The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

M11MM1m......a with th list wit TO CORRESPONDENTS CHURCH, SACKVILL donation -We were in this beautiful permitted, persevered it lining other donations. t of £5OO by the Diocesan Church two years afterwards, which enabled conferred, a few weeks since, on Esq., and not on Dr. Hume, as st Ni in our gentleman having had the de' honorary curators of the Histor - -vents of " A Free Trader —ore triflinst Ith are ' hick th gree for some Society. •ee of } eph May( 1 to mu t has been done from August 31st, 18 We have the re consecutive considerble importations of roiefin average price of wheat in this country was froni 46s 'to 475. per quarter, leavinf only 2Gs. to 275. for th e f ore i gn pro y to supply it at that price y again see shortly now, and .efer was never conse to its present purpose, Ebt Ettirrpool o,tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING. FE. TWO D IYS LATER FROM AMERICA ANOTHER ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA C TELEGRAPH BY the arrival of the Niagara, from Boston, we e advices from New York to the 6th instant. hich is not important, will be found She brings out extensive orders for manufactured goods, the importers of which had done well with the fall shipments, and were expect ing a large spring trade. The estimates of the elsewhere cotton crc p from the sot th were rather more in favour of an increase in quantity, er than was' ant the arrivals con )ated. The grain ensive shipments were markets were dull; and ext preparing for this country. The following important news, however, with di.te thorn New York and Boston two days later than those receivedby the steamer, was forwarded by private letter from Halifax to a Liverpool cor respondent. The intelligence was telegraphed to Halifax from New York just as the Niagara was about to sail The following is our co-rrespon. t's letter " Telegraph Office, Hi I have telegraphic despatch r, Sth Feb., 1850. important TI with Califor steamer E from Ne rk and The facts are from Chagres, had arrived to the Ist of January. and from two ns to two and a half millions of gold dust. Operations had nearly ceased at the mines for the mt of the snow and rain, but the gold satisfactory than heretofore. s is not le " The state legislature was already f u lly organ i ze d . __ drafted constitution, excluding slavery, ed by 12,000 to 8000 votes. had been accer York, b: had arrived at Fremont and Gwinn id members of Conzre Empire CitN al candid had been the suc " There bad b ), which destroyed 1 ,000,000 'dollar ;es for senators adous conflazration at St. roperty to the amount of "Our reports do not embrace the state of the markets. " The steamer Severn was waiting at Chartres, and would receive on board about :8'1,000,000 in gold dust on British the Ni ira sailed from Boston, Cotton has de rd there are free sellers at the decline " No cl e in Flour or Grain " Money market buoyant THE present condition and attitude of the manufacturing interest present phases of folly, selfishness, and wickedness combined, which are Nom to be observed in one body. But "a little " we heard nothing but paeans of triumph over the success of our Free Trade policy, as evidenced in increased demand for manufactured qkuttles were revolving, spindles were month ago, goods flv The agric but they 1 e operative was in full Iv-Url, and went merry as a marriage bell." ural community might be suff( were stupid grumblers,---: ke him in the fable, who were ever calling upon Jove to them, instead of putting their own should the wheel ers to The manufacturers alone, and the - cular, were the only people re about; and their pros raded before the world in ter men in par who knew what they. perous condition was pa proof of ti e fact This state of affairs, however, appears already to have changed a little. The exuberant prosperity of these people seems to have vanished as rapidly as the gloss from •off a piece of Yorkshire cloth, or the colour from a piece of their own printed calico, —made to sell. Some people may incline to doubt whether the prosperity boasted of ever had any xistence ; but that is not our affair. It is sufficient to know that no such thing exists at From the carefully compiled trade article present, rier of Saturday last, we gather nothing save representations of a gloomy character. The home demand is falling off; and the houses engaged in that trade are, in conse quence, very " chary of purchases" from the manufacturer. The travellers and collectors of these houses can tell, on their return from a journey through the agricultural districts, as truthful a tale as " our own commissioner," or the clerks of boards of guardians, upon whose statements the Government pins its faith. Order books cannot lie ; and decreasing receipts of cash are most con vincing arguments. Of course there are excuses sufficient adduced for this sad declension ; the leading one, however, is the high price of the raw material: cotton has done it all. The Nottingham lace trade is dull because yarns—a pound weight of which is sufficient for the manufacture of from £2 to £5 worth of finished goods—have advanced about as many pence. Wonderful to relate, it is the high price of cotton which is keeping the Greek buyers out of the market. Not a word about Lord Palmerston's "little war" in that quarter, and its possible consequences! The Ger- man houses are inactive for the same reason. Not a word about the fresh difficulties which have arisen in the way of a settlement of the quarrel between Denmark and the Duchies, which may possibly arrest for a while our commerce in the Baltic ! The most singularly anomalous feature in the position of our manufacturers is their conduct, or, we ought rather to say, the conduct of a portion of them, with respect to the Ten Hours Bill. A few days ago, the Manchester Guardian and the Free Trade millowners were in extasies of delight at the decision of the Court of Exchequer, by which the humane provisions of the Legislature in behalf of the poor factory workers were rendered inoperative. The relay system was then legalised. The mill might go on for fourteen or fifteen hours per day, its poor operatives chained to worse than African slavery,—to a life of toil and sleep, without change or intermission, without a single spare hour for self-improvement or the superintendence of their own households : and that was an event to glory over ! " Liberalism " had outwitted philan throphy ; the followers of Malthus and the political economists had triumphed over those who regard man, "the image of his Maker," as somewhat better than an insensate machine ! Yet what was the condition of a portion of our manufacturers at this very period ? We give, on the subject, a quo tation from the able authority referred to above : " In consequence of the very great disproportion at pre sent existing between the prices of some of the lower num bers of yarn and the raw material, we hear that notice has been given to the hands in several of the mills in this town to work short time, which some have already commenced; and this is not confined to Manchester, but extends to Heywood, Rochdale, Shaw, and other quarters. In some of these places we hear it stated as likely that two or. three o f f t h e mills will be stopped entirely for a season; this 819119 yFticularly to Shaw, where short time has been ailOptedfor s "The recourse to short time is not induced by any ac cumulation of stocks, but has been adopted to prevent such accumulation. The coarser numbers of yarns have been long depressed, and have latterly been still less in demand ; and, under these circumstances, the only course open is to reduce the production, as it would be madness to accumulate stocks with cotton at present prices." Under the operation of a Ten HOurs Bill, then, these mills have been able to glut the market with the lower description of yarns. How much sooner would they have been able to do this with the permission which the decision of the Court of Exchequer gives them to work their hands from fourteen to fifteen hours a day ? But mark the guarded and apologetic tone of the second para graph of the extract ! " The recourse to short time is not induced by any accumulation of stocks,". —or, in other words, Don't think, good easy buyers, that you are going to have our article any cheaper ! —" but has been adopted to prevent such accumu lation." Why, this was precisely the very ground upon which the factory workers mainly supported the Ten Hours Bill. It would operate, they urged, to prevent accumulations of stocks, and place THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, millowners themselves more nearly upon the same emolument will readily he believed, when we state footing as to the rate of production the man who that, for an ordinary and easy case of midwifery, the had consideration for his workpeople, and who charge to the parish is 10s. No more would be wished to see their social condition ameliorated, charged by most doctors for the wife of a working would he protected against the constant encroach- man in moderate circumstances. If the case is one, ments of his less considerate neighbour, who however, in which instruments are used, the parish thought more of a farthing added to the profit of is made to pay two guineas; and, in some very a hundred pounds worth of manufactures than an difficult cases, even three pounds. We may remark hour added to the short span of a factory operative's that in private practice the instruments are used life. A certain portion of our Free Traders, how- very seldom. In parish practice there is a motive ever, think differently. They like not a continuous to make them frequent. What may be the scale of stream of steady industry : they rather like pro- charges in other cases, we know not ; but so good duction to ebb and flow,—to be at its maximum a thing is it generally thought, by some of the pro one day, and to be restricted with limits of their fession, to have got an appointment, that more own choosing the next. By the latter system they. than one has immediately set up a gig and groom. hold in their hands the fate of the working man : Let any of our readers take a walk as far as the they have the screw constantly within their reach ; Parish-office, on a medical hoard day, and he will and we need not doubt that they will use it see a tolerably long line of these evidences of inexorably to dictate their own terms to their flourishing medical practice. helpless serfs. In addition to a change in the mode of paying We would warn these men, however, and we these gentlemen, the dispensaries provided for them would warn, at the same time, her Majesty's Govern- by the parish, at so large an expense, ought to be ment, who !nave shewn an unmistakeable disposi- discontinued. In the first place, their distance tion to sneak out of their duty to maintain intact from the locality in which a case may occur is some the Ten Hours' Bill, after it has already received times such as to cause danger to patients, who may the solemn sanction of an Act of Parliament, that be in emergency, whilst a druggist's shop might there are limits beyond which human patience probably be found within a few yards; and thus cannot be stretched. The manufacturing opera- they also interfere injuriously with the business of tives have, since this decision was made public, the great body of the private druggists of the town. displayed their fixed resolve to have this bill. The In the second place, this mode of supplying rnedi most enlightened and humane amongst the mill- tines increases considerably the business of the owners acknowledge that it has thus far, during clerks in the Parish-office. Moreover, these parish its short trial, worked well for all parties. Mr. dispensaries tend to supersede_ the voluntary dis- Hume's report on the subject is conclusive. That pensaries of the town, the benefits conferred by gentleman states that, whilst the difference of wages which upon its workingpoor are gratefully and to an operative b e t ween wor ki ng ten h ours and universally acknowledged, p eleven or twelve is very trifling, the product of the We feel satisfied that- many other important two hours lost being made up, in part by the reforms might be effected in the administration of increased speed of the machinery, but chiefly by our parochial affairs; but one essential step has the ability of such operative to bestow a closer at- first to be taken. The composition of the Vestry tention upon his work, the master loses an equally itself must be reformed, by the infusion amongst smaller money amount, the quality of his goods its members of a few of the large ratepayers of the being generally improved by the change. The bad town, interested in economising expenditure, and work, in factories and all other workshops, has conve rsan t w ith paroc hi a l management .and the long ago been a c k now l e d ge d t o b e produced during social condition of the inhabitants. Many - such the concluding hours of the day's toil, when the might, no doubt, be found, willing to devote a poi , frame has been worn out and the attention tion of their time to advance the interests of their wearied. If the millowners wish to drive their 'fellow-townsmen. We have no wish to see any operatives to insubordination and outrage, they class excluded—no wish to pack the Vestry with a cannot do better than oppose the. re-enactment of majority of any class. We only wish to see the the Ten Hours' Bill, and insist upon maintaining ratepayers fairly represented, and a.voice afforded the relay system. We believe, however, most especially to those who contribute most largely. It firmly, that the immediate object which they have is becoming • apparent that the movement of the in view in its maintenance, viz.,—an extensive past few years, by which the constitution of the reduction of wages, —once achieved, they will body has been changed, has been one in a wrong themselves be the first to call for protection from direction. It was commenced by a party cry, and its injurious operation upon their own interests. pressed forward, confessedly, on party grounds. We appeal to their own experience of the past It has resulted in the introduction to the board of whether or not we are correct in prophesying that, a number of gentlemen, perfectly respectable in whatever combination they may enter into amongst position and character, but crotchetty, unacquainted themselves to work short time, for the purpose, as with business so extended as the management of a at present alleged, of prevailing accumulation of large parish ; and, after the newness of office has stocks, the first man amongst them who can get worn off, unwilling to devote the required attention an extensive order at paying price, will break the to the duties imposed upon them. We submit compact with as little remorse as an ox would that the time has now come when, the alleged . break a tether of rotten twine, in his eagerness to grounds of the change having disappeared, the get to a fat pasture. influential ratepayers of Liverpool will awake from their lethargy, and return a body of men to the Vestry able and willing to devote their energies to the task of rescuing the property of the town from the injurious pressure of its present onerous burthens. THE Mercury of Friday, in a prominent portion of his paper, and still more prominently in his pla card on the walls, announces to the public the welcome intelligence of an approaching reduction of our local burthens. The parochial authorities are about to lay a two-shilling poor's rate only for the coming year; and we are left by our contem porary to infer that this is to be the extent of our expenditure. It is a little disheartening, however, to remember that we commenced the year before the last with a rate of the same amount; and that we were driven last year, by the heavy balance against the parish, to raise it to three shillings and twopence. Notwithstanding this fact, we are fully of opinion that, under the present improved condition of the town, the increased healthiness of our population, the great cheapness of food, and other favouring circumstances—the rate of 2s. now proposed would, if collected early, and expended with strict economy, be amply sufficient to supply the legitimate wants of the parish. But if the extravagant expenditure of the industrial schools is to go on, and the medi cal department of the parish is to be maintained at its present extent, and upon the present system, we much fear that, notwithstanding our improved position, and the decreased price of all articles of necessity and comfort, such rate will not last out the year. Retrenchment, not only in these items, but in many others, must be insisted upon with firmness by the vestry, in justice to the suffering ratepayers of ;he parish ; and we are satisfied that this can be accomplished without, in the slightest degree, affecting injuriously the condition of the unfortunate poor of our town. We have already expressed our opinion pretty distinctly upon the subject of the present manage ment of the industrial school. Regarded as a model educational establishment it may be excel lent in its system, although its drillmasters, its bandmasters, its model ship, and other adjuncts, are somewhat too fanciful for the tastes and com prehension of plain men. But a pauper educational establishment it is not. On the contrary, it is one, the superior advantages of which thousands of our industrious working classes, and not a few of our ratepaying middle classes, would gladly see their own children enjoying. But, independently of the manifest evil policy of thus holding out a premium to parents to pauperize their offspring, in order to enable them to receive the benefits of the education bestowed at these industrial schools, we are under the impression that the expenditure upon them is not sufficiently controlled; and that they might be economised without decreasing their efficiency. Their distance from the business locality of the town prevents their being visited with frequency enough to afford a proper supervision of the details of their management and daily expenditure, or visited at all by the few parties in the present vestry most largely interested in economising the funds of the ratepayers. Another item, in which important saving might be effected, is the medical department of the parish. The medical staff costs, on the present scale, and under the present system, upwards of £5,000 per annum in average years; and it will be found to have been raised this year, on account of the cholera, to nearly £lO,OOO. This expenditure we conceive to be greatly too high ; and the system itself is radically wrong—unjust to the great body of the medical practitioners of the town, and most demoralising to the poor themselves. To demon strate this, we need only give the outlines of such system. In the first place, the parish doctors, of whom there are thirteen, instead of being paid a stated salary—and w e should not object to its being a liberal one—are paid for each separate case. By law, all parish doctors should supply their own medicines. Instead of doing this, however, the parish doctors of Liverpool allow £l3O, or £lO each, to the parish to supply them, from dispen saries established for the purpose in convenient Parts of the town, the cost of which is upwards of £l,OOO a year. THE congratulation of her Majesty's Ministers upon the increased comforts and improved condi tion of the people, caused by free trade, has scarcely ceased to vibrate in our ears when it is mocked by an appeal from the leading organ of those Ministers, warning the country of the press ing necessity of a wholesale resort to emigration, as the only means of preventing its resources being drained by pauperism. "In the year ending Lady Day, 1849," says the Times, " England and Wales spent £5,792,973 in the relief of the poor; and this in addition to the large provision made for them in endowed alms-houses, hospitals, &c." Nine hundred and ninety-seven thousand persons were in July last receiving relief, in or out of the work house, at a cost of £5 16s. a head per annum. " Every sixteenth person," our contemporary con tinues, "or one person in every three households, is a pauper, hanging like a dead weight on the industry of the other fifteen;" and as, a remedy for this lamentable state of things, he proposes that parishes should set on foot an extensive sys tem of emigration to relieve themselves of the burthen. " Kill pauperism at once," he exclaims, " by sending it to our colonies ;"„and he appeals to the prevailing sins of the nation—avarice and selfishness—by sheaving that such is the cheapest mode of throwing the burthen off our own shoulders. " One year's maintenance of one million paupers would place them with a sovereign a-piece in Upper Canada. Two years' maintenance would land them in Natal. Three years' maintenance would distribute them over Australia, Van Dieman's Land, and New Zealand." Has the Times just discovered the existence of this mass of pauperism, and its alarming pressure upon the industry of the people ? With only two years' experience of the working of free trade are we to set about the transportation of a million of paupers ? Why, we were told in the palmy days of the League agitation that, with a repeal of the corn-laws we should have no surplus labour—no pauperism; Manchester and the West Riding would absorb the surplus hands of the agricultural towns; and improved farming—deep draining, sub-soiling, and other operations—give full em ployment to the agricultural labourers. The bubble seems, however, to have burst. The Times him self sees in prospect diminished employment for labour and increasing pauperism. The manufac turer, with increased demands for his goods, in creases his machinery, not his hands. The agri culturist, in order to meet the competition, with which he is met, and to accommodate his expendi ture to his reduced means, is seeking to diminish the number of those whom he has, hitherto, fed. We shall not remark at length upon the practi cability of the scheme or its tendency, further than to suggest to our contemporary, that, as hundreds of our population commit crime in the hope of being transported at the public expense, those desirous of,trying their fortunes in a foreign land can be accommodated, if his plan is largely adopted, by the now simple step of throwing themselves upon their parishes. It is to be presumed that the able-bodied paupers alone could be got rid of in the mode pointed out by the Times': for most assuredly our colonists would be little disposed to welcome to their shores the lame, the aged, the lunatic, or the infant paupers of our parishes, even if landed among them with a sovereign each in their pockets. It is our adult labourers whom we are to get rid of—the bones and sinews of the nation's strength. Alas for England, if such is her dire necessity ! Wisely wrote her poet of such a state of things as is to be found in our manu facturing districts— " 11l fares the land, to hastening woes a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." The tendency of the plan of paying by the case, instead of by a salary, is obviously bad, as holding out to the doctors a premium upon the creation of patients, and to the working classes an inducement to pauperise themselves, in order to obtain, at the expense of the parish, the medical aid of the very men whom, or their brethren of the same standing, they would otherwise be led to employ and to pay. It is hinted—but we cannot, of course, believe that such a practice could be pursued by any respectable medical man, holding an important public trust— that runners may be employed by some of the body to seek out cases. A system ought not to exist which could allow of so injurious an insinuation being listened to for a moment, or of the possibility of its being true; for, only conceive an under standing between a relieving officer and a parish doctor, and what might not be the extent to which patients might be created, and the ratepaying public hurthened ! Besides, what is to ensure us that, in each case for which he charges, the doctor himself, and not an assistant, or an apprentice, sees the patient ? The climax of its fate may well be said to be drawing nigh when "A bold peasantry, the nation's pride," has to be transported to foreign climes because their native soil no longer yields them food and affords them remuneration for their labour. ST. PETER'S CHURCH, SACKVILLE,STREET..---The collections at the four services, as announced in our last, at this church amounted to £llO. EMIGRATION.-At the commencement of the spring trade, the time at which emigration is in the bud, we are glad to find that shipping agents are endeavouring to abolish the iniquitous system of commissions on passen gers. A meeting was held on Friday evening, at the Angel Hotel, at which such resolutions were passed as will, we trust, lead to the consummation of this desirable object. If the proposals of the meeting (and representa tives of all the leading houses in town were present) are carried into effect, we shall find this extending business regarded as it ought to be, one purely mercantile, and hear no more of the shameful tricks of man-catchers alleged aaainst firms of respectability. THE FESTIVITIES AT POYNTON--Mr. Feeny has re ceived many tokens of the estimation in which his services were held, for having so efficiently provided for the com fort and entertainment of the guests, during the late festivities to celebrate the majority of Lord Vernon's eldest son. But probably the most gratifying proof of that satisfaction was conveyed to him in the following letter, .which was handed to him most unexpectedly, and in the most delicate and handsome manner by Lord Ver non's agent : We must repeat that we do not insinuate that any such practices do exist amongst such a body of men as those performing the duties of parish doc tors in this town, many of whom we know to be of the highest respectability and personal honour. It is the system alone with which we find fault. We complain of it as affording to the parish practi tioner, in addition to inducements to the evils which we have moticed, emoluments not enjoyed by their less fortunate brethren in the profession, of equal, and many of even superior, standing. It is known that some of the thirteen gentlemen at present en gaged on the staff have received from the parish upwards of £350 per annum, and are also in the enjoyment of private practice. This extent of the " The celebration of the coming of age of the Hon. Augustus Henry Vernon, at Poyn ton, Cheshire, Feb. 1, 1850. "It affords me much gratification to express my entire lip probation, and that of the Hon. A. H. Vernon, of the zeal, untiring activity, and valuable services of Mr. Joseph teeny, of the Merchants' Dining Rooms, Li verpool, in providing anal arranging a dinner for 2,500 person s, and tea for a party of '6OO persons, at Poynton, in celebration of the coming of age of the Hon. A, H. Vernon. And I beg to present him with a cheque for 41IN for his o,v,rn.Prinite aI:DIAS ASHWORTH, te Agent to Lord Vernott2l PETTY MEDDLING OF THE CUSTOMS' OFFICIALS. A few weeks ago we noticed the conduct of some of the customs' runners in our docks, who took upon themselves to stop a couple of small hams, which were being sent ashore by the captains of two American packet-ships, to be cooked for use on board. Since doing so, one or two additional seizures of similar articles, under the same cir cumstances ; and, of course, if the articles in question have not been deposited in the Queen's warehouse, or lodged in the depot, the very natural conclusion is, that they have gone into the pots or the gridirons of the worthies who seized them. We have now had a case brought be fore our notice, which certainly is characterised by a more pettifogging spirit than we could have believed any but some underpaid, but uplifted, member:of the body could have been guilty of ; for in this case an inspector was privy to the outrage. The facts of the case, as detailed to us by the master of a first-rate American ship, now lying in this port, are briefly these. The gentleman in question, some three years ago, bought an accordion for his own use, being a proficient upon that instrument and a musical amateur. During this period he has invariably brought the instrument ashore, his wife having been residing chiefly in Li ver pool. H e never pre viously experienced any difficulty in so doing. On the evening of the 13th instant, being shortly about to proceed to sea, the captain sent one of his apprentices ashore with the instrument, to leave it with his wife to get repaired, one of the keys having been injured. The lad, however, was stopped by the officer on the station, and the instru ment seized. The chief mate of the ship came up at the time, and hearing of the seizure, requested that the ac cordion should be allowed to be taken back to the ship ; but even this reasonable request was refused. The in strument was subsequently taken, not to the depot, from which it might have been easily released on explanation of the circumstances to the respected collector of the port, but to the Queen's warehouse, from which it cannot be released without an especial application to the board in London. And all this for a three years' old instrument, worth, possibly, about a guinea, if so much. It is really time, for the credit of Great Britain, that such petty annoyances should be put an end to, as they would if the Board of Customs would place in authority men of common sense and discrimination, instead of the hungry and insolent fellows who at present disgrace alike the service and*their country. The gentleman upon whom this glaring official outrage was perpetrated has sailed for seventeen years as first-mate and as captain between the United States and this port ; and the very idea of petty smuggling is foreign alike to his character and his position in life. POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY, CONVEYING A DEAD BODY IN A CAR.—A car-driver, named Lyon, was charged with havink, contrary to the health act, conveyed in a coffin the body of a child, in his car, receiving into the same vehicle at the time, a passen ger. The defendant was proceeded against by Inspector Ainsley, of the Board of Health. He stated that he did not know that the body was in the package, but the case was proved against him, and he was fined 10s. CAUTION TO ILLEGITIMATE ATTORNEYS' CLERKS.— A case came before the magistrate, relative to the conduct of a " legal adviser," who did not appear, and whose name was not openly given, in receiving several pounds for the defence at the sessions, of some party against whom the indictment, from some cause in law was not pressed. It appeared that the relatives of the party had deposiaed some money (X 5) for the defence, and that the clerk, or the attorney, whatever he was, had surreptitiously visited the borough gaol, and after seeing the accused, hail gone to the holder of the money, and obtained it under a false pretence, as he must have been well aware that he could render no service in the case. Mr. Rushton strongly reprehended such conduct, and should any similar case case come before him, be should have the delinquent apprehended, and sent for trial. CAUTION TO POLICE OFFICERS.—Mr. Rushton, (as well as the reporters for the press,) and the prisoners brought up at the Police-court daily, have good reason occasionally to complain of the low and faltering tone of voice in which some of the police-officers give their evi dence. Though all big robust men who might throw out their voices like Stentors, many of them speak almost in whispers, and so indistinctly that they might be taken for timid boarding-school misses. No. 818 yesterday did the gentle in this way to such a provoking degree of dim inuendo to the piano, that Mr. Rushton strongly repri manded him ; and it was intimated that men who will not speak up will be discharged frcm the force. The young hands are, notwithstanding the defect alluded to, fre quently "drilled" at the stations in speaking out like men ; and we have lost many a paragraph by the " peek ing" of some and the mumbling of others. INDECENTLY DISTURBING A PLACE OF WORSHIP.—A man named Henry Greenwood, said to be a watchmaker, was charged with having, in St. Stephen's Church, Byrom-street, on Sunday, while the clergyman (Dr. Hume) was officiating in the pulpit, disturbed- that gen tleman and the whole congregation by indecently bawling out from time to time,—" It's false !" " It' s a ll a f arce ! ' "It is all false !" and the like. Two of the church wardens appeared against the prisoner, and gave distinct evidence of the fact. Mr. Rushton said he was afraid that the punishment for brawling in church fell within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court. We understood him to add that a recent act gave protection thron4h magistrates to Dissenting places of worship and Roman Catholic chapels, but that the act did not include the Church of England—probably from the impression that disturbance of public worship in the Church was not contemplated to take place. On the evidence, however, being gone into, it dppeared that the prisoner had ren dered himself amenable to magisterial penalty, and it was inflicted. He was proved to have been drunk, and cer tainly a breaker of the peace. M r . Rushton fined him ss. and costs for being drunk, and further required him to find sureties to keep the peace, two persons in £lO each, and himself in £2O, or in default to be imprisoned for two months. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. Monday Night, The anticipated difficulty about the Danish question is, we hope, got over. A telegraphic despatch posted in the News-room this afternoon announces that the Danes have agreed to the extension of the armistice, at the request of Great Britain. This is good news : we hope it is authen tic. In France a rather unsettled feeling prevails, and will continue to do so, until after the 24th instant; but, with the powerful military force at the command of the government, we think there is little fear of any serious disturbance. Our squabble with Greece remains in stain quo; we do not know precisely what Admiral Parker has been doing ; and, however amicably matters may ulti mately terminate, through the good offices of France, we shall certainly lose some of the influence hitherto pos sessed by us as a friendly power. Meantime, the English funds hive declined. Consols for money closed on Saturday at 94/ to I, and this afternoon at 253 /. The principal feature of the Share Market during the past week is a decline in London and North-Western Shares of more than 5 per cent. The report of this corn pany for the halt year ending December 31st, has just been issued. This recommends a 5/ per cent. dividend, which leaves, after laving aside £17,000 for depreciation of rails, a surplus of about £28,000, whicch is not consi dered satisfactory. The decline in this stock is evidently only proceeding : it has not reached its lowest point, which, but for the abundance of money, would be low indeed. Great Westerns and Midlands are also lower ; the former about 2 per cent., the latter 1. Most other shares have declined more or less, though some lines, which have undergone a thorough purgation, are higher and firmer, and appear to have seen their worst days. Of these are the York and North Midland and Brighton lines. The former having declined from 133, its highest point, to under 17, is now gradually recovering, from im proved traffics, its extreme depression, an d h as thi s wee k touched 30. In local stocks there has not been much doing. The meeting of the Fire and Life was held on. Wednesday, when a dividend of 7s. 6d. per share was declared, leaving a balance of £40,000 and £lB,OOO to be carried over to reserved funds • the former sum being to cover losses on advances on shares, the latter available as a re-assurance fund. This company is considered now in a good position, and should this year be an average one, the next dividend may be expected to be much larger than the present one. The market to-day closes flat. The quotations of the day's business are as follow Great Western, 631; Leeds fifths, 7 3/9d 71c id ; London stock, 110; new'cuarters, tc 13/9p 13/9c 1p ; Man cheAer preference, 7-} ; Midland halves, 24kd ; D over , No. 4,6 a. ; N. and S. Wales Bank, 3i 3i.; Liverpool In surance, new iss. at 11 p., 3*p. The Produce market continues quiet. 1000 bags Bengal Sugar were sold on Saturday, and 1000 to-day, at 365. to 38s. for dates, and 40s. to 41s. for middling and good white Benares. There is rather more inquiry for middling descriptions of black Tea, and prices the turn dearer. The arrival of the Niagara has not in any way influenced the Cotton market here. The estimates remain as before, and, consequently, the quiescent condition of the trade still continues; ho never, as stocks must be very consi derably reduced by the smallness of the business latterly transacted, a most extensive trade may be shortly expected under any circumstances. We have telegraphic despatches from New York and Boston, which arrived at Halifax just before the Niagara sailed, containing two days later intelligence than that brought by the packet, which state that the price of cotton had fallen t- to cent since the Niagara sailed from Boston. The sales of Cotton in Li verpool to-day amount to 3,000 bales, including 500 on speculation; but although this demonstrates that the demand still continues on a limited scale, holders are not anxious to press sales, and prices may be considered, on the whole, to be firm at Friday's quotations. On Satur day 4000 bales were sold, of which 1000 were on specula tion, prices being without change. Our Wool market has been rather quiet this week, owing to the buyers being attracted to the London sales. As we anticipated, these sales are progressing at an ad vance of H. to 2d. per lb. over the prices obtained at the last series. Imports for the week ending 18th instant—. Foreign, 13 ; Irish, 129; Scotch, 16; total, 158 bales. We find it difficult to sum up with accuracy the grain markets of the past week. There is evidently, both in this country and Ireland, a further disposition to a slight improvement in the value of home-grown Wheats, which, in most instances where an advance has been obtained, has excluded the foreign article from any participation in the advantage ; but as we have received this morning very contradictory accounts from many places, we must decline particularizing, and can only state that the tenor of our advices generally leans towards firmer and slightly advancing markets, especially in the agricultural districts, without, however, the accompaniment of anything like a general activity. In fact, we have littl e d ou b t that, in moat cases where an advance is mentioned, it is more an effort on the part of holders, by demanding higher prices, tQ arrest, any : farther, grotress downwards, than any There has been an active demand for Irish Butter since our last; and as the week's supplies amount only to 3240 firkins, 421 crocks, and stocks are ight, an advance of 2s. per cwt. was obtained towards the close of the week, the top quotation to-day being 70s. to 735. per cwt. for new Waterford. Bacon is in fair demand at steady prices. American Lard is quoted to-day at 335. to 335. 6d. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LONDON AIONEY MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The English market improved to-day, and closes at its best price, with a firm appearance. Foreign market quiet. Spanish and Mexicans better through purchases. The Fives done in Paris yesterday at 95i. Consols Account, 95i 2'; Ditto Money, 95* 2; Three-and-a-quarter per Cents, 971 2; Exchequer Bills, 54 7 pm. ; Mexicans, 29/ 30*; Russian Scrip, 24 pm. LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. The Railway Market has no symptoms of improvement, ex cept Brightons, which are a trifle better. North-Westerns heavy, London and North-Westerns, 1091, 101; Ditto New Quarters, 1 1 pm. ; Midlands, 421 31 ; Ditto Halfs, 241 4 dis. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 19 : Ditto, ditto, No. 4, reg., si, ; North Staffords, 10Z ; Caledonian Pref., 71 2'; Great Northerns, 132 1 dis. ; Ditto Westerns, 631 41 ; Eastern Coun ties, 7k ; Leeds Fifths, 7/ 7 dis-; York, Newcastle, and Ber wick Pref., 5i 5 dis. ; York and North Midlands, 19} 2. LONDON CORN MARKET. YESTERDAY. The supply of English Wheat being very reduced this morn ing, factors are enabled to obtain in some cases an advanceof about ls. per quarter on last Monday's currency. Holders of Foreign Wheat also held for higher terms, which somewhat restricted operations. Sales made were, however, at fully former terms. Barley, Beans, and Peas sold at unaltered quotations. Oats found buyers to a moderate extent at prices quite equal to last market's prices. ABRIVALS, English Wheat ' Q 2343 Foreign 1955 „ Barley 2912 13 ~ Oats . 9693 „ Malt. 8949 „ Flour 6830 15 Beans 977 Irish Malt If 1616 SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. - YESTERDAY • A moderate supply of Beasts, and a slow trade at Friday's quotations. Sheep sold a little better. Calves, no alteration. Prime Scotch Beasts, 3s. 10d. Beasts, 3,362; Sheep and Lambs, 17,300; Calves, 104; Pigs, 204. Beef, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 10d.; Mutton and Veal, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Holland Beasts, 54; Sheep, 120; Calves, 50. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts; 1,300'; Scotch Beasts, 200; Cambridge; Leices. ter, Northampton, and Lincolnshire Beasts, 700. TATTERSALL'S. MONDAY EvErmv . G. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.—Sir John, 10 to 1; Vainhope, 100 to 8; Farnham, 20 to 1 ; and Vengeance, 25 to 1 (all tkn.) ; Laurel Gelding, Kilkenny, and Everton, each 50 to 1 (tkn.); Quadruped, 40 to 1 (tkn.) ; Maria Day, 30 to 1 to . - 'lOO (tkn. ; Meath in greht demand at 15 to 1 and 20 to 1 (tkn: freely). NORTHAMPTON STARES.—OSIerICY, 7to 1 Belus, 20 to 1 ; Fernhill, 20 to 1 ; and Harriott, 10 to 1 (all tkn.) Belus and Fernhilll backed for most money. METROPOLITAN STAKES.—Cheerful, 5 tot ; Quiver, 20 to 1; and Sir Gilbert, 25 to 1 (all tkn.) CHESTER CUP.—Miss Ann, 16 to I (tkn.) ; Roland, Single man, and Whim Colt, each 20 to 1 (tkn.) ; Ellerdale, 20 to F (take 25 to 1); Lad v Evelyn, 35 to 1 (tkn.); John Cossar, 30 to 1 ; Feep-o'-Day Boy, 20 to 1 (tkn.) LINCOLN STEEPLE CHASE.-4 to I agst. British Yeoman (tkn.); Trust-me-Not and Abd-el-Kader, each 5 to 1 (tkn.): Young Lottery, 15 to 1 (tkn.) DERKY.—Ghillie Callum, Bto 1, and Bolingbroke, 10 to 1 (offd.); Niger, 12 to 1 (15 to r tkn.); Voltigeur, 13 to 1 ; Italian, 18 to 1; Clinker, 22 to 1 ; Mayors, 40 to 1; John O'Groat, 50 to 1 (all tkn); and Hardinger, 50 to I, tkn to £lOO. OAKS.—Probity. 10 to 1. General Klapka has addressed a spirited letter to Baron Haynau, the civil and military governor of Hungary; demanding that his excellency should provide for the inviolate maintenance of the capitulation of the fortress of Komorn." A deputation from the Metropolitan Sanatory Com mittee had an interview with the Premier on Saturday. Lord. John assured the gentlemen that her Majesty was deeply interested in the subject, and said that the govern ment was in favour of separate measures rather than of one general - measure—the evils in the metropolis were so numerous and complicated. THE CALEB GRIAISHAW.—Within the last few days several of the passengers by this ill-fated ship have arrived here and at London by vessels in which the parties have been despatched by the English consnl at St. Michaels. We understand that Messrs. Grimshaw intend to send these unfortunate people to America free of charge, and no doubt much sympathy will be felt for them by the public. We ware waited upon last night by one of them, named James Daly, and shall be glad to take charge of any sub scriptions on their behalf, as will, we believe, Mr. War burton of the Exchange Newsroom. BODIES FOUND DROWNED.—On Sunday morning, the body of a woman unknown was found (drowned) on the beach near the Anderton Basin, north end of the King's Dock pierhead. She had lid. in her pocket and a pair of scissors • also a ring on on e o f h er fi ngers. Dress, dark plaid, black tonnet, and boots. On the same morning, the body of a labouring man, named Lawrence Beacon, was found in a pit at the end of Hopwood-street, Scotland-road. He had left his home on Saturday at noon ; and it is supposed he had fallen into the water, the nit being quite unprotected by a railing or fence. WHY ARE THE CHURCHES IN LIVERPOOL NOT OCCU PIED ?—The question is frequently put,—especially by those who are unwilling to subscribe for ecclesiastical pur poses,—why do you persist in building churches, when the existing churches are not all filled ? The answer is two-fold ; for there are two facts implied in the question. 1. If it were allowable and convenient to removes church from place to place, —as an Arab removes his tent, or an American his house of shingles, there would be fewer new churches required. But our population cannot be so ac commodated ; and, therefore, when streets or villages spring up in new localities, there must be additional churches. T. The existing churches are not filled, be cause they were originally built for the rich, and still re tain their character, though now surrounded by the poor. In some of the churches in Liverpool, there is not, or was not until recently, a single sitting for the poor. In numerous other cases, the seats for the poor are in the least desirable parts of the churches. Thus, in practice we prohibit the poor man from being a Christian, and gravely wonder why he is a heathen. A family is large, and the father's means are limited; he cannot pay for the privilege of going to church. He has self-respect ;he will not make his appearance in working clothes ; he therefore becomes irregular. He has some feeling of independence; he will not submit to be passed from pew to pew to give place to others, or to be transferred by the verger to a re mote corner, where he can neither see nor hear. He is civil, and will not allow himself to be an intruder, though anxious to retain and deepen the impressions of his early days. When the cold neglect of years or of generations has done its work of degradation on his character, when double or treble the amount of godly or immoral popula tion has been crowded upon- each acre of ground ; it is at last seen that a grave error has been committed some where, but it cannot be remedied in an instant.—Missions at Home, by Dr. Hume ORIGIN OF THE Costiva , " SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER." "An amusing incident is related as occurring in Gold smith's last journey homeward from Edgewortbstown. His father's house was about twenty miles distant ; the road lay through a rough country, impassible for carriages. Goldsmith procured a horse for the journey, and a friend furnished him with a guinea for travelling expenses. He was but a stripling of sixteen, and being thus suddenly nted on horseback, with money in his pocket, it is no der that his heed was turned. He determined to play the man, and to spend his money in independent travel ler's style. Accordingly, instead of pushing directly for home, he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh, and, accosting the first person he met, inquired, with somewhat of a consequential air, for the best house in the place. Unluckily, the person he had accosted was one Kelly, a notorious wag, who was quartered in the family of one Mr. Featherstone, a gentleman of fortune. Amused with the self consequences of the stripling, and willing to play off a practical joke at his expense, he directed him to what was literally the best house in the place' ; namely, the family mansion of M r . Featherstone. Goldsmith, accordingly, rode up to what he supposed to be an inn, ordered his horse to be taken to the stable, walked into the parlour, seated himself by the fire, and demanded what he could bane for supper. On ordinary occasions he was diffident, and rather awkward in his manners, but here he was at ease in his inn,' and felt called upon to shew his manhood, and enact the experienced traveller. His per son was by no means calculated to play off his pretensions, for he was short and thick, with a pock-marked face, and an air and carriage by no means of a distinguished cast. The owner of the house, however, soon discovered his whimsical mistake, and, being a man of humour, deter mined to indnimit, especially as he accidentally learned this intruding guest was the son of an old acquaintance. Accordingly, Goldsmith was "fooled to the top of his bent,' and permitted to have fall sway through the even ing. Never was schoolboy more elated. When supper was served, he most condescendingly insisted that the landlord, his wife, and daughter, should partake, and ordered a bottle of wine to crown the repast, and benefit the house. His last flourish was on going to bed, when he gave explicit orders to have a hot cake for breakfast. His confusion and dismay, on discovering the next morn ing that he had been swaggering in this free-and-easy way in the house of a private gentleman, may be readily con- ceiv ed. True to his.habit of turning the events of his lift to literary account, we find this chapter of ludicrous bluns ders and cross.-purposes dramatised many years afterwards in his admirable comedy of She Stoops to Conqu er , or the Mistakes of a Night . "---OolArnitb 1 akkgraPhY 611 TrzgAingeofi actual improvement arising legitimately from an increas demand. Indian Corn is again lower in some parts of Ireland to the extent of about 2s. 6d. per ton. In Brunswick -street, a little Indian Corn has been sold to-day at 28s. 6d. for round yellow, but in other articles there is little passing. Some surprise has been excited by the fact that the weekly general averages of the kingdom were not published last week as usual ; and we are at a loss to comprehend what can be the cause of this omission. They usually arrive here on Friday, being published in London the previous day. Our market for Scotch Pig Iron is rather flat. Mixed numbers have fallen to 465. ; No. 1 to 525. 6d. f. o. b. here. The steamer from the States brings no improvement nor change in the market there. Lead has advanced £1 per I ton, owing to a continental demand and the stocks being low. ~'eb'~~ ; - et or COOL, TO SAY THE' LEAST.—The r eview A " Had Moore been possessed of a thorolighiThon he ought to have known that a single-fninn e e " t b e i in the Dublin University' Magazine for last a l° , 11 ; tleinan, with a brave and true heart, need o; to confess his love for any lady in Christer.t if diffidence shows a sad want of self-respec t ' ad are born to no other heritage than sac"' 0 brains as it h a s pl ease d P rov id ence to give lls 'oti just as little, if we were assure d o f the fact, _ Ali and lovely creature, with a fortune as large o h ; dett Coutts, had a liki ng f or us , a nd ant 'l e l 4+ for her—would think just as little of asking Pero tion as we would of writing this article. t i t ; may be called Irish impudence ; we do think so." ettO THE 'WOMEN OF C ASHMERE .—it iS tug G p east for all respectable women to conceal ril) figure as much as possible ; and although " I A ei case in Cashm ere th an per h aps any other, T e i still an English man cannot b ecome :IWO' ; a ge appearance of many. Th e g i r l s o f a foal' a ppo and all those at a ll remar k a b le f or p ersona c oo" are kept shut up. W e could there f or e form lt v only from the f ew o f th e commoner c l a sses or of town and surrounding country. The Ye ll , cg a aclO come down to th e r i ver to was % t h e ir fee' , a it but our boat, w ith it s gay pav i l i on and mimed"! was a marked o bj ec t w h erever we wen t; 811 ,10 from fear, w h enever ' we approached, t h e yonr!-, i , off as quickly as they could. On a few occas tithe,; sharply round a cor ner , we surpr i se d a fair sels, and a glimpse thus obtained c onfirneu. s of generally entertained o f th e b eauty o f Cashinefitty, They better d eserve t h e name of fine t h a n ; are tall, stoutly li m b e d , with a ma j es tic o ' 3 ' V and upper lip b eau tif u ll y formed ; the dark er.f le : soft, like that of the gazelle, with the long' Si V lashes. and: magnificently arched eyebron,io parted in the c en t re , gathered into several, P,,arte again collected h llreceateeding to in to one, tile t wwohrisctiledarie aga tail,ntoaunukles'• iir e' t white fillet is bound round the head, c o and the 10 sista of a large woo ll en l oose frock of a red tie, reaches a little below the knee, and soinetifne,!ty it round the loins with a white scarf. At a 1 1 1 0 it has a very pretty effect ; but the coarl4 material injures very much the appearance closely. We were told that the high r clas s e s e in • their houses, wear loose silk trousers, 0 , if silk shirt; all generally of a red colour. s o s ' bright eye from behind the closed lattice, gu i l , strange-looking Feringhees, with their ug.u ti , and still uglier head-dresses. Protection ir o bs t,:. was our chief aim • and- the broad-brimme d , e few pounds of muslin' wrapped loosely rounair;tior sadly with the graceful turban and flowing be d their own cou n t r y men. Occasionally, Perc arf in some vera n d a h, b eyond the reach of ordrvwhole families might be seen seated, in the , e n . the often the wo men accompany their husban d aL but the face is concea l e d from the gaze of t"'fo'r, passer-by : they might be so many muminie s ; he he sees.—Journal of British Officers, in Gazette. 454 COST OF GR OWING WHEAT ININ THE ~.. xf IS- j, LET.—Mr. M ac k a y, i n hi s travels in the Vi!ft e iotItl; 1846-7, gives us the following :picture :=, „ o 0 better ser ve t o convey to the reader's minV y, 0 idea of the exuberance of the Mississippi vt„ e j i , s ° ease with whi c h, t h e l i ttle expense at Wr.',„ ill, abundance i n w hi c h wheat can be produced "'tiro' and grain-growing section. Throughout its 61 1 0 0 and breadth Indian corn seems to be almost Bs o o -- productionthe difficulty seeminglybeing, n?„bto it, but t o p revent i t from growing in too grea t ,7, 0 The farmer i n th e valley is remunerated it' hit cents, or about 6d. sterling a bushel for it °ri des? For want of a greater domestic and foreign rr° great portion of th e enormous quantity annually .., it rests up on th e ground. Wheat, o f collt:„ 119 A 0 0: more attention to be bestowed upon it, and 1,0 7 to produce it. B u t i t i s astonishing h ow little ra t y cost it requi res t o draw exuberant croirs'fr°4l4, prairie lands. The following estimate of the, 'it ing whe a t, f or th e f i rst time, from prairie 111 1 ,°'. pro i from a gen tl eman in Washington, himselfbe'ro, farmer i n th e west, and, at that time, a menju gress for a western constituency :—For plong' l , s o l ll of sod, S'2 • seed, Sil ; sowing seed, 41; h ar k. d t 2 h s e c. w ; threshing, hule ex expense then, we have seven dollars, or about 295. ' A l° se '* o l f producingntaalu euxcpreenusfes;:e; w iec (4 4 Hotta of the valley ;.and this is the cost at ''' can be cultivated for the first time. I n s ubseg l A 0 1 it is diminished ; as, after the sod is once tur, r l ' e fagle land can be ploughed for en° dollar per acre. '3,11 1 / the aggregate cost to 255. per acre. But it ela t 5 posed that, as the husbandry is rude, the vie r /. be very abundant. The average yield o f good P 5 pil when properly tilled, is about thirty-five shillis' 4 , o l , but as it is generally farmed, it yields an aver 1 bushels. This gives the cost of production at '0.41 is. the first year, and at 10d. in subsequent l'e li b, American is somewhat smaller than the Enzli s e 6 but, making ample allowance for this lif er 91.1 sterling may be assu me d as t h e cost of pro d uc t ~., f i ter of wheat in most portions of the missislito i i where the land i s pra i r i e land. Of course, ~, toi forest land, the cos t o f clearing will enhance teroi duction. It th ere f ore follows, that all the far 's , over 10s. sterli ng per quarter for his wheat on ltl i d tl clear profit to him.—From British Agricultur e I reign Competition in Blackwood's Magazine. REFLECTIONS ON VISITING MODERN JE IIII Taken as a whole, Jerusalem is one of the le ° , , complicated east ern t owns I ever visited ; W I If of the Hill of A cra are completely waste, an d e1 , ,,i with ruins. Th e Hill of Zion literally, as pool: 11 ;4 told it, " is pl oug h e d as a field ;" the streets p rol and unusually n arrow; i n many of them yon a flights of steps, e xcee di ng l y difficult to mount a r 0 61 / horseback; the b u ildi ngs are for the most pat",l squalid. The stre e t s , a f ter n i ghtfall, are in ,4 possession of the T ur ki s h sent i nels and hordes e' dogs ; the latter, fortunately for the inhabitant s ' 0:4 pnblic scavenge rs . B y d ay, within the sysl ls os i little more than o ne unvary i ng scene of lifeless'. 9 e without the g a t es th e p i cture is still more l ot hl 's' , s'' fellah, a few women f etching water from Silos°lltlo l thy Jew, or a wandering Bedawee. comnris e llo,, living objects to b e met with in our solitary 01 111'e association that su s t a i ns the interest of the troe to t , lives amongst recollee'ions of the past; 10 ,1,-ole,j` sheds a halo round the present, gilding the of u,,i dreary prospect with some faint reflection 0 ' 047 ness of bygone days, till memory, fondly awe „O ? page which chronicles the history. of God's 1 3 .ey lii i,/ pie, calls to her side the aid of busy fancy; 1 1;r 1 , - with a touch, peoples the solitudes, restores t",, ~i, and makes glad the mourning " ways of Z. 1 „ (1 3 0 11 ;', that the stranger must fall back on associat, ',,, derive enjoyment from his visit to the holy cg' o er t ', , , eye becomes accustomed to the surrounding 5 ,,01 ,, 1 rambles in the city and its neighbourhood bed day more interesting and pleasing, it is pleast' the ,y , shelter from the noonday heat, and rest beside ilte:r ters of Shiloah that go softly,"' or wander i ll i es fey gorge of Himmon. prying into the deserted countless sepulchral chambers that pierce the 'Alive . / of the Hill of Evil Council. The Mount of 1 : 1 ,101 e I t j barren and bare as it appeared on our first 3 ji s t el .- rusalem, now as the spring advanced, put en, the Al , vernal clothing ; the fig-trees were in leaf, arnb r o ll , l e V granates budded, the pensile crimson peePin% e ir°J pale green foliage ; the olives had put forth ro r a b e ti and fragile blossoms, while the close green s'v s j p 1 4. ,, was enamelled with flowers; then it was inde e tit e,l7 at early dawn, to climb the. hill-side or, s frog walls of the little mosque, to watch the sun r i se t o ?, s i hind the mountain range. of Moab, the 04 00' streaked with the first faint light of day, L f t he , 44, mist of morning yet hanging on the bosom o' ~..e ("l lake below ; and now the craggy heights of !r V Judah are tinted with the purple light, w i lice `;'4 still slumbers amidst her terebinths and 1 ° 0 ,6 The call to prayer resounds from the distal e arA t i you turn, and the sacred city lies like a map ' it , the/ —the dome of the great mosque is flashing ll.„7 light—the Sepulchre of David, on the far V. ii iidy; Zion, reflects the rising beams—the massive 4. Ito if, the Armenian convent stand out from the ei: er 0 1 6 ? and as the eye wanders from the old, grey tow ..„,feoj pious, along the heights of Acra, the Latin ef ir iitT dome of the Holy Sepulchre, the cupolas an ve, t or the mosques are gleaming in the radiance ° ,f,:rogif day ; still a shade lingers over the deep bed or ~ 0;1 if dusky night unwillingly abandons the drerli)jocr" 1 the dead. What an expanse of view frogs I t het, Olivet !• The eye can range from Pisgah t° , o ot i , heights of Mispah, embracing at a glance l' e icl, 11 0 0 1 lake, desert and solitude, the cultivated ii , st i IS A abode of busy man ; but now the clear-t Ol 4 o pt' the convent bells falls on the ear, dark speci' ciff is; / roofs of houses move to and fro, the sleePinils, to it is pleasant, above all, as evening fa,. g e th I meditate beneath the gnarled old olives 0 1 ,`' th ltlry and to think of One who " ofttimes,resortr so re co his disciples." Here was the scene of his ~t 1 18 .0,/ and• agony; from this same consecrated T rig ifyi marked the wary steps of Judas. as, &see" 0 tlilt t -4 dor f q. ii‘ o i band of men and officers," he led them ~ ~ j i . ing path above there, and crossed the broe o torc .. o . l 3 whose murmuring stream was crimsoned inch t , logy r :y 11 , as if the conscious waters blushed for the bas.,, io ,, of man. Yes, it is pleasant- to think on _ .. l' be V I I where he rested, treading the very ground aw:,,gl, pleasant, far more than p/e,asant—pleasant 6_, sce o f., fitable. The thoughts to : which these sacrfLi e ti o t:, birth should be graven on the " living 'ln o ies/ heart," for then we walk not with the °le."; past —we walk with Gel—Dublin Univar.sli/ LIVERPOOL: ,a5O, i TUESDAY, FE B. 19, ".“ 71 1 Pri-INTED AND PuBLISEED it :,s1 f EVERY TUESDAY M,, 0 „„ str, s ez ' By JOSHUA FbET.CHER LACE, •. f 53, G r ow estmo.) LEONARD 2 kOISON, •f 14, Great Orfordio• 0 0 At N•. 4,, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT. 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