The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

.13ooTiSF0; REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c.
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

The Stomach and its Dffficulties. By Sir James
Eyre, M.D.

The subject of this little volume is of the first
importance, for it treats of one of the organs of the
human body, upon which, more than any other,
depend health or sickness, pleasure or pain, and it
should be the more interesting to Englishmen, who
are celebrated for their love of a good dinner. It
contains much valuable information, by a man of
long experience in his profession ; but it must not
be supposed to be a mere dry dissertation on
details, or a series of rules for the preservation of
health. So far from this, it is a really entertaining
book, which, like medicine in a sugared pill, con-
veys the most valuable advice in the guise of a
friendly chat, replete with jest and illustrative
anecdote. One of the latter has a local allusion
which may not be without interest. The author
states that when he was mayor of Hereford he was
knighted by the late Ring William IV. on his
accession, and the only other chief magistrate so
distinguished was the mayor of Liverpool, Sir
George Drinkwater. Soon afterwards a patient,
who had indulged largely in creature comforts, and
was very stout and plethoric, went to consult Mr.
Abernethy, who said, " Go away, and have always
in your thoughts the names of the two mayors
who have just been knighted—Eyre and Drink-
water--and you will soon recover your wind, and
your shape too." The book has reached a second
edition, and if its merits were generally known would
be as generally appreciated.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods.
The almost absorbing interest attaching to the
proceedings before the Liverpool Election Com-
mittee has compelled us to be more brief than would
otherwise be the case with this excellent magazine.
Indeed, among the immense amount of trash in
our periodical literature, it is refreshing to witness
the preservation of a healthy tone, and the support
of our time-honoured institutions in Church and
State, by a magazine of such large circulation.
The number for June commences with "The
Paradise in the Pacific"—a very interesting narra-
tive of the mutiny of the Bounty, and the subse-
quent events connected with the little colony at
Pitcairn's Island, up to the latest accounts. " Lady
Lee's Widowhood" is continued, with increasing
complications of the plot. After a review of
" Finlay's Byzantine Empire"—a subject anything
but attractive—we have a further notice of Dr.
Ivan's work in an article headed " Six months with
the Malays," containing some humorous descrip-
tions of the doctor's adventures in Malacca. In
"A few words on France," the writer speaks rather
favourably of Louis Napoleon, and apologises for
his despotism on the intelligible ground that the
French people have shown themselves unfitted for
any milder form of government. The recent excite-
ment as to the result of diplomatic negotiations in
Constantinople has lent a more than ordinary
interest to the affairs of the East, and the writer of
a paper on " Syria," which gives a graphic descrip-
tion of this renowned locality, expresses his opinion
that Turkey is not so weak as has been generally
believed ; but that, should her dismemberment
become inevitable, Syria would be the most impor-
tant key to our Indian Empire, and therefore the
most valuable acquisition for England. An article
on " Minor Morals" discourses with much force on
the many false pretences with which men in the
present day seek worldly advantages, concluding
with a not inappropriate allusion to the political
treachery of 1846, from the effects of which we are
still suffering. The closing paper is a political
essay on " Free Trade and High Prices," which is
especially deserving of a careful perusal by men of
both sides, if they are actuated by motives in the
slightest degree above the interests of mere party.
The writer clearly shows that while the object of
the Free Traders was to lower prices, the tendency
of the gold discoveries has been exactly the con-
trary, and that the prosperity for which the advo-
cates of the present system take credit is the result
of circumstances of a totally opposite character.

SOAP AND SANITATION.—In the islands of Guernsey
and Jersey, the consumption of soap has for years been at
the rate of 13 lbs. per head per annum ; in England and
Scotland 71 lbs. ditto. The former have been free from
excessive duty, the latter have not.
BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of
a letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collector
of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed by his brother,
at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for/Publication :—" I know
you have never had occasion tetake Blair's Pills, but let
me emphatically tell you, by-Mercy to any friend who may
suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheu-
matism, or any branck7of that widely-allied family, to
recommend their min* them. In this country they are
of wonderful efficacy ; not only am I personally aware of
their powers, but I see my friends and acquaintances re-
ceiving unfailing benefit from their use. I would not be
without them on any account. If taken in the early stage
of disease they dissipate it al'ogether : if in later, they
alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier cure than by any
other means within my knowledge." Sold by Thomas
Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by all respectable me-
dicine vendors throughout the kingdom.
KNOWLEDGE is POWER.—The secrets of nature, whe-
ther in their more extended or minute workings, never
came more fully under observation than in our own time,
and it is now characteristic of men of 'science, not only to
observe, but to control. The value of this knowledge
and power is strikingly illustrated in the cultivation of
the HUMAN HAIR, which it was reserved for modern
genius to bring under the dominion of science. That
branch of the subject connected with its restoration, was
long the object of the most persevering solicitude ; but
now, thanks to the enterprise of C. and A. OLDRIDGE,
a preparation (the Balm of Columbia) is not only pro-
duced, but distributed through most of the British pos-
sessions, by which baldness disappears, and a luxuriant
growth clothes the brow that but lately bore a few thinly
scattered locks. Many a gentleman whase head was ra-
pidly losing its natural ornament, has, by the use of this
Balm. recovered his locks, and found them curling in
more than their wonted luxuriance ; and many an elegant
woman who was disarrayed at the diminution of her most '
valuable decoration, has, by applying this active restora-
tive, imparted a ialutary vigour to her tresses, which have
again waved mid wantoned in exuberance and beauty.
OLDRIDGE 'S ,BALM causes Whiskers and Eye-brows to
grow, prevepts the hair from turning grey, and completely
frees it from scurf. Sold wholesale and retail by the
proprietofs, 13, Wellington-street North, Strand, Lon-
don, and by most of the respectable perfumers and medi-
cine venders. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and lls. per bottle. No
other prices are genuine. N.B.—The public are requested
to be on their guard against counterfeits ; ask for OLD.
RIDGE'S BALM, 13, Wellington-street North, Strand,
London. Sold wholesale by Messrs. RAIMES and Co.,
Hanover-street, Liverpool.
COMPETITION.—The overstrained competition which is
unfortunately carried on in many articles of domestic use
has now become a crying evil. From the recent exposures
of that valuable journal, the Lancet, the malpractices of
venders and manufacturers of many articles Of household
consumption has been laid bare. The public, we trust, are
now becoming alive to the great importance of selecting
such articles as are made by parties of respectability and
character, thus taking the precaution of getting articles of a
quality sufficient for the purpose for which they are in-
tended, and of a genuine character. While on this sub-
ject, we may inform our readels that even the important
article of starch has been tampered with ; many unprin-
cipled parties buying up diseased potatoes, damaged wheat,
&c., and manufacturing t refrom a coarse kind of farina,
and without further pre ration packing this inferior in-
gredient in packets si larlY got up and labelled like the
Glenfield, giving it at outside appearance similar to the
has a genuine and established re-
original article, whichputation. A case in point was exemplified lately, where
Mr. Wotherspooo, the manufacturer of the Glenfield
Patent Starch, obtained injunctions in Chancery against
two of these friiudulent persons, and we are glad to
observe that obtained damages also ; this was right,
and indeed i the only means to defend the public from
such imposit* ns, which are now, unhappily, too common.
The Glens d Patent Starch was noticed at the Ex.hibi-
I
tion of l 1, and a testimonial has
upwards of 1,500 grocers throughout the „--
ing thatrthe Glenfield starch is better than a
had. The laundress to her Majesty, a

they ever
st of the

laundiesses to the leading nobility, have sent to the pro-
prietOr testimonials of a similar character. We think the
ladip would do well to make a trial of it. Any quantity
m 0 be obtained from most of the shopkeepers.