The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

HYAM'S TROUSERS

MADE TO MEASURE.
Doeskin and Gambroon Trousers, very neat .... from 0 8 '6
Scotch Tweeds
The newest styles in Checks and Stripes
Very superior and splendid materials
Beautiful specimens of .Scotch mill'd Tweeds, adapted
for riding
Elegant Foreign fabrics,:in plaids and stripes, Cossack
fronts, and straps to button cnderfoot
Five hundred styles in genuine French materials for
Trousers, the produce of a celebrated French
manufacturer, and secured to lIYAM., by regis-
tration, and cut in the French style, German
bottoms, or the plain English shape
Mill'd black and Drab Kerseymeres
Elegantly constructed Pantaloons for the ball-room 1 8 43
Beautiful West of England black and clerical mix-
tures, in woaded Doeskins. 1 4 0

READY MADE.
-Tweed Trousers, adapted for bard wear, lined.. from 0 5 6
•Superior quality ditto, in checks end stripes ....
Beautiful plain and fancy Scotch Tweeds 0 9 6
A:most varied and extensive assortment of mixed and
fancy Doeskins, cut in every fashionable shape
from
Superfine Buckskins, beautifully made 0 16 0
Very best qualities it•ench and 'German Trousermgs
cut an an improved plan, and in material anti
make deserving to be denominated the gems of
fashion .
Black and Drab Kerseymeres
Superioriquaiity ditto, ,warranted to wear well
Imperial wool-dyed black Doeskins, in every variety
of shape, from
Extra superfine, in woaded Colours, beautifully elastic 1 1 0

A FLAT CONTRADICTION TO AN OLD PROVERB.—
There is a musty old proverb which says, " Every road
leads to Rome." This is not the case with the Pope at
all events. for with him every road leads to every other
place but Rome. _ _

ORIGIN OF "ifussmt."—When the Turkish wars com-
menced, the attacks of that hardy, numerous, and war-
like race placed Hungary in great jeopardy; and the
franklins, awed and terrified beyond measure, summoned
the peasantry to defend the country. A law was passed
compelling twenty cessions to produce, equip, and main-
tain in the field, one soldier; and the men who were thus
raised were called hussars, from hus, which means
twenty. The derivation of the name was, of course,
speedily forgotten : and, in later years, the Hungarian
cavalry used to boast that they were called hussars because
each man of them was a match for twenty. The Haiduks
or Pandurs are foot soldiers. Both hussars and pandurs
act as county police.

THE FIRST COACH IN CHlNA.—Amongst the pre-
sents carried out by our first embassy to that country was
a state coach. It had been specially selected as a per-
sonal gift by George the Third ; but the exact mode of
using it was a mystery to Pekin. The ambassador, in.
deed, (Lord Macartney,) had made some dim and imper-
fect explanations upon the point ; but as his Excellency
communicated these in a diplomatic whisper, at the very
moment of his departure, the celestial mind was very
feebly illuminated ; and it became necessary to call a
cabinet council on the grand state question—" Where
was the Emperor to sit ?" The hammer-cloth happened
to be unusually gorgeous ; and partly on that considera-
tion, but partly also because the box offered the most
elevated seat, and undeniably went foremost, it was re-
solved by acclamation that the box was the imperial
place, and, for the scoundrel who drove, he might sit
where he could find a perch. The horses therefore being
harnessed, under a flourish of music and a salute of guns,
solemnly his Imperial Majesty ascended his new English
throne, having the first lord of the treasury on his right
hand, and the chief jester on his left. Pekin gloried in
the spectacle; and in the whole flowery people, construc-
tively present by representation, there was but one dis-
contented person, which was the coachman. This muti-
nous individual, looking as blackhearted as he really was,
audaciously shouted—" Where am Ito sit ?" But the
privy council, incensed by his disloyalty, unanimously
opened the door, and kicked him into the inside. He
had all the inside vlaces to himielf; but such is the rapa-
city of ambition that he was still dissatisfied. " I say,"
he cried out in an extempore petition addressed to the
Emperor through a window, " how RIO I to catch hold of
the reins ?"—" Any how," was the answer; " don't
trouble me, man, in my glory; through the windows,
through the keyholes—how you please." Finally, this
contumacious coachman lengthened the checkstrings in-
to a sort of jury-reins, communicating with the horses ;
with these he drove as may'be supposed. The Emperor
returned after the briefest of circuits : he descended in
great pomp from his throne, with the severest resolution
never to remount it. A public thanksgiving was ordered
for his Majesty's prosperous escape from a broken neck ;
and ,the state coach was dedicated for ever as a votive
offering to the god Fo, Fo—whom the learned more accu-
rately call Fi, Fi.—Blackwood.

AN AMERICAN'S CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON.—Bona-
parte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
The highest placed individual in the most cultivated age
and population of the world, he has not the merit of
common truth and honesty. Ile was unjust to all his
generals, egotistic, and monopolizing ; meanly stealing
the credit of their great actions from Kellerman, from
Bernadotte ; intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in
hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance
from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends
the new pride of his throne- He is a boundless liar.
The official paper, his Monitews, and all his bulletins,
are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed ;
and (what is worse) he sat, in his premature old age, in
his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts, and dates, and
characters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat. Like
all Frenchmen, he has a passion for stage effect. Every
action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this cal-
culation. His star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the
immortality of the soul, are all French. " I must dazzle
and astonish. If I were to give the liberty of the press
my power could not last three days." To make a great
noise is his favourite design. " A great reputation is a
great noise ; the more there is made the farther off it is
heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall;
but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages."
His doctrine of immortality is simply fame. His theory
of influence is not flattering. "There are two levers for
moving men—interest and fear. Love is a silly infatua-
tion, depend upon it. Friendship is but a name. T love
nobody. I do not even love my brothers ; perhaps
Joseph, a little, from habit, and because he is my eider;
and Duroc—l love him too. But why ? Because his
character pleases me; he is stern and resolute, and I be-
lieve the fellow never shed a tear. For my part I know
very well that I have no true friends. As long as I con-
tinue to be what I am, I may have as many pretended
friends as T please. Leave sensibility to women; but
men should be firm in heart and in purpose, or they"
should have nothing to do with war and government."
He was thoroughly unscrupulous. He would steal, slan-
der, assassinate, drown, and poison, as his interest dicta-
ted. He had no generosity, but mere vulgar hatred. He
was intensely selfish ; he was perfidious ; he cheated at
cards; he was a prodigious gossip, and opened letters ;
and delighted in his infamous police • and rubbed his
bands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of
intelligence concerning the men and women about him,
boasting that he knew everything; and interfered with
the cutting of the dresses of the women •, and listened
after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street, in-
cognito. His manners were coarse. He treated women
with low familiarity. He had the habit of pulling their
ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good
humour, and of pulling the ears and whiskers of men,
and of striking, and horse play with them, to his last
days. It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or
at least that he was caught at it. In short, when you have
penetrated through all this immense power and splendour
you were not dealing with a gentleman at last, but with
an impostor and a rogue; and be fully deserved the epi-
thet of "Jupiter Scapin," or a sort of scamp Jupiter.—
Erne/vote:s. Representative Men.