The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

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false step or sudden jerk send them in your face. Karp-
berry bushes, creepers, and the prickly cane impede the
hunter's progress considerably, besides disfiguring his
personal attractions. I fancy I hear the reader exclaim,
with a sneer, " And this is what you denominate Indian
sport !" " Bide ye yet," is the reply. "Ah ! my friend
—I told you so—to look at yonder cave—take care, here
she comes !" And, true enough, out rushes a noble
female bear, betraying by her vivacity the possession of
two or three cubs. One barrel is fired, another follows
'le rifle then discharges its contents. If all
ssful, it is a regular " case." Down charges
.e old bear, head over heels, or " all of a heap."
The " case," of course, is more easily imagined
than described ; but, with the exception of the
large nettles and the denouement, the remarks are
equally suitable for hill-sport in Wales or in Scot-
land, the precautions and the directions being
truly so. Captain James' book possesses a very
considerable amount of interest, and his remarks,
as those of a clear-headed and plain-spoken
hserver, on India and its affairs, as these lie on the
ill repay careful attention.

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Dangers to England of the Alliance with the
Men of the Coup d'Etat. By Victor Schoelcher.
London : N. Triibner and Co.
Such is the title of a brochure put forth by a
gentleman denominating himself " Representative
of the People," and one who in that capacity
found it desirable to quit his own country and seek
refuge on our hospitable shores. Secure in his
asylum, M. de Schoelcher vents hisindignation on
the men who drove him forth, of his own land ;
and if to hate our opponents be a virtue, and if to
denounce our successful rivals in the atrocious race
of social turmoil and political anarchy and revolu-
tion constitute heroism, then is this French refugee
a highly virtuous gentleman, and a political cham-
pion of no trivial calibre. As we lean to a
belief adverse to both those positions, however, we
may be forgiven in offering a modest protest
against the man and the doctrines he somewhat
violently advances, and very dictatorially insists on.
Experience has long since led us to the belief that
mere want of success is no more an evidence of
virtue, than good fortune is invariably to be treated
as synonymous with crime ; the same teaching has
also led us to conjecture that loud vituperation is
no proof of heroism, and to feel assured that, in
some instances at least, denouncing the crimes of
one faction is no test of purity in another. It is
one of the high privileges possessed by the British
people to offer a secure asylum to the oppressed of
every nation ; and it may be our boast, as it is our
glory, that we do. offer such asylum and maintain
its sanctity : while doing so, however, it is at once
our duty and our interest to restrict our inter-
ference to affording safety and shelter. In add;

so fir be.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD AND GENERAL COMIVIERCIAL ADVERTISER

A JBWBLLER or Penis intends to exhibit at the Grand
Exhibition next year a silver statue of the Emperor as
large as life.
DECIMAL COIITIOIL—The idea of issuing any designs
for a decimal coinage has been abandoned. It would take
ten years, according to the Mint authorities, to carry out
any such plan.
PISCATORT.—A young girl is a fishing-rod—the eyes
are the hook, the smile is the bait, the lover is the
gudgeon, and marriage the butter in which he is fried.
THAT MAN who knows the world will never be bashful,
and that man who knows himself will never be impudent.

PAINS too long retained often increase even to the
breaking of the heart. If they could be exhaled, we
should see that they do not merit the bitterness which
they have caused.
OF ALL LEARNING, the most difficult department is to
unlearn : drawing a mistake or prejudice out of the head
is as painful as drawing the tooth, and the patient never
thanks the operator.
SMALL, and of brief duration, seem the griefs of boy-
hood: light floating clouds will obscure the sun that is but
half risen ; but let him be up in mid-heaven, and the
cloud that then darkens the land must be thick and heavy
indeed.

Success rides on every hour : grapple it, and you may
win; but without a grapple it will never go with you.
Work is the weapon of honour, and he who lacks the
weapon will never triumph.
A BENEFIT.—The Philadelphia Sun, in a strain of
Yankee hyperbole, informs its readers that at the benefit,
of a certain theatrical manager, " the audience had to
laugh perpendicularly, there being no possible chance for
lateral cachination." On this the New York Delta puns
as follows :—" During this melancholy mirthful operation,
the audience, no doubt, were in tiers."
A Poon BACHELOR never looks so pitiable as when he
is looking out his linen to send to the wash.
A SHOT AT THE EAST.—It is, or was till the other day,
somewhat absurd to speak of the "Seat of War ; " for
war can hardly le said to have a seat while it is at a
sl and-still.—Punch.

()urn morning contemporaty, from its great cleverness
in changing, is henceforth to be known as "The Chimes."
—Diocenes.

Trti PoLiar OF BosTorr, having been authorised
to administer strychnine to vagabond dogs, a sausage-
eater writes to the Boston Herald :—" That what i witch
two assk yo is wheather strichnine wot the poleece gives
to dogs wont pizen the heuman beans aftor the sassenger
has been fried. Please to put in the payper how this is,
fur if fried strichnine is pizen igo agin sassengers. Yours
till pizined."
INTERESTING TO BARBERS.—It is said that a gentleman
in one of the large towns in England, whose face rather

exceeded the ordinary dimensions, was waited on by a
barber every day for 21 years, without coming to a settle-
ment. The barber thinking it " about time to settle,"
presented his bill, in which he charged a penny a day—
amounting in all to £3l 18s. 9d. The gentleman sup-
posing too much charged, refused to pay the amount, but
agreed to the proposal of the barber, to pay at the rate of
£2OO an acr,

The premises were accordingly measured,
and the result was that the shaving bill was increased to
£7B Bs. Bd.

AN ECLIPSE IN PERSIA. -At night there was an
eclipse of the moon ; and all the pots, pans, and other
sonorous instruments which could be found in Gheelaun,
were in requisition to frighten away the beast which was
supposed to be devouring the planet. A great deal of
gunpowder was also expended, and one might easily have
imagined that the town was attacked. Presently our
cook, Ismael, commenced a tremendous assault upon a
large saucepan,; and the other servants discharged their
pistols and rifles, much to the assistance of the good cause.
At last, after having continued his din for upwards of
two hours, the inhabitants retired to rest triumphant, as
the beast-was effectually alarmed, and had left the moon
precisely as he found it, round and bright as ever.—
Holmes's Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian.

BARBERS IND BLACKSMITIIS.—The barber has to en-
tertain his familiar round of customers, wheit operating
upon their heads and beards. He must have no contro-
versies with them ; that might be disagreeable, and might
affect his command of the scissors or razor ; but he is ex-
pected to communicate to 'them all he knows of the gossip
of the place; and, as each customer supplies him with a
little, be of course comes to know more than anybody else.
And as his light and easy work lays no stress on his res-
piration, in course of time he learns to be a fast and fluent
talker, with a great appetite for news, but little given to
dispute. He acquires, too, if his round of customers be
good, a courteous manner ; and if they be in large propor-
tion Conservp4' he becom- ;n al'

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servative too. A village smith hears well nigh as much
gossip as a village barber ; but he developes into an entirely
different sort of man. He is not bound to please his cus-
tomers by his talk ' • nor does his profession leave his
breath free enough to talk fluently or much ; and so he
listens in grim and swarthy independence—strikes his
iron while it is hot—and when, after thrusting it into the

fire, he bends himself to the-bellows, he drops, in rude
phrase, a brief judicial remark, and again falls sturdily to
work.—Hugh Miller.

INDUSTRIOUS HABITS OF GREAT AUTHORS.-It
would go very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious

association or genius ana rareness, oy snowing them that
the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians—men
of the most brilliant and imposing talents—have actually
laboured as hard as the makers of dictionaries and the
arrangers of indexes ; and that the most obvious reason
why they have been superior to other men is, that they
have taken more pains than any other men. Gibbon was
in his study every morning-, winter and summer, at six
o'clock ; Mr. Burke was the most laborious and inde-
fatigable of human beings ; Leibnitz was never out of his
library • Pascal killed himself by study ; Cicero narrowly
escaped by the same cause ; Milton was at his books
with as much regularity as a merchant or an attorney—
he had mastered all the knowledge of his time ; so had
Homer. Raffaelle lived b
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oerore reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model
to his successors. There are instances to the contrary;
but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has
been a life of intense and incessant labour.—Sidney Smith.

AN AMERICAN ESTIMATE or. ENGEISII CHARACTER.—
Whoever else may fail, the Englishman will not. He has
existed for a thousand years, and will continue to exist, as
his character possesses as much energy as ever. London
and England are now in full growth. Birkenhead, oppo-
site Liverpool, grows as fast as South Boston, or Liver-
pool, opposite New York. London is enlarging at an
enormous rate, even to the swallowing up of Middlesex.
The British Museum is not yet arranged ; London 'Uni-
versity is growing rapidly as one of the western colleges.
Everything in England betokens life. Be sure that the
Englishman does not build castles and abbeys,—but what
the 19th century demands he builds—docks, wharfs,
warehouses, &c., without number. In all that the Eng-
lisman does, even to the noise of clearing his throat, he
gives evidence of strength. It is not the land for faint
hearts. One thing is very noticeable among the people,
and that is, their total neglect of each other. EliPla man
shaves, dresses, eats, walks, and runs, just as he pleases,
and his neighbour pays no attention to him so long as he
is not interfered with ; and this is not because English-
men are trained to neglect, but because each man is
trained to mind his own business ; personal eccentricities
are allowed here, and no one observes them. Each
islander is an island himself, reposing in quiet and tran-
quil waters. It is very certain that the Englishman has
so much confidence in the power of his nation that he
cares very little about any other.—Ralph Waldo. Em-
merson.

KISSING IN AMERICA. -An American editor, who
confesses, by implication, to great experience of a time-
honoured custom, for which the present fashion of ladies'
bonnets offer tempting facilities, sums up the fruits of his
practice in this wise :—" Hardly any two females kiss
alike. There is as much variety in the manner of doing
it, as in the faces and manners of the sex. Some delicate
little creatures merely give a slight brush of the lip.
This is a sad aggravation. We seem to be about to " have
a good thing," but actually get nothing. Others go into
it, like a hungry man to a beefsteak, and seem to chew up
our countenances. This is disgusting, and soon drives
away a delicate lover. Others struggle like hens, when
burying themselves with dry dirt. The kiss is won by
great exertions, and it is not worth as much as the trou-
ble it costs. Now, we are in favour of a certain shyness
when a kiss is proposed, but it should not be continued
too long; and when the fair has " given in," let her ad-
minister it with warmth and energy. Let there be soul
with it. If she close her eyes, and sigh deeply imme-
diately after it, the effect is greater. She should be care-
ful not to "slobber" a kiss, but give it as a humming-
bird runs his bill into a honeysuckle, deep but delicately.
There is much virtue in a kiss, when well delivered. We
have the memory of one we received in our youth, which
has lasted forty years; and we believe it will be the last
thing we shall think of when we die."
Loss OF EIGIIT HUNDRED Livas.—The recent accounts
from the East bring intelligence from which it is generally
believed that nearly 800 lives have been lost, a great por-
tion of them British subjects, through two appalling ship-
wrecks. The first vessel was the brig Hygeia, of 850
tons, which had formerly been under the Danish flag, and
subsequently condemned. About the 31st of May she
sailed from Macao, with 508 Chinese emigrants, for San
Francisco. On the 13th of June she got ashore on a reef
called Patras Sandbank, midway between Formosa and
Hong Kong. About the same time another emigrant
ship, the Topaz, got ashore on the same island, which was
a wild, barren, and uninhabited place. The loss of the
Topaz becoming known at Hong Kong, a small schooner
called the Victoria was despatched to the island, when the
loss of the Hygeia was also discovered. Twenty-nine of
the poor creatures on board, in trying to reach the shore
on a raft, were washed off and drowned. The Victoria
took on board as many from the two wrecks as she could
stow—in all 147 persons. She had only half-a-dozen
casks of water to supply such a large number of famished
creatures ; her provisions were almost as scanty. Bat the
melancholy fact is to be told that, when the Victoria left,
390 of the emigrants were to be seen on the broadside of
the hull of the wreck under a burning sun, without a
particle of food or a drop of water to sustain life. On the
authorities at Hong Kong being informed of the catas-
trophe, application was made to the agent of one of the
large steam navigation companies for the despatching of
a steamer to the island, but although several were in the
harbour none were forwarded. It is said that the -.mode-
rate sum of £l,OOO was demanded before a vessel would
be allowed to leave. By the last accounts the poor crea-
tures were still left on the wreck ; but little had been
done to save them, and it is feared that the next mail will
bring tidings of their having been starved to death. The
second melancholy loss is supposed to be the British ship
Lady Nugent, Captain Bannerman, which left Madras on
the 10th of May for Rangoon, with the staff and head
quarters of the 25th regiment of Madras Native Infantry,
and has not since been heard of. The government autho-
rities have despatched steamers from Rangoon and Cal-
cutta in search of her, but without avail. It is known
that she must have encountered a terrific monsoon three
weeks after her departure. Other ships, which have since
sailed from Madras with troops for Rangoon, have reached
that port ; and it is feared that the Lady Nugent has
foundered with all on board. The following officers and
men sailed in the Lady Nugent :—Lieutenant-Colonel
Johnson, Lieut. and Adjutant Daley, Lieut. and Quarter-
master King, Lieut. Bamford, Assistant-Surgeon Simp-
son, 1 warrant officer, 6 native commanding staff officers,
247 rank and file, 33 public officers, and 66 followers.
The Brigadier-General, Sir S. W. Steel, K.C.8., was to
have accompanied the troops out, but he sailed in thq
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