The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

table in the parlour

ing to race—only want to see which ship goes quicgest. tance of so, mt.__
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" ' That must not be. I protest against it—the safety The new foundation for the houses had been of course,
of our fellow-citizens—our own. If the boiler bursts'— previously prepared, and the houses themselves were
able the proprietor to afford " ' Nonsense !' said I—' safety of our fellow-citizens ! placed on a sort of railway preparatory to their removal.
sum, and great as has been Our fellow-citizens are in safety. We don't mean to The movement was effected by merits of jack screws, act-
'herto received, the present race, Mister Lambton.' says I ; 'we are only trying for a ing in a horizontal direction. The construction of the
minute which ship can go the fastest.' tracks or ways was novel and extremely simple. They
" ' Mr. Doughby !' cried Emily, half beside herself— consisted of double lines of cast iron plates, inserted
London : Punch throwing her arms round me and trying to drag me to- twern the foundations of each of the walls of the building
-' Mr. Doughby, if you have the small- itself; and for wheels, or rollers, cannon balls of equal
affection—regard I would say—for me, exert your in- size were placed between the two lines of plates—the
luence, stop this horrid racing I' upper plates being inverted. As the foundations of these
_.,umentative form, those " And then she left me and ran to the captain, who was ways consisted of the original foundation of the building,
nd that fine view of philanthropic feel- standing beside the engineer. there could of course be no hazard of yielding, as the
" The Washington was close behind us—we, as I said whole building rested on walls of equal size : it was
found interspersed amongst the hu- moved without any dislocation or cracking of the walls in
_mosses of that humorous publication before, were running slap into the mouth of the Ohio.
There's no finer piece of water in the whole world for a any part, or of the finishing. We understand that it has
_..., says the editor in his prefatory remarks,
race. The current of the Mississippi drives back that of been done at a very moderate expense, compared with the
ae work "shall be mainly devoted to a consideration
the Ohio as far as Trinity, so that, upon entering the ri- advantage gained of placing the whole ed.;_ce on its new
of the social wants and rightful claims of the people ; that
it shall appeal to the hearts of the masses of England,,, vet, the stream is in your favour. The two rivers are to- foundation without the slightest injury, and without
gether four or five miles wide, and form a sort of circus, hazard of serious accident."
leading them on to the contemplation of those measures enclosed by the shores of Illinois, of Old Kentuck, and
and principles of action by which the amelioration of their A HINT FOR AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER IMPROVERS.
her daughter Missouri. We were nearest to the Illinois
condition can be best brought about, and the whole frame-—lt has occur red to us that the same care and expense
side, which gave us a small advantage Dyer our opponent,
work of society purged of its incongruities and deformi- which are lavished on the fattening of animals might be
who was more on the Kentucky side, and kept coming on
ties. In carrying out these objects, the flimsy literature • beneficially applied to the feeding of our own species, and
faster and faster, with the other five boats, who had also
too common in similar publications will be rigorously ex- we should suggest that the experiment should be tried,
.-4 and no article admitted unless " illustratt .•
0.
and clapped more steam on, a short distance bebind him. Our by offering premiums for prize paupers. Overseers and
Helen M`Gregor still kept the lead ; who the devil could•
,_ rell, --rs might be jostle •

the reduction of the 31 per Cent. stock, a variety of use
es, advice to parties insuring, value of foreig

ful tat

coins, post-offic,
wide-spread circa

regullt

Nothing but

le could

1 such a boo

k for so small a

the encou

productior

wards the engin

1 of se

ing up

favourable examples of wow. ...,,.._ by judicious
dieting ; and the Poor Law Commissioners would no doubt
'' be glad of the opportunity of vindicating their system
the waters plashing, the fire blazing and roaring out of the from the starvation stigma which is now generally attached
vet chimneys, which sent out clouds of smoke and showers of
i to it. A fat pauper, labelled East Retford Union, would
sparks. The enemy was close upon us, Father George a be the best answer that could be made to the reports
honest face almost in a line with our stern. , which have gone abroad with reference to the workhouse
" ' Helen M'Gregor, hold your. own l' cried I. ' Dont regulations of the place alluded to. It is, however, to be
spare the wood, boys, lay it on thick, pile ..t up mountain- feared that the prize pauper show would not turn out a
eons ; ten dollars for you when you've beaten him!' very satisfactory affair, for though unlimited oatmeal has
" ' Hurrah!' cried the hundred. passengers, ' hurra! a fattening effect on beasts, the same substance diluted
The Washington loses, we are gaining ground. into gruel, and that very sparingly administered, would
" Only the captain could not say a word ; he stood hardly produce in human beings a degree of obesity that
there with his blue lips pressed hard
it together. We would fit them to enter the pens of Baker-street in com-
were going our twenty knots, and keep up we must if petition with the annual cattle-show. Perhaps the
we did not wish to fall back amongst the mob of the would answer better for schoolmasters, who mig'
Huntress, the Ploughboy, and the rest of them, Every ' -,.lves into a fat•boy club, and exhibit annul
;oint and hinge in the boat seemed to be cracking, the en- • • ,:„.. .ttsined by the scholars

rk oug

ye hel

a macker.al-bloodid Yant
heat And ctparn. rattle and

All was

ion of s

and the numb,

atter : t

!s thumping

are not

kely to prov

several excellent

and although a
ward are not

s and opinions broug

quite in accordance with our own, we are
them from the worthiness of the result

neatly got up, is Illustrated
n Leech's best manner, and is decidedly the best shilling's

truggled for

work is

worth whic

re recently met with

ikshank's Table Book. Edited by G. A
a'Beccet. London : 194, Strand.

George Cru

system

This most talented and witty

iesigners has resolved

upon cutting the pages of every other publication, and con-
fining himself to the illustration of a publication of his

1 speci-
)f their

own—shutting up his light, as it were, in order to produ,

once a month in

re concen

ant jets

the frontispiec

s a perfect

cotton-

looking lik
11101141 II 21Q

ay our hearing

" We were close to the
as good as won, for Trinity

wood below Trinit
was of course the winning post

" Capt

said I, '

's impossit

—he is not pass-

' Look yourself, Mr. Doughby,' said he
The mn^ - -ht. The old George
I saw that in t

o minutes

supported by the

ny soul he is 1.

;sing us!' cried I

I source

3eing an accomplished woman, endeavours were

made to find employment for her as a teacher of music;

aptain in

would hay

given a thousand dollars down to have r

inity two minutes sooner. Just then a number of voices j Or
,ed out, The boiler's bursting! the boiler's bursting VI ""

his expenses about £3O ann

lyacceptab

wished myself a I mg tothe ag

quite e5.e....._
Sir? You have lost all your birds." " I'll tell you, said
the sailor, " why I did it ; I was shut up three years in a
French prison, as a prisoner of war, and I am resolved
never to see any thing in prison that 1 can matte free."
Soon after the occurrence of the little incident just reci-
ted, I met a young French gentleman with whee-
acouainted, the son of the Count -' to C
eying into a jeweller's, and asked for ,e sme
Avow e done uy J.,...,..,.._ observing that he wanted to cl some I.
dietin -rs would no doubt e
-g their system What !" said I, "Frederick, is it not enough to keer
be gl Jf vintne
them in a cage, but must you chain them too ?"
,C from ich is nos Bally attached said he, " when the English took me prisoner, in my ph-
-4 of to it d East Ri •eion, would vateer, they shut me up in prison, and now my birds shall
fge's be ,ould be r e reports have a taste of a prison as well as myself." Tell me, my
sv, rth referen
' Don't khouse youn friends, which aears most lovely, the spirit of
r .laded to. 4o be liberty, pp
or the spirit of slavery ?—lrouth's Cabinet.
mountain- per show .
.a, CHINESE CURIOSITY.—It is very difficult to describe
, him!' for thouh
...,-..gers, ' hurra ' Res g
ts, the re the exact impression produced on the mind by the ap-
we are aining ground.' proach to Tein-sing. If fine buildings and striking locali-
g very sparing
could not say a word • he to ties are required to give interest to a scene, this has no
linen beings P
knots,
pressed hard together. claims ; but on the other hand, if the gradual crowding
ater the pens c
i knots, and keep it up we m of junks till they become innumerable, a vast population,
.nnual cattle-sh
fall back amongst the mob buildings though not elegant yet regular and peculiar,
,tter for schoolr
ghboy, and the rest of them, careful and successful cultivation, can supply those defici-
themss a fat•boy club, I
le boat seemed to be cracking ences, the entrance to Tein-sing will not be without attrac-
mens of Inguidity attaine
gins roareu ...... s raised, the steam howled and tions to the traveller. The pyramids of salt, covered with
respective e.. .blishreents. Th;
" `The Helen M'Gregor is a gallant lass !' cried I. ' A • .r° mats, the dimensions and extent of which have been so
select for their sons a school where the quality of the keep
brave Scotchwoman ! She has tire in her veins.' ingeniously estimated by Mr. Barrow, are the most striking
could he at once judged of by the plumpness of the boys
And so she really had. She stretched out like a race- objects. We were two hours and a half in passing from
exhibited. We merely throw out these hints as sugges-horse that feels the spur in his flank for the first time; not the beginning of the line of houses on the right bank of
tions for improving the human race by applying the prin. the river to cur anchorage. A salute was fired from a
steaming or swimming, but flying like a bird, rushing like ci le of
tocattthle shows, which are said tborebeedextremrly
icon- small fort; anti nearly opposite, troops were drawn up.
a wild-cat cr an elk that has been shot at; the waters of
George
dative.e amelioration of the of anima s.—
the Ohio flashing from her side in a white creamy foam. Among them were matchlock men, wearing black caps.
eorge Cruickshank 8 Table-Book.
The Kentucky shores on our right, with their forests and • We observed some companies dressed in long yellow and
- arees, were flying away from us; on our left, the ADVANTAGES OF LIFE INsunerecu.—How frequently black striped garments, covering them literally front head
'ilks of Illinois seemed to dance past us, the big trees do we hear of the decease of persons who had occupied a to foot ; they are intended to represent tigers, but cer-
witches scampering off on their broomsticks. respectable station in life, whose families have been left thinly are more likely to excite ridicule than terror; de-
_ es, the high land of Missouri was rapidly disap-
wholly unprovided for ! An instance of the kind occurred fence from the spread of their shields, would seem their
pearing, Colonel Boon's plantation getting smaller every within our nwn circle of acquaintance, not many years great object. A short distance from our anchorage, we
second, till at last it appeared no bigger than a dove-cot. ago. The deceased was a gentleman connected with the passed on our left the branch of the river leading to the
Every thing around us seemed in motion, swimming, fly- press, whose income was £3OO a year—by some it was canal, and thence to Canton. The excess of population
ing, racing. Hurras by thousands ; seven steamers groan- supposed to be a great deal more. He was an intelligent, was here most striking. I counted two hundred specta-
ing, creaking, hissing, and rattling; a noise and a heat agreeable person, and his company was accordingly much tors upon one junk, and these vessels were innumerable.
that made our heads dizzy, blinded our eyes, a d took sought—in fact, he was a great diner-cut. His connec- The pyramids of salt were so crowded by them, that they
- It was a gallopade, a race.between then with the press gave him facility of access to the the- actually became pyramids of men. Some crowds of boys
atres ; and both the gentleman and his wife had a drama- remained standing above their knees in the water for near
—the rnce tic turn. The consequence was, that a considerable sum an hour, to satiate their curiosity. A more orderly as-
was spent every year in flys and cabs, and other convey- semblage could not, however, I believe, be presented in
the captain cried out, • tie is passing us I' and,
antes to these parties and scenes of amusement,—to say any other country ; and the soldiers had but seldom 0cca-
....,•
as he said the word, he looked as wi,d as a tortured red- nothing of the cost of return dinners, &c. It was only a sion to use even threatening gestures to maintain order.
fortnight before the gentleman's death that we heard the I had not before conceived that human heads could be so
skin, and bit his lip more savage than ever, and caught
hold of the quarterdeck railing as if he would have torn it lady exclaim, "Oh ! we had such a delightful party here closely packed ; they might have been by screws squeezed
last night ! why didn't you come ?" The delightful into each other, but there was often no possible vacancy
party, no doubt, cost several pounds; and within fourteen to be observed. All these Chinese spectators were ex-
days, typhus fever had seized upon another victim, and posed, bare-headed to the rays of the mid-day sun, when
the lady was a widow, without a shilling in the world. the thermometer in the shade stood at 88. Females were
an was is an almighty Indeed, the expenses of the funeral were defrayed by the not numerous in the crowd, and these generally old, and
we hand of private friendship, and the lady and her four always of the lower orders. The Chinese are, to judge
.- . same from the inhabitants of Tein• sing, neither well-locking
e nor atronely made; they are rather slight, but straight,
and of the middle height.—Travels in China.
...e was deadly ..ote. I couldn't say a word ; and but the effort failed, and eventually the lady, wearied and HOW TO OBTAIN UNIFORMITY.—There is one " di-
es for him, he was obliged to support himself against the heart-broken of the distressing position of living upon versity," " for the quieting and appeasing of which" I will
railing, or he would have fallen down. There was no help the bounty of friends, sank beneath the pressure of her now "take order, ' says the Bishop of Exeter. The
for it, however ;the Washington's figure-head was already sorrows, and was conveyed to • the same grave that held diversity consisted in some ten or twenty clergymen at
in a line with our stern—in ten seconds, a third of the ber late improvident partner in life. This was a clue most, out of several hundreds, having taken it into their
vessel's length was parallel with us—another ten seconds, where life assurance was- imperative, as indeed all cases heads (prompted by the modified system of Popery which
two-thirds, and in less than a minute he dashed proudly
are where income is wholly dependent upon personal ex- has brought all these troubles amongst us) to wear a sur-
ertions, or the tenure of a single life. If this unfortunate plice in preaching their sermon ; the garb which the
before us with a deafening burra from crew and passen-
gentleman could have been content with two or three Church has reserved for the ministration of her authorised
ers, which was echoed from the other five steamers, till
- ---so-- nn all sides hut hnrrsic and hnrrne r parties less in a veer—if he could have smoked fewer ci- rites, and which, ever since the days of Hooker, has been
...,...,.. eeve wanted occasionally from one part confined to the prescribed ritual, has been introduced by
London to another, instead of taking a cab or an om- the Oxford heretics into the pulpit; '...._ _
ne might have lessened reduce preaching to a mere form ; to throw it out of usL
,ally—a sum which, accord- except at the communion service, and to give a sacerdotal
sof h eelf and wife, would, if invested in eharacter to the ministry of reconciliation. A few young
k.:, have produced for his wife a pre- priests, fresh from the Newman school, seek for churches
000, or an annuity of £lOO a year.—Post , in the diocese of Exeter, where they are told they will be

,ace. H

ome small brass chains,

ain some birds in a cage

the of