The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

t A FIRST LOVE.—(Continued Liverpool Standard, - . n paternta habitation, cot If a little two-L•tory bow The shop of Peter Bennet, which was almost opposite - ted of the ground floor of old-fashioned con- t, in It had one scri!lr, h were ordinary 3 sale Within a and Kid inflow projecting il.to the nged sundry car find b was tilled with drums and best sl A miniature tea of very dry muscatels elf containing a fee iveniles of the loca p below the street, at least nine hours of Peter Bennett, lye, the ruYetind Lind the door was fixed a b”Il with a spring, which an mourced to the farni!v within, and to the rest of mankind within hearing, the fact that Peter was favoured with a customer for some of his multifarious commodities Al together tt•e establishment had an old world kind of a look. It had sufficed, however, for Peter's father and for his grandfather, since :he truce of which last i mentioned worthy not a feature of its external or internal arrange ments had been altered ; and Peter used to boast of this and say, with a satisfied air, " that it would last his time." There are few who have travelled through the dear unso phisticated little country towns of old England, who have not seen many a facsimile, not only of Peter Bennett himself, hut, of Peter Bennett's shop. The first object towards which our eyes were directed, on - rising from sleep on the morning of our arrival, was Peter Bennett's well-known establishment; but, to our it had vanished, bow window. half batch, Peter, We rubbed our eves, but the fact was still the Fuit Ilium," we c-jtcul , iteti, and sighed. There was a shop, howt ver, uoon the loved site, a flaring plate glass affair, with abundance of wares of all kinds and gew gaw ornaments in great abundance ; and on looking more intently we discerned, in huge gilt letters, filling up the whole of the otherwise unappropropriated front of the house, the name Peter Bennett. The chrysalis had cast its skin and become the butterfly. The old-fashioned trader. who used to pride himself that he never sold any goods but the best, and at the best prices, had become a modern pilfer of cheap wares Bur. if PE as Peter himself, shop was changed. much more changed Whilst dressing, and still glancing towards the source of our bewilderwe,t, from the shop door, and proceed with a somewhat hasty step across thestreet. He was no longer the plump little Peter, whose every move was redolent of contented ease, but the anxious— ,oo anxious—man of business. He was some - h ; hot his hearing was mnreerect, 'ant. He had no longer " a but moved past all he ..oulgence and the practice of ,s would not befit his new positi from his whole manner, that Peter was not u happier man for the change. we ob, , erved the owner emer wbat fal:en away in and Lis air more selt t very old acciliiint,nc met, as if the rime for such rid world courtes Ytt tt struek us, We pissed by the shop itself s••veral times in the course of the day, expecting at least to find our dear Mary in her accustomed place, or at least to get a glimpse at her plump rosy face, .nd arms 'o watch : but no such vision met our eyes. We did, indeed, hear an unaccustomed sound of a ro. , m above the shop ; had any more ear for spinet jingled out rf to but Mary never played. She hex, music than the shop till the caul It was not long before we arrived at the whole trulh— .,od proc( ss of transformation of Mary, of Peter Bennett, and last, not least, of Peter Bennett's shop. The reader has heard in the last chapter a hint of the ex istence of a certain John, who had imbibed the new lights of trade in the county town, and during a short sojourn an the metropolis, where he dispensed tea, sugar, and the other et ceteras of a groc ry establishment in the refined but stirring locality of Lan,beth Marsh. Very shortly after Mr. John's t-ngsg m,nt wiih Peter Bennett, which by the bye he considered as a kind of sacrifice of his shining abilities, he began to indoctrinate the old fashioned trader lot) the modern ways of bu,int•ss. Daily he re gretted that he could not b induced to "push" more— talked of " small profits and quick returns"—showed how a " trernendwis stroke of bu,ines," could be done with a small cap'tal—s*ated hos cheaply he could buy if allowed to go occasionally into the leading markets, but more than all urged the impos~i~ • ility of doing anything in such a small crib as that of Peter Bennett, which he urged d be made into fine pre..,ises by taking in the little tiug up a large pla-e glass front. parlour, and We need not trace the process by which Peter was at length drawn into the adoption of the new principles of Lis enlightened journeymen. At first he was very stub born. Ue could not see the advantage of selling three hogsheads of sugar, or tree chests of tea, for the same amount of profit he had been accustomed to derive from the sale of one. He thonzht that c:mtinually " selling off at prime cost and under," v - ;:ls not the way to get rich, or to keep up your cregit ; the" dodge" of purchasing "bankrupts' stocks to be sold at 50 per cent under prime cost he thought was very like a swindle. That Peter would ever have yielded up his honest old world opinions, would have been very problematical, had not the influence of his d*ar little 111,ary have been brought to bear upon him. How that was brought about, the sequel of this over true history will show. Sunday in every country town and village gives the index, of many a mystery; and especially amoisest, young. There is the meeting in the churchyard; the walk he.rce. dutimt which we see what louk4, or courtesies nags between youths and maidens. The-re are the quasi diplo rnatic.sa:utations of their respecTive parents, all of which are watched by the go;siping, and give rise to conclusions which, though sometimes wide of the mark are not always and w i . palpitatine heart we pew in which Peter n accustomed to Peter himself, with his (laugh: compromises would make the fortunes of a firm, with da maging their character with their neighbours. To all John's remarks, of " Oh, sir, we do these things every day in town," he was resolutely deaf ;• and he was totally incredulous of the assertions of the same party, true enough nevertheless, that their credit would be all the better afterwards. Even when new goods came pouring in to their order, entrusted to them because, in the opi nion of the wholesale dealers, it was not likely they would attempt a compromise for a few years to come, he could not be persuaded to take heart ; but absolutely moped himself into a state of almost idiocy, alternating with fits of sottish self-opinion. TIES The mine of Scripture is inexhaustible; and from the time at which it was first opened, till the time when faith shall be exchanged for sight, ►,ot one labourer who works therein, even from the most robu,t to the most fed will remain unrewarded by a participation in its wealth TEN GRANDFATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS —l❑ the parish of Aldbuurn in the county of the-e is now person named Lidiard, who has five grandfathers living a and mothers are still living; on the father's side there is grandfather and grandmother, and great grandfather and great grandmother. A LESSON FOR PLATE PRESENTERS.—A Scottish regiment, more famous for fighting than fluency, pur- chased a silver jug for the colonel, and summoned him to receive it. When all were assembled together, the spokesman of the subscribers grasped the " piece of plate," and said, " Colonel, there's the jug." " Ech !" siys the colonel, "is that the jug !" And the thing was done. surptisr Sunt?ay arriv .1 on e;Aering and there we obser te r'aati hip c rival—a smir jutor, the identicd John, t•ur anticipated • with the grayest rey eyes, and tl d hair. accompanied that he was fu!ly !mer which p 1 le of the present security of his position. It was rho held the prayer book for Mary; looked up the and the psalms, and in'tigled his nasal roar with n sweet voice in the hymn. Once we maga her eye, and we !bought she blushed, " Celestial rosy red, Love's proper hue;" but it must have been only fancy, for by and bye she looked upon us as coldly and almost as maternally as if we had born some s'range baby in long clothes. singular ft store in the character of womankind, f the atttntion of the British Association, how )rt interval between their tastes cliallg od and the marriage Bbl n amongst our readt r 4 of the ge. Let any young gen e of fourteen to six- teen to about the same years —a schoolfellow of his sisters, or the young hope of his next door neighbour. How nicely matched 1 the world exclaims. Only a year diff,rence. There is much in a year. however. Young !aches of that particular age think nothing of ten rears. They treat you for awhile quite patronizingly. You may carry their parasol, or see them borne from church or a party. But all at once they begin .to look at some huge marriageable man of five-and twenty. It was thus with Mary Bennett. We were but toy in her eyes. We suspec'ed it, that morning at but we knew it a hen ice met her a few days af and were told by her—how much we were We could have extinguished her on the spot. terwares grown It was but a week after our arrival at home, that the town was starthd by a notification from Peter Bennett's shop that the whole stock was to be "cleared out," pre a change in the firm, " The firm"—Peter firm ! The unsophisticlted people of our town never knew that Peter Lad at connected with him but his ►itt e :4lary ; and Cif: wise shook their beads. The stock, however, was cleared off. Great "bargains" were ked up by the discerning; and, by and bye, new bales to your in from the carrier, and the shop was closed e alterations." Poor Peter might all the time; evidently very ill at be seen rt aice HE Tti him shutting r,' was as, in sumo lie was, therefore 14, ug bed very bois tmieP nhaprveri to be er's door signboard graced own tust Ic the firm," having been warded to Mary Bennett—our shall pass over our own sensations To our ex- . • trerre surprise they were not of a killing nature. Some how or other we had an inclis.inct notion that Mary had , thrown herself away, and that John was a scheming res . nmi that, singularly enough, comforted us. The ,nop opened with a splendid stuck, at " unprecedentediy low;.pcipea.". Circulars flew about like " the leaves in " The eightpenny sugar of the new firm was _ better than had ever been sold in the_town at pe.nce ; and by and bye another new.rnark of- enter :. was di-pla)ed, by the addition of another room to shop, with a stock of drapery goods, dispensed at sis than prime cost," by a gentleman in a white neck imported direct from town for the purpose. Tte •to do all the business of the district. The old Lad peddled on for years anti ' an honest name, were V a►►aamt:ross said tg. be eir estriblistiments. The groceries and ks of Peter Bennett and his new part- tong and "—many of t nd some of tl I " selected frnm the best t astonishing sacri- cks of eminent rnliou- —were the rage ) be round in every neighbourhood, who ❑g penny worth. people, however, who shook sted that the thing could not feeling grew. when the do- captiswed by a chap-100 nd the r arrangements and expenses of the new firm were served to be placed daily on a more pretending and ex isive scale. We heard ourselves, young as we were, eof this. The impression which we bad, however, s certainly that all was not as it ought to be ; and un r that impression we returned once more to school. iere, immersed in our studies, we very shortly ceased think of Mary Bennett or her poor father's concerns, ' a casual remark . in a letter from home informed us _ !o be in difficulties. Subsequently rd that a compromise had been effected with the and that the business was still " pushed" by the c . 1 g and clever junior partner. Pete r himself. however, ne ver looked up afterwards. He never could be persuaded that periodical failures were reputable features that a few well-managed the mo d er n system of trade; pensive scale *le of this the firm was s,,i, RUSSIAN Poercn.—The secret police of Russia has its ramifications both in the upper and lower classes of so ciety. Nay, many ladies notoriously act as spi. s, and are yet received in society, and have company at home ; even men who are stigmatised with the sane reputation, are not the worse treated on that account, and bear their disgrace with a kind of haughty dignity. There is not a single re giment of the guard which has not several spies; in the theatres, and especially in the French theatre, there are often a larger number of spies than of mere spectators. In short, there are so manv spies that people imagine they see them everywhere.—Russia under the Autocrat. A SCORPION-EATER.—In the douar of the Abides tribe, Captain Kennedy fell in with a scorpion -eater. This was a disgusting-looking boy, who, being an idiot, was looked upon by the Arabs as a saint—deprivation of intellect constituting in their opinion a high claim to ho liness. This urchin bolted, sting and all, a fine lively scorpion upwards of two inches long—the reptile writhing between his teeth as he deliberately crunched it. Cur traveller had heard of such explots, but had naturally been rather incredulous concerning the non-removal of the sting. In this case, however, be was pert . - ctly satisfied that no deception was practised. The buy afterwards de voured another of the same dangerous species of vermin. He belonged to the religious sect of the Aisaoua, who claim the privilege of being proof against the venom of reptiles and the effects of fire.—Bleekwood's Magazine. THE " ECRIVAIN PUBLIC.''—Who has resided in Pa ris for any length of time without becoming acquainted. at least by sight, with some of those humble temples of lite rature which abound in that city, resembling cobblers' stalls, kept by the very poorest of the brethren of the quill, who announce their calling to the world by the some what magniloquent title, inscribed on the little bricks, of " Ecrivains Publics ?" How many a tale of love in hum ble life, how many an intrigue, bow many a reputation, lie at the mercy of these humble and busily employed agents of illiterate Paris 1 . They are said to be a class of men who, though steeped to the lips in poverty, invariably dis play the most scrupulous integrity and discretion towards their employers ; and, according to general report, the confessionals of St Roch or Notre Dame de Lorette are not more sacred than the secrets confided to the penman. ships of these miserable scribes. Their boutiques are usually found in retired parts of the town, where a spot of waste ground, or a friendly gable of a house, affords space for their erection, without the awkwardness of a demand for rent. A description of this class of the sons of litera ture, so totally unknown to fame, would be worthy the pen of the Fielding of former days, or the Charles Dickens of our own.—P'oser's Magazine. INDIAN MEAL.—There is no sort of grain that can be turned to so many uses as Indian corn, and with so little expense and trouble. It contains infinitely more nourish ment than rice ; and there are few constitutio, s with which it does not agree perfectly well. Many persons do not like it at first, but eventually become fond of it. As food, Indian meal is very nutritious; it is, perhaps, more strengthening and wholesome than any other farinaceous substance. There are numerous modes of preparing it that, though simple and easy, are palatable and excellent, and particularly convenient where close economy is expe dient. The flier r preparations of Indian meal are found on the best tables in America. It requires more cooking than wheat flour. Indian meal is also the best possible food for all kinds of poultry, pigeons, &c.; mixed into a soft dough, with cold water in summer, and warm water when the weather is cald. It should be set down to them in shallow pans, and given twice or three times a day. When the large fowls are fed with Indian corn in grains, wetted Indian meal should always be prepared for the young chickens. If mixed with treacle, to a stiff dough, it will fatten poultry very fast. I have seen calves fed on warm mush and milk. and nothing can be better for them. The yellow Indian meal is decidedly the sweetest and best, and it is almost universally used in America in preference to the whi'e, which is comparatively tasteless, resembling very coarse rough wheat flour. In buying Indian meal, take care that it is not in the least sour, either in taste or smell. If there ie the al: s 6teet about it, do not attempt to use it. as it is then unwhole some, having been kept too long. It will remain sweet much longer, if, soon after it is brought home, you have the whole of it sifted at once through a sieve into another barrel, box, or jar. The lighter and looser it lies, the better it will keep. It should be kept in a dry and cool place and carefully covered.—lndian Meal Book. HOME.—The love of home, the charms of the native soil,—the endearments they possess when present, and the beauty and dignity shed over their remembrance whilst absent,—these are feelings w hich can steal into all breasts without speech or language _ " 'Tis nature's voice. and understood Alike by all mankind." The patriotic passion is not lost for the want of high civi lisation : it often burns most purely in breasts the most unsophisticated ; and one of the worst lessons high culti vation and liberal principles instil, is the disregard for lo cal sympathies under the high sounding name of cosmo politanism. The poor Tyrolese is not yet tinctured by the new virtue. As he ventures from his rocky nest he al ready feels at every step the lengthening chain ; and if by chance, in the melting of his soul, the strains of the Ranz des Vaches should meet his ear, the flood of feeling be comes irresistible, and the poor wanderer has nothing left but to seek hastily the air and soil of home, or to die. The sailor, in his calenture, sees every wave transformed to green trees of his native village. Speak not of the splen dour, the conveniences, the comforts of home !—lliese do not give it the title of " Sweet, sweet home 1" Take it in its simplicity, its nakedness, and its deprivations, but you have not stepped from its endearing charms. Trusting alone to wealth, Horace could find himself only a splen did beggar,— btagnes inter opes. inops ;" and his praises were reserved tor the simple objects of nature,— " Purw rivns aquae silvscre jngerum Paucorum, et segetis certa fides mean," because they were endeared to him by associations silent but powerful. The dying hone does not even erase this stamp of nature, nor can the splendours of the c.ipital can cel the rude cot with its magic name. The shout=, that would at one time have thrilled through the expiring gla diator, now move him not ; his heart is occupied in a more engrossing theme. What beautiful but indignant expressions were called forth from the captive Israelites, by the gush of feeling when their thoughts were suddenly turned to their own land (Ps. 137.) And with what ar dour, does David cr., - out whilst returning to his beloved city P— y for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that Inv:. thee. " Peace be within thy walls, and p osperity within thy palaces." —New Quarterly Review. THE 13oHE IN QUISITIVE. — He is one of the most teas ing persons you can possibly fall in with. All men avoid him, either instinctively, or from experience; and yet we walk abroad without meeting him. He is we you at night to compare notes with 41f-a•dozen of your intimate Wends, who, as well as evipihere; yourself, know him, or rather are known of him, all at one lay, in pu lane, in the green meadow or by the sea: store, have been fated to encounter the bore inquisitive. All regard him as a perfect pest, and no one ever dared say so to his face. A bore of this kind is generally a middle-aged, respecta ble-looking man, who limps slightly, uses a cane, and makes slow progress. He is staid, temperate, and rosy cheeked ; he is, moreover, well to do, calm and unruffled in his deportment; and when he comes up to shake hands and to victimise you, you cannot for your life offer any re sistance. His small, blue, unmeaning eye, has a fascinat ing itifLlence which you can neither describe nor avoid. " He holds" you with it until he has wrenched and wrung your inmost soul. He asks question after question, and yet never seems to care for your answer. When you are beginning to give him the necess,,ry amount of informa tion on a topic be just seemed anxious to know about, he stops you with a query respecting the age of your grand mother ' • and while you are returning a somewhat uncer tain and hesitating response, he will ask you as suddenly what you regard as likely to be the ultimate fate of ihe last ministerial measure. But this is not the worst of the matter; the wretch not unfrequently tortures you with questions in reference to affairs connected with your own vokingiy calm end cool. that though you f el he deserves to be knocked down with the umbrella you are carrying, you cannot avoid standing, and though blushing and per- the in'ormation you can stammer out. You are possibly residing at your father's, out of a situation for the present, and you must be pestered with inquiries as to what made you leave your old one. He hears you have been ill used, and wishes, out of the love he bears you, to get particu lars. While you are endeavouring to explain, he cuts you short, by expressing his sorrow to learn that your brother Thomas made such an unexpected failure last week ; and when, to gratify his curiosity. you are about to venture a guess a 4 to what he is likely to allow his creditors per pound, he stops your mouth by regretting to hear of the delicate health of your sister Jane, who has been but re cently married, and asks whether there is any truth in the report that her husband is given to the bottle. You are about to reply, but his small, calm eye now espies another victim advancing up the road, and bidding you good day, he crosses over to him, and as you make your escape, you heave a wish for him who is now caught by "the button." —Hoyy's Weekly Instructor. THE LIVERPOOL STANnAIiI). BEAUTIES OF ARCHITECTURE —Unless we are mista ken, it appears to us that the Greeks imitated nature in her most perfect and abstract forms of beauty : and that they, with their successors the Romans, or rather the later Greeks, sought tor beautiful objects as adapted to ar chitectural ornament, wherever they could find them. They were not prevented by arty traditioi , al or conven tional proprieties from imitating and using the beautiful and the natural wherever they may exist: all the varied forms of nature would have come right to them had they been willing. They seem, however, not to have taken so wide a range as w, should have expected ; or else their works that have come down to us are so few in number that their choice seems to have been rather restricted. The middle age architects also took a wide or rather a free range . in the forms of the vegetable and animal world : but. they worked with barbarous eyes and stiff hands; nor till the twelfth century do they seem to have arrived at that arti-t cal freedom and correctness which are requisite to interpret and to imitate t) mu' , x forms of the natural ' In the parish of Hambledon, Buckinghamshire, there lives a venerable female, whose age is 103 years, and who is in the perfect enjoyment of her health and Mollifies. _ The good old dame stated, a few days since, her perfect recollection that eighty years since the same disease ex isted in the potat i crop for three successive years, after which it affected the turnips equally as bad. SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Wed nesday, Daniel Trinder, land-agent to the Earl of St. Germans, left Cirencester by the mail train for Port Eliot, where he was expected to hold the Annual Court. He was apparently in perfect health when he left Ciren cester, but on opening the carriage at Swindon he was found a corpse. DISEASE IN THE CELERY PLANTS.—The leaves of the celery plants are stated to be withering, and on dividing the two coats of the diseased leaves, it will he found that there are a number of small green insects between th-m, which are rapidly destroying the inner p .rts of the leaves. ikely to be fatal The disease is quite new to much of the celery. :0 us, and seems An inquest was held at Lewes, on the body of a pri soner said to have died of starvation in the House of Cor rection at Lewes. The jury, after deliberating some time, returned a verdict, "That the rigour of the sentence be ing fully carried into effect, and the insufficiency of the food, destroyed the constitution of deceased, in conse quence of which he died." At the late musical festival at Birmingham, Benedict, the composer, at the performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah, without having heard a nate previously, to:dc down in notation on his programme the motif of every piece— its key, its time, its form and construction—a most mar vellous exercise for the ear, when it is added he did not make a single mistake. On Wednesday, John Banister Faulkner surrendered at the Central Criminal Court, to take his trial for forgery of railway scrip. His late partner, Bentham Fabian, did not appear. The first witness examined, a clerk in their office, stated, after a short examination, that MF. Faulk ner was not aware beforehand of the transaction respecting the shares, and on this the case was abandoned, and Mr. Faulkner was discharged. About 700 or 800 Irish reapers, being delayed over night at Ardrossan, by a fog, which prevented the sailing of the Londonderry steamer, commenced a riot, for the sake of fun, to the great alarm of the peaceable inhabitants. With the view of terrifying the Irishmen, they were threa tened with a volley from a seven gun battery, which had been erected by the Earl of Eglinron ; but no sooner was this hi, ted, than about 700 of them charged up the hil upon which the guns are mounted, and captured the bat tery. Military assistance was sent for, and the steamer shortly afterwards sailing, their services were nut re quired. A " TAKING" AFFAIR.—One of our contemporaries last week described a theft committed by a lad in Kirk_ gate in the following terms :—" The prisoner came up, coolly took down a coat that took his fancy, and then took to his heels. Hurst took after him, and, being the bet; -r runner, soon overtook him, gave him into custody of Inspector Hepworth, who took him to the station house, and the mayor, deciding the taking to have been a felonious one, ordered his mittimus to be made out. so that he may take his trial at the next sessons." This would, most assuredly, bother a foreigner studying English. THE LATE ROBBERY OF £BOO AT EDINBUROH,— Among the many measures adopted by the superintendent of police to recover the money of which a gentleman was lately robbed in a close in High -street. he transmitted a description of ihe bank notes and other missing property to Liverpool, Hull, and other large maritime towns. Toe result has already proved effectual, for on Tuesday in formation was received from the authorities in Liverpool, stating that two of the Bank of England notes for £5O had been changed there, and that the original possessor had been discovered to be a young man about twenty-six years of age, adding a minute description of his person. The criminal officer at once knew the man, and within an hour after the rec-ipt of the information he was appre hended and secured. On being examined, he admitted having been in Liverpool, and disposed of the notes. but could give no account how he obtained possession of them, further than he got them from a gentleman in Edinburgh. On his person was found £lB. He is well known to the police, having for several years been a reputed house breaker. The total number of men and women who have been taken in:o custody, under suspicion of being impli cated in this extensive and daring robbery, is fourteen, but six of them have since been liberated.—Witness. world. As for the human figure, they confined themselves principally to d , aperied forms; and they embued these with co, siderable elegance ; nevertheless, through all I heir operations, we trace a want of anatomical knowledge, which not all their ready invention can conceal, and which is scarcely compensated by the value of their sculpture, as a contemporaneous illu•tration ot mediaeval history. Her. aldry seems always to have been a mystic and a mythic art ; and hence heraldic forms have a certain privilege ot caricature and distortion from which it is in vain to try to emancipate them. Such being the case, it becomes a question—how should modern ornament be composed? In the classic style, are we always to adhere to foreign fo liage, forekn animals, and mytholigical figures and in the Gothic style, are we always to preserve the same rigi dity and distortion which prevailed so long as those styles were in actual practice? We apprehend the true rule of aesthetics in this case to be that for restorations or exact facsimiles of buildings, whether classical or mediaeval, the very form as well as the spirit of the ornament contempo raneously used in such buildings should be most strictly adopted. An imitation, unless it is an exact one, is good for nothing, as far as architecture is concerned. But should we prevail on ourselves either to depart from these styles, or to carry out their main principles, so as to form a national style of our own—not a fixed one, but a style varying through d fferent ages, suiting itself to the social requirements of each—then we should be prepared, not only to call in the aid of natural beauty to the fullest ex tent, but also to avail ourselves of all that rich fund of form which results from the extensive use of scientific knowledge, and the investigation of physical curves. There is no reason why such a style, or succession of styles, should not be formed, if the great principles of science and utility be taken as the superstructure on which imagination may afterwards raise its enrichment; and, if ever it come into existence, we have the unlimited expanse of the universe to range through in search of beauty and harmony. It is impossible to say what changes the intro duction of new mathematical forms may not produce, and produce with good effect: thus the beautiful curve of the catena would not have been known, but for the introduc tion of suspension bridges. The application of the cycloid is comparatively modern, though the curve itself is an cient ; and the grand effect of the hor'zontal line was not fully known—despite of Greece and Rome—till our inter minable lines of railroad had stretched their lengths across the land. In the same way, our more extended and mere intimate knowledee of the animal and vegetable kingdom ought to furnish us with an immense variety of new and beautiful forms of ornament—we do not mean of mythic or fanciful ornament, but of the highest and best kinds of decoration, absolute. and yet partial imitation of nature. Thus, for example, have we a blank space, extending ho rizontally to a long distance, which we desire to cover with enrichments. We have our choice, either in mathe matical forms and combination of forms, such as naedite val architects might have applied. or else we may throw along it wreaths and branches of foliage, peopled with in sect life, or enlivened by birds and animals. A succession of simple oak branches or laurel-leaves, or the shoots of any other common plants, faithfully imitated, and cut into mimic life, from the inanimate stone. would form an or nament of the most effective kind, and would constitute a work of art, being an intelligent and poetical interprets tit n of natural beauty. In the building of our houses, why should the straight line and sections of the circle be the only lines adncissible for doors, windows, and roofs: , Why should the Greek and Roman ovolo, cavetto, and square, be the only combination that we know of in our common moul lines? How much richer were the architects of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, who drew with " free hands," and gave us such exquisite effects of light and shade! We are firmly persuaded, that an architect, deeply imbued with the scientific principles of his profes sion. and endowed, at the same time, with the hand and the eye of a skilful artist, may cause a most hanny and useful reformation of our national architecture.—Blackw. THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—On Tuesday, the in quiry into the murder of Police Constable George Clarke ' was resumed for the sixth time. The room was crowded by the resident gentry of the neighbourhood. The addi tional evidence was not very material. The Coroner summed up, and after consulting for upwards of one hour. the jury agreed to a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. Mr. Fisher. the Unitarian minister at Lincoln, com mitted suicide on Wednesday evening by taking diluted prussic acid after he had retired to his bed-room, where he was found dead next morning. The cause of the act is attributed to an apprehension on the part of the de ceased of imputa ions upon his moral character which would prevent him from having a congregation. He was 25 years old, and had formerly been an attorney. It is but a few weeks since the grave closed upon the remains of Charlotte Elizabeth—one of the very first among our female writers ; and already we have to record the loss of another equally eminent. Christian woman, the author of " The Listener." Mrs Wilson, perhaps better remembered by her former name of " Caroline Fry." was taken to her rest, on Thursday last, at Tunbridge Wells, after a short arid sharp attack of pulmonary disease. Mr. Musbet, jun.. of Dark Hill. near Coleford, iron master, writing in the Mining Journal,. says that he is in possession of a plan by which two tons of pig iron m ay be produced for every ton of coal used. At present it takes two tons of coal to make one ton of pig iron. He also as serts that he knows of an immense supply of iron hitherto unused and unsuspected, though at the manufacturer's feet ; but the secret he is Being to keep to himself until he finds it worth while to sell it. At Howick vill4ge, Northumberland, on the 14th in stant, in her 100th year. Margery, widow of Mr. Thomas Duncan, died. She was the last of three sisters, whose united ages at the time of their death amounted to 278 years. Their father, Richard Moore, died at Howick in his 100th year, anti neither he nor his father, who also lived nearly a century, had ever slept a night out of the Howick domains during the whole of their patriarchal lives. W. Hayter, a gamekeeper, at Warleigh,. Devon, has been committed for trial at the next Exeter. Assizes, for firing at and wounding a girl of sixteen years old, named Maria flicks, who was plucking blackberries: The plan tation in which the offence was committed, adjoined a garden occupied by the girl's father; there was no fence or oth. , fli- partition ; and no design of meddling with game seems to have been i Eputed to the sufferer, who retired on the first notice, and was twice fired at while-retracing her steps, two shots tAirig effect on the second dischar:e. At Bow-street Police-office, George Ku , not, a man who has kept a chemist's shop at Raleigh, in Essex, for twenty , years, was charged with abstracting a 1.:5 note from a let ter which passed through the postottice at Raleigh, of which he was the keeper. The note was sent in a letter to Mrs. Chambers from her husband, in March last; the absence of the money was notified to the prisoner; about a fun Night since he pall a litiendraper of .Aldersgate-street for some goods with the identical note, giving his address, " Brown, Raleigh." The prisoner was remanded. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The import duty on wheat has fallen to 9s. per quarter. The sum subscribed for the testimonial to Mr. John Bright only amounts to -£l.OOO. The salaries paid to English consuls abroad vary from .C 25 to £l.BOO per ann:im. The hte Mr. J. Ashton, of Hyde, has left his residuary personal estate to the sinking fund for the reduction of the National debt. It is expected to amount to £150,000. The Nottingham Journal says that both the Baptist and Independent ministers of Belper have resolved to seek ordination in the Established Church. SINGULAR FRAUD ON THE RAGGED SCHOOLS—An ingenious fraud, practised at the Ragged Schools in Broadway. Westminster, brings to light the eagerness with which admission is sought by some of the children For whose reception these institutions are provided. They incurred the expense and trouble of printing admission cards, and forging the signature, being a fac simile of those issued by the superintendent. These were bought by others for a halfpenny each, and gained admission till the torgery was detected. A coach _proprietor from Leeds drove the horses of one of his coach, s so unmercifully on the Leger day, that be • fore he returned to Leeds in the evening two of t hem died, At the revision of the Mary', bone lists of parliamentary voters the Conservatives sustained no fewer than 552-ob jections, and failed in or withdrew 57. only. A pretty re ^ matey-mug - must - wave beer te - begln with I The Seventh Hussars (Queen's Own) commanded by. Lieut.-col. White, have been removed from Hounslow to Ireland, in consequence, it is supposed, of the ill-will of the inhabitants arising out of the late case of flogging. MUNIFICENT STIPEND.—A clerical correspondent of the Times writes that he has been offered the chaplaincy of the union-workhouse belonging to six parishes by the local board. The temptation held out is £l3 per annum. At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, W.I lam Ohre, engine driver on the Eastern Counties Railway, was acquitted on a charge of having caused the death of Richard Hind by the late concussion on that line. At the Court of the Ancient Corporation of the Poor of Bristol, it was resolved to oppose the auditing of the ac counts by the representative of the Poor Law Commis sioners. EXTP.AORDIN ARY PRESERVATION.—A man nearly seventy years of age, of the name of Walker, of Winslow, a pensioner, got into a tree in that parish, on Thursday, -for the purpose of getting rotten wood. He slipped, and one of his feet caught between two branches, whence he was suspended with his head downwards. He was in this state for twenty-two hours. When found the hto was flowing from his mouth and ears. it is believed that he would have been dead in a short time, but it is thought he will rect,ver. Ile was about fifteen feet from the ground. SINGT , L•AIt DtSCOVERY.—On Tuesday one of the crew of the Emerald Gravesend s earner observed a brown pa per parcel in the cabin, and as no one applied for or claimed it, he took it to the booking-office, Graves-end. There being no name or adel%ss upon the parcel, after a short delay, it was considered advisable to open it and see what it contained, a hen, to the utter surprise of all, the body of a newly born female infant pr rented itself. It it about two years since a similar parcel was left on the seat of a Gravesend steamer, containing au infant in a state of deco rosi In two or three days last week there arrived four ves sels from Lisbon and Rotterdam, having on board no fewer than 2,8t9 large boxes and 1,550 half-boxes of lo- SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—EarIy on Thursday evening a woman, named Chippenham, threw herself, together with her daughter, a chila about four years old, from the Sun P.er, at Chatham, into the Med way.. A son of Mr. Robertson, surgeon. wt-o witnessed the circumstance, flew to their rescue, and by his heroic, reign grapes It is estimated that no less than seven millions sterling of the public revenue are intercepted by the servants of the crown, and disposed of without any account being rendered to the public. _ The public are cautioned against counterfeit half-sove reigns, with which the metropolis is at this moment inun dated. They are electrotyped, and so admirably executed that it is very difficult to detect them. _ _ away by the tide. On the bodies heing brought ashore,. every means were used for th.dr rec.tvery, which, in the case of the child, fortunately succeeded, but the mother died about two o'clock on Friday =riling. Family•dif ferences are said to have led to the rash act. Pas,TENTIoN OF DISEASE IN POTATOES.—TWO agri cultural labourets living near Petworth, and occupying what is called in Su4sez a double cottage, with each a small garden attached to his dwelling, both planted their gardees last season with potatoes. The planting took place by both on the same day, with seed taken 13;01 oust) , from the same parcel. One took no precaution to guard against the disease, and the potatoesentirely failed; the other, previous to planting, placed a layer of sawdust in the drill, on which the seed was plac:d; this has pro duced him as fine a crop of potatoes as need be, with scarcaly a single defect. Sea sand made use of in the same manner, is said t 3 be equally beneficial. THE POTATO CROP.—Perhaps it may be said, with strict regard to truth, that the accounts last received from Ireland and all other parts of the United Kingdom, would seem to concur in intimating, rather than directly stating.. that the pcpato crop has tn,t, of late, furthtr proce.-d.d from bad to worse. And we believe that such an infe rence may be fairly drawn of the virulence of the disease The Dissenters of Plymouth have passed a resolution, pledging themselves to support, at the next election, those candidates only who will undertake to oppose the endow ment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. MILDNESS OF THE WEATHER.—There is a second course of b'ossona on many wall truit trees, strawberries, and other small fruit bushes in this neighbourhood. Some of the winter flowering shrubs are also in flower, of which the lauristinus is panicularly rich.—Perthshi ,- e Courier. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, a post office clerk named Thomas Jones was found guilty of stealing a letter containing half-a-sovereign, and sen tenced to ten years' transportation. In the town of Sheffield there are stated to be 3,330 persons employed in the various processes of the manu facture of pocket-knives. In this number are included 2,400 setters-in; 430 pen blade grinders; 150 pocket blade grinders ; 270 blade forgers; ani 110 scale forgers. Four men have been committed for tri plat York a-sizes, for an atrocious rape at Poeklington. upon Mary 0' Han lon, the wife of a besom-maker of that town. T,,e wife of one of the prisons rs stood quietly by, and witnessed the offence. _ _ _ SPORTING MADE EASY.—A. birdcatcher in the vi cinity or the Seven Dials announces that he will, on rea sonable terms, supply sportsmen with birds, powder and shot, dog and gun, which be will convey to any " required distance." having passed ha height, and that reasonable hopes may now bo entertained of a considerable proportion of the crop being yet preserved, which, whilst the tubers will not be affected in quality, they may still be expect, d to be less in and not so prolific in quantity. We have On Tuesday, a young man, while in a state of intoxica tion, fell against the palings of the police station-house, Woolwich, which are studded with nails. One of these nails entered his left eye, and the wound caused his death within a few hours. answers feel warranted in ma king the foregoing statement BATTLE OF THE INSECTS.--During the afternoon of Thursday, the lt3th instant, a respee , ab'e farmer in !he neighbnurhrod was on the famed Twvn Barla•m. Rises. The estate of the Cregyans, lately sold by auction, has been purchased for £l7 (MO by Joseph Ewart, Esq. At the Mani Agricultural Society meeting, last week, the silver cup for the best cultivated farm above 50 acres, was awarded to the proprietor of this estate A great many Indian Rupees are the air attracted his attention. On looking up, he saw counties; numbers of bees gathering from all directions, and on meeting just by where he stood,. they engaged in a contra which lasted till the slain lay in many thousands about the spot. The news of so extraordinary a circurn- , city, and from a similarity of . resemblance, readily pass week been visited by hundreds of persons, who all agree for half-crowns; the real value, however, is less than 2s. .in regarding it as a most mysterious circumstance. The One tradesman in Farririgdon - street took three in-one iiis,cts are of a dark glosvy colour. short and thick, and day. resemble the- well-known wild hooey or earth-bee, so Elizabeth Barkitt, a native of Titmarsh, Northampton- common during the suremer months. shire, who had lived in the service of Mrs. Gray and her THE BILL AGAINST CAPTAIN RICHARDSON IGNORED. son Edward, at Bushmead, about te n wee ks, having made —Tlte grand jury have ignored the bill, charging Captain a full confession of having set tile to the premises on the Richardson, on two counts, with fraud and forgery. The Ist instant, has been committed for trial. grand jury examined a great number of witnesses, and it Mr. Anderson, the professor of elocution, lately an- w as un derstood that they stated as their reason for ignor nout;eed two of his Shaksperian readings at Tunbridge kg the bill, that after lookingat the whole of the evidence Wells. One auditor attended in the morning, three in which had been laid bef re them, the majority of them the evening. Tom Thumb, in the same room, had 1500 were of opinion that the words " ten pou .ds" had never visitors. been written in the cheque, and, therefore, no forgery had On Tuesday, at half-past two o ' c lock, the title of the been effected. They were at the same time, satisfied that Thames rose to an ex traordinary h e ight, in consequence Captain Richardson had, by some means, obtained t' of which great damage was effected to the wharfs and signatures o - - dwelling-houses along the Thames, particulatly at Satter- as he &c. draw chic has published a pamphlet torpor. -- - • his two co-tru.s resolution of the company to and had beencommitted. Entertaining, 99 aut:iorized b ues, no I Mr. G. W. Johnston _ known a remedy for the potato disease. lie says— remedy is very simple. and, as is usually the case, it mirgtive_ viz . plant at the close of The I other coerce to adopt than to ignore the bill. - Capt. Is since been set at liberty IRON TKA ature to notice this (Vilna rri sre now very generally refused, both from an inability CO wilfully execute them and the prevalent expectation of higher Septernhr At Marylebone police-court on Saturt Bardwell, an architect, was fined £4 . for hay rst week in damaged one of the baths at the Public Baths in ueorge- prices. That a very large business has been done in Lon street, New-road, by pouring some strong acid on the don, says Atis's Birmingham Gazette, and at improved enamel, wh ch caused it to peel off. rates for all descriptions of iron, indicat, s that this expec- GOOD SPORT.—Thirty•three grayline and one trout, Wiwi is not confined to the makers, and will doubtles weighing thirty-two pounds, exclusive of small fry, were bring merchants freely into the market for supplies at taken at Leintsrardine with the fly and grasahopp• rin the quarter day. Several large contracts for railroad require. space of five hours. on Monday last. by a member of that merits having however lstely been taken in this neighbour club. The same rod in three days killed one hundred and hood at lower figures than might have been expected, and eight pounds.—Shropshire Journal. the fact that many bilge manufacturers are so full of Last Saturday an elderly farmer, named John Baker, orders that they could not for a considerable time partici from Horsford, was swindled out of £5O in Norwich Cat- pate in the advantages, has given rise to a report that all tle Market. by some strangers who pretended to be horse- their influence will be used to prevent an advance.—Glas dealers. They adopted the old trick of persuading him pow, Sept.lB. —The market has been dull again this week, to purchase a horse which one pretended he w.inted, but and paces are more in firiour of buyers than last. Prices could not buy of the other. As soon as the parties had quoted are 725. for No. 3, 74 a. to 755. for mixed Nos,, secured Use woaey they all disappeared.. slid 7.65, to 785., all No. l•, cash, f.0.b.. EARL SPENCER'S STOCK.—A sate of part of the stock of the late Earl Spencer took place last week. The cows and heifers realised £3,727 103. giving an average of £37 ss. 6d. The bulls realised £1,556 Zs.. presenting an average of £74 2s. The total amount of the sale was £4,283 12. For lot eight, was contested by Lord Duncie and Count St. Marie, on behalf of the King of the French, but his lordship ultimately became the purchaser. For lot twenty-seven, there was also a smart encounter. but Count St. Mare proved the victor. For lot thirty-eight, a most spirited bidding was kept up, but the animal was ultimately "run out" to the Earl of Zeeland. For lot lifty-fight, also, there was a severe race, but Lord Ducie was the lucky purchaser. For the bull, Exquisite, only thirteen months old, there was the most spirited contest, which terminated in the unp►ecedented sum of three hun dred and seventy guineas. The nest contest was between Vi,o,unt Milton and Count St. Marie, for the bull, Tin ker, little more than nine months old, which was finally "run out" to the Count at two hundred and fifty-five guineas. The last spirited bidding was for Zoroast r, a calf, calved March 30th, 1846, consequently little more than five months old. This was between Count St. Ma ri, and Viscount Milton, but the representative of Louis Philippe was the ultimate purchaser at one hundred and fifty guineas. PROTECTIONIST POLICY. The Morning Post of Friday gives the following propo sitions as the ground-work of a system of Peotectionist policy, an instalment towards rebating the assertion so frequently made against the partv that theirs is a policy neither intelligible nor distinctly defined. The authority on w hi ch t h e declaration is given is not named, but it certainly seems like an embodiment of principles such as Protectionists, as a body, might support ; and, without pledging ourselves to an entire satisfaction witb all its details; we have no hesitation in pronouncing it much more English than th- policy of the present government, and much better calculated to ameliorate and improve the condition of every class of the community, save those who prey like harpies upon the rest • DECLARATION OF CONSERVATIVE POLICY. FOR THE ESTADLISHMENT OF FAIR TRADE AND EQUITABLE TAX Al rjN The abolition of all excise duties on domestic produc tion and manufactures, and the consequent consolidation of the Customs and Excise, together with the reduction of the Coast Guard. " The admission of colonial wheat, pulse, and flour, at a statistical duty of 6d. per quarter, and 6 per barrel. " The reduction of duty on tea to Is. per lb. " The reductiqn of duty on tobacco to Is. per lb. " The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to ss. per cwt. " Ditto on foreign ditto, to 103. per cwt." REVENUE COMPENSATION. " Fixed duty on foreign wheat of si. per qparter. " Fixed ditto on other foreign grain and pulse, 2s. 6d per ditto. " Fixed duty on foreign flour. 2s. 6d. per barrel. " Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to Bs. per cwt., as an equivalent for the excise on soap. "The charge for postage to commence at one penny for a quarter of an ounce, ins•ead of half-an-ounce. to make up for the loss of exci-e on paper. which has always been a tam on education and literature." REASONS FOR REMOVAL OF EXCISE DUTIES ON ',tome PBOOILIOTIONs, AND ADJUBTMEhF• 8./ILVE- " As long as an Income and Property-tax. is imposed, which, together with the burthen of the Poor Laws, falls principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists, foreign imports, competing with our domestic productions, cannot be aduated without paying a revenue duty. "The reduvion of duty on tea, tobacco, and sugar, would not eventually yield less revenue. owing to the in creased consumption, whilst the comforts of the poor would he greatly enhanced, and our co rmerce extended, especially with China, and the inducement to smuggle put an end to. . . "The loss of revenue on the Excise duties would be compensated for by the duty on foreign wheat, pulse, flour, and cotton wool. together with an increase in the Post•oflice revenue, which would be equivalent to the loss of the Excise on paper, to which would be added the enormous saving in the expense of the collection in the Excis • Duties, as welt as in the reduction of the Coast Guard establishment. Since 1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on foreign imports have been reduced for the chief benefit of the manufacturers, while the Excise Duties have been re tained, and the Income and Property Tax imposed; five millions having been token off, and five millions laid on without any ben. fit to the poor man. " The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be about ten per cent. ; on Colonial sugar, about fi:teen per cent. ; and on Foreign, thirty per cent. ; making an average of twenty-two-and-a-half per cent., whilst the present duties. are respectively about forty-five per cent., and seventy, per cent." FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE WEEK SATURDAY The Spanish marriage question has had a further effect in depressing our Consols. The panic felt on the Paris Bourse has had a sympathetic effect here, and alarm has been experienced to some extent lest the question, how. ever it may be settled, should interrupt the present cordial relations between France nd England. We (says the Britannia) do not participate in that alarm in any way, and we fancy that the depression arising from that cause will very speedily be ren.oved. Another source of uneasi ness is the continued prospect of Irish scarcity.. Under this apprehension, and the certainty that no very large quantities of wheat can now be received this year, the prices of grain are rising, and will probably continue to do so steadily for some time to come. C ts, which ch - d r t kat 933 r- ...xsed last wee ~o- 4 tor money, and 951 for account, receded a step on Monday, and were done at 954 to tor money, and 951 to for account Some Hebtev.s cime in to purchase heavily at that rate, ay eater. sales were made at 95.4 for money, and on Wednesday the market again °pent(' heavily at 951 to for money, and 954 to for account. There was nu variation on Thurs ._ fternnon the and Consol3 fell. back to 951 to 1 / to / for the account. market became heavy, for money, am I!:xchequer 11avt•, t een PI fallen : it 4q. ; 258 to has slightl Money is plentiful on good securities, yet on inferior In foreign securities a decline has been- felt. . Spanish Stock is a little lower, though not much. The Five per Cents. were yesterday done at 25t. Mexican have receded to 241 to 25, from whence it would seem thvt the last American news has bad an unfavourable effect on this stock. Portuguese Four ptr Cent_ done at 404- to I. Belg'an and Dutch Stock are steady , the Four-sod-a-Half per Cents, of the former we note at at '3llO The Share Market has been more languid this week att d more limited. In fact, speculation for the time is )mpletely at a stand-still, and no contrast can be greater lan that presented by the market now with its aspect t the corresponding period of last year. The Quietude ,t. in the rnaiker:extensive orders . either . to . b!-11 or buy would tendency is tow.rds decline. "'G The Admiralty Cornirisi•ioners decided nn t h e tenders "It appears that the cross and the flower-glasses were the private property of the incumbent ; the alms-basin and te candlestick had been presented by him ten years since. That the churchwarden is indictable for theft as well as sacrilege we have no doubt whatever, and we feel confident that the Lord Bishop of Bocbester will see that ample justice is done in this ease. Unfortunately, how ever, we understand that his lordship is not in England at the present moment, and, therefore, we have thought it right to lay these facts before the church at large, especi ally as it may be useful that our readers should know what a churchwarden, even in these days, is capable of. The Puritan lessons of the last 'two or three years have not been thrown away : the pupils of Mr. Chancellor Rallies, and of the Record, may be expected to go somewhat be yond the leiter of their teaching."' The cross and flower glasses were the private pro perty of the incumbent." A strange defence! What business had " the private property" of the incumbent to occupy a place on the communion table of the prish?" We have heard of Oxford men of late years who have gone forward, from the cross to the crucifix, with the body of our Lord suspended in agonies from it. Nay, we believe that " St. Mary" has also been similarly held up to view in ivory or marble. Now, if one sort of " pri vate property" of this class may creep into our churches, why not another ?—Record. In the Yarn and broke fo- improvement in "Y in progre- a. are going off at lull: I`4,UUti . : SIP, JOuie Lquir.c, kin Intl ilint WV All the : 30, Thomas Henrey, (proof and d ____ _ - -. —..-- ' '-'' . l iv= former. 30. Patrick O'llanlon, 12nd) The beef is to be delivered at £7 I s , and the . pork Oct. 1. Charles Thomas Wood, (2 .at l. w , ,mm Edward a T s l vj u e r d d d y ie ( . 2 ( d p ) roof) £7 13., per tierce. The ra t es were Much bigher than s those of last year. I 5. James Gill. (Thdl - .. _ tierces of beef, and 18,000 times' of 11; tatter was taken. but only R onn t;..,... Prices of all kinds of grain were higher at Mark lane yesterday ; stocks are slowly accuunulatiug in bond, and it is not lizely more wheat wilt h e r e le a sed until the duty 6, Frederick Cordaroy (audit) 5, George Lewis. (2nd) (proof and div 6. Henry Roe, (p roof an d di v. ) 6. John Stevens on . 6. Edmondson C oo b an ( au dit) 6. John Rikey, (audi 6, Maurice Jones, (2nd) ..., . • • • 6, Edward Swanwick Boult, (Ist) 6. Jonathan Prycherth. (2nd) 6, William La caster, (Ist) 6, John Orange. (Ist). • • 7. Robert Westmore. (audit) . O. John Wilkinson. (2nd) 9, Richard . Maddock, f.lrld) is again at the lowest point. T -. 1 - e — itnportidiens for the week were, by last night's Gazelle, 45,000 quarters of wheat, and 18,000 quarters ot oats. For the month end ing the sth ot September the importations have been 95.00 quarter of wheat, 165,000 quartets of oats, and 71,000 quarters of lnd , an wheat. The total imrortstions of all kinds of grain in the s ame period, including beans, peas, &c., amounted to 397,000 quorters. The quantity of wheat flour imported. in acWition,.was 47,000 cwt. arns were materially higher it would tend to cheek their use, doing to.day is rather duller than for some weeks previous. 'I here are no tidings yet of Leipsic fair, but as only a small quantity has been sent, it is expected good prices will Le reali zed. jai Wool • in London good prices as the sales two Ai v.: ETINGS or CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL District Court, 11 Ditto, Ditto, Ditto. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Sept. 29, 1'84.61 THE REACTION AGAINST TRACTARIANISM. The reaction which is inevitably following the vagaries of Tractarianism in some places naturally excites the outcries of the persecuted party. Here is a lamentable account, given in the Tractarian journal of last week, of certain acts of sacrilege committed recently in a parish in Essex, the name of which is not given: " It anpears that on Whit-Tuesday last Archdeacon Jones officially visited the church, and tlp , ught pr , per to record the following very vague notice iu his visitation " ' The archdeacon strongly dic=approves the manner in which the communion-t a bl e was Ds] dressed up, and he hopes the rector and churchwarden will see the propriety of removing the flower-pots, and other obnoxious orna ments, without further notice. (Signed' " H. C. JONES.' " On Wednesday evening (yesterday week) the church warden (there is but one) entered the church, during the absence of the rdnister, who was just recovering from a severe illness, and, just as the beil had ceased for evening service, Mr. Dowsing, junior, seized upon the altar-can dlesticks and candles, the offertory basin, two small flower-glasses (placed midway in the east window), and an oak cross, inlaid with pearl, with the sacred monagram in the centre. Flaying put these various ornamen's intoa basket, and having trampled upon the velvet cushions, he marched off with his sacreligious sp il, leaving the altar gate open, and proceeded to the font, where he wrenched off an ebony cross from the top of the cover, and departed from the church ! All this took place in the presence of the organist, who was utterly astounded, and during a heavy storm of rain and thunder, which one might have thought would have prevented even the most profane or fanatical man from violating and despoiling the sanctuary of the Lord at such a momenr. ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT. Rumours that it is the intention of Ministers to assemble Parliament early in November continue to gain ground. We, s.iys the Dubl;:i Mail, are induced to think that they are not without foundation, although we believe nothing definite has as yet been determined upon the sub ject. We are, however, enabled to state, that the Lord Lieutenant has, in the otrongest manner, urged the neces sity of suc'i a step upon the attention of the Cabinet; and also that he has applied for powers to adopt the plan of relief, by useful:reproductive works, so often and so earnestly put forward in our columns. We have good reason to believe that his Excellency has pressed for authority to introduce this plan at once, and to trust to a parliamentary indemnity, if it should be thought to be contrary to the letter of the Relief Act. The 'Standard of Saturday evening, gives further countenance to the bel ef that Parliament will re-assemble on the 4th of November next, the day to which it now stands prorogued. A FEMALE SAILOR, At the Thames Police office in London, on Monday, Mr. Alexander Hood, the master of the collter brig Per cival, lying in the river, came before Mr. Ballantine, and sta►ed that one of the apprentices, who was hound at Newcastle, on the 4'h instant, in the name of William Johns, turned out to be a female, and be wanted ta knoW what was to be done with her, whether he would be jus tified in cancelling the indentures ? Mr. Ballantine said the Register Office for Seamen was the proper place to apply for that purpose. If the appren tice was a woman the contract was no longer binding. Did she do any duty on board ? Mr. Hood.—Yes, sir; quite a smart lad, we thought her—l mean him—that is, the fomale. She went , up aloft, reefed sails, and did all the duties required of her. Ballantine —How old is ibis female sailor? Mr. Hood.—She said she was sixteen when she was bound, but she h is since told try wife, who was on board all the passage, that she is twenty . Mr. Ballantine.—And when did you discover that your apprentice was a w• man ?. _ _ Mr. Hood.—Not till Saturday. My wife has since talten off her sailor's jacket and trousers, and put her on female wearing apparel. She is c mpletely metamor phosed. I brought her ashore to-day, and left her at a respectable coffee-hone. Mr. Ballantioe.—Well, I can't help you. You can either take back this woman, who has been personatiog_a sailor, or leave her here. SPREAD OF POPERY The subjoined paper haq been prepared by the Re-:. J. R. Clifford, of Bristol. We are glad to infer from its be being marked No. I , that it is the first of a so-ries. Fifty years since there were only thirty Popish cha pels in Great Britain. There are now 602 public dispels, ten colleges, thirty-four convents, six monasteries, 776 missionary priests, besides many private chapels.—Calho lia Directory for 1846. "The Catholic Institute was established A.D. 1833; its avowed object is the conversion of Great Britain to Popery ; in order to render it more eff. erns', it was re coanizeiin April, 1845.— Catholic Directory for 1816: "While the Catholic states of Europe have 'wen corn pelted in self-defence to enforce the laws against the Je suits, the statutes hitherto in force against them in En gland are to be repealed. We may therefore expect that their increase will be tenfold. " It has been deliberately announced, that the Romish priests are to be endowed by the Stare, so soon as the public mind has been prepared for such an even•. •• Within the last few years, the Tractarian heresy, has drawn into the Church of Rome upwards of 100 members of the Church of England, many bf whom are cleigs men, and nearly all persons of considerable worldly intelligence. This tact disproves the assertion that in this enlightened day we have nothing to fear from Popery. When, several years ago, the voice of warning was raised against the tendency of Tractarianism, it was de cried as a needless alarm, and the parties who gave the warning were denounced as mountebanks. Lamentable facts have since proved who were right and who were wrung. - Many of the clergymen of the Church of England speak of the Romish Church and her priests in terms of strong commendation. The result is the deadenine of all perception as to the essential difference between Protes tant truth and Romish error. "Notwithstanding the above facts. the most perfect apathy prevails on the subject amongst Protestants." STATE OF TRADE MANCFIRSTER.—The arrivals from the United States. which reached us cluri K the past week, are still occupied with notices of the state of the cotton crops, and the usual int( Itigence about " the insec •" and `• the rains." This has had some iorbleoce at Liverpool. many of the spinners taking (right, and purchasing Ilreely. whereby the market has been driven up some id per lb. since our last. We did not think, after the bitter experience the last tell years have read to our manufacturers, that the bait would have taken so readily. Certain we are. that the state of the mai ket, and of demand, will not hear such an advance in the price of the raw material. There has been great activity in Liverpool, but there has not been the same degree of animation week. For the same reason that we then mentioned, we abstain from preten ins; to quote the closing prices of out market. ROCHDALE. —The demand for Flannels has not been so good as it was on Ihe previous Monday whil•t prices have been much the same. The Wool market has been rather still, and the busi- ncss ,ransacted limited. HUDDERSFIELDO-1 be demand for goods in the home has been rpther active to day, and appears liktiy to I than in other years; . fancy ve.:til is I required than the supply trade st later y more cloth markets. pric the last tew weeks. There has been a little more business done in the warehouses this week, principally with the country buyers. but for foreign demands there is but little doir.g. BRADFORD.— In the Wool market there is no manifest itn. provement to-day. The demand is sluggish, and the spinners buy only for immediate use. Late prices steadily maintained. he colonial sales now on in Loi.don are brisk, and ( log good prices, which h s caused a bile rovement in noils rket theie is no c as it is . evident that it the price of