The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

—Dublin University Magazine,

The dress foxhunter is a
watering-places chiefly,
hunt has one or more of such cattle. They
id blockheads, always

THE DRESS FOXHUN
bore. These

y, rattli

or showing off before women. They are ge-
.y great swells—everything of the newest and most
proved pattern, from the bottom of their hats to the
spur at their hr They mostly come up at the last
t I Moment -ter has exhausted h'

and Sons

. .
Is, unless these men get dirtied in coming to covert, there
is little chance of their getting so after, for, if they stay
the " find" they are off at the first check, vowing that all
chance of sport is over, and venting, anathemas at a pig,
a post, or a ploughman. Then see them on the
pave among the ladies, how they strut, how they swagger,
how they ring their bright spurs upon the flags, and what
lies they tell about leaping! Magistrates ought to have
jurisdiction over these fellows.—Sporting Magazine.
SELF-MADE MEN.—Columbus was a weaver. Franklin
was a journeyman printer. Massillon, as well as
Fletcher, arose amidst the humblest vocations. Nieb-
huar was a peasant. Sixtus V. was employed in keeping
swine. Rollin was the son of a cutler. Ferguson and
Burns, Scottish poets, were shepherds. JESOp was a I AN ORIENTAL'S OPINION OF ENGLISH DANCING.
slave. Homer was a beggar. Daniel Defoe was ap- His first
impressions on English dancing are perfectly
prenticed to a hosier. Demosthenes was the son of a unique in their way, and we can only do justice to them
cutler. Hogarth was an engraver of pewter-pots. Virgil by quoting them at length. "Itis so entirely unlike any
was the son of a baker. Gay was an apprentice to a silk I thing we ever heard of in Hindustan, that I cannot refrain
mercer. Ben Johnson was a bricklayer. Porson was from giving a slight sketch of what I saw. In the first
the son of a parish clerk. Prideaux was emploped to place, the company could not have been fewer than 1,500
sweep Exeter College. Akenside was the son of a or 2,000, of the highest classes of
society, the ministers,
Of the inland lakes, which abound in all parts of the butcher. Pope was the son of a merchant. Cervantes the nobles, and the wealthy, with their wives and daugh-
sh, this is, in every respect, the most important. It was a common soldier. Gifford and Bloomfield were ters. Several hundreds stood up, every gentleman with a
the lower, part of the entire valley which divides Sunart shoemakers. Howard was apprenticed to a grocer. I lady; and they advanced and retired several times, hold-
Moidart. is computed at twenty.five to twenty-seven Halley was the son of a soap-boiler. Richard Arkwright ing each other by the hand, to the sound of the music :at
sin length, varies from 200 yards to three-quarters of was a barber for a number of years. Belzoni was the last the circle they had formed broke up, some running off
Ale in breadth, but in the greater part from a quarter son of a barber. Blackstone was the son of a linen- to the right, and some to the left—then a gentleman.
calf a-mile. At its west end, it is shallower, and re- draper. Blacklock was in a distressful state of poverty• leaving his lady, would strike out obliquely across the
;es on a bed of fine sand (as do the great moss flats Buchanan was a private soldier. Butler was the son of a I room, sometimes making direct for another lady at a dis-
itiguous,) similar to that of the sea-shore, about two farmer. Canova was the son of a stone-cutter. Catha- tance, and sometimes stooping and flourishing with his
es distant. About six miles to the eastward, it becomes rine ,the First of Russia was born a peasant. Captain legs as he went along : when he approached her, he made
and, from the character of the country, retains, it Cook began his career in the: merchant service as a a sort of salaam, and then retreated. Another would go
p, and,
great depth on to its eastern end. Its water cabin boy. Curran was the son of poor parents. Sir softly up to a lady, and then suddenly seizing her by the
the usual dark-brown colour of lakes sirniliarly situa- Humphrey Davy was the son of a carver. Dodsley was waist, would turn and twist her round and round some
•- Near and pellucid in a glass vessel, pure and a stocking weaver. Drake was the son of a shepherd. fifty times, till both were evidently giddy with them u-
-'re. Its elevation above the sea cannot Hunter was apprenticed to a carpenter. Falconer was the
don; this was sometimes performed by a few chosen
-- which it flows into the Western son of a barber. Iladyn was the son of a poor cart- ancers, and sometimes by several hundreds at once--all
•-- great drought, fore pen wright. Herschel was the son of a musician. Johnson embracing each other in what, to our notions, would seem
~ in was the son of a bookseller. Lawrence was the son of an
,:harges : rather an odd sort of way, and whirling round and round ;
a ''on innkeeper. La Fontaine was the son of an overseer of
Parkestaught tact with each other a collision never took place. And
son of a small grocer. and though their feet appeared constantly coming in con_
alie into Locheil, a nch of woods and forests. Milton wasraizsacrhrooolwmaas nsteerv.er
those who met in this affectionate manner were, as I was
z,
but employed to keen hogs. Pollok told, for the most part perfect strangers to each other,
' -n
•-r. Allan Ramsay was the son which to me was incomprehensible ! Several ladies asked
.f r rwasant. Richard- me to dance with them, but I excused myself by saying
•mmenced his that their dancing was so superlatively beautiful that it was

just as the mast.._ ..is patience in
and are generally cased in some new-fangled con-
trivance for keeping that clean which was put on to be
dirtied—at least, such is the presumption ; but the fact

and the most 'darin

s statistica'

solely by heath

lbjects pointed out

i men th

s supplied, bearing on its ancient
hits and desperate conflicts of the
ks. The lochs (or lakes), some of
salt water, with their surrounding
leaded mountains, at the bases of

anny valleys or ravines, are intc-
I induce a desire in the reader to
beautiful, and generally ma
estern Highlands. We give as a
deseiiption of " Loch Shiel," in

Dllowin

muichan (in which it is said

Tn.end

siderable
oogh the
:Linneii
'The cite

t discharges its waters,
--oPs lope

stream a few in

stance of this lake almost connecting the ; to

n into which the Caled(

r western o

attracted the noti

of Mr. Telford, and is
g the Caledonian Canal. T

a; canal. buiC

—Blacktvo

s contrary to ou:
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