The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

THE MENAGERIE

has been greatly increased. Amongst the Animals added, are
FOUR SPLENDID LIONS ! Indeed, no opportunity has been
omitted to increaSe the importance of this as well as the Bota-
nical Department of the Gardens.
STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND, in New Costume,
as worn by the Royal Scotch Greys, is engaged for the Season.
FEEDING OF THE CARNIVORA, until further notice, at
Five o'clock'.

The Proprietor has also great pleasure in announcing, that,
in order to meet the wishes of many respectable Families,
anxious to introduce the junior branches, he has made a great
Reduction in the price of Family Admissions for the Season.

GILDING, DECORATIVE, & GENERAL FRAME

PLATE GLASS ESTABLISHMENT,

AND
REPOSITORY OF ARTS,
52, BOLD-STREET,
MUSIC•UALL
ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT DESIGNS
IN
- CHIMNEY AND PIER,-GLASS FRAMES

are always on view at the 7
PAPIER MAC MANUFACTORY,
with Fifty New and Beauti Specimens in
WINDOW- RTAIN CORNICES.
The Proprietor res ully begs to call the attention of the
Public to the great vantage afforded them by purchasing
from the
B A FIDE MANUFACTURER,
which will be seen by any discriminating person who will visit
the Warerooms.

HAYMAN'S
ALE AND 'PORTER STORES,
MERSEY-COURT,
OLD CHURCH-YARD, LIVERPOOL.
In Wood,
Unadulterated LONDON and DUBLIN STOUT,
of the well-known Brands "Reid and. C 0.," and "Jameson,
PiTn. and Co."
WARWICKS:I7BTRoNG ALE,
Au old English beverage of in ' flavour and mellowness.
BURTON, a other Mild ALES ;
INDIA BEEJVof surpassing brilliancy.
THE BINS
are always replete with a supply of these Articles, in Quart and
Pint Bottles, choice in quality, and well matured for
HOME CONSUMPTION ;
and the same Beer is kept in Stock, suitably prepared for
EXPORTATION.
Tasting liberally permitted to intending purchasers.
HENRY W. HAYMAN and CO.

PAGING OF ACCOUNT-BOOKS REDUCED IN

CH‘tRGE.
GEORGE AITORQUODALE—begs to intimate,
that with the view of ng the Paging of Books more
general, he has RE the PRICE to THREEPENCE per
ONE HUNDRED AGES.
The Paging Machine may be seen at work daily, at 38, Castle-
street.

at the
PROPOSED FIFTEEN PER CENT. REDUCTION.
JOHN BRISCOE,
60 and 62, OLDHALL-STREET,
In congratulating the Public upon these advantages, gratefully
assures his kind patrons that, in accordance with the principles
that will ever regulate his Establishment, he now unreservedly
offers the whole of that portion of • -reeerdly purchased, and
daily increasing
NEW & FASH BLE SPRING STOCK,
uenced by the above
CONSIDERABLE RELAXATION IN PRICES.
A profusion of beautiful
SILKS, SATINS, SHAWLS, CACHMERES, ROBES,_
DELAINES, RIBBONS LACES,
GLOVES, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, STRAWS, &c.

THE SHOW ROOMS
Present an elegant variety of STRAW BONNETS, DRESS
CAPS, &c., and are presided over by first-rate Loudon Milli-
ners, whose talents are submitted gratuitously in the Trimming
Department to all Purchasers.

JOHN BRISCOE,
60 and 62, OLDHALL-STREET,
CARPET AND GENERAL FURNISHING WAREHOUSE.

Etterature.

SELECTIONS.

PARLIAMENTARY FURLOUGHS.—SeYeTaI members of
Parliament have availed themselves of the debate on the
corn laws fur the purpose of travelling. One hon gentle-
man, who has a taste for military adventures, has gone
over to ndia, having left directions with his servant that
he is to be sent tor as soon as there is the most distant
prospect of a divlsinn on the third reading.—Punch.
CANNING'S VIEWS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
AND THE TEST ACT.—The three great domestic questi-
ons in Mr. Canning's time, and which every year ac-
quired increased urgency and importance, were Parlia-
mentary Reform, Catholic Emancipation, and the Test
Act. In 1827, Mr. Canning made use of the following
declaration :—" There are two questions to which I wish
to reply. I have been asked what I intend to do with
the question of parliamentary r form, when it is brought
forward. What do 1 intend to do with it? Why, oppose
it, as I have invariably done during the whole of my par-
liamentary career. What do I intend to do with the test
act ? Oppose it.—Bell's Life of Canning.

A NEW JOHNNY GILPIN.—The Lebanon Star tells a
good railroad aneorloie The other day, when the cars
stopped on the way to Xenia, for a moment, a countryman
/mounted the locomotive to see what he could learn. In
the progress of his investigation he took hold of a crank,
end, giving it a turn, with the speed of the wind off sprang
the locomotive, detached from the car. while all that could
be heard from the unlucky w,ght was—Slop her! Stop
th 3 darn'd thing ! But, regardless of his cries, on it went,
whizzing and snorting, arid was only arrested in its pro-
gress, at the distance of seven miles, by running off the
track. No harm was done, the only inconvenience being
the necessary labour and detention of getting back the
truant locomotive, and the awful fright of its Johnny
Gilpin rider.—New York Tribune,
PINS.—By two documents in the British Museum, it
appears that for many hundred years prior to the reign of
Elizabeth, pins were imported into England, but the art
of malcng them was afterwards learnt of the Netherland-
ers; and then the pinners amd needlemakers of London
petitioned that the importation mieht be restrained, alle-
ging that £.40,000 worth were yearly brought into England.
The Netherland merchants answered that the English
could make go-d gross and stiff pins, but not so well the
fine, used for linen and cambric, " and as yet be only half
*rasters, and ought not so soon to exclude their teachers."
(Lansd. MSS., vol. Ixxxiv. c. 152.) The pinners reply
that they can make tine pins, and ny a new and slight in-

. .
vention, learnt of the strange's, two men would point more
pins than one hurdred cud 'ormerly do, having only a
file.—History of Protestant Refuoees in England.
The Punjab, or country of "five waters," ( pun j, five;
ab, waters) covering an area of 6,000 geographical square
miles, lies between the Indus, the Sutlej, and the Hima-
laya mountains. The four streams, which rise in those
mountains, intersect the country, and divide it with the
Indus into four distinct doahs. The first district, lying
between the Indus and the Jailum, (Hydaspes,) is 147
miles in breadth. Tee Jailum, a clear stream, from 3UO
to 400 yards across, fl ws in a sandy bed, at the rate of
two miles an hour. Its temperature in December was 45
degrees Fatireeh it at sunrise, and rose during the day to
51 degrees. It is the most sterile, the least cultivated, and
the least populous part of the country ; it is covered with
undulating bare eminences, which rise considerably
toward the centre, and are inters, cred by rugged declivi-
ties. The waters flow in deep beds, enclosed by high steep
banks, and cons -queirtly cannot be employed in irriga-
tion.— Von:Orlich's Travels in India.
LA FONTAINE:PS DEATH-DEM—La Fontaine was very
ill, and had just received the last sacraments ; he asked
his old friend, Madame Conroe' (of whom Madame de
evigne speaks), if it would not be quite the proper thing
for him to be carried on a truck, in his shirt and bare-
footed, with a rope round his neck, to the gate of Notre-
Dame, where he would be supposed to be making an
amende honorable for all he had written and said !
" Only," be continued, "you must find some one to hold
up my taper, for I should never have strength to carry it,
and I should much like to employ one of those smart lac-
quers of our neighbour the l'resident de Nicolay."
" Hold your tongue and die quietly, my good man," was
all the answer he got from old Cornuel; " you have always
been a greet goose." " That is very true," rep ied La
Fontaine, " and it is very lucky for me, as I hope that Gird
will take pity on me tin that account; mind y u tell every
one that I sinned from folly arid not w'ckedness—that
would sound much better ; would it not ?" " I wish you
would let me alone. and die in peace !" exclaimed the
other. The Chevalier de le Sahliere told Fontenelle, that
La Fontarno's confessor arid all who were present, ended
by laughing outfight, and the last words of the good man
were these • " Je vois ben que je suis deventi plus bete
que le bon Din n'est saint, et c'est heancoup dire en ye-
rite!"—Recollections of a French .11,rchioness.
WOMAN'S DEVOTEDNESS TO Al AN.—She is happy in
owing every thing .o man. That alone imparts a singular
charm to every poor household. There, noshing is foreign
or indifferent ; every thing boars the stamp of a beloved
band, the seal of the heart. Alan very often little knows
the privations she endures in order that, on his return, he
may find his dwelling modest, yet adorned. Great is the
ambition of woman for the household, clothes, and linen.
This last article is new ; the linen closet, the pride of the
countrywoman, was unknown to the wife of the town
workman before the revolution in industry which I have
mentioned. Cleanliness. purity, modesty, those graces of
woman, then enchan'ed the house; the bed was surrounded
with curtains; the child's cradle, dazzling with whiteness,
became a paradise: the whole cut out and sewed in a few
evenings. Add, moreover, a flower at the window !
What a surpriae t the hinsband, on his return, no longer
knows his own borne! This taste for flowers, which has
spread (• here are now several markets for them here), and
this little expenditure to ornament. the interior, are they
not lamentable, when these people never know whether
they have any work on the morrow? Call it not expendi-
ture, say ra•her economy. It is a very great one, if the
innocent attraction of tire wife renders this house charm-
ing to the husband, and can keee him there. Let us or-
nament, I beseech you, both the house and the wife! A
few ells of print- d cotton make her another woman; see,
she ja reaamerated, and become young again.—The People,
by MieLlet.
FRENCH COMMERCIAL TIt.VELLERS.—A more hor-
rid, blustering, impertinent, forward set of cavaliers does
not exist than the commis-voyageurs of France, who take
the best seats at every table-d'hote, with an opinion they
are equal to any prince, or clean, well-b haved man in
Christendom. Tile a;rs. language, and deportment of
these commercial magnifiers is samethingaiere disgusting
—it is absolutely terrifying to quiet people. I heard a
grey-bearded, rnou-tacired. dirty old dandy, with a crop of
the true republican cot, his person hung in chains, and
his dingy fingers encircled with his rings, open the most
violent tirade against England, Monsieur Guizot, and
every thing decent, shaking his hand, after forming his
fingers into a kind of cup the colour of a cocoa nut, roll-
ing his eyes, and ringing his r's, till I got nervous. I ti-
midly asked who he was, when he had completed his re-
past of near upon fifteen dishes (from the potage to the
shrimps). A young French gentleman who sat next me
said, " lie is a bier kgnard, arid seas allurnettes a friction,
or lucifer matches!" I thought he was at least some hero
fresh from Africa, who had been To:rating Arabs, decore,
and probably a marsmil. from his overpowering eloquence.
Lucifers at a son a box must be profitable cnerchandize to
maintain so splendid an ambassador. This is only a sam-
ple of the French bagmen ; they are a numerous and dan-
gerous set; they bully the inekeepets into submission to
their order, make or unmake a cafe, keep up a constant
outcry against every thing English, arid are not very scru-
pulous whether they insult you or not.—Pedeatrian Re-
minisencev.

PITT'S DEATH.—Mr. Pitt died in the villa on Putney
heath ; his corpse lay in one of the rooms for a week. " It
is a singular and melancholy circumstance," says Lord
Brougham, " resembliro2 the stories told of William the
Conqueror's de-erted state at his decea.e, that, some one
in the neighbourhood having sent a message to inquire
after Mr. Pitt's state, he found the wicket open, then the
door of the house, and nobody answering the bell, he
walked through the rooms till he reached the bed on which
the minister's body lay lifeless ; the sole tenant of the
mansion, of which the do, rs, a f.-w bows betore, were
darkened by crowds of suitors alike obsequious and im-

portunate, the vultures whose instinct haunts the carcases
only of living minis era." There never was a statesman
out of whose hands power passed so suddenly and so
completely. There was no decline—no transition—no
twilight to soften the descent. from h's meridian glory;

but darkness, like night in the tropics, set upon tom at
once. Extraordinary mental exertions, embittered in the
end by the falure of all his plans. had done upon him the
heavy work of time in the very flower of his manhood.
The battle of Austerlitz finally crushed him. He died of
old age, at forty-six. No man wa-, more misunderstood
on some points than Pitt. No natrihter was ever so
strangely praised for the worst parts of his policy, or so
slighted for the best. No man ever got credit so largely
for opinions he did not hold. These curiosities of tame
tare. illustrated with wonderful snccess in that famous epi-
taph upon him in the Guildhall, written by Mr. Canning.
—Bell's Life of Canning.
THE ANIMALS OF THE PLINJAUB.—AnimaI life, in a
great variety of forms abounds in the country of the
Sikhs. Lions, tigers, panthers, leopgrds, are found in
jungles, as are wolves, lynxes, hyenas, hears, wild boars,
foxes, jackals, otters, weasels, martens, •porcupines, &c.
The deer tribe are numerous, from the goat to the timbre,
and there is no deficiency of the hat. family ; some of the
larger of which latter are, according to Von Hugel, held
in sacred estimation by the most devout followers of the
Sikh religion. Camels are numerous ; buffaloes and
sheep are found in large herds mid flocks. The flesh of
the cattle is, however, respected tv the Sikhs, who only
use-the milk of the cow and the wool of the sheep, in ad-
dition to the skins or hides of sit neg. animal, which form
an article of export. The Sikhs are extensive breeders of
horses, in which they take great pride. With Runjeet
Singh's admiration and love for these animals reached a
passion, the knowledge of which, some years ago, induced
the British go‘erninent to send him some fine specimens
of the care-horse, in comparison to wh ch the finest Pan-
jaubee horses are but dwarf ponie-. The birds of the
country are numerous and of great variety of character.
Besides the common domestic toe I, the sparrow, the
crow, the hawk, the magpie, the pig, on, pnd similar habi-
tual tenants of the farm-yard ; there are in the forests,
fields, and lakes, pea-fowl and junele fowl, partridges.
pheasants, quails, parrots, the vii ri-duck, the teal, snipe,
curlews, herons, cranes, eagles, pelicans, vultures, falcons,
nightingales, the mocking-bird, owls, &c. The rivers
swarm with fish, such as mullet, carp, &c., with a great
variety totally unkown even by name to the European.
As in all other parts of the warm arid glowing east, rep-
tiles are abundant; but the number f venomous serpents
happily bears no proportion to the vast tribes of innocuous
snakes. The bee and the silkworm thrive in the Punjsub,
and the fruits of their industry cousteute valuable articles
of trade and howo consumption.—The Punjaub, bp Col.
Steinbach.