The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

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GAS CHANDELIERS.—There is no article of manufacture in
which so many improvements have been made of late as in
chandeliers suitable for gas. The increased use of gas (in con-
sequence of its advrntages becoming daily better known) has
led to great changes in the character of the patterns, and ma-
nifest improvements in the style of workmanship. A vast
variety of all kinds, from the plain pendant to the most orna-
mental chandelier, may be inspected in the large show-room, at
W. Penn Smith's gas fitting works, 26 and 28, Hanover-street,
near the bottom of Duke-street.

THE OPIUM-EATING OF THE POOR.—And so day by
day, nearer and nearer, came the diseased thoughts of
John Borton. They excluded the light of heaven, the
cheering sounds of earth. They were preparing his
death. It is true, much of their morbid power might be
ascribed to opium. But before you blame too harshly
this use, or rather abuse, try a hopeless life, with daily
cravings of the body for food. Try, not alone being
without hope yourself, but seeing all around you reduced
to the same despair, arising from the same circumstances ;
all around you telling (though they use no words or lan-
ua ge), by their looks and feeble actions, that they are
suffering and sinking under the pressure of want. Would
you not be glad to forget life and its burdens ? And
opium gives forgetfulness for a time. It is true they who
thus purchase it pay dearly for their oblivion; but who
can expect the uneducated to count the cost of their
whistle? Poor wretches. They pay a heavy price.
Days of oppressive weariness and languour, whose realities
have the feeble sickliness of dreams ; nights,
dreams are fierce realities of agony ; sinking health

worse, the "c

„, frames, incipient madness
sciousness of incipient madness ; this is the price of
whistle. •But have you taught them the_science of

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GENERAL TRADE REPORT,

MONDAY EVENING

We have experienced another prosperous week ; cot-
ton is dearer, bread is cheaper, and there is plenty of
both. Shares are steady ; Consols closed higher for
the week ending Saturday; and although business is dull
at Vienna, and there has been an outbreak at Rome, the
funds are steadily advancing at Amsterdam, Frankfort,
Hamburgh, and Berlin.
The Times this morning publishes a letter in which the
-s blamed, and we

think with truth, as the cause of much of the financial
disorganization under which the country so frequently
labours, when any extensive schemes are in progress con-
nected with the development of railway speculations.
After alluding to the fact that the politico-aristocratical
institutions of the country have undergone reform
without abolishing the inst

contends that
arisen to whirl

_cutions themselves, the letter
)me commercial aristocracies have also
he pruning knife might wisely be applied.

"This has arisen in newly-formed bodies, chiefly from the
governing body framing its own act of Parliament or deed
the case may be, and thus giving themselves just the
of power they may think agreeable or convenient

quence is thit there is a constant struggle going on netween
the of polloi and the *i oligoi, so that a mere bystander would
be led to suppose that the interests of the two parties con-
cerned in the undertaken were diametrically opposed. Where
these traditionary and high Tory notions of government pre-
vail, to ask for information respecting details or management,

is resented as E
`Board.' And

and the wasteful
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risen the Jobbing, the

which must always everywhere

in all this Brother Jonathan has the advantage over
rcial nation, continue in the old
t us at every point where we are
ught into competitiim with him, Jonathan's first maxim
to take as little upon trust as is consistent with the neces-
rairs of life, and as a consequence that
y ought to be ready always to give an
him"

will assuredly Is

reworking of th,

this week have been very la

to purchase most extensi
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in every thing

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the daily
_sales have

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