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SPRING. SHE comes at last, the soft, sweet Spring; Once more the birds begin to sing, Again the fragrant flowers fling Their sweetness on the air. The bright waves sparkle on the rills. And blossoms bloom upon the hills ; The air with sweetest music fills, And flowering fields are fair. All blessings on sweet Spring, which brings Such happiness to earthly things, Such joy upon her golden wings, Such blessings in her train. Her face with hope lights up our dreams, And o'er our souls her sweet smile gleams, And we grow glad in her bright beams, For Spring has come again! REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The Poetical Works of William Cowper ; with Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes. By the Rev. George Gilfillan. Edin burgh : James Nichol. The handsome volume before us is the first of Cowper's works, the set being to form two volumes of the elegant Library Edition of the British Poets, published under the editorship of Mr. Gilfillan, the literary Scottish divine. As we have already on repeated occasions remarked, the chief excellences of this edition of the poets consist in a faithfully collated and accurately printed text, a clear legible type, and in every respect a handsomely got-up series, at a rate of cheapness so remarkable, even in these days of cheapness, as to excite surprise. To those advantages must be added the benefit of spirited, though brief, biographical notices of the poets, from the pen of Mr. Gilfillan, a gentleman who, in aid of many other qualifications, brings the fire of a warm enthusiasm to bear upon his ar duous, yet delightful task. His critical powers, originally founded on his admiring enthusiasm, have been matured and trained in the course of an extended study ; and his observations on the style of thought evinced by the numerous authors thus brought within his reach are marked by soundness of judgment and no mean analytical acumen. His biographical narrative, though pointed and balanced, is characterised by fairness, and the events and the chronology he eliminates with painstaking accuracy and pleasing sequence. The Chemistry of Common Life. By James F. W. Johnston M.A. Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons. It would be difficult to conceive a work fraught with more immediate or more general, as well as personal, interest than the one whose title we have just quoted. In its pages Professor Johnston proposes to make us acquainted with the natural history and chemical and physiological qualities of the various kinds of food on which animal and vegetable life are sustained. This information he conveys in a simple, earnest, and highly interesting. manner. Severely scientific intelligence is commu nicated in language as popular and inviting as that which constitutes the charm of fictitious literature; but in his case the reader is made acquainted with useful and abiding practical knowledge. A life long and assiduous course of study has prepared Professor Johnston for imparting to others some portion of those stores of knowledge he has so care fully acquired for himself ; and in addressing him self to the pleasing task he evinces a heartiness of good will and_ an amount of sagacity such as falls to the lot of only few men to possess. The work is so judiciously considered in relation to its ob jects, that, while it will form a manual of house hold economy, it will serve as a guide to the farmer, a light to the artizan, and a text-book to the student. In its pages the cook, the brewer, and the perfumer ; the baker, the housekeeper, and the mechanic, will each and all of them find instruc tion. Index to Familiar Quotations. Liverpool: Walmsley. Mr. Grocott's valuable work of reference on the interesting subject of familiar quotations is now completed, by the publication of the third part, and the whole forms a neat little work of nearly three hundred pages. Its value to the searcher after authorities is still further enhanced by the addition of an alphabetical index, referring to prominent words in each quotation, not used in the alphabetical arrangement, so that there is the advantage of two indexes. We may repeat our suggestion, that the contributions, which the author will no doubt receive from the researches of many friends, may form the materials for a new and enlarged edition, at some future time. The present book will form a nucleus for a highly valuable work of reference, and the thanks of every lover of the beauties of English literature will be readily accorded to Mr. Grocott for his labour of love. A Voice from the Alps ; or the Vaudois Valleys. With Scenes by the way of Lands and Lakes Historically Associated. By the Rev. Joseph D. Smith. Dublin : John Robertson. This little volume presents itself to our notice under varied aspects. The scenes and circum stances of which it treats have been so frequently described and so often referred to, that most readers may be presumed to have at least a partial acquaintance with them. On the other hand, the localities, in addition to the enchantments of na tural beauty, are so associated with events and individuals which have exercised a deathless in fluence over the condition of Protestant Europe, that a narrative of their history, however dull, can never fail to interest. When the scenes them selves come to be delineated by the masterly hand of so artistic an observer as Mr. Smith ; and when their history is sketched by so graphic a chronicler, both acquire an additional interest. Embodying these combined advantages, Mr. Smith's volume will be doubly welcome to those tourists who, as they pass through scenes of unusual beauty and interest, desire to be instantly informed of the most important particulars connected with their present state and past history. The sketches, though rapid, are telling, and bear the impress of truthful delineations. Bla,ckwood's .3fagazine. Edinburgh: Blackwoods. The many stirring events which have lately agitated the political world, and continue to occupy public attention, have met with an ample share of consideration in the present number, which will, no doubt, be read with great interest. The im portant question of the war with Russia is dis cussed with considerable ability, both as to its causes and consequences, and the wretched policy of Lord John Russell, in his abortive Reform Bill, is exposed with crushing effect on the reputation of the minister. The writer compares the two projects of 1852 and 1854, showing their utter inconsistency, and quotes from several articles in the Edinburgh Review the sources of each several proposition which make up the latter bill. The minister is therefore guilty of plagiarism, as well as utter want of principle, and now proposes a measure as the result of his twenty years' experi ence which is manifestly a contradiction of all his previous opinions, and a direct copy from the sug gestions of the Edinburgh Reviewer. The article should be read with attention, but we give the following extract, descriptive of LORD JOHN RUSSELL. We never, at any time, reposed much faith in the judgment or sagacity of Lord John Russell ; and, of late years, our opinion of him, in these respects, has, we con fess, materially declined. We have been, in our own sphere of action, engaged in most of the political struggles which have taken place within the memory of the present generation ; and we trust that these have not passed by without some wholesome lessons. To change of opinion, where honestly induced and through conviction, every . one is bound to be fair and le n i en t • because, undeniably, in our own day there has been a great unravehnent of social questions, a n d mere party prejudice is no longer allowed to be paramount. Perhaps the only living states man of eminence, who cleaves to the i old system, and is Y n inveterate in his addiction to intrigue and what he ca n s 64 tradition," is Lord John Russell. Put him into Utopia, might establish his first thought wo u ld b e how he l'ght es t a bli s h the exclusive supremacy of the Whi gs . He is m uch and so inveterat el y a party man, that he seems so care little what becomes of the country, provided only that he, and his, sit at the receipt of customs. He showed that long a go—not in the days of He—the h t o h t e y l o v a h tl i i g , but in those of his pragmatic Constitutnalist—characterised the opinion of the u house as "t he whisper of a faction and did not disdain the violent and frantic sympathy of mobs, when such demonstrations tended to his own p articular purpose, or aided the ascendancy of his party. Ever since he has pursued the same course. No man can tell when he is in thorough earnest, or when he is not. He invited, by word and deed, Romish aggression ; and, when the ag gression came, he started up at once as an indignant Protestant champion, and flung down his diminutive gauntlet, in the name of Great Britain, to the Pope of Rome And yet, at the bidding of the Irish Romanist Phalanx, we find this second Luther a strenuous supporter of Maynooth, and of the nunneries ! Had his ancestor, John, the first Lord Russell—who in 1 540 and 1550 obtained grants from the Crown of the possessions of the Abbey of Tavistock and the Monastery of Woburn—been equally zealous for the protection of convents, he probably m would have re m • aed, as he was born, an utterly unacred gentleman. Two articles are devoted to the subject of the quarrel with Russia. The first, entitled " The • a n a' r Thlssia," shows that the loss arising from the interruption of com merce would be felt far more severely by Russia than by England, and that while our export trade to Turkey has been gradually improving, that to Russia has been diminishing. It is further shown that, while the exports to Turkey of wholly manu factured articles amounted in 1850 to nearly two millions and a-half, those to Russia were only £140,455, the balance being made up of yarn and machinery for the supply of the Russian manufac turers. A second article is devoted to " The Blue Books and the Eastern Question," and a third is entitled " The Cost of the Coalition Ministry." It proves by the undoubted testimony of the corres pondence which has recently been published that the dispute, which is now likely to embroil the whole of Europe in war, is wholly and solely attri butable to the insincerity of the Premier, and the differences of opinion in the Cabinet ; so that the country is paying a frightfully extravagant price for the Coalition Ministry. Referring to the events which have taken place, and the dangers which threaten, the writer asks who is to blame for all this, and answers— THE COALITIOX MINISTRY. Had they been of one accord among themselves, nothing of this kind would have happened. If Lord Aberdeen had been sole and supreme master in his Cabinet, it is possible that Russia might have succeeded in acquiring a protec torate over Turkey. The Sultan could hardly have attempted to resist without powerful European aid ; and France, had she found Britain lukewarm or indifferent, could not be expected to come forward as the defender of the balance of power without a single ally. No doubt, had this occurred, it would have given Russia a most dan gerous preponderance in Europe, and probably necessitated a future struggle ; but, in the meantime, there would have been no war. Had the Cabinet been under the guidance of Palmerston or Russell, the first advances of the Em peror, if made at all, would have been met by a distinct and peremptory refusal, and by a threat which would have effectually deterred him from moving a step further. But, unfortunately—most unfortunately for us, and for our children, and for the general peace of Europe,—this is not a united Cabinet. It is a congregation of men holding totally opposite opinions —bred up in adverse schools — adhering to antagonistical traditions influenced by jealousy among themselves—and unable, upon any one important point, whether it relates to foreign or domestic policy, to arrive at a common conclusion. Take the case now before us. But for Palmerston and Russell, and their other adherents in the Cabinet, Lord Aberdeen might have established the principle of non-interference between Russia and Turkey, and there would have been no war. But for Lord Aberdeen and his adherents, Palmerston and Russell might have checked the designs and met the over tures of the Czar, by declaring at once that they would not suffer him to send a single soldier across the Pruth, and that if he persisted in his design, they would invite the co-operation of France, and defend Turkey to the uttermost, and in that case also there would have been no war. But the Cabinet was split into two, if not three, parties ; and the adoption of a middle course, of feeble dissuasion, unaccompanied by any hint of ulterior conse quences, but rather couched in terms of extreme and unworthy subserviency, deceived the Czar, encouraged him to proceed,— and now war is all but declared, and our fleet is riding in the Baltic. * * * Let those who shudder at the cost at least know to whom the cost is due. We are now paying, and are likely to pay for a long time to come, for the privilege of having a Coalition Ministry. The magazine is not, however, wholly devoted to serious questions. " The Quiet Heart " is con tinued in the same attractive style which induced many readers to commence its perusal. There is also an interesting article on " The Puppets of All Nations," and an ably-written essay on fine-art fallacies, entitled " Chronological curiosities : what shall we collect ?" We may also allude to a review of a recently-published work on wanderings among the various Arab Tribes of the African Sahara. Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. London : Chapman and Hall. The April number of the New Monthly com pletes the hundredth volume of the Magazine ; and, by the fulfilment of its tenth decade, recals to memory a crowd of reminiscences connected with those mighty dead, whose brightness of intellect has shed a lustre over its pages. Prominently among the great departed the finely attempered genius of Campbell claims a passing tribute ; the regulated, yet enduring brilliancy—the glowing imagery and refined taste which pervade the Minstrelsy of " Wyoming"—the spirited and chivalrous strains of " Lochiel"—the nervous energy and heroic daring of the " Mariners of England"— the thril ling pathos of the " Baltic ode," and the mysteri ous and awe-inspiring boldness of " The Last Man," are too dazzling and too generally recog nised to require more remark from us than simply to allude to their author's long and intimate con nexion with the periodical before us. Between him and the last of its gifted contributors, whom the sickle of death has reaped and garnered in the general harvest, many names of renown might easily be placed ; but we shall feel content with mere allusion to the last, the late Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, who for many years was an extensive writer in its pages. The present number of the Magazine contains a brief, but interesting, resume of his connexion withit,from the pen of Cyrus Redding, a gifted co-labourer in the same literary field. The memorial paper concludes with the annexed : PANEGYRIC ON MB. JUSTICE TALPOURD, AND ORSERVA- TIONS ON HIS DEATH. This highly-endowed, excellent, kindly man is no more. He pleased living, because all the world believed in his sincerity : death put a seal to his high character. He has departed, having kept up his reputation to the last. He cannot change now, fall off, and forfeit our esteem. He cannot cause a retractation of our opinions, lessen our regard for his memory, or exhibit unkindly feeling, so opposite to his former nature : action with him is no more. How wonderful was his change from vigorous life and strength to insensibility and decay ! It was an appalling moment when, in his solemn professional robes, he was uck sud denly down before a crowded auditory, listening to his address in the very sanctuary of justice, the attention at once drawn from the speech to the speaker; in the twink ling of an eye, the lips unfolding the line of public duty changed to the quiver of instantaneous dissolution ; the flush of animation to the pallor of death ; the flexile muscle to rigidity ; the fixed foot to helpless prostration. I remember no parallel case in our law courts. Hope might mitigate, skill procrastinate, and both lighten a coming mortality ; but this was a scene of irreparable privation. Never was the utter helplessness of our nature more trans parent—never has the pride of the living received a more humiliating lesson in the midst of the most exalted duties. To the above observations we shall offer no addition ; they are sufficiently impressive to arrest and gratify attention, and we shall not risk the likelihood of weakening by attempting to amplify them. The character of the New Monthly, as a magazine of light literature, and of dramatic and artistic criticism, has long been extensive as well as high ; and we are glad to see it still deserves the reputation it has acquired in these departments. It opens with the commencing chapters of the fifth part of an English tale, called ' The Flitch of Bacon, or the Custom of Dunmow," by W. H. Ainsworth, the editor ; it contains likewise a paper on the " Prospects of Art in England," in which a good deal of rational opinion is mixed up with arguments of a doubtful character. The writer takes it for granted that art must look for its true patrons among the middle classes, and laments the defective knowledge they display in connexion with it ; he might have added, and the false taste they also manifest regarding it : but we cannot concur in the conclusion inferentially drawn, that the mid dle classes of ancient Greece and Rome, or of mediaeval Italy, were more highly cultured than those of our own day. The teachings of history lead us inevitably to the conclusion that in those halcyon days of art, as in the present, its patrons were the educated and affluent few, not the busy and comparatively necessitous many. That the middle classes may not ultimately become the great patrons of English art, we do not mean to question; what we contend for is, that our middle classes are at the least equal in intellectual culture to the middle classes of those days, when art achieved its highest triumphs. Among the light literature of the num ber is an admirable jeu d' esprit, ridiculing the self-imposed Quaker Mission to the Czar ; it is called " Mr. Jolly Green's Account of the Peace Deputation to St. Petersburg," in which that gross intrusion of humbug into the business of the world is happily quizzed. Mr. Jolly Green is represented as a gentleman actuated by shallowness, impudence, and self-conceit, sufficient to entitle him to a vice presidency, at least, in the Peace Society ; he is invited by Henry Beans, of Birmingham, to join with him and Obadiah Starch, of Bullock Smithy, to join the Peace Mission to the Czar, and forth they sally. The narrative of their journey and adventures is given with much satirical spirit, as will be readily guessed from the statement of their THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER RECEPTION BY THB EMPEROR - Nicholas the First, Emperor of all the Russias—(Blue, Black, Brown, Green, Orange, and Red, as he delights to style himself)—is a fine-looking man, rather taller, I think, than myself, and, allowing for the difference which costume makes, nearly as soldier-like in his bearing. I was dressed in the simple habit of a Friend, whereas he had on a dark-green military frock (I guessed why), sur mounted by a large pair of epaulettes, a regulation sword by his side (very likely one of Prosser's), and a waist-belt of crimson and gold, with tassels like Brobdignag bell-pulls. What his legs were like I could not tell, as they were encased in jack-boots, the originals of those whose por traits I saw at Valmar, but I question if they would have shone through a pink silk stocking like some I could men tion that have flashed at the L—vee, before the eyes of Q—een V—ct—r—a! His Majesty, as we entered, rose from his throne izt an a d n p d ut b ti i n n g din do g wn a book he was reading it (which was shaped like an(feasromy -e t h h a e ir s ) must, I fancy, have been one of " Field's Half-Guinea Velvet Church Services"), took off his helmet and made MC low bow, Not to be backward iu courtesy, I re turned his salute with three of my most graceful obeisances, taking ground first to the right, then to the left, and then back again to the centre, with a rapidity to which few drab-gaitered limbs are accustomed. I then drew myself up to my full height, advanced my left leg, poising myself well on my right, and roused my faculties for the approaching Conference. I ought to have men tioned that an orderly officer stood in a cowering attitude on the Czar's left hand, and that there was a lofty screen behind the throne. Friends Bean and Starch took up a position in line of my rear. Having thus made myself master of the situation, I cleared my voice, and taking my own Address from my pocket, read as follows : (Secret and Confidential.) "Friend Nicholas,—l, the undersigned, leader of a deputation representing the Society of Friends (commonly called ' Muffs' in Great Britain), have the pleasure of making Thy Majesty's acquaintance. lam encouraged to do so from the countless proofs of affection bestowed upon certain members of our Society by Th Majesty's exem plary grandmother, the Empress Catherine, whose favourites were so numerous and so highly respectable." I paused at the close of this sentence to observe the effect of my gallant allusion to that great ornament of the Russian female sex. The Czar, whose countenance is naturally stern, waved his hand (in token of approval), and I proceeded : "The Founder of the race of Friends, of whom I am the worthy representative, was the celebrated John Knox, from whom I have inherited the mild spirit of pugnacity which animates me,—and my excellent allies, Henry Beans and Obadiah Starch" (I thought I might as well bring them in, and pointed to them over my shoulder, without raising my head), " whom I beg to introduce to Thy Majesty. Being in the habit of giving our opinion, whether we are asked for it or not (as Thy Majesty may be aware if Thee hast read the speeches delivered by Friend Blight whenever he can find au audience), the Deputation, on whose part I have the honour to appear, beg to inform Thee that, to use a familiar phrase (une phrase familire), Thee hast decidedly put Thy foot in it, in Thy quarrel with the Ottoman Porte. Thee hast already shown Thy teeth ; nevertheless, believing that Thy bark is worse than Thy bite, we come to tell Thee to draw in Thy horns. Men of Peace, like Thyself, we wish Thee no harm, but if Thee provokest us to battle, of a verity we will pitch into Thee (phrase familiere) `hip and thigh with a great slaughter.'" Having rounded off this neat quotation, I resumed, — no longer reading from the Address, but improvising from the stores of my own mind, and speaking in my own diplomatic person. " The Turkish dispute, Sire," I observed, " had, as your Majesty must admit, a very ridiculous origin. If my memory serves me rightly, it began with a quarrel about the key of the private door to a chapel-of-ease in Jerusa lem. Prince Menschikoff wished to have it, that he might go in when he liked to preach to the Jews in Greek ; Count Lavalette (who knew what it was to be under lock and key himself, having made his escape some years ago from the Bastile) was desirous of doing the same in Latin. A tussle consequently took place in the streets of Pera, when your Majesty's Ambassador got the worst of it. Queen Anne's broken teapot was the cause of the battle of Blenheim : the lost key to the back door to the Jeru salem Chapel will, I fear, involve your Majesty in a second Moscow. It is to relieve Europe from her present embarrassment that I have taken this matter in hand. And now for the remedy which I propose. This pocket book, Sire," I continued, drawing one forth, " which your Majesty will observe is made of real Russia leather, contains that which appeals with resistless force to the hearts and homes of every Englishman. It is the type of their domestic character, an emblem of their firmness of purpose, and a guarantee for the straightforwardness of their conduct. In the cause of Peace I depose it at the feet of your Majesty." Suiting the action to the word I stepped gracefully forward, and bending on one knee, with my other leg thrown well backward, a la Rosati, I placed the pocket book in front of the Czar's left toe. I then recovered myself with a nimble spring, performing an entre-chat as I did so, and awaited the issue of my negotiation. The Emperor, who seemed deeply moved by my words, and said something in Russian to his aide s -de-camp, who stooped for the pocket-book, and placed it in his Imperial master's own hands. Trembling with eagerness his Majesty opened it, and took out something carefully wrapped in silver paper. He tore off the envelope, and was rewarded by the sight of MY OWN LATCH-KZ'I !! What sound was it which at that moment reached my ears resembling the hysterical laughter of a tortured female ? Could it be that the bowstring was already at work within the very precincts of the Imperial Harem ? I looked round hastily, and, unless my excited fancy deceived me, distinctly saw a woman's head peeping out from behind the screen at the back of the Emperor's throne. If that face seemed to reveal the convulsed lineaments of the slighted Czarina, let the secret remain entombed in the breast of Jolly Green ! That no sus picion might attach in the marital quarter, I withdrew my ardent gaze from the screen and placed it upon the Emperor, whose features were flushed by strong emotion. The iron force of my logic had entered his soul ! It was time to bring this exciting scene to a close, and I there fore turned to the last paragraph of the Address, which I read in a manly tone : " Thus, 0 mighty Prince, may the miseries and devas tations of war be averted. We wish Thee a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (old style), and are Thy reepeeted Friends "JOLLY GREEN OF LONDON, " HENRY BEANS OF BIRMINGHAM, " OBADIAH STARCH OF BULLOCK SMITHY." The paper concludes with their very unceremo nious expulsion from the Russian territory, and a declaration of war against the tyrant by Mr. Jolly Green, whose verdancy and impudence of character is admirably sustained throughout. The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin James M`Glashan. This periodical continues to manifest the same masculine energy which has characterised and adorned it throughout a long and. honourable career. The present number opens with an able paper on the war, now about to commence in earnest, and which, in its progress, is likely to shake several European thrones, and may overwhelm their dynasties. It concludes with an article on " British Rule in India," in which some of the remote con tingencies of that war are reviewed with sagacity and contemplated with courage. Between these warlike extremes, we have papers distinguished by various characters of excellence. Two of these deserve especial notice ; the- first, " A concluding Visit to the Dramatic Gallery of the Garrick Club," from the pen of our old friend and favourite, J. W. Calcraft, in which the whimsies and vicissitudes of theatrical life are portrayed with spirit and good taste : the other, " A fresh Start in the Gold Fields of Discovery," in which a rapid and excellent recapitulation is made of what may be termed the resting - points in the world's history, physical, moral, and religious. The number is also enriched with about its usual amount of the literature of fiction, snatches of capital poetry ; and it is, in fact,. an excellent literary and political miscellany. Kidd's Own Journal. London : Groombridge. Like the beauties of nature, to which this work is more especially devoted, each number comes before us fresh as the sweet spring, and redolent of its various charms. Among the contents of the one just published, we may notice articles on the bee, the sweet violet and primrose, insect life, the sunflower, the beauties of Devonshire, life of a tame squirrel, anecdotes of dogs, and numerous pieces of pleasing poetry. Its character is well maintained, and there are few periodicals which should prove more welcome to young people, or which may be so safely entrusted to their perusal. Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg. The April number of this periodical is a good one. It contains an admirable article on the " Geology of the Crystal Palace," another on "Eastern Travel," and "Memoranda by a Marine Officer," besides miscellaneous essays of various grades and qualities. The Universal Library. Part 30. Crabbe's Tales. London -: Nathaniel Cooke. Few collections of modern poetry have met with a wider or more deserved popularity than Crabbe's Tales ; in this issue they are printed in an elegant form, and at so cheap a rate as to bring them within reach of even the humblest reader. Like its predecessors, the present part of the Universal Library is beautifully printed and tastefully illus trated. GOOD RESOLUTIONS are like fainting ladies—they want to be carried out. A PosT asks us a number of questions, which we have not time to answer. He commences thus What feathered songster's matin lay is worthiest of esteem? To which we unhesitatingly reply, the hen's. DISPARITY OF AGE IN MARRIAGES.—Mahomet's first wife, Kadijah, was at least 40 when he, at the age of 25, married her. Shakspeare's Ann Hathaway was seven years his senior. Dr. Johnson's wife was literally almost double his age. The wife of Lord Herbert of Cherbury was six or seven years older than her lord. Sir Thomas More's wife was also seven years older than her husband. Howard, the philanthropist, at the age of 26, married a first wife who was then 52. The Countess D'Ossoli (Miss Fuller) was nearly ten years her husband's senior. Jenny Lind, too, is said to be eight or ten years older than Herr Goldschmidt. THE AFTER DINNER SPEECH AT THE IMPROVEMENT CLlTB.—(Reported literally by Punehd—Well—now— myhonangallan fren'—S' Charles Napier 's goin, t' th' Baltic. Why's S'Charlesnapier g oin' sh' th' Baltic ? Tell you why's goin' to Balt—hie ! 's goin' to give Zemparussia dusagood srash'n. (Loud cheerin.) Slues why S'Charl' Snapier's go Charley in' sh' Baltic (" Brayvo, I") Shomeshay we're norrawar. Norrawar ! Hashha ! No ! Norrawar ! Noshexactly awar. But myhonangallan fren"clar' war as soon as get in a Baltic. Get into Baltic give my honannangal fren"shority to clar' war. (Vociferous cheers.) Leave evryshing to my honangallan fren.' Only lem get safeintobaltic. Zshen you'll see ! You'll she'm versoon bring Zshempra Nich'las to's senses. Blow sh' old vagabon's navy 'boutisears like skyrocks wildfire Guyfawkes Houseacommons an Fifshano vem b a . (T umu ltuous applause.) Zshenl'men, here's all your vehgood heats ! I beggapard'n — here's my honangal'n fren's sbjolly goo' health ! " For ho's a jolly good fellow," &c. (Chorus by the whole of the corm. pany, ami4 • ', ' ' -•- ' drableti dowTO CHESHIRE AND WALES. THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER entertained the Judges of Assize—Mr. Justice Williams and Mi. Justice Crompton —aud a select party to dinner at the Palace, on Thursday. Run- Gums, housekeeper at Kinmel-park, and who formerly served the Earl of Sefton in the same capacity, was tried last week, at the Denbigh assizes, for larceny. She was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. _ hIRKEEREAD FERRY RECEIPTS.—The following state ment was read at the meeting of Birkenhead Commis sioners, on Tuesday : Receipts during March, 1853 Ditto ditto 1854 ' Total receipts from 24th April, 1852, to March 31, 1853 £20,117 15 1 Ditto ditto 1853 to 1854 Total expenditure from 24th April, 1853, to 30th March, 1854, including the new boat 20,943 19 5 SHREWSBURY AND CREWE RAILWAY.—Zr. Gill, of Weston, and other gentlemen employed by the London and North-western Railway, have received instructions to commence immediately the purchase of lands required for the Shrewsbury and Crewe Railway, in order to facili tate the progress of the works. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for the week ending 2nd April, 1854, was as follows : Passengers, parcels, &c., per railway, £2049 ls. 6d.; steam-boats, £324 ls. Ild. ; total, £2373 3s. 5d.: goods, £1437 Os. 7d.: total, including Carnarvon traffic, per rail, £3486 2s. ld. ; steam-boat, £324 Is. 11d. Cor responding week last year, per rail, £3175 17s. 3d. ; steam-boat, £228 9s. Od. Increase, £405 17s. 9d. PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM. —The workpeople employed by Price's Patent Candle Company, not only in their extensive works in London, but also in those in course of construction at Bromborough Pool, on the banks of the Mersey, have voluntarily agreed to pay each a halfpenny per week towards the support of the wives and children of soldiers engaged in the Eastern war. DEATH Or - Lonn MOSTTN.—The Right Hon. Edward Pryce Lloyd, Baron Mostyn, died on Monday, the 3rd instant, at Pengwern, near St. Asaph. He is succeeded in his title and estates• by his son, the Hon. Edward Mostyn Lloyd Mostyn, M.P. for the county of Flint. A vacancy in the representation of Flintshire is caused by the elevation of Mr. Mostyn to the peerage. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK WALL.—The trustees of the Birkenhead Docks received, at their adjourned meeting, on Wednesday, a report from their engineer, detailing the cause of the late accident at the river dam. This report differs in no material respect from what has already been made public. It contains, however, an undertaking on the part of the contractors to bear the entire responsibility as well of replacing the dam as of the cost of the fallen one ; and further, that the water shall be excluded from the tidal basin by the Ist of July next. In the meantime the delay consequent upon the accident is in no way to interfere with the progress of the river walls. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS' ACT.—Charles James, a master chimney-sweeper, at Birkenhead, was summoned before the magistrates on Thursday, on a charge of send ing. his son, under ten years of age, up the chimney of Mr. Josiah Baxley, of South-bank, Orton. He was ordered to pay a fine of £5, and in default of payment committed to gaol for twenty-one days. EXECUTION AT SICREWSBERT.—On Friday John Lloyd, convicted of the murder of John Gating, a blacksmith, at the village of Nescliff, eight miles from Shrewsbury, was executed in front of the gaol of that town. It will be re collected that the deceased, while sitting in his kitchen, was shot by Lloyd, a quarrel having previously taken place, during which the deceased accused Lloyd of having been too intimate with his wife. The convict confessed his guilt, and was very penitent. BIRKENHEAD ComussiorrEns--The monthly meeting was held at the rooms, Hamilton-square, on Tuesday, Mr. Green, the chairman, presiding. There were present Messrs. Gough, Curry, Storey, Henderson, Whittingbans, Bradley, Bailiff, Willoughby, and Holme. The proceedings of the Watch, Health, and Market Committees were read and confirmed In those of the first- was included a recom mendation for the erection of a dead-house at the junction of Cleveland-street and Bridge-street, at an estimated, expense of £5O or £.60. The road and improvement corn , mittee recommended that three months' notice to quit the refreshment-room in the park should be given to Mr: Gough, and that the room be advertised to be let ; that the nursery ground in the park should be cleared of rub bish ; and that permission should be given to Mr. Meakin,. sub-contractor for the new dock works ; under Messrs. Brassey and Co., to cross the Corporation road with their rails at several points-specified, to take clay from. the high lands for use at the dock works. The proceedings were confirmed. The Finance Committee, in reference to an application from the Birkenhead Cricket Club;. for a reduc tion of rent to £5, recommended a reduction to £7 10s. WALLASEY BOARD OF HEALTH.—The monthly meet ing was held on Thursday, at the Queen's Arms Hotel, Liscard. Present :—Messrs. Penny (in the- chair), Hill, Ball, Coulborn, Pooley, Crump, Wilson, Odell, Lawrence, and Beausire. The clerk intimated that there were-no proceedings of the health committee, and the watch and bye-law committee had never met, being unable to obtain the number of members required to form a quorum—A conversation took place upon the• subject, and. Mr. Pooley animadverted in strong terms on the conduct of the com mittees in not meeting for business, charging them with. neglect of their duties.. Mr. Hillsuggested the desirability of having weekly meetings of the board, instead of com mittees at all. The Chairman said that unless they could come to some better system of organization, they would fail in carrying out the provisions -of the act. Mr. Pooley submitted a motion to the effect that the immediate at tention of the watch and bye-law committee be•requestea to the subject of the disorderly conduct on the shore, more especially on Sundays. The motion was seconded by Mr. Hill, and adopted unanimously. The Chairitan stated that, as regarded an alteration in the postal communica tion of the township, the matter was-under the considera tion of the postal authorities, and; an answer might be shortly expected. The Law-clerk said that the summary of the receipts and expenditure or the• township for nine months, ending the 25th March last had: been prepared, for-the purpose of being audited. The receipts amounted t0p£2237 65., and there had been expended £1262 17s. 5d., leaving a balance of £994 Bs. 7d. The Law-clerk was in structed to apply to the Birkenheadtdock trustees relative to , proceeding as early as possible with-the sewer between Seacombe . ferry and the Birkenhea&docks. A letter com plaining of the dangerous state or the coastway at the Seacombe slip was referred to the. surveyor. The Law clerk intimated that a communication had been received from the general board of health, stating that the term for the existence of the Nuisance Removal Act was to be ex tended to six months longer. The• question as to holding the- monthly meeting at Egremont, instead of at the Queen's Arms, was again raised. Mr. Coulborn moved that a certain portion of the resolPfibn passed at the last meeting, negativing a proposition made to hold the meet ings at Egremont, be rescinded. The speaker went into a history of the question, urging the same grounds for a removal which had been previously advanced. Mr. Pooley seconded the motion. Mr. Odell objected, contending i that it was a farce to remove to Egremont, and incur an extra expenditure, without having proportionate accom modation. Mr. Hill also opposed the motion, arguing that they should remain where th e y were un til they had offices of their own. Ultimately,. Mr. Coulborn withdrew his motion. A committee was. appointed to consider and report on the subject Of removing to new offices, the mem bers of it being Messrs. Odell, Pooley, Hill, Coulborn, and the Chairman. Instructions were given to the clerk to issue notices requiring persons within a given period,. to pave, flag, sewer, &c., in conformity with the provisions of the Health Act. After the transaction of some routine. business, the board adjourned. OUB PLACE IN PROPREICY.—On Tuesday evening, a lecture on this important subject was given by Dr. Cum ming, of London, in the School-room of Christ Church, Claughton. The chair was taken by the Rev. Dr. Blake ney, and a highly respectable audience filled the room. The lecturer prefaced his address by calling attention to the prophecies in Scripture which refer to the stirring times in which we live. He observed that dates have been given for the past, and therefore they may also be taken for the future, as already testified by the time fixed. for the Israelites being in Egyptian bondage—the cap tivity of the Jews—the advent of our Lord, foretold in the three-score and two weeks prophesied by Daniel. It was not, therefore, unfair to presume that some dim shadow will also be given of the second advent of the Messiah. Daniel says the Little Horn shall have the saints given into his hands 1260 days, or prophetic years. The same is mentioned in the Book of Revelations, with reference to the Two Witnesses, who should prophesy 1260 years. The great western apostasy was the power which should wear out the saints. The church which existed ibr 1200 years was not the true church—the true church commenced on Mount Calvary, and was always a Protestant church. The 1260 years began when the Popish church reached its greatest height. In 532 the Papal power developed itself. It closed in 1793. The Papal power was then to be consumed—destroyed by " The brightness of His coming." In 1793 infidel and Christian men, of every sort of religion, assailed the Papists, and the Pope was soon afterwards carried as a puppet by Napoleon to France. In the Bth chapter of Daniel the Little Horn is mentioned—at the end of 2,300 years it was to be destroyed—in other words the river Euphrates should be dried up to mak e wa y f or th e L or d' s people. This is admitted to refer to Mahomedanism ; and is fulfilled by the progressive Medo.Persian empire. The year 430 B.C.—the time of Xerxes, was the time men tioned as the commencement, and by calculation the con clusion was the year 1820. If that be correct we should consider that the river Euphrates, the place from whence the Turks originally came, should begin to be dried up. In that year (1820), Ali Pasha revolted against the Sultan —the Greeks also and the Crimea followed in revolution; in 1827 the Sultans fleet was destroyed —soon afterwards the Russians crossed the Balkan ; a n d i n 1832 th e R ev. Mr. Walsh noticed that "in the last twenty years Turkey lost half of her popillation." At this moment, in Turkey, as Lamartine says, "Turkey is dying for want of Turks." There are now nine millions of Christians in Turkey, and only three millions of Turks. He saw a m i g h ty dynasty springing forth — a Christian dynasty —emerging from the ruins of Mahommetamsm ; and th e reason o f the Czar s t e pping in was, seize Constanti no pl e w hil e i t was seizable, that it might be a gem in his diadem, whilst he also was throwing dust in the eye s of E ng l and and France. Just at the close of this dispensation, (as our Lord says,) the " budding of the fig-tree" shows that the end is at hand. The fig-tree (which represented the Jews) is now budding, it feels the warmth of the approachi ng s p r i ng, w hich will s hortly bring forth everla s ti ng bloom. He next alluded to the vain boastings of Babyl on , t es tifi e d the pomp o f Cardinal Wiseman, and th e cur i ous pheno menon called a Puseyite. he described the hitter as missing the right thing, at the same time being i n earnes t about what he was doing. I n th e 38t h chapter of Ezekiel we have the daily progress of the Autocrat of R uss i a de s c r ibed as if the prophet were now alive, and "setting his face" against " Mesheck and Tubal, the Princes of the North," who should "think an e v il th oug ht , " an d "go against the unwalled villages." He hoped that Eng land's heart was sound to the core, and would shine out and Dr. Butler, who sat on the lecturer's still brighter, in spite of Popish aggression. Even if we did not attempt to convert the Papists, down must come the PavacY right, indicated the fact that men of learning were prompted to " come out of her," and join the Protestant church. The concluding portion of the lecture was given with gr e a t emphasis, and thrilli ng afoot, an d was wQII received by the 01144e4get A LARGE VESSEL.—Mr. Cram, of Chester, has now on the stocks, at his works, Sandycuff, on the Dee, a vessel for Messrs. C. Moore and Co., of Liverpool. The follow ing are her dimensions :—Length, about 250 feet; beam, 42 ditto ; depth of hold, 28 ditto. She will register about 2,300 tons, and have a capacity for carrying about 5,000 tons of general cargo. ALLEGED LETTER STEALING.—At the Chester assizes, on Monday, John Worrall was indicted for secreting a letter containing money, at Birkenhead, the property of the postmaster-general, on the 13th of December, 1853. Mr. Wilkin said the post-office had determined not to prosecute in this case. The judge said he was of opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to convict, and ordered the man to be discharged. EASTRAM FERRY.—In addition to the substantial pier, which is now complete, and will allow of the easiest land ing at all times, Mr. Nicholl has started an elegant new boat, called the " Eastham Fairy." She is a Clyde-built boat, of remarkable speed, doing the distance easily in twenty minutes. Already many hundreds have been tempted by the beauty of the weather to visit this most delightful spot on the banks of the Mersey ; and for the first time we have had an opportunity of seeing the beau tiful woods and ornamental grounds in their vernal costume, in which they now appear most charmingly. ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The opening dinner of the season took place at Birkenhead on Tuesday last. The commodore, Thomas Littledale, Esq., presided. J. B. Lloyd, Esq., the mayor attended ; and the officers and members mustered strongly. About eight o'clock, p.m., the members proceeded to business. Mr. Shaw Petty, of Belfast, was elected; and several other candidates for membership were proposed. The committees were consti tuted as follows : —Sailing Committee : The officers, ex officio, and Messrs. W. Lord, R.N., J. Grindrod, T. E. Moss, J. C. Ewart, T. Birchall, T. Bourne, and S. R. Graves.—Prize Committee: Besides the officers, Messrs. J. G. Woodhouse, W. H. Moss, and F. Peel. —Stewards : Messrs. F. Peel, W. Lord, R.N., J. C. Fernihough, W. H. Moss, J. B. Case, H. B. Molyneux, J. A. Tobin, H. Enid son, J. Okell, and H. Schwabe. CHESTER ASSIZES.—Mr. Frost, of Macclesfield, sued Mr. Pritchard, of Manchester, for a libel, and a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 40s. was returned. The great case of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail way v. the Shrewsbury and Chester, in which a claim of £20,000 was made, and which, it is said, would have lasted a fortnight, was referred to a gentleman at the bar, with power to refer a special verdict.—Francis Sandars was tri for the manslaughter of Colonel Gordon, and acquitted, there being no sufficient proof that death was occasioned by the violence of the prisoner. NEW CHURCH AT TRANMERE.—A very respectable meeting of the residents of Tranmere took place on Thursday, in the new school-room, Limekiln-lane, for the purpose of inspecting the plans (prepared by Mr. Hay) of the proposed new church for the district, and to receive the report of the building committee. Amongst the gen tlemen present were the Rev. B. Arthure, incumbent of Tranmere, Mr. J. W. Harden (judge of the Chester county court), Mr. F. North, the Rev. T. F. Redhead, &c. The Rev. R. M. Fielding, rector of Bebington, on being called upon to preside, explained the objects of the meeting, and adverted to the extraordinary increase of the population in that corner of the parish since he was appointed rector. He then called upon the Rev. B. Arthure to move the first resolution, which recognised the urgent necessity for in creased church accommodation in Tranmere, particularly in Limekiln-lane district. The rev. gentleman said that ten years ago the population of the district was 2,554 ; now it was 6,519, and there was not church accommoda tion for more than one sixth of that number. He spoke of the drunkenness, immorality, and vice, that prevailed in Tranmere, particularly in 1846, and urged the necessity and duty of those who had the power to limit the number of public-houses, as through their agency much immorality was produced, and added, that while they had only four places of worship, they had 30 houses licensed for the-sale of intoxicatingliquors. He alluded to the various agen cies which had been at work to effect a change in the habits of the population, and remarked that the Church Pastoral Aid Society was entitled to their highest en comiums, for through its assistance they had been supplied with a curate.—The motion was seconded by Mr. J. W. Harden, who detailed the several efforts that had been made to raise a church in the neighbourhood; and re marked that he had received a carte blanche' to do the best he could in the matter. The lord of the manor, he said, had bestowed: upwards of an acre of the best building rand in the neighbourhood for a site for the new church, and his brother, Mr. John Orred, had given £3;000,- 22,000 for the endowment, and £l,OOO for the purpose of building a house for the minister. The subscription list amounted to £1,600 ; and for £2,100 something might be erected which would suit their purpose—without a chan cel cr a spire; but to complete the building in its-;inte grity would cost £3',300. The church would accommodate about 700 persons. The speaker expressed a hope that they would shortly see the church erected, and concluded by saying that if, in his efforts to obtain subscriptions, he had offbnded any persons, he was exceedingly sorry, and tru.sted they would forgive him.—The resolution was carried' unanimously.—Mr. F. North moved that " The efforts of the promoters of the work deserve, and, shall have, our cordial support," which was seconded by Mr. Balleny, and carried unanimously.—Mr. A. Woodward moved—" That the ilianks of the inhabitants of Tranmere are due to the rector of Bebington and the incumbent of Tranmere, for the readiness with which they acceded to the views of the promoters ; to the lord of the manor for his liberal gift of upwrds of an acre of land, and te4ohn Orred, Esq., for the very handsome endowment of £3,000 which he has provided." He added the name of Mr. Harden, and the resolution being seconded by Mr. Lloyd, it was carried with, applause.—The Rev. Mr. Redhead moved the thanks of the meeting to the chairman, which was seconded by the. Rev. William Willink, and carried. —The chairman acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting separated. ST: AIDAN'S' (THEOLOGICAL) COLLEGE, BIRKENHEAD. LENT TERM EXAMINATION, 11454 i FirTu. Taina.--First Class : Bellamy. Second Class : Graham and Austen. Third Class : Jas. C. Cotter, A.B„ Walsh, Bullen, Morgan, Pym, Sampson, and Nicholson, FOURTH Tksay.—First Class : (None.) Second Class: Rycroft. Third' Class : Clarke, Vyvyan, Barrow, Innis, Watson, and James. THIRD TEnaa.-First Class : Henry Morgan. Second Class Lewis. Third Class : Wilkinson, Trendell, and Hodgson. General Examination : Morgan, 1.; Tren dell, 2 ; Wilkinson, 3 ; Lewis, 4 ; Hodgson, 5. SECOND TERlL—First Class : McCarty ; Brook and Taylor equal. Second Class : Hordern, Hill, and Mic klethwaite. Third Class.—Richard Smith, Evans, Post- Race; and Bolas. FIRST TER3L—First Class : Francis. Smith, M.D:, and Richardson. Second Class : Dingle, Third Class : McCarthy, Saunders, Swallow, and Pocock. PRINCIPAL'S , PRIELECTIONS.—FOURTH TER3l.—First Class : Rycroft, Vyvyan, Clarke, and Barrow. Second Class Innis. Third Class : Watson and James. FIRST YE.A.x.—First Class : Francis Smith,. M.D., M'earty,.Trendell, Richardson, and Henry Morgan. Se cond Class :- Taylor, Wilkinson, Hsrdern, Saunders, and Swallow.. Third Class : McCarthy, Micldethwaite, Post ance, Brook, Dingle, Hill, Bolas, Richard Smith, Pocock, Lewis, Evans, and Hodgson. JOSEPH BAYIEE, D.D., Principal. St.. Aidares College, April 4th, 1854. IRELAND. TBE DUBLIN and Wicklow railway will be opened in Sum next as far as Bray. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday, last week, a man named Hassett, who resided within a few miles of Nenagh, whilst labouring under a recent attack of insanity, drowned his own son, about three years and a half old, and of whom he was remarkably fond, and afterwards drowned himself in the same pond of water. ROMANIST LIBERALITY.--MT. Richard Devereux, of Wexford, who • has just left for Rome in company with his priest, transferred, previous to his departure for the Eternal City, the sum of £14,000 in, trust for Romanist charitable and religious. uses. In the distribution of this munificent donation Mr. Devereux has allotted the sum of £l,OOO " for masses, for his family ;" and it is under stood that £4,000 are devoted to the fund now raising for the establishment of the Romanist University. AGRICULTURAL RETURNS FOR IRELAND.—In 1852 there were 353,566 acres in Ireland under wheat ; in 1853, 327,254 acres. Of eats there were 2,283,449 acres in 1852, 2,156,674 in 1.853. Of barley, bere, rye, beans, and peas, there were 339,591 acres in 1852, 349,017 in 1853. Of potatoes, 876,532 acres in 1852, 897,774 in 1853. Of tur. nips, 356,790 acres in 1852,. 399,335 in 1853. Of other , green crops, 121,565 acres in 1852, 120,561 in 1853. Of flax, 137,008 acres in 1852.. 174,423 in 1853. Meadow and clover, 1,270,713 acres in 1852, 1,270,309 acres in 1853. The total extent under crops was 5,739,214 acres. in 1852, 5,695,347 in 1853, a decrease of 43,867 acres.. The chief decrease was in oats and wheat, the chief in crease in turnips, flax, and potatoes. These return are collected, by the aid of the constabulary and metropolitan police. CITY' OF DUBLIN CO3IPANY'S STEAMERS:The fol lowing list of the steam fleet of the City of Dublin Com pany, as registered in Dublin, may prove interesting at the present time, when attention is being directed to the resources of the kingdom in steam power for•the purposes of war. Those vessels marked * belong to the Ship Building Company, an offshoot of the City of Dublin : When When Built. Name Tons. Built. Name. Tons. 1824 Mersey 196 1844 Iron Duke 3l2* 1825 Britannia 219 1845 Roscommon 293 1826 Birmingham .. 232 Albevt 353 Leeds 243 1846 Windsor 454* 1829 Ballinasloe 1837 Royal William 1838 Duchess of Keut 2BB Dover Castle ll4 Duke of Cambridge 369 1848 Trafalgar 1839 Prince 493* 1849 Eblana Princess 1840 Erin Go Bragh Presenting a total of twenty-one vessels, in addition to the Llewellyn and St. Columba, recently purchased from Government, for the Holyhead line. Six of the above are iron ships.—Freeman's Journal. A TRAGEDY.—On Saturday week, John Byrne, Esq., coroner, held an inquest at Rassan, in the parish of Creggan, county of Louth, on the remains of a new-born male infant, who was found dead, concealed in a bed, in the house of Catherine Casey, at Rassan, on the 31st of March. It appeared in evidence by Catherine Fee that she knew Catherine Casey for about two years ; that she heard she was very ill, and going to die, and witness went to see her and found her very bad; she advised that she should be removed out of the bed where she lay to another part of the room until her bed was made ; to this Cathe rine Casey strongly objected, but upon two or three wo men coming into the room, they removed the bed to the other side, and, on turning it up, they found the body of a new-born male infant, quite naked, with a piece of tape tied tight round its throat, between the mat and the bed. She turned it over, and was so shocked that she fainted. The jury found a verdict against the unhappy mother. The coroner was in the act of drawing up the warrant to commit Catherine Casey to gaol for the wilful murder of her child, and handing it to the police, when Dr. Pollock entered the room, and stated to the coroner he might save himself the trouble, as Catherine Casey, the mother, was dead ; she had that moment expired. Thus elided the melanclAoly trage t ly,—.Newry x4,aminer, I LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES. NISI PRIUS-TUESDAY, APRIL 4. (BEFORE BARON PLATT.) The case of Evans v. the Royal Insurance Company was resumed. The facts of this case, which we gave last week, may be briefly restated. The plaintiff was in business in Mill-street, Liverpool, as a draper, and in November his shop was almost entirely destroyed by fire. He had been insured with the Royal Insurance Company, and under that insurance he claimed to be paid £3,350. The claim was resisted on the part of the Insurance Company, and hence the present action. Jonathan Leigh, a wholesale clothier, who, from the 20th October to the time of the fire, did business with Mr. Evans to the extent of £404 19s. 6d., said that, after the fire, Mr. Evans had called upon him to obtain the original invoices, and that these were subsequently made out anew, at Evans's request, as amounting to £1,044, in order, as the plaintiff said, to make them more satisfactory to the Insurance Company.—Thomas Wilson, who lived next door to Mr. Evans, described the removal, in a car, of paper boxes, about 12 o'clock on the Monday night pre , vious to the fire. They appeared to be such boxes as silk goods were kept in. He had seen goods removed before in this way, and once before at night.—Thomas Kilsie, an inspector of police, after describing the fire, which was extinguished about half-past five o'clock in the morning, said he went to plaintiff and asked him the amount of property in the shop. Plaintiff replied between £4,000 and £5,000, consisting of drapery goods, and such like. — John Tallis, a fire-policeman, after describing the fire, said he found a hole in the floor, in the middle of the shop, which he could not account for. He saw nothing like burnt bank notes. Captain James Weir, of the salvage corps, made a similar statement as to the bank notes.— Mr. Hill addressed the jury for the plaintiff.—His Lord ship, in summing up, observed that the benefits derived by society from insurance offices were so great that it was proper they should be protected by all legal means in their power. It was most important they should not be made the victims of fraudulent claims • on the other hand, the company should be equally liberal to parties who, in cala mities of that description, were seldom able to give infor mation as to its value. There could not then be any question as to whether the plaintiff fired his house or not, for, if the company believed it, it should have bee n pl ace d on the record ; but, if the office thought the plaintiff had done so, would it not have felt it its duty to come forward and prosecute him for the act ? Referring to the evidence, his lordship said, if the jury was satisfied that the plaintiff had grossly exaggerated his loss, it was difficult for human charity to think that such exaggeration was not intended to be a fraud. The defendants, on their part, were bound to make out the case of fraud to secure a verdict. His lordship, in conclusion, left it to the jury to say whether a fraud had been committed by the plaintiff by an inten tional exaggerated claim.—The jury then retired ; and, after an absence of about two hours, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £2,478 Is. 3d. Morrison v. Lancaster, an action tO recover £2PO for the breach! of a contract to purchase' ale; between the plaintiff, a brewer, at Bootle, and the defendant, a licensed victualler, in Liverpool, was decided in favour of the plaintiff: WEDNESDAY, Antu. snr. EXPIRY; OAP TENANCY.—HARGREAVES V. WALLWORK AND OTHERS: —This was an actiontorecover a sum of £lB5, being the half-year's rent of mill premises, occupied by the defendants at Chorley, from May; 1850, to November, 1853. The plaintiff had, a short time prior to May last, become owner of the property, and in. November; 1852, the defendants gave a notice to Messrs. Ainsworth, Hollingshead, and Kaye, attorneys for the plaintiff, inti mating that, at May, 1853, they meant to quit the-pre mises. An acknowledgment, by the attorneys , of the receipt of the notice sent w a s given to the defendants. Subsequently it was said t o h ave been discovered that the holding was for a November, and not a May termination, and they, consequently, wrote to the defendants, inti mating this fact, and refusing to allow the termination of the holding. Verdicb for the defendants. ACTION FOR EJECEiiENT.—AITKIN AND'ANOTITER V. BARKER AND ANOTIMR—In this case Thomas Aitkin and John Aitkin sought to eject John Barker and Fletcher from two cottages, situated at Tottington, higher end.. The cottages had been, built by the father of the defen dant, in 1823-4, and constituted two of a parcel of five cottages. The defendant was put into possession; of one of the cottages by his father about the year 1830. From 1843-4 the defendant managed his father's business, letting the houses, drawingthe rents of the other cottages for his father, and paying -no rent for the one he occupied. In 1817 the elder Barker died, without making any will ; and his eldest son, William Barker, took out letters of administration to his father's property. Under these letters of administration William Barker ordered his brother John to quit the cottage that the whole might be sold for the general benefit of the family. In course of the evidence it appeared that considerable misunderstand— ing had arisen between the brothers Barker after the death of their father, a considerable portion of involving pecuniary disputes, had been submitted to arbi tration. Verdict for the plaintiff. ASSAULT.—BOUSICILL ANTI WIFE V. HAIGIT.—This case was an assault of a very gross and aggravated nature, on Mrs. Bouskill. It appeared that some time in the month of March, 1853, Mr. Bouskill became tenant of a beerhouse belonging to the defendant, in Leeds-street, Liverpool, he (the defendant) carrying on business as a brewer at Everton, the plaintiffs paying a deposit of £2O, to be repaid on their leaving the premises. The plaintiffs not finding the business answer their expectations, in August gave notice to quit in October. On the 24th of August a distress was put into the house for rent ; at that time no business could be carried on, as the defendant refused to supply any more ale to the plaintiffs, who had been under contract to takeall their ale from him. In the middle of September another distress was put in for a forehand rent, and on the 19th of that month the defendant himself went to-the premises for the purpose of expelling the plaintiff and his family. Mrs. Bouskill, it appeared, went into an upper room, into which the defendant also went ; here some conversation took place between the defendant and Mrs. Bouskill, in the course of which the latter said she would not leave the premises until some settlement was made, as she believed some of the money originally deposited ought to be returned. On this the defendant tucked up his sleeves and said he would make her leave. He then laid.hold of her, and attempted to. expel her from the room. This was the assault complained of.—After the case had ,proceeded so far, Mr. Sergeant. Wilkins, on the part of the defendant, agreed to withdraw. any further defence, and a verdict of £2O damages was by consent. BREACH OF CONTRACT.--SALISBURY V. EDWARDS.— This was an action in which the plaintiff, a bleacher, at Burnley, sought to recover £153 10s. damages for a breach of contract entered into for a certain quantity of flour with the defendant, who is -a corn-dealer in Liverpool. After the examination of several witnesses, a compromise was effected, and a verdict for £BO was recorded. SALVAGE.—STRO AND ANOTHER V. MA.LCOIXSON.— In this action the plaintiffs, Messrs. John and William Strong, proprietors of the Victory and Gleaner, steam tugs, sought to recover for salvage and for service ren dered in saving the screw steam-ship Kangaroo, belonging to the defendants, Messrs. Malcolmson, (the. Waterford, Steam Navigation. Company.) On the evening of the 28th. November last, the Kangaroo, being on her return to. Liverpool from Bordeaux, with a valuable cargo, consisting chiefly of fruits- and wines, in coming up the. Victoria, Channel, during a fog, struck the ground with great via lence, and stuck fast upon the rocks and sand. To get her off, the steam-tugs Gleaner and Victory were both employed, and, by great exertions they succeeded in, get ting her afloat. For this the plaintiffs made a charge of £l5O for services rendered ; this was refused, and, after some demurring., the defendants offered £lO ; • but subse quently, and previous to the present action being tried, they paid the sum of £27 6s. into court. From the evi dence, it appeared that on the morning, in question the plaintiff's steam-tugs were called to,aid in getting off the screw-steamer Kangaroo, which was lying on the rocks and sands near the fort, in such a position as to be high and dry at low water. Great difficulty was experienced in getting, the Kangaroo off, and if she had remained for another tide there would have been considerable risk of her being entirely lost. The two tug-boats passed haw sers round, the stranded ship, nearly amidships, and, by their united efforts and a sudden,jerk,,the Kankaroo was got off, and towed up the river..—At the conclusion of the first- witness's evidence, which was. about five minutes be fore- seven o'clock, the court adjourned till next morning. THURSDAY,. APELL 6. At the sitting of this court to-day the salvage case was proceeded with, and the jury found a verdict for the plain tiffs, damages £lOO ; costs 40s. CLlnas FOR EXPENSES. -- Bon v. ASPINALL.— The plaintiff in this case was Mr. William Eagle Bott, and the defendant Mr. Kay Aspinall, The plaintiff was a civil engineer of some standing, and the detbndant surveyor of highways for the township of Rastrick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. A. verdict of £l6O was entered by consent. BOTT V. STRINGER.—The plaintiff and ground of action were similar in this to the last case. The defendant was the surveyor of highways for the township of Kirkheaton for the year in which.. r. Bott gave his evidence, and the sum claimed by that gentleman was £93 7s. 4d. Verdict for the plaintiff, BOTT V. THE, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR FOR KIRK HEATON.—Tins was action for the same amount, the proportion due by the overseers of the poor of the town. ship. In defence it was stated that the interference of the parish officers in the matter took place before defen dant's year of office, which had now expired. Verdict for the plaintiff,, with a reference as to amount of damages. ALEXANDER AND OTHERS V. TONGS AND ANOTHER.-- The plaintiffs in this, which was the last case on the corn. mon jury list, are merchants in Jersey, and the defendant ship brokers in Liverpool. The sum sued for was. £120., which, it was asserted, had been wrongfully handed over to Mr. H. W. Ward by the defendants, in whose hands it had been deposited, pending the decision, 11 arbitration or law, of a disputed transaction in connexion with the sale of the barque Othello by the defendants for the plain tiffs. After about three hours of contradictory statements by counsel and witnesses, a juror was withdrawn, and the court rose about nine o'clock. FRIDAY, APRIL 7. The court this morning resumed the trial of special jury cases. HERNAMAN AND ()TITERS 1.), BENNETT:The plaintiffs in this case were the official assignees of Henry Hunt, a bankrupt. The claim was made on account of the right and interest possessed by Hunt in the machinery of three mills at Glossop, near Stockport, a lease of a mill, money lent, and a farm and outbuilding, over Which the defendant had been manager, and, for a s h or t ti me prev i ous t o an d after Hunt's bankruptcy, had retained possession. The amount sought to be recovered was about £l,OOO. In 1848, Hunt, at the suggestion of the defendant, who is his brother-in-law, invested capital in leasing the machinery of the Higher Turnlee the Lower Turnlee Mill, the Kershaw Mill, and renting the Chunal Mill. The machinery was valued at £5,000, for which 10 per cent. per annum was to be paid, 5 per cent. going towards a sinking fund to buy off the machinery, and 5 per cent. to pay the interest of money. After the case had been gone into at consider able length, his lordship suggested that it was one of the fittest eases for compromise, as, one way or another, the defendant must be largely responsible. It MO agreed to refer the cue to arbitration, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 18541 ,\ ilti to Wit hi . 11 HARRISON AND ANOTHER V. HORSEAlthepl.;tit TITER.—Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Burn ie for and 4 the Attorney-General for the County P 3 l at '' - il ts oi r Forsyth for the defendants. From the stateugtiffs oe i counsel and witnesses, it appeared that the ir ,o ' ol ; Messrs. Harrison and Co., merchants, of t is , lice` the defendants Messrs. lorsfall and Sons , °` toeS of December 1852, Messrs. Harrison Both were engaged in the African trade, audio called the Lady Worsley, to the coast of Alrie 3 ; 0 (1'1 13th January, the vessel arrived in BounY Ir s; „ ve i ers cast on shore. She was deserted by her c3P , ' - rt ti, and her cargo would have been entirely pluude„..lie,tY not been for the timely interference of Captain I t ' , S i ed o agent of the plaintiffs on that coast, who also c' f . b the del assistance of Captain Thompson, the Ven t %,Iforc e -4" dants. They succeeded, by means of an ar n. the cr a driving off the marauders, and they also g ° ;;on c fr into deep water, and saved a considerable Por-assii cargo. Captain Thompson, who had given the 0 , of boats and men, was - entitled to salvage, an the sent outleaoove7o consent of Captain Wylie, he had a lieu upon and cargo. Captain Wylie, however, made an with Captain Thompson to sell the cargo hY P u e giving Captain Thompson bills for the amount r se lf the sales, which bills w ere drawn in favour of otv, Thompson. For the plaintiffs it was cont e ,P l 7llol goods were improperly sold by Captain .Yo k ,' „ c tioas'e to have bartered them according to his in n the° r d the benefit of Messrs. Harrison. The actionlC ou] brought to recover such a sum as the cargo `4,c,01J07 realised if bartered for palm oil, instead of be d s ler d pe r' auction at a sacrifice of one half its value. tsve:l "i te left the whole matter with the jury ; there vve, re l i e di tions for them to decide ; first, w hether ASI e „ O - niv best he could under the circumstances; anustbouP,o he, by what was done, intend to do the did commit an error of judgment. The J,. 3 )ilte j oe more than a moment's consultation, retnrno.efie with a verdict to the effect that Wylie bad b°l2 eoac e l' the best he could for the benefit of all Pa! tie 2o l4 ,; o Mr. Knowles : He sold the goods, not belu i. Vo beo— Mr. Hill : The jury did not say that ; You i' ll i - be 9 ;t ( as joint jobiillutinsalwvhoirchs._ThHoismpLsoonrdsanhidpWylie descrille the bi a would consider that, wheth er h e so s ld i th d' e P g e ° °cisrb3l)s hle ll i rie .d o The jury at once unanimously declared posed of them, not as a salvor.--Leave was th _74,3 move in a higher c o ur t. W y li e being the art4p, plaintiffs, his duty was- to protect instead of 5 1._0,6: 0 ' of his employers. [Thompson, in his ow: 03wwil,v; menced proceedings in the Admiralty Court flip! very of the salvage. Wylie has not joined Coup_ SATURDAY, APRIL S• ,i,otig es 5 t 4) RIWSTRON v. TAYLOR.—An action for Ref er sioned by the diversion of' a watercourse• ttvil arbitration, on the proposition of Mr. Hill• e 0004 HAERTSON AND ANOTHER, r. gor 9 this action and in the cross-action, I'Vylie v ' another, was withdrawn, the facts of the caseay" lar to those in the case of Harrison v. Horst 1)" . ther, decided on the previous day. PATENT CISE: HALLAM v. RAIIET T i• r Mr. Ephraim Hallam, of Stockport,. cottoo4ottotr4 the plaintiff; and Messrs. Bailey and Wood , 0 0 ners, were the defendants; and the actie!„ifactwots alleged infringement of a patent for the ol e f thread from waste cotton, for the purP„,,,nel t . 004 1 ' carpet-manufacture: The defendants PP - e ese ' O 9 plaintiff was not the first inventor of the Pro 00 t e , was not a new manufacture ; and that he 1 1 . 0 .,. proper specifications. Verdict for the Phli11:,..;10 ls. with 40s. costs, he- merely wishing to - right to the patent. ,-,QEC GT/th iPIr OS d ACTION FOR A MALICIOUS e r - ! t hoe t • Tuomas v. HuG z— unsln this act i n ga d if s alleged that the defendant maliciou,Y , reasonable cause, charged the Pla int in'ag , Majesty's justices o f th e peace , with bid' pretences, obtained a sum of money' , r ° .,„; s cith. o j in a second count, that he had charge obtained certain goods, whereby the Pla n) ; - 000 • "":1 in his business. The plaintiff' claimed t'i; i oi i 5 5" :1 . 1 1 The defendant pleaded not guilty, upon 1 . , n - leri l li e o l' a a r ' joined. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Sir' Georg" - 0 1; 1 ' Mr. Jones, for the plaintiff; Mr. Jan ) ° , 4 1% ; ; 01 0 ' 0 114 w:A as s r p t:i. i Edn n ag all wit:hiinne fo ecH r asin t u h ege, e rhcs d ehais e a, f dn e w n tt d hais a en nt . —Mr. servan.per 0 ,0 moth equestrian circus, f p ab L ia r ;v e e t wr rp i l : y oo iep j h l a ro in , v n ari e n .,,2 : d : l l: l3 tti B o oh f o L l t ebi lt io ce ell; e 3s t,re, realised a considerable sum of money% bill Liverpool and commenced business ay' 31 99 , 0 ` t i11t,4• "' in which capacity h e o p ene d an office .l .- street, which he styled, "The Mau:oat"' ontiagelielit Bank Establishment." The Mammoth Di',"ff o r h is ts Establishment !—(A laugh.) Unfortunatei;;s-lea welt; (Mr: Thomas), somewhere about 1850, mammoth es tabh' o ol ,t i t aidlrom this gentleman of the mamow t :,,i,il3 the e si. „t) Relied several transactions with him ; of of January, 1851, he borrowed the 1 1.- b ,.aed would, perhaps, be as well if he (the it stated, at the outset, the mode in o r ' carried on in this mammoth establishar;ii or & oa t 4 was this :—lf a manufacturer, or me re ',l2; .i l l ysac ed te ‘ any other man was pressed for ready this establishment for a loan, moil SS the ° l f/ 1 these• terms—namely, he deposited l ie tha n ., money, goods one-third more in val of the loan, while, at the same tinl e ', but Pi c ot(' given for the sum borrowed, and 135 ", the w fr pretty tolerable discount was taken the 0¢ the rate of fifty or sixty per cent. When , ` - „i e sre stood this mode of doing business they WI/ I '7.m ': accusation arose against his client. At ,L 1 borrowed the £64, in January, he deposn y ibt v e f . ,,a v defendant orders upon Messrs. Yearslef one quarter-casks of sherry. It w as the c" - “. °' defendant, when the sum borrowed was fo,r 06, tr, months, to have the goods transferred . t e ° f pore d , when, as in this case, the loan was for &._b ri g iere 4 t he" practice was not adopted, the orders bewg itv for bef' ) ; sited with him as a sort of equitable s,Ol- s ,'" li vart e ' 0 , payment of the money. On the 10th of had "• 1 0. 1 theZ6-I was lent, a previous sum a vaned, which, however, had been repo' a t li v tbe o t He mentioned this now, because, from w t t hat ba t :. „, spired before the magistrates, it was evidenoilor,tsilr;io fendant's secretary, formerly a journer 3l3l' n th 5 v that time, the managing man of the n l3llllll to n o t a g ment, endeavoured, with an evident ebie ct i treat' iii,;; e fi two transactions together ; and, instead ° r• ile wine orders for the twenty-one quar t tlA to f o r flexion with the general loan, he en detivellriiff reyer e i as security for a general loan. The' P la rr th e ilal ) P e 4o £64„ and asked for his 1.0. U. and also for so t y the twenty-one quarter-casks of wine . ,. ht aell if t' $ O l 4 , that Mr. Hughes, the head of the eStalt i ,, S Lau.' tll.lO l in, and Mr. Cowley said he would take,t'fi'haecine'tbei orders to the plaintiff's house. He din. s- fe asen,i' the 1.0. U. back, but, from some avast - 0 1 „"t drt e eo orders were never returned, and the .ing is ‘ cite sently the mischief to which that led. 4 , 1„ • 0 11 10 1• 1 0 care much about the orders, beemise ..7" e ttiat, l l of l ef transferred to any one else, and le hu e " diop o . 4 r tti a", the money. A few days afterwards he ~, SP„," of these quarter-casks to another Per g ' e y fr°„.: tot a t . , this he had occasion to borrow more orde„,..'oP e fendant, actually giving, as security, t'' 004 better; remaining thirteen quarter-casks of th,e t . 0 0 0 - viously held by the defendant, the eig: in al?eY v „,o l l, le disposed of being deducted from that ml be - • went on in this way for some • time, the 4414,y ing and repaying, until, in. December, .I,rar to sq' e tl i insolvent, and petitioned the Court of 133 , P this g eOl' e tection. Mr. John Yates, a.solicitor tb tri a appeared for the creditors on that °e ll e," *'" eat numerous transactions between the Piot h o e fair;tice: fendant, and having hie misgivings loet $ nature of those transactions, and the 1vi0= 4 „. 5 0 01 4 " which had been given, insisted uPe il n the lar statement l a id b e f ore him of n'"' t. tr, between the plaintiff and the defen - fell ,l° Lid .i t ielti!: elicit another import an t fact. T he- ; ri lye a illiterate man ; and on that oceto-liripon plaintiff, " These people. are insisting d sae' -t and creditor statement between you- n n r e at `,l make it out to saw my life therefor e ,' ' s teu' e and my man, Mr; Cowley, to make it vi - ha ; did so ; he tok from their own na ° ' wen' .4e:to the accounts between them, drew up a statement, a fair copy °f ,t w it An a tri bl' e teti vralo a nd the i l ic h De ._ .- 0 01 ', 0 0 ( took to their premises, and the defen' - '" i ite m, co' l j a aP - 00 t o went through the. account, item hY of ~,e 1?1 - , ' thisand • trues dfeacf, n etni i d dtta ne t or a h t show n eh o p How r e s re en the account to the C tie • as a statement of the accounts as be o f t ett ot of th d e r im e t w ratt t h h ea : t 3 th t a t e en t , t a i i c e ° c f l e o :l ol 6 : ts n o t .p: _ i t :2o.7 rp Ai v i ' eet of i, accountant, that in that accountsthere "nartVheo), his having. the orders for the thirteen 0 0e1 telt 'ae sherry in his possession, He would not weary th a tm see NA n ' ri it thY ftietlll33. b lso°' i ‘ litlft sl 6l) t e : l:ll4 that in the month of September a n e4 v ioos t, f with the defendant, and all their Pr e & of to, t ;°, were gone into, but no mention was 1113 tee v f o re ti j il' f quarter-casks. The phlintiff at that e t he, he 4 4 attorney Mr. Thompson, who had sin o , c e te ",1 fendant called upon Mr. ThomPson 6e dere' 3 " - i . death, and made an accusation with r fo dozens of wine. The plaintiff wa s :Valve 1,4101„i' l entered into an explanation which Inn s ,„;„tiff cot person, as to the accusation, that the Infeft`;e:A Vi e t the twenty dozens of wine, which the1)0100 r.,,e0901 a guarantee for money advanced, bY f facts were these : a very large quantitY ° 0 0 0 `..:,10 11 54, bonded by the plaintiff ; and there we. re bon , t it r", v a i t ii sherry in bottle. It had remained S eri ; tb .o , e fer t ` the Custom-house authorities gave 00 ° 7; beiPli h e be immediately removed. On the b , ero d oo ve bad it was found that the wine WA e a ' to re l h ia of the plaintiff, to whom no tice no t hitya given. He stated that the wine 7 0 0.5t i. „ 1 1 tor i elt o ; Customs' authorities repeated that s re ques u q - be stood against his name, arid be w ‘ifterw ards,„eatiis away. He did so. A few daY's t hose do t 0 0 .1 , Messrs. 'Middleton and Co. found o ttuL e d e feo_ te if , o t , ) of wine had been transferred t jo vedll , a ftetej action, and word to that effect w1 8 ', 10 ,0, , 0. the plaintiff, who immediately wen t "owe mild he c c , in c h g e that ck fa rhtehteho wine,gb t w t h h had j e c ri hee oci n n iet si s ot e Ae s vx i s 5 0 -' 1 the proper party. A f— atter dr`lT e clito tf " I 'o 3 , satisfied,defendan ta,nwahfoo,ralthoengtirnwieththheis whom he placed the plaintiff failed, he returned defendant at the w' t for e l ,,V i t io stating, at the same time, that hoo , thn tit r's 7ter, ie ts he (the learned sergeant) w in" a the 1) 15i l l rtlY eoc , •,1 ling of the defendant's mon t e h Y ea l .niri; t d . it 5 a ;:1: 110 1 1 . 0 0 ti e ': ,i, bad security for double the n . .. t itx h . ? awa y ie a iiinsattoo_rnfs heaYis,cree;!s:oreettfo_Are:4o;:Api: him,decla r a a n t d io , n lik o e f aiinishonlvneenstcyi,oso, t:.reditomeoticallo tois ing the demands of his unsee that this fie eTie oh' i 'lle cl :s 208. in the pound. It seemed_ .itiren sona dell o to t e mammoth establishment was un der t he a ngel t i t; pect that he also should come v ert e p io, t i t unsecured creditor, and that 11t waned I .. l . „ te rest. , t balyi , not. Some time after this h oneY for ai °re el beq him an enormous amount of In him l?. atto rn o i .re be Th e o n m a 7 re s e a d id upn he n. wo4 a d vv i ifeoa P o ie:fl u t ra ti ra t i ov l i s, 9 o o un d itri : l of him, threatening him larg er t m uan eans h t e o w in a d s u i c n e t s h io a n t m h y e sai m d aa , te " , 9Al'. -1• 1