The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

CONTINUED ADVERSITIES.—AS hot-mettled horses
require severer discipline than those of the ordinary class,
so the strong corruptions of some individuals render more
powerful remedies essential in their management ; and it
will accordingly be found, that they themselves are among
the first to justify the wisdom of the divine procedure by
acknowledging, with gratitude, in their better moments,
the absolute necessity of such a course of treatment.—
Poynder's Literary Extracts.

Morning Post) occurred in a
from London :—Teacher—` What

The following (says the
school not 100 mile

xech is the word egg ?" Boy (hesitating) —"Noun,
" What is its gender?" Boy (perplexed)
.acher--" Is it masculine, femi-
'looking sharp)—" Can't say, sir,
•" Well, then, my lad, can
Boy (quickly)—" Oh, yes, it is the

" Teacher—
" Can't tell, sir."

tine, or neute

till it's hatch.
you tell me the ca.

1." Teacher—

" DIVINE LIGHT ESSENTIAL TO SPIRITUAL DISCERN-
MENT.-Dr. Taylor, of Norwich, once said to me—' Sir,
I have collated every word in the Hebrew Scriptures
seventeen times ; and it is very strange if the doctrine of
atonement, which you hold, should not have been found
by me.' lam not surprised at this : I once went to light
my candle with the extinguisher on it : now prejudices
from education, learning, Ste., often form an extinguisher.
fact It is not enough that you bring the candle—you must
fact the extinguisher."—Poynde
sted " Atm

ARY CONTRACTIONS AND CORRUPTIONS OF
NAMES.—The proper pronunciation of the name of Chol-
mondeley, not having been known to an applicant who
enquired whether Lord Chol-mond-e-ley was within ?'
he is said to have been answered—' No ! but some of his
pe-o-ple are.' Thus, it is supposed that if a stranger
were to enquire for Carshalton, sa spelt, none of its inha-
bitants would, very readily, answer him ; and, when the
writer was the pen-and-ink of the Commissioners of Cha-
rities, he tried, in vain, to write the residence of a witness,

who said he lived ' at Whitcheter,' and upon that the parish
clergyman, who was present, smiled, and said, he means

Wood-t

SOMETHING NEW FOR THE LADIES,—The introduc-
tion of gas into private houses has been taken advantage
of by the ladies ; who, under protest against the glare,and

daziling uncomfortableness of such bright lights, deliber-
ately spread parasols in an evening soiree, and (incidental
advantage) converse under and behind the same very
agreeably. A pink parasol, judiciously held between a
lady's face and a gas-burner, throws a tender roseate hue
over the complexion, and can be dexterously manoeuvred,
of course, to curtail any annoying perspective, or furnish
glances in effective monopoly to the privileged. The arts
do not seem to have fallen behind the sciences in the march

STRANGE :CORRUPTIONS.—CarshaIton is pronounced
"Casehlrton." Such arbitrary contractions and corrup-
tions of names are very common in England, thus:—
"Theobald's-road" is Tibbald's-row; "Rotherhithe" is,
according to the people, Redriffe; and "Cirencester" is
Cissiter ; Liquorpond-street is familiarly known as
" Lick-a-pin-street," and everybody knows that " Sim-
meryax" is the vulgar tongue for St. Mary Axe. The
old signs of our inns have been equally popularised ; as, for
instance, in the case of "the Bag-o'-nails," which was
once the Bacchanals. The "Cat-an'-Wheel," olim, the
Catherine Wheel, in allusion to the saint and the martyr-
dom. "The Goat and Compasses" was once God Encom
passeth us: and "the Bull and Mouth"- is modern reading
for the Boulogne Mouth—a sign made popular when the
mouth or port of Boulogne first fell into the hands of the
conquering Harry of England.
LIVERPOOL AS IT WAS WHEN AN IRISH TOWN.—The
latter half of the eighteenth century exhibited the rapid
spread of commerce, and the spread of the town and its
institutions to accommodate this commerce. New ex-
change and other commercial buildings were founded ;
new churches were built ; a newspaper was started ; and
a coach ran from Liverpool to London in four days. A
Mr. Derrirk, writing in 1760, thus speaks of Liverpool in.
his day :—"'There are here three good inns. For ten-
pence, a man dines elegantly at an ordinary, consst'ng of
ten or a dozen dishes. Indeed, it must be said that, both
in Cheshire and Lancashire, they have plenty of the best
and most luxurious food at a very cheap rate. The great
increase of their commerce is owing to the spirit and in-
defatigable industry of their inhabitants, the majority, of
whom are either native Irish or of Irish descent—a fresh
proof that the Hibernians thrive best when transplanted.
The merchants are hospitable, nay, friendly to strangers,
even to those of whom they have the least knowledge :
their tables are plentifully furnished, and their viands are
well served."—The Land we Live In.
LORD ROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.—To the frame
of this vast instrument is fixed a large cubical wooden
box, about eight feet wide, in which there is a door,
through which two men go in to remove, or to replace,
the cover of the mirror. To this box is fastened the tube,
which is made of deal staves, and hooped like a huge cask.
It is about 40 feet long, and 8 feet diameter in the mid-
dle. The Dean of Ely walked through the tube with an
umbrella up ! Dr. Scoresby, who has viewed the moon
through this huge telescope, states that every object on
the moon's surface, 100 feet high, may be distinctly seen.
There are craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks, and num-
berless masses of stones : but there are no signs of habi-
tations—no vestiges of architectural remains—to show
that the moon is, or ever was, inhabited by a race of
mortals similar to ourselves. It presents no appearance
which can lead to the supposition that it contains any-
thing like the green fields and lovely verdure of this
beautiful world of ours. There is no water visible ; not a
sea, or a river, or even the measure of .a reservoir for
supplying town or factory ; all, seems desolate.— Sharpe's
London Magazine.
ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH ON A WEEKDAY.—That
distinguished Christian philosopher, Robt. Boyle, amongst
other pious acts, thou must know, founded lectures in this
church of St. Mary-le-Bow, for the defence of natural and
revealed religion. They are eight in number, to be

preached on as many Mondays in the year ; and they are
delivered on the first Monday in each month from January
to May, and from September to November. This was
the first of the autumnal course; and, wilt thou credit it;
there was but a congregation of some four of us to hear it !
0 tempora, 0 mores ! A Boyle lecture in the parish
church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, in the midst of
one of the densest crowds of this densely crowded Chris-
tian city of ours—a lecture in defence of the Christian re-
ligion in a city where, above almost all other cities of
Christendom, the Christian religion most needs to be de-
fended. if only against the abuses of it by those profess-
edly Christian citizens themselves—and there can only be
found four persons to listen to it, out of probably some
four hundred thousand who live and move within sound of
the church bells ! Independently of the sermon, or lec-
ture, there was the morning_ prayer. But even this rare
opportunity of enjoying the privilege of public worship on
a week-day morn was slighted by the hordes of Christian
men, and churchmen—or people calling themselves such,
at least—who were swarming in all directions around this
open sanctuary ! Can the church be in a healthy state—
can her clergy be exerting themselves as they ought to do
—where such contempt for sacred things prevails ? Im-
possible !—Oxford and Cambridge Review.
POWER OF ENGLAND.—It is a suggestive fact that Eng-
land did not become a colonising and commercial nation
until Protestantism was established, and the Bible trans-
lated for dissemination in distant lands. A maritime and
mercantile nation appears to have been specially chosen
by the Supreme Disposer of Events for this hallowed pur-
pose. The English language is now more extensively spo-
ken than any other in the world, and in due time will most
probably be the medium of communication among all na-
tions • the British sovereignty is more widely spread than
that of any known empire ; the richest plains, the loftiest
mountains, the largest rivers, the most capacious lakes,
the best-placed islands, the securest havens, and the
strongest fortresses, are all within the dominions of your
Majesty ; the commerce and wealth of this empire have no
parallel in ancient or modern record ; enterprise, skill, and
capital, have brought the most distant regions of the
earth, by steam navigation, within constant, speedy, and
certain communication : and the blessings of civil and re-
ligious liberty—of political and moral freedom—are firmly
established throughout an empire on which the sun never
sets. Such have been the glorious results of the princi-
ples established and inculcated by the regal predecessor of
your Majesty, Queen Elizabeth ; their operating effects
were manifest in the foundation of colonies—id the exten-
sion of commerce—and in the dissemination of a pure
Christianity, to which colonies and commerce have largely
contributed. Yet the British empire is but in the infancy
of its power, and we have scarcely commenced the moral
and spiritual duties for which dominion has been granted.
—Montgomery Martin's China.
THE MEMBER FOR LINCOLN.—Once for all, let it be
observed, that however much one may be tempted to
laugh from time to time at Colonel Sibthorp, he is not to
be regarded, as many persons who see him for the first
time are inclined to regard him, as a person simply ridi-
culous. There is a method even in what seems to be on
his part sheer folly. It is impossible to avoid laughing at
his grotesque figure and attitudes, or at his simulated
gravity, when assailed on all sides by the merriment of
his audience ; nor is it without an admixture of that pity
which is not the most flattering to a man's amour propre,
that one sees the imploring yet half-despairing glances he
casts from time to time from under his shaggy eyebrows,
up towards the gallery appropriated to the press. But
these oddities are constantly redeemed by the sound sense
and forcible, if rather rude, truth of his observations.
Nor should we forget that Colonel Sibthorp has done
something. He is one of the few "private" members of
the House of Commons (" private", that is to say, as
distinguished from the leaders or direct servitors of party)
who have defeated a government. We need hardly re-
mind the reader that we refer to that memorable motion
of the gallant colonel, the result of which was the reduc-
tion of the proposed vote to Prince Albert of £50,000 a
year to £30,000. This was a great triumph for Colonel
Sibthorp—the grand event of his life. It was at a time
when the Whigs, if not still in the plenitude of the power
they purchased by the Reform Bill, were, nevertheless,
the dominant party in the House of Commons. In spite
of strenuous efforts they were defeated ; and their annoy-
ance was the more acute, because the disgrace came from
a quarter where it involved ridicule also. It was then
that Colonel Sibthorp was a study. Not Sir Robert Peel
himself, when the government was within his grasp,
could be more confident of success, or more proudly con-
scious of his position. His bearing, his air of grandeur
and self-importance, were the very sublime of the mock
heroic. To see him one would have supposed that, anti-
cipating the result, lie already contemplated a mission
from Windsor or Buckingham Palace, with her Majesty's
commands to form a new ministry. But the best part of
the affair consisted in the patronising airs he assumed
towards the Conservative leaders. Translated, they said,
as plainly as gestures could speak, " You, Sir Robert and
Lord Stanley, the great Conservative statesmen of the
age, have been striving in vain for years to get a majority
of the house ; but I, Colonel Sibthorp, who never have
held, and never would hold. a government office, have
but to come forward, and I succeed, even with the
com-
bined influence of the ministers and the Queen'
since name
against me !" Much of the license of speec
corded to Colonel Sibthorp is to be traced to this success 1
—Fraser.

NUTRIMENT IN COFFEE.---M. Rayen, from elaborate
experiment, shows that coffee slightly roasted is that
which contains the maximum of aroma, weight, and nu-
trition. He declares coffee to be very nutritious, as it
contains a large quantity of azote : three times as much
nutriment as tea; and more than twice the nourishment
of soup (bouillon). Chicory contains only half the nu-
triment of coffee. M. Rayen has also succeeded in ob-
taining from coffee an extract in the form of a white crys-
talline substance, capable of giving a deep green colour to
5,000 times its weight of water or spirit.
A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.—The late Chamberlain of
London (Mr. Clark) told the narrator that he well re-
membered in 1746 (his father then residing in the Mino-
ries) seeing the glittering of the executioner's axe in the
sun as it fell upon Mr. Radcliffe's neck. He was the
.brother of Lord Derwentwater, who had been beheaded
before (in the Rebellion of 1715). Mr. Radcliffe had
himself been convicted of treason, together with his bro-
ther, and had then effected his escape; but finding exile
intolerable, and making his appearance so many years
after, in the vain expectation that he should escape de-
tection, it became very difficult to identify his person ;
which probably would never have been done, had not the
barber, who had formerly shaved him in the Tower (as
many as thirty-one years before) positively sworn to his
person !—Poynder's Literary Extracts-.
TREATMENT OF BLIND CHILDREN.—Every day, and
almost every how-, reminds the blind child of its priva-
tion ; and its discipline is so severe, that almost any de-
gree of indulgence in the parent would be excusable, if it
were not clearly the first duty to consider the ultimate
welfare of the child. It is natural to the sighing mother
to watch over its safety with a nervous anxiety, to go
before it to clear its way, to have it always at her knee,
and to make everybody and everything give way to it.
But she must remember that her child is not destitute,
and for ever helpless, because it has one sense less than

other people. it has the wide world of the other four
senses to live in, and a vaster mental and moral world
than it will ever learn fully to use : and she must let it
try what it can make of its possessions. She will find
that it learns like others that fire burns and that bruises
are disagreeable, and that it can save itself from burnt
'd bruises --f t h and

any. ay using its senses of tout nearing. She
will encourage it in the cheerful work of shifting for it-
self, and doing, as far as possible, what other people do.
The wise and benevolent Dr. Howe tells us of the chil-
dren who come to the Blind School at Boston, that for
the first two or three days they are timid and forlorn—
having been accustomed to too much care from their mo-
thers, who will not let them cross the floor without being
sure that there is nothing in the way. But they presently

THE LIFE OF thrsTEßs.--Oysters lead, on the whale, '
as is known, a tolerably quiet life ; but even they cannot
get through this world, it appears, without their troubles.
Now they are attacked by a kind of star-fish that lies
watching till they open their shell to take in fresh water,
and then darts in its long tough arms, kills them, and
consumes them in a fresher state than they have ever yet
been enjoyed by any epicure; now their sorrows proceed
from within, in the shape of a small worm that destroys
them ; and sometimes, according to the testimony of the
people of Sylt, they are attacked successfully by a bird
called thence an oyster-fisher, who disturbs their tran-
quillity whenever he can find an opportunity of introdu-
cing h's long sharp beak. When this may be, however,
does not seem very clear. There are also various diseases
by which they are occasionally attacked; but those who

time comfortably enough, for thirty or forty, Or even up
to a hundred years, unless fate has allotted them the
more honourable destiny of being dredged up, packed

into barrels, and sent off-to Copenhagen, Berlin, Ham-
burg, or St. Petersburg, where their merits are duly ap-

preaated.—People' .9 Journal.
FATE OF ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BANK.—Mr.
Michael Godfrey, to whose exertions, with those of Wm.
Paterson, may be traced the successful establishment of
the Bank, met with a somewhat singular fate in 1695.
Previously to this year, the allied armies had retreated
before the wisdom of Louis and the bravery of his soldiers.
The funds supplied by the new corporation changed the
scene • but the transmission of specie was difficult and
full ofhazard, and Mr. Godfrey left his peaceful habita-
tion to visit Namur, then vigorously besieged by the Eng-
lish monarch. The Deputy Governor, willing to flatter
the King, anxious to forward his mission, or possibly
imagining the vicinity of. the Sovereign to be the safest
place he could choose, ventured into- the trenches. "As
you are no adventurer in the trade of war, Mr. Godfrey,"
said William, " I think you should not expose yourself to
the hazard of it." ," Not being more exposed than your
Majesty(' was the courtly reply, " should I be excusable
if I showed more concern ?" " Yes !" returned William,
" I am in my duty, and therefore have a more reasonable
claim to preservation." A cannon-bail at this moment
answered the " reasonable claim to preservation," by kill-
ing Mr. Godfrey, with several officers near the king, and
it requires no great stretch of imagination tn• fancy a sa-
turnine smile passing over the countenance of the mo-
narch, as he beheld the fate of the citizen who had payed
so heavy a penalty for playing the courtier in the trenches
of Namur. Tradition states that Mr. Godfrey's remains,
which were buried in the churchyard of St Christopher le
Stocks, were disinterred to
ment of that prosperous est

room for th

felt so deep an interest, and in the service of which he
may be said to have fallen.--History of the Bank of

England.
THE OXFORD COLLEGES AT THE LATE ELECTION.—
Mr. Round's stronghold was St. Edmund Hall. Forty-
one- members of convocation from that society recorded
their votes in his favour, while four only were found to
uphold' his adversary. Next to Edmund Hall, he was
most successful at New College, where the votes were
more than two to one on his side. After New College,
Jesus was his best friend, giving him a majority of about
seven to four. Worcester voted for him in the ratio of
about three to two •, Magdalen Hall, Wadham, and Mag-
dalen College, in that of five to four. Even, however,
where he had a preponderance of votes, it was seldom
that the foundations were at all decidedly in his favour.
At Jesus, where the balance in his favour was the great-
est, while nine Fellows, with the Principal, took his side,
six voted for his adversary. At Worcester, where he had
the votes of eight Fellows with the Provost, again six are
found opposing him. At New College the balance of
Fellows was but nine to eight in his favour ; at Magdalen
it was actually against him, fourteen Fellows voting for
Mr. Gladstone, while Mr. Round had but eleven on his
side. Wadham abstained as much as:possible from pro-
nouncing an opinion. According to the official returns, it
would appear that only four Fellows out, of fifteen recorded

their votes, and of these one declined to pronounce be-
tween the rival candidates. Of the other three, two voted
in Mr. Gladatone's favour ; one only, with the Warden,
took the side of Mr. Round. Thus it would seem that
there is not a collfige in Oxford which can be said, so far as

its governing hotly is concerned, strongly to prefer Mr.
Ronnd's to Mr. Gladstoners -principles. A few second
rate (not to say third-rate) colleges, and one or two halls,
do, so far as the members not on the foundation are con-
cerned, strongly sympathize with Mr. Round and Pro-
tism. A considerable number of the most respec-

whole body of voters, the governing portion favouring, by
a larger or a smaller majority, Mr. Gladstone and church
principles. The leading colleges are with Mr. Gladstone
decidedly. His great strength lies in Christ Church,
Exeter, and Oriel. To the two former colleges his elec-
tion must be considered as owing. Had they been evenly
divided, and the other, colleges voted as they did, Mr.
Round would have been returned by a majority of thirty-
four votes.—Oxford BOview: