The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

It is enough for the present state of things that men act
well. Of their motives none but God can judge.
" I'll be blessed if 1 do," as the girl said when her lover
asked her to be married.
A correspondent of the Picayune paper has such a cold in
his head that he can't wash his face without freezing the
water.

A young lady writes from Ohio, that commercial affairs
are so bad, that the young men are insolvent, and can't pay
their addresses.

" I am happy, Ned, to hear the report that you have suc-
ceeded to a large landed property." " And I am sorry,
Tom, to tell you that it is grountilen."

If you wish success in life, make Perseverance your bosom
friend; Experience your wise counsellor; Caution your
elder brother; and Hope your guardian genius.

Prayer is the silence of the soul, the calm of the passions,
the contentment of desire, and the union of our will with the
Divine.

What we have done is worthy of nothing but silence and
forgetfulness ; but what God ;has done for us is worthy of
everlasting and thankful memory.

Riches, honour, and pleasure are the sweets which destroy
the mind's appetite for its heavenly food ; poverty, disgrace,
and pain, are the bitters which restore it.
Alexander Gun, an excise officer, being lately dismissed
from his employment for misconduct, an entry was made in
a book, kept for the purpose, as follows :—" A Gun dis-
charged for making afahe report."

A FRENCH BuLL.—The Commerce publithes the following
extract from M. Jacqueminot's address to the electors of
Paris:—`' Gentlemen, I have shed all my blood for my coun-
try, and I am ready to shed it again."

A shock of an earthquake was felt on the evening of the
21st ult., at St. Aubin, Suages, and Vaumarcus (Switzetland).
It was sufficiently violent to alarm the inhabitants, several of
whom were attacked with violent headaches immediately
afterwards.

An elderly gentleman travelling in a stage coach was
amused by the constant fire of words kept up .between two
ladies. One of them at last kindly inquired if their conver-
sation did not make his head ache ?—to which he replied,
" no, ma'am ; I have been married twenty-eight years.'
A landlord threatened a poor Irishman, the other dr
put a distress in his house if be did not pay his rent
a distress in, is it you mane ?" said Pat ; "
Anthony's sow, but you had better take distrr
too much in already, by the wither that bore me .
The works on the Paris and Tours railroad have begun in
the department of the Loir-et Cher. Last week 50 workmen
commenced operations in the commune of Onzain, where a
great number of landowners have accepted the terms offered
by the Government.

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LACONIC CORRESPONDENT ce--.—We find the followin,
respondence in a southern pa Dear Son—Come home ,
a rolling stone gathers no mai:B.r
ucY Muggins.”
he replied :—" Dear Mamma,-c
gginsoTe to Texas ; a setting
To which
hen never gets fat.—John Mu
We understand, that Lient—GeneralA Sir American
Paper.
Maurice Charles
O'Connell, K.C.H., commanding the forces
Wales, is to succeed to the colonelcy of the in New South
regiment, va-
cant by the decease of the late Lieut..Geral
Bnl Sir John
Waters.—United Service Gazette.

A TENDER-HEARTED LADY.—A lady who mbti ad. e botcher to the most refined feelings went to her
re-
monstrate with him on his cruel practices. How,".n 0
she, " can you he so barbarous as to put little innocent lamb
to death ?" " Why not, madam," said the butcher, 4,z!
would not eat them alive, would you ?'' ''''

In the connty of Carmarthen, several Whigs have Come
over to the Conservative ranks, and enrolled their names as
supporters of Mr. Saunders Davies, as yet the only candi-
date. It is stated that one of the gentlemen who have left
the " Reform" party recently declared that " it was no longer
respectable to be a Whig."

REMErY roR CHILBLAINS.—A common remedy for chil-
blains among the peasants in Russia is the rind of perfectly
ripe cucumbers, dried with the soft parts attached, and placed
with the inner side, previously soaked in warm water, over
the sore parts. Dmitriefsky confirms the efficacy of this re-
medy.—Annals of Chemistry.
The following caution is published in a local paper .
Dorcas and Provident Societies.—Ladies ! Though youcan-
not command what the poor shall buy, you can control what
shall be sold at your rooms. Do not permit any calico pina-
fores or skirts—those tinder coverings for burning children—
to be sold ; but sell woollen skirts !—Perhaps you may re-
ceive some useful hints from the Polytechnic Society."
Give no entertainment to the beginnings, the first motions,
and secret whispers of the spirit of impurity. For if you
totally suppress it, it dies; if you permit the furnace to
breathe its smoke and flame out of any vent, it will rage to
the consumption of the whole. This cockatrice is soonest
crushed in the shell ; but if it crows, it turns to a serpent,
and a dragon, and a devil.

,
all there were 616 families reading newspapers, and 883 not
reading newspapers ; 84 rooms possessed pictures of a serious
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and religious nature ; 56 theatrical and amatory i
cellaneous, and 1,266 rooms were without any utctures.

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DOMESTIC

THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAB
RAILWAY.—One of the sufferers, Mrs. Bye, by the acciden
which occurred, on the 7th inst., on this railway, is sinci
dead.- Mr. Tomlin is now likely to recover though he con
tinned for several days in a most precarious state. The other
two persons are doing well.

ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TlMES.—Speaking with an ac-
quaintance, a pawnbroker, on the long-continued and deep
distress which prevails throughont this district, he invited us
to an inspection of his returns of pledges taken by him, and
we found, that in the years 1833 and 1134 he was days with
out taking in one pledge; while in the years 1840 and 1841
the number averaged for every day in those years 125
day, or 3,750 for each month.—Bolton Free Pri

ESMERIC OPERATION.—In addition to this extraordi-
ry feat in surgery (Mr. Ward's), we have to add that an
operation took place in this parish on the 19th of August,
when a medical gentleman, to cure a contraction in the knee-
joint, put a female in a mesmeric trance, and while she was
in that state divided the hamstring muscles without her being
conscious of the circumstance ; and we are happy to add that
the individual now walks with facility.—Hampshire Tele-
graph.