The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

A person who tells you of the faults of others, intends
to tell others of your faults. Have a care how you listen.

TlME.—Time is like women and pigs; the more you
want it to go, the more it won't.—SaSlick.

A SOBER Pimr.--Why are temperance societies a bar to
friendship? Because they prevent shaking hands.
When does a man shave himself with silver? When he
cuts his heir off with a shilling.

A false friend is like a shadow on a dial plate, which
appears in ',fine weather, but vanishes at the approach of
a cloud.

When a man says that another thinks properly, it will
generally be found that the two think alike!

An American paper, announcing the opening of a new
cemetery, says—" Mr. had the pleasure of being
the first individual buried there! "

Too Goon BY HALF !—A poor law commissioner,
at Bath, has discovered a system by which he can make
out of a pint of water a quart of milk, and have enough
left to make cream for the commissioners' tea !—Punch.
While the Granadeers were lately entering Swansea, an
old woman, struck with amazement at the appearance of
their fur caps, exclaimed, " Lah ! lah ! why how do 'em
manage to make their hair grow like that?
4tVal;4l---___________ WINE FROM THE COMMON BRAMBLE.—Five measures
4, lish --. six, of the ripe fruit with one of honey and six of water,
V, °lt :di io , 1 EEl`i ra THOUSAND. boiled and strained, and left to ferment, then boiled again
4 'skeipt 0-fsealed envelope, price 3s. ; sent free and put in casks to ferment, are said to produce an ex-
-I,titAs, ~,a Postoffice order for 3s. 6d., •callent wine. The colour of wine is often rendered darker
kelo),! pt ES '': 11 0 0 D ,•" by a mixture of blackberries with the grapes.—Louden's
Leoh 4,l_,Atzl DIRECTIONSf its REMATURE DECLINE, Gardener's Magazine.
lio'Of eres,e for its PERFECF RDSTO- CHANGE OF TIMES.—About the middle of the Seven-
ILltt; foilleeNy'l to those suffering from the destructive teenth century, persons hiring furnished lodgings in Lon-
Nlts, pillittit4°;tiee I.oeylondbu_lgenc.e, Solitary Habits, or 'ln- don had to find their own linen and pewter, or pay dearly
4 ite... hal wr servations on Marriage, Local for their use. In the nineteenth cent.ury,.so much have
Fops 4 Isid:ifoo, in eakness, Mental and Nervous De- notions of comfort and social sagacity improved, that
ease naanitY, Consumption, &c. &c. II- many persons especially houourable mimbers of the tail,
it. ii s, .
Int ./' J• L. ' can get themselves accommodated by finding only their
4o ers CURTIS and Co., own brass and fustian and without paying for anything.
seon„ ,_ .
1111114, 'i s, Frith-street, Soho square,
COUNT D'ORSAY'S BARGAlN.—Whatever appears in
(4:4 'Ol4 SIX Londo
a newspaper must be true. It is true, therefore, accord-
+lOde!,,,l3,,thei En.DITION. to the Siecle (French paper), that at the sale of the Duke
lb.", 41, c2o,;lathors, and sold by Burgess, Medical of Sussex's cigars, Count D'Orsay was the lucky pur-
Ottp,,tebttt,, ttaslige, ;itr,lr-street, Haymarket ; Mann, 3?,
Itio ii to an id 1 Paternoster-row ; Barth, 4, Bryd- chaser of 1000 H avannahs for £3OO sterling ! 'That there
may- be no misunderstanding on the point, the Seicle
ti,1.0 4 g Pd Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, . ~ r rs -
AO; 41 tote sr; South Castle-street, Liverpool • adds . esOu francs of. our money !". Were. the sale
cilt"erlik:__Gr;ft"orlstol; Guest, Birmingham ; Fannin not over, we should be inclined to exclaim Puff , as it is,
eb. n• n`Qnri sthatreet Dubli:n.; Bolster and Co., we shall merely say, Smoke.
i,
,p:4lf h'oaorktiesVair-street, Edinburgh ; Strachan, THE LAND OF LIBERTY.—During the excitement of
i t* in Kentucky, a Mr. Clay, said to be the son
llZtit'l°4 Oeiler "goy? ; and sold in a sealed enve- a 07147. H.made attack
H. ay, a most murderous on a Mr.
k ( to Wcitk 1'444-
Brown, a gentleman in the post-office department, in
101 he 4a .4 -OF THE PRESS :
NI Ove,Piej, POblip NTH Edition of which is now pre- consequence of some political difference. The Madiso-
likihotittlre4
04 and illeis...fir-,,ss-it ertihousand copies have been ex- nian says, " Mr. Clay assailed him (Mr. Brown) with a
huge bowie-knife ; cut out his left eye ; cut off his left
ttsb. %stint
.._4 ged b _appearance—has. been very much
...toe NI of g,n r the addition of a more extended ear ; gashed his left shoulder six inches in length, and one
441'1 h'lli ins :rBl Principles, as also by the inser- and a half in depth, so that it is expected he will die."
t4l ni til4-ahhighly interesting
.cases.
.The STRENGTH OF PAPER.—During a lecture by Mr.
tor.kii°llb,i wbl'itreo:,,(l,..attY. occurring, wherein affections Cooper, before the Society of Arts, lie produced a quarto
i:erctrith'4,to ;13, ho'w%all the outer appearances of con- sheet of post writing paper, the ends of which he had
L lit No' the !stilt fever, when traced to their source, pasted together, thus forming an endless web. Into this
Ntlbit:e alatioeir,M certain baneful habits, fully web he inserted two rods of wood, to one of which was
INN 't°,4 i,reahie7b° f
.the division of labour is no- attached a half-hundred weight; and taking the other in
4 10,4 bnealirig t all In medical practice. We feel his hands, he raised the weight. With the same material,
vs it itiieoir wit?
nhat.there is no member of society he observed, had been lifted a man who weighed 150 lbs.
titti4
~Ate 4. -; relatio.nt be found useful, whether such With a bank note could also be lifted eighteen lbs.—
Oretfesrt enp., Qof a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Magazine of Science.
ItliFtl, Whicl°kB tils 8 work, . KEMPER COLLEGE.—ThiS institution is the most
4.4 ti diro, eh
can ow C__ . called MANHOOD, is one western Protestant Episcopal college in the world, being
It% let resBi l, uulli?g before the public on, such a
OA ° all thlai Y clann nearly half-way between -the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
•insh to • arh iat th to the character of being The main building was completed externally during the
vpr,e De In it 0 read he same time that it is fully in- ar 1841, Bishop Kemper having solicited and obtainecl
LNY)h tasai' reticle .•4. The moral and medical pre- Lends for the purpose, to the amount of twenty-five thou-
ink let, 4a re ,0f me r it invaluable."—Magnet.
170 the My astsst;s• Curtis's book, entitled MAN- sand dollars, from zealous Christians in New York and
Philadelphia. In the same year a considerable amount of
°,,lotottee/tithielier-f:iinit.!hed us by developing a series of valuable books was presented to the college by pious in-
4,,Vve, the ifeats.ug,,nconsequence of the vicious dividuals in England, as well as by several of the great
arne!a hIY espnigned
Cause ihe clear connexion pointed societies. The object of the college is the preparation of
yh_ri to a Itog,eity. and the effects is percep- young men for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
tee, r.„ ark „ --Ane
Church, and, under the enlightened and active presidency
rlet,ftsrase u 'Fit we- f•
4i,Nt.11, • tv atohe . ear there exists too much of the Rev. E. C. Hutchinson, it bids fair ultimately to
kuliqeibetresnitery bra_a,tate to recommend it for ge- realise the sanguine expectations of the Church.
ti Plgil3' tre °f Irn„'..'eh of those frightful maladies, Caswall's City of the Mormons.
h, be 4 an,ated,
_"4oral habits or secret vices, is
1411;qt,1), Part„4 eas, ',Pt], divested of all medical tech-
-1/4,15,„W0r,,,m, ed irl.4 airections are given for. the best HOGS AND WAX CANDLES.—At the presentment of the
British Association of Science in Cork, a curious method,
itlei'lla 18 ess all eases, howeverrecently adopted in the United States, of bringing their
k t• alt ttle • To _ complicated or
~ts- N.aces Work ~,e married, as well as the un-
h. 1,1,. lot and allte affords consolation and cure hog produce to market, was noticed in one of the sections.
it It appears the pigs near the vale of the Mississippi, cannot
be brought to a profitable market as an. article of food,
pittrete ,e. to g ewe are doing service to society in
111,4044 tetitifi neral notice."—Essex and Herts they are converted by a chymical process into wax and oil,.
btcttql° triti4e 'jaws s e in which form they are readily transported, and the pigs
)tiat‘rt!ete:Pra,,,,,.; toani,-,%^en, by the authors, of the .9f, the. Misissippi are thus converted into wax candles for
klitilk 101 of , habit ut the most distressing effects illuminating our drawing-roor6s 1 The oil is of excelleut
btpgtrithos4l•4lPerients'_, fully establish their claim to quality and is well adapted for lubricating Machinery, for
1.,t0t) If 4/Isll goof Ceut
surgeons and IN . y tle the __ , geons ; the result of which purpose the best sperm oil has hitherto been most
Vat tobt„ to
Bnfiderier?riC has been to impress us used. The custom of the North. Americans, who carry on
"Ittpl'he are atlsfy n' in the talent and skill of the the business of converting. pigs into wax candles, is to .
I, `tail 'Pith not a 1.8 that those intrusted with the drive the animals into the woods where they feed for some '
p.. attieir .a means indebted indebted to them for fur- months on the acorns, &c., and then they are fattened for
t one month on Indian corn, by which time they are quite fit
to whir of preventing some of the most
(14 It litt, uieh flesh .
for the process of conversion, and they are boiled en masse,
t 104 tr
is heir."--Old England.
NO e 4 IS end ------.--
, 4a., i t-ee ,l Co. are to b consulted daily at fat and, lean together,, unless the state of the provision
market make it profitable to spare some of the hams.
;4N•hVit 11).14r3°1g1. FRITH S*l \6 t 0 the Trti,4,.. - REET, SOHO- GOD S IJISPENSATIONS. —As it has been said that
'4140 data- rs are r there are stars so distant, that though their light has been
Ot to ND". II of ,re to be as minute as travelling towards us ever since the creation, it has never Nlt le the d b,_ t nen.
h Cases ; the communication yet reached us, so there are meanings.in God's dispense-
'et7`4 134,2', e esual consultation fee of .El, tions, a light in events long past, which through our im-
'e `l` 6
ki. ', t°e ' Mviolable secresy may be relied perfection of moral vision, or the thick, medium through
S 4, tt,3l. °, tto,,t°°rk sent i which we have to judge, may not yet have broken upon
-11 'et, vti 3 addres," Jree, enclosed in a SEALED us, and may not, indeed, till far in the bosom of eternity.
lltre, tikrers4r. iii7riri,receipt of a Post-office The meaning of the brazen serpent in the wilderness was
kANAI.I)OOC. 1.14 P, Bookseller, South not seen till the Son cif Man w.as lifted up on the cross ;
CHEAP HYDROMETER.—A simple way to detect the
k•liEe..,-,.._, xis. SOWLER, 4, St. the purpose of David's education as a shepherd was not presence of moisture on the surface of the earth, is to
"tR. read till the publication of the Book of Psalms. There wear boots with holes in the soles, or sit upon the ground
was a meaning in that three years' drought and famine in out of doors for two hours, and then calculate according
to the degree of rheumatism to which you will rise.—
the time of Elijah, in the reign of Ahab, in the land of
Judea, not known even to the church of God till the gene- Punch.
MR. SCADDER.—He was a gaunt man in a huge straw
cal epistle of James, after the crucifixion of our Saviour.
An event like that of Bunyan's imprisonment for thirteen
years bad a meaning that could not be seen by that gene- hat, and a coat of green stuff. The weather being hot,
ration, indeed is but beginning to be known now, after he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open ; so
the translation of the Pilgrim's Progress into more than
that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch
"
twenty languages. An went in a still greater cycle of and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers
dispensation, like the banishment of the puritans to Ame-
in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Per-
rica,co had a meaning which we are now only beginning to haps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to
m
prebend. And lastly, circumstances like those which I his lips If so, it never reached them. Two gray eyes
threw the key of the Mediterranean into the possession of lurked deep within this agent's head, but one of them had
a Protestant power,
Orientaldid the same with Malta—the bridge
and
no sight in it, and stuck stock still. With that side of his
between the
the Occidental world—and, face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing.
finally, opened one of the antique gates of Christendom Thus each profile bad a distinct expression ; and when the
to the same nation, can only be understood when those moveable side was most in action, the rigid one was at
future events have begun to march by in succession, for its coldest state of watchfulness. It was like turning the
which those previous. steps of God's providence are so man inside out, to pass to that view of his features in his
evidentl
or.aken—Clatms of the Christian A.baripine, of liveliest mood, and see bow calculating and intent they
were.—Boz.
the Turkish Osmanli Empire.

The take of salmon in the river Lune has been prodigi-
ous of late, averaging at least I,ooolbs. daily. In the
rivers Ribble and Eden, also, the produce has been very
great.—Newcastle Journal.

It is rather a remarkable fact that the cow and stable
keepers of this Town find it cheaper to fother with hay
than straw, and in consequence the former is very gene-
rally used at the present time.—Newcastle Juurnal.

HAMMESLEY BANK.-It appears that a dividend of 2s.
11d. on the estate of Messrs Hammersley is now in course
of payment at the Office of the Accountant General in
Chancery. Nothing is known as to any further dividend
to be looked for under the estate.

POTATOES.—We have mentioned the great abundance
of the potato crop in the north this season. The further
north we proceed the produce seems to improve, and,
compared with the southern counties of Scotland, our
countrymen in the Highlands are highly favoured.—ln-
verness Courier.

UNIVERSITY 'OF EDINBURGH.-Dr. Hope, Professor
of Chemistry, has resigned, after holding the office for
fifty-one years. The new election is to be in October.
Dr. Liebig. the celebrated German chemist, and Sir
Michael Farraday, are spoken of by the electors as his
su ecessot s.

A SIGN OF THE TIMES---The Wesleyan Bishop New-
ton attended afternoon service on Sunday last, the 20th
inst., in the parish church Prestwich,—found all the pla..
ces in the prayer-book with perfect ease,—made the re-
sponse like a good churchman,—and stood up (as of old)
the whole of the time the anthem was being sung.

A MAN COMMITTED FOR STEALING A HALFPENNY-
WORTH OF Wooo.—On Tuesday last a man named Si-
mon Fowler, of Risely, between 60 and 70 years of age,
was committed to take his trial at the next quarter sesions
at Bedford, for stealing on the 22nd ult- certain sticks out
of a faggot stack, of the value of one halfpenny. The
prisoner was subsequently admitted to bail.

MUNIFICENT GIFT.—It is in contemplation to form an
institution for the relief of decayed merchants and trades-
men in Leeds, and at a preliminary meeting held last
week, the Rev. Dr. Hook in the chair, the object of the
meeting was fully detailed by Mr. Sidney (of the firm of
Sidney and Hall, wholesale tea-dealers, London), and
that gentleman concluded his address by announcing his
intention of giving the very liberal donation of 500 gui-
neas.

PRESENTS TO THE QUEEN.—Captain Harris, who
went out as an ambassador from this country to the court
of Shoa, a kingdom situated in Southern Abyssinia, for
the purpose of concluding a treaty of commerce with the
King, brought to this country, as presents to the Queen
and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, an immense
quantity of rare and valuable articles; and amongst them
a jet black mule, of the most exquisite symmetry, taken
from the stud of the King of Shoa, and presented in his
Majesty's name to the heir apparent to the British throne.
The trappings of this beautiful animal (which in the lan-
guage of the country, is called " Tishal," or sans pareil)
consist of a saddle-cloth, of a peculiar form and exquisite
workmanship, upon which is elaborately emblazoned the
Ethiopian lion ; an extraordinarily-shaped Abyssinian
saddle, with breastplate and head-stall en suite, are of the
most gorgeous and magnificent description.

FATAL AFFRAY WITH REAPERS.—On Wednesday,
while the reapers employed by Mr. Childe, of Grange,
were at work, three of them, young men, had a slight
difference, and for some hours they continued " chaffing"
each other ; at last an unguarded expression was uttered
by one of them named Palmer, which excited the rage of
Stephens, and he unfortunately gave him a blow with his
fist, when Palmer struck him with his sickle on the back
part of the right thigh, completely severing the grand
artery, and the blood flowed with great profusion, and in
a few minutes he was a corpse. No sooner had Palmer
inflicted the fatal blow, than he dashed at the other reaper,
and cut him with his sickle in a brutal manner across the
abdomen and thighs ; and though he is still alive, but faint
hopes are entertained of his recovery.—Ten Towns Mes-
senger.

A PIPE

Pretty tube of mighty power !
Charmer of an idle hour;
Object of my hot desire ;
Lip of wax and eye of fire;
And thy snowy taper waist,
With my fingers gently brac'd ;
And thy lovely swelling crest,
With my bender stopper prest ;
And the sweetest bliss of blisses,
Breathing from thy balmy kisses;
Happy thrice and thrice again—
Happiest he of happy men ! "

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is ctti.7ll. ew"taieß.--. T—he-V-111a—gers have a feeling
410 § ,eta rat an I)rish church. Generally vene-
-41444 Part 41111tY., and firm as the hills around
Nl'ltti t 1); to mi a their native land, and to endure
't IS ihg tepotivr• ,It appeals, moreover, to all
iSt7., OltiN :re the ;noir hh.penetr9te
.the inmost:
t44:Niltklallbs °lvorldded,uktY,
ofdAleippmeermhoisrybirthe 1 u
parted
Ti, 1,4; t,;4l)tisetatu• Within, he sees the font at
kttlIVV tit;,°lttid it'lsand the altar where he knelt at
ttlitti also,:Pot wile?oontemplates the graves of his.
1,414 fe char n,, Q
Whichrle ay will probably be his
gltllthtill that
.speak to every bosom.
IL , -,it eye the
_;l,picture of English scenery is
IStrblit
VON Aorests
_ula tower, or the village spire,
01,1 4, 4 Who
c.a.a.
Itihe loveliest picture of the
tettl'eilltiittetz% ear the distant bells in the
4431111/' withoutmfoTing, or the stillness of
...0.7 eenng their Soothing power
"ft' 411 the Church.