The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-25 00:00:00

AMERICANISMS

A very modest young lady in our city got exceedingly of-
fended, because a clerk in a dry goods store offered to show
her some undressed Irish linens. She went right horns and
told her ma !

Certain young "bloods " display themselves in New York,
daily, with huge quadrangular taps, which give their heads
the appearance of square blocks covered with velvet; hence
they are generally designated as blockheads !
A woman, in a town not far from Portsmouth, N. H., who
had been ill-used by her husband, on finding him enjoying
the comforts of a sound sleep, quietly sewed him up in the
bed-clothes, and while be was in that defenceless situation
gave him a sound Waling.
A rather dull young fellow was asked if he knew the his-
tory of his ancestors. He replied he knew nothing of his
aunt's sisters, except his mother, and she was dead. His
apparent seriousness made the answer quite laughable.
Over a door of a vender of varieties in a country village is
—" Licentious dealer in Backey and Snuff."

"iiils-Wit;;;;ToUs a matter to make light of," as the
whale remarked to the man that was dipping the oil out of

his bead,

A Goon RatoßT.—Arnold, of Tennessee, asked Mr. Burke.
of N. H., in the house, the other day, if he was descended
from Burke the orator. or Bnrke the Burker. Mr. Burke
replied, in genuine Yankee fashion, by inquiring if the gen-
tle man from Tennessee was a descendant of Benedict Arnold,
or some other Arnold ?
HARD Tpags.—The Duchess d'Orleans, which arrived at
New York on Monday from Havre, is full of goods, and
among the rest are twelve buudre4 cases of silks, and four
thousand baskets of champagne. One barrel of pork will
buy a basket of champagne, and two barrels a silk gown.
Goon.—" I'm dying for you," as the girl said when she
coloured her bachelor's shirt..

UNDER OATFL—A certain lawyer. in examining a witness
concerning the size of a horse, inquired his height.. The
witness answered " sixteen feet." On cross-examination he
was again asked how high the horse was. lie answered
" s►xteen hands." " But you just said sixteen feet." " Did I?
Then, by gracious, I'll stick to it."
Getting up in the morning about three o'clock, tumbling
round a room that is full of chairs, in quest of a light, brings
about a demand for shin plasters.

why are a company of soldiers like Lavater, the physiog-
imist? Because they right about facet.

THE BISHOPRIC OF JERus, Ai
Gazette of the 19th instant states, under
Frankfort Post
nder date Berlin, 13th,
that the Prussian clergy Were
mdispleased with the cir-
cular of the Archbishop of Canterbury, respecting the new
Bishop of Jerusalem, in which it.Y
said that the esta-
blishment of that episcopal see would greatly
nd, and inducey tend to unite
el'ngla
the Church of Germany with that of
the former to convert itself. “ Our observes that
n"d intends, con-
journal, " is opposed to such a conversieorng,y;
ithat eir-
equently, to address to the king a protest against
cuter."
A Humese AND HEROIC IRISHMAN.—Letters it,.
passengers of the Oceans, to their relatives in ee'rw° de-
scribe the conduct of Mr. Trevor Thomas Fowler 11'
most humane, heroic, and prudent. This ingenious artist,
as
whose pencil has so frequently been noticed by the
Irish
tha'
prep*, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Dr. Win. Wright,
and about 300 other passengers, were wrecked offth
the
Island of Jamaica, upon a reef of coral rocks, on the even.
of the 6th of last December, whilst the vessel was going nine
knots an hour, tpon her passage to New Or
ruledder in a mo.
ans.
thrown on her beam ends, her w heel and
meat shattered to pieces, and the rocks were rasping out her
hull at every lurch, so that the pumps were unavailing. With
shrieks the crew and passengers collected in one solid mass
expecting death throughout a tedious nighict. The dreadayi f
gul
breakers, and the numerous sharks whh pin
around them, threatened alike the swimmer and the boat.
Several vessels were seen, but they passed away, apparently
regardless of the firing of shots, and the ringing of the bell ;
upon this Mr. Fowler seeing all hope in vain, got a 'lumber
of ,the despairing women passed over the ship's s:de, and
placede in a small boat, which filled so fast with water, that
De had to bail it out• L 1 • hat, ttl h
continually with his at, yethrough
coral rocks, deep water, and the breakers, he succeeded
• a
in rescuing eight helpless females,: and placing them on
small sand bank, (aboutamile off) which was just above the
tide. One of those helpless
having brought him under tbeings, a heavy Dutch woman
suecaeeecrl, he was obliged to cast off,
but in a minute after,
and placing her in safety. islrl in again getting hold of
andowler returned to the veasel
for another cargo of the doomed
all with courage, by his counsel atA hopeless; inspired them
example, and before the
next night set in, he had the inexpressible satisfaction of be-
holding all the passengers and crew delivered from destruc-
tion. The captain was the last
charge of. Poor Fowler lost all his eve the ship be had
Pr°_uPerty, in
but our
cluding his
many valuable pictures, prints, paints, brushes
worthy fellow-countryman. Dowell O'Reilly,
eill, &c, ;
IY, Esq. who is
known the families of
paid
them Attorney-General at Kingston, having
Messrs. Wright and Fowler in this city pei
tention which was in his ample power. The Romans
every at-
civic crown to him who saved a single life—perhaps mental
gave
satisfaction alone will be the reward of Mr. Fowler.—Dublie
Evening Mail.

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