The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

BEARD'S

ARE TAKEN DAILY,

Under the Superintendence of Mr. R. BEARD, Jun., of
London,
AT 4, CHURCH-STREET.

"The improvements constitute a perfect triumph of art.
The entire colouring can only be compared to the finest ena-
mel.,,—The Times, London, June, 1848.
The Specimen Rooms are open from Nine until Dusk.

BRUNSWICK CLUB.

EXCURSION TO THE LAKES.

THE MEMBERS of the BRUNSWICK CLUB
are requested to apply for their TICKETS before Two
o'clock Tuts DAY, the 14th instant, as the Carriages to be pro-
vided for their accommodation will be limited.
The Trains will leave the Edge-hill Station TO-MORROW
(Wednesday) MORNING, the 15th instant, at Six o'clock pre-
cisely.

Fare, there and back 6s.
„ Ist Class 10s.
And the Excursionists may return by Trains on that or any of
the Three following Days.

COOKERY AFLOAT AND THE NAVIGATION

LAWS.

(From the John Bull.)
We have a question to ask of Lord Palmerston, if his
lordship will kindly permit us to do so during the vacation,
as the matter is urgent, and the time short. The Navi-
gation Laws Repeal Bill comes into operation on the Ist
of January next, and it is left to the Noble Viscount to
negotiate in the interim such terms of " reciprocity" as he
may be able to obtain from other seafaring nations. On
behalf of John Bull be is to enact the part of the fox,
who, having lost his own brush—in the Free Trade trap,
to wit—is slily trying to persuade his brother reynards to
bite off theirs. His lordship, we are aware, is a skilful
hand at a clever trick ; but there is one card in the reci-
procity game by which even he, we apprehend, will be
puzzled; and we are, not impertinently we trust, curious
to know how he means to play it.
It so happens that a recent trial at the Summer Assizes
at Lewes has furnished us with the dietary table for sailors
on board foreign ships. A certain Spanish sea-captain
was compelled to open his ship's cookery-book, in an
English Court of Law, and to let us have a peep at the
mysteries of cuisine a l'Espapnole on the high seas.
In the said cookery-book we bad the following receipts.
Imprimis, how to dress meat, alive with maggots, so as to
make it fit for the table, and pleasant for the nose and the
palate. Unfortunately for the interests of cer.,ain meat
salesmen, the leaf of the Spanish cookery-book was turned
over before the particulars of the process could be ascer-
tained. We are, therefore, reluctantly compelled to pass
that by, and proceed to the next Recipe, which is so cha-
racteristically Spanish, that those who remember the com-
position of the balsam of. Fierabrets by the Knight of La
Mancha, will at once recognise it, and be forced to con-
fess that Cervantes was less of a poet than they thought.
The Recipe is as follows :
Item. Take apiece of pork, at the rate of a quarter of a
pound for each guest, pound it in a mortar .after the man-
, ner of sausage meat ; add sperm oil freely from the can in
the engine-room, to give it a rich flavour; procure some
old sea-biscuits, chew them diligently till they are moist
and soft, and mix them with the pounded pork ; season
with plenty of garlick ; stir the mixture well, put it in a
pan, and let it simmer over the fire; and when it is done
brown, dish it up.
There can be no question of the sufficiency of this diet
to sate the keenest appetite, and on a stomach disordered
by sea-sickness, we presume, it would act as a specific.
The only difficulty which occurs to us is, how Lord Pal-
merston will manage to establish " reciprocity" between
the dry beef and biscuits in use on board English vessels,
and this Spanish olla.porcina, between the sharp Iberian
belly which digests the latter, and the dogged stomach of
a British tar.

CELLAR AND SUB-MURAL SCHOOL-ROOMS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sia,— St. Matthew's Church, Scotland-road, was
opened yesterday, when morning and evening services
were conducted by the Itcv. Dr. Hillcoat, who delivered
two very excellent discourses, of an experimental and a
practical character, much suited to the occasion. As to
the " building made with hands" referred to, the propri-
etor has considerable reason to be satisfied, so far as it is
an equivalent for the church of Key-street, now demo-
lished. In regard to the school-rooms, however, there is
less cause for congratulation. They are situated below
the church, and, like all other cellar and sub-mural
school-nioms, are by no means adapted for the noble
purposes of popular education, in the modern and rightly-
understood acceptation of the term. Man is a compound
being, consisting of what is sempiternal and temporal—a
soul or mind and body, upon the proper development of
the qualities and organs of which depends all for which
the wise and the learned, the philosopher and the Chris-
tian, in every age, have fervently prayed, earnestly
preached, zealously lectured, lucidly written, and other-
wise bravely contended. Of all the subjects of God's
creative power, man, in the earlier stages of ex-
istence. is indisputably the most helpless, and therefore
standing in need of and demanding the most unwearied
attention and skilful training. In order to the due dis-
charge of the corporal functions, it would appear that the
earliest and most prompt attention ought to be given to
the physical training of the child. Doubtless the same is
true as regards the child's moral, religious, and intellec-
tual training; yet in a more particular sense physical
training requires early attention, and continued until
animal maturity, or the corporeal part of man is perfected
in growth. As action may be said to be the index of the
mind, so the earliest opportunity for effecting intelligently
moral and raligious impressions upon the child's mind
ought in point of duty to be embraced. By the time
the child is confided to the care of the educator by parents
or guardians. all the various points included under these
several heads, physical, moral, religious, and intellectual
training, must be attended to, collaterally and harmoni-
ously, otherwise the child is not being trained : mutilation
is going on either, physically, morally, religiously, or in-
tellectually outrage is being committed upon the training
of the youth, to compensate for which nothing can either
be said or done in subsequent life. Physical, moral, re-
ligious, and intellectual training must be so blended toge-
ther in the regular training of the pupil, of.. whatever sex
or age, that great, very great, injustice is cone if other-
wise attended to. In order to the due discharge of theie
duties in a harmonious, conjunctive, and collateral man-
ner, it is not enough that the educator be one who
thoroughly understands bow to attend to this paramount
-and momentous question. The trainer, or educator, must
be in a suitable position to work out the problem. If a
youth is to be educated, that is. p-aysically, morally, re-
ligiously, and intellectually trained in a conjunctive, col-
lateral, harmonious, and, therefore, effective, manner, the
trainer must have not only a school-room, but also a play-
ground attached thereto,—both provided with the requi-
site facilities. Leading school-rooms, together with clasa-
rooma and playgrounds. A mere play-place connected
with the school-room will not suffice. It must be a play-
ground for physical and moral training. It must be an
arena for the development of the physical organs and
moral -qualities ; maintaining, at the same time, the inti-
mate connexion between these and the religious together
with the intellectual training in the covered school. It must
be an arena where distinctive and particular, as well as
general-features of individual character disclose themselves;
where theliodily organs are notouly developed and strength-
ened, but also where moral habits are in sore measure
formed and in the course of confirnaation. There may be
physical training without moral training, but there cannot
be moral training without physical training. This being
the case, how absurd to look to the school-master for the
due discharge of the duty implied by tire sacred injunction
" Train up a child in the way he should go !" How much
soever the schoolmaster may understand and be prepared
to discharge his -duty as an educator, it is most unquestion-
ably a palpable absurdity to imagine that he can do so if
without the requisite facilities and in an unsuitable position.
Let us hope that the time is not far distant when the
teaching of children of the poor and working classes in
cellar-like rooms, below churches, chapels, and other
buildings. will be prohibited by act of parliament, and by
the same authority proper school premises provided in
every district, commensurate with the necessities of the
young in Our day and generation, and accompanied with
the united approbation of all the properly intelligent
people of these realms, under the gubernation or sway of
our most illustrious Majesty Queen Victoria.
Your's most respectfully,
JAMES GILLESPIE.
Kirkdale, 13th August, 1849.

The entertainments at the Parthenon • Rooms continue
most attractive, and are excellently attended.
Mary Ball was executed at Coventry, on Friday, for the
wilful murder of her husband. She made a full confes-
sion of her guilt. •
The munificent sum of £l,OOO has been promised to the
Royal Isle of Wight Infirmary, through the medium of
the Rev. W. Spencer Phillips, icar of Ryde. The name
of the generous donor has not transpired.
INDEPENDENCE OF HUNGARY.—A. public meeting of
the citizens of Edinburgh was held in the Music-hall, on
Monday, for the purpose of " expressing sympathy with
the Hungarian nation in their glorious struggle for con-
stitutional freedom." On the platform were Mr. Cowan,
M.P.,the Lord Provost, Count Krazinski, &c.
A ew days ago, the discovery was made by the collec-
tors of the property and income tax for the townships
of Ecclesal and Nether Hallam, that Frederick Samuel
Taylor, of Fitzwilliam-street, Sheffield, who had been em-
ployed as their deputy, had absconded, leaving a deficit in
his accounts for the two townships of near £1,200.
MATERNAL NEGLECT.—A few (lays ago, a woman in
the neighbourhood of Scotland-road was presented with
a half-crown to procure medicine for her son, who was
suddenly attacked with cholera. Instead of promptly
attending to the wants of her child, she repaired to a
neighbouring public-house, where she remained drinking
for three or four hours, until she became intoxicated. On
her return home, she found her son dead.
One of the most wonder:ul escapes from impending
death that was ever heard or read of, occurred on Satur-
day, the 28th ultimo, in the person of a workman employed
in the erection of the High Level Bridge, across the Tyne.
A plank gave way beneath the tread of a workman, and he
would have been precipitated into a river, the depth of 120
feet, but his trousers fortunately caught an impend
nail, and, after hanging fer some times uspended by one
eg, he was rescued.