The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-22 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. —There is no portion
of the civilized world in which more attention is given to the
instruction of the lower classes than in the States. Every in-
dividual who has a dollar to spare, contributes towards this
praiseworthy object; endowments in land are liberally granted
to support the free schools; and many of the States contribute
large sums for the same purpose. Connecticut, for instance,
has appropriated a capital of one million eight hundred thou-
sand dollars (above 1:400,(X00) towards it, and New York yearly
a grant of J.:,10,000. The example has spread even among the
Indians; a chief among the Creek Indians has set aside his
yearly allowance of 2000 dollars for ceded land, for the benefit
el their schools; the Choctawa annually expend ten thousand
upon them; and the Chickasaws have carried their liberality in
respect of them to as much as twenty thousand. The number
of youth, of both sexes, who are educated gratuitously in the
United States exceeds 1,200,000, on a population of 13,000,000.
—Guardian.

THE MALL, IN HYDE-PARK.—Any one who has been accus-
tomed to admire the muster of vehicles at the Turneries, in the
best days of Louis XVIII, to say nothing of the citizen-king
period, must indeed open his eyes wide the first time he is in
St. James's-street on the day of a levee or drawing:room.
Hyde-Park, however, on any fine afternoon, in the height of
the London season, will be more than enough to confound. him.
He will there see what no other country under the heavens can
show him, and, what is more, we may venture to add, what no
other pountry ever will show him. Let him only sit on the rail
near dur great captain's statue, with his watch in his hand, and
in the space of two hours he will see a thousand well-appointed,
equipages pass before him to the Mall, in all the pomp of aris-
tocratic pride,_ and in which the very horses themselves appear
to partake. Everything he sees is peculiar : the'silent roil and
easy motion of the London-built carriage—the style of the coach-
men—it is hard to determine which shine brightest, the lace on
their clothes, their own round faces, or their flaxen wigs—the
pipeclayed reins—pipeclayed lest they should soil the clean
white gloves—the gigantic young fellows, in huge cocked hats,
bedaubed with lace, in laced silk stockings, new kid gloves,
and with gold-headed canes, who tower above " Mr. Coach-
man's" head—the spotted coach-dog, which has just been
washed for the occasion; the vis-a-vis, containing nobody but a
single fair dame, with all its set-out, has cost at least a thousand
pounds ; and the stream of equipages of all calibres, barouches,
chariots, cabriolets, &c. &c. &c., almost all gut up, as Mr. Ro-
bins's advertisements say, " regardless of expense," flows on
unbroken, until it is half-past seven, and people at last must
begin to think of what they still call dinner.—quarterly Review.
—(Public Carriages and the Road.)

PASSAGE OF MUSKET BULLETS THROUGH THE HUMAN
BODY.'—A number of curious cases of the progress of musket-
balls from the place where they were first lodged, have been
observed by military surgeons. We have heard of a very re-
enarkable case, where the musket-ball struck the forehead above
the nose, and having divided into two halves, one half went
round beneath the skin, on the right side, and the other on the
left, advancing in contact with the skull. We do'not ask our
readers to believe the poetical edition of this fact, that the two
half bullets met again behind,' after having performed the circuit
of the head in opposite directions, and, advancing with a slightly
tliminished force, united, and killed an unfortunate man who
stood in their way ; but the fact of the splitting of the bullet,
and the advance of each half in opposite directions, is unques-
tionable. The singular progress of a musket bullet from the
sorehead to the throat, has been recorded by Dr. Fielding. At
the first battle of Newbury, in the time of the civil wars, a medical
gentleman was shot near the right eye. The skull was fractured
at the place ; but though the surgeon could see the pulsation of
the brain beneath the wound, yet the bullet had turned to one
side, and could not be discovered. Various bones were dis-
charged from the wound, the mouth, and the nostrils. At the
time of the second battle of Newbupr, the wound healed, and
could not be kept open ; .but about twelve years afterwards,
when the doctor was siding in a cold dark night, he felt a pain
on the left side of his head, about the "almonds of the car,"