The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

7Ateraturr.

'WEST SCENERY.—At the further end of this
little Cuba town there seemed a grand slow! where the
clustered dwellings sank, intermixed with tall, spreading,
tropical plants, whose close neighbourhood to the houses
qualify all commercial appearances-with the wildness and
rusticity of streaming branches and the gayest greens in-
discriminately interweaving with gleaming walls, and
paint, and white wood. Back from the town, and ascend-
ing widely, were small savannahs, profu,e of trees, and
here and there enlivened by great plantation houses. with
their constant appendages, and perhaps a tall staff, from

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VARIETIES

GEORGE THE THIRD'S MOTHER.—Papers were stuck
up at the Royal Exchange and in Westminster-hall with
these words—" No Petticoat Government—no Scotch
fav,urite"—an intemperance which proceeded so lir af-
terwards, that as the king passed in his chair to visit his
mother in an evening, the mob asked him if he was going
to suck ? The Princess herself was obliged to discon-
tinue frequenting thc theatres, so gross and insulting
were apostrophes with which she was saluted from the

which floated the crimson and gold bands of the old Spa-
nish monarchy. Farther on, rose forest and cultivated
grounds, tall, woody masses, thick as clouds, dim and
blue in heir luxuriant stretches, clasping and oversweep-
ing blue rocks, and the whole scene beheld under all the
ardour of a filming, flaring, West Indian sun, broke away
into the giganqc ridges of the inland mountains, whose
towering precip'ces in some places were advanced berore
heights of the reach of eight thousand feet above the level
of the sea. These mountains, though seen at an extraor-
dinary distance, shone clear blue, a colour which melted
into pale mist, as it descended from the distant summits,
in a sky whose light seemed the effect of half a dozen suns.
—Jennings' Marine Memorandum Book.
RUSSIAN GAMBLING.—TiIe Russians continue, to this
day, the most inveterately abandoned to the perils of play
of any people in the world. We have ourselves turned for
a few brief minutes in the Kur-Seal at Ems, to watch, on
our way through that thoreughfore, the frenzy of Russian
daring at the game of hazard. We have seen noblemen
staking, as deputies for fair Muscovite princesses, who
calmly won or lest sums that would have paid and clothed
every destitute creature in the duchy of Nassau. At one
of these German tables, placed to catch those eho would
perhaps fain have passed on their way to innocent relaxa-
tion, we have seen a mother seated and playing " high ;"
on her knee sat her daughter, a fair child who had scarcely
passed her second lustre : and this poor thing was playing
too—flinging her little ventures into the abyss of chance,
and awaiting with feverish anxiety and painful excitement
the issue of her hazard. We have, moreover, beheld the
whole Russian court, with the heir apparent to the throne
tiny RINGS.—It happened once, on a journey to vi- at their head, crowding round the green carpeted table,
^1 and beautiful monastery of Batalha, in and losing or winning royal ransoms with the greatest
-ead we were overtaken by one of equanimity : while behind the glittering crowd, so occu-
ident to hot climates, pied, towered the majestic figure of the emperor, looking
light movements of calmly on, slve when a smile crossed his fine features as
ere. Whilst taking fate, perhaps, declared itself suddenly hostile to one whose
the forked lightning boldness it hart hitherto encouraged. No one could have
,`4oon afterwards been at Ems during tile last imperial visit there, in 1840,
or gas tloatinc; slowly without having these scenes forced upon his notice. They
mg their circular form, enlar. ing were enacted in a locality so public that to be blind to
*.ely, until they ultimately settled them were impossible.—Church of England Quarterly.
d In a day or two af- THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE lll.—princess Amelia,
~ I observed on the as soon as she was certain of her father's death, sent an
two or three inches account of it to the Prince of Wales ; but he had already
c circumferences
_or rings had been apprised of it. He was riding, and received a note

galleries.
CURIOUS ANTIPATHY

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~erman valet-de-chimbre attendant on the late
_ .save been king, with a private mark agreed upon between them,
_ ,ne ges, and ithas which certified him of the event. Without surprise or
.aee place in the new exile- emotion, without dropping a word that indicated what
.egetation by electric rods and had happened, he said his horse was lame, and turned
y I have always observed that these back to Kew. At dismounting, he said to the groom,
ofter thunder storms ; and 1 " I have said this horse is lame ; and I forbid you to say
~enon, the contrary."
e related. RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT.—Large portions of Europe
seem to be like a bee-hive, all stir and noise just now,
noon religious questions. At no day since the time of
Martin Luther and John Knox, has the public mind there
been so much roused. We see this in the Pusevite move-
ment of England ; in the disruption of the Church of
Scotland; in the expulsion of the Jesuits from France;
in the convulsions of Switzerland ; and in the great Ger-
manic excitement headed by John Ronge. We hear
mournings over this state of things, and fear expressed as
to the re-ult. As well look on the bright side, and let
`,O future! A Inovernent so wide-soread—

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end, as Lutber's
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