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

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erves, and a vast deal of patience ;
at resolve upon taking things as they
words, the luxuries of civilized life
me being, be laid aside. The usual fault,
ver, very prevalent amongst young sports-
to proceed on a shooting excursion as though it
pic-nic party, where ladies were expected to grace
the scene. As far as regards shooting excursions in the

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fatigue attending the descent of
it a little by the stinging nettles, the
which, the size of a man's arm, bristling
prickles, inflict terrible punishment if, unluckily, a
step or sudden jerk send them in your face. Rasp-
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egress considerably, besides disfiguring his
__:actions. 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
And, true enough, out rushes a noble
:ng by her vivacity the possession of
two or three cubs. One barrel is fired, another follows
its example, the rifle then discharges its contents. If all
be unsuccessful, it is a regular " case." Down charges
the old bear, head over heels, or " all of a heap."

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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
observer, on India and its affairs, as these lie on the
surface, will 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
- M. de Schoelcher vents his indignation on
-e 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.
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Experience_ has long since led us to the belief that
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as synonymous with crime
no proof of heroism, tobeh treatedevidencehasof
conjecture that loud vituperation is
1110, . some instances at leLtall to feel assured that, in
VOI, one faction is no test Of denouncing the crimes of
.., of r one of the high privilege purity in another. It is
s possessed by the • •
people to offer a secure asylum British
to
every nation; and it may be our boast,theoppressed it •
of
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the
duke, when he wanted, in tn,
a its sanctity : while doing so, however, it •
and maintain
action, to make an attack upon the Freni,._ er, is at once
couple of regiments of Nassau cavalry, suddenly id our
duty and our interest to restrict our inter
himself abandoned the first cannon shot f rence to affording safety and shelter. In inter-
himself
was fired by them at very . addi-
taff ' the e
middle of , and was left alone with his s in i tion to these, we cannot, if we would, nor ought
smilingly the field He outthinksiml turned to the to the
we to do so if we could, afford to mix ourselves up
with such poltr What do y of that? Yet it is
with the quarrels which have driven the exiles to
My authority f:331?
ts.that I am expected to gain a battle!"
offer them our
who heard it his anecdote is Mr. Alexander Baring, our shores. We protection, and
himself from the lips of Pozzo di Berge. share with them our hospitality, and those parties
At the field f
was .a a 0 Waterloo M. Nolte mefwith and miserably mistake their own position, and greatly.
[pi e by
to the' L . when they insist
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RIE TIE S

THE GREATEST TRIAL OF PATIENCE.—A stammering
barrister examining a stuttering witness in the presence
of a deaf judge.—Punch. _

AN INVARIABLE RULB.—Let the wittiest thing be said
in society, there is sure to be same fool present, who, " for
the life of him, cannot see it."

WHAT IS A FRIEND P—A friend is one who jumps down,
id puts on the drag, when he finds that y9uare going down

11 too fast,

" WHICH TRAVELS FASTEST," said one friend to ano-
ther, " heat or cold ?" " Why, heat, to be sure; you can
easily catch cold," was the reply. _ _

&DTI C E.—Wfien
e" before von sti

'on go a:faing, be sure and " take a
t, for you may not get one after.

QUESTION BEFORE A DEBA.TIN-G CLUB.—The question
before the meeting is this :—" If a fellow—what is a feller
—and his gal—are about to be parted for a time—and
they propose to exchange daguerreotypes—and for that
purpose the feller goes to the daguerreotype shop—and is
to pay for having the picture took,' and he has only
money enough to pay for one picture in ordinary case,
and the other in magnificent case—which picture should
he put in magnificent case—his own ugly mug, or here ?
Would it be gallant in him to put her mug in the ugly
case ? Would it be jinerons in him to put his mug in
, I the ugly case which she is to keep ? That's the aw-
e of bacon, adhump_or I before the meeting. We are open for discussion.'

rican Courier

':--Ame-

A MEXICAN VALLEY'.—The valley here is about three
miles in width. Where it opens on St. Pablo Bay it is
about six miles, but it gradually contracts towards the
north. At the entrance it is an open plain, destitute of
trees, and covered with luxuriant grass ; but here it as-
sumes a new aspect, such a one, too, as I had not before
seen in the country. It is now studded with gigantic oaks,
some of them evergreen, though not so close together as
to render it necessary to cut any away to prepare the land
for cultivation. These magnificent oaks are found some-
times in long r -nd

Mies, and again in clusters of twenty and
thirty, forming beautiful groves ; then again a space of
ten or twenty acres will occur without a single tree. If
this romantic valley were transferred to the older
countries of Europe, it would be taken for the domain of a
prince or nobleman. It answers to the idea one has of
the old and highly-cultivated parks of England, where
taste and money has been lavished with an unsparing
hand, through many generations. As one emerges from
or enters each grove, he involuntarily expects some vener-
able castle or mansion to appear ; or to find himself among
some secluded villages. But in the entire length of the
valley there are no houses to be found within a less dis-
tance than five miles from each other, and these too of the
most humble and unpretending character. What is singu-
lar, and to me unaccountable in the groves of large trees
is, that there are no young ones, none but the venerable
and full grown caks, which, doubtless, for centuries have
held exclusive sway over this wide-spread and beautiful
domain. Nor is there any undergrowth of other trees and
shrubs. I can only account for this deficiency by attribu-
ting it to the fires since the occupation of the country by
the Spaniards ; or, by supposing that the immense herds
of cattle, which for a century past have occupied the valley,
have browsed upon the shrubs and young trees until they
destroyed them, and afterwards kept down the shoots as
they sprang up.—Bartlett's Personal Narrative.

_ .
NAPOLEON I. AND ma lIIIRDRESSER.—The Northum-
berland was fifteen days out. We had passed Teneriffe ;
the heat was becoming oppressive. Cypriani, to cool him-
self, had asked Santini to cut his hair. While this ope-
ration was going forward in the forepart of the ship, the
Emperor, followed by General Gourgaud and the Count
Las Cases, approached the scene of action. He expressed
his surprise, exclaiming, " Why, here is the old guardian
of my portfolio become a hairdresser." He then turned
to Santini, and said to him in Ajaccio patois—" When
you have finished with him, you will cut my hair—do you
hear ? and have a care how you cut it." Santini, having
finished his task upon Cypriani, went to the Emperor's
cabin. It was not without painful emotion that the Cor-
sican mountaineer placed his hand upon that Imperial
head about which the mark of a recently-worn crown still
remained—upon that head in which those civilising in-
spirations had been elaborated which had altered the
aspect of Europe. It was with a trembling hand that
Santini, knowing nothing of the hairdresser's art, began
his task. He had hardly applied the scissors when the
Emperor said, with a laugh, to General Gourgaud, " Watch
this mountaineer, General; for, if he fail to do his work
well, we will have him thrown into the sea." Then, turn-
ing to his valet de chambre, who was carefully collecting
into a serviette the severed hair, he added— 'Marchand,
look to this new hairdresser, and tell me how he gets on."
Although all this was said in a kind and playful voice, the
Emperor's words so discomposed Santini, that he cut his
master's left ear with the end of the scissors ; whereupon,
the Emperor, turning round, exclaimed in Corsican patois,
" Brigand, are you going to cut one of my ears off ? General,
throw this rascal into the sea !"—" Sire ! Sire !" exclaimed
Santini, pretending to be alarmed, " Sire, I was not here !"
—" The Brigand was not here when he was cutting my
ear !"—" No, Sire, my mind had wandered back to Amble-
tense ; saw you surrounded by your army, threatening the
coasts of those very English who, against the right of
nations, keep you prisoner now. Then, Sire, England
could not foresee a day like this." The Emperor sighed,
and his face assumed that deeply melancholy expression
which Gros has immortalised.—"You were thinking of
that, were you ?" said the Emperor seriously ; "
left him
the
alEomnep,erlooorkminagde
sad finish cutting my hair,"—and the operation was completed
Without the exchange of another word. When it was
over,a sign
ftohroaullghtotfil. The se
retire,i and they
Is
that lay bet
the between the camp at Ambleteuse and the cabins
of Northumberland were of a nature to make the
sternest soul dream sadly,-...ch
6114 ar I St, Helena to the

A JEWELLER or Penis intends to exhibit at the Grand
Exhibition next year a silver statue of the Emperor as
large as life.
DECIMAL COINAGB.—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.
PISCA.TORT.—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.

TiITT 'Mew who luiows 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.

OP ALL LEMMING, 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 BBNEFIT.—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 Y6rk Delta puns
as follows :—" During this melancholy mirthful operation,
the audience, no doubt, were in tiers."

A Poon. BACHELOR never looks so pitiable at 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
et and-still.—Punch.

Oun morning contemporary, from its great cleverness
in changing, is henceforth to be known as "The Chimes."
—Dio.qenes.

.THE Pouct or BOSTON, 1.7.5., 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 henman beans aftor the sassenger
has been fried. please to put in the' payper how this is,
far if fried strichnine is pizen igo agfu 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 acre. The premises were accordingly measured,
and the result was that the shaving bill was increased to
£7B Bs. Bd.

AN ECLIPSE IN PERSIL —At night there was an
eclipse of the moon ; and all the pots, pans, am! 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; r 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.

DAUBERS AND BLACKSMITUS.—The barber has to en-
tertain his familiar round of customers, when 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, he 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. Ire acquires, too, if his round of customers be
good, a courteous manner; and if they be in large propor-
tion Conservatives, he becomes, in all probability, a Con-
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 ti

Lie bends himself to the bellows, he drops, in rude
phrase, a brief judicial remark, and again falls sturdily to
work.—Hugh Miller.
INDUSTRIOUS HABITS OP GREAT AUTHORS.—It
would go very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious
association of genius and idleness, by showing them that
th ~atese- *d-- I I,"

gre.. poets, orators, st ...smen, an nistorians—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 death 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 "but thirty-seven years ; and in
that short space carried the art so far beyond what it had
before 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 menhas
been a life of intense and incessant labour.—Sidney Smith.

AR AMERICAN ESTIMATE OF ENGLISH 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,
warehottses, &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. Each 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 INr 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 o 7 EIGHT HUNDRED LIVES.—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 860
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 33th 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. But 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 fbr 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 26th 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. Rumford, Assistant-Surgeon Simp-
son, 1 warrant officer, 8 native commanding staff officers,
247 rank and file, 38 public officers, and 58 followers.
The Brigadier-General, Sir S. W. Steel, K.C.8., was to
I have accompanied the troops out, but he sailed in the
9ricuttil ptegaer, Awl ha& giIICC arriyed et liADgmti