The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-07 00:00:00

EATING.—If we are really to defend the necessity of
eating in this world, we ought to proceed logically and
categorically. In the first place,' it is an eating world,
and seems to have been made on purpose for eating and
being eaten; and really the greater part of the animal
creation seem to have nothing else to do. Man, indeed,
writes books; but even the end of these is that he may
eat, or rather that his bookseller and publisher may. It
is, moreover, true, that every animal eats as much as it
can procure, and as much as it can hold. A cow eats but
to sleep, and sleeps but to eat, and, not content with
eating all day long, " twice it slays the slain," and eats
its dinner o'er again. A whale swallows 10,000;000 of
living shrimps at a draught; a nursling canary,birds eats
its own bulk in a day; and a caterpillar eats 500 times its
weight before it lies down to rise a butterfly. The mite
and the maggot eat the very world in which they live;
and the hyena' for want of better food, eats himself. Yet
the maggot has not got the gout, and the whale is not
subject to the sciatica. Nor does Captain Lyon inform
us that the Esquimaux is troubled with tootheache, dys-
pepsia, or hysterics, though he eats ten pounds of seal,
and drinks a gallon of oil at a meal.—Domestic Economist.
THE ANGLO-SAXON RA CE. —We copy the following
from a Buffalo paper:—ln 1620 the Anglo-Saxon race
numbered about 6,000,000, and was confined to England,
Wales, and Scotland; and the combination of which it is
the result was not more than half-perfected, for neither
Wales nor Scotland was half Saxonised at the time. Now
it numbers 60,000,000 of human beings, planted upon all
the islands and continents of the earth, and increasing
everywhere by an intense ratio of progression. It is fast
absorbing or displacing all the sluggish races or barbarous
tribes of men that have occupied the continents of Ame-
rica, Africa, Asia, and the islands of the ocean. If no
great physical revolution supervene to check its propa-
gation, it will number 800,000,000 of human beings in
less than 150 years from the present time, all speaking
the same language, centered to the same literature and
religion, and exhibiting all its inherent and inalienable
characteristics. Thus the population of the earth is fast
becominug Anglo-Saxonised by blood. But the English
language is more self-expansive and aggressive than the
blood of that race. When a commnnity begins to speak
the English language, it is half Saxouised even if not a
drop of Anglo-Saxon blood runs in its veins. Ireland
was never colonised from England like North America
or Australia, but nearly the whole of its 7,000,000 or
8,000,000 already speak the English language, which
is the preparatory step to being entirely absorbed
into the Anglo-Saxon race, as one of its most vigor-
ous and useful elements, Everywhere the English lan-
guage is gaining upon the languages of the earth, and pre-
paring those who speak it for this absorption. The young
generation of the East Indies is learning it ; and it is pro-
bable that within fifty years 65,000,000 of human beings,
of Asiatic race, will speak the language on that continent.
So it is in the United States. About 50,000 emigrants
from Germany and other countries of continental Europe
are arriving in this country yearly. Perhaps they cannot
speak a word of English when they first land on our
shores ; but in the course of a few years they master the
language to some extent. Their children sit upon the
same benches in our common schools with those of native
Americans, and become as they grow up, and diffuse
themselves among the rest of the population, completely
Anglo-Saxonized. Thus the race is fast occupying, and
subduing to its genius, all the continents and islands of
the earth. The grandson of many a young man who
reads these lines will probably live to see the day when
that race will number its 800,000,000 of human beings.
Their unity, harmony, and brotherhood must be deter-
mined by the relations between Great Britain and the
United States. Their union will be the union of the two
worlds. If they discharge their duty to each other and
to mankind, they must become the united heart of the
mighty race they represent, feeding its myriad veins with
the blood of moral and political life. Upon the state of
their fellowship then, more than upon the union of any
two nations on earth, depends the well.beins of humanity,
the peace and progress of the worlds