The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

LOCAL LITERATURE.

Punch in Liverpool. Illustrated with Woodcuts by
Straightshanks, Fiz, and other celebrated Artists.
4to, pp. 16.

The second number of the observations of this racy
local philosopher is, if possible, superior in wisdom and
comicality to the first specimen, and beats hollow those
of his great metropolitan progenitor. As journalists, we
are amazed at the extent and varied nature of the infor-
mation which Punch continues to pick up, from what
sources it is quite beyond our power to guess. We give
a few select'ons

EFFECTS UPON. LITERATURE OF THE PROGRESS OF
THE NEW LAW COURTS.—The rapid progress making
in the erection of these buildings is creating great excite-
ment amongst the lovers of mural literature. The num-
ber of bills done in this locality is. at present very great;
and when the boards are swept away from around the im-
provements in the neighbourhood of the New Haymarket
and Lime-street, and the Old Infirmary-wall is taken
down, the reading public, it is to be feared, will be seri-
ously inconvenienced, and the purveyors of amusement
for the million have to go out of town to post their let-
ters. The members of the police force in this quarter
are seriously afraid that in a short time they will have to
devote their leisure to less interesting pursuits than the
perusal of posters, and are petitioning to be removed to
the neighbourhood of the cutting-shops.
THE LATE LEGAL CHANGES.—Punch assures the
world that it is not true that the office of Chief Baron of
the Exchequer was offered to our excellent and learned
Stipendiary Magistrate, previously to its acceptance by
the late Attlrney-General ; or that the Commissioner of
Police had an eye upon the to-be-vacated stipendiaryship.
He is quite at a loss to know how the report could possi-
bly get abroad, considering the known want of discern-
ment displayed by Government in all their legal appoint-
ments.

A LAW FOR TILE PREVENTION OF DUELLING.--
Punch offers the following as a substitute for " the law
of the pistol." Let the belligerents, who long to he
popped at by each other, be blindfolded and made to
walk down any of the streets in the neighbourhood of
Harrington-street, "Mathew-street, Temple-court, &c.,
during business hours. If they escape being popped
down a cellar-hole, with a bale of cotton or a barrel upon
their loins, or jammed between two carts, they will be
lucky dogs.

PUNCH'S DICTIONARY FOR THE PRESS.
" Exclusive Reports."—Reports furnished to two or
three papers in the same town, and on the same day, and
claimed by each as " from our correspondent." They
are written on manifold paper, to ensure their being all
alike exclusive.
" Our own Reporler."—Anybody's reporter ; a gen-
tleman who sometimes fishes days and weeks for `• im-
portant" news without getting a nibble, and dines very
irregularly in consequence.
" The Editor."—A singular person of the plural num-
ber, who is licensed, along with Royalty, to use the pro-
noun WE when expressing the result of his cogitations.
As he is often incog. (in imitation of some eminent lite-
rary men, including Junius, the Great Unknown, and
Punch), it is thought that it was of him that it was writ-
ten, " Stat nominis umbra."

" The Sub-Editor."—lt has been suggested that this
ought to be written " snub-editor," having so frequently
to father, and be snubbed for, the errors of his superior
officer. He is generally cutting, and abbreviates very
much. He may, in fact, be called a condensing machine.