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Eittraturt. POETRY To THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—The following are original, from my old scrap-book ; you think them - worthy of insertion. J. Q• Eirkdale-road. 0, put thy trust in Gor. ), put thy trust i Nor faint thong I no go 0, put thy t; But than O thant Otter ;aid the hilst Lon z • Webb ion and the ou to pole, lion L S'otem o/ Lye': Chapman, Esq which has just been s. Chapman E Lain on the necessity hich they appear to ration laws. energetically pre- f the navi ring to lay the case of the shipping interest beforethe rounttee, Liverpool, he justly contends, ought not to nain silent ; but, on the contrary, should take active g, make their senti- steps, and by means of a public ments known to the pub .Lch, coming from ad the legislature tional Education; a Letter ;urzeon, Chelmsford. Lon! On; of th es, of Lc isition to to a wo rs. Elli 3 1 tier tha ,tention of those tc 'O. By Thomas King, an and Co. theme of edueation. The Mora Wants of llis, Author of the It in the sul early moral ti eject of of crime bespeal than any attention a or r r, and tt iety, I have b nore important ielf to be in all her previot 1 deepl le to resist may, perhaps, most passage of her pre- le cony 1 facultic hich we now had been attached to the direction 3 in early life, many of the social evi justly deplore would have been eith h less disastrous manner a feeling the want, though %vour, in the foil dersinterested I. directl opportunity of 1, in order to re its uni' the formation of moral in con "- " Whilst endeavour of opera- are yet end 1 means, in and onv also traced as operating as a si erful appeal is made upon the In this wort; rs. Ellis has evious clain hich uperior succeeded in a s upon the g 3f its 'spirited -publisher Euclid's Els?, f such a cour does not neglect a higher in bich ought to be called in to that there ,ets out with a des- of society at the present, with I tendency. The physical who seek the d to con- and those e lucidly t itary regulation of our large it population wifl the mind and des. atura 1 tendencies to evil ,erious hindrance, and a 'aims of the poor to and to an improved ght to be extensively studied to her man of her kind. The usual excellent style e and Colleg School Can,brii pp. GIG Mr. Pc come the s he last yea .n the Univc ranged text examples lover of E :nior C withot the nec iable in ma -erywhen I intel khould he aspire to the Unix Six Books ,son, with Explanator s on each BoOk, and o sn from th rt Papers; lesitinec in Public and Privat, 41. A., Trinity College London, J. W. Parker University Edition of Euclid " has al nd the college examina irned upon its con- ce, therefore, to perceive that he has sent nsive volume, for the use of those who, in sere, are entering on the study of mathe ing the same principles, and all the le larger copy, as far as is required foi .ning of Cambridge ha pt in the possession o Ilse expressed so ambiguously in print, than assist the learner, and thereby :or still more necessary. In the present Lthor, who has been engaged in tuition for many years, has given a well ar- Ind a large collection of ...sures, so that th young or old, may acquire the element .2.11 practised in their applica y of calling in a tutor, which ‘y situations and so costly lay reserve for the higher branches of ?nce. The preparation thus afforded ace in the deeper processes much gent than is generally the case, and 'sityhonours, give an im- to his pro, metry to every branch of physical science, science, a nd especially to navigation: is apparent. It is ;he very alphabet of mathematics, and Mr. Potts adheres - ,43 the geometrical form of representing its truths. Each ;sive 11 inted in a sepa- sontng avoided. volume i, on, Kin. 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 t against modern ooj published Barrow's Geomet account of two new species c ton. which was nublished in thE In 1735 ical Led )Listing of Ilustratell by s. The first numl another of Great I s of valuable stati: vain to att lsive range of subjects eompri s are e .fled. Elements lie translated and res. He wrote an not noticed by New- Ant volume of the ler and geographer The number of pace V A.RIETIE y numbers, a Id, Of the v LALL FURTER OF THE REFORM CLUB MAKEI Why is M Soyer lil summit Blanc ? Because he has'a culir Why is a dandy like a I 3ecause he is a bit of a buck.— rered remedy of sulphuric eth, Rossini ? Because it is one of Lich employ It woul ono disce mut :s in the chain of ly of geometiY be viewed only as that of aost satisfactory kind of logic, and as calculated to gthen the inter 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 Should tl igour, we cannot colic calculated to duel ational, a ceive an intellectual lope the inventive, than the pro n of the University at Euclid iw►oJ n abridgment of the in, which has become so ?,rsities of Oxford and Cambridge learn that the " School Edition College, London : Christ" dopted in We are is adopted the tru. th inaulgenc Hospital; the many other y AcadeMy, Woolwich --...... The members of mechanic fic . institutions, will find either edit according to their state and progress in )r their encouragement we select the following ac of Edmund Stone, the Mathematician, from the uction to the large edition, which contains a history of great le of true genius overcoming fortune, and education." )n of a gardener of the Duke ight years of age he WAS taught to read without further assistance, he had mad( atical knowledge as . to be abh as mu 3 read the Principia of 1%1 the Duke - ewton Jay walking in hi; garden, he saw a copy of Newton s Principia lying on the grass, and called some one near the him to take it back to the library. Young Stone, the with Great Britain, so much more. fOU migh gardener, modestly observed, that the book belonged to lay down a lumping sum for a protective tariff; with an -- " - -- 11 . -I the Duke ;. 'do you understand understanding that it was to be repealed the next at a mo n?" I know a little of them,' derate advance. You would thus ensure the greatest pos. sith an air of simplicity. The Duke sible variety of political catastrophes, with the least pos ring himself a taste for the sciences, sible friction and expense. Again, the furniture of the ersation with the young mathemati- Capitol is altogether too luxurious. Each member is pro m several questions, and was astonished vided with a nrivate desk, stationery ad lib., a stuffed accuracy, and the candour of his answers. arm-chair, and a particular spittoon. No wonder, then, 1 the Duke, -' came you by the knowledge that your Simmses and Chipmans are listened to with ngs ?' Stone replied, ' A servant taught ' complacency. It's all in the day's work—it's considered ince. to read. Does any one need to know in the wages. While these worthies hold forth`for the be four letters of the alphabet, in nefit of distant Missouri and Michigan, their colleagues -4thing else that one wishes ?' The write their letters, read the newspapers, chew tobacco, as ....riosity was redoubled : he sat down on a hank ) little boys do toffy in England, and expectorate at - leisure. Aid requested a detail of all his proceedings. 'i - first No one cheers, no one groans, no one cries Oh ! Oh ! learned to read,' said Stone. ' The masons were then at all the noise that is made is on pr i vate account, an d no t a t ork upon y o ur house. I went near them one day, and all person a l to the gentleman on his legs. Yet, such is 1r that the architect used a rule and compasses, and that th e deceitfulness of the human heart , that the Americans w calculations. I enquired what might be the are much given to boast of the dignity and decorum of of these things, and was informed that there was their Legislature, and to thank God that it is not a bear ..leg garden like another place of the kind that they wot of. a science called Arithmetic. I purchased a book of must have been asked at least six times a-day during Arithmetic, and learned it. T was told there was another w e our visit at Washington " How Congress compared with n g I found that there were good th e British Parliament ?" To whiOh we used to reply, science , called Geometry ; I bought the books, and learned T. By reading in these two sciences in Latin : I bought a diction- " That they did not compare at all," there an answer which and tm s.: kB learned Latin. I understood also that fully met the truth of the case, without in the least wound -e';e *.good books of the same kind in French : I bought , ing the self-love of the querist,—/ilaektrood's Magazine. with them by the scrape r with Mexico, so muc One yea n, Newto replied the young man Geometr rical Exer (cool and airy) situa- don, had an old servant tno old to w 1 , , he cou have offered to an old servant Mished ; to hir was confided man holds the place at this present us to be able to state that this is a 3 : we could supply a long the task is nol National Edna easing one ; e bv J. Dc LAST - DAN last, but with singular gentleness. Some of his 1 exhibit _ the mild philosophy of his temperament sence of r of pain is pleasure At my age, it strik observed, little proportion then or his life." Of ased to think all ti hortn aid, ' Tory ; I now newly-disco- greatest composers of His example was follower 'bwlmast( re is pain, in charaeteristical: y much, will rition, and ti y lost in i sponding tone of some public men, h rs fought under the standard of hop( lesert it!' At another time, he ex rich only the good man feels—" It i •t of wisdom to know what to over m of George Give me th 1 the ftill valu ?verity, and every pure, bi Speaking: to his family, in h he said, " Kind, dutiful, a and if I am pe nitted to attain to am permitted to y state to which I as' 1, how often shall I be with 3 of February, 1844, he was se On the of ing iza , wl h on the 10 he 15th he - calmly died, in hi HOSPITALITY 7th yea: —The ] Polynesians carry heir hospitality to an amazing extent. Let a native Of the westernmost part of Tahiti, make his a arance as a traveller at Partoowye, the most east illage of Imeeo, though a perfect stranger, the tants on all sides accost him at their doorwc him to enter, and make himself at home yeller passes on, examining evL at last, he pauses before one winch sufls amrar, y house then na maitai" (this one 11 do, I think), a 1 bread-fruit, mats, and very proba - bly calling nice young cocoa-nut, and a piece of toast- - Heed Curious to .hin, and done brow elate, however Iv I a stranger carrying it ti .ed to be without a house henceforth go a-begging for his lodgings. The " kar " or white men, are exceptions to this rule. t L. precisely as in civilised countries ; where those f his own, why iterward , he may howrees, who have touscs 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- ptable, may ricient Tahit and sue for it , it should ht But to the credi r hospitality is only of recent Origin the South Sea: am in old times Melville PORTRAIT OF DR. BLOMFIELD, B e combined a ereat talent fo 10P OF LONDON tion with v .le, gifted :ed by an h an indomitable perseverance,:and kimt 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 jell - were either )se leaders wb uently was perpetually involved in transactions ilures or blunders. He was one of are not guides. Having little real knowledge. and not endowed with those high qualities of itellect which permit their possessor to generalise the led by study and experience, and so deduce his lordship, when he received those fre pence of lictory, dark. ry con hich were the nec became obscure, confused, contra gical. The oracle was alway Placed in a high post in an age of political analysis, the bustling intermeddler was unable to supply society with a Enunciating second-hind, with charac 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 ces outweighed the isolated cause. 'hich had been advocated with un irrogance, gently subsided into some se- teristic precipitatio •egate c The irimordial t cond-rate measure recommended impenetrable ambiguity. Beginni. formation, which was a little rash bt always ready, had in the 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 dry, and fervently Puseyite, phasis of his faith concludes with what the Spaniards transaction.' The saints are to have their new and their _ , successors to the are also presented with a church com e Puseyites may have candles on their must not be lighted.—Tanered, a new with all the artifice of an g with the second re it clashing, the bishop, .ourse of his episcopal career canons; the univers: r rubri altars, but tl work by 1 - llsraeli HOW THEYMANAGETHINGS IN TIIEMODEL REPUBLIC —ln the Senate things still go on in the old-fashioned way. There, when a member has once caught the very first-1 his fortune is made for the da3 Accordingly, he tat ICKS fl ation of cold hen be I o erall% zowled spittoon to a ter to his parc Ler mat bred the past, t a piercing glan, Fter three, the S, altogethe cached lightly upon the nto the darkness of 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. Undoubtedly, . . !ess is that place. There they enjoy a perfect impu and revel in the full gratification of their instincts. aks of coughing them down, or swamping them There— sTo . l:;ody t Remembering she lierself Was Pertne And tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying. With self -applause her wild creation 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 yourusual It would he mu beitei t THE LIVERPOOL MIA6IRD. CURIOUS EXPERIMENT.—Take twowine, ale, or porter glasses, and set them on a table at the distance of about one foot apart; take a piece of dry wood, about 13 inches long, and as thick as your finger; place one end of the stick so as to rest on the edge of one glass, the other end of the wood to rest on the edge of the other glass ; then take a poker, and strike the stick with all your force in the centre, and it will fly into two parts, leaving the glasses unbroken. On what principle can this be ac counted for.? Amongst the Esquimaux, according to Sir John Ross, the crime of murder very rarely occurs. When it does, the murderer's punishment consists in being banished to p of his tribe; insomuch, that even the sight of him is avoided by all who may inadvertently meet him. One being asked why his life is not taken in return, it was re- plied, "that this would be to make themselves equall: bad; that the loss of his life would not restore the other and that he who should commit such an act would b, equally guilt CAUS Mr. Poynter OF ANOM countr ,ousNoT ,ertain times, _ not be explained, and had ob tained 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 IN" HAUNTED HOUSES at a parsonage-house in ,the Town to him, a kn and cool which was LIE somewhat low, was of that organ that at once arrests at a voice that comes alike from the brain and from tention the heart, and seems made to convey both profound thought and deep emotion. There is no index of charac ter sin snvP us the vniee_ There are tones. tones brilliant 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 voids 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'lsraeli's 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 and girl of nine or ten years of ze, sold one dad who were exceeding fair and beautiful r 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 fiat in- 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 ig charged to the verge of excess with azure, crimson, d gold. ThP uisite harmony which reigns 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 pendants er again subdivided by elegant panels, carvea crusted with gold dropping from the intersections. broad oak pannelling, richly carved, which covers a.por tion of the side walls, subdues the glare . of the other part - s The reporters' gallery, placed at the end' opposite ' throne, is another prominent object, being exte. mass of gilded ornaments. The interior of this gallei, fitted up with the most careful regard to the convenient aallv a and accommodation of its occupie - rs. The house is lighted by richly gilt branches holding lamps, running along the )fty magnificent candelabra, stall the floor at the ends, bearing tiers of waxlight woolsack, the table, and the seats for the peers overed . . 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 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 abdut 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 Beau mont, the Duke of Richmond, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Stanhope, Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Eglintoun, ?ortescue, the Bishop of Oxford, Lords Lyttelton, tale, 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 A . lorpeth'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 =tory from declare, declarare." And, fortified by this display of research, he goes on to proirounce 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, " ifthere 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 iry esto ;elation Sanitary i word similar to salutary, vo'lun- tart', arbitrary, not derived from the verb sanare, to cure, but from the substantive sanitas, health, like voluntary health. Sanitary measures are measures relating to health." To our thinking " Orthographicus" has the best of it. CURIOUS RESULTS OF VENTILATION.-111 a weaving mill near Manchester, where the ventilation was bad, the proprietor caused a fan to be mounted. The conse- 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 moining, which they did not, is certainly quite so.—Wyman's Practical Treatise on Ventilation. WOMEN —There is scarcely a step from the -from the nursery to the world. zld be all blushes and Am BRI school to the forum Young girls, who in England id butter, boldly precede their mammas into .00m ; and the code of a mistaken gallantry sup- plies no corrective to their caprice, for youth and ieauty 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 nsau 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 Demus ! 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 hem better and lighter than be fore. But when will a native A ristophanes 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 :ic pamphleteers Modern Republic sickles of dull moralists and dida "How they Manage Matters in. the Blackwood's Magazine jar April. SMALL, HOUSES DEAR ONES.—I ..., 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 any father or mother to think, what must be the result to theiechildren from sleeping in the same room with grown up people of all sexes and ages ? This abominable habit 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. The 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 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 I suffer.---Address. to the lirarking Classes. his one case I was much gratified of the state of the matt kept aloof, and offeiedTic op- position to the poor mother, who, consequent her own children at a very moderate price Slave. Life of a LORD NELSON'S CONFIDENCE IN LORD SIDMOUTII. On Lord Nelson's return to England front his glorious services at Copenhagen, an interview ensued between his lordship and Mr. Addington, to which the latter was fond of referring in after years. The conversation turning on the circumstance of Nelson having continued the action after the admiral had given the signal of recal, Mr. Ad dington told him he was a bold man to disregard the or ders of his superior : to which he replied that any one may be depended upon under ordinary circumstances, but that the man of real value was he who would persevere at all risks, and under the heaviest responsibility ; " but," 11C CLULIUU, 111. LUC 111/LIJ4 Vl Lill 1 17,••••••-• , . I knew that, happen what might, if I did my duty you would stand by me." When relating this anecdote, Mr. Addington us d to remark, that " he felt the confidence taus repuseu Hun, uy SUCH a MUM, Lilt as one of the highest compliments he had ever received." Penny's Life and Correspondence of Viscount Sidniouth. 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 shoi4 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 at Newgate, for forg ; was executed three months ago the second, at this moment for great s of God, under the sentence of death, in the gaol of this city, murder—the other (continued the minister with emotion)—the third, through the infinite goodne is even now 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 hay _ _ 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 e I 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.—Tesse's Favourite Haunts. _ _ THE RURAL POPULATION OP CHINA.—The farms are small, each consisting of from one to four or five acres ; own little tea• garden, the , produce of xvhich ',supplies the wants of bis 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 in 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 a 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. BAD AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE WEST INDIES. -It is universally admitted (says Mr. Innes) that nothing can be more imperfect than the prevailing system of agri culture except the process of manufacture, in which there has been no perceptible improvement' since the settlement of the colonies, if the few estates on which the boiling in vaeuo has been adopted be excluded. In some of the co lonies, the yielding from plant-canes in favourable sea sons, does not average a ton of sugar per acre, although with proper cultivation the return ought to be more than double that quantity ; and that ton, from the imperfect process of manufacture, is reduced from ten to twenty per cent. before it is landed in this country, and even after it is landed there is a still further reduction from, drainage. How little do we find thorough drainage of the land, either temporary or permanent, regarded ! It is only in the colony of British Guiana, where the subject is abso lutely forced on the planter's notice, that we find any neniion made of it Flow partial altio has been the-intro- duction of agricultural implements, notwithstam care bestowed by the M Ransome, of Ipswich On the f durable ones, suited to the wants and cir imstanees of these colonies ! On most estates we see fields on fields still,worked entirely by'tho hoe; and yet the planters complain of the want of labour. To put this evil in a striking point of view :—lt takes about twenty days' labour to hole an acre of cane land with the hoe, and three days to band it with the plough. Here is a saving of seventeen days' labour per acre. Thus there are many thousand days' labour unnecessarily: expended on the lighter soils !—SiMmovds's Colonial-Magazine. MATCII-MAXING EXTRAORDINARY. —The COUrrzer humorous account of the result attend- Francais give Marshal Bugeaud's attempts at military colonization.. About a year ago he founded the village of Fouka, settling in it 60 soldiers ;- they were all bachelors, and, to provide them with wives, he sent them by steamer, in a body, to Toulon, where they found 60 virgins, all. warranted of good character., The ladies had dowries, furnished by the state, of sums-ranging from £24 to £4B, and distributed in an inverse ratio to natural charms. Three interviews were allowed between the matrimonial band; one a distant and synoptical view ; the second, still silent, an allotment of the brides and briclegroonis by name—the gentlemen, apparently, being allowed some choice. The third, the wedding. There were 59 mar riages, one soldier being quite unable to reconcile him self to the remaining maid. The heroes returned with their brides, and the bachelor; to Algiers ; and the double column was reviewed by the marshal, each husband be hind his spouse. The sixtieth stood solitary and trem bling in the rear of his line of comrades. The poor fel low quaked when the marshal put to.him the avvful ques tion, " Where is your wife ?" " Monsieur le Marcella'," replied the soldier, " all the others have wives." 44 lons !" returned the Marshal, " you are not such a fool as I thought you were." Ile was pardoned for his celibacy. Alas, how fared these military marriages ? A year had scarcely elapsed when most of those ladies fled from Fouka to the seducers of the army of Africa ; shamelessly betray. ing husbands, homes, and drums, without even regretting the 10 hectares of land. Marshal Bugeatul had forgotten to include conjugal fidelity among his orders of the day. The spots now visible on the sun, on its western side are upwards of 40,000 miles in diameter, ing One a ti IRELAND. Eleven vessels sailed last week from Dublin, with nearly five thousand emigrants for America. Letters from Constantinople announce that the Sultan has contributed £lOOO for the relief of the distressed Trish. 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 154 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 curates 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 party 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 DILOWNED.—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 deceitful 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 ship of war, Jamestown, under the command of Captain Forbes, 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 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, !a 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 am gers scarcely saved anything, and looked most miserable 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 Lietit. Syriies, R.N., Commander of H.M.S. Urgent. The remainder of the passengers, 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 he 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." lie actually wept at the remembrance of his father's paternal consideration for the safety of his " young friends,' l 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 last 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 " v!tupeFal bestowed on the Board of orks, in his vindication of the immaculate " clergy" of Cashel, who, as members of a relief committee, had been charged, in a report of Captain Norris, with certain pecca dilloes which " this admirable class of men" would be, of course, incapable of committing. The rent for the week 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 be?--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 tricts from two to eight p ie obscure C 3 ersons are lying under the ( n some of t roof in fever.—Sligo Chanzpion.—On Sunday last there were no less than five dead bodies in the streets of Ken mare, without a human being to claim them, or look after their 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 instance;, 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 Catho'ic priests, from fever, caught in the discharge of their pastoral duties—The Rev. James Mac Manus, Castlebar, and the Rev. Wm. Hanrahan, of Ennistimon. April 20, 1847. 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 its a tindictive prdceeding. 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 was- acquitted,) 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 :—" have the most sincere respert 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 3 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 Isut tend to do an injustice, even if it did nothing more than afford the opportunity of making such an use of it, as has been resorted to in the present instance. Such a departure from the ordinary course can only lead 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 haw far the dignity and propriety of such scenes will tend to assist the due administration of jus tice." LOCAL 211EETI1VGS. WEST DERBY UNION.—The first meeting of the board since the election of guardians, for the present year, wa3 held on Wednesday. Mr. Shepherd 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 X', The expenditure had Peen .x.inu,eiz, and there was balance in the treasurer's hands of nearly £5,000. The amount received by the Liverpool Auxiliary during last year was £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 COMMITTEE.—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 wn ld 1, ; " -P ..PC.rn...P cinmr. more _ -- detailed statement of the soli c it or ' s ex p en s e s 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 se veral years. Mr. Gladstone observed that it did not show how much was for Parliamentary expenses. The Chairman' None of it. Mr. Gladstone expressed himself satistid Mr. Tobin said the matter could not be meddled vii , " again, but he thought the salary larger than it ought t ° 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 Lee cl3 and Liverpool Canal Company, wishing to know if the communication between the canal and docks would b e 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 t thought the general work Would be finished by the lie! summer. The Chairman then called the attention of 0 1 committee to a subscription set on foot for the crew ~ the Emilie, for their gallant conduct in saving the sulk ferers on board of the Tweed. Several members Pu' down their names as subscribers. e SELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting on Tue s “ A a j t Ad th Workhouse Committee reported that no patient - - . 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- . . 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 Maule, at Gloucester, on Tuesday se'nuight. 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 denie&him in that city. N GHAM AND Ox - gono RAILWAY.—MOZLEY s resumed on Tuesday, in the Vice LSTON. - gave judgment _ a Court. H was (he said,) quite cler such, a proceeding in E duced a ballot for four directors, and the consequence nz 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 Honour _ that there of 'ebruary last Is would have - pro- meetings over mitt over again, wuen me eincieney 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 canacitv had not been made a party to. it. There was no substanbal difference laetween an act of mischievousness and as injurious p a ssiveness on the part of the company. The conduct of the directors was the foundation of the complaint, and the inertness of the company wl son for coming to the court for relief. With ref what was urged that the proper reliet might be had upon The never-fitiling effects of Blair's Gout and a mandamus, his Honour said the court was not going to • curing every description of Gout and Rbe' ll y iniet determine what course should be taken for the purpose of have secured to them a celebrity unequalled by P io 1 1,0 appointing proper directors. The bill only asked to re- eine of past or present times. They not only goof strain the present directors from acting ; and that was a in a few hours, where the patient has been drive!.. l , o e,,o species of negative relief which it was competent for the madness by the excruciating tortures of this cli;.` t s ho euo ti th e court to give, although it might not be able to carry out restore to perfect health in an inconceivably the general provisions of the act. The demurrer must be time. They are equally speedy and certain in Rb os O f fer, overruled. — On Wednesday, Mr. Bethell, on behalf of either chronic or acute, lumbago, sciatica, t e e A P the plaintiffs, moved for an injunction to restrain the head or. face, and indeed for every rheumatic or z, ct es sep of defendants (the twelve directors of the Birmingham and tion :in fact, such has been the rapidity, Per fe to rdsb,„ Oxford Junction Railway) from acting as such directors complete safety of this medicine, that it LAS to„ sc iea t until the hearing of the cause. The facts were the same who have taken it ; and there is scarcely a c l l r ten i dici' . as those stated on the demurrer. The motion was likely village in the kingdom but contains many to occupy the court for s ome ti me . deuces of its benign i n fluences. SW, " FRACAS ARISING OUT OF AN ASSIZE CASE.—A singu- venders. Price 2s. 6d. per box, Obsrrve tile 5 , har correspondence, arising out of an indictment, tried at "Thomas Prout, 220, Strand ! Loudon,' °° the Anglesey ,Assizes, at Beaunaaris, has been published me* stamp,. Apri lid, The Jar in With lai 0 30, lot hours. S a co 7.h ri e l p 1 et , Tal T; Marian', C. S. Su Londtm Caledon Romp, Mary; i Ja6;:ritif Hulda Fyf Gee, Jonge Clemens Alice HI Elizabet 'on Shore.BRIST casks of ti "veen St. arrived h€ ynxict t awe, at • SmYnN eighteen.: vessel 6; *930 ) on Thom SAILE D "onnone' Afi B Ariad ne eir lisldwi ifa - ,:u; Z ilLoLisbc ',slrafienfrill atore 44d Qu 'Oek e ;:evifom tinges °1 COrITICCk, ,„ohn 4.ondon, Ca mini a ril, in Carl tai Care January. Import Cotinte at,Baltim fo r A exv Area e u AiEw 9 2 -. on 5h,...9 9 r ° U, Oil te Vess toiled Is Meicie; Cesar, I shepheri PQnn C shire. Rival Th e l l ' kat°, n `"' 1,,!i!n0 q ua l oaner Merlin que en I , Q 4°r ia, tii Charl od ° t o n . or ! ; tnthe 4 9_rk. t ne (i t t e rday n )urnt to hayed, ar HAyAI Went on Itidde - 1 ; 4! &Ben -68. Vi (lost on t tj• E. pas med in sa Water inYHILA Pool the it. 37' tija t ti e. f ou rfiorld : 4 4 diart ttriee ko Rh eBor ka, 21 Rt a4°V hrld f . l ‘iat I:t4 r rt hp tql t i i, ;; )1 11 Al 3 - 43 .tt y, J a P., " 8 1 atitaAincie, 11,"i 6tf, br hei l : tg eY B rie ( p . ' 5 1?1), 1 e Al4 a n Uhl C hili 04 1. r 0f ;: , 1 11 t D °ol Y(,t N the'enial Aereaf 404-4'li op s Rost !?t,hl,,V r e e fro m bete Ai t Le fever be taken into f Mount-pleasant, but through the garden`fro m ' J - l it the hill, in ord er t o rece i ve the patients, send ° . dead bodies in as qu i e t and delicate a. : and manner. as P —Dr. Thomas Inman sent in his resignation of honor medical officer of the. Workhouse, and a vote of thank` 1 t r., mm, f o ,. bi. ‘-.1.,.h1 ossible , Ink man, (Recto e communication from 01 to the removal of sick paupers to th e workhouse. Mr. Dowling suggested that proper vehiel,e , for the conveyance of the sick ought to be provided ill the parish, for that recently a man and his four chil dren had been turned out of their dwelling, in Scotland-pla ce ; in consequence of one of the children having caught ti),l fever, and that that unfortunate child had been suffer to remain in the street all night. Mr. Dowling fill:P le a observed that the police were often obliged to carry le‘'„ patients in their arms up Brownlow-hill, and in this Mat e per they were brought into immediate contact w ith t' d infection.—Mr. Riding said there was a van always Ic e d '', at the workhouse, which the poor might obt a i n by 5 0 a t mg for it, and that the parish could n o t be e x pected, 'Of to keep horses and vehicles for' the use a , rts of the town.—The Chairman observ e .,,i ". Mayor, he should state the 1 1 workhouse. and that if ;e great expense the sick in all his answer to that there was a van at 11 police would pass the word for it, it would aeimmedta , `, n - r sent.—The various Committees were then appointect; the ensuing year.—Prior to the close of the meeting, " . ,4 Riding said the board might petition the Commissioned of Stamps and Taxes, relative to the proposed prevent l .s of the government officers from collecting' the par l e 'j, taxes. It was a very important question, he obsery ' t forward the next boor" and one that would day. AN INCORRIGIBLE.—On Wedncsday, a man wasbrouglik before the magistrates, on a charge of being found dru in the streets. Mr. Parkinson stated that the prisoti v 4 had been before the court more than five hundred time' for the offence of drunkenness. The musical words ag rescunded in his ear—Pined ss. or three days. A MR. DOUGLAS S AND THE B RITISH AND N'ORTH RICAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY.-Mr. Charles M`' l t e i A r t: the Liverpool agent of this comp any , h as wr itt en to t h e London papers, a letter, of w hi c h th e f o ll ow i ng is ,`":4 material part :—" The first time Mr; Frederic DouPt o t saw or met with me was not, as he states, before, after he had agreed with my People to arrange;:neots ' ;,,,,' pecommodation for his passage on board the C9;Di,uit'he ,d no d: Mr. Douglass had no conversation whate%, with me, except in the presenceof three, or four other rej dividuals, and the whole point of my remarks amoun t be b e to this,—that he (Mr. Douglass), when coming frond „ United States. some months ago, in the same vessel ( t of f Cambria,) as a steerage passenger, wad invited by soioe tb e the cabin passengers to enter th e sa l oon , an d wag cause, whether intentionally or unintentionally 00 o f, part, of producing by the obs erva ti ons he ma de usebo serious disturbances on b oar d, w hi c h required the autd rity of the captain to qu e ll, i n or d er t o restore peace e-» safety. Under these c i rcums t ance s, I told Mr. Dougl,# l . that had be not entered into the arrangements w hich j been completed, I should undoubtedly have con sider s my my duty to require of him, before allowing him to einbP ', fiC a distinct pledge that he would . neither of • him5e1f. , ,.. 4% ,. ti isfaction to me !ontrar merly j occurred. I added, that from the conversation :5 had just taken place between us, it was unnecesnt" , should act or say more upon the subject. I mor e ,told him, that I should have taken the same courEeA his name been John Jones, or anything else instctir Frederic Douglass, or had he been the whitest man l world. These were my words." " ROWLAND RUADSHAW."—" Raby Rattler," a !P; vious work by the same author, is a clever boolq u o judging from the five parts before us, - " Rowland slim" bids fair to rival its predecessor. Its spirtne sketches of the practical'jokes' and somewhat boi sc `~' • manners of the Rite of a provincial town not fo r s4, Manchester, are well concei v ed an d we ll axecuted• land, the hero, is the only son of a widowed ol e ofj apprenticed to a country painter and glazier, W l .,t i cle r mon of his own abilities is anythi ng b u t mo d es t. Inf ,e is possessed of intelligence, t a l en t, an d u n w itting tJ e4 comes the depository o f th e secre t s a all the peoll i ge of town, without betraying his own. Some very dro .. : teed are depiettd in th " Rowiand Brad fire parts ; and if carried on as ( o r w" will deserve the • •popul'r, doubt not he will speedily attain.—West;nihst er ;O:P terly Review, p. 248, for April, 1847.—[Rabb' t ! il i; the work complimented aboye, is now• be l theatres in London, and the songs from which set to music by Mr. Henry Russell.] .