The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

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A most acceptable Christmas present, containing six
beautiful songs, suitable for the Christmas fireside, from
the pens of R. Anderson Rust, Alexander Lee, Guylott,
Eugene Rolt, G. A. Macfarren, and Brinley Richards.
Different in style as these pleasing songs are, we cannot
give the pteference to any.

Dedicated to Mr
Anderson Rust.

The Strathmore Quadrille _
Mrs. Charles Kean. By R
don : Rust and Stahl.
This excellent set of Quadrilles are marked by the best
of the characteristics of the school from which they

emanate, and which has produced some of our admired
Polka and Quadrille music.

The Court Waltzes. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry Baring,
by R. Anderson Rust. London : Rust and Stahl.
This is a peculiarly graceful composition.

Catalan Polka. By R. Anderson Rust. London : Rust

and Stahl

Is in a very pretty, and indeed brilliant, style. The
passages marked for the cornet solo are particularly
effective.

VARIETIES.

MAY CATS.—In Wilts, and also in Devon, it is be-
lieved that cats born in the month of May will catch no
mice nor rats, but will, contrary to the wont of all other
cats, bring in snakes and slow-worms. Such cats are
called " May cats," and are held in contempt.—Noles

and Queries.
TRUE BLUE.—From documents relative to the wars of
the Scottish Covenanters, in the seventeenth century, it
appears that they assumed blue ribbons as their colours,
and wore them as scarfs, or in bunches fastened to their
blue bonnets, and that the border English nicknamed
them " blue caps" and " jockies." Hence the phrase,
" True blue Presbyterian."—Notes and Queries.
PLAGUE OF FLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.—It being now
summer, flies prevailed in fearful swarms in the abodes of
the Boers, attracted thither by the smell of meat and
milk. On entering Stinkurn's house, I found the walls
of his large sitting-room actually black with these dis-
gusting insects. They are a cruel plague to the settlers
in Southern Africa, and it often requires considerable
ingenuity to eat one's dinner, or drink a cup of coffee,
without consuming a number of them. When food is
served up, two or three Hottentots, or Bush-girls are
always in attendance, with fans made of ostrich-feathers,
which they keep continually waving over the food until
the repast is finished.-7A Hunter's Life in South Africa.

A SPECIMEN OF STYLE.—The Durham Advertiser
thus grandiloquently preached to its readers at the close
of the year : " Ere another number shall reach the
hands of our readers, another year will have gone away
from the past into the present. Old Father Time, with
one foot upon the apex of this terraqueous ball, and the
other upon the borders of Lethe, will have struck ano-
ther blow upon the bell whose pealings echo the knell of
years in the great abyss of eternity. Another wrinkle
will have been added to the plastic brow of old Mother
Earth, another link welded to the chain of annual cir-
cumstances, whose first ring was forged when chaos died,
and long before Tubal Cain essayed his cunning skill."
THE OLD JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN INDIA.—They
assumed the character of Brahmans of a superior caste
from the Western World ; they took the Hindoo names,
and conformed to the heathen customs of this haughty
and exclusive race, producing, in support of their preten-
sicns, a deed forged in ancient characters, to show that
the Brahmans of Rome were of much older date than the
Rrahmans of India, and descended in an equally direct
line from Brahma himself. They composed a pretended
Veda, in which they sought to insinuate the doctrines of
Christianity in the language and phraseology of the sacred
books of the Hindoos. They wore the cavy, or orange
robe peculiar to the Saniassees, the fourth, and one of
the most venerated, sections of the Brahmanical caste.
They hung a tiger's skin from their shoulders, in imita-
tion of Shiva; they abstained from animal food, from
wine, and certain prohibited vegetables ; they performed
the ablutions required by the Shasters • they carried on
their foreheads the sacred spot of sandal-wood powder.
which is the distinctive emblem of the Hindoos; and in
order to sustain their assumed character to the utmost,
they affected to spurn the Pariahs and lower castes who
lay no claim to the same divine origin with the Brahmans.
In carrying out this system, the Jesuits not only con-
tended that they were justified in the employment of
such means by the sanctity of the object they were to
accomplish, but they derived encouragement and facility
from the many points of resemblance presented by the
religion of their own church, as compared with the prac-
tices of the idolatry which they came to overthrow.
" If," says the Abbe Dubois, himself a Roman catholic
missionary in India, "any one of the several modes of
Christian worship be calculated more than another to
make an impression and gain ground in India, it is no
doubt the catholic form, which protestants consider
idolatry." its external pomp and show are well suited
to the genius and disposition of the natives. It has a
poojah, or sacrifice, processions, images, and statues;
tirtan, or holy water ; feasts, fasts, and prayers for the
dead ; invocation of saints and other practices which
bear more or less resemblance to that of the Hindoos.
Of these facilities and coincidences the Jesuits availed
themselves to the utmost ; they conducted the images of
the virgin, and the Saviour on triumphal cars, imitated
from ,the orgies of Jaggernauth ; they introduced the
dancers of the Brahmanical rites into the ceremonial of
the church ; and, in fine, by a system of mingled decep-
tion and conformity, and a lire of indescribable privation,
they succeeded in superseding the authority and the in-
fluence of the Franciscans throughout Southern India,
and in enlisting multitudes of nominal converts to the
church.—Tennent's Christianity in Ceylon.

SHORT HORN CATTLE.—The North Riding is bounded
on the south by the East and West Ridings, on the north
by the River Tees, which separates it from Durham, and
is traversed by the York and Newcastle Railway from
York to the borders of the county near Darlington. The
central and northern portions of the riding, situated along
the valleys of the rivers, contain the greatest extent of
valuable land. To the eastward lie the Yorkshire moors,
comprehending an extent of 400,000 acres, and rising
from 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the sea level. On the
west the country rises to the highlands on the borders of
Westmorlacd, with rich valleys of pasture land skirting
the streams which drain that limestone country and flow
through the picturesque dales of the North Riding.
Much of the best land in the lower portion of the district

of I•T;rthallerton, Catterick, and along the southern bank
of the Tees, are found the most celebrated herds of short
horn cattle which now exist in England. The opposite
bank of the Tees, which gave the name to the breed of-
Durham cattle, has lost its principal men, the Collings,
and the best herds may now be said to be confined to the
south side of Teesdale. There are still to be found men

who have been bred from their childhood to study the
peculiarities of form and symmetry which, combined with
early maturity and great weight, have given the improved
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often the first to see their stock in the morning, and the
last to visit them at night, making the health of each

development of such points as they think requisite,.'while
everything else on the farm is made subordinate to the
stock—these men have acquired a fame which is the re-
sult of such early application, and cannot long be main-
tained without it. They succeed ; and to all parts of the
United Kingdom is diffused from the hands of not half
ars7an man in the North Riding, the hlnnd which has