The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

, . - _•••• - :;;;•-•,,e,,,,,... - 7. . :,• • r.,.' Feb. 22, 1848. 5z.2. ! .....„...,_,......... •...............-40%. —,. ~.....5........ 848. - -- --- --- - --- --- ......-....- Etttraturr. SECOND EDI'I lON. __....._ VARIETIES. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. RIVY Vemperanee puts wood m: the fire, meal in the barrel, the tub, money in the _____•____ `ll our in p . o .7se, credit in the country, contentment - in the house , clothes 0;2 the bairns, vigour LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THIS DAY. ches Court in the body, intelligence in the b Whole constitution. • and spirit in the The share market to-day has been again quiet, notwithstand of Bridge- gence ing the better accounts from London. The York and Berwick Church of a dissent- C u ruous FASHION.—In 1612, 10 J ames T., Mr. Edward and York and North Midland meetings were held at York yes ie declare- H awley, of Grey's Inn, coming to court one day, Maxwell terday, both of which laid before their shareholders most pursuance ja Scotsman] led him out of a room by a black string satisf a ct or y reports. The former divides, as heretofore, 9 per Which he wore in his ear a fashion then much in use ; cent. with .W 46,000 surplus, the latter 10 per cent. with £17,000 . 31xeter, de- but this had like to ha; e cost warm blood. Not only unishment . surplus. i Victoria) 1 Gra Y ' a Inn Society, but all the gentry in London, thought themselves concerned in the affront ; and Hawley threat- __ in ._ ior build- • ened to kill Maxwell whenever he . met him, if he refused LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. to the in- to fight, which so frightened the king, that he sent for the hed to ab- benchers, and made up the quarrel.—Tindal. Including several more arrivals since Friday, the receipts of The ap aedings, on NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.—A German, an Eng. English, Irish, and Foreign produce into this port, during the has he had lishmart, and a Fre nc h man , eac h rece i ve d an o r der for a entire week ending yesterday, form, in the aggregate, a liberal nil consci- , drawin g of a camel. The Frenchman went immediately supply of most articles, the particulars of which are specified ' England, , to the Jardin des Plantes, and the next day produced ain our import note subjoined. The pro- skilfully-drawn, if not quite a perfect sketch of the camel. There has been a fair business done in Wheat at this day's Fust) and, i T he Englishman set off on the first steamboat for the f- market, at the improved rates of Friday. sk permis- ; rican desert, and there observed and sketched the animal, American Flour also steady in value, on the terms last noted. • dships af- Meanwhile, after a few months, made a picture true to the life. Irish Flour in better demand, at the full rates of this day week. In Barley, Beans, and Pease we have little variation to notice. ng, though. the German withdrew into his studio in order Malt rather cheaper. in—" once- to construct the camel out of the depths of his own moral Oats, upon a moderate demand,, maintained late prices. sctoinilscthioeuresn.lssN. ort A h c A co m rd er in z g ca t n o . the latest accounts, he is Oattheal declined 6d. per load. Indian Corn much less free sale than during the week, 30s. THE CHOLERA AN IMPORTED DISEASE.—The disease, of b fo e r in y g ei t l h ow e extreme rates for superior samples of white, and 20s. ▪ Baron, a, . Wh ic h I have drawn but a faint outline, was not known Indian Meal 13s. to 13s. 6d. per barrel. [at Galli- , in this country till the autumn of the year 1831. There the Hon. , a . re Persons, I aril aware, who hold that it has always ex- , c , t ., t ...• p•-• lsted am on g f Justice of ':' us, only not in such numerous instances as .., 4 '4 > Ni ; il >, 4 to nelei athtetil.iat period; and they appeal to Morton and other • - o .'.! Isco : : 4 4 (31 2 . X I . c 3 C' 2, 2 ' ''' ?* 51° oval navy, earlv writers .c.., c: 3 , 7 .'c0 8 ( 't-. ;ht to re- ' A . - 5 g 4-4, g° c „ y ,ig:-.-:„.5,-... 4 the defen- r opinion. But the malady was too striking to be ;•;;;: g o ~, ~..zt.i... 1 5). . '4. i . rty of sea- •soeeN'aiii,lo,?ked or ever forgotten by any one who had once rA - 6 . ....1; ~,,-. .9 -,_ 6 , =.- g., -..t. Et , ;, , ,I Z ' ~. .& - _-, . . . ~ e , E yes, seized like it ,L'. Certainly till that year I never saw anything F.: = ci1 .... e z, - 2 :i• ';...: : - A ff, ,77,. R . ?'a F 4 g casks and roan To be sure I bad not at that time been very c g - t : „,;; .-,= 5„1 LI Ecr;; 1.4 4; ..D r CD " d, effectu- how:J e an in practice here. The late Dr. Babington, ...• ..• 9_,F I r , .?, g• 6 1 _ t , tent which cholera metropolis for told me that it was quite new to him. He had 1 1 -j . ;,,cgo, g . .. 2, w c , g ill led led for Parts na 1 "g period been in extensive practice in those 8 F r- 174, ...;,, C. .. iefendant. he metropolis and its vicinity where the epidemic ? '6,• ~,. CDs' : C 7:1 statement had th e raged Most • and when it first came among us he -.._ ~',*, F: cti,... , ... al. „ 4 . (..; , end • o g . , Tuesday, ositv to ask every medical man whom he met c •-•-. ...,.. ~. zs 5' .. lefendant, Whether he had seen an case of the cholera ; and if the -, „ T ..- ,iswer„yo .. -. { 2 (A. , 5 - 'i 3 sent with th at Was Yes," he went on to inquire whether before lap] g : . r:,T, rc, e" g 'rty, then Year the person had ever met with the same corn- P- 1 -. _ .. e. • • .:r (c on of two , plai nt ; and the reply was always, without a single excep- . . to .... . . ~, ~, tad seized ti " , " No." Yet I say there were and are a few practi- : : ,T, : : .- 7. z,..: 8 ::- '' : ~.I: 2° : ~....i. ... fr . , = . 4 lallinas to oners who denied, and deny, that it was anything more • • o+l • • 0 0 1.4••• tO •=0 • =Li Cr ,T, tit r . than the common and well-known English complaint ___ - wishes of if a treaty raging with unusual frequency and violence.—Dr.Watson. : : : : : : c v: : ~., :: : : : c .= 0 c , ,.. .• oons, the REPEAL.—We have already repeatedly stated that the ::. . . . ~ s, :: : , ::.• E: ..0 e ..1 iacca, and day of Repeal, " dies ills," may come, without any of ..1 i [ayes were the agencies by which it is at present ostensibly sought for. . . . . . . . . he spirits It may be, not wrung from England, but forced upon Ire- : : : : : : : : .:. : ce ., •'" • :. : : :: - t to, ~!..'-• x g land. As to the " bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" of ' • • • • • • • co• • • . •• • ed er: ?" '''' that they • ..i the faction by whom it is at present aimed at, we hold the river • ro guff and , them of little account. Before a steady course of w ise and - . g ~., . . ~, ~, • ~ •• • 4 , co I vigorous policy, they would dissolve into thin air, " vox : • .'-''. : : ° ° : '6l & 7 :i 'f ,61 t 7, a.' 4. •fiver, pre ,... • • -kJ . CA lon their - et preterea nihil. " co co The humbug of Old Ireland, and the -- ••••I • = le capture fierce, impracticable extravagance of Young Irela n d, rer s ander h is be equally disregarded by the statesman who took : : : : : : gat • • •• • o ° , -3 mmander , his stand upon constitutional principles ; and while he re- : : : : : : DZ • • V ci, 00 to promoted medied every real grievance, resolutely determined to of £7750 maintain the articles of the Union. But the minister 5. c.., to Brous wit- wit- • • a. OD Who, for party objects, makes an alliance with the faction i : ,1- • • ,5 • --,‘ • -.• : -. 4:) i 4 „) . . _ ~ and the of the country against the landed interest, and the super- ' : ," ' ' •-• '-• '6;. 3' 2 : ' ' ' '' l . Sc° ? F'' 'll H lon Wed- stition of the country against the Established Church, is *P. sh the most dangerous enemy to the integrity of the empire. . . . . . . ~,, . • • • a afternoon,• - that the : • • • • • • • • : : -, eo• He it is who giv e s i mpor t ance t o t h e R epea l movement. : : : : : „,, ...U: t, :: t : • • =:s g', Iby the . He it is who, by unwise concession, diminishes the eentri- I Denman 1 petal, and increases the centrifugal force—by the due &•; i:. ••Z• •• . Zro dered, on equilibrium of which an harmonious connexion between : : : : : : : . c .,,,, ~, .... . . . Pr. • c t ie defen- • • • .- • • • co c , o-o :•92 : : : 11 - the two countries can alone be maintained. And should : • • • • • • • »- .." 0 • - • n id to par- th e hour of separation come—as come, assuredly, it will, if -_ . . . F ''' Vempetanee puts wood co:: the fire, meal in the barrel, tour in the tub, money in the p .,:•se, credit in the country, tontentmentin the house, clothes o;s' the bairns, vigour in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the whole constitution. CURIOUS FASHION.—In 1612,10 James 1., Mr. Edward Hawley, of Grey's Inn, coming to court one day, Maxwell ja Scotsman] led him out of a room by a black string Which he wore in his ear, a fashion then much in use ; but this had like to have cost warm blood. Not only Grays Inn Society, but all the gentry in London, thought themselves concerned in the affront ; and Hawley threat ened to kill Maxwell whenever he met him, if he refused to fight, which so frightened the king, that he sent for the benchers, and made up the quarrel.—Tindal. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.—A German, an Eng. lishman, and a Frenchman, each received an order for a drawing of a camel. The Frenchman went immediately to the Jardin des Plantes, and the next day produced a skilfully-drawn, if not quite a perfect sketch of the camel. The Englishman set off on the first steamboat for the f rican desert, a and there obser ve d and sketched the animal, and , after few months, ma de a picture true to the life. Meanwhile, the German withdrew into his studio in order to construct the camel out of the depths of his own moral consciousness. According to the latest accounts, he is still there. —North American. THE CHOLERA AN IMPORTED DISEASE.—The disease, •of which I have drawn but a faint outline, was not known in this country till the autumn of the year 1831. There are Persons, I am aware, who hold that it has always ex ssted among us, only not in such numerous instances as at that period ; and they appeal to Morton and other early writers on the diseases of this country in support of their opinion. But the malady was too striking to be overlooked or ever forgotten by any one who had once like 'it • Certainly till that year 1 never saw anything ma Lt. To be sure I bad not at that time been very ho - w n e Y ,T e ars in practice here. The late Dr. Babington, er, told me that it was quite new to him. He had a era raged for a Parts veil lon g cholera period been in extensive practice in those of the metropolis and its vicinity where the epidemic most ; and when it first came among us he d the curiosity to ask every medical man whom he met 'whether he had seen an y case of the cholera; and if the twer Washewent on to inquire whether before t year the person had ever met with the same coin- P la int ; and the reply was always, without a single excep tion, " No." Yet I say there were and are a few practi tioners who denied, and deny, that it was anything more than the common and well-known English complaint raging with unusual frequency and violence.—Dr. Watson. REPEAL.—We have already repeatedly sta ted that the day of Repeal, " dies ilia," may come , without any of the a genc i es by which it is at present ostensibly sought for. It maynot wrung from England, but forced upon be, Ire land.As to the " bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" of the faction by whom it is at present aimed at, we hold them of little account. Before a steady course of wise and vigorous policy, they would dissolve into thin air, " vox et preterea nihil." The humbug of Old Ireland, and the fierce, impracticable extravagance of Young Ireland, might be equally disregarded by the statesman who took his stand upon constitutional principles ; and while he re medied every real grievance, resolutely determined to maintain the articles of the Union. But the minister who, for party objects, makes an alliance with the faction of the country against the landed interest, and the super stition of the country against the Established Church, is the most dangerous enemy to the integrity of the empire. He it is who gives importance to the Repeal movement. He it is who, by unwise concession, diminishes the centri petal, and increases the centrifugal force—by the due equilibrium of which an harmonious connexion between the two countries can alone be maintained. And should the hour of separation come—as come, assuredly, it will, if our course of policy be not altered—such a calamitous result will not be ascribable to O'Connell or the priests, lar Young Ireland, or Old Ireland, but to the degree in which fa c ti on s h all have triumphed over pr i nc i p l e; an d the ve r y System of government become itself the machi nery of agitation which can only find its perfect consum mation in the dismemberment of the empire.—Dublin university Magazine. THE - OF BAVARIA AND THE INNKEEPER. — Among tTr he u ne d ucated of Mun i ch a ha bi t preva il s o f us i ng the third person singular of the past tense of the verb to • be, to an swer for all persons, first, second, and th i rd ; and or tenses,--past, present, and future. We have no par sslel i n England for this habit ; but there is some approach to it, in those persons who, wishing to be super-correct, always sa y " I were." Now it happened that there was a gastwirth, or innkeeper, who was landlord of an establish ment much frequented in the outskirts of Munich, an li g i nal, and w h o was notorious for his perseverance in this habit. One morning, the king, in his usual daily ramble, fou n d hi mself in th i s place, when, of course , H err Gastwirth came out to salute him, with that mixture of familiar botzhotnnzie and respect for his station which cha racterises the Bavarian people. " Well, Herr Gastwirth," said the king, " and so you are the landlord of the _Gaean " Yes, I was, your majesty !" This of course, Ms, what the king wanted to hear. " But are you not still t hat landlord, ?" " Yes I was, your majesty," again You You Z e l, the unconscious gastwirth. " But when were reuord I was a long time, your majesty." could b thank S°, suppose, hope you will be !" " Yes, you your m question s b y _ . m a jesty's goodness,l hope I was." The king ear it no longer. He had been often baffled in his this stupid _habit of some of his- subjects. With one of his peculiar and forcible gestures, which m ade the astonished landl or d f ear he was a b ou t t o receive a Heal coup, the king replied, in his laconi c s tyl e , " Th en , nerr Gastwirth, I can tell you, you were an ass, you are " ass, and you always will be an ass !" And with that the irate grammarian hurried away, leaving the poor pub lican ly ignorant in what he had offended his usually g o od-natured king.--Fraser's Magazine. P RESENTIMENTS.—I have heard of several cases of teople hurrying home from a presentiment of fire ; and s °ll. • M., of Calderwood, was once, when absent from swine, seized with such an anxiety about his family that, without b e i ng a bl e i n any way to account for i t, he felt himself impelled to fly to them, and remove them from the house they were inhabiting, one wing of which fell down immediately a ft erwar d s . N o no ti on o f suc h a mis fortune had ever before occurred to him, nor was there a ny reason whatever to expect it, the accident originating from som e defect in the foundations.—A cirs,umstance, If s a s etlY similar to this, is related by Stilling, of Professor o s""" 0 , teacher of mathematics at Marburgh. who being v9e.vening in company, was suddenly seized with a con iction that he ought to go home. As, however, he was erY comfortably taking his tea, and had nothing to do at "tile, he resisted the admonition ; but it returned with such force that at length he was obliged to yield. On • l e a c tine his h ouse he found every thing as he had left it ; stood ini some : i v felt himself urged to remove his bed from the resist which it stood to another ; but as it had always ere, he resisted this impulsion also. However the do i anc e was vain, absurd as it seemed, he felt he must the t ; s° he summoned the maid, and, with her aid, drew bed to the other side of the room ; after which he felt quite _ at eas e , and returned to spend the rest of the evening with his friends. At ten o'clock the party broke up, and he retired home and went to bed and to sleep. In the middle of the night he was awakened by a loud crash, and i9n looking out he saw that a large beam had fallen, bring ng part of the ceiling with it, and was lying exactly on the pot his bed had occupied.—One of the most remarkable cases of pre sen ti ment I know is that which occurred, not ili long since, on b oar d one of her Majesty ' s ships, when l y i ng off Portsmouth. The officers being one day at the e_ e i s,s-table, a you ng Li eutenant P. suddenly la i d down his an, le and f or k, pushed away his plate, and turned extremely pale.. He then rose f rom the table, covering his face with his b an d s , an d retired from the room. The president of the mess, suppo.ing him to be ill, sent one of the young ram to • • inquire what was the matter. At first Mr. P. was nnvvilling to s p ea k ; b ut on being pressed, he confessed that he h a d b een se i zed by a sudden and irresistible im pression that a brother he had then in India was dead. He di e d," sa id h e, " on the 12th of August, at six O'clock ; T am perfectly certain of it !" No arguments could overthrow this conviction, which, in due course of Post, was verified to the letter. The young man had died at Cawnpore, at the precise period mentioned.= —The Night Side of Nature, by Mrs. Crowe. DR. HOWLEY'S FAITHFULNESS AND MUNIFICENCE.— The late Archbishop of Canterbury had difficulties with which to contend, and many painful duties to per- forma He had baptized the Queen ; he had solemnized her marriage ; he had placed the Crown upon her head ; he'wris the ' first ecclesiastic in the realm ; and when it appeared to him, as well as to other distinguished mem bers of the hierarchy, that, in the palace of the Sovereign, - Sunday was observed in a manner rather in accordance with the gaiety of continental tastes than with the quiet 'reserve of English and Protestant habits, he did not he sitate to call her Majesty's attention to the subject • and it ht's been st a t e d t h at more t h an once during the 'Mel 'lsourne Ministry he respectfully tendered to the Crown advice not quite in accordance with the wishes of those .1 : 41 0 at that ti me surrounded our then youthful and in . 731.perienced Sovereign. Though a man of remarkably mild and unassumin g manners, he was by no means defi cient in moral courage, nor likely to be deterred by any 3 t f • 0 courtiers from discharging a duty due to his Sove ter or to the church of which that Sovereign is the 1 4e .tv. d n It is a remarkable fact that the grandfather of the e ro f George 111., instead of requiring similar advice R is "V F Primat e of his day, was himself the remonstrant. aleste mice rnwallisd • the incumbency of Archbishop during censurin s addressed to that. prelate a very grave letter, and the " routsand reve l r i es" of Lambeth Palace, PraYing But ~ e scandal B good Lord Primate to terminate the to hospitabl Lit Archbishop Howley, though cheerfully e, never exposed himself to such a rebuke, nor anY oth lag the g iber species of animadversion ; for, notwithstand rally ad aol?Parent simplicity of his character, he was gene immediatit in avoiding awkward situations. Unlike his managed e successor in the see of London, be usually to keep out of trouble, not so much by genuine Pdience and elevation of soul as by the possession of sym pathy nd the absence of vanity. He had su ffi cient s,. with his fellowmen to understand on the whole their feelings skin t _ es as well as their prejudices, and sufficient .eared ,ea;oavoid wounding their self-love; he therefore ob gte reputation of being very amiable, without theni fame of extraordinary benevolence.A s mu remark as other Archbish ops he certainly was, but withal amethod.and his a i msgiv . methodical perhaps too well regulated in ,as a port 'on ; almost every deed was done apparently _ „ ion of his routine duty ; and thouh •it us, within :Imited circle, well known that he often gave way to generous impulses t 'lever wh• •ye the world at large underrated the 'lever ich he expended in good works ; and as he was tors _,?!Mposed to be a man of facile disposition, suu not victimize • him so • " ° nt with •extensively as it is their b men of his rank • h Y Profusion , e, terefore, won no raise I nor by parsimony in c urred any reproacph. A. special 3kruptcy, ster, (in if the as- Er. Henry ::. : ... :: : : —:l°' : : ci" ::•• I ..., 1 to a•.••. • • • CA • • • - - • • • ; ::, :• 2,,3 " ~,,• :• :' i . • p ..: i r . . :. .: 1 •' I C.I• ••• , LA •••• • • '•• CT • ea tot •- • • I• • . . : : 1 .4- • • . 3 • • Q. • ow r , 4..• • Ico • • go • oco I K . E s ' I ntd i:I : : I .1, .a. : : --• ti ::8:: : I 15 ••I• • 1 : i • • a ict CI • • Z i a •• • 4 0. Cra .. • • tin • • • CD 1 g was ex nsactions , was also laimed to amen had ght, from fr. Moss, amicably dates of ;he prin. a effected [lent sup ny one in ions, the as to the he said, after out 12th and Co. Higgin ) A. W. were de received. that the day they remem the evi- ny eases • what lie the wit stances. an inter )ffice. ientation alth. MIS been patriot" last, the . ared Mr. ;ssed the the Old 'Connell place on )d by Sir and re- of the —though members of Corn- Bentinck ur which ry Party, lat party Al consti ig voted his pro ,h on the :A ly on the whom he onstitute heil, the missary- William , be corn lint, and ition and terations d them lust been id some-. . )n, Gen. member, thdrawn, 'Mai the although members !e on this Brown, G. Ben- , Amongst names of Dtherton, Hindley, d Sir J. he Daily el; followers purpose 4 en or was una late posi no longer , 11.: :; Peel de-' dace him, ie should hs them to whom he' This pro- • ition. )ert Pee_ • f v mental B, he will f the Sir. ed it ne- e in what iis mind be said, aphorical to make nmenced week, in -4. sir, it to on the nder our ler which ;hristmas 'prevent 'n on the in silent• ive come first Fm )laces me 'e al►nost baronet rse of b foiversitf !,, it 3rget bl, " t his se " ' ^r--- HOUSES IN A MOORISH TOWN.—The houses of Yahndi were most of them extremely well built, and consisted of various apartments round a series of courts, the principal entrance to which, being the usual open reception-room, faced the street. The lower and outer portions of these rooms were constantly washed with red ochre ; the upper were covered with the most elaborate patterns, formed in relief with pliant wood, and washed over with white clay. The roots. supported by square pillars, were sloping, made of palm leaves, and having rafters of bamboo inside, which were blackened and polished. The street-rooms were halls of audience for men of consequence; the doors within were richly carved, and coloured with various pig ments, procured chiefly from vegetable substances.—Mrs. Lee's". African Wanderers." INACTIVITY OF THE NEGRO.—The negro is perhaps more fully alive than any other class of mankind to the luxury.of undistut bed idleness. He has few wants, and those few are easily supplied in such a splendid island as Jamaica, where his provision ground, with the smallest possible amount of cultivation, will afford him every ne cessary, and some of the luxuries of life. What he cannot raise for himself must, of course, be obtained by labour; but a very slight portion indeed of the primal curse now lights upon the emancipated negro, who has no ambition, and consequently no motive to persevere. Nor, indeed, can we wonder at this, if we only reflect serious ly on the scenes which are visible at home. Do we not all know how difficult it is to rouse the western Highlander to any thing like active exertion ? How many thousands of the Irish are there at this moment who will not work, prefer ring to depend for life itself upon the precarious existence of a miserable root, which, of all articles of human food, requires the smallest degree of culture ? And can we, while such things happen among Christians, in a land where the severity of the climate ought to be of itself a sufficient inducement to exertion, wonder that the negroes, who have neither the same advantages, nor the same cogent motives for labour, should abandon themselves to a life of lazy sensuality, and look upon the naked cane-fields, and choked coffee-plantations with an eye of utter indifference ? —Blackwood. A LAUGHABLE TRICK.—A few days ago an old farmer entered a town not twenty miles from Stourbridge, and put up at the Blue Pig Inn. After taking some refresh ment, he entered into conversation with some gay young sparks, who had been cracking their jokes at the old old farmer's unsophisticated and country manners, and who now equally enjoyed his numerous platitudes and simple observations. Having ascertained that it was his intention to walk through the town, to which he was a stranger, they expressed their fears lest he should be un able to regain his inn, and while so engaged one of them affixed a placard to the farmer's back, which he had on the instant printed and pasted, bearing this inscription— " I put up at the Blue Pig Inn." The old gentleman, perfectly unsuspecting the trick that had been played him, immediately took a stroll through the town, and as he passed along the streets became "the observed of all ob servers." A gentleman stopped and read the inscription aloud, " I put up at the Blue Pig Inn ;" to which the farmer replied, "Do you ? so do I." A second gentle man met him, and read, " I put up at the Blue Pig Inn." " Doyouthough, really ?" said the farmer, rather surprised at the coincidence, "so do I." A third came up, and seeing the placard, read out, " I put up at the Blue Pig Inn.' "Is it possible ?" exclaimed the farmer, now quite bewildered ; "so do I." A fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and at last a whole crowd of persons stopped to read the inscription, and simultaneously shouted, I put up at the Blue Pig Inn." "Tile d-1 you do !" cried the old farmer, now completely obfuscated, " then the whole town lodges there, and if I don't make haste back, I shan't get a bed." Saying which, the old fellow scampered off towards his hostelry, pursued by a multitude of voices. e... crying at their utmost pitch, " I put up at the Blue Pig Inn ; ' to which from time to time, the old farmer, per fectly unconscious of the meaning of the iteration of the fact, replied, " Very well. I tell you, so do I. Do you think I'm deaf, you confouudelLaimillt-tons ) What ar you grinning at, hey ?" Ten Towns Messenger. M. Gunot —A fatality hangs over this once-honoured statesman. Whether he is coerced by a superior influence, or whether it is from preference that he pursues his tor tuous course, every act in which he exhibits himself to the world tends to the demolition of his once high and pure political tame. As though he had been at the head of the strongest government in the world, he commences by flinging down the gauntlet unnecessarily to his oppo nents. M. Guizot has, or affects to have, a horror of the Reform movement in France. It is natural to a man of his caste that he should fear a transfer of electoral power from a manageable few to the less corrupt many. But, more probably , his dislike of the movement arises from its being made a cheval de bataille by his political rivals. Whether or no, he has provoked animosity in a party who, at present, have derived their chief importance from his hostility. By introducing the words " blind and hostile passions," in reference to an agitation perfectly legitimate, he has given that party at once a strong motive and a political weight. Stormy discussions in the Cham ber of Deputies have sufficiently shewn what are the feel ings of the Liberals, although the government, by the force of its majority, was able to prevent an amendment being carried. * * The Reform movement in France is differently regarded by different persons; but by the ministerial party it has hitherto been treated much as the movements of the Anti-Corn-law League were treated in England until their organization became formidable. Not long since, however, M. Guizot began to perceive that there was danger in the distance from the Reform meet ings. More especially he grew - alarmed at them when he found them tolerated, and, in a negative sense, patronised by M. Duchatel. A large portion of the Conservative party begin to admit that the concession of reform may avert a demand for revolution ; and this opinion has of late transpired in Paris. It has produced a singular re sult. The committee for the Reform banquet in the immediate neighbourhood of Paris, the holding of which was forbidden by the police, publicly intimated that the banquet will be held notwithstanding. This was a bold and significant step. The tone of the Opposition in the French Chambers has grown daily more bold, and coupl ing their increased activity with the resolution of the banquet committee, we are inclined to agree in the opinion entertained by reflecting Englishmen resident in Paris, that there is in fact no real reform party in France, though the natural wishes of the people are made the stalking horse of a faction.--Fraser's Meg. • TAE LIVERPOOL STAADARD. THE CAUSE OF IRELAND'S SUFFERING. (From a Sermon by the Rev. H. Melville.) I dwell not upon this—l go on, and I would tell you yet further, that pestilence, the twin sister of famine, has laid her hand on the unhappy districts; fever, and that too of the most malignant character, boils in the veins of the starving peasantry—and thus it is daily becoming the lot of multitudes, in a land most romantic in its loveli ness, and most luxuriant in its natural resources, to lie down hopelessly, the victims of raging hunger and raging disease, and there is none to minister to the sufferers; for where famine and pestilence are holding carnival, who shall give to another what he is demanding for himself ? Alas ! alas ! the frown of the Almighty seems to - rest upon Ireland. Nature has done much for her—there is fertility in her soil, and majesty in her scenery—the navies of empire may ride in her harbours—the commerce of the world might float on her rivers and her lakes—yet despite those advantages which appear to mark her out as worthy to share with England the diadem of the waters, Ireland is still but a degraded and half-civilized territory, and there is no bringing out a developement of her in ternal resources, and violence is the atmosphere in which her children live, and human life too often nothing but their plaything. God forbid I should hesitate to state that I believe the prevalence of the Roman Catholic religion lies at the root of all this wretchedness. There is nothing of bigotry in affirming that it is the very genius of this 'religion to keep a rude population still rude, just because it keeps them still ignorant—and whilst the Irish population con tinues unhumanised, and unhumanised it must continue until a moral influence has been introduced among its tribes, the landlord will have his excuse for absenteeism, that curse and drain of the land ; and the capitalist will will have his excuse for not embarking his property in schemes for the improvement of the country ; and thus the springs of national prosperity will remain choked and dried up ; and all for want of that moral influence amongst the people, which can only be produced by diffusing the knowledge of the true religion of Jesus. It is because Ireland is morally benighted. that she is physically de graded ; and the energies which must be turned to her to raise her to her due rank in the scale of nations are re ligious rather than political; she can be thoroughly civi lised only by being thoroughly Christianized. , These remarks are in no sense irrelevant to the cause which has gathered us together. The physical distress of the Irish I believe to be closely connected with their moral destitution; and if you would, God helping, pre vent the recurrence of the one, you must labour assidu ously at the removal of the other. The legislation which is required for Ireland is heart-legislation. And oh, if her people could be rescued from the thraldrom of spiritual despotism, and if they could be brought to take freely into their hands the words of the everlasting Gospel, Ireland might, in deed and in truth, rise up as the green isle of the ocean, and plenty mantle her valleys, and the music of peace be heard in her mountains—the withering frown of the Almighty would rest no longer upon her an.l beneath the clear sunshine of his countenance she would become the home of civil order, and the seat of piety and happiness. The Earl of Dundonald preferred a claim for the arrears of pay of which his lordship was unjustly deprived during seventeen years, which the Lords of her Majesty's Trea sl'ry have refuse d' to listen to. TN superb service of ornamental plate which has been presented to the Earl of Ellenborough by his friends in India is now finished. It consists of a grand centre-piece. two candelabra, four ice-pails, four dessert stands, and two ornaments for the end of the table. On Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Wrottesley, rector of Knoyle, near Salisbury, committed suicide by tying his handkerchief tight round his neck, as it was so found. The deceased was an aged gentleman, and very much reected. PARISH EMIGRATION,—The owners of property and ratepayers of the township of Bradford, Yorkshire, have agreed to appropriate the sum of £2OOO from the poor rate towards a fund for defraying the emigration of poor persons having settlements in the township. CUSTOMS.—The number of porters and persons hold ing subordinate situations in the department of the Cus toms in the receipt of not more than 3s. a day is 3108, of which 1890 are employed in England, 415 in Scotland, and 803 in Ireland. DIMINUTION OF THE ROMISH CLERGY.—In 1757 there were in France alone, in priests and friars, more than 300,000. In 1829, there only 108,000. The papal clergy of Europe have been greatly reduced by a variety of causes. The total diminution of Romish ecclesiastics in Europe amounts to 855,000. A Kendal paper mentions, that on the 31st ult. one of the Low Wood powder mills exploded, but happily no person was injured, and the damage was confined to the destruction of the mill and of the powder which was grinding at the time of the accident, for which no cause can be assigned. A husband has been committed to gaol for the murder of his wife at Lictleport. The name of the accused is John Crabb, who was for many years steward on the Bar ton farm, Ely, to the late J. Page, Esq., and for the last few years has been keeping a small shop, and farming a little land at Littleport. The prisoner is about 60 years old, and his deceased wife was about the same age. A few days since, some hot water was applied to dissolve the ice in a pump on the premises of a farmer at Haugh, in Lincolnshire ; 'nut a vessel which had previously con tained arsenic was incautiously used ; and when the water from the pump was given to thirty bullocks on the farm, the poison was so virulent that twenty of them died on the following day, and seven others shortly afterwards. About twenty little carvings in ivory, which were dis covered lying on some of the bassi-rilievi brought to this country from Nineveh by Mr. Layard, have been added to the national treasures in the British Museum. They are well carved in low relief, on a small scale, about four inches by two and a half ; and the greater portion of them resemble strictly Egyptian types rather than Assyrian. On Monday night, while some men were emptying a puncheon of whisky that stood before a shop at Glasgow, a boy observed that some of the spirit was flowing from the bunghole, and applied a lighted paper to it. The whisky instantly caught fire, and the cask exploded with a loud report ; but happily no one was hurt, though seve ral panes of glass were broken in the neighbouring houses. The Rev. J. Lee, Vicar of Thaxted, who is 71 years old, has been committed to gaol in default of sureties to keep the peace towards Marian, the wife of the Rev. T. Harvey, curate of the same place. He had assaulted, or rather threatened to assault the lady, who with consent of the Bishop resides with her husband in the vicarage house, and was fined £5 for so doing, which he paid. The Bishop of Oxford has commenced a subscription and formed a committee for establishing an agricultural school in his diocese. At a meeting at Cuddesdon Palace last week, when Lord Barrington, M.P. J. W. Henley, J. H. Langstone, C. G. Dupre, and J. Walter (M.P.'s), and others were present.. Preliminaries were agreed upon, and £llOO subscribed on the spot. A poor old Irish woman named Ellen Gray, nearly 80 years old, died last week at a filthy lodging-house in Gloucester. The immediate cause of her demise was a bad leg, but her end was hastened by the want of proper nourishment and attention. The jury expressed an opinion that there ought to be more comfortable accommodation for casual poor. At a meeting of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, at Huddersfield, the Rev. W. Thorp produced a new lamp, which will effec tually remedy all the defects in the lamp of Sir H. Davy ; affording five times more light, and being, it is said, per fectly safe in every condition of the coal mine. The lamp received the unqualified approbation of a great number of persons, nine of whom were coal owners, or viewers of collieries, and more conversant with fire-damp than, per haps, any other persons in Yorkshire. Jullien, the grand quadrille maestro, is stated to be in pecuniary difficulties, and a meeting of his creditors was lately held, when his liabilities were estimated at £16,000, to pay which, his creditors granted him twelve years. His embarrassments are attributed to his having taken Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of producing operas on a scale far exceeding anything which had been before attempted in Englawl. Besides this, he laid out an incre dible sum of money in rendering his music shop in Regent street a most superb saloon, paid high for copyrights of many things that never sold, &c., &c. DEATH FROM POISON.—An inquest has been held on Mrs. Jones, of Tycalch, Llangristiolus, who committed the fatal mistake of introducing arsenic, in lieu of carbon ate of soda, into some light cakes. Th e: unfortunate de ceased, together with her two daughters and a son, and two step-daughters, partook more or less of the cakes, and all of them were taken ill shortly after. Mrs. Jones died next day, and the other members of the family con tinued in a precarious state for several days, requiring the utmost medical care and attention. Verdict—" Accidental poisoning." NORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT STOCK BANK.—A gene ral meeting was held at Newcastle on Tuesday, Mr. John Henderson in the chair. A report was read, shewing that the liabilities were reduced to £444,232 7s. 3(1., being a reduction of £134.367 3s. 3d. since the 30th of September last, and of £1,420,623 19s. 11d, since the stoppage of the bank ; also, that £89,301 3s. sd. had been received for calls, and that the deficiency now to be met by the share holders amounts to £87,373 ls. 6d. A subscription was determined on for raising £lOO,OOO by loan from the shareholders, and it was promptly responded to. An establishment, termed a "Training Institution for Nurses," is about to be founded in London; under the auspices of the Archbishop of York, several bishops and many of the most eminent physicians of London. This institution will be based on the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and will be placed under the im mediate superintendence of a clergyman. The inmates are to consist of three classes :—Those who are under training as probationers ; those who, after passing through the period of probation satisfactorily, are admitted as nurses for a period of five years ; and a class of " sisters," who will devote their attention to the sick and poor. A RICH PAUPER.—A remarkable instance of pro pensity for hoarding has lately come to light in the case of a woman who died last week in Macduff. The indi vidual in question had been for years a pauper on the roll of the parish of King Edward, and her outward appear ance at all times bespoke the deepest poverty. After her death, the person who had waited upon her in her illness found, rolled up in separate pieces of paper in a cupboard, 23 one-pound notes, six sovereigns, £7 in silver, mostly in half-crowns, besides a bank check for £5O ; the entire amounting to £B6. The money has been paid over to the inspector of poor of King Edward, that parish being entitled to it, to indemnify themselves for the sums they had paid to the deceased.—Banffshire Journal. CONFLICT AT SNIG'S-END.--An unpleasant reconoure, which threatened the most serious consequences, occurred lately at the " People's Estate," at Snig's-end, between Mr. Dewhurst and Mr. Fergus O'Connor. Mr. D., it seems, who was formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester, had so much confidence in Mr. O'Connor's allotment-system. that he gave up his academy, and placed £4OO in his hand for the purchase of the old farm-house, which he (Mr. Dewhurst) now holds, together with a quantity of cider, &c. Thinking that Mr. O'Connor meant to do " him out of the purchase, Mr. D. one day entered the room where he was sitting with a hatchet, and under violent excitement was about to commit a murderous assault, when Mr. O'Conner knocked him down, and the in truder was borne off amidst the reprobation of the other inmates, without having inflicted any injury. Mr. Andrew Doyle, late editor of the Morning Chron icle, has been appointed one of the Inspectors under the chief commissioner of poor-laws, and part of the extensive district now under the superintendence of Mr. Austin, who resides in Manchester, has been assigned to him. Mr. Doyle is the son-in-law of Sir John Easthope, Bart., who retired on Saturday from the proprietorship of the Morning Chronicle. Who the new proprietors of that rout - URI are is not known ; but it is certain tlitly are eminent in political and mercantile stations. Mr. Doyle has been succeeded in the editorship by Mr. Cooke, a dis tinguished writer, recently connected with the Times, whose brilliant productions have obtained for him the highest honours of the metropolitan press. He was for merly a parliamentary reporter. With Mr. Cooke is as sociated the elder Mr. Delane, who retired from the Times along with the late Mr. Alsager, and a staff of cOadjutors of tried ability. A daring outrage was committed on Sunday at the house of the Rev. Mr. Strickland, Great George-street, Bristol. Between seven and eight in the evening, two men called at Mr. Strickland's house, and asked if he was at home. The servant requested them to walk in, and wait till Mr. Strickland (who was officiating at Christ Church), should return. The men went into the kitchen, and as the servant was putting chairs for them, one of them struck her a violent blow upon the head with a mallet, which he had hitherto concealed. The blow felled her to the ground, rendering her insensible. The other female servant, walking down stairs at the time, saw the blow struck, and immediately ran up stairs and into the street, and cried " murder." The villains quickly fol lowed her, and escaped, leaving the mallet, a formidable weapon, behind them. Their object was evidently to rob the house. The poor servant has suffered concussion of the brain, and lies in a very dangerous state. " THERE'S MANY A SLIP," &c.—The daughter of a son of St. Crispin (i. e., we presume, a grand-daughter of the saint), residing in the vicinity of King-street, was very nearly converted into a Countess, yesterday morn ing, by a certain young and noble earl, formerly a mem ber of Trinity College, in this University. The tale is, that matters had proceeded so far that the expectant bridegroom had an interview with the Clerk of Trinity parish on Thursday afternoon, and all needful prelimi nary arrangements were made for the celebration of the ceremony yesterday morning. We are not in the secret as to the bride's dress, the magnificence of her trousseau, the beauty of her bridesmaids, or any of those other little matters which are usually chronicled in the marriages of the great : nor are these things now of much consequence, for, alas for human hope ! not long before midnight on Thursday, the servant of the noble earl presented himself before the elated functionary of Trinity parish, and coun termanded everything : there was to be no wedding after all. It is supposed that the friends, - of the noble earl suc ceeded in dissuading him from fanning so degrading an alliance.---Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday. LIEUT. Bowan .—We have been assured that there are many parties in Liverpool and the neighbourhood who distinctly recollect seeing Lieut. Bowen (who is charged with forgery,) on the 2d instant, the day on which he Is stated to have been at Doctors' Commons in the disguise of a sailor. A correspondent of the Morning Post says that as soon as the news of the Archbishop of Canterbury's death ar rived at Hereford, " sweeps " were established at several of the inns. in the same manner as for races, but with the difference that the names of all the bishops were substi tuted for those of the horses ; and the proceeds will of course be paid to the ticket-holder who may have drawn the name of the bishop who is promoted to the vacant primacy. MR. MACREADY.—HIS CONTEMPLATED RETIREMENT FROM THE STAGE.—On Friday night Mr. Macready took his benefit at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. Long be fore the regular time of opening, the doors were besieged— as early as six o'clock hundreds being about the doors. When they were opened the rush to the pit and gallery was fearful, and in a short time the house was crowded in every part. The receipts were £145. and it is calculated that above three hundred individuals could not gain ad mission. The pieces Mr. Macready appeared in were a scene in Shakspeare's play of Henry IV., and the comedy of the Jealous Wife. At the conclusion of the comedy Mr. Macready was called in front of the curtain, and on making his appearance was hailed with loud cheers, which were again and again repeated. Mr. Macready thanked the audience very sincerely for their kind expression of regard to him. The next visit he should pay them world, in all probability, be his last he would then have to say the word " Farewell," a word always painful to utter, but to him on that occasion doubly so. He proposed retiring from the stage at an early day, not because he felt age creeping upon him, or his faculties or energies impaired, but because of the present deplorable condition of the National Drama. How THE Pool:. LIVE.—The following report from a visitor of some of the districts of St. Giles's, London, gives a sad picture of the crowded condition of some of the houses there. It is said to be by no means the worst case that might be selected. The house to which the re port refers is situated at No. 4, Church-lane. On the ground floor there are two rooms, one 14 feet long by 13 feet wide, and 6 feet high ; the other 11 feet 2 inches long, 9 feet 4 inches wide, less than 6 feet high. Number of families in these two rooms fine, comprising 4 males above 20, 9 females above 20, three of them single, 2 males under 20, 4 females under 20, total nineteen ! Number of beds, six. On the first floor, one room, 17 feet long, 13 feet wide, 8 feet high. Number of families, Jour. Five males above 20; five females above 20 ; 4 males under 20 ; 2 females under 20: total, sixteen. Number of beds, one. Two of the single women were 25, and one of the boys was 18. Sixteen persons, with only one bedstead ! On the second floor, one room, 17 feet long, 13 feet wide, 8 feet high. Number of families, five. Five males above 20, 6 females above 20; 9 males under 20, 3 females under 20; total, twenty-three. Beds of shavings and rags, no bedsteads. A back room on the stairs, 12 feet long, 12 feet wide, 5 feet 6 inches high. One family of three per sons. Thus in this miserable house of five rooms, sixty one persons slept every night. HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—Abont half-past 12 o'clock on the night of Thursday, a house occupied by Mr. Med way, a small grocer, of Wellington, in Somersetshire, was discovered to be in flames, and there being at the time no less than seven persons asleep therein, it was soon evident that life as well as property was in jeopardy. Mr. Medway was away from home at the time, but Mrs. Medway, her brother, and her child, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and their little girl, and a person named Pearce, were sleeping in various rooms. An alarm was raised, and the engines brought as speedily as possible to the spot ; but owing to the rapid spread of the flames, Mr. Edwards, his wife, and his child were unable to effect their escape, and, mel ancholy to relate, the whole family perished in the flames. Fortunately for the safety of the adjoining houses, there was no breeze at the time. The town engines were early on the spot, and rendered very considerable service. The house burnt down and the adjoining one belonged to a person named John Holley, a retired builder, and both were insured in the Sun, fire-office, the one burnt in £l5O, and the other, which is considerably damaged, in £lOO. The goods of Medway, who carried on the grocery business in s small way, were insured in the Union Fire-office, in £100; and the goods of the poor man, Edwards, who lost his life, were insured in the County Fit e-office in £5O. The origin of the fire is certainly enveloped in a great deal of mystery, and every exertion will be made to sift it to the bottom. THE SERPENT AND THE FARMER.—The inhabitants of a place called Greens, situated about half a mile from Bacup, have recently got plenty to laugh at in thd adven ture which a worthy old farmer had with a terrible looking animal, in his barn, the otht r morning. At an early hour, while it was still dusk, he had gone to look after his pits, and when just entering the barn, he thought he saw a monster serpent lying on the ground, one of its extre mities being coiled. Recovering from the terror which the sight had induced, and feeling himself still free from the embraces of the hideous reptile, he took to his heels, and told his neighbours such a tale as induced a general desire for a fierce assault upon the unwelcome intruder. Several persons instantly armed themselves with various weapons, such as spades, pieces of wood, and evideatly resolved to rid the neighbourhood of the formidable viper, and bring back his dead carcase as a trophy of their cou rage. The farmer himself led the way, armed with a hay fork, and boldly entering the barn, attacked the serpent, and forking him through at the first blow, held him aloft. In this position the farmer's valiant friends banged at the serpent most powerfully till they were satisfied that the life was out of him. They then carried his carcase to a house not far distant, where more knowing sort of folks resided, who, as may be imagined, enjoyed no little amuse ment and laughter at the rediculous mistake of the clowns, the said serpent being nothing else than—a lady's boa. CHLOROFORM.—No slight amount of discredit has been ca , t upon chloroform by the recent case of death at New castle, in which the coroner's jury found a verdict of " Death from congestion of the lungs from chloroform inhalation." Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, seems, however, to have removed the imputation. In a lecture delivered last Monday, in the Edinburgh University, he clearly showed that the patient had been destroyed by ar tificial choking, or asphyxia, and not by the chloroform ; that in fact, her mouth h a d been filled with brandy and water for the purpose of reviving her, while she was yet in a torpid and lethargic state, and consequently unable to swallow; and that death was thus produced precisely as by drowning. He concluded by stating that he had the satisfaction of believing that, by saving much human suf fering and agony, chloroform had already saved much human life. Such a case as the present was well calcu lated to teach a salutary degree of caution ; but it would and could do no ultimate injury to the general adoption and spread of a practice of tvsthenasia. With reference to Dr. Simpson's Lecture, Dr. Meggison, of Edinburgh, in a letter dated Whickham, February 14, states that it might be expected that the professor should endeavour to attribute the death of his (the writer's) unfortunate patient to some other cause than the inhalation of chlo roform, and after complaining that Dr. Simpson did not write to him before he assumed that so much brandy was given —asserts, first, that the patient only took a tea spoonful of brandy which she swallowed, though with some difficulty, yet without the slightest indication of choking. Secondly, the brandy given could not have produced the enormous congestion of the lungs as was found. Some of the most eminent surgeons who had seen the body had never seen such lungs as those of the unfortunate girl, except in the cases of animals poisoned by chloroform. He finally again denies that the patient was choked with brandy. PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE JEW BILL.—We have heard some curious stories both in and out of parliament respecting the mode in which petitions are obtained in favour of the Jew bill—signatures being contracted for, at so much per score. And Lord John Russell can conde scend to present such petitions by the bushel, in support of his election bargain with the Baron. On Thursday night, the Earl of Ellenborough laid eleven of these pre cious bits of parchment on the table of the House of Lords, from Baptists, Unitarians, Independents, and Pres byterians, with the following account of how they came into his hand :—" The prayer of all these petitions (said the noble earl) was precisely in the same form of words. The petitions of all noticed that a bill had been intro duced into parliament for the removal of the Jewish dis abilities, and prayed that those disabilities might be removed. He totally dissented from the prayer. These petitions were brought to his house by a person who was represented on the card which he left as coming from the London Election Committee. He (Lord Ellenborough) was not surprised at this, as he always considered the Jewish Di .abilities Bill as a" - Whig "civic job. The abuse of a valuable public right had occurred before; but he knew of no aluse calculated to be so injurious as the shameful abuse of the right of petitioning which hid taken place on this and many other occasions." We firmly believe the noble earl simply stated a fact when he said the " Jewish Disabilities Bill was a Whig civic job." The Baron would never have come forward if the minister had held back. It was a compact—with conditions which we prefer leaving to the reader's imagination. INDIGESTION CURED, AND WEAK STOMACHS STRENGTHENED, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, which are the finest stomachic and invigorating medicine ever known. Even in very bad cases a few doses will wonder fully improve the tone and strength of the weakest sto mach, and induce healthy digestion ; and as they never fail to promote an excellent appetite, those of weak and delicate habits are enabled to take such substantial food as is necessary to get up their strength. By means of this astonishing medicine persons have obtained a state of health and vigour they never anticipated. Theie Pills may be taken at all times with the greatest freedom and safety. They are purely a herbal preparation.—See advt. CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—It has been the fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial, to run down the advantages of external appearance—thus the phrases " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty," had obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and others of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. The present age is bold enough to quit this dictum, and even to go as far as to extol the study of externals as a duty to society, which should have presented to it agreeable objects, and now contends that the cultivation of the beautiful holds a place second in importance ,to the promotion of the good. This is it which holds out en couragement to those who labour to put the public in possession of means to this end. Oldridge's Balm of Columbia, as the most effective preservative or renovator of that most beautiful ornament the Human Hair, takes first rank, and as long as its valuable properties continue to be known and appreciated, must take the precedence of every production intended for exterior improvement in this direction. C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully, frees it from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few bottles generally restore it again ; it also prevents greyness.-- 3s. 6d., 65., and lls. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, 1, Welli ng _ ton-street, Strand, London. Sold by all resiseetable Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationers. - - TWO SIDES TO A STORY. (From the Times.) It has been said that Protestants are eager to catch up and repeat stories to the discredit of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Is it not somewhat striking to find the ec clesiastical demagogues of Ireland as often as not at war with those of their own faith ? We recommend the cor respondence between Sir John Nugent and the Rev. Mr. Mullen as an example of this position. Sir John Nugent is a Roman Catholic Baronet of the highest character. On the 3d of Janu ry last the Rev. Robert Mullen re lated the following instance of the cruelty of landlords to the deliberative assembly at Conciliation-hall. We shall give the ipsissima verba of Mr. Mullen as they were printed in Sanders's Newsletter of the 4th instant ; and, as the whole story would appear to do credit to the ima inative powers of the relator, we will call it, with old Chaucer, THE PRIEST ' S TALE. " He" (Mr. Mullen) " had seen a strong, healthy man, a mechanic, who earned a respectable livelihood by making shoes, perishing for lack of food. He and his family were in great distress, so he went to his landlord, and asked him for assistance, and the reply was, If you give me up the house I will give you a pound.' The poor man took the pound, to preserve his life for the time. This incident reminded him of the sale of Esau's birth right for a mess of pottage. (Hear.) The unfortunate man lay upon the road-side, with his wife and family. He (Mr. Mullen) got some straw from a charitable neighbour, and made a shed for him, where he and they lay. They took fever. In number they were eight or nine. They had no covering but a coverlet bought for them by a clergyman, and he saw the wife, who was pregnant at the time when she died of fever, cast upon the road-side, and left there till her children removed the corpse. _QMight God grant that he might never again witness such a sight—a sight that scared away the pas sengers upon the road-side. That inhuman landlord sent his bailiff, his fowler, or his gamekeeper, and the man swore, by his Eternal God, if they did not leave the road side, he would shoot them. If they did not denounce such conduct, they would be unworthy of the priesthood and the sanctuary," &c. • This little anecdote was of course as good as a dose of slugs, to be repeated as often as required, for poor Sir John Nugent. The worthy knight, however, has smelt powder, and did not care to retreat before such an adver sary. When he failed to obtain redress, first from Mr. Mullen, and then from Dr. Cantwell, his bishop, Sir John Nugent published the real version of this pathetic anecdote, which, it would seem, runs thus : THE KNIGHT'S TALE. ".A mechanic (if a poor cobbler can be called such) came, from I know not where. to reside, without my knowledge, consent, or wish, on my land, under one of my tenants, to whom he paid for his dwelling £2 yearly. This man went away of his own accord, although I assured him I would not permit him to be disturbed. His house was then pulled down. He did receive £1 from me ; that is, he swindled me out of it. Having deposited his family on another estate, he deserted them there. After some months he returned, and built a hut on the road-side, close to his former dwelling. I did send my bailiff' or gamekeeper to him and to my tenant, to say that I could not permit the hut to remain there; but, being told that the man had a fever, I gave orders that he should not be disturbed, and sent the doctor to him. He remained there until he recovered. His wife and two of his chil dren took the fever, and it pleased the Lord, but not me, to take them away. This man abandoned again the rest of his helpless young children to their fate, and has not been seen now for several months. His children have been taken into the poorhouse, and a warrant was issued for his apprehension." Is it not a scandal that power of life and death, and that death of the most terrible sort, should remain in such hands ? For ourselves, we have little hesitation in ad mitting the truth of Sir John Nugent's story, and pro nouncing that of Mr. Mullen to be untrue. All who will read the correspondence at length will come, we think, to the same conclusion. If the spiritual superiors of the series which runs—M'Hale,—Cantwell,—Mullen—w an t to form a correct idea of an Irish priest's denunciation, there is an example. The family of Major Mahon might follow up the tale. _ enteral Altsrellany. The Morning Chronicle, under its new management, has resumed its old price, sd. . The Durham Town Council has agreed to petition in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. It is reported that Lord Hardinge succeeds the Duke of Wellington as Commander-in-Chief. The average quantity of coal used at the Dowlais iron works is estimated at 1503 tons per day. 600,000 quarters of wheat are waiting shipment in the Baltic to this country as soon as the ice breaks up. The next meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will be held at York in the week in July com mencing on the 10th. Barber, the convicted will forger, has arrived in France, having received a free pardon on condition that he does not set his foot in England. Some of the leading dissenters are about to adopt mea sures for raising a monument to the memory of Oliver Cromwell. NEW POTATOES.—EarIy (forced) potatoes were exposed for sale in Edinburgh market on Tuesday. They. were "kidneys and - had Yfieldflly appearance. _ . INFLUENZA.—In London the number of deaths from influenza alone, during the last fourteen weeks of 1847, was 1161. The Scotch Banks have agreed to discount in future London Bills at four and a half per cent. and Local Bills at five per cent. The Royal Italian Opera at Covent-garden will open on the 21st of March. The band will consist of 85 first-rate performers, and the chorus of 94 efficient voices. It is a singular fact that no class of Dissenters is at present on the increase in the United Kingdom. The Methodists are particularly on the wane, many having gone over to the Established Church. On Monday evening, a woman named Halien, wife of a travelling chiropodist, was murdered at Birmingham, in the public street, during a quarrel with a navigator, who escaped. It is said with as much truth as epigram, that if the Duke of Wellington gained the battle of Waterloo, it is also to be remembered that he appointed the Bishop of Exeter. A verdict of " Manslaughter" has been returned by the coroner's jury against the captain and crew of the Alice, steam tug, of North shields, for having run down a boat containing seven men, and occasioning the death of f our . Edinburgh, on Saturday week, was signalized by one of those not very creditable outbreaks, which have of late seldom disturbed the quiet city, but which were rife enough in old time—a riot of University students. A Norwich paper mentions that stockings are now knitted at Ipswish by machines, driven by steam s whi c h perform this work with admieable accuracy. One young person can attend three machines, and each machine can make a stocking in three hours. A highway robbery was committed on Monday last, be tween twelve and one o'clock, on Southwark-bridge, by two men, who knocked down a gentleman with a life pre server, and rifled his pockets of two five pound notee and four sovereigns. The robbers managed to escape. THE LATE CASE OF ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT BATH. —Julia Stickland, the young woman against whom the coroner's jury lately returned a verdict of infanticide, was on Saturday last removed from the house of her father to the Bath gaol, to await her trial at the next assizes. An inhabitant of Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, is now in possession of a fine hen, which began to lay when she was sixteen weeks old, and which has laid an e gg every successive day for the last three years, during iyisi c h, time she has consequently produced 1095 eggs. - a - - _ - LOCAL MEETINGS. WEST DEEM' GVARDIANS.-011 Wednesday, the usual weekly meeting of this board was held at the Workhouse. From Toxteth-park there were no fewer than 204 appli cations for relief, which occupied the board five hours. Thirty-eight cases from Toxteth-park were ordered to be , admitted into the workhouse. The Chairman read the fever-hospital report, from which it appeared that there were in the house last week 94, admitted during the week, 8, dismissed cured, 12, died, 4, remaining in the house, 86. Mr. Johnson was elected medical officer for 'Walton district, in the place of Mr. Hanning, deceased. Mr. Roskell brought forward the resolution of Jan. 26th, re lative to the separation of Toxteth-park from- the West Derby Union, and moved that the Poor-law Commis sioners be requested not to ettertain the separation. Ort , a show of hands being taken, twelve were held up in fa vour of the motion, but the patty opposed to it declined to vote, contending that the motion had' been previously dis posed of. LIVERPOOL GASLIGHT COMPAZTY.—The annual meet ing was held on Tuesday, Mr. W. It, Sandbach in the chair. Vie report recommended a dividend of £5 per share fir the half year ending 31st December on the £lOO shares; 12s. 6d. per share on the quarter shams paid up on the Ist day of October last; and 4s. 2d. per share on the quarter shares paid up on the Ist of December last, the dividend' on the quarter shares being at the same rate as the dividend on the £lOO shares. It was slated that the amalgamation bill had been read a second-time, and was waiting a committee. Their bill would be laid before the shareholders at a special meeting on the 16t1r of March. The amalgamation was on terms of equality, on the prin ciple of preserving to the proprietors in each company their property as it now stood. The vroprietors of the original shares in the old Gas and Coke Company were entitled to quarter shares, which was the reason they bore an additional price in the market; but all the stock would he alike except as to those particular shares. Mr. R. Earle, Mr. G. 11. Lawrence, Mr. L. Mozley, and Mr. Jonathan Varty, the retiring directors were re-elected; and Mr. C. Mozley and Mr. S. Stitt were appointed auditors for the ensuing year. DOCK COMMITTEE, THUESDAY.—A letter was read from George Evans, the acting conservator of the river Mersey, conveying the thanks of the Lords Commissioners to Lieut. Lord, the marine surveyor, for his new and beau tifully executed chart of the port of Liverpool, and also expressing their high approval of the zeal, ability, and in. telligence exhibited by Lieuter.ant Lord in the discharge of his arduous duties as marine surveyor of the port of Liverpool.—Edward Ward, landing clerk at the Albert Dock, was dismissed.—The tenders of Mr. M'Cerquodale for stationery, and of Messrs. Harris and Co. for printing for twelve months, were accepted. Mr. Mann said these were the lowest tenders, except that Mr. M'Corquodale tendered also for the printing, and was the lowest ; but, as it was understood that none but bond fide printers should be employed, the tender of Messrs. Harris, which was nearly as low, was accepted for the printing. The Chairman said that some of the tenders were nearly 100 per cent. more than those which had been accepted. The saving would be enormous, if the work was executed satis factorily. It was ordered that a clause should be inserted in the contract, inflicting a penalty in case of the non performance of the stipulations. Samples of every article had been kept, and all goods supplied must be equal to them.—A letter from Messrs. Preston and Watson, com plaining of the want of shed accommodation on the north quay of the King's Dock, was referred to the harbour master's sub-committee, the chairman remarking that any shed erected there could only be temporary, as it would have to come down again as the works at Wapping Dock progressed.— A letter was read from James Hutchinson, complaining that in consequence of one of the stone ves sels belonging to trustees having been improperly moored too near the entrance to the Clarence Basin, the steamer Hercules, in proceeding to sea on the Bth instant, came into collision with her, and was considerably damaged. It was also stated that the stone vessel did not exhibit a light which could be seen from the Clarence pier, and that she was not seen either by the pierhead master or the captain of the vessel till too late to prevent the collision. Referred to the harbour masters sub-committee.—A let ter from Mr. Dowling, complaining of the conduct of one of the dock-gatemen, was referred to the harbour master's sub-committee. . LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE INSURANCE COlof.• PANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held on Tuesday ; W. Earle, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that, by a further issue of shares, the capital of the company had been increased to £188,097. of which the sum of £69,093 was represented by the shares on which £2 10s. per share had been paid. The fire business of the company had been larger in 1847 than in any previous year, as had also the life department. In the latter, 181 policies, insuring £124,878, and producing in premiums a revenue of £3,687, had been issued during the year. In the shares issued during the year, the premiums amount ed to £3,557 10s. ; and this sum added to £355,901 55., the amount of the reserved fund at the end of 1846, gave £129,458 15s. as the present reserved fund. There re mained to the credit of the profit and loss account a sum of £67,408 103. 2d., as a balance from which to take the dividend. From this there had been already taken a di vidend of ss. per share, which was declared for the first half-year, payable on the Ist September, and subject to the approval of that meeting. The directors now begged to declare another dividend of ss. per share, deducting income-tax and interest at the rate of 5 per cent. in the case of those shares on which the £2 10s. had not been paid ; when those deductions had been made, the balance of £31,029 4s. 2d. would form the guarantee fund. The report concluded by stating, that the directors would have had pleasure in recommending the payment of a bonus, but having reference to the circumstances of the tunes, they were of opinion that a due regard to the in terests of the institution required that the fund retained as a guarantee against existing liabilities should not be diminished.—Mr. J. B. Neilson considered, that under the existing circumstances of the company. the utmost economy should be exercised, and the directors ought to take into their consideration the propriety of making some reductions in salaries, &c. He proposed a motion to that effect, but on being put to the vote it was lost, only one or two hands being held up in its favour.—The report was then adopted, and the dividend, as declared by the directors, agreed to.—The following gentlemen (retiring directors) were re-elected :—Messrs. W. Earle. G. Holt, Hornby, G. H. Lawrence, L. Mosley, W. Nicol, and H. Stolterfoht. Messrs. James and Blackburn were appointed auditors. The sum of £BOO was voted for dis tribution amongst the directors. SELECT VESTRY.—The usual fortnightly meeting was held on Tuesday. Mr. Ferguson complained that Mr. Gray had so often to attend at the Police-court. If Mr. Rushton had any complaint to make, the overseers should be sent for and not their servants. He referred to the remarks made by Mr. Rushton relative to the case of a man to whom relief had not been given, and which were reported in our last. He would wish to pay honour where honour was due, especially to the stipendiary magistrate of this borough ; but he really thought that if Mr. ush ton would communicate directly with the parochial au thorities, it would be very much better for those parties ; and he certainly disapproved of the uncourteous treat ment on his part. Mr. Avison did not think there was any ground to bring a charge of discourtesy against Mr. Rushton. Who did he send for ? He sent for the as sistant-overseer of the poor, a person appointed by the Vestry themselves, and whom they had authority over, and whose duty it was to relieve the poor. The case re ferred to appeared to him to be a very gross one. A poor cripple applied for relief. Mr. Gray did not give it to him ; but, although lame, he was given an order to break stones ; and had broken a window in order to be sent to bridewell. He was sure Mr. Rushton was perfectly right in sending for Mr. Gray. Mr. Steains thought Mr. Rush ton quite justified in his remarks, if the case had been reported truly. If such a cripple was sent by their over seers to break stones, a task for which he was incapacitated, it was evident Mr. Gray or his servants were to blame, or the report was very false. The Chairman said if it was understood by Mr. Rushton, that it would be more con venient for the overseers themselves to attend, it would be better for all parties. It did not appear that Mr. Gray had denied the facts.—Mr. Cafferata called attention to the necessity of having the workhouse yard flagged. Ho likewise complained of a deficiency in the supply of water, and he hoped that the new building would be provided with adequate bathing accommodation for the inmates.— Mr. Woodruff asked whether the fever-sheds in Great Howard-street were yet dismantled, now that all the patients were gone. Mr. Ferguson replied that the fur niture was now removing, and he hoped the Vestry would not have occasion to occupy the buildings again. —Mr. Urquhart opened a short discussion on the question of interference by the Privy Council in the recommendation of masters to the Industrial Schools, and moved the adoption of the minutes read, " with the exception that it was the opinion of that board, that it was inexpedient to place schoolmasters under the pay of the Privy Coun cil, and under the superintendence of Government In spectors." The Chairman briefly explained, and as no one seconded Mr. Urquhart's motion it fell to the ground. —Fiern Statistics read, it appeared that a total of £175 4s had been expended in bread and soup from the 7th till the 12th February. The Chairman expressed his conviction that there was more distress at present amongst our local mechanics than last year. He knew many, once respect able parties, who had not now the means of getting bread.—A letter was read from Mr. IL S. Taylor, and Mr. Thos. . Challoner, jun., requesting to know what the Vestry had done respecting the vaccination fees to which they were entitled, for the six months ending September last. The Chairman suggested that the gentlemen should be requested to wait upon the Finance Committee at their next meeting, that the true nature of their claim might be investigated. Goou WRITING.—Mr. Thompson, of C E la n y g t l o a n n - d. squa lye re, has made more good writers than any in are certain that he has reforme d aliranumerousiwbejenscthgaoasb:bl:ihasel lamp vln am, e h e depabnnebtbdiysa black. &c. an incredibly short space of time.—See adv. RUNCORN BONE WORKS. — announcement in another nbheun vtt buttons, dust extended a: c ens o ndi l zd u eeb m ,d i o n t a:ni w e t h h i ems l at the Runcorn Bone 8 ,ni ( W i nnao.nrs,nkCompanymanufacturers addition we to rs o b fo SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of John Murray, who was about 33 years of age. Deceased was a waiter, and lodged, with his wife and two children, in Livesey's place, Shaw's-brow. Shortly before ten o'clock on Sa turday morning, his wife left the room in which they lived for a short time, and on her return found him lying on the floor, and a pool of blood near his head. A razor without a handle was found near his head. The two children (the youngest three years old) were in the room when the act was done. A surgeon was sent for, but he died in about an hour, after moaning heavily, but not speaking. It appeared that deceased was about eight months ago sent to the lunatic asylum, he being insane, aad for the !sat fortnight he was observed to be in very ktyv spirits,— Verdiet i —temporary insanity.