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OLD WINT.ER IS COME. OLD Winter is come in earnest—slack! How icy and cold is he! He cares not a pin for a shiverin; back, He's a saucy old chap to white and black, He whistles his chills with a wonderful knack, For a jolly old fellow is he! A witty old fellow this Winter is, A mighty old fellow of glee! Be cracks his jokes on the sweet pretty miss, The wrinkly old maiden unfit to kiss, And freezes the dew of their lips—for this Is the way with such fellows as he. Old Winter's a frolicsome blade I wot— He is wild in his humour and free— He'll whistle along for the " want of thought," And set all the wr:rmth of furs at nought, And ruffle the laces the pretty girls bought; For a frolicsome fellow is he! Old Winter is:blowing his gusts along, And merrily shaking the tree! From morning to night he will sing his song; Now moaning and short—now howling and long ; His voice is loud, for his lungs are strong— A merry old fellow is he. Old Winter's a wicked old chap I ween— As wicked as ever you'll see— He withers the flowers so fresh and green, And he bites the pert nose of the miss of sixteen, As she flippantly walks in maidenly sheen— A wicked old fellow is he. Old Winter's a tough old fellow for blows, As tough as ever you'll see ; He'll trip up our trotters and rend our clothes, And stiffen our limbs from fingers to toes, He minds not the cry of his friends or his foes— A driving' old fellow is he ! A cunning old fellow is Winter, they say, A cunning old fellow is be ; He peeps in the crevices day by day, To see how we're passing our time away, Ard marks all our doings from grave to gay, I'm afraid he is peeping at me. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: Blackwoods The commencement of a new year is usually the time for making some advance in periodical litera ture, new magazines being started, and old ones coming out with promises of increased attraction. " Blackwood," however, maintains the lead in defi ance of all rivalry ; and, with nearly forty years on its head, displays all the freshness of juvenile vigour. The number for this month opens with a paper descriptive of Persia, a country rendered more than ordinarily interesting by recent events, and which may occupy a somewhat prominent position in the coming struggle. The particulars are taken from a narrative of two attaclufs of the French embassage in Persia. The quiet story of " The Quiet Heart" is continued in a second part, which gives goodly promise of its further progress. " The English at Home—by a Frenchman Abroad" is a very amusing review of a work by M. Wcy, an intelligent Frenchman, who spends seven weeks in England, and gives a really fair description of what he saw and heard, and his opinions of a people whom he describes as " a large class of old scholars competing for the prize of ()Tod conduct." Fro m " The Past and Future of China," we learn that so far from the present rebellion in the flowery land being an extraordinary event, such revolutions have often occurred, more so indeed than in any other nation, there having been a succession of twenty two dynasties, and, consequently, as many great revolutions in the period of four thousand years, comprised in the annals of that empire. Following the series on " the narcotics we indulge in," is an article on " the beverages we infuse," descriptive of Tea, Coffee, &c. The magazine concludes with an ablv written political essay on " the Aberdeen Cabinet," showing the mischief which has been committed by the vacillating policy in the earlier part of the Eastern affair, and predicting serious consequences from the evident determination of Russia to set at defiance the lukewarm resistance given by the Western Powers. The article is well worthy of perusal, though we cannot coincide with the writer in all his views. 'We subjoin two extracts: TIM ABERDEEN CABINET Whatever might have been the Conservative antecedents of some members of the cabinet, we could not forget that these were the men who, in almost every instance, had adopted expediency as their guide, instead of following the straight and undeviating path of honour. It appeared to us evident that the Radical section could not, supposing its component members to be honest and earnest in their views, avoid the opportunity of pressing their peculiar tenets upon the consideration of their colleagues; and, believing in the thorough elasticity of consciences which have once submitted to the doctrines of expediency, it seemed to us exceedingly probable that the former main tainers of a Conservative policy would become as supple in the hands of their new allies as the heart of a democrat could desire. Besides all this, it was evident that the 'head of the Administration, Lord Aberdeen, was unfitted to deal with the new complications which the altered state of European affairs has introduced. At no one period of his life did the Premier ever occupy a place in the fore most rank of statesmen. He was neither acute enough in his intellect, nor adroit enough in his management of affairs, to entitle him to such a position. He might be a useful colleague, but he never was qualified to be a leader. In prescience, the most valuable attribute of a diplomatist, he has always shown himself to be defective. Obstinacy, which he mistakes for firmness, and craft, which he con ceives to be wisdom, have made him the unconscious tool of far superior men, who, in the palmy days of European congresses, were his associates. Strange as it may' appear, Lord Aberdeen, who at home is confederated in council with Sir James Graham and Sir William Molesworth, is universally regarded abroad as the last prop in Britain of the absolutist policy and dominion. Russia is delighted to see him Prime Minister of this country, because, so long as that arrangement lasts, she anticipates no active check to her designs. Austria, while acting the hypocritical part of mediator, and keeping up the farce of negotiation after the hour for action has arrived, chuckles at the credence which is given to the sincerity of her concocted notes, and forwards, at proper intervals, fresh projects for the maintenance of peace to Downing-street, in order to divert attention from the boom of the Russian-cannon. With regard to France, Lord Aberdeen has not cultivated those friendly relations which were established by Lord Malmesbury, and which, especially at the present time, are so important for maintaining the influence of the two great western powers. Forgetting the adage that nations have no cousins, and the maxim against foreign cabals in behalf of rejected dynasties, he is well known to regard with favour the pretensions of the house of Orleans, which has not even the abstract merit of legitimacy to recom mend it ; and not only that portion of the press which is under ministerial control, but even members of the cabinet, were allowed, without contradiction or reproof, to Indulge in unmeasured obloquy and invective directed against the present Emperor of the French. AUSTRIA. Austria may be despotic—whether from inclination or necessity it is beyond our purpose here to inquire—but, in her relations with Great Britain, she has heretofore acted with fairness. She may be deceitful—that it is too often the characteristic of despotisms—and truth compels us to admit that Austrian statesmen have never been re markable for sincerity. That virtue is no part of their system ; perhaps it cannot co-exist with institutions such as theirs. But in dealing with states, as with individuals, 'we must take them with their faults, as well as their vir tues. We do not inquire too closely into the character of the man who is punctual in his payments, and regular in redeeming his engagements. Now, apply that principle— universallyobserved in so far as individuals are concerned — to Austria, and mark what we have done. Oar old re lations are undoubted, and there was, at all events, amity between us. Years roll on, and at last there occurs a rebellion in the hereditary states of the house of Haps burg. The infection spreads from the provinces to the `mother state. The capital, Vienna, is taken, pillaged, ' and subjected to the usual ordeal of democratic libertinism. The army remains true to the Emperor—retakes the 'capital—puts down the insurgents, and restores trn ''quillity to Austria. Does England—a country which abhors, or ought to abhor, revolutions, and which, but live years ago, was threatened with a like visitation from chartism, besides Irish outbreaks—does England, we say, exhibit any symptoms of rejoicing at that event? Quite the contrary. Marshal Haynau visits London, and he is immediately made the object of a brutal personal attack, such as would disgrace the Coromantees, or any other heathen tribe of Africa. Next comes Kossuth, the leader and instigator of the Hungarian rebellion ; and he is re ceived with almost superhuman honours by mayors, and aldermen, and other civic idiots, none of whom could, even if threatened with the penalty of instant death, tell you where Hungary is situate on the map of Europe. No wonder if Austria, thus insulted in the person of one of her c hief commanders, takes umbrage —no wonder if she i n t er p r ets the ovations lavished upon a rebel, into dis tinct proofs of the . entire sympathy of the British people with the cause of insurrection and democracy. And the result is that Austria, thus repulsed, turns away from us,. and lends her influence, whenever that is required, to forward and assist the ambitious projects of the Czar. The Mercantile Marine Magazine. Liverpool: . C a meron. - The first number of a magaz ine, devoted, as its name implies, to the important interests of the mercantile marine. How far this object will be carried out remains to be seen, but we m ay state that th e :-....“ principal contents of the number just pub lished ar e se d Meteorological observations at sea, and the pr o p o system of maritime co-operation." "Our mercantil e M ar i ne. N 0 . 1. ," "S a iling Direc tions from the Archipelago to the Danube," " Pas sage from Hong-Kon g t o Shanghae ' " "Changes in Lights and Buoys," " Nautical Memoranda," Bx. Tlie Lffe of Martin Lugker, the German. Re former. In 50 pictures from designs by Gustav Konig. London : Nathaniel Cooke. The trulf'splendid and really elegant volume before us is an attempt, and by no means an unsuc cessful one, to bring before the eye, and to sustain I before.the mental vision, a complete and connected I series of the events which chiefly distinguished the remarkable and interesting life of the great Chris tian Reformer. It consists of pictorial represen tations of those striking incidents which marked the character and gave emphasis to the career of Luther, delineated with touching simplicity and artistic truth. The engravings are cleverly and effectively rendered rather than elaborately finished, the intention being obviously to create an impres sive and edifying solemnity of feeling in accordance with the important and elevating nature of the subject ; yet at the same time scrupulously to avoid an ostentatious display of details, or the unnecessary parade of minor incidents. The des criptive letter-press is written in a kindred spirit of truthful severity. Breadth of effect and telling earnestness have been the aim of artist and author, and the result is worthy of the united efforts. The great apostle of the Reformation is traced from his cradle to his coffin through all the vicissitudes which chequered his eventful life. We find him represented as the simple student, the ardent worshipper, the darinc , assailant of ecclesiastical abuses, the bold and uncompromising leader of intellectual and religious freedom, the zealous champion of truth. In the bosom of his family we find him the leader of its domestic joys, the pro moter and participator of its innocent delights, yet in all tinctured with that holiness of life and sincere humility of spirit which at all times charac terised the public and private life of Luther. The pictures, from their style and the interest inherent in the subjects they represent, attained au exten sive popularity in Germany,—a distinction which we have no doubt also awaits them in the present transcript. The letter-press, by its tolerant spirit and its unaffected truthfulness of narrative, also obtained much and deserved approbation. In addi tion to the life of Luther, the volume contains likewise a brief but comprehensive sketch of the rise and progress of the Reformation in Germany. Having said thus much of the labours of the artist and the author, we cannot conclude without high commendation of the style of beauty in which its spirited publisher, Mr. Cooke, has brought it before the English public. In point of typography, paper, and the general attributes of publishing excellence, it has few rivals and no superiors in the numerous Christmas souvenirs which at the present time load the shelves of the booksellers. Poems. By John Francis Waller, LL.D. Dublin : James M`Glashan. Fully a century has elapsed since it was written. with equal truth and beauty, by the great critical poet— " Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to " join The varying verse, the long resounding line ; but in our days we are favoured with the effusions of a Wailer, whose verse is enriched with the best attributes of both the poets whose names are im mortalised in the above couplet, and to those are added a grace, tenderness, and purity of sentiment, unknown to either of the elder bards. The small, though beautiful, and charming volume, which has' just been issued by Dr. Waller, under the imprima- 1 fur of Mr. M'Glashan, is, we learn with much satisfaction, from the hand of that cunning wizzard, who, under the nom de plume of Jonathan Freake Sling,sby, has for numerous years past delighted and astonished the readers of the Dublin Univer sity Magazine. In the volume before us, how ever, the poet occupies a more elevated position than he has heretofore assumed, and from his lyre he throws off notes of higher inspiration, giving utterance to a song of more sustained beauty, than are to be found in the wild and fitful, though melifluent strains, in which, with the careless ease of a poetic master, he rung each change— " From grave to gay, from lively to sincere;" and yet was seductive, charming, delightful in all. The present volume opens with a narrative, or story poem in three parts, entitled " Ravenscroft Hall," which is marked by a truthful simplicity of design, and a vigorous beauty of action, evolved in sweet and graceful language. The story, as we have already said, is simple. Two brothers, Ralph the elder, and Walter, unknown to each other, love the same maid, Alice ; she prefers the elder, and agreeably to the preference and to previously arranged family intentions, Ralph and Alice are made one— " And two fair children blessed their happy home—" Walter fled, a wayward, disappointed youth ; but, after long wanderings, he returns, an un known visitant to the scenes of his nativity and early years. The time of his return is Christmas eve, and in the morning his troubled spirit is soothed by a Chrismas carol, chaunted by the village children under his window. He goes to the church, and is ultimately reconciled to his father, his brother, and to his lost though still beloved :Alice. Ultimately the curtain of death closes round all the original actors in the simple drama, the " two fair children" being only left : but, not• before the serenity of Christian love has lent its solace to the re-united family. The chief beauty of this " artless tale" will be found in the delicate pencilings of its accompanying incidents. It aims not at taking the passions by storm, but sways, by gentler means, the heart's emotions. Beauty of imagery, tenderness and purity of sentiment, are the ma chinery by which our poet seeks to win our sym pathies, and in the use of these he is highly success ful. We regret we cannot give copious extracts from this bouquet of seasoned sweets, but must content ourselves with the following : Alice and 'Ralph, in the hot noon of day, Paced a sweet alley where the birch, and oak, And light-sprayed ashes, interlacing close Their lofty branches in an arch o'erheal, Barred out the sun-gyre. Carolled wild the birds Deep in the underwood, or on the heights Of rocking branches, where they basked in light. Alice and Ralph alone paced to and fro, So silent both that ye might hear the tread Of their slow feet upon the shell-strewed walk, Or the low chirping of the shrill cicada. The young man gazed upon the gentle girl, Intent and long, as though his eyes would pry Deep through her orbs into her heart of hearts, And read the lived sweetness of her love. She the while Curtained her blue eyes with their fringed lids, And gave not entrance to his passionate gaze. Woman's defensive instinct ! like the flower That closes quick its sensitive leaves if even An infant's finger touch them. And thus they walked. happy, yet ill at ease, For they were lovers, though as yet no word Of formal courtship told the young man's love. But ere the shadows of the western hills Stretched far into the vale at eventide, Their hearts stood all contest. It skills not how— By words, or something tenderer still than words— 'Tis the old tale—old, yet still ever new— The mode still varying, but the end the same. In all times—in all places—in the halls Of princes—in the peasant's lowly but— In crowded cities—in the lone savannahs— The same mysterious, subtle, potent instinct, That guided Adam in primeval bowers, And shook with troublous joy the beating heart Of his most beauteous God-gift; and that now, In this old, sin stained, and degenerate world, Wakes in man's heart the one lone feeling left That links him still to God. and makes him holy. Mortal, beware how thou dolt use this gift ! If with a reverent joy—a holy awe— Thou entertainest in thy purest soul This angel sent from God as unawares, 'Tis well, for thou art sanctified thereby; But if thou stain with one unhallowed thought The crystal fount of that divinest essence— If thou dost throw on that bright holy flame Even but the thousandth part of aught that's gross, Then dost thou grieve God's Spirit, quench his light, Anti cause, it may be, even to go forth From the heart's temple that thou hast defiled, As erst from God's own Pane on Sion's Mount, The dread decree—" Let us depart from hence.” Besides the poem to which our remarks have been chiefly confined, the volume contains nume rous small pieces, each characterised by beauty of thought, appropriateness of imagery, and sweet ness of diction. By the publication of this volume, its author has added very substantially to the claim he had, under his assumed pro-namen, established to a favourable public recognition of poetic talents of a very high order. The History of Servia,ancl the Servian Revolution. By Leopold Ranke. London : Henry G. Bohn. This valuable and opportune work contains not merely the history of Servia and its revolution ; it is also enhanced by a sketch of the insurrection in Bosnia, and, it has further added to it, an account of the slave provinces of Turkey, the whole forming a mass of information peculiarly suited to the pre sent position of eastern affairs. The Servian revolt, if any revolt could do so, was one peculiarly fitted to rouse the sympathies of a free Christian nation, and to secure a lively interest in the bosoms of the British people. The struggles of a simple, hardy, and intrepid people, contending for religious free dom and national independence, was indeed a spec tacle deserving of warm sympathy and support. The geographical position, and Christian profession, of the Servians and Bulgarians, confer on their movements and social *tate, more especially under the present aspect of affairs, an importance worthy of the deepest consideration; and at the handsof Pro fessor Ranke these peculiarities have been treated with a calmness and penetration worthy of the sub ject. The past and the prospective, as well as the ex isting troubles of the Ottoman Empire, are weighed with scrupulous care, and the overbearing policy of Turkey, and its opposition to Christian toleration, are displayed with great .ability .and candour ; while the importance of having an independent Christian state in the locality occupied by Servia is duly insisted on. In point of translation, the work has received every justice at the hands of Mrs. Alexander Kerr, In that portion of the work which treats of Bosnia, a portion comparatively but little known in England, there are some remarkable pas sages ; the writer's views, though expressed long since, seem to have been so well digested, and so completely in consonance with the course of realised events, as to appear almost prophetic ; and from the great and still increasing interest of the Eastern question, and its complications, the publication of the work is peculiarly well-timed. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. VARIETIES. IT IS SAID that the tea most in favour among unmarried ladies is beau-he. No MAN can avoid his own company—so he had best make it as good as possible. CHOICE OF A. WIFE.—In the choice of a wife, take the obedient daughter of a good mother. A SAILOR PoET.—Luttrell mentions a poetical midship man, who described the weather in his log book,—" Light airs languishing into calms." "COME DowN THIS INSTANT," said the boatswain to a mischievous son of Erin, " come down, I say, and I'll give you a good dozen, you rascal." " Troth sir, an' I won't come down if you give me two dozen." RAW FLESH is still eaten in Abyssinia : and Mr. Parkyns, the most recent traveller in that country, pro nounces it good when eaten warm from the animal. He has not seen a steak cut from the living cow, but has no doubt of the fact, or of Bruce's veracity, however strange his stories may seem. POST-OFFICE YABN.—A letter was put into the box, the appearance of which denoted that the writer was un accustomed to the use of stamps, and had failed to make one stick at all. He had tried, and vainly tried, but the inveterate portrait of her Majesty would curl up. At last, in despair, he pinned it to the envelope, and wrote under it —` Paid, provided the pin doesn't come out. ANECDOTE OF JARNOWICK, THE VIOLINIST.—When Jarnowick first arrived in London, he took up his resi dence in a central part of the west end of the town. One day, paying some visits at a great distance from home, he called. a hackney coach, and, having seated himself, the coachman inquired whither he should drive him, when the following dialogue ensued :—Jarnowick : " Home, mon ami ; you go me home." Coachman : "Home, sir, but where ?' Jarnowick : "Ah ! me not know ; the name of the street has echapper out of my memory. I forgot her. Vat sail Ido ?" (The coachman, grinning at the foreigner's embarrassment, the latter continued)— " Ah! you are a gag; come now, you understand the music, eh ?" Coachman : " Music! why, what's that to do with the street ?" Jarnowick : " Ah! vows verrez, you shall see." (He then hummed a tune, and inquired,) " Vat is dat ?" Coachman : "Why, Malbrook." Jarno wick : " Ah! that is her, Malbrook-street ; now you drive me at home.—Musical World. I FRIENDLY CONDOLENCE.—CarefuIIy avoid suggesting painful or annoying thoughts to the minds of others. Some people have no delicacy of feeling, no perception of what is proper to be done or avoided—nothing, in short, of that propriety which shrinks from giving pain. For ex ample, what can be more shocking than to say to a husband, " How ill your wife looks !" or to a wife, the same with regard to her husband ; or to make remarks of a depress ing nature relative to the health of one friend or relative to another; and yet we have known this done from the mere love of talking. We have seen, too, an affectionate danghter saddened almost beyond endurance, by being re minded that her father or mother was getting old ; and the informant did not scruple tcr add, that, really, the one or the other appeared to be very failing, instancing, at the same time, as if to prevent any possibility of misappre hension, that a great change has been perceptible within a short time. We remember another instance of similar impropriety :—Two ladies were walking together, on their return from church, both in deep mourning, one of them a widow, when they were approached by an acquaintance of the slightest possible description, who came to meet them with a broad smile and look of inquisitiveness, saying, "I am sorry to see you in deep mourning." Conduct of this kind is past endurance, and the person who is guilty of it has no right to complain if a cut direct is the con sequence.—Family Friend. THE CAUSES WHICH IMPEL RUSSIA To CONQUESTS. —Marquis Custine says, that in Russia we are perpetually reminded of two things, the absence of the Sun and the presence of Power. Both are equally important alike in their social and external effects ; perhaps the last is the necessary consequence of the first. A very simple reason makes, and ever must make, the Russians desirous above all things of escaping out of their own country—it is the severity of its climate. Those who live in a country where the snow covers the ground for eight months in the year, and the long nights of winter are illuminated only by the cold light of the aurora borealis, long with inexpressible ardour for the genial warmth and sunny hills of the south, where the skies are ever blue, the sun ever shines, and nature teems with the luxuriance of tropical vegetation. The shores of the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn, the dome of St. Sophia, are not only the secret dream of ambition of every Russian, but the undoubted object of their expectation. "I do not wish Constantinople," said Nicholas ; "my empire is akeady too large; but I know that I or my successors must have it : you might as well arrest a stream in its descent from a mountain as the Russians in their advance to the Hellespont." The habits which necessity has given them permanently fit, and ever must fit, them for foreign conquest. Their life- is- a continual conflict with the severity of nature ; actual warfare, as to the Roman soldier, is felt chiefly as a relaxation from the rude but invigorating discipline of peace. What are the hardships of a campaign to , mew who never knew the luxury of beds, whose food is black bread and water, who sleep ever on the hard bench or cold ground, and know no pleasure save the simple ones of nature and the exciting ones- of conquest ? When the north ceases to communicate vigour to the frame, hardihoood to the habits, and ambition- to the soul, Russia will cease to be a conquering country,.but not till then.—Alison': History of Europe, from 1.815. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH Llaies.—Tile English have so signally failed in the lyric that you can almost count- on the fingers of one hail& all the songs in the English lan guage that are worthy of the name, at least, all those written by Englishmen. The English poets, whose strong hold has ever been the drama, where truly they have out shone all rivalry, have- the dramatic rage so strong that they dramaticize the lyric, singing in every character-but their own. Or perhaps I should say the very reverse; that it is not because of their excellence in the drama that they are weak in the lyric; but because they dread the open heartedness of a lyric- that they take refuge in the drama ; not willing to sing in their own characters, they will sing for any and everybody else. However this be, it is.plain enough that the English lyric is dramatic, that therelies its Weakness, and that this weakness is fatal.. Thereare drinking- songs by teetotallers who trespass in ginger -beer; love songs by men to whom love is a jest ; home songs by bachelors who live at their clubs; work songs by the veriest idlers; hunting songs by those whose noblest gamehave been rats and mice, and such small deer ; war songs by gentle ladies; sea songs by landsmen who get sick in crossing a river ; matin songs by sluggards who never saw the sun rise ; vespers by good fellows to whom, evening is the beginning of the day ; mad songs by men who are never in a passion ; and sacred songs by men who are never in a church.—Scottish lyrics, on the other hand, express the genuine sentiments of the individual singer ; and hence their superiority. The Scottish poets have not been afraid to commit themselves by a show of feeling; the English poets have. Even of such a public virtue as patriotism the Englishman is often very slow to make confession ; and yet no one is prouder of his fatherland. After themanner of Balsam the son of Beor, he gives a blessing to nations that he cordially hates; and his love for England gushes forth in words of reviling, if not in some dreadful malison. " England ! with all thy faults I love thee still," says Cow per; and then he goes on to enumerate her faults, without mentioning a single excellence, only hinting at English mind and manners ; still, he says, as though it were a hard job, he will manage to love his country. How truly Eng lish! how different from the "Rule Britannia," of Thomson; from the " Ye Mariners," of Campbell ; from Scott's burst of enthusiasm when addressing the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ;" from Beattie; even from Byron, at least when lie sings of Scotland ; and above all, from Burns ! The songs of Burns owe their success to this egotism, this personality, this outpouring of the inmost soul which the English avoid as they do the confessional.—Poetics by E. S. Dallas. TIIB CZAB NicnoLas.—He is heart and soul patriotic, not merely in wish, but in spirit and thought. He wishes to improve and elevate his country, and he has done much to effect that noble object : but he desires to do so by developing, not changing, the national spirit, by making it become a first Russia, not a second France or England. He has adopted the maxim of Montesquieu, that no nation ever attained to real greatness but by in stitutions in conformity with its spirit. He is neither led away by the thirst for sudden mechanical improvement, liks Peter, uor the praises of philosophers, like Catherine, nor the visions of inexperienced philanthropy, like Alexander. He has not attempted to erect a capital in a pestilential marsh, and done so at the expense of a hun dred thousand lives ; nor has he dreamt of mystical re generation with a visionary sybil, and made sovereigns put their hands to a holy alliance from her influence. He neither corresponds with French atheists nor - English de mocrats ; he despises the praises of the first, he braves the hostility of the last. His maxim is to take men as they are, and neither suppose them better nor worse. He is content to let Russia grow up in a Russian garb, ani mated with a Russian spirit, and moulded by Russian institutions, without the aid either of Parisian communism or British liberalism. The improvements he has effected in the government of his dominions have been vast, the triumphs with which his external policy have been at tended unbounded; but they have all been achieved, not in imitation of, but in opposition to, the ideas of western Europe. They bespeak, not less than his internal government, the national character of his policy. But, if success is the test of worldly wisdom, he has not been far wrong in his system ; for he has passed the Balkan, here tofore impervious to his predecessors ; he has conquered Poland, converted the Euxine into a Russian lake, planted the cross on the bastions of Erivan, and opened through subdued Hungary a path to Constantinople. Nature has given him all the qualities fitted for such an elevated destiny. A lofty stature and princely air give additional influence to a majestic countenance, in which the prevail ing character is resolution, yet not unmixed with sweet ness. Like Wellington, Caesar, and many other of the greatest men recorded in history, his expression has be come more intellectual as he advanced in years, and be came exercised in the duties of sovereignty, instead of the stern routine of military discipline. Exemplary in all the relations of private life, a faithful husband, an affectionate father, he has exhibited in a brilliant court, and - when surrounded by every temptation which life can offer, the simplicity and affections of patriarchal life. Yet is he not a perfect character. His virtues often border upon vices. His excellencies are - akin to defects. Deeply impressed with the responsibility of his situation, his firmness has sometimes become sternness, his sense of justice degene rated into severity. He knows how to distinguish the innocent from the guilty, and has often evinced a noble and magnanimous spirib in separating the one from the other and showing oblivion of injury, even kindness to the relatives of those who had conspired against his throne and life. But towards the guilty themselves he has not been equally compassionate. He has not let the passions of the contest pass away with its termination. He is an Alexander the Great in resolution ' but not in magnani mity. He wants the last grace in the heroic character — he does not know how to forgivc.—lfistorY cif Europe, by Sir Archibald 114011. LIVERPOOL TOW? COUNCIL. TUB monthly meeting of the Town Council was held in the Chamber on Wednesday last, his Worship the Mayor presiding. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The proceedings comprised a recommendation to in crease the salaries of two clerks in the office of the clerks to the magistrates, namely, Mr. Jacob Walter, from £l3O to £lBO per annum, and Mr. Richard Ellis, from £llO to £l4O per annum, the consideration of which was post poned at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the standing orders ; recommendation to appoint Mr. Edward Chamberlain superintendent of the chain-testing machine, at the salary received by his predecessor, namely, 2105 per annum, with house; report of the probable income and expenditure of the Corporation for the year com mencing Ist September last, and ending 31st August next; recommendation to grant a sum to each of the townships within the borough, equal to the amount of watch-rate payable by such townships respectively ; re commendation for payment of the usual gratuities to the public charities; recommendation to authorise the sale on lease of land in Canning-place and New Wapping; re commendation to enter into arrangements with the Dock Committee, in order to provide proper approaches to the new landing-stage for sea-going steamers, proposed to be moored in front of the Prince's Dock Parade; and re commendation to increase the salaries of Mr. S. M. Strick, clerk to the Town-clerk's office, Cornwallis-street, from £7B to £l2O per annum ; and of Mr. William Colwell, clerk in the same office, from £7B to £lO9 4s. per annum. INCOME AND EXPENDITrUE. The Finance Sub-committee reported that the total income of the Corporate Estate for the year was estimated at £171,778; that the obligatory expenses were likely to be £44,852. From the gross surplus, however, there would have to be deducted several items of discretionary expenditure, which amounted to £3,147 ; also for improve ments in West Derby-road, Everton, Mount-pleasant, Brownlow-hill, Chaloner-street, and Cable-street, £1,600 ; and £lO,OOO voted for the purposes of the Free Public Library and Museum. After deducting these amounts there. was still a surplus of £30,105. Out of this was re commended the payment of the following sums towards the watch-rate, in lieu of poor-rates on the Corporate property, namely, for . Liverpool, £8,525 ; Toxteth-park, £1,583; West Derby, £685;. Everton, £798; Kirkdale, £298 • leaving a balance to be expended for the general benefit of the inhabitants of £18,213. Mr. Huai/ HORNBT moved the confirmation of the reports, proposing the various resolutions seriatim, com mencing with the recommendation of increased salaries to Messrs. Walters and Ellis. After some discussion, the resolution was agreed to as was also one for appointing Mr. Chamberlain superintendent of the chain-testing machine. Mr. HOENBT, after congratulating the Council on the favourable financial prospects of the year, moved that the report of the Finance• Sub-committee be printed, and a copy sent to each member of the Council. kr. Alderman PAZIEN secondWilieproposition, which was confirmed. THE PROPOSED NEW LANDING-STAGE. Mr. HOaNBY noxt moved that the arrangement made between the Dock Committee and the Finance Committee to provide a landing-stage for sea-going steamers be con firmed. The Dock Committee proposed to give to the Council so much of the approach as would be opposite the landing-stage, about half the length of the Prince's parade ; the other half being paid for by the Council at a fair valuation, either in money or an exchange of land that might be wanted. The Finance Committee con sidered, in the first instance, that it would have been More liberal if the Dock Committee had made a present of the whole of the land, considering . the amount the Corpo ration were about to expend for the. benefit of the port. (Hear r hear.) It was only just in him to state that the Dock Committee had granted all the Finance Committee asked for. The Finance Committee' had only asked for one means of access to the stage, but they afterwards con sidered it advisable to extend it thewhole leng,th of the Prince's parade. Under these circumstances the Finance Committee considered the arrangement a fair one, and he therefore-moved the confirmation of the-recommendation. Mr. STEW ART seconded the proposition. Mr. Alderman PARKER rose with a great deal of diffi culty, because this was the first time he had had occasion to oppose anything proposed by the Finance • Committee. But it was a clhty which every member of the Council' had to perform,. to carry out what he thought best for the community at large. He must oppose the , arrangement which had been made with the Dock Committee. No doubt, as the- chairman of the committee had said; the Dock Committee had granted all that they had asked for, but there- was a condition attached to the grant The fact was, that there were 1,000 feet of land beyond that which had been asked, and which the Dock Committee wished to dispose-of, in order to make their dock, , straight, and as a conditiim of giving up what the Council. re , quired, they were-compelled to purchase that additional land, so that, virtually, before the Corporation got what they required, they would be compelled to pay for much more which they did not want. At an expense of £140,000 this Corporation, of their own free will, were going to erect one of the first lancing stages in the world which would enable sea-going steamers, in case of necessity, to land their cattle or deck load. (` No, no t.") Scene-gen tleman said " no, nos" but he said so on the authority of Sir 'Wm Cubitt. The question arose, was this landing stage, to be for passengers-alone, or was it to be used for tholra loading of these sea-going steamers ? He believed the Fi ngnce Committee would tell them that it was to be a passen- Fer stage alone. (" Hear, hear," from Mr. Hornby.) Well, if it was, what on earth did they require with the width of land proposed ? They had thirty feet of land along-sthe• Prince's Pier, and what more than that did they want-for passenger traffic ? And this being the case, he thought there could be no necessity for buying any additional land from the Dock Committee. He did not like to move. an amendment to the proceedings of the Finance Committee., but if any other gentleman would do so, he should cer tainly support him. He repeated, that the Corporation had acted liberally imoffering to erect the landing stage as they were not under the direction of trustees or any,. higher power, and he-thought the Dock Committee ought to have met the proposal 'in a more liberal spirit. He • object to the paying for land which was of no, use to them, and which could be of no use except to straighten the dock wall. Mr. Alderman BENNETT asked whether the resolution was to the effect that the dock committee should meet the finance committee, and make some arrangements, which, would afterwards be submitted to the council for approval- Mr. HORNBT said the resolution was proposed to con firm an arrangement_ which had been already made. The MAvoi said the council were now asked to sanction the principal part of the arrangement, but the details would come before them when they were completed., The finance committee had made several propositions te/the dock committee on the subject of the landing-stage,, and the dock committee- wished to continue the line teethe Prince's-pier, askinglhe corporation to pay for a moiety of the land. The finance committee had agreed to this, awl they asked the contrail to confirm their proceedings. Mr. Alderman BENNETT inquired if the arrangements which had been agreed to gave the largest space that bad been asked'for for the use of the public. The MAYOR replied that it did. Mr. CHARLES TURNER assured the Council that the Dock Committee i Jn discussing this matter, were anxious to show courtesy to the Council, and to do what they thought best for the advantage of the town. They were all serving the public gratuitously—they were all doing that which they thought to be for the benefit of the public at large; and at; to the question whether the Dock. Com mittee should. give a little more land, or the Council should pay a little more for it, they might differ in, opinion upon it, he thought, without any imputation being thrown upon. the members of either body. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Parker. had observed that the second. thousand feet proposed to be appropriated to the landing stage would be of no use; but he thought that Mr. Parker must have come to that conclusion without due. consideration, for it must be obvious to every one that in erecting a landing stage of the extent proposed, 1,000 feet long, they must anticipate a very large traffic. The accommodation for cabs. and other vehicles would be very limited without it ; and the moment it was mentioned to the-Finance Com mittee-they agreed that it would be very-incomplete unless the additional width proposed at one end were extended the whole length of the stage. (Hear ; hear.) Then, with regard to the stage itself, it was not intended that it should be generally used either for taking ht or discharging cargo. That it might be used in, very bad weather for discharging cattle, to prevent them from smothering, was very true, and no doubt it would be used for that purpose ; but all channel steamersusing the landing stage, or almost the whole of them, would have to go into dock to discharge their cargoes. It was only when they brought passengers alone that they would not be obliged to go into dock. (Hear, hear.) That it would be bene ficial to the Dock Estate there could be no doubt, nor could it be doubted that the Corporation would derive very considerable benefits from it, inasmuch as they would receive a large amount of dues from the goods brought by the vessels to the town ; but he thought, on the whole, that a very fair• proposition had been made by the Dock Committee to the Finance Committee, which had been met equally fair by the Finance Committee, and he hoped, therefore, that the recommendation would be adopted. Mr. PICTON said as they had now, belonging to the Corporation, but a very small portion of the margin of the river, before they parted with any more of it, let them have their plans well matured, so that they might not regret having disposed of what would have been of great advantage to the public. Mr. Alderman Coorma said that, as a member of the Finance Committee, it must be painful to him to differ from their recommendation ; but, as he had reserved to himself in committee the right of bringing this matter before the Council, he presumed he was in order in doing so then. In the first place, the Council should understand that they were giving £150,000 of the public money in building the landing-stage. They were going to keep it in repair, which would cost £4,000 a year, and which would make the whole expense upwards of £200,000. The principle upon which the landing-stage should be built had been already recognised. Mr. Turner had told them that they would be benefited by the town dues which would be received from the vessels arriving at the landing stage. Be it so. He (Mr. Cooper) might go so far as to • say that they ought to erect a landing-stage—he might go so far as to say they ought to keep it in proper repair ; but he could not think they should go so far as to pay the Dock Trustees for a piece of land as an entrance to the stage—(hear, hear,)—and he thought the Dock Trustees were not meeting them in a liberal manner in snaking such a proposal. He would go no further than this in the matter—that on condition that the Dock Trustees gave up the land to improve the entrance to the landing -stage, they (the Corporation) should build the stage and keep it in order; but he thought the Dock Trustees should give up the small piece of land required. (Hear, hoar.) He would, therefore, move the confirmation of the proceedings of the Finance Committee regarding the building of the landing-stage, and keeping it in order, on condition that the Dock Committee would give up that piece of land, but not otherwise ; and if the Dock Committee did not choose to meet them, there would be no harm done. Mr. THoltsox seconded Mr. Cooper's amendment. He quite agreed with Mr. Cooper, that if they went to so much expense in erecting the stage, the Dock Committee ought to have given them the land in question. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman S. Howls had no hesitation in giving his support to the original proposition. Allusion had been made to previous Councils having sold the greater portion of the frontage. It was the sole circumstance of the Corporation having sold the foreshore and received the money, which had gone into the Corporate exchequer, and been expended in the improvement of the town and for the benefit of the inhabitants, which, in his opinion, imposed upon them the necessity of providing a commo dious landing-stage for the inhabitants in lieu of the fore shore which their predecessors had sold. (Hear, hear.) The present question was fraught with interest to both estates. (Hear, hear.) The Dock Committee received dues upon the vessels entering the port, and the Corpo ration received town-dues upon the goods which they brought. (Hear.) In' fact, the town, he thought, bene fited in a larger degree, because the benefit to it was two-fold—the benefit received for town-dues, and the benefit received directly for the passengers who filled our hotels, and became great customers at our shops. (Hear, hear.) He should have been glad if the Dock Committee could have made a present of the Land ; but the amount, after all, was only £:7,500; and looking to the benefit it would cause to the town and port by increasing the com merce of Liverpool, he should give his support to the original motion. Mr. TOBIN would support the recommendation of the committee, because he did not think that even if the amendment was carried there was the slightest chance of the resolution of the Dock Committee being altered. (Hear, hear.) „ Mr. FEnartrovan hoped Mr. Cooper would 'not press the amendment, as, if carried, it would stop the scheme altogether. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman J. BEANLEY-3100RE said he should not have trespassed upon the time of the Council upon that occasion, had it not been for a remark from the chairman of the Finance Committee, upon which he felt it incum bent to say a word or two. -They must never overlook the fact that they were acting there in the double capacity of trustees of the Doak Estate and also of administrators of the affairs of that Corporation, and, looking upon it in this light, he considered that the offer on the part of the Dock Committee was not only a fair but a very liberal one. (Hear, hear.) He was surprised to hear the asser tion that they were going to make the landing-stage with out any obligation to do so. He dissented entirely from that remark of the chairman of the Finance Committee, for he (Mr. Bramley-Moore) said that an imperative ob ligation rested upon the Corporation of providing accom modation for the landing of passengers at this port. What were they to do with the town dues, and what was the proposed accommodation for ? •It Was for that which brought more money into Liverpool than anything else in connection with the port—the passengers who arrived by the steamers, and who spent a large amount of money in the hotels and amongst the shopkeepers. (Hear, hear.) He would take the old landing-stage now maintained by the Dock Estate, and he did not hesitate' to say that the town had reaped the cost of that landinr,.-stage 500 times over by the facilities which it had afforded to passengers to come here and spend their money. They (the corpora -1 tion) ought to make this an attractive and cheap port, I and one-of their first objects with that view ought to be to facilitate the transit of passengers. The obligations on the part of the corporation to do this was imperative. They received upwards of £lOO,OOO in town. dues,. and what were- they to do in return ? They would not be doing their duty if they neglected the opportunity now afforded them of improving the condition of their - port. Since the ch&rman of the finance committee had: made. the statement to which he had referred, he. had had put into his hands a statement (by a proprietor of the steamers) of the town dues paid by the steamers, and he foundthat one single boat from Glasgow paid them last year the'smn of £389 ls. 8d in town dues. The corporation provided. no accommodation, yet it received that large sum' of money ; but surely they were called upon to do something for that money. From. this statement he also found that Dublin steamers paid during the last year £OOO fdr . town dnes, and they did- nothing for it in return ; when, they were receiving:such.large sums of money they ought to spend it freely in-a way that would benefit the inhabi tants of the town at large l. and he did not know a better' way in which they could do so than this. It had been said that the support of the: landing-stage would cost the corporation £4OOO a year; he believed it would, and, perhaps, a little more-; but he believed it would be the best spent money which had ever been expended by the corporation. Holding-these-views, he should support the recommendation of the Mr. Tnomsoa - said he was not aware that the sum re quired for the purchase of the land was only £7,500, but as it was so he would recommend Mr. Cooper to withdraw his motion. Mr. Alderman COOPER' said; after the general expres sion of opinion he had heard: on the part of members of the Council, he was perfectly willing to withdraw his amendment. (Hear, hear.) This was unanimously agreed to. Mr. HORNBY then said that the other recommendation of the committee, to increase the salaries of Mr. Strick and Mr. Cowell, clerks in the town-clerk's office, would have to stand over, in accordance with the standing orders, till the next monthly meefthg. The general proceedings of the finance committee were then confirmed, on the moticnsof Mr. HORNBY, seconded by Mr. Alderman COOPER. WATCH COMAtITTEZ. From the minutes of this committee it appeared that measures were in progress, by the borough engineer, for testing the quantity and quality of the gas supplied for the public lamps. His report - on the subject will shortly be ready. Mr. Tourer having moved the confirmation of the pro ceedings, they were confirmed. THE T 'TRADE. On the proposition to confirm the proceedings of the Dock Committee, moved by Mr‘C. TEENER, Mr. 21.1eNxcoLL moved that that portion having refer ence to the rates of rental Mr- stowage ground on the Harrington estate be vetoed. Ile-averred that the Dock Committee were charging more-for the land adjoining the Harrington Dock than private owners were, and thht the object of their line of policy was to drive away the timber trade to the north end. He - should, with the utmost confidence in the decision of the-Council, propose that a veto be placed upon that portibn of the Dock Committee's proceedings which had reference-to: the Harrington Dock Estate.—Mr. HALIIEAD seconded: the proposition. A protracted discussion ensued, which terminated in Mr. C. TURNER giving an, assurance, that if Mr. MNicoll, or other gentlemen , . who: had spoken on the question, had sought an interview with the Dock Com mittee, and laid a similar representation before them as that which had been made-to-the Council, he was sure they would have received terery attention. Mr. M`NicoLL, on this intimation, withdrew his motion, and the Dock Chnnittee's proceedings were confirmed. iMPROViIMIENT, coansiTTEE. Mr. Alderman S. HoL3eitproposed that Mr. W. Earle be appointed a member of the Improvement Committee, of which he had given notices. Mr. BENNETT seconded the•proposition. Mr. Alderman Pins. En. wouldipropose another member, not because he had any objeetion to Mr. Earle, but be cause there was a gentleman, against whom no charge had ever been made, who haer. never been stigmatized by the Council, but whose name appeared on none of the committees. He alluded; to Mr. Robertson, who repre sented one of the most numerous constituencies in Liver pool. It was out of no•. diSrespect to Mr. Earle that he moved that Mr. Robertson's narnebeadded to the committee. Mr. BRADLEY : I must request, Mr. Mayor, that you will not allow expressicas ofthe kind used by Mr. Parker. A sharp altercation.here-ensued, in which several mem bers of the Council took part. It was put an end to by Mr. Alderman S. HDLME, who gave notice that Mr. . Robertson be also added' to the committee. This step, being acquiesced in by M. Parker, the appointment of Mr. Earle, as a member of the committee, was unanimously • agreed IXPROTEMENTEL - Mr. Alderman Sb Hoe= moved the confirmation oftbe proceedings of the-Improvement Committee. Mr. BENNETT, seconded the proposition, and the pro ceedings were confirmed: Mr. EARLS rose to. introduce his proposition, and, in. doing so, observed that the proposed plan of forming a new street in the direction of St. George's-hall, in lieu of the one on tbe.high level principle, originally proposed, would be attended with serious inconvenience. He then proceeded to give -the proposed new street a name,.which hehoped it would ever retain if itwere constructed. It would cut througltnine• streets, situate among a parcel of dram shops, so that thirty-six admirable corners would be made for more gin-shops. (Loud laughter.) Perhaps some gentlemen.ot the Council would not object to, that. In stead, however, of calling it Victoriistreet, as had been suggested; he proposed to call it " Grog-street”--(laughter) —which,woukt mark its character. After some further observations he concluded by moving a proposition "to rescind or• vary so much of a resolution of the Council, passed on the Sth day of October last,. as. authorises, the Improvement Committee to apply to• Parliament for powers to construct a new street, twenty-four yards wide, commencing near the south portico of St. George's-hall, and terminating in Dale-street, at the-east side• of Colonial buildings, near Moorfields, and to limit the powers to be applied for by the Improvement Bill to be introduced into Parliament, in the next session, so far as respects such intended new street, to the property situated between St. John's-lane and Hood-street, and to effecting the other improvements proposed by that bill," Mr. HODSON seconded the proposition. After a brief discussion the question was adjourned until to-morrow, when the Improvement Bill will be brought under the consideration of a special meeting. The proceedings of the Law Courts' Committee, Educa tion Committee, Gaol Committee, and Town-hall Estab lishment Committee, were confirmed, except so much of the proceedings of the Gaol Committee as recommended an increase in the salary of the chaplain, and which stands over until the next monthly meeting. TIM /MALTA COMMITTER. The confirmation of the proceedings of the Health Committee was moved by ➢ir. HODSON, in the absence of the chairman. Mr. JOHNSON seconded the proposition. Mr. TURNER expressed a hope that no unnecessary obstacle would be thrown in the way of the railway coin pany's crossing the streets near the North Docks, as such a result was essential to the scheme for constructing a high-level railway, which was being loudly called for by the coal trade. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Moss explained that the Health Committee were only anxious to see that their rights werenot infringed upon. Mr. Alderman S. How as spoke of the advantages to be derived from constructing a high-level railway for the pur poses of the coal trade. _ _ The committee's proceedings were confirmed, as were also those of the Garden's Committee. THB WATCH COMMITTEE. Mr. HOLT, in moving the adoption of these proceedings, asked, in the first instance, the sanction of the Council to the sale of certain land in Eaton-street, at 235. per yard. The matter, according to standing orders, was postponed for a month. _ _ _ _ _ A long discussion took place in connexion with a pro posal by Mr. BRADLEY, to have the proceedings of the Water Committee placed in the ante-room for inspection ; after which the general proceedings were confirmed. THE FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. The proceedings having been read, Mr. PICTON first moved, and Mr. AN-I:sox seconded, the appointment of Mr. Roulston, at a salary of £lOO per annum, to the charge of the lending libraries. Agreed to The Council next authorised the Mayor to issue his precept in the usual way for obtaining the sum of £4,618, the estimated cost of the Library and Museum establishments, and the Botanical Gardens, during the ensuing year. The proceedings were then confirmed. Mr. 1V00D111.7/ and Mr. Dzcxwirii urged and sc• conded the adoption of the proceedings of the Hackney Carriage Committee. The Baths' Committee proceedings were adopted.—The Coroner's account, amounting to £42 195., was sanctioned. A letter from Mr. August us H a rding, ffering to dispose of his Model of Ancient Liverpool, was referred to the Mu seum Committee. The accounts of the costs in relation to the prosecutions at the borough sessions and the assizes, and also the main tenance of prisoners in the borough, was ordered to be sent to the Secretary of State. - The Council then rose. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. L. C. Bathurst, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of wvthall, Worcestershire. Rev. 11. L. Bickerstaffe, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Andrew's, Manchester. ltev. A. Brooke, M.A., to the Vicarage of Eaat Rctford, Nottinghamshire. Rev. J. D. M. Crofts, 8.A., to the Curacy of Southdover and All Saints, Lewes. Rev. E. Gabriel, 8..., to the Curacy of St. James's Church, Toxteth.park, Liverpool. Rev. J. H. Glencross, 8.A., to the Curacy of Bodtnin, Cornwall. Hon. and Rev. A. A. B. Hanbury, 8.A., to the Rectory of Shohdon, near Leominster. Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, Provost of Eton College, to the Rectory of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. Rev. A. Hewlett, Incumbent of Astley, to be a Surrogate for the diocese of Manchester. Rev. W. H. Hicks, to the Vicarage of Walton, Norfolk. Rev. R. C. Jenkins, M.A., Incumbent of Christ Church, to the Rectory of Lyininge, near Canterbury. Rev. J. Jones, M.A., Rector of Criccieth, Carnarvonshire, to be a Rural Dean. Rev. C. Lawrence, to a Curacy in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham. • Rev. J. J. Manley, 8.A., of Exeter. College, Oxford, to the Curacy of Dawlish, Devon. Rev. S. W. 3lant, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bramford, with Burstall annexed, near Ipswich. Rev. 'F. H. Newman, 11. A,, to the Curacy of Honiton,Devon. Rev. It. W. Pearce, 8.A., to the Rectory of Gaywood, near Lynn Regis. Rev. J. W. Penwell, M.A., to the Vicarage of Horley, near Ha nbury,• Oxfordshire. Rev. 'l'. F. Ravenshaw, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ilfracombe,• Devon. Rev. R. B. Rogers, 8,A., to the Curacy of St. Anthony, Cornwall. Rev. 11,J. Sawyer, M.A., Curate of Wantgote, to the Rec tory of Snnningwell, near Abingdon. Rev.. W. B. Smith, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Head Mastership of the City of London Freemen's Orphan School: . . Rev. K. P. Stock, 8.A.,. to the Stipendiary Curacy of the Parish Church of Radcliffe, near Manchester. Rev. W. H. Thornton,- 8.A., to the Curacy of Lynton, near Minehead: DfOCESE OF CHESTER. The Bishop of Chester has renewed the license of non residence of the Rev. William Henry Galfridus Mann, Vicar of Bowdon, Cheshire, until the 31st December next, on the ground of continued ill health. The Bishop has also renewed the license of non-resi dence of the Rev. Peter Von Essen, Rector of Harrington, in the county of Cumberland, until the 31st: December, 1855, on the ground of continued ill health. ORDINATION. — Wednesday, the Ist February next, is the last day for candidates-for ordination, by the Bishop of Chester, on the second Sunday in Lent, to send in their necessary papers to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., Chester, his Lordship's secretary. PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION.—The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury was on Wednesday further prorogued, pursuant to the royal writ, to Wednesday, the - Ist of February. The Archbishop of Canterbury, attended by the' Registrar of tile Province, entered the Jerusalem Chamber shortly .after twelve o'clock, when, the- royal writ having been read by the registrar, his grace - signed the schedule of prorogation. Tim CHURCH or ENGLAND , .—TIie census tables show that in 1831 the number of churches and chapels of the Church of England amounted to 11,825, The number in 1861, as returned to the Census-office, was 13,854, exclu sive of 223 described as being " not separate building,s," eras- being " used also for secular - purposes," thus show ing; as stated, an increase in the' course of 20 years of more than 2,000 churches. THE PATRONAGE OF THE CHUILCEIt Or ENGEAND.•-- It is -stated, in the Parliamentary volume on religious wor ship,-.that of the 11,728 benefices in England and. Wales, I,l4Lare in the gift of the. Crown, 1,853 in that of the bishops, 938 in that of cathedral chapters and•other - digni taries, 770 in that of the Universities•of Oxford and Cam briegennd the Colleges of Eton, Winchester, &c., 031 in that of the ministers of the mother churches, and. the residue,. in number, 6,092, in that of private persons.. PRESENTATIONS VACANT.—The Rectory of Ewhurst, Sussex value £BOO a-year : patrons, King's Colle, Cambridge. The Rectory of South Warnborough, near Oldham Hampshire ; value, £650 a-yeare . patrons,. St. John's College, Oxford. The Rectory of Caldecote r near Baldock, and the Rectory of Newnham.. The -Rectory of TedstonoDelamere, near Bromyard ; value • £3OO a-year :- patrons,..Brasenose College, Oxford. The- Rectory of 'East bridge, near New Romney, Kent ; value £lOO a-year :- patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Th - e Vicarage of BeclriNdiam„ near Gainsborough, Nottinghamshire; value £l5O a-year-: patron, the Rev. T. H. Shepherd; M.A., Rector of Clayworth. The Vicarage of Haney; near Bawtry, Lincolnshire ; value £6OO a-year : patron, the Archbishop of York.. The Vicarage of Emly, with the -Rectories of Red City, and Tullamain annexed patron - the- Bishop of CasheK. The Incumbency of Hythe, Kent; value £2OO a-year. The Incumbency of Christ Church, Turnham green ; £3OO a-year : patron, the Bishop of London. A MUNIFICILNT GlFT. — Three beautiful...! stained-glass windows Biros just been put up in the chancel , of St. Ann's Church,. Stanley, near Liverpool. The subject in the centre one is the Ascension ; seven figures axe. introduced into it with beautiful effect, on a rich deep blue ground. At the bottom of the window is a suitable- text from St. John xx, " I ascend to your Father and my Father," &c. The: two. side windows are occupied by lifeesizefignres of St. Peter, and St. Paul, each bearing its respective emblems,. Under St. Peter are introduced;.. in. an orna mental compartment, the family arms of Mr. Preston; and under-St.. Paul, those of the Rev. Gleaner, the in cumbent— Each window is surrounded with a rich and beautifuLborder. These windows are of the laighe,st class, and extremely rich and harmonious in the colouring. I There is-much credit due to the Messrs. Pilkington, of St. ' Helen's„. by whom they were designed and executed. They are. the gift of the children of Mr. Preston, of Rock house, West Derby. REMOVAL or CHURCHES IN LONDON.--The Bishop of London has approved a plan which has beewsubmitted to him by.the Rev. Charles Hume, M.A., rector of St.. Mi chael's,. Wood-street, for the removing of some of the churches in, the city, with a view to a supply of some of the suburbs. He states that a small number of the city churches have considerable and - encouraging congrega tions,:twov or three of them amountingje nearly 300. On. the : other hand, the attendance of some. falls below 16; aud.there are many at which it does.not amount to 50; the average attendance at the churches proposed to be removed being only 33. 'While such is the state of things in the city, it has been shown, by a return made to the House of Commons by the sub-division of parish commis sioners, that no fewer that 58 new churches are required in the diocese of London. Of this number, 49 are required for the metropolitan district and immediate suburbs, and 9 fortowns and districts within eightoniles. of St. Paul's. Mr.. Hume contends that less than , 20 churches would meet the wants of the population resident within the city of London Union, and, consequently, at least 38 churches might be advantageously taken &am, and rebuilt in such other parts of the metropolis ankita environs as are defi cient in church accommodation.. The following are the details of the plan :—The number of churches proposed to be dealt with is 50. It is proposed to remove, (at pre sent) 30, and to retain 20 —the parishes whose churches are- moved to be consolidated. with. those. which are left standing. In arranging the incomes for the consolidated parishes, the rule would be this :. To- every parish, the population of which exceeds 1,000, £450 per annum to be' assessed : for every additional 100 parishioners add £l2 a year. The aggregate - income of the 50 churches is *0,560 ; the aggregate income of the 20 proposed conso lidated parishes would be £11,353 ; there would remain to the 30 churches to be removed £9,207, giving £306 and a fraction for each : The additional. stun required to make up a sufficient income for a. clergyman, from £5OO to £7OO, should be made up.in, the new locality to which the church is removed. HORTIC'ULTURE. STOVE,CONSERVITORt, &c..—Watering is always neces. sary to growing plants, but the operation requires more judgment than many persons suppose. Amateurs, espeei. ally, oftener destroy favourite plants byoevr-kindness than neglect, and many. a much-valued fuchsia or geranium has been kept in beauty all the summer and autumn, only to be lost in the winter, and the loss set down to frost, when the real cause has been too much water, keeping the plant, by its excitement, from the state of rest which is both natural and necessary to it at this season. This is well known to practical gardeners, but even they often forget that those plants which are now naturally in active growth, such as camellias, &c., require a regular but very moderate supply of water, too much being more injurious than too little ; this rule also applies to plants which are now in perfection from having been forced. FLOWERING OF NELUMBII73IB AT MONTPELLIER-- The Revue Horticole contains an article extracted from the Gardener's Chronicle on the flowering of these two species in Lancashire, and observations upon the same subject by M. Martins. N. luteum flowered in water hav ing a temperature of 75°, whereas N. speciosum did not develope its flowers till the temperature of the water was raised to 86°. At Montpellier these two species flower perfectly well every year in the open air, in wooden tubs or stone troughs, the water in which is only heated by the sun's rays ; but N. luteum generally flowers about the end of June, whilst N. speciosum does not do so till the middle of July. There is usually an interval of 20 days between the flowering of the two species. This fact was furnished by the intelligent gardener who has grown them since 1835. It supports what has been observed in Lancashire, and proves that the Nelumbium from North America requires less heat for flowering . thanthe one from I n di a . The temperature of the water in which these two species flower never exceeds 77° in the day ; at night it always falls 9' or 10°. In winter the Nelumbiums are placed in three different situations. Those which are planted in the stone troughs remain in the open air ; the wate r i s l e t o ff so that the rhizomes are buried in a thin mud ; the water is re placed by leaves so as to fill the trough, which is then surrounded with a heap of leaves. The other Nelumbiums grow in the large wooden tubs are removed, some into a greenhouse, and others into the orangery. In the greenhouse, the temperature freque n tly f a ll s t o 46° i n the clear, cold, winter nights ; and in the orangery it is some times only 4or 5° above freezing ; but these compara tively low temperatures are of short duration. Still in spring, when the tubs are again removed into the open air, the Nelumbiums, which were kept in the greenhouse, are observed to come into leaf before those which were wintered in the orangery or out of doors. These species would doubtless remain perfectly well all the year in the open air, in the south and west of England. Tna TOTAL CAPITAL of the banks of Scotland amounts to £13,000,000, or about £5 per head of the population ; while the capital of the Irish banks is only about N 5,000,000, or 180.8 d. per head. TIIEgbAY, JANUARY 10, 1854 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTLNG AT MANCIIESTER.—FRIDIT. e The betting to-day only tended to make more manifest the' disposition to back Miss Mowbray for the Li%erpool Steeple Chase; 1,600 to 200 was taken twice, and 4GO to 50 twice, all by one gentleman, who was wiping to go on at the same figure ; 700 to 100 was afterwards offered, but 8 to 1 being the taking price, it met with no response. Virago would have been backed for the Chester Cup at 1.000 to 30, and Catspaw at 1,000 to 15 ; 3.000 to 100 was offered against the for mer, and 5,000 to 100 against the latter. Newminster, who has been backed to win a great stake, is firm at 50 to 1 (takers), Latest prices : LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 4000 to 500 agst Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray—taken. CHESTER CUP, 1854. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Virago—take 1.000 to 30. 40 to 1 Mr. Nicholl's Newminster—take 50 to 1. 40 to 1 Mr. Price's Tom—take 50 to 1. 50 to 1 Earl Chesterfield's Typee—take 1,000 to 15. 1000 to 15 Mr. Howard's Catspaw—taken. 1000 to 10 Mr. Saxon's Black Doctor—taken. 500 to 5 Mr. Drinkald's Jack Frost—taken. 500 to 5 Lord Clifden's Pelion—taken. 500 to 5 Duchess of Loraine—taken. THE DERBY, 1834. 13 to 1 apt Lord Derby's Dervish—taken to .475. 50 to 1 Mr. St. George's Bro. to Chanticleer—taken. The Lismore (county Waterford) Steeple Chase races are fixed for the 20th March. Bk f by Mentor out of Window Shut, 3 yrs., has arrived at W. Smith's, Newmarket. Mr. Howard has sold Rataplan to Mr. T. Parr; the price. it is said, was £1,200. The Erirl of GlSsgow and C. Greville, Esq., have accepted the stewardship of the Goodwood Meeting. In consequence of the severity of the weather, Bromley Steeple Chases have been postponed sine die. The Farmers', Fai:play. Selling, and Foxhunter's Steeple Chases at Oundle, close and name to-morrow (Wednesday). Sir Charles Monck's Vindes, 4 yrs., has joined John Scott's string at Whitehall, Talton, to be tanned for his engagemnets. A match, for 50 soya., p.p., has been made, to come off over the Beverley Race Course on the 25th of January, two miles, between Smuggler Bill, aged, I 2st„ and Wildgoose, aged (h.b.), list. ; the former is the favourite. ENTRY FOR THE LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.—Miss Mowbray, g by Faush-a-Ballagh, Oscar, Peter Simple, Half-and-Half, Lobster, Daphne, Kilquade, La Gazza Lsdra, Everton, Lady Arthur, Tom of Tuam, The Prince, Labyrinth, Comeaway, Crabbs, Beware,. Jumpaway, Peter, Columbine, Sir Peter Laurie, Robin Hood, Calmar, Squire of :Halton, Geraldus, Bullfincher, Maurice Daley, Pride of the North, Frederick, Luck's-all, Star of England, Mountain Stahl. Spring, Clansman, Abd-el-Kader, Vamhope, Bourton, Trout, Napoleon the Second, Chester, Burnt Sienna, g by Algar,. Victress, The Colonel, Maria Day, The Old Rake, Simple Peter, Forest Lad. • ENTRY FOR THE NEWTON SPRING STEEPLE-CHASE (HAN.. D 5 AP) OF 100 Sors. , IS54.—Mr. Balfe's Daphne s 6 yrs..; Mr. J. Cassidy's Madeline, 6 yrs.; Mr. W. Topham, us- Crabbs, aged; Mr. Henderson's Comeaway, 6 yrs ; Captain Newman's Caltunbine (late Derby Dilly), 6 yrs. ; Mr. Harding's Royal Bine; aged ; Mr. Harding's Luke the Labourer, aged; Captain Thornton's Minna, aged ; Mr. Brown's Calmar, aged ; Mr. W. Thompson's Maid of the West, aged; Mr. Langshaw nd..The Dwarf r aged ; Mr. Walker's Tulip, aged ; Mr. Saxon'S Friend less, aged; Mr. Barber, nd. Abd-el-Kader, aged; Mr. T. F. Maion'ii British Yeoman, aged ; Mr. Tempest nd. Lansdown, 6 yrs.; Captain White nd. gby Fangh-n-Ballagh ‘,11.-IN); 6 yrs.; Mr. Payne nil. Oscar, aged; Mr. Legh nd. Miss Pardon, 5 yrs.; Mr. Bennion rid. Labyrinth, 6 yrs.; Mr. Tilbury,. nd. Tomboy, aged ; Mr. H. Law's Napoleon the Second,-5 yrs.; Mr. C. Higgins'' The Old Rake, aged. ENTRY stilt CH'ESTZR CUP, 1834.—8 y Ascot—f. out °Mee.- weed, 3 yrs.;: Aaron Smith, 6 yrs. ; Adeline, 3 yrs. ; Ammonia, 5 yrs. ; Agnillh, 5 yrs.; Acrobat, 3 yrs.; Annie Sutherland,. 4 yrs.; Aldford;4.yra.; Audubon, 4 yrs.; Adine, 5 yrs.; Alexis, 4 yrs. ; Amos, 3 1 yrs. ; Fiallinafad ; Belling,hsm, 3 yrs.; Bright Phoebus, 3 yrs. ; Bit of Blue, 5 yrs.; Brigadier. 3 yrs.; Bro. to Grey Tommy, 4 rs. ; Battery, 4 yrs.; Buttress ; Balrownie f 4 yrs.; Braxey r o=yrs. Baalbec, 3 yrs.; Ben its, 5 yrs.; Bro. tO Little Swift, 3. yrs:; Black Doctor. 6 yrs.; Barrel!, 3 pre-; Brown Brandy, 3 y . rs.; Bridesmaid, 3 yrs. ; Blame, 3 yrs. ;r Boddicot, 3 yrs. ; : C ariboo, aged; by California—f out of Miss Kitty Cockle, 4 yrS. Cineas, 4 yrs. ; Changarnier. 3 yrs.;; Captain Cornish-, 4' yrs. ; Charity, 4 yrs. ; Catherine Parr, 4 4 yrs.; Canute, 3 yrs. ; Crusader, 3 yrs.; Chief Justice, aged ;- Cneshire Marquis,4 yrs. ; Communist, 3 yrs.; Contentment,, 4 yrs. ; Caliph, 3 yrs. ; Cotherstone colt out of Duchess of Lorraine, 3 yrs. ; Candlewick, aged ; Catapaw, 4 yrs.; Con.- tentler, 3 yrs. ; Crnisk, The 5 yes.; Chaseaway, 6 yrs ; Cripple Charley. 4 yrs.; Cobstut s 4 yrs.; Comfit, 3 yrs. ; Dear Polly, , 4 yrs.; Dagobert, 4-yrs..; Dr. O'Toole, 3 yrs.; Dan Cupid, 3. yrs. ; Don Quixot, 3 yrs.; Dear Me, 4 yrs. ; Defiance, 4 yrs-4 r k Domino, 3 yrs. ; Darnel O ' ltonrke, 5 yrs.; Dove, 4 yrs. V', Device, 3 yrs.; Diomedia, 4 yrs.; Early Bird, 3 yrs.; Epa mionda', 3 yrs.; Elcst;.s yrs.; Eceleston, 3 yrs.; Eulogist, 4 yrs.; England's Glory; Erycina, 3 yrs. ; Eva, 3 yrs.; Fars*, 3 yrs.; Fortis; Grorgey, 4' yrs. ; Gabriel, 3 yrs.; Grey Tommy;; Grimalkin, 3 yrs. ; 4 yrs. ; Goldfinder, 6 yrs. ; Gui cowar, 4 yrs.; Gainekseper s 3 yrs. ; Handsome Buck, 4 yrs. ; Hero; Heapy, 4 yrs.; Haricot; Hermitage; Haco, 4 yrs.; HON, 4 yrs. ; Horst°, .3yrs. ; Ham, 3 yrs. ; lanthe, 6 yrs.; Itch, 4 yrs.; Ilex, 5 yrs. ; Ireland's Eye, 4 yrs. ; Ida, 4 yrs.; Indian Warrior, 5 yrs. ; Agricola, 3 yrs.; Jewess, Tbe' 3 yrs.; Jephson, 3 yrs;: Janey, 4 yrs. ; Jack Frost, 3 yrs.; Jujube, 3 yrs. ; Jouvence, 4 yrs..; Joe Miller, 5 yrs.; Koh-i- Noor, 5 yrs.; King Pepin, 5 yrs.; Kennyside Hero, 3 yrs.; Nelly. 3 yrs.; King of Trumps. 5 yrs.; Kingst 5 yrs.; Kil-- quads, 6 yrs. ; La Belles. 4 yrs;.; Lady Emily ; Light of the Harem, 4 yrs.; Lough<Bswn,. 6 yrs. ; Landscape, 4 yrs.; Lively; Lord Faueonburg, 4 yrs.; Lord Lieutenant, 4 yrs-; Lindrick, 5 yrs. ; Lerrywiteu 5-yrs.; Lambton, 4 yrs. ; Little Tom, 4 yrs.; Little Davies s.yrs.; Little Harry, 5 yrs.; Lain procelles, 3 yrs. ; Little-Jetn, 3 yrs. ; Lurjey, 3 yrs.; Le Juif, 6 yrs.; Llanforda, 5 yrs,; Lancashire Lass; Lady Frances; Monimia, 3 yrs. ; Mayor of Hull, 4 yrs. ; Maley, aged; Slaster Adams, 3 yrs. ; MounzainsDeer, 6 yrs. ; Miss Peddle, 4 yrs.; Muscovite, 5 yrs. ; 31arcsAntony, 3 yrs. ; Marchioness, aged; Nlr. Sykes, 4 yrs.; Mortimer,. 3. yrs.; Miss Sellon, 3 yrs.; Merry Monk - , 3 yrs.; Morningstar, 5 yrs. ; Nutpecker, 3 yrs.; By Napier—b. f. out of Catherine Parr's dam, 3 yrs. ; Night shade, 3 yrs.; Nabob, 5 yrs.; Newmisster, 6 yrs. ; Ossitrage• 3 yrs. ; Orson, 3 yrs. ; Oxus, 3 yrs. ; Pantomime, 4 yrs.; Peggy, 4 yrs.; Ptolemy, 3 yrs.; Pelion,. 4 yrs. ; Penitent, The 3 yrs. ; President, The 3 yrs.; Poetess. 4-yrs. ; Pu r it an, 4 yrs.; Queen 's Own, 3 yrs. ;by R obert de Gorham —c.; Rattle, 4 y rs . ; Red Lion, 5 yrs.; Robin Hoed; 3. yrs. ; Royalist 3 yrs. • Richard Primmer, 5 yrs.; ReiVer, The yrs. ; Itally,'3 yrs. • 'Roebu ck ' 3 yrs.; Rosalba, 4 yrs.; St. Paith s 4 yrs.; Selina, v„ ' Se t "' weed. aged; Saint Andre w , 4 ' y rs. ; Songstres s, a yta , ; St. Michael, 5 yrs.; Sine gall Non, 3 yrs. ; Sir Mark, 3 yrs ; Sandhurst, 4 yrs.; Shakspere, &yrs. ; Sleeping Partner, 6 yrs.; St. Spiro, 3 yrs. ; St. Clair, 3.yrs.; Sextus, 4 yrs. ; Saalfeld, 3 yrs. ; St. Stephen, 3 yrs,;. Star of Surrey, 3 yrs.; Shunting, • 3 yrs. ; Sir James Graharn,.3 yrs.; Sampson, 4 yrs. ; by Tear away —c. out of Ballinsaloe* data, 3 yrs: ; Toggery, 3 yrs; Types, 4 yrs. ; Testator, aged ;.Trump Queen, 3 yrs.; Talfourof • 4 yrs.; Torment, 4 yrs, ;;Tavistoek, 4 yrs.; Tonic, 6 yrS.,. Tickton, 4 yrs. ; Tested, s:yrs. s Trifle, 5 yrs. ; Tom, 3 yrs., • Umbriel, 4 yrs.; Ulster ;:Veteran, 4 yrs.; Valour, 4 yrs.; by Verulam—b. f. out of Jennala r 3 yrs.; Virago. 3 yrs.; Win sucker, 5 yrs.; Wild Huntsman, 3 yrs.; Whittington, 3 yrS.;- Warbawk, 5 yrs. THE CHARIOWS.--(Weekly _Reports) • INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS, SOHO-Sr.—Jan. On the books, boys So,: girls 52; average attendance, boys SO, girls 44 ; sick list, boys 4; girls I ; obtained situations, boys 2, girls 0. ROYAL INFIRMARY, Dec. 31.—Anuirran : In-patientS, 46; out-patients, 2; casuals,. 13.—DiscnA HOED: In-patients cured, 20 ; relieved, &r.:, 54 made out-patients, 6; irregular, 0; dead, 3.—Remaining in the house, 168. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES, JAN. 9.—New cases re ceived advice and medicine at the institution—North, 241; South, 172; total, 41 - 3. _New cases visited at their houses fiat supplied with medicine—North, 192'; South, 73 ; total, 265. NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JAN. 7.—ADMITTED: Acci dents, 43; Medical and Surgical Cases, 16; Total, 19. -- DISCI! A ROED : Cured, 194 relieved, itc., 4; out-patients, 29; irregular, 0; died, Z. , —Remaining in the Hospital, 110. SOUTHER:VAN-D. TOXTRTH HOSPITAL, JAN. 4.-10 — patients : Discharged:—Cured, 4; Relieved, 14: at own 1* quest, 0; irregular,, 0 ; dead, 1; entered, 22; under treat ment, 73. Oat-patients: Cured, 33; entered 39; under treatment, 44._ EYE AND EAR. INFIRMARY, No. 90, top of MOuNT. PLEASANT.--(Monthly Report.)—EYE DEPARTMENT: Neil patients admitted in the month of Dec., 217; patients pre scribed for , antirwho.have received S urg i ca t ass i stance darin g ! the month of. Dec., 236.--Emt DEPARTMENT: Patients . prescribed far, , and who have received Surgical assistance during the rsouthof Dee., 235. SC. ANNE'S• DISPENSARY AND RYE AND EAR INS STITUTION.;.9, Ross HILL, Dec. 31.—New patients, viz.:: Relieved at the institution, 1:3; relieved at their own dwel lings, 54; causal prevailing epidemic, ; total, 177. RICE LONDON GAZETTE. TIMSDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1354. BA NR.Durrs.—Edward Sumner, Waterloo, near LiverPo o 2l licensed victualler, Jan. 11, Feb. /5, at 11 o'clock,. at; th e Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy; solicitor, M r ' Atkinson„ Liverpool ; o ffi cial assignee, Mr. Cazenove, Liver pool.—George Pearson, Birkenhead ? grocer, Jan. 11, Feb. nt at 11. o'clock, at the Liverpool Diurict Court of Bankrupteg solicitor, Mr. Bretherton, Liverpool ; official assignee. IW. Turner, Liverpool—John Gray, ulme, Manchester, butche r: Jan. 17, Feb. 8, at 12 o' c l oc k, at t h e M anc h ester Di s trict Court of Bankruptcy; solicitor, Mr. Partington, 'Manchester+ official assig nee , Mr. I'ott , Manchester.—Ri c h ar d 13rownlon't Ardwick, ncashire, starch manufacturer, Jan. 2a, Feb. I °' air 12 o'clock, at the Mancliester District Court of Bar „ "' zuptcy ; solicitors, Messrs. Kershaw and Bullock, 510; cheater; official assignee, Mr. Lee. Manchester.—Edward Hall, Cross-hills, near Keighley, Yorkshire,, and Burnley! Lancashire, tailor, Jan. 17,. Feb. 7, at 11 o'clock,, at the Lee! District Court of Bankruptcy; solicitors, Messrs. Leetuna Humble, Bradford; Messrs. Bond and Barwick, Lees l official assignee, Mr. Hope, Leeds .—William:Buraett Anew son, Billiter-street, Loadenhall-street, merchant. Ward, Goswell-street„ hosier. Edward Thoma s . Throgmorton-street..atockbroker.—William Sims, 0 Cornwall, linen-draper.—John Howitt, Shetnekl.moor, - shire, draper. PA KTNE FISH IFS DISSOLVED.—J. Majors and R. Gen re . Liverpool, shipbuilders.—Stewart and Cox, Li verpoo l, gene brokers.—J. Thompson, Son, and Co, Li verpool, cor n Ine r j. chants; as far as regards J. Thompson. —M. Green and Nicholson, Liverpool, and River Plate,commission merchants • —Chaloner and Fleming, Liverpool, ti m b er measure rs. (1. _, and H. Cram and F. H. Powell, Liverpool, s hi n b ro kers " far as regards G. Cram.—Lucas and Kirby, Liverpool, share brokers.—T„ B. Bourne and W. Steele, Liverpool, cotton brokers.—Shewell and Thorne, Liverpool, pawnbrokers. W. Mactie and Co., Edinburgh a , :d Leith, R. Matte an, Sons, Greenock and Glasgow, and Ma t te a n d C o ., Liverpon'" sugar retiners • as far as regards J. Mactie and W. Macte• - :, J. C. Milns and T. D. Price, Manchester and London, chants,—Blenkinsop and Marriott, Manchester, draperf' Copland:and Wright, Manchester, tin plateworkera.—Norb and Bindloss, Manchester, silk manufacturers.—Taylor Edge, Salford, spread plaster manufacturer. —l. and Johnson, Prescot, Lancashire, watch hand makers.—Thoter stone and Co., Macclesteld, grocers. —F. and J. Dickso n Chester, and elsew here, nurserymen.—Hutchings and Rubel, Wigan, printers.—M. Ricketts and S. S. Roden, DroitWiC medical general practitioners. DIVIDENDS —Jan. 23, W. Rainford. Liverpool, upholstell —Jan. 25, G. P r yd e , D. J ones , an d J. Gibb, Liverpool, ~5611, Makers.—Jan. 24, R. Bell and G. W. Campbell, LiverPr„: merchants.—Jan. 26, T. Crook, Preston, manufacture Jan. 25, W. and J. Stock, sen., Ashton-in-Mackerfield. _ cashire, coal proprietors. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.—W. Frost, Macclesfield 1 throwster—first div. of 31d, any Tuesday, at Mr. Manchester. —J. Fowler, Macclesfield, provision dealer / first div. Is Ild, any Tuesday, at Mr. Lee's, Manchester. H. Jones, Chester, grocer—second div. of Is, any Wednesde at Mr. Turner's, Liverpool. CERTIFICATE--,Man. 24, I. Fineberg, Manchester, jeive FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1654. BANKRUPTS.—CharIes Raymond Smith, Glocester-P .s. New-road, statuary.—Joseph Baynes, Nottingham, lacep3S, —John Tilbury, jun., Glocester.place, New-road, COs.:, builder.—George Wren Le Grand, Lambeth-walk, grocef:. o , Thomas Wilkinson, Cambridge- w h ar f, Wilt on - roa d, Einq o p coal merchant.—James Eva ns an d G eorge D avey , B ritt Ferry Ironworks, Glamorganshire, ironmasters. _,Oll PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLV ED .—E. J ones an d C o. , Live. v.:, and Jones, Paton, and Co., and Jones and Nash, Perns..l buco.—J. Palmer and Sons, Liv er p oo l, tanners • as f ar regards J. Palmer.—Buchanan, H arr i s . and Co.,'Liverv74o, Buchanan, Young, and Co., Hamilton, Ca na da • /OW! Law, and Co., Montreal ; and I. Buch anan an d g J York; as far as regards J. Young and J. Law.—Hahne. Dtd Ellis, Newton-heath and Manchester, man ufacturing ch as far as regards F. A. Hahnel.—S. Arrowsmith and W. Is to il Manchester, fustian manufac:urera.—Harvey, TYscie,sor Co., Salford, cotton-spinners.—N, Greeni n g and Sons, _ rington, Lancashire, wireworkers ; as far as regaras pe st Greening.—L. Lucas and Brothers, Knuzden Brook. A co! Blackburn, dyewood grinders.— Sykes, Schwabe, Shanghai, China, merc h ants ; as far as regard. 6,5, OprecP• •