The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-16 00:00:00

al, and he was then
red, trusted by those men
nw will condescend to own

cted, honou

w years have flown

for he has.beet.l

bankrupt, God knows what beside,

O'er his devoted hea
Insolvent,
And he has truly felt that blow so keen—
The pangs of poverty, and fallen pride.

Theist it all suns
And deeply as he

his all shade ;

s his -wretched

s past mis

les were

st deeds
ne stand
lig hand

Look further on, ....
On man's misfortunes : his dish(
Can ill bear scrutiny, yet doth
High in man's estimation, for
Is ever ready, open is his purse,
To lend some money to a friend In need
At cent. per cent.
Of his poor victim shews how

while the half-smotlier'd curse
he is freed
.. .

For a short space : and thus be wipes the blot,
Which, once impresed, may never be forgot!
The bill-discounter has a smiling face ;
A frown is seldom seen upon his brow •
And when he lends, 'tis with
You deem him a kind friend. See ! even now,
He smiles and nods around ! This doth disclose
How little name, and how far money goes.
What a strange world is this, when men are bought
By that same dross our fathers set at nonght
Pshaw ! lucre is just now " the ruling passion,
And honuty of late is out of fashion.

such winning grace,

Behold! another crew doth choke the way,
All of a minor class, which doth display
Sailors, mechanics, and the lower herd
Of man, who in their proper sphere have made
e,
Components of that mass which bath now star d,
With one accord, '

to business and to trade

And thus is Liverpool ! Go—mark each day,
And see how truly men their parts
" Ex uno disce omnes ;" for t'
Though often play'd, is alway st,

io play,

,e game,

24th April, 1843

the same•

VARIETIES

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A learned attorney of New Orleans bas taken
the latin words ruum cuipse, whie

or
he thus renders in k

Sue'em quick

The word minster, in Saxon, minstre, from the Latin
nagteriurn, we *NAY, generally, to our collegiate churc_
as w_hen we say, York minster, or Ripon mineter ; yet. these
^hes are, at present, very far from having any
thmg of

loured

the nature of utonasteries.
Rappes SNUFF.—The best known of the dark-co,
tribe of snuffs is Rapped, deriving its name from the French
word rape,
mode of signifying rasped, which doubtless was its original
manufacture. It is to be procured either brown
t. or
black, plain, or scented, and is in most cases the fo ionf.
of what are termed fancy snuffs. Black rap Pee is made °
plain Virginan tobacco.
ORANGE T
WINE.—A Spanish journal states that, in con-
sequence of the abundance of the growth of oranges of an
excellent quality in the south of Spain. and the difficulty of
disposing of them for exportation at a good price, several of
the growers convert them into wine which is said to be of
a delicious quality, and resembling Much in flavour the
of Madeira. The juice is pressed, and left to ferment, nine
same way as that of the grape, after which it is put into casks,
without the admixture of either alcohol or water.
Szvearrar.—A remarkable story is recorded of Zalenens,
the law-giver of the Locrians, who was distinguished for his
rigorous execution of the law against adultery. His own
son,having h,
been guilty, be determined to deprive his of his
sight, and long continued unmoved from his purpose by the
earnest and reiterated entreaties of the People. Considering
the crime, however, as one that ought losi
ngto be forgi!eno,whe
'rted to the painful operation of i one of. his own
..rder to redeem one of his son's eyes ; after hat St
te ,
it Is said, the crime of adultery was unknown in a •
A JOINT CONCERN --When Sheridan was in distrests.vine
early life, one of his resources. was, writing for the fugidi
publications of the da in which he was Materially assisted by
his wife; and many 4;ra after his entrance into ththe
here
of politics he was heard to say, that if had stuck t9O end Tom
he believed he should have done as much as his friend 1:
Erskine : but (confined be) " I bad no tirae for such sturdiensg.
Mrs. Sheridan and myself were often obliged to keep writing
for our daily leg or shoulder of mutton, otherwise wewshould
have had no dinner." One of his frieds to mbe enon-
hued this, replied, ~ Then I perceive it was 'who concern.,,
.'
f'
WOMAN PARAMOUNT IN THE 1101751t•—irri the lawst.
that
King Canute, a curious passage occurs, which Pr?"s 'has
the wife, even among the lower classes, sae
having an exclusive right to her domestic store •s• "If any
it is
considered
man bring a stolen thing to his cot, and he be detected,
And
just that the owner should have what he went after.
unless it be brought under his wife's
key
let her
Ibe
clear ; for it is her duty to keep the key of them, nan3e Y ,
her store-room, her chest, and her cupboard. If it. be brought
under any of these, then she is guilty ; but no wife may
.for-
bid her husband, that be may put into his cot what he will."
WAVERING PLANTS--Is a most necessary peration, but
very little understood. Most young gardeners conceoivde, that
t e water for their plants cannot be too fresh and c 1 : and
many a pail of water that has stood in, the sun is throt.„
sway. in order to bring one fresh from the " ambroaial f?un
A greater mistake. could not be made. at
is best
of all ; and dirt?, gain wah
tempLera
ture—anythi and stagnant water, and of a his m
thin s better than cold spring en tubs
don recommends pump water to be exposed in op
water: f. ou-
before it is used, and to be stirred about to inapregnate it
with air ; perhaps the addition of liquid manure, or any other
extraneous matter, would be useful. Those who have
found how little service their continual watering has done_ to
their plants in a dry summer, would do well to attend to
these simple rules.— Quarterly Review.
Tnz Sue Blessed be God
MESON,. OF THE APOSTLES•
that m
a"
are those amongst us vvhoro the Lord accounts
faithful. We know now great is the influence of such
pastor, and how generously it is acknowledged when be walks
among his charge, not as an unapproachable inystie, but as
one of like infirmities with his flock, not as too learned to
stoop to the dulness of the ignorant, nor too austere to share
In the poor man's o—the friend of the oppressed, the soli-
tary, and the mourner; the companion of the lambs of the
fold, and the comforter of the aged
Many are the kindly offices which he undertakes,--tha
in their pilgriniq.
mission of children to schools, the little loan w the needy,
clothing for the naked, intercession with the rigid creditor.
advice in perplexity, instruction in ignorance, sympathy in
sickness, and consolation in the house where death has made
its abode. In short, as it is the constant employment, so it
is the delightful privilege, of the faithful nainister of Christ,
in humble imitation of his divine master, to preach the
Gospel to the poor, and to go " about doing g
Dr. Drew' ood"Rev-
A POLISH Cap N. T.—l myself knew a Polish refugee—a
Count Vandneski—who, however, strange to say, after-
wards turned out to have been born in the county of Galway'
where he lived until a mature age, and . whence be acotop-
nied his master, in the dignified • nations as valet, u
Rhine as far as Frankfort : on hissitretnrwnivagsjaviagg
London, the success of a countryman, t
himself the h
out as a Polish nobleman, and married richcheesernonge's
daughter, induced Patrick O'Sullivan (the O'Sullivans, by
the way, are not Galwegian—O'Flahertv would be more
likely) " to try his luck in the trnatrimoisial lottery." and
having picked up a smattering of German on the Rhine, he
cluded it would be quite as well as Polish. His dreadful
broguefog he passed off for a Polish accent, and interlarded his
;Inset discourse pretty pretty plentifully with the little German he , knew ;
not unfrequently drew upon his imagination for the
.
invention of words and phrases not to be found in any dic-
tionary at all. He described a Revolution of the Poles from
imagination, showed a cut upon his fore ead, inflicted by
hookem-snivey at some Irish fair-fi ht as the thrust of a
Cossack lance, and, in fact, workedghi; yasisentnotitwheen
graces of an ironmonger's daughter. Shewwa
inclined, and one evening asked him some questions agbtFludYt
the castle Craig of Drechenfels : " Musha the honste gabl,
ind of an ould house that ever ye set yer zwe_cd angen on,
said he. I heard him—burst out laughing, and this led to his
detection.—The Steam Packet, No. 2.
MlLTON.—Satan's address to the sun, in the fourth book
of Paradise Lost, is deservedly one of the most admired pas-
sages in that poem. There the arch fiend, broken loose from
hell, emerging from chaos, and, for the first time, beholding
the new-created light of another world, is thereby miserably
reminded of the high estate from which he had been cast down
by " pride and worse ambition." In the opening of Milton's
tragedy of Samson Agonistes, Samson is brought out of the
dungeon, and laid down upon a sunny bank, to enjoy the
warmth of the day, and the freshness of the breeze.
By the
way, he speaks first to his attendant and then to himself, of
his departed glory, his ignominious bondage, and his lament-
able blindness. Satan and Sam thus present two most
striking spectacles of angel and man, fallen by transgression
from the loftiest eminence which either could occupy, the one
in heaven, the other on earth. The contrast is awful and
tffreacting. The fiend, racked with doubt and horror, on the
allot iiiahhold of his new attempt too cope with the Almighty,
the open battle field, by olence, but covertly, by
fiuratuodth;
ethat fiend, carrying the hell that stirs within himself
"batesa nd ag o som of Paradise, looks up to the sun with rage
n,_and calls him by his name, to tell him how he
his beams," and recoils from his splendour as that

band, blind
which most annoys hrs;enseWitiiitTand aggravates his fixed
despair. The Hebrew champion, on th tithe
r
and bound, and captive to the Philistines, having
lost bliss,
space from prison-labour, and equally reflecting on .s fet.
a breathing-
present pain and future hopelessness, stretches out 131
tared arms, lifts up his face, as the blind are wont to do,
d tell
towards the light, and longs to see and bless the sun, an „ is
him how be loves his beams. The " archangel in eclipse
_c
scarcely a more magnificent being than Samson, the ruin ao!
himself, thus cast upon the earth, and bewailing miser
his
ble thraldom, but chiefly his loss of sight. To contrast these
two addresses of Satan and Samson with each other, and then
to compare both with the poet's most touching lamentation
over his own bereavement, in the opening of the third book
of Paradise Lost, will prove a deeply interesting exercise of
taste, sympathy, and nice discernment, to the sensitive and
intelligent reader, who will be filled with admiration at the
wealth and diversity of talent displayed by the author, on
three several occasions, at once so like and so unlike each
other. A parallel example of inexhaustible resources on so
trite and confined a subject, it would be difficult to quote
from any other sathority.—James Montgomery.