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LITTLEQUILL. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. Journal of a Cavaky Officer, including the Me morable Sikh Campaign of 1845-6. By Capt. W. W. W. Humbly, M.A. London : Longman and Co. This is a book which, from its very aspect, pro mises to be real with pleasant feeling and in luxurious ease. In typography it is beautiful, and its fine smooth pages invite the reader to wander "at sweet will" through its meadowy margins, and to revel among its well-described scenes. Its author was an officer of Lancers, and proves him self to have been an observant as well as an intel ligent one, who served in that arduous and sanguinary campaign which began by a Sikh invasion of the British territories on the banks of the Sutlej, and was concluded by the conquest and annexation of the Punjaub. In addition to its claims as a military narrative, which are high, Captain Humbley's book contains many interest ing details relative to previous contests and con quests in India ; together with elaborate accounts of some of the more remarkable incidents con nected with the progress of the British arms in Hindostan during our early struggles for empire In the East. These are derived in many instances from public and native records. They are well considered, and prove the author to have been a diligent student and an apt scholar. " The blast of war" having now " blown in our ears," practical military narratives, and speculations founded upon martial experience at the present moment, are much more in accordance with the public taste than delineations of peaceful scenes and quiet touches of character, agreeable as these always are when given with the unaffected ease which distin guishes Captain Humbley's observations. Our business, in the first place, therefore, shall be to extract a small modicum of utile, trusting to chance or other opportunity to present an offering of the dulce. The circumstances under which the Sikh campaign was pushed to victory were such as would have damped the ardour, and fruitlessly • exhausted the valour, of arty but a British army, and of the repressing nature of those circum stances we are furnished with numerous proofs. Among the practical hints given by our author, he' strongly recommends that both officers and troopers in our cavalry service should be furnished with light chain bridle-reins, in addition to the leather reins in common use, and illustrates his recommen dation by the subjoined story of THERE'S NOT A TINY FLOWER. There's not a tiny flower, With its blossoms bright and fair— There's not a leaf that's waving In the balmy summer air— There's not a bubble on the sea, Nor speck upon the land— No living thing in all the earth, Nor on the shore a sand— There's not a breath of air that fans The face of living man— No little part or portion Of the universal plan— No star of all the multitude That shed abroad their light— No ray with which the silver Moon Lights up the dreary night— Not one of all the wondrous host Of worlds that we descry, Far in the mighty realms of space, Far in the azure sky ; But what was formed by him who made Us children of the sod— But what is seen, and known by him, The great eternal God ! There's not one who's overladen With the heavy cares of life— No honest heart that struggles With its trouble and its strife— No living soul that's pining In the humblest, poorest cot— No humble one Who's mourning O'er the hardness of his lot— No beggar scarcely cover'd With his torn and tatter'd rags— No eagle soaring high amidst The mountain's rugged crags— No slave that's hound in fetters Forged by a brother's hand, Whose cry of supplication still . Re-echoes through the laud ; Not one of all the mighty crowd Who life's rough ways have trod ; ~BiLt what are seen, and kept by him, The great eternal God ! Liverpool, May, 1854. INDIVIDUAL SKILL AND COOLNESS. On the 25th several of our officers had chain reins made for their regimental bridles, because in the last action the enemy had cut some of the bridles of the 3d Light Dragoons with their swords, by which their riders became powerless, having lost all command over their horses. This brings to my recollection an anecdote told me of the late Lieut.- General Sir Thomas Dallas, of the Madras Cavalry, well known in the wars with H 3 der Ali Khan and Tippoo Sultan, as the best horseman and most experienced swords man in the Madras army, having often proved himself the victor in single combat, and killed his man. One of the enemy was noted for possessing a scimitar of the first quality ; Sir Thomas, then a captain, and this man made an agreement to this effect, that they were to fight toge ther, and that the native was not to cut the captain's reins, nor he to use his pistols. After a long encounter, the man violated the engagement and cut the captain's reins, which were not of steel, upon which the latter drew his pistol and shot his opponent dead on the spot. In a country like India every officer should go on service fur nished with a chain rein, for without it many a man has lost his life ; besides, it is neither heavy nor inconvenient. The dragoons and troopers should also be supplied with them. The natives use them as well as coats of chain armour, and many of the Sikhs, as I myself witnessed, wore even breast-plates and back pieces of steel. I picked up a steel helmet in the Sikh camp at the battle of Sobraon, which now serves to decorate my father's dining-room. As many of the half savage horsemen who are to be found in the Russian army pursue a mode of attack in numerous respects similar to that above alluded to, the suggestion of Capt. Humbley seems peculiarly suited to the present equipments of our cavalry. The corps to which Captain Humbley was attached did not arrive in time to take part in the serious operations and questionable glories of Mood kee, or to witness the whole affair at Ferozesbah ; and when, after severe exertion, they were enabled to join the main army, camp regulations and mili tary arrangement appear to have been sadly out of tune. This has often been asserted and not unfre quently denied ; the testimony of the " Cavalry Officer," however, if good for anything, bears out the assertion to a very great extent, if not, indeed, to the fullest degree. As evidence take the follow ing account of A NIGHT ATTACZ ON THE ENEMY'S POSITION. tions of Heaven's bounty to man, become compo nent portions of native feeling, if he will only give that sway ; and these are features invariably pos sessed of grace and beauty. When the field of operation is extended, and the range of observation widened, it does not always, or even generally follow, that the narrative acquires additional value or the incidents assume a greater degree of im portance. In the case before us we have illustra tion of the above remark. Its author, who has long been known to the re a d ers o f newspapers as the writer of spirited articles which appeared from time to time in different journals, under the signa ture of " One who has whistled at the plough," was the son of two very honest and industrious, though very poor, Scottish peasants, who, through frugality and management, contrived, in spite of the pinching poverty of their lot, to bring up and so far educate a numerous family, of whom the hero of this narrative was the eleventh and last born. The early portion of this volume is devoted to his personal and family history, the incidents of which are narrated with a painstaking fidelity, re minding one forcibly of the elaborate manipulation of the Dutch painters, where every truth is told and laboured with such an earnestness of purpose, and such a carefulness of detail, as would serve for the delineation of the most important scenes, or for a display of the most exalted virtues ; yet all is done with such an air of simplicity and truth, that the very tedium of its manipulation becomes in some degree a beauty. When leaving the simple occupations of rural life, and exchanging the bois terous hilarity of rustic mirth for the more formal and pretentious, as well as more dangerous occu-, pations of the political demagogue and the demo cratic adviser, Mr. Somerville, although infinitely more ambitious, is considerably less interesting, and, although ostensibly more didactic, is by no means so instructive, as when narrating, in homely phrase, his experiences and cogitations among the woody ravines and bosky dells of the Lammer m.uirs. It is indeed true, that having been taken by the hand and petted and flattered, and made a tool of by more skilful and not less mercenary idols of popular favour than himself, and having now ceased to be useful to them, he has been cast aside with the contumely and heartlessness which characterise upstarts in general, and which, of all upstarts, is most repulsively and recklessly dis played by the democratic political charlatan. Re senting this scurviness of treatment, Mr. Somer ville proclaims " war to the knife" against the misleaders of the populace whom he formerly helped to elevate and maintain above the level of their fellows. This, no doubt, is only the natural course of events in so hollow a system of combina tion, and in adding an exposure of it from personal experience to the knowledge of it possessed by the world, the author of this autobiography renders some service to society, and makes the best atone ment in his power for the injuries he has aided in inflicting. In its pages he gives convincing illus tration of the knavery and folly in which strikes of workmen generally originate, and of the misery and disappointment in which they invariably end. Those who wish to understand the nefarious schemes covertly nursed and secretly matured by the " people's leaders" under pretext of opposing tyranny and resisting oppression, would do well to read the experiences of Alexander Somerville, where they will find the hateful hypocrisy exposed with skill and diligence. The work now before us forms an excellent supplemental corollary to his masterly exposure of the " Cobdenic Policy." Irish Tourists' Handbook. _ Compiled by W. H. Peat. Liverpool: Edward Howell. The publication of a " tourist's" handbook pro vokes at once the thought of summer rambling, and is, like the notes of the cuckoo, suggestive of the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers. In the handbook before us we are treated to a succinct, though not unambitious, set of hints, re commendations, and descriptions of many charming and celebrated scenes in the sister island, inter spersed with anecdotes, historical and personal, the whole arranged in such a manner as to be readily consulted and easily understood. It is given in the form of prescribed routes, which are generally those most readily and easily followed ; but for those who may wish to traverse other lines, the information given is equally available. Prefixed to the volume is a condensed and useful map of Ireland, and a scale of hotel charges in most of the principal towns of that country ; and it is published at a very cheap rate. The Church of Scotland Magazine and Review. Edinburgh : A. C. Moodie. Liverpool : W. Thomson. The May number of this periodical sustains the reputation which its predecessors had achieved. It contains a varied collection of well-written papers on interesting subjects. Opening with a capital essay on " Sectarian Discord and Christian Church Union," in which the principles and dangers of sectarianism are thoroughly exposed, it proceeds with a paper on the " Prospects of Turkey," chiefly consisting of an essay written " by a Greek of great literary eminence, and high in the confi dence of King Otho," an authorship not likely to increase public confidence in the paper or its re commendations. This is followed by an admirable essay on " The History of Gold, physically, geolo gically, and economically considered." It forms the concluding portion of a series of papers on the same subject, and is devoted chiefly to a considera tion of the commercial and economical view of gold, and to a brief resume of the whole subject. In this, after taking an elaborate view of the gold statistics of the ancients, as these are unfolded in the Sacred Writings and in profane history, the writer proceeds to a consideration of the gold sup plies in various countries of Europe, and passes on to glance at the localities in which the auriferous deposit has been found in our own country. In this, while clearly proving from historical data that gold has been found in considerable quantity in different parts of England and Scotland, he demo lishes the theories of these sanguine speculators who would persuade us that golden treasure is to be met with in almost every clod we tread upon. In the geological abstract, which closes the paper, we have some beautiful sketches of scenery, the value of the pictures enhanced by the skilful accu racy of the scientific geologist, and enlivened by the glowing fancy of the poet. As an instance of his de scriptive powers, take the writer's delineation of THE LOWTHER, OR LEAD-HILLS. The Lowthers, in which the lead mines are situated, form a continuation of the Lammermuir chain. They constitute one of the finest and most remarkable groups of mountains in Scotland, combining all the verdant smoothness and richness of the pastoral plain with the broken outline, deep ravine, rushing river, and elevated dome-shaped peak of an alpine region. The glens and passes to the summit are steep and narrow, and as you wend their slow length along, in your upward zigzag path way, you may gratify your taste in innumerable ways. As a botanist, the field is inviting, tempting you every moment to seat yourself by some mossy dell, and pick some rare wild alpine plant. As a mineralogist, the streams in the yesterday floodings have strewed the road with bright sparkling gems of all textures and colours, the crystal and the metal, and the rougher matrix of their setting, and at every footstep becoming more abundant as you near the scene of operations. As a geologist, you have in admirable contrast, on the very verge of the mountain pass, two systems of rocks presented to the view, the fine-grained horizontal beds of the red sand stone which fills the valley of the Nith and the lower districts of Dumfriesshire, and the dark grey coloured slaty silurian masses of which the surrounding hills are nearly all composed, upheaved and twisted into every form and position, and crossed at various intervals by dikes of felspar, porphyry, and other intrusive rocks. As a sports. man, and every sportsman should be a geologist, the grouse and the blackcock greet you at every tutu, and salute your ear with their sharp startling whir—and now your feet are on the unstained heather, and you have breasted the sides of Glen-Mennock or Glen-Gonnar, as an artist what more can your eye desire or your pencil love to sketch, than all that rolling sea of hill and moor land, and town and river • Tintock heading the Pent lands on the one side, and eorstoncone standing sentry to Ayrshire on the other ; Hart-fell guarding the twin fountains of the Tweed and Clyde, and fenced by all that lofty slatework of rock through which they take their separate courses to the ocean ; Criffel and Skiddaw look ing as near in the distance as if their tops were united ; and the far distant main on the west, studded with innu merable islets, and the clear outstanding peaks of Arran, and Jura, and Mull, and all " that guard-famed Staffa round." The land, too, is the land of Burns, the land of the poet, sanctified by so many memories, linked to so many associations, and echoing through every stream and grove the music of his immortal song. The number contains likewise a capital memoir Professo r o h f onzie,and t is e o e n u beauties ti e his boundless sfhis b writings, on are fondly insisted on. The British marched in even ranks, and commenced the action with a brisk fire of artillery at a distance of about a mile from the enemy. The Sikhs made a gallant defence. The British artillery advanced steadily till they were within a few hundred yards of the entrenchment ; but the Sikhs kept up an incessant fire from their heavy guns ; in consequence of which our infantry were ordered to advance, and, in the face of a murderous fire, to take the batteries. Night put a stop to the carnage, but not to the awful state of confusion which prevailed in the British camp, which arose partly from the severe losses and the scattering of the different regiments, with the uncertainty as to whether any advantage had been gained, and partly from the inces sant firing kept up during the whole night by the Sikhs upon the wretched soldiers who were lying wounded upon the field of battle, or who were cowering around their scanty fires, worn out with cold, fatigue, and e xcruc i a ti ng thirst. * * The village of Ferozeshah appears to have been held during the night of the 21st of December, partly by the British and partly by the Sikhs. One of our divi sions under the gallant Major-General, Sir Harry Smith, kept up a fire during the greater part of the night. The other divisions bivouacked at some distance, no one knows where. Had a concentrated movement been necessary, it would have been quite out of the question ; for, by some mistake or overs i g ht , no p l ace of rendezvous had been fixed on. I am told that the men belonging to two or three of the European corps got clubbed together, and were so found the next morning - nay, even th e w h erea b ou t s o f th e Commander-in-Chief hiniself could not be found. A cer tain Major-General was anxious to communicate with him, and an engineering officer, who had just been with Sir Hugh Gough, offered to show him the road ; but, to his surprise, he could not find it; either his Excellency had moved his position, or the night was too dark to enable the officer to trace his way back. -- - Every one is aware that the Sikh campaign was • one in which much blood w as poured out and an immense quantity of treas ur e sacrificed, th e exact amount of which has probably never been revealed. Of the former Captain Humbley gives up some idea when he tells us, " We lost 10,788 men killed and wounded, and 1,899 horses, in seven battles and one siege, viz., Moodkee, Ferozesha,h, Aliwal, So braon, Ramnagur , Chillianwallah, Goojerat, and the fort of Mooltan." In his sketches of civil life in India, Captain Humbley is sensible and judicious, as well as smartly observant; and his volume contributes much addi tional knowledge of our actual position and wants in India. It is written in a fair spirit, and dis plays no inconsiderable amount of information and ability. The Autobiography of a Working Man. By Alexande r Somerville. London :R. Hardwick. ------ --- Few varieties of, literary composition are *more instructively interesting than a sensibly written and unostentatious autobiography. In even the humblest walk of life, and from the most secluded individual scintillations of divine origin and indica- The Leisure Hour. London : Paternoster-row. This periodical, published under the auspice s o f the Religious Tract Society, is amusement, a happy endeavour and to to combine instruction with unite sound morality with b o th . In the part for April attention is particularly arrested by a -execuwted suc cinct and interesting description of our ,, ar screw-steamers," illustrated by a well-executed sectional view of one of these first-class ships, the Duke of Wellington. The engraving is cleverly executed, and the descriptive letterpress is Ath u l, rably explanatory, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. PROPOSED CHURCH IN LIVERPOOL FOR DAILY PRAYERS, 4e. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE COMMITTEE AND THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER. IT will be seen by the subjoined, that a correspondence has taken place between the Lord Bishop of the diocese and the Committee for building the proposed new church in Liverpool. The correspondence will he read with con siderable interest, and we have given it in extenso, in order that full justice may be done to both parties. As will be perceived, the chief ground of his lordship's objec tion to consent to the scheme is, his " sincere desire to preserve the peace of the Church ;" but the space which the subject occupies in our columns precludes us at present from offering any comments upon it. The Committee, after expressing their " deep regret that they have met with au unexpected obstacle to the progress of their undertaking in the opposition of the Bishop of the Diocese," and that "they feel bound, in their own justification, to place the correspondence before all who are interested in this work," go on to say : "Having succeeded in obtaining subscriptions to a very considerable amount, and having secured a site in a most favourable situation, it was considered advisable to lose no time in making the usual application to the Bishop and the church commissioners for permission to build and endow a church under the Ist and 2nd William IV., chap. 38, which vests the patronage in trustees appointed by the - founders. As the Diocesan is necessarily a party to all arrangements in which the division of ecclesiastical districts is concerned, Mr. Wray was deputed to wint upon his lordship, to explain the objects of the committee and to obtain his concurrence in this application to the commissioners. At thd; interview (March 2nd) Mr.- Wray stated his desire to consult the Bishop as his Diocesan, declaring his willingness to answer any questions as to the intentions of the promoters of this church, and to be guided by his lordship's advice. The Bishop, how ever, positively declined to receive the application, and re 'fused all conversation up:di the subject; persisting that lie would entertain no communication except from the Rector of the parish, even though his lordship was informed the Rector's sanction had already been obtained. "It was evident, however,. that against the whole scheme of a free church for daily service, weekly communion, &c., the expenses to be in part defrayed by the general offertory, the Bishop entertained strong prejudices, and he incidentally declared his determination to consecrate no such church with the usual endowment of .elOOO. wlrmay be as well to state here, that the original intention was-to build a church entirely free throughout, in which the rights of the poor, and of the labouring classes generally might be vindicated, their rights as Christian hrethren to the free enjoyment of the front and best places in the House of God, and'the loss of which rights in our town churches is the main , cause of the alienation of the masses of the people from the• Church of England. The endowment,., in the first instance. Was to consist of .elMo,•inv ,, sted in a parsonage house, witira• proportion of the offertories; and is was pro posed also tn invest further sums to secure, as far as possible, the perpetual services for which the church was built.. " It now became necessary to modify this original intention as regards the endowment, in order to satisfy the Bishop's objections; audit was accordingly proposed that one half of the church should be rented, and theother half, from east to west, including an entire half of the best seats, should be free and unappropriated. " With this proposal, after a format leiter bad been sent to the Bishop by the Rector giving his consent, a deputation of four gentlemen frOm the committee wasted upon the Bishop on the 13th of March. The Bishop's reply at this interview was simply that he must decline acceding to their request, and upon their humbly begging for his Itrdsiiip's reason for so unexpected and - Unusual a refusal, the Bishop made them a low bow, dismissing them without even affording an op portunity of presenting the memorial which they held in their: hands. "This will explain the occasion of the following letters, ie• thefirst of which, to'avoid repetition, one or two paragraphs- areomitted." Liverpool. March I 6th, 1854. MY Loan,—The gentlemen who waited upon your lord ship ass deputation upon the subject of the proposed church in Toateth-park, having-informed me of the unsatisfactory result of that interview, I conceive it to be my duty as a clergyman to press this matter no further upon your lord ship, with whom now entirely rests the responsibility of the failure of this work, and the disappointment that will be largely felt in consequence. * * * * * As regards my own shave in this proposal, it is proper that I should add, that I have no personal nor interested object whatever to serve in the erection of this church, and no other motives-than the following : 7 1. To afford to several former members of my congregation,. highly valued friends, who have removed to the neighbourhood of loxteth-park, those advantages which they enjoyed of frequent services at St. Marlin's Church. 2. To afford the privileges of 'daily prayer and weekly communion to a large number of; churchmen, who would, I . know, thankfully accept them. 3. To offer to the poor, and to the labouring classes generally, the rights of Christian brethren in the free enjoyment of an equal share in the front and best places-of the house of God..—l am, my Lord, your lordship's faithful and obedient servant; The Lord Bishop of Chester. CECIL WRAY. 25th March, 1854. MY Loam—The committee for promoting the erection of a church in Liverpool, on the plan described in the enclosed papers, appointed, a shorV. - time ago, a deputation to wait upon your-lordship, to solicit yourconsent to an application to the Church Commissioners for liberty to proceed with the project. In accordance with a kind intimation from your lordship, the deputation had the honour of being admitted to an interview with you, on Monday, the 13th instant, in the vestry of the Church of the Holy Innocents. It was with the most painful concern that the committee and subscribers learned from the report of the gentlemen composing the deputation, that your lordship, to their deep surprise and sorrow, declined at the very outset to accord:your, assent, and terminated the interview without hearing the explanation which those gentlemen were prepared to offer. As it has-no less been the ardent wish than the manifest duty of the committee and subscribers to act in every re spect under the favour of your lordship's support and sanc tion, and with ready sabinission to your lordship's authority, they cannot but confidently hope that they may respectfully appeal to their bishop for a considerate hearing of their statement. The committee most deferentially venture to surmise that your lordship must have had your determina— tion accidentally biassed by some misconception or misre presentation of their object. With reliance, therefore, on your lordship's impartial judgment, they commend, for their own justification, the enclosed documents to your perusal, assuring your lordship that the subscribers-to this undertak ing are actuated by no other motives than &desire to promote and extendin this town the public worship-and the common, prayer of the Church of England. The committee will only add that they anxiously wait a. reply, whenever it may suit your lordship's convenience, and. they have the honour to remain, &c. (signed on behalf of meeting of committee-and subscribers), CHARLES P. PHIP,PS, Chairman.. To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. Memorial forwarded with the above letter. "The. gentlemen - whose names are- given belcvv,, are de sirous to aid in building a church and-endowing the same, in the township of West Derby, in the parish of Woolton,on the-Hill, under Ist and 2nd William IV., chap. 38.; and request the consent of the bishop of the diocese to the-appli cation they are about to make to the Church Commissioners for permission to undertake the work, and to have a district assigned, according to the provision of the said act. "A site has been secured upon 14. spot conveniently,situated for the aubscribers, in a locality where church accommoda tion is very much needed, and where the population i&rapidly increasing.. The site is a considerable distance from existing chin ches. being a third of a mile from the nearest in the same parish, namely, St. James's ;- and a circle- round the site, with a radius of one quarter of a mile, wouldocontain no less than 20,800 inhabitants. . "The endowment propose .el,ooo, invested. in a par sonage house, for which land has, been secured, and the rents of one half of the pews. The consent of the rector has been already obtained, and that of the patron promised." [To this were appended the names of thirty gentlemen, residents in Toxteth-park, Walton, and Liverpool.) Chester, 28th March, 1854. SI R,—l beg most respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you have addressed to /138 " on behalf of the committee for promoting the erection of- a church in Li verpool," on a plan described in two papers, the one printed and the other written. with which your letter is accompanied. The first communication that was ever made to me on this subject was very recently,, by the Rev. Cecil Wray, for the Purpose of enabling ram to answer a question, proposed by the Church Building Commissioners, whether the project for the erection of the church had the consent of the bishop of the diocese. As the district which is attached to Mr. Wray's church is in the parish of Liverpool and as the site desig nated for the intended new church is far distant from that district, and not within the pariah of Liverpool, but in that of Walton-on-the-Hill ;* I told Mr. Wray that, under such circumstances, I expected the application to be brought be fore me through the rector of the parish in which the church was proposed to be built. A short time afterwards I received a request that a deputa tion, on behalf of the committee for building the proposed church, might have an interview with me at Liverpool, on the day on which I was to go there to consecrate the Orphan Asylum Church, recently erected by the liberality of Mr. Banner. After the ceremony I met the deputation, and their representation to me was this, that they had waited upon me to ask whether I gave my consent to the erection of the new church, of which the particulars had been already submitted to me. To this I replied, I hope respectfully, (for whatever pain I might feel at having to make the reply; I entertained none but feelings of respect for the deputation,) I replied, that I wished it to be distinctly understood that I did not give my consent. It was then said, on the part of the deputation, that perhaps they might n ot inquire into the reasons of my reply; and in return, I expressed my desire to be excused entering into the question further. I must still, respectfully, beg to excuse myself from enter ing into particular explanations; because, though there are several distinct objections on my part to the project, which could be stated without any difficulty, yet there are others, arising out of the form in which the project has been an nounced, which I fear might produce unpleasant, and, if I may judge from former experience, ineffectual discussions.— I •beg to remain, Sir, with sincere respect, your obedient humble servant, J, Caasrza." C. P. Phipps, Esq. [a It is necessary to explain to strangers that part of the town of Liverpool is in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill ; and that the site proposed is on the Walton side of Parliament street, which is the boundary between the two parishes.] Liverpool, 12th April, 1854. MY Loan,—The committee for promoting the erection of a new district church in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, have directed me to respectfully acknowledge the receipt of a letter which your lordship has been so good as to address to Mr. Charles P. Phipps, the chairman of a late meeting of sub scribers, which, on the occurrence of a most unexpected obstacle to the undertaking, the committee thought it in cumbent on them to convene. The committee desire me to express their sense of the courtesy of tone in which your lordship has treated the sub ject of their application, but at the same time to request your lordship's attention to one or two considerations which they feel bound to press upon your notice. Your lordship's allusion to what you would seem to look upon as a scarcely usual circumstance, namely, that the first communication on this subject was made to your lordship by the Rev. Cecil Wray, the immediate sphere of whose labours is situated at a considerable distance from the district designated for this church, renders it necessary to state, that that gentleman has withdrawn from the committee, which has consequently been re-organised. In making this an nouncement the committee are too sensible that the measure of unexpected success which this project has obtained, is due to Mr. Wray's energetic assistance and to his influence among English churchmen, not to feel most acutely the sacrifice he has made in deference to his view of the relations in which he stands towards his Diocesan. The Committee are aware of the necessity (?) of obtaining the consent of the incumbent of the parish and beg to remind your lordship, that the Rector of Walton has, in writing, de clined to offer any objection to this project. With the consciousness, therefore, that their feelings of fidelity to the Church, and of respect for your lordship's office, would restrain them from undertaking anything which they thought could in any way meet with your disapprobation, the Committee wish to state, that the duty they owe to the subscribers and the numerous individuals who are deeply interested in this scheme, will not permit them to desist from any effort to ascertain the nature of, and, if possible, to remove the scruples which may have hitherto withheld your lordship from sanctioning its prosecution. They have every desire to act openly and frankly, and will therefore state, in a few words, the aspect in which this matter presents itself. A number of laymen have long felt the want of an opportu nity, both for themselves and for others who are unable to express their want in more than words, of worship more fre quent, and more in accordance with the order and spirit of the Church of England, than this town at present affords. For the attainment of this object, they are willing to devote a proportion of their substance, aßki ng ; B—Py for the permis- VARIETIES. A COUNTRY-PLAYER, who had to enact the part of a ghost, asking if he were to bow to the audience, the stage director made answer, " Why, yes, if you are the ghost of a gentleman, certainly." BENEFIT DERIVED FROM ADVERTISING.—E. D. W, Clifford, a young gentleman living at Leavenworth, Indiana, recently advertised in the Louisville Democrat for a wife. He writes to the editor that he is thoroughly convinced of the advantages of advertising. He says he has received, in answer to the advertisement, 794 letters, thirteen daguerreotype likenesses of ladies, two gold finger rings, seventeen locks of hair, one copy of 1k Marvel's " Reveries of a Bachelor," one thimble, and two dozen shirt buttons. He ought to be convinced. THE BRIGHT SIDE.—Dr. Johnson used to say that a habit of looking at the best side of every event is better than a thousand a year. Bishop Hall quaintly remarks, " for every bad there may be a worse —and when a man breaks his leg, let him be thankful it was not his neck !" When Fenelon's library was on fire, " God be praised !" he exclaimed, " that it is not the dwelling of some poor man." This is the true spirit of submission—one of the most beautiful traits that can possess the human heart. Resolve to see this world on its sunny side, and you have almost half won the battle of life at the outset. WONDERS or CHEMISTRY.—The horse-shoe nails, dropped in the streets during the daily traffic, re-appear in the form of swords and guns. The clippings of the travelling tinker are mixed with the parings of horses' hoofs from the smithy, or the cast-off woollen garments of the poorest inhabitants of a sister isle, and, soon after wards, in the form of dyes of brightest hue, grace the dress of courtly dames. The main ingredient of the ink with which I now write was probably once part of the broken hoop of an old beer barrel. The bones of dead animals yield the thief constituent of lucifer matches. The dregs of port wine, carefully rejected by the port wine drinker in decanting his favourite beverage, are taken by him in the form of seidlitz powders, to remove the effects of his debauch. The offal of the streets and the washings. of coal gas re-appear, carefully preserved in the lady's smellin g -bottle, or are used by her to flavour blancmanges , for her friends.—Lyon Playfair. A TRUE BRISTOL WomAN.—The Athenian women bread-sellers are said to have possessed' both shrewdness and loquacity. Our ladiet. , of the Gate, in Billings' Ward, are probably not behind them ;. and I am- inclined to think that a true old-fashioned Biistol market-woman would surpass both. Let me cite an instance :—" Some years ago, an old member of this' ancient sisterhood was stand ing at her stall in front of one of the Bristol banks. She had a £lO Bank of England note inher hand ; and as, in her younger days, she had been nurse-maid in the family of one of the - partners, she thought she might venture to enter and ask for gold for her note: She did so but it was at a time- when guineas were worth five-and-twenty shillings a piece, and gold was scarce, and, in short, she met with a refusal. The quick-witted market-woman, without exhibitiirc , any disappointment, thereupon asked the cashier to let her have ten of the - bank's £1 notes in exchange for her 'Bank-of-Englander: The cashier was delighted to accommodate her in this fashion. The ex change being completed, the old lady taking up one of the provincial notes, read aloud the promise engraved upon it to pay the bearer in , cash. ' Very good r (said she, with a gleesome chuckle) `now gi' me goold for your notes, or I'll run to the door and call out, ' Bank's broke !' There was no resisting thii, and the market-woman departed triumphantly with her - gold. Light-heeled Mercury could not have helped her better than she helped herself by means of her own sharp wit."—Dr. Doran's " Table Traits." LINLITHGOW PAcacz.—Pausing here, let us look around and survey a scene• replete with singular interest, an interest invoking proud remembrances of by-gone chivalry and regal pomp, those remembrances chilled by the humiliating, contrast of present desolation. The palace whose mouldering and dilapidated walls are now before us, once formed the dwelling-place of kings, and have rung with joyous acclaim and royal revelry—have been the birth-place of princes, and have sparkled with the rich array of courtly dames, and gallant knights; new alas, fallen from such palmy state, they are tenanted by the obscene bird of night, and have their echoes disturbed only by cawings of the raven, or the twitter of the bat. The song of the minstrel has given place to the sighing of the night-wind ; and the stately halls which shone in the radiance of regal splendour, are blackened, bare, deserted, and forlorn. This delightfully situated palace was the favourite residence of a long line of the Scottish kings, who, charmed with its beauty, emulated each other in its adornment. It was destroyed by fire, occasioned by. the carelessness, if not attributable to the malice of General Hawley, on the 31st January, 1746. That officer having been defeated at Falkirk, by the rebels, and forcedito retreat under very discredible circumstances, took up his quarters at Linlithgow, and along with some of his dragoons occupied the royal apartments in the palace The straw used as bedding by the troopers caught fire : a result foreseen, and its probability pointed out to the general by a lady of the Livingston family who bad charge of the palace. On representing the likelihood of such an event to Hawley, he treated her remonstrances with ridi cule, which, exciting the ire of the proud dame, she uttered the cutting sarcasm "be it so, I can run from fire as fast as you can, General," in allusion to his disgraceful flight from Falkirk, and having delivered herself of this stinging reproach, she immediately took horse and galloped off to Edinburgh. The night of her departure saw the palace reduced to ashes.—Banks' Guide to the Land of Scott and Burns : unpublished. How A BRISTOL MnA WAS TOO BUSY TO COURT A . WIFE.—I have heard from an old inhabitant of Bristol= anecdote of the forefather of one of our first commercial families, which is a little-characteristic and amusing. My informant had the story from his father, who personally vouches for the fact. It occurred some eighty years or so ago. The Bristol merchant, who had not time for that delicious trifling called courting, was very largely engaged in trade, and so entirely didlie enter into and was engrossed by the spirit of commerce, that he attained to the age of nearly forty before the idea of getting a wife, and pros pectively an heir, to his vastly accumulating fortune ever , occurred to him. Morning, noon, and night, in hisinner counting-house, he might be found, the only company he saw being sea-captains and clerks. Bills of lading were his sole billets-doux, and the only invitations he aecepted, invoices. As he went to and from his place of business, if he passed fair faces, the eye still bent upon distant tran sactions, never turned aside to scan them : the winter went and the summer came, and the bloom of flowers and of beauty were alike ineffeetual to distract that earnest man from those things which appertained to his business. The transactions of his counting-house were to him the tran sactions of the world; yet he was no miser.; it was more the spirit of trade than the desire of money that occupied him. One day a clerk came in to say that a lady wished to see him ; he turned from the pile of papers before him, with the look of one who was annoyed at being inter rupted. " You know lam particularly engaged," said he. The clerk told the lady so, but returned with word that she would detain him but a few minutes. The merchant, thinking she was one of the numerous ladies who dispersed themselves about to collect money for philanthropic pur poses, told the clerk to ascertain her business and give her a contribution. The lady did not want money, but to see the merchant himself ; this time, too, she gave her name, which the merchant recognised as that of a lady with whose trusteeship he had been encumbered by a deceased friend. She was admitted : her business was to consult him on the propriety or otherwise of her accepting an offer of marriage which she bad received. Now, for the first time, occurred to the Bristol merchant the idea of this holy state in his own case. " Marriage," said he, listlessly turning over some West Indian correspondence ; " Well, I suppose every body ought to marry, though such a thing never occurred to me before. Have you given this gentleman an affirmative answer ?" "No." " Are your feelings particularly engaged in the matter ?" " Not particularly." " Well, then, Madam," said he, turning round on his office-stool, " if that be the ease, and if you could dispense with courtship, for which I have no time, and think you could be comfortable with me, I am your humble servant to command." There were people who thought that the lady had a purpose in going there, but, if so, she prudently disguised it. She said she would con sider the matter : the Bristol merchant saw her out with the same coolness as if she was merely one of his corres pondents, and when she was gone five minutes was once more immersed in his letters and ledgers. A day or two after, he had a communication from the lady, accepting his offer, very, considerately excusing him from an elaborate courtship, and leaving him to name " the most convenient day." They were married, and the match made in five minutes, in the business atmosphere of a Bristol counting house, during a business call, in a business way, and in a business hour, got on as prosperously as if they had met by moonlight under a willow, there vowed eternal love, cooed like turtle-doves for a twelvemonth, and expended reams of satin post in passionate epistles.— Correspondent of a Bristol Paper. BIBLICAL CRITICISM.—In conclusion, it is matter of congratulation that here, as elsewhere, the Bible has passed triumphantly through the ordeal. English Infidels of the last century raised a premature wan over the discovery and publication of so many various readings. They imagined that the popular mind would be rudely and thoroughly shaken, that Christianity would be placed in imminent peril of extinction, and that the Church would be dispersed and ashamed at the sight of the tattered shreds of its Magna Charta. But the result has blasted all their hopes, and the oracles of God are found to have been preserved in immaculate integrity. The storm which shakes the oak only loosens the earth around its roots, and its violence enables the tree to strike its fibres deeper into the soil. So it is that Scripture has gloriously surmounted every trial. There gathers around it a dense " cloud of witnesses," from the ruins of Nineveh and the valley of the Nile ; from the slab and bas-reliefs of Sen nacherib and the tombs and monuments of Pharaoh ; from the rolls of Chaldee paraphrasts and Syrian versionists ; from the cells and libraries of Monastic scribes, and the dry and dusty labours of scholars and antiquarians. The scepticism of history has been silenced by the vivid re-pro duction of the ancient and eastern world. And if the ex ternal annals of Israel be confirmed, attestation is given by this same process to that religious and supernatural element, which so prominently characterizes them. Our present Bibles are undiluted by the lapse of ages. While the world has suffered its boasted classics to be so conta minated and blurred, the Church rejoices over the fair page of her precious books, and amidst all the variations pre sented, can put her unwavering trust in the records of the Evangelists, and glow with cordial sympathy at the min strelsy of Isaiah, belieiing that the far descent of these venerable treasures has neither altered their character nor changed their identity. Those oracles written amidst such strange diversity of time, place, and condition, — among the sands and cliffs of Arabia, the fields and hills of Palestine, in the palace of Babylon and in the dungeons of Rome, have come down to us in such unimpaired fulness and accuracy, that we are placed as advantageously toward them as the generatio n w hich gazed upon that " book of the law " to which MOWS had been adding chronicles and statutes for forty years, or those crowds which hung on the lips of Jesus as he recited a parable on the shore of the Galilean lake, or those Churches which received from Paul or Peter one of their epistles of warning or expo sition. Yes, the river of life which issues out from beneath the throne of God and the Lamb, may, as it flows through so many countries, some times bear with it the earthy evidences of its chequered progress, but the great volume of its waters has neither been diinmed in its trans parency nor bereft of its healing virtue, —North -British Review. sion to secure for themselves and their children the privileges which the Church undoubtedly intended . that they should enjoy. In doing so, they do not plead the obligations of law on the consciences of the Church's ministers. but merely their own intrinsic appreciation of these privileges. They have not asked that the Church's ministers be compelled to afford them, but only that they be not obstructed in .the attempt voluntarily to provide an avenue through which to obtain them for themselves. These privileges are so patent en the surface of the Prayer-book, that they have long been used to esteem them as rights, and though they have forborne to complain of their being withheld, they are unable to con ceive any condition of things in which they could be prohi bited. They have, therefore, no inducement to keep back any particulars of the scheme in which they are now engaged. On the contrary, they desire to offer the most ample explana tion of their whole design. They lay it before your lordship with a most earnest appeal for your encouragement and counsel. COnfessing what they need, and haring that there is some objection to their own mo d e of supplying it, they venture to ask your lordship how best they may supply it. Avowing their willingness to contribute towards the fuller acquisition of the spiritual advantages which the Church has provided for her children, they humbly plead for your lord ship's fatherly countenance and direction. In this spirit they are ready to adopt, wherever practicable, any suggestion or modification of their scheme which your lordship may take the trouble to propose; but they feel that they cannot renounce a work undertaken solely to secure for the populous district of a labouring community, the benefits of Church influence, and the Church's system in constant and active operation, without a further appeal, that it may be put within their power to obviate any remaining objections to its execu tion.—On behalf of the Committee, I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient, humble servant, DANIEL RADFORD. To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. Chester, 28th April, 1854. SIR, —On my return from London, yesterday evening, I found your letter of the 25th instant,* and lose no time in replying to it. I trust you will do me the justice to believe that my delay in answerinz your former letter of the 12th instant has not arisen from any failure of respect, The truth con tinual pressure of official duties, during the interval, in volving a necessity for several loonies, has entirely occupied my time. You mention in your letter of the 12th, that the Rev. Cecil Wray has withdrawn from the committee, which has con segnently been re-organised ; and that the committee feel most acutely the sacrifice which helms thus made in deference to his view of the relation in which be stands towards his Diocesan. I myself cannot but feel some pain at this announcement, and at the form in which it is made. For lam not aware of any relation in which Mr. Wray stands- to me that should have made such a step necessary. I am not aw ire of any re lation in which he stands to me except that of all the other clergy of the diocese to the Bishop; nor am 1 conscious of any but the same kind feelings personally towards him that it is-my duty and happiness to entertain for all my brethren. When I expressed to him , a request, that the project for building the new church should be brouzlit before me through the Incumbent of the parish in ' which it was intended to be built, I' did so, not with any reference to the' relation in which Mr: IVray stood to me, but with reference to the rela tion in which lie stood to the parish of Walton-mvtlie-Efill. If it had been any other member of the committee who had applied tome, my request in that point would have - been the same. You also describe in your letter "the general aspect" in which your scheme presents itself :--that "a number of lay men have long felt the want of an opportunity bo , h for them selves and forothers who are unable to express their wants in more than words, of worship more frequent,.and more in accordance with the order and spirit of the Church of Eng land, than this-town (Liverpool) at present affords." 1 4 beg leave respectfully to offer one or tworemarks upon this state ment. With respect tirthe frequency of divine worship, I beg to remind you that - there may be now daily service in every church in Liverpool. I cannot for a moment entertain a doubt that the clergy of the several churches would be wiling to open them for daily service; provided they could rely on the regular attendance of a reasonably numerous congregst. lion • and provided the liberality of that congreg a tion wou ld, supply the necessary stipend for the employment of an addi , tional assistant curate. I mention this latter point, because. I ant sure it will be generally acknowledged that the present duties of the ministers of our church in Liverpool fully occupy their time and tax their strength ; and that the small endow ments of the churches do not afford sufficient means to the ...- Incumbents for maintaining a more numerous body of as sistant curates than is now employed. With respect to " worship more in accordance with the order and spirit of the Church of England than Liverpool at present affords," I cannot conceal the pain with which I read these words. Amongst many happinesscs-connected with my diocese, I have thought - it one of the greatest,•that there is in the town of Liverpool a-collective body of clergy. labouring in the work of their ministry with zeal and fidelity, with the confidence and affection of their flocks, and with a general spirit of concord among themselves. I have myself been present, from time io time, in several of the churches of Liverpool ; and the service has always been performed with the reverence becoming so sacred a duty, and in accordance with the order of the Church of England';. I cannot do the clergy of Liverpool so much injustice as to suppose that it is ever otherwise; and I therefore feel some uneasiness at the suggestion of a scheme which expressly proposes as its object something different from and beyond what the Churches of Liverpool in this respect now afford. _ . None of us can be insensible to the painful excitements which have been produced in many parts of the country by introducing into the performance of Divine Service various forms and ceremonies additional to those prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer... Some of the Committee may pos sibly have been cognizant-of a correspondence which took place, a considerable time since, between the minister of St. Martin's Church, in Liverpool, and myself. If such should be the case. I trust I may refer to it as an , indication of sin cerityin the expression of my own opinions, but also of not unkind consideration for the opinions and-feelings of others. I suggested a greater simplicity in the ministrations of that church; not from attaching any exaggerated importance to mere matters of form, but with the desire of allaying mis trusts and fears which. prevailed, I do not say among the members of the particular:congregation but among many truly attached members of the Church Of England in Liver pool. I am not aware that my suggestions produced any effect. The forms of ministration remain, I believe, as they were when I wrote to Mr. Wray, and as they were before I . was the Bishop of the Diocese. But though I have not sought to press my interference in that case further, I certainly do not feel disposed to give encouragement to a new project, which so far as I am able to attach any meaning to its avowed purpose, appears to be designed expressly for the systematic exhibition of those very forma that occasioned the correspon dence above referred:to. These considerations, when joined with most important objections on my part. in regard to the site and endowment of the proposed church, And with other points not necessary , to be touched now, induce me to withhold my consent from the scheme. lam actuated by no feelings but those of per sonal respect for the members of the Committee and the body of Subscribers. lam actuated by no motives but a sincere desire to preserve the peace of the Church. I seek to foster. no party spirit; bat to promote moderation and mutual for. bearance by the avoidance of extremes. If the Committee do. but give me credit for these motives, it will in some degree lessen the pain I feel in sending an answer not accordant with their wishes—l remain, Sir, your faithful servant, Daniel Radford, Aso,. J. CHESTEA. * This refers to a brief letter asking whether the Committee , might be allowed to hope fora reply to their letter of the 12th.. Liverpool, May 4, 185 k MY Lose,r-lt am directed most respectfully to acknow ledge your letter of the 28th uk., and while giving expression to the pain which its perusal has caused to the committee,.to thank your lordship for the greater explicitness with which you have intimated the motives dictating your course on this occasion._ In the first place, they would beg to remove an impression which their notice of Mr. Wray's retirement from the com mittee would seem to have conveyed to your lordship's mind. When they spoke of "his view of the relations in,which he stands towards his diocesan," their meaning was this, that your lordship having manifested a very decided disposition to oppose this scheme, and also, as was supposed, to question the propriety of Mr. Wray's taking so principal a part in its promotion, that gentleman found it to be the• course most consonant with his sense:of canonical obedience, s to withdraw from a position which might throw him into collision.with his diocesan. With respect to the correspondence on the services of St. Martin's Church, to which your lordship alludes, as probably within the cognizance of some of the gommittee, they desire to say that your conjecture is correct, and that they feel it necessary to recal to your memory what was then pressed upon your attention—viz., that there are not introduced into the services of that church any forms or ceremonies addi tional to those prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, but that they are in every particular accor d ant therewith. 'They may, however, also, say, what has been notoriously known to the principal subscribers, that in matters of ornament. and purely indifferent though not probibitekit was not the inten tion of the promoters that anything should appear in the pro• posed church,,which could needlessly offend innocent though ignorant and mistaken prejudices, and that they were fully disposed to listen to any suggestion, which your lordship might make prior to its consecration. But having, they hope, thus reassured your lordship on matters of detail, the com mittee must, in justice to the subscribers and themselves, be allowed to make one or two remarks on certain points of your letter, which appear to cast upon theme suspicion which, they submit. questions not only their loyalty to the Church of England, but the sincerity of the professions already specially proffered to your lordship. It is, therefore, with concern, and astonishment that the. committee have been compelled to perceive in your lordship's letter an assumption that this project is designed expressly for the systematic exhibition of forms and ceremonies addi tional to those prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, when they must remind you that at the opening of this nego tiation, as at the promulgation of the scheme, their deliberate engagement was, that it was for the faithful observance, of all the offices of the Prayer-book,,the rigid restriction to the forms and ceremonies sanctioned by the church, and the providing of an opportunity for partaking in no more than all the privi leges which she presents to our acceptance. When they speak of their desire for worship more in accordance with the order and spirit of the Church of England than this town at present affords, they use, for the sake of brevity, a general phrase, iqcluding not only that choral celebration which the Prayer hook sanctions, and where it can be procured, and surround :lug circumstances are suited to its adoption, recommends as a more excellent way, but that whole system bound up as its characteristics, with more frequent communions, a definite round of commemorative observances, and in short the whole ritual, which a mere weekly prayer and monthly eucharist very inadequately present. My lord, if "daily prayer, weekly communion, and the celebration of all the o ffi ces of the Church of ngland, without omission or curtailment," be a peculiarity, it is not the fault of the promoters of this under taking, neither can they think it the part of the laity to teach their duty of observing the order of the Prayer-book to the church's priests. Whether it would be expedient for those in authority to enforce the general observance of daily prayer on the clergy is a question they are not prepared to argue, but certainly that existing churches "may" have daily service, and do not, is no reason for the prohibition of churches to be built, of which it may be said that they not only may have it, but do. Nor is it incumbent on them to inquire whether the number of clergy is adequate to the general maintenance of this practice, although they cannot but recollect that each church is, in most cases, provided with two ; that the perfor mance of this duty would usually occupy but one hour in the day •, that it appears to be that special function which claims the first attention of a clergyman ; that it insures his daily presence in his district, and that, in the central spot sur rounded by those associations which most invest him with the pastoral character, and render him easy of access to the poor and the diffident ; and that his church and parish would appear to be as much the ordinary busbiess resort of the priest as the counting-house is of the merchant. Nor yet, my lord, will they inquire whether it is more natu ral that the revival of any spiritual appliance should be waited for to originate among the laity, or be impressed upon the laity by the clergy; nor is it necessary to tell your lordship that, at many places, congregations do avail themselves of opportunities of daily worship ; that one hundred and forty years ago London was distinguished by the daily opening of seventy.five houses of prayer; that at this Church of St. Mar tin's to which your lordship has referred, there are several instances to be met with of persons who leave their shops, and regularly travel three miles, very frequently in the week, to enjoy a privilege which their own district churches deny to them, and which, if afforded, they would gladly partake of daily ; and that the plea against daily prayer, of the people's unwillingness, might, in their opinion, be as effectually urged, for instance, in a place where communions had decreased to a quarterly celebration, a not imaginary case, against their increase, or, in the great majority of our town churches, against providing kneeling accommodation, seeing that their worshippers have become so habituated to the practice of sitting in prayer, that they would not avail themselves of the privilege. Such considerations directed against this plea would be manifestly useless, until the clergy have proved their right to its use, by evincing a desire for daily worship them selves, and inviting their people to its observance. My lord, they must be excused entering into the discussion of this point, becauge, moreover, its satisfactory disposal would leave untouched the equally important question of more frequent communion, which would require no increased ministerial assistance; and secondly, because the current want of frequency of services is notoriously the result of a system which disparages its expedience. They must again beg to place the matter on its solid footing of principle, the principle, namely, of adherence to the grayer Book. They must again put forward their irrefragable ground as Church of England men. The plain state of the case is, they would deferentially submit, one of fact. • That the course of minis trations in the churches of Liverpool is, in many important points, at variarce with that prescribed in the Book of Com mon Prayer, is obvious, and needs no further explanation; and they must respectfully maintnin, that it is not their duty to presume to discuss with your lordship the intrinsic impor tance or insignificance of the particulars in which the prevail. ing practice falls short. They humbly protest, that it is not their part, on this occasion, to plead with your lordship the value of weekly communion, daily public prayer, or the recurring round of the Church's days of fast and festival. They do not feel it their duty to explain what need they find supplied in the full application of the Prayer Book system, which modern practice fails to satisfy. They are not called upon to furnish their particular reasons for dissatisfaction with that order or rather disorder of things, in which, for instance, portions of the written services, whether prayers or lessons, are omitted at the will of the minister;—in which it is treated as a matter of option whether or no the 4tithanasian Creed should be said, an option which is vindicated by its market! omisaion in more than one church in this town and in its suburbs ;—in which, sometimes, Ash Wednesday is not at all observed, and where it is, its special :mice is usually omitted; in which no opportunity is given for observing the prescribed services for Holy Week, except in the single instance of Good Friday ;—in which the festival of our blessed Lord's Ascension is, in several churches, wholly neglected, and all the other holy days are treated as if there were nothing in the Prayer Book about them, so that it is not impossible to mention the instance of a church being ope , ed on New Year's Day, and the forms appointed for the commemoration of our Lord's circumcision, of which that day is the festival, being displaced, by a service arbitrarily compounded of some detached portions of the Prayer Book, and an extempore effu sion from the minister ;—in which, not to enumerate further. a spirit alien to the Church of England has been allowed to compress into the most bare and meagre compass her general ritual arrangements and provisions. Because, my lord, they feel that whether your lordship thinks these omissions and transgressions of importance or not, they have a perfect right to feel dissatisfied with them, if they like. Because they think that our spiritual rulers are as much bound to the Prayer Book and its directions, without consideration of their fitness, on which the opinions of Churchmen are' unhappily much divided, as they themselves ; and, that though the plea of custom may be held sufficient to justify these departures from prescribed order, in a bishop's individual estimate of the particulars intro/eyed, yet no one, be he bishop or priest, has a right to enforce the authority of usage on others who prefer the authority of law. My lord, the projectors of this church think that they have a claim that their prejudices in favour of the Prayer Book should be respected. Most undoubt edly your lordship might legitimately refuse to sanction the building of a church, where about one-third of the Prayer Book, as is the custom, was to be treated as a• dead letter ; but though it should be admitted that such a refusal would be a too violent contravention of the "spirit of the age," they frankly confess, that they cannot view as anything- but a sig nal perversion of the law, the authoritative discouragement of a project whose characteristic is the honest, unreserved, faithful observance of every positive precept, and every inten tional suggestion of that book. The committee hope that they may not be considered to lie open to the charge of making vague accusations, in thus alluding to some of the irregularities and deficiencies-in the churches of this town. They ventured to assure your lord ship in a previous letter that' it was not their purpose to appeal for any correction of prevailing irregularities or defi mencies, but merely for permission to find for themselves a refuge from the first, and a mode of supplying the latter by a simple adherence to the rules of the Church of england. Your lordship's-letter, however, seemed to invite them to the consideration of this topic, and tb intimate why they desire something beyond prevailing practice. If called upon, they desire to state that they are ready to substantiate these charges. The committee are at a loss to know what practical answer can be given to the notification that "there may be now daily service in every church in Liverpool," but that this would necessitate the employment of additional curates; except the repetition of their original pronosal—vix., to build a church where daily prayer is-to be said, and where sufficient minis terial agency is to be provided for its maintenance. In making this profession, while accepting your lordship's pro testation that you " seek to foster no party spirit, but to pro mote moderation and mutual forbearance by the avoidance of extremes," they must claim to have no other interpretation put upon their own designs. On the contrary, they think adherence to the Prayer-book the only prineipte which can save us from party spirit, restrain the unauthorised ebullitions which interrupt moderation, and prevent that diversity of practice which gives scope to fall into extremes. Pardon them, nay lord, if they confess that no Bpi: it'seems to them more the spirit of a party than that which clamours for the discountenance of more frequent communions and worship, and is known by a disregard to distasteful injunctions of the church; that nothing seems to them a greater evidence of moderation than the willingne,s to leave others unmolested in. their violation of the churrch's rules, if only permission be given to those who desire to observe them, and contribute to promote their observance; and that, while they do not ques tion your lordship's own intentions, they are unable to appre ciate a forbearance, by wh i cbsom e are protected hatheir laxity, and some are forbidden to brobedient._ Departing for a moment from plea of Prayer-book conformity, they cannot see why a regard for those classes of the people who are indifferent to this principle, who are less sensible to the fitnesses and' beauties of the church's ritual, should hinder the provision , of more accordant and ornate services and accessories for that increasing class by whom these are appreciated—which many of our cathedrals are with increasing anxiety now supplying—which seem to be called for by a want natural to the- mind—which are provided by. many Protestant bodies on tt e continent—and by provision of•which. a rising sect in this• country. they allude to the Irvingites, will, it is to be feared, succeed in drawing away many from their spiritual mother: But they forbear to place this matteron any such footing on the present occasion. They have come before your lordship in Ihe very ordinary guise of applicants for your formal con sent to a very ordinary application—namely, that for building a church in your lordship's diocese; and they cannot with draw from this correspondence without most solemnly pro testing, on behalf of the church at large, and as a witness to the momentous principle at slake; without protesting, .with feelings of the utmost courtesy and deference to your lordship individually, against this startling and unprecedented exer cise of prerogative. They protest, because your lordship has not alleged any illegality in their proceedings; because on no principle, ecclesiastical or moral, can the most rigid confor mity to the Book of Common Prayer be made the ground of objection to the building of a place for Prayer-book worship because it practically amounts to the setting of a veto upon that desire for more frequent eucharists and prayers which the church seeks most ardently, to awaken and foster ; because frt is a recognition, on the part of authority, of the popular sentiment that the Prayer-book, so far as it transcends the tone of prevailing usage, is impracticable or effete,and should at the earliest opportunity be mutilated to suit what is called the pure Protestant spirit of simplicity; because it.is a pro hibition that voluntary effort in church extension shall be directed in any channel but ,that which has been found un able to bring the church's system to bear upon the masses of the people of this country, though, and even because, the characteristic of the channel proposed, is its running in the way of the church more directly than the one for, which custom secures toleration,, and popularity wins patronage; because, in short, it is an acts professedly based upon no inter,- pretation of the church's law, or principle of regard for the church's spirit, or disputed question about the-church's in- tention, but on a mere opinion or private sentiment, which is. put forward with no claim.of authority from consideration of the person who holds it, and has no attribute of permanence. beyond the will or the prejudice of the holder himself. I have to state, my lord, that the committee think it neces sary that this correspondence be forthwith circulated among the subscribers; and, on their behalf, I beg to subscribe myself your lordship's.most obedient humble servant, The Lord Bishop of. Chester. DANISL RADFORD. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE: PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. R. W. Bacon, M.A.,Fellow of King's College, Cam bridge,.to the Rectory of whurst, Sussex. Re'v.'W. R. L. Bennett, iiellcumbency of Holy Trinity Church, Dover.... Rev. It. Boys, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Mary's,. Platt, Wrotham, to the Incumbency of Loose, near Maidstone. Rev. E. T. Cardale, late Vicar of Podington, otherwise Paddington, Beds, to the Incumbency of Flax Bonrton, Somersetshire. Rev. A. L. Courtenay, D.D , Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Hardwicke, to the Incumbency of the District Chapel of St. James,, Pentonville, London, by order of the Queen in Council. Rev. T. Donkin, 8.A., to be Chaplain to H.M. Gaol, Syd ney, N.S.W. Rev. F.Pitapatrick, M.A., to the• Rectory of Painstown. Rev. A. Gedge, M.A., to the Rectory of Ludborough, Lin colnshire. Rev. J. Graves, M.A., to the Vicarage of lielroacar, diocese of Ossory and Ferns. Rev..F. T. Gregory, to the•lncumbency of St. Mary's Platt, Wrotham, Kent. Rer. Dr. E. C. Hawtrey, Provost of Eton College, to the Rectory of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. Rev. R. J. Hodgkinson, M.A., to the Curacy of Washing borough, Lincoln. Rev. J. P. Lightfoot, M.A., to the Rectory of Kiddington. Oxfordshire. Patrons, Exeter College, Oxford. Rev. J. M'Clintock, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to the Curacy of Derriaghy. Rev. H. Margetts, M.A., to, the Officiality of the Arch deaconry of Huntingdon, in the diocese of Ely. Rev. H. Morgan, .A.„ to. the Incumbency of Henfenen, near Lampeter. Rev. W. L. Newham, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicester shire. Rev. J. Park, to the• Living of St. Andrew's. Rev. G. H. A. Perry, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lane-end, Longton, St. John, near Newcastle-under-Lyne. Rev. J. L. Popham, M.A., Prebendary of Salisbury, and Rural Dean and Rector of Chilton Folliott, near Hungerford, to be a Chaplain to. the Bishop Elect of Salisbury. Rev. W. N. St. Leger, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary-at- Tower, Ipswich, to the Chaplaincy of Her Majesty's troops at Coifu. Rev. Dr. S. L, Townsend, late Rector of Painatown, to the Rectory and Vicarage of Louth. Rev. J. Woodhouse, 8.A., to the Curacy of Gooanargh, near Preston. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. CONSECRATION.—The Church of St. Saviour, Falkner square, Liverpool, is to be consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, to-morrow (Wedesday), the 24th instant, at eleven o'clock. It has been open by license for several years past. PREPERILENT.—The Rev. Charles Thomas Quirk has been presented to the rectory of St. Thomas's, Golborne, in the county of Lancaster, void by the death of the Rev: Alan Greenwell. Patron, the Earl of Derby. NON -RESIDENCE.—The. Bishop of Chester has renewed the license of non-residence of the Rev. William Waller, incumbent of St. John's Church, Dukinfield. Cheshire, until the 31st December, 1855, on account of continued ill-health. VACANCY.—The perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity Church, Castle Northwich, in the county of Chester, by resignation of the Rev. John Maxwell Wilde. Patron the Bishop of Chester. Value, £l5O with a house. THE NEW BISHOP.—The expectation is, that this time we shall have, not a Tractarian, but a " Liberal" bishop— one of the Edinburgh Review school. The names most rife are those of Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, and of Mr. Dawes, the present Dean of Hereford.—Morning Herald. RESIGNATION OF ARCHDEA.CON DENlSOL—Theßridge water Times states that the annual archidiaconal visita tion was held in that town on Wednesday, but that the Venerable George Anthony Denison, the archdeacon, did not attend to deliver a charge to the clergy, the rev. gentleman having resigned his office. CHURCH PASTORAI:AID SOCIETY.—On Sunday week, two sermons were preached at Lancaster, on behalf of the above society, by the Rev. Joseph Baylee, D.D., principal of St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead—in the morning at the Parish Church, and in the evening at St. Thomas's Church. DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS.—We regret to announce the demise of the venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells, which took place yesterday week, at Brighton, after an illness of considerable duration. The deceased, the Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Bagot, third son of the first Lord Bagot, was born in 1782, and married in 1806 Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of the Earl of Jersey, by whom he leaves a numerous family. The late bishop was educated at Rugby school ; thence he pro ceeded to Christ Church, Oxford ; was elected Fellow of All Souls' College in 1804 ; consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1829 ; and translated to Bath and Wells in 1845. By his death the Bishop of Salisbury is at once raised to a seat is the Rouse of Lords. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1854. DIOCESE OF MANCllESTER.—Preferments: The Bishq of Manchester has licensed the Rev. Hugh Wightinan• M.A., to the stipendiary curacy of Emanuel Church, TP I. ton-le-Moors, on the nomination of the Rev. Gage E 3rle Freeman, the incumbent ; and the Rev. William Baker , M.A., to the stipendiary curacy of Smallbridge, near Boc,iv dale, on the nomination of the Rev. Robert Keningn` e Cook, the incumbent. CIIURCII RATES BILL. — Mr. Packe's bill, now befor e the House of Commons, proposes to provide that in futige separate and distinct church-rates shall be made for tin maintenance and repair of the fabric of the church, Pa the service and furniture of the church. The rate for the and maintenance and repair of the fabric are to be made determined upon by the majority of the ratepayers ill t vestry assembled ' • but, if they refuse to make a sufficien rate, the Court of Queen's Bench is to issue a mandating to levy such rates as the archdeacon shall deem sufficient; It is proposed that the rates for services and furniture In the church be made and determined upon by the inkiel it Y of the ratepayers in vestry assembled, not being Dissenters by which term it is to be understood only such as ha re signed a declaration before two justices in petty sessions' to be attested on oath or affirmation by the officiating minister of some place of worship registered according to t law, or by two members of his congregation, stating thai such persons are members of the congregation ; and al' persons signing such declarations shall, until they retract them by notice to the churchwardens, be exempt fro 9l , rates for the services and furniture of the church. D u ' the bill is' not to deprive any person of the benefit of the ministrations or offices of the church to which by law °l ' custom he is now entitled, CHESHIRE AND WALES. CUESTEN AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for the week ending 14th of May, 1854, was as follows Passengers, parcels, Sze., per railway, £2,654 2s. 10( 1 ,..; steam-boats, £471 Bs. 3d.; total, £3,125 lls. ld. : goow' £3,694 ls. 6d.: total, including Carnarvon traffic, Per rail, £4,348 4s. 4d. ; steam-boats, £471 Bs. 3d. Ca' responding week last year; per rail, £4,114 18s. Bd. ; Pe r steam-boats, £376 Ss. Bd. Increase, £328 ss. 3d. RETURN OF MR. NAYLOR TO HOOTON-HALL.- - ° rr Tuesday, R. C. Naylor, Esq., arrived at Hooton-ba, ll, accompanied by Mrs. Naylor, from th e i r weddin g tour. 'Ur,: Naylor and his bride left Ch es t er by th e three o'clock train, and came to the Sutton station, where they alighte d and entered their carriage. A procession was forme" , headed by the artizans employed in the alterations at the hall; the - men carrying the banners used at the banquet, and a streamer bearing the inscription; "Long life and happiness- - to the bride and bridegroom." The men in the, constant employment of Mr. Naylor, in the park and grounds, took the horses from the carriage, to which they attached ropes, and drew the happy pair through the pa"' to the hall, a distance of about a mile. In addition to 0 1 e general concourse of persons assembled in the hall to gree t Mr. and Mrs. Naylor, were the children of the Eastbata and Thornton' schools ; and, in a few minutes after bet arrival, Mrs. Naylor presented to each , child in the East" ham school a bible. After the distribution, the children partook of tea and buns on the lawn. The - workmen ware also suitably regaled. WALLASEY LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTTEi—The annual general meeting of this board was held on Friday evening at the Queen's Arms Hotel, Liscard, Mr. Penny in th e chair. The order of retiring by rotation, previous to the new election, was adopted ; and Mr. Penny was unani mously re-elected chairman.—Power was then given t° the chairman to make arrangements for the ensuing elec tion, after which the board proceeded to consider the tie° bye-laws for regulating hackney carriages, horses, male s ' and asses, plying far - hire within the district, and the drivers and persons attending the same. One of the regn" rations passed was, that there should be no fare -under a shilling for cabs.—Mry Coulborn called attention to the immorality of the females and others who plied,:lonkeY.l for hire on the sands a t N ew B r i g ht on. —M r. Hassell Sal': that in those cases they - would have a discretionary-Pow er of granting licenses.—The board then adjourned. LETTING FOR HIRE WITHOUT LICENSE.—JOhagoI P grove, the proprietor of a horse and car, was summoned on Thursday, at the Birkenhead Police-court, at the in' stance of the excise authorities, for letting out his hors e . and vehicle on hire without a license. Mr. Sharp, 01 " . lector of excise at Liverpool, who appeared for the prose" cation, stated that the defendant was liable to a penalty of £lOO for each offence. The magistrates had the pore r of mitigating the penalty to £25, besides recommending . the case of the defendant tO the commissioners of exci se in London, with the view of obtaining a f u rther reitiga; tion.. Mr. George Cooper. Page proved having obtaine d from.the defendant, on the 18th April last, a home an d car on hire, to drive to Seacombe, for which he paid . 9 ,. e ,; The defendant admitted having no license, but deoze" r • that he had more than one horse. He m ere ly k e pt livers'stables, and the horses that were on his p rem i s es on the in ... day named belonged to gentlemen. The b enc h inflicted the mitigated penalty of £"-', observing that, if the de' fenckmt could show a good case, they would assist him i ll obtaining a further mitigation. LIE ' BIRKENHEAD CO3I3IISSIONERS.—OR Tuesday : evening, an adjourned meeting of this body was held :at s t " their rooms, in Hamilton-square, for the purpose of pass' ing the accounts for the year just expired. These were c read over. The receipts were : —l m provement, m 9e, 1 1 18s. Sd. ; lighting and watching, £3,419 13s. - • ; mar £1,24.9 15s. sd. ; sewerage, 1.18,56 4s. Od• ; houses, £221 7s. • rents, £774 ls. 4d-; account a on acco , street-making,£62B 25.; miscellaneous,£2l7 2s. Among's!, the items of expenditure - were— paid for highways and' scavengers, £2,009 ; the market establishment, £863 ; slaughter park, £745, &c., &c.; and there had beenTh adjournedpeaaccidoosunttOime /,' unanimously divisible passed,f o r and. bondholders, the £3,664.meeting iii sth-,of June, which will be the last' meeting prior to . 10 " election. HORTICULTURE. STOVE, CONSERVATORY, AND GRE E NHOUSE:77-3 1333 : plants which have contributed to the b eau ty of the col ' servatory during the spring are now going out of blood' and should be cut back the h ar d w ooded. Piall especially require attention in this respect, as any neglee. will cause them to have a leggy and unsightly appearance l• t they require rest and careful pruning, after which may be made to break out by being placed in a wal la moist atmosphere. FLOWER GARDEN.—in very well sheltered gardeli3 commence the planting out of verbenas, scarlet geranianl' and other bedding plants : let them be thoroughly waterew and if shaded for a few days by sticki ng a few branch of trees with the leave s on a b out th e b e d s, ha they wi ll much benefited. KITCHEN, GARDEN.—PIant out Basil and Savo', p re : pare the trenches for celery, and con ti nue th e ro utine 01 0 rations of hoeing and.weeding amongst the growing. OP°. IRELAND. A DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY IN DEBLIN.—AII gregate meeting" of Roman Catholics.was held in Dub"' yesterday week, to petition against Mr. Chambers's cor; mittee of inquiry into conve n t ua l es t a bli s h men ts, t he Lord Mayor presiding. It appears to have been one s of Irish rows. The first was occasi one d by an a ttemPt° the chairman to put down a Rev. D r . Marshall, who sisted on denouncing Prince Albert for his speech at ,j,"; Mansion-house dinner on the previous WedlleSdaY,T;l4 ing the passage commencing " When our ancestors Vern ese the Christian faith," and warning his Royal High ° t o that he was about to forfeit the esteem he had hither / been justly held in. The speaker conti nue d, "'.Chat I.° Y 3 personage claimed from them the performance of cert ao duties ; but, if they had duties t o him, he had duties tn'° them likewise ; and let it be known a nd h ones tly spok e , out, in spite of any efforts made to stifle utterance, useful warning to make him remember and look back past history, when meddlers behind the throne wets Punished with exile from. the land which had adoPN them," This was followed, by loud cheers, mingled lir, hisses, and succeeded by uproar and confusion quite ,„,i O OO scribable, which continued for fully fifteen m inutes. there was a scene between Alderman Reynolds and Lucas, the former warning the meeting that there 1 0 .', man who had been a Quaker amon g them—a wolf, il i 1 a sheep's clothing—Mr. Lucas, who, in th e Tablet, “ r wiled all the Bishops of the Church knaves and fools .tot words meaning the same thing), for signing a declarat io o of rights. Mr. Lucas vociferated a denial, and the lie Art, freely exchanged between the two gentlemen. The rell o t ers' table was upset, and th e L or d M ayor insisted t the reporters should not take anything down he could° e' hear ! The scene of confusio n l as t e d aga i n som e tiV f , and was at last terminated by the withdrawal of r o ji Lucas. A resolution by Mr. G. H. M oore, i n f avo ur ° independent parliamentary party, caused another 6 1, the Mayor declining to put the proposal to the meetio A MOST AMUSING CASE of breach of promise oftiio liege has just been hoard in Dublin. The plaintiff, fetes Flynn, is " a young lady" of 40, and the defendant" yroitl,, Kieran, has reached the mature age o f 48 years. A OP the evidence, which was very amusing, it appeart - o atl both parties are of the small farming class in the c 0 2 0 of Kildare. They had been well acquainted for pel t ? ';.'eat years ; and in the month of October the defendan t the with plaintiff, her sister, and one of her brothers , w olf Dublin Exhibition. T hey all came back in the, ot ther, jaunting-ear, the defendant and plaintiff sitting t ° ..r i da.ab and one cloak " covering them round." The dei to ily got so enamoured that, on arriving at home, he f° une " proposed for Eliza;" and o n b e i ng t o ld th a t her f O , od was 1.160, he expressed him s elf p er f ec tl y sa ti s fied, 0 6 " tl; of he would "go to Fath er O'R or k e at once." The January was appointed fo r th e marriage, but it neve r too place, the defendant alleging that " there was anotn„ er An is who had a claim on him." The examination rich' Flynn, the plaintiff' s s i s t er , was exce edingly or " Cross-examined by Mr. Battersby, Q.C.: \Yd s on art # nished at her si s t er go i ng t o th row h er self away !- 1 1 ) „, ori th old fellow like the defendant. She dropped into 11 love' at once, like a ripe apple. Never saw people ma king_try; (Laughter.) Lived in a very lonesome part of the then fast was quite ready to learn it, but would not take n l a uf t 0 . 0 5 old fellow that offered; had heard that the defe q te u r i , ot looking after her."--Chief Justice : You were ( 1 131 s o ftrets not to take him." (Laughter.) No evidence wa,_,,TS, for the defence, and the jury gave the plaintiff £2O with 6d. costs. SUICI BY A YOUNG —A ........ young lady, l ii/3 4 . t . parently DE about 30 years of age, LADY commit suici.de Sic Saturday evening week, in one of the most fashion ..1 hotels in Glasgow, by suspending herself with a e ca4 P;e_ ii ', the window shutter. Some letters led to her being lu v i l , tified as Jessy Lauder, whose family resides in Edinbiq, to which city she apparently belonged. The act aPPer i a to have been the result of disappointed love. She ` been engaged for the last day or two in writing Ortilig letters to her relatives and friends. ~... ,_ 1 , c .Kai ll ar E es it bo cE ro Ntß oh y m M agi AT s u tr i a x te o s 7 R .iT h O ar n d i sm ue i s t ua h, was placed in the dock on the serious charge of o btaTl t o l under false pretences, the sum of £ 750, t he proP o er e 'iY , it Mrs. Grace Thackwray, of the same place. The money, r r , the appeared, had been handed over to the defendan 7 d o f good lady on his promising to marry her ; but inst, or , of fulfilling his promise he had spent the greater Per.`arish the money, and she had become chargeable to the i' The prisoner was remanded. Tuesday, it.l.o:9eglitlitth,rec,