The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

TEE-TOTALISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LII•'ERPOOL STAND.ARD.
Stn,—Your correspondent, Moderation, does not seem to
understand the cause of tee-totalism, inasmuch as he has ad-
dressed a note to Lawrence Hevwortb, Esq., requesting him
to reconcile certain texts of scripture with the objects con-
templated by the Tee-totallers.
It is not, so far as I have been able to discover, that tee-
totalism is founded upon the word of God, but that it is
founded upon the proverb " Example is better than precept."
We are nowhere in scripture commanded to take wine, but
we are advised, and this, as the author of the whole duty of
man observes, when we find our spirits wasting with thought
or labour; but when men see that it is an act of Christian
philanthropby to abstain from this, and find themselves none
the worse, they sacrifice the pleasure in order to set an ex-
ample to their fellow-mortals who are in a state of wretch-
edness.
Drunkenness is strongly condemned in scripture, but mo-
deration, rightly exercised, is encouraged.—Yours, &c.,
12th September, 1838. J. W.

SMOKE-CONSUMING FURNACE.—We beg to draw the
attention of the public to an advertisement which appears in
our columns of to-day, respecting an improved smoke-con-
suming furnace, applied to a steam boiler in the yard of
Messrs. Page and Grantham, Williams-street, which will be
open for inspection on Monday and Tuesday next. We con-
sider this improvement of very great public importance, as
tending to do away with one of the most serious nuisances
now existing in this rising port.—From a correspondent.

THE GREAT MAGICIAN.—We have formerly noticed •the
superiority of Mr. Anderson's feats in the " magic art;"—
to form, however, a proper conception of the skill, ingenuity,
and incomprehensible nature of his deceptions, our readers
must go and judge for themselves. With a frankness that
never fails to please, the conjuror calls upon the spectators
to watch his motions sharply, at the very moment a decep-
tion is about to practised; every eye is eager to detect the
trick; every neck is stretched; and vet, staring you in the
face, he will command things the moSt distant to change
places—separate substances apparently chemically corn-
hined—conyert an orange into a young lady, and perform
fifty other teats equally wonderful, in all of them setting the
most lynx-eyed of his lookers at defiance for a solution of the
ways and means by which they were accomplished. But
the most perfect of all is "the gun trick." You see the ball
marked with a knife, and ascertained to be bona fide cold
lead—you see the ball coolly and deliberately dropped into
the muzzle of the piece—you hear it fall plump and solid to
to the bottom—you could almost swear to the fact, even
though your judgement may tell you the whole is a trick ;
the gun is fired, and the apparently invulnerable Magician
seems to receive it harmlessly between his teeth, or in the
palm of his band. It is altogether admirably accomplished,
and so deeply conviced have we seen hundreds, as to the
bullet being actually in the gun, tbat they would not have
' discharged it for any remuneration in money. In addition
to his magical performances, the demeanour of Mr. Anderson
is that of gentleman—polite, courteous, and affable. Again
we say to all—go and see the great Magician."—Glasgow
Argus, July 5, 1838.