The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

C 7 ricour is now made to resemble the coffee-berry.
The chicory is ground, and made into a stiff paste, and in
this state is so moulded as to resemble the real berry.

A . NEW BEATITUDE.—A country editor says, " Blessed
are they who do not advertise, for they will be rarely
troi bled with customers."--New York Journal.

1 NORTH REMEMBERING.—QuarIes says: "At the first
ent ;ranee into thine estate, keep a low sail. Thou must
ris e with honour; thou canst not fall without shame. He
th at begins as his father ended, shall end as his father
be ;gan."
CONVERSION AT CAMP MEETINGS.---" Sal," cried a girl,
k poking out of the upper story of a small grocery, and
a Aldressing another girl who was trying to enter at the
front door, " we've all been to camp meeting, and beef!.

3onverted ; so, when you want mull on Sundays, you'll
have to come the back way."
EDINBURGH seems'inclined to believe that the founda-
tion of a National Museum of Scotland is a settled thing.
The Scotsman reports that Dr. Playfair has been there,
comparing sites and preparing for the final examination
of the President of the Board of Trade. "It is almost
certain," says our northern contemporary, " that next
session Government will be prepared to propose a grant"
for this purpose.—Athemeum.
CONSIDERABLE LATITUDE.—Sir Richard Jebb, being
called to see a patient who fancied himself very ill, told
him very ingenuously what he thought, and declined pre-
scribing for him. " Now you are here," said the patient,
" I shall be obliged to you, Sir Richard, if you will tell me
how I must live, what I may eat, and what I may not."
"My directions as to that point," replied Sir Richard,"
will be few and simple. You must not eat the poker,
shovel, or tongs, for they are hard of digestion ; nor the
bellows, because they .are windy; but eat anything else
you please !"
AN APPLICATION is before the Treasury for a new ex-
ploration of a portion of the Australian continent. M.
Ernest Haug, if' the requisite means are forthcoming, in-
tends to start from the mouth of the river Victoria, to
trace this stream to its source or sources,—thence to con-
tinue in an easterly direction, accordingto the nature of
the country and the facilities for pursuing the journey.
In this cross movement it is expected that the party will
strike the upper waters of some stream falling into the
Gulf of Carpentaria ; and when so much of the geography
of the continent shall have been ascertained, the explorers
propose to make their way back again to the known world
through some of the old settlements.
PAID M.P.'s.—ln primitive days, honourable members
were paid by their constituents, and, besides the usual
presents of a horse to ride to Parliament, were entitled, by
a statute of Edward 11., to four shillings a day, if they
represented a shire, and half that sum for a borough. The
famous Andrew Marvel, member for Hull, in 1661, is said
to have been the last who received parliamentary wages.
Occasionally the electors were able to strike an economical
bargain, As an instance, we are told that "John Strange,
the member for Dunwich in 1643, agreed with the pru-
dent burgesses to take his wages m red herrings." We
are further informed, that " in the same reign the citizens
of York, being anxious that the dignity of that ancient
corporation should be properly represented, unanimously
agreed that their members should be allowed four shillings
a day if they kept a house in London during the session,
but only two shillings if they went to board."—Willis's
Current Notes. _ _ _

A GREEK HOLIDAY NEAR JOINNINA..—It being a
holiday in the Greek calendar, we passed numerous groups
of Christians enjoying the charming weather, in gorgeous
dresses of Albanian lace and embroidery, dancing the. Ro-
maim in circles on the grass ; while others, assembled
round low wooden tables, were tearing to pieces with their
fingers lambs roasted whole on the spot, drinking and
singing. I saw one striking group of Moslems. An aga,
or Mahommedan gentleman followed by several attend-
ants on horseback, was setting out on a journey, and had
been accompanied as far as the first rising ground by his
wife and her companions. I rode by just as they were
parting ; and a bitter leave-taking it seemed, more than I
could have deemed possible where polygamy is allowed.
The waving of the white veils, as the ladies threw up their
arms in an agony of grief, was very picturesque.—Bowen's
Journey from Constantinople and Corfu.
BUTCHERS' Snors IN Pmciit.—l observed a great
number of butchers' shops, whose mode of cutting up
their meat resembles our own ; nor can the markets of
London boast a better supply of flesh than is to be found
at Pekin. But they sell it cooked as well as raw ; and on
my entering the shop I saw on a stall before it an earthen
stove, with a gridironplaced upon it, and on my employ-
ing a variety of signs to obtain the information I wanted,
the butcher instantly began to cut off small thin slices of
meat, about the size of a crown-piece, which he broiled as
fast as I could eat them. I took about a dozen of these
slices, which might altogether weigh about seven or eight
ounces ; and when I paid him, which I did by giving him
a string of small coins, he pulled off, as I suppose, the
amount of his demand. I saw numbers of people in other
butchers' shops as I passed along, regaling themselves
with beef and mutton in the same manner.— The English-
man in China.
ANIMALS DRIFTING- ON IcE.—Every arctic traveller
is aware of the fact that polar bears are seen on the ice at
a great distance to sea, and quite out of sight of land ;
and my own experience bears testimony to the fact that
not unfrequently they are found swimming in the sea
when neither ice nor land is in sight. The arctic fox, and
I believe also the wolf, animals not generally known to
lake water, are often set adrift upon the ice, and are thus
blown out to sea, where they perish when the ice dissolves,
if they had not previously died of starvation; and cases are
known, although perhaps not recorded, in which human
beings have been blown away from land upon the ice, and
were never afterwards heard of. Two persons to my
knowledge have disappeared in this manner from the coast
of West Greenland ; one of them, however reached the
opposite side of the straits, where he spent the remainder
of his life among his less civilised brethren. And the
ships engagnd in whaling on the west side of this strait
sometimes have to discharge a deed of humanity by taking
up from the drifting fleet a group of natives, whose
avocations have proved too decoying to be safe.—lngle-
field's Summer Search for Sir John Franklin.
A "DASHING" WEDDING.—" Well, if ever we should
get married, we shall certainly adopt the sensible advice
of Punch, and make the affair ' a runaway, match with
the consent of our friends.'" This was our fervent mental
declaration some fourteen months since, when, much
against our inclination, we were staying at the house of a
young neighbour during the preparations for her marriage
with a good-looking clerk in the bank. This young
neighbour was Emily Mason, the eldest daughter of a re-
tired commercial traveller, who managed to keep up a
very respectable appearance, with a wife and five children,
on three hundred a-year. We had always given the
Masons credit for being people of good common sense, and
our for thei men tal
used to quote them as an example of prudence ; but, alas !
the folly they exhibited at the union
veneration of Emily
twits h George
Burleigh quite sapped
superiority, and caused us to imagine that weddings, like
cards, were invented to amuse mad people. We knew
that George Burleigh had scarcely two hundred a-year,
and that " comfortable apartments" near Islington, with.
a " small domestic," would form the extent of his estab-
lishment ; we knew that Mr. Mason had nothing to spare
for extraneous luxuries ; and of course were considerably
startled when we heard of six bridesmaids, a grand break-
fast for forty people, four dashing carriages, with grey
horses and white favours ; that Emily was to wear
splendid lace veil instead of a bonnet, and that the whole
paraphernalia was to be in imitation of the style in which
the daughter of a duke is married. Every member of the
family seemed bewildered by the approaching event, and
the simple legal contract of marriage was evidently about
to be performed in much such a
.temporary galaxy of
spangles, foil,' white tulle, and blue foil, as one expects
to witness in the last scene of a Lyceum Christmas piece.
The confusion and profusion of dressmakers, tailors,
white gloves, orange-blossoms, milliners' boxes, confec-
tioners' trays, wine-baskets, and silver-decked cards,
completely destroyed the natural state of household pro-
priety, and every room and every person seemed bitten by
a matrimonial tarantula. The staid and stout mamma
grew so "puce" in the face amid the perplexing anxieties
and duties crowding on her, that she rushed about like
an animated pickling-cabbage. No sooner had she tied
on a very tight-fitting dove-satin dress, under the scrutiny
of Miss Flouncem, which added a deeper suffusion to her
cheeks, than the cook, hired for the occasion, begged her
most earnestly to look out the jelly-glasses ; no sooner
were the jelly-glasses produced, than her presence was
demanded in the passage touching the arrival of " the
cake" from Piirsell's ; then, where, was the blonde lace
she had promised Julia P in her private drawer up-stairs ;
then, where was the parcel of almonds for blanching ? in
the store-closet down-stairs ;'Emily begged her to go
directly to Regent-street to match some pink silk, and
Maria requested her to be sure to call in Covent-garden
to insure the bouquets. Poor Mrs. Mason (she might
with justice have been taken for the long-sought realisa-
tion of " perpetual motion") ; but she wanted to "'do the
thing handsomely," and to show her friends that she
knew "what is proper on such occasions," so she endured
bravely, like a maternal heroine as she was, and felt as
important amid her embarrassing duties as a parish beadle
at the head of a charity-school. Where George Burleigh
was during his visits on the two last evenings of prepara-
tion we could not quite make out. We fancied we caught
a fading shadow of him at the street door once or twice
as Emily gave rather an abrupt slam to the said door, but
certain it is that he was not admitted into either of the
receiving-rooms, and it is our belief that he was positively
ordered out of the house. The night before the eventful
morning, the excitement and confusion increased to an
alarming extent ; some of the most important essentials
were found defective at the last moment. Mr. Mason had
discovered that the sherry was not drinkable, and then
doubted if there were champagne enough. A journey
from Bayswater to Fenchurch-street after eight p.m. was
indispensable, and off he went, poor man, looking very
like an escaped lunatic. Frank, the youngest son, de-
clared his vest was too short for the fashion, and flung
himself into a severe hysteric of bad words about the
tailor's masculine want of attention. Tom, the eldest,
had not been able to get grey horses to all the carriages,
without extra charge. Maria was in an agony to find that
one of the bridesmaids intended to wear a far more
splendid dress than her own. Julia was loquaciously
bitter against a pair of tight shoes just come from the
maker's ; and Emily, the bride, was on the very precipice
of fainting, from the effect of general flurry. Mrs. Mason,
long after midnight, was busied among the " things for
breakfast," and was so lost to reason, that when Mr.
Mason asked where his new black trousers were, she re-
plied, " They will be brought up with the custards, my
dear." Dresses had to be altered, tradesmen had to be
sent to, servants had to be schooled, and everything had
to be looked for that should have been found a week be-
fore. We suspect that not a member of the family got
one hour's sleep, and for our part we own to having en-
tertained desperate notions that the mere "broomstick"
system of marrying was preferable to such a dreadful
disturbance in a quiet family. We can never describe the
wedding morning. We seemed in a sort of mist, and can
only distinctly recollect that Emily was dosed with neat
brandy, and that George Burleigh had to go hack for the
ring ; that the guests made long speeches while the bride
was gasping : that the bridegroom looked as happy as a
duckling in a furze-bush ; and that Mr. Mason, between
French champagne, Italian cream, and English sentfment,
was compelled to retire from the public breakfast table to
the private bed-room. We were never more glad than
when, after an unlimited amount of tears, and hugs, and
distresses, Emily and her husband left for the London-
bridge Station ; and so sickened were we by the foolish
wedding display of the Masons, that we resolutely made
up our minds to abjure any dunce of a like
future.--.Bliza Cook.