The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

WHO SHOULD EMIGRATE?

"To the universal question, ' Who should emigrate ?'
we are not disposed to give the universal answer, 'No one
who can do well at home.' That applies fully to doctors,
lawyers, editors, and clerks ; but not to all. On the con-
trary, a whole class who are sure to do well at home are
the very men to do better there,—young men who have
learned a useful trade and possess vigour and talent. Our
first exception would be against those who can never do
well at home :' they will never do well there. Our next is
against those who cannot live without comfort. Such
men are easily known ; hardship is a horror to them ;
they would give anything just to be at ease; they would
even work a good deal for it, but comfort they must have.
Then old England for them. Comfort neither grows on
the back of Australian sheep—(except in the raw material)
—nor in the bowels of Australian rocks. Diggers cannot
find it in the cradle, nor shepherds in the fold ; and if you
really must have the good, old, indescribable something,
which we all know so well, by every means sit still on
this snug isle of your own. Again, no one should go who
cannot make up his mind to do manual work, or who is
conscious that he has not the physical strength, or the
perseverance, to go on with it for a while, if needful.
Persons seldom find things open before them as they had
expected. In a week after landing, nine out of ten have
their plans all upset, and they either lose heart, or begin
to look out for anything that may offer. We knew a
gentleman immigrant, who had landed with really modest
notions, and began at once to seek a situation ; he could
not, however, find one to suit him, and went on seeking
with a like result, till he had come to his last shilling.
That day he went out determined to find a situation, and
so he did, but it was as a sawyer. The heat was terrible ;
he was drenched many times a day with perspiration, and
almost worn to death; but by frequent changes of linen,
and a good heart, on he kept, till from sawing he was
able to go to something else, and at last reached a position
suitable to his tastes. Another case we knew of a young
man who had been so brought up that manual work would
have been a family shame ; but finding that he bad not
the means to follow a gentleman's ways, he, with a
gentleman's heart, offered himself as a carpenter, and,
being a " green hand," was taken at only forty-eight
shillings a week. He walked three miles a day to his
work, and the same back, and, unused to labour as he
was, did so well, that in a few weeks he was earning three
pounds weekly. Now, if men are made of this metal, no
matter what their education or tastes, let them go, they
are sure to thrive ; but if, rather than thus stoop, they
would live upon their family, or beg their friends to get
government situations for them, or, having gone, would
write home for money to keep them from starving, the
nearer their mothers they stay the better.

From these lengthened extracts a fair judgment
may be formed of the paper in question, and the
practical nature of its character. That article may
be taken as no unfair specimen of the review,
which is ably conducted, and eminently practical
in its aim.

George CruikAank's _Magazine. London: David
• Bogue.

Among the literary and artistic novelties, whose
advent have graced the present year, the first
number of a monthly periodical, aided by the deli-
neative talent of George Cruikshank, must rank
high. This magazine, in addition to the exuberant
and graphic skill of Cruikshank, has the advantage
of being edited by F. E. Smedley, the author of
" Frank Fairleigh," and other popular tales. As
was to be expected in a publication, in a great
degree dependent for its success on the talents of
Cruikshank, the etching needle and burin, perform
quite as important a part as the " grey goose pen"or the printing press ; and the magazine is ushered
into existence at the tail of a remarkably satirical
and artistic comet, in which the .prolific genius of
Cruikshank runs riot. The "was and oddities"
of this singular production are numerous,. and con-
stitute a phantasmagoria in which political and
social contretemps, and absurdities at home and
abroad, are treated in a style of broad sarcastic
humour, mingled with touches of finely humanising
moral instinct. The delineation of this extraordi-
nary tableau, is hit off with all the ease and grace
of truthful drawing, and skill of composition, which
have so long distinguished the illustrations of the
artist. The picture is literally crammed with indi-
vidual pictures, each of which would have exhausted
the invention of even a clever artist, yet all is har-
monized into a pleasing whole. The editor opens
with a promise to love and advocate the things
which good men love, and to declaim against the
things which good men dislike and despise. Fol-
lowing this we have a chapter raisonlc on the
" Heads of the Comet's Tail," from the pen'of Mr.
Smedley. In this he ably seconds the delineative
efforts of his great coadjutor, running smartly
through the political and other "humbugs" of the
bye-gone year. The following is a fair specimen of
the article and may be termed
TUE SCIENTIPIC 11171017 G.

Those very disagreeable pigmies, the Earthmen,—a sort
of human moles who come in for rotten boroughs in
South== Africa; and fitly ataociate4 with Wm are time

dear little humbugs, the Aztec children, who have afforded
many of our English Savants—in pure Saxon, "wise-acres"
—one of those opportunities of which they so eagerly avail
themselves, to direct and inform public opinion, by pro-
nouncing an ex cathedra decision, which is usually as
unanimous as that of a coalition ministry, each man
having, and holding pertinaciously, his own pet theory,
and attacking, tooth and nail, that of his honourable friend.
From the preceding specimen, it will be appa-
rent that light, smart, telling hits, constitute the
staple of this new aspirant to periodical popularity;
and from the talent it displays, it is entitled to the
distinction.

Our Great Cities. Cholera. Lord Palmerston.
By the Rev. Robert Buchanan, D.D. Glasgow
and Liverpool : Black-le and Son.
The really able pamphlet which appears under
the above somewhat quaint title, is the reprint of a
lecture delivered in the City Hall, Glasgow, by the
clergyman of the Free Church. It was called
forth by the recent more notorious than famous
letter of Lord Palmerston, in answer to the memo-
rial of the Edinburgh Presbytery, in reference to a
day of humiliation and prayer, in connexion with
the late visitation of cholera. The answer to that
memorial was characterised by the noble Home
Secretary's usual clearness, and displayed his cus-
tomary straightforwardness in expressing his opi-
nion, whatever that may be, on the subject of which
he is at the moment treating. As regards the
present subject, however, there were not wanting
many calm and judicious thinkers, who felt that
his Lordship's letter, while conveying a good many
trite truths, savoured more of epigramatic terseness
than statesman-like consideration—was, in point of
fact, more like a sneer thrown into the teeth of a
Church, recognised as a part of the state, than as a
rebuke administered to the civic authorities, whose
ignorance or mismanagement it professed to cen-
sure. As such it has evidently been felt by the
reverend author of the lecture before us, who,
although himself unconnected with the Established
Church of Scotland, has donned his armour in her
defence on this occasion, which he looks on as an
attack on the religious faith and observances of the
kingdom. The lecture is an able and eloquent
refutation of the false position assumed by Lord
Palmerston ; a position the declaration of which
was received with such a shout of joy, by the infidel
press and public, as might well have roused the
suspicion and alarm of his Lordship. The excel-
lence of the lecture has been attested by the large-
ness of its sale.

27te Turkish Alphabet. London : David Bogne.

A series of satirical remarks on the Russo-
Turkish dispute, in which the unpopular side of the
Czar's proceedings are ridiculed with a good deal
of ability.

The Museum of Science
_and Art. London :

Walton and Maberly.

The first part of this repertory of science and art
gives indication of a valuable work to come. It is
written in an easy, unpretending style, and the
instances by which the various subjects are illus-
trated are happily selected and well wrought out.

The Results of the Census. London : J.W.Parker.
The first information sought as the result of the
census of 1851 was the total of the numbers which
comprised the population of Great Britain, divided
into the several counties, and subdivided into dis-
tricts and towns. The labours, however, of the
Registrar-General have produced a voluminous
work, in which various systems of classification
have been used ; but, as it is extended to three
bulky folios, its value to the general reader is pro-
portionately diminished. It is possible to over-
estimate the importance of such a work, because
much of the details will be more curious than use-
ful. Mr. Edward Cheshire has, however, given
us the cream of the more bulky work in the con-
densed form of a pamphlet of 56 pages, comprising
much interesting information, and indeed all that
is truly useful to the general reader, who cares not
to enter too deeply into the records of old and
young, married and single, large and small fami-
lies, &c. He has divided his work into nine sec-
tions, the several heads being—" Objects of the
Census and Machinery employed," " Population,"
" Law of Population," " Families and Houses,"
" Towns," " Density and Proximity of the Popula-
tion," " Islands," " Territorial Subdivisions," and
" General results of the Census." To these he has
added an appendix of twenty-three valuable tables,
containing the population, male and female, the
inhabited houses in England, Wales, and Scotland,.
and the islands divided into counties, districts, anl
cities and towns, with comparisons of the numbers
at each decennial census from 1801 t 0,1851. In
illustrating his subject, in order to convey an idea
of great numbers, he has made use of a singular
mode which is not strictly accurate. He says :--
"If all the people of Great Britain had to pass
through London in procession, four abreast, during
twelve hours daily, it would take nearly three
months for the whole to file through at quick
march." This must be on the presumption that
the whole are adults, but as a large proportion are
childen in arms, the illustration is hardly a happy
one. On the whole, however, the work is valuable•
as a book of reference ;. and, as it is published for
a shilling, it will, no, doubt, be extensively patronised..

NEW MUSIC.
Le Petite ekeol.. London jnllien..

One of those gems, which occasionally appear to
show that genius still lives. It is an impromptu,
dedicated to Thomas Blake, Esq., by J. M. Wehli,
a young composer,. who gives goodly promise of
being gladly welcomed by true lovers of the divine
art. There is a freshness and originality about it,
which shows that the mind of the composer was
in his work ;, and though its execution is, not
within the powers of a niereleterner on the, piano-
forte, every player IA ill tiara delight in its. exqui-
site melody.