The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-08 00:00:00

ON THE PICTURE OF A CHILD TIRED OF PLAY

II Y N. P. wit.t.ts.
Tired of play ! tired of play !
What has thou done this live-long day?
The birds are silent, and so is the bee;
The sun is creeping np steeple and tree ;
The doves have flown to the sheltering eaves,
And the nests are dark with drooping leaves;
Twilight gathers, and day is gone—
How has Thou spent it—restless one !
Playing ? But what has thou done beside
To tell thy Mother at even ride;
What promise of morn is left unbroken?
What kind word to thy play-mate spoken ?
Whom has thon pitied, and whom forgiven?
Flow with thy faults has duty striven?
What haat thou learn'd by field and hill,
By greeil•wood.path, and h) singing rill?
There will come an eve to a longer day,
That will find thee tiredbut not with play !
And then thou wilt lean, as thou leanest now,
'With rireopiug limbs and an aching brow,
Anti with the shadows would raster creep,
And long to go to thy quiet sleep.
.Well were it then if thine aching brow
Were as free from sin and shame as now
Well for thee if thy lip could tell
A tale like this, of,
a day spent well,
If thine open hand bath relieved distress—
If thy pity bath skiing to wretchedness—
th'ln has forgiven the sore offence,
And humbled thine heart With penitence—
If Nature's voice= have spoken to thee
With their holy meanings eloquently—
If every creature hails won thy love,
Prom the, creeping worm to the brooding dove—
If never sad. low spoken word.
Ilath pleaded with thy heart unheard—
T.hen,,when the.ntAht. steals on as now,
It,will bring .to thine aching brow,
A nd.yvipl joy apd peace at the thought of rest,
Thon,wfit ainitAo•sleep on thy mother's breast.

SHOCKING ALCIDMNT.AT A COLLIEHY.—About secen o'clock
ou Nouday inoining. a dreadful explosion of fire dau.p took
place in, a-caunel pit a Mews-Lees, Joues, and CO., at Bull
f'oc: Lane End, Knnt. Lanes. near. Oldham. There were two
mineia cod v,a,Jgoners (ho)•s) in that part of the mine.
The two boys,.:Thomas Anderton and John Wolfenden, were
found dead; the two men. Benjamin Dean and George %Vol-
leaden, were burne4 in a shocking manner, and died shortly
afterwards.. It is not known in what manner the explosion
originate'!.

THE Tonic von Hts PIPIC.—The f-indness of a Turk for his
pipe sou vita a passion ; morning,. noon, and night he scarcely
quits it; he sleeps often with it in his mouth and on awakening
it occupies his first thoughts. During the fast of the Rbarnarinn,
when for the live-long day he is forhinden by the precepts of
his relit inn eat, drink, or use any manner of enjoyment,
hundreds may he seen just before sunset with their pipes filled,
and A burning coal by their side. anxiously watching the dis-
appe-trar.,ce or the sun ; and- that instant every coal drops on
the tobacco, anti a.heavy protracted draw through the tube pro-
Oaitr.3 the long-e7:-pected and exquisite enjoyment; nor will the
Turk break his fast till, he has smoked his pipe out.—Addisun's
Damascus and Palmyra.

BURNING OF A SIEASI-BOAT IN TFIZ BALTic.--Letter• have
been receked by the ilar!hurg snail, atinunneing the loss by
fir- of
•the steam-boat Nicho;as the First, Captain Stahl, which
pie,. b
etween St. `Petersburgh and Lubec. The boa' we on
her voyare rrcirn St. Petersburg:i, with 133 passengers and,
Of F. 5 :nen, and was disco-yored ~on tire on the 30th u('. .rhen
witn:n a `4.yr nillc.rt of TTaveraunde (the port of Lubec.) She
was fun ash,,re as si ',lv as possible, but was burned down to
tie watt r.s e,lge ; : regret to say that. three of the passen-
;firs and two a !'n, cre7 are:missing„ The wail bags, contain-
sag, it is supp );M, unary letters from this town, with consider-
rd~M'of yarn, are believed to have been rli-stroyed.
,_ '"l6 .3"; oi hoard a cask of gold, (about £6,000,) which it is
saTe4bola phe wreck. It is not known hoer the
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