The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have no knowledge of the points referred to by " B. A."
We have endeavoured to procure the information requested by
"I. 0. W.," but cannot obtain it with any degree of
accuracy.
"A subscriber" suggests that if trucks be placed between the
the engine and the passenger carriages in railway trains for
the prevention of loss of life, the trucks should be well wad-
ded with wool at the end, at least six feet deep.
Mr. H. Boydell has requested us to state, with reference to the
report of the proceedings at the Bankruptcy Court, that not
a word was said to the best of his recollection of any ques-
tionable bill, that the accounts have been prepared by an
accountant with great care, and that they are still believed to
be correct. As to the extraction of leaves from the ledger,
Mr. Boydell says that he has no wish to disguise the fact
that they were cut some years ago by his then bookkeeper
(who can be brought forward) in consequence of mistakes
and erasures made by him.
"Vigilans" seems to take rather a confined view of the present
disturbances in Switzerland. We are quite ready to admit
the impropriety of a recommendation from the British legis-
lature to refer the differences of that country to the pope,
but it is with reference to the differences themselves that we
are inclined to differ from our correspondent, who we think
*ill find on a little closer investigation into the facts, that the
following remark from a contemporary gives a tolerably cor-
rect version of the elements of the unfortunate dispute.
"The contest is not one between Protestantism and Jesuitry.
It is rather between the spirit of despotism aided by the
councils of the Jesuits, and an unbridled or lawless spirit of
Infidel democracy. The Federalists are -regarded with equal
terror by the Romanists and the pious Protestants. The Fe-
deralists, in fact, too much resemble the revolutionists of
France, who not only vowed destruction to Popery, but strove
to root out Christianity also." The disturbance is, however,
we fear, not at an end, whilst its consequences are looked to
with much interest by every reflecting mind.
It is always our wish to oblige our friends as far as possible,
but we must decline to notice a work which we have never
seen.
Of course everybody is aware that the placards on the wall
announce only the circulation of the Mercury on Friday.
Our contemporary is prudently charyof alluding to his Tues-
day's paper, except on such an occasion as the presentation
of an almanac, when, in order that as few as possible may be
given away, he limits the distribution of it to a Tuesday. His
more numerous customers, on a Friday, must bear this shab-
biness as they best may.
A correspondent, "A. S. T.," has written to us, lauding highly
the exertions of the private watchman who detected, during
the past week, the robbery in South Castle-street. He in-
stances several clever detections of burglary, fires, &c., and
thinks that some testimonial, or greater emolument, should
be given to the individual alluded to. He certainly appears
deserving of it.
Artists do not usually "paint on both aides of the canvass."
The phrase "looking at the bright side of the picture" does
not apply to a painting, but to a picture of the mind or ima-
gination. Thus, when an individual is in trouble or difficulty,
there is a bright side or a dark side,— the prospect of his
getting over his trouble or failing to do so.