The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

murmur escaped us, and we were punctual and fervent
our addresses to the Supreme Being." Such was tb
state of exhaistion and suffering in the same inhospitable
region in which, under similar circumstances, he
ti
mately met his fate. It cannot be too much: to hope 0131!
a similarly progressive oblivion and calm :resigOi°ll
partly soothed the anguish of life's ebbing tide of 1111/1
and his gallant companions, as they sank
outwearied rather than o'ercome.
The literary world is getting "more agog," t° nse 3
remotot
e
phrase thought classical in regions considerably
from Belgravia, but it is in announcements of inter
achievements rather than with accomplished
The literary (?) war between Mr. ROBERT Citre3l°-,_„
and Messrs. BLICKIE still continues. The saran
thln
rt " tolerable and not to be endured" that he silevlcr,f
be considered responsible for " many old and new
or flysn
and thinking that the former were quite enough
man to labour under, I consider he might resolutely re;
pudiate " the new," as everybody knows it is the 1:
straw which breaks the camel's back. Mrs. B01301'"
I think, it is who tells us—

Satan doth still employment find
For idle hands to do ; 7,1 he
and the great enemy finding the editor of the "-is
Circular in that dangerous condition lately, stuck 3 P
between the three first digits of his dexter-paw, inid
duced him to scribble something to the effect that goer
LEDGE'S cheap edition ofBIIEWER'S novels and the eightee!,:
penny issue of the Waverley ditto, were upPrefitaP l'tv
undertakings, and had been discontinued, or were ar,ri,Wig:
to be so, or some such Mephistophelian nonsense'
spec
having fallen into the hands of a regular "devil," sPet
appeared in the pages of the deluded gentleman's e_ iitcw
ar
ever since which time he has had no peace of beeY 0
mind. ROUTLEDGE came down on him "like the /voil
the. fold," and flatly contradicted the assertion; 1134;
more, Sir E. B. LYTTON, on being appealed to, rePti,
ates the supposition with surprise; the WaverleY
prietors fling a new volume in his teeth, and the unh,,lllllle,
" circular editor" finds "too late that -- betray
accordingly makes a clean breast of the matter, 811
frankly acknowledges that "he has received satisfact°l
evidence that there is no foundation for such rePert'nwe:
The theatres are nearly all open now, and nevein,
in posse or in esse are the order of the day; I beg P:tr-the:
night, the minors, as usual, leading the waY• r
Marylebone, a new drama, entitled " Videna," or rath
a new presentment of "Mother's Tragedy," has beer
Po
duced by Mr. HERAUD. The style of its precl.,
reflects credit on Mr. J. IV. IVA.LLAcx, them ale by
Astley's has commenced to honour the military FOP"
a dramatic representation of the "Battle of the Alt°4s:
among the startling, or, at all events, unusual eceiii
which distinguish this "braying" compound, is thette-
troduction of "our own correspondent" in such 1113:0;
of-fact personal accuracy, and with such accornPallittel
of respectability and decorum, as to please the web',7jes
eagle of Printing-house-square, which, no doubt' u,v,rto
in the next spectacle to see its " Own Commissioner
tgio
the hospitals of the Orient introduced with equal etel)l3
and propriety.