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ZARA'S EAR-RINGS 011031 TOCKILLE SPANISH My ear -rings I my ear-rings ! they've dropped into the well, 31nd what to say to Musca, I cannot, cannot tell— Id, thus. Granada's fountain by, spoke Albuharez's -mi l e well is deep—far down they lie, beneath the cold blue patronage water ; of lus To me did Musa give them, when he spake his sad farewell, had , already t .And what to say, when lie comes back, alas! I cannot tell ! :31 3 , n d in p 7 wo-' ghter, 1 ded to rocnre subs, xplained th, 3ly ear-rings ! Thy ear-rings l —they were pearls in silver set, 'That, when my Moor was faraway, I ne'er should him That I Re'er to other tongues should list, nor smile on other's I tale, [pale. forget; I d Frem used disar But remember he my lips had kissed, pure as those ear -rings' When he comes back, aid hears that I have droppe the well, what will Mus7a think of me' ceived thatl —I cannot, cannot, tell! down a -- Aly ear-rings ! my ear-rings I—he'll say they should havebeen , Not of pearl and of silver, but of gold and glittering sheen, 40f jasper and of onyx, and of diamond shining clear, Changing to the changing light, with radiance insincere; That changeful mind unchanging gems are not befitting well ; nriuts will he think—and what to say, alas! I cannot telL swered in t Ilea think, when I to market went, I loitered by the way ; Bell think a willing ear I lent to all the lads might say : Ife'll think some other lover's hand, among my tresses noosed, .Prom the ears where he had placed them my rings of pearl unloosed ; think wheal was sporting so beside this mart 31 9 Pearls fell in—and what to say, alas t I cannot t 21011 say, I am a woman, and we are all the same ; Zell say, I loved, when he was here to whisper of his flame—' 'But - when he went to Tunis, my virgin troth had broken, And thought no more of Musca, and cared not for his token. NY ear-rings ! my ear-ringsl oh! luckless, luckless well,— Sor what to say to Musca—alas! I cannot tell. I'll tell the truth to 3lnsca—and I hope he will believe 2hat I thought of him at morning, and thought of him at eve : That, musing on my lover, when down the sun was gone. 31is ear-rings in my hand I held, by the fountain all alone ; That my mind was o'er the sea. when from my hand they fell, Arid that deep his love lies in my heart, as they lie in the w ell. and Erie: nyself as mud and obta. did not st a pen t s wort pane in his favour Aber abruptly said to me in tindnbon, what induces yr . to subscribe to this crings are American a must know as much of the habit his gentleman." Whether Mr. Wilson under .ot, or if the suddenness ...ited him, I cannot te' e was not pleased. Van' of my friend prevented me from •subscribing, asked me if I had many drawings of birds. - urge portfolio, laid it on the table, and showeu im as I would show any other person fond of such sub ects, the why' - contents, with the same patience nth which I ; but I clearly per -4-v and the encomiums Mr. Wilson I rose, took .e of the hich he had she rus surprise appeareu the most distant idea that any other mdivmu— self had been engaged in forming such a collection. asked me if it was my intention to_ publish, and when Le - never had 1 than him- ned to inc And, truly such was not my intention ; for, until long after, when I met the Prince of Musignano in Phila delphia, I had not the least idea of presenting the fruits of my labours to the world. Mr. Wilson now examined my drawings with care ; asked if I should have any ob jection to lending him a few during , his stay, to which I however, untillima made an arrangement to explore foods in the vicinity along with him, and had pro him some birds, of which I had .ocure f collect 1, but whic .d never seen. lodged in th It happened that ht - dame house with us, but his retired habits, I thought, exhibited either a strong 2g of discontent, or a decided melancholy. The Scotcl firs which he played sweetly on his flute, made me meta• that he lias enthusiasm, eie ver to procure .Aich he wanted. We hunted together _A birds which he had never before seen ; but I scribe for his work, for even at that time my collection was greater than his. This little book, which is very el 4 s was in IT ;gantly got up s it were, the client points of natural history, tinged with the romantic hues of personal adventure, and individual daring, is in many re spects admirably fitted for the instruction of youth. Its narratives are tastefully drawn and appositely introduced, and the whole is happily calculated to awaken youthful inquiry, and to stimulate a desire for further knowledge. The Complete Angler. By Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. New Edition. London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. The Complete Angler, by Walton and Cotton, has been so long a popular favourite, and the editions of the book which have issued from the press, con sequent on this popularity, have been so numerous, that a mere reprint of the work would not be entitled to particular notice ; the handsome edition, however, now before us possesses claims on public attention sufficient to justify, indeed to call for remark. Like many of its predecessors, this edi tion is profusely and tastefully embellished by pictorial illustrations ; but, in addition to these, it possesses higher claims upon the favourable consi deration of amateur anglers , derived from a series of valuable notes contributed by the present editor, the extensively lmown " Ephemera" of _Bell's _Life. These notes are chiefly directed to practical ob servations on angling as an art ; on the natural history of some of our most valuable river and lake fish, and on the most approved mode of hand ling the rod and angle, as that has been acquired in a long course of sedulous application. As a n example, take the following instructions for SALMON 7 I SHI NG. The only pleasant and surely successful way of angling for salmon is with the art ificial fl y . The young fly-fisher for salmon has four principal Parts to learn,—to know the fly and line, to work the fly and line against the water, to hook a fish, and finally, to play him within reach of land ing net or gaff. I advise the aspirant to salmon profi ciency to commence by fishing for salmon trout and grilse. The former he will find in abundance in the County Kerry rivers in spring, the latter plentifully in the rivers of Sutherland, Roashire, and in Caithness, and in the rivers of the northwest of Ireland in July, August, and Septem ber. Why do I advise thus ? I'll tell. To capture those fish it requires far lighter gear than to slay the adult salmon. A rod of 16, nay of 15 feet, will suffice, whilst a joust on fair terms with a mature fish-foe cannot be carried on without a lance 18 or 20 feet in length. The young hand can more easily wield the lighter weapon, and when he shall have mastered that, then let him handle the heavier one. Sea-trout and grilse are fished for in the same way as salmon, but with smaller flies and a lighter and shorter line, the throwinc , of which is to be done as follows : The straight right shoulder cast, which is the most natural one, and should be practised when fishing from the left bank of a river, is done thus : the right hand holds the rod above the winch, the left below it ; the right side is next to the river, and the right foot foremost. You bring your rod and line boldly and freely in a fine, easy, wide, semicircular sweep over your right shoulder, until your right arm is extended fully and vertically over the right side of your head, and then you send rod and line strongly forward, by communicating to the right arm sharp action, just as if you were going to strike at something elevated before you with the soft or little-finger side of your clenched hand. If all this compound action—bringing back the Irod and line over the right shoulder, and then sharply sending them forward—be performed dashingly mid ener getically, without nervousness, stint of sweep, and strength, your fly will be driven to its destination, which should not be at first efforts much more than twenty yards distant. If you cast that space, or say from one cricket wicket to another, well, you need not much fear but you will be able to catch sea-trout and grilse, and ultimately succeed in throwing ten yards farther, which I think far enough, all matters considered, for the great majority of useful pur poses. Believe me that the best salmon-fisher is not he who throws the farthest line, but he who throws it neatly a moderate distance, and when his fly is in the water makes the best use of the pretty lure. I have seen long ' limbed louts hurl or roll their fly an immense distance, three or four yards further than I could, and yet I would stake my last florin to a farthing that I would kill three fish or more for their one. The straight casts, whether from the left or right shoulder, are, generally speaking, the best. At any rate, executed by a profi cient, they are always the neatest, and should by begin ners be the first learnt, and then practised unto perfection. Th e y ca n be performed with great accuracy, so as to enable the anglert o determine, almost to an inch, the precise spot on which his fly is to fall. They cause the fly and casting-line to touch the water first, and enable the fisher to commence working the fly, or showing it to the fish sooner and better than he could do if much of the winch-line came in contact with the water simul taneously with the casting-line, or a moment before it. The salmon-line and fly' must be thrown as straightly down the stream as possible. Casting down the current, and completely in line with it, can only be done by stand ing in the water at the head of the stream, or on some projecting rock, bridge, or weir. When you cad from the bank, throw slantingly down and across the stream, bringing the fly round into a line with the current with out delay. The salmon -fly is worked, or humoured, aga• st the current, and never with it, or down it, like the trout-fly. If it were worked downwards it would roll over, on account of the general heaviness of its wings, and frighten rather than lure salmon. When worked against the current , it seems like some nondescript, beau swimming by fits and starts a little of the water, and up-stream. The beau tiful, beneath largeth sa l mon :fly must be worke d towards y ou, u p and down, e i n s s u el a , ce and through the water, by moving the rod up and down, not very raPidlY, or very high or low. The hands grasp ing the rod, move up and down, just as if you were pump ing leisurely with a light free-handled pump. I n a continuation of the same note the editor gives excellent and elaborate directions for playing and landing salmon after they have been struck ; but we regret our limits will not permit of further extract, and we must conclude our remarks on this edition of the favourite treatise by " Old Isaak" by observing that the notes furnished by " Ephe mera," on angling for the different sorts of fresh water fish, are equally practical with that from which we have just quoted, although not quite so elaborate. As a whole, the volume is very hand somely got up in every respect, and will be found an ornament as well as an addition to the library. Twenty Years in the Philippines. By Paul de la Geroniere. Translated by Frederick Hardman. London : Longman. The narrative of which the above is the title abounds in adventure, told often in a manner so bordering on the marvellous, as to savour of ro mance. The hero of the adventures commenced his oriental career as a somewhat imperfectly tutored surgeon, having secured the appointment of medical officer on board of a French ship trading to the East Indies. His love of adventure led him at an early age Shortly after hi s se ttl eme nt here, in October , 1820, to settle in the island of Luzon. the cholera broke out in Manilla, and rapidly spread over the whole island. Ignorance and suspicion, powerfully excitet by the fatality of the scourge, led the natives to perpetrate a wanton and cruel massacre of the Europeans resident on the island, from the fatal effects of which our author escaped with much difficulty, and in a very miserable plight. Subsequently his professional skill enabled him to secure an important public position in Manilla ; becoming disgusted with which, however, he retired to Jala-Jala, which he had purchased. After his settlement at Jala-Jala, circumstances, and his own roaming disposition, induced him to visit the Tin guianes, a savage tribe inhabiting an inland district of the island. About the period of his arrival among the TIN-times, that race had gained what was held in their estimation to be a great victory over the Guinanes, a rival tribe of great ferocity and nide ness. T its victory was celebrated by the victors with great and barbarous rejoicing ; part of the re volting ceremonial observed on the occasion is thus described by •our author:— 111NG1714301 /UT/IUL OP VICTORY. Towards eleven o' - doeie, the chiefs of the " logrod by the entire sYttgation, rePdrid-to great tam REVIEWS OF BOOKS. rocks's Musical Miscellany. London : R. Cocks. An agreeable monthly publication, containing several artieles on music and musicians, in addition 1 0 amusing anecdotes and pieces of music. The number for August contains the " Song of the 34finer," by Biicken ; " Valse Melancolique," by 33reyshock, and the notes of some minor airs. An oracle on the revived tragedy of Sardanapalus shows that in the pronunciation the accent lies upon the last syllable but one. _Edmund Burke : being First Principles Selected from his Writings. London : Routledge and Co. The book before ns is excellent in idea, and the vnblic is indebted for its appearance to the Rev. Mobert Montgomery, M.A., the poet, who has pre fixed an introducto r y essay on th e gen i us a n d life fa Burke—that statesman who is generally ad lnitted to have been one of the greatest men of the eighteenth century. Mr. Montgomery's essay is ruefully .and learnedly written, and conveys an Excellent impression of the mental and religious character of the British Cicero. We believe it has Leen the selector's earnest wish that the " First Trinciples” these pages so eloquently inculcate, ' may be transcribed in all their purity, loftiness, tied truth into the reason and conscience of his countrymen. And amonc , those for whose especial guidance he ventures t o t hink the profound wisdom l of these pages to be invaluable, are the rising statesmen and senators of the day, who are either liming trained in our public schools, at the univer sities, or about to enter upon the difficult but in spiring arena of the House of Commons." The work will be exceedingly useful to those who have -snot the bulky volumes in which Burke's speeches are contained; as well as to those who, with the rower, may not possess th e inc li nation to dive into those magnificent orations--a rare string of extracts irom which they will yet read with avidity. 3lacktvood's Magazine. Edinburgh: Blackwoods. The number for August commences with a review if the late Dr. Fereira's works, under the title of The Narcotics we indulge in." It treats more especially of Tobacco and Hops, the former being a n article so generally indulged in, to the great jbenefit of the revenue, that a disquisition of its merits and demerits must needs excite interest. Chewing is considered the worst mode of imbibing its narcotic qualities, taking snuff less injurious, iiind smoking the - least. objectionable. With some Constitutions it never agrees ; but our anthor and Dr. Christisou, of Edinburgh, agree that "no we n ascertained ill effects have been shown to .13sult from the habitual practice of smoking." 40 South American travel and adventure " is an amusing commentary on two books of travels by Dr. Weddell and Mr. Theodore Pavia, who describe Tern, Bolivia, and other parts of South America, -which they visited, with considerable humour. Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe " is a review of 31r. Forsyth's recently published " History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena." This revelation shows that the Ex-Emperor was any -thing but a great man under circumstances in which true greatness of mind is displayed. He grew peevish and restless, childish in trifles, and ridiculous in his complaints, although his sympa thisers contrived to blacken the character of Sir Hudson Lowe, which this work seems perfectly to " New readings in Shakspere 'I is a some 'what elaborate disquisition on the notes and emen dations published by Mr. Collier from the M.S. Corrections discovered by him in a folio of 1632, and the subsequent dissertations upon them. The wniter, faking several plays seriatim, discusses the Troposed emendations with much fairness, and while he admits some of them to be improvements, ihows that Mr. Collier, by his adoption of others, is entitled to very little credit as a Shaksperian commentator. The next paper gives an interesting mount of " the Insurrection in China," from a recently,,,, published work by two Frenchmen, M. M. ~ "'tut, erY and Yvan. The continuation of " Lady Lee's Widowhood" presents an odd combination of the serious and ludicrous, but considerably advancing in the progress of the story. The mumber Concludes with an article on "the Marquis de L aroche Nuelin," or France in 1853, and Blackwood j is this month without one of those political essays for which it has acquired a well deserved celebrity. This, perhaps, is good taste, leconsidering the season of the year, and it might almost as well if newspapers could follow the example. Romance of Natural History ; or, old Scenes .and Wild Hunters. By C. W. Webber. London : Nelson and Sons. The title of this handsome volume is one which, on the whole,we rather like; it no doubt savours a good deal of the ad captandum vulqus, but nevertheless it is expressive, and calculated to arrest attention, 'which, in these mercenary days, must not be alto tether lost sight of, even in literary pu rs uits, f ar "ss in publishing enterprise ; moreover, the title re r eallY significant of much that will be found 4• 42° oT i u ne within the p a g es of the work. The tis chiefly composed of anecdotes of natu ralists • episodes in their lives, and of adventurebrief narratives in pursuit of encountered by them -theirvain°. n interesting and exciting, though precarious these, the following, illustrative of the intercourse which took place between Audubon and Alexande r Wilson, two of the most celebrated orni thologists the world has produced, although not altogether new, will yet be read with interest. In speaking of the great American naturalist, Mr. Webber remarks Axnunoies MODESTY. it is not the least extraordinary characteristic of this ml's unexampled career, that he should, until even late in life, have been entirely unconscious of the powers he pos messed. Indeed, he repeatedly asserts that it was not until pia meeting with Charles Lucien Bonaparte, on his visit o Philadelphia, in 1824, that he had any thought what ever of publishing, or dreamed that he had been accom- Idishing anything very extraordinary. Bonaparte was astonished, in looking over his portfolios of drawings, and exclaimed, in an irrepressible burst of admiration and wonder at the simplicity of his unconsciousness : " Mr. .Audubon, do you know that you are a great_man—a, very teat man,—the greatest ornithologist in the world !" It was this language that first filled him with the thought of publishing, which, as we have seen, on his retirement to the solitudes of the Hudson, became gradually nourished 534 0 a purpose. But let us see the most touching instance 10 f this unconsciousness in his own relation of the manner il v his first interview with Wilson, the ornithologist. He the ed,, for two years in Louisville, Kentucky, which was 1,,,," ; „ comparatively small town. He was engaged in --a " 4 as a merchant or trader, yet, nevertheless, he says : I ra • AUDUBON AND WI LSON. -wa s e r a my residence at Louisville, much of my time doted th Yed in my ever favourite pursuits. I drew and coneeti on e habits of everything which I procured, and my carried a w aa daily augmenting, as every individual who lie thon g f i r alsvays sent me such birds or quadrupeds as already con Jai ght prove useful to me. My portfolios One fai r uwm Th ed upwards of two hundred drawings. entrance int e — o clr riing, I was surprised by the sudden the celebrated %counting-room of Mr. Alexander Wilson, whose existenc : „thor of the " American Ornithology," of v i m ", Thi s ha l had never until that moment been ap remember him PPetied in March 1810. How well do I as he then walked up to me I His long rather hooked nos e , the keenness of his ey es, .and his imminent cheek- - bones, stampe his countenance with a . ve culiar character. His dress, too was of a kind sot ' 4 - usua lly seen in that p ar t o f the eo ' untry _, short coat, itroagre) An 4 /Illis tCoikt CS gray clytho I felt s volumes THE Leads of Guin tory. When lad taken t .uilan t who showed it to all lisplay by a lon The hart- addressed to the visitors he .warrior took back the head, split During tht k out the I able to witness—anothe head, and presented it to the chiefs is made, and then the skull was spli t with his taken out. With the other two - heads the same ceremony was gone through, and then the brains were crushed by roung girls into the jars containing the fermented cane uiee. When all was well mixed, they took the jars to the .hiefs, who dipped into them small wicker cups, and drank its with greedy delight. I turned horribly sick chiefs it was the turn of the warriors ed to them, and they qt the sound of savage so _ _ ly infernal in this sacrifice to victors This base, or Ted the .evolting - be- There was some• !-juice, is very ardent and guests, who had drank immode- r fermented ca and the intoxicating 41( Aicinsh potion, sang louder than ever, accom panied by conch and tam-tam, whilst the chiefs divided the skulls into small fragments, intended as presents to all the friendly villages. The distribution was then and there made, and the ceremony declared at an end. Dane lien began. The savages ranged themselves in two and began t^ shout, howling like furious rately of Besides the singular and disgusting orgies de scribed in the above extract, the author narrates other circumstances, which leave no room to doubt the practice of cannibalism among those degraded and wretched savages. Their mode of burial is also delineated with much force. It consists, in its preparatory stages at least, in slowly drying, by a sort of roasting process, the body of the deceased, accompanied by certain rude and un couth ceremonies, which we regret want of space will not allow us further to particularise. The book, however, contains many interesting facts relative to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and their peculiar habits. Those regard their religious belief, which appears to be a very loose kind of paganism, fluctuatinc , in the objects of its adoration, and rude as well b as ruthless in its forms of observance. As a whole, though bordering, as stated at the commencement of this notice, on the romantic and marvellous, M. Ge roniere's book is, nevertheless, one replete with interesting materials ; and as it is a very cheap work, forming one number of the series published under the name of the " Traveller's Library," we think it can hardly fail to attain an extensive po pularity Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America. By Alexander Von Hum boldt and dime Bonpland. Edited by Thomasina Ross. Vol. 111. London : Henry G. Bohn. This, which forms the concluding volume of M. Von Humboldt's personal narrative, is exceedingly interesting. It abounds in philosophical specula tions, is imbued with a fine spirit of truthful en quiry, and comes upon the world now, towards the close of the veteran naturalist's long and useful labours, as a crowning trophy of his investigations and his usefulness. At all times havin g his ob servant eye open to the impressions inspired by the stupendous magnificence of American scenery, he never permits himself to be made the slave of ex cited feeling, nor to be led away by the surpassing grandeur of the scenes and objects by which he is surrounded. On the contrary, with a truthful earnestness 'of thought and manner, he weighs the realities of the positions and materials amidst which he is placed, and faithfully imparts these to his readers, without exaggeration, and with a felicitous freedom from restraint. The immensity of space and the variety of reflections which force themselves upon the observation of an intelligent traveller as he traverses the vast American plains are well displayed in Humboldt's description of the IMMENSE EXTENT OP VIEW IN THE LLANO& After three days' journey, we began to perceive the chain of the mountains of Cumuna, which separates the Llanos, or, as they are often called, " the Great Sea of Verdure," from the coast of the Caribbean Sea. If the Bergantin be more than eight hundred toises high, it may be seen, supposing an ordinary refraction of 1-14th of the arch, at the distance of 27 nautical leagues ; but the state of the atmosphere long concealed from us the majestic view of this curtain of mountains. It appeared at first like a fog-bank, which hid the stars near the pole at their rising and setting ; gradually this body of vapour seemed to augment and condense, to assume a bluish tint, and become bounded by sinuous and fixed outlines. The same effects which the mariner observes on approaching a new land present themselves to the traveller on the border of the Llano. The horizon began to enlarge in some part, and the vault of heaven seemed no longer to rest at an equal distance on the grass-covered soil. A Llanero, or inhabitant ,of the Llanos, is happy only when, as expressed in the simple phraseology of the country, "he can see everywhere well around him." What appears to European eyes a covered country, slightly undulated by a few scattered hills, is to him a rugged region bristled with mountains. After having passed several months in the forests of the Orinoco, in places where one is accustomed, when at any distance from the river, to see the stars only in the zenith, as through the mouth of a well, a jonriasy in the Llanos is peculiarly agreeable and attractive. The traveller expe riences new sensations ; and, like the Llanero, he enjoys the happiness of "seeing well around him." But this enjoyment, as we ourselves experienced, is not of long. duration. There is, doubtless, something solemn and imposing in the aspect of a boundless horizon, whether viewed from the summits of the Andes or the highest Alps, amid the expanse of the ocean, or in the vast plains of Venezuela and Tucuman. Infinity of space, as poets in every language say, is reflected within ourselves ; it is associated with ideas of a superior order ; it elevates the mind, which delights in the calm of solitary meditation. It is true also that every view of unbounded spa*. bears a peculiar character. The prospect enjoyed from a solitary peak Varies according as the clouds reposing on the plain extend in layers, are conglomerated in groups, or present to the astonished eye, through broad openings, the habi tations of man, the labour of agriculture, or the verdant tint of the aerial ocean. An immense sheet of water, animated by a thousand various beings, even to its utmost depths, changing perpetually in colour and aspect, move able at its surface like the element which agitates it, all charm the imagination during long voyages by sea ; but the dusty and crevice(' Llano, throughout a great part of the rear, has a depressing influence on the mind by its unchanging monotony. When, after eight or ten days' journey, the traveller becomes accustomed to .the mirage and the beautiful verdure of a few tufts of Ilauritia, (the fan-palm, or sago tree) scattered, from league to league, he feels the want of more varied impressions. He loves again to behold the great tropical trees,—the wild rush of tor rents,—or hills and valleys cultivated by the hand of the labourer. If the deserts of Africa, and of the Llanos or Savannahs of the New Continent filled a still greater space than they actually occupy, nature would be deprived of many of the beautiful products peculiar to the torrid zone. The heaths of the north, the steppes of the Volga, and the Don, are scarcely poorer in species of plants and animals, than are the twenty-eight thousalid square leagues of Savannahs, extending in a semicirle from north- east to south-west, from the mouths of the Orinoco to the banks of the Caqueta and the Putumayo, beneath the finest sky in the world, and in the land of plantains and bread-fruit trees. The influence of the equinoctial climate, everywhere also so vivifying, is not felt in places where the great associations of gramina almost exclude every other plant. Judging from the aspect of the soil, we might have believed ourselves to be in the temperate zone, and even still further northward, but that a few scattered palms, and at nightfall the fine constellations of the southern sky (the Centaur, Canopus, and the innumerable nebulae with which the ship is resplendent), reminded us that we were only eight degrees distant from the equator." The foregoing may be taken as a specimen of the contemplative and philosophising spirit which pervades the narrative. The volume, and of course the work, is wound up by a perspicuous and charm ing epitome of the geological structure of the South American Continent. As a whole, the book is not only an extensive and valuable addition to our scientific literature, but so interesting is the manner inwhich the various topics are treated, that it cannot fail to be as interesting to the reader of popular literature, as it is acceptable to the scien- tific inquirer. New Songs. London ; Cramer, Beale & Co. These eminent publishers have lately issued a number of new and popular songs of a high order, which will, no doubt, obtain that extensive popu larity to which they are entitled. Hatton's song, " Good bye sweetheart, good bye," is very effective, and the charming manner in which it has been sung by Mr. Sims Reeve, has already caused it to be much spoken of. Silas' song, like all his other compositions, is of a very high class ; it is a beauti ful melody and has a very attractive accompani ment. "'Twas on a Sunday morning," and "Let nobody know," are charming ballads of a very original character, and have been rendered with great effect by the admirable singing of Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliams. " Think on me," and " Hither come," written by Thomas Blake, the music by G. Linley, are already established favourites : the poetry is really good, and the music elegant and unpretending. They are, with out doubt, the best of Gege Linley's compositions, an d promise a long run in or popular favour. g W lk' • k WALECING--TICICS.— a ing-shc_s were first intro duced into fashion by the effeminate Henry 11. of France, but did not become a requisite appendage to the gentle men of fashion in England till the year 1655, at which time they were formed with an indented head, in order to afford a more easy pressure of the hand which they supported. I n genuity, which, in matters of fashion, is for ever on the alert, now crowned it with -the addition of the round and hollow top, which sometimes contained nutmeg or ginger, to warm the stomach of the valetu dinarian, and sometimes sugar-candy for the asthmatic ; but snuff soon after coming into universal use among the bon ton of society, the cavity was exclusively appropriated. to its reception, and the meeting of- two Mends was In variably marked, after the first by the un tiFrafing of the tops of their waWng4tieks. )r him LIVERPOOL S'i f at its Iccupsai 4_ ANDARD, kND GENEI DAMP SHEETS.- " The Gas a ceeds, it will I Advertise " The RIEZIES zter Times DoN'r WALK s tv, a singular g companion ; fast, a is impolite save Lir to the time of the walk ( oe followed by " The Gin ( The Soda Water .Daily 11 Milk and Water Cm , - '-"—Dioaene ;em as innocent as it ND COLD. — Climbing over a layer of e( mimed, I imagine, by the falli ; steam of the hot xfore me three jets of steaming spring, 1 say diamete Est one several inci ugh, steep bank of the little stream, throw, nyielding rock, and sending the steam h _ nto the clear atmosphere. The sight was most beautiful ; I he steep bank and the boiling hot water, which shot hiss• ing out, while flakes of snow lodged close around the edge of it, was a strange massive spectacle in such a region of frost High over the edge of the bank hung an immense quantit of snow, like a monstrous feather bed, jus down by its own weight. The steam k lower parts of the heap, while the smart which blew through the dale, hardened the crust ready to slip tuned the snow in south. , itself congealed, and was transformed into icicles:and thus served to prop the -- of this self-formed white and t' e warm sun . shining npon it, chap Le steaming var zed it into myriad of glowing pearls, tinged with the most radiant and beautiful colours of the rainbow.—Gertstaecker's Journey Round the World. •" And I are you THE SLAVERY OP THE STAGE.--= getting on, aunty," asked Angela. . .. said Mrs. Bong, in deep and melancholy tones. egular, such as it is. But it is hard For the last six weeks, and till we My dear, " The mon work to earn it. closed_ I headed a t, with five fights ; but that's nothing. over the rocks, tied on a wild brigands, ev( But I had to be earriec horse, which with my 'eight is rather nervous business )eing as wish to be when they have to ride on'an elephant, and slide down by his trunk. Then we have a nautical piece three nights a week.and I have rather a tiresome bit in that—l have to hang from the mast, in a storm, while the ship rolls and pitches up and down, and this goes on as long as the applause comes ; one evening they kept m( swinging for ten minutes—and the week before last tin thin through a tr my salar to feed, so I crawled to work again directly. And our rehearsals are very heavy, with so much spectacle ; and I fully expect to break my limbs one of these mornings out of a cockle-shell of a car which they are trying to make six horses bring in on their backs, at an awful height, and me in it—the poor things kick so and get so unmerci fully beaten ; but Brax swears it is as safe as a cradle—a cradle on the tree-top I tell him. However, it's only slavery for life, that's one comfort, and it'll be all the same a hundred years hence, that's a n other." "By J ove ," said PauL An'd he became thoughtful for full three minutes, considering how hard so people worked for a morsel Of bread.—Bentley's Miscellany. OBTUSENESS OF TIM AFRICAN NATIVES.—They have no way of distinguishing days, but reckon by the rainy season, the dry season, or the pig -nut season. When in quiries are made about how many days' journey off a place may be, their ignorance of all numeral ideas is very an noying. In practice, whatever they may possess in their language, they certainly use no numerical greater than three. When they wish to express four, they take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp and secure the fingers that are required for " units. Yet they seldom lose oxen. The way in which they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid for separately. Thus, suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Damara to take two sheep and give him four ,sticks. I have done so, and seen a man first put two of the sticks apart and take a sight over them at one of the sheep he was about to sell. Having satisfied himself that that one was honestly paid for; and finding to his surprise that exactly two sticks remained in hand to settle the account for the other sheep, he would be afflicted with doubts ; the transaction seemed to come out too " pat " to be correct, and he would refer back to the first couple of sticks, and then his mind got hazy and confused, and wandered from one sheep to the other, and he broke off the transaction until two sticks were put into his hand and one sheep driven away, and then the other two sticks given him and the second sheep driven away. When a Damara's mind is bent upon number, he is too much occu pied to dwell upon quantity. Thus, a heifer is bought from a man for ten sticks of tobacco ; his large hands being both spread out upon the ground, and a stick placed on each finger, he gathers up the tobacco ; the size of the mass pleases him, and the bargain is struck. You then want to buy a second heifer : the same process is gone through, but half sticks instead of whole ones are put upon his fingers ; the man is equally satisfied at the time, but occasionally finds it out and complains the next day.— Galton's Narrative of an African Explorer. MAERI A GILL BIAS DA UGIITIIIS.—If anything exemplifies the vanity of human wishes, it is our efforts to marry our daughters, and our regrets when the plans succeed. Tom goes to India, and Billy to sea, and there is scarcely a gap in the family circle. " The bOys" were seldom at home — they were shooting in Scotland, or hunting in England, or fishing in Norway. They never, so to say, made part of the effective garrison of the house; they came and went with that racketty good humour that even in quiet families is pleasurable ; but •Tour girls are household gods : lose them, even one of them, and the altar is despoiled. The thousand little unobtrusive duties, noiseless cares, that make home better a hundred-fold than anywhere else, be it ever so rich and splendid—the unasked solicitude, the watchful attention that provides for your little daily wants and 'habits, is all their province. And just fancy, then, what scheming and intriguing we practise to get rid of them ! You'll say that this shows we are above the selfish ness of only considering our own enjoyment, and that we sacrifice all for their happiness. There you mistake; our sole aim is a rich man —our one notion of a good marriage is, that the husband be wealthy. Its not a man like myself who has sometimes paid fifty, ay sixty per cent. for money, that can afford to sneer at and despise it ; but this I will say, that the mere Possession of it will not suffice for hap piness. I know fellows with fifteen thousand a year that have not the heart to spend five hundred. I know others, that with as much, are always over head and ears in debt, raising cash everywhere and any how ! What kind of life must a girl lead that marries either of these ; and yet would you or I think of refusing such a match for a daughter ? L e t me tell you, Toni, that for people of small fortune, the nunneries were fine things ! What signifies serge and simple diet to the wearisome drudgery of a governess. If I was a woman, I think I'd rather sit in my•quiet cell, working an embroidered 'suit of body 'clothes for Father O'Leary, than I'd be snubbed by the family of some vulgar citizen, tortured by the brats, and insulted by the servants. —The Dodd Family Abroad. CHARA.CTEIt OF GOLDSMITIL—Who, of the millions whom he has amused, doesn't love him ? To be the most beloved of English writers, what a title that is for a man ! A wild youth, wayward, but full of tenderness and affec tion, quits the country village where his boyhood has been passed in happy musing, in idle shelter, in fond longing to see the great world out of doors, and achieve name and fortune—and after years of dire struggle, and neglect and poverty, his heart turning back as fondly to his native place,' as it had longed eagerly for change when sheltered there, he writes a book and a poem, full of the recollec tions and feelings of home—he paints the friends and scenes of his youth, and peoples Auburn and Wakefield with remembrances of Lissoy: Wander he must, but he carries away a home relic with him, and dies with it on his breast. His nature is truant ; in repose it lonzs for _ . Lrney i He passes to-day in building an air castle for to w, or in writing yesterday's elegy ; and he would fly s - hour, but that a cage of — necessity keeps hini the chaim of his verse, or his style, and humour regrets, his delicate compassion, his soft smile; .us tremulous sympathy, the 'weakness which he owns ? Your love for him is half pity. You come hot and from the day's battle, and this sweet minstrel - sings t His sweet you. Who could harm the kind vagrant harper ? did he ever hurt ? He carries no weapon—save the harp on which he plays to you ; and with which he del great and humble, young and old, the captain in the tent, or the soldier round the fire, or the women and children in the village, at whose porches he sings his simple songs of love and beauty. With that sweet story of the " Vicar, of Wakefield," he has found an entrance into every hamlet in Europe. Not one of us, however busy or hard, but once or twice in our lives has passed an evening with him, and undergone the charm of his de lightful music.—Thackeray's Humorists. AN IDIOT AS RE IS SUPPOSED TO BE, AND AS HE IS. — The popular notion of an idiot would probably be found to vary very little, essentially, in different places, however modified by local Circumstances. To the traveller in France or Italy, the. name rees.lls a vacant creature all in rags, gibbering and blinking in the sun with distorted face, led about as a possession and a stock-in-trade by some phenomenon of filth and ugliness, in the form of an old woman. In association with Switzerland, it suggests a horrible being, seated at a chalet door (perhaps possess ing sense enough to lead the way to a neighbouring water fall), of stunted and misshapen forin, with a pendulous excrescence dangling from his throat, like a great skin bag with a weight in it. In the highlands of Scotland, or on the roads of Ireland, he becomes a red-haired Celt, rather more unreasonable than usual, plunging ferociously out of a mud cabin ; and casting stones at the stranger's head. As a remembrance of our own childhood in an English country town, he is a shambling knock-kneed man who was never a child, with an eager utterance of dis cordant seitilds which he seemed to keep in his protruding forehead, :a: tongue too large for his mouth, and a dreadful pair istaids, that wanted to ramble over everything— our ors E "face included. But in all these cases, the main idea of an idiot would be of a hopeless, irreclaimable, unimprovable being.. And if he be further recalled as under restraint in a workhouse or lunatic asylum, he will still come upon • the imagination as wallowing in the lowest depths of degradation and neglect ; a miserable monster, whom nobody may put to death, but whom every one must wish dead, and be distressed to see alive. Until within a few years, it was generally assumed, even by those .who were not given to hasty assumptions, that because an idiot was, either wholly or in part, deficient in certain senses and instincts necessary, in combination with others, to the due performance of the ordinary functions of life--and because tho s e senses an d i nst i ncts could not al l r study— therefore nothing eould be d one f or hi m , an d ways re o ra f ai th n e subject has now dernongtrated an object of pitiable isolation. t hbe B h eu a ts t muaP t uP li l e litedose cultivation of such senses a nd i ns ti nc t s as the idiot is seen to Possess, will, besides frequently developing others that, are latent within hi m , but obsc ure d, so brighten thoie glimmering lights, as immensely to improve hi s condition both with reference to himself and to society. Consequently there is no 'greater justification for -abandon ing him, in his degree, than for: abandoning - any other beau creature.—.Dickenit "Household Words." and bruised myself d to lay up - one niiht, but t y stopped AL COM I Water I\IERCIAL Wuo vas hat sug to pay f 1 that more th N FOR FEE a.siNnio, the On fir s father cure for lowness of half of the mel is activit How pirits is TO GET MEN TO PROPOSE.—It is said that y tions with blank forms ladies who have lov themselves ze blan man can refuse signing them.—Kentucky Journal. NATIONAL DEFENCES.—PEACE SOCIETY.—Sir William iven in Norman-1 that you e as pleased to obser e the public tix on of the t Duty, par cularly for thos, the pur er extent than the majority fl same medium ; kre trifle, I li mne i on `ore I select i t„°, an tage from sheets. I may say I Al tes which 3 L- 1 SI I, on 1 with wrow 01° Ldge, it must divion, unless it be served as .gn fore been dest WEA.LTIfY RusslANs.:—ln a work solemn memE published on the ! .ge establishment fa] possesses the most colossal fortux mass of malacn 800 roubles. Woronzoff, Bob: Ppl-pmkin. Panic princely families are so their title and their rank, Cultivate the though they descend from prir distinguished from the others e on the tontinent Bred millions of roub every pud (40 lbs.) of kfterwaidi come the sky, Daschkoff, Paskiewitch, of Galit: A M. de Rischeff, f arms and the •ermine mantle other peas a red cap ; Incient u they have lost both •gii, Girei, the direct scions of Mahomet resides at Tiflis, GRATITITDE.-' It's not kindness I blow a littl life, and perhaps the lives of time." " How was that ?" asked we of our lings, the model conductor. "Why, we had on this road watehir sr a tunnel. It was warm weather, so he used to go into the tunnel, to keep cool. I rather think he used to take a little liquor when he was lone any way, he laid down on the track, one day, to the cars. He fell asleep, and very imprudently Lers at the san an Irishman got his head cut off by the exPress train: Well, the] was the last of that Irishman. There was the devil's ow row in his shanty when we took the poor fello tip, and we got away as soon as we decently Could, for you know it's not agreeable to be surrounded with a distracted family, when you're neither a doctor, nor a nurse, nor a preacher. Somehow, I was always sorry when I passed ; of course I felt as if—not exactly the same thing—but just as bad might happen to me some day, and then there'd be another row in a family. I told my wife about it,.and she sent the family some little things. The widow of the dead Irishman was a Catholic, and, as I was then on a very fast train, I would sometimes take up the of woman on Sunday, and carry her to church at Ma burg I somehow thought it was a satisfaction ) to church, for she had but little chance in the we anyhow. I certainly did not expect to get anything for in this world, and I expected they had so much scored against me in the other, that it wouldn't amount to any thing there. That was during the summer. One night the next winter it was very cold, and the mountains were covered with snow ; we were running to make time, when, on turning a curve, the engineer saw a waving light on the track, and we soon heard some one ahead shouting. I was then on the platform. The engineer slacked up and stopped the engine, and we got out and went ahead in the dark to see what was the matter. There it was. A large landslide had fallen across the track, near the shanty of that old Irishwoman. She had built up a large fire and watched for the train, for the curves were so sharp that we might have been upon the slide before we could see it. So, when we ran up there was the old lady, with her calico cap, swinging the chunk of fire, like a revolving lighthouse, and there were the little Irish carrying -brush, like so many little beavers. She had watched all that night in the cold. But for her in another minute we should have run into a pile of dirt and stone as big as Barnum's Hotel. I should have got a 'pit ticket,' certain, for I was on the platform. What would have become of the passengers and train you can guess as well as I can." We expressed a hope that the old widow had been properly rewarded: "The passengers made up about eight dollars ; the company afterwards gave her shanty rent free, the brakemen and engineers bought her a cow, and she made out very well. But when I handed the money to her that night she said, Gintlemen and ladies, I'm thankful, and may ye niver know the want of what ye give me- But what I did was mostly on account of him, there. He was kind and thoughtful to the poor and the afflicted, and I'd a watched till I froze before harrum should have come to him, if I could ha helped it " " D—n the thing, it made me choke right up."—American paper. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREPTEMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. J. T. Clarke. 8.A.. to Curacy of St. Mary's, Cardigan. Rev. J. H. Harris, late Master of Hawarden Grammar School, to the Head Mastership of King Henry VlH.'s (Cathedral) Grammar School. Chester. Rev. J. Incher, 8.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Wyers dale, near Lancaster. Rev. A. Irvine, 8.A.,t0 the Incumbency of St. Mary Longfleet, near Poole. orset. Rev. W. F. Kaye, M.A., Rector of Riseholme, to be Chap lain to the Bishop of Lincoln. Rev. J. W. Lester, to the Incumbency of Ashton Hayes, near Chester. Rev. B. A. Marshall, BA., to the Incumbency of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle. Rev. J. Moore. M.A., to the Rectory of Kelverstone, near Thetford, Norfolk. Rev. J. H. Noyes, MA., to the Curacy of All Saints' Church, Stamford. Rev. H. A. Plow, M.A., to the Incumbency of Wield, to be held with the Rectory of Bradley, Hampshire. Rev. H. M. Sorley, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of her Majesty's store-ship Tortoise, at the Island of Ascension. Rev. J. Taylor, M.A., to the Rectory of Croxton Keyrial, near Grantham. Rev. H. P. Thomas, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of Birch, near Manchester ' to Rectory of Nash-cum-Upton, near Pembroke. Rev. Jonathan Tucker, 8.A., to the Curacy of Wyersdale, near Lancaster. - Rev. J.lNynne, M.A., to the Rectory of Warnford, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. 011ITUARY July 30, at Elston Rectory, near Newark, the Rev. H. A. Harrison, 8.D., aged 30, for 17 years rector of the-parish. July 31, the Rev. R. Stockdale, Rector of Northamp tonshire, second son of the Rev. W. Stockdale, Vicar of Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, aged 36. Aug. 1, after a short illness, the Rev. John Oliver Hopkins, Incumbent of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and Rural Dean, in his 43rd year. Aug. 1, the Rev. Frederic Berners Roberson, M.A.,aged 33. TAB Frl T STONE has been laid at Lowestoft of a new 'eh, in the decorated style, to cost £0,500. DIOCESAN CEU1213,C31 SOCIETIES.—At the quarterly meeting, last week, it was resolved to endeavour to raise funds for a Female Training Institution for the two dioceses of thn.liara anc MIL SWINDELL, a Baptist minister at Newmarket, has sent in his resignation, and has been confirmed by t - Bishop of Ely, Essex Gazette after bein Till BISHOP or DURHAM conseer 1000 have been spent providing free ac commodation for 650 persons in open stalls. CONFIRMATION' AT ST. HELEN'S.—On Tuesday the Bishop of Chester held a confirmation service in St. Mary's, )arish church. There were nearly 600 candidates, Ecclestoii, Parr, Sutton, Farnwoith, &c. TESTIMONIAL.—A memorial of esteem has been pre sented to the Rev. John Ellison, from the congregation of St. Bartholomew's Church, of this town,• on his appoint ment to the senior curacy of Wellingborough,Northampton shire. The testimonial consisted of a handsome gold watch and appendages, with some valuable books. The rev, gentleman is a native of Alpraham, Cheshire, and took priest's orders at the last ordination at Chester. ST. MA.hY'S CHURCH, GRASSENDALE, IN THE PARISII or CRILDWALL.—The Bishop of Chester has granted a license for performance of Divine services in this church, which has just been completed, for two years, unless it shall be ready for consecration before the expiration of that time. The endowment and other needful prelimina ries to consecration are not yet completed, and are not expected to be sooner, but additional church accommoda tion in that neighbourhood being much wanted,.the imme diate opening of the church for Divine service will be productive of considerable benefit to the neighbourhood. CLERGYMEN'S WIDOWS AND Onmuss.--On Thurs day the friends of the above charity met in this town to celebrate its anniversary and transact the usual business of the past year. The object of the institution, which was established in the year 1697, is to support the widows and orphans of those clergymen who have officiated in the archdeaconries of Chester, Liverpool, and Manchester, and the anniversary is always held on the first Thursday in August, at Warrington, Liverpool, and Manchester alternately. Ven. Archdeacon Brooks, with other cler gymen belonging to Liverpool and adjacent towns, at tended divine service in the morning at St. Peter's Church, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Chas. Augustus Thurlow, rector of Malpas. A collection was made in aid of the funds of the institution, the amount realised being £24. In the afternoon, a number of gen tlemen, lay and clerical, dined together at the Adelphi Hotel, after the report as to the state of the funds and the other routine business had been transacted. A WHIRLWIND.—About a quarter;ibefore three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, a hay-field:behind the residence of Mr. Thwaites, bleacher, near the Meetings, Sharpies, was visited by a whirlwind. A quantity of hay, covering ground to the extent of some forty square yards, was lifted into the air to the height of apparently 100 yards, and some of it was carried out of the field in a southerly direction. NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —This company will pay a dividend of five per cent., taking £43,000 out of the reserve, and carrying over about £30,000 to the next account. The earnings are £lOO,OOO more than they were this time twelve months, but the heavy expenses inflicted by the unusual wet of last fall, and the increased expenses, chiefly in the locomotive power, owing to a greater mile age run, the rise of wages, and the higher price of materials, and taking a much less sum out of the reserve than they did this time last year, have caused a diminu tion in the dividend of a quarter per omit, for the balf-year. tain nun uch as the scions of ices (Bagration), and Ecturtgrs-E The far [lv of C often a - man los, ADVERTISER. ited all Eons ci Punch half of Ld that , OLTHEA.D RAILWAY.--•Trante zers, al boaPts I July' 31 —Railway : Passen roods, £1,432 4d. Stean total, £6,421 13s. 4d. Inc ease as c°" 111. PO 99Q ou I'LAR CIRCUMST E.—An Irish sheep, welgal Walters, of Birken ue. nd one of the loins of suet weighed Do e animal seemed to be healthy in evell t the kidney was smaller than usual.; Drily AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—We to the directors of the above company intet! cutive, in reference to transfers cf shares,.' Lion with the Shrewsbury contests. If thf -s g be s we believe it to be, no doubt some very co o ' ; ';,„' resting, disclosures will be brought before , -Morning Herald. announcement will be printed and circulated, but the real I the individuals before whose notice they will be br Many of the Londo advertisers are w , rtance of this consideration, an jefore quantity In illustration his, I may instal] John Bull, a Conserrati among the respectable classes atronage than a Radical conten enjoyed five ti vertising latter had twent: times the cii, emulation of the EMENT TEAM EEGINE.-3 1 r• onshire. has patented a pr, iting the generating of steam, by assisting,M to rise and emerge as soon as formed. For , t l r e .oiating curved blades are introduced int° ce tubes of tubular boilers, worked by any Inc'l4.he is emi: dosed to draw water fro mmere dined together at the Britannia 1 ,1 ) Mr. John Blaylock , ch a handsome gold wlit of his faithful sercio a period of fourteen years. ned his office two or three years ag°,l,;, - Lccount of his advanced age, and has carried with seer of the township ers during life the respect of a numerous population. o f .—On Tuesday afternoon last, the house Downham, of Holt-hill, Tranmere, was _ absence of the inmates by sonic uli.d3 , after ransacking the premises, decamped isl i s which they abstracted from a chest of drawers_, m. There was a valuable gold ring in the FaWs' during the _ JEWELLEEY.—A youth, named Ge? r g e d John uoinus, was charged on Monday, at the Birkenl.p.i, court, with stealing a quanty oijewellery, valued: om the house of Mrs. Law, Holt-hill, Tranwe' s . ..., time since the prisoner was employed to COlic ei i box to the railway station, and was sent up st,' :BY OF Ai to j police-court, with stealin 'S into ail it to pr stairs I It appears that ;red another room, and - abstracted theie„t as taken into custody on Saturday whilst o r a . arty in pledge. He was committed for 4." 1T WOODSIDE FERRY. — Shortly after el°'''' e a P t , sday night last, Mr. Shakeshaft, residincm mere, upon leaving the ferry at 11,Tood.:* ld a man and a woman, who seized his q r , "lard, and a valuable breast-pin. ' o f -h somewhat under the influenc e to retain hold of the fe u ...cal of a police-officer, who took her into -ne guard and the breast-pin were found upon IS ,6 .end, but the male assailant decamped with the iv 3tc £he prisoner, who gave the name of Eliza Judge, brought up at the Police-court on Wednesday, and '"" committed for trial. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CAMPBELL AND A ~ Jrnr.—ln a case tried the other day, at the Del ; assizes, the jury having been some time in conside r their verdict, when the case was really a very clear one, o . 'dge told them at once, when a jury had refused to "'„ ei l a prisoner who had made a plain confession, a lW„Id) whom he just remembered (Chief Baron Macda'be 'reseed the prisoner :—" Prisoner, go a 0 Jr your character is uow so bad that the J rnvict you, because they- can't believe your ce4 [His lordship struck his hand on the bench lri t i; some violence while repeating Judge Macdonald's vcc r i 'hich were evidently intended as a reproof for the jul'", '4BEWELL DINNER. — On Tuesday, about twenty rn , Mends of Mr. John Roberts, lately connectedra, _e Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction way Company, and who has since sailed to Canada, / 12 ":"0 been appointed to a high official situation connected :1",e0 watch, a Shakeshaft, the time, man thus a& fession tlemen Grand Trunk Railway in that country, gave a far el ,7 to him at the Adeiphi Hotel, Woodside William Rose occupied the chair, and Mr. 0 ' A e I the vice-chair. After the usual loyal toasts , .nt, in an eloquent speech, gave the health c'f g . and success to him in his future progrF - ',',l. manager of the Canadian Grand Trunk I W - "w st was drunk with very great enthusiasm, and evening was spent in harmony and good feeling. 134 THE JULY FAIRS IN WA_LBS.—The fairs he , ' o ly month throughout the Principality have been extra :l o6 , - t good and well attended. The supply of cattle has, in 50 instances, been limited, especially of store cattle ; arid , . n. O a fair attendance of purchasers, the amount of bus,-left transacted has been such that little, if any, has bee%;, s t unsold at the close of the day's proceedings. PI , bile, places the demand has been far beyond the s upply, . I,itio on the other hand, at several fairs, though the t4-t he of fat cattle was limited, yet it was quite equal ca ttle wand, the price of beef being so high that but feiv e been were killed. All other descriptions of stock have the eagerly bought up, in order to fill the sham bles stor e s butchers. Milch cows have realized honeste been Imve been in great request. Good Thha rates for bought up at most remunerating prices. - e • ou s wed vegetables have also been very high. The va rl u ; ice fairs have been well attended, and the present big. r' have been kept up. Ll oll ' THE CSTEES OF TILE BIRKENHEAD Docss v. „ 11 —The lords justices attended at the court of chanC er . ? Tuesday to hear this case, which was an appeal from O 'Z fl order made by the master of the rolls, on the 18th Jw . ,) last, in consequence of an application made to then:o l ' Saturday week, and which gave them reason to glom that considerable inconvenience would result from dell' ing the hearing until after the long vacation; when, 11° ` / ' ever, the contending parties came into court this i noraiv l t none of them appeared to be exactly aware why the own there, or about what they were going to argue, th e appealed from not being drawn up, or indeed the Le 7 t,, of it so far settled as to enable any one to tell whether L.; was injured by it or not. All were, however, weed bit thinking that the matter might very well stand over Michaelmas term. The counsel at whose instance PIA pally the case had been put into the paper then ap olog :_ to their lordships for having given them the trcaitl'ot attending, and stated that his instructions had been ,08: important works would be stopped by the order The Lord Justice Knight Bruce : This is nothing: -' ) :4t it has been proposed to make an Indian court of us events, we were consulted on this. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—Mr. J. H. (n o el P re -+ the monthly meeting of this body, on l'iwor .._,,eared, from the proceedings of the FerrY:ol mittee, that the receipts for the past month were xS ti l l , 12s. 9c1.., against £2592 16s. Id for the month of jell 1852. The total receipts from the 25th of April t„°.. 31st in the present year, were £7454 15s. Bd., and o ' ll -0 0 like period of 1852, £6767 7s. 2d. The total exper d i4 from the 25th of April last to the 31st. of July, incT r al working expenses, rent, and payment on account 41 boat, werds sided a when it apy £5041 ss. 11d. The minutes were cor.'';o A lengthy discussion took place relative to the folio .0 -esolution, proposed by Mr. Willoughby, but afte lf n by that gentleman :—" That a commieif: to inquire into the various sources of roc 01 to the commissioners, as well as the vil l , c ocli , with a view to the adoption 0, ,easnres as may best enable them to keep their -Its with the bondholders, without pressing too L" .- 4- lic. ratepayers. liabilities. tak XX/ AVT CommrsslorrEns.—The monthly , 1 71 - 0 0 held on Thursday evening, at the Queen fla Iscard, Mr. Penny in the chair. The rem". ,t, Df the report of the special committee aPP° ise committees, &c., for the new board, vota aed, and, on the motion of Mr. Hill, second - 00' bllowing committees were decide committee—Messrs. Colbourn, .„ ( 1 s 4 6 ‘ nd Odell; finance committee-----bil Hotel, I Works ancll Callow, Wik ;Irump ; Ne,ijle! Messrs: Lawrence aeration the Mr. Neville cxaten , had exceeded_its powers , in mal Imbe ferry Chairman said he had receive Messrs. Colbourn, in which th( .guess to negotiate either for a lei. font and New Brighton ferries, ind other property attached thereto, ;reat length, opposed the appointment He contended that they could not , works except those of a permaneh providing steam-boats:he did not consider a permanent nature. To purchase steameL,'Ce olve an outlay of £lO,OOO or £ 12, b 00, and t0,;a1c0„..0 want a rate of not much less than 7 s. in the P e— l iDg 4.be required. He (Mr. Fisher) concluded by for lowing resolution :--::"r 1 . 1 4 a ease shall be sta` To bo! pc of counsel, on the following p o i n t s ; NATl}e'relo at ..ey to be borrowed under the Public Health e ra ,pplied to the purchase of steamers or other matte bo:, m ay be requisite to work any ferry. Has the bQ V.r7b work any ferry to be taken by theat,,, sfl oats :under contract, instead of pure 11361 ' . ..4 1 ? Can any toll or ferry age be taken bY "—A letter from Mr. Maw, requesting , en be -O liet Gas Company, to open certain roadsc,l4 .ntendence of the surveyor of the board, of, —Some routine business was then disposed power R Wallas, uljounied ,r or ScEKE.—The Tyrazely Herald 0 t ,. ° 0 9.0 .., a Hanley, who went over from Lond on to c at to:, -__agh of Sligo on ultra-Protestant princil-463'for to :e election, is at present in gaol in that to vi3 '•=lltp,o __Ael expenses. Mr. Hanley states that he only resist an overcharge, and he preferred gom l) 4,0 rather than submit. TILE HEMP TRADE.—The entire import of 1:331-tifip'1 into Liverpool is now about 7,000 tons a - ye ar ; So`tie the East Indies, Africa, the Mediterannean, i-Pd America, 3,000; altogether 10,000 tons a-year , v",t Se: £330,000, exclusive of juto. The re-exp? rts e ar , ce amounted to 617 tons. Liverpool now receives 1111 much hemp as Loudon, but the imports into , lately fallen off considerably.—" B. P." in the A, which holds good in London would equall Liverpo I, and as the Standard enjoys the elite of local patronage, the public should feel grateful to you, as I do, for giving them the full nefit which you propose.—l am, Sir, AN OBSERVER PUBLIC DIPROVEIf TO SAMUEL ITOLMB, ESQ SIR,—I would beg leave to urge upon t ion of your worship the necessity of pressing forward labours of the special Improvement Committee recently 'ed, in order o prepare a General Improvement Act for the sion of Parliament No time is to be lost, it Liverpool is to maintain her position. Let us not be behind other plaees ; London, Paris, and other cities are carrying out magnificent schemes; then why should this town remain a bye-word, and be reproached as a laggard in the march of nprovement in this age of progress ? As a seat of commerce, she stands un rivalled. In any bill that may be submitted to the Legisla ture, I would not have the dwellings of the labouring class overlooked or omitted ; let this form a part or portion of it. To render the measure complete in a sanitary point of view, I would also suggest the present site of the old Gas Works, Dale-street, now the property of the Corporation, as a fit and proper place whereon to erect salt water baths, a public museum, and library, &c. I aro, Sir, respectfully your obedient servant, L'INCONNU. Liverpool, 6th August, 1853 P.S.--I have not heard whether it is the intention of the Council to provide a vegetable market, much wanted, in a central situation announce his name and business to the I Of ti igs for an advertise- Lsands of t I the fact whereas the expenditure of a fey ment in a re table newspaper wo known in a much ma here are many who those who have either to dispose of wouli particulars in a short advertisement, a says the of making all wants known tt that the cost has been reduced to suc nything, I shall first refer to my newspaper, nan to whom I shall apply I quite a, gree with y remarks, advertising," upon the folly of expecting an , the gratuitously circulated advert'• that I have seen hundreds of them at d ave never been opened, bat to be used as waste paper o, otherwise destroyed subject, I have made diligent em iry, and yet found one who had read or attempted to .se sheets, though he ad receivel them regularly, and ha ler oppor- There is certair 37 star. tdalits of old the Czars of s anything by THE GREEK CHURCH TO TRH EDITOR OP TIIE LIV: "ERPOOL STANDARD SIR,—As I attempted last week to give a very succinct ac count of the origin of the Greek Church, I shall proceed this week with an elucidation of its progress from the earliest ages up to the present time. The rumours of a pacific solution to the differences existing between Russia and the Porte for the last few days may, in some measure, have drawn the minds of men from so prevailing a subject. But still, though state ments appear to show that the matter which has been so long pending will be amicably settled, that as soon as the combined Fleets shall be withdrawn from the Bay of Besika, the Rus sian troops will vacate the Turkish provinces which they now occupy.---still the grasping ambition of the Northern Bear varies not nor is at all abated, and Turkey is, most assuredly, the object of hls long-cherished desires—desires which have been fondly nourished by many of the predecessors of the Emperor Nicholas. The remarkable observations which " Na• , oleon le Grand" has left us in O'Meara's "Voice from St. Helena," vol. 2, from pages 69 to 72, at the present juncture, are well worthy of attention. But I must proceed to the subject of my letter, viz.,—the progress and pre sent state of the Greek Church. Several of the patri archiates in the seventh century suffered by the Periian army under Chosroes, followed by the inroads of the Saracens, who first seized upon and conquered Antioch, (A.D. 634) then Jerusalem, (A.D. 637) and finally, Alexandria, (A.D. 640). In (A.D. 714.) the Sarccens crossed the sea which separates Spain from Africa, routed the army of Roderic King of the Spanish Goths, and subdued the greater part of that country, and though Charlemagne (A.D. 778) marched a large army into Spain, with a design to rescue that country from them, and met with considerable success, yet he did not fully accom plish his wishes. In Spain, in Sardinia, and in Sicily, which they laid waste, was the power of their arms also felt;—they possessed besides Syria, Egypt, and Palestine. (A.D. 1453) the Turkish forces advanced to Constantinople, and after a vigor ous siege won it and made it the imperial residence of their Sultan. Thus was the Eastern Church under a state of vassal age, passing through a chequered scene of persecution and repose, tolerated certainly, but exposed to scorn. To show the servility of the Greek Patriarch, it has been said that be tween the years 1620 and 1671, the Patriarchal throne was vacant no less than nineteen times. The position of rank in the Greek Church has been usually a position of danger. The martyrdom of Gregory, born in 1739, Patriarchate of Con. stantinople, 1796, also the martyrdom of Jewelrias of Phila delphia, (A.D. 1657) of Dionysius of Smyrna, (A.D. 1763) and of Dionysius of Ephesus, (A.D. 1818) sufficiently show the cruelty exercised by the Turks towards the Greek Church, Though the Church suffered many trials and afflictions under the sway of the crescent, the darkness of the picture is someL what relieved by the progress it made in the vast and exten sive kingdom of Russia. Tradition says that the Apostle Andrew predicted that the light of Divine grace should shine forth on the hills of Kiet, but passing over that point, credi ble historians assert that in the year 886, during the reign of Ruric, the founder of the Russian Empire, two princes of Kieff appeared before the walls of Constantinople with a force of 200 armed boats. Michael 111., by the advice of his priests, ordered in this emergency the miraculous robe of the Virgin to be produced, and to be cast into the sea. The effect caused have was embraced Christianity. The next conversion. v most prevalent 'religion; hov r, the Christian faith still progressed. Vladimir the Great, grandson to Olga, appears to have possessed a superior mind, and being impressed with the Christian religion, which appeared to him to be one of 7e so d agan worshippers, entirely becoming at first a convert to the religion of Olga, and being also restless and enterprising in his nature, com missioned ten of his subjects to inquire into the tenets of the various religions, viz., Mohammedan, Jew, Romanist, and Greek, with the character and conviction of those who pro fessed them. Having a prepossession for the Greek faith, which was confirmed by the address of the Greek Envoy, who explained to him the scheme of Redemption, and a'so the report which his own nobles brought back of the impressiveness of the service in the Church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople, decided him to embrace the Eastern form of Christianity. Space will not allow us to enter more into the subject, inter esting as it is, but next week I shall continue it to the year 1852. The subject is one with which many are unacquainted, and therefore I trust it will not be unacceptable to your readers. Errata.—ln my former letter, for " Filiogue," read " Fill oque." For "SOO years have elapsed," read "nearly elapsed." Birkenhead, Augnst 6, 1853. G. B. H. HORTICULTU.72.E. --*- STOVE AND GREENIIOUSE.—Many plants are now going out of bloom, and must be allowed to rest ; this is done by removing them to a cooler atmosphere, and withhold ing all stimulation in the way of liquid manure, and, in some cases, such as Aehimenes, some Cape bulbs, as Zephyranthus and others, of water. Pay attention to the Cinerarias, Chinese primulas, seeding Calceolarias, and other things now coming forward for winter decoration. Chrysanthemums require attention, and it is desirable to strike a number of the tops of the growing stems, so that short flowering plants may be obtained for decorating the conservatory shelves. FLOWER GARDEN.—It is an excellent time for taking cuttings of such choice herbaceous plants as strike the cultivator as worthy his attention, because, if left later, they are very apt to be forgotten. There is scarcely a hardy plant which may not be now propagated with a little care. Cuttings of pansies, pipings of pinks, and various other things, should also be provided, and struck without delay. KITCHEN GARDEN.—The potato disease is showing it self again this season, therefore no time must be lost in filling every inch of ground with winter vegetables, such as the various kinds of cabbage, greens, brocoli, and turnips. Celery should receive frequent waterings with liquid manure. Times. et Tu • r SEA SNAKE.—This beautiful vessel is at staple, rapidly preparing for sea, her destinationnDrat being Liverpool, from which port it is expecteli;e 0•05 will obtain a freight to some distant part 0f ° 1,4 4 She is a perfect model as to symmetry, and th? Ic e d c a have a preference for the stouter built old-faslu.`t' of vessels, over the clippers of the present daY , l n ot ' t it the effect of detracting from her beauty. difficult to imagine an alteration which NS-Oulu._ Ga.se th g ___F,rete s i tie lewd REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES 81L.1. --- • ar d C Ll ;ifit against this bill, from Messrs. Leatharn , Te w, fifa.9 (l ,ter , Wakefield, bankers, appears in the Banke r f s r le` a ro,i for the present month. Not having re 4 n a t o )te t IY I we can only refer our readers to it, and clu- les tli'f•P graph :—" There are three broad which appear to us to be decidedly objectionai as doe is, that it centralises • the second, that it reglui o " ACC/DENT AT TUE Iforsgs OF PABLIAMENT.--On sure of private affairs, which is unnece' s Flero'4 Thursday another serious accident occurred by the fall of security of the public, and may prove 1111 : 1 , e ycaS one of the masons from the scaffolding of the dock tower, third, that it throws daily impediments in by which the poor fellQw baclloth legs broken. ' daily commerce cf the country." :ed with the slue quality circulating s more ad 'old good in T 9, 1853. AND WALES .entary