The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

flarch 21, 184gi

SECURITY AGAINST RlOTS.—Penal enactments and
vigilant and vigorous police may, perhaps, secure Pe,',l;
in broad daylight in public streets ; but they. thus pn.
delude men by making them imagine that there 1!`,
spirit of peace in the national heart, while there is
peace. They can, indeed, dress up, as it were, the old
side of the mountain and can make it look fair an
flourishing with the Olives of peace and vines a 13'ien
but they cannot touch the volcano below, which is sal? 9
dering in its dark crater, and ready to burst forth 3!,,,
),
flood of fire. No ; they cannot repress turbulence in
national mind, or quell it in the secret haunts of elan2ch,
tine cabals. It is religion—it is religion alone—
can do this. It is the dread of judgment and of hell
..
which can give übiquity to law. It is the Gospel-4Y:
the Gospel alone—which can hallow a state, and con-
crate a throne, and shield the sovereign seated upon it.--
Dr. Christopher Wordsworth.
AN INFANT'S DEATH.—The death of a child! ;Ile
words are full of a strange and moving meaning: win
following spring, nightfall succeeding to dawn ?
ideas crowd upon the mind hand in hand with solelPto
truths. That little being who knew nothing here, pc*ce
know the end of all things ! That vacant intelligent
which wondered at the ticking of a watch, now to el;
stand the mystery of its own being ! My own child, w_.,l
was to hang upon my lips for instruction, now advanT,
where one word from its own would be a revelation 1"
me ! That helpless creature, borne from arm to arm`
guarded by day and watched by night, too shy to bear thel
approach of a strange face, now launched alone in lint
" vast profound," escorted' by intelligence divine
strange ! Will there be one among that crowd of °IV
franchised spirits who will claim an easthlY affinipAr
with it ? Will the little brother who departed a 1f„
ago recognize this as the babe who entered the bonus;
flesh as he was leaving them ? Or will it be °lli
of the first signs of a better existence that the ties °f
blood are not needed in it ! Of all the sorrows in t
world, that for the death of a young child brings i %
the readiest healing. Would you grudge its having
ceived promotion without paying the purchase money
the rights of citizenship without residence I—the certl.o
cate of humanity without the service ?—the end and
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of life without this weary life itself? The death of a c 011;,,
is an enigma, but one which solves many others. ,
mind may dream and wonder, and form strange eonciu
sions from the weakness of that life which has yielded to
the strong arm of death ; hut two truths remain distinct,
more plainly read on that cold marble church than on 3,11
other form of lifeless clay, and those are, the worthlebs"
ness of that breath which a child is summoned to render
up; and the freeness of that grace which a child is able t°
inherit.—Fraser.

THE FLIGHT OF LOUIS PHILIPPE.—A passenger by tie
Express steamer communicates to the Hampshire
pendent several interesting circumstances connected wl',l
Louis Philippe's voyage to this country. The vessel had
been lying off Havre for two days, when •‘ an old wslij
apparently lame, dressed in a large travelling cloak, an
his face nearly covered with a shawl, a pair of green sPe4.
tacles, and a travelling cap, came on board, assisted by
the British consul and Captain Goodridge. While cord:
ing on board; I heard the consul say to him, ' Take carer
uncle,' as if he was speaking to a relative, and war
him' to be careful how he stepped on the ladder. ~',
passenger was immediately conducted to the engineern
room (a most unusual place for a passenger to be sh°'ft,
into), but owing to its small size, and a fire burning in
he was unable to remain there, and was obliged to go Int
the saloon. As soon as the old gentleman was on boll':
Capt. Goodridge escorted an elderly lady down the
way. I heard her say to him, 'I am obliged to you.
in,
from her pronunciation I knew she was not an Engi's 5
woman. She was very plainly dressed. Her hair was :6
white as silver, and I thought I never saw a countenaria
in which anxiety, fatigue, and fear were so visibly depiote, 0
As soon as she was in the saloon, I could readily percei
that she had been, and still was weeping." We need 1t
say that it was the ex-King and Queen. " About fl'
night we were nearly run down by a large brig. No ves‘
sel ever had a more narrow escape than ours. We 01;
within three or four yards of the brig. Fortunately „
were going at about half speed. The noise and confusi...?"
on deck arising from this disaster aroused the passengers'
Her majesty rushed out from her cabin into the sale
exclaiming, Oh ! where is my dear gentleman rfe,a
King endeavoured to console her. She embraced b 7",,
affectionately, crying bitterly, and talked to him, 1930,1/
ing that his dangers were not yet over, notwithstanaincr
the many he had escaped. The King was much affecte,;
and he wept and sobbed violently. Her Majesty wre
implored to return to her cabin, but she declared that hisil
would not again leave the King, and she lay down by
side on the floor of the saloon during the remainder of the
night."
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TRIAL BY JURY IN AUSTRALIA.—A member of a tribe
has been speared by one of another tribe, who happens/0i
be patronised by a farm-settler, and is occasionally use's,
in hunting-up stray cattle. The friends of the, dead °3,.,
proceed to punish the assassin according to their own °
reditary laws; they surprise him suddenly, and spear _,"
r.
The farmer writes an account of the fact to the Protee;
of Natives at Perth ; and this energetic individual, rising
hastily from dinner, calls for his horse, and endowing
himself with a blue woollen shirt, and a pair of drage°
spurs, with a blanket tied round his waist, fearlessly coo'o
mits himself to the forest, and repairs to the scene
slaughter. He learns from the mouth of the farm-set,
tier, that the facts are really what he had been alreadY
prised of by letter; and then, having left word that theo
Fremantleffender m a
gaol,y be caught
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back n as
possible,againto i
and fs $z Soo r waed
to r
family ; and the next morning delivers a suitable reP:aid.
his excellency the governor of all that he has perform
In course of time the native is apprehended—betrayed of
a friend for a pound of flour—and brought to the ba!,,fp
justice. His natural defence would be that he cert°l-00
slew an enemy, as he is accused of having done, but 04;
it was a meretorious and necessary act ; he glories i°
of
his own laws required that he should slay the murderer,
his relative ; and his own laws therefore accuse him note
What are English customs, prejudices, or laws to 111'7„t
He is not a British subject, for he is is not the inhabita"),
of a conquered country (as English governors tell 131:il
nor has he, or any of his tribe or complexion, couse.o,
~
or wished to be placed under the protection of our
tfol
Why, then, should he be violently-dragged from the %iv
of his wilgied sqaws, and his little pot-bellied piccun
vies, and required to plead for his life in the midst of
large' room filled with frowning white faces ? 'lllTh
obliged is he to the judge, who kindly tells him, throuv,
the interpreter, that he is not bound to convict hilusetO
and need not acknowledge anything that may operate„,
his disadvantage in the minds of the jury. The unfort it
nate savage disregards the friendly caution, and hectre
not; he maintains, stoutly, that he gidgied W°'-ro
through the back, because Wornera had gidgied Dole
through the belly. He enters into minute details t,O ese
gentlemen of the jury of the manner in which w,
slaughters were effected, and describes the extentian°
rection of the wounds, and every other interesting Parts
cular that occurs to him. The gentlemen of the Intl(
after duly considering the considering the case, returure
necessity) a verdict of Wilful murder,' and the it°l
pronounces sentence of death, which is afterwards e°,T,6
muted by the governor to transportation for life to 0'
Isle of Rottnest.—The Bushman, by E. W. Landon.
JENNY LlND.—Whether the Swedish Nightingale re'r"
maintain her extraordinary fascination through arnor
season depends very much on the characters selected,„,
her. That she was placed in difficult and dangerous red
cumstances last year, that sometimes she scarcely railfo
us above conventional pleasure, and at others appeareu of
imminent peril of failure, is certain. The last oper°l,o-
Verdi, I Maanadiere, sorely tried her ; it was not irt',lo,
power to give interest to bombastic and artificial strne
or to forced and unnatural Situations. Never Was i 0
tragedy with more difficulty saved from a laugh, thaottj,
the scene in which she snatched the sword from Col, to•
We hope that her fine talent will no more be expo nv
such injudicious risks ; for it is plain that she has rtotl34
meretricious art of Malibran in adorning vapid music 1.
creating something out of nothing. Her genius requ'ri
to be developed with judgment ; in the expression of °li it,
domestic sentiment of the affections, in fidelity, elot,
goodness, and such sweet feminine portraiture, siJe her
tains the common ideal of mankind. In- tht„dieo
peculiar walk every bosom responds to her;.
she 0010. e
; ' the
in her own person the sentiments she utters : and the
natural constitution of her mind excludes from her tea
expression of dark and malignant passions, she is hou°lbeir
in the limit. Tones sacred to goodness are rarer in
emotion than those of mere wild passion, of which then
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an overflow in the world at all times. It will require Iv,
culler judgment and musical experience to create tj.l;4'S
gressive interest through the next season of Jenny -1"1 for
performance, assigned by common repo as the I°6'l.oo'
viteiiistiopnlalainrutnhaotf lmieordteinltstaaliraentoitpite-eraa.d—WapHeder:tfroenr tlgyjol
rather modern German than modern Italian. Nor
rap
she appear to in well (111!ivated dagalcsilleor
though she sings it vrith intelligence, simplicity,
nifest respect for the original. New characters ull„ db.*
sought for her, or, better still, her own selection sh°"ot be
adopted. Agatha in the Freyschiltz is one that calt°_,,fset
missed ; this is so well suited to her, that it prou.:oo,
higher interest than she has ever excited among osifole
seurs as Alice in Meyerbeer's Robert. Notwithsta'thot
the London enthusiasm, it is contended in Berlin' alt
Jenny Lind is no dramatic artist—an assertion tr
are certainly disposed to qualify, but which maY bo 0131
plained by the admitted limit of her powers, and lien
of effect in adorning the merely conventional. Heralds
ture is censured as too. confined; she "telegraphs
her arms too frequently, even to the verge of tli_ „ripe
crous. Her voice is the subject of more serious 1401'.

version :
so
• " It were absurd to deny that she possesses a high A
respect extraordinary degree of vocal cultivation ; an" killP"
musical ear will scarcely listen to her in any recitative6rugstteri
air without unpleasant disturbance. The whole of the trit
register of her voice is, as her admirers express it, veil! .4
is $
I cannot refrain from describing this impenetrable vets
intolerable hoarseness. It pervades even her high notes
as she begit s to force them." 1661;
If the writer who demonstrates this malicious critictibed
men had not also admitted the enchanting powers
song, we should have been disgusted with such an e';ija
of hypercriticism and acted singularity. But oe. sere
l"
more aware that there is foundation of truth in the`pin'
marks than the subject,of them. The voice ofJen,l!„YtOir
is a volume of great poWer and beautiful quality, u"toinfr
ject to sudden alterations, and apparently at tirne9ed
nageable. Her hoarseness was frequently obserybonoco
in g the last season, and the care with which she
notes which lay even moderately below the treble:lta o'j
obvious. In the little song, " Deb vieni," '4,rigilj"
Figaro, she was obliged to alter the notes of the, ‘,""ocePg;
ttoimalvooti.doticonacirhiwnagsmsoidfidilleeCin;ittshsoiumgpltlichietry ggilider:" -derne't
tetritte toe,
as to create a breathless interest in the house•
is, that the tenure of Mademoiselle Liod's v,°l: of hj'er
ipniolfea‘se:eyreei,sn‘iip,sheeice:itellrisaiirelnypheafnrsadgeinxilgpee:rinettliitidacetidieternimoire)ortaittaYn'o%,:piiit
said to be ever more or less alloyed lwdigtillt.tlyhitsridure'::ll.lllrl
any, case, if report speak true, her public car,_",..l: memo
belong, and,.for the rest, we would have il_,..Traer.
oxibidwed in the recollections of good rata,—