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9 1 tteraturt. POETRY CORN LAW SONNET 3 •law meeting, By Jupiter! I pia ,ere nor I r ,e not s : ;ee-trade «ill quick' " Clouds Wit Make clear Waiting l , -, xamiin and Juno ! what n- " A great Cob-g,and The follow it pass r Mercur " Destr• Just pee And sail Hanging kill ffera fil treasur atness to a land .ods can't understand es we extract from " The nd Wife, or the Student of Bonn, a Tragic Romance," Thomas Powell. Published by 'W. E. Painter, rand, 1813 DESCRIPTION OF A STORM And nevE So wondt Ule nature crouched, a living JIB• no( And shook with dread As though it had an ago, a storm, ON A PAINTING OF A GERMAN WARRIOR How terribly that w Like to a - fiend who d fixed dead stare Stood for a few short hours ,nto my heart, Active with malice, and upon Left that dead face to blast m Rip it to shre ,ter there and plied his hands, the wall With this sharp ste And yet I pause : But I could For fear of That fragile of mine, now bared before me it strike a picture, something standing armed behind Ha! the picture moves was but my fanc yet the eyes MIDNIGHT AT SEA Magazine for Ju Alone with God upon the boundless sea, No spot of earth in view, no sombre cloud, The glittering stars and gentle moon to shroud; On rides the bark in calm tranquillity— Quiet the autumn breeze, while in the lee The billows part without a sign of life. Silent the mighty ocean vast and free— Seeming to herald some portentous strife. Alone with God ! how limited the power Of man the creature here to shic Id or save, For few the bounds that part the yawning grave; Most awful thought at this most solemn hour. Alone with God ! alone to worship Him Before whose throne all worldly thoughts grow dim THE SONG OF THE PAUPER 'From the Illuminated Magazine for July, Spring cometh to the world ; ... Sprin cometh not to me : ,o• There i;no Spring in the poor-house yard, For the prison'd Misery. The fond Spring whispereth ; The merry birds are singing; The chime o' the flowers is ringing : But mine is prison breath. Spring shonteth jubilee ; The pauper may not fare From the closeness of his Into the fragrant air Spring looseth the inter yard ozen cart!' The forests their free arms are tinging Abroad : to me are clinging Death and the rule of dearth. Spring smileth : the free birds mate ; The free flower blossometh : The house of the pauper is desolate ; The grave-weed is his wreath. There is no smile for me : No child to my life is clinging; Though the buds on the moors are springing, I have no family. Spring cometh to the world; Spring giveth life to all ; Oh ! when shall thespring of poor Humankind Proclaim its festival? The fond Spring whispereth ; The merry birds are singing ; The chime o' the flowers is ringing : But mine is prison breath. NOTICES. T H E SERIALS From Blackwood, Fraser, the Dublin University, Tait, and Ainsworth, we quoted so largely in our last, that it would be supereroptory to give here any detailed notice of their various contents. We have allowed our readers an opportunity of becoming acquainted with their quali ties ; and a sample is at all times better than mere praise. We cannot, however, omit the opportunity of reminding the lovers of periodical literature, that, with most maga zines, this is the month for commencing a new volume. In addition to the above, we have received— Punch, which is rich in drollery and wit, as usual The Story Teller, or Table-Book of Modem: Literature. No. 3. Cunningham and Mortimer. London. To the occasional reader this series will afford a fund of entertainment. It is got up in good style ; the literary contents excellent; and is decidedly a cheap publication. The Asiatic Journal. July. London W. H. Allen and Co To those interested in the welfare of our Indian posses sions, it is full of informatio❑ and sound practical views of passing events. The Illuminated Magazine. gdi ted by Douglas Jerrold. We have quoted from t ens magazine some spirited ( pi - nd in our poetical d epar t ment. stanzas, which will be f The prose contents are qually excellent, and th e illustra tions above all prais e . It has been left for the present age of illuminatiotrkt6 produce such a pe r i o di ca l as t hi s for the low price o f bile shilling. The Abbotsford Edition of Waverley. No. 32. Robt. Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houlston and Stoneman, London ; and G. Philip, South Castle-street, Liverpool. The " Heart of Mid-Lothian" is completed in this number, and terminates the third volume of the series. The illustrations still maintain their excellence and beauty. Men and Manners in America. By Thomas Hamilton, Esq., author of " Cyril Thornton." Win. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. We have been favoured by the spirited publishers with a new and neatly-got-up edition of this production of the lamented author of " Cyril Thornton." In addition to the contents of former editions, we are here presented with a selection of letters addressed by the author to va rious friends and relatives, during his sojourn in Ame rica; which are most valuable, inasmuch as they convey to us what may be termed his undress opinions of the country.. so vividly described afterwards by his graphic and truthful pen. Mr. Hamilton was a soldier, a scho lar, and a gentleman ; and if, in his delineations of their character and their manners, he has not spared our trans atlantic brethren, a comparison of his first impressions, conveyed in the letters in question, with his subsequent representation of them in his " Men and Manners," proves that he has rather endeavoured to " extenuate," than " to set down aught in malice." Martin Chuzzlewit. By Boz. W. Webb, Liverpool. Martin's progress in the United States is detailed in the present number. The characters introduced are outra geous caricatures ; they will at any rate excite plenty of merriment if not admiration. " _The New York Sewer o " Las. We cannot but express fear that Mr. Dickens is not sufficiently acquainted with American manners to paint anything like a true picture of " things in general," and we can even in this his outset in Martin's career ob serve a feebleness in his outline. In London, where every inch is familiar to him, Dickens in description stands alone. Witness his scenes at " Todger's," where every inch smelt of Billingsgate fish and Thames-street oranges— where the Monument stared the reader in the face as if it stood before him, with its erased superscription on the base and its golden urn at the pinnacle. " Martin Chuzzlewit" is certainly beating a new bush, and doubt less game of some sort will spring out of it. Our Mesa. By Harry Lorrequer. Walmsley, Liverpool. Tom Burke receives an invitation to visit the " Pavi lion de Flore," and there becomes possessed of-a secret. He is afterwards placed in a dilemma, and finally is sta tioned as guard of honour at Versailles. The illustrations are not in Phiz's best style ; they want point and humour. The North of England Magazine. Bradshaw and Black lock, Manchester. Liverpool : Robinson. The story of the Calabrian outlaws is continued. " Progress of English Society in the Eighteenth Century," by W. C. Taylor, is a clever article. " Wild Life in the Pyrennees" presents us with Chapter 111. It is well written, and full of material. " Prison Discipline" we recommend to the notice of all who are, and who call themselves, philanthropists. This is an article that every body must read, for the subject must interest all. " Bam ford's Poems" come next under review. The introduc tion to them is sensible. It does not follow as a matter of course that a poet must be a sentimental looking wretch, with a pale face and die away appearance, whose conver sation rim hacompared to a rotten posey in a dust-bin ; a poet and a, man with true poetic feeling within him is as different. to your pretended poet as Shakspeare is to a writer of Catnach ballads. Mr. Bamford, if we may judge of him by his works, is one of the manly poets of the day ; and those wlr read the stanzas, "God help the Poor," will admit that bill heart is in its right place. " The I It eakness of a Strong It evidently r dovernment" is not to our taste. " nan ""'', from some of the Manchester cheap tea shops. The lit,rary notices are well written. The Briti;;A Farmer's Magazine Rogerson and Sons, Piccadilly Live - rpool : J. Gnnell 'One of the best articles in this quarterly is " Mr. Joshua Trimmer upon the condition of the Agricultural Labourer." Some very excellent papers render this work worthy the earnest attention of the " British Farmer." Mr. Towers on " Manures and the nutriment of plants," &c., is very replete with information. SELECTIONS THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S INTRODUCTION TO INDlA.—Marquis Cornwallis to Sir J. Shore.—White hall, 10th June, MG.—Dear Sir, I beg leave to introduce to you Colonel Wesley, [Wellesley,] who is Lieutenant. Colonel of my regiment. He is a sensible man, aad a good officer ; and will, I have no doubt, conduct himself in a manner to merit your approbation.—l am, with great regard, dear Sir, most faithfully yours.—Life of Lord Teignmontli. REWARD OF NOBLE WORK. — The "wages _ oble work do yet lie in heaven, or else nowhere of every Nay, at bottom dost thou need any reward? Was it thy aim and life-purpose, to be filled with good things for thy he roism ; to have a life of pomp and ease, and be what men call " happy" in this world, or in any other world? 1 answer for thee, deliberately, no ? The brave man has to '‘is life away. Give it, I advise thee—thou dost not expect to sell thy life in an adequate manner? price, for example, would content thee ? * * Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it, like a royal heart—let the price be nothing; thou host then, in a cer ---, g all for it ! Well said ! we again rep ea t, 0 Diogenes Tetota felsdrockh !—Carlyle's Past and Present. DIGNITY OF LABOUR.—In early life, David kept his father's sheep ; his was a life of industry ; and though foolish men think it degrading to perform any useful labour, yet in the eyes of wise men industry is truly ho nourable, and the most useful man is the happiest. A life of labour is man's natural condition, and most favour able to bodily health and mental vigour. Bishop Hall says, " Sweet is the destiny of all trades, whether of the brow, or of the mind. God never allowed any man to do nothing." From the ranks of industry have the world's greatest men been taken. Rome was more than once saved by a man who was sent for from the plough. Moses had been keeping sheep for forty years before he came forth as the deliverer of Israel. Jesus Christ himself, during the early part of his life, worked as a carpenter. His apostles were chosen from amongst the hardy and laborious fishermen. From whence I infer, that when God has any great work to perform, he selects as his in struments those who their previous occupation had acquired habits of industry, skill, and perseverance; and that, in every department of society, they are the most honourable who earn their own living by their own la bour.—What David Did; by the Rev. T. Spencer. THE I:EFORM FEVER.—One fact is certain, that for years and years previous to the grand rush upon the con stitution, which resulted in the revolution of 1832, the cause of parliamentary reform had gone steadily back wards, and had there been no ill-timed and mismanaged Catholic Relief Bill, nor any three glorious days in Paris, to turn men's heads, the probability is that parliamentary reform, except as the watchword of faction, never would have been heard of more. It is idle, therefore, to compare the position of the statesmen whom the reform bill drove into opposition, with that of the battlers for the monarchy during the reign of our own Charles the First, or of Neckar in the beginning of the French revolution, or of the mis guided imitators of that over-praised financier who suc ceeded him. These latter had nothing to fall back upon, except their own talents of persuasion, and the conscious ness that their cause was good. The society with which they had to deal was rotten at the core. Whereas the people of England, though carried away in 1831, as they are not unapt to be by a sudden frenzy, never, amid the deepest paroxysm of the disease, forgot what their fathers had done for them.—Fraser's Magazine. FRANCE IN 1794, FROM THE " STELLO OF ALFRED DE VlGNY.—Ninety-four struck by the clock of the 18th century, 94, of which every minute was blood-stained and fiery. The year of terror tolled horribly and slowly to the seeming of earth and heaven, which listened in silence. One might have thought that some dread power, untangible as a phantom, passed and repassed among men, so pallid were their faces, so wild their eyes, their heads so gathered between their shoulders, knit as if to hide and defend them. Then men moved aside from one another, or met abruptly, like combatants. Their salute resembled an attack, their " good day " an insult, their smile a con vulsion, their dress the tatters of a mendicant, their head gear a rag soaked in blood, their meetings popular dis turbances, their families the dens of ferocious and mis trustful animals, their eloquence the clamour of a market, their love a Bohemian orgie, their public ceremonies ill composed Roman tragedies, acted on provincial boards, their wars migrations of savage and miserable multitudes, the names of the time Poissarde parodies. But all this was grand, because, in the republican rout, if every man played for power, each at least cast his head on the throw.—Dublin University Magazine. INDUSTRY VERSUS IDLENESS.—Who art thou that com plainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother; see thy fellow workmen there, in God's eternity—sur v i v i ng th ere — t h ey a l one surviving— sacred band of the immortals. Even in the weak human memory they survive so long as saints, as heroes, as gods ; they alone surviving —peopling, they alone, the immea sured solitudes of time! To thee, Heaven, though se vere, is not unkind. Heaven is kind, as a noble mother —as that Spartan mother, saying, as she gave her son his shield, " with it, my son, or upon it !" And who art thou that braggest of thy life of idleness; complacently showest thy bright gilt equipages; sumptuous cushions; appliances for the folding of the hands to more sleep? Looking up, looking down, around, behind, or before, discernest thou, if it be not in Mayfair alone, any idle hero, saint, god, or even devil ? Not a vestige of one. " In the heavens, in the earth, in the water under the earth, is none like unto thee.' Thou art an original figure in this creation, a denizen in Mayfair alone. One monster there is in the world : the idle man. What is his " religion ?" That nature is a phantasm, where cun ning, beggary, or thievery, may sometimes find good vic tual.—Carlyle's Past and Present. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE FACTORY BILL.—The withdrawal by Sir James Graham of the educational clauses from his Factory Regulation Bill, has gone to the hearts of the whole conservative party. They perceive in it something like the commencement of that miserable system of half measures, which, more than even their gross offences, brought the whigs into contempt. They can discover no just reason why these clauses should have been withdrawn. The opposition, got up by a few noisy demagogues, was, in their estimation, quite illusory. It deserved very little rezard by the Queen's ministers. And though it be undeniable that in favour of the scheme few, if any, petitions were presented, the conservatives are pre pared to demonstrate that the numbers of those to whom the proposal was acceptable, surpassed the number of such as objected to it by three to one, at the least. Why. indeed, should the minister have taken so much to heart that of which he now complains as the supineness of churchmen ? Has he yet to learn that the great body of the people seldom evince their approval of proposed acts of legislation otherwise than by a silent acquiescence in them ? Is he not aware that no peaceable subject ever dreams that it is necessary for him to throw his hat into the air and shout Io triumphans, as often as his rulers shew that they have the permanent interests of the coun try at heart? Nay, more—ls it desirable that a different practice should be introduced ? Is it a thing to be sought for, that every scheme proposed in parliament should be taken up for further discussion in all the towns, and vil lages, and hamlets of the empire, and not passed into law till the government and the legislature are satisfied that a majority of the lieges approve and are willing to accept it ? When incomes to this, the sooner we get rid of the pre sent representative system the better. If the weight of petitions is to decide what is right and what is wrong in legislation, we see no good reason why the people's char ter should not become the law of the land to-morrow.— Fraser's Magazine. THE UNDERSELLING MANIA.—A young man opens a small shop —we will say of linen drapery—in a neigh bourhood where an establishment of the kind already exists. In former times what would have been his plan ? He must have commented in a modest way according to his means, and, by sound goods, fair prices, and steady attention, endeavoured to establish a character that should enlarge his custom, yielding him an increasing profit, and in the end building up a business. Patience, assiduity and integrity, he would have regarded as the elements of AliesafiyMegkb% seeking to rise by a neighbour's ruin. Such times are, unhappily, at an end ; a new system is in operation, and the young tradesman's first care will be to advertize that he will undersell all others in the same line. He rests on the chance of thus drawing away the customers of some long-established and perhaps fair dealing fellow trades man ; he expends a large proportion of his limited capital in showy embellishments, to make it appear that be can afford a superfluous outlay, and to entrap such as are caught by external display. He procures goods on the same principle—flimsy, gaudy, and perishable—which he arranges according to the most attractive plan that he can devise to catch the passenger's eye. He has, of course, two prices; but at the commencement he allows everything to go off below its proper value ; and unless the neigh bouring tradesman lowers his terms, at considerable pre sent loss and at great hazard as to the future, crushing in its birth this attempt at competition, it is probable he may succeed in securing a pretty large custom, and go on for a time with every prospect of realizing his expectations. But bye and bye, a new comer, attracted by his apparent success, opens a second opposition-shop, promising to undersell both the former. Then begins the strife, the grand struggle to keep up appearances, and by a further sacrifice of just profit to drive away the intruder. A young man who has laid out his capital in this way can. not long contend against present loss, decreasing custom, and the feverish anxiety inseparable from so exciting a conflict. He, perhaps, becomes more reckless in his dealings, and, by the discovery of unequivocal frauds, is overwhelmed with diigrace; or, if really forced, against conscience and inclination, to adopt a system now become general, he droops under what he cannot remedy, and soon falls a victim. What his future lot may be no one can predict ; but the ranks of our army, the walls of our work houses, and alas I the hulks of our convict-ships could ex hibit many a living illustration of this statement,—many a man who would cheerfully have entered on, and steadily pursued, the good old slow-coach method of establishing an honest business; but who has been by the altered ha bits and circumstances of the time borne on the railway of artificial locomotion to the terminus of hopeless ruin.— Perils of the Nation. THE ORANGE YEOMANRY OF IRELANDI-..1t was one of the complaints against the yeomanry of former years that they were composed of Protestants, in many instances of Orangemen. The answer was, that in those days a force so composed was the only one which could be relied on. A. remarkable instance in point was furnished in the case of a corps commanded by Mr. Sharman Crawford. Every individual, with, at the most, a single exception, under his command was an Orangeman! He was not himself a member of the Orange institution ; he was, perhaps then, as now, of politics which forbade his join ing that body ; but he wished to have a corps of loyal men, who would not betray the cause which they swore to serve. He deliberately made or acceded to a rule, that every candidate for admission into his corps should pass through the scrutiny of a ballot; and, as the inevitable consequence, his corps consisted exclusively of Protestant, OF ORANGEMEN ! — From an article on "Repeal Agi tation" in the Dublin University Magazine. CHANTREY'S CHARGES.—In 1813, his charge for a bust was one hundred guineas ; in 1814 and 1819, one hun dred and twenty. He had one hundred guineas for Cline, and one hundred and twenty guineas a-piece for James Watt and John Rennie. In 182t1, his charge was one hundred and fifty guineas, the sum he received from Lord Liverpool for the bust of the Duke of Wellington. In 1821, he had two hundred guineas for the bust of George IV., the highest sum be was ever known to charge for a bust. For the Wellington statue he was paid the largest sum he ever received for a work of art, equal as it was in all, with bronze and money, to £lO,OOO. For the eques trian statue of George IV., still unerected, he had nine thousand guineas ; for the equestrian statue of Sir Thos. Munro, 8,000. The Munro horse was the same horse as the George IV., and Chantrey would have thrust a third edition of the same animal upon the city of London, but for the sturdy interference of Allan Cunningham and Sir Peter Laurie. lie would certainly have had the Glasgow Wellington statue to execute, but from his anxiety to sup ply a cast of the same horse to the fair City of the West. This was imprudent, for the Glasgow people wisely wanted a horse of their own. Modelling horses gravelled Chan- trey ; he was at home with tnen, - but had learn a new line of art when he came to manufacture horses. His standing statues and sitting statues were well paid for. He had two thousand guineas for the George 111. in Guildhall; £lBOO for Spencer Perceval ; £4OOO for Presi dent Blair (with niche and pedestal); £3500 for Lord Melville ; £lOOO for Dr. Anderson at Madras ; £1575 for Gen. Gillespie in St. Paul's ; £lBOO for Francis Horner, in Westminster Abbey ; £2250 for Washington ; £l2OO for Chief Baron Dundas ; £2OOO for Grattan ; £7OOO for Pitt in Hanover-square; £7OOO for Watt in Westminster Abbey. For "The Two Children" he had £650; for " Lady Louisa Russell" £350. Chantrey's admiration of English sculpture did not get much beyond the bust of Dr. Johnson by Nollekens. and the statue of Sir Isaac Newton by Roubiliac. They were both, as he was wont to say, perfect. Such, indeed, was his respect for Rou biliac, that he has allowed foreigners resident in England to contend for his prizes, solely out of respect for the epigrammatic and inimitable Frenchman.—Fraser. EDUCATION. ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY—The great national work of education rests mainly in your hands, as it is most desirable that it should do. A vigilant superin tendence of this interesting portion of the Lord's vine yard, need scarcely be enjoined on any of his labourers, so great is the encouragement, so rich the promise annex ed to the employment. Difficulties do and will beset the path of those who are earnest in it; for the enemy of souls understands, even far better than we can do, the value of the sowing season ; and the world will also put in its claim against God, by extolling the usefulness of such knowledge as is the perfection of foolishness when sub stituted for, or preferred before, the knowledge that maketh wise unto salvation. To cultivate intellect is the fashionable panacea for all moral and political evil ' • but " intellect without God " is th e ph rase a ptly us ed by a distinguished living poet to characterize Satan himself. That knowledge is power, has become the leading axiom of the day : but, apart from the presiding, governing, commanding influence of vital religion, what is it but the power of a mighty steam-engine, self-impelled, destitute of its appointed guide, and carrying irresistible destruction wheresoever chance may direct its wild and fierce career? We would not that a poor man should be found, whereso ever the British standard waves, who could put from him the book of wisdom with the plea, " I am not learned ;" but to make religion merely an adjunct, a collateral branch of instruction, a matter of taste and selection ; to rank the Holy Bible as a class-book, to be taken up in its turn, or subject to the approval or rejection of those who send the child to school, is an offence which we cannot for a moment suppose any minister of the gospel capable of conniving at. We name it only to rouse your active and strenuous opposition to so infidel a course, and to remind you on bow false, how ruinous a principle, the work is likely to be conducted, if you withhold your hands from it, or silently relinquish your primary claim to the snper vision of what God has committed to your charge : the feeding of the lambs ; the training up of children in the way they should go ; the bringing them to Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Your office is to combat the rage of unsanctified learning; to place " the kingdom of God and his righteousness " in the fore-front of all that his creatures ought to seek ; with spiritual weapons to " cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself above Christ ;" to elevate the law and the testimony in the sight of all men ; boldly proclaiming that " if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them."—Perils of the _Nation. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND.—There is but one portion of our empire to which we look with undiminished regret—unhappy Ireland ; unvisited by royalty, unte nanted by her best friends, for she becomes dangerous to all alike by her reckless agitation. The wonder on the part of several of our foreign correspondents, now lying before us, is, that O'Connell is not summoned to his place in the English House of Commons, and that the agitation of,repeal is not made treasonable by a specific enactment. On the reasonableness of this course we shall not enter, but simply content ourselves with observing, that due care is taken that dangerous effects shall not follow from the effrontery and meditated malevolence of that miscreant, who dares not venture on overt acts. Ireland, ere long, will find out his villany, and let us ask any calm and dis passionate individual what Ireland would gain by the re peal ? Would she partake in the immense exports to the British, the Saxon colonies, if O'Connell like the name? Would she be of much higher mark than Jersey, or the Isle of Man, without English support? Let the income tax answer that question. Where is the spirit described by her bards past ? Where is The dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear One chord from her harp, or one wreath from her hair? Would anything but the intelligence of the North, to recur to painful facts, retain her present commerce? Would not the Protestants alone subdue the Romanists in Ireland, were they alone left to settle the question? Intelligence is to brute force in a much higher ratio than one to seven. Ireland must abandon talk and take to trade, and then trade will take to her. The capital O'Connell is con suming in time amid her millions is immense, to say no thing of what he takes by the sheer robbery of the rent. Let her think on the blessings that flow from such an United Kingdom as has yet never lightened on the me mory of man ; let her feel due pride in the enjoyment of that common renown her arms have contributed to win, and in the supremacy in the hour of peace, in the coun cils of the United Kingdom, of that warrior that owes to her his birthplace—one, of whom her greatest living poet wrote-- But, oh, there is not One dishonouring blot In the wreath that encircles my Wellington's name, The counsel of that chieftain, equally wise in war and peace, has literally made, not one only, but the United Isles, Even all that we wish them, great, glorious and free ; First flowers of the earth, and first gems of the sea. - --- —From an article " On the Commerce and Prospects of the British Empire in India," in the British and Colonial Quarterly. PROPAGANDA.—That enormous system of fraud and imposture the Propaganda has existed in France under various forms and with various fortunes since 1655. At present it is in part supported by government grants, and in part by contributions. The income of this association amounted in 1841 to about £142,000, collected through. out the papal countries. In 1841 the contribution from Ireland amounted to nearly £B,OOO. Scotland, however, is in a bad case; she is fairly in partibus infidelium, and so far from contributing, required a grant of about one thousand pounds to remove the woeful spiritual destitu tion of the descendants of the covenanters. That this is a political as well as a Romish association is admitted by its friends as .well as its opponents ; and under this im portant fact some very serious considerations arise. A vast number of missionaries are sent to the Mediterranean MCA rt i rs S a gan' i i political f 'tl - TATs To 7 that "Co untry. Such being the case, we would suggest to our generous but mistaken countrymen, whether it is in good taste, or con sistent with unsullied loyalty to contribute along with a foreign government for purposes beyond the propagation of religion. It is humiliating to be gulled in this man ner; and why do they, if they wish to spread their faith, not insist that the directors of the plan should reside in Dublin, and thus place their loyalty beyond suspicion. The occupation of Tahiti is an event of no political or commercial importance : a more valueless colony can scarcely be conceived. It is not so with the Sandwich Islands: they occupy a midway station between China and America; they afford an asylum to the South-sea whalers and vessels passing between Asia and America. It is needless to say that their importance will rise yearly, in proportion as the China trade increases. The occupa tion of these islands by France would, in the event of war, give her great influence in the Pacific; it would be to her what the Mauritius was with respect to the Indian Ocean—a nest of privateers. The government of the United States are aware of the importance of the subject, and we suspect their efforts will rescue the Sandwich Islands. But there is another circumstance deserving of notice : it is obvious that no Briton can in any way abet the efforts of France ; he may remain inactive, but he cannot exert himself against his country. Now, the fol lowing circumstance deserves to be remembered : Ireland sends a contribution of eight thousand pounds per annum to the French Propaganda ; and these funds have furnished and sent out Father Short, and Father Walsh, both Irish.. men, two indefatigable agents in the interest of France in the Sandwich Islands; or in other worth, their loyalty to their queen, and patriotism towards their native l an d, i s as dust in the balance, compared with their zeal for the pope, or their devotion to the cause of France. We shall conclude with a single remark—it is possible that the doings in Tahiti may bring more harm than good to the Roman Catholic cause. For many years the dissenters of England and Scotland have been the supporters of the political claims of the Romanists. The cause of Tahiti is taken up by the dissenters; and may not a Protestant . re-action in England prove too a price for a tnutpph of popery at the antipodes?—Dublin Univers i ty Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ABSURDITY OF DUELLING.—A person ignorant of the origin and history of the modern duel would be at consi derable loss to analyse its nature and elements. if he were to conceive that a mere spirit of revenge dictated the practice, he would find cases where an adversary, having met his antagonist in the field, shook hands with, took his ground, exposed himself to a mortal fire, and finally discharged his own pistol into the air ; revenge thus taking the whimsical course of r ece i v i ng , notimpo sing, an infliction. if it were then supposed that the duel might merely be an invention to enable two men to dis play their physical courage and contempt of death, a mis take would be found in this view also for, not unfre quently, where two individuals are prepared to go all lengths as princ pals, their seconds or f r i e nd s , into whose hands they have put their case, will permit no further procedure, on the ground that, by the c o de o f duelling, no infringement of honour has, after all, taken place. If the inquirer persisted in his investigation, and endea voured to ascert a i n i n w h a t th e gen tl eman lik e satisfaction of duelling consisted, he would perhaps be surprised to find that a man, having sustained an injury, possesses by duel pra c ti ce th e f urt h er a d vantage of a chance of having a final end put to all his earthly cares and annoyances.— Anti-Duel; by John Dunlop. ATHENS AS IT IS.—We see Athens in ruins. On the central rock of its acropolis exist the remains, in a muti lated state, of three temples—the temple of Victory, the Parthenon, and the Erectlieum ; of the Propylaea in the same place ; at its western entrance, some walls and a few columns are still standing ; of the theatre on the south side of the Acropolis, in which the dramas of YEschvlus, Sophocles, and Euripides were represented, some stone steps remain. Not a vestige survives of the courts in which Demosthenes pleaded. There is no trace of the academic porches of Plato, or of the lyceum of Aristotle. The poccile of the Stoics has vanished ; only a few of the long walls which ran along the plain and united Athens with its harbours, are yet visible. Even nature herself appears to have undergone a change. The source of the fountain Callirrhoe has almost failed ; the bed of the Illissus is nearly dry ; the harbour of the Peirceus is narrowed and made shallow by mud. But while this is so, while we are forcibly and mournfully reminded by this spectacle of the perishable nature of the most beautiful objects which the world has seen, while we read in the ruins of these temples of Athens, and in the total ex tinction of the religion to which they were dedicated, an apology in behalf of Christianity, and a refutation of pagan ism, more forcible and eloquent than any of those which were composed and presented to the Roman emperor by Aristides and Quadratus in this place, we are naturally led by it to contrast the permanence and vitality of the spirit and intelligence which produced these works, of which the vestiges either exist in a condition of ruinous decay, or have entirely disappeared, with the fragility of the material elements of which they are composed. Not at Athens alone are we to look for Athens. The epitaph— Here is the heart : the spirit is everywhere —may be ap plied to it. From the gates of the Acropolis, as from a mother city, issued intellectual colonies into every region of the world. These buildings now before us, ruined as they are at present, have served for two thousand years as models of the most admired fabrics in every civilized country of the world. Having perished here, they sur vive there. They live in them as in their legitimate off spring. Thus the genius which conceived and executed these magnificent works, while the materials on which it laboured are dissolved, has itself proved immortal. We, therefore, at the present time, having witnessed the fact, have more cogent reasons for admiring the consummate skill which created them, than were possessed by those who saw these structures in their original glory and beauty. — Wordsworth's Greece. THE VAUDOIS.---In 1686 the Vaudois of Angrogna as sembled in an amphitheatre of rocks to implore the suc cour of heaven, and to hear their pastor's exhortations, being prohibited from meeting in their usual places of worship. The scene is thus described in an interesting work just published, entitled " The Escape of the Vau dois." It was an impressive scene that opened on the eyes of the young party as they reached the summit of the acclivity, and looked down a deep gorge between hanging rocks, whose rugged points, emerging from the wild vine, glittered in the evening rays. About half way down the mountain was a mossy sward, some fifty feet wide, sheltered by wooded rocks, which shelved down to that same brook they had just left so placid on the other side, now dashing and foaming over the rocks that broke its current. Yet not alone the water's rush disturbed the stillness of the hour, but the footsteps of several Vau dois peasants, leaping from the heights above, or hurry ing up the ascent beneath. These were the Protestants of the early church coming to perform their evening sacrifice. And beautiful was it to see the hoary head of old age, and the comeliness of youth, meetlin no conse crated building, whose stately pillars and ;storied walls attested the pride of human skill, but beneath the glori ous canopy of heaven, resplendent with the. indescribable brilliancy of a thousand hues, and within the massive en closure of the Alpine rocks. All now was still ; one deep clear voice alone rang clearly through the hushed multi tude, and accompanied by many a silent prayer, ascended on the wings of faith. It was again a 'beautiful sight— that prostrate crowd, that scenery, and the venerable form of the old man, who, with simple and energetic devotion, poured forth the supplication of the Vaudois flock for de liverance from the yoke of tyranny, and for protection in the hour of need The appearance of Arnaud was calcu lated to inspire attention and respect. His figure, rather above the common height, was such as might have realized the imagination of the first apostolic preacher of Christi anity; and the holy subjects of his constant meditation had given an elevated expression to his countenance, which awed rather than commanded all beholders. It might have been deemed stern, but Christian love had softened even the resentment which his country's suffer ings had awakened, and lent a milder lustre to the bright eye which beamed from beneath a bushy and thick-set brow. His eye did not in truth bear proportion to its signs; for deep thought and ardent anxiety, rather than years, had ploughed the furrows on his cheek, and prema turely changed the hue of the once dark and clustering locks. Some passages were read and listened to with the serious attention that a deep value of the privilege of which bigotry would fain have deprived them, well me rited ; and then the congregation was dismissed, their hearts full of the holy feelings which the ceremony had engendered. Some had many a weary mile before them ; their path lay across dark and dangerous regions, but these could not deter the Vaudois from discharging so clear a duty, the performance of which was attended by so many difficulties ; for it was only by night and after a day of labour, that they could h o ld th e i r meet i ngs undis turb." UNIFORMITY DESTROYED BY THE TRACTARIANS.-- That uniformity is most desirable all will admit, and none will assert its necessity and obligation more firmly than the bishop of London. But it is overlooked, that the high degree of uniformity which has existed until of late, was not easily attained, nor at slight cost; and that the mo. merit it is abandoned no other uniform system can come in its room, but endless contrariety must ensue. To take a single instance of the confusion already created ; let us describe what is now going on in this metropolis. We took the trouble to inquire, recently, into the details of the various modes of conducting divine service, used in the churches of four parishes, all immediately adjoining each other, and therefore naturally coming into compari son; and the result of our inquiry is, that in every in stance is there considerable variety in the mode of con ducting the service—in one instance no changes have been made—in another after the Nicene Creed the clergyman goes from the table to the pulpit in his surplice, uses no prayer or collect, but gives out a text, and preaches for 15 minutes ; then (without prayer or collect) returns to the table and begins the offertory, after which and the prayer for the church militant the non-communicants leave, and the rest of the communion service proceeds, and this every Sunday—in a third church, after the Nicene Creed, there is a psalm, and the clergyman having retired to the vestry, comes forth again in his surplice, ascends the pul pit, reads a collect and the Lord's Prayer, and preaches ; then gives the blessing. The non-communicants leave, and then follows the offertory, the prayer for the church militant, and the rest of the communion service, and this every Sunday—and in the fourth church the clergyman ascends the pulpit in his surplice, reads the collect and Lori's Prayer, and preaches; then returns to the com munion table, and reads the prayer for the church mili tant, but no offertory sentences. He then gives the blessing and all depart. Twice in the month there is a full communion; when an invocation is pronounced from the pulpit before the prayer for the church militant, and the non-communicants depart. Here are four varieties, all existing at this moment, in four churches standing within sight of each other! And if, instead offour, we had made inquiries at fourteen, it is highly probable that even in that larger number we should scarcely have found two in which the service was in all points the same. One lamentable consequence of which is, that no one clergy man knows, now, how he is expected to conduct the ser- A twelvemonth back, if even a newly-ordained deacon was asked " to read prayers," he knew what was meant, and perfectly understood what he was expected to do. But now, should even an experienced clergyman under take this office for a friend, and rashly venture to com mence without obtaining special instruction, it is almost certain that he will be stopt once, twice, or more proba bly thrice, in the course of the service, by the clerk or the sexton, with the audible whisper, " we don't do that here, Sir /"—Churchman's Monthly Review. NEW USES OF IRoN.—Among the new employments found for iron, must be mentioned ship-building. Iron was first used about the year 1810, for the construction of vessels employed in canal and river navigation. After this, the first similar employment of this material occurred in 1820, when a steam vessel, called the Aaron Manby, was constructed at the Horsley Iron Work, and made the voy age between the capitals of England and France without unlaiding any part of cargo. This vessel is still in good condition, although 22 years old, never having required any repairs to her bull. In 1825, a small iron steam boat was placed on the river Shannon, where she is now em ployed, in good condition. In 1832, the Elburkah, an iron steam vessel, built by Messrs. Laird, and Co. in Liverpool, made the voyage from that port to the coast of Africa, and twice ascended the river Niger. This suc cessful experiment led to the construction of many other iron steam vessels. One builder, Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, has built 45 iron vessels, of the aggregate burthen of 12,600 tons. The total number launched since 1830 is said to exceed 150. The largest iron vessel yet finished, and in use, is the Guadaloupe, a steam frigate of 788 tons, carrying sixty-eight -pounders, and belonging to the Mexican government; but her di mensions are insignificant when compared with those of the Great Britain, now building, and nearly finished, at Bristol. The length of this vessel, from her figure head to the taffrail, is •••• The breadth of b eam • The depth of her hold.. 320 feet, 51 „ 31 „ Her draught of water, when loaded, is cal culated to be and her burden 3,500 t ons . T he engines will ha ve „ a force equal to that of 1,000 horses, and will be used to keep in action, as the means of propulsion, an Architnedan screw. The draught of water will be seen not to exceed that of a first-class West Indianian. At present this vessel can only be considered as an experiment; and, should it fail, an abundance of ridicule will no doubt be cast upon the pro jectors by men whose genius would hardly have sufficed for the invention of a wherry. A great part of the steam navy of the East India Company consists of iron vessels, twenty-five of which are now in use in India, among which are the Nemesis, the Phlegethon, the Ariadne, and the Medusa,—names well known to the British Public from the conspicuous part which the vessels have perform ed in the war with China. The advantages of iron over timber, for naval architecture, are—the absence of "wear and tear" in the hull—no necessity for caulking or cop pering—no possibility of injury from dry -rot—greater lightness and increased capacity—and, what is of even far more importance, greater safety. The first cost of iron vessels is somewhat, but not much, less than that of tim ber-built vessels : their comparative cheapness results from their greater durability : after years of constant em ployment, they are found to be as sound and as clean as when first built. Their weight, upon which depends the nisplacement of water, is—as a general rule—three-fifths the weight of wooden vessels of the same capacity. The weight of metal used in proportion to the burden of the ship varies, of course, with the size. A sea-going iron steam vessel will take from nine to twelve cwts. of iron per ton register. Boats intended for river traffic, which do not require an equal degree of strength, of course take a less weight of metal.—Porter's Progress of the Nation. VARIETIES Theodore Hook, meeting a friend just after leaving the King's Bench prison, who said to him that he was getting fat, " Yes," replied Hook, " I was enlarged to day." A contemporary says, that transcendentalism is the spiritual cognoscence of psychological irrefragability, connected with concuitant ademption of encolumnient spirituality and etherialised contention of subsultory con cretion. NICE DISTINCTION.—The editor of the Louisville Journal, speaking of a brother editor, makes the follow ing nice distinction don't mean to call him a liar, although I must admit that he is a butcher of the truth and an assassin of facts." There are in London and its environs 107,962 female servants, and in Holborn alone 29,000, of whom from 14,000 to 15,000 are constantly out of place. In En gland and Wales there are £130,000,000. of property in household furniture, £16,000,000. in wearing apparel, and £31,000,000. in plate, jewels, &c. under the care of fe male servants. To INCREASE THE PRODUCE OF LETTUCE.—By cut ting off lettuces immediately above the life knot, instead of pulling them up by the roots, when wanted for the ta ble, a single or at most two sowings will suffice for the year : the root will send out a crop of shoots, which are just as good as those first taken; but they are required to be used before they become large, or they are apt to run up to flower. CIGARS.—The cigar nuisance has wonderfully abated within these few years. There is, to all appearance, not a tenth of the number of smokers there was some time ago ; and those who continue the practice seem to belong to in ferior stations. Imitation has knocked cigar smoking on the head. Having descended to shop lads, and all sorts of apers of gentillity, it has been abandoned, as a matter of course, by those of higher rank.— Chamber' s Edinburgh Journal. RAPIDITY OF VEGETATION IN INDIA.—When Lieut. Eyre, the author of the interesting account of the Cabul insurrection, left Meerut for Afghanistan, two years ago, he had commenced Botanical Garden at the Horse Ar tillery mess-house, and had planted a number of choice trees. On his returning lately to his old quarters, he was astonished to find the trees grown so high that he could sit under their shade at noonday, many of them being twenty feet high. ANCIENT DEED.—The following conveyance of land, in the year 1189, is in the hands of a gentleman, at Sowerby-bridge, in as perfect a state as the day on which it was executed. It is in abbreviated Latin, and is about 5 inches long by 21 broad. The deed may be commended for its brevity a s we ll as it s antiquity. It runs as fol lows :—" Know all men present and future, that I, Gilbert de Aubigne, have given, granted, and by this present Deed have confirmed. to William de Charnells for his homage and service, one oxgang of land with its appur tenances in the Vill of Corringham, the same oxgang which Ralph held of —, with all its appurtenances, in Vill and out of Vill, to be held by him and his heirs of me and my heirs freely and quietly, wholly and hereditarily, in woodland and plain, in highways and footways, and in all places and liberties to the said Oxgang belonging. He and his heirs paying thereout annually to me and my heirs one pound of Cinnamon seed, at the feast of St. Michael, for all service to me and my heirs belonging, except fo reign service.—And for this donation and confirmation, the aforesaid Wm. de Charnells has given to me Twenty Shillings Sterling. I have thereon taken his homage. These being Witnesses, Wm. de flulm, Gerard de Can.. vill, Sheriff* of Lincoln, Adam de Parnell, Roger of St. Martin's, Ralph his Son, Adam de Rokeby, Robert de Offington, John de Stafford, Ralph the Duke. " Temp. Richard 1189." LORD MELBOURNE.—Lord Melbourne spoke in the House of Lords on Thursday night week for the first time since his recent indisposition. The Ex-Premier took the early opportunity to make the following declaration— which, if it is to be understood in the plain unqualified sense that the words naturally afford, is much to his honour:— " He would take that opportunity of stating, that he had several petitions against the educational clauses of the Factory Bill. As her Majesty's government had expressed a determination not to persevere in those clauses, he hoped that they who had intrusted him with petitions on the subject would not think that he was neglecting his duty and their interest by declining to present them to the house. As he had stated, government had abandoned that bill. HE FOR ONE HAD ONLY TO SAY THAT HE RE GRETTED THE SUDDEN TERMINATION OF A MEASURE SO WORTHY IN ITSELF, AND ONE SO MUCH DESIRED BY A LARGE PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY." Suffering and seclusion from the business and the plea sures of the world—its graver or gayer follies—suffering and seclusion are the best advisers as to our highest duties, and they seem to have been regarded as such by Lord Melbourne. POPISH AGGRESSION.—In the debate on the Irish Arms Bill Mr. Wyse expressed himself in the House of Commons as follows :—" Let no man suppose that Catho lic emancipation was a final act : it was the last of a se ries, but it was also the beginning of another series. That was the natural course of things : the history of Ire land throughout bore evidence of it; and the right hon. baronet, who had said the other night that concession had gone far enongh, could not have read the history of Ire land : he must know that one concession naturally pro duced another; that the constitution of England, being an unwritten constitution, admitted of that more than any other; but he must know, also, that every concession that was made by England was for the advantage of Eng land. Ireland said that whenever concession had been made to her, it had been accompanied with insult ; that it was not till England was apprehensive of a French fleet thundering on her shores that she gave them their com mercial rights ; that it was not until she saw 100,000 vo lunteers, with their 83 pieces of cannon, that England spoke of her as a free nation ; that it was not until, as t he Duke of Wellington said in the other house, a ch it war was inevitable that Catholic emancipation was granted, not to justice, but to necessity. From 1793 to 1829 con cession had followed concession : England had passed from necessity to necessity. She must go on ; and delay but a little longer to grant justice, and the whole world would force her to do it." THE DISSENTERS OPPOSITION TO THE EDUCATION BlLL.—Human nature teaches parents to care for theed ucation of th e i r c hild ren ; therefore the state has no right to interfere with it! How will this reasoning apply to the other obligations which human nature imposes upon parents ? Suppose that parents disregard the precepts of human nature, and refuse or neglect, as very many do, to provide for the education of their children, what then ? The opponents of Sir James Graham's Bill are bound by their recent objections to say, that, however general may be the neglect, and however extensive the mischief result ing from it to individuals and to the community, the state has no right to interfere for the purpose of remedying the evil. But why has the state no right to interfere ? On this point we want explanation. The writer from whom we quote places education in the same category with food and clothing. Will he, thcn, maintain, that, when pa rents neglect to teed and clothe their children, then the state has no right to interfere; that the ma tt ers must be left to " th e pr i nc i p l es of human nature," and " the pre cepts of Christianity" ? We know we would not main tain any thing so absurd. He would say at once, that, when parents neglect their duty, and leave their offspring destitute of the means of supporting life, the state must interpose, and the state does interpose, to provide those supplies of food and raiment which are indispensable to the existence of the deserted children. Manchester Guardian —radical paper. DEATH OF TAM RAEBURN, THE HERMIT OF THE ARK.—This extraordinary man died on Friday the 23d ult., in the 74th year of his age. He w;,s a man of robust and athletic frame, and of very eccentric manners. Man y thousands of spectators were attracted to his solitary cot, which he has occupied since the death of his father, in 1807, at which time he became the sole proprietor. He was distinguished for nothing remarkable till the memo rable law-suit, about twenty-eight years ago, with a neighbouring proprietor, regarding the closing up of a road through his grounds, leading to Holmhead, better known by the name of the Ark, to which, by use and wont, he conceived he had a right, and which, by an ad verse decision, led him to the strange resolution not to cut his hair, nor shave his beard, nor change his clothing till justice was done, a resolution most carefully kept to his death. About two months ago he became somewhat se riously indisposed, and was attended for some time by Dr. Mitchell, of Dalwhirran, and ultimately, by Dr. Miller, of Kilmarnock. From the commencement he was appre hensive of death, and by the advice of a friend, was in duced to make a deed of settlement, by which he deprived, owing to some former quarrel, the heir -at-law of the pro perty, but which, he not having survived sixty days, falls to the ground. The ruling passion, the love of money, was strong in death. Although attended by sever al cler gymen from Kilmarnock, he never manifested any visible change of mind. Shortly before his death, when asked by a friend to shave his beard, h e rep l ied, " No, never, till I get j u s ti ce done." His beard, his almost entire stock-in- tr ade, was the chief source of his revenue, which, by parsimony an d av ar i ce, was very considerable, having left £2,400, besides the property. SPORTING INTEL,LIGENact NEWMARKET JULY INIKPNO, for tw e 0 5 -l el The JULY STAKES of 5() ~.) s each, 30 ft.• old colts, , saves his stake. New T.Y•C• Eighteen sub re'• (Set' colonel Peels c. by Touchstone,out of 'Vulture. . ....... ......:.. Lord Or ford's Boots .... Lord Exeter's f. by Beiram, oat . o.juatura ...... •::... B st: 71b. Mr. Cooper's c. Agreeable..... • • ". ..• Mr. Thornhill's Elvina .......... .• • ...... •• • Lord Albemarle's Candidate .......... • • • • •....::_.••••• Mr. Ford's f. by Camel, out of Spiteful clanit.:2;:_:--- ea 9 WEDNESDAY• 21b. ; ag .0 d PLATE of £5O, for ds, 7 5 t . three-year - o f. T mm. to the' 51b. Fromthe ; ansdviliis, Sst. 511). ; t b sa starting-post o• R.C. (chiffa", Mr. Pettit's St. Francis, aged .......... - .. ....- Mr. Bradford's Reciprocity, 3 Lord Exeter's Czar, 3 v ' rs ................. ..•••; 3 to 1 on St. Francis ; he made all the r won by a length yrs .. ••• • • - THURSDAY. the Petra- O m D a On t o il The TOWN PLATE of £5O, with af added ; for three-year-old colts, Sst. 71b.; 31b. Last mile and a distance of B.C. . (Ng) Lord Orford's Mallard ................ .. • "... .... Mr. Ford's Poison .................... •• • • 1 0d5 ,61 Colonel Peel'slon—Mary 1 11b. ; three, 9st. The winner to be SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs. each, for tw o- B Y o r d r for 0 &c. New T.Y.C. Eight subscribers. (ChaPP le) Lord Orford's c. by Clearwell—Nininka, 7st.• ••..„ Mr. Thornhill's Elvina, 2 yrs .............. .. ••••• Mr. Ford's Barley Sugar, 2 yrs ..... . •••"'.......' Lord Albemarle's Candidate, 2 yrs. • • • ...... .....''' Mr. Ford's f. by Rococo, out of Flirt, 3 Yrs." ll, 2 0 It The CHESTERFIELD STAKES of 30 soys• winner 00 Colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41 6 . ; the 4 0 July stakes to carry 91b, and the sec ond, ; Last half of the B.M. Nineteen subscribers...# Colonel Peel's c. by lon, out of. alibran •• •• . .• , Lord Exeter's f. by Liverpool, tof Mecca.• •• ' on Duke of Rutland'sf. Crenoline ............ ••''....• • Lord Maidstone's Deuce Ace ............ ••• ':• i Lord Exeter's f. by Beiram, out of DatUra • • •.: ~.. General Yates's Slanderer ........ •••• ....•''... Lord Albemarle's Henchman ' . .... • • ......... . •• )1 MATCH 200, h. ft. New T.Y.‘l•lb (Stitil Col. Peel's c. by Touchstone—Vulture, Sst. 7 •g st . 41b Lord Kelburne's f. by Retainer, out of Pur iti a ' 100' 6 to 1 on Vulture, who won in a canter by The GARDEN STAKES did not fill. yrs.. ..„.. Yesterday,MANCHESTER, T p i r o ir d e ay wa t s he lo s O ub t s o cri sir (_ na f tgit b : u feti t ioa3a a mge t as 2 1:0 01bs yttot Knightoal 06_ strangert a o t l which h f 6 i t c hft h veoe fi taiv g i : hat : hss e afterthe----el::::tY EVENING. few en , gagements made upon the LiverpoolrpnrcLicee.akljertbliiifi cpombpranpyaritnicelsu,ddinugrinhgaltfhaedeovzeenninogr, sg:too.f noinsettgraericifloeil::i.iiree,° uo E dp b d i s r ,l a ot c o u t o co u , ent i a 1 Liverpool °lanisubscription-room : P i coewrn'telbepfle)::::::::eanks2easnlisilt°ld:jaft: itt ; tie l ibl:°r b dacetsSret i asa d l:6llf9 : t.4;' the Whistle were nearly equal favourites, 6t° r ly A ke li a is g p a ot i on ns: h;e th l e at f t o e r r mer ih a i n rs d k halfgave awapyo_inhtiemsntarbeieerotheoPletl; 12 to 1, in some instances, was laid out, 01141 11 eta ponies, twice. A gentleman, just from Newintsa-Itiogro coming; up to third position on out some money u g pon Lord George's horse,f_ora D„ th n se w wl a aa r ts d t selvaoififdgt that l re ljl ; a se t e r i f :) fu r e lised.s wvohaeretinYs.iichrigega tireo t tow, 0 no b for s t o backed. The prices, as near as we co io b follows : to 2 the field L L o d rd Wilton's ehles offeredsalmotb: Wednesdayua; at Newmarket. THE LIVERPOOL EtwßaPOooffLerecdtr.r. soie, gainst Eboracum and Give-On -84 Ti to 1 11 to 1 L Lo d r E d gEligoltionoto,snp—ootoffpeereyd_. tk tB , ovehnis o t i r. 6l l o :14 to 1 Mr. Lord sl k i el a b n u g rn s h e l G i E v rb r i a lo c . t ll3 is s e rli a e: tak 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 555 FMraesikelra,sraT'shiArsrkis.t_ottlaci tp.„.:4.o(fgeelrplin. 3,L L ld o a r ic d o rh G ye s . at B er breiertigi Chesterfield h N eosd a i wainnogr,ht::rl,4,lfet 05: Ld Chesterfield's The Cas,u.opios'4, ~ Duke of Richmond's Mas•-,;"t 100 to 4 100 to 4 Chesterfield Knipe: s t T: p r e e f t Cable.--tak . ..„00 THE DERBY. was taken on''Lothar'?•/00, —The E dponeor g , diao l itcaf i do n nswn t dtw o ri ot g n eah2fhn ' s b stsl Richmond's oocda e erab.p, B igoev iau o uti l a thr ips r 5. tt ° : ot t ; : iog loto o 4 f e s opto i r er :, 100 to 3 ~ Captain Pric's Retriever. 1...te1f. 5 tO i ~ Mr. Bake's Collins..--take° " o °ll .l to THE Goonwoon CUP.—The only beat " vo Woe 4, in ponies, against Charles XII. ; 8 t ° 8 to 1 against Gorharnbury, Siricol was nominal at v 10022 u ..110i ltttrtttttttttttsnooooeioopooote en:3445666:2:1a ma against :000010ar00003641 Sq ed, During the evening, at the Old Swan ---- , Lto O ft lf i li 1.1: ° to ta l, i n. t , a score or so, was put on Eboracura• 61 1 0 0 ill efl til i wanted on Knight of the Whistle; or 4to 1 ing ° 3 . Give-him-a-name. 90 to 20, by a Liverpo° ,00 to was offered against Eboracum and Aristotls:4o 6 l e laid, three times over, against 'Vulcan. 'i ni ,, pe0 5 ,,,g Retriever, and 100 to 2, twice, against Itec`Lo 0- r 100 to 3, twice, against Cable.--100 to a g fil e i against Cotherstone, for the St. Leger• f Si r - ;I v Cable, together with Morpeth, and si% 0 03e ii O' ley's, have reached Aintree ; Give-him -a-na to-day. abroad rr C y 0. o caß T a_ ou n ws E ee ß ds tsThoe celebratedN fameE ‘ mortal bard of Avon L t the wives of, he b e co. th b e v itt : i ; now famous villa e reply e It will scarcely I;ies filcoti but it is an indisp g utable . f . act, that the troP b evees e to s t e l s e rr be isen : e rfre oo{ o 9 1:1 to d i to such an extent that their price 130bei tb 0.- dr Sd. per pound • d • anent t an at this m , been to be had for lov •e or money. So great na' mand!—Durham Chronicle. h se e r s s ‘ to C ne th c hes fVs'c'hhooatrt 's in a ntline?,l aspboersto, 40, ."-_------ Kean .bas..-..,,„ cl og st Charles a A gr,,.,liiin MR Of s U " OS P ' 0 __completed the purchase , rts ai . o te m estate ' in Hampshire, situated on the r ( , ) ,,, r e be,,,, iOri Southampton Road, called " Keydell," erbosli,,Piol to rusticate, cultivate cabba es, turn his es tchP'l o ,'' occasional glimpses of the p " lights" in t'' e - r tiniaeal w a fo .. ge V) a rt tSet ° f •"t Of r e' thus to be enabled 'n almost the ou w en IP foo l his otium cum d' 1 ignites, while other ~,,,i0 $ CHARLES a a t iC r p i E r c A u s d N cit I r a lr e gr s e i n w u t oenldal e s a r p s s t a: : ;:e til : $1 1 ",,, 7 ; and yellow leaf" are still toiling for dear in' at deavour to top the hill of fortune. Cfi All th e ;i1 FEMALE Air •Ls f i —We PERSONATIONS OF TH E ),..-- „JO „gbe . have this week three instances to re, c ( es , 3 it IV male passion for wearing the nnmentionauto, ,e00:00 which we shall notice occurred in St. A', s tub c osj o i pears that on Monday in last week a ,Y un i iiban ' tbe, r og dashing exterior took a place by the '''i 0 11 "ir 'o'er when he gave his name as Lawreuce Pee t " i n the . 4060 down his fellow travellers, proud of ho lds be, " . 0 Sr i ; pany a son of the noble baronet who ag .-- ge be 'slf ° lie government, paid him every honour. 01%70(41,0hr in return delighted them with numberless rote of r e o/e• ries, gleaned in his travels. Drink , him° ore eO / t , imbibed a large quantity, at last m ade ~ ,y fro ; ° , o ls, t 0 0, a n i i l cative, and he stated that he bad rtl o ,.., 3 "'iis ar ge rber`4o l dhe was going to have a spree. " 1.1 „f Sir ''s fi e , Albans the news soon spread that a so n - ta hav e a rk' ite among them, and the people congregated to the b oo 4 o 0, him. Many a bumpkin, touching his at e t pa is All tleman, got treated, until at last ~ the PtFvertientertor o'ercame him," and he was taken to Ole. ; 6 0 1 v trsr where he was comfortably bedded. nutremetillniVr.oo which he had with a medical that 00 0° 0 f til e pired which convinced him that he Wes o . o tew w w a tt t !acres, but an impostor ; and he i no vedi a b oo ow into the custody of the police. A e s :lt tur n u e df.y. oc e „ f case m took place at the Town-hall, Sc a' o r' . `' stated that was " gentleman at all, fi ned ',for Ire e that she had escaped from a li tl , - he,l 1 0 / with £2OO ; that beine nearly exhansteo, s s ole. o tid , ing her way back, and the disguise was f ro ttl A e iotfrili g test her from insult. On being ta" e- .,00r 1- h eor 50 6 house she knelt down and prayed fbr the tiog t , o " e• t ot posing the Common Council, whi c „. b . llNag Ill,:ectatArr, nicd jus t ehains t ihs opinion previously entertained that she e F biero" r was kept in custody one night, en d th i tb otV walked her out of the borough, amid t.b e gn a ytb in t a l e g e?, of the inhabitants. Her appearance la any bajerr, possessing ; she dresses shewily, and P a s o l icli ' r e' OSP 'alking cane.—ln the second case to L .,. 0 $ ro , " refer, the sex of the lady transpired 01)0 0 c u r loe 1 : 1 ' itejjf the Governor of Hamilton Gaol, for the e iroe• 060 a pair of trousers, which she wore at thels'efsfigsr, linquent, who is described as a " boxd t he I, 5, 0 twenty years of age," had first ass0;11000?10/1tti5 Glasgow for the purpose of nrc'e urjn " . k °A la i ' 6 614 labourer upon the Glasgow and Green°,.c. Air , - 5b 4 afterwards worked as an iron miners n the er ra p until the stoppage of the works by turo•seAtiesai to have obtained fresh.employrnent uenspreslbrei.° last week, but unfortunately stole tbein,e t. ( ' V' led to her appearance in Hamilton Gni 004 O n o r ing the great length of time during which boll° di 0: male garb, she always carried with her a ttire , r i f: to f o ing a set of curls, and a suit of femal e a u se is t 0 1 e l/g •: 1 1 resumed on any occasion.—The third , e fer os itoo 1 a to f. g bf s lot , rently a young man who had appea.e I 10 0 ble individuals in the neighbourhood o ', TON, s 4 1 1 I, A left n w P P 7 of the late Col. Sinclair, who Da -- ..hich , -,,i f e.ri country to receive a sum of m oney , i . ~,, r elloosrov, be found bad been received by bee n m a '" led 5 co b / esei . lig,. os cion having, after some period,i.itioot 0 parties who bad raised for him a shimubscr r t rot' A , tO tiO . AV who had contributed waited upon d figh, , ,,tootSo planation, when the gentleixian shelv ed oltilioOCe his chatechizer very rough 0 e2nci 110041 vered to be a male only in garrnen" -- ffsir a" e ttar pi/ merits. The most singular fact of the.o4 O A 00 4 55, the whole of the ten nights she reraal°,, 90 1 frg f u el, was obliged to share her bed with a 03'0"ecotirl;,00 Op invariably slept with her trousers ou , / t all r t ad ° habit by stating that the cliOlgte in ,itio o a st • °e a " th e t° warmer, that she could not do with a no t -,,,, in consequence of this the man b a no site P-- idea that his bedfellow was of the °Pe