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Eiter a tur ts. NOTICES Blackwood's Magazine The number for July contains matter, an article on Jean Paul Fri ily makes the s him how tc der a( nexion with Sir kola' among much valuable cderick Richter, which ainted with the man, but The polit )11 of the Currency, measures. " A Tale not Slew artic Easorcha Club, at Bu, Dublin Ul ish Lakes, travel and the picture abdication, to the :11 written, in the pr the pri in.tbrmation and am Parliament," the an gut in gre members of the nev Roden and Monteagh ministry receive a stir tolicy, in an article enti Ram Slick is an ingei thost story, with no Seeing the Devil," Peel's r a terrific idea of the power of R Teity Magazine f the I " Leaves from the comprehend a most impor- s Song of tht Light fora Life of Princ Cant p Marsl Blackicom ther, ar including 1401 )n and the Whi )n for their foreign must, some day or e men English- respect a 1 princir f rami No. T. of I,egislators" cor to no less than fled . " The Portuguese Question." ous fellow : last month he had a ehost ; this month he has a tale, with a similar result. " Lathom s us so wel our readers will find a - great portion of it appropriated to eur columns VARIETIES A. French surgeon asserts that, by exposing men and animals to a galvanic current from Clarke's magneto electro apparatus, he has succeeded in rendering them as insensible to pain as if they had inhaled sulphuric ether. ANECDOTE OF CARLES Fox.—l have heard a good story of our friend, Charles Fox. When his house in the coun- up the next hill to instance of philoso- ike a drawing of the fire! the y I ever heard of.—Cottle Reminiscences THE LOVE OF TRUTH.-0 love of truth ! believer in all good and beautiful things ! Believer even in one's self, and therefore believer in others, and such as are far better than one's self ! Putter of security into the heart, of solidity into the ground we tread upon, of loveliness into the flowers, of hope into the stars ! Retainer of youth in age, and of comfort in adversity ! Bringer of tears into the eyes that look upon these imperfect words, to think how large and longing the mind of man is, com pared with his frail virtues and his transitory power. And What mornings of light and abundance thou hast in store, nevertheless, for the whole human race, preparing to ripen for them in accordance with their belief in its pos sibility, and their resolution to work for it in loving trust ! Then, oh ! shall they be thought guilty of deserting thee, because out of the very love of truth they feel themselves bound to proclaim to what extent it does not exist—be cause out of the very love of truth they will not suffer those who care nothing first to pretend to a re ligious zeal in its behalf, when the lie is to be turned against them selves ?—Leigh Hunt's Men, Women. and Books. BIRKENHEAD Doc KS.--The regulations for the 'management of the docks, the dues, the lading an d un lading, the warehousing, the railway transit,—all seem to be framed in a liberal spirit, and to be capable of adaption to any requirements of commerce. Of the shipping of Birkenhead it is not yet time to speak. Two months only have elapsed since the first dock was opened; and the entries have as yet necessarily been but few. The future must mark out its own course. The bale of cotton for the Lancashire and Cheshire factories, the indigo and dye stuffs for the calico-printer, the silk from India and Italy, the timber from Canada and the Baltic. the tea from the east, and the sugar from the west, the tobacco, the rum, the rice, the foreign corn—all have (if we may so say it) a sort of commercial instinct, which tells them with won where they will find the most fitting me. Be it Liverpool or Birkenhead, md,—Commerce will find out her own for the townsmen of each place to do, and how far they will proceed, in bores. The future, too, must say gs at Birkenhead in respect to ex endence will be quite as much on . When the North Staffordshire it will place the Pottery towns in with the route to London by the h Chester and Birkenhead by the .kenhead will then be in an admi- derful quicknes home and and v. Fleetwood or II best path: and show what they inviting her to thei what will be the d not for the Potteries. Then again: d and Manchester line is completed, 'heshire will have a direct outlet for at Birkenhead; and Sheffield cut am iron, may, perchance, find their way The young child, Birkenhead, is .carting into manhood. May it follow worthily ommercial footsteps of its great neighbour—Liver- The Land we live in. nense pro'' Rothe-' THE BRITISH NAvY.—Who has not in his time gazed with wcnder on those floating castles which the citizen of England from time to time sees hovering on his coast, the watchful ,es of his island hot You are a dwel day and summer month, er in cities—you are lying, in some holi listlessly upon the beach—the _ u, illimitable—and it almost terri fies the imagination to think of men passing out there iin that wild waste of waters, given up to the two unthink ing and gigantic powers of wind and wave, that have no more respect for man or his structures than if they were still in the liberty of chaos. That men do go forth to the uttermost ends of the world seems a thing almost fabulous —incredible. You have eaten of the lotus leaf : why should they go ?—go from the firm sheltering earth, to lay their lives upon the winds ? But now comes in sight a wail ; the extended wing floats unfluttered ; the tall taper ing masts are visible; it moves imperturbable, like a god upon the waters. And look at that tongue of flame drawn back with a serpent's swiftness, and that wreath of whitest vapour that steals out from its side so soft and graceful !—is that the deadly shot that levels stoutest walls, and puts to silence the bastion and the fort ? So beautiful—so strong !—it walks the waves, how fearless ! great ocean is before and nothing on the sea can harm it, and nothing on the shore resist. Where now are the great waters that swal lowed up all enterprise, and smote the heart with despair ? The sea is ours !—we live, we revel, we figEt, we conquer on it. The ship casts anchor, and you rush with many others upon the shore, and you enter a skiff, which will take you off to a nearer survey of this great visitor. You approach, and mount the sides of this floating arsenal. Is this the thing you saw moving light as a bird upon the horizon ? You look down as from a house-top. That yacht which bore its pennon so gallantly in the air, and s now moored under the stern, can just lay its flut lid deck you are walking. Look eight ; look up—and you for there rises the enor laying its steady spars tering flag on th down -you are giddy with th are again level with the water mous mast, piercing the against the blue ether. I that makes t broad Can ull with all its iron stores, 0 Clas merdin ! bound —thou ,f the wave a-defended ifice thou art ich, and so great, is the Lp upon the deep to the p thy homes for ever un- touched by the in s Magazine, ad-school of It has done g sentiment ( 'HEIR TEACHERS. - -- - The Douglas Lism is clearly a foreign importa e to enervate the manly and truth : English mind than all the circurn- man's condition ,epreas the working ,ults of that propa i as her special mission— statics of the gull fire, and sword, is spirits of her universal One of the ,ndism which I and desolation, b Grande Arnie'e. )eace be assumed d. TI .ye its c lAATHOM HOUSE, AND THE STANLEY FAMILY (From Fraser's Magazine) Lathom House, seated on a flat, boggy tract of land, and encompassed by a wall of two yards in thickness, was, in days of yore, as strong a domestic fortress as any armed host might invest, or general view in silent despair. On the wall above mentioned were raised nine towers, each of them planted with six pieces of ordnance, so mounted as to enfilade the country, and command every approach. A moat, twenty-four feet in breadth, and six in depth, sur rounded this strong wall, between which and the grass was a row of palisades. From the centre of the house rose the ogle Tower, surmounting the whole edifice, and con acted, in the remeTbranee of the first owners of the he- ritage, with a tale of no common interest. On each side of the gate-house, at the entrance of the first court, frowned a strong tower, and in these, in time of siege, were stationed the best marksmen to harass the assail - ants. Thus stood Lathom House in the days of its first owners, the De Fitz-Henrys, or De Lathoms, when an incident is said to have occurred which, whether real or imaginary seems to be worth describing •t de Fitz-Henry, in the time of the Plantagenets, pted the surname of Lathom, from his place of as Lathom, in the Iloy, that inherit lv honours, Sir Tho n of Henry IV., enjoyed, with o No son promised to prolong tl were vested in the young Isabel, the heir gad lands, for whose favour knight and noble huM bly proferred suit. One day, however, as Sir 'I homas and his lady were walking in their park at Lathorn, they were startled by loud cries ; the place was solitary, but in no direction could they perceive any object. They soon, however, discovered that an eagle had its nest in that se cluded spot, and on searching the eyrie, an infant, in rich swaddling clothes, was found lying unharmed within its warm enclosure. Sir Thomas and Lady Lathom were not devoid of the superstitions of the day, and they had its pious charity, too. The foundling was a boy; they adopted him, and, bestowing on him the name of Lathom, intended, it is said, to leave him heir to that estate. So far goes Tradition, but Reason steps in, and dispels a por tion of the romance. Sir Thomas, it appears, owned a base-born son, whom he was desirous of introducing into his lineage. He, therefore, had the infant conveyed to that spot, where, by an appointed " chance," if one may so speak, lie and his lady walked just when the child was deposited, as if dropped from the eagle's nest, in a safe, retired nook. Sir Thomas managed his part well. He of rearing the little stranger as their heir. Lady Lathom —excellent Mrs. Shandy as she was—assented, and the child was brought up in all the odour of legitimacy. He was christened Oskately, and, at the usual age, knighted by Edward 111. He assumed, too, for his crest, an eagle flying from a child which it had left uninjured on the ground ; " the fictions of romance" being, as old Collins observes, " sufficient for the whimsical distinctions" of heraldry. (Profanely does he speak!) So far Isabel La thorn ran a narrow chance of being treated with injustice, but Conscience interfered. Sir Thomas, before his death, acknowledged his son to be illegitimate; and having en dowed him with certain manors, bequeathed to Isabel the greater portion of his possessions, and amongst them La thorn House. And now, how did the Stanley family profit by all this ? Who were they ? Whence came they ? How comported they themselves in all the various stages of their greatness —in its dawn—in its zenith ? They flourished in Plantagenet times by the appellation of Audleigh, or Audley ; the younger branch took the name of Stanleigh, or Stanley, from a Moorland Manor in Staffordshire, with which they were endowed ; and one of these, a valiant follower of our most valiant Edward 111., won by his gallantry in the lists, the love of the heiress of the De Fitz-Henrys. Thus passed the wide domains of Lathom with the Lordship of Man into the possession of the illustrious house which still retains the former ; but which conveyed the latter as a woman's dower to the house of Athole, that it might be surrendered to the Eng lish crown for the sum of £70,000. It were long to tell the gradual progress of this great family in honours, wealth, and fame. One interruption to it happened in the dark reign of Henry VII., when, de spite his services at Bosworth Field, Sir William Stanley, not of Lathom but of Holt Castle, Cheshire, lost his head on the scaffold for an idle speech. But it was, in truth, Sir William Stanley's great wealth that moved the jea lousy of the hard-hearted, hard-headed monarch ; for, says Lord Bacon, in his Life of Henry VII., Sir W. Stanley was the richest subject for value in the kingdom, " and for his revenue in land and fee, it was £3OOO a-year old rent, a very great matter in those times." However, he was courageous enough to believe, and I am apt to agree with him, that Perkin Warbeck was no impostor, a conclusion which Henry's very precautions seem to autho rise ; for ere he dispersed his band of spies throughout the kingdom, be caused them, says Lord Bacon, to be so lemnly caned at Paul's Cross," in order to destroy any impression that these lofty-minded men were honoured with royal patronage. Thomas Stanley, the first earl of Derby, was a great man in great times, being the brother-in-law of Neville earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, and the friend of Hastings. The loyal servant of Edward IV., he loved, for that monarch's sake, the fair and ill-starred boy his successor, whose fate is but dimly shadowed in the chronicles of that period. For his sake—that of the fifth Edward—Stanley encountered the hatred of Richard 111. The tragedy of Hastings' death is familiar to every one. Who, indeed, can forget it that remembers the Jane Shore of Miss O'Neill? that powerful, passionate, and finished acting, which gave even to the irresolute Hastings' fate so deep an interest. The night before the death of Has tings, a dream visited the slumbers of his friend Stanley. He instantly informed Hastings of it, and begged him to fly from the scene of peril, But Hastings was imprac ticable. On the following day he was seized at the coun cil board of the Tower, and his head struck off; whilst Stanley with difficulty escaped the blow of a halbert aimed at him. The portentous dream was mournfully recalled, and the rash incredulity of Hastings censured ; for "a boar" (I quote from the authority of Sir Thomas More), " with his tusks had " (in Stanley's dream) " so razed them both that the blood ran about their shoulders." Stanley escaped with a short imprisonment, and married soon afterwards the justly celebrated Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII., and the foundress of Christ's and St. John's Colleges in the University of Cambridge; and it became Stanley's fate to pluck the crown from the brow of the usurper Richard, as he lay dead on the field of Bosworth, and to place it on the head of another usurper, namely, his own step-son, of pious and avaricious memory. Whereupon," writes Arthur Collins, with solemn emphasis, "he was advanced to the dignity of an earl, by the title of Earl of Derby; " and he went on flourishing and accumulating dignities and wealth until the year 1504, when he was buried in Burscough Priory, adjacent to Lathom, having provided his tomb—the fashion in those days—with a perpetual remembrance to be prayed for. --- Of this Sir Thomas there is still a memento at Knowsley in a portrait of a stern man in black, wearing a George. He left a goodly band of sons and daughters, of whom the former maintained the valiant character of the house. I pass over a track of smaller stars, just here and there noting down some one other of peculiar brilliancy. By way of instance, bear with me, ye hasty readers, whilst I dwell for one brief page or so on the virtues of Edward, Earl of Derby, in Elizabeth's days, one of her privy council, and so chosen, notwithstanding he had served her royal sister—a rare instance of that Tudor penetration, which might well be called kingcraft, and which the Stuarts never possessed—the liberal selfishness of employ ing superior men, even though their talents had formerly been engaged in the service of a foe. This nobleman ap pears to have been a pattern of all the lordly virtues. His greatness supported his goodness, and ins goodness endeared his greatness. His great birth put him above all private respect, but his great soul never above public service. Indeed, he repaired, by ways thri what his family had impaired by neglect." It happened, unluckily for the Stanleys claimed kindred with the blood royal. This w the Nevilles, the King-maker's family, the La _ Neville, or Alianore, having married the first' Alianorc ried the first Earl of Derby. Nov Lad aunt to the Princess Anne, the consort of le all of that race. Still is were loyal, their fidelity incorrupt ; but their that they as through ly Eleanor having r Eleanor NI lichard 111 Wo seen fate was ad came the vic earl of ,Perby, be- who tempted him, but in vain, to assume the title of king. The youth was wise, and rejected that counsel. He was, however, threatened by Hesket with sudden death if he exposed the plot,—nay, even if he hesitated to give his compliance to it. The high spirit of the Stan- ket was apprehend ; but the you He did not expire suddenly ; tortured the ill- ,den, as b, a post ft ;ftlaita no man ( it the even atter d wrar d it .was, fter all, domestic entleman of the earl's I ,nd taking t indeed made to prove that the ( old wom of tieing a v kwards, said zs that, if neated TIE kit STANDARD. lotte de la Tremouille, countess of Derby, was the daugh ter of Claude de la Tremouille, due de Thouars, and of the Lady Charlotte, daughter of William, the first prince of Orange, and of Charlotte de Bourbon his wife. Such was the descent of the justly celebrated countess ; and she inherited the valour and judgment of her ancestor of the House of Orange. At a very early age Charlotte de la Tremouille was united to the earl, and their union was truly propitious— mutual affection, congeniality of character, immense wealth, high reputation, were their blessings. To these were added, in due time, the felicity of children, both numerous and promising. " This marvellous picture," observes a modern writer, "of almost superhuman felicity, was doomed to be torn in pieces and scattered to the winds, by the accursed demon of faction and rebellion." Beauty, as far as we can judge by the portrait of Van dyke, preserved in the family collection, was not the attri bute of the illustrious Charlotte. She is represented by the matchless pencil as fat and clumsy, with ordinary features, except the eye, which, though at first sight it may appear sleepy, has a mine of thought buried beneath those over-hanging lashes. Dressed according to the custom of the day, her hair in slender ringlets, a rich pearl in her hair, a single row round her neck, her dress of white satin, with full-hanging sleeves trimmed with several rows of large pearls, and fastened by a brooch of rich gems, one looks in vain for that aristocratic bearing to which the descendant of a Bourbon seems entitled even by birth. There is, it must be confessed, more of the Dutch than of the French genealogy, expressed in the form and features of Charlotte de la•Tremouille. Her husband. on the other hand, bore that impress Of high birth which it is scarcely possible to define, but which we feel by daily experience to exist. His brow was indeed low, and his long hair fell over it so as to shroud it ; but his eyes are full of animation, the nose is fine and well formed, the mouth surmounted by a slight mous tache, is expressive of much sweetness. He is depicted, also by Vandyke, in a suit of armour, over which his long locks, scarcely curled, flow freely. The earl had been little known until he appeared before the world in his military character. He passed the first years of his happy marriage in a princely privacy, super intending the various establishments of his father in the Isle of Man, and attending to the morals of a population who owned the Earls of Derby as their kings, and honoured them with a filial affection. His leisure from these momentous pursuits were spent in literature and philosophy ; and among other productions, his " History of the Isle of Man," preserved in the Desiderata Curiosq, is still valued. Not long, however, after his accession to the title, he was called by his duty to his sovereign into the field. The motto, " Sans changer," anciently adopted by the elder branch of the Stanleys, was not falsified by this valiant man. He was among the first of the nobility to raise forces for the king, the first to attend the summons of the monarch—never to desert that cause whilst life remained. He was at Lathom when intelligence was brought to him that a design was formed to take the Isle of Man : he hastened thither. Throwing into his house at Lathom a few soldiers, and collecting such arms and ammunition as he could, he left it for ever. His countess and her children remained behind ; and scarcely had Lord Derby reached the Isle of Man, when she heard that her house would be attacked—she feared, by a sudden assault. Her soldiers were raw, inexpe rienced countrymen, but they were faithful ; and among her garrison there was a Captain Farmer, a veteran officer, trained to war in that famous school, the Low Countries. Lady Derby having discerned his merit, made him major of the house ; and placed under his command six captains, chosen from among the gentlemen of her house hold. Under these, again, were the common soldiers listed, trained by them and instructed. These prepara tions were skilfully concealed, and such was the fidelity of her household, that when the enemy approached they had no idea of any other forces than her own servants being within the house. On the 28th of February, 1644, Sir Thomas Fairfax, willing, perhaps, to spare the countess the horrors of a siege, desired a conference. She consented. He was re ceived in the great hall of Lathom. As he entered the first court, the wary general was struck by the'aPPearance of what seemed a considerable force. Not only the main guard occupied the first court, but men were ranged in open sight, on the top of the walls, and on the towers, in such a manner as to appear more numerous than they really were. This was done by the advice of Captain Farmer, not only to prevent a surprise, but to intimidate the enemy by appearance of strength, for the army which besieged Lathom amounted to 4,000 men. Sir Thomas, and a gentleman of quality who accompanied him, were received with a lofty courtesy. But when he offered terms, the lady required a month's delay to consider of them. " Not a day's," was the reply, and Fairfax departed. He was ;till uncertain whether to commence a regular siege, or to attempt to take the place by storm ; but he was deceived by a mean negotiation between one of his officers and the chaplain of the house, into the belief that the countess had no store of provisions. He therefore decided on a siege : for fourteen days hostilities were de layed—then, supposing that her supplies were exhausted, he summoned the countess to surrender. The answer, sent by a trumpeter, was worthy the heroine who penned it. It was this :—" That, as she had not lost her regard for the Church of England, nor her allegiance to her prince, nor her faith to her lord, she could not, therefore, as yet, give up the house ; that they must never hope to gain it till she had either lost all of these, or her life, in defence of them." And this reply came after a torturing continuance of suspense of fourteen days. The seige now began in earnest, and it continued with out let or intermission during a space of three months. Many were the gallant feats of arms which distinguished the sorties made by the garrison ; and well was the spirit of the men sustained by the heroic courage of their mis tress. She feared neither shot nor shell. More than once a cannon-ball passed through the chamber, and much was she annoyed by the fire of a mortar—a new engine of war in those days—at least to the troops which held Lathom House. But she made light of every peril which threatened her own person, and taught her people, by the example which she set, to prefer death to dishonour. These things have occurred elsewhere, therefore we need not dwell upon them. But possibly the following little anecdote may interest, though that, too, might be paralleled, had we leisure, at this moment, to look about for its fac-simile. It happened, during the progress of the siege, that a dog, belonging to some gentleman in the house, proved himself a friend to man in a very remarkable manner. The chap lain, who managed all correspondence carried on by the garrison with their friends without, by means of ciphers, was in great want of some means of conveying his de spatches out of the house, surrounded on every side, as it was, by enemies ; till, observing that a dog was in the habit of going to and fro from his master in the house t o his mistress, who lived a short distance from it, he deter mined to make the animal his messenger. Having tied his despatch, tightly rolled, by a thin string, to the neck of the animal, he managed to convey intelligence of it to the gentlewoman, wife of the dog's master, and directed her to forward all she received, as she best could, to his majesty. She did po ; and having kept the trusty crea ture by her for a day or so without food, she then turned him out of doors, and he invariably returned to his mas ter in Lathom House. By this means the poor besieged inhabitants sent intelligence of their condition to the king and his friends, and received in their turn news back from them. For many months the faithful animal discharged this important office, bringing encouragement to the gar rison, enabling them to know on what they might de pend ; so that, having accurate information of the state of the king's affairs, they were never excited by false hope, nor too much cast down by the disappointment of ill-founded expectations. But the fate of the faithful dog was melancholy. One day, when returning to the house,. laden with tidings as usual, an idle soldie r discharged his musket at the poor creature. The dog, true to his trust, managed to drag himself near the gate with his precious cargo, and then laid himself down and died. His death deprived the garrison of a most sure and trusty friend, and of the greatest comfort and solace of which their con dition was susceptible—the means of communication with the outer world. During three months the contest was protracted, but Charlotte de la Tremouille prevailed. The parliamentary general, on the 27th of May, withdrew his forces to Bol ton. Four thousand men had been planted before the walls of Lathom, two thousand alone marched away, such had been the slaughter; and the Eagle Tower still rose us in its untouched strength, the banner of the s waving proudly over it. A short interval of was there in the halls of Lathom, and a brief season of repose to the noble Charlotte, before another host appeared before the gates. No longer were the cropped locks and demure faces of the parliamentarians there. No, a gallant band, headed by one of the hand somest cavaliers of his time, came riding gaily and tri- in half-f+ Lathom House RuDer At ten feet dist THE GREED HUNT. (Prom the Dublin Univerdtp Magazine) Had I to minister to a mind diseased—to one that ever stoops so wearily to count the thorns that pierce his feet upon his earthly path, that he forgets to look upon the radiance shining overhead—l would lead him forth on a still, calm summer's night in Greece, and bid him enter into the spirit of that unutterable rest which pervades its very atmosphere ; not on a starry night, when the marvel of the illimitable worlds might allure him to plunge lamp less into the darknesi of the mystery around us—a mental torture to which there is no anguish comparable—but when only the moon, serene in lonely beauty, walks in her brightness over that vault of pure blue ether, without one passing cloud between the sunset and the dawning to mo lest her silvery path, or obstruct her steady gaze upon the beautiful world. benign as that of a mother on her slum- bering child. lam certain there is no pang, save that of remembered crimes, that would not vanish stingless be neath that wonderful repose. But who has not often won dered to see how those placid moonbeams fall, alike com placently, on all that nature can show forth most lovely, and all that man has made most foul, glancinz from the fair face of the sleeping infant, to the guilty head of the murderer as he skulks out to his deeds of darkr —from the lonely valley in its silent loveliness, to the crowded city where Mammon sits enthroned ; and to-night, these beams are shed without reserve on the once fair and fallen Corinth, radiant alike upon the snow-white mournful ruins of her memory-haunted temples, and on the Mos- . Lein Bey's great palace of luxury, brilliant with the red glare of its many lamps—the splendid receptacle for au thorised crimes. Kyamil Bey lay at the foot of a tall palm tree within his vast and beautiful garden ; his couch was a leopard skin, and his head was pillowed on the knees of a young negro, who sat upright, motionless as a statue of bronze ; before him danced a group of female slaves, gliding with graceful, undulating movement amongst the trees, and singing softly as they flitted by. * r Fehim,' said the Bey, "I am sick of this insipid life ! —are my soldiers asleep that they bring me no more pri soners, no plunder, no slaves !" " Highness ! only yesterday they were out scouring the country, and they brought in some fifty or sixty pairs of ears." " Bah ! what child's play is this ? Were there no heads !" " But few, great master ! I could scarce string them into a necklace for your humble slave," said the negro, with a horrible grin. " Mashallah these idle slaves will do no good till I ride with them myself ; and this is not a time to let our hand lie lightly on these Ghiaour dogs. They say the re bel Ipsilanti has dared to land not far from hence. Fehim, I must find means to shew these wily infidels that they shall not draw their necks from beneath my feet so easily." " What say you to a Greek hunt, noble master," said the Nubian, laughing low. "It is long since your High ness has been at the chase." " True ! and by the beard of my father it is good sport; but I have hunted over these provinces so often, that now the lazy rebels will not run ; they lie down beneath the horses' feet at once ; it is wearisome to slaughter them without a chase." " But if your Highness would condescend to ride to wards the mountains, we might have noble sport. I know a certain village, where they scarcely know the taste of Turkish steel." " Good ! good ! we should find them fresh and full of fire then : 1 long for some such sport. Fehim, let all be ready for a distant hunt at the break of day ; you shall guide us to the spot, and I myself will start the game." * * * It was the feast of St. Nicholas. * * * Singing and dancing, tossing their red caps in the air, and waking up the long-slumbering echoes with their joyous voices, the peasant troop had already descended from the cliff, and proceeded in all safety to traverse the flat table land on which their village stood. But it suffices of one single moment, when it springs from the infinite, freighted by destiny, to change the voice of gladness for the shriek of terror, the tranquil happiness for deepest misery, and the dream-haunted slumber for the cold lethargy of death ! Suddenly, from that gay, peaceful band, there rises one spontaneous cry— " The Turks ! the Turks !—amaun ! amaun !" It was no false alarm. Sweeping on towards them, with their sabres glittering in the sun, appears a warlike troop of stately Moslems. Side by side with the Bey of Corinth, rides the terrible negro, Fehim, mounted on one of the horses of Arnaout, so famed for their size and strength, and holding in leash a number of those fierce Macedonian hounds, whose incredible swiftness and cou rage, and savage fury when provoked, render them a dan gerous and deadly foe to man. It may seem, that thus to describe a " Greek hunt," or even to give so horrible a title to the causeless and needless massacre it is intended to express, can only be an unwarrantable exaggeration, or a most unnecessary attempt to render still more striking the miseries endured by the Hellenic people under the Mos lem rule. But such is by no means the case ; the name is not an invention, but was currently in use among the Turks, as defining most clearly an amusement to which they were greatly addicted, whether from motives of re venge at any symptom of rebellion, as in the present case, or from the mere craving for excitement and unnatural thirst for blood. It consisted simply in going up with their dogs and their horses to some quiet village, and giv ing chase to the wretched inhabitants as they fled before them, till they had fairly run them down, and could mas sacre them at their leisure. But at least, we may hurry over the recital, for it can profit little that we should dwell on the details of a scene so revolting as to seem indeed but the production of a diseased imagination, if ever one single imagination could have - conceived that human beings could be systematically hunted down by their own fellow creatures. Shrieking and imploring mercy, over the rocks the vic tims fled, whilst Kyamil Bey, his eye glaring with excite ment, led on the terrible band that followed them, shout ing in their unhallowed mirth. The women were for the most part torn down by the dogs and speedily dispatched ; the men afforded a more exciting sport, as, striving with their peculiar swiftness of foot to outstrip the horses that were thundering after them, they strained every nerve in one wild effort to escape—an effort perfectly unavailing, for, when they were not cut to pieces by the sword, the Moslems, all admirable marksmen, took aim at them with their long tupheks, and brought them down at once. None escaped; for although some, favoured by the quickly deepening twilight, hid themselves amongst the rocks and bushes, their fate was perhaps still more terrible than that of the easier victims. who already lay stiff in their blood, beyond the power of man to make them suffer more—for, with the first dawn of light, they knew their enemies would be astir, to track out with the bloodhounds every lingering victim, and even if by a miracle they escaped them, they must infallibly perish at last of h Inger and thirst. A RAILWAY WITNESS ON RAILWAY COMMITTEES. — The question which I once lilt to you before, and which I certainly would put to Mat plucky little fellow Lord John Russell, if I happened to have the honour of his acquaintance, is simply this—Would it not be better that the evidence which is now taken before committees of the House of Commons on railway and other bills should be given in Scotland, Ireland, and the provinces, before a paid commission and on oath ? Certain lam that the work would be far better done. Results would be more accurately brought out, the truth would be better sifted, and there would be an end to that profligate system of demoralisation which is doing no good to London, and is rapidly corrupting such of us as are necessarily drawn within its influence. Honorable members would be re lieved from a harassing , tediou s, and laborious duty; and their legislative functions need not be interfered with, as h yHanoudsf tho roughly oo therci Commons yon sifted. printed is evidence i e lA ne e st c w s present e o s ge u ni l s d fall a at o a l rm l te t hm o a nh b ea e r m l a e . s r u et rheel railway ma r chine. He has not time to study the merits of the vast public questions which ought above every thing to claim his attention ; for his whole day is occupied with a dreary detail of curves, gradients and sections and by being compelled to do too much, he is crippled in the exercise and discharge of by far his most important functions. And further, the railway .interest is already too widely spread in the House of Commons. Almost every member has an interest, direct or indirect, in some particular — line or company ; and it is impossible to expect that in every case there shall not be a particular sway or bias in the minds of some of the judges. This is not right nor decent. The leading quality which is required of a judge in every department is a strict and thorough impartiality, and an absolute renunciation of every interested motive ;—and no sacrifice on the part of the public can be too great to at tain so desirable an end. It would be well for us if, dur ing the last and the preceding. year, country members had been more occupied with watching the attitude and the proceedings of the ministry, and less with the conflicting statements of rival companies and engineers. Had they been attending to the Currency and the Corn-laws, we ought ' escaped from a commercial crisis_ Wt•' to have even the railway shareholder, as I imagine, has been to lerably severely pinched. And really, Ido not think that we are compensated in the sight of Heaven, by our five guineas a-day, for the enormous immoralities which w , contract in this overgrown and seductive city. ' some thousands of us here, all living like plethoric game cocks ; and, so far as I can gather, going, in plain lan cuage, as fast as possible to the devil. I wish you saw the -able which takes place in the lobby of the committee A perfect torrent of engineers, sur solicitors, agents, and witnesses—in the middle of which, every here and there, appears the cauliflower head —l —pours up the stairs. The refreshment table up with thirsty demons, all clamorous for their matutinal tea having failed to quench thr nereditary drought. You wrestle - • committee-room, and before the ir come the edified auditor of such sr I rooms at twelve Lightning Pantasa Lady Wildair Poynton Lothario Chanticleer . Inheritress Brocardo.... The Conjuror Yardley Inglewood .. Cossack Gwalior Picnic Conspiracy Fitzallen Crown Prince Don John and we when we of the" embers meet, you b as of information as of health an finally to br ment. A —" Whaur d'ye thinkJimsey and me gaed 'ter ' The Judge and Jury ?' "—" I'm sure )me deil's buckie's errand; I'se be bound." ! we gaed tae the Puckadully Saloon ; and .e took twa turns an opera dancer in the man ! she N telt me 3unt Dorsy our did ye gang t."—" Weel, I I dinna mind : I v le better mysel'. red wi' twa 1' to my w n seen tk Ye should gang the been ftin tae. Heel' me, I've got a sal quae down to the lobby, and we'll ha€ with a wee thing o' brandy bail it."- ncl yet Blackwood'it Mag SIR DIGBY MACWORTH, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. (From a Correspondent.) It affords us extreme pleasure in transferring to our columns the following extract from the speech of Mr. Colquhoun, M.P., which was delivered at the opening dinner of the National Club House, on the 12th May •last. When referring to the desertion of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, from their true Protestant princi ples, the hon. member said :—" We could no longer re main members of a party, which had abandoned the principles upon which it was constructed. A new task fell upon us. This seems the occasion when I should offer my tribute to services little known. Years ago—l think in 1839—an honourable friend, now present, came to London, and had an interview with a noble friend of mine and with several others. He urged upon us the duty, which he thought then plain, of forming a Protest ant union, based upon distinct principles, which should not fluctuate with fluctuating opinions, nor be subject. to be perverted by political parties, but which should remain fixed on the solid ground of enduring principle. I am bound to say,.(l say it to my own shame,) we shrunk from the proposal then made us. Perhaps the time was -" not come,—certainly our courage was no. Ne did not feel that we could then face the obloquy, the painful severance from party, the position of isolation, as it would seem of presumption, which we should assume. We one and all shrank back. We admitted that we could not place full trust in Sir Robert Peel, but we had great hopes. There were bad omens ; there were things said which we did not like ; there were things left unsaid which alarmed us. But still, we said, where else can we look for a Government ? We see, among the ranks of those who will form it, men of principle ; can we doubt that when in power, they will do their duty ? My lord, various events ensued—great changes ; principles avowed which we disliked, measures which we were forced to resist; finally, the Maynooth Bill. There was room for no longer hesitation. The time was come. We gave our doubts to the winds ; and then we remembered the ad vice and the injunctions of Sir Digby Mackworth, and in the midst of difficulty and discouragement, we cheered ourselves with the confidence which his assurance gave ; we remembered the reliance which he placed on the sound Protestant feeling of England ; we cheered ourselves, above all, on that highest support to which his words and his example pointed ' • we felt that if our cause was good, lie that guides a good cause would not fail us. We did, therefore, under the pressure of strong circumstances, as your Grace well remembers (the Duke of Manchester), with you at our head, form the National Club." Thus we are chiefly indebted to the keen discrimina tion, and timely suggestion of our gallant candidate, Sir Digby Mackworth, for the existence of that powerful and influential Association, which will for ever uphold the preeminence of genuine Protestantism in the constitution of our country ; in despite of all the opposition and in trigues of a dissatisfied and apostatical few. We hope the Protestant electors of Liverpool will bestir themselves, and each resolve to do his duty in returning Sir Digby, and thus show to the country at large, that they are still true and honest to their principles. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1847 CCEPTANCES FOR THE CUP. yrs. st.lb. .... 6.. 8 5 Sheraton ▪ ..5.. 8 5 Princess Alice. •.. 5.. 8 5 Quadruped . .... 4.. 8 4 Plaudit . aged.. 8 4 Comet ....4.. 8 4 Hydrometer . aged.. 8 3 Woodpecker .... 4.. 7 12 Flahowlah .... 4.. 7 12 Romance aged.. 7 8 Punch .... 6.. 7 8 Wanot,a .... 4.. 7 5 Camera Obscura .... 3.. 7 5 Pavilion .... 5.. 7 5 Wiseacre .. 5.. 7 4 The Lamb .... 4.. 7 2 Geraldine 5.. 7 2 Miss Castling.. .. 4.. 7 2 Queen Mary .. .. 4 7 1 yrs. st. lb. . 4.. 7 0 . 4.. 7 0 . 4.. 7 0 . 5.. 7 0 . 4.. 6 12 . 5.. 6 11 . 4.. 6 11 . 5.. 6 6 .4.. 6 6 . 4.. 6 6 . 3.. 6 0 . 4.. 5 10 . 3.. 5 10 . 3.. 5 10 . 4.. 5 8 . 4.. 5 8 . 4.. 5 .8 . 3.. 5 5 THE CROPS AND THE FOOD MARKETS Potatoes are looking most promising, not the slightest of disease being visible.—Kilkenny Journal. LIMERICK.—The reports hence are most cheering. Po tatoes have been dug in several districts, and found to be of the best quality. HARVEST PROSPECTS.—AII our provincial contempo raries concur in bearing testimony to the luxuriant and healthy appearance of the crops in their respective dis tricts. WATERFORD.—In the memory of man never was there such a magnificent appearance of a great harvest. All crops ara in a glorious state of progress. No blight here! No prospect of more causes of disease, famine, and death in this neighbourhood ! Waterford Chronicle. The bug-bear of the potato blight seems to - have en tirely disappeared, and we hear nothing either of Mr. Smee's vastator or Mr. Cooper's electricity.—Unhappily. we cannot yet be sure that disease will not attack the po tato ; but it is well to know that it has not.—Pilot: PROSPECTIVE CHEAPNESS OF POTATOES.—SO confi dent are the growers of the healthiness of the potato crop this year, that we were told on Thursday, by a highly respectable gentleman, of a farmer who had engaged to deliver five hundred loads in October, at five shillings per load!—Manchester Times. We have been favoured by Mr. Robert Jackson, Bally saxe, county Meath, with an ordinary specimen of white wheat the stalk of which measures four feet in length, and the ear is full and weighty. He assures us that the con dition of the oat and potato crops warrants the most san guine anticipations of an abundant produce.—Dublin Evening Herald. We have been requsted by a subscriber to state the latest periods at which the different varieties of turnips should be sown this, season (Swedes not included)—Aber deens till the 10th of July; Dales hybrid till the 31st of July ; but the sooner now that either of the above are sown the better. Norfolks and Globes at any time in July ; stone and Dutch turnips to the middle of August ; but, except on good land, and on well sheltered' stations, this is a late period at which to sow any kind of turnip.— Irish Farmers' Gazette, CHEAPNESS, OF VEGETABLES.—The supply of vegeta bles to the London markets is very abundant. At Co vent-garden, good new potatoes, not the least diseased, have been selling as low as Bs. per hundred weight, with a good supply. Lettuces were selling at 3d. per score ; cab bage plants, from 2s. to 2s. 6d. per dozen bunches ; cab bages, from 9d. to ls. 6d. per dozen, and other commodi ties equally cheap. So great has been the supply of haut boys and strawberries, that the hawkers of the metropolis were selling them about the streets at the low price of 2d. per pound. ARRIVALS OF GRAlN.—Upwards of 8,000 quarters of grain arrived at this port last week at two successive tides. One beautiful brig, the Warrior, of Montrose, has 2,000 quarters. Tho'se cargoes are all from foreign ports, and we hear that much more is on the way, From the pre-occupied state of our numerous granaries no stowage could be obtained, and in the meantime the vessels in which freights came had to be detained for want of better accommodation. This does not bear out the assertion of famine abroad with which interested parties alarmed us so much throughout the winter and spring. —Perth Con stitutional. THE. FOOD CROPS IN AMERlCA. — According to the New York Morning Herald, the prospects of the grain crop are highly promising in these countries. There are no blighted spots in the wide fields of the states. Some of the wheats were injured in the spring by the drought and the cold winds, but where they partially failed, fine crops of maize sown in their place had sprung up. The weather latterly had been very fine and feeding. Where tobacco, too, was unpromising, it has been superseded by spring wheat 'ai4 other grain. From the eastern states the accounts are most cheering, and a greater quantity of breadstuffs is expected than was ever before produced in one season. A much greater breadth of potatoes has also been sown than formerly. In New Jersey alone the surface sown with corn exceeds that of last year by 100,000 acres, which at a low estimate ought to yield four millions of bushels ! Pennsylvania ~rill yield more than an average crop. Michigan can this year spare 500,000 barrels of flour. The blight reached the southern portion of Racine and Walworth counties, but all through the northern, middle, and western sections, the standing grain presents a luxuriant appearance ; and it is confi- dently expected that the surplus for export will greatly I - -4 any former year. Last vp-- , f- exceec. at of _ ... —0 year's expos, .rona the territory was something over half a million of bushels The Wisconsin Sentinel says " There can be r doubt that the export of wheat and flour from v' There are I for the present year will r. The wheat- a million bushel the - other states are equally fortunate. ds in Canada also look most encouraging V isconsin " Many " IS THE POTATOE BLIGHTED tion of more than parliamentary or electioneering Interest pondent, whose name avouches to us his scien ledge, gives us a somewhat cheering view of th He argues that there is an analogy between —.table worlds. This will not appear s, • -- Ipsss an authority than the authc anim ) far fetche ation, in a very low d asure or of pain, as v This we have ob ,ut more fully our cc ever, says in a letter in the Limerick Ea is not the least shadow of a doubt but tl y instance the potatoes ,ilar accounts of diseas te expec are very muc in the notatc ; the vir table K 33 here ta . ined, of the potat _ bon are the aecoun ties ; for one stater gram than in an we been received We trt I assuredly the I Sligo, Clare, We ht. In much gri d to the cultivati ler year London pap into its courts ; and the voice of Prince Rupert, ign accents, was heard saluting the lady of t was, at thii period, in the full perfection of his ith, being twenty-five years of age. His portrait, and t of his less distinguished brother, Prince Maurice, afford specimens of the noblest style of manly beauty As you gaze upon them, in the hall of Warwick Castle limned by Vandyke, you feel how much such persons . . . csuch countenances, a bearing so aristocratic, yet so free, must have influenced the affections even of the rudest soldiery. Perhaps of the two, the handsomer is Maurice; but his is the more subdued countenance—the more effeminate expression, if such a term can be applied to either brother ; in Rupert, the hero alone appears. And heroic were those boyish words of his, uttered when hunt ing in some English park in 1633 : "Ah ! I wish I could break my neck, for then I should leave my bones in England !" (The conclusion next week.) CRATER OF VESUVIUS.—The con. tood on the ed !nit, and of no ge of a dark crater some two mi great depth. We experienced r 1-hot 1 lirough partial rents t direction of the sea, and Inc 3 the subterranean gas that of the bed of son caked the cooling maE nated the jets o lithur ter, and imp. apert Fthe funnel. -It p from ,f brim thA - 1 ting, and my feet were intermittent, probab lie surface of ignited al half grill i cis's Note:. in the chimney' , a great degree o: I character, Char July 6,184 x. THE APPROACHING GENERAL ELECTION. Mr. Macgregor, of the Board of Trade, has put up for Glasgow. If elected, he is to resign his official situation. A Cuxrency Reform Association has been formed at Paisley. The intention of Mr. Ewart to solicit again the repre sentation of Dumfries has been announced. He will be returned without opposition. _ The Hull Packet says there is a likelihood of Mr. Ser geant Wilkins becoming a candidate for the representation of a borough in Yorkshire at the forthcoming election. OLDHAM.—The friends of Messrs. Fielderr and Cobbett are vigorously prosecuting their canvass and speak in con fident terms of the successful result. . CABNARVONSHIRE AND BOROUGHS.—AII peace and quietness for our county and boroughs.—Election strife has taken wing across the Meirai ' and rages furiously among the Whi g s i n Anglesey. —North Wales Chronicle. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has issued an address to the electors of Reading, containing a " distinct avowal" that he will not consent to the endowment of the Roman Ca tholic Church. The Journal des , _Mats contains an article on the ap approaching general election in England, and anticipates from it a triumph for religious liberty by the return to Parliament of at least three members of the - Hebrew re ligion, the Barons Lionel and Meyer de Rothschild and Mr. David Salomons. REPRESENTATION OF RSACEBURN.—BIaCkbIIFTI is per fectly exempt from all agitation on the subject of the ap proaching election. No committees have yet beerrforrsed —no meetings held —no adifresses issued, All That is known on the subject is the fact that Mr. Hornby is ring to be put in nomination as one of the candidates. This is all that is certain. Lord John Russell issued a brief address to the electors of the city of London, on Monday, soliciting a rene.wat of their representation. On Saturday the Morning Herald announced that two new Conservative candidates' of high commercial standing would shortly be brought forward. With these there will be noless than nine can didates before the electors. MOVEMENT ON BEHALF OF FREE EDUCATION.—WiI are authorised to state, that two private meetings have been held, with the view of considering the propriety of taking early measures for the formation of a society for the promotion of popular education, exclusively on the voluntary principle. In order to receive the freest expres sion of opinion, and the most enlarged co-operation, it is intended, we are informed, to convene a conference of the friends of voluntary education throughout the country as soon as practicable after the ensuing election. The ar rangements will be formally announced in due otnirse.— Manchester Examiner. ..... • It is now generally supposed that the dissolution-of Par liament will take place on the 20th instant. Some think that the elections will be postponed until after the harvest; but there appears to be no reasonable ground for the-sup position. An election now-a-days, lasts only over one day; and if the preliminaries, in canvassing, and in syeech making, and carousing at parties be considered as Involv ing a task of exertion amongst the people, who by their votes are to sway the legislative influence of the country;-- then, we say, the sooner the election is fixed th e better,. so that the fatigue may be over, and leave "the labourers in the vineyard . " recruiting for the perhaps more profit able, and certainly more salutary occupation of gathering in the fruits of the earth. Besides, the candidates are all already selected and pitted, and the constituency may. by delay "go further and fare worse:" CORRESPONDENCE, PRINCE CONSTANTINE ON SNOWDON MOUNTAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MY DEAR Sta,—On the morning of the 27th, in company witn four gentlemen whom I met the evening before near Llanberris, (one German, two Spanish. the other a fellow townsman,) I started for the summit of Snowdon. We had heard at that most comfortable hotel, the I)olbadern, that it. was likely we should meet with nis Imperial Highness Prince Constantine of Russia on the mountain, as he wee that morn ing expected at Llanberris from Beddgelert; en route for Bangor. The ascent from Llanberris, as many of your readers are aware, though in all conscience bad enough, is still much better than we had expected. After scaling the pile of stones on the extreme summit, and refreshing ourselves at the hut, our continental friends commenced singing " God save the Queen," and very well they sang it too. The mist at this time was so very dense, that we could not see more than a few years around ; and we concluded that his Imperial Highness, discouraged by this, would, with his suite, make his way to Llanberris by the pass. We had, however, scarcely finished singing the first stanza of the national anthem, and werecom mencing the descent to Beddgelert, when a wild hall& was heard immediately beneath us. Our guide assured usi on hearing this, that it was the party of the Prince. I suggested to our German companion, as a good and somewhat striking way of greeting the young Prince, or at any rate of attracting his particular attention, the singing of some well-known Ger man song (the Empress of Russia being a German princess born)—a song as well known and as popular there as "Auld Lang syne" is here. On the instant he commenced one of the national songs of Prussia, the country of the Prince's mother, and his own beloved " Fatherland." In a secondor two the misty veil before us opened, and, apparently as if rising out of the rocks at our feet, the cavalcade came in sight. They we're twelve in number, mounted on the hardy ponies used on the mountain. The song of 'Fatherland'' had produced the desired effect : the Prince immediately rode up to us, and most heartily and goodhumouredly addressed our German companion in his native tongue. While they. were conversing, we had ample time to scrutinise the party. It was a singularly picturesque sight. The Prinde, a well-made handsome fellow, though not very tall, with a broad Kilmarnock blue bonnet on his head, and his chest en veloped in the warmth-giving folds of a large Royal Stuart tartan plaid,—and the others, Count Ormoloff, Baron Bninow, old Admiral Lutka, our countryman the Hon. Col. Grey, &c., all most picturesquely attired.—had to my mind much the appearance of a party of moss-troopers, or the ancient "children of the mist" setting out on some wild foray. By the way, our own general appearance, I think, must have had more of the pictorial than the elegant about it. The German, a very tall, tine young man, with the lower parts of his inexpressibles tucked up and put inside of his remarkably high boots, had a good deal of the cut of one of Wallenstein's heroes, booted and all but ready to vault into the saddle. The Spaniards, with their large, earnest, black eyes, handsome features, and touring costume; my fellow-townsman, with his cloak half fastened around him, half flying in the wind ; and your most obedient servant, with bonnet and Highland plaid,—the wild ness of the place, and the singularity of the meeting,—formed a picture which my. dear old friend Ansdell would have de lighted to have embodied on canvas, had he been with us. The Prince goodhumouredly assured our German companion that he more than half envied us our mode of travelling, as the ascent from Beddgelert on the back of a pony wa s no. j o k e . After a conversation of a few minutes, carried on principally in German, relative to the road on the Llanberris side of Snowdon, the chance of the mist clearing off, and other topics interesting to the tourist, we wished the Prince and his party a pleasant journey, which was most courteously returned, and we separated,—they descending to Llanberris, we to Beddge lert. I remain, my dear sir, very truly yours, - J. A. P. MT-. Liverpool, 29th June, 1847. fWe have been informed, since the receipt of the above pleasant sketch,. that. the Prince visited Carnarvon, and made some drawings in his portfolio of the ancient castle of. Edward the First, which is the pride and ornament of the " Queen of Wales," and n Ca stle , afterward s Aft e arupsrtd staying yvceiinse and visited ee after_ dit e d t t_ wards thermsh.O e B a n g or, and from thence to Per.i y examined the slate quarries.. From this he pro ceeded to the sweet little town of. Conway, is g l e d of Anglesey, and an f ro wning castle and suspension t b he rid f v o is r it s e o d m a e ll tig ri e s h o e f tcrossedthat la is i n n d to interesting to the tourist.] PROPOSED FEVER -HOUSE AT HILBRE ISLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVER POO L STANDARD. St n,—Lobserve in the Albion of Monday last a letter sig ned " Nauticus," suggesting Hilb re I s l and as the most desira ble spot for the reception of the feve r p a ti ents. W i l l yo u pew;; me to suggest, that it would, perhaps, be as well if " Nauticust and any, others who may take an mterest in this benevolent 00 ; ject, would first consult the pleasure of His Majesty the King Al H Hilbre before they venture to proceed further i n the matter. — Yours, &c., NAVICULATOR. Fort. Anne, Douglas, lst July, 1847. THE REGISTERED PALETOT CASE , TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD- Sts,—ln your report of the proceedings before the Vice- Chancellor of England on Saturday, June 12th, you describe ourselves as receiving the protection of the Court in respect to an infringement of our patented right to an invention, and by an. assumption of the title by-which it has been publicly known. From the great popularity . we have attained by the-sale of the subject of the injunction, a garment styled the Registered Paletot, of Llama Cloth, it may he assumed that the public Wil l be somewhat interested with the precise facts of the case. It has already been described, that, when •st introducing our invention, we with much care select ame hitherto un known in this country; as, tracing the rigin e-F the word pa- - letot, it was shown that it was deriveAfrom the Greek, adopt, by the Roman, and aftenvards by tb6 French linguists. Cir cuinjicitur corpori pallium habitis Grfecorunir ; by BayleYt thus, paletoque, or pallescote, a coat with sleeves. That we exercised due can hin selecting an unusual name; has, by the result of these cent proceedings in the Court of. Chancery, been fully pro d. For such, unfortunately, is the' state of competition of de, or the envy of individuals engaged in it, that, should em' ent patronage and- success attend an): member in particular' he is immediately subjected to the 1 ,.: injury of which we ve had cause to complain. Now, had "" advertised our in ntion simply as a new overcoat, it is stle.: 4 9. than probable t t, ere this, we should have been confound,. with the many vertisers that since our appearance before Lb: public have a timed a somewhat similar description to, OP which from t e first has been employed by us. The defendant in this case, being perhaps more conspicilelt than the rest, was first selected to bean example, as we are nr determined to enforce our rightful claim to the originality (el far as regards the English language) of the title. Register A Paletot of Llama Cloth ; but yet being unwilling to procl' e against those who may have unguardedly used a similar o'l, without first giving them notice. We would, therefore, respec t fully beg permission, through. the medium of your coluinn. now to notify this our intention with re gar d to a ll present (l e future copyists; for it would a pp ear , f rom th e affidavits Ina by Messrs. llawbarn and Son, of Liverpool, Messrs. War l !'il and Son, of Birmingham, as, also, many of our other influent.;b. agents, that they have experienced equal inconvenience No, ( 1 ourselves through so many . tradesmen in their neighbour assuming the same, or a similar unauthorized, title to thi! , _., s . the Registered Paletot of Llama Cloth. It may be judiew:, re to explain, that we believe that,bad a. continuance ofth e ly l!ngs been sho i u n l d d u h e it e v d e t b o ee b n el s i e e r v i e og a t e aufacture, the mo.— t c i, age, extent, econtin e 0 ., a nd the P r ., a reas middle class' and ex Is, as, niso, general favour a di.sc_o,ll,; ire of the i anY eR r to t i l e b e 0n,.,,e -sci im2nruarvyt „et ordisauis 1 to select its as 30 many ! li a n a 1 !: else of its. us will it excite sh a re flir or unfalliar,ttibtinoaet,ttbilyt Id from 'develop present this zn unhesitati Ime of whom may, p the public some p that they may be the or distinguishing title. the inven existence, . o w esi o g rthy of inserti°l4 have the honour to be, your obedient manta, H. J. and D. 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