The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

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stand why the newspapers have not published for a long
time past the list of London insolvents. ,We- have a few
provincials—so-and-so, retail dealer, Lancashire—so-and-so,
wheelwright, Cheshire—to the number, it maybe, of five
or six. Now the practitioners aforesaid argue that th
publication of the names and addresses of country insol
vents signifies nothing ; not one of the Lot
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number, are
who will

ant in• the old

I am not

y its progress is much the same as-from the begin-
ning, though we of the present day may be better workers-
out of it—succeed better in the development than those
who preceded us. No one can doubt, if he be at all
acquainted with the res gestee of the metropolis, that, day
by day, great improvements in the manners, habits, and
education of the masses are taking place. The last just
published report of JOHN &mow, the city of London offi-
cer of health, entirely vindicates this assertion ;—though
therein the philanthropist—the thinking man, can see at a
perusal that we are only beginning to begin improve-
ments ! " Dwellings for the Poor," par exemple : for
many a long year the poor of London have not been worse
housed than they are at present, and this consequent on
the street improvements, now being carried on, and of
which so much is heard. What are three or four clumps
of model lodging-houses among so many ? But this sore
grievance—this want will, in a brief period, be reme-
died, if the onward " march" of improvement,—not
intellect,—be not retarded. One almost regrets that
HENRY MATHEw,—grave and acute,—l mean no play
on the terms—has stopped his 'labours in the nooks, the
crannies, the courts, and blind alleys of London, searching
out, and holding up, to the noonday blaze, the " annals of
the poor." HENRY MA YnEw has gone to Paris, where
he now prosecutes a similar in.:ltaly to that which was
the result received wi't St - tv- a,s re-

ave, Ji so much interest, a year or do ago,
garde the metropolis. In Paris, 31A-rimy. will have verge
enough, and he will there be able to publish statistics of
immorality, which here we can °lily obliquely refer to. A
prophet has no honour in his own-country ; certainly the
mere literary drudge has none in 44ondon circles. They
manage these things better in France; and HENRY
MAYHEW, whose highest eminence-in London was to pre-
side over a meeting of poor tailors and other handicrafts-
men, is now—a lion in the French capital. Be it so. To
what are these remarks pertinent-? Verily, as Shylock
says, to flesh of beefs and muttons, and eke the shrill and
haughty sons, and chucking daughters of " bright chanti-
.' Nearly at the extreme west, slightly north, there
is a huge building, in which, for some years past, at
this period, huge oxen, sheep, and pigs, are exhibited,
well known as the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. Nay,
laugh not in your sleeve; from the stock of the Prince
Consort, to that of the unsophisticated farmer, who
makes the bovine breed his daily study, some pet pro-
mising to "lard the lean earth" is selected to be
made a show of in the locality I have indicated. And
why not ? Some years since this show was a great evil
under the skylights of the exhibition. Plethoric crea-
tures, how I then pitied your dumb emotion ! Your large
blue eyes "beaming intelligence"—and sorrow— else why
those tears which trickled down the hirsute cheek ? Fat !
Unmitigated pressure of fat ! The sheep were still worse ;
they could not stand it at all. Their •respiration was
frightful ! Our porcine friends—" to the manner born,"
lay in their own fat, in shape like hedgehogs, a little snub
nose just peeping out rudimentary-like, and eyes one could
hardly detect. All was fat—fat—fat ! reminding one of
MACAULEY'S smart, but somewhat illnatured remark, that
prize sheep (or prize pigs ?) were only fit for candles, and
prize essays to light them. The show this week testifies
unmistakingly to the proud march of improvement, and
there is no " cant" here. I never saw such creatures in
my life : they looked as if they belonged to another age
and country—no wheezing—at least the animals were too
well bred to show it, if cause existed. Then their sym-
metry—mostly all perfect in this respect ; the oxen espe-
cially; that grand ridge—the backbone, ran along from
between the shoulders to the tail as straight as an arrow ;
this, I was told, is the key-stone (allow the phrase) of
bovine beauty of structure. The sheep were marvels, and
such loads of wool ! Could it not be grown finer, my
Lord Duke of RICKMOND, president ? I heard a sigh
more than once, as I perceived the grateful words, " fed
on milk and barley meal." "Land of Canaan !" I ex-
claimed—" what sort of milk ? and what sort of meal ?"
" The best of both," answered a ruddy hind in fustian,
who tended some of the pens. " The milk skimmed, of
course ?" " I should think not ;"—" the meal must have
been seconds 1" the answer was, " not a bit of it." I
was mute, and, in sorrow, thought of workhouse gruel—
Toil HOOD—lean people and fat pigs.
A cheap omnibus ride across the metropolis and the
visitor, in a brief space, is conveyed from one show to
another, viz., the great winter show of poultry, exhibited
in a gigantic new building, called the Great Central Horse
and Carriage Repository, St. George's-road, Newington.
The birds are of all sorts of poultry, some of them very
curious-looking creatures ; and I was not at all displeased
to notice that the fancy for the Cochin-China species has
exhausted itself, —they were nearly left unheeded : not so
their eggs ; as they were discovered, rem acu tegisti was
the command ; the officer in attendance with a needle
punctured the new-laid egg ; this was to render incubation
abortive. They certainly are wonderful eggs, containing
nearly double the quantity of the common hen's egg,
though much smaller. Apparently, some of the specimens
were " ticketted" £lOO in price, and great numbers at £25
and upwards,—the large price being affixed to an East
Indian species, called Bramahpootar.
Several weeks since it was announced in the leading
London newspapers that GEORGE Hunsox's gigantic
house, adjoining Albert-gate, in Hyde-park, had been
taken for permanent residence by Count We 'Amain, the
French ambassador, at an annual rental of £l,BOO. The
comparative largeness of the sum threw an air of discredit
over the widely-circulated rumour, and although neither
GEORGE HUDSON nor any of his family have been seen
for many weeks at their west-end palace, it was still con-
sidered highly improbable that LOUIS NAPOLEON'S repre-
sentative at the Court of HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY
would burthen himself with the responsibility of an outlay
for house-room, exceeding by at least three hundred per
cent. that which, for a series of years—since his arrival,
indeed, in this country—he has been in the habit of ex-
pending. The fact, however, is quite in accordance with
the rumour. During the last four or five days,. Count
WALEWSKI'S family, together with the principal mem-
bers of the French embassy, have removed from Grosvenor-
square to Albert-gate, and all the peculiar characteristics
of GEORGE HUDSON'S establishment have ceased to
exist. Count WALEWSIU, however, is not the present
proprietor of this gorgeous mansion. The transfer
of the lease, furniture, fittings, Rzc., it is true have
been made to him, but the French Government have
undertaken the liability of the rent. It is said that
LOUIS NAPOLEON himself selected GEORGE HUDSON'S
house for the future residence of the French embassy : and
I believe there is no doubt he has given directions that
apartments should be specially fitted up for his own use,
in the event of that visit to England which he and the
fair Empress are determined, with LORD PALMERSTON'S
assistance, and despite LORD ABERDEEN'S protestations,
upon performing. Indeed, the inhabitants of Hyde
Park terrace speak of GEORGE HUDSON'S mansion as the
" Emperor's house," and they fully calculate that he will
be among them, whether for good or evil, before the

anniversary of the opening of the Crystal Palace comes

Letters have been received from CAILDINAL WISEMA N
himself, within the last few days, intimating his inten-

tion of returning to England by the first weeli-in January.
Apropos of VICTOR HUGO, whose name I have men-
tioned above. He forms at present the nucleus of French
and other exiles in Jersey, where they have safety, good
air, tolerably good, and certainly cheap brandy, with most
tolerable tobacco for cigarettes, all necessaries to the unfor-
tunate people. I mak use of the term unfortunate with-

out reference to political feelings or views. In the me
tropolis, as well as in Jersey, their number is "Legion,"—

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their hatred of the present Ruler of France continues
illimitable, breaking out frequently in fury. At the pre-
sent juncture their glee is unbounded; they fancy they
see in the crisis —to them most cheering —that the end of
the Bonaparte dynasty " looms in the future." Revolu-
tion ! Revolution! they toast in drops of water and sugar—
all they have. The burning language of the author re-
ferred to is cited, repeated with ardour, echoed and re-
echoed in the French and Italian coteries in the neigh-
bourhood of Leicester-square and Regent-street. " The
Rhine, the Tiber, the Vistula, and the Seine have trembled
with t

e shock." Thus they speak as they sit over their
tedious and trifling game—gameless—of dominos, the
livelong and otherwise unoccupied night.

Instead of Revolution, Pantotiiiine is the word at this
season, and we are promised largely, but as usual, mum's
the word, as to plot, spectacle, or trick. This has been
the old characteristic of all the Metropolitan managers ;
they rehearse their pantomimes, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL

for many years dealt out " Reform," bit by bit. Half a
trick is only rehearsed at a time ; thetitle of a pantomime
is never mentioned until a night or two before it is pro-
duced ;—masks most mystical, if not classically mytho-
logical, are being moulded in the big room above
the ceiling. During the week several novelties have
been produced with a certain degree of success.
CELESTE appeared in a capital character at the
Adelphi; and BUCKSTONE is doing well at the Haymarket,
probably WIGAN is doing better at the Olympic.
The houses have all been filled, especially with fog every
night. Why is this profitless visiter not " pumped out ?"
The'monopolyloguists, or single entertainmentpeople, seem
to be doing well ! Their expenses are small, though their
work is hard.

A SILVER MEDAL, made by Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street,
was the other day presented by Captain Greig, in the pre-
sence of a large number of the force, to police-officer
Richard Tomlinson, in the name of the inhabitants of
Bangor, who had subscribed for it as a token of their ap-
preciation of the mode in which he had performed the
duties of an appointment at Bangor for upwards of two
years, but which he has recently resigned to rejoin the
Liverpool force.

LIFE AT ROLE

A.correspondent, dat

Nth Nov

says :—The last three Sundays here liave had its own
attractions, the two former in the shape of the beatifica-
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non of two saints, am ,
balloon, which attracted an immense en

d of all classes I (

of _Romans) a sermon preached by Cardinal Wiseman in
the Church of St. Andrea delle Frati, near the Propaganda.
Among other topics, his Eminence congratulated the
Romanists on the schisms among the various dissenting
bodies in England, and especially on the difference of
opinion in the Church of England on the subject of bap-
tismal regeneration, which he considered 13,' -' the

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speedy dissolution of that establishment, adding, that more
converts had been made to the Roman Church in England
during the last ten years than in 300 previously. He
then enlarged on its immutability, and the delight he
experienced on returning to Rome after an absence of ten
years, during which time the whole world had been shaken
by revolutions, but without any effect or alteration being
produced here ; forgetting the presence of a French gar-
rison, without which Pio Nono would probably have re-
mained the guest of the King of Naples, and to whose
bayonets the Roman religion owes its present existence,
even in its own capital. He concluded by drawing a
parallel between the incredulity of the Greek sceptics in
the rites of the Jewish, and that of the Protestants in the
ceremonies of the Roman religion, and said, that however
strangers might despise and misunderstand them, the
poorest Romanist fully comprehended their meaning and
beauty.