The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

April 18, 1848.

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POETRY

ALL'S FOR THE BEST.

All's for the best, be sanguine and cheerful,
Not _Troule and sorrow are friends in disguise,
hinbg but Folly goes faithless and fearful,
Courage for ever is happy and wise :
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All for Providence the best, if a man would but know it
_P•v wishes us all to be ,
tins is no dream of the pundit orblest poet.
Heaven is gracious, and—All's for the best
All for the best ! set this on your standard,
Eoldiers of sadness, or pilgrim of love,
Who to the shores of Despair may have wander'd
waywearied be or heartstricken dove.
All for the best! be a man but confiding,
Providence tenderly governs th e rest
And the frail bark of his creature is guiding
Wisely and warily all for the best.
All for
eetthe best ! then fling away terrors,
M all your fears and your foes in the van,
AnTd in the midst of your dangers or errors, rust like a child, while you strive ke a man All's for the best I—unbiassekl, unbounlided,
Providence reiwns from the East to the West :
And, by both wisqlom and mercy surrounded,
Hope and be happy that's All for the best !

A STRANGE TREE.—Trees of a very droll form chiefly
drew my attention here. The trunk bulged out in the
middle like a barrel, to nearly twice the diameter at the
ground, or of that of the first springing of the branches
above. These were small in proportion to their girth, and
the whole tree looked very odd. These trees were all so
alike in general form, that I was convinced this was their
character, and not s luaus nature. A still more remark-
able specimen of this tree was found by Mr. Kennedy. in

I the apex of a basaltic peak.—Mitchell's Expedition-Into
Tropical Australia.

TRUE RELIGION NOT A CAUSE OF INSANITY.—An im-
portant distinction is to be drawn between these deranged
affections of the mind resulting from the influence of false
religion upon the understanding, and the healthy effect of
legitimate Christianity upon the feelings and actions of
man. During the course of our experience, we have never
seen a case of insanity which could be clearly traced to
true religion—we mean, the religion as inculcated by the
.great author of Christianity—the religion which teaches
" peace and good will towards men "—which advocates
the nobentiments of love and charity—which inculcates
thefeel of " preferring others to ourselves "—the reli-
gion which represents love. mercy, and forgiveness as the
pre-eminent attributes of the Godhead—the religion whose
tendency is to induce us to take lowly views of ourselves,
to humble human pride, to produce a cheerful, serene,
and happy state of mind—the religion which enables us to
bear with fortitude " the whips and scorns of time, the
oppressor's wrong, and the proud man's contumely."
We cannot believe that such a religion can be otherwise
than sanitary in its effects on the human mind.—Journal
of Psychological Medicine.

KENNINdTox-COMMON.—An open area, called Ken-
nington. was, 30 or 40 years ago, quite out of town, the
streets of London now extend beyond its limits, and
altogether include it within the great aggregation of
cities, boroughs, and villages which are known by the
general name of London. Kennington is a space where
the surface, often trampled on and closely cropped by the
usual occupants of a common, displays a very scanty and
stunted herbage, without a tree or shrub to break its
monotony. The entire space does not exceed 20 acres,
its greatest length being from north to south ; along the
whole extent of its boundary lines are houses of a re-
spectable character ; but somewhat beyond them are
swarms of poorer dwellings, the inhabitants of which
contributed a large contingent towards the crowds that
in the course of yesterday assembled within and around
the common. This locality•is situate within a mile of
Vauxhall-bridge, a mile and-a half from Westminster,
and two miles from Waterloo, Blackfriars, and Lon-
don bridges respectively, being on the south-e stern con-
fines of Lambeth; and within less than a mile of Cam•
berwell.

ACUTENESS IN SAVAGE LIFE.—The acuteness of the
senses is proverbial in savage life. The bushy and pro-
jecting eyebrows, and the keen glance of the large black
eye, give a commanding character to the countenance of
the Australian native. Such of his mental faculties as the
meagre circumstances of his position have permitted to be
called into active exercise, exhibit a wonderful superiority ;
and his sagacity occasionally assumes that unerring cha-
racter which we impute to instinctive rather than reason-
ing guidance. An extraordinary instance of this kind is
recorded by Mr. Montgomery Martin, in his " Account of
New South Wales," relative to the discovery of a mur-
dered body of a colonist. The native was taken to a cer-
tain fence, to which the suspicions of a neighbouring
settler had been directed, in what appeared to himself a
supernatural manner, and where it was subsequently
proved the murder had been committed. Some traces of
blood still remained, which were carefully smelled by the
black. He then went off to a pond in the vicinity, where
he collected and tasted some scum on the surface of the
water, and pronounced it to be " white man's fat." He
next proceeded into an adjoining thicket, and finally
pointed out a spot where some decayed brushwood was
collected. The body was found beneath the surface at
this place. The murderer, as he afterwards confessed, had
first thrown it into the pond, where he had left it for se-
veral days, and then buried it at the spot so unaccountably
traced out by the acuteness of this Australian native.—
Westgarth's Australia Felix.

PARIS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. —The eye of a
stranger could have observed very little alteration in the
demeanour of the populace ; and even in the salons, there
was no strong surmise of any coming event of importance.
In the capital of France one looks for a revolution as
quietly as the people of England await the advent of " the
coming man." The event is always prophesied—some-
times apparently upon the eve of being fulfilled ; but the
failures are so numerous as to prevent inordinate disap-
pointment. In the Chamber there were some growlings
about the Reform banquet, and the usual vague threats if
any attempt should be made to coerce the liberties of the
people; but these demonstrations had been so often re-
peated, that nobody had faith in any serious or critical re-
sult. Little Thiers, to be sure, blustered ; and Odillon
Barrot assumed pompous airs, and tried to look like a
Roman citizen, at our small patriotic cosmopolitan re-
unions ; but I never could believe that either of them was
thoroughly in earnest. We all know the game that is
played in Britain, where the doors of the ministerial cabi-
net are constructed on the principle of a Dutch clock.
When it is fair weather, the ambitious figure of Lord John
Russell is seen mounting guard on the outside—when it
threatens to blow, the small sentry retires, and makes
way for the Tamworth grenadier. just so was it in Piiris.
Guizot, if wheeled from his perch, was expected to be re-
placed by the smarter and more enterprising Thiers, and
slumbrous Dechatel by the broad-chested and beetle-
browed Barrot. At the same time, I could not altogether
shut my eyes to the more active state of the press. Ido
not mean to aver that the mere political articles exhibited.
more than their usual vigour.; but throughout the whole
literature of the day there ran an under-current of revolu-
tionary feeling which betokened wonderful unanimity.
Less than usual was said about Marengo, Austerlitz, or
even the three glorious days of July. The minds of men
were directed further back, to a period when the Republic
was all in all, when France stood isolated among the na-
tions, great in crime, and drunken with her new-won
freedom. The lapse of half a century is enough to throw
a sort of halo around the memory of the veriest villain and
assassin. We have seen Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard
exhumed from their graves to be made the heroes of mo-
dern romance ; and the same alchemy was now applied to
the honoured ashes of Anacharsis Clootz, and other pa-
triots of the Reign of Terror.—Blackwood's Magazine.
WINES FROM AUSTRALIA.—The luxuriant growth of
the vine, both in New South Wales and South Australia,
has occasioned some interesting speculation with reference
to the production of wine in these colonies. The consi-
derable German emigration which has taken place to
South Australia will assist this anticipated branch of future
commerce. The cultivation of vines and fruit has pro-
ceeded to some extent in the Sydney district, where the
manufacture and even the export of wine has been already
commenced. Some of the produce of the Messrs. M'Ar-
thur's vineyard was sold at Calcutta in March, 1846, being
the first appearance, as remarked by the local press, of
that new Australian export in that market. According to
official returns for the year 1845, there were 648 acres of
vineyard throughout New South Wales, including thirty-
seven acres for the Port Philip district ; the produce of
wine amounted to 54,996 gallons, and of brandy to 1433
gallons : 214 gallons of wine had been manufactured dur-
ing that year at Port Philip. The wholesale price of
grapes in the Melbourne market for the last two seasons
has been about 3d. per pound. Much additional ground,
however, has latterly been laid out in vineyard, and the
abundance of the supply will probably within several
years reduce the price to ld. per pound, at which rate the
manufacture of wine may be expected to commence on an
extensive scale. Probably above eighty acres of land are
now planted with vines throughout the Port Philip dis-
trict ; but these plants, in common with the stock of fruit
trees, are still in general extremely young, and yield bat
moderate crops. The wines of the Sydney district have
usually been hitherto of a light or Rhenish character. We

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In the mean time I am anxious to caution my fellow

Wlllllll.lll pi UladUC VI applying LI, we..
new descriptions of wine the old and standard names of
the produce of the other hemisphere. All the dfferenee
in flavour in the case of the former is ever liable to be
judged as all inferiority. New South Wales port or
Australian sherry will never pass muster at the festive
I boards of the mother country. Under a totally distinct