The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1851.

V .11RIETIE S.
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Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving wisely.
CE RTA NLY.—Whenever a wish is father to the thought, it
will be a(p)parent.
We should take care we do not make our profession of reli-
gion a substitute for religion.

To give your opinion before required, looks like upbraiding
another's ignorance, or overhauling your own parts.

Company which does not help to improve us will certainly
have a contrary effect.

Deep is the joy of social silence when we speak not with the
loved, but feel their presence.
A man's wedding day is called his "bridal day." The ortho-
graphy of the word is wrong—it should be written bridle.
Truth, they say, lies in a well. " For my part," said a wit,
" I thought it the property of truth to lie nowhere."
A woman charged with being drunk and disorderly, denied
the latter offence, saying that "she was too drunk to be dis-
orderly."

What a man has learned is of importance; but what he is,
what he can do, what he will become, are more significant
things.

THINGS TO BE WATCHED.—When we are alone we hare our
thoughts to watch ; in our families our tempers; and in soci-
ety our tongues.
THE SECRET OF BECOMING GREAT.—" I was industrious;
whoever is equally sedulous, will be equally successful."—
John Sebastian Bach.
SENSATION.—I 0 U tev the vowels which create more dis-
agreeable sensations in the minds of honest men, than all the
rest of the alphabet put together.
A writer, in describing the last scene of Othello, has this
exquisite passage:—" Upon which the Moor, seizing a bolster
full of rage and jealousy, smothers her."
A great mind may change its objects, but it cannot relin-
quish them ; it must have something to pursue; variety is its
relaxation, and amusement its repose.

The violet grows low and covers itself with its own leaves,
and yet of all flowers it yields the sweetest perfume. It is even
so with true Christians.
There are few higher gratifications than that of reflection on
surmounted evils, when they were not incurred nor protracted
by our fault, and neither reproach us with cowardice nor guilt.
A SUFFICIENT EXCUSE.—A gentleman having lately been
called on to subscribe to a course of lectures, declined, " be-
aid he, " my wife gives me a lecture every night for

cans,
nothing."
An old lady.. not remarkable for the clearness of her ideas,
describing a fine summer evening, said—" It was a beautiful,
bright night; the moon made everything " as light as a fea-
ther."

A SMART SARCASM.—A young lady lately app,ared in male
attire at St. Louis, and one of the editors says that her disguise
was so perfect she might have passed for a man had she had a
little more modesty.
He who continually says that he is a man of truth and ho-
nour, that he wrongs no man, but wishes the ills he has done
others may fall upon himself, and swears, that he may be be-
lieved, does not know even how to counterfeit an honest man.
Too much fancy is not necessary in our conversation or wri-
tings; it begets vain and puerile ideas, which tend neither to
make us wiser nor better. Our thoughts should be produced
by good sense and right reason, and ought always to be the
effect of our judgment.

Some people are never quiet, others are always so—and they
are both to blame; for that which looks like vivacity and in-
dustry in the one, is only a restlessness and agitation; and
that which passes in the other for moderation and reserve, is
but a drowsy and inactive sloth.

" I remember," says John Wesley, " hearing my father say
to my mother, How could you have patience to tell that
blockhead the same thing twenty times over?' Why,' said
she, if I had told him but nineteen times, I should have lost
all my labour.' "

THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.—It has
been said that if we leave out the Pyramids from among the
seven wonders of the ancient world, the other six could be
placed in the inside of the wonder of the modern world now
standing in Hyde-park.
A GALLANT HUSBAND.—MF. Graham, the aeronaut, states,
in reference to the late balloon accident, that owing to the ex-
treme gustiness of the weather, he refused to allow any stranger
to encounter the risk of the ascent. The party who accompa-
nied him was only his wife.

The ugliest man in the whole world resides, it is said, in the
interior of Pennsylvania : he is so ugly that no game is found
within thirty miles of his residence. He one day encountered
a stray wild pigeon ; the bird gave one look, a piercing scream,
and fell at 'his feet perfectly dead.
SHARP REPLY.—Those two celebrated divines and scholars,
Drs. South and Sherlock, were once disputing on some reli-
gious subject, when the latter accused his opponent of using
his wit in the controversy. " Well," said South, " suppose it
had pleased God to give you wit, what would you have done?"

" I CANNA BE FASHED."—A clergyman dwelt in a quiet
rural district, where laziness is apt to grow upon a man. One
day his excellent spouse remarked to him at breakfast, " Mi-
nister, there's a bit o' butter on your neckcloth." " Weel,
weel, Janet, my dear," slowly responded the worthy pastor,
" when I get up it'll fa' aff."
HOSPITALITY HINDERED.—It is said that Hope has pur-
chased for 10,000 guineas the splendid malachite door shown
in the Russian department of the Great Exhibition. Should
this be the case, it may prove a check to the gentleman's hos-
pitality, for when a friend cornea to dine with him, he will most
probably show him the door.

The Jersey Times has an impromptu, written on seeing la-
dies' bonnets hung with blue shades:—
" 0 1 age of reverses, and times of disorder,
On which forlorn poets in vain would write sonnets;
Once, All the blue bonnets were over the border,'
Now, all the blue borders are over the bonnets !"

A DISTANT RELATION.—We saw yesterday a recommends•
tion written by an Irish friend of ours, in favour of a gentleman
who was an applicant for a commission in the army. Among
other things he says : " Mr. —is closely connected with the
President, his father having fought a duel with one of the
Polka."

REAL POLITENESS.—David Crockett, says the Boston Tran-
script, used to say of the late Philip Hone, with whom he was
in Congress, that he was the politest man he ever knew :
" 'Cause why?" said the Colonel, " he fillers puts his bottle
on the sideboard before lie asks you to drink, and then turns
his back so as not to see how much you take This," adds the
Colonel, " is what I call real perdteness."
ANTIQUITY OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE.—At a meeting at
Swansea lately, one of the speakers, the Rev. James James,
said that " Welshmen, excluded by their language from general
knowledge, were in the midst of human pro4ress like men
looking on some fair landscape at midnight. Their eyes were
good, and tte view was grand; but there was no light upon it
—yet the Welsh language had been spoken in. Eden, and would
last for ever." (Loud applause.) Only think of "The loveliest
pair that ever since in love's embraces met" speaking Welsh !

A CALL ON MR. CANTF.Lo.—Cestain " gentlemen" belong-
ing to the 15th Hussars and the 16th Lancers, who lately dis-
tinguished themselves in so eggs-traordinary a manner, paid
Mr. Cantelo's Hydro-Incubator, the other day, the " honour"
of a visit. It was observed that they wore shell-jackets, a pe-
culiarity in the uniform of those particular officers, prescribed,
by command, to commemorate their celebrated achievement
at Tooting and South Lambeth Gate. The gallant heroes ap•
neared to take much interest in the exhibition. evidently re-
garding with wonder, as sources of animal life, objects which
they had hitherto been accustomed to view principally in the
light of ammunition. They requested that any eggs on which
Mr. Cantelo's process might prove inoperative, might be sent
to their quarters.
PROPOSED ADDITION TO TUE ARMY.—The glorious exploit
performed by certain gallant officers, on the occasion of the
late famous retreat from Epsom, is well known. This brilliant
piece of service ought to he commemorated. Two modes pre-
sent themselves to lie. Punch, whereby an object so nearly
affecting the honour of her Majesty's army might be accom-
plished. One is the addition to each of the regiments where-
unto the heroes belong of an Egg Division. The other, and
perhaps the more eligible, is the establishment of a separate
corps, into which all those officers shall be drafted, and which
shall be distinguished by the title of the —th Regiment of
Guards (Black). Such a troop would be admirably calculated
for foreign service, for more reasons than one; but that one is,
that by valour such as theirs alone could we expect our ene-
mies ever to be brought completely under the yolk.—Punch.
A RARE PATRIMONY.—A young man of Nuremburg, who
bad no fortune, requested a lawyer, a friend of his, to recom-
mend him to a family where he was a daily visitor, and where
there was a handsome daughter who was to have a large for-
tune. He did so. The father inquired his means; the lawyer
said he did not exactly know, but he would inquire. The next
time he saw his young friend, lie asked him if he had any pro-
perty at all. " No," replied he. " Well," said the lawyer,
" would you suffer any one to cut off your nose, if he would
give you twenty thousand dollars for it?" (What an idea!)
" Not for the world 1" " 'Tis well," replied the lawyer; " I
had reason for asking." The next time he saw the girl's father,
he said "I have inquired about the young man's circumstances.
He has, indeed, no ready money, hut he has a jewel, for which,
to my knowledge, he has been offered and refused twenty
thousand dollars." This induced the father to consent to the
marriage, which accordingly took place, though it is said that
in the sequel he often shook his head when he thought of the
jewel.

HORTICULTURE.

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The Grand Horticultural and Agricultural Exposition
to be held at Tarvin-hall, in August next, has already in
its antecedents so far surpassed the original ideas of its
projectors, that it is impossible to estimate its ultimate
beneficial results. We can safely assert that so compre-
hensive a scheme as the schedule presents was never
before issued by any similar society. The general com-
mittee embraces every well-known practical man in the
three kingdoms in connection with agriculture and horti-
culture. The executive is more local, and limited to a
smaller number of well-practised hands. There will be
every variety of the produce of the garden, field, orchard,
and forest ; every kind of implement and mechanical
contrivance, even to vermin-traps and gate-latches; all
sorts of covering for fruit trees ; garden ornaments in
metal, stone, terracotta, &c. - garden statuary, fountains,
grotto-work, designs for villas, lodges, ornamental gar-
dens, &c., &c. ; in fact, more than was brought together
in London—while for the poultry an extensive aviary is
erecting. Already 500 yards of coloured tabling, and
more than an acre of ground space, is claimed by exhi-
bitors from London, Exeter, Cheshire, Plymouth,
Staffordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Birmingham, Man-
chester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Scotland,
Ireland, &c. A jury will be formed, and the prizes
distributed upon their awards on the plan of the
Great Exhibition of Industry. Such being the general
outline of this great undertaking, we think few will
deny that it presents a fair chance of breaking up
the whole system of petty provincial exhibitions,
and establishing a plan freer from unfairness and
heartburnings. We most heartily approve of it ; for,
after some years of active experience in these
matters, we can safely say that, with very few exceptions,
we never knew an ordinary flower-show to pass off without
dissatisfaction and grumbling to some parties. The
Marquis of Westminster and Sir Philip and Lady
Egerton take a lively interest in the matter ; and all the
surrounding nobility and gentry support it. Sir P.
Egerton will throw open Oulton Park and gardens to the
visitors during the whole week, and his example will
probably be followed by others. Free railway carriage
will be granted to a certain extent for the specimens to
be exhibited ; and a catalogue, with each article and
exhibitor's name, &c., will be issued. We hope to see
Liverpool take a prominent position in the show, such
as, from her situation and means, she is so well
entitled to.

GATHERING FRUIT.—The chief merit of the gardener,
in this respect [the management of ripe fruit], is the
supplying of the table with them in the utmost perfection ;
and the art of gathering, which is very little understood
or thought of, is a very essential and material article. I