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

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oop of those men who
—Charles

would erect their altar on the ruins of sac]

Phillips

UTILITY OF HATS

heltering th
A of t

—Hats, besides being serviceable in
serving as in-

of thei

are also useful for transport
another. Some men have a great disinclination to stuff
their pockets with articles, lest they'should thereby de-
stroy the neat contour of their dress ; they therefore fre-
quently transfer a few things from the pocket to the hat.
There is again another class of persons who seem to re-
gard their hat as their pocket. They are, like other men,
blessed with the same number of pockets, but with a sin-
gular perversity they cram every thing into their I '
Give them a letter,

from one plac

r any other

newFpaper, or pa

The uses to wt

invariably

merabl

rich the hat is pu

Ts mak

arry samples of ' strong waters

Bible use

the junior members o
pervert the hat from its natural and ost
the owner of the hat is a divinity student, it is sure to b
stuffed with moral essays and skeleton sermons; or it will
w 1• L -

ne ..-
with fierce controversial pamphlets regarding this or the
other heresy, which has set all the old women of both
sexes a quaking. If it belongs to a disciple of Esculapius,

it will be filled with notes—not bank notes, but notes on
chemistry or botany, together with sundry strange and un-
earthly-looking instruments, specimens, and preparations,
with probably a brown paper filled with still b"
looking bones. A lawyer's hat has no sinecur-
generally stuffed to bursting with all sorts of lel

;lents, hornings, captions, and such like potent papers,
all ready to fire off at the head of some unfortunate cal-
tiff. However empty the young man's head may be of
law, his hat is full of it. You may know a lawyer's clerk
at once by looking at his hat. It is filled with all sorts of
deadly documents, which render it quite a load for the
poor head. See how steadily he walks. He is top-heavy.
Mark how stiff and erect he carries hie head—' Eyes
front.' He dare hardly look either to the right hand or

that the enemy were
; second line of French
p, and assailing Over-
by success, and lit-
aer struggle, overthrew them without
them back in great confusion, and almost
le in that quarter. The danger was im.
victorious French horse, having cleared
)onents, would wheel about to the left for fear ofdisj.turbing the equilibrium of his hat
~vvelve battalions who were If it is a windy day, the unfortunate man is sorely to be
attack on Ramilies. Marna°. pitied ;he seems to regard every gust of wind with per-
- and putting himself at the fect terror ; and no wonder, for if his hat is blown off, its
.1, himself led them on precious burden will be scattered to the four winds of
- I,pnven. He therefore clenches his teeth, and claps both

and of their opP

k in rear

the
ith the

the da

of

pry disposable sabre to his hands over his hat, and walks, or ratner runs, uo
tmost expedition. The gedly forward, determined at all hazards to keep on hi.
but the admirable intre- hat.—Hogo's Weekly Instructor.
he English general re- THE STAGE SUPERNUMERARY.—There is not in th,

gon the reserve of the whole range of dramatic character a more striking in-
lantry, under a dreadful stance of the weakness of theatrical human nature than
to heights behind Ra- is presented by the supernumarary, whose career, from
French troopers, with the last bar of the overture to the speaking of the " tag,"
e time of Charles H., is one continued source of feeble-minded vacillation, ab-
They had well-nigh ject subservience, or abominable treachery. He is led
....ded in surrounding the away by a bit of bombast from any ranting hero who will
up to the rescue, and he askhim if he is a man, or a Briton, or a Roman, or whe
-
.

ed in a

... vs assailants oy ther the blood of his ancestors runs taroug II IM IeI:MUM
__ ~,ie knights of old, sword in veins; and he will agree at a moment's notice to take part
,d to leap a ditch, but his horse fell in in any desperate enterprise. He will appear at one mo-
when mounting another horse, given went as the friend of freedom, dressed in green baize,
le-camp, Captain Molesworth, Colonel i pointing with a property sword to the sky borders. and
-y, who held the stirrup, had his head joining some twenty others in an oath to rid his country
'non ball. The imminent danger of of the tyrant ; but he will be found five minutes after-
I, however, revived the spirit of his wards rigged out in cotton velvet as a noble in the very
Nti ful severity of the cannonade had, identical tyrant's suite. He will swear allegiance to the
wn into disorder ; and, reforming House of Hapsburgh at Half-past seven, and, by the time
' again returned with desperate re- the second price comes in, l' ' will be marching as one of
Blackwood. - .frien," freed who ho- ke

self Iron

way out, I

a select party of the .. ..is or . _ (rave ta.
RAILWAYS AS AN INVESTMENT.—Apart from all cur- an oath to roll the House of Hapsburgh in the dust.
rency sophisms, it is obvious that no capital is sunk or. Perhaps. like a perfidious villain as he is, he will be car-
lost that yields a remunerative return. When a fund- rying a banner inscribed with the words, " Down with
holder transfers money from the Three per Cents. to an the oppressor," on ore side, while on the other, which he
estate which produces a rental of 3 per cent., he considers keeps artfully out of sight, in order to hide his treachery
himself as rich as before. If, by good management, he from the audience, are emblazoned the arms of the House
improves that rental to one of 6 per cent., every land- of II apsburgh, of which the alleged oppressor is the chief.
surveyor will tell him that he has doubled the market On the field of battle the conduct of the stage supernu-
s— estate. or, in other words, that he has dou- I merary is contemptible in the extreme, for he either falls
1. So with the shareholder in a public down before he is hit, or takes a mean advantage of a
slue of the property he has bought is go- fallen foe by striking in an attitude, with his foot resting
dend ; if bought at a fair price, the on the chest of one of the vanquished enemy. Sometimes
4 per cent. upon the capital iavested ; the supernumerary gives himself up from seven until ten
and no prospect of any, the to a reckless career of crime, carousing in a canvas cave,
, out if, on the contrary, the or plundering pasteboard caravans, except at intervals
an extent as to pay £8 where during the evening, when, perhaps, to swamp the voice of
::apital of each shareholder has conscience, he drinks half.and-half in the dressing-room
Ye market value of every £lOO with his wicked accomplices. The face of the supernu-
'aw it is a singular, because merary generally shows the traces of a long careerof crime
of railway enterprise, and burnt cork •, nor is there a feature upon which remorse
an unloo..
considering the extravab Apenditure of some of the or rouge has not committed ravages. He frequently has
old companies, that there is not a line yet constructed his arms and legs bare ; but, asifhebatodosllairrug nekfowrihtimhin,
which does not hold out a prospect, from its continually himself, his skin or
fleshing is frequently
increasing traffic, of ultimately paying much more than 4 and forms folds of a most extraordinary kind at the joints
per cent., although there are at the present moment seve- of his knees or elbows,. Sometimes his chest is left bare,
ral lines paying less than 2 per cent. We shall show this and his skin, as far as his neck, appears to be of a rich
Blackwell,
as an especial example, in the case of the orange colour; but the throat, which is cut off, as it were,
Blackwell, the stock of which is more depreciated in the by a distinct line, is of a different shade altogether. Some.
market than any other ; but the following pay a dividend times, when the scene is laid in India, the supernumerary
of 10 per cent.:—
has his skin tied on to him, from which it would seem to
' be a theatrical theory that the darkness of colour peculiar
to -

n a can

to the c

value of t'

the dtvit

vernec

Capital expended

... £2,597,317 to .the negro race is owin;i, -a ae use of leggings and
. 1,774,331 waistcoats of black worsted. The stage supernumerary
6,997.065 is something like the antelope in his facility of descend-
- . .... 1,279,951 ing precipices, and he will make his way with the greatest
----- ease among rocks that appear inaccessible. He will come
12,648,664 from the very highest mountain-pass in two or three mi-
The
aggregate dividend of these companies amounts to notes, and he undertakes needless difficulty by going a
£1,264,866, and the value of their stock is ascertained by roundabout way and traversing the same ground several
multiplying this sum by twenty-five years' purchase. times over ; though he knows that the remotest peak is.
Here, then, are four companies that within a few years not a minute's walk from the footlights. Though the
have increased the capital of the country to the extent of stage supernumerary is frequently a ruffian while upon
£18,972,986—the difference between the former value of the scene, he is exceedingly harmless and humble directly
their atoeh and the present, which is £31,621,650. In he gets to the wing, when he is glad to creep into any
considering this, however, as a part of the national capi- quiet corner to avoidibeing ordered out of the way by the
tal, we should deduct from it whatever slim may have prompter, tumbled over by the call-boy, and knocked
been lost by the depreciation of inn and coach property, down with a blow from a flat by one or two of the car-
on the old post roads.—Westminsfer Review. penters.—Cruikshank's Table-book.

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