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SrAMPED öp . • tion of this work induced favourable intercession for Bamford, and he has for 5Q111.3 time past been employed at Somerset-house.-- Mr. Hardwick read the Lancashire Hymn, in which, liessaid, 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 Ridiugs, 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 cf 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. B e , held a good position ainoug the poets of Lacca 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.thorseughly imbued with the true poetic feeling. Much of what he had written appeared to ho rather a reprOduction of that which had de lighted him in others; but on many occasions, and especially when he wrote on subjects of a domestic character, he showed himielf a true poet. As an illustration, Mr. Hardwick recited the verses "To my wife,"•written soon after severe affliction. A. humorous poem, "The Bellies," was also read, amidst much laughter. This, the lecturer believed, might be considered the joint suction of Roger son and Elijah Ridings.. • - Of ihe'living poets, "Charleii'Seeart t iariche i` tiff . ter, perhaps enjoyed a more extended repUtation that, any other Lancashire poet, and, all things considered, he was perhaps entitled to it. Those who least appreciated his enius ditt riot deny that he bad at least written many extre s triely, beautiful poems. He was not: remarkebla for nervous strength, but he was ever placid, sweet, and melc dious ; and the sentiments enshrined in 'hii Verses were ever beyond reproach. His chaste iinagee, pure home affections, and narefuleandeelegant ver sification would always be appreciated. Personally, the man was very much like his poetr§,* - kvliich was not often the case ; for we, were oftene grievously" disappointed when we saw the orieinal.eXr.• Swain was a mild and amiable gentleman, . and was thoroughly imbued with a love of hi 4 art. The lec turer once asked him if he did not consider tjsatethe worldly recompense accorded to poete 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 rather extended his sphere, and had written a dramatic poem, in which he had occasionally shown that, when he felt inclined to plant his spur into the sides of his Pegasus, he was by no means deficient , in masculine strength. In order that the audience might form some notion of his style, the lecturhie's read several stanzas from his poem on "The Minds"-, and as a specimen of his more energetic style, a few, lines on the death of Lord Byron, the text of which was the poet's last words,— I must itleep'now." The poet who divided public opinion With Mr. Swain was John Critchley Prince. •He had written many poems equal, if not superior - te . those of Mr. Swain ; and he certainly possessed richerforiginhis vein; and a more nervous and impaksioned style. Having briefly touched upon the destitution and wanderings of Prince's childhood, Mr. ,noticed the poverty and traveliof the poet's man; bird. . Much of that poVerty, he regretted to say, was attributed toshis own improviderece. With all hie foe thoughts; and fine feelings, and'high aspis' rations, he had been continually stritgling with penury; but phristian , charity will ,touchlightly upon his _weakness, in consideration of his suffer ino and the ppdtictions of 1).!s muse. 1.16 possessed a j ust Appreciatimaof the beauty a f :natural scenery; strong domestict fiffections, aud e deep e seated patrir °tic' sentiment. ~. The lecturer had previpiisly ob served. that to Some of the Poots - of this county,' himettlea• - suffering- Men, Eiiglasei ivas deeply'. in- debted during the Chartist agitation ; and espe deity to Prince for his magnificent appeal entitled` " A Call to the People," tOgether with many other strains of similar purport. • Dais poem the lecturer rowel, paardwarclaa.reaitecl.l.y._partigular request, a portion of an "Epistle to a Brother Poet," containing beautiful allusions to natural beauty and the domestic affections, and displaying a high tone of thought, great love for the human family, and a flue perception of what is the poet's duty to his fellow man. This piece was recited by Mr. Hardwick in his very best vein. He entered fully into the spirit and feeling of the poet, and in Ins interpretation of it exhibited a true appreciation of its beauties. It was a great treat to the audience who marked their sense of it by repeated plaudits. The lecturer next referred to his friend, Mr. E. Waugh. He observed that a question had arisen whether the writing of poetry in the Lancashire dialect was a legitimate occupation for a man of genius. It was said that such poetry was very low and vulgar. The Lancashire dialect was, nevertheless, a remnant of the good old English language—the language of Chaucer, who, if he were to return to us again, would have to mix amongst the country people to find his mother tongue. Many of their phrases were not merely vulgar modern corruptions, but the reverse in many instances. Several were of pure Saxon and Scandinavian origin. In the " Faery Queen" of Spenser, who lived in the time of Shak spei e, many words ar e used by him which, though not considered good English now, are still spoken by the Lancashire peasant, as gine the plural of eye, which was of the same class as oxen the plural of ox ; brast, which was the original past tense of burst, &c. The lecturer related two anecdotes illus trative of this position. Some Lancashire lads working in Germany actually coen rived to make the peasantry there understand them one of them declaring the language to be "rank Owdham." The peasantry of Brittany could to this day, for a similar reason, understand the peasantry of Wales. The lecturer argued, if these old dialects were the memorials of the past language, some memory of them ought to be retained. In these days of railways and rapid locamotion, the language in our country places would, in a century, become as re fined as it is at present in London. Why were the Scotch so fond of their national songs 1 Because the " lads and lasses" of that country the better appreciated them in their vernacular garb. So it was with the Irish and Welsh songs. Independently of the mere patois, these dialects contained forms of expression, and embodied much peculiarity of thought,which, translated into plain English, would be considerably weakened, if not entirely destroyed. For these reasons, the Lancashire songs of Mr. Waugh and others would become valuable in the course of time for historical references. Roby, in his " Traditions of Lancashire," had invented fresh characters, and constructed agreeable novel ties, but had altogether destroyed the great truth he ought to have preserved, and, for so doing, de served censure rather than praise. Mr. Waugh had, in his " Sketches of Lancashire," described things in their integrity, and had, consequently, served the cause of truth much better than Mr. Roby. Poetry was one of the fine arts—an imita tive art, and it was the duty of the poet not simply to draw on his own unaided fancy, but to extract truth from the mass of moral and material being by which he is surrounded. Therefore he shoUld not like to see Waugh or any other poet devote himself to the Lancashire dialect entirely. He believed him capable of writing good poetry in modern Eng lish. Some years ago the lecturer received from , Mr. Waugh a little p oem, called "The World, ' which was full of pithy and sententious thought. Having read this poem, which completely justified his estimate of it, the lecturer recited " Ceme whoam to thy cbilder an' me," of which he said it was a fact unparalleled in the history of song writing, that never since the days of Homer had any single ballad so large a circulation. This per haps resulted not on account of any very extra ordinary talent it displayed, but by reason of its sincere adherence to truth. Its great merit was its originality. Mankind wanted new thoughts, and not another million or two of books in which the same thought or thoughts are eternally iterated. This poem happened to be an original conception. It was the result of his own observation, and he had treated it in his own peculiar and happy style, without spasmodic effort to be great or telling. The poem was not, as some persons seemed to think, a funny affair. To the woman and the man themselves it was a positively serious affair, and should not be recited with levity at all ; in the third stanza, in bis opinion, there was a great deal of pathos. After reciting the poem, Mr. Hardwick read a few stanzas, entitled " Cultivate your men." Mr, Sheldon Chadwick ) of Bolton, was then in LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1858. %TONT BL ANC TO-NIGHT AT 8, and TO-MORROW AFTERNOON AT 3. • CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH • ENTERTAIN MENT.—Many Patrons of the Christy's having been unable to gain admission owing to the limited numbers of Stalls, they have now introduced an extra row, which will afford more comforts to their numerous patrons.—Evening at 8, mad on Saturday Morning, commencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, 1/. is.;. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Back, Is. 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ADEN AND THE ISLAND OF PERIM. • A letter from Aden, dated March 12, says : Judging from the question put to the First Lord of the Treasury by one 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, more must be known, seeing that for years past it has been the principal coalingetat . 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 beer 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 midiay 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 general bearings upon the joint interests of the United Kingdoni and otr Eastern empire. Forei g n Governments are fully alive to the import ance of Aden, and it is to ,be hoped our own Go vernment is not behindharid in that respect ; never theless those on the: spot Nava good cause for be lieving that the ruling auttiori ties are very negligent about establishing that importance upon a firm and satisfactory basis. Ask you u'ew thib is? Why, here we tira again, fim't4e huti. ith time perhaps, cut off from all, up Ries from the . interior,, and in hourly expectation that our extraneous water supply will also be stopped by a petty Arab tribe, whose chief has been our most liberally paid stipendiary since the capture of Aden, but who has of late become so overbearing, insolent, and mischieious, 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 lee is called, has prohibited his own people from bringing in supplies, has detained s ccafilas" coming from the districts beyond his territories, and has placed a ragamuffin crew on the road, just beyond gunshot of our outworks, to plunder any who may attempt to hold intercourse with us. The conse quence of this siege is that since the Ist not a camel has come from the interior; all our vegetables, peul try, wood, eggs, fodder, grain, and a hundrsclother necessaries have been cut 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 monsoon there are few arrivals in port ; therefore, unless something 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-bean is brought in, and that their ships will be detained at a great sacrifice. Several British ships now in 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 on the oppo site side of the harbour not more can be procured by present appliances than suffices for the navy and part of the garrison ; and the wells at Shaik ()the. man, a place five miles from our outwoi ka, 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 abundantly supplied for some time past, are closed against us ay this contumacious chief. Report says that the watering-placea on the other side of the harbour just alluded to, being guarded and held by the same chief, will shortly tie closed against us also, and the wells destroyed. A precious mess we shall then be in 1 Why the brigadier does not go out and dislodge these fel lows is a mystery to many. Shaik O hman might be taken and held by a company of Native Intaetry and a couple of guns, for no resistance is likely to be made by the small slave gari'ion, and the posses sion of that place would at s . ' d poen t l ie c .untry Men (for alrtrilffierfirt;s'h..:7 fr same that it would be the roost effectual wa3c of bringing this ungrateful chifl to his senses and make him less disposed to annoy U 3 hereafter. Some say that the brigadier is so bourid by his in structious that he cannot under any conceivable circumstances make such a move without the ex press sanction of Government, and I am inclined to believe 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 Ad en twoyears 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 satisfaAion for such outrages ; and, fur ther, that the chief, or late ally, who is now putting the place to such inconveniencies, and driving us gradually to actual want, is harbouring the wretch who killed a s?aman of the Au rkland, and that the assassin himself is known at tae 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 active measures to remedy this state of ttiiogs, he is greatly to be compassion'ited, since any one tolerably acquainted with the actual state of our relations with she interior is fully con vinced that even with a greatly reduced garrison— which certainly ought to be kept up to its ordinary strength at all times—the thing could bo done with out any risk to ourselves, and without necessitating any advance into the interior beyond that of occu pying a post two miles beyond our present boun d I have this moment heard that several large " cafilas" of coffee coining to Aden have been de tained by the hostile chief of Lahadj, and that his people are seizing, plundering, and wounding any who attempt to bring iu provisions. No more sup /la's 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 Resident 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 e ~tent. 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Important Caution against the fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred limper Nevin, for imitating " • Parrfoßevalenta Arabica Food.", THE LANCASHIRE POETS. On Tuesday evening last Mr. C. Hardwick deli vered a lecture at the Institution, Avenham, 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 Lancailiire with its Mammon-worship, its petty benterings and commercial cunning, its hard and heartless spindles and steam engines ; Lancashire, where the greatest object in life appeared to be 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 duties of man to provius for the wants of the body, Lance shir s had unquestionably excelled all the word in the production of material wealth ; and he should be ere,bled to show that it had not been remark ably deficient in a higher aid 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 racter ; and he was prepared to claim for Lancashire a fair and reasonable share of poetic' taste and poetic genius. It was said thet the age itself was not poetic—that we lived in an age of iron, aid that science was making much greater pregrass 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 its productions had been circulated among the people to greater extant , than during any preceding century. It was true' that Lancashire had not given birth to a Shaks pere, but it was no less certain that no other couuty could successfully oompets with Warwick shire for so glorious a distinction; nay, it was equally true that no age or kingdom, ancient or modern, had produced his superior, or eqUal As a dramatio.poet. After alluding to Byron, Shelley, : Coleridge, and Wordsworth,.. as being egnal to Dryden or Pope, and superior to any of the elder second-clads poets, and to Tennyson, Bailey, the Browninge t and others,; the productions of whose genius would one day be worthy of a place beside the best and greatest of the laud, - _Mr. Hardwick observed that many partieswere in the babit.of ima gining-that nothing could be poetic in its charaCter which had direct reference to the Present. He did not deny that the past had its pot but he con tended that poetry neither scorned the present nor the future. The true poet of any age would ever be found to be the man who embodied the spiritual ees.eace of that age. Many men of undoubted ta lent were too often induced to manufacture rhymes and rhetorical figures, as well as to construct entire poems, simply in imitaiion of others which. had received the approbation of the public This soulless conventionalism, beneath which all inde pendent thought vainly struggled. Much of the poetic genius of our own century would be more highly estimated in the future. Many of the now acknowledged most gifted men of past ages had not beers appreciated so highjy - during - their own gene-. rationeis they are at the Peesent time. This was certainly not the case with all, for many popular' idols of the hour glitter a season and then sink into merited obsnirity. Mr. Hardwick then entered into an analysiS of the peculiar characteristics of the Lancashire "poets. Be.had concluded, after 'a careful examinaliou of the.literature of 'the present day, that the home affections, a sturdy patriotism, and an enthusiastic love of liberty predominated. - He believed that the poetry of no given diVision Of thie country had more truly embodied the genuine Eugbsh spirit of freedom: than that of the ,county of Lancashire, Butt, unfortunately, the . Majority of our poets have keen and still are very poor men, and, although poverty in itself was not com petent to , extinguish the divine afflatus, the poor poet, pressed down by the force of oil cucastances, was ofteo tempted to write in a more miseutliropieal. +rept., - provided for. With respect to the poets of Lanca shire this was, however, by no means a prevailing fault. Their love of liberty rarely, if ever, degene rates into license. They had contributed much towards an improved respect for law and order. Ig norant and blatant clainagogueism has often received signal chaitisement from their pens. Society at large owes to some of the lowly-born and humbly-clad sons of the muse in Lancashire at the present time, a much larger measure of gratitude dim it has yet either rewarded or discovered. They all knew the credit Preston had received at the hands of all Eng land, of all the world, for the manner in which its operatives conducted themselves during the last severe struggle with their employers. He had often been told of it in other parts of England, and bad al ways felt proud of the improved respect for law and order then exhibited. _ _ The poetry of Lancashire was almost entirely con fined to the very three-quarters of a century in which we have been so busily employed in building cotton mills and manufacturing steam-engines. One of the distinguished poets of the Elizabethan era was, however, born in this very town. That he was regarded at the time as no common poet might be inferred from the fact that in every notice of the contemporaries of Shakspere, Thomas Preston, of Preston, in Lancashire, was mentioned. Ile was born in the year 1530. Like Shakspere, he suc ceeded in winning the good opinion of Queen Elizabeth, and so pleased was her Majesty with his " graceful performance" in the Latin play of " Dido ' at Oxford, that she conferred upon him the title of her " scholar," togetL er with an annuity of 201. a year, a sum which would be worth nearly 1001. a-year at the present time. Preston literary labour is specially referred to by Shakspere him self in his play of King Henry IV. Falstaff, when acting the part of the king, says, " I will do it in King Cambyses' vein," referring to the style of the hero of the tragedy of Csmh) sea, written by Preston ; though he (the lecturer) was sorry to say the reference could scarcely be regarded as a complimentary one. John Collier, better known by his nom de p lume of "Tim Bobbin," was next commented upon. Collier, the poor schoolmaster of Milnrow (Roch dale), was by no means the simple diabict writer he was generally imagined. He (Mr. II) was sorry that he had overlooked him in his recently pub lished "History of Preston and its Environs," as he had lately discovered him to be a better anti quarian topographer than his compeer, the Rev. John Whitaker. Collier, during the rev. gentle man's lifetime, successfully attacked many of the crude theories and dogmatism perpetrated by the historian of Manchester. Nay, he spared not his rival's literary style, and unquestionably excelled him in this reqoect. Collier's serious prose is re markable for the purity of its English, and its terse and perspicuousexpression. "Tummus and Meary" was scarcely readable tow, even by many persons living in the vicinity of Rochdale, on account of the variation which has since taken place in the dialect. The true value of " Tumulus and. Me try" consisted in its faithful pictures of the habits, cha racter, and manners of the persons among whom the author lived. On looking over his poems, he had found one which he thought worth his while to read, as it contained a vast amount of fun and good humour, though not much poetry. He could not award to Collier any great merit in this parti cular. Collier's want of sympathy with rhetorical expression might be gathered from the circumstance that he strongly objects to its u=e by the Rev. John Whitaker. The author of " Tummus and Meary" thought it an unpardonable offence in the historian of Manchester to personify the ancient oaks of the neighbourhood. And yet he had merely stated that they annually shed their acorns for the sus tenance of the wild pigs which roamed the forest. " Tim" sturdily declared his firm conviction that the said oaks would have acted precisely in a simi lar manner if the entire porcine population hail selected. some other locality for their peregrinations. Mr. Hardwick then read the poem, " Hob and the Quack Doctor," a tale of 1762, which occasioned ,much mirth. Samuel Bamford, the poet of the old Radicals, was next introduced. His writing attracted the attention of Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, by whom he TM patronised. Bamford was the companion of Hunt and Johnson, and was tried for conspiracy on the occasion of the slaughter of Peterleo Fields, in Manchester, and suffered im prisonment. A sturdy John Bullism was exhibited in his work " The Life of a Radical," which he wrote some time afterwards, and which contained the celebrated " LAlloRehird Hymn," The publica- NAVAL AND ,aiIITARYINTELLIGENCg. His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by Gen. Peel, and attended by Col. Tyrwhitt and Col. 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Gorgon is to have a ship's company to consist yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. . Stuart de Decies."— Cara No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable of 120 able-bodied seamen (20 extra hands to be agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, drawn from Davenport and 20 from Chatham), datulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. 'Karla Jolly, ''Northam g p and one serprivates of Royal Marine cant and 10 Ling, near Digs, Norfolk. —C u re No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, Li g ht Infs.. ntry. of gazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nor- The gang of shipwrights' artificers employed in v3.isneas, Indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— ' ice No, 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver- repairing and bringing forward the iron paddlewheel ,0,1: a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita- steam vessel Oberon at Woolwich were yesterday re- Witty. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep- i b s em. directions from the Admiralty, sia, emus irritability. Cure No. 34, 210 . Dr. Shorland of dropsy move, y p -al and debility. eu -E . -No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. and were ordered to take up the paddlewheel steam Cure No. 42,116 Major Edit) of enlargement of the liver and total sloop Barracouta (late on the East India and China prostration of strength: Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of , to b e fitted for the cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey stati on ) , pennant , it is said, of of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con- Commander his Serene Highness Victor F.F. E. G. gumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of pars. A C.. F lists. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley F. Prince of Hohenlohe-Laneenbourg, late , . of thirty years diseased lun g s, spittin g of blood, liver derangement , in'lltenant in H. M.'s 50 gunship Raleigh. The paddle Part ial deafness. Cure N. 4 -,814. Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, wheel steam sloop Prometheus is also fast progress of two years' diarrhoea , Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess ry D 1 . - of Castieatnart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and incli- ing for COIIIIBSIOII. The following vessels are at ,estion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cu red of con- present in basin and dock at Woolwich : — Bann, gum ption, after her medical advi sers had abandoned a ll hopes of - 5ir .„,... Prometheus, Oberon, Archer, Mistletoe, recovory. Cure NO, 180. " Twenty-five years' nervousness, con- lull'' , itipat i o a. indigestion. ; end debility, f rom which I have suffere d great Rhadaman thus, Barracouta, Rifleman, Spiteful, misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured b 3 Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. o . '—. -,-,- G *.gon, Dee, Bustler, Black Eagle Princess Alice, " was , nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dig- Vivid, Racer, Banshee, Monkey, Widgeon, Julia, Challenger wh i c h my s e r vant had consulted the advice 'of many, have been The freig e ff ectua lly cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be Argus, and Ripple. lcship Bencleugh, Miller master, yes ,iippy re answer any inquiries.. Rev, John Flavell, Ridlington Rec- ter commenced shipping military stores front • or s, i, r folk ." No. 32 , 836 . "Three years' excessive nervousness, ~!ay with pains Ni in my neck and left arm, and general debili t y, which ren - Woolwich for the Mauritius ; and the Patricia dered m y life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du rece i ve d a cargo of military clothing and other B a rry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Rees, Sk ibb e reen." Cure No. 3 , 906 . " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, store, for Jamaica. a nd general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent The following appointments were made yester- Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." day at the Admiralty : i m portant Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imit a talons:— Captain—George W. Preedy to the Agamemnon. The Vice Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc- Master— A Moriart t 0 amemnon. the A ti o n on the 10th Marcb, 1854 , against Alfred Hooper Neville, for enry y g H i m itating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." i Paymaster—John N. 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The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the journals of tha United Kingdom and the Colonies. troduced, and the lecturer read a very beautiful and affecting little poem, marked by great origi nality, called " The Little Winter Grave" which, said Mr. Hardwick, gave promise that Mr. Chad wick would produce something worthy of remem% brance beyond his native county. The last of the Lancashire poets mentioned John Stanyaa Bigg, of Illverston .whose name the lecturer had every reason-t o believe would, if it, did Rot already,.occnpy the first place amongst taut - poets of this county. It was this" fhb of many - young poets, such as Alex. Smith, Si dney Yendy a, or Dobell, allmen of extraordinary ge n i us, to cover their poetic structure with profuse ornamentation' and he felt bound to confess that the poetry of J ohn Stanyan Bigg was open to - this objection. Before any edifice received its decoration, its general form should be well studied and developed. Neverthe less, when Bigg - 's great work "Night and the Soul," was carefully examined, its originality, its exuber ance of image and metaphor, its freshness and power, were most apparent. He had in him the true life and enthusiasm of the poet. The lecturer then read a portion of this poem, the soliloquy of Alexis, beginning "Oh thought ! what are thou but a fluttering life I" and a concluding minor poem, from which it might be predicted that john - Stanyan Bigg stood a fair chance of being one day ranked among the honoured bards of the nation. 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. _ The lecturer briefly acknowledged it, and the company separated, pronouncing the evening's en ttrtainment one of the pleasantest they had ever enjoyed. THE OVERLAND ROUTE. ADEN, Mlateir 12. Before this reaches London you will have doubt- . less heard more than one account of the late dia -1 agreeable affair at Suez, connectedwith 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 it is to be hoped that a sitting inquiry will be instituted in order to discover who are the culprits on either . , side i 4 this most savg,til, 1444..yi k .: - - ~ -,i.-',, - 4 , ,4,4-,:,,,;-,.-i; , 1'... - - ',+ i , . Piolikh •110'reaent-011' • . .., ..1 . „ .e ,, : 4 ,, i ,, , es., thought that a plain statement_ of the fiefisrai '7- 7 1 .4 ~, - ' '.. - 7. ..."'-' - 1 lated to me by three of the passengers who were ~7 - '--- on board the Pottinger at the tinie,. and who have '---- no connection whatever with either party, might • be useful in enabling the piiblicat,home to forma' correct judgment of what actually trimph-el It appears, then, that the Pottinger, having been ordered to convey a detachment of troops to Bom bay, took in at Suez sufficient provisions for 320 mem fbr 28'days. The detachment had not reached Suez on the 27th, and the commander, it appears, foreseeing that the men would not be comfortable if permitted to come on board *bile the expeetei cargo was being taken in; suggested to the authori ties at Suez the propriety of their being embarked on board the hulk Zenobia (where ample acronamo , dation was provided) nail the steamer Wits quite ready; to receive them. For some reason, however, this prudent suggestion was overruled, and the Men *ere embarked on board the Pottinger late ' that eVening. • Grog was immediately nerved out to, them,. but the hen had no bedi, it hatring been re ported to the captain that the men'ibedding would be sent with them. Some disagreeableness is said to have arisen at this early stage between the purser of the vessel and the colonel, the latter being very muc Ichagrined that au entire cabin had not been user ed for . him, instead of his being made to ()cell al:fob:in with Goland Andersen, one of the passe gers. !Purina ,the eight the cargo arrived, and e can *eiiily conceive` that the snow *ere not 1 _camf rtablp undek_ siach airbuxastanizell;. awittiottt ' :. beds, as .. Apy.were, and a cold wind blowing. N t day it - complaint was -merle-Mend the -big cn it, mitt ettneted gut.that A Mac, yalich .kid bean -_ du b ard,fer„two • or three months had been served out. This was soun• .rectitie-d; • 'and- ma -further • - corn a mts made on that.l l A44: _ t Sh rtly after noon the cAopel and several of offic s; ate/tided - by elome — of the theft' eiriying a'' - plate of pprk,,eemplained:to:theef.V*4:thatit was, b'id, rotten, and unfit for use.' , Tlie eaf•tain, ire hear, deelated'that it wit4piefftt6tli soinicl; but t,l - colonel maintained the.'eenlrar,y,And further, that he would not allow his men to go to sea'with the pros e at' o 0 being fed !bit 'Bluth , eatiOrts.'' 41.11 (vain .. •`: 1 .was en.giyen by t the 3/1W- agenli t4-61,etaiu-t he ship util a comniittee was held on the stoles: - Fair cask wore ieimediately hoisteank thtring r which' t oper tion it appears that an ensign of the regiment', . i aPpi d a most offensive epithet to the Older super - - . . iute ding the Ofieratibui„rwho - lOs .6therivise srLb f l• - jecte to the muttered ;,tbuse of,the soldiers. FrOm , all I can learn, the verdict of the officers forming ' the mmittee was not unanimous ; but the general ,„.7t qpin on appears to have beep. ,thatt A40,0°10320 70 1 4.3..-, ~, sati,tied. My inforniants aia . not speak with `car- tail* on this pafnti - and were themselves divided in ooinion about the quality of the provisions. It seems, however, that the conduct of the men dur ing the inquiry was familiar in the extreme towards their own officers. I x ~ • .~... -~+ Matters being so far settled, the order was given to prepare for sea, when the hitherto muttered dis content of the men broke out into open insubordi nation. The Laselra who attempted to weigh the anchor were thrown off the forecastle, and tts 0f6.- cars 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 clbins, 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 Galls. 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 for the provisions to be sent on beard the Columbian (the provisions which had been condemned previously), but the captain was not authorised to wait, and, knowing that store* of the same kind were procurable in abundance at Suez, the Pottinger sailed at once 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 effectually prevent a recurrence of anything so disgraceful. A great ' errer 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 92d. 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, &a. Hitherto, indeed, nothing could have gone en 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 dplored 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 ; Lut even if that at present debateable point is proved against them, such a result will in no way exculpate the insubordinate conduct of the men, and the reported insouciane,e 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 hero should the Columbian reach before she left, and the troops be ordered to re-em bark in her. LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL—MA.BOB 30. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market has been weak to-daY l declining to per cent. soon after the; opening, and closed at the lowest point of the day. Datcbß l ani', l , l 4 P i t —Cheater and Holyhead s , 185 i—Birkenhu''..' —Sheffields, 355 i—midi and „, 9 5'$ —North British, 13 — London and North W es t er n, 94 gl—Dovers, 20 20 Berwicks, 23ti 5 York and North Midland, 361 Groat Western, 58 3—Lancoshirti and Yorkshire, 87 8 —Eastern Counties, 11 11-16 --Grand Trunk of Canada, 111 12—Great Western of Canada, 191., s—Caledonian', 43; —East Lancashire, 86 7. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 30. STOOKESCHANGIC.—This market WM very active to-day, with a fair business doing in local stocks. Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, 731—Birmingham And DerbyP, 65—Birmingham Canals, 18. LEEDS—SIAUCH 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The market waa quiet . j.... 1 iY• London and North-Westerne ) 94 I. — ldia lsnd. l3.; LP, Dovers, 20 13-16—North Eastern, Yorke, 361- - . ° 224—Lanelshire and Yorkshire, 88 5-1 6 . ogESTEB, MASON 38. ILAN wa s a quiet business doie STooir EXOLLANON.--- r vere e d re ut the doe°. Leedom; 94 to-day. 361—Birkenhead Stock , 70.1—East Lancashire, Sheffield., _ midi .. b d i t P9risr—s.Trunks, 12--IDovers, 20i—Leeds: 88 873--North t.afforclos 4 i d. .~ r ~;," I