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THE LIVER inquires " What cows should farmers keep ?" Fubbs suggests that they should keep their own! as serious in- - - conveniences often arise from a propensity to keep t hose THE SWILLINGTON PARISHIONERS have decided that belonging to other folk.killing ofsparrows shall be paid for out of the rates col - IT IS SAlD—that, whenever the wish is father to the l ected for the relief of the poor. thought, it will be a (p) parent. LIBEL.—An daIF apology having been made, and the costs ALL A GERMAN WANTS for dinner is three sausages and a flute. To a gentleman born in the vicinity of the l y f itzhatdinge has declined to proceed with . the against . Mr . Davies, the publisher of- Rhine, music is as necessary to existence as breath or long the Cheltenham m Chronicle, for libel. tailed pipes. CURIOUS Fossie.—A few days ago a fossil of a full- A CURE FOR STUPIDITY.—" You are very stupid, grown human lee. was found in the middle of the vein of Thomas," • said a country teacher to a little boy eight coal at Blayne Colliery, near Ll db . It is formed of an e te. years old. "You are like a donkey, and what do they what is en ll g !tra yr called brass, but better known by do to cure them of stupidity?" "They feed them better 1 ot iers as pyrites. and kick them less," said the arch little urchin. THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH has decided that a CUPID.—" Aminadab, who is cupid ?" " One of the party conducting his own case has a right to be examined boys. He is said to be as blind as a bat ; but if he is as a witness ; and in the case of Cohbett v. Hudson , a new blind, he'll do to travel. He found his w ar in t o Au nt trial re. was granted evidence on the ground that the judge refosed to Nan's affections, and I wouldn't have thought an y critter receive c !s-e the of the plaintiff h after hadaddressed could have worked his way into such narrow arrangeme nts the jury. with his eyes open." ELEMENTARY ART EDUCATIOV, • The Dean and JOKING IN EARNEST.—A fellow stole a saw, and on Chapter of Hereford is the first ecclesiastical corporation examination told the magistrate he only took it in joke. which has t he example ofsupporting Art Education, ucation, " How far did you carry it ?" asked the justice. "Two rlesubscrib in g et lO toward the establishment, at Here miles," answered the prisoner. "That's carrying the - ford, of an elementary drawing school, in connection Alison's History of Europe, from the Fall of j:oo3elntoiottefadrfoc r t emirked his worship, and the prisoner was w ith the department of practical art. Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of Louis „ .-. THE COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND iS about to have a ELL, OR S AIL. " — A n officer of the 46th once got Napoleon, in 185 2. Edinburgh : Blackwood.meeting at her house of several influential ladies, to organ leave of absence from his • regiment (then stationed at ise measures for inducingthe ladies of he United States WHILE there is, perhaps, no class of literature of Cape Coast Castle) for six months, and at the expiration to bring about are eal p of their laws which t forbid the ed =ore importance to the student, or more enter- of that time applied for a renewal of it ; but the answer cation of slaves' children, and which refuse to recognise - taining to the general reader than the history of the he received was truly laconic and characteristic of the slave-marriages. Duke; it consisted of three small words—" Sell, or sail!" world in which we live, there is a dearth of his- NOVEL PRIZE.—A Scotch publisher has announced a A NORTH-COUNTRY TRADESMAN lately declared that torians, which renders doubly precious the works of hismoney prize for the best piece of " poetry for the new men were making more money, ' and he himself a a truly great one. It is true that we have had making less, than his father used to do. Our informantws year," the length of the poem not to exceed 24 lines, to be the property of the publisher, and to be sold in packets Hume, Gibbon, Macintosh, Lingard, Tytler, and knows not how this may be, but the father, he says, wore of a shilling the hundred. The hymn " ha vin g the largest sale others, besides Macaulay, whose elegance of dic- fustian , a nd wheeled a barrow :—the son wears broadcloth, before Ist of February will be entitled to the p rize !" tion is some compensation for the doubtful autho- and rides in a barouche ! COCHIN CHINA CHICKENS. —An extraordinary sale of rity of his facts. To none, however , of these is WANTED, A WIFE.—The ways of advertising for a Cochin China chickens, the property of Thomas Sturgeon, 1 precedence due over Sir Archibald Alison, whose 7, f & are H y u a l r l io A u f s it ; e by . t perhaps . the following, drhentioned Esq., of Grays, Essex, was held in the Bazaar, King in History of Europe is one of the most valuable con -near village ls the of Kirby-under-Dale, t -n ex n t d r e a t o - r Da lary w . an A t street, Portman-square, London, a few days ago. About rustic, living tributions to the standard literature of our country. ing a wife, provided himself with a Y large placar'd, and - 120 birds were sold, realizing upwards of £6OO. A six 1 being old cockerel and pullet brought £23 10s. the pair, It will be remembered that in this work the history printed upon it, "Wanted, a woman to make a wife of, is brought down to the Battle of Waterloo, which with a little money, to go to America." This he placed ttl vitilucabilveltc r e e n e g pr oof of the high estimation in which d is held. There were other fowls which was the crowning act of the late war ; and we have on his hat, and planted himself in front of the church fetched from £7 to .0 each, and upwards. • • door when the congregation were leaving ! now the pleasure to welcome a continuation from A RCHITE CTURE AS A BRANCH OF EDUCATION.—The SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE QUARTERL Y REVIEW. —Sir the same pen, which is intended to bring the history o f the world is Queen's Bench, for a criminal information ae ainst the forcibly illustrated by the history Charles Napier applied, on Tuesday , at the C ourt o f narrative down to the accession of Louis Napoleon , of its buildings; and the tale, so far from being Quarterly dry and in 185 2. The first volume has just appeared , and re p ulsive, is singularly curious and interesting. num b e r . It is not it The libele vie, w for a that libel on Sir Charles iin the Octoberaccused of it is to be completed in five. It commences with a unusual to find even educated men admitting, without incompetency and unfitness for his office, was cewhile corn- resumeof the war just concluded, and the first chapter any feeling of shame, their entire ignorance of archi- mending in India. Lord Campbell refused the applica is devoted to a critical analysis of the great events lecture,sorelo ought h t n a o s t r t e o ga i r )e ds its an d history need not t d h p e ri n c T i p h l e e s . This r l tion, as there were not sufficient grounds. which have characterised the intervening period. history of the art, and ' the leading features . of architecturenea A RAT'S NEST.—A _ lady, residing at Malvern, had In treating of the results of the Free-trade policy of as a science, should be communicated to the youth of occasion to leave home for a time. After some three England, the author says : both sexes and of all grades before they leave school.— months' absence she returned, and noticing that her Godwin's "History in Ruins." piano-forte was rather out of condition sent for a tuner, "Great and important as were the results of the social who discovered that a rat had gnawed a hole throu g h the convulsions of France and England in the first i nst ance, UNSOPHISTICATED ELOQUENCE.—A countrywoman bottom, and taken up its quarters in the interior, having they sank into insignificance, compared to those which was carrying on a very simple process against a neighbour constructed a commodious nest with the coverings of the followed the change in the commercial policy, and the in one of the small courts of Germany. The attorney of hammers, portions ofsilk, &c. increased stringency of the monetary laws of Great the opponent pestered her with so much of chicanery and ELECTION PETlTlONS.—Petitions against elections in Britain. The effect of these all-important measures, legal subtleties that she lost all patience, and interrupted the following places have been presented in the House of from which so much was expected, and so little, save him thus :—" My lord, the case is simply this : I bespoke Commons :—Taunton, Cambridge, Plymouth, Clitheroe, suffering, received, was to augment to an extraordinary of my opponent, the carpet-maker, a carpet, with figures Chatham, Hull, Waterford (county), Stoke-upon-Trent, and unparalleled degree the outward tendency of t he which were to be as handsome as my lord the judge, and Hastings, Newry, Cork, Southampton, Wigtown Burghs, British people. The agricultural population, especially in be wants now to force me to take one with horrible ca ht Clare (county), Derby, New Ross. Knares- Ireland, were violently torn up from the land of their catures, uglier even than his attorney. Was I not right birth by woeful suffering ; a famine of the thirteenth in breaking off the bargain ?" The court laughed at the borough, Leicester, Athlone, Dungarvan, Cockermouth, Gloucester, al, Barnstaple. Carlow' county, Carlow borough , Durham amidst the population of the nineteenth con- comparison, the attorney was stupified , and the woma n city, tury ; and to this terrible, hut transient source of suf- won her suit. Yough fering, was superadded the lasting discouragement aril- A BRIDE'S IDLE HOURS.—We should think a lady EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—An extensive burglarywas ing from the virtual closing of the market of England to never had but two dresses in her life before marriage, by committed at the premisesof Messrs. Dray,Deanand Co., their produce, by the inundation of grain from foreign the quantity purchased and made for the bridal. This of King William-street, London, during the night of the states." inundation of dresses is a custom as fixed and unalterable 24th instant, and property to an enormous amount carried The second chapter is devoted to the History of as that which insists on every stich in the whole trousseau off, consisting of watches, jewellery, gold chains, and a England, from the Peace of Paris, in 181 5, to the being set, leaving the poor bride nothing but folded bands large number of other articles. It is supposed that the , after the wedding-day is over. The hurry of six months burglary has been committed by a portion of the Rang end of the Tear 1816; and this is followed by the I concerned in the late Strandrobbery, which it ' great , is succeeded by • an appalling calm ; there is not even the History of - France, from the second restoration of lace of a cap or handkerchief to be sewn on , or an y apron both in daring and extent. Louis XVIII. to the ordinances of September 7, lo be hemmed ; and listless ennui threatens the bride of a MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—On Tuesday. an 1816. A fourth chapter is devoted to the Domes- month. We have lately heard of one, who was discovered inquest was held at Walton, on the bodies of Sarah Lilies', tic History of England, from the commencement of sitting on the carpet of her elegantly furnished apartment her two children, James and Eliza, and Thomas Jarvis. 1817 to the repeal of the Bank Restriction Act, in b l e a f y o i r n e g her l"a • e What th a e picture—the e s prtred husband upon and go a n n e ottotobmusain - ir s ti s e ur fa rz i n ly deTb u y pi a ed d e a e c p ot in ta o g a e t o a n n l.p i i ) n s- e c n o n u a r e t q F u a e r n m ee , which cte 1819 ; a fifth chapter treats of the progress of ness, the wife tired of the piano, too heedless for reading, recent heavy rains, they had used a beer-cooler in order literature, science, the arts, and manners, de- and with an empty work-basket ! There is nothing like to get across the moat to their cottage. On Saturday scribing our authors, artists, and actors; and the the needle to tranquillise the mind and raise the spirits, if evening they were all seen crossing the moat, when the concluding chapter gives the History of France taken moderately. beer-cooler filled with water. Assistance was procured, from the coup d'aat of September 1816, to the ROYAL DINNER HOURS.—Kings and queens generally and the four bodies were got out of the moat, but life was creation of Peers, in 1819. This work will be set the hour of dining in the countries they govern. It is extinct in all of them. The moat was übout ten feet deep. cordially hailed by every one who takes an interest children whispered at thattwo the (),c I() Queen ck a n o d f h Great at th B e r s i t t a a t i e n d d i i n n n e e s r w a i t thh tain CHA NCERY sa notice that O M t l i l l e t S t: S a l u o e N e n . has The appointedL? ndon t ' te a2: :‘ e i t a t s e te c r o n o; in his country; while the name of its author is a is a mere pageant. Louis Philippe dined generally at eightse- the Rolls, Vice-Chancellors Turner and Kindersley, the guarantee for the fidelity of the narrative. As the yen. The Queen of Spain dines, or used to dine, at five; Deanof theArches'Court,theJudgeoftneAdmiralty Court, the Sultan at sunset : the late King of Sardin i a dined at Justice Crompton, Sir James Graham, Bart., the Hon. book is published by Messrs. Blackwood , it is almost needless to say that it presents that su- three : the Emperor of Russia eats when he is hungry— J. W. Henley, the Advocate-General, Sir W. Page Wood, periority in getting-up which characterises their tol;e A s u ta ßt t r e ia diriners . are between five and six :. the Emperor Richard Bethell, Esq., Q.C., John Rolt, Eeq.,. a_C., and dines at five: the King of Prussia at three ; the W. M. James. Esq., barrister, to be Her Majesty's Com publications. King of Sweden at five. The hour of five seems to be the missioners for continuing the Chancery Inquiry, and for most general, as it is the most convenient. On the con- inquiring into the law and jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Travels in Western Himalaya and Tibet. By Thos. tinent, especially, as every one goes to the theatre, which and other Courts in relation to matters testamentary. opens at seven—a later hour . than five would interfere Thomson, M.D., F.L.S., Assistant Surgeon Ben- COMMON well the following statement with the projects for the evening. shows how well the late statute for the amendment of the gal Army. London : Reeve and Co: CHURCH SPIRES.—Much of the beauty of Gothic practice of the common law courts has hitherto worked. THOSE who take up this work expecting to find inThe number of writs issued in the three superior courts churches depends upon the proportion of spire to tower; it one of those books of travel which amuse by but the extreme difference existing in this respect between between the 24th of October and the 20th of November, glowing descriptions and romantic adventures, will different buildings, leads me to suspect that no law has 1851, were respectively as follows :—Queen's Bench, 2,163; certainly be disappointed. Dr. Thomson was de- been observed in the adjustment of any. A law, however, Common Pleas, 1,481 ; Exchequer, 2,828. Those issued Tmted by the Indian Government to make a journey t i la t e ts re clr t tale s ly h merui i) t ee b n e : m let .m us discover, if we . can, what !_ti e r n in c ic i, t 2 he i c i o s rr . el p o o m n m di o rgi . l e r a io s d l ir t gB . s x w ei: e te re q , u — er Qeg 3 's . into that hitherto terra ineoinita for practical par- be the merecr e o v wning or fin y i l sh o lpr f e a lower, but t s h p e i sp i re cannot -I 4 ' allowing an increase in the present year, during the first poses, and well did he fulfil his mission. In the ' feature in the composition. I believe that the introduction four weeks of the act coming into operation, of 252 in the book before us is a careful and elaborate detail of a spire degrades the tower to the rank of a pedestal, Queen's Bench, 348 in the Common Pleas, and 463 in the of that journey, and probably no volume of the and that the latter must therefore in form and size be Exchequer. same size has added so much valuable information adapted to a new office, viz., that of supporting, elevat- COOLNESS.—Last week the whole ohe gadown, ble endfor f o Ling, and giving dignity to the spire , which , b ein g corn- the Hare and Hounds Inn, Barnsley f t , fell to our stores of geographical, natural, and historical plate in itself, calls for the tower as a baseeent :in other tunately without injuring any of the inmates. According facts. We know not whether to admire most, Dr. words, it must be an imperfect tower, i. e. a tower which, to a local paper, a lodger sleeping in the room adjoining Thomson's patient perseverance, his careful descrip- divested of its spire, would be seen to be incomplete, that the wall, was not awoke by the noise, and on the land tions, or his untiring enthusiasm in the cause of must be asssciated with the spire. Certain lam that a lord going to him and telling him to get up," It ma as the house spire on a complete tower, a tower per fe c t in its full y -de- was falling, he made answer by saying, y science. The scientific travels of the last twenty fall veloped proportions, that would satisfy the eve as a tower, then : I've paid for my bed , and I'll t ake g ood care that years have powerfully assisted in the progress of civi- can never appear anything, but an incumbrance to it, a' I have my sleep out." Thus the lodger lay his wonted lization ; they differ materially from the Robinson thing to mar its beauty. To give the spire that effect of time, exposed to the weather and the gaze of a large num- Crusoe-style of their predecessors, and cannot corn- grandeur of which it is capable, it must be made the chief bee of persons who had been drawn there by tbe aecident. wand the same class of readers ; but, to the man feature in the group, and be placed on a tower merely to SEVEN TONS OF AUSTRALIAN b } On Tuesday of science and the man of commerce, who now raise it above the roofs of the church.—Correspondent o f three vessels arrived in the river Thames from Australia the Builder. walk hand in hand, these patient investigations of with the extraordinary quantity of upwards of seven tons the climate, resources and products of strange NAMING A SHIP.--" Namin' a ship's jess like namin' of gold on board. One of the ships, the Eagle, was a babe,: said old Sarachback, " fust, 'propriateness; next f reight ed with 150,000 ounces (upwards of six tons), and lands, offer inestimable advantages. Dr. Thom - or sec nly, beauty. Call a gal Prudence an' she'll be of the value of more than £600,000. The other ships are son's work is one of this class ; every line contains scattered-witted as a hen turkey. Call her Grace, an' see the Sapphire, from Sydney, with 14,668 ounces on board, some valuable fact, his knowledge of the physical if she aint orkud. There was Stan'fast Leach, always the and the Pelham, from Sydney, with 27,762 ounces, The sciences fitting him admirably for the task of ob- fast to run when we fit the Marble headers. Beats all Maitland also arrived a day or two since from Sydney, nervation which was required of him, and which he the poetical, romantic, sentimental-like way folks has got with 14,326 ounces. Great, however, as has been the lately of namin' vessels. Jubiter, an' such, is all ex- wealth brought over by the Eagle, the ship Dido is ex fulfilled so satisfactorily. ploded to nothin'. Clippers is in, and gundaloes is out. pected i n a few da y s, which will far surpass it, having on ------- There's the White Squal , an' Black Squal, an all kind o' board 280,000 ounces, or about ten tons and a half of the Popular History of British Zoophytes. By the coloured squals. There's the Greyhound, an' the Hell- precious metal. The ,051 Neptune, with 17,00 ships, 0 ounces ; the Rev. D. Landsborough, D. D. A. L. S., &c. hound , an' the Hoarhound. There's the Wings of the Andromache, 42 ounces ; and other with as Mornin' and the Tales of My Grandfather. Th ere ' s the valuable freights, are now due. London : Reeve and Co. Westward Hoe and the Rake's Progress ; all up for Cali- SUFFOCATION FROM CINDER TIPS.—An inquest nos THIS work constitutes one of the popular series of fornia, sharp as razors, and bound to be Mar in seventy- held at Ystalyfera, on Friday , touching the d eaths of David scientific treatises which , fro m the sim p licit y of five days—neck or nothin'. Fly in' Fish, Flyin' Brick, Lewis, need nine ears, and James Lewis, vrho wasyounger, Flyin' Squirt, and Flyin' Ointment. Then there's some sons of Lewis Lewis , in the e m p lo y ment of the Ystalyfera their style, and the artistic e x cellence and correct- mess of their numerous illustrations , h ave acquired names, as long as the clippers — reg'lar t hree-decker s y l -- Iron Company. William Rees said, lie found the two bro lables,—enough to peke the underwriters charge an extra thers lying between the blocks on one of the c i nder tips of a celebrity beyond that of any other series of mo- quarter per cent. Now, there's thousands of papers is got the iron works. The youngest was lying with his face darn cheap works. To na t u ralists it i s w ell known to be made out on every ship, and yet folks keep the poor downwards, and the eldst lying on his brother, his face how very much a work on our British Zoophytes clerk a spellin' over and over the Sovereign of the Seas, being likewise towards the round. Both were insensible, and Corallines, within the range of every person's the Queen of the Seas, the Selectman of the Billows, the and they appeared to be dead. Witness had seen both Water Commissioner, and others as long as a train of dirt means, has been wanted in this country. It is nowthe children alive about half an hour before. They were so effectually supplied by the present publication, c o a f r t o s r . af , I d a o n t - c l' t don't want for want your t l e o a rsiene' narysla -1 Bloomer, abfi gl' '. c estyle afloat about fifty yards from the end of the tip, and itthemselves. appeared that the want can no longer be felt. With this nor ashore. Always name your vesselafter the captain's as Rogers, though sur theyeo surgeon, had said, go go ne there eret to immediatecausewrirm o f deat h 3 w l a r s . manual of Zoophytes, and that upon Sea-weeds, by wife, or out of scripture, and then you're safe against pre- suffocation induced g by inhaling the fumes of the cinder the same author, the student can ramble along the sumption and poetry.—Boston Post. tip. A verdict in accordance was returned. ocean shores and glean knowledge from every heap • THE DAMP UNIRRELL A.—A man named Couscoussou HOLLOWAY'S PILLS FOR THE CURE'DF LIVER COM of tangled weed that lies in his pathway. The was 1 trie d last week, by the Paris Tribunal of Correctional PLAINTS, INDIGESTION, AND DiSetirWits OF THE ST.: , - wonderful mysteries of the animal plants, minister- Police, for having beaten Madame Couscoussou his wife. MACH.—Mr. Richard Haynes, of H.M. Dock-yard, at ing to the wants of nature, are laid open tot he "It appears that you thrashed her with great brutality ; Plymouth, had not had the enjoyment of a day's good what have you got to say for yourself ?" asked . the Presi- health for several years, constantly suffering from indi simplest comprehension ; and the level beach, with dent. " Pray, Mr. President, if your wife wouldn't let gestion and liver complaint. He had the best medical its monotonous waste of sand, is made to yield you carry an umbrella, what would you do ?" " Oh, the advice, both from army and navy sureeons, but the dis knowledge of the wonders of the All-wise Creator. monster! oh, the brigand!" chimed in Madame Concous- were tried not in their Annatreatmet, and various remedies These books ought to be the companions of every sou. " What be says there is not true, Mr. President. were tried with a like result. -a-shore. He was drunk when he beat me." " Who doesn't get to use Holloway's Pills, and this fine medicine has so drunk now and then ?" asked M. Couscoussou. " But strengthened the tone of his stomach, and ins igorated his you get drunk always," answered the wife. " And, Mr. constitution, that he is perfectly cured, and now enjoys President, when he's drunk he insists on going to bed the best of health. with his boots on, and with his umbrella ; that is his cha- DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Thursday night, a fine broke racter." "I wear my boots in bed to keep my feet warm," out in tbe Nine-elms Sawing and Planing Millsar the observed the accused. " I don't so much object," said old terminus of the London and South-Western Railway. the wife, "to the boots, though they dirty and tear the By the time the eneines arrived the flames had penetrated sheets. But I do object to the umbrella. Think of a the roof and had seized upon the steam-engine-house or wet umbrella in bed, Mr. President !" "Itis in the wet- boiler-house. It being found impracticable to get the ness of the umbrella," related the husband, " that I find engines to the river side, on account of the mud being up my excuse. A prudent man is never without his umbrel- to the boxes of the engine wheels, a line was formed by la when it rains : and, as it was raining when I arrived the firemen and assistants ,wands by that expedient a home and went to bed, I took it with me !" " Oh, you continual stream of water s cattered, by means of drunkard 1" shrieked Madame Couscoussou. " But I ap peal to all women here present," she continued, turning extinguishing it, but not, however, until the drying-house, round to the auditory, "ifit be pleasant to be in bed with engine -house, and boiler house were burnt out.—The same a damp umbrella ?" "It was raining, I tell you, and I evening a fire broke out in the premises of a japanner, in was afraid that I might have dreamt that I was getting wet, New Montague-street, Spitalfields, and the flames were and, as I have a great antipathy to water, I took the urn- not subdued until the factory was levelled to the ground, brella with me as a precaution !" " Yes, and you beat and the costly contents consumed. me when I wanted to remove it from the bed." The tri- TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week bunal cut this discussion short by condemning M. Cous- ending Nov. 21st, on the undermentioned English lines of coussou to two days' imprisonment. railway, are as follow : 1852. 1851. 1850. X X X London and North-Western.... 49,728.. 40,167.. 39,607 Midland Lancashire and Yorkshire...... 1.5.940.. 15,924.. 14,901 London and South-Western .... 11,642.. 8,565.. 7,692 London and Brighton Great Western South-Eastern York and North-Midland...... 8,412.. 7,625.. 7,111 Manchester, Sheff. and Lincoln 6,546.. 6,439.. 6,025 Bristol and Exeter York, Newcastle, and Berwick 14,312.. 13,404.. 13,378 Shrewsbury and Chester 1,510.. 1,401.. 1,374 Eastern Counties and Norfolk Great Northern .......... Chester and Holyhead 3,219.. 2,673.. 2,360 North Staffordshire Leeds Northern .. South Devon 1,667.. 1,540.. 1,632 South Wales .. East Lancashire Birk. Lane. and Chesil. June... 1,484.. 1,196.. 838 Eastern Union... .. 2,351.. 1,985.. 1,922 Lancaster and Carlisle ....... 4,578.. 3,757.. London and Blackwell Newcastle and Carlisle . Shrewsbury and Birmingham - • 565 South Yorkshire 1,345.. 1,245.. 1,169 Stockton and Hartlep00l . Taff Vale The total receipts on the above lines being £245,871 against £206,939 in the corresponding week of last year ; • , -,- h„ -eu 032. The ii‘,—, GENERAL NEWS. HOME IS WHERE THERE'S ONE TO LOVE US. 1 Home's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded ; Home is where affection calls, Filled with shrines the heart bath builded ! Home I—go watch the faithful dove Sailing 'neath the heaven above us— Home is where there's one to love ! Home is where there's one to love us I Home's not merely roof and room, — It needs something to endear it ; Home is where the heart can bloom, Where there's some kind lip to cheer it What is home with none to meet ? None to welcome, none to greet us ? Home is sweet. and only sweet, Where there's one we love to meet us ! LITERATURE. Boons FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c., intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor of the LI VERPOOL STAN mutt)," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. t to the Laird of Logan. Glasgow Robertson MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. SATURDAY CONCERTS. — The performances at the Con cert-hail, in Lord Nelson-street, on Saturday, were under the patronage of the worshipful the Mayor (Samuel Holme, Esq.,) who presided on the occasion. The exer tions of the artistes gave great satisfaction, which was testified by several hearty encores THE MARIONETTES. —This entertaining little company concluded a very successful season at the Theatre-Royal on Saturday lest. Their performances have received the approving plaudits of highly-respectable audiences, and they leave Liverpool with the good wishes of all for their future success. PHILHARMONIC SOClETY.—Handers fine oratoria of " Judas Maccabseus" was performed on Tuesday last in superior style by the members of the Philharmonic So qssisttd by Mr. Sims Reeves. From various causes '-= amongst the rest, the audience was 'on merited. Those who were - applause the delight which many dinner part of so large as the occasii resent testified by rapture they experienced ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — 'Miss Glyn brought a very successful engagement to a close on Saturday, playing Lady Macbeth before a well filled house. Though this character is justly accounted one of her greatest achieve ments, and in its acting recalls the brightest days of the drama, her Queen Katharine in " Henry VIII." is still a Those who have witnessed this lady in aye seen the Siddons in the :r triurn s particular is rule, and remember to me, were forcibly struck with the res lblance of Miss the increase is shown to be .t..10,u0A , . miles open on the above was, in 1852, 4,987, and in 1851 4,729, showing an increase of 258 miles. The returns for the corresponding week in 1850 on the above lines was £190,949, and the mileage 4,648 k. The receipts per mile .0,10 A. na . ;., , nderful actr h scene was an b able performanc bn Friday night the e to her benefit, and ded to do hou per week, for Itio - z, on tile euuvc 1851, the receipts were £43 15s. 2d. ; Is. 5d., so that the increase 0f1852 on 1 and over 1859, 0 2i. 7d. and in 1850, £4l 51 is £5 Bs. 10d., to the public, and lad to know with success. visitor to the s Supple MANY of our readers will remember the publica tion a few years since of a work entitled "The Laird of Logan," which Excited much attention from the great number of original anecdotes which it contained. We have now before us a supple ment to the above, which we have no doubt will be cordially welcomed, as it contains many interesting specimens of Scotch witticisms and quaint savings. We give the following as specimens, but the book contains several stories of considerable length : A HIGHLAND CERTIFICATE. Shames, the bad reports " It's very much against you, they'll talk about you, 'deed is it ; and I justtold some of them that call themselves frien's, that was making an abuse of you, that 1 never saw anything about you but decency ; indeed, said I, very little of that same either." STRONG DIGESTION. One of the " kail sippers" of Fife used to say of his digestive vowers—" Never onything fashes rty stomach; I believe it could manage a dead sodjer stuffed wi' bayonets." EARLY HOURS. A gentleman called at Logan House early one forenoon, wishing to see the Laird. " Oh, Sir," said the servant, he has some company wi' him." "I am afraid that I have called t oo soon ; they'll not have done with break fast." "'Deed, Sir, it's yesterday's dinner that they're 210 done vti'.', A BEGGAR'S GRATITUDE. An old mendicant made, with bonnet in hand, the beg gar's a ppeal to a clergyman, who was well known to the supplicant. Th . e minister put a piece of silver into his band, which raised to a high pitch the expression of gra titude. " Thank ye, Sir I Oh th an k ye ! I'll g ie ye an afternoon's hearing for this ane o' thae days." VARIETIES LEGAL INFORMATION. —It you bite a man's nose of, what are you bound by law to do. Keep the piece. HORACE WALPoLE tells a story of a Lord Mayor of London in his time, who, having heard that a friend had the small-pox twice, and died of it, inquired if he died the first time or the second. A CHAP OUT Wrgst• who bad been severely afflicted with palpitation of the heart, says he found instant relief ef by the application of another palpita tin g Anoth triumph in hommopathy. " Like cures like. A CORRESPONDENT Of Notes and Queries quotes emi - • • • th nrnnunciation of Gib raltar and T not the penultimate, sill to call Gibraltar—Gibral, " Did you say sane ?" asked a " Yes, sir, I did that inference Ave shillin g 8 in mo Dr. Scott WHAT Cows TO KELP.—A New gng onsidered Mr. Smith in .ness in a criminal case. umbrella ana m both ;land farmer I we shall De g `OOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1552. GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—It iS said that the under writers of Lloyd's having insured the incoming gold to the extent of £6,000,000, decline to go further. PLYMOUTH ELECTION.—A petition was presented to the House of Commons, on Thursday, against the return of Mr. Collier, the liberal member for Plymouth. The allegations are, insufficient qualification, bribery, treating, undue influence, &c. _ _ THE COLONIAL MAlLS. — Notice has been issued at the Post-office, " That the mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Southern and Western Australia, Victoria, Sydney, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, which ought to be forwarded from Plymouth on the 3d proximo, will not sail until the 14th." - - V A ' WATER-BAILIFF in the river at Brechin has been described as standing at the back of the daindike, engaeed in lifting the fish over the dike. He takes them in his arms in the most affectionate way, and puts them gently over to the other side. ONE OF THE BOATS used for deciding the champion ship of the Thames was made of yew, its length was over forty feet, and its weight only 28 lbs. The materials cost but 125., while the cost of construction and workman ship amounted to £32. WATERLOO.—It is a singular fact, but little known, that in the course of his victorious campaigns the Duke of Marlborough once drew up his army in array, and pre pared to fight a pitched battle against the French, on the plains of Waterloo. A mere chance prevented the en gagement. Smollett recounts the circumstance in his History of England. COUNTY TREASURERS.—From a return just issued, it appears that the value upon which the county rates were assessed in England and Wales in 1851, was £59,994,986; that the receipts from all sources amounted to £1,489,437. and the expenditure to £1,355,645. The debt amounted to £1,128,824. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, as a man named Smith was stepping on board a steam-tug at Lamlash, he missed his footing and fell overboard, just as the engines were set in motion. He was caught by the paddle-wheel, by which his head, legs, and several parts of his body, were so severely mangled that he died almost immediately. SAD ACCIDENT.—Four men were drowned on Friday at Hull. A boat containing four watermen and three passengers put off from the pier to board the steamer Scandinavia ; when midway the bowsprit of a brig caught the mast of the boat and capsized her. The three pas sengers and one of the boatmen were drowned. ANOTHER MEDIATOR.—The Pope of Rome has passed a decree of " Beatification of the venerable servant of God, F. Paul of the Cross, professed Priest and founder of the Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ." The decree authorizes the exposition of his body and relics for the public veneration of the faithful, and the recitation of his Office and Mass at his yearly festival. THE SHOTTISHAM GIRL.—The believers in Elizabeth Squirrell are advertising for subscriptions to defray the costs of prosecuting those who have defamed her character. This is too good. We should like to see the Court of Queen's Bench engaged in trying the question whether Elizabeth Squirrell does really and truly live without eat ing, and perform the various natural functiot.s without the ordinary means of exerting them.—Bury Post. MORE WORK FOR THE COUNTY COURTS.—Two bills have just been brought forward by Lord Brougham, to give more business to the County Courts. The object is to facilitate proceedings in Chancery and to lessen the expense of such proceedings. One is called " County Courts Equitable Jurisdiction," and the other " County Courts Further Extension." Both bills are waiting discussion, and are, if passed, to take effect from the 11th of July next. RE VIEW OF THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS. — On Thurs day, the half-yearly inspection of the Royal Household troops took place on the parade, St. James's Park. The extensive area was occupied by the Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), and the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards, with their respective bands. They were under the command of the Duke of Cambridge, and there were present Prince Albert,Viscount Hardinge, Commander-in-Chief, and most of the foreign Princes who attended the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—The arrange ments for the ensuing exhibition, appointed to take place next week, at the bazaar in King-street, Portman-square, were commenced on Wednesday. The late Duke of Wellington had given his usual instructions to enter his name as an exhibitor, and there is no doubt that it will be forwarded to the show. Last year his Grace exhibited a large Bramin bull, of so furious a character that it was with the greatest difficulty it was got into the show-yard. The number of entries exceed those, we understand, of any former year. THE LATE SNOW STORM — So heavy was the Snow storm between Bakewell and Buxton last week, that severe and protracted impediments were presented to the Derby and Manchester mail coach, and, in one instance, some gen tlemen travelling nearTideswell, in a post-chaise, with a pair of horses, were compelled to alight, and assist in pushing the vehicle through the snow-drift, which was so deep and heavy as to have almost completely exhausted the horses. In the vicinity of Ashbourne, we also learn that the snow fell thick and lay deeply, particularly on the surrounding hills. On Friday morning, many of the market carts were clad with snow to the depth of several inches, on their entering the market-place.—Derby shire Courier. ALARMING SEWER ACCIDENT.—About half-past four o'clock on Thursday morning, some livery stables in Ray street, Clerkenwell, which were built directly over the main sewer, fell in with a loud report. There were three horses in the stables, which fell into the sewer beneath with the rubbish. One of the horses was got out alive, and an endeavour was being made down the sewer towards the Thames, Pt Blackfriars-hridge, to find the two missing horses.—The Finsbury Literary Institution in Leicester-place, which is built on an arch over the sewer, has shown symptoms of unsafeness within the last few days, the walls having cracked in several places, as well as a sinking of the foundation. FATAL CAPSIZE OF A BOAT.—On Friday morning boat put off from the east pier of Hull, having seven per sons on board, their object being to reach the Scandina vian (s), from Gottenburgh, which was lying in the roads. A strong ebb tide was running down at the time, and a sail was put upon the boat. When they bad got within fifty or sixty yards of the Scandinavian, the bowsprit of a sea sloop lying in the roads caught the mast of the boat and capsized her in a moment, and before assistance could be procured four of the poor fellows were drowned. The names of those lost are—Mr. James Craig, superintendent engineer at the establishment of Messrs. Brownlow, Pear ' son, and Co. ; Joseph Muckle, an engineer in the same establishment; John Couldray, a boatman ; and John Wilkinson, eatinghouse-keeper, of Hull. THE POOR-LAW PROHIBITORY ORDER.—On Wednes day a large deputation, emanating from a meeting held in Manchester, on the 25th ultimo, had an interview with Sir John Trollope, at the Poor-law-office, for the purpose of requesting the total and immediate revocation of the prohibitory order issued by the Poor-law Board on the 25th August last, on the ground that it can only be carried out through the sacrifice of all discretion and humanity by boards of guardians, and the surrender of all right of control or opinion by the ratepayers." Sir J. Trollope called the attention of the deputation to the fact that there are upwards of six hundred unions in England and Wales under their superintendence, and that this order is already in operation in five hundred of them, and that, therefore, this order was not anything new ; and that, in these five hundred unions, the order was found to work beneficially both to the ratepayer and rate-receiver. He promised that a written reply should be forwarded to the deputation in the course of a few days. THE MURDERS NEAR STAFFORD.—After a protracted sitting, the magistrates on Tuesday committed Edward Welch, Charles Moore, and Peter Kerevan, charged with the wilful murder of John and Jane Black burn, at the Ash Flats, near Stafford. The murder of the deceased couple must have been planned some time before the commission of the deed. Moore and Welch are re lated by marriage to each other, and Kereven kept a lodg ing-house at Stafford, at which Welch lived. According to the atatemetits made by Moore and Welch, it was ar ranged that the murder should be committed on Saturday night, hut the courage of "Welch failed, and it was post poned till the next night. The old man was murdered as he lay on the bed, and the woman at the bottom of the stairs, from which spot she was carried up and placed upon the bed with her murdered husband, Henry Blackburn. son of the deceased, according to the statements made by Moore, assisting to carry her. FRIGHTFUL INUNDATIONS.—The water in the River Thames, during Friday afternoon, again rose to a con siderable altitude, and in many places, more especially near the London and South: Western Railway, ran over the low lands, and caused that which had already accumulated in the open country to increase to a very alarming extent. The water which ran off the Surrey hills, found its way into the Thames, caused the latter to overflow the towing-paths in the neighbaurhood a Putney, Barnes, Mortlake, Richmond, Staines, Datchet, and several other places. The water then rushed across the flat meadows and corn-fields, so that, at last, these places presented immense streams of vast depth. At Egham, Woking, Hampton Court, Chertsey, Merton, and various cuttings on the South-Western Railway are several feet under water. In some parts the traffic along the coach road is all but stopped—the only conveyance being by boats or punts. The country, in some parts, to the extent of many miles, has the appearance of immense navigable rivers. At Maidenhead, Reading, Ealing, and Uxbridge, the principal corn-fields were some feet under water. Several places alongside of the North. Western, Great Northern, Great Western, and Eastern Counties lines were described by the guards as presenting huge sheets of water, and so deep that boats were obliged to be employed to take the inhabitants to and from their houses. A considerable amount of damage has been done to the sewers in and near London. A great deal of cattle has also been lost. CASE OF Dn. ACHILLI.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Sir Alexander Cockburn moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in " The Queen v. Newman" should not be set aside and a new trial had, upon the three following grounds, viz. —firstly, that certain evidence had been improperly rejected upon the trial ; secondly, that the learned judge before whom the trial took place misdirected the jury ; and thirdly, that the verdict was against the evidence. Although he was unwilling to cast any animadversions on that which was the proper and legal tribunal for deciding questions of fact of this nature, he could not but express his opinion (and he did not stand alone in this respect) that a more determined bias, a more inveterate prejudice, was never manifested by an English jury, than was exhibited by the gentlemen of whose verdict he then complained. The learned judges having considered the matter, the Court granted a rule on the ground that the verdict was against evidence, and on no other. One or two of the newly made dignitaries and several priests of the Rornish Church were present during the proceedinres. Dr N.re- f course prese as accompanied ,embers of the by the Earl ,of Arundel ana seve... re House of mons. The Univers givel turn of the s u bscriptions in favour of D lected in England, 175,00 ',0,000f. have been c the following Newman : ; in inzvera, besides iz lakes the total amount already collected in Env) and, I Ace, neaily 260,000 f. (X 10,400 sttt CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. CONVOCATION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,—In the discussions which have taken place in and out of Convocation, one very important matter has been totally lost sight of. For above half a century, the Arti cles and Liturgy of our Church have been adopted by the Episcopalian Church of the United States, and by nume rous congregations on the continents of India and Aus tralia, whilst it is scattered through every important city and region of the known world,—all widely beyond the control of either Parliament or Convocation. The matter is now placed by Providence beyond the means of change. Canterbury—or even the United Kingdom—might deter mine a change ; but it could do no more than make a schism, form another sect, and render their New Church of England and Ireland an emanation rather than the great original of the American Church. Those who think with Rector Campbell that it is " admirably complete" as it is, will become American Episcopalians : those who would consort with the - indifferent company of Romanists on one side and Dissenters on the other, and engraft them into their fold, would form a mongrel community, which would be at variance with the Church of Cranmer and three centuries of noble divines.—l am, Sir, yours, Scc., ANGLICAN. ABSOLUTION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,—In the excellent and telling speech delivered by the Rev. W. Pollock, in the Amphitheatre, on Tuesday last, he overlooked one very important point, to which, trust, you will allow me to advert through the medium of your widely-circulated journal, not only for the benefit of Churchmen, but of all classes of true Protestants. In the form of Absolution for the Visitation of the Sick we read, that Jesus Christ " left power to His Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him." In reference to this disputed point, 1 may be allowed to say, that nothing is more certain to the child of God than that there is a repentance which need not be repented of— a repentance unto life !—a supernaturally communicated gift of God ; known to a certainty to every subject of divine grace, and producing within them the fruits of good living. This, and this alone, is true repentance. There is also described in Holy Writ a faith, which is of the operation of the Spirit. He that receiveth it bath the witness in himself—it is a saving faith—it works by love, and purifies the heart. It is the " substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." It is meat to the hungry soul, and drink to the thirsty soul. Whosoever is a partaker of it shall never either hunger or thirst, but shall have eternal life. It communicates to the soul of the true believer effectual grace, and, like its twin sister, true repentance, it is supernatural in its effects, imparting a sensible and unmistakeable knowledge of its saving benefits to the soul of every recipient. This' and nothing short of this, is true faith. From these plain Scriptural truths it is quite clear that all, who truly repent and believe, have a most sensible assurance of par don, absolution, and peace from God, our Father, mani fested to their souls, and that through Jesus Christ alone, who ascended on high to give repentance andforgiveness of sins. There is, therefore, not the slightest doubt from the Absolution in the Visitation of the Sick, which distinctly states that the minister shall absolve all such, and only such, as truly repent and believe, that he ought fully to satisfy himself that the sick person has obtained from God pardon and peace, and is justified from all things before he ventures to use the words of absolution. The absolution of the minister is a reassurance of God's favour by the ministration of his holy word, to the sick person, who may be passing under some dark cloud, or suffering through some grievous temptation. Yours, &c., G. P. Edge-hill, Nov. 27, 1552. ABSOLUTION IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—There are three forms of Absolution in the Church of England. The first—declarative, as in the Morning and Evening Service. The second—precatory, or supplicatory, as in the Communion Service. The third—in part supplicatory and in part absolute, as in the Visitation of the Sick. It runs thus :—" Our Lord, Jesus Christ, who bath left power to His Church to absolve all sinners, who truly repent and believe in Him, of His great mercy, forgive thee thine offences : and, by His authority committed to me, 1 ab solve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." With this last only are we at present concerned. So far as it is supplicatory, as in the first clause, no objection can be raised against it. With respect to the Absolute Form in the last clause, it may be viewed as referring either to ecclesiastical cen sures, or to what may more strictly be considered as sins against God If to the former, the Absolute Form is perfectly admis sible, as the minister is the representative of the congre gation of the Faithful, 'and to him it rightly belongs, in their name, to execute the discipline of the Church. This is the view entertained by Wheatly, in his treatise on the Book of Common Prayer. who also states that the Collect following, wherein prayer is made to God for forgiveness of sin, even after the Form of Absolution has been used, was one of the formularies for Clinical Abso solution in the early Church, i.e., wherein the penitent was restored to the peace of the Church. But if it—the Absolute Form—refer to sins against God, it must be taken in the declarative sense, although expressed absolutely. For it is only to be used in a very extreD..,- limitation fatal to the idea that it is absolute, for, if so, me case it would be necessary to every case It is not to be used with those in health, but only with those who are sick ; nor yet with all the sick, but only with those whose conscience is troubled with some weighty matter ; nor even then, unless the sick person earnestly and heartily desire it. In this case, the Church allows Absolution to be pro nounced i❑ the absolute, rather than the declarative, form, as meeting the peculiar state of mind of the indi vidual—deficient in the active exercise of faith,--and as not being without Scriptural precedent for this form of expression. _ _ . Thus, in Lev. xiv. 11, the priest is said to make the leper clean; whereas, we know from the preceding verses, 3-7, that tho leper was cleansed already—that all the priest could do was to put him through a ceremonial puri fication, and then pronounce him clean. So in Isaiah vi. 10, the prophet is directed to make the against its adversaries. - 8 5 'PP 'if its, el ,; heart of the people fat, and their eyes shut, &c., which From the emancipation of the holi c i ' so cs 6 ,4i whilst the Church allows the absolute form in the ex- e ti m lo c. s t e i° g7. e i a n t yet we know he could only declare should be done. But, pass to that of the mind, and to thst rei e T al e tar . '',oofD!i to the tot higher reli biloeussahasetty. if o t o n al d b i c tli t ti ll oo . treme case aforesaid, as most suited to minister comfort the leaves of their country's a nnals ti! e ia pot ief ell fe o a el l i and consolation to the spiritual condition of one in the to find that the possession of u nlitt y te , oo dptio o tj ''' s o l led to the exercise of spiritual tyrel by.il it io #o4, melancholy state referred to, she, at the same time, con- art in its turn abused its . triieT o P ...l w hiG ho oe . ofr„ demns the practice of auricular confession, as heretofore vanquished those very cruelties tr ; t he o a r c ore practised in the Romish Church. only just escaped. But, thank 6 1 °, 1 , 1 ; ar acc u igh„t s fell o l First, virtually, by the whole tenor of her dogmatic religious persecution no longer , 0 3 ,i_o so lf I'd r o l V . teaching in the Articles, particularly the eleventh, wherein book o ! n Duke'f f lili , le i t e e ct olt i l o . we are taught that "we are justified by faith alone in and all ;he articles of the Council of b iB f fr i V, , .„ hest , o ~'S e a s Christ." Protestants as he could persuade Le , s e pop ,- . , 03 a, 0 0) yet enjoy perfect freedom. Noli % I P,. Virl''' Of,/ Secondly, by reforming her Rubrics. self might preach if lie pleased, in '" ; 0 311Ci t o ri0 1 0 4 , In the first prayer-book of Edward VI., the Rubric on his own claims ' to universal seE r m 'ighl(tb e h 6`,tis, ordered that the " form of absolution for the sick should other inconvenience than that wh a i ti e' tio - o , . b P or ies ts fr il e tyr i be used in all private confessions." pressure of a very crowded coneree t o f L, a itl,forlf o s Now, in the second book of Edward VI., this Rubric is w m i iA i ht ti g a o o o r t i to com N p . are the c° l 7 t his ! raf liVe!,ti . wholly omitted, together with all mention of private con- respects, '. to concert:Olt:ooll44 had been, so different was it at the P prig' w ee i .,9 1, fession ; and this omission was confirmed at the last the j he ito . or the strong faith to believe that.,, n eart t, t , . a pi or t it , Q, as uN ien i i c t to e r v i e s i i review. the Lord High Chancellor of -I: ', e . o nit ' t i c/ 4 , 4 ° 0;0f t Thirdly, by the express condemnation thereof in her hundred years ago, could be $e "i v estn, r. - p' , t ir• Book of Homilies. The second part of the Homily on R e . London alderman as to strip tbeirse ,_-,., go _ c iao' el y require forcible restraint from th eir top o f gi eff of; pentance has the following on this subject : to —event - their climbing to th e f oe • cle •o pe " And whereas the adversaries go about to wrest this drink King ' James's -. health. the " O r 0 1/ Ile to au 11 3 sl l place (Jas. v. 16) for to maintain their Auricular Confes- , After some further illustratil to he so d 4 1,, f t sion withal ; they are greatly deceived themselves, and Ewbank concluded by deciarieig t mo v!:;_ c o co ur. r o li o v o, do shamefully deceive others ; for, if this text ought to be cred . that all the world disturbswtaesoo,l_,tisc-t : s o " the right direction, in spt !,,,`. t i m e `, 1 ,01 0) oil understood of Auricular Confession, then the priests are looked for ward hopeful} to in': tio ity _,,,.. Ito pdi as much bound to confess themselves to the lay-people as would he Christiltiit.Y , ant 3 f h . ' l3 =••‘..1.---- , 0.44 . g reeimeriemwees.""'''' t0r1ie105.10.4 the lay-people are bound to confess themselves to them." 1 _, __ An ico po a. ~,. o r .ci e, - , , T 21 " _.,nte._inti'eatltlioadi we n•o every nat " And when that they du allege this saying of our I . IIE LAW Or cr o p• the law of evidence has justeb:t ? ti l t ow r ; Saviour Jesus Christ unto the leper to prove Auricular Confession to stand on God's word, Go thy way and shay thyself unto the priest,' do they not see that the leper betweenses, as husbandwe'as all parties wife durin4 n. l ; n rio s ,, e anti at al!. w a ives arc to il he exlalmianretide,s tox " costs 11 '" aetiollsa,rvrioge :it10;1 was cleansed from 1 leprosy afore he was - Furthe Christ disclos( r e 6 ' . e - e° eat '''betfr°° sent unto the priest, for to sher,r himself unto him ? 13y prisor the same reason we must be cleansed from our spiritual Sir TO Au s alp COW e 4E , IS iti°"os C .tl)ol.pri eprosy- —I mean our sins mu, , ,t be forgiven us—afore that ie to confession. What need we, then, to tell of I by w B Y,. , ' :,,it I 1 , g 1; e I r il I:2fl C . 1 :1 beoP 11 that they be Treacly taken away ? Therefore, hol the'll9th psal! unto :the ,priest yell, The 1 true I c,stroo Who is t ,t both the , piles I the 1 edge t nether 't for I burden ac onange in Ll ,nd 300.1iorge poer. 3,997 656 2,160 deliverance from our sins but our Saviour Jewlll_nfise who being our Sovereign Bishop, doth, with thesitst upon 00 vs i , of his body and blood, offered once for ever of the cross, most effectually cleanse the s pirituel l e ,P„' fgt. a si n o d n w o a f s t h he aw ss a m y e tl d ie o s ti in e s e o u f n a to ll hthinlos.e„that with tree ... : 00 " I do not say but that, if any do troubled curate or in pa sconscience, Bonze e e find tho — ea show the trouble and doubt of their conscience t°, ci lse that they may receive at their hand the corafortseLerbert! O y th m er a of God's word. But it is against the true Christian of big that any man should be bound to the numberiagiod. sins, as it bath been used heretofore in the times °f nese and ignorance." Chu rch Surely, it is impossible that the mind of th e we klet e A could be more plainly expressed on the point. re ly its. find the practice of auricular confession exPress emphatically condemned. o f the S pot Whether the absolution in the Visitation refer to church censures, or to sins against God,,,,u,Jeellartaelf, to be absolutely determined. Very possibly the o' bab did net mean to restrict it to either one or the other, designedly left it in general terms, and capable, therefore of being differently understood, according to the "" staitces of each individual case. die° The following quotation on this point, from th e j u isue ygordeipyaiireatorntehdeior, let:ties?, Hooker—the able champion of the Church et r• A will repay an attentive perusal : 1,60101 i " The sentence, therefore, of min y iste e ri ci a a l re l 7: 4 12 1 1,,--- 4( 'S bath two effects. Touching sin, it only d from the guiltiness thereof, and restored into is yste f r a ie v s o , u w r lie b re u o t, f, e t tc o e u r g n h in s g in ri , g w h e t w in er s e ac nt re a d de an u d uw d o ivi r t ri k e il s o tb o° power of the Church did before effectuallY ' 8 areo` retain us from access unto them, so upon oar all ti , tlie looge tsoef er repentance it truly resloreth our liberty, c n h , a v i e n r s g w o h n e e r a e s w t i r t a h y. we were tied, remitteth 0110 b e is past, and accepteth us no less returned i l l We . . l eto " For inasmuch as the power which our SavitirLof,e; His Church is of two kinds—the one to be e:te r ',:n to ":, voluntary penitents only, the other over such es 7, - , r -t":, brought to amendment by ecclesiastical censt,'"ihe sl words wherein he bath given this authority ra ,,;ork el l understood as the subject or matter f or mer w hereupo u l a d" will permit. Tt doth not permit that in the Ttobin -0(0 i rn . el only 0 , to i ons loose, i i or e en u mo use of o coe f roof retain, o s w i e n rneorvses according co v cu o ol l rdudnts.tniaggrnyti oy o t abna i ro 7 tht .l, lo e ch t e ir : ili be gathered from outward signs, because really PI; the removal or continuance of sin in the 5,02`,4°00' offender is no priestly act, but a work which t ar- soi . their ability." 'lll e til of It is needless to pursue this matter further. ka NO A fest conclusion from the premises is this—tha t t ,",, w tote°i absolution in the Visitation of the Sick is al, ,1 as , 1 ",, effective, as it regards ecclesiastical censures; anh.ototml, regards sins, it is an authoritative declaration k i," a tri" minister of Christ of the removal of all from 1.- o gee penitent. Auricular confession is the most abominable t are 3 ',-6 many abominations ; but, were it otherwise-7,,tivieh useful and salutary as it is poisonous and de,,u tr h s- Gba r , c " the souls of men—no clergyman of the Bor s t "; to , e , 4 " . could, with any claims to honesty, practise viaatgery"Ci. tirely opposed to the spirit of the Church, alt"ecs tbi ; titute of rubrical sanction, and directly at / B _, r- „ P ri' 9 . n t d the . explicit statements contained in those forw t ;i hl ing' - which lie has subscribed as containing " a sv h°- ° godly doctrine."—l am, Sir, yours faithfully, EA YD Olt' Liverpool, 27th Nov 18.52 F.. St. John': COMMONSENSE. dit rlO 4:1311E AT THE COLLEGIATE INS11)-" 4te er The Rev. W. W. Ewbank's lecture on the a 4 - n • p g ject was delivered on Friday night. In de ',,, - ig l tt s ; . (7a . meaning of the term commonsense, he said it 7 0 - iieictl - c e 1 41 nify either that sense, judgment, oeinion, Or which was common to the members of th e soeietle e" 1 012,; we might happen to find ourselves , or that le"a pror e ception of right and wrong, and true and false , s e a in k t , and improper, which God himself had iinPlar,L e the ll t r lie that heaven-born faculty of distinguishing w e R, - ;eoisie, e lti dity . of instinct between the real and the ue'L e l eesl,, , o etf preetous gold and the glittering tinsel the ' ens e • worth and the varnish of hypocrisy : that 9 e lne ee e would have been common to all but for the iel ee reff he • cl'kk which sin had introduced. The difference betWjeel.r;if two definitions was simply this, that the nae nt eer;et 4t commonsense as it really was in the world, th e ...hef ti e r- of ,kin would be if those impediments were retnov a e aoy ; :tee l ,i ; j ti l was commonsense in its imperfection and in its perfection and its purity. ,eiae l „ef The lecturer referred, in illustration of s cm - el :011 1 / 4 „ commonsense, to the fate of Galileo, the beli,' '„, - ooteleiN and the elixir vitae, and the punishment of ola " g tettw t oN the crime of witchcraft. Bishop Jewel, wi le ,. cr ee L rsi illi :e: ll 4 eminent preacher and the most learned contre;ebeieipo,t his time, who wrote the famous " ApologY fej,,e` e raitigl o , of England ," . was an earnest believer in o" . ."elie woo prayed continually for Queen Elizabeth, that " e be.,tie be preserved from those powerful old werer c e tab r i l et dealings with the devil." The University 0 ' l ed ' - o es : 1 1 was a very learned university ; yet it was net 5- the° ioiN since the hanging and burning of a father, fl e e re alc t ellt t daughter, on a charge of withcraft , Was seea si'.l thankfully commemorated by its members bell e fe' 4 lecture delivered in one of its chambers. ' R- the NI witchcraft continued for many a long year to ~btotesloeil, monsense of England. Roman Catholics an stilPeolfB alike held that ugly old women were in le e e e ntt eP rO l Nl devil, and had familiar spirits. This was saf 6c e i c ieti , g that vi commonsense in any nation, or in any " t e, eleme or small, was not necessarily identical with t g r u in feefj ic Mr. Ewbank next alluded to the crime 01 , - ief"itr i k pointing out the different light in which it w• - •-e n i gis e ist different countries. The commonsense of oe' d or ll ,/ volted from it; the commonsense of China sarei;:c1:00'11 approved of it. Commonsense marked, as w` t e - tli, ~:;101 ' 0, sign-post, the progress of mankind towards trZet ward march of the great human race towards t ",.01f 0 1 : L I goal, far off though it yet might be by the ia l t e 'bettl e ,ill counted centuries ; the ancient struggle in t t l e ebt t.' 1 1.3q, of the heart of man between the spirit en 10°' spirit of wrong ; a chequered conflict on Which to or; , and in the Gospel of Jesus Christ enabled theeals°oo with all its • fallings and risings, again ante of a final, though far distant, victorY t°1,00°1:00 the true over the had and the false. For o f 0,10,1 was not truth; but it was the truthful Purge thre",' with theiregooo,ol humanity, indicating, by gentler or sel e e re e - itis e that the wise treatment of the heavenly Pr -1 _ i s 't not be unsuccessful at the last. 0 13°Ptp tiet But was it clear, was it certain, that , contras ,eoour mark the onward progress of humanitY tl-tofsetsietfoki The true . answer to this was an honest sePe e ei 'i oa t ° el in order to supply that answer, he would PP - - the advances which truth bad already tes, u e e. bea i reree % blik' most hideous of all vices that ever degrane,",,em-tetn,"ol? vice of cruelty, what a change had taken fu e ll i ose e dill if 6' l to it How inconceivably shocking wer e e e pined pages of history which seemed to describe reasnie fiends rather than of men, the cold-blonder wealieell'f•f,k thousands, of unresisting o ld terse' en " men, „pit ti new-bore children, and the tortures, nar',„ooereelree4 self ! Cruelties which the commonsens e e ` - 1 onc e or e io if men would now reject with loathing, were c , ta golee#, in England in open sunlight, and excitedeor t o g oo'A., l passion than the torture of the baited bo v " eg lishoof 010 of the matador in a Spanish bull fi-ebt• en - t 9 ° ale I/ I t men did not now beat their wives tv - icl ser f- e eee t 'd a hundred and fifty years ago ; nor was tben'eot 6;0070- whipping of women now a favourite ameseelat bai l db/'i sure. English Wilts did not now reee political adversary was suffered to die wit-c,;:t:irefoli; bowels burnt before his face; nor did En&ie. "CI eta' i late them by similar ferocities on their p ass e 00 .1 '0 ; bitterness of those sad days was for sled; t!)eilictrOticts.i Political and religious sects still nrel al lY; l lo o ,4' ° l 4 party was not extinct; punishment was,J; bea er o e'• the malefactor ; but tile Moloch of crue' t i e gen 9e Sa r :e of his terrible power, and English conterti, oarfet , " more and more in accordance eenr _ "Be ye, therefore, merciful, es ven is merciful coming precept,. dark ,rided of its twin-sister rtieltseitt " fl ee scarcely possible to think of de soliTlrttic.d.' places in which that great e °6 ' tb o tl o ',l o of the world'• l i t be to ° ivc influence. It nog,. .„,11 1 ',04 the i horrors slaver/lot coy the golden rule 0 1 " i 'd De evi ll oeio) gat e t s y t s n h g o s u l l a d v e d r o y, o i t u : 9 ; e st :: : 1 : l e ' s: but,law ifatiltd v;aesrtecielaist;etlof pool,,vitutPoiloitc:;sloot-voi' n tones of thankfulness that freedon3 togain— age, been winning its battles, ''n" being r S' would pass before