The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TKR NERVES OF THE HEART.—An interesting dis-
covery has recently been made by Dr. Lee, of London,
respecting the nerves of the heart. The doctrine that the
heart was wholly devoid' of nerves (cor nervis carere),
and was a stupidum et insensibile viscus, which obtained,
we believe, at the close of the last century, had already
been modified by later authorities, but until Dr. Lee corn-
menced his inquiries it was generally supposed that the
nerves were very few in number, and it was considered
that the organ performed its important functions with
little or no nervous action. This supposed fact having
been stated as an objection to Dr. Lee's theory n to th. _ •

necessity of the existence of nerves inthe-ut,
occasion, we understand, of his undertakinff

SINGULARITY IN THE rjit
ki.,.f
Cll DYNASTY.—It is a re.
• markable fact in the history of ..rance, that since the time
of. Louis XIV., who succee(k his father Louis XIII.,
there has not been a single instar;:*of the crown descend-
ing directly from father to son. LoultlXV. was the grand-
son of Louis XIV. ; Louis XVI. was ont'of the grandsong
of Louis XV. ; the son of Louis XVI. died, (query if not
murdered in the Temple.) Napoleon did not succeed in
transmitting the crown to his only son, who died at
Schoenbrunn. Louis XVIII., brother of Louis XVI.,
had his brother, Charles X., for his successor. The Duke

us vrieans, rrmce Royal, was carried off by an accident
as unexpected as it was deplorable, and interrupted; it may
ha ...2;,1 •. - -

intention sho:

he results of whieh—":t—:s ''mm""
nuhli h in is said to be hi
SI

I under the tivv.dir;;i3;

the ord
llioue

Eer of succession

uecauea Farm. They are
stated to establish not merely the existence of numerous
hitherto unnoticed nerves in the heart, but also the curious
facts, that these nerves increase with the increase of the
organ ; and that the nerves on the left side are more than
double the size of those on the right. This latter circum-

.v ...mieuce tne Junctions
of the two sides, it being the office of the left ventricle to
disperse the blood through the whole body by means of

as his royal heir, a son ; it is his grandson, the Count de
Paris, son of the late Duke of Orleans, who is to be his
heir presumptive to the crown.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF NON-COMPLAINT.—" In the
year 1836," says one of the medical officers of the West
Derby Union, I attended a. Family of tbirfppn fwolvo nf

aucu a Icl/111/)
whom had typhus fever, without
r7nithol.it, straw or timber shavines—

a bed in the cellar,

- ---- ---,e
s iJ
merely to ..w,.....', m They lay on the floor, and so crowded that I could scarcely
the arteries, while that or, the right ventricle pass between them. In another house I attended four-
transmit it though the lungs to the left auricle,-an opera- teen patients : there were only two beds in the house. All
tion obviously requiring a less vigorous pulsation, and
consequently less nervous power than that of the left the patients lay on the boards, and during their illness
ventricle. This discOvery may be regarded as the comple had their clothes off. I met with many cases in similar
- conditions ; yet amidst the greatest destitution and want
ment of Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood.
PHYSICAL FORCE.—A poor Welsh miner who had been of domestic comfort, I have never heard, during the course
induced to join in a riot, when under examination before of twelve years' practice, a complaint of inconvenient
the magistrates at Newport, repeatedly exclaimed as fol- accommodation." This fearful statement would be in-
complete without Dr. Southwood Smith's commentary.
lows : ' I wur never for vissikful force." Being asked .
to explain himself, he replied—" Why, zur, I never wur This want of complaint," he says, " under such circum-
for pysonin um !" stances, appears to me to constitute a very melancholy
AN OLD ENGLISH PERRY.—Many of our fine old
part of this condition. It shows that physical wretched
English rivers abound in hpantif,,i ~;,,4-,....-,—..... _, , , ness has donp its wnrat nn flip linmpli cpfrprpr fnr it bll.l

___,,_____ __......_ ......_.- ... ..,autiiiii pictures, not of land-
mind. The wretchedn6s being greater
ro . lua wvim. Ull LUG 1.11110.11 Mill. GI , Lui il, 1111
scape alone, but of scenes that' come and go, like the
shifting effects of sunshine, cloud coloured ; where but a destroyed his hrs
than' humanity can bear, annihilates the mental faculties—
minute before we saw every object as if cut out in gold, the faculties distinctive of the human being. There is a
satisfaction kind of in the thought, for it sets a limit to
the next changes to a dim bronze, and then shuts all in
the capacity of suffering which would otherwise be with-
under a cover of dusky green. Under such a sky as this, out bound. "
—Liverpool Health of Towns Advocate.
(when sun and shade come down to play with one another Louis on the earth,) what can look more picturesque than a vi,. Pitilliipprpve.its. avt,,iit.,,l:isus,stgo knowmh .t...v1mt1?..d0i.e11,?57
large flat-bottomed nlii f,,,,,,_1,,,.4- • ~ , ~

afraid, from t 1.—.... .111 Jerr- ooate further shore of the ,
river creep
aning,-d thro 'as if half v iuburns 13,111C1 Z al. ! ciazinte. ine meetings, the royal
.. embraces, the festivities at Eu,—the whole series of pic-
,
into the water, clear-shadowed, images of sheep and tures representing the entente cordiale have been com-
oxen, the red cloak of an old market woman, the blue
pletely thrown in the shade by recent events,that the visi-
smock-frock of some shepherd, and the white dress of the tors only laugh at them. It has been suggested to put
farmer's handsome daughter ? Near and more near them into mourning, and cover them with the deepest
draws the huge square-headed boat, the splashing sound crape. Another recommendation has been to turn the
of the water broken by the bleating of the lambs, the pictures round and set their faces to the wall. The blank
c
lowing of oxen, and the voices of the passengers; heard canvas would certainly present a correct picture of the
present state of affairs, and could not possibly offend the
for a moment, then lost again, just as the breeze rises and
eye or the amour propre of the most patriotic Englishman
falls at intervals. How clear is the figure of the ferryman
or Frenchman. The blanks, also, might be taken as a
reflected, with his weather-stained jacket, as he leans

over with his long boat-hook, rearing it at first, like a gallery of portraits of the greatest statesmen of the present
mast, above his head, then lessening it as the lumbering day, and a strong family likeness to be traced between the
craft advances; now reaching but a yard above him, then Thierses and the Palmerstons of the two countries. But
coming to a level with his brawny shOulders, against
we think we have a proposition which will save Louis Phi-
which it rests, while with all his strength he walks the lippe the necessity of colouring over the past, or drawing
whole length of the boat, and, red in the face as a lion, on the future. Let him send the pictures to the Commis-
pushessionersuctiof
thoroughly
rkiNatiral
s Gallery, with directions to have
her across the river. Up comes the long boat-
n . When they have undergone
operation,rug ythceeapiceture? can be hung up with the
hook once more, from out the clear water under which it themthat
greatess_afety, as. no one will be able to know what they
was buried, high up in the sky it rears, making a hundred
mean. They might illustrate the next dozen victories
pretty dimples with the drops that fall from it ; the same
which the French are sure to win, the coming twelve
Herculean arm again plants it in the river bed ; if it slips,
overboard he goes, as he has done many a time ; on, on-
m.onths, over Abd-el-Kader, and no one can be any the
ward another length he walks ; he has given her plenty of
head-way now, and she will soon come grinding upon the wiser. This is what we call helping Louis Philippe clean
gravelly shore.—Miller's Pictures of Country Life. through a difficult pp
CHARITY. OF THE QUEEN OF THE FRENCH.—The SIR ROBERT PEEL AND " SAFE" STATESMANSHIP.—
queen disposes of five hundred thousand francs a-year for We will hazard the opinion, that Sir Robert Peel is no
all her personal expenses ; and certainly she gives more child of light. We suspect that'there are very few prin-
than four hundred thousand in charity of all kinds. M. ciples for which he would suffer himself to be burnt—even
Appert," she would sometimes say to me, " give those five in effigy. With no high ideal by which to guide his
hundred francs we spoke of, but put them down upon next conduct, with no generous or exalted views, he has ven-
month's list, for the waters are low, my purse is empty." tured on a career beyond his powers. Fitted by nature
Imposture, ingratitude, even the insolent form of the pe- to make an excellent Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has
titions addressed to her, fail to discourage her in her bene- not known how to content himself with his proper post.
volent mission. " Madam," an old Bonapartist lady one A narrow egotist, he has attempted to guide the destinies
day wrote to her, "if the Bourbons had not returned to of a great nation. His career, as might have been expected,
France—for the misfortune of the nation—my beloved has been a notable failure. If it be not exposed to very
mistress and protectress, the Empress Maria Louisa, heavy blame, we decidedly must withhold all praise from
would still be upon the throne, and I should not be under it ; if it have little of the execrable, it certainly has
the humiliating necessity of telling you that lam without nothing of the admirable. Unstable as water, how could
bread, and that the wretched mattress upon which I sleep he excel ? and excellence has been wanting accordingly.
Is about to be thrown out of the garret I inhabit, because His career has been one continuous mistake, the greatest
my year's rent is unpaid ! I dare not ask you for assistance, mistake of all being that he ever began it. His only
for my heart is with my real sovereign, and I cannot pro- discoveries have been, that he had previously been in
mice you my gratitude. If, however, you think proper to error. His only victories have been over his friends,
preserve a life which, since the misfortunes of my country, whom thrice he has dragged through the mire of dishonour.
has been so full of bitterness, I will accept a loan : I (Catholic bill, factory bill, corn bill.) He has portioned
should blush to receive a gift. I am, madam, your ser- out triumph to his foes, defeat and bitterness to his sv-
rant, Ch—r." Th---

_sere was a pretty letter to set before a
queen ; a mode of imploring alms that might well have
disgusted the most charitable. But what was Maria
Amelie's reply to the precious epistle ? She was accus-
tomed to open all the petitions addressed to her and nu-
merous indeed they were—with her own hand, and to
write upon many of them her instructions for M. Appert
When the imnertinont m;..;„- .• •

' porters. He quits power amid the disgust and indignation
of his old friends, and the contemptuous patronage of his
new. Such has been the career of the safe man, the
practical and able statesman ! The generous Canning, a
man of real and noble ideas, was looked upon as dan-
gerous, and the wary and cautious Peel was raised to
power in his stead. Could they have foreseen—those who
I were toiling for their safe man, and so alarmed at the

that gentleman, the following lines had been added Colt .
—"She must be very unhappy for she is very unjust. A
hundred francs to be sent to her immediately ; and I b
M' • -

dangerous ideas of Canning-L-thatitw; to the safe man
they were to be indebted for Catholic emancipation, and
repeal of the corn laws ? Reflect unon this, ye lovers of

_„cru to make in
cumstances." M. Appert, indignant at ..ne
letter, ventured to remonstrate ; but the queen insisted,
and even tripled her intended donation, in case it should
be required by her singular petitioner, whom her almoner
accordingly proceeded to visit. "I knocked at a worm-
eaten door, on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue St.
Andre des Arts, and a lady dressed in black (it was her
only gown,) opened it. "Sir," said she. much agitated.

:one of t

and see first that they are men at all, and next only that
they be safe ones—men of high and bold ideas, not crafty
and narrow-minded egotists.—Blackwood's Magazine.
LORD SANDON'S ORATORY.—Lord Sandon's claims as
an orator may be very summarily disposed of; they do
do not constitute his greatest merit. Considering his
weight in the house, he is one of the least pleasing or
nrpin.Q.g.,..; 11, 0 wt.,. •-•..c,

" are you the commissary of police come to arrest me for
my shameful letter to the queen? You must forgive me :
I am so unhappy that at times I become deranged. I am
sorry to have written as I did to a princess whom all the
poor call good and charitable." " Be not alarmed,
madam," I replied, taking her petition from my pocket.
"Read her majesty's orders; they will enable you to iudeo

peaKers were. tieing a man
common sense,a highly educated, and with very extensive
information, the matter of his speeches is generally of a
superior order; and on questions of a higher interest than
the ordinary political topics of the day, he displays an
earnestness, at once religious and philosophical, which
elevates the tone of his language, and invests his ideas
*" • , . •

[ler better than-anything

an won

reaa tne affecting words added by the queen ; then,
bursting into tears, she pressed the paper to her lips.
"Sir," she exclaimed, "give me nothing, but leave me
this holy relic. I will die of hunger
heart." Madame C.
queen's generosity

nut It
vdtience and observation to detect these
merits under a perpetual hesitation of speech, and an
apparent confusion of utterance, which at first produce
unfavorable impressions. A little consideration satisfies
you that these defects are of physical origin only ; that

with it upon my

,
had much difficulty in prevailing on.unuxeti
her to giveirancs up thQ
petition, which I still preserve with respect and veneration.
This trait of the Queen of the French is only one of ten
thousand.—Appert's Ten Years at the Court of Louis
Phillip_pe.

....zu rigut annougn tne organ of speech does not
immediately perform its wonted duty. You see that
there is a high tone of moral feeling, combined with great
practical knowledge, and that the noble lord has a highly-
cultivated and well-regulated mind, which has been well
and assiduously applied to the elucidation and manage-
ment of even the most minute details of public business.
On subjects which have a religious bearing, such as
education, or matters connected with the church, he
is earnest and impressive animated by the most exalted
views for the welfare of mankind, and sustained 1,1,

SIRROBERT PEEL'S CLAIM FOR GRATITUDE FOR THE
REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS.—Sir Robert Peel, how-
ever, seems most perfectly satisfied with his exploit, and
never for a moment to doubt that it entitles him to tl
greatest applause. St. Augustine could not
more exultation of converting millions ,`

peak with

c, rans to
tianity by the fervour of his eloquence, thanag Sir R. i
does of his illustrious feat of converting some hundred ig-
noble minds to free-trade by his paltry government in-
fluence. This is the glorious, the devoted deed, upon
which he rests his claims to immortality ; this it is which
is to enshrine his name amid the gratitude of an admiring
posterity. On account of this he trusts that " his name

principles which he will not compromise, although ready
to yield the most liberal acceptation to the views of
9ppoilents. On questions of practical legislation, involv-

himself by a mode of handling them which is at once
statesmanlike and philanthropic, with much upright-
ness and ability, a middle course bptwpen the harsh

; one hand

the abode of the-man whose lot it is to labour, and to gain
his bread with the sweat of his brow, when he recruits hi
strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweete
because no longer leavened with a sense of inj
What tl-1 t• ~,

,midan

and when it is to begin, (for I apprehend that as yet,
although the law is in operation, no labourers have been
incommoded with plethora,) we will not here endeavour
to determine. But even if it should turn out to be an
abundance altogether unlooked for and unprecedented,
we would not have Sir Robert Peel imagine that much of
the labourer's gratitude will go to him. The labourer is
generally a shrewd map, with a good share of honest com-
mon sense ; and he neither likes his bread nor his minister
to be leavened with the taint of injustice. He is perfectly
capable of discriminating between those who consistently
advocate a cause, and those who, having profitably opposed
it in the hour of its weakness, when they might have aided
it, embrace it in the eleventh hou'r, in the time of its
triumph, when it is capable of aiding them. It is not on
time-serving patriots, such as these, that posterity confers
her gratitude. Posterity gives her gratitude to the upright
and sincere, not to the crafty, servile, and deceitful.
Posterity admires those who convert their fellows to truth
scorns those who can only convert
If, then,
trade.

by persuasion, she
them to dishonour by government influence.
the majority of electors were in favour of free
Peel's artifices were null and superfluous ; if they wer
not yet in favour of it, they were unconstitutional. He
either did no good whatever to the cause, or he passed it
sooner than constitutional principles warranted. In the
latter case he might claim some merit for anticipating, by
a brief period, the time when it would have been duly
carriedbya majority of the elector:, A - . -

street, in the furthest house to the left, on the third
storey."

" Has any physician as yet visited her 1"
" I was just going in search of one, but I know neither
how to recompense him, nor how to provide what I shall
have ordered."

The unknown gentleman drew from his purse some
florins, and offering them to him, " Go quickly," said he,
" and procure medical aid."

The routh having rendered thanks in the most simple,
but at the same time most energetic, expressions of a
grateful heart, departed immediately.
The gentleman, meantime, whilst he was away in an-
other direction.; resolved to go himself, and see the af-
flicted widow. Having ascended the stairs, he entered a
small mom where he saw nothing but a few chairs of straw ;
a few kitchen utensil's ; a table, rough, and ill put together ;
an old chest of drawers ; a bed, on which lay the sick
widow ; and a small couch beside it. She was in the most
profound dejection, and the little son at the foot of the
bed was dissolved in tears. The mother strove to com-
fort him, but she had herself need of comfort. The per-
sonage approached softly, and, as a physician, questioned
her regarding her distress. • •She stated briefly the symp-
toms ; then, with a sigh and with tears, "Ah ! signor,"
she said, "my malady arises from too deep a cause ; the
medical art has no remedy for it. lam the mother, alas !
the unhappy mother of two miserable children. My
misfortunes and those of my children have already pierced
this heart too deeply. Death alone can put an end to my
affliction, but this even makes me tremble for the deso-
lation in which my poor children will be left." Here
her.weeping increased; she related her own misfortunes,
which the supposed physician, notwithstanding the in-
formation which he had already obtained, feigned not to
know, and which anew drew tears from his eyes.
" Come, cheer up," said he at last ; "do not yet de-
spair ; Heaven will not be unmindful of you. I pity your
calamity, but Heaven is provident ; you will not be aban-
doned. Think, in the mean time, on preserving a life
which is too precious to your children. Have you any
writing paper ?"
She tore a leaf from a small hook on which she exer-
cised the child of about seven years of age, which was at
the foot of the bed.
The unknown, after having written, said, "This re-
medy will begin to comfort you ; we will proceed by and
by to another better when ary, and by degrees
on the ta-
ble and went away.

A few minutes-after, the elder son returned. " Dear
mother," said he, " take courage, Heaven has had pity
on us. Look at the money which a gentleman has ge-
nerously given me this morning ; this will be sufficient
for a few days. I,have been fora physician, who will be
here immediately. Calm your grief and console your-
self."

" Ah, my son !" said the mother, "come that I may
embrace you. Heaven assists thy innocence—may it ever
protect it. A physician whom I know not has been here,
and has just now left. Behold the receipt on the table :
go, dear, and bring what he prescribes."
The son took the billet, read it, and made a motion of
extreme astonishment ; he looked at it again, read it over
once more ; then raised a cry, " Ah, mother ! what can
this be ?"

The mother, amazed and perplexed, took the paper and
read it impatiently : "Oh Heavens ! the Emperor !"
Whilst she uttered these words, the leaf dropped from
her hands, and she remained speechless, and without a
breath. The note was an order from Augustus Joseph
11., in which he assigned from his own private treasury a
generous assistance. The doctor arrived opportunely to
recover the mother from the swoon' into which the sur-
prise had thrown her. The remedies applied soon re-
covered her from the sickness which drew its principal
cause from the afflictions of her mind. The generous
monarch, loaded with praises and benedictions, had the
pleasure of restoring health and life, and of forming the
happiness of an honest family, harshly persecuted by
fortune.

enteral •Artiortllanp.

_ -
Passages between Folkestone and Boulogne are now
ade twice a-day.

The Free Church of Scotland has collected considerably
upwards of £lO,OOO for the famishing poor in that' country.
A line of packet ships will shortly be established between
New York and the rising port of Belfast.
The Morning Chronicle of Saturday announces that Mr.
Mandeville will shortly replace Mr. Ouseley in the River
Plate.

The Admiralty have given notice of their intention to
deepen Holyhead harbour, to dredge, excavate, build re-
taining walls, and erect timber jetties.
On the seventh edition of the Encyclopeedia Britannica
alone there has been expended, to • the close of 1845, no
less a sum than £125,667 9s. 3d.
It has been said that the late Mr. Grenville possessed
the secret of the authorship of " Junius ;" at least, it was
a question to which he would not speak directly.
There were nine paupers dead in the Mallow workhouse
on Christmas day. The next rate, it is thought, will
amount to five shillings in the pound.
Th I of bakers in Glasgow, this week raised
the 41b. fine loaf is now selling at 10d.

the price of bread .
household ditto 9d.
A female educational institute has been established in
Huddersfield, and no fewer than sixty-three females en-
tered their names as members during the three evenings
that were set apart last week for that purpose.
Sir Francis Wood, Bart., died at his seat near Doncas-
ter, on Thursday. He•was father of the present Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who is now the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood, Bart., M. P. for Halifax.
The Hen. and Rev. G. Spencer, brother of Earl Spencer,
has joined the Order of the Passionist,s, one of the severest
in the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Spencer will be em-
ployed as a missionary in England.
The Birmingham workhouse is full, ant

strong repre

sentations are made tor opening houses of refuge for the
poor. There are now 1630 inmates in the Manchester
workhouse, a greater number than was ever known.
On Saturday week, a woman was burnt to death at
Southwark. She had fallen asleep before the fire, when
her clothes became ignited and the house was almost

The will of Z. Massa Aisager, late city correspondent
to the Times, has just been proved. His share in the,
Times newspaper has been left to his son, Thomas Hicks
Alsager.

CONVERSIONS TO ROME.—The Rev. H. M. Walker,
of Oriel College, Oxford, and the Rev. E. Laing, of
Queen's College, Cambridge, have made their public
profession of the Roman Catholic Faith.
Mr. T. C. Foster is at present publishing a series of
letters, in the Morning Post, on the subject of marriages
—44-b - d wife's sister. The first appeared on

Tuesday

VORACITY OF THE RAT.—A few days ago a sow be-
longing to Mr. John Barnes, farmer, near Leach-hall,
Woodplumpton, farrowed seven pigs, the whole of which
were destroyed by rats the following morning.
GREEN PEAS IN JANTT A Tr, - • -
imported from Holland

-.taw, green peas,
autt warranted by the venders
le same flavour and quality as when gathered
of summer, were being sold in the streets
of the metropolis at 6d. the quart.
Awolf was shot at PeAL-hArn TI-

to possess t
in the midd

awl is supposed to have escaped from some
travelling menagerie. Near its place of refuge a number
of cats' skins were found, as if it had fed on the tabbies
of the neighbourhood.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—At Newquay, on Friday last, a
lad, six years of age, son of Capt. Champion, of Treloggan
Mine, in getting out of bed, hitched his foot in the bed-
clothes, fell on the floor, and broke his thigh above the
knee.--West Briton.

At an educationalmeeting in Exeter, a few days since,
of dissenting clergymen from most of the towns_in the

county, the- question of accepting government aid was
discussed with much earnestness, and, on the whole, the
feeling seemed to lie in favour of accepting, but the ques-
tion was adjourned.
On Thursday, a pigeon flying
- _

London pigeon fanciers. There were tateen competitors
'for the prize, each flying one pigeon. The starting place
was Southampton, where the pigeons were thrown up, and
the winning bird flew the distance between that town and
London, 77 miles, in one hour and twenty-seven 'minutes.
. A HAPPY REFORMATION.—The London nines states,
under the usual police heading, Guildhall,—" The new
year commenced happily in the western portion of the
city. Not one person was brought for examination from
the station-house in Fleet-street, Smithfield, or Moor-
fields, nor was any charge brought in during thp dnv

..ednesday an Irishmandied in a lodging-house in Stockport, the bare boards
being his only bed.—And, on Wednesday, an inquest was
held on a poor fellow who had died in Horsemonger-lane
farosipnon exge-
caGakOel:
frwohmereshheee
rh awda
want
e. e n
Hcommittedwere rfor stealing
uosure to the frost.
'VI • •

A. plan has been trieu tor nve years past at "sinning-
ham, of binding young offenders to masters, when these
can be found to receive apprentices from the dock, instead
of committing them to prison. The number of such

had returned to bad courses

had entirely reformed,
test'of time.''