The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

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7Litrraturr. WISE TGNORANCE.—Tt is impossible to become either THE STEAM-
arr eminently great, or truly pious man, without the
40 • courage to remain ignorant of a many things. (From Sir john Barron
NOTICES. THE PULTNEY GUlNEA.—Pultney, the great leader of The first discoverer, as we E
the opposition, and afterwards the Earl of Bath, having, of the power of steam for movi
.The Slave Captain; a Legend of Liverpool. By John in one of his speeches, made a Latin quotation, was cor- &c., as well as of its locomo
Dignan, London : T. C. Newby, 72. Mortimer-street, rested by Sir Robert Walpole, who offered to wager a times, been a subject of doub
Cavendish Square. Liverpool, John Dignan, South guinea on the inaccuracy of the lines. The bet was has the story of the Marquis
John-street. accepted, the classic referred to, and Paltney being found himself, been called in questic
When we had the pleasure of noticing a former little to be right, the minister threw the guinea across the table, before his time, and M. Arago
work by Mr. Dignan—" A Romance of Liverpool Life"— which Pultney, as he took it up, called the house to the discovery for another, one
we expressed our opinion that the writer was equal to a witness was the first guinea of the public money he had brated engineer in the time of :
more sustained and higher effort ; and in this opinion we ever put into his pocket. The very coin thus lost and won dedicated a book, published ii
were not singular. Although evidently a hasty work, is still preserved, as the " PultneY Guinea," in the count
of Moving Forces, with
thrown togethr in the author's leisure hours, and in the British Museum. for Use as for Pleasure. This
intervals of arduous editorial labours, it contained AN IRISH RACE.—The jockey who rides against aby nearly half a century, to W
evidences of unmistakeable talent and aptitude of mind popular horse undertakes a service of some danger, for ventions, which was not publish
for. the production of works of fiction of the first there are no means, however unfair, which they will not prove nothing against the M
class; and we sat down therefore with some gratification adopt to cause him to lose the race : they will hustle him, De Celts has mentioned steal
to the perusal of the legendary tale which is now before throw sticks and hats in his way, in the hope of throwing I forces," of which I profess my
us, and in writing which the author has perhaps been en- over horse and rider. . But when the popular horse wins, his treatise. But the charge of
couraled by the favorable tone in which his first effort then indeed the scene is fine. No sooner did a certain his invention from De Caus h
was received. Our rather high expectations have been chesnut get ahead of the rest, than there arose a cry true, as it appears to be, deci
fully realized by its perusal. In ' The Slave Captain" from ten thousand people of "The doctor's harse ! the him.
Mr. Dignan has displayed all the requirements of a foxey harse ! the doctor's harse !" accompanied by such In an amusing Frenchwork, I
novelist ; skill in construction, great power of conception, a rush as fairly swept the winner off the course towards par Henri Berthoud, I find aye
and delineation of character, combined with perfect purity the weighing-stand ; and when, after the weighing, the letter, from Madame Marion d
of taste and expression. Above all, the moral conveyed favourite was walked to a distant part of the ground, he the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, in v
throughout the work is excellent. was accompanied by the same thousands, shouting " The " I have done the honours
For the leading incidents and plot of the tale we must doctor's parse ! the foxy harse !" &c., &c. Never, except lord, the Marquis of Worcese
refer our readers to the work itself, rather than weaken n this occasion, have I seen five hundred persons trying . rather, he has led me, from c
its interest by any sketch of ours. The leading character, to rub down one horse at one time, with ten times that always making choice of the
as the title suggests, is of a class of nautical men to be number anxious to assist, and only prevented by the evi- serious, speaking little, and lists
found in Liverpool at the close of the last century, but dent impossibility of getting near enough. Hats, hand- tion.
who are now swept away, with the trade which they fol- kerchiefs, coats, handfulls
of grass, all were in requisition ; "We went to Becetre, where
lowed. The scene is laid in our old Borough as it existed while the vast mass of excited people roared, screeched, covered in a madman a man (
70 or 80 years ago ; and the description given of many vociferated the endless virtues of the horse and master, been raving, I verily believe y
portions of it will no doubt interest the local reader. though probably not one in a hundred knew anything of asked his liberty to take. him to
The pictures which it contains of the Africau trade are either, only that the horse opposed to him was owned by court where mad people are kep
also faithfully given ; and neither they nor the characters an anti-repealer.—Paddiana. from fear, I observed, on the otl
of the parties engaged in it overdrawn. We are intro- "As CUNNING AS A Fox."—The following illustration rier, an ugly face, screaming out
duced in the course of the tale to several of the illustri- of this adage proves beyond a doubt that reynard, so much made a discovery that would
ous men of whom Liverpool boasted in the last century, celebrated for his sagacity in past ages, has lost none of would carry it into effect.' An
and still boasts. Of the more prominent characters in- his cunning in modern times. A gentleman in the ba- I asked the keeper. 'Ah l ' sai
troduced some are most beautiful conceptions, worked out rony of Ennishowen had a pet fox which he had kept for guess : it is the vapour of boil
with great artistic skill, especially the character of the six months in a large wooden cage : his food consisted continued he, 'is Solomon de Ct
Slave Captain's young daughter Matilda, and his ward chiefly of broken meat, bones, &c., and this caused him mandy, four years'ago, to preset)
Euphemia. There are also a few masterly sketches of a to be much annoyed at night by dogs, which visited him of the wonderful effect of steam
ruder sort. As a whole, " The Slave Captain" is one of with the intention of thrusting their noses in through the driving carriages, and a thousam
the most interesting books of its class which has recently apertures in the cage and carrying off his " supplies." One but the cardinal drove him away
issued from -the press; and its author, having now small dog, in particular, though admonished by sundry From that time he- pursued t
proved his power, will regard himself as pledged to fur- growls and snaps from the inmate of the wooden habita- went, so that he ordered him to
ther efforts to gratify and improve his fellow townsmen tion to give over pia thievish propensities, and allow him as a madman, where he has been
and the reading public, to enjoy his food in peace, nevertheless could not resist He has written a book on his ve
the temptation of returning, in the hope, no doubt, of I have here.' Lord Worcester i
Song of the -Zephyr—" Ico;ne in the Spring." Sung succeeding, as he had done occasionally before; in carry- and, after reading a few pages, '
by Miss Rainforth and Miss Emily Grant.. The Words ing off a savoury bone. Reynard at last, wearied with his no madman, and in my country,
by Mrs. H. V. Lewis, the Music by Mr. H. V. Lewis. pertinacity, resolved on exchanging places with his canine up, they would heap riches upon
We noticed this pleasing composition in commendatory tormentor, in order to let the latter feat the tedium of irn- I wish to question him.' He we
terms, at the time when it was first published. It is light prisonment, and to teach him that the situation he seemed turned sorrowful and pensive. '
and graceful. to envy was not so very desirable as he regarded it. Ac- is very mad. Misfortune and ca;
______a___ cordingly, one night recently reynard slyly opened the tranged his reason. -You have tr
.SKETCHES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT, cage, and when the dog came, allowed him free admission, you threw him into this prison
ITALY, AND EGYPT. . taking care when he got him fairly inside to run out him- greatest genius of your age.'
BY EDWIN ICEETy ESQ. self and make fast the door of the cage behind-him, key- From this time, it is said, th(
No. XVI. ing the intruder in durance, where he was discovered next never ceased talking of Salome!
(Written for the Liverpool Standard.) morning, all his efforts to extricate himself having proved might talk and think of this pool
One beautiful little church, in the form of a Greek ineffectual. The fox, instead of leaving the premises and true. The writer of the letter, t
cross, dimly lighted with shaded, small windows, had taking to thefields, remained until his young master made and the genius of whom it treat
twenty-five brass, woven skreens, and one larger one, his appearance, when he leaped from a bundle of hay and characters of the time. De Cg
through which the immured-for-life, vestal nuns, might gambolled play.ully around him, afterwards taking pos.. engineer and architect, is known
catch a glimpse of that world and the people from which session of his former domicile.—.l% ondonderry Standard. of several ingenious works ; one
HURRICANE ON THE GANGES.—Though the sun set in de Forces Mouvantes, Brc., above
their vows ever excluded them. It is annoying to see so
fire, evening had closed in beautifully, and night never through several editions, and w
many of the beautiful pictures describing passages of the
sat more serenely on this mighty river; all was still, save languages. He also published fo
Jewish and Christian histories sadly mutilated by rude and
the howling jackal's mournful cry. The restlessness of one of which, entitled Institutim
vulgar silver-washed and tin crucifixes being nailed on to
the sleeperaloneeseen by some flickering lamp, omened cated to Queen Anne of Engle
the canvas : sometimes a gay, trumpery coronet of base
that something unusual was brooding in the midnight there can be little doubt, is genui
metal disfigures the otherwise lovely face of the Madre di skies, as, with parched and open lips, he heavily breathed was well known among the beauv
Dio. A curious picture ornaments one of their hospitals,
by Morealis-Death seated on the skeleton of a horse, the exhausted and now unsatisfying air. Further warning Court. She was accounted awo
priests, queens, and inst kings, there was none, till the elements commenced their fear- wit, and was the friend and assn out his darts aea
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beauteous maidens. ful conflict, and heaven's artillery burst loud and awful on Ninon. Arago asserts that De C
"0, Mors! the ear. " The blackening sky like a thick ceiling stood ;" cover the power' of steam ; any a
' Quam amara est bolts of livid fire sprung from this cloudy rampart, and digester,' was an inventor, aceo
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Memoria tua ?" ran along the ground, dragging their chariots of thunder than Englishmen. If De I'Orme
One huge wax candle, more than a foot in circumference, in their train, and sweeping all before them. The atmos- tester's story of the cover of thp
bad an image of Christ fastened to it; and frequently phere, now still more rarefied by the lightning, and scarce up the chimney is indeed blown
young married people, if anything ails the darling first- fit to support life, stood aloof, like the Red Sea of old, on sidered as a romance. We Engli
born, bring the child, and a couple of wax candles ! to the right hand and on the left, ready to pour down at the to believe what the Marquis has d
compensate for the cure and the blessing ! One monas- appointed signal : and on it came—a mighty, rushing and that his assurance may be reli
tery was very elaborately ornamented : it was dated wind. In a moment every boat was driven from the not to set down . any other inc
meecceit. In one of the many beautiful churches of Pa- shore, and dashed one against another, into the midst of moreover, that "if he had, in an
lermo you may see a strange admixture of the mythologi- the now foaming Ganges. The roar of the hurricane; to nominate likewise the inventor
cal figures of centaurs and satyrs, with Christian miracles ! the wild and savage yells of the native boatmen—their
The confessionals at Palermo are more open than at Rome loud imprecations and frantic gestures ; the open jaws DREADFUL OCCURRENCI
or Naples ; and the nuns at these, and the skreens, are and fierce eyeballs of the alligators, as they prowled around SUFFOCATION OF '
interesting. In that delicious climate, how well the for the expected prey ; and all rendered vivid by the flash-
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geon : and before giving up hope, one of them broke the
blade of a penknife in the attempt to make an opening in
the side of the chest. After they had exhausted themselves
by unavailing shouts and cries, which were not heard on
earth, they all joined in prayer to the hearer and answerer
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recent desecration of the Sabbath by one who should have
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