The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

itlat cause will have been retarded rather thin advanced throughout the globe, by the passing of that bill; of Which his lordship is justly proud, and for which he has received the praise of every friend of suffering humanity. The " Committee of Arrangements" of the Franklin Lec ture —a body which we presume consists of one individual— have furnished us with what they term a statement of their accounts, by which it is made to appear that the nett proceeds of the lecture given on Wednesday night is just £134 11s ie this sum, however, is included a sum of £6 received as donations subsequently; and the nett proceeds therefore at the lecture itself are, £l2B 11s—which is about the amount we expected would be produced to the charity. A contemporary, in giving this statement, observes, in al lusion to the remarks in our last upon the management of this affair, that the committee must have been "economical a nd discreet in their expenditure" to have produced a sum of 413 4 11s—out of a gross receipt, which they admit, of 4183145. If the statement be a fair one, we admit that such must have been the case ; or at all events, that they have uee a able to get their work done for very much less than we I b ll d supposed possible But we must confess that we are not satisfied as to the bona fide character of the statement as ill tsight have been under other circumstances. The public remember that near £250 was at first announced as the groBB proceeds of the lecture ; and although au attempt is t ° ade in the statement to account for the exaggeration, we are luelited to suspect that, but for our remarks on Friday , a 84newhat different statement, less complimentary perhaps to the "economy and discretion" of the management, although same result, would have been laid before the the LOCAL NEWS b 'rhomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., eldest, son of the Rev. r• Raffles, of this town, was on Friday last called to the bar 17 the Benciaers of the Honourable Society of the Inner tL We understand that the Bishop of Chester is to consecrate ~!e new church, in Warwick-street, lately built by our towns ro, Mr. Gladstone, at his sole expense, on Wednesday the S t of December. t e e Cheshire Fox Hounds will meet to-morrow, (Wed ) at Tatton, near Knuford riday, at Booth's übelis(c; and on Saturday, at Witherton Hail. Each day 4 t half-past ten o'clock. p„__ Bl '. SIMON'S CHURCII.—The trustees of this church have - 'e L ived from the Rev. H. M'Neile a valuable diamond ritig, Zwch was enclosed to the reverend gentleman, with the fol.- A w ing short not 6 :—" To be sold for the benefit of the iinich, the cause of which Mr. M`Neile advocated on Sun- '43r th e 14Th7;;;L' V - i'llerit;girasl7.een valued at £25. f : r tsrimoNlAL oF REsFEc . r.—On Friday evening last the i l e e lids and teachers of St. Paul's Schools presented to the , 7 * J. N. Peill, late lecturer of St. Paul's Church, a very sple ndidly -bound Polyglott Bible, comprisinc , the version of Bee Scriptures in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, Italian, 4 _!), Spanish, and English, with the followh?gsuper- i e rlPtio' n TO 7 the Rev. ° Joh;i Newton Peill, 13:1). S late eeturer of St. Paul's Church, Liverpool, this testimonial of sat een and gratitude for his unwearied zeal in the promotion v Scriptural Education amongst the young. and for his at tention to the spiritual welfare of all classes, is presented, by o e, fri en d s and teachers of St. Paul's Schools. Nov. 1841." i p the ob verse —S' 1 Ti mo thy, 5 c h a p. 17 v."—A very suit ple, address accompanied the Bible; and the rev. gentleman e "t h e i. ) lied to his friends under feelings of considerable emotion, 14 g evidently overcome by the kind and christian conduct 'lose amongst whom he has laboured with no small degree t f e constancy and success. We believe Mr. Peill.has now e cmle the curate of All Saints' Church, in this town. --- c • QUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. tir rie, on view of the body of Thomas Hiccock. The de- Z a sed was servant, as porter, to Mr. Thomas Porter, painter, er sey-street. On Saturday he was sent up in an upper t lt i, a s r ehouse-room to Jower down a cask of spirits of turpen -44, which weighed upwards of four s cwt He was by him jo the room, and it would appear that, though the tickle 0 8 good, th e weight in lowering had been too strong for tu, and the handle of the winch had struck him violently 0 the head,— a s he was found sen s eless on the floor, with ehead d rea df u ll y f racture d. H e was carr i e d to t h e N ort h ern c 'suital by his fellow-workmen, when he was properly et lded to, but never rallied, and died on Sunday last.— jrdiet to the effect that the deceased was found dead, with Juries of the head of which he died, but how they were tied there was no evidence to show. D AB it OF THE AC,kDIA—SEIZURE OF LETTERS.— k ritish and North American royal mail steamer the t ea dia, Captain Ryrie, sailed on Friday for Halifax and p'ston. She carried out a fair number of passengers. The m: B toffice authorities, having reason to suspect, from the a ss of letters put into the Postoffices of Halifax, but parti- C a rlY into the office of the latter, after the mail-bags had seen received, that they must have been so put in by pas ,:ngers arrived at these ports by the mail steamers, a rigid Zell was made, rior to the Acadia starting, for contraband j``.ers• The result was the finding and the seizure of about 4 0 ‘Y letters, besides a bag containing letters in the possession o ,,,,,,Passenger, which were taken to the Postoffice. Pro 79ings will, it is thought, be instituted by the Postoffice ;E lust the senders and carriers of the contraband letters for l e Penalties thereby incurred. ° IrrAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—A re- Ipeetably dressed young man, named Thomas Rowe, was on I , 6 daV placed at the bar of the police-court, on a charge of l ujaining certain sums of money underfalse pretences. Mr. T horpe, partner of the firm of Lowry and . Thorpe; of this h, ,n, ha, that on Wednesday last, the prisoner came to O n, and some conversation with him. He had known lin as a clerk with a respectable house in Manchester, (Mr. iilltrnaies Brow n ' s ) an d b a d always heard . a high character of • • He (the prisoner) represented that he had come to rverpool to settle some affairs of thefirm with Messrs. Tear others, and also to pay some accounts, and finding him rather short of money for the purpose, wished him to jead him two pounds, which he immediately did, as he would LIYe given him double the amount for such a purpose had he netted for it. On the following day the prisoner returned, 4 !itl wanted to borrow two pounds more. Witness's suspi- Z e ris were roused by the second application, and he gave W hich time he expected (though he did not tell this to the It'irisouer) to hear from Mr. Brown. He wrote to that gen the'rian, and received a reply (which he produced). It was to effect that the prisoner had left his employer (the writer) 1 1 "! A l lanchester, under circumstances highly discreditable to li:aself, and regretting that the complainant had been de rived by his representations. It was added that the prisoner bor rowed also deserted his wife. The prisoner said that he had the money on his own account, and had given a e'mthat he 1. 0. U. f or it i n hi s own name . IVlr. Thorpe admitted he had asked him for a memorandum of the receipt of e Money, and got from him an I. 0. U., which he pro. 4 1 1 1e- ed.—The magistrate was of opinion that this was fatal to e charge as legally criminal. The prisoner said, with great BAa ehalance, " Oh, I don't mind ; 1 can go into James c o, vn's service again." Mr. Dixon, the sitting magistrate, Should rather think not."—The prisoner was then dis uarged. I'ITER kRY SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITU- T/0 x , Sr. ANNE-STREET. - Mr. Thomas Venables' second tv l ecture on English National Music, was given on Friday I t e ning last, to a highly respectable and numerous audience. commenced with a dissertation on the origin of counter- Point, which is allowed by the best authorities to have been V ented in this country : a fac-simile of the oldest canon :Mint, pr e served in the Harleian Library, was produced, and tented on. The first specimen of national airs, sung on v. 13 evening, was an arrangement for three voices, by Mr. ellables, of the fine air" Blow thy borne hunter," composed B ritish the reign of Henry VIII., and preserved in MS. in the ritish Museum. This was followed by numerous others, I nongst which, we may mention Ford's " Since first I saw par f ace ," " D u l ee Domum," " Hobin Hood and Little e l ln," the Northumbrian air " The Keel Row," and " John d ° rY," as particularly well sung by Miss S. Venables—the fr l stinet enunciation of this young lady proves the value of ? 00 , (I instruction in vocal music, and it is one of the character 4tLes of Mr. Venables' style of tuition. Mr. Pemberton's Mad Tom" was deservedly applauded, and the numerous t n eedotes with which the lecture was interspersed, appeared : b ' entertain and amuse the company. This lecture occupied E O UT two hours, and being the conclusion of the subject of ;,,,nglish national music, "God save the Queen," now uni. 'rsallyallowed to be the composition of Dr. John Bull, was 44 ,.ng• Mr. Venables announced " the remains of the music r, the Druids, and the National Airs of Wales" as the sub: -aJ bject, of next Friday's lecture, and from the interest of the -. lea, and the talents of the lecturer and his assistants, a , ' T eat treat may be anticipated, which we recommend our Welsh friends upon no account to miss. CHARGE OF STABBING. — At Warrington Petty Sessions, ° n ~ Monday last, James Lightfoot was charged with stabbing 'notnas Oakley on the previous Saturday night. Prosecutor tate i l that himself, the prisoner, and several others, were r ioking at the Brown Cow, in the Market-place, on Satur -4Y night, when he had some words with the prisoner. T homas after prosecutor left the house in company with t he Miller and John Griffiths, and were followed by '"e prisoner, who called out to them, " Oakley, here, I want / j l ." Prosecutor went to him, and he (prisoner) asked him go down the lane and fight; this he refused to do, and au ,an exchange flows took place, when the prisoner fell ; Oakley away ;the prisoner got up and ran after him, and struck ;!tn three or four blows on the back ; the last time he struck 1 , 414 1 he cried out " Oh, be has stabbed me with a knife ;" "Don which the police came up and took the prisoner into e t .ustodv. Richard Smith swore that he was in the Corn f larkei on Saturday night, when the scuffle took place. "akley on the prisoner down, and then ran away ; the pr isoner followed him, and in a few minutes afterwards he h eard Oakley cry out that he was stabbed. Witness went 1 1 1 1 to the prisoner, and told him he had cut Oakley, and he h and better give him the knife ; upon which prisoner put his into hs pocket and gave him a knife, and Douglas the tlieeman apprehended him. Michael Douglas; one of the W arrington police, stated that he was on duty on Saturday 11 ;ht and soon after midnight he heard cries in the Market- N ot ee. Oakley cried out that he was stabbed, an d s h ou t e d j. the police. 'Witness found him with his jacket off, bleed -4g from a wound in his back. The prisoner was pointed out 41 him as the person who had inflicted the wound, and he 2 1 tuediately took him into custody, upon which the prisoner 1 7 41 , " I wish to Christ I bad killed the b-r ;" this he e peated several times. The magistrates having commented °lt the enormity of the offence , committed the prisoner for tr ial at th e assizes. I in D EATH BY THE FALL OF A BRICK.--,011 Saturday after e stb n a long investigation took place before P. F. Curry, i the borough coroner, to ascertain the circumstances w hich led to the death of William Lewis, who was killed by d ',,e fall of a brick from the top of a building which was un v:toing some repair in Park-lane. The deceased was five He reexamined, but the following is an abstract of the testi t°llY. It appeared that a Mr. Coop had contract e d to to the building in , question, and one er portion thereof had t? t , l 'e pulled down and rebuilt. Leave was obtained to par trllll off a ortion of the footwalk, under the inspection of e Surveyor, for the protection of ' the public. Rails were e'ecrdingly erected. A passage along the footwalk was sub ;."y opened, on the surveyor directing that the path , a ,. 8 ,,t 0 be left clear, except when some actual work was pro ca—.ing. On Thursday fortnight the deceased, his brother, som e other boys were playing beneath the building. The m e n had gone to dinner, having previously fixed the cornice ;I: n ,es• Two of the buys employed on the building were i,' -}P `ng above on the scaffolding. O n e of them had laid feleolself flat on a cornice-stone, the other having hold of his Suddenly, the cornice-stone, weighing .1501b5., was aeen toppling over. The youth who had hold of his tVlDanion's feet drew him forcibly back at the instant when te stone fell. Meanwhile, one of the falling bricks had j ii r eek the deceased, who was below, on his face and knocked '4 33 down. Several other bricks immediately fell upon him. ( Ott came the cornice-stone, which, however, fell short and not injure him. The poor little fellow was picked up sti 4 r 4 carried to a drugmist's. shop, and, subsequently, to the hi s gerY of Mr. Marshall. His face was much injured and w ., l ght arm shockingly crushed. He went on tolerably ~,1 1 t t , at first, but at length he was seized with tetanus, of "" 1 'h he died en Tuesday.—Verdict, " Accidental death." We are happy to hear that Me, burrow is so much recovered from his late indisposition as to undertake the superintendence of his extensive establishment, which is about commencing its provincial tour. MR. J MEN'S CONCERTS.—The Portico is to be occu pied by Mr. Jullien and his charming band. A glance at the programme will shew what a delightful treat is in store for the lovers of music. MR. ANDERSON'S STATUARY.—Tam o' Shanter and Co. are about to be removed into Ranelagh-street, opposite the Waterloo Hotel. This very convenient situation will induce many now to visit Mr. Anderson's beautiful statues, who would not perhaps travel to the Custom-house for the pur pose. We can assure those who have not inspected these works of art, that they are very great curiosities, and reflect much credit upon the industry and talent of the sculptor. THE CI-11mm OF SCOTLAND.—We are informed that in consequence of the differences which at present unhappily distract the Church of Scotland, a number of the principal gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Annan, who have hereto fore belonged to the communion of that church, have de termined to separate from it, and have already subscribed a very considerable sum of money towards the erection of an edifice, which is to be placed under the superintendence of the English established church. This, we believe, is not the first instance of a similar secession. THEATRE ROYAL.—This theatre was crowded last nigh to suffocation, on the occasion of Mrs. Clarke's benefit. Th( performances went off with great eclat, and the clever belie ficiare was rapturously received by her numerous friends The farce of " A Lady and Gentleman in a Peculiarly Per. plexing,Predicament," elicited shouts of laughter. It wil be seen, that the touching drama of " Lucille," is to be played to-night. Lucille is one of Mrs. Keeley's best cha• racters. Mr. Stuart also excels in the part of St. Cyr. IMPROVEMENTS IN LORD-STREET.—AMOUgSt the im provements which have taken place lately in the shops in this street, we cannot refrain from noticing and drawing attention to the very beautiful, elegant, and tasteful shop of Mr. Hyam, which has just been thrown open to public view. The plates of glass are the largest in Liverpool, they measure seven feet by eight, are of enortnous thickness, and of the most perfect material. Liverpool can boast of many very handsome shops, but none in our opinion can ex ceed in chasteness of design this establishment. BRUTE-AL ATTEMPT AT INCENDIARISM.—Some scamp attempted on Friday night last to set fire to the straw in the bear den .belonging to Mr. Fox, the hairdresser, in Bold street. A lighted lucifer match was thrown over the Arcade Walk wall, but fortunately, before any mischief could be done it was discoverd. The bear says he don't mind his remains going into grease, but he objects being roasted turkey fashion. He further observed, that fire was harder to bare within his den than " cold without." CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—We beg to call the serious attention of the_pnblic to an advertisement announcing a meeting of this excellent society. The professor of moral philosophy. in the University of Dublin, and Mr. Walker, the secretary of the society—gentlemen well qualified to explain its objects, and enforce its importance—attend as a deputation. The appeal is made to this town at a most auspicious period when we are about to witness the re-establsh ment of a sound scriptural education in our corporation schools. The society has at present 1000 schools under its superintendence, and the charge, which is frequently preferred against the Irish of appealing to the liberality of England be fore ascertaining what can be gathered amongst the former, cannot he laid at the door of this society, since last year, the second of its existence, upwards of £14,000 was raised in Ireland. The Rev. Rector Campbell had consented to take the chair, but he' has since announced that his health will not allow him to do so, and the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, under these circumstances, has agreed to become the chairman. • ..amsnacomo.i.waimmna.awa , ssa..e.MM.V.Was• DEATH OF EGERTON SMITH, ESQ This gentleman died on the night of Thursday last, at his house. Rodney-street, in the 67th year of his age. He had been indisposed for several months ; and, as his disorder did not yield to medical treatment, many persons, from this cir cumstance, and particularly from the very palpable change in his personal appearance, the effect of his continued ill ness, feared that he would not survive the winter. It is stated, however, in the Liverpool Mercury of Friday, that " neither he nor his friends anticipated a fatal termination to his illness till within the last day or two." We gather the following brief particulars connected wit': the life of Mr. Smith, from the Albion of yesterday : " Mr. Smith was originally bred to the trade of a printer He afterwards succeeded his father, we believe 3 an opti- cian, a stationer, and printer, carrying on the business in the well-known premises in Pool-lane, now called South Castle-street. In 1811, there being no liberal journal then published in the town, he, at the request of the leading local whigs and reformers of that day, started the Liverpool Mer cury, which, under the management of the late Mr. Noble, assisted by Mr. Smith, was a very prosperous undertaking, and must now be a very valuable and improving estate to' his family. Mr. Smith was the means of establishing the Me chanics' and Apprentices' Library, and the Night ASylum, in this town. A few years ago, a public subscription► was en tered into for the purpose of presenting him with a piece of plate, which was given to him at a public dinner, at the Mer sey Hotel. Immediately after the passing of the Municipal Reform bill, Mr. Smith was chosen the representative of Vauxhall Ward. " Mr. Smith has left a family of four daughters. One of them is married to Captain Bracken, of the East India Com pany's service, and is now in India. We truly sympathize with Mrs. Smith in her bereavements. Four weeks ago, she lost her father; a fortnight ago, she received intelligence of the death of her grandchild in the East; and now she is called upon to mourn the death of her husband." With reference to the political opinions of the" deceased, or to the manner in which they have been placed before the public in the columns of the Mercury, we shall not be ex- pected to speak in terms of approbation, and we should do violence to our own feelings were we to express our sincere views with respect to them at the present moment. We war not with the dead. We would not throw a bitter into the cup of surviving relatives, or breathe one word deliberately to jar against the feelings of admiring and sorrowing friends, of whom the deceased has left behind him many ; and neither will we feign a sentiment which we cannot feel. The stroke of death has separated the man from the politician; and ours shall not be the hand to bring them again together. The funeral of Ir. Smith will tike place on Thursday morning at the Necropolis. We understand a great number of gentlemen have determined to accompany his remains from the house in liodney-street to the grave. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN, BY DROWNING An inquest was held yesterday before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the bodies of two young women, Ellen Hind and Ellen Doubleday, who were drowned on Sunday last in the gut at the north end of Prince's Dock. Emma Doubleday said she was daughter of John Double day, and they lived in Boardman-place, Scotland-road. On Sunday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, witness and another girl named Ellen Bowcock, were at the Prince's Dock. They were coming from the pier head. When they got to the gate, Ellen Bowcock and witness crossed, and the deceased Ellen Doubleday was following them. Just as they got across, witness heard Ellen Doubleday calling ber, and on looking round saw her in the act of falling into the en trance of the dock. She fell into the water. Witness did not see her strike against anything in falling. She never rose to the surface after she fell in. It was dark at the time. Witness instantly gave the alarm, and while she was calling out, she saw a girl coming running from the opposite side to see what was the matter. She ran towards the edge of the entrance, and just as she reached it, she fell in. A crowd col lected, and some police officers came and g►appled for them, and in about ten minutes they brought up the body of the girl who fell in last. Witness did not know her. Witness afterwards went away to send word to Ellen Doubleday's father, and acquaint him with what had happened. 'On her return home, she found Ellen Doubleday had been taken out. She was taken to her father's, in Limekiln-lane. She was quite dead. Witness did not know what caused the other girl to fall, and Ellen Doubleday was in the act of falling when she first saw her. Ellen Bowcock, daughter of Thomas Bowcock, said she lived in the same court as the last witness. He was with her and the deceased, on the pierhead, at the time stated. When she and the last witness had crossed the gates, she saw Ellen Doubleday coming towards the gates, and just as she got to the corner of the gates her foot slipped, and she fell into the water, close to the gates, and never rose after wards. While giving the alarm the witness saw a girl run towards the gut, to see what was the matter. _ Just as she got to the edge ibe fell in also. The further evidence of this witness corroborated that of the former. Police-officer James Philips said he saw the deceased, on the pierhead, between seven and eight, and a set of young men round her. He got her away, and also sent away ,the young men. She walked leisurely towards the gates, and he went inside the dock wall. Immediately afterwards he heard screams from towards the gate. He sprung his rattle, and got the grappling irons ; and, while searching, he heard a plunge in the water, and directly after saw something white on the surface. He threw the irons towards it, and while doing so a boat came up, but the object he bad seen had sunk. The irons were then given to the men in the boat, and they succeeded in bringing up the body of a girl. He assisted in carrying her to the station-house. In about ten minutes after, the men in the boat brought up the body of the girl he had extricated from the young men at the pier head, which was also carried to the station-house. She ap peared to be dead when taken out. The usual means to restore nature were applied immediately to the first body, but without effect ; and on taking the second there, a surgeon was present, who said she was quite dead. The father of each of them came to the station-house and recognised them. Another officer stated that he had heard both of the girls fall in, and the last of them paddled about a short time, but it was so dark that he could not distingush anything. He assisted the other officer and corroborated his testimony. There would be about ten or twelve feet of trAter in the gut where the girls fell in. Thomas Doubleday, a taflor, of Lime Moe-lane, stated that the alarm reached him about half-past eight, and be went to the dock and recognized the body of his daughter. She was 17 years of age. John Hughes, it' bricklayer, said he had been walking with Ellen Hind on the pier head, when he heard a scream and a rattle springing. He went towards the gate, leaving Ellen Hind, and found the officers grappling. Soon after he heard a plunge, and shortly after the body of Ellen Hind, whom he had been with, was brought up. She was dead when taken to the station house. __She was 20 years old. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that both the de ceased were accidently drowned by falling from the foot-walk, near the gates, into the water. The coroner stated that he would recommend to the Dock Committee to institute an inspection of the dock gates, bridges, &c., and particularly of the gut in question, with a view to the prevention, if possible, of similar lamentable accidents in future. DOGGREL RHYMES, OCCASIONED BY A RECENT WONDERFUL ACCIDENT TO A PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY. As along Castle-street Till, turning quite round, One day I was stalking, A gent I beheld, A friend I did meet, Leaping up from the ground, And we set about talking. As though he were killed. On that day the new theme My friend and I run, Engrossing attention To keep him from falling; Was the Halifax snail steam- Cried, " The shot of the gun er's wondrous detention. Caus'd effects so appall- Each stated his mind, ing." What might be the cause : " No, no!" he exclaim'd, My friend blamed the wind ; " No steamship's to blame; I said " 'twas the law's The new crack so fain'd "• Delay in M'Leod's case, Has made me so lame. That hinder'd the steamer, " While prancing quite prig And no doubt a few days, This pavement along— At farthest, would bring The nerves of my leg her," Being quite' sound and Thus far we proceeded, strong — When lo ! a rebound " Of a sudden they broke ! Our talking succeeded— You have heard the report A terrible sound ! Like a gun, without smoke ; My friend, who is ever Pray don't think it sport." Quite partial to fun, We call'd for a coach, Call'd out, " That 's the And sent off the wight, steamer ! . To console poor Sir Josh I 'm sure it 's her gun ! In a similar plight ; " The report is conclusive— But thought it quite droll, The news soon will out," ' That two bigwigs sohusnble I thought it delusive, Should thus curiously fall And still bad my doubt; With so novel a stumble. Town-hall, Nov. 20/h, 1841. " THE LADIES' CHARITY The following essay, entitled " Remarks on the Necessity and Advantages of establishing Lying-in Wards in connexion with The Ladies' Charity' of Liverpool," was composed last year by the medical officers of the Ladies' Charity, at the request of the combined committee of ladies and gentle men, and was circulated amongst the trustees and subscrib- ers at large. Its chief object was to afford such information as should evince the great desirableness of connecting with the Ladies' Charity, wards for the reception of difficult and dangerous instances of parturition among the married poor. The question of rendering such assistance, and by such means, had been under the consideration of the Ladies' Cha rity since the latter end of ISM, but from various causes had been at different times postponed. The full amount of in- formation was considered to be given, but the matter and suggestions of the pamphlet remained still not formally de- cided upon In this state of things a plan was originated by other par ties, and has been recently proposed to the public, for the purpose; of carrying out, by a new institution, the very object' heady in the hands and under the notice of the existing The authorities of the Ladies' Charity moved, as may be supposed, by the unexpected projection of this mea• sure, and - apprehensive perhaps that their own charity, to wards which feelings of strong attachment are known to be largely entertained, might fall into disesteem or be otherwise injured, have, we understand, now directed their most seri ous attention to the point of enlarging the charity, on the plan actually for some time before them. PREFACE. charity The attention of the Committee of the Ladies' Charity having been strongly drawn, during the latter months of 1838, to the question of establishing Lying-in Wards, in con nexion with the Charity, it was proposed in the first instance to call a general meeting of the Subscribers to consider its expediency; but subsequently, from the scanty or uncertain information supposed to be possessed on the subject, it was decided to postpone this step, until some statement to explain the advantages of such an addition to the Charity had been prepared by the Medical Officers, and circulated amongst the Subscribers. Various circumstances have conspired since that period to prohibit the performance of this obligation on the part of the Medical Officers ; but they are happy to be able at length to fulfil their promise, and have now the plea sure of laying before the Subscribers and Benefactors in general the following remarks, of the incompleteness of which they are fully sensible, but which they trust will, nevertheless, have the effect of exciting that tkeper inquiry into the sub ject, which it appears to them so eminently to deserve. EDWARD BATTY. KING ELLISON. SAMUEL MALINS, M.D. WILLIAM HENRY BAINI3RIGGE. REMARKS, &c. _ _ - - - - Notwithstanding the town of Liverpool boasts of splendid and numerous Charities, supported, without any fixed en dowments, by the constant contributions of its more wealthy inhabitants, yet there are none which in real usefulness can justly be thought to excel the " Ladies' Charity", the prin cipal feature of which is the administration of professional assistance, and of many most essential comforts, to poor married women_in the hour of their necessity. The Ladies' Charity was instituted in this town in 1796, and now, consequently, has for forty-four years been engaged in its most beneficent and useful work. During this time it has steadily pursued an unostentatious plan of diffusing its benefits, and not only those of a domestic nature, but such other aid also as the homes of the poor would permit to be received. Within forty-four years, terminating with 1839, the large number of 54,744 patients have thus been the ob jects, all of matronly and pecuniary, and many of medical relief, anointed midwives having uniformly been in attend ance ; while under difficulty or danger, has invariably been snperadded the presence of medical men, specially chosen by the whole body of subscribers. Some idea may hence be formed of the extent and activity of the operations of the Charity amongst the poor. It would be difficult, perhaps, fully to estimate the value of the blessings and advantages conferred by these means, not merely on the sufferers and their dependent families and friends, but likewise, indirectly, on society at large. And it is undeniable, that to the bene volent and generous feelings of th ose w h o by their contribu tions, whether of funds or of personal exertion, have diffused so vast an amount of good, the highest credit is justly due. Still although so much to comfort and gladden these poor sufferers has been effected, yet when the circumstances of the humblest o:ders of society in this place are attentively consi dered, there seems room, in certain cases, for adding to, or varying the present mode of relief. Admirably as this is suited to the majority of cases, yet it does not appear ade quate to supply sufficient help, or to do justice to all, since it does not embrace within its agency some of the most for midable contingencies of the obstetric art. The Medical Officers are firmly persuaded that, by further extending the benefits which the " Ladies Charity" has in its power to confer, remaining objects, of not less interest and impoetance than those hitherto accomplished, may be satisfactorily achieved. The chief of these may be stated to consist in provision for those peculiarly Officult or highly desti tute classes of cases, so frequently met with, and so much aggravated in intensity by the attendant features of the abodes of the poor, for which ample provision is found in the extensive lying-in establishments of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, but 'none hitherto (although de mands for such provision are equally urgent,) in this densely populous town. It appears to the 'medical officers, that the only mode by which this provision can be certainly secured, and so strong a necessity be confidently met, is by the erec tion of Hospital Wards, or the procuring and maintaining in one locality, where all the resources of art and every means of relief can be effectively concentrated, adequate accommo dation for the reception and treatment of the cases described. The subscribers to the Ladies' Charity, except by constant personal inspection, could have no idea of the danger and miseries which the medical officers are so often compelled to witness, and which, from the inefficient or opposing charac ter of surrounding circumstances, they are, not rarely, unable to remove or perfectly relieve. In those dark, dismal re cesses under ground known as inner cellars, or in upper rooms approached by crumbling staircases, where the con fined air is thick, heated, or moist, and highly impure, the one apartment occupied by numerous inmates or several. fami lies for the most part in a half-fed and half-cloth e d s t a t e , th e unhappy spectacle of puerperal women oppressed by grievous pain, or holding only a very precarious existence, may fre quently be seen. With a view, therefore, to rescue fro m this deplorable condition both those distressing cases where the safety of the sufferer is unusually compromised, and those instances of impoverished and destitute married women, whose deep necessities have compelled them to implore assis tance at a time and under circumstances which attract the tenderest sympathy, (even when danger is absent and every external comfort is at hand,) and also to afford to parties thus labouring under the severest risks, or subsisting in the midst of such extreme wretchedness, an asylum to which the light of heaven shall have access, free from a damp and polluted atmosphere, where they shall enjoy that quietude so necessary to their welfare ; to give them likewise a diet suit able to their situation, with warm and appropriate apparel, by which cleanliness will be brought to supersede filth in its most revolting forms; to supply, moreover, the services of kind and experienced nurses, together with efficient medical aid, the basis on which every other advantage must rest :—with a view to procure these comforts and advantages, frequently indispensable to the preservation of life, for those who have no other means of obtaining them, the present brief state ment has been drawn up, and is now submitted to the kind and impartial consideration of the subscribers to the Ladies' Charity, and through them, is offered to the indulgent notice of the more opulent and benevolent among the community at large, to whom the nature and claims, or in some cases possibly the very existence of the charity, may not as yet be known. And this appeal is made with strong hope of success, inasmuch as in this place the cause of Christian charity has never yet been pleaded in vain. The subordinate"objects of the proposed extension of the charity, constituting the collateral advantages that may be expected to accrue from an hospital of this kind, come next to be mentioned. The importance of them, though secon dary, cannot, however, be deemed inconsiderable. Firstly, a number of competent well-educated monthly nurses will bt formed, who, from the knowledge they will derive during their attendance at such an institution, will in 'their peculiar capacity prove more valuable to, and inspire more perfect confidence in, all classes of society. Secondly, it will constitute a school for the sound educa tion of midwives. The instructions they will here receive under the medical officers, and the superior information they will thus acquire, will necessarily render them more discri minating and skillful in their professional vocation. Hence will spring greater credit to themselves, an augmented re spectability of their class, and more assured benefit to the objects of their attention. Thirdly, it will be possible, under very precise regulations and strict superintendence, that the wards should be made subservient to the more exact initiation of advanced and ap proved medical students into this department of their pro fession. The attention of the patrons and friends of the charity must now be entreated to a fact of much import, namely, that to give proper effect to the contemplated additional relief, the benefits of the charity should not, as hitherto, be limited solely to patients who are about to be confined of their se cond or following children, * but should be extended, so as also to allow the reception, at least into the proposed wards, of certain poor women, who, for the first time, are expect ing to become mothers. The reasons on which this suggestion is founded are abun dantly known to medical men. For experience has demon strated, and may therefore be safely alleged in confirmation of the fact, that as a general rule, a far greater than the average degree of hazard aecoMpanies first confinements, and that in consequence, they ordinarily require a larger amount of professional care, attention, and skill. Evils of a greater magnitude, and more deplorable consequences, have resulted from mismanaged first confinements than from all the sub sequent ones combined. To avert such results, when either difficulty can be foreseen or is imminently threatened, or has actually supervened, - 1 - the charity, enlarged as proposed, would be powerfully instrumental, and the circle of its merits and utility would thus be greatly increased. It will be perceived that the tenor of these suggestions is not to restrict, or produce any limitation or diminution of the present excellent mode adopted by the charity of afford ing relief, which without doubt, as was before observed, is best adapted to the wants and conveniences of the majority of the poor ; but the design is, without interfering in the smallest degree with the present plan of the charity as an Obstetric Dispensary, to offer from its benevolent source, and to comprehend within one and the same institution, the ad ditional method of succour which is now advocated, and for which it is hoped that a necessity has been made clearly to appear. In favour of hospital wards, the opinions of many eminent medical authorities might be adduced, but it will probably be held sufficient to quote only a few of these. The late Professor Hamilton, of the University of Edinburgh, ob served : " I have no doubt that the comforts provided for patients in those excellent establishments, enable them to bear without injury a degree of protraction of suffering which would have been most prejudicial, if they had been confined in tbeir own miserable dwellings, and left to their own scanty means of subsistence." He also remarked, in speaking of the larger proportion of difficult cases received into the Edin burgh Hospital, as compared with cases occurring at home : " the explanation is obvious : deformed women are sent from various distant quarters into the hospital, in consequence of its being evident from their shape that their labour may pro bably be difficult." In the report of the British Lying-in Hospital it is re marked, " that women who are deformed, or who are in very bad health, generally take great pains to procure letters of admission into this hospital." A recent statement of the committee of Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, after mentioning that poor women are at- * Rule 5 says, " that the relief afforded by this charity be' confined to poor married women having one child living at the time of application." A poor woman, therefore, unable, from personal malformation, or other causes, to bear a liv ing child at the full natural period, or another, who ha s h a d sever al children bor n d ea d, or w h o h as lost children, after a more or less protracted existence, is restricted from the benefits of the charity. t The following note, taken from Dr. Collins's account of 16,654 births oecurring during seven years in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, (an institution to which government an nually contriuutes a large pecuniary amount) has reference to this part of the subject : " Patients are often brought into the hospital, even when ill, or in much danger, and do well." tended at their own dwellings, think it necessary to add, that " the hospital cannot in such cases afford them the full amount of domestic relief and consolation as proffered under its own roof." And in the Westminster Lying-in Hospital it is testified, that when once a patient has experienced peculiar difficulties she is on subsequent occasions received into the hospital, that she may there be under the constant superintendence of the medical officers, and thence derive more effectual aid. Lastly may be cited, the analogy of obstetric emergencies with those of medicine and surgery in general. This is so striking as to constitute a proof that they arc equally adapted for hospital relief. ABSURDITIES AND " SOMETHING WORSE" OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION. From the suliiime to the ridiculous there is but one step, and our anti-corn-law neighbours in Manchester appear 're solved to make it. From the high-sounding title of " con ventions," their meetings have degenerated into " tea par ties"—" anti-corn-law tea parties"—at which the bemused auditories of the philosophers of the League imbibe bombast and blasphemy with their slops, and cram down falsehood and fraud with their bread and butter. We have the reports of the speechifications at two of these precious displays, which have been held during the past week, before us, in the columns of the Manchester Guardian; and shall take the liberty of extracting a few specimens for the amusement and edification of our readers. At the first of these, which was held on Wednesday even ing, in the Corn Exchange, the Rev. J. W. Massie, whose name, in connection with the recent " convocation of minis ters of all denominations," is perhaps familiar to our readers, entertained his enlightened auditory with the following piece of intelligence : . " Such was the destitute condition of the weavers in this part of the country, that even the death of the Queen Dow ager would be hailed by them as a means of getting rid of their surplus stock of black stuffs. What must have been the character of that system which could thus make the death of an amiable lady be looked forward to with such feelings !" The death of the Queen Dowager LONGED FOR as the means of getting rid of black sites! Amiable manufacturers ! " What must be the character of that system"—the manu facturing system—" which could thus make the death of an amiable lady be looked forward to with such feelings!" Aye, what indeed! But is it true ? we ask. Can there . be amongst our manu facturing population such WRETCH E S as are described by the Rev. J. W. Massie? We know that, amongst the philoso phers of the League, are to be found men who, in their phrenzied hostility to the corn-laws, gloated over the pros pect of an insufficient harvest, and whom every falling shower filled with an unholy joy, as they contemplated the result to which the miseries of a famine-struck population could be turned by the astute hand of agitation. But we never met with men, whose opinions and feelings are worthy of being regarded, in whose breast a sentiment so atrocious could be entertained ; arid we are confident that the manu facturers of Lancashire will regard its imputation to them, reverend demagogue, as a foul and a filthy libel, worthy only of a bad heart to conceive and a truculent tongue to utter. by this Again, we find the same reverend schismatic exercising his powers of invention in the manufacture of distress amongst the labouring population. We are told of " indus trious and sober characters " " living in cellars without a bed to lie on, food to eat, or clothing to put on." How this can be called " living," we are at a loss to know; and we disbelieve the fact. Distress there is amongst our manufac turing population—too much of it; but we cannot believe that it is of the excessive nature here spoken of, without being driven to form such an opinion of the selfish and un feeling character of the manufacturers themselves—who thus permit the hands which have created their wealth to perish before their doors—as we should really be sorry to entertain. At the second of these tea and toast affairs, another reve rend gentleman stated that " he had visited 253 families in Manchester, who had no more than one penny a day on an average to sustain them. In some cases the children were closely stitched up in calico, never to be taken off until worn out." 258 families in Manchester who had no more than a penny a day to live upon .! Why. " sawdust porridge" could not be had for the money. The Rev. F. Beardsall beats Mr. Patrick Stuart hollow, in his estimate of the infinitesimal powers of stomach of a weaver or a spinner. But the idea of the swaddled infants, the juvenile mummies, " closely stitched up in calico never to be taken off," is superb. The reverend gentleman deserves henceforth to rank as supreme in invention with the philosophers of past ages, and to fill a prominent niche in the temple of fame. BOBADIL, 11111 N. CHALTSEN, and the Rev. F. BEARDSALL — ImmortaI trio! But enough of the male specimens of the anti-corn-law philosophy. " A change comes o'er the spirit of our dream," and we bow henceforth before another and a milder planet. Henceforth our attention shall be devoted exclusively to the notice of female agitation, for which we are to thank the illustrious member for Stockport, Richard Cobden, Esq., who has transported a lady (who is not Mrs. Chappelsmith) from the metropolis, to devote her energies to the task of setting the female portion of the community about the ears ef Sir Robert Peel and the landlords ! Hear the illustrious speaker himself at the meeting in question : " He saw before him a lady (Miss Giffard,) whose ac quaintance .11e. had the honour of making vot long ago in London. and who came to Mandliester at this rigorous sea son of the year, and, though not in so good a state of health as he wished to see her, to aid in promoting memorials and petitions to the queen. She (Miss Giffard) was willing to take upon herself the irksome task of going from house to house, asking the co-operation of those ladies of Manchester and Salford who were willing to aid her in bringing food and contentment to the doors of their immediate neighbours." If the landlords do not quail now, they are impenetrable. If the powers of female agitation—including, we presume, hysterics and fainting fits—do not settle the sliding scale, we raelly cannot tell what will ! LITE.ReIIiY IVO77CES. 'alas, the noblest Roman of them all. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By Jacob Jones, Esq. London : Miller. PP. 96 We know not why it is so, but every endeavour appears to be making by the critics and reviewers of the present day to decry the productions of modern dramatists. The cuckoo cry of " the drama's fall " is for ever heard, yet we still see the histrionic art flourishing. Dramatic authors certainly get little or no encouragement ; yet still we find them writing and publishing. Mr. Jones, the author of " Spartacus " and many other plays, has striven hard to add to the dramatic literature of his country, and has been, it must be confessed, roughly dealt with. In one publication we have found a long and savage, unmanly, uncritic-like review of the work the title of which beads this notice ; and we must say we en vy not the writer thereof the possession of either his head or heart, because the article appears to be prompted by a bad feeling, and does no credit to literary talent. Mr. Jones does not deserve so sweeping, so exterminating a notice of his work, because it is not altogether devoid of merit. We candidly confess, however, it has cost us much labour and patience to get through it; and we have been obliged to wade through pages and pages of uninteresting dialogue, before we have met with a poetical passage to repay us for our pains. In portions of the play the conversation is kept on unnecessarily, and sustained without the least reference to the story ; and in others, where a recital of the past is taking place, that recital is vexatiously interrupted . for in stance, in the interview between Regulus and Marcia, at pp. 51-52. Portions of the tragedy are powerfully written, and here and there a gleam of poetic fancy bursts forth, but the tragedy is totally unfitted for the stage, unless the pru ning-knife were to be most lavishly and unsparingly used. The interviews between Marcia and Regulus are good in parts. The character of the latter is a noble one, and capa ble of great expression; while that of Dives, with " his ships," might be made much of. We must say that we should have liked this tragedy better if it had been " shorn of its beams " one-half ; and we must also declare, that we sat down to read it with a determination to be pleased, and ith.a strong wish to discover its beauties, and be blind to its faults. Boyce's Cathedral Music. J. Alfred Novella, London. Air. Novello has commenced a hazardous undertaking in the publication of the above music, and it will only be by the assistance and support of the public that he will get an ade quate return for his outlay. The plan of the work is excel lent. The highest encomiums have been passed upon it, and her Majesty and the Queen Dowager, as well as many other members of the Royal Family, have not only expressed their approval of it, but become what is far better, liberal sub scribers. The advantages to persons subscribing to this work are great. Few possessing the original score can command more than one, or at most, two`copies of the work; which, for the purpose of performance, is wholly inadequate. To cathedral and other choirs, the present work offers good printed copies at a considerably lower cost than manuscript ; and it will be found far more available towards ensuring a correct perform ance of this portion of Divine Service. The treble, counter tenor, tenor and bass vocal parts are printed, each set sepa rately, so that a choir can obtain, at a comparatively low price, their own parts. The work is to consist of sixty-five numbers, The three poor-law unions, comprising the manufacturing population of the boroughs of Manchester and Salford, with their immediate neighbourhood, contain altogether no less than 354,142 individuals. linv ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The first stone will be laid by Prince Albert early in January. The contract is taken at the sum of 4:115,900, and the building is to be finished by the 25th of June, 1844, under a penalty of £2O a day. WHIG LIBERALITY.—Mr. Whitbread, of Bedfordshire, is determined not to be left behind by Lord Fitzwilliam in the race of whig liberality. His brother, as every one knows, was defeated at the last election for the borough of W Bedford, by the conservative candidates. Mr. hitbread, th ere f ore , at once proceeds to give his tenants notice to quit, and who, above all others, does he select to vent his spleen upon ? Will it be believed that he has been so foolish as to send notice to the successful candidate, Mr. Stuart, and to Mr. Littledale, a magistrate of the county, both of them g is theentle men of high s t an di ng an d a ncient family, a n d t hi s reason which he alleges for this unparalleled procedure. He says :—" When I find that your position as my tenant gives you great advantages in contesting the bot-ough, I consider it my duty (!!) to prevent my property from being turned to the politital disadvantage of my family !" Really, if the borough of Bedford is only to be preserved as an " advan tage to the family" of Mr. Whitbread, the sooner it is transferred to schedule A the batter.--Noriting pest. A RADICAL CONTEMPORARY CULLED The avidity with which the Radical press seizes hold of anonymous slander, no matter how stupid, provided it be cter or the conduct of the Conser- directed against the chara vative party, has long been notorious ; and yet we were scarcely prepared for an instance so gross, as is referred to in the letter which we subjoin, and with the particulars of which we have been furnished. Is it fitting or honest, we beg to ask our contemporary of the Albion, that a public two or three individuals choose to play journalist, bec, upon his gullibility, and u;;der an assumed signature —as Paul Prk ' or Paul anv flng else statement, affecting the char -foist upon him a mis id credit of respectable men, should adroit such a communication into his columns without an effort to substantiate its accuracy,—without, at the least, a remark as to its want of a real and recognised We humbly think it signature to vouch for its is not decent and yet this i genuineness just the conduct with which we are compelled to charge our eontemporar3 with such elegant expressions as " Tory doings,' Because larded and ini- puting " Bottling," " Guzzling," Bribery, and subsequent dishonesty to Conservatives, a vulgar and glaringly offensive letter has been admitted into his last publication, under the signatiire of " Paul Pry ;" and whilst the authors of the hoax laugh at the readiness with which our contemporary is duped, the falsehood or the string of falsehoods, go forth into the world as undoubted and accredited facts, or at all events as facts which rest upon some shadow of evidence. The letter itself, at foot, is sufficient as to the " Tory doings" in Pitt. street Ward ; and we trust our contemporary will confess the sin into which has fallen, and set about amendment. It would be cruelty were we to say all that has come to our knowledge connected with the affair; for the Albion doesn't like to be laughed at, as he has been on this occasion, even by his own friends, the Radicals of Pitt-street, who are at this moment subjected to legal proceedings for the recovery of the very " guzzling" and "bottling" ex penses which have been placed by him, on such slender evidence, to the debit of Conservatism. Would the Albion like to be furnished with the names and particulars? TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. SlR,—Having seen in this day's Albion a communication purporting to "show up the doings of the immaculate Tories of Pitt-street Ward," I beg leave to assure you, that it is a gross fabrication from beginning to end; and I must request your. insertion of this, that the base calumny ma y h ave the earliest contradiction. I believe that the expense of our committee-room, in cluding all the previous committee meetings, as well as the public meeting night, did not amount to £lO. We had no private houses fitted up for " bottling" or " guzzling" rooms. What the other party may have dune in this line I cannot say ; but my present impression is, that "Paul's" communication smells very strongly of liberality. Yours respectfully, WATKIN WILLIAMS, Chairman. Noveraber 21, 1841. MEETING OF THE SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION -MR. GAGE'S PLANS A highly respectable meeting of the members of the Ship masters' Association was held at their rooms, on Friday, Lieut. Holden, R.N., in the chair, for the purpose of inspect ing and examining Mr. Gage's plans for the construction of a new dock, and of comparing them in juxtaposition with the plan of the new dock as designed by-Mr. Hartley, on the same site. The following resolutions, on which a memorial is to he founded, were moved by Captain Ramsey, seconded by Captain Stroyan, and carried unanimously : "Resolved,—That the thanks of this meeting be conveyed, in writing, to Mr. Gage, by the chairman, together with the unanimous approval of his plans for the proposed new dock, ail of which are considered preferable to the one designed by Mr. Hartley, and approved by the Dock Committee ; but the one more particularly approved of is the one with the horse shoe basin communicating with the river Mersey. " That a memorial be drawn up and forwarded to the Dock Committee, signed by the chairman of this meeting, objecting to the design of Mr. Hartlty's dock, as ill adapted to carry out the spirit of the act of parliament, viz., The more expeditious unloading and dispatch of vessrls by the the erection of transit sheds and the construction of an addi tional wet dock, with warehouses on the quays thereof for the reception of goods, wares, merchandise, &c., &c. " That, if Mr. Hartley's design is carried out, the en trance being from the Canning Dock gut, will present a most serious and fatal obstruction to the working of the Canning and Salthouse Docks, and will be contrary to the spirit of clause 53 in the New Dock Act, viz., 'And be it en acted, that the said wet dock shall be formed and constructed with entrances and basins into and .from the same to com municate as well with the ricer Mersey as with the ad joining docks or basins, or any of them.' " That Mr. Gage's design ' not only affords more water ' space, but more discharging and loading room, or, in other words. more transit-shed and warehouse room, in addition to a direct entrance from the river Mersey, with a spacious horse-shoe basin, with can be worked as an export dock, adjacent to the sheds and warehouses. This meeting, therefore, respectfully entreats the Dock Committee seriously to entertain and adopt Mr. Gage's de sign in preference to the one submitted by Mr. Hartley." The three superior planets—Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, are now to be seen any clear evening in the west. The Duke of Cleveland, we regret to state serious relapse.—Gateshead Observer has had a The Conservatives have gained nearlyfive hundred on the new Registration for the city of London. An opera, composed by Benedict, has been accepted and is expected shortly to be brought out at Covent Garden. The death of the Marquis of Lot:. seat of the dowager Lady Suffield on Sunday. We are informed, upon authority in which we have every reliance, that important changes in the Stamp Office are un der the anxious' consmeramni ,Jr Post. '-'an, took place at the MR. BISTIOP.—In round numbers this gentleman has composed 100 operas, and other dramatic productions, be sides adaptations. His songs exceed 1,200, and his orches tral parts fill 150 volumes of 500 pages each, equal to 700 of ordinary transcribers. It is an extraordinary fact, that a cuckoo was heard pour ing forth its well-known note on Tuesday, the 2nd instant, near Dorchester. The question now asked is, what will •be the name of the heir apparent, and Henry, Alfred, Edward, and William, have each their admirers and advocates. The Morning He rald has declared for Edward. The time at which the infant prince can be created Prince of \Vales must necessarily depend on the state of her Ma jesty's health, it being the act of the sovereign solely. George IV was created Prince of Wales five days after his birth. Barrett, a letter carrier who voted at the last election for this borough, in defiance of a cautionary notice sent him by the post office, has had a qui tam action brought against him for the £lOO penalty.—Cheltenham Journal. The Boston Times acquaints us with the singular fact that a stream of emigration is setting in at that place for Jamaica. The Queen Dowager has been graciously pleased to send a donation of £lOO to the Society for the Civilization of Africa ; and the Earl Howe one of £3O. We learn that numerous inquiries for good family houses are being made in Bath. Bath is more full at the present moment than it has been for many years at this period of the year ; and there is every prospect that the season will be a very prosperous one. ROYAL PUNNING.—The jubilant is generally addicted to the jocular, and it is not wonderful that a multitude of jests are sported upon a late happy event. Among the best we have heard is the revivnl of the worthy old qutere, why the heir apparent was born Duke of Cornwall ?—Because he was a minor ; and an entirely new hit (for it could not he old, the circumstance never having happened before)—Why when made, his patent passed, the Prince of Wales would be like a twin?—Because, on this occasion, he would be the second creation of his mother ! A few days since, nine valuable ewe sheep, the property of Thos. Raxworthy, Esq., of Upton Lovell, died in consequene of feeding on clover. MunnEn BY A Bov.—A boy only ten years of age, named George Barber, has been committed to Norwich gaol for trial, on a charge of murdering a boy one year younger named Smith. The little wretch has since confessed. It appears that there had been a sort of quarrel between the boys, and that the deceased threatened to tell his father of some con duct of Barber's on his return home. This led to the crime ! SUFFOCATION.—A lamentable occurrence took place in the neighbourhood of Ardee on the morning of the sth inst. Mr. James Crawley, a respectable farmer, had, on the pre vious night, before retiring to rest with his wife, introduced into his apartment (in which there happened to be no chim ney) a quantity of ignited turf, the night being cold. In the morning the unfortunate pair were discovered quite dead.— Newry Telegraph. TUE EVANGELICAL PARTY.—The Manchester Courier, of Saturday last, the organ of the high church party in that town, has the following just remarks on the conduct of the op posite party .—" To their piety and zeal true religious feeling in this country is under a deep and lasting obligation. 'Twas that party that was instrumental in throwing off the religious torpor which reigned in the bosom of the church under the deadening influence exercised by the whips of 1688. 'Twas that party that awoke the spirit of devotion, that quickened religion into vigorous life and activity—teaching men to pray with their whole hearts and souls, who previously went me chanically through a form of words without penetrating their sublime and vital meaning —at a time when the national reli gion " was recognised rather as a branch of public decency than the vital principle of the nation." In those days when a passive protestation against the too-credulous, too-conti ding, too-extensive faith of others took the place of a lively and pious devotion to its own creed, that party stepped in and brokn the spell which had so long held the church in a trance lengthening towards death." MONUMENT OF THE LATE BISHOP RYDER.—The monu ment to the memory of the lamented Bishop Ryder has. been finally placed in the Cathedral at Lichfield. The rev, pre late is represented in the attitude of devotion, with his knees supported on a fauldstool, and his hands gently inclined forwards, as in prayer. The likeness, it is said, though not a striking one, owing to the want of an accurate p or t ra it to work from, will be readily recognised by those who w e r e in habits of the closest intimacy with his lordship. The pedes tal bears the following inscription : To the Memory of The Hon. and Right Reverend HENRY RYDER, D.D., Successively Bishop of Gloucester, and of Lichfield and Coventry, This Monument is erected, In testimony of affectionate respect, By many who revered and loved him. His unsparing self-devotion to the duti es o f hi s hi g h office, His unaffected humility, His Christian. simplicity, his expansive c harity, His terycnt and cheerful piety, Endeared him to his friends, and conciliated universal regard. Constrained by the love of Christ, He strove to extend the means Of worshiping and serving hi m , b o th a t h ome an d a broad ; And to diffuse the light of His Gospel Among Jews and Gentiles. As a PREACHER, affectionate, faithful, earnest, Persuasive, practical; As a BISHOP, paternal, vigilant, apt to teach, Given to hospitality.; Mild and forbearing, yet, when duty called, inflexible; He exhibited, In his daily walk and conversation. A bright example to the flock over which the Holy Ghost H a made overseer. In meek reliance on the grace and intercession Of the Redeemer, He lived, he laboured, he died; Entering into his rest, In the fifty-ninth year of his age, & the tweny-first of his Episcopate, March 31, uncccxxxvz., At Hastings, Where his mortal remains are deposited. CORRESPONIMM. A. PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC AND THE PRE SENT TOWN COUNCIL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. (CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST. )) But why should I advocate for a bishop, Jima we might have more clergymen and more churches, diffusing the sweet influences of Christianity, without a bishop? Simply be cause, by having a bishop, we should more honestly follow the apostolic plan for the conversion of nations, and for the extension of dioceses. I am sure John Wesley would not have objected to our having a bishop, and I am equally sure George Whitfield would not have objected to our having a bishop ; otherwise I have misunderstood what I have read of them. Advocating, however, for our having ,a bishop, I do not ad vocate for any other description of a-bishop, but such an one shall manifest the qualifications mentioned by St. Paul, and reiterated by certain of our own bishops at the time of the Reformation ; and if I would point to a living exemplifi cation of such qualifications, for our first bishop, my selec tion would fall on that " wonder of the age," the Rev. Hugh Can the energies of our present conservative councillors be better employed than in agitating for a cathedral? At present Ido not see how they could. Liverpool was years ago the second town in England ; Liverpool has now a popu lation of three hundred thousand. Does Liverpool want funds, with a corporate estate worth nearly four millions ? No, truly. Can Liverpool afford to pay a bishop's salary, when she can afford to lavish two thousand a-year on a town clerk, fifteen hundred a-year on a stipendiary magi strate, eight hundred on a constable, and seventeen thousand a-year on a police force? Yes, truly. Then, what reasons exist for not making Liverpool a bishop's see ? One of the main causes that has issued in so many sects among our dissenting brethren, is the absence of episcopacy. However pious, however laborious, however orthodox the early dissenters were, the fabric of the government they de vised and reared, for the spread of the gospel, was not the government devised and reared by the apostles, for the same purpose. Under such circumstances, is it to be wondered at that it should issue in different results ? A careful study of God's dealings in his church throughout all the world, will shew that episcopacy is God's instrument for the cure of every disruption therein. Who, that reflects on the achievements of Christianity in England since its first introduction in it, will be unhappy at the thought of raising additional supports to its already hea vily-laden framework? Who, that contemplates with delight on the conquests the Great Captain of our salvation has al ready wrought for us, will refuse officers and generals to those numerous regiments which have been recently enlisted under his banner? Christianity has civilised, as it has evan gelised Britain :it has drained the wastes,—it has furrowed the corn-fields,—it has opened the mines,—it has raised " cloud •capped towers, and gorgeous palaces, and solemn temples," where all was once a wilderness; it not only loosened the bands of Saxon slavery in . Britain, but it'caused the winds of Britain to carry the breath of liberty into the bosom of every slave throughout the world that reached their influence; it has given us an easy access to the world's remotest corners in the swiftly-gliding barque and the stu pendous steamer; it went forth with our fleets, when they sounded the depths and shoals of honour at Aboukir, when they rode the waves of glory at Trafalgar, and when their thunder echoed a message of mercy to every captive in Al giers ; it went forth with our armies when a dynasty perished from the earth at Waterloo, and the flag of our country -aved in the breezes of discomfited France ! What, that is -tot brought with it, when welcomed? ble, will it not continue good and noble, has What, that is IT good and more not to bring, when it is made more welcome? Within our own local circle, our present wants are many. We want an easier access to ecclesiastical courts ; we want something to give a stability to our Protestant and our con servative cause ; we want a general to the clergy of our local church militant. All these wants will be supplied when we have a local cathedral, throWinE its reverend shadows over out streets. We want to bear the moan of the dungeon exchanged for the sweeter music of penitent thankfulness, Where, through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault, The rolling anthem swells the note of praise." But our liberal friends would rather give us the moans of the dungeon. To whom, then, shall we look for the fulfil ment of our heart's desire? To God, to Christianity, and to conservatism. He, who has often heard the songs of Israel's sweet singer rising to his temple in the heavens, from the walls of his temple on the hill of Zion, will delight to hear the same songs from our humbler temple. He, who has heard the prayers once offered by the saints with gracious beneficence, will display the same gracious beneficence, to their utterers, as they rise in clouds of incense from our ca thedral altar, and in kind responses will my o'er our smiling land.' Then let us agitate for a cathedral, such a cathedral as Saxon princes delighted to worship in; a pile, rich in the pleasingly solemn beauties of gothic arches, broad towers, and minaretted buttresses ; whose bells shall spread every pleasing intelligence in peals that vibrate gladness to every Christian ear, within or about our local boundaries ; whose vestibules shall be adorned with the monuments of patriot Christians, whose ashes await a glorious resurrection within their precincts ; whose altar light shall fall on its interior arches blended with the hues of the iris of love, which God sets in pastdiluvian clouds as an emblem of the covenant he made with the patriarch Noah, beaming mercy on us all, and the trefoils and quatrefoils in the insterstices of whose tracery smiling suggestions on the flowers that once bloomed in Eden, shall discourse of him, who seated at God's right hand, exalted high,— " Thence shall come When this world's dissolution shall be ripe, With glory and power to judge both quick and dead, To judge the unfaithful dead ; but, to reward His faithful, and receive them into bliss, Whether in Heaven or Earth—for then the Earth Shall all be paradise: far happier place, Than that of Eden, and far happier days." Commending these suggestion s t o a ll w h o f ee l a li ve ly in . . national establishment ; respectfully soliciting to our present municipal statesmen; dvocacy in their behalf ; and sen - s under which they are submitted f the many defici vho will ed in them, CONSE'RVAtIVE Nov. 13th, IS LITERARY THBFT, LINES BY H. M. HANSBROW, Tu THE EDITOR Or THE LIVERPOOL Jun I beg to inform you that the lines which appeare — d in Friday last, commencing, the STAN DARD of thou roamest," &c., with the signature of H. M. Hans brow. may be found on page 262 of my work, recently pub lished by Mr. Joshua Walmsley, (lurel..street, entitled "Ina and other Poems;" and is not the composition of H. M. Hansbrow.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, MIRA RADCLIFI [We regret that we should have been made the medium of annoyance to the fair and accomplished poetess. Although we despise a person who could commit such a literary theft — equally criminal in our opinion as stealing from the person— we cannot but look upon the larceny as a compliment to the poetic ability of Miss Radcliffe. Who "H. M. Hanabrow" may be, we know not; if a man, he must he a pitiful thief to steal a young girl's thoughts and publish them as his own.— E.L.S.] The following additional verse to the National Anthem has been added on the birth of the Prince of Wales, by a well known vocalist . " In lofty strai Let us ith heart and voice Our love evince. Lord bless the royal pair, And, with parental care, Guard Ergland's rightful heir— Long live the Prince." CARNAlLVON. — Carntirvon is built on a peninsula, formed by the Menai on the west and north sides, and by the Seiont on the south. It was formerly enclosed by walls, defended by a chain of round towers, which on three sides are still 'early entire. In former times there were but two gates through which the inhabitants passed, but other openings have been more recently made to f rm comu.unications with the suburbs, which are rapidly extending. The Town Hall is over one of the ancient gates of the town. A terrace, ex tending from the quay to the north end of the walls, offers a delightful promenade, and presents a variety of interesting objects around the port, which is daily rising into greater importance by receiving and dispensing the fruits of industry and commerce. This terrace, Mr. Barnsby observes, pos sesses the powerful recommendation of' being always clean, and of soon becoming dry after heavy and continued rain. From this walk to behold the sun on a calm summer evening as he goes down " in a paradise of clouds" behind the An glesea hills, is to witness one of the most lovely and glorious spectacles in nature. On an eminence called Twt-hill, near Uxbridge Arms Hotel, is a most extensive and varied pano ramic view, including part of the Snowdonian range,—the Isle of Anglesea, with its plains, farms and villas, backed by the mountains of Holyhead and Parys,—the swelling Menai, —and the blue and spacious bay, with the sea stretching far beyond.—From Rescue's North Wales, new edition. BARMOUTIT.—The houses are disposed in a singular and unpleasant manner on the sides of an immense sloping rock, which shelters them on the eastern side ; and whole rows ap pear standing on their ledges, like shelves one above another ; in winding up the narrow paths among the buildings, at dif ferent stages the inhabitants may be seen standing at the doors, quietly looking over the chimneys of their neighbours. The approach is by steps cut into the rocks, the floor of one range being nearly level with that of the roof below it. There is consequently little necessity for smoking in a population so situated—the lower tier regularly regaling the one next above it with strong warm puffs—more especially when the wind is in their favour. But the good people of Barmouth only in part follow the scriptural injunctions of " building their houses on a rock," for they show, also, a predilection for the sand, and a street has been formed close to the beach. A more inconvenient place for a town can hardly be imagined, for the houses in the lower part are frequently half choked up with sand blown from the shore. One would not believ a site would be selected for a church where the yard should be filled with sand to the depth of three or four feet, and drifted against the church itself, eight or ten. on one side almost blocking up the windows : yet this I saw when I was at Barmouth last year. Barmouth was considered to the north-west part of the kingdom much like Weymouth, and other fashionable watering-places, are to the south, and was resorted to during the summer months, not only by families in the Principality, but many others residing in the surround ing counties. But Barmouth was overrated, and, as a water ing-place, is now falling into decay. Only one respectable inn—the Cors y Gedol Arms—and that not of a superior kind, is in the town. The sands, extending along the beach for several miles, are very fine and hard, and the bathing as excellent as can be desired. The parish church is more than a mile from Barmouth ; but for public convenience a chapel of ease—of which I have spoken above—was erected by sub scription a few years ago, where divine service is performed in the English language, every Sunday.—From Roscoe's North Wales, new edition. BANGOR.—" Bangor, consisting chiefly of one long wind ing street, is not so much distiniguished for the beauty of its external appearance, as for its numerous local advantages and attractions, affording a continual variety of country and sea excursions. The city is of great antiquity, a bishopric having been founded in the sixth century. The prospect from the rising ground, about half a mile distant, called Garth Point, where a ferry-boat plies to the Anglesea shore, presents a rich combination of every variety of coast and mountain scenery; extensive sea views, and landscapes pic turesquely intermingled with towns and villas ; castle towers and spires far and near, giving an agreeable relief to the general open character and sublimity of the prospect. On the left, the Anglesea coast, with plantations and pretty cottages—the church and castle of Beaumaris—the beauti ful bay covered with vessels—Baron Hill, the seat of Sir R. W. Bulkeley ; and far to the north-east, Priesthulme Island, and the variegated green sea; to the right, the Great Orme's Head stands prominent, exteudi"g its rugged bulwark into the sea at the entrance of the Menai Straits, and Penmaen Mountain ; while to the south-east, tower the hills of Snowdon, —altogether offering a coup d'csit of extraordinary scope and grindeur. Bangor furnishes a cen tral situation from which 'the traveller may radiate in all directions, both by land and water, in exploring the beauties of the surrounding country. Within a moderate distance lie Aber, Conway, Nant Frangoa, Ogwen Pool, Capel Cu rig, Carnarvon, Beaumaris, Amlwch, Plas Newydd, afford ing the happiest interchange of scenery ;—and in immediate connection the port, the castle, and the island ; the yawning slate and stone quarries pushing their advances into the very boviels of the hills, and the mountain background overtopped by the lofty peak of regal Snowdon."—Frens Rercoe'r Nort h Wales, flaw editiin. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'cl LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE (From Messrs. X. MAKIN & Circular..) During the greater par and frosty, which rable order for the reception c ble change towards the cl Sunday, again suspended th which hitherto 1. very very to i the land into tc the disadvantage of a wet cohesive soil t an unfavom a- rain throughout Wheat- portion of the work still remains incomplete. Of English, Irish, Canadian, and Foreign Wheat united' we have to note a fair supply into this port since Tuesdi last ; but of other kinds of Grain, as well as Flour, the arr vats are only moderate ; whilst those of Oatmeal cont to come forward rather plentifully from Ireland. ;.Our market to-day, although moderately well attendee town and country millers, was excessively dull for Wheat of 11 descriptions; insomuch that, beyond a ver' amount, scarcely any sales were feasibl few particular instances, a decline of 3d. to 4d. Pi was readily conceded on the part of holden 'Flour also met a very languid sale, Engli ept in a and Irish r ceding in value Is. per sack, and foreign Cd. per barrel belov the rates of last week. Malting Barley and Malt continued to meet very little no tice at an abatement of Is. per quarter, and Grinding Barley hardly maintained former prices. Beans were offered with very little effect on the reduced terms of Friday.—Pease nearly attained our last quotations. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 16th to the 22nd inst., 1841, ineusi I COACT- , CANADAI VO &V.STS.I MUG! IItL DESCItIPT/DN. LAND. I WIS Qrs.l 1964 Qrs. , 98 Qrs.l Oats Qrs. i 1537 Rye Q'•,; Beans Pease. Qrs. I Shelled Barley . Qrs. i Indian Corn . . . QI . A. r Rapeseer , Oatmeal .. . . Loads' 7179 Flotu Sacks I :088 Ditto ' Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwisc ley, 527 qrs. ; Oats, 4285 qrs. ; Oat LIVERPOOL COTTON lARKET, 3 P.m A fair demand for Cotton to-day, and full bales have been sold at yesterday's prices. 2,060 to 2,500 cession is occasionally made to the buyers, with a view to close sales of large parcels; wi* h this excep continues fair and unyielding in prig SHIPPING INTELLIGI TUESDAY. NovEMIIIM ARRIVED.—Kelsick Wood, ---, Iron , from Quebec—Mary Ann. Chapmar Bertha. Tass. from Amsterdam—Victc Magdalen, Bowen. from Limerick—( Westport—Velocity. Davies. from Sli Newcastle—and Eliza Priscilla, Lloyd, a Rae, 1 Tagliona, from Calcutta to London, was spoken 31st lat. 3i) S. long. 33 E Lady Seaton, hence to Charleston, was spoken 23rd I lat. 32, long. 37 October, in Wm. Campbell. Thomp,on, from London, at Plyrr Liverpool, lost sails, bulwarks, &c. Columbia, hence to Sydney, was spoken Ist ultimo Boykett, Bnrdon, hence at Gironde Frances, hence to New Orleans, v Skerries, with loss of secon 21st instant, off the ate, who fell overboard from the foreyard Bass•r, Nov. 16..—The Mary Bond. from Leghorn to Liverpool. sunk at the entrance of these roads last night ; crew saved. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY SUNDAY TRAINS. At a full meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway directors, held on Tuesday, in the Company's office, Upper Queen-street, Glasgow. Mr. Cadell moved, pursuant to notice, " That the com pany should not run trains on Sabbath unless compelled by the government." Mr. Archd. Smith seconded the motion. It was stated at the meeting that the effect of this motion, if carried, would be not only to negative Sunday travelling, but to deprive the shareholders of any opportunity of ex pressing their opinions on the subject, as the act confers on the board of directors the exclusive power of regulating all matters connected with the passenger traffic. Mr. M'Neill moved the following amendment ." That it is the opinion of this board that it is their duty to provide trains for the accommodation of the Post-office and the pub lic, one in the morning and one in the evening of Sunday, from the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, and under such rules and regulations as shall enable the servants of the company, and all others travelling on the railway, to attend divine service; but as this is a question on which -it is proper to consult the shareholders generally, the board re fers the decision of that question to a general meeting of the company." Mr. Eagle Henderson seconded the amendment. Upon a division taking place, the amendment was declared to be carried by a majority of 10 against 8. Mr. M'Neill then mentioned that he hpl,l in his hands a letter from one of the six absent - directors, authorising him to stttte his i cordial cc . mcufi;Tee ., ln i t e tr a - b - s : rn in ti t - i&Ob9died in in the hari;tll7lClisrciiiiii'man, also adopting the same view— and that of the remaining three he could take upon himself to say that at least one would have voted with him, if his engagements had allowed of his being present. Mr. M'Neill then gave notice, that at the general meeting in February, he would submit a motion in nearly the follow ing terms :—" Whereas it is the duty of the directors of this company to give implicit obedience to the law of God, and the law of the land in the management of the affairs of the company—and whereas it is also the duty of the directors to afford the fullest accommodation to the public in the use o the railway, which the'pnblic exigencies require—this meet ing resolves, that it is not inconsistent with the duty of the directors, and they are hereby enjoined, to provide trains to be run from the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, in the morning and in the evening of Sundays; but under such rules and regulations as to the times of the departure and arrival, as shall enable the servants of the company, and persons travelling along the railway, to attend divine service. As the great bulk of the shares are held in England, it may now be considered a settled question that the trains run on Sundays. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—We understand that the Edinburgh directors came to Glasgow to attend the meeting which took place on Tuesday last, and will be found noticed elsewhere, entirely by the railway. They travelled part of the-way in one of the carriages, and partly by an en gine and tender, Btc. ? and we are informed that they were much pleased with the smoothness of the road and easy mo tion of the carriage. They were obliged, however, to dis mount at the two points still unfinished, viz., the small gap in the great embankment adjoining the Almond V a lley Via duct, and at the Croybridge. The last fortnight of fine wea ther has made a prodigious change on these two points. At the former, Messrs. Gibb and Son state that another fort night of such weather will complete their embankment. At Croy, where it will be recollected the great ridge of whin stone rock occurs, of several hundred yards in length, and not less than seventy or eighty feet in depth in some parts, every exertion is making, that men are capable of, to disem bowel the portion of rock still remaining to be cleared out. This portion, we are informed, extends to between 100 and 200 yards in leM,;th, and 6or 8 feet in depth. The surface of the rock exhibits a perfect hive of human beings, who give most audible and visible proofs of their progress by the in cessant thunder of their blasts, and the eruptions of huge masses of rock projected into the air. One of these blasts, out of a host of others, which happened to be fired off while the directors were passing, contained a barrel and a half of gunpowder, and is a were right glad to get beyond the reach of its volcan ly ffects. With such adamantine matter to deal with, we easi perceive that it will take some weeks of good weather to remove the comparatively small remaining quantity of rock ; but when this is once out, it will only re quire a day or two to complete the laying of the rails, which, in fact, are at present only a few hundred yards apart. BONE DUST.—The great superiority of ground bones, as a manure, over every other yet discovered, particularly for raising turnips, is now generally admitted throughout all those districts, in England, were it has come into general use; and so much has the demand increased, that bones are imported from many places on the Continent, and even from America. Bones being an article that cannot be produced by any artificial means, the supply consequently must be limited; and there being almost no limit to the demand for bone manure, the value must, of course, be enhanced, and the price advanced accordingly ; it, therefore, becomes a matter of importance to find out the best mode of treating it, so as to produce the greatest benefit from the smallest quantity. The following plan, for economizing bone manure, suggested itself to the writer of this, on seeing a white powder attached to the ground bones, in breaking up a heap that bad been ground and stored in a fresh damp state. Bones, ground or unground, readily heat when put into heaps damp, or exposed to rain. During this fermentation, great quantities of ammoniacal and carbonic gases escape, these gases being the food of plants, and the turnip being a numerous and broad-leaved plant, it is well adapted to absorb these gases, and is, perhaps, more benefited than any other we know of by this manure. Hence the great bulk and weight of a good crop of turnips. A considerable portion of the ammonia, liberated by this heat, attaches itself to the particles of bone in a sublimed state ; -but much the greater part flies off and is lost. The consideration then is, how to keep the bone manure, as far as practicable, from heating until it is in possession of the farmer, when he can make this heating property profitable to himself. Earth, as well as water, can be strongly impregnated with ammonia; it is, therefore, evident, that if ground bones can be placed in a heap with earth, g) as to allow the earth to absorb the gases, the earthy part itself will become a valuable additional manure to the turnip drill. Ido not know what the practice of an i n telligent and experienced farmer would b e i n such a case, ethatplacing laye rs o f ground bones, and alternately in eq ua l quantities, say nine to light tit open occurs mould o to ul m d twelve inches thick, (perhaps thicker layers would be • requi site to generate heat,) sprinkling the bones with water before the earth is put over—raising the heap five or six feet, and covering the top with straw and earth, like a potato pit to keep all dry, and to arrest some of the g ases that have es capedo pe opened the tinterior drillsearth.were re This ady to recei ve compostreive s h ould .not be heap would be, the field where the tur nips are to be so sown ; the fine earth with bones, will make them more evenly distributed in the drill. The more speedily this compost could be put into the drill and covered the bet ter, so as to keep the heat and gases con fi ned as much as possible, until liberated by the action of the atmosphere. I am inclined to think this method would save the expense of farm-yard manure, which many experienced farmers find advantageous to apply, with the bones, to cherish the plant in its first stages, until the decomposition of the bone com mences. Where the turnip shall be fed off with sheep, I would recommend a saving of five to ten bushels to the acre ; for instance, if 30 bushels of bone manure have been the quantity used, I would say 4 0 bushels of the compost of equal parts. The one would cost, at 2s. 6d. per bushel, 755., with very little additional trouble; the other 50s. ; this would he a saving of 255. per acre, which is equal to the rent of many light lands where bone manure is used. It may be necessary to add, that ground bones, whether wet or dry, are constantly giving out less or more gases ; consequently, the earlie.r in the season the eompost is made, the more beneficial the re.