The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

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FEAR IN THE LOBSTER.--" The susceptibility to fear,"
says Mr. Sharon Turner, "is strikingly shown In the
lobster. They are apt to cast their claws on a loud clap
of thunder, or on the firing of a cannon; but under the
excitation of alarm they do what has all the appearance of
an intellectual action. If at a distance from their hold
in the rock, when frightened, they will spring up towards
it, though many feet off, and regulate, to the instantane-
ous motion, both their impulse and direction so exactly,
as to throw themselves into their place of safety through
an entrance hardly sufficient for them to pass through."
Mr. Turner adds this note :—" As is frequently seen by
the people who endeavour to take them at File), bridge,
they spring, tail foremost, as fast as a bird can fly. The
fishermen can see them pass about 30 feet, and suppose
they may go much farther. Athenreus remarks this cir-
cumstance, and says that the incurvated lobsters will
spring with the activity of dolphins."—Church of England
Magazine.

LOVE.—Last among the chistics
of womanMOTHERLY
is that sweet motherly love with whicharacter nature
has gifted her; it is almost independent of cold reason,
and wholly removed from all selfish hope of reward.
Not because it is lovely does the mother love her child,
but because it is a living part of herself—the child of her
heart, a fraction of her own nature. Therefore, do her
entrails yearn over his wailings, her heart beats quicker
at his joy, her blood flows more softly through her veins
when the breast at which he drinks knits him to her. In
every corrupted nation of the earth this feeling is the
same. Climate, which changes everything else, changes
not that. It is only the most corrupting forms of society
which have power gradually to make luxurious vice
sweeter than the tender cares and toils of maternal love.
In Greenland, where the climate affords no nourishment
for infants, the mother nourishes her child up to the third
or fourth year of his life. She endures from him all the
nascent indications of the rude and domineering spirit of
manhood with indulgent all-forgiving patience. The ne-
gress is armed with more than manly strength when her
child is attacked by savage beasts. We read with asto-
nished admiration the examples of her matchless courage
and contempt of danger. But if death robs that tender
mother, whom we are pleased to call a savage, of her best
eomfort—the charm and care of existence—where is the
heart that can conceive her sorrow ? Read the lament of
the Nadawosse woman on the loss of her husband and her
infant son. The feeling which it breathes is beyond all
expression.—Herder : Mrs. Austin's Fragments from
German Writrrs.

DISTINGUISHED litrsumEtv.—ln the highest branches
of human knowledge, and on the widest arena of human
enterprise, the names of Irishmen are justly celebrated.
Among divines, philosophers, statesmen, orators, legisla-
tors, diplomatists, financiers, historians, warriors, poets,
astronomers, physicians, sculptors, musicians, and dra-
matists, we find the names of Archbishop Ussher, Berke-
lev, Adam Clarke, Wellesley, Wellington, Burke, Boyle,
Swift, Sterne, Steele, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Hastings,
Grattan, Canning, Foster, Curran, Flood, Bushe, Yel-
verton, Clare, Beresford, Croker, Gifford, Duigenan,
Musgrave, Barrington, Charlemont, Burgh, Valentia
(Lord), arsons, Lucas, Cavendish, Malone, Hutchison,
Ponsonby, Pakenham, O'Loughlin, Plunkett, Sheill,
Jebb, Browne, Loftus, Sloane (Sir Hans), Castlereagh,
Macartney, Staunton, Francis (Sir Philip), Coote (Sir
Eyre), Knox, Parnell (financier), Parnell (poet), Pottin
ger (Sir Henry), Gough (Sir Hugh), Brinkely, Oxman-
town, Edgeworth, Robinson, Hamilton, Morgan (Lady),
Blessington (Countess), Mornington, Gillespie (Rollo),
Moore, Hawkins, Abernethy, Collis, Crampton, Lever,
Newenham, Hall (Mrs.), Lover, Wolff, Maxwell, Matu-
rin, Carolan, O'Neil (Miss), Farren (Miss), Sheridan
Knowles, Montgomery, Plowden, Leland, Stephenson,
Mossop, Murphy, Cooke, Macklin, Hogan, Shee, Maclise,
and others of past and rising celebrity. What enabled
these distingnished men to inscribe their names in the
scroll of fame, and to add to the honour and to the wel-
fare of their country? The wide and noble field of Bri-
tish
enterprise. Wherever wind blows, or ocean rolls,
there may be found united the English, Irish, Scotch,
and Welch, under the glorious title of Britons, establish-
ing the physical, mental, and moral supremacy of their
" United Kingdom," striking the fetters from the slave,
emancipating the oppressed, and, in fulfilment of a Divine
mission, preaching the glad tidings of the Gospel in dis-
tant and heathen lands.—Montgomery Martin's Ireland.
PRINCESS VICTORIA AND MR WILBERFORCE.--When
first I saw the pale and pretty daughter of the Duke of
Kent she was fatherless. Her fair, light form was sport-
ing in all the redolence of youth and health on the nohle
was.n.fiae summer day, not so