The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH IN HAMBURGH.

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To the Editor of the Morning Herald. .
Hamburgh, May 5.
My dear Herald;--Steam for ever ! Huriah! On Sa-
turday last, early-in the morning,' I was still leisurely
:perambulating the smoky alleys of our everlasting me-
Aropolis, and on Monday at nine a.m.; I was yet more
leisfirely discussing my breakfast here at the' Hotel de
.Russie. Think of that, my lad ! In forty-eiht hours
'from Wapping stairs to the Jungfernstieg. Boes'nt it
bate the world ? as our friend O'Brien used to say. How
'would our old dads have stared twenty years ago, if a'
witch had talked to them of going by sea in a dead calm
'from London to Hamburgh in less time than it cost them
to go to Birmingham ? Yet so it is; a cockney may now
start. on Saturday morning from the Tower stairs, reach
Hamburgh on Monday morning, have the day before
him to look about himself, jump into the Berlin Diligence.'
the same evening, and take his coffee and egg in, the ca.-;
pital of his Prussian majesty on Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday evening, he may, if bent on making an
expeditious tour, jump into the Diligence again for Ham-
burgh, where 'he will arrive on Friday morning, and
have another day hefore him to take a flying look at the
environs; 'early on Saturday he, may ship his pretty per-
son fur. re-importation, and quietly perch himself at his
etninting house desk at eight or nine o'crock.on the fol-
lowing Monday morning, afterlian abienae ollittle more
than a week.

Our passage was a delightful one, and really a pru -

dent man could scarcely wish to trust so valuable a cargo
as his own flesh, and blood on board of a prettier piece of
craft than the John Bull steatiter. The Kentuckian's
boat, •that ran up a cateract, and, jumped all the snags
and quicksands, was a fool to it. For my own part
would have preferred a rougher passage. 1 never enjoy.
a steamer so much as when she is going 'against a smart
head wind, with a plentiful shower bath of salt water,
flying from stem to stern every two or three minutes;
then it is that the steamer is allyin her glsry, and seems
to chuckle over.the poor helpless sailing craft that have.
been lying wind-bound in the port for weeks together,
and whom on her return she expects ,to find just as snug'
as 8110 left them. What cares'a steamer for a head wind'
or a lee shore ? The one but;slightly impedes her course,
and the other inspires no .fear. In anything, short of a
hurricane she goes to sea with the same punctuality with,
which the Bristol mail starts from Piccadilly, and if on
hey way she happen to overtake a stortn, she runs into
.the nearest port..; Also her Punctuality, in arriving is
oearly, as great as in her departure ; for a merchant here
tells the that, by observing the time of high water, tie
can generally tell within an hoar-when the steamer may
be expected, and nine times in ten he guesses rightly.
As I.mean to make some, stay here, I shall .reserve my
notices of the place for my next "esteemed favour;" at
present my head's so full of steam that I can talk or think
of nothing else, 'so I shall confine myself to-day to an
account of the steam navigation of this part of the world.
Steamers, it appears, start from London to Hansbugh
every Wednesday and Saturday morning, but at so early
an hour that it is generally more convenient to go on board
the evening-before; they generally,arrive in Hamburgh
.early
on Friday or .11.Ionday morning,-:and start again for,
London on the same days of the week on which they
start for Hamburgh. The advantage of.this regular com-
munication to the merchants is incalculable. lite mere
saving of postage must alone be an important consider-
ation. Formerly, it seems, when-the- mails were con-.
_veyed from Harwich to Cuxhaven by sailing vessels, ten,
twelve, and, on one occasion, as many as fifteen mails
have been due at once, so that merchants were always
•obliged to send duplicate copies of all important letters or
.documents Overland 'tinting!' Holland, that in case the
mail.should be delayed by contrary winds, a copy of the
correspondence might at .least reach its destination in
eight days. Sometimes a third copy of the letter has;
been sent over to Calais, to guard against the' danger of
the packet not being able to make the Dutcl coast. All
this is now at an end; the quickness and punbtuality with
which the mails are forwarded by steam entirely relieve
the merchant from the necessity of sending duplicates of
his correspondence over Holland; and though in cases of
great importance this is still done by way of extreme
caution, yet I have been assured that only one instance
has occurred within the last two years of the regular
mail being anticipated by the mail over Holland. The
vessels are really " splendid specimens of naval architec-
ture," according to the received style of newspaper•elo.-
quence ; the John Bull and the City of Hanaburgh more
particularly are worth looking at • as mere matters of cu-
riosity, if you cannot find leisure to. do as I have done
and put their mettle to the proof by an actual ethbarka-,
Con. ,
For summer tourists these boats offer delightful facili-
ties. About thirty-five English miles from Hamburgh is
Lubeck, from which place there are steam boats starting
on regular days for St. Petersbtirgh, Copenhagen, &c.
From Copenhagen you have steamers again to Norway
and Sweden; and from Gottenburgh, in Sweden, you,
have a steam-boat once a week to Hull. From Ham-
burgh also we have a French steamer to Havre-de-Grace
once a week, and regular steamers to Hull and Goole.
But steam does not stop here. '.. All the world of,•this
place, I find, are quite alive about a scheme for connect-
ing Hamburgh with Hanover and Brunswick by means
of a rail-road. The only difficulty in the way °Nile un-
dertaking appears to be a jealousy existing between the
merchants of this city and,those of the little Hanoverian
town of Harburg, on the other side of the Elbe. The
latter seem to have got it into their foolish heads that if
they can make the rail-road terminate in their own town,
they will be able to draw off part of the trade of Ham-
burgh ; and for the sake of this contingent gain, which
after all is a very problematic one, they are apparently
inclined to sacrifice the incalculable advantage of being
brought into immediate communication with this wealthy
and improving city. It is not easy to say how far the
folly of 'greedy people will sometimes carry them, but
still I can scarcely, think that the Hanoverian govern-
ment.will throw away the present opportunity, an Eng-
lish' company having offered to find the capital, if the go-
vernment will grant the necessary permission, on condi-
tion, however, that the rail-road shall be extended to
Hamburg!), by means of a bridge across the Elbe.
THE TRAVELLER.

CHARITY SERMON.—The sermon advertised to :be preached
at -StEMichael's on Sunday last, in .aid of the. fund.s• of the
Northern Dispensary, was postponed in consequence of the in-
disposition of the Rev. Mr. Berry. We understand that the
reverend gentleman is expected to be enabled to resume his du-
ties in a day or two, and that the sermon will be preached on
Sunday week; the 31st instant.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.—OD Monday last,
a most daring and successful attempt at escape wasmade by six
convicts while being conveyed to Portsmouth to be placed on
board a convict ship. Mr. Hardy, the gaoler of Ilchester gaol,
his son, and two guards, were proceeding with the van contain-
ing 14 convicts, and when they arrived near Southampton, the
guards were surprised to see six of the convicts running across
the fields without their irons. The guards had not the slightest
reason to suspect that the convicts intended to make an at-
tempt at escape. The convicts were immediately pursued, and
three of them were secured, but the other three succeeded in get-
ting clear off. Upon examination, it appeared that the prisoners
had sawed off their irons, but how this could have been done at
present remains a mystery. After having got rid of their irons,
they proceeded to cut a hole through the bottom of the van, it is
supposed by means of watch-spring saws. The convicts dropped
through this hole on the ground, and let the van pass over
them, and then made their way to the fields. A more daring
and successful attempt is not, perhaps, on.record.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE CHURCH.--At the anni-
.versary dinner of that excellent charity of ."The Sons of the
'Clergy," last week, upon the health of the Stewards being
drunk, Sir James Graham as one of the Stewards, rose to
return thanks. He was received with loud and long continued
cheers. He most sincerely thanked them for the unmerited
honour now conferred upon him. There was no man more
sincerely attached at heart than he was to the reformed reli-
gion and to the institutions connected with it, more especially
to' this institution. He was under great obligations to the
established church and the present was a crisis in which he
ought to acknowledge it. (Cheers.) In the doctrines of that
church he was brought up. From them he derived consolation
and comfort; they afforded a sure refuge in the calamities of
this life, while they enconraged and sustained the hopes of a
better. (Cheers.) Nothing could be more gratifying to him
than the approbation with which the expression of these sen-
timents was now received. They owed the deepest obligation
to those men who instructed them in the doctrines calculated
to confer such invaluable benefits on society, 'and it was their
duty to take care that their children were not left destitute.
People talked of a. surplus in these times. (Cheers.) This in-
stitution was itself a proof that there were deficiencies, 'for
which kindness andcharity called upon them to make up; and
that, so far from there being a surplus, there was need of relief.
Whether in a public or in a private station lie should be ready
to utter these sentiments; and he believed he spoke the sen-
timents not of England alone, but of a majoriry of the united
empire. (Cheers.) In his place in parliament., he should ever
feel it to .be his duty to protect the protestant clergy of these
realms in all their rights, privileges, and immunities. (Cheers,)
'He was struck by a passage in the Psalms read that morning,
as applicable to the present purpose:—" Dwell in the land,
and be doing good, and verily by this shalt thou be fed."
(Cheers.) He must repeat again, as one of the stewards, his
,gratitude for the manner in which the toast was received.
(Cheers.)
01.13.EisGsisii HOSPITALITY.—In the olden time it was cus-
tomary for every family in England to have a complete code of
economic laws; the most minute attention was paid to the most
'inconsiderable domestic expense, and the formal stated orders
established with regard to many particulars Were precise- in the
extreme. The Northumberland Housekeeper's Book, 1512, is
a very curious specimen of such a system of ancient economics,
in fifty chapters, and four hundred' and sixty-four closely printed
.Bvo. pages; this curious and scarce book is one of the most
singular and exact accounts of ancient-manners that English
antiquity affords us. The earl's family consistedof one hundred
'and sixty-six persons, masters and servants, and fifty-seven
strangers were expected every day—in the whole, two hundred
'and twenty-three. Two-pence half-penny was reckoned to be
'the daily expense oreach for meat, drink, and firing; and one
thousand pounds the annual expense of housekeeping—wheat
being then five shillings and eightpence per quarter. This
'earl's domestic concerns were managed with such extreme ex-
actness, and such rigid economy, that the number df pieces
which must be cutout of every quarter of beef, 'tuition, &c., are
determined, and must, be entered and accounted for by the clerks
appointed for that purpose ;
.so there cannot be anything more
erroneous than the magnificent ideas many people have of the
unbounded liberality of "old English hospitality." It may
amuse the reader to relate a specimen of the pompous and even
royal state assumed by this feudal chieftain ; he does not give
an order for the making of mustard. of which it is stated that
the annual allowance was one hundred and sixty-gallons, but it
is introduced with the following preamble : " It seenieth Good
to us, and our Council," &c.—Kitehiner's Household Ledger.
THE SABBATH.—We may have seen men high in honour,
and earning .by their integrity the rewards of an unsullied repu-
tation amongst their fellow-citizens, carrying a visible contempt
for the Sabbath law, throughout the whole line of their Sab-
bath history—hut all the truth and all the justice of these men
are such constitutional virtues as may exist in a character
which owns not and feels not the power of godliness--and sure
we are, that, wanting this power, several of the other command-
ments can be specified, to which they are as utter strangers as
to the commandment of the seventh .day. We repeat it, there-
fore, that if you grant us a man who bears about with him in
his bosons a warm and conscientious attachment to all the
articles of the decalogue but this one, before we look at him we
say with confidence, that search him, and both in his heart and'
in his practice, this one is to be found—and that we shall not
fail to meet the Sabbath law as firmly established as any other,
within the secrecies of his bosom, and standing out as conspicu-
ously on the front of his external observations. We never, in
the whole course of our recollections, met with a christian
friend who.bore upon his character every other evidence of the
spirit's operation, who did snot remember the Sabbath day, and
keep it holy; We appeal to the memory of all the worthies who
are now 13ing in their graves, that,' eminent as they were in
every other grace and accomplishment of the new creature, the
religiousness of their Sabbath-day shone with an equal lustre
amid the fine assemblage of virtues which adorned them. In
every christian household it will be found, that the discipline
of a well-ordered sabbath is never forgotten among the other
lessons of -a christian education. And we appeal to every indi-
vidual who now hears us, and who carries die remembrance in
his bosom of a father's piety, if, on the coming round of the
seventh day,,,an air of peculiar sacredness did not spread itself
over that mansion where he first drew his breath, and was taught 1
In repeat his infant hymn, and lisp his infant prayer. Rest
assured, that a christian, having the love of God written in his
heart, and denying the sabbath a place in his affections, is as
anomaly that is no where to be found.—Dr. Chalmers.

LIVERPOOL CRAVEN MEETING.-CONCLUDED.

FRIDAY, MAY 15. • --
The Filly Stakes 'of 20 sovs each, h ft, with 30 soya added, for
three year old fillies. One mile and a distance.
Lord Derby's ch Verbena, by. Velocipede • Wright 1
Sir J. Boswell's b Rosina, sister to Perseverance 2
. Mr W. Turnet's eh by Langer, out of Eleanor 3
Two paid. •
The Stand Cup, value 100 sous in specie, added to a sweepstakes.
of 10 sovs each. Two miles and a distance.
Mr Barrow's b m Catharina Darling 1
Sir J. Boswell's ch c General Chasse . 2
Mr Mostyn"s b f Birdlime 3
Two paid.--This race was considered almost a certainty: 'lO
to 1 being offered before starting, with• Scarcely any. takers.—
The horses,weut off at a trot, the General leading, with Catha-
rina second, and Birdlitne last. In this manner they went to
the 'last half mile,•when General Chasse increased his pace, but
was soon headed by Catharina, who had it all her own way, and
won easily.by a length, the General being whipped and spurred
from the distance.
Hacdicap Stakes of 10 soya each. h ft, with 20 soya added. One
mile and :a half. The winner to be sold for £lllO.
Sir J. Boswell's eh The Barber, aged
Mr Thompson's b c Smedlet, LeleV, 4 yrs 2
Mr Rothwell's b f Window 'Shut, 4 yrs
Onnskirk Plate of £lOO. Two•mile heats. Second .1.:20.
Mr Barrow's b m ('atharina, 5 yrs Darling 1 0 1
Mc S. L. Fox's b c The Count, 4 yrs = 0 1 • 2
Lord Derby's gr h Speculatot, eged . 3• 0 3
Mr Ferguson's gr h Rust, 5 yrs
Mr Webster's br h Bridegroom, 5 yrs - 0 0, tl
Sir J. Boswell's br. e Masetto, 4 yrs 2 d
The cocking terminated as,follows :—Liverpool, 12 mains 3
byes; Manchester, 11 mains 2 byes. , -• •

CONSERVATISM IN EAST NORFOLK.

(From the Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday.)

PUBLIC DINNER IN ST. ANDREW'S HALL, TO CELEBRATE THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF -THE EAST NORFOLK :CONSERVATIVE

ASSOCIATION.
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The;diuner. at. St. Andrew's Hall, which took;place yesterday'
in honour of the establishment above named, may• well.be de-
nominated " A Grand Political Festival," for it proved.so.in
the most important acceptation of the term. Taking it indeed
for all in all, we recollect ng similar assemblage within the limits
of our locality and scope of our personal obseryation wherewith,
for one moment to compare it.. Pre-eminently distinguished:
by.rank and property, by numbers and respectability—most
,happy in the elTectivo presidency and vigorous,exertions of its.
,noble chairman—highly interesting from the eloquence which'
graced the addresses of many of the, speakers, and from the
sound sentiments of constitutional loyalty. which pervaded them.
all—this meeting of nobility, gentry,.yeomanry, and other per-
sons of substance and consideration (atnounting in the whole
to 1157, who sat down to dinner), displayed an union of social
harmony with public enthusiarn, the •most perfect and the most
elevated that it ever fell to our lot to witness either in this city
or in any other part of our. native.land..
Lord Wodehouse, the lord-lieutenant of the county of Nor-
folk, presided at the dinner,

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THE. HOUSE of Pens.—Shall the Upper Chamber orthe
Legislature be "swamped ?" The time has arrived at which.
this: question, startling though it be,
.demands a' specific reply.
The whigs have scarcely resumed- office—their existence, in-
deed, has not been attested by one public act; and already some,
half-dozen peers have been created. During their present te-
nure-of office, -extending over a space of less than four years,
about thirty individuals were •either elevated to the peerage or
received at their hands an., exaltation in the scale of nobility,
being a proportion exceeding FOUR to oNg-,the creations' of the
preceding thirty years, although in that period was embraced
the era, of the general peace when many:peerages were ,created
as the reward of military service—when the sons of George the
Third had arrived at. that age which rendered their exaltation
,necessary, and when other causes combined to produce frequent
legal and other unavoidable additions to.the House of Lords.
Surely, then,
.it is unwise any longer to blink this question.
The national efficiency of the upper house may. be as ef-
lentunlly, annihilated by.weekly additions to its numbers as by
,the sudden infusion of a herd of unworthy nobles-many of
whom possess no claim, either intellectually, morally, or as re-
gards their possessions and stake in..the country, to be thus ele-
vated above their fellows. In some recent instances, indeed,
titles have been conferred.upon individuals whose immediate
descendants must inevitably look for support to that State Pau-
per Fund, against which the whigs were lately so clamorous.—
Manchester Chronicle.