The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

The celebrated a ctress Mrs. Nisbett, (Ladyßoothby,)
•
B°l° Issaid
to be the authoress of the new novel, " Leonora, a
ay next, the 1 - , Love Story."
00 , The poetical correspondent of the Chester Courant
appointed to 6,. 18 highly indignant against a writer in the Daily News,
ecretary at Cefrie and his
n North Bro°ll "vermin!'
" flippant quill," for presuming to call foxes
was toasted 55 °-" CANNIE YORKSHIRE.—A Yorkshireman meeting with
_,AI *friend in London, the following conversation took place
• new taxes sugni ' between them:—" Sad times," said the Yorkshireman,
minister for arri, "how dun yo come on here i' Lunnon ?" " Very bad,"
tow-a-days.'' ''AY,"
eneral impresni 'replied the other; "an honest man has no chance to live
es is a pledge,sl;
says the Y • orkslureman, "but we
will be extend,'
41 Mixes it a bit in our country."
ye per cent.---,,•`•11 CONTRADICTION OF TERMS.—The word " fast "is as
re will take Puly eat A; , a contradiction as we have in the language The
the only cany_;to .Delaware was fast because the ice immoveable, and
he will " suPP°l•O, the ice then di
•, here and in lretk was' bes sappeaTed fast for the co.n pry reason—it
ce t•e• A clock is called fast when it is quicker than
the Romish
the ii time ; but a mart is desired to stand fast when he is de-
ant and to ' I Stired to remain s' ationary. People fast when they have
_el!
eothing to eat' and eat fast, consequently, when oppor-
ing the Univetso (unity offers to eat.
eatinge are tu,;so , PROFESSIONAL BREVITY.--When Mason was prepar-
ier gentleman 'O. ing the case of E. K. Averand had examined about 200
y,
tpporters, nearojt witasses, somebody Del him have! oy Marl sent word that called to see him. The legal gentle-
a,- in of support' nterrupted.could 'not
he was occupied, and
But the is 't s—a Methodist
man a wines
~
...a, Minister " "
leadey What Call Call him up," said Mason. Well, Sir,
from the; I at
ean you testify ?" " I have had a vision ; two
ns. The Marc", angels h
the le Av • •
he appeared to me, and told me that brother
'onsidering „ , erg is innocent." " Let' them be summoned !" said
ird to the Jo:4 Mason, as he resumed his k B ton Atheneum.
m cannot much Tit 8„,,, work.—Boston . os
to acknowleke aton.ermARTERO'S RECEPTION IN SPAIN. A national
3 to the Cons' •
'led
has been made in Spain. Espartero has been
845 and 1846. Re-dem n his return, although striving to avoid all pub-
-On Monday--e the
peoonisetrations, with the utmost joy and affection by
on against the i 0 the (mete) , and with high consideration and respect by
by a majority ° tit The re enii
c and by his own political and military rivals.
e must be solinf. Madrid, ti,(it 01 the long-exiled regent, on his return to
for he had sua, Romance of "Tash the materials for a new chapter in the
:rsity of Carol followed and-isterY• Wherever-he has gone he has been
petition was ad° sends. The greeted by grateful and sympathising thou-
ghter.) Lord,o been the a •most remarkable feature in these scenes has
aat for the Pe27, homage to
t?iiversal sentiment of forbearance. In doing
e 75, and agar from all noisyeir violentand idol, the people have abstained
a the very nift, reserve or demonstrations. A magnanimous
the petition W 1 Silence protected him from the jealousy of authority.
ighter.) e e,_ , speaking in a deep moral voice, expressed more
th ioquentl
Y THE ENGLISIIO the f •
, Y, more emphatically, than shouts of welcome,
• to i feeling'
eof those multitudes. His praises, his re-
, according
:rd. wards 81 vast
..panic in r•LiO. respectful long withheld, were spoken by gushing eyes and
iatpaper, '' is "•1 salutations. While the people desired, in the
• njoi warmth of th • do 1 • honour and to render
ling is begin rd. him • . their hearts, to him
~
• Here one is rd) tu
aeustice, they would not compromise .
him by more na-
t was the
Terence, Ene,lin3, I 2 1 tributes of their regard. Their self-restraint was A
ion ; and sure; more
noble assertion of his own past moderation._orm,
eof our neiglib,llhim, than
e„er,e, glorious triumph was thus preparedf
v "'Alin have been the most magnificent ovation of royal or
precautionaryi 0 „tta
His reception in the Senate was equally
sts are certain re •",' yhonours.
P aracteristiceur of native and ineradicable dignity of the
the
rtune never to 0 g
it it "Paoish people • and that Narvaez should have seemed
an arm ;'
.ef for - '
tribu'd a moment hurt, that it was not to himself that Espar-
-1 they con
..t. te
of ink and a etu• ro first offered the hand of cordial fellowship in the
chamber ought to be regarded as a good augury for the
° flit' r o notices are tiro of Spain.—Fraser's Magazine.
w T but without s oil HE LATE MR. ELMES.—A committee of Liverpool
cussion, while", gentlemen, in 1836 or 1837, advertised for designs for St.
rners of small ty. George's hall which was then intended to be a building
Francis Pigott' # distinct and separate. This advertisement was cut out of
to local rate% ti tile The Times, and sent or handed to Mr. Elmes by one
t
under the vala, of his friends, as being worth his notice. Mr. Elmes,
The other LP), then very young, took it over to Mr. Haydon, and asked
Te, who wis,betso,' ,liim if he should send in a design. "By all means, my
its from lees,' 0,0;" dear boy,' said Mr. Haydon ; ' they are noble fellows at
fixed. On 1° or
. Liverpool. Send in a design, and, mind, let it combine
ish, by directlelf, grandeur with simplicity. None of your broken-up and
s, there has b:04,. fritteredabortions, butsoneethinggrand." "Accordingly,"
hitherto succe A 0 said Mr. Elmes, " I set to work with a burning enthusiam,
s within theirs': I! and took my first sketch to a friend's house. It was
owners is o°' handed round and admired. Amongst the company was
a boy about four years and a half old. The sketch was
of course shown to the little fellow, who, looking for a
Moment very gravely at it, threw it down, saying, ' Very
good ; very good, indeed; it's worth five hundred pounds.' This, of course, was taughed at, but hailed as a lucky
omen." The sketch was finished, and in due time came
the welcome news, " victorious," with five hundred
Pounds. Some time after followed prizes for the Assize
Courts and the Collegiate Institution. St. George's-
hall, workof the • earchitect'slife, must
, the great
finished by others.; but it will ever remain his own noble
monument. We understand that Mr. Elmes has left
In! widow and child unprovided for. Commencing life
setelY by his own means, his career has been all up-hill ;
tact, Perhaps, of all the learned professions, that of archi-
tecture is the worst paid : no expenditure appears to be
It grudgingly laid out as an architects commission. Mr.
noes commission of five per cent. on this building was
restricted to £90,000 ; the expenditure will be about
1154,000.. For the Collegiate Institution in this town he
the the premium of £250 ; but the directors claimed
the drawings, and, to save the commission, put them into
the hands of a clerk of works ; and Mr. Elrees, rather
all have his detailsfurnished for nothing.—
etre union. murdered,
Aeent,
The fimEAcON HARE AND THE LATE JOHN STERLING.
PaStOrar".°Nving account by Archdeacon Hare, of his
extra . eennexion and intercourse with Sterling, is
med from • •volumes justpublished,
entitled . two interesting .
lifewini,, Essays and Tales, by John Sterling ; with a
- at a timeY J. C. Hare, M.A.,' &c. :—" He came to me
the he„ee of heavy affliction, just after I had heard that
and 712,e, or, who had been the sharer of all my thoughts
earni''''lngS f m y childhood, had bid farewell to his
4 ° to life at Rome ; and thus he seemed given to me
of Comnioy
- make
U in sort for him whom I had lost. M-
r/Lips} a , P some
sral petitionld
alp most did I look out at his usual hour for coming to
veral loyal u.,•, the enct watch his tall slender form walking rapidly across
etion the "00' we hill in front of my window, with the assurance that he
he bull, In toaB ce,, wing to cheer and brighten, to rouse and stir me,
Drangemen• IA depthe me uto some height of feeling, or down into some
assumed to tter, P
His lively
e of thought. His lively spirit responding instanta-
rewhen it 109_4' 6°41
erd_ 3' to every impulse of nature or of art, his generous
than one
ie or in behalf of whatever is noble and true, his scorn
rtered body'" all
re
lee het, eanness, of all false pretences and conventional..
be-
Ifiddlesee % „ softened as it was by compassion for the victims of
x electors '" •ti "ose besetting .
ea d b.,. sins of a cultivated age, his never-flagging
d, had cbtis nt!. TPetnosit • .
to some unattained point
him to Pre,s:p d'il of d,Y in pushing onward
re IILY or of knowledge, along with his gentle, almost
loyalty wil' 8 le, peve,rntial, affectionateness towards his former tutor,
he petitioner toto •'4'tered • with him an unspeakable bless-
he hon. tee nip.. my intercourse .
hi'd'isand time after time has it seemed to me that his visit
°fil and ben like a shower of rain, bringing down freshness
;he speech
- "rightness roadside hedge. By him, too, the
'sting parties" recoue,,,o on adaily meetings was cherished till
•oduction of 0 Ai the htsni n of these our m
re 'e Ina letter to his eldest boy, who was at school,
period of stiO arid to ~,,h
be of free lairet before , om he used to write daily, about two months
elk • 'us death, after speaking of various flowers in his
bness. from 9' garden, esil
et ,
oth favouraeu'liel think I likee tallY of some gum cistuses, he says :" I
RS in
ofthe Prictioo h
bus- of the kihem chiefly becausel remember a large
house throuh which
ost produot ?tie of
intnd, close to the green
of sis, bit ' be all whit
years , ,t o Mr. Hare's library.
Theground used to
often stood
nce at near it e with the fallen flowers. I have so
if appren ii , , talking to him, and looking away over the Peven-
eodom, lflseeg 131?Y' Level to th
21s. 7d. Vol, i t-oe,achy head he huge old Roman Castle, and the sea, and
four years ° ! ''' kayo s eyond. The thought.
of the happy hours
will be
2a. ~ ,t,„ o spent in talking with him is and always
m is 17s. A
.1 'IT pleasant."
same islan"'iol A lei
25.
and
AY IN THE DESERT.—T have now become quite in cost of 2 0 e with our desert life, notwithstanding the exposure
s for sugar ° p and fate
a , lk, gue which are inseparable from our movements.
any profit
/ he'tre generally awoke in the morning, about da-bak,
rrsl7.o Mr. Mateseethe
Alrrke cheerful and melodious voice, of .is suppoa . 0 'urica
tie a'
e Jew ques ce eal u servant of Mr. Smith, whose extraordinary mum-
A,. Powers charm not only ourselves, but the wildest
; and open 1 ' lot irnoa of our Kafilah, who remain in the silence of en-
od. We be r .eantment until he has finished his performance. This
• 't t°o tan
•e believe 1 e hful attendant, whose duties are principally confined to
rtv tae •
ally
suppo , f Morning watch, is sure to have a cup of coffee ready
;lick is the, ob 4 yer_.us, before we can leave our sandy couch. Anon, reco-
el, is one 0,! i li," tieiring from the entrancement into which they affect to be
ly think ififichl 1,j,.., the Arabs begin to stir and chatter around us.
I Jew or a en
..,neir first concern is their camels, which they recall from
e- of such r° en
Voir wanderings, if, as is most commonly the case, they
another ease' 'lave not collected them together before committing them-
n. But epace'"*' • res to sleep at night. A piece of bread generally serves
worldly a;• 'nose simple and hardy people for their morning meal ; • •a° e and they make all due haste in its mastication, that they
occasion, t:,
I account ol may —ay have a little time to luxuriate among the fumes of
ik it of iinli° eere the pipe, which they consider indispensable to their exis-
nd by con jel-, ,
sec] fence. On sallying forth from our tents we seek to enjoy
r, whethe
the " cl," if not the fragrant and the " silent hour"
ace the t and rort
'' ooto meditation due," and take a general survey of the
,
merely be scene around us, visiting all the spots of interest in our
_id, neighbourhood, and examining, as far as possible, the geo-
E.—lnP logicalstructure of the country, a work comparatively
the
le0•4 easy in these barren regions, where rock, and hill, and
of Lansdo Jen
•to establish jr Mountain, are everywhere laid bare to the student. The
00-ef Picture stretched out before us is but rude and sombre ;
marquis in tar
that he woln d lit; 4,,..ad in all " the melancholy bounds, rude ruins glitter."
an wilile m friends are occupied in taking down the tents,
rd Stanley
_00,,, Titd y. .
trongest te:terj
tall superintending the loading of the camels, I am gene-
with respeel'ht r di Y busy with my note-book. Our breakfast we soon
irtance ong 4 mss, either seated on our camp-stools or standing
me for dutLl j ,• °told the humble board on which it is spread. It con-
Scotland 07 ~,
0
7ts of bread or biscuit, hard as the stones of the desert,
.
ntemplati or/
on, II ' the best tea which the Bombay bazar could afford—
some of •
afford—
o greatest 1,,,. us having received due warni, ng against the col-
• of
Nlarquis roe etion of bitter and narcotic leaves, which passes under
tile
3 of the ticelrri
m name in Egypt—and of preserved meats, the frag-
1' ef m' our of 0 •
ntesi the ~,, e ur dinner on the preceding evening. Our coin-
disposed r,',Al -ussa of stores furnishes us, in addition, with certain
proverla
at are nos 'ilt,
• kables includ-
hie _ er for the day, of eatables and dim ,
Tie true friths,. .0' water, the most valued of all, to be slung over our
t•ert acts of
,efil, keen's and to be ready at hand, to meet the demands of
F Eglington j appetite and fiery thirst, .
• which fresh air and copious
exercis
sending ana6 e, and a score lingsun, fail not to encourage and
—and tile Sr le 'Produce n
lly
fono ' When our camels get in motion, we genera t
ne, that be d) therm w them for e mile or two on foot, before we mount
a •
five their 08°014 a„,., and we often give them a similar relief at noon,
that it w°,,,,A Ve Just before the Tonclusion of our march for the day.
the Protesl6,ll,
about two geo-
ra ft? verY.tinitly on our averaging
... .
mt to sat_,.o
, P leal 1
%loos ,• rol es in the hourexcept when we make dieres
eh a measwo r
we con-
t.._ irorn the main body of our company, when
by petition One to trot alon at about double this speed. We have
ecoine Suits g pitching on
44,44 eo•
V oar left q reconciled to our rolling and
vertii, Y conveyances, and can dispose ourselves so con-
/,‘
e•
erTee-efo' ill eket-ellitlY upon them, that we can write, and even rudely
f0"050,
came on de %gee with our pencils. The conversation among
Sco • our-
con-
us, on Webro) nest co of demonstrations and commentaries _
lction was dei7 ha„ with the objects which pass under our notice.
ye r 1
gainst the Eck , nae, erY often our sheikh as my companion, and my own
T' a railway e 9
for t Mfr attendant ; Ibrahim of our Kareishi, from whom
eer sh • ,
eikh has hired a number of our camels, is a perfect
red -ii e / Model of
fendant, ''.l cIOY AN 0 care and politeness, not only in tending the am-
alreadyla, or 'tl plants which I ride, but in handing up to me stones and
tecell }hie 'and and whatever else I may choose to inspect. Both
; partee ii],t 0
A a Coill°lle :t/of being
0, persons are fond
t, unless WV' "unities of the road, and the manners and customs of the
tribe,.
ant er'i fee ',to which they belong.—Dr. Wilson's " Lands of
ble, or this
iti the nable."
tim. In pool ili
Railway no it
defendant, 00e
er to the r„i

Ot
are not for rv--
Be, a use the ,
Is of inerehailtyl
opinion, or ots),
sense at all. 'ty'
kings. It is it 1
Is or striplil4
he torch that)
le blow that sad
other in the 0,;)
of an empire, #
suppressed blot/
rong admiral fd
COUragemen..t
r an unintell 0
liations whit

fonday night
the descrtrs'
distance froill for
repeal merebefol,
ye an amend's"
;he hon. reelp
be laid before of
We and othe
t was the reof
lin." The b°
the mistakei
A return
_,Ay,
the " live P;iii#
t. the Corp° oit
ellow-countrit
aasonable,