The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

Poetrg. THOSE EVENING BRUM A PARODY. TEIOBII evenln,gbells. those eyeeingbelleet Row many a tale each pale cheek tells. Of faded bloom. and that spring time, When each dear charm was in its primai- The roseate hues have passed away, That tinged the morn of opening day; Still in the noon, there lingering-dwell?. Some grace, that of the bright put tells, Thus may it be—not wholly gone The charms that took, the rays that shone; But some memorial left, that tells How bright ye were. sweet evaningi hell& , P. D. STANZAS ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES WInCH HAVE EXCITED SO moon fft'BRICBT IN THE FATE OF CAPTAIN ROSS AND HIS COMPANLONi. QN farthest Thule's haunted shore The mermaid's moan disturbed the night. When on the brave adventurers bore s And hail'd her rocks by morning's light. Did syrens tempt the Grecian prows t More sweetly mourn'd the spirit-ehiLl, To steal o'er Valour's soft carouse. As faster rolled the surge, and wild To what far countries are they borhe. By one confederate purpose botuid t To rise some land's regenerate morn. And plant the cross on savage ground. Around the world's uncultured polp. Where winter's reign hath waied . To hid the seas asunder roll, And build their highways on the The social bond frona earth to earth, To strengthen, and at large to spread, Bear science to the Indian's hearth, And scatter wisdom round his bedl If such their 'Disarm, blest and brave. Life's firmest wishes speed their track I And you, ye highest, shield and save, And guide them in their glory back ! There springs the tear, there melts the song. To more than weakness—words of home. Its sweet endearments, forfeit long, Are tender sounds when none may come. Three times the sun on Chiloe's plains Tempts down the condor from his hold Three times emerged from mantling rains. He strings Dufrefield's crags with gold. O gallant chief, and comrades brave I Beneath what star's meridian rise, Where nct the Walrus finds a wave, Still watch or sleep your distant eyes i Say, some fair power, if 'ticed forth To climes where man in vain endures, They charm the spirits of the north, And press their winged paramours ? In splendid halls the banquet spread, "Where coral lips Eolians wind, And while enchantment drowns the head. Strew loose the morals of the mind! In vain we dwell on themes like these ; Give back to night the ancient reign ; And theirs is still, by wise decrees, The life or lot of common men. Oh, think not in that faith they err'd, That so to brave inclement climes, Some God or power within them stirr'd, And gave them strength in dangerous times. And if in sleep, how blest they lie, . Wrapt in the oak their England bred. With foreheads whitening to the sky, And all her colours round their head. In glory sinks their latest dream, Like honour braved by fortune's storms The sigh that clouds life's parting beam, Descends in marble round their forms. No sound from life's more human walks. To tame from silence back the waste; In wildness on the ice-bear stalks, His paths to drearer winters haste. Yet, shall conjecture fix their fall, Whom still a brother band might wet Or distant hands drag down the pall. Whose union might avert the grave I O then, with what unmingled pride, We'd press to hear their fortunes tQld I And If in England's cause they died. Hose just her honour for the bold I THE LITTLE OLD YEAR. SATURN is in the act of swallowing the youngest of his pro geny ! Poor 1834 like a pike in the pouch of a pelican, is ma king immense efforts to hap its tail for the last time, befote it is engulphal in the illimitable maw of its insatiable sire. Its last luck is pathetically comic, like that of a young frog in the bill "of'a (tuck. Exit 1832! The year that is going to go, has brought forth few as re markabie events, and dealt mere in remarkable promises, than any of its immediate predecessors. It lived on the reputation of its father, and if that David of a year, 1831, had not be queathed the Reform Bill and the Belgian question to its suc cessor, wouldhave had still less of the Solomon about it. It owed so much to delay, that delay has taken it in execution. It has been a year of delays; its recoid will be called the little annual. It has left the Poses as it - found them, _oppressed and spirit-broken ; the Northern powers as it found them, inclined, but not prepared, for war—Germany as it found her, like a shell with the fuze out, looking as if it would explode if it *could. Turkey is only were it was, except that matters have, groWn a little worse with it. What has 1832 done for Belgitim ? Ant werp is taken by capitulation, and Belgium by sulprise. Hol land has little to thank 183 c for. Prance, with La Vendee, and the Castles of .thaye, and 1-lam, and an army flushed but not satisfied with conquest, owes it, nevertheless ' a something which may be called consolidation. In Spain, 1.832- has set up a liberal WILECII, but has faiied to support her even so long as it might; and in Portugal it has brought Pedro to Oporto, and has left him there ; Greece has gained a little King, and .bava ria a tittle consequence. In fact, all the events of the year are little events, and there has been great littleness in the lenthy protocols, and affectation of neutrality which have brougnt these events about. 1832 has done little for America, and ha as probably laid the foundation of a little republic there, indepen tienty of the United States; it has wrought England in that quarter a little loss, as her colonies complain bitterly of the littleness of her conduct towards them. The only great act which this year as to record is the Reform Law of .k;ngland, and that was secured in 1831. Thus far the political character of the past year. In Literature, the little has prevailed largely. The sprats have choked the whale • five farthings will furnish a lib ra ry with the productions of 1832. Literature is plenty, but not -cheap; it is only dispensed in smaller quantitiei than before . this is one. of the characters of littleness. In the Fine Artslitt.e has been done; the-stage has exhibited little talent; at the bar, lit tle men have been exalted; and little has been dorie by the church to give a grandeur'and dignity to its almost inevitable fall. Little, very little, have been the productions of the year, and we have already exhausted the little that ought to be said ou the stneet.—Attas. ZINC MILK-PAILS.—Among the patents recently taken out in America, one is for aprocess for extracting cream f rom miik by the use of zinc. It is said that if Zinc be put into the milk pan, or the milk be put into a vessel made of that substance, the same quantity of milk will yield - a grantor quantity of cream or butler.— 2 'jai e..ft THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. ANTEDILUVIAN REMAINS.—In the middle of last month two fishermen, being employed on the banks of the Lippe, near the village of Absen, in Westphaiia, at a moment when the water was unprecedentedly low, discovered a heap of bones lying in the bed of the river, and conveyed them ashore. It was a su perb and perfect specimen of a mammoth's head, in excellent preservation, and of an unusual size. For instance, the four grinders are from six to nine inches in diameter, and the two tusks, one of which was found adhering to the chin-bone, are between three and four feet in length. 'I he fishermen parted with their prize for a mere song, and it was conveyed to Hat tern, where, we understand, after it had been examined by two of the professors from Bonn, it was sold to them for the use of the Zoological Museum in that university. A further search has been made in the Lippe, but without success. A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CUSTOM is said to prevail among the Vizerees, a powerful tribe occupying an extensive district in Caubul, among the mountains between Persia and India. It is, in fact, a female prerogative that has no parallel among any other people bpon earth, and that reverses what we are in the habit of considering the natural older of things; the women choose their husbands, and not the husbands their wives ! If a woman is pleased with a man, she sends the drummer of the camp to pin. a handkerchief to his cap, with a pin which she has used to fasten her hair. The drummer watches his oppor tunity, and does this in public, naming the woman, and the man is immediately obliged to marry her, if he can pay her price to her father.—Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, ty the lion. Mountstuart Elphinstone. TIGIIT LACING.—Tight lacing not only prevents a due de velopment of the muscles by pressure, but, by fixing into one immoveable mass the ribs and vertebrae of the back, which, more especially in youth, should have free motion on each other, makes the whole upper part of the body a dead weight on the vertebrce of the loins, which, in consequence, give way on one or the other side, and lateral curvature is produced. Not only does tight lacing act directly in this manner, but indirectly it operates in diminishing muscular vigour by im peding. respiration. It is well known that muscuatr power bear. a relative proportion to the produce of respiration, animals hav ing the highest development of the respiratory organs being the most powerful in muscular force. light stays compress the ribs together, and prevent the play of the respiratory muscles; when applied during the growth of the body, they prevent the development of the chest, and thus lay the foundation of many diseases. The female form, at lea s t in youth, requires no artificial aid to improve it. Who would think of putting stays on the Venus ue Medicis ?—Beale's 012.yereathm.v on the Spine. THE BULGARIANS.—The Bulgarian is handsome, robust, patient, stubborn, and very jealous, with primitive manners. The stranger who puts up for the night iu a cottage has the best of everything, and sleeps on the same floor with rather and mu ' ther, sons and daughters. The women are tali and beautiful— the finest race that I saw iu Turkey, with peculiarly small bands and feet. Their costume is elegant, consisting of a striped shift, which covers without concealing the bust, fastened round the throat with a heavy gold or silver clasp, a short worked petticoat, and au embroidered pelisse a la Polonaise, confined by a broad ornamental girdle. The hair is dressed in long braids, and their writs and waists adorned with solid bracele,s and buckles; the poorest have them. Yet these nymphs of the Balkans are household slaves, and are to be seen iu the severest weather drawing water at the fountains. No peasantry in the whole world are so well off. The lowest Bulgarian has abundance of everything,—meat, poultry, eggs, milk, rice, cheese,_ wine, bread, good c.othing, a warm dwelling, and a horse to ride. It is true he has no newspaper to inflame his passions, nor a knife and fork to eat with, nor a bedstead to lie on, and therefore may be considered by some people an object of pity.—SLAD.CS TRAVELS (a very clever book). THE BELL-SHAPED SEA-NETTLE.—(Medusa Campanulata.)— Whoever has been in the habit of walking on the sea shore, must have observed, when the tide has retired, a number of substances, lying on the sand, in appearance like masses of jelly; in the summer season they are extremely abundant, and in warmer climates are found of a very large size. These sub stances, notwithstanding their appearance, will be found on examination to be living bodies, and as perfectly formed for all the purposes of their nature, as any other part of the works of the great Creator. '1 h e i r bodies are nearly transparent, and the different organs they enclose are faintly visible to the eye; their form is that of a saucer upside down, and the mouth is placed below. The outward ed ge of thi s body is furnished with numerous arms, which gr,duady taper towards the ends, where they appear like so many threads; with these arms, the crea ture is able to convey its food to its mouth; small fish, or any other animal substance that comes within its reach, afford it the means of subsistence. The indigestible parts of the food which are swallowed, are, after a time, returned by means of the mouth. Many varieties of the medusa are phosphorescent; that is, they shine at night with a pale blue flame, like that of phosphorus, and their appearance, when floating in large groups on the surface of the sea, on a dark night, is extremely beau tiful. Some species have the power of benumbing the hand, when touched, and have had the name of sea-nettles applied to them. The appearance of many is peculiarly gracefui and ele gant, from the delicate colours with which they are adorned. The bodies of some among them are of a light azure blue, the border surrounded with the appearance of golden beads like a coronet, from which stream, in every direction, delicate threads of a bright carmine colour; in short, almost all those that are found in warmer climates have something pleasing either in form or colour. Its natural size is about one inch in width. It is an inhabitant of the Greenland seas.—Satarday Magazine. THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICA"( LANTERN-FLY.—The variety so observable in all the handiworks of nature, is not more end less than the beauty displayed by each individual form. The traveller who first observed this curious insect, would hardly • have ventured to describe its peculiarities on his own single authority, its appearance being so unlike any thing before known. To have said that it throws out a light, bright enough to read the smallest print by, and that, when several were tied to the end of a stick, they afforded nearly as much light as a torch, would hardly have met with belief; yet both these facts are undoubtedly true. The part of the insect in which this property is seated, is the head, which is large, and of an oblong shape; during the day, it is transparent like a bladder, and delicately marked with red and green. The body is ornamented with the same colours, but much more brilliantly. It is a native of South America, and common in Surinam. Madame Merian, the celebrated writer on insects, gives an interesting description of the effect produced by their appearance at night. " Some Indians having one day brought a number of lantern flies, I put them into a great box, being at that time ignorant of their lumi nous properties. During the night, hearing a nosie, 1 jumped out of bed, and a candie being brought to me, I 'soon found that the sound came from the box, which I quickly opened; but, frightened at seeing a flame, or, 1 should rather say, as many flames as there were insects, proceed from it, I at first dropped it. Having recovered, however, from my astonishment, or rather fright, I recaptured all m y insects, in admiration of their splendid ,appearance."—Of the lantern flies there are several kinds; the most noted of which are, the species found in South America, and another, less in size, which is frequent in China. The only English insect that possesses. this luminous power in any degree, is the glow-worm, the female of which may be Ire quent4 found on a moist bank, in a warm evening of autumn, giving out a feeble blue light, of sufficient power to tinge the blades of grass, to about the distance of an inch around it.-- Saturday Magazine. POP:TRY AND POLITICS.-All genuine poets are fervid po liticians. Perhaps we owe the inimitable Rape of the Lock" to the physical weakness of the author, and his consequent determination to excel in sofa and lap-dog poetry; yet was not he, v as not Pope himself, a politician ? Aye, and a great one. W hat is poets) , but impassioned truth—philosophy in its essence—the spirit of that bright consummate flower whose root is in our bosoms? Are.there no politics in Hamlet ? Is not the drama of Wallenstein, a sublime political treatise ? Napo deon was a great poet, when pointing to the pyramids he said to his army ?—" Forty centuries look down upon us !" Per haps the finest poem in the world is the declaration of Newton - relative to his discoveries—" That he was only like a child gathering pebbles on the shore, While the great ocean of truth lay undiscoveied before him !" The sagacious Bacon and the pious 'Taylor were both poets of a high order, and I will engage to quote as fine illustrative poetry as ever was written from the prose of Jeremy Bentham. All true and lasting poetry is rooted m the business of life ' • that of Burns, for instance, would have lost half its value, and have been forgotten, or perhaps never heard of had it not reflected the eofours of the wonderful age that was passing over him. How else happens it that the proudest peer finds himself unable to despise Willie's vulgar " peck o' maut ?" that the vilest horoughinonger is compelled to join in the poet's hearty welcome of " Dutnourier to his despots," and that in a country where poverty and truth are criminal, the lips of fine gentlemen are familiar with the name of a gauger? Where will our children look for the liviny cha racter of the year 1793? Will Burke the turn-coat inform them " that titles (rank in oriy.) are but the guinea's stamp?" Or will they learn from the writings of Burns, and from his life, that during a certain crusade of ignominy it was necessary, yet perilous, and his case fatal to say, " the man's the goud for a' that."—Preface to " COM Law Rhymes." AN EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE S .-411*. Luke Gibson, of Tem plepatrick, in a letter to the Guardian, states, that he has disco vered, in the towniand of Ballynaman, within one mile of Glass lough, Cicny Cooney, better known by the name of Cicily Battle. She is 130 years of age, her youngest daughter is bu, and what is most extraordinary, she never took a doctor's drug in all her life, nor was a lancet ever applied to her frame. She is perfectly free of affections of the chest, and, during the last century of her life, she has been a perfect stranger to pain, and her pulse does not exceed 7U. Her grandfather died at the good old age of 129. Her father, John Cooney, was bred in the town of Donegal and followed the army of James to Mayo, where he pied in the 120th year of his age. BAD EFFECTS OF SMOKING TOBACCO.—The practice of smok ing is now so general, that our atmosphere is strongly poisoned with tobacco smoke. The air is sufficiently impure in this me tropolis without further contamination. At every corner we see a number of pipes or cigars, especially in the mouths of boys and young men. The had efiects of tobacco are first produced on the glands of the mouth, which form the saliva; these are ex cited and form an increased quantity of this fluid, which, in stead of passing into the stomach, to assist in digesting the food, is expelled from the mouth. Great smokers have weakened powers of digestion and are subject to bilious and nervous com plaints, lowness of spirits, and diseases of the lungs and brain. The German medical writers allege, that of twenty deaths of men, between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years, ten are destroyed by tobacco. This substance is one of the most pow erful narcotics and debilitants; will produce stupor, drowsiness, head ache, vomiting, and defective vision, when used in excess; and, therefore, when long continued, and frequently employed, must be injurious to health.—London Medical and Surgical Journal. MATTHEWS THE SMUGGLER.—When I found myself in the cabin with the bold outlaw—for Matthews had been legally de nounced for many daring and successful contests with the reve nue—l could not but admire the thorough indifference to pos sible consequences which this singutar personage exhibited. lie knew that several men-of-war were at that moment cruising on•the station, and that they had been apprised he had sauces flour Flushing, and that this coast was the spot selected by the owners to effect the landing ; yet he laughed and drank as gaily as 1 should in a club-house, and despatched the messages winch were occasionally brought down with perfect nonchalance. He spoke principally of his own exploits, and the scene was ad mirably in keeping. Around the cabin, muskets, pistols, and blunderbusses were secured in arm-racks, and cutlasses and tomahawks were suspended from the buck-heads. His had been a wild career; and though not past the middle age, his life teemed with "perilous adventure." I was so much amused with his varied narratives of brave attempts and desperate suc cesses, that the second hour slipped away before I rose and took my departure. On regaining tne deck the hurry of the business was over. 'I he contraband cargo .had been replaced by stone ballast; for, by previous arrangement, each boat brought a quantity of shingle from the beach, and hence the smuggler was already in trim and ready to stand out to sea. lhis• noto rious vessel was considered in size and sailing superior to any of a similar class, and her voyages had been numerous and successful. Her armament was formidable; 16 heavy carro nudes were extended along the deck, with two long brass guns of a smaller calibre, and every other appurtenance of war was in perfect efficiency. But the most striking object was her ferocious-looking, but magnificent clew; they seemed only formed for "the battle and the breeze," and well justified their wild commander's boast, "that he could thrash any cruiser of his own size, and land his cargo in six hours afterwards." Vv e left the vessel; and, to judge by the kegs and cases stowed away in the gig, my cousin had, not been forgotten in the general distribution. The outlaw stood upon a carronade, and waved his hand as we . pulled from the ship's side; . and in a short time set his head-sails and stood of to sea with the ebb tide and a spanking breeze, which carrietl him out of sight directly. This was fated to be the fast' landing of the Jane, and the last exploit of her commander; She foundered on her next voyage, and every person on board perished with the vessel.—Wilii Sports of the West. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR.—It is easy to give good advice, and sometimes difficult to follow it. But good advice should be given, nevertheless, if it were only to sword people au opportunity of embracing it. '1 here are certain sallies so obvious, that we suffer them to escape altogether, in the confidence that we cannot miss their performance. 'this is a season of duties, as well as enjoyment; and the fulfilment of the duties is the most satisfactory of ail the enjoyments. Merry Christmas! happy Christmas ! are joyful phrases to the ears of the well-housed and weir-provided ; but how do they smite on the ears of the poor and the desolate, the wretches forsaken by fortune, and abandoned to misery ? If those who are gladden ed by the approach of the annual festival of our common refi gion were to make to themselves a picture of the famishing outcasts, that cannot even light up a bramble on their cold hearths to welcome the returning anniversary, they would find no slight share of their own happiness to consist in contributing something to the happiness of others. 'the good cheer of the hall would not be much diminished by a trifling levy for the cheer less without. Every body can spare something; and the small est kindness, lin proportion to the means of him who bestows, will have its ample reward in the double blessing of the giver and the receiver. 'there are a thousand trifling resources at the command of the least wealthy, by which they could alleviate the wants of those who want food and clothes. We never miss the crumb or the garment that is bestowed in charity. 'the worst of it is that we are accustomed to look upon Christmas as a season of gifts and courtesies, and that we employ ourselves in divising presents for those who do not need them, that we May maintain ourselveS in the estimation of our friends; in stead of extending bur sympathies where they would be telt as a boon, that we-might maintain ourselves in our own estimation. There is More money given away at Christmas to servants, and more expensive offerings to young people, than would save multi tudes of families from passing the day without fire or food. Can we not compromise with this pleasant usage, and dedicate a floc- Lion of what we propose to expend, to the houseless, the friend less, and the sick? Now that the science of social economy is beginning to be better understood, the poor are likeiy to be better cared for. But, after ail, they will not meet such kind nesses as were Stored up for them in old times,, when Christmas came like a gladdener of hearts unto men, and spread smiles over the land. The ancient rites - are'rapidly - failing into decay. Their last strong-hold is the North, and even there the pressure of domestic difficulty spoils the relish for benevolent supersti tion, and nothin g remains but the desire to furnish the calf without its garlands of triumph and rejoicing. 1. he " waits" are dying in the metropolis. 'their melancholy music is rarely heard floating on the frosty air, and disturbing the night with the mixed associations of by-gone pain and departed pleasure. Time, the great innovator, has broken the goluen wand of the enchanter, and seared up the springs of the festive poetry of the heart. Yet how Druid-like is our ideal impersonation of hear ty and venerable Christmas ! We may banish his circles of magic, his grotesque feats of merriment, his gatherings, his quips and cranks, his apples and puddings, his smoking sirloins and bowls of royal punch, his bands of masquers, his tricks and disguises, his invocations, songs, and revels; but we cannot banish our reverence for the Ancient of Days. His shadow darkens the door-way. and casts before the fretted outline of thoewmig five sse , t , o fi ewreath, and the holly boughs, and droping berries. lie advances upon us with a reverend air, his blanched beard flowing kneives in length" down his mantle of snow He bath the Druid's look of inspiration; but there is no goluen fatx in his girdle, no wicker cage at his foot, no cry of human agony rings in his ear, and flames springing from the blood of immolated victi m s " sear n o t hi s eye-bads. "the cross is em broidered on his bosom, and its benevolence and charities are typified in his face. This is lie with whom Woden vainly strug g,ed to keep Valhalla—he' who struck down the father of the gods in his own tempie—to whom Lis yielded his sovereignty in Hades--before whom Brahma quails, and the Ishadnas bow pown, and Juggernaut descends from his car of victory. '1 his - is he, merry Noel, who fought under the banners of Constan tine, and before whom Saladin vailed the turban. 'the welcome of the heart to thee, patriarch of many centuries, who, coming but once a year, cometh in joy and glory, full of hope, and prayer, and promise. \V hat scenes sloth not Christmas visit on this occasion—what sad aspects doth he not gaze upon—and what thoughtl ess jest-m a k er s uoth he surprise in their mischief. He peeps into the cells of Ham, and bringeth comfort to the condemned of the Revolution; he visits old Chasse in his for tress, and they make a jovial night together, even although it prove that Veteran's last; at Blaye he cheers the imprisoned Ruches d e B err i , w h o f orge t s h er griefs in his honoured com pany; at Oporto he intercedes for an armistice, and the soldiers drop their weapons and carouse; he is every where a Comforter, and even the poor and homeless he cometh not without pleasur able remembrances of the Past, when they receive him with " nods, and becks and wreathed smiles," and when Poverty had not stricken them down, and there was a light of future brightly burning on tl eir path. '1 here are none so poor to whom Christmas dolls not come laden with some consolation, either of time that has been and that may be again, or of that fortitude which girdeth the mind for its toils, and streugtheneth man in wisdom and patience. Be jovial, then, with old Christ mas ; we may nut often meet again, and as we know not whether there may be Yule clogs or wassail cups in the Place of Sha dows, let us have them here. Let the blaze mount to the roof, and bid the cup mantle to the brim—a health, a welcome, and a safe and prosperous return this time twelvemonths' hence,. to GOOD OLD CHRISTMAS I—Atlas. ELLC PION FOR THE SOUTH DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTING hAM. The nomination for the South Division of the County took place on Monday, at Newark. About ten o'clock the Earl of Lincoln arrived, escorted by about two hundred horsemen ; and shortly afterwards Mr. Denison came in, most respeCtably attended. After the usual preliminary readings and oaths, JOHN SMITH WRIGHT, Esq., of ktempstone, proposed John Evelyn Denison, Esq., as a proper person to represent that division of the Uounty of Nottingham in Parliament; and the Rev. E. L."I'IIORNTON seconded that nomination. Sir R. H. BROMLEY, Bart., then put in nomination the Earl of Lincoln, which was seconded by JOHN EstairroN Was. coma, Esq. A show of hands took place, and there being no opposition, John Evelyn Denison, Esq., and the Earl of Lincoln were declared duly elected, and their swords were girded on at Knights of the Shire. JOHN EVELYN DENISON, Esq. then addressed the assem blage as follows :—With whatever degree of confidence from the uniform kindness that I have experienced at your hands, I might have come this day to the hail, I was not prepared for so great and extraordinary a mark of favor; nor dio 1 expect that the first words which 1 should have to address to you would be spoken as your elected representative; words of thanks for your confidence bestowed, rather than an exposition of the grounds on which that confidence was sought. from the bottom of my heart 1 thank you. Before I enter on any general topics, you must allow me to return my thanks to my two friends, who have introduced me to your notice to day, with expressions indeed of too indulgent partiality, far overrating my abilities, though not my disposition to serve you. Gentlemen, you have been told to day that you are met to elect representatives to the first re formed parliament. The novelty of the scene berme us, the attendance of the High Sheriff at this pla ce , wouldof them selves remind us that we stand at the commencement of a new political era. Your first duty under the reform hitt commences this day. To that measure 1 was a party; and if I were to at tempt to describe to you in a word the disposition with which I should enter upon your service, it would be to obtain for you ail the,legitimate fruits that may be derived from that measure. Its end, good government; by up roo ti ng ai l a b uses , ecciesiasti cal or civil, in every department of the state—the enforcement of a strict and rigid economy, the diminution 01 taxation where ever practicable, the removal of its pressure from the shoulders of those reast abie, to the shoulders of those best able to b e ar it. But neither must we forget, while we are remanding for the popular branch of the legislature its full expanded lights, that we must not invade the privileges of the co-ordinate brand'', and we must respect th e p rerogative , an d u ph ol d th e di gn ity the crown. Such are the principles which should actuate a re; formed house of commons. Need I say should actuate ? Had 1 been addressing you ten days back, this might have been 0, question of hope, o f d ou btf u l anticipation; but the progress of the elections has changed hope into confidence, and doubt into certainty. Look at the great untried constituencies of the me tropoiis, where every means has been attempted to excite, 10 mislead, to amide. The day of election arrived, the true send' went of the public pronounced. itself, order and moderation prevailed, the demon of faction was at once laid in the largest city of the empire and of the world, and the pledge-be-spat' tered demagogues stand objects of riuieule and contempt to their own misguided followers. -Gentlemen, you wilt expect me to enter more particulatly on some topics of prevailing in terest at the present moment. None can exceed in importane, the interests of agricu l tu re . I n m y first audress to you I sail that as in the new balance of political power under the reform bill a great increase of strength was conceded to the inhabitants of the large manufacturing and trading towns, it became mot e especially the duty of the members for counties to attena to the interests of this land. Let me not be misunderstood to believe that the interests Of those classes are separate and distinct; if I had held so foolish an opinion, my c a n vas th roug h th e coun t y wou ld h ave di spe lle it, where the just and reasonable sentiment prevails that those interests must stand and fan together; and that prices not e S' travagantly high, but reasonable and steady, will be found most advantageous to both. In my opinion the present corn la' had better Hot be tampered with. The objections to a pan: duty, without reference to variation of price, are, that it was' sometimes be too high, and sometim e s t oo l o w, a nd by the veil circumstance that it does not itself vary, while the other quail; titles is perpetually varying, it would be introducing perpetuP. inequalities. But a scale of duties, such as we have at present!' varying inversely with the price of corn, correcting the execs , : and making up the d e fi c i enc y, seems calculated in reason, and appears in practice, to attold the best chance of . general steads' ness, a property more valuable, even than occasional cheapno' in the subsistence of the people. This opinion appears to mee t with your approbation. You will be glad to hear that one Wh o speaks with much more weight and authority than 1 can pre; tend to do, has expressed opinions not very dissimilar, for see that Lord Althorpe, at his election in /Northamptonshire: said that thOugh, in his opinion, the pregent corn laws had 1 1 °' perfectly answered their object, yet, amongst the many Me' tant questions which pressed for consicteration, he aid not end ; merate them, and he would gladly see th e m l e ft at lest. But the happiness of rural lif e , and th e we lf are o f th e agric ultural classes do not by any means solely depend on these la , v, s ; Many others require ou r cons id era ti on; th e regu l at i on o f the poor laws—the reduction of the county rates—the iniproverrie n ( of the condition of the labouring ciasses—and the means , more completely identifying thei r in t eres t s w ith our ow n, ha l `, all occupied, and shall c o nt inue t o occu py, my unceas i ng atta ci tion. 'these, to some, may appear humble and undigniti! topics, but they concern that cla s s w ho, in e v ery cow:null form far the largest number, and to m e n o n e a ppear more 1 , teresting or important. I come n e xt to a subj e ct 'which,: o point of feeling, excites an.interest still more liv e ly and acute' I mean the question of colonial slavery. shall not, I believe; misinterpret the feeling of this c oun ty, w h en I s t a t e it to be 8 i ~ unequivocal abhorrence of slavery in the abstract, a detain', nation to improve the condition of the slave, as a means _.°; elevating him to freedom. It is not my p ur po s e to excite You , feelings, rather is it to c all y o ur delib era t e j udgm ent into e0! 1,, ' sel upon the best course to pursue on this important and dis h ' cult subjct. We must remember that it is our duty i t °P to do the e greatest yossible good, but to do it with the ntli ct !_. ° 4 of the least possible evil; and I have been happy to that among those Most eager to hasten the day of pation, a foil sense of the intermediate difficulties pro .° Let it be our study, by film, but temperate pet,:everan, ce ; to overcome these, and so to grant freedom, that to all may be a source of unqualified hiessing. On this, as on other subjects, your zeaious servant anti your honest courisel or tc , you will ruways find sue; a flatterer you would not wish me I be. I should here be content to slop, if it were not tha t e would entreat your attention for a moment to a matter in s et ; degree more personal to myself. 'You have bet u told thatitrie independence of the county has been sacrificed to an a ristn • re tic alliance. I repel the assertion. I nisi, to expose berloviii you the whole course of my conduct in this ejectoni. I As keep nothing from you from its commencement to its close. the Reform Biil divided the county, and constituted CPI division a separate county for the purposes of re presentaticl i i! e b always thought that the line, wherever it might fad, wl 0 , 1 prescribes those boundaries, would prescribe also for me de d duty. When I first came down to the county I beard it , in 01 ernanclis, generally surmised, that I should accompany my colleague, Lout Lumley, into the northern division, and then e ndeavour, y , secure for both of us a quiet re-election; but the line o f s t y, Reform Bill had placed my property and lesidence in these I",; I could not indeed overlook that I. possessed the advantage 4 connection and many - friendships' of great influence and I , .'it erful support in the northern division, but on that inituenL e te r would be presumed that I leant, and not on my own eharae t 'be and conduct, and I could not for a moment hesitate in Q choice. I wrote to my friends—the Duke o f P or tl an d ar oo ' l ,s others, stating my decision,—that I was aware it would sepat:o me from the advantage of great support, but that if 1 s a i e rt the House of Commons at all, I must sit in the irit of pe,,t, o f independence. The answ er o f my ili enus and the Duke Portland was, that they p er f ec tl y agree d i n the propriety °:ioes decision. Does this l oo k lik e an aristocratic alliance--qv this look like a sacrifice of the indepenuence of the countY t 'he like a preference o f p r i vate to public interests ? It Thig h esti charged with want of wisdom or want of prudence, —i t o pe hardly be said to be wanting in independence. In the e°, for of my canva ss I have unifo.mly conlincd mysull to askittef. one vote for my se lf, l ute' feting between the other calla' neither with h os ti l it y nor partiality. Is there 'ally . seniblan e ti ati an aristoct atic alliance in thi s ? B u t pei haps it is to be I° to in the clo s in g scene, which has brought only two candidn te tot the nomination. A:misconception has, I know, prevailed. „i ri e Mr. Nor t on' s re ti rement was occas i oned b y tome c omprO t be between himsolf and me. Nothing can be further ft o r O w be truth. '1 here are o th ers p resen t—friends of Mr. Not tau'' , t can spe4k more accurately on the s u bj ec t th an I can; 'dies truth it was a most simple proceeding,—one of the utivan of the registration of votes Is,- that enables cautheates to c_ 8 14 .0 late with some accuracy their chances of succ e ss. Mr. submitted his canvass to his friends, and on a carefm ation of it, it appeared to them not to be of it nature to .I,`' rt oo expectations of ultimate success, they recommenced Mr. M tv if to withdraw, and he without hesitation compiled witl!,. of o advice; acting, as it ap:xars to me, in the true siriri L t to e! gentleman : for as the spirit of' a gentleman would direc;a tt , to pursue with eagerness any object he had itudertn* - aleo l would equally direct him not to persevere in a wanton, fr tl :ot' or vexatious struggle. I can only say, that if' I had been In Mr. Norton's situati similar course. Gentlei %Ore returning you my Canvass-'--for the inutui to-day—and still more have conferred upon m ; that my conduct may I repent of your choice. The Earl of LINCOLN It is now nearly four m; With a requisition to bee County, and after some eame and appeared pub; been for the highly resp lion, and that no Uousei should not have complit or my views to be retort limes like these, when so daily agitated, it is the t feeling for the purpose c support I experienced c from my mind any dou thank you most heartily ceived me, and for your trust apologise to many sit them at their own he but the circumstances trust, plead an excuse ft snake acquaintance we thank them for their kit Portunity. I need not t liament a new consti:uo the electors will return the good of the nation a agricultural labourer, b but faction and demo; Storms and tempests art and there is scarce a spa Upon. Parties have hal altra-Tories, Whigs, are divided into two class; (Cheers.) The reform it is now our duty to giv; hay arise. There is or Words, as all present hi teration in the corn law: riot overrated the inteu touch reason to tear min tut the agricultural inter share of the burthens of farmers have always chc The returns from ail th support the manufactu . farmer; but I wid not against the manufacture ability to promote the When I look at the pi help thinking that th old system of current low stations to opulence ther topic which is no Church—and whatever Reform, and assertions With polities, I am cot Conferred by the union O provement is brought I attention, but I will supi object the spoiiation of it by right, and hy - ,tenur I am opposed to slavery immediate emancipation ruin of the masters, but or throw themselves int should loose our valuabl Upon them, slavery wo trenchment, when it ca Creditor; but not that so. Posed by Lord Althorp. they are least felt, but w "thrifty economy the to office, and porters in tit be attained; and it is tl ever he can to lighten I With regard to peace, a ently with national hon Country. War is to be !or reasons of economy Inflicting an unnecessar 'lust, and injuring an ok nothing more than mai (teed a foul stain upon Sag, which has so often how waiving in amity robbery, I ask—is the flgland's honour ? To Iti array against three m nglish mm an, and as a ;express the feelings of step that is taken will tlemen, allusion has bees Certain charges respecti tainly should not have annecessary to notice at stand forward openly, a subject has been mention from aristocratic influet t hail no desire to be a ill justice to my father I t.° come forward, and I honourable colleague. ] and I shall enter Parliat seen; and my greatest an a,nd the interests of the c have to thank you for ung as I am, I shall all 140 4ourably, and to your s Cheered, and though at ti kemed to be a general fe A vote of thanks was p 'Led by acclamation. Tb Were crowded by a great • In the afternoon the f at the hotel, and a most the Clinton Arms the frir La dinner, and Sir R. H. Koore, Esq. of Rudding,to klip toast went cheerily ro • E. Gladstone, Esq. N. lever speaker,) from tb; Let a clever speaker,) a ,9.lereury. GAS EXPLOSION.—The i4 t 4tl ic po s fa q so u tn a te r w e , 00 f w o • t a nh s e th er r ind o oa nw rym rao i of London Gas Light Co n i !, t rtillery. The gasometer I ,, k london •; they are built c 'nraber; aria had the wi p r obably the whole neighb L'he dames were seen rush k leter houses, but the eugi ti.rffered to enter the gates illiam Congreve no govt - "Survey the gas works. e l/ WINTER ASgIZES:—LE 9 • —WILFUL EIRE-RAISt P Q oniously setting fire to 6 1ler. on th e Stu o f N o ;Is a pauper in the po or -h 7mate about two minutes' tight of it. It was in the aired, the prisoner was a L Lir, i about six o'ciock. 'Qich having received, he well. He asked Sop( tht his pipe with it. S o p ( itd the prisoner went awa lipe, and going in a di ifew rods below the sta( t : a gap across a lane int Workhouse yard. On footmarks they were jr . i e circum s ta n ti a l ev id ebr Thursday the wretch pive.judgment, after all t] He is only nineteen 3 ly made, light complel * l4 tnanner was mild, but l l thout, h owever , the slip 1,7 Q as the judge put o n th 1 0 0 the inward workings %L i ked wistfully around the 117. At this moment the . I. cßighout the cou r t. Th I ,s hand t o hi s nec k erc hi e f uenc e the sobs proceeded, the gallery. Judgment 4 th en pronounced.