The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

Etterature. POETRY. [We quote the following from an excellently-written article in Fraser for this month, entitled " A Colonial Tour." To those of nor readers who are personally a'quainted with the fearless and truly Protestant Editor of the Shropshire Conservative, the beautiful lines which we quote will not perhaps convey a higher appreciation of the talents—we may say genius —of the man, than perhaps already they feel. To the author himself the unprompted tribute rf an able writer must af f ord sensa tions which none but a poet, and a gifted one, can feel.] From the Church I strolled into the Verein Garten, and fling ing myself down beneath one of the green trees that shaded me from the rich sunlight, but did not obstruct either the view of the landscape which I coveted, or the perfume of the flowers from the neighbouring Bard ns. I reflected on those ch p - ssages in the works of Ouseley.—a true poet, filled with the true Olympian fire of genius, and destined, as I think, one day to fill a niche next to Shelley, the most poetical imagination since Spenser and Shakspeare " SUMMER . The full ripe corn i, bending In waves of golden ight. The new mown hay is sending Its scents upon the night. The breeze is softly sighing, To cool the parched flowers; The ran to see them dying. • w• eps forth its gentle showLrs. The merry fish are playing. Mown yon chrystal stream, And night from day is straying, As twilight gives its glea n. And thus manhood in its prime is fu I, and ripe, and MT ng, And it scarcely deems that time can do its beauty wrong; Like the merry fish we play adown the stream of life, And we reek not of the day that gathers whit is rife. AVTUMN. The flowers are all fading, Their scents are rifled now, And night sends forth her shading Along the mon It in's brow; • The bee hath ceased its winging To flowers at early morn; The birds have ceased their singing, The scythe hath mown the corn; The harvest now is gathered, Protected from the clime, — The eaves are seared anti witheed, That late shone in their prime. Thus when fourscore years are gone o'er the frail life of man, Thne sits heavy on his throne, as near hi. brow we scan; Like the autumn leaf that falls when wind , the branches wave, Like night-shadows daylight palls,—like all, he finds a grave." Already was the summer blending gradually will autumn. but it was not this so much as th train of thought awakened in the great hutch, which seemed to me so much in unison with the beautiful poetry I have quoted. [ORIGINAL.] " SITTING ON A RAIL." BIT SECOND. Didn't we laugh heartily when sitting on a rail in a se cond class, whilst pausing at the Wigan station? We es pied a drunken old man lifted in by his friends, whose teeth were gone, and the sands of life had well nigh run their last, as a device occurred to his friend in order to prevent him losing his ticket, he plucked it out of the fumbling old man's hand, and sticking it in his hat, com mitted it to the safe-bind—safe-find guardianship of his bat-band. " There then now, wheq the guard comes, he'll see tby ticket just like every body else's, and thoult have no more troWe about it !' The old man behaved during the rest of the journey as all drunken old men, or drunken young men will, replying when nobody spoke to him, singing to himself, interpolating the conversation around him with interjections, adjectives, and the like, ridiculously droll from their very irrelevancy ; but we Shall not take upon ourselves to record either the sayings or doings of this drunken old man, lest ears polite should jar. But didn't we laugh again, more than before ?—when, just as the train was starting, a young man standing beside the rail, gave us a parting nod, with apparently no ordi nary significancy of expression, though it struck us at the time he must have the advantage over us in the matter of iecol'ected acquaiutanceship, our memory not serving us iigh:ly to the amount of recognition, on our part, of an old friend. We stared—we prepared to look even grate fully upon the features of a fellow-creature, who seemed inclined to bestow upon us this expression f parting in terest and regard! 'Twas but for half amoment we felt in this suspense, for a whole process of thought can take place in less than the smallest lapse of time ; and just when we were getting up a most proper nod in reply, we were surprised to observe a distinct nod of the fullest recognition power got up and performed by a party who sat opposite to us!! We speak advisedly when we aver that this was a case of the clearest mistake possible on our part—the convergence of the two organs of vision in a focus with the middle line of the face, cm - responding to the point of the nose and the tip of the chin, indicating that the visual lays in general naturally establish a " grand junction ter minus" not far off, and enjoy their concentrated focus in sympathy and common with the other adjective features of the countenance. Judging then from these data, which we don't mind the danger of being contradicted in, whilst looking earnestly at the man's three-quarters face, we did feel completely floored at the idea of a nod which was clearly meant for us, being appropriated by any one else, and further that such should be " all right," and the guard again " beg leave to sit—on a rail ;" puzzling ourselves to make out whether, in the present case, mesmerism bad attained so far as to make angles of incidence and angles of reflection, in matters of parting, equal to ea ch o th er , as in the matt er o f meet i ng . W e thought of the 'Yankee ex periment with th e " b ow l o f t reac l e ," and the " mirror of ink," as reflecting media; but our philoshphy tumbled down fromhtr idealrange,upwardstowardstheledgeof cau sality and comparison, when, on the man turning his face by chance more fully towards the carriage, we discovered that the eye nearest to us " had no connexion with the other concern on the other ,ide of the way l" GOr rcepon - dence having been mutually declined, we suppose, from the reason we once saw labelled up i n an Irish village, over an artisan's door, " Hopposition is the life o' trade." Backward we fell in our seat, as far as we could, cramming our handkerchief into our mouth, endeavouring to stifle a huge l aug hi ng fi t , w hi c h i m e , edierely assailed us on our discovering that the d ;,,, g ,unal of a squint had we ll nigh un done us! and coat we were liable to be tried for poaching i t , f.e. opposite neighbour's preserve! After progressing along our journey for mile upon mile bf jar and rattle—rattle. and jar —we were favoured at one of the stations with the company of a little girl, placed ;m -iler the care of the guard by some ladies from whom she parted, in the innocent sadness of childhood's simplicity ; but the tears also rol'ed fastly one after another down her Cheek, indicative of sorrow at parting with her friends. Woman's tears at parting moments are not infrequent episodes in every day life; but girlhood's tears are less scarce still, being their ready silver currency whenever golden moments are about to be broken up and exchanged ! Whilst the train slowly increased towards its velocity, our sympathies could not be entirely diverted from our little travelling companion, any more than that of others pre sent, not excepting the iron-faced guard, to whose tender solicitude her juvenile fears had been consigned, a lamb of 'the humen flock ; and to whose guardianship as well, we afterwards observed, a bleating lamb of a less gifted race bad been comm'tted, and which occupied the " locker" under her seat, and which be lugged out, tied by a fore .and hind leg together, after a few miles run, having much enjoyed, doubtless, the ride it had " booked" for, its own locomotives being now sick of their strike for work ! ' What ails thee, young one? what? why pull so at thy cord?'' Perhaps the rapid motion of the train tends to subdue the activity of thought, and exuberance of restless obser vations, down into the more sober channel of reflection, .not less profitable perhaps than the fernier, either in point of direct mental exercise or habit; yet we remarked that whilst for same time this state of mind may combine the .dulce with the utile, still that after a time the physical condition of being constalit'y whirl ng on a rail tends to produce a gradually increasing listlessness or vacuity of thought, upon which commonly succeeds a sleepy state— a state not altogether devoid of danger, when the party -has passed the meridian of life, and immediately after' having made a very full or hasty meal ; apoplexy having in more than one or two instances occurred to such par ties, and that of a fatal character, owing in some cases to the want of sufficiently early discovery,—and medical aid. But in reference to the soporific i n fl uence o f " s i tt i ng on .a rail," and whirl, whirl, whirl ; the rapid transit of object after object, in seeming giddy dance, perhaps may be con sidered a semi-me smeric s t ate , a /a anode de Braid, wherein the fatigue of the organ of vision seems capable -of inducing a corresponding state in the brain; at least, to such class of phenomena it seems to us not altogether wide of the mark to refer the state alluded to. Whether ~or not we should very soon, in that not very particularly Attractive part of the country, have fallen a ready prey to .this act-of-parliament mode of carrying out mesmeric ..experiments by wholesale, we don't undertake positively to guess, nor would it much concern our reader whichever way we might have ultimately concluded ourselves to have been tested. No doubt the engineer would have ,done his best to have had us asleep like many of the rest ; but "returning to our sheep"—orlamb rather —this unlock ing of the crystal sluices for the relief of overwrought sensibility, even in a child, is a subject that was at once calculated to awaken the curiosity of the guard and our fitelf, prompted perhaps by a corresponding flow of the milk of human kindness in our not-altogether-obdurate breasts. Surely we might take credit for the former as a qualification of benevolence rather than anything else, seeing that the joys and sorrows of childhood, as they -ebb and flow, may be said never to app ea l i n va i n to the : sympathy of those around them, be they old or be they .young. If old, they read before them the transcripts of their own youthful hours drawn to the real life, in unso • phisticated naïveté of character. Childhood's smile is reflected from their own matured features, almost, we play say, with the faithful portraiture of youthful origi nali y : the tears of. childhood have called forth, before now, a correspondent welling up of tears in the eyes of old age, or of ordinaryindifference to human passions. This is matter of trite remark, which every one can make, even the most superficial observer of mankind ; but is it as generally observed how beautiful and passing wise are the arrangements of Providence, whereby age shall sym pathise with youth in stronger and more intensely glowing interest, because, as Wordsworth says in one of his beautiful lines, " The child is father of the man ; " because age lives again its joyous hours of innocence, when the sunny face of childhood irradiates its fading paths ; and because the tears of childh oo d' s grief bid again the old man's tears of childhood flow, at the me mory of bygone troubles, proportionate in their magni tude to melt the tender passions of the infant breast, and a base very contrast with the after stern realities of life is sacredly written down in characters of hallowed joy ; for the whole drama of childhood's chequered hours is to the fostering memory of age but one many-coloured joy, associated there with the tender reminiscences of the en• deared past, when the path of life had more flow ers th an thorns to every one of human rade. We think the joys and griefs of the child we look upon are but so many mirrors of our - own witching past—gone, gone —never to return ! This is the real secret of that close sympathy between the extremes of life, when reciprocated by age towards childhood, in.commernoration of our once many coloured joy—our fresh and budding springtime. Thus again we could " talk of sunshine and of song; And summer days, when we were young; - Sweet childish days that were as long As twenty days are now." Such reflections; as they stole upon our mind, almost amounted to pleasing sadness, and we treasured up what appeared to us the philosophy of the subject heore us— viz., the moving sympathy of the old iron-faced guard towards the child before him, expressed in the language of truest significance—by the suffusion of each eyelid with a tear. The picture drawn thus to out corporeal and mental vision seemed a cabinet gem, and we accordingly framed and hung it up in the treasury of our recollec tions! In the course of a short mile or two another element in the field of our curiosity presented itself. The train stopped—hardly so the girlish tears. A little boy, redo lent with health, buoyant with animal spirits to bursting —he was a boy ! full of boyishness in every sense of the word—awaited ourstopping , whilst someparting trick of fun must be let off against the party who handed him into the carriage, and placed him opposite the tearful one. She was expecting him to join her: the meeting was one of mutual affection : he might be two years older than her. self, perhapS eight years old : smiles were interchanged, and a hasty kiss as well, by these little lovers, somewhat abashed at the presence of strangers ; whilst the train again gradually broke into its accelerated speed. The thing was natural: smiles and tears, and tears and smiles, chequer the countenance of youth, like April showers and sunshine ; and everybody knows this—and everybody knows, too, that children's sympathies are keen and quickly excited. It was quite proper that smiles should be exchanged for tears when a little sister greets a little brother from whom she may have been separated for months, and so too with children of a larger growth under similar circumstances ; and it was quite natural, too, that the brother's ever-smiling countenance should kindle with brighter glow on regaining his long-lost sister, and that a touch of tenderness should gravitate from his beaming e) e down through laughing features : all this was as it ought to be. Perhaps they were both returning from school, whither they had been sent, for the time, to he estrangedfromtheendearments of home. Soit wasinreality a fact, which our benevolent curiosity learned and gathered as its reward. But again—the little episode of greeting joy being. , passed— , a transient sunbeam through a watery sky—again the tears commenced afresh to pour down the u,,turrowed cheeks of that little sister, and this though she was returning back to her home ! We cannot account for it, neither could she; therefore the old guard and ourself were reduced to the necessity of " booking" them as tears of joy ! Highly wrought indeed must be the tone of that infant mind which has no other mode of expressing the thrilling and rapturous notes of joy but in the secret and unaccounted-for—yea, mysteriously-wrought —ca dences of sorrow ! Th oug h this occur in numberless instances every day, yet no less striking because common is this passage in human sensibility ; nor less exquisitely balanced and faithfully true must. be those tones -of sym pathy from the heart of affection, because it has been and ever presents itself a matter of common-place occurrence, in which note answers for note in harmony and full ac cord, whether the keys of_ joy or sorrow are struck, or struck alternately. The harmony of love must respond : one chord must answer to its fellow and none other, be that sounded high or low, or both successively. We have all heard that if two stringed instruments,. placed together, and if a chord in one instrument, be struck, the corresponding chord will vibrate its responsive echo of unison, provided they were both of perfect tune. Thug, though we were• at first a little surprised, yet the reflec tion of a moment or two struck out the - analogy we have alluded to, as a satisfactory explanation of the interesting psychological problem that followed it; for as both these little creatures had smiled together in greeting joy, so the joy of greeting, through the bond of sympathy, as was abtually the fact, must bid their tears together flow Were not their hearts in unison ? Did not the chords respond ? There could be but one pulse, then, flowing in but one stream from separate hearts. God grant it may be ever so ! If but we had possessed an artist's pencil, we would have sketched, as well as noted in a book, the embodi ment, the living portraiture of that sweetest of human passions, that sensibility par excellence, whose natural study was before us—the crown-jewel of human dignity. The majesty of human nature rose before us, to assert the loftiest prerogatives of its crown. What a study ! How did that picture travel on with us, rivetted on the field of our organ of reflection ! When the little joy -twins stopped, our musings went on ; till at last We pulled up short at the end of our trip, the pretty little port of Fleetwood,—and just on the eve of swallowing the body and bones of a proposition conjured up by our imagina tion—almost an absurdity, perhaps quite so—viz., that Joy and Sadness were born twins, severed by the vulgar mind, but blended in the " ideal," so as to become—dare we utter it ?—mutually convertible terms! SELECTIONS. " SPEAKING OUT;" OR HOW TO SETTLE THE YANKEES, SHOULD THEY DECLARE, OR PROVOKE, A WAR WITH ENGLAND. In " Uncle Sam's Peculiarities," just published, and briefly noticed in our last, we have the following dialogue, at an oyster refectory, between the author and a Major of Philadelphia, one of the most intelligent and libe ral Americans, though still tinctured with anti-Anglican prejudices, the former, had .met with during his sojourn in the States. After successfully combatting the Ameri <oan aac itniptiesn.,.,thtat.tLN -Vl.auar 6...0 boo, t Ilvitioh in th.o last war, the navy of the former, 'as well ea their troops, being in great part Britons, the Major proposes a toast— " I'll give you one you won't drink. In the next war between John and Jonathan, may the most powerful whip tbe, other.''' . - " With all my ^ heart. But do you really suppose you would have any chance of whipping the English, if we were, daring the war, at peace with she rest of the world, so that we might concentre one-half of our means against you? Why, you are the most naked nation in the world. You have two thousand miles of sea board- - -with towns worth attacking—to defend." " We have: - and you have Can a da t o def e nd aga i ns t us!' " Shall I inform you how we should make war againq,you (heaven forbid it!) if compelled to ma k e war at all ?" " Let me hear it." We should bring one-half o f the naval power of Eng land against you in two divisions. One would have a powerful army on board destined for Long Island, of which we could take possession in defiance of all the mi litary volunteers of the Empire State, with those of Mas sachussetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey at their back. This army should be marched to the west of the Island and plant two hundred field pieces, fifty mortars, and fifty howitzers, with a park of Congreve rockets, at Brooklyn." " Where we beat you in the war of Independence." " Granted, but these proposed operations would be as different to our former pityful ones, as the present times are different to '7G. The army would be brought over the Atlantic in a hundred and fifty war steamers, only ten of which would go to the Lottom. A mere trifle." " Go a-head." " We should keep possession of Long Island until the other division of the navy, which would be sent to the south, reported progress and compelled Congress to sub mit to any terms of peace we might propose, which of course would include payment of every cent due by Me Stales to Me -British subjects, and payment also of the cost of the war." " You're joking." " Not a bit of it, my dear sir. As soon as we arrived out here, we should offer ten per cent better wages than you give, (and for three years service only, to all the Bri tish seamen serving in the American service. Your fleet would then be denuded of half its strength, and have a few sham fights with ours." " Now I see you're poking fun. You are a comical fellow ; that's a fact. And what would your other grand division in the south be at?" _ "'The other division would be sailors and marines, and three black regiments from our West India Islands. The marines would have two thousand petty officers, picked from all the non-commissioned officers in the English ser vice, and on board the transports there would be three hundred thousand stand of arms, with munition to corre spond. The black regiments, the marines, and the two thousand extra officers would be landed in Georgia, and arming as many of the slaves as might be found deserving of freedom, march along the coast under the protection of the fleet, and carry the servile war from thence to the banks of the Potomac. During this campain Canada should merely be called on to defend herself. New York, and through her the whole of the United States, would receive a terrible lesson, which would prevent future quar rels ; three millions of slaves would be made free, and you would be compelled to he honest and pay your debts in spite of yourselves. Now, major, I'm much obliged for your attention, for I have eased my mind and spoken freely for once. I begin to believe that bragging is infec tious, and that I have taken to it, suddenly. LORD BROUGHAM AND THE CHIEF BARONSHIP. To Lord Brougham every one pointed, directly it was known that the above judicial dignity was vacant, as one of the most eager, if not the most successful, of candidates. The activity of his friends niay be judged of by the fol lowing testimonials, that were immediately sent to the treasury : TESTIMONIAL NO. I, FROM EARL GREY. The bearer, Henry Brougham, was in my service a short time. I foUnd him a very useful person while he ranained with me, hut be was unsteady, and always wish ing to better himself. Having been out of place a lon g time, I ' think he will be found to have got over this de fect. At all events, I would suggest that there could be no harm in trying him. (Signed) GREY. TESTIMONIAL NO. 2, FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. My dear Peel,—l think you know Brougham almost as well as myself. I think something ought to be done for him, for he has really shown himself a very useful fellow for our purposes. It is true that the Chief Baronship of the Exchequer requires a cool head, a temperate manner, and a few other things which our friend is not remarkable 'or; but P ar k e i s a stea d y h an d to h ave at his side, and will keep hi m f rom go i ng very f ar wrong . My only ob jection t o B roug h am i s, that I' m a f ra id pu blic opinion would pronounce us " too bad" for giving him the ap pointment, for it is already said that it is rather " tco good" of Brougham to ask for it. If the Privy Council business is not quite off, perhaps it would be better to let him have his own office of his own creation; for it is so difficult to find out .hat he really wants, that perhaps his own bill will be the best guide to his wishes. H owever, do what you think best, and believe me always, yours, WELLINGTON. TESTIMONIAL NO. 3, FROM LORD•LYNDHURST. My •dear Peel,—For Heaven's sake, give Brougham the chief baronship, if you can. I find him such a bore on the woolsack, that I shall lose all patience with him, and say something that will make an enemy of him. — Yours in haste. LYNDHURST. TESTIMONIAL NO. 4, FROM LOUIS PHILIPPE. I know Henry Brougham, and think he would be a very good judge if he accepted the Chief B:►ronship of the Exchequer. Louts PHILIPPE. TESTIMONIAL NO. 5, FROM LORD MELBOURN.. Henry Brougham is, in my opini-m, a very fit person to be appointed chief baron, for he is always sure to look at both sides, and adhere to that Nt hi c h can give him the best and weightiest reasons for doing so. MELBOURNE. TESTIMONIAL NO. 6, FROM BARON NATHAN. Mr. Baron Nathan presents his compliments to Sir Robert Peel, and feeling that he, Baron Nathan, is likely to clash with the pretensions of another baron, begs leave to resign, in favour of Baron Brougham and Vans, all claims to the Chief Baronship of the Exchequer. Mr. Baron Nathan is sure that his bro' her, Baron Brougham. can. have no other competitor that can at all be put in comparison with him but Baron Nathan, who flatters himself, therefore, that by resigning, he at once settles the question.—Punch. QUEEN-TREES.—It may not be generally known that some of the queens of England have been in the habit of choosing a fine and thriving oak or beech tree in Windsor Forest, to which they have given their name which, with the date of the month and year of the selection, is engraved on a brass plate, arid screwed securely on the tree. Thus, in one of the most beautiful and retired parts of the forest, Queen Anne's oak may be seen, the oak of the amiable wife of George 11., Queen Caroline, the oak of Queen Charlotte, the oak of the excellent Queen Ade laide, as well as that of her present Majesty : they have seats around them.--Jesse's Country Life. THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL AND THE CANAL DO MIDI.—It would be difficult to imagine a-greater, con trast than the origin and progress of the Bridgewater Canal presented to that of the Canal du Midi. No turgid proclamation heralded the former; written"—as Andre ossi avers of that of Louis X 117.—" in that elevated style, and hearing the impress of that firm and noble cha racter which marks alike the projects and the productions of the age of Louis the XIV.' There was no Colbert to find the funds, no Riquet to receive the magnifitent entailed reward of the profits, no Coreeille to furnish the battery. To these, and such as these, armed with all the paraphernalia of maps and sections and calculations, Louis gave audience in his sumptuous chamber at Ver sailles. Round the humble hearth of the black and white manor-house of Worsley, or of the still humbler village inn, three herd-headed men, of simple mariners and attire, discussed a project unnoticed by Governments, and deemed hopeless by the few besides themselves who gave any at tention to the matter. To fib the place of a sovereign, the uncontrolled master of vast revenues, there was an English nobleman, proprietor of extensive but somewhat encumbered estates; and if to conceive and direct the work there was a greater genius than Riquet or Andreossi, that genius could scarcely read or write, and was hired in the first place at 2s 6d. a day. Such at least is the state ment of one who had enjoyed opportunities of informa tion—Francis Egerton, the last Earl of Bridgewater, who died at Paris in the .odour of .eccentricity. ,He adds, that Brindley offered to engage himself exclusively to the Duke for a guinea a week—but a slight increase on the former sum. If this be true, it confirms the French proverb, that the vrai is not always the vraisernblable.— Quarterly Review., NORWEGIAN SEACOAST SCENERY.—The entire sitar gord, or sea coast of Norway, from the Nase to Frederick shall, where the Alexander of the North received his death-wound, and from the North Cape to the Nase, is one uninterrupted chain of granite rocks. Innumerable fissures present themselves, and on some parts of the coast the sea rolls through in a hundred places within the space of a league. Occasionally it forms a vile, or arm, of con siderable depth; but more frequently the opening barely admits of the passage of a vessel. This general disruption of the shore has produced many fantastic groups of rocks, and spots where romance might dwell. Sometimes the scenery assumes an aspect of grandeur, and even sublimity. It is delightful, within bow-shot of the ocean, dashing and roaring in its giant strength, to guide the skiff into a tiny haven, where the sparkling water (and nowhere are the waters more pellucid than on the Norwegian coast) is without a ripple, and the fish may be seen disporting fathoms below the surface. The evergreen pine grows on all sides down to the water's edge, covering the surround ing rocks to their summits, forming unrivalled amphi theatres ; and here the blackbird sings, and the woodpecker makes the hills echo and re-echo. Small as the haven is it is studded with islets, where the eider duck sits brood ing on her nest, and the sea-gull rests with his finny prey ; there the juniper shows its unchanging green, amidst which the red cranberries are studded like gems, and the de licious wild strawberry tempts the intruder's visit. The only sounds that fall on the ear are the sea-bird's scream, and the splash of his wing as he settles down or skims over the water, and the roar of the ocean outside the rocky barrier. Seawards, widely different is the scene that pre sents itself. Its characteristic is a gloomy, barren grandeur. From the summit of the rock to its perpendicular base, a height of several hundred feet, not a trace of vegetation is apparent. Half way down, the bold eagle has his eirie; and in fine weather the sea-gull rests on its angles. At its foot the sea raves with fearful violence; even in calms immense waves dash against the rocks, into which they have eaten fissures and caverns of great extent and singu lar conformation. High as the elevation is above the ocean, its spray wets the cheek ; and as the frightful waves surge up, a thought is apt to arise that they may overtop the summit.—Bentley's Miscellany. 4ac-i51.3 r_ Frac, I min: aCC Tar.ra - nli towers of the churches are immediately recognisedio be timber painted white, and being all as like each other in shape (architecture would be a term misapplied) as casual design could well make them, that city bears a disadvan tageous comparison with the stately and imposing granite piers and lofty stone steeples of the town of Liverpool. * * The impression respecting New York received at landing was entirely lost sight of, and an improved one obtained, after traversing the principai streets—" Broadway" and " the Bowery" yielding nothing in comparison to Ox ford-street and Tottenham Court Road in London, wh Ist some of the new ranges of private dwelling-houses, faced with polished white marble and bronzed iron-work, have a truly magnificent appearance; and although the sizes of the houses bear no proportion to the lordly buildings abounding in the modern metropolis of Great Britain, their substantial appearance, combining grandeur (on a small scale) with extreme elegance, outrival in solidity the splendid stuccoed palaces of the egent's-park. There is no domestic manufacture of the United States that ex cites so much surprise to an Englishman as the iron-work with which the exterior of the dwelling-houses of New York and Philadelphia are ornamented. In this particu lar those two cities outrival the English towns and Lon don itself, which is not a little extraordinary—the mate rial of which this elegant work is composed being im ported from England. The most classically shaped urns, pillars and other devices of lofty size and excellent work manship, with railing, tastefully formed in the shape of vine and oak stems and leaves, compose the exterior iron work of all the principal houses. This, combined with a marble flight of steps (sometimes intruding' upon the pavement in a very unwarrantable manner), marble pil lars and facade, and lamps of bronze and plate glass, makes a very imposing entrance to the house of a re publican aristocrat.—There are but few things which ar rest the eye of an Englishman perambulating New York, different from those to which he has b een accustomed. The" niggers,"speckling theaspect of society withouif;;;- ing part of it except among themselves, are certainly not the most pleasing feature of contemplation ; the total ab sence of street-beggars, however, more than counterba lances the eye-sore, and even the rank odour caused by the numerous coloured population. In summer will be noticed the straw hats and linen jackets, the ice vans and charcoal carts, the portable lemonade fountains at the corners of the streets. the cart-loads of pine-apples, me lons, and peaches ; the auctioneers selling their goods under the awning of an umbrella, bawling and guessing ; while the real black chimney-sweeper chants out hisvc!. cation, and some other niggers are crying from their wheelbarrows—" hominy" and " hot corn." Add to these a carter standing up and driving his vehicle like an ancient charioteer, two or three tradesmen sitting at their doors reading newspapers, and several piles of wood in the street, which some niggers are industriously sawing into " sizes for firing" at their cross-legged mills. To carry out the picture we must add six pigs with right of com mon gutterway, three or four miserable dogs with their tongues hanging out of their mouths, and a troop of newly arrived " jim of the ocean" pisantry around a pump, while some " military" volunteers must be seen in . the distance, and the ladies opening the windows to obtain a peep at the heroes—" sokiiers in peace, citizens in war." The military are for a minute obstructed by six gaudily painted covered carts filled with merchandise, which their owners, the " western merchants," are carrying home ; one—" fresh spring -water" locomotive from Long Island —an " American ginger champagne" waggon—and a dirty cart carrying the mail of " U. S."—Uncle Sam or United States. The placards on the wall are—" Ameri can Theatre. Native Talent!"—" American Museum"— " American Fire-grates" —" American Blacking" " American Paper-hanging," and two political bills— " Strike for Freedom! Caucus meets on the 10th instant. Jackson-men, do your duty !" " Democrats,—anti- Masons,—Whigs,—beat George the Third, 1776—beat tyrant Jackson, IS—. Elective monarchy—ruin,—des potism. Rouse to the fight, or slaves for ever.—Beat the British." The picture will now be complete with the ad dition of a grocery store, on the outside of which is printed the following thirsty announcement :—" French Brandy, London Gin, Monongahela Whiskey, Jamaica Spirits, Yankee Rum, Pine-apple Cider, Albany Ale, Philadelphia Porter, Saratago Spring-water, Congress Water, Sarsa parilla Soda, Ginger Champaign, Sling, Toddy, Sangaree, Sherry C o bl er , Mi nt Julep, Apple Jack."—The winter picture is different in many respects. The snow is on the ground from four to twelve'inches deep; business is at a stand-still ; the wheeled vehicles disappear, and " sleighs" (sledges) of all descriptions, some of them very handsome and drawn by from one to four horses with bells round their necks to warn passengers of their other wise noiseless approach over the snow, are used in their thosepi n s being w hoha a ve pr s o w ll e b t i h te e d ar g ts a stead; the r i vers and canals are blocked up, and the ice houses replenish e d ; t h e t h eatres and ten-pin a ll eys ( n ine- Tak e) e th em ou fi ll to overflowing ; and s l e ighing frolics," covered up in b ear - s ki n wrappers , i n which the warmest courtship i s carr i ed on over the ice an d sn ow. The winte r season is peculiarly propitious to Hymen i n o t ve on the United States, as time is not then so valuable to men of business as it is in summer.--Uncle Sam's Peculiaritier. Standard-office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, This DAY. (From Messrs. R. Makin Sr Sons' Circular.) Exclusive of Irish and American Flour, of which we have a further good supply, the arrivals into this port have been very little increased since the close of the week; in consequence of which, and the limited proportion of the stocks of Bonded Wheat, upon which the 16s. duty has been paid throughout the kingdom, our market ,to day was expected to assume a better aspect ; but the sub dued tone in Mark-lane yesterday counteracting any ten dency to improvement here, we have to report a decline in the value of English and Irish Wheat of Id., and in that of F77T~7 gn Id. to ea. pc. i 0 1b.,. C.... t r l.ta rates of this day se'nnight, superior qualities of the latter only sustaining late prices; and on these terms a mode rately fair quantity was taken for consumption. Flour of all descriptions, continuing to move off spar ingly, receded 6d. to Is. per sack, and 6d. per barrel. Barley and Malt, upon a very dull sale, were the turn cheaper ; and Beans, as well as Pease, attended with a slow retail demand, barely supported our last quotations. Oats, commanding a moderate degree of attention, were saleable at the full rates of this day week.— Oatmeal, on the contrary, met a very limited inquiry, although offered at a further abatement of 3d. per 2401b5. In the bonded market no business was apparent. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 15th to the 52nd April, 1814, inclusive, IRE- 1 LAND COAST- CANADA FO WISE. REIGN. TOTAL. Wheat .. Qrs. I 535 Barley Qrs.l 47 Malt Qrs. 18 Oats Qrs. 612 Rye Qrs. 14 Beans Qrs. Pease Qrs. Shelled BarleyQrs. 5030 11:0 6643 •15g 364 1838 14 210 g3o 2JO Indian Corn: Qrs. Rapeseed.... Qrs. Oatmeal .. Loads , 3304 Flour. .... Sacks' 5702 Ditto Brls .l Into Runcorn, Ireland ac meal, 1446 loads , Flour, 100 5651 A Coastwise, Oat sacks. ;S, 547 qr: 36017 5726 . 6259 •s.; Oat- EXPORTS.—Foreign. Malt, qrs ; Oats, 250 qrs. ; Pease, 3 qrs.; Indian Corn, ' qrs. ; Oatmeal, 102 loads ; Flour, 40 brls.---Ireland Wheat, 745 qrs. ; Oats, 5 qrs ; Indian Corn, 10 qrs. ; Oatmeal. o loads; Flour, IJ3 sacks,— brls.— Coastwise. Wheat, 299 qrs. ; Barley, 194 qrs. ; Malt, 0 qrs.; Oats, 5 qrs. ; Beans. 10 qrs.; Pease, 20 qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 408 sacks 91 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 13, 1844 Wheat 555. id. I Barley 335. ld. I Oats ..20s. Id. I Rye 325. 4d Beans.. 31s. 2a. I Pease.. 325. 3d. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat 55sI3drBsii•ley 336 Fd I Oats 20s ed. Rye 33s 6d. Beans.. 31t. Id. j Pease.. sit. 6d. Duty on Foreign Grain, 8:c. this week. Wheatl7s Od I Barley 5s Od J Oats .. . 6s Od I Rye.. 9s 6d Beans los l Pease .. 10s 6d I Ind. Corn Os Od I Flour lOs 22d Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe. Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Os. lid. I Oats ..2s. od. Itye.. is Od Beans 2s. Od j Pease 2s. yd. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour.. Os 7id Liverpool Averages, week ending 9th April, 1844. Wheat, 1125 qrs., price, 475. gd. ' • Barley, 136 qrs., price, 30s. 5d.; Oats, 532 qrs., pri ce 18s. id.; Beans, 145 qrs., 34s Bd. To the naturalist the month of April is one of the most interesting in the year. At the beginning, the willow wren and the black cap make their appearance. The swallow, the harbinger of summer, arrives about the mid dle, and the house-marti n a bo u t a week later. At this time the sand-martin, the white throat, the sedge war bler, the cuckoo ' and numbers of o th er bi r d s o f p assage pay tbeir annual visit ; and the groves and woods now echo with the songs of their musical inhabitants and are rendered gay and animating with the cheerful blossoms of numerous wild flowers. THE POETRY OF A STEAM ENGINE.—Tbere is, to our thinking, something awfully gr a n d i n th e contemp lation of of a vast steam-engine. Stand amid its ponderous beams and bars, wheels and cylinders, and watch their unceasing play ; how regular and how powerful !—the machinery of a lady's Geneva watch is not more nicely adjusted—the rush of an avalanch is not more awful in its strength. Old Gothic cathedrals are solemn places, preaching solemn lessons, touching solemn things; but to him why thinks an engine room may preach a more solemn lesson still. It will tell him of mind—mind wielding matter at its will —mind triumphing over physical difficulties—man assert ing his great supremacy— intellect battling with the ele ments.' And how exquisitely complete is every detail ! —how subordinate every part to the one great end ! how every little bar and screw fit and work together ! Vast as is the machine let a bolt be but the tenth-part of an inch too long or two short, and the whole fabric is dis organised. It is one complete piece of harmony—an iron essay upon unity of design and execution.—there is deep poetry in the steam-engine—more of the poetry of motion than the bound of an antelope—more of the poetry of Power thar. in the dash of acataract. And ought it not to be a lesson to those who laugh at novelties, and put no faith in inventions, to consider that this complex fabric — thus triumphant of art and science—was once the laughing stock of jeering thousands, and once only the waking phantasy of a boy's mind as he sat and in seeming idleness, watched a little column of vapour rise from the spout of a tea kettle ?--Illuminated Magazine. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAI LWAY. A meeting of the county Cf Pfyr was held on Friciai, the 12th current, to consider the proposed railway via Dumfries to Carlisle, and to resolve what means should be taken to promote its success. The area of the Court house was crowded by an audience comprising some of the most influential gentlemen in the county. On the motion of Mr. A. Oswald, M.P., seconded by Mr. Alexander, of Southbar, the Earl of Eglinton and Winton was unanimously called to the ehair. The requisition calling the.meeting was then read ; after which The Earl of Eglinton rose, and having recalled to the remembrance of the meeting the course taken by the in habitants of the county upon the first starting of the Glas gow and Ayr Railway, and the extent to which their exp-ctations of advantage had been realised, expressed briefly his opinion of the great benefit which the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway would confer upon the west of Scotland, in comparison with that to be derived from the success of its formidable rival, the Caledonian line. They would, however, be better able to form a judgment after hearing the able statement of Mr. Logie, whom he should introduce to them; but before doing so he would read letters of apology which had been received from Mr. Campbell, of Craigie, and Colonel Smith Neill, of Swindrigemuir. The letters of these gentlemen, who had travelled over the two lines of road, were then read, giving a decided preferment to the Dumfries route. Mr. Logic then rose, and after a few preliminary oh ser.ations proceeded to state that they were all aware that three lines of communication with England had been pro posed. There was, first, the Eastern line, which was to connect Edinburgh with Newcastle, one-half of which might be said to have already secured the sanction of par liament. But what was the fact? The remit given to the government commissioners was not a remit to consider what was the best line to Scotland, but what was the best line to connect Edinburgh and Glasgow with England. The other inhabitants of Scotland were not committed to that report. That central line, after reaching Syming ton, was intended to branch off to Glasgow in the one di rection. and Edinburgh in the other. The whole distance from Carlisle to Glasgow was 101 miles. This was no doubt the shortest route to Scotland; but the Caledonian Railway had departed from the line recommended by the government commissioners. They did not branch off at Symington, but proposed to carry forward the single line to a point near Lanark ; after which, instead of taking the direct line bl keeping the south bank of the Clyde, they intended to cr , ss -al river, in ordar to gain the advantage of some small mi• • al railways in Lanarkshire. They had given no an by which their distances could be checked ; but it was evident that the circuitous route which it was now their intention to adopt, would tend to lengthen the distance considerably. The total distance of the Glasgow and Dumfries line was 125 miles ; therefore, if it had been the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle line, versus the Government Commissioners' line, there would have been a difference of 24 miles in favour of the latter. But since the Caledonian Company had departed from that, he could not exactly state the difference between the two lines, but he was of opinion it would not be above fifteen or sixteen miles. (Applause.) The speaker pro ceeded to show that from the more favourable nature of the country the journey would be accomplished in a shorter time by the Dumfries than the Caledonian line. He then referred to an opinion given by Mr. Locke, the present engineer of the Caledonian line to the Directors of the Grand Junction Railway in 1836, in which the line of country taken by the Dumfries line, and the advantages to the towns and districts through which it passes, are very highly spoken of, and contended that when Mr. Locke was employed by the Grand Junction Company, in 1836, it was for him to report as to the best line from Carlisle to Glasgow. This he reported to be by way of. Nithsdale, for reasons which are unanswerable ; and when the question again resolves itself into which is the best line to Glasgow only, the same causes which rendered the Nithsdale line the best in 1836 make it the best still. What, therefore, has deprived us of his ad vocacy now is the desire to secure for the Grand Junction Company the traffic not only of Glasgow and the west of ScOtland, but of Edinburgh and the east. As the engi neer of the Grand Junction Railway, he has, naturally enough, been , led to look to what would be the best feeder to that company; and if he could get only one line to Scotland, by way of Carlisle to Glasgow and Edinburgh, it was clear that that would be the best line for the Grand Junction. But when the hope of getting the Edinburgh traffic was gone by the making of the line from Edinburgh to Glasgow, then the central line became useless, and the necessity for a Western or the Nithsdale became obvious. The speaker then went on to compare the benefits to the county of Ayr to be derived from the two lines. The Ca ledonian railway would be of no service to that county, neither would it benefit the Stewarty of Kirkcudbright, or the adjoining county of Wigton. There would be no saving of time in the whole route to set off against these obj-ctions, owing to the gradients of 1 in 75 for ten miles on the Caledonian, which, notwithstanding the advanced state of engineering, would still be difficult to overcome. Besides, upon that line there was no mineral wealth to develope, and no rich agricultural wealth to open out ; whereas, by the Dumfries line, they would ha v e th e traffic of the enterprising town of Dumfries, the rising seaport of Annan, and, in Ayrshire, extensive sources of mineral . , wealth, which only required a railway to bring them into immediate productiveness. It was quite clear that one line passing through a comparatively uninhabited country could be of little advantage compared to two lines, which. while traversing totally opposite directions, passed through rich and populous districts. In looking at the map they could not fail to see how beautifully Scotland would he en circled in an iron chain by the connexion between Edinburgh and Newcastle on the one side, and by thatbetween Glasgow and Carlisle via Dumfries on the other. Mr. Logie then referred to the case of purchasers from the English mar kets, who, if they came by the Caledonian line would rontrociy v-eer think of--going farther than Edinburithi.or- Glasgow because they could not get to Du m f r i es w ith ou t taking the coach or some other expensive mode of convey- ante; whereas with an east and western line they could come down to Scotland by the one and return by the other, making their purchases along both. (Applause.) The sneaker having referred further to the benefits to be de rived by the people of Ayrshire by tho formation of the Dumfries line, proceeded to remark upon the fact that whereas the projectors of the Caledonian having been first in the field, had secured the valuable as sistance of the Marquis of Qtteensbury and. other influen tial parties, and yet had been three years in taking up the subscriptions necessary, their own line had only been agitated two months, and he had much_pleasure in inform ing them that by that day's post he had received notice that 50,000 shares had now been applied for, leaving only 2000 shares to complete their entire capital. (Applause.) He mentioned this only to urge those resident in the western counties to bestir themselves and enable the pro- visional committee to secure, what was so very advanta geous, an extensive local interest in the allocation of the shares. Sir D. H. Blair having moved the resolutions in an ex cellent speech, in which he announced the important fact that Lord Queensbui y had deserted the Caledonian and would now lend his influence to this line, Mr. LnGIE said, perhaps he might be permitted to mention one argument in favour of the Dumfries line which he had overlooked in the statement he had already submitted to them ; and it was this, that it was well known among those best informed on the subject, that the black band of the Monklands, would not last above four years. It was then fore quite clear, there not being another district in which black band could be so easily got as in Ayrshire, that this county would, ere long, be come the Monklands of Scotland. It was an invariable result of a railway passing through a fertile country that, as the trade and profits of the railway increased, the views of the directors began to expand; and whenever it be came lucrative, branches would spring up in all direc tion, so that they would ultimately have all the great mineral fields of Ayrshire supplied and collected in one unbroken chain of communication. (Applause.) The resolutions were then briefly seconded and carried, and after a few words from Lord Eglinton and a vote of thanks for his conduct in the chair the meeting broke up. • The railroad between Brunswick and Hanover is to be opened on the Ist of-June next. The total cost of the intended Chester and Holyhead Railway is estimated at £2,100,000, of which the London and Birmingham Company subscribes £1,000,000. Speculations in railway'shareihave become so excessive in Paris that it bas, been determined that there shall be two settling days in the month. A contemporary journal states that the Great Western Railway Company have now in contemplation to make a branch line to Frome and Warminster, embracing the towns of Melksham, Bradford, and Trowbridge. A line for the three latter was provided for in their first act. Among the new projects of railways is one for con structing a line of road from Edinburgh through Fife to Dundee, with a junction to Perth, which has the support of the most influential and wealthy people of the Scotch metropolis. £BOO,OOO is to be the capital. A Newcastle paper, in adverting to the great railway movement which had arisen throughout Scotland, antici pates that, in the course of two or three years, persons will be enabled to leave Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the morning, and dine at Aberdeen, or even Inverness, the same day. A general expectation gains ground amongst railroad directors and speculators, that the present session of par liament will relieve third, class carriages from the tax of five per cent., and will regulate and enforce the principle on which railways ought to be assessed in the relief of the poor. This expectation is not, so far as, we can learn, the result of any communication had with government, but is based on the reasonableness of the concessions anticipated on the gem ral tone and language which Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Gladstone have adopted in the House of Com mons during railway discussions, and on the almost uni versal response made by the house to the friendly disposi tions of the Premier and the Trade Minister.--Morning Herald. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY',-- A special general meeting of the shareholders in the Bir mingham and Derby Junction moved nßaonat and tl ovamalgamationteahrt Railway e w o a rei s ffgei heldncatitmh numerously that motion t e oh it tl board loom of the station last week, for the purpos e of considering and approving of a draft of the bill now before parliament for the amalgamation of the No r th Midland, the do :Midland . c ha h r s ro ntiCounties,this nno amf the a e n nd board d m t heent fD v e ao r s b y p opo Railway', sed which Companies. e directors. at tended, the principle of the amalgaation havi ng b een s ettled at a former special me e ti ng o f the company. billnSamuelpa presided. un waspßi epes approved. A o l ev e g r e 'T a e t i s i oev negatived i b o yn meetinglswas 3s was to e was carried. BRIDGE ACROSS THE SEVERN.—A number of scientific gentlemen have been employed during the past week in making surveys, Etcc. of the Severn, near Purton Passage, on the Lidney side, preparatory to a report on the practi cability and usefulness of a bridge across the Severn at that spot ; thus connecting the whole of South Wales with !I.e metrorolis and marinfac!uring districts, through the medium of the Gloucester and Bristol Railway. RAILROAD SPECULATION IN FRANCE.—SonI e d " l)t4 are thrown by th e P ar k papers o f Th urs d a y, liOnn tue safety of rail-road speculations, which were proceeding to an extent in France berind all precedent. The Rational observes, " that speculations in railway shares have be come so excessive, that the stockbrokers are determined to have two settling days in each month : we fear a me lancholy conclusion to this rage for speculation." CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—At a special general meet ing, held in the Black Bull Hall, of the proprietors of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, it was resolved to use every exertion in promoting the proposed Caledonia Railway, in connexion with this compitly's line; and with, this view, the c omm itt ee o f management was au thorised to subscribe, for beboof of the company, a sum not ex ceeding £25,000 to the proposed under taking, and to cor respond with the provisional committee of the CaPdonitas line as to the junction with the Wishaw and Coltaes s Railway. SOUTH WALES ANL SOUTH OF IRELAND RAILWAI: —An important line of railway is to be laid doWn from Stonehouse, on the G rea t W es t ern li ne, across :he ri'se' near Purton to Car mar th en . Th e route w i ll b e throng'' the Forest of Dean, o p en i ng th e vast m i neral resourc es °{ that district, to Monmouth, thence down the vale of Vsl4n ,° to beyond Brecon, an d a ft erwar d s b y t h e r i ver T ow Carmarthen. Although South Wales is so mountainonS in character, nature seems to have provided a level lined country far a railway. Two great interests will be mate; rially benefited by the projected line, viz. :—the Gr e t; Western railway and the mining property on " the hills. The traffic on the former will, of course, be extensivelf ncreased.—Cardif Advertiser. The formation of a direct railway from London to York, by way of Lincoln, for the purpose of connecting the north of England and Scotland with the metropolis , has been decided on. Prospectuses have been issue d ' together with maps, expl ana t ory o f th e mo d e of proceed' ing intended. It appears that the proposed line is t ° commence near King's Cross, in the New Road, and in: dependently of any other line, is to take its course through Hertford, Bedford, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stain' ford, Sleaford, and other important towns, to Lincoln and York, the distance, by the• adoption of this line, being less, by near ly f orty m il es, than i t can be trave lled by any existing railway. The capitsl required for the execution of the work is estimated at £4,000,000, t he length of line being one hundred and eighty miles. RAILWAYS IN DENMARK.—A letter from Copenhagetif April 2, says :—" Railroads are beginning to excite atten" tion here, and within the last mon h the king has autho rised different societies for the construction of the follow ing lines:-1. One from Copenhagen to Elsineur, about thirteen French leagues in length. 2. Another to cross the island of Zealand in its whole length, running from Copenhagen by Rothschild, hingstead, and Slai:elsee, to Corsoer, the length of which will be about thirty-one leagues. By this line all communication between Owen hagen and the east of Denmark, as well as the rest of Eu rope during the period that ste amers cannot p l y i n the Baltic, will take place. 3. Six branch lines in the duchy of Holstein, from the main railroad now in construction between Kiel and Altona, which will unite the principal towns of Holstein together, and the North Sea with the Baltic." • EDINBURGH AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.—Since rel; day, workmen have been employed in opening the groulld in the front of Canal-street, to complete the drift tunnel of this railway, already carried as far as Prince's-streetr and within a few yards of the proposed terminus. A fel v days' work w ill th us open t h e b ore through and tbrougbr a d the bui ding of the tunnel may be expected to be pro ceeded with immediately. So soon as the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the North British Railway bills are passed , we may expect to see the whole of the area under the bridge speedily transformed in appearance, and its various buildings removed in order to its conversion into a terms' nus of railway communication, by which the east and west coast of Scotland will be connected with each other, and both again with the metropolis of Britain.—Edit!' burgh Evening Post. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. THE LATE WILL FORGERIES. Yesterday, Mr. Baron Gurney called up the respective prisoners in these important cases, to receive their sen tence. Barber entered into a long statement, alleging himself to have been deceived by Fletcher. His lordship, however, stated that the explanation had not altered the case against him, and then proceeded to pass sentence. Fletcher and Barber were each transported for life ; Wm. Saunders for seven years ; and Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Dorey were each sentenced to be imprisoned for two years, and kept to hard labour. LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL. The Committee met again yesterday, (Monday,) and declared that the preamble of the bill was proved ; and the Committee then proceeded to deliberate on the respec tive clauses, and, on their separation, had agreed to the three first. Thus the preamble, and several of the principal clauses, having been concurred in, it may be confidently antici pated that there will be no further hindrance to the bill speedily passing the cominittee, in its integrity; as any discuision that may now arise will refer merely to the settlement of comparatively unimportant details. We congratulate the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool on the satisfactory settlement of this im portant question. TIIE DUBLIN TRIALS. Yesterday (Monday) affidavits were filed by the Crown Solictors in answer to those of the convicted parties. The latter documents charged fraud and collusion in the con structionOf the original jury lists; and the omission of the names was again set out in all the forms and changes which legal fiction could invent and special-pleading em body. Mr. Pierce Mahony undertook to swear—not upon hearsay or belief, but in distinct and positive terms— " That a gross, wilful, and corrupt suppression of the names of the said persons and others qualified to be placed on the special jurors' list for, the year 1844, had taken place." And, in an affidavit filed 19th April, 1844, this gentle man further positively deposed that " the omission of the names of several persons from said special jurors' list was not by accident,' but was the effect and result of &Sign and contrivance, to prejudice the traverses." The law officers of the Crown, feeling that such allega tions ought not to be suffered to remain matters of record in their present form of amplification—determined that the affidavits should be answered by the town clerks and their subordinates, in whose office, or under whose con trol, the mistake, alleged to be a fraud, occurred. Affidavits were therefore obtained from the Clerks of the Peace for Dublin. and were yesterday filed. The charges of pre-concert and fraud, so vehemently urged—even resting as they did upon vague and undefined rumour— are rebutted in the most clear and satisfactory manner by the persons who could alone be cognisant of the purely accidental circumstances under which the omissions took place, and by which neither party could be substantially injured ; and those who felt regret at any occurrence which even for a single day retarded the progress of the law towards the attainment of justice, will rejoice at the op portunity the delay afforded of refuting a series of caluni nious falsehoods that have been too long permitted to oc cupy the public mind. THIRD EDITION. ART-UNIONS SUPPRESSED. The Art-Union lotteries, after having been tolerated and encouraged for eight years, have been brought to a termi nation by an interdict from the Attorney-General to the Art-Union of London. The following is a copy of the notice sent to the secretaries : " Treasury, April 12, 1844- " Sirs,-1 am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, that an las tution, called the A r t-U n i on o f L ondon, having f o r its object the cha nce di s t r ib ut i on o f prizes of works of art, i has been brought under the notice of their lordships, and that they are advised that it is illegal ; and I am also to acquaint you, that the further continuance of the sam e will render all parties engaged in it liable to prosecution. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " W. R. REYNOLDS. " To G. Godwin and Lewis Pocock, Esirs., 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.' memornatureial was The committee immedi a t e l y me t, an d a of addressed to Si r R. P ee l, sett i ng f ort h the le the tter association. The memo r i a l was acco mpanied by a _or, from the honor ar y secre t ar i es , as king for an interTi te Sir G. Clerk, on the pa r t o f Si r R . Pe e l, having appom to receive the com m itt ee , M r . G o d w i n an d Mr. Pocoei r . with several me m b ers o f th e comm itt e e, attended 8b Downing- street. Mr. G. Godwin, on the part of th e c ommittee, stated that the Art-Union of London, si nce it s es t a bli s h men t ill 1837, had distributed about £30.000, i n d epen d ent l y of t h e present year's receipts, i n th e purc h ase an d preparat i on o f works of arts. Th e assoc i at i on h a d correspondents not merely throughout the United Kingdom, but in our In dian possessions, Nova Scotia, Hobart Town, Mexico, and New York. The society had now been in operation for eight years, increasing in usefulness, and the com mittee were confirmed in their views of its legality by numerous facts. Her Majesty the Queen was patron of more than one such association, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert had very recently ex pressed to the Committee of the Art-Union of Lon don, through Mr. Eastlake, his approbation of its objects. Among the vice-presidents of the Irish Art-Union were several of the judges. The committee now found them selves with £14,000 in their hands, a large increase over the subscription o f any f ormer year, on the very ev e of the distribution. All the elaborate arrangements conse quent on the largeness of the body acted for had been made; artists had filled the exhibitions about to be opene d ' and great distress and embarrassment would be the result of their not being able to complete their present schemes: In addition to the Art-Union of London, there were a vas t number of similar institutions throughout the countrif upon whom th e fi at o f the law officers would operate s i m i ; larly. They p raye d , therefore, earnestly that they at least be protected in completing their existing engag e- Meats. Sir G. Clerk said that the attention of the TreasurY having been directed to the subject, they had submitted a case to the Attorney and Solicitor-General, and, in their opinion, the whole of the associations referred to w ere il legal, and it was thought due to the committee to give then% early intimation of the fact. Sir R. Peel could not interfere in the matter—all he could do was to inform them of the law. He was himself a subscriber, as were many other° connected with the Government ; still for the TreasurY to give any sanction for further proceedings is quite out (/` the question. The most prudent course he thought' would be to postpone the meeting, giving the subscribe r . s notice to that eff ec t, an d suspen d procee di ngs unt il tt could be ascertained whether the Legislature would 1 0°- feet that and similar societies. The deputation then withdrew. The committee have thought it lesirable to postpon e the general meeting; at the same time they assure th e subscribers that their interests will not be allowed t ° suffer. DUELLING. -THE NAVY. The following order, contained in the Admiralty ltl; structions, is certainly a step in the right direction, which the public will be gratifie4 to observe. 'We trust that a similar course will be pursued by the authoritie s a t the Horse Guards : " 1. Every officer serving on board any ship or vessel of Her Majesty's fleet is hereby positively ordered neither. to send nor accept a challenge to fight a duel with any other person of the fleet. '' 2. Every officer of the fleet, on becoming privy . to any intention of other officers to fight a duel, or liming reason to believe that such is likely to occur, owing to circumstances that have co me un der his observation or knowledge, is he re by or d ere d t o t a k e every measure within his power to prevent such duel, having recourse, it necessary, to the captain or commanding officer. " 3 Every officer of the fleet is hereby ordered 10 _1;„ manner or degree to evi nce di ssat i s f action w i th or to ha officer braid another for refu s i ng or no t sending, a e hu• 4. lenge, and all officers a re s t r i c tl y enjoined neither to re/ nor advise the rejection of, a reasonable proposition t r ue the honourable adjustment of differences that may b a unhappily occurred. - "S. Any officer of the fl eet w h o may be called on - • to act as second or friend t o an officer intending to figh t . 1 : duel, is to consider it to be his imperative duty, and be hereby ordered, strenuously to exert himself to effect an adjustment between the adverse parties, on terms ec )o. sistent with the h onour o f each, and should he fail, owl to the determinati on o f th e offended parties not to acc e p t honourable terms of accomo d ation, he must refer to t' second paragraph of this order. " As obedience to orders is the essential and goveroi", principle of the naval service, those officers may rest I t s f sured of the supp or t and approbation of the Admir Bl 4 who, having h a d t h e m i sfortune of giving offence t0 , . 0 having injured or i nsu l ted others, shall frankly exPl a . lat batapologise, or offer redress for the same, or who, b avl it had the misfortune of receiving offence, injury, or in • 0, from another, shall cor di a lly accept f ran k e xplanati a , apology, or redress for the same, or who, if such ex Ac nation, apolo g y, nr re d ress , are re f use d to b e ma de or f ile cepted, shall s ub m it th e ma t ter to b e d ea l t w i t h by _L„ a captain or commandin g officer of the _ship or fleet; every officer who shall act as hereinbefore directed,fea consequently refuse to accept a challenge, will be deem ta to have acted honourably, and to have evinced a requ a r.., l obedience, not only to this or d er , b u t a l so t o the pie s'' of the Queen." Great activity prevails at present in the west of Sc °tlsl o l ,3 a . in the building of steamers for the Clyde naviga" j, When the steamers now in cour s e o f e r ection are launch the number added this season will exceed twenty-oe' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. April 23, 1 844. 1