The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

" HALT "—The late Judge Pease, of the Supreme
Court of Ohio, was a noted wag. A young lawyer was
once making his first effort before him, and having thrown
himself on the wings of his imagination into the seventh
heaven, was preparing for a still higher ascent, when the
judge struck his ruler on the desk two or three times,
and exclaimed to his astonished orator •--Hold on, hold
on. Doriwt gb any higher;for you are already out of the
jurisdiction of th.s court.
WANT OF QUALIFIED SCHOOLMASTERS. —ln the
whole, we have employment for 8,000 qualified masters
and mistresses. Taking eight years to be the average
period of a master or mistress's stay at any one school,
the number annually required to be sent out properly
trained from the training schools of the country, will he
1,000. if we had as many primary schools as are needed,
that number would of course be doubled,-2,000 per an-
num. At present, the whole supply of pupils, at all com-
petent, cannot exceed 300, and fully qualified will not
amount to 100 per annum. " A system of education,"
says Mrs. Austin, " is nothing without an unfailing sup-
ply of competent masters." Have we any provision for
such a supply ? It must be admitted that, under the pre-
sent system, we can neither supply teachers in proper
quantity nor of proper quality.—Haly on Education.
TUE MOSAIC NARRATION OF THE CREATION.—
Apart from the religious importance of the truths dis-
closed in the Mosaic account of the creation, which it is
impossible for language fully to represent, and which can
be appreciated only by those whose mind and soul have
been happily brought into union with the great Creator ;
apart from these blessed and everlasting effects,—the
mere excellence of the narrative is such as to show in the
writer the prevalence of a high and ennobling spirit,
which would be genius, were it not something more ele-
vated. This merit, which the ancient heathen critic,
Longinus, acknowledged in no niggard terms, is of so
lofty and decided a description, as to win for the book in
which it is found, the respect of every cultivated
mind, whatever its religious conviction may be. For
ourselves, if we did not revere the Bible for its reli-
gion, we should admire it for its style ; but, as we both
revere and admire the Sacred Volume, we are bold to ask,
where can be found nobler truths expressed in a purer,
more simple, more majestic manner, than we find in the
introductory verses, and in very many other parts, of the
Bible ?—a book which we hold to be the greatest among
all the treasures of man's earthly inheritance.—The
People's Dictionary of the Bible.
NELSON.—Lord Nelson had often talked with Captain
Hardy on the subject of his being killed in battle, which
appeared, indeed, to be a favourite topic of conversation
with him. He was always prepared to lay down his life
in the service of his country ; and, whenever it should
please Providence to remove him from this world, it was
the most ambitious wish of his soul to die in the fight, and
in the very hour of a great and signal victory. In this he
was gratified : his end was glorious ; and he died as he had
lived—one of the greatest among men. His lordship had
on several occasions told Captain Hardy that if he should
fall in battle, in a foreign climate, he wished his body to
be conveyed to England; and that if his country should
think proper to inter him at the public expense, he wished
to be buried in St. Paul's, as well as that his monument
should be erected there. He explained his reasons for
preferring St. Paul's to Westminster Abbey, which was
rather curious ; he said that he remembered hearing it
stated, as an old tradition, when he was a boy, that West-
minster Abbey was erected on a spot where once existed a
deep morass ; and he thought it likely that the lapse of
time would reduce the ground on which it now stands to
its primitive state of a swamp without leaving a trace of
the Abbey. He added, that las actual observations con-
firmed the probability of this event. He also repeated to
Captain Hardy several times during the last two years of
his life, " Should I be killed, Hardy, and my country not
bury me, you know what to do with me," meaning that
his body was, in that case, to be laid by the side of his
father's, in his native village of Burnham Thorpe, in Nor-
folk ; and this, as has been before mentioned, he adverted
to in his last moments.—The Despatches and Letters of
Lord Nelson, by Sir H. H. Nico:as.
THE ALGERINE JEWS.—The Algerine Jews attebute
their first arrival in Africa to a miracle, of which we find
the following version in Count St. Mario's book. In the
year 1330, Simon-ben-Sinia, chief rabbi of Seville, and
sixty of his co-religionists were imprisoned, and con-
demned to die, the object being to get possession of their
wealth. On the eve of the day fixed for their execution,
Simon drew the image of a ship on his prison wall. The
drawing was miraculously changed into a real vessel, on
board of which the prisoners embarked for Algiers, where
they were kindly received by the Marabout Sidi Ben
Yusef. This tradition is still an article of faith, even with
the most enlightened of the Jews. In whatever manner
they came, they have increased and multiplied, and now
abound in all the towns of Algeria. Preserving the cha-
racteristics of their race, they differ little from their Eu-
ropean brethren ; or, if the, e be any difference, it is not
much in their favour. Their moral condition is low • and
although some honourable and honest men are found
amongst them, the majority are of a very different stamp.
They are charitable to their poor, and hospitable to their
own people, and are generally well conducted ; but their
insatiable and inherent greediness leads them into all sorts
of disgraceful transactions. They have been immense gain-
ers by the expulsion of the Deys, under whose rule they
were subjected to much oppression and ill usage. "Their
condition is now vastly ameliorated, and I have even
heard complaints o' their insolence; a very extraordinary
charge against a race so tamed and broken in spirit. The
French, I fear, can place but little reliance on their courage
in occasions of danger." The Jewish women, when young,
are for the most part strikingly handsome; and the boys
are models of beauty until the age of ten or eleven years,
whop their features grow course. Education is confined
to the teeles,-131acktpod'e Magazine.