The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

The Puppet Show thinks it rather droll, that people
who get their bones broken by railway collisions, over-
turnings, &c. &c., are not content without going to law
for more " damages."
FEARGIIS O'CONNOR AND THE PRESS.—In last week's
Northern Star, Mr. O'Connor addresses a few words to
" the Pressgang," commencing thus :—" Come on ye
cripples! come on ye prostitutes! you villains! you mur-
derers ! you plunderers ! you beasts ! you haven't the
merit of prostitutes ; they, poor souls, obey their pas-
sions, their natural passions ; you obey your unnatural
lusts You poor drivelling sycophants, you hired
slaves, you set of profligates ! You brutes ! ... Savages !
.... Hirelings !.... you monsters !. ... these ruffians !"
Oh dear ! This boy will certainly be the death of us !
A HunsoN's BAY TOILET.—The manner of dressing
ourselves to resist the cold was curious. We will describe
C—, as a type of the rest. After donning a pair of
deer-skin trowsers, he proceeded to put on three pair of
blanket socks, and over these a pair of moose-skin mo-
cassias. Theu a pair of blue cloth leggius were hauled-
over his trowsers, partly to keep the snow from sucking
to them, and partly for warmth. After this he put on a
leather capote. edged with fur. This coat was very warm,
being lined with flannel, and overlapped very much in
front. It was fastened with a scarlet worsted belt round
the waist, and with a loop at the throat. A pair of thick
mittens made of deerskin hung round his shoulders by a
worsted cord, and his neck was wrapped in a huge shawl.
over the mighty folds of which his good-humoured visage
beamed like the sun on the edge of a fog-bank. A fur
cap with ear-pieces, completed his costume.—Ballantyre's
Hudson Bay,
" THE ARISTOCRACY."—Why talk about the yoke of
the Aristocracy ? Who groans under the yoke of the
Aristocracy ? Does Mr. Tomkins. the grocer, or Mr.
Hopkins, the chandler, or Mr. Dobbins, the shoemaker ?
How and in what way are Dobbins, Tomkins, and Hop-
kins oppressed ? Is the Peerage against them ? Is it the
country gentlemen ? Again, whom do they mean by the
Aristocracy ? To hear some speeches, and read some
books one might imagine that we were living in Venice,
under a narrow, inapproachable, unelastic Aristocracy—a
class despotic in government, unpopular in character, and
uncongenial in blood—a caste incapable of fusion or of
access, and raised at once above the sympathies and the
alliances of the commonality. Now, that the reverse of
this is so every schoolgirl that has read a novel and every
mother that has thumbed the " Peerage" knows. What,
then, can be thought of the intelligence of persons
clamouring about the tyranny of the Aristocracy ? Does
not every man know that his children may—if they work
hard enough, and have health, strength, and wit enough
—sit in the august house the carving and gilding of which
inspires their admiration? Or have they yet to learn that
of the leading statesmen for the last 160 years, one half
sprung from the untitled gentry of England, and one
half from its commonalty ? Did Walpole belong to the
Aristocracy of the day ? Did Hardwicke ? Did Chatham ?
Did Clive ? Did Nelson ? Did Burke ? Did Sidmouth?
Did Eldon ? Did Canning ? Did Wilberforce ? Did
Brougham ? Does Peel ? Does Gladstone ? Do Hume
and Cobden ? What was Lord Eldon's grandfather ?
What Sir R. Peel's ? What Lord Melbourne's ? Why,
the most superficial knowledge of the most recent history
might inform a man that, so far from the Aristocracy
oppressing or keeping down the people, no class since
the brightest period of Roman policy has been so elastic,
so adoptive, and so popular as the Aristocracy of England.