The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-16 00:00:00

VP.BRUAiII 1(i N S expected that freqtieut occasions of delicate negociation will !! We .do not distrust Mr. Van Buren's government. We be lieve that is just enough, and wise enough with England. We believe the same of the Congress; but in such au extensive .country as the United States, a democratical government is, as .regards external relations, no govetnittent, and the President and Congres s 'most prove their desire for peace by looking with out any real or affected jealousy upon the defensive measures -of those neighbours whom they cannot restrain their subjects from offending. Let any one in the United States make the case of his own country—let him suppose a band of Canadian Outtows, or Indians, organised at Queenston—let him suppose this banditti to provide themselves with artillery and arms from the Queen of England's stores, and thus organised, armed, and . equipped, lo take possession of Grand Island, receiving daily su#plies from Chippewa, under cover of the guns of the fort. Row would he expect—how would he demand the Blitish go ' vernment to act? Would be not say that it was our business to pursue our pirates, and to disgrace and punish all British Odi _cers and subjects abetting or conniving at their crimes? and the demand would nut have to lse made twice upon Gieat Britain ; Such is the difference between monarchy and democracy." • PROSPECTS Ot THE MINISTRY.—" Coming events east their shadows before them." The truth of this say 'ing is likely to be realised in the eat ly dissolution of the - imbecile whip ministry. The many recent appointments "which have taken plaCe under the present temporary go vernment afford an infallible proof of the tottering con dition of th cabinet. The whig ministers tWmseives have contrive to retain office for a sufficiently long pe. ridd to entitle ch of them to a *Ching pension ; but \ their needy relatives and dependants have been lung tept in abeyance. 01 late, however, wonderful alacrity has been displayed on the part of ministers to secure for 'their retainers some permanent provision, whilst an' equal degree of readiness has been evinced by tire lat ter to "catch at any oppoitpmen47 of which they are (not likely tube depilved,whea the .whig cabinet receives its quietus. The projected mission of Lord Durham has already afforded the means of providing fur several "nice young gentlemen" of wing principles. The appoint- . menus of Sir A. L. Hay and of Mr. Richard Shell are likewise indicative of a desire on the part of the thirk- and-thin supporters of the Melbourne cabinet to secure a snug birth before it becomes too late. We may confi dently look for several additional appointments of the ame'desctiption in the course of a few days. Whig patriots are notoriously fend of promotion to offices of emolument. From'the eagerness manife..teiby the most active par tisans of the ministry, to obtain permanent appoint- ments; as well as from other causes, we are justified in • stating that Lord 'Melboorne and his associates are placed in embirrassing circumstances, and that their speedy re tirement from office may be calculated upon. It is. well known that they have been forced to adopt an apparently conservative line of policy in obedience to the wishes of her Majesty. This has been made palpably evident since the present session commenced. In consequence of this constrained adoption of conservative measures, the ministers have lost the confidence of the ultra. radical party, and have been forced to rely almost exclusively upon Sir Robert Peet and the niembers of the opposition for the support necessaty to carry on the government of the country. We do nut say that, the whig ministers have voluntarily thrown themselves upon the aid of the , conservatives. Their inclinations evidently went the other way; but they had no alternative—they were com pelled to do so or to resign, and resignation is a word of which they have not learnt the meaning. The position of the ministers in reference to their quondam radical friends may be inferred from the follow .ing notice of motion 'given by Sir William Dlulesw•orth for the 6th of Match : "'To move an address to the Queen, respectfully expressin g the opinion of the douse that, in the present critical state of many of her Majestys foreign possessions in :various parts of the world, it is essential to the well-being of her Majesty's co looial empire, and of the many and important domestic inte►csts . which depend on the prosperity of the colonies, that the Colonial Minister should be a person in whose diligence, fore-thought, judgment, activity, and firmness, the house and the puhlic ►nay be able to place reliance; and declaring-, with ail deference to theconStitutional prerogatives of the crown, that her ;Majesty's present Secretary of State for the Colonies does not enjoy. the confidence of the house, or of the country." How this motion will be disposed of it is impossible to form any conjecture. .Should the conservatit es deem it worth their while to vote in favour of Sir William Moles worth's declaration, ministers must be outvoted. The probability is, that the motion will be got rid of by lin adjournment. No trial of 'strength has yet taken place between the ministerial party and the conservatives. Such a trial can only take place on some question of importance, in volving a tangible principle on which both parties are professe , lly at .variance, Will the 'ministers tenture upon the introdurtion of such a question ? Will they bring forward the Irish Municipal Bill—the Church Rate Bill 7—or the Irish Tithe Bill ? They dare not. ELECTION PETITIONS:—S r% eral of the election peti %ions, wltich were fixed for consideration in the earlier' part of this month, are now undergoing investigation be fore committees of the House of Commons, and a few have been already decided. Of the latter, the ,only case 'that has diSturbed the balance of parties has been that of Petersfield. The committee in this case have decided that Sir H. Jolliffe, the Conservative candidate, was not &iv elected,. and that Mr. H ec t or was d u l y chosen • to serve in the present parliament. This will cause a ~. difference; mu division, of two votes in favour of the Radicals. The decisions in the cases of Salford and county of tongford have been in favour of the sitting members. The Roxburgh and Ipswich Election Conunitters have •tot yet terminated their enquiries. The latter is likely 40 issue in favour of the Conservatives. The following *vas the state of the pull at the close of Tuesday's pro_ Feedings Gibson (conservative) Kelly (conservative) 'Folioed (radical) Wason (radical) Should the decision of the committee be is favour of Mr. Kelly it will exactly c9tinterbalance the loss sus. twined by. the Conservatives in the case of Peter►field, The j;)elfast Xlecti9n,:einontiltee was ballotted for on ,evening,. The following are the members : iCul. Rulleston, Mr. Logan, Mr. P. W. Miles, ; Hughes, Mr. Halford, Lind Villiers, 'Mr. Chute, Jdurci - Gritnston, Mr. Eaton, ,Lord Paget, and Mr. St. Paul. • .:.In the case of Bridgeport!) • the Radical member very •,prudenilir resigned.previously to the ballot, and a new 4irit . ivaS moved fo - r by Mr. W. Hulmes. This, we have ; no doubt, *ill 'give an ad litional vote to the Conserva ztiVes. ( It is a singular fact in connection with the balloting IN ejection committees, that the majorities, in every jtutance excepting that of the Ipswich petition, have been in favour of the Radicals, and that this has taken place ; notwithstanding the diligent- attendance of the Conserva- Aive members, fewer of whom have been returned as ,pbsent than of their opponents. This circumstance may ,account for many decisions of an adverse nature such, itnfortunatelv, is the sense of honour among the Radical Tnem be rs. THE EMIGRATION BROKERS.—We have frequently endeavoured to excite the public sympathy on behalf of that class of society who, driven from their nati%e shores .by adverse Gnome, are led to seek an asylum in. foreign elands.. The frequent impositions practised upon these individuals by the passenger brokers, with but very fetv .exceptions, called for the interference of our local au- Ilnirities, and application was made to the Colonial Offi.ce for the appointment of a go% eminent agent, w bo Abould soperinteud the fitting out of 51iips for the emi gration service, and afford a powerful protection to the unfortunate emigrant. The choice fell upon Lieut. Low arr qficer who had served with distinction in her Ma jesty's navy for several years, and who was strongly re ,comirrended by the various officers under whom he bad b'erved. The appointment of a rtsid - ent govei muent lagent naturally excito the jealousy of the pas4.nger ibiokers, and from that period se% erarof them continued p dirirat:eful'opposition, and endeavoured' Lb.:create-a prejudice against Lieut. Low. It will, however, be sa tisfactory to the public to know, that this gentleman has received testimonials of approval from thelocal authori ties, who have had the best opportunity of iodizing uf his conduct and estimating the value of his services. We intimated iti our last that a pamphlet has very recently been published, under the title tat - " A Letter to Lieut. Low, by a Passenger Broker." Ef this pamphlet is intended for a vindication of the conduct of the emi gration brokers, it is a miserable failure. The records of the police-court, as well as the books kept at the go vernment office, prove beyond all controversy the guilt of many of these parties. During the year 1837 no le:ss than 2366 complaints were lodged at .the gov(rnment office, and redress obtained for 894. Now, how does the wilier of this pamphlet meet this charge? Simply by declaring his belief that the 894 cases were the only ones requiring redress! This. appears a very convenient mode,of getting rid of the charge; but ail who are ac quainted with the nefarious system adopted by many of these brokers know that conviction is-only obtained by the most careful and persevering inquiry. In many in stances the restitution of the money wrested from the poor emigrant has been enforced by the authority of law. The sum of £523 Is. 84d. was recovered between May 7, 1833, and December 31, 1837, during which time two prosecutions took place at our assizes, on both of which convictions wer e obtained. This speaks volumes in fa vour of Lieut. Low's administtation, not to mention the advantages and comfort secured through his interference to the unfortunate emigrants. We must now proceed to notice the pamphlet more particularly. The writer appears most anxious that the mist which has so long obscured the perception of the public through the fahacious representations of news paper reports slitinld be dispelled. Now we claim for ourselt es and our contemporaries the public confidence with regard to the various statements which have ap peared on the,subject of emigration. We have endea voured to act impartially, and in this spirit we have, on several occasions, opened our columns to both parties. Our reason for discontinuing the practice was, that we found the various charges made against Lieut. Low were quite groundless, and that the complaints made by Lieut. Low . were confirmed by the records of the police court' and other incontrovertible evidence. These books are open fit die inspection of the public, although this is denied by the writer of the pamphlet before us in the following paragraph : " The Standard newspaper stated that Lieut. Low's books were open to the public, and, in consequence of that declaration, a person called at his office and politely requested to see th lie as asked by, what authority he called there, and rep that he had a friend in the emigration business, and that, if he could discover that his friend had been guilty of the crimes at tributed to the passenger brokers, his friendship for him would • be immediately annibi4ted. He was then informed ‘hat if he had come with a note from a newspaper office he might have had the permission to see them; but, as he had no authority fur seeing them, he could not be allo,%ed that privilege. This is only a part of the same system. So then, the people connected with the press may see his libellous books, in order that the libelling systetn may still continue in full force against us. But why are we, or our ft lends, who are most deeply interested in the matter, to be deprived of a sight of them? Here is justice. Why not reveal to us the secrets of those mystical books, which reseuib:e Pandora's box, with all manner of evils therein, but . not like hers, with hope at the bottom ? Why not allow us to real our crimes in their most hideous aspect and with their must fright fultrappings, that so he may cherish the hope of ''u amendment ?. But the misfortune is. that, if we all amend theme will be no need of his services. nos, the system is admirably concocted, and has hitherto worked well. If we see the books, "the cat might-get out of the bag." But we wish for an open investigation of those books; not a partial extra nation, but a minute scrutiny. If they have been fait ly kept, theme is no cause of fear." The statement here made is. in our opinion, false from beginning to end, arid for this simple reason, that in a conversation we held with some of the brokers con cerned in the publication of this pamphlet, they allowed that the hooks were kept for a public inspection. But these men know the general indifference of the public to these matters, and hope for concealment through such neglect.. Wo had our attention called a short time since to a paragraph which appeared in the STANDARD, repect• ing a summons which had been obtained against one of these brokers for swindling. sonic poor emigrants. The paragraph was headed "Swindling Emigrants." The broker, in consequence, paid us a visit, in order to re monstrate with us on the impropriety of prejud;ing the question. He stoutly asserted his own innocence-- boasted of his moral integrity, and stated that he never even had been suspected of such base conduct. H e shod. tiered as he related a scene which occurred at his Own house, wheit the charge was understood, and described in glowing ter is the indignation of his amiable wife, and the sympathy of his children. This most affected narrative naturally moved ns to pity, anA we regretted that so'.worihy an individual should suffer unjustly. a few hours banished this feeling ; fur on our visit to Lieut. Low's office we were surprised to find the name a ibis:individual in almost every page of the book of complaints. He has since deemed it necessary to enter an action against us for the better vindication of his cha- And yet such men are loud in their outcry against being exposed to the public censure ! They tell us they court inquiry —full inquiry—minute inquiry— racier. an impartial, patient scrutiny. And to give strength to their assertion, they challenge Lieut. Limr to produce a single instance of direct swindling, anti to name the per sons who were swindled. Now this appears very fair and honourable, but we doubt if the publication of these facts would be unattended with injury. Let these brokers who ha-le written the pamphlet accept our challenge, and testify to the world their wish to have the matter fairly in% estigated. Let them give us a guarantee that we shall not be subject to legal prosecution for the pub lication of the facts, and we will produce numerous cases of fraud, and name the parties who have been defrauded. Further, we are anxious to do justice to those brokers who are not engaged in this system of villanous imposi tion, and therefore we will throw open our columns to publi,h any instance of fraud practised by the emigrants upon the brokers, provided they be confirmed bY un doubted testimony. We must, however, dismiss the subject fur the present. The approaching season of the year in which emigration takes place to a very considera- • ble . eXtrnt. 1132 led us to notice more particularly the pamphlet before us. And We would urge it On the at tention of our friends to recommend emigrants to the office of the government agent, where they are sure of protect ion. There are several cases for trial.at the en- suing as•ize.s connected with this question, which will afford the public the opportunity of judging more cur• redly of the character of the pretensions put furth in the pamphlet under notice-, THE ANTI- SPOTTISWOODE CONSPIRACY.—A public meeting of the reformers was announced for Monday last, at the house of Mr. Eastwood, the Royal Hotel. Several resolutions were to be submitted, pledging the society to use every etfott to defeat the Spottiswoode gang in the attempts to destroy the freedom of election in Ireland. W have searched the columns of the .Tele graph, but cannot find any report of the proceedings at this important Meeting. At the hour appointed for the' meeting, the only members present were Mr. H. T. At kinson, and two other miserable hacks in the employ of the. Reform Association. No bnsiness of course could be transacted—no resolutions could be adopted,and no sub scriptions could be obtained. nos the farce terminated, and the three worthies, something after the fashion of the three tailors in Toolev street, retired to the tap to refresh themselves with a pot of heavy wet. Tit a QUEEN,—Mr. Lacey is requested by Mr. Moor, the publisher of C halon'S' forthcoming state portrait of her Majesty; to annotim:e that in conformity with the prospe;tus, the price of the engraving %%ill be raised from £3. 3u. to £4, 4s. Proofs in perspective —to all whose names are not in the subscription befHce the first of Mitrch next. The etching may be seen and subscribers names entered at Mr. Lacey's, 64, Bold-street. The Directors of the Chewer and Birken head Railway are about to form cont arts fur the making of two miles and thirty t .chains of the line, extending from Birkenhead to New Ferry. and for three miles and thirty-six chains, extending from NewFeery to Eas!ham. DRAWING AN INFERLINCE,—The proprietor of an immense nonaser of naterside carts, in Liverpool, who has raised himself by industry, to be a ipsyt of consnletable property, being in close conversation with a gentleman about some private busi ness, was asked by the gentleman if he could draw an infer enve. " Not said tii, "but I lomeht a bay mare the other day, and I'll lay a five pound putg ticui4 dig dratvo it, it if does nOt weigh VILJUS Viel7llol7 kWh" 114 P, LIVERPOOL STANDARD MR. GEORGE HOLDEN'S CONCERT. _ attended with great advantages; it would show the gallantry of the bridegroom and the taste of the bride. Mr. Winstan• On Tuesday evening last, this concert, which has been for lev then proceeded to show th e various styles of painting from sonic time announced to the public, took place at the Theatre ' the twelfth century to th e present time, amongst a very valuable Royal. We have rarely attended a concert more bi illiantly at- and choke collection of old paintings. whit h /were hung in the tea;led or which gave greater satisfaction. If we may forth any !rehire-room. lie also showed some specimens of illuminated opinion from the cruelty of the audience in encoring almost missals, showing the gorgeous style in which the Itontan•missal every piece, we should say it was much delighted. Every part was formerly got up. In conclusion, he said, he should be am of the house was quite full, and the boxes were lined with m a ny I ply re p a id if he had awakened any interest in the fine arts. at the prin c ipal families of the town. The Mayor also, accam- He sat down amidst loud applause. panted by a large party of fi iends, honoured the performance 'the PaEstnENT said they owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. in to his presence. The concert opened with a grcind symphony Winstanley for the instruction he h a d afforded them. Ile an in C, from Beethoven, which went toff rather tamely. The ticipated great public benefit from essays of this kind. He myliony, though distinguished by a cantinuaus succession of trusted that the soirees had d o ne away with the feeling which sweet melodies, has in it few striking, passages. The piece hail formerly existed ayainst the Royal Institution and that a which succeeded, a madrigal by Benet, quite enchanted the has now no longer a kind of terra incognita. He believed that audience, and put it into a good humour for the evening. The previously to the introduction of these soirees 99 out of 100 per chorus singers of Liverpool, under the able superintendence of sons did not know what the institution contained, and were George Holden, have fang been noted. In the present totally ignorant of its various rich stores of information. He piece, the effect which they produced by their great precision as hoped that parents would send their children to avail themselves to time, and the beautiful chords they struck, was charming,. of the varimis specimens of art which the institution contained The lines and thus cherish the rising spark of genius. After the mental recreation which they had haul Dr. Reynolds proposed - to give them a little bodily excitement, and galvanize any who wished it, gratis. It was a most delightful sensation, to those who liked it; for his own part h e did not. (A l augh.) Du. It Kyrvoins then proceeded to explain the mode afcharg ing and the action of the galvanic battery. A new kind of the galvanic apparatus had been invented which was much superior to the old one. The galvanic fluid, in the old appa ratus. became exhausted after the battery hail been charged about four hours from the action of the acid dissolving the zinc plates and depositing the zinc upon the surface of the copper plates, and thus rendering them in eff,ct, also, zinc. In the new battery this was avoided. A number of distinct troughs of copper were made, and then charged with acid, in these were placed bags made of skin, which were charged, also, with acid..and in these hags were placed bars of zinc; thus. the zinc, and the copper had each a distinct, and separate, finid of their own. The galvanic current was then united at the top. This kind of battery would continue in full force till the acid was quite exhausted. He then threw a current of the galvanic fluid from this battery into a bottle of water, the water in which. MIS thereby decomposed intuits elements, oxygen, and hydrogen gas. This gas, when collected, and forced through a small tube, on a light being applied to it, produced a most brilliant light. and a very intense heat. A project had been mooted of applying this mode .of heat to steam boilers to generate steam. He little doubted it would be found to succeed ; anti if applied to marine boilers would do away with the necessity ofcarrying Net All that would be necessary, would be a proper galvanic. bat tery of sufficient power, and a few battles of acid; the sea wa ter would supply the fuel. He exhibited a number of other interesting experiments; after which, the company took tea and coffee, at the different refreshment rooms promenading wcys resumed till ten o'clock. when the assemblage began to dis perse, apparently highly delighted with the evening's entertain ment. " With sug'red doses among these roses, Fa la la la, fa la la la, was given with strikingly beautiful effect. The next piece, a recitative and aria, by Mozart, from the opera of 'The Mar riage of Fig:n.o," introduced Miss Bruce. This lady possesses a voice of great sweetness, but not of much power, and she is' greatly deficient in articulation. It is rarely that we ever ad. mired an titian song when sung by an Englishwoman; it is out t.f their proper province, and their voices ill accord with the style of music, winch is better adapted to brilliant vivacity of style and manner and the shriller voice of the Italians. This piece passed off rathet tamely Mr. Machin next was intro duced, and sang a scena, "The Battle of Hohenlinden," by C. Smith. It is almost unnecessary to add our lured of approba tion to the lung list of aomirers of Mr. Machin's singing. He is possessed of a splendid bass voice, which be knows well how to use. lie is rising rapidly in reputation, and bids fair to ap proach die pinnacle of the vocalists of the kingdom. He sung. this scena splendidly, At the commencement of the second verse j ''l3ut 'Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Conittiecicing, files of death to light The diki•kness of her scenery !" The effect he produced was quite thrilling; and at the conclusion, "And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre!" he gave one of those splendid deep bass perorations for which he is distinguished, and left the stage amidst tumultuous applause: Mrs. Allred Shaw then appeared, - and sung a Recitative rd Aria, by llussiui , front the opera of "Italiana in Algeiri." Site sang it very sweetly, and her peculiar toned voice contrasted well anti Miss Bruce's. Her articulation was beautifully distinct Then billowed a &tett° from Hossini's opera of •` 11 Barbiere di Siviglia," by Mr. Machin and Miss Bruce, which was spirit edly and well sung, and met with an encore. Miss Ponce im proved upon the audience touch in this piece. The next was a song by Mr. Walton, "Love unperceived, with cautious art, Steals seductive o'er the heart— Hangs on the sense with witching wiles, - Deluding most, when most he smiles. Then who would love?" This pretty simple melody, he sang with great sweetness. It is well fitted to Mr. Walton's voice, which is a tenor of much sweetness, but not of great power. He was encored; and limn this time, the audience, which appeared to have been growing warm in musical enthusiasm, iu spite of the cold thea tre, would not suffer a song to pass without an encore. The next piece was a trio by Cimarosa, from " 11 matrimonio segrettie, which was to introduce Mrs. Hiles, along with Miss Bruce, and Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Tkat lady, however, we understand, owing a domestic afflictilllWKOlot. attend, and her place was sup siiikarsAirand. 7Thlsiffrce passed off very well, but Mrs. rei'vous. Mr. Machin, next sang a beautiful ballad PHRENOLOGY, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STRND✓IRD. Sta,—l shall now endeavour to answer the principal objec tions brought forward by my opponent, and, in doing so, as his " facts" are derived (properly enough) from the experiments of others, any severity of remark 1 may think tit to use cannot, and is not intended to be personal to himself. The first objec tion is to inv physiognomical mode of proving phrenology; and it is asserted, that phrenology and craniology are used synony mously by writers on the subject. If he had said by writers against the subject, who are ignorant of its very elemen's, he would have been correct. Phrenology means a discourse upon the mind; craniology a discourse upon the skull; and although it was through the physiognomy of the skull that phrenology was discovered, yet the metaphysical knowledge of the constitution of our minds is perfectly independent "of craniology, and nut only professes to he the only true" mental science," but what is strange, this the very corner stone of the building is seldom attacked, or attacked by those who know so little of the subject as to confound phrenology with craniology, and to ask, with great simplicity, why phrenologists do not call judgment a pri mitive faculty e The qu-stions as to the effect of size and quality are set at rest by such parts of my lectures as you have .found room for; and Ilse argument, that the convolutions at the base of the skull, which, during life, we cannot examine, may develope fa culties opposed to those manifested by organs which w e can ex amine, affects not phrenology.' Craniology is of course imper fect, and will remain so, as tong as the office of any one part of the brain snail remain unknown; and although we cannot ma ntpulate the bottom of the brain during life, yet post modem examination s , particularly of diseased functions, not attribut able to any known organ, will, I doubt not, eventually fill up the chasm at present existing; but be it remembered, that the seourate kn we function of each known pint of the brain is " positive and not relative;" - and the discovery of an antago nizit4,, power to any one faculty would no more affect the exact natute and value of the known faculty than the discovery of a new island in :he southern part of the globe, peopled by a new race, would alter the character and number of the individuals inhabiting a place called " England," the effect would be, to add a new fact to geography, and to render the "science of sta tistics" still more " unceitaio" than it is at present; but I doubt whether this new discovery would (as my critic assumes) destroy the `• science of statistics" or geography altogether. I still should call them " sciences," although he would not; be cause, he says. that the weaning of the word sei-nce implies a "find understanding of the a hole subject about which it treats," and gives an example from mathematics, which is no example at all, and would not affect the'aigunient if it were. But, ac cording, to him, mathematics can be noscience, because we can not, as yet, square the circle: chetnistry is no science, because ►;e are ignorant of some of the laws which regulate natural com binations; and geography is nn worthy of the name, because it hat h not yet mapped out the mountains of the moon, or given a description of the subterranean caves which vomit forth their ht, " She wore a wreath of roses the night that first we met." which he sang exquisitely, and met with a rapturous encore. Mr. Brown next appeared, and played a grand fantasia on the flute, introducing the Irish air •‘ Savournee❑ Deelish." His execution, and modulation of tone on this sweet instrument, was splendid ; the audience was quite delighted. The next piece in. itoduced the audience to a new, and very beautiful itis,rument, the cornet a piston, which has lately been invented, possessing a very beautifully modulated mellow tone, very similar to the French horn, which was played by Mr. Thompson, as an ac companiment to Mrs. A►fred Shaw, in the beautitul ballad commencing " The light of other days is faded, Anti all their glory's past-" This was enchantingly sung, and the instrumental accomPani went was listened to with breathless attention. We have no iioubt, that when this beautiful instrument heroines more khown, that it will get into very general use. Without the difficulty of Producing, a tone, which is the great draw back on the bugle, it possesses all its capabilities with a lintel) softer, and mellower tone, and is a delighttul accompaniment to the piano forte. A few of I lieu; are to be seen at the music shops, at Mr. Thomp son's, in London-road, and Mr. Smith's, iu Lord-sheet, &c. A march and chorus, hem Beethoven, concluded the first part. The second part opined w i th a gran d overture from '`Zamba," b% Herold Miss Bince then exquisitely sang an Irish ballad, " Kate Kearney," in which she was enciiicd. In the ballads, anti pieces ali ch h.litosed, the most deserving of notice, was a Scotch air, by Mrs. Alfred Shaw, " Saw ye Johnnie oinin'," which was sung with much taste, though she cannot sing . with a Scotch accent. Wiinst speaking of these ballads, ang the evident satisfaction, and pleasure which they gave to all, we cannot but regret that a vile fashion wid stick into the hands of our English sweet iingstresses anytt lug but their native bal lads, in %%Inch only, they naturalty, as %veil as really excel. We think the pleasure of heating an Dalian fine piece of music is, with the greatest majority at least, fully countethallanced by being deprived of its proper f , ccompaninient of ex piessiiin, and feeling. A number of Italian liars , often barbarously pro nounced, and at best, understood but by a tithe of the audience, and that imperfectly, add neither expression nor feeling to the music, which is lett for effect tin its own unaided powers. We imagine this is a part of that wretched taste, which, formerly, was almost universal, but which, we trust. is DOW dying a way, of admiring everything but what was En s ,/i.ch, and despising every thing that was so. In conclusion, we can only add, Iliat the coneeit passed off extremely well, and appeared to give great, and general satisfaction. contents through the volcano's mouth. 114 opponent asserts, 1 hat "if the mind of a cobbler were so directed, it is capable of attaining as much perfection in fiddling as cobbling." I might well leave so absurd a proposit inn to the universal ridicule every man's own personal experience will attach to it. I will only ask him, if every good cobbler could make an equally good lock ? The assertion merits no answer; and as (his is almost the only metaphysical . objection to the " plurality of our primitive powers," 1 refer to my lectures for the positive proof's of their existence. He says, that a Turk's head is round, therefore a "'l'urk's character should lie perfect." Now, it so happens that a To; k's head is nut a sphere, but very nearly a hemisphere. His "there fore," then, is a nun sequitur. But a craniologist would tell you, that such a head would evidence a very large preponder ance of the animal passions, and knowing faculties, great firm ness and veneration, with small benevolence and teflective powers. Perhaps some of your readers will tell me if the 'lurks are such people. TIIIHD SOIREE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. The third of these delightful and rational assemblages was held on Wednesday evening last It has been our pleasing task on the uccat,ious of the former ics, to speak lavourablv of them, we feel it doubly incumbent upon us so to notice the one held on Wednesday evening last; for a 'mire brilliant, crowded, and fashionable assemblage, and a scene of more complete and tat must enjoyment we have rarely witnessed. The rub de was in eveay respect superior to those which have preceded it; and that degree of tameness and approach to ennui which, la a slight degree, was perceptible in, t he last. was no where to be found in the present one. We have heard much of " the Lancashire Wittlies"—perhaps more than we have seen of them; the soirée of Wednesday evening, however, has convolved us that this title of the lair daughters of Lancashire has not taken its rise in poetic fancy only; fur never did we behold of lovelyand st n r b u e n ,, r • e itTl u ri s tig a( faces. ()iiu c e i at i; a a proverb not the less true for being somewhat musty ; and the committee have evidently proilites much by the experience they have oh tained from the former soirees.. The principal entrance and the In Dr..ll.:slam's case, phrenology meets with unexpected support, lithe critic will look at the Spot in the brain so loose ly described, he will find it marked No. 12. Her cautiousness, then, and not her secretiveness, her fears and not her cunning, wou ld be,mocbidly aroused. She would, under such an affec tion, "he continually ten rifled ;" and as her madness was occa slimed " by religious enthusiasm," her eternal salvation would be the subject or her terms. Really all the arguments as such, support of the •' unity of the mind and the unity of the brain," are so futile, that I shall conclude this part of my subject by asking him to account upon his theory for a differen ce o f c h arac . ter whatever, and then I shall be " satisfied." But w hil st neither he nor any one but a phrenologist car. tell how it hap pens, that in two given men, the one shall hare strong int e ll ec t and weak passions, the other weak intellect and strong p ass i ons; or , if he will enable us, by any known docti life, to understand " M o nomania," how the mind shall be diseased upon one poi n t and healthy upon 01l others; why then 1 will acknowle d ge, that ay-now.eG he places hiniself in a position which gives him some small in sight into human character; at present it is to him a sealed book. One remark more. Phrenology is not answerable for the blunders of soi-disant professors. if a man choose to volunteer an absurd theory of Thurtell's motives in murdering Weare, phrenology is as little affected thereby as is religion,. because there are mituy stupid professors of religion, and much false doctrine. Space will not allow me to examine the measurements of M r. S co tt. Their value, and the force of the inferences dedu ced flout them, may be estimated from one. Ile measures the amount of brain in front, by ascertaining the distance from the opening of the ear on one side to the middle of the forehead over the opposite eye. Now, it is evident, that this distance may be great, either because the forehead is prominent, or because the head is wide at the ears, and the difference will be merely, that, in one case, intellectual power, in the other, animal pro pe.. u .ties will be develosped ; b u t th is i s a sma ll matte r t o Your thoi oughgoing anti phrenologist —ex uno disce ()miles. 1 11 l ily next, which will be my last, I witl show some of the absurdities into which Mr. Flourens and his disciples have fallen.-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, 1. Q. MT.:MALL. [We shall await Mr. Rumbairs second letter, and may then, if we e occasion, offer soave concloding rema. ks. Perhaps. iu strictness, according to the rules observed in discussions, w e ought not to avail out selves of a reply upon a reply; but really there is links to reply to. We way safely refer our readers back to the articles w v have written. in answer to Mr. Rutnball as a full and sufficient answer to the present letter.' _ . pass lees leading to the lecture room, were reliev e d f rom the i r Former sombre appearance, by a brilliant light thrown through stained glass placed over the statue. The museum was enriched by numerous accessions; the most rematkabie and curious of which were a- number of royal autographs. flour the tone of Henry VIII. down to that of William 1 V., includlng also the autographs of many of the Fiench reigning familie- during the last two centuries, each autograph &raving a small engraved likeness of the patty attached to it. The whole formed a very curious and valuable col.ection. Suave of the nines beating royal signatures, were very amusing. On another stand was exhibited the jaw of a shark of immense size, finely preserved; and near it a silver amulet, of most curious workmanship, in which was enclosed a complete copy of time Koran. A number of beautiful Mosaic.paintiag,s were also hung about. The room upstairs was rendered tnore attractive by a large collection V very splendid etchings, from many of the standard pictures of the best masters. Another very rTleasing improvement consist ed in the swelling notes of a Seraphine, placed at the top of the staircase, and which was played during the greater part of the evening. Wm. Wallace Currie, Esq. acted as piesideitt of the evening. The , Alayor, accompanied by a large party, honoured the soiree with his presence ; and a number of that august body, the Liverpool Town Council, were to be observed here and there. As eight o'clock arrived the company began to pour down to the lecture-room, which was, with the exception of a few seats in the gallery, soon tilted in every part. The Pak:sink:NT in opening the philosophical part of the evening's entertainment, said lie should nut be guilty of the bad taste of describing the advantages of these soirees after what his predecessors had stated, hot snouid at once introduce Mr. Winstanley to them, who would read to them the essa), for the evening, on the advantages of the cultivation of the hike arts." Ink was a subject to which Mr. Wiustanley had de voted a great portion of his life, and in which he had attained considerable proficiency and a highly cultivated taste (ap plause.) . . . . _ On Sunday, the 11th instant, a cdlection was made in St. Mark's Church. without any previous notice having been given, when the sum of £l2 was collected on behalf of our suffering poor, which is in rouse of distribution in coals, potatoes, and bread. Mr. WUNSTANLEY said in bringing forward the present paper, it was °My his wish to make himself useful, and not from any feeling of vanity. lie had watched the ttse anti pro ofthe r.tts in Lives pool fur the last quarter of a century, and he was happy to say that they were now mote prospering than they ever were. This was a sign of the advancing refinement of the town. The refinement of the people had ever kept pace with the progress of the arts. Ile was convinced that the apathy which was generally found to exist inwards the hue :tits, was to he traced to a want of knowledge of the history of painting; and he was sure that any one who would sit down for a lew hours to study the art, would feel delighted on rising, to find that he had obtained a knowledge of what were the beau ties of paintings, and at being able to distinguish a fine paint ing from the spurious productions often placed before the pub lic. From the earliest ages of mankind the arts had been pro minent in the prionOtion of religion and morality. Could any one view the terrific painting of " The Last Judgement," by the divine Angelo, without being convinced of its powerfut effects on the human mind. Nor was it possible to be blind to its effects in producing morality by setting, forth the evils of vice, nor of its influence on the affections, by handing down the likeness of a parent or a child. The nits were of no parts*: they were like the glorious silo of heaven, which d , ffused its ligfit over al. Ile should cammence from the revival of paint ing in Italy—but first h e would explain what was meant by the revival of painting—On the it cline of the early powets of G reece anti Route , the arts tlet lined also. Antiquarians, how ever, were of opinion that the art of painting was never lost; that the light of time art was never wholly extinguished during centuries of. dat kness and obscurity, but emitted a feeble ray. About the sixth century the mosaic style of painting came into vogue. There were to this day, in many parts of Italy, paintings of the Madonas of a very early day, some of %%Inch were said to possess miraculous power. The principal artists of that day were the Greeks. Several of the paintings, to ehich noracn lons power was attributed, were said to be painted by St. Luke the Evangelist ; but thfs was incorrect, as they were known to be the paintings of an artist of the. 10th century named Lures, wbo, being of a devout turn of mind, became a monk. and died in the odour of sanctity, and his works are touch sought after. So late as the twelfth century, the Greek aitists, assisted by those it ltu v , continued to ornament our chuiches with mosaic work. Soon after this period, the Italians emancipated theinselc es loon the hard dry style of the Greek painters, and that has been termed the revival of the arts in Italy. From this period, the graceful flowit , outline of the Italian , cloo!I began to be introduced. Mr. *instanley then ti aced the progress of the art. step by step, from this its early infancy down to its present fulness of power. Many of the early paintings were of.peculiar shapes, which it was difficult to account for, excepting from the fact of their being given as pre sents at marriages. Some of the old paintings cure marks of ha viog been nailed to caskets. This custom arose amongst the Greeks, and was followed even now in Switzerland; and were such a custom prevalent in England at this 'time, it would be Sam Scott, the celebrated American juniper, has now made a most extraordinary jump from the house of Mr. Jones, at Wan ington, viz.—to the tread-mill, at Kim kdale. The Liverpool Anti -Slavery Society have determined to pub- Mt- Blackburn's speech on the apprenticeship sy stein in the form of a pamphlet, together with an of Lial report of the speeches delivered at the anti-slavery meeting held on the 19th and thh December.—[ We hope that in so doing the Anti. Slavery S oc i ety w ill have the h onesty to acknowledge its gations to the Liverpool Standard, that being the only news paper in which anything like a correct and full report of auy of the speeches have appeared.] MELANCHOLY EVENT —On Wednesday la=t, Mr. Dowling, the active commissioner of police, was 'trived to by Mi. Green shield, merchant of this town, to take means for securing a young Mall employed in his other, who was labouring under symptoms of insanity, and who, he was afraid, would be injur ing some person pr other. The day before he had taken a loaded pist o l hum hi m, an d h e h a d reason to believe. that he still had possession of tire-arms. Ile had threatened to do him an injury, and his medical man had pronounced the unfortunate Noting Man to be quite insane, and that it was not sate he should be at large. Upon this representation, Mr. Dowling went himself to seek out the young man, and discovered him in a state of great excitement, parading up and down the Exchange News.room,. with his hat compressed Hat into the shape of a cocked hat, and creating witch alarm by his excited and wild appearance. Mr. Dowling succeeded in persuading him, by quietly talking to him, that be had some impoitant communication to make to him, if he would step into his office. Mr. Dowling then told him, that he was given to understand, that he had tire-arms in his possession, and wished him to give them up. The young man sail, Mr. Dowling had no authority to require them from him, and he would not give them up; and that it they were taken from him, it must be by' force. Mr. Dowling then told him, that if he did not give them up, he must use (twee. The Young man then said, he had a pistol, and Mr. Dowling should have the contents of it.; Mr Dowling immediately seized him by one atm, whilst Ainsworth, the officer, sprang behind him, and seized his other hand as he was drawing it out of his pocket., In this hand he had a small double-barrelled pistol, which was cricked, and was found to be rapped and loaded. Aker this had been taken from him, he became very violent, rod it required great 101(.0 to hold him. It was afterwards found necessary to chain him, until the arrival of proper persons to take charge of him ; lint he was so violent that he broke the chain, and tore every thing. loose. In a short time, Dr. Squires arrived, and had him convene Ito the asylum. Ile is described as being an ex ceediugly fine and powerful soling man; and it is believed that a disappointment o f a t en d er ua t ure has driven him into his present melancholy slate. POLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE. AFFRAY IN a Pust.ic-tiousa.—On Tuesday two men of colour. named Wilson and Sewell, were charged before the mar gistrates with having violently assaulted a seaman whose name did not transpire. Wilson, who is an elderly man, keeps a pars lie house or beer-shop somewhere about the docks; and zewllll. a stout, muscular young " nigger," with a forbidding and somewhat ferocious expression of countenance, is an inmate of the house, and arts, it was said, as champion for his elderly friend in cases of emergency. The complainant, whose head was bound up with a handkerchief, stated that on Monday night he went into Wilson's house, where he sat down, and got a pipe of tobacco. Wnile sitting quietly, Sewell came forward, and, without provocation, struck him tin the bead, or. which he inflicted several wonnds. A witness deposed that on g oing up the sheet, where Wil son ' s h ouse i s s i tuate d , h e heard a noise, and his shipmate's voice calling out for help, lie shoved the door open, and saw Sewell strike the complainant, and knock him down ; afterwards Wilson held him down and struck him. Witness then made a " bolt" thiough the door, and " hauled" his companion out. A shirt of the complainant's was here pro duced, which was stained in different places with blood. Sewell, in defence, entered into a minute detail of the whole circum stances, from which it appeared that there had been previously three other men along.with the complainant, who had raised a row in the house, and assaulted Wilson t and on his (Sewell's) attempting to defend him, they aimed a blow at his side with a knife, which he parried with his arm, in which he received a severe cut. (Sewell was here tequireil to show the cut in his arm, which be did.) The men afterwards broke the d ior, and then departed, leaving the complainant alone. In answer to Mr. Hall, the witness for the complainant said that when he went to the house three men came running, out ; he could not tell who they were, but when he entered the house he saw Wil son and a woman striking the prisoner. Wilson gave similar evidence to Sewell. Mr. Hall conceived that the statement of Sewell and Wilson was confirmed by the admission of the com plainant's witness, as well as by the injury which Sewell ha sustained in his arm, and said, before the magistrates could punish the prisoners, they must be perfectly satisfied as to the previous conduct of the complainant. Under the circumstances the prisoners must be discharged. STEALING BOOKS I , l{olll A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Tues day, an old off en d er , name d J o h n W orthington. was placed at the bar of the Police -court, to answer to a charge of having. stolen a parcel containing books to the value of 355. from one of the railway carriages. Richard Rooney stated that he was a canvasser for periodical publications, and resided in Liver street, Manchester. On Thursday afternoon he Caine by one of the railway trains to Liverpool. He had a parcel of books and specimens which he placed in the carriage beside him. There were two other men in the carriage, one of them was muffled up. He had occasion to alight at Park-gate, and be fore he could get back the train had started for Liverpool. When he arrived by the next conveyance, he went to the Rail way-offie, but was there informed that no parcel such as he de scribed had come forward. lie could not say that the prisoner stole it. One of the officers stated that he saw the prisoner crossing from Lord-street to 'Whitechapel with the parcel of books produced. and on asking how he hail come by them, was informed by the prisoner that he hail purchased them from a bookseller at Rainhdl. The officer told him there was no book seller at Rainhill, arid took him into custody. The books weie then taken to the prosecutor's lodgings. who named them all before he had seen the parcel opened. The prisoner, in answer to Mr. Hall, said he had found the parcel by the side of a hedge at Rainhill. 'He was committed for trial. EXCISE INFORMATION. —On Tuesday, John Stirling, conk on hoard the John Moirin. from St. John's, N. 8., appeared be fore the magistrates to answer to an inform..ition eh asg .i ng him with having smuggled 45Ibs, of manufactured tobacco Mr. Stokes, acting tide-waiter to the Customs, deposed to having searched the vessel on the 3 , 1 instant, and found (be tobacco iu question stowed in the coal-hole. On the sth instant the pri soner gave himself up. In order to meet die penalty he had placed about £l6 of his wages in the hands of the captain's brother; but Mr. Hall told him that the in 'gist rates had no dis cretionary power: they must inflict the full penalty of MO, or six months' imprisonment. Takiug into consideration, how ever, that he had given himself up, and that he had a wife and family, they might make a representation to the Board in his favour. The captain was then ordered to give up the money in his hands, and the prisoner's clothes, to Mr. Dowling, to be taken care of. • RonnEßY.—Yesterday, an abandoned female, named Moore, was brought before the inagivrate along with two other females, charged with having robbed a man of his watch the night be fore. The complainant, an artizan, stated that on Wednesday evening he met the three prisoners, and stood talking with the prisoner Moore, for a short time, when he discovered that she had picked his pocket of his watch. The other two prisoners were standing near at the time. lie immediately called a po liceman. and gave the whole of them in charge. As there was no evidence implicating• any of the prisoners but Moore, the others were discharged. Moore was committed for three mouths to Kirkdale. to the treadinill. JOKE AND NO JOKE.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a lad employed in a t o in this town, was placed before the ma gistrates, charged with knocking at the Borough Jail door, and running away. An officer deposed that he was on duty near the Borou:41)Jail about one o'clock that morning, us hen be saw tho prisoner knock at the Borough Jail door, and run away, ' • and he in consequence took him into custody. A person from the Jail stated that it was a very common practice for people to knock at the Jait door at one or two o'clock in the morning, and when he had g d up and cone to see what was the matter he found no person there. The prisoner said that he and some others were going home from their work, and were larkiny, and they thought it would be a fine lark to ran tan at the Jail door, and knock up the Jailer. Mr. Ball said he should fine him ''' and rusts, or send him for seven days to the place he had beet) so anxious to get admittance into. MARKET WOMEN'S SQUABBLIKS.—ScarceIy a day passes but some of the holders of stalls in the different markets are sum m i ning some of their neighbouting stall-keepers before the magistrates for assaults: all the parties are invariably women. We know not how this can be explained, unless we resort to the phrenological theory, which will perhaps tell us, that the belligerents have all the combative organ very fully developed; ergo, wherever the organ of combativeness is largely developed, it follows, phrenologically, that the individual possessing the unfortunate protuberance is a market woman. Leaving, how ever, that philosophical disquisition to the pro and anti phrenolo gists profoundly to determine upon, we proceed to th e particular and individual troubles o f Mrs. Biddy Cairns and Mts. Tabilha Fowell, of l'ownall-square market. Mrs Biddy Cairns is a fat and short little woman, of that description .termed "(lumpy;" and were it nut for the pouting lip she had, and the tear which glistened on her smooth, round cheek, she would have present ed the appearance of those good•humoured and jolly personages who belong to the "laugh and grow fat" genus. Her daily and scentimental occupation, as she nerself set forth, is to anew' at an oyster-stall. Mrs. Talotha Fowell, on the contrary, who ap peared as the defendant, like her namesake, Mrs. Tatotha Bram ble, of hon, repute, was of tall, thin, bony, spare, vinegar, brain lale-bushy app earance, d eeply pitted also with the small pox, increasing the overwhelming amount of her charms. Mrs Bud dy Cairns, after pathetically wiping her eye with the corner of a very much soiled white apron, dropped a courtesy to the Ma gistrate, and proceeded to state her heavy grievances. " That person's servant, sir, came to me to ax me to lend her the luau of a stool, sir, as Mrs. Fowell. she said, had a pertickler wish to sit down as she was a heating. Well, sir, I lent her a stool, for to heat herdinner upon —this was on the Friday, you mind, in Pownall-square market ; and you se e , I' ve hinny been lately in that market."—Mr. Hal: " Never mind how long you have been there, I don't want to know; tell me the assault."—Mrs. Biddy : " Well ; about seven o'clock I went back for the stool; she keeps a stand a good way off me. When 1 went she was not at her stand, but as I was coming away, she came and says to me, Why have you been at my standiug?—you had no right to forth the stool;' and then she called ate such names!" Hall: " What did she do? I want to come at that; never mind the names."—Mistress Biddy: " She (-ailed me very bad names; shocking names Mr. Hall: "'That is doing nothing."—Mistress Biddy: " Well, she tuk my oysters out of my basket and threw 'em at toe, and cut my face with 'em."— She called a witness, who gave similar testimony. Mrs. Tabi tha was then called on for her defence. She said, " A lady— Mrs. Hemingway. came to me and said ' Wtll you take care of my stool?' which I did, and it is not that person's (complain ant's stool at all; and alien she took it away, I went to her and said, by Mrs. Hemingway's borders, will you give me that stool ?' when she called the everything amiss, and said I was over kind with m a rried, and I' ve been '2,i years a widdy, the monster ! So, I said to her, Did you Never se me done anything amiss to the valeation of a hoyster?' taking one out of her basket; and she said she did;' when I put the holster dot‘n again on the basket aud•it fell on the floor, can you deny it hussy ?" (looking flints and hand saws at the complainant.) Another market woman named Robinson. here stood up in the witness box to give evidence on behalf of the defendant. She said —" I stand right hopposite and seed the quarrel; and because Mrs. Fow,ll would not give her the table, she called her every thing that Was bad. As for Mrs. Cairns, she is a very little ill-natured, begrudging woman; she's olers a quarrelling Wit h one or other. I don't know that iher's a hiller natred woman in the hole market ; she's con ' ineally a brewing some mischiet " Mistress Cairns, on hear ing this dreadful accusation, elevated her eves, "as ducks are won't to do in thunder," and slowly aml impressively ejacu lated "Oh, mi!" Mr. Hall said the nest time he heard of any . squabbling of this kind going on in the market. he should sent for Mr. Graham the inspector, and arrive at the truth, and pun ish those who deserved it. At present there were witnesses on each side tendering opposite evidence, and there was no arriving at the truth. Complaint discharged. TUE ROTAL AMPHITHEATRE.-111r. Bates, the spirited manager of this !twilit?, takes his benefit on Monday night. The bills announce great attractions for the evening. 'lhete is little doubt but that he will obtain a bumper. THE LIVER THSATRE. — Attractive novelties continue to be brought out at this agreeable little theatre. On Monday even ing, a new piece called " Rory O'More," is going to be broug , ,t out, Mr. Raymond playing the,part of Rory CI liore. In 'ere sentations of Irish character Mr. Raymund is iuferiour to no actor on the stage. Mr. JAMES licssEt.L.—Mr. Russell takes his benefit at the Theatre Royal, Matkhester, on Monday. His 'tory O'More is highly spoken of. CATHOLIC CHARITY BALL.--The annual ball in aid of the funds of the benevolent institution will take place on Monday evening nest. The arrangements are under the direction of a number of gentlemen, who will act as stewards, and we doubt not every thing will be conducted on the same liberal scale as heretofore. The refreshments will be provided 1)) Mr. Horne, assisted by Mr. Tyrrell, of Sutton, the gentlemen who catered so successfully for the Bachelors' Ball. We hope the attend ance will be such as to evince the zeal which the public of Li verpool feel in prosecuting any benevolent purpose. This in stitution has very powerful claims to the public patronage, and we hope the liberality of our townsmen will enable the commit tee to carry nut their plans of beneuolence by eulaiging their sphere of elution. HINTS Con PutvsTEus.—lf you can make a pun, you will pass fur a wit. A tew hints, therefore, on the part of punning may be acceptable. If <1 gentlemin meets your and in_ the course of conversation expresses his surprise how such a one gets his bread, say, you think he soineitnes procures it at the baker's and sometonei at the chandler's shop. If the same gentleman observes, he did not exactly mean that, but was anxious to know how the other lived, you can reply, " touch as usual—smuetitues a joint, sometimes a pudding." . hese smart rejoinders will stamp you at once a wit of the first water; but if any of your friends are so dull as nut to comprehend the force and brilliancy of your jokes, laugh yourself— the " cactiethrs ridendi" being contagious, you are sure to infect the toast in sensible. Never mind the bitter sa,casm of one Sainuei John son, LL.D. lie was very ignorant, a:though he did cJinptle a dictionary. Introduce a pun whenever you see an opportunity. Should you be wa.king with a very :Awl friend, tap him ou the shoulder, and say., " 8., you are a happy dug." lie demands the reason. " Zounds B. you never wear a great coat, or lie long in bed." You could not make a inure biilliant reply. Take care that pitus be well-tinted, and always at the expense of the aged and helpless. For instance. if an elderlyy. ;4entle man, travelling with you in the same stage, should express a desire to get out and sir, tell his legs when the coach changes horses, say, " For heaven's sake, don't, Sir, your legs are long enough!"— The Guide. Sir Francis and Lady Burdett gave a grand dinner on Satin% day evening to a numerous party of the nobility and gentry, to meet Mr. Charles Kean. The estimated cost of the twenty-seven railways no* in pro• gress in England and Wales is upwards of 1;22,0t/U,OUO sterling, NORTHERN 110sPITAL.—A meeting of the snbscribers and friends of this charity is announced to take place this evening at seven o'clock, at which the worshipful the Mayor will pre. , side, on which occasion we sincerely hope that our benevolent townsmen will attend, and liberally Contribute to the funds of one of the most valuable institutions of the town, The Lord Bishop of Lincoln has presented the sum of eight hundred pounds towards the erection and endowment of a new episcopal chapel in a part of the parish of Holbeach, considet• ably distant (ruin the church.— Lincolen MercUry. MonE A BsExcE or MIN n. —A Philadelphia journalist records that an old farmer who iesides in Toledo, United States, in the act of adding more fuel to his tire, actually put the chunk of of wood in his arm chair, and threw himself on the fire for a back li7. The timely at rival of his wife telieved him, but he came off minus his coat and pantaloons. HIGHLAND NOTION OF TOOTH-Bat7snEs.--A family in Edin' burgh, not keeping a footman, engaged a Highlander to serve them during a vi,it from a man of fashion. Dinner having awaited an unreasonable thne one day for the guest, Duncan was sent into his room to inform him that it was on the table. But he no: coming, Duncan was sent again still they watted i and the lady at last said to the man, " What can the gentle , man be doing ?" " Please ve, Madam," said Duncan, " the gentleman was only sharpening his teeth." COPENHAGEN. JAN. 22.—The ice now extends to Sweden, and is so strong that sledges arrived here some days ago from Hoeen. The soun lis entirely covered with ice, and the com , munization between Elsinore and Hoeen is said to be very active. Successive shocks of an earthquake have almost totally de• strayed the town of Acapulco, while the gorgeous city ofMexico itself was subjected to a violent and prolonged shOck; happily, however, in the latter instance no injury resulted. The details or the earthquake at Aclpulco are frightful. Repeated shock' of extreme violence and devastation have nearly reduced th 6 city to a mass of ruins.—Neto Orleans Bee. THE;Docrott.—A wag was rallying Dr. on his want of skit', which the doctor took lather gravely. "My patients never complain of me," he said, "That is exactly what I should have supposed," replied his tormentuf. A man much addicted to drinking, being extremely ill with a fever, a consultation was held in his bedchamber by three ph) , sicians, how to cure the fever, and abate the thirst. "Gentle , men," said be, " I will take half the trouble o•ff your hands; suit cure the fever, and I will abate the thirst mpsetf." The Ohio Nein; is acquainted with a man who is so muck emaciated, that he must be fattened in order to make_a good skeleton. Five children were poisoned, a few days ago, at Epinal, in the Vosges, in France, by sugar plums containing arsenic, which were given to them by a woman dressed as a peasant, who was a stranger to the place. She had taken her departure before the enormity Was discovered, but the ulcers of justice are in pursuit of her. OaTudGnArwc4r, EXERCISES.—A paper may be seen in the•vvindow of a tailor's shop in Lcigh•street, Burton -crescent. on which is written " Prizes of the beste materiels and sound wurkmanship with Inn." In Marrinuont-street, a window "sports" a bill, from which the following is correctly copied:— " Wanted a barrand boy and a plane cook alsue a shornun." BIHMINGAAM LIAR.—A gentleman told his friends that he was Mon in Birmingham, and though he loved the country, and respected its inhabitants, yet he must in justice decline, that all people born in that town, and its vicinity, were the greatest liars in the universe. " Then," says a gentleman present. "if you speak truth, you lie; and if you lie, you speak truth." A ovicit To LA DiEs.—Ladies, always delightful, and not the least so in their undress, are apt to deprive themselves of some of their best mornin g , beams by appeartng with their hair in papers. We give notice, that essayists, and, of course, all peo ple of taste, peeler a cap, if there must be any thing; but hair a million times over. To see grapes in paper bags is bad enough ; but the rich locks of a lady in papers, the roots of the hair twist• ed up like a iiruintner's, and the forehead staring bald instead of being gracefully tendrilled and shadowed!—it is a capital offence—a . defiance to the-love and a d m i rat i on o f t h e other sex —a provocative to a paper war; and we here accordingly de dare the said war on paper, not having any ladies at hand to carry it at once into their head quarters. We must allow, at the same time, tha: they ar e v e ry s hy o f b e i ng seen i n this con dition, knowing well enough how much of their strength, like Samp;on's, lies in that gifted ornament. We have known a whole parlour of them fluttered off, like a dove cJte, at the sight of a friend coming up the garden.—Leigh Hunt. Tua Fox kND.THE WlND.—There is one common error into which many persons who 'hunt fall. namely, that when a fox breaks cover, he Consults the wind as to his course. I was on. deceived on this point very early in life—the first year that I hunted in Leicestershire, indeed, which was that of 1802, by that renowned sportsman, the late Mr. Loraine Smith, the inti mate friend of Mr. Meynell. "We shill run to Enderby (his seat) to-day." said I to him. as the hounds were finding a fox in Glenn Gorse. " What makes von think so?" was his reply. "The wind sets that way," I said. " You are a young sports. man," resumed he; but when you base been at this work as long as I have, von will find that a fox never consults the wind. (unless it blows very strong. indeed, when he will not face it at all, if he can help it,) until he is hard pressed, when he will turn with it. In fact, whilst he is fresh, he prefers running against the wind to running with it, because he does hot hear the cry of the hounds so plain, which is evident from the fact, that the greater part of runs are up wind, or against a side. wind—those of the best description almost universally so."— Nimfod. REMARKABLE EARTHQUAKE 111 MEXlCo.—Extract of a letter dated Mexico, Nov. 27, 1837 :—" This City was visited, in the dead of the night, on the '23d inst. (eight minutes past twelve o'clock) with one of the most (heedful t , hock% of earth quake, for its force and duration, ever known ; it lasted four minutes and a half, and never was such terror and consterna tion exhibited by the inhabitants before, It was fully expected, that the whole city would have been destroyed, and the inhabi tants, 250,000 in number, have perished ; if it had lasted a minute and a half more, nothing could have saved us; but Providence ordained it otherwise, and thank God we were spared. I shall never forget it as long as I live. I had been in bed about an hour, when all at once I heard a noise as of the rushing of a short sea and a strong wind. I immediately rose up in may bed, and soon Ibund out what it was, as, in stepping ' out, the motion nearly upset me; the cracking of the walls, doors. windows—in fact, every thing—was awful; my shutters were forced open, and doors flew open and shut with a violence no one could resist. Such was myterror that I could notmove from the spot, and scarcely found sufficient strength to strike a light. The day I never expected to see ag ain, for evert momeet I thought would terminate my existanc e . ' The motion was slow; similar to th' waves of the sea, and we expected every Wise would fall. Taking place at such en hour made it still more dreadlul • every one was in confusi o n,— s hri e k s , groans. fain tings, and people running in all dir ec ti ons a l mos t in a state of nudity—it was truly awful, and God grant that we may never see the like again ! Much damage has been done, several houses in the suburbs have fallen. and we understand some lives are lost. Some houses in the city are so much shaken, that the thoroughfares have been closed, to prevent coaches, &. from passing, the motion of which would no doubt cause them to fall immediately. The Cathedral has been so cracked and damaged, that it is estimated that a suns of 12,000 dollars will be required to repair it. Indeed, people to the present day have scarcely recovered (ruin their fright." HAZLE DIVINING Ron.—The employment of the divining roil, when employed to discover ore or metal, was associated with many superstitious observances. The fact, however, of the discovery of water having been effected with it, when held in the hand of certain persons, seems indubitable. The follow. ing narrative. which has been lately communicated to us by a friend residing in Norfolk, puts the subject in the clearest point of view. And we shall simply state that the parties, whose names are well known to many of our readers, are utterly in. capable either of deceiving others or of being deceived them. selves :—" Jan. 21, 1818. It is just fifty years since Lady N.'s attention was first called to this subject; she was then sixteen Years old, and was on a visit with her family at a chateau in. Provence, the owner of which wanted to find a spring to supply his house, and for that purpose had sent for a peasant who could do so with a twig. The English party ridiculed the idea, but still agreed to accompany the man, who, after walking some way, pronounced t ha! he had arrived at the object of his search; anal they accordingly dug, and found him correct. He was quite an uneducated man, and could give no account of the faculty in hies, or of the means w h ic h h e employed ; but many others, he said, could do the same. The English party now tried for themselves, but all in vain, till it cause to the turn of Lady N., when, to her amazement and alarm, she found the same faculty was in her as in the peasant; and on het return to England she often exercised it, though in studious concealment. She was afraid lest she should be ridiculed, or perhaps get the name of a witch ; and in either case she thought that she should never get a husband. Of late )ears, her scruples began to wear away; and when Dr. Hutton published Ozanam's researches i n 180.3, where the effect of the divining rod is treated as absurd (vol. iv. p. 260,) she wrote a long letter to him, signed X Y Z., stating the facts which she knew. The doctor answered it, begging further information. Lady N. wrote again ; and he, in his second letter, requested the name of his correspondent t that Lady N. also gave. A few years afterwards she went at Dr. Hutton's particular request to see him at Woolwich, and she then showed him the experiment, and discovered a spring iu a field which he had lately • bought, near the new college, then building. The same field he has since sold to the college, and for a larger price, in consequence of the spring. Lady N. this morning showed the experiment to Lord G. Mr. and Ine, its the park at W. She took a thin finked hazel twig, about sixteen inches long, and held it by the end, the joint pointing downwards. When she came to a place where water was under ground, the twig immediately bent, and the motion was more or less rapid as she approached or µithdrew from the spring. When just over it, the twig turned so quick as to snap, breaking near her fingers, when by pi essing they were indented, and heated, and almost h;istered; a degree of agitation was also visible in her face. When she first made the experiment, she says this agitation was great; and to this hour she cannot *holly divest herself of it, though it gradually decreases._ She repeated the trial several times, in different parts of the pack; and her state- mews were always accurate. Among those persons in England who have the same faculty. she says she never knew it so strong as in Sir C. H. and Miss F. It is extraordinery that no effect is produced at a well or ditch, or where earth does not inter. pose between the twig and the water. The exercise of the ^ faculty is independt.ni of any volition." So far our narrator. in whom. we repeat, the most implicit confidence may be placed The faculty so inherent in certain persons is evidently the same with that of the Spanish Zplwires, though the latter do not employ the hazel twig.—Quarterly Bedew. META enoa..—lt is very generally supposed, but the supposi• tion is erroneous, that metaphor in the Eastern languages, where it still almonds, is owing to the glowing imaginations and hyperbolical and high !loon ideas incidental to a warm climate and luxurious customs To this source many have not scrupled to refer the noblest effusions of the sacred poets. No idea can be more wide of the ttuth—nor any one more calculated to darken and degrade the Scriptures. Metaphorical construction of language is a sign of antiquity, not of clime (witness the Celtic and other tongues); and the cause of so much metaphOr being still found in Eastern tongues, is because, in their coo• struction, as well as in many of their words, they retain a larity to the parent Stock from which all language sprung; and have not become such a combination of mere athitrary sounds, as those tongues which have descended to Mingle through the puddle of Greek and Roman Literature. Hence the exceeding beawv of the images in the Eastern tongues, borrowed from fl fiom hirdS, and other natural object?. The name of tbe object presented, portrayed, or re•erred to, is so full of mean. ing. that nhether it be actually brought into view, depicted, or alluded to, it is introduced with an effect which an European can have. with his mote matter-of-fact language, but a faint idea of. If an Eastern lover tell his passion, shat epistle so full of meaning, or so well understood l v his mistre ss , as a bouquet ? and how carefully are the flowers arranged so that they may be read alight! flore we have the beat fllitslration of hierogly, plticx ; and not a mere illusirati, but a stare of the lit imitivq connexi..n between language and natore, the wrecks of that speech in which God himself h e ld cu nyerea with rasa.—Mw sun's Hisuo y '' `;:,~,