The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-23 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAKO.

THE EARL OP " RIBBON."-A member of Brookes's saying,
in the healing of Sam Rogers, that Goderich's was the latest
promotion in the Peerage—" Rather the Earl-iest, from his
rank, I should say; was the old joker's reply. "He did not
get the ' Garter,' though," continued the member of the mena-
gerie. " No! (said Sam,) he was obliged to put up with the
title instead—Earl of ' Ribbon.' "

• METAPHORS.—The following novel and interesting intelli-
gence is contained in the Clonmel Advertiser " Wheat is
looking up since our last." A Waterford paper improved
upon the
.phrase, by announcing to the bacon-merchants—
' Dead pigs are looking up."
FORCE OF PREJUDICE.—The Turks call every stranger to
this day a Frank, no matter in what part of the world he may
have been born. The people of Poland believe all mankind,
except the Russians, are Germans; and it is a popular belief
with them that Germany extends from Poland westward to the
end of the earth.—Here's a discovery ! What will Tom Camp-
bell say to the enlightened state of the Owskis, Wowskis, and
Powskis ?" Their knowledge of geography is paradoxical:
it is evklent by the above that it is very limited, yet who at the
same time can deny that their ideas extend from "Pole to
Pole."

They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility; for certainly
man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and if he be not of kin
to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It de-
stroys, likewise, magnanimity, and the raising of human nature
for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and
courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a
man, who to him is instead of a god, or better nature; which
courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confi-
dence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So
man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protec-
tion and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human na-
ture in itself could not obtain: therefore, as atheism is in all
respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of
the means to exalt itself above human frailty.—Lord Bacon.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE Loan EXMOUTH.—An example
of his noble feeling was shewn on the 26th of January, 1796,
when, by his great personal exertions, he preserved the crew
and passengers of the " Putton" transport, which, crowded
with troops and their families, proceeding on the expedition to
the West Indies, was driven on the rocks under the citadel at
Plymouth. The account of this act of benevolence is given in
his own words, when Captain Edward Pellew, in a private
letter to a friend :—" Why do you ask me to relate the Wreck
of the " Dutton ?" Susan (Lady Exmouth) and I were driving
to a dinner party at Plymouth, when we saw crowds running to
the Hoe ; and learning it was a wreck, I left the carriage to
take her on, and joined the crowd. I saw the loss of the whole
five or six hundred was inevitable, without somebody to direct
them : for the last officer Was pulled on shore as I reached the
surf. 1 urged their return, which was refused; upon which I
made the rope fast to myself, and was hauled through the surf
on board, established order, and did not leave her until every
soul was saved but the boatswain, who would not go before
me. I got safe, and so did he, and the ship went to pieces;
but I was laid in bed for a week by getting under the main-
mast (which had fallen towards the shore) ; and my back
was cured by Lord Spencer's having conveyed to me by
letter His Majesty's intention to dub me a baronet. No more
have I to say, except that I felt more pleasure in giving to a
mother's arms a dear little infant only three weeks old, than
I ever felt in my life ; and both were saved. The struggle
she had to entrust me with the bantling was a scene I cannot
describe ; nor need you, and consequently you will never let
this be visible." It is added by the writer of the memoir,
"This injunction has been scrupulously observed, until now
that the seal of secrecy is removed by his death."—United
Service Journal.