The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

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WHAT THE JEWS, IN PALESTINE, THINK OFENGLAND.
—Divers topics were discussed during the feast, amongst
which was one to the following Effect :—" What nation is
to be the honoured instrument of leading the children of
Israel from the various places of their captivity to their
promised land ?" After Turkey, Russia, Prussia, and

Austria were rejected as unworthy of the honour, the
merits of the English nation were discussed. My brethren
were already in high spirits—in a double sense, but in full
possession of their senses—they felt independent, and
began to speak out their mind in a very free manner.
They execrated all other nations, in the most unqualified
terms, but lavished unbounded adulation upon Britain.
When I saw them in that mood, I told them all the good
things England has of late done for the house of Israel.
They roared out blessings upon England and upon the
English Queen. I gave them a Hebrew translation of
our National Anthem, which the whole assembly sang

out—thouth in a most discordant manner, to an original
air, yet with heart and soul—" God save Queen Victoria!"
—A Pilgrimage to the Land of my Fathers.
STORY OF A LONDON HACKNEY COACHMAN.—When
I was seventeen I had a hackney coach and horses of my
own, provided by my father, and so was started in the
world. The first time I plied with my own coach was
when Sir Francis Burdett was sent to the tower. Sir
e Francis was all the go then. Ah, the old times was the
racketty times ! I've often laughed and said that I could

say what perhaps nobody, or almost nobody in England,
can say now, that I'd been driven by a king. He grew
to be a king afterwards, George IV. One night, you see,
sir, I was called off the stand, and told to take up at the
British Coffee-house, in Cockspnr-street. I was a lad
then, and when I pulled up at the door, the waiter ran out
and said, "You jump down, and get inside; the Prince
is a-going to drive hisself." I didn't much like the no-
tion on it, but just as I was getting down, and had my
foot on the wheel, out came the Prince of Wales, and
four or five rattle-brained fellows like himself. I had
hardly time to see them, for the Prince gripped me by the
ancle ar.d the waistband of my breeches, lifted me off the
wheel, and flung me sight into the coach, through the
window, and it was open as happened luckily. I was
little then; but he must have been a strong man. He
didn't seem so very drunk either. The Prince wasn't
such a bad driver. Indeed, he drove very well for a
prince, but he didn't take the corners or the crossings
careful enough for a regularJarvey. Well, sir, the Prince
drove that night to a house in King-street, St. James's.
There was another gentleman on the box with him. It
was a gaming house he went to. A wet Opera night was
the chance for us, when Madame Catalani was performing.
Many a time I've heard it sung out, " A guinea to Port-
man-square,", and l've had it myself. At the time I'm
speaking of, hackney coachmen took 30s. a day -all the
year round. Why, I myself have taken £l6 and £lB a
week through May, June, and July. But then you see,
sir, we had a monopoly. Our number was limited to
1200. We drove always noblemen or gentlemen's ord
carriages—" family coaches" they was sometimes called.
There was mostly arms and coronets on them. We got
them of the coachmakers. in Longacre, who took the
noblemen's old carriages when they made new. The
Duke of complained once, that his old carriage, with
his arms painted beautiful on the panels, was plying in
the streets at is. a mile—his arms ought not to be de-
graded that way, he said—so the coachmaker had the
coach new painted. When the cabs first came in, we
didn't think much about it ; we thought—that is, the
most of us did—that things was to go en in the old way
for ever ; but it was found out in time—that it was.
When the clarences, the cabs that carry four, came in,
they cooked the hackney coaches in no time.—Morning
I Chronicle.

UNDER. THE ROSE.—We find the three following deri-
vations for this phrase :-1. The expression " under the
rose" took its origin, says Jenoway, from the wars be-
tween the Houses of York and Lancaster. The parties
respectively swore by the red or the white rose, and these
opposite emblems were displayed as the signs of two
taverns ; one of which was by the side of, and the other
opposite to, the Parliament-house, in Old Palace Yard,
Westminster. Here the retainers and servants of the
noblemen attached to the Duke of York and Henry VI
used to meet. Here, also, as disturbances were frequent,
measures either of defence or annoyance were taken, and
every transaction was said to be done " under the rose;"
by which expression the most profound secrecy was int.
plied. 2. According to others this term originated in the
fable of Cupid giving the rose to Harpocrates, the god of
silence, as a bribe to prevent him betraying the amours
of Venus, and was hence adopted as the, emblem of
of silence. The rose was for this reason frequently sculp-
tured on the ceilings oldrinking and feasting rooms, as a
warning to the guests that what was said in moments of
conviviality should not be repeated ; from which, what
was intended to be kept secret was said to beheld " under
the rose." 3. Roses were consecrated as presents from
the Pope. In 1526' they were placed over the gaols of
confessionals os the symbols of secresy. pence the origin
of the phrase " under the rose."