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

AMERICANISMS.

A ♦ery modest young lady in our city got e;cecdingly of-
fended, because a clerk in a dry goods store offered to show
her some undressed Irish linens. She went right home and
told her ma !

Certain young "bloods "display themselves in New York,
daily, with huge quadrangular caps, 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 he was in that defenceless situation
gave him a sound threshing.
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."

" This is too serious a matter to make light of," as the
whale remarked to the man that was dipping the oil out of
his head.

A Goon RETORT.—ArnoId, ofTennessee, asked Mr. Burke,
of N. H., in the house, the other day, if he was descended
from Burke the orator, or Burke 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 TIMES.--The Duchess d'Orleans, which arrived at
New York on Monday from Havre, is full of goods, and
among the rest are twelve hundred 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 shirts.
UN DER Oirn.—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. He answered
" sixteen hands." " But you just said sixteen feet." " Did I.
Then, by gracious, ru slick 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-
nomist? Because they right about faces.

THE BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM.—The Frankfort Peat
Gazette of the 19th instant states, under date Berlin, 13th,
that the Prussian clergy were much displeased with the cir-
cular of the Archbishop of Canterbury, respecting the new
Bishop of Jerusalem, in which it is said that the esta-
blishment of that episcopal see ,would greatly tend to unite
the Church of Germany with that of England, and induce
the former to convert itself. " Our clergy," observes that
journal, " is opposed to such a conversion, and intends, con-
sequently, to address to the king a protest against that cir-
cular.

A HUMANE AND lIEROtc IR
of mr.their relatives relatives in Ireland, de-
passengers of the Oceans, to !7"AN.—Letters from the
scribe the conduct
most humane, heroic, and prudentv.orTTll°-mas .Fowler as
. been noticed by Al I' I
ro ler-it:-
whose pencil has so frequently be This ingenious artist,
lwawer, Dr. Wm. Wright,
accompanied by his b tl
press, le ris i
6,v/reeked off the
and about 300 other passengers
Island of Jamaica, upon a reef of coral roe
Orleans.w asgoing
nine
of the 6th of last December, whilst the vessel won on
gthe zeven-
upon her passage to New
knots an hour,
thrown on her beam ends, her wheel and rudder She was
in it mo.
went shattered to pieces, and the rocks were rasping
hull at every lurch, so that the pumps were unava
j out her
ith
shrieks the crew and passengers collected in one soTi' W
d
mass
expecting death throughout a tedious night. The dreadful
playing
around and the numerous sharks which were i • -
ing
around them, threatened alike the swimmer and the boat.
Several vessels were seen, but they passed away, a—
pparently
regardless of the firing of shots, and the ringing of the bell ;
upon this Mr. Fowler seeing all hope in vain, got a nnunt;er
of ,the despairing women passed over the ship's side, and
Placed in a small boat, which filled so fashis hath t wit water, that
"'he had to bail it out continually with , yet through
coral rocks, deep water, and the breakers, he succeeded
in rescuing eight helpless females, and placing them on a
small sand bank, (about a mile off) which was just above the
tide. One of those helpless beings, a heavy Dutch woman
having brought hire under water, he was obliged to cast off,
but in a minute after, succeeded in again getting hold of
and placing her iu safety.
:W. Fowler returned to the vease I
for another car
go of the doomed aed hopeless; inspired them
all with courage, by his counsel and example, and before the
next night set in, he h
holding all the pusenad the inexpressible satisfaction of be-
holding
The captain ers and crew delivered from destruc-
tion.charge of. Poor was Fowler
lost
last to leave the ship he had
many valuable pictures, prints, all his property, including his
worthy fellow-countryman. paints, brushes, &c, ; but our
Attorney-General at Kingston, Dowelll O'Reilly, Esq. who is
Messrs. Wright and Fowler in trying' known the families of
tention which was in his ample this city paid them every at-
civic crown to him who saved a power. The Romans gave
single
satisfaction alone will be the reward of M life—perhaps mental
.Er. Fowler.—Dublin
vening Mail.