The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

Feb. 8, 1848.

Etterature.

VARIETIES.

The Rabbini teach that "he who goes to bed in anger
yeas the devil for a bedfellow."
Louts PHILIPPE'S RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS EARLY
DAYS.—After the council the king proceeds over the
Tuileries and Louvre, for he likes to visit the ateliers of
of Painters, &c. If he enter into conversation with an ar-
tist whose manners and discourse please him, he tells the
Painter how he sighs on remembering the times when he
walked from one end of Paris to another with an umbrella
nnder his arm. " Ah, my good sir," he will say, " when
I was Duke of Orleans, I could carry my old umbrella as
a walking-stick from one end of Paris to the other,—go
out with a pair of strong old shoes, which had
got the
shape and form of my feet, and gave me ample room and
verge enough ! In such guise and gear I could stare in at
all the print and book-shops, look over the stalls, which
of was a great delight and pleasure to me ; but, being King the French, I cannot do that now. The other day
..lnY people' wanted to prevent a worthy man and a dis-
tinguished magistrate the entree to me, because he carried
ai dritoelid umbrella and was somewhat dirt-bespattered ; but
my people' that those who carried umbrellas,
and whose shoes, hose, and trowsers, were somewhat
Marked with la bone de Paris, were the happiest people
after all. Voila le fait, mon bon Monsieur."—Fraser.
`SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION OF THE BORNESE FOR
MR. BROOKE.—They each bring a portion of the padi-
seed they intend to sow next season, and, with the neck-
laces of the women, which are given to him for that pur-
pose, and which, having been dipped into a mixture pre-
viously prepared, are by him shaken over the little basins
toWinch contain the seed, by which process he is supposed ,
render them verve. Otr whom fro en their distance he capnnotroducti visit, send der
own to shim for
a all piece of white cloth, and a little gold and silver,
which
sae they bury in the earth of their farms, to attain the
wash result. On his entering a village, the women also
the aaadobathe his feet, first with water, and then with
vtadll
ftohristilvve
againf 'Ming cocoa-nut, and afterwards with water
far Preens ater which has touched his person, is
purpose of being distributed on their
twin.oeiaog suPposed to render an abundant harvest cer-
Y 0 served that they of rice lle °ceasien, having remarked that the crops
diatel of the Sandarn tribe were thin, the chief imme-
,hoad never been visitedcould not be otherwise, as they
by the rajah. and he begged of me
try and induce Mr, Brooke to visit them, to remove
the ?uses which had rendered their crop a small one.—
LOW 8 Sarawak.
II"' ENGLAND PROTECTS THE PORTUGUESE.—In
fortugal the queen continues, with marvellous consis-
tencY, to break faith with her people. All the results ex-
pected from the late intervention in her behalf are want-
,ll:lg. The court is accumulating political sins with rapi-
ultY and boldness. It is almost certain that the Cabrals
Will be firmly maintained in power, notwithstanding their
"Popularity with the Portuguese people ; and that every
l'llarantee of constitutional liberty in Portugalwillbne
Iv,ithdrawn. The only fact worth noticing is, that he
‘l`4„:e queen opened the Cortes in person on the 2d inswtant,
the British minister absented himself. The ships of the
British
l squadron were not dressed,. nor were the usual
iSalates fireon the occasion. Thus it alws is with n-
„gin& Her anxiety to preserve peace is so anyotorious,Ethat
unprincipled politicians take advantage of her prudence to
~,..steal all the advantages they might nave gained by war.
we intervene in Portugal to put down the Constitutional
Party upon the condition that their rights shall be re-
sPeeted. No sooner are they disarmed, than those rights
are violated, and we, in our almost prudish horror of war,
!Ild ourselves paralysed, and we cannot take active steps
..,„viedicate our insulted honour. We are powerful in
;',l"Psel, but powerless to protect those who accept our
-"vice. When shall we cease to oscillate between two
Principles ? When shall we resolve either boldly to in-
ervene or firmly to abstain ? Lord Palmerston, at the
Pmill resent moment, stands in an absurd position, because he
not adopt one or the other of these two courses of ac-
hon. In Greece he intermeddles ; in Switzerland, with a
puritanical affectation, he forbids intervention. Is it not
natural, when the French see such opposite principles
acted upon at the same time by the same man, that they
Should charge him, throughout his policy, with no higher
motive than an undiscriminating hostility to France ?
Preser's Magazine.
SEDITIOUS LITERATURE IN IRELAND.—TO those who
know this country well, nothing seems more astonishing
than the ignorance of its actual condition evinced by our
rulers. They seem utterly unconscious of the materials
of sedition that are accumulating around us, or of the
badof the sanguinary enthusiasts of Repeal to stir up
°ad blood, and to keep alive national discord. We some
time since called our readers' attention to a series of pub-
lications, entitled " The National Library for Ireland,"
and great was the astonishment and indignation excited
by the evidences these afforded of a systematic design to
anize the for a general insurrection. We have
!lad occasion too wade through much of the seditious writ-
!l'g which preceded the outbreak of Ninety-eight, and we
4.liherately aver, that it was loyalty itself, in comparis.on
With the effusions which now pass unpunished, and which
re circulating through the length and the breadth of the
tn• In these, as our readers may have seen, every sea-
e',.ta..ent which should animate a good subject is outraged—
ti;a."Y Principle which should guide and actuate an honest
gianeelean; d a Christian, is set at nought. The oath of gle-
an uni;se scafed at in open. and wicked mockery and scorn ;
the pm ?ea risin
g against the English government, when
the traitors —et °Alia' to it, is enjoined as a solemn duty ;
or in the °f Ninety-eight, who perished on the scaffold,
Martyrs-. field, are deplored as patriots, and exalted ars
overt], , the introduction of-w French force, to aid in
logisecPwing the English authority, is advocated and. en-
, ; assassination is openly recommended—there. is
Pra'slll,,alne,ing the matter. Michael Reynolds is loudly
holds 4, because he offered to assassinate Thomas Rey.-
ae celebrated informer; and Samuel Neilson is
e,lv--Or censured, because, When an opportunity preTent-
p'Oself, he did not stab through the heart ! All this, in
andtications levelled to the capacity of the lowest vulgar,
am circulating not by tens, but by hundreds of thousands,
parchl the
influence of which is not confined to the actual
te Xasers, immensely numerous as they are, but extends
al,''lbthose who flock together to hear them read, as they
eve I' thoroughlvdrilled and disciplined incendiaries, in
I'4! munty-town and village in Ireland ! Thus it is that
eunTn is fashioned into primers, and sedition converted
''P°ol3-meat for the elevcfs in the new schools of nor.
the etditiiori
zile agitation. The writers of them are no common men.
in s powers beyond those of most ordinary traders
; and evidently could write so as not to offend
not to BLe Of a higher class of readers, if their object was
Whc,,,;tbraake an impression on the lowest classes, upon
for the
in the ---ceo rough and the bloody work must chiefly devoilin
gives a „ Ing revolutionary contest. This it w
Peen early significancy to these political 1"
tracts
dislotulles,n
" by means of which the most rancorous
treasYaltY has found a tone, and the foulest forms of
Dublin I).ave
becomebe " hodlehold words" in Ireland.—
cuu,pnii ag
often surprisedELIGIOIIS LITERATURE WANTED.—It hasd
. us that many of those who are zealous and
to bestosincere w
efforts t en. efforts to evangelise society, never seem
evil, a Passing thought on this growing and fatal
an evil which may not improperly be called the "root
rleaa thousand of others." It is nothing uncommon toe
,sr those whose high office it is to watch over the mo-
rals religion of societ whose duty it is to exemplify
autittheir lives and conversations the principles of Christi-
na., say, when this subject is talked of, Oh !we have
tiLreeligious magazines ; we are aware of the moral pes-
ne, but what can we do ? If people choose, they
t.,7lYe Plenty of good reading in these. We have provided
~1S remedy for the evil, and we can do no more." This partl true. own Y Religious magazines are excellent in their
pa,.,..waY and in their own place. But, pray, who are the
ireleS who read them Do they consist of that class of
ty who repair weekly to the periodical shops to prof
;their hebdomadal supply of mental provision ? In
4aq instances this may be the case, but there is less to
tear from those who are thus to a certain extent fortified
4,,a religious panoply, and their minds somewhat imbued
1...,"" the Christian principles which these magazines con-
than from that class who never see a religious peri-
odical, and who, until brought under the influence of
~'llristianity by other means, will never take such a pub-
4,cation in their hands, or, if they do will go no farther
• than the title-page, and throw it aside. Unfortunately,
00, all denominational magazines, from their very nature,
ranst partake more or less of a party character, frequently
enter into keen controversy, and give vent to a sectarian
iBPirit. Many of those at present in circulation are excel-
. lent i their own sphere ; perhaps the public were never
at an4revious time better supplied with reading of the
kind which they contain, but they are rarely read beyond
' the circle for which they are especially written. Though
teeny of their articles may be catholic in their nature, yet
the magazine as a whole is not, and is in consequence
necessarily circumscribed in its circulation. What is
wanted at the present time is the encouragement of a
• Cheap literature which will provide information on secu-
lar subjects, of a popular, useful, entertaining, and, it may
e, of an amusing character, but which will not shrink
from an avowal of the broad principles of Christianity on
„" Proper occasions, and which, while it contains nothing
sectarian or which would offend the most fastidious party-
;all, will be of such a nature as will render it welcome
;ad useful to all. It may be said that literature of an
aln.nsi,ng and entertaining kind is sufficiently abundant
along ; this is no doubt true, but the great evil is, that,
ah"g with that which amuses and entertains, there is an
oorPalliag amount of what is decidedly worthless, irreli-
11s, and vicious, and nothing of a solid and beneficial
d!ed, such as will comfort the soul amidst the throes of
11;:alving nature and direct its flight to a better land.—
gg'S Weekly Instructor [a periodical such as recom-
-lended].
(taint NFLUENCE OF ASSOClATlONS.—Associations are
..,;;tY the poetry of life. They are the silver link by
it en one thing carries over its sweetness, and one period
enslacredness, to another. They are at once our cheapest
iii lif choicest joys ; throw them the simplest pleasure.
100,,,e.and, like the waters of that mysterious mineral
thel, tey'll enfold it in a web of crystal. They are
Plea: des of all our virtues, strewing a thousand little
The ures over the dullest surface' of domestic drudgery.
ties
the pleaders for all that is generous and humane,
cane:leg and restraining in matters which seem too
their
Pls, and religion too solemn. Those who feel not
he,tentillence, or want not their help, must be very
ss and depraved, or, what is rarer, very, very. happy.
tile. for all this, delightful, precious, and humanising as
have 7 are, who has not known the time when associations
tt been
very much in the way,-when we have felt
il.l:etn to be like old servants—very dear, but very great
of not
too Who has not experienced the inconvenience
not betbeing able to stir hand or foot for fear of them—of
ture, 12g allowed to banish an awkward piece of furni-
above ;I? Pull down an ivy-grown, smoky chimney, or,
Dan_ ~au, to cut down a tree, without being twitched and
41,21"1 more violently than we should like to confess, and
ydien we had got our own way in spite of them, being
heartily Miserable for it afterwards ?—Fraser.