The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

MOURNING.—Mr. Littler, as may be seen from an
advertisement, has opened an establishment exclusively
devoted to the sale of mourning. This is a distinct bu-
siness, we are informed, in many other towns, and has
been carried on with much advantage to the public.
CHEAP TRIP.—We understand we are yet to have
another cheep railway trip excursion, and a delightful one
it is likely to be from the hints we have had of it. It is
proposed to go from Liverpool and Manchester, to Bir-
mingham, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Worcester, Bath,
and Bristol, and the price we are told to to be fixed at so
low a price as to suit all. The management will be in
the same hands as all the late trips from Liverpool, and
it cannot be in better.

CONFECTIONARY.—It will be seen by an advertise-
ment that a branch of the Dublin Confectionary Estab-
lishment has been opened by the proprietors Messrs.
Tweiny, in Berry-street. The shop is most beautifully
fitted up, and the stock comprises a variety of delicacies
(many of them peculiar to this establishment) sutied to
every taste from the richest viands to the more substan-
tial and beneficial " Constitutional Bread", an article
that is highly spoken of by our local physicians, and is
well adapted to invalids or those troubled with indiges-
tion.

SHOP EMBELLISHMENTS.—Every day brings forth
some new and elegant improvements in the architectural
embellishments of our shops, exteriorly as well as in-
teriorly, and they who pass through our streets one day
admiring the rivalry in beauty of our shop fronts and
windows are only the more surprised the next day to see
how suddenly the objects of their admiration have been
eclipsed by other decorations—more chaste in design,
more attractive in appearance, and certainly more calcu-
lated to display with effect the multifarious articles for
which our town is noted. Amongst the most modern we
may notice Mr. Briscoe's, Old Hall-street, Mr. Tuton's,
Mr. Mayor's, and Mr. Worldley's, in Lord-street, and
numerous others in Bold-street, more particularly Mr.
Scurfield's, late Cripps and Scurfield, and Mrs. W. Col-
lins, the saloon of fashion, both of which are fitted in-
teriorly with equal taste, and are worthy of admiration
not only for their elegance but for the superior conveni-
ences they possess. Mr. S. has, we are glad to learn,
signified his intention of closing at seven o'clock.
ENTRANCE TO JERUSALEM.—On entering the gates of
Jerusalem, apart from the overpowering recollections
which naturally rush upon the mind, I was in many re-
spects agreeably disappointed. From the descriptions of
Chateaubriand and other travellers, I had expected to find
the houses of the city miserable, the streets filthy, and the
population squalid. Yet the first impression made on my
mind was of a different character; nor did I afterwards
see any reason to doubt the correctness of this first im-
pression. The houses are in general better built, and the
streets cleaner, than those of Alexandria, Smyrna, or even
Constantinople. Indeed of all the oriental cities it was
my lot to visit, Jerusalem after Cairo is the cleanest and
most solidly built. The streets, it is true, are narrow and
very rudely paved, like those of all cities in the East. The
houses are of hewn stone, often large, and furnished with
small domes on the roofs, which seem to be not merely
for ornament, but to strengthen the otherwise flat roofs.
There is usually one or more over each room in a house ;
and they serve also to give a.g.reater elevation, and an ar-
chitectural effect to the ceiling of the room which rises
within them. The house-tops are the constant retreats
of the people, and many of them are covered with awn-
ings. Portions of the parapet walls are curiously
countryof preserving
particular
seasons. the wall from
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con-
structed of small cylinders of red crockery-ware, piled up
in a pyramidal form, and forming a kind of open work
that allows the air to blow through, and produces a most
refreshing current. The inhabitants say that this con-
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sides this it is useful in permitting the ladies to observe
unseen what is going forward.—Library of Travd.