The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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April 18, 1848

Etttraturg.
POETRY.

ALL'S FOR THE BEST.
Ill's for the best, be sanguine and cheerful,
Trouble and sorrow are friends in disguise,
•Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful,
Courage for eer is happy and wise :
All for the best, if a man would but know it
Providence wishes us all to be blest,
This is no dream of the pundit or poet.
Heaven is gracious, and— All's for the best
All for the best set this on your standard,
Soldiers of sadness, or pilgrim of love,
Who to the shores of Despair may have wander'd
A waywearied swallow or heartstricken dove.
All for the best! be a man but confiding,
Providence tenderly Foverns the rest?
And the frail bark of his creature is guiding
Wisely and warily all for the best.
All for the best ! then fling away terrors,
Meet all your fears and your foes in the van,
And in the midst of your dangers or errors,
Trust like a child, while you strive like a man :
All's for the best l —unbiasse.l, unbounded,
Providence reigns from the East to the West :
And, by both wisdom and mercy surrounded,
Hope and be happy that's All for the best

MY QUEEN AND MY COUNTRY.
soNG COMPOSED EXTEMPORE ON THE EVENING OF THE

NINTH INSTANT, BY A SPECIAL CONSTABLE.
I have written and sung for my country,
I have written and sung for my Queen ;
And to-morrow this arm, if 'tis needed,
Not last in their cause shall be seen!
To-morrow!—I'm new to such conflict,
And hardly its feelings can guess;
But base were the heart that would shun it.
And make one defender the less
ro-morrow i—The ball that shall kill me,
May be moulded and waiting its flight;
And the loyal heart, warm in the morning,
May be cold enough long ere the night.
What then? 'Twere a fitting conclusion
To the life of a patriot bard,
To fall for the cause that he sung for,
And find in its triumph, reward!
One sigh for my wife and my children,
At last be permitted to me •,
One prayer for my Queen and my country,
And then my glad spirit be free!

R.S.

NOTICES.

tix Lectures on the Jews. By the Rev. J. J. Reynolds,
A.M. London : Seely, Burnside, and Seely, Fleet-
street.
It is admitted by all serious and reflecting minds, that
the condition of the Jewish people is such as can find no
parallel in the history of no other nation—a miracle con-
fined to no age or country—a problem that neither the
historian, philosopher, or statesman can ever solve. It
is but reasonable to suppose that the winding up of this
people's destiny will exercise a wonderful influence over
the whole earth ; and what reason would expect, revela-
tion amply confirms. The present state, spiritual and
temporal, of the Jewish people has, within a few years,
attracted a considerable share of public attention ; and
the study of prophecy has, as it were, centred the nation
of Israel in its golden light. Several publications have
issued from the press within a short period, in the shape
of sermons, lectures, and prophetic expositions, in which
the duty of the Christian Church towards the Jews, as
well as the effects their national conversion and restora-
staan will have upon the world, have been set forth. In
addition to the interesting and able works on this subject
already before the public, we gladly call attention to the
Small and unpretending volume that heads our present
ha arks. We are acquainted with several of the works
utt have emanated from the pens of able, pious, and
distinguished men on the subject before us, yet we have
read these six lectures with much pleasure, and we trust
with profit. Besides the subject matters treated of, there
a, Sound evangelical spirit diffused through them, and
-,114 a practical inference drawn from them, as are well
-e'llated, by God's blessing, to leave in the mind of the
reader a refreshing and wholesome savour of divine truth;
Fla; ' such we recommend them to those especially who
' With the'royal psalmist, " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusa-
era' let my right hand forget her cunning."

critSket
'es from the Cross, Bcc. London : Ward and Co. ;
Liverpool Bold-street.
.The above is the title of—in most respects—a highly
interesting volume, by the Rev. J. J. Davis, of Bootle ;
and though we cannot agree with all the views of the
readers,
we
The
to introduce it to the notice of our
eader,.
design of the author has been to delineate,
I,lot only the character and sufferings of our blessed Re-
uueemer himself, whose death gives to that scene its own
Unapproachable grandeur and solemnity, but to sketch
floral portraits of the various parties who stand his-
torically grouped around the cross, and who form an
assemblage exhibiting a singular variety of aspect, some
butllust nleasing, others darkly contrasted by their crimes,
all capable, as this author has beautifully shewn, of
being exhibited so as to afford instruction to the devout
mind. If we were called upon to give the characteristics
of this series of sketches, we should enumerate their ge-
neral correctness of representation—their picturesque and
animated effect, which renders the whole real before us—
their deep and searching analysis of ruling principle in
toch actr in the scene—the fidelity
ack with which the author
rings eovery action and thought b continually to the
standard of truth and rectitude—the variety of incident
" and colouring, which has bestowed distinctness on each
Portrait—and, finally, the success with which the subtle
elements of character are detected and brought out, so as
to Chew their identity with the principles, good or evil,
which aro to be discovered still, in human life, in the
parch and the world. These sketches are distinguished
rom any previous attempts, on the subjects treated, by
their remoteness from the quiescence. if we may so speak,
of mere meditations, which are apt by their narrow range
of reflection, and by their monotony of manner, to pail
4Pott the mind of the most devotional reader. While
Iteulinently devotional in their effect, they are discursive
42,_argumentative in their form ; and the serious feelings
irZeued are awakened indirectly and spontaneously,
1,,._-"mout the avowed appeal to emotions, which is the
11-074 Way to check their rise in the mind. But we must
ad„,.l4arge. Of the style we have only to express our
Z94tion, as being direct, manly, and simple. No effort
am,e other than to convey thought in its clearest form ;
ellasf."ge beautiful in diction is that which is given by a
co rued imagination to the conceptions delineated. In
for ietn.sion, we have to thank the author most cordially
literature; 'usaluable and lasting contribution to our Christian
yell and hope that one who writes so usefully and
Will not suffer his pen to lie idle, but devote his
talents to the instruction of the age.

VARIETIES.
Titian ANurasro.—Mr. Mitchell angling for martyrdom
does not realise the Johnsonian picture of a fisherman.
There is not the worm at one end and the fool at the
other. Nevertheless the angling Is peculiarly Irish, inas-
much as Mitchell, to Batch gudgeons, baits with—a pike!
--Punch.
• STATISTICS OP THE REVOLUTION.—During the days
of the 23d and 24th February, 1512 barricades were
erected in Paris. Each barricade required on an average
845 paving stones, so that the people in a few hours must
have torn up 1,277,640 paving stones. There were also
4,013 trees, some of them of very large size, cut down;
13,704 lamp-posts broken down, and between 3,000 and
,000 lamps broken ; 53 guard-houses were burnt or torn
norm, and about 603 watch-boxes and small wooden bu=. teaux destroyed. In this calculation no mention is made
of the iron railings which were torn down at the Bourse,
and many of the churches and other public buildinp.
, THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, THIRTY-FIVE Y EARS
4.00.—1 n the " Repository of Arts" (vol. xxix., second
series p. 23), is a communication from Mr. J. R. Sharpe,
1:10e-hill, near Alfreton, stating that he had exhibited be-
fore the Lords of the Admiralty, in February, 1813, "an
tePeriment showing the advantages to be obtained from
iriune application of the certain and rapid motio.n of the elec.
Prit.ciple through an exensive voltaic. circuit, to th.e
Purposes of the'
ordinary telegraph." This statement is
rid ein consequence of there appearing in the same work
xxiv., second series, p. 188), an account o.f M. Solctanic-
ring's Electrical TeleaTaph, using an ordinary
);.ne, and in relation to the success of which he says,
ma e
attempt fulfilled his expectation."—.Mechanics'__a_
Al PUTUU,E DESTINY ,OP CENTRAL. 1
A and extensive as have been the revolutions of Central
4-4"4, there reignsthroughout the history of that continent
thrietilinleviating uniformity,which singularly contrasts with
h_ uore varied page of that of Europe. Vast monarchies
~:re successively arisen and decayed, and yet the same
_ aracter has been constantly transmitted from the for-
geler to the as
dynasty. After a brief career of
rupee empire, the first irruption of barbarians, cor-
en" eu bY luxury and refinement, enervated by the influ-
-o:)re:unsf climate, gave place to another fresh and more vi-
so trom the Tartarian steppes, which, in its turn,
t !"30med, by the sure operation of similar causes, to
ratio
the self-same career of conquest. luxury, and degene-
-vid„n. Is it, then, one of the inscrutable designs of Pro-
iLiTeto continue the nomade races of the north in a
a„lnmore true to nature, in order to repair by their
s the more civilized races of the world. enervated
,q debased by luxury and refinement. Even now, like
th avalanche, the north impends over Central Asia from
ette Etiline to the Pacific. Amid the fastnesses of the
eerlicasus, Schamil Bay, and his indomitable mountai.n-
a4 zre arresting for a time the onward roll of Muscovite
dor,e`tdinn. But to the gigantic power of Russia, a_ban-
tdhhe,,,ititf they are to their own resources, weakened and
sia. e" by intestine feuds, the subjugation of the Cauca-
ille:bes, is but a mere uestion of time, contingent on
I)Propriate gradation, the skilful application of
.the
Pasjis.9f coercion to the elements of resistan9e—Prince
,difeeeN who was thoroughly impressed with all the
Pettrlll,ties of the enterprise, reported to the cabinet of St.
Previrog, that the conquest of Caucasia would require,
fulfilled even the conditions laid down were rigorously
tner„e,„d by the imperial government, half a century. A
een- 'Pan. When, therefore, this last barrier shall have
liursjarried, then will the full tide of Russian power
dill v"ke a deluge upon the plains of Central Asia—then
the northern hordes again descend from their elevated
1-JuCle's ;• not as their sires of old, rude and uncultivated,
allto_ivilized and powerfully constituted, wielded by the
.
taik::::ietYhfnef one will, moved by the most powerful mill-
wisdo°rganization, and the most consummate political
world ever beheld, and alimented by the re-
Politkesl° an empire, rich in all the material elements of
of A7and commercial greatness. What will be the in-
(4 this new irruption of the north on the destinies
Will it change that immutable type, which,
Iniira,r.e revolutions of time and empire, has preserved
'44 itr,lred its Integrity ? Will it succeed in implanting
i_,14.0-I:4l,..alko,utirely new phasis of civilization ? This is
f:Ber,4 out .a problem that time alone can. solre.b—
MaPaZi:p?,