The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

HonsEsuozs.—Hooseshoeing was not practised for
many centuries after the horse himself was in very general
use ; nor were hoof-protectors essentially necessary until
paved tracts and hard roads became more frequent than
they were in old times. The first foot defence of the
horse seems to have been copied from that of his master.
It was a sort of sandal, commonly made of matting, rope,
or leather. The Emperor Nero, in his profusion, had
his horses and mules shod with silver ; and his empress,
Popptea, was not content with less than gold for the same
purpose. These sandals were very insecure, and were apt
to be left sticking in the mud : they were, therefore, sel-
dom nut nn the animal for the whole iournev, but only at

the worst places. Nor did they appear to have been ade-
quate to protect the hoof from injury ; for instance, when
Mithridatcs was besieging the town of Cyzicus, in his
first war against the Romans, he was obliged to send away

his whole cavalry to Bithynia, because the horses
were all worn down, and their- feet disordered
Horse and his Rider.
ORIGIN OF BLIND MAN'S Bu

The French call

the history of its origin : Father Maillard, a severe
dis-
ciplinarian, was the confessor of Charles VIII. This
prince had a female favourite named Cunene. The fa-
ther, whose presence was not agreeable to her, often found
her at supper with the king. In order that she might
have some mirth with him, and by degrees induce him to
take part in the romps and pastimes which he disturbed
. .

.e hit upon the idea of running away, while the king
was to catch her. " There is no art," said she, "in catch-
ing me, for you can run faster than I can. But suppose
that I were to tie something over your eyes." Well, do
'aid the king, whom she used to call her Cohn. She
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this state he endeavoured to catch her. The other ladies
mingled in the sport, and even Maillard himself took a
share in the diversion. The new game was soon spread

rzaillard, after the enamoured

monarch an

rigid confessor.
COST OF DISEASE

A policeman, receiving 20s. a week
uri+h SIC 011 unfit nhinrt

foi a charity, , gave the following account of himself:—
" That he paid for his miserable one room, divided into
two, ss. a week ; that he had ls. Bd. weekly to pay for
keeping up his clothes, which reduced the money he had

for his family of four children and his wife to 13s. 4d. ;
that he had had all his children ill, and lost two ; that he
Ihad, during three years, paid six doctor's bills, principally
for medicine, at the rate of 2s. 6d. a bottle, amounting
I t- -t”- £3O ' £4O ; that two of "4.,11 had

o be.ween „ and - the children hat.
died, the funerals of which, performed in the cheapest
manner he could get it done, had cost him £7 ; the wife
and his two children were now ill." The second case is

.nd unwholesome room, in which himself and six of

people, four children and three adults, slept ; the children
were shoeless, extremely filthy, and badly clad ; the wife
ill in bed of a diseased knee, for which I attended her ;
four children were now ill." They were so depressed
and debilitated, as to render them very great objects for
the dispensary and the Samaritan Fund. All this misery
was traceable to preventible causes.—Evidence of Joseph

Toynbee, Esq., P.R.S.
LOUIS PHILIPPE'S MOVEMENTS DURING_THE REV

—The Orleans family wer

Lt Neuilly,

LUTION
whilst the result of the fight between king and poop
still uncertain, the duke, apprehensive of violence
the royalist party, shut himself up in a little pavilion in
the nark_ There big wife and sister secretly visited him.

and took him the news as it arrived from Paris. From
his retreat he plainly heard the din of battle raging in the
streets of the capital. On the 28th of July, a canon-ball,
fired from Courbevoyne, fell near the palace, and at a
short distance from the duchess and her sister-in-law.
There cauld be little doubt of the intention of the shot.

This circumstance made mademoiselle think that in their
fury the royalists might attack Neuilly, and carry off the
family. Accordingly, the duke, accompanied only by his
faithful adherent Oudard, left his retreat, and crossed the
country on foot to Rainey, another of his seats, situated
near Bondy. This was on the 29th July ; the duke was
dressed very simply, and wore a grey hat with a tri-
coloured cockade. As soon as the canon-shot was fired