The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

!cl to one not exactly suited to our purposes or
h a very excellent one, doubtless, in its kind. It
-ouch frequented by that order of travellers which,

•e, Sterne omitted to insert in his catalogue—namely,
ler which travels for orders, and who certainly have
.ck of introducing the perpetual motion, or something
into whatever house they honour with their calls and
tge. But we had a capital breakfast, notwithstanding,
we were in fine order to enjoy in all its luxury—and
Ai having done ample justice, with " chins new-

and toilet completed, we set forth on our excursion
❑e town. We took a hasty view of the Town-hall,
tune, the Custom-house, and nearly all the public
----of which the churches certainly formed, by far,

The people of Liverpool, said we, must

;ious, for here we have a church in al-
As public edifices too, they are all

Lue affair, in St. Paul's-square, to
ique, St. Luke's, at the top of
upwards of forty-four thousand

still a favourite " iovest-

tew ones in progress sufficiently attest.
sale-street, Lord-street, Church-street,
.vere struck with the elegance and costli-
profuse abundance in which they
Every body has heard of

7efore I shall give no description of
e. lam not sure that it is even
of its class in the London world—

But what pleased us still more

,ce in the leading streets, was the vast

:e of the second-rate shops all through

contrast which Liverpool thus presents with

:ix we had just left, and which was freshest upon our
post striking. There is nothing in Liverpool to be
ith the College Green and Westmoreland-street,
dcre, and Sackville-street of Dublin. Liverpool

ages, n3r the fashionable moving

i a light and pleasing air to the living
Dublin is like an elegant
'Liverpool like a solid

coach maker's

ted at a farming-implement manufactu-
i you have seen the good parts and the bright
—what then ? Why, then, prepare for the
t's all ; and what these are, let Daniel O'Connell or

Irish patriot sing or say for me, with an appro-
2-strue. But when you have seen a pretty toler
re of fair streets and good houses, shopped or
Liverpool, you have to prepare only for seeing
)re of the same order and quality still. In
3 from splendour (a splendour, by the way,
surface only) to beggary—from the elegant
nobility—of Merrion-square and Ca-
o the squalor and misery of the Liberty ; but

ce of the

have no such swift transitions to make

some very capital mansions, worthy of an
ty, in Abercromby-square, Bedford-
aud that neighbourhood ; but there
them in Islington, Shaw-street, and
But take an inferior order of messuages and

1 flourishing c

purtenances as the subject of comparison, and you
prt of republican equality widely prevailing, which it
ltful to contemplate. Everton, and Edge-hill, and
Lne abound with capital isolated mansions, pleasantly
1, and almost, if not altogether, beyond the boun-

moky ens elopement which so greatly mars
auty of a lower region. But these are the domiciles
Such we expected to find, and
uently not greatly surprised to meet with ; but
)vered a theme of remark which to us was more novel
.eful in the vast diffusion, of substantial comfort, and
ent prosperity which we could trace in so many ob-
many shapes around us. The population of Li-
There are large proportions of Welsh
grave and business-like character of the
predominates, and seems, like Aaron's rod, to
wed up all the others. Liverpool has few loungers,
ry man appears to be fully occupied with his own affairs
There is no gadding about—no gos-
nerchant of the shop, though you buy from

antile aristocrasy

I mixed one

Irish ; but the

they may

to think von exact too much, if you expect him
all with conversation as well as goods at the one
French art—and I may add the Irish too, (for the
Lghters of Erin certainly excel in it)—of talking
and saying nothing, or of talking merely to sus-

of that exquisite instrument, the human voice
understood here. The English have ever been,
via be, I believe, a serious matter-of-fact people.
doing," is, at all events, the order of the day in this
a. and not talking, and I would give it these short

s as a motto for its crest—

Virtute, non verbis

at deal of business here in a quiet way, sir,"
An intelligent bookseller to me, as he handed me a guide-
k, for which I had paid him. "No doubt of that," said
you have that art in perfection, and long may you retain
for you seem to thrive by it wonderfully. I only wish
t people that I wot of, could learn the secret."

xt day being Sunday, we did not fail, in the morning,
•kindle the flame of heavenward musings by attending

;hurch of the celebrated minister of St. Jude's—nor in
scnirr; to drink in the sweet harmonies of the Blind
um cinpl; but I have not half-done with secular mat-
yet, and must postpone my sabbath walks and pen, till
are all disposed of. Sufficient, however, for the day—
orrow we shall resume.

—Grass has already appeared in our

et. The first load for the season was sold in the New
larket, on Saturday last. Mr. Skirving, of Walton,
he seller, and Mr. Haggerston, cowkeeper, Scotland-
the buyer.

,t;EMASONRY.—Let ns take our station in the east, and
itemplate the extent of our lodges. We behold before us
endless space—length and breadth, and depth and height ;
limensionsunmeasurable ; in comprehension, inconceiv-
e. This view embraces a representation of the world ;
th, with all its treasures, the beauties of the vegetable
Ation, the riches of its subterraneous mines and caverns,
fling mountains and boiling whirlpools, the scaly produce
is pathless
its be
ocean, and all the advantages to derived
n maritime traffic over yielding surface. The toils of
istry and the benefits of commerce, the mutual aid and
ual accornmodatioo afforded to each other by different na-
s, are all included in a general survey of a mason's lodge.
more than this, the great advantages conveyed to man-
, by the arts and sciences, are here placed before us. We
ie beauties of architecture as displayed in gorgeous pa_
and solemn temples, the construction of stately cities,
asted with the rural peace and retirement of the humble
e with its sheds and dwellings of mud and straw. We
le in our prospect the scenes of every kind,,by which
'ire is ennobled, or our frame supported.
theand busy hum
a manufacturing population, each employed in
übsistence, and preparing benefits for their fellow
he sailor on his fickle element, and the statesman
anguing in the senate ; every rank and and class busily
ployed in their vocation, and all toiling for riches, honors,
'pularity, and bread. These scenes diversify the, surface,
thether east or west, or north or south. And if we descend
.owards the centre, the same busy industry prevails. The
bowels of the earth are eagerly ransacked for their rich con-
tents, and we find men consenting to be buried in dreary
mines to seek subsistence for their families.—Rev. Dr. Olt-
ver—Fremasone Quarterly Review for April.

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