The working of shell cameos is a very different matter, so
far as regards the mechanical portion of it, and might be
pursued with success, we should imagine, especially
by ladies.

PICACT/CAL APPLICATION.—A lay preacher, whose
darksome daily labour brings light and warmth to our
firesides, and whose Sabbath endeavours are directed to the
enlightentiw of our heads and the warming;' of our hearts,
had the worldly misfortune, no long time ago, to be com-
pelled to dispose' of a sorry old horse. To sell him in the
ordinary way, would have been unproductive —nobody
would have grrelf twenty shillings for the brute:;--so the
owner, tempted by the love of lucre, made him the-subject
of a lottery, awl,- to the scandal of many of his, adiniremr
realised a rare price, by a profane raffle. On the itollowing
Sunday, he was edifying his hearers with a discourse' on
the Prodigal Son—ew whom he, bore very hard-fn• and
when he had pictured him in all his wickedness, and
worthlessness, he asked his cowegation how the potii=
gate's father was to• disposeor so good-for-noon:1g- a
wretch ? " Why," cried one' of hearers, "raffle him to)
lie' sure!" The poor pitman' was struck dumb.—Gal-
Read Observer.

POTTLATION OF NEW VO.FV.—We• mean no disrespest
to- the miraculous city of New cork when we say that it
gins by no means a fair representation of an American
capital'; at least one-third of its population is the spawn
of other lands, for to every gireenativekyou have at least
otteftSre_igner, the predorairAnce of those sons of emigra-
tion' &Ng Irish and German' The. cenvats of New York,
if strictly scrutinised, would lefOtitidto• consist of human
centrifattibus from every part of the habitat& globe, who
tend nil& to disfigure the gnniiie character of the
natives. This is not so much tile-casein-ions/ other State
of the Irni;m; though we by no means- Irish At to be in-
ferred -thatevery portion of it irtuot,•ton certain extent,
so inflicted. In New England it is clear& less dieeernible ;
and the genellire American character irnowhereeso conspi-
cnous as in Illepeculiar realm of Yankeeism. Vlretareper-
fectlY well aware that a New Yorker would' feglainnelf
regularly insulted if you were to, designate' hhn as a
Yankee, and soNvordd a Yankee if ycot calledhittr anything
md and New England:
A.MERICAN‘P:4O^2MINCIATION.—Nosii! Webster, the
preface to his t.wrir " Dictionary of thegriglish Language,"
thoroughly disparnge? Dr. Johnson's, and Most Americans
are of Webster'sopimon. When Stuart;their dit'itifigu:Shed
painter, was intionfrced to the leviatha-ilot our literature,
jefulson, snrprjgtdi at his speaking such' !good: Eneish,
aked him where lie' learnt it ? and Stfiwart's cool reply
was "'Not in yourPletionary." In additiOnlto the motor
words which are °Milo he found in theikosen vocabulary.
they have notions cir pronunciation thaVare• peculiar*
Web- private propertP.: It is not the fashieu-iwith us,-as-we,
hare already observed; to =II `beauty" bocrtje,nor "'duty'
daefk, nor " due" ditv.7 neither would tfie!adeption ten"
for too," nor of nOOP, for "news," nor-of-en-gine fare-
"engine," nor of gererine for "genuinerof deefe far-
" diar,"of inquirry for.' enquiry," and ccauthiss
expressions; slip very glibly off our tongues; butt if you
only-4A an American ?Ay he so pronounces-them, he will/ I
tell parr that he believer-it to be the rigLetway; andrif
you remind him that tblreare no such worrkkas -he occa-
sionail9- uses, in the English language, his answer will be,...;
" There mayn't be in yours, but there artt-inours!"—
Alfreinftenn'i Old England and New England:"
CF.S.IZACTEU OF A Ilmr'CLßEGYMAN.—.l\eiergyman,
by his' character and deign of life, ought NI, ;be a man
separated from the cares:and concerns of tiiii-world, and
dedicated to, the study and 'metlitation of dibine;matters ;
whosevenversation ought- to be a pattern fel+ others, a
constant preaching to hiii-neople; who ought 'to, offer up
the prayer of the peopiti-stia ;their name, aufi,as their
mouth;. to GOd ; who one, it !to be praying azel, Interceding
for therm in secret, as weir; as officiating mrong:them in
public-;.-:whO ought to be distributing ameng,:tbem the
sacredrifes,;which are the•-bialges, the union,, and the sup-
ports oftfiriatians. He ought to admonieito to. reprove,
and to-comfort them, not-only- •by his genecaldnetrine in
his sermons, but from horse- to house, that .3e-he may do
these things more home effectually tharcan be done
from Clem/pit. He is tirsvatch over their setiK. to keep
them from error, and to Aires; them out of :heir sins, by
giving-thtnn warning of ind,gnxents of God.; to visit
the elefi-erel to prepare thenafor the jtidgrienall and life to
come Above-all studies, he eraglit to apply
himseirtO understand the-Holy Scriptures art.tirt; to have
his memory-,well furnished-'that way, that 3fl upon all oc-
casiOnAfemay be able to enftirce what he say: of them,
and (30, be an able minister of the New T&tarnent.—
Bishbp,Rin-net's Diseaarse,of the Pasteur; Care.
TI NOFFOLES OF THE WES?' Ihrszes.-121e• variations
are startling. A soft -Ale .eye, with lotigt-blitek lashes,
suches I saw yesterday-over 'a pair of tawny Eye curved
with ttfe Alhambra's own model•of CastiLlin .scorn, looks
strangely contradictoryand 'the singular-persistence of
Nature-in preserving contradictory
teeth and raven hair to the
dark ;Hebe, whatever other:variation :of ft:Store she may
h'ave;..makes them all comparatively beau-EVIL We think
we -must go to Athens-ortNapoli to see tlito.straight Gre-
cian; nose, with its thin, nostril, in periestion ; but no
scurlater could better mould one, than from the models of
tan and orange whiclahe could beckon tollina from every
corner of St. Thomas:. The ,short uppee-lip of high de-
scent, and the delicatestnall 'oval of,the-• chin are equally
common. And these gifts, priceless to prhlcesses, are held ''
itacareless unconscicueriess by fruit-girls; subject to none
bat municipal laws—the Mustis and'Pastis, whose merry
eyes never saw alphabet, and whose •bsown uncles never-
knew stocking. 4"'*- * • Every female. is trained from'
childhood to carry burthens upon- the aimed. From a tea—
cup to a water-pail; everything is placed on the small;
cushion at the top•of -the skull. The- absolute erectness.:
of figure necessary to keep the weight where it can beatt
be supported by the spine, the nieetaltince of gait to poise,
it without being steadied by the hands, the throwing fosr,
ward of the chest; with the. posture and effort that are.
demanded, and the deliberatenessavith which all turning,
round or looking aside must be-4We,, combine to forma an,
habitual demeanour and' gait of loftiness and•
stateliness. A prouder-lookklg• procession than the ;
market-women, as they come and go with their baskets: '
on their hea,l4, across the sq-itarehelow our verandaoould !
not be found' in the world: They- look incapable of being
surprised ihto a quick mosement ; and are, without, ex-
ception, queenly of mien—though it come, strangely
enough, from carrying the. burthens of the slave.-,---N;
Willis's Tripdo•the

EXTRACTS. FRONT PUNCH'S ALMANACK:
A CRICRETING PARADox.—Any eleven can, make. a
MOM
Why. dowe know that Cleopatra did not wearpockets ?
Because she put her wiper in her bosom.
PROPER DlGNlM—etand no sauce from, any servant
but your cook.
HINT TO THE HOPRED.—if you desire to be released'
from a rash promise of marriage, breathe vows of love con,
sinually after eating onions.
QUALIFICATION TOR LADY'S GROOM. —As bridegroom,
a young man is preferred who has no character to produee
from any last place.
FALLACY OP APPEAEANCES.—At the richest dessert,
after the most sumptuous dinner, it may be.often observed
that the fattest and jolliest-looking men are given to pine.
LEGAL.—The proverb says, " A fool keeps his own
counsel -" and Briefless says, " He only wishes mane fool
would keep him."

NATURAL HISTORY FOR BOARDING SOROOLS.—A
young lady who had heard that there were cygnets in the
Thames went up to Richmond in a steamer expecting to
see some seals.
THE FIT/I/MING TOUCH TO A PICTVBIL—Artigt :
"Now, don't hesitate to say it you see anything I can
alter or improve. Candid Friend : "Hm ! Well ! No !
I don't see anything—unless, perhaps, you-a might repaint
the principal figures, and—l—yes —I should certainly get
a new background in.

QUERIES TO WHICH WE PARS H POR A REPLY.—IS
any account of the dome of St. Paul's to be found in the
Domesday Book at the British Museum ?—lf " Day
breaks," as the almanacks prophesy, will that affect him-
self only, or will the bankruptcy extend to the firm of
" Day and Martin ?'
How TO PLOT OUT AN EVENING PARTY.-Sift card-
rack for most respectable acquaintances. Frame invita-
tions with lace borders. Sweep drawing-room quite clean,
and shoot rubbish into back bedroom. Map out an arti-
ficial parterre on floor with chalk. Sow seed for seedcake.
Gather mustard for sandwiches. Beat about the bush fbr
gooseberries, and put them in bottles, to come up as
champagne. Order in old man from greengrocer's, and
put Berlin bags on his hands for gloves. Buy slip for
new dress, and gather flowers in the Burlington Arcade
for your hair. Put the young twigs in their beds, but
the elderly plants stick in library with cards. Lay traps
for rich young men. Plant your company in rows and
couples, and set musicians in full blow in corner of draw-
ing-room. When they are a little faint, water them with
sherry. Hang wallflowers round the room. Dig for com-
pliments, and run up a flirtation wherever you can fasten
one. Above all, nail a husband, or else your plot will be
without its greatest ornament and centre.
Por GOES THE QIIESTION.—" Pop goes the question"
has
has oftenled people a pretty dance. It has been a pop
that always been exceedingly popular, and is revived
from time to time as much from necessity as fashion.
The step is a very decided one; but though usually re-
garded as difficult, yet a little boldness and address is all
that is required to make the gentleman a rapid proficient.
The steps are taken as follows :—Gentleman advances and
bows to lady ; chasse to lady's side ; hands across ; ba-
lancez, and set (on a chair). Lady (makes) advances,
and retreats (into herself ); gentleman follows (up his
advantage), and balancez (on the chair) ; lady's chain (of
endearments) ,• cavalier snel; set (to work) right and left
(with small talk); heads round (with excitement) ; down
the middle and up again (with prepared speeches) ; gen-
tleman takes lady's hand; lady withdraws it ; poussette ;
right and left ; hands across ; gentleman drops on one
knee, lady (to his purpose) ; grand round
(of arm
waist). Pop goes the question This
andab turnsutabout
teh e
step Is generally concluded by the figures joining hands,
and uniting in a ring. The usual finale to the step is
childish 14 the extreme.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

THE REV. E. GIRDLESTONE AND THE

NATIONAL SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MUMMWM

SlR,—Can you oblige me by finding space for a letter,
which closes my correspondence with the Rev. Edward
Girdlestone (as given in your paper of the 29th ultimo) ?
Your obedient servant,
FREDERICK S. WARREN.
Sanctuary, Westminster, Dec. 215t,•1853.

REV. Sia,—The distinction which you seek to establish
in your letter to me of the 21st of November, between
persons and practices, is quite untenable. A person can-
not be engaged in dishonest practices and remain an
honest man ; as little can a man, day by day, and week by
week, join and take part in " Romish mummeries " with-
out himself being a " mummer." You have taken on
yourself, both in speaking and writing, rudely to attack
and censure the way in which other Christians think fit to
praise their Maker, and have called the sacred services of St.
Mark's College Chapel, a " Romish Mummery." I w ould that
even now you might consider and retract the uncharitable
words, With more consistency might you then, in your
appointed place, stand up on our approaching Christmas
festival, and preach " Peace on earth, goodwill to men ;"
but if not, at least be bold, and do not shrink from the
full responsibility of your words.
Secondly,—l maintain that the simple statement of the,
Society's income never having exceeded £9,000 or £lO,OOO
appears, in one shape or another, in almost every speech
you have made.

I go to the acknowledged report of the meeting at
Willis's-rooms, fik May lagt, and find you saying,—" Allet
this brings me, any lord, (you are addressing the chair-
man) naturally to enquire why the income of the National,
Society has been stopped at so paltry a sum as £10,000;
why the charity of the whole Church of England in the
stream of education is: limited to a sum which we find a
common amount of income even amongst the country
gentlemen of England"

You have, in that one sentence to depreciate and make
light of the efforts of the. National Society—represented
one of its funds as the whore- income,. said been guilty of a
more palpable fallacy still; in alluding to such income as
the sole charity of the Churcii,itr the- matter of education.
And once again, in your. letter to-mei you tvisote from the
Society's last report an item of £10,764, received up to
May fast, on account of the present Queen's- fetter fund,
and exciaim,—" See what watitt of confidenm—£lo,ooo
instead of the usual £27,000:' Now, you might easily
have known that the £lO,OOO rope esented bat tl e. begin-
riing nithe collection, which alreadk dotiblesiliat mount,
and is- not yet complete. How will& you: seek to. lead
your'readers' to believe that the £lb,ooo would roin. the
teat' bulk le the collection ?

Thirdly,—You brought a deliberaevhargeof "Yrabday
etleket-playing" against St. Mark's.- On the'word of the
Collegeauthorfties, I gave a distinct &al to youreliagge,
and proved, moreover, that even the antniymouS pamphlet
tbWhich•you referred me as your suaree of informal-CIA.
did not so mttelk•as mention " cricket." You now bring
cliarge'of "Suntray leap-frog and othersithilar pastimesr
witch you'say may fairly be supposed to-"'include cricket.'
I am obliged, it the cause of truth, to tell you that your'
newrchargelas-to better foundation to gest on than your
former one. The-liincipal of the CollegrsitaplY declares
that Sunday games or pastimes of any description; are.
unknewn at the Colfege.
I avail myself or this opportunity of spwifying one •or •
two other statementk=which of late have been freely cir--
culated.'in certain qtArters. It is said that the committee-
of the ..Vational • Society have been contending 'with the •
Privy Mundt fora scheme of exclusive elutes' imanage-
ment &Al to the • legitimate influence of the • laity ; but
while thavhde 'correspondence has been open to all, no
sentence•has ever Veen. named or pointed out:wilisih could
be tortured Into the assertion or recommendatton of such
a principli.• On the other hand, it is plain,. from each
letter, (anclianypersonvlio will take the troablettO readi
the correspondence may satisfy himself of the ,correctness
of what I eitT,) that tI sole object of the committee
throughout has been to procure, for promoters of schools,
the liberty of settling the management on !hat basis
which seemed-hest 'to them.

Much also has heenTakof a supposed intentkcs of the
Society to impose some nesl.- interpretation of theii "terms
of union," whieh should hamper managers of settOols in
dealing with children- untiaptisecl, or children ofahlisen-
. ters ; and thii, fabricatithc is industriously diculated,
while the recent' declaration, of the committee, "'That it
!;.flies been their principle an&practice, from the beginning,
4os, abstain fromrany .attemßtt* to controul those wile., .had
the management "of richbols;."• is fresh from the selretary's
pen. Other charges,-.suchae, the indignities saidlog have
been offered to his Grace Ili& President ; the atieyea pre-
dominance of Archtleaeon NU/8613in the Society'scouucils;
the misrepresentations • connected with • the appointment
i of Mr. Daymond'to-a:mastershipatSt.Mark's College, 4tc.,
; Bhirve more fully-dealt withi in two published letters to.
the• Rev. William, Ptillbck.t: My sole object in those let-
-1 tersbas been to sublify'thirfricads of the society that the
I charges against it which,: disring the past summeribave
-deer matter of platfbrm declamation in many part* of the'
e2untry, may be- satisfabtorify and easily disprw+ech
lame the honour tovemaino-Nir obedient sery ant;._
FREDERICK S. WARREN.
New-. Edward Gredidstone..
..Two Letters to the Pollock. By Frederick S.
'Marren. London: J. _Whitaker, 41, Pall-mall. Liverpool:
lDeiighton and Laugliton ; .Webb and Hunt.