The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

THE LITTLE OLD YEAR.

SATURN is in the act of swallowing the youngest of his pro-
geny ! Poor 1834 like a pike in the pouch of a pelican, is ma-
king immense efforts to hap its tail for the last time, befote it
is engulphal in the illimitable maw of its insatiable sire. Its
last luck is pathetically comic, like that of a young frog in
the bill "of'a (tuck. Exit 1832!

The year that is going to go, has brought forth few as re
markabie events, and dealt mere in remarkable promises, than
any of its immediate predecessors. It lived on the reputation
of its father, and if that David of a year, 1831, had not be-
queathed the Reform Bill and the Belgian question to its suc-
cessor, wouldhave had still less of the Solomon about it.
It owed so much to delay, that delay has taken it in execution.
It has been a year of delays; its recoid will be called the little
annual. It has left the Poses as it- found them,
_oppressed and
spirit-broken ; the Northern powers as it found them, inclined,
but not prepared, for war—Germany as it found her, like a
shell with the fuze out, looking as if it would explode if it *could.
Turkey is only were it was, except that matters have, groWn a
little worse with it. What has 1832 done for Belgitim ? Ant-
werp is taken by capitulation, and Belgium by sulprise. Hol-
land has little to thank 183 c for. Prance, with La Vendee,
and the Castles of .thaye, and 1-lam, and an army flushed but
not satisfied with conquest, owes it, nevertheless' a something
which may be called consolidation. In Spain, 1.832- has set up
a liberal WILECII, but has faiied to support her even so long as it
might; and in Portugal it has brought Pedro to Oporto, and
has left him there ; Greece has gained a little King, and .bava-
ria a tittle consequence. In fact, all the events of the year are
little events, and there has been great littleness in the lenthy
protocols, and affectation of neutrality which have brougnt
these events about. 1832 has done little for America, and ha as
probably laid the foundation of a little republic there, indepen-
tienty of the United States; it has wrought England in that
quarter a little loss, as her colonies complain bitterly of the
littleness of her conduct towards them. The only great act
which this year as to record is the Reform Law of .k;ngland,
and that was secured in 1831. Thus far the political character
of the past year.
In Literature, the little has prevailed largely. The sprats
have choked the whale • five farthings will furnish a library
with the productions of 1832. Literature is plenty, but not
-cheap; it is only dispensed in smaller quantitiei than before . this
is one. of the characters of littleness. In the Fine Artslitt.e has
been done; the-stage has exhibited little talent; at the bar, lit-
tle men have been exalted; and little has been dorie by the
church to give a grandeur'and dignity to its almost inevitable
fall. Little, very little, have been the productions of the year,
and we have already exhausted the little that ought to be said
ou the stneet.—Attas.

ZINC MILK-PAILS.—Among the patents recently taken out
in America, one is for aprocess for extracting cream from miik
by the use of zinc. It is said that if Zinc be put into the milk-
pan, or the milk be put into a vessel made of that substance,
the same quantity of milk will yield -a grantor quantity of cream
or butler.— 2 'jai e..ft