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MAY MORNING. Vp with the morning, and up with the sun ; Night, with its dreams and its shadows. is done; The lilac's small stars in their thousands arise. While the garden is filled with their languishing sighs, I must awav with the earliest hours, To gather the May-dew that lies in the flowers. The yellow laburnum, the spendthrift of spring, I - low lavish the wealth which its bright branches fling ! Is rich as the bough which the sibyl of yore To chase the dark spirits of Acheron bore. Ah, yet, at the sight of its gladness, depart The shadows that gather in gloom o'er the heart. The violets open their eyes in the grass, Each one has a dew -drop to serve as a glass ; Last night in their shelter the Fairy Queen slept; And to thank the sweet watch o'er her sleep which they kept, The look which she gave them at parting left there The blue of her eyes and the scent of her hair. With his wings filled with music, the bee is abroad ; lie seeks the wild thyme-beds of which he is lord. The lark starts from slumber, and upsoaring flings The night-tears the clover had shed on his wings. The chirp of the grasshopper gladdens the field, For all things their mirth or their melody yield. The glory of spring, and the glory of morn, O'er all the wide world in their beauty are borne ; Forth winter is gone to the snows of the north, And the promise of summer in green leaves looks forth. The red rose has summoned her sisters from rest, And earth with the sight of the lovely is blest. I too will go forth, I too will renew My bloom and my spirits in sunshine and dew. I hear the birds singing, and feel that their song Bears my own heart that shareth their gladness along Ah, let me away with the earliest hours To gather the May-dew that lies in the flowers L. E. L LITERATURE. Boolis FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c., intended for review, may he left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. The Christiad. By Thomas Hawkins. London Shaw. Mr. Thomas Hawkins labours under the de lusion that he is a poet, and has produced an epic in nine books Which he very probably fancies is fated to supplant the great work of 'Mil ton. Without possessing a solitary attribute of the true poet, he has, like many another fool, rushed daringly in "►were angels fear to tread." His book is beneath criticism ; and, in consequence of its profanity, we shrink from even extracting amuse ment from its pages. That Mr. Hawkins may not charge us with unfairness, we take one extract from the volume, premising merely that it is neither better nor worse than most of the neighbouring passages : " Through Pandemonium Destruction sweeps As with a besom all the Wicked ; all The shuddering spirits and satirists of God, Put all before Destruction ; chaos last God helps, putting before Him ; gorging Hell, Made overfull, with ruin; all the gloom Of hell condensed together, all the fires Condensing drove on that mos► blasphemous rout, Unqualified in quantity and pain : They thought to fly, they more than fled; never Went they so fleet had God not added to All their own proper wings measureless speed Before what burnt, some ploughshare like, close aft, Hell like a little hillock overturned : Thus, altogether mass'd, his hold and fane, His shrine, his Throne and all, Hell ponderous went Before the wrath which all its entrails tore; Supreme revenge behind, upon the back Urging hell straight beyond into the Pit, Without a bottom." We trust the friends of Mr. Hawkins (if he has any) will not permit another pernicious work like the present to be given to the public. The Gospel Revealed to Job. London : Longmans. A volume of thirty lectures or sermons on the principal passages of the Book of Job, with ex planatory, illustrative and critical notes, by the Rev. Charles Augustus Hulbert, M.A., Perpetual Curate, of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire. It is well observed in the preface to this work, that little of modern literature is devoted to original works on Theology, publications on this subject being either re-produc tions of the valuable labours of past ages, or isolated sermons, in which the theme is necessarily but brief. In this publication, Mr. Hulbert has done good service, in devoting his learning and research to the illustration of one of the most difficult, yet most instructive books in the Holy Scriptures. He states that his attention was more particularlydevoted to the subject during a severe illness, and that he wisely resolved to employ the hours of convales cence in the study ; and though the execution of his design led to more extensive researches than he had contemplated, he persevered until he completed a work, which will rank among our standard theological literature, and prove of two-fold ad vantage, inasmuch as it will deeply interest the Christian student, and help to remove many of the doubts of the sceptic. In carrying out his design, the author has chosen for his introductory discourse the divine inspiration of the Book of Job, taking his text from Ist Corinthians iii. 19; and his second lecture is on the general scope of the Book of Job, his text being James v. 11. He then pro ceeds with the interesting subject, commencing with the first verse of the Book on the person, age, and country of Job, and, going seriatim through the several topics which a perusal of the book suggests, concludes with Job's repentance, accept ance, and reward. There is, perhaps, ncr part of the Holy Scriptures which has given rise to SO many various opinions and learned researches, as the narrative of Job, and our readers may therefore feel interested in the opinion of so able a commen tator as Mr. Hulbert. He says—" The Book of Job has perhaps failed of impressing the common reader with its true antiquity, from the place which it occupies, in the collection of sacred books called the Old Testament, next after the historical books, but it ought probably to be placed first in the order of time of the whole Divine Canon, if we except the early chapters of the Book of Genesis." In cor roboration of this opinion, he says that, " the date of the events recorded, and the composition of the principal or poetical part cannot be later than the age of Jacob and his sons ; for it contains no re ference to the Exodus, the Levitical law, or any of the magnificent circumstances of the nation and Church of Israel. The body of the work was most probably written by Job himself, in the later years of his prosperity, and in Arabia : discovered by Moses when in the wilderness of Nlidian, with Jethro, his father-in-law, by whom it may have been preserved. Moses added the first and second chapters, and the last verses of the concluding chapter, to make the work more perspicuous and complete." Having referred to other internal evidences, particularly the use of words and forms, to he traced to the Arabic and Chaldee, and the fact that the word Jehovah occurs only once in what may be considered the original work, whereas it is used frequently in the part attributed to Nloses, the Author says :—" We are thus presented with a work which has existed for at least 3,500 years, unimpaired in beauty and unsurpassed in sub limity. Composed a thousand years before the oldest Grecian historian, Herodotus, handled the pen, and when the Roman language had scarcely an existence. * * * While it is full of the noblest bursts of eloquence, it is arranged with the order of the logician, and displays the loftiest enthusiasm, tempered with the soundest philo sophy." To the general reader, as well as the student, this work will prove a valuable acquisition; and it is particularly easy of reference, as in ad dition to methodical arrangement and numerous notes, the appendix contains a list of authorities , quoted or referred to, a general index, and a table i of the numerous texts of Scripture which are ex plained and illustrated. I , HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, A MOST EFFICIENT REMEDY FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS AND INDIGESTION. _A captain in the mercantile service, who had traded many years to the West Indies, suffered for a considerable time from severe bilious attacks and indigestion, depression of spirits bordering on melancholy, a sinking at the pit of the stomach, and a continual craving after substantial food; he paid an immense sum of money f or me di cal advice, without obtaining any lasting benefit; and, ho w _ ever extraordinary it may appear, he was cured in less than six weeks by taking Holloway's Pills, and for the last two years he has not felt the least symptom of bile, indigestion, or disordered stomach. As IMPROVEMENT. — We this week deem it our duty to call the attention of ladies, housekeepers, and laun dresses, to the Glenfield Patent Starch, which, for domestic use, now stands unrivalled. The manufacturer has succeeded in producing an article which will not inju re th e fi nest f a b r i cs, while it withstan d s t h e humidity of the atmosphere and resists the lapse of time, retaining its beautiful colour and superior satin glaze for any length of time that goods may require to be kept. INo starch has ever been made of such superior quality, and none have produced a starch so pure and so beautiful in appearance. It i s the only starch used in the laundry of her Majesty, and th at of the leading nobility and gentry, and gives to all parti es entire satisfaction. We have also seen the process of ma nu f acture, which we believe to be carried on with great care, and in such a manner as to insure the production of an excellent article. The manu facture of the Glenfield Patent Starch has undergone very material improvements. We are informed, by parties well qualified to judge, that the Glenfield Patent Starch possesses properties hitherto, herto, we believe, regarded as a de s id era t a i n th e ar ti c le, viz., that it does not injure the texture of the linen, and that it resists the h um i dity of the a t mosp h ere ; and furt h er, th a t it undergoes no change even by lapse of time. These valuable properti es cannot fail t o secure for i t a favourable reception in the laundry, and also by merchants, as 1,500 of their number throughout . the country have signed a testimonial, de claring is the best starch they have ever sold. This is a sufficient proof of how this st arc h i s apprec i ate d b y th e great population of this country. We would respectfully remind our readers to ask for the " Glenfield Patent Starch," and to see that the manufacturer's name, R. Wotherspoon, is marked on each packet, as this is the Only gaiety in securing the genuine article, VARIETIES. "TWICE BLESS'D."—WhiIe wages rise, Chartists won't. THE INDIVIDUAL who broke the ice with his maiden speech, was drowned by applause. A VEGETARIAN HELP-" MEAT."—Steaks at tenpence. A MEM. FOR THE YOUNG-MATRON-MARKETER.— That provisions are never higher in the scale than when they kick the beam. " EARLY TO RISE MAKES A MAN WEALTHY," &C.— In more especial the man who is earliest in taking the " rise" out of the public pocket. WEALTH AND WIDOWHOOD, when united, are dan gerous things to encounter ; money, when in large quanti ties, may be called the " widow's might," as, in poverty, it is the " widow's mite." COCKNEYISMS.—Witness : " This here feller broke our winder with a tater, and hit Isabeller on the elber, as she was playing on the pianer."—Magistrate : " The conduct of the prisna' and his general characta' render it props' that he should no longs' be a memba' of society." SEALING-WAX.—The most careful persons will occa sionally drop melting sealing-wax on their fingrs. The first impulse of every one is to pull it off, which is fol lowed by a blister. The proper course is to let the wax cool on the finger ; the pain is much less, and there is no blister. How TO EAT GRAPES.—Few people know how to eat grapes. Some swallow pulp, seeds, and skin; others swallow only the pulp, rejecting both seeds and skin. In conversing with Dr. Underhill on this subject, he advised to observe the following rules :—When in health, swallow only the pulp ; when the bowels are costive, and you wish to relax them, swallow the seeds with the pulp, ejecting the skins ; when you wish to check a too relaxed state of the bowels, swallow the pulp with the skins, eject ing the seeds. Thus may the grape be used as a medi cine, while at the same time it serves as a relaxity, un surpassed by any other cultivated fruit. A❑ adult may eat from three to four pounds per day with benefit. It is well to take them with, or immediately after your re gular meals. CHEAP LITERATURE.—A few months since I was ap plied to myself to contribute to a new journal, not exactly gratuitously, but at a very small advance upon nothing— and avowedly because the work had been planned accord. ing to that estimate. However, I accepted the terms conditionally, that is to say, provided the principle could he properly carried out. Accordingly, I wrote to my butcher, baker, and other tradesmen, informing them that it was necessary, for the sake of cheap literature and I the interest of the reading public, that they should furnish me with several commodities eta very trifling per tentage above cost price. It will be sufficient to quote the answer of the butcher : " Sir : Respectin' your note. Cheap literater be blowed. Butchers must live as well as other pepel—and if so be you or the readin' publick wants to have meat at prime cost, you must buy your own beast esses, and kill yourselves. I remain, Scc„ John Stokes." —T. Hood. THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS breakfasts on a cup of tea and a rusk ; dines on a little fish, a cutlet, or a chop, with a biscuit and a glass of cherry and water. In the evening he takes a cup of tea. He suffers from an internal disease, and is obliged to be abstemious. Then what is the use of being an emperor, after all? With a table loaded with every luxury, with cellars stocked with the choicest wines, he is obliged to live as moderately as a man with an income of £lOO a year. He can make laws for his subjects as he pleases; but nature has made a law that is as binding upon him as upon the meanest serf in his dominions. He may put to death those who disobey his laws, but he disobeys with equal peril those under which he byes. A good appetite, and health to make its gratification safe, would be poorly exchanged for imperial honours. The best gifts of God are free to all his crea tures. The free air of heaven, the pure water that springs from the earth, taste as freshly and as sweetly to the poor man as to the rich. Exercise invigorates him, sleep refreshes him, the beauties of nature delight him as well ; and, in this happy country, at least, the power of intel lectual and moral improvement is as great. As humanity progresses, the difference between an emperor and a com mon man shows less and less.—Literary Journal. PICTURE OF A LONDON POLICE COURT.—The Beak seated himself, and for some time there passed before him a portion of the grim phantasmagoria of depravity, want, and brutality, which every morning surges up to the judgment -seat from the turbid sea of London existence. The wife, foully battered and bruised by her husband, came, as usual, and hardly raised her swollen eyes to deny his counter-charge of drunkenness and aggravation. The mother was there to beg the law to protect her from the child that robbed and kicked her, and the sullen and vicious cub replied with a lie of starvation and ill-usage. The baby was laid, all bones and bruises, before the minister of justice, to testify that a beast's dam is kinder than some baptised and married mothers. Vile women, hoarse and pert, told their shameless quarrels, and bared their flesh to show the wounds of nails and teeth. A brawny ruffian, his head and face seamed with crimson plasters, pleaded that drink had maddened him, and hoped that the blows he bad received before he could be secured, might atone for his having mutilated three or four officers. Children were placed behind a barrier, over which nothing but their shock hair and bright eyes could be seen, to be judged for pilfering, while the Jew fence or the marine-store keeping Christian, lurked near the door, to hear whether his pupils were to rejoin him at once, or after some whipping and imprisonment. A lithe-limbed pickpocket took his thirtieth sentence, with a pleasant bow to his judge ; an Irish beggar woman sobbed and howled frightfully during the hearing, and then flung a stone at the chief clerk's bald head • a maniac preacher announced his di v i n e m i ss i on , w i th hideous cries about eternal fire and the undying worm ; and a con sumptive gay woman in yellow satin and a lace bonnet, was bound over not to assault a brown and corpulent hag, who lent her the trappings for her dreadful trade, and exacted, in return, nearly the last sixpence it produced. Such were some of the " cases" of the day. Take a chair in a police court for one morning, and you will, perhaps, go away with a resolve to do quietly, and to the best of your power, the work which lies nearest your hand, but not to shout very much, for the future, when Mr. Sad dueee, in the Commons. boasts about this enlightened age, and Earl Pharisee, in the Lords, boasts about this Christian nation.—Bentley's Miscellany. A FRENCH WIT.—PRACTICAL JOKES.--YOU have had yours ; and mine is named Ganguernet. My first acquain tance with him was at Rheims. He was a complete adept in his profession, and, as a regul ar j o k e - p l ayer , master of all the tricks of his trade. Well skilled was he in the art of attaching a piece of meat to the bell-rope of a porter's lodge, so that all the wandering dogs about town would snap at the tempting bait, and awaken the mystified domestics ten times a-night. Very expert was he also at cutting innkeepers' signs in two pieces, and substituting one for another. But if Ganguernet was not the most agreeable companion in the city, still less so was he in the country, where indeed his presence, to me at least, was always a perfect nuisance. He knew how to scatter the hair, adroitly clipped from a brush, between the sheets of a friend, so that the victim, before he had been a quarter of an hour in bed, would become furious with the itching. He would pierce the partition between two sleeping-apartments, so as to pass through a piece of twine which he had cunningly fastened to your bed clothes, and then, when he found that you were asleep, he would gently pull the string, until the covering was all drawn down to your feet. You awake half-frozen—for Ganguernet always chooses a cold damp night for this trick—draw up the covering, wrap yourself carefully up, and very innocently resume your slumbers ; then Gan guernet, gently pulling his cord, again strips you naked ; again you are benumbed with cold; and when you begin to utter imprecations in the dark, his detestable voice is heard bawling through the hole, " What a capital joke !" There was one of his tricks which appeared to me to be truly abominable. He played it upon a person reputed to be a brave man, but who was nevertheless horribly frightened. One night, after getting snugly into bed, this gentleman felt something cold and slimy alongside of him; he touched it with his foot; it seemed a round elongated body ; he placed his hand upon it ; it was a serpent coiled upon itself! In an ecstacy of terror, he leaped from the bed with a cry of disgust and horror, when Ganguernet made his appearance, shaking his fat sides, and roaring out, "What a capital joke!" It was an eel-skin filled with water that had caused the panic. The enraged gentleman would have broken the head of the joker, but Ganguernet, throwing a pitcher of water over the sans-culotte sufferer, made his escape, yelling out at the top of his voice, " A capital joke I—a capital joke !"—Frona the French. To THOSE ABOUT TO MARRY.—THINGS TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT.—" Give my consent, sir ! Why you must be mad to ask such a thing ! Pray, sir, what is the amount of your annual income ?"—" One hundred a year, Sir, at present."—" Precisely so. One hundred a year! Now, sir, would you like to see my last quarter's bill ?" —" I really don't see, my good sir, begging your pardon, what it can have to do with the question."—" Don't you, indeed, young gentleman ? Then I beg to tell you it has everything to do with the question. If you were to marry my daughter, which you won't, you know you would have to provide her with beef and mutton. Yes, sir, with beef and mutton. No doubt you think she could live on air and love, but you're quite mistaken. She has a capital appetite of her own, and I don't know a girl who makes a larger hole in a leg of mutton at one sitting than herself.' —" But really, my dear Mr. Nobbs —"—" Now don't interrupt me, young gentleman. Of course its very disgusting to hear of a young lady eating beef and mutton, and running up the items of a butcher's bill, isn't it ? But its a matter of fact, sir ; and fact is what you have to live by and not romantic nonsense. Now I tell you that my last quarter's butcher's bill—its paid, mind you —was £22 3s. Bd. That's at the rate of £BB odd per annum. Now I'll allow you and my daughter to consume only one-third of that, and then you are with nearly £3O to pay for your butcher's meat alone. Rather a large slice out of the £lOO, I think."—" I never ex pected that my present income would suffice for us, sir, but I thought—"—" Oh, yes, I understand you. You thought that my daughter had a rich father, but she hasn't. You thought that he'd allow you both enough to live on, but he won't. Wh a t nex t, sir."—" I hope in time to increase my own income, sir."—" Very likely. Your employer gives you £lOO a-year now :if you behave your self properly, which I don't doubt, he will perhaps give you £l2O a-year or two hence; and if still you live steadily by the time you are gray, it's not improbable you may have £2OO a-year for your income. H aven ' t I stated the Not quite, s i r , I t hi n k . You make exertions and ende avours to get some n tl o ie a c ll a o s w e a f n a c ir e ly for my more profitable employment than I now have; but since ' you seem determined to weigh your dau g ht er ' s h appiness magyainst good sme,oreumngonge gentleman. t talk n onsense, an. Now pray don Whether you are going to give me a speech out of a novel or a poem I don't know, but I do know that novels and poetry are all rubbi s h. Find me out a fair substitute for money and I'll weigh my daughter's happiness against that; and if you should possess this unknown substitute, my daughter is at your service. But so long as people want bread, meat, houses, clothes, tea and sugar, to say nothing of luxuries, and so long as money alone can purchase these necessary items, I shall consider money the grand essential of life, and that " The rest is all but leather or prunello." You se e I have read poetry in spite of my prosy views of love and matrimony. And now, my good sir, I wish you good day ; and I strongly advise you to stick to your desk and forgetthat there is such a person as Miss Julia Nobbs." And so saying, Mr. Jacob Nobbs bowed out Mr. Valen tine Sapley Ajinellany, CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that be does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. DAMAGE BY NOXIOUS VAPOURS. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,-At intervals during the last few weeks, the vapour or gas from the numerous copper and alkali works at and near St. Helen's have done great and serious damage to the bloom on the fruit trees, burnt and otherwise damaged our young and promising clover ; and, in some localities, the wheat has been completely withered. 1 wish, therefore, being one amongst the many sufferers, that these manufacturers would endeavour to condense more thoroughly; and thus save them selves such exposures as these, and confer incalculable bles sings on many who have for years been too quiet sufferers. Could the landlords and farmers not unite and form them selves into a sort of protection society, whereby they might recover all their losses similar to other trades ?—Waiting to hear from some one more able to explain than your obedient servant, A RUSTIC SUFFERER. Parr, near St. Helen's, May 20, 1853 . THE BIRKENHEAD ELECTIONS. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—You know enough of the natural history of the cuckoo, whose monotonous note we are daily hearing, to be well aware that it is either too lazy or too unskilful to build its own nest, but is not too honest to appropriate that of some other bird to its own purpose, when it gets the chance. I find, on reading an address issued by Mr. Carmichael to the ratepayers of Birkenhead, that he promises, among other fine things, to " urge forward by every possible means the contract entered into with Messrs. Brassy and M'Cormick, for the building of the outer-works of the Docks." Now, this promise comes from that Red party, that might—if they could, or, perhaps, better if they would—have negotiated it on some such arrangement six years since, but did not I Perhaps they are not to blame ; it may be they could not find any parties capable and willing at the same time. This is their misfor tune ; but to adopt the cuckoo style of appropriating, as Mr. Carmichael does, the nest that others have taken so much time and labour to construct, and quietly sit down in it without having the decency to state that it was built by the birds he is trying to thrust out, is too much ; and the Red list gentle men, perhaps, would not like to be called the cuckoo comm's sioners, but that they have earned the title, should they be elected, seems very clear to your obedient servant, TRUE BLUE. ROMISIT CONTROVERSY. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Several placards have been posted upon the walls, headed "Challenge to the Parsons," requesting the attendance of several gentlemen to defend their Protestant principles at a large Catholic meeting (wrongly so called) at a room in Circus street. So, giving the parties credit for their desires of en lightenment, I attended one of their meetings on Tuesday night, with the intention of refuting any doctrinal errors they might advance of their own Church ; but, after patiently wait ing from eight o'clock until ten o'clock (during which time two of their own speakers monopolised the whole of it), I endea voured to open out the subject, but as soon as I touched upon the erroneous part of their statements, they immediately rose en masse and bellowed me down. They refused to hear, and, by their conduct on this occasion, convinced me more than ever that Romanists are the greatest enemies of civil and religious liberty in the world.—Yours, respectfully, A PROTESTANT LAYMAN. We have been requested to insert the following : TO MR. J. MACDONALD. S I have read the correspondence which has taken place between you and several of our clergy. It is quite evident now that they will not condescend to meet an unauthorised layman ; but I am sure there are plenty of laymen in Liverpool able to meet you; but as hitherto none has come forward, and as you have thrown down the gauntlet, and sounded your challenge, and are only waiting the encounter of a " foeman worthy of your steel," and though I claim not for myself so distinguished a title, yet sooner than so valorous a champion should be disap pointed, I am ready to meet you upon one condition ; that is, that you produce a certificate from your priest that you are a respectable person, and competent to enter upon a theological discussion : I will produce a similar one from my clergyman; and undertake to prove:— Ist. That your church is not the church of Christ, but the apostacy of the latter times. - 2nd. That your priests are " blind leaders of the blind;'' that they neither know the truth nor preach it. 3rd. That your doctrine of transubstantiation "is repugnant to the plain words of scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and bath given occasion to many superstitions." 4th. That your doctrine of the mass" is a blasphemous fable, and a dangerous deceit." sth. That your purgatory is a " fond thing, vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but r ntber re pugnant to the Word of God." 6th. That your invocation of saints and angels "is idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians." If you are in earnest in this matter, and really wish to bring your doctrines to the test of Scripture, I shall he prepared to name two respectable persons, who will meet two friends of yours, to arrange the preliminaries. Waiting your reply, I am, your obedient servant, EDWARD RATCLIFFE. 5, Moira-street. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1853. LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE MEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. THE ancient and beautiful Church of Sefton, in this neighbourhood, contains several brass rubbings, and among them those of Sir William Molyneux and his two wives. He was an ancestor of the present Earl of Sefton, and died in 1548, or in the beginning of the reign of Edward VI. When the brasses were in a perfect state, the arms of the knight were above his head, and those of each wife over hers ; while an elaborate achievement, containing twelve quarterings, showed as many families of distinction whose blood and representation he had inherited. At the bottom is an inscription, from which we learn that William Molineux, soldier (miles not eques), Lord of Sefton, was three times engaged in battle during the reign of Henry VIII. ; on each occasion he bore himself bravely, but especially at Flodden, where, with his own hand, he captured and bore away two standards from the Scots, though he was valiantly opposed. There is nothing particular in the arrangement of the dress of the ladies, but there is something deserving of marked attention in the appearance of the knight. Instead of being represented in the costume of his own time, which was the plan usually followed, he is in that of an age from two to three centuries older. On the breast is borne the cross-mollac, with which the name "Molineux" is con- nected ; a circumstance of itself very unusual. The head is covered with a coif of ringed mail of the time of Henry 111. or Edward I. ; and, apparently, the same article shows itself underneath the breastplate,—reaching to his knees. The question naturally occurs, how is it that he was so equipped, for there is reason to believe that the figure represents the actual armour which he wore ? It is thought that this was his armour on the most eventful day of his life, the day of the battle of Flodden Field, in September, 1513. This view is corroborated by the fact that the monumental brass originally contained the re presentation of the two pennons which he bore away, and which are mentioned in the inscription. It is supposed, therefore, that he was hastily summoned to the mustering by Sir Edward Stanley ; and that, coming from the ban quet or the hunting field, he rushed to horse in the ar mour that came most readily to hand. There would be various suits of various ages ; for it is recorded of " The Fine Old English Gentleman," that His walls so good were hung around with pikes, and swords, and bows ; and probably this very suit had seen good service, while protecting the person of some of his distinguished ances tors. The victory at Flodden was so important, and is so intimately connected with many families in this part of the country, that it may be well to say a few words re specting it, in connexion with this subject. King Henry VIII., who ascended the throne in 1509, was in 1513 at Tourney, in France, when his brother-in law, King James IV. of Scotland, entered England. The Earl of Surrey, who was afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was entrusted by the King with the command of the army against the Scots ; but it was very unequal in numbers, and raised almost exclusively from the northern counties. The English minstrel says that the Scotch army was 100,000 strong, and that the English amounted to 23,000 ; but there is no probability that there was such a great disparity of numbers, Lindsay of Pitscottie says there were 50,000 on the English side, and only 20,000 on that of the Scottish King, the rest having returned home. One account states that Lancashire contributed 1,000, and another says that the two shires on the banks of the Mersey sent 10,000. The former is probably the true account. These were led on by Sir Edward Stanley, a younger son of the first Earl of Derby, the earl himself being with the King in France. It is generally admitted that the Cheshiremen were practically beaten in the fight, but that their companions assisted them ; Sir Walter Scott, in his death-scene of Marmion, giving a fair view of the occurrences. But, at a subsequent and critical moment, the archers of Lancashire and Cheshire turned the tide of the battle, and thus secured the liberties of England, while they influenced in a most important manner the destinies of Scotland. The story has been told in numerous ballads and poems, the principal of which have been collected by Weber and other editors. In modern times, Sir Walter Scott has associated the facts of the battle with the fortunes of an individual, and ordinary readers are familiar with the poem of 3farmion. But comparatively few are acquainted with the older poems, though they contain numerous passages of extreme interest. The arming for the fight is characteristic of the times. Some made mallets of lead and bound them round with iron; some made helmets, or ground the points of their halberts ; others polished their battle-axes or bills, or formed rude lances and sharpened " pike-forks." The task of turning the sword into a ploughshare was in verted, and men made head-pieces out of the irons of their ploughs. The enumeration of Stanley's men is so interesting locally, that it deserves to be quoted entire. The reader will observe the alliteration in each of the verses : Most liver lads in Lonsdale bred, With weapons of unwieldy weight ; All such as Tatham Fells had fed Went under Stanley's streamer bright. From Bolland bill-men bold were boun, With such as Botton banks did bide ; From Wharemoore up to Whittington, And all to Weaning water side. From Silverdale to Kent sand-side, Whose soil is sown with cockle shells; From Cartmel eke and Conny side, With fellows fierce from Furney's fells. All Lancashire, for the most part, The lusty Stanley stout did lead— A stock of striplings, strong of heart, Brought up from babes with beef and bread. From Warton unto Warrington, From Wigan unto Wiresdale, From Wedicar to Waddington, From old Ribchester to Ratchdale. From Poulton and Preston with pikes They with the Stanley forth stout went; From Pemberton and Pilling Dikes, For battle bill-men bold were bent. With fellows fresh and fierce in fight, Which Horton fields turned out in scores ; With lusty lads, liver and light, Front Blackburn anti Bolton-i'-the-Moors With children chosen from Cheshire, In armour bold for battle drest ; And many a gentleman and squire Were under Stanley's streamers prest. It appears, from an allusion, that the slogan, or battle cry, of Stanley was " Stanley Stout ;" every principal clan or important mustering having such a slogan at the period. The movement of Stanley's men consisted in their climbing up the steep side of a hill, so that they could throw themselves with great physical force, and with a tremendous discharge of arrows, upon their antagonists. In ascending the hill they were forced to creep on all-fours ; some leaving their boots at the bottom, and others throwing the shoes from their feet, " that toes might take the better hold." The result of the battle is well known. The Scotch king was killed, and his subjects tried to fix blame upon some of his nobles, instead of upon their headstrong master himself. It was even said th a t h e h a d escape d , and some believed for years that he did not fall in the fight ; but in the " Letters illustrative of English His tory," published by Sir Henry Ellis, there is one from Queen Catharine to Henry VIII., mentioning that the coat, as well as the sword and dagger of James, had been brought to London. The desolation of certain parts of Scotland by this disastrous battle is well known ; the young men of Ettrick Forest, for example. were nearly all cut off. The beautiful ballad, entitled " The Flowers of the Forest," published in Sir Walter Scott's " Minstrelsy of the Border," alludes to this fact, each stanza concluding with the pathetic burden— " The flowers of the forest are a' wede awae " (weeded out.) False intelligence was, in the first instance, sent to the king in France, alleging that Lancashire and Cheshire had behaved badly, and that Stanley, their leader, bad disgraced himself. Sir Ralph Egerton and others de fended them, but the grief of the " King of Man was excessive. Next day, however, a true message arrived from the queen, which set aside that caused by the Earl of Surrey's jealousy. In Lord Derby's distress, he bids adieu to the persons and places most dear to him, some of which are interesting. " Lancaster, that lytill tovvne ;" " Latham, that bright bower, which nine towers beareth on high ;" " Knoweslay, that lityll tower;" " Tokestaffe, that trustie park, and the fair river that renneth there beside ;" and " boide Byrkenhead, where he was borne," to which he gave the " tythe of Beeston trulye." He also takes leave of Westchester (Chester), and the Water gate, West Harden, Hope and Hope's Dale, and Mouldes Dale. While in this mood, a young man, called James arcie, ran to him for protection ; at the hour of supper the soldiers had taunted him with the supposed cowardice of Lancashire and Cheshire, and he " sticked two and wounded three." He was tried by the king on the spot, and pardoned ; hut a proclamation was made at the same time that whoever rebuked Lancashire or Cheshire should have his judgment on the next tree. The minstrel, who probably wrote in the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, con cludes thus : " Nowe, God, that was in Beathleam born, And for vs dyed vpon a tree, Save our nowble prynces that weareth the crowne, And have mercy on the Earle's sovle of Derby." A few words in conclusion. Three centuries and a half have passed, and a monarch, who unites the blood both of the Scottish and English royal lines, rules on both sides of the border. The sword has become a ploughshare; and the descendants of Scottish knights, who found a grave with their people at Flodden, are proud and happy to sympathise with the men of the palatine counties, and are as jealous for their honour as the children of the soil. But though the people of our own island are one in heart and interest at present, it is well to revert to the troublous times of the past. What- ever we may say of the aggressors, let us honour the memory of the stout-hearted patriots; and while we re- cord their gallant deeds, let us learn to imitate them in similar circumstances. There was, lately a little cloud, like a man's hand, rising in the south, beyond the chan- nel, which may even yet be the forerunner of a storm ; but if the battle of Hastings must ~ befought again, the story of it shall be told, like that of Flodden or'of nut: nocfiburn In the centuries that have passed, our island Empire has been consolidated at home and extended abroad, yet the two counties of Lancashire and Cheshire have in- creased instead of diminished in relative importance. Lancashire alone outnumbers Middlesex in population, and the two together will probably in after years equal the whole of Scotland. NOr is their importance limited to mere numbers ; that is one of the smallest elements in the calculation. Two prominent parties in the state are both identified with this one shire ; and, to use the lan- gunge of the law, the cross case recently tried before the supreme court was, Manchester versus Knowsley, Knows. ley versus Manchester, 'Our own neighbourhood, too, modern as it is, has links of interest that connect us with the past ; for the Hall of Speke contains the trophy of Novre's, and the church at Sefton proclaims the prowess of Alolyneux. It is inte resting, too, to trace a stream of noble blood, pure and distinct, amid centuries of change ;—to fellow it like a TO MR. E. RATCLIFFE Sin,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communica tion, and to thank you for your condescension in being willing to meet "an unauthorised layman." Your condition is so modest, and pretensions so diffident, that I fail in terms to convey an idea of my admiration. But I do not presume to enter into a discussion with "so valorous a champion," and so learned a divine, who is not only prepared to prove "that the Church of Rome is not the Church of Christ," bet that various of her doctrines are superstitious, blasphemous, and idolatrous. Sincerely sorry that you cannot find a " foeman worthy of your steel,"—l am, Sir, your humble servant, 67, Combermere-street, JOHN MACDONA LD. Toxteth-park. THE MEETING IN CIRCUS-STREET. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—l attended a meeting held by Romanists, in Circus street School-room, on Tuesday evening last, the 17th instant, in consequence of Mr. Macdonald's challenge. Three persons occupied the time of the meeting until ten o'clock, reading the correspondence in the newspapers, and making garbled state ments respecting what Dr. 3.l`Neile and others had said as to Romish priests and Romanism ; but little, very little, indeed, upon the subject for which the meeting was called, viz., to consider the errors taught in the Church of England. What was stated was not of much importance, and which could easily have been answered if fair play had been given. A gentleman complained of the unfairness of the proceed ings, in occupying the time of the meeting to that late hour. Immediately a storm was raised; all was commotion, shouting, bowling " Go up to the platform —up to the platform." He refused, on the ground that it was too late to begin to answer the previous speakers ; but the storm continuing, the gentleman was forced up, and began by noticing that the Rev. S. Minton had offered .. - 1000 to Mr. Macdonald, or any other person, who could adduce satisfactory proof that a Romish priest was a priest according to the doctrines of his own church. This was received with laughter and shouts, saving it had been done, but the money was not forthcoming. The gentleman stated that it never had, nor could be; but if Mr. Macdonald could, he would be one to sign a guarantee that it should be paid, the conditions prescribed by Mr. Minton being complied with. (Another storm.) He then stated that Dr. Cahill had been challenged by many of the Church clergy to defend the Romish doctrines, but had always evaded them. Mr. Macdonald had said he could not condescend to come down from his high position. He knew the reason. He dared not; he was afraid ; his excuses were too flimsy not to be seen through by any one having the liberty of using his private judgment. (Another storm, in which there was so much confusion that a great deal of what he said was lost.) He then attacked Mr. Macdonald's absurd argument in favour of the doctrine of transubstantia tion, which he built on the fact of Christ's appearing in the upper chamber to his disciples, the doors being shut. As it was uncertain how he got in, it was a proof of the doctrine. So (as he said) as Christ appeared to his disciples in his proper person, it is a proof that he can be on ten thousand altars at the same time, in the shape of a piece of bread. (Another storm.) Being asked if he was a Christian, he gave a clear ex position of the why and the wherefore he was one, which was received with insolence and shouts. It was, indeed, like talking to blind men about the beauties of creation. He then called upon them to consider what they were, how they had arrived at the conclusion that the Romish Church was the Church of Christ ; for, in order to ascertain that, they must have exa mined the Sacred Scriptures, satisfied their minds that it was the word of God, that Christianity was true, that there was to be a visible Church in the world, that that Church was to be infallible, and that the Romish Church was that Church. Have you done this ? he asked. (Great shouting and confusion.) He then said that he was astonished at Mr. Macdonald touch ing upon persecution ; for, if he was acquainted with history, he must know that the Church of Rome had murdered many millions of the human race. (4nother storm. Cries of " Time': up, time's up.") He congratulated the meeting that they were in a land of civil and religious liberty ;—(another storm)—that they were not in Spain, Italy, or Portugal, as they would as soon dare to thrust their hand into the fire as open their mouths against the establshed religion of the country. He was obliged reluctantly to sit down, having, as he said, (if time had been given,) to charge Mr. Macdonald with disho. nesty, in stating that Dr. NPNeile had said he would have all the Romish priests who received confessions put to death. He (Mr. Macdonald) also quoted passages which he said were in the Protestant Bible, as also a cursing prayer, which he knew, or ought to have known, were not true, thereby misleading the people. In trying to escape from the platform, the gentleman was grossly insulted. Yours respectfully, A SUBSCRIBER. P.S.—There did not appear to be any respectable Roman Catholics present, the audience being composed of the lowest class of Irish, and they yelled and shouted more like fiends than anything OM thread of gold or silver, amid the complicated tissue of a more homely fabric. Thus, the representative of Moly. neux is at this hour the military head, the Lord Lieute nant of this great county ; while the representative of Stanley, still keeping his position in the race of honour able ambition, has stood foremost in the councils of his sovereign. Nor is the soil of the district exhausted yet. It pro duces fruits which are rare and valuable in themselves, and still more rare in their combination ; commerce and manufacture, agriculture and mining. And, though last not least, the district possesses another union of rare and valuable qualities ; for, while history has be en d e li g ht e d to honour the valour of its sons, tradition and poetry have been at least equally zealous in proclaiming the witchery of its daughters. But, however persons of dif ferent parties, tastes, or habits, may differ respecting the importance of these, on one subject we will be agreed,— that the unknown minstrels who have banded down to us such a glowing and minute account of these events, de served a much more enduring memorial than either his tory or tradition has preserved. [The paper, of which the above is an abstract, was written by Dr. Hume, and read by him at the ciay-meet in; of the Historic Society, held on the sth instant.] THE LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTI CULTURAL EXHIBITION. The brilliant exhibition of this society, which took place on Thursday last, at the Botanic Gardens, must be re. garded as a new era in the history of Liverpool horticul ture, for so great an advance has never before been made towards the wondrous perfection of the metropolitan dis plays. The Azaleas of H. Sharpies, Esq., elicited the admiration of every visitor,—they could not have been surpassed. It is, however, much to be regretted that the society does not take better means for the display of the beautiful specimens which are now exhibited at their shows : had those Azaleas beenplaced on a bench covered with green baize, and relieved by a screen at the back of the same material, such as is invariably used at the Lon don shows, beautiful as they were, their brilliancy would have been greatly increased by the assistance of this simple addition. The sizeof thetents was also much complained of, but here we think the society blameiess, for no one could have anticipated the immense crowd of elegantly-dressed company which for hours thronged the tents—they had been much enlarged with a view to prevent any pressure, but it is quite evident they must be increased in number— in order to distribute the company over a larger space. This can only be done by having possession of the whole of the gardens upon these occasions, and we strongly advise the society to request the gardens' committee to close the gardens to the public three days in the year for the flower shows; for if botanic gardens are of public utility, they cannot be better employed any three days, than in giving such a powerful stimulus to botany and horticulture as is given by these exhibitions. The anti quated notions which have hitherto prevented this, do not belong to an age of progress. B es id es th e Azaleas, we must particularly notice a remarkably choice col lection of Stove Plants shown by Charles Wilson, Esq., whose clever gardener, Mr. Thomas, has ob tained a large share of triumphs at the Liverpool Exhi bitions. Also a unique collection of plants, with varie gated foliage, from the stove of Adam Fairrie, Esq., who, since his first arrival in Liverpool, has been a most active and liberal patron of the flower shows. The collection consisted of three varieties of the beautiful orchid Anecto chilus setaceus, with its congeners Physurus pictus, and Goodyera discolor ; also the singularly beautiful Cissus discolor, a plant with most exquisite markings on the leaves. This collection excited much attention, as did also the orchids of Mr. I. Hadwen and Mr. Adam Fairrie, the graceful ferns of Julius Focke, Esq., and a remark ably fine seedling Azalea, called Lady Stanley, raised and exhibited by Mr. George Davies, of the Green-lane nursery. The prizes were awarded as follows, and the manifest general justice done to the exhibitors reflects the greatest credit upon the judges whose names we were unable to obtain, with the exception of that of Mr. Robert Erring ton, the most veteran horticulturist of the day : Henry Sharpies, Esq. (Mr. Doherty, gardener), Ist prize for collection of six Azaleas and for four Azaleas ; also for a single specimen Azalea, and 3d for pine apple. J. J. Bibby, Esq. (Mr. Ames, gardener), for a collection of six specimen heaths, Ist prize. Thomas Morris, Esq. (Mr. Thompson, gardener), for a collection of six heaths (in our opinion, superior to the last-named), 3rd prize for specimen greenhouse plant. Adam Fairrie, Esq. (Mr. Williams, gardener), 2nd prizes for eight stove and greenhouse plants—Medinilla magnifica (a splendid specimen), Epacris miniata, Boronia pinnata, Chorizema varium ?lantern, Eriostemon interme die, Erica Cavendishii, Azalea prestantissima, Aphlexis macrantha purpurea; for four heaths ; for six exotic orchids, comprising Epidendrum macrochilum, Tricho philia coccinea, Phalrenopsis amabile ear. grandifora, Cattleya ianthina, Oncidium crispum, and Cattleya inter media; for four specimens, namely, Saccolabium premor sum, Calanthe veratrifolia, Phalwnopsis amabile grandi flora, and Oncidium ampliatum ; 3rd prize for six heaths and for four stove and greenhouse plants. Extra prize for specimen greenhouse plant. James Livesey, Esq. (Mr. Adamson, gardener), Ist prize for four heaths and for cucumbers ; 2nd for four fuchsias, single specimen greenhouse plant, hardy shrub in pot ; 3rd for basket of plants in pots. Wm. Anthony, Esq. (Mr. Turner, gardener), Ist prize for six fuchsias ; for four fuchsias ; and 2nd, for a single specimen fuchsia. • Mr. J. B. Leatherbarrow (C. Jones, gardener), Ist prize for eight roses, in pots. These roses, especially a specimen of Geant des Batailles, were very finely grown, and far Aurpriesed any ever before exhibited at our flower shows ; the plants were well formed, and covered with fine healthy foliage and an abundance of bloom—also, for six Gloxinias; and 2d, for six fuchsias and for lettuce. R. C. Gardiner, Esq. (Mr. Dwerryhouse, gardener), 2d prizes for gloxinias, black grapes, and potatoes; and 3d, for six fuchsias. Charles Bardswell, Esq. (Mr. M'Glachan, gardener), Ist prize for a single specimen of heath ; and 3d, for four fuchsias and for one fuchsia. James Stringer, Esq. (Mr. Liversedge, gardener), Ist prize for eight pelargoniums, four ditto, and for single specimen, and for strawberries ; 2d, for six fancy pelar goniums, and for single specimen. H. Harrison, Esq. (Mr. Hutchinson, gardener), Ist prize for six fancy Pelargoniums ; 2nd, for eight Pelargo niums. Julius Focke, Esq. (Mr. Cahill, gardener), Ist prize for six Calceolarias; for one Calceolaria; for hardy shrub in pot ; for eight ferns, a very choice collection, and for specimen stove plants ; 3rd, for eight Pelargoniums, and for specimen heath ; and extra prize for ferns. Robertson Gladstone, Esq. (Mr. Woolley, gardener), 2nd prize for four Pelargoniums ; 3rd prize for six fancy Pelargoniums ; and for single specimen Pelargonium, and single specimen fancy Pelargonium. Charles Wilson, Esq. (Mr. Thomas, gardener), Ist prize for the principal group of eight stove and green house plants, consisting of Ixora coccinea, Aphelexis macrantha superba Epacris granditlora, Azalea indica superba, Russelia juncea, Stephanotis floribunda, Cyr toceras reflexa, and Eriostenon buxifolium. These plants were very finely grown and correctly labelled, for which Mr. Thomas received an extra prize. Ist prize, also, for the collection of four stove and greenhouse plants, comprising Adamia versicolor, Pimelea Hender sonu, Boronia serrulata, and Azalea rosea-punctata. 2nd, for six Calceolarias ; single specimens of Azalea ; Pelar gonium, and stove plant : and extra prize for six fancy Pelargoniums. Mr. John Harrison, 3rd prize for four Scarlet Gera niums ; Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, for the belt collectio❑ of ve getables ; 2nd, for cabbages ; Ist and 2nd for onions ; Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, for carrots ; Ist and 2nd for brocoli ; and Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, for rhubarb. Mr. R. Griffiths, 2nd and 3rd prizes for collection of eight Roses in pots. C. S. Clare, Esq. (Mr. Matthews, gardener), 2ad prize for single Calceolaria ; 3rd, for six Calceolarias. J. G. Morris, Esq. (Mr. Dawson, gardener), Ist prize for six Cinerarias ; 2nd, for single fancy Pelargonium ; Ist, for basket of plants ; for bouquet, and for 24 cut roses ; 2nd, for bouquet. W. D. Chidson, Esq. (Mr. John Dawson, gardener), Ist prize for cabbage; 2nd, for Cinerarias ; 3rd, for brocoli. Isaac Hadwen, Esq., (Mr. Armstrong, gardener,) Ist prize for the chief group of six exotic orchids, consisting of Dendrobium Devonianum, D. densiflorum, Phalx nopsis amabile granch:flora, Cattleya skinneri, Epiden drum bicornutum, and Oncidium papilio ; Ist, for the collection of four exotic orchids, comprising Oncidium papilio, 0. ceboiletti, Cattleya Mossier;, Bifrenaria Had wennii ; 2nd for S ferns. 3liss 3lolyneux, (Mr. Beattie, gardener,) 3rd prize for eight ferns, and for specimen stove plant. J. Rawdon, Esq., (Mr. Conolly, gardener,) 2nd prize for four stove and greenhouse plants ; lst, for potatoes. M. Collet, Esq., (Mr. Twist, gardener,) 3rd prize for single calceolaria, and extra prize for four stove plants. G. Greenhall, Esq., (Mr. Rose, gardener,) Ist and 2nd prizes for pine apple. . . The Earl of Derby, (Mr. Jennings, gardener,) Ist prize for bunches of black grapes ; Ist, for bunches of white ditto. J. G. Morris, Esq., Ist prize ; W. Haynes, Esq., 2nd ; Edward Bates, Esq., 3rd, for apples (table.) H. Harrison, Esq., Ist and 3rd prizes; John Houghton, Esq., 2nd, for apples (culinary.) Eward Bates, Esq., Ist prize for pears. James Stringer, Esq., Ist prize ; B. H. Jones, E sq ., (Mr. Oakes, gardener,) 2nd, for strawberries (a dish.) William Haynes, Esq., Ist prize; B. H. Jones, Esq., 2nd, for gooseberries (a dish ;) and Ist, for twelve cut roses. William Haynes, Esq., Ist prize, for currants, red, and 2nd, for asparagus. The Earl of Derby, Ist prize, for cherries ; and Ist, for French beans and mushrooms. Miss Boyden (Mr. Lancelot, gardener), 2nd prize for cucumbers; Ist and 3rd for lettuce. It. Allison, Esq. (Mr. Riding, gardener), Ist for pea s and 2nd for French beans ; Mr. D. Harrison let for asparagus. Mr. James Moss, Ist and 2nd for celery; Mr. Charles Rylance, of Lydiate Nursery, let and 2nd for curled pars ley, Ist for 24 pansies, and 3rd for hand bouquet ; J. 3. Bibby, Esq., 3rd for curled parsley. T. Davies and Co., nurserymen, Wavertree, 2nd for specimen heath, and Ist for specimen greenhouse plant, mitraria coccinea. John Campbell, Esq. (Mr. Everett, gardener), Ist for collection of cut flowers; 111 r. W. E. Harrison Ist for 12 pansies, and 2nd and 3rd for 24 pansies. WAX FLOWERS.—First collection of six specimens, Mi3s Newton ; 2nd collection, Ist, Miss Leatherbarrow ; 2nd, Miss Powell ; extra prize, Miss Powell. A very beautiful collection of wax flowers was exhibited by Mrs. Green, the accomplished Liverpool artiste, but not for competition ; they excited much admiration. FATHER GAVA zzi, we learn from the Glasgow Citizen, has been warning the people of America not to sit in their houses on Sunday drinking whiskey-toddy, as the Scotch do, but rather to indulge in reasonable recreation. THE HULL BRIBERY CONIMISSION.—The Queen has appointed Frederick Sony Flood, Esq., John Deedes, Esq., and William Brett, Esq., to be commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last election for the borough of Kingston upon-Hull. The commissioners were to commence their duties yesterday. MELANCHOLY MARRIAGE-DAY. SINGULAR SCENE AT THE NECROPOLIS An instance which strikingly illustrates the uncertainty of human life occurred in Liverpool last week. By an accident which occurred in the Wapping tunnel on Tues day, a young and promising man, William Falkner, was deprived of life. He was to have been married on the Sunday succeeding his death, and all the preliminaries of. the auspicious event had been arranged. B u t instead of being united to his bride on that d a y, h e wa s committed to the dust. The deceased, who was thus prematurely cut off in the flush of activity and hope, was a respected member of one of the Orange lodges in the town, the members of which, in token of their respect for his memory, decided upon following his remains to the grave. They very judiciously resolved, however, that their cus tomary badges should be dispensed with on the occasion, and that they should only wear the usual symbols of mourning. On arriving with the mortal remains of the deceased at the Necropolis, considerable or' prise was excited by the circumstance, that the gates were closed and alt entrance forbidden, a posse of police being in attendance for the purpose of enforcing order, if necessary. A short altercation took place, during which the assemblage at the gates of the burial-ground increased to about fifteen hundred. Ultimately the coffin and twenty of the more inti ma t e re l a ti ve s and friends of the deceased were admitted, and the sad cere mony was consummated with due order and solemnity. although not nearly the number of persons was admitted into the chapel during the reading of the burial-service that might have been accommodated within the precincts of the edifice. We have been furnished with a notice issued by the committee of the Necropolis, Low-hill, from which it appears that no persons attending funerals 0 0 Sunday, wearing party or distinctive badges, shall be per mitted to enter the gates ; and secondly, that no persons beyond a reasonable number of the relatives and friends can find accommodation in the chapel. It seems to have been a matter of complaint, however, in the present in stance, that the chapel could easily have accommodated 3 far greater number of individuals than were admitted. STEAM ON CANALS. An attempt to adapt steam navigation to canal traffic was made on Saturday, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, under the direction of Mr. Wm. Laird, general manager, and Mr. Darlington, minine-engineer, of the Ince-hall Coal and Cannel Company, and it was attended with the most favourable results. The canal is unusually favourable for such a change, the distance from Wigan to Liverpool being 36 miles, with only one lock. From Wigan to that lock (Appley), distance of 5 miles, it is proposed to continue the present system of horse-haulage, and from that point to Liver pool, a distance of 30 miles of level water, to use steam. The steamer used on the ocrasion of the trial was the' Conqueror, belonging to Mr. Inshaw, engineer, of Bir mingham, the first vessel of the kind that has ever an swered for canal passenger-traffic, and which has nov. , made a most successful trial in connexion with canal coal traffic. She proceeded from Liverpool to Appley-lock on Friday, with several empty barges, accomplishing a speed of about 4 miles an hour ; and returned from Appley-lock on Saturday, with four loaded coal barges, containing 40 tons each, or 160 tons in all, towing them at the rate of 2 to 21 miles per hour, with great ease : the engine in the tug being only 6 horses power, and the tug a passenger boat adapted for light work and high speed. Ti cylinders of the engine are 6 inches diameter, with 10 inches stroke ; the screws are two in number, one on each side of the rudder, each 23 inches diameter. These worked most satisfactorily, there being a total absence of the swell which has hitherto proved so detri mental to the banks, and which has been the chief obstacle to the adaptation of steam-power to canal traffic. There was not, in fact, more eddy than what is produced by the usual mode of haulage, the peculiar construction of the right-and-left-hand screws preventing a disturb ance of water at the sides of the vessel, and propelling her gently through the water with a total absence of vibration. The boiler is a tubular one, which is considered the most improved principle for high pressure, and is so con structed as to consume its own smoke. The average speed obtained, with 160 tons of coal in tow, was two , and-a-half miles, which is as high a rate as the company are desirous of accomplishing, their chief object being to prevent fraud, and to secure regularity in the conveyance of the coal, in order that the large quantities which are now shipped from Liverpool may be brought into the town with the necessary despatch. The present trial was made chiefly with a view to satisfy the directors of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal that the adaptation of steam to canal traffic would not damage their property, but rather increase its value, inas much as it would afford facilities which would tend to expand the trade, and, as a matter of course, add to their already tolerably good dividends. Mr. Birkbeck. of Settle, director of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Com pany ; Mr. Tatham, secretary ; and Mr. Stanley, engi neer of the same company, witnessed the trial, and appeared so well satisfied with the result that they have arranged with Mr. Inshaw for further experiments, for the purpose of giving other directors of the company an opportunity of fully testi ng th e a d van t ages t o be der i ved , from this novel mode of conve yi ng minerals by their canal. thus The practical result of the e x p er i men t 3' coal be e stated :—The present cost of haul age o f 40 by horse power from Wi gan t o Li verpo ol is 60 s e ., or, o per ton, 100. By steam power th e towing boat wuld engine be one of the o r di nary cana l - b oats, carry i ng an erigl and boiler of t we l ve h orse-power ; at her a fter en d the weight of wheel would no t excee d fi ve tons, l eav i ng spac e for stowage of a Cargo of coals weighing... .... Four boats following, c arr yi ng 40 tons each, equal 160 u_ may Total.. Allowing three days for going to and from the colliery , thirty-six miles there and thirty-six back, or seventy-two miles altogether, in as many hours, the boats would make two trips per week, instead of two trips in three weeks, as at present, and would deliver in Liverpool, weekly, 390 tons- Total weekly expenses £7 45., incurred in delivery of 39a tons of coal, being equal to a rate of Qd. per ton, and the cost Ly horse haulage per ton being 10-id., the saving Is 6d. per ton ; but this is not the only saving, as Mr. Laird proposes the application of a drum to the engine to make the boat engine discharge, by the assistance of cranes, each of the boats' cargoes into the yards, or into ships at Liverpool, thus effecting a further saving in terminal ex penses. The experiment was witnessed by Mr. Barton, of the firm of Barton and Windus, coal proprietors of Liver pool ; Mr. Kegg, of the Kirldees-hall Coal Company ; Mr. Braithwaite Poole, general goods manager of the London and Northwestern Railway Company ; Mr. In shaw and his son, the owners of the Conqueror ; Mr. Smith, of the firm of Alexander Smith and Sons ; Mr. Murray, and other gentlemen interested in the success of the experiment. _ _ _ Mr. Braithwaite Pcole made some valuable practical suggestions, one of which was, that, in order to afford facilities for largely increasing canal traffic, the company should construct double lines of railway on each side of the canal, and use locomotives upon them for the pur pose of superseding the present unsatisfactory mode of haulage, which is open to so much abuse. FATAL FALL.—On Thursday, J. T. Schwaar, a Ger man, who was about to emigrate in the ship Stephen Clifford, lying in the Bramley-Moore Dock, fell from between decks into the lower hold of that vessel, and received such injuries that he died before he could be conveyed to the Northern Hospital. IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM PROPULSION.—The models of inventions patented by Mr. Joseph Burch, of Craghall, near Macclesfield, which have been exhibited during the last few days in the Exchange Newsroom, have been regarded with great interest and attention by merchants and shipowners generally. The first invention consists of a new form of stern ; a kind of conical tail being formed to the vessel, commencing about one-third of the way from the stern, arid gradually diminishing and terminat ing pointedly, or wedge-shaped, upon or about the stern post. This alteration is below and up to the level of the load water-line, the upper or quarter-deck being continued to the counter after the usual manner. The object of adapting this fish-like termination to the mainhold of the ship, is to introduce a new form of propeller, which is placed in that portion of the converging " buttock" where a perfect circle is formed. The propeller acts upon the water obliquely on the screw principle ; the inventor's object in adopting this form, in conjunction with the new stern, being to prevent the waste of power which screw propellers, having their axes exposed to the backward current, produce. There are four kinds of propellers shown in the models. One has an arrangement for draw ingvessel is at anchor or under sail, the fins being made to the " fin blades" into the obliquitywu p lar r l: o i le p ent e hti l n l e e ya r neomt case, he.er gr whene; formothers md r fie e:noacp(skalasedsnulimui models, therefore, thsd their ethhr eeufi lor itselfrs we p t:o r of o ar trk p sie e ilhne r gpopsauc:nowsi il constructed when the, vessel is at anchor or under sail. The third part of Mr. Burch's invention consists in adopting a new form of bows. sterns, u c t c h t e e d view tha o t f t attaining transverse high speeds, and preventing shipments of the sea. His frame of the vessel's hull appears tubular, elliptical, or eggshaped amidships, terminating towards the bows and stern in a conoidal point, or narrow ellipsis. The bow lines are brought t o an excee di ng l y fi ne po i nt, di m i n i s hi n g in width both above and below the water-line; and the' decks are covered over so as to continue the elliptic out line. The app e a rance o f th e vesse l w h en voyag i ng w ill be similar to that of a fish with its back out of water; and as the greatest breadth will be about the water-line, diminish ing upwards to a curved roof, it is calculated that the vessel will pass through the crest of the wave, and eventually rise out of it without shipping a sea. Such a steamer , with the improved propeller, Mr. Burch calculates would make twenty-five miles an hour. A fourth and important part of these inventions, is the division of the vessel into, two distinct parts, one of which, occupying the space or e the quarter and after-decks, may he released, in cases of fire or shipwreck, from the parent vessel, and already equipped as it is with cabins, berths, and stores, will serve as a medium of escape. These detachable vessels are also adapted for exploratory expeditions in shallow river?! where vessels of large bulk could not act. The inomodel : have not, we believe, been actually tried.' The subje . ct: however, is one highly important ; and the inventi on worthy of careful attention on the part of those concernf d . in the promotion of steam enterp r ises. One set of models is, we understand, to be forwarded to America. 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