The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

SELECTIONS.

CHEVALIER BUNSEN.-4 could not express my sense
'of what Bunsen is, without seeming to be exaggerating;
but I think if you could hear and see him, even for one
half hour, you would understand my feeling towards him.
Be is a man in whom God's graces and gifts are more
united than in any other person whom I ever saw. I
have seen men as holy, as amiable, as able; but I never
knew one who was all three in so.extraordinary a degree,
and combined with a knowledge of things new and old,
sacred and prafane, so rich, so accurate, so profound,
that I never knew it equalled or approached by any man.
—Arnold's Life.
SAGACITY OF THE CAT.—Passing by the back window
of a neighbour's house a short time since, I saw a favour-
ite Tom cat seated on a table near the window, beside a
narrow-necked cream-jug containing milk; no person
was in the kitchen. Be was smelling the milk, and en-
deavouring to reach it with his tongue, but could not ; at
last he inserted one of his forepaws, and withdrew it, the
fur saturated with milk ; after he had licked it clean he
dipped again, and kept repeating the process as long as I
remained observing him, which I did for several minutes,
and then left him to his employment, for I thought he had
well deserved his reward by his ingenuity.—Zoolegist.

INDIAN RUBBER LIFE-BOAT.—A life-boat is now
being constructed on the company's premises (thirty-four
feet length of keel, and twelve breadth of beam), which,
with the exception of the keel and some iron braces, will
be entirely formed of India-rubber and cork planking.
She will weigh but one ton and a half, an ordinary life-
boat weighing three tons ; and it is the opinion of all naval
men and engineers who have seen her, that it will be al-
most impossible to sink her under ordinary circumstances,
and that, when driven on a rock by the action of the
waves, she will rebound like a ball, without fracture. It
is also proposed to use the caoutchouc preparation for an
inner lining between the guns in war vessels, to prevent
the effects of splinters ; for hammock nettings and bul-
warks, to save the crew from canister, grape, &c. ; and for
other useful though less obvious purposes.—Railway Ga-
zette.

IRON IN SHIP-BUILDING.---A singular circumstance
occurred, a short time since, which may be mentioned in
corroboration of the superiority of iron compared with
wooden steam-vessels :—The Pacha iron steamer, 210-
horse power, belonging to the Oriental and Peninsular
Steam Navigation Company, was taken into White's
building slip at Cowes, to have applied to her bottom a
composition for preventing the accumulation of weeds
and barnacles. She was left on the slip, and considered
perfectly secure ; but, after the men had left, she slipped
over on the larboard side, and fell off the slip, a dis-
tance of nine feet—the paddle-wheel coming in violent
contact with the slip piles, injuring the outer ring and
lower arms; yet, strange to say, the vessel and the ma-
chinery were uninjured, save a bruise in one of the iron
plates, which was soon brought to its proper shape again.
The vessel was taken to Portsmouth, and examined by
the authorities, who could discover neither twist or
defect of any description, and the whole expense of repair
has not exceeded £2s.—Mining Journal.
QUAIT.S.—Quails are the most undaunted of the tribe
to which they belong. Partridges have been known to
fall down of sheer fright when forced to cross a narrow
creek of the sea ; the quail, on the other hand, performs
his migratory journeyings with fearless bravery. As they
are courageous, so they are equally quarrelsome, especi-
ally during tae love season, when their contentions often
terminate in mutual destruction. This disposition, from
which arose the Greek adage, ' As quarrelsome as quails
in a cage,' induced the ancients to fight them with each
other as the moderns do game cocks; the conqueror en-
joying quite as much celebrity of its kind as the winner of
the Derby. Indeed, it is told of Augustus that he pun-
ished a prefect of Egypt even with death for buying and
bringing
to his table one of these birds which had acquired
great fame on account of its victories. Sometimes, ac-
cording to Daniel, these combats were performed between
a quail and a man • the quail was put into a large box, and
set in the middle Of a circle traced on the floor; the man
struck it on the head with one finger, or plucked some
feathers from it : if the quail, in deeendinc, itself, did not
pass the limits of the circle, its master won the wager;
but if, in its fury, it transgressed the bounds, then its
worthy antagonist was declared victor. The fighting of
trained quails is still fashionable in China, where heavy
bets are laid on the heads of the respective cematant
The mode of conducting these battles, which are often the
exciting topic of a village, is to pit two highly-fed quails
against each other, and to throw a few grains of seed be-
tween them ; the birds rush upon each other with the ut-
most fury, striking with their bills and heels until one of
them yields. The Chinese, from a notion that the body
of the quail is unusually hot, (` warm as a quail' is a
French proverb), use it for warming their hands in cold
weather—an application which is frequently delineated in
Chinese paintings.—Chambers' Journal.

DESSERTS.—Though the dessert was originally in-
vented in Italy, yet the usaze•was early transplanted into
France. In the works of St. Gelais we find some lines,
in which he sends fresh cherries to a lady on the Ist of
May. How this fruit could be thus early procured with-
out the aid of hot-houses, is difficult to imagine. From
Champier, however, who wrote about 1560, we learn that
the Poitevins sent yearly forced cherries in post to Paris.
The fruit was prematurely ripened by putting lime at the
root of the tree, or watering the roots with warm water.
La Quintinie, the head gardener of Louis XIV., boasts
that he served strawberries for the dessert of his Royal
master at the end of March, green peas in April, and figs
in June. —Fraser's Magazine.
Fortcc OF HABIT.—It is neither so easy a thing, nor so
agreeable a one as men commonly expect, to dispose of
leisure, when they retire from the business of the world.
Their old occupations cling to them, even when they hope
that they have emancipated themselves. Every one
knows the story of a tallow-chandler, who having amassed
a fortune, disposed of his business, and took a house in
the country, not far from London, that he might enjoy
himself. After a few months trial of a holiday lite, he re-
quested permission of his successor to come into town and
assist him on meltini, days. I have heard of one who
kept a retail spirit shop,' and having in like manner re-
tired from trade, used to employ himself by having one
puncheon filled with water, and measuring it off by pints
into another. I have heard also of a butcher in a small
country town, who some little time after he had left off
business, informed his old customers that he meant to kill
a lamb once a week, just for his amusement.—The
Doctor.

TRIALS OF YOUNG RACE HORSES.—It is a very com-
mon thing to find that old horses as they improve in
stoutness, diminish in speed : thus, single-handed, they
are not honest tests of the merits of young ones. To have
a trial which is really to be depended upon, it is requisite
to start two or three young ones, with a horse four years
old or upwards, who has not lost his speed, to make the
running; at the same time, also, it is necessarry that the
latter has recently been running in public—they are found
to vary so much at different times of the year. Before it
is possible to form an accurate estimate of the powers of
a horse, three or four trials must be obtained, and the im-
portant fact established whether his speed or stoutness be
the best. The rock upon which so many persons founder
in trials is baying a slow old horse in the capacity of
schoolmaster—one whose speed is so much reduced that,
at the distance which young ones are tried, be cannot go
fast enough to get them out ; in consequence of which
they win their trials, and are immediately supposed to be
flyers. The best horse to try young ones with, is a speedy
animal who can run but a mile : if his rider have orders
to make the pace as good as be can, he will stretch the
necks of the tyros, and effect some measure that may be
relied upon.—Sporting Review.
POSITION OF THE COMMUNION-TABLE.—The station
of the communion-table is worthy of consideration. Laud
placed it, at Gloucester, and afterwards in every church in
England, upon a raised platform at the east end of the
choir. He, at all times, and his partisans of every age
since, have so stoutly and vociferously pleaded for this
change, " Queen Elizabeth's injunctions," and " the lau-
dable custom of the primitive times," that the plea has
been allowed to pass current without further inquiry ; and
this change has been regarded as the mere restoring of the
Church order of the Reformation, which had been inter.
fered with in the latter years of Elizabeth by the puritan
faction. Q, se is however surprised at finding that both
these pleas prove to be vain and fallacious. The queen's
injunctions specify one place only in the church for the
table, without any definition as to the part of the edifice,
or the quarter of the heavens, and this is " where for-
merly the high altar stood." Nor does this direction so
triumphantly settle the question, as to the east end, as it
may appear to do to the modern reader. A reference to
the polemics of Elizabeth's days, will show that the place
of the hich alter in the church, was one of the points upon
which the Protestant and Papaline parties were engaged
in controversy; and that the former proved unanswera-
bly, from ecclesiastical antiquity, that according to the
laudable custom of the primitive times, the altar stood not
at the east end or the choir, but in the midst of the chan-
cel, the place where it originally stood at Gloucester.—
Churchman's Monthly Review.

DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE TUNISIANS.—The streets
of Tunis are narrow, dirty, filthy, and irregular. When
first I arrived there, I found my way from one place to
another by observing one street to be more crooked than
the other, and the ruins of one house greater than those
of another. The finest buildings in the town are the for-
mer Bey's Gothie palace, and the house of a Mr. Gneco,
a respectable Genoese merchant, and the new British
Consulate. The houses of Tunis, as in all eastern coun-
tries, have flat roofs, and are supplied with cisterns to
collect the rain water, which is by far superior to the
water of Beer-el-Klab, a spring about half a mile from
town. The Tunisians are, at present, poor, owing to
several successive years of bad crops with which their
country has been visited, and to the many extortions
which their ruler practises upon them. Their condition
in 1841 was so bad, that I have actually seen the poor pick
up from the streets leaves of cabbages and herbs, and de-
vour them ; nor was it uncommon to see them pick up
bones out of the rubbish, and gnaw the tittle meat that
by chance may have been left on them. And, under these
circumstances, a new tax (upon straw) has been brought
into existence ! The Mohammedans of Tunis are very
bigoted ; and though their hatred to Christians and Jews
is very great, yet the fear and certainty of punishment, in
case of insult, is sufficient to keep them in order : the
Tunisian Jews, however, are often insulted, especially by
soldiers, without receiving any redress. The Gjama As-
saitona, and Gjamy Sidy Ben-Aroos, are very richly en-
dowed, and are the principal mosques in Tunis. The
Gjama called Assahab-Ettaba, built by the famous Sahab-
Ettaba Josof, is a very fine edifice. He brought pillars
and marble, at a great expense, from Kazareen, and other
ruins which he got polished in Italy, to adorn the interior
of this mosque, which is situated in the suburbs of Bab-
es-Sawekah, and is to this day called by his name. The
spiritual chief is the Bash Mufti, whose influence is very
great. The Tunisians are not free from that " essence of
unhappiness," idleness, to which all their neighbours in
the east are so much addicted. A great part of the day is
generally spent in coffee-houses, where they either tell or
listen to stories.—A Voice from North Africa.
GAS STOVES.—The application of a method of burning
carburetted hydrogen or coal gas, for the production of
artificial heat for warming buildings, is an invention of
rather recent date. The apparatus in which this is ef-
fected is very simple. A metallic ring, pierced on its up.
per side with a great number of holes of very small size,
is connected with a pipe communicating with the gas main,
and is placed within a double drum or cylinder of iron,
raised an inch or two from the floor on small legs : this
double drum is so made, that there is a space between the
inner and outer cylinder of about two inches—and in this
space, near to the bottom, the ring pierced with holes is
fixed. A stop-cock in the pipe connecting the pierced
ring with the gas main shuts off the supply of gas when
the stove is not in use; on opening this cock, and apply-
ing a light to the pierced ring, a brilliant ring of flame is
immediately produced, which soon warms both the inner
and the outer case of the stove by the heat generated dur-
ing the combustion of the carburetted hydrogen gas. The
top of the drum is covered with a large open ventilator, by
which the heated air that passes through the inner cylin-
der is allowed to escape into the room ; but the products
of the combustion, having no means of escape, pass down-
wards from the bottom of the stove into the room. This
having been found exceedingly unwholesome, a plan has
been contrived by which a considerable portion of the pro-
ducts of the combustion are carried off by a pipe inserted
between the two cylinders, which conveys away the gase-
ous products into the open air. A moderate-sized stove
of this description burns from twelve to fifteen cubic feet
of carburetted hydrogen gas per hour ; and this is con-
verted into two new compounds—water and carbonic acid
gas. The quantity of water formed will be 2 6 cubic
inches for each cubic foot of carburetted hydrogen, or
about a pint to a pint and a quarter of water per hour;
and from twelve to fifteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas,
and eight times that quantity of nitrogen, will be the con-
stant products of the combustion. and produce the most
serious deterioration in the quality of the air; but when
these gaseous products are carried off by a chimney, the
loss sustained will be very nearly one-half the total heat
which is produced by the burning of the gas.—Mining
Journal.

DOMESTIC SERVANTS.—The principles which should
regulate the conduct of masters and mistresses towards
their servants are the szme as those which should regulate
the employers of labour generally. But there are some
peculiar circumstances which need to be noticed in the
application of these principles. That, in this case, the
employers and the employed are members of one family
is a circumstance which intensifies the relation. It is a
sad thing for a man to pass the working part of his day
with an exacting, unkind master; but still, if the work-
man returns at evening to a home that is his own, there
is a sense of coming joy and freedom which may support
him throughout the weary hours of labour. But think
what it must be to share one's home with one's oppressor ;
to have no recurring time when one is certain to be free
from those harsh words and unjust censures which are
almost more than blows—aye, even to those whose natures
we are apt to fancy so hardened to rebuke. Imagine the
deadness of heart that must prevail in the poor wretch
who never hears the sweet words of praise or of encou-
ragement. Many masters of families, men living in the
rapid current of the world, who are subject to a variety
of impressions which, in their busy minds, are made and
effaced even in the course of a single day, can with diffi-
culty estimate the force of unkind words upon those
whose monotonous life leaves few opportunities of ef-
facing any unwelcome impression. There is nothing in
which the aid of imagination, that handmaid of charity,
may be more advantageously employed, than in consider-
ing the condition of domestic servants. Let a man en•
deavour to realise it to himself, let him think of its
narrow sphere, of its unvarying nature, and he will be
careful not to throw in, unnecessarily, the trouble even
of a single harsh word, which may make so large a dis-
turbance in the shallow current of a domestic's hopes
and joys. How often, on the contrary, do you find that
masters seem to have no apprehension of the feelings of
those under them, no idea of any duties on their side
beyond " cash payment," whereas the good old patriar-
chal feeling towards your household is one which the
mere introduction of money wages has not by any means
superseded, and which cannot, in fact, be superseded.
You would bear with lenity from a child many things,
for which, in a servant, you can find nothing but the
harshest names. Yet how often are these poor unedu-
cated creatures little better than children ! You talk,
too, of ingratitude from them, when, if you reflect a
little, you would see that they do not understand your
benefits. It is bard enough sometimes to make benefits
sink into men's hearts, even when your good offices are
iclalursetrated by much kindness of words and manner ; but
to expectfor t
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surelyt s smhoosutlduilarteaosonneabalpep,reescpiaete your
care
it is not accompanied with a manifest regard and ciallvi
sympa-
thy.—The Claims of Labour.

POWER OF THE Pool:. LAW COMMISSIONERS.—When
the New Poor Law Bill was discussed in 1834, Lord
Granyille Somerset uttered these remarkable words re-
specting it. " After the passing of this Bill, I think it
will be impossible for any man to say what is and what is
not the law for the relief of the poor." Ilis lordship said
this, we conceive, in reference to those enormous powers
of making " Rules, Orders, and Regulations," for every
union and for every union workhouse in the kingdom,
which the Bill then in progress was about to confer on the
three Commissioners. Had a board or commission been
constituted, as in Belgium, for the purpose of taking care
that the rules laid down by the legiskture should be
strictly enforced, the case would have been widely differ-
ent, and his lordship would not have so expressed him-
self. Lord Abinger (then Sir James Scarlett,) in the de-
bates cn the New Poor Law Bill, used similar language
to that employed by Lord G. Somerset. "I must own"
said he, " that the clause by which the affairs of the poor
are placed in the hands of delegates or commissioners who
are to exist as a sort of central board, appears to me to
establish such an imperion in imperio, that I think the
people of England never will consent to it." Mr. Ed-
ward Buller thus adverted to the extraordinary powers
the New Poor Law Bill was calculated to confer. " I
cannot diL,guiSe from myself that we are about to esta-
blish something approaching to absolute dominion—an
unlimited monarchy where everything will depend upon
the personal character of the parties." It were easy to
multiply quotations of this kind ; but our object in refer-
ring back to the debates of 1834, in reference to this ab-
solute and irresponsible power—power exercised by three
commissioners, but neither exercised nor possessed by the
three estates of the realm—is sufficiently answered. The
act of the present session can scarcely be said to diminish
those powers ; in several respects, which if it were worth
while, we could point out, it has actually increased them.
—Churchman's Monthly Review.

BARGEMEN AND BOATMEN.—We have been requested
by a correspondent to insert the following remarks, to
which we readily accede, feeling commiseration towards
a class of men generally considered the most demoralized
in the whole kingdom. " Having noticed that you, as
well as other editors of influential newspapers, have occa-
sionally in strong language referred to the crimes commit-
ted by watermen, I have no doubt you will kindly admit
the following extract from the last report of the Sabbath
Society, which may tend to benefit a body of men whose
moral and religious improvement has been so long and so
lamentably disregarded. The above report says—' There
is one point to whith we must especially direct our atten-
tion ; it is this: that the poor bargemen and watermen
are excluded as it were from the beneficial operations of
Sir Robert Peel's bill; for if it can be proved that 2,000
stationary population exist in any spot, in a neglected
condition as to moral and religious culture, the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners may afford pecuniary assistance
towards providing a clergyman to instruct then ; but if it
were proved that double that number of that demoralized
migratory class, the watermen, usually on their voyages
frequented any spot, no assistance of any kind is allowed
towards supplying them with a pastor. Surely this is not
right in a country like our own, which owes so much to
commerce. It ought to be noticed in a proper quarter as
an act of injustice towards a useful but neglected body of
British subjects.' "—We shall only remark, that the case
does appear hard, and no doubt the mistake in overlooking
altogether such a demoralised class will in due time be
rectified, by their claims to religious instruction being ef-
ficiently met as well as acknowledged. The Church of
England ought to forget no class of the community ; and we
may rest assured that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
when they have it in their power, will not be unmindful
of the spiritual wants of the most disregarded of all classes.
Great Britain has derived many millions from her internal
commerce, but how few hundred pounds have been ex-
pended on the instruction of the poor men who toil to
promote its extension, and who are, as a body, little better
than the heathen. The great increase of the population
of this country, as 'well as the migratory habits of the
boatmen, prevent the parochial clergy in general paying
attention to this subject, which renders it more necessary
that pastoral superintendence should be expressly pro-
vided for the men employed in our inland navigations.—
Worcester Journal.

NELSON'S MEMORABLE SIGNAL, AND HIS LIEU-
TENANTS.—It may not be generally known to the younger
branches of the naval service, that the responsible and
arduous duties of first lieutenants of our ships, which at
present are invariably performed by the seniors, were,
during the last war, confided to any of these officers at
the discretion of the captains of their respective ships ;
and the immortal Nelson himself, on the morning of the
21st of October, 1805, presented a striking instance of
this discretion The Victory, within a very short time
previously, had two first lieutenants, who were actually
the respective seniors at the time, promoted to the rank
of captain ; and the repeated changes in the person of
the executive officer proving somewhat injurious to that
state of discipline in which the admiral was pleased to
have his ship, his lordship was determined that this duty
should devolve on the junior lieutenant, because his turn
for promotion would be more remote, as his lords-hip still
intended, after his usual practice, to bestow promotion
according to seniority. On the morning of the 21st,
previous to• leading into action, Sir Thomas Hardy re-
quested Lord Nelson to appoint his two senior lieutenants
as captains of the line-of-battle ships, the commanA of
which were vacated by the departure of captains who
held them to attend as witnesses at Sir Robert Calder's
court martial'; but the reply of the hero• was worthy of
his hopes—that he considered the officers of those ships
wera fully adequate to fight them, and he-would not imply
such a want of confidence in them at such a moment;.
and, as to any disappointment of his own lieutenants, he
trusted their anxiety would be allayed when he assured
them it was his intention to make theme 1i post-captaine
when the day was done. Shortly after he commanded
his memorable signal to be made to the fleet, which, we'
are assured by the narrator of the above, was in these
words :—" England confides that every man this day wilt
do his duty." This, however, offering some difficulty in
communicating, from having to spell separately the word
"confides," his lordship's flag lieutenant, then the senior.
of the Victory, suggested that the word " expects" should
be substituted, when it was acceded to, and the signal was
promptly executed. It is- needless to remark, that the
termination of the day prevented the illustrious hero from
performing his promise with respect to his lieutenants,;
and the prediction was onl' fulfilled to the junior, wha•
was doing the duty of first under the above circum—
cumstances, by the admiralty making him a, post-cap-
tain. The three seniors were only made lieutenant,
captains (or masters and commanders), according to the
rank of that day. The officer, who was the senior and,
flag lieutenant of this immortal chief, was made, some
six years subsequent, and,. though fearfully wounded in•
the action. by a grape-shot,, is now on the navy list, and
was, we believe, the recipient of one of the first good,.
service pensions the present admiralty had the opportunity
to bestow. Had Nels,m, survived, Captain John Pasco,
would now have been a flag officer.—Stasulard.

THE PROCESSION AT THE BURNS' 7ESTIVAL.—The
effect of the procession as seen from the platform almost
baffles the power of description. The wailing of the bag—
pipes and the crash of the bands were heard from the bo.
tom of the deep wood-thicket behind, long before the
rank& became visible. At length, among the trees that
skirted the opposite banks, there was a glittering of
lances, and a lifting of banners, and a dark-growing line
of raen, in closest order, marching as if to battle. Gra-
dually it flowed on, in continuous stream, file succeeding
to file without gap or intermission, until the head of the
column appeared recrossing by the Old Bridge, and wind-
ing up the road towards the platform.; and still new ban-
ners rose up behind, and fresh strains of music burst
forth amidst the leafy screen. And now they reached the
platform : lance and flag were lowered in honour of those
who stood bareheaded above, and deafening were the
cheers that ushered in the arrival of the national pageant.
The spectacle was most imposing, and must have con-
veyed to the minds of the strangers present a vivid im-
pression of the energy and enthusiasm so deeply implanted
in the Scottish character, and always so irresistibly mani-
fested at the touching of a national chord. The most in-
teresting part of the procession by far was the array of
farmers and shepherds, the flower of the west-country
yeomanry, attired in the graceful plaid. Of that same
breed of men, of tall and compact mould and hardy sinew,
was Robert Burns; nor is it possible to imagine anything
more animated than the appearance of those stalwart sons
of the soil, as they lingered for a moment before the plat-
form, and looked with wistful eyes at the sons of the Poet,
if haply they might trace in their lineaments some. resem-
blance to the features of him whom, from their infancy,
they had learned to love. Then came the Freemasons,
and King Crispin with his train, and the Archers, and
much more of old Scottish device, until there seemed no
end to the flowing tide of population, all keen, and joyful,
and exult tnt. But the full burst of enthusiasm was re-
served for the close. In the rear of all appeared an enor-
mous thistle borne shoulder high; and no sooner was the
national emblem in sight, than a universal and long con-
tinued cheer burst forth from the many thousands who
were now congregated in the plain beyond. Alas, for that
thistle ! Though Burns, as the inscription bore,

llad turn'd his weeder-clips aside,
And spared the symbol dear,"
such was not the fate of the offspring plant. Scarcely had
it reached the platform, when Christopher North vio-
lently possessed himself of one branch, the Lord Jus-
tice-General seized upon another, and in the twinkling of
an eye it was torn into fragments, and its rough leaves
and rougher flowers displayed upon manly bosoms, from
which it would have been difficult to wrest them again.
So closed the procession—but not the gatherinz. Deafen-
ing were the cheers that followed for Burns—for his Sons
—for ,Professor Wilson—for Lord Eglinton ; until the
last remnant of reserve gave way, and a torrent of people
swept forwai d to obtain, if possible, a pressure of their
hands that were gladly and gratefully held forth. De-
scending from the platform, we entered the meadow-
ground beyond, where the multitude were now assem-
bled. One of the bands struck up the beautiful air—
" Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon ;" and immediately
the people, as if actuated by one common impulse, took
up the strain, and a loftier swell of music never rose be-
neath the cope of heaven. We thought of the fine lines of
Elliott—

" To other words, while forest echoes ring,
' Ye banks and hraes o' bonny Doon,' they sing;
And far below, the drover, with a start
Awaking, listens to the well-known strain,
Which brings Schehallion's shadow to his heart,
And Scotia's loveliest vales: then sleeps again,
And dreams on Loxley's banks of Dunsinane."
Few could abstain from tears as the last glorious note
died solemnly away into the skies. We looked down from
the top of the pavilion-stairs upon the vast multitude be-
neath. There could not have been less than 80,000 souls
collected on the ground. Of all that mighty mass, not
one man had thrown discredit upon the harmony and or-
der of the day. Every face glowed with happiness and
congratulation, as if conscious that a good work had been
done, and that the nation had at length discharged the
duty which she owed to one of her most gifted sons.—
Blackwood's Magazine.