The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-17 00:00:00

LO, THE LIMES OF THE FIELD.

Lo, the lilies of the field,
Ilow their leaves instruction yield !
Hark to Nature's lesson given
By the blessed birds of heaven!
Every bush and tufted tree
Warbles sweet philosophy ;
•• Mortal, fiy from doubt and sorrow,
God provideth for the morrow !

" Say, with richer crimson glows
The kingly mantle than the rose?
Say, have kings more wholesome fare
Than we poor citizens of air ?
Barns nor hoarded grain have we,
Yet we carol merrily,
Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow !
Cod provideth for the morrow !

" One there lives whose guardian eye

Guides our humble destiny ;
One there lives, who, Lord of all,
Keeps our feathers lest they fall!
Peas we blithely, then, the time,
Fearless of the snare and lime,

Free from doubt and faithless sorrow :
God provideth for the morrow !"

Iir.BLR.

THS THELLUSON PROPERTY.—When the late Mr. Thelluson
died, in the year 1791, his property produced an annual income
of about £20,000 a year. By his will his property was directed
to be accumulated in the way of compound interest, during the
lives of all his descendants living at his death, or born within
nine months afterwards. A main argument used against the
validity of the trusts was, that from the ordinary duration of
human life, when the accumulation ceased, the fund would
amount to seventy millions, and that if the whole centered in a
minor, he would, by the time he attained his full age, possess a
revenue exceeding the civil list, and would be able, by the mere
force of wealth, to derange the civil polity of the country.
These were magnificent dreams, but the waking reality has
proved somewhat different, and so far as the ultimate issue can
now be guessed at, there seems no Freund for the alarm above
suggested. No descendant of Mr. '1 helluson will be richer than
the King, and even if Schedule A bad still been in existence, it
is to be doubted if the most judicious application of the Thellu-
son property when full grown would purchase a step in tip
Peerage. In one word, the gross annual proceeds in 1801,
exceeded £20,000, as above stated; and the gross proceeds in
1831, after thirty years accumulation, in the way of compound
interest, amounted to £22,000 and a fraction. The net sum
paid into the accumulating Auld in the year 1828, was £16,000
and a fraction, in the year 1829 it was reduced to £12,000, and
the addition made to die accumulated fund iu the year 1830, bad
shrunk to £10,540. The error of this testator was, that he
considered enormous wealth as a positive good, without reference
to its enjoyment; and the fruit of his care and pains has been
to occasion a waste of property altogether unexampled in the
affairs of an individual. His fortune is still completely locked
up, and the accumulation is proceeding at the snail's pace
above noticed, while his descendants are struggling with all the
hardships which attend narrow circumstances. It is well known
that the fortune of the present Lord Rendlesham (the son of the
testator's eldest son) it perhaps insufficient for a private gentle-
man, and totally inadequate to the support of his rank. His
brothers are still more slenderly provided for, while some of the
descendants of another son are actually suffering all the miseries
of destitution.

The first gleams of light disclosed land. It was a long blue-
looking ridge rising_ out of the water. A gun was fired, which
brought a pilot: We learned, as he stepped on board, that the
land before us was the Isle of Wight, and that we were near
Cowes. All eyes were upon him as he passed along the deck.
The-first person that comes on ship-board after a voyage seems
like a new link to human existence. When he took his station
at the helm, I heard the commodore ask bow the Needles bore ?
"Ahead north," he answered. "Does the wind set right,
and have you enough?" "Ay." This closed all dialogue, as
far as I heard. He remained at his post, giving his laconic or-
ders. In good time we approached the Needles—the spectable
was grand. Our officers gazed in admiration; the very men,
who swarmed upon the deck, made a pause to look upon the
giddy height. The most exact steering seemed necessary to
save the ship from the sharp rocks that compress the waters in-
to the narrow strait below. But she passed easily through.
There is something imposing in entering England by this ac-
cess. I afterwards entered at Dover, in a packet from Calais;
my eye fixed upon the sentinels as they sloWly paced the
heights. But those cliffs, bold as they are, and immortalised
by Shakspeare, did not equal the passage through the Needles.
'1 here was a breathless curiosity also in the first approach, aug-
menting its intrinsic grandeur. In a little while we anchored
off Cowes. If the Needles were a grand sight, the one now
before us was full of beauty. Castles, cottages, villas, gardens,
were scattered on all sides. When we left our own country,
the leaves had fallen, and the grass lust its green; but now, al-
though the•season was inure advanced, and we had got to a
higher latitude; a general verdure was to be seen. This was
doubtless the effect in part of exquisite cultivation, and in part
of the natural moisture and mildness of the climate of this part
of England. As we looked all round after so immediately
emerging from the gloom of the ocean it seemed like enchant.
ment. *
It is a remark of Humboldt, that no language can express the
emotion that a European naturalist feels when he touches for
the first time American land. May not the remark be reversed
by saying, that no language can express the emotion which al-
most every American feels when he first touches the shores of
Europe? This feeling must have a special increase, if it be the
case of a citizen of the United States going to England. Fler
fame is constantly before him. He hears of her statesmen, her
orators, her scholars, her philosophers, her divines, her patriots.
in the nursery he learns her
ballads. Her poets train his ima-
gination. Her language is his, with its whole intellectual
riches, past, and for ever newly dowiug—a tie, to use Burke's
figure, light as air, and unseen ; but stronger than links of iron,
In spite of political differences, her glory allures him; in spite
of hostile collision, he clings to her lineage. After Captain De-
eutur's capture of a British frigate, some one asked him if his
forefathers were not French ? " No, I be pardon," he an-
swered, "they were English." In that spirit would his coun-
trymen general!), answer. Walking the (leek with two of our
lieutenants, while sounding up the channel, Think," said one
of them, "that wg may be in the track of the Armada!" and
they talked of the liesome queen at Tilbury. These are irre-
pressible feelings in an American. His native patriotism takes
a higher tone from dwelling on. the illustrious parent stock,—
places and incidents that easgbshinen pass by fill his imarna..
tion. He sees the past in coil: sanction with the present. 'I hree
thousand miles, said Franklin, are as three thousand years.—
Intervention of space seems to kindle enthusiasm, like inter-
*ention of time. Is it not fit that two such nations should be
*friends Let us hope so. It is the hope which every minis-
ter from the United States should. carry with him to Eng-
land..
It is the hope in which every British minister of
roate should meet him. If, nevertheless, rivalry is in. the
stature' of things, at least let it be on. fair principles. Let it be
generous, never paltry, never malignant.—Rusles Narrative
of a Residence at the Court of London.