The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

loth in the typography and materiel, of

is improving. There are portions of it, how-

y objet'

better than the y

though the present number is de-

The heroes are vil-

om no sympathy can be excited. Before we judge

e must see more of it

By Samuel Lover. Webb, Liverpool.
that two of our best monthly " serials

:ed from the pens of Irishmen, and that their
1 be so similar : we allude to " Jack Hinton,"
r, and the present work by Mr. Lover. Handy
les in admirable style. The story is told with

at must make it sought after. The
the author are cleverly executed. The blun-

y, in introducing the opposition agent to the
laughably narrated, and the results we look for-

h much anxiety in the next part. This work we

ommend to notice,

ornmissioner

\Valmsley, Liverpool

most ludicrous description of a
est on a supposed dead body. The chevalier
London. There are some witty
mgh this work. Joey Pike is quite an
hevalier's reflections upon, and Joey's ex-
'ass Windows," are hard rubs against

[lumber there is a r

,ppearance
red t

sport such attractions. The interest of the story
reatly, and promises to be amongst the best of its

Blackwood's Magazine,

press upon us, that some we must defer

1 our next publication : amongst them is Black-
: always keep a bonne bouehe, to be devoured last.
,ntime, we give an extract from the article entitled

rld of London

" SOCIAL RELAXATIONS

most the only enjoyment of a vast number of
its of London—the fireside, the pipe, the pot,
The latter affords

their amusetnents

!ction, as it were, of whatever amusement is going
ithout the crowd, fatigue, or trouble of assisting
the paper, sitting quietly by bis fireside, the Lon-
r the business fatigues of the day, can form a
of the merits of the last new comedy, opera, or
if he had put himself to the trouble and inconve-
.ttending the performance : whatever of proces-

like, is going forward, is roar-

n the broad sheet of the newspaper, as it was
by the master of the ceremonies : the many good
have been eaten, and the few that have been
Mansion-house dinner, are recorded for him in
rith an accuracy no inquiry of his own could ever
the names of the fashionables who attended at
n the west, and at the Chimney-sweepers' Belie-
alai Ball in the east, are catalogued by the news-
scrupulous fidelity : in the newspaper, the most
Iffairs...of his neighbours at large are laid open

orts, law reports, and par-

!ern merely tor his especial

mange masters, empires rise- and
are undone, battles fought, and long lists of
',Wed published, merely to entertain hiM :
-litions sent out, at the instigation of oily 7
_,ees, to civilise, by means of new rum and
Lhe nasty, rancid, bow-legged, lark-heeled, ba-
I, abominable, black niggers, wherein our brave
;it perish by wholesale unpitiably, for the enter-
the philanthropic'reader- and Buxton, the brewer
hapel : accounts of banquets at Stafford House,
by starvation in Spitalfields ; statements of acci-
"es , bankruptcies, singular occurrences, and sudden
,tit only the mere record of passing occurrences,
,iri t of the events of the day, retrospectively consi-
-1 prospectively, by able men, entertain the worthy
his dressing-gown and slippers, with his heels on
—fleld. its cares, business, amusements, is
,t parlour, and having been well
in the microcosm of the news-

into
,n

lief as

-onderful, therefore, that the Londoner,
are absorbed in his avocations, should
flietit in perusing this wondrous mass of
he would, indeed, be enamoured of fa-
tent to find all that is interesting, exciting,
the broad sheet whose treasures are daily
'n. The intense concentration of body
business of the day is another reason why
~,,,atest relaxation in complete re-

.s 1115 co."—
irept hearth, his conifitrtable wife, his prat-
ed the evening paper? snake the best and
'asures—at least, we imagine as much—the
in enjoy. Then there is the blessed Sun-
ire and dirt of mind and body are washed
cleared of the cobwebs of the week, and
day of peace and quiet ; when those who
h a sense of their religious obligations de-
g them, and those who have no sense of re-

and in London their number is not few—cannot
7 God, in their hearts, that there is one day of
shop is shut, the workme❑ discharged,
Is, and petty cash-books put to bed, and cus-

often think—Heaven help us !—that on Sunday there
)att in the air—we think the spirits that preside
harmony of Heaven walk upon the viewless winds,
tliem to repose in reverence of the sacred day ; the
tself shines placidly 0110 n the tranquil earth : the
ang in graceful forms from the vault of the firma-
he little choristers of the groves, to our ear, have
ig hymn-like in their sabbath song of praise : peace
escends upon the brute creation, and nature arrays
1 robes of brighter green : the heart of man partici-
the holy calm of the day of rest. forgets tempestuous
and worldly cares, and expands beyond itself, as it