The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES

The Dublin University commences the year with more
than its usual quantity of valuable and interesting matter.

Amongst the reviews in the present number, a review of
Owen Madden's "Revelations of Ireland." and the Rev.
M. Vicary and Father Prout's works upon Rome, are very
clever. " The Fatal Bride" is a well told tale ;as is the
first part of " The Apothecary's Wire,"—a Ru,sian story.
The political article on Irish politics shall receive, as it
deserves, a more extended notice.

Blackly' ood's Magazine has this month two political
articles—the first entitled " Thirty Years of Liberal Legis-
lation," and the second, " Ireland and the Ministerial
Measures ;" both of which are well worthy of a careful
perusal. Our old favourite is also fertile in interesting
and valuable matter, amongst the best of which are the
tales entitled " Evenings at Sea," and a " Night's Peril,"
in another style. The article on the periodical literature
should be read with attention by parties on both sides of
the Atlantic.

Fraser's Magaiine for the present month is an excel-
lent number. We have extracted largely from its first
article, " The Manufacturing Poor." We shall return to
some articles on other subjects.

VARIETIES

It has been calculated that a pair of sparr w 4, while
rearing their young, destroy on an average 5363 cater-
pillars every week. _ _ . . .

'lease, but rub them
"bright dry" each time: don't leave a particle of moist-
ure for the cold air to act upon.
ANGER.—Passion is the drunkenness of the mind ; and
therefore, in its present influence, not controllable by
reason ; forasmuch as the proper effect of it is, for the
time, to supersede the operations of reason.—Poynder.

ash them -a4 often as you

The verb "to build" has been much degraded among
us, and has lost its full signification. " Our English
word, to build," says Horne Tooke, " is the Anglo-Saxon

byldan, to confirm, to establish, to make firm and sure
and fast, to consolidate, to strengthen ; and is applicable
to all other things as well as dwelling places." In Ger-
many the word retains its full meaning.—The Builder.
During the alarmAaust d by a threatened invasion of this
country by the French, in 1795, the following singular an-
nouncement appeared in the public papers :—" The Bishop
of Winchester has sanctioned the whole of the clergy of
Hampshire, and especially of the Isle of Wight, to take
up arms in the present crisis, and also to do whatever they
may think best for the service of their country."
LISTON AS AN OPERATOR.—II iS related of him, that
of performing a dangerous operation, Liston
t his horse, arid gallop miles over the country,

would

_ .
not for amusement or recreation, but deeply pondering on
the case at issue, and steeling himself with that determi-
nation which was requisite for success. Alone, and almost

proaching struggle, he has (as we have heard from his own
lips) rushed over the Corstorpbine Hills, near Edinburgh,
or Hampstead Heath, in the vicinity of London, and re-
turned in a condition, mental and physical, to undertake
(under the most favourable auspices) the onerous and lite-
or-death task before him.—Literary Gazette. _

A COMPLAISANT HUSBAND —Tn the neighbourhood of
Rochdale, it happened that a big, hulking collier, six feet
two in his stockings, had an extremely diminutive wife.
But, what was more singular, it was currently reported
that the said little woman, being, in country dialect, a
spreet, (sprite) was in the habit of thrashing her husband.
" John," said his master to him one day, " they really
say that your wife beats you. Is it true ?" " Yoy,"
drawled John, with most provoking coolness. " Yoy."
responded the master, with indignation. " What do you
mean, you lout? A great thumping fellow like you, as
strong as a steam-engine or an elephant, to let a little
woman like your wife thrash you! What a blockhead
you must be !" " Whoy, whoy," was the patient reply,
it ple-ases hor, an' it does me no bort !"—Fraser's
Magazine.

THE DRESS OF ENGLISH LEPERS IN THE 14TH CEN-
TURY.—" The brothers [of the leper-house of St. Julian,
near St. Albans] are to have a tunic and upper tunic of
russet, with a hood cut from the same, so that the sleeves
of the tunic be closed as far as the hand, but not laced
with 'knots or thread after the secular fashion. They are
to wear the upper tunic closed down to the ankles, and a
close cape of black cloth, of the same length with the
hood, as they have been accustomed of old." A particu-
lar form of shoe was also ordered, and if the order was
disobeyed, the culprit was " condemned to walk daily
barefooted until the master, considering his humanity,
said to him—enough."—Dr. J. Y. Lawson on Leprosy
and Leper Hospitals in Scotland and Ireland.
THE
.LANCASHIRE DIALECT: PURE SAXON._Our

description of the manufacturing poor would be im-
perfect, without some reference to the peculiarities of
their dialect. Their vocabulary is very circumscribed.
It contains a strong dash of saxon, with a considerable
mixture of those non-descript words which are traceable
tNvolineonrosoomt.e
olnteism,nhooreweasvpeirri,
aspiring
among them ventures uponll of energy and expression.
classical ground, there is great danger of a fall. It is not
unusual for us to be called suddenly to an old woman
grievously ill with " spavins" (spasms) in the stomach, or
" palpalation" (palpitation) of the heart, or " conflagra-
tion" (inflammation) of the inside. " How is Jane ?" I
inquired of a loquacious old lady the other day, •‘ How
is your daughter ? What did the doctor say of her com-
plaint?" " Wbv, got' she answered, "he said, sir, she
was in a very pthysical (critical) way, indeed, sir—very
ptnysical." It is well, therefore, to use much plainness
of speech in your intercourse with the poor. Not, per-
haps, that this, in many eases, is at all required; but in
some you can only make yourself intelligible by descend-
ing to their level.—Eraser's Magazine.

Customs

Excise

Stamps

Taxe;

PropertyPostOffi Tax

Crown Lands. ,
Miscellaneous
China Money.
Imprest &othe

Moneys

Repayments c

Advances

150,615.020 i
Deduc

18,397,5661217,7902,435,244
t Increase

Vase on the Year .. £2,217,454

ARTERS ENDED JANUARY 5

Total Income

1848. 1 Incr. I Deer

£ £ £ £
4,514,721 4,111,862 402,859
3,608,155 3,246,883 361,272
1,740,687 1,564,855 . 175,832
1,909,899 1,914,783 4,884 ....
450,219 462,567 12,348 ....
203,000 208,000 5,000
30,000 40,000 10,000 ....
29,657 I 11,746 •• • . 17,911
I

31.884

I 302,449

74,048

12,820,671111,665,358
Deduct Increase ~

228,401

32,232 11,187,545
32,232

Decrease on the Quarter.. £1,155,317

The revenue for the year shows a deficiency of £2,217,454
in comparison of the preceding. This amount is partially
accounted for by the facts, that in 1846 a sum of £667,644
was brought to the credit of the account as Chinese ran-
som, which, however, was the last payment ; and that,
under the head of the repayment of advances, the public
accounts were credited during the former year with a sum
of £1,070,411, while under the same head, during the last
year, the amount is reduced to £564,046. Those items,
no doubt, account for about one-half of the existing de-
ficiency of the year, but they do not reduce it. And the
work of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is just as diffi-
cult as if it had originated from some more regular
causes, though it is assuredly gratifying and encouraging
to find that, amidst the great calamities under which the
country has been labouring during the past year, the
revenue has not more collapsed than this account indi-
cates.

The falling off in the customs returns is less than might
have been expected on the whole year; only £295,567-
This is about one-sixtieth of the total receipts from cus-
toms in the year 1846. whereas the decrease in the excise
is little less than one-sixteenth of the total receipts from
that source in the same year. In one respect there is a
pretty exact parity in the returns of the customs and ex-
cise. In both, the returns for the two first quarters of the
year 1847 are in excess of the returns for the corresponding
quarters of 1846; in both, the decrease in the third quar-
ter of 1847, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of the preceding year is greater than that in the last quar-
ter. The variation in the returns of 1846 from those of
1845 was scarcely perceptible. This indicates that, as was
to be expected, the full pressure of our embarrassments
has only come to be felt considerably later than their ex-
istence was known or apprehended ; and (what is more
consoling) that the slight revival of the last quarter gives
room to hope that the worst hour is passed.
The two main suggestions of these returns we are
anxious to impress deeply on the minds of our readers.
Their general aspect indicates undiminished elasticity in
the national resources, and an apparent abatement of the
pressure. The great reduction in the excise receipts for
thet
activityw o l
in
st quarters, m
o ema nedi
employments,
oythme
esnttasm,
andp s , indicates dimi-
nished
great privation
among the less wealthy classes, extending upwards consi-
derably beyond the mere working classes,