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" w him ; €1 Mr. tia...l:irs,'g:tve . ;,:.oinp: - .. tint Mr. ~,errad'- ' wick is-on:d nee i,outet!dn. wor,hrof braree b c oud his native county: The !a.t ;.,1 - the hire ise'('' 3 was job 9 z't 13igg, name - the lecturer had every rouser]. _to believe .wouldol it did n.)t already, occupy.thafirtt place amongst the poets of this county. It WWI the- fault of man), young wets, such as Alex. Smith, Sidney Yendys, or Dobell, "all men of extraordioary'venius, to cover theirpwticstructirre with profuse ornamentation, and he felt hound to confess that the poetry o f jam StanYan Bra Was open to th is objection. 'Before 4ny edifice received its decoration, its general Fen n should bo well studied and - develoPed. Neyerta... less, when,Bigg's great work " Night and the Soul,' was carefully examined, its originality, is exuber auee of 'image and metaphor, it freshness and power, were most apparent.- -He hid -in him 'the true life and enthusiasm of the poet.. -The teatime then read a portion of this poem, the soliloquy of Alexis, beginning "Oh thought ! what are thou but a fluttering life ?" and a concluding minor poem, from it might be pred'eted that John Stlnyan Bigg stood a fair chance of being one clay ranked among the honoured bards . of the nation s Mr. Hardwick was repeatedly applauded in the course of his observations on the different poets whose writings and characteristics he reviewed ' and at the close, through the chairman, a vote of thanks was accorded to him with acclamation. BANK OF DEPOSIT, Established A.o. 1844. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. . 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NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CURES (a ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm', all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Hearthm a, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Snasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at ses), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints ate effected by U BARRY'S delicious REV A.LENTA ALA RICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati- trade from invalids:—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tke Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit rrom Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies.' —Curz, No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, vsodpa. by Du and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been rein u Barry's excellent Food. 'lf aria Jolly, Wortham o Ling, near Diss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, azing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hefts, a cure of extreme ner v.,isnoss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — tie No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver no )1: a cure of ten ye' is dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18.216. 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" Th i rteen years' cough, indigestion, altndevagleennetaral r d a e b r e i a Fo tyl od iay . e been removed by Barry's e xce ll en t James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita tation st— The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Saitably packed for all climates, and with ill instructions. In canisters, lib 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d ; Mb lls , itlb 225. The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. It irry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, M icon, and Co.. pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; James Wells, 4s, Sloane street ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, aud.6o, Bisbopsgate-street ;363, 150 and 198' pa lord-street. is the great Contlitelltalßemedy for Syphilis and Secondary STnlP toms. It also constitutes a certain cure tor Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel fit with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Ph ysiciail treats with Merc ur y, t o th e i nev it a bl e dettruc tion of the patient's constitution,'" and which all the sarsaparilla in tl , e world cannot restore. Price I Is., free by post, Is. Bd. extra to Ally part of the kingdom ; or four cases in one for 335., by post, 3s. 2d. extra, which saves 11P., Udii 51. cups, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12e. 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SMITH, Secretary. • NAVAL ANA ki - LITAitY .0% 1- TEL LIGEIICE. A letter from Aden, dated March 12, says : Judging from the question. put to the First Lord of the Treasury bymne of the members of our Legisla ture, whether the island of Perim was to be declared a free port or not, we are bound to assume that the public generally at home are not very well up in in formation about these parts of Aden. However, mote must be known, seeing. that for years past it has been the principal coaling stat - on between Suez and our Eastern possessions. Nevertheless, we fear that passengers carry away no very pleasant or cor rect notions, either of the place itself or of its im portance. A day on shore at a third-rate hotel, where the fare is tough and scanty, the water brackish, the wine and bear sour, the accommodation a make shift, and the locality hot. hot, hot, furnishes few reminiscences likely to exalt Aden in general esti mation. Heaps of coal on the beach do, indeed, be speak for the place a certain degree.of utility, and the commodious harbour is admitted to be a con venient haven midway between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean ; but few, we fear, of the hundreds who pass and repass this way every month, have any adequate conception of the value of Aden as a British possession beyond the bare outline of such obvious advantages ; nor is it my intention now to dilate upon that topic either in its political, com mercial, or g eneral bearings upon the Joint interests of the Unite Kingdom and our Eastern empire. Foreign Governments are fully alive to the import ance of Aden, and it is to be hoped our own Go vernment is not behindhand in that respect ; never theless those on the spot have good cause for be lieving that the ruling authorities are very neglig, nt about establishing that iowortance upon a firm and satisfactory basis. Aele-sisou how t l l , is is Why, here , we are again ; for the leaudredth time perhaps, cut off from all supplies from the interior, and in hourly expeetation that our extraneous water supply will also be stopped by a petty Arab tribe, whose chief has been our most liberally paid Aipendiary since the' capture of Aden, but who has of late become so overbearing, insolent, and mischievous, that, after: fruitlessly. entreating and expostulating with him for months, the Politi cal Resident and Commandant, deprived as it would seem of all authority to do more, at length with held his stipend. This took place, we believe, on the Ist inst., since which time the chief, or Sultan. as he is called, has prohibited his own people from bringing in supplies, has detained" cafilas" coming from the districts beyond his territories, and has placed a ragamuffin crew on the road, just beyond ganshot of our outworks, to plunder any who may attempt. to hold intercourse with us. The conse quence of this siege is that since the let not a camel has come Troin the interior; all our vegetables, peal , try, wood, eggs, fodder, grain, and a hundredother necessaries have been mt off, and the place with its 23,000 inhabitants is existing at present upon the small stock on hand, entirely dependent for the morrow upon the very uncertain . and limited im ports by sea. These latter can only come for six weeks longer, since after the setting in of the south west tuonsoon there are few arrivals in port; therefore, unless sometiing be done to open the interior, we have a prospect of being literally starved out during the hot season.. Nor is it the inhabitants alone who will suff r ; already all trade with the interior has been suspended, and the agents of several European firms sent here for cargoes are complaining that not a coffee beau is brought in, and that their ships will be detained at a groat sacrifice. Several British ships now iu port—and many more are expected—want water, and can get none,. because Aden itself cannot supply enough for the. troops. From the watering-place ou the oppir site side of the harbour not more can he procured by present appliances than suffices for the navy and part of the garrison ; and the wells at Shaik Ot& man, a place five miles from our outworks, but only two and a-half miles from the limit of British ter ritory, and only two from the coast, whence the shipping have been abiindantly supplied for some time past, ate closed against us by this contumacious chief. Report says that the wateri-place on the. other-side of the harbour just alluded to, being' guarded and held by the same chief, will shortly be. closed against us also, tind the wells destroyed. A precious mess we shall- then be in I Why the -brigadier does not go i out. and dislodge these fel lows is.a mystery ti many. Shaik Oihman might be taken and held byi company of Native Intaiitry and a cmple g uns, for no resistauce is likely to tiobefin4;l4t!soirtpthS?t.:sinr,vrioiall slave a garrison, and the posses t now creep c urn try all around and restore the communisation with His• Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by Gen. Peel, and attended by Col. Tyrwhitt and Col. Foster, inspected the camp, per manent barracks, &c., at Aldersbott yesterday. His Royal Highness and Gen. Peel afterwards visited Sand hurt Golbge, returning to town i he evening. been declareet eeadreor sea, ericwere yesterday received ty Gem Eden, at Chatham, directing the reinforcements for the Bth, 10th, 19th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 24th, 29th, 32d, 35th (Royal Sussex), 72th, and 84th Regiments, to the number of upwards of 300 men, to embark to-day at Gravesend, for Calcutta, for the purpose of join ing the service companies of their respective regi ments. The officers from Chatham who are ordered to embark with the draughts are—Ensign J. E. W. Black, Bth Foot ; Ensign C. H. Newbatt, 10th ; Ensign J. Garforth and Ensign J. T. Gray, 32d ; Ensign W. L. Burr, 53d ; Ensign G. Monsurgb, 75th ; and Ensign G. B. Wolseley, 84th. A large number of troops from the depot battalions at Can terbury and Colchester will also embark in the Abeona for Calcutta. Assistant-Surgeon Slatter, 61st Foot, and Assistant-Staff-Surgeon Seat() em bark in medical charge of the troops. The battery of Royal Artillery, under the com mand of Major Franklyn, which has for some time bean stationed at Leeds barracks, has received its route for Woolwich, for which place it will leave Leeds this week. On Monday two sergeants and 100 recruits for several regiments embarked on board the steamer Ocean, at the North Wall, Dublin, for London. The 18th and 27th depots arrived in Cork on Sunday, and proceeded next morning to Buttevant, to form pla of the depot battalion there. The draught of the 13th Foot for India left Buttevant on Monday for embarkation. The Sir George F. Seymour convict ship sailed from Portsmouth yesterday, for the Thames. The Racoon, 21, Capt. Paynter, remains at Spit head, with the Renown, 91, Capt. Forbes ; the Curagoa, 31, Capt. Mason ; and the Diadem, 31, Capt. Moorsom, 0. 8., awaiting orders. The first named was visited yesterday by Rear-Admiral H. Eden, ex-Lord of the Admiralty, in the forenoon. The Dauntless, 33, and Falcon, 17, were taken into the steam-basin at Portsmouth yesterday to have their defects repaired. The Sidon-, 22, paddle frigate, was urdocked yes terday at Portsmouth, after a lengthened repair, and moved into the steam basin to complete by re shipping her machinery. Two corporals and three artificers belonging to the 13th battalion Royal Artillery are under orders to leave Woolwich garrison this day, with 40 gun ners of the same battalion from Sheerness, four non commissioned officers, and 20 drivers of the 14th battalion from Woolwich, 60 gunners from Sheer ness, and five gunners and five drivers of the Royal Horse Artillery from Woolwich, to embark on board the screw transport Abeona, for India. Admiralty instructions were yesterday received at Woolwich, directing the necessary preparations to be made for the immediate temporary commis sion of her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, about to be employed with the Agamem non in paying out the Transatlantic electric cable. The Gorgon is to have a ship's company to consist of 120 able-bodied seamen (20 extra hands to be drawn from Devonport and 20 from Chatham), and one sergeant and 10 privates of Royal Marine Light Infantry. The gang of shipwrights' artificers employed in repairing and bringing forward the iron paddlewheel steam vessel Oberon at Woolwich were yesterday re moved, by special directions from the Admiralty, and were ordered to take up the paddlewheel steam sloop Barracouta (late on the East India and China station), to be fitted for the pennant, it is said, of Commander his Serene Highness Victor F.F. E. G. A. C. F., Prince of Hohenlohe-Lingenbourg, late lieutenant in H. M.'s 50 gun ship Raleigh. The paddle wheel steam sloop Prometheus is also fast progress ing for commission. The following vessels are at present in basin and dock at Woolwich :—Bann, Minx, Prometheus, Oberon, Archer, Mistletoe, Riled aman thus, Barracouta, Rifleman, Spiteful, Gorgon, Dee, Bustler, Black Eagle, Princess Alice, Vivid, Racer, Banshee, Monkey, Widgeon, Julia, Challenger, Argus, and Ripple. The freightship Beucleugh, Miller master, yes terday commenced shipping military stores from Woolwich for the Mauritius ; and the Patricia received a cargo of military clothing and other store, , for Jamaica. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Captain—George W. Preedy to the Agamemnon. Master —Henry A Moriarty to the Agamemnon. Paymaster—John N. De Vries to the Agamemnon. Clerks—Arthur H. Gore to the Nile ; James Wortley to the Saturn. Cornelius Noddall, Esq., to be Master Attendant at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, Tice Davis, superannuated. Aden (for all the other tribes are friendly), at the same that it would be the most effectual way of bringing this ungrateful chief to his senses and make him less disposed to annoy us hereafter. Some say that the brigadier is so bound by his in structions that be cannot under any conceivable circumstances make such a move without the ex press sanction of Government, and I am inclined to I:dieve that that is the only drawback in the present instance. Then, again, it is said by mili tary•men that some light cavalry are indispensable to render such a movement effectual. If so, we can only wonder why a troop of Sciude Horse, or dered to Aden two years ago, have not yet been sent. All I know is that it is a disgrace to our national honour that, occupying so important a position at Aden, we are obliged to submit tamely to such in dignities and to undergo such annoyances from the petty tribes who inhabit the neighbourhood. Will it indeed be believed in England that no less than four of our countrymen have within the last eight years been basely murdered by miscreants of these tribes, without our having succeeded in obtaining the least satisfaction for such outrages ; and, fur ther, that the chief, or late ally, who is now putting the place to such inconveniencies, and driving as gradually to actual want, is harbouring the wretch who killed a seaman of the Au Arland, and that the assassin himself is known at the present moment to form part of the guard in a fort over the watering place, almost within range of our ships' guns ? If, as is reported, the Governor of Aden is restricted from taking any a c ti v e measures to remedy this state of things, is greatly to be comp Assionated , since any one tolerably acquainted with the actual state of our relations with the interior is fully con vinced that even with a greatly reduced garrison— which certainly strength at all times—the thing could be done with ought to be kept up to its ordinary out any risk to ourselves, and without necessitating any advance into the interior beyond that of occu pying a post two miles 'beyond out present boun d ury. I have this moment beard that several large " cafilas" of coffee coming to Aden have been de tained by the hostile chief of Latiadj, and that his people are seizing, plundering, and wounding any , who attempt to bring in provisions. No more sup plies for the steamers, no more vegetables for the reinforcements to India, Lo more water for our merchant shipping, and a very dark prospect for us wretched Adenites to look forward to while this state of things is permitted. _ By the way, I have just heard that the Somali chiefs of Ain Tarad, in execution of a treaty which they made with us about two years ago, have seized a bungalow with 60 slaves and have de spatched messengers to our ReAdent to request that he would send over and take possession of them. Will you believe it, that, though we have a sloop of war and a steamer in the harbour, both are so inef ficient that neither can be sent on such a mission ! Credible information has also been received that there are no less than 500 slaves, new importations, on the opposite African coast, and that this detest able traffic is increasing to a fearful ex.tent. 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The canisters,Thibllb. canisters2s, 9d. ; are scut 2. fear ful dangers of spurious imitations. —Th e Vice-Chancellor Sir ' William Page Wood p anted anl nj une tion on the 10th March, 1 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitating "Do Barrfallevalota Arabica Fwd.". tion of this work induced favourable intercession for Bamford, and he has for some time past been employed at Somerset-house. Mr. Hardwick read the Lancashire Hymn,' in which, he said, he did not see much of a treasonable character now, though it might perhaps be more significant at the time it was written. One thing, however, was cer tain ; the man who could write such a poem must have been possessed of a noble heart, and of a true patriotic feeling, together with no common com mand of the English language. To diversify the entertainment of the evening, the lecturer read also a piece composed by Bamford, in the Lancashire dialect, on " Tim Bobbin's Grave," and the epi taph on Tim ; and after wards " the Pass of Death," which was written on the death of George Canning. Mr.. Hardwick then noticed Elijah Ridings, another of the old living poets (whom be had the pleasure of knowing many years), a poor school master and bookseller, and as honourable and up right a being as ever suffered poverty and wrote verses. In his works there were here and there glimmerings of great beauty, and throughout a strong love of nature. He read one little Poem, " The Preacher and the Child," which was much admired. John Bolton Rogerson was next introduced. lie held a good position among the poets of Lae ca shire, but not, perhaps, among the poets of Eng land. He did not often surprise his readers with strikingly original thoughts, or forms of expression, but was thoroughly imbued with the true poetic feeling. Much of what he had written appeared to be rather a reproduction of that which had de lighted him in ethers ; but on many occasions, and especially when he wrote on subjects of a domestic character, he showed himself a tree pee. At an illustration, Mr. Hardwick recited the verses " To my wife," written soon after severe affliction. A. humor Jus poem, " The Bellies," was.ahao read, amidst' nnittlitlitt,gliterOeTieie,:A .4 e l e jaere . s rA t elieveel,. might be considered the joint - prbduc son and Elijah Ridings. Of the living poets, Charles Swain, of Manches ter, perhaps enjoyed a more extended reputation than any other Lancashire poet, and, all things considered, he was perhaps entitled to it. Those who least appreciated his genius did not deny that he had at least written many extremely beautiful poems. He was' not - remarkable for nervous strength, but he was ever placid, sweet, and melc dimes ; and the sentiments enshrined in his verses were ever beyond. reproach. His chaste imagee, pure home affections, and careful and elegant ver sification would aletays be appreciated. Personally, the man was very much like his poetry, which was not often the case,; foe we were often grievously disappointed when we Saw the original. Mr. Swain was a mild and amiable gentleman, and was thoroughly imbued. with a love of his art. The lec turer once asked him.if he did not consider that the worldly recompense 'aceorded to poets was often sadly disproportionate to their merit. His answer was to the effect that poets should regard, to some extent, the pleasure they enjoyed in composition as their recompense. Latterly,-Mr. Swain had ralier extended his sphere, and had written a dramatic poem, in which he had occasionally shown thet, when be felt inclined to plant his spur into the sides of his :Pegasus, he was by no means deficient iu masculine strength. In order that the audience might form some notion of his style, the lecturer read several stanzas from his poem on "The Mind ;" and as a specimen of his more energetic style, a few lines on the death of-Lord. Byron, the text oiwhich was the poet's last word,---" I must sleep now." The 'post who divided public opinion with Mr. Swain was John Critchley Prince. He had written many poems equal, if not superior to those of Mr. Swain ; and he certainly possessed a richer original vein, and a more nervous and impassioned style. Having briefly touched upon the destitution and wanderings of Prince's childhood, Mr. Hardwick noticed the poverty and travels of the poeL's man hood. Much of that-poverty, he regretted to say, was attributed to his ownimprovidence. With all his flue thoughts, and fine feelings, and high aspi rations, be had been continually struggling with penury ; but Christian charity will touch lightly upon his weakness, in consideration of his suffer ings, and. the productions of his muse. He possesSed a just appreciation of the beauty of natural scenery, strong domestic affections, and deep-seated patri otic sentiment. The lecturer had previously ob served that to some of the poets of this county, humble, suffering men, England was deeply in debted during the Chartist agitation ; and espe cially to Prince for his maguiticent appeal entitled 41,442 , =Queit-mor-iissokniketerioTaegfotiser -with many was often tempted to write in a more missnthropicsi other strains of similar purport. This poem the spirit than those whose physical wants were better lecturer read, and afterwards recited by particular provided for. With respect to the poets of Lance- request, a portion of an " Epistle to a Brother shire this was, however, by no means a prevailing Poet," containing beautiful allusions to natural fault. Their love of liberty rarely, if ever, degene- beauty and the domestic affections, and displaying rates into license. They bed contributed much a high tone of thought, great love for the human towards an improved respect for law and order. Ig- family, and a fine perception of what is the poet's norant and blatant demagogueism has often received duty to his fellow man. This piece was recited by signal chaltisementfrom their pens. Society at large Mr. Hardwick in his very best vein. He entered owes to some of the lowly-born and humbly-clad fully into the spirit and feeling of the poet, and in sons of the muse ire Lancashire at the present time, his interpretation of it exhibited a true appreciation a much larger measure of gratitude thin it has yet of its beauties. It was a great treat to the audience eith.•;r rewarded or discovered. They all knew the who marked their sense of it by repeated plaudits. credit Preston had received at the hands of all Eug- The lecturer next referred to his friend, Mr. E. land, of all the world, for the manner in which its Waugh. He observed that a question had arisen operatives conducted themselves during the last Ivh ether the writing of poetry in the Lancashire severe struggle with their employers. He had often dialect was a legitimate occupation for a man of been told of it in other parts of England, and had genius. It was said that such poetry was very always felt proud of the improved respect fur law low and vulgar. The Lancashire dialect was, and order then exhibited. nevertheless, a remnant of the good old English The poetry of Lancashire was almost entirely con- language—the language of Chaucer, who, if lie fined to the very three-quarters of a century in wore to return to us again, would have to mix which we have been so busily employed in building amongst the country people to find his mother cotton mills and manufacturing steam-engines. One tongue. Many of their phrases were not merely of the distinguished poets of the Elizabethan era vulgar modern corruptions, but the reverse was, however, born in this very town. That be was in many instances. Several were of pure regarded at the time as no common poet might be Saxon and Scandinavian ori g in. In the " Faer y inferred from the fact that in every notice of the Queen" of Spenser, who lived in the time of Shak contemporaries of Shakspere, Thomas Preston, of spore, many words are used by him which, though Preston, in Lancashire, was mentioned. He was not considered good English now, are still spoken born in the year 1530. Like Shakspere, he sue- by the Lancashire peasant-, as eyrie the plural of eye, ceeded in winning the good opinion of Queen which was of the same class as oxen the plural of Elizabeth, arid so pleased was her Majesty with ox ; burst, which was the original past tense of his " graceful performance" in the Latin play of burst, &c. The lecturer related two anecdotes illus " Dido 'at Oxford, that she conferred upon him trative of this position. Some Lancashire lads the title of her " scholar," together with an annuity working in Germany actually contrived to make of 201. a year, a sum which would be worth nearly the peasantry there understand the m, one of them 1001. a-year at the present time. Preston literary declaring the language to be " rank Owdham." labour is specially referred to by Shakspere him- The peasantry of Brittany could to this day, for a self in his play of King Henry W. Falstaff, when similar reason, understand the peasantry of Wales. acting the part of the king, says, " 1 will do it in The lecturer argued, if these old dialects were King Cambyses' vein," referring to the style the memorials of the past language, some memory of the hero of the tragedy of Cambyses, of them ou g ht, to be retained. In these days of written by Preston ; though he (the' lecturer) was railways and rapid locomotion, the language in our sorry to say the reference could scarcely be regarded country places would, in a century, become as re as a complimentary one. fined as it is at present in London. Why were the John Collier, better known by his nom de plume Scotch so fond of their national songs s• Because of " Tim Bobbin," was next commented upon. the " lads and lasses" of that country the better Collier, the poor sehoolueaster of Milnrow (Ruch- appreciated them in their vernacular garb. So it dale), was by no means the simple dialect writer he was with the Irish and Welsh songs. Independently was generally imagined. He (Mc. II) was sorry of the mere patois, these dialects contained forms that he had overlooked him in his recently pub- of expression, and embodied much peculiarity of lished "History of Preston and its Environs," as thought,which, translated into plain English, would he had lately discovered him to be a better anti- be considerably weakened, if not entirely destroyed. quarian topographer than his compeer, the Rev. For these reasons, the Lancashire songs of Mr. John Whitaker. Collier, during the rev. gentle- Waugh and others would become valuable in the man's lifetime, successfully attacked many of the course of time for historical references. Roby, in crude theories and dogmatism perpetrated by the his " Traditions of Lancashire," had invented historian of Manchester. Nay, lie spared not his fresh characters, and constructed agreeable novel rival's literary style, and unquestionably excelled ties, but had altogether destroyed the great truth him in this respect. Collier's serious prose is re- he ought to have preserved, and, for so doing, de markable for the purity of its English, and its terse served censure rather than praise. Mr. Wau g h and perspicuous expression. "Tummus and Meary" had, in his " Sketches of Lancashire," described was scarcely readable now, even by many persons things in their integrity, and had, consequently, living in the vicinity of Rochdale, on account of served the cause of truth much better than Mr. the variation which has since taken place in the Roby. Poetry was one of the fine arts—an iwita dialect. The true value of " Yr - animus and Meary" tive art, and it was the duty of the poet not simply consisted in its faithful pictures of the habits, cha- to draw on his own unaided fancy, but to extract meter, and manners of the persons among whom the truth from th e m ass of moral and material being by b author lived. On looking over his poems, be had which he is surrounded. Therefore he shvoout e botmeelf found one which he thought worth his while to to see Waug h or an y other poet de He i belved read, as it contained a vast amount of fun and to the Lancashire dialect entirely.. Frig good humour, though not much poetry. He could him capable of writing good poetry in modern I cturer received from not award to Collier any great merit in this patti- lish. Some years ago the e called "The World," cular. Collier's want of sympathy with rhetorical Mr. Waugh a littl i e tb p oe and sententious thought. expression might be gathered from the circumstance which was full of fled that he strongly objects to its use by the Ray. John Having read thi f s poem, lecturer completely Came Whitaker. The author of " Tummus and Meary" his estimate o obild er me," of which he said it e w ieh com P r thought it an unpardonable offence in the historian whoam l a o t thyu aralleled in the history of song of Manchester to personify the ancient oaks of the was a f neighbourhood. And yet he had merely stated writing, :bat ne P ver since the days of Homer had single ballad so large a circulation. This per that they annually shed their acorns for the sus. any p esulted not on account of any very extra tenance of the wild pigs which roamed the forest. ordinary the talent it displayed, but by reason of its " Tim" sturdily declared his firm conviction that sincere: adherence to truth. Its great merit was the said oaks would have acted precisely in a sibmii its orieinality. Mankind wanted new thoughts, lay manner if the entire porcine population. a s , and not another million or two of books in which selected some other locality for their pezegrinatdietnbe. the same thought or thoughts are eternally iterated. Mr. Hard wink then read the poem, ap or Py telling,st yl style, Quack Doctor," a t a le o f 1762, whichrloocbcaasnioned This poem happened to be an original conception. It was the result of his own observation, and he much mirth. The poem was not, as some persons seemed to Samuel Bamford, the poet of . the old Radicathls, h w a it cl b t o r u e t ate e d pa it sm in ed h i i e s e o ff w o n rt pe t c o ul b ia e r and gnat h was next introduced. His writing attracted Lord e attention of Sir James Scarlett, afterwar patronised. am or B f d think, a funny affair. To t Abinger, by whom he was d Johnson, and was themselves it was "be woman and the man was the companion of Hunt an a positively serious affair,and of the slaughter should not be recited with 1 • tried for conspiracy on the occasionlevity at all ; in the third of Peterloo Fields, in Manchester, andsuffered itn- stanza, in his o • pinion, there was a great deal of i sonm ent. A sturdy John Bullism was exhibited pathos. After reciting the poem, Mr. Hardw ick a his work " The Life of a Radical," which he read a few stanzas, entitled "Cultivate your wrote some time afterwards, and which contained men." the celebrated " Lancashire Hymn.,) The publics- Mr. Sheldon Chadwick, of Bolton, w as then in- On Tuesday evening last Mr. C. Hardwick deli vered a lecture at the Institution, Avenhatn, en titled, "An Evening with the Lancashire Poets, illustrated with elocutionary readings." There Was a numerous and respectable audience, over whom Mr. W. Dobson presided as chairman. Mr. - HARDWICK opened his lecture - by stating that it might perhaps appear to some that the terms "Lancashire" and " Poetry" were upon the whole rather antagonistic than otherwise. Poetry, with its high aspirations, its contempt for mere worldly wealth, its deep human sympathies, its self-denial, its undying heroism, its gorgeous but impalpable empire in the regions of cloud-land • and Lancasbire with its Mammon-worship, its potty banterings and commercial conning, its hard and heartless spindles and steam engines ; Lancashire, where the greatest object in life appeared to ba the acquisition of mere material wealth ; -Lancashire was looked upon as the locality where Mammon worship was most rife, at least in Britain. Cer tainly at first Sight the terms seemed somewhat incongruous. But a little calm consideration was sufficient to dispel the illusion. It must not be forgotten that the outward and merely animal form of man enshrined an immaterial spirit. While he distinctly regarded it to be one of the first . diities of man to provide for the wants of the body, Lanca shire had unquestionably excelled all the word in the production of material wealth ; and he should be enabled to show that it had not been remark ably deficient in a higher and more spiritual sense. When it was recollected that Lancashire contained a population equal to many, and more than some, of the petty kingdoms on the Continent, it might easily be conceived that it was capable of produc ing men of every variety of mental and moral cha- Teetet paid-Ire-was prep:rad-to claim for Lancashire a fair antireasonable share of poetic taste and poetic genius. It•was said - that the age itself was not poetic—that we:lived in an age of iron, and that science was making - much greater progress than the arts ; but a candid inquiry into the facts would to a great extent dispel this illusion also. The nineteenth century had developed as much poetic genius, and* productions had been circulated among the ,peolic to a greater extent than during any. preceding ' century. It was true that Lancashire had net' . gtven birth to a Shake 'acre, but it was no rest certain l i bat no other county could succeissfullecBmpete WithWarwick shit e for so glorious a distinction ; nay, it was equally true that.no age or . kingdom, ancient or modern, bad produced his superior or equal as a dramatic, poet. Aftei alluding - to Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth; as being eqaal to Dryden or Pope, and superior to any of the elder second-class poets, and•to TennYson, Bailey, the Brownings, and others, the productions of whose genius would one day -be worthy of a place beside the.best and greatest of the land, Mr. Hardwick observed that many partieswere in the babitof ima gining that nothing could be poetic in i s character which hid direct refereece to the present. He did not deny that the past bad its po t:y, but he con tended that poetry neither scorned the present nor -the future. The true poet . of any age would ever befouled to be the man: who .enabodi( d the spiritual essmce of that age. Many .men of undoubted ta• lent-were too often incited(' to manufacture rhymes and rhetorical figures, as well as - to construct entire poen* *simply in imita'ion of others which had received the approbatiou of the public. This soulless conventionalism, beneath which all inde pendent thought vainly struggled. Much of the poetic genius of our otvp'-century would be more highly estimated in the futere. Many of the now acknowledged most gifted men of past ages had not been appreciated so highly during their own gene ration as they are at 'the present time. 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Before this reaches London you will have doubt less hoard more than one account of the late dis agreeable affair at Suez, connected with the despatch of a detachment of her Majesty's 92d Highlanders, under Col. Mackenzie, to Bombay. That any such " fracas " should have occurred on the overland route is very much tobe regretted, and ibis to be hoped that a sitting inquiry will be instituted in .o e rfler edlOm' either_ Thoagli not present on the °ocean, thought that a plain statement of the facts, rte re lated to me by three of - the passengers who were en board the Pottinger at the time, and who have no connection whatever with either party, ;night be useful in enabling the public at home to form a correct judgment of what actually transpired. It appears, then, that the Pottinger; having been ordered to convey a detachment of troops to Bom bay, teok in at Suez sufficient provisions for 320 mea for 28 days. The detachment had not reached Suez on the 27th, and the commander, it appears, foreseeing that the men would tot be comfortable if permitted to come on board while the expected c tr go was being taken in, suggested to the authori ties at Suez the propriety Of their being embarked en board the hulk Zenobia (where ample acco.nmo datiou was provided) until the steamer was quite ready to receive therei For sci ate reason, however, this prudent suggestion wes overruled, and the men were embarked on board the Pottiliget late that evening. Grog was immediately served.out to them, but the n en had no beds, it having been re ported to the captain that the men'ti bedding would be sent with them. Some disagreeableness is said to have arisen at this early Stage between the purser of the vessel and the celonel, the latter being very much chagrined that an entire cabin had not been reserved for him, instead of his being made to occupy a cabin- with Oslonel Anderson, one of the passengers. During the night the cargo arrived, and one Can easily conceive that the men were not comfortable • einder such oircumstenees, without bed,', as they were, and a cold wind blowing. Next day a complaint" was made about the bis cuit, Arid it turned out that a cask whicih had been on le.,a,rd for two or three•months had been served out: - This was soon rectified, and no further complaints imde: on thit•heade Shortly after noon the cdoeel and several of the officers attended by some Of the men carrying a plate of pork, complained to thecapta'n that it was bad,. rotten, . and unfit for use. *The captain, we hear; declated that it was perfectly sound • but the colonel maintained the,contrary, and further, that he would not allow his men to go to sea with the prospect of being fed on such rations. An order was then given by the mail agent to detain the ship until a committee was held on the stores. Four casks were immediately hoisted up, during which operation it appears that an ensi g n of the regiment applied a most offensive epithet to the officer super intending the opetetions, who was otherwise sub jected to the muttered.abuse of the soldiers. From all I can learn, the verdict of the officers forming the committee was notennatimons ; but the general opinion appears to have been that the colonel was sati-fled. My informants did not speak with cer tainty on this point, and were themselves divided in opinion about the %milky of the provisions. It seems, however, that the conduct of the men dur ire:, the inquiry was familiar in the extreme towards their own officers. Matters being so far settled, the order was given to prepare for sea, whoa the hitherto muttered dis content of the men broke out into open insubordi nation. The Lascara who attempted to weigh the anchor were thrown off the forecastle, and the offi cers on duty abused and threatened by the men, who armed themselves with bars, bolts, and what ever they could lay hands on, swearing that they would take the c ibins, and burn the ship, &c. The colonel went forward, but it does not appear that his visit effected any good. What was next to be done ? I hear that it was proposed for 100 of the men to be left behind in the hulk, and to come on by the next steamer, but the colonel would not assent to that arrangement. Finally, during the night the men were taken from the Pottinger, and embarked on board the Columbian, bound first for Alen and. Gall-_ , . Immediately after the mail agent ordered the captain of the Pottinger to start with the mails, when a requisition was brought off by the Transit steamer fur the provisons to be sent on board the CL.lumbi:in (the provisions which had been condemned pre% rous!y), but the captain was not authorised to wait, and, knowing that stores of the sane kind were procnrablo in abundance at Suez, the Pottinger sailed at ones for Aden. The foregoing is a brief outline of this sad affair, and it is sincerely to be hoped that such measures will be taken in this case as will effec' ually prevent a recurrence of anything so disgraceful. A great error was made at the outset by those who disre garded the advice of Captain Stead of the Pottin ger, that the men should be lodged for the night in the Hulk. If lam not mistaken, the Pottinger, under Capt. Stead, was considered a pattern trooper, and was quite a favourite with the Euro peans during the Persian war, when she must have carried many more men than there were in the de tachment of the 921. Of course, it is impracticable that on board a mail and passenger boat men can have the same accommodation as on board a troop ship ; but whatever accommodation there was must have appeared less, and have been far less available at night-time, and while the ship's decks were being encumbered ' with cargo, &c. Hitherto, indeed, nothing could have gone on more smoothly than the trooping to India by this route, even in vessels of less tonnage than the Pottinger ; and it is very much to be deplored that any such contretemps as this should have taken place. Of course, if it is found, after due inquiry, that the provisions were bad, the Peninsular and Oriental Company should be severely dealt with ; but even if that at present debateable point is proved against them, such a result writ in no way exculpate the insubordinate conduct of the men, and the reported insouciance of their officers in repressing it. On these latter points the evidence appears concurrent and unani mous—so much so, indeed, that when the Pottin ger reached Aden several of the passengers had de cided to. remain here should the Columbian reach before she left, and the troops be ordered to re-era bark in her. LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL—Xenon 30• ----- - STOCK EXCHANGE—The market has been weak to-day, declining f to . per cent. soon after the opening, and closed at the lowest point of the day. 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