The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-10 00:00:00

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Madame Leplus (Jenny Colon), the pretty and celebrated
actress, died on Sunday morning, after a tedious illness, at
her residence, Rue Neuve des Mathurins.
The University of Oxford on Tuesday decided in Convo-
cation, by a majority of 334 to 219, that no sufficient ground
had been shown for repealing the statute of disability passed
in 1836 against Dr. Hampden.
The greatest case of love is that of a blade of Kentucky,
who got into a hollow tree, where he lived a whole week,
peeping through a knot hole at his true love, as she sat sew-
ing bearskin petticoats at her window.
A Maine editor says that a pumpkin, somewhere in that
state, grew so large that eight men could stand round it,
This is something like the man who said he saw a flock of
pigeons fly so low, that he could shake a stick at them.
A pint of linseed oil, two ounces of bees' wax, two ounces
of turpentine, two ounces of good tar, and half an ounce of
Burgundy pitch, slowly melted together, and applied to new
boots, will render them waterproof, durable, and pliant.
Never pay a bill on first presentation ; it would look as if
you were ostentatious of honesty. At the second time of
presentation you may consider about it, and say, " Call
again." Third or fourth time you may be either not at home
or out of money ; and should your creditor call a fifth, you
may have fair reason to be offended at his pertinacity, and
not pay the bill at all.
" Never marry a man for wealth," says some newspaper
Solon. Nonsense. You might just as well tell children not
to eat " sweet things," because they might get sick. Young
ladies want pretty dresses, and they want husbands to give
thp dresses to them ; so let thp riph men alone. The fair
ones will Smile %won them, philorphy or reason forbidding
or not. The lucky dog that can jingle dollars is almost om-
nipotent, at least all the mammas and pappas say so.
A curious anecdote is related of Captain Souter, of the
44th regiment, now in India ; when the troops were attacked
at Jugdulluck, he tore the Queen's colour from the staff, and
wrapped it round his body, to save it, as he hoped, from fall-
ing into the hands of the enemy; just as he had done so, a
ball lodged in his new-made cgrornerbunci, which was thus
MiNculouey ipstrunientai in deserving life:
Education is the guardian of liberty and the bulwark of
morality. J(nowlcdge and virtue are generally inseparable
companions, and are in the moral, what light and heat are in
the natural world, the illuminating and vivifying principle.
* * Every effort ought to be made to fortify our free in-
stitutions ; and the great bulwark of security is to be found in
edncatiPo--the etatnrp of the heart and the head, the diffusion
of 4nowlpdgp, piety, and morality.—p? Witt Clintpn.

lISST MEPIUM Fgi APVSRTISING.--7We have this
week received an advertisement, through the medium of a
friend, upon which was written—" This property must be
advertised in a conservative paper, it being property of con-
siderable value." The writer of this sentence is evidently a
man of business, and one possessing considerable foresight,
as the readers of " conservative papers" are principally the
aristocracy.—Shrewsbury Journal.
LOCKING UP IN RAILROAD CARRIAGES.—When the train
of some south country railroad, in which they lock up their
PSSselgers to prevent escape in eases of accidents, arrived at
its desthiation the qther day, the keys were not forthcerning,
and the impatient passengers were 904,0 Co sit sin the
carriages for some time amidst the leers and laughter of the
spectators. " This is as bad as Faris," at last exclaimed a
witty sufferer. " How so ?" rejoined one of his companions.
" Because," he replied, "if the passengers were burnt by
accident in France, are we not enduring the same fate in
being here thus roasted by the people ?"
Last week, one of the servants of the Birmingham and
Gloucester railway was run down by an engine, which passed
over his leg, below the knee, breaking the bone, and severing
the leg, with the exception of apiece of flesh. It will hardly
be credited, but it is nevertheless true, that the unfortunate
fellow with the utmost sang froid, Fompletcd the ampytg-
/ion 0 the j!esh through to!th' his ppz4nifetto
then took up the detached member and threw it on the
form, where he himself crawled, and lay for upWards of an
hour, till medical assistance was procured 'from Vershore,
and the leg was then amputated above the knee. The poor
fellow is likely to recover,
SCANDALOUS MINISTERS.—In a debate in the House of
Commons in 1626, Sir Benjamin Rudyard, whilst supporting
a bill for the better maintenance of the inferior clergy, stated,°
that whereas there were many accusations against scandalous
ministers, he was bold to tell the house that there were also
scandalous livings, which were much the cause of the other ;
livings of five pounds, yea, even five marks a-year, and that
men of parts would not be muzzled up to such pittances.
Though the calling of ministers be never w glorioos
Ontwdrfl P'eferty gill bring oanteiapcupOn then', especially
among those who measure men by the acre, and weigh them
y the poundtwhich is indee4 the greatest part of men. FOr
scandalous ministers, he continued, there Is no Mall shall be
more forward to have them severely punished than I will be,
but let us deal with them as God bath dealt with us. God,
before he made man, made the world, a handsome place for
him to dwell in ; so let us provide them convenient livings,
and then if they do amiss, or neglect their duty, punish them
in God's name, but till then, scandalous livings cannot but
have scandalous ministers.
A DugrztsT.—" Web the same sort of feeling," resumed
the lady, " seems to have overshadowed another successful
duellist. I allude to the well-known'Captain Best, the an-
tagonist or Lord Camelford. The duel was forced upon him.
An abandoned woman promoted it; and Lord Camelford,
before he went to the ground, told his second that he was
conscious he himself was in the wrong; that Best was a man
of honour ; but that he could not bring himself to retract
words which he had once used. He fell, at once the ag-
gressor and the sufferer. But Captain Best was never his
own man afterwards. He died at the early age of 48, at a
boarding-house called ' The Blanquetg,' near Worcester.
Sorrow and remorse 'had done on him the work of years. In
I?it3 closing hours, he is said to have told those who were in
his ponAtlenge, thap tho repolleotinn of that due l and its results
'had embittered every moment of his life; that the whole
scene was as fresh in his memory as if it had happened yes-
terday; and that there were times when Lord Camelford
seemed to stand before him and gaze on him with an earnest-
ness and tenacity that rendered life a burden. In conse-
quence of some embarrassments—whence contracted I know
not, for he inherited West Indian property to a considerable
amount—he was for some time within the rules of the King's
Bench. In his domestic arrangements, too, he was unfortu-
nate, flis pl4FrOge proved disastroust and was dissolved by
act of parliament. But he once and again declared that
every sorrow would have sat lightly on him could he but have
succeeded in wiping the stain of homicide from his brow."—
The Bishop's Daughter.

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CAURCH PROPERTY AND THE CLERGY.—Ruclyard ex-
erted his utmost efforts against the bill for the abolition of
episcopacy, and the spoliation of the property of the deans
and chapters. " One thing, Sir, said he, addressing the
House of Commons, " doth exceedingly trouble me, it turns
me round about, it makes 111 Y whole reasop vertiginous,
which is, that so many do believe against the wisdom of all
ages, that now there can be no reformation without destruc-
tion, as every sick body must be presently knocked on the
head, as past hope of cure. We are very strict and curious
to uphold our own property, and there is a great reason for
it ; are the clergy only. a sort of men who have no property
at all in that which is called theirs ? I am sure they are
Englishmen, they are subjects. If we pull down bishoprics
and mill down cathedral churches, in a short time we must
be forced to pull dowi? colleges too, for scholars will live and
die there as in cells, if there be no considerable preferment
to invite them abroad. This is the next way to bring in
barbarism, to make the clergy an unlearned contemptible
vocation, not to be desired but by the basest of the people,
and then where shall we find men abler to convince an adver-
sary ? A clergyman ought to have a far greater proportion
to live on than any other man of an equal condition ; he is
not bred to multiply 11.ireepences, it becomes him not to live
mechanically and sordidly, he must be given to hospitality.
1 do know, myself, a clergyman, no dignitory, whose books
have cost him a thousand pounds, which, when he dies, may
be worth to his wife and children about two hundred. . .
I am as much for reformation, for purging and maintaining
religion, as any man whatsoever, but I profess I am not for
innovation, demolition, or abolition."
ANECDOTE.—When the late celebrated mathematician,
Mr. John Chipchase, kept a grammar school in Stockton,
he was, amongst other things, remarkably strict as to cleanli-
ness, and a non-compliance with this ablutionary injunction
was sure to incur displeasure, if not punishment. It hap-
pened once, during a marble season, that one of his scholars
had been so long engaged in play that he bad not time to
wash his hands, nor did he give it a thought till he had
entered the school-room. When our hero's turn came to
advance to the dusk, he kept his right hand, which was the
dirtiest of the two, in his trousers' pocket, and presented his
task with the other. Mr. C. catechized him severely for
having the audacity to come before him with such a dirty
paw, and in conplusion told him that, without he could pro-
duce a filthier hand in the school than the one he had pre-
sented his task with, he should immediately be flogged. The
then boy, now a respectable tradesman of Stockton, instantly
drew forth his right hand, and on holding it up with all the
joyous simplicity of boyhood, the stern countenance of the
master relaxed, nor could he repress a rising smile. A free
pardon followed, on condition of his coming to the school
with clean hands and face for the future. With this, of
course, the trembling culprit promised to comply, and he was
never afterwards known to break the promise.
VARIOUS PorunaTroNs.—China. Rice is the principal
aliment. and tea and water the beverage of the people. There
arc no fermented liquors, and fewer animals of any sort than
in any other country, the Japanese islands perhaps excepted.
On the coast fish is abundant, as well as in the great rivers,
upon which last two millions of people are believed to pass
their lives in draft of various kinds. The whole interior is
known to be in a high state of cultivation, and early and
universal marriages are enjoined by the state. The density
of the population is admitted by all travellers, and it has
long been known that in China, any thing that admits ofit
is made available for food, and that rats and other vermin
are eagerly eaten by the natives.. If China, where there is
no animal food, be contrasted with Russia. where there
is
little else, it is impossible not to be struck with the di▪ fference
of the two countries in population, similar
R aices they are.
in
the Fitive
some other essential points.:--lodia• Up
on
inhabitants depend for subsistence ; and the failure in the
rice crop occasions a famine, to which, for extent of suffering,
no dearth in European countries can be compared. These
famines are not unfrequent, and are thought, at times, to
have caused the death of hundreds of thousands of persons.
The different tribes are often in a state of warfare. The
Asiatic cholera, never wholly extinguished, from time to
time destroys its millions, yet all these causes of diminution
have not sufficed to keep down the population of those
regions, which, in the local cultivated parts, is wonderfully
dense.—lreland. The poverty of the country and the preva-
lence of distress cause a constant emigration of allwho can
find the means to leave it. Every year numbers ship▪ them-
selves for the United States, or for the British settlements
in America. Greater numbers still cross the Irish sea to the
west of England and Scotland, and making their way to the
metropolis and to the great towns, contitnhuee teheevrye.asllnabl Ireland
many Numbers enter the army, and
itself, constantly recurring scarcities of the potatoe crop,
attended with the malignant fevers which ever accompany
dearth, thin for a time whole districts. Civ•
il wars and oppres-
sions have also done much to keep down the numbersofthis
unfortunate race. Yet has this miserable population gone on
increasing, and made more and more rapid head against all
these measures—apparent cause of dimi▪
nution and extermi-
nation.—France. In the poorer departments the population
is considerable. In the rich departments it is low. At these
results M. Malte Brun, who is one of
population
ewroiterss wh
constantly regard a dense and redundant laan a
evi-
dence of the wealth and industry of the country where it
exists, without adverting to its causes, is sorely scandalised.
He rates the inhabitants of the south of France for their
dearth of children, which he terms ' poverty," though he
admits that the country is rich and fertile beyond description;
and not content with this even, is inclined to blame the
government ; though as to the means by which a government
could cure such an evil as this is, he affords no clue.—Dou-
, bledaes " True Law of Population."