The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

THE STAGS.-A DRAMA OF TO-DAY.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
Tom STAG, a Retired l'hin,blerizger.
JIM STAG, an Unfortunate Cosrerinonger.
(TOM dictates to Jim.)
Name in full.. " V,ctor Wellesley. Delancey."
Residence " St4ggslands. Bucks."
Profession ....'• Major-G;neral. K C B. K.T.S. K S.W.
f "His Grace the Duke of Wellington.
Reference • 1. Sir Robert Peel. Coutts and Co."
" That'll do. Now, Mary, a vafer ; and JIM, 1 don't
mind standing a pint f alf and alf!"—Punch.

LEFT-HANDED PLEA.—A prisoner at the Mayor's court,
Philadelphia. being called upon to plead to an indictment,
was told by the c:eik to hold up his r;yle hand. The
man immediately held up his kit hand. " Hold your
right hand," said the clerk. " Please your worship,"
said the culpi it, "1 am left-handed.,,
THE SAGE AND THE SIMPLETON.—AS Professor
Hamilton was one day walking near Aberdeen, he suet a
well-known individual of weak intellect. " Pray," said
the Protessor, accosting him, " how long can a per-on
live without b,ains ?'"• I dinna ken," replied Jemmy,
scratching his head, " how au d are ye youisei ?"
A young poet in Cleveland (Ohio) has fallen in love for
the second time. It may be true that " true love never
did run smooth." but this can't be said of his poetry—
" 0 wunst i luvd a nuttier girl
buitisibe4erstnsty:mileeesair:ri‘notlomh‘i-geull:tle'uthir.ieur (Maria)

SUCCESS OF SIR W. FOLI.LTT.—Twenty years ago he
was an unknown man. In 1825 he probably had not re-
alized from his profession so much as £lOOO ; In 1845 he
had acquired, by his personal ex, rzions, from £300,000
to £3t.W.000. And, in voint of staion, it was fully un-
derstood that the Chancellorship was his own the moment
it was vacant. 1-lad Lord Lyndhurst's indisposition, two
ear since, ended in his resignation, Sir W. Follett
could have become the Lord Chancellor of England,
amidst the acclamations of all parties, before he had corn-
; feted his forty-firth year.—Record.
THOUGHTS IN BED.—happy is the man who can say
" peace-giving bed." For, oh, whet a rack to the
spirit of man may be found in goose down ! You
are in bed, peace giving bed, you say ; it is deep
night, and in that solemn pause you seem to fet-1
the pulse—to hear the very heart of time. You
try to think of many things, but the seirit or demon of the
bed sets up yourself before yourself—brings up your
doings to the bar of your own conscience; and what a set
of scurvy gaol-birds may be found among then.. They
peep in at your curtains, crowd in at the foot of your bed,
and though you have no rushlight, you see their leering,
sneaking users.—Jerrold.

EARLY DEVELOPMEI:4T OF MOZART'S GENIUS.—The
wonderful musical genius of Leopold Mozart's family came
to light almost accidentally. When the girl had reached
seven years of age she became her father's pupil on the
clavier, at which her progress was gnat and uniform, ant
finally made her mistress of the highest reputation that any
temaie perfoimer had ever acquired on a keyed instrument.
tier brother (the great musician), at this time three years
old, was a constant attendant on her lessons, and already
showed, by his fondness for striking thirds, and pleasing
his ear by the discovery of other harmonious intervals, a
lively interest in music. At four, he could always retain
in memory the brilliant solos in the concertos which he
heard ; and now his father began, half in sport, to give him
lessons. The musical faculty appears to have been intui-
tive in him, for in learning ti y lay he learned to compose
at the same time own nature discovering to hun
some important secrets in melody. rhythm, symmetry,
and the art of setting a bass. To learn a minuet, he re-
quired half-an-hour; for a long r piece, an hour; and
having once mas ered them, he played them with perfect
neatness and in exact time. His progress was so great,
that at four years of age, or earlier, he composed little
pieces whoh his father wrote down for of Mo-
zart, in Chapnrin's Monthly Series.
RItSOtJRCES FOR ROMANCE AMONG THE ANCIENTS
We believe that the vein of aocient file, if opened, would
flow freely. In the hands of a master we should expect to
have an Arcadian Dendie Dio moot ; while a Meg Merri-
lies—" the ancient sybil engrafted on the coarser stock of
a gipsy of the last centurvu—might he readily found in
some vehement Grecian priestess. With regard to the
want of s. ci I affections in the domestic lite of the Greeks,
we will hear no slander of that kind while we can read the
Orestes of Euripides. Female characters might be found,
and an Aspasia midit he made scarcely less dramatic or
effective than Rebecca snatched from the burning castle
upon the steed of the impetuous Templar, or kneeling at
the feet of Rowena. Why, then, have we no Greek or
I atin fiction? Why does the poet forget the legend of
Pericles or Virgil in his evening entertainment ?

" At night, when all assembling row,d the fire,
Clos r and closer draw till they rt tire ;
A tale is t Id or India or Japan ;
Of merchants iron, Golcond or stracan;
Of some Norwegian. while the icy gale
Rings in her shrouds and heats her iron sail;
Or some great caravan. from well to well
Wig as darkness on the deceit fell.

wiling. a, —l,n,
And in the instant lost—a hollow wave
Of Lurniu sane their everlasting grave."
—Fraser's Magazine.

LEGAL EXCLUSiVENESS.—There is one class whose
avoca.iou, once foliowed, is declared to cause a perpetual
disqualification for admi•sion, like that of the clergy
This is composed of persons who have held th
Jerk

of c. .s of barristers, conveyancers, special pleaders. or
equity draughtsmen, and actually received the perquisites
ot such service. (The son of a hart ister's clerk is not un-
d-r the same ban as his father, as a present eminent
Queen's Counsel can testify.) Let an individual have
successfully emerged from any other lay empluyn3ent,
though the most humble, he may freely traverse the road
to the highest distinctions and dignities attainable by a
lawyer ; but the clerk of a barrister, or other certificated
practitioner of an Inn of Court, is as much forbidden the
hope of rearhing the level of his master as a Elindoo swine-
herd of becoming a priest. There is room to suspect, that
this harsh provision has been evaded in one or two in-
stances ; but the mys!ery often attend ng the origin of for-
tunate barristers, who have risen from love beginnings,
prevents our ascertaining whether our suspicions be really
well grounded. This regulation is said to be founded on
a supposed improptiety of the servant ever meeting his
master in the same circle. However little regarded in
other walks of life, the bar carefully repel it. Tne clerks
aed other servants of merchants, attorneys, tradesmen,
&c., may meet their masters in the sacred halls—these
may salute each other—" da jungere dextrane"—but the
pretence of barristers' clerks is profanation. Their com-
pany at a " Bar mess" is spoken of as forming an intole-
r,:be ii,congruity, only to be co. templated to he guarded
against. A barrister (and no one else) would feel it diffi-
cult to reciprocate compliments and familiarities over the
bottle, in the Hall, with a man woo, perhaps, but a few
short years, in the memory of all, had received his gratui-
ties. run his errands, and, i might have been, served as
his groom. lacquey, or sboeblack, as well as clerk. Then,
how coul.l e. former master call his quondam servant in
court, " My learned friend?" Itnp,ssible ! " Confusion
worse confounded" could not equal that which would fol-
low the admission of such persons to the honour of the bar ;
the treasure
Of "ature's germens tumbling altogether,
E'en till destruction sicken,"
would aff,rd only a taint comearisen to it.—lfood's Mag.

ARE THE AMERICAN INDIANS THE DESCENDANTS
OF THE TEN LOST TLIIBES?—it will naturally be asked
what 1 think of that extraordinary question lately so
much mooted in Europe and America. and so much con-
nected with my own researches : " Whether the Indians
swing from the ten tripes of the Dispersion ?" With
respect to ancient tradition, the rule of Vicentius
Liri-
nensts, though not infallible, is one of the best criteti.t.
"What has always been believed by all and everywhere."
This is no, trace,ble in the Indians. They have not at
all times, and in all places, and all conjointly affirmed,
"We are the ten lost tribes of the Dispersion." On
the contrary, they know nothing of any such tradition.
I trace no remarkable affinities in their language to lead
to such a ctinclusi.m. Nor are the rises among them.
quoted as analagous to the Jewish, sufficient to justify
this ctinclusion. lam sure all nations will be found
connected with the Jewish, vs the great centre of
spiritual worship, all rites will be found in their uses and
abuse-s, to maintain somewhat of the great principles in-
culcated in tLe Jewish law ; but I am not prepared, frosa
such grounds, the result of a common origin from the
first parents, to affirm all to be necessarily descendants
from the lost tribes, because, in south, no other hypothe-
sis suits the reigning taste. People have a oreconceived
favourite system, try to maintain it ad entrance, and
think they see it realised when nothing of the kind in
reality ex.sts. Worthy people in America desired me to
travel about with them, in order that I might convince
the Indians of their extraction from the Jews ; hut this
was putting the argurnen, the wrone way. I wanted the
Indians to convince tee of their origin, and not to aid in
deluding them into this notion, as I perceived many well-
intentioned people did. I came among the Mohican
tribes near New York, and asked then, " Whose de-
scendants are you ?" They replied, "We are of Israel."
I asked, " Who told you so ?" and expected to learn
much ancient tradition. To my great surprise, they
said, " Mr. and Mrs. Sirn-ns, of Scotland." I asked.
" What did your ancestors telt you about it ?" " All our
ancestors told us that we wire horn under the earth, and
a woman among us looking out of the earth was taken
hold of by a spirit ; and that spirit led us up to the sur-
face-of the earth ; and there we lived in peace until the
white men came, by whom we were subdued."—.Dr.
Wore Minion to Bokkara.