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Literature. POETRY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The following are original, from my old scrap-book, if you think them worthy of insertion. J. Q. Kirkdale-road. TRUST TN GOD Who put thy trust in in GOD, msoul, Who now life upholds thee; Whose ten - del' car from poli to pole, O, lit thy trust in Grin, my soul, Nor fains th Doth he not all ever His hand no good denies the :ontrol? 0, put thy trust in God, n So shah he never fail th, Though thunders roar and all life's TO A FRIEND Full many a turn this globe has had And I 'ye been bli been sad, Mt-changing scenes of woes have past, Like shadows on the dial ; But thanks, 0 thanks ! thi Too long for mortal trig' y did not last NOTICES A.Letter on the subject of the Navigation Laws, with Suggestions for the Improvement of the System of Apprenticeship. By Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esq. Liverpool : Wareing Webb, . . . . In the above short pamphlet, which has just been printed for private circulation only, Mr. Chapman ap peals to the shipowners of Great Britain on the necessity of laying aside the inertness with which they appear to regard the proposed abrogation of the navigation laws. Whilst London and the outports are energetically pre paringi to lay the case of the shipping interest before the comm n ttee, Liverpool, he justly contends, ought not to remai silent; but, on the contrary, should take active steps, and by means of a public meeting, make their senti ments known to the public and the legislature. The pamphlet contains many valuable suggestions, which, coming from a practical man of Mr. Chapman's known ability, ought to attract the attention of those to whom it is addressed and the shipping interest generally. The remarks on the system of apprenticeship appears to its to be especially valuable. National Education; a Letter, 6(e. By Thomas King, Surgeon, Chelmsford. Longman and Co. One of the trenchant reproofs which Mr. Edward Baines, of Leeds, has drawn upon his head by his factious opposition to the government scheme of education. The writer inti mates that he is a Dissenter. Prevention better than Cure; or, the Moral Wants of the World we live in. By Mrs. Ellis, Author of the " Women of England," &c., &c. London : Fisher, Son and Co The all-absorbing interest now felt in the subject of education, and in the importance of early moral training, as tending to improve the national character, and more efficacious in promoting the decrease of crime than any laws for its repression or punishment, bespeak attention to a work on the above subject from a writer so intelligent as Mrs. Ellis has proved herself to be in all her previous writings. The object of the writer may, perhaps, most clearly be gathered from the following passage of her pre face :—" Having reflected deeply," she says, " upon the different causes which operate in the formation of charac ter,• and the paramount influence of character upon so ciety, I have been unable to resist the conviction, that if more importance had been attached to the direction of the moral faculties in early life, many of the social evils which we now so justly deplore would have been either unknown, or felt in a much less disastrous manner. It has, therefore, been my earnest endeavour, in the follow ing pages, to, engage the sympathy of readers interested, like myself, in this important subject, in the hope that, by united co-operation, some of those improvements may be introduced into our educational systems, of which all are feeling the want, though few are yet endeavouring to supply, by the application of moral means, in such a man ner as to bear directly in the formation of moral in con nexion with intellectual character." Whilst endeavour ing to make out the advantages of such a course of opera tion upon the national mind, Mrs. Ellis does not neglect the opportunity of admitting that there is a higher in fluence—that of religion—which ought to be called in to its aid, in order to realise fully the object sought. In pursuing her subject, the author sets out with a des cription of the general state of society at the present, with its universal activity and onward tendency. The physical hindrances which affect mankind, and those who seek the amelioration of their condition, are lucidly traced to con sist in the want of proper sanitary regulation of our large towns, the necessary contact of their population with crime, the effect of example vitiating the mind and des troying health and energy : the natural tendencies to evil are also traced as operating as a serious hindrance, and a powerful appeal is made upoillite claims of the poor to better treatment by their sup fors, and to an improved system of education. In this work, which ought to be extensively studied, Mrs. Ellis has succeeded in adding one more to her many previous claims upon the gratitude of her kind. The work, we may add, is got up in the usual excellent style of its spirited publishers, Messrs. Fisher. Euclid's Elements of Geometry, the First Sia Books, chiefly from the text of Dr. Simon, with Explanatory Notes, a Series of Questions on each Book, and a Selection of Geometrical Exercises from the Senate House and College Examination Papers; designed for the use of Junior Classes in Public and Private Schools. By Robert Potts, M.A., Trinity College. Cambridge ; University Press : London, J. W. Parker, pp. 272. Mr. Potts's " University Edition of Euclid " has al ready become the standard copy, and the college examina tions of the last year in Geometry turned upon its con tents. We rejoice, therefore, to perceive that he has sent forth a less expensive volume, for the use of those who, in schools or elsewhere, are entering on the study of mathe matics, embracing the same principles, and all the Advantages of the larger copy, as far as is required for Hitherto the mathematical learning of Cambridge has either been confined to manuscript in the possession of private tutors, or else expressed so ambiguously in print, as to puzzle rather than assist the learner, and thereby render a private tutor still more necessary. In the present publication, the author, who has been engaged in tuition in the University for many years, has given a well ar ranged text, lucid notes, and a large collection of examples ; opening literally his treasures, so that the lover of science, young or old, may acquire the elements of geometry, and become well practised in their applica tion, without the necessity of calling in a tutor, which help, so unattainable in many situations and so costly everywhere, he may reserve for the higher branches of mathematical science. The preparation thus afforded will render his advance in the deeper processes much more rapid and intelligent than is generally the case, and should he aspire to the University honours, give an im mense impetus to his progress. The application of geometry to every branch of physical science, and especially to navigation, is apparent. It is the very alphabet of mathematics ; and Mr. Potts adheres to the geometrical form of representing its truths. Each successive step in the demonstrations is printed in a sepa rate line, which is calculated to impress on the mind of the learner the successive links in the chain of reasoning. In the body of the work the algebraic signs are avoided. Should the study of geometry be viewed only as that of the most satisfactory kind of logic, and as calculated to _strengthen the intel'ectual powers, its value can scarcely be estimated. Order, accuracy, force of thought, language and argument applicable to business of all kinds, and knowledge •of every sort, are the fruits of a mind thus exercised. And if a series of gymnastics be of advantage to the bodily vigour, we cannot conceive an intellectual discipline more calculated to develope the inventive, rational, and retentive faculties of the mind than the pro blems appended to each hook of the present edition of Euclid ; and as they are selected from the University and College Examination Papers, for the last fifty years, they will be a store of actual information of the most probable utility, if ever the student should become a candidate for academic distinction, or, in the current language of the University, such matter as " will pay." In the sent volume is an abridgment of the ,hick has become so generally adopted in -,inversities of Oxford and Cambridge. We are gratified to learn that the " School Edition " is adopted at Eton, King's College, London : Christ's Hospital, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and many other public schools. The members of mechanics' and other scientific institutions, will find either edition of great value; according to their state and progress in science. And for their encouragement we select the following ac count. of Edmund Stone, the Mathematician, from the introduction to the large edition, which contains a history of the sciences, as " an example of true genius overcoming all the disadvantages of birth, fortune, and education." " Etinund Stone was the son of a gardener of the Duke of Argyle. At eight years of age he was taught to read ; and at eighteen, without further assistance, he had made such advances in mathematical knowledge as to be able to read the Principia of Newton. As the Duke was one in his garden, he saw a copy of Newton's Principia lying on the grass, and called some one near aim to take it back to the library. Young Stone, the modestly observed, that the book belonged - to To you replied the Duke; 'do you understand cry, Latin, Newton ?" I know a littl e o f th em ,' d the young man, with an air of simplicity. The Duke stirprised, and having himself a taste for the sciences, en tered into conversation with the yo ung mat h emat i : kn. .He asked him several questions, and was astonished the force, the accuracy, and the candour of his answers. But how,' said the Duke , • came vole by the kn ow l e d ge )f all these things ? .Stone replied, ' A servant taught Tie , ten years since, to read. Does any one need to know tore than the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, i n -der to learn an y thin g else that one wishes ?' The curiosity was redoubled : he sat down on a bank, and requested a detail of all his proceedings. I first learned to read,' said Stone. ' The masons were then at work upon your house. I went near them one day, and saw that the architect used a rule and compasses, and that he made calcidations. I enquired_ what might be the er edition, w Ge - nine 1/Wie S meaning of these things, and seas informed that there was a science called Arithmetic. I purchased a book of Arithmetic, and learned it. I was told there was another science - called Geometry ; I bought the books, and learned Geometry. By reading I found that there were good books h these two sciences in Latin : I bought a diction ar Y. and learned Latin. I understood also that there wve good books of the same kind in French : I bought a dictionary, and learned French. And this, my lord, is what I have done. It seems to me that we may learn everything when we know the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. The Duke, highly pleased with the account, brought this wonderful genius out of obscurity, and pro vided him with an employment which left him leisure to apply himself to the sciences. Edmund Stone published, in 1731, an edition of Euclid's Elements, with an account of his life and writings, and a defence of the Elements against modern objectors. In 1735, he translated and published Barrow's Geometrical Lectures. He wrote an account of two new species of lines, not noticed by New ton, which was published in the forty-first volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he was a fellow ; he was also the author of a mathematical dictionary, and some other works." yld'B Atlas of the World, Liverpool: J. R. Isaac Mr, Wyld, the eminent map-seller and geographer to the Queen, is publishing, in monthly numbers, a popular and most beautifully-executed atlas of the world, consisting of maps of different parts of the globe, illustrated by geographical and statistical descriptions. Each number has two maps and illustrative letter press. The first number contains a map of the world, and another of Great Britain, together with an immense mass . of valuable statistical and general information. It would be quite vain to attempt to'enumerateiicompre hensive range of subjects comprised in the descriptions. The maps are extremely beautiful ; clear, correct, and very detailed. The number of places dotted down is wonderful, and the railways completed or sanctioned in Great Britain are marked out with great care. The cheap ness of the work is marvellous. VARIETIES A PHENOMENON.—A governess, advertising for a situ ation, says " she is a perfect mitres of her own tongue." THE HALL PORTER OF THE REFORM CLUB MAKETH A JOKE !-Why is M. Soyer like the summit of Mont Blanc ? Because he has a culinary (dool and-airy) situa tion. CoNs.—Why is a dandy like a haunch of venison ? Because he is a bit of a buck.—Why is the newly-disco vered remedy of sulphuric ether like Mendelssohn or Rossini ? Because it is one of the greatest composers of modern times. QUALIFICATION FOR TEACHING.—A certain worthy gentleman, in London, had an old servant too old to work, but too deeply trusted to be turned out to starve ; he at once set about raising a subscription for a school, and headed the list with a sum which would have about paid one year of the least annuity, which, in ordinary decency, he could have offered to an old servant. His example was followed; funds were raised; a house purchased, and the schoolmaster established • to him, as the projector and the l arges t d onor , the choice Of a schoolmaster was confided, and he at once nominated the broken-down servant to the situation ; and though notoriously unfit for any such employment, the man holds the place at this present hour. It would gratify us to be able to state that this is a solitary instance—it is not so : we could supply a long list of similar cases, but the task is not a pleasing one ; ex uno disce omnes.— National Education, by J. Dufton, Rector of Warehorne. SIDMOUTH'S LAST DAYS.—OId age came on him at last, but with singular gentleness. Some of his maxims exhibit the mild philosophy of his temperament. "In youth," said he, " the absence of pleasure is pain, in age the absence of pain is pleasure." He characteristically observed, " At my age, it strikes me very much, what little proportion there is between man's ambition, and the shortness of his life." Of the wars during his time he said, " I used to think all the sufferings of war lost in its glory ; I now consider all its glory lost in its sufferings." In allusion to the desponding tone of some public men, he said, " I have always fought under the standard of hope, and I never shall desert it." At another time, he ex pressed the truth, which only the good man feels—" It is a very important part of wisdo m t o k now w h a t t o over look." He repeated a fine expression of George 111., of which he acknowledged the full value,—" Give me the man who judges one human being with severity, and every other with indulgence." His religious feelings were such as might be expected from his well-spent life,--- z pre, be nevolent, and high-toned. Speaking to his fay, in his last illness, he said, " Kind, dutiful, affectionate children, all have been to me ; and if I am permitted to attain to that happy state to which I aspire, and am permitted to look down, how often shall I be with you, my children !" On the 3d of February, 1844, he was seized with an attack of influenza, which on the 10th became hopeless; and on the 15th he calmly died, in his 87th year.—Blackwood. ----- POLYNESIAN HOSPITALITY.—The Polynesians carry their hospitality to an amazing extent. Let a native of Waiurar, the westernmost part of Tahiti, make his ap pearance as a traveller' at Partoowye, the most easternly village of Imeeo, though a perfect stranger, the inhabi tants on all sides accost him at their doorways, inviting him to enter, and make himself at hom e . B u t the tra veller passes on, examining every house attentively, until, at last, he pauses before one which suits him, and then exclaiming, "Ah, ena maitai" (this one will do, I think), he steps in, and makes himself perfectly at ease, flinging himself upon the mats, and very probably calling for a nice young cocoa-nut, and a piece of toasted bread-fruit, sliced thin, and done brown. Curious to relate, however, should a stranger carrying it thus bravely be afterward discovered to be without a house of his own, why, he may thenceforth go a-begging for his lodgings. The " kar howrees," or white men, are exceptions to this rule. Thus it is precisely as in civilised countries ; where those who have houses and lands are incessantly bored to death with invitations to come and live in other people's houses, while many a poor gentleman who inks the seams of his coat, and to whom the like invitation would be really ac ceptable, may go and sue for it. But to the credit of the ancient Tahitians, it should here be observed, that this blemish upon their hospitality is only of recent origin, and was wholly unknown in old times.—Melville's Adventures in the South Seas. PORTRAIT OF DR. BLOMFIELD, BISHOP OF LONDON. — He combined a great talent for action with very limited powers of thought. Bustling, energetic, versatile, gifted with an indomitable perseverance, rand stimulated by an ambition that knew no repose, with a capacity for master ing details and an inordinate passion for affairs, he could permit nothing to be done without his interference, and consequently was perpetually involved in transactions which were either failures or blunders. He was one of those leaders who are not guides. Having little real knowledge. and not endowed with those high qualities of intellect which permit their possessor to generalise the details afforded by study and experience, and so deduce rules of conduct, his lordship, when he received those fre quent appeals which were the necessary consequence of his officious life, became obscure, confused, contradictory, inconsistent, illogical. The oracle was always dark. Placed in a high post in an age of political analysis, the bustling intermeddler was unable to supply society with a single solution. Enunciating second-hand, with charac teristic precipitation, some big principle in vogue, as if he were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from its subse quent application the moment that he found it might be unpopular or inconvenient. All his quandaries terminated in the same catastrophe—a compromise. Abstract prin ciples with him always ended in concrete expediency. The aggregate of circumstances outweighed the isolated cause. The primordial tenet, which had been as i ged with un compromising arrogance, gently subsi t o some se cond-rate measure recommended with all e artifice of an impenetrable ambiguity. Beginning with the second re formation, which was a little rash but dashing, the bishop, always ready, had in the course of his episcopal career placed himself at the head of every movement in the church which others had originated, and had as regularly withdrawn at the right moment, when the heat was over, or had become, on the contrary, excessive. Furiously evangelical, soberly high and thy, and fervently Puseyite, each phasis of his faith concludes with what the Spaniards term a transaction.' The saints are to have their new churches, but they are also to have their rubrics and their canons ; the universities may supply successors to the apostles, but they are also presented with a church com mission ; even the Puseyites may have candles on their altars, but they must not be lighted.—Tancred, a new work by D'lsraeli. How THEY MANAGE T FIINGS IN THE MODEL REPUBLIC. —ln the Senate things still go on in the old-fashioned way. There, when a member has once caught the Speaker's eye, his fortune is made for the day—perhaps for the week. Accordingly, be takes things easy from the very first—kicks his spittoon to a convenient angle, offers a libation of cold water to his parched entrails, and begins. When he leaves off, is another matter altogether—but not generally till he has gone through the round of human knowledge, explored the past, touched lightly upon the present, and cast a piercing glance into the darkness of the future. Soon after three, the Senate adjourns for dinner, and the orator of the day goes to his pudding with the rest, happy in the reflection that he has done his duty by his country, and will do it again on the morrow. We have somewhere read of a paradise of fools. thrdoubtedly, Congress is that place. There they enjoy a perfect impu nity, and revel in the full gratification of their instincts. Nobody thinks of coughing them down, or swamping them with ironical cheers. There— " Dulness, with transport, eyes each lively dunce, Remembering she herself was Pertness once, And tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying hues, With self-applause her wild creation views. Sees momentary monsters rise and fall, And with her own fool's colours gilds them all." Indeed, all the arrangements of Congress favour the in fluence of the sable goddess. In the first place, the mem bers are paid by the day—eight dollars each. Permit us to observe, Jonathan, that you scarcely display your usual " smartness" here. It would be much better to contract with them by the scrape. As for instance—To involving the country in a war with Mexico, so much—To ditto with Great Britain, so much more. One year you might lay down a lumping sum for a protective tariff, with an understanding that it was to be repealed the next at a mo derate advance. You would thus ensure the greatest pos sible variety of political catastrophes, with the least pos sible friction and expense. Again, the furniture of the Capitol is altogalier too luxurioja. Each member is pro vided with a private desk, eta fiery ad lib., a stuffed arm-chair, and a particular spittoon. No wonder, then that your Simnises and Chipmans are listened to with complacency. It's all in the day's work—it's considered in the wages. While these worthies hold forth for the be nefit of distant Missouri and Michigan, their colleagues write their letters, read the newspapers, chew tobacco, as li;tle boys do toffy in England, and expectorate a', leisure. No ode cheers, no one groans, no one cries Oh ! Oh ! all the noise that is made is on private account, and not at all personal to the gentleman on his legs. Yet, such is the deceitfulness of the human heart, that the Americans are much given to boast of of - - vwal .1 iue tuguny MILL uvuuluw VI their Legislature, and to thank God that it is not a bear garden like another place of the kind that they wot of. We must have been asked at least six times a-day during our visit at Washington, " Bow Congress compared with he British Parliament ?" To which we used to reply, That they did not compare at all," an answer which fully met the truth of the case, without in the least wound ing the self-love of the querist.—Blacku•ood'e Magazine. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-THIS DAY Of any kind of Grain, either British or foreign, the arrivals into this port during the past week have been light, except Indian Corn, of which, and also of Flour and Indian Meal we have to note further large supplies in wards, and considerable exports of each, chiefly to Ireland. The market opened with considerable excitement, influenced by the accounts from London, and holders commenced by asking extravagant prices for both Wheat and Flour, which not being responded to by the buyers, the amount of business done was to a moderate extent only at the closing prices of yesterday, making the advance from this day week Gd. to Bd. per bushel on Wheat, and 3s. to 3s. 6d. per barrel for Flour. 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CAUSiOF A.NOM ALOUSNOISES IN" HAUNTED HOUSES" —Mr. Poynter states, that at a parsonage-house in the country known to him, a knocking, which was heard at certain times, and could not be explained, and had ob tamed for the house the reputation of being haunted, was found to be caused by the baker at the opposite end of the village chopping his wood. The sound, it was thought, was reproduced in an old well opposite the parsonage. Mr. J. A. Picton, of Liverpool, instanced a case where similar sounds, heard in a house, were found to proceed from a steam-engine at a very considerable distance, and not audible elsewhere.—The Builder. THE WITCHERY OF THE VOICE.—A voice which, though somewhat low, was of that organ that at once arrests at tention ; a voice that comes alike from the brain and from the heart, and seems made to convey both profound thought and deep emotion. There is no index of charac ter so sure as the voice. There are tones, tones brilliant and gushing, which impart a quick and pathetic sensi bility ; there are others that, deep, and yet calm, seem the just interpreters of a serene and exalted intellect. But the rarest and most precious of all voices is that which com bines passion and repose ; and those rich and restrained tones exercise, perhaps, on the human frame, a stronger spell than even the fascination of the eye, or that bewitch ing influence of the hand, which is the privilege of the higher races of Asia.—D' Tancred. CHILDREN SOLD TO THEIR MOTHER.—With regard to mulattoes, I have seen individuals sold at Vendue, who were two or three shades whiter than mulattoes—whiter, indeed, than many native Carolinians ; but who had, as it was expressed by their proprietors, " a drop of the devil's blood in them." I saw a little boy and girl of nine or ten years of age, sold one day, who were exceeding fair and beautiful ; they might, indeed, have travelled through old England without suspicion of being allied to Satan by blood. They were purchased by their own mother ; and in this one case I was much gratified to observe that in tending purchasers who were present, on being apprised of the state of the matter, kept aloof, and offered no op position to the poor mother, who, consequently, obtained her own children at a very moderate price.—Life of a Slave. SINGULAR ANECDOTE.—SeveraI years ago, a charity sermon was preached in a dissenting chapel in the west of England. When the preacher ascended the pulpit, he thus addressed the hearers :—" My brethren, before proceeding to the duties of this evening, allow me to relate a short anecdote. Many years have elapsed since I was last within the walls of this house. Upon that evening, among the hearers came three men, with the intention of not only scoffing at the minister, but with their pockets filled with stones for the purpose of assaulting him. After he had spoken a few sentences, one said, D—n him, let us be at him now ;' but the second replied, No, stop till we hear what he makes of this point.' The minister went on, when the second said, We've heard enough now—throw !' but the third interfered, saying, He's not so foolish as I expected—let us hear him out.' The preacher concluded without being interrupted. Now, mark me, my brethren —of these three men, one was executed three months ago at Newgate, for forgery ; the second, at this moment, lies under the sentence of death, in the gaol of this city, for murder—the other (continued the minister with great emotion)—the third, through the infinite goodness of God, is even nom about to address you—listen to him !" IMITATIVE POWER IN BIRDS.—So strong is the imita tive power of birds, that a canary who has been taught to pipe, having heard a chaffinch that daily sung in a tree near the window where the cage was hung, learnt his note in a few days, omitting at that time the air he had been accustomed to sing. At the end of the spring, after hav ing been removed from the neighbourhood of the chaffinch, he resumed the air as before. A nestling nightingale also learnt the notes of a hedge-sparrow that sung near it, for want of other sounds to imitate, and it was extraordinary to hear the gentle, although agreeable warble of the lat ter, attuned to the full compass and power of the nightin gale. The effect was most pleasing, although, of course, not equal to the natural notes of this bird, not one of which he retained. Indeed, many birds are almost, if not entirely, imitative, and, in default of hearing the parent bird, borrow the notes of others ; soft-billed birds always prefer the song of soft-billed birds, and vice versa. It is hoped, from what has been said on the above subject, that persons who are in the habit of keeping caged birds will be induced to educate them in the manner suggested. Then, instead of hearing the shrill, deafening natural notes of the canary, they will be delighted with those of the nightingale, the black cap, and other warblers. " They will then breathe such sweet music out of their little instrumental throats, that it may make mankind think that miracles are not ceased." • So said the good Izaak Walton.—Jesse's Favourite Haunts. THE RURAL POPULATION OF CHINA.—The farms are small, each consisting of from one to four or fiv acres ; indeed, every cottager has his own little tea garden, the produce of which supplies the wants of his family, and the surplus brings him in a few dollars, which are spent on the other necessaries of life. The same system is practised in everything relating to Chinese agriculture. The cotton, silk, and rice farms, are generally all small, and managed upon the same plan. . There are few sights more pleasing than a Chinese family the in terior engaged in gathering the tea-leaves, or, indeed, in any of their other agricultural pursuits. There is the old man, it may be the grandfather, or even the great-grand father, patriarch-like, directing his descendants, many of whom are in their youth and prime, while others are in their childhood, in the labours of the field. He stands in the midst of them, bowed down with age ; but to the ho nour of the Chinese as* nation, he is always looked up to by all with pride and affection, and his old age and grey hairs are honoured, revered, and loved. When, after the labours of the day are over, they return to their humble and happy homes, their fare consists chiefly of rice, fish, and vegetables, which they enjoy with great zest, and are happy and contented. I really believe that there is no country in the world where the agricultural population are better off than they are in the north of China. Labour with them is pleasure, for its fruits are eaten by them selves, and the rod of the oppressor is unfelt and unknown. —Fortune's Three Years' Wanderings in China. TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE NEW HOUSE OF LORDS Their lordships assembled, on Thursday, for the first time, in the chamber appropriated in the new Royal Pa lace at Westminster to the peers of England, sitting in their legislative and judicial capacities. The descriptions which have been already published of this magnificent hall fail, through no want of skill in the describers, but from the imperfection of language, to present an adequate image of its gorgeousness and grandeur. When first en tering it, the eye is dazzled and distracted by the richness and profusion of the ornaments, the walls and ceilings be ing charged to the verge of excess with azure, crimson, and gold. The exquisite harmony which reins through • out soon sobers the senses, and surprise subsides into ad miration. The throne, the most striking object, is a triumph of architectural art, the symmetry of its propor tions vying with the brilliancy of its materials, and the costly splendour of its decorations. It is a vast Gothic canopy, distributed into three portions ; under the centre is the Queen's chair of state, and a smaller chair is placed on each side beneath the sub-canopies. The ceiling of the chamber is divided into square compartments, which are again subdivided by elegant panels, carved pendants en crusted with gold droppinc , froth the intersections. A broad oak pannelling, richly carved, which - covers a por tion of the side walls, subdues the glare of the other parts. The reporters' gallery, placed at the end opposite the throne, is another prominent object, being externally a mass of gilded ornaments. The interior of this gallery is fitted up with the most careful regard to the convenience and accommodation of its occupiers. The house is lighted by richly gilt branches holding lamps, running along the side walls, and lofty magnificent candelabra, standing on the floor at the ends, bearing tiers of waxlights. The woolsack, the table, and the seats for the peers (covered with crimson cloth), resemble those in the late house, and, compared with the luxurious aspect of the other furniture, have a rather homely appearance. The great problem upon which so much depends, namely, the adaptation of the new house for the transmission of sound, cannot be solved without further expiration, under more favourable circumstances ; for, during the short sitting of Thursday, the constant hum of conversation, perhaps of admiration, amongst the peers and strangers below the bar, would have rendered it difficult to hear the most powerful speaker. _ _ The galleries were opened about a quarter before five o'clock, at which time many peers had assembled, and their numbers rapidly increased. Amongst the earliest were Lord Campbell, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Bean `mont, the Duke of Richmond, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Earl Stanhope, Lord Ashburton, the Hari of Eglintoun, Earl Fortescue, the Bishop of Oxford, Lords Lyttelton, Redesdale, and Stanley, the Bishop of London, Lords Brougham, Colchester, and Lyndhurst, the Earl of Radnor, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Combermere, and Earls - Lovelace, St. Germans, Grey, Suffolk, and Powis. SANATORY v. SANITARY.—The orthographers are waging a fierce war about the spelling of the word which Lord Morpeth's bill concerning cleanliness and drainage has brought into great use. One learned and rather dog matic gentleman tells us that " every school-boy knows that sanatory is derived from sano, sanare, just as decla ratory from declaro, declarare." And, fortified by this display of research, he goes on to pronounce it to be " as great a barbarism to talk of a sanitary act, as it would be to speak of a preparitary school, a damnitary clause, or a manditary summons." But softly, good sir : one " Orthographicus" comes to the rescue, and somewhat damages your scholarly reputation. " Sanatory," he says, " if there be such a word, derived from sano, sanare, must necessarily mean curative or remedial since sanare , signifies to cure. Sanitary laws and sanitary precautions are not intended for cure, but for prevention. A hospital is a sanatory establishment ; quarantine is a sanitary re gulation. Sanitary ism word similar to salutary, volun tary, arbitrary, not derived from the verb sanare, to cure, but from the substantive sanitas, health, like voluntary from voluntas, and signifies regarding or relating to health. Sanitary'rneasures are measures relating to health." To our thinking " Orthographicus" has the best of it. CURIOUS RESULTS OF VENTILATION.-1R a weaving mill near Manchester, where the ventilation was bad, the proprietor caused a fan to be mounted. The conse quences soon became apparent in a curious manner. The operatives, little remarkable for olfactory refinement, in stead of thanking their employer for his attention to their comfort and health, made a formal complaint to him that the ventilator had increased their appetites, and therefore entitled them to a corresponding increase of wages ! By stopping the fan a part of the day, the ventilation and vo racity of the establishment were brought to a medium standard, and complaints ceased. The operatives' wages would but just support them ; any additional demands by their stomachs could only be answered by draughts upon their backs, which were by no means in a condition to answer them. In Edinburgh a club was provided with a dinner in a well-ventilated apartment, the air being per fumed as it entered, imitating in succession the fragrance of lavender and the orange flower. During dinner the members enjoyed themselves as usual, but were not a little surprised at the announcement of the provider, that they had drunk three times as much wine as he had usu ally provided. Gentlemen of sober, quiet habits, who usually confined themselves to a couple of glasses, were not satisfied with less than half a bottle ; others, who took half a bottle, now extended their potations to a bottle and a half. In fact, the hotel keeper was drunk dry. That gentlemen who had indulged so freely were not aware of it at the time is not wonderful ; but that they felt no un pleasant sensations the following morning, which they did not, is certainly quite so.—Wyman's Practical Treatise on Ventilation. AMERICAN WOMEN school to the forum Young gi .—There is scarcely a step from the -from the nursery to the world. bread - and butter, boldly precede. their mammas into the ball-room; and the code of a mistaken gallantry sup plies no corrective to their caprice, for youth and beauty are here invested with regal prerogatives, and can do no wrong. In short, the Americans carry their complaisance to the sex beyond due bounds—at least in little things— for we by no means think that the real influence of their women is great, notwithstanding the tame and submissive gallantry with which the latter are treated in public. We doubt whether the most limited gynocrasy would tolerate the use of tobacco as an article of daily diet, or permit ferocious murders to go unwhipped of justice under the name of duels.—But the absorbing character of the pur suits of the men forbids any strong sympathy betwixt the sexes; and pehaps the despotism which the women exer cise in the drawing room arises from the fact that all that relates to the graces and embellishments of life is left en tirely to them. We do not know that this can be avoided under the circumstances of the country, but it has a most injurious effect on social intercourse. The Americans of both sexes want tact and graciousness of manner, and that prompt and spontaneous courtesy which is the child of disci pline and self-restraint. They are seldom absolutely awk ward, because they are never bashful. They have no mau vaise honte because they are all on an equality ; hence they never fail to display a certain dry composure of bearing which, though not agreeable, is less ludicrous than the gaucherie so commonly observed in all classes of English society, except the very highest.—Blackwood's Magazine. YANKEE LOVE FOR THE LASH.—Certain it is, that even in the United States those books circulate most freely which lash most vigorously the vices of the republic. Ho nest Von Raumer's dull emconium fell almost still-born from the press, while the far more superficial pages of Dickens and Trollope were eagerly devoured by a people who are daily given to understand, by their own authors, that they are the greatest, the wisest, the most virtuous nation under the sun. Let a European author be never so well disposed towards them, his partial applause contributes but little to their full-blown complacency. But, when they hear that the republic has been traduced by a foreign, and especially by a British pen, their vanity is piqued, their curiosity'excited, and their conscience smitten. Every one denounces the libel in public, and every one admits its truth to himself,—" What !" say they, " does the Old World in truth judge us thus harshly ? Is it really scanda lised by such trifles as the repudiation of our debts, and the enslavement of our fellow-creatures ? Must we give up our playful duels, and our convenient spittoons, before we can hope to pass muster as Christians and gentlemen beyond our own borders ? 0, free Dennis ! 0, wise De mus ! 0, virtuous Demus ! Will you betake yourself to cleanly, and well-ordered ways at the bidding of this scrib bler ?" Thus " they eat, and eke they swear ;" vowing all the time that they will " horribly revenge." No doubt, however, the bitter pill of foreign animadversion, though distasteful to the palate, relieves the inflamation of their stomachs, and leaves them better and lighter, than be fore. But when will a native Aristophanes arise to purge the effeminancy of the American press, and show up the sausage venders and Cleons of the republic in their true 'light ? How long will the the richest field of national 'folly in the world remain unreaped, save by the crotchety sickles of dull moralists and didactic pamphleteers ? "How they Manage Matters in the Modern Republic:" - Blackwood's Magazine for April. SMALL HOUSES DEAR ONES.—It is a great error in a working man, with a large family, to think that he can save money by taking a small house. He crowds his poor children into miserable rooms. It is not long before dis ease shows itself. Perhaps one of the children dies of convulsions, another falls into ill-health, or scarlet fever or measles break out among them ; or, worse than all, ty phus fever appears and carries off its victims. When these things take place, people are apt to blame any thing rather than the right thing for their misfortunes. They will tell you that they have had a great deal of trou ble, and perhaps they have had to apply to the parish, be cause the father is in the Fever Ward : but they have for gotten, all the time, that they themselves have been the cause of the evil. The great Creater never made human beings to be able to bear this kind of crowding. He in tended that all his creatures should have room enough and fresh air enough ; and it is utterly impossible for man to neglect the law for his existence, without suffering for his neglect.. Remember, that the present frightful fever, which is destroying so many people in Liverpool, arises to a great extent from overcrowding of houses by the Irish Poor ? Overcrowding of houses produces also fearful moral evils. We would ask ally father or mother to think, what must be the result to their children from sleeping in the , same 'room with grpwn up people of all sexes and ages ? "ins abominable habif prevails to a great extent among the working classes, and it is high time that it were abo lished. Poverty has very little to do with it in many cases. l'he matter has been inquired into, and we are afraid that bad habits and want of thought have more to do with it than poverty has. What would you think of a family, with 1.1 2s. a week, consisting of father and mother, a married son and his wife, a grown-up daughter and two sons, all sleeping in the same room on three beds ? What has poverty to do with such an occurrence as this ? And yet there are many cases far worse. It is like a man with 255. or 30s. a week, trying to rear a family in a cellar, for the purpose of saving money. Depend upon it, that the dearest of all houses, both for health and morals, is the house in which you are obliged to crowd yourselves to gether. You are certain to pay more than the difference of rent in the illness and moral injury your families will suffer.—Address to the Working Classes. IRELAND, Eleven vessels sailed last week from Dublin, with nearly five thousand emigrants for America. Letters frond Constantinople announce that the Sultan has contributed £lOOO for the relief of the distressed Irish. Charles O'Connell, Esq., of Bahoss, son-in-law of Mr. O'Connell, has been appointed resident magistrate for the county of Roscommon. All the persons who composed the mob which slaugh tered 151 sheep at Gort, had been offered half-an-hour before, a competent supply of food, but the reduction of twenty per cent of the labourers employed on the public works provoked them to the outrage. The stipendiary citrates of Dublin met on Thursday last in Dublin to consider how far the new Irish Poor-law will affect them. They intend to represent their case to Go vernment, as it is said that some, if not many of the rec tors throughout Ireland, will be compelled to do without curates, though the pressure of the poor-law. BRUTAL MURDER.—A barbarous murder was commit ted on the night of Monday week, at Dowdall's-hill, near Dundalk, on the body of a man named Peter M`Dermot. It appears that the deceased was stabbed in nine different places by Stephen M`Namee. Six of the stabs did not penetrate the heart, but one in the thigh separated the artery, which wound, Dr. Walker stated at the inquest on Tuesday, caused death. • MORE BLOODSHED IN CLARE.—On Wednesday, Mr. Henry Carmody, agent to Mrs. Dwyer, of Knockatanty, county Clare, when on his way to Killaloe to enter pro cesses at the sessions there against defaulting tenants, was fired at and dreadfully wounded. The sufferer since lies in a hopeless state. Not the slightest trace of the perpe trators could be obtained. There were two persons walk ing with Mr. Cormody at the time, both of whom were also wounded. " A Member of the Legislature," in writing to the Dublin Mail, asserts that the " Irish Pauper Removal Bill" will " confiscate the lands of Ireland, and the pro perty of every man having an interest in the soil." He adds, " the lower orders, when their demoralisation is completed by out-door relief, will become a mere armed banditti, whilst the landowners will be the persons expa triated. Yes, gentlemen, prepare for the new world— your doom is sealed." SEVEN MEN DROWNED.—On Thursday, as a boat be longing to the Isle of Doagh, in the parish of Clonmany, was proceeding to sea on a fishing trip, manned by eight persons, when crossing tho deceatful bar of Strabreagy she was capsized by one of those sudden swells that occur in a moment, even in calm weather, and, melancholy to relate, seven of her crew perished. It was want of food which caused these poor but honest and industrious men to seek for that subsistence at sea which failed them on shore.—. Derry Paper. FOOD FOR IRELAND.—The United States shi f war, Jamestown, under the command of Captain ForM, laden with bread stuffs and provisions for the relief of the dis tressed Irish, left Boston, on the 28th ult., and, after a splendid voyage of 15 days, arrived at Cork, on Monday evening, on her mission of mercy, She brought 8000 barrels of flour. This is a free contribution from the States. Among other recent free arrivals we notice another at Cork, and one at Dublin. The bells of the Cathedral, &c., at Cork were set a-ringing on the arrival of the vessel, and Cove was splendidly illuminated on Wednesday. On Thursday, the people of Cove gave a sumptuous dinner to Captain Forbes, and on Friday, :Et public meeting of the inhabitants took place, to express their thanks to the Americans for their kindness and sym pathy. The chair was taken by Major N. L. Beamish, and among the company was the Dean of Cork. WRECK OF THE ROCHESTER.—We have received a letter from Wexford, dated the 14th instant, which states that the Rochester, Capt. Trueman, bound to New York, struck on Blackwater Bank, on Tuesday. " The crew and passengers," it states, " remained on board until to-day, when they were taken out of her and brought in here by several of the fishing-boats belonging to Arklow : about 300 crew and passengers in all. The poor passen gers scarcely saved anything, and looked most miserabl* on landing." She was a fine vessel, 850 tons register, and chartered by Messrs. Grimshaw and Co., of Liver pool, from which town she sailed on Sunday week, and in thirty-six hours she struck, as stated, on the coast of Wexford. The crew and forty-seven of the passengers were brought to Cove on Thursday, by Lieut. Symes r R.N., Commander of H.M.S. Urgent. The remainder of the .pitssengers, upwards of 200 in number, were landed by the fishing boats and conveyed to the town of Wexford. Providentially no lives were lost, but we are not aware whether the vessel is likely to be got off. It was calm when she struck, but blowing when the crew and passengers were leaving her, and there were twelve feet of water in her hold. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—A miserable muster of asso ciated patriots assembled on Monday to listen to the edi fying billingsgate of Mr. John Reynolds, on the subject of the Dublin "Improvement" swindle. Mr. John O'Con nell was present, and delivered a whining jeremiad on the• rejection of his obsequious overtures to the " young blood of Ireland." He actually wept at the remembrance of his father's paternal consideration for the safety of his " young friends,' which he had manifested by repeated warnings that their proceedings were illegal, and at the ungenerous construction which his proffered counsel had received from Mr. Smith O'Brien and his confederates. But while he admitted that the association was " reduced to their )Mot shilling," he accompanied the confession with the heroic announcement, that it was not yet reduced to the last man, and that were he even left alone he would con tinue to struggle on for " poor old" Ireland. A liberal share of vituperation was then bestowed on the Board of Works, in his vindication of the immaculate " clergy" of Cashel, who, as members of a relief committee, bad been charged, in a report of Captain Norris, with certain pee( dillnpa which " 5 of men" would be, of The rent for the week course, incapable of committing was announced to be £l9 4s. 9d. STATE OF IRELAND.—The deaths from fever and' desti tution are still as numerous as ever, and, notwithstanding the reduction in the price of food, the people are fast dying off, relief having come to them at too late a period. Any person walking up Great George's-street would be horrified at the scenes which meet the eye, There is scarcely a hall door, or unoccupied shop, the door of which is not taken up by a group of starving and exhausted creatures • and when the public thoroughfares present such a picture, in what state must the miserable lanes and alleys in the city he?-Another evil which afflicts the people, in addition to fever, is the small-pox, in the various stages of which numbers of half-naked children are to be seen daily lying in the streets.—Cork Reporter. We have been informed, by what we must consider the very best authority—the medical men of the town—that there are no less than a thousand fever patients within the precincts of our borough! In some of the obscure dis tricts from two to eight persons are lying under the one roof in fever.—Sligo Champion.—On Sunday List there were no less than five dead bodies in the streets of Ken mare, without a human being to claim them, or look after the burial, till Mr. Daniel Mahony and another respect able shopkeeper had them severally conveyed to the grave in a false-bottomed coffin.—Tralee Chronicle.—The la bourers disbanded under the twenty per cent. proclama tion, have been, in many instances, recalled, or suffered to enter again on the works in the neighbourhood of Loughrea.—Ballinasloe Star.—The Dublin papers state the deaths of two more Roman Catholic priests, from fever, caught in the discharge of their pastoral duties—The Rev. James Mac Manus, Castlebar, and the Rev. Wm. Hawaiian, of Ennistirnon. • THE BENCH AND THE BAR The late Lord Stowell, in speaking of the law against marrying a deceased wife's sister, stated that the best rea son for the prohibition (irrespective of the Divine com mand) was "the prevention of illicit affections and prospec tive engagements, and sisterly jealousies and estrangements after marriage, to the great peril and destruction of family confidences and union." A JUDGE'S LODGINGS.—The following extraordinary complaint was made by Mr. Justice Mettle, at Gloucester, on Tuesday se'nnight. At the rising of the Nisi Prius Court, in the afternoon on the above day, Mr. Justice 'Maule intimated, that whilst, he was anxious to expedite the business of the Assizes, the Court would not open for business before half-past nine each morning, that extra half-hour being requisite for him to travel from Chelten ham, where he was obliged to go each evening, finding it impossible to sleep in the unventilated, undrained, foetid dog-hole which the liberality of the magistrates of Glou cester had provided for lodgings for her Majesty's Judges of Assize. People of robust health might struggle through these inconveniences without risk to their lives, but he was obliged to seek in an inn at Cheltenham that accom modation which was denied him in, that city. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY.—MOZLiri 0. ALsToN.—This case was resumed on Tuesday, in the Vice Chancellor's Court. His Honour gave judgment. It was (he said,) quite clear that there ought to have been such a proceeding in February last, as would have pro duced a ballot for four directors, and the consequence h as been that the twelve directors who refused the ballot are filling a place in which. they ought not to be. His Honour then referred to the proceedings at the meetings which were held in February and March last, when a general meeting attempted to exercise those powers, the existence of which had been so often referred to, but in vain. And is it not a mockery, said his Honour, to hold general meetings over and over again, when the efficiency of one has been tried and found unavailing ? After that failure nothing was left but an application to the courts of jus tice. His Honour apprehended that every single share holder had a personal interest that the affairs of the com pany should be carried on in accordance with the provi sions of the act, and that no persons should arrogate to themselves a mode of dealing with the company which should virtually set them above the act of parliament. His Honour was also of opinion that the bill would not have been sustainable if the company in its incorporate capacity had not been made a party to it. There was no substantial difference between an act of mischievousness and an injurious passiveness on the part of the company. The conduct of the directors was the foundation of the complaint, and the inertness of the company was a rea son for coming to the court for relief. *With reference to what was urged that the proper relief might be had upon a mandamus, his Honour said the court was not going to determine what course should he taken for the purpose of appointing proper directors. The bill only asked to re strain the present directors from acting ; and that was a species of negative relief which it was competent for the court to give, although it might not be able to carry out the general provisions of the act. The demurrer must be overruled.—On 'Wednesday, Mr. Bethell, on behalf of the plaintiffs, moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants (the twelve directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway) from acting as such directors until the hearing of the cause. The facts were the same as those stated on the demurrer. The motion was. likely to occupy the court for some time. FRACAS ARISING OUT OF AN ASSUR CASX.,--A singu lar correspondence, arising out of an indictment, tried at tbe'Anglesey Assizes, at ileatunaris t has been published April tO, Ig4t. in Carnarvon. A farm bailiff, in the service of Lord Vivian, was tried for embezzling £3 12s. 6c1., the goods and chattels of the said Baron Vivian. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Temple, who, in the course of his ad dress to the jury, commented pretty freely on the evi dence of his lordship, and stigmatised the prosecution as a vindictive proceeding. Stung by the remarks of the learned counsel, Lord Vivian wrote to Mr. Townsend, who conducted the prosecution, and that gentleman wrote in reply, that he had communicated with Mr. Temple, who declined professionally to take any notice of his lordship's written remarks. After this, and on the day after the trial, (upon which the prisoner w a s a cqu itt e d,/ Lord Vivian appeared on the bench, and forced his com plaint upon the presiding judge, Lord Coltman. The High Sheriff, Lord Newborough, published a statement of this interview, by which it appeared that the judge had said that Mr. Temple's language had been impertinent, but though unworthy of Lord Vivian's notice, still relevant to the case, and that therefore he did not stop the case. Still further importuned by Lord Vivian, the learned judge wrote to him to the effect that the counsels remarks were sarcastic and exaggerated, yet pertinent to the ques tion, and such as he could not be prevented from making, but justifying his lordship in the steps he had taken. Upon this Mr. Temple published a letter remarking upon the novelty of the discussion in court on the day after the trial ; the circumstance of the judge designating his language as impertinent, yet though sarcastic, perti nent to the question, and he thus concludes :—" I have the most sincere respect for every judge's authority within its proper and legitimate sphere, and Mr. Justice Coltman's kindness of disposition and rectitude of purpose in this matter, 1 cannot for a moment doubt ; but, as a member of the bar, I must deny and repudiate the right of any judge, after a case is over, and in the absence of counsel, to censure remarks made in the performance of a professional duty. And for any judge to express extra judicially his opinion of a prosecution, after the acquittal of a prisoner, cannot but tend to do an injustice, even if it did nothing more than afford the opportunity of making such an logf it, as has been resorted to in the present instance. ch a departure from the ordinary course can only ead to endless inconvenience ; instead of re straining, it is more likely to induce heat ; and if every de feated party is to discuss with the judge the propriety of the remarks made upon him, and to assail that judge on the bench, as in this instance, there is no great diffi culty in seeing how far the dignity and propriety of such scenes will tend to assist the due administration of jus tice. LOCAL MEETINGS, Wm'. DERBY UNION.—The first meeting of the board since the election of guardians, for the present year, was held on Wednesday. M r . Sh ep h erd was again elected chairman ; and Mr. Roberts, vice-chairman. Mr. H. M. Tomkins and Mr. S. Potts, were elected assistant relieving officers for Toxteth-park, at a salary of £lOO each. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. —The thirteenth annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to this society was held on Tuesday, Mr. Alderman Sands, in the chair. The income of the society for 1846 amounted to £116,528, being an increase on the previous year of about £3OOO. The expenditure had been £109,732, and there was a balance in the treasurer's hands of nearly £5,000. The amount received by the Liverpool Auxiliary during last year was Z 3,314, being a nett increase on the year before of £l6l. Among the speakers was the Rev. W. W. Ew bank. Dr. Byrth was engaged elsewhere, or he would have been present. DOCK COMMITTEB.—It was recommended that the offices of the two Harbour-masters should be removed to the Central Station at George's Dock Passage.—A re commendation from the solicitor, that Mr. Henry Pin field, and Mr. J. Appleton be appointed clerks in his de partment, the former at £l5O- per annum, and the latter at £9O, was referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Gladstone thought it would be desirable that some more detailed statement of the solicitor's expenses- should be furnished. He had read the discussion in the Council, and was satisfied the appointment was for the benefit of the Dock Estate ; but the public did not think so, and the Secretary might supply a statement showing that it was for the benefit of the Estate the appointment was made. The Chairman considered it would be irregular to re-open the question. Mr. Gladstone Then the public may entertain what opinions they please. Mr. Bold said the expenses had been £3600 per annum for several years. Mr. Gladstone observed that it did not show how much was for Parliamentary expenses. The Chairman: None of it. Mr. Gladstone expressed- himself satisfied. Mr. Tobin said the matter could not be meddled with. again, but he thought the salary larger than it ought to have been. The Chairman said it was referred to a spe cial committee and confirmed by the Council.—A letter was read from Messrs. Hailstone, on the part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, wishing to know if the communication between the canal and docks would be opened. by September next, that being the stipulated time. The Chairman said, there could be no difficulty in finish ing the work so far as regarded the 'canal ; but, unless the docks were complete, nothing would be gained by it : he thought the general work would be finished by the next. summer. The Chairman then called the attention of the committee to a subscription set on foot for the crew of , the Emilie, for their gallant conduct in saving the suf ferers on board of the Tweed. Several members • put down their names as subscribers. the SELECT VESTRY. - -14.the meeting on Tuesday'•• Workhouse C omm itt ee repor t e d th at no pat i en t would in future be taken into the fever hospital at the gate in Mount-pleasant, but th roug h t h e garden fromEtrownlow hill, in order to receive the pati en t s , an d send out as delicate a manner as p dead bodies in quiet and ossibl , , . —Dr. nomas Inman sent in his resignation of• honorary medical officer of the Workhouse, an a vote. of thanks was passed to him, for his valuable services.—The Chair man, (Rector Brooks,) read a communication, from the, Mayor relative to the removal of sick paupers to the workhouse. Mr. Dowling suggested that propervehicles for the conveyance of the sick ought to be provided .by‘ the parish, for that recently a man and his four children. had been turned out of their dwelling, in Scotland-place, in consequence of one of the children having caught the fever, and that that unfortunate child had been suffered to remain in the street all night. Mr. Dowling further observed that the police were often obliged to carry fever patients in their arms up Brownlow-hill, an d in this man ner they were brought into immediate contact with the infection.—Mr. Riding said there was a van always kept at the workhouse, which the poor might obtain by send ing for it, and that the parish could not be expected, at great expense, to keep horses and vehicles for the use of the sick in all parts of the town.—The Chairman observed, that in his answer to the Mayor, he should state the fact that there was a van at the workhouse, and that if the. police would pass the word for it, it would Je immediately sent..--The various Committees were then appointed for the ensuing year.—Prior to the close of the meeting, Mr. Riding said the board might petition the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, relative to the proposed prevention of the government officers from collecting the parish taxes.. It was a very important question, he observed, and one that would be brought forward the next board day. AN I NCORRIGIBLE.—On Wednesday,a man wasbrought before the magistrates, on a charge of being found drunk in the streets. Mr. Parkinson stated that the prisoner had been before the court more than five hundred times for the offence of drunkenness. The musical . words again resounded in his ear —Pined 58. or three days. MR. DOUGLASS AND THE BRITISH ANDNORTH AME RICAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY.—Mr. Charles M`lver, the Liverpool agent of this company, has written to the London papers, a letter, of which the following is the material part The first time Mr. Frederic Douglass saw or met with me was not, as he states, before, but after he had agreed with my people to arrangements and accommodation for his passage on board the Cambria, with which he expressed no dissatisfaction to me, but the m f k o s ur am otherou amounted toin dividuals,contrary. Mr. Douglass had no conversation whateyer when wit t h i t andexcept h in whole t heprepsoeinneet Douglass), o f mthry coming from the in , eerear or United States, some months ago, the same vessel (the Cambria,) as a steerage passenger, was invited by some of the cabin passengers to enter th e sa l oon , an d was t h e cause, whether intentionally or unintentionally on his. part, of producing by the observations he made use of,. serious disturbances on board, which required. the autho rity of the captain to quell, in order to restore peace ands safety. Under these circumstances, I told Mr. Douglass, that had lie not entered into the arrangements which hail been completed, I should undoubtedly have considered it my duty to require of him, before allowing him to embark, distinct pledge that lie would neither of himself, nor, at the desire of others, follow such a course as was likely, to lead to a repetition of such scenes of confusion as had for merly occurred. I added, that from the conversation that had just taken place between us, it was unnecessary 1 should act or say more upon the subject. I moreover told him, that I should have taken the same course had his name been John Jones, or anything else instead of Frederic Douglass, or had he been the whitest man in the world. These were,my words." " ROWLAND RnAD;IIAR 7 . ; --" Ruby Rattler,' a pre vious work by the same author, is a clever book ; and judging from the five parts before us, " Rowland Brad shaw bids fair ta• rival its predecessor. Its spirited de lineations of character, and well-wrought humorous sketches of the practical jokes and somewhat boisterous manners of the elite of a provincial town. not far from Manchester, are well conceived and well executed, Row land, the hero, is the. only son of a widowed mother, apprenticed to a country painter and glazier, whose opi nion of his own abilities is anything but modest. Rowland is possessed of intelligence, talent, and unwittingly be comes the depository of the secrets of all,the people in the town, without betraying his own. Some very droll scenes are depicted in these five parts ; and if carried on as begun. " Rowland Bradshaw" will deserve the popularity we doubt not he will speedily attain.— Westminster Quar terly Review, p. 248, for April, 1847.—[Rabe Rattler, the work complimented above, is now playing at the I eatres in London, and the songs from which are being set to music by Mr. Henry Russell.) The never-fitiling effects of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, in curing every description of Gout and Rheumatism. have secured to them a celebrity.unequalled by any medi cine of past or present times. They not only give reliei in a few hours, where the patient has been driven nearly t° madness by the excruciating tortures of this disease, b 0 restore to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. 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