The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

out of doors was made on Tu

vv.". rsatu. tAnnillUCU 1.1) UO SG), Lill yammer num-
equally wonderful drew their attention elsewhere.
the most certain way of gaining the favour of the Virgin
13, by presenting her with some article of dress. In the
C_ollpel near the Grotto Posillippo I noticed a richly em-
broidered pocket handkerchief which she held in her hand,
and learnt from the sacristan that it had lately been pre-
4W,ed to her. When Lady Drummond was in Naples
dressing
was importuned by the priests for a donation towards
uressing up the Virgin for a festival. Her ladyship did
!lot choose to give any money, but offered an old light
blue and silver court dress, which was gladly accepted.
After this the idol was paraded through the streets, to
the admiration of the people ; decked out as it was in the
het-off finery of a heretic. A similar request was made
to the Duke of Saxony, who had just been married. He
" I have no money, but I can give you my wedding
%at, which I shall not use again, if that will answer your
Purpose." My friend afterwards saw it adorning a saint
10 the chapel of Loretto, and noticed that they had taken
o,,fr the jewels, and replaced them with sham ones.—
'"ights in Italy.
SAGACITY OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.—A few days
ago, a merchant of Newcastle-on-Tyne had occasion to
4end his servant on horseback to Blenheim-street, accom-
tlenied by his master's dog. On arriving at his destina-
°o, he dismounted ; but before going into the house
,P,llere he had been commissioned to go, he hung the bri-
dle of the horse on a small iron crook at the door. Im-
kediately after the horse shook the bridle off the crook,
jlld galloped away at full speed. The dog, however,
s',ved, and, on coming up to the animal, he seized one of
stirrups, but being of a patent construction, it sud-
renlY opened, and he lost his hold. The horse still con-
'truing his course, the dog at length succeeded in seizing
,9111 e bridle, just as the horse reached the cattle market,
'eh fortunately brought him to a stand still ; and the
Zithful dog could not be made to quit his hold until the
"rUnt came to his assistance.—Newcastle Courant.

kneel, and, resting his rifle on the wiping-stick, take ja
steady aim as they advanced. Full well the Pawnees
know, to their cost, that a mountaineer seldom pulls his
trigger without sending a bullet to the mark ; and, certain
that one at least must fall, they hesitated to make the
onslaught. Steadily the white retreated with his face to
the foe, bringing the rifle to his shoulder the instant that
one advanced within shot, the Indians galloping round,
firing the few guns they had amongst them at long dis-
tances, but without effect. One young " brave," more
daring than the rest, rode out of the crowd, and dashed
at the hunter, throwing himself from the saddle, and
hanging over the opposite side of his horse,—present-
ing no other mark than his left foot, discharged
his bow from under the animal's neck, and with such
good aim, that the arrow, whizzing through the air,
struck the stock of La Bonte's rifle, .which was at his
shoulder, and, glancing off, pierced his arm, inflicting,
luckily, but a slight wound. Again the Indian turned in
his course, the others encouraging him with loud war
whoops, and once more passing at still less distance, drew
his arrow to the head. This time, however, the eagle eye
of the white caught sight of the action, and suddenly
rising from his knee as the Indian was approaching, hang.
ing by his foot alone over the opposite side of the horse,
he jumped towards the animal with outstretched arms
and a loud yell, causing it to start so suddenly, and
swerve from its course, that the Indian lost his foot-hold,
and, after in vain struggling to regain his position, fell to
the ground : but instantly rose upon his feet and gallantly
confronted the mountaineer, striking his hand upon his
brawny chest and shouting a loud whoop of defiance.
In another instant the rifle of La Bonte had poured forth
its contents ; and the brave Indian, springing in to the
air, fell dead to the ground, just as the other trappers,
who had heard the firing, galloped up to the spot, at
sight of whom the Pawnees, with yells of disappointed
vengeance, hastily retreated.--Blackwood.

Mean:

who have no civil ties and no civil sympathies
while we should advise them to study the Army Lis_ ,
they may discover how many of the officers owe their com-

1 more o

maw!, and—what are st. ~anoxious—their
and decorations, co their own services rather than the in
vidious possession of an " historical name." Our military
system may be too mercantile; it certainly is not too
aristocratic.

Inaccurate in their facts, they are naturally loose in
their inferences. We have the old stuff reproduced about
colonies, and the hacknied comparison of our trade with
the United States and that with our own colonies. That
this mode of reasoning should be tolerated anywhere in
England is strange, but monstrous that it should be lis-
tened to in Liverpool. Why, the history of this city is
actually imbedded in the history of our colonies and our
navy. You cannot read twenty pages of any history of
the West Indies or the American war, without stumbling
on the name of Liverpool. How much of the money
which has expanded the little creek of Liverpool into a
large city with magnificent edifices and towering ware-
houses—how much of this, gentlemen reformers, was the
produce of those possessions which you disparage, and
those wars which you denounce ? And pray, where, but
for this acquisition of territory, which your much-abused
and much-worked army (an army just equal to that of
Belgium, and one-fourth of that of France) has gotten
for you—where, but for this and the spirit of colonial
enterprise which you discourage, would have been those
United States, whose commerce you vaunt and extol ?
Where, but for the army, which in the piping times of
peace you so contentedly slight and despise—where would
have been the gains of your fathers and the booty of your
forefathers ? Gentlemen, reformers, look at home, and
then look wide abroad, before you coin facts to give cur-
rency to follies, and, under the pretence of easing the
burdens, impair the strength and dim the honour of
England.—Times.

the National Gallery

The apparatus, of Which the most
the ,nnoanp rpflertnr hahind

light, was so placed as to illumine the whole of Trafalgar-
so:pare, the rays reaching as far as Northumberland
House. If the illumination can be sustained, there is no
other means of lighting the streets that can at all be com-
pared with this electric light.
The Sheffield Times says that that town is fast losing
all its trade, and though many leave it no one comes to it
as a residence. Nothing answers there—everything fails
—though the town is beautifully situated, with plenty of
canal and railway accommodation. If our contemporary
bad not been such a free-trader, he would have found out
that the foreigners have taken away the prosperity of the
town, and would have put the saddle on the right horse
by blaming free-trade.

PRACTICAL JOKING AT THE LONDON STOCK Ex-
CHANGE.—An accident has just occurred at the Stock

Exchange which it may be hoped will check the silly love
of practical jokes which has so long disgraced that esta-
blishment, and which is a reproach to the vigilance of the
committee. One of the members attacked yesterday in
sport of this kind was thrown down and 'received hurts
which rendered him insensible. Upon medical aid being
sent for it was found he had been seriously injured.—
Times.

MONSTER TORTOISE.—Captain Dady, of the Duke, a
large vessel, owned by Messrs. Hoghton and Co., of
Liverpool, and now delivering a guano cargo in the Junc-
tion Dock, has exhibited within the last few days a tor-
toise of extraordinary dimensions, being about five feet in
length, of the capture of which, upon an island in the
Pacific Ocean, a wonderful account is given. The crea-
ture lived three months after it was taken on board the
Duke, and used to move upon the deck with the captain
and two or three others of the crew upon its back.—Hull
Advertiser.