The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

41. as, that 3E," the. d Olive• yle, good rve.) warrant- ENTICE EREST L WINE the Cen- Custom arge and nd easily .icense (a Idsomely land, to t favour- Ll, this is one need L Early from the iverpooL JNTRY gt Derby, ighbour- Dining, ly of dis by pur itabling, LLIAUB, 'ILLA Tithe- el's, on a eon"- Irawing d Baths, [louse is .hebarn- a first n Sand lan and 1 Room r AVMs, •ge Ser isement and ex- atham's SON, •-streetp :verton , ts frora within ns Two i Water trs, &C. period Agents, May rospect and a t, and t Fifty Lnd 26, 3, and E'NCE, Coach uitablc went,' RV , i t r r e e f One 'acre. ibove. Sep- ,-- who ainer, Laving a rno istant re yes- Liver -1 Acre tons. .mme- id, the NI G :lat bv is ento v Les I - Df that Mdlle. it idea notice. 'ee."— ve. rs, IN, rations troc7 Ldens a of the of the ark-" this — s local d style ute his Imes: _ . ;style ; D band nit."-- f a no on and )f taste ughout , at his , where -office, TORT in Chc •land, impor ngdorrb issued, se been alpha y topd le Ala rm:neat e period [guides,• e atten- Nith the ad Pro -- I be die-• Pro - • 7EFEFI OPES , ith !Ili ), Rath -es is so bleinen , c., that orthless 'Agent' whereas )osition, observe, ; Patent fraudu- invaln ,,rns for Sept. 21, 1847, EZlanttb. Oburation. c,-AGENTLEMAN'S FAMILY, residing in the neigh- A jRS. P. E. DAVIES'S BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL, ~,,h_Ourhood of Liverpool, is desirous of engaging a DAILY i_v 44, BEDFORD-STREET NORTeIBERCROMBY-SQUARE, sh e must to undertake the Tuition of three Young Ladies. NOW OPEN, where every jarant of a liberal and refined ..,f e must be capable of impartingirsolid English Education, Education is taught on, thf - most approved analytical method. lug, ether with French and asre: A liberal salary will be given. None but eminent-Prilfessors are employed. - ri 1 y accustom ition will be preferred. i PRIVATE LESSONS in any Branch. `mess, L. M., Standard-office. I TUITION. TEACHER WANTED. WANTED immediately, in Liverpool, a RESIDENT has h$ mid ASSISTANT MASTER, of Protestant principles, who th considerable experience in Tuition. Testimonials of sc a u ra ser•and qualifications will be required. One who is well 9 suited with the French Lan:nage will be preferred. ~..., • PPly by letter, adder ed Standard-office. APERSON of active business habits, at present tisAnemployed, is desirous of meeting with some ENGAGE.- pixbic-i. ,oniet m Anything connected with the Writing Department in ercantile House, or as Corresponding Secretary to any A s th in stitution of the town, would be preferred. ton i i „ e A dvertiser enjoys a moderfire — Fompetence, remunera bestow ir l s gt to much the-obrict contemplated as the desire to flori n° . ''S liervices'in some useful employment a few hours , the day A ppr • —___ catitni by letter, addressed J. J., at the Standard-office. THE Rev. SAMUEL - FENTON, .MA., residing in the very healthy and accessible Village of Wavertree, near Liverpool, receives SIX PUPILS into his Family, who will be treated and educated as if they were his own Children. The most scrupulous attention will.be patdTo their religions educa tion ; and the correspondence between the pupils and their parents or guardians is allowed to be strictly confidential. For further particulars, apply to the Rev. S. FENTON, either personally or by letter. Wavertree, 20th September, 184 r. A:,131-ES in WANT of respectable SERVANTS,Iand IKIIVANTS in WANT u o m f t jgctable SITUATIONS !. as woks, Housemaids, Waiters, an - ursery Maids, are invited ."." aPPIy nt the Servants' Ho nd Registry, corner of Benson !ctreet, Renshaw -street, Institution which has nirother ob t hut that of doing good. WANTED, a good Detached HOUSE, with Three Entertaining Rooms on the Ground Ficor ; six good ooms, Butler's Pantry, Bath-roo &c . & c. ; also, Ser -wants' Rooms, within a l dista ve miles from the Ex :change, unless near a R3i Station, when a-greater distance hear the Ferry. Apply to BENSON and , Pmenusosi, 34, Castle-street. ';.llsllralitt 3ottres. YORKSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ESTABLISHED 1824. PARTIES having Annual Policies falling due on the 1 25th SEPTEMBER, are respectfully informed, that they should renew the same within Fifteen Days from that date. AGENTS. LATHA M , - un., 1 1, Dale-street. VREDE LAPAGE, J TKINSON, North John-street. NA - NiITHAN LITHERLAND, 1 42, LLIAM GROOM, Lord-street. '-__LLOYD and PRICE, 25, Castle-street. IVE RPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND T BE L LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. EMPO ESTABLISHED IN 1836. WERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. 3 OFFICE : r.,- 8 , WATER-STREET , LIVERPOOL, ' C'-idIRLOTTE,ROIV, MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON. teasing ki n, e- Directors beg to acknowledge the steadily p u rt which this Institution experiences, and to assure inc the enable that, whilst 'the numerous and . wealthy Pmprietary the r ., es them to offer most ample security for the fulfilment of In a " •"Enpany , s engagements, the confidence and preference Znifested towards it shall be met, as heretofore, by strenuous eleasours '•to facilitate the despatch of business, and by g r v a litY and promptitude in the settlesentiTratims. Co rn ,"E FIRST ACT OF PARL MENT obtained by the BhWanY, it is expressly condit . d that the liability of the elplders under the po • es shall not be restricted by moral contract-or othe e. Ar e •INSU CES AGAINST FIRE ic.in tuld.rtaken o roperty of every . description in the United itatt l etn, the British Colonies, and in Foreign Countries; the Premium may be known on application. Th e D • LIFE INSURANCE. 4prititree;feirectors continue to receive proposals for the sale and aervi_::::nnuities, Endowments, Reversions-and contingent *k m F M, and for Insurances on Lives. No Entrance or Admis in Ofn e " are required, nor is any additional premium charged the Army or Navy, unless called into actual by the,toThe following are amongst the advantages held out Tw o 8 : 1 1)any •_ this :::::;1 0;:. ' W . ,,,,"T Crr H A .,,L.%.,8 OF PREMIUMS, ONE LOWER THAN THOSE OF I Z S A , NIES • the other carrying GUARANTEED rjrrURE i t e ntitling to I GUARANTEED REDUCTIONS in the on a plan entirely new. and peculiar to 4 'P A - ai ,°, / th e Rates for an Insurance of X100...0n a Single th 13 - °l tAßecluTed Preinium of Policies - taken out on ................ z.__ _liscale : ,;Age F or Wh o l e of Life. Reduced e n Without Bonus. Insur ed --------- A, .___ With Bonus. Premium instead of 'earlY. Half do. Yearly. Half do. Bonus. ______ a o s. d. xs. d. & s. d. 46' s. d. .'• s. d. „ 2 2 6 1 111 2 9 5 1 5 6 112 9 4 - 2 8 6 1 5 0 216 5 1 9 1 117 4 45 8 216 3 1 9 0 3 5 5 113 2 2 9 3 6 4 11 4 2 317 2 ' 1 19 9 210 0 50 s _ 3 19 8 2 1 0 412 7 2 7 9 219 1 '.l 3 ecifren of the Addition to the Sums Insured in the case of p P r o lici i ef of ..'l,OOO e ac h, t o b e taken out at the Bonus------" Age First Annual w if e , Bonus • T hen Decennial Bonus, the amount after Ten By the addition of the further Insured Bonus. Payments Ea e r . b a l ft e e i r ti case of death will 20 Years.. 30 Years. 40 Years. £ S. d. £ s. d. £ .€ s. d. £ s. d. 30 90 8 4 90 10 1271 5 0 1542 10 0 1904 3 4 !?, " 94 11 8 9 9 2 1283 15 0 1567 10 0 1915 1 6 8 4m 101 13 4 10 3 4 1305 0 0 1610 0 0 2000 0 0 t 5, 1 07 1 8 10 14 2 1321 5 0 1642 10 0 2000 0 0 '6 13 4 11 13 4 1350 0 0 1700 0 0 2000 0 0 The ci ------ trA,, _-CA UP nr 71 .... .. - , . , The s fro, 4 c-k Lit Of REDUCTIONS which are guaranteed ranges n e s 3 i to 52 er cent. on the amount of Premium, and the the amcont,i only on the continuance of the life doubles /c o v ent Policy. ti°po na 0 - tV L i Ty of Partnership, these reductions and addi contingent upon Profits. an Z' t e e tt ndirT t e ca lli e sued - for the Half Premium system, and on t ra c erul to % s. of POLICIES . are . accepted on very liberal , pr oof atnis are paid within three months after satis , of death. •The Dir e c t OF CAPITAL SUMS. tie% ,o,.,ecLors are prepared forto m rec an e y iveapplications for Poli ylviearil s ha v " e le t a l; e th " l effect of rendering Pro other purposes as well, g Property held under Lease for )aveejtqh,u-valent to Freehold re for all purposes of mortgages or ' s :Peei - " e nt• The f 11 w* g Table will afford ---ns of the Pr ° em ° iu m m for the Insurance of .'lOOO, payable after the lapse of a given number of years. Yea THE Friends of ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH , Key-street, are respectfully informed that Collections will be made (God willing) on SUNDAY next, the 26th instant, after Morning and Evening Services, to meet the Quarterl Expenses of the Church. The Churchwardens beg to say thatt ere is no other source of means provided for meeting these expenses than by public appeal, and that at present - They are in arrears to a considera ble amount ; they earnestly hope, therefore, that their friends will be led to help them out of their difficulties, and thus enable them to comply with the requirements of the Apostle—" Owe no man anything; but to love one another." Service to commence in the Morning at a Quarter before Eleven, and in the. Evening at Half-paseSix. Years.) Rate. I Years. t, s. d. 1 16 8 8. d. 610 0 I 40 .W s. d. 13 17 6 4 8 fg t . A --- "The Directors are prepared to receive applica. •iienta gencies in Towns and districts in which appoint to e not yet been made. No application will be attended `" 4Cc ntnpanied with unexceptionable references. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. Pd A.. 5. Bonus Permanent 4' F. 2 . Annual ,*5 in 1 Bonus reduction Sum the ~4 , rE g Premium. 4. 4 o addition in of '4 1 ' 8 ,7,7: 1 1. 1 +l` , c 9 to Sum ; Cash. Annual r ow oii. r.i.,,44 Assured. Premiums. Polley. 1 S. d. s. d. ..e s. d. s. d. ms's. d. 1 1837 243 9 3 112 8 5 18 4 6 494 810 60 1000 74 I 838 . 218 4 8 99 810 15 13 5 445 0 0 I 3 4 1839 192 11086 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 I I lB4O 143 510 66 8 4, 919 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 261 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 Ti-----7-7---____ 1842 111 6 849 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 the o fn. A nnual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at vvill e !' , or a forwarded post free. f. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. t LIVED AGENTS. tru ieh ~P OOL—JAMES IRVINE, 6, COOK-STREET. Orth eSter — Messrs. Duffield and Lofthouse, and Whit- A.Y.151. I m 2 l _ P rincess - street. 14 0 1 NT O 4 ne Liverpool Branch of this Societyhas been Removed 2%0 South Castle-street, to the Ground Floor of the anses, No. 6, Cook-street, first door out of Castle- bISEA SED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. "'M E DICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE. ---,1 14,7 Z 3 I"ALL, LONDON ; 22, NASSAU-STREET, - I',„ D ; GROSSE GALLENGASSE, FRA.NKFORT ; BORSEN PASSAGE, HAMBURG. S UBSCRIBED CAPITAL, .4 . 5_90, ,000. I .,_•••nis ci 17 4 41 - ' 4 0 ,, ee was Established in 1841,fund possesses tabl es -- ti t ' eB . ' 4 scientific basis for the ssurance of Diseased . 0 1 ; . ci d , cie s . 0 . the' du e n. ' twelve months sta Fig are not affected by a:si l-eel, 0,, 5 - c., and Assigne ohms are v se al e id au fr s o e m s. the date oti ei '49uld death ensue m any of the_ Ils aar ed " t&ellect by this ciety give the Person whose life_ is trerope' o,,Permission to q at any time beyond the limits of es EU O -_ r 4 zthp. „, ; 41 ‘,„-inient . certain, but small and fixed . , r e at w _ .w f r - ''sa ' "'".en ar indorsed on the Policy at the tun hc: ortitAL"h,, sa ge . Ured ...... ._,both . . e 48s l'— ' LIVESat Home and in Foreign Climates, ji nx , oth er wit much fac i l i ty and at lower rates than at foi n i jUlly :t s e c e r kad a a ffo ca r s s ita a l o e f e H m ALF-A-MILLION ster plete guarantee for the 14raR e n ri e t et °f the Company li t 1,! : 2 41 4,,11_57,8can1 forms of s P e r n o ga po g s e a n l ' w er it s i3e forwarded, postage f the Society's Agents, or to r ‘eisir . u. im at i q to any o . - Liv titeo L. " I N, ACTUARY, 25, Pall Mall, London. AGENTS. ~ (3 'L• • • • A. HIGGINSON, Esq., 1, Morningt e o m n-terrace. At e , • • • • OCFAVIUS WATERHOUSE,Stath ' 'Leal 'Referees TITIVIVAN, Boltoo 1 M.D. ; P. RAMSAY, ialester-e'Aloors. ..... J. Taylor Esq., Coroner for Bolton. Ar_ tl ti c e itst,.: • • ......... Richard Barker, Esq., Solicitor. iroialie-$4,:: ......... William Duna, t E , Solicitor. 12 .- 0, Hardman-street. t rea ter (Irt h *al . e . sj : : ii . r i. P lll2n n e n u m x g , B o ren I ch Bank of England. '''Ockp ort " • • , ........ W. 0. Jones, 25, Frenchwood-street : • ..... . ..... Mr. Thos. Brooke, Grocer, 18, Bridge s street. , tto _________ IA 2\10,.41), EAT ' D .—John Gregory, aged 40, who lived from, 1 -4-street, and was subject to spasms, died suddenly cri:::a!tack on Friday night fre,lllentl Dio rama of the Holy . Land to 'which we have ktisfactitlii.refered, is still exhibiting and giving great GREAT SOUTH TOLGUS MINING COMPANY. IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL .1.1 MEETING of the PROPRIETORS in this undertaking will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 3, Chapel-street, Liverpool, on Tit URSDAY, the 30th instant, at six o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of receiving an account of the pro ceedings of the Directors, and of the position and prospects of the MINE, and for the confirmation or otherwise of such pro ceedings • also, for the appointment of a Secretary, in lie u o f the late Secretary or Secretaries, and for altering the 3rd, sth, 10th, and 16th Regulations; and for ma 'rig certain other Regulations for the better future m n lent of the Company, and the forfeiting the shares o milting members ; and for the transaction of any othe siness which may appear desi rable under the prese circumstances and position of the Company. ROBERT TAYLOR, FRED K. A. TAM PLI N, Directors. GEORGE WOOD, Liverpool, September 7, 1847. MISS EMILY GRANT, PROFESSOR OF SINGING, (LATE OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN, THE NOBILITY'S CONCERTS, AND PRINCIPAL SOPRANO TO THE CHAPEL OF THE SPANISH EMBASSY, LONDON,) Begs respectfully to announce, that, at the suggestion and under the immediate patronage of several Families of distinc tion' she will have the honour of prolonging her visit to Liver pool, for the purpose of giving ..,LESSONS in SINGING, ac cording to the priticiplm.orVer eminent Preceptors, Critelli, Garcia, and liordo ; phi,"irnder whose direction, both in London and Paris, (as sugsequently tested by Signor Costa, Sir H. R. Bishop, and other distinguished Artists) she has had the honour of studying the necessary but much neglected ART of educating the VOCAL ORGAN, according to its natural regis ter and capabiliticc, and thus avoidingthe injurious effects in variably arising from tire-misdirection of the voice. Terms may be known on applicatain to Miss EMILY GRANT, 78, Seel-street. DANCING. MR. H. GIDDENS respectfully informs his Friends that his ACADEMY, 60, SOHO-STREET, will be RE OPENED THIS DAY, (Tuesday,) the 21st instant, and in HOPE-STREET, (second door from Canning-street,) on TIWESDAY next, the 23d instal Exercises and Deportigyi It-ta the Afternoons of Thursday, as usual. EVENING CLASSES in Soho , street Academy, on Tuesday and Friday; and in Hope-street on Monday and Thursday ; commencing the first week in October. Card of Terms may be bad of Mr. GIDDENS, 19, Rodney street. DANCING AND CALISTHENICS. M E F S r!o R d S s . 0 f J t U he S S R E E T O P a E n N d l N D G U o G f i t T heir ill A fOJ A ln DEx te E i s r for the Winter Quarter of the 25th instant. In Devon-street, THURSDAYS tr y , trSATURDAYS, at Half-past Twelve; at the Assembly-roo , Great George-street, Tit URS itreei DAYS and SATURDAYS, at o o'clock ; at the Craven-rooms, Birkenhead, on SATU YS, at a Quarter before Eleven. Messrs. JOSSET miff Duo IT will commence their EVENING PRIVATE INSTRUCTION in October, in the Faihionable Dances, including the POLKA MAZURKA. Apply for Cards of Terms at 1, Devon-street, Stafford-street. TARVIN HALL SCHOOL, NEAR CHESTER, . For the Education of One Hundred resident Pupils, under the superintendence and tuition of the following resident piasters: PRINCIPAL — JOI=IN BRINDLEY, of Magdalen College Cam bridge; M.A. of the University of Giessen ; formerly Second Master of the Grammar School, Brigg, and Head Master of the Oldswinsford Hospital Endowed School, Worcestershire. ASSISTANT—CHARLES JONES, Trinity College, Dublin. SENIOR CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MASTER—THOS. WADDINGHAM, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cam bridge. ASSISTANT CLASSICAL MASTER—H. C. LEAVER, 8.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. ASSISTANT MATHEMATICAL MASTER.—W. J. REYNOLDS, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambrid ':r - First Class Mathema tica: Honours. FOREIGN ,MASTER—JOS DEMPSEY, formerly of Paris, and of the Universi • of Bonn and Heidelberg. PROFESSOR OF My C.—Vacant. COMMERCIAL MASTER—R. KEARY. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICAL DRALICIHTSMAN—WIL LIAM HOBDAY. PRACTICAL 'S unv Ey Nu—RICHARD DAVIES. FENCING AND DRILL MASTER—JOSEPH DEMPSEY. Attendant Masters. DRAWING MASTER—Mr. T. BAILEY, Chester. DANCING MASTER—MT. EDGAR WEBSTER, Chester. VISITING SURGEON—Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, Chester. TERMS: Including .instruction in Greek, Latin . , French, German, Ma thematics, Navigation, English, Singing, Drawing, Dancing, and Drill; also the charges for Stationery, Drawing Mate rials;Seat in Church, and ordinary medical attendance — Under 15 years of age Fifty Guineas per annum. Above 15 years of age Sixty Guineas per annum. Private Pupils.. One Hundred Guineas per annum. fir Payments in advance either Quarterly or Half Yearly. OST, in or near the Collegiate Institution, on Monday Evening, the 13th in taut, a Frettle BRACELET, clasped with Gold. Any Person having the same, will be Handsomely Rewarded on brie t to the Standard-office. LYCEUM NEWSROOM, BOLD-STREET. • THE COMMITTEE of the L EU M being dcgirous that their NEWS be more generally USED, intimate that any Gentleman, on paying 30s. per annum, may have all the privileges:' WILLIAM FOX, Master. Lyceum, SeptentbererBth, 1847. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS. A PUBLIC MEETING of the Profession, and of ti Ladies and Gentlemen interested in EDUCATION, will be held in the CONCERT-HALL, LORD NELSON STREET, on THURSDAY EVENING next, the 23d instant, at Half-past Seven o'clock, when a Deputation from the Council in London will attend to explain the objects of the College, and the advan tages which must result to the Public, as well as to Teachers, from its establishment. The attendance of Teaerir;of both sexes is most earnestly requested. ALEXANDER DUNCAN, Hon. Secretary, Liverpool Local Board. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. TO CARTERS AND OTHERS. THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are ready to treat with parties who are disposed to provide them with CARTS, HORSES, and DRIVERS to be employed in Carting away the Sweepings from the Dock Quays, and with HORSES and DRIVERS to be employed in watering the Dock Quays, for a period of one year. Persons making Tenders are requested to ,state the number of Carts, Horses, and Drivers they can f rnish, and the price per whole day, and per half day, at • i they will undertake to supply Carts, and good able orses, with active, sober Drivers, above 20 and not e than 45 ye ars o f age . Th e Drivers will have to assist i oadmg and unloading the Carts. Tenders to be made, in inF or exclusive of the Sweepings to be the property of e parties tendering. Printed forms o ender, and any further information, may be obtained on plication at the Office of the Dock Secretary, where Tenders must be delivered on or before WEDNESDAY, the 22nd of September next, addressed to the " Chairman of the Subcommittee for the Department of Harbour Masters, &c., ,, and marked " Tender for Carting and Watering." By order, . . DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock Office, Revenue Butldtngs, 13th September, 1847. -- SPOTS ON THE SUN.—Four large spots on the surface of the sun are distinctly visible to the naked eye, and will continue to be so for a few days. Their telescopic appear ance is unusually striking. JENNY LIND.—As to Jenny Lind, as a singer, she stands as high as any artist of our time ; but as yet you do not know her in her full greatness. Speak to her about her art, and you will wonder at the expansion of her mind, and you will see her countenance beaming with inspiration. Converse with her of God and of the holiness of religion, and you will see tears in those innocent eyes. She is great as an artist, but she is still greater in her pure human existence.—Frederika Bremer. DERIVATION OF WOMAN.—We read, in Genesis ii— " This now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh ; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man." The Hebrew word for man is, ish, and for woman, ishah. The word ish means being or existence, and is doubtless the origin of the Latin esse, to be, and for our English verb, is. Ish, therefore, means the being. The addition of the ah, making ish, ishah, is merely the feminine ter mination, intimating that ishah, or woman, is a female being, of the same species, rank, and dignity as a man. REMEDIES AGAINST MOTHS.—It is an old custom with some housewifes to throw into their drawers every year a number of fir cones, under the idea that their strong resi nous smell might keep away the moth. Now, as the odour of these cones is due to turpentine, it occurred to Reaumur to try the effect of this volatile liquid. He rub bed one side of a piece of cloth with turpentine. and put some grubs on the other ; the next morning they were all dead, and, strange to say, had voluntarily abandoned their sheaths. On smearing some paper slightly with the oil, and putting this into a bottle with some grubs, the weak est were immediately killed ; the most vigorous struggled violently for two or three hours, quitted their sheaths, and died in convulsions. It was soon abundantly evident that the vapour of oil of spirits of turpentine acts as a terrible poison to the grubs. Perhaps it may b 6 said that even this remedy is worse than the disease ; but, as Reaumur justly observes, we keep away from a newly painted room, or leave off for a few days a coat, from which stains have been removed by turpentine. Why, therefore, can we not once a year keep away for a day or two from rooms that have been fumigated with turpen tine ? It is, however, surprising how small a quantity of turpentine is required. A small piece of paper or linen ust moistened therewith, and put into the wardrobe or drawers for a single day, two or three times a year, is a sufficient preservative against moths. A sknazil quantity of turpentine dissolved in a little spirits of wine (the vapour of which is so fatal to the moth) will entirely rempve the Ofensive odour, and yet be sufficient preservative. . - THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE ECONOMIST AND THE SUPPLY OF FOOD. It is a proper inquiry which the Economist, and other organs, who have, during the past year, been engaged in keeping up the high prices of grain, have proposed for consideration at this crisis :—Are the present prices of food justified by the circumstances and prospects of the country ? Entertaining, as we do, different views from, those put forth by these journalists, and deeply im pressed, by the deplorable failures which have recently taken place amongst commercial men, with a sense of the importance of eliciting the real truth upon the question, we purpose devoting a column to an examination of some statistics bearing upon the subject, and the conclusions derived from them in an article which appeared in the Economist last week. It will be remembered, by those who are in the habit of perusing that able journal, that, in its pnblication in June last, when the average price of wheat was above 995. per quarter, the Economist placed before the public his views with respect to the probable future supply of food, as bearing upon the question of the prices which might be expected to rule. The conclusion drawn was in favour of continued high prices, and was arrived at from the follow ing considerations, as stated by himself : " First.—The prospect of the potato crop. "Second.—The prospects of the grain crops. " Third.—The stocks existing in farmers' hands. " Fourth.—The probable extent of foreign supplies. " Fifth.—The extent of foreign grain held in stock." With respect to the potatoe crop, his opinion was that in England only one-third, in Scotland one-fifth, and in Ireland one-third the breadth of land usually in potato cultivation was devoted to the growth of that vegetable, the remaining two-thirds being either sown with other descriptions of food or uncultivated. Putting aside the prospects of rot, and assuming that one acre of potatoes produces food equal to three acres sown with wheat, he calculated upon a deficiency to arise from this source. The prospects of the Grain crops at that time were bad ; hut the fine weather with which we have since been visited has overthrown this portion of his calculations_ The wheat crop he considers a full one, not, however, differing much from that of last year ; whilst oats and barley are much better than his anticipations. The third consideration was the limited quantity, of grain held in the farmers' hands; and his views in this particular, he considered, had then been confirmed by the decreased quantity delivered in the month immedi ately preceding June in the 290 towns from which the averages are taken, as compared with the deliveries in the previous year, and which he considers have been fu'rther substantiated by the further decrease which has taken place up to the present period. The correctness of this mode of proof may well be doubted. Our own experience, indeed, leads to the conclusion, that growers having once overstocked their market, the deliveries at receding prices would depend more than anything else upon their power to hold ; and farmers, generally, who must undoubtedly have procured high prices for a portion of their stocks, would be in a favourable position to stand their ground in the hope of a reaction. Our contemporary contends from these statistics, that "as regards the opinions formed in June, with respect to all the domestic questions affecting the uture prospect of our supplies of food, events have so far shown them to be nearly as true as possible." In addition to what we have above, as to the mode in which the stocks in farmers' hands are arrived at, we must demur to our contemporary's statement as to the extent to which potato cultivation has been given up ; and moreover, we must remind him of his omission of all consideration of the other esculents (turnips, carrots, wurzels, and other feeding roots,) by which the potato has been superseded. With respect to the fourth element of continued high prices—the short supplies of grain to be expected from foreign countries—the Economist con fesses himself to have been deceived, the stocks left in America having proved to bu greater and having come forward faster than he anticipated. Other countries too, tempted by high prices, have contributed largely to our supply. Our contemporary contends, however, that our prospects for the coming year are not materially bright ened by these facts, which he attempts to prove by a com parison of the stocks with which we have to commence the consumption of the new crops this year with those which we had on hand at the corresponding period of last year. _ - _ _ _ _ On the sth of June, this year, we had in bond, of grain of all sorts, 1,855,439 quarters. We imported up to sth September 1,249,541 quarters ; making a total supply during the three months, of 3,104,000 quarters. On the sth of June we had in bond, of flour and meal, 1,299,378 cwt. ; we imported up to September sth, 1,310,534 cwt., making a total supply of 2,609,912 cwt. Reducing the stock of flour and meal in qrs. of grain, the total quantity available for consumption, from June sth to September sth, was — Grain of all kinds .. 3,104,000 qrs. Flour and meal equivalent in grain to 745,689 „ Total 3,849,689 qrs. In the present year our contemporary says, " the imports from the sth June to the sth of September may be taken as a fair indication of the entire supplies, inasmuch as up to the end of May, while the imports were on a limited scale, they were delivered direct to the consumer from the ship, and no accumulations took place in warehouse." We must demur altogether to this mode of putting the question. It is not fair, in the first plate to assume that the imports up to the end of May went immediately into consumption, merely because they did not go into bond, and, consequently, there was no official record kept. They went " immediately from the ship " it is true ; but whither ? To our free warehouses in the ports. Large quantities also went direct into the country, not necessa rily into consumption, but to be warehoused in the interior markets until wanted. It is moreover a legitimate con clusion, that in June 1846, with the immediate prospect of the release of bonded stocks by the passing of the Reform Bill, little or no foreign duty-paid would be on hand ; and millers and consumers consequently more bare than in June 1847, when the imports had gone direct into the market as they arrived. Taking, however, our contemporary's own position, we find the imports for the three months, from sth June to sth September 1847, to have been — Grain 3,772,354 qrs. If, therefore, her means were ample, as they proved, last year, when she had not only Great Britain, but Europe, besieging her ports for grain, what must be her ability to supply us this year, when the countries of Europe shall have become exporting instead of importing countries. We ourselves shared our supplies with those countries last year. Now they are in a position to supply Great Britain. Our Irish difficulty has, at the least, decreased, if it has not yet been surmounted. Scotland may not have more potatos this year than last, but she has a greater quantity of other crops ; and she will not con sume so wastefully as last year, supplied as she then was with our money, and thrown, as she now is, more upon her own resources. At home, in Great Bri tain, we have a full, and probably a much more than ave rage harvest, got in good condition and of excellent qua lity. There is every probability, too, and we lament it, that our working population in the coming year will be driven by the insufficiency of employment to limit their consumption. Our green crops are abundant; and, al though we are deficient in our supply of potatoes, and some of the crops may be failures, the deficiency will be almost made up by the increased supply of other roots, available for feeding purposes. Viewing all these circum stances, we feel assured that a period, not only of low prices of food, but of glutted markets, is before us. W e may not experience this state of things immediately. It takes some little time for prices to adjust themselves. Probably, too, some of the markets from which we shall be supplied largely have been swept bare, and will have the wants of the population depending upon them to supply in the first in tance. But the impulse to increased produc tion has been given throughout the world ; its success has been blessed by a bountiful Providence ' • and decreased prices throughout the world must follow as the sure result. We are told, indeed, that America in particular will hold back her supplies, and that she can hold them back from us; that her farmers will not ship at present rates ; and the fact is triumphantly pointed to that grain was selling at the time of the sailing of the last Mail at rates which could not be covered here. Till when, we ask, can America thus hold back her supplies ? What can she do with the vast stocks which, before long, will 411 her gra naries and her shipping ports to overflowing ? She can not consume it. Her farmers cannot cease to till their fields. And what is still more conclusive, her money market is becoming tight, and the exchanges are rapidly setting against her. To Europe, then, her supplies must come; and when they do come, she will find the European agriculturist not only unable to take a quarter of grain from her, hut disposed to get before her in the struggle to realize. We repeat, this may not take place at once—not in a month, or, possibly, not in three months—but it must and will take place, nevertheless. Flour equivalent in grain 558,163 Total grain from sth June to sth Sept. 4,331,517 Same period in 1846 .. .. 3,849,689 Excess in 1847 .. qrs. 481,828 Our contemporary argues from this as follows : " Thus showing that the supplies available for the consump tion during the last three months have, notwithstanding their extraordinary extent, beeq only 481,828 qrs. more than in the same period last year. And when we take into account the much smaller amount of home-grown grain, vhich we have already shown has been brought to market during that period in the present year than in 1846—(which cannot be less, accord ing to the Gazette returns, than 2,000,000 qrs.)—it would fol low that a much larger portion of the supplies of the present year has already gone into consumption than had done so at the same date in 1546." We submit, however, that fairer data than the imports of the three months only in each year may be taken ; the argument as to the consumption of home-grown corn, deduced from the Gazelle returns, we throw over board altogether. In the absence of any official data, from which to ar rive at the stock of foreign in hand, in June this year, the Economist refers to the imports of the whole year, which were— First five months to June sth, Grain of all kinds 3,286,702 qrs. Last three months, June to Sept. sth of all kinds 3 772 354 • • • • • • PP cwts. First five mon the Flour, &c. 2,627,107 Last three ditto ditto 1,953,571 Total cwts. Flour, &c. 4,580,678 The equivalent in Grain being .. 1,308,765 Total as Grain in qrs. .. 8,367,821 Now, with the facts before us, first that, during the agitation for ti e Repeal o f the Corn Laws, which was going on in the first five months of 1846, a minimum quantity of foreign grain was released for consumption; and secondly, that on the sth of January, 1847, there would be a stock of foreign in warehouse, at the ports and in the country, probably equal to the quantity so re leased from bond in the five months of 1846, we are entitled to set the total imports of 1847 against the stock in bond on the sth June 1846, and the imports to sth of September. The account will then stand thus : Total imports to Sept. sth, 1847 in qrs. 8,367,821 Stock of grain in bond 6th June, 1846, and imported to sth Sept., in quarters.. 3,104,000 Flour and meal in and imported same dates, in quarters grain 745,689 Total supply to sth Sept. 1846 Excess available for consumption in Sept. 1847, over supply of pre vious year, in quarters 4,518,132 The only further statistical data furnished us by our contemporary, bearing upon the question at issue—our prospects in the coming year—consist of a return of the imports from Sept. 1846 to the end of the year, which amounted to a total quantity of 1,738,100 qrs. of grain. He leaves us to form our own conclusion as to the proba bility of our receiving an equal quantity this year. This, however, as depending upon the early setting in of the winter and other accidental causes, is not a material ques tion to decide, and can only affect us temporarily. We have given with as much fairness -as we have been able, the data from which the Economist arrives at his conclusion that they do not justify what he terms " the panic" which has so reduced prices from their highest point in June. We conceive that they are quite sufficient to justify an anticipation of much lower prices in the year which is before us, taking into consideration the changed position of this country and of Europe generally, to gether with other correlative circumstances. In the first instance, it will be seen that we have received, in the first eight months of the present year, a supply of foreign grain—the immense amount of 8,367,829 quarters—not withstanding the fact that the principal grain countries of Europe were equally suffering with ourselves from the re sult of a deficient harvest and the partial failure of the potato crop. We have re-exported largely to France and other countries, and had Ireland almost entirely on our hands to support Yet, by the aid of a timely harvest, instead of a late one, which was calculated upon, we have been enabled to steer through our difficulties triumphantly, and our stock has been so far ample for all our wants that the price of wheat, which, in the first week in June, was 995. 10d. per quarter, reached 565. Bd. on the first of the current month of September. If we could draw from foreign countries last year the amount of 8,367,821 quar ters, what must be their surplus in the year which is before us ? In the first instance, we turn to the United States. This year that country teems with abundance, and is said to have nearly doubled her cultivation of bread-stuffs, HALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society, for the exhibition of fruits, flowers, vegetables, &c., was held on Thursday last, and it was much to be regretted that the very unfa vourable state of the weather prevented the promised at tendance of numerous visitors from the surrounding dis tricts. Notwithstanding, however, the violence of the storm of wind and rain, a tolerably large and select num ber of admirers and amateurs were present on the occasion, including several of the neighbouring gentry, and a consi derable number of farmers and their families. The show was held in three large marquees, erected on the ground in front of the school. These were very com modious, occupying an area of about 600 yards. During the raging of the storm the roof of the centre tent, intended for the exhibition of farm produce, was violently blown off. The collection of flowers, vegetables, &c., was of the first order, and far surpassed in quality those of any for mer exhibition ; but the elements were so unpropitious that they could not be shown to the advantage they de served. The specimens shown were most abundant, and the judges declared the whole exhibition to be the most splendid they had ever seen. The flowers were rich and beautiful, particularly the dahlias. The best pan of eighteen, it was adjudged, were from Mr. Heyes, of Ditton ; the second best from Mr. Musgrove, of Green-lane Nursery, near this town. The devices of cut flowers were tasteful and superb. Compa ratively few stove and green-house plants were shown, the weather being against their removal ; but those .brought were many of them fine. Too much cannot be said in favour of the fruits, especially the pears, apples, and plums. The vegetables were excellent, including noble specimens of celery, cabbages, parsnips, and turnips— actual curiosities. The farm produce was also fine, in cluding wheat, oats, barley, beans, Swedish turnips, and beet. In this department there were about 100 competi tors. The following were amongst the principal prizes : For the cleanest and neatest cottage, and best cultivated garden-Ist Prize, Martha Hosken, Halebank ; 2nd, Betty Hale ; 3rd, W. Barron, Ditton. For the same, by a labourer in constant employment under one master--Ist, Thomas Ireland, Speke ; 2nd, Thomas Taylor ; 3rd, T. Hutchinson. Best roots, &c., grown as a substitute for potatoes -Ist Prize, John Leadbetter ; 2nd, R. Mason. Longest servitude with the same family—Thos. Hitch mough, 36 years ; Josiah Gore, 20 years. Best model of a cottage and garden—Jas. Edgington : " Those rustic cots, where woodbines creep Along the white-washed walls, and peep Across the latticed window pane, As if attention there to gain." Extra Prize—Ralph Dunbabin—a model of Hale Church and church-yard— " That consecrated ground, Where reigns a holy calm around ; Where stately limes their branches spread, In gloomy shadows o'er the dead, As if their guardianship to lend O'er the remains of some loved friend; Where stands the church, whose humble tower Points to that great Almighty power Who made this favoured spot so fair, And guards it with paternal care." NEW WORK BY THE REV. DAVID T HOM.—We now and then had to banish an idea which obtruded itself as we listened to Mr. Thom. " What a barrister this gen tleman had made, far away from theology, of which the principles and laws lie in such short compass, and are so strict, definite, and commanding. Has he not lost the woolsack, and gained what many think no more a pulpit than was the tub of Diogenes ? And yet we cannot but admire his talent, and respect his earnestness." Can our readers conceive aboutwhat this active, strenuous, wrestling intellect is at present engaged ? It is on a long elaborate treatise anent that grand prophetical puzzle, the " name and number of the beast ! ' In his forthcoming volume on that subject he has amassed a collection of the opini ons ever propounded, from the days of Tremens to those of Elliott, each fairly stated and formally though briefly confuted, along with a theory of his own, which dawned on him, he says, in an instant, and in an instant appeared to cast a light, not onl? on the particular passage, but on the entire book, of whose black arch it is, according to him, the keystone. This theory, of course, he would not explain, nor are we so sanguine as he of its being the last and only explication of the depth which so many pro phets and righteous men have desired in vain to see ; but it may be this, ingenious it must be, and his volume will at least fill up the desiradatum long felt by the student of prophecy of a complete vade mecum of all the views which learned men have, we humbly think, wasted their time in framing, concerning what has little or no practical value, unless it can be proved to do for the intricacies of the Apocalypse what the simplicity of Newton's system did for the confused vortices in which the heavens were supposed to revolve. But against this there are various antecedent probabilities, for, in the first place, so far as we dare speak on such a subject, the difficulty connected . with the namber of the beast seems rather to be one out standing from the scheme of the book than the key of it all ; because the difficulty connected with the supposition of this being the key is enhanced by its own inherent and threefold obscurity ; and because there are many proba bilities against the supposition of one key turning so many locks as the complicated structure of the Revelation in cludes. But we speak in the dark; we have great faith in Mr. Thom's ingenuity, and much impatience for its finished result, only wondering somewhat at the subject which a reasoner so acute and with such a strong tendency to moral themes has selected.—Reminiscences of Liver pool by the Rev. W. Gilfillan, in Hog 's Instructor. CONSTRUCTION AND POSITION OF BEDSTEADS.—A beginning a r ag e lsil n tsnho c nc l ee : mnettg s h, surgeon f g no e dm o a n i riinossleyat,at apartment,tni tn e oegsr nervous i:toethuhtehsam hasat at ffeab cured ruco etur fi i dtot well-beingntt hs n B.e fitting bedsteads n sc uhSuspicions patientscfromsol aneyespthe .with bnhrgeee affected by sleeping at right angles to, or parellel with, the line of the terrestrial magnetic current. The house in which we live has a considerable influence on our sensations sometimes little suspected.—The Builder. THE HARVEST-MOON AND THE HUNTER'S-MOON.— The nearest moon to the autumnal equinox is called the the harvest moon, and it is this year (1847) the one which will be at the full on the 24th instint ; she rises nearer to 1 the same time each succeeding night at this time of year than she does at any other : she has received her cogno men in autumn only, on account probably of her use to the farmers pressed for time with the ingathering of the harvest. The cause of this phenomenon is the moon's being in the Fishes and the Ram at the time of the full, which she is in this and the succeeding month. The October moon is called the hunter's moon. It is well known that the signs Fishes and Ram rise making the smallest, and Libra and Virgo rise making the greatest angle with the horison ; and vice versa with respect to setting. Now the moon, whose orbit is nearly pa rallel to the ecliptic, is the full in the Fishes and the Ram in September and October, consequently, rising in those months, she makes the least angle with the horison, and therefore rises nearer the same time every evening. A POET'S MOODS—HOW CIIRISTADEL WAS NEVER FINISHED.—But immediately on my arrival in this coun try I undertook to finish a poeni which I had begun, en titled " Christabel," for a second volume of the " Lyrical Ballads." I tried to perform my promise, but the deep unutterable disgust which I had suffered in the translation of the accursed " Wallenstein" seemed to have stricken me with barrenness ; for I tried and tried, and tried, and nothing would come of it. I desisted with a deeper de jection than lam willing to remember. The wind from the Skiddaw and Borrowdale was often as loud as wind need be, and many a walk in the clouds in the mountains did I take ; but all would not do, till one day I dined out at the house of a neighbouring clergyman, and some how or other drank so much wine, that I found some effort and dexterity requisite to balance myself on the hither edge of sobriety. The next day my verse-making faculties re turned to me, and I proceeded successfully, till my poem grew so long, and in Wordsworth's opinion so impressive, that he rejected it from his volume, as disproportionate both in size and merit, and as discordant. in its character. In the meantime I had gotten myself entangled in the old sorites of the old sophist,—procrastination. I had suf fered my necessary business to accumulate so terribly, that I neglected to write to any one, till the pain I suf fered from not writing made me waste as many hours in dreaming about it as would have sufficed for the letter writing of half a life.—Retniniscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, by Joseph Cottle. EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY• FIRST NOTICE. In commencing our usual detailed notice of this Exhi bition, we are naturally led in the first instance to the painting which the Committee have deemed worthy of the prize of £5O. It is in the second room, No. 272 " The South Sea Bubble, a scene in Change-alley, in 1720," by E. M. Ward, A.R.A. ; and although subjected to com petition with the productions of artists of a very high rank, amongst the most able of which we may mention D. Maclise, R.A., there are few persons, we think, will be inclined to complain of the decision of the Committee in favour of this picture. The subject will be best under stood from the quotations given in the catalogue : "The crowds were so great within doors, that tables with clerks were set in the streets. In this motley throng were blended all ranks, all professions, and all parties—churchmen and dis senters, whigs and tories, country gentlemen and brokers. An eager strife of tongues prevailed in this second Babel; new reports, new subscriptions, new transfers, flew from mouth to mouth ; and the voices of ladies (for even many ladies had turned gamblers) rose loud and incessant above the general throng.—Lord Mahon's History of England." " Our greatest ladies hither come, And ply in chariots daily, Or pawn their jewels for a sum To venture it in alley.—Ballad of the time." In its treatment the artist has displayed great power, not only of painting, but of invention and description of character. The foreground—that portion fronting Garra ways,—is occupied by an anxious crowd, whose features and manner express every degree of human folly and cupidity, from that of the rustic gull to the confirmed knave and cheat. The windows of the coffee-house behind chew the inside to be similarly crowded by parties, some glancing over the prospectuses of the various bubble projections of the period, and others engaged in buying or selling. On the left of the foreground is a pawnbroker's shop in which one of the " greatest ladies," mentioned in the ballad, is endeavouring to pawn some trinket, to ven ture the money in the mad gambling which is going on ; and on the right is a closed countinghouse, the occupant of which announces that circumstances have compelled him to close the establishment. A countryman, with up clenched fist is evidently dealing out threats of assault and battery against the defaulter, and a clergyman at his back appears also to be a sufferer. Descending the steps from the front of the counting-house in question is an interesting couple —a military officer and his young wife, — whose looks of wretchedness tell a tale of utter and hope less ruin. A similar tale is told by two haggard beings— a male and female; who are crouching on the pavement underneath the window of the pawnbroker, the former, by his wild eye and excited attitude, evidently engaged in suggesting to his companion some scheme to retrieve their lost fortunes. There is in fact a story in every group in the pictnre and almost in every face. The whole of the figures and details are very carefully worked out. The leading figure in the foreground—a beau of the period intently engaged in perusing the pros pectus of a perpetual motion company—is admirably finished, the rich material of his costume seeming to stand out from the canvas. A jolly-looking, but by no means intellectual, country gentleman, near him, is equally well painted in a different style. The Jew pawnbroker is a study ; in fact every prominent figure in the picture is in vested with a distinct individuality and character, whilst the whole is in perfect harmony and keeping. The rich ness and gaiety of the costumes of the period have aided the artist in the lively effect produced. That there are drawbacks we do not attempt to conceal. The background is not so carefully managed as couldhave been wished ; and there is an evident want of variety in the features of the groups given. For instance, if the reader will glance at the female seen to the left of the principal foreground figure, he will find that another close behind her (whether male or female is difficult to tell), wearing a powdered peruke, has precisely the same face; and there are no less than five other prominent female faces in the foreground (one a little page) which must have been taken from the same study. The same fault, but in a less degree, is to be noticed in some of the male countenances. As a whole, however, the painting is one of great merit ; and the drawbacks noted are trivial when compared with its general excellence. No. 1. " Pandora." G. Patten, A.R.A.—We adhere to our opinion of this attempt in a high class of art. The invention is poor, and the working out worse. Of course there is some good painting in the picture ; for instance, the flesh of the naked figure of the goddess. The whole, however, strikes us as revolting to good taste, without any excellence of design or imaginative talent to redeem its other faults. No. 57. "The Burial of Charles Ist." A. Johnston. — We noticed this picture in our last as likely to be a close competitor for the Academy prize. It is finely painted, and worthy of the artist. All the fault that strikes us up ' on a more leisurely examinatic n of its merits, is the fact that the figures appear to us to be out of proportion to the size of the apartment. It is, however, indisputably a painting of great merit.. No. 77. " Ordeal by Touch." D. Maclise.—We have thus far noticed the pictures witnessed by us in the hasty walk through the rooms, the result of which we give in our last, because hasty notices frequently require revision, and sometimes correction. We have heard of this picture, especially, very conflicting opinions ; and have, in conse quence, bestowed upon it more than usual attention. Its wonderful talent we admitted at once, and expressed our opinion of it unhesitatingly in our last. It contains some splendid painting ' • and, in detail, is proof to the most microscopic eye. But, as a whole, we retain our opinion of its faultiness. The figures in the background are over prominent, wonderfully painted though they are ; and of chiar' oscuro it has absolutely none. The lights, too, seem to be disposed just as it suited the artist to throw them upon his various figures, and with an utter disregard to nature. In short, we never remember seeing a picture, otherwise worthy to be called great, in which the ordinary rules of art were more resolutely set at defiance. The co louring is most unnatural—witness the pink flesh of the dead body—and altogether we cannot consider it other "wise than as a great work marred. 53. " Sir Guy and the Palmer approaching Excesses at the porch of the Bower of Bliss."—Vide " Faerie Queene," book 4, canto 12. TV. Huggins.—This beau tifully painted picture, the work of a very talented towns man, who, we observe, has been admitted to the rank of an associate of the academy, may be considered, in its subject, a companion of his last year's contribution. The poet's idea is finely given, and the artistical* effects well worked out. It is a more pleasing work than its fellow of last year. But we may suggest to Mr. Huggins, in all kindness, that beyond the display of appreciation of the beauties of one of the noblest of our poets, such subjects do little for the painter in the present day. Whilst we trust that a congenial mind may be found willing to store up such a painting in his collection, we should have rejoiced to see the same talent displayed in a direction more likely to be profitable to the talented young artist. Mind, we do not advocate the doctrine that an artist should paint down to the taste of his time ; but we find that every successful artist, in times gone by, consulted that taste in some measure. 52. "The Village at Night." T. Creswick, A.R.A.— One of the most delightful pictures in the exhibition. The church and village in the distance, reposing in the moonlight, contrast beautifully with the liOit from the village forge, the group of idlers around which is most characteristic. The whole is most artistically managed. 20. "A Portrait of John Swift Esq.," by P. Westcott, is an excellent likeness. It is excelled, however, as a painting, by 41. " Portrait of Barton Haigh, Esq.," which is a most characteristic likeness, with more softness of outline and finish. 78. " Death of Marc Antony," by Charles Elder, is a large picture, with little merit of invention, although in parts well painted. 86. " The Plough Team," by Wm. Shayer, is a beau tiful specimen of the artist. 96. "Market-place at Settle." W. G. Herdman.— We scarcely know to which of Mr. Herdman's paintings in this exhibition to give the preference. The fact; how ever, that this picture was bought in the Royal Academy exhibition, London, by his R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, is a compliment of no mean order to the artist, and is deserved by the painting itself, which is a fine effort. We should not lose sight of such a fact in estimating the merits of Mr. Herdman's other works, or in forming an opinion of Liverpool art in general. 126 " Scene from the Taming of the Shrew." Augustus Egg.—We cannot think that the painting is worthy of the painter. Certainly, he has triumphed over some of the difficulties of the art in its execution. He has brought into contact colours which it is hard and unusual to bring together effectively. But the subject of the painting is not well worked out ; and, on the whole, the picture is a failure. 105. " The Fiery Cross." J. Drummond, A.R. S.A.— We have seen this picture outrageously praised ; but, positively, we cannot see a scintilla of talent in it. it tells the tale most obscurely, and is, in point of drawing, very mediocre. 129. " Portrait of a Lady." R. B. Falkner.—This is a picture, and, we doubt not, a portrait at the same time. It is, in every respect, a most graceful composition, flowing and easy in outline, and altogether a delightful production. 148. " Quitting the Manse." G. Harvey.—The painter of the prize picture in the last exhibition has not bee n s o happy in his effort this year. The leading figures—the minister, his mother (we presume, for she is old enough)— are finely painted. Many of the figures in the foreground are also well painted ; but we can n ot h e lp no ti c i ng i n each a pandering to the Scotch vanity, which arrogates to Scotch people the exclusive possession of an enormous development of forehead. The figures in this painting, if their enormous frontal displays be indicative of much brain, must be presupposed to be philosophers; the chil dren may be suspected of water in the head. The picture has, however, other more important defects. The land scape in the background is bad—unequivocally bad ; and the whole is too much divided in its details. Two or three pictures (with the exception of the pastor and his family, none of them good) are spread over the canvas without an intelligible uniting link. OBJECTION TO VOTERS. —We are sorry to find that in each of the wards an immense number of objections have been made to the municipal voters . The majority of these objections have been raised without any reference to the proper qualification of the parties, and such wholesale pro ceedings cannot be too much reprehended. W e are g l ad to find that the Conservati v es have done all i n th e i r power to prevent more notices hang served than were ab so l u t e l y i n di s pensable. Indeed, in some instances, they offered to waive their power of making any objections at all, if the Radicals would do the same, but all such offers were de clined; and when the Conservatives discovered that the Radical party, in every ward, were sending their notices indiscriminately, right and left, they were compelled, in self-defence, to object to all their opponents who did not possess a proper qualification. We possess the best proof of the truth of what we say ; and, if our statement be denied, we shall be able to publish, next week, a cor respondence on the subject which has taken place in St. Anne's ward, as a sample of Radical impartiality. THE IRISH CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY.. Yesterday evening, the annual meeting of the members and friends of this excellent society was held in the Royal Amphitheatre. The attendance was very numerous, and highly respectable—the:house being crowded in every part. The Rev. Chancellor RAIKES took the chair, and his • entrance was hailed with loud approbation. Amongst hits clerical brethren who accompanied him we observed, the depotation from the parent society, namely,—the Rev. Dr. Singer, Rev. Mr. Verschoyle, of Dublin, and the Rev. W. M'llwaine, of Belfast ;—also the Revs. Dr. M`Neile, A. Hume, J. R. Connor, C. Cowan, F. Barker, W. Falloon, H. Carpenter, D. Stewart, C. W. Lawrence, P. Ould, and many others. The CHAIRMAN expressed the joy he felt in seeing so large and reepectable an assemblage, particularly when he considered the importance of the object in view. He could safely assign to those around him all the requisite information as to the proceedings of the society. Of late they had had many appeals made to them from the sister island, owing to the calamity that had befallen her, but it was not now the people, but the Church of Ireland that appealed to the sympathies and assistance of her sister church in England. They undoubtedly owed a great debt of gratitude to the Irish Church, for the extensive good they had done to the Church of England. He believed that there was no place in England to which the appeal of the Church of Ireland could be made with more probabi lity of success than to the town of Liverpool. (Hear.) It was hardly, indeed, in their power to discharge the debt by eny resolutions that could be passed that evening. He would not refer personally to those of the clergy from Ireland who were around him, as he felt a delicacy in doing so in their presence; but this he would assert, that it was the bounden duty, and of especial interest to the Church of England to extend to the Church of Ireland that means of assistance which the circumstances of the latter at the present time especially demanded. He dis claimed all political feeling in the question under consi deration, and after alluding to the judicious conduct of the great man who at the commencement of the last grand national struggle hae said that it must be fought either in the field of Spain or in that of Ireland, and had wisely preferred the former, he concluded by saying that if the Church of England was to maintain the true education of the people as a mother church, it behoved them to support this society, whose efforts were directed. to promote that object. _ _ _ The Rev. HAMILTON VERSCHOLYE moved the first resolution, to the effect " that the Church of England School Society in Ireland, being established to offer the blessings of Scriptural education to the children of the Irish poor, appeared to the meeting to be eminently cal culated to promote the best interests of Ireland. The Rev. gentleman urged many arguments, and related some anecdotes in favour of Scriptural education of the people, andexposed many of the fallacies inculcated by the Ronaisk priesthood, who did all they could to prevent the people from reading the sacred volume. He adverted in strong terms of reprobation to the Government system of edu cation in the national schools. He stated that the society had to support about 2000 schools, which educated about 100,000 children, of whom about 30,000 were Roman Catholics. If the Society's schools were not upheld, they would all become useless for the Roman Catholic children. About £30,000 had been collected annually for their support by the Irish clergy, but in consequence of the famine, which had in some parts raised the poor rates to 40s. in the pound, and the difficulty, which land lords had to obtain their rents, and the small livings of the clergy, the burthen had become great upon them, and they now appealed to England. Roman Catholic child— ren were pressing for admission to the schools, and they - had not in some parts the same opposition as formerly from the priests, the protestants having assisted the poor during the famine. He read extracts from letters and other documents in proof of what he had advanced. The Rev. DAVID STEWART ably seconded the resolu tion, adducing the great success he had experienced inhis own school in proof of the permanent advantages of Scrip tural education. The resolution was unanimously carried. The Rev. Wm. MCILWAINE, of St. George's Church, Belfast, moved the second resolution—to the effect " that the meeting cordially responded to the appeal made to them from the Irish prelates and clergy to the Protest ants in England, and honoured them for the maintenance of the great principles for which they were contending." He said that one primary principle of the society was to contend against the National Ed uca ti on B oar d . T hat board shoud never have existed. it was a monster evil ; and if God gave him grace, he would rather ascend the scaffold than join it. He read extracts from several pub lications issued by the board, especially their Charter, in which her Majesty (in legal verbiage) had put in com pany with the Archbishop of Dublin, her " trusty and well-beloved cousin," Dr. Murray, a Roman Catholic ! The rev. speaker was very facetious in his remarks on this point, and excited much merriment. The board had been working for thirteen years, and he showed that their scriptural readings for the children were all tending, by perversion of the true text, to Romanism •, and that if they were permitted to go on, the Douay Bible would, in the end, be adopted. He referred to a letter of Lord Stanley's, at the commencement of the board, and went the length of saying that the noble lord ought either to be compelled to eat that letter, or to renounce the name of Protestant. The rev. gentleman gave a most interesting account of the working of the system in Ireland, and concluded with an ardent appeal to the audience to support the schools of the Establishment in Ireland, in which he stated the mode in which the present premier, Lord John Russell, had responded in the negative to the prayer made to him to afford the aid of the State to the support of schools esta blished by the society. After the rev. gentleman had sat down, a collection was made for the expenses of the meet ing, during which a hymn was sung. The Rev. FREDERICK BARKER seconded the resolution, and apologised for the absence of Mr. Adam Hodgson and Mr. Samuel Holme, on account of indisposition. The Rev. Dr. SINGER rose to move the next resolution, and stated that he had been in a species of maze since he first entered into the meeting, caused by the numbers assembled together, through the influence of their clergy, to advance a measure in which the interests of Ireland were concerned. He appreciated the display made by the assembly the more that the people of Liverpool had made - the noblest effort ever made to carry out the object for which they were pleading,—the Scriptural Education of the people. The rev. gentleman then referred to a speech of Sir R. Peel, in which the right hon. bart. pledged him self to Church Education for the children of members of the Church. He appealed from Sir R. Peel then to Sir R. Peel now—from Philip drunk to Philip sober—and asked which was the most consistent and valuable testi mony. The rev. gentleman gave a similar expression of opi nion, very strongly hostile to the Education Board, from a speech of the Duke of Wellington. He gave also the opinion of Sir James Graham, that there should be no system of education paid by the state, except a system conducted by, and based upon, the tenets of the clergy of the Established Church. The reverend gentleman, after paying a high compliment to the character of Lord Stan ley, whom he termed the founder of the national system, read some extracts from his speeches in the House of Commons, in which his lordship declared that it was im possible for them to fritter away the truths of religion to conciliate any party in the country. The reverend gen- _ tleman expressed himself surprised that in a man from whom such sentiments, in which they could all agree, could emanate, they should find the author of the go vernment scheme of education. After alluding to the three thousand Romish priests who, by our grants and Government money were riding over the con sciences of the people of Ireland, he illustrated, geogra phically, the difference between the law of God and the law of man, and said it would be worse than tyranny to compel them, by accepting government bounty as a bribe, to give up as an equivalent the Scriptures of God. He concluded by moving the second resolution, which was as follows : "That the exclusive appropriation of the Parliamentary grants foi the purposes of education in Ireland, having left the church in that country destitute of its accustomed aids for the instruction of the children of the poor, it is the bounden duty of English Churchmen to assist in supplying the want thus created. and to support the Irish clergy and laity in their pre sent efforts to extend the blessings of Scriptural education to the great body of the people." The Rev. Dr. M'NEI LE then appeared amidst prolonged applause. He clearly displayed the object of the meeting. and expressed his high approval of the course that had been taken by his Irish brethren present. The collection had amounted to only £26, and he urged the necessity. of contributions at the door to defray the expenses of the • house. After giving a clear and distinctive view of the actual effect of the National grant for Irish education, and lucidly and eloquently showing its bearing on the English Church, he urged the necessity of an appeal ta her Majesty and her Majesty's ministers, expressive of the feeling manifested by the meeting, and seconded the resolution, which was heartily responded to. A vote of thanks was then moved to the chairman, and the meeting separated. A. SOMERSET CLOWN.—On entering the church-yard, which I did over a wooden stile, from the village, I found, as one generally does in a country parish, a number of rustics loitering about. There was one odd fellow, how ever, seated by the base of the ancient cross, and at the moment engaged in winding up or setting his watch by the village oracle, to whom I applied myself, as being the most conversible son of the soil there. " Fine morning, measter," said he, on seeing me approach ; " what be the time by thee ?" and he pointed to the bunch of seals which descended from my fob. I told him. " Dost thee keep railroad time ?" was the next inquiry. " Ha," said he, with apparent satisfaction, " I be delighted that there's be one as don't go by those run-away ingines. All the village are a-going mad, shoving on their watches ten minutes to be by the rayle, as they say." Here's an old " worshipper of the rust of antiquity," thought l— one of the fossil remains of the real rustic, who distrusts or despises every thi ng new . I'll b e bound he'd sooner take three hours and travel in his own market-cart to Bristol, than be indebted to Brunel or the " rayle," as he calls it, for taking him there in one-sixth the time. asked him the name of his clergyman. " Our parson ? repeated he, as if he knew him better by that title, " Mr. Clarke ; and as worthy a man as ever wore a g own. " Charitable, I suppose?" "If he has an enemy, I'll eat un," said the rustic, closing his watch in its outer . case, droppingand the old-fashioned affair into his fob ; " if a man ben't :favourite who visits and helps the poor, edi eates the children, and knows and advises all his neigh bours, why it would be hard to please us country yolk." " But you have said nothing about his preaching : how do you like him in the pulpit ?" My neighbour scratched his head, and seemed rather brought to a pause by the question. " Whoy," said he, at length, "if thee ask me what kind of a preacher he be, I like a loud preacher— one to make the old church ring agin, like Parson 8., a fine speaker that knocks the dust out of our hearts and the ould velvet cushion. Mr. Clarke is a good preacher for some ; but I am old and getting hard o' hearing ; an d he goes so fast I can't always understand him, as it were, you see."—The Churc,', user ; Rural Rides or Calls ust Country Churches. ) / ryEtz Poor Sldt ND 1 R 71' • vv. •; • • NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL, LONDO. •eSOO,OOO.—EXIPOWERED BY ACT N OF PARLIAMENT. ta t 'l l,i B, lnstit ut i on embraces important and substantial advan- The-74,ith-res-pect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. out Assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, with luijralen!,e or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the pre and th e r'Zl , .(sep table ;) also, the opti n - 61 selecting benefits, or uecessit Ner . s , :on of his interest meet other conveniences Ls. ssurances forms of years on the lowest Pos sible ra D SION OF PROFITS. The increasing rosperity ti the eld on tile rectors, nt the annual mee i ti Society has enabled the Di declare a Fifth .BONUS varyiti g g from 35 t Premiums paid on each Policy effected on ct'lates2til May' 1847, to g o r Cent. on the tit Scale. EXAMPLES.