The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

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twenty, have had their £5OO a year for life awarded

niers" were a

fished in the na•

tional coining shop. N'importe, your real men of metal—
tin—in the city, they want no change in the system ; they
want to go on in the time-venerated plan, of four farthings
one penny, twelve pence one shilling, twenty shillings one
pound. The floriit, after its "dainty device" was altered.

area more m compliment to the Prince Consort, its

proposer, than for its necessity. The half-farthings were
also allowed to be useful to the Topsies of the colonies ;

but the cents and rails, where is the advantage ? Oh ! I'll
tell you—to pay four farthings, when three would be ample,
for the value received, is foolish ! Providence ! come to the
relief of poorer Englishmen, when the richer descend to
such cheeseparing. At this present moment there are
hundreds of us in town, who are ashamed to offer Cabbie
a sixpence for a ride. The English gentleman never carries

tie may a

or a Joey, the ultima thule of decimal coinage
coat pocket full of mils and cents ? JaMais
Let tlci hnl4- a.—

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bravest soldiers of this or of an:

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other age

my eccentric, daring, and intellectual friend, CHARLES
JAMES NA.PIER, who died the other day, having been cut
and hacked and shot all over for upwards of fifty yews in

the service of his country. The NAPIERS stand out in
bold relief from all other names
that there never was a NAPIER that did not carry a "bee
in his bonnet," a phrase in their country meaning little
short of being daft. It is stated that the name is derived
from two words--nae (no) peer (equal.) Be this as it
may, the great original of the name was the noble founder

saying, however

of logarithms,—great ratio of numbers,--vvonderful con-
trivance for expeditious calculation, unerring, moreover,
as all things in mathematics must necessarily be, or they

become sham,—no mathematics. Circumstances, it may
be needless here to be noticed, have brought me into con-
tact with many noble officers in this and the Indian ser-

vice ; the NAPIERS, Sir ALEXANDER Bu NEB, Colonel
BURNS, son of Romig, the author of bonnie gangs, sung

now by as bonnie women at the elegant reunions of the
presidencies of the east, as in the thunder and lightning
Parties of the west. These men, and others well re-
membered, are all gone. It was but yesterday that
COl. BURNE 3 was numbered with the dead, and still closer
15 NAPIER. " Give me said

Et man with a nose,"
WELLINGTON one day, referring to NAPIER'S beak,
which was tremendous in its line. The sinewy Sikhs, and
other rice-eating specimens of 'Pastern pin-wire, for all
are as tough, called Nipi by a name equivalent, or
worse, to our demon; I cannot venture to spell the
Indian word, but the sound of it was an echo to the sense,
and certainly the General looked any other character than
human or divine when he put his spectacles on—to fight.
His system of no-shaving answered many ends—a saving
""iv, and steel ; but it made him more frightful
to his enemies, and helped, poor tallow, to hide the
damage done by that dreadful shot, which made him
" hold his jaw " ever after the battle of Busaco. Pro-
bably nothing became NAPIER

better than his real

modesty at the banquet given to him on the eve of his
departure to supersede that gallant old cock, Gen. GouGir,
after his disastrous spree at ChiLlingwallah. When
NA.riz4 went there, he found what he expected where
GOUGH was—the affair settled. The late Gen. RAPIER
was very positive—thought he could never be wrong—nor
was he frequently; but he would "stand no nonsense."
Limn, was very ticklish; hence his row with DALHOUSIE,
which nearly drove them both demented. Col. BURNS, of
the Indian army, who died a few days ago, lived to a toler-
able old age ; I remember dining with him and a handful
of friends on the anniversary of his father's birth-day ;
they appeared to me to be all Scotchmen, but,with the ex-
ception of proposing the memory of ROBERT BURNS, and
his son's response, all the rest was Italian singing, which
ROBIE denounced. I protested, but it was of no use.
" Dove sono" and " Un segretta d' importanza" took the
place of "Auld lang syne" and "My bonnie Jean." Sir

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ALEXANDER BURNES was a branch of the poet's family,
for all the ein his name. Sir ALEXANDER'S career was a
brilliant and woeful one; full to overflowing with generous
feeling, intrepidity, sagacity,—mere beastly, ignorant
savages cut him to pieces at Cabool. The Whig govern-
ment blamed the most discreet yet daring officer ever em-
ployed by England in India, and CAII HOB/MUSE, now Lord
BROUGHTON, with brandied proboscis, refused to grant all
the papers demanded by the House of CoMmons, which
would have made poor massacred BURNEs' weeping relations
satisfied. I'llnever forget his joining me in the slips of Drury-
lane Theatre to see " Anster Fair" at hall' price with all his
honours flush upon him ; he buttoned his overcoat, hiding
his " bits of orders," ran from a grand dinner party to see
the play ;—he had never seen one all his life before. In
three months he fell in an awful tragedy. Lady SALE,
also, she's gone, a day or two ago. Strong-minded woman,
kept them all in order in that obscene captivity of theirs
men' women, and children—gentlemen and ladies, all
huddled together in one room, with a landing place—a
top of the stairs—ealledin London. I forget the name of
the officer who had orders for the release of the captives ;
his Christian name was James ; the poor prisoners waiting
for freedom,—gasping for liberty—on his appearance
knocked up, the best way they could, the air of " Ye've
been lang a' comin' Jammie." But returning to General
NAPIER ; intelligence of his death was communicated to
the QUEEN at the Phoenix-park. The Sovereign was much
affected. Yet another NA.PIEE--CIIARLEY, the sailor,—
where is he ? Nobody knows. Dear old Admiral, never
shall forget the last time I sipped gin and water with
you, just before you smashed Mygull's pretensions, over
in Portugal;; and never shall I forget taking a pinch of
snuff, the first Sunday you were in Hyde-park, after your
return, out of the diamond box given to you by PEDRO.
All the NA.PIERS, as stated, have " bees" in their bonnets ;
the one last spoken' of might have been a lord of the
admiralty, if he had been less " cantankerous," and written
less to the Times.

Complaints are generally and justly made with re,
to Lord PALMERSTON'S smoke nuisance bill not comir.s
into operation until the expiry of one year after the passing
of the measure. I have no hesitation in saying that it is
the most foolish piece of lenient Consideration ever prac-
tised, performed, or perpetrated by Minister, Whig or
Tory. The owners of the tall chimnies, for ever vomitting
forth their dense black smoke, poisoning everything that
bas life, and destroying everybody, don't understand his

lordship's kindnes
twenty pounds sterlin
plying with the bill ; and for this pitiful sum we are all to
be choked for twelve months. No, we won't,—but no
thanks to PAR. Several of our great brewers and owners

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of factories are themselves
the evil. Not so others.
places which abound on
above bridge, have been at
since the bill was passed.
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to take WI
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