The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

an usually interesting and diversified

There is much to attract the politicians, th

.ati, and the general read

The first article is a pep-

description of the questions which now agitate the
ch of Scotland from " Maidenkirk to John O'Groat's" ;

ntly understands the subject, and is acquainted with
ements of the non-intrusion chiefs, a few of whose

acters he pourtrays with considerable humour and skill,

we cannot add with equal impartiality

The " Tracts

the Times

' come in for a share of attention, and, as is
most of the leading periodicals of the day,
-merited censure. It is well said at the close

that " the members of the church must not
lied into security because the Tracts are discontinued,
lieve that the mischief is remedied, or that the mistaken
; advocated in those publications will no longer be pro-
red. " The Literary Labours of Daniel O'Connell,"
impudence and falsehood of which are their original,

he arti

claims, receive such a notice as may

xpected from a writer in Fraser's Magazine. Every
tide, which will be found enumerated in the adver-
ought to be read by all Englishmen.

ank's Omnibus. No. 1. London :
Strand; Webb, Liverpool

Tilt and Bogue,

ever a tired traveller welcomed a conveyance upon a
road, we hail this Omnibus of George Cruikshank's
heartfelt gratification ; and if ever we sincerely wished
idertaking to " run along the road" successfully, it is
It is a novelty altogether, and decidedly the cheapest
e macadamised and well-beaten highway of literature,
ell as being amongst the best. In the first place we

a wittily written preface; next we meet with a plate,

everything upon the globe and under the sun.
of the most exquisitely worked and ingeniously
things we ever met with. It
calf an hour to examine, and, when well looked at,
upy another, which will be expended in admiration
talent of the man who could contrive it. Next we
of the artist himself—an inimitable sketch :
genic likenesses hollow `• by notches."
tide. entitled " My Portrait."

s well as amusing

beats all photi

xt comes the leac

intention of this is to cut up the description given of
Cruikshank in some pen-and-ink sketch which appeared

by somebody ; we presume—from the quotations com-
ml upon—Mr. Grant. It is a highly entertaining arti-
ritten with a witty and jocose pen, and illustrated by
capital woodcuts. The second paper, entitled "My
Pair of Hessians," is quaint and clever. The story of

is illustrated by an exquisite plate in

Monument to Napoleon" is a

nournful, but most true satire upon military great-
This simple sketch bears about it a moral which
) sink deep in all hearts, especially those thirsting
tary glory. Cruikshank, we have always contended,
it moralist : this proves him to be one. The article

" cut" bears out the impressions con-

?.d by it. The closing portion of the number is a poem,
tied " Photographic Phenomena," and is a happy hit at
" sun likenesses." The illustration of the Sun painting
tortralts of " All the World and his Wife," is capital.

to this ne

w publication, say we ; and may w•e be

laim, " Omnibus est communis

Pod: May.—Blackwood, Edinburgh