The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-09-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FAVOUR OF YOUTH.-Never at any for- vulgar notion. It must have been something of a tree monious desire to secure a good dividend, would have the mer period of our history has the child-life been magnified. when Adam and Eve went round to name the productions disposition checked by remonstrance from all the other into such importance in the pages of literature, and in the of the forest. Can any one (the American editor con- companies. 3. No company would be so seriously affected, eyes of thinking men. Look at the last novel : the first tinues) read this story without indignation at such a even by a great calamity, as to cause any very great devolume is a minute analysis of childish experience. Look ' stupid act of vandalism ? A tree which, from its descrin- pression in the value of its shares. Let us hope that some at the innumerable schemes of education ; think of the ; tion, must have been one of the noblest works of nature- scheme of this kind will be adopted. esteem in which the teacher of youth is now held; think ' the wonder of the vegetable world-the pride and glory of the host of books composed expressly for children, ser- ! of the American forest-murdered-we can find no other mons for schools, manuals of devotion ; the man who ' appropriate word-that a basket-full of chips may be sent overthrew ancient history, writing Greek legends for his to a show-shop ! ' Any man who could have a hand in so grandson, the most popular author of the day penning a , wanton an act of barbarism, deserves to have his shin" Child's History of England ;" a veritable Archbishop 1 bones made into button-moulds and sold for three cents inditing "Easy Lessons on Reasoning," and " Easy Les- I a gross." sons on Money Matters.' It is the mark of a missionary I'HE Nonmex " CONQUEBT,"-" I think," says Mr. H. epoch, dissatisfied with the past, and doubtful of the pre- Duesbury, "it can scarcely be called a conquest in the sent, but having in hope, and better than hope-expecta- usual acceptation of the term, that is, a conquest by a tion. And no one, certainly no statesman, represents this distinct foreign nation. The early Britons established tendency more strikingly than Mr. Disraeli. His mind is themselves in Amorica, the subsequent site of Normandy, singularly well. balanced in the regard which it bestows and the Britons, still under the Romans, established a alike on the past, the present, and the future. He is ab- colony in Bretagne, the adjoining province, now Brittany. solutely unrivalled for the intensity of his gaze, and the I The people to whom Normandy was allotted in 918, were depth of his insight into the secrets of the future. Pro- the same as those to whom Northumbria and E. Anglia phecy, fortune-telling, astrology,soothsaying-call it what were allotted in 872, and. they that were invited as mercenaries you will-this fascinated gazing into the future as into the in 975. Further, it appearsE the nready, eye of a basilisk, is a part of his oriental heritage ; as, in A.D. 978-1016, married Emma, the sister of Richard, Duke like manner, also, and as the natural effect of it, is the of Normandy, and aun of the Conqueror le ; that he fled to warmth of his interest in the possibilities of youth. Where Normandy, after the D tanish revenge, and ft his wife and do we find such biographies of youth as in the Hebrew two sons, Edward and Alfred, there ; that after his death, Scriptures ? It is because youth is in the season of pro- Canute, the Dane, married his widow, who still left her mise, and because of the many senses in which the child children in Normandy ; that after Canute came the son, is the father of the man, none is more often true than Edward, (called by the priests the " Confessor," and whose this, that the achievements of the man are but the schemes dominion he was entirely under,) who had been reared and of the stripling.-Hogg's Instructor. educated in Normandy, and who brought over Norman