The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

TEMPLE Or THE SUN, PALMYRA.—The Temple of the
Sun, which singularly enough faces the west, stands in
the centre of an immense court nearly seven hundred feet
square, which is now entirely filled with the noisy houses
of the Arab Palmyrenes. The Temple itself, now sadly
dilapidated, was surrounded by a peristyle of fluted Corin-
thian columns with bronze capitals, all of which have dis-
appeared, most pitiably exposing the naked surface of the
stone to which they were attached. The great gate is the
most beautiful 1 ever saw, next to the matchless one at
Baalbec. The devices are very beautiful, consisting of
branches of palm, bunches of grapes. flowers, fruits and
garlands ; bat the design is superior to the execution ;
they are not cut deep enough, and the stone, moreover,
has suffered much from exposure. A smaller door, that
of the Temple itself, introduced us into a mosque, which
fills up a great part of the interior ; we saw a very curious
ancient ceiling in one of the side apartments. Proceed-
ing through other modern structures, we reached a gate,
or doorway, ornamented with double fluted pillars, of no
very chaste design, the ceiling displayed a Zodiac, and on
the soffit of the architrave is the winged vulture soaring
among the stars, an interesting proof, of which I observed
similar instances at Baalbec and in the tombs of Palmyra,
of the affinity of the Egyptian and Grecian sun-worship.
Library of Travel.
EFFECT OF ENFORCEMENT OF TEMPERANCE ON A
RUSSIAN ESTATE.—The following was told us by Count
had turned his attention to political economy with a prac-
Ifjotrtlyeea
betterr s
prac-
tical view inherited a small estate, upon which were loca-
ted 300 peasants, the most disorderly, the most wretched
imaginable. No revenue had been derived from the land
the;
property, it
than
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commenced
yieldedt o th e
his proprietors
nothing.
reform
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laboure.
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from this barren condition, and produced corn enough to
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he flogged all those who neglected to put their huts in
good order ; he then made the same reforms as regarded
their clothing, and flogged all those who were in rags.
He proeeeded even to domestic economy, insisted that
the bread should be properly made, that each man should
have enough to eat, and flogged all those who had not an
ample store of corn in their granary. By these means he
became the proprietor of one of the most productive es-
tates and the happiest peasantry in the country; and,
what is more to the point, be was one of the most popular
landlords. The gin-shops remained closed, the girls
danced, the men sung, no more flogging was necessary;
and few can blame him for taking such means to open
his people's eyes to their own interests.—Fraser's Mag.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.—A person about to be edu-
cated for industrial purposes should, therefore, be first
thoroughly grounded in the general sciences, and in ele-
mentary mathematics. All this can be done with far less
expenditure of time, of trouble, and of money, than is usu-
ally incurred with the Greek and Latin, for which, in in-
dustrial pursuits, there is seldom the slightest use. Thus
grounded in general education, he should pass to his spe-
cial branch, according as he is to be a chemist, a maker of
machines, a worker in metals, or of other trade. Of all
the objects used in his peculiar occupation he should ac-
quire the most minute knowledge ; their properties and
composition; their adulterations; where they are found;
how they are obtained ; what can be substituted for them ;
how they can be made. All these are things on which
may depend, at each step of his future progress, whether
he follows a losing trade, or whether he be eminently
successful. To this general education should be ad-
ded the experience of the workshop. The simplest
operation in the arts requires a degree of manipula-
tive skill that no books, no words, can give. The
most perfect theoretical acquaintance with the construc-
tion of machines and the nature of various materials
used, would not enable a man to do good work. But if
the man has obtained the manual skill by working prac-
tice, there is no doubt but that the knowledge of the tools
he is using, and of the materials he worked upon, will
enable him to do it better than he otherwise could. The
practical education of the artisan in the place of actual
working is, therefore, of all the most important, and re-
quires most time. The ultimate object of the previous
discipline in science is to enable him fully to avail himself
of the opportunities of improvement in his art which the
workshop continually affords.—Bane's Industrial Re-
sources of Ireland.
ELEPHANT HUNTING IN CEYLON.—The D—s hav-
ing arrived at Trincomalee, it was agreed at mess that an
elephant party should be made up in the course of the
week, for the purpose of showing some of the officers of
the ship some elephant shooting. The day came, and
half a dozen fellows—two of them being crack elephant
shots of the island—sallied forth after the animals, which
are to be found in all directions in the neighbourhood.
Of all the people in the world to go out elephant shooting
with, naval officers are the very worst, from a reckless
sort of feeling what danger they incur or bring on those
with them, as long as they get a " pop" at the animal
they are pitted against : " Jack " goesinto the field deter-
mined to blaze away until he has not a shot left in the
locker; and, in the present instance, this circumstance
nearly cost a gallant post-captain a life that had far better
have been lost on his own quarter deck. The beaters
having given notice that an elephant was in the patch of
jungle opposite. away hurried the party to see who would
get first shot, in spite of all the sober remonstrances of
the old stagers, who knew they must look out for squalls.
The firing soon commenced, and as soon as the smoke of
the guns had cleared off, a scene presented itself that
brought our heroes to their senses, and gave them a vivid
picture of the " crack sport of Ceylon ;', trumpeting, yell-
ing, and screeching from pain caused by her wounds, the
elephant had dashed from her cover, had seized hold of
the first person that came in her way with her trunk
(which was Captain G—) and was rushing round the
plain with him held high in the air, and apparently only
looking out for a convenient place where she could kneel
on him, and crush him to death. What was to be done ?
To have fired with any chance of slaying the animal would
have been doubly dangerous to G—, as he was in such
a position that he covered the mortal part of the elephant's
head. It was a horrible scene to those that viewed it ;
what it was to the sufferer be alone can tell, and be is still
alive and able to tell the story. The elephant at last hav-
ing got into a corner, far from the others, pulled up, and
began to lower G— to the ground. A scream from the
jungle from which the elephant had first emerged brought
every one to " attention," in expectation of having an at-
tack made on his own life; in a moment after, a little calf
(a young elephant) showed itself on the plain, and, quick
as thought, a bullet was lodged behind its shoulder, where
it is not mortal. Another ball followed. The little animal
began to cry and screech, and the feelings of the mother,
so true to nature, even in the brute, caused the old ele-
phant to leave her victim on the instant, and to rush to
the aid of her offspring ! This lucky thought of the old
hand saved the life of G—. The elephant returned to
its calf, licked its wounds, and the next moment was shot
dead by the same hand that had so well executed what a
brain—never at fault in danger—had so happily devised.
G— was still lying senseless when he was reached by
the rest of the party, and a couple of hands having been
sent back to the fort for a surgeon and palanquin, he was
removed to the barracks, where he was found to have sus-
tained only the damage of two broken ribs, which rest and
the doctor soon put to rights, and in a short time he was
again able to take command of the D—.—New Sport-
ing Magazine.

ABSURD ALARM THAT RUSSIA CAN OVERRUN INDIA.
—Ever since we have harboured the Czar's rebels in
England, there has been a craze possessing our newspa-
per press, that Russia was, or might be, brewing evil
against India. We can all see the absurdity of such reve-
ries when exemplified by our quicksilver neighbour France,
bouncing for ever in her dreams about insults meditated
from the perfidious England ; but we are blind to the
image which this Prench mirror reflects of our own atti-
tude towards Russia. One hundred and fifty years ago,
the incubus which lay heavy on the slumbers of England
was the Pope; of whom Swift remarked, that constantly
his holiness was seen incoa. under one disguise or other,
drinking at gin-shops in Wapping, and clearly proved to
be spying out the nakedness of the land. In our days the
Pope has vanished to the rear of the English phantasma-
oria, and now lies amongst the nekuon arnenena karena.
But not, therefore, is England without her pet nightmare ;
and that nightmare is now the Czar, who doubtless has
his own reasons lately for examining the ground about
Windsor and Ascot Heath—fine ground far the Preoba-
sinsky dragoons. How often in this journal have we been
obliged to draw upon these blockheads, and disperse them
sword in hand I How, gentlemen, (we have said to them
in substance,) if you must play the fool as alarmists, can
you find no likelier towers for menacing Calcutta with
thunder storms than those of arctic St. Petersburg ; be-
tween which cities lies an interspace equal to both tropics ?
We remember, as applicable to this case, a striking taunt
reported by Dampier, that when one bucanier, on the west
coast of Peru, was sailing away from the oppression of
another to some East Indian port, with a weak crew in a
crazy vessel, the ruffian from whom he fled told him at
parting, that, by the time he saw green fields again, the
boys in his vessel would be greyheaded. And we suspect
that the Russian drummer-boys, by the time they reach
the Khyber pass, will all have become field-marshals, see-
ing that, after three years' marching, they have not yet
reached Khiva. But were the distance, the snows, the
famine, and thirst nothing, is the bloodshed nothing ?
Russia is a colossus, and Bokhara, Khiva, Kokan, &c.,
are dwarfs. But the finger of a colossus may be no match
for the horny heels of a dwarf. The Emperor Tiberius
could fracture a boy's skull with a talitrum, (or fillip of his
middle finger;) but it is not every middle finger that can
do that ; and a close kick from a khan of Toorkistan might
leave an uglier scar than a fillip at arm's length from the
Czar. Assuredly his imperial majesty would be stopped
at many toll-bars before he would stable his horses in an
Affghan caravansary ; and would have more sorts of boxes
than diamond snuff-boxes to give and take in approaching
the Hindoo Koosh. But suppose him there, and actually
sitting astride of the old Koosh in boots and spurs, what
next? In our opinion the best thing he could do, in case
he desired to sleep for the next three months, would be to
stay where he was ; for should he come down stairs into
Affghanistan, we English can by this time give some ac-
count of the shocking roads and bad entertainment for
man and horse, all the way to the Indus. Little to choose
between the Khyber Pass or the Bolan : more kicks per-
haps on the first, but worse dinners on the other. And
then, finally, about the costs, the reckoning, the " little
account" which will be presented for payment on the banksr
of the Indus. Us it cost forty thousand camels, which
Indus, say thirty
wish to plant a still larger army on the I _
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"—Blackwood.
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