The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

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es, better than the workhouse, or poaching, or
Australia and the diggings are only for the
w, not quite beggars, who save and turn to cash
eir little all, to pay their passage—and leave at home
the impossible refuse of the land to plague and puzzle the
titled and rich few, who talk of morality and heaven !

robbing,

!—bat they can see all this in

by birth, as his name

Dung painter, a

awes, as they sit on their magistrates
_ aanunisterhe law. Yes, there is plenty of law,
such as it is • it fills our jails well, and swells (as a sole
ne reader to infer, was a student of revenge on aggressors)' our town and county rates—from
in Paris when the political troubles which some few escape here, and all over the Continent!
of that capital induced him to quit it in 1849. Why not tax them for it ?—that would be the last and
Being ardent in desire for the acquisition of such wisest of our thousand taxes —good masterChancellorof the•
knowledge as can alone be imparted by travel, he Exchequer;x cogitate a little olnsavo
ic)l tax on these selfisht
crossed the Atlantic, and in New York sought exiles
.ea ;w. 0
foarttell ha veraFe
serous
ee'
thoughLwoef eon
being tlooked
those opportunities of quiet study which had been down on anywhere rather than at home—why looked
disturbed by revolutionary strife in Europe. Im- down on ? Why mortified, humiliated ? Why ?—is
hued with ideas as to the dignity of Art, but little it not intolerable to be despised, and banished our best, ,
in unison with the mercantile measure by which nay,
titler eornlTieltloesleteleoflilrcle
mi.—to
rtbe asialohodtla—t bay, '
A .i.naarsir DicrioNater.—A Yankee newspaper, eri-
it is estimated in the great commercial emporiumticishig "a n ocean of words" without meaning, poured
few hundreds a year ands ysfialiP:treet keeps one for
of the American Union, where pictures and rocking ever at a distance from eve thing desirable. To see the forth from the press. by an archbishop, compares- the'pro-
duction to " a dictionary on the spree.'.
wife .
chairs, statuary and carved table legs, are arranged same people prancing for ever in the park, at the opera, at
WARNING TO WirEs.—The inability of a- to
under the general category of "furniture," with court, all strictly exclusive !
make bread has been declared sufficient ground; for a
the occasional adjective adjunct of " ornamental," Notwithstanding the snarl and the questionable- divorce by the Jones County Agricultural Society of lowa.
when the dealer happens to be a man of some application of Goldsmith's fine couplet, and its vile DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Tivo' SIIITS.-There •is -this
imagination, and pants after the distinction im- misquotation, there is much homely truth conveyed difference between a Law and a Love-Suit-that with a
plied in passing for a man of refinement, our in these sharp reproaches. If Mr. Oldmixon would Law-Suitour fears are geally for the worst,. w
immigr‘ found little rest and less congeniality in lay aside the artificial optics through which, in the with a Love-Suit our hopesnerare-always for the besti hereas
New York. Herr Heine, therefore, embraced an present instance, he has gazed at men and thinc,s, herAmnitAakesjkillDL3LlT.St ll'drye'nver'a`nfaddalim""
nbl
fi".; yuakn7nsamsr
opportunity which offered, of visiting Central and use his own natural organs of vision, modrfy- ~ the worst of Louisc.Napoleon's proclamations to the army
America, that singular region of trans-Atlantic ing his paradoxes and softening his antagonisms; is-they are extremely good-but' then they are so very
romance, whose forgotten splendours and long- he would be more successful as a moral censor, and ad claptrapandum.-Punch.
buried wonders have of late years formed such fer- considerably more pleasing as an author. He Coa CLIMIVE.-A few mornings-sinee (says the American
ingCou Courier) we renlateicsl tdoenoru-rsfea
tile topics of admiration and conjecture to the might also, with great propriety and advantage, mil), thei _tttloef a frieend v
ialfhaant'
antiquary and archaeologist. He was engaged by furbish up his forgotten knowledge of English whom he had adopted, when pone of the " olive branches"
Mr. Squier, the well-known author of " Travels in syntax.. remarked, "Pa, it'l be his stepson; won't it ?"- We
Central America," to accompany that gentleman thought it would, decidedly.
on a second expedition to make sketches of such lye of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Au INVETERATE BACHELOR, being.. asked by azenti-
remains of the early architecture of the regions By James Prior, F.S.A. London :IL G._Bohn.
cmmental young.miss,s why he did not secure
esomerfeoredonsl
wo
which they visited, as should be deemed most Prior's Life of Burke is now so well known, and
ontr if were vsloliT such an ocean would be Pacipfic."'
worthy of that distinction. The pictorial results of so generally appreciated, that commendation of, or 1;
A.ATRIOTIC BEGGAR.-When government attempted
his mission, the small but pleasantly drawn-up vo-
. criticism upon it, is alike unnecessary and uncalled- to suppress-thelrish (or harp) halfpenny, and the country
lame before us does not say much about ; but it for. A work which, like this, has stood the test of resisted the measure, an old blind beg,gar "took his stand"
contains tastefully-arranged ratherthan powerfully- thirty years' probation-which has been frequently with his fellovv-eotintrymen, suspending-from his neck the
grouped descriptive pictures of the places he visited, reprinted, in compliance with popular demand-- label-l Harp halfpence taken here I''
and the people he saw. The region of Nicaragua and which is still sufficiently attractive to call for HYSTERICAL-To see a wasp-waisted young lady in
forms a prominent object in his verbal delineations, t ds •smallneedof •and •
in
the head of the table, and, with a voice angelic as a- tenor
yet he troubles not his head with questions of canal bl be yond the reach of injury from any flute, call to the waiter for a plate of cold pork andbeans,
or railway for conducting the growing trade be- blame which even temerity might induce us to- is
caornes-iilesur:,
_, an
the most trying thing romance can- encounter.
tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,which erelong bestow on it. The political sagacity of Burke,. the IT is a saying of Dr. Southeyrsathat, " live as long as
will be found to flow in considerable stream through power of his eloqtience, and the fame of his wisdbm, you may, the-first twenty years are- the longest half of
that territory. Our author is more a student of have long been familiar as household words in the your life. They- appear so while- they are passiiag;-tbey
men and manners than an authoritative statistician, mouths of the British public. His statesmanlike seem to have been so when we leok!back to them, andtety
or a speculative engineer. As an intelligent ob- aphorisms have passed into popular adages, and his stuakcce..2 rerem.Tom in our memory. the years t
server and unpretending delineator,•he appears to literary suggestions have assumed the dignity Ovna-eAvrios-ancl over-preparation not unfrequently
considerable advantage in the following sketch of of critical canons. In such circumstances, it may defeat their own object. Washington Irving tells-us of a
LIFE AND MANNERS AT GRANADA. appear uncalled-for to offer extracts from the vo-
Dutchman who, having to leap a ditch, went back a mile
The borders of the lake (Nicaragua) are very animated at lume under consideration ; still, deeply impressed that he might have a good run atik.and found filmset so
sunrise; women and girls appear with large earthen vessels, with the justness of observation, and the be.ty , completely.windfd when he arrived at
sideit again, hat he
0. was °Magma, ix, sat down on the wrong to recover his
like the ancient amphora: (only larger bellied) on their
heads,to draw water ; passengers on horse and foot enjoy the expression in which the opinions are couched, we breath.
coolness of the morning • and almost every visitor treats will be readily excused in quoting the following A__ Hinz TO SMITIES.-The gut --t= of bars of iron or
himself to a bath. At a later hour, these give way to the brief remarks, which are not less true now than pipes with the chisel is a laborious tardy process. By
washing-tubs and the men employed about the shipping, the-
), were a century ago, when penned by the the following mode the same end4sattamed nprehspeedily,
and neady:—Bring the iron to a white eat, and
who transport the goods from the boats to large two- immortal author of the "Treatise on the Sublime easily'
then, fixing. it ins vice, apply-the. common saw, which,
wheeled vehicles, drawn by four or six oxen. The streets
are then filled with Indians of the neighbouring villages
and Beautiful." They may without impropriety without being turned in the edge orinjured imany respect,
and haciendas, who offer their produce for sale. When be called will divide it as easily as if it were a carrot !
the distance is short, they carry their burdens on their )1, AMERICAN OPINION OF TEL ENGLlSH.—The•Elaglish
heads in large wooden bowls; or we may say, if we please, are the boys for trading witha they shell out their cash
A to tl tat
like a sheaf of wheat in frosty weather—it flies .all over the
they wear monstrous wooden hats, which they turn upside have '.e.S
not bee
thrashing floor ;but then they are a cross-grained, ungainly,
down for purposes of porterage. Little naked boys on I
mules and horses bring to market loads of young maize, kicking breed of cattle, as I been a most ever seed- Who-
which serves as fodder for horses ; while the inhabitants ever gave them the name of John Bull, knew what he was
of the town partly carry on their trade in their shops, the about, 1 tell you; for they are bull-necked; bull-headed
women being employed in feminine avocations or the folks, I vow ; sulky, ugly tempered, vicious critters, a
, ...e left to pawin and a roarin the whoia time, and plagny oosafe un-
making of cigars. The greater part of them, however, lie
_.,a.ao. Notwithstanding less welit watched. They are as Iteadstrongas males, and
in hammocks, smoking and rocking, and occasionally re-
—.are is cultivated in a high degree. as conceited as peacocks.—dam Slick.
galing themselves with a draught of teste,—a not un-.
-....ases her enchanting voice to heaven. History
pleasant decoction of maize-meal, sugar, cocoa and water.
arrests the wings of Time in his flight to
_the_ gulf. of -
LEGAL Ivralaiouticu.—A paragraph has appeared on
Smoking is practised by male and female, old and young. ,
the subject of the small amount of business pending in
A father will often send a child of four years old into the 'Thlivioe
Westminster-ball, which includes only "three new trials."
kitchen for a light, and the little messenger will return
We are authorised to add that there will be a fourth,
with the glowing cigar in his or her mouth, puffing awa7
consisting of a "new trial," which Mr. Briefless is about
like the funnel of a steamer. The costume of the ladi
to make to obtain a living- by his profession„ It is, how-
. . ...
"- ,iatticoat fastened close to the 0

might lead t'
decorative art

to MDT

OBSERVATIONS ON. LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA.
of learning in this city [Londonl.you know
A long enough in it to form a proper judg-
ofthat subject. I don't think, however, thereisas much
aspect paid to a man of letters on this side of the water
as you imagine. I don't find that genius, the "rath
primrose, which forsaken dies," is patronised by any of
the nobility, so that writers of the first talents are left to
the capricious patronage of the public. Notwithstanding
discouragement, literature is cultivated in a high degree.
Poetry raises her enchanting voice to heaven. History
he wings of Time in his flight to, the gulf of
Philosophy, the queen of arts, and the daughter
neaven, is daily extending her intellectual empire.
fancy sports on airy wing like a meteor on the bosom of
a summer cloud ; and even Metaphysics spins her cob-
webs, and catches some flies.
The House of Commons not unfrequently exhibits
explosions of eloquence that rise superior to those of
Greece and Rome, even in their proudest days. Yet, after
all, a man will make more by the figures of arithmetic
than the figures of rhetoric, unless he can get into the
trade wind, and then he may sail secure over Pactolean
sands. As to the stage, it is sunk, in my opinion, into
the lowest degree; I mean with regard to the trash that
is exhibited on it ; but I don't attribute this to the taste
of the audience, for when Shakspeare warbles his " native
wood-notes," the boxes, pit, and gallery, are crowded—
and the gods are true to every word, if properly winged
to the heart.

misists of a must

round the hips; and adorned on the ue...
Above the waist the higher classes wear a short
garment, with wide ft
but with the lower classes tt
bare. Often, especially
of clothing altogether, which causes the ladies of resider

ever, probable that this new trial will notewell the number
mentioned in the officiak list, for the new trial in question
will not appear in the paper. There aro only " three cases
set down for judgment; but we understand that the
Benchers of one of the-Inns of. Court being about to lain
champagne, have recently ordered " a,case for judgment.".
—Preach.
BE ALWAYS Bersv,The more a man azeomplishes,.the
more he may. An active tool never grows rusty. You
always find that those men who are the most forward to
do good, or to improve the times and manners, always
busy. Who starts our railroads,, our steam-boats, our
machine shops, and our factories 9 Men of industry and
enterprise. As long as they live they work ; doing, some-
thing to benefit themselves and others. It is just so with
a man who is benevolent—the more he gives the more he
feels to like giving. We go for activity—in body, in mind,
in everything. Let the gold grow not dim nor the
thoughts become stale. Keep, all' things in motion. It is
better that death should find us sealing a mountain than
sinking in a mire. -
A CHEAP Micapscoer..—There is a man who some-
times stands. in Leicester-square, London, who sells micro-
scopes at ldi each. They are• made of a common pill-box;
the bottom taken out, and a piece of window glass substi-
tuted ; a small hole is bored in the lid, and therein is
placed a lens, the whole apparatus being painted blaok.
Upon looking through one of these microscopes I was sur-
prised to find hundreds. of creatures, apparently the she of
earth-worms, swimming about in all directions, yet on the
object glass nothing could be seen but the small speck of
flour and water conveyed there on the end of a Lucifer
match from a common, inkstand, which was nearly full of
this vivified paste, I bought several of these microscopes,
determined to find out how all this. could be done for a
penny. An eminent microscropist examined them, and
found that the magnifying power was twenty diameter.
The cost of a lens made of glass of such power would be
from 3s. to 4s. How, then, could the whole apparatus be
made for a penny ? A penknife revealed the mystery.
The pill-box was cut in two, and then it appeared that the
lens was made of Canada balsam, a transparent gum. The
gum had been cleverly dropped into the eye-hole of the pill-.
box. It then assumed the proper size and transparency of a
well-ground glass lens. One ingenious lens-maker in-
formed me that he had been selling these microscopes
for fifteen years, and that he and his family conjointly
made them. One child cut the pill-box, another the cap,
another put them together, his wife painted them black;
and he made the lens.—Household Words.
IMPORTANT MEETING.—To the (female) Heads of
Families.—At a large meeting of the hair-dressers and
coiffeurs, held in the Burlington Arcade—and at which
Monsieur Felix, "le dieu de la Coiffure," was unani-
mously voted into the hair-cutting chair—it was resolved
that, with a view of upholding the- true interests of the
profession, a League be founded to oppose la rage that
was at present so deplorably manifest among all English
ladies in having their hair dressed, no matter whether it
was becoming to . them or not, in the same style as the
Empress Eugenie. Such a stupid system should at once
be torn up by the roots. Accordingly, the following reso-
lution was carried without a single comb being raised
against it :

his, resembli

g the Greek pepiOn ;
is part of the person is quite
iren, there is an absence

with ch.]

ans to cast dori

eyes, or put their hands
11 classes adorn their hair,

th jasmine blossom,4

which give a fantastic

regular

The present edition of this valuable biography,,
the fifth, is published by Mr. Bohn as one of the.

" British classics ;" it i; well suited to sustain the
character of that deservedly popular series, and
like the rest of them it is tastefully and correctly
got up, and issued at a price so moderate, as to
bring it readily within the reach of all classes.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: Blackwoods.
We have not space, at present, to give more than
a brief notice of the number for November, but we
will enter more into detail next week. The maga-
zine opens with an interesting article on " Turkey
and its Population," reviewing several recent
publications on the subject. A second letter to
Eusebius on " Civilisation---the Census" is a very
pleasant commentary on a dull subject. " The
Secret Agent " is the story of a German Comedy.
The War, however, furnishes two contributions
respectively entitled " Peace and War," and " The
War and the Ministry," subjects which at this
time command especial attention. There is also
the first part of an article of scarcely less impor-
tance, entitled " The Influence of Gold upon the
Commercial and Social Condition of the World."
Nor are lighter subjects forgotten, one article
being devoted to "Colour in Nature and Art,"
and another to " Latin Versification."

The Irish, Quarterly Review, No. XV.
W. B. Kelly.

Dublin

By the institution of the Irish Quarterly, a
new medium was furnished for
purify-
ing, once purzfy-
in, exalting, and concentrating the fugitive
literature of Ireland ; and to this object it has lent
judicious aid. In following out this praiseworthy
course of action, it has devoted much attention to
an historical resume of Dublin literary society,
tracing it through the various and frequently
ec-
centric paths which, in the waywardness of its
untrammelled spirit, it sought and established for it-
self ; and, in doing this, great research and no small
amount of judgment have been manifested. The
course of this inquiry has now been brought nearly
to our own times, and it has included interesting
memorabilia of numerous individuals who, by their
genius and learning, have occupied " a large space
thein world's eye," of whom the world would not
willingly
lose
recollection. The task of tracing
the peculiarities of their genius has been executed
con amore and with success, and the mission of
the Review has now reached that point where the
urrent literature must furnish it with daily food.
judge of the future by the past, we are entitled
re,ue toi . k- a- vigorous and useful career. Be-
the subjects reteno. " the
"
present number
s valuable papers on
" Reformatory Schools," both of wiucn
"English Songs and
treated in a large and philanthropic
great deal to interest
treentiistlead
un art,
--nine anecdotes of

" That for the future, no true-minded Coiffeur, or
Artiste en Cheveux, having a proper respect for himself,
or for the glorious Art, of which he is an humble instru-

,ir idea

ment, should allow hiritself to dress a l'lmpiratrice any
head of hair that is put into his hands, labouring under
the following prima' fade ridiculous disqualifications.
"1 All young ladies, who have already reached the age

s, pink eyes,

" 11. All young ladies, who have pug nose
white eyelashesoitid low foreheads.
"111. All young ladies, whose eyes are not perfectly
" Fort Constantine had been much damaged by the fire
of the fleet, and Bastion No. 3 had had 33 of its guns dis.

mounted.
" Admiral Kornileff was dead, and Admiral Nachimoff
wounded."

ar, or who wear spectacles
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exhibits

vermilion hie, or of an auburn rather more than suspect.
"V. All young ladies who may be entrusted with the
care or education of young children, as it would only put
foreign notions into the heads of their young charges, that
they will learn quite soon enough as they get older.
" IV. And, lastly, all young ladies whose positions, or
complexions, are not exactly suited for such an imperial
style of head-dress, as it only tends to attract notice that,
in all phases and faces, may not be exactly favourable, or
complimentary.".
Wig blocks, illustrative of the various disqualifications
enumerated, were exhibited, and afforded general amuse-
ment to the distinguished Coiffure who composed the
Meeting',--Punc4,