The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

FILL TIIE BRIGHT GOBLET.

Fill the bright goblet, and scare away sorrow,
'Tis folly to dream of the evils to come;
Fill the bright goblet ! at least till to-mor row—
The sunshine of joy shall our pathway illume. •
Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip,
Till the heart yields to mirth, and the spirit is gay!
"Fis the nectar most soothing, save woman's sweet lip,
But oh! like her smile—it will never betray !
Fill the bright goblet ! and leave care and sighing
To those who chose bitters from life's mingled bowl;
The fountain of joy is our wine-cup supplying.
With the grape that has ripened to gladden the soul!
Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip,
Till the shadow of care from each brow flies away ;
There's balm in the goblet, like woman's sweet lip,
To charm and to soothe us—but never betray!

Fill the bright goblet! if friendship is fleeting,
It will not fleet faster, 'neat h wine's rosy beam;
Fill the bright goblet ! if love will be cheating,
We'll drown his deceit, in the grape's ruby stream.
Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip,
And quaff from the fountain of bliss while we may,
What nectar is sweeter, save woman's dear lip,
'ln chase from the bosom all sorrow away?—
Fill the bright goblet! and scare away sadness—
There's full time for care, through the long busy day
But night's social hours should be given to gladness,.
Since from its charin'd circle all griefs flee away ! •
Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip—
It will brighten the wit, and the fancy inflame; -
Then press we the goblet I—like woman's ripe
There's a Lethe for care, in the nectar we drain!
—Monthly Maya Z e.

NEW DIScOVKRY IN CuEralsrev.--We have to notice the
discovery of another of those active vegetable principles which I
every fresh analysis of plants bring to light. This substance,
which has been termed Diatase by its discoverers, MM. Mayen
and Persoz, occurs in barley which has just begun to vegetate.
It has little or no action upon any organic matter, excepting
starch, upon which it is so considerable as to render 2,000 times
its weight of the latter soluble in four times as much warm wa-
ter. If the proportion of the diatase be increased to about one'
two-hundredth of the weight of the starch, and the whole heated
to a temperature less than that of boiling, it will be found that
the starch has been wholly converted into a mixture of sugar,
with a guns resetnbling gum-arabic. The latter is now ern-
ploved, in the great hospitals of Paris,, as a substitute for gum-
arabic. The fact has been long known, though not previously
acceunted for,
that beer, equally strong, may be brewed from a
mixture of malt and bailey. as from malt alone; and distillers
have availed themselves of this circumstance. The starch of
I he barley is, by the action of the diatase of the malt converted
into gum and sugar, and the latter, when fermented, furnishes
the alcohol or spirit. In organic analysis, diatase, from the ex-
traordinary power which it possesses of rendering soluble so
vast a proportion of starch, will render valuable servich, as it
will enable the chemist to separate the smallest portions from
foreign substances—The Analyvt.

FEN! A LE EDCCATION.—Young divines ought not to complain
of the labour of learning Hebrew, when even their own coun-
try-women can attain it with facility. There are now several
• ladies who can read the Old Testament in the original tongue ;
• last they are ashamed to confess it, when they see that sonic of
the clergy are ignorant of the language. it was death alone
I,,hitl brought to light the Hebrew learning of Miss Elizabeth
Smith. 4n increased cultivation of the female mind is a cha-
- raeteristsc' of the present era. of Christian knowledge, and is a
"t° phonetic of a yet brighter period. Custom and use will
I", the nialority, and even prejudice men of learning and in-
telligen ',3 -
but there seems to me to be little
doubt at' phis -sgbiect ;
ought to possess of the fidloWing position: Young women
given to-Young then advantages of education which are
fifteen. I apprehenr general useful learning, until the age of
the effect of bathathonthat the difference which now exists, is
reason or Christianitv. , it.od is in uo respect accordant with
full privileges ofthe t!,!,1411,is day, women have not enjoyed
New Testament alone we see -tr.ian dispensation. It is in the
just place. The age of chive." female character exalted to its
mind than did it honour. in
tia tattier disgraced the female
It:ent circumstances of the
world, a due cultivation of the feni):
the interests of religion and virtue, thauT,'ind would do more for
generally imagined.
Whenever knowledge shall become universal. we may he sure
that women will be principal instruments
atilstruicting the le- '
for there is one benefit to be deriver! from communicating i,.t ; •
male sex, which will be aoknowledged hy
-then' to teach their own children.—There must certaline4a,hbilee:ol:::
thing very defective in the education of that woman,
not instruct her own son (according to the rank in soveieutveniiin.
society in which she herself has lived) to the twelfth yeir--0-f
lie age. To afford a mother such a qualification, and such ~,,,
advantage, and such a pleasure, is a plain dictate of Christian-
ity.—Buchattatt.

FOREIGN IN rELLIGENCE

SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.

LISBON, JAN. '2, 1836, •
Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, and Gentlemen Deputies of the
Portuguese Nation,
With real pleasure and a firm hope of seeing the wounds of
our country cicatrized by our common efforts, and au impulse
given to the increase of her prosper ity, I behold reunited around
the throne on which I am seated, the representatives of a people
whom I so much love, and to whose happiness I have devoted
myself.
The !picture of your first legislature was in the very begin-
ning clouded by one of those terrible blows which resignation
submits to as the inevitable decrees of Providence, but which
naturally cast down the courage of the legislators, and para-
lysed the best contrived combinations of men. This catastrophe
forcibly distracted the attention of the legislative body to a
series of contingent questions which it was forced to resolve,
and retarded that necessary developement of the constitutional
charter by means of the organised laws and regulations which
the nation demanded and hoped from your wisdom.
The second session of the legislature, and the first ordinary
one of the Cortes, interrupted in its progress by another un-
foreseen misfortune not less painful to my heart than the formerwas not sufficient to conclude this indispensible work. It
scarcely made a commencement and sketched a plan for what
the edifice of these same laws required. There remains to us,
therefore, in the present session, a most important quantity of
indispensible legislative labours to give to the constitutional
charter of the monarchy, a regular, uniform, and rapid march.
My ministers will propose to you, what they have prepared for
such an important undertaking; and from the initiative which
belongs to you, will emanate without doubt propositions tending
to attain the same end, and these and other projects discussed
with the maturity of prudent and dispassionate legislators, will
lay the solid foundations of the future happiness of the Portu-
guese.
From statements which will be laid, before you by,the Minis-
ters of the Interior. of Ecclesiastical• Affairs, and of Justice,
you will learn what has been done in the interval which has
elapsed between the past and the present legislative session, as
well as the actual state of the administration of the Interior, of
the Lusitanian Church, and of the present course of justice—
matters to which it is right that I should call your most serious
attention, with the purpose of establishing in a manner the
most advantageous to the people, 'and least expensive to the
public finances, the first of those objects—of giving to the se-
cond that protection which religion and the public morals im-
periously require,—and of disembarrassing the third from the
confusion in which circumstances have involved it.
My Ministers of War and Marine will inform you what is our
existing force by land and sea, the amount which, according
to the terms of the charter, it will be your duty to fit. Whey
will inform you of the essential provisions which the know-
ledge of the urgencies of these iin-portant branches of -the' pub-
lic service will require from your patriotism, and calling your
attention to the state of our dominions beyond sea, wits put you
in condition to prcivide conveniently for their preservation and
future prosperity.
Thanks to Divine Providence, peace has not been disturbed
in the country, and I flatter myself on good grounds, not only
that our relations with friendly powers, and the allies of my
crown, will become closer every day in bonds of permanent
friendship, but also that in a short time the justice and mode-
ration of my government will be recognised by those other
powers with which our relations have for a short time been in-
terrupted, and most particularly with the visible head of the
Catholic. Church, of which I feel great pride in professing my-
self a daughter.
The Portuguese arms, which have so lately succeeded in free-
ing this country from the fury of a civil war,' and the efforts of
an, usurping and liberticidal faction, now contribute to sustain
in a neighbouring kingdom the crown of our august ally, Donna
Isabella 11., against efforts not less hostile or adverse to the
proiperity of Spain, the interests of which are at present so
intimately connected with those of my kingdom; with the assu-
rance that from our common efforts, and those of the intimate
relations which bind us to Great Britain and France, peace and
tranquillity will result to the whole Peninsula.
Gentlemen Deputies of' the Portuguese Nation,
In presenting you with the estimates fur the ensuing year,
and giving you an exact account of the past expenditure, my
Minister of Finance will fully inform you of the state of the
finances, and of the exigencies of the state; and in conformity
with my orders will propose to you such retrenchments and
economical arrangements as will impose diminished burthens
on the people—as also the precise means of placing the public
credit on a firm basis of perfect good faith. and the complete
satisfaction of all obligations contracted within the kingdom and
abroad.

Worthy Peers and-Gentlemen Deputies of the Portuguese
Nation;
Impressed with your'representations and your wishes for the
stability of my dynasty, the sentiments of a Queen, in whom the
Portuguese have deposited their hopes of peace cannot be dif-
ferent from yours." I have considered the interests of the coun-
try, and silenced before that consideration all other feelings
whatsoever. I have to-day the satisfaction of announcing to
you, that in Prince D. Perdinand Augustus, Duke of Saxe
Cobourg Gotha, my beloved and esteemed husband,. I shall find
those virtues which will conduce to my private happiness, and
will give to the constitutional monarchy, and to our country,
which by this union, he makes henceforward his own, a r,ew
and solid support, drawing closer at the same time by this mar-
Tinge those bonds which unite me to some of the most ancient
allies of my crown.

. Wortlif; Peers and Gentlemen,
The entire midi complete re-establishmentof tranquility. and
the internal security, protection, and activity of agriculture, in-
dustry, and commerce, emanating from prosperity,after having
been almost extinguished by past calamities will, without doubt,
form other important objects of your deliberations, as they shall
he of the continual solicitude of my government. lam certain
that you will endeavour, as far as it is in your power, to assist
your Queen in theinoble enterprise, so gloriously begun, of .re-
storing our country. Hit be necessary that there should be
sacrifiees,.those sacrifices will be unanimously made in every-
thing that nil), be requisite for the good of the country, that
generous nation, which we have the honour of representing.
The Legislative Session is opened.