The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

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A POOR MAN.—II is possible that the accumulation of
wealth may add to the sorrow of the possessor. I know
an individual, with whom I was very intimate when a
youth, and I remember very well, at that time, whenever
wanted relief for the poor he would give a 101. note, and
say, " Richard, never pass my door ; always come to me
solicit you want issistance for any deserving object." He
was then comparatively poor. having perhaps a fortune of
from 50,0001. to 60,000/. ; but now he is worth nearly
1,000,0001. One would have thought it ought to have
made its possessor happy; but no, I know not a more
miserable man than that. Rich as he is, it was but the
other day that he ordered some of the beautiful trees in his
park to be felled, because he had not money to pay the
Income-tax with. It was but the other day that he lost
100,0001. in America; that made him mad. He has another
100,000/. which he does not know how to invest,—that
makes him miserable, and be is now under the impression
that he will die a poor man.—Oastler's Speech.
THE STORIES WHICH CHILDREN LOVE.—Of all the
aubjects which fascinate a child, none can compete with
those in which religion is the mainspring : the narratives
of persecution and conversion, all their high-souled
faith, strong endurance, or dene;pooT to a
contrition, have a charm,
for the key of which we must higher
her.feeling than
imagination. What book is more
pop
childwl t h
will children
than thenot
'`Pilgrim's Progress"?
What
Lang over the tales of the,covenanters in "Lights and
Shadows of Scottish Life ; ' or, take a soberer example
what young heart has not been impressed with the cheer:.
ful piety that animates the" Vicar of Wakefield" ? How
Salutary are such representations, compared with those
where religion is professed without reverence, and self-
condemnation without humility ; or where children are
Made to see sacrifices for which there are no motives, and
sufferings under which there is no consolation, and which,
at this tender age, can only harden or wither the heart !
Omar! erly Review.

BLAIR ATHOL AND GLEN TlLT.—What a change in a
century ! It is not quite a century since "the Foi ty-five,"
and here in sylvan retreit and highland sports area queen
of the detested house of Hanover, her German husband,
and her child, in the very heart of the land of Stuart de-
votedness— _ _ _ _

" Down by Loch Tummell and banks o' the Garey."
A hundred years ago their lives would not have been
worth a pin's fee; now they are all but worshipped by
the same race of men, guarded like idols, the wild deer
chased, and the loveliest green of all the Scottish glens,
Glen Tilt, and the romantic falls of Bruar, " promenaded"
like Kensington and St. James's. What voices might
the walls of Carlisle and the Tower and Temple Bar of
London ulter, could the ghastiey heads exhibited on them
witness this strange scene! Who can look forward to
1944?—Literary Gazette.
THE RIGHT OF THE CHURCH TO EDUCATE THE PEO-
PLE.—And when we come to enter into a thoughtful ana-
lysis of the spiritual machinery, which a pure and aposto-
lic Church can bring to act on the internal life-springs of
a being like man,—we can well understand what is meant
by the disputed. but yet noble assertion, the Church is
alone competent to EDUCATE the national heart and con-
science. To take only a hasty view of the matter. When
the grosser wants of the body are reasonably supplied ;
when the cravings of the animal a e subdued, and the exi-
gencies of the interior man are to be met ; what a mass of
new ideas, what might of truth, what majesty of doctrine,
does her prophetic office (under Christ) enable her to
bring down on the intellectual powers ! For instance:
confine your views to the incarnation of the Eternal Son,
and to redemption through His atoning Blood ; and let
these two facts be preached with ei,ergy, applied with
earnestness, and in every possible mode be urged home
with affectionate pressure on the intelligence of the poor
and the depraved,—and by the Spirit's blessing, how
much of sublime repulsion is there in these two facts
alone, wherewith to expel political discontent and social
despair from the bosom of humanity ! Let the humbler
classes be encouraged to behold the essential dignity, the
spiritual nobility of manhood, as generically assumed
into the Person of the Only-Begotten,—and much is ac-
complished towards proving to them, in what the ideal
of man's equality consists. While the ambassador of
heaven narrates to him how in Adam all die, and are
under the curse of irreconcilable law, guilty, polluted, and
undone; let him also hold forth to him the gleams of im-
mortal glory which the Incarnation radiates around indi-
vidual man, as taken into membership with Christ. Let
him teach him how the sublime of personality, that is,
spiritual enlargement and liberty and elevation of our na-
ture,—consists not in earthly rank or secular good, or in
any form of political privilege whatsoever ; but in being
federally related unto the Lord Jesus, as the Head of re-
deemed manhood, the First-born among many Brethren,
after whose " image," the whole body of His believing
people, are " predestinated" to be conformed. Again:
let the faithful pastor endeavour to show the deluded
martyrs of a mistaken liberty, that the grand secret of
man's freedom is found in submission to a law without;
that law being the disposing Will of God. And when the
sinful but awakened man asks, " who is sufficient for
these things ?" let him be told that all moral " sufficiency
is of God ;1' and that the finest expansion of his faculties
and the highest glory of his being are related to the secret
indwelling of that Divine Spirit, whose delight it is on
earth, to inhabit the souls of them for whom the Son of
God was crucified."—Rev. R. Montgomery's Gospel be-
fore the Age.
THE STRATAGEMS OF POPERY,—AII the contest I had
since I came here, was the following; what effect it will
have I know not yet, but I write to show the wiles and
stratagems the priests use even by the Scriptures, where
they can get a sentence to wrest. Miss H—, who is
now in London, has two nieces here, who are, according
to their age, not deficient in knowledge. A man who
lives convenient, came to them, and told them that St.
Peter was the rock that Christ built his Church on ; and
whosoever was not built on that rock must perish, and
defied them to prove to the contrary. Ttley not having
considered the subject, were thunderstruck, and told him
they could not answer him, but would consult me when I
would come. " That is what I want," said he ; " tell him
1 will meet him next Sunday evening." When I called,
they told me. in great surprise, that they could not answer
him, and of his challenge to me. I told them I would
meet him, but from circumstances 1 could not attend at
the time eppointed. He came, and not finding me, went
off vauntingly, and told them I should meet him the fol-
lowing Sunday. I got the account, but could not attend ;
so he cried out, that I dared not meet him, and it was the
opinion of others also—but the third time I came. He
did not wait to be sent for; he came with his wife and
others. One of the young ladies opened the subject,
That he said, Peter was the rock Christ built his Church
on. I said, " A very bad foundation he laid." They
looked with surprise at me. " Why," said he "is not
Peter called a rock in the Testament ?" " No," said I,
"no where." Said he, " Did not Jesus say, thou art
Peter, and on this rock I will build my church?" &c.
" Well, friend," said I, " I will give you scope enough;
will you not admit there is a great difference between this
and that ?" " Surely," said he. " Well, if he had built
his rock on Peter, he would have said, on that rock I will
build my church; but the word is, on this rock." But
I promised to prove that Peter is no where called a rock :
I showed in the Ist chapter of John, where Cephas is in-
terpreted a stone, and that a rock is an immoveable
thing, and a stone is a moveable thing. And in the
Scriptures Jehovah is called the rock of ages, and three
times in the 18th Psalm he is called a rock, and three
times in the 101st Psalm. And in the Sth of Isaiah, that
the Almighty has laid Jesus " as a stone of stumbling, and
a rock of offence." I read for them Ist of Chorinthians,
3d chapter, wl ere Paul shows, other foundation can no
man lay than that which is laid ; and said, they in the
wilderness drank of that rock which followed them, and
that rock was Christ, with other passages. "So friend,"
said I, "we must see the burden which my rock will
bear, and that which your rock will bear; for if Peter is
the rock which Christ built his church upon, that rock
must bear all the sins that are laid on it. So in that very
night that the Lord was betrayed, when the great load
was laid on him, his sweat was as great drops, of blood
falling to the ground. What was your rock doing then ?
Why, sleeping. So there was a shipwreck made of the
church built on Peter, at the first trial. Next, when
Jesus was buffeted, scourged, and crowned with thorns,
what was your rock doing? Why be was cursing and
swearing that he never knew him. But Peter, who was a
lively stone in the building, though not the rock, after he
was converted, does not leave us ignorant; for in the 2nd
chapter of his Ist Epistle he shews you plainly, that Jesus
to you is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, for
you plainly stumble at the WORD.—Life of Wm. Moore.
ANECDOTES OF BONAFARTE.—In the imperial palace
it was never known before-hand the week or even the day
when Napoleon would quit his residence to take the com-
mand of his troops. It was invariably expected, that all
the officers, both civil and military, should be ready to
follow him at a moment's notice ; for he never informed
those whom he wished to take with him until a few hours
before his departure ; and, as they knew not the place be
would go to, each one patiently waited until the grand
marshal should communicate the orders of the emperor.
These orders once given, the preparations for the journey
were soon made : we were then ready to follow Napoleon
to the end of the world, if he had ordered us. At the
time to which I am referring, lie chose to depart from St.
Cloud in the middle of the night, accompanied in his car-
riage by his grand marshal and grand equerry; and passed
over, with the rapidity of light, a space of one hundred
and fifty French leagues in less than thirty-six hours.
The order of the journey was as follows. On the left side
of the carriage, an aid-de-camp on service rode; on the
right, the equerry on service ; the other aid-de-camp, the
equerries, the orderly-officers, the Mameluke Rustan, and
the domestics of the suite, accompanied the carriage;
while all these were followed by an escort of the chasseurs
of the guard, and the guides, commanded by an officer.
On they precipitated themselves like a hurricane, in full
trot, night as well as by day, for eight, ten, and even
twelve leagues, sometimes without even halting. We,
who were obliged to follow this whirlwind, during the
night above all, were, as you might suppose, not very
well at our ease. In places where the road might be
narrow, we would sometimes run one upon another, and
with an ardour and zeal that had the appearance of some-
thing savage in it. Evil to him who was not a good
horseman, or perfectly sure of his horse •, for, in tumbling,
he would be sure of being trod under foot by the horses
in his rear, before their riders would be able to arrest
their speed. On went the torrent—on we precipitated
ourselves—in heat or in rain, on the ice, across the snow,
the dust, or the mist, to be always within the reach of
the voice of our master, or to obtain one single look from
him. Those who least suffered the fatigue were the
orderly-officer, the page, the groom, and twelve chasseurs
of the guard, who all preceded the carriage at about six
paces, these not having the fear of a reprimand in conse-
quence of the postilions regulating their movements by
the pace of their horses. Napoleon, notwithstanding,
almost constantly thought that the postilions never drove
quite fast enough. " They go along like ducked hens ! "
he would exclaim, while striking his fist against the side
of the carriage ; "we shall never arrive!" Then lower-
ing one of the front sash-windows, he would thrust out
his head, and address himself to the postilions. " Get
on ! get on ! are you asleep ? you make no progress : get
on, then ! " Whenever Napoleon stopped on the road,
the whole of the suite did the same, and dismounted,
excepting the chasseurs of the escort, who remained in
their saddles. If the emperor got out of the carriage,
four of the guides would dismount, fix bayonets, present
arms, and remain around him in single files; but not an
officer moved from his place, unless Napoleon gave the
word, by saying, " Dismount, gentlemen." If any of
those who were to have joined him remained in the rear,
they sometimes did not arrive at head-quarters until a
day after a victory, or perhaps the campaign had ended.
" It is good time to arrive, ma foi I" Napoleon would
exclaia to a loiterer ; " happily, sir, we did without you."
* * Before any serious engagement was expected to
take place, and when circumstances obliged Napoleon to
remain for some time in the open air, whether in the
morning or in the evening, the grooms and domestics of
the escort always prepared a large fire, nourished by an
extraordinary quantity of wood, comprised of entire
branches of trees, of enormous logs, and even of beams.
During this time, Berthier, Duroc, or Caulincourt, were
his faithful companions. It was rare, on such an occa-
sion, that any other than these three persons were to be
found with him, unless he happened to send for any one
from whom he expected some information, or to
deliver
instructions, or to convey orders to any particular mar-
shal. All, save the three mentioned persons, remained
at a distance of about fifty yards from him, and formed a
species of circle round the fire of the emperor. Before
this fire he would walk alone, now and then whistling in
a low key, while waiting to hear the sound of a cannon,
i or any other signal agreed upon with the chiefs of corps.
After he because tired, be would take a pinch of snuff,
strike here and there Ida feet against any pebbles he might
encounter in his perambulations, sometimes push the wood
more into the fire with them, and thus frequently scorch
his boots.—Colonel Tucker's Tales.