The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-29 00:00:00

THE LIVETOOOL,STAI*thAIa

ALL A MATTER OF WITTLES.

A very curious scene took place the other day in the court of
common council, London, during the election of several com-
mittees, which it is the custom to appoint on the first court day
after the 21st of December. The court was greatly crowded,
and some persons were not able to account for such a phenome-
non as the attendance of all the members until the time arrived
for making the committees. There are, it is well known,
several entertainments which are, in the elegant language of
the corporation, called " blows out," laid claim to by certain
committees, and the great point with the members of the court
is to get upon such committees as have this most, valuable re-
commendation. It is necessary, we understand, to exercise a
good deal of intrigue in order to succeed, and the moment a
• grubbing" committee was named by the clerk as required to
he up the anxiety in the faces of the candidates was really
ludicrous, for success and defeat 'were marked by obstreperous
cheering and triumphant laughter. All the committes were ap. •
pointed; the gentlemen.who had struggled most eagerly left
the court, and in the lobby expressed their indignation or joy
according to the event. Said one, " Well, I shall have my go
at last. I hope I may feed upon a badger's head and swipes,
but if I didn't get on the general purposes' this time I'd never
a coined into the court again. Dash my wig what a hot job it
has been!" Another, who was not so lucky, said " Damn 'em,
they think of nothing but eating and drinking; a real working,
honest, independent man has uo chance amongst such a set of
gormandising rascals." It was particularly observes that the
deputies stuck to each other, and managed to secure a very ex-
tensive apportionment of the annual distribution of the civic
dinner money. The committees on which what is called " line
money" is given were also eagerly contested. Alderman
White, who was in the court for the first time, looked on with
astonishment, and next day, at the second court, rose and took
occasion to call the attention of the members, in their placid
and uncontending moments, to the disgraceful struggles of the
previous day. " I inquired," said the alderman, "' what on eatth
it could lie that made my fellow-citizens wish to undertake the
dry and onerous duties of the committees so warmly. I thought
that eech man might be content to take his chance of the labour;
but, to my surprise, when I asked one who stood near me what
could provoke such generous emulation, Oh, God bless you!'
said the person I addressed, you don't know, anything about it
yet; it's" all a matter of wittles.

The Central Committee of the Reform Associations have re-
solved, by an overwhelming' majority, that, under existing cir-
cumstances, Lord Williamsßentinck is the most eligible person
to be recommended to the citizens to supply the vacancy oc-
casioned in our city by the resignation ,_;t Mr. Dunlop. A
loeeting of the aggregate committees has been summoned for
Friday evening, to which a report of the proceedings, motives,
and resolutions of the Central Committee will be sualitted.— •
Glasgow Aryus.
The House of Commons, as at present constituted, contains
one King, with one Chaplin, one Kirk, one Law, and one
Knight; a Hall, with one Ward, and one Wall, one Tennant,
with one Guest, a Bell and a Butler; one Scarlett, with Brown
and White, and a Green, with two Greys; an East and North, -
Fort, with a Cave, two Hills, and a Lee; three Woods, a Wilde,
and a Fleetwood; a Rushhrooke, a Longtield, a Scourtield. and
Freshfield ; one Roebuck, with a Woulfe, two Talbots, a Seale,
and a Hogg; one Potter, a Poulter, a Miller, a Shepherd, se-
ven Smiths, a Carter, and a Cartwright; one Adam, a Simeon,
and a Matthew, a Thomas, and five Williams, with Richard,
and Dick • Rice and Clay with three Prices, and two Walkers,'
with one fltitt, and three Peels, to one Bodkin. -

EARLY RISING.—Every circumstance contributes to render
early rising advisable to those who are in the enjoyment of
health. There is no time of the day equal in beauty and fresh-
ness to the morning, when nature has just parted with the
gloomy mantle which night had flung over ber, end stands
before us like a young bride, from whose aspect the veil which
covered her loveliness, has been withdrawn. The whole mate-
, rial world has a vivifying appearance. The husbandman is up
at his labour, the forest leaves sparkle with drops of crystal
dew; the flowers raise their rejoicing heads towards the sun, the•
birds pour forth their anthems of gladness; and the wide face
of creation itself seems as if awakened and refreshed from a
mighty slumber. All these things, however, are hid from the
eves of the sluggard ; nature, in her most glorious aspect, is,-to
him a sealed book; and while every scene around him is full of
beauty, interest, and animation, he alone is passionless and un-
inspired.
Behold him stretched upon his couch of rest! In
vain does the clock proclaim that the reign of day has com-
menced I In vain d s the morning light stream fiercely in by
the clinks of his window, as if to startle him from his repose!
Ile hears not— he sees not, for blindness and deafness rule over
him with despotic sway, and lay a deadening spell upon his
faculties. And when he does at. length awake—far on in the
day—from the torpor of this benumbing sleep, he is not re-
freshed. does not start at once into new life—an altered
man, with joy in his mind, and vigour in his frame. On the
contrary, he is dull, languid, and stupid, as if half recovered
from a paroxysm of drunkenness. He yawns, stretches him-
self, and stalks into the breakfast parlour, to partake in soli-
tude, and without appetite, of his unrefreshiug meal—while his
eyes are red and gummy, hiS beard unshorn, his face unwashed,
and his clothes disorderly and ill put on. Uncleanliness and
sluggishness go hand in hafid; for-the obtuseness of mind which
disposes a man to waste the most precious hOurs of existence in
debasing Sleep; Will naturally make him neglect his person.
"A little more sleep," says • Solninoni "a little more slumber,
a little more folding of the hands to rest." "How long wilt
thou sleep, 0 sluggr.rd ? when wilt thou arise aut of thy sleep."
Afticknish'i Pktolophy of Sleep: