The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

Feb. 22, 1848.

Etttrature.

VARIETIES

temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel,
lour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country,
contentment in the house, clothes on the bairns, vigour
in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the
-Whole constitution.
CURIOUS FASHION.—In 1612,10 James 1., Mr. Edward
liawley, of Grey's Inn, coming to court one day, Maxwell
[a Scotsman] led him out of a room by a black string
Which he wore in his ear, a fashion then much in use ;
but this had like to have cost warm blood. Not only
Clay's Inn Society, but all the gentry in London, thought
themselves concerned in the affront ; and Hawley threat-
ened to kill Maxwell whenever he met him, if he refused
to fight, which so frightened the king, that he sent for the
benchers, and made up the quarrel.—Tindal.
NATIONAL CRARACTERISTICS.—A German, an Eng.
lishman, and a Frenchman, each received an order fora
drawing of a camel. The Frenchman went immediately
to the Jardin des Plantes, and the next day produced a
skiifullY-drawn, if not quite a perfect sketch of the camel.
aThe Englishman set off on the first steamboat for the f-
can desert, and there observed and sketched the animal,
nd, after a few months, made a picture true to the life. Meanwhile, the German withdrew into his studio in order
to construct the camel out of the depths of his own moral
setoinusethioente.sness. According to the latest accounts, he is
—North American.
THE CHOLERA AN IMPORTED DISEASE
IA which I have drawn but a faint outline, was not known
in this country till the autumn of the year 1831. There
aisrtedpearstooontsig, InasT onlyaware, who hold that it has always ex-
not in such numerous instances as
at that period ; and they appeal to Morton and other
ZIY writers on the diseases of this country in support of
their opinion. But the malady was too strikine to be
seenlioverlookedi.ti.t. or ever forgotten by any one who had once
tainly till that year I never saw anything
many 'robe sure I had not at that time been very
however, years
in
practice here. The late Dr. Babington,
for a
very told ow that it was quite new to him. He had
Parts oefryl°ng Period been in extensive practice in those
the rn 4
choler
that gear
he
had the raged
h:
de : °Polis and its vicinity where the epidemic
_.most ; and when it first came among us he
whether e curiosity to ask every medical man whom he met
answer was
Year the
a yeseT any case of the. cholera ; and if the
, he went on to inquire whether before
person had ever met with the same com-
paint ; and the reply was always, without a single excep-
tlonn' No. Yet I say there were and are a few practi-
thaers who denied, and deny, that it was anything more
n the common and well-known English complaint
raging with unusual frequency and violence.—Dr. Watson.
a.REPEAL.—We have already repeatedly stated that thef
-Qq of Repeal, " die illa,"
'the may come, without any o
Ta e agencies by which it is at present ostensibly sought for.
.c may be, not wrung from England, but forced upon Ire-
'and. As to the " bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" of
the faction by whom it is at present aimed at, vv!hold
thorn of little account. Before a steady course of w ;
rigorous policy, they would dissolve into 1-1-

—The disease

et-preterja niliii." -The humbug of Old Ireland:and the
fierce, impracticable extravagance of Young Ireland,
;alight be equally disregarded by the statesman who took
his stand upon constitutional principles ; and while he re-

tnediedeverry real grievance, resolutely determined to
Maintain the articles of the Union. But the minister
who, for party objects, makes an alliance with the faction
• of the country against the landed interest, and the super-
stition of the country against the Established Church, is
tRe he most dangerous enemy to the integrity of the empire.
it is who gives importance to the Repeal movement.
He. it is who by unwise concession, diminishes the centri-
petal, and increases the centrifugal force—by the due eequilibrium of which an harmonious connexion between
the two countries can alone be maintained. And should
the hour of separation come—as come, assuredly, it will,
if our course of policy be not altered—such a calamitous
result will not be ascribable to O'Connell or the priests,
or Young Ireland, or Old Ireland, but to the deree in
which faction shall have triumphed over principleg ; and
the very system of government become itself the machi-
nery of agitation which can only find its perfect consum-
mation In the dismemberment of the empire.—Dublin
University Magazine.
THE KING OF BAVARIA AND THE INNKEEPER.—
Amonge the uneducated of Munich a habit prevails of using
th third person singular of the past tense of the verb to
be, to answer for all persons, first, second, and third ; and
for tenses,—past, present, and future. We have no par-
allel in England for this habit ; but there is some approach
to it, in those persons who, wishing to be super-correct,
always say " I were." Now it happened that there was a
gastwirth, or innkeeper, who was landlord of an establish-
ment much frequented in the outskirts of Munich, an
cl„riginal, and who was notorious for his perseverance in
Luis habit. One morning, the king, in his usual daily
ratnble, found himself in this place, when, of course, Herr
Gastwirth came out to salute him, with that mixture of
familiar bonhommie and respect for his station which cha-
racterises the Bavarian people. " Well, Herr Gastwirth,"
said the king, "and so you are ths laadlord of thewas
Garter, ?,
" Yes, I was, your majesty !" This of course,
what the king wanted to hear. " But are you not
sat the landlord, ?" "Yes I was, your majesty," again
you answered unconscious gastwirth. 4, But when were
Arana;'7, ?" I was a long time, your majesty.
thank ' suPPose you hope you will be !" " Yes,
could Ynosurt:tynatihiessty,s
d I hope I was " The king
questio'goo goodness, . bear it no lo He had been often baffled in his
th with one of his
e ast, nsfuerPid habit of some of his subjects.
peculiar and forcible gestures, which made
ished landlord fear he was about to receive a
royal
con fished
the king replied, in his laconic style, " Then,
an
as
err GastWirth, I can tell you, you were an ass, you are
the s, and you always will be an ass !" And with that
liesn rate
uttegrarly i
ian rried away, laving the oor üb-
migmnoarrant in hu
what he hade offended his usually
o°,l-natured king.—Fraser'z Magazine.
PRESENTIMENTS.—I have heard of several cases of
l'eokrl)l..e hurrying home from a presentiment of fire ; and
h • of Calderwood, was once, when absent from
tithotne, seized with such an anxiety about his family that,
out being able in any way to account for it, he felt
tiliteself impelled to fly to them, and remove them from
house they were inhabiting, one wing of which fell
down immediately afterwards. No notion of such a mis-
tfortune had ever before occurred to him, nor was there
oll' reason whatever to expect it, the accident originating
e,lll,sotne defect in the foundations.—A circumstance,
giaiet'Y similar to this, is related by Stilling, of Professor
ou'Llm, teacher of mathematics at Marburgh. who being
lett-evening in company, was suddenly seized with a con-
very'"'en that he ought to go home. As, however, he was
Suchcomfortably taking his tea, and had nothing to do at
e, he resisted the admonition ; but it returned with
but eaching his
r force that at length he was obliged to yield. On
house he found every thing as he had left it ;
cornhe now felt himself urged to remove his bed from the
stoor the which it stood to another; but as it had always
resistancere, he resisted this impulsion also. However the
do it. was Vain, absurd as it seemed, he felt lie must
so he
the I) summoned the maid, and, with her aid, drew bed to the other side of the room • after which he felt
quite at ease, and returned to spend the rest of the evening
,1,11 his friends. At ten o'clock the party broke up, and
he retired home and went to bed and to sleep. In the
middle of the night he was awakened by a loud crash, and
mg
looking out he saw that a large beam had fallen, bring-
-8 g Part Of the ceiling with it, and was lying exactly on the
oase_pot his bed had occupied.—One of the most remarkable
s on
presentiment I know is that which occurred, not
lyingem3ng Since, on board one of her Majesty's ships, when
er. off Portsmouth. The officers being one day at the
.18-table, a young Lieutenant P. suddenly laid down his
:Land fork, pushed away his plate, and turned extremely
. He then rose from the table, covering his face
methhis hands, and retired from the room. The president
e mess, supposing him to be ill, sent one of the young
swilling
to inquire what was the matter. At first Mr. P. was
uwilling to speak; but on being pressed, he confessed
prthat he had been seized by a sudden and irresistible im-
ession that a brother he had then in India was dead.
0
,c loße died," said he, "on the 12th of August, at six
ck ; I am perfectly certain of it !" No arguments
could overthrow this conviction, which, in due course'of
at
Post, was verified to the letter. The young man had died
Cawnpore, at the precise period mentioned.—The
ght Side of Nature, by Mrs. Crowe.
p.st/R. HOWLEY'S FAITHFULNESS AND MUNIFICENCE.—
•the late Archbishop of Canterbury had difficulties
With which to contend, and many painful duties to per-
form. He had baptized the Queen ; he had solemnized
her marriage ; he had placed the Crown upon her head ;
he was the first ecclesiastic in the realm ; and when it
appeared to him, as well as to other distinguished mem-
bers of the hierarchy, that, in the palace of the Sovereign,
Sunday was observed in a manner rather in accordance
with the gaiety of continental tastes than with the quiet
Irbeserve of English and Protestant habits, he did not he-
-1 ate to call her Majesty's attention to the subject ; and
hes been stated that more than once during the Mel-
,r 1 e Ministry he respectfully tendered to the Crown
Vice not quite in accordance with the wishes of those
s_uo at that time surrounded our then youthful and in-
lz,lerieneed Sovereign. Though a man of remarkably
;lend and unassuming manners, he was by no means defi-
sett'Vn moral courage, nor likely to be deterred by any
c. courtiers from discharging a duty due to his Sove-
,
DTI- 311 or
it is ato t of which that Sovereign is the
remarkable fact that the grandfather of the
frouinell, George instead of requiring similar advice
His ih.,eesPlimate of his day, was himself the remonstrant.
toritsQi tY orate of
during the incumbency of Archbishop
uen.,„_ s, addressed to that prelate a very grave letter,
aid praying the
,:` routs and revelries" of Lambeth Palace,
lascaosnpditaalbie-7 good Looprd Primate," to terminate tbe
..anYeother
But Archbish Howley though cheerfully
to ever exposed himself to such a rebuke,. nor
species of animadversion ; for, notwithstand-
Zadiate
taLth aPPlirent simplicity of his character, he was gene-
Yeasilrot in avoiding awkward situations. Unlike his
successor in the see of London, he usually
managed to keep out of trouble, not so much by genuine
44°14' and elevation of soul as by the possession of pru-
Nor aiyi the absence of vanity. He had sufficient sym-
skill toeelin
theii rth his fellow-men to understand on the whole
gs as well as their prejudices, and sufficient
avoid as
their self-love ; he therefore ob-
e';'tr the reputation of being very amiable, without
14'eeut!sg_ the fame of extraordinary benevolence. As mu-
tetra I,iss other Archbishops he certainly was, but withal
his eiellu!Y,methodical and perhaps too well regulated in
as ; almost every deed was done apparently
4 limited
of his routine duty • and though it is, within
genoited circle, well known that he often gave way to
a„.7 is impulses. yet the world at large underrated the
ue72ltit which he expended in good works ; and as he was
tors'ZiiiPposed to be a man of facile dispo, impos-
wont not victimize him so extensively ascot is their
by P- 11 mn of his rank ;he therefore, won no pro 7asion , e
nor by parsimony incurred any reproach.raise