The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

To trace the deep infection that pervades
The crowded town, and taints the rural

fair realms of science, learning,
and scatter all_thelnmod of lies,

To
And chase the varying falsehoo
Let patriot warmth awake, and
Expel these vile impostures fro
Confounding good and

aeath w•

Each patriot passion sinks

CandOur—which spares its toe, .._
With bigot zeal to combat for his friends;
Candour—which loves in see-saw strain to tell
Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ;
Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame,
Convinced that all men's motives are the same ;
And finds, with keen discriminating sight.
Black's not so black, nor white so verywhite.
I love the bold uncompromising
h nViCat•s defined,
Whose principles are fixed, w--°tinco, candour's spite
Who scouts and scorns in
All taste in morals, innate sense ofright,
art,
And na•ure's impulse, all uncheck'd by
And feelings fine, that float about the heart •
Content, for good men's guidance.
On moral truth.to rest, and Gospel lh
Britain beware ~nor let the insidious foe,
of force despairing, aim a deadlier blow—
Thy peace, thy strength, with devilish wiles assail,
And, when her arms are vain, by arts prevail.
True, thou art rich, art powerful ! Through thine isle
Industrious skill, contented labour, smile.
Far seas are studded with thy countless sails—
What wind 'out wafts them, and what shore but hails?
True, thou art brave ! O'er all the busy land
In patriot ranks embattled myriads stand.
But what avails to guard each outward part
If subtlest poison, circling at thy heart,
Spite of thy courage, of thy power, and wealth,
Mine the sound fabric of thy vital health ?
Guard we but our own hearts ; with constant view
To ancient morals, ancient manners true—

True to therille'rWriUe;:such as nursed
Our fathers' breasts, and this proud isle preserved
For many a rugged age ; and scorn the while
Each philosophic Atheist's specious guile.
Then shall we brave the storm ; in danger's hour
Placing our refuge in Jehovah's power.

LUKE ATURE.

,—Books, New Prints, Music, &c

BOOKS FOR REVIEW, &C

ei,•iew, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-

lion-court, Fleet-street,

DOL STANDARD,

and receive attention

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods.
Little need be said in eulogy of a magazine which
enjoys so large a share of public favour, and which
confessedly stands at the head of our periodical
literature. Wherever the language is known,
Blackwood's Magazine is eagerly sought for, whe-
ther in the far stations of our Indian empire, or in
the backwoods of America, through the reprints of
New York publishers. It is a universal favourite,
and each succeeding number proves how well it has
earned the distinction. The January number opens
with an ably-written 'article on " Slavery and the
Slave Power in the United States of America," not
suggested, as may have been supposed, by the po-
pularity of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," but it is a re-
view on a work published in Boston, entitled
" Five Years' Progress of the Slave Power ; a
Chapter of American History." "My Novel ; or,
Varieties in English Life"—has at length reached
its final chapter, from which we give the following
short extract descriptive of

THE NEW LANDED PROPRIETOR.

An excellent justice of the peace, though more severe
than your family proprietors generally are ;—a spirited
landlord, as to encouraging and making, at a proper per-
centage, all permanent improvements on the soil, but
formidable to meet if •the rent be not paid to the day, or
the least breach of covenant be heedlessly incurred on a
farm that he could let for more money ;—employing a
great many hands in productive labour, but exacting
rigorously from all the utmost degree of work at the
smallest rate of wages which competition and the poor-
rate permit ;—the young and robust in his neighbourhood
never stinted in work, and the aged and infirm, as lumber
worn out, stowed away in the workhcuse ;—Richard
Avenel holds himself an example to the old race of land-
lords; and, taken altogether, is no very bad specimen of
the rural civilisers whom the application of spirit and
capital raise up in the new.
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A " Letter to Eusebius about Many Things" gives
us the opportunity of quoting the following warn-
ing against the