The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

LITTLE TOM MOM; E'S PENSION

The giving of a pension to Moore proves, if proof were Oftji
inc, that the whigs are gentlemen of very easy virtue. jot
their lives, when out of power, they have been bawling aga
(yr
unmerited pensions, and when they entered on power, 0.
Grey, they declared they would never grant a pension for are,
but deserving services. Yet, now they deem themselves sectev
they disregard what they have said, and do the very thing. t",
condemned most vehemently in the tories. Talk of toors!no,
talk of the Devil, their father; if we must be ruled by: .a 136'; (I
give me the tories; they always tell you their principle', het
stick to them. When you have an enemy who proclaims of
he will do, you know how to manage him. Under the g,"s."et
liberality the whigs have done more to deprive us of our anchi,,,J
rights and institutions,—have done more to keep us over ;'
and ears in taxes,—have done
,more to render it impossibLeav
get quit of the taxes without viulence,—have done more to Le
tie
us despised as a nation, than ever the tories did, briro'''tbe
deli's as they are. The new poor law,—the twenty millions t°,„to,
vagabond planters,...7fire millions to the dubber-suckioti Poe
sian, to enable bun to crush the Poh s and seize Turk* •.try
million to the Irish parsons; these are what no tory min'',
dared have done. But enough of these whigs.—From a"'
respondent of the Liverpool Mercury! ! !

ADDRESS TO THE BIBLE.

BY THE AUTHOR OP "THE ISLES ARE AWAKE."

Come, old book of my fathers ! worn—not soiled—
nightly use, what time around the health
The cottage-circle closed, and the old man,
The gray-haired patriarch of the place, turned o'er
Thy holy leaves, and thence devoutly read
The wondrous tale of God's sojourn with man—
Come front thy nook, too often now, alas!
Neglected there. For we are wiser far
Than our plain sires. The march of intellect
Carries us onward at a step too swift
To mind thy old-world precepts. We hare books
Of flashier texture, woven from the brain
Of subtle theorist, or visioned bard.
We've pierced the rind, at least, of this great globe,
And knowing thus its central strata, find
Its age more certainly than Moses could.
The stars of heaven, supposed—in simpler times—
To shine for man's enlightenment, are now
Proved to be glowing suns, and peopled worlds,
Which dwarf our world and us, and cast in doubt
Our privilege as Jehovah's favoured race.
We can foretell eclipses; calculate
E'en the wild comet's advent; and pre-note
The ebbs and flows of ocean, as be leads
His mighty waves beneath the moving moon.
Such lore thy pages teach not, though they teach
A lore surptising that as far as heaven
Surpasses earth in grandeur; teach it,,too,
In strains sublimer, oft, than Grecian muse,
Roman, or English, ever sung!
Alas!
I, too, have wandered from the fold—forgat
The voice of the kind CHEPItERD, which did call,
Until 1 Shut mine ears. and would not hear.
I, too, have left the "fount of living waters ;"
And, like the multitude, have hewn me out
Cisterns—aye, broken ones, " that hold no water"
For the parched palate! But the spell is o'er.
The charm is taken from the face of things.
The bloom bath fallen from the tree of science,
Which stands in winter nakedness. And I,
Sobered at length, hold every science cheap
That springs not front. or leads not to, the book;
The old book of my fathers !

04
The editor of the New York Herald writes upon the marg.'. 0
his paper, "Burnt out last night—will resume in a few da%!; co
See-MARINE CommuNicsTioN.—Mr. Deane, who has "d:5
successfully engaged in raising various articles from the "'roof
of the Royal George, Boyne, Hindostan, and several °
hol
vessels, appears almost to have accomplished a desideratun'v
great value to the nautical world. From the former Yefiseiroti
has, since October last, raised seventeen brass and • fic6d3
cannon. The total value of the former is estimated at uptval,is
of three thousand pounds ; anti for the encouragement °,
undertaking, he is allowed by the government the whole si",„,. rot
they only reserving to themselves the right of the first ch°l:—tireil
purchase. The brass and copper utensils are not at all
by exposure to the sea water, but the iron are, as might bebicli
petted, very much oxydated. On different pieces of coin ". of'
have been brought from the Boyne the inscriptions are ,De
fectly legible. The tope in several instances appears very i)jr,
injured by the action of the water. Some months sineediost
Deane was employed in raising the Endeavour, a sloop tr,9,.)1e
between London and Leith, which foundered with a valu
cargo of copper, the insurance on which was paid by theraii•
derwriters. After having lightened her, he succeeded le holt
ing her to a short distance, by placing empty casks in the were
and then towing her for a distance of six miles, she once rot
emerged from beneath the ocean, having been upwards oi
airs,
months below the surface, and after a few necessary reroott
was able to resume her station as a sailing vessel, and .
actually re-engaged in the trade. The inventor is now alsigoo
gaged in raising a vessel recently sunk off Tynemoulh, 1:06
with stone. The value of his invention has been latterly
in many instances, such as examining the bottoms of yea'
and and finding anchors. :surveying the state of the piers at rub'
don-bridge, cleaning the gates of the London docks frol%try
bish; fitting a sluice-piece on the gates of the East C°,,se
Dock, &c. It is projected to form a company for the Parrtifb'
of employing his apparatus in the coral, pearl, anal sponge
ies.—Alin leg Journal.