The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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Day after day, we think what she is doing
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In those bright realms of air;

Year after yea-r, her tender sti
Behold her grown more fair

.ps pursuing,

Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken
The bond which nature gives
Thinking that our reinetribr
Nay reach her where sl

,ough unspoken,

Not as a child shall we again behold her
For when with raptures wild
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In our embra

But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace ;
And beautiful with all the soul's expansion
Shall we behold her face.

And though at times, impetuous with emotion
And anguish long suppressed,

heart ilea'v4 moanir

like the ocean,

That cannot be at rest,—

We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
We may not wholly stay :

By silence sanctifying, not concealin
The grief that must have way.

The work is well got up, uniformly with Mr. Walker's
previous publications of Mr. Longfellow's works, and is a
creditable specimen of typography.

Believe and Be Sure. By the Rev. W. M. Falloon.
Liverpool: Newling.
This is the title of the address of the devoted and
esteemed incumbent of St. John's Church to his nume-
rous congregation, at the beginning of the year 1850.
The rev. gentleman delivers his sentiments with his usual
Scriptural faithfulness, and no one can peruse the appeals
without deep impressions of their fitness and fidelity.
They are written with all due solemnity, hut are conveyed
in language of affection, and intense desire for the present
welfare and future salvation of all his readers. If the
reverend gentleman would permit it, the Tract Society
would do well to reprint the address, at a cheaper rate, for
general circulation.

Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary in 1848 and 1849,

Londor

The graphic scenes depicted in this interesting volume
are narrated in a series of letters written by an Austrian
officer in the army of the Ban of Croatia, and depict his
personal adventures during his encounters with the in-
surgent Hungarians in the ever-memorable disturbances
during the years referred to. The letters contain abun-
dant illustrations of the character and sentiments of the
Magyar race ; and though the author nowhere disguis,'s
his partiality for the royalist cause, he yet warmly admires
his opponents en tbusiasticpatriotism. Theincidents detared
in the writer's letters are romantic in the extreme, and the
reader acquires much information respecting both parties,
about whom we have so little definite knowledge. The
state of our fellow-Protestants in Hungary is full of inte-
rest, and they well deserve the interposition of the British
government. The doctrines of Huss are embraced by all
the magnates, anti two-thirds of the population. The
English reader will scarcely believe, that even now, in the
middle of this nineteenth century, the institution of Bible
societies is forbidden, and that the Bible in the Hunga-
rian language is liable to confiscation.

The author has evidently had the best means of mak-
hig himself acquainted with the manners, customs, and
way of thinking of the Hungarians, whilst the volume is
rendered highly interesting by the political and military
views which it opens.

The following.extracts are replete with lively interest

MILITARY SPIRIT, &C., OF THE CROATIAN WOMEN.
a What enthusiasm, what zeal for the Emperor and the in-
'dependence of Croatia t I have myself seen, in districts of the
Ottochan regiment, wives and maidens take up the musket,
and repair to the chain of posts on the Turkish boundary, that
all the men might be able to take the field : and such an eight
days' duty at these frontier posts is no trifle, and requires not
a little firmness. Old, half invalided, frontier subalterns, in •
capacitated from taking the field, were the commandants ;
young, many of them handsome, females composed their
troops. By my faith, I should have no objection to be the
commander of such a corps of Ottochan females myself!
" They are almost all pretty—nay, even handsome ; tall,
elegant figures, yet plump; small feet, oval faces, long dark
hair, hanging, braided into two tresses, far down the back ;
rather dark complexion, it is true, but at the same time dark,
animated eyes, red lips, exquisitely beautiful teeth ; and brisk
and lively withal in manner and gesture. This, you see, ac-
counts for the wish to command such a corps of Amazons.
At any late, it does one good to behold again friendly female
faces, instead of seeing, as of late in Italy, tongues almost
always stretched out at us. This was really done, shortly
before the outbreak of the revolution, by a lady of very high
rank, who met me in her carriage, and whom 1 politely saluted,
because I had been several times in companies with her. Be-
sides, the costume of the female sex here is very handsome
and ornamental. The sleeves of the chemise are neatly
worked with a variety of arabesques, andevery sem is braided
with gay cording, and the stockings are generally coloured.
A Croatian woman, in her Sunday dress, looks just like a fe-
male peasant on the stage.
" And these women frequently astonish by their courage and
ortitude. We had wives of frontier soldiers with us in Pes-
clriera, and on the march through Hungary, who equalled the
men in the endurance of fatigue, and displayed undaunted
courage in battle. In Hungary, we had with us a young Croa-
tian, the daughter of an old Seressan, who was as daring a
rider as the beet hussar, and more than once fearlessly joined
the men in the charge. An Hungarian faro/ gave her, in an
action, a cut on the right cheek, which she returned with a
severe blow on the taut, seized the bridle of his horse, and
took him prisoner. This horse, a gray stallion, she ever after-
wards rode, and refused to sell, though I offered her forty
ducats for him."

TRAOIC SCENE ENACTED BY THE MAGYARS ON NEW YEAR'S
DAY, 1849.

"When, in the autumn of last year, we were about to break
iv from Croatia, and the whole frontier w as striving to furnish
the Emperor with as many combatants as possible, the pen•
sioned German widow of a captain, whose husband had fallen
many years ago in fight with predatory Bosnians, brought her

only eon, a fresh, lively, stout lad, of scarcely sixteen, who had
from childhood been carefully exercised in arms. He was
gladly received ns a cadet in the hussars, learned the duty in a
short time, and behaved on all occasions extremely well.

" I began to be very fond of the ingenuous, spirited youth.
On the march back through Hungary, before Vienna, and
also at Moor, he had fought gallantly, borne all fatigues with
the unconcern of youth, and his promotion to officer must soon
have followed. He would perhaps have acquired a brilliant
position in the army, for he had all the qualities for it.
"On New-year's day, he rode forward on patrol. with three
hussars, while the rest of us awaited their return by a great
watch-fire. They had been so long absent, that I began to be
uneasy. At length, one of the hussars came at full speed
towards us, bleeding, and with a wild look. While yet in the
saddle, he informed me that they had proceened rather too far,
when a band of savage honvMs suddenly rushed upon them
from all sides, and surrounded them. He himself had suc-
ceeded in fighting his way through, but the cadet and the two
other hussars were taken prisoners.

"Conducted by this hussar, we proceeded with all the speed
we could over grour d intersected by woods and br,'hes, in pur-
suit of the honvad, to take the prisoners from them. On com-
ing to a small clearance, what an appalling spectacle met our
view! Stripped stark naked, mangled with innumerable
wounds, there lay the bodies of the two hussars; but the cadet,
also completely stripped, was bound to a tree, after the mon-
sters had with their hand-bills, which all of them carry, chop.
ped off both his hands at the wrist. In this condition, he was
left to bleed to death slowly; but the intense frost had con

ed the blood, and he was still alive and perfectly sensible
when we came to him.

"It was truly appalling to see The poor boy, who strove with
manly fortitude to conquer his pains, and only broke out
now and then into a slight moan, which penetrated so much
the deeper into our hearts. We cautiously unbound him, and
laid him upon a bed formed of our cloaks—this was all that
we could do for him at the moment.

" With faint voice, frequently interrupted, he related to me
that the honvods had first cut down the two hussars, and then
required him to give them information concerning our position
and force. When he refused to comply, they stripped him to
his shirt, they beat him severely with sti-•ks, then chopped off
his hands, and tied him to the tree, and at last went off laugh-
ing and singing.

"It was now heartrending to hear him how earnestly he im-
plored me to shoot him, and put an end to his misery. " What
should I live for without hands, if it were possible that I could
recover?" said he. " Shoot me dead, I beg of you; kill meat
once.

"Compliance with this request was as unnecessary as it was
impossible. Death, the deliverer, was fast approaching. His
breath already became weaker, his eyes glazed; it was evident
that in a few moments his spirit would be summoned away;
when he rallied once more, and asked me, while kneeling be-
side his bed, in a tolerably loud voi -e, which could be heard by
part of the hussars who stood around, "I am dying like a
brave soldier for the Emperor—am I not ?'
" When with entire conviction I assured him of this, he was
evidently rejoiced, and said, Write to my mother that I have
fallen like a brave soldier for the Emperor ; this will comfort
her in her sorrow; and send her a lock of my hair.' Here
his voice sunk to a faint whisper, and he was a corpse,"

RUEL NECESSITY OF FIGHTING AGAINST FORMER FRIENDS

AND COMRADES,

"What has of late frequently rendered fighting extremely
unpleasant to me has been, that I so often found myself op-
posed to hussars of the regiment to which I formerly belonged,
and that I have been repeatedly obliged to battle with them in
good earnest. Thus, I was once nearly a day skim skiing with
a troop of cavalry, chiefly composed of hussars of the squad-
ron to which for years I had formerly belonged.

"A corporal of my company, whom I had myself clothed and
trained, now commanded as officer; and it cannot be denied
that he did his business cleverly. I myself shot through the
head, with my pistol, an old hussar, who had known me when
still a cadet, and from whom I gained much practical know-
ledge. He dropped from his horse immediately. He had
fired at me twice, and his balls had passed through my cloak
and through the flourishing tail of my horse. With another
hussar, who had long been my private servant, I was engaged
in a longer single combat with the sword. Both cut away
stoutly, but at last separated without either having done the
other much harm.

"Comrades of other days, with whom I had emptied so many
a bottle, with whom I had played or chatted so many an hoar
with whom 1 bad bad so many a wild noctural ride, when re
turning from the convivial hr allicit
iistant villages—these were now rravei

Ils of Gallician ma

" One of their hussars, with whom I had formerly been well
acquainted, once called out to me in Hungarian, in the midst
of an action : "Formerly you were my brave officer, and I was
attached to you! now yon are the enemy of my country, and
I'll shoot you.' At the same moment he fired his pistol at
me, and gallopped off: the ball whizzing past my head.' "

VARII

In April, 1814, Mr. Southey, in writing to Mr. Cottle
says, that Coleridge had been in the habit of taking c
laudanum "from two quarts a week to a pint a-day."
The Prince of Canino, in his" Systems Ornithologiaa,'
speaks of the existence of 7,000 species of birds, bein
2000 more than were known when Geoffrey St. Hilaire
twelve years ago, published his work.

A DERIVATION.
As the loveliest lasses have ever found out
No beau can resist them who tries—
Irresistible peoof might be given, no doubt,
That " beauties" mein simply beau-ties.
GEOGRAPHY.—The local American papers state that a
teacher in Virginia, giving lessons in geography, asked a
boy, " What state do we live in ?" The urchin hit the
fact when he drawled out, " A state of sin and misery."
" I'll take two children, if I can have them cheat),"
said a tall yankee, on entering an oyster cellar in New
York, the other day. "Two children ! What two child-
Why, I ain't got any myself, and your sign reads.
.milies supplied,' don't it ? I want you to supply me."
USE OF A MOUSTACHE.—The editor of the Medical
Times, referring to the moustachas of medical students,
assures a correspondent that "moustaches have their uses ;
and amongst the most important, they are considered to
point out the idlest, the vainest, and most self-conceited,
if rot, probably, the most dissolute in the class. They
are beacons to warn others."

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—" We are at peace with
all the world, and we seek to maintain our cherished rela-
tions of amity with the rest of mankind ?" " Ail the
world, and " the rest of mankind ?" Why, this is a legi-
timate Irish bull of the best kind, and must have been ap-
proved by the Cabinet for the purpose of catching the
Irish votes.—New York Herald.

AGES OF LAW LORDS AND PRELATES IN 1850.
Lord Plunket, 86; Lyndhurst, 78; Brougham, 72; Den-
man, 71 ; Campbell, 71 ; Cottineham, 69; Langdale, 67;
the Bishop of Durham, 80 ; Exeter, 73 ; Canterbury,
70 ; Peterborough, 70 ; Bath and Wells, 68 ; Lincoln,
67 ; Gloucester, 67 ; Worcester, 67 ; Carlisle, 66 ; Ro-
chester, 66 ; London, 64 ; York, 62 ; Winchester, GO ;
St. A.aph, 60 ; Ripon, 56 ; Chester, 56 ; St. Davids, 53;
Salisbury. 49 ; Oxford, 45.

CHESSMEN FORMED LIKE DRAUGHTS.—AIways some-
thing new in these progressive times. Here, for the con-
venience of playing chess in steamboats or railway car-
riages, we have the pieces embossed on a flat substance,
and moved as in draughts. At first it would appear as if
they were not so clearly recognisable as when carved in
wood, bone, or ivory; but the eye soon becomes accustomed
to the change (the two colours being preserved). and the

enure is not liable to the instability' and tumbling about
of the usual forms, if tried in such situations.—Literary
Gazette.

How IRELAND WAS PROGRESSING BEFORE 1846.—
We La ely made a tour of the West after an absence of
twelve years. What have we seen—what was :.he impres-
sion made upon us in passing through districts with
which we have been long familiar ? this—that until the
late potato failure and consequent famine, there must
have been immense agricultural improvement going for-
ward even in Connaught; for although we passed over
miles of country without meeting the face of a human
being, and seldom that of a four-footed beast, and though
we came, in some places, hot upon the smoking ruins of
a recently unroofed village, with the late rriserable in-
mates huddled together and burrowing for shelter among
the crushed rafters of their cabins ; and although there
were large tracts of land untilled and untenanted—still,
with the traces of cultivation far beyond what we remem-
bered in former times, passing under our eyes; with im-
proved drainage—in many places rendering the former
swamp a meadow—with the dark natcl'es of green crops
creeping up the sides of the valleys—with the turnip and
the parsnip surrounding the cottage, where, alone, the
potato had a footing previously ; and, with large tracts- of
bog reclaimed wherever there was an improving and, con-
sequently, a wise and humane as well as thriving land-
lord—we could not but feel that the appearance of the
country, generally, had improved since 1837.—Dublin
f niversity Mag.

VICISSITUDES IN THE LIVES OF LORD CHIEF JUS-
TICES.—CURIOUS ANECDOTE OF CHIEF JUSTICE HOLT.
The pages of Lord Campbell's recently-issued '• Lives of
the Chief Justices," disclose less of political and more of
the social life than the " Lives of the Chancellors" pre-
sented, and the vicissitudes which occur are more startling.
Thus we are rather scandalised on reading of one chief
justice (Tresilian) being hung, and another (Hankford)°
causing himself to be shot by an ingenious stratagem, so
that he might avoid the consequences of a verdict of felts
de se. But the manners of the times are still more
strongly contrasted with our own, by the circumstance
that two chief justices in embryo—Popham and Holt—
were highwaymen in their youths. Holt did not practise
this singular profession long ; but when he was going the
circuit as chief justice, many years after, he recognised a
man, convicted capitally before him, as one of his own ac-
complices in a robbery; and having visited him in gaol,
and inquired after the rest of the gang, he received this
answer—" Ah ! my lord, they art all hanged but myself
and your lordship." To this anecdote Lord Campbell
appends the following explanatory and consolatory note
" Hanging was not formerly considered so very disgrace-
ful and melancholy an occurrence as it is now. When I
first came to London I frequented the famous Cider-cellar
in Maiden-lane, where I met Professor Porson, Matthew
Raine, the Master of the Charter-house, and other men
of celebrity. Among these was George Nichol, the King's
bookseller, who, in answer to some reflections on the so-
ciety who sometimes came there, answered, with an air of
conscious dignity, I have known the Cider-cellar these
forty years, and during that time only two men have been
hung out of it.' "

CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.—We are so fortunate as to
be located in a section of the town where large numbers
of Chinese have pitched their tents, and we have noticed
with much interest the character and habits of these peo-
ple. From early morn until late in the evening those
men are engaged in their occupation of house builders, of
which a great many have been exported from China; and
the quietness and order, cheerfulness and temperance,
which is observable in their habits, is noticed by every
one. Search the city through, and you will not find an
idle Chinaman, and their cleanliness exceeds that of any
other people we ever saw. The buildings brought from
China are generally 20 feet square, one story in height,
and 12 feet from the floor to the ceiling. The timbers are
round, and many of them very crooked. We have noticed
in several instances the erection of China buildings of
double the size described above; but we suppose that in
such cases two separate frames are erected together, thus
forming a single building. The first movement after rais-
ing the frame is to attach the windows, which consists of
a frame and blinds without sash. The blind is so con-
structed as to close itself by its own weight—the slat be-
ing of double width outside. The timber is very uniform
in size, and about six or eight inches in diameter. The
boards are well seasoned, and resemble American cedar,
The price of a Chinese building such as we have described,
including the erection, is 3500 dols. The building, how-
ever, consists of simply the frame and covering. They
are brought from Hong Kong.—Pacific News.