The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

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BOPPING TN !-Mr. Sheddan, now on a pleasure trip
id the world, in his yacht of 140 tons burthen, has
ed the Orkneys, the Brazils, the Cape, and Madagas-
and the other day he dropped in at Bombay on his
to Japan and Kamschatka !
3ETRAORDINARY TRIALS.—In 1814, a bull, having
d a man by tossing him with his horns, was brought
re the Judges in the province of Valois, and indicted
criminal, and after several witnesses had given evi-
;e, it was condemned to be hanged. This sentence
confirmed by an order of the Parliament, and carried
effect. And we are told that an unfortunate pig,
;11 chanced to kill a child in Burgundy, was in like
ner solemnly tried in Court, and suffered the same
punishment.
A POLITE HINT.—The following gentle notice headed
" Editorial," appears in the December numbers of " Sam
Sly's African Journal," published at the Cape of Good
Hope, The present number concludes the twenty-
second quarter of " Sam Sly's African Journal."
And if it be the pleasure of the reader that it should com-
plete twenty-two more, the present season is one of the
most favourable in the year to cancel old scores before
commencing new ones. To Port Natal no more numbers
will be sent without payment in advance. And the 'long
winded' and forgetful there, will be immediately presented
with a new year's gift, (as a broad hint) in the shape of a
pocket edition of WALKER'S Dictionary. Defaulters
nearer home, will also hove a flapper and reminder as a

Christmas Box, in a little iaisiOry of King Thomas ;
or Cousin John; or a personal acquaintance with
`• Thompson's Seasons ;" or "Reid on the Mind."—The
Sly Corner, December, 1848."

THE BOOK OF BEAUTY AND EMBELLISHMENT ; OR,
THE TOILET ASSISTANT.—Published by Claridge and
Co., 12a, Gough Square, Fleet-street.—Mesdames Lafitte
and Valliere have produced a little work of no ordinary
interest. It instructs in the Science of Tasteful Dressing
and Embellishment ; and professes to give Directions and
Formulas for Heightening and Preserving Female Beauty ;
and Preventing or Correcting the Natural or Incidental
Defects and Imperfections to which the Female Form is
liable. It also gives some excellent Instructions for
restoring Faded or Fading Beauty, and warding off or
retarding premature or accidental decay. It forms an in-
dispensable appendage to the toilet of every lady desirous
of dressing tastefully and elegantly, and of investing her
person with " a pomp of winning graces."—London and
Paris Gazette of Fashions.

PRETENDED VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.—The quackery
of publishing pretended voyages and travels has prevailed
at various times and places. Gemelli Careri, a Neaopoli-
tan nobleman, for many. years never quitted his chamber;
confined by a tedious indisposition, he amused himself
with writing a voyage. round the world, giving characters
of men, and descriptions of the countries, as if he had
really visited them. Du Halde, who has written so vo-
luminous an account of China, compiled it from the me-
moirs of the missionaries, and never travelled ten leagues
from Paris in his life, though he appears from his writings
to be very familiar with Chinese scenery. Dambergier's
Travels, in the interior, from the Cape to the North of
Africa, not long ago produced a great sensation, and the
public were duped ; they proved to be the ideal voyages
made by a member of the German Grub-street about his
own garret. The travels of Gaudentio di Lucca, written
by Bishop Berkeley, and those of Psalmanazar, in For-
mosa, were received with implicit credit on their first
publication, though now known to be the works of pure
invention. Travellers who fly rapidly through countries,
practise a frequent quackery in publishing long accounts
of various places and people, evidently collected from the
idle reports and absurd traditions of the ignorant vulgar,
from whom only they could have received those relations
which we see accumulated with such undiscerning credit
lity.—Duncan's Essays and Miscellanea.