The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

GOLDEN RULES FOR MENDICANTS.

(From 'Croikshank's Comic Almanack.)
1. Always carry a box of Lucifers in your hand. It is
the iEgis of a beggar's life, and shields him from the in-
vasionof policemen.

2. Never be lame and blind together in the same town.
One infirmity at a time is enough for the coldest sympathy.
3. Run seduqously after Quakers and fat ladies, espe-
cially if you,have with you at the time a wife and a large
family.

4. Never fail to sing out well in cold weather. If you
have three,or four little boys and girls of mixed sizes, to
sing with you, all the better. Always choose the middle
of the street to give effect to your voices.
5. You must be " frozen out" regularly every winter,
and mount duty in the streets, with a pitchfork, tipped
with a cabbage, over your shoulder.
6. Your costume in each se ison must be the opposite
of that usually worn ; that is to say, during the winter, a
pair of very thin trousers and a corazza will be all you
require. Shiver violently and chatter your teeth as often
as a person passes you. A sailor's hat, striped shirt, and
canvas frowners are never bad in a.country town.
7. Mind, in your orations. you " haven'it tasted food
for three days," and make a practice of picking up bones,
or old crusts, out of the gutter, and gnawing them, if
there is any one looking at you.

8. Neverbe too modest, if any one has relieved /ou, to
ask for ",an old coat, or a pair °fold shoes." Recollect,
Holywell,street is not too proud to purchase the most
worthless of wearing apparel.
9. Take care, if you are deaf and dumb, not to answer
any one. Suffer yourself to be taken into custody rather
than notice the impertinent questions fan officer of the
Mendicity Society. _

10. Take care cf long crossings, if you are very lame.
It is extremely unpleasant, as well as infra dig., to ,carry
your crutches and run all of a sudden, if you happen to
have at your heels a mad bull or a racing omnibus.
11. Chalk writing is unprofitable, and belongs to the old
school. If fOll are driven to it, don't mind about spelling
incorrectly, and be sure you are " starving." Quiet
spots like Gower-street or Russell-square, are the best
markets for this branch of the profession. In great
thoroughfares you will have your fresco or caligraphy
rubbed out every unfeeling passer-by, and be obliged
ultimately to " "
walk your chalks.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton .are entertaining ,a
select circle st their seat near Cobham. His lordship gave
his servants a ball and supper at Christmas.

THE CAMDEN SOCI RTY.—The Bishop of Exeter, in
a letter dated Dec. 26, says :—" So little do I sympathise
with any Papaiizing party in the church, that a few weeks
ago I withdrew my name from the list :of members of a
society to which, (on account of its original object and of
its founders) l.had considered it an honour to belong—
the " Camden Society" at Cambridge—on discovering
that its zeal exhibited the Virgin Mary crowned, with the
infant Saviour in her arms, and attended by two saints
not recognised in her own calendar. This I deemed to be,
at the least, a most injudicious insult to th- feel ngs of
Protes►tants at this crisis, against which it was my duty to
protest." •

DR. PUSEY AN.Dtrli.E BISHOP OP Ex ETER.--The bishop
in one of his many recent letters rays, " I gave no general
licence to Dr. Pusey to preach in this diocese; that the
facts were Mese —The incumbent of Ilfracomb applied
to me in the course.ofthe last summer, asking. hether I
should object to his availing himself of the occasional as-
sistance of Dr. Pusey in the pulpit during his temporary
sojourn at Ilfracombe. I had no hesitation in leaving
this clergyman at :liberty to act according to his .own dis_
cretion—adding that I doubted not, that if Dr. Pusey
should preach there, his own good feeling and good sense
would make him abstain from preaching on any topic
which would give the slightest offence or excite any alram."

TWELFTH NIGHT CAKE.—A reference to ao advertise-
ment will show that Feeney Brothers have manufactured
a cake similar to that which last year elicited a flattering
eulogium from the Liverpool Albion, of which the fol.-
lowing is a brief abstractl-44 The Cake of Cakes, the
great Leviathan, the Monster Cake, which was capacious
enough to swallow up all the rest, was exhibited in the
window of Feeney Brothers, St. James's-street. Having
heard some, as we considered, exaggerated reports about
this prodigious production, we ascertained from the
proprietors that there was no mistake whatever about it,
but that, according to their account, it we'ghed one ton,
or, 22401b5., and that it contained twelve solid gold rings,
of the value of half-a-guinea each, which they had pur-
chased from Mr. Bott, jeweller, of 67, St. James's-street.
CONSIKOIENCES OF ENFORCING OBSOLETE REGULA-
TIONS.--Tbe late Lord Lyttelton, when an under-gradu.
are appeared in the High-street of Oxford, wearing a
cauliflower wig. Presently the proctor approached him
to inquire what he meant by wearing so grotesque a dress?
" Do you mean my peruke, sir?" he replied, with an ap-
parent incredulity ; and, producing the statutes, which he
had concealed under his gown, pointed out to the asto-
nished and discomfited proctor the statute which enjoined
it.

A VOTER. IN THE UNTIED STATES.—A German, who
was unable to speak or understand a word of English, on_
dertook to vote in the upper part of the city at the late
election. " What is your name ?" said one of the judges.
'• Polk and Dallas," said the German. '• How long have
you been in this country ?" said the judge. " Polk and
Dallas," said the German. " Have you got your natu-
ralization pipers ?" a yid the judge. " Polk and Dallas,"
said the German. " You can't vote," said the judge.
" Polk and Dallas," said the German. ''
Move him ~
said one of the bystanders. " Polk and Dallas," said the
German.—Louisville Journal.

CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS IN OPTICS.—II is known
that tartaric add exerc,s” rotary p7er over the light,
and imparts to it its saline combinations; paratartaric
acid, on the contrary, although of the same poneeral
composition, does not possess this property. M. Mit-
cherlish, a Prussian chemist, has examined whether this
would be the case under circumstances in which the two
bodies would be siml!ar, not 9nly in their chemical com-
position, but in their crystaline form and their physical
properties; the result has confirmed. the established prin-
ciple and thus )says M. Mitchel-40) we have two bodies
in which the nature and number of the atoms, their ar-
rangement and their distance, are the same, and which
are, tievertheless, distinguished by d iferent optical pro-
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