The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-21 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. CLARKE, AND THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. THIS present FRIDAY, Dec. 21, 1838, will be per formed the Last New Play, written by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, called the MAID OF MARIENDORPT. General Kleiner Mr. Baker. Baron Idenstein Mr. W. Howard. Joseph Mr. Gray. Muhldenau Mr. Stuart. Rupert Mr. W. H. Bland. Hans Mr. Slaiter. Adolpha Miss Cleaver. Meeta Miss Faucit. Esther Mrs. Clarke. After the Play, A CONCERT, For which the celebrated Vocalist, Mr. BENNETT, is engaged, who will Sing two of his most popular Songs, and a favour ite Duet with his Pupil, Miss ALDRIDGE, being her third ap pearance on the stage. Mr. FREDERICK GARDNER, of the Royal Vauxhall Gardens, will make his first appearance at this Theatre, and Sing two Popular Songs. To give variety to the Entertainments, and for the gratification and holiday amusement of the Juvenile Branches of Families, the servi ces of Mons. PLEGE and his two sons have been secured for this night, and these unrivalled Artistes will exhibit their astonishing and novel performances on the BOUNDING CORDE, in which they were so highly admired, last season, at Mr. Ducrow's Royal Amphitheatre, London, and previ ously in the principal Theatres in .Paris. Among other feats peculiar only to himself, will be performed, Le Tambourin, Les Petit Paniers, Le Petit Chapeau, L'Etoile. His sons, Nicholas and Antoine, will exhibit their wonderful evolutions with and without the balance pole. The Evening's Entertainments to conclude with an, entirely Original, ironical, Local Sketch of Men and Manners, in Two Acts, founded on the celebrated, widely-diffused, extensively-circulated, and universally-admired Papers by Buz, called NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ; OR, DOINGS AT DO-THE-BOYS HALL. Nicholas Nickleby Mr. W. H. Bland. Newman Noggs Mr. Gray. Squeers Mr. Baker. John Browdie.... Mr. Slaiter. Mons. Mantilini..Mr. Chaplin. Smike.. Mrs. Tellet. Kate Nickleby ..Miss Faucit. Madame Mantalini Miss Cleaver. Miss Price Miss Grant. Miss Knagg..Miss Land. Mrs. Squeers..Mrs. Clarke. Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.; Pitt, 2s. 6d.; Glallery, Is. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Permormauce to commence at Seven o'clock. Tickets may be had of Mrs. Clarke, 1. Houghton-street, Williamson-square; at Mr. Rimes' Music Warehouse, Church-street; and of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office of the Theatre, of whom places may be taken from ten until three. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham, Manchester, 4-c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letters of " A Churchman" and " Philo-Clericus-Felix" have bee❑ received. The insertion of the circular issued by the Montreal Friendly Union would subject us to the advertisement duty. "J. L." will perceive that there is no longer any necessity for the insertion of his excellent letter. We would not wish to introduce any thing into our columns to disturb the existing unanimity on the subject. We are obliged to defer the address of the Rev. J. H. Stewart until Tuesday. Had it not been printed on both sides of the paper we might have found time for it to day. Elie iLiberpool FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 21, 1838. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the packet ship Cambridge, Captain Bursley, which sailed from New York on the Ist instant, and arrived at this port on Wednesday, We have received American papers to the above date. The news brought by this arrival adds little to our previous information. The state of the money market at New York was rather depressed. In Philadelphia difficulty was experienced in obtain ing money for commercial purposes, even at the rate of 12 per cent. Little was doing in the cotton mar ket. The southern ports were crowded with shipping, and freights were unusually low. The wool trade is described as in a healthy and improving condition. The stocks and supplies in this mate►ial were very large. The tobacco crop is said to have been a decided fail ure. An advance in price was the consequence of this intelligence, when received at New York. A great fire had taken place at Mobile, which ori ginated in the theatre. The loss was estimated at nearly 100,000 dollars. The news from Canada is of importance. The Morning Herald states that " among the prisoners cap tured at Prescott there were forty or fifty young Ame ricans, natives of the state of New York. They as serted positively in their examinations that they were engaged to invade Canada by certain respectable and influential citizens of that state, residing in Caynga, Onondaga, Oswega, and Jefferson counties. They were promised 30 dollars per month, a supply of arms and ammunition, and one hundred acres of good land, when the conquest of the two provinces was completed. It also appears in - evidence that funds to fit out the ex pedition to seize Prescott and overrun L'Acadie, were procured by discounts at certain banks in New York, and on the borders. Persons standing high in the confidence of Mr. Van Buren and his party were the indorsers of that paper, discounted by the banks. It is now well known that not three Upper Canadians joined the expedition, and but few of those in the lower province. The whole affair was planned in this state, by a band of the same land speculators, con nected with our government, who have been ruining their country and destroying its commerce during the last five years." The Morning Herald remarks upon this foul con •- spiracy in very strong terms, directly implicating the President in the charge of a guilty cognizance of the pre-concerted movements of the mercenary crusaders. We offer no apology for quoting the following ob .servations " We are even persuaded that the president knew very well the existence of their dangerous intrigue in all its de tails. It is true he carne_ out with his proclatnation of neu trality, but not the slightest symptom of this document appeared till both the expeditions against Canada had failed entirely. The rascally refugees, such as Nelson, Ill'Kenzie, Cot; anti others, were used merely to forward a land specu lation, similar to that by which ex-collector Swartwout used the funds of his office to forward his speculations in Texas lands. Even Col. Ming, Riell, and others, in our custom. house, were part of the same manoeuvre. It was also con nected with the boundary question, about which so great a fuss has been made in Maine. A revolution, leading to the independence of the Canadas, would settle at once the dis puted boundary, and leave the land speculators a fine field for their operations. " What a dangerous precipice the country has been stand - ing on ! In order to destroy the remembrance of his foolish measures, the president has been intriguing to.create a war feeling in the country, and thus to put in jeopardy ail our - commerce and foreign trade. The trials about to take place in Montreal and Kingston will reveal matters that will as tonish the people of this country. " How came the poor patriots' to collect together three or four pieces of artillery, 20,000 rounds of ball cartridge, more than a dozen barrels of powder, several hundred muskets, rifles, &c., under the very eyes and nose of Van Buren's indefatigables without their cognizance? If this was not done, without their knowledge, why was it not prevented? Let Van Buren choose which horn of the dilemma he pleases to rest upon till we take him off. "The expedition to Prescott was fitted out at Oswego by certain land speculators. It was in Oswego that the great land speculations were commenced some years ago, and it was in those speculations that Mr. Van Buren made the greater part of his fortune." There are 573 prisoners in the gaol at Montreal on the charge of treason. This number, added to those confined at Fort Henry, make a total of 758 prisoners, who are shortly to be tried for their lives. The British party in Canada are still complaining that all vacancies in the public offices are filled by French Canadians, who, of course, are mostly ran corous papists—hating the very name of England. The bench of magistrates is so composed that the French party manage every thing as they please. Eighty-four known rebels were struck off the list of avern-keepers by the British party ; but the French went to work, and had them all reinstated These are facts to which we hope the attention of Parliament will be forcibly directed. Unless this atrocious sys tem of preference be done away with, there can be very little hope for the future tranquillity of the colonies. An ordinance has been passed declaring that no person shall be brought to trial for high treason, un less the crime vr as committed after the Ist of November. The Morning Herald states, that great dissatisfaction prevailed in Lower Canada at the delay relative to the business before the court martial. The Montreal Herald states, that " the rebels are very confident that the proceedings of the court martial will be reversed by the Parliament at home." One of the three brass pieces taken at Prescott be belonged to the state of New York. This is stated by the Morning Herald, from which paper we take the following extract "The Buffalo papers are glorifying Von Shultz, because, as they say, he is a Pole, and, like Brutus, ran on his own sword. 'l'bey compare him to Marco Botzaris, and a host of heroes. Unfortunately for the perpetuity of all this rhodo montade about the brigand, he is a rascally Russian, and so far from running on his own sword, he will have to go down by the run, `paid off' with a halter." The accounts from Mexico are of a conflicting cha racter. The New Orleans Bee of the 21st ult. an nounced a letter from Lieut. Clonef, commanding the French brig of war, Laurite, (then at Havanna,) which letter set forth that the French fleet had com menced bombarding the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, and had debarked three thousand troops on the coast, and were on their march to Vera Cruz. This letter was received by the British brig, Catherine, which sailed from Habana four days before. The Morning Herald discredits this account, assign ing the following reason— "Captain Webster arrived on the 22d in the Lewin Jones from Havana, which place he left on the 15th; he says he was not aware of the news of the bombardment of the St. Juan de Ulloa, having reached Havana—neither was the captain of the British brig Catherine, stated to have brought the letter from Lieut. Clouet. There bad been no arrival from Simi ficios at Havana previous to the sailing of the L. J., so that we are inclined to place little reliance on the statements given in some of the papers with respect to the debarkation of troops and bombardment of the castle." From Monte Video, the Morning Herald gives the following news:— • - " We have received the El Universal, published at Monte Video, up to the 9th October. The insurgents were still be sieging the city, but their number was small, amounting to only about six hundred men. Don Frutos Rivera .was the generalissimo of this rebellions band. " On the 6th of October, General Rivera made an attack upon the city, but after some fighting he was repulsed. From the appearance of affairs, we should judge that this renowned don does not entertain a wish to take possession of the city, but seems to take great delight in harassing its inhabitants. Don Frutos undoubtedly supposes that by such manoeuvres he will compel the Monte Videans to make him some great offer. " Since his proclamation, put forth early in September, he has issued several decrees connected with his government, as he pleases to style it, and has concocted laws for the im provement of the revenue. It was the general impression in Monte Video, that Don Frutos would soon have to give.up." The New York journals state that the French squa dron before Buenos Ayres had taken seven prizes, live Buenos Ayrian vessels, and two bearing the flag of the Oriental Republic. They were sent to Monte Video, to be sold by the French consul there. The Buenos Ayrians were still busily occupied in the erec tion of fortifications, as it was feared that the differ ences between their government and that of France would end in war. There appeared to be no other alternative at the date of the last advises. THE NEW POOR LAW.—Greatly as we are opposed to the traitorous and diabolical proceedings of the chartists, we still persevere in denouncing the in humanity practised towards the poor of this country, under the sanction and direction of the Poor Law Commissioners. These despots have, by their arbi trary interference, already disgusted a whole body of guardians so far as to cause their resignation. This instance of rebellion against the authority of the com missioners, took place last week in Worcestershire. We extract from the Morning Herald the following account of the proceedings which induced the board to take this step: — "Previously to the resignation of the guardians, the fol lowing resolution, which is explanatory of the motive to that act, was put and carried unanimously:—`That the board has read, with much regret, a letter received from the assistant commissioner, Sir F. Head, to the master of the workhouse, in which he continues to object to the humane resolution adopted by this board on the Bth, and confirmed on the 15th, and peremptorily insists on the governor not complying with their instructions relative to such resolution ; under these circumstances, the board think it necessary again to express their firm adherence to the resolution.' Mr. Hood, one of the guardians, in moving this resolution, asked, who was the toaster of the workhouse? was he not the servant—the paid servant of the guardians? And yet they were to be told that they had no control over his conduct in office.' Even so, and we told the guardians the same thing long ago, when we assured them that, according to the provisions of the act of the whig 'liberty-boys,' all the guardians of the poor elected or to be elected under it were intended to be no more than mere servile instruments in the hands of the absolute commissioners or of their satraps, called assistant commis sioners, and that to have a will of their own would be to sub ject them to the perils of contumacious disobedience to the triple-headed despotism of Somerset House—a power which was established, as we have more than once shown, by pro fessed reformers, in gross and flagrant violation of the prin ciples of the constitution. The resolution of resignation states that, in conse quence of the very arbitrary power vested in the poor-law commissioners, and exercised by them towards the board of guardians in not allowing them any discretionary power as regards the inmates of the workhouse, particularly the aged and infirm, as solicited by them, this board, after mature de liberation, and under all circumstances, regret that they are . compelled to resign their trust as guardians.' In reference to the charge herein made, the commissioners not allowing the guardians any discretionary power as regards the inmates of the workhouse, let us observe that the great argument urged by the authors and promoters of the law as cruel and unchi istian as it is arbitrary and unconstitutional, for taking away the controlling authority which magistrates exercised with regard to cases of relief under the old law, was that the rate-pavers, or their representatives, appointed to take care of the interests of the poor, being the persons who best know the characters and circumstances of the individuals applying for relief, ought not to be interfered with by persons seldom or never residing on the spot, and who knew nothing of those matters. So, by way of reforming the state of things, the power formerly exercised by the magistrates was taken from them, and the rate-payers, or their representatives, were placed under the controul—not like that of the magistrates, a limited one—but the absolute controul of persons still more ignorant of the characters and circumstances of the indivi duals applying for relief—the commissioners sitting at the London board. This was reformation with a vengeance, or to use a homely adage, it was " out of the frying-pan into the fire." "The whigs and their radical friends—the Grotes, Humes, and Haweses, who were zealous and active abettors of the whigs in working this bill through parliament, have reformed also the condition of the industrious poor, by placing them in such a dependance upon their employers, that they are in most rural districts compelled to work for lower wages than before the bill passed. They have no choice between accepting such wages and submitting, with their heart-broken families, to the imprisonment, privations, and degradation of the union bastile." With the foregoing rema)ks of our able contempo rary we cordially agree ; and we would intimate to the Liverpool Times our intention to re- assert our former views respecting the cruelties perpetrated under the authority of the New Poor Law. Every one who has perused the London police reports for the last three or four weeks must concur with us in opinion that the law is intrinsicably bad, and that its faithful administration involves the greatest inhumanity. It must be modified before it will ever become popular. THE LIVERPOOL—This splendid vessel is now hourly expected to arrive in Liverpool. From the following extract of a letter received from the New York agent of the Transatlantic Steam Ship Company it will be seen that she was to sail for England on the 6th instant:— " We had arranged the day of departure of the Liverpool for the sth instant, hut the British minister at Washington having requested a day's detention, to enable him to write despatches after he reads the president's message, we shall keep her until the 6th. The St. Lawrence and Hudson are both frozen over, which is unusually early for the latter.' Unless some further detention shall have taken place we may expect to see her once more proudly floating on the Mersey in the course of this day. We have accordingly made arrangements for the publica tion of the President's message, which she will bring, in a second edition. A great number of bets, we hear, are pending upon her homeward voyage. We learn from the New York papers that Captain Fayrer was to give a splendid entertainment on board the Liverpool, on Monday, the 3d instant, to a select number of guests. The crowds who visited her ex pressed the highest admiration of her gorgeous deco rations. We wish her a safe and speedy arrival, THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW CHURCHES.—some scribe,—with a malevolence only equal to his imbe cility,—has had the presumptuous effrontery to address a letter signed "A Lay Chur c h man " t o our senior rector, the Rev. J. Brooks, through the medium of the .Albion, calling upon,that reverend gentleman to express his determination, that such men as the Rev. Dr. Tattersall, Mr. M'Neile, Buddicom, &c., should not be appointed Trustees to the New Churches which are about to be erected in this town. This self styled "Lay Churchman"—(! !) (we more than doubt his being a member, if he be, he is a bad one, of the Churchof England) although he has, unquestionably, a strong claim to the character of a person who would lay low the Church, must certainly have estimated at a very low par the moral worth, and sterling Christian character of our respected and beloved rector, to sup pose, that he would be diverted from an imperative line of duty by the rancorous ravings of an anonymous ass. We know our man perfectly well. He is a sneaking, hypocritical coward, devoid of manliness enoughp/ain/y to avow what his real object is,—"the muzzling" of the clergy who are to be nominated to the proposed New Churches.—He would have "dumb dogs" in them, instead of watchful, faithful, loving teachers, who would warn their congregations of the stealthy strides of the thief, and the wolf in sheep's clothing. Good easy man, he would have automatons stuck in them, who, like heathen, or Roniish idols, would look unmoved on the grossest superstition and fraud, with. out raising their voice loudly to protest, and faithfully to warn their congregations against them. We would have this dictator, whoever he may be, to know,—that Christian principle is not, as he would suppose, a thing that can be assumed or laid aside as expediency may dictate.— A straight-forward course alone lies before it, and in that its possessor must walk, or at once resign all claim to it. A temporizer in Christi anity is no better than an infidel;—and of this class are all those, who, not having soberly and seriously weighed and considered the fundamental truths of scripture, assume it as a feature of Christian charity— " to tolerate error, and to allow as great a latitude, and afford the same facilities for its propagation, as if it were truth itself !"—Hence all that rancorous • spleen, and lying exagg era ti on w hi c h i s b e l c h e d fora with such remorseless hate against our Tattersalls, ou r M'Neils, our Buddicoms, Jameses, &c., because they are the avowed, the determined, the consistent and successful denudors of the abominable deceits of Ro manism. Hence, too, the so named "liberality" with which certain individuals contribute to the support of what their Bible (if they read it) and their conscience (if its dictates were listened to) must convince them is "a lie." But in vain will the spoliators of the Church—such men as the "Lay Churchman"—look to our venerable Rector for that temporising expediency, which would lead him "to blow hot and cold with the same breath :"—the resources of genuine Protestantism are not now so crippled as to induce us to stoop to the degradation of infidel assistance ! Let them who give, give not grudgingly, and bearing in mind the end they have in view in giving. We wish to see no experi ments made in our Churches, alter the disastrous one liberalism has introduced into our corporation schools rendering them nurseries for Popery, instead of se minaries for gospel truth. The protestant community expects to see such characters as those aspersed by "A Lay Churchman," appointed to the trusts in ques tion:—in them they have an assurance of fidelity and uncompromising integrity,—and under their auspices they can rest satisfied that " the spirit of the Lord will lift up an ensign" against the flood of iniquity which threatens to deluge the world. THE LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.--We rejoice to hear of the unanimity prevailing upon the subject of the proposed Trustees for the new Church Building Society. The arrangement announced at the meeting on the 6th inst. was that they should be elect ed by contributors of £25 and upwards; but if we are correctly informed, the election will be rather formal than real. The names proposed have already appeared in print. They were suggested, it is understood, when a Church Building Society was contemplated, more than a year ago, and met with general approbation then, though circumstances occurred to delay the for_ illation of the Society. They are, Dr. Sumner (present Bishop of Chester), Rev. Jonathan Brooks. Rev. Au gustus Campbell, Rev. R. P. Buddicorn, and the Rev. Hugh APNeile. 'We quite agree with the Courier in thinking that these names represent fairly the various shades of feeling which exist among churchmen. That there are diversities of opinion on some points is unde niable, and, in truth, where men think freely, as it is the privilege of churchmen to do, such diversities are inevitable. It would, therefore, be improper to pro pose an exparte list of trustees. Even if it were pos sible to carry such a list by management at an election , the persons so doing would have little cause to con gratulate themselves on their success. But it gives us sincere satisfaction to learn that no such attempt is p►ojected ; on the contrary, that the list above-men tioned is commending •itself daily to the deliberate consideration of all reasonable men. It cannot, of course. be expected to escape observation. There are individuals of extreme views and feelings, who will object to any list, and that on either side; but their number among us is happily very small, and we con gratulate our readers on the true churchmanship, which is about to avoid even the appearance of disunion which might have attended a contested election. ORDINATION IN CHESTER. The Lord Bishop of this Diocese held an ordination in the Cathedral on Sunday last. The Rev. R. W. Gleadowe, one of the minor canons, read the prayers on this interesting occasion. The Rev. W. Burdett, 8.A., read the first Lesson, and the Rev. B. A. Campbell, M.A., of Grey Hulton, read the second. The Rev. Isaac Temple, rector of Plemstall, delivered a most impressive and highly appropriate discourse, from Ist Cor. verse 23, "We preach Christ crucified." The following is a list of the gentlemen ordained on the occaion : PIIIESTS.—OxfoId : Charles Frederic Baldwin, M.A., St. John's; Theophilus Williamson, 8.A., Exeter; John James Campbell, M.A., Balliol ; George Gardner Harter, M.A., Trinity; Bryan William Mulyneux, 8.A., ditto; Campbell B. A. Grey Hulton, M.A., Brazennose ; Vernon Nipping, 8.A., ditto; Edward Titley, 8.A., New Inn Hall. Cambridge: Wiiliam Burdett, B.A. Queen's college; W. Alexander Osborne, B.A. Trinity; George Palmer, B.A. Catherine Hall; Reginald Yonge, B.A. ditto. Dublin : Walter Butler, B.A. Trinity; John Delamere, B.A. ditto; John M. Lynn, B.A. ditto; William Fox, St. Bee's College. DEACONS.—Oxford: Clement Fox, M.A. Queen's; John Hayes, B.A. Magdalen Hall; Thomas Harries, B.A. Jesus'; Frederick Kenney, 8.8. Christ Church ; John Sparling, B.A. Oriel; Edward John Wrottesley, B.A. University. Cambridge : John Heron MacGuire, S.C.L. Queen's; Mathias Forrest, B.A. ditto; Henry Worsley Jackson, B.A. ditto; John Barry Brodrick, B.A. ditto: Alexander Wat son' B.A. Corpus Christi; Charles Bullen, B.A. ditto; Jere miah Stoddart, B.A. ditto; William Price, BA. ditto; S. O. Boutflower, B.A. St. John's; James Moor, B.A. Mag dalene; Daniel Edward Stephens, S.C.L. Emmanuel. Dublin : William Ellison, B.A. Trinity; John Robert Ecklin. B.A. ditto; John Reed, B.A. ditto; Wm. Towns hend Hozier, B.A. ditto; Charles James Hamilton, B. A. ditto; Thomas G. Morgan, B.A. ditto ; George Stone, B.A. ditto; David Price, B.A. ditto; George C. Nash, B.A. ditto; Geo. Win. Manning, St. Bee's College. Out of twenty-seven deacons ordained by the Bishop of Chester on Sunday, December 16, five are supported by sala ries from the Additional Curates' Fund Society, and eight by the Pastoral Aid Society. The population of the thirteen districts in which the above persons will be located, amount to 84,000, giving an average of 6500 to each. Fifteen clergy men have been hitherto labouring among them ; the number will now be twenty-eight. DURHAM. Rev. H. Jenkyns, M.A., Professor of Greek; Rev. T. Chevalier, 8.D., Professor of Mathematics; Rev. T. Lin wood Strong, 8.D.: I'. Anderson, 8.A., Corpus Christi, Cambridge ; W. Mackey; F. Thompson, 8.A.; A. Watson, 8.A., Corpus Christi, Cambridge, are appointed Examiners in Theology for Michaelmas. At a Convocation holden on Monday, Dec. 10, the follow ing persons were presented and admitted ad eundem:—Rev, J. Young, M.A., Trinity, Cambridge; R. C. Walters, M.A., Jesus, Cambridge; W. Mackenzie, 8.A., Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Rev. B. Simpson, 8.A., Queen's, Oxford. The following persons were admitted, ad eundem, by vote of the house :—The Right Rev. C. J. Bloomfield, D.D., of Trinity, Cambridge, Lord Bishop of London; Rev. R. Richardson, D.D., Brasennose, Oxford; Rev. F. Duff, D D., Trinity, Cambridge; Rev. J. Besley, D.C.L., Balliol, Ox ford; J, Hogg, M.A., Fellow of St. Peter's, Cambridge; Rev. T. Branker, M.A., Wandam, Oxford; Rev. 0. Head, M.A., Trinity, Cambridge; Rev. R. Clayton, M.A., Uni versity, Oxford; Hon. and Rev. F. Grey, M.A., Trinity, Cambridge. The following Students in Theology were licensed to pre sent themselves to the Bishop for ordination :—F. Thomason, B.A; A. Watson, 8.A.; I'. Anderson, 8.A.; and . W. Mackey. F. B. Thompson was admitted to the degree of B.A. The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Rev. John Peel, brother of Sir Robert Peel, to be the Dean of Canter bury for the ensuing year. The Bishop of Durham has, in the most handsome and munificent manner, lately presented £25 to the Rev. J. R. Furness, Curate of Pontelaud, in aid of a fund for building a new parsonage-house at Dinnington, in that parish; and his Lordship has also made a loan of £lOO, without interest, in order to enable Mr. Furness to obtain a grant from the Go vernors of Queen Anne's bounty for the same purpose.— Newcastle Journal. THE THEATRE-ROYAL.—It will be seen by the announce ment in another part of the paper, that to-night is the last night of the season at this theatre, when Mts. Clarke will take, her benefit. Sheridan Knowles' last new play, "The Maid of Mariendorpt," is to be brought out; after which there is to be a concert, and sundry entertainments; and the whole to conclude with a new farce, called "Nicholas Nickleby," adapted from Boz's work. With so much of attraction she cannot fail to have a crowded house, and no actress more truly merits approbation and support. We therefore heartily wish her a bumper. CHRISTMAS PRES.:NTS AND NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—AII the juvenile part of the community are looking forward with heart-heating expectation to the pleasures which they are to enjoy at the approaching period of festivity. Presents pour in upon the happy parties from relatives and friends—mirth is the order of the day! and a delightful hilarity pervades every parental mansion. it may be requisite to remark, that parents cannot make more appropriate presents than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, jin. the Hair, ROWLANDS' KA LY non for the Fare and Skin, end their much-admired UDONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE for the Teeth, which in fallibly tend to the augmentation of that imposing exterior, which . Lord Lord Chesterfield justly observes is " a card of recommendation."—See Advertisement. THE LIVERPOOL. LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL. SOCIETY. —On Tuesday evening last the members of this society, re cently organised among the masters of the schools attached to the Mechanics' Institution, sat down to an excellent and sub stantial dinner at the Wellington Inn, Dale-street. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Rutherford, and Mons. Hilbert discharged the duties of vice-president. After the cloth was removed several appropriate toasts were proposed, awl the proceedings of the evening were enlivened by seve ral songs, glees, and recitations. The members separated at twelve o'clock, after richly enjoying "the feast of reason and the flow of soul." We hope that this society will be produc tive of great benefit to the important cause of education. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.--On Monday last, a handsome ser vice of plate, consisting of coffee-pot, tea-pot, sugar basin, and cream jug, of the value of forty guineas, manufactured by Messrs. Daniel, Lord-street, was presented to Mr. Robert Hughes, late superintendant over the manufactory of Messrs. Mather, Dixon, and Co., in this town, as a tribute of respect from the workmen employed by the firm. The service was presented to Mr. Hughes within the walls of the foundry, after which between thirty and forty individuals belonging to the works adjourned to Mr. Paterson's, Glasgow Arms, Williams'-street, where an excellent and substantial supper was prepared. The chair was occupied by Mr. Macalister, and Mr. Robert Pollock acted as vice-president. RHEUMATISM.—An instance of a very quick cure of this painful malady has occurred under our own eye. The per son whose case we allude to, had been for many weeks con fined by a severe attack of Rheumatism, all over the body, and tried many expedients to remove it, but without success. He was at length advised to try Barker's Pills, and in five or six days was totally relieved from all pain. We record it in the hope that a really effectual remedy for Rheumatic Pains has been discovered, and that many may benefit from its use. —From Scotsman, of June 11, 1831. E WIIECK OF THE FORFARSHIHE.—Wo have received a couple of splendid lithographic engravings, which have just been published for the benefit of the Darlings, illustrat ing the heroic endeavours of these devoted individuals to save the lives of the passengers and crew of the Forfarshire. One of the plates represents Grace Darling and her father in the act of approaching the wreck, and the ocher shows them on their return with the nine persons whom they had, at the imminent risk of their own lives, rescued from a watery grave. We sincerely trust that the humane endeavours of these humble individuals will be rewarded by a large profit from the sale of those exquisite engravings. CORRESPONDENCE. MEDICAL PRACTICE. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—ln your paper of this day t perceive a letter headed "The Practice of Medicine," purporting to be written by "A Physician of the Old School," and condemnatory of thy practice of medical gentlemen holding shares in the Liver pool Apothecaries' Company. The letter is addressed to you, "believing you to be an enemy to the hypocritical cant which is so common in the present day:" It so happens, Sir, I possess myself a strong hatred to cant of all sorts, and humbug of every degree • and it is on this ground I venture to hope you will give this short letter a place in your columns. Your correspondent does not question the advantages to be derived from the establishment of the Liverpool Apothe caries' Company, nor does he appear to have any fault to find with either the directors or the management. When he does so, I shall have a word to say to him on those subjects. My present object is to convict your medical correspondent of practising the very cant he professes to condemn in others. In the first place, I think when a person of any school, whether old or young, assumes a false character with the view of injuring a private individual or a public company, such proceeding savours strongly of cant—of the very cant your "Physician of the Old School" prescribes—" hypocri tical cant. In the next place, I think—if a physician can condescend to receive the amount of his fees by a cheque on a joint stock bank in which he is a proprietor (thus sharing the commission), or can luxuriate at a friend's house upon tur bot or plaice procured from the Fish Company, in which speculation he himself holds shares,—l think I may say, for such a physician to commit such outrageous atrocities, and to write such a letter as your correspondent, would be the mastet-piece of cant--the very essence of humbug. Lastly, I think it would not be becoming in a "highly re spectable member of the most liberal of the professions" to advertise in your columns that he does not bold shares in the Liverpool Apothecaries' Company, and invite (as your cor respondent does) the sick and afflicted to increase the prac tice of the " Physician of the ORI School." Thus touch for cant: now a word for the Company. The directors no doubt are impressed with an opinion that the establishment of the Liverpool Apothecaries' Company will prove advantageous to the public, and beneficial to the pro prietors : if the public experience such benefit, they will support the Company; if they do not derive any benefit, the Company will deservedly decay. I believe it will flourish. 1 remain, Sir, yours very respectfully, Dec. 181 h, 1838. ANTI-CANT. MORE FACTS RESPECTING SCOTLAND-ROAD MARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. it not a fact that Mr. Grose lent the forms and ta bles of St. Martin's Market to the Travellers' Rest Inn, Scotland-road, for the purposes of the dinner given to Mr. Lacon, to console him for his defeat in Scotland Ward? And is it not a fact that one of the tables was too long, but that a saw readily adjusted the difference? And is it not a fact that, since swine, rabbits, poultry, &c., are kept in the farm-yard, i. e., the market-yard, that the market, contrary to all rule, is open on Sundays, for the purpose of feeding the pigs? And is it not a fact that stvillinys are still gathered in the neighbourhood for the use of the farm-yard? And is it not a fact, notwithstanding Mr. Grose's assertion in last Tuesday's Standard, "that Mr. Leatherbarrow is the only person in that market having a vote," that Mr. Bird, butcher, Mr. Jones, butte r -d ea l er , M r . Giles, butcher, Mr. Talbot, butcher, Mr. Humphreys, butcher, Mr. Bradshaw, butcher, Mr. Butcher, butcher, Messrs. Stubbs, butchers, and others of the market, are voters? And is it not a fact that Mr. Leatherbarrow voted for Mr. Grose's party, and that the others voted for the conservative? And is it not a fact that the market or farm-yard gate, in Madder-street, is boarded up about a yard high from the ground, to prevent the rabbits and poultry escaping through the bars? And is it not a fact that the farm-yard yet continues, and contains its heterogenous inmates, dung heaps. &c., notwith standing Mr. Grose's denial in last Tuesday's Standard y (If this is doubted by any person, let him go and see.) And is it not a fact that the yard occupants, dung heaps, &c., are the property of Mr. Grose and Mr. Tyrer ? And is it not a fact that in this yard are privies for the con venieuce of the market people, and that the. gates of the yard are kept locked, and the people denied the use of them ? And is it not a fact that these privies are occupied by the farm-yard inmates ? And is it not a fact that, this yard being locked up, causes persons to use the passage leading from Maddox-street into the market, and create a nuisance, saying nothing of the ob scenity ? And is it not a fact that, if the yard was thrown open to the market people, and the country people especially, on market days, that it would improve the market, by bringing an in creased business and revenue, besides adding to the comforts of all, and materially bettering the neighbourhood of Mad dox-street ? And is it not a fact that no good reason can be assigned for the withholding of this yard and conveniences from the market people, and that the retention of it by the present monopolizers is unjust, oppressive, and cruel? Aud is it not a fact that the conduct of public officers is liable to public censure or approbation ; and if the conduct of the heads and tails of St. Martin's Market is as Gross as represented, that it ought to be held up to public execration, and that the Market Committee should provide better men or better manners ? And is it not a fact that Mr. Grose's letter, published in last Tuesday's Standard, fully warrants and justifies the as sertion and entitles him to the character previously published of him in the Standard, that he is an "illiterate boor?" "Out of his own mouth is he convicted." The name of the butcher residing at the bottom of Coiling wood-street, who could not get a stall in St. Martin's Mar ket, for being a conservative, is Cowell. QUIS? " A PHYSICIAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Srn,—Will you permit the to occupy a small space of your invaluable paper with a few observations on the letter of " A Physician of the Old School." Your correspondent has obviously erred in his representa tion of the question at issue. So unilateral an aspect of the subject must rather injure than subserve the cause he has espoused. Let hint for a moment reflect on the ostensible motives by which the agents have been actuated in institut ing the Apothecaries' Hall. What ? shall the class of men designated by your correspondent as " so highly respectable a body," and to which he has heretofore deemed it an honour to belong, be aspersed with the imputation of designs alike destructive to their character, and derogatory to their profes sion? Is he not aware that the ground of the formation of this institution is the very negative of his unsupported posi tion, viz., that " the chemists and druggists are" not " a highly respectable body," and that they have" not " hitherto compounded prescriptions to the satisfaction of the profession generally. Even admitting that it is somewhat beneath the dignity of the profession to embark in an enterprise so purely commer cial—and I am no apologist for the principle—yet is not this departure from etiquette excuseable when contrasted with the importance of the objects involved, to wit, the genuineness of the medicines employed, and the strictest adherence to the prescription of the physician. Your correspondent further objects to the scheme from the fact that the shareholder has a direct interest in accumulating the utmost of his prescriptions. But if it be true that the druggist has been accustomed to regard the physician as "his friend and customer," do we not recognize in this relation the operation of the identical principle —save and except the shifting of hands undergone by the profits ; —for will not the latter be regarded by the former as his "friend and customer" in the precise ratio of the quantity of medicine prescribed; and it is, indeed, " too bad" to exc►te and encourage an out cry against the physician while professing to secure the wel fare of his patient, even though the agency employed per chance redound to his own emolument. 1 freely acknowledge that the competency of the druggists must he considered decisive of the entire question : but will your correspondent undertake to establish their claim to the confidence of the public, by evidence at once circumstantial and satisfactory? Will he essay to wipe off the odium at present attaching to their character, whether from errors of ignorance on the one hand, or the charges of self-interest on the other? He will remember that the alledged instances of the dete rioration of medicine adduced by the originators of Apothe caries' Hall, are neither few in number, nor unimportant in character; and if he succeed in disproving their correctness, it will manifestly appear that the injury hereby inflicted on the druggists is gratuitous and wanton, and richly merits the reprobation of an indignant public. Meanwhile I subscribe myself A FRIEND TO THE APOTHECARIES' HALL. December .2 0t h , 1838. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Your Excellency will please to examine and consider the statements here exhibited, for a day is coming when all kings and presidents of the earth must stand before the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, to answer for their conduct in this world. God Almighty prepare them for that day! The first statement I would make is a most solemn one, respecting those very unfbrtunate beings held in slavery. It appears from good testimony, drat nearly three millions of immortal beings are held in slavery, in a country whose constitution and bill of rights declare all men to be free, and possessed of equal privileges! Can your Excellency look on such a scene and not weep? You say the articles of confederacy on which the Union was established are such, that you cannot legislate on this subject. But is this true respecting the district of Columbia ? That has been ceded to Congress, to be governed just as the national legislature may think proper. But, even with regard to this part of the Union, the Congress has refused to hear the petitions which have been sent from different states and societies. Can you expect God's blessing, while you thus despise the prayers of the benevolent, and the cries and tears of the suffering ? I would next state the claims of the red people, and plead their cause. Had they not a right to look up to von, as chil dren to a father? Did not the government of the United States promise to see justice and protection guaranteed to the Indians? But what justice or protection have they found? Have they not been driven from their cultivated fields, and from the sepulchres of their fathers, into a strange land ? And, because they made some resistance against such cruel treatment, have they not been treated like wolves, and slain like wild beasts ? You have been told, and justly too, that all the blood and treasure lost in the late Indian wars have been sacrificed to pride and ambition. The late President Adams has pointed out the cruelty and wickedness of the United States' govern ment towards the Indians; yet he could not be heard, or treated with civility. And what has been your conduct towards the people of Canada? You say this was not the act of government, but the act of some lawless and unprincipled men, contrary to the laws and treaties of the United States. But if all the arsenals had been broken open, and the arms and munitions of war taken and used against the inhabitants of the United States, it is presumed, that some method would have been devised to put a stop to such proceedings. In the name of every thing sacred you are requested to look at these brief statements, and ask yourself, in the presence of God, if all is right? Perhaps your Excellency will say, that it was not in your power to controul these events. Did your Excellency ap peal to the two branches of the legislature, in your different messages to congress? The solemn and faithful appeals of a Washington and Adams, when in the chair of state, were heard and regarded. But in what message has your Ex cellency attempted to advocate the claims of the Indians or the Blacks! _ _ Be assured agloomy day is nearat hand, unless repentance and reformation interpose, for the judgments of the Almighty are thickly gathering over the American people. God says by the mouth of his prophet, " Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ?" Be entreated to set apart a day, or I would rather say, days of fasting and prayer, as did the King of Nineveh. This would be esteemed a more safe and suitable method of protection, than all that would be done by erecting forts and preparing implements of death. That God Almighty may give to your Excellency and the national legislature, that wisdom which is from above, is the present prayer of Your Excellency's humble servant, Dec. 6, 838. A CIIRISTIAN PATRIOT. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. " OH THIS LOVE," &c.—Love, like death, is no respecter of persons. Virgil tells us of the latter, (and all experience bears him out,) that " pale death knoCks with equal hand, at the palace of the prince and at the cottage of the poor;" and the former visits alike noble and plebean, civilized and savage bosoms, animates the generous youth to the emulation of noble deeds, or fires his mind with jealousy, which Solo mon has called " the rage of man." Even so it was with the two humble individuals who are to be the subject of this brief history, and whom we immortalise in these our pages. Wm. Escoline, by trade a carver and gilder, pale, and evidently love sick, and " with the green and yellow melancholy" of which Shakspeare sings, impressed on every feature, ap peared on Wednesday before the magistrates, to complain of an assault committed upon him on Sunday last, by Henry Trelfoid, a weigher in the customs, a stout, florid, good tem pered looking youth, evidently fully content with "gentle avours." The complainant, with a most rueful countenance, stated, "On Sunday afternoon, I wos walking near the Custom-house, where I meets this 'ere young man; and we had some words; when he said, will give you a muzzer,' (laughter), which I understood for to mean a thump on the mouth. Not having a mind for a muzzer, I told him he'd better not ; that if he did I would get a policeman to him; when he gave me a blow on the eye, and blackened it as you see," turning the dark side of his face to the light the magis trate's countenance. He called a boy as a witness, who saw the blow given, which he described, as knocking the com plainant's hat off, and sending him into the middle of the street. On being asked why he had struck the complainant, the defendant said he was very sorry for it, but it was in con sequence of the complainant giving him the lie. " It was all," said the defendant, " about a love affair." " I beg pardon," said the complainant, " there is no love between us." " I dare say not, said Mr. Hall. " Nor jealousy neither," fol lowed up the complainant, " I'd scorn it." " That is no reason why you should strike him," said Mr. Hall to the de fendant. Defendant: " Why, sir, he put himself in a hatti tude of hoffence, pulled off his gloves, and buttoned his coat." Mr. Hall: "He showed very iittle judgment if he did."—(The defendant bowed on receiving the flattering compliment to his superior prowess.) " Why." said the complainant, "I niver bed any gloves on; them's things as I don't wear." Mr. Hall to the defendant: " You must curb your passion, sir; you must not inflict blows on a per son. You must pay 10s. and costs, and in default of payment be committed for 16 days to the Borough Gaol. On hearing this decision the defendant looked very blank, and put his hands into both pockets to sound them, knowing well there was nothing to cheer him there, when love opportunely came to his assistance, and rescued him from the claws of the constable. The hand of a young female was • obtruded through the crowd over his shoulder, and between its fore finger and thumb was offered a sovereign—(a sovereign re inedy for many of the ills of life)—while a female voice was heard to say, " Here, Henry," in a tone, no doubt, to Henry worth a thousand sovereigns. He tendered the money and the fine was paid, and with a smiling and triumphant look he joined the cause of rivalry, whilst his rival looked daggers and walked away. SHOPLIFTING.—Margaret Webb and Elizabeth Webb, mother and daughter, were placed at the bar of the Police court on Wednesday, charged with having stolen several ar ticles at the shop of Messrs. Jeffrey and Morrish, drape r s, Church-street. Stephen Evans, one of the assistants at the above named shop stated that between three and four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon he saw the two prisoners sitting near the counter. He asked them if he should attend to them and they replied that another person was getting what they re quired. Witness soon became engaged with another custo mer, and was again at liberty before any person attended to the prisoners. One of them said, " I suppose you can serve us." At this time they had been in the shop full three quar ters of an hour. Each of them had on a cloak. Witness told them that he could attend to them. The prisoners requested that some calico and some red flannel might be shown to them. This was complied with and they further asked to see some silk handkerchiefs. Nine pieces were displayed before them. While the prisoners were engaged turning them over and looking at them, the foreman called witness to another part of the shop, whence he returned immediately, and missed some of the handkerchiefs. He took them to another part of the shop, counted them and missed two pieces, one contain ing seven and the other five handkerchiefs. The master of the shop was informed and he invited the prisoners into the warehouse where one of the pieces were found in the possession of the elder prisoner and the other was found on the floor near her. Police officer Davies Maden was sent for and he took the prisoners into custody. The elder prisoner declared that she had never touched the property and the daughter con firmed this statement taking the whole blame upon herself. The prisoners were committed for trial. SELLING UNSOUND HAM.—A shopkeeper was summoned on Wednesday, on information from Inspector Holden, charged with having exposed for sale eleven pounds of un sound ham. Holden described the meat as being badly cured and tainted at the bone It was ticketed at 4d. per pound. This was the third time the satne individual had been summoned for similar offences. He was fined ss. and costs. with an intimation that if he repeated the offence the full penalty of £2 would be exacted. CUPID AGAIN.—The mischievous little god never sleeps; night and day he is alike busy playing his pranks. Yester day, at the Police-office, a young man named Peter Mail ham, and a servant girl, named Catherine Fogg, were placed before the magistrates, charged by Mr. Barton, with being "suspicious characters." 'I he fact was, he somewhat more than suspected them, of being (what the world calls) " in love" with each other. It appeared from Mr. Barton's state ment, that the female prisoner was his servant, and that when he called her up on Wednesday morning at seven o'clock, she complained that she had had no sleep during the night! (" 'Cos why ?" as the Cockneys say, we shall see :) and that she felt exceedingly unwell. Thinking that she was unwell he told her she need not get up, and procured a char-woman in her stead to do the house work for the day. In the course of the day he sent the char-woman up with some breakfast for her, who, on approaching the bed-room door heard some hurried whispers—" For God sake what shall I do? where shall I stuff myself?" " Here, get in be tween the bed and the wall; keep close to the wall," said Catherine Fogg. This awoke the charwoman's suspicions. Women are generally suspicious; and, on the principle of " set a thief to catch a thief," there is nothing like setting a woman to find the tricks of another woman out. At dinner time Mr. Barton considerately sent the invalid some wine and water, which it was the charwoman's business again to convey. Determined this time upon a surprise, she stealthily proceeded up stairs, and presented the wine at the bed side, without any previous warning. Far be it from us, however, to accuse a charwoman of curiosity, or, indeed any woman. We attribute her noiseless step to pure kind heartednes, and anxiety not to disturb the invalid. But, alas, that we must tellit! " Oh frailty! Thy name is woman." Shades of all the Catherines, who would have believed it! Donna Julia was not the last of her kind. She however, as Byron sings, had address enough ingeniously to tumble the bed clothes, and conceal her darling Juan from searching eyes; not so the heroine of our story ; for, on the impertinent looks of the char-woman peering through the bed-curtains, whose form should meet her astonished gaze, snoozing besides Catherine Fogg, but that of Peter Mailham, the identical prisoner at the bar. The char-woman was quite shocked; at least—she said she was; and in a heat of virtuous 'indigna tion posted down stairs and informed the family of the cause of Catherine's illness. It appeared that the night previous, after the family had retired to rest, Catherine had risen and admitted Peter into the sanctum sanctorum of her apartment —the very " holy of holies." This fully accounted for her sleeping so little during the night. It appeared that weary at last of Cupid's pranks. she courted the approach of Mor pheus, and, encircled in his soft arms and those of Peter Mailham, had forgotten bright Phoebus' approach, till the voice of her master aroused her. What was to be done in such a predicament; ber master was up and Peter could not be got unobserved out of the way. Woman's wit came ready to her aid, and she instanter feigned to be dreadfully ill; and had hoped by this manmuvre to get the day over, conceal Peter, and let him out scaith!ess during the ensuing night. But the cruel fates had not so willed it; for after keeping him safe under the bedclothes for fourteen hours, the un lucky char-woman spied his whiskers! This being the state of the case what was Mr. Barton to do? He very naturally, we think, began to suspect them of something, and therefore called in a policeman and had them both taken to Bridewell, and booked as "suspicious characters." As may be supposed, Peter looked very simple before the magistrates, nor less simple she for whom for fourteen hours be had suffered so much. After receiving a lecture on the impropriety of his conduct from the magistrates, he promised, as be said, "to make all straight" and marry the girl, and they were both discharged. STEALING GLASS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man named Moffit, who represented himself as a glazier, was placed before the magistrates on a charge of stealing a quan tity of glass from an empty house. A workman, occupied in finishing some new houses in Fox-street, stated, that on Wed nesday night he left off work at a quarter to five o'clock and left the premises secure. On returning to the premises after tea, he found the door broken open, and whilst he was getting a light the prisoner came down stairs and ran away, and he followed, and apprehended him with three large squares of glass in his possession, which be had cutout of one of the win dow frames up stairs. The prisoner denied that he knew any thing of it, but said he was apprehended by a policeman, be- Cause the witness, was running after him. It appeared that he had been committed for eight days before for a similar of fence. Mr Hall sentenced hint to three months imprison ment in Kirkdale. SUMMONS FOR SEAMAN'S WAGES. — Yesterday, at the Po lice-office, Captain Robinson, of the brig John Scott, from Monte Video, was summoned before the magistrates by his cook, Thomas Randalls, for refusing to pay him his wages. The complainant, who had but one arm, stated that he was engaged as cook at £2. 10s. per month, and shipped at Li verpool on the 27th of March last, to perform the voyage to Monte Video and back; he arrived in Liverpool again on Saturday week, and the captain refused to pay him his wages. The captain said, his reason for not paying him was that he had behaved very ill the whole of the voyage, and on the ar rival of the ship in Liverpool, he had left the ship without permission, and had also instigated others to do the same On the passage home, he told him (the captain) that he was sick and wanted an emetic. He (the eaptaln) gave him one, and he refused to take it, and said, he thought it was not one, and he was in consequence two days ill for want of medicine. He also told hint that he would keep the emetic till he got to Liverpool, and have it analyzed, as he believed it was poison. Mr. Hall said, because the man re fused to take his emetic, that was no ground for refusing to pay him his wages. The captain said then, that at Monte Video the men, instigated by him, had knocked off work be cause they had not a breakfast to their liking, and he had had them, in consequence, before the British consul there, who had also partaken of the breakfast which had been pre pared for them. He had paid the other men their wages, but had withheld this man's because he was the ringleader of the others to do wrong. The chief ground of his complaint was, that he had left the ship at Liverpool, without permis sion, before her cargo was discharged, and had induced the other men also to leave her while her anchors were over her bows. Mr. Hall said, in general the captain was anxious to get quit of his crew, and get lumpers to discharge his vessel ; but he had a right to demand the services of his men if he wished them. Mr. Davenport, who appeared on behalf of the complainant, wanted to know if the Captain's ob jection to the cook was not because he was a religious man. The Captain said he had pretended to be a religious man be fore the consul at Monte Video, and had said that that was his (the Captain's) objection to him; but when the consul gave him the book to swear by, he would not take.an oath to the truth of what he said, and the consul called him " a d—d psalm-singing rascal." Mr. Hall said he should de duct one month's wages, which he had forfeited by leaving the ship without permission, at Liverpool, and ordered the balance of his wages, £l3 3s. 6d., and costs, to be paid to him. MAD DOGS. —Some suspicious cases of " canine madness" having been reported to the mayor, his worship, in conformity with an act passed the Ist of Victoria, has issued a notice, calling on the owners of dogs to keep them up for three weeks : in default, the owner of any dog found at laige will be subject to the penalty of five pounds. KNUTSFORD YEOMANRY BALL—The above ball took place on Friday last, the 14th inst., at the County Assembly Rooms, George Hotel, and was very numerously attended, 203 persons being present. The ball was opened by Wil braham Egerton, Esq., with Miss Holland, and the dance was kept up with great spirit till nearly six o'clock on Satur day morning. Among the fasbionables present wore Wil braham Egerton, Esq. (Tatton Park), Lady and party, 'Patton' Egerton, Esq., M.P., and Lady, I re l an d Bl ac kb urne , Esq., M.P., Mrs. Glegg and daughters, —. Townsend, Esq., —. Trafford, Esq., —. Leigh, Esq., Chas. Cholmondeley, Esq., and daughter, Mrs. J. Sbackerlev, H. Croft, Esq., and friends, C. H o ll a nd, E sq ., f am ily and party, J. Pownall, Esq., 1 - 1. Long, Esq.. Lady and party, R. Dean, Esq., Lady and party, Aines Igiuson, Esq. (Liverpool), J. Roseow, Esq., family and party, &c., &c. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE_ MANCHESTER.--TUESDAY EVENING. The attention of the speculators has been, for some days, completely taken up with the Chatsworth Cup; and the prices have fluctuated in various circles. We give those of the most important market thus:— THE • C HATSWORTH CUP.—(For all ages.) 7 to 1 against Empress. (t.) Bto 1 „ Major. (t) Bto 1 „ Venus. (t) 9to 1 „ Pepper. (t) 10 to 1 „ Lightning. (t freely) 100 to 1 „ Hollyhock. (t) The following have been selected :—Mr. Bake's Major, by Lowther, out of Miss Whip; Mr. Edwards's Pepper, by Merlin, out of Fly; Mr. Hunt's Hollyhock, by Bolivar; Mr. Mavall's red dog Nelson, by Grasper, out of Venus ; M r . Bold liohinson's - Empress, &c. &c. Most of the subscribers, &c. to the stakes, have left, to be present. Many of the greyhounds were seen yesterday, en route, in the highest trim. THE DERBY. 16 to 1 against Lord Jersey's Ilderim. (taken to-day) 20 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh. (t to-day) 27 to 1 „ Col. Anson's Zimmerman. (t to-day.) 400 to 1-1 „ Mr. Wreford's Wapiti. (t) 11 to 1 on the field. TATTERSA LL'S.—MONDAY. Although there was a tolerably full attendance, and an ap parent determination to do business, the room closed without any material changes in the odds. The principal favourites not much in demand remain in pretty nearly the same places as they filled in our last quotations, nor was there any fluc tuation of moment in the 20 and 25 to I class, beyond a slight decline in Westonian and A cce l era t or . Si r G. Heathcote's horses, and a few other outsiders, were backed, and several bets made between horses; the betting, however unimportant in its results, has on the whole reached a pretty fair average in amount. It closed as follows : THE DERBY. _ 11 to 1 against Lord Jersey's brother to Bay Middleton, (take 12 to 1.) 16 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Ilderim. 16 to 1 „ Duke of Rutland's Flambeau. 22 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Accelerator. 23 to 1 „ Lord Albemarle's T►ns. (t) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-bragh. (t) 25 to 1 „ Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers. 25 to 1 „ Col. Anson's Zimmerman. 30 to 1 „ Mr. Bowe's Epidauras. 30 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Wapiti. 30 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Westonian. 40 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Bulwark. (t) 40 to 1 ~ Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt. (t) 5() to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Oronooko. (t) 50 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo. (t) 2000 to 35 „ Lord Westminster's Honey Moon c. (t) 2000 to 30 „ Mr. Price's Sent. 14 to 1 against Epidaurus and Zimmerman (t); 1,500 to 100 against Antler and Erin-go-Bragh (t); 1,000 even be tween Sir G. Heathcote's and Derrynane (t); 300 even be tween Sir G. Heathcote's and Zimmerman (t); 500 even between Ilderim and Flambeau (t). THE CHASE.—The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Saturday, Dec. 22d, at 'Windmill on ltavensmoor. Monday, Dec. 24th, at Hartford Bridge. Wednesday, Dec. 26th, at Dunham Massey. Thursday, Dec. 27th, at ... Tabley House. Saturday, Dec. 29th, at C -ewe Hall. Monday, Dec. 31st, at Abbey Arms. Wednesday, Jan. 2d, at Tarvin. Thursday, Jan 3d, at Tilstone. Saturday, Jan. sth, at Norton Priory. At half-past ten o'dlock. _ __ CGURSING MEETING NEAR POULTON.—On Thursday week a numerous party from Poulton went on the grounds belonging to H. Hornby, Esq., of Ribby, to meet his Single ton tenants, for a day's coursing. They bad about four hours' excellent sport with 14 greyhounds. They saw 43 hares; run 31, and killed 20. The weather was most favour able. The attendance of sporting gentlemen was very nu merous, and the running excellent. LIVERPOOL RACES.-1839. The following stakes close on the Ist of January, 1839. The Croxteth Stakes, the Mersey Stakes, the Sefton Stakes. the Tradesmen's Cup, the Derby Handicap, the Liverpool St. Leger, the Stand Cup, and the Grosvenor Stakes. 1840.—The Sefton Stakes, St. Leger, Chesterfield Stakes, and the Knowslev Dinner Stakes. 1841.—The Foal Stakes, the Bickerstaffe Stakes, and the Produce Stakes. The St. Leger noniinations will henceforth be made at the same age as the Doncaster St. Leger. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN RACES.-1839. The meeting, which our readers will no doubt recollect, is about to be established in lieu of that hitherto held in Heaton Park, takes place on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday following Doncaster races, under the stewardship of Lords Chesterfield and Sefton, Mr. Lynn officiating as secretary, and Mr. Etty as clerk of the course—a guarantee that there will be no want of sport, patronage, and exertion. The fol lowing programme will show that it will be conducted in the same liberal spirit which has always been displayed at the Liverpool meetings WEDNESDAY. The TRIAL STAKES of 15 sots. each, 10 ft. for all ages; three-year olds Bst, four Bst 121 b, five 9st 31b, six and aged 9st 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 21bs. One mile and a quarter. The EGIANTON STAKES of 50 toys, each, h ft, for two-year olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 51b. T.Y.C. The winner of the July or Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, or the Champagne or Two-year old Stakes at Doncaster to carry slbs extra, if more than one 21bs extra for each winning after the first, but no horse to carry more than 71bs extra. Horses, &c., having started and not been placed at the Liverpool July, Goodwood, or Doncaster meetings, allowed 3lbs; having started twice and not won, allowed 51bs; in Scotland or Ireland, having started once and not won, allowed 51bs; twice 71bs ; allowances to be deducted from. extra weights if carried. The PALATINE STAKES, a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 rove each, with 200 sovs in specie added, 15 sovs ft, and 5 only if declared before two o'clock on Tuesday before start ing: for four-year-olds and upwards. Two-mile course. Gentlemen riders. The ST. LEGER STAKES of 25 sovs each, with 50 added, for three-year-olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst slb. One mile and three-quarters. The winner of the Derby or Doncaster St. Leger to carryl2lbs extra; second for either, or winner of the Oaks, or of the Drawing-room Stakes, or of the Cup, at Goodwood, or the Cup or Gascoyne Stakes at Doncaster, 71bs extra; maidens allowed 41bs. and horses having started and never been placed allowed 71b. The SELLING STAKES of 10 suvs each, h ft. with 50 added. Heats one mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 200 sovereigns, if demanded. THURSDAY. The WILTON STAKES, of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, with 50 added, for two-year-olds 7st 41b, three 9st 41h; fillies allowed 21b; maiden three-year-olds at starting allowed 41b. Two-year old course. The STEWARDS' CUP, value 200 sovs, the rest in specie, by subscription of 20 sovs each, with 100 sovs added. Two miles and a half. Three-year-olds 7st, four Bst 71b, five Bst 131 b, six and aged 9st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 41b. The winner of the Derby, the Goodwood Cup, the Doncaster St. Leger or Cup, in 1839, to carry 71b extra; the second horse for the Derby or St. Leger, in 1839, the winner of the Ascot Cup,lB.39,thePalatine Cup at this meeting of the Oaks, 1839. or the Derby or St. Leger in any year, 51b extra; of any weight for age cup in 1839, 31b extra ; extra weights to be accumulative, but no horse to carry more than 121 b extra ; no horse liable to extra weight to be entitled to claim allowances; but except as above, maiden four-rmr-olds a)xcept such as had been placed in the Derby or the St. Leger in 1838) allowed 71b; maiden five-year-olds 101 b; and maden six and aged 14lb. Horses, &c., having run in Scotland or Ireland after the Ist of July, 1839, and not re ceiving other allowances, to be allowed 71b. If twenty sub scribers, the second horse to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. A HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sows each, for three-years-olds. Gentlemen riders. One mile. The ORMSKIRK PURSE of £5O, added to a subscription of 15 sees each, 5 ft ; three-year-olds 7st 21b, four Bst 21b, five Bst 71b, six and aged Bst 111 b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Once round. The SELLING HANDICAP of 10 sovs each, h ft, the winner to be sold for 100 sovs, if demanded. Heats, two-year-old course. Gentleman riders. FRI DAY. The KNOWSLEY STAKES of 30 sovs each, h ft, with 50 soya added for two-year-olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b. One mile course. The winner of the liglinton . Stakes to carry 51b extra. The HEATON PARK STAKES, a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft. and 5 only if declared on or before the Ist September, with 100 sovs added. Once round and a distance. Weights to be declared on the 14th August. FREE HANDICAP of 25 sues each, 10 ft, for all ages except three-year-olds. One mile. The winner of the Racing Cup to carry 71b extra. Gentlemen riders. A HANDICAP of 20 sovs each, h ft, with 20 sovs added, for the beaten horses of Wednesday and Thursday. Once round and a distance. The OPTION STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 30 sot's added. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Three-year-olds 7st 21b, four, Bst 21b, five, Bst 91h, six and aged, Bst 121 b. The winner to be sold for £l5O, if demanded, with the option of not being sold for less than £2OO, £250. or £3OO, c arr yi ng , if for £2OO, 51b extra, for 250, 101 b extra, and for £3OO, 141 b extra. The St. Leger Stakes is the only one which closes on the Ist of January. TERMINATION OF THE BRICKLAYERS' TURN-OCT.—We are happy in being enabled to state, that the turn-out of the bricklayers in this town is now at an end. After a five or six weeks' struggle, the workmen have wisely abandoned their claims, and have gone to work at their original wages. It will be well for them if, in many instances, their places are not already filled with new hands, or by strangers, who have been induced to come here in consequence of the local differences. This ever has been, and ever will he, the result of a struggle such as has characterised the late turn-out. A HORSE KILLED IN WATER-STREET.—On Tuesday afternoon, a cart heavily loaded, drawn by three horses, was passing up Water-street, and when opposite the City of Dublin Co's office, the force of the two chain horses was so great upon the shafts, that the shaft horse could not keep his feet, and the pavement being very flat, his hoofs had no pur chase on it. In addition to this, a portion of the load fell from the hack part of the cart, giving it a sudden impetus which caused the shaft horse to come down with such force as to break one of his fore legs. The poor creature writhed about, apparently iu great agony, and there being no possibility of removing it, a knacker was sent for, who struck it. Such a scene, in so public thoroughfare as Water-street, was par ticularly distressing•. q' FRIENDLY UNION, FOR THE PROMOTION OF USE FUL KNOWLEGE AND THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE IN MONTREAL.—A gentleman has just arrived in Liverpool, deputed on behalf of the above institution, to receive assistance for the purpose of carrying out its benevolent objects. The Friendly Union was established in the spriug of 1837, since which time it has erected a temporary place of worship for seamen and emigrants, in which divine service has been per formed twice on the Sabbath, and twice during the week; in which is kept a library of 300 volumes, free to any disposed to read. This year a small building has been added fora School of Industry, to which 110 children have been admitted: about thirty-five, on an average, are in daily attendance. This has been accomplished by the voluntary offerings of a few friends. The funds of the institution, however, are not sufficient to meet the demands upon it, and a building is pressingly re quired for the accommodation of seamen and emigrants, and for public lectures. We have seen the testimonials of the agent, which are in the highest degree respectable; and we are requested to state, that donations in aid of the society, either in money or books, will be received by Mr. Marples, Lord-street, of whom likewise further information may be obtained. The inhabitants of Wakefield are about to memorialise the government to build a squadron barracks at that place. The nearest military station is at Leeds, and the present state of the west riding renders it desirable that the object of the me morial should be obtained; as in case of any sudden out break, property to a great extent may be destroyed before the arrival of any soldiers from that station. From a communication in the Wiltshire Independent it would seem that distress prevails in Potterne, near that town, and in other villages around. The writer says, that—" Last week, a man and his wife with six small children, had nothing but potatoes and water to enter their lips for the space of three days; the mother of these poor suffering babes had to maintain the youngest of them at her own breast." I. 1 ---7 --• EXHIBITION, POSTOFFICE-P L E: -- ~ 1 ?-, ,• - ---- ,- ` 0 This splendid exhibitionof works of art clo.Od 'on Saltirday 7 last. The season has been highly successful; :fa Qd_dit i lon to , • a first-rate attendance of visiters, pictura-'lll7 the'Valot-of . • £1,806 have been sold, and £1,215 put4l9n'te the- subs Ol- ;, ', tion fund, up to the amount of which piWirtt's. akst distributed ',..; 4 41te_ at the close of the season, making T5,9.,e.1he.. plqis—;of-, ..2; .£3,000. Besides, a person obtaining the rig tiC . , titureill \ : the distribution, may wish to enchange it, as - tkas : priii,i, lege of doing, for one of a higher value, paying a differegitt';'- i 64_ so that it is possible the receipts may yet be mat Atzg ; ,--'1... - mented. We have already, However, the gratifying r fa the interest which Liverpool takes in the success of the arts, affording at the same time a substantial encouragement to British artists, which cannot fail to stimulate them to put forth renewed energies for the attainment of still greater emi nence in the profession, so as to render their productions still more worthy of public approbation and patronage. This is precisely the object at which the exhibition aims ; and we we are glad to find that that object is being carried out with so much efficielicy and zeal, and with the prospect of such ' extended and extending beneficial results. There is equal around for congratulation in the talent and industry of the artists, and in the liberal manner in which they have been rewarded. Great credit is due to the indefatigable trea surer to the fund above alluded to, Mr. Winstanley, for his exertions in promoting the objects of the institution. The following are the names of individuals who have obt4ined pictures on the subscription system, with the respective values : £6o.—Joseph Mann. £so.—Master Stockdale. £4o.—Alexander Shand, Daniel M`Vicar. £3s.—William Pickering, W. Tweedle. £3o.—William Foster, Jun., Thomas Winstanley, Miss E. Christian. __ £2s.—James Howell, Woodside; John Foster, George Golding, George Holt, S. H. Samuel, George Smith, Bold street; J. B. Yates, Richard Buggein. £2o.—Mrs. Slattery, Henry Harrison, Joseph Sandars, N. Duckworth, Asp►nall Syers, William Reynolds, Jun., Henry Ashton, Mrs. Dixon, Miss M. Clegg, Edward Eyes, Miss Sattherthwaite. rs. Caton Thompson, Mrs. Headlam, Mr. Wither spoon, Miss Lister, F. Tobias, Mrs. S. T. Winstonley, Saml. Turner, James Ryley, E. Oxley. £lo.—Mrs. Winstanley, James I'. Hobson, Mrs. Read, Miss Watkins, Arthur Thompson, Peter Howard, Miss Har rison, Daniel Wilcock, R. 8., IH. Blundell, William Nichol son, Peter W. Clerk, John Watson, Manchester; W. Stock, Joshua Wood, William Wood, Castle-street; Cornelius Bourne, Mr. Cockburn, James Aspinall, Thomas B. Black burn, William Hayman, Joseph Ewart. £s.—Guido, William Hombersley, John A. Smith, D. J. Hoare, John Marriott, E. H. Barnet. Mr. M'Crakan, Dr. Formby, R. Cestrian, Miss Dinah Clarke, Richard Harrison, T. C. Foster, John Manifold, Stanley Percival, Mr. John Clow, James Mellor, Edward Littledate, William Goodward, P. M. Carson, F. G. Lynn, 80ld -street; W. Nickson, Miss Deane, Eliza J. Pearson. LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION LECTURES ON PAINTING. On Wednesday evening Mr. Haydon delivered his seventh lecture. Not one of the European Academies of Painting have pro duced a really first-rate artist, worthy of comparison with those men of genius who preceded them, and in honour of whom they were founded. Indeed, in England the Royal Academy tends rather to nourish mediocrity than to foster talent. This is not only the effect of academies in England but all over the continent. On this ground it was that he had commenced war with the Royal Academy. Mr. Haydon then gave a history of the rise and progress of societies in England for the encouragement of art from the Reformation until the foundation of the Royal Academy by a charter from George the Third, and endeavoured to show that the Royal Academy was not only based upon the gross est fraud and injustice but that almost every act which it performed was from the most selfish motives, the benefit of the members and not the public good forming its sole objects. The members had by their cunning got possession of the N a tional Gallery, and had rendered it unfit for the purposes for which it was designed, the very Cartoons of Raphael ' being inadmissible on account of the smallness of the rooms. Notwithstanding Dr. Bowring, in his report to the committee, had stated that the knowledge of the human figure formed the basis of the excellence of the French designs, they had refused to allow it to be taught. in the school of design lately • formed at Somerset House, because Chantry and Calcott had said that the human figure for mechanics was absurd. He wound up his lecture with an eulogy upon the school of design belonging to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution, which he said was by far better calculated to bring out genius than any school over which the Royal Academy had any in fluence. • [ln the last lecture, of which a report will appear in our next, Mr. Haydon, after complimenting the reporters upon the faithfulness with which they had given his remarks, said that there were some few mistakes which he would wish to have rectified. In the sixth lecture he had been made to say that he had an interview with the Duke of Wellington, in stead of an intercourse with him. This was important, because not having had a personal interview with the noble duke, he would not like it to reach his ears that he had stated such a thing. Several typographical errors, such as Xerxes for Xeuxes, bad likewise occurred. The Manchester Guardian had reported him to have said, in his seventh lecture, of which we have just given a sketch, that the European acade mies were founded by great painters, instead of their being founded after the appearance of great artists_ With respect to his intercourse with the Duke of Wellington, we were by no means the only persons present who drew the inference from the words of his lecture that he had a personal interview with his grace ; and as to the typographical errors complained of,:he ought by his own experience to have been aware that despite the greatest care,—to wit, the occurrence of the word Pantheon for Parthenan, in a work which he quoted—they will creep into affairs of much greater importance in the lite rary or scientific world than a newspaper report of a lectnre on painting.] A foot traveller in Scotland entered a village change-house• (as a public-house is termed in that country,) and called for a mutchkin (a half-pint of whiskey.)' He had just tasted it when the servant asked him if she should bring any water. " Water ! na, na, lassie," was the answer; " any one who is no satisfied wi' the water that's in't already mann be hard to please."— Literary Gazette. A LECTURE ON STEALING.—WeII, says I, there ain'tsuch an enlightened people as we are, that's sartain; but that don't justify you a bit; you hadn't ought to have stolen that watch. That was wrong, very wrong, very wrong indeed. You might have traded with him, and got it for half nothin' ; or bought it and failed, as some of our importin' merchants sew up the soft-horned British ; or swapped it, and forgot to give the exchange; or bought it, and given your note, and cut stick afore the note became due. There's a thousand ways of doin' it honestly and legally, without resortin', as foreign ers do, to stealin'. We are a moral people, a religious, a high-minded, and a spirited people, and can do any and all the nations of the universal world out of any thing, in the hundred of millions of clever shifts that are in trade; but as for stealin', I dispute it; it's a low, blackguard, dirty, mean action; and I must say you're a disgrace to our nation. An American citizen never steals; he only gains the advantage ! Sam Slick. CHATTERTON THE POET.— William Bradford Smith was Chatterton's bosom friend; in fact they were birds of a feather. He was the person to whom Chatterton addressed the letter commencing " Infallible Doctor." He was not a medical man, but, after vicissitudes of fortune, went up on t h e stage, and wrote verses in torrents daily to within a few hours of his death, which happened only three years ago. He had once a quantity of the youth's autographs, but he gave them away or lost them. To the last he never would believe that Chatterton was the author of "The Poems." " What, sir !" he would say, "he write Rowley ! No, no, no ! I knew him well; he was a clever fellow, but he could not write Rowley. There was a mystery about the poems beyond me, but Tom no more wrote them than I did: he could not." Such was the undeviating opinion of Chatterton's every-day companion. —Gentleman's Magazine. BLESSINGS OF CHRISTIANITY.—The late eminent judge Sir Allan Park, once said at a public meeting in the city— " We live in the midst of blessings, till we are utterly insen sible of their greatness, and of the source from which they flow. We speak of our civilisation, our arts, our freedom, our laws, and forget entirely how large a share of all is due to Christianity. Blot Christianity out of the page of man's history, and what would his laws have been—what his civili sation ? Christianity is mixed up with our very, bei ng an d our daily life ; there is not a familiar object round us which does not wear its mark, not a being or a thing which does not wear a different aspect because the light of Christian hope is on it, not a law which does not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity, not a custom which cannot be traced in all its holy and healthful parts to the Gospel." EFFECTS OF CARBONIC ACID GAS.—In consequence of the difference of opinion existing among the leading members of the medical profession as to the quantity of carbonic acid gas that may with safety be inhaled—a question which has arisen from the recent occurrence in St. Michael's Church, Corn hill—Profersors Golding, Bird, and Everett, are pursuing a series of experiments at Guy's and Middlesex Hospitals., under the sanction of the Westminster Medical Society, with a view to elucidate the subject. These experiments are very elaborately conducted ; a quantity of mathematical apparatus having been constructed for the purpose, and trials being made oil several of the inferior animals. It appears that the professors have already arrived at the conclusion, that one part of carbonic acid gas in twelve of atmospheric air is sufficiently powerful to destroy any kind of animal life. This is directly contrary to the general opinion, but the results of their investigations are about to be fully laid before the public. ANCIENT INES.—The composition and the colours of the ink used by the ancients were various. Lamp black, or the black taken from burnt ivory, and soot from furnaces and baths,according to Pliny and other writers, formed the basis of it; the black liquor of the cut& fish is also said to have been used as ink, principally on the authority of a meta phorical expression of the poet Per4ns. But of whatever ingredients it was made, it is certain, Trom chemical analysis, from the solidity and blackness in the most ancient manu scripts, and from an ink-stand found at Herculaneum, in which the ink appears like a thick oil, that the ink t hen made was much more opaque as well as encaustic than that used at present. Inks, red, purple, and blue, and also silver and gold inks, were much employed by the ancients; and red was made from vermilion, cinnabar, carmine; the purple from the murex ; one kind of this coloured ink, called the sacred encauster, was set apart for the sole use of the emperors. The subscription at the eud of most Greek manuscripts, con taining the name of the copyist, and the year, month, and day, and sometimes hour, when he finished his labour, were generally written, in the period of the lower empire, in pur ple ink. Golden ink was used by the the Greeks much more than by the Humans. The manufacture, both of it and silver ink, was a distinct and extensive, as well as a lucrative busi ness in the middle ages; and another distinct business was that of inscribing the titles, capitals, or emphatic words, in coloured and gold or silver inks.—Lye of Caxton. FRENCH COFFEE.—Coffee is to the Frenchman what tea is to the Englishman, beer to the German, eau-de.rie to the Russian, opium to the Turk, or chocolate to the Spaniard. Men, women, and children of all grades and. erofessions drink coffee in Pads. In the morning it is servid up under the aromatic name of café au lait, in the eveofug it is uni versally taken as café noir. After one of Vyeur's cent repasts, it enters your stomach m tb, character of a settler. It leaves you volatile, nimble, andAtuck ; a it might he justly poured those pleasant eimpiimetit§—which Falstaff bestowed on sherrie sack. The yarcon, at your call for a demi-tasse, has placed before yes a snowy cup and saucer, three lumps of sugar, and a petit/verve. He ventured the petit neyre, inferring from your ruddy English face that you liked liqueur. Another garcn now appears; in his right hand is a huge silver pot covered, and in his left another of the same material, uncovered; the former contains coffee, the latter cream. You reject cream, and thereupon the garc.in pours out of the former in strange abundance, until your cup, ay, and almost (be saucer, actually overflow. There is hardly space for the three lumps; and yet you must contrive somehow to insert them, or that cafe noir—black it may indeed be called—will in its concentrated strength be quite unmanageable; but, when thus sweetly tempered, it becomes the finest beverage in the whole world. It agreeably affects several senses. Its liquid pleases all the gustatory nerves, its savour ascends to rejoice the olfactory, and even your eye is delighted with those dark, transparent, and sparkling hues through which your silver spoon perpetually shines. You pronounce French coffee the only coffee. Iu a few moments its miracles begin to be wrought: you feel spirituel, amiable, and conversational. Delille's fine lines rush into your memory,:— " Et le crois du genie epreuvant le reveil, Boire dans chaque goutte, un rayon du soleil." —Bentley', Miscellany.