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March 28, 1848. i 4 5, Etterature. • NOTICES. Good e , -- • r,,_, 1 , 0 R oscoe Polkas, arranged for the piano forte, i dedicated by permission to the members of the '1,1kl:Pool Roscoe Club, and performed b the author's at thee t annual grand soirée. Published for the k th Yjaer. . -Manchester : Hime and . Addison, 19, St' 11.7 a'square • London • R. Addison and C 0.,• 210, Itteet.-vgeat.street ~' Liverpool: Hime and Son, 57, Church- Vi e • lio ns •gave our ineed of very hi gh pra i se to these composi- , ~,a la noticing the Roscoe soiree itself, towards the suc b4tintlf!h_•ch they contributed very largely by g th n ei o r w gr in ea a t te w ,i._llo effectiveness. They are before u ecl4"- , arranged for the piano forte ; and we can con , i3Wch"Yanp,irelict their success and popularity. The score ' Teach f ' lull ; and the difficulties are fully within the to od ° I. a Player of fair proficiency. We trust that Mr. 81 ,, a I will oblige us with, further specimens of his mu th;egenius, which he has shewn by the production of SPeciniens, is not confined to his great artistica' bil itY. Dead„ , el.! Little Songs ,for Little Singers. London : l'i,,_ t.I• Davidson, Peter's-hill, Doctor's-com Tons. _ _ t ‘ ti o " l ' l ? as one of the most pleasing and interesting publi be coll ' e ever remember to have met with. What can t l ittle _coeied more delightful than to hear the best selected ki le3 s , ngs of our little ones, sung by them to excellent cleat, Pustli familiar, with simple piano forte accompa i O leos • The series is , to be completed in 20 three-penny Ac e N„_ will be one o f the most cheap and appro presents e generation . vvhich w e can conce i ve for t h e mus i ca l ris- Cor n tkre • 4 / 8 04 '8 Little Pieces for Little Play jtvetipPrises some beautiful popular airs, arranged for the ii: a L t ni_ 0 reach and set so simply as ~,,, . a Le ti ray er , to ensure their being °f twill juvenile hands. We may renul wh o i l : a uY of them will suit the violinist and the filitis ei th e v enoot ambitious of more than performing the airs that A i l us Polkas, waltzes, &c. which they contain ;a . n e d .. Of a'e music is n ew —not the ordinary piece !urni h d ie li:s7 rn "le' but the music from the original score modern compo . , --- This i- hal ' ir ' B °n'B Lyrical Drama. works of , Part of a series which is intended to embrace the contain t7tir Imineipal and most popular composers.. I tarrirsi a igsevoefr P . k on. liiie original Italian libretto, with anEnglish vey s first publication contains a purtro. ?f . t e ir e 'gar°. The printing of the whole of these I excellen. Pit , 0 NE IV MUSIC. liiregs --- " The Weary Flowers" and " Glancing, mike, through the Air"—composed and dedicated Henrylrs Curry by William Rogers. London__,- Ch uL°ll and Hobson. Liverpool : }lime and Son, 57 Thllren-street. 4 Th es e are two very pleasing compositions. The first, pato l, 'eary Flowers have pined," is an andante of much kr and simple in character, y e t a ff or di ng great scope i ko 'e display of p ower an d f ee li ng in the singer. The pre s , 4 .'Paaiment and bass add greatly to the mour n f u l ex- Play''n of the melody. There is much o r i g i na lit y dis >p4, throughout. The second piece is a ver y li ve l y, the ~u r tg allegrett o , an d w ill b e a f avour it e compan i on of tat e 'e t 'qful hour in many a circle. They are both dedi ,4e4„we obse rve , t o a f a i r f e ll ow -t owns woman--Mrs. tl',,', 4ll 'v—and a more graceful tribut e cou ld no t h ave vaul her' by the composer. 4, harden Quadrille. Composed and inscribed to parißeebe, E sq., on occasion of his reaching his ma -441, Februar and y 25 1848, by P. Stubbs, Leader of the 'll, ) tlie B . , s Stub' s . a rattling, joy-inspi r in g qua d r ill e , suc h as M r . I s fond of ' 'vin us and will be popular. It is of L ully got °11(10o . li pf in blue, and sold by Mr. Hutchings, VARIETIES. the giver to W it. 4o can tel the value of a erring and "ag, but is beyond price to t It disarms 5 sad and ell I lost and forsaken. revenge sm b il e e ? It costs relenting, til.,. , eer ess, the 0.11.ce---snodues te mper —turns hatred to love—revenge .ems of ..,fkindness—and paves e ''ati ht. A • a titan_ . smile on the brow a dutiful son, brother, th darkest paths ca•sant frien, an affectionate rates it deco e. b linty, betrays a 141),Y husband. s a charm to s ae kind . heart, a lovely woman r i sra •ee of the d eformed and make thinul! asl. angel in paradise. d liquids in the sh er wi each ;low s Paid hots of the coloure s Aa e -IN t.hrough the streets our eyes are attra o c p ted b u y . p o ste oot° only, ,and we find colourexamination, . e ty of seemsbri to contain one te a P o thecaries. To a careless obse a rv tb thatevery nant of its kind ; but, on ..., a great tints ta L ass of colour is made up y o . o that t the 45 caused oY r eflection and refraction, h n e of % light it4,erpetually changin reties the the h s a ecret of passimtrn!of ge,e, ti3'°t,illie these va and that van these lies e s o t f these bottles is is capable t'slierY object e , ; , eye' g l • V ea h t a e t r is or less dpgree , tillt: it appearances Of a r ll -,. ing reflections and refractio , T, _ . y cti ed b surrounding lijecttai•llags bein g , in some sort, me n ... _ T m. Ithk4 ' I N .O OP PisuFS KINDNESS.--lU k u 4 it er Of the town of LAW OF IC as Roekynoo , old, who Ni t ; 18 a Pond where a little girl, not t fi s shes to a remarka- Hingham, known ix years hi e ~e 3 near the bank, has tamed the %,:dekree. S'be began by throwing likt ttliallY the fishes learned to distinguishappro achee , 11,1 4q.ittred tu the edge whenever she a her crumbs in the water. ts • 1 ow mong t° t% e Y Will actually feed out of her b h l a e n tive? e t zeh their scaly sides ! A venerable of Van Am u tilar pensioners. The control than that which The turtle is a b rgb thi s Os wild beasts is not more surprising_laymates. tisL4ttl e ~, , iti yl l 'tri has attained over her finny; n but their t w in .. ? 044, 1 01 ve nothing to do th vn-- let him come Itti not cold- EN:heay will trust no one Even elaeishesare.ednessus, and liNi'4.ever so tempting.. kindness Transcript, i f on 1.4 1 '.' 1 t o p, they will resognise the la ß w oB o 11 (w 0 all embracing power.— will 44c;ates. he . °Pe • '"le VIARDOT GARCIA. I a n n Aprileri emend this lady t Ito 'ti E Yal It ,Pgland, and commence I' 4 . A klan Opera which exten s s will be opened for (let h,ll especial repertoire of operas a lioHague -11°(' tL f "g which w newly found the Fs e d to the of the sea tfh t° ` le Rho . andexpressly a P the Pre dd In 1,1 Yl* be present at f hich -ficti o -),1,c, Dither arrives to /e Skret, o. w 14 Italia n his n ew opera Hayclie, ou dated for her ; by Signor Gianone, la ,an version has been prepared Oeciathe Viardet will sustain the characte impreS- Zs_ mire do better in this place than record the hearer 1;14,a Which Madame Viardot made upon a scientificastyear. 119. ~ ktep th ril Perfo r mances at the Frankfort opera I kilpittetie singing is imposing, _ert voice,e by art, has been _ t tt ed a4(l natural in music. H but h reverse of all that is Nlt 'ln hi ht upwards of a sop suffered. sal ed to RI-, • mense compass : she possesses a no colo n ;kw, Nito, and the g!t 4 V,tig Which, that in this part of her organ But el•ti g r!"-qigh want of howeve e r,her middle tones have •le n n almost bit powers of executio th Nnaing in concerted quality pi .. c . es s is sometimes defic . 144 4 aad duets she exin , her love passages h hearers in maintain her e lyric drama lis ft l -t ile d ; and her immense stock of sNte„et, and power of surprising, b and of Madame Mali ra , cy. the b old excitement. She has adopted in the n ,accas7l(l and ambitious walk an e • in the completeness tleti.°ll4ll,Y rims into the . same defects of redundancy. (if qehnical skill alone is in?mens without a rival.. list triebromatic scale she is, probably,iter power wia l „!(Isi. her Portamento, and s al alike distinguish - her e . .4„t ,t-}elretain.ty on distant intervals, of dropping dkniatis IP, aeiPal feature She throws herr -401 he att it of her impersonations.d even when the author which v haracterises her is th gas not pr es andsaol into a part ; the has still with interes . t. He erved the integrity of an nature in his delineatl!3nr No v o i , 4an of investing them pp. 4 on the occasi n e.ll9performed Itosina at if tod ces put an h nta e rang e of parts at her disposal. u lesson scene tip a ll o i . ( i f,ort, she introduced e in :7.7 into the In. m i n w hi c h she 111%114-'" songs andmazurkas by Chopin , which she .- em to be rfcap Lalall th Yed powers as a Pianist more than respectable. l i n_ Theatierise traits of Mada e Viardot wese Madame Malibran. the artistic distinctions n of certainly be . en cicseila9del of that great performer affections of th ce des Itpitated, but whether the same hgraesatexecutiell in; PeetatOullilar Power over the heart a . n e d nee.— Fraser. paper 1 ,1' 4 can only be proved by expert ~... a former e 1,4 iociAL INFLUENCE OF TEA.—In d according to tn 'kati s"%iin that travel blk of mankin , . i n th e na tte%alY of all e le n rs require something 1 of 4 Stihillial lt • ' Wherever the the spirit of I t i ~ be f ou ,, , . . be shown, . or used stimulant is Ltiltzatio,. au, as will presently it careg, ~.30mi_ ~sq st ee.ll uin full activity. whertea, there 'kit, T glialltity, b the discontinu liN ofkitherefore propound, that tea and of cause and arbarous manners still Preu . :peet, 'Orbarisra are connected in the way _ ate N)11 ...he original untry of tea had a Europe, at h a Itags cell history began to be written in west Nti °. refineroe t • - unknown to the with rrived, at the tlieitY eentorie a which was for ted ts, b e ,_ se after. The Chinese desert; and w who tt) at th i we n the ocean and the Europeans, were shut 1 4 4 i1 th e e e nd of many centuries by ordon of savage liti°ns fo,tleeP or penetrated through a c ?len vi iit,,. and s Parpose, they we the th 'otiti s , oeial institutions, the manners , andeven suggestive of a ). olle,to Peculiar to civilized life. re found to Tea is decencies and possess the po ilZniesqasats, and from which spring tl!e, K water out of traYalabash(ttY. The savage may drink water an d f h a e t 4: t4hl_ghotwa e‘ ., l do ; but g.invemm h ave „,:ezurcosiesins faculties in Tea was thus the d i c n hina, 44.04 -,,,iiieeillittle doubt e I beverage.tilt rich porcelain called form, the invention . v o en. tredatbeepataty itlatZioLUluberleass ideas of elegance 1 mor e st- ir dtl Uke - ri`it g. The and they afford t a s eastok • 'rig instanc_in‘ the Chines ,_ of the union . of this T,, ,„ with hi. ) , u th an the latter Ji . ipan e es . eare ent and politeness. , perhaps still raiddi:s hardly know fate of . refinement t ° t t ef .the se ven , 4 to all in this countrylt would not be easy ew te n t, I, direct eenth century. ration of this n _ it li.n ci,iFiz anner, the . oPe. . till after the ett,,,!.vidg„. eo_len, for tea does it pPintinglY make the people NI•It i n • Juror, whose aim it is to stimulates the ah IN • sinuates itself • the mind, coarseness, " 4 l ir' tlllat iati di into of their arid e lug s op d, rras the thoughts gently. beautiful t he illivenln a n emg to the surface a thousand it is love ; o e ,ally of a g Ideas It is a bond of family ; t • it throws V.a the _w°lllall in the work of refinement two sexes, 11}1.1141! the o,oeneveantflnal ba.rrier between the h Tea, philoso e: 'Bire forYeellsidered, iesnmnoerbelryga %eat° of alcohol. Thei to 111144, forgtLagreeable and exhilarating drink natural is the new peveras.e,'' exists in all states of society i and 1,',,e 1,e4„,_ gratifying the taste as it does without injuring considered a usingr O!' Maddening the brain, must be f:'„t,'le human. race. We are apt to look with dis the ;Pal c.,meo statistics these ; but if we consider _ w ‘,litiq„_,—'isequences attending the consumption of a le s *ill 1-W4.' Nihon pound s of tea, the arithmetiFal figure 044,Uvestd urnati with more than romautiu kotele°3* •-•-, a Doti ENGLAND'S PROTESTANTISM. (From the Record.) The throne of these kingdoms is Christian and Protes tant, by a compact made between the people and the Sovereign in 1688. The throne being vacated by that Popish king, James the Second, the lineal succession was purposedly passed over by the nation, and the present royal family was placed on the throne, and accepted the crown on the terms of the Act of Settlement. From that period no attempt to depart from that compact, as regards the throne, has been made. The throne has stood in an attitude of uncompromising hostility towards the see of Rome. To be truly loyal to the throne, we must be truly desirous of maintaining the , compact made in 1688. We should make ourselves familiar with history on this sub ject. We should commit the subject of that compact to memory. The Sovereign cannot be reconciled to the See of Rome ; nor be reconciled to the Church of Rome ; nor hold communion with the See of Rome ; nor hold com munion with the Church of Rome ; nor profess the Popish religion ; nor marry a Papist : and positively, the SoVer eign must join in communion with the Church of England, as by law established. To alter that settlement in the least degree is to commence a work, which may end in re moving the throne altogether from its foundations. No matter how small a portion of the foundation may appear to be touched, if the least morsel be removed, the work of destruction will have been begun. Let no man, there fore, be permitted to treat Victoria's interchange of Am bassadors with the see of Rome as a small matter. In the year 1829, the Duke of Wellingtoh began the work of destruction; the support given to him and his measures by Dr. Phillpotts, introduced that Clergyman to the see of Exeter. Now, in 1848, we find these two gentlemen at the same work. It is true the Bill for Legalizing Diplomatic Relations with Roma-was not introduced by them ; but the Duke reconciles the House of Lords to the measure, by suggesting an Amend ment which amounts to no more than this,—that the present laws shall not be broken in upon to any greater extent than they are broken in upon. The Lords think they have done a marvellous stroke of policy, at the very moment they fall with the Duke, as they fell with him in 1829. They think they are advancing when they are retreating. Exeter again is repeating his former game. He smooths the way by informing the House, that Com munion with the Church of Rome means communion in sacred things. He leaves the matter there ;as if there were no other words in the Act of Settlement. Com munion with the See of Rome he passes over. Reconcile ment with the See of Rome he passes over. Behind the Duke and the Bishop men entrench themselves. They ore great outivoritioo, frioraeL3 of aro Churoia. 'rho G root Apostle of falsehood, Newman, wrote a book tolexplana away the Thirty-nine Articles. He could make them mean anything or nothing. So those laws which have intercepted all intercourse with the See of Rome for about 300 years, and in their present form for 160 years, are suddenly discovered not to mean what they do mean. Doubts exist as to what is the state of the law, is the falsehood of 1848. The new invention to avoid the law, is to talk of the Court of Rome, instead o f th e S ee of Rome ; and the So vereign of the Roman States, instead of the Bishop of Rome, or Pope. This is child's play indeed. If we saw the Queen and the Pope sitting side by side on a sofa, should we not send the man to Bedlam, who should come up and whisper, the Queen is not talking to or smiling on the Pope, but the Sovereign of the Roman States ? And what is an ambassador, but the Sovereign ? The Queen will be in Rome by her ambassador, and the Pope in England by his. In the face of all the world the two countries will be reconciled outwardly, and in a manner which has not been for 300 years, except in Bloody Mary's days, and for a few months under Popish James the Second. And to stop all argument on the subject, it cannot be done without an Act of Parliament. The very fact that an Act of Parliament is necessary, proves that all the words to the contrary are but sophistry. The second reading of the bill is again postponed, and at present no day is fixed. This will give a fair opportu nity for awakening the public. The subject ought to be forcibly handled in the monthly periodicals. COBDEN AND THE NAVY. (From the London Guardian.) Our readers will probably remember Mr. Cobden's palaver at Manchester some time ago—how he showed that calico-making, or rather calico-printing, was the road to a knowledge of all things in general, and naval and military matters in particular. The honourable member had only just returned from his continental ex cursions, and he proceeded to furnish the meeting, at least so everybody thought, with a little of his foreign experience. The navy was a humbug; he had seen it himself, and his friend, the American Consul, quite agreed with him. Nothing to do at Malta! fiddling and feasting filled up the time of the squadron : such a picture of the dolce far niente as might make many a hard-working lawyer most naturally wish he had volunteered for the fleet. Alac-a day, they must stay with us as they are. Cobden's pic tures, on his own admission, are but visions of the past. From what came out in the Honse on Monday, it seems, the Admiralty were rather startled at Mr. Cobden's highly-coloured descriptions of the doings in the Mediter ranean station, and they forthwith sent off to Sir Wil liam Parker to inquire about it. The Admiral followed Mr. Cobden's example, and communicated with the American Consul, who informed him that he had not seen Mr. Cobden at Malta for the last ten years. On this, up gets Cobden and exclaims that when, in January, he spoke of having been at Malta in November, he meant Novem ber, 1836. Now we ask whether, out of the large assem bly who cheered Mr. Cobden and his universal fraternity at Manchester in January last, any one person, with the exception, perhaps, of Mr. Cobden's immediate friends, imagined for a moment that the speaker alluded to what had taken place twelve years ago. It would be absurd to suppose it. If Mr. Cobden be acquitted of a deliberate intention to mislead, he must, at any rate, have been guilty of gross carelessness, almost as fatal to the charac ter of a public man' as actual knavery. People have, for some time past, begun to suspect that Mr. Cobden had so imbued himself with free trade and corn law repeal as to be unable fully to take in any other subject, and what came out on Monday night last will not tend to re-estab lish his reputation, either in the House or the country at large. Can Mr. Cobden be trusted for a correct statement of facts, will hereafter be asked. A man who has, to say the least, been so loose in what he has said on one occasion, may mislead his hearers on another. Mr. Cobden has lost ground. We fancied we had got a statesman; but, since corn-law repeal, there have been but few symptoms of it. If he goes on in this way, he may have to bid fare well to the West Riding. As to the debate which occasioned this little expose it hardly deserves notice. Mr. Hume has a way of talking penny-wise nonsense, but he sometimes hits out some thing good ; people, therefore, bear with him, remember ing that he is occasionally useful. But when a m an lik e Cobden gets up to back him, it is rather too much. At a time when France is increasing her army to an unheard of extent, and all Europe is in revolution—when, to say nothing of the chances of a war, there is hardly a Conti nental port where the presence of a British naval force may not at any m omen t b e requ i re d —these gentl emen wish to cut down the number of our seamen. That is to say, to render us weaker at sea than we are at present. On any other point of the naval estimates, save this, a possible case might, perhaps, have been made out. But the seamen's wa ges i s a limiter where there can be no cheating. So many men, at so much per day, come to so much. The worst of the case is that these reckless sort of objections have a tendency to abstract the proper course of the inquiry as to savings in naval expenditure which is now going on. " Oh," men will say, " there is nothing in all this talk of extravagance, who can trust a word these fellows say ?" And so an useful investigation may be stopped. But a proposal to diminish the number of sea men is a very different thing from an inquiry, whether the sums voted for dockyards and stores, for instance, are properly expended ? There is too much reason to believe that such is not the case, and that a searching investiga tion would bring to light abuses which the world at large have no idea of. It is to be hoped that Messrs. Hume and Cobden, by th e i r an ti cs , may not succeed in procuring the peculators a long day. FEMALE HEROISM.—The Earl of Dundonald, in his biographical sketch of the family of the late Mr. Coutts, Speaking of this gentleman's wrandmother, (a daughter of Sir John Cochrane,) relates the following anecdote : " Sir John Cochrane being engaged in Argyle's rebellion against James the Second, was taken prisoner, after a des perate resistance, and condemned to be hanged. His daughter having notice , that the death-warrant was ex pected from London, attired herself in men's clothing, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Bed ford and Bedwick) which conveyed the death-warrant, thus giving time for the friends of her husband to make intercession with the king, who granted a full pardon." This beautiful heroine was the great-grandmother of Lord Dudley Stuart. INTEMPERANCE A PREDISPOSING CAUSE OF ASIATIC CHOLERA.—Whatever obscurity may overhang the excit ing cause of the epidemic cholera, we are quite sure that certain circumstances exercise a strong predisposing in fluence upon the human body to render it more than usu ally susceptible of the disease. The predisposing causes, as ur.ight well be imagined, were such as tended to debili tate the system ; and therefore poverty, which implies scanty nourishment, and frequently also the confinement of several persons to a narrow space, and want of fresh air ; poverty, which includes these and other evils, was found to predispose the body to a ready reception of the malady. But to intemperance, more than to any other single cause, may the proclivity to become affected by this species of cholera be ascribed; and especially to the in temperate and habitual use of distilled spirits. This fact was peculiarly manifested in the selection, by the disease, of its victims in this country ; and it has been remarked almost everywhere else.—Doctor Watson. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.—In the course of the pacifica tion conference of Sir Harry Smith wit'a the Kaffirs at King William's Town, a voltaic battery was fired on the opposite slope about a quarter of a mile distant. Here a waggon had been placed at 300 yards distance from the battery, communicating in the usual manner by means of wires. The object of his Excellency was to convey to the Kaffir mind an idea of sudden and irresistible power. Ac cordingly, on a given signal from him—the waving of a small flag—the discharge instantly took place, the explo sion shattering the carriage of the waggon, and canting up the body of the vehicle, so that it remained fixed one end on the ground, at an angle of 45 degrees. The action was so sudden as scarcely to afford time to his Excellency to direct the attention of the Kaffirs to the experiment—but in those who were looking towards the spot and saw the power exercised on a distant object, the surprise mani fested was amusing. " There," exclaimed his Excel " is a lesson to. you not to meddle with waggons, as y'ou, sea the power 1 possess, sh.r.ad ao so, to pur,l , ll-. you..7—Squa 4*ml Advertiser. t-. t ~?-.. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAM sufficient, without the continuance of the Property Tax, to meet the expenditure. The- option, therefore, was afforded to Parliament, in 1845, of disposing altogether with the tax. It was, however; reimposed, with the general approbation of the country, for a further period of three years. The objects of this renewal were to pro vide for the change which steam navigation had made in the position of the country as regarded maritime defence, and also to remove a still larger amount of duties affect ing the prosperity of trade, and the comforts of the work ing classes. The annual pressure- of indirect taxation removed by the late government amounted to seven and a half millions, exclusive of the duties , upon corn. In 1842, and in 1845, the scheme under which the Income Tax was to be levied was discussed in Parliament, and on both of these occasions my vote was recorded in favour of the existing system. These circumstances were known, to the electors of Liverpool when I had the honour of being chosen to represent them; and though in course of the election I was asked and I answered many questions upon points of public interest, I do not remember that any objection was made by any one on this subject. The present Government, under circumstances with which you are acquainted, and for. which I am not re sponsible, have asked the House of Commons for a fur ther continuance of the tax, and I have felt it incumbent upon me, with a view to the maintenance of the public credit, to accede to their demand. By voting in 1848, as I voted in 1842 and 1845, I have given, on public grounds, a perfectly independent support to a ministry with which I have no relations of party attachment or connection. Upon the score, then, of consistency, I am not only free from censure in the course I have actually pursued, but I might fairly have been expected to furnish cogent reasons for my change of conduct, if, in the present con dition of the Exchequer, I had reversed my former votes. I should, however, imperfectly explain the reasons by which I have been guided, if I rested my reply upon the ground of consistency alone, and failed to enter also upon the merits of the question, itself ; for I at once acknow ledge that if I had seen sufficient reason for a change of vote, I should not have been deterred from discharging my public duty by any timid regard to an appearance of personal consistency. The proposition submitted to the House of Commons proposed to be an amendment of the mode in which the Property and Income Tax has been levied under the acts in force, from 1803 to 1816, and under the act passed in 1842, and continued in 1845. I gave to this proposition the full consideration which the importance of the Income Tax, and the anxiety of my constituents respecting it, justly required ; and the result of that consideration con firmed my belief that it would have added immeasurably to the inquisitorial and offensive nature of the tax, and would have failed to remedy its inequality as regards per sons holding their respective incomes by a different tenure. Such was the experience of Mr. Pitt in 1799, which led, in 1803, to the adoption of the present system ; and such, I am persuaded, would have been the practical operation of the project now submitted to the House of Commons : I therefore voted against it, and with these convictions could not honestly have voted for it. I cannot admit that I have shown any disregard for the demands of justice, or any disrespect for the interests and feelings of my constituents. In answer to that part of your letter in which you say, that " considerations of a totally different nature from the relations between a representative and his constituents, and the identification of interest," are stated by me, in one of my late speeches, to have been made the founda tion of my decisions, I must be permitted in my own vin dication to reply, that I think you have wholly misappre headed the purport of my argument : and, also to remind you, that the memorial was proposed by your committee, and offered to the public for signature, before I had taken the opportunity of stating to the House of Commons, in the speech to which you refer, the reasons which influ enced my votes. Under these circumstances, if I were to vacate my seat in compliance with this requisition, I should infringe an important principle of this constitution, should forfeit the honourable engagement I have contracted towards the constituency of Liverpool, and be guilty of an offence towards the community at large, for whose general good it is my duty to consult in parliament. Instances have occurred in which a member of parlia ment has appealed to the judgment of his constituents under other conditions than those which the rulers of the constitution prescribe. But these have been exceptional cases, excused, rather than justified, by an overruling sense of personal honour, under peculiar circumstances, when former opinions have been changed, and former votes reversed. I have no such excuse. I have adhered in the present to the course I was known to have pursued in the former parliament, and I have exercised to the best of my ability a conscientious and a faithful judgment. - I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, EDWARD CARDWELL. ADDRESS TO THE MAYOR. Oh Wednesday some hundreds of the merchants, bankers, and inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, assembled in the Council-chamber, at the Town-liaIl; for the purpose of presenting an address 'of thanks to Thos. Berry Horsfall, Esq., Mayor, for the exertions his worship had so recently and successfully made to preserve the peace of the town. :The address containettl2oo signatures ; but there is very little doubt that had it remained in the public rooms and offices a few days longerjthenumber of signatures would, at least, have been trebled: The address was presented by the Rev. Rector Campbell, who willingly undertook the office, in the unavoidable absence of Rector Brooks. The Mayor occupied the chair in which he usually sits during the proceedings of Council; on his left sat William Shuttleworth, Esq., the Town-clerk, and near him, Mr. Dowling. The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL opened the proceedings in the following terms: — Mr. Mayor,—lt is with the greatest satisfaction that I find myself chosen as the instrument, however unworthy, of presenting to you, whom I have so long valued as a personal friend, the address which I hold in my hand ; conveying to you the cordial thanks of a large and influen tial body of your fellow townsmen, for the temperate firmness you displayed during the late apprehended dis turbances, and expressing at the same time our devoted loyalty to our Sovereign, and our firm attachment to those monarchial institutions under which we enjoy, I believe, as great a share of personal liberty as is consis tent with personal safety in the present state of human infirmity. Prevented by my sacred profession from ten dering you any active assistance in the preservation of public order, I nevertheless rejoiced unfeignedly at the alacrity with which all classes of society sprung forth in its defence at the call of public duty : " With hearts resolved and hands prepared, The blessings they enjoy to guard. " ' But as a preacher of peace I rejoice more unfeignedly that although your precautions were wisely directed, their services were not required ; and that the attempts to influence the passions of the people, have signally failed. It was, perhaps, to be expected that the successful efforts of a neighbouring people to overthrow their government should stimulate the hopes of the few amongst our peace able and orderly population who are the enemies of all government. But this surely is a precedent we need not follow ; and while we cannot deny to other nations the liberty of changing their institutions as often as they please ; we shall reserve to ourselves, I hope, the happier privilege of preserving and improving our own, remem hpr:nit this, that social evils can only be cured by social remedies. That free institutions are perfectly compatible with the most disorderly licentiousness of national morals, —that our besetting sins of luxury and extravagance in the higher classes, and careless improvidence in the lower, are not to be cured by forms of government, but by reli gious discipline and personal self control. One lesson of practical wisdom, however, sir, we may all of us learn from the " fears of change " which are now " perplexing nations," and that is the mutual dependence of all classes of society upon each other. "The head must not say to the foot I have no need of thee." The master and the workmen are bound together by the tie of mutual interest. If wealth is created by labour, labour is fed by wealth. Without the labour of the workmen the capital of the master will be less profitable ' • without the capital of the master the workman's labour is utterly value less, and his occupation gone. And above all, the wealthier classes must not forget that their privileges are given them by God, not for personal indulgence and selfish enjoyment, but for the promotion of his honour and the good of their fellow creatures in the sacred intercourse of Christian charity. Apologising for the length of my pre fatory remarks, which, perhaps, may be justified by my station and office, I proceed to read the address which has been entrusted to my charge. [We published the address in our last.] The Rector's speech and the reading of the address were frequently interrupted by loud applause. The MAYOR replied in the following terms :—I thank you, Mr. Rector, for the kind manner in which you have introduced the presentation of this address. I am sure that you will not consider it any disrespect to you if I offer no observation in reply, it being, as I understand, the custom on occasions like the present to abstain from offer ing any verbal observations ; and it being likewise, I need not tell you, more in accordance with my own feelings to ab stain from doing so. I will, therefore, read a reply to the address. I have just received—an address, the value of which, I need not tell you, I prize mosthighly. (Applause.) The MAYOR here read the following written reply, which was enthusiastically received : " Gentlemen,—The assurance of the esteem and respect of my fellow-townsmen would, under any circumstances, be very gratifying, but to receive that assurance, under the circum stances, and in the manner in which it is now conveyed to me, I shall ever consider one of the most interesting events of my life. _ _ _ " I will not conceal from you, gentlemen, that the few days to which you allude in that address was a period of much anx iety. Aided, however, as I was, by the whole body of the ma gistracy, and especially by the unwearied attention and able advice of our stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Rushton, seconded, as our efforts were, by the noble and spontaneous expression of public opinion and public feeling on the part of the inhabitants at large, I never entertained a doubt that any attempt to dis turb the peace of this town would have been effectually sup pressed. And most cordially do I join with you, gentlemen, in referring, with the deepest gratification to recent events, as a continued evidence of those feelings of devoted loyalty toi the sovereign, and of the love of good order, which have ever dis tinguished the town of Liverpool. " But, gentlemen, whilst I thus gratefully acknowledge, on behalf of the constituted authorities, the cordial assistance and co-operati,n of every class of the community, and the equally prompt and decided manner in which the wishes and the orders of the magistrates were carried out by the executive. I desire also, to concur with you in acknowledging our entire depend ence on that divine aid, which alone effectually stilleth the tumult of the people. "Gentlemen, it only remains for me to thank you, as I do most sincerely, and through you, those of my fellow-townsmen whom you represent, for this very gratifying, though, I cannot but feel, in a great degree, unmerited expression of your thanks." Loud applause followed the delivery of this address ; and immediately after the deputation withdrew. MR. CARDWELL AND THE INCOME TAX. The following correspondence has taken place between Mr. Maconald, the secretary of the Liverpool Confedera tion for the revision of taxes, and Mr. Cardwell, on the subject of the memorial calling on the latter to resign his seat on account of his vote on the Income Tax : National Confederation Rooms, Liverpool, March 18, 1848. EDWARD CARDWELL, ESQ., M.P. am directed by the Committee of this Confede ration to advise you, that in consequence of your late opposition to a more equitable adjustment of Income Tax, the electors of Liverpool, for whom the Confedera tion act in this matter, have felt themselves compelled, by a sense of duty which they owe to their own interests and to the interests of the trading classes of this kingdom, to call on you to resign your office as one of their represen tatives in Parliament. It is scarcely necessary for me to state to you that, as the Electors view it, the relation between a Representative and his constituents, and the identification of interest, should be entirely beyond a question. The Electors of Liverpool have seen with much regret that you do not recognise this duty or re sponsibility, but that considerations of a totally different nature, as stated by yourself in one of your late speeches, are made the foundation of your decisions. But they cannot admit your right to disregard their sentiments or their interests in a matter of much importance to them ; and entertaining' this view of your duty to them, they are sure they will be excused for declining a con tinuance of confidence in form, where none exists in fact. Under such circumstances it is presumed that it cannot be your wish to retain the nominal representation of Liverpool, and that you will gladly avail yourself of the opportunity now afforded, of enabling the Electors to choose an individual who may be more suited to their views. The requisition, calling on you to resign the representa tion of Liverpool, is forwarded by the train of this even ing to the Liverpool Office in London, to the care of Mr. Wainwright. It was before the public for 40 hours, and was signed within that short space of time by 7545 indi viduals. The requisition was intended to be by the Elec toral body alone, but, notwithstanding every precaution, it has been found that many individuals have signed it who were not on the Electoral list, but who are ratepayers and payers of the Income Tax, and therefore could not be restrained from conveying to you,through the medium of the Requisition, their sense of ie gross injustice which the present law imposes in the principle of levying that tax. A scrutiny has been made of the names and the num ber of non-Electors so signing may be estimated at about 1000, leaving 6545 Electors. It is indeed probable, from the respectability of the parties, that the greater portion of the 1000 non-electors are at this moment qualified to vote—at least will be on the register for the ensuing year ; but as they are not so now, they have, in the scrutiny, been separated from the Electors. In conclusion, I have to communicate to you ,the ex treme regret of this committee, that a connexion from which much had been expected to the town of Liverpool, should have been interrupted so speedily, and in a man ner so painful, and that nothing but the strongest sense of duty could have induced them to be the medium of communication with you in this matter. They shared in the universal discontent with your opposition to an equi table adjustment of the Income Tax, and therefore fully sympathised in the steps taken by the Electors. I shall be glad to be the medium of communication for your acknowledgement of the receipt of the Requisi tion,—and I have the honour to be, Sir, very obediently yours, J. M. MACDONALD, Secretary. Whitehall Gardens, 21st March, 1848. MR. MACDONALD, SECRETARY, Bcc., NATIONAL CONFEDERATION, LIVERPOOL. SIR,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and of the accompanying memorial, calling upon me, in consequence of the vote I gave in the House of Commons, on the 3rd instant, to resign my seat. I receive the memorial with the respect which is due from me to any document signed by so considerable a number of the electors and inhabitants of Liverpool. It is necessary, therefore, to review the obligations I in curred when I accepted the honourable responsibility I ani thus required to surrender. I must be permitted to remind you that, in 1842, when I entered Parliament, the first important question, on which it became my duty to decide, was the imposition of the Income Tax for three years in its present state. The reasons advanced for its adoption were the necessity of providing for a large deficiency of revenue left by the former Government, and the importance of relieving trade from several oppressive imposts. At the expiration of the time so, limited, not only had these reductions.of taxation been supplied by the devel oPement of industry and the consequent increase of con sumptlon, Ira the revenue had rccoveredl - 2rom a deficiency of more tlamt.two. minim, and. tlav incolPe•Was . general Alltortilattp. Another total. eclipse of the moon will take place on the 13th September next, but it will be only partly visible in England. At York assizes, last week, Michael Stokes was sen tenced to death for shooting, with his musket, Mary Ann Garrad, at Leeds barracks. The boy Aitken, who was shot in the hip during the late Glasgow ridts, died in the Infirmary, on Wednesday. This is the fourth life lost during those disturbances. The long expected Charter of Incorporation for Wake field has at length arrived, and the blessings which are to result from municipal government are already to be seen in the distance. The Earl of Albemarle, formerly Master of the Horse to the Queen. may , be callcd the father of 'the House of Lords, as he succeeded to his title at the age of six months, seventy-five years ago. A Chartist demonstration was made in Nottingham on Thursday, when about 5,000 persons assembled in the Market-place, to hear a lecture, " on the prospects of de mocracy," from Dr. M'Douall. Upwards of 200 noblemen and gentlemen, who have been sworn in as special constables, for the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, have chosen the Earl of Arundel and Surrey as their commander-in-chief. Mrs. Saunders, aged 70, widow of John Saunders, Esq., formerly' an eminent brewer of Southampton, was burnt to death on Friday night, at her residence in that town. It is supposed she was seized with a fit, and fell into the fire. On Sunday week, two boys were shooting larks at Soleham, when as one of them, only seventeen, was drawing the gun through a hedge, it went off, and the contents lodged in his chest. He only lived until Tuesday. At the York Assizes, on Thursday, John Drury, John Marsden, Thomas Buller, and William Hall were sen tenced to ten years transportation for instigating other persons, previously convicted, to commit the disturbances which may be remembered in connection with the Sheffield Cutlers' Association. EXECUTION.—On Saturday, at Durham Gaol, Thomp son underwent the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder of the Duke of Cleveland's gamekeeper, in Roby Park. The convict died firmly, and in the presence of about 10,000 persons. Dowson, who was also convicted with him, has been respited. The execution of the three men, Calvert, Mellor, and Stokes, who were convicted of murder at the York assizes, will take place on Saturday, the Bth of April. The two former are Protestants, and the latter a Roman Catholic, and they each give proper attention to the instructions of their spiritual advisers. Loss OF SIX LIVES.—The following melancholy acci dent happened at Jersey on Thursday week :—As a boat was going out with a party to see the celebrated Chinese Junk, which had arrived and anchored in St. Aubins' bay the day preceding, a cutter ran down the boat, and caused the loss of life of six persons, four boatmen and two gen tlemen being drowned by the occurrence. THE TRAFALGAR-SQUARE RIOTS.—On Friday, John White, a leader of the window-smashing mob in the me tropolis, on Monday week, was tried at the Middlesex sessions and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment— six months for stealing bread from a baker's shop and six months for the riot. Six other rioters were sentenced to imprisonment for periods ranging between nine months and one. During the late riots in Glasgow, a ruffian, who had stolen a half chest of tea, hurried with it on his head into a close, whither he was closely followed by another fellow who was carrying a large cheese, which he had also stolen. As the first rushed into the close, the tea chest came in violent collision with the wall, whence it rebounded, and knocked down the thief bearing the cheese, which was instantly seized by a third thief, who was passing at the time, and who escaped with the booty. The Dundee Courier says that a few days ago a man sat down to dine, near a stack of oats, at Inchture, and, after ending his meal, lighted his pipe. He then fell into a reverie, whence he was aroused by finding that the tail of his coat was on fire, and on turning round he disco vered that the stack was in a blaze. He immediately gave an alarm, and the neighbours speedily assembled and ex tinguished the flames, but not before the destruction of oats to the value of £B, which sum the unlucky smoker has been compelled to pay. GEOLOGY—RECENT DISCOVERY.-The workmen em ployed at the work at Carcary, in the parish of Parnell, lately came upon a deposit of fossil fishes, imbedded in the clay, at a depth of 20 feet from the surface, and not less than 60 or 70 feet above the present level of the Southesk. The clay is of the most compact kind, and alternates every foot or two with thin layers of run sand, in which shells, we believe, are not uncommon. The whole of the specimens, which are apparently of the genus Anguilla, were removed without injury, and are now in the possession of Mr. Lyall, of Carcary. One of them that we have teen measures 3ft. 2in. in length, and appears to be of the species A. aeutirost r i s o f Yarrell. As the whole are to be submitted to the inspection of Professor Lyell, the celebrated geologist, we hope to be able, by and-by, to give our readers a more scientific description of these interesting remains of past generations.—Mon trose Standard. FALL OF A CMOs AT LEFOS.—On Monday, an inquest was held at Leeds on the body of Susannah Darby, wife of Mr. Darby, the proprietor of the Circus in that town, whose death was occasioned by the falling of a large per-. tion of the building on Saturday. About a quarter to ten o'clock on the evening of that day, just as some perform ances on. the tight-rope were about to be commenced, a part of the Circus erected upon a frame-work of timber fell in, and nearly 600 persons were precipitated into the ruins. Fortunately very few were injured beyond being bruised,; but two of the planks fell upon Mrs. Darby ; they struck her on the back of the neck and killed her on the spot. Mrs. Wallet, who was near her, was knocked down, and cut and bruised, but not seriously. The cause of the accident is understood to have been the insufficient • number of props beneath that•part that fell, The build ing, it appears, had been recently inspected by the buildiw manapr of Mr. Darby, and pronounced to he safe. 1.4 e, Wry return4d, a verdict 0(. 4 ," Accidental deaths" ' , ;r. , . , The charge against the Hon. and Rev. Augustus Ca vendish, for obtaining goods under false pretences from Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, silversmiths, New Bond-street, Londea, has been abandoned, in consequence,it is stated, of an arrangement having been made for a return of the property, or its value, to the prosecutors. ' LARGE TROUT.—We understand that Richard Dennis toun, -Esq., Springwood-park, while angling in the Teviot a few days ago, killed a common river trout of the extraordinary weight of 611b5., ' and on,the fish being cut up, there was found in its inside another trout of about bans pound weight, which it had swallowed.. This is the largest common trout, we believe,. that any one remem bers of having been taken with the rod either in the Teviot or Tweed.—Kelso Mail. ALLEGED PREMATURE BURIAL.—A respectable house holder, for many years a resident in Red Lion-square, London, on Sunday week, shortly after his return from church, fell down, and expired inu.fit. The next day the corpse was placed in a coffin, the lid of which was fastened down. Shortly afterwards, a noise, which was attributed to the bursting of the body, was heard in the coffin, and no further notice was taken until a relative arrived, who had the coffin opened, and found the body is such a pos ture as left no doubt that animation had returned, and that a death struggle had ensued after the body was enclosed in its narrow shell. THE DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF LAW AND ORDER. —The signatures to the declaration now amount to up wards of one hundred thousand, including a great num ber of peers, prelates, baronets, members of the House of Commons, deputy-lieutenants, magistrates, members of the various professions, clergymen of the various deno minations, merchants,, traders, and farmers, without any religious or political distinction. In the lists there appear the names of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Plunket, Bishop of Tuam, and Dr. Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, with all his curates. The following peers have signed the declaration, in addition to those already men tioned :—The Earl of Erne, Earl of Clonmel ; Lords Doneraile, Riversdale, and Mountmorres. Twenty more baronets have given their signatures. SHIP BLOWN UP BY GAS.—ON Thursday morning week a serious and very extraordinary accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred in the Bute Docks, Cardiff. The Neptune, of Jersey, 400 tons burden, had been laden with a cargo of steam coal, was hatched down, and was ready for sea, when, on the above morning, on one of the crew striking a light, a dreadful and most de structive explosion took place. It is supposed that the coal cargo had generated a large quantity of inflammable gas, and this, being set fire to by the spark struck by the sailor, exploded, killing the chief mate and injuring several of the crew, some of whom are not expected to recover:- the vessel, also, was considerably damaged, and cannot be rendered seaworthy again, except at a great cost, and very extensive reparation.— Gloucester Journal. A STRANGE BURGLARY.—At the recent Worcester as sizes, George Milward, aged 31 years, a highly respectable hair-dresser living in Angel-street, Worcester, and worth, it is stated, £4OOO, was indicted for a burglary and rob bery in the house of Mr. Lane, draper, of Omsbersley. The occurrence took place on the 20th of January last, the night of the annual ball at Stourport, and the offence and possession of drapery goods were brought home to the prisoner, who appears to have been accompanied by a per son named Henry Whittaker, his former apprentice, who has absconded. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the judge, in consideration of his having received a pro mise of a favourable consideration if he gave certain evi denoe, which was done, only sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment.—ln an agony of grief the convict exclaimed that he was intoxicated at the time, and that he made every reparation for his error as soon as he could. IMPROVEMENT IN STEAMERS FUNNELS.—Great im provements have recently been made in the funnels of the steamers running on the Thames. The newly contrived funnel is divided into two parts, united by a hinge, sup ported by a balance-bob, in the usual manner; but there is, in addition, a semi-circular safety arm, or crook, ri vetted at one end to the lower portion of the funnel, just below, and in the centre of, the hinge—the other end just enters a hole in the upper, or swinging portion. On this safety arm there slides a crutch, formed to the same radius as the chimney, to receive it in its descent, and which can be fastened to any height required. On the attendant raising the lever, the funnel is steadily guided in its descent by means of its passing over the arm ; and, should the hinge be completely broken off, the funnel safely lodges on the crutch. It can be applied to any kind of funnel at a mere trifling expense. EDINBURGH, MARCH 18.—We had a St. Patrick's-day meeting here but it passed off quietly. The bill calling the meeting, the oratory, and the musical accompani ments, were of a more rhetorical and grandiloquent caste than we are accustomed to in our frigid climate. The address to the French nation was ordered to be consigned to M. Ledru Rollin. The speaker, who moved it, said, he "felt ashamed of his country, when he compared the feats accomplished in France with those achieved by the army in this country, which was recently distinguished by shooting a poor woman in Glasgow, and cutting off a man's nose in Edinburgh, a feat which he supposed would henceforth rank next to Waterloo." As the woman in question died of apopiexy, without ever being fired at, the statement of her case may be taken as a sample of the probity that characterised the other statements of this orator. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF BUTS.—This nobleman died suddenly on Saturday evening week, at his seat Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, in his 56th year. The fatal complaint was disease of the heart. On the afternoon of Saturday the noble marquis entertained the mayor and council of Cardiff, at dinner. He left the table on the cloth being removed, for the purpose, it was thought, of writing a letter ; but his continued absence induced the marchioness to proceed to the Inazquig's room. Hpr ladyship called_ to him, and re ceiving no answer she became alarmed, and entered his room, when she found him lying across the bed in a state of insensibility. She immediately summoned the do mestics, and despatched them in quest of medical assist ance, and Dr. Lewis, who had been dining with his lord ship, was overtaken before he reached his home, and returned with all possible dispatch. Medical skill, how ever, was quite unavailing, the noble lord being dead. IMPROVED BELL-HANGING.-A short time since we noticed Parker's patent " annunciator " for hotels, man sions, &c., whereby only one bell is required, and the particular room is indicated by a number appearing on the face of the machine. It seems to be a very ingenious and efficient arrangement. In consequence of that notice we have received a letter from Lincoln, signed John Middle ton, stating`that he has been in the habit of effecting the same thing for a long time past, and pointing to the Pa latine Hotel, Manchester, where his arrangement has been in operation for two years, and the Great Northern Hotel, Lincoln, where, in a short time, may be seen 44 rooms, on two landings, all communicating with two bells. He says—" I have no intention of patenting my method, and any person is at liberty to examine it, and either carry it out in its integrity, or make such improve ments as theia ingenuity may suggest." At the Holt's Arms Inn, Birmingham, an electric telegraph has been established to supersede bell-ringing. The object is to avoid any trouble to the visitors who frequent the house in calling for refreshment, as indicated on the dial plate. By turning a handle, which communicates with the wires, the party is enabled to order any refreshments he may re quire without troubling the servant, and can even request the appearance of the landlord or landlady, as may be requisite.—Builder. AN APT QUOTATION.—A correspondent of the Times says, "At the risk of seeming very much out of the fashion in the day when the people govern i when work men are to be elected as representatives in the French Parliament, and peasants dictate to emperors, I beg to point out a somewhat remarkable passage in a book writ ten before wild theories were so well known or so com pletely approved as at present. Those who think, never theless, that navigators are the best men to plan railways, and men who have not ' opportunity of leisure' are wiser than those who have, will accept an apology for the intru sion : "The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity . of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough and that glo rieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, whose talk is of bullocks ? He giveth his mind to make furrows, and is diligent to give the kine fodder. So every car penter and workmaster that laboureth night and day, and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themse yes to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work. The smith also, sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and lie fighteth with the heat of the furnace; the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ear, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh ; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly: so doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number ; he fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his etrcilgth bctb,a hie, fcci i lie applicth himoolf to lead it over ; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace : all these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his work. Without these cannot any city be inhabited ; and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down ; they shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the congregation ; they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor understand the sen tence of judgment ; they cannot declare justice and judgment ; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken. But they will maintain the state of the world, and their desire is in the work of their craft."—Ecclus. xxxviii. THE ENGLISH WORKMEN ON THE CONTINENT.—The Transit steamer, Captain Bell, from Antwerp, arrived at Hull, on Friday, having on board fifteen passengers, with a full general cargo, one horse, and five calves. The Transit left Antwerp on Wednesday afternoon, at which time all was tranquil in Belgium. The passengers brought over are principally parties belonging to the West Riding of Yorkshire, who had been employed for some time in the flax mills at Lille; but owing to the threats made use of by the inhabitants, they had been compelled to leave the country on the moment for their own safety. In some instances violence had been resorted to towards the unoffending English workmen. One of the passengers of the Transit, who had been engaged as overlooker in one of the most extensive flax mills in Lille, informed our re porter that the treatment experienced by the English workmen was of the most revolting character, and from the precipitate manner in which they had been driven from the country, not one of those brought by the Tran sit had succeeded in removing any of their household goods or other propeety, and, in nearly every instance, the individuals were almost pennyless. In one case a young man, also employed in a flax mill at Lille, had a very nar row escape of falling a victim in the hands of the excited mob. The latter demanded that he would immediately quit the country, with which he expressed his willingness to comply, but being desirous of collecting together a few necessary articles, consisting of clothing, &c., before he removed, he was attacked by the mob, who threatened to hang him. He, however, fortunately succeeded in effect ing his escape, an d, after some difficulty, reached the Transit in safety. The distressed condition of the ma jority 0 the passengers excited the commiseration of Captain Bell, whb very humanely supplied them with fpa, and otherwise attended to their wants. We are also informed that there are a large number of English in the 'neighbourhood of Lille, who are very anxious of returning to this country, bitt, as they lack the means, they are un- Liable ti),do so. • _ - • - tt. - - - ' •- • :t .1; SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tins DAY. In our Share market this morning there was no great amount of business done, but prices were firm. London and North- Western stock and 4-shares were in demand, at an advance upon yesterday's prices; these have both been oversold. The quotations Were—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 39 ; 4-shares,. 51 dis. London New. 4-shares, 23/8 28/9 2f pm. North Union, A, 204. Dover, No. 4, 66/3 dis. Newcastle Preference, pm. Royal Assurance, 1# pm. LIVERPOOL. CORN EXCHANGE—This DAY • We have had an exceedingly dull trade here this morning, for almost every article of the Corn trade, and except for Barley and Malt a general decline in prices. Old Wheat 2d., new 2d. to 3d. per 701 b. cheaper than on this day week. Flour was 6d. per barrel and Is. per sack lower. Beans and Peas also the turn downward in value. Oats receded• Id. per 451 b. ; Oatmeal 6d. per load. 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STREET LAMPS.—An experiment in street lighting has now for a fortnight been going on in Foregate-street, Worcester, where, at the southern extremity, may be seen four lamps of a peculiar construction, which, by means of reflectors and gas burners, throw a very strong light for a great distance on all sides. One of these lamps seems to do the work of three of the ordinary gas lights. ISLE OF MAN. I On Sunday week, the Lord Bishop preached in St. Mary's, Castletown, in the forenoon. After the service his lordship christened the infant son of his Excellency the Governor. The sponsors were the Earl of Selkirk, the Countess of Selkirk, and Lady Ca therine Douglas. The Governor and Lady Isabella were present, also the servants at Government House. The infant was named Thomas, after his godfather and uncle the Earl of Selkirk. EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSI7RES. — Travis, who was ac quitted at the late assizes at Lincoln, on the charge of murdering Mr. Copeman, of Blyborough, in December last, is again in custody, undergoing an examination by the magistrates. A man has come forward to give evi dence against him, who deposes that be was laid under shelter of a haystack, on the night of the murder, and heard the whole scuffle. He followed Travis home, and assisted in - concealing his boots, &c., and was to receive a large sum of money if Travis got off. On applying for that sum, it was flatly refused, and he was told if he informed he would also be transported. The man, how ever, has made the depositions before the magistrates, and the sensation produced in the neighbourhood is of the most intense description. A singular part of the story is, that the witness might have secured the £lOO reward had he informed before the trial.—Another correspondent com municates the following additional particulars :—ln conse quence of a railway bricklayer having stated in several public-houses, on the 11th and 12th instant, that he saw Joseph Travis murder Charles Copeman, and persisting ia his tale, he was ordered into custody, and a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Travis. Both Travis and Fell (the bricklayer) have been committed to Lincola Castle, to take their trial at the assizes for robbery. The Prisoner Travis looked much altered since the assizes, and appeared to have lost the confidential air he has main tained since he was first taken into custody.—Hua Herald. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Thursday, John Harvey, a colonel in the Guernsey militia, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having stolen a bible and a prayer-book from Kentishtown Church. On the 12th of February the prisoner entered the church, and, after admiring the monuments, he sat down in one of the pews. On his leaving the verger observed something bulky in his pocket, and on looking into the pew missed the books. The verger followed the prisoner, and charged him with stealing the books, upon which he voluntarily returned to the church, and instead of denying the act, said he could not think what induced him to commit the theft. Mr. Clarkson, for the prisoner, said his client was not only a gentleman of unsullied reputation, but a man of good station in life, having been a banker in Guernsey. When this affair occurred the prisoner was on his way to the house of Mr. Tatham, solicitor, of Lincoln's-inn fields, at Hampstead, where he had been invited to dinr. He had observed a monument raised to the memory of a wife who had died in childbirth, and that being applicable to a melancholy event which had befallen him, he referred to the Bible found upon him to make the quotation, and in a momentary absence of mind, occasioned by the recol lection of his misfortune, he had unwittingly neglected to replace it. General Napier, late Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, pronounced the prisoner, whom he had ap pointed to a colonelcy in the Guernsey Militia, to be a gentleman of the highest character. Other witnesses having given similar testimony, the jury unhesitatingly returned a verdict of " Not guilty." ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST.—J J . W. ' Thompson, de scribed as Captain of the schooner, Medora, is in custody, charged with stealing a quantity of gold dust, to the value of nearly 7,0001., consigned to and the property of Mr. U. M. Hutton, of Larkhall-lane, Clapham, and Watling street, London, merchant.' t The prisoner received the gold dust on board his ship at Cape Coast, and on arriving in England, contrived to remove it ashore. and take it to his lodgings, the house of his brother-in-law,- Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, in Clapham-road, where a considerable quantity of the dust was afterwards found in his bed-room. To throw off suspicion, the prisoner had written a letter to the prosecutor, in which he stated, that on leaving the Gold Coast he was seized with the fever, which threw him into a state of delirium, and whilst in that state he had thrown all the gold 'butt overboard_ This story, which was too ridiculous to be believed, led to inquiry, and eventually to the apprehension of the prisoner, who has been committed for trial. It really appears by the log book, that the prisoner kept his cabin about a fortnight under the plea of being unwell, and that one dark night, he came on deck and threw overboard a box, which he afterwards said was the gold dust. However, the whole has been since discovered on the premises. VISCOUNT HARDINGE'S INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS.—The House of Lords presented a most ani mated appearance about four o'clock on Monday. There were a few Peers standing conversing near the woolsack, occasionally looking towards the entrance below the bar. That portion of the house appropriated to the Commons was already crowded with members of the lower house. The object of all this solicitude and curiosity could not long remain a secret, and it was soon generally known that the groups had been attracted thither to pay homage to the illustrious hero of Ferozeshah and Sobraon—the late Governor-General of India. In a few minutes the crimson velvet curtains were drawn aside, and the Usher of the Black Rod, Sir Augustus Clifford, appeared head ing a procession formed of the Garter King at Arms, in a gorgeous uniform, covered with heraldic achievements. Then followed the Earl of Arundel, as deputy for his father, the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England. The Peers who undertook the office of introducing the noble viscount to the house, were Lord Viscount Beresford and Lord Viscount Combermere. The noble viscount proceeded to the table, where the usual ceremonies being gone through upon the occasion of a Peer's introduction, and the customary oaths being taken by him, the proces sion retired, and again reappeared, entering by the beck benches, and descending into the body of the house through the opening in the opposition benches. At this moment the number of Peers who stood ready to greet the man that her Majesty " delighted to honour ' was considerable, and the spectacle became highly interesting by the appearance of the Marquis of Anglesey. As he slowly proceeded, his gallant commander the Duke him. self appeared, and the crowd of Peers stood aside to faci litate the meeting of the illustrious chieftains. The mu tilated forms of the noble marquis and the gallant viscount irresistibly excited melancholy amidst the general feeling of triumph. The interesting ceremony closed by the pre sentation, through Lords Coinbermere and Beresford, of Viscount Ilnrdingo to the noble lord on the woolsack, I.who shock him cordially by .the hand. ",.774x ,- ,'-.,+..•^ii'± is •a. - .x. .. v .. a _ .. -