The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

ing in Norway,

you raise many small trout, no large fish in healthy,
- ^nndition, is at that time to be found. This is
-- with regard to grayling. At least
in the Laugen of

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with a Salmo ferox,- as if,
the dearest in life, they had determined to die
together.—The Naturalist in Norway.
'THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.—Our opinion is
that in this country an imitation of the laxity observed,
np,ftcinnallv nerhans admired. on the Continent, would

end innothindiess thin the final and total absorption of
the Sabbath in the days of labour. If every person could
indulge his own caprices on this day without any restraint
except such as economical considerations might suggest,

o place olamusenent,
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and very few places of trade, would remain closed.
Every shop would soon be opened when it was found that
half the world would be likely to buy, and• thus the rest of
the Sabbath-day would be confined to one half of the po-
pulation instead of being extended to the whole. Nor
would the destruction of its character stop here, for no
person acquainted with our national disposition and ne-
cessities will conceive it probable that one class would see
another making money seven days in the week instead of
six without speedily experiencing a desire to imitate so

lucrative a practice. When the sacred character of the
day had once been obscured there would not remain be-
hind any influence strong enough to keep a thrifty trades-
man from his counter for twelve hours together. A man
who would observe the day as a Sabbath would retrench it
as a holiday, and thus competition and imitation would at
length bring all to a common level of universal profanity
and continuous toil. We are not prepared to say that
Mr. Hindley's bill, or indeed that anv bill, can be ex-
pected to effect thoroughly the object desired, though they
are somewhat more within the scope of direct legislation
than such as were to have been compassed by the mea-
sure which was lost in the Lords. But the enactment will
be undoubtedly serviceable, not only as a recognition of a
high national duty, but also as seconding the impulse of
popular opinion, which appears, by the petitions presented
and by the representations made, to have set throughout
the metropolis very decidedly and very creditably in favour
of a stricter observance of the Sabbath than that which
now prevails.— Times.
PLEASURE.—PIeasure is nothing else but the intermis-
sion of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great
trouble for till I have it. 'Tis a wrong way to proportion
other men's pleasures to ourselves : 'tis like a child's
using a little bird—" 0 poor bird, thou shalt sleep with
me," so lays it in his bosom, and stifles it with his hot
breath ; the bird had rather been in cold air : yet, too,
'tis the most pleasing flattery to like what other men like.
'Tis most undoubtedly true that all men are equally given
to their pleasures; only thus, one man's pleasure lies one
way, and anothers's another; pleasures are all alike,
simply considered in themselves ; he that hunts or he that
Ith ; they both please themselves
at whereby we ourselves receive

governs the common

some benefit. As if a man place his delight in things that
tend to the common good ; he that takes pleasure to hear
sermons enjoys himself as much as he that hears plays;
and could he that loves plays endeavour to love sermons
possibly he might bring himself to it as well as to any
tether pleasure. At first it may seem harsh and tedious,

pleasure of some men,

tobacco ; at first they could not abide it, and now they
cannot be without it. Whilst you are upon earth enjoy
the good things that are here, (to that end were they
given,) and be not melancholy and wish yourself in hea-
ven. If a king should give you the keeping of a castle,
with all things belonging to it, orthards, gardens, &c.,
and bid you use thm ; withal promise you that after
twenty years to remove you to the court and make you

a privy counci
nvlrl rnflica fn PA

nd sit-down-and whine,
sh you were privy councillor, do you think the

,t of those fruits

king would be pl
drink, clothes, &c.

used with you ? Pleasure of meat,
forbidden those that know not
when

not how to use them, jus

nurses cry `' Pah,

they see a knife in 'achild's hand ; they will never say
anything to a man.—Selden's Table-talk.
THE COFFEE-HOUSES OF ZURlCH.—Zurich resembles
Munich in the mixture of all ranks in its coffee-houses,

reigningbujrgomaster, the military officer, or the celebrated
artist, and all the distinguished representatives of the
radical party. In this unpretending freedom of inter-
the gay, renovated city has greatly the advantage
hich still retains in every
istocracy.

unt of the diet, might sometimes be seen in coffee-
; themselves amongst the civic radicals.
Sunday, Zurich is full of life and move-
ed people wander over hill
)rests, or the delightful

On a fine sunny

Crowds of

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ihores of the lake, or rowing over the clear blue mirror,
n boats and gondolas gaily decked with streamers, or

filling the numerous and delign
nd the prosperity of the plac
id hor

is seen not only in the
rich dresses, equipages, a,.— .Ses of the rich, but in the
evident comfort of the mass of the people. The number
of coffee and beer-houses of all kinds in the town itself
proves how important a part they play in Zurich life—
much more so than even on the Rhine and in Western
Germany. Political party spirit running so high, the
coffee-houses form convenient centres of union, in which
each citizen knows where to find his own friends and ad-
herents ; and the respective strength of each party is
proved by the fact, that the liberal or radical coffee-houses
overflow. whilst those frequented by conservatives are

but sparingly visited. To the Zurich citizen, it seems,
indeed, a necessary of life to haunt some coffee-house,
where he may. find his friends, drink his, coffee and
~play

men o,

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day, read the Swiss journals—even sometimes a French
or German paper, and hear news of every kind. Thus
the coffee-houses supply, in some measure, the place of

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political public meetings, which take place seldomer in
Switzerland than is generally believed,—a fact to be at-
tributed, probably, to the small number of large towns,
since it is only in extraordinary cases that the country
people can be excited so far as to assemble for public
consultation. In the shooting and singing festivals, in
the coffee-houses and clubs, the seeds are sown which are
afterwards further developed in the elections, the bustle
of which is, however, not so great as in England or
America, though the people know well their rights, and
are ever improving on that knowledge. I should be much
mistaken also if, in Zurich, the influence of the people
does not greatly increase ; and the more insight the peo-
ple acquire into their power, the more determined they
will grow to use it, and the tendency will be stronger
towards that state of things called the reign of the mob.
—3lngge's Stritz,erland and the Swiss in 1847.