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

rations by the author are cleverly executed. The blun-

ucing the opposition agent to the

s, is laughably narrated, and the results we look fur-

rd to with much anxiety in the next part. This work we

can safely recommend to notice

The Commissioner. Walmsley, Liverpool

In this number there is a most ludicrous description of a

coroner's inquest on a supposed dead body. The chevalier
makes his appearance in London. There are some witty
sallies scattered through this work. Joey Pike is quite an
original. The chevalier's reflections upon, and Joey's ex-
planations of, " Plate-glass Windows," are hard rubs against
those who sport such attractions. The interest of the story
increases greatly, and promises to be amongst the best of its

Blackwood's Magazine,

So man

orks press upon us, that some we must defer

11 our next publication : amongst them is Black-
lways.keep a bonne bouche, to be devoured last.
give an extract from the article entitled

ie meantime, WE

World of London."

SOCIAL RELAXATIONS

)st the only enjoyment of a vast number of
ints of London—the fireside, the pipe, the pot,
per, are their amusements. The latter affords
action, as it were, of whatever amusement is going
about the crowd, fatigue, or trouble of assisting
the paper, sitting quietly by his fireside, the Lon-
er the business fatigues of the day, can form a
a of the merits of the last new comedy, opera, or
than if he had put himself to the trouble and inconve-
of attending the performance : whatever of proces-
ceremony, or such-like, is going forward, is mar-
upon the broad sheet of the newspaper, as it was
ailed by the master of the ceremonies : the many good
that have been eaten, and the few that have been
at a Mansion-house dinner, are recorded for him in
per with an accuracy no inquiry of his own could ever
ach : the names of the fashionables who attended at
ck's in the west, and at the Chimney-sweepers' Bene-

volent Annual Ball in the east, are catalogued by the news-
paper with scrupulous fidelity : in the newspaper, the most
intimate affairs of his neighbours at large are laid open
through the medium of police reports, law reports, and par-
liamentary reports, as it would seem merely ror his especial
amusement : kingdoms change masters, empires rise and
fall, dynasties are undone, battles fought, and long lists of
killed and wounded published, merely to entertain him :
accounts of expeditions sent out, at the instigation of oily-
tongued Pharisees, to civilise, by means of new rum and
small-pox, the nasty, rancid, bow-legged, lark-heeled, ba-
boon-faced, abominable, black niggers, wherein our brave
countrymen perish by wholesale uupitiably, for the enter-
tainment of the philanthropic reader and Buxton, the brewer
of Whitechapel : accounts of banquets at Stafford House,
and
death by starvation in Spitalfields ; statements of acci-
dents, offences, bankruptcies, singular occurrences, and sudden
deaths : not only the mere record of passing occurrences,
but the
spirit of the events of the day, retrospectively consi-
dered, and prospectively, by able men, entertain the worthy
citizen in his dressing-gown and slippers, with his heels on
the
icier : the world, its cares, business, amusements is
Brought ouinto
his breakfast parlour, and having been well
g
tire
the table in the microcosm of the news-
(l.', is laid upon

ise wonderful, therefore, that the Londoner,s
I body are absorbed in his avocations,
---mt in perusing this wondrous mass of
le would, indeed, be enamoured of fa-
t to find all that is interesting, exciting,
broad sheet whose treasures are daily'
The intense concentration of body
loess of the day is another reason why
rea test relaxation in complete re-
rth, his comfortable wife, his prat-
vening paper, make the best and
at
we imagine as much—the
least,
there is the blessed Sun-
f mind and body are washed

ithin t

i the b

cobwebs of the week, and
id quiet; when those who
it religious obligations de.

ye no sense of re-

harking

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

irgotten

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