The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

NEWSPAPERS! The newspaper press, we mist freely confess, Is amusing enough to the nation, And thousands with joy their brief leisure employ, To scan o'er the freaks of each station : There's trips and there's tours, exhibitions of flow'rs, There's novelties daily arising, • There's good news and bad, there's pleasant and sad, And sights that are really surprising, There's Court news, we own, which must ra/Vireltwwn, The sovereigns of Europe are bletsl.d,: , -" Whilst our spirited Queen, she keops jag a bright scene ' Of festivittes - truly quite splendid.' *There's FlrAm, likewise, will dieifs surprise, • By his wonderful clothing 16 noted ; And franhly we on'u— there di, none in the town, Who can get so nobly „stipported ! 'Tis his pride to acquioe most splendid attire, And yet to sell citAi.er than any ; Now this is the c4tte why be gets the applause, And the noble support of the many! For Autumn so drear, you will ever find there A Stock which is truly unbounded; Whilst his prices are such, you will not wonder much Why his name throughout Europe is sounded!! THE AUTUMN SEASON. The riEiag sun dspels the him,. fog, The rigid hoar-fro t melts upon the ground; And bung on every spray, on every blade. The myriad ~ e wdrops sparkle alt around • . in presenting before my distinenished patrons my arrangern6nts and extensive preparations for the present season. I consider it first' a paramount duty. combined with a positive pleasure, to return my sincere thanks for the continued success which has for se many years eualled me to produce such novelties as have been entirely unprecedented, and which leive given to ray , u merous establishments, both in England and Scotland, a -cha racter hitherto unparalielled in the annals of Clothing. Immense patronage demands the most decisive proofs of •gra, titude and reseeet • and to those who have so nobly supporteit me throughout a . l ' ong career of mercantile enterprise, beg leave most respectfuliy to tender my grateful acknoudedginents. • My arrangements for the per sat season are now approaehing to a completion, aua combine • • • Ve,tings, of exquisite beauty and shade, • , In couetless pet:Osier) are trietefuly laid ; • The richest designs which the loam can supply Delight every fancy and•please every eye ! • . In the tour when 1 have recently made turoughout the Eng- Scottsh, and Continental markets, I have selected upwa. ds of 6600 of the most magi ificent designs in Vestings, which can not be obtained by aoy other house in the kingdom, .The " principal styles" are entirely my own propeity, aed can only lie seen at my establishment ; and. although I have adopted this novel method of securing the most recherche designs. yet econo my will be found blended with their extreme beauty and dura. bitity.—The filaterinbi which I have selected for Trouserings combine every novelty yet introduced into this county ; the stock being tri.ly immense, and the patt• rns so much diversified, it insures to every one the certainty of being pleased. Again, the magnificent display of Materials for Over Coats, For every age and staton, Are such as must excite in ml The raced of approoatiou . . In the above useful garments I have introduced a variety of new and beautiful features, and amongst the many novelties may be enumerated the Glenlyon Driving Coat, lie Parisati Envelope, the Albert biding, and the Waterford Walking Coats. Now these ere entirely new, and different to any style yet-intro duced, and will be found to possess that gentlemanly appearance so much admired amongst the haut ton. Combining, as my establishments do, the most recherche esigns, the greatest no velties, the most scientific cutters a• d experienced workmen, and yet, from my immense purchases, being enabled to sell 40 per cent. under the usual price, I venture to hope for the kind continuance of the favour of my distinguished patrons ; whilst no future efforts of mine shall lie waning to merit their generous support.—l have the honour to be the public's obliged servant. 13. lIYAM. Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, 65, Lord-street. • GLENLYON OVER COATS, in all - the New,,t Materials, Warrvtited Waterproof, 15s. Ot•serve.—Ail Garments at this E-ta lishment are marked the Prices in plain figures, irons which no abate ment 'is made ; any Article Exchanged which is not appro'ved of, or the MONEY RETURNED. LIST OP PRICES. READY-MADE D!',PA,RTNIENT. • .E s. d. Chesterfield Wrappers Teglioni Cohts 0 15 0 Albert Do. Diagonal Do. Waterford Do Youths' Chesterfields Ditto Taglionis Ditto- Albert Ditto Diagonal.. Boys' Chesterfield,: 0 8 6 Do. Taglionis Do. •Alberts Do. •Diagonal: Office Coats Warehouse D:tto .. ...... 0 12 0 Shooting Ditto 0 12 6 Winter Trousers, of Buckskin and Doeskin.... 0 10 - 0 Tweed Troustrs Garments at the above pric s are fully guaranteed well made. LIST OF PRICES. BESPOKE DEPARTMENT. All Articles made to measure if not well approved cf when mare, it is the wish of the Proprietors they shruld be returned, and others made instead. Chesterfield Wrappers. Codrington Ditt0........ • • •• • Russian Ditto. Glenlyon Coat, (a splendid Upper Garment) Albert Walking Cat a. Buckskin Trousers Doeskin Ditto ........ Tweed Ditto Office Coats .... Shooting Ditto. The greatest Assortment in Europe of French Vestiugs, made to measure, each One_trial will be sufficient to convince any individual of the Benefit they would derive by purchasing from the Establishment of B. HYAM & CO. .... 1 0 0 .... 1 5 0 1 10 0 1 15 0 .... 2 0 0 .. 0 15 0 0 14 0 0 10 6 0 15 0 0 18 0 PHYSICIANS' & SURGEONS' PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY PREPARED. MEDICINE CHESTS FITTED TIP FOR SEA. GENUINE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. T PRIESTLEY, CASUIST, Lord-street, begs parti -0 • cularly to call the attention of his Friends and the Public to the under-mentioned selection of Preparations : THE NECTARIAN SYRUP, for producing a dclicio:ts, refreshing. and vholesome Drink. The good effects of Acidulatviiieverages, during the Summer Season, are so welliknown in quenching thirst, rendering the skin clear aftd cool, and promoting general health, that it is near:auperfiuous to recommend them. Of all preparations of the kind, the NECTARIAN,SY- ItUP is the most agreeably`; and, as possessing the above mentioned salubrious peoperties, is particularly recom mended. To Captains of Vessels, persons going abroad, or taking excursions of pleasure, it will be found extremely useful, being portable, and so well calculated to allay that. dis tres,ing heat and fever which accompani ,, s thirst. ESSENCE OF RENNET. for making delicious Curds and Whey.. - This. wholesome 'preparation is engaged to keep, and ob6ates all the un certainty of making Whey from the Rf , nnet Bag. PRIESTLEY'S CITRATED EFFERVESCENT 11 AGN ESI AN APEltiiiWf. 'This .delightful compound is recommended in Bilious Affectinns, Indigestion, Gout, Heart-burn, and as a cool ing aspirant (luring the autumnal season. In small doses it is of great use in abating fever, forming a very agreea ble effervescent saline draught. The citrated flavour and the carbonic acid gas evolved render it peculiarly grateful to the Stomach, and an admirable corrective when a free indulgence has impaired its energies. Prepared and . sold 'only at 52, Lord-street, Liverpool, in bottles at 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6dL each. PRIESTLEY'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. In this preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Properties of Sarsaparilla Root. To persons, therefore, who, from various causes, would experience great incon venience, or with whom it would be utterly impossible to prepare the Compound D, coction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the advantagesof portability and of keeping in any climate, will be found a most desirable mode of .employing this much-esteemed Medicine. . - The disease. in which it has proved most beneficial are those of the Skin ; such as Scorbutic Affections, Erup tive Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, &c., arising from a diseased state of the system at large. For removing Blotches, Pimples, &c., from the Face, this Medicine has no superior. PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS, which approach nearer than anything vet discovered to' the Chalybeate Waters of Germony. The style of pre paring PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS is peculiar to himself, and combine scientific skill with great accuracy ; and though numbers of people unacquainted with the business, and others, have of late years attempted imita tions, they have invariably been found to be spurious compounds, neither possessing the agreeable flavour nor the medicinal properties of the Seqdlitz Waters. Sold in Boxes, 28, each, containing twenty-four Pow tiers, to make one dozen tumbler glasses, and in Tin Cases. VEGETABLE HAIR OIL, Is allowed to be an excellent discovery for invigorating and renovating the human Hair. It eradicates the scurf, - nourishes the Hair, prevents it falling cff, produces a most beautiful natural curl, and gives to artificial Hair a "peculiar softness of texture and luxuriant appearance. Sold in Bottles at Is. 3d. and 3s. each. NEWLY-INVENTED CRYSTALLINE OIL. This is a limpid VEGETABLE OIL, consolidateci.by a peculiar process, and really is one of the best Preparations aver made for nourishing and beautifying the hair and keeping it in curl. ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS. For taking Iron Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stains out of Linen, Muslin, Lace. &c., and for many other useful Purposes.—price Is. per Box, or three Boxes for 2s. 6d. MUCII-ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR. A few drop s of this Flavour, added to Custards, Pud dings; Cakes, Wines, Jellirs, Bc.c., communicate a most delicious taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Direc tions, ls. 6d. and 3s. PRIESTL EY'S FURNITURE PASTE, For Cleaning and Polishing Furniture without labour or trouble. Tbis . paste is used f or cleaning and polishing ever y descriptrn a of Furnit ure ; whatever preparation may ligve previously been used for that puTpose, it acids a high lustre to French polish.—Sold in Pots at Is. each, or Three Pots for 2s. 6d. GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE. This article is recommended to HousekeepJl3for clean ing all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, ?vletal Teapots, Pewter Measures, Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair Rods, Brass Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c., &c.. with half the labour which is generally required with other -preparations, the above lustre leaves a brautiful polish on the Metal.—Sold in Squares, 6d. and ls. each. , INI R. T. E. EDEN, SURGEON-DENTIST, from London, respectfully informs the Inhabi tants of Liverpool that he has REMOVED from M_ to 29, B 0 L D-S .T It E E T, where he may be consulted daily, as usual. Mr. Eden submits that his great experience with his Father, the eminent Dentist, of London, combined with several years attend ance at one of the principal Hospitals in the Metropolis, qualify him in an unusual - manner for the duties of his profession. The system adopted by Mr. Eden of supply ing Teeth by Atmospheric Pressure is so superior to every other as not to-gamit of comparison through the medium of an Advertisement ; but Mr. Eden will be happy to ex plain the details to those who may feel interested. N.B.—Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and formerly Pupil ►o the celebrated Professor Bell, F.R.S. AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL TABLE. (l APTAIN PI DDING'S FIONVQUA'S MIXTURE TEA is an admixture of 40 rare Black Teas, produced on as many different plantations, each Ten differing from the rest, and possessing a flavour, a fragrance, or strength, peculiar to itself. Blended together in the wooer pro portions, they comprise all that is desirable in Tea. This discovery was not the effect of chance, but of many great advantages united in one individual, and the result of • numerous experiments and the most minute analysis. For another to produce the same result, he must possess • equal skill, the same discriminating taste, equal power of proctiring the forty various Teas required, and 'know the exact proportions of each kind used-.—rtrA though he may never once have visited China .Wmust have had equal opportunities of securing too himself, its prcductions : with one who, like Captain Pidding, has spent years there in acquiring these advantages, and to whom alone How qua—years before his death—imparted at Canton, the secret of compounding his Mixture. Yet there are.ripwards of 500 retailers pretending to sell tea, they call " flowqua's Mixture"—each mixture dif fering front all the others: Now as there can he but ONE REAL " H.iwqua's Mixture," it follows that, as 500 dif ferent medleys are offered-499 must be spurious. The 499 counterfeits are so many evidences of the superiority of the ONE GENUINE. And it would be absurd to suppose that Captain Pidding, with advantages, the result of Eight Voyages made to Chi na , an d fi ve years spent in that country, would be so sill}—even were it possible —as to yield them up to 500 others, or impart to them so valuable a secret. The very great celebrity this Tea has acquired, having tempted many unprincipled persons to give similar, or nearly similar titles to their own spurious mixtures, to guard against such imposition, pqrchasers should observe that " THE SIGNATURE TAUS," Captain JOHN RHODES PIDDING, Honourable Company's Service, is on every genuine Packrge. To those who drink Green Tea. " Captain Pidding's Howqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder," grown only on one estate, is recommended for it- strength and economy, and as being the purest and most wholesome Green Tea im ported from China. Captain Rdding has appointed the under Agents for this District" : GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 38, BOLD -STREET, Agent for Liverpool. Accrington E. Bowler, Bookseler. Ditto W. Hutchinson, Stationer. Blackburn J. Paikinson, Chemist, Church-street. Bolton G. J. French, Silk Mercer. Burnley -. Sutliffe, Bookseller, St. James-street. Chester T. Bowers and Son, Druggists. Everton Knutsford .... J. Williams, Draper, &e. Lancaster .... George Carruthers, Chemist, New-street. Manchester .. J. Ford & Co., Drapers, St. Ann's-square. Prescot Preston Ditto .. Ditto J. Higham, Draper. Ditto J. Knight, Waterloo House. Ditto Rochdale Southport Wigan. For Agencies, Address, Captain Pidding, 22, College hill, London. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. On Tuesday, the annul exhibition of stock and imple ments took place at the back of Roscommon-street. The exhibition, us a whole, was considered the mast satisfac tory.of any that has yet occurred in the annals of the so ciety; for, although not so extensive in the aggregate, by any means, as sonic that have preceded it, yet, in all es sential particulars, it has been pronounced by compe tent judges to be the best as indicative of the general prosperity of the association. The day was one of the finest we witnessed for some time pest, and the attendance was such as.might have been expected. Almost all the noblemen and gentlemen whose names we have enumerated in our account of the dinner were present, and took a very lively interest in the proceedings. The burls were first-rate. The cows also were of ex cellent quality and condiion. The pigs and sheep were generally above the average description. The show of implements wete not - very numerous, but we observed many matetial improvements in machines for cutting and also in the ploughs. The subsoil plough of Mr. Robert Neilson was particularly noticed as art improven:ent in the turning up of the land, its peculiar working being that it cut most deep, and with advantage to the soil admitted in a great degree the atmospheric air. A pecu liar kind, of cart for agricultural purposes was also exbi bite,' by Mr. Robertson Gladstone, of Court•hey. It showed in its Li-illation bow lightly a heavy load might be carried with relief to the hcrses, in comparison t o other certs used for similar purposes. It was a single horse cart - weighing about 10 cwt., and capable of carry ing from 140 to 1;. - 41 stones of either hay or straw. THE DINNER. The Annual Dinner of the society took place in the evening in the spacious room attached to Lucas's Repo sitory, About 250 gentlemen, for the most part large landed proprietors and extensive farmers, sat down on the occasion. The dinner, which comprised all the vari ous de!icac;es of the season, was provided by Mr. Lawton, of the Rainbow Hotel, Williamson-square. The tables were arranged in the usual manner. The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, the president of the society, who was loudly cheered on entering, occupied the chair. To his righ we noticed, Thomas Sands, Esq., Mayor of Liver pool, Ribtrtson Gladstone, Esq., John Shaw Leigh, Esq., Richard Earle, Esq., Henry Houghton, Esq. —Beamish, ESQ., T. Bright Crosse, E sq ., Ri c h ar d N 4 ihis, Esq., J. N. Walker, Esq., Thomas Willis, Esq., John Furnaby, Esq. &c. &c. On his left, the Earl of Sefton, Lord I , ilford.—Hetthcote, Esq., Wm. Blundell, Esq., E. D. Davenport, Esq.. Kaye Shuttleworth, Esq., R. Neilson, Esq., Win. H. Hornby, Esq., Michael Hughes, Esq., Major Hughes, Tho mas Chi ppen d a l e, E sq., Weld Blun dell, Esq., &c. Innther parts of the room we noticed Peter • Greenall, Esq., M.P., Gilbert Greenall, Esq., the Hon. R. Den man, Peter Sergeantson, Esq., Peter Wright, Esq., Thos. Rowson, Esq., Thomas Bold, Esq., R. Ledger, Esq., Alexander WlCenzie, Esq., Sir Joshua Wahnsley, Win. Loft, Esq., of Lincolnshire, S. B. Chadwick, Esq., Wm. Selby, Esq. ' Wm. Palin, Esq., Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Richard Pdkington, Esq., Thos. Stutter, Esq, Wm. Hayes, Esq., Gibson Carter, Esq., IL C. Lowndes, Esq. James Cawley, Esq., Mr. Thos. Wilde, Mr. John War burton, Mr. J Green, Mr. Henry White, Dr. M'Farline, Mr. Richard Baxter, Mr. E. J. Pemberton, Mr. W. S. Unsworth, Mr. W. Longton, Mr. John Lathburv, Mr. Richard Dobell, Mr. Thi:s. Wray. Mr. George Wilde, John Lord, Esq.. and John Part, Esq., of Wigan, Lavid Evans, Es.q.—Walker, Esq., of Bolton, Harcld Little dale, Esq., &c. _ _ . . Atter the usual loyal toasts bad been given, his lordship rising to propose to you the next toast, " Pros perity to the Liverpool Agricultural Association," I feel it unnecessary to express the satisfaction 1 feel at seeing myself surrounded by so numerous and respectable an as semblage, gathered together to do honour to the institu tion, the anniversary of which we are engaged in celebrat ing, and also, I would fain hope, to bear, by their pre sence, their testimony of the merits of this and similar institutions in promoting the important obj: cis they are designed to serve. Those objects are of two-fold charac ter, not only important as they tend to increase the faci lities and to increase the cheapness of cultivating the soil of this country, and rendering it more adequate to meet the daily i-creasing wants of a rapidly augmenting popu lation, by the application of improved science and art to the limited surtace of the earth over which we have com mand; but still more important in their bearing upon r ur social relations, bringh g together all classes of the community—(hear)—landlords, tenants of a h gher and loner class, and even the labouring classes also, and combined, as I am happy to see on this and similar occa sion, in this locality, with representatives of the great manufacturing, mercantile, and trading classes (Cheers.) I am not able to discuss with you the merits of the parti cular show to-day, partly for the very good reason that, owing to other Lusiness I have not had the opportunity of inspecting it; and next, because if I had, you would hear a better account of the merits of that show from gentlemen infinitely nacre competent to express an opi nion that will carry weight. Nor is it my wish to enter into any discussion of the general advantages of societies of this description. I think they are so universally re cognised, and recognised practically as well as in theory, that it would be an impertinent waste of your time to take it up in and such discussion. In every quarter of the kingdom we find, during the last few years, societies si milar to this have been springing up, and agriculture has been partaking of the great movement which has been pervading ail the industrial branches' of this country. Farmers are finding out that it is necessary for them, with a view to their own interests, to take a very differ ent course from that which was followed by their grand. fathers and great-grandfathers. (Hear.) In these days no man is allowed to standstill. Improvement must go on. And I see throughout the country, in every part of it, gratifying proofs that improvement is going on as act tively in the agricultural as in the manufacturing districts arid operations of the country. (Cheers.) And although I cannot certainly take upon myself to say positively that because one circumstance takes place immediately after another, therefore that those circumstances stand to each other in the relation of effect and cause, yet I cannot for a moment doubt the efleet upon the agriculture of the country—the effect of communicating information mutu ally possessed, and the effect of the stimulus arising from competition and constant communication—l cannot, I say, doubt the effect upon the agriculture of the country of the numberless institutions of this kind established throughout the kingdom. (Hear.) And if I look at our own immediate neighbourhood, and compare the position in which we stand, defective as we still are, and having much to learn, and much to improve in,—yet, whether I 1 0 at the farmer's stock, his mode of cultivation, or his desire for improvement and amelioration, and compare the state of things now with what it was when, fourteen years ago, I - first had the honour of occupying the chair of this s. ciety, I hope I am not assuming too much when I say, that to the constant meetings and constant inter course carried on between different classes by means of this society, much of that improvement is to be traced which no man with an eye in his head can deny has taken place, and which is most gratifying to those whose inter ests like nine are bound up with the welfare of the agri culture of this district. (Cheers.) Even within the last few years, within a much shorter time than that which I have named, within the lest four or five years, I see strides which, small as they may be compared with what might be done, are gigantic compared with what was done before. I think it is not more than four or five years ago that, at a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, I first noticed as a novelty of a singular charac ter a new manure, known as guano, and recommended to the agriculturists of England. (Hear and a laugh.) If I am not misinformed, from this 'single port of Liverpool there have gone out, within this single year no less than 150 vessels, chartered expressly for the purpose of import ing this then unknown manure for the improvement of the agriculture of the country. It is not alone, however, in matters like this, that we see the usefulness of these societies. I look for much more extended and permanent improvement from their operation. Every where I see old useless fences disappearing, fields enlarging, improved modes of cultivation adopted, and I see going on with im menee rapidity that, which, I must again and again im press upon you who are connected with the land, is the basis of all improvement—deep and thorough drainage of the land, and not here alone, but throughout all England, I see most remarkably, as any one indeed may do, even though whirled through the country at the railway speed at which we are now carried, what an extent of improve ment has been effected' in this respect. Every one is struck with the appearance of preparations for future ex ertions, which are, at the same time, the token of well deserved success. Some of the old farmers of this conn try—l mean the real old class—(a laugh)—shrug their shoulders and say, "What is the need of a!1 this stir about improvement, and making the land grow 'so much mere ?" By the bye it is not so much making it grow more, as making it grow different crops—making it grow wheat instead of weeds. (Hear, hear.) But some say, " What is the use of all this? It is not a question for the farmer. We shall only have our rents increased the more productive land is." Such an argument; allow me to say, is the very climax of absurdity. To use a very homely phrase, it is " cutting off one's own nose to spite one's own face." "Why should I undertake an improvement because my landlord will benefit by it ?" appears to me a very inconclusive and absurd argument., I am not here to dispute the fact, that every improvement in value, every addition by science to the productive power of the land, everything which adds to its fertility, must, in the long run, be an advantage to those in whom the fee-sim ple is vested. But the question is, at the same time that it is an advantage to the landlord, is it not also an advan tage to the forme r who occupies U . ), land, and makes his livelihood out of it ? 1 ask no man to ndertake an itn• provement if his own good sense does not lead him to do it. I ask no. man to apply any improved mode of culti vation, if it does not appear that his own individual ad vantage would be promoted by so doing. But when far mers argue, that because at the expiration of their te nancy their rents may be increased, it is not worth while to adopt improvements, I must say, they take a very short-sighted view of their own interests, and must think their landlords very great fools and blockheads. They must go on the presumption that although he sees Isis land might be made more productive, he will be satisfied for the purpose of seeing his own rents low, to allow a slovenly tenant to go on in his slovenly courses. (Ilea .) The landlord would be as short-sighted as the tenant,•if he could take such a view as this. But again I say, I want the tenant not to undertake any improvement that will not repay him capital interest and profit, during his occupation of the land. (Cheers. This brings use. to another question,' —as to the degree to which it is desira ble or important that the practice should prevail of hold ing land by lease. I speak, I know, in the presence of . a noble friend of mind, and every man who knows him is aware that there is not a kinder or better landlord, or a warmer friend to his tenants and neighbours, than my noble friend on my l e ft, th e E ar l o f Sefton. (Much ap plause, the noble earl rising and bowing to his lordship and the company.) I know also it is not my noble friend's practice to let his farms on lease. The great ma jority of his tenants are tenants from year to year, with such entire and perfect confidence in the honour and in tegrity of their landlord, that I do not believe that the fact of their having no lease operates disadvantageous y in any individual case. But this 1 say, and as one con nected with the land, I feel myself bound to say it, that a landlord has no right to expect any great and permanent improvement of his land by the tenant, unless that tenant be scented the repayment of his outlay, not by the perso nal character or honour of his landlord, hut by a secuti•y which no casualties can interfere with—the security granted him by the terms of a lease for years. (Ap plause.) Ido not speak of a lease for Yves. In my ex perience, with some exceptions, wherever I have found fields badly cultivated, and buildings dilapidated, I hate found that the property is held under a life lease. (Laugh ter and applause.) I speak of a tenant who is prepared to join his capital, and to go hand in hand with his landlord in the improvement of the farm. The greater the im provement you expect, the greater ought to be the lease you give. I consider it unjust, if you call for improve ment, not to give to the tenant the moral certainty that the improvement he effects shall repay him during the course of his lease for the expense he incurs. (Hear.) I will go further than this, and say that there are some expenses of so permanent a character, that while I ripest it again, that it is an inadmissible argument against im provement, if the tenant repays himself for his outlay, that at the expiration of Isis term he shall leave his land in a better state than he found it—while I hold this to be an inadmissible position, and admit and contend that, in proportion to the amount of improvement expected from the tenant, ought to be the duration of his lease— I will add further, that there ate some expenses, more especially with the class of farmers of whom the great majority are composed, which it is idle to expect that they should undertake. If they are to add permanent value to the land, they ought to be undertaken by the landlord himself, charging on the tenant such an amount of intereet as may repay him for the outlay he has made, and at the same time afford a reasonable profit to the te nant. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, lam not speaking now except of that which again is the basis of all improvement, and especially in this country—the thorough draining of the soil. And I repeat what I have already acid on a for mer occasion in this roomt, that there is no investment in the world in which a landlord can so safely, so usefully, or so profitably invest his capital as in the improvement of his own farm, by money sunk on draining. on security of the land which belongs to himself. (Hear, and cheers.) I think I give you a tolerable practical proof of my con viction on this point when I say—and I say it not for the purpose of boasting of what has been done, but c-f encou raging others to follow the example, when 1 say—that on my father's property in this neighbourhood there has been laid down at his expense, and charging five per cent. in terest to the tenants, which I believe they most gladly and willingly acknowledge they have over and over again re ceived the oentfit of—in this last year we have laid down in deep draining somewhere about 300 miles of drains, at an expense of between £5,000 and £6,000, and, I thoik, employed about a million and a half of draining tiles. (Hear.) By the arrangement I recommend for this pur pose both parties are benefitted ; rise landlord receives an ample return for his outlay; he knows the work is done in a substantial and workmanlike mariner ; and I will ven ture to abide by the declaration of any tenant on that pro perty, whether the additional amount per acre he has in curred by having his fields drained, has not been over and over again repaid by the annual return arising from the property. (Hear.) It may be thought that I have trespas on your indulgence, on a point peculiar and personal to myself, at greater length and in more detail than I was justified in doing. But this is an occasion on which we should freely speak our minds to each other. We meet together as landlords and tenants, and it is right that we should express frankly our own own opinions. 1 do not hesitate to express mine, as to the mutual duties of land lord and tenant, and the mode by which 1 believe they may effectually combine together for the advancement of the imuortant objects in which both are at least equally interested. 1 believe, on the whole, I ant in a position to congratulate you on the present state of this society. I hope the period of its depression is already passed. Un doubtedly it has been subject to some vicissitudes, and experienced some losses ; and two or three years ago it be came involved in debts from which some exertions were necessary to relieve it. I have the satisfaction of saying that these are paid off; and although that (abject has been effected by a reduction of some of tbe premiums, and thereby, in some degree, the sphere of the society's usefulness, yet we have every reasonable prospect of the income of the society equalling its expenditure. And though it may be in a more contracted sphere, 1 hope we shall be able to say we can pay our way, and can dif fuse to a considerable extent the advantages which insti tutions of this kind are qualified to afford. If, however, I might hazard such an observation, I would say. anxious as I am for its increasing prosperity, it might be of ads vantage if its sphere of operations were more extended ; end it the co-operation and consent of another and similar society in this county could be obtained, great benefit might be derived from the amalgamation of the Manches ter society with the Liverpool. (Hear ) Thus enlarging the field of the operations of both, increasing the amount of competition, and the consequent stimulus brought to bear upon the agricultural classes, and combining and increas ing the advantages enjoyed by the respective neighbour hoods. Ido not know if' this has been suggested to any of the members of the Manchester society. 1 believe, if the union were effected, it would tend to the mutual ad vantage and increasing prosperity of both. With there observations, and thanking you for the patience with which you have listened to the remarks of one very little compe tent to address you on such subjects, I beg of you to join me, as I feel you will do, cordially and heartily, in drink ing " Prosperity and success to the Liverpool Agricultural Society.,'The arl of SEFTON rose, amid loudtheers, and said he had the leave of their noble chairman to propose a toast. It wis to him a task difficult to perform. He knew not exactly how he could do justice to the toast, but he felt that he could put it to them as farmers in a way that it would come home to their hearts. No persons knew the ualue of a good neighbour better than farmers. Some of them ms s ht wish their farms larger, and theirneighboursfar , ther off—( laugh)—but ell of them would be glad. if at the lane end, the man that lives at the next house was a right good fellow. (Hear, and laughter.) They would not like to have a litigious fellow, with whom they could never agree, and who would accommodate them with nothing. He (the Earl of Sefton) had a neighbour who was exactly the contrary of l bat character, and with whom he was on terms of the greatest friendship, from whom he received acts of kindness, and towards whom he always felt tbe greatest affection and respect. This was the character of his excellent neighbour, the Earl of Derby. (Loud and continued cheering.) They had most warmly responded THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. to the toast, and now he begged that they would drink, in a full glass, the health of the Earl of Derby, (Great cheer lug ) They seemed to receive the toast with so much cordiality that they could not do less than drink it with three times three. The call was most readily responded to, and the t.ast drunk. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said that if anything could add to the gratification which he must feel as a son at the manner in which the hea:fli - of his father had been re ceived by an assembhige cf those, Who, living in his im mediate neighbourhood, or very nearly so, were qualified to judge of the merits of the toast, it would be the terms in which that toast bad been proposed by his noble friend Lord Sefton. His Lordship concluded by proposing the healths of the Vice-Presidents,—Lord Sefton, Mr. Ro bertson Gladstone, and Mr. Watt ; and, in doing so, he expressed the gratification he felt at seeing two out of the three Vice-Presidents present. The toast was very warmly received. Lord SEYTON said, that the very flattering manner in which they had drunk his health demanded his warmest thanks. He should, however, be much more prothl of the reception, and of the kind marks of their approhkon, if he thought he was at all deserving of either. Ile had long lived amongst them. It gave him great pleasure to see them prosper. Whether it was the merchant, the ma nufacturer, the tenant. or the labourer, it always afforded him pleasure to see prosperity abounding. The object of this society was that they should come together—that some should teach while others learned. He did not him self profess to be a teacher of the science of agriculture, and therefore he should not occupy more of their time, c h e u s t sa m ry ak i e ns w tr a u st e flr n th u o p s o e n i t u t o m re s c u o b j m e p ci e . ten ( t c t h o e i e m rs p . a ) rt the ne tandtcuhanei.sarsal:eitell:pr_sb:ol.odayitcarlilitpl„teeoariretlntsoailettEnttshißTSUN GL AD STO N E said, that deeply sensible of the honour conferred upon him, in appointing him one of the vice-presidents of the society, and grateful for the a l oie ;c a ttiyki i k: net i n ge, o t, h n. ai w sl i thcie m l eit e edp d t i crl g n etotlin,Qnfi t eleteintila:ntrtta,u)%nevife,adte: promote eatoptte;ohiaptftecyrhtto,eihfscabepavceelaourruuk:o:mnse.aeoono:tdf,otl knowledge, Believingcoreurhat ilstttless: efforts might be crowned with abundant success. The CHAIRMAN said the members of the society would recollect that in former years the wall behind the Presi dent's seat was covered with silver articles for distribu tion among the successfut competitors, and that it formed a very imposing array. In the course of time, however, some of the successful competitors —or he ought rather to say their wives, finding that they had got so many teapots and teaspoons that they knew not what to do with them, suggested to their other halves—(lsughter)—that it wculd be more desirable to get the amount of their prizes in money, in order that they might buy the teapots and tea spoons themselves, it thee liked. It had been, therefore, decided that all the premiums should be paid in money : and, with the permission of the company, he should now proceed to read over the names of the successful candi dates, to whom Mr. Lucas was, he believed, prepared to meet all demands in full, if any of the competitors desired then to receive the amount. His Lordship then proceeded to read over the list of prizes; occasionally making such remarks to the successful candidates as were calculated to encourage them to renewed industry and perseveranc e . He then proposed the health of the Right Hon. Lord Lilford, as a warm patron of agriculture, and coupled with the toast the agriculturists of Northamptonshire. Lord LILFORD briefly returned thanks, and in doing so said that the distribution of prizes was a proceeding which, in his mind, was one of the most interesting ha which human beings could be engaged. He bad witnessed the ceremony in Northamptonshire, and believed in his heart that it was productive not only of temporary gratifi cation to the parties themselves, but to the society which they formed a part. (Cheers.) From circumstances over which be had no control his residence in Lar•caehire had been much interrupted; but there were some present with whom be had the honour to stand in the relation, of lend -1 'id and tenant. (Cheers.) He was qui'e sure that meet ings of this description tended to draw closer the bonds o` amity between landlord and tenant ; and in the name of the agriculturists of Northamptonshire, he begged to re turn them his most grateful thanks. The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The Judges," upon whose judgment and impartiality he passed a very high eulogium. TORR, one of the judges, returned thanks on behalf of himself and colleagues, and in the course of his remarks threw out some excellent practical suggestions. He be lieved that if a landlord kept a good bull for the use, of his tenants, he did them service; but if he kept an interior bull, the tenant would be in a better condition if he ob tained a hull from some other quarter. He suggested that mote liberal premiums ought, if possible, to be off, red for agricultural implements, in order to encourage a larger show. He thought the poor grass lands ought to be taken up throughout England, and that the tenants ought to be allowed a heavier return of tenant-right. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the Mayor of Liverpool, and said it always afforded him pleasure when the chief magistrate of such a town, representing, as he did, its great commercial and mercantile inter sts, lent his countenance to an occasion such as that. The toast was warmly received. The MAYOR said he felt deeply obliged to his Lordship and the company; and on behalf of the corporation, as well as on his own, he begged most sincerely to thank them. He might be allowed to say, that he had on pre vious occasions attendedthose anniversaries with pleasure and satisfaction, and that he was delighted to find they did not lose a particle of their interest. (Hear, hear.) indeed he believed there never was a time when the value and importance of those societies were more deeply felt. or when the commercial and trad;ng intere-ts valued and appreciated them more highly than at present. They knew that if the lands were well drained, a.iti if we had abundant Larcests, there w,,s no drain on the country of its precious metals; the money market, at such a time, was easy, commerce and trade were stimulated, the wages of the labourer were .enhanced, anil the prices of pro visions were moderate. (Cheers.) He could not but con gratulate them on the existence of this and kindred socie ties, so well calcullted as they were to inform and stimu late the farmer in his pursuits; and he wished them good luck, and hoped they might continue to prosper. The Mayor concluded by proposing, amidst deafening and long-continued applause, the health of the noble chairman. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and said that he de rived the greatest satisfaction at finding that he pr syssed the confidrnce of those amongst vihom he was best known —the inhabitants of his native county. He concluded by proposing the healths of the successful candidates. Mr. RoaEßr NEttr.soN returned thanks, and in doing so made several practical observations on ploughing, draining, and sub-soiling, for which, we regret, we have uspaceat command. Lard STANLEY again rose, and said they had proposed many toasts this evening, but the one he had to propose, he thought, was as important as any which had been brought before them. Indeed, it was one intimately con nected with the prosperity of the Liverpool Agricultural Society, a number of gentlemen to whom they were all indebted, and he considered it would be a gross act of in gratitude and neglect if they did not record their acknow• ledgment of the services of those gentlemen to the Liver pool Agricultural Society—he meant the committee of management. (Loud cheers.) With whom he would combine the name of their talented and able secretary, Mr. Ledger. (Cheers.) Mr. LEDGER returned thanks. A number of other toasts, chiefly of•a complimentary nature, followed, and the company separated at a quarter to ten o'clock. TOWN EDITION. OPENING oftheNEW ROYAL EXCHANGE BY HER MAJESTY. At about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning her Majesty started from Buckingham Palace to the scene of this impoSing - ceremony, passing along Pall Mall and the Strand to the City, amidst the acclamations of thou sands of her gratified. subjects. She appeared, we rejoice to say, in the best of health and spirits thronehout the day, and evidently felt and enjoyed the enthusiastic greet iogs with which she was rec.deed. Along the whole route of her progress the houses, shops, &c., were deestly thronged with spectators, and variously, and some su perbly decorated. A detachment of life guards, with a number of the no bility and the cabinet ministers had previously entered the city to meet tne civic authorities and prepare for her Majesty's reception. At about twelve o'clock, the cavah.; cade reached Temple-bar, the gates of which bad been previously doted and immediately opened ag,in ; to fulfil the usual custom ; and on arriving there, the royal state carriage, containing her Majesty , Prince Albert, the mis tress of the robes (Duchess of. Buccleugli), and the Master of the. Horse (Earl of Jersey), stopped immedi ately under the Bar, where they were rece ved by the I.ird Mayor, who handed to her. Majesty the City sword of state, which was graciously received, and returned in the usual form. The cavalcade then proceeded, which the denseness of the crowd in Fleet-street rendered in some places a matter of no little difficulty. Passing up Ludgate-hill and by St. Paul's to Cheapside, the scene on each side of the way was magnificent, the streets being literally converted into an amphitheatre, holding the elite of the rank and fashion of the metropolis, and St. Paul's Church-yard itself being filled along the line of the pro cession with scaffolding containing the friends of the various City Companies, the bell of the Cathedral pour ing out a stream of melodious rejocing as it passed. The procession proceeded along Cheapside, the Poultry. the Mansion House, to the Royal Exchange, arriving at the west entrance at a quarter past twelve o'clock. whet she was received in state by the whole of the city authori ties, with the Cabinet Ministers and a large number of the leading nobility. Her Majesty, with Prince Albert, having examined the sphndid building throughout, and expressed her warm admirations of its proportions and beauty, the address was presented, atter which her Majesty and suite partook of a splendid dejeuner, and returned to her carriage about half-past two o'clock, and .proceeded to the terminus of the Great Western Hallway, where a special train was in waiting to convey the Royal pair to Windsor. With the exception of a few casualties and trifling enteutes inseparable from such an immense gathering of people in one locality, the whole proceedings passed off to the perfect satisfaction of all parties. The enthusiastic, loyalty manifested towards her Majesty and her Consart throughout the day was never exceeded on the occasion of any Royal visit ; and the Duke of Wellington and Sir It. Peel were also loudly cheered wherever recognised. Last night was intended to be a night of rejoicing in the City, which was also to be brilliantly illuminated. LONDON MARKETS—Yesterday. MARK-LANE CORN-EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Wheat up to our market during the past week have been moderately good ; while those of Barley and Oats, collectively, were very etteftsiteAlin e attendance to-day of both factors and dealers Vias Mel!, and so little business was transacted that last cVeetes prices were nominally unaltered. On Foreign Wheat, also, the rates were stationary. There was a large quantity of Barley on sale. Malt, the supply of which was by no means large, moved off slowly, at late rates. 'The quantity of Oats offering was large, but we have to report very few sales. Beans, Peese, and Flour were a mere drug, at late prices. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, Ocr. 28. In our market the supply of Beasts was, even for the t of the year, considered very extensive, the numbers bespoke for last evening exceeding 4,000 head ; but a great deficiency was apparent in -its quality. Notwithstanding the attendance of buyers was very numerous, the Beef trade was extremely heavy. H nwever, the pritnest Scots, &c..sold at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se'nnielit ; but those of the middling and inferior breeds suffered a decline of quite 2d, per 81b., and a clearance was not effected. WALKS THROUGH THE EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1844. WALK TDB SECOND. We commence our peregrinations this day wheiT last week we ended them, viz., at the Water Colour portion of tl.e Exhibition, which contains several pictures, be sides those already noticed, of great merit. But first let us dispose of one of the pictures in oil, contained in the same room— No. 544. " Morbid Sympathy," by E. Prentis.. The subject here is happily chosen, as a hit at one of the most revolting follies of the day. The painting is divided into two scenes. In the first we see a ruffian just issuing from tha house in which he has been committing a deed of blrod. The features of the murderer, the midnight scene, with the dark lantern shedding its baleful light through the open door from which he steals, are power fully painted. In the second scene we see the same tigu- e in the, cell of a prison, in which he is visited, as an object of the " morbid sympathy" of the present day, by two philanthropic ladies, and an elderly sentimental male tabby of the same species. The features of the hero of the dungeon, in the first scene expressing vulgar briitality combined with natural horror, are here screwed up into an ugly expression of self-satisfied vanity. The murderer has become a " lion " for a time, and is evi dently making the most of his had eminence: The whole painting is one of the most cutting and wholesome satires, seriously conveyed, which we have lately seen. Nos. 492, 493, 501, and 502 2 —portraits perayons of Hopwood, Esq. of Hopwood, Lancashire, the Hon. Caryl Molyneux, Miss Hopwood of Knowsley, and Viscount Melyneux, by E. Warren,—are excellent specimens of the 'art. - 507, " Durham from the New Bridge," and 498, " Durham," are very spirited drawings. The latter is very good. The old abbey, standing out in bold relief in the centre of the picture, is a noble object. 4J4, "The Pass of _Llanberis," by W. Collingwood, is a spirited picture. 473, " Work and Play," by Mrs. W. Hawkins, is a very pretty subject, well conceived, and executed with - great skill and taste. " Newhaven Pier," by apley Fielding, is a picture of great merit, by an artist who seldom fails to produce something worthy of praise. 396, " The Pedlar," by Miss Fairhurst, is a very pleasing painting. The boy, who is bartering his old shoe for some of the wares carried by the old crone, is quite a character ; and the girl, watching the result of her brother's bargain, is well painted. 380, " The Firstborn," by G. H. Harrison, is a ro mantic affair, well painted, but not very natural. The rustic felicity pourtrayed here is not met with in these hard, utilitarian times. Bowers of roses are seldom the lot of agricultural labourers, or even of small farmers, nowadays. 354, "Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene," by W. S. P. Hende, son, a painting in three compartments, is the story of the old ballad excellently told. The ghostly figure of Alonzo, in the third scene, is ably and effectivelyconceived. 293, ‘ : The Ferry Boat at Butterby, near Durham," by E. Hast ngs, is a pleasingly-drawn picture of a very fine landscape. The sky, however, is a little ton " beautifully blue" for our northern climate.—The same artist has two other paintings in the exhibition, 231 and 144 ; the latter of which, " The Gamekeeper's Lodge,' is infinitely the most t a l en t e d. Th e o ld er o f t h e two figures in this picture is a very racy specimen of the fine Old English class of sportsmen to which he belongs ; and the whole subject is well treated. The dog, how ever, is a sad drawback upon the picture. It is neither a game dog nor any other breed with which we are ac quainted. We und ers t an d th a t thi s i s the first time that Mr. Hastings has contributed any paintings to the Liverpool Exhibition ; and we trust that he will be in d'ueed to favour us ,with further specimens of his pencil. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. BY H. W. LONGFELLOW. (From " the Gift" for 1845.) This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon up the shadowy past The fJrrns that once have been. The past and present reunite, Beneath time's flowing tide, Like footprints hidden by a brook, But seen on either side. Here runs the highway to the town, There the green lane descends, Through which I walked to church with thee, Oh ! gentlest of my friends! The shadow of the linden trees, Lay moving on the grass; Between them and the moving boughs, A shadow, thou didst pass. Thy dress was like the lilies, And thy heart as pure as they; One of God's holy angels Did walk with the that day. I saw the branches of the trees Bend down thy touch to meet, The clover blossoms in the grass Rise up to kiss thy feet. " Sleep, sleep, to-day, tormenting cares, 4 if earth and folly born!" Solemnly sang the village choir, „ . On that sweet Sabbath morn. Through the closed blinds, the golden sun I'oured in a dusty beam, Like the celestial ladder Of the ancient patriarch's dream. And ever and anon, the wind, Sweet scented with the hay, Turned o'er the hymn-book's fluttering leaves, That on the window lay. Long was the good man's sermon, But it seerne i not so to me, For he spate of Both, the beautiful, And still I thought 'of thee. Long was the prayer he uttered, But it seemed not so to me, For in my heart 1 prayed with him, But still 1 thought of thee. But now, alas, the place seems changed: Thou at•t no longer here ; Part of the sunshine of the scene With thee did disappear. Though thoughts, deep-rooted in my heart, Like pine trees dark and high, Subdue the light of noon. and breathe A low and ceaseless sigh: This memory brighten's o'er the past, As when the sun, concealed Behind some cloud that near us hangs, Shines on a distant field. BATHING IN THE Dr' AD SEA,—Toe water of the sea'is clear and shallow, and all the party, except the Arabs, un dressed to ascertain the existence of the buoyant property attributed to it. The result of our observation asto• nished every individual amongst us. When swimming, it was scarcely possible to krep the fset below the water ; when standing upright (treading water as it is called) the shoulders were raised above the surface, and it was not easy to keep this position, as the shoulders became top heavy. One of the party who could not swim, lay like a corlc on the surface ; and indeed it required great exertion to dive below. It was ludicrous to see one of the horses. As soon as his body touched the water, he was afloat, and turned over on his side; he struggled with all his force to preserve his equilibrium ; but the moment he stopped moving, he turned over on his side again, and almost on his back, kicking his feet out of the water, and snorting with terror. The taste of the water was detestable beyold description—salt; bAter, and sulphureous : but the worst of my bath was, that, after it was over, my skin was co vered with a thick glutinous substance, which it required another ablution to get rid of; and after I had wiped my self dry, my body burned and smarted as if I had been turned round before a roasting fire, My face and ears were encrusted with salt; my hairs stood out, " each par ticular hair on end," and my eyes were irrittted and in flamed, so that I felt the effects of it for several days. In spite of all this, however, revived and refreshed by my bath, I mounted my horse a new man. It seemed to me, indeed,that without it I could not have endured the fear ful heat of these low shores. —Library of Travel. Tax Pools Or Soeomoer.—The celebrated Pools of Solomon are really worthy of that great king : I had formed no conception of their magnificence. These large, strong, noble structures, in a land where every work of 582 dep feet, th 2 their s 39 0.1 has been hurried to destruction, remain now almost as perfect as when they were built : there are three of them, and 50 feet. They lie one above the other on the side of a l o e f as t t he bre respective , e g i t r hs gr o e hill, and are so constructed that when the water in the of t 3 e B s 2 4 5 2 0 3 fe a e n t d ; upper one has reached a certain height it flows into the second, and thence into the third. Small aqueducts lead from each of these cisterns to a main one that conducts the water to Jerusalem by a very tortuous course, and with considerable rapidity, as we could perceive by the open places left in v i a t u t e le y r s e :a a n n d d rtahveirnee.s, Fitrsolminethmeapyoboelsetso Jerusalem cannot be much . less than eighty mile s b y fli g h t ; than twice that length. A littl e to the and when it is co n ,t s o i d w e a r r e d d s t t h h a e t the a o q n u o e f d t p r a e v n e d r s s e e s a i s s e a the supported by great pill ars o f the natural east i i aer n e sr s tya o tole f afdr r tg o hae c et k gp y mroo h oot i ltr l soe l rock, perfectly dry, without petrifaction or stalactites : it is a complete labyrinth within, and, as in many of the an• cient catacombs, a man might easily lose himself for ever in its windings. It lies in the mountainous wilderness of ragaddi, and is supposed to be the Cave of Adullaua, where David received the mutinous and discontented spi rits of his days, and where, when Saul was in pursuit of him, he cut off the skirts of his garment, and suffered him to go away unharmed.--Library of Travel. Oct. 29, 1844. PRICE OF ENGRAVINGS.—The greatest sum ever given rer a print w as f or "Th e M a d onna an d Child" of Meso e, ol t F al i f o r ;lartreab. It was met with accidentally at Rom , the reputed inventor of engraving from me tallic plater. Ottley, the !ate curator of prints at the Museum, porch ace d by him for a mere trifle, sold by him t o b ! r . Mark Sykes s e venty pounds, and bought that the Trent. collector's sale three hundred gwroas• "hundred guilder" picture of Regobrandt`s, of our viour healing the Si c k, comes n t zt among the high price! Eight impressions of the first d4te of this engr6ving.er: icf,own to exist. I n 1809, o n e o f these. brought withal! few shillings of forty guineas at Mr, ilibbett's sal!! Thirty years after, the collection of its possthisof came to the hammer, and this print w a s knocked down 10 a ilf! collector at two hundred And thirty-ore pounds ;in hies hands this costly treasure still rema i ns . Rembrandt s "Advocate Tolling" fetched two hundred and twenty ppunds in 1835. and his " Copoenol" found a purchaser at three hundred guineas in the same year, in Baron Ver stalk, the possessor o f o n e of th e th ree co pies Of the " Hundred Guilder" engraving, as it is called, which may be said to be in the market, the other five being locked 11P ofin i n li to_n p a r l ic c e o d ll p ec ri t r io ts n , s. le S t o u s t, s n ee ot ,, t i o ia m t u th lt e ip se ly the instances in their author's life-time. Rembrandt's "M ge a Ln do s ar t ri c a te l ell Child" obtained its soubriquet of the Hundred Guilder' because it brought just eight guineas in its artist's life time. Albert Dauer was content to sell his " Adam and Eve" for four stivers, about eighteen pence; his sixte en , riots called the " Littl e P ass i on, " f or two s hilli n gs and threepence; and his " Life of the Madonna," bis APoc a " lypse," and his " Great Passion," for juet six elang 3 for each set of these large wood-cuts. The " Eulenspre gel," of Lucas Van Leyden, now worth its fifty pounds , was purchased by Albert Durer, at Br ssels, for a stivcr , fouraence-halfpenny of our money. The height of the ab surdity of the high-priced mania was the scramble for the little sleeping dog of Rembrandt's, which he scratched in beforewhich c b o e n e s i o s t , e o h g i his engraved corner worked oot off thenela ptite; as unique, it fetched one hundred and twenty pounds. -- The Print Collector. Louts PH It !PPE AS PROF E' , SOR.—After the battle of Nerwincie in March 1793, in which the Austrians defeated the French, the Duke of Orleans (Louis Philippe) com manded the centre in the 'French army, aid perceiving that his life was in danger determined to sever his con nection with republican France and set off to the fron tier. He repaired in the first instance to Mons.,t he Austrian head-quarters, to obtain passports. There prince Charles invited him.ta enter the service of the empire; but he refused to carry arms against France, and, assum ing Germany tNh a ie n o d nctoe S ls w lqe i ug t e z i oeourfl,aonirde. Reichenau,r inHgeh ing the name and appearance of an English traveller, journeyed with some risk and slender resources through impression fugitive in the Grisons, when the Duke received a letter f f e r s o s m or M at . state of his resources—he gladly accepted, and he was ad mitted in October, 1793, in his 22nd year, under the name of M. Chabaud ; having undergone a rigid exami nation without being recognised by any one save M. Jost, a which—sucht the m situationsta waseonf penniless thereos-s the President of the College, who had been made ac quainted with his real character. Here he continued to teach geography, history, the French and English lan guages, and mathematics, for eight months, during which time he inspired the inhabitants of Ri&lenan with so high an esteem for his virtues and abilities, that they appointed him their deputy to the Assembly of Coire. The intelli gence of his,father's fate over'whelmed him with affliction , and he was compelled to seek change of scene- lie once more became a wanderer, his whole property being a staff and a knapsack. He proceeded to Hamburgh, thence to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lepland, and the North Cape, pushing his travels to within 18 degrees of the Arctic Pole. Returning to Sweden, he revisited Den mark, and reached Hamburgh again in 1796. These countries he had not merely seen, hut minutely examined , his finances not permitting him to travel in any other manner than that which alone brings a visitor into inti mate communication with the people of the country. At Hamburgh the French Directory commenced a negotia tion with the illustrious exile, in consequence of which the Duke (then of Orleans) consented to proceed to the United States, and in September, 1795, he embarked on board an American trader, and arrived at Philadelphia ill October.. He was soon after joined by his two brothers , the Duke de Nlonteensier and the Count Beaujolais. Life of Louis Philippe.—[We give in another extract the particulars of Louis Philippe's departure foul America and subsequent visit to this country as a fugi tive exile.] A dE MISSIONARY SOCIETIES LIBERALLY SUPPORTED. —We are very apt to deceive ourselves, when we look at the £300,000 or £1(10,000 now raised in Great Britain for missions, and fondly hope that 01l this is the genuine fruit of faith and piety. Whereas the simple truth is, that a very large proportion of it is a mere levy on the ' respect ability' of the community, a poll-tax on a religious pro fession. A System of collection, a plan of or ganizing and canvassing the population has been set on foot of late years, which to former genereitions was quite unknown. Five thousand out of our fifteen thousand clergy, are in duced to give their support to the Church Missionary So ciety, and to preach collection-aermons,form associations , &c. It would be strange, indeed, if they could not raise, angneraengaateveorfa average, each his per £ .1i Wes leyan or Dissenting preachers take the same course, and i o n — u w m h . £lo—which Fivet at thousand oncefoms a raise a similar sum. But let any take a collecting plate, at the door of one of these churches or chanets, and see with what reluctance the well-dressed multitudes drop their shillings, ton often from mere shame to " t a , ts the la'e," and he will say. with us. that a large proportion indeed, of the total realized, is a mere tax upon respecta bility and on a profession of religion. And, when viewed in this light, we have a right to compare it with the means which the people haw at their disposal, which, as we have seen, cannot be estimated at less than two hundred mil- lions per annum. A levy of £300.000 or £400.000 per annum, out of this vast income, is equal to rather less than a halfpenny in the pound ! Cc nternplate the same fact in another point of view. A few months hack, a plan was proposed for making a new railway from London to York. After being offered to th- public for a short period, it was announced that the capital required would be five millions sterling, and that applications for shares most be sent in on a certain day. On that day the committee met, and were able to announce in the next day's papers that the whole of this vast sum was at once subscribed. In fact, car more than the five millions was offered to them, and that, although this was only one among fifty new ralway schemes, then courting the public attention ! On the other hand, how is a proposal for the evangelization of China greeted. So soon as it became known that that forward,om make ed even sitting ing the a vast empire was ope n t o th e gospe l, b u t t h a t t h e Church Missionary ''o piety was unable, from the state of its finan ces,slniogbhlteesetxeaffmorptle, laid,anind c i l v o i w d n ua a l t c“anmett: the sum of £6,009 for the maintenance of a mis=im arc in that country. The committee, thus encouraged, came before the Christian public with a special appeal. There were, among its members, many hundr..ds of persons who could l eve made a similar offering, without the sacrifice of any one of the comforts of life. Not one such has re sponded.° the call. At the end of the year, the fait' er sum subscribed for a mission to China, was little more than fifteen hundred pounds. Fifteen millions,--aye, anal much more than fifteen millions have bee n "invested ,- in railways during the year, and afarge — prouor: tion of it by professing Christians :—fifteen hundred Pounds is all that can he raised when the evangelization of China is the object proposed !—Churchman's MonthlY HORRORS OF WAR.—TARTAR CITY OF CHIN-KEAN" Foo.—Frightful were the scenes witnessed by these men among the houses and enclosures of the city, as gIOUP after group of whole f irnilies lying stiffened in their blood , within their own homestead, were discovered in the streets occupied by the Tartar troops and mandarins, so mime . " rous and so painfully interesting in their revolting details, as to impress with deep and lasting horror all who wit. nessed this happily rare example of the miseries and fero cities of war. Tne bodies of most of the hapless little ch o i u l s d e r s, enawndhouglad faually wlliethn fallen sacrifices cha t tb o n th er e s enththeusiasm orn a , n ri d : h mad despair of their p aren t s were found lying within the as if each father had assembled the whole of his family before consummating the dreadful massacre ; but maul corpses of boys were lying in the st ree t s , amongs t thol of horses and soldiers, as if an alarm had spread. 3 0 ' they had been stabbed while they had been attempting to escape from their ruthless parents. In a few instances these poor little sufferers were found the morninc , afte r the assault, still breathing, the tide of life ebbing slovill away. as they lay writhing in the agony of a broken spine' a mode of description so cruel that, but for the most cer' tain evidence of its reality, would not be believed. 13 one of the houses the bodies of seven dead and dying per sons sons were found in one room, for m i ng a group w hich lo t loathsome horror was perhaps unequall e d. The 1 105 was evidently the' abode of a man of some rank and ; con sideration, and the delicate forms and f ea t ur es of t" sufferers denoted them as belonging t o th e hi g h e r orde r of Tartars. On the floor, essaying in vain to put f° °a with a spoon into the mouths of two young children et tended on a mattress, writhing in the agonies of death s caused by the dislocation o f t h e i r sp i nes, sat an old de crepit man, weeping bitt er l y as h e li stene d to t h e p i teo moans and convul s i ve b reat hi ngs o f t h e poor infant`' while his eye wan d ere d over the ghastly relics of morta lity around him. On a b e d, near the dying children, lay " e t body of a beautif u l young woman, her limbs and apPa r _. arranged as if in sleep. Sh e was co ld, an d h a d been lona dead. One arm c l aspe d h er nec k , over wh i c h a silk sea was thrown, to conceal the gash in her throat which ' 3 ; O destroyed her lift. Near her lay the corpse of a vOn' il ie somewhat more advanced in years, stretched on a 5 9n a coverlet, her features distorted, and her eyes oPe ° „,, e - re fixed, as if she had died by poison or strangulation. ' l " be r was no wound upon the body, nor any blood tllicT the person or clothes. A dead child, stabbed throligl! nin g neck, lay near her ; and in the narrow verandah ad.i°l .c i e d the room were the corpses of two more women, susPeu 4s . from the rafters by twisted cloths wound round their rire,,',ea. They were both young —one quite a girl ; and he. ' t o tures, in spite of the hideous distortion produced . I ,,ut y mode of her death, retained traces of their original t) . been sufficient to show the lovely mould in which they ha" ..rv bie cast: From the old man, who appeared by his !.! t hus arb to have been a servant or retainer of the family tb e awfully swept away, nothing could be elicited as , L ,nible mode or authors of their death—nothing bat unintel r it o el signs of poignant distress. lie was made to comp eL; testified the object of the interring party, and at once ;n or utmost satisfaction and gratitude for their human: %. ea se position, assisting to carry the bodies down the .:t.ai„„.. into the court ; where a shallow grave having bee fle _'l o vated beneath the pavement, he tenderly placed m l "' wit h their sad resting-place ; and having covered th r e trn clothes, the stone slabs were placed over their The two dying children shortly afterwards breathedap",',,,s last, and were interred beside the grave of their t h, Zi a relatives. The old man remained in the now silent of his lost chief, and was seen no more.—Lieut. J. ( ix" terlon,p's Chinese War.