The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-11-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHERIDAN'S DEA.TII AND FrNERAL.  Perhaps our tone toward Sheridan in the previous remarks may appear rather harsh. And when we remember his melancholy end, we are tempted to think so ourselves. "Pocr fellow ! be had many things to wound him; It was a trying moment that which found him Standing a!one upon his desolate hearth, When all his household gods lay shiver'd round him." It was a very sad tragedy that of Saville Row. There was to be seen the man on whose lips senators and vast multitudes had hung, whose jests had shaken Old Drury from top to bottom, till it was one mass of loosened laughter, lying in bed, broken in constitution and in heart, deriving his chief consolation and strength from the potion which had degraded and ruined him ; deserted by his noble friends, ministered to indeed by his wife, whose early love, much tried and long cooled, had revived in its original strength for this hour of darkness and distress, but with no hope on earth, and with but a cold and dim prospect beyond the grave ; surrounded by duns, and with difficulty saved from being carried in his blankets to a sponging-house—behold, the end of the admired, fiattered, overrated, underrated, spoiled, and murdered 1 Sheridan! And yet, in six days, what spectacle is it that we see darkening the streets of London ? It is a funeral, and certainly it must be a royal personage whom they are bearing to the grave, for royal dukes and belted earls, and lord bishops, and celebrated statesmen, and wits, and orators, are crowding there. No! it is the funeral of that very same shivering, starving, wretch—of the wreck that was once Sheridan !  Besides the article referred to, there are other contributions possessed of varying degrees of merit; and two or three sweet pieces of poetry.  The Treatises of M. T. Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A. London: Henry G. Bohn. These treatises, which constitute a volume of Bohn's Classical Library, consist of the well-known essay on the Nature of the Gods ; those on Divination ; on Fate ; on the Republic ; on the Laws ; and on Standing for the Consulship. They are translated more with an eye to fidelity than to the elegancies of classical English, yet the fire and energy of the Roman orator are well sustained and represented ; a task, the due execution of which indicates scholarship of no mean order, combined with innate talent of rare quality. Most of the treatises have been already rendered familiar to the English reader through the medium of translations ; but there is one novelty in the volume, and that is a letter on " Standing for the Consulship." This is a matter coming so close to the popular movements relative to elections at the present day, that it will be read with much interest by all to whom election arrangements are objects of importance. From the following extract it will be seen that the art of making the worse appear the better reason, and of pressing into the service every adventitious aid to render a candidate popular, and, through that popularity, successful, was known to, and practised and reduced to system with a nicety and depth of study, by the ancient Romans, from which the Coppocks and other electioneering agents of the present day might take a useful lesson. It may be called—