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~,:. i "~ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE .'..i.oft . i.looi tatibarb. then proceed with irresistible success to protect the Sunday from desecration." With the principle of this we heartily concur ; and much, we think, might be done, even without the aid of Parliament, towards carrying it out. The force of public opinion is capable of effecting much : let all iliose, then, who are anxious to put a stop to the desecration of the Lord's-day, endeavour to bring its force to bear upon the employers of the poor. Many evils, besides Sunday-shopping, are increased, if not actually caused, by the late pay ment of wages upon Saturday night : let them endea vour to put a stop to this ; and, if they fail, then let them invoke the assistance of the Legislature. And if, at the same time, they can procure the boon of a Saturday half-holiday for the over-wrought labourer, so much the better : and then, if they still find it ne cessary, they may justly apply for an act to prevent Sunday-trading. But, as things are at present, we agree with Dr. CUMMING, that Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR and his friends are beginning at the wrong end. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1855 PREACHING FOR THE MASSES. A GOOD deal of nonsense, and some sense, have been elicited by Archdeacon SINCLAIR'S remarks upon preaching ; and as no two of the various scribes, who have undertaken to instruct the Clergy with regard to this very important part of their duty, agree in their requirements, we may, perhaps, conclude that they cannot upon the whole do better than continue in their present course, bearing in mind that he, who endea vours to please every one, will in the end please no one, and, least of all, himself. At all events, it is clear that for many years past there has been a decided tendency rather to exaggerate than to extenuate the ordinance of preaching ; while manner, rather than matter, as regards individuals, has been made the ground of praise or blame. Witness the crowds which hang enraptured by the hour together upon the lips of this or that popular preacher : and why ? Not because they are influenced by any special love for the doctrines which he enunciates, but because he possesses a natural talent which enables him to adorn them with all the graces of oratory. This may seem a somewhat harsh and uncharitable judgment, but its justice is proved by the fact, that, not unfrequently, another preacher, not a stone's throw from his more gifted brother, will deliver the self-same doctrines, Sunday after Sunday, to comparatively empty benches ; and this, notwith- , FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. -.).• MONDAY MORNING. How strangely has the tide of feeling changed, and turned, and flowed back on itself, within the last few days, in refer ence to the events which have of late been unfolded in the Crimea. A fortnight ago, the worlds of London and of Paris, of France and Britain, were so elated with success, that they seemed to scorn the earth they deigned to tread Upon, and would listen to nothing but tales of strife and daring, which they looked on as synonymous with triumph. A check in the onward flow of fortune brought them as suddenly round to chafe at disappointment, and to throw censure on the men whose brows they, but the day before, had loaded with encum bering laurels. To judge by general appearances, it would seem as if the glorious achievements of the 18th of June had been for ever effaced from British annals on the fortieth anni versary of Waterloo. Consequent on this unfounded belief, the impatient public was not slack in giving utterance to sus picions and insinuations—to reproaches against the generalis simo into whose hands they had entrusted the fate of their army, - and the result of the campaign, if not, indeed, the abso lute issue of the war. The futile worthlessness of praise or censure so elicited has been too frequently evinced to call for demonstration; but, in the case referred to, it has met with an illustration so sudden and severe, as seldom falls to the lot of ordinary dogmas. On Friday morning it was unexpectedly announced, that even the iron constitution of Lord RAGLAN was not proof against the anxiety and vicissitudes incident to an arduous campaign, conducted under circumstances whose influence, moral and physical, was most depressing. The an nouncement stated further, that other distinguished officers, companions in arms of the gallant general, were so much prostrated in bodily health, by the same debilitating influ ences, that their recovery was doubtful ; while it was more than merely hinted that Lord RAGLAN'S indisposition was something more • than merely evanescent, and that, in fact, danger, in his case, was imminent. The effect of this into lli gence was stunning. It recalled to men's minds the stern reality that we are now engaged in a conflict which will tax our energies —for a successful issue to which we must lay aside narrow jealousies and vain-glorious self- Conceit, and selecting our commanders with prudent wisdom, place in them a liberal confidence, and a firm resolve to strengthen their hands, instead of by the expression of illiberal prejudices and the application of undeserved censure distracting their attention, weakening their influence, and diminishing their authority. All this, when danger threatened, was instinctively felt, and as promptly acknowledged; but, alas ! the recantation came too late. Saturday, at a little beyond noon, brought the inhabitants of London acquainted with the fact that the spirit of the gallant commander of our army in the Crimea had, on the 28th ult., quitted -its mortal tenement, and gone to The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns. standing that his very want of fluency and popular talent will compel him to study harder, and think more deeply, thereby in fact rendering his discourses far more systematic and instructive than those which are extemporised by the other. We think, then, upon the whole, that there is far more need to teich the people how to esteem and profit by sermons, than there is to instruct the clergy how to compose and deliver them. But amidst all the discussion which has taken place, no one, so far as we have seen, appears to have been struck with the necessity which exists for open-air preaching, as a means of getting at some at least of those many thousands who can never be induced to enter a place of worship ; and who, if they could, are little capable of understanding and profiting by what they would hear. Clearly, we think, the kind of preaching suited to •an ordinary congregation of Christian worshippers would be very unsuitable in the mouth of a missionary addressing a number of heathens, for the purpose of effecting their conversion. It would be like delivering a lecture upon the higher branches of mathematics to a class ignorant of the commonest rudiments of arithmetic and algebra. This is a point which, we think, has not been sufficiently attended to. There are thousands, who, so far as any knowledge of the true religion is concerned, are precisely in the condition of heathens ; and to preach to them, as one would to a well-instructed congregation, is simply to east pearls before swine, and to expose things sacred to the danger of profanation. The making each ser mon, delivered before an instructed audience, an epitome of the gospel, is a plan which we think by no means so well calculated for edification as the dealing with particular topics singly and in order ; but when employed for the conversion of the masses, who are practically heathen, it seems absolute folly. And hence the necessity for some such means as open-air preaching, because it would afford opportunities for addressing the careless and ignorant in the only manner which is suitable to them, but which would be generally quite unsuitable to those who ordinarily assemble within the walls of our churches. The sad intelligence pressed with a foreboding gloom upon the general mind, and ingenuity was vainly racked to find ' immediate consolation for the sorrow thus inflicted—a sorrow mingled with sincere repentance for the harsh opinions previ ously entertained, and not entirely unmixed with anxious apprehension for the future. His lordship, who was born in 1788, and, consequently, was in his sixty-seventh year, had seen a great deal of military service, having been Aide-de camp andllfilitary Secretary to the Duke of WELLINGTON in the Peninsula and at the battle of Waterloo, in which engage ment he lost an arm. He received the appointment of Master- General of the Ordnance on the death of the late Marquis of ANGLESEY, in April of last year; and in the following November was created Field-Marshal. He was the youngest son of the fifth Duke of BEAUFORT, and was raised to the peerage in 1852. 'Tn 1814 he married Extrr HARRIET, daughter of the third Earl of MoRraNG-xoN, and is- succeeded in his titles and estate by his son RICHARD HENRY Frxz-Ror SOMERSET, born in 1817. The intelligence of the melancholy event was immediately communicated to Her MASESTY, who was much affected by the sad news. A dinner party had been invited to the Palace, for the evening of that day, but it was instantly countermanded by the QUEEN. Open-air preaching has, till very lately, been left almost entirely to one or two of the least important sects, and, so far as we have observed, to the least instructed members of those sects. Let us not, how ever, be misunderstood, as if we intended to say a word against them. Regular or irregular, we doubt not' that many such are actuated by the best of motives ; and we can readily believe, that, notwith standing all drawbacks, their labours have not• been wholly without fruit. But that, too frequently, men of this stamp exhibit zeal without judgment, few will deny. We have ere now listened to such, when addressing an audience of the lowest character, and whose general appearance was alone sufficient to demonstrate their ignorance and practical heathenism ; and we have heard them speak to such in familiar terms of the deepest and holiest mysteries, and address to them exhortations and arguments, which none but well-advanced Christians were at all likely to understand or appreciate. Why, then, should not the ministers of the Church take up this work ? We are satisfied that they would be listened to with increasing attention and respect ; and with common care and prudence they might effect much. The melancholy death of the commander-in-chief naturally calls for a consideration, however brief, of the actual condition of the war in the Crimea at the particular juncture when that event occurred. The brief, yet startling, announcement has followed with such rapidity on the repulse experienced by the Allies in their great enterprise of the 18th of June, that we are as yet unacquainted with the details of that sanguinary conflict, and have not learned, except inferentially, what re sults have arisen in consequence of it. By the failure, so far as can be made out from the circumstances which have since transpired, it appears that the garrison of Sebastopol did not gain anything, while of the Allies it is not unfit to say that, apart from thepersonal regrets occasioned. bythe slaughter, they merely did not gain everything they wished. The importance of the positions assailed was such as to ensure a resolute de fence of them. Had they been gained,. the conquest of the town and its other defences could scarcely have been delayed, and it is not a common occurrence in war for such valuable defences to fall before the first assault, The failure, however,.. on that occasion must be taken as indicative of a degree of ignorance on the part of the allied commanders, as to the means of defence possessed by those positions, greater than they would willingly have admitted.. Some knowledge has. now been gained, albeit at heavy cost, whereby more, ac curately to estimate the resistance to be overcome. The, works intended for defeating that resistance, and rendering. the success of the next attack more certain, have been steadily pushed forward; and neither the French nor the Englishgeueral appears to have considered that repulse as fatal to future suc cess in the same quarter. Had the failure of the attack on the Redan and the Malakhoff been of such a nature. as to pre clude hope of capturing the town from that side,, an. altered plan of operations would have indicated the belief. Without further loss of time or men, the commanders would have di rected the alternative of seizing the heights andproceeding; at whatever cost, with a line of investment towards the north.. but no decisive movement of this description has as yet been undertaken, while on the contrary every exertion has been used for completing, strengthening, and augmenting the means of attack still at the points first indicated, and there is there fore every reason for believing that to the minds of those ex perienced warriors there has occurred no, reason for departing from the original plan. On the other band,. it cannot be denied that, considering the time they havabeenbeforethe place, that with possession of such a point of observation as that afforded by the Mamelon, some familiarity with the condition of the con tiguous andoverlooked batteries at the Redan and the Malakhoff might have been attainable. If science could not accomplish this, artifice might surely have aided in acquiring information relative to fortifications not five hundred yards distant from our entrenched lines ; and, if both these means had failed, experi ence of the men they had to deal with shßuld have shown how severe a resistance was to be encountered and repelled. Another and an important fact forces itself reluctantly upon observation in this contest, and that is, the small use made by the Allies in applying scientific invention to forwarding the objects of the beseigers. Every day brings us acquainted with the discovery of exploding instruments, and the destructive secret agencies employed by the Russians ; yet, on our side, ex traordinary aids derived from science appear to have been carefully excluded from our munitions of war. Under any view of the case, the death of Lord RAGLAN has occurred at a momentous juncture of affairs ; what effect it may produce upon the ultimate result of the campaign, it would be indelicate and might be impolitic to say ; but the plans have been so far matured and worked out in concert with General PELISSIER, that the successor of his lordship will not likely now think of changing them. Activity, combined with prudence —energy, with resolution and judgment in carrying 1 them out—are now what is wanted, and in General SIMPSON, who is understood to be that successor, it is confidently be lieved these qualities will not be wanting. In the meantime, let it not be forgotten, either at home or abroad, that the ener vating heats of a Crimean summer, and its sunshine, destruc tive alike to vegetable growth and inimical to animal health, will, in all probability, be found not less fatal to our army than were the sweeping blasts and frozen storms of its winter, unless they are carefully guarded against. We have been led to these remarks by the fact, (which we recorded last week) that one Liverpool clergyman, the incumbent of St. John's, has already commenced the plan which we advocate : but what is one amongst so many ? We would fain hope that others may be induced to follow his example ; and that, not only upon Sundays, but upon week-days also. And if, in any cases, the Sunday labours are too heavy to permit such extra work, we would even rejoice to hear that the sermons delivered within the walls of 'our churches were curtailed, so that opportunity might be won for speaking to the perishing thousands who abide without. DR. CUMMING AND SUNDAY LEGISLATION. WE are no very ardent admirers of Dr. CUMMING ; but we must say, that, with regard to the question of Sunday Legislation, he appears to us to have hit the Tight nail on the head,—if the letter in the London Times of Wednesday last, (and which will be found in another column,) with the signature of Join CUMMING, be, as we suppose, the production of the voluminous Scotch Doctor. The occasion of his writing is Lard ROBERT GROSVENOR'S bill for putting a stop to Sunday-trading, which, as our readers are aware, has already led to an unprecedented emeute in Hyde-park. Even were there no such thing as religion, we would gladly see one day in seven characterised by a total cessation from all but necessary work, for we believe such an arrangement to be necessary for man's physical well-being ; and how infinitely such necessity is increased by man's spiritual needs, we need hardly say. We shall not then be charged with wishing to perpetuate the desecration of the Lord's Day, if we declare ourselves by no means satisfied that such measures as the one in question are calculated to produce any really beneficial results : and we are glad to be able to quote in support of our own, the opinion of a man so little liable to suspicion upon this score as Dr. CUMMING'. With him we regard Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR'S bill as well-meant ; and we would utterly condemn the spirit which too many public writers and speakers evince, when they charge its supporters with cant, humbug, and hypocrisy. With him we also regard it as calculated to satisfy no party. " Those," (says the Doctor) " who feel deeply the divine obligation of the Fourth Commandment, never can admit it as either dutiful or expedient to give national sanction to Sabbath work at certain hours, in order to render illegal Sabbath work at other hours :" and why it will not satisfy the masses must be patent to all. But the part of Dr. CUMMING'S letter which we think most note -worthy, is the concluding paragraph, in. which he says : "The most ur gen t l eg i slation is required for week-days, not for Sund a y s . A s long as man is made a beast of burden on week-days, you will fail to make him a Christian on Sundays. Protect matt from excessive labour on Saturday, and you may The longest day has passed; and, with that interesting period, the usual indications of a closing legislative session have begun to make their appearance. Lord PALMERSTON, the most "jaunty" of political Hsßow, has already, suo mori, 11,1 1 CHURCH UNIONS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS. commenced his "slaughter of the parliamentary innocents." Many matters, no doubt, still remain, sufficient to occupy the _ LIVERPOOL STANDARD. legislative attention for a long period, even after the virtual TO THE EDITOR OF THE withdrawal of twenty-nine out of thirty-three government SIR, — You printed, a few week s ago, the r epo r t o f th e L o .. measures ; but of the remaining four it is believed the ministry don Church Union ; an d, w i t h your perm i ss i on, I would now will make no very desperate effOrtto prevent one or two from refer to it as affo r di ng a b un d ant proo f of the necess i ty which falling into the "limbo" of parliamentary vanities. Among exists for the form a ti on o f suc h b o di es, and for the purpose of the measures depending upon the exertions of individual mem- expressing my surp r i se th a t no such organisation has been hers, the one which at present occupies the greatest share of established in our own di ocese . Ch urch Unions have already in this respect are c r o wne d w ith public attention is the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, for a vote of done much, and espe c i a lly t owar d s th e rev i val of Convocation . censure on the government, for the share its members had and whenever their efforts in the gross mismanagement w hich ha s been proved to have success, as I doubt n ot th a t sooner or l a t er t h ey w i ll b e, the led to such fatal suffering in the army before Sebastopol. This necessity for their own contin ue d ex i s t ence w ill h ave passed motion, which was to have come on to-morrow, is now fixed for away. But, i n th e mean ti me, th ey are b ot h use f ul and neces that day week. By its terms. the House will be called on to nary, for the do u bl e p urpose o f ca lli ng th e a tt ent i on of Church , men to such me asures as may di rec tl y or i n di rect l y affect the declare that "Ministerial respon s ibility" i s s om e thing more than a theoretical phrase ; and th a t it canno t be evaded by Church's intere s t s , an d a l so o f organ i s i ng support or resist the. convenient trick of maki ng th ree or f our gen tl emen enact ance, as each may b e requ i re d. the character and sustain the o bl oqu y o f sca pe goa t s , w hile I have said, th a t th e l as t report of the London Church the demonstrat es th e necess i ty wh i ch exists for such bodies the remaining ten or eleven o f th e i r colleagues steer clear of as that from which it emana t es. I t refers to various measures the charge and escape all bl ame . I n thi s par ti cu l ar i ns t ance introduced into Parliament, an d all more or less affecting the the constitutional peculiaritie s o f B r it a i n are i n deed upon interests of the Church ; b u t I nee d on l y refer to one of these their trial—the eyes of E uro p e are upon th em . Th e P ar i s i an i journals already teem with s p ecu l a ti ons on th e su bj ec t. M os t to order to justify my asser ti on : I mean Lord Shaftesbury ' s of these organs of opinio n re it era t e , l ess or more di rec tly, th e bill for free trade i n re li g i on , b y w hi ch he would repeal the statute which prohibits th e mee ti ng o f more than twenty per sentiments uttered by Paicccn ALBERT a t the Trinity House sons for the purpo se o f worship. This bill may be good or dinner. The Debats spoke ou t more po i n t e dly th an i s it s bad; but that i s no t th e ques ti on. It affects the Church most wont on such hazardous q ue s ti ons , t rac i ng i n th e Adminis nearly, and, suc h b e i ng th e case, i t seems but fair that Church trative Reform movement, and th e S e b as t o pol Com m itt ee inquiry and its concomit an t s , an ag it a ti on w hi c h, i n c h arac t er , men should h ave an oppor t un i ty o f expressing an opinion about it; and, by petiti on or o th erw i se,o f support i ng or oppos is the first step towards a revo l u ti on . F or thi s p rocee di ng .et the Editor of the Debdts ha s bee n ca ll e d before the "Direction tu g it Andy I suspect that the great m ass o f Ch urc h men de la Surete Generale," and there he received instructions not would., like myself, have remained in utter ignorance of its to resume the subject und er an y c i rcums t ances; an d h e was unostentatious passage through the H ouse o f C ommons , h a d warned not to reply in his journ a l to remar k s u p on th e ma tt er it not been for th e no ti ce w hi c h was b estowed upon it by the in any other Parisian paper. On Wednesday last, the Consti- report in question. And, even with regard to measures, the introduction of which is generally k nown , as th ose f or th e tutionel and the Pays each p u bli s h e d an at÷:cie on the sub ject, taking up the defence of the English PRINCE CC/NSORT abolition of Church-rates and the legalisation of incest, the and attacking both the Debeits and the English press. So, if Church Union may be, and frequently is, a most useful agent in exciting oppositio n , p rocur i ng s i gna t ures to petit ors -, and we cannot have a censorship at h ome , it appears th at the government of our good and faithful allies w ill accommo d ate the like. It is an old and t rue p rover b , th a t " w h at is• every body's business is nobody' s b us i ness ," an d it s t rut h has b een us with as much of theirs as they can conven i en tl y spare. In the meantime, the probable result of Mr. RoEsrcß's strikingly exemplified in the past history of the Church of England. Deprived of her C onvoca ti on , d epr i ve d o f her Dio motion is keenly and anxiously ca nvasse d a t h ome. Al ost parties believe that, through the exercise of tactical manoeuvres, cesan and Ruri-decanal Syneds,—deprived, in short, of every body which might legally and constitutionally look after her Lord PALMERSTON will contri v e th a t it s h a ll su ff er s hi pwreck interests; and elicit or direct her opinions, —she has been left by a similar course of nav i ga ti on t o th at w hi ch proved go to the tender mercies of any mi n ist r y, or even pr i vate mem b er, fatal to Mr. MILNEE Ca sson ' s . mo ti on i n re l at i on to the Vienna Conferences. who might take it into his he a d t o l eg i s l ate i n her b ehalf; and Among the displays of the p r e sen t as o f man in many instances measure s mos t d e t r i mental to her wellbeing y previous have been passed, almost without a whisper of opposition from sessions, in Parliamentary elo quence , o f w hi c h th at ill ustr i ous C assenibly and the nation ma y b e j us tl y prou d , those of Lor d Churchmen at large, s i m pl y b ecause there has been no recog nited body, whose d u ty it was to take- the matter up. Being LYNDHURST stand conspicuou s . Whil e - the attention of the the duty of every o n e i n genera l , and of mune in particular, Commons has been in a great d egree t a k en up w ith persona l - altercation, and displays of sectaria n s pl een m i ng l e d w ith the it has been neglected altogeth er . miserable jarrings of party animosity, the House of Lords The- Church Union, it is true, is but an expedient, a sort has manfully vindicat e d it s c l a i m t o cons id era ti on as a of provisional committ ee . It is an anomaly,-but the anomalous reasoning and legislative instit u ti on of the state. On a state of the Church has rendered it necessary ; and when, if ever, the Church's Convocati on i s f a i r ly res t ore d ; and permitted previous occasion, Lord LYNDHURS T , i n one of those ma s t er l y to exercise those powers whi c h, by an ac t o f execra bl e t yranny, reviews of state policy which he i s s o well compete n t t o have been so long. kept its abeyance, we shall. no longer need draw up, gave such a d e li nea ti on o f th e beari ngs o f t h e present war with Russia as ex t or t e d from the E ar l of it. Not only will the limited f unc ti ons , which at present it discharges, be. more effectually discharged by- Co nvoca ti on ABERDEEN, the then Prime Mi n i s t er , . a declaration of his intention to prosecute the war with vigour. That the noble Earl did not, in fact, redeem the letter of his promise, -was no fault of the venerable and learned Lord ; and that the Earl of ABERDEEN failed to exact from the CZAR " security" for a lasting peace, cannot be charged against the convincing eloquence under which that nobleman writhed, and, was content to promise anything. On Tuesday last, Lord LYNDRUBST, whose powers of eloquence appear to grow with his advancing years, again came forth , like an intellec tual giant to grapple with the duplicity of Austria. The oration he delivered on this last occasion,. so studiedly free from invective—so cautiously stripped of exaggeration—so scathingly courteous—so calmly descriptive of a case too disgraceful and dishonourable to admit of sarcasm, was, in all respects, so powerful and conclusive- in disabusing the ' public mind of the gross delusion practised in setting up Austria as- a • bulwark against Russian aggression in the• East, that it can never more be adventured upon in an assembly of educated men. After fully exposing.this delusion, which at one time or another influenced every member of the-- Peace-at-any-price party—Lord ABERDEEN. and Mr. GT4D--.. STONE being scarcely less its dupes than Mr.. COBDEN and Mr. Batemr—his lordship proceeded to show the inconcht siveness and fallacy of the treaty with Austria , entered into on the 2nd of December,. and gave strong reasons for believ iug that even in it the Austrian Government was never sin cere, but calculated on its evasion by boutc- of- 41..-nc v otiatin g parties refusing one or other of its conditions, while she her self might by this means escape out of the engagement. In a few lucid remarks he showed how the Austrian Cabinet-had tacked. and trimmed, till having completely hoodwinked the English Government, and when the Austrian purposes were fully served, that fickle power turned coolly round, and. declared she should now fall back " to a neutrality treaty," and followed up this resolution by reducing. her army, and: falling off from even pretended fellowship with the Western. Powers. At the conduct of Austria, viewed through the clear and searching lens furnished by Lord LYNEMITE.ST, every true son of England must be prepared to adopt the burning., language which SHAKSPEARE puts into the mouth of the indignant CONSTANCE : War ! wart no peace I peace is to me a war. 0 Lymoges! 0 Austria ! thou dost shame That bloody spoil; thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward...-. Thou little valiant, great in villany ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! Thou fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety !—thou art perjurel, too, And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool art thou— *ramping fool to-bray and stamp and swear, Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, Ilast thou not spoke like thunder on my side? Been sworn my soldier? bidding me.depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength? And dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for.sbame, And bang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs! Before concluding his address, " the old man eloquent/,' (his lordship is in his. eighty-second year,) gave utterance-to the following prophetic admonition. "Now, my Lords, what is the policy that I recommend ? Persevere ! If you:do not persevere, you not only fail to obtain the objects fox which the war was undertaken, but you will disgrace yourselves•in the eyes of the world. Character is power. If the., terms pro posed had been accepted, Russia would have ascended in the scale of power. She would have been regarded_ by Eastern nations as irresistible. No one would.have dared to oppose her will. If you turn to the-West, the influence she has ac• quired in Germany would have increased. a thousand-fold. The chains of the lesser German States, would, have been rivetted yet more firmly, and a severe blow would have been struck at the progress of civilization." Row, toweringly noble is the language of the High Steward of Cambridge, contrasted with that lately used on. the same subject by the member for the University of Oxford I itself, but, to•agreat extent r the very necessity for discharging them at all- will cease. To exemplify my meaning, let me-- again refer to Lord Shaftesbury's bill. It aim- at repealing one of the legal-or act-of-parliament safeguards of the Church. At present no man can get up a• congregation of more than twenty people- without declaring- himself a dissenter,. and obtaining a licence for the room 'or building in which they meet as a place- of dissenting. worship. Lord Shaftesbury's bill, however, would enable any number of men to get up.any number of congregations -in any parish in opposition to 'the lawful minister- thereof, and yet retain the status and all .the rights of Churchmen. Against this-the Church protests: but give her back her Convocation, and she would cease to protest. Give her back her own undoubted rights and means of defence, and she would care little for being deprived of such protection as an act of parliament can afford... Cut her bonds, let her go free, and she will be quite capable to defend herself, and to deal as well with her avowed foes-as - with her own rebellious children. She will-care little, whether it be lawful for twenty or twenty thousand to meet in opposition to her ministers ; for she will have power to cast them out, to sever all connec tion between herself and them. Bat, I repeat, so long as-she continues ,in her present - anomalous • position, so long is -the Church Union necessary ::and I cannot but express my sur prise that nothing of the kind has been got up in this neigh bourhood. One would think that Liverpool, second only to '....6;41d0n in ;in_pfittartely =WA 17911 y‘a.riara..E ITraloaa to itself.—l am, Sir, Bac.., June 29, 1855. A CHURCHMAW.. DISGRACEFUL. CONDITION OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH; • TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARa One of the great shows of the past week. has been the second Drury-lane performance of the-Administrative Reform Association, on Wednesday, on wliich occasion the leading character was cleverly enacted by Mr. CHARLES DICSEN3. The display in this, as in the former instance, was not of a character to advance in, any degree the practical weight of the association in public esteem. True, Mr. Dlcx.mrs, in a happy strain of banter and good-humoured sarcasm, administered wholesome reproof to the flippancy and audacious arrogance of manner too frequently exhibited by Lord RinmEasrpx, while treating subjects of grave importance in the House of - Commons ;. yet he went bat a small way towards bringing the egotistical vanity and gross blundering of his coadjutors. in. the movement within reasonable bounds. So long as. the foundation on which their case for administrative reform, is, made to rest on such reckless assertions as those to which Mr. LA.YARD has been so repeatedly brought to book without improving him, or on such flimsy suppositions as Mr. LINDSAY adventured his case upon, so long will the public treat the movement and the movers as a popular scandal. The scope of the Association's programme is so.comprehensive that it can be made to include nearly everything or with equal facility evade grappling with anything; in the one case assuming the virtue of every graceful act, in the other repudiating any of their fallacies which may be exposed. Recent events, and still more recent exposures, make it quite clear that great room exists for improvement in the administration of ouimilitary system ; but more than his simple word for it will be required to induce general belief in the averment that the honourable mention of Corporal QUINN, in a late despatch by Lord RAGLAN, was in any way brought about by the de clamations of Mr. LA.YARD. The exigencies of the service show clearly the kind of men who are wanted in particular situations, and a very moderate share of capacity will be suf ficient to point out to a commander the means by which such men are excited to action. To these concurrent causes it is not too much to attribute the mention of the case referred to as much more likely than the diatribes of Mr. LAYMID. The probability of a protracted and sanguinary war has seemingly been the means of sharpening the Ministerial wits in more ways .than one, and accordingly we find the War Minister increasing the pay and augmenting in various ways the consideration in which the private soldier is held; but in doing-this we are by no means reduced to the conviction that these concessions have been made in obedience to the behests of Mr. LAYARD and his friends. If that gentleman is not above the drudgery of such labour, he will find that during the last great European war similar provision was made to ensure the service of the common soldier; and that even after its close a considerable gratuity was bestowed upon the soldiers who had fought at Waterloo, long before Mr. LAYARD could have piped a very potent note upon his showy reed of Administrative Reform. SlE,—Permit me, through your- paper, to draw public attention to the state of St. Paul's-Church. Circumstances have removed me from that part of the town, but old associations occasionally at distant intervals draw me thither on a Sunday morning. Yesterday was an occasion of this nature, and whilst I was -most gratified at the solemn and impressive manner in which the senior minister, who always officiates in the morning, performed the services, and the marked and decided improvement; in the attendance,. I was perfectly shockect,at the conditioit of the building itself. If something be net quickly done, it: will positively be in ruins. I• shall not enter into details but will merely notiee two particulars. The ceiling, under the portico, has in a great measure fallen down, and the dropping of the plaster.renders ingress or egress a matter of danger. On going- into the south aisle, I found it flooded withwater, which had penetrated through the ceiling of the gallery, and in the gallery itself some pews were filled with water from the ceiling and roof. Some grave mismanagement is here at work, and it is not too much to ask,..are there no means of ascertaining what has become of the hundreds of pounds voted at the Parish Vestry for the repairs -of St. Paul's, and not only voted,,lnt charged in the churchwardens' accounts ? Is there no tribunal before which those in office can be-called for not applying public money to the uses for which it was entrusted into their hands ?—Lam, Sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, July 2, 1855‘ A PARISHIONER, BRIGANDAGE AT SMYRNA.. Sarrnsa., June 16.—The abduction of Dr, M'Craith, an English physician resident here, by a band of brigands, on Sunday last, is now the-engrossing topic of conversation. On Sunday a band of sonic-30 robbers, armed,to the teeth, estab lished themselves about half a mil e from Bournabat, on the road side, and waylaid, a number of persons, w hom they robbed of money, jewellery, &c. They also detained others. for the purpose of obtaining ransom; but let them all escape with the exception of Dr. 2.lfCraith, a M. Manuc,and M. Marcopoly, a MR of a Gree,k.. merchant in Smyrna.. It- appears that two brothers Marcopoly, with two friends named Devris and Castor, were returning_ on horseback into Bournabat, about seven o'clock on Sunday evening, when they were stopped at the road side close-to a cemetery by ten or twelve Greek robbers, armed with double-barrelled guns, pistols, and. yataghans. While they were detained in the cemetery, they saw Dr. M'Crrith brought in by other robbers. He had also been stopped, on. the . road . while on his way to, attend a Mrs. Fisher, an. English lady residing, at the neighbouring vil lage of Hadjdar, in her approachin g con fi nemen t. All th e party were threatened with immediate death. if they did not keep quiet, and when, on an. omnibus pass log which plies to and from Bournabat, Dr. iii`Craith attempted to call for assistance, he was stunned by the blow of the stock of a pistol, After some time the robbers. appeared to think it useless to detain Messrs. Devris, Castor, and G. Marcopoly,, but carried off Dr. M'Craith and H, Marcopoly. After tra, versing two fields they fell, in with four other robbers, who bad under their care 31, Mar= and three other persons. The latter were allowed, to depart, Dr. M'Craith, M. Manus,. and M. H. Marcopoly being carried off across a plain some eight miles in width to the mountains, where they arrived at midnight, and sent M. H. Marcopoly back with letters from Dr. M'Craith and M. Manus, saying that the robbers de manded £l,OOO each for ransom. He fell in at daylight with Colonel Storks,,Hamid Bey, and a large body of armed police, in pursuit of the. robbers, and delivered his letters, but abso lutely refused to act as a guide, or to give information as to the whereabouts of the band, under fear probably of their menaces and vengeance, and when forced to proceed, it is now believed that he led the pursuers intentionally on a wrong tract. Here, then, had been a band of some twenty or thirty robbers lying perdu close to the principal place of resort of the Smyrna merchants—the Richmond of Smyrna, in fact—occupying themselves for some hours in plundering wayfarers, and at last proceeding with their captives across a broad plain unpursued. It appears that Dr. Goolden, one of the medical officers of the Civil Hospital, was passing the spot of Dr. M`Craith's capture a very few minutes after wards, and was told of it by some peasants. He instantly galloped into Bournabat, and endeavoured to excite the people to engage in pursuit, but all in vain. No one would join him, so he returned to Smyrna as fast as he could and gave the alarm. Colonel Storks at once waited on the Pasha, and suc ceeded in rousing him to action. The second in command, Hamid Bey, was sent off with some 80 men in the direction taken by the robbers, and orders were sent to the Pasha of Magnesia to send others to take them in the rear. Nearly all the members of the medical staff armed and started at midnight also in pursuit. A great part of Monday was spent by detached parties scouring the mountains in various direc tions, and one party came up with the robbers, but after re ceiving a volley which wounded one man, they threw down their arms and fled. So much for the Turkish police. It now became a question whether a party of English soldiers, convalescents, should be engaged in the service. Colonel Storks was quite ready to lead them, but the English and French consuls, and the family of Dr. Wraith, were opposed to any such measures. They argued that the first object was to save the doctor's life, afterwards to pursue the robbers. It was accordingly arranged that the Turkish troops should be withdrawn 'on Tuesday, and the ransom sent to the robbers by a shepherd. By that time, however, they had shifted their quarters, and it is supposed. that the ransom has not yet reached them. Yesterday they are said to have been seen about seven hours' journey from hence, with Dr. Wraith on a donkey, and his friends confidently anticipate that he will be restored to them as soon as the ransom is received. —Cor. respondent of Me Daily News, 4 1 1 k, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. BY the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Little, which arrived soon after midnight on Saturday, we have intelligence from 4 New York to the 19th, • Boston the 20th, and Halifax the 22nd ult. She brought 223 passengers, and $811,142, and £6OO in specie. The Hon. John Ross, Speaker of the Legislative Council of Canada, was a passenger by the Africa. The steam-ship Asia arrived at Halifax on the 20th ult. The ship William Rathbone, hence, at New York, had nine deaths amongst her passengers. The United States new steam-frigate Mirrimac had been launched from the Charleston navy yard. The United States revenue-cutter Washington had inter cepted a vessel leaving the harbour of New York, with nearly 60 persons on board, enlisted, as it is alleged, for the Crimea. At a fire which broke out in the toy and fireworks estab lishment of Dunkin and Robbins, No. 10, Maiden-lane, a terrific explosion of combustibles had occurred, and a young man, named Philip H. Jeanneret, had perished in the flames. A gold snuff-box, ornamented with brilliants, said to have been sent as a present by the Emperor of France to a gentle man in New York, and which had been levied on for debt, was sold by auction by the sheriff, in the City-hall, for $BOO, The Germans of Williamsburg were making preparations to forcibly resist the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law. Meetings had been held, and resolutions recommending violent measures, adopted. At New York, a great meeting of the Know-Nothing party had been held in the Park, and the Philadelphia platform adopted. The Massachusetts section had decided to call an extra session of the State Council on the 28th ult., when the seceding delegates to the Philadelphia Convention would make their report. A despatch from New Orleans stated that cholera had ap peared among the United States troops at Baton Rouge, in an epidemic form, and that several deaths had occurred. The barque Magnolia, which had been seized by the Go vernment and taken into Mobile, as belonging to the Kinney expedition, had on board 3000 rifles,lBoo Colt's revolvers, 6000 lbs. of powder made up into 300,000 rounds fixed ammunition, 1000 tents, a battery of brass field pieces, all complete, with haness, equipment, cartridges, and shot to match, lots of pikes and sabres, a quantity of clothing, and 500 cots. In Mississippi State . showers of veritable brimstone had fallen. In some districts. of the State frost had been experi enced on the 11th ult. Mr. G. IL Griffith, the inventor of the India-rubber cotton floats, was. at Tuscaloosa preparing, to raft down to Mobile 100 bales of cotton. The Lochmaben Castle, hence, with 557 passengers, and a cargo of salt and rice, had been wrecked on the Bird Rocks, It was expected that the whole of the passengers would be saved. In Upper Canada there is said; to be difficulties with the; Saugeen Indians, who complain of having been overreached by the Government in a treaty respecting their lands, which they agreed, on certain conditions, tcYcede to the Crown. The provincial newspapers say a rebellion is threatened, which may cost both blood and treasure. kconspiracy of prisoners in the Canadian penitentiary to murder the keepers and escape'has been discovered. One hundred, of them were found armed. itthices - from Cuba state that, owing - lb-a sort of undefined alarm of personal danger which had seized: on the mind of General Concha, many of the offices of the public functionaries had been converted into temporary barracks: From Mexico, we learn that the Government troops had vanquished the Revolutionists in several encounters, and the progress- of the conquerors was signalised by the blood-thirsty ferocity which is the characteristic of Mexican warfare. The outbreak in the northern provinces seems to- have been a spontaneous- affair,- no political plan whatever having been promulgated by its promoters. Vigorous meastires had been taken to quell the insurrection. The insurgents are said to have taken possession of Guanaguto and to hive been joined by Victoria and Saltillo. The outbreak at Rio-Grande had resulted in the capture. of Monterey, by the Revolutionists, on the 27th ult. Correspondence from Central America states-, that Grey town had been entirely rebuilt, and a new government formed, by formally adopting a constitution and• electing municipal officers, 4046 COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE_ NEW Yoxic, 18th June. MONEY.—There - was- a steady demand for money, the•sup ply ample, and the- rates of interest remained unchanged. In elehange there was- a. fair amount of business deingat the following rates :—Londen,- 1093- to 1101; Paris, 5.12 n to Si];s Bremen, 791 to 79i,- Hamburg, 36-a to 361. COTTON.—The Atlantic's-adviees, of the 13th ult, tieing of a favourable tenor, caused an advance of ic., but subsequently with rumours of a rise in •some of the interior streams , of Ala bama. and Louisiana, the - buoyancy had been lost- The accounts from the South were of a conflicting nature;. the reports of a rise in the- rivers seemed to have gained credence with the majority, and the market closed rather heavily in consequence. Yesterday the market closed steadily with sales estimated at 2,500 baks., From Messrs. Talcott's circular,. June 19th, we extract the - following :--" We do not - attach much importance to the reported rise in the rivers, believing that it will be temporary, and, consequently, add but little to the receipts at the ports, Annexed, from reliable sources ; will be found the latest information by telegraph on this sub ject. Although the estimates of probable receipts at: the ports, advised, of 27 to 2;750,000 bales are not increased, the' favourable accounts of the growing crop and the partialrise in the rivers, alluded to, have weakened confidence, and nego tia.tions, consequently are more difficult to effect. Holders, at the 'decline noticed, show no anxiety to sell, believing that they will have a more fa,vourable- opportunity to realise on receipt of the large advances anticipated within the- next thin ...J. iron. Q 4-1, Tialtio,..e the 15th, and America, of the, 22nd instant. The export& to France will now probably- falloff to the close of .the season, and shipments he. diverted-to Liverpool by the higher rates ruling there. Tables of receipts-and stocks, exports to Great Britain and France, made up to latest mail dates, show deficit in receipts at the ports of 200,042 bales ; excess in export to Great Britain, 12,460 bales-; _excess, to France, 121,910 bales. - Stocks in all the ports, 10,824 bales, against 457,087 - bales, at same period last. year. BREADSTUFFS.—The corn: market was rather dull, and prices, particularly of the common qualities, experienced a further decline, amounting .in some instances to 12ko.- per barrel. Corn meal, was inactive. Wheat was dull. PROVISIONS.—The pork market was firm, and higher prices had been obtained for new. mess.. Beef firm, with moderate' sales.. Bacon was steady,_with fair demand. IRON.—The buoyancy- in,the iron market generally con tinues, and prices of Scotch pig, with considerable speculative'' action, are again higher. Other kinds are also firm.. The ' stock of English sheet is -mostly composed of the- poorer qualities; prime is scarce. FREIGHTS.—In Freights-there had been a decided improve-. ment ; the rates to Liverpool were, cotton, 5-32 d. to 3-16 d.; corn, 44d. to 52d.; flour, Is. 3d. toas. 6d. • rosin, ls. to 15.,3d. ;. turpentine, ls. 6d. to Is. ed. ; heavy andmeasurement goods,, 10s. to 12s. 6d.; beef,. in. tierces,. Is. 6d. to ls. 9d._; pork, in barrels, Is. 3d. _ _ Nuw : YORE, June 19, , .6 ; p.m.—Money and exchange: un altered. Cotton steady ; , sales 1,100 bales. Breadstuffs Flour firm ; sales 7,000 bbls, ; Wheat easier; Corn better ; Pork buoyant; Beef steady;. Lard steady; Bacon quiet; But ter dull ; Iron firm ; Lead quiet. MOBILE, June 14.7-Sales to-day 6,000 to 7,000 bales; middling, 11c. to 11c. ; asking lc. to 4c, since steamer's ac counts were known; receipts light; no rise in rivers... June 16.—Middling, 111. Freights to Liverpool, 5-16 d. Receipts, 24,000 bales. By sleetrie Telegraph. NEW YORK, Jane 21.—Rates in the Money market to-day were unchanged. Cotton is e. lower; flour, slightly declined; corn slightly advanced. European news per St. Louis here to-day at three o'clock, NEW OBLEANSy June 21.—Sales 2,500 bales, firm. AUSTRALIA, BY the Lightning, which arrived on Saturda.y, and the Gypsey Bride, which arrived on Sunday, we have intelligence from Melbourne to the 11th of April. A commission.was issued to inquire into the cause of the Ballarat riots, and it has made a report upon which the Le gislative Council,have acted, and several useful measures have been passed, The Eagle, hence on the 28th December,. arrived April the 6th. Ralph, Waller, hence January 4, arrived on the 7th. The Red Jacket arrived on March 25th, and was to sail on the 20th.of April. Several new and apparently productive , gold fields have been discovered lately at no great distance from Melbourne and. Geelong respectively. Those near Melbourne are the Caledonian diggings, beyond Little. Eltham, and Mount Blackwood, near the Werribee. The former are thirty miles, and the, latter fifty miles, distant from Melbourne. About 1,500 men are said also to be working and doing well on the Plenty Ranges. The new goldfield : near Geelong is at Steig litz Forest, twenty miles from that town. Favourable reports have likewise been received of the gold-field of Mount Ararat, in the western district. The age of large nuggets has not yet gone by. A magnificent mass o; pure gold, weighing 841 b., from Castlemaine, and one of AOlbs. from Ballarat, have just arrived in Melbourne by escort. SYDNEY, April 7.—The-declared value of the imports into the port of Sydney, for the week ending March 24, was £66,800 ; the value of the. exports for the same period, as de clared was £57,824. Freight to Liverpool—wool, per lb., id. to id.; light goods, 50s. to 60s. per ton. MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET.—Since gold was first dis covered in Victoria, the labour market has not been in so healthy a state as it is at present. The demand for agri cultural labourers still continues to increase,and the supply to diminish; consequently wages have an upward tendency. The large numbers employed on public works, the large number gone and going to the " diggings,' have all but emptied the market of good men. GEELONG LABOUR MARKET.—WO have to note an in creased demand for mechanics engaged in house building, and a trifling advance on former rates of wages has thence resulted. There is a good steady demand for thorough farm labourers. With reference to female domestics, it may be remarked that though they are more easily obtained than formerly, they are mostly very inferior. The want of good English and Scotch girls, accustomed to town life, is much felt. COMMON THINGS.—Among the prizes at Harrow speeches on the 28th, there was one, for the first time, adjudged to proficiency in "good reading." It was the gift o f the Rev. Francis Trench, an old Har rov i an , an d the successful compe titor was Mr. Merivale. The prize was very popular among the boys, and excited much competition on the highest form. A DUEL was fought in Nottingham-park, on Thursday, between two youths, who had quarrelled about a girl. Shot after shot passed between them, and one of the belligerents lost a finger, and the other received bullets in his arm and and through his hat. About eight years ago a singular occurrence, in which two schoolmates were the principals, took place on the same spot; but on that occasion no injury was inflicted. CALCULATING MACHINE.—A remarkable machine, for the purpose of abstruse calculations, has been sent over to this country, and deposited, for the present, at the Royal Society in London. It is the invention of a Swedish gentleman, named Schutz, who has, it is said, expended the greater por tion of his property in the operations necessary to bring his invention to a successful issue. This machine, which may be seen in full operation, will compute all the logarithms in Hutton's Tables, by the simple turning of a handle, and with out the possibility of error. It not only does this, but it prints them and stereotypes them. The arrangements of the various portions of the engine are admirably planned, and the mechAnical contrivances models of beauty and simplicity. MOP rJury 3,_1t5..5; GENERAL INTELLIG.NNOt aY' THE EARL OF CALEDON died on Sa tUrd ;, the Deri The Morninr Post, says General SirnP su mander-in-chief. ILO it i T s il sa E id 7 e w 4 m oo e , tzp . olitan cattle-market cost the ri t l °l o , M. SOYER reports from Scutari, that the Pr° o f by government are bountiful. Ole(' s A SEA eagle, weighing 81b. 20z., was - „. on Berwyn mountain in Wales, a few days agv_offes' THE Pays attributes all the insurrect ionary 10 „A Spain to the influence of Russia. Sa A lisb P uRrOyP Plain fhoursabegeenneardaldranesdsepdertoulnoeridit;;Frpere, r A QUAKER with a moustache and bearart. Tuesday to give evidence before the Insolvent Co v SEVERAL members of the aristocracy g'o c cr y concert in London on Thursday, t r C eil b des ri tirl PROPERTY to the value of £lO,OOO was on 1 0 0 a cabinet-maker's shop in Shoreditch, London, MR. ALDERMAN KENNEDY and Mr. Alderwssor. been elected sheriffs of London for the ensu ing + the e/ 0 ON Wednesday, the water was admitted int o p constructed for the Commercial Doc, Co'inP an Y a o l fl) o °lt MR. THOMAS Woofs, formerly an alderne Alee tor' for many years chief-clerk at the Guildhall ru on Sunday, after a short but painful illness;. to THE government is about to add ls. , `d a y f " soldiers employed b e f ore th e enem y, reckor,eol j r , the soldiers land in the C r i m e a . • jae) i 0 THE Calcutta, 84guns (sailing ship), Cap tais plar m Y ford, is under sailing orders to proceed to the, portion of the armament of the floating batten ei A, now on board. sel; AMONGST the notices of marriage at the 1,5 ,, Guardians recently, was one in which the conpl e oi t ;' l 4'? . hears each, and another irr which the resPert p beq ues,„p 4 . SIR HUGH MUNRO, of Foulis, Bart., 1 ' 35 sc hoo . l :4 estate of Milton, in R oss - s hir e , t o found a fre e se for the education of th e c hild r e n o f tradesmen the town. al tr ` E . l l°' ,. A LETTER from Od essa s t a t es th a t additiov ed ot daily expected th ere , G enera l E n d ers having to send forward a part of his regular trooP s , A nd, order to- form a corps b e t ween the pneTYed a Large supplies of provisio ns were b e ing forWA'" to the Crimea. to - AN eminent printseller complains , in t he 5 11001,5' certain parties in London have bought P l s t ; „Lf fishers after these plates have been comparst"a ,r,;". ,printing ; th e l e tt er i ng has been taken ou t, 50 ,isis-OP - been reprinted on India paper without letters,c l , l - , by auction in every l arge t own i n the 164. " - 14: proofs. doll e • THE AUSTRIAN' GOVE RNMENT h as deter--Inoa os „ vs :4 measures to remove - the obstacles to the mouth of the Sulina,, and to protect n eutral -v :01;o ingly, one of Lloyd's steamers is to be st atic ,% o l st' iDe P je vessels, and au employe" of the consulate 0 , 0 00,1 Sent to Sulina to act as' consular agent, t o spec.. merits required for navigation to all the v' 4,,, a ; p'rJ . ,. 5 .. mend them. r"ol MR. TINNEY, returning to London throng or h ail air; with- a "through ticket," presumed to clee'it'Ldso charges whatever for porters and stewards on _%tts , o Ac,, , s was not permitted to land for two hours, Of t 'Ao n - e t an additional fee of ls. 6d. For this illegal":,c o7 o ll ,,`,oj •of trespass was brought, ands the jury ga r ` p , - .V,1,0 1u the Court of Exchequer orr•Tuesday $' an attempt was mad e t o se t as id e thi s ver , .. ist• 01, of excessive damage s; b u t th e oour t d ec liaecl ""; 0 , 0 „)",,,, MRS. DEYrER, the American. lecturer,f b tempts toilloomerise the women of Englaa"J„s tralia. On the 27th o f F e b . s h e was- lectu , '"psta.'.l„s i ", Judith, the.slayer o f H o l o f ernes -" w ith argnin.. ~ r ,f ne r,, sions on thefinission of women." The report s een ., was slightiY - Bloomered-nothi ng metre,howec, ocl,Tbe:' were a little - shorter than those usually wor n; t'' graceful shape replaced the customary bon ne no j ' ensemble, albeit somewh a t theatrical, was by erP graceful." p r is °° ` r ose THE Winos , of the late Admiral 8,„,_° 1- a t Ora? from an accumulation of misfortunes.- 'fi e -'• the death from cholera of her nephew, at .04. -- o f t g z -, 1 . , followed by the - decease, from the same ent 6 S,t e - effe ct The next intelligence she received waa to '',„aria'a i l , Ks' house in the country had been burnt to the f';', / . 10 1 ,AF,;$ had she been made acquainted with thßs far' , , 5. 13°- o' 4 , of Messrs. Strakan's- bank deprived her of 3 ":. 51 0 ,0. 4 1 less than £30,000 . 1. and, to crown all be:,nsiserJo'tiopetroaF son before Sebastopol, who, it is expected; ea 11 :',051 5 is; OVER a clockmaker's shop in one of the,P,,, Pli- het ,ei be 'll i !? Marseilles is a superb. Chinese figure, c 7 h ic "' s lori'* - 0, hand a heavy hammer, strikes the hours-an„af V,4 feet. Recently, a painter, perched on a ino i r . 3 'wory` p rol gilding the robe of the figure, and, wh aa foelr- °' task, failed to notice-when the hand of the c. e d r) one of the hour s of the dial, The Chinese , ro stle' v jt l i struck on the head-of the unfortunate wer_,_kwii,s with the hammer that the poor fellow loa_t_pt, e fell with the ladderintothe middle of the srt ner , tb e not fatal, and bating.the blow from the 1 1, 7 113- ve" escaped with a few bruiies. a i 5 s°‘ eat l Y THE REV. GEORG-B. MULLER, whose aL„, , ree-,4 in connection with the Bristol Orphan - I „, m , ° `* -- had 79 public an interesting,fact. A servant'w ° ,ardstoo, in the habit of givingthim a guinea a Y,, s t i n j raith 10 9, Asylum, and recently she waited oil opers"o : , she bestowed as c a gift to the missl°,'""L ia s stlerfie4 prised, he inquired how, with her small ra" -- such an offering, when she said it was the sF.-;ailf s o l, , life, which she had accumulated c. -4 11 .9 1-ot/ol tl' LL... 1 annuity from tOst was now placed above the rear or want, m e al' ;,0 desired to offer her savings as a gift before' tte'" 9 olv , Lord. A t THERE is a family hi humble circumstanef t 10 , 15 O P P, bearing the ancient royal: name of Plantagen"for Ido't is commonly corrupted-into-Plant, w e sunPlhe brevity. There is also living in the town 172 baronet, who earns a 3 precarious livelihoodiel Dl r ts sharing. She is sometimes facetiously Her late husband's grandfather, Sir John `',/, pensis h ' s ,,t„' estate through gambling, and was afterw,n. S i r Duke of Montague ; and. hi s son , the sing n jo poor that he died in the p ar i s h wor khouse , li . e a yi ,he fe. ,t it s the barren title to th e -lat e Willi am Norwich' the P,,vre' humble occupation of a sa w y er . His s?„, i ° ; er ies , William, emigrated some years s ince to ,1-1 " a lt said, he s doing well.-Leicester MercurY' v Co. e rjr 4 : THE FAILURE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, ' 4 1 ( 1, °!) Strahan, Paul, and Bates. were again reraa, n t he g eq,/, day until to-morrow (Wednesday), althoug h 0 11 ,c't„ 10,: e Ps; pression seems to be -that they will eseaP ° _,,44 b! ,:s":: , from the criminal charge against thein,,_°"; 3 , ealities of the act of parliament under Wnl` - e sfrsi i .' arraigned. This result, - however, is not at Pr k y tain. Should it ocenr-„ , the only authority to ;i, is ,s tz of their offences the Court of Banh ru r t of _e r' missioners have power to refuse a certifir e iec`Ats who has contracted debts by fraud, and the n ia 4 ,,t,,.a 15 ' . fusal entitles any creditor to cause the si rested and imprisoned. He cannot then olsg e f ar under a year, except-by ord er o f th e court-- --- the jo s; l o ; NEW DESCRIPTION, OP POULTRY.-S ig ,, Ce illt r ,' - e$ Russia a new kind of domestic fowl has bee,,,," pro , t is r t e teJ England from the Black Sea, and is likely iy „ , t 6 able rival to the Shanghai and Cochin Cl 3 ,h,'"'lo: lo l frd; large as the barn-door fowl ; is crested , " 4 ,7' h eo its colour generaflyis all white or black -i ' io sis,e'velq,,," a raven hue, and: glossy. This bird is P: i lsha a rS' e ' 4 movements are very-lively. Its most distiag,, Oil, se is, however, in the • arrangement of t i l u ae o r brerefi ti c `;7;; l 'Ci y , are very few, and; do not project as down and lie close- to the body, so that th i e , as the t ea tailless, and when its head is erect scareeb r :ot of a bird. Several of these birds are to be . s e ° asr" rs • d i where they have been landed from the wart ros'..,-f AT the London Guildhall, on Tuesi s Y l : o lat ek ss re f , 2 c Davidson and) Cosmo William Gordon, s t orot. business in Cousin-lane, and Mincingt'i a , n p i s, "'"the i , 4 0 ; merchants, and metal and colonial 1 05 pa at fr Asir Ham-lane,. Essex, as distillers, were 1 0 "; of d el' examination relative to further eharg e ' 17,0) accused have already been committed, „, ° 7o,t 3 t 'l,o 4 `tlle fraud under the Bankruptcy Consolidat i° ' ss id Peter Laurie, the presiding magistratei, h , frs ti r ose c corr; , grave character and great extent of ic ‘ ito . to P f it° before him ; he had directed the CitY le fod s „ ° ,lo.lflie` * tr case atthe Old Bailey. He believed ta , 'or e ration could not be more legitimate/ 3 e'srool`• e i t ea testing the interests of the trading c { g e arc ° ,0,0 not being yet matured f or hearing, 5..0,0 1 mended for a week. c an 1i P•i% l 5 . IN connection with the project of a s. hiP aoic 0 0 15 et itl t r oe OLT ,o 0 Isthmus of Suez, which M. de Les&' - r" cola Lei° es'` i lt" . . Paris. to make the arrangements ,arodiae cola interesting particulars are reported. the" of 'i ,-015 `ior'' out for this canal was from Tineh to Suet ii tios i t es;iss i ;" of the isthmus ; but this, from a eo u g re ds'ts e° l.4 le ,asi e ' not then sufficiently studied., and from ece ss s i tfo t sirs; erroneously founded, it was deemed a„ved o f t ut s ', and and the authors of the project now aPPri lo ll o o th e o t of Egypt have decided hi preference of , e in' ee t t i e s th and Cairo. A canal of communication „ l af it , nean and Indian seas not only existed l' o a, period, but vestiges of them are still Pi,' 1 1 0 0 _4 pr n rs po' plan now proposed. The ancient caro.iallioo,aii' exclusively devoted, to internal navie'a sao s ' t i th e 4V 4 but little depth of water. The p r ojects Th e a i to 0, frx, admit the passage of large ships of wa,, r ', coo sar le ti d re a ..-A sists in finding the means of feeding t" es sif e proc,a, necessary for large ships ; and, after el A gi retitite been found that the water cannot so r 'f - i ai tn rer'J ° the two seas, as had been conceive o n e oT: ) , for.. e „. be more easily and conveniently had 'ooo' f the elereY for that river has been ascertained , that ° ,rbe„ an to have an elevation considerably aou W I Soc otc - J, THE. CONSERVATIVE LAND ter .ll 5 p 11,11,; quarterly meeting was held. at ri he rePu ots in e Viscount Ranelagh in the aced D oestle„ rt. o ro) dense of onward progress, suerro es t a b.s t io e t extension of building, on the an i t ,,, L co /asid e !' o f 15 : 1 5is the Old Ford, Retford, Alford, and ; The sal-e',„ tat bt Malvern Estates, had been sold. aging quarter amounted to £6,427 10s,v w 9,111_„ 105 ~1 commencement of the society, o'r x ias,o2.d . ts ta',46;l, cash receipts to Lady-day, 1855,_, 1 17 es , 9,e Lady-day to Midsummer, „rogrer o f %; 2s. 10d. The total shares issue , a v i rrettir i : e d pleted, 1,584; total, 11,042. _ com ple_ d e dar 7,, entitled to rights of choice were , ; cis 1,886; seniority, 953 ; 1211, • ° • j o i ' e ' e exercised already, leaving 2,29 a the der ii r ° e ! :ielotrla ;. first an d 5 der a°l they pi number er T t h o e b il e o p u be ns e l d ow b , Y the Brighton estates, had beet. , ~t h of J u gin . etl 40 5 "; vantageous circumstances, on the A a leased f°r„iiwablei fri estate several lots, which had be_e o .. , hic h s!io ._ c a l at ground rents of £5 each, and °n " to the el l t been erected, would be 0ffer .... ,. bad lots het c a lets r :3 holding rights on that day. the n ta d siluebudidinvgisieositiatoof, whichsome owfout ld b T r:e 031 : 1 1. e i r u e i d ng T to i ;e society f Yite; l'e4/ to thesam same approaching time, which would be conducted by tLe conn a '" be onvery pr fa o s. o • o o ed ura iri b g l s e vt.ee9,lo j r formerly, free of expense; and n conveys /ice: o c at t i l e 4 ) the necessary instructions w ho s',. e a ao, nco l'j;° 7 renaarked t heyoP ijo s ' and, in moving its adoption, told tale sli_Arinj.,,,• the ftrheeehsoolildcitofrarn'soihnistei.meire tohielaaaallmotatuees 10 ness to repeat the thrice ilosnurckcees,s:nd The iyonaccwiaasraasteiocuon. . at ral p My itha yr, opt I 'RI