The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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A BRACE OF BORES.—In every society you will find a
person who will talk and a person who will interrupt.
The worst is, the one is not a corrective of the other, for
the talkative bore invariably talks when he is not wanted
to talk, and the interruptative bore will interrupt at the
very period when he is least wanted to interrupt.—Punch.
THE EFFECT OF COLD UPON, METAL.—It was neces-
sary to be very careful with our drinking cups. Tin never
suited, for it always adhered to the lips, and took a por-
tion of the Akin along with it. A dog attempting to lick
a little fat from an iron shovel stuck fast to it, and dragged
it by means of his tongue, until, by a sudden effort, he
-ot clear, leaving several inches of the skin and adjacent
_
One of the seamen endeavour-
e eye in the splice of his track-
el-after the true sailor fashion,
le result was that he lost a great portion
lips and tongue.—Dr. Sutherland's
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rope, put the marlin-4

into his mouth ;
of the skin of

PORTLAND.—in the
re called Kyle and Cuninghame, where

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his Grace's estates are situated; many anecdotes are cur-
rent which illustrate the kindliness of his noble nature,
and his sympathy for the humble poor. Often, while
spending a portion of the summer at one of his country
seats, he would wander out in a suit of homely. grey
cloth, just like a decent farming-man, and thus mingling
with the people incognito, he learned not a few of those
trials and sorrows which he had it in his power to alle-
viate. One forenoon he was forced by a sudden shower
to take refuge in a cotter's house, where the gudewife was
busily engaged in the manufacture of oaten cakes; and
as he seemed a " decent, weelfaured body," to adopt her
own words, the frank but unsuspecting dame entered
warmly into conversation with her visitor—gave him a
good seat by the fire—proffered him a piece of her oaten
cake—and became wondrously familiar on the subject of
her poor husband John, " a man wha had been in his
Grace's service for three-and-thretty years, and wha,
though sairly bowed down and bent, had to work in these
a'-day rains, else his wages wad be stopped ; which, of
course, he was ower pair to afford." The rain still con-
tinuing, and apparently not intending to stop in a hurry,
the stranger solicited the loan of an umbrella, as he was
desirous of walking to his destination, a mile or two dis-
tant. The good woman thought this a bold stroke rather
for one she had never seen before; but expressing her
belief in the plainest Scotch that he had " a gae honest-
looking face," sho, after a slight hesitation, went the
length of risking the big family umbrella with him. An
hour afterwards a servant on horseback returned the
precious article along with " his Grace's compliments."
As may be imagined, the honest dame felt all of a flutter,
and at night, when John came home, she told him the
tale, asking for advice as to how she might rectify the
terrible blunder, which the poor folks imagined would do
them serious harm. Their fears, happily, proved ground-
less ; and when the faithful old cottager was sent for by
the agent, at the end of the week, it was to hear the
agreeable tidings that, by orders of the Duke, he was to
have a pension for the remainder of his life equal to his
earnings, and that he would be expected only to do little
odd turns about the property when he had a mind so to
do.—Notesfrom the North.
How NEWS WENT IN THE TIME OP THE WAR.—
The following graphic sketch of the manner in which
news were carried, and the intelligence of victory con-
firmed, in the exciting years which witnessed the fall of
Napoleon, is quoted from " Paris after Waterloo," a new
work by James Simpson, of Edinburgh :—" Such were
the first tidings of the war, received in England in four
days, and in Scotland in six, which, had they then been
known, electric wires would have brought in as
minutes. The author witnessed the effect of the news in
Edinburgh. It met him as he entered the outer halls of

the Courts of Law, still called the Parliament House,
from having been the hall of the Scottish Parliament
before the Union. The unwonted• words were passing
from mouth to mouth—" Wellington is defeated ! He
has retreated to a place called Waterloo ! The game is
up I Toe hero of a hundred fights quails before the eagles
of Napoleon ! . The Prussian army is annihilated ! ' And
thus and thus was Pandora's box emptied.

'No! No!'

nguine reasoner of the long
robe, we shall have news of a victory yet ; and as it must
be near at hand, one way or the other, I should be more
delighted than surprised if the Castle guns should wake
Another barrister, quite as
would cheerfully pay a guinea

D- m orr

Patriotic, but less

for every gun fired for a victory, to any one who would
take very easy odds. The bet was taken, the taker patri-
otically wishing to win, the offerer still more patriotically
wishing to lose. The business of the morning had scarcely
proceeded two hours, when a gentleman rushed into the
great hail, and, almost breathless, shouted Victory !'
He was mobbed. How had the news come ? " By
express from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, then in
London. The French completely routed, at use place
called Waterloo, by one grand bayonet charge of the
whole British army.' Such was the brief flourish, for a
lengthened struggle of ten hours, which was first sounded
by Fame's trumpet. The bearer of the glad tidings was
soon in the Court where the judges were sitting ; the
cheers of the outer hall were suspended only to be re-
newed in the inner. Further law proceedings were out of
the question ; adjournment was ruled ; and judges, advo.
cates [barristers], agents [attorneys], and officers, were
speedily in the streets, already crowded by their excited
and exulting townsmen. Nobody could stay at home.
The schools were let loose. Business was suspended, and
a holiday voted by acclamation. Everybody shook hands
with everybody ; and as the Lord Provost's brief express,
got by heart by the whole population, could not be made
longer or more particular than it was, the most restless
were perforce obliged to wait, with what patience they
might, for the dawn of the next day. The sun of that
morning saw no ' sluggard slumbering 'neath his beams.'
The streets were crowded before the post arrived. The
mail coach was descried approaching, adorned with lau-
rels and flags, the guard waving his hat ; and soon it
dashed into the town amid cheers that made the welkin
ring. The accounts were now official. All was con-
firmed; and as early as seven o'clock, the Castle flag .
rose, and nineteen twenty-four pounders sounded the
ears and filled the eyes—for the effect was overpowering—
of the excited throng. Need we say that the nineteen
guineas were joyfully paid by the loser ? or need we add,
that the winner handed them over to the fund speedily
commenced for the wounded and for the widows and
families of the slain,"