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

is NAPIER

WELLINGTON one day, referring to NAPIER'S beak

which was tremendous in its line,

The sinewy Sikhs, and

other rice-eating specimens of Eastern pin-wire, for all
are as tough, called NAPIER 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
of time, soap, and steely but, it 'made him more frightful
•to his enemies, and helped, poor fellow, to hide the

" hold his jaw" ever after the battle of Bum. Pro
bably nothing became NAPIRR bet

han his real

modesty E

the banquet given to him on the eve of his

departure to supersede that gallant old cock, Gen. Gouau,
after his disastrous spree at Chillingwallah. When
NAPIER went there, he found what he expected where
GOUGE was—the affair settled. The late Gen. NAPIER
was very positive—thought he could never be wrong—nor

was he frequently; but he would "stand no nonsense."
IsTA.PIER was very ticklish ; hence his row with DALHousIE,
which nearly drove them both demented. Col. BuuNs, 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
Rom 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
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 CAM Hon HOUSE, 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'll never forget his joining me in the slips of Drury-
lane Theatre to see " Anster Fair" at half 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
top of the stairs—called in London. I forget the name
the officer who had orders for the releass.
his Christian name was James ; the poor prisoners waiting
for freedom,—gasping for liberty—on his appearance
'st way they could, the air of " Ye've

,f the captives ;

knocked up, the 1

been fang a' comin' Jammie." But returning to General
NAPIER ; intelligence of his death was communicated to
the QUEEN at the Phoenix-park

The Sovereign wag much

affected. Yet another NA.vunc--CuATtLEy, the sailor,—
where is he ? Nobody knows. Dear old Admiral, never
er
shall I forget the last time I sipped gin and water with
you, just before you smashed MAguirs pretensions, over
in Portugal; and never shall I forget taking a pinch of

snuff, the first Sunday yon were in Hyde-park, after your

All the NAPIERS, as stated, have "bees" in their bonnet
the one last spoken of might have been
admiralty, if he had been less " cantankerous

and written

less to the Times
Complaints are
to Lord PALMERSTON'S smoke
into operation until the expiry of one yea
of the measure. I have
the most foolish piece of
tised, performed, or per_
Torv. The owners of the tall cl

justly made with regard
uisance bill not coining

;er the pa.ssing

in saying that it is

ideration ever prac
Minister, Whig a

lordship's kindness, nay, lau
twenty pounds sterling would
plying with the bill `; and for t
be choked for twelv
thanks to PAM. Sev(
of factori(
the evil.
Places wl
above

Not so others
Itch abound of

bY putting them in mind of
from Dover to Calais or tossh

i made I

I West

t cases

easily pleased. The place is a little town. Fire and water
were at work ; tons of coals burning at one time in various
fires ;—yet no smoke. I declare you could have seen as
much on Salisbury plain. In brief, there was no smoke.
What led to this ? I'll tell you. There is not a worthier
set of men in the world than our English brewers,—l am
not now to condemn them for their tremendous profits.

I speak of them as kind and generous Inc
Spite'fields weavers, long an ingenious

d, take pity '(

ent to Tnt

ad a cup of nappy ale—they ha
till then tasted anything like i

They grew bold—but not impudent ;—mentiOned that they
were stifled,—their rooms were damp, hot, and savoured
of that nasty, pasty flavour, inseparable from loom-work.
They dared not open their windows, "the blacks" came
and settled on their delicate textile fabric, in one minute
it became tainted,—a thing of naught. TRUMAN'S people
were vexed; it was-their smoke in Brick-lane that did the
mischief. They took advice, got hold of a droll eccentric
111:111 114111CP 119.111 P I do not give, because I will Duff no

one.' " I'll do the trick for you," said the eccentric.
Smoke consuming ? Nonsense ! Bosh ! We'll try. That
eminent firm save in coals by this process about £3,000
a-year. This is by eating their own smoke ; and the
Spitalfields weavers turn out their silks and satins
unsmirched. Why don't others do likewise ? Touching
the eccentric person referred to, he is a London trades-
man; a good many years ago he lost, I think it was £70,000;
in his wrath he said, or swore, he should neither shave or
be shaven, or have his hair cut, till he had made up that
same money. I saw him the other day, poor fellow,
all over hair.

The lion and lioness at the West-end just now—and
they have it nearly all to themselves—are the Queen
CHRISTINA and the Duke DE RIANZARES, the former a
decent-looking lady enough, but I did not see her very
well ; RIANZARES, her husband, is a fine military-looking
fellow. They are about a great deal. RIANZARES, your
readers may be aware, was a soldier when CHRISTINA cast
her eyes on him ; he paced to and fro in the Palace court-
yard, she loved him for his looks, and being mistress of
her own actions—or at least fancying so—she married him.
While they are here, the Times is not in Spain. Signifi-
cant fact ! The " leading journal" has been interdicted ;
and no wonder; there have been some slashing articles in
it lately touching Spain, cutting right and left ; and
though there have not been a dozen good foreign leaders
in the Times during the like number of years last past,
some of old bIuRRAY's verve was perceptible in those
articles which have given mortal offence at the Court of
Madrid. The Times, it may truly be said, has had no
foreign editor since JAMES MURRAY died, a few years

—perhaps a day or two be-
gour of the grandest intel-

ago, in the prime of life
yond it—and in the full vi

lect which ever adorned the glorious newspaper press
of London. MURRAY was originally a Presbyterian clergy-
man, a ripe scholar, and a famous linguist ; he came from
never-fading Scotland with these qualifications only. They
were enough. He was employed on the Times, the
managers of which then, as now, encouraged no sham
literature on their paper • at the close of the last war, and
during its hottest part, "AMES MURRAY was sent abroad;
many perils he had—did the Times some service ; happily
they knew it. He returned to England unscathed—was
made a partner in the Times, and was the foreign editor
for years. For a common man's son, MURRAY had the
most princely tastes. Epicurean entirely, at table ; he
ate well, but delicately ; his wines rechereld, in the real
sense of that abused and misunderstood word ;—the clean,
blood-purifying, and body-cherishing wines of Germany
being preferred. In his books he was also matchless.
Tom BARNES, MURRAY'S colleague, on the other hand,
was riant and robust in all his operations ;—would have
preferred old port—but was compelled to stick to claret,
of which he always had a pipe open. BARNES would
" rough it" with a beefsteak and a bottle of that same
port, while MURRAY would have rather dined off grasshop-
pers fried in garum, a sauce made of the liver of anchovy

Or red mullet macerated in vinegar, pepper,sa:

garlic,whitewine, and sweet herbs, if my recollection serve
me aright, according to PLINY and ALEXIS SOYER.
The dinners of MURRAY and BARNES were different
affairs altogether. At MURRAY'S mahogany you minded
your P's and Q's ; now and then, a classical allusion was
good, always given in English ; the vernacular rarely—.
I may say never. At BARNES'S table you could not help
eating and drinking more than at MURRAY'S, and the
guests never got so early away. Both those great men

are gone; aye, and a greater in his way the veritable
" thunderer"—STEßLlNG ! a perfect man in action and
appearance, died a driveller--silly ! His faculties had
been, doubtless, too much pressed, they gave way ; and
STERLING could not—would /.-1q:---did not outlive them.

The past has been the most disgraceful week on record
at Drury-lane Theatre ; SMITE, the lessee, is not to blame.
Some good musical performances have been given; the
artistes, if not all well-educated musicians, have in their
number several good ones. Operas were duly advertised,
people went in crowds ; waited at doors which were not
opened, and much worse when opened on other evenings.
Rows occupied the time, and filled each pause the night-
ingale had made. A person whose name I don't give, be-
cause he has no business to meddle with musical affairs,
which he don t understand, has had the management of
these operas, and has disappointed the public, as he had
before at Exeter-hall. I only wish ALFRED Burni had
been there to kick him out. SMITE, the lessee, would
have done the "manager's last kick" to the party referred
to, but SMITE is gouty at present. I was in the green-
room two days ago and found him full of bounce, lots of
money on the table (plenty to do with it), and lots of
parasites and shadows. GUSTAVUS BROOKE is going to
" do" Othello ; he has got some blazing portraits about
worth looking at ; let us hope he may be so himself—on
the boards of Drury-lane as well as on those of paste.
CUARLIE KEAN has closed, having banked at COUTTS'S
many thousands. His father never did anything of the
sort. KEAN and his wife are off to the country.

GRAND MASONIC BANQUET.—Great preparations are
making at Stockport for the reception of the Grand
Master, the Lord Viscount Combermere, at the provincial
meeting on Thursday next. Workmen are erecting three
triumphal arches over the Wellington-road South, leading
to St. Peter's-square, and Churchgate and Hillgate.
EVANGELIZATION IN IRELAND.—A lecture on this
subject, in connection with the recent missions to the
south of Ireland for the conversion of the poor Romanists
to Christianity, has been announced for Friday next by the
Rev. V. M. White, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street.
THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP NIAGARA, Capt. Lang,
took her departure hence for Halifax and Boston, on Sa-
turday, at 10 30, a.m., with 155 passengers and a very fall
cargo on board, beside the usual mails.
Ax Iroannsr was held, on Saturday, on the body of an
infant found in a coal vault, in Warren-street, and a ver-
dict of wilful murder returned against the mother, who
was committed for trial.
CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL—Touching the fatal case of
Asiatic cholera, reported to the Health Committee on
Thursday last, Mr. Henry Behrend, M.R.C.S., writes
Having the medical charge of several of the houses for
the reception of German emigrants, I have during the
last fortnight seen some tolerably severe cases of choleraiO
diarrhoea, all of which, however, readily yielded to simple
treatment. The details of the fatal case have been for-
warded to the Lancet; but I may state that Dr. Vose,
who was in attendance, agreed with myself that he had
never seen a more marked example of the Asiatic type of
the malady. There can be no doubt that this case was of
foreign origin, as the cholera was raging in Hamburg at
the time when our patient left that port. lam of opinion,
therefore, that we have nothing to fear from the occurrence
of an isolated instance, and concur with the Medical-officer
of Health in believing that there is no reason at present to
apprehend an outbreak of epidemic cholera in Liverpool.
No fresh cases have since shown themselves, and I shall
be much surprised if we are called upon for some time to
see any true cases of cholera that cannot be traced as
direct importations from the Continent. Nevertheless, as
even this contingency should, if possible, be avoided, I
recommend the local Board of Health to adopt some
stringent measures with regard to the houses for the
reception of German emigrants."
GIROTTING.—On Saturday night, about half-past eleven
o'clock, Mr. Richard Edwards of Seacombe-street, Everton,
was attacked by several men in Dalrymple-street, top of
Scotland-road, as he was going home. Amer garotting him
they stole his watch, a gold Albert chain, and a few cop-
pers from his waistcoat, but missed 10s. in silver in his
coat pocket.
A SEAMAN, recently returned from America, was, on
Saturday night, robbed in a house of ill-fame, in one of the
worst districts in the town, of £54 in gold, and a cheque
for £3O. His liquor was " doctored," and he fell into a
deep sleep, on awaking from which, he found himself in a
strange street, with his money gone.

A BOLD TllEFT.—Andrew Prentice, a young seaman,
was, on Saturday, charged by Frances Carpenter with
stealing £l6. The prosecutrix, an elderly lady, attired in
deep mourning, stated that she was the mother of the late
surgeon of the Australia, who was drowned on the voyage
from New York to Liverpool. Hearing that he had left
some money and effects, she came to Liverpool to receive
them, and the prisoner was shown to her as being the
best acquainted with what belonged to her deceased son.
She met Prentice at the office of Mr. Guion, where a

ides were

pointed out to her

and she

received £l5 as part payment of the deceased's salary.
She placed the money in a reticule basket, and then pro-
ceeded in a cab to her lodgings in Myrtle-street, the pri-
soner, notwithstanding that he was told his services were
no longer required, mounting the box, and accompanying
them. He forced himself into the house, and while she
and her friends were examining the articles they had ob-
tained from the ship, the prisoner went into the room
where the reticule basket had been placed. He remained a
few minutes, and theil el.:Tamped, and immediately after-
wards the money was missed. The prisoner was subse-
quently apprehended in Dublin-street. He had purchased
a quantity of clothes on Thursday, (Wednesda,y being the
day when the money was missed,) and he had also depo-
- ...t. TID inticrarl

sited £8 in the hand; of the persons with wnoui uC astagvu,
to keep for him. Committed for trial.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN WILLIAM-STREET.—On Friday
evening, as a man named Joseph Parr, a carter in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Stock, glass-merchants; in William-street,
was assisting in unloading some rubbish into a float, a
ladder from a neighbouring warehouse fell upon him and
struck him on the back. The deceased lifted the ladder off
himself, and when he got up he looked very sick, and
seemed much hurt. He, however, took a load of rubbish
to Tabley-street, but soon afterwards went home, com-
plaining that his back was very painful. After partaking
cArne sniper he went to bed ; he had been in bed about

so, ne went to veu , - .
an hour when he got much worse. He was quite black in the
face, foaming at the mouth, and not able to speak, and died
about eleven o'clock. An inquest on the body was held
yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANT's works are
making rapid progress. The line between DtiVin, Belfast,
and Port Patrick was opened on Monday week, the com-
pany having selected the occasion of the Queen's visit to
ommence operations. Mr. Dargart has nearly completed
street work to connect the offices in College-green, by
o.f subterranean wires, with all the railway termini
Nip, so that that city will be in telegraph communi-
-ith Galway, Belfast, and the intermediate towns,
T'qtrick (Scotland), and in a few days the
• and Killarney will be opened. By

Port I

tympany expect w cumy....—
; and, also, the line from Preston to Carlisle,
connecting Liverpool with Glasgow, Greenwich, Paisley,
Edinburgh, and the line now making between Carlisle and
the cable end at Port Patrick.