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WHAT IS THAT, MOTHER? (BY SIRS. HEMANS.) WHAT is that, mother? The lark, my child ! The morn has but just looked out, and smiled, When be starts from his humble grassy nest, And is up and away, with the dew on his breast, And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure, bright sphere, To warble it out in his Maker's ear; Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays Tuaed, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise. What is that, mother? The dove, my son And that low, sweet voice, like a widow's moan, Is flowing out from her gentle breast, Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For distant dear one's quick return ; Eve r , m y son, be thou like the dove, In friendship as faithful—as constant in love. What is that, mother? The eagle, boy ! Proudly careering his course of joy ; Firm, on his own mountain vigour relying, Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying; g"# on the wind, and his eye on the sun, If es not a hair, but bears onward, right on ; ay the eagle's flight ever be thine— Onward, and upvral d, and true to the line. What is that, mother? The swan, my love! He is floating down from his native grove; No loved one now, no nestling nigh, He is floating down, by himself to die; Death d:•r!< s his eye, and unplumes his wings, Yet his s, test song is the last he sings; Live so, my love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. Pelham ; or, Adventures of a Gentleman. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With a Notice of the Author and his Works. London : Geo. Routledge and Co. Among the marvels of the present age—and they -are numerous and astounding—few are so deserving of wonder, combined with gratitude, as the facili ties afforded to even the humblest classes for becoming acquainted with the mental labours of those who confer upon our times an impress derived from intellect. These facilities •are fur nished by a variety of instruments, the chief of which is the printing press, and its successes in this way are attained by a rapidity of action and a cheapness of production which, but a year or two ago, would have been pronounced as impossible, as its prediction would have been held incredible. The author, whose earliest finished work of fiction is now before us, in a form so concise and so cheap as to excite astonishment, has contributed in no slight degree to modulate the intellectual " form and pressure" of our era. The writings of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, even when they could only be ob tained in an expensive form, had a wide circula tion, and attained and exercised a powerful influence over the public mind. Most of his works have been reprinted again and again, and in general at a decreasinc , price, and with a growing popularity, till now, in the hands of Messrs. Routledge, if we may be pardoned the Hibernicism, they have reached the acme of cheapness. Here in a single volume we have the whole of " Pelham," published at a rate not greater than used to be charged for a night's perusal of it from a circulating library, the cost not greatly exceeding that of an artisan's mid day meal. Added to the novel there is also a biographical and critical account of the author and his works, which of itself would be cheap at the price charged for the whole. To offer criticism on " Pelham," or to attempt to analyse its beauties, after these have been felt and acknowledged for a quarter of a century, would indeed be a supererogatory labour ; to attempt a depreciation of its merits would now be a task as unavailing as it would be thankless. Instead of essaying such fruitless labour, we shall content our selves with bearing testimony to the sound judg ment and intelligence displayed in the analytical essay prefixed to the volume, in which the writer gives a catalogue raisonne of the author's works interspersed with anecdotes. It is well written, and displays candour as well as good taste, as will be seen from the annexed SUMMAEY OF BULWER LYTTON'S GROUNDS OP SUCCESS. By the hints scattered through his writings, and by what is known of his career, we can trace him through so many forms of society, and observe him at home in all. The child escaping from his stately home to the hearth of cottagers ; the school-boy, vehement in sport and daunt less in combat ; the Cambridge student declaiming at the Debating Society, and employing the long vacations to wander over England and Scotland alone and on foot ; the young man of fashion at ease in the gay circles of London and Paris, and lightly adventuring into the haunts of thieves and outlaws, to learn the manners depicted in "Pelham" and "Paul Clifford ;" the secluded scholar studying metaphysics and Greek in rural solitudes ; the active member of parliament contesting elections, partici pating in the dry toil of committees and the animated field-days of debate ; the accomplished traveller studying aesthetics in Germany and antiquities in Rome ; the hospi table country gentleman, the oracle of farmers and the companion of squires—through all such phases passed the man who has traced with so easy a Skill the " Varieties of E ?2,lish Life." And in all this he has been true to his own favourite maxim—" that the duty of man is not to be one thing alone, but to accomplish as far as possible all the faculties of his mind, and the faculties will lead of them selves to the objects in which he is most fitted to excel." "If," says Goethe, " we do but our duty to our own minds, we shall soon come to do it to the world." And in Bnlwer this comprehensiveness of study and life has been pre served from that satiety and weariness which often attend extreme cultivation by an energy that seems never to know repose, and which all temporary failure, all hostile criti cism, has only nerved into more stubborn perseverance. No writer has owed so little to partisanship and cliques— no writer been so assailed at the commencement of his career, and at each new direction of his powers ; he has never used his social influence to obtain favourers in the press—he has descended to none of the acts by which authors are forced into notoriety by reviewers—he has fought his way to his present eminence single-handed, and owes his success even less to his genius than (to use the expressive English word for the stout English quality) his indomitable pluck. Without committing ourselves in any degree to presumed admiration of our author's expressive English word," we confess entire concurrence in his statement of the fact communicated. Inde pendent, manly intellect will never be beholden to the ephemeral influences of clique or coterie. Small minds may derive a factitious importance and attain a spurious reputation from the hypbcri tical adulation of industrious sycophants ; but he who would occupy a niche in the temple of Fame must at least be able to stand alone and upright— the " God of Day" requires no rush-light to point attention to his beams. The author of the memoir gives several illustrations of Bulwer's celerity of invention as a dramatic author ; among others the following account of the production of " THE LADY OF LYONS." Mr. Macready had just undertaken the management of Covent-garden with the honourable design to restore the English drama. One evening the manager, speaking to Bulwer of his risks and fears, said, " Oh ! if I could get a play like the 'Honeymoon !' " In legs than a fortnight from that evening the " Lady of Lyons" was written, and in Macready's hands. It is unnecessary to speak of the extraordinary success which attended this play. It was produced without the name of the author. On the first night of the performance, Bnlwer was engaged upon a con stitutional debate in the House of Commons, and, after having spoken there with great success, went to the theatre just in time to see the curtain drop amidst the rapturous applause of the audience. Of Bulwer's general sympathy with the too frequently unfortunate, worldly position of literary men, we have a fine example in the history of his most recent dramatic labour, "NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM." We should here touch briefly on Bulwer's last dramatic composition. The causes that conduced to it are well known. In the autumn of 1850, a large party of friends, eminent in letters and art,—Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Mark Lemon, John Forster,—and the artists Egg, Leach, Stone, and, we believe, Maclise, had assem bled at Knebworth, (Bulwer's residence in Herts,) and delighted a rural audience with the exhibition of their theatrical talents in Ben Jonson's comedy, " Every Man in his Humour." Before separating, the conversation turned upon the melancholy condition of a well-known man of letters ; and the idea was started to perform a play in the provinces, the profits of which should be applied to the relief of certain authors in distress. "But w hy not to the foundation of some permanent fund for the aid of all writers struggling against fortune now and hereafter P Why not to the establishment of fixed annui ties, rather than the temporary relief to which the laws of the Literary Fund confine that institution? Why not to the foundation of a joint benefit society,—such as the trading classes found for themselves, and from which the idea of eleemosynary degradation is properly excluded Why not couple with such a so. Such were the variousciety some of the usef u l and dignified objects o f a college :" suggestions that grew out of the first proposals, and into which Bulwer entered with all the earnestness he has ever evinced for whatever can benefit or raise men of letters by profession. " If you will act a play," said he, " I will write it. If we can gain money enough to found retreats for authors—whatever name we may decide to bestow on these retreats—l will give you the land." All present Elegged themselves with enthusiasm to the undertaking. - -Lhe comedy of "Nor so BAD As WE SEEM" was thus wr itten , The plan was made known to the Duke of Dp v --"silire and received his grace's cordial co-operation. A roo m in the and the pl ay A. duke's house was fitted up for a theatre, Majesty and pruiepii acted there for the first time, before her to the e Albert. It was afterwards transferred Hanover -square Rooms, thence it went the round of the provin ces . The to the itself, written as a piece d' occasion, ad a p t amateur performers, and the peculiar talents of selected interest, is not to be judged little relief from female 1 5;.the severe rules of criti cism. As a play of character, is excellent ; as a play of interest, it is deficient ; and th e scenes and situations, though often strong in themselves, are not connected sufficiently with the absolute necessities of the plot. Bulwer's real merit here is not in the play, it is in the object for which the play was composed. The extracts we have given speak fairly, and we think favourably of the prefatory essay with which the cheap edition of Bulwer's works is ushered into the world. We shall be happy to hail the succeeding volumes, as welcome additions to our economical literature. Blacktcood's Magazine.—Edinburgh : Blackwoods. This magazine is always welcome, and the num ber for the present month is well deserving of the reception which it meets wherever the refinement of English literature is appreciated. It opens with an article on " Abyssinian Aberrations," the review of a work by an author of singular expe rience, Mr. Mansfield Parkyns, an amateur bar barian, who left England when a very young man, plunged into the heart of Abyssinia, and adopted savage life with an earnestness and gusto suffi ciently proved by his book. As the reviewer observes : Fancy a civilised Englishman, gently nurtured and edu cated, pitching his tent for three years amongst filthy savages, adopting their dress and usages, rubbing his head with butter, sleeping with the butt of his rifle for a pillow—the grease from his plaited locks being "benefi cially employed in toughening the wood"—having himself partially tattooed, eating raw beef, substituting raw sheep's liver, soused in vinegar, for oysters, discarding hats and shoes, and going bareheaded and barefoot under the broiling sun and over the roadless wastes of Abyssinia, burning and gashing his flesh in order to produce peculiar scars and protuberances, deemed ornamental by the people amongst whom he dwelt, and, upon his return home, coolly writing down and publishing his confessions. The third part of " The Quiet Heart" continues the story with increasing interest in its progress, as the characters and their proceedings are more developed, while there is a quiet tone about it which will commend it to many readers. An article on the National Gallery reviews, with much taste and ability, the Report of the Commission, and offers some valuable suggestions on a subject which has been too much neglected in this country. After " a glance on Turkish History," which has a particular interest at this time, when we are on the verge of a war, for the protection of the sublime Porte from the paw of the great Bear, and a review of Macaulay's Speeches, revised by himself, there is an entertaining paper on " Fifty Years in both Hemispheres," by a German mer chant, of a singularly adventurous and speculative turn. " A Sporting Settler in Ceylon" gives some very exciting accounts of the hunting of elephants, elks, and other wild animals, with the many hair breadth escapes of which he was himself the hero. The number concludes with a well-written critique on Gray's poetry and letters, which have been recently published ; and once more we have no political essay, Blackwood reserving himself, we suppose, until the meeting of Parliament shall have given political movements a more definite form. The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : James M`Glashan. The February number of this favourite periodical fully sustains its usual excellence of character. It opens with a racy paper on " The Food of the Irish," in which every possible mode of cooking and using the potato is discussed with much gusto and in excellent spirit. The many blessings which accompanied the culture of that esculent are dwelt on with fondness, and displayed in glowing language ; the miseries inflicted by its utter destruction are described with harrowing pathos. The results which have ensued from its annihilation are given in the following REFLECTIONS ON THE POTATO FAILURE. The potato failure and its consequences, to a certain degree, helped to quench the rebellion. In large towns or crowded districts, when the people suffer from want of food, outrage and rebellion may thrive ; but in a scattered agricultural district it is far otherwise, and this was forcibly exhibited in the Ballingarry affair, when the insur gents were told to go home at night to get their suppers ! By the ruin of the potato failure much of the hollowness and forced display of our poor gentry was exposed. The contrast between England and Ireland was heretofore strongly shown in the differences between the several classes of society. The Irish peasant lacked all the comforts of the same class in England ; while the upper classes here revelled in expensive mansions, fine equipages, rich dresses, and routes and festivities, which the same class in England never aimed at. The Irish gentleman with £5OO a-year lived in a condition that the Englishman with £l,OOO a-year never aspired to ; consequently the one grew poorer and the other grew richer year by year. This arose in part from race and breeding, and also from the peculiar condition of the country. The Irishman was a gentleman often highly connected, and generally possessed a collegiate education ; the Englishman was a farmer, who could just read and write ; the Englishman drove his own market cart—the Irishman hired a coachman to drive his barouche. In the same paper we have also complicated yet interesting discussions on the various topics affect ing the social condition of the Irish people. " Memoirs of the Count de Lally," Part IL, also contribute to swell the number of agreeable and instructive papers of which the magazine consists. Dramatic amateurs will find information happily blended with amusement in " A Second Peep at the Dramatic Gallery of the Garrick Club," which abounds with well-told anecdotes. The Chemistry of Common L. By Jas. P. W. Johnston, M.A. Edinburgh : Wm. Blackwood and Sons. The second and third parts of this valuable con tribution to the popular science of the day are now before us. They embrace chemical consideration of " The soil we cultivate—the plant we rear," and " The bread we eat—the beef we cook." To every member of the community the inquiries conducted, and the results set before us, in these pages, are of the greatest importance. It is only right, how ever, to say that the titles above quoted are used as types of the various subjects to which they relate. Under them we find fully and philoso phically, as well as popularly, discussed the various processes of vegetation, and the peculiar properties and relations of vegetable and animal food. We have also valuable information relative to the best and most economical modes of preparing the different kinds of nutriment we use ; and, in short, in the work before us, we are furnished with prac tical directions for the best uses of nature's best gifts. Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : Jas. Hogg. The number of Hogg's Instructor for the current month is an excellent one. It is, as usual, varied in contents, and cleverly written. As a manual of popular literature, it takes a high position, and is entitled to occupy it.; Kidd' s Own Journal. London : Spooner. Mr. Kidd has long been favourably known to the public for his numerous notes on singing birds, and the enthusiasm of his love for the beauties of nature. This is a taste which ever appeals suc cessfully to a rightly-constituted mind, and it is, therefore, gratifying to believe that in the con ducting of a monthly magazine the author has met with a good share of success. The work before us is devoted to natural history, popular science, family fancies and things in general, plea sant descriptions, moral essays, zoology and botany, poetry, and the many varieties which, while they appeal to the better feelings of humanity, assist in cultivating a taste for innocent pleasures. With out any tales of romantic fiction to excite• the young, it is a work that may be confidently recom mended for the domestic circle, as providing en tertainment and instruction for either sex, and any age; the love of nature commencing with the dawn of reason and only terminating with life. PALTITY OF LARGE TOWNS IN RITSSIA.—St. Peters burgh, Moscow, and Odessa, are the only cities whose population exceeds 100,000 ; indeed, there is some doubt whether that of Odessa reaches this figure. There are only four towns containing more than 50,000 inhabitants each, and 18 or 20 with a population exceeding 25,000. In fact, it has been computed from the official reports that there is only one town with an average population of 7,000, in an area of 130 square miles. Now, the result of this is obvious. The absence of any market renders it unnecessary for the proprietor, who has no facilities for transporting his grain to a seaport, to grow more than sufficient for his own consumption ; and the peasant only cultivates land enough to yield the produce required to support his own family.—Shores of the Black Sea. A SCENE AT THE WELSH SLATE QUARRIES.—The most remarkable place in the vicinity, for its human and social interest, is Bethesda—a town whose very name shows that it owes its origin to a body of persons among whom reli gious feeling is strong. Bethesda is a quarrymen's town, a slate community. Dissenters are in full force all over the principality, and nowhere more so than at the quarries. We happened to be at Bangor on the day when the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists held their annual field-meeting in that town, and shall not soon forget the sight ; so neat, so clean, so earnest, so simple-minded, so honest-hearted, did they all appear. They came from the quarries, from Con way, from Carnarvon, from Beaumaris, from every place within many miles around Bangor; they sang their un pronounceable Welsh with good healthy lungs ; and sat on chairs, or carts, or waggons,or reclined on the grass, under a bright blue sky and a cheerful sun, to listen to discourses. Such was a great day for the quarrymen; but for all ordi nary occasions they have their own chapels in their own Bethesda. And they have their retail shops, too, where David ap Jones ap Price ap Davies ap Morgan ap Shenkin, and his brother tradesmen, sell bread, cloth, pins, herrings, lucifers, candles, penny pictures, saucepans, leeks, lollipops, and all the other necessaries and luxuries fora working poptilatio. — Hotteehold Words, ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. EDUCATION FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES. LETTER IV. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Snt,—The condition (mutual, moral, and religious) of the negro population in the West Indies, about the time of emancipation, and also at the present time, must now occupy our attention, before propounding any system of education for them, as best suited to their wants, and most in consonance with the peculiar characteristics of the negro mind. In their state of slavery all their nobler faculties were repressed ; there was no freedom of operation for them ; but at the same time that this was the case, it must also be acknowledged that many of their grosser passions were likewise subdued and kept under. Thus, at the time of emancipation, the negroes, men tally considered, were mere children—a lot of good humoured, spoiled children : like children, capable of being moulded into good or evil, according to the measures observed towards them ; like children, too, 'requiring at times to be guided, at times to be coaxed, and at times to be mastered and forced into the right way. Their con dition then depended upon the disposition of their masters. To be industrious and accumulate money they had no incentive ; the only incentive to save was, that they might either purchase their freedom, or provide for a decent interment at their decease. These were then the only objects before them ; but it is changed now. They desire, at the present time, to become proprietors ; to be in dependent ; and to be this, in some of the larger islands, many have betaken themselves to the system of " squat ting,' so largely practised in the backwoods of America and the bush territory of Australia. Negro villages have arisen in the unfrequented parts of some of the islands. They have sought independence by isolation and seclusion; but the far greater number has sought this desirable thing by honest, hard labour ; winning their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, as God commanded our first parent Adam, when he sent him into the world, and also saving a little money for the purpose of buying land. Their physical comforts, at the time of emancipation, were few, and what they had were of a very common kind. Since then they have greatly increased, both in quantity and quality. Naturally fond of display, their wearing apparel is now of a far better description; on Sundays and fito days the men appear in the best broad cloths, and the females in the best muslin and cottons ; the latter are sometimes dressed in such an extravagant manner as to take up more than a due proportion of the queen's highway, when going to church. The Kilmarnock night caps, which used to be so common on the heads of the men before emancipation, have given place to the best beaver hats. The negro also desires now that his cottage should be weather tight, so as to keep out the wind and rain, and that his bed should be raised from the ground. This is the best aspect in which their improvements can be viewed ; morally, their progress has not been so much. The rights of meum and tuum are still imperfectly under stood, and not so much regarded as they should be ; neither is the obligation to speak the truth, very seriously entertained. The want of correct religious principles is still visible among them, and the same debasing belief and fear of witchcraft and sorcery. In proof of the latter I have the evidence of a gentleman holding an important situation under:the British crown. Writing from Jamaica, to a friend in England, about the end of last August, he says—" Following your advice, I have repeatedly endea voured to open a sort of private school, to teach the negroes in the evenings, after my own duties are done; but I cannot get them to come to me ; many of them make an absurd superstition, their excuse for not doing so, for when I call them and ask them why they do not come, they will answer, "Massa, me no able for come." Asking them, " Why you no able for come ?" they answer, "Hi masisa, pertly (spirit) will knock me down." They fancy, he says, that if they go out after nightfall, the "Dappy " of some defunct white man will meet and knock theta on the head ; and negroes have frequently related to me stories, with the greatest assurance, of ghosts having met black men, and done them serious bodily harm. Even Mrs P. (his wife's old nurse) still maintains having seen a ghost three times, and shakes her old head with pity at nay person who tries to convince her that such things . cannot be." Such is the testimony of one at present living in Jamaica, corroborating fully what I have said as to their superstitious belief in ghosts, witchcraft, sorcery, and so forth. Mr. Charles Bennett, in his report of the Island of St. Lucia, for 1841-2, writing to the Secretary for the Colonies, says—" How, alas ! (such is his exclamation.) can it be otherwise in a colony like this (he had before given the real state of the negroes), where amongst the numerous proprietory body there is a want of both means and in clination to aid in the moral and religious training of the labourers, and where two proprietors only have as yet made any endeavours to encourage education, and especially where, in those who call themselves the `better class,' rectitude of morals is the exception, not the rule ; and, consequently, where no other than bad examples are shown, and shown openly, too, to a race with whom exam ple is all powerful." When a gentleman can thus express himself—not in a private way, but in a public and studied one—to the minister of the crown in this country, about the deadness of the proprietors to the subject of education and its importance to the negroes, in 1842, nine years after emancipation, what must have been their apathy previous to that, when men's moral natures had not been so moved about the iniquitous system of slavery ? Their condition was what I have stated it to be. Physically they were men and had to do men's work, or their, backs paid for it: mentally, they were children, and manifested only childish habits and actions. Their defects in education has mani fested itself in many ways detrimental to their own in terests, and also to those of the different islands. No sooner has the negro got a small piece of land of his own, than he refuses to work at the very time when his labour is of most value to the community. When a planter sends, perhaps, for men,—who have importuned him very much for work a short time previously, when they wanted a little money,—and when his estate most needs their labour, they cannot be had. No ; they must first do their own little plots before they can work for the planter ; he may shift as he best can ; and thus the best and greatest interests of the islands are neglected. " Oh, massa," they will say to the planter, " what good for you good for us," and away they go to their own small plots to cultivate them, and rear yams, cocoas, and red peas, just sufficient for their own subsistence, and society may shift for itself. In Jamaica, many fine estates have been, in consequence, thrown out of cultivation; whole parishes have been de serted, and the local taxes fell so low in amount, that the finances of the whole island have been deranged. Shrewd observers have confidently affirmed that their attendance at church on Sundays and fete days arises more from a desire to emulate their former masters, than from a pure desire to worship God. It is the custom in the Romanist churches of some of the islands to put up the sitting, to public auction once in the .year. In the sales negro women have been known to purchase sittings over other people's heads, when their chief object in going to church has been to display their finery. These people, when the service is over, then begin to show their con gratulations in something like the following style :—" Hi ! Missy Letitia, you well an' ansum to-day." My fader, Missy Victoria, your gown tail dirty all up." " Chow, shut your mout, you black nigger," and so on ; while others, less seemingly devout, but more worldly wise than those just named, may be seen dealing out mangoes to thirsty customers, &c. It is the custom, too, for the small proprietors to go to church mounted ; for the negroes have each their horse, donkey, pigs, fowls, and goats. These he has no objections to allow going where they list; they may go on to his neighbours' grounds and no com punctions of conscience will be felt by him in consequence, so vague are his notions of the rights of individuals to private property—the meum and tuum of landed proprie tors. When any of their live stock dies they do not go and bury them, but toss them into the streets, and thus a person entering Kington, from whatever point he may, is sure to be saluted by the vilest odours and a Babel of sounds. These odours and sounds arise from the dead carcases lying the streets, and the live hogs, goats, dogs, and other animals, which crowd and block up the way. Another great evil is the light notions entertained among them of the sanctity of the marriage tie. Polygamy has been too common among them, and even at this day, in Jamaica, I have the authority of a gentleman, in whose veracity I place implicit reliance, for stating, that it is no uncommon thing for a negro to have two wives. Thus he has often a large family to provide for, and there being no law in the island to compel a father to support his illegitimate children, such as exists in England, he may turn his back upon a part of his family, and leave the community at large to provide for them. The consequence of this is, that the island is, in a measure, overrun by children who never knew their father. That this should be the case no one will doubt, who believes in the inherent depravity of human nature. It has been said, " Give but corrupt nature rope enough, and it will soon strangle every principle of God and religion in their tender years." And taking the peculiar condition of the negroes into consideration with the circumstances before named, their base notions of morality and indulgence in passions which have not been sufficiently repressed by the legislature, they are only verifying the old adage, and proving the fallenness of our common nature. We know that through the neglect of education in England, thousands have, year after year, been thrown upon the world, corrupting and corrupted ; their minds have been neglected, their training has been bad, their hearts no better than moral wastes, and their hopes vain and deceptive. These classes have now awakened the attention and sympathies of the public in their behalf, and in a little time a proper course of in struction and training will be adopted towards them, and their condition raised. To make them what they should be, a religious education must be given to them, with a course of industrial training. Religious instruction would act like a cleansing and purifying stream among them ; checking the cancer of ungodliness in every form, and meliorating the bitterness of poverty, disease, and woe, with which so many of them are afflicted in our highly privileged.country. So true is it that human nature, left to itself, will run into all kinds of vice ; thus, in stating the foregoing about the negroes, I am not degrading them below other races of the human family. All men living in the world without God and His religion are the same ; they are like sheep going astray, turning every one to his own way. I believe not in that school of philosophy which denies the negroes certain higher powers of the mind, because they have not certain physical peculiarities which other races have. This school has a standard by which it estimates the quality of the inner man by the outward one. I believe not in it. God can fill any breast with noble sentiments, whether it be white or table. That he has given to the white race such sentiments, and de nied them to our black brethren, I will not believe. Let us look now at the provision made for the religious and mental instruction of the people in the diocese of Barbadoes. It is an extensive one, including several of the islands, and was instituted in 1824. An archdeacon was appointed in 1837, and a rural-dean in 1840. Dr. Coleridge was ;the bishop, the Ven. Thos. Parry, ' archdeacon, and the Rev. R.F. King (rector of St. Philip's), rural-dean. The following are the names of the partshes, the number of square miles in each, and the amount of the populatieu. This is IA Barbadoes :--• Parishes. Square Miles. Population. Day & Sunday Schools St. Joseph 9s 7,000 St. Andrew 13; 5,000 St. Lucy 13} 8,000 Day schools 49 St. Peter 14 11,000 Scholars 3,994 St. James 12 6,000 Sunday schools 22 St. Thomas 13/ 7,500 Scholars 2,131 Total scholars in St. George 161 9,000 Church Schools 6,726 Total... 1661 120,000 12,922 Trinidad, in the same Diocese and Archdeacomy Square miles, 2,400 ; population, 6,000 ; church accom modation, 3,950 ; attenders, 2,530 ; communicants, 280. Island of Tobago, with one parish, containing four places of worship :—Square miles, 100; population, 14,000; church accommodation, 1,600; attenders, 1,300; com municants, 137. Day schools, 11; scholars attending them, 860. Sunday schools, 10; scholars, 710. Infant schools, 2. Total of scholars in Day, Infant and Sunday schools, 1,630. Rural-deanery of St. Vincent, island of St. Vincent : Parishes of St. George and St. Andrew united—square miles, 10; population, 7,000; church sittings, 1,300; worshippers, 800. St. Paul's Chapel, sittings, 700 ; wor shippers, 170. Temporary place of worship at Bnecor ment. St. Patrick's and St David's united, square miles, 40; population, 4,000. Charlotte parish, 24 miles in length—square miles, 80 ; population, 7,300. Beguia and the Gruradines—square miles, 20 ; population, 20,300 ; total church sittings, 5,580; attenders, 4,070; communi cants, 442. Total day schools, 15 ; number of scholars in them, 696. Infant schools, 2 ; scholars, 123. Sunday schools, 11; number of scholars, 1,077. Total Day, In fant, and Sunday schools, 37 ; number of scholars, 2,126. Rural-deanery of Gienada, Island of Grenada : Parishes. Square mi les. Population. St. George 26 9,000 St. James and St. Mark's united 24 5,000 St. Andrew and St. David 50 7,750 St. Patrick 16 2,300 Island of Carriacou 11 3,760 Total 27,810 Total church accommodation in the rural-deanery, 2,495; communicants, 250; day schools, 15.; number of scholars attending them, 856 ; infant schools, 3 ; number of scholars in them, 176 ; Sunday schools, 2 ; scholars, 41. Total, schools 25 ; scholars, 1,338, deducting 16 for mistakes in entering them. In my next, I shall beg to call your attention to the quantity of granted and ungranted lands in Trinidad ; also the number and extent of the West India islands, and their importance to Britain, with the amusements and general characteristics of the negroes, and show how their character might be raised by proper education. In the meantime, I have the honour to subscribe myself your very obedient servant, JiMES LIMEIL Liverpool, Feb. 2, 1854. LIVERPOOL WORKING MEN'S CHURCH ASSOCIATION. OPENING OF A NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP IN ST. AIDAN'S, LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIB,—In the hope that it may assist the effort which Mr. Rector Campbell is now so , zealously making to erect a new Church in St. Aidan's district, near the North Docks, I beg you will kindly permit me to lay before your readers the gratifying., and indeed I may say the deeply touching, scene of Sunday week last A room in the district of St. Aidan's, Liverpool, has been licensed for Divine worship by the Lord Bishop of Chester, and woo opened for the first time on Sunday week. The morning service was conducted by the Rev. Richard Dandy, the curate of the district. In the even ing prayers were read by him, and, I preached an opening sermon. _ _ _ The room, though- small, is the largest that could be procured in that district. It is• neatly fitted up as a tem porary place of worship, and is made to. resemble an ordi nary church as far as was practicable. It would be impossible to describe the feelings with. which I stood in its simple pulpit. Before me there was a most attentive congregation, every one of whom seemed, to express great joy at even so humble a place of worship having been provided for them. Many stood on the- stairs, unable to find room within, and many went away disappointed at being wholly unable to gala admittance through want of roan►. At one side there was a well arranged. choir, only too glad to give gratuitous service. Near me stood the earnest and zealous minister of the district, whose week-day labours from house to house already won for him the affec tion of its large population, between six and seven thousand. To him belongs the happy privilege of being paid through the two-penny contributions of the working classes—con tributions gladly and regularly offered. Throughout the room were the members of the District Committee, men who zealously devote a portion of their otherwise labo riously employed time to the spiritual wants of their neighbourhood. My eye alsorested onthe "godly women," who goirom house to house—yes„ and from cellar to cellar — to collect the weekly offerings of even the struggling poor. Your readers may form some idea of the labour, when I tell you that one of those collectors has 133 sub scribers in her book. This was what I saw, but there were other scenes besides what was sensibly visible. I thought of the morethan 600subseuibers withlix the district, of the (at least) 2,700 members of their families. Why were these absent ? Because there was no room to receive them. They will hade raised £300• by their small but numerous. contributions by the time the new church can be built. These people were before my mental vision, and my heart inwardly prayed that the• merchants of Liver pool would respond to their call and. provide for them a place of worship. I would not forget also the 2,000 subscribers to the gin3ral association, and I felt that it only wanted zealous co-operation on the part of the gentry and clergy to wipe away from our town the foul stain that more than 200,000 souls are without pastoral care. Shall I overstep the bounds of right feelleg,if I venture to say that my own heart greatly rejoiced, when I saw before me the fruit of the Lord's blessing upon an effort which it was three years before I could persuade any one to think practicable, always excepting the Rev. Rector Campbell, from whom I have ever received hearty co-ope ration. While I was looking at one congregation, there was another at the south end of the town, under tke care of the Rev. Edward Gabriel, where an equally interesting sight presented itself. Dear Sir, I would gladly avoid this public statement of personal feelings. I only do it upon the urgency of others. I hope these words may meet the eye and reach the consciences of the clergy and the gentry of Liverpool. The Working Men's Church Association is now no specu lative matter. Its practicability has been demonstrated, and its value proved. I trust I shall not be left alone to the weight of its burthen. Zealous co-operation would make it completely successful. Permit me now to conclude with the immediate object of this letter, which is to solicit attention to St. Aidan's District, in the hope of obtaining subscriptions towards a new church. Mr. John Shaw Leigh has given a site worth £3,000. Other gentlemen have subscribed £2,000, and Mr. Rector Campbell is making earnest exertions to raise the sum of £5,000, to complete a church and parson age. Out of less than 1000 church families resident in the district, more than 600 are subscribers of small sums. The wealth of Liverpool will not allow such an effort to remain long without being crowned with a full reward and complete success.—l remain, dear Sir, Faithfully yours, JOSEPH BAYLEE, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, 2nd Feb., 1854. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTARY MANN/RB.—The Coburg Star tells an amusing " Parliamentary" incident which happened during the speakership of Judge M`Lean : " When Judge M`Lean was speaker of the assembly in Upper Canada, he had occasion to give evidence before a committee, of which Sir Allan M`Nab was chairman. It being a long business, the committee and witnesses ad journed to the lunch room to comfort themselves with the good there. Just as Judge M`Lean had finished, and turned to go away, Sir Allan adroitly slipped a turkey's leg into his pocket. Immediately after the committee resumed business. The judge was giving evidence (which Sir Allan was taking down), when he had occasion to feel for his pocket handkerchief. He thrust his hand into his pocket and drew forth the leg. For a single moment he was lost in astonishment, whilst every one was convulsed with laughter except Sir Allan. His face betrayed more surprise than the speaker's. For one moment the speaker held the leg, the next he threw it with all his force at the head of Sir Allan, who managed to dodge it. Immediately he arose, called attention to the flagrant breach of etiquette, and dictated to the clerk the following minute, to be re corded :--` At this stage of the business the proceedings of the committee were stayed by the speaker of the house taking from his pocket the leg of a turkey, and hurling it at the head of the chairman." , TILE SULTAN.—As the Internuncio enters with his suite, an individual is seen to rise slowly from his sofa, and he stands up to receive the visitors. He is a dark, wearied-looking man, in appearance about forty, though in reality some ten years younger. He is dressed in a dark-blue frock-coat, with a Russian collar. The sleeves and the collar of it are embroidered with gold and diamonds ; both his coat and trousers are much too large for him. He wears no ornament but the nisham, a large medal of gold set with diamonds, and hung round his neck, and a heavy Turkish sabre, set with diamonds also, but dirty. On his head is a red cap, and on his feet black jean French boots with varnished tops ; but so large it is marvellous how he walks in them. This is Abdul Medjid, the Sultan of Turkey. "As the ambassador and his s u ite approach, it is painful to see the embarrassment of the monarch. It appears to amount to constitutional nervous ness, and is evidenced in many ways. His eyes wander here and there, like those of a schoolboy called upon to repeat a lesson he does not know. He changes his feet continually, and makes spasmodic movements with his hands. lam sure his beard—a very fine one—is uncom fortable to him, and that he feels as if he had a hair shirt on. I am still more sure that he feels literally embas sadored to death. One was at him yesterday ; here is another to-day ; and to-morrow is not the ambassador of ambassadors announced, the terrible Sir Hector Stubble ! Oh, for a little rest: Oh, for his ride where the "sweet waters flow !" Oh ! for repose on the one true- bosom which waits his coining in the harem, and who will soothe his aching temples, and lull him softly to sleep with her lute. The Internuncio stands forward, while his suite fall back, and he begins to speak, while the cold drops gather upon the Sultan's forehead, and his thumbs are never still a minute. His excellency, however, has not much to say ; a few of the common-place civilities which are always paid to royalty, and a flourishing encomium on the power and glory of his own nation, nothing more. The Sultan replies. What he says nobody knows. Not the best Oriental scholar in the room, though he listened with strained ears, can make anything of it. Certain dislocated sentences are jerked painfully from his Majesty's lips in gasps, that is all. The imperial interpreter, how ever' is by no means at a loss. He, at least, has got a neat little speech cut and dried he learned it by heart at mosque yesterday. So he begins to bob mid cluck with great assicluity,"—.l3entleyfor January, FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. (FROM LE ZOLLET.) Tire reports which were so generally circulated of the extensive preparations making by the leading dressmakers and manufacturers for the present season, which was anti cipated to rival the gay period of the empire, have been fully corroborated by the various novelties in style and material daily issuing from the most fashionable houses. Moire antique, reps, and damask silk, embroidered with gold and silver, and stout silks a dispositions, are the favourite materials to trim rich lace. Silks tastefully embroidered in colours, have a very rich and mosaic-like appearance. After these materials for grand toilette may be noticed many novelties for ball dress ; those of tarla tan, with three skirts, embroidered in coloured silks, or trimmed with ribbons or flowers, are very pretty for young ladies. One of this material may be made with three skirts, the upper one en tunique, bordered with a wreath of roses, embroidered so much a jour that the flowers and leaves appear to be made of lace inserted in the muslin at short distances ; and as if thrown upon this wreath are ears of corn embroidered in thick work. The body is accompanied by a berthe descending en cceur on the back and chest, and open over the sleeves; in these openings are bows of pink ribbon with long floating ends. An echelle of the same bows is placed on the front of the corsage, and two bows hold up the corners of the tunique, having long ends which reach the bottom of the dress. Nothing can be more distingue than this dress. A coiffure much in vogue is formed of catogans bows ; they are all made of wide ribbon or lace, placed in the middle of the back of the head, and are separated by an agraffe of diamonds, or any other ornaments de fantasie. The ends fall behind, sometimes reaching the middle of the back. On each side of the head is placed a tuft of flowers, sheltered under the ribbons or lace, which they slightly raise. The coiffure may also be made of barbes of guipure, gold, or silver, or in black lace, with bouquets of roses ; it is very pretty, and suits a demi-negligee toilette. For ladies who very seldom visit balls, or for those who do not like to appear often in the same dress, nothing can be lighter, more elegant, and, at the same time, less ex pensive than tarlatan or organdi. Another beautiful, though less durable, tissue, is the tulle de Lyons ; its web-like delicacy and snowy whiteness contrasting well with the bright-coloured flowers which form its most suitable trimming. The sorties de bal appear this season combining much laxe and elegance ; some of cachemire, embroidered in gold and ornaments, with fringes of an Asiatic richness ; others of white satin, bordered with gold guipure, broad feather fringes, or magnificent point d'Alencon, which, after forming two rows all around, are placed so as to be raised en capuchon over the head. Those of pink or blue terry velvet, lined with ermine, Without any exterior trimming, are very distingue ; some lined with white satin are trimmed with broad bands of curled feathers of the same shade as the velvet. There are some, more simple, made of white or pink satin, with a stitched pattern; this style of work is a real chief d'ceuvre, producing rich designs over all the satin. A deep fringe edges these sorties de bal. An elegant and very suitable one for young ladies may be made of white satin, trimmed with small rosettes of the narrowest ribbons, resembling roses. All ornaments for the head are worn very low on the back hair. Feathers, flowers, point d'Angleterre, gold and silver blonde, and coral', plated with gold passe menterie, are all much used in this part of the coiffure. A small diadem of diamonds, or a large headed pin set with stones, forms an elegant finish to the head dress when the front hair is turned back. Necklaces are again hemming fashionable, although not yet sufficiently so to , be indispensable. A flat one of diamonds set in a pattern,. or w single row of brilliants, is the most recherche. Many ladies,. not possessing this article de luxe, adopt a very fine Venetian gold chain, to which is suspended a medal lion, composed of an engraved-precious stone, surrounded by diamonds. • Bracelets of stone or mosaic are much in favour, as the gloves are now worn so short that the most beautiful arm requires some ornament. A MELANCHOLY TBUISM.—In these days half our diseases come from the neglect of our body in the over work of the. brain. In this railway age the wear and tear of labour and intellect go on without pause or self-pity. We live longer than our forefathers,. but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves ; and, when we send impatiently to the doctor, it is ten to one but what he finds the acute com plaint, which is all that we can perceive, connected with some chronic mental irritation, or with some unwholesome inveteracy of habit.—Sir Bulwer Lytton at Edinburgh. THE QUEEN v. SE/ALLEY.—In the Bail Court, on Tues day, Sir F. Thesiger moved to make this rule absolute, no cause against it Being shown. It was a criminal informa tion against the Morning Advertiser at the instance of Mr. Gardner, an officer of the customs at Liverpool, for an article reflecting en his character relative to the London dock case. Rule absolute. THE QUEEN'S PIPER.—Poor M'Kay, Her Majesty's piper, has gone out of his mind, and the symptoms are such as to leave little or no hope of his recovery. It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that Smith, the police man on duty at the northern entrance to the castle, went mad on the same day, and he has since been constantly imitating the barking of a dog.. PLETHORA. OF WHEAT !—ln the corn market, the other day, at Knaresbcvrough, there was a complete panic. Never within the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" was so much wheat exposed for sale in the market on one day. The consequence was a fall of at least ls. per bushel, and in two or three instan ces; wheat was actually sold at ls. 6d. per bushel less than on the week preceding. Many farmers in this same locality have two years' growth of wheat in store, and we know of two wealthy farmers who have yet in store the produce' of the last four harvests! There is no scarcity of wheat,. so far as the locality of Knaves - borough is concerned.—Bradford Observer. SKATES FOR THE. QUEEN,—Messrs. Marsden and: Co., of Sheffield, have just executed an order for a pair of skates for Her Majesty. In lieu of straps across the in step, each skate is provided with a patent leather boot. These boots are firml' attached by a strip of plated silver to the clogs, which are of satin-wood, highly polished. The skate-irons terminate in front in the form of a, swan,. and both sides are• elegantly chased. The cup that forms the receptacle for the heel is silver-plated, and chased with the design of the rose,, shamrock, and thistle. The same design is embroidered in white silk upon the black patent leather, to which it forms a pleasing contrast. A MAYOR LOSING , uls OFFICE.—Mr. Richard Coaks, mayor of Norwich, has been deprived of his office by a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, under rather peculiar circumstances. At the last municipal election for the fourth ward of the city there were three candi dates, named Winter, Blake, and Condell. The two former obtained the highest number of votes, and were declared duly elected; although it appeared that Mr. Blake was already an alderman, and therefore ineligible to be elected as councillor. At the election of mayor, on the 9th of November, there was an equal number of votes for Mr. Coaks and his opponent Mr. Bignell, when the retiring mayor gave his vote in favour of Mr. Coaks. At this election Mr: Condell claimed to vote for Mr. Bignell, but was not allowed, as it was said that he had not been duly elected a councillor. Mr. Condell then appealed to the Court of Queen's Bench, which gave its decision on Saturday last. Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Crompton were of opinion that Mr. Condell was duly elected a coun cillor on the Ist of November, the votes given for Mr. Blake, who was ineligible, having been thrown away ; that being a councillor he had a right to vote for Mr. Bignell; that if he had so voted Mr. Bignell would have been duly elected mayor of Norwich ; and thus Mr. Coaks had usurped that office. SCARCITY OF COAL AT SOITTHAMPTON.—It is now thirty years since there was in Southampton a scarcity of fuel like that which prevails at the present time. Then no collier made its appearance for seventeen weeks ; now no collier which left the north at the beginning of this month has reached Southampton. The price of coal now in the town is three guineas per ton. People are paying 2s. 6d. a hundred for the scrapings of the coal yards and cellars. Owing to the usually good supply of coal in the winter at Southampton, a large number of persons neg lected to take in a stock last fall, and are now put to the greatest inconvenience. Numbers cannot taste roast joints, having nothing but wood and coke to burn. The steam-packet companies are causing coal to be brought all the way from Wales by rail. The gas company are obliged to buy up anything at any price in the shape of coals, and then go extra expense to purify the gas. BURNS, the Scottish bard, designated the Toothache " the hell of all diseases." And he was not far wrong. This hell, however, is not a " bottomless pit." Fill up the cavity of the decayed tooth, and the torturing fires are extinguished. Brande's Enamel, placed in the decayed spot, prevents irri tating substances from reaching the nerve, and kindling that inflammation therein, which gives the terrible pain known as toothache. This substance is used, without heat, in a soft state, and becomes hard in a few minutes, rendering unsound teeth painless and useful for many years. LIVER COMPLAINTS AND INDIGESTION.— Mr. Gamis, chemist, Yeovil, states in a letter to Professor Holloway that a lady residing in that town had been a severe sufferer from liver complaint and indigestion for a very long period, that her medical attendant had informed her he could do nothing to relieve her, and that she could not survive many months; but not being satisfied with this opinion, she commenced taking Holloway's Pills, and this excellent medicine was the means of saving her life ; in about a month they restored her to _perfect health and strength. FRAMFTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—" For upwards of nine years (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex), I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent medicine. I had long previously been afflicted with headache and indigestion; but a friend having induced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now inform you that a few doses gave me great relief; and daring this long period of time I have taken them in preference to any other medicine; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg further to add, that this medicine is in general use by my family, and we know of nothing to equal it." In any case when an aperient medicine is required, they need only be tried to be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine vendors. Price Is. hid. per box. See the name of "Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp. Couo HS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, AND INFLUENZA.—During the prevalence of unsettled weather, fogs and damp air, the glottis (at the upper part of the windpipe), and the windpipe itself, take an inflammatory action, which gradually extends along the mucous coat until it reaches the bronchial tubes which penetrate the lungs, giving rise to a distressing cough, expectoration, spasmodic pains of the chest, and often, if un checked, ending in fatal pulmonary disease. In other cases, the inflammatory action occurs in the sinuses of the head a n d face, causing watery eructation, redness of the eyes, and a stinging sensation at the extremity of the nostrils. This is theepidemic termed Influenza. Bronchitis is inflammation of the mucous membrane which lines the bronchi in its whole extent. It commences as a common cold in the young and middle-aged, and continues a month or two, and returns every winter with increased severity. It is sometimes erro neously called winter cough, and sometimes asthma ; in Hooper's Physician's Fade Mecum, edited by Dr. Ryan, it is candidly stated that they (the medical profession) did not know any effectual treatment for these disorders; since that work was compiled a new substance has been introduced,— BRANDE'S BRONCHIAL SEDATIVE: the influence of this sub stance pursues the exact track of the inflammatory action causing cough. First soothing the glottis and epiglottis (the organs of voice), its sedative influence passes along the mucous lining of the windpipe unto the bronchi, allayinr , pulmonary irritation, giving ease and comfort to the chest, and restoring the voice to its accustomed clearness and power. This medicine is without doubt the only cure for these dis orders. Since its introduction, it has been rapidly supplant ing every other preparation administered for pulmonary disorders. The proprietors strongly urge the Medical Pro fession, Chemists, and others, to introduce it to the afflicted. It is sold by most respectable clienlial, and by All tbc ANA fur Braude(' Eumul. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Lockhart William Jeffray has been instituted by the Bishop, to the rectory and parish church of Aldford, in the county of Chester, void by the death of the Rev. F. Brandt, on the presentation of the Marquis of Westminster, the patron. SIIRROGATE.—The Chancellor of the diocese of Chester has appointed the Rev. Alfred Hewlett, incumbent of Astley, near Manchester, and a surrogate of that diocese, to be one of his surrogates for proving wills and granting letters of administration for the diocese of Chester. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1854 CHESHIRE AND WALES NORTH WALES CIRCITIT.—(Before M liams.)—Welchpool, March 14; Bala, 17; Beaumaris, 23; Ruthin, 25; Mold, 29; and SOUTH WALES CIECUIT.—(Before Mr. ton.)—Swansea, March 6 ; Haverfordwest any Cardigan, 16 ; Carmarthen, 21; Brecon, 2 5 ; 30 ; Che ster, April 1. Tim MousrAcKE.—The Birkenhead obtained permission to wear the moustache. privilege has been granted by the magistrate constables of the hundred of Wirral. ACCIDENT AT WOODSIDE FEREY. - 0 11 tleman, whilst stepping on board the fel. his footing and fell overboard, as the steamer the slip, but the policeman rescued him from situation, having sustained no other injury thr THE ALMOEA, 1,400 tons, Captain Th- Melbourne, on Tuesday, with nearly 400 emigrants, from the Birkenhead depot. departure the crew were exercised in their of navigating the ship, by Captain Schorr , Emigration-office. TICE WALIA.SEY COMMISSIONERS held their meeting, on Thuesday, at Liscard. It wl take temporary offices for the board at the hotel.—The Chairman proposed a general dist ls. in the pound, and a highway rate of 4d. in which, he said, were necessary for carrying otr poses of the Public Health Act. BIRKENILEA.D Docxs.—The examiners of the Commons on Wednesday passed the follow' Birkenhead Dock Company's Bill, for vestinf pany the wharf walls ;ana the Warrington Bill. Rocs FEBRY.-Mr. Thomas Branch, c) St. Peter's Church, Rock Ferry, has hal collected in that church on Sunday week for the survivors from the Tayleur. Previously tion being made at the doors an address was the congregation, from the communion table, T. F. Redhead. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—A• the week ending 29th January, 1854, was as Passengers, parcels, &c., per railway, £2,160 boats, £306 125.; total, £2,487. 3s : goods, £1 Total, including Carnarvon-traffic, per rail, £3 Corresponding week last year, per rail, si.eam-boat, £175.95. Oct. Increase, £794 2s. SHIP LAUNCH IT CHESTER.-011Saturclay some iron barque, called the Rosario, of 300 t , designed for the South American trade, from the yard of Mr. Cram. The launch half-past eleven, a numerous assemblage of present. Miss Lord, of Liverpool, acted as . vessel, and discharged, her' duty admirably. of the vessel are Messrs. Chas. Smith and Co., O GENEROSITY IN IlirmsLE LIFE REWARD or four years ago a German, while in _ head, received generous assistance from a who took him into his house, and several weeks. At the expiration of that pei shipped for California ; was successful at th, returned to England about a month ago ; for his nuggets ; posted with his full money kenhead : liberally rewarded the honest porter ried his daughter. He is again preparing for whither he will proceed as. soon as- he has putting Os father-in-law in a way of earning a less laborious means. THE MORMONITES.—NO less than 300 of Day Saints have just taken their departure and neighbourhood of Merthyr, South Wales, Lake; under the direction of a• leader known as 'Will Phylip." He has taken with him his daughter, the latter married to an " apostle!' them, not being overburdened with faith, were willing to leave home. Will Phylip is succeed ( thyr by Captain Jones. who some time since the " Holy Land," after leaving there a large the faithful of Merthyr. It need: scarcely be that the state of education of the. ernigratin generally speaking, of a very low character. - REBECCA AGAiN IY WlLEs.—The of a notice that was posted up in the town of the night of the 17th ultimo :—" Carmarthen, 1854. This is to give notice.—To all flour deal( factors, and farmers, that shall be found gether' to raise the price of eatables —corn, cheese, butter, and meat. Any farmer that sin out holding back, not bringing hiseorn.to mar) dealt with according to my law, as he is al blood of the innocent under the disguise of 11 Let them look to themselves, for my eye and I shall not spare, for my la w i s severe efitrnarvon Herald. 151rnANcnoLv OccimunNez.—On Tuesday the ferry steamer approaching the Seacombe thepassengers, named Wedgwood, in atteng rather hurriedly, missed his footing on the pla , into the river. Every exertion was made to SOL., without success, and he sank in the p r e s ence n' sengers. The body of the deceased was recover nesday morning, near the spot where he had the water. Deceased, who was 18 years of native of Staffordshire, but had been employs weeks past in a hairdresser's establishment at end' of Liverpool, and when he met with his proceeding to Seacombe on a visit to a friend. incpaest was held upon the body, an d a ver dict dentally drowned" was returned. TILE TIMBER TRADE IN R IEKE:M EAD. Holme, Slater and Co., in their annual tim ber say—" We again recapitulate the advantag es thodocks here (over those at Liv erpool) for datfon of shipowners, importers, ant i dealers Fitstly : The dock dues on vessels from Bri America are only 10d. per ton, against 134-d. in certainty of quick despatch, the-vessel being situation for discharging immediately after docks. Secondly : The cargo . ia, entirely fr rates, and is received from the vessel's port, and Customs measures attended to for Queen's measure—rent free afloat—use of keeping rafts in repair, Id. per load per quarter. The facilities for suplying the country demand are way superior to those adopted on the Livet, railway, connected with the general railway b. country, surrounds and intersects the whole a and depots, and cranes are provided purposely the railway trucks, and the barges of the water ; this economical system of working sumer and vendor to a very considerable cartage is altogether abolished, both in Si delivering." ATROCIOUS ASSAULT 'UPON A LAD' BY: Francis Chapman and Thomas Meek, twr charged at the Birkenhead Police-court, on . perpetrating a ferocious assault on the 23d ult., Watson, wife of Mr. Henry Watson, civil Church-street, in that township, and of Yol Dale-street, Liverpool.. It appears that the to execute a warrant of distraint for some third party, instructed to settle the amount;, paid the money over.. They made no applienti` mission at the door i . but applied at the• wins Watson inquired their object, when Chapman stating his business, shouted out, " You d.-1 the window, and give me admittance." Mrs. fused, when Chapman repeated his demand in a similar descriptAm. Mrs. Watson still the window, when the man broke one of the seized her hand, and then cried out, " You window, or I shell break your b —y,• head." with this, the ruffian dragged her arm through glass backwards and forwards, till the limb W lacerated. The wretches afterwards forced I and one of them struck and kicked Mrs. WI magistrates treated the case under the act recel entitled "An act for the better prevention ment of aggravated assaults upon women a nt. and ordered the defendants to be imprisoned months, with hard labour. This decision was court with approbation by the audience. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT Al HOLYHEAD.--' Nimrod, on her passage from. Liverpool for CO the new harbour, having on board a fine named James Shear, who had got his leg all' tangled in the crane of the engine, which limb to pieces. The vessel not being far from the captain immediately made for the harbou r: col aid was obtained w ith a v i ew t o amputatio found, however, th a t lie was too much e x haust operation, and, after lingering eight hours, dea' end to his sufferings.. The deceased had just Liverpool from America, where, with two who returned with him, he had amassed an SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY' half-yearly meeting of the company, held on Ss' the Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury, a dividend at the per cent. per arum, free of income-tax, was d( HORTICULTURE. STOVE, flay Temperature, 65° ; Night, 6O' plants in pots from one part of the house tict,!*, i _ assist in ventilation, as previously recommenen v the purpose of bringing those in flower into the minent situations. Small plants of the beentil,r and the sweet-scented Gardenias, thrive best if plunged in the hot-bed. All the species o f tribe should be kept dry. GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVA.TORY, 50° to 55° ; Night, 45° t o 50°.—Those plants,: 0, placed near the flues requ i re f requent examint-ed wisp the roots are apt to become dry and Parlof forward flowering bulbs and shrubs, which forced in the pits to decorate the c,onservatorP dre FLOWER GA.RDEN.—Give the beds a slight an appearance of lif e w ill soon be vi s ible in the up of bulbs and other early flowering plants. KITCHEN GARDEN.—Sow peas and bean'_, crops; prepare ground for parsnips and carre'7,,' h elA purpose it should be light and well manured...: s for early potatoes should a l so b e go t i n r ead teed those now coming on in the frames. the the °0 tif, AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT llaPPeil — i. SO f nesday night, at a house in th e Q ueen ' s -creseepoo 9 The house has a partly under-ground kitchen , 5 1 . 1 0.50 light over it, and a bank of green sward runs 5 °, 13 :,.5e PiO A side to a level with the skylight. An old n__ .. .,"" 0 01 I:, been turned out for the night on the eerT o pe'. I blind, got into the garden and unto the said 'to Id tempting "bite" lured the unconscious graze r a f o o g for presently he fell through the skylight b tt ri into the kitchen below, carrying the whole o f' the to _.,t il with him, upon the table, crushing every t i ll AA The servants, who were ironing at the time, ha 1) escape, as the animal kicked out in all direc t° ' tt e :d: down plate-racks, dresser, crockery, dish- 00°5 1 ;0 1 ,V girls, almost frantic, burst out of the kitchen', 91, their lives, fancying themselves in a place 1,1 0 "0 r tion, but screaming " Fire !" " Murder ! , or' f whilst the rest of th e i nma t es l oc ked thel'oe i co screamed for the police out of the window. ~., se6 nation was so great, and the crash and u'_ f eo2,rl that no one could muster sufficient pluck tU np OT e ill the scene of action. At length a policeinan,artbe o li o 4 discovered the wretched animal among's!' ,; 4 11 „A , " odd matters strewn all Around, per force,.k, Or body." The horse lAA mtatuQd great A ilitatlY UK" 4 4 c b tl nti, v C e t it 4 4 14,11:4 t h it t N 'kr) c , h ) ; etl , T T] --,_ 185 4 . zir- .i, i, 4 , j • Tr.A.L.Es• 4, or _ . hw ener B Mr. .1.1196e4 .rt :ere 0 R end ,17; C . tier ; and Chester, s l i s , 41 Mr. Justice reailine ,west and Te" l'fetstly,°r, 'con, 25 ; Ti v ie e d a stil l . tte utt !a d police - 0 . .' da d the ustache. A t , read, th magistrate ' ; 'l l, t 4 Ns —On Sandsls'4 's. glean r i Le ferry..boat,,tr:4 I,,,,wace - steamer 1iii5.,,,,' 4 1111, 4 13 zi Lim from his r tref a s B r nljurYTietrnhalley,3:4l :rl"l'4:leiirsinepkthitl:' ii.. e titillia rei ly 400 ‘•- v _ to ', o , 4l Clif 1 Ot. PreViOW 41 ) ,,,aS C iif h t sce h l e dh fr ont I v h a be : r o i al i, o f I l ew4(3thoob a lii: i trll ,;! :,,Giv,a‘‘rve rt eosi.,_ It was sr toi:r(111,', dat the FA, 4t r , rt R ut( rneral district W l r tt e ' II i ~,,,, of 4d. in tbe,„ lilotrod,JYri/ truing out ts• - lioNt ti d tt r e lti o J ) inners of the 14 h b I) 4 C ) i i ,l Et following, any kte vesting in .l II °I [neon ImPr° t e • i e s It " schhachnudredchicoo; ~,,,,,,,tw,:iltl eek for the .' ; e, viously to thee' i414.4'34el :.ess was del i :;,i 'A tie rate In table, by ' ttitl to ' kt. e ' 8 4 f, t rA.T.—The trek bi t e tt it ,- , t, was as fel ir f t t o l °dei n e . £2,160 119.; % to, i A .i., X/Cods, £1,38 91 ; ' °lle - p": 7 , n r rail, £3,6.5°,,z7,• rat,ll4.ie P er rail, k''''' '' t(' der ta tit! ":194 2s. is nthilk_a few iturday week* , i ra 'r ii of 300 tons 1 ' 4 1 : 1 iStL, trade, was 13 1 :; tit, . t . !7„ 4 launch took , e , , I "E"itti re of spectate' ' :•,' t ed as sponsor qt, e t ts 1 . ( drably. The e q t ,2 tr ial Ind Co. of 1 4 + 7 : 4l eil , , ,4 t REWARDED.,,, , t..ald s al i distress at 7 ' I lk i from a doelo' l Ni t i . l ! B , 1 Maintailled. :, •,, • 'lt , tlO :hat period , it!' . :her ;hat al at the chi.' • 7%4'1,11111 Igzi ; obtable,,, Zerth r Y, o I. money-ba's' ' , in' e 'ess d ' - ta• sst porter CalOio, ; fto rs, 11 10 paring for , ' ki„,,s ; hi he has sue7f,{ i t klat' - ' el F earning ali the offend i eg l tl c) , end n 300 of the , , l 'ith n ,, ec ' t irture froni t 'o. k trace'eP b a rh l k N hin r al onivrtt es h , isinforylilltb "tieolf3;tst.lismetii " apostle.' ~ , kit is of all, were Il lc i 'a: - •°' is succeeded e_ t f, , thj l .; e since retain( tti a i ' Ulf re a large ni i° 1 tj., 1.18 0: 3 _ 1 ' tarcely be reef ..e' $.4 I. `" emigrating ' 414. 1 0 1 meter. 4 , roi, : S e t , o-s a 2 following'_lo, Ju t', . ! town of Dt,,,0 ble l i i .'e wmarthen, . 1 " - ii ' 14 e) '' '' flour dealers;n' ttpia,,,,tita build concoc' t i o -- ,.Y s—corn, fl oat) 1 - , e)l i --; r that shall be i mitt: m . to market.d -g , f 4 a.v he is sbeclibi , k'N,, k r wise of hone" 't er ra o f y eye is upoori: arde(' lf vere.-110 0c- '' Y put ';,,,,, . a tig lit ' 'jlt i llalq Tuesday ... 0 0 ' , l, d ' S a ,' eacombe SO, "ellee.„' n attempting ''" • I • W ill ' '' nlr 91) ' I R ll '' n the pla '.4,. ' til t Lade to save li - I kt kaki € Of tile •1 1 qt presence 0- 1 ~ tr / , s recovered ° ll ' JO it t- . 1 ..ileo ,• e he had - I s !sai- s , years of ages ~. 1 t a c e ' I employed! ', ' B eat -{.., merit at Oleo; . t t i _te of ' w ith his des , g ~.....S eaft t friend. A. co „' ) 4 110 7 1 a verdict of ~,,R,Q4-,,, 31 7 , 8,-. KEVIEAD.-- , , ual timber C AA' d r Z uttages possesse .)m_ )1) for the cc, 7 . l. Zazi 1 dealers in ~:;, sl a ;:; ~, from British ~; him t 131-d. in l , ta "a • a4 ( 1 1 I n ~ 41 being pW:„g ea rls • 1 1.5 r after enter'" 14* ;rely free fro i ln ilo s , i n D o 5 port, raftea!„, ' l .llll , o for id._ ,P 7,, , . 3 'l 7 a , - use of Ow', e Th . ' ar quarter. ~ of t demand are sib / Wrerl, Liverpool o o f fo und , ailway syste fa 4 :i i .1 , b e , ! whole of the ek • r. mrPosely for . ri , had 1( i of the , b i cor r/e . 4 B' whi fLt' e e .orking be p" • 0 ,, ' u .de ra ble sor, .t of ti ,th in stor m ' kk ,l 'au . 1 ticeral BO ; ' itt: (l e • , ADY Br ...... tide k, two . bajo:'., , 'tl.; ,It 7t, on Thorsu'J o " . ta c i t alt e 23d ult., or.,;ci 4 '"t i_ 4 k(l i ti, civil OVA , 1 t, vt, ea lof York -I*" .nt "S' pi t 9 e( id the fell°, t ie ~ ~,i we 1 . some re)" ' - ` 4 4, 1 t l ' °4 B amount, no t f o r ktt,._ a ) application r iCs! l , 11 0 , th e . ado • ' ; ' l ke], sil ; th 3' Chapman o •,5 q i Con .:I— , El 1),.` 4 5 0ti 44 . 1 :1 111 ' mrs. l iro , E fo d , I , ue : et !matid in lan i q o , 4): c ti Olto stilt refaie ° ',' ': vettl ( of the bottow,,,p l r e nt . "Yon shall or It t 'T ' awl." Not b ~k 11414 tc kletfhroolimrcerviartliei7i, s,"4:ll,ll*thek, ea. Watsoo." I,q,ol!,atic t recentli,,,,, ,' , 111 :11 . t , 4 4: R 1 vention anuji • 1 4, th omen and el', I ~,, 2'4 0 mprisonod i l) i , e'; :`lttit l itl , Lsion was rod' ,Lt alto ace. te t '' I tik Nl t t. r MEAD.—The ',,t V a wit 301 for Cork , P e , ti 4 „ ~ )e. . a fine 50 ,1117 0 N, that his leg and 0 1 , 1 14 ' t l lltl e et oi; which 0'0, 4 15 t k blik , A ;'ra far from 11 _,, ° ,1 N cie r4 , e harbour, d'' ft i t tii, tQti amputation., c o t 'I t ip\ V I exhausted ~,I t t k tl e l. 1 1 hours, deatilArdj 1 ' , , , ,, 4 '' ,1 N V b.e had just 11 ',A 0 1,1,,.„ k h two elder _w„,if, ,40 0 , wed an i ri der't I' Mti',Ob . 1 t tql 1 ) ;;,4e 3 , : to. k . pa held o nSat . „ ,-t.e , , t 4 N - sN' t ,, i dend at the .`;"? `st' 4 9 : ax, was dec k 1 8 44 11 : 1 4 , 1 : 11 ( ......,., )0. 1 U.R E, fkitu4t d at i _ tr te Att N ' —...., , c ' # 1 4 of . Ight, OOP. , t ) k oa house to nee 'tit) lt commende., 0 0; t e •er into tbel 6 S t. 4 ft, PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. K. C. Bayley, 8.A., Rector of Copford, near Col chester, to be a Surrogate. Rev. H. D. Blanchard, to the Perpetual Caracy of Kilnwick-by-Watton. Yorkshire. Rev. E. P. Brett, M.A., to the Vicarage of Sandhurst, near Gloucester. Rev. W. Burns, M.A., to the Incumbency of Grimsargh, Lancashire. _ Rev. W. R. Duncan, senior curate of St. Peters. Chester, to be a Surrogate. Rev. R. Du — nn, M.A., to the Rectory of Huntsham, Devon. Rev. E. B. Finlay, 8.A., to the Second Mastership Of the Grammar School, Dedham. near Colchester. Rev. H. M. Fletcher, M.A., to the Rectory of North Stoke, near Bath. Rev. G. Garbett, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Accring ton, Lancashire. J. H. Gedge, 8.A., Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Bell Scholar, to an Assistant-Mastership at the Islington Proprietary School. Rev. J. W. Hick, 8.D., Perpetual Curate of Byer's•green, to be organising Secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, for the Diocese of Durham. Rev. C. A. Hulbert, M.A.. Incumbent of Slathwaite, near Huddersfield, to be a Surrogate. _ _ Hon. and itev. A. A. B. Hanbury, 8.A., Rector of Shobdon, Hereford. to be one of the Private and Domestic Chaplains to Lord Bateman. Rev. G. W. R. Ireland, of Magdalen-ball, Oxford, to the Curacy of Baunton, Gloucestershire. Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, M.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. to the Rectory of Weyhi ll, Hants. Rev. C. Jenkin, D.D., to the Rectory of Herringswell, near Mildenhall. Rev. C. Marshall, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Har purhey, near Manchester. Rev. J. P. A. Morshead, M.A., to the Vicarage of Salcombe irei. Hugh Owen, Curate of Llanerchymedd, to the Incum bency of that parish (formed into an ecclesiastical district, from Llanbeulan, by an order in Council). Rev. C. W. Pritchard, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Wer burgh's, Derby. Rev. D. tyritan, to the Perpetual Curacy of Withnell, near Chorley. _ Rev. C. F. Snith, M.A., to the Vicarageof Crediton, Devon. Rev. J. Stroud, M.A., to the Rectory of Bondleigh, or Bundley, near North Tawton. Rev. B. Smyth, M.A., Curate of Rarling, Essex, to the Vicatage of that parish. CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY THE Convocation of the Clergy of the , province of Can terbury met on Wednesday at Westminster. The upper house sat in a large- apartment in Queen Anne's Bounty Office. The archbishop presided, and 13 of his suffragan bishops were present.. The earlier part of the sitting was occupied with the discussion of the report of a committee which hactconsidered the question whether the stipendiary curates had by law the right to vote for members of Convocation. The com mittee reported that they were of opinion, in the absence of direct proof, that the-preponderance of evidence was against their right. The-report was received. Petitions were presented by the Bishops of London, Winchester, Peterborough;. Salisbury, St. David's, Wor cester, Chichester, Oxford, St. Asaph, and Lincoln, repre senting the frequent misuse-of the church's offices conse quent upon conflicting laws and obligations, as well as that general abeyance of godly discipline which was, irre mediable without synodical deliberation ; also the insuffi cient spiritual provision for an increased population, and the amount of irreligion abounding: and expressing an earnest hope that Convocation might ere long propose such measures as it might judge best calculated to secure the harmonious and beneficial action of the whole church, with a view to the increase of her welfare and efficiency, the-advancement of true religion, and the promotion of the-kingdom and glory of Christ.. The petitions were all! in the same terms. The Bishop of London then moved—" That his grace• the president be moved to appoint a committee of this housq and to desire the lower house•to nominate seven of its members to deliberate with suchi committee when sum moned, to consider and report to the• houses, with a view to addressing her Majesty thereon, whether any, and, if so, what reforms in the constitution of the Convocation are expedient to enable it to treat, with the full confidence of the church, of such matters as her Majesty may be. pleased: to submit to its deliberations." The Bishop of St. David's•seconded the motion, which was agreed to, and. the Bishops of London, Oxford, Exeter; Salisbury, Chi chester-, St. David's, and St. Asaph, were appointed mem bers of the committee. The Bishop of Llandaff then moved for a joint commit tee to consider and report whether the- great increase and present eondition of the population did not make some, and what, adaptation of the church's rules needful to en able her to meet her spiritual wants. A long discussion took place upon this motion, which was agreed to. The• Bishops of London, Oxford, Lichfield, Worcester, Chiches ter, St. David's, and Llandaff were appointed members of the committee. The lower house was then summoned, and the Prolocu— tor and: other members being come, were. acquainted with, these resolutions, and requested to name members from their body to serve on the committees. They retired to , consider the request. ---- - - In about an hour and a-half the Prolocutor returned,. and handed in the names which had been agreed toa The Archbishop having expressed his approval of the• selection, prorogued the Convocation to the 30th June. In the lower house, the Dean of Ely acted as Prolocutor.. Dr. Spry moved that a committee he• appointed to cony- older and report on the privileges and: modes of proceed ing, of the house, and how far it might be expedient to make any standing orders consistent with the ancient practice of the house. The resolution was carried unani mously, and the list of members settled. The Prolocutor was then summoned. to the upper house,. and on his return announced that they were called upon by the president and the upper house to nominate two committees of seven, to act with committees of the upper house ; the first, "in considering and reporting to this. house, with a view to address her Majesty thereon, whether any, and if so, what, reforms in the. constitution of Con vocation are expedient to enable it to: treat, with the full confidence of the church, on such matters, as her Majesty may be pleased to submit to its deliberation;" theseeond, " in considering and reporting to this house whether the great increase and present condition of the population do not make some, and what, adaptation of the church's rules needful, to enable her to meet her spiritual necessities." — Dr. Russell moved the appointment of the committees as desired.—The Dean of Bristol moved as an amendment to Dr. Russell's motion—" That the Prolocutor be requested to inform the President that the house will take• the reso lutions of the upper house into its consideration at the next meeting." On a division the original motion was carried by a majority of 4a—The proceedings then termi nated, and the house was prorogued. CONVOCATION OF TIIK CLERGY OF THE PROVINCE OF YORK.—The members of Convocation in the province of York assembled on Wednesday, in the Chapter-house of the Cathedral. Immediately after the service, the Com missioner (the Rev. Canon Harcourt), accompanied by the Archbishop's Secretary, the Registrars, and other officials, entered the Chapter-house, the following members of Convocation being present :—The Yen. Archdeacons Wil berforce, Churton, and Creyke ; the Rev. Canons Thorpe, Trevor, Randolph, and Strong ; the Rev. S. Gamlin, the Rev. W. L. Palmes, and the Rev. R. Sutton. The Com missioner, without making any remark, read the following schedule or license for the prorogation of Convocation : "In the name of God, amen. We, William Vernon Har court, clerk, M.A., Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of' St. Peter, of York, one of the Commissioners of the Most Rev. Father in God, Thomas, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England, and Metropolitan President of the Synod or Convocation of the •Prelates and Clergy of the whole province of York, among others lawfully authorized, rightly and duly proceeding, do pronounce all and singu lar persons contumacious who are obliged to appear and have in no way appeared in this Synod or Convocation, and in penalty of such contumacy we decree to proceed further in this holy Synod or Convocation, their absence or contumacy in anywise notwithstanding. But we re‘ serve the penalty of this their contumacy to and until the 14th day of September next ensuing, between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon of the same day, if occa sion require; and we continue and prorogue the said Synod or Convocation to and until the same day, or any other day betwixt and that day, if there shall be occasion; admonishing all and singular persons now present, whom by this writing we do admonish, then again to appear in this Synod or Convocation, to proceed and attend the pro ceedings therein, as the nature and quality thereof re quire." The Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce inquired of the Commissioner whether he could see the record of the previous proceeding of Convocation. The Commissioner stated that the record asked for was laid at the Registry office, and he was authorized by the Archbishop to state that it might be inspected by any member of Convocation desirous of doing so. The Rev. Canon Trevor said that he had applied at the Registry-office, but had been unable to see the record. In reply, the Commissioner remarked that he believed at that time the Registrar had no autho rity to allow any one to inspect the record. This con cluded the proceedings, which had only occupied about five minutes. DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—PREFERMENTS On Tues day the Bishop of Manchester licensed the Rev. Alfred Jenour to the perpetual curacy of St. John's Church, Blackpool, vacant by the cession of the Rev. W. Tiverton Preedy, the late incumbent there, on the nomination of John Talbot Clifton, Esq., Daniel Hornby, Esq., Richard Banks, Esq., Rev. Charles Hesketh, and Rev. Henry Powell, the trustees and patrons. IMPROVEMENT OF CITURCII ARCHITECTURE.— It is really amusing to turn back to the Ecclesiologist of 1842. What solemn proses about the inexpediency of pews ; what edifying hints about the desirableness of chancels of some sort ; what timid homilies about attempting to deco rate churches ; what halting and hesitating preferences for middle-pointed ! The most serious resistance which our principles ever encountered, when the whole storm of heads of houses, professors, and prebendaries were let loose upon us, was for venturing to criticise a new church in Cambridge for being begalleried all round, and for being in carpenter's Gothic. At the present moment there is not a church erected in Islington or Cheltenham — nay, there is scarcely a meeting-house in Manchester which is not far purer in many details, and which aims at, and generally attains, a more ecclesiastical spirit than the very best of the churches which were built by the very first architects fifteen years ago.—Ecclesiologist. THE FOLLOWING RIDDLE is said to be the last produc tion of Sheridan's witty pen :—" Sometimes with a head ; sometimes with a tail ; sometimes without a tail ; some times with head and tail; sometimes without either; and pt @TAUT ompletu iu & oittuitim, Aratiwer—A wig,