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BLEAK HOUSE.-A BALLAD BY W. H. MONTGOMERY ! give me hack those happy days, So fraught with warm delight, 'hen Hope was like the summer's ti And Low's young dream was brgl Has lost its joyous part, For wealth no more can make a spe In that " bleak house," my heart d o'er my mind And tales of fortune told tempter ca I prized hit 'est llog LITERATURE Ir. C. M C. H. Price, .1 "tot on Experimental Chemistrz, Dok of the Ger ng the student 1 ill-IU nd we hope to nr_ S. G. Rohn It has been rican schools of the science upon simpi, _ economical principles. The fault of the American edition is, that the oxygen scale of equivalents and the thermometric scale of Reaumur have been adopted, instead of the hydrogen scale and Fahren heit's thermometer, which are invariably used by English chemists. In the edition before us this ThQ greatest va the science ih are pointed out both in ( h viroc s given ample Governs Blackwood and Butler, in one of the most sewed object man res similar in its i, cal charact as written, a complet tween natural ed religion ; and that many of the ()Nee _ _ of the latter may b former. The woe obviat a reference a gentle- dent at Newcastle-on-Tyne, is one greatly tore us, by h the ordinary r const so solic lan ; but from its metapbysi y to be interesting mainly to Many nuestions of a compli- of newspa- the surface, or in their occasional ed and referred to the deep We rejoice to generate ed subjects are a these sics and the a ation. Ame- frorr e predominating pro- ;Tess of p TYI fn" Its destruct we migh. .usea.-44ek ' Tr 'r— em; 8 Hot much er jaw I 'There is, of course, on and for diff nce of opinion so that on the subjects of which the author treats we could not expect to go with him in all his de auctions and explanations. The subject of the might have been more clearly stated in the Lewis Arundel Mr. Frank Fairleol seems to he bringing his story to a close, from the tendency of events towards a denouement. There is not much matter in the two numbers before us, but the scenes are depicted with great skill, and the interest is well sustained.—The Protestant Illagazine. The annual lroad of Life and xix Protestant Association occupies a large space in the present number; and great pro - e is given to the speech of the Rev. Dr. e.—The Half-Hours with the Best Authors reach the close of the first volume, without a dimi nution of interest or value.—Hogg's Instructor. In a melange of this kind, costing only a few pence, one is hardly prepared to find a biography of Nie buhr, and a well-executed steel-engraved portrait, besides numerous essays and stories of a high class. lkl`Ne ARIETIES ONE cannot always be a hero, hut one may a man.—Goetlie MEASUREMENT OF LIGHT.—Such is the nicety with which investigations into the nature and properties of light have been conducted, that a wave of light can be measured to the ten-millionth part of an inch, and the quadrillionth of a second. THE POWER uncle measui tinctly Town- F JENNY LIND'S voice may be in some tood, when it is stated that it was dis- hoard more than a quarter of a mile from the hall on the evening of her concert in Northampton. —New Yor Tribune A SHOWER OF BENEDICTIONS. — Last week the Arch bishop of Paris was blessing a bundle of eagles and tins ; this week be has been busy blessing a heap of busts of the President. If this shower continues Louis Napoleon will find the French Church quite a blessing.—Punch. To MAKE WATER COLD FOR SUMMER.—The following is a simple mode of rendering water almost as cold as ice. Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for water, be sur rounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation of the water will carry off the heat from the inside, and reduce it to a freezing point. In India, and other tropical climes, where ice cannot be procured, this is common. Let every mechanic and labourer have at his place of employment two pitchers thus provided, and with lids or covers, one to contain water for drinking, the other for evaporation, and he can always have a supply of cold water in warm weather. Any person can test this by dipping a finger in water and holding it in the air on a warm - day; after doing this three or four times, he will find his finger uncomfort ably cold. _ _ _ ETIQUETTE.-Mr. Singer's explanation in a former number of Notes and Queries is simple, and, I believe, correct. The covered hands might be considered as dis courteous as a covered head ; but why should uncovering either be a mark of respect ? The solution of the ques tion seems to me of some curiosity, and may perhaps be to many of your readers of some novelty. These and most other modern forms of salutation and civility are derived from chivalry, or at least from war, and they all betoken some deference, as from a conquered person to a conqueror ; just as in private life we still continue to sign ourselves the " very humble servants" of our corre spondents. The uncovered head was simply the head unarmed : the helmet being removed, the party was at mercy. So the band unmoved was the hand ungaunt leted, and to this day it is an incivility to shake hands with gloves on. Shaking hands itself is but a token of truce, in which the parties took hold each of the other's weapon band, to make sure against treachery. So also a gentle man's bow is but an offer of the neck to the stroke of the adversary ; so that the lady's curtsey is but the form of going on hr knees for mercy. This general principle is marked, as it ought naturally to be, still more strongly in the case of military salutes. Why is the discharge of guns a salute ? Because it leaves the guns empty, and at the mercy of the opponent. And this is so true that the saluting with blank 'cartridge is a modern invention. Formerly salutes were fired by discharging the cannon balls, and there have been instances in which the com pliment has been nearly fatal to the visitor whom it meant to honour. When the officer salutes, he points his drawn sword to the ground ; and the salutes of the troors is, even at this day, called " presenting arms," that is presenting them to be taken. There are several other details both of social and military salutation of all untries which might be produced ; but I have said ough to indicate the principle.—Notes and Queries. DISFASE FROM MAKING LUCIFER MATCHES.—The le world of a curious form of disease, which ifested in the human body since the inven 's, and caused by fumes from the heir manufacture, wasp first made . The hosphorus, ct injuriously on the The fumes do not necessarily e supposed. The Ger. eneral health does not -1 London goes beyond d after attendance existent bad bee tion of luc ph suhorus to the put eed on. 1843. . s, does not and this is impor- day or a month ; it rarely breaks ss th . an four years al ,ffer have ost writers begins wit} ave been aching in mnerfect, or in people .ent to the bone. An scrofula, at any rate, ease. The next symp- Pieces of it, probably out. The disease has ) lives and requires its Nhich the hea THE GREAT QUESTION. (From Blackwood's Maga:ine. The Ministerial party, the Peel party, the Manchester party, the Radical party, the Whig party, the Roman Catholic party will, within a few days' time present them selves, in the persons of their respective members, and (if honest) as exponents of their distinctive principles, before the various constituencies of the country. From the past, the future must.be judged of and provided against. The momentous issue really before the country defies ,e abortive, yet insidious and dishonest, attempts to reduce its proportions into the narrow compass of " Free Trade or no Free Trade ;" and Lord John Russell, in his letters to the citizens of London, thus far imitates the examp:e of Sir James Graham. These attempts are, in fact, a tacit and tremulous acknowledgment of the strength of the great Conservative party which now guides the helm and while repudiating the little test, ques- ticn, condition, or formula proposed by the most cunning (we use not the word offensively) of the revolutionary tacticians, we beg to submit the following, as a far more comprehe nsive one, as the conditions on which vote s give❑ at the ensuing election; and they may be should be 'ect the lun an worker: ,u the least, and experie that, to affirm that it is even at the factory. •It 1- .scertained tant to rememt ier, , that expo r time at has been pre rRs Mat ever said to constitute Six POINTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE CHARTER. " Are you, or are you not, a supporter of ng maintenance of Protestantism in its integrity, especially as respects the United Church of England and Ireland, and the education of the people ? 11. Determined resistance to Democratic Aggression ? 111. A just distribution of Taxation, with reference to its pressure on the agricultural, commercial, and manu facturing interests? I. Uncompromis Vigilant but friendly foreign policy ? Impartial and enlightened administration of our stic and Colonial Affairs ? Making Old England se are the Six Poin Dam , VI impregnable ?" —the Conservatism of the 19th zld be given to him who does not cordially nswer all, or most of them, in the affirmative; and he will prove himself thereby, " with pleasure," a supporter, as Sir James Graham has found himself, " with pain," an opponent, of Lord Derby's Government. These sup porters, we believe, will be in a decisive majority—these opponents, in a quarrelsome and heterogeneous minority, in the ensuing Parliament. Now, however, for a while, and briefly, of these Six Points in their order o which candidates should ba pinned ; and no votes s I. PROTESTANTISM. It is to be upheld vigilantly and vigorously, in its integrity; and this cannot be, except 'nquiry into the present position b} an 'wriest, searching and doings of Popery within these realms—its subtle and tortuous serpentlike windings among all classes and all institutions. It has become a sacred duty to suspect the presence of Popery everywhere, and not to let that suspi cion be easily lulled. It is often in greatest force where least expected—among the young and innocent—among the learned and mature-aged—and under a hundred harm- less and even lovely aspects. But what care the dogged opponents of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill—of any mea sure directed against the late Papal Aggression—for such considerations as this ? What care the Manchester party —what care those of Peel, the Whig, and Radical parties, who supported, and support, those opponents it Their uniform sayings and doings supersede the necessity of urging this topic further. But we look, on the contrary, upon Lord Derby's as pre-eminently and avowedly a Protestant Government, to all intents and purposes. Its leading members have repeatedly proved themselves as staunch as the staunchest of U 3 could desire ; and this is well known to the Roman Catholic party, and will secure their deadly opposition and hatred. For that very reason, that Protestant Government is entitled to the warmest support of every sincere Protestant—whether Episcopa lian, Presbyterian, or Dissenter—in the empire ; for who is to come in their stead, in the event of their being dis placed ? The Earl of Derby himself, in his place in the House of Lords, recently declared that one p ar t o f th e issue on which he should go to the country would be-- " Will you support a Government which will uphold the Protestant institutions of the country—which will give strength and increased power to religious and moral edu cation throughout the land ?" 11. RESISTANCE TO DENI OCRA CY.—The Manchester and Radical party would at once open upon us the flood gates of democracy, and thereby sweep away our existing institutions, which Lord John Russell himself, as we have seen, solemnly declared, in his place in the House of Commons, to be exactly and happily accommodated to our political exigencies, adapted to reconcile conflicting interests, and secure a harmonious equipoise between liberty and authority. He sternly reprobated all attempts to disturb that harmonious equipoise and adjustment ; denounced the Manchester and Radical party as engaged in that enterprise • and he and Sir George Grey decl are d them to be virtually Chartists. What would be the effect of household or universal suffrage? The House of Com mons in fatal conflict with both the House of Lords and the Sovereign ; for as Lord John Russell truly stated on the occasion already alluded to, such a constituency afforded no guarantee for intelligence or independence— that " they would, many of them, be easily affected by mis-representations and delusions, and had not sufficient political information to enable them to make a right choice of members." What wild and visionary demands would be insisted upon by a House of Commons thus returned! Where would be the national debt? How would the taxes be raised ? How could law be steadily and safely administered ? How could the Queen's Government be carried on ? What havoc would be made of our religious, civil, naval, military, economical arrangements, when subjected to the direct action of ignorance I Who could acauire. or ';a°property t the greatest f P e l l i v iar en c j a n p y r " or an ilequeath o or smallest amount ? What would become of the indispen sable subordination of rank and station ? Socialism would suddenly start up in our midst, a very Franken stein, before the terrified and abhorent eyes of its perhaps unsuspecting creator and victim! All this fearful train of evils Lord John Russell clearly saw when he rebuked Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and triumphantly defeated the measure they advocated. They, also, must have seen that same train of consequences, or they are mere blind leaders of the blind, and should be dealt with summarily otherwise than by argument. But if they did see these consequences, and yet urged on the causes of them, ought not such men to be regarded as the very demons of democracy ? Why, then, did Lord John 11.ussll, in an unhappy hour, and under the guidance of his evil genius, call Messrs. Cobden and Bright to his counsels? Well might the country take the alarm, and rally round the Conservative statesman whom, by such aid, he had re solved, if possible, immediately to overthrow. And that Conservative statesman—the Earl of Derby—only three days afterwards, lost not a moment in assuring the alarmed country that his Government " would exert itself to oppose some barrier against the current, continually encroaching, of democratic influence, which would throw power nominally into the hands of the masses—practi cally, into those of the demagogues who lead them." After discussing in a like manner the remaining four points, the writer proceeds to do justice to the existing Government, and concludes with the following forcible remarks:— The country has now plainly before them, as far as we can briefly put it, the Great Question, whether they will uphold Protestantism and repel democracy. We await the issue with unspeakable solicitude. We have no fear, if the constituencies will do their duty. Let them ask themselves the plain question, What is to become of us, if Sir James Graham, and Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Hume come into power! Destruction would be upon us!! We implore therefore every Conservative elector in the kingdom, every true Protestant, every loyal subject of the Queen, to regard himself as individually of importance during the ensuing ever-memorable struggle. Let no man rely - on his neighbour, or undervalue his own exer tions, capabilities, or influence. When too late, hun dreds of thousands may lament and curse an infatuated apathy ; for if ever a downward impulse be given, it ra pidly acquires an irresistible force. Before we again ap pear, the Great Question will be discussing in every constituency in the kingdom; and it really resolves itself into AYE or No—Conservative or destructive? Every thing is at stake—our national character, our indepen dance, our civil and religious liberty. Let those only succeed who are likely to make desperate exertions in order to inaugurate organic changes, and the crown will quiver on the sacred brow of her that now wears it, and on the temple of national greatness we may woefully write—lcx Anon ! The glory is departed. SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE.—They say when a Chi nese lady is blessed with an increase in her family, from the moment of her accouchement the unhappy husband is put to bed also, and there detained for 40 days, and during this delightful penance he is subjected to all the rigorous treatment of his better half. Should medicine be administered to her he must partake of it also ; and he is strictly confined to the same diet that she is obliged to undergo, which consists on an average, I believe, of about a thimblefull of cream of rice administered every three hours, to prevent indigestion.—Neale's Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of Siam. LADIES AND THEIR STRATAGEMS.—One of the most striking chapters in Dr. Mackay's " Memoirs of Extra ordinary Delusions," is the history of John Law and his Mississippi scheme in France. So unbounded was the confidence of the whole population in Law's bubble, that for months his house was besieged with applicants of the highest class in society to have their names inscribed on his books for shares. His ante-chambers were lined with dukes, duchesses, and every grade of the nobility • and these persons, who would have resented as an affront de tention in the anti-chamber of the Regent, actually called day by day, and waited for hours each day to get audience of the schemer. Some of the attempts to obtain an in terview with him are ludicrous. Here is an instance : " One lady, who had striven in vain during several days, gave up in despair all attempts to see him at his own house, but ordered her coachman to keep a strict watch, whenever she was out in her carriage, and if be saw Mr. Law coming, to drive against a post and upset her. The coachman promised obedience, and for three days the lady was driven incessantly through the town, praying in. wardly for the opportunity to be overturned. At last she espied Mr. Law, and pulling the string, called out to the coachman, ' Upset us now ; for God's sake, upset us now !' The coachman drove a g ainst a post, the lady screamed, the coach was overturned, and Law, who had seen the accident, hastened to the spot to render assist ance. The cunning dame was led to the Hotel de Sois sons, wher e sh e s o o n thought it advisable to recover from her fright, and, after apologising to Mr. Law, confessed her stratagem. Law smiled, and entered the lady in his books as the purchaser of a quantity of India stock. Ano ther story i s to ld of Madame de B ouc h a , w h o , k n owing that Mr. Law was at dinner at a certain house, proceeded .4er carriage, and gave the alarm of fire. The started from the table, and Law amongst the , but seei ng th 4 haste into the house -wards him, while he suspected the trick, Law himself made milli thither in I everybody els( and ran off mpering away, her direction." universal c m the o houses is scheme, and purchased but when the bubble ex- ly, bad CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of pod faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that be does not bold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. MR. CARDWELL'S JESUITRY AGAIN! To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—According to the report in the Liverpool Chro nicle of Mr. Cardwell's speech at the Amphitheatre, on Friday last, he told the meeting that Mr. Disraeli had stated in his address to his constituents that the govern ment did not intend to repeal the grant to Maynooth but on reading that address, 1 was much surprised to find no such statement. What are we to think of a cause which needs to be supported by misrepresentation on the part of the candidate himself.'—Yours, truly. A PROTESTANT. [Mr. Cardwell will probably reply tO our correspondent by impugning the accuracy of the Chronicle's report ; and, as usual with him, he has left a loophole of escape ; for we find in the report of this part of his speech in the Journal, the very convenient interpolation, " I think." It is sometimes convenient to make assertions first, and to ascertain the truth afterwards ; and Mr. Cardwell " knows it." Tile following paragraph from Mr. Disraeli's address contains his only allusion to the Maynooth ques tion. It will take a good deal of twisting to make it hear Mr. Cardwell's interpretation of it :—" The time of the House of Commons has been much occupied of late by a discussion, whether the management of the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth requires investigation. Without preluding the question, her Majesty's ministers have felt it their duty to support such an inquiry. We, have been anxious to subdue the heat of religious contro versy, and to deal impartially with all her Majesty's subjects, whether in communion with the Church of Rome or the Church of England; but we cannot sanction an opinion now in vogue, that since the act of 1829, the constitution of this country has ceased to be Protestant. By the Act of Settlement, our form of government is that of a Protestant monarchy; and it is our belief that the people of this country are resolved so to maintain it, not only in form, but inspirit."—En. TITHEBARN-STREET RAILWAY-STATION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—When the new station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway Companies was erected, some two years since, in Tithebarn-street, it was understood to be for the accommodation of parties travel ling by these lines, and for this purpose a gate was erected at the south-east corner of the station for (as I suppose) the exit of passengers, it being a direct outlet as they land from the train. This gate, however, has only been opened upon one or two occasions for the purpose for which it was intended, thus causing the majority of the passengers to go some two or three hundred yards round, and take the chance of being run over by coaches or cars ; as, by the present arrangement, all pass through the same en trance. If the companies do not intend to let the passen gers have the benefit of this gateway, the sooner it is built up the better, as what would be a great accommoda tion to them is now converted into a public nuisance.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A TRAVELLER. BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sex,—`ti ill you so far befriend the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club, as to insert the accompanying paragraph from Bell's Life, with a few annotations :- 4 ' BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB.—The broad side which was thrown last week into the ' alabaster noses' who sneer at model yachting at or near Birkenhead, seems to have shaken them a little, but not to have quite sunk them into the waters of oblivion, whither however they are deservedly fast settling. We are now proud to find that the support that we have given, and shall give, to model yacht clubs, is also rendered in the highest quar ters, for the present Commissioners of the Admiralty (all naval men, first lord inclusive) have actually granted to the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club the blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet, with the Birkenhead arms on the fly thereof, as the colours to be worn on board their vessels. The members of the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club can well afford to treat their opponents with contempt. Among these opponents is one gentleman who ought to be made acquainted with the Latin line, Nascitur poets non fit.' He should at least have read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' before he attempted 'ye Rise and Progresse of a Young Clubbe,' in which we see Bell's Life is referred to in a note. This scurrilous and rhyming attack (it certainly is not poetical) on the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club is too bad even to provoke laughter. But the animus of its lines shows that the writer possesses a most ill-conditioned, yacht-hating, anti-British soul. The sooner he starts for the antipodes or the Californian ' diggings' the better. His talents (?) are certainly thrown away on the Mersey. We positively pity the poor printers who had the irksome task of putting his balderdash in type." - . No " alabaster noses" have been " shaken," nor, I opine, will even the editor of Bell's Life venture to do so, how ever much he may, in his impotent anger, " shake" his own head. With this denial I leave him to explain his own superlatively intelligible language relative to the said " alabaster noses" not having " quite sunk into the waters of oblivion, whither however they are deservedly fast set tling." The editor is not justified in speaking of " oppo nents," for no collision is known to exist, save only in the imagination of the editor of Bell's Lffe and that of his correspondent. From a perusal of " the lines," I will venture to say that the author of them has read " Eng lish Darus anti ocuLeu neviewers, -- Lula Lhat, Lo t[nula how to appreciate and apply the same. Before the editor of Bell's Life undertook the thankless office of giving advice, he ought to have remembered that the censure of some men is praisd—that abuse is not argument, nor does invective convey conviction. He should have learnt his grammar better, and when he began with plural, should not have ended with the singular. He should moreover have recollected that his recommendation in a former issue to the supposed author was to " fly kites" in " China" (parallel occupation with baby-boat playing, I admit), but now he suggests the Antipodes or the " dig gings" of California. But here is the pith of this disin terested editor's remark, " the animus of its lines shows that the writer possesses a most ill-conditioned, yacht hating, anti-British soul." Read this and tremble, all ye who care not for boating—ye are an ill-conditioned anti- British herd. The " soul" of Britain consists in model yachts ! Now, I would that the editor could understand the language he uses before committing it to paper—that he would strain every nerve, and tell us what is " scurri lous." Far better had been contemptuous silence than all the abuse of a man enjoying the dignified position of "honorary member." There is not a breath of malice in the lines nor in the sketches, which are yet to be pub lished—but let us hope a course, which tends only to create a confederacy, and perhaps a hostile feeling, will not be approved by the B. M. Y. C. Doubtless both parties are aware of the preference which should be given to a sensible foe over an indiscreet friend. I maintain that this nature of retaliation can have no other effect than provoking a continuance of the offensive lines, and as everybody from the ministry downwards is subject to ridicule, why should the editor of Bell's Life lose his temper on behalf of the B. M. Y. C. ? If the editor volunteered this reply, his conduct is unwarrantable; and if the club solicited an editor to take up their defence, they deserve all the ridicule they may receive. A SUPPORTER OF THE CLUB, AND ANTI-OPPOSITIONIST. THE CANDIDATES CONTRASTED. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, " Utrumque horum mavis accipe I" Si a,—Let Liverpool pronounce decisively. Whatare Card well's claims to be re-elected, but pledges violated, facts— stubborn facts—disputed, and truth denied ? That he calumniated the veracity of our merchants, is attested by a signature so very like Edward's, that in one instance at least Loyola did not play his Card(s)well. Ah I that unfortunate letter to Samuel Holme. One of Mr. Card well's supporters styled this " nothing." Pray what are Lis somethings ? Forsooth, we are to bow before abili ties, however prostituted, as if profound hypocrisy was the mantle most befitting a statesman. But conceding all asserted—admitting him to be a genius—has it not been undeniably proved that he is also a—Janus. Like the King, Whose word no man relied on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Joseph Christopher Ewart. Bah ! There is ignominy attached to the name. Thrust upon the constituency by Irish Papists, to do the dirty work Sir Thomas B. Birch was averse to, he calls forth all those ideas associated with old women in breeches. To offer any serious objection to an event so preposterous as his return to Parliament, would be to satire common sense and insult the intelligence of the port. Intelligence and influence, joined with honour and rec titude, must henceforth be our representatives. Charles Turner, as a native merchant, is perfectly acquainted with our local necessities ; and Forbes Mackenzie, as a Minis ter of the Crown, will command that patronage for Liver pool which the Whigs ever unwillingly conceded. In fact, they were envious of the growing importance of a town which never lauded their practices ; and they had the will, but failed to discover the way, to strip the Mersey of its ocean steamers. Protestants cannot be far from the point in voting against the elect of Secretary Wilberforce, the pink of apostates ; and in supporting men whose honour it is to merit the spleen of the confederated enemies of the Throne, the Church, and those blessings solely dependent upon the triumph of Protestant Christianity. The bread which sustains the body is not in danger : behind the " no bread tax" pretext lurks the deadliest hate to vital truth —the light and life of the soul. Electors, be not deceived by demagogues, and never sell that birthright endorsed with the blood of your noble progenitors for a mess of pottage. JUSTITIA. Liverpool, 12th June, 1852. TO BRITISH ROMAN CATHOLICS GENTLEMEN ,—I am led to address you in consequence of the changes which have taken place in the belief and practice of your church in this country during the last few years. Some five and twenty years ago I resided with a Roman Catholic family in a distant part of the country, far removed from the contamination of Irish Romaniri ; and there, at that period, Roman Catholicism, -- "^`'" 4 by an English priest, in the middle of an En =like the Roman Cathol le chapels of T ation, wa cism prac the present tin and unassumi and th( to be seen t Jum Drpool, as the stmpl and gross idolatries practised in les of ancient Greece and Rome. I 11 upon the difference between the simple t used to be performed by a single priest, would-be imposing service called "high mass," vhere now-a-days ; but would just that Dr. Cahill may talk as he pleases • batikingi the kneeling, the c u rtseying,' And: the kissing exhibited in this service—a service that requires as much rehearsal to put it effectually within the area of the altar railings, as is required by a new play when put upon the stage for the first time. My object, however, in this letter, is chiefly to draw your attention to the adoration now paid to the Virgin Mary, which most certainly was not given to her in England a quarter of a century ago. In those days, the evening service in Roman Catholic chapels consisted in the singing of " Vespers," (a selection from the Psalms,) followed by a suitable discourse from the pulpit. Now, the service used is called the " Bene diction," the principal part of which consists in singing a long Litany to the Vi rg i n , i n w hi c h s h e i s a dd r essed by every conceivable name, from " Queen of Heaven" to "Tower of Ivory," Should this be omitted, the " Rosary of Mary" takes its place, in which she is even more distinctly worshipped than in the singing of the Litany; proving very clearly to my mind. that English Popery, by its contact with Irish and Ultramontane Popery, is becoming every day more and more Marian, less and less Christian. But it is possible that my opinion in this matter may carry little weight, and that some of the old-school Roman Catholics who had the good fortune to escape being taught Mariolatry in their youth may not credit my assertion regarding the doctrines now held by their church. For this emergency, however, I am pro vided with ample proofs. In the Dublin Telegraph published last week, a letter appeared from a 2,1 r. M'Ewan, a recent convert to Popery, and late master of a Protestant school in this town, who may be fairly sup posed to have received the faith in its very latest form ; and as he is a man of some education, he is, of course, capable of correctly understanding the instructions given him. This writer expresses himself in the following manner :—" I am an humble adorer of Jesus and Mary." And, again, he says :—" I went like a little child, putting aside what worldly learning I possessed, and threw myself at the feet of Jesus and Mary." But as a further proof that Mary worship was not practised by English Roman Catholics twenty years ago, and that it has been gradually gaining ground in the interval, until now, when it may be said to have obtained its zenith, I would refer you to a letter published a fortnight ago in the Catholic Standard, which shows, that notwithstanding the reading of rosaries and singing of litanies, they were still considered short coming in their idolatry —so much so, that a missionary (Dr. Gentili) was despatched from Rome for the express purpose of instructing the English priests (not the people) in the correct worship of Mary; and the leading dogma of this Romish doctor was, that in the " Communion," the faithful received not only the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus, but the body, blood, soul, and, I suppose, divinity, of Mary likewise. At present I add no more, but remain one who, although no bigot, cannot shut his eyes to the fact, that the Roman Catholicism of the present day is not what it was some years ago, and that it is now well calculated to excite, and, to a certain extent, is worthy of, the extreme disapprobation with which the British people generally regard it. June 12, 1552. SENEX. MR. MACKENZIE AND MR. GREEN To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, "A threadbare coat might jokes escape, Had not the blockheads laced the alpe." Sin.—The question asked by the neighbours in this quarter is—who wrote the let ter in last Friday's Mercury, signed " Tho ma s G reen ?" Mr. Green calls himself a " plain blunt man ;" and we know him to be very plain and blunt. Whence, then, came the high-flown poetical prose and the carefully culled poetry of his letter ? We know Mr. Green to be a good shot, and one fond of his dog ; and we fancy that he picked up a little knowledge from other quarters,—say the " Greyhound." But leaving badinage, allow me to ask, who is Mr. Green ? The whole neighbourhood can testify that, instead of being the quiet, blunt, candid, and unbiassed simple tradesman, he has been for years one of the most active, artful, liberal, and neck-or-nothing can vassers you can find in the town. He is a pink of a Radical reformer ! lam certain that Mr. Green will not deny that, even so late as Mr. Tyrer's election for St. Anne's Ward, he canvassed with more cunning than bluntness ; and that be took dinner at his own house, in right hospi table manner, with one or two friends (Tories), who found out that they were too late to vote when Mr. Green had bid them " Good day." Out, out upon such canting. We know Mr. Green to be a good tradesman ; and we are sorry to see him such a mongrel politician. If we are still to respect our neighbour, he must not again be so green as to dabble in things out of the shop. That Mr. Green was labouring under a heated imagina tion when he fancied any gentleman in Mr. Mackenzie's position would make him (a stranger) such a confidant is beyond doubt ; and that he was silly in allowing his name to be put to such an absurd composition as that which appeared in the Mercury, is equally beyond doubt. — Yours, &c., PHILO-VERITIS. HORTICULTURE. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK Stove, Greenhouse, Conservatory, B,.c.—The present season has unfortunately been very prolific in those pests which give so much trouble to the practical gardener— green-fly, red-spider, mealy-bug, thrips, and a legion of other insect enemies, which swarm over the plants and destroy their beauty, and even, when neglected, the plants themselves. Fumigation with tobacco paper or tobacco, if done thoroughly, will effectually settle the green-fly and the red-spider; most of these plagues, how ever, can be removed by putting about four ounces of weak liquid ammonia into a gallon of rain-water, and ap plying it to the infested plants : this neither injures the plants, nor Goes it impregnate the house with the disagree able smell of tobacco. Climbing plants, both in the stove and conservatory, require constant attention at this season, otherwise they speedily get into confusion. The strong shoots should be tied in as they progress, and it is advisable to remove those which are weak or awkwardly placed. Flower Garden.—The heavy rains will have prostrated all large plants not previously tied up, and taught the ne cessity of performing this operation in time; the surface of the soil is also much beaten down by the rain, and will be benefited by slightly stirring with the rake. In par terres, where the plants are rather crowded, and there is a consequent difficulty in weeding, Gidney's improved Prussian hoe will be found of very great service : it is an excellent implement for the flower-garden, and well fitted for amateurs from its extreme lightness. The roses are much infested with the maggot ; nothing but a pa tient hand-picking will remove this pest. Kitchen Garden.—lf the seedlings of the various cab bages, kales, brocolies, &c., are sufficiently forward, prick them out immediately, in order that strong plants may be ready as soon as wanted. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. James Pell, Aigburth.—There is no book upon ferns so well calculated for amateur collectors as the Popular His tory of British Ferns, published by Reeve and Benham, of London. Moore's Hand-Book is an excellent work ; but the plates in the former are all coloured true to nature, and the descriptive part is very plainly written : they are both by the same author. Edmund.—Your pansie is curious, and the variety might perhaps be made permanent, but is hardly worth the trouble of propagating. F. Dickson.—ln answer to your question respecting the hardiness of Wiegela rosea, we can speak with confidence, for it has stood several winters in the beautiful nursery grounds of Messrs. Henderson and Brown, of Oxton, where dozens of large bushes of it are now perfectly covered with its very elegant pink blossoms, which are deeper coloured in the open air. We are sure the proprietors would shew you them with pleasure, and give you a full history of their cultivation. R. Healey.—Summer pruning renders currant bushes amazingly prolific, but renders them also short-Fved. ; - Suttoman.—We regret we are not able to tell you the precise date of the Eastham Flower Show; but we have a note from the Committee stating that it will not be later than the third weak in August : this will answer your purpose for dahlias. A Standard Reader.—Your Fuchsia is the well-known Exoniensis—an old variety, but at present, in our opi nion, an unrivalled one. AN EXTRAORDINARY BILL OF COSTS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, at Westminster, on Monday, there was an argument about a wonderful bill of costs. Mr. Parker, the carrier. sued the Great Western Railway for surcharges on parcels during four years, and he was suc cessful. The notice of the particulars in the action referred to twenty one thousand distinct carrying transac tions; it was written on forty-one folio volumes, of which the twenty-first part was exhibited to the Court, and was charged in the bill of costs at £1,300: it had taken an attorney and nine clerks three years (6,666 hours) to pre pare it. Other items were somewhat in proportion to this, but not quite so amazing. The master had disal lowed the charge of £1,300, and allowed only £3OO-100 for the draught, £175 for one copy, and £25 for paper, and the plaintiff now sought to get a better allowance. The judges of the Court were all extremely excited at the affair ; they thought the Master had allowed too much— the proving of these matters need not have cost more than £2O; and they refused to help the plaintiff. On Thurs day the Court of Common Pleas granted the Railway Company a rule nisi, on the ground that the £3OO was an extravagant sum. RAILWAY COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE.—An alarm ing accident, attended with the loss of two lives, occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, on Tuesday afternoon, near to the Woodhouse Junction. It appeared that about two o'clock, a ballast train, laden with sleepers, left Grimsby for Sheffield, a passenger car riage, containing seven or eight men in the company's service, being attached to the last waggon. Nothing oc curred until they arrived at the Kiverton-park Station, when, in consequence of the piston-rod breaking, the engine became disabled. Efforts were then immediately made to bring the trains to a stand, but in consequence of the line at this point being on a steep incline this was not accomplished until some time had elapsed. The moment this was done, all the men except two left the '— carriage, and a messenger was despatched to sir proaching luggage train, which was then due ford. Before he had proceeded more than he came in sight of the train, the driver of whim, as he became aware of the danger, instantly - enr,•: - - - nal an ap from Ret -20 or 30 yards, o, shut off the steam, vhich he, together with tl off the train, and escaped ___-, - the collision, the engine of the goods train the rails and sustained considerable damage. ' several of the ballast v two men who were cid applied the bre ker and the serious ir) and ti thout an compart ire killed on t ,ts of the car THE PASSAGE OF THE. OVERLAND MAIL THROUGH EGYPT.—The Egyptian Government has just concluded a new treaty with England, for the transit of despatches• From the Ist of July next, the English post-office will deliver to the Egyptian Government at Alexandria the despatches from Great Britain and other countries for India, by which they will be =tied to Suez at their risk and peril, instead of, as before, by English agents. The despatches from Suez to Alexandria will be carried in the same manner.—Globe. INCARCERATION OF MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR.--It was with considerable difficulty, after being committed to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms. that Captain Gossett could succeed in conveying Mr. O'Connor to his destination in the parliamentary lock-up, and this diffi culty was not a little increased from the circumstance of the well-known sinuous nature of the route that leads to the legislative limbo. The honourable gentleman at first altogether declined the escort of two of the A division, but on being persuaded that the route was only another way into the house, the officers succeeded in getting him up stairs. Here he was introduced into two comfortable rooms, a sitting and a bed-room. A relay of police serjeants and messengers of the House of Commons are in constant attendance upon him in the ante-chamber; and Mr. O'Connor, who is remarkably communicative with them, entertains them with a narration of his career in in the House of Commons, and of his travels Ireland and America. His other diversions consist in songs, some of them not of the most unexceptionable sort. H e shows no symptoms of violence, but has an unquenched craving for brandy. Soon after being placed in confine ment he was searched, and a roll of bank notes were found in the interior breast pocket of his vest, and on the officer taking them for security, he is reported to have said ab ruptly, "Do not take those, I shall not cut anybody's throat with them." During Thursday, he wro t e a l etter to the Speaker, to inquire the cause of his confinement, and requesting liberation. This letter was delivered by Mr. Jacob Bell, who manifests much interest in him, but received no answer. He wrote another, which was con veyed to the Speaker by Captain G , who gith a formal acknowledgMent of the note, which M e prevailed upon to di kcting upon the mistaken impression, ' bolts" towards the bannisters leading 1 )ut was forcibly brought back by the polic Sassed it off as a joke. On Thursday evenir 3 Dr. L 3 of t )'Conn Mr. J. I forwarded their certif a gent IRELAND• from the " Archieiscote of Arm All Ireland," and installed in the Wi t " ' ' dti INSTALLATION OF Da. CDLLEN.--It is Snlif or ao , - ( "his Grace the (ex) Lord Primate," w ill b v 10 6° 1 g h and ...r n o° sc ipag Dublin and Primacy of Ireland," on the appro tival of Saint Peter and Paul (the 29th instant). the coeds ARCHDEACON MANNING, it is Stated , gil ROM . ISh Archbishop Cullen in the See of Armagh . .0 ei tot, AN T INCENDIARY" attempted to burn .. 1 -. eg gii•J shipbuilding establishment of Mr. Pike, on Penroge'forte, Dublin, on Monday night, but the wicked design nately failed. IT P , c 1 by 1 440 " Arcbiepisco Id tecAhnQislt carriage the other day, causing considerable cons!e',. amongst the passengers, bnt doing no further i 11.1%, A fo lsr r n t r h r e ocvork Exhibition, COMBUSTIBLES, e xpprieopdaercieti 0 - la :I:s i t ; Dr.R uMNlaodLdTßenE,DseAcPreptEanryßAtotcctEheOFLoTaHnE FPuonTd.l3oo3l34:firelre; tn lan ai d i;s D J u o b u l r i n n a Ce d st a l t e e , d ha ra s ei a tr d i d m re .i s o s d ed ge, aa ro geL: P e J e lgyi 6l iw.neLwnothsoiesnhoslFeorn,eoTotHncelsi,D.etuhßiceaEah.pap,n7eaaTrgance of the P °ta 'eit, Ila in portions of the counties of Leitrim, Rot-cot:001 Sligo. 500 00 bur th en , city sa t c o eani L sigioto i r in : xl e e, r oe p lrfo o esi o lsie l n . ros.uf She was laden with a cotton. Letters were received in a th in is announcing her total destruction in a subseeatokeoP,°,{ DUBLIN, the intention of her Majesty and her illustrlo , to n, to visit this country in the course of the next s t a b l e orst a r r m 0 7 1 I fi Dd v e . e : r l c . o. insured. — Cork e w x pe e w o r ar e r ,tz e ss a c i l k i i at e g s a r a i s v: o e v :d b.: a n d . e i v thate 511:14 that the royal party will proceed to Cork in her stance—from thence to Lismore Castle. wberetijo bl to jesty purposes to honour the Duke of De' L l teell t l a ti brief stay at that princely mansion ; and sou s `,,li Dublin, previous to the departure of the r ° '" tig tb from Kingstown harbour. D$ 010 ANOTHER EXHIBITION.—It iS said that • , •- t f i er , tool, the eminent railway contractor, has made a n ° o l° ' committee ninfenxeiocnes o wsa f irt t yi l l re xo ß r2o o; po a oo l no D , ti u hn b e l ti i hr n eg S e o r c e i c e td t i y osn to foo e rf t e l' b ' p u tsa g r d ip i to ls ioto o , otc these, es e ofa admissionasun such jt foreign i . o t Gi r l a c r l ,peErupsxborhl products cdbi printerstt co i t o sb n ae , s t mhr derived grounds, nrtbohefie made t by s (l o ui 13 ,000 ; 1 0 10 1 iti e t 0 0 1, %. productivet i c E I e x s T e E n .s d s : iv r n o E d Fu Ireland.cAt FAILURE.—The x n hibited to comprise th : ad diti f6 o4 d growth, cultivation, and workmanship • ati ii rsil ab.e " We have to notice, with I yt T ha h e e cde F ene r tpu e e e rsy m t been established for :ea . sion this week of the very old and highlY -re l„ P tatlis 4 i •pr etors of the Daily Express newspaper., ' l , if, 4 OP which period the name of the firm ranked's' ditto:, for mercantile probity. A meeting of their cr e afe d,",:lta held on Tuesday, when the liabilities were 1 1 £4' p ,O O , £IS,SG2, including £6,000 of family debts, n e , the Bank of Ireland. The assets were state" 70 P,' 0 1 of £17,000, including £7,400 stock-in-trade, n for printing concerns, the remainder bei"g r ry ' k j i , debts due to the newspaper and private PrO e ', o ; s l;i EXHIBITION AT CORK.—The Grand Ns t i.`"lot . bition of Irish Antiquities, Manufactures, sa d 10 t' Productions, was opened at Cork, on of E 8 Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess °ololitel' were in attendance, and a grand opening was 001 gone through, when the mayor of the city wy a r heithol There were 4,000 persons in the building. , Os" IP lencies then drove to visit the Queen's Coll!gi;i96oPoit received by the principal and professors, tu°,entiajoOd,, the members of the corporation being also Pr e . e sce i s e robes. An address was delivered, to whicil beotte,ooo; araeitig'asrefat. et05'19:410:::: returned a suitable reply. The inaugural 'sir o _l ol held in the evening, at which GOO sat down . g ot 5P7, 1111 Hackett, the mayor, was in the chair. El ne "maY °/1 ) 1 ": were delivered by the Lord-Lieutenant, ti S otiose; Mansell, the Marquis of Thomond, l‘lr. °I.I e the re phy, and Mr. Burke Roche. On Friday t",,ostl c or excursion to Queenstown ; and on Saturday :seat, at which 1,200 ladies and gentlemen were P r 110 eluded the festivities. E A 749114 ,6' • CONVERSIONS FROM ROMANISM IN ' 3- l ' e rSilin Irish papers announce farther numerous conY ori el Tr . ., among the Roman Catholics. The Clor e J° trig' ist r i Ell al 0 tions Mrs. Laffan, late of Claremont, ne r , t , dig of lady, who was a near relative of several ocoood in the Roman Catholic Church, had for •ec • c ho r rte° hi of years, according to her own account, elit e fl, if doubts of the truth of the religious syster ° 00 05 0 tr, had been broughtand for the last fo c life she refused to take any spiritual instrorro clergy of the Church of Rome, several of 0 - 0 0,, ihbfraor possible, ught n to ti visit her ii h a e tk r hee f rhoeotrn:Gefifteen resolution ro na i no l f e d s a a y r i ;n 8 otil TheirseieteO 'Gorman of of ,wGt iolder am efforts,yoasl O'Gorman T h e aas o ntda w dhm e ßo v ihnot er, proved ineffect ua l; eg ht -tc°ol llis te u r 9ll4 v ti r e si p ti O O'Gorman. The O'Gorman (who is a, the f membership with the R i:mse e ddl , l o au. r Pb m gCy.h e aft d toethrrh 3 El h wic u lV: r nr c fielia h s:'ii°l°l:llC9 : e i liitritai:r ; :::;tio el `'lv:°ll Mayo Constitution says,—Now, between,, e n r lie Pf h P ete,,d , famine, and conversions, the Roman Ca'"ies, is so diminished that, outside the Cat of ia d tr` p 1 as many Protestants as Roman Catholic. 4 Further, the constant drain from the it,°, °3 ,j - doeff these conversions over all parts of the NT; soon leave the Papal party in the m inorilnkli",, - , so, the stock in trade is done and all tbloit'",tol' i ,lo must be laid aside. To prevent this, to ° A" es n,„ l- tbeill these conversions, all these interested Pn . ;., e l g • with the most frantic efforts- but, accorn t ell„v",: e ere; adage, they are stemming the tide with af; rofo, o oo rolling on past them and in spite Of thel; i at 00 dation-stono of a new church has been la, egalo'oo, childat Achill the Bishop of Team reeenllY st op a t t o ren at the two principal missionarY 0 0 010 Colony and Meelan. The number on 01,, a ttg,.o different schools was 1,167, and there w ere c l o rca er iits o on the day of examination 770. The pe w Ae ott s l l l l , Sound is about to be opened next month. t m e, Church will be built this year at the Col°" to fop used being too small to give accommotlati°,llo. ‘l l ,O, gregation. There is a third church at life el ; , her e rdi tion to all there are three other stab on e , yel l e r service is held in private houses. Bie t r e e 0 °32 when Mr. Nang'e went to the island , tun. Bible nor Protestant in the parish. ECCLESIASTIC A INTO Y' c PREFERMENTS AND APP O-;. -- 40 tisb nr 4 0 Rev. J. Baskett, to the Rectory 0 ' - r e rit e ' t Charlton, Dors u g. Rev. A. W. Cole, M A to the PerP e- 413 1 ,C," • ~ d ie° . y Langcliffe, Diocese of Ripon. Rev. W. Fothergill, to the Curacy of W ell 0 000 bridgeshire. , 0,001° 5° Re v. F. Connor, to the Curacy of Innis eata'tviortlif Rev. E. H. Frere, to the Rectory 0 1 "r to t Rev. J. Gutherie, Vicar of Caine, Wi,d 9 b l edt Bedminster-cum- Redcliff, in Salisbury k'f,l-.toci Rev. G. Hall, M.A., to the Perpetual ki tisham, CambrHeaidge m shire. be nd °f Rev. W. B. thcote, to the lo cu per Berks. e 2 Viear ag Rev. B. R. Keene, 8.A., to the 0 OP, CP Suffolk. r lif e ol Rev. H. Maclean, to the Curacy 0= - a tOr7 o f Rev. 0. L. Mansel, B.A , to the Re n Knowle, Dorset. • c 4 .1,0 A tIP Rev. R. F. W. Molesworth, to ..e °f3° ci Of of Geo R evrge's. G. .L. Nagsh, Rmsat e. M.A., to the Vicara ge o Dorset. o of lo Hon. and Rev. J. Pelham, to the Inc , Cat new Church at amtead. P Pet tiP Rev. L. PresHton, ps 8.A., 10 to the -e t- Longton, Lancashire. "'rad A d Rev. N. Proctor, to the Assistant -L " .— ta sl michael, county of Longford. Rev. R. A. Rawsthorne, to the Pe r Per Ite ril held Penwortham. Lancashi Mit es re. f .d Rev. G. Richards, M.A., Curate 0. , To rte c oe' shire, to the Rectory of Thorneyburne,AAibbott _1 Rev. J. G. Scott, to the Curacy of of s t " Meath. ' 4 l) Rev. G. I. Tubbs, to the Incumbency Episcopal Chapel, Reading. Rev. R. Wade, to the Perpetual COr c ' o jeb' f Part , of Chi' /JP New Catton, parish of St. Clement, •,,, r ter °.„01‘ 111 Rev. E. Warter, late President and - 1 , i ( 1 4 .ing",0 1 College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of 00°1 Pfdl,4 4 ,b e Rev. J. L. Wiglesworth, t° bury, near Nervine6ffol3sitSt' e%P e hes , 41 1 NEW CHURCHES.—The charges 3 hu rC-4g. the commissioners for building ne w e i - of the 25th of March, 1851, to the 25t ~ 5 21 46 1 10, 1, amounted to £4,337 15s. 7d. Ptlo o o l o al' THE ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL . C "'" e l 4 0 , gate Prize for the best English poem, !Tyr. versity of Oxford. has been adjudged o P 90 1 0 Exhibitioner of University College,? by •- Rev. R. Whiston, who was dismissed . _ ' ; a d 1 ' at h C e ha th p e te m r o as f t ß er o n cl f ie t s h tl ' as "utterly unto otSD E hio, ARCHES' COURT ( 111 or. J" Oia0.1" THF, BISHOP OF LONDON P. TH E 1 . 11 . STONE.--JUDGMES,,ing '` t he t , The Dean of the Arches' Court,lvot W TI e ar morning for the delivery of his Pagj e j at u ro bl e t° A( Mr. Gladstone, the Court was crow con s ide re ce De V i Sir JOHN DonsoN proceeded, at • 0 31 1° t, with 1 701 o d u a ' ttt° o 6r o , Having overruled several minor tc;„ e i, re, iie r I o e t iti bo said, the mistake in the citation, wu o i fat"d to ot o r OI p t o r e r v e i v e i n e s w l y the declared case, annpdineinxnpressed 11 !, a rd li t i e cli a pirj; of London " Father God," instead bsorheoe was a mere clerical error, and i jo, tti that the Bishop meant to assume L o fjto s claimed by the head of the Church, was -. A lbs .0 ,_1••„ 0 1 e d to e rre to IP weight which he gravely attach ood, .„. g the instrument he held to he f, 2 11 P ° detl P ,i4eg es f knewob objection,—at t ion,— whether at atlhleevleeanrtnsedit was q ateJ i:jf,oestf,;cotoc,,v,,oe! t b i e ie n doubt eeliso, that whetherthe I,e Bishop ha sure, or without any such , ' c ar jo io teo dcorrtious'neri.`incitll3oll,! whole of the circumstances, of °Pi by ;PI to the following conclusion :-- facts charged in the articles are suPgra"cteo`co Ty? roof, and I therefore admonish Mr. co in flog c s o d onduct in future , to reciiraini,ter 1)0 0 , 110 'icly preaching, and , call ad oisb a q - (fora AgoViA, 7 .J buildin, t he ~,re until he obtains rornung f T ana pw.. in the costs of his snit aimProctor.-With ; The Dean of t The oroceedin awn torovnittc ?Re the • ,Pres T HE Piss ed mp ah , titr e tre acly Illt tr ewh: riLThe b, -40 he 6th i IQ Tge el 41,Ats O 4 11 -. ., - erol 4 0 , of Poi a u Ne e se EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE. A most repulsive romance was related at the Mansion House on Saturday week, when Mehemet Abraham, a blind , jet-black beggarman, who is usually led through the streets by a brown dog, and Eliza —, aged 23, the daughter of a gentleman of fortune who resides in Lon don, were brought before the Lord Mayor by Henry Major, an officer of the Mendicity Society. The male prisoner is a peculiarly revolting object, his head being covered with long matted hair, and the covering upon his limbs being tattered and filthy in an extreme degree. The woman is a small-sized, pretty-faced one, presenting a re markable contrast to the wretched creature who accom panied and was cherished by her. The officer, in reply to the Lord Mayor, said he had traced them to their very bed together, and then read the following history of the young woman, as given by her father in a letter to the secretary of the Mendicity Society : " Dear Sir,—l beg to submit the following distressing case to your sympathies, and to solicit from you the ad vice and assistance which I am led to understand are kindly afforded by your society in extraordinary cases out of the pale of parental authority. By birth and education a gentleman, I married in the year 1829 a lady in the same sphere of society, by whom I had issue two daugh ters, the eldest of whom (the unfortunate subject of this application), now twenty-three years of age, was, from the age of three months, brought up and educated in the first style by her maternal grandfather and grandmother. At their decease, about seven or eight years since, she be came an unwilling inmate of her parents' dwelling, from which she contrived to get away with a married man, and was not heard of (having eluded the efforts of the police to trace her for many months) until the receipt of a letter in the Times newspaper, from Mr. D'Arcy, our solicitor, at Newton Abbott, Devonshire, in which paper a detailed and humane account of the distressing condition of a young lady then lying in St. Luke's workhouse appeared under the assumed name of Elizabeth Allen. This ac count, as regarded my daughter, abounded with the most atrocious falsehoods, as detailed by herself to the board of guardians of St. Luke's. My wife, having a cousin of the name, to whom the solicitor suggested it might apply— went to St. Luke's, and found our daughter to be the person whose case had been detailed in the Ti»zes, and on her being brought; before them and her mother, was there and then convicted of deliberate falsehood and fraud, and handed over to her mother. Exertions were then suc cessfully made to get her cured of a complication of loath some disorders at St. Barthelornew's Hospital, whence, after being brought to a state of convalescence, and rob bing some of the nurses of small sums of money, she es caped, and again was lost sight of for many months, when a gentleman, a friend of the family, saw her and gave her into custody of the police, who restored her once more to her afflicted parents. Her conduct from this period was infamous in the extreme, and, on her coming of age, she threw off all restraint, and having a small house property in Devonshire, subject to her parents' interest, but which was waived in her favour, she left us, nor did we know of her whereabouts until about ten months since. I met her in the streets of Whi'echapel, in the last state of destitu tion, filth, and rags, singing ballads. My humanity once) again led me to speak to her, and to remonstrate, the re sult of which was that we took her home, cleansed, clothed, and cared for her. This lasted but a short time, and her recurrence to her former habits again precluded all knowledge respecting her, until, a few days since, we received a letter from our solicitor, saying that he had heard from our daughter, as the wife of a Mr. Abraham, desiring the sale of her property, and requesting bins to take the necessary steps—one of these, and the prelimi nary step, being our signatures and consent. My first impulse was to visit the locality specified in the solicitor's letter, 7, Little Halifax-street, \Vhitechapel,' and there, in one miserable room, cohabiting with a black blind beg gar, who perambulates the streets with a brown dog, this wretched girl is to be found. The parties who live in the same house say that she has been cohabiting with this monstrous loathsome being for two months, and that they live most luxuriously. Her mother, who has had an in terview with her, states that she boasts of this man bring ing her home from the West-end frequently 15s. per day, and on an average 7s. or Bs. per diem. She stated herself to have been married to him seven months since at White chapel Church, which, on careful inquiry, I find to be false, having examined the church books and seen the of ficials on the subject. These latter circumstances induce me to think that the humanity and exertions of your so ciety may be made available for the suppression of so much vice, and the salvation of this unfortunate child." The Lord Mayor.—Certainly this is the most horrible piece of London romance I ever heard of, and it would be quite incredible if I had not here before me all the persons concerned. Is it possible, young woman, that you can have any respect or affection for the miserable creature at your side ? The Female Prisoner.—Yes, I have both respect and affection for him. I have no idea of leaving him. We can do very well together (and she laid hold of the tatter demalion's greasy black paw). The Alendicity Officer.—The man has been begging about for several years, and I have no doubt' is well able to keep a woman in great luxury. lam convinced that the girl has been attracted by the excellent living with which he indulges her. They have been in the habit of getting the best, and she does not deny it. The Female Prisoner.—Well, I can't go home, and I won't go home. The Black said that he had been dog-led through the streets of London for eight years; that there could be no mistake about his blindness, and if any one knew how a blind man was to support himself, except upon the kind ness of those who were not blind, he would be much obliged to be informed. The Lord Mayor then communicated privately with the father of the girl, and both prisoners were remanded. A large sum of money was found at their lodgings. ARMY AND NAVY. WAR OFFICE, JUNE 8.-7th Reeitnent of Light Dra goons : Lieut. W. D. Bushe to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sartoris. who retires ; Cornet the Hon. No Do Vesci Twisleton Wykeham Finnes, to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Busche. 9th Foot : Major B. V. Layard to be Lieut.- Colonel, by purchase, vice Densmore, who retires ; Capt. C. Ehnhirst to be Major, by purchase, vice Layard ; Lieut. J. W. Percy to be Captain, by purchase, vice Elm hirst ; Ensign J. L. Thurshy to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Percy. 22nd Foot : Ensign W. M'Bean to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Graham, promoted ; Ensign W. Mac pherson, from the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice M'Bean. 2Gth Foot : Lieut. F. A. Quartley, from the 38th Foot, to be Lieut., vice Stratton, who exchanges. 38th Foot : Lieut. J. Stratton, from the 26th Foot, to he Lieut., vice Quartley, who exchanges. 42nd Foot : Lieut. A. Pit cairn to be Captain, by purchase, vice Drummond, who retires. 50th Foot : Captain W. Bellingham, from the 65th Foot, to he Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges. 59th Foot : Ensign G. Tom to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Wigmore, who retires. 61st Foot: Ensign W. W. Pattoun to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Wall, who retires. 65th Foot : Captain W. A. D. Anderson, from the 50th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bellingham, who ex changes. 67th Foot : Captain the Hon. W. F. Cowper, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Bunbury, who exchanges ; Lieut. Count W. C. Rivarola to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Cowper, who retires ; Ensign A. H. Coney to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rivarola. 69th Foot : Captain G. Henry, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain (repaying the difference), vice Moore, who exchanges; Lieut. G. Begot to be Captain, by purchase, vice Henry, who retires ; Ensign H. B. Brady, to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Begot. 71st Foot : Major N. M. Stack to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Sir H. Dalrymple, Bart., who retires ; Captain C. Ready to be Major, by purchase, vice Stack. 91st Foot : Gent. Cadet C. G. Dewell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Battiscombe, promoted. Ist West India Regiment : Ensign W. Cave to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Murphy. who retires. 2d West India Regiment : Lieutenant G. Bennett to be Captain, without purchase, vice Gordon, deceased ; Ensign F. Rumley, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,vice Bennett. Brevet : Captain G. Henry, of the 69th Foot, to be Major in the Army ; Brevet Alajor G. Henry, of the 69th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army; Captain the Hon. W. F. Cowper, of the 67th Foot, to be Major in the Army. ADMIRALTY. JUNE 7.—The following promotions took place on the 4th instant, consequent on the decease, on the 3rd instant, of Vice-Admiral of the Red Robt. Jack son :—Vice-Admiral of the White J. Sykes, Esq., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. G. Poulett to he Vice-Admiral of the White ; Rear- Admiral of the Red H. Parker, Esq , C. 8., to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral of the White W. Fisher, Esq., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red; Rear-Ad miral of the Blue Sir J. G. Sinclair, Bart. to be Rear- Admiral of the White ; Captain Sir W. E. Parry, Knt., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. rdecision. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 18 52.