The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

uld have been
mompr ved in their ha-
rktuge for women

le feelit.gs by

.pent, anu
he detached to toral i• a river 'mi.:it aliened in the world, expanuing into
~s aso without re. enorinius f.,-s .. wat-r seas, abounding with fish. If the
was, the commence- tr, vocal luxuries are absent, if its winters are lone and ex-
c.... to a,t his measures." cessi,e'y se,ere, %et it yields all the European fruits abun-
, finally unprepared with datir.y. and eve.. some of the tropical ones, owing to the
event or an outbreak of richness of the 5..11 and the great heat of the summer.
Inc Captain Fitz-Boy's Maize, or Indian corn. fl ',wishes, and is more wholesome
know., that it remained and better than that pro,itic,-d in the warm south. The
of the rebel chiefs, Heki crops of potato, that apple ..f the earth, as the French so
mst•nc, s, and consider- justly term it, are equal if not superior, to those of any
in,_ ai....tnott the net yes other climate ; whilst all the vegetables of the temperate
,v the manly rapacity of regions of the old world grim with greater luxuriance than
Fitz- IC y, very properly in their original fields. I have successively and success-
-ri u:it ae, nciliatory po- fully cultivated the tomata, the melon, and the capsicum,
ion at,empt coercion with in the open air, for several seasons, at Kingston and To-
-uffieiei,T force under his ronto, which bre not the richest or the best parts of Wes-
, colony, in the event of 'tern Canada, as far as v g •tittlon is concerned. Tobacco
—• grows well in the wesie.ii di-trict , and where is finer
.uck'and w.s near being the wheat harvested than in wester:, t art Ala ? whilst hay, and
!night have precipitated the that beauty of a lard-cape, the rich gr' en sod, the velvet
e pr-otter was rescued from carpet of the ear, ii, are aiinioialo , and luxuriant. If the
rt"i,,„, ~-e' the militarylyi rear thew toentwin majesty of vegetat•or, is cal, ed to q,...stion, and intertropi-
cal plants brought to.. d in ceutrh-t, even the woods
ri his iwn .i,r, was carried air m
ff
and trackless for. sts or Guiana, where the rankest of luxu-
Lsnio r. , Mo,t happily, as no
ve, fi eii the chief prceector riance prevails, will not Ito more than compete with the
tr,t, 0. r ff. ct a peaceable ad- I glory of the ruin meal wood- o' Canada. 1 know of no-
untary return of the prisoner thing in this world capable of exciting emotions of wonder
and adoration more direct than to travel alone through its
n attack on Auckland would forests. Pines, lifting their hoary heads beyond man's
there v,eie ahout seventy
vision, unless he inclines his head so far backwards as to
ouch wi.tild have been in
,e -. 'I here was no de- be painful to his organisation, with trunks which require
n tiosin might have fathoms of line to span them ; oaks of the most gigantic
sii,,t w.mld have Peen form ; the immense and graceful weeping elm ; enormous
e, t house, the public poplars, whose magnitude must be seen to be conceived ;
, (n.ete weather-boarded lindens, equally vast ; walnut trees, of immense size ; the
v have In en the first in
the public docu• beautiful birch, and the wild cherry, large enough to make
tables and furniture of.— Sir B. H. Bonnycastle's Canada
appears to have and the Canadianx in 1546.
r debenture-, for the pur-
HANWELL ASYLUM.—The Hanwell Asylum is one of
f the e I ny until he could
the noblest instances of wisdom-tempered zeal and hu-
Girat Biitain. At the be- I mane skill which our age can boast of. The building and
its appurtenances occupy upwards of fifty-three acres ;
tevenue being then esti-
y says. "the local govern-
the several patients, sometimes nearly a thousand in nnm-
sal..ri--s and ordinary cur-
ber, are treated according to the intensity of their afflic-
tion ; but in no cases is unnecessary restraint practised.
nibs in nrr. ar ; there was
Working upon the proverbial association of idleness and
Aniline even to two-thirds
vice, in all cases where practicable, employment is re-
ctapelii ore ; the establish-
w mas anihorized by the sorted to as a remedy ; and nearly all the operations of
this -vast establishment are conducted with the utmost
:h received at the close of
got eroo.r• was strictly pro- order by lunatics; shops of lunatic tailors and shoemakers
iritish treasury, and no loan may be seen here at work, and the bakery, the laundry,
S." cicumstatices, and and other domestic offices, are worked by the same
" pa-
tient" classes. The out-door arrangements are upon the
eminent unit assistance and
m Eughind, to relieve the ere- same system of non-restraint. The gardens, and shrub-
... aria to keep numerous I beries are neatly kept by the inmates, and are allowed to
.nine rom actually starving— enjoy their health-giving air with the most indirect star-
er debentures, cearing five per veillance, and various pastimes are allowed to minister to
,er ti e , xuuation of iii e tear; and as these the "mind diseased." Within doors, reading of an in-
.- us, d by several speculators, and teresting and attractive, though not exciting, character, is
ieret..te erinvil iisel to he much ct pteciated, they were
r that their nod see may not invariably fall upon
ovided ; the tables are strewn with cheap periodicals, in
made a erai ter. er it shoe.d he noticed ihat this paper cur- P
rency wa. n t intetioea to he permanent: it was intenced to the hope g
serve to-te...1 or c‘mt. en or a very lint ee puriod, not exceed- the mind, as it were lying fallow. Here, as in the sane
ing rw .ye r- .l e ,tie win eh 't was probable that some arrange- world, outside of the Hanwell domain, society has its pets
went won rt he marte i.y , tie it me 0 vernment for their with- and butts, and men are prone to sport with each other's
draw I r rm. eircni..tron Ttn•se d beutures enabled the
weaknesses ; but this is no new phase of humanity. We,
.. Gover..... t t,• ,a. ,y onits fnucti..ns a. 'dssVed an extremity
who remember but too distinctly the clanking fetters and
of 111-iiii er atm diet e-s which can h..rdly be appreciated by
Pers. to in ai. ....: c. nun
..,, • , the horrifying gaze of the inmates of the old Bethlehem,
- lbe rncti sl eff..ct nt these debentures was not only the have inspected Hanwell with very different feelings ; and
rem,e -i . t all artnai wit. t. but the promotion.ot much industry, as we walked, almost unattended, through crowds of " lu-
snuati.itt:::rra :nip uo en ei t. Instead of a complete stagnation, natics," were indeed gratified to find them so far sane as
.
' lie i, ionic or is. t. activity and abundant employment
, to be sensible of their humane treatment. From the wall
Auckland and its vicinity improved rapidly,
of one of their dormitories we copied the following
lines :

I 1• Wrllet

and h
The nee(

-^,•,,Y ti, , r which the principal .holders of deben-
, " Behold!
to • in, i y them in the folohy. and , s speedily as pos-
h. t iii- e shi•it it he any deteriiir non or wine, induced No gloomy cells where sullen madness pines
cnose Ix. s , s 1,, t,u nt. gum. floc twiner, f,r copper, or other In chains ant woe, where no glad sunlight shines;
flaw • ~r,,,, f., to he t•xp,,rtea as remittances to their corre- But here kind sympathy for fallen reason reigns;
spondr, t,,, nisi,'" "I 01 I‘l's• ,vine hoot small vessels ; others Our rule is gentleness, not force or galling chains."
improvrri tn, it I ii,.e pr perry by let%ces and better buildings.
The it-t•uit,. w , c •• sti cirou-ly hentficial." On the south side of the garden lies the burial- ground,
wherein all patients not removed by their friends or pa-
Ttii. fr,ti.. 1/' iltetS.." .PP ars to have been one of the fishes are buried ; and here sleeps the individual who
Cartai,,'- too., he, t, u. ff ••oces. .
planned the asylum, and eventually became one of its in-
e woole of th
The to pl.—slot§ 1.r,,,in, 1-.1 by th e pamphlet
)0 of the gallant officer, who . mates for a long period previous to his death—one of those
is oi, ,I rumple t- vsculualli extraordinary coincidences which belong to the category
has performed ids duties Ina most critical position With of popular fatalism.—Sharpe's London Magazine.