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HOPE Hope filleth the world's eye, Like a rainbow-tinctured glow, Spanning the gloomy sky, That hangeth o'er all below. Desire roes forth to clutch The beauty that seems at hand; But, forbidden to mortal touch, 'Twill still in the distance stand, , in emotional en- joyment, in pow has settled that. stances, it could ST. PATRICK'S DAY. "Et. Patrick was a gentleman And came of decent people." Popular Song. AN anniversary which used to excite great attention in this town, recurs to-morrow. The following remarks re specting the ()Ellin of the observances, are in keeping with our late account of-St. David and the leek. In the clote'cf 'the 4th and the beginning of the sth century, the celebrated' St. PATRICK flourished. There has been so much superstition and fable connected with his name, that some have altogether questioned his existence; but the uniformity of tradition and historic tes timony is so strong, that the truly learned do not entertain any doubt on the-subject. Some imagine that there were several of the name, like Hercules or Woden, and that the facts of numerous actors are crowded into one bio graphy. But when we still find his " Confession," consistently and consecutively written by one hand, and other treatises, including a letter, we must drop the plu- rality, and simply admit that he was singular. O'Halloran would deprive hiin-of his name, for he says that Patricius was a title of honour, by which Celestin admitted him into Constantine's-Patrician rank. This is the unkindest cut of all,—to -rob the saint of his very name, especially under the guise of.a compliment, and to call him instead by the jaw-breaking terms Succath (his alleged baptismal name, given at his ordination) and Magonias. As the ancients contended for the birth-place of Homer, so do the moderns for that of St. Patrick. The Irit'a claim him of course. The general opinion is, that he was born in Scotland, at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton. A Welsh author tells the very district in Wales where be first saw the light, and we should not be much surprised if he pretended to produce the parish register. Some say that Brittany, in - France, is the real place, mistaken for others in the' British-Isles; and although we do not know the claims put forward by England or the Isle of Man, no doubt such claims exist. It is said that his father was liquor, which is not a right keeping a day to the Lord." Utifortunately for the tradition, tire Hibernic !Druids valued the mystic number three, for centuries before St. Patrick's time. The misletoe branches into three points : three arch-druids, three chief antiquaries, and three chief bards were appointed, at Tara, once in three years, to•exarnine the national records. It is probable, there fore, that this, too, is a monkish legend, though 'undoubtedly an interesting one. The shamrock has a place in the royal arms, when fully emblazoned ; and it forms the badge of the Knights of St. Patrick, with a crown on each leaf, as if symbolising the union of the three kingdoms. The motto, quis separabit, borne also on the colours of several Irish regiments, favours this view, like that of trio juncda• in uno, the motto of the :Knights of the Bath. ever there's rushing on, By the eager, gazing throng; With never a thought 'tis vain, That the way is rough and long Look higher, ye earnest crowd, Beyond that fleeting sign; It is but the shadow on the eland Of the heavenly and divine. LITERATURE. The Successful Merchant. By William Arthur, A. 31 London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. There are some men who throw a charm around the subject of which they treat, whatever may be its nature and promise ; while others shine only in favourable cir- cumstances There are few subjects viizich at first sight ons than the life of a merchant present fewer attract whether it ei plodding, or of reader is, th at all events, however, t [st of a series of speculations, of patient both together, The-first impression of a s an account of a man w o makes money v if he can It is undeniable, t a large nu , er of .qualifications must coin- bine to produce a successful merchant, and that his occu pations afford scope for the exercise of-the highest quali ties of the head and the holiest of the heart. Mr. Samuel Budgett, of Kinaswood Hill, near Bristol, who is here pourtrayed, was a man of the right stamp, large in his possessions and large in his bounty, .sound in his princi .. ein his practices. Of his biographer but what we see here. It is evident, s principles and elegant in pies and honc we know not however, t . . bis expressions, and that he can grasp general principles as well as record details. There is a great deal in the book of what may be called the philosophy of commerce; and while men of all classes may read the work with profit, the mercantile reader will derive peculiar advantage. The following are extracts : nearest . to the human form. 'The savage and the civilized a deacon, and his grandfather a priest; but a correspondent FLATTERING ONE'S SELF. man alike possessed this faeulty. In one sense, all men If you are at all inclined to think you have a good nor- of Mr. Hone's was very anxious to get over this fact, spoke the same language ; they were guided in their re tion of sense, I would strongly advise you not to take it because the Roman Catholic clergy now do not marry. of names by the qualities, the colours, the shapes, &c., of for granted. True, you may have at band several in- His delicacy was quite misplaced, however, as Patrick objects. This use of speech eves one of the consequences stances in which vou were right. But some of us have a of reason, and both were the prerogatives of man. Man never was a Roman 'Catholic, and the celibacy of the e the cases in which we are right than kind were everywhere alike on the ricc , ssary acts of life, a hi c h we are wrong. Take the wisest man clergy was not deei*;vely -fixed till the middle of the such as the use of fire, of artificial clothing, which was you know; and when you fi n d y our o pi n i on differin g from twelfth century. It is now said that the saint himself found to some amount in every climate, of arms of offence his, do not . forget the fact. Watch -how that matter and d e f ence . The habit of domesticating animals was was married ; and tradition maintains that Sheelah's dsv turns out. If you find that you are generally right in ' characteristic of man, and helped to distinguish him from such cases, then begin humbly to believe that God has on the 18th of March, is kept in commemoration of the other creatures. It prevailed all over the earth. No given you a fair understanding as one of the talents for good lady. I great division of the human family was to he found among which you must account. But if you find you were When sixteen years of age, he was made a prisonerby I whom there was not some trace of it. The sympathies wrong, first make the full deduction necessary from your _. and feelings, the natural conscience of man, formed Neill of the Nine Hostages, and carried to the north of 'f -confidence, and then try and find out what beguiled another of his distinctive peculiarities. Attempts had a juster view at a future time. Ireland, where, being reduced to the condition of domestic I been made to prove that certain nations were destitute of Again, when great events occur a b ou t which you are slavery, he tended -swine at Sleamish, in the comity ' all sense of religion, but such attempts had been based much excited, either in the family, the business, the Antrim. He was released at the end of six upon ignorance of their habits of thought. There was church, or the state, remember the side you took, and years—some always some invisible power whose favour they sought and the anticipations you formed when thelnatter was yet say by miracle, but others maintain that the ardent Irisk, whose anger they deprecated. The vulgar readiness to undecided. Then when the issue is known, test your like the Jews, had a sabbatical year. From his own believe in demons, ghosts and other supernatural pheno judgment by facts. Be honest : see whether you are right Confession we learn the manner in which he spent this mena was only a manifestation of the same tendency. three times out of four ; and if not, be very humble; but I And closely convected with thin was the desire to share if so, be humble still, yet hopeful that when -you have period ; and there is no doubt that he was of very pious in the spiritual state of existence which it indicated. The deliberately judged you are probably not far wrong. You habits. Here he learned the Celtic tongue, now called I rites everywhere performed for the dead, the ceremony of have often met with people who, happen what will, always Irish, but then called Scottish ; for the name Scotia was embalming, sepulture, mummifying, funeral processions, say, " I knew that would be it." Happy prophets they ! and pomps following the deceased, during thousands of first applied to Ireland, though now exclusively used in whose foresight is always paulo-post-future. If you have, or think von have, a strong intuition, take care Genuine reference to Caledonia. successive years, in every region of the earth ; i nnumera bl e tumuli scattered over the various countries of the world ; intuition is allied to foresight ; but even such an intuition In a vision, a man from Hibernia solicited his return ; in the pyramids of Egypt and houses of the dead, the must only have a limited sway. If left absolute, it over- but this is so like the man of Macedonia saying to St. gygantic monuments of the Polynesians ;in the power of rides all the faculties of mind, all the opportunities of life ; sacerdotal or consecrated orders of men, who have caused if reduced by check, restraint, and counsel to a li m it e d Paul, " Come over and help us," that it is probably a them to be regarded as the interpreters of man's destiny, sway, it may reign with vast advantage. mediaeval addition. He was educated and ordained by and as mediators between the gods and men; in toilsome RESPECTABILITY. the Bishop of Auxerre, in Gaul, when about thirty years pilgrimages performed by white and black men seeking Among the gods of the world, Respectability is a great favourite. He competes with Alammon. He is riot so of age ; and a b ou t fift een years l ater h e was consecrated atonement for gilt at the tombs of p ro ph e t s an d h o ly men : all these and similar customs in the history o f n a ti ons , coarse ; his worship has more of grace to win the eye. Bishop. Some say he went t o Rome for this purpose, barbarous and civilized, would lead to the supposition that His worshippers abound on every hand ; yes, and he even but there seems to be no authority for the tradition ; all mankind sympathized in these deeply-impressed sits proudly in the temple of God, receiving for his sole others say that he obtained epi scopa l or d ers i n G au l . The practices and feelings, which were as my s te r iou s i n th e i r honour the obeisance of many a brilliant plume, of many nature as in their origin. a perfumed head, which bow there at another name it is Hibernians had received Christian missionaries before his These were among the most strikin g and r e mar k a bl e true, but which come there at no call but his. and which time, yet in genera l th ey professed Druidism ; just as they mental and moral qualities peculiar to man ; and if they seek there no blessing but his approval. He is a fair- have had Protestant clergy for centuries, but till lately were to be traced among races of men which differed phy faced, well-robed, goodly idol, with winning mien and had a strong majority of Roman Catholics. sically, it would follow that all mankind partook of a imposing adornments ; his presence is graced with all common moral nature, and were, therefore, by this means that is ancient, all that is brilliant, all that kings bestow There is some difference of opinion respecting the point i proved to constitute a single tribe. There was one point, and princes covet ; with beauty and wealth, with valour at which the first convert was made, but the general hat- however, that had been overlooked by every writer on the and genius. Prosperity seems to dwell in his temple, and Dression is that it was in the parish of Saul, adjoining unity of the species, namely the moral depravity of man. Peace to dwell at her side. But he is a cruel, greedy idol, - D I If there had been in one s o lit ar y s p o t o f th e ear th' s sur like all other idols. Those brilliant devotees worship i n ownpatrick. When the S a int an d hi s companions face, at any age of the world, one pe r f ec t f am ily or inclivi chains ; and, day by day, broken fortunes, broken fami- landed, near th e spo t w h ere t h e G reat B r i ta i n lately ran I dual, except the Son of God, all theories on the unity and lies, broken promises, broken characters, broken hearts, aground, the people fled, thinking they were pirates; but identity of the species would have been scatter e d to th e are heaped in hecatombs upon his altar, albeit the blindl winds. Strange that not one instance of the kind, the chieftain was soon convinced of their real character, idolaters say that these offerings are welcomed only by his though so all-important for the purposes of infidel wri ill-favoured neighbour Misfortnne. and received them kindly. Ilanmer, in his Chronicle, I tern, had ever been discovered. But, inasmuch as " from says that " Saint Patrickes manner was first to catechize, Greenland's icy mountains" to " India's coral strand," secondly to baptize, lastly to administer the Sacrament of from the islands of Great Britain to the shore of Polyne the Lord's Supper. * * The only doctrine Pa- sia, corruption and depravity universally prevailed, it tricke read and expounded unto the people was the foure might he justly cited in proof of the unity and identity of Evangelists, conferred (i. e. compared) with the Old Tes- the species. tament. He is reported to have given many blessings, After referring to various minor points in which men and to have denounced many curses. Ireland is greatly everywhere resemble each other, the lecturer shewed, beholding unto him, for * * he procured, as it from the analogy of different orders of animals and vege is written of him, seaven hundred churches to bee builded tables, that the great diversities observed in different in Ireland, ordained five thousand ministers, consecrated races of men formed no proof of independent origin. He three hundred and fifty bishops, successively, understand, then described the characteristi c s o f th e seve ra l var i e ti es in his time." of the human species according to the usual classification, We cannot follow him through the details of his ministry, comprising the Caucasian, the Mongolian, the Ethiopian, but one or two points deserve notice. The superstitions and the Malay. This division, he intimatod, was not sa still attached to May Eve and Hallow Eve, especially in tisfactory to his own mind. Ile went back to the time of Ireland and Scotland, have a pagan and not a Christian I the Deluge, and taking this as a starting point, he as origin. On the former occasion, the Beltane fires were turned it as an undeniable fact that mankind were then all kindled in honour of the god of summer (the sun), and on lof one colour. Yet very soon after the Deluge, as could the latter, in honour of the godOess of winter (the moon). be proved from authentic records, a diversity of colour Every private fire was extinguished, and it was a capital prevailed. How was this to be explained ? Climate offence to possess a light, unless it were given by the ' could not have caused it. The Moors of Africa had not priests. They handed torches to the people, and thus degenerated in physical constitution from their Arabian every hearth in palace or hovel glowed with the consecr a t e d ' progenitors. Their children were just as white as if born but—busine__ fire. In defiance of law arid practice, the holy man kindled I in Europe. They had penetrated far into the interior of earn now : y a large fire; and the people believed,asLord Brougham said I the country, where the woolly-haired negro resided, but 'I gone. And this ia of Mr. Belienden Ker, that he was either mad or inspired. they had never acquired his characteristics. Most of the the republic de- On being questioned, he spoke of the new doctrines so Moorish women would be reckoned hanosome in Europe. 'erstand it, but persuasively, that his hearers became converts. If the Though the boys soon grew swarthy from the effect of of like that ; in drink, legend be true at all, it ma y h ave b een on t hi s occasion t h e sun, the g i rls, b e i ng more within doors, preserved that. he illustrated the doctrine of the Trinity by the plant their beauty of complexion. The swarthiness was the -five it at his foot, which has since become the badge of his effect of the sun upon the individual, not upon the nation. 'ye adopted country. Tradition asserts that to him we are in- So it was in the West Indies, where the European races debted for clearing the country of all " venemons beasts," who had kept distinct had preserved their characteristics "except man," as some one wickedly and wittily remarked. for hundreds of years. The Jews presented one of the Unluckily for the truth of this part of the story, there most striking cases in point, having remained unaltered were no frogs, toads, or snakes, for him to drive out; for under the most varied circumstances. Dr. Buchanan history records that they were wanting even before his had met on the coast of Malabar Jews whose documents time, and philosophy says that the insular situation and proved them to have been located there for 1,400 years, moist climate are the causes. Popular rumour, however, yet, having kept themselves distinct, they resembled in loves to fasten on a corroborative fact, or one seemingly every respect, both of features and complexion, their so,—a lie with a circumstance, as a plain Scotchman would European brethren. To this might be added the testi say. It is asserted, therefore, that no spider c a n li ve on mony of M. Ch ar i s an d D r . P r it c h ar d, th a t, w h ere negroes any of the timbers of King's liege, Cambridge, because were protected from the sun by shelter or clothing, their they are Irish oak ! skins were of a deeper black than that of those who were On the 17th of March, 493, lie breathed his last, at exposed to the full force of the sun's rays. Saul, in the 121st year of his age. There is great differ- Whence, then, were these varieties of colour? This he ence among his biographers on the subject of age ; but now proceeded to show. The primary varieties of the it is now admitted that he was buried at Downpatrick, human race were three, the Caucasian, the Mongolian, and in the:small graveyard of the Cathedral, St. Bridget and the Ethiopian. This number corresponded with that and St. Columba repose beside him. It is said that no of Noah's sons : assigning, therefore, the Mongolian race plant will grow on his grave but grass and shamrock; but to Japheth, and the Ethiopian to Ham, the Caucasian, it is difficult even for these to grow upon it, the mould is the noblest race, would belong to Shem. On these three so utterly abstracted by devotees, or by friends who men and their posterity a separate destiny was pronounced. desire to send it to them. To the race of Shem was promised blessing; to the chil- The day of his death is still celebrated in memory of dren of Japheth extension • on the progeny of Ham a him, and, from the cou r t o f th e Q ueen to the union work- curse, combined with the fot of bondage. To each of house, the anniversary is respected. It is said that, when these races would undoubtedly be given a moral and phy he was dying, he kindly recommended his friends to take sical nature in harmony which the destiny of God had de something to drink, for the purpose of keeping up their signed them to fulfil. Cush and Canaan had occupied spirits ; and hence the Bacchanalian custom of drowning that beautiful country lying between the Mediterranean care and the shamrock. In 1825, a large company of Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, and the Red noblemen and gentlemen were dining together in London Sea. The inhabitants of the district were called in the to celebrate the day, and Mr. Vansittart, then Chancellor Hebrew Scriptures Cushites, and by the Septuagint the of the Exchequer, broached a black bottle of poteen for Ethiopians. Both these words signified black. When the company, which had " never paid the king a six- ever these people shifted, the place of their abode was pence." The refection for that day used anciently to be called Cush, and themselves Cushites. The Cushites and a copious supply of oatcake and fish, provided by the the Ethiopians were doubtless the same people. The He. innkeeper of each village, and " Patrick's pot" of ale, brew proverb used by Jeremiah, " Can the leopard change when whiskey was less known than it is now. One of the his spots, or the Cush his skin ?" would have had no most humorous of Mr. Lover's songs supposes that the force or meaning unless the people alluded to had been 17th of March represents the birth day of the saint ; but, remarkably different from the nations around them. Thus as might be expected with an Irish birth-day, there is a there was important and weighty evidence for assigning blunder:in it. Lover says that he was born on the Bth of the dark races of mankind to the descendants of Ham, March, at twelve o'clock at night; but, from the baby Cush, Phat, and Canaan. The intervening shades of red being too fast or the clock being too sksw, it was contended skins, and the like, might be referred to Esau, who was that he was born on the 9th. In this dilemma, they described in the account of his birth, which the lecturer applied to rather Mulcahy, to whom the bright id ea quoted from G e n. x xv ., 23, &c ., as " red." occurred that:he might be "a twins;" and if not, he was The lecture was well delivered, and listened to with the certainly worth any two saints in the circle of their greatest attention. acquaintance. •lle advised the applicants, therefore, t o On Friday, the Rev. St. Vincent Beechey, of Worsley, keep the 17th, as that number would include -both the will deliverehe first of two lectures on " Modern Astro -Bth and the 9th. > ln every part of the British dominions mny," illustrated by means of the trinoptric lantern. where there is a regimental band, the spirit-stirring air of "Patrick's Day in the Morning," is played ; and in Ire land the same honour is usually paid to it as to the national anthem. It is unfortunate, however, that it is sometimes regarded as a party tune; but that is because all Irish Roman Catholiessvalue it so highly. The tradition respecting the shamrock is widely spread, and its applications are sometimes very interesting. About eight years ago, an Irish lady of our acquaintance, rode out of Mexico, on the 17th of March, to a cricket-field, where she thought that she had previously noticed it. Not knowing the ,name, she could net direct her Spanish servant, and so it was sought in vain for some time ; but at last he comprehended, and exclaimed, " I know, I know, Senora ;it is "la santissima trini.d.ad." Moore, in one of his melodies, associates the plant with the union of Wit, Love, and Beauty, while others say that it symbolises Faith, Hope, and Charity ; with equal reason we might say that it represents pitch, tar, and rosin. Campion, in his " Historie of Ireland," says of the people,--" Shamrotes, water-cressee, rooks, and other hearbes they feed upon ;" and Bicheno improves upon this by suggesting that the real Shamrock is wood sorrel, and not the ',Vellum repens. One argument is, that the former possesses acidity, and, therefore, is better than lemon for modifying punch ; but Threlkeld, an Irish botanist, understood both the plant and the punch a great deal better. He says,—" The trefoil is worn in their hats, by the people, on the 17th of March, which is called SAINT PATRICK's DAY, it being the current tradition that by this three-leaved grass he emblematically set forth the Holy Trinity. However that be, when they wet their seamar-oge, they often commit tin excepts in better memory fi for those in you, that you may take THE DOCT RISES OF EQUALITY Emile de Girardin has no Gospel to preach, but he sometimes says a true thing. When lying in the Con ciergerie, he wrote, " The English love liberty, the French love equality." He was right ; and in that differ ence you have a key to much of what passes in the two nations. The English do love liberty, and will have it ; but beyond that they have no faith in equality, for if men be free they cannot he equal except in this, that real li berty is the only equality attainable. Set about making two men equal, and at once they cease to be free ; set them free, and in a day they cease to be equal. Equal in . . ANTIQUITY QV CHESS IN EUROPE.—In his more pri vate hours of relaxation, the Norman knight amused him. self with games of -skill or hazard. Among these, the sztme of chess became -now very popular, and many of the rudely-carved chessmen of the twelfth century have been found in our island, chiefly in the north, where they ap pear to have been manufactured. They are usually made of the tusk of the walrus, the native ivory of western Europe, which was known popularly as whale's bone. The whalebone of the middle Ages is always described as white ; and it was a common .object of comparison among the early English poets, who, when they would describe the delicate complexion of a lady, usua l, said that she was " white as whale's bone." These, a; well as dice, which were now in common use, were a l so made of horn and bone, and the manufacture of such articles seems to have been a very extensive one. Even in the lithe town of Kirkudbright, on the Scottish border, thew was, in the middle of the twelfth century, a maker of combs, draughtsmen, chessmen, dice, spiggots, and other such articles of bone and horn ; and stag's horn appears to ..hlive been a favourite material.—Art Journal. TRIAL OF THE MINIE RIFLE.—On Wednesday last, oti.* townsman, Mr. Bentley, of Lime-street, accompanied by a party of gentlemen, made a trial, at the Red Noses, in 'Wallasey, of the new rifle musket, and a common rifle of the same bore, the Minie ball being used for each. At 400 and 500 yards the accuracy of the shooting was in favour of the common rifle; but it is Mr. Bentley's opinion that from either one or the other the minie bullet is driven with sufficient force to kill at 1,500 yards, it having been shivered to pieces against the rocks at each discharge in the trial on Wednesday, We should mention that the common rifle was 2 feet 6 inches ill the barrel; the ripe PIPPW ie considerably longer. strength, in health, in mind •er over others, we can never be. God And as to making us equal in circum. frected in appearance by most griqding tyranny, and even then would be hollow and unreal. Providence has a deep system of compensation which invisibly affects a near approach to equality, where men are only free. " Well, friend," I said to the driver of a cabriolet crossing the Place de la Concorde, some time after the republic had been established, " how do you like the republic ?' "Ah ! Monsieur, the republic is a very fine thing , ss does not thrive ; I used to earn twi .s.e as much as I earn now : you see there are now no rich people, they are all gone. And this is not bad enough ;' but they now demand the republic de mocratic and social. I do not quite understand it, but they say we are all to be equal. Now, Ido not like that ; for most of the other cabmen spend their money in drink, and it would not be just to take what I earn and give it to them to spend so. I have always been careful. I have one son : T have saved money to educate him ; he is now at a college; mean him to be an advocate. And who knows ?—my son may be a great man. Now would it be just, in order to make us all equal, to force me to give up my earnings to men who would drink them, instead of keeping them to educate my son ? Why should they try to make us equal-? God has made us five fingers on one band, and has He made two of them equal ?" Here he held up-the fingers spread abroad, then closed them, and displayed them triumphantly as emblems of his social grades. " And why has He made them unequal ? Why, to make one good strong fist." And so saying, he clasped his fist and held it up, and turned it round, to show how much better it fitted than if all the fingers had been equally long and thick. Now society is one hand, composed of several,fingers, and institutions are but a glove. He that made the fingers did not make them equal, and you need never try to invent a glove that will. You might make an iron glove, and stunt and hamper, but though all would be distorted, they would not be equal evert then. If you make a glove to fit their natural inequalities, it may prove that the thumb with his large portion is just as much straitened as the little finger with his small. I have no faith in any attempt to make us equal in -circumstances, no idea that our great Father ever meant us so to be, and no relish for that style of brother hood which would make me hanker to have as much as my brother and share all he earned. No : let me rejoice in his lot, And rejoice in my own ; and if, after every honest effort, "cannot have the satisfaction of eating my own morsel, why then, if he is a brother, he will divido his with me. But I would rather burden no man. One hardly sees the wisdom of systems which are perpetually telling society that it must take care of the individuals of which it is composed. Who ever knew of a whole making up its parts, not of parts making up a whole,—of a corn stack making the ears, not of ears making a corn-stack ? Looking at this, one is much more inclined to tell indivi duals to serve society, than to tell society to serve indivi duals. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COU=RT, IN RE WILKINSON AND BENTLEY.—In thiE case, before Mr. Commissioner Perry, yesterday, was appointed a meeting for the granting of the certificate to the bank rupts, formerly tailors and woollen drapers in this town. Mr. Bentley only made application for his certificate, and he was then examined at considerable length by Mr. ..remner, solicitor, with reference to his balance sheet and other matt ers connecte d w i th the affairs of his estate. Ultimately the Commissioner ordered the application to be adjourned sine die, with liberty to the bankrupt to make a special application to the court to amend his ba lance-sheet. Is RE W. GH. TAUNTON. —In this matter, on Friday, Aspinall, barrister, applied, on behalf of the peti tioning creditor for an order of court to restrain the mes senger from prosecuting legal proceedings against that creditor for the recovery of the expenses due to the officer of the court.—lt was mentioned that the court had per mitted the property of the bankrupt to be worked up in the construction of patent windlasses, with a view to se cure the full benefit of the property to all parties interested. —Mr. Ayres, in reply to the Commissioner, and as the representati ve of Mr. Gaskell, the messenger, stated that the petition was filed so long ago as May last, and that although two letters had been written more than three months since, ~ .equesting the payment of the bill, no reply had been deigned by the petitioning creditor. It was also added that Mr. Gaskell adopted no proceeding until he had satisfied himself of the improbability of any assets being realized sufficient to meet the expenses.—The Com missioner considered ho had no power to make the order required, but he would take the subject into consideration. Is RE J. BRADSITAW TAYLOR. —The last examination of this bankrupt took place by adjournment yesterday, before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson. Mr. Hull, of the firm of Fletcher and Hull, solicitors, of this town, again attended and examined the bankrupt on behalf of the assignee, throughout the whole of She sitting of the court. The inquiry principally referred to the statement of accounts, and at five o'clock the further hearing of tbe sue was again adjoura#d tuit4 §ptvcl, March 2Q, "THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1852. LIVERPOOL EISTEDDFOD. A Welsh Bardic Congress, or Eisteddfod, was held at the Concert-hail, Lord Nelson-street, on Wednesday evening, and was very numerously attended. The Re,". D. James, M.A., (Dewi o Dydfed,) presided ; and with him on the platform were—the Rev. William Hughes, Messrs. J. A. Picton, Robert Wynne, Wm. Jones, Ellis Jones, Rev. Wm. Williams, Talhaiarn, E. W. Thomas, D. E. Owen, W. E. Jeffreys, D. R.`Jones, &c. The PRESIDENT opened the proceedings by referring to the two previous meetings, held last - September, on which occasion they were obliged to defer the adjudication of certain prizes in order to elicit further competition, only one essay on the ' 4 Last Half Century" having heen sent in. Since then two more had been received, and the awards would now be made. Phis meeting was held in some degree for that purpose, and also for the purpose of bringing before the meeting the subjects of Welsh litera ture, Welsh poetry, and Welsh loyalty, as always inte resting to a Welsh audience, and he hoped not less so to their English friends, who had come there to honour them. (Loud applause.) He thought they never could find in the catalogue of virtues which adorned the national character of any people any that stood more prominently forth than nationality, loyalty, and religion ; and he meant to claim, on behalf of the 'Welsh people, those three virtues, as shining forth in their greatest lustre and pro minency in the present day, throughout the length and breadth of his native land. (Hear, hear, and applause,) As a means of perpetuating patriotic feeling, the rev. gentleman strongly insisted on the importance of culti vating the Welsh language. The address of the president was followed by a solo on the harp—ayr, "Ar hyd nos," by Mr. Morris. Mr. Lewis Edwards, whose herdic appellation was said to be Llywelyn Turog, having recited some verses, the president next called upon Mr. John Jones (Talhaiarn), who gave a Welsh recitation, which was enthusiastically received. He also recited one of Moore's melodies in English, and as translated into Welsh. Mr. Jonathan then gave a song called "The Bard's Departure," (Ymadawiad y Bardd.) The Rev. 'William 'Williams, (Caldefryn,) addressed the meeting in Welsh ; after which came another harp solo— air, " Dafydd v Garreg las." by Miss Mary Ann Brewer, (Malt Ann Eirias.) The solo was very skilfully and sweetly played, and the young lady was presented by the president, on behalf of the committee of the Liverpool Eisteddfod, with the second volume of " The Welsh Harper," as a testimony of the talent displayed by her as a performer upon the Welsh harp.. Mr. J. A. Picton having been called upon by the president, addressed a few words to the meeting, expressing the pleasure he had felt at being present. The first part of the entertainment concluded with a Welsh recitation, by an amateur (Mr. Edward Stafford Jones.) A harp duet—air, " Codiad yr haul," by M. A. Eirias and Mr. Morris, commenced the second part, and the performance elicited rapturous applause. Then followed an address, English and Welsh, by Talhaiarn ; after which Mr. Rowlands gave a song, "Caniad y Gog i Feirionydd." Mr. D. R. Jones enter tained the audience with a solo on the harp—air, " Pen rhaw." The president then awarded the prizes for the best essays, in the Welsh language, on the " Last Half Century," which were offered by the committee of the Liverpool Eisteddfod. The first prize (X 7), was awarded to Mr. D. Griffith, jun., Bethem, near Carnarvon ; and, the second, (aE3 105.,) to Mr. Thomas Richards, printer, Merthyr Tydvil. The award of the prizes was succeeded by an Irish air, played on the harp, by Mr. Morris; after which Talhaiarn gave a specimen of the ancient style of Welsh penillion singing. Mr. Robert Wynne proposed, and Mr. W. P. Jeffrey seconded, a vote of thanks to the Rev. D. James, for the able manner in which he had discharged the duties of president. The compliment was briefly acknowledged by the rev. gentle man, and the entertainment was brought to a close about ten o'clock, by the whole of the company singing " God save the Queen." VARIETIES OF TH•E HUMAN RACE. THE REV. H. HAMPTON'S LECTURE AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. An most interesting lecture on the above subject was delivered on Friday evening, by the Rev. 11. Hampton, incumbent of St. James's, Toxteth-park. The reverend lecturer undertook to show, first, that all the inhabitants of the world, differing widely as they do, have descended from one common origin, one univers a l father or primo genitor ; and, secondly, to account for the manifest and numerous varieties that cover the face of the earth. He had first to show the unity of man, and that he was a distinct species from all others of God's creatures. What were the proofs ? First, his attitude and position, and in connexion with this his anatomical structure. He was the only animal having two hands and two feet. This was not the case with the monkey tribes : from their con struction they could not walk upright. There was no people, no tribe, and no individual of any tribe, of the human family, in a healthy and sane condition, that had been known to walk otherwise. In the structure of his body, man was everywhere alike. Partial exceptions did not alter this fact. There were six-fingered and four fingered individuals, and this peculiarity had been known to be transmitted •through several generations ; but the rule remained the same. Whatever might be the differ ence of shape, colour, climate, or habit, the composition of the body was the same; serving to prove the identity of the species, and to distinguish it from every other. Speech, again, was peculiar to man. its universality among the human race was net less striking than its total absence among the brutes, even those which approached BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ELECTION. The nomination having been appointed for the early hour of ten o'clock on Friday morning, by that time the small town of Aylesbury began to assume a bustling and lively appearance. Blue flags, with the name of Disraeli inscribed upon them, floated about the Market-place. The supporters of the right hon. gentleman wore blue and white favours. Mr. Disraeli, and Dr. Lee, who had previously inti mated his intention of coming forward in opposition to the right hon. gentleman, having entered the Town-hall, a little before ten o'clock, and taken their places, the doors were shortly afterwards opened, when the room became crowded to excess. Mr. DISRAELI commenced his address by observing that he should not stop to vindicate his past eareer, and appealing to the consistency of his course for fifteen years, in the House of Commons, as a ground of confidence. He then adverted to the fact that the present go vernment had been summoned to the service of her Majesty, not in consequence of any vote of the house declaring that the policy they advocated was to be imme diately carried into effect, but in consequence of the downfall of the government which preceded them ; which was the result of internal disease, and of a fatal blow struck by their own long-cherished colleague and friend. Under these circumstances, it was the first duty of the new Government to attend to the immediate exigencies of the state, which must be provided for, whoever might be minister, and after that to develope their policy. He next commented on the precipitancy with which the abrogation of the corn laws, the admission of slave-grown produce, and the repeal of the navigation laws, had been carried, the result of which hat been that these great changes were effected without due regard to the principles of poli tical and financial justice. It was admitted even by the Freetraders, that the question of the poor's-rate required to be settled, which ought in common justice to have been done when the duty on corn was repealed ; that the admission of slave-grown sugar, after insisting on the abolition of slavery in our own colonies, was unjustifiable; and that, British seamen and shipowners, if exposed to competition with the entire world, ought to be no longer subject to those vexatious laws which crippled their re sources. With regard to the policy which the present Government intended to pursue, the right hon. gentle man continued—" It is our opinion that in the years 1846 to 1849 great injustice was done to mans great interests in which a vast, an immense amount of capital is invested, and upon which much labour depends ; and it is also our opinion that justice should now be done them—that jus tice should, in feet, be done to all classes (cheers) ; and if the premises I have stated be true, gentlemen, I am sure you will agree with me, that it is quite high time that justice should be done to the British producer as well as the consumer. (Loud cheers.) If we can show—and it is not difficult, for all acknowledge it—that there are great classes of producers in this country who are suffering because they are placed in unequal com petition, it is not only our policy as a party, but our duty as English statesmen, to see that that interest is placed in its proper position." (Loud cheers.) Applying this principle to the agricultural interest, to which he should confine himself, because it was that with which their minds were familiar, the right hon. gentleman observed:—" The income-tax in this country is raised on income in round numbers to something more than 200 millions a-year. Now real property, which contributes exactly half of the revenue on which the income tax is levied, viz., something more than a hundred millions a-year, is a mciety of the great national income. Real property, besides contributing to the general taxation—the imperial taxation of the coun try —pays in Great Britain alone ten millions per annum extra. It is, therefore, quite clear on the surface, that if a hundred millions out of 200 millions pays 10 millions extra, it pays five millions more than it out to pay. It is then said that real property consists of somethi ng e l se I besides land. I admit it does. I will put the case with great fairness. Supposing that real property, assessed to the income tax, is something more than 100 millions — I will take 50 millions as a moiety of it, as applying to land—then it follows, land pays two and a half millions more than it ought to do. It is clear, therefore, by the , system of local taxation, upon the question as stated by the Free-traders, that land pays two millions and a half more per annum than any other class in the community. (Cheers.) Well, that is a very great burden—a very great burden indeed, when you are calling upon the cultivators of the soil to enter into unrestricted competition with the cultivators of the soil in all other countries. (Loud , cheers.) Is that so or not ?" (" Yes," and " hear.") The right hon. gentleman then adduced the testimony of Mr. M'Culloch, the highest literary authority as a Free Trader, who said it was of the greatest importance that the malt-tax should he retained ; but that it could not be retained with perfect justice to the English producer with out a 'countervailing duty ; and sooner than give up the malt-tax, he would give the farmer a countervailing duty of 2s. 6d. on barley. (Hear, hear.) But Mr. M'Culloch , said more ;—he thought the present system most unjust to the cultivator of the British soil, and stated that the best way of settling the question would be by a counter vailing duty of seven shillings on every quarter of wheat, and by a modified duty for other species of grain. " I will now (continued Mr. Disraeli) tell you my own opinion. I agree with Mr. M'Culloch thus far, that the cheapest, easiest mode, and the least expensive to the community, of settling this question, is by a counteruailing duty. I think no one will deny that in the aggregate that counter vailing duty would give the English producer much less than he was scientifically entitled to, and knowing the character of the English people I am disposed to think they would not object to a compromise of this kind. But if the people of England are determined to adhere to what I consider prejudice and short-sighted views—if the gene ral body of the cow munity have a prejudice against settling the question in a manner which has been recommended by the highest authorities, I am not going to pledge the ex istence of a Government or of a policy on such a measure. (Laughter.) The policy which I think nn Government ought to shrink from who have acceded to office under the circumstances we have done, is to secure to the agri cultural interest ample and complete redress. (Cheers.) if the country rejects that which I believe to be the advice of wise and unimpassioned servants of the community— such as the distinguished writer to whom I have referred —the country must be prepared to take the consequence. (Hear.) If the people will not, in the manner which I recommend, do justice to the agricultural interest, they must submit to a revision of the taxation of the country, and they may depend upon it that the redress which a sense of justice will ultimately permit us to afford the agricultural interest will be attained far more coarsely and by means far more expensive." After some further ob. soryat,ions on the fallacy of the cry against what was tern od " taxing the food of the people,'! the right hon. gentleman concluded his speech amidst loud applause. Dr. lan then came forward, and after declaring himself a thorough Free-trader, and an advocate of progressive reform, intimated that it was not his intention to go to The SNBIZIFF the poll, All °Wait;on baying been then withd rawn , declared the right hon. gentleman to be flltly electe4, Rd its priNitediip kripinhttecip ORIGINAL 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 bis correspondents. CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The Liverpool Church of England Institution is an accomplished fact.: the rooms in Bold-street are even now too circumscribed for its daily increasing members; and I desire through your paper to ask the question,—Why a suitable building should not be purchased, to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of this interestin ,, association? When it was first proposed to found s the institution, and the leading gentlemen of this town were canvassed on its behalf, the condition upon which assistance was promised was,---that the young men should evince their sincerity by making an nn assisted effort, and then it would meet with that support which so noble and philanthropic an undertaking was entitled to. " Give me (said one) the names of one hundred young men willing to join the enterprise, and lam with you." The offer was promptly accepted, the pledge as promptly redeemed, and, eventually, under the auspices of our venerable Archdea con, the project emerged from embryo into existence. It sub sequently passed through the ordeal of opposition, jealousy, and calumny, and now commands a position more prominent and prosperous than the most sanguine of its promoters anti cipated. Few short 'of four hundred members, generally of an age peculiarly susceptible of wrong impressions, are banded . . „ together for good, wooing wisdom, and wedding truth. The importance of its mission has been recognised by the public at large, and members of both houses of the Legislature conceive it to merit their patronage. Divines from remote parts of the kingdom are amongst its lecturers ; and gentle men eminent in science, in literature, and art, are imparting through its classes the essence of their studies and investiga tions. The numerous attendants at these sources of informa tion ate so many proofs that the advantages which it presents are duly appreciated. Considering the vastness of the field in which its influence might be felt, it demands further aid, in order to push onward. But for lack of the "oil,” without which no association will work efficiently, it would assume a broader basis, and occupy not the meanest rank compared with other kindred institutions. My object in addressing you is to suggest a plan whereby it may be made permanent, and the "fluctuating materials" composing it (as a rev. gentleman very facetiously styled them) be hound more closely, and success, under the Divine blessing, positively secured. All similar institutions have failed, because the income arising from periodical payments never covered the actual ex penditure. That their duration extended over a few years was the consequence of adventitious aid derived from . " meivibers for life" and the proceeds of popular lectures; and when these ways and means were exhausted, (the number of the first being almost complete, and the latter a drug,) decay seized the body, and collapse thus superinduced was quckly followed by pre mature death. Therefore, as these sources of wealth dry up, so will vigor decline; and in proportion as expenses are ob viated, which under certain circumstances are inevitable, so is durability attained. Take our institution as an illustration : 400 annual subscribers will give the sum of £2oo—an amount totally inadequate to meet its engagements ; with the present rate of subscription it cannot possibly be self-supporting. Kind liberality launched it, and it has since been sustained by the smiles of its friends ; and some method must be devised to maintain its present proud position, else dissolution is but a question of time. There are two ways open. Ist,—To in crease the rate of subscriptions ; 2d,—To decrease the expen diture. The first proposition cannot be entertained, because it is desirable that the subscription should not be oppressive, or deter any one from joining it. But if the rent of the rooms and the expense attending the lectures at the Concert-hall could be saved, two of the most considerable items of expendi ture would be secured. I therefore beg to submit the follow ing proposition for the consideration of all who desire the welfare of the young men of this community. I.—A building to be purchased, suited for reading-rooms, classes, or a lecture-hall. 2.—The money to be realised by the creation of GOO shares, at £5 per share, giving for the purpose .t 3,000. 3.—The buildings to be secured to the institution, but mort gaged to the shareholders. 4.-300 shares to be taken up by the patrons. clerical and lay, and 3CO shares by the members of the institution. s.—At the end of the third and every subsequent year, a dividend of 3 per cent to be paid to each shareholder as may claim it. - - 6.—A certain per centage of the total income of the institu tion to be set apart for the payment of dividends, and to liqui date the debt by the calling in of shares. Shares so called in to be drawn for by ballot. Objections may be urged against the foregoing suggestions, but my object will be answered if a movement be made to place our Institute upon that respectable footing which it unde niably deserves ; I have reason to state that many members cordially concur in the subject matter of the proposal. It rests with the clergy to consider the propriety of the plan, and assume the initiative, and fill the void too long experienced by members of the Established Church in this great port. If the trial be made, special means of liquidating the debt would be resorted to, and such is my confidence in the spirit of our towns men, that the noble undertaking would not languish in their hands.—Burnley, a town insignificant when compared with Liverpool, sets an example worthy of imitation. It possesses an institution attached to the church of our fathers, the build ing their own, raised by the joint efforts of the clergy and laity, and is disseminating true principles amongst the nation's hope—the young men of England. This town boasts of many monuments of charity, many evidences of our desire " to raise fallen humanity from its degradation—to rescue the oppressed —to deliver the needy—to save the lest." But there is no greater interest at stake—no object which claims our anxious solicitude more, than the morals and integrity of that portion of the community which stand upon the threshold of manhood, and who, in a few short years, will hold in their hands the future destinies of the empire. We are still strugglingin themeshesof a netwhich the enemies ofour faith have for years been weavingaround us; and although the insidious character of the enemy is partially unveiled, and their designs temporarily checked, they are yet potent in their spite, and smarting under the ignominy of exposure, are un tiring in their real to achieve an ultimate triumph. There can be no better means of preserving our Protestantism intact, than in founding and consolid- tine in every town throughout the British isles, a Church of England Institution. Liverpool, 13th March, 1853. A MEMBER. ..---..-...112,r- IMPORTS OF COTTON, To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Noticing in to-day's Albion a statement of the quan tity of cotton on the water to arrive at this port, making it out to be 110,918 bales, I band you below a list of every vessel known to have cleared and not arrived. It is highly important that the trade should know the correct figures, and particularly so at this time.—Yours, NOT A COURTIER. March 15, 1852. NEW ORLEANS.—Fanny, 2001 bales; Alex. Grant, 1887; Meridian, 4727; Herald, 2704 ; Mersey, 2165; Arran, 2996; Annapolis, 2550; Queen, 2909; Amidas, 2256 ; Sea King, 1428; lowa, 2863; Envoy, 2219; Granada, 2125; Lord Ashburton, 2025; Argo, say 2090;—total MOBlLE.—Persian, 1559; Glasgow, 1'764; Beejapore, 4630; Greenock, 3879; Adonis, 2349; Jane E. Walsh, 1600; Faneuil Hall, 2003; State Rights, 2544; Har mony, 2608; Stirlingshire, 1570; David Cannon, 3524; —total CHARLESTON.—Margaret, 1711; Cambria. 997; Levant, 1539; Lulan, 1425 ; Susan G. Owens, 2451; Switzerland, 2259 ;—total NEW YORK.—De Witt Clinton, Ashburton, New World, Waterloo, and Lady Franklin, estimated at SAVANNAH.—Gondar, 2632; Defence, 1057 ;—total WILMINGTON.—Stunter ArALacit ICOLA.—J. P. Harward, and Ashland, estimate 4000 Total bales afloat, DR. WNEILE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL. The following letter has been addressed TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD SlR,—Give me a little space once more. I will be brief as possible. You have mistaken me. You distinguish very fairly between the faculty of expounding and the fa culty of applying truth. Now it so happens, that the special circumstances to which my letter of the 6th of February was intended to apply, had ceased to exist be fore the letter was published. It was not, in the present circumstances of the country, that I gave my opinion to my Liverpool Friends. It was under the impression, then strong among us, that the opening session of Parliament would be attended with an immediate dissolution of the House of Commons, and under an assurance, frequently repeated by them, that every effort to procure other and more generally acceptable candidates for Liverpool had failed. The choice was not, as you seem to think, between the' gentlemen they named to me, and all England, with time to select and invite. The choice was between the gentle men they named, and the present representatives of the borough. Even so, even in extremis, you would not perhaps agree with me. You would have ;Teemed it more consistent to acquiesce in the re-return of the present Members, op posed as they are to our Protestantism, not as regards Maynooth only, but generally, than to invite others, unless they were with us on this one point. I thought otherwise, for the reason sssigned in my letter, and was anxious to guard against such a division amongst the Protestants of the town, as would issue in the success of our present Members. This I hope may still be accomplished. The enclosed note will be further explanatory. It is desirable that our difference, though still real, should be reduced to its minimum. I have lived long enough, sin cerely to lament the " unhappy divisions," which rend our Church, and the excesses, on both sides, which tend to perpetuate and foment them. I am pained by the feverish excitement, and impatient selfishness of feeling, which confound discretion with compro mise, and brand every attempt at moderation as if it were treason against truth. But as to any coquetting with Tractarianism, there is not a shadow of such a thing in my composition, neither can anything be further from my intention, than the slightest relaxation of my (nag against the Maynooth endowment. - I would, indeed, as I have often said, greatly prefer a searching inquiry first, to a sudden and unexplained re peal ; because such a repeal might readily enough be fol lowed by as sudden a re-enactment by another Parlia ment ; but, I believe a re-enactment would be morally impcssible, if the people of England knew, as an honest Parliamentary inquiry would teach them, the principles inculcated in that seminary, under the soft -sounding . , and to Englishmen ill-understood, terms, of the RIGHTS of the Church of Rome, and the JURISDICTION of her Bishops.—l am, dear Sir, faithfully your's, Liverpool, March 6, 1852. HUGH M'NEILE. " Aigburth, let March, 1852. " Dear Sirs,—The emergency is past. You have not been compelled, by a sudden dissolution of the House of Commons, to make a hasty choice. Time is afforded for more deliberate and less embarrassing course of action. The arguments ar.d distinctions in my former letter, how. ever sound under the circumstances as then contemplated, need no longer be applicable to your case. " Excuse me, therefore, when I intrude these few lines upon you. to express an earnest hope, that you will now renew your search, and with increased urgency, for candi. dates concerning whom there need be no embarrassment. " I am, cigar Sirs, yours very faithfully, " HUGH M'NEII.K. " To Robt. WOOEN'Ara, Esq., Samuel Holme, Esq., Dnetnr Trench." HORTICULTURE. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. 1 OS Stove, Greenhouse, and Con serva t or Those pla n which have been r e p o tt e d i n t h e stove require beat 5J rem vde ventilation, otherwise th e c h ec k g i ven b y t h e i r re leads to stagnation of the vital functions, and the ten, shoots and leaves begin to damp off. Sufficient veetile i p to change the air constantly, and enough heat to Ile late new growth, obviate the danger. Sow a few ten annuals in pots, to be afterwards pricked out into eePtal pots for the decoration of the conservatory borders;;; r , shelves. The P or t u l aceas , M esem b ryanthemum trie;i r the Calandrin a s, Gramanthes gentianoides, Lobelia e rili o, and others of the same dwarf habit and brilliant collo are particul ar ly a d ap t e d f or t hi s purpose. Orc hids W I are growing freely will require shading. I,i sel Flower Gard en .—Th e l overs of the old-fasZ• mixed style of gar d en i ng must now look after the __l"r bs ,l e bt. ceous plants, whi c h are b eg i nn i ng to grow vigil:mu-00 Those which have been removed for two or three,S d o had better be raised an d parted, particularly the Plu°"00 a longer continuan ce i n th e same spot will probably Pray their destruction, for th e y di e o ff very rap i dly if net itor sionally removed. S ow i n po t s a f ew sweet peas, 1331111 nette, and other hardy annua l s , w hi c h w i ll, if 0 11 '7 Of a gentle hotbed, form a gay display when flowers a l lo y borders are scarce ; that is, when spring flowers are ° 'i and summer flowers ot yet in blom. i 1 Kitchen Garden.— n Sow successional crops of pea sse a , beans, a small crop of early turnips, the main clod onions, radishes, lettu ce , p ars l ey , c h erv il , carr ots! parsnips, and finish planting early potatoes. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. flier Ii J. Z."—We are much o bli ge d b y your cornol% .ut tion, and will i nser t it a t some f uture time. 'his'"'os' pressure of matte r i n o th er d epartments has mu ch tracted our space. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. „ ( I tff An American, named M'Cornaick, has aecomplis.lr a feat of walki ng , h ea d d ownwar d s, on the under a polished marble slab. le? We are sorry to lea rn th a t hi s E xce ll ency Sir ;alio' Brooke, K.C.8., R a j a h o f Sarawak, is seriously posed. • rte Let a man be treat e d as a b ru t e, an d h e w ill bib, more brutish th an a b ru t e ; b ut as a rational being, 311 will show that he is so. df. On the Ist of J a n uar y, 1851 , t h ere were 50,730 'I I . jot in the receipt of ou td oor paroc hi cal relief, and on t'w of January last the number was 47,068. It is stated that the American Government has notice to the British Government of its desire to bres iee the present postal arrangement between the two coun t f r ol. A rifle club is in th e course o f f ormat i on at °lpilor• which has recei ve d th e appro b at i on of the Tice- Chane'clutr A large number of members are enrolled, and th e , promises to be both popular and effective. 0 1 ,het's On the Ist of January last there were 3,453 reev - , 01 rr, illegitimate children in the receipt of outdoor poor '„., 0 ” lief. At the like period of the preceding year the 13 '"" was 3.707. A dreadful fire expl o si on occurre d on peel'Tuesdayy naptha and tar m anu f ac t ory of Mr. Edward Dorset , - or ford. The building, which was uninsured, has be e/3 stroyed. . i,ei Mrs. Partington, reading the death of a distingniPer, lawyer, who was stated to be the father of the B se art claimed—" Poor man ! h e h a d a d rea d fu l no isy children." An Irishman being asked, on a late trial, for bat cute of his marriage, b are d hi s head and exhibite d ° od a ' scar which looked as th oug h it might have been with a fire shovel. The evidence was satisfactorl• _ ec eo A hardy seaman, wh o h a d escape d one o f the r a off shipwrecks upon the coast, being asked by how he felt when the waves dashed over him? r ep " Wet, madam, very The Prussian government has appointed a lieute n n a se t f police to be stationed i n L on d on f or the Pu r P - tber er watchinr the movements of the German refuge s and reporting to headquarters thereon. ate' The accounts of the Wesleyan Missionary Socie t j l e ir tiP' paratory to the annual May meeting, have been rn. a i s sgi with the exception of some balances from provin ci t i .o o ciations. The receipts for the year 1851 will, it exceed £190,000. During a trial the other day at the Carlisle ass ieeg oitt e Baron Alderson remarked on the bad arrangeme nt " en d court for hearing. "It is said they will never On t ; e to railway accidents till a bishop is killed ; I say never have good courts till an architect is indicted; td A few nights ago two expert thieves effee t er e entrance into Auckland Palace, whilst its inmates ' c o il in bed. The scamps found their way into the r ooni,. 0 0, the Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby sief.':holl g managed to retire, carrying off with them the e l " plr Purse. i e A few nights ago, M r . W a k e li ng , coa l M e ret lig Stafford-place, Pimlico, London, a f ter en tertahL l o ots , company of friends, retired with his wife to their heal:peel apprently ;n go( d spirits, f on dl e d hi s son on his.. i . eo lis rose abruptly, we n t i n t o th e room w h ere t h e festivi , taken place, and shot himself. sti °ll Kalabergo, the youn g It a li an w h o was left for e oc at the late Oxford assizes, for the murder of his 0 1 ' near Banbury, will, it is expected, suffer death on t u s „ OP' inst. The wretched woman Pinckard, who wn, be rit r demned at Northampton, for strangling her mo t law, will undergo her sentence on Saturday next. h e e The Daily News says, the struggle between je; eineers and their employers seems drawing to 0 ,,,d It' Upwards of 7,000 workmen, it a pp ears , h ave accer'ofec terms offered by the masters ; and Mr. Newton's 1 sion that already some £lO,OOO o f t h e f unds of tne,pst,.,;p gamated Society have been absorbed by the cop I pr tests the rapid exhaustio n o f th e means for an.,,;" the war. toge tbi tber A swindling advertiser, Henry Moreton, in.' s '„d bkett with an accompli ce , S ara h M oore, b een committbsd ";5r Rochester magistrates to th e ass i zes . Moreton sc heffr r . in the habit of advertisin g m i n i ng an d em igration as co w full particulars, &e., to be transmitted on r eceiPr s pl io , tain number of postage-stamps. At his lodgi rl v g a re brokers' duplicates for 4,515 postage-stamps see' covered. As Miss Farrance, a young lady of Maidstenn'alt°:llo°sl. ing a new married couple off by the train , tie ircP gif wedding she had been assisting as bridesmaid, 6 ', to silbe s be g t o w :vofie s s h de a n n t d l s y, w j it u h st h a e s r tfhrieentrda,inansdtaurtnerclo,rtsutenpapteeldyforwarn _on te r platform and the train, one of the carriages her leg, which was much mutilated, and she no ir a very precarious co n diti on . bel ° The great Indian diamond, the Koh-i-Ne cr o ' from its present clu ms y cu tti ng , use l e ss as an sor ;r ps it is proposed to re- c ut it, a nd the opinion or 00 of Brewster has been invited on this subject. P c i l tbe! f oir stood 'that the Scotch savant h as recommenu e ,, g n gem should receive a symmet r i ca l f orm , pro be sir e' ' e „ such as would involve the l eas t di m i nu tion 0 1 'eclP sistent with the proper d eve l opment o f th e colou r 10 ° , 11' trum. P t ft During the night of Tuesday week, Will'a ve tou'„ tt B a railway labourer, residing at Green Ha n ' lied °' llC‘ g Knaresborough, dreamed that he should be la „ o sto,tr railway. He awoke and told his wife of the cire" o rtlll!, whereupon she implored him not to go that his usual labour on the line; notwithstandhottiltbf r did so, when, strange enough to st a te, he ace d 4 fl from a ballast train in the n e i g hbourhood 1 00, 1 and was run over, and so hurt that he died. . lefe/00 1 ,' , The workmen engaged at Windsor Castle I, n l e 014 ef fs the ground between the Garter Tower and tu discn l cr. frey Tower, known as Julius Caesar's Tower' o ese t r at about six feet below the surface, sage cut through the chalk rock on which thtegolieitt, built. It is conjectured that this is the anei e . ri be from the castle, and that it passes under . 1 , (1 1 91 Burnham Abbey, which is about three rnu e e clirm where there is a corresponding passage, proms Car direct line to Windsor. lif t g o . l o 6 l SOMEWHAT AMUSIN'G.—We understand ta- kif pock and Mr. Roebuck had a lone ands pparen. i yose, tr, ble interview in the lobby of the House of C e b ri.ipOierp Thursday night. Our readers will readily 0 13 '' bato result. They afterwards retired to an adjacent n o t 19 of course we do not know, and therefore can entur be 0 , a subtertcl _ co s A l l the niceties of the interchange , of friendly fe„e'.' // OA, these patriots. Arcades ambo.—Morning n' r po' br f t —A xETRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT THE FOS F ' h i t 10, very extraordinary accident, which inig,d a t e f $ l ,l attended with serious consequences, occurr` or y e # tl,9 since at the Foreign-office. The new See re b4l9 for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of MalmesburY,',4so 1 , 0 4 1 appointment to meet his excellency the .Aul e pci leo at three o'clock in the afternoon. His easel „bar 1, 0 0 •1 at the hour appointed, but the Earl of Main? e ' e been unexpectedly engaged for some la ! r aft) requested Count Buol to oblige him by cal ifja ~ I four o'clock. In the interval between three:;fion't;its) whole of the ceiling of the room in which t" 0 0 ,9 would have received the Austrian Minist er Os; AU tremendous crash, covering the tables, an„j 9 steZal, floor of the apartment with the debris of the roe s ti" was between three and four inches thick. as 0 0 .4 0 1 occasioned much alarm, but as the room _, i ` v "ser i f il p 4 at the time, fortunately no person s uffer injury. It is understood that the whole of on the south side of Downing -street are in f i meo. condition, and quite unfit for Government e' - for tlst, TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns.„ l o l Jr", ending the Bth instant, on th e un d e rmeht l " lines of railway, are as follows : 185 2 . London and North Western Midland . 2401,,81,17,1 • l4ll Lancashire and Yorkshire , 16,4 1 , 1 ;05 London and South Western, .. 8,81 2 1 .* 1 1'5 London and Brighton ........... 7,M,, 1 3 • P t y Great Western..... .... 15,34' • .* 'Ft South Eastern 9, 747 * York and North Midland 7,2 26 " Manches.,Sheffield, & Lincolnshire 6,364 .• 3 'ol Bristol and Exeter . .• York, Newcastle, and Berwick.... 14, ''" 67° ** i Shrewsbury and Chester 1, 12 • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham 0 Eastern Counties and Norfolk 10~,.202 .‘• 4,0 Great Northern 2 4 89 Chester and Holyhead . North Staffordshire 930 •' . 0. hr Leeds Northern 1,57 3 : prel South Devon South Wales 1,457 . 1 .4 bl/ 9 bel f The total receipts on the above line p bill, 11, against £174,676 in the correspondiuc " Th e 4,P the increase is shown to be .£14,51 9 . 18 52, miles open on the above lines was, in ,01 0 33 in 116 0 1 : 4,1173, showing an increase Qf Rio t2h (4:1 St" be k en 81 1 . '