The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

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carpenter, music by Ste-
pnen Glover ; " Speak gently," music by Miss
Lindsay ; " Excelsior," music by Miss Lindsay.
The four preceding ballads are good specimens of
the style and general effects aimed at by their
respective authors and composers. Miss Lindsay's
are, as usual, marked by delicacy and sweetness
happily combined with expression ; the melodies
are simple and beautiful, and they are finely suited
to the family social circle. Of Mr. Glover's melody

mly requisite to say, that it embraces the
usual characteristics of his composition, gramma-
tical rhythm, and correctly-denoted musical expres-
sion, accompanied by sweetness and power. Mr.
Cherry's ballad music is also very pleasing. These
four very seasonable pieces are published by the
well-known musical firm of R. Cocks and Co.—
" Tilleard's Church Seivices and Anthems," No. 3 ;
and " The Briton's Address to the Navy," with
words by Charles Dibdin, are also seasonable to the
time. The first, being a well-arranged set of the

splendidly-devotional 11 Christmas Hymn." The
second is one of the stirring ditties which rouse to
martial deeds. These two latter pieces are from the
cheap musical press of J. A. Novello, of which they
are good and creditable specimens.

VARIETIES

—The earliest tubular bridge—

the " bridge of the nose."
The lady who went up stairs to change her mind, has
not yet come down again! _ _ _

THE Providence Transcript says there is a lady so
aristocratic that she refuses to take a newspaper, because

it is made of rags.
To IMPROVE TEA. —M. Soyer recommends housekeepers
to place the teapot with the dry tea in it upon the hob for
a little while before making. This plan certainly improvw
both strength and flavour. Rain water, when pure, is the
best for making all infusions, including tea, of course;
since the solvent powers of water are great in proportion
to its freedom from earthy salts.
A MODEL SPERM:I.—George W. Snow, having been
unanimously re-elected City Clerk of Bangor, made a speech
to the electors. He said, Gentlemen—You have given
me all your votes, and I will give you my thanks. I accept
the office, and wish you to accept the thanks." It is
understood that both parties were satisfied, and nobody
yawned over the speech.
NATIVE LANGUAGE

—The following rich scene recently

occurred in an American court of justice between the
judge and a Dutch witness all the way from Rotterdam :
" Judge : What's your native language ? Witness : Ipe
no native, I's a Dootchman ! Judge : What's your mother
tongue ? Witness : Oh, father says she pe all tongue !
Judge (in an irritable tone) : What language did you
speak at the cradle? Witness : I did not speak no lan-
guage in to cradle at all ; I only cried in Dootch !"—Then
there was a general laugh, in which the judge, jury, and
audience joined. The witness was interrogated no further
about his native language. . _

A SITUATION VACANT.—Some years ago, a black man
called on a clergyman in western New York, avowed him-
self a fugitive slave, and asked for, food and shelter, which
were freely accorded. Two or three persons being cogni,
sant of the fact, called in to see the "runaway nigger,"
when the following dialogue ensued :—" S'pose you had
very hard times down south—lickings a plenty ?" —" No ;
I never was whipped."—" Wan't ! Well, you had to work
awful hard ?" My work was very light.' —" Guess your
clothes wan't very nice?"—" I was always well clothed;
I was a good servant."—" Reckon your victuals wan't
uncommon fine ?"—" As good as I desired."—" Well, I
should give it as my opinion that you was a mighty big
fool for running away from such a place as this, just for
the sake of shirking for yourself."—" Gen'men, my place
down south is vacant. Any of you can have it by apply-
ing for it."—American Paper.
THE PHILOSOPHY or DRESS.—M. Chevreul, whose
new work on colour seems to be at once recognised as an
authority by all artists; gives a clothes philosophy of a
practical kind. " A coat, waistcoat, and trousers of the
same colour cannot," he says, " be worn together with ad-
vantage, except when new ; for, when one of them has
lost its freshness by having been more worn than the
others, the difference will be increased by contrast. Thus
new black trousers, worn with a coat and waistcoat of the
same colour, but old and slightly rusty, will bring out
this latter tint ; while at the same time the black of the
trousers will appear brighter. 'White trousers, reddish
grey also, will correct the effect of which I speak. We
see, then, the advantage of having a soldier's trousers of
another colour than his coat, especially if, wearing this
coat all the year, he only wears trousers of the same cloth
during winter. We see, also, as I have already said, why
white trousers are favourable to coats of every colour."
NEW ORLEANS.—The plain on which the city of New.
Orleans is built rises only nine feet above the sea ; and
excavations are often made far below the level of the Gulf
of Mexico. In these sections several successive growths
of cypress timber has been brought to light. In digging
the foundations for the gasworks, the Irish spadesmen,
finding they had to cut through ;timber instead of soil,
gave up the work, and were replaced by a corps of Ken-
tucky axemen, who hewed their way downwards through
four successive growths of timber, the lowest so old that
it cut like cheese. Abrasions of the river-banks show
similar growths of sunken timber ; while stately live oaks,
flourishing on the bank directly above them, are living
witnesses that the soil has not changed its level for ages.
Messrs. Dickeson and Brown have traced no less than ten
distinct cypress forests at different levels below the present
surface in parts of Louisiana where the range between
high and low water is much greater than it is at New
Orleans. These groups of trees (the live oaks on the
banks, and the successive cypress beds beneath) are ar-
ranged vertically above each other, and are seen to great
advantage in many places in the vicinity of New Orleans.
—Types of Mankind.
PIC-NIC IN TUNKEY.—To-day (August Bth), I gave a
dinner, or pic-nic, to Lady Emily Dundas, on the summit
of the Giant's Mountain (Therapla). It was extremely
well arranged by the landlord of the hotel, Mr. Pettier,
who transferred an excellent collation from Europe to Asia.
The provision wagon, indeed, broke down, but no damage
ensued. We were twenty-seven : Lady Emily, Lord
Stratford, Mr. and Mrs. Skene, Admiral Slade, Lord Pen-
vensey, Mr. Alison, Dr. Sandwith, Captain Drummond,
and the rest were mainly officers of the Britannia and
the Retribution. Our ascent was picturesque. The two
ladies and two young midshipmen in a Turkish araba, a
gaily painted wagon drawn by two dove-coloured oxen ;
the Anglo-Turk, Admiral Slade,. on horseback, with his
three attendants on foot, carrying his pipe, &c.; the rest
of us walking. The Ambassador very amiably left the
peace and war of Europe for one afternoon, and came
across in his well-manned caique. ,We all sat down on
carpets round a large tablecloth. Here those accustomed
to Turkish habits had rather the advantage; but, what-
ever were the merits of the meal, those of the view imme-
diately beneath us would not admit of much competition
.from the rest of the world. We had all the glittering
reaches of the Bosphorous in its southern course, and over
and above its usual accompaniments, the fleets of Turkey
and the tents of Egypt. The day was just what one
would have commanded, having a due mixture of clouds,
which are hailed here as sunlight is in England.—Lord
Carlisle's Turkish Diary.
LONDON'S LARDEE.—If we fix upon Hyde Park as our
exhibition ground, and pile together all the barrels of beer
consumed in London, they would form a thousand columns
not far short of a mile in perpendicular height. Let us
imagine ourselves on the top of this tower, and we shall
have a look-out worthy of the feast we are about to sum-
mon to our feet. Herefrom we might discover the great
northern road stretching far away into the length and
breadth of the land. Lo !as we look, a mighty herd of
oxen, with loud bellowing, are beheld approaching from
the north. For miles and miles the mass of horns is con-
spicuous, winding along the road ten abreast, and even
thus the last animal of the herd would be seventy-two
miles away, and the drover goading his shrinking flanks
considerably beyond Peterborough. On the other side of
the park, as the clouds of dust clear away, we see the great
western road as far as the eye can reach, thronged with a
bleating mass of wool, and the shepherd at the end of the
flock, ten abreast, and the dog that is worrying the last
sheep, are just leaving the environs of Bristol, 121 miles
from our beer-built pillar. Along Piccadilly, Regent-
street, the Strand, Fleet-street, Cheapside, and the east-
ward Mile End Road line for 7A- miles, street and causeway
are thronged with calves, still ten abreast, and in the great
parallel thoroughfares of Bayswater, Oxford-street, and
Holborn, we see nothing for nine long miles but a slowly-
pacing, deeply-grunting herd of swine. As we watch this
moving mass approaching from all points of the horizon,
the air suddenly becomes dark—a black pall seems drawn
over the sky—it is the flock of birds—game, poultry, and
wild fowl, that, like Mrs. Bond's ducks, are come up to be
”I.ld ; as they fly wing to wing and tail to beak, they form

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in the metropolis in a year, and we shall find they form a
pyramid which measures 200 square feet at its base, and
extends into the air a height of 1,293 feet, or nearly three
times that of St. Paul's. Turning now towards the sound
of rushing waters, we find that the seven companies are
filling the mains for the day. If they were alloyfed to

flow into the arena of the aajacert St. James's Park, they
would, in the course of twenty-four hours, flood its entire
space with a depth of 30 inches of water, and the whole
annual supply would be quite sufficient to submerge the
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