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

THE lOW YEAR.

0, happy may the New Year be—to each bring joy andhliss;
Throughout that year may all our friends know nought but
happiness ;
And stili,as comes to each the thought of what witadone last

year,
The Ccats must needs reeur to mind which thosatood friends
bought here.
And now,, when on the wintry breeze come cold' and, frost and
storm,
When, chilling from the icy blast, shrinks back the shivering
form,
'Tis now the Tailor's matchless skill becomes a thing of note
Those friends in quick succession come to buy an Overcoat.
And many, too, o'er frozen ponds in freedom schoolboys play,
And plass in clothes' destructive games their Christmas holi-
day.
To Joss" EARP'S their parents come those garments to

renew
Whose style can better be than his—wbose cut can be more

true
And far away to distant climes the Emigrants will speed :
Well may the Emigrants, their ships, their captains, too,
succeed
But, ere they leave old Liverpool, to.l. EARP'S Mart they hie :
What Mart, to suit their many wants, can better goods supply?
A blithe New Year for one and all t Whatever fate they see,
If .1. EARP'S wishes are fulfilled, their lot will happy be;
And oft he trusts his many friends in future years to meet,
And sell them many another coat, at No. 3, CH URCH-STRBET.

Tnß GREAT Ranutuc.—The territorial extent of the
United States Republio is nearly ten times as large as
that of Great Britain and France combined ; three times
as large as France, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain,
Portugal, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark together; one-
and-a-half times as large as the Russian empire in
Europe ; one-sixth less only than the area covered by the
59 or 60 empires, states, and republics in Europe ; of
equal extent with the Roman empire, or that of Alexan-
der, neither of which is said to have exceeded 3,000,000
square miles.
BIILWER LYTTON AND lIIS WORKS.—If ever there
was a decided proof of the progress of the present age, it
is that furnished by the intention made public by Messrs.
Routledge and Co. For some time past this firm have
given indisputable assurance to the world of their anxiety
to improve the- taste of the masses, by issuing, almost
daily, works of the highest class in every department of
literature ; but it remained for them to achieve the most
important object they have yet contemplated, in securing
to themselves the right of publishing the deservedly
popular works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, at a price
calculated to secure their entrance into the humblest cot-
tage, and thus enable its inmates, who are not blessed
with Fortune's favours, to derive equal mental profit and
advantage with those to whom the works of this dis-
tinguished writer have hitherto been confined. The price
which they have paid for the right thus secured to them
is immense, no less than £20,000 ; but such was the ap-
preciation by Messrs. Routledge and Co. of the genius
and talent of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and such their
confidence in the mental improvement of the masses, that
they did not for a moment hesitate to avail themselves of
an opportunity so eminently conducive to their great
design. Their experience has taught them that the best
writers are the most sought after ; and, therefore, they
intend immediately to issue the entire works of the first
novelist of modern times in volumes varying from one to
two shillings, each to coital all Miro nonlewficift;
Momper,