The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

Life withc The happi Work trio , And grits] Riteraturr. POETRY WORK BY CHARLES SWAM Attend, oh Man, the ministry of mina, ntain height is free to Man's heritage is Tune! Toil on ! Work on and win ! , st are the best ei es and moulds th s the destinies of Work c May conquer fate, and captUre fain( In nator Press onward still centre lives the fir Tint slow Through • It splits t If nature then her WE Lay tame b, Wien wou!, yet aspire Thus Man, t The path—ti Toil on, and nd clay lit of earth, List find .--of Mind Power, Harmor Things , ,tn nature's 1! Let Work on VARI w can a man who sn the sk s said to be " winged" use in going to fight a _ an traveller, when intro ecial favour, into the lady-chapel of the al of Shoe, is stated to have found the walls of )liest of Abyssinian shrines hung round with co prints of the great Leicestershire steeple-chase. .ITE, BUT St.ow.—A. stuttering Vermonter was the way to Waterbury. With great politeness he to say that it was right ahead, but in vain. The he tried, the more he couldn't. At last, red in the and furious with unavailable exertion, he burst forth darn ye; you'll gig-gi-get —New York Cyclops. —To prove that the e makes a goose of b tain Harris, the Ab's . by es cathed that h( loured Pot asked strove )re I can them n farther their E. pro zre isted f COINING AT THE MINT.—TiII the present century the Mint remained in the Tower. But about 1806. the government, finding the military department had greatly encroached upon the buildings used for coining, entrusted to Sir Robert Smirke the erection of a new edifice upon Tower-hill- It was completed about 1811, at an expense of above a quarter of a million of money. This immense sum, however, included Boulton's expensive machinery, which, by successive improvements, has been brought to such a surprising degree of perfection, as, in conjunction with the other arrangements of the admirable establish- ment, places a power at the disposal of the monevers that will enable them, if required, to receive fifty thousand pounds' worth of gold one morning in bullion, and return it the next in coin. It is amusing to contrast this rapidity with the state of thiags existing when every piece was struck by hand, or when the entire process of coining could he carriz‘A on in a single room. In the present interesting process of coining, the itirts are first melted in pots, when the alloy, of copper, is added (to gold, one part in twelve : to silver, eighteen pennyweights to a pound weight.), and the mixed metal cast into small And now begin the operations of the stupen machinery, which is unequalled in the Mint y other country, and is in every way a triumph mechanical skill. The bars, in a heated state, are passed through the breaking-down rollers, which it tremendous crushing power, reduce them to only do us bird of their former thickness, ,ocrease them proportionally in their length. They are now passed through the cold rollers, which bring them nearly to the thickness of the coin required, when the last operation of this kind is performed by the draw-bench—a machine pe• culiar to our mint, and which secures an extraordinary degree of accuracy and uniformity to the surface of the metal, and leaves it of the exact thickness desired. The cutting-out machines now begin their work. There are twelve of those engines in the elegant room set apart for them, all mounted on the same basement, and forming a circular range. Here the bars, or strips pieces of the proper shape and weight for the coining . are cut into press, and then taken to the sizing -room to he separately weighed, as well as sounded on a circular piece of iron, to detect any flaws. The protecting rim is next raised in the marking-room, and the pieces, after blanching annealing, are ready for stamping. The coining room is a most magnificent-looking place, with its co lumns, and great iron beams, and the presses ranging along the stone basement. There are eight presses, each of them making, when required, sixty or seventy ( or -en more) strokes a minute; and at each stroke a blank 'ade a perfect coin—that is to say. d on both stamps( ge—each press wilt coin between four and five thousand pieces in the hour, or the whole eight between thirty and forty thousand. And to accomplish these mighty results, the attention of one little boy alone is required, who stands in a sunken place before the press, supplying it with blanks. The bullion is now money, and ready for the trial of the pis, which, at t e Mint, is a kind of tribunal of judgment between the actual coiners and the owners, as the greater trial known by the same name in the Court of Exchequer is t test the quality of the money as between the Master of the Mint and the people. This trial gene rally takes place on the appointment of a new master, before the members of the Privy Council and a certain number of the Goldsmiths' Company ; from the latter a jury of twelve persons is sworn. The Lord High Chancellor, or, in his absence, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presides. Ruding was present at the trial of the pis in 1799, when, after a great variety of minute experiments, it was found that a certain quantity of gold, which should have weighed 190 pounds 9 ounces 9 penny. vs - eights and 15 grains, did weigh just 1 pennyweight and the 15 grains less : a closeness of approximation sufficient, no doubt, to satisfy the nicest tribunal. BANK-NOTE MActuNEßY.—Considerable mechanical ingenuity has been shewn in devising the best mode of manufacturing bank-notes, so that they shall be light, durable, and not easily imitated by forgers. The making of the paper, the engraving of the steel plate, and the numbering of the notes, have all called forth this ingenuity. It was stated some short time ago, in the public journals, that many of the banks in the United States had adopted the use of a peculiar kind of paper made expressly for bank notes. There are introduced into the body of the piece of paper for each note as many cotton threads as will shew the value of the note in dollars, up to certain limits; or at least, that a definite number of threads shall repre sent a definite value in the note ; so that no chemical or mechanical tampering with the printed part of the note will prevent the paper from revealing the true original value. Tn respect to the plates from which the bank notes are printed, they must he formed of copper; but as this material soon wears away, a mode of using steel plates was devised by Messrs. Perkins and Heath, by which a surprising number of copies may be taken. A block of thick plate steel is softened on the upper side; the device is engraved on this softened surface ; the block is hardened by a very careful process after the engraving ; the device is transferred from the hardened block to the convex surface of a small soft steel roller, by intense pressure ; the roller is hardened, and the device is trans ferred from it to any number of softened steel Oates; these plates are hardened after the transfer, and are then in a state to be printed from. By this beautiful train of ope rations, one originally engraved block is made to suffice for an almost endless number of engravings. The mode in which the writing, the emblems, and the ornaments are combined i❑ a bank-note, is so planned as to render forgery difficult. The numbering is a remarkable process, as now performed. * * * * Four wheels, each di vided by ten notches, leaving a facet between each pair, placed upon a shaft ; a portion of their breadth being turned down about one-half of their depth, having a boss or collar between every two. Upon these bosses, and filling up the spaces, rest latches; and over each wheel is a pall, the width of the first being equal to that of the unit wheel, and the breadth of thi others equalling that of the wheel and latch. The palls are driven by a crank ; by each revolution of which the first wheel is moved through a space equal to one tenth of its entire circumference, bringing regularly for ward the numbers from 1 to 0. When the figure 0 is reached, the latch of the second wheel is depressed, and the wheel moves forward one division marking the tens. The same process is repeated with regard to the other wheels, and thus any amount of numbers can be regis tered, by simply increasing the number of wheels in pro portion. Machines of this kind are extensively adopted in the Bank of England ; with, of course, an inking apparatus to apply to the types. A patent was taken out in 1844 for a mode of printing bank-notes intended to obviate the liability to forgery. The surface is covered with two designs, one geometrically regular, and the other very irregular; the two designs are engraved on different plates, and are printed with different inks, the one with visible and the other with invisible ink. Both of the inks are delible or removeable by chemical means ; and the usual engraving of a bank-note is printed on paper so prepared. The rationale of the suggestion is this ; that whatever means a forger might take to alter by chemical agency the letters or figures, or to transfer them by lithographic or anastatic processes, the state of the paper would betray him ; for he would remove some parts of the design in the one case, and fail to transfer it in the other.—Knight's Cycloptedia. ANECDOTE OF COACH-HOR! notes of hou horses which hay ave an overpowering Influence upon once joined the chase, which occurred in ISO 7 an incident, s often been related :—As the ach was chancing horses at the inn at Monk's Heath, between Congleton, in Cheshire, and New: castle-under-Lyne, the horses that had performed the stage from Congleton having just been taken off and se parated, hearing Sir Peter Warburton's fox-hounds in full cry, immediately started after them with their harness on, and followed the chase to the last. One of them, a blood mare, kept the track with the whipper-in, and gal- him for wo hours over every leap he took, till Revnard ran to the death in Mr. Hibbert i s plantation. These spirited horses were led back to the inn at Monk's Heath, and performed the stage back to Congleton the sane evening. —Anecdotes of the Horse. LABOTTR V. FREE.—In sailing up the Missis sippi, from New Orleans to its junction with the Ohio and azain up the Ohio as far as the town of Louisville state of Kentucky, end of ( leinnati in the state zht or of Ohio, you pass in succession, either on the ri s left hand, along the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tenessee,Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. You thus have a fair opportunity of contrast ing at least the outward general aspect of some of the the slavehoHing states, with that of states where slavery ed ; and, truth to say, If a 1 sermon in favour of a not " in trees s to be in i n. But the hut in want of them. capable o ith his arm of freedom, seems alone ing successfully against the giants of the forest ; and, wherever you see a tract of ground of more than common fertility, as you sail up the mighty stream of the Mississippi, and gaze on the vast solitudes which L,,e part you state, and not to a s banks, rest assured are so gazing on bei„.._ slaveholding one. —Baird's Travels ORIGIN OF HAYDN'S MINUET OF THE Ox.—Haydn saw with surprise a butcher call upon him, who, being full of sensibility, as much as any other person, to the charms of his works, said freely to him, " Sir, I know you are good and obliging; therefore I address myself to you full confidence. You excel in all kinds of composi of composers ; but I am particularly 1. I stand in need of one that is and quite new, for my daughter's wedding, zs to a f tion ; you are the firs of your minuets which is to take place in a few c If better that; to the famous Haydn." full of kindn it hin the a cannot address n, always nd smiling at this new homage, promised rue amateur returned at nd received with joyful gratitude the for the following ted tim tly afterwards the Found of instru ments struck Haydn's ear ; he listened, and thought he recognised his new minuet. He went to his window, from which he saw a superb ox, with gilded horns, adorned with festoons and garlands, and surrounded by an ambulating orchestra, stop under his balcony. The butcher went up to Haydn's apartment, expressed again to him his sentiments of admiration and ended his speech "Dear sir, I thought that a butcher could not ititude for so beautiful a minuet better than aydn, affected at his frank generosity, accepted it. that moment the minuet was known throughout a by the name of the " Minuet of the Ox." — 's Mu3ical Miscellany. A LITTLE ONF hundred and thi SMALL BECOME A T. OUSAND.—Two of the years ago, within a few cia: time when the rel ious convulsions of Germs. y were inaugurated by the great battl gue, a handful of Pilgrim Fati ,rs landed at Cape Cod from and storm the Atlantic deep. On a piece of rising ground they built two r small tenements with a common storehouse n. Strone they were in faith, in hope, and ened were their means that whi )aten of pilgrims arrived to share their fortun( tainment provided f at so st the en new corners consisted ;le lobster and three fish, and these not caught ;based of the Indians, for in the w s neither hook nor net. The pilgrim mitted the settlement to their progeny, -o precarious that their bones were of a sin but pun colony a tenure vithout mark or sign, to preserve them from the ion of the savages who might. one day recover the ground. Such was the origin of New L.., topic, it must needs be owned, for justifiable declamation These From —a glorious ,re now represented by 3,000,000 souls. of that settlement, where neither hook xisted, there now issue annually 600 ships, y 16,000 seamen, to capture the mightiest the deep. The capital of the colony contains early 156,000 inhabitants within its walls, supports 16 50 weekly ne d maintains 250 public , each of which upon an average convey. :;r day. Such is the picture of modern Bas ated on the last anniversary of Pilgrims'-day, st been celebrated at New York. —All the colonies which the world ton as W !h has j ?en have commenced with agriculture and pas 'he soil had been their first fountain of riches : d had to be long tilled, or herds innumerable alth began to accumulate. In well as labour. A dollar goes Hence bush than a guinea in I in the scale of nations has been cornpara pecially as the widely-scattered population favourablo to rat But in California the reverse of all this istence as a civilised colony, money has been t ful there than in the oldest states in t )f labour seem to belong rather to ban to the sober chronicles of truth. Hence tt genii t t desideratum of a young colony is super 1, and undertakings of every kind, pla inn Th nec trio abundantly of every ude, can be freely entered upon for the public rn has been commercial from its birth gold have brought vessels f r o m a ll nun- ties and it intelligence and rest ores f and the am mercial men have supplanted the ordinary ay of agricultural settlers, and have marvel alerated the progress of society which all circura e combining rapidly to mature. Two years have scarcel elapsed since tidings of the new El Dorado reached the old world, but half a century seems to have rolled away in the interval. Then the land was a solitude: le bay of San Francisco lay untracked by a keel Id of its waters breaking on its lonely shores W 35 nearly all it had heard of the world of man. Now an ac tual metropolis is reflected on its waters. Street afte street of j" - " filled with an active and enter the no the so built houses, prising people, and exhibiting every mark of commercial prosperity, stretch to the summit of the surrounding hills, follow the windings of the shore from headland to head land, and sending hack a long arm through a gap in the hills, built% its.warehouses at the Golden Gate , fronting the blue horiziKi of the Pacific. Lofty hotels, gay with 'verandahs and b.:Aconites, are seen in all quarters,. replete with luxuries of civilisation ; while the fashionable restau rants present daily their long bill of fare, rich with the choicest technicalities of the Parisian cuisine. Scarcely a day passes but some cluster of sails take their way through the Golden Gate. bound to all qu niers of the world. Like the magic seed of the Indian juggler, which grew, blossomed, and bore fruit before the eyes of the specta tors, San Francisco seems to have accomplished in a day the growth of half a century.—Unirereity Magazine. I her hidden fire through granite he upward patl Work 'on Pause noti n I desponding, servii thou will'st thy Wi Within THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR& LADY MORGAN AND DR. WISEMAN. (From the Times.) In Lady Morgan's " Italy" appears a story which it seems she was told by the celebrated French savans Denon and Champ°llion—that the chair which is preserved and venerated at Rome as the seat of St. Peter was, during the French invasion,, subjected to an inquisition and sa crilegious examination, and found to bear upon it the somewhat untoward inscription, " There is hut one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet." The evidence on which the tale rests is weak enough—the relation at an evening party by two young gentlemen, who probably did not feel themselves bound to spoil a good story by superstitious accuracy, especially at a time when the Pope was not quite so high in favour with our volatile neighbours across the Channel as he has been since he has become wholly insufferable to his own subjects. We should have thought that Cardinal Wiseman might have replied to this state ment, if his mind were so peculiarly constituted as to think it worth replying to at all, with the temper of a man of the world and the urbanity of a gentleman. But Atta sedent muliebris vulnera dextrce. The terms, " unblush ing calumny," " foolish and wicked story," " truly pro fligate waste of human character," " assassinating of pri vate reputations," and so forth, are the mild and gentle reproofs which this meek man of Westminster has bor rowed from those peculiar purlieus wherein, lie informs us, he delights to dwell, for the castigation and conviction of his female antagonist. Nor is his logic much superior to his moderation. The most compendious course to re fute the calumny, he says, would be to give the attestation to those who have been in the service of St. Peter's since a period antecedent to the French invasion ; but the Car dinal naturally considers that. they would not be believed, and therefore betakes himself to another method : he first describes the chair as a Roman one, and then gives the strong grounds for the tradition of its being St. Peter's, though we do not find he keeps his word in this latter par ticular. These might be very good arguments if the chair had been sold by Alexander VI., or destroyed by the soldiers of the Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V., or broken up for firewood by the troops of Napoleon. But, as the "sacred relic" is still in rerum naturd, we avow so much of an heretical predilection for the philosophy of Galileo and Bacon as to prefer the simplest experiment to the most refined and elaborate argume.A. The most compendious way. as Lady Morgan truly remarks, would be to remove the cover and show the chair ; but that is not to be permitted ; the curious must be left to decide between the antiquarian argument of the Cardinal and the positive testimony of the lady. Pity the point was not raised during the brief existence of the late Roman repub lic. The Triumvirs, we imagine, would have felt little scruple in bringing to the test of experience this otherwise insoluble question. Even now it is not too late; if the thing is worth getting into a passion about, it is worth clearing up, particularly as Cardinal Wiseman considers the story would suffice, if proved, to blight for ever the character of many respectable and dignified individuals, to hold up to public abhorrence the hierarchy of a religion professed by millions of Christians, and to record against that religion itself a weighty charge of hypocrisy and im posture. We do not see how this results, but, if it does, and we have Dr. Wisernan's word for it, surely it is better to pull off the covering of a chair than to have one's cha racter blighted—to sweep away dust and cobwebs than to be held up to abhorrence, and to expose the relic to the blaze of day rather than lie under the charge of hypocrisy and imposture. A little water clears us from this deed ; how easy is it, then ! A few touches of the housemaid's broom can sweep away, according to the Cardinal, these grievous calumnies; and yet that broom is withheld. How extraordinarily dear female labour must ne in Rome! There is, however, another view of the subject which this mighty controversy has suggested to our mind, and which is, perhaps, quite as well worthy of consideration as the existence of a few letters on an old chair. We are told that this is the chair presented by the British Senator Pudens to St. Peter when lie was. at Rome, and we are tempted to ask what evidence have we that he ever was at Rome at all? Supposing Cardinal Wiseman to be right in attributing the chair to the age of Claudius, what evi dence is there that St. Peter ever sat in it ? Other things, and those quite as important as the history of a piece of wood, depend on the answer to this question, and yet we apprehend it will be very difficult to prove its affirmation. The legend is, that St. Peter visited Rome in the time of Claudius, and again in that of Nero, and that he suf fered martyrdom on the latter occasion on the same day as St. Paul. Apply to this narrative the principles of criticism by which Niebuhr has renovated the history of Rome, and Grote that of Greece. What is there that can satisfy of its truth ? Scripture, the only contemporary narrative, while it traces the history of St. Paul very nearly up to the rime of his death at Rome, is utterly silent as to the prez,ence of St. Peter in that capital. A paragraph appeared in several of the London papers, on Friday and Saturday last, to the effect that Sir Robert Peel had met with a very serious accident whilst hunting at Fazeley, on Thursday. We have made inquiries rela tive to the occurrence, and are happy to state that the accident which gave rise to the unfavourable report was of a trifling nature, and unaccompanied with any serious consequences. - . Mr. R. Woodhouse, son of an English merchant at Oporto, has behaved with gallantry on the occasion of a wreck off Matoyinhhas. He dashed into the boisterous sea and saved one man, and made a desperate attempt to save another, but was foiled by a blow from a log of wood. A fisherman's wife plunged into the surf, and was carried out of her depth : she clung to Mr. Woodhouse's neck, and he brought her safely to shore. . _ On Monday, the Cambridgeshire hounds had a fine run, the length of which, added to the:rotten and slippery state of the banks, occasioned many mishaps and innumerable " purls," and it is our misfortune to have to record the death of " Foreclosure," (in the forthcoming Liverpool Steeple Chase), who, in flying a fence with a ditch on the " off" side fell, burst his girths, precipitated his rider, Mr. Bevill, together with his saddle, to a considerable distance, and rolling into the ditch broke his back. The first steamer of the Cape line, the Bosphorus, which left Plymouth on the 18th of December, at 8 a.m., arrived at Funchal Bay, Madeira, whence letters have been received from her, on the 24th of December, at half past two. She had encountered two days of adverse wind, but had nevertheless accomplished this, the least certain, part of her passage in rather less than her con tract time. After landing her passengers for Madeira, she resumed her course at 5 p.m., on the 24th of December. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—Edward Corden, Esq., of Clifton, Ashbourn, who died at an early hour on Sunday morning week, has munificently bequeathed. the sum of £5700, invested in the funds, to the following charitable purposes :—To the tenants of eighteen almshouses in Ashbourn, 2s. per week for ever ; to those of four clergy men's widows' almshouses, £l2 per annum each ; and the residue to the national school at Ashbourn, and the parish sc':.ool at Ipstones, Staffordshire. On Thursday Charles, son of Captain Rutherford, of Bedford, took up a pistol belonging to his brother Tho mas, off the dressing-table, to amuse his brother George, who sometimes came into his room to play, by letting off a few caps ; but the pistol unfortunately being loaded, the ball passed under George's left ear and came out at the right temple. The youth died immediately. Thomas told his brother Charles the overnight that the pistol was loaded, but in the morning Charles forgot the warning. The other day a poor woman was robbed in London of the bag of clothes which formed her sole worldly posses sions, of an admission-ticket to the Lying-in Hospital, and of her marriage certificate, which alone entitled her to the situation required. On Wednesday last a Jew was charged in London with picking a poor creature's pocket of 13d., which she had just raised by pawning her husband's waist coat to get food for her children, and evidence was ten dered to show that the prisoner had selected this particu lar line of knavery as his special vocation. A RASCAL or A FATHER.—At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, William Weaver, aged 55, and his two children, William, aced 16, and Emma. aged 10, were found guilty, the two latter of stealing, and the former of receiving a cloak, victorine, and other articles. It was proved that the tvio younger prisoners had been trained by their father as thieves, and the robbery in this case had been committed upon the two children of a respec table tradesman. The father was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and the children to two months' each. NON-PAYMENT OF POOR-RATES.—The assistant-over seer of a parish in West Gloucestershire attended a petty sessions, near Chepstow, the other day, with a list of defaulters to the poor-rate, for the purpose of making out his "excused list," and having it confirmed. The list, which was assisted by some quaint marginal references, among which " 0.P." was very conspicuous, was duly handed to the presiding justice, when the magistrate inquired, " Mr. -, what does this ' O.P.' mean ?" The worthy parish official, with polite deference, rejoined, On't pay. please your honour." _ _ . . PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR.-011 Tues day, a public demonstration took place near the Thames Police-station, at Poplar, of the powers of this invention in extinguishing fires in ships. The hull of an old vessel, 150 tons burden, filled with sugar hogsheads, tar, tur pentine, saltpetre bags, and other combustible materials, was ignited, and the whole blazed up with extraordinary violence, when the annihilator was brought into action, and the vapour poured forth, and in not more than a few seconds the blaze was almost entirely subdued, and in a minute or two after the fire was completely put out. _ A SOLICITOR CONVICTED OF FRAUD.—Jonathan Whitley Cooper, a solicitor practising at Norwich, was tried at the Norwich sessions on Tuesday, on a charge of obtaining unlawfully, and by false pretences, the sum of £5 6s. from a Mr. Richard Mills Burrell, hair manufac turer, of that town. The false pretence alleged was, that the traverser had been filing certain pleadings in an action at the suit of the prosecutor. for the expenses of which he had received the sum in question, which pleadings had not, in point of fact, been filed. The case having been dis. tinctly proved, the jury found a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. THE IRON TRADE.—On Thursday the thief of the quarterly meeting:, of the ironmasters of South Stafford shire was held in Birmingham. There was an average attendance, and amongst those present largely interested in the iron trade were many influential makers and mer chants from South Wales, London, Liverpool, Bristol, and other parts of the kingdom. The iron market was universally admitted to be improved in present condition and future prospects, but the old firms of the districts — the manufacturers of the best first-class iron—announced to stand by the prices as fixed at the quarterly meeting in October. There is a better demand for iron generally, whether legitimately or speculatively. Some houses have orders which they cannot execute. ASSAULT IN A PUSEYITE CHURCH.—An Irishman, named Thomas Doyle, was brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Westminster police-court, for assaulting a Mr. E. Simms, a timber merchant, residing in Gillingham street, Pimlico. The defendant was beadle at Charlotte street chapel, where Mr.. Simms repaired on the evening of the 29th of December, and was requested by defend ant to take a seat. This he declined to do, lest he might disturb the congregation by going up the aisle ; thereupon the defendant shoved him into the street. On the part of the defendant, it was alleged that persons had previ ously stood in the aisle of the chapel distributing tracts and otherwise disturbing the congregation, and that he had orders to remove every person who might be found standing in the aisle. The case, at the request of the solicitor for the defence, was sent to the sessions. A WIFR ACCIDENTAULY SHOT BY TIER HUSBAND. — On Thursday an accident of a very melancholy nature took place in Holliday-street, Birmingham, resulting in the death of a woman named Crook, by the hand of her own husband. They had only been married about three weeks, and, like too many Birmingham women at the commencement of wedded life, she still continued at the employment in which she was engaged before her mar riage. She and tier husband returned home about seven o'clock, and while she was toasting a round of bread for his tea, he took up a gun that was standing in a corner of the room, which, as it afterwards appeared, had been placed there shortly before by the person with whom he lodged, who had been out bird-shooting. Crook took it towards the light to examine it, but as he raised it, down went the hammer, and the charge was lodged in the head of his wife. She fell back instantly, and expired without even a groan. FORBIDDING THE BANNS BY A REJECTED SUITOR. — The congregation of St. Peter's Church, Marlborough, was disturbed on Sunday by the banns of marriage be tween William Mabbet, a policeman, of this town, and Sarah Farmer, being forbidden by a rejected lover of Sarah. It appears this person had been engaged to the girl several years, and had taken and furnished a house in London, where he was following the trade of a jour neyman harness maker. Having been absent some time, an attachment was found to exist between Mabbet and the girl, and in the course of a short time, arrangements were made for their marriage. The banns had been twice published, and the harness maker thought to stop their further progress ; but, alas ! without effect. Faithless as Sarah Farmer had been to him, it formed "no just cause or impediment" to her being pined to the police• man ; and on the following day she was made Mrs. Mab bet.—Bristol Journal. FATAL POACHING AFFRAY.—On Friday about noon, three men named Darley, Chew, and Rennison, were ob served to be engaged in poaching on an estate at Ganton Wok], near Scarborough. The gamekeeper having pro cured the assistance of six other men, went in pursuit and came up with the poachers upo❑ land in the Lordship of Foxholes. Chew, who held a gun in his hand, presented it at the keeper, desiring him to stand off, or he would fire The other however, not daunted seized hold of the weapon, and endeavoured to wrest it from the poacher, an attempt in which he was seconded by his assistants. Darley then came forward with a large and sharp knife, and while he caught hold of the muzzle of the gun with his left hand, attempted to cut the men's hands so as to force them to relinquish their grasp. He was, however pinioned from behind by another of the keeper's assistants, and just at this moment the gun went off, lodging its contents in the lower part of Darley's body. The unhappy man instantly fell back mortally wounded, exclaiming, "D--thee, thou hast done for me now !" He expired in a few mo ments afterwards. DOWNWARD PROGRESS OF BRITISH SHIPPING. — The shipping returns of the board of trade for the month ending the sth of December present the following results —Entered inwards— TONNAGE FOR THE MONTH ENDING DEC. 5. 1848. 1849. 1850. 371,400 464,443 383,762 77,908 23,521 33,512 81,287 109,107 114,512 British vessels United States' vessels Other countries 530,595 597,071 531,786 The clearances outward were-:- 1848. 1849. 1850. British vessels United States' vessels 44,613 28,717 53,743 Other count' ies 90,489 83,980 111,135 382,798 390,552 430,750 With regard to the coasting trade, the tonnage entered inwards was 1,016,069 in the month ending December 5, 1848, 957,620 in 1849, and 1,045,518 in 1850. The clear ances outwards were 1,046,605 in December, 1848, 1,093.78 i in 1849, and 1,146,534 in 1850. DARADFUL WOUNDS IN A LEG, BUT SOUNDLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.-Mr. Henry Gray, typographer, residing at No. 6, Temple-lane, City, states that he suffered for a considerable - time the most excruciating pains from two deepvertinds in his leg, occa sioned by an accident which,he unfortunately met with ; and although he tried various lotions and ointments, yet all were found entirely useless. He was then recom mended by a friend to use some of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, vilii6l he did, and in six hours he was greatly relieved„dd in about eight days the wounds were soundly healed. The saying that " one-half of London does not know how the other half lives," has been singularly verified by a discovery made on Sunday morning last by the police, in consequence of information giv en to them by the mother of a poor boy who had been seduced into habits of vagrancy. It appears that a band of young robbers, called, on account of its numerical strength, "the Twenty Thieves," had established a regular robbers' cave, a la Gil Blas, underneath the station of the South-Western Railway terminus, in the Waterloo-road. Five of the part; were caught in their den, the access to which was a small hole in one of the arches, scarcely sufficient to admit a man. SEVERE GALE AT BRISTOL, AND IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—OB Wednesday afternoon a very heavy gale, which veered from S.W. to - W.N.W., was experienced in the Bristol Channel, as well as in the city of Bristol and the surrounding neighbourhood. A good deal of damage was done to shipping as well as to house property, when situated upon elevated points. The barque Berbice, for Aberdeen, drove and went ashore near the mouth of the river. The crew took to the rigging, where they remained till the tide receded, when they left her. A boat in at tempting to go to them was overset, but the hands swam ashore. The trow Dolphin, laden with coal from Sydney, another trow, name unknown, and the sloop William, from Bullo Pill to Cardiff, with iron ore, foundered in the river's mouth, but their crews were happily saved. At Clifton a house near Portland-place was stripped of its tiles, &c., and a quantity of furniture was forced by the gale out of a window and fell upon a hackney fly, which it greatly damaged, but fortunately without injury to fare or driver. At Mr. Itnuch's timber yard, near the sea banks, a large shed, 50 feet long by 20 feet deep, was thrown down and scattered over the yard. A recently erected brick wall near the Limekiln Dock, llotwells, was levelled with the ground, and roofs were stripped of their tiles at more than one point of the city. THE EXHIBITION BUILDING. — During the present week rapid strides towards completion have been taken in every branch of the works of the crystal palace, and it may be stated generally that the progress made and the results obtained are most satisfactory to the executive committee. A large number of men are employed at present in laying down the ground and gallery flooring and, looking to 'he extent of the space covered within the last few days, the advance of this important portion of the building will be strikingly illustrative of the magical rapidity of construction which hitherto has challenged the admiration of visitors. The face boarding of the lower part of the building has been also pushed forward energetically. The painting executed has been confined almost exclusively to the roof and the sash bars. The final and decorative part of this branch of the works, it is needless to state must await a complete absence of dust, and a condition of repose within the structure, which are not obtainable at present. The glazing of the transept progresses steadily, and it is hoped will be finished before the close of next week. Some portions of the gallery railings have been fixed in their places. They are light and graceful, and when completed will form a very important item in the catalogue of internal ornamentation. SEARCITINO FOR MRS. SLOANE.—The addition of £3O by the government to the reward originally offered by the guardians, has stirred up the activity of the police. On Tuesday evening last, information was received at the station where the warrant is deposited, that Mrs. Sloane was to be found residing in the neighbourhood of Chelsea. Accordingly two detective officers of the city police force were despatched r in company with a clerk from the Tem ple, who brought the information, and they proceeded direct to Ranelagh-street, Chelsea. On arriving there the clerk pointed out the house in which he believed Mrs. Sloane was concealed, and the officers stepped forward and knocked boldly at the front door. It was opened, and they were immediately after ushered into the drawing room, where they found a lady apparently about 45 years of age, and exactly answering, in every particular, the description of Mrs. Sloane, as set forth in the placards offering the reward for her apprehension. The clerk from the Temple felt perfectly satisfied that she was the right party. The lady protested that the officers were misteken, and was indignant at the insult offered to her. It became necessary to send for Jane Wilbred, who set all doubts at rest, and satisfied even the Templar that he had made a blunder. Apologies followed, and the officers left, it is understood, upon good terms with the molested lady, who, it is stated, was once before so unfortunate as to be mis taken for Mrs. Manning. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD AND SILVER.—The week before last Joseph Hartman, a German, arrived in Liverpool from the gold regions of California, with about 5,000 dollars' worth of coin, the produce of his labours at the diggings. He proceeded by railway to London, ac companied by his sister, both being on their way to Ger many. In the train he met a man who had been a fellow passenger from New York. At London this man pre tended great kindness to him, recommended him to an hotel, and desired him, as he was a stranger, and could not speak English, to be on his guard. This frier.d in troduced him to another man, who, he said, was proceed ing to Dover, and would he a companion for him. At Dover Hartman placed the carpet bag, which contained his money, with a box, on the platform, and left them in charge of his sister whsle he went to obtain the rest of his luggage. On his return, the companion who had been introduced to him in London, and the carpet bag con taining the treasure, were both missing. Information was given to the police, and instant search was made for the thief,,but without success. The carpet bag was found empty, about four hours after the robbery, on the pier. The money consisted principally of gold, American dollar pieces (all dated 1850), French 20-franc pieces, 10-dollar pieces, and the remainder in about 225 German guilders, in silver. A reward of £l5O has been offered for the discovery of the robbers. The " friend" who accompa nied Hartman from Liverpool has been apprehended in London. Etneral /11tEIrellanv. A. LADY'S DESCRIPTION OF A BATTLE.—Just as I left Austrian camp, a movement became perceptible tong the Hungarians, which I knew was preparatory to a general assault. I was not deceived, for I had not pro ceeded more than half way on my return to Ikman, when I heard the first cannon-shot, which give the signal for the sanguinary and murderous strife between the unequal foes. This was the great battle of Murr— the first pitched field in the Hungarian war of freedom, in which the cause of liberty received so severe a blow, that nothing hut t"e most desperate bravery and heroic firmness could have re trieved it. Perczel had been directed to bold the moun tain passes, and retard the march of the Austrians, until Gorgey should arrive with his corps, when the junction of the two would have given them sufficient force to justify a battle ; but he had mistaken his orders, and, instead of keeping to the heights, had descended, and, under a false impression of the enemy's numbers, had attacked them without waiting for any reinforcements. We ascended a hill by the way, from which we could plainly see the two armies, and even distinguish the several regiments, when ever the smoke was swept away for a short time by the breeze. The thunder of the cannon was fearful, and ap peared to grow more furious every moment. The battle seemed to approach continually nearer to us. We hurried forward, therefore, to Ikman, where we found the whole population assembled round the church, in order to hear the accounts, which some, who had ascended the tower, gave from time to time of the progress of the conflict. The excitement of the crowd was truly painful ; it was easy to see that they wished the Hungarians to he victorious. Some wept, and some shouted, as if to encourage their champions, whilst others prayed aloud, " 0, God of llun gory, grant the victory to our brave countrymen. Let this village be destroyed, if it please thee, but save our soldiers from defeat." I ascended the tower myself, and obtained a position on one of the pinnacles, from which I could plainly discern the movement of the two armies. To those who have never seen large multitudes of men en yof social gaged in deadly cord has ex- re plenti- I, and the !es of the Jenny Lind is said to possess £150,000 in the funds. Dicken's Dornbey and Son has been translated into Russian. and published at St. Petersburgh. A turnkey of Coventry gaol has been sentenced to 14 years' transportation, for aiding a prisoner to escape. The London Papers advertise the Sixteenth thousand of Dr. Cumming's Sermon before the Queen at Balmoral. The Times states that the man who represents himself as the last survivor of Cook's voyages, is an impostor. A great quantity of jewellery was stolen from a shop in Bristol the week before last. The Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday very properly publi shed the name of a patty who had forwarded a fabri cated notice of a birth for insertion in that paper. The Rev. Mr. Langley, formerly a Unitarian preacher, at Ashton-under-Lyne, was found drowned in the canal near that town. Lieut. Clemison, of the 21st Regt. was killed at Glas gow last week, by being thrown from his horse just as he was mounting it. Nearly 4,000,000 - quarters of corn have been shipped at Naples for England during the past year, and freights con tinued high. Lady Massey Stanley has caused a fat bullock to be slaughtered, and the beef, together with a quantity of warm clothing, to be distributed amongst the poor in the vicinity of Haggerston. On Monday night there was a grand tee-total demon stration at Exeter-hall, at which nine working-men related their experience in favour of the system of total abstinence. On Thursday last, a poor blind woman, named Light, residing on the Bail, at Folkstone, in attempting to swallow an oyster, was suffocated, the oyster being too large to pass down her throat. Six of the burglars engaged in the robbery at Misses Farncombe, of Downlauds, have been apprehended. with part of the stolen property in their possession. Two of them have been identified by the butler. At Abingdon sessions, last week, a well-dressed young man, named Dace, a teacher of music, was sentenced to transportation for life for stealing a gold pencil case. He had been previously twice convicted of felony. The Postmaster- Ge neral has given orders that all the town receiving-houses in the kingdom shall resume re ceiving registered letters, a practice which had for some time ceased. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have jointly presented to the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress the sum of £203 towards the almshouses for indigent foreigners. An old man, 85 years of age, named Edward Pritchard, farmer, residing at Pwllangau, near Holyhead, has put a period to his existence by hanging himself to a tree at the back of his own house. A lunatic gentleman gave himself into custody in Lon don, on Wednesday, stating that he had absconded from Montreal, where he had embezzled, from a bank, upwards of £7OO. He is very respectably connected, and was soon liberated. At a meeting of the Saint Pancras board of guardians, last Tuesday, the master's report stated that a girl, aged 17, who had been 12 years in the workhouse, left the house in consequence of her having suddenly come into possession of £1,750. A storm and flood of unprecedented height occurred at Carlisle, Penrith, Appleby, and the neighbourhood, on Now Year's-day. We are glad to learn, however, that the damage caused by the inundation has been much than might have been expected from its magnitude. Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal, of the Ist instant, contains a long account of festive proceedings at Oswestry on the occasion of the presentation of plate, purchased by subscriptions amounting to £258 45., to Peploe Cart wright, Esq. The corporation of King's College Hospital propose to introduce a measure in the ensuing session enabling them to hold lands for the purposes of the college, for providing sites for the hospital, for approaches thereto, and for pulling down the present buildings. A letter from the master of a vessel newly arrived in the Thames from South Wales, mentions, that the Bright man, of London, was taking in a cargo at Sydney, for Ca lifornia, consisting of ready-made coffins, which were filled with bottled beer One of the prisoners in the Queen's Prison, London, it would be impossible to de- has been confined there since 1812. His name is Dufrene, cribe the sensations with which I looked upon the awful and he was committed to prison by the Commissioners of ..cone. The two armies were drawn up in nearly parallel Bankruptcy for not satisfactorily answering questions lines, and from each there issued a continued stream of about his books of account. fire, which was all the more dreadful from being partially The bullion in both departments of the Bank has de obscured by the smoke, that rolled upwards heavily, and creased from £14,963,681 to £14,830,118, being a differ formed a dark canopy above the infuriated combatants. ence of £133,563. The paper in actual circulation had The wind occasionally swept away the sulphureous clouds, increased from £19.825,901 to £20,286,251, being a dif and revealed the straight lines of soldiers, like stone walls ference of £460,350. —immoveable and brilliant with fire : but the thick black THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—SO great is the influx of vapour soon again hid them from our view. From time people expected to be from the midland districts to wit to time we observed bodies of horsemen issue from out of ness the exhibition during May and the following months, the clouds of smoke, and rush up to the opposing columns; that the Midland Railway Company are building 100 new sometimes they penetrated through them, and at others carriages for the conveyance of passengers. they were received with a frightful discharge of cannon, Punch, in his Almanac, represents an omnibus as family before which they were swept back like dust. This con- lodgings in the forthcoming Exhibition time. This is his tinned for about an hour, without any perceptible change fun ; but a party of American gentlemen have bought a having taken place in the relative positions of the two ar- ship to visit the Exhibition, and mean to live in it and lilies. We then noticed that, at each end of the Austrian give parties during their stay in the metropolis, or rather line, the stream of fire was advancing, and the whole line on the Thames. assuming a concave form, whilst the Hungarian line was Last week a woman, named Borthwick, and her daugh withdrawing at the corresponding points, and the line be- ter, were charged before the sheriff with attempting to coming convex. After a little time, the two seemed to extort money from a gentleman in Edinburgh. It ap mingle together in undietinguishable confusion ; the roll- peered thai, the prisoners!accused the gentleman of being ins of the musketry, and the thundering of the cannon, the father of twins, and on this plea, which was entirely became indescribably furious, and they began gradually to false, they were convicted and sentenced to eight months' relax, until at length the booming of the artillery alone imprisonment each. was heard at distant intervals, and then it ceased altoge- FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—On 'Wednesday afternoon a ther. The battle was lo s t and won. The Hungarians, young man of the name of Robinson (son of Mr. Robin out of eight thousand men which they had brought into son, of the Royal Oak Inn, Itchen), with two compani the field, lost one-half in killed, wounded, and prisoners. ons, went out in a sailing boat from Four Posts, near The other half had been completely surrounded, and had Southampton, but had not proceeded far before they were cut their way through the enemy. It was this heroic and overtaken by a violent storm, when the boat upset, and all successful attempt which had kindled up afresh the vivid- three were drowned. ness of the firing towards the close of the battle, and A vagrant prisoner at Market Rasen last week destroyed which gave the Hungarians the claim of superior valour, his old tattered clothes, and remained in his cell quite though victory had declared on the side the Austrians. naked, thinking the authorities would give him a better The remains of our little army retreated to the mountains, suit. The gaoler, however, cut a hole in an old sack, where they had an opportunity of reposing and recruiting and, putting it over his head, two other holes were cut themselves, after this hard-fought and disastrous day.— for his arms, and in this guise he was taken before a=- Baroness non Beck's Personal Adventures in Hungary, gistrate, who committed him to prison. /B 151 ritt Althls. Dr. Brindl ey delivered a lecture at Ormskirk, on Friday week, on " The Reformation historically considered." A number of white rats have lately iieeh discovered in the Ainsworth colliery, near Bury. At Preston, last week, a man was fined £5 for biting off the nose of a man with whom he had had a quarrel a few hours-previously. T. B. Addison, Esq., has served the Preston Town Council with a writ for the recovery of £52 10s., the amount of his salary as recorder. The Council dispute the amount. Mr. Nicholls, the Chester county-bridge-master, is to have his salary raised from £3OO to £4OO, with the under standing that his time and services are to be devoted en tirely to the duties of his office. The magistrates of Southport have fined four men £5 each for throwing burning coals upon a half-witted crea ture, named Mary Johnson, and stealing several cakes from her basket, because she refused to treat them with drink. On Sunday W. J. Livingston, aged fourteen years, preached at the Phonetic Institution, Stanley-street, Bury. It was stated that he commenced preaching when he was only seven years of age. There was a large con gregation. A QUEER Fix.—On Thursday morning, before day break, a policeman on duty in Radnor-street, Manchester, found a drunken man seated on the ground with his legs and arms thrust each through a pane of glass in a cellar window. The large cotton-miil of Messrs. Wallace and Co., Chepstow-street, Manchester, was destroyed by fire on Friday. The loss is estimated at £22,000. The building was insured in the Plicenix-office for £6,000, and the stock and machinery in the West of England, the Alliance, the Royal Exchange, and the Manchester, for £4,000 each. An inquest was held on Wednesday, at Rochdale, on the bodies of two young females, named Martha Farrow and Sarah Kegg, who had lost their lives by the falling of a floor in a woollen mill of Messrs. John Chadwick and Son, Okenrod. A steam-pipe crossing the rcom from the boiler was broken, and upwards of twenty persons were scalded. At the adjourned quarter sessions held at Kputsford,on Wednesday, the following gentlemen qualified as magis trates for the county of Chester : Edward Joynson, Esq , Downs-cottage, Altrincham ; William Nield, Esq., High lawn, Bowdon ; Edmund Ilaworth, Esq., Sale-lodge, for the Altrincham district; and Captain Lyon, (the eldest son of Thomas Lyon, Esq.), of Appleton-hall; Dennis Brundrit, Esq.,, South-bank ; and Philip Whiteway, Esq. of Waterloo-road, for the Runcorn district. CAUTION TO LOVERS OF SHELL FISH.—On Tuesday evening a son of Mr. Robert Farmer, builder, St. Helen's, immediately after having eaten about half a dozen whelks. felt the effect of their poisonous nature. His frame swelled, his eyes became glossy, his lips turned black, and hard blotches appeared on various parts of his body. Mr. Webster, surgeon, was promptly applied to, and under his judicious treatment the young man• may be said to have recovered. MANCHESTER, JAN. B.—A public Free Library and Museum for the working and other inhabitants of this borough, is about to be established here. It is proposed to raise, including the purchase-money of the building, a sum of about £7500 to accomplish the object in view. 76 gentlemen and firms have given £4319, to which may be added the sum of £2OOO, which has been appropriated by the overseers to this purpose, believing that it is essen tiallya public purpose and for the public advantage. A little chim . nei-sweeper has perished at Manchester in the flue of a manufactory. It appeared at the inquest that there was a great want of caution in the engineer and the master-sweeper. The flue had not been sufficiently cooled and ventilated, and the poor boy was suffocated by the heated gases, as well as by falling on the hot soot. The coroner's jury directed that a copy of the depositions be sent to the Watch Committee, with a request that the Parties concerned should be prosecuted for using climbing boys contrary to law. DOINGS OF THE CONFERENCE PARTY IN BOLTON. — Since the expulsion of Messrs. Ormerod, Raper, and Harrison, the dominant party have requested the super intendents of the Fletcher-street Sunday-school to dis. miss Mr. Raper from the office of teacher ; the superin tendents refused ; Mr. Raper offered to withdraw if the teachers thought the interests of the school would be promoted ; the teachers decided that Mr. Raper should remain, and if anything could be alleged against him, it should be done according to rule, at the next quarterly meeting in February next. The upshot of the matter is, that the trustees have closed the Sunday school. The officers of the school are advised that, being the tenants, and paying the rent, they could command an entrance, but have refrained from doing so. On Sunday week, the officers, teachers, and scholars, found the school doors barricaded and defended ; they stood in the rain till the chapel opened. Last Sunday, the doors were again fastened up, the school-yard being filled with trustees and police-officers (!) stationed in front of the gates. Thus 700 scholars, or an average attendance of 500, are scat tered to the winds. The teachers have, however, taken them to their houses, and instructed them there. It is rumoured that the school will be opened under new management on Sunday next —Preston Guardian. Jan: 14, 1851. COUNTY SESSIONS.—On Wednesday, the adjourned annual general sessions of the peace for this county was held at Preston, the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks in the chair. It was resolved to borrow £33,000 for the purpose of com pleting the two lunatic asylums. Mr. Harden submitted the following proposition :—" That the offer of Mr.. Alfred Bower Clayton to undertake the superintendence of all the county buildings in the Hundred of West Derby, without any addition to his present salary as hundred bridgemaster, be accepted." On a division this motion was defeated. Mr. Addison, in an eloquent speech, in troduced the subjoined proposition :—" That a memorial be presented to the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and a petition to the House of Commons, pray ing that the mode of appointing clerks of the peace for the several counties and other jurisdictions in England and Wales, the tenure of their office, and the advantage of remunerating them rather by salaries than by fees, may be taken into consideration." This was unanimously agreed to, and also another memorial to the Home Secretary, praying for reform in the manner of appointing coroners. CRIME IN LANCASHIRE. — The public are again in• debted to the Rev. John Clay, 8.D., chaplain of Preston House of Correction, for one of his most able and most valuable reports on the state and causes of crime in Lan cashire. In addition to the large amount of important information contained in the report, Mr. Clay has this year, at great trouble, added two highly useful plates ; one showing, at a glance, the relative degrees of crimi nality in the English counties as derived from the mean of the four years, 1841-4-7 and 9 ; and the other shewing, at one view, the relative yearly progress of population and crime in each of the different counties from 1834 to 1849. inclusive. From this latter, we find that out of the 41 counties North Lancashire stands thirty-fourth upon the list, that is to say, it is, all but seven (York,. North umberland, Derby, Cornwall, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland), relatively, the least criminal division of England. From other data afforded, it is ehewn to have fewer criminals, in proportion to the population, than all the counties, except four, Cornwall, Cu►nberl ' and, Cumberland, Durham, and Derby—the convicted being one in 1,112 only ; in Worcester it is one in 383 ! South Lancashire does not, of course, exhibit anything like so favourable a view. DISFIGUREMENT BY A SURGEON.—Within the last few days considerable excitement has prevailed in Black burn, in consequence of its having become generally known that Mr. Rogerson, surgeon, had branded a boy's forehead by marking thereon with caustic a large B. It appears that for some time vast Mr. Rogerson has been greatly annoyed by " run-away rings" at his house; and on Sunday week, hearing a forcible pull at the bell, he immediately ran out, caught a lad named William Woods, and locked him up in his surgery from a quarter to half an hour. Then he got some caustic, and held the boy whilst he rubbed on his forehead the letter B. By Ist Victoria, c. 58, it is enacted that whosoever shall cast or throw upon, or otherwise apply to any person any corrosive fluid or other destructive matter, with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable any person, or to do some grievous bodily harm, shall be guilty of a felony," the punishment of which is transportation for life,and not less than fifteen years;. or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for not more than three years.—At an inquiry heforo the ma gistrates, the medical witnesses differed in their opinions as to the effect of the application, some saying the brand would never be effaced, and others that it would totally disappear in twelve months. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-1. understand there is a report current in some circles of Liverpool, that I did not receive more than twenty pounds during my stay at St. Matthew's, Key street ; and I shall feel much obliged by your permitting me to give that report, through the medium of your jour nal, the most unqualified denial. When the church filled, I received a salary at the rate of £l6O per annum ; up to that period, proportionately, from £l2O to £ICO. Th• injury such a report must do the cause that we all have, I trust, at heart, must plead my apology for thus requesting a space in your columns.—l am, sir, &c., G. CUTHBERT. Nottingham, Jan. 9, 1851 LORD JOHN MANNERS AND THE REPRESEN TATION OF LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—I cordially coincide in the spirit which has eli cited your lucid article on the future representation of Liverpool. We have seen enough of late to warn us that it is high time to merge our minor differences, and to rally in defence of the pure Protestantism of onr Church--to defend her more from treacherous friends than avowed and open tots ! With Puseyism I have no sympathy, but would feel a contemptuous indignation towards the man who would attempt to brand me with such a character ; and, sir, it is this jealousy for my own reputation that leads me to question—though not to deny—the propriety of the ver dict which you and your correspondent " Beware" have passed upon the religious tenets of Lord John Manners. I attentively read both your article and the letter you published, and must confess I do not find any just grounds for the accusation which you have brought against his lordship. It may be true that his lordship is a mem ber of the London Church Union, but it would require something more than the unsupported assertion of an anonymous correspondent, however respectable, to con vince me that that society was founded for the express purpose of promoting Puseyite principles, because such an assertion at once makes his lordship an abettor of those semi-Romish practices, which (until stronger proof be found) I• will yet believe his lordship, as well as yourself, sincerely. deprecates. I am indeed sorry to find these differences of opinion existing as to the actual state of his Lordship's opinion on these important matters ; however, I, will cling with confidence to his Lordship's assertion—" I AM A MEM BER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AND A FOLLOWER OF NO MAN," which was uttered by his Lordship in this town prior to the last election. He said also in the Am phitheatre,—" IN THE BOSOM OF THE CHURCH OF ENG LAND I WAS BORN, AND IN HER BOSOM I HOPE TO DIE, AND NEITHER BY WILL, WORD, OR DEED HAVE I WISHED, OR DO I DESIRE, TO ALTER ANY ONE OF HER ACKNOW LEDGED ORDNANCES, HER RECEIVED INSTITU TIONS AND CEREMONIES !" Sir, with you I will stick to the last tatter of the pure Protestantism and Apostolic simplicity of our national church—a church which can boast of a liturgy as spotless, of doctrines as scriptural, of an origin as divine, of sons as devoted, and of martyrs as magnanimous. as any other church in any age of the world. I love her for her his toric, for her scriptural, for her tolerating character ; but I. must acknowledge I never loved her so much as now, when she has, by her steadfast sons, manifested her in tention to be consistent with herself and her reputation, by still resisting the unchanged ambition of the now withered heart but yet grasping arms of Rome ! • 4 5, If I thought that Lord John Manners (with all his many excellencies) was capable of entertaining the treacherous feelings towards her which Puseyites do, and have done, I would, with avidity an.l earnestness, support, in preference to him, even such a one as Sir Thomas Bernard Birch ! But no ; his- lordship is a man of honour, and he has given us his word ; he has given us his opinions in language which, when I read it, I igno rantly thought could not be mistaken. There are many in Liverpool (profiters by. the distractions of the last borough election) who will leave no effort untried to establish " the wish which is the father of the thought ;" but that, I am satisfied, will not succeed. I have long thought Mr. Horsfall eminently qualified , for the business of the House of Commons ; and I am sure, that if a deputation, impartially chosen, were to wait upon his lordship, and learn the true nature of his• views, there would be no longer any difficulty in accepting his lordship and Mr. Horsfall as the Protestant and Protectionist candidates at the next election. Your known impartiality, and the tone of your article on his lordship's principles, make it altogether unnecessary for me to make any appeal to your sense of justice to publish this letter in your next.—l am, sir, &c., A PROTESTANT AND PROTECTIONIST. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR.,—As an elector who has liberty to dispose of his own vote at any forthcoming election, and who can also influence others, I beg to thank you most heartily for your timely note of war and warning contained in your paper of the 7th instant. Your trumpet has not sounded t h a e n r d an d e i c n i : r e e d s s n g s o r u e n s p d e , n p s e r a f y r o l m e t t i h t e n h o e t a d r t ie s the alarm, one hour too soon ; and now that you have away, but keep it echoing constantly, and I verily believe giveni w will e d n a i e y l e g e a r of the Protestant electors of this borough. This country is now passing through a crisis in her his tory. Such a crisis demands men of the right stamp ; and let us all make it known in due time that Lord J. Manners is not the man for the crisis ! We are beleaguered by Papists, betrayed by Tractarians, trepanned by Jesuits. The man we require must have no congeniality whatever with any of the three treacherous parties ; he must be an entirely unsuspected man ; one at whom no one could point the finger and say, " I have read that man's poetry and prose ; I have watched his proceedings in the House of Commons, and read his speeches ; I have observed his conduct in connection with Church Unions, and I am firmly disposed to conclude that he has far more conge niality with Mr. Bennett and Dr. Pusey, and Mr. Dods worth, than he has with our noble primate the Archbishop of Canterbury, or with the Dean of Bristol." Now, Sir, this will not do for us in Liverpool. Let us proclaim it at once, broadly and fearlessly,— We will have no Tractarian, no suspected man, as member for our Protestant town ?! ! Let every Protestant elector make up his mind, and at once, decidedly, on this important subject. Let us not be gulled with such terms as " sound Angli. can Churchman." This is only the Romish gilding on a poisoned pill. Let us not be told that Lord John Man ners protested against Tract No. 90 : that is only saying that he swallowed with a relish eighty-nine of them, but found the ninetieth make him sick, and so he threw it up. We must have no tract eaters,—no compromisers, —no man who has aught to do with " the unclean thing." If it be true that " Liverpool loves a Lord" for her re presentative, then let us have one about whom there is and can be no mistake. If, as I think, she can do well without one, there can be no objection to the worthy merchant gentleman you have named. lam prepared to add, the present members will not do. No, neither of them !—Yours, &c., A TORY ELECTOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Will you allow me to recommend to the notice of your readers a very interesting little work, entitled "Secret instructions of the Jesuits," published at three pence, by Simpkin and Seeleys, and sold in Liverpool. It is a work which should be universally read by those who value and are desirous to maintain " civil and religious li berty."—Yours faithfully, A SUBSCRIBER.