The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

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now able to commence

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.thing influence oyer his mind, and during his

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at that ancient and .ienowned seat of learning, he
accessively produced his work, entitled " Oxford," and
that admirable production entitled " Messiah," in the pre-
face to which he says, after describing the true aim of poetry,
"To aspire aftei this can form no man's disgrace. He may
not secure fame ; but assuredly he partakes of a higher re-
ward than reputation can bestow, while he endeavours to pro-
mote that elevation of mind which constitutes the true enjoy-
ment of a being whose destiny survives the world "
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'lase friends who had the pri-
ce with him at Oxford, saw
with pleasure, had assumed the predominance Over his mind.
For notwithstanding that, from the great power and resources
of his genius, he was contsantly acquiring fresh laurels, he

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seemed rightfy to estimate that dazz

phantom fame, width
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but which, when obtained, he found to be but empty air,
and miserably insufficient to satisfy the nobler desires of an
immortal spirit—that heavenly spark, which, emanating from
God himself, can never enjoy real happiness, save in the
favour and presence of Him, whom to know is eternal life,
and from whom alone proceedeth happiness that is true, solid,

VARIETIES

" I wish to know, sir, if you called me an ass ? " Yes,
sir ; but I qualified it." " Aha sir, you qualified it, did
! The better for you, sir ; and pray how did you qualify
' " I said you were an ass, sir—all but the ears."

LUCIFERS.—" I wonder how they make lucifer matches,"
said a you.ng married lady to her husband, about six weeks
>ir nuptials, and with whom she could never agree.
rocess is very simple,"_he replied ; " I once made
" Indeed ! and pray how did you manage it." "By
to church with you," was the brief and satisfactory

after 0]
" The

NEW LAND MEASURE TABLE.—" Oh dear !" blubbered
an urchin, who had just been suffering from an application
of the birch, " Oh, my ! they tell me about forty rods make
a furlong, but I can tell a bigger story than that. Let 'em
get such a plaguy licken as I've bad, and they'll find that
one rod makes an acher."

MODERATE INTEREST

—The Bank of England, establish-
ed about two years and a half before, with a capital of
£140,000, lent, in July of MG, £200,000, to pay the Fle-
mish troops, demanding £lB,OOO for the loan, when no one
else would take the Exchequer tallies under 30 per-cent.—
James's Court and Times of William 111.

PUPPYISM.—A dandy went into a haberdasher's shop to
purchase a watch ribboc, which cost 4d. He laid Is. on the
counter, and the shopman gave him 6d. only, forgetting the
copper was due to him ; so after a short time the lounger,
looking at the man, said, "Fellow, fatigue me with the 2d.
—Jamaica paper
FALLING STARS. —M. Capocci, director of the Ob-
servatory at Naples, has related twelve cases of the of
aerolites since 1809, about the 29th November of each year.
The dates are as follow :-1809, 29th November ; 1810. zBth ;
1827, 29th ; 1821, 30th ; 1822, 22th ; 1823, 27th ; 1824, 20th ;
1831, 26th; 1839, 29th. On the 26th of July last, he ob-
served a great fall of stars:

A coxcomb, boasting, on Saturday evening, in the Chapter
Cotiee-house, of his travels, being asked his opinion of
Scotland. said, " It was a flat country, and not picturesque,
compared with his dear Switzerland.' A Scotch gentleman,
who was present, said, " It was true, if mountains were flat,
it was a flat country ; but he would find it difficult to find a
flat among the natives, and for that the young traveller must
look nearer home."

Cobbett said, thirty years ago, " The boy eats fat bacon as
if he'd swallow the whole hog." The Yankees have taken
credit for this notable saying ; and amongst a thousand others
which have been worn threadbare in our long-shore regions,
have immortalised it as a Slick ism I Good things, as they
are called, like good porter, improve by sea-carriage, we are
to presume, and return to us better than good.
ODD IDEA OF OLD ENGLAND.—About 700 years since
an Arabian geographer employed at the Sicilian Court de-
scribed the different countries of the world in a most curious
original work, which adverts briefly to England, and repre-
sents it as " a considerable island, having the shape of an
ostrich's head, and containing flourishing cities, high moun-
tains, great rivers, and spacious plains ; the soil being fertile ;
the people brave, active, and enterprising, but the climate
subjected to perpetual winter." Hastings and Shoreham,
with their shallow insecure harbours, then held the important
position which has since been attained by Liverpool, Ply-
mouth, and other places; though we learn with fair national
pride, that England, so far back as the twelfth century, when
only in the cradle of her commerce, could boast, as she now
does, of adventurous merchants and undaunted sailors.

ECONOMY OF FOOD.—The Royal Agricultural Society of
England has offered a prize of ten sovereigns, or a piece of
plate of that value, for the best directions to enable labour-
ers to prepare wholesome, nutritious, and palatable food, in
the most economical and easy manner. As the object of the

society in offering this prize is to procure such instructions
for agricultural labourers as may enable them to supply them-
selves with the greatest quantity of nutriment which the
means at their command will produce, and to prepare a warm,
comfortable, and nutritious meal for themselves and their
, when they return home from their day's work, the
tors for ;1.

are requested to observe-1. That the re-
ceipts must be given in such a plain manner as may render

toured to cookery. 2. That the receipts must be such as may
be used without requiring any apparatus which any agricul.
tural labourer does not usually possess. 3. That they shall
not require the use of any ingredients which he may not
easily procure, either from his garden, or in agricultural vil-
lages. (This condition is not intended to preclude the re-
commendation of fish as a part of any dish.) 4. The cost of
the different dishes must be accurately state(

.:RANGE OF DlET.—Majendie, a celebrated French phy-
siologist, found by experiment that it was " impossible to
keep an animal in a healthy state longer than six weeks upon
one article of diet, death frequently taking place before that
period." The sheep farmer, who knows his business, will
take especial care never to et his sheep lose flesh till they
are folded. He will then cut their turnip
their oilcake, as the case may be ; he will

plenty
of salt, in roofed troughs or fixed 'casks with the heads taken
out, and also a ton of good hay for every hundred sheep,
every ten days or a fortnight. He will avoid all sudden
changes of food, and will only feed off the bleakest part of
his farm, in order to reserve the more selected parts for the
severest periods of the winter. Swedes, in addition to their
more nutritive qualities, are superior to other varieties of the
turnip for folding, where they are not cut. From the gene-
ral form of the Swede roots, they do not permit the rain to
lodge and freeze hard upon the top of the bulbs, so as to em-
barrass the biting of the sheep.
A SUNSET ON THE DANUBE.—On a fine evening we
ascended to the height beyond the palace in order to see a
sunset on the Danube, and a glorious sight it was ! Earth,
wood, and water seemed to. swim in one atmosphere of gold
and topaz, and so magnificent a sky I never remember to
have beheld ; we were absolutely blinded with splendour; and
then suddenly turning our faces eastward, we seemed to have
been transported into a new world: The mountains rose
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