The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

THE EASY MAN

There is no human being walks through this life in a way
more peculiar to himself than the easy man. The hopes and
fears, the joy and anguish, which worry and harass the rest
of mankind, are unknown to him ; he came into this world
he knows not how—he jogs through it just because he sees
other people doing so—be eats and drinks, sleeps soundly,
and dies easily—and when he is buried, the sexton, as he
stands in the half-filled grave, sticks his spade in it for a
moment—and takes snuff. The easy man is generally of a
middle stature, stout, with cheeks having a kind of rough-
ness like a fowl with feathers off, rosy however, and streaked
10-- •
.:ar There is usually a little watery saliva at
ti' mouth, and in cold weather his proboscis
like a diamond in the nose of a

a winter peal

the corners of

has a drop hanging from it

Persian queen

wears an everlasting drab great coat,
reen leather gloves, and a hat slightly turned up behind.
His trowsers in summer—they are a very old pair—are usu-
ally_ too short for him, and display glaring white worsted
; his hair appears to obey no sort of arrangement;
brella in his life. He

and he was never seen with an -um

speaks always in a kind of cosy whisper, as if he was con-
versing with his wife under a coverlit. He has a look of uni-
versal benignity, and breathes heavily through his nose. He
is fond of using the word " sir," and sticks it into his sentences
oftener than other people. He takes off his hat in banks and
attorney's offices, and has a guise of inoffensiveness which
nobody can mistake. One of these men, a few months ago,
took it into his thick head to write a letter to the Times. It
was a short one, to be sure, but on an important subject, be-
ing no less than an inquiry why London should not be
fortified as well as Paris? " We are getting frightened, Sir,

„
in the city,” concluded the easy man, in his cosy, cheeping,
shrug. shoulder phraseology.. Now, had there been art in-
vasion, that fellow, and all his kind, would have been
. .

of about just
but these met

s so many bolster

It is odd

lways married, and have usually a great
'lumber of chubby-faced children, with stupid counte-
'ances and dirty noses. How all this came about—how

these men could have made love, " popped the question"—
to use that abominable way of expressing it—and volun-
tarily put their necks into the matrimonial noose, is a mys-

tery and a riddle which staggered Solomon h.nself. One
would think that if woman was banished from the earth,
or indeed had never existed in it, it would have been a
' matter of perfect indifference to him; and yet they are at
a once detected by the sex as marrying men. They make
good husbands in their way, if they do not happen to marry
a lady of " poetic temperament"—in that case, to use a
mg, common expression, "it is all up with them•" How-

Tering is marvellous • and if the
m ,a poetess for a wife, he cannot

Messed s,

nity cf a vacant mind

chronicler of small beer wouldi.have made him happy ; yet,
bad as matters are, the easy man can yet smoke his pipe, and
thank God they arc no worse. To look in the face of one of

snorers, it is easy to see that he does not care five shillings
for the fall of. man. Had Eve, indeed, never eaten the for-
bidden fruit, he would .have taken his share of the enjoy-
ments of Paradise decorously ; but as it is, the easy man is by
no means distressed about it. The beauties of nature, the
harmony of the universe, and the national debt, are things
which never enter into,.hismind. The rise and fall of em-

pires—the revolutions of nations--4he starry heavens—animal
magnetism—and the shortness of human life, are subjects
which affect him not—he lives and breathes—he is one of the
herd—he dies and is forgotten.—Court Gazette.

DALE OF THE AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP PRESIDENT.—
C American line-of-packet ship President, that lately went
the Nore Sand, has been sold by public auction in the
Itains'-room, at Loyds', for £B3O. ,

MINISTERIAL STRATAGEMS.—The exertions of the go-
vernment to bring up their supporters on the 25th ult. were
unparalleled. Sir T. Wilde, though labouring under the most
severe indisposition, was brought to the house at the immi-
nent risk of his life. In fact a room off the lobby—since not
inaptly styled " the infirmary"—was crowded with invalids,
until summoned into the body of the house by the sound of
the division bell. Amongst the invalids were Mr. Byng, the
aged and infirm representative for Middlesex ; Mr. Fyshe
Palmer ; Lord Charles Russell, Y. ith a fractured collar-bone ;
Lord Douglas Hallyburton in a state of imbecility ; and, to
his eternal shame be it spoken, Sir Thomas Troubridge,
whose daughter, a young lady of seventeen years of age, lies
still a corpse in his house. All these voted in the majority,
with the exception of Lord Douglas Hallyburton, and he was
removed before the division took place. Of course, those
wh,o could insist, on a Lord of the Admiralty, outraging every
iccencv ()lac, by giving his vote under such circumstances.

most degraded and pitiable. f
Douglas Hallyburto9,4 tb
lering his

a, in the person'ofloid

was a possibility of ren-
And now, to account why it
ry whippers refrained from tendering the
According to the rules of the House of
letent to any member to object to another
on the plea that the member objected to
• In such a case, the Speaker

that

is comp

-re question put

obliged to call st

aember to the table, who; on be

on that has been taken, fsasked iror.

the chair to state what the question is, upon which he is going
to vote. Now, Lord Douglas Hallyburton ig quite incom-
petent either to understand the nature of any question pro-
posed to him, or even to repeat the simplest question when
deliberately read to him. The Treasury whippers having got
wind that Lord Douglas's vote would have been objected to
on the grounds I have stated, removed the noble lord from
the house.—Dublin, Evening Mail.