The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-15 00:00:00

The Churchman for February. Painter, London

This magazine might, we conceive, be made more useful if

the information contained in it were of a more interesting
character. The letters of Mr. Faber are, doubtless, ex-
tremely valuable, but where so little space is at hand, would
it not gratify a " churchman" more to peruse much valuable
matter connected with the doctrines and movements of the
church? and which cannot be, at least so we presume, for it
is not, given

The magazine is calculated to be of essential
service, but it Is, notwithstanding, capable of improvement.
The Village Churchman is, in kind, a great improvement
on its contemporary, but of course the latter will find its way
into circles where the former, in all probability never pene-
trates. There are many subjects of vital importance to the
church which we rarely or never see in the columns of The
Churchman.

The Lyons papers state that great quantities of snow have
fallen this year on the Jura, on the country round Bourg,
and on what is known as the Pays de Gex. The wolves
have been forced through hunger to descend from the forest
of the Jura,
and have appeared in villages at considerable
distances from their retreats. The road between Lyons and
Geneva,-
by the Fort de l'Ecluse, has been rendered clange-
roux from the drifting • of the snow.

A HORSE'S CONFIDENCE IN HIS RIDER.—The confidence
of a horse in a firm rider and his own courage is great, as wa
conspicuously evinced in the case of an Arab possessed by the
s
late General Sir Robert R. Gillespie, who, being present, on
the race-course of Calcutta, during one of the Hindu festi-
vals, when several hundred thousand people may be assem-
bled to witness all kinds of shows, was suddenly alarmed by
and informed, that a tiger had es-
the shrieks of the crowd,
caped from his keepers : the colonel immediately walled for
his horse, and, grasping a boar-spear, which was in the hands
of one among the crowd, rode to attack the formidable ene-
my : the tiger, probably, was amazed at finding himself in
the middle of such a number of shrieking beings, flying from
him in all directions ; but the moment he perceived Sir
Robert, he crouched with the attitude of preparing to spring
at him, and that instant the gallant soldier passed his horse
in a leap over the tiger's back and struck the spear through
his spine. The horse was a small gray, afterwards sent home
by him a present to the Prince Regent. -When Sir Robert
fell at the storming of Kalunga, his favourite black charger,
bred at the Cape of Good Hope, and carried by him to India,
was, at the sale of his effects, competed for by 'several officers
of his division, and finally
the Bth knocked down to the privates of
dragoons, who contributed their prize-money to the.
amount of £5OO sterling, to ruin this commemoration of
their late commander. Thus the charger was always led at
the head of the regiment on
Cawupore, was usually indulged with and, at the station of
salute
taking his ancient post
at the colour-stand, where the
... of passing squadrons
was given at drill arid on reviews.
When the regiment was
ordered home, the funds of the privateselinoning low, he was
bought for the same sum by a relative ours, who provided
funds and a paddock for him, where he might end his days
marched, and the sound
:
in comfort ; but, when the corps had mar
of the trumpet had departed, he refused el'et,
broke from
and, on the
first opportunity, being led out to exercise,
as
his groom, and, galloping to his ancient station on the parade,
after neighing aloud, dropped down and died.—Str ith'
Horses.