The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

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WANTS' A SITUATION AS GAMEKEEPER.-A steady
young man, who has just left his situation as a railway di-
rector, in.consequence of the panic causing a reduction in
the provisional committee establishment. He can have a
three week's character from his last line, of which he was
deputy-chairman. He is up to every kind of prne, and
has a good deal of experience in looking after stags for the
last three months.—Punch. _

DREAMERS AND DOERS..---There is a morbid yearning
after distinction, a vain thirsting after 6me which desires
and does not—which sits still and dreams, without forti-
tude to endure the required discipline, or courage:to brave
the siege. An idle longing to do some great work, must
not be mistaken for true passion in that direction ; nor a
Querulous fretting against what cowardice may describe as
unfavourable circumktances. One man sits on the bank
to wait till the stream of erents shall take a turn adapted
to his wishes. "Labitur et labeter per omne volubilis
tevum." For him there his_no hope. Another makes

events—forges weapons out of the very obstacles that lie
in his path. Stand he will not; better be struck down
than lie down ; go forward he must. The indolent look
up and gaze in amazement on results which they attribute
to the good-luck of a rival. We should never have heard
of a Ferguson or a Davy, if the one had waited for a tele-
scope, and the other for a labratory ? but astronomical ob-
servations, made with a string of beads, and experiments
tried with an old French syringe for an air-pump, were
beginnings pregnant with promise. Uufortunately for the
lovers of indulgence, who still pine to be conspicuous, man
is not like the eastern diety described by Coleridge—

Who floats upon a lotus leaf;
Dreams fora thousand ages' then. awaking,
Creates a world—and, smiling at the bubble,
Relapses into bliss.
True it is, that "our little life is rounded with a sleep,"
but not, as some persons seem to think, at both ends of it.
—British Quarterly Review, November, 1845.
ENGLISH AND Swiss DWELLINGS.—In the landscapes
of other countries, the house—the habitation of man—be
it farm-house or cottage—gathers, so to speak, some of
the country about itself—makes itself the centre of sn,ne
circle, however small. Not so in Switzerland. The
hooded chalet, which even in summer speaks so plainly of
winter, and stands ever prepared with its low drooping
roof to shelter its eyes and ears from the snow and wind
—these dot the landscape most charmingly, but yet are
lost in it • they form no group, no central point in the
scene. lam thinking more particularly of the chalets
the Oberland. There is no path apparently between :A!

and the other; the beautiful green verdure lies untrodden
around them. One would say, the inhabitants found their
way to them like birds to their nests. And like enough
to nests they are, both in the elevation at wh ch they are
sometimes perched, and in the manner of their distribu-
tion over the scene. However they got there, people at.
all events are living in them, and the farm and the dairy
are carried up into I know not what altitudes. Those
beautiful little tame cattle, with their short horns, and
long ears, and mouse .coloured skin, with all the agility of
a goat, and all the gentleness of domesticity—you meet
them feeding in places where your mule looks thoughtfully
to his footing. And then follows perhaps a peasant girl
in her picturesque cloak made of the undressed fur of the
gOat, and her round hat of thickly plaited straw, calling
after them in that high sing-song note, which forms the
basis of what is called Swiss music. This cry heard in
the mountains is delightful, the voice is sustained and yet
varied—being varied, it can be sustained the longer—and
the high note pierces far into the distance. As a real cry
of the peasant it is delightful to hear; it is appropriate to
the purpose and the place. But defend my ears against
that imitation of it introduced by young ladies into the
Swiss songs. Swiss music in an English drawing-rcom
—may I escape the infliction ! but the Swiss peasant
chanting across the mountain defiles—may I often again
halt to listen to it !—Blackwood's Mao_ .
DEATH IN THE AIR—INVISIBLE BULLETS—The at-
mosphere which we breathe is composed of 79 parts, by
volume of nitrogen, and 21 parts of oxygen, with a pro-
portion of carbonic acid varying from 4 to 7 parts by
volume in 10,000. Experience has incontrovertibly
proved, that any considerable deviation from this, its
normal or proper constitution, is incompatible with the due
and healthy performance of the functions of animal life.
Any sensible addition of other gases, although they may
be quite inert and harmless in their nature, has invariably
been found to disturb the integrity of the respiratory and
the digestive processes. If such gases, also, possess per-
nicious and poisonous qualities, of course the injury to
the vital functions must necessarily be proportionately
greater. Are, then, the gases evolved from the
decomposition of human bodies similar identical
in their composition—with the air we breathe, or
are they dissimilar; and, if dissimilar, are they harm-
in their nature, or deleterious ? The disgusting and
smell teaches us that something in addition to

offensive

the usual components of the atmosphere is present. The
facts which I shall adduce, elucidating their effects on the
animal economy, apart from their known chemical con-
stitution and properties, will most clearly and incontes-
tibly prove, that these oases are by no means innocuous,
but on the contrary, powerfully and virulently poisonous.
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The proximate principles, or the constituents of which
our frame is composed, are for the most part exceedingly
complex as regards their elementary composition.
They are formed in the grand laboratory of nature.
The most skilful chemists have never hitherto succeeded in
producing them by art. They were originally generated,
and their integrity is constantly preserved by a mysterious
something, which we denominate the vital principle, or life
When this conservative power is wanting, when lift

they fall under the dominion of theimmutab!e, the general,
laws governing organic matter, resolve themselves into
simpler compounds, and are arranged, usually, according
to their chemical affinities. The compounds generated
are for the most part gaseous substances, viz., sulpheret-
ted, carburetted, and phosphuretted hydrogen, ammonia
and its hydro-sulphuret, carbonic acid, and sometimes
nitrogen and hydrogen, holding a considerable quantity of

e fatty matter in suspension, or so

a.peculiar vc
Some of these gases when respire

are known, an

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repeatedly been proved, to produce disease and even
deatt."—lnterment and Disinterment.
PROTESTANT UNION.—But admitting that reasons like
these shculd not dissuade from union, an adversary may
ask what good argument is there to recommend it—what
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hope have we to offer that union will bring us good. We
should rather make history the vehicle of such instruction
than assume to ourselves the office of imparting it. For
the advantages of union we would refer to the history of
Ulster at the close of the last century—we would refer to
the success attendant on the institution of Conservative
clubs in times much more recent. Evil as are the days
on which we have fallen, those through whir;h our ances-
tors struggled were more calamitous, and that they did
not perish in them was, humanly speaking, ascribable to
the protection which they found in union. Menaced, as-
saulted, oppressed, as the loyal Protestants were in va-
rious parts of Ulster, where Defenders and united Irish-
men almost rivaled each other in atrocities of which good
subjects were the victims, it was not until Protestants
united for their own defence that the government to which
they rendered true allegiance took thought of them. In
those dreary days the loyal Protestants were few. Co-
religionists were against them in one form of organiza-
tion; Roman Catholics in another; and the government
which ought to have offered them protection was negli-
gent or ignorant of its duty. It seemed to be a time in
which the land was abandoned to the turbulent and daring,
and in which the government had abdicated its functions.
It was at such a time, in the most disturbed part of Ire-
land, the much maligned Orange Institution was formed,
and for the benefits derivable from that union, we need
only refer to the state of Ulster before and after its for-
mation. He who compares the Ulster of 1795 (in the
autumn of which the first Orange lodge was instituted)
and of many years preceding, with the Ulster of the last
forty-eight years, dating from the period at which the

Orange-affiliation was completed, Will scarcely ask what
benefits may be found in union. The advantages we be-
lieve, are not less manifest as they were exhibited in the
later Conservative associations. We need not allude to
the Carlton Club. as one form in which such unions proved
their efficiency, by putting out of power the ministry over
which Mr. O'Connell bore sway, to replace it by another
which, for want of an efficient Protestant union, seems
lapsing into a state of subserviency to the same•influence
and dictation. In a word, Protestant union in the last
century saved Ireland, through God's blessing, from anar-
chy and devastation ; recently Protestant union delivered
the empire from the O'Connell-Melbourne administra-
tion, and now, owing to the want of Protestant union, the
Peel cabinet seems to show itself bent on carrying out, in
its most offensive details, the policy of the government it
superseded .—Dublin Magazine.