The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-22 00:00:00

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POETRY

THE DREAD MESSENGER

'From the Church of England Magazine

aw him pa's hy. while the east wind blew,
:d the vernal bloom from the branches flew."

Where art than not, 0 Death?
Byond the ocean's roar

Thy p stilential breath
th swept the world o'er.
The young. in beauty shine,
Yet !oust they yield to thee ;
Earth's faire-t tlawer's are thine,
ling of mortality !

On Bramah•s golden shore
Is poured thy fiercest ire

Life's last cries upward soar
Amid devouring' fire

And o'er its mountains wild
Thy fatal wings were spread;
When. by his foes beguiled,
The British warrior bled.

Even 'neath Italia's skies
Is seen thy rearle,s hand
Some early sacrifice

Lies in a f 'reign land.
Nor ctiuld the sunlit sky
Of that fair genial clime,
Relume the glas,y eye
\hen came thy blighting time.

The wid,w'd heart must mourn
Some he,ute us hope laid low;
Love's ties t by hat,d bath torn,

h trhicip r of woe !

sha.l thy s,cptre fal.
poll a purer shore

.e severed here shall all
dile, to p..rt no more !

E. B. B

HINTS FOR PEDESTRIANS, PRACTICAL
AND MEDICAL.

(From an unpublished Manuscript, by a Physician of

Liverpool.)

BY MEDICUS

,CONTINUrD FROM OUR LAST.)

that now our friends—we use the plu-
ish it to be understood there must be
of two, three, or four " jolly companions

ral, becau-;e we‘wi
a little k

banded together for the trip, in order that
even one individual may reap the whole benefit of the
tour —supposing, t! en, that all are in full sail now.

every one

passing along the pleasant hedgerow, the rude stone
wall, or crossing some open moorland, singing and shout-
ing as you go along : wewould commend so goodly an exer-
cise for the lungs, whose proportionate expansion calls
forth, and gives new tone to, their elastic tissues,
whereby the blood is more freely received from, and re-
nitted to, the heart ; and, by its more than wonted eon-
`hese channels with the vieifyiny air, it circulates
;ninarting new zest to life; and so

tact in

with a frE

tillit I

of cause and

a few r

rience of it, we advise the having recourse to a method
which tends to distance the risk (f drinking when dry.
At many a mountain rill have we put it in practice, with
confidence in its expediency and good service.

61. Hunger and thirst seem bound together by natu-
ral ties so strong, that it were unnatural to sever them
by any interval of cruel divorce in writing about them •
so we betake ourselves to the few remarks upon Dinner
and Dinner-time, which we have to offer, in all sub-
mission to the feelings, wants, capacities, and habits of
the different classes of society ; all of whom, if setting
out on our pedestrian's pilgrimage, will then and thereby
become obnoxious to the operation of the common laws
of exhaustion, and consequent need for replenishing.
The valetudinarian, the epicure, the fashionable ligant,
the student, the tradesman, will here, after a few hours'
good walking and cheer,ul conversation by the way,
gradually find themselves growing hungry after the turn
of the day; especially if they have, whilst making a
tolerably good breakfast even on our much-commended
cocoa, been still alive to the fact, that it is best to take
" light food before the journey, and more substantial
after;" that is, light refers to quantity, not quality—
the " qualitative and quantitive analysis" of food being a
system of combined scientific research, by general con-
sent reserved for the hour of dining we opine.
It is not well to drive dinner too late. Though cir-
cumstances must often be allowed to have the principal
meal under their sway, rendering dinner hour elastic, yet
where it is practicable the middle of the afternoon, about
three or four o'clock, is best. This may generally be
contrived beforehand, by so planning the day's work as
that some decent " hostelry" may be holding out its in-
viting emblems about this period of your performance ; in
case, however, you shoula be a denizen of some far-off
and barren waste, where the chances of obtaining re-
freshment at all before nightfall are down at zero, then
we presume that your olfactory nerves presciently dis-
covering the same calamitous state of things, wilt adver-
tise you not to leave the last hospita' le auarters without
exercising the sagacious forethought of stowing away
some sandwiches (whether plain meat, or anchovy paste
between respectable folds of bread and butter, as is the
fashion in the present day, deponent saith not.) The
hour we name is a little in advance of our Latin pre-
scriptio❑ lately recited ; and the old Romans who con-
quered this fair land might have chosen to vote for the
arrival of sunset, before proceedi g to such grave eoings
as dinner always supposes : but really we must desert
antique, though illustrious exemplars, when our modern
stomachs grow rebellious, and in hollow ventriloquial
murmurs utter the scholastic adage, " Necessitas non
habet legem ;" (necessity has no law :) especially when
we the stomach have generously undertaken to "get up
the steam" for all the rapid locomotions or the body, and
all the sparkling creations of the brain, you can do no
less than, in order to these ends, duly to cater " fuel" for
our gastronomic boiler !

A dinner of plain animal food is the best, without
many sauces or partaking of made up dishes. The main
part of the day's excursion will have been accomplished,
and only a few miles afterwards should be attempted to
close the day's enjoyment. After the first process of diges-
tion Is pretty well over, usually occupying about an hour
after the repast, the body, ilnotover fatigued, is usually dis-
posed for a little further rambling— if also the party be
in tolerable health—half a dozen miles will be done at
nearly, if not at quite the same smart pace as previously.
Such forms a pleasant division of the day's allotted task,
and is by no means prejudicial.
Whilst matters of a substantial class are occupying
some necessary time in preparing, comfort will be con-
sulted by a grateful solution of the face and hands from
the dust, &c. ; and the recital of a stave out of " C'roker's
Legends of Killarney" will not diminish the appetite of
our travellers whilst the courses are rrmoving, though
that be fast evanishing in the glancing sheen of knives
and forks.

Fa her Cuddy sang for entertainment to his assembled
friends the following, with mirth in his eye and melody

n his tongue

" Clumn pulchra sunt ova
Cum alba et nova
In stabulo suite legit ter,
Et a argery bella
Qum festiva plena!
Pinguts lardi cunt trustis coquuntur

" Ut belles in prato
Apricu et lato
Sub sole tam late renident,
Ova tos a in meosa
Mappa hene extent!
Nitidissima lance coresident.'•

Croker furnishes very kindly a fair and elegant trans-
lation—thus :

" 0 'tis eges are are a treat,
When, so whi e and so sweet.
From under the manger they're taken,
And by fair M-trgery,
Och ! 'tis she's full of glee.
They are fried with tat rashers of bacon."

Just like daisies all spread
O'er a broad sunny mead,
In the sunbeams so beauteously shining,
Are fried ergs well displayed
On a dish. when we've laid
The cloth, and are thinking of dining."