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GOING TO SEA HURRAH ! Hurrah ! we are tree once IT We are leaving again Old nd's shor To 'safely traverse the storm-tossed waves Or rest in sleep in their c - • We fear not to face the Storm King's wrath Though he lash to madoe.. We fear not torna, T proud bark's path or tempest's crash, The whirlwind•s ofa,L, 0 ____ he light When scudding along through clouds of foam ? ith us we bear the red cros nr, the (re. ,sing the sla, All nations slialliii;;;hen. The foeman's sh it's presence with ral To onr own, at the voice of Duty's call, Though arm'd with might, that flag shall fall ce to meet, Adieu t then, Eng Thy hills ar We bid thee farewell with our cannon's roa: Hurrah ! hurrah ! NiR a Liverpool, Decem REVIEWS OF BOOKS Irssiory of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon, it 1815, to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, it 1852. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. Edin- burgh : William Blackwood and Sons. The present forms the second volume of this interesting work. Commencing with the history tf . .§P and Italy, from 1814 to 1820, it proceeds with that of Russia and Poland, from the peace of 1815 to the accession of Nicholas in 1825 ; it next treats of the Royalist reaction in France, up to 1821 ; the domestic history of England, from the passing of the currency act of 1819 to the death of Lord Londonderry in 1822 ; the relations of Eng land, France, and Spain, from 1819 to the congress of Verona ; the French invasion of Spain, and the death of Louis XVIII. From the above summary, it will be readily apparent that the period treated of, and the events recorded in this volume by Sir Archibald Alison, have done much to shape and colour the political aspect and social bearing of European society at the present momentous crisis of affairs. By a careful analysis of these facts, and a studious attention to the relations unfolded of the past, we may be guided, to an important extent, in any attempt to unravel the present enigmatical if not conflicting policy of the leading European powers. Presumptuous self-conceit has, indeed, prompted some shallow prater petulantly to describe history as an " old almanack," fit only to be thrown aside on the appearance of some newer light. Arrogance like this must be treated with that mixture of pity and condemnation awarded to the dogmas of pre tenders in every branch of science and of art— condemnation for the presumption—pity for the goneeit displayed, and derision of the trouble taken by such oracles, in demonstrating that knowledge to their eyes her ample Rich with the spoils of time, did ne' tinrot To the contracted and ' ' • - - iustory can never appear a monitor teaching by example. Their little all of knowledge is centred and swallowed up in the present—to them the past wisdom---the futu: .ess ocean ice. a, c/a., Vl , 111111 or fancy assumes the rudder of their chartless barque. To the studious and the wise the pages of history have ever been the store-honse of wisdom. From those stores they have obtained rules of con- C.— i L inc present, and deduced precepts of gui dance for the f u t ure. B y them the vocation of the historian is held t o b e a hi gh one. They know that its requirements are numerous and varied, and difficult of acquisition. They know that, to an extensive and minute knowledge of facts, the histo rian must add a clear and ready perception of the springs of hu man ac ti on. That he must be largely with th e f acu lt y o f arranging circumsta n ces and c l assifying events--of analy s i ng th e i r pr i nc i p l es, and l balanci ng the results of their combination of reconstructing and comparing them, to test the value of his deductions, the truth and importance of which, experience will often show him, differ widely from the conclusions to which a priori rea soning would ha ve l e d hi m. These are only a few o the pre-requisites indispensable in theintellectual composition of an historian ; and to those enumerated he must add the capability of readily perceiving and lucidly recording the current of events , as that stream affects the positi on of classesand determines the destiny of nations. While attending to and measuring the relative bearings of this comprehen sive survey, he must follow with equal fidelity and care the steps of individual actors in the great drama, appoi n ti ng t o each circumstance, and allot ting to each character due place and fitting influ ence in working out the grand catastrophe. While labouring to phil oso phi se hi s theme, and reduce it to the severity of abstract generalization, the !Ystorian must preserve with faithfulness individual features, and by representative incidents delineate national peculiarities, and pourtray the form and hearing of popular institutions. In his principles, habits, and person, he must embody the stoic, the philosopher, and the orator. To secure the public ear he must enunciate his thoughts in sonorous eloquence, and while deaf to applause, must be studious of its acquisition—unerring in his deduc tions, he must carefully avoid the form of demon stration —seductive in his eloquence, he must yet be sparing of its strains. Whoever shall assume to himself the high prerogative of thus chronicling the past, embodying the present, and elucidating the future, must set himself above the influence of such reward as is conveyed by popular applause, and seek his true meed of approbation in the proud consciousness of having faithfully discharged the difficult duties of a noble office. If such and so numerous are the qualifications necessary to one who would successfully wield the pen of history, we are immediately led to inquire how far the natural talents and acquired habits of lair Archibald Alison fit him for discharging the onerous duties of his self-imposed task ; the ordi nary difficulties of which are, in the present in stance, greatly augmented by the comparative re centness of the events, which, crowding on each other, pass in rapid and often dazzling review, over the field which he has selected as his instruc tive panorama. Born of parents pre-eminent for genial piety, and nurtured in a family remarkable for its practical and extensive philanthropy ; a family, not less distinguished by its intellectual refinement than notable for sound religion, and the application of christian virtues to the business The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates of life, the f u t ure hi s t or i an was from his cradle Henry G. Bohn. tutored by prec e pt and trained by example to the This volume forms one of Bohn s interesting exercise of those fa cu lti es upon wh i ch useful in- series, the " Ecclesiastical Library , ' and embraces tellectual manhood depends. His father, the the history of the Church from the accession orCon eloquent author of the " Easay on Taste," a ge n - stantine in A.D. 305 to the thirty-eighth year of the tleman of scholarly refinement, a so un d di v i ne, and reign of the Emperor Theodosius 11.,—a period of a man of fine perceptions, early imbued his son one hundred and forty years. The time named with a love of the beautiful—a high appreciation will at once remove any misapprehension as to the of the truthful a n d th e just—and, by a liberal authorship being in any way connected with the re education, fitted him to discharge, with credit to nowned Greek sage and moralist, the prestige of himself and advantage to his country, the judicial whose appellative scarcely seems to have fallen on position he has many years held. His forensic this compiler of the Church's annals. . To the studies, added to his practice at the bar, rendered student of ecclesiastical history the volume will our author familiar with the means of tracing and prove highly acceptable. It treats of an impor weighing, and estimating the value of evidence of taut epoch in the affairs of the Christian Church, every class, and has strengthened his natural on which it throws much light. The volume is prefaced by a brief biographical notice of the through the deeds of men.", author. His indefatigable industry has stored his mind The Botanic Garden and .Frnfitist. London Groombridge and Son, with knowledge, which his previous mental dis !ipline has enabled him to convert into ready The December num ber of this elegant companion instruments for furnishing truthful deductions. it s predecessors The to the flower and f rui t g ardens continues the attrac- He has thus been prepared by discipline, animated letter-press matter is popular, a n d . th e directions tions so well advanced by by family prestige, and sustained by intellectual endowments, in pursuing the path which he had for culture simple as well as precise. marked out for himself ; and which, with indomita ble energy and unswervi ng courage , h e h as Orr's Circle of the Sciences. London and Liver followed till the plaudits of admiring Europe h av e pool : W. S. Orr and Co. acknowledged his success and hailed his triumph. Under the comprehensive title of " Circle of the At so advanced a period o f hi s success f u l career , Sciences," Messrs. Orr and Co. are publishing in a it can hardly be desirable to do more than advert very handsome form, and at a cheap rate, a series to that scrutinizing intelligence and clear sagacity of popular treatises on elementary science. The by which Sir Archibald Alison marshals, dissects, design of the publication seems happily digested, and exposes the hidd en mo ti ves o f political un- and so far as can be judged from the initiatory truth—unfolds the sources of commercial and moral number, the work, when finished, will form a influences of II valuable addition to our popular literature. the destinies She sees the mote in her neighbour's eye, but cannot dis cover the beam in her own. It will appear in the sequel of this history whether England in fact derived any benefit, even in a commercial point of view, from this great act of disguised aggression ; whether the cause of freedom and the interests of humanity were really ad vanced by it ; and whether the greatest calamities, public and private, its inhabitants have ever undergone may not be distinctly traced to its consequences. To aver that so great a task as that undertaken by Sir Archibald Alison, has been executed, even hitherto, without error or blemish, would be to affirm what cannot be sustained, and what ought never to be expected of any human work ; but, to state that by his European History he has earned for himself a renown, more lasting than could be con ferred by the dedication of statues, and which shall perish only with the language in which the work has been written, is to do no more than echo the general opinion of civilized man. To rejoice in the success which has waited on his labour—to wish perennial verdure to the wreath which encircles his manly brow—and to congratulate him on the honour conferred on him by his Sovereign, in token of his worth and of his intellectual powers, is but to ex press in weak words the loudly-proclaimed senti ments of his admiring country. To thank him for the additional lustre he has bestowed on the character of English intellect by his labour, is the duty of his countrymen. To ensure the resonance of his achieved fame will become the willing duty of their posterity. --- Criticisms By the Rev. John W. Lester, B.A . London : Longman, Brown, and Co. This is a very tastefully got up reprint, it being the third edition of Mr. Lester's brief but spirited commentaries on several of the most popular authors of the day, illustrated by select passages from their works. The criticisms are rather expo sitions of beauties than analytical examinations, and as such form pleasing annotations on our most generally admired writers. The specimens are well selected, and the remarks show a fine perception of their beauties. The volume being very handsomely got up in all respects, and containing as it does choice selections from the favourite literature of the day, it is happily suited for a presentation memento. - _ The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited - - by Robert Carruthers. London : N. Cooke. The third volume of this beautiful and cheap edition of Pope's works, which, through some inad vertence of the publisher's, we presume, did not reach us forreview,has just been published. Its con tents are almost limited to theDunciad, and the Essay on Man ; the last two pages being devoted to the " Universal Prayer." The first of these, the most pungent as well as the most elaborate of English satires, is profusely annotated, andonits preparation the editor has bestowed much pains, and no small amount of judgment, united to good taste. The volume is copiously illustrated by clever engrav ings, and as a whole the set, when completed, will form a beautiful library edition of the works of the °Teat English moral poet. Londoa capacity to reatnes individual ?f mankind Chambers' Edinburgh, Journal. Liverpool : Orr. It must be almost unnecessary to call attention to the merits of a work which speaks so well for itself. Established in 1832, it was nearly the first of the class of cheap periodicals, and it has since jud ginen enlinaticai nd unravels t rations as the of European states of the French—thy the Russians—thA tions of the German yet frank and op , to g et her with all which these recei tre, readily perceive wive intellect. 2 obea;,—, flipp'an i. t ardour , maintained its ground with increasing favour, mechanism of owing to the steady perseverance with which turbid specula- quality has been preferred to the mere desire for dv jealousy, excitement. Entertainment and instruction have been judiciously blended ; and, though sometimes its pages express opinions in which we cannot concur, it would be difficult to point to any other publication of the same class which can be so con- th e from hira the frown ( fractio n o f her lb; contains several interesting aiticlei, among which we may mention a description of the Crystal Palace perpetrate4llgl7ehests, whethe r such infraction l at Sydenham, the approaching revolution in agri amunciation of wrY °li riend or f oe ; an d i n h ur li ng hi s culture, how bogs are turned into candles, and the ghe is regardless of every con- monthly letter about things talked of in London. eration but its nicely-adjusted proportion to the offence, and the unerring certainty of aim. Evi dences of this impartiality are numerous through out his history, but we shall content ourselves with quoting the remarks by which he concludes the present volume ; they have immediate reference to THE FRENCH INVASION OP SPAIN IN 1823. No doubt can now remain that the French invasion of Spain, against which public feeling in this country was so strongly excited at the time, was not only a wise measure on the part of the Bourbon government, but fully justifia ble on the best principles of international law. The strength of this case is to be found, not in the absurdity and peril of the Spanish constitution, or even the immi nent hazard to w it exposed the royal family in that try, and the entire liberties and property of the ; —it is to be found in the violent inroads which fish revolutionists and their allies to the north of enees were making on France itself, and the extreme hazard to which its institutions were exposed in consequence of their machinations. Ever since the Spanish revolution broke out, France had been kept in a continual ferment : the second in succession to the throne had been murdered, and his consort, when enceinte of an heir to the monarchy, attempted to be murdered, by political fanatics : military conspiracies in great numbers had been got up to country the Spa the PY example of the soldiers in the Isle of Leon, 'Tied the government ; Paris had been convulsed by an attempted revolution; France was covered with secret societies, having Lafayette, Benjamin Constant, 'mud, and all the Liberal leaders in the Chamber of 4 ies. at their head, the object of which was to over government by means of murder, treason, and volt ; and a band of desperadoes had been collected on Pyrenees, under the tricolour flag, who openly invited French soldiers to fraternise with them, throw off the , f the Bourbons, and rally round the standard of throw th Napoleon IL When such measures were in progress, it was evident that the safety of France, and the preservation " its institutions, were seriously menaced, and that its 1 in taking steps to extinguish a volcano in the neighbouring state, by the ongest of all reasons—that of self-preservation. It is more difficult to find grounds to vindicate the intervention of England in favour of the insurgent colonies in South America, which was done in so efficacious a manner, and from the success of which consequences of such incalculable importance have ensued to both hemi spheres. Nothing can be clearer, indeed, than that when the colonies of Spain had become de facto independent, Ind Spain was obviously unable to reassert her dominion .ve were warranted in treating with them as and sending consuls to their chief .overnment was warrant( 0 peril over then. independ towns to guard British mercantile interests. If our inter vention had been limited to this, the most scrupulous public morality could not have objected to the course pur sued. But we not only did this—we did a great deal more, and of a much more questionable character. We repealed the laws against foreign enlistments ; permitted expeditions of eight and ten thousand men, many of them Wellington's veterans, to sail from the Thames under the very eye of government ; and advanced immense sums by loan, to enable the insurgent states to prolong the contest. It was by these means, and these alone, that the conflict was ultimately decided in favour of the colonies, and to mother country. The decisive battle of Cara gained entirely by British battalions and a charge of the Brit: What svl s the justification for this armed and powerful Was the freedom of England menaced by blishment of Spanish authority in South Confessedly it was not : the hope of commer , the vision of a vast trade with the insur was the ruling motive. But commercial .merica ? cial advantages, advantages will not constitute legal right, or vindicate acts of injustice, any more than the acquisition of pro vinces will justify an unprovoked invasion. It sounds well to say you will call a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old ; but if that new world is to be carved out of the dominions of an allied and friendly power, it is better to leave it to itself. England saw very clearly the iniquity of this insidious mode of proceeding when it was applied to herself, when Louis XVI. allowed covert succours to the American insurgents to sail from the French harbours, and the Americans sent some thou- Loudly denounced it when the Americans allowed an expe dition to sail from New Orleans, in 1852, to revolutionise Cuba; and she exclaimed against the Irish democrats, who petitioned the French revolutionary government, in 1848, to recognise a Hibernian republic in the Emerald Isle. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMINIERCIAL ADVERTISER. VARIETIES " ENTERTAINING" KNOWLEDGE. —*Ascertaining the cost of a dinner party. A REFLECTION (by MEcm).—lt is not the sharpest blades that are always the truest steel. THE PRESENT FASHION OF BONNETS.—A lady dresses first, and then puts on her bonnet. The bonnet is now, completely an " after-thought." IT SEEMS that " Fanny Fern," however enchanting as a writer, is not enduringly captivating as a wife. Her husband is understood to have found it for his comfort to get a divorce. Her lord having thus taken leave of her, a wag wants to know whether this leave is one of the Fern Leaves. A MATCH iron A JEW.—" We were remarking to a gentleman„ who was . affording us much pleasani and eneral information, how few Jews one inlet in New England ; and asking if he could assign any reason, he replied, ' Oh, yes, the reason is, that no Jew on earth is a match for a Yankee.' "—Bunn's " Old England and New England." DUTCH WOMEN.—The Dutch women, especially among the peasantry, are very beautiful. They are incomparably more so than those of any other continental country. That part of Holland called Friesland abounds with ex ceedingly handsome women. If the sex in Holland only possessed a little more vivacity of disposition and elegance of manners, they would be irresistibly attractive. " WOMAN'S RIGHTS" are decidedly progressing in the United States. A marriage ceremony was performed at Rochester, on the 15th ult., by the " Rev." Antoinette L. Brown, the female preacher. The Union says, " Those present state that the `Rev.' Antoinette went throu g h the ceremony with marked grace and propriety, omitting, however, all allusion to the primeval injunction." DIALOGUE ANENT SNUFFING.—The son of a worthy minister, in the kingdom of Fife, who was in the habit of indulging in a pinch, a few days ago addressed his father in the following terms Father, you shouldn't snuff." " Why so ?" said the other. ." Because," replied the son, _ your nose is not your own." " Then, whose is it ?" was the somewhat indignant rejoinder. To this the son most gravely answered, It's the congregation's !" MOTHER.—As an infant begins to discriminate between the objects around, it soon discovers one countenance that ever smiles upon it with peculiar benignity. When it wakes from its sleep there is one watchful form ever bent over its cradle. If startled by some unhappy dream, a guardian angel seems ever ready to soothe its fears. If cold, that ministering spirit brings it warmth; if hungry, she feeds it; if happy, she caresses it. In joy or sorrow, in weal or woe, she is the first object of its thoughts. Her presence is heaven; the mother is the deity of infancy. CALKELASHAZIS /FOR CHREA.SNAS.—(Private infama shan.)—Drop yer owd rich onts an uncles (if thare single) a few nice affeckshanat lines, abaght t'forend a December, uppa gilt-edge paper, an say, at yo hoape at there enjoyin good health, in at yol be moast happy if thale cum and spend Chreasmas we yo. An wal yer pen iz wet, au paper at hand (not gild-edge), just write anuther letter to yer poor relashairs, at's plenty a nevies an nieces, an tell em at yo sud be varry glad to see em az usual at Chreasmas, but yor sorry to say at yov a sad badly hause, an's likely to her for sum time.—Pogmoor Almeneck. BREAKFAST has been famed as one of the most delight ful of meals. And so it is topersons who meet one another in all the bloom and freshness of the morning toilette, but certainly not to those who come down stairs with all the marks of haste and carele&4ness—hair poked up in any fashion—gowns unhooked—shoes down at heel, or other signs of neglect, either in male or female attire. The consciousness of this makes the party uncomfortable; and indifference to it is accompanied with surliness or vsnamia bility. In nine cases out of ten,- a defect of character betrays itself in the dress, and we may take it as an index of the disposition. SITBSTITIITE FOR COFFEE.—Aspsragus,. according' to Liebig, contains, in common with tea and coffee, a princi ple which he calls " Taurine," and which, by the way, he considers essential to the health of all those who do not take strong exercise. Reading this led me tcothink that asparagus might be made a good substitute for coffee The young shoots which I first prepared were'not agree able, having an alkaline flavour. I their tried the ripe seed. These' roasted and ground make a hill-flavoured coffee, not easily distinguishable from fine Mocha. The seeds are easily freed from the berries by drying them in a cool oven, and then rubbing them on a sieste-Corres-- pendent of Gardeners' Chronicle. A SKETCH' BY LADY . BLESSINGTON.—" ShNdeseribed Lord Abercorn's conduct at the priory. She said it was the most singular place on earth. The moment anybody became' celebrated they were invited. He had a- great delight in seeing handsome women. Everybocry , hand some-he made Lady Abercorn invite ; and all the guests shot, hunted, rode, or did what they liked, provided they never spoke to Lord Abercorn' except at table. Itthey met him-they were to take ne , notice. At this time Mad dens of Warsaw was making a.. noise. Gad, (said Lord Abercorn,) we must have these Pbrters. Write, my dear Lady Abereorn.' She wrote: Art.answer came from Jime Porter that they could not afforiltheexpenses of travelling.: A cheque was•sent. They arrived. Lord Abercorn peeped at them as they came through hall, and running 11y. the private staircase to Lady Abersorn; exclaimed,' Witches my lady ! I must' be off,' and immediately started post,. and remained' away till they were - gone."—Haydon's , Autobiography. Low AMBITION.—The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. Be the cock of your village, the queen of your coterie; and, besides , very great persons, the people whom Fate has speeiillk endowed with this kindly consolation are those who' have- seen what are called better dihys—those who Ita liad-losses. lam like Caesar, and of - a noble mind; if I ceamot.livfirat in Picca dilly let me try Hatton Garden, and sea-whether I cannot• lead the ton there. If 'I cannot. talde -the lead at White's or the Traveller's; let me be president of the Jolly Sand boys at the Bag of Nails, and blaekball everybody who does not pay me honour. If' myalarling Bessy cannot go out of a drawing-room until a harorret'srniece (ha! ha! a baronet's niece; forsooth!) has walked' hetbre • her, let us frequent company where we shall be .the first; and how can we be the first unless we select our inferiors for our associates? IT 'ltis kind of pleasureii to he • bad by almost everybody, and at scarce any cost: .With a shilling' sworth of tea and muffins, you can get as much adulation and respect as many people cannot purchase' a thousand pounds' worth of plate and profusion, hired footmen, turn ing their hearses topsey-turveyland suppers from Gunter's._ Adulation! why, the people who come to-you give as good parties as you do. Respect! :the very menials who wait. behind your. sapper-table, waited at a. duke's yesterday„ and actually patronise you! Oh you siny spendthrift, you. can buy flattery for two-pence,- and you, spend ever so. much moneyy in entertaining your equal and betters, and. nobody admires vou!—The Newcomes, A fIAT'3 , EMPLOYMEN ST!' TIER. nreGINGS.—It early morning, and as yet the only labour going on bear& upon breakfast. The air is .perfumedi with the scent oC mutton, for -pans of chops are being-fried at every firer down all the miles of tent that line th:e river. Stretched; on the grass, with the pots oftea by their sides, and withi, huge cuts: of damper co - aered.with mutton in their fists,. the diggersbreakfast. As, the,sun makes its appearance over the- Wallaby Rocks.. the. .moraing meal comes to am end, and Lthe men walk.. off to their claims and cradlea;: the toololeft in the holes last nigidsare taken up, =dal:it a short time gold-hunters.: are fillikig.the whole place with noise. Those at work is the. claims wield picks, shozelo, and crow-bars ; others, who . carry mug/king stuff frotarthe holes to the cradles, tarot contirizall,7 backwards andl far wards.with the precious dirt, either contained ir , Abags hung-over their back or in .buckets slung by a yoke-from their-shoulders. These whose duty it is to wash the stuff so 'brought to them:are not less hey, and the air resounds with-the loud clatter •of hundreds. of cradles in NA play, Thssun rises brighter and higher, and its heat makes the severe labour oppressive ; last though the perspiration pours from the digger's brow,. good humour prevails,. and, tbe -work is carried on, with al. gaiety that robs.tbe really bard life of its worst fatigues, Occasionally, high above the rattle of the-cradles or the echoing strokes of the pick, and crowbar, rises, a, hearty laugh begotten, of a rough ; practical joke perhaps, or atm:lg shouted at thetop of the voice in time toll* movement of the rockers,. unlooses a. chorus of imitative longues all down the river. At noon, a general cesaatiOuof labour. Eight bells is struck upon: a-prospecting pan by some nautical digger, doubtless a, runaway sailtir, Natureis again perfumes with mutton;; ; damper, tea, and, chops ; are again consumed; On Sul/ally the atte mpt at cookery is generally more ambitious—a joint of meat baked in the camp oveuis sometimes.sab stituted for the usue fried mutton, and a plum-duff or pudding is. also a common luxury upon. the day otrest. An hour-at the most is allowed on wcrkdays for the:dinner and a draw at the pipe; labour is then recommenced. The afternoon, passes away ; the sun begins to east long shadows. When it altogether disappears behind a range of hue our work is over—the diggers,iu the bolas throw down their tools and take up their serge shirts ; the cradles are washed out for the. last time, and men in troops. begin to saunter to their tents, conversing as they ge on what each may have done.—Househakt Words. A STOAT OF THE 1-113017ENOT PERSECUTION —A husband and wife attempted to escape separately from some town in Brittany ; the wife succeeded, and reached England, where she anxiously awaited her husband. The husband was arrested in the attempt, and, imprisoned. The priest alone was allowed to visit him ; and after vainly using argument to endeavour to persuade him to renounce his obnoxious religion, the priest, with cruel zeal, had re course to physical torture. There was a room in the prison with an iron floor, and no seat, nor means of support, or rest ; into this room, the poor Huguenot was introduced. The iron flooring was gradually heated (one remembers the gouty gentleman whose cure was effected by a similar process in " Sandford and Merton ;" but there the heat was not carried up to torture, as it was in the Huguenot's case) ; still the brave man was faithful. The process was repeated ; all In vain. The flesh on the soles of his feet was burnt off, and he was a cripple for life; but cripple or sound, dead or alive, a Huguenot he remained. And by and-bye, they grew weary of their useless cruelty, and the poor man was allowed to hobble about on crutches. How ' it was that he obtained his liberty at last, my informant could not tell. He only knew that, after years of im prisonment and torture, a poor grey cripple was seen wandering about the streets of London, making vain in quiries for his wife in his broken English, as little under stood by most as the Moorish maiden's cry for " Gilbert, Gilbert." Some one at last directed him to a coffee-house near Soho-square, kept by an emigrant, who thrived upon the art, even then natlonal, of making good coffee. It was the resort of the Huguenots, many of whom by this time had turned their intelligence to good account in busy commercial England. To this coffee-house the poor cripple hied himself ; but no one knew of his wife ; she might be alive, or she might be dead ; it seemed as if her name had vanished from the earth. In the corner sat a pedlar listening to everything, but saying nothing. He had come to London to lay in a stock of wares for his were Norwich, where they established the manufacture of Norwich-crape ! Spitalfields, in London, where they em barked in the silk-trade ; and Canterbury, where a colony of them carried on one or two delicate emp' Loyments, suc as jewellery, wax bleaching, &c. The pedlar took Can terbury in his way, and sought among the French resi dents for a woman who might correspond to the missing _ . dead long since in some of the terrible prisons. But on hearing the pedlar's tale, she set oft' at once to London, 1 and found her poor crippled husband, who lived many years afterwards in Canterbury, supported by his wife's exertions.—Household Worth. " A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU,-SIR .' (PROM KIDD'S JOURNAL OF NATURE.) " A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOIJ, SIR !" will soon be ringing merrily in all our ears. It is a delightful greet ing—savoring of good-temper, good-will, mirth, jollity— happiness. We shall see, anon, all the good things of this world gathered together from the four quarters of the world in unlimited abundance. Our railways will be blocked up with hampers, boxes, baskets, crates, &c.,—all well filled with the choicest delicacies of the season. Carts, wagons, vans, and trucks; all will be full. We shall see turkeys by the thousand passing to and fro. Game, too, of all sorts. These will be changing hands with the rapidity of lightning. A vast multitude of other season able delectabilities will also be seen in never-ending supply; pouring in from one end of the country to the other. - And what are all these good iiiiiwfOii M WW3" are they sent in such lavish abundance at this particular sea son ? They are " presents," good people—remembrances of love and affection from one friend to another. Christmas is the recognised time for universal rejoicing—the time when young and old re-assemble ; the latter to rub off the rust of the past year, and the former to assist in the ope ration. Shyness now must be exchanged for a hearty grasp of the hand (no " two fingers" now !); suspicion for frankness; jealousy for love unfeigned; cold-hearted ness for true charity (which "envieth not ;") and the love of gold for the love of one another. Such are the proper elements for the enjoyment of Christmas festivities. And then—our parlours, our drawing-rooms, our studio, and sundry other snug "little rooms"—will they not all shine again—decked in the glories of Holly and Missel toe ! And what about the Christmas log, and the bright fire on the hearth ; and all the winter games, &c., impro vised and performed by our merry boys, and laughing, rosy-faced, innocent, giggling girls I Call we that nothing ! Hide your ugly features, oh ye cold-blooded, dried-up prudes, who would forbid our darling mother, Nature ! to preside at the season of Christmas. In spite of ye—God willing, " a Merry Christmas" will we have — aye, and a "Happy New Year." _ _ We have liveilliany years in the world, associated with the best company, and seen such professions of goodness as have positively made us tremble. People professing to hate the world—and yet living as if they seemed to care for nothing else ! This is the case with one-half the polite world at least, whilst we are now writing. It is this deception that we hate. Demure looks, and faces too feet long, do no manner of good—either to their possessors or to those who are associated with them. Our Creator abhors such shallow artifices. With Him it must be all the heart, or nom. Therefore is it that we so ad vocate cheerfulness, honesty, and an obedience to the sweet laws of Nature. Playfulness is not wickedness. People may be merry', and wise withal. We defy any one to say that a single word from our pen has ever had an evil tendency. We love society too well for that, and yet we are perpe tually cheerful and merry —trying to make others so also. lioni soil qui mal y pease I say we. So come on, young and old; and let us set a lesson worthy of imitation all over the world. " Let us kiss and be friends." In, boys—in with the Christmas bough ; and let it hang aloft in the centre of every room in our dwellings ! Bat now, friends, listen. Having drawn the picture of ore z happy Christmas, we must Loft a leetle further. Whilst we all hope to be "jolly"—feasting, playing, and keeping. up " good old customs," witi►in , ; let us not for get the' immense amount of sorrow and "want" that awaits he eye without. We see much of it; but alas ! real worth' hides its sorrows in its own BreaSt. ft pines in secret, and: tells its piteous tale to Onir " - who seeth in secret." Let lig, one and all, be the happy instruments in the hand of that Great " One," in trying to , make " some " helot happy' —P some " sorrows lessi. A certain widow gave. " two mites." We hear it recorded to• her honour. It is left as an example for us. We are' not indulging in cant ;:but we speak the pleasing feelings that now animate Gar breast. Let not any heart "freak!' that WE can " bind up." Oh—nu!' _ _ We would sit" happy" at the•festive board onCliriitinas Day. To feel "Happy,'' one nrrest have a clear coliscience: Let us then vie ►ith each other, and see wno 10411 feel . most happy. Sy, hurrah for Christmas ! and three Sheers for the delights of loving, and being loved THE CHURCH'S FESTIVALS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sia,—The festival of Christmas has always, by the Church universal, been observed for the celebration of her most solemn rites, the offering of her highest praises, and the decoration of her sanctuaries with appropriate symbols of her joy and gladness. Christmas is almost the only period of the Church's year which has retained a hold upon the affections of Englishmen, and yet I am sorry to think that the re ligious observance of that holy season is much below that of our ancestors, who, whatever may have been their errors, put this enlightened age to shame by the earnest ness and sincerity with which they walked in the light which was given them. It was an ancient practice of the Church to prepare for the celebration of her joyous festival by a watch, or vigil, which was generally ended by a midnight service on the eve of the feast : they were, however, discontinued, ex cepting on the eves of the great festivals of Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, &c., and of these the feast of our Saviour's nativity has always been so observed, even as at first the angels announced the glad tidings of great joy, " while shepherds watched their flocks by night. Why so appropriate and primitive a custom should have been suffered to fall into disuse amongst English Church men, I have never been able to ascertain, unless it has been because Rome has retained it, which is, if any, a very strong reason why we should have done so also; for it is certain that many Protestants are in the habit of at tending "midnight mass" on Christmas-eve, at the Ro man chapels of this town ; and to those who know any thing of the Romish system it will not appear strange that some of these, whose religious feelings are likely to be excited by the beauty which meets the eye, and the melody which salutes the ear, should be captivated through their senses, and, if they are not of strong mind, they are often led by Romish friends to compare the two churches from a Romish point of view, which, of course, will place the English Church in a disadvantageous position, and their faith in it will continue to be steadily undermined by the zealous and untiring emissaries of Rome. All this may and does often happen to those who are induced to attend a service to which they would never have gone, if an opportunity of attending such were afforded them by their own Church. About two years ago a suggestion appeared in one of your contemporaries, that the observation of the approach ing festival of Christmas should be commenced by a mid night service in our principal Churches: in only one, St. Martin's, did the proposition meet with a response: I attended that service, and though—for reasons I need not specify—it was not a popular church, the service seemed to be eminently so; there was about 1,500 of a congrega tion, whereas the average attendance at this-church was, I believe, about 300. Last year the Rev. Dr. Hillcoat, of St. Matthew's, Scotland-road, had a midnight service, and there is little doubt that these two churches being open kept many Protestants out of the neighbouring mass house. But why should the practice stop here ? In Lon don; Leeds, and other towns the Tractarians have for sometime revived this ancient custom, and why should we leave this or any other primitive and Catholic practice for the sole use and benefit of Romanists and Tractarians ? I for one cannot see the wisdom of so' doing. I would remark that the service used upo - n this occasion did always' inelude, if not entirely consist of, the celebra tion of the most solemn rite of the Church—the Holy Communion, with, of course, a sermon,- At the services we have already had in this town the usual evening prayers only have been used,' which are not very appro priate. At the' parish churches of Leeds. and Bradford, where they keep-the' vigil of the feast of Circumcision, or New Year's Jr,.a they always celebrate TholY Communion, and I hope we may also. see the same at some church in this town, on Christmas-eve next. If the Litany were used, it would ben most appropriate servicel. it, is evident it never was intended; to confine the use GP that moss beautiful devotiong composition to the morning service, bat that it may be seed at other times, at thudiscretion of the Ordinary; midi the. Bishop of London sanctioned the use of it at special evening services held' at several churches in his diocese;: during last Lent, and I feel sure our own good Bishop wad& sanction its use upon Christ- mas-eve. I trust that the above' , imperfect remarks, if by your kindness permitted to appoar . in the Liverpool Standard; may be•a means .towards attaining the object they advo , cate; and am, Sir, yours reapevtfully, A CHURCH. OF ENGLAND MAN. Liverpool, 13th Dec., [tlie‘ views which our correspondent urges with such moderatiOn will be readily responded to by many sincere• Churchmen, but a strong objection presents , itself,. which it will be difficult to overcome, and the' more• 90 on this occasion; from the day of the week- on' which Christmas-eve' falls. A midnight attendance at church in a populous town involves the• necessity of passing through crowded streets at a* time when, from the number of drunken ruf fians and abandoned women, it is neither prudent nor safe for' decent people, and especially females, to beout ; and these evils would be considerably increased on a Saturday, which is too often devoted by the lower orders to indulgence in dissipation; .after the receipt of their . wages. There are also objections from the injury to , health through , fogs, and the chills occasioned by sitting in neoldi,damp church.] TRW" ANGLICAN RACE: AND ITS CHURCH ITIE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER SEVIr37: Oiothe 7th of the 7th month a'holyobeervanee was ordained tolfite children of Israel ) who fasted 7days, and remained 7 days in tents. The 7th year was directed to be a Sabbath of rest' for :nl l . things, and at the'end'of ' l 7tranes 7 years coma meneathe grand jubilee Every 7th year the land lay fallow'; every 7th year there' was a grararelease from all debts, add bondsmen wereset free: From this law may haveorfeetilated the custom' of 'binding young men to 7 years' apprenticeship, and of ' punishing incorrigible offenders-by 'transportation Cr 1 twice 7; or' three times fyears.- Every 7th year the law was • direeted to be read to the people: Jacob servew seven years sir the posses sion of Rtfeliael and also another 7' years.- Noah had 7 days' warning of the flood, and . was' commanded to take fowls of the air into the ark by sevens, and the clean beasts by sevente• The ark tomfied'the ground= the 7th month, and days a dove was sent out, and again in 7 days after. The 7 years of plenty and the- 7 -- years of famine were even' foretold in Phareah's dream.by the 7 fat and the Ilean beasts, and tile Tears of folrand the 7 ears of blasted corn. Miriam was shut lip 7 days to be cleansed of her leprosy, the youngunimaLs were-to remain with the-dam 7 days, and at the- dose of the 7th to be taken away. By theead law maiewas commanded to for giVe his offending brother 7 times, lint' the •meekuess of' the last revealed religion extended' his humility and for -I;earanee to 70 times 7: "If Calir shall' be revenged 7 fold, truly Lamech 70 times 7." In the destruction of Jericho 7 priests -bore - r trumpets , . r days. (hr the' 7th they surrounded the walls 7 times r and after the 7t2Y time • the walli fell. Relearn prepared 7 Wedlock's and %" rams for • a , sacrifice ; 7 of 'Saul's sons were hanged, to stay a famine. Laban • pursuediJacoli Tdays' journey. • Job's fiiiods sat` with him 7 days and - 7 nights, andoffered 7 bullocks and rrams as an atonement for their wiekedness. David, iii bringing up the -ark, offered 7 bullock:land 7 rams/ Elijah senthis servant - 7 - times to-look forthe cloud; the ark of Geld remained with the Philistinesl:months. Saul was ordered by Samuel to tarry at Gilgalyrdays, the elders---of • Jabesh requested Nahash- the Ammonite 7 days':' respite. Jesse made 7 of his sons to pass before Samuel, the men of Jabesh Gilead fasted 7 days for-Saul,:.the Shunamite's son raised to life by Elisha, sneezed 7 - times ; Ff - ezekiah, iiecleansing thelemple, offered 7 bullocks and trams and Me-goats forr-a sin offering; the children of Isaac, when Hezekiah took away the strange altars,. kept the feast of unleavened bread 7 days ; king Ahasuerus had 7e chamber ' maids 7 days' - feast ; sent for the on• the 7th day. Queen Esther had 7 maids to attend' her; in the 7th year of his reign Esther is taken to hit°. Solomon was 7 years building theotemple, at the dedication of'whith he feasted 1 - idays. he the -tabernacle were •7 - lamps; 7 - days were appointed Mr an atonement uvonthe altar, and - the priest's son was oreleined to wear his father's garments 7 days. The children of Israel ate =leavened bread 7 days. Abraham gave-7 ewe lambs to Abisielech as a memorial for a well.. Joseph mourned 7 days for Jacob.. The Rabbins say God employed the power afauswering this number to perfect thoi'greatness of Samuel his name-answering the letters inn the Hebrew word;. which. signify 7, whence Hannah, his mother, in her thanks says, " - that the barren had brought forth 7." Solomon mention, 7 things that God hates, and that the sluggard is wiSerin his own con-. ceit than 7 men can reader a' reasons, The house of wisdom:in Proverbs had 7 pillars. The vision of Daniell was 7t,weeks. The fiery %mace wan,made 7 times hotter" for saedrach, Meshach, audAbednego.. Nebuchadnezzar ate the grass of the fields 7-years, the elders of Israel' were •74, the blood was to be sprinkled before the altar 7' times. Naaman was teazle dipped' 7 times in Jordan ; Apuldus speaks of dipping the head 77 times in the sea-for purification. In all solemn rites of purgation, dedication and consecration, the oil or water • was 7 times sprinAled;- out of Mary Magdalen were cast 7 devils ; the Apostles eltese 7 deacons ; Enoeh,,who was translated, was thelth after Adam, and Jesus Christ the 77th in a direst line.. Within the numbeenreconnected all the mysteries.of the Apocalypse revealed to the 7 Churches of Asia ; there peered 7 golden candlesticks, and 7 stars, in the. hand'of him that was in the -midst, 7 - leraps being the 7 spirits. of God, the book with 7 seals, the lambs with 7 horns and 7 - eyes, angels with 7 setels, 7 kings, 7 thunders, 7 thousand men slain, the dragon with ; 7 heads and 7 crowns, thebeast with. 7 heads, 7 angels bringing- plagues and phiabs•of • wrath. There are also numbered; 7 heavens, 7 planets,. 7-stars, wise men, 7 champions of ehristendom, 7 notes of music, 7 primary colones. Perfection is likened tee gold 7 - times purified in the fire. Anciently a child was not named; before 7 days„not beingaecounted fully tehhavelife before that periodical day ; the teeth spring- out in the 7th month, and' are shed (renewed) in the 7th. year, when infancy is changed into childhood. Ait thrice 7 years: the faculties are developed, manhood commences, man becomes legally competent to all civil acts, at feur times 7 a man is in full possession of his strength, at- five times 7 he is fit for the business of the world, at sus times 7 he-becomes grave-and wise, or never, at seven times 7 he is in his apogee, and from that day decays, at eight times 7 he is in his first climacteric or year of danger, and at ten times 7, or three score years and ten, has by the royal prophet been pronounced the natural period of human life, and the 7th thousand year is believed by man to be the Sabbatical thousand or Millenium, and on the 7th day God rested from his labours, after creating the heavens and the earth. AT the 4th of July celebration in Marion county, Illinois, a young lady ofilred the %Bowing toast:—" The young men of America—their arms are our support—our arms their reward." A LONELY ClivisrmAs.—After having finished his meal, he took up a book and tried to read, but the pages seemed full of the words, " Christmas Day, Christmas fun, Christmas dinner," so he pitched it from him hi a rage. Then he poked the fire, and sought to trace some thing in the fantastic forms of th e b r i g ht coa l s , b u t all he could make out was a large roo m full of company, very merry and jolly, whilst what seemed to be a figure of him self stood outside the door, and was not allowed to enter to participate in the fun. Ms eyes now fell upon a news paper, he took it up determined to read accounts of murders or other horrors, but the first article he pitched upon was headed " Approaching Christmas Festivities ;" he dashed the paper to the floor, and paced the room with hasty strides, feeling perfectly certain that there was a general conspiracy in tee world to make him feel his lonely position. At length he lit his pipe, and cast him self into a chair, and was gradually sinking into repose, under the soothing influence of tobacco, when up through the air rose the sound of Christmas bells, gushing forth i n a merr y ding dong dell, din g and to dong dell, which upset him completely,add to his discomfort his eye at this moment happened to fall upon some pieces of holly Mrs. Chuxem had stuck over his looking-glass. What a mockery tney mm—A.,nristmas iestway, lll deed ! Christmas loneliness ! he pulled them down, pitched them "Ah in a towering passion, "that etshcelaimfirel woman put them there to insult me, like lier impudence; I'll give her warning at once, hang me if I don't." He rushed to ring the bell, but ere he had reached it, he heard the street door bang to, and, throwing up the window, saw Mrs : Chuxem in her very smartest attire, ceedmg down the court, with laughter and happiness around them ; and as he saw them disappear round the corner, Jack would have given anything to make one of the humble, joyous party,—C4risfrnal . ,Day, and How it was Spent, (FROM JOHN BULL MAW' are the causes of discouragement which in the present` day tend to. damp the zeal of those who are labouringlor the • welfare of mankind;, and for the glory of God. The serkus dangers which, in. more than one direction,: threaten to. interrupt the peace of the world, and to .disturb the relations of amity in ,which it is to our and their''common interest that we should live with all the nations and , kingdoms of the earth ;—the various causes of dissension*. and' tendencies to.. disruption, which have. grown up inc the body politic:; . the consequent weakening.of the ties , which attach tuthe mother country the vast. foreign and colonial possessions of the empire, and of, the , bonds- by which the dfferent • parts of the United Kingdom are , cemented togsther ; and the fac tiousness of spirit which the conflict of opposite principles and,of autagonistia.class-interests has engendered;—the marked deterioration; of our social condition ; the relaxa tion , of the ties by which, both in domestic life, and in the : wider circles of scoisty, man hangs on to man, as well as. of the bonds of mutual sympathy and of moral obligation,. resulting from an-increase of selfishness, and from a mul— tiplicity of causes-and opportunities of alienation ;—last!y, most distressing: of all, the irreomeileable differences vs)aich have rent Christendom asunder, and have arrayed large portions eV' it in open hostility against each other, and against that truth which is the: only sure foundation of unity, as. well as, with regard. to our own Church , in particular, the spirit of sectarianism which has givere,rise to numerous separatist movements, and actual schisms, and which, within her pale, is constantly begetting jealous suspicions and,bitter animosities,-r--all these work together to produce a state of things most painful and disheartening to every rightly constituted, every. truly Christian mind.; In the midst of these discouraging facts it is not:a.littlC cheering to ilnd that the one influence to which a Christian mind looks,. as to the only source of solid improvement and of real;peace, is gaining strength in a manlier at once striking ant unexpected. With our readers we need not labour to establish the point that the principles of the Church form the only true head of union, the-only foun dation efi lasting peace ; noe r need we be at the.pains-of casting about for arguments toprove that to the Angl o race belongs, in the order of Divirie•Providencei the. high privilege of exhibiting the character of the Church, her doctrine and her constitution,. in these later ages ofthe world, in the form which makes. the nearest approach to primitive privity and integrity :: whilst to the sanae•race is likewise assigned the task ofspreading by its widely-extended commetee the arts of cbilization,inevery quarter of the globe, and of upholding. by, its infbannee and example the ascendancy of right; against might in the. political world. We cannot look hack to the history of this country without perceiving that she was greatest and most power ful at those periods at which her peoplewere religiously united ; that her seasons of internal weakness have been those at which the-nation was tom e by religious discords. No one can doubtt, that the dissimilarity of the course which the Reformation took in the northern and in the southern part of the island, greatly retarded the union, and still obstruets the hearty amalgamation, of the two kingdoms. Ne one will call in question the fact, that the neglect of the Church in the, sister island, in not car rying out the work of the Reformation, but allowing the old stock of superstition to spout afresh, and to extend its vicious growth in rank luxuriance, has been the main cause of all the calamities which have fallen upon Ireland, and of all the embarrassment* which she has created, and, continues. to create, to the Imperial Government. No ' one will deny that to the supineness and indifference of the authorities in Church and State, in making no promi sion for the planting of the Church in our transatlantic. settlements, the separation of the United States of America from the mother-country is mainly attributable. Nor is it possible to cast a glance over the present condition, of our colonial empire, without discovering the fact, that it is on that part of our colonial populations which is attached to the Church, that the greatest dependence is to, be placed for loyalty, that they form the link by which the connection of the colonies with the mother-country may be preserved. It is not only as Churchmen, therefore, but as citizens, as true patriots, that we have cause to regard with deep satisfaction every indication of the increasing influence of the Church of England, both within and beyond the limits of the British Empire. And that that influence has been of late greatly on the increase, in spite of many ad verse circumstances, is a fact altogether beyond dispute. Amongst ourselves, at the very centre, the asperities of party divisions and sectarian animosities within the pale of the Church have been greatly softened during the last few years, and it is not chimerical to hope that the next generation may enjoy the blessing of a united Church, undisturbed by the admixture of Genevan ingredients on the one hand, and of Romish elements on the other ; nor need we, considering the marked revival of spiritual life within the Church, be alarmed by the convulsive efforts of Popery and Dissent to impede her progress and to undermine her position. In Scotland we see the sister communion of the English Church rising afresh from the state of deep depression to which she had been reduced ; and her Irish sister is achieving the most astounding conquests over the darkness- of Popish superstition. At the very same time we find in all our foreign possessions and settlements the influence of the Church growing apace, under the fostering care of a Colonial Episcopate. And, to complete the pleasing picture, we behold the auspicious renewal of intercourse of the closest and most brotherly kind between the Church of England, and that branch of the Anglican Church which flourishes with in creasing vigour in the United States. Viewed in this light, the report presented the other day by the English dep - utittion on its return from America to the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel," is no less deserving of the attention of Statesmen, than it is gratifying to the heart of every Church:mat. It is not merely the promise of a more united, more consistent, and therefore more effective proateution of the .missionary TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1853• labours of the Church in every quarter of the globe,—the immediate object for which the deputation was sent out, — that renders the result of the visit paid to the American Church by four delegates from the mother-Church, so highly important, but the pledge afforded by the reception given to the deputation, of the active influence in both countries of a mutual sympathy in those principles and feelings which constitute the best guarantee of peace and amity between nations. Whilst for so happy a result we must look up with deep gratitude to the Supreme Author of every blessing, it were ungracious not to acknowledge the important service rendered on this occasion by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, not only to the cause to which its labours are specially devoted, but indi rectly to the cause of humanity and civilization, of " peace on earth and good will towards men." ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. A. Alington, 8.A., to the Roctory of Burwell, Lin colnshire. Rev. W. Atkinson, M.A., Rector of Gateshead Fell, to an Honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rev. F: Bachelei% M.A., to the Rectory of Ca'stock, near Callingtoti, Corntrall. Rev. F. H. Bishop, M.A., to the Incumbency of Grazeley, near Reading. Rev. E. Brumell, 8.D., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Holt, Norfolk. R v. E. M. Clissold, 8.A., to the Rectory of Wrentham, Suffolk. Rev. J. J. Cort, M.A., to be Chaplain of St. Michael's Church, in the Church of Engtand Cemetery, Birmingham. Rev. J. H. Croft, M.A. to the Vicarage of Timberscombe, near Dunster, Somerset. Rev. W. Dry, M.A., to theCurac/ of Barwell,Leicestershire. Rev. T. Everts, Incumbent of Prestwood, Bucks, to the Rural Deanery of Amersham. Rey. J. Fawcett, to be Assistant Curate of Lismore Ca the,' ral. Rev. H, E. B, Ffolkes, M.A., to the Rectory of Hillington, No, tolk. Rev. it. Fisher. NI.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Shaw, near Oldham. Rev. J. R. Hoare, M.A., to the Curacy of Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham, _ _ Rev. S. HOscgood, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Wayford, near Crewkerne. Rev. J. Winstanley Hull, to the Vicarage of North Musk ham, Nottingham. __ Rev. J. Jameson, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of the Pro prietary Chapel, Leamington, Warwickshire. Rev. L. S. Kenny, M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of the Parish Church of Lancaster. Rev. J. S. Lauder, 8.A., to be Assistant Minister of St. Catherine's, near Niagara, Canada West. Rev. I. Lichtenstein, ki.A., to the Curacy of Wheatacre, Norfolk. Rev. R. Pike Mate, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, and Perpetual Curate of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Wimeswould, near Loughborough. Rev. A. Matthews, M. A., to the Rectory of Gumley, near Market Harboroligh, Leicestershire. Rev, T. Miles, Curate of DrOmkea, to the Rectory of Tienoagh. Rev. A. Perceval, 8.A., to the Curacy of Horfield. Rev. E.. R. Pitman, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Pipe Ridware r Staffordshire. Rev. W. Proctor, M.A., Perpetua.li Curate of Doddirrgton, to an Honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rev'. E. F. Xambaut. A. 8., to the CUracy of Templemore. Rev. J. D. Itidout, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cam bridge, to-the Vicarage of Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Saulez, to the Incum-ben - ey of All Saint's Church, Islington. _ Rev. 'Vr,llT:Satith, 8.A., to the Curacy of Kirk Michael, Isle of Alan, Rev. H. Weightman, M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Emmanuel Church, Bolton. Rev. R. Whittington, M.A., of Trinity College. Cambridge, one of the Mastersof the Islington Propriettavy School, to the Assistant Mastership in the Merchant Tailors' School. Rev. W. Whyatt,. M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Mark's, Cheetham-hill, Manchester. MCESE OF CHESTER, PREFERMENTSd—The Rev. William ThOlTWANeiVerthaM has been licensed to , the perpetual curacy of St. John's Church, West Derbi,-in the county of Lancastir,•void by death of Rev. W. 11.-Tuer. Patron, Edmund , Mo/yneux, Esq. The Rev. John Davies•has been licensed to the:perpetual curacy of St. John's Chttreh, Smallwood, in the . uarish of Astbury, Cheshire, void, by cession of Rev. F. Twomlow. Patron, Vicar of Astbury value £lOO. ORDINATION.—The Iliihop of Chester intends tto hold his next Ordination at Chester, on Sunday, the nth: of March next, being the Second Sunday in Lent. Candi dates, are required to send all necessary papers to Charles T. Mt. Parry. Esq., Chester;. his Lordship's secretary,on orbefore- the Ist February, at the latest, after whichlday none can be received. THE Rsv. W. MAxwm.n. SMITH, 8.A., has Won lieensed by the Bishop of Sodor and Man to the curacy of Kirk-Michael, Isle of Man, on-the nomination of the Rent J.-Brown, M.A. Si'. CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London) assisted-by Dr. Lushington andi Sir James Patteson, sit ting as assessors, will commence' an inquiry into certain alleged abuses connected with the'above cathedral on the 9th-January. . THERE ARE IN ENGLAND, in. the gift of the crown, 2' Archbishoprics, 24 Bishoprics, 38iDeaneries, 46 Prebends, and= 1,028 livings : the Lord Chancellor has 899 ; First Lord of the Treasury, 103 ; and - the Chancellor of the Duchy of; Lancaster 39 in their respective gifts. Ous CATHEDRALS, the Athenreem says, seem to be walking up one by one, to a resumption of something like their old musical state. We are now informed that, for the•firsttime these two centuries- past, the full musical cathedral service is daily intoned by a competent and powerful choir in Peterborough cathedral. _ _ DIOCESE OF MAISCILEsTEB-Preferments :—On Tues day, at the Diocesan Registry, the Bishop of Manchester licensed the Rev. Lewis Stanhope Kenny, M.A., to the stipendiary curacy of the parish church of Lancaster.— Hiit , lordship has presented the Rev John Winstanley Hull, incumbent of Grimsargh, near Preston, to the vicar age-of North Muskham, in the county- of Nottingham and the diocese of Lincoln:. His lordship presents to this living alternately' with the Bishop of Ripon.. PRESENTATIONS VACANT.—The Reetory of Little Tey, near Coggeshall, Essex • value, £l6O a-year ; patron, the Bishop of Rochester.- The Vicarage of Yarcombe, near Hbniton, Devon ; £7OO a-year ; patron, the Crown. The- Rectory of St. George's, Glamorganshire ; value, £l6O a-year ; patron, L. Fraherne, Estu. The Vicarage of St Hilary, Glamorganshire ; patrons ; Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The Vieurarge of. North, Elkington, Lin colnshire ; _value, £2OO a-year ; patron ; . Rev. W. Smyth. Theirleprage of East. Haddon, Northamptonshire ; value, •£1.1130410-fear. The 'Vicarage of Berwiek.upon-Tweed ; value, £350 a-year ; patron, the Dean. and Chapter of Durham. 'The Incumbency of Great, St— Mary's, Cam bridge ; value, £l2O ayear ; - patrons, Masters and Fellows of;Trinity College. _ _ _ UT/KvinsiTT RzFonze.—A-letter has been received by the. Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, from Lord Derby, as Chancellor af the University, enelosing a com munication addressed to .him by Lord. Palmerston, in his official capacity, wherein. it is stated that her Majesty's Government have determined to bring,-forward a measure of 'University reform in the ensuing session, and that an intimation to that effect will appear in: the speech from the• throne. Most colleges have been occupied during some portion of the termin .preparingschemes for inter nal improvement. At. Brasenose a. scheme of a most liberal character hadbeen framed, with the full sanction of the late lamented. principal, which, was to have been submitted to the visitor (the Bishop. of Lincoln), for his approbation, during•; the coming term. At Exeter a general revision of the statutes has taken lace, and the.: changes are to be laid. before , the Nisitskr (the Bishop GE Exeter), by a deputation of the fellows'in the week before• Christmas. At Pembroke, even before the long vacation ; a plan had been, formed,. which was submitted to Lord Derby as visitor,. but •did, not meet with his approval. The cases of Trit►ity and New College are still before the Bishop of Winchester. Ralliol, though scarcely requiring any change, hasbeen making fresh arrangements in con nexion with the Blundell foundation. St. John's hae s iust entered upon, the consideration of what changes. are needed ; and Merton is said to, have framed a very: excel lent scheme, The colleges which have made no. move ment are comparatively few,—perhaps not above *o or three. THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS OP GREECE AI) ROME we may dass with great propriety in three successive orders. First, we have those ancient structures denomi nated Cyolopean, from the. mythus of Homer,,who attri butes their foundation to the sons of Neptune. These structures consist of vast and irregular masses. of unhewn stones,, put together vahout cement or mortar of any kind. The ruins of the citadels of Tyrus, and Mycelia', whiehareof this description, have remained in their pre sent condition f0r.3,000 years, and present- the most per fect( specimens yet existing of the militatloarchitecture of the heroic ages. The next improvement on this method has. been termed the Irregular Polygonal structure, from the circumstance that the stones are no longer unhewn, although no attempt is made to reduce them to the square. These lateral plain sides are sufficientV smooth to form a close joint, and the angular proportions of the one stone fitted the angular recesses of the other; and their faces. are cut so as to give the whole wall a tolerably smoothl surface. Examples of this secant/ class are common in the. Etruscan tombs, where, says. Mr. Dennis, these blocks are arranged so as to present their ends and sides in alter nate corners, in that style which builders denominate Old English Bond, or more vulgarly, " headers, and stretchers." The same description of masonry was used extensively by the Romans,, and seemed to have , reached its perfection in the forum of Augustus. In the third species of mural building-the blocks are laid in horizontal courses, but sometimes so irregular that none the hori zontal joints are continuous, but all the joint's are accu rately squared and fitted. Example of this kind of masonry is to be found in the celebrated Lion Gate of the ancient fortress of MyeenT.—The Builder, A COAST SCRIM—A footpath leading over the hill led them to the top of the promontory, covered with the finest green sward, and giving a view of the open ocean. To the right, lay distant Flambro' Head; to the left, Scarborough, with its castle and its bold lofty headland, and the mass of red-tiled houses lying clear, as it only some half-mile dis tant. But on the sunny sea vast numbers of vessels stretched from horizon to horizon ; all, in fact, traversing that great marine highway from Scotland to London which is perpetually crowded with a nation's traffic ; mer chant vessels ; whole fleets of colliers bearing coals from Newcastle to the metropolis, or returning for more ; steamers bravely bearing onwards, and leaving their long lines of smoke behind them; with the white sails of almost myriads of those butterflies of the ocean, fishing cobles, gleaming bright and sunny on all parts, near and remote, of the ocean plain. But great as was this view, the one directly under them was not less impressive. There the sea was raging against the rocks whi c h rose t o a consider able altitude. North and south extended the jagged and indented line of precipitous cliff, rent and ravaged by the storms of ages. A narrow neck of land ran out just before them, to which they advanced, and stood aloft, as it were, in the centre of this really sublime scene. On one hand the sea was boiling and sweeping in milky whiteness through a great cavern; on the other hand rushing like an assailing army into a circular abyss, which it had worn in the precipitous cliff, and leaping all foam on the huge ledges of projecting rocks, and plunging back in fury intoa the boiling deep. The whole mass of waters was _2 ll motion, like some vast and restless living thing , swelling, eddying, and moaning with a wild melancholy , or thunder ing as with a thousand cannon on the dark yellow walls of cavernous rock.—Howito 'Work* . qf English and Foreign Life, REV. F. CLOSE ON TABLE-TURN:LIM ' e UNDER, the title of " Table-turning not diabolical. d Rev. F. Close, incumbent of Cheltenham, has Pubhe"eth s f pamphlet, on the subject of the recent manifestations 0 spontaneous rotatory motion by tables. He sap s T e h t , i aenpdaoautr thereal h h a o v n e e b s t e y e , n c o e b r l g a i e n u s w e t il o . for " developments of powers, whether natural or supernatural, unable to account by any known or ascertained lads' which to us are inexplicable, for which we areut.terly, either of matter or of spirit. Beyond a doubt large tion must be made for imperfect experiments, for credeuir in some witnesses, and hypocrisy in others. But aft cac t reasonable deductions are made, enough of surprising ' the remains to perplex the wisest heads, and to puzzle most scientific. There are well substantiated facts r.T . nected with Mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, and Tatre turning, which yet remain to be explained and accounted for. It is true that some philosophical and scient d e al s i tNtis tn persons have attempted to sneer at the whole matter, all o with a scepticism to which they are specially prone are deeply read in the well•ascertained facts of egje ll , mental and practical philosophy, affect to treat all s, ; lle ' z exhibitions as delusive. This is an easy way of gert:ll rid of a difficulty ; but w hil e it adds to the f h u g • ee 00a complacency and contempt with which they are c it 'l ) 3 to look down upon believers in such facts, it unh a lTh Y o proves nothing, and is far from satisfying those either are eye and ear witnesses of such thing's or ha y ' received them on testimony of such a character that it would tend to destroy the grounds of credible _iteat; mony. Another division of this party appear disPe seu t attach a certain degree of credit to the facts, but sacral), to account for them - in a manner still more u nsatisfae„ ° 7j It is unquestionable that many instances may be aau, e d where tables have been turned by designed or uncles's' t muscular movements of the thumb and fingers, and a° the by any new or subtle power unknown before ; but, a s uc h same time, cases can be cited where such collusion, or , e unconscious muscular motion could not by possibilitl produced the result. Thus, when a large heavy tab° to moved about, at will, by two or three feeble and deli women, who could scarcely move it at all by the eiterf; of their natural powers, it is simply feeble and talk about about unconscious manipulation. Manipulatioil whether conscious, or unconscious, could not - do this la, doubt all. Surely it would comport more with the wisdom of science if a fact is admitted which cannot be explain eo upon any of the known and ascertained laws of m atter, to wait further results of experiment and of time to ratify, or to refute the facts, or to discover the hidden power by which they are performed. It is really sarPriai n g that in the present day, when discoveries are continuallY made in the world of matter, and new and strangM, eg; binations traced, that honest, honourable and 5eten,..,7 3 , minds should yield to such vulgar scepticism. Cre mw ao . 14 pitiable—but scepticism isnuschievous ; and there is' • occasion for the exercise of either the one or the other IP i the case under consideration. 'But how are these circumstances viewed by the r e ; rigious mind of the country ? For in this question are' more deeply interested. Mistakes in physical scier correct themselves, but speculativeopinions upon reeligons7 and moral subjects involve spiritual and moral quences of good or evil. Superstitron is the pious feel, misdirected er in excess ; and to superstition therefore,;4 ligious•people are more especially at an times prone. 1. .`"; will be•mom or less the case in proportion as the feelt of religion is or is not under the sober guidance of t.; written Word'. Now, those who have' watched the b , to and tendency of the minds of spiritual people during last twenty' years, will be prepared to expert that anythia; of the tvonful, or mysterious, will be readily receivedls supernatura and miraculous. The character of portion of our popular religious literature -during the w P: riod referred to; whether issuing from the . High Or 14 0 . Church pressAas , had a tendency to create-a morbid • pectation of wonders : undefined and ardent sPeeu le ,_l () % has been created; a disposition to catch at every TruThe event as the fulfilment of some prophecy, according t° ore private interpretation of some popular Smelt K e e - o f Table Turning, or anything else, the natural re,,,s'su which remains unexplained, is immediately imputea_Saly pernatural causes;' miracles just now would be Aifall welcomed and greedily swallowed, because they wow „apti' in with the bold prophetic speculations which are's° L ac y lar. There is, therefore; not only the old natural tfnut of the human mind th. , superstition to contend To w ' *es that principle cherishedland fostered by popular theorin; and the unprofitable, bemuse speculative, studies o f vu•-• religious people. " But worse than this; not onlyare such discoveries or title and hidden principles of nature heedlessly and consideration pronounced to be miraculous, but thei')e, ligious logic of too many carries them further; a nd be cause, according to their opinion no good object al m a obtained by these experiments, and because some persons may have made an evil use of them, there Vis they jump to the next conclusion that they are ei ce -of Devil—that they are miracles wrought by the Po r lhe the wicked one, to beguirc,-- and deceive, and bet raf 'unhappy children of mem- And pamphlets an d t r ay , appear warning us against witchcraft, and neer ovae _fm.d and unclean spirits, until we seem at once transP(*,.. into the midst of the dismal i temptations of St. A nth a o ; —and we expect the civil power to be called upon „t,A," terfere, and the Mosaic penalty to be enforced, shalt not suffer a witch to live i" per " God has never put forth miraculous pow cm's,. to enabled his people to exercise them, except to authentirf„,4 a• message or a messenger - from Himself : such p 0 ": ;, were more or less displayed from the calling of 3loses._ tNe Captivity in Babylon. They ceased with the clot,'pc7t ofThe canon of the Old Testament Scriptures for a,47. 400 years, were renewed at the commencement of 4., Gospel dispensation : they were continued during a SP._., O of one hundred years and again ceased abou t the tv,l when the canon of the New Testament w as com p letw, and they have not been renewed since. - "Diabolical interference in -the shape of material mmm a` cies, commenced with the first miracle of Moses,,M were permitted at intervals, until the fi rs t c essation 0 1 ,i: OltliCovenant miracles. Wllen the latter were susp enc r: Satan's miracles ceased :—eien the New Testament 0-not cleseommenced, Satan's revised ; and as in the case be those of Moses, were swallowed up by the greater triuniroj oftbrist. When Christian miracles ceased, Satan's 0e? 6 , 1 , 0 also—and have never been revived. At no period oi 1, 0 world has Satan been permitted to work wonders, when the power of God wrought them too. isc. o "'No miracles being allowed in this dispensation thenpostolic times, natural wonders should not be !,rrof buted to miraculous interference ; and since the 1)°, sit is the-Devil was overthrown by Christ and his apost,lisit° on many accounts as dangerous, as it is unwarral l " attribute the power of working miracles to 10 11 }'., 4 , 0rl present extraordinary exhibions should not, there,‘;:;.---- any account, be admitted to be properly miraealov they may be wonderful, and governed by un lol° ` undiscovered physical laws ' but there is no ren' e d for they should not one day be satisfactorily acc0.,.,0 laye upon principles of naturallphilosophy yet to be al „•en• Least of all should they be attributed to diabolical ;fele des, for which there is no solid ground in reason,.° for whole analogy of our Scripture guide is against . it ie ,* these sufficient consideratlens, we confidently asse' "THAT TABLE-TUBNING is NOT DIABOLICiaItte THE " THEOLOGY OF TABLE TIIRNING. "---°ll lssre elt day night the Rev. N. 'P Godfrey, Incumbent of„%' o re Leeds, delivered a lecture on this subject at the Dif y. square Rooms, London:. The rev. gentleman stont?3,- tended that table turning, spirit rapping, 0 , e : 1 ; 0 6 1;j . 11 ante were nothing less than a direct communi€3'l , the Evil One. The chairman, Mr. J. Bateman ,. 611 byr - e , that the meeting should conclude by prayer, °J ) ,.; was sung amidst great confusion. An extraerw, then took place. The chairman, lecturerl ai : : :_et: tr) : : ! of clergymen on the. platform made a preeiPitat — i s se .4 ,a amidst loud cries, for the chairman to, kee p Several gentlemen attempted to address ene,raeo'Zi t,'" a Mr. E. Connor,- was called to take the purpose of making experiments. He made sever %b the ordinary statements. The officials connected . 1 .. e f'r e. hall attempted to extinguish the lights, but boll; vented doing so, by main force. The bible 110;;s, tb ever, been at last turned over by the same . oi• Ada meeting separated amidst great confusion. 4 4, 0 Far he THE REIT.Dit. CIIMMINGiS not convinced hy ll ing„ , g test applies table-turning. Last Tnesdat e g g 10,1' 0 delivered adecture at Exeter Hall to, the " vg,;Vor ns . o Christian Association," upon the "•Signs- of "'„,„ - ot tr s , • Table-turning and table-talking heyanked am° signs, andihe said he differed flom , Professor , . s ori-7 te . explanation; inasmuch as from hia.own perso f ! i il n e e d ` ll l lg t tion he had found tables perform ver y eccetat:s°Bj,v countable. gyrations. In one case he had tab le , WittlocE be termed a conversation. with a answArect certain questions by- the usual owu e b i a l otr,, go ing, r The table in this case refused to , ans wer a r ea "on he litughed. (A laugh.) But he was not Pr e th e ins the-length of some writers,, who alleged tl ia ',,irits ° Awe% tint operation was that of demons, or the f‘ s io r o vieg e 'a the winked. In the course of hie lecture, Dr.' -sig .° reed ri d o' d dee at length upon the subject ofr propheeY , ,td 11? shoo years 1793 and 1820 as those in which _",,,Jao' si " that the downfall of Popery and Maholw— be commenced. _ HORTZCULii fiI giol; t. THE festive season, wil l close at hand, test tr taw ions for the gardener, A great demand vP,i`ithlig tl 'iii; to the —'4 supply arise or choice flowers for the ball roora an" `llo,ie, 0 dif our previous directions demand.been foil t supply our to be equal to the P"'• Ole o + a • havingn. „„d to the itg• best advantage, both with respect _ , ,-,lai ,1 they are 1 the r O oP It ' to make, and also the requirements' 0 ~ ,iat g 18 easy enough to gather flowers frorn P' t di;" covered with, them, but ‘if this be dono withe" 0 1 oa Of flowers, is the art of OW dis pld ment, tb,o plant may be utterly spoiled. gal e , fsve ti t . r choicest plants, especially camellias and azaleas,vt slior, rite winter flowers, produce the flowers on eF ol ie 1 ° stalks, and very close together, so that where °WY ,ore; or ''' ot wanted, it is often difficult to avoid cutting tw" vai t To avoid this, and also the unnecessary cutting' e t, a eS_ wood, which should be left to furnish blooms for t ;. 1:1' season, the gardener should not spare a little troll:clots} should cut the flowers with wry short stalks. a ll ., c us, °,, them with fine wire to short and neatly cut 51 ' 1 ,. lIP' . which he should always have a supply at hand : is eii , means the stock of blooms may be very much econow f and the plants saved from much injury. --,1 lail is " ° SINGLE CumESE Punt-mi.—Fine bloomini,,i) ~ the . this primrose, that will continue in flower threan,„. whole of the winter months, may be produced as noic /1 In order to obtaiu strong plants, the seed s hould 1 6 1 .d e s tor e not later than the first of May, in a well drain ~, e, 0 pan, in a light sandy soil, and put into a cool fir: 1 0 D e near the glass as possible. When large enouL a ld I ft pricked off into store pans the young seedlings si`,'„`",„_ 01, allowed a square inch between each plant ; w,'" 3 ' t° space has,been filled, let them be potted singles , ",°;ft issiiv pots, and as the pots become filled with roo shift a size larger pot, giving them their final shift into pots in the early part of September. The conl_r":0000 which I have found these plants to thrive beSt ' , al JO equal parts turfy loam and leaf-mould, sand. While growing, a cool pit or frame silits_ifitef best; give plenty of air, and be careful not to over Id them. Treated in this way the plants will lac in i l 'i;losse i , ji e the middle of November, and will continue au. through the whole of winter, and to be seen to a"..; ; to!':' they should be moved to the greenbOW OV onse' —Gardener's Chronicle. and a little Sticeo