The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-07-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROF.BvCic created comparatively little interest. On all sides it was felt to be more- an opportunity offered, for the exchauge.of personal altercation and individual bitterness, than an event upon which the-character of the-national counsels was likely to be dependent. The debate with which it began, and the vote with which it: ended, were alike'understood and canvassed by anticipation. The former was- tolerated and drawled on ratherthan enjoyed and .participated.in ; the latter gave ministers a majority of 107 in a house which numbered, 471 member& present.. Everybody appear& now to consider-that the glediatorship of the - session has been expended, and that such, portions- of. the .public business as are indispensable will be proceeded with as rapidly as possible ; that is, that, they. will be pushed ,through the legislative chambers, AS, fast as the forms of parliament will .permit, without- a very stringent consideration of the real-purport and value- of -the measures.enacted.  The war in the Crimea continues- to drag its 'slow length along" without marked variety in the circumstances by which, for a considerable number of mouths past, it has,been characterised in its gsmeral features. The works continue to make steady progress on the part of the Allies, whose advances are of course interrupted from time to time and occasionally checked by sorties and other means of aggressive defence on the part of the enemy._ The allied troops are in good, health, notwithstanding the. great heat and,the severe toils to which they are exposed; and their general, spirits are represented as, excellent, although, like their countrymen at home, our soldiers manifest considerable impatience for the day which shall see the allied banners wave in triumph over the walls of Sebastopol. The Russians .within the city are said to be suffering great privations. The se:pi:dies which the enemy can throw into the place are now, itcis known, greatly circumscribed, and the reinforcements which have been so long and so largely promised are now, it, is. believed, unlikely to be forthcoming in any great numbers. That the garrison must succumb, and the town fall into the hands of the Allies ere long, is now a matter of general belief in the army, as well as at home ; and, judging by the expression of feeling which is everywhere Manifesteci in metropolitan circles,, the warlike spirit of the country has not undergone the slightest, abatement. In the Baltic, too, deeds of desultory daring. have been successfully executed in various instance; and, so far as.  the harrassing, pinch of war is concerned, without doubt the. Russians are severe suittkera." Wherever complaints,dare be uttered among the-serf-Subjects of:the Cass, thaevils of the conflict in which he is engaged are loudly complained of, Trade is, and has long been, all but absolutely annihilated— the exactions to which all classes are subjected, for the purpose of carrying. on the war are exhausting and. oppressive, and numerous millions mourn in sadness and, in, sorrow the mad ambition of a wayward Sovereign. In the absence of more exciting, if not also more profitable game to hunt, the metropolitan "best public instructors," as Conarrr used sneeringly to call. the• press, are making the most of the food-adulteration committee's inquiry and its astounding :revelations. Many years ago, Aunt, or, as he was wont to be called, "Old Death in the Pot," contrived to "fright the isle from its propriety," not by showing As " what to eat, drink, and avoid," but by letting us into the secret, that, eat what we liked, or drink what we might, we were sure to be ingesting a villanous array of moat deleterious compounds; and that, in point of fact, the only way to escape being murdered by the poison administered to us through the agency of bakers,brewers, and butchers—of grocers and piemen, and that most iniquitous of all classes, the compounders of London milk, was to commit suicide by voluntary starvation. He, it may be remembered, was taken in at the British Museum, and has no doubt been _long since gathered to his fathers. Whether he is now converted into an ornamental mummy or not, is now of little consequence ; but it is certain that his mantle of horrors has fallen pat upon the shoulders of the Food Adulteration Committee. In their investigations they go further than Acirrs did, and, like many who go further, they fare worse. Luxuries and necessaries, matters pleasant to the eye and seemingly good for food, to the eyes of those scrutinizing gentlemen present only a mass of foul and festering corruption—water, the hope of the teetotaller, and the last refuge of the abandoned drunkard, at least in the metropolis, and they shrewdly extend their suspicions to the same commodity in all great towns, they describe in such terms that all prudent people will enter into a combination to omit  allusion to it, and adhere rigidly to a resolution to " never mention it." Pickles in the view of these worthiei are made chiefly of copper: Lavender-water is said to be .produced largely from the scourings of the London dairies (?) Eau de Cologne is understood- to be a product derived from drayhorses. Flour to exist in, and be extracted largely from, the bones of the mastodon and megatherium. They do not credit the popular belief that raisins grow on vines, or that cauliflowers are garden produce. Everything they touch they find to be a sham, each article they- see is proved to be a delusion. That a large portion of their averments is true cannot be denied; and that much good may result from their laboura is greatly to be desired. Whether the exposure of the rascantles they have detected will lead to a permanent cure of the evil out of which it arises, may well admit of doubt.  ST.