The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

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unintellectual people ; that hig.,.., _ ,d tastes are "An odd epistle ; written in a good, strong, steady hand
not to be found amongst our mercantile community, or for a dying man."—Ershine'sßesting Places of the Great.
that literary and scientific talent is altogether wanting ALL THE WORLD HAVING GONE TO THE GREAT EXHl-
amongst us. Our few institutions, established with a BITION, MR. SANDBOYS HAS TO DRIVE HIS OWN PIG TO
view to mental and intellectual improvement contain BE KlLLED.—Scarcely had Elcy petitioned her brother for
members of whom any community might be proud • and, the gentle treatment of her pet " piggy," than, crack:
amongst these, not the least worthy is the rev. author of Jobby, who held the whip at the gate, while his father ad-
the pamphlet before us, who has traced the course of our justed the reins, sent a flanker on the animal's hind guar-
deficiency in this respect—and we think correctly—to the ters. Away went " piggy," and we regret to say, away
want of educational and other facilities for enabling our went the innocent Sandboys, not after, but with him—
enquiring and studious youth to avail themselves, at a and precisely in the opposite direction to what he had in-
reasonable cost, of the accumulated stores of knowledge tended. " Cwoley," the dog, who had been dancing
compiled for us by preceding generations, or of those round the pig at the gate, no sooner saw the animal start
prepared for us, from time to time, by the present. 'We off at score, than entering into the spirit of the scene, he
have no great public schools, which can afford to hold out gave full chase, yelping, and jumping, and snapping at
adequate rewards to the diligent ; no great public library him, so that the terrified porker fetched sharp round upon
of reference, in which the student can gain access to the Sandboys, and bolted straight up the mountain side.
costly volumes of our elder writers in history, antiqui- Now, to the stranger it should be made known, that
ties, philosophy, or science. One excellent collection of climbing the fells of Cumberland is no slight task—even
works we have at the Atheneum Library ; but its doors when the traveller is allowed to pick his steps ; but, with
are closed to all but the shareholders and subscribers, and a pig to lead, no choice but to follow, and a dog behind to
its tomes are rarely disturbed upon their shelves. The urge the porker on, the operation becomes one of consi-
Liverpool Library, at the Lyceum, contains also many dcrable hardship, if not peril. Moreover, the mountain,
valuable and costly works; but that portion of it which over which Mr. Sandboys' pig had chosen to make his
course, was called "the Moss," or ' Morass " from its
consists of novels and light literature engrosses the great-
portion of the attention of the subscribers. Thethrough
peculiar' swampy character. U ) went the pig,,
Museum of Natural History, too, Contains books of great i and furze, and holly-bush, and up by the stunted
oracken,
value ; but these are exclusively confined to those bran- oaks, and short-cut stumps, and straight on, up through
ches of learning appropriate for the Institution itself. the larches, over the rugged clump aboYhe Hassness ;fand
Dr. Hume suggests that probable the proprietors of the i up went Mr. Sandboys, over
freshand througeTs7oneo the
Atheneum and the Liverpool Libraries might be induced 1 making a rent in I !_. trousers at
to permit their collections of standard literature and every " whin-bush"—scratched, torn,
same obstacles,
panting, slipping,
books of reference to be placed together in a central
and—if we must confess it—swearing; now, tumbling,
situation to form the nucleus of a reading library, to betile pig
open to all, with proper restrictions • and contends that holding on to him, for grim death. But if it were difficult
in such an Institution they would be almost equally ac- to ascend a Cumberland fell with a pig in front, how
cessible as now to their present proprietors.
Some valuable suggestions are thrown out as to im- tryingpi
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Cwoley
turnedthe looked
provements capable of being effected in our public schools ; much more
do
the Collegiate, the Royal Institution, and the Mechanics. drawgnuetdhielimp, reel
,ysiatowushismicoteinrktaibnefuep whichreh porker
him." It
requiredlpter had
We cannot however enter into these in such a notice as but a' slight momentum to start him ; then, away they all
the present ; but must refer the reader to the pamphlet three went together—in racing technology " you might
itself, which he will find worthy of attentive perusal. have covered them with a sheet"—the dog barking, and
the pig squeaking, and dragging Mr. Sandboys down the
hill, at a rate that promised to bring him to the bottom
with more celerity than safety. Unfortunately, too, the
pig took his course towards the beck formed by the tor-
rent at the " Goat's Gills ;" and no sooner did it reach
the ravine, than, worried by the dog, it precipitated itself
and Mr. Sandboys right down into the foaming, but
luckily not very deep, waters. But, if it were not deep,
the bottom of the beck was at least stony; and there, on
his back, without breath to cry out, lay the wretched
Sandboys, a victim to his theory, his coat skirtless, his
pantaloons torn to shreds, and the waters curling white
about him, with the driving string in his hand, cut by the
sharp eraigs in his fall—while the legs, the loin, the gris-
kin, and the chine—that were to have consoled, the family
for weeks, were running off upon the pettitoes which he
had privately set aside for his own supper on some quiet
evening.-1851; or the Adventures of Mr, and Mrs.
S'andboys.

We are compelled to postpone notices of Blackwood and
the Dublin University magazines, and several pamphlets,
&c. Frazer s, for February, has not come to hand ; and
we may state here that we shall not in future notice any
serial which is not sent us regularly.

VARIETIES

CURING AN INTERNAL DISURDER.—Croker told me
that some of his countrymen brought a man before the
magistrate for murder, because one with whom be had
quarrelled and fought died the same evening. It appeared
upon inquiry the deceased had complained of a pain in his
bowels, and that they to relieve him had determined upon
spreading the gripe. The way this was effected was by
laying the patient on his back, and then putting a plank
on his belly upon which all the company stood and jumped.
—Southey's Commonplace Book.