The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

simile in one of which
ed by Addison. This coun-

idioms upon Sundry Subjects
had the honour of bemg
tess was the progenitrix
Holland House. She w
says one of her admirers, of a new science, the art of
obliging,—' great in a thousand things besides,' which
she counted but ' loss for the excellence of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus our Lord.'

social characteristics :of

and inventress,

" She passed away, and Addison might be seen wooing
her great and sbrevk ish successor, his Countess of War-
wick ; or leading to heaven, by precept, the youth who
loved earthly pleasures too well ; or resigning, in hopless

but his

iSion has been alrea

So Chestertiel

from that ancient porch since that the old house,
up (the Riches are clean gone), has been opened

long shut
again for

the Wiltshire squir

and the peer whose maxim

it was, as Bu

appears in his court suit and blue riband ; and tried, but
tried in vain, we should think, his incomparable skill in
the art of bamboozle upon his friend Fox, whose charac-

per cent

VARIETIES

ANECDOTE OF THE DllKE.—During the regime of the
Peel administration an important situation in Ireland, be-
came vacant, to which an Irish relative of the Duke
wished to be appointed. He, therefore, wrote to his
Grace, and, after having stated his wish, concluded his
letter with these words—" One word from your Grace will
be sufficient." The Duke sent the following laconic and
characteristic reply :—" Dear —, Not one word—from
yrs. any., Wellington."
Sulphuric ether is distilled from a • mixture of equal
weights of alcohol and sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol). The
vapour, when carried in what is technically called a worm
through cold water, or otherwise cooled down by some
other similar process, condenses (just as steam
_is con.:

.
densed into water) into a colourless, transparent liquid of
a penetrating, pleasant, lemon-like odour, and sweetish
acrid-taste. This limpid liquid is sulphuric ether. There
is no sulphur in its composition.
__

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF SEWERAGE AND VENTILA-
ON.—" The London Hospital was badly drained, heated

1837 and 1838 respectively, t
In 1839 the sewera,,

nough for its inmates. In
e ,mortality was 14 and 12i
was completed, and the
In 1840 the hot air was dis-

place. The mortality in 1841 was 10 per cent. In 1842
the new wing was opened, when the mortality, fell to 8
cent., and in 1843 to 7 per cent."—From Mr. Liddle's
Evidence before the Health of Towns' Commission.
A CANADIAN GRlN.—Even under bright sunshine,

and in a most exhilarating air, the biting- effect of the
cold upon the portiOn of the face that is exposed to it re-

)served on those who for many minutes had been in a

warm room waiting to see meta consic
lax.—Sir F. Head's Emigrant.
A CONVIVIAL REASON.—Lord Northington took the
earliest opportunity to avail himself of the partiality of the

le time to re-

the evening sittings in the Court of Chancery on Wednes-
days and Fridays. George 111. made a good story, which
he used to tell for tne rest of his reign, of what passed be-

him," said his majesty, " his reason for wishing that these
sittings should be abolished ?"—" Sir," answered he,

sh my bottle

of port after-dinner ; and your majesty, solicitous for the

to be reason sufficient." The permission was graciously
accorded—we may suppose an explanation being added
that post-prandian sittings were becoming generally un-
popular, and were unsuited to the changed manners of so-
ciety.—Lord Campbell's Chancellors.

MILTON'S HOUSE IN LONDON. This memorabh
welling is yet standing. It no longer opens into St.
Ames's Park. The ancient front is now the back, anc

•emyßentham

Near the top of this ancient front is a

stone, bearing the inscription--" Sacred to Milton, the
prince of poi-ts." This was placed there by no less.dis-

hou-se some years, purely because it was Milton's. Ben-
tham, when he was conducting people round his garden,

.vhicli is now in the occupation of Mr. Gihb, the engineer,
ised to make them sometimes go down on their knees to
;his house. The house is tall and narrow, and has nothing
itriking about it. No doubt, when it opened into St.
James's Park, it was pleasant ; now it fronts into York-

which runs in a direct line from the west end of
tminster Abbey. It is. No. 19, and is occupied by a
The back, its former front, is closed in by a wall,

leaving but a very narrow court; but above this wall, as
treacly said, looks into the pleasant garden of the late ye-
-William Howitt's Homes and

rierable philosOphel
Haunts of British Poet

THE CHURCHYARD ITAS ITS DISTINCTIONS.—" Here,"
td my eccentric friend, Lawyer Barclay, as he is univer-

form. The name, the age, and the date of his death, are
minutely and accurately entered. If he has filled an office
of importance, or belonged to a learned profession, or
served in the Assembly, and, above all, if he has been a
member of the upper house of the legislature, and borne
the title of honourable, it is recorded at large ; while, on
the other hand, if he has derived his support from an
honest trade, the dishonest tombstone refuses to mention
it, lest it might wound the aristocratic feelings of his as-
piring posterity. It is said that truth is to be found in
the winebut and the depths of a welt. If revealing the
secrets of others be

worth the trouble of the search, namely, that the well is
empty. Whenever it is to be sought for', one thing is cer-
tain, it is not to be found on a tombstone. The broken-

inconsolable grief for the loss of his wife, ere one short
year has passed, or the sound of, the sculptor's mallet has

riage ; Sand eyes as bright, and voice as sweet as those that
are closed by death, seduce him into a disavowal of his
own words, ' Here lieth the best of wives,' and compel
him to acknowledge ` Here the husband lies.' The dis-
consolate widow whose affections are buried in the grave

)t her dear

in death, feels her heart reanimated with the genia.
warmth of returning spring. It rises from the earth with
the primrose, shakes off its wintry torpor, and -
with renewed life and vigour after its short seclusim.
admired of all admirers no longer refuses to be comforv.
The churlish miser receives the homage of insincerity
from his heir even after death, when his cold and moul-
dering ear can no longer listen to its flattering accents. A
its chaste and beautiful allegorical figure of affection is seen

reappears

ping over

his urn, which rests On a

at re-

the tears so copiously shed are caused by unexpected le-
gacies to others, or by the protracted delay of possession.
This is a double fraud. It represents the dead as worthy
of love, and the living as capable of loving. It is not gra-
titude, but a decent observance of a hypocritical custom.
But why are men so shocked at the mention of that on a
tombstone which the deceased published throughout his

life to all the world., In this chuichyard, numerous as the
graves are, no man is designated as tailor, barber, butcher,
baker, or shoemaker ; yet, doubtless there are scores of