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

THE LENT ASSIZES.

TuE Judges of the several Courts of Queen's Bench,
Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled on Friday., in
the Exchequer-chamber, Westminster-hall, for the purpose
of determining and finally arranging the several circuits
upon which they should respectively proceed to hold the
ensuing spring assizes of Oyer and Terminer, and general
gaol delivery in and for the several counties in England
and Wales, when the following arrangements were finally
made, viz. :
HOME CinctrlT.—Mr. Paron Parke and Mr... Baron
Alderson.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr.
Talfourd.

WESTERN CIRCIIIT.-Mr. Justice Earle and Mr. Baron
Martin.

NonpoLK CIRCIIIT.—Lord Campbell and the Lord
Chief Baron.
MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—The Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas and Mr. Justice Coleridge.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr.
Baron Platt.
NORTH WALES AND CHESTER Cuterir.—Mr. Justice
Williams.
SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER CIECIIIT.—Mr. Justice
Crompton. - _

VACATION JUDGE.-Mr. Justice Maule will remain in
town, and sit during the absence of the other judges as
vacation judge.

ENGLAND AND AMEILICA.—Sam slick says :—" I have
studied both nations ; and, after addin' all that is to be
counted on one side, and substractin' all that is to be
deducted on the other, I aint candidly and fairly satisfied
which is the greatest of the two nations. But, on the
whole, I think we are, take it altogether. The sum may
be stated in this way :—England is great in wealth, in
population, in larnin', in energy, in manufactories, and
in her possessions ; but then her weakness is in her size.
I knew a man once who was so tall that he did'nt know
when his feet was cold, they were so far off from his heart.
That is the case with England and her distant colonies.
She don't know the state of feelin' there, and sore spots
are allowed to mortify until amputation is necessary.
Giants aint formidable folks in a general way. Their
joints are loose, their bodies are too heavy, their motions
are too unwieldly ; they knock their heads agin doors, and
can't stow away their legs in coaches or uncle!. tables ;
their backs aint fit for daily work—and light-built fellers
can dance round them, and insult them, without danger
of being caught. Now, foreign possessions, like full-
grown children, are expensive. In time of peace colonies
help trade ; but in time of war, how are they to be
defended ? There must be incorporation or separation—
united we stand, divided we fall. We have our country,
as father used to say of his farm, all in a ring fence.
Every climate at home. We have nothin' to envy, and
Englishmen are on too good tarms with themselves to
envy any one. Our duty and our interest is to unite as
one, and humanise, Christianise, and civilise the world."
BEAUTIFUL TEETH AND GUYEL—The great object to
be attended to in the preservation of the teeth is cleanliness,
food should never be allowed to stick between the teeth and
decay in the mouth, the teeth should be brushed night and
morning and a little tooth powder used,—BRANDE'S TOOTH
POWDER is strongly recommended to all who require beauti-
ful teeth and gums. The stomach should also be kept in
order, no more frequent cause of toothache exists than de-
rangement of the stomach. Lastly, Dhenever a tooth begins
to decay, stop it immediately with BRANDERS ENAMEL. If
this be done in time, before the hole becomes larger, or be-
fore pain has been felt, the further decay of the tooth may be
prevented, and that most distressing malady the toothache
avoided. These articles have been used and recommended by
many of the most eminent surgeons and dentists of the day.
As there are numerous imitations of the articles be particular
in asking for the genuine, prepared only by the original
manufacturer, JOU Willy, WhOse signature is on the outside
of each packet.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1854.

SKETCHES OF RADIcAI%I

THE RADICAL FEMALE.
(From the Press.)
Women are born Conservatives. This is
which there cannot be any doubt. Hence the ni
female is, at best,, an unnatural exception ; ,313501#
never, for niy own part, think of her except as 11
" Pig-headed lady," or other monstrous creation.
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dical females are rare and curious, and as little law
as mermaids • but never bestow the same attentios,
their personal appearance as those interesting crea,ll..
A paper might be written, indeed, showing how Eauc:o
Conservative owes to the Radicals' wives and da4le
When the severe and terrible Podger advances to tiov
riod of baldness, and becomes fat, he finds that heir
been nourishing a brood to turn upon him. His or
branches, with the beautiful peacefulness which tiled
symbolises, put him at peace with the powers of his
In7o
land. Young Podger will hear of nothing but aes
regiment, and here has Podger, all his life, been 07:4;
war and soldiers, and kicking up a hubbub about the 2;,
being kept up to support an oligarchy ! But the
Podger are far more intractable. Those charming 5
turn up their noses (Nature having arranged that
;o1
shall be an easy performance) at the Cottonville Ydr
men. At watering-places, or on the Continent, or
where, they meet with the sprouts of good fasnilies;ol
the county where Podger has bought a slice of the 13'
a Jacobite family (he will ask the Whigs for the attai
title, some day !) they come within the influence /4,
entirely new set of ideas, and will not revere Podg,erlo,
youngest boy goes to the navy, and is " cobbed #
sword scabbard for proposing Cobden's health, •V''
What is an old fellow to do ?
Non ego hoc ferrem, calidus juventa,
he might exclaim, had he any acquaintance with the vrP;
who makes the exclamation. But he is getting old.b;
he must die with the awful consciousness that he 10; 05'
bestowing his warmth on the hatching of a brood 0•
tocrats. However, when women are Radicals, they geore
entire animal. Miss Piper,the poetess, the elderly anti'
of " Letters on the Human Anatomy" (that masterlP,'t
fatation of Paley), is a frightful example. All the Blotri
are examples. From the lady of Sir Barnaby Cralo6•:4!
(who writes leaders in the " Rasper," and is con,nt
inserting a paragraph to the effect that we hear Sir 13sP'i.
Crabs, M.P., will be " offered the"—anything thsof
vacant)—to the youngest Bloomer, the female ag'tpot
are more violent than the male ones. Sproggs is 0P y
,
to capital punishment (naturally enough), and wowa
the scoundrel live ; but Miss Piper sees in him a " oTrtif
humanity," a " dormant goodness," and would sub
for his chains garlands of roses. The Radical Fern/1
sometimes a " thing of impulse," but the commoner,
is a woman of " strong good sense." She is an oyera

woman, or an under-done man. The Piper, for init
is a very good little girl, but she got her head turned.
one of the geniuses who turns the heads of the N 7,0„
Mystics. The Piper writes, and with her feminine PA
ness she adopted the antagonistic attitude, She threrg:
her warmth into " new views." The plain meallls
the Piperean view is simply this : she is a sentimenTo
and raves about Reformers just as other girls do !ffio
music, poetry, ruins, moonlight, or whatever their 5.1;
rage may be. She is a lively, soft-hearted girl, and,P.,t
chooses to call her quick apprehensions "intuitions,
where's the harm? There is only one event which can
petted to make Miss Piper practical, and that, of court
—marriage. There was poor Margaret Fuller, a clggif
woman in her way : when she married and had Pt)
Angelo, she became (as you see by her biography) 451
an intelligible woman, and capital wife and mother.
fact simply is with regard to these high-flying di°
that they see a great deal existing in the institutili
Europe which is by no means so pleasant to eonte.,,lllll
as moonlight or Locksley Hall." They would o'4
abolish all evil out of the world, and sprinkle it with
water ; and I would like to have strawberries for 11
fast, only it is winter time, and I cannot get them., fo
Miss Piper's reasonableness and practicality, then,
we must wait till she is married. But she won't titi
Nubibus, or any •of those speculative gentlemen 15
writings she loves ; it being, I remark, the invare
custom of those fellows to marry quiet, pretty girls,
titute of enlarged views, who adore them, and gi e,,
to them, and make them very comfortable. So that
Piper will probably " throw herself away" on sorar`ht
fellow, and make him pay for a new edition of it
" Poems" on the very finest paper. The gifted
Scragg is the female Radical of another type. You
see Miss Scragg, at the British Museum, fearlessli_d,
amining huge books of anatomical plates. She
like, when she hears of an abuse, to " put her P,,,t
it
on it—and, between ourselves, if that did not crnschea
know not what would. I would rather be reveren dif
any man than by a Scragg—for they give you an 4
" scrunch" on the part of the oppressed sex. She 721
leaders and reviews, and goes to the office to c 071.4
proof—like a man, in fact. She is a man, indierti
spoiled man ; a man not quite manly enough.
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Miss Scragg who wrote those angry letters to the ' 'O
when the affected Destriver published his " Sonneboi
Poppet." She overwhelmed him with scorn ; reP,lll
the vile homage of the man as an insult to the 11'10
standing" of the whole sex. The fact is, the swine',"
not intended for Miss Scragg ; it was no more her
ness than it was Ben Caunt's to engage in the &ref
versy. But she has a perfectly just suspicion that
charms of her mind are not so attractive as the gro""A-ii4
" that empty little goose" Miss Flowerbell. And, 10:id
I cannot see why Miss Scragg should expect to el`rdi
the rule both of man and woman too. She is a vig.;ol)
minded woman enough ; but there are as clever
about as she ; and she is really so like a man that ft; bt
almost as soon think of flirting with the Pope as
—The Press.

THE GENTLEMAN RADICAL. '
ROI cjl Where now is the good old Gentleman ,eiti
Where are the braves who wrote down in large I.,bef
that mankind were free and equal, and signed ‘OOl,
selves " Persons of Quality"? Where is the high'y
Brutus of Liberalism ? Where is the old classic P 0%)
breathing of the ancient republics ? We look ar°v` ,
Europe in vain for that school now-a-days.
they :are gone —those haters of tyrants—the fiery
tlemen who quoted Lucan ! They sleep free fror,
insulting air of kings, under tables of Latinity, and
large escutcheons ! Undoubtedly a Radical of tbisilli s
would be stoned by the party at the present day. ri 1(
how a man who does a thing as an affection is loved
the man who does it as a trade ! The " days of Roin,:fi
having come up, the " republic of Plato" has disap col
Brutus is in a ' coalition," establishing a Whiff 00 1
mercial, pseudo-liberal, anything arian oligarchY,. OF, •
trade for a religion, and capital for a god. Clodius Is 0
able to go the pace, like the old Clodii. Nay, the days/ '
the Clodii are gone by. They cannot drink even
...istf
and, in the happy minglings of political life, On;
would bring his sister to meet Cicero and his wife ario;
party of the Sacred College. Milo and Clodius in our,c*
waive all private differences and take places for the
of the country, and the Radical Gentleman blends p:
moniously with " stern and unbending" Conservt.o i
For we hear (often enough, to be sure) that tile 7 tti
alongparties is past, with the age of " eloquence,' 511tuyii
age of everything else, and are requested to congra_. tli
ourselves on the change. The Radical Gentleman li ,Piod
appeared in this general confusion. Occasionally a -Di 06
lord, loving a little applause (the nature of which he 4 t 1
misunderstands), gets a burst of after-dinner cheerinr
saying that the days are gone when his order could c,,,i,
cise hateful privileges —(Hear, hear)—or presume odt,
vance in front of the great body of their countrSV,
(Great applause) What a melancholy exhibition !
.„„fr
man who laid bare his bosom to show his scars was
'
ing an appeal that was respectable ; but a man b
of his feebleness is not a cheerful spectacle. if the II •
lord thinks so meanly of his order in its present
1
why don't he go in for being an Aztec Lilliputian ? ..,
fact is, however, he means little, or nothing, or anythlP,
according to the taste of the hearer ! Where, thee")
we to look for our Radical Gentleman ? That C,D;(O'
species we never hear of. The Wilkeses neither utter
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mots nor edit Catullus ; and, if they happen to be bil' b it
and blasphemous, are not so on a scale grand enongolf,
attract public attention. When one does appear, ' k
with a scintillation of parts (yet different, indeed,
such a man as Horne Tooke,) he buries his talents in .
kin as a well-paid Coalition waiter. The lively, free'
dinner Radical Gentleman is silent and forgotten.
acrid, eager, critical Radical Gentleman, with a OH
form and a large constituency, is reading French novfl
the country, and terrified for fear of being ask 'id ,
opinion about the strike. And the hopes of RadiTof
proper are in the Pottses and the Cockroaches, the Po f
kers, and the Dobbses. There are, indeed, young re,e„ aft
culture, and refinement, and aspiration to be met, wP",
dissatisfied with English politics, and whom people oi
Radicals. But the Radical proper is quite a different I,d
from these gentlemen. A part of their conversation 10
action is perhaps favourable to what is loosely called /
ranked as Radicalism. But these young men (vvb_i,°6li
to be known by their combining sarcasm with melarwj
are quite sure to develop under the two most ConserV
ing of all influences—viz., acquaintance with Radical
sonally, and study of the traditions of England.'
Press.

A MODEL MINISTER.--" How do you like
minister ?" " Like him," says the Squire, " whY,'
him first-rate ; for he never meddles with politic'
religion, or temperance."
A FRENCHMAN rx A Fix.—A Frenchman, nentil9ol,
rived in London, impatient to see the town, but feaP,lge
not finding his way back to his hotel, carefully
upon a card the name painted on the wall at the CO t
the street in which it was situated. This done, n:
himself safe, and set out for a ramble, much uP4,),''
principle vulgarly known as " following one's nose. 6
whole day long he strolled and stared to his heart
tent : wearied, at last, he jumped into a cab, and witot
easy confident air of a man who feels perfectly at A V
he read from the card he had prudently preserTi
name of the street he dwelt in. The cabman grin &nvi-d.
ribly. " This English pronunciation is sadly W oli_„,
said the Frenchman to himself ; "he does not and of
ef
me." And he placed the card before the man'4o(,;
Cabby grinned more than ever, gazed in his flip Ail
tonished face, and ended by sticking his hands
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pockets and roaring with laughter. Indignation
part of the foreigner ; he appealed to the passers
gravely listened to him at first, but, upon behola'Th
card, joined, one and all, in chorus with the conceit;
The Frenchman now got furious, swore, stamped, g ,
kited, like a candidate for bedlam. He went so farloi
threaten the laughers a crowd assembled, ever.
sympathised with him till they learned the cirenletird:
of the case, when they forthwith joined in the in_.oo.4i
hilarity. Up came the police, those guardian 9a,o=
bewildered foreigners in London's labyrinth. .`",,,c?f,
grieved Gaul felt sure of sympathy, succour, and 110
He was never more mistaken. The gentlemen belt)/
roared like the rest. They evidently could not tiii;
Compunction mingled with their mirth, but tbe.Yi v‘•
theless guffawed exceedingly. To what extrerallisfo:
desperate Frenchman might have proceeded it 14 itti,rjr,
sible to say, had not a gentleman acquainted 1-;ci
language appeared upon the scene. He, too, ,
violently on beholding the card, and when he ha
a few words to the Frenchman, the Frenchman t otoi
likewise, which was a signal for a recommenceme,n /
general hilarity. The address so carefully copied ips'
foreigner at the corner of his street, was the follow
"Commit no nuisance."—Elaclncood's Magazine'

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