The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

Who sell market for ( Good thi which be good this wished ; but to be admirec The stream new, and the of petty Qum becomes of small plpast —lf the prnetk s this dif side-saddl There is a thing often a often felt, but A good con , learns to look with notified in turnirg Spite creeps like a snak the sandbed of hypocrisy Worn a moms by basking in deadly wound at fair, Afternoon in con&.c The b iiece of silver will self more • . 1 horror, " Mother, the cart was in my dream too!" sod' rushing mit of the house and across the street, she bounded uP to the back of the vehicle, and before the men that accomPl' nied it could stop her, hhe had torn open the door of one of Pe patent funeral carriages. whe. ein, as if in mockery of lying -la : state, was stretched out the mutilated corpse of her father, He had been killed that evening with several other victims to railway mismanag ement, on a distant part of the line. ► A.,, I have no hart to paint the agony of the abrupt 'fflua d " hood, and the cries of orphanage,—the sleepless night—and e; solate morrow, and the increased struggle to live on that errsue upon the loss of a father. Enough for our purpose to state , had insured a moderate annuity for his widow for her life, is a well regulated society,—their rent was safe, because the boutse was their own, and the widow and orphans, instead of a hopele7 consignment to the Union, wrought on and kept their little. together. Their father's memory raised them fiends, which their own character retained, and his admirable example W as as much paternal to their virtues as to their being. at He left no will, but upwards of a year after his death, mother was refashioning his waistcoat into a shape to fit her eldest a .n, a little wad of red paper, scarcely the size of a Pea fell out of a small watch-pocket, and the boy ~ h a d unro lled it with feeling of almost solemn reverence for something w 1 been his father's. It was a second class railway insurance ticket, and worth FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. The money was paid. The magnanimous man, a leader o! the forlorn hope that scales the oft-impregnable redoubts of to il and poverty, planted the colours of his small but beroic class on the breach in which he fell, constituting his very death at antitype of the gallant life of sacrifice for others that precedel it, himself content to wear a martyr's crown, that they ini 111 g share the victory. After votes of thanks 'to the Lecturer and Chairman, the doxology was sung and the benediction pronounced, and the meeting separated, highly delighted with the interesting and instructive lecture to which they had listened with marke d attention throughout. GENERAL NEWS. MR. TEMPLETON, THE CELEBRATED TENOR.—Th e statement which has gone the round of the papers, tetha effect that Mr. Templeton was suffering from the effects of a paralytic shock, is without foundation. Mr. Lithgc.) l( has received a letter from Mr. Templeton requesting hi° to contradict the statement. Mr. Templeton never was in better health, and hopes to be able soon to pay Scotch friends a professional visit.—North British Mau' DEER-STALKING EXTRAORDINARY.—The most sac* cessful day's stalking which we remember either to hail , heard of, or to have seen recorded, was lately a^complishe a by Horatio Ross, Esq., of deer-stalking celebrity. Ile made four stalks on the open hill, armed with two double' barrelled rifles—a Pnrdie and a Lancaster. In the four stalks he got fourteen shots, and out of the fourteen shots he killed thirteen deer, eleven of them being shot through the heart.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. ATTEMPTING TO DESTROY A WILL.—OR Monde last, a gentleman named Pollard, who was inspecting a will at the Will-office, in the Minster Yard, York , attempted to destroy it by tearing it almost in two. It appeared that he was of unsound mind. He was give° into custody, but the charge against him was not pressed. A gentleman promised to see the prisoner conveyed to where he would be properly taken care of.—Leeds HOPE Like the dew upon the flow'r, And with sa It softens And brielit and tru Shines the star tt. As the plant upon t Th to the hare I As a sunbe hroug,l oves us best I our nature, ItainbO - w of a tinnier morrow. 'Tis a gem 'neath limpid spi Treruhlir Hope forsa Though e, wholly, never around depart e the spider, Webs that fate to Made, to he as so can impart ! VARIETIL talon if sorrow, buy his own at the same pr ate, makes a g to prosperity are to be )ng to adversity are fill the lake of happi of life is continuance of wearing men's apparel es, what is to become of the 1 with the lad we between hatred and pity : pity A, seldom felt ; hatred is a thing llou3 r torative: one soon le tutu when one can feel e to the past. >nt of the hedge of deceit, or d having fermented its ve- the s.O f prosperity, aims tt by a gent!eman. who, doesn't know what A. Lounger, Esq., Fop't Punch. An advertising chandler in a neighbouring town mo destly says, " that without intending any disparagement to the sun, he m,)y confitl , '- assert that his octagonal ipermaceties are the best 'r invented t" THE Pi have been tho with tights, and of the Great Exhibition, do with himself. Address, 1 earth tc s• alley suTo-BLOOMER.—Joan of Ar first BI may be said to wore i short tunic o also clad in mail attire ut Joan was emu: ers do not seem ti nothing very bewitching in their appearance.—Punch Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable con sciousness. A peasant has not a capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher. They maybe equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking-glass and a large one may be equally full, but the larger one holds more than the smaller When the domestic vi midst of privations, an" , Now, the Bloom nd at least there is anxiet drops and cr, frost-bound ay themselves in the s, and sufferings, thcn I, to d winter, and give us xpectedly peep out of the rie depth and dreariness of spring. FORTITUDE OF W women bear afilicti better than men, from the cau ful foretaste of the coining Perhaps one reason why s I believe they generally do— Ise they make no attempt to fly betake themselves patiently to .cy are to perform. It is i the oak ; they bend, and the old therefore however painful 11 t em of t 1 and then comes peace of mind, whic ABIBITIO Southey It is th the axi g force v Estingnished isvirtuon .t draw ,Ting, and !rresotutl with ans man revolving in ence is the attrac- victim of hi of the wo sitics. When an man for mind w in, ceases to regard I, he becomes the ition may make it is the ir the path of religion AT f an angel, nd fill his heart and SIT TO per the higl 1 Piza by. A sma of the atten crypt. De! some 20 which srr, cellar, that I for the bins 1 large square abbot, and, noticed what ap rags, but a close Lim the clothe skeleton c tures are c once was brown colon hitn from u t i l i ty, path becomes the Przanßo.—ln the crypt un ited the remains of the cele- mted in the palace hard li I dropped into the hand cured me admission into the ps, I entered a small place, ;ht and whitewashed, and It like a conifer n once looking round rst object I saw was a tomb, surmounted by the erect figure of an by, in a narrow opening in the wall, I ed to me to be a collection of dusty proved tbat this was all that eror of Peru. He bad still on h he wore at tt his body is nothing but a h and skin, so that no fea- tion. Of co' time of s covered with what ut the dust ( urned it into a lig a, swathed round him, The bo lected o , laced on a in] ing position, and bag beer put it out of the way. Th )st pulverises when touched anything of the rer that a ' money, jtv piece of piauk, in a stop )laced in this hole merely to folks in Urea do not think usly inv o?ity-hurter ti A moment of frenzy had raised a murderous ham the master who cherished him, and in the agony of re morse expiated the crime by suicide. On the night of the 31st of May, 1810, his Royal Highness, while asleep, was furiously attacked by a man armed with a sabre, who .__ four days last week— inflicted upon him several wounds in the head. The and Thursday. In the Duke, not being able to form the least conjecture as to he learned judge took occasion whence the blows proceeded, sprang out of bed to give an ns, not only con- alarm ; but be was followed in the dark by his assailant, aw, but bearing and cut across the thighs. Upon assistance arriving, nd defects of our Sellis, an Italian valet, who, it is alleged, bad thus ms uppermrst in attacked the Duke, was found locked in his own room gnity of his with his throat cut ; and spots of blood were observed upon the floor of the passage leading to the apartment which Sellis occupied._ Onthe_next procure hole of his rem ions questio on of the I The great point which s, ion of the di hold it by every means asurely a justifi d to carry it into effect be quest was held upon the body of Sellis, which, after sit- It seems, too, that tins four hours to hear evidence, deliberated about one impression that some hour and then returned a verdict of felo de se. This against him. In occurrence gave occasion to much scandal amongst the expounding his views, _ ..y went into a variety ignorant vulgar, and afforded a fitting opportunity to of subjects. Ho touched upon the t r icks of tradesmen, scandalous maligners. The Duke suffered the slanderers and the tendency of the rising g eneration to aspire after to remain unpunished for some years, until one flagrant too much. Upon this point Mr. Ramshay seems disposed instance occurred. A vindication founded on a mass of to concur in the advice of Shakspeare— "to throw away evidence (and that, too, from parties otherwise prejudiced) - --t that men should stick to for ever silenced the hideous falsity. The marriage of his es of the position in life in Royal Highness took place on the 29th May, 1815, at 1, rather than medule with Strelitz ; the Princess to whom he was united, being It is gratifying to find Frederica Caroline Sophia Alexandrina, third daughter of Mr. Ramshay inculcates Charles Louis Frederick, late reigning Duke of Mecklen tort, Mr. Ramsh'y's com- burgh-Strelitz, a lady who had been married twice previ s embrace matters alike ously, first to Prince Frederick Louis Charles of Prussia, er, the philosopher, and and secondly. to Prince Frederick William of Solms- Braunfels. The issue of this union, which was subse- prier's In- the means ado nt with law Li still under t ambitior their tra which ti 4 ..—meted or exert Mr. Ramsl thint matter that, atteuti menta and fulfil a interesting the politici, oud their sphere to the vine, it PPEAL TO TV During ti Rams 'bay said misrepr( by the r Im prop of this tions as le of t to the proc'ec that it was ii t disgraceful, not onl - - 1 10 to' it, but every one not be eXT He was. by the their s opinion ,ected was hapi OF LIVERPOOL. on Wednesday, Mr. unless Witfor His Hor quently solemnised at Carlton-house on the 29th of Aug., in the same year, was a prince born at Berlin, May 25, 1817—the present King of Hanover—long remembered in this country as Prince George of Cumberland, and en deared to the Court by his cheerful and frank manners. The sfflictiou which has since fallen upon this prince has brought out more prominently the amiability of his dispo sition. On the introduction of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill, which occurred during his brief ab sence on the continent, he again journeyed to London to oppose that measure. That opposition, however, proved unavailing, and the bill became part and parcel of the law of the land. The event induced him, without disguise, to declare he would no longer have confidence in, or act with the Dnke of Wellington ; and in conformity with ments which dictated that declaration, he resigned _ mand of the D-- 1 The Reform I as an invasion of ancient rights and privileges, and which in like manner met his hostility. The Duke of Curnber!and continued to reside in England from the year 1828 until the death of William IV., by which the Salique Law came into operation, and alienated the Crown of Hanover front that of theta Britain, bestowing it upon the Sovereign whose demise we now record. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in Great Britain, and Earl of Armagh in Ireland, and King of Hanover. His Royal Highness was a Knight of the Garter, a Knight of St. Patrick, G.C.8., and G. C . H. y against th He was also a Knight. of the Prussian orders of the Black and Red Eagle, a Field Marshal in the British army, Chancellor and Visiter of the University of Dublin, a Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Asylum, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Arts. EXCUSES FOR NOT GOING TO CRURCH.—Oveislept ;Iv self ; could not dress myself ; too cold ; too hot ; don't self ; put my papers 10 to 110 to rights • letters to write ; in the week, i no fresh air but on a Sunday, mean to take a little necessary exercise; new bonnet not come home; don't like a liturgy always praying for the same thing ; don't like extemporary prayer; don't like an organ, it is too noisy ; don't like singing without instrumental music, makes me nervous ; can't bear a written sermon—too prosy; dislike an extemporary sermon—too frothy; nobody to-day but our own dull minister ; don't like a strange one ; can't keep awake when at church, fell asleep last time I was there ; sha'n't risk it agrin ; and so on ad in- ----- --- EXTRAORDINARY FUNERAL.—One day last week an extraordinary funeral cortege was seen wending its way to a district church near the city of Gloucester. A black smith going to the burial of his wife, was, with one friend only, carrying the deceased woman on a bier. As they progressed on their road, they are said to have upbraided each oth er i n t erms no t t h e mos t g entle for not bearing a fair share of the burthen ; and occasionally they took a rest by placing the bier in the road, and then sitting down on the coffin ! We understand that the officiating clergy man remonstrated with the man for his unseemly conduct ; and on his return home from the church he was mobbed by a crowd of indignant women, who expressed loudly their disgust at the behaviour of " the unfeeling brute."— Chellenhem Examiner. T my life safe. I don't safe at this moment. It was a melon- ,„,,,,-., -I don't and the judge of that cot L re ape trusted t and earr upon h by hundre as to the d thrown ou continu•d, it would as it did the 1 from al since ne si! every fart He was ab against t the towr men who favour, but way. To t he system of annoyance, h had been carried on st scandalous and id it, whoever they were. been posted on the walls t court. lie repeated to the man who did 1 or encouraged it in any .1.11, and in any other town in lerated for a moment. He to exercise is from a gentleman iusu was not insulted and that he had , uld declare their had hitherto dor le men should rail who was imulted every Sting under the arms s ability. He ould rally round him attacks made and murdered )rally impossible that I d as he I .ame to the court ationq which were continu, ystem were was afraid, S end in destroying him, Lis comfor - -- Ice he came to A MAaritiall• 1•; In hail friends who would him in this town, for it at alty one *man could ed against him since he cam( :pence in his pocket, having, now 20 months), employ& of Lis salary in defending his' elta r raciei £2OOO out of pocket in defending Manse artless attacks ever made On - a human d Your Honour_has many fr said be had the support of gent. -•l courage to come in h sicti the morty th would show it in a more decided at' be returned his thanks, though ,a. justice to him. Every respect. —,rin was moragy bound to defend him and give him his support—a gentleman attacked, as he had been, for the basest and vilest of pposes. He knew when he was treated properly, and he had the sense se gentlen they onl able ma 1 what n the t and feeling of a man. At the close of the proceedings , on Thursday, Mr. Ramshay instructed the usual officer to proclaim the ad journment of the court until the let of December for the despatch of the business for November, and the adjourn ment of the unfinished business of the present sitting until Tuesday, the 9th December, which was done in the v,tuti form for any c Ramble from Sydney to Monday. Tr, course of the proc to express his view LIVERPOOL CCU, social system Mr. Rao off^ cons! Mr. Rau 4 and his Ilhampion IV7'Y COURT. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 'TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1851. COURT AND FASHION. CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION, domestic habits, which lead men into evil companionship and crime, is strikingly illustrated an the case of the canal and rail s way " navvies" as they are called. The peculiar nature of the LECTURE LAST NIGHT. employment of these men, leading them to strange and distant POPULAR INSURANCE, WITH REVIEWS OF EXISTING places beyonr, their homes, where in consequence there is little compromise of character, induces a nomadic course of life, as wiIdMODELS OF INVESTMENT, AND SUGGESTIONS OF and irresponsible as that of the Tartars. Great numbers A BETTER SYSTEM, &c. of them have been recently employed in Northamptonshire, and The fourth lecture of the present course was delivered, before the County Chaplain tells me, "nearly every second man in the jail nut for les the last ! t a t ! t t six wo. monthsn of the e wo ;1 0 7d n o u n railroad;th b e eru ; ~ the members of the above valuable institution, in the Concert liall,last evening,on the important subject of Popular Insurance. the kingdom have passed throu; v h ' th e e jails since th n e av c ' e l . e s s ation by the Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A., incumbent of Bilston, Stafford- of 240,306 averaged labour." Yet the wages of these men to the number shire ; Joseph Hubback, Esq., in the chair. The meeting a yeaa ! ,l?) 6 l; whenverag e t g e.e-t0 railways a y ea r weree a ch ,Ln n t e h e their T agg moneyregate .4' was lo.2GL3 n 66 e having been opened with prayer by the Rev. the Hon. Secre- their character was done, their good habits were done, and tary, and the chairman having briefly explained to the meeting themselves done in every way. 99 cases out the objects, advantages, and tl r e great success which had Erskine n e very declared luu atwere the al through islTr strongy As Assizes drink.e in I 814 j , u t that attended the efforts of this institution ; and having stated that Coleridge added at Oxford, that "he never knew a case t b i r l eo nesteducgiipmwt climax xtehfaotirnet,s7, him, : r iintoxicating tc a i v ini la g i i l which liquors," i stating t directly or indirectly e its advantaes and usefulness would be materially increased if the young men of the town, for whose improvement it was a tu n d te Jude r a n Pr t i e u s r o v n . a r ‘ a te'll established, were to join in still greater numbers than they were not f or this drinking, you and I should have rothine: to do." Of the 7018 charges entered at Bow-street Police.office had already done, called upon Mr. Owen to deliver the lecture last year (183 a), half of them were for being drunk and inca for which he was announced. pable; and if you add to these the offences indirectly instigated -0--- The marriage of his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar with the Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond, is definitively fixed to take place on Thursday next, the 27th instant. _ It is announced that a rna;rimonial alliance will shortly take place between the Lady Adelaide Paget, youngest daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea, and the Hon. Frederick Cadogan, youngest son of the Earl of Cadogan, and brother of Viscount Chelsea. With deep regret we announce the death of Lady Ward, at Schwa!barb, in Germany, on the evening of the 14th instant. The melancholy event is stated to have occurred very suddenly, from paralysis of the limes, after a long and painful illness of eleven weeks. Only a few short months ago we had to announce the marriage of this beau tiful and accomplished lady. The remains of the deceased lady have been forwarded to Himley, near Dudley, in Staffordshire, the burial place of his lordship's family, where they will be interred this day (Tuesday.) WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Ar thur, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, left the castle at twenty minutes past ten o'clock for the station of the Great Western Railway, in the town. The royal cortege consisted of five landaus and pairs ; and a guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards received her Majesty and the Prince at the Railway Sta tion. At half-past ten o'clock the train started and pro ceeded to Gosport, where the royal steam-yacht was in readiness to convey the Queen and Prince and Royal Fa mily to Osborne. At 0-;borne, owing to the death of his Majesty, the King of Hanover, uncle to the Queen, the court will remain in complete retirement. There was no The Rev. Lecturer, in opening, said—Suppose we first I by intoxication, the proportion rises to at least 75 per cent.: it enquire whether provident societies ought to exist in any is significantly added, "a great and sudden diminution ensued form ? In other words, is it consistent with humble faith upon the public-houses being compelled to close at twelve in the providence of Jehovah Jireh, for any man to insure O'clock on Saturday nights." at all ? Is it, as some represent it, a turning the future into These are the blushing, guilty, damning facts that disfran a lottery, a speculating upon Providence, a gambling with chise the ale-house from the right of being the poor man's the grave rearities of health and sickness, life and death? club - house; but even the ale - house , disastrous as i t i s , is not Are these hard words true bills, or must they be ignored on the the most formidable enemy to the stability of a club : it i most superficial enquiry ? We affirm the christianity, legality, possible that a club may outlive the constant drainage of the and duty of club.rnembership. tavern, but the principle of an uniform payment, like a pul. Primitive christianity was itself a vast wide-spread voluntary monaryalisease, is absolutely fatal to institte tonal existence. provident society, wherein "no man said aught of the things It is an aggregate suicide such a club can no more help run which he possessed was his own, bat they had all things corn- ning out than the sand of an inverted hour-glass ; its course is mon." The church was the sacred eleemosynary chest filled but a question of time. Between A.D. 1793 and 1832, 19,787 by the voluntary oblations of the brethren, out of which the societies deposited their rules with the clerks of the peace. On destitute were relieved, the sick maintained, and the dead the expectation of life at eighteen years, not one of these socie buried. The aggregate form of provis'on for the contingency ties ought in thirty seven years to have died a natural death ; of individual claims was thus recognised and sanctioned. It yet, in 1836 only 5,409 of them were in existence, the others was the most efficient method, and has lost none of its effici- having become defunct or bankrupt. The lodges of the " Odd ency, nor of its evangelical sanction, by assuming the form of Fellows," a great society which begun in the early part of the a mutual assurance society, constituting at once the savings' present century, have not had an average duration of fifteen bank, club and virtual mortgage of the operative class. oif years —a period obviously inadequate to fulfil the purposes of any man provide not for his own, especially for them of his such a society. In 1843, 225 lodges closed for want of funds, own house, he bath denied the faith. and is worse than an and many more applied for help. In 1847, 81 lodges, and in infidel." Tnir LEGALITY of such institutions has been pro- 1848, 138 lodges —on an average more than 100 a year—were mulgated in the various statutes which, during the last seventy broken up, the funds being insufficient. years, have been passed for their better regulation and security. The two great essential principles of a sound Provident We don't blame the government for not having earlier made Society are. operative clubs the sulaect of legislation, as they were not Ist—GOOD TABLES, AND 2ndIy—GooDarANAGENIENT. numerous enough at any earlier period to attract legislative No management can long escape the ruinous issue of inaccu attention, nor to require on public grounds its interference. If rate tables, nor can the best tables continue to survive the it 'le replied, the government, in its parental Character, would operation of uniformly bad management ; hence both are have done wisely to have suggested and originated such soci- indispensable to the permanent solvency of a society. eties for its citizens, we reply, the citizens themselves create Ist.—The Becher Club at Stourbridge is founded on correct the government, and hence in England it is the usual and more Tables.—Every member pays according to his age on entering natural order for movementsratber to originate with the people the society. and on this principle only can the payments than with the legislature. The people are jealous of any seem- become sufficient to secure the benefits proposed. The ruinous ing, dictation, and better submit to the check of authority than and clearly unfair system of an uniform scale of contr'butions to its spur. we have illustrated by the past experience and present pros- TEI E DUTY of belonging to some one society of the kind has pects of the Odd-Fellows'Societies ; societies whose name is an presented itself to the writer's mind, in the following light obvious misnomer, unless it be meant that " the odds are For the last twelve years he has been considerably engaged against" any of them making an even return for the uniformly in Me administration of poor law relief. He cannot disguise even payments of their members. from his reluctant notice the painful fact of how large and over- Indeed in 1844 no less than '20.000 members left its Lodges. whelming a per centage of applicants for relief had been for Wherever the principle of each member paying the same sum. long periods of their lives in the habit of earning wages, the whatever his age may he, prevails, the ultimate insolvency of surplus of which remaining over and above the cost of their that society is inevitable. maintenance would, if properly invested, have secured them It may not be immediately perceptible—the minute of ont an honourable independent subsistence for the unproductive goings whose ultimate congeries cause the run upon its ill residue of their lives. Their frugal contemporaries, whom they starred bank, and put a final stop to its issues, accumulate scandalised by their example, they further tax with the burden slowly at first, and insidiously as the steel particles gather upon of their subsistence. They commit a constructive injustice the lungs of the knife-grinder, but consumption sets in at last, upon their more provident fellow-citizens, and when society and all the cod-liver patchings of honorary subscriptions— inveighs against the gratuitous pauper, not because he is poor, central grants—diminished club-pay. or other shifts, can only but because he viciously made himself so, society is not unjust defer for a brief adjournment the on-coming catastrophe. in such a retaliation upon its trespassers. Like a shipwrecked crew that abridge their miserable rations The gracious law of England, that makes the poor-rate corn- to prolong them at a point just short of staving, as if they pulsory, would deal with scarcely more than even-handed jus. would temporise with famine and haggle about the niggard and tice to compel the club payment too, for why should Ibe corn- unwelcome terms of death, but can't out-run the hrd bargain pelled to contribute to the support of my neighbour,and he not at last, so the Odd-Fellows are embarked upon a clumsy raft be compelled to contribute in some shape to support himself ? that can't hold out for sheer want of provisions, even if they If it were an infringement of the liberty of the subject to cont. fall upon no foul weather, such as a bankrupetreasurer, or pet rt y neighbour to support a club, it Is an equal infringement absconding secretary, to expedite their foundering! on my subject liberty to compel me to support my neigh ;our. It stands to reason, that a man entering a lodge at 40 must I only ask for equal legislation, make poor rates and club rates be 22 years nearer that time of life, when the sickness and equally voluntary, or equally compulsory, and both would be infirmities of age usually come on, than the youth that enters the better for either alternative. at 18. Common sense suggests that each man should pay in Scripture enjoins as at once a social and a personal duty, proportion to his liabilities—men do so in every other depart providence and frugality. In the writer's observation, too, ment of the business of life, and what constitutes the club an provident men are as generally distinguished by their hoepita- exception? Old men must in the course of nature be more tile as by their frugality ; they have imbibed this two-fold burdensome than young men. I f to s ec ure £1 sick allo w ance spirit from that divirib magnanimity that first fed the hungry at 20, require £2 7s. a year, it would require £4 13s. 64 for a thousands intim wilderness, and then after they had eaten and man at 40 years of age. were filled, " gathered up the fragments that remained, that "Truly," Mr. Greig observes. "these so-called Friendly nothing be lost !" It is this habit of " gathering up the frig- Societies are mere lotteries, where those who are sick the means" that constitutes all the difference between the lot that soonest, or die the youngest, have all the prizes, while the "lives fr om hand tomouth," and that which has " bread enough blanks are reserved for those who contribute the longest, and to eat and to spare." That which Scripture thus enjoins, have therefore the most powerful claim upon their full share nature and providence alike illustrate. Each passing season of the funds." prepares for its successor—the subsoil organisations of spring How much of "the penny wise and pound foolish policy" elaborate the growth and increase of summer, and the ripen- prevails in popular habits and opinions ! As it is well said on ings of autumn create the supply of the insolvent winter. the in d i v idu al sc ale, " what maintains one vice, would b in g u p Youth is a gymnastic school of exercise for manhood, and the two children," so on the publ c scale, the neglect of simple hardy vigour and occupati nof manhood realise the store that inexpensive precautions entail an awful waste of life and pro shall support the infirmities of age. The body corruptible is nertv. In the Unions of England, not less than 27,000 cases of the seedling of the body incorruptible—it must be " sown a escort to conduct her Majesty from the castle to the rail way station. The court mourning for the late King of Hanover is to commence this day (Sunday), to continue deep for a fortnight, when half-mourning will commence ; and the pe►iod of mourning will altogether terminate on Sunday, the 14th of December.—Observer. _ _ Sir Henry Bulwer's departure, to resume his diplomatic functions at Washington, is understood to be postponed until after Christmas. DEATH OF COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR. — This distinguished officer departed this life at Brighton, on Sunday, after a long illness. He was member for Lisburn. He served in Spain with the 10th Hussars, and was aid de-camp to the Marquis of Anglesey at Waterloo.:,, COLLEGE OP P. Aftiis, Nov. 22 THE EARL MARSHAL'S ORDER FOR A GENERAL MOURNING FOR HIS LATE MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER. In pursuance of her Majesty's commands, these are to give public notice, that upon the melancholy occasion of the death of his late Majesty the King of Hanover, Uncle to her Majesty the Queen, it is expected that all persons do put themselves into mourning fur ten days, to com mence on Sunday next, the 23d instant. NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. DEATH OF THE KING OF HANOTER The death of this venerable monarch took place on Tuesday morning in his palace at Herrenhaus: n, in the eighty-first year of his age, and the fourteenth of his reign. His Majesty Ernest Augustus (formerly Duke of Cumberland) was the last surviving son of King George 111., and uncle of our most gracious Queen Victoria.• The following telegraphic official announcement of the king's decease was received by the French government : "Hanover, Nov. 18, Half-past Eleven o'Clock, a.m. "THE MINISTER OF rnANcE TO TILE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIR "The king died this morning at a quarter to seven o'clock The deceased Prince—the fifth and last surviving son of George ITT.—was born at Kew on the sth of June, 1771. His early days were spent at the place which gave him birth, and his first preceptors were Mr. Cookson arid Dr. Hughes. In the year 1786 he accompanied his royal brothers, the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge, to the University of Gottingen, there to complete their studies and close their academic career. In 1790 he entered the array, and served in the 9th Hanoverian Light Dragoons from that period until 1793, when he obtained the com mand of the regiment. During the whole of the follow ing year he ser,,ed and took an active part in the war which then raged on the European continent. In the command of the first brigade of cavalry, in charge of the outposts of Marshal Walmoden's army, his Royal High ness gave several proofs of his gallantry in the field ; and during a rencontre near Tournay he lost an eye and was wounded in the arm. His Royal Highness took part in the sortie from Nimeguen, and afterwards commanded the•rear-guard of the British forces in the retreat through Holland—a post of ereat importance and difficulty. The year 1796 saw his Royal Highness return to England, where he remained until April, 1799, when he was created Duke of Cumberland, Earl of Armagh, and Duke of Teviotdale, with a parliamentary grant of £12,000 per annum. In 1801 the deceased was appointed Colonel of the 15th Hussars, and invested with the command of the Severn district, from which he subsequently removed to the South Western district, residing at Winchester until 1807. In the latter end of that year he went abroad and joined the Prussian army, then engaged in the great struggle against the encroaching power of Napoleon. His Royal Highness took part in several important engage ments fought about this period, and on the defeat of the natural jidy," ere it Can be " raised ri spiritual body," and thus life itself is a didactic series of preparations for eternity Human experience in all its shifts and changes corroborates 5 5/ premature widowhood, and More than 100,000 cases of orphan age are ascribed to causes capable of removal, chiefly sanitary, and these probably to previous poverty superinduced by in temperance. It is now admitted that the age of superannuation might be considerably deferred and abridged by improved sanitary regulations. _ . _ _ . providing against the contingencies of life isgenerally admitted and acted upon among the better informed classes, is obvious from the fact that in A.D. 1837, nearly . six hundred millions worth of their property was insured against fire alone I These people know what they are about, and they don't advise you to do something which they don't do themselves. Their candid invitation to the working classes is " to do as they do"—to set The allowance of one-fourth sick-pay for cases of incurable sickness in the Becher Club system, is an excellent rule. Such cases are found to be rare, but this only enhances the impor tance of the provision—the allowance, small as it is, would probably exceed the average pay from the parish, and would intercept the independence of the poor man on his hopeless road to the Union, and bid him turn back to his home again. aside a part to secure tue wiluic, ~, ...,...... _ tage of present means, to insure the enjoyment of an ulterio provision. And why don't the working classes do it ? In the first place, give them their due, meny more of them do insure in clubs or savings' banks than we are aware. They have not half the credit due to them on this score. Mr. Greig states that the total number of societies to which the working classes , contribute is not less than 33,232, and the number of contribu tors is not less than 3,032,600. They have a capital of no less assume the form of a national gauge of social character. than £11,360,000, and an annual income derived from their contributions and interest, of no less than .et. 980,000 l There The Becher Club is happy in the 2nd essential feature of a are no operatives in Europe equal to those of Great Britain in permanent society, viz , the wealth, intelligence, and influence of their order. Vast as 000 n MANAGEMENT. the sum is which the operatives have thus invested in various Its management humbly seeks its illustrious type in the societies, an immense amount of it unhappily will be wrecked national constitution of Peers and Commons, i.e.,' in a mixed in the profuse expenditure, incorrect tables, suicidal rules and ministry, consisting of both honorary and ordinary members — other calamitous mismanagement of the systems they have the former from their education and experience are able to adopted. afford sound and wholesome counsel—from their position to It is always easier to persuade working men to get money, control, and from their influence to promote the interests of than to save it. They work hard enough, and for the most part the society; and the latter as identified in sympathies, inter live hard enough ; but too many of them drink hard, and that ests, and even prejudices with the main body of the contribu is the retributive cause of every other hardship. 4 There must tors, are calculated to inspire the confidence, and attract the be labour, for it is the law of God, and it is the law of social attention of their fellow operatives. We want to see more and necessity and progress; but there need be no hard workit g, nor more of this combination of the two classes. It promotes that bard living, but for the hard drinking. Yet hard as it is, or mutual intercourse, reliance, and amicable feeling which forms rather soft as it is on the part of the drinkers, the drinking will a bond of union between the successive layers of the Common go on, as long as th e club-box .6 lives and moves and bath its wealth, anti like the old Roman cement hardens into a mass being" in the dry and thirsty climate of the ale-house. A that stands together for ages, alike against tumult from within paragraph in the "Lahotwer's Friend," asserts that out of 9,000 or invasion from without ! societies reported, 8,000 were held at the ale-house. As an illustration of the value of such a management, look There is scarcely a greater contradiction than the association again at the exclusively "operative" government of the old of the club and the cup, (i.e.) of the means of saving, with the club system. With none but beneficial members at the helm means of wasting,—they have no moral amilgani—it is the un- of affairs, it presen ts all the p olitical evils of what is called natural alliance of frugality with profligacy —it is like the mar- 4 ' class legislation," with the disadvantage of being adminis riage of a pattern husband with a slattern wife, they together tered by the less educated and responsible class, " and the re verify the old pagan fable of the tub of Danae that was full of suit," says Nelson, " is, that the real and essential objects of holes, whose daughters were condemned to be perpetually fill- such clubs have been overlooked and rendered secondary to ing it, while all that was laboriously poured in, as wastefully idle pomp and parade. Those funds which were meant to pro and hopelessly ran out. vide for disease and old age have been squandered in the follies The Becher Society's exclusion of members from its benefits, who shall have justly forfeited them by fraud, by disease con tracted by profligacy and drunkenness, or by felony, is a fea ture equally valuable in a financial and moral point of view. It is my humble conviction, that if such secietarian principles were generally established, the influence on public morals would be incalculable. Expulsion from such a club would become a national brand, for the club itself would naturally French by the allied forces, his Royal Highness procee to Hanover, and took possession of that kingdom on be half of the British Crow. In 1810, when the Regency question formed the subject of much public excitement, the Duke of Cumberland entered into its discussion with great energy, and vehemently opposed the government of the day on every point at issue. His consistent opposi tion ti, thr recognition of the claims of the Roman Catho- lies for Patliani - entary emancipation is also a matter of bistro y. It was about this period of the Prince's life that a very painful affair, in which the tenderness of a kind master to the memory of a faithful servant, who in a _ against and bubbles of youth." - A gaudy and expensive silk flag, Like Danne's tub gilded and flaunting like Jezebel's petticoats out of the window Is the public-house club, of an ale-house, signalises the lodge anniversary. The sly old Their customers' mouths are the holes; publican, in dressing his club victims in simi'ar sashes, knew 111 spared i, , the chink what would attract the vulgar eye; and when he would seduce That's wasted in drink, To the bane of their bodies and souls. the young citizens' heart from a worthier and more natural union with its equals in age and station, he woos them into The immense power in the hands of the working men to pro- the treacherous embrace of the old system, by setting his band mote their social comfort and independence is demonstrated by of music to the delusive tune of— t, v., .1..11 .oes7s 54* RH k ',Mr, the fact, that they are spending 57 millions a year in araent spirits, beer, and tobacco ! equal to an income of 165. a week to nearly one million four hundred thousand people. Surely if so much can be spared for the indulgence of bad habits, a tenth of it could be easily diverted to the cultivation of good ones. The lecturer heard a story in Manchester of a calico printer, who on his wedding-day was persuaded by his wife to allow her two half-pints of ale a day as her share. He rather ‘Ninced under the bargain, for though a drinker himself, he would have preferred a Perfectly sober wife. They both worked hard ; and he, poor man, was seldom out of the public-house as soon as the factory closed. The wife and husband seldom saw much of each other, except at breakfast; but as she kept things tidy about her, and made her stinted and even selfish allowance for housekeeping meet the demands upon her, he never complained. She bad her daily pint, and he perhaps had his two or three quarts, and neither interfered with the other, except that at odd times she succeeded, by dint of one gentle artifice or ano ther, to win him home an hour or two earlier at night, and now and then to spend an entire evening in his own house, but these were rare occasions. They had been married a year, and on the morning of their wedding anniversary, the husband looked askance at her neat and comely person with some shade of re morse, as he observed, " Mary, we'n had no holiday since we were wed, and only that I haven't a penny in the world, we'd take a jaunt to the village to see thce Mother!" " Would'st like to go, John?" said she softly, between a smile and a tear, to hear him speak so kindly, so like old times. "If thee'd like to go, John, I'll stand treat.' "Thou stand treat," said he, with half a sneer, "bast got a fortun', wench ?" Nay," said she, " hut I'n gotten the pint o' ale, John still didn't understand her, 'till the faithful creature reached down an old stocking from under a loose brick up the chimney, and counted out her daily pint of ale in the shape of 365 three-peaces (i.e.) .e 4 Ils. 3d., and put it into his hand, exclaiming, "Thee shalt hare thee holiday, John !" John was ashamed,—astonished,—conscience-smitten — charmed—wouldn't touch it. "Hasn't thee bad thy share? Then I'll ha' no more," he said. They kept tbeir wedding-day with mother, and the wife's little capital was the nucleus of a series of investments, that ultimately swelled into a shop, factory . _ warehouses. country•seat, a carriage, and for naught I knoW, 9 mayor of his native borough, and its M. P. I almost think at last. Drink is the desolating demon of Great Britain. We have spent in intoxicating drinks during the presant century as much as would pay th e National Debt twice over There are 180,000 gin-drinkers in London alone, and in that city, 3 millions a year are spent in gin ! In 13 years, 249,000 males, and 183,921 females wer e taken into custody for being drunk and disorderly. In Manchester not less than a million a year is spent in profligacy and crime. In Edinburgh there are 1,000 whiskey shops, 160 in ole street, and yet the city contains only 200 bread shops. Of 27,000 cases of pauperism, 20,000 of them were traceable to drunkenness. In Glasgow the poor rates are £lOO,OOO a year. "Ten thousand" says Alison, " get drink every Saturday night—are drunk all day Sunday and 9 M •—•,+ not able to return to work till Tuesday or Wee Aonday, anti H.. _ nesday. Glasgow spends £1,200 , 000 annually in drink, and 20,000 females are taken into custody for being drunk." And what are some of the normal results of such appalling statistics? Insanity, pauperism, prostitution and crime. As to the insanity affiliated on drink, the Bishop of London states that of 1271 maniacs whose previous histories were in vestigated, 049 or mure than half of them wrecked their reason in drinking. As to its pauperism, it is estimated that not less than two. thirds of our paupers are the direct or indirect victims of the same fatal vice. As to its prostitution, its debauching influence is romotely I traceable in the 150,000 harlots of London, and in their awful j swarms in all our large towns and cities. • ITS RELATION TO CRIME IS EQUALLY coNcLusivs. In Parkhurst Prison it is calculated that 400 out of 500 juve nile prisoners are immured there, as the incidental results of parental debauchery. The Chaplain of the Northampton County Jail lately informed , the lecturer that " of 302 prisoners in this jail during the last six months, 176 attribute their ruin to drunkenness: 64 spent from 2s. 6d. to tOs. a week in drink ; 15 s p ent from 10s. to 175., 1 " and 10 spent all their savings." " I s it not remarkable, lie ' adds, " that out of 433 prisoners in this jail, I have not had one that has one 6d. in a savings-bank, nor above six that ever had a 6d. in one. On the contrary, I have many members of friendly societies, of course unsound ei.es, which with two or three exceptions all meet at public-houses," and there not only learned to drink, but became familiarised with crime. The influence of the ale-bonse in consolidating those anti. see how they each meet the trials of that day, when " the rains descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house" which they respectively build. Let us see how the one falls, and "great is the fall thereof." and how the other "stands, because it is built upon a rock." THE HOUSE BUILT UPON THE SAND-- Is usually situate in the darkest, dirtiest, dismallest part of the town beyond the beat of the highway rate, poor rate, paving and lighting rate, sewer rate, or any other rate except the curse and-quarrel rate, with which the wretched tenants are for ever rating each other. The only thing that bears a hint of any value is the land, every square inch of which is bricked over and vaulted under, close and fasted as a city cemetery, as if the earth had not another acre to spare, and man must be content to occupy as little surface as passible, to leave more to grow food to feed him. Human beings are stalled in these crammed and crowded bins, the only difference between them and the cattle, being the better victualling of the latter. The rain that like a heavenly unction pours fertillity upon other quarters, on this spot only multiplies mud. and peninsulates every house and entry with a moat of puddle, exhaling with industrious hostility the retributive penalties of sanatory neglect, in a con tinuous malaria generating every type of rheumatic, typhus and ntli.7r malignant fevers. The high wind, that like the rough fidelity of en old friend, disturbs but purifies the stagnant at mosphere of every other spot, here serves but to aggravate the local fcetors, by the larger circulation of their nuisance, accu mulating the dilapidations in stock by the tottering down of more ruined chim flies, and the forcible ejectment of lditional slates and pantiles. The very frosts that, like a sharp humoured sarcasm, provoke the interchange of mutual hospitalities among their happier fellow-citizens, seems here to freeze more bitterly than else where, and seal up every cracked door and broken casement, with a stuffing of rags hardly spared from their shivering wearer's limbs, waving in the wind as intelligible signals of distress, or stiffening in the cold, as in predictive imitation of their owner's fate, whom vice, and its matricidal offspring penury, had socially worn to tatters like them. It is among these grim neighbours you are to search for "the House built upon the Sand," and if yon dare venture at nightfall under a roof, whose ill-chosen foundations may bring down its ruins upon you,—on that ba . ren social sand of as improvident drunkard's heart, which grows nothing green—that dry sand whose insatiable thirst every tide leaves dry and thirsty still — that dull sand that only retains any impression made upon it 'till the next fl , nd of inundating drink obliterates it—that treacherous sand that has engulphed many a pretty little craft that mistook it for an anchorage—that suicidal sand that must be worthless so long as it lies on the brink of those depths that drown it every day—that wretched sand, that is itself a heap of wrecks and fragments, lashed by the waves of intemperate fury from its native rocks, and spewed out, as if the sea of life were sick of it, upon a shore of weeds and dreary waste—on such a sand, the improvident man builds the horse that is to be his home, and the home of the wretched squaw, his wife, and of his children. _ _ ..... There he is to rear the disastrous duplicates who are to repeat himself to the contamination and misery of another generation. On his model, a characteristic progeny is to be formed, destined like devil's Nazarites from the womb, to be the plague and pest; the corrupted and corrupters of their future human kind— at once a hurthen and a bane to their contemporaries, like him self, he and they shall be the crypto-gamia—the fungi of society, vegetating at its gateposts, rotting its timbers, betraying its unsoundness, and accelerating its decay. Degenerate, delete rious, abandoned, the wretched character sees no hope of relief hut in its own destruction, no refuge but in • scape from itself. The devilish charm of drink holds him spell-hound within a fatal circle, drawn with alternate cups and rags, and he cannot break from its toils—drink is the Delilah that has shorn hint of his strength—he cannot "go out and shake himself as at other times, for the Lord bath departed from him." Poor dram struck wretch—he's cup-crazed—drink has" put out his eyes"— like the blind Samson in the mill, he grinds in the malt-house, and Philistine lords and loggerheads make game of his prosti tuted strength—but, my lords, I would have you beware how you trifle with such aiant.besotments too long—it's dangerous sport—like the old judge, he may pull a house down about your ears, as well as his own ! You have suffered this Samson vice to grind on in the moral blindness of its victims, take heed lest it realise on your hands a civil Frankenstein whose monstrous hypostasis shall dog the footsteps of its social progenitor, affiliating on the homicide neglect which quickened it, a puni tive reaction in the cost, misery, and shame, of its hideous subsistence. . . - - yencer. DESTRUCTIVE Firtz—A FACTORY BURNED.—On Tues day night the extensive factory belonging to Messrs. 1: ) . M'Phail and Co., cotton spinners and power loom manu facturers at Greenhead, Bridgeton, was completely de stroyed by fire. Not fewer than 300 persons were dally employed, and to them the loss arising out of so unlooked for a catastrophe, at this inclement season of the year , ' must he very distressing. The damage cannot be less than £2o,ooo,—Glasgoto Chewier., A NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—We understand: from positive authority, that a new Westminster Bride is to be erected. It is to be built as near as possible to the present structure. Notices have been given to the inhabitants of the north end of Bridge-street, Westmin ster, of Manchester-buildings, of Cannon-street, up to the Board of Control, and of ether portions of the east end of Parliament-street, that government were prepared to bring in a bill this session to pull down their houses to make room for a new bridge.—Morning Herald. A VOICE FROM KAFFIR LAND.—To Richard Cobden , Esq. and the Members of the Peace Congress.—Graham ' s Town, Cape of Good Hope. Gentlemen,—Your presence is much required here just now. Our Governor has entirely failed, by talking and treaties. to keep the Kaffir° quiet ; and having taken up the barbarous sword, has met: with little or no better success. Do send us out by the next mail two or three of your patriotic members as per manent residents, that you may talk the savages into sub mission.—Yours obediently, AN ANXIOUS COLONIST. MIRACULOUS Esc...FL—A man belonging to Kelty, °I I returning from Dumfermline the last market day, on tear' ing a small fence, instead of finding himself on terra firma , found he was descending into an old coal shaft, upwards of 40 feet in depth. His, neighbours becoming alarmed et his absence, a search was made next day ; and finding his little Skye terrier sleeping at the mouth of the pit., thel were in time to release him from his miserable position. - With the exception of a few bruises, he is now quite well, although he was quite insensible when lie was rescued from his gloomy prison.—Caledonian Mercury. LORD PALMERSTON AND THE KOSSUTH DEMONSTRA' TlON.—Lord Palmerston received a deputation on Tues day, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which presented addresses from Finsbury and Islington, congratulating bi° lordship on the aid he rendered the Sultan of Turkey in the liberation of Kossuth. Lord Palmerston expressed his pleasure at having been instrumental in liberating the patriotic Hungarians and , Polest-and,-in speaking of the great moral power of this country in foreign affairs, de, dared the government derived it entirely from the a ppro.. bation and cooperation of the people.. CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS.—It appears from the se' counts relating to trade and navigation which have ju st been issued, that there was a decrease in the consumptio° of spirits in the last nine months, compared with the pros ceding year. In the nine months ending the 10th Oct., 1850. the quantity of spirits —rum, brandy, and genes's -- was 3,521,938 gallons ; and in the nine months ending th e 10th ult., the quantity entered for home consumption WO 3,449,089 gallons, showing a decrease of 72,849 gallons. Less spirits were consumed during the time the Great Ex' hibition was open than in the preceding year. wi D th e s A t T ri ll kin O a r r a L p o i d e i n t y A , 1 b a. e c e tc. n thinning ENzlE.—De the front the legal profession in Scotland. To-day we have to a dd the name of another eminent lawyer and judge to 04 ath teas rreacneknst 1 O f f . melancholy list, which within the last two years has ill' eluded those of Jeffrey, Monereiff, Maitland, and the a' Lord President Hope. Lurd Mackenzie died on Monds/ at ernoon, at his seat in this neighbourhood, Belmont, near Corstorphine. His lordship, who for a considerabl e ! period has been in extremely weak health, had attai ned the age of 74, having been born in 1777. IMPROVED LIGHTHOUSES.—Various ingenious Ugh! . houses have been proposed by Mr. Wells, of the Advil; rally, and are under consideration. He objects to colonrel mother?" - - lights , which in dense atmospheres are subject to optics' 4, N ot l ong I d are s a y Artie, but ye can tak thy porridge, lad, illusions as to colour, (in ordinary lights and reflectore an ver'e sharp set, hut yo know thee father like's his children there is, in general, too much similarity), andalso tb . to be at meals wi him." The toys whiled away an hour before the children turned towers are usually too high, deceiving as to distance. _:., another wistful thought at the great saucepan simmering their is proposed that there should be openings in the tolvv' d s e porridre on the fire,—but the simmering itself grew impatient, below the lantern, fitted with plate glass, and shape to —every now and then up bobbed the white head of the milk to as to allow initial letters or other dis t incti ve marks „ the top of the pot, took a rapid survey of the apartment, spot- appear, the light also, where practicable, to be more o_," And sitter have to spare • tered over a morsel into the fire, and instantly bobbed down the level with the eye from a ship's deck.—Litter i ng Gin ye'll consent to be his 'bride, again, as if it were ashamed of its petulance, or were afraid it Gazette. Nor think on Donald mair ;" had g one too far. AG* Another strikingly good and politic rule of the Becher Club Edward the second boy could bear the suspense no longer. How KOSSUTH MASTERED THE ENGLISH LANGIT-- ~,, is, the compelling all members paying for sick allowance also "Mother," says he, " its hard upon ei,ght o'clock, Father —lt is stated that, in thr us " 1837, when condemned to srso , to contribute for a deferred annuity of at least half the amount. should ha' been home these two hours—should I run and see years' imprisonment by the Austrian Government , ls -v o l This rule is a great security against fraud. No doubt num- see what ails him ? We sba'nt see the pictures he promised us suth, at the end of the first year, was offered the choieeos berg enter lodges having concealed ailments, and defects tonight." one book for his amusement, provided that it was of health and constitution, not always , nor easily detected "Go Eddard," she said rather solemnly, " and God Almighty g' with thee my child, and bring thee Father back to us " even by the club doctor. Now, if such a man's health be so go defective as to cause him to make unusual claims on the sick It was barely nine o'clock, but the uniformly regular and him three, they should not be political :he selecte d _A fund, that very fact would probably render his life of shorter domestic habits of the man, made his absence even at that English Grammar, 'Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary, ec'e's duration, and consequently give him an inferior chance of early hour the ground of some anxiety to his f a mil y , the more Shaks p ere. Having obtained these books, he comeoenoo. becoming an annuitant, and thus the loss to the one fund so, as on this particular evening he had promised his daughter the study of the language, beginning with the transien t 's would be compensated by the gain on the other. It is also a n . to meet her at home at seven o'clock at the latest, to treat her of the first scene of "Th Tempest,"whichoccup ie d bi d would e eligible rule of the Becher Society to enable members to secure and the two eldest boys with a visit to the Town Hall, to see •well ' it all its benefit by a single payment down , or to reduce their the exhibition of a Panorama of the Holy Land. about a fortnight. This was in 1837; and how WO' payments at the rate of one penny on each contribution, or to Ile could afford them an occasional indulgence of this kind, now understands the language is shown by his spec c be tls remove from a lower to a higher class. For instance, a mem. for he squandered nothing on selfish sensualities of his own. HORRIBLE MUTILATION.—A few days since Elita,„,ith her 20 years of age, by paying down at once 18s. 24d. will Hie enjoyment was to minister to theirs', and his reward was, Edward. twenty-two years of age, a servant, living. "" lessen his monthly payments by one penny, and so on for eacti instead of the common spectacle of a father and children Mrs. Da lrymp le , No . .II 18s. 24d. he may be able to advance. And again, the same mutually indifferent, if not averse to each other. a family 4, Colebrook- , „„ r member, by a single payment of £23 138. I d., may secure at fondly and even proudly attached to its bead—a family that don, after doing her usual morning's work, cut off he r to once les. a week in sickness, ss. a week after G 5 years of age, realised the venerable and lovely title of a Father, and lived in hand at the wrist with a carving-knife and threw '' e yes and .elO at his death. the social religion of filial love and reverence. the fire, having previously attempted to destroy b er s , the Further, if a man altered his plans, and propose to emigrate, " Grey hairs were here and there upon him, yet he knew it with iron skewers. The bleeding being profuse fr°Threr another law of the society enables him to turn his contributions not," they were not the premature indices of trouble, bleached two divided arteries, she thrust the stump into the mt . into a capital to travel on, by the sale at its full value of his in some dare transits of bygone sorrow, but the witnesses of which had the effect of cauterizinr the vessels- and e ,ee o interest in the society. habitual sobriety and seriousnessof thought, investing the honest - ci e ~ 'n the hemorrha e and thus saved her life.. Le l • At' The Report of the Mining District Commission informs us yeoman with a natural dignity, a kind of aristocracy of age. pi g g , ot o .., that the miners of Cornwall have £200,000 in the Savings Bank, The house he lived in, though a humble one, was suited to thrust her right hand into the fire and .burnt it to a l je ktt i and after such a statement we have no need to be told they are his family wants, and moreover every brick ' his own. It when her mistress, hearing an unusual noise ill i s f o en, an industrious, intelligent, and provident people. The total was his first Savings Bank that house, and laboriously he chen, went' to ascertain what was the matter, an o as amount of deposits in Savings Banks ror England sod Wales on wrought and sacrificed and saved penny by penny, as if he her with both hands in the fire. She pulled her fr ° 'Or 20th of November, 1848, was .#25,371,176 ; for Scotland, had piled it together brick by brick, and it was a proud day rte A fire, and sent for Mr. Fairhead, a surgeon in the 0 .00 1,080,191; for Irelnnd, £1,358,061 ; and for the Islands in the the first meal the family ate under their own roof, and the British Seas, - '236,710 ; total, -420,046,130. In such a tabular children looked excitedly at their Father as they sat down to found hers s one bourhood, who promptly attended, and, oe 4 statement, we have the true solution of the contrast presented it, when the good man slightly faltered in saying the grace,— time with her right hand burning by the side oi. d bet .$ between the general condition of the working classes in the " For these and all His mercies, the Lord's name be praised!" she bad cut off. He took her hands out and 131 0 00: 4 Sister Kingdoms. Philosophers, Patriots, Heroes, and even Martyrs make the kitchen floor, and afterwards sent his may; o be All the facts presented in this Lecture exhibit a boundless room for this man among you,—there is not one of you need with her in a cab to St. Bartholomew's HosPite“ entire field for social regeneration, anti demonstrate the abundant be ashamed of such a competitor for your glorious laurels I— she tbe et material there is in the hands of the working classes themselves spare a leaf or two to weave a chaplet for the chivalry of lies, and is likel to recover, but with for h now y for their economic and moral elevation. The policy of govern_ home ! for the vanquisher in the sharp fight with poverty and loss of her hands. The only reason s he assigns s rvis e i d 0 9 ' boe silent, and indeed of our 'teeing men generally has been toil, family burthens and scant wages 1 rash act is, that she thought she was doing G° A. strangely suicidal in relation to the improvement of the masses. Ten o'clock arrived, a later hour than the children scarcely „...... -• SINGULAR ZOOLOGICAL FROIOLEM SOINI4-.1 G at The Poor Law is improved, but I have no confidence in it as a remembered him to have ever been out of his bed—their six weeks back the boa constrictor at the Zooleg i r a bb i t ( regenerating agent—there is no adequate classification of cha- mother's growing uneasiness infected the group of the three dens, Regent's Park, in its. rapacity to swallow age , c . ) , racter—it has some of the worst evils of the old jail system in elder ones, the four juniors were long fast asleep, except Baby, ''• is a modified form. I have as little confidence in penal discipline who now and then gave vent to an unusual restlessness by a blanket, placed in its cage for wal la i. . sucked in a as a regenerating agent—too much importance has been at- cry that called up Mother to its tiny cot-side. Mother looks warmth, and measuring five feet by four. . see ks C ps tattled to jails and workhouses , and too little to schools and round her neat matron bed-chamber with a sad misgiving to- watching on the part of the keepers for five "_, its vi l A, homes. " The domiciliary condition of the working man must night as if something had befallen lam, to whose industry with day, the reptile, on Saturday week, disgorge' t oig t o be Christianized," said Lord Ashley, one of the best friends of her own economy she owed those comforts that like so manyt hs per. The watchman, on going his rounds s a P ° . o the million, since the days of the Howards and Romillys. The links of love bound them to one another. " God briny thee k it , it di p the saw the animal labouring to get rid of the blau. o l 4 .., healthy cell, the decent bed, and wholesome provisions of the home mu own lad !" she softly ejaculated. lifting up her eyes he ass" 0 11 " ofwhich jail, present a premium rather than a terror to the houseless Heaven, eyes that glistened back in the magic mirror of the protruded from its mouth, and b , _ ke t g b oo tramp-- to the inmate of a workhouse, or to the stifled unit in memory taking in at an affectionate glance the history of a doing so by taking hold of and pulling the W 1 tb 4 tbs t 01 1" the crowded dormitories of the but or lodging house. simple loving life e'en from its wedding-day. Mid -night at for which act of kindness it was thought ost i°Ss Ife t Next to a really national system of sound Christian educe- length past—the children down stairs would not go to bed, seemed grateful, inasmuch as it offered no oPP the hilted tion, we know of no scheme, so likely to benefit the working though a sleep heavy as their hearts every now and then over- did not strive to in'ur him. On examina tion me _ d e was' els"' classes, as the establishment of a well ordered Provident Society. powered them, as if their long flow of tears, like loss of blood foundto b j h shrunken in size, and it. f l eost is. " Under a scientific and amply developed system " says Mr. stanched by a swoon, had a narcotic influence on the mind to was e muc 1 or be ar l t .tb lee Neison, " Friendly Societies would be calculated ' , in a short suspend its grief in slumber. Mother opened for r e door for of the greater portion of the loose woo ted v " time, to completely remove the cause of nearly all that distress, perhaps the fiftieth time that long vigil night, f might she heard composing its muc h satura Nes, 040 surface ; it was __ sa . poverty, and misery which haunt our manufacturing towns, footsteps in the street which she thought be her hus- ture, and in many parts covered In . & sliraYit e a • ;i s for and fill the unions with the working classes of the country ; but band's. Nearly opposite her was another watcher, and their Sae . t - a b o oe 10 a boa was a present to the Zoological Owing to the imperfect and unstable foundation on which they doors several times opened simultaneously — at that house was , who gav e 1 eeell heo are at present built, instead of being a help and support to a a poor wife, with a sickly crying infant in her arms, waiting in U • relight to England by an officer, , a id .„ ss for the return of poor man, they involve him in those difficulties, for which he cold and hunger find trembling . . a drunken months fine one, but had ps' d a gite - 01' ago ; it is a very Ho b, an Iv atss o so might otherwise have provided." Such a moral and social ' husband . He came at last reeling cursin and g nghting healthy state, and was just becoming ex tree le ' bee s tbe wretched • revolution might be e ff ected through these institutions, if well between two policemen, and the wife saw them drag the casualty took lace; p it has now an ro bobly_. b y conducted, as the world has never witnessed, nor history ever him past her to the station, too drunk to recognise his own ated appearance, and drinks frequently, P its bod y _ had the gratification to record. The increasing intelligence of door ! The contrast bet w een her to wretched neighbour's lot and of the great absorption of the liquids of il iA : the age must shortly overtake the subject, and deal with it, as ' her own happier one, se em ed quicken mother's foreboding or A l° its grave importance to the social welfare deserves. anguish,—she felt she had not been thankful enough perhaps, blanket. THE " g rl 01 01 till In concluding our subject, bow shall I paint 'the moral, social, and therefore God had issued the fiat to her,—" call me not HOLLOWAY'S PILLS F OR .. _ AND yE ig orii. OP and religious contrast daily acted and wrought out in all their Naomi, but call me Mara, for the Lord bath dealt bitterly DIGESTION, DISORDERED SroM !I, an d jos tha r, o miserable or merry details, between the spend-thrift and the with me," and then she checked herself, and inwardly prayed C ONSTITUTIONS. The stre . . ening :,,, g reat' d i g es ll o t save-thrift . 1 long to leave upon your minds , after these dry for more submission and greater thankfulness. She turned ro ertios of these astoni. ,ng pills are • _ se pi o whose th 3 os 9 ' statistic s sonic tiling more domestic touching and telling to get within doors again and found Emily awake and weeping. The PP s of low or ne -411 s habits, or , a s ir into yeur hearts, Li d lodge there. But the di ffi culty is to in- was pale with , poor girl and when her mother irreso- . Person imp to - , ould give them a st ud by thAfece: i ; vest with any palntuble interest, back-street scenery too cool. lute] shook her head as if she wasn't sure but a good cry organs are impa . te do herselfgood mon not to he o diens, and too vulgar not to be repulsive. wo uld in d* • e ha d been tried in eti. 0, 010 osis I There is none of the light romance, nor graceful poetry of life, brothers —" Mother, mother, I saw him in my dream ,just now, after every other e tem resided fors .... e cti 00 0 capable of being wi yen into the picture, but there's all its ter. implored tere was blood upon my father's face." "Hush child," in the army .. ,1 a, others that have ... co _ ed 0 rible or trivial tiuth and soberness. her mother, " thee must t e ns dream that way, or yen r rewhen su ff ering from bib Tea by th e rible cim s, We take t w o, men as we find them, the drpnken and improvi- doubt God when ye waken—Hearken Emily,— there's a cart liver ' • beep cVre u comp aints, have invariably dent man that builds his house upon "the sand," and the stopped anunst our door I" . 1-1,311 5 Pills, sober and saving man that builds upon 4. th e rock ," and let us "A. what 7 a cart ?" screamed the girl, with a look of piteous .4 i (Tory The improvident drunkard dies as he lived, without a thought, or care, or one provision for the morrow—the rags upon his back made him a sorry scare-crow to bid others shun the ale house; but their reversion wouldn't pay the sexton ft:n*om hole he dux to bury him. He had been so long and often "dead drunk" that desth, as if indignant at the repeated simulation. of his office, smote the drinker really dead at last I and "the house built upon the sand," like the earth that " swallowed up Korah and his company," engulphs within its voracious maw, wife, children, and every living inmate that belonged to him I He had swallowed his children piecemeal, as at the banquet of Thyestes before, his ruin realised the filicidal fable of Saturn, in swallowing his whole family in the end. It was his last draught this side Lethe, his next will be the cup filled to the brim, with weeping, and wailing, and knashing of teeth ! Yet yonder fellow. workmen of his, had all the while no higher wages than his own, nor a better choice of neighbour. hood to build his house upon, and nearly twice his number of children, but his neighbour was more man than animal—he was a wise, as well as "a knowing one," and he and his children inhabited THE HOUSE BUILT UPON A ROCK. _ _ . . _ _ It was harder perhaps to get out the foundations, but then it was all the stronger for it! And what was the kind of " rock" he built upon, but the solid basis of an unassailable christian character? An honesty that through fair weather 'f, - "-Rt —' I -- and foul, against wind or wave, sunshine or he a, ic comes out stilt "a rock." An industry that in spite of all monotony of spot or lot. in discharge of every debt and duty keeps its head above water, like a rock standing where Providence had fixed it. A forethought that takes a high but not haughty view of things beyond it, in its exemplary provisions for the future, like the head-land that is at once a beacon and obser vatory to the horizon that surrounds it. A hospitability that bids the parched hungry wayfarer welcome to its simple board, in the image of the Scriptures, " like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." A sobriety and firmness that when the tempest roars above its brow, and the waves dash only them selves to pieces at its feet, and wind and tide brawl round it like a drunken phrenzy, stands lofty and immovable as the rock in the seas. And a piety whose sacred melody was pitched to no earthly tune. but owes its sweet household har mony, like the sculptured granite of Thehais, to the vocalising light of Heaven,—this is the rock on which the homely philo sopher and Christian builds, and it stands the onslaught of the storm, when like the pulses of creation in her fever, the ele ments beat never so furiously against its walls! But let us stP -- a g"-- eai impse a. interior of the dwelling. How happy mother looks down on the chubby-cherub face of baby number seven, asleep on her knee, so like his father, in all his innocence, playfalness, simplicity, and every thing ex cept the tint of anxiety . at odd times, when work was scarce and wages low, and theirapnetites had rather the start of their provender. There's actually a bit o' lace on baby's cap, for it had been christened that morning, and the old christening cap that had stood as a sort of mute sponsor for all seven of them. looked neat and clean and white as ever, as if it had been bleached over and over again, with its repeated washings in yonder spring water, which flowed as clear as their mother's conscience, soft as her heart, and unsullied as her character. The very cradle in whicn baby will be beguiled just now, seems to smell sweeter and rock gentler than most other infant equi pages. And mark you those six tin cans ranged orderly and tidily along the tables, burnished bright as mirrors that re flected in each shining oval the merry phiz of its particular milk-bibber. The young tipplers had never tasted any thing stronger than warm porridge in their lives, yet locked all the fairer and comlier for their diet, like the pul-e-fed Hebrew youths at Babylon. They are waiting, not for supper, for that's been ready this half-hour,—mother is never behindhand with meals nor anything else if she can help it,—" an hour for everything, and everything in its hour" is her rule, " or else," says she, "breakfast things don't get off the table 'till it is time for dinner, and there's no time for tidying anything be tween them." " I wonder where's father," says Arthur, the biggest boy at 14, who has lately got a job of work, and coming home hungry after his day's labour, wants his supper. " Will he be long