The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

oar, cannot leave

ricks and mortar; but they
the tedium of the twaddle uttered by the

.e not suffi-

ub quid nunc,

o never dines

ix times a

nd to be avoided. Hating

f the c

11 follow you into the

oking room, where genuine

clubbists meet like brothers—never mind the spleen down

ut politics with these old men.
e sadly puzzled at the beginning of the weep

stairs—nothing

with them wonders do not last nine days,—to find out the
disposition of the ships ordered afloat. Was there to be a
war ? Russia and Austria v. the Turk. All to nothing,
of course, the latter must be beaten. Prussia necessarily
will join against the Turcoman—ancient ally of England
though he is. 'What will France do ? Of course, stand
by England in defence of Turkey. Then there will be a
general row. Such, and such, has been the trash

uttered at the clubs this dullest week in Fifty•three,

Certainly great secrecy is maintained ; for even the
Thunderer " is silent about the intents of the sailing
kt the Admiralty all is as calm as usual ; the little

printing press—manager sworn to secrecy—is at work, but
rot a word oozes ; and there have been no first lord's
dinners recently ; capital gatherings those. When your
Lords Commissioners, tars or landsmen, take dinner in
that quarter—after it—i do not think they care much
about letting the cat out of the bag. How was it that not

long ago certain improvements in our screw steam navy,
described in little other than in diagram, and lithographed
by their lordships' own printer under their noses, as it
were, got wind—were ventilated, and published in the
French papers before they had been communicated to our
own naval authorities? It was done, much to the annoy-
ance of the Lords of the Admiralty, though little was
wisely said about it. These French jockies ought to be
looked after. Ditto ditto Russian in the East. Eminen t
scientific travellers, who have left these our shores and
returned, have told me that wherever they wandered they
have met the agents of Russ

—merely " botanizing," of
course, quiet creatures, never observing anything beyond
a plant or so, all the way from Toboisk to Samarcand,—
plains of Lahore, heights of Delhi,—caviare eating lanes

of Cot

tantinople and Smyrna. There was the Russ,

making the air redolent of the above-named dainty. It is
not likely, however, that England will be embroiled,
g Russian bear Menscbikoff does play

fantast

tricks before the Sultan

The bold outlay

! ROB ROY :VAGREGOR, PAUL JONES

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re or more of elm

not now to be enumerated. What an association of names
might be culled, and what a contrast would the list present
as compared with the bloodless, the milk-and-water list of
Mr. HEasP, duly and periodically proclaimed in hall of
Mr. }TEMP —a nasty 0

I jolly fellow—has proclaimed
state in the olden
when they shone their ugliest ! HEMP'S outlaws,

name, though ils owner is

than ever did office

for the most part, are tai!or-made ; others are for the use

of an idle tongue—a too busy gall-dipp'd pen—libel—
action at law—damages, and so forth, closing with out-

the puke-stocking varlets who com-

prise the feather bed outlaws of the present reign.
What's done with out-

them, if they are caught

right, of course. Not at all. Simple arrest, off to that

too good-natured soul, SLOMAN'S, in Cursitor-street, at a
guinea more or less a day, and in a week—arrangement—

and the outlaw is as good as ever. There were a heap of
outlaws proclaimed the other day as I passed the Sheriff's
Court. The ceremony was pompous enough, especially

when the unfortunate beggar had a lot of names, as
CHARLES FREDERICK WILLIAM GUELPH ! My pen

writes the last time-honoured
patronymic—our gracious QUEEN'S, in short. The out-
lawry referred to is that of the eccentric, rich, magnificent,
the at night noble-looking, cosily attired, much be-ringed,
be-ringleted, be-painted, be-whiskered, be-wigged Duke

almost refuses its office as

of BRUNSWICK. The DUKE had been proclaimed one of
HEMP'S, or some such officer's outlaws, for the fifth time,

at the suit of his second cousin, Regina. There was not

much in it, after all. The Deis got into a scrape with
Alderman HARMER, of The Despatch newspaper ; the

DUKE went away, would not stand the brunt as he had

done before, and manfully, too—after a fashion. The
DUKE is, however, only great at night—in the gilded

saloon, or at the opera, when lighted up for the evening,
he is resplendent ; but ah ! faded, like Vauxhall paste-

board splendour,

"when daylight doth appear." I have
. _

jostled the Duke of BRUNSWI-CK in the Opera-house, bear-
ing on his person £lO,OOO worth of property : his kid
gloves, they were nothing—less than vanity ; but then he
wore thousands of pounds sterling worth of diamond,
emerald, and ruby, over them, like a fop, as he was. He
was fond also of gold. At one time he had in his coffers,
at his house, in the New Road, two hundred and forty
thousand sovereigns. I don't think he liked the Bank of
England paper. And yet he was outlawed, with a dozen
other individuals, of no mark or likelihood. .

Let me turn my attention to a dreary volume published
this week by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the law of divorce. My " withers are unwrung, ' and so,
I trust, are those of all the readers of the Standard. The