The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

THE MAYORALTY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sir,—l perceive by the Journal of to-day that Mr.
John Holmes is to be proposed as mayor, and that, if he
finds the duties of the office too fatiguing, Mr. Procter.
will have pleasure in favouring him with his valuable
assistance. Would it not be a much more rational course
at once to elect Mr. Procter instead of Mr. John Holmes ?
• How was it that Mr. Holmes' own party did not elect
him mayor when they bad an opportunity, instead of
electing the gentleman who has been so unceremoniously
ejected from Leicester on the ground of bribery and cor-
ruption ? Can a real Conservative consistently vote for
Mr. Holmes, whose every vote in Council on the school
question, and on all others connected with the main-
tenance of Conservative principles, has been opposed to
those principles ?
If Mr. Procter is qualified for the office, why not at
once press his claims on the Council, rather than allow
him to act the part of a sub to a gentleman whose princi-
ples he is known to condemn ?
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN BULL.
Liverpool, November 4th, 1848.

THE MODEL PARISH.—It gives us much pleasure to
notice the very favourable manner in which this project
is being received in many different localities, and by very
different classes of individuals. It is a plan which, on
being carefully examined by the Christian philanthropist,
cannot fail to ensure his most hearty approval, as a plan
eminently calculated to destroy the drinking customs,
which are so subversive of the best interests of society.
The little pamphlet, entitled " The Model Parish," has
rapidly gone through several editions; the eighth is now
out, and in it we notice a new mode is now in operation
for raising money to assist in the establishment of the
scheme. A highly-respectable firm at Birmingham, con-
sisting of two brothers, members of the Society of
Friends, and warm supporters of the temperance causer
has generously undertaken to manufacture a particular
kind of cocoa, the profits on the sale of which are to go to
the Model Parish. As cocoa is now coming into very
general use, and as the profits on this go to so laudable an
object, it is confidently expected that many will benevo-
lently give " The Model Parish Cocoa" a preference, and
thus assist in promoting the nation's sobriety and eleva-
tion. In addition to this, its very superior quality is such
as to recommend it, those who have tried it giving it ar
most decided approval. It is to be had of tradesmen in
this town and throughout the kingdom. We also see in
the later editions of this pamphlet an account of a pro-
posed temperance village, originating with Bishop Chace,
of Illinois, United States. It is likely that this proposi-
tion, coming from a bishop, of establishing a village on a
similar principle to the Model Parish, (to which the
bishop is a contributor,) may obtain for the latter project
the approval and support of many who might otherwise-
not be inclined to assist it. During the last few weeks,
the projector of the Model Parish, the Rev. William
Wight, has been visiting many of the towns of Yorkshire
and Lancashire, and has had numerous opportunities
afforded him of bringing the subject before crowded
audiences, both at public meetings and in the
churches of various towns. The mayors of the
respective localitieq presided at the meetings held
in Doncaster, Wakefield, Warrington, Preston, and other
places. The rev. gentleman, who is so unremittingly en-
gaged in this plan for crushing the drinking customs, was
two years resident in Newcastle, and his exemplary life
was such that his name is deeply engraven on the hearts
of many a family in the parish in which be laboured with
such truly apostolic zeal. He is possessed of independent
means • and his self-denying patriotism in undergoing the
care and anxiety inseparable from the prosecution of such
a scheme calls for our most cordial sympathy, and it is
hoped ere long he will be rewarded by the triumphant
accomplishment of the noble object to which he is de-
voting his life and energy.
CHLOROFORM AND DELIRIUM.—I bad occasion, in
conjunction with a medical friend, to visit a man labour-
ing under furious delirium. He possessed great physical
strength, and was exhausting his energies in maniacal
struggles. We found him raving in his bed, with diffi-
culty held down by four men as powerful as himself; his
mind distracted by the impression that he was suffering
from hydrophobia, having, as we were informed, been
bitten by a rabid cat some eleven years previously. The
herculean frame of this unhappy man was labouring under
the powerful impetus of his distracted mind, and in the
hope of allaying his torments, we at once determined on
trying the effects of chloroform. It was accordingly ad-
ministered, and in five or six minutes he was sleeping as
peacefully as an infant. When he awoke from that sleep
he was still undoubtedly a maniac, but he was tranquil,
and his violence greatly subdued. He also for a few
minutes recognised his wife, which proved how wonder-
fully the chloroform had restored the natural condition
of his " perturbed spirit." Subsequently he required
much less restraint, and the chloroform being repeated
every night and morning, for a week or ten days, daily
improvement was observable, and at the end of that time
he went into the country with his reason completely re-
gained, and he continues up to this moment in the en-
joyment of perfect health, both of body and mind.—
Bainbrigge's Remarks on Chlorqform.
PERFECT INSECTS.—When the development of the

perfect insect is complete, and all its parts and organs
have attained the requisite firmness and solidity, it imme-
diate!), begins to exercise them in their intended functions.
Previously to this launching into the wide world, or at
least directly after, almost all insects discharge from, their
intestines some drops of an excrementitious fluid, often
transparent, and sometimes red. In some instances,
where their numbers' have been considerable, this has
produced the appearance of a shower of blood ; and by
this natural fact, all those bloody showers recorded by
historians as preternatural, and regarded where they
happened, as fearful prognostics of impending evils, are
stripped of their terrors, and reduced to the class of events
that happen in the common course of nature. Some
perfect insects live only a few hours; some never see the
sun; others, as fleas, moths, and butterflies, and indeed
the majority of insects, a few days or a week ; while a
very few, such as large beetles, six, nine, twelve, or
fifteen months. Some, however, enjoy long lives in
captivity. Mr. Baker kept one of the darkling beetles
alive under a glass upwards of three years. Roesel in-
forms us that he fed the rose-beetle with fruit and moist
white bread for as long a period : and Esper kept our
most common water-beetle in a large glass vessel for three
years and a half.—Sharpe's London Magazine.]
AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF LORD CASTLEREAGH.
—Upon a certain occasion, as Lord Castlereagh was pass-
ing slowly and thoughtfully from an interview with his
Majesty (George IV.) at Carlton House, to his own resi-
dence in St. James's-square, he was accosted by an Irish
labourer, who, with his hod reversed, seemed as if pre-
pared to attend the funeral of his own hopes. " Long life
to your honour !" said Pat, in a peculiarly melancholy
tone. Lord C . raised his eye. Pat took off his apology
for a hat, made his bow, and repeated " Musha. then, lone
life to your honour's lordship !" There was something
singular in the man's appearance and address, and Lord
Castlereagh, half-hesitating, half-advancing, fixed his
eyes upon him with a kindliness of look, which induced
Pat to go on—" God be with the days, your honour, when
you used to be fishing in the lough !" What lough, my
good fellow ?" " Lough Foyle, to be sure, your honour."
Why, were you ever there ?" " Maybe I wasn't, plase
your honour, when I used to help to push your honour's
boat off, and when, may God for ever bless you for it,
wonst (once) when I tumbled in, neck and crop, you
pulled me out by the nape of the neck. Och ! faith, I re-
member it," added the poor fellow, with a smile, " and if
it hadn't been for your honour's lordship, I'd have been as
dead as a herring, sure enough !" " Aye, well, what's
your name ? " Bill Brady, to be sure." " Oh, I remein-
, her something about you, but what brought you here ?"
" Och, like many others, I came to seek my fortune, but
the devil a much luck I have had yet." "Are you in em-
ployment ?" " No. faith, lam not • but I'm promised a
job next Monday, plase God." " Well, Bill, here's some-
thing to drink success to old times," handing poor Pat a
couple of sovereigns. Lord Castlereagh then hastened
on ; while Pat kept his hand open, alternately looking at
the sovereigns and at the donor; the tear of gratitude at
length trickled down his lime-coloured cheek, and, after
a moment taken t o suppress the swelling of his surcharged
heart, he shouldered his hod, and in a sort of ecstacy ex-
claimed, as he turned away, " Well, you're the ould thing
after all !" Such was the man who has been by his ene-
mies accused of a cold, calculating heart, and want of sym-
pathy for the sufferings of his fellow. creatures t Many
more incidents of a like character with the above might be
recorded.—Memoirs and Correspondence of the late
Viscount Castlereagh, by the Marquis of Londonderry.
INTELLECTUALITY OF THE LOWER ANIMALS.—That
the inferior animals, in many instances, possess the ordi-
nary passions, even more extensively than ourselves, will
be readily admitted. How many, such as the whale, the
stork, and the domestic hen, will die in defence of their
offspring—thus affording the strongest proofs in existence
of domestic affec'ion ! The case of the pelican is, we
know, a story. The attachment of the cat to its own
chimney corner, has been the theme of many a tale; and
the well-known instance, in which one carried her kittens
singly, and therefore by repeated efforts, from Glasgow
to Edinburgh, is as extreme case. The affecting tale,
related by Mr. Maxwell, in his Wild Sports of the West,
of the blind seal, is another of the same. After all its
removals from the house where it had been domesticated,
it found its way back ; its eyes were torn from their
sockets, and it was thrown into the Atlantic, yet still it
returned ; and finally, having been carried out to sea so
far that it was thought impossible for it to return, it
made its way back in a violent storm, and, exhausted by
hunger and fatigue, expired on the threshold of its in-
hospitable and savage master. Who does not know the
fidelity of the dog ? How often will he pine over the
grave of his master, sometimes refusing food even for
weeks, till death at length puts an end to his sufferings!
It would be a mere waste of time to mention anecdotes;
but Spenser's ballad, entitled A Beth Gelert, and the
story of the Chevalier Bayard, are cases in point. The
camel, the monkey, the dog, the elephant, and indeed
almost all with which we are acquainted, are more or less
revengeful ; on the contrary, the bull, the lion, the wild
hog, and as fables • say, even the mouse, are possessed of
gratitude ; while love, fear, generosity, emulation, cour-
age, and perseverance are common qualities. Again.
that hope, despair, melancholy, joy, and ecstacy, all find
a place in the bosoms of the commonest creatures, cannot
be doubted, unless we are prepared to doubt the evidence
of our senses. Several of these feelings are forcibly illus-
trated in the fate of Mr. Charles Gough, of Manchester,
who was killed in the hills of Cumberland in 1805. In
passing froin Patterdale to Keswick, in an excursion
which was more for the purpose of studying natural his-
tory than for pleasure, he was enveloped in a fog, and fell
i over a cliff 600 feet high. His only companion, a lit
terrier bitch, watched his remains most faithfully, tit"
they were both found about' two months after.—Dr;
Humes Paper, read at the Liverpool Literary ago
I Philosophical ociely.