The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

iy 23, 1848.

Etttra turf.
VARIETIES.
• . ---rican Sun advises Louis Philippe to go to
farms nea, to embark his sons in trade, or purchase them
ine! and offers him a place for his grandson in the
French editorial depart meat of his journal.
OMAIV2II OF REFINEMENT.—A correspondent of
o!firolk Chronicle states that he lately witnessed a
'cheveaux de frize of parasols in the hands of the
° en of the national School at lialesworth !
inrion•—lloan a daughter-in-law be her mother-
% w's mother-winc-law ? Anstver.—An old widower
fr.rned Gregory had an only daughter. Mr. Johnson, his
lead, had also an only daughter. Mr. Gregory fell in
be
se s
Gregory.• itl‘ I is s Johnson Mr. Johnson, in turn, with
They were married, and thus each lady
ecame• .
tentiemamotaer-m-law to her mother-in-law, and each
wi a married his daughter's daughter-in-law.
aibr.h oF LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET.—The late
rno lithsh
tllon. Lord Granville Somerset, M.P. for Mon-
o haire, who died on the 23d of February, at the age
d executed his will in the year 1842, commencing
te`o• the se impressive words :—" This is my last will and
aeient. I commend my soul to that glorious Trinity
oh_ - power I recognise, whose commands I have dis-
n;Yrsetle,(fibautitoo,:t of my Saviour."osemercya forgiveness I rely through
tiii?9,..Loataar AND BARMOUTH.—When we approached
a! prenchenfels and the first scenes of the Rhine's glory,
aiseetvant of my friend R-----, well cognizant of his native
pirethshire, asked me if this was the Rhine, which he
grrirtioeisard was so beautiful ? I told him we were not yet
most striking gorges, but that this was thei rs
Celle, of which so much had been written.
ttsaid the 'honest Welshman, " I think we can match
w`at's %Ten Dolgelly and Barmouth." "Indeed, you can,"
any that, and surely the Welshman was right. Let
reor that has knowledge of the two scenes call to me-
with glorious estuary reposing in beauty and crowded
to thradt (Lela' look down its avenue of sparkling water
'll°l glanceilt sea, glistening in the western light ; let
spriakidma°ll, the one side at its curving shore-of oak-
other to
---as edged and broken by rock, and on the
all
respect
pillared precipices of Ceder Idris, and theu,
.11.4hin_eintesetseect to the noble substance of the flowing
the fa; gaze at its vine-spotted banks, and sal if there is
oitato approach to rivalry.—Talfourd s Vacation
C-13" Um,. Once when he waeittaytns.:wittrlakt
eke at Holkha well-known professor was also one
Of the visitors. mill: venerable historian had never had a
ph in his hand, but on this occasion Mr. Coke persuaded
"al to aceom any the shooting party ; care, however,
taken to place him at a corner of the covert, where
Las
!' was thought the other sportsmen would be out of his
'each. When the rest of the party came up to the spot
'there he was standing, Mr. Coke said to him, " Well;
!hat sport ? You have been firing pretty often ! '
hush !" said the professor, " there it goes again !"
tad he was just raising his gun to his shoulder, when a
man walked very quietly from the bushes about 70 yards
in front of him. It was one of the beaters who had
.been
sent to stop the pheasants, and his leather gaiters, dimly
182 n.. through the bushes, had been mistaken for a hare
Lfthe professor, who, much surprised by its tenacity of
had been firing at it whenever he saw it move.
tut," said Mr. Euxton, " the man had never disco-
ver
ed that the professor was shooting at him !" Life of
S'O.
F. Buxton.
:4 ADNNELL'S CHARACTER OF LORD NORBURY.—
Thet seemly character of the bench was in the hands of
bad keeper when committed to the care of Lord Nor-
ea"rY All who remember him as he presided in court,
h.. 11 bear witness that nothing appeared to delight him so
puns as the uproar of merriment created by his volleys of
man What is your calling and occupation my honest
?' he once asked a witness. ` Please your Lordship,
cep a racket court." So do reoined Lord Nor-
' 'Y' in gratified allusion to the racket which his witti-
eistes
jek_ constantly excited in court. It was an appropriate_
;otaothtehre,sburial of a joking, hanging judge—that jest of
diA e
ropeaspprentice that Brophy the dentist told me.
thatal teti'hthey were burying Norbury, the grave was so deep
by which they were letting down the coffin
not reach the bottom of it. The coffin remained hang-
, Agemid dept
don't' Leried a h, while somebody was sent for more rope.,
L 0
a eilut hicsbntcher's 'prentice ' give him rope enoughe
; He was the boy that never grudged rop
poor body !' It is told of Lord Norbury, that when
Passing sentence of death on a man convicted of stealing a
e'''en, he said to the culprit, ' My, good fellow, you utade
o,gPc2aP at time; but, egad, you caught eternity.' "
R .‘%9 time;
Recollections.
p EPUBLICAN PARIS. is there any former lover of
hit's who imagines that, when the barricades of the last
Orrection have been removed, the devastations re aired
re: the street lanterns mended. Paris will wear, with t
binean face, the same aspect as it did of old ? If there
aet.-„"e° a man, let him still cherish the fond delusion, and
tr„l3-4er• ne and see. Or, would he learn the truth, let him
tei'Vle experiment of taking from the Lirest face he knows
the 'eyes the gay, coquettish cap of gauze and ribbon,
f`tut: hot:
butterfly-like- chef-d'ceuvre of the most. tasty
os--cY of a French marchande des modes, and let him put
to- that head the Phrygian cap of liberty, the bonnet rouge,
pee its startling coarseness of red cloth. He thinks,
The aPs, that the face will be the same, or at least wear
mated
Battle expression as before ! Fatal mistake
gay with colour,
flushed with the red reflected
hats, picture-like even, may be the pretty face—but it will
57ve utterly lost its former charm ; it will look staring,
(I's!gar,- swaggering, disordered, at best Bacchante:like.
bag to take a more psychological comparison, let him think
m
,the upon the time when he was in love, and wandered in
loeke(Priany of the beloved, and try to remember how he
afh,,em °Pen the objects that surrounded him. Of a surety,
,hatver their natural want of beauty, they wore a pecu-
col° of brightness ; there was a magical veil of rose-
ored charm upon all. Let him then reflect upon the
rerat,:t°,s,lt,h,e same spot when she was gone. The objects
air tol Lee same, but certainly they wore not the same
looked "zs eyes; they were the identical objects he bad
were changedaef, and who he could have sworn that they
;,that the le landscape was discoloured.
Ole .`"s with Paris. Streets, squares, and houses are
they me. but its moral appearance is totally altered :
the a changed look in the very air; the impression on
the mind is as different as rose-colour is from gray upon
blarie-„ dase ; the phychological tint has been washed out,
scrib,,,, away, and replaced by a troubled, confused, inde-
leooF'Y unharmonious and uncongenial colour.—Black-
,rn 8 Magazine.
REV• DR, M'NEILE ON THE DEFENCE OF Pa..o-
Niei;4l".rism.—At the meeting of the British Reformation
eliair—Y on Thursday week, the Earl of Canan took the
laldr' and the Rev. Hugh M'Neile made a powerful
it is 0,58, which he opened as follows :—" In every warfare
slaehn important part of good generalship to take a com-
-1,0 'nslve view of the position occupied, so that we may
and no
the real nature of the enemy we have to oppose,
sole,net, spend our strength on one point while we leave
%); - °tiler point unguarded, where that enemy may dis-
kingel' our weakness. (Hear.) Mr. Bevan referred to a
if red Institution, which has aimed at the preservation,
tettihle, of what is commonly called our national Pro-
e-Tern.• So far as we may aver from the facts of the
athe'r .e labours of that Insti▪ tution have been successive
beeee,s ; the progress that our legislation has made, has
aatie la defiance of every such remonstrance ; and our
disappear Protestantism, as commonly understood, has
att,„ed from our national statute-book. If the
be -ew'v Pts 0 that Institution have been failures ; if there
succeed reason to believe that no. such. attempts can now
go on, ; that the progress of legislation alluded to musth
we havc°,far as man can judge, in the same course which
what re deprecated, but which we have failed to arrest ,
TnaVe felt of our position for defence ! (Hear.) I
41- have thcc'esaelled to look about, and examine this ; and
Led
.°aght that the nation should be considered in a
Led by uTSPeet : its representative aspect, which is presen-
aspect e Legislature and the Government ; and its actual
• the ' as God sees it, which is presented by the state of
p rOpul.f.
.e4tUi -I°n• And it is quite possible—l do not now
• e to state a fact, because I am not in possession of
as cant data,—but it is quite possible that the nation in
Cell astual state may advance in the proportion of
.real
for gt°n found in it, while the laws passed in former times
etir suie Protection of that religion are disappearing from
It le Latute-book. (Hear, hear.) But then, if this be so,
led est be by the use of means; and if, while we acknow-
,.g. the failure with reference to what is commonly un-
te7tood by " National Protestantism," we turn our view
aesitrir hope to the only other alternative—the actual
as ti,;" of the population, then, I think, that efforts such
''t Society invites us to, are precisely those which
(1014' e°nsistent caluistian mad, Protestant „ought Ack.re-
thi,..gysherofounghit.E”ngland. (Hear, hear.) We have no-
ST `or
e,areb,,rz 0F TRADE IN PARIS.—In an article in the last
raris of Blackwood's Magazine, entitled " Republican
t°o tr' a Picture is drawn, fearful in its details, but yet
the a°, of the condition of Paris and the Parisians, since
Waciloiverhrow of the monarchy, the puerile folly, the
who S' and the despotic tyranny of the ferocious mob
force 01, govern France alternately with the military
f litte;it' Think not also that the Boulevards retain their
'luxury ogfasPect of rich decorated shops, teeming with the
mst of Colour and gilding as before. We are in the
fideeceeasing 4t kiancial crisis, and misery and want are in-
. .
,a Trade has ceased the want of con-
disluissedrwto has fallen on many ; workmen have been
tfhe street; and shop-boys turned adrift in hundreds upon
or , and, in spite of the " roasted larks" all ready
`over„grY mouths d " showers of gold" which the
Lae -"eat promises' al's about to fall from the heaven of
• the ppublie „
the aces of thepr _the worki▪
ng cl,sses, it is not only on
inocke_ tradespeople at. their liop doors or behind
' pressed " of their plate-glass windows, that' there is
thou a gloom, but upon the many hundreds and
I'ratulanda who seek work and cannot find it, and who
e;c:l.Pv
hand down with hanging heads, or' wile away
L_ lutting lounging about the outskirttstof th
elucZnassdl6 tultuPs. See ! how many shops are shu . See!
deers en Placardboutique a louer," the
io_e of bo...,!fleets the eye at every ten steps, sand tells a
.." coffi ",roPtcy •; how many rows of dismal shutters,
11‘r.,eets ti-iids erect upon their ends, give by day to the
that funeral look they formerly only gave by night;
arnezhalked
a upon tse shutters tt!still the ;cords—
de,eyB, 2,nneB au peuple,"ua stiller areremaining souvenir of
ike3te,
iii,ol,,radtrersmult, disorder, and bloodshed, when every
was scrawled over by. the same announmcoe_-
,:!Lo prive • to. prevent the forcible e.ntry of the
,_b_
we sten '.e,alyellings, to carry off defensive weapons. !t.
tovesitti:isatseii_lue into one of those monster-shops, with their
e°rridors, and avenues, and galleries, and stair-cases,
Y were so crowded that it was difficult for ct!s-
41ers to
;_ at a en2e
of even. by the hundred commis within,
is seAree'va".!_,! desert listlessness meets your eyes ! There.
• gEinerif,arY customer who wanders amongst their
tteh wooderc:, vainly draperied and beshawled with all the
modern manufacture. The weary lokin
c_tisaeP eborg thaef, few that remain, run out of breath from
ilt, for %,a_ toag gallery to another, to get what you
T'abliehme'n",eY have now several departments of the
4-4 rig La it
wall,
.9r,ider their care. There is no trace here of

NA •
X Amen,