The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

THE " VASTLY SUPERIOR" PRESS

Joseph Hume, Esq., the hon. member for Middlesex, having
publicly proclaimed, from his place in parliament and elsewhere,
that the American newspapers were '• rani y saperi.if to all other
newspapers" in the habitable world, we extract the following
from a bundle of American newspapers just received :—firstly,
is proof of the -honourable member's judgment and veracity ;
;zed second, as an example of style and tune for the use of the
hon. member's followers, the proprietors of the dug-cheip

" GLOBE'S UG LINESS.—We never saw ugliness surpass
that of tae editor of the Globe* in speaking of Judge White asa
Calvin Edon Skeleton, &c. The judge's grey hair and high
forehead give hitt) a most venerable and respectable appearance.
His. reviler is the ugliest looking starveling in this city. It is
also rni,erable tor such a pokety-looking creature as the editor
of the G1,,h0 to be encouraged by the president to ridicule the
personal appearance of an aged and venerable senator front his
:warn sate."—G. S. Telegraph.

We never saw a more ugly head stuck upon a more supreme-
-ly ugly pair of shoulders, or upon a barber's post even, than
that of Blair of the Globe. And yet the miscreant is every now
and then trying to ridicule the personal appearance of Judge
White, telling at one time how straight, sleek, and methodist-
like he 4pp:tars in the senate; at another, reflecting upon his
accompaished and fashionable lady, and vulgarly declating that
she keeps the judge's head and tail up' for the presidency,
awl then again calling him a Calvin Edson &eleton, &e, The
tieast ought to be sent forthwith to Botany Bay, yoked up with
Whitney, and closely attended by Amos Kendall. and Isaac
I id!, li,sides being hooted after by 'l'. 1-1. Benton, and sympa-
thised with by Niles, Walker, Soepley, and Bedford- Brown,
of the senate.

" But what, after all, is one's personal appearance? Eren
with bis never yet surpassed and unsurpassable u•diness, Blair
of.the Globe might be it decent human being if it were possible
'for such a horribly-looking otecast and desperad, to be possess
ed of a single spark ot:decency !"—Mobile Adverti,er.
" ON lON TIMKe--The Montgomery Van Buren organ an-
nounces that the Wetumpka Oition, a paper we unexpectedly
killed some time since by calling it by its most appropriate
natrie,f is abwit to be revived, resuscitated and set aeibiag again,
from this time, acs Ripple, until the presidentai electionis
over."—Mobile Advertiser.

• Not the Glol' in the use of which Lord Palmerston-is so efficient;
but an Ainurican diurnal. so called.

+ The IVetwnpka Uflion was the title of thel paper until the Mobile
man chan.4,ll the" Union" into Onion. in allusani to its tear•proroking
propensities.

RAILWAYS.

Tho ,following is a list of the Railways Bills which passed
both Houses of Parliament, and received the loyal assent, dur-
ing the last session :

Capital.
Arbroath and Forfar £600.4.0)
Aylesbury. 50,000
13irmitighant, Bristol and Thames Junction.
Birmingham, Derby and Stonehridge 53C,000
Birmingham and Gloucester - 945,0(X)
Bolton and Leigh 3,400
3randling . 97,000
Blasi()) and Exeter
Cheltenham and Great' Western 750,000
.th- pt ford .......... . ................... .
Datiiin and•Drogheda
Dundee and Arbroath
.. 99,800
Drndee and Newty1e..........• • •,,
it,,iia%arruh, Leith and Newhaven 99.700
Gi,teshead and Durhaut (Great North) of England 600,0w
Gre,t Western •—••
I-la yin
B oil and SelbY . 485,000
Leeds and Derby (North !Midland)
London and lilackwaii Commercial IOO,(XY,)
,
London and Cambridge (Northern and Eastern):—. L 200,000
Limdon a- ,d Croydor . .
Lininon and 'Norwich (Eastern Counties) 1,500,000
1..,tt.,:a0 Grand Junction.
Lon‘lon and Dover (South Eastern) . 1,4%0.01)0
'24. netrester and Leeda
Ibie::.l,,r Tydfil and Cardif 3)000)

Ciuntiem

1,20t):0(x)

-:,:eweistle and Nm th Shields
Preston ood Longtridge .
Sheilietd and Rotherham.
Ulste:

'120:000
30.000
90.11(K)
49.;.000

York an:l North Midland - 370,000
4ftle etuither ot railway introduced in :he past session
r,T, of which 8 were not proceeded with, id were Thrown out,
:-e:•-eiveil the .royal assent. In the session of 1835, the
for the tioLrithlotioo of railway bitht was 22,
n,tutber,l3 passed, and 4 were not passed.- In the
~! ;'`.;l there we: e 18 petitions presented, and the num-
ber ot Iki;:s rPreivesAl-thr.roy.lassent was 14; rejected or
Lu: proceeded with Sershnt 18,33: number of pogong for
rafixay bins I 5; • passed 11; not pissed 4. SessionlB:l2.: (Into-
her of, petition; 12;. bills passed 8; tot passed 4. In 1831, the
m!,nberof rxilwar bins which received the royal assent was 9.
1E130; 8.. ,'Sussion 429, 9. Session 18':8, 11. Session
f.—' 'u; railway bill.; passed during the ten years end-
ing. with the last 127.--Corrpluion to the Newspaper.

NEWFOUNDLAND, OCT. 11.—A letter of this date nisntio ns
that sectffrai icebergs had !Maly i»issed in sight of that place to
the southward, adding that it was an (A:canape,: w.i.y unusual
at such a scaeou.

THE 13,1/4 L.LAIoN.—* * * Yet is this all to he done? Are the
power,; of this great machine to be wasted for ever on a hu!iday
show? On, ,liepping Dukes of .Brunswick out and taking'
Chckneys io ? Oit gathering guineas into the pocket or the fu-
ture Mr. Gratimos, and puttitig their future wives wide anti wild
btitween the sky and the. earth? Are we never to have the
power of traversing the deserts of the houth, the forests-of the
wMt, anti the snows of the north, without the slow travel, the
long labour,-Huth the torturing disease ? Are we never to have
the means of varying our climate without passing from our
tutu lend; of shooting op front the ferveurs of a feverish suer.
vier into tegmLs where no cloud intercepts the the sun,' and yet
where et o.:ei freshness- reigns ? Of meeting the morning, not
in the mists of anti heavy capitals, but in the rosy light of the,
ethereal Aurora? . Of resting above the-mountains, and-looking
down with -philosophic delight ou the infinite.rariety of form,
life, and beauty-below? Of sailing in oar meteor-ship :twang
the i.entile i,rutelenis, and floating among the golden and ver-
million ear opies of 'hat -great s(7ldau,'' the btlll, its he slumbers
on the we'st ? ---Wh4t.a vast, various,and lovely inelease to the
eujovments, the k„..oedge, and .the.secial.tiffectiies of man
would be,,given 1w this power of r'' Pid transit, IWN Ulld all the
harsh restraint& a 4luinan domination, the difficulties of space,
iv.lalmest the expeudt'inre of tithe! ** * It is scarcely pos-
sible to Conceive that so fine an invention, as the 1141 loon would
hetie teen plaiied in . our hands to be for ever worthless; to
tempt us by its-apparent powers, and to. disappoint us by its-,
Ma3azine.

Dii.ATti OF • MR. JOIIN BANISTER, THE COMEDIAN.—Otd
playgoers will•learn with regret, that this mortal scene has iloy-
Fd fur ever,
onr tio: must admired ornaments of the stag.,
the Lys their y olr. Banister died ,4t his lieu,;t, in
c;‘: ,
-s.,reie, where he had long lived in honourable indepen-
we4k. His comic powers were of the h',,zhest
wiofd`re CAnd Feigniv://. in "The Bold Stroke for a
hie Sir Bas'ili,lConstaut. in "The Way, to Keep Him,"
Anti' hia "'"itt. • '"The Children in the Wood," were con-
,sliud,e,rjedt,petrbieecti:riTeeirnells of comic excellence. :He war intro:.
an "At Hora„,ge_l_Garriek, whose no nner.herniinictied in
ieh he
us'
!acim:Pnt, called "11anistetr's ißudget,"
ore Rolous.,pr„re,l ',ll,i<lon 'cavern" about
.20 dears asfo,•as
satne • questionio.R.lft,?,', shaving-:birnsell, etid at the
p the scene by his- theal vie,' I Ile
wound 0
sage; ou the st.go he wse,„ircin'' Such was
11.9 I.tleted lunch from the liapi,le.r,lllollol
ret
:rod tour o;:u"'ilith' list. 'His
tut: spirits, and some of his bodilytsitrire'l r"""" of ' '1"1'.
family consisted or two sous
g otwhum all but
Gus daughter. survive.