The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

THE BUTTER TRADE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stn,—Having seen in a late number of your paper a letter
signed George Casey, in which my character is assailed, I
trust you will have the goodness through the same medium
to permit me to defend myself against the scurrility and false-
hood which that document contains. He states that I. was
sent by the committee of merchants of Cork, in order to
write home slanders which may appear in print, &c. To that
assertion I give the most unqualified denial. I was not sent;
nor would I have come, on such an errand. The resolution
of the committee of merchants will speak for itself

solved,—That one of our butter inspectors, Mr. Richard
Towuly, be forthwith despatched to Liverpool to ascertain
the extent of these practices, and to report to this board."•
How have I complied, with that resolution? By simply sending
the number of firkins, and the places to where shipped, the
entire of which information I derived from public documents,
to which every person may have access. -Was this slander ?
The veracious Mr. C. says it was. He has added that part
of my business was to assure the simple folk of Liverpool
that German butter was not Irish. My duty consisted in an
endeavour to show, that butter produced in Hamburgh was
made to appear as Cork butter, thereby calculated to bring
Irish butter into disrepute, and to the injury of the fair trader
in that article. If Mr. C. had no object in view but fair open
dealing, why had he recourse to that which had no existence
in truth ?

I remain, dear sir, your obu'2ient servant,
RICHARD TOWNLY

THE KING OF PRUSSIA

ADDRESSES FROM THE LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIA-

TION, PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, AND THE

TOXTETII-PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION

SIRE,—We, the vice-presidents and committee. &c., of
the Liverpool Protestant Association, most respectfully, an,d
with heartfelt satisfaction, welcome your Majesty to the
shores of England.

Associated as we are for the maintenance of that best Of
all blessings, the Scriptural Protestantism happily established
in this land, we cannot but look with peculiar thankfulness
to the example which, by the grace of God, your 14

lajesty

has been enabled to exhibit in the eyes of all turot

. .
devoutly praying, that He " by whom kings reign and princes
decree justice" may continue to guide your Majesty's coun-
cils, and to crown with signal success whatever your Majesty
shall undertake for the glory of His great name, and the pro-
motion of His holy cause.
It been'your Majesty's happy privilege to devise, and
to assist in the execution of, a noble project. for the union of
Christian churches and the effectual promotion of our high-
est interests, by establishing a Protestant bishopric in the
holy city of Jerusalem ; and this we hail with more abundant
thankfulness, since it includes that, without which all schemes
for the prosperity of the universal church must be inefficient
—the in-gathering of the lost sheep Of the house of Israerto
the fold of Christ.

We bear in mind that your Majesty, treading in the steps
of your royal father of happy, memory, and in those of your
august ancestors under whose pious care the Reformation
was cradled in Germany; still extends aTostering hand over
the exiled Protestants of the Tyrol; and that your Majesty
also continues to oppose with equal temperance And firmness

the encroachments of foreign ecclesiastical aggresSion in.your
Majesty's dominions. • ,
It is-on these grounds, Sire, that we avail ourselves of the
present auspicious occasion to express our respect for your
Majesty's character, our sincere attachment to your royal
person, and our unbounded gratification at beholding your
Majesty in the sacred.and endearing character of sponsor to
our beloved infant Prince of Wales.

That the ties so happily formed may long endure, uniting
russia with Great Britain on the firm foundation of our

most holy faith ; and that the God of all grace may still
guide, defend, and bless your Majesty with every temporal
and spir►tual blessing, is the unfeigned desire and prayer of
[Here follow the signatures.]

and the internal policy of the country, this able work far
outstrips every other publication in the ability with which it
handles, and the information which it affords respecting,
those questions of international policy, in which the pros-
perity of our commercial, manufacturing, and shipping in-
terests is so deeply concerned, and upon which a greater

amount of ignorance preval

even amongst educated men,

than upon any other class of questions

The number before us is exceedingly rich, in talent, and
varied in subject and style ; and we can cordially recommend

it to the perusal of t
cal literature, for the purpose of deriving instruction, of

Ts who resort to our periodi-

Ming a correct taste, of arriving at accurate conclu-

sions with respect to political or social questions, and not

merely with a view to ti:

amusement of the passing

It has long since become a subject of

serious and national

concern, that the mind of Great Britain, or at least of a very
numerous portion of its people, is rapidly imbibing a distaste
for intellectual exertion, and a relish only for the fritters—
the ephemera of literature. We no longer look, in our daily
reading, for an adherence to the severe but salutary rules
which the philosophic critic has laid down as indispensible to
sustained and finished work of intellect or genius. We no
longer seek in our reading, the materials for thought and re-
flection. We scarcely seek even for instruction—except of
that description which lies upon the surface ; but expect
only to be amused—to be startled—to be tempted by the
claptraps of the superficial thinker rather than to " drink
deep" from the hidden fountain of useful or elevating know-
ledge. In the correction of such a state of enervation of
mind, the wide spread perusal of the able and vigorous
writings to be found in our quarterly periodicals, is well cal-
culated to become instrumental; and in none of those peri-

odicals are the materials for strengthening and directing the
tastes of our youth to the appreciation of the best models of
English, and of continental literature, as well, more abun-
dant than in the Britillt and Foreign Quarterly.
Towards this object, the opening article of the present
number, which is a review of Hegel's "Esthetics, is especially
directed ; and although the writer (from the nature of his
subject) is occasionally somewhat too transcendental in his
language and style, for ordinary readers, there are few whom
an attentive perusal would not be calculated to instruct and
delight. Like most German scholars, the writer goes too
deeply below the surface of every day philosophy to be at all
times intelligible, without an effort on the part of those who
would follow him accurately to his conclusions ; yet there is
abundance of beautiful thought, scattered like gems upon
the surface, to reward even the superficial reader, if it fail to
tempt him into a closer examination. The review of " Viola
the affianced," displays a keen discrimination of the beauty
of the human character ; and from such a reviewer praise is
praise indeed, and should be valued tenfold beyond the mere
hacknied laudations of the undiscriminating pretenders to
the office of critical instructors. The political articles upon
" the Prussian League," and " the Handloom Weavers' Re-
port," are at the present moment extremely valuable ; and
we may be tempted at an early period to remark upon them
more at length than we can afford space to do in our present
publication. Of the remaining articles, " The Poniatowski
collection of antique gems," " Switzerland, her Political
Crisis," "Le Chronique de Rains," " Tallemant de
Reux," and " Passavant's Life of Raffaelle," the leisure
which we have had for their perusal will not at present allow
us to give a judgment.

Popularity; and the Destinies of Woman: (Tales of the
World.) By Mrs. C. Baron Wilson. 2 vols., post Svo.
London : H. Cunningham.
Mrs. Baron Wilson, well known as a popular lyrist, and
who made her debfit, last year, in prose fiction, with the
" Chronicles of Life," has taken a more sustained flight in
the two stories before us. " Popularity " and the " Destinies
of Woman" are eminently tales of the world. The romance
of real life, for those who read it properly, contains materials

for the novelist as startling as any ever imagined by fancy
in her wildest wearing. From such materials, has Mrs. Wil-
son framed two stories widely differing in spirit and style,
but alike distinguished by good sense and intellectual grace
and beauty.

In " Popularity " she has sketched the career, brief but

eventful, of a young politician who enters life with fortune
and friends—loses the wealth, even while he is making a
name as a public man—experiences the trials that poverty is
heir to, has his course of true love interrupted by doubts and
falsehoods, and finally recovering station, property, and happi-
ness, becomes " Benedick, the married man," to the satis-
faction of all concerned. There is little intricacy in the
plot ; but the events are detailed, and the characters sketched

with a freedom and truth which few of our modern story-
tellers could equal.

" The Destinies of Woman " relates to the vicissitudes
Which, in course of time, befal three schoolmates. Two of
them wed,—the third dies unmarried. The two girls who
enter life matrimonial have their fates variously cast. Sun-
shine lights the prosperous path of one—shadows fall upon
the fortunes of the other. But she battles bravely with ad-
versity, until she subdues it,—and all ends happily. It is a
woman who best can draw the character of her sex. How
womanly and how true are the sentiments embodied in the

following :
" Why are so many single women, of middle age, morose
or mischief-making? Because, having abandoned in youth,
as toils, those resources which would have proved pleasures
when the hey-dey of life was passed, their minds have
become a barren soil, and weeds have sprung up where
flowers might have flourished.
" The situations of a married and an unmarried female,
it must be confessed, are very unequal : the former having
greatly the advantage in the scale of earthly happiness:
and the world makes the distinction still more unequal than
nature intended it.
"At thirty-five, the married woman is considered in the
noon of life ; while the single one is considered as paseee.
Again, the wife has less necessity to depend on intellectual
pleasures as resources from the lassitude of ennui. She has
duties to perform, let her station in life be what it may,
to which the single woman cannot turn to vary the monotony
of her existence. The matron, if she be a mother, will find
a sufficient stimulus to keep up or revive, in the early in-
struction which it it is one of woman's sweetest privileges
to give her offspring, the knowledge and accomplishmects
she has learned in her own youth.
" What pleasure can be higher or more unalloyed to the
bestower—what sight more endearing to the beholder—than
a matron, o'er whose brow the shadow of time, like that on
the dial, has passed, yet left much of the sunny light of life
behind, leading her daughter to emulate the graces of which
she herself is so fair a pattern ? Or to mark a son, in all the
pride of youthful manhood, paying back with love, little
short of adoration, the cares of her whose gentle instructions
first lured him to seek the wider paths of knowledge, and
at whose knee his infant prayer was first breathed ?
" Other feelings grow cold—other memories pass away ;
but the gentle image of the mother who has watched our
childhood—her love, her tenderness, her unwearied devotion,
will for ever be mirrored in the human heart."

Pictures of Popular People. By the Author of Random
Recollections of the Lords and Commons, &c. London :
George Virtue, Ivy-lane.
The design of the work before us is not altogether an un-
happy one ; but, if the present number is a fair specimen of
its execution, we are afraid that it cannot be very productive
to its enterprising publisher. So far as regards the mere
letter-press, paper, and engravings, they are undoubtedly
cheap at Is., the price charged ; but for the literary matter,
furnished by Mr. Grant, we are compelled to say that it is
the veriest trash we have recently met with.
It is unpleasant to us to have to give expression to such a
dictum with respect to the production of any author ; and in
the case of such a work as the one before us, had it been the
production of some unpretending, unaccustomed venturer in
the field of literary exertion, we might have been disposed to
pass it over, with a gentle admonition to its perpetrator to
confine his hand in future to some honest, humble trade, and
leave that of authorship to men who possessed the talent, or
would take the trouble, to write something worthy of being
read. The author of " Random Recollections," however,
is one who can put in no plea, on the ground of inexperience,
or on any other ground, to critical forbearance. He has tres-
passed already more than sufficiently upon the patience and
good temper of the reading public, whilst men of far greater
ability have been cast into the shade; and it is full time that
the class of pretenders, of which he is a rare specimen, should
be compelled to fall back into their proper position, and mo-
dest merit be allowed to enjoy that public approbation and
patronage which puffing imbecility has so long engrossed.
specimen of the wretched stuff of which the present
As a
publication is cotnposed, at the risk even of being tiresome,
one
passage. The subject is " Street Mu-
sicians"—one which,
in the hands of a writer possessed of the
smallest particle of fancy, talent, or taste, is capable of being
made the vehicle of infiniteinstriurc.tiGonraaentd—d,,elmigehy be divided
who
into two classes : those
t.
"Street musicians"—writes l‘
play by the ear and those who
ea art.' The
the
hum-
bier
been systematically
taught
performances
; hmaaveeersiyt
former class usually confine their
bier localities : eating-houses, coffee-rooms, and taverns of
subordinate pretensions are the p!aceson wishose generally,patro n a goes
they depend. The music they discourse
might be expected, of an inferior kind. Tos
it
acupllteiaysaets some
demaer
it is harsh and inharmonious. Nevertheless,
persons ; and their end" (whose end ?—its isranvat'eoresde
if it only have the effect of extracting a few pence front h
inside. With this view, when the
performance usually
consisting of several sets of pieces—is over, one of their num-
-
ber (query—of the 'sets of pieces') enters the place with littleo
hoz in hand, and nays his respects in a quiet, unassemio
manner (!) to all whose ears have been regaled with their
melody. The party takes thankfully (?) whatever is given
him. No one thinks of Putting his hand into his pocket for
less than a penny. (?) Some give all the pence they have in
their possession, (! &c.,
Is this not the merest and most puerile trash that ever was
penned, we ask ? The man cannot absolutely write a sen-
tence of grammar, and yet be is and has been a popular
author !—the admiration of newspaper critics, and the be-
praised even of our self-styled " reviewers!"

Leisure Hours. By Charles B. Greatrex, jun. Tilt and
Bogue, London ; W. Grapel, Liverpool. 1 vol. p.p. 200.
A very unassuming little book. bearing the above title, has
arst been put into our hods. The content* consul of hu-