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THE FRIENDS WE CAN TRUST. (FROM A FORTHCOMING VOLUME, BY MISS MARION P. AIRD, OF KILMARNOCK.) LONG, long years of trial The faithful may prove, The truth of the friends Whom no change can remove; The frost-breath of falsehood The diamond may rust, But true as the magnet The friends we can trust. All joy to the faithful — The friends ever dear— Who in sorrow can gladden, In darkness can cheer; Let others deceive thee, And dust cleave to dust, There are some still, believe me, "The friends we can trust." The green leaves of summer May wither away, And joy melt like snow-fall In winter's decay; The rose.bloom of beauty May slumber in dust, But a rock to the ocean The friend we can trust. Yes, earth were a desert Unblest with a friend. In sadness to soothe me, In s'ckness to tend ; Till the last link is broken, And dust turns to dust, May Heaven still leave me The friend I can trust. Then fear not the faithful, For truth cannot fail, Though Satan its pillars Of marble assail ; The strength of the mountain May crumble in dust, But the shields of the earth Are the friends we can trust, LITERATURE. BOORS FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c. intended for review, may be 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. Notes on Herodotus. By Dawson W. Turner, M.A. London : H. G. Bohn. This handsome volume presents at the outset two substantial claims upon our attention. It is one of the admirable series of books in Bohn's Philological Library, and is, moreover, from the pen of an accomplished Oxford scholar, who now occupies the honourable post of head master in the Royal Institution School, Liverpool. A third recom mendation will be:found in the suggestive statement that the present is the " second edition, with numerous additions and corrections." Mr. Turner's modesty prevents him from claiming the amount of credit which he deserves for his tasteful and judicious commentary; and, while hardly any pre tence is made to originality, he has succeeded in producing a volume which, above all others treating on the same subject, must be invaluable to students in the universities, to the higher classes in schools, and to the youth who is well advanced in the work of self-education. The type is clear and bold, and, though not costly by any means, the book is a credit to Mr. Bohn. Autographs for Freedom. _ London : John Cassell Mrs. Stowe and thirty-five other eminent writers have each added a stone to this little cairn of anti slavery testimonies. The hook has been compiled by the Rochester (U. S.) Ladies' Anti-slavery So ciety, and we have no doubt that the English edition will assist their funds considerably. The more prominent contributors are Mrs. Stowe, the Earl of Carlisle, the Hon. Horace Mann, Whittier the poet, Greeley the journalist, and Frederick Douglas, the heroic slave. Cocks's Musical Almanack. A very neat little pocket almanack has just been published, for gratuitous distribution, by Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co., the eminent music pub lishers. In addition to the ordinary information, it contains some interesting notices of famous musicians, and a long list of recently published music. The Pharsalia of Lucan. London: H. G. Bohn. This is the first translation into English prose of the Pharsalia, of which two poetical versions in English are extant—one executed by Thomas May in 1627, the other by Nicholas Rowe. The present translation, on the same principle as the others in Bohn's Classical Library, is strictly literal, and is intended to be "a faithful reflex, not only of the author's meaning, but, as nearly as possible, of his actual modes of expression." Mr. Riley, the accomplished translator, has adopted the text of Weise, save in a few instances, where the readings of Weber and other commentators appeared pre ferable ; and to enhance the historical value of the work, the narrative has been illustrated by a com parison with parallel passages in the Commentaries of Cxsar, and the works of the other ancient historians who have treated of the wars between Pompey and Caesar. The mechanical, as well as the literary, getting-up of the book is exceedingly creditable to Mr. Bohn, especially considering the low price of the volume. The Boyhood of Great Men intended as an Example to Youth London : David Bogue. To place before the reader brief sketches of the early career of those who have fought their way to eminence in the various walks of life is the design of this pretty little volume. For the young this is the most attractive, and certainly not the least useful, department of biography. The ambitious boy loves to linger over the story of the mighty spirits whose names stand high in the annals of fame, and it is well that he should ponder the lesson they afford, for in every case he must learn that— The heights by great men reached ard kept, Were not attainei by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night ! Nature does much for man, but without a plication and study—without a stern, even dogged, adhe rence to well-planned purpose in our early years— success can never be achieved. Inspiration may have given to the world the poetry of Robert Burns, but to well-regulated perseverance do we owe the deathless works of Walter Scott and Dr. Johnson, whose minds—though perhaps inferior by nature, certainly not superior to that of the Scottish bard—were nevertheless by resolution and fixedness of purpose capable, in the long run, of achieving more for humanity. A glance at the gallery of great names cannot fail to prove that patient study has frequently distanced great natural endowments, and gained a more enduring fame in the future. What a melancholy spectacle was the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose early promise was blighted by a desultory manhood ; and, on the other band, what a hopeful contrast is presented to the eye of perseverance in the career of William Wordsworth, the plodding student of Nature, who, with a less auspicious dawn, left his most brilliant contemporary immeasurably in his rear, and is now wielding a far more weighty influence upon the age. Pleasing stories that seek to enforce such wholesome facts upon the mind of youth, as that success is granted only after sore toil and trial, and that uncultivated gifts must prove a curse instead of a blessing, merit a cordial welcome from all who wish to see youth incited to industry and goodness. And Mr. Bogue's little volume calls for especial commendation ; for the execution is scarcely infe rior to the design. The incidents in the youthful careers of many distinguished men of the past are well chosen ; the language in which these are re lated is simple, clear, and forcible ; many charming woodcuts by Birket Foster lend variety to the volume ; and altogether a more appropriate gift book it would be impossible to conceive. We com mend it to the patronage of kind uncles and aunts who wish to have honour reflected on the family name—who wish to see hopeful nephews rising up to assert success and respectability in the world, as well as to evince mental endowments above their fellows. The Dodd Family Abroad. London : Chapman and Hall. " The Dodd Family" are still economising on, the Continent, whence Betty Cobb indites a sor rowful epistle to her friend, Mrs. Susan O'Shea, House, Priest's H B epistle s ruff—an e cha racteristic gems. Here • " .trung with is an average specimen : HOW TO BREAK DOWN A MASTER. If ye seen the life I sometimes lead the Mistress, you'd you aft pity her ; but why would and rall ? wasn't I taken a way from my home and country put down here in a s t r ange place; and if I didn't spend the ay now and then cryin', would she ever think of razing my sperits with a new bonnet, or a p are of shoes, or a ticketfort play ! Take them azy , Shus y , and they'll take you t he e sa ßut if you show them the y 're in y our p ow er , take toyou e r: bed, sick, when they're in a hot hurry, and want you most; be sulky and out of sperits when they'r all full o f f un and go singin' about the house the day they'v got a dis.. tressin' letter by the post ; keep to that, and my Shure and sartin beleef is, that you'll break down the sperit of the wickedest Master and Mistress that ever breathed. Young Dodd, who has long since become a most accomplished spendthrift, says some good things. We select one at random : - - Here I felt I was on safe ground, for throughout life I have ever remarked, that when an Irishman is in diffi culties, a reprieve is as good as a free pardon to him — for so it is, the land which seems so thoroughly hopeless in its destinies, contains the most hopeful population in Europe Mrs. Dodd, too, has her say; and this afflicted woman would appear to have still sufficient spirit left to give -same utterances worthy of repetition IRISH PROSPERITY. I'm always readi ng v in the papers about the improve ment of .Ireland, and yet I get less and less out of it ; but maybe that same is a sign of prosperity; for I remem ber my poor father was never so stingy as when he saved a little money ; and indeed my own conviction is, that much of what we used to call Irish hospitality was neither more nor less than downright desperation—we had so little in the world, it wasn't worth hoarding. Douglas Jerrold's New Comedy. This comedy, acted with great success at Wind sor and in the Princess's Theatre, London, is about to be produced on the Liverpool stage. " St. Cupid ; or, Dorothy's Fortune," carries us back to r 715, when the young Pretender agitated Eng land. The first scene introduces us to a Mr. Under— Secretary Zero and his nephew Sir Valentine May, who are examining a pack of letters intercepted at the post-office Reenter Trundle Trundle. My master will be here, Sir Valentine ; but sends the key that,— Val.-Good. (Takes key. Exit Trundle.) As under secretary's secretary 'tis little enough I do : and luckily my uncle is such a glutton at official fare, he hardly leaves me the crumbs. (Opens box.) Why, what a batch is here Hawke. These the original letters—these the copies we have taken. Val. The true rebels, and their speaking portraits. Undone fools ! Pandora's box without hope of clergy. Hawke. Some of 'em droll, Sir Valentine : saving your presence, devilish droll. Val. Well, that government is still the safest that makes treason laughable. Hawke. Oh, Sir Valentine, we all laugh at the rising ; laugh like royal subjects. Still, there's matter in these letters that— Val. Mr. Hawke, you are, I believe, the chief hand at this nice surgery ? Hawke. Surgery, Sir Valentine ? Val. You best can operate on written men, for such are men's letters ? Best can open the locked lips of wax —best take out the heart of the secret—the brain of the purpose, and that so tenderly, the patient dealt upon dreams not of the operation, until a short way off be sees the hurdle and the axe ? Eh, good Hawke ? (Enter Mr. Under-Secretary Zero, leaning on Trundle, Exit Trundle) _ _ Not so well this morning, uncle ? Zero. Well, Val ? How can Ibe well ? With me the gout's a state barometer. I knew by my knee that the Pretender had landed, and last night I had twinges of all those letters in every joint of my toes. Val, (Half-aside.) The spirit of the seer prophesying thro' gout I Zero. Well, what's the worst treason ? Val. (Turning over letters.) I see none—scent none. Zero. Ha, Val, you've no eye for a plot—no nose. Once I was like yourself. Val. And now you'd see Guy Faukes's tinder in a dow. ager's snuff box ; and smell his matches in a spinster's hartshorn. Zero. And why not? But the treason there awaits us. Read, Val, read. Val. (Reads.) " From Alexander Macthistle of the Cannongate to Duncan Haggis, of the Golden Mull, to bacconist, Little Britain." Zero. Scot to Scot. Go on. Val. (Reads.) "Ye shall learn by these, Duncan, that the snuffs are no yet prepared for the London mar ket. They yet need a little scorching to tak' the noses o' the Southrons." Zero. Noses of the Southerns ! Hm ! Val. (Reads.) "Am glad to ken ye're getting on so bravely. Fergus tells me your Highlander looks bonny in his new paint." Zero. Highlander ! New paint ! Ilm ! Val. (Reads.) " And for the glory of puir Scotland, I hope soon to hear of a thousand mair in the streets of London." Zero. Now, Sir Valentine May, for a lesson in state craft. What is really in that letter. Val. Why, Scotch snuff in Edinburgh, and wooden Highlanders mounting guard at the doors of snuff shops in London, Zero. And is that all? Well, another. Val. (Reads) " John Ketts, Irongate, to Simon Quick, toyman, Covent Garden. Our advices inform us that the ship will sail next week with your order. One thousand common dolls ; with fifty samples, that work their eyes and mouths. With these, two hundred rock ing -horses." Zero. Well ? Val. Well ? Zero. And you can't see through this ? Listen and learn. The undried snuff is troops preparing for the Pre tender. The Highlanders in London. a swarm of kilts with the Stuart. Val. And the thousand common dolls, Sir ? Zero. Foreign troops. Val. And the dolls with eyes and mouths ? ___. The officers to command them Val. And the rocking-horses ? Zero. Cavalry, sir ; cavalry, as I'm a statesman. Val. Wonderful! (Aside.) Daylight's wasted upon a man who can see so much better in the dark. SERIALS FOR FEBRUARY. - The National Temperance Chronicle (A. Dewar, Liverpool) will be chiefly interesting this month as the parting legacy of the Rev. Thomas Spencer to the " temper ance cause." That reverend gentleman, who offi ciated as editor of the magazine, departed this life on the morning of the 26th of January, after a protracted illness borne with great Christian forti tude. Mr. Spencer, we believe, was a native of Derby, and from his earliest years he devoted him self with praiseworthy earnestness to the promotion of morality and happiness among the human family. The publisher promises a memoir in the March number. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (Orr, Liverpool) panders to no vitiated taste, and yet maintains its popularity. Among the note worthy papers in the February part, we observe an exposure of the Clairvoyante imposture, which must do serious damage to the pretensions of Mr. Ber nardo Eagle; a biography of Mr. Franklin Pierce, the new American President, founded on the recent work of Nathaniel Hawthorne; and some useful matter anent the Gold Land.—Punch possesses an additional attraction this month, in the shitpe of the almanack for 1853, albeit less smartness pervades its pages than on many previous occasions. We cannot be hard, however, upon the facile hunch back of Fleet-street,who really labours industriously to make the public " laugh and he merry."— Diogenes is a publication after the fashion of Punch. In its size, type, and general scope, it is precisely similar, though of course there is a difference in the artistic and literary merits of the respective periodi cals. The new candidate for popular favour is the most likely attempt of the kind which has been made for many years. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1853. THE MISSION OF DR. CHALMERS. (FROM DR. CUMMING'S BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE TO BOHN'S EDITION OF CHALMERS'S BRIDGEWATER TREATISES.) , It was pre-eminently the mission of Chalmers to show that Christianity was not behind the nineteenth century, and to prove that be who accepted the sublime but humbling truths of the Great Redeemer was wise in the highest sense. This was always true. But at the begin ning of the present century it needed a master spirit to make the world see it, and that spirit was Dr. Chalmers. One great value of the writings of Chalmers is the sup ply of materials of thought and illustration which they furnish to humbler minds. In this way his sermons have penetrated the theology of every land, and have been re produced in endless variety of shape and language. In his writings, as in a mine, is rich and precious ore. The best rectories and vicarages of England, and the most enlightened manses of Scotland are the mints in which the ore is still coined and reduced to currency. Useful ness is after all the highest proof of genius. He is the greatest man who is the most useful. Let us be thankful that Chalmers in his works is as useful as Chalmers in his pulpit. Being dead he yet speaks, and awakens echoes in the hearts of increasing numbers of every land. CANOVA'S FIRST LOVE. (FROM THE " 110YHO0D OF GREAT MEN.") While studying in the gallery of the palace, he formed a strong and fanciful attachment, which gave a colour to his life, and ended in the formation of some of his finest conceptions. One day he observed a mild, beautiful, delicate, graceful looking female under the gallery, at tended by a friend, who daily departing returned before the hour of closing, leaving the former to employ herself in studies, which chiefly consisted in drawing from antique heads. His eye was arrested as the eye of genius only can be, and his heart touched with such sympathetic sen sations as the pure alone can feel. For some time he worshipped her at a distance, as an Indian does a star. Accident first placed the youthful pair near each other, and henceforth Leonora was irresistibly attracted to select such models as brought him nearest the fair unknown. And, while leaning on the shoulder of her attendant, she praised his work in accents which were like angelic music to his ear, and long treasured up in the most consecrated spot of his memory. At length this object of his sweet adoration was absent, and the y oung an d asp i r i ng sculp tor was miserable. Ere long, however, the attendant appeared, but alone, and habited in deep mourning. Canova's heart failed at the sight ; but, mustering up courage as she was departing, he ventured to inquire for her friend. "La 'Signora Julia is dead," replied she, as, bursting into tears, she hurried away, leaving the artist to subdue and digest his agonizing grief. THE FIRST PROSE HISTORIAN. FROM "NOTES ON HERODOTUS," BY DAWSON W. _ _ __ TURNER, M.A., OF LIVERPOOL.) as n sint susceptibly tnatural curious, , h el lively, d wri te. HeHwerrootdeotfuors a wr n o a t t e i 0 , insatia blywhiedhestihreoufisn and exci t t h em eir en h y gh fo es r t a ei n e a e t i i i o e n ne i e n , to cultivate prose countryman had but recently begun to oefarntosvhealtdy attained in its infancy. but in which philosophy was still its infancy. This c c o o m rd p e o d si i n fo r r e e: t n iol v i ;rs F . ub T li h c e tr fi a r n s s t ac h ti i historians i h a a n s g m en ig e h r t a , lly th b e e r e e indulge, without fear of censure, in the license allowed their predecesso rs the Bards. Books were few. The events of former times were learned from traditions and from ballads ; the manners of foreign countries from the reports of tr ave ll ers, it is well known that t h e mys t er y which overhangs what is distant, either in space or time, frequently prevents us from censuring as unnatural when we perceive it to be impossible. We stare at a dragoon who has killed three French curassiers, as a prodigy ; yet we read, without the least disgust/ how Godfrey slew his thousands, and Rinaldo his ten thousands. Within the last one hundred years, stories about China and Bantam, which ought not to have been imposed upon an old nurse, were gravely laid down as foundations of political theories by eminent philosophers. What the time of the crusades is to us, the generation of Croesus and •Solon was to the Greeks of the time of fierodotus. Babylon was to them what Pekin was to the French academicians of the last eentury. LITERARY GOSSIP. DR. LAYARD will preside at the annual dinner of the Printer's Pension Society in April next. THE HON. HORACE MANN, on being recently asked for his autograph, replied thus ;—" Why ask a Name ? Small is the good it brings. Names are but breath ; deeds, DEEDS alone are THINGS." FaoM his quiet retreat at Val Richer, in Normandy, the ex-minister of King Louis Philippe, M. Guizot, has sent out some portion of the results of his earliest studies on art, originally made during the reign of the first Napoleon. The book has been translated into English. IN a letter to Mrs. Stowe, the authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," the Earl of Carlisle says: " I have long felt that slavery is by far the topping question of the world and age we live in, involving all that is most thril ,ling in heroism and most touching in distress—in short, the real epic of the universe." MOZART'S excellent piano -forte Duet in F minor (an eternal piece of music, if there is such a thing,) was written for a piece of machinery attached to a clock. European musicians are now potentates and princes, given to curl the lip and speak of " the shop," if asked to accommodate themselves to circumstances, and to oblige as well as to dream. But, somehow, they are not Haydns and Mo zarts.—Athenceunz. YOUNG ENGLAND ABROAD.—Bayard Taylor, a young American who is at present travelling leisurely over Europe, gives a pleasant account, in the New York Tribune, of his voyage up the Mediterranean in December last. Here is a passage :—"Among the passengers there area number of refined and intelligent gentlemen, principally officers returning their stations in India, after leave of absence. There are also numerous specimens of Young England, in the shape of cadets appointed to the East India service. Nothing can exceed the astonishing airs assumed by some of these youths. Although between the tender ages of fourteen and eighteen, their shirt collars are twice as high, and four times as stiffly starched, as those of full-grown men. They generally sport eye-glasses, and are among the first to summon the steward for hot water in the morning. They carry cigar -cases of remarkable size, bet high on shuffle-board and quoits, and mix their whisky punches of an evening with the most scientific air in the world. English tourists are very apt to remark the pre cocity of American juveniles, but I certainly have never seen at home a greater variety of youthful swaggerers than is presented by this company of cadets on board." , VARIETIES. CON.-Why is Palmerston like the measles ?—Because nearly every administration has him once. A LADY advertises in the New York Herald, that •she wants a gentleman for " breakfast and tea !" DR. Duorr says that during his visit to Ireland he met a mob of children so ragged that if they had got entangled, it would have taken their parents a lifetime to have got them apart again. MENAGE, the Frenchman, had so short a memory that he wrote the following note on his tablet !—' Memoran dum : lam to be married on the Bth April.' After all he forgot the day. A YOUNG FELLOW offered to bet with the teacher of a young ladies'grammar school, who was boasting of the proficiency of his pupils, that not one of them would de cline a husband. A LITTLE STRANGER was found recently on the door steps of Mr. Strange, a gentleman in Boston. A stranger fact is, however, that Mr. Strange is the son of a gentle man who was deposited on some steps, in like manner, in the same city. RATHER SHEEPISH.—At a concert given a short time ago by the Latter Day Saints, at Llanelly, the proceed ings, says the Cambrian, included an imitation, by Bro ther Ephraim, of the bleating of sheep ! MEDICINE.—The best medicine in the world for most complaints is abstinence. Upon the first symptoms of disease stop eating and drinking, kiss your wife and children, take a pleasant book, and remain quiet. If you have no wife and children, put your feet into a pair of soft slippers, make a good fire and take an easy chair by it, and dream of them in prospective. You have no idea how like a charm this prescription will work, until you try it—and it isn't at all in the " doctor's books," either, good as it is ! ECCLESIASTICAL. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENT.-11TH FEB, 1853. The Rev. John Wills Brown, 8.A., licensed to the stipendiary curacy of St. Thomas's Church, Toxteth Park, in the County of Lancaster, on the nomination of the Rev. Isaac Ormsby Powell, the incumbent. ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of Cheater intends to hold an Ordination at Chester on Trinity Sunday next, candidates for which must send their papers complete to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., on or before Monday, the 11th of April, after which none can be received except under very special circumstances. THE BISHOP of Manchester has licensed the Rev. Jonathan Short, 8.A., late curate of North Searle, Lin colnshire, to the incumbency of Houghton, near Chorley, Lancashire, vice the Rev. T. R. Baldwin, M.A., vicar o Leyland. CLERICAL OPPOSITION TO CHURCH RATES.—At vestry meeting held at Frome, on Thursday week, to make a church rate, the vicar, the Rev. W. J. Bennett, in opening the business of the meeting, stated that he had for many years objected to the principle of such rates, and advised the meeting to abolish them altogether. A rate of 2d. in the pound having been moved by H. Miller, Esq., churchwarden, and seconded. an amendment was moved by the Rev. S. Manning, and seconded by -the Rev. C. J. Middleditch, that no rate be granted, and, on a show of hands, the rate was lost by a large majority. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS Rev. G. J. Blomfield, M.A., to the United Rectory of Bow and Broad Nymet, Devon. . . Rev. J. 80 - n(1, M.A., Vicar of Weston, and Prebendary of Wells, to be Assistant Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bath,. .. Rev. S. C. Brown, 8.A., to the Curacy of Marshfield, Gloucestershire. Rev. H. Calverley, M.A., Rector of Southstoke, and Pre bendary of Wells, to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bath. Rev. Dr. Davies, Rector of Gateshead, to an Honorary Canonry at Durham. Rev. C. A. Furlong, to the Curacy of St. Bridget, Dublin. Rev. R. Halburd, to the Rectory of Templeoran, diocese of Cloyne. Rev. F. C. Jackson, BA., to the United Rectory of Grade and Ruan Minor, Cornwall. Rev. E. Metcalf, to the Curacy of Delgany, archdiocese of Dublin. Rev. T. D. Milner, LL.B., late Curate of Allington, near Amesbury, to the Incumbency of Bulford, Wilts. Rev. T. B. G. Moore, to the Vicarage of Broxburne, Herts. Rev. G. Parker, to the Rectory of Killanully, diocese of Cloyne. Rev. T. C. Pratt, M.A., Assistant Chaplain of St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, to the Readership of Christ Church, Newgate atreet, London. Rev. J. P. Richardson, 8.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Leverbridge, near Bolton, Lancashire. Rev. J. Shoat, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Hoghton, Lancashire. Rev. J. R. Shurlock, Rector of Hethe, to be a Surrogate. Rev. J. Smith, 8.D., to the Rectory of Acton, Middlesex. Rev. 'l'. I. Steward, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Land scove, Devon. Rev. J. Stedman, to the Stipendiary Curacy of the Chapel of Scarisbrick, in the parish of Ormskirk, Lancashire. Rev. T. Thackeray, M.A., Head Master of Bishop Auckland Grammar School, to the Perpetual Curacy of Usworth, near Gateshead. PROTECTION ASSOCIATION. The dissolution of the " National Association for Pro tection" took place on Monday last week. The Duke of Richmond presided, opening the proceedings by read ing a long letter from Mr. George Frederick Young, now at Geneva, recommending the course pursued. Still a Protectionist, "from the first announcement of the policy of her Majesty's (late) Government, it was evident to me that the cause of Protection was lost, and the formal abandonment of the principle has therefore occa sioned me no surprise." Denying that the present pros perity of the country is owing to Free-trade, Mr. Young insists that under Protection it would have been greater. It is, however, " obvious that any present attempt to re vive a contest for Protection must be useless," therefore be recommends the dissolution of the association, as, although " powerless for good, such an association might be rendered, under very conceivable circumstances, in strumental to much evil." The Duke of Richmond expressed his general concur rence in the letter, and thought they ought no longer to agitate, " having no party in Parliament prepared to sup. port their views." His Grace believed fully the day of reaction would arrive, but thought the continuation of the association more likely to retard than assist it. Mr. Ball, M.P., then p'roposed a formalresOlOtion that " no rational expectation can be entertained of inducing the present Parliament to return to a protective system." He declared that he neither abandoned nor repudiated Protection, and recommended what should be their future conduct as individuals :—" For his part, be thought it had now become their duty to demand of the Legislature that the principles so rigidly enforced towards the agri cultural interest should be extended to all other interests. It occurred to him that the wisest and best way of shaping their course now, was to say to those interests, ' As you oblige us to sell our commodities at the same price as the foreigner, we ask to be placed in the position of being able to produce as cheaply as the foreigner.' Therefore he would demand free-trade in everything." Alderman Thompson, M.P., seconded the resolution, declaring that present prosperity was not owing to Free trade, which had nearly ruined the country in 18M, the most disastrous year it ever had. Mr. Chowler, in supporting the resolution, said it was a monstrous piece of injustice that the cultivator of the soil, exposed as he was to competition with the whole world, should be taxed upon the use of his own produce e n x t e t n e extent e d o f that. fromr h e s eovue ought t y - t fi o v e b t e o r a e e u v n e d d r hundred o m p e r t h c e s n r t e . and th c e o striction by the total repeal of the malt and hop duties. Resolutions for the dissol u ti on an d winding-up of the Association followed, with only one dissentient voice. in replying to a vote of thanks, the Duke of Richmond said he was arrived at that time of life when he could not hope long to be enabled to take that share in public affairs he had formerly felt bound to take, but younger men would be found who would remember that though it is easy enough for eloquent individuals to get cheers at one o tvvo public meetings, yet to be uniformly well received o the large class of the people , they must believe and know that you are honest and straightforward. CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the reanarne and address of the writer, not for publication, but ava guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite i 1 any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. SENTENCE ON THE ACHILLI CASE. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, •Sta,—The sentence passed upon the Protestants concerned in the Stockport riot last July, and that passed upon the erudite -slanderer of Dr. Achilli the other day, with similar sentences, for lighter offences. in other places, afford a handle to the -working-men of this country to prefer charges of partiality against the members of the judicial bench. At a large work shop, where my son is "a gentleman apprentice," the conver sation amongst the men is generally connected wirh the injus tice of judicial sentences such as those to which I have alluded. Often it is said by them that Papistsmay violate any and every law with comparative impunity from our Protestant judges; but that Protestants, for far lighter offences, must undergo the severest punishment which the law can inflict. It has been asked frequently by these honest, out-spoken men, " Is this British justice? Are our judges acting impartially, or through fear? Is it their object to deal tenderly with the cruelties of Popery, and to fix the iron grasp of the laws upon the indignant outburst of Protestant feeling?" Let me assure you that a spirit ,of growing dissatisfaction, at the conduct of some of our judges, is extending far and wide, and that the discovery of the existence of Ribbon Lodges in the manufacturing towns of Lan cashire, a few days ago, gave rise to remarks of the following character:—" What deep villains those Papists are, to plot our ruin, where they meet with nothing but kindness at our hands What will ourjudges do? Screen them by some quibble of law, or mistaken leniency, and lay the blame upon the Protes tants. No Protestant can be satisfied that Popish traitors be caressed, and their schemes of treason winked at, while loyal men are sentenced to fine and imprisonment for the most trifling offences !" Allow me to say that there is but too much truth in such remarks. I am, Sir, yours, &c., February 7, 1853. WATCHMAN. [Our correspondent appears to have taken rather an extreme view of the case, and relied rather upon the opinion of the work ing men to whom he refers than on his own better judgment. While every good Christian condemns the perversion of Dr. Newman, there are few who believe the character of Dr. Achilli, while in the Romish Church, to be worth more than the sum at which it was estimated.—En.3 TENANT RIGHT FOR ENGLAND.—No. IV. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I resume the subject at the point I left off last week, and shall in this letter bring it to a conclusion. The national advantage which would accrue from a law to give a tenant farmer a right to the benefit of his improvement, is of so uni versal a character, that there is no class of the community who would not in some degree share in it. The state would benefit, because agricultural improvement would contribute materially to the revenue, and the country would be rendered more inde pendent of foreign supplies. The landowners would benefit, because their estates would be increased in value, and their tenants would be rendered more able to pay their rents. The mercantile interest would benefit, because the necessary in_ crease of home consumption would conduce materially to the prosperity of commerce. The manufacturers would benefit, because the agriculturists at home are their most profitable customers, and every impetus given to agriculture at home creates an additional demand for the products of the loom. The monetary interest would benefit, because every impor tation of foreign corn leads to a drain of bullion and a disar rangement of the currency, which increased production at home would tend to obviate. The labouring class would be nefit, because agricultural improvement would give increased employment not only to agricultural labourers, but to those engaged in the additional manufactures which would be re quired for them, and both by being relieved from that compe tition which would be the inevitable result of agricultural decay. The capitalist would benefit, because a new field would be opened to him for the profitable employment of his wealth without resorting to hazardous speculations; and all the popu lation would benefit, because they would be enabled to obtain an ample supply of food for their subsistence. It will thus be seen that such a measure is fraught with prac tical and important advantage not only to the State, but to every interest, and to every individual member of the com munity ; and it cannot be shown that it could by possibility be productive of the slightest injury or injustice to any. The only doubt that could be started is the right of the legislature to interfere with private property, but numerous instances may be stated where this right has been admitted and exer cised. The 4th of Henry VII, chap. 19, the sth of Elizabeth, chap. 2, and the 31st of Elizabeth, chap. 10, compelled the maintenance of necessary farm-buildings for every twenty acres of land, under a penalty of half the profits. The 7th of Henry VIII., chap. 1, enacted that all lands converted from tillage to pasturage should be reconverted to tillage under the same penalty. The sth of Elizabeth, chap. 2, and the 31st of Elizabeth, chap. 10, imposed a penalty of ten shillings an acre on all lands which having been four years in tillage were not kept so, and enacted that no conversion of land from pasturage to tillage should be held to be a breach or forfeiture of any bond, covenant, or lease. In our own times we have the instances of railway acts, all tending to show that the legisla ture has never scrupled to interfere with private property whenever the public necessity required it. This necessity is proved to have arisen in the case of agricultural improvement, which can only be obtained by giving a legal security to the tenant-farmer for the outlay which he must necessarily make in effecting it ; and it now only remains to press the question upon the attention of the legislature with as much zeal and assiduity as was used in obtaining the measure which has helped to render it so urgent. There is one point of the sub ject to which I have not alluded, but which should not be left out of sight in any measure of legislation. I allude to the law by which all improvements on entailed estates, by whomsoever effected, become the property of the next possessor. It is this which has operated so prejudicially,by preventing the landlord doing that which both landlord and tenant agree in the neces sity of having done, but from doing which both are restrained by the dictates of common prudence. The possessor of entailed estates, having but a life interest, is naturally anxious to devote all his surplus income to provision for his younger children, and not to improve the land, which would but enrich the eldest son. What•is wanted is an act to declare the capital expended in the improvement of entailed estates to be personal property, disposable by will or divisible in common with other personal estate. We should then find the landowner not unwilling to invest his spare capital in the substantial improve ment of his own estate, for the simple reason that while the land went to the heir, the value of the improvements might be left to the younger branches of the family. I may sum up by briefly stating what is required of the legislature. Firstly, a law to assimilate farm buildings to those erected for manufacturing purposes. Secondly, a law to give the outgoing tenant, when removed by his landlord, a claim for improvements under certain restrictions, the value to be ascertained by arbitration ; and thirdly, a law to declare the value of all improvements effected by the tenant for life to be personal property. The subject is one of too much import ance to be lost sight of, and I trust it will be taken up by abler hands.—l am, Sir, AGRICOLA. --- No --_ EMIGRANT SURGEONS. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, S a,—ln the " Local Gossip" in the Chronicle of to-day re ference is made to the system pursued at this port and else— where in appointing surgeons to emigrant-ships. The infer ence to be drawn from the paragraph is, that hitherto inex perienced and incompetent surgeons have been put in charge of such vessels. Now, the writer of " Local Gossip" must assuredly be unacquainted with the provisions of the act of Parliament regulating the appointment of medical-officers. Clause 39 sets forth, "No medical practitioner shall be con sidered to be duly qualified for the purposes of this act unless authorized by law to practise in the United Kingdom," which, being interpreted, means, that the surgeon of every emigrant ship shall have a diploma from a college in the United Kingdom. As to the case instanced of the owners of the Marco Polo giving the high remuneration stated for the services of a sur geon, it is certainly very unusual, and requires confirmation by the owners. We may just observe, that the houses engaged in the Australian business here would, were no restrictions put upon them by the act of Parliament, nevertheless, for their own character as men of business, place only in charge of emigrant-ships medical men in every respect worthy to be entrusted with the important charge committed to their trust. As the writer of the article in question does not exempt this port from the generally defective system said to have hitherto prevailed, we think he pays a poor compliment to the emigrant trade of our port, which we consider, both on the part of those interested in it and officially on the part of the Government, to be the best-conducted in the kingdom, and with the most rigid adherence to the requirements of the act of Parliament. Yours, &c., PILKINGTON AND WILSON. Water-street, February 12, 1853. DOMESTIC POLITICS.—Home is a woman's empire, and a large one it is. Domestics are as complicated as politics. Our individual happiness is more immediately dependant upon domestics than politics. How many happy chil dren are there in the world who know not the meaning of politics, who cannot grasp even the idea of a political question, but whose whole comfort is immediately derived from good domestic arrangement, of w!lich they have some idea. And when that arrangment is defective, how speedily children perceive it—how soon they lose that fear and respect for their parents which form the chief sources of domestic order. How many keen and learned politicians, also, there are who have forgotten, or neglected altogether the subject of domestics, in the all-absorbing questions of national politics—who have made their homes miserable to them selves and others, by a passionate and exclusive study of one aspect of social life, as if there was only one aspect to study. Judging from the size of their own houses, and comparing a small house to a great nation, domestics seem very trivial indeed ; but when we consider that that small house is the poor man's home, from which he receives the greatest amount of his pleasurable sensations, it is a mere delusion, a logical sophism, to call it small. It is the largest subject of all. A man who is happy at home is comfortable anywhere, for the idea of home accompanies him wherever he goes, like a guardian angel, to protect him from ennui. And, after all, what is the purport of all political agitation, of the whole science of political economy, but merely to make the homes of the people comfortable ? Domes. tics, therefore, are greater than politics, inasmuch as pa litiCo arc only subservlp4 to domestic ends. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, FEB. 10 • --- --- Lord Chancellor Cranworth took his seat at five o'clock, COMMON LAW.—Lord CAMPBELL laid upon the table the set of rules and regulations framed by her Majesty's Justices, for the purpose of carrying into effect the inten tions of the Legislature with reference to their respective courts by the Common Law Procedure Act. MAYNOOTH.—The Earl of WINCHELSEA gave notice, that on an early day he should move for a committee to inquire whether the social and moral principles inculcated by the system of education pursued at the College of Maynooth are not opposed to the great principles of civil and religious liberty on which the Protestant Government of this country has been based. LAW REFORM. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice, that on Monday he would state to the House the intentions of her Ma jesty's government with respect to legal reform. CRIMINAL APPEALS.—Lord CAMPBELL brought in a bill to amend the act, which had for its object to stay ex ecution of judgment for misdemeanours upon giving bail in error. CHANCERY.—Lord ST. LEONARD'S introduced a series of bills with reference to the reform of the law. The first bill was a measure of further relief to the suitors in the Court of Chancery. He proposed by a new arrangement of the Accountant- General's office, and by an improved mode of managing the funds under his care, to enable the Court to reduce the expenses of litigation to any limit within which it might be thought desirable to confine it. One great object of his bill was to put an end to the pre sent unseemly system of brokerage on the suitors' fund ; and'another was, by a new and careful administration of the unclaimed dividends, to give the court new funds with which to relieve the suitors. LUNACY.—LORD ST. LEONARD'S said the next bill was one of three, relating to lunatics. The great object of this bill was to regulate the proceedings of the court with reference to the property of lunatics under it. The effect, if passed into a law, would be to lessen the expense of inquiry in such cases, to prevent the unnecessary sum moning of juries, to prevent unnecessary references from the Lord Chancellor to the Masters in Lunacy, to prevent the unnecessary attendance of next of kin, which was often attended with great expense, and to introduce, for the first time, chamber practice on the part of the Lord Chancellor with reference to lunatics. The second bill with reference to lunacy contemplated the consolidation of all the laws relating to lunatic asylums. The third bill connected with lunacy provided for the care and treat ment of lunatics. It was an amendment on the act com monly designated Lord Shaftesbury'sAct, which appointed commissioners for the visiting of lunatic asylums, and it contained a considerable number of provisions which would be found to be an improvement upon the original act. BANKRUPTCY.—Lord ST. LEONARD'S said the next bill related to bankruptcy. It contained a variety of provi sions, but its chief object was to induce persons who be came insolvent, and, in the common acceptation of the phrase, " incapable of meeting their obligations," to go at once into the Court of Bankruptcy, without fear and without shame, In order to accomplish this he proposed, inter alia, to abolish first, second, and third-class certifi cates. CRIMINAL LAW.—Lord ST. LEONARD'S said his lastbill related to a digest of the criminal law, which he proposed should be effected by a series of measures. That which he now submitted was the first in that direction. It con tained some general provisions, and laid down some general rules which would be applicable to the whole subject. MINISTERIAL POLICY. Lord ABERDEBN having moved the adjournment of the House, the Earl of DERBY said : Before the House ad. journs, I trust Her Majesty's government will allow me to put a question, or rather to make a single remark, which I hope they will not think an unnecessary one. Parliament having been adjourned and not prorogued, and a new government having succeeded to office since the delivery of the Royal speech, we have no indication of the specific measures which it is the intention of that go vernment to submit to parliament. I do not put the question in any hostile spirit, nor am I about to ask of Her Majesty's government any expression of the general political principles on which legislation will be conducted. The Noble Earl opposite gave some explanation on his first assumption of office ; and although that explanation did not throw any great light on the general policy of the government, but left us in a state of as much un certainty, as to the course:which will be pursued, as before that speech was delivered, and although, certainly, we are unable to form any possible conjecture as to the line of policy, or the general political principles, from the antece dents and previous opinions of a portion of those who com pose the government, I suppose if I put the question I shall receive merely the same sort of general explanation. I am not therefore anxious to ask on what principles the government is about to proceed ; but I think I have a right to ask for a statement of the measures they intend to propose, as it is more desirable the government should be practically tested by those measures which they will submit to the consideration of parliament, than by the vague generalities in which the First Minister of the Crown may veil the policy which it is intended to pursue. I am informed it is the intention of the government to make a statement in the other house of parliament, indi cating the measures which her Majesty's government will introduce. I think it fully as important that that state ment should be made here, because, from the circum stances of the present year, the early part of this session must be more than ordinarily occupied in the other house with business of a description in which your lordships do not interfere, and that will necessarily postpone legislative measures, however pressing, to a period of the year when it is very difficult to obtain the approval of your lordships and of theother houseof parliament. I think, more especially in the present state of parties, that nothing can be more de sirable than that the government—if they are desirous of conscientiously performing their duties and proving by the practical measures they introduce their capacity to govern, and yet not their capacity ,for of that there can be no doubt, as there has saldom been embodied a larger amount of ta lent than in the present cabinet ; but I will say—proving that the talent they possess is turned to its full purpose for the service of the country, and that whatever political differences of opinion may have subsisted between them on former occasions, they areable to combine and cooperate together for the purpose of bringing for ward measures which are useful and valuable to the country—that the government should have an opportunity of earning the confidence of the country and establishing its claims to that confidence in a manner far mere satisfactory than can be achieved by a mere declaration of principle, or by any announcement of the views which they individually entertain. They will have to be judged by their practice and performance, and not by their declarations of prin ciple, and I venture to say, on the part of myself and of those friends with whom I have the honour of acting, that if they bring forward such measures as we in our con sciences can support and approve, they will receive from us not only no opposition, not only no de sire on our parts to disturb the positions they bold, but nothing will give us more satisfaction than to find we are able to co-operate with them for the purpose of carrying measures useful and beneficial to the country. —Earl FITZWILLIAM thought that his noble friend might not only very prudently, but very properly, postpone the satisfaction of the noble Earl's curiosity.—The Earl of ABERDEEN said that most of the measures determined on would originate in the House of Commons, and he be lieved that it was not the practice to announce in that house measures which were to be brought forward in the House of Commons.—The Earl of DERBY had hoped for a more satisfactory answer from the noble earl. That in formation, as given elsewhere, with the noble earl's full sanction, would be in all the newspapers on the following morning.—Earl FITZWILLIAM said that the statement in the House of Commons would be of measures to bein troduced in that house, which measnres it would, therefore, be irregular to have announced in their lordships' house. —The Earl of DERBY would limit his question, and ask the noble lord what measures he intended to submit to their lordships in the course of the session ?—After a few seconds' pause, no noble lord having risen, the Earl of DERBY said,—Does silence mean no measures ?—The Earl of ABERDEEN made some observation, but it was not heard in the gallery.—The Earl of DERBY : May I be permitted to ask what measures will be introduced in this house ? I have the sanction of my noble friend on the cross-benches for puttin g thi s quest i on. —N o answer was given ; and, the question of adjournment being put by the Lord Chancellor, their lordships adjourned. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY n. A conversation took place between the Marquis of Clan ricarde, the Earl of Hardwicke, and Viscount Canning, relative to the appointment of Mr. Frederick Hill to an office in the post-office, he having had no previous ex perience in the office. The conversation merely produced the explanation, that Mr. Hill was the best person who could have been selected under the circumstances. THE AFFRAY AT SIXMILE BRIDGE The Earl of CARDIGAN brought under notice the Sixmile Bridge affair, inquiring whether it was the inten tion of the government to prosecute the soldiers against whom a coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder; also whether it was intended to prosecute the Romish priests who had incited the populace to violence against the mili tary.—Earl ABERDEEN replied that both subjects were now under the consideration of the Irish government. The house adjourned at twenty minutes to seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, FEI3. 10. The house met for the first time since the Christmas recess. The benches on the ministerial side were well filled, but there was a very thin attendance of opposition members. A large number of members presented them selves to be sworn, most of whom are members of the new ministry, who have been re-elected during the recess. The only members of the late government present at the sitting of the house were Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Dis raeli, Mr. Walpole, Sir F. Kelly, and Mr. F. Mackenzie. . . , A new writ was ordered for the county of Forfar, in the place of Colonel Lauderdale Maule, who has accepted the office of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. MINISTERIAL MEASURES. Lord J. RUSSELL, after a brief preliminary, said, what I now propose to do is, for the convenience of the house, to state the course which the government mean to pur sue with respect to the measures which will form the principal business that will be brought forward for the consideration of the house during the present session. her Majesty's government intend, as soon as the esti mates can be prepared and delivered to members, to bring under the consideration of the house the various estimates for the year. With respect to the navy esti mates, I hope, on Friday se'nnight, to be able to ask the house to resolve itself into a committee to take those estimates into consideration. The Army and also the Ordnance estimates will follow in the regular course. With regard to the number of men to be voted for the army, the navy, and the ordnance, I beg to state that there will be no increase beyond the number voted before the Christmas holydays. With respect to the amount in the various estimates, there will, undoubtedly, be found a considerable increase upo n th e estimates of last year ; but when these matters shall be brought forward such expla nations will be given as I trust will prove satisfactory to the house. The measures which, beside these estimates, we propose immediately to bring forward are, in the first place, a bill to enable the Legislature of Canada to dis pose,o with a due regard to the interests o f t h e present lders, of the clergy reserves in Canada. The next sub. jeet will be introduced by the PreocPt pf the Board of Trade, who, in moving for the introduction of a pilotage bill, will state what are the views of her Majesty's goveln ment with regard to the various other matters respecting the shipping •interest of this country. I shall at a very early period ask the house to resolve itself into a coma mittee of the whole house to take into consideration the removal of those disabilities whi c h a re now a ff ec ti ng her Majesty's Jewish subjects. The next subject upon which I propose to make certain propositions to the house, but which I shall not do until the estimates I have already alluded to have been considered, is the important subject of education. lam not prepared to say that lam about to introduce, on the part of her Majesty's government, a very large plan on that subject ; but I am about to make a proposal which will tend to great improvements, and promote the cause of education throughout the country. After we shall have stated what are the views which Her Majesty's government entertain on the subject of an edu cation measure for the poorer classes, we propose to sta te what is the course w hi c h H er M a j esty ' s governmentin tend to pursue, and what is the proposition which they think should be made, with respect to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the commissions of inquiry into the state, discipline. studies, and revenues of those universities. Another subject which has engaged the at tention of government is the state of education in Scot land. The Lord Advocate of Scotland will bring in measure, in the course of the present session, upon that subject There is another question—l mean the subject of transportation—which has not escaped the attention of her Majesty's government. I need not now recur to the very important changes which have taken place in the Australian colonies. I will at once say, that it having been decided by the late government that transporta tion to Australia should cease, the present government entirely adhere to that decision. It is the intention of Her Majesty's government to adopt a course which has been rendered necessary by the changes I have just noticed. But it is impossible not to perceive, that ill' putting an end to the system of transportation to the Aus tralian colonies, it is necessary to look most seriously tO the question of secondary punishment. I know not what is the proposition which Lord St. Leonard's intends tcr make on this subject ; but I think Her Majesty's govern ment will have a proposal to make with respect to the' system of secondary punishments. I may say, therefore,* that the government have already come to the determina tion to put an end to transportation to the Australian colo nies, which determination will be carried into effect by the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Hereafter,. when those vessels which are already about to sail with convicts shall have left this country, it is not intended tO send any more vessels with convicts to Van Diemen'a Land, or to any of the Australian colonies. Im mediately after the Easter recess, or as soon as possible after that period, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will propose the financial statement for the year. That, of course, will be a very important subject, and will, no doubt, lead to a full discussion. 1 have no need, there fore, at the present time to say anything with respect to the measures which he intends to introduce. The Lord Chancellor will state in a few days what are the measures he proposes to bring in for the improvement of the law, and more especially with regard to the tenure of land itt Ireland. The House of Commons before Christmas re solved that two bills with regard to the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland should be referred to a select com mittee. It is the intention of the Chief Secretary for Ireland to move the appointment of that committee, when he will endeavour so to constitute it that a measure shall be arrived at by which we hope this much-agitated question may be at length brought to a final settlement. Such are the measures which her Majesty's Government have at the present time determined to bring under the consideration of Parliament. Mr. HAYTEK gave notice that on Monday, the Lord Advocate would move for leave to bring in a bill to facili tate the procedure of superior courts in Scotland. 013 Tuesday, Mr. Peel would move to bring in a bill to enable the Legislature of Canada to make provisions concerning the clergy reserves ; on Friday, Sir James Graham would bring forward the navy estimates in committee of supply; on Tuesday, the 22d, Mr. Cardwell would move to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to pilotage ; and on the same day Lord John Russell woull move for a com mittee of the whole house to take into consideration cer tain civil disabilities affecting the Jews. CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES-IRELAND. In reply to a question from Mr. FRENCH as to the intention of ministers in reference to the report of the House of Lords on the question of the consolidated annui ties in Ireland,—Lord J. RUSSELL said that the matter was still under the consideration of the government. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL Colonel Sionionp said a report had been very prevalent of late, to the effect that it was the intention of the noble lord opposite to abandon the Ecclesiastical Titles Billr about which he formerly professed so much anxiety. He wished to know if it was the intention of the noble lord to. move in the matter ?—Lord J. RUSSELL said there was no intention of making any proposition with respect to° that measure. INCOME TAX. In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, who wished to knout" if any step would be taken in reference to the income tax by Her Majesty's ministers, Lord J. RUSSEI.L said it would be considered in the financial statement, which• would be made after Easter. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. BRIGHT asked whether the government would bring in a bill for the reformation, or abolition, of ecclesi astical courts in the present session ? Lord J. Russza said a commission had the question under consideration and as soon as they reported on the question the govern ment would be prepared to introduce a measure. The house adjourned at a quarter after six o'clock. FRIDAY, FRB. 11. The LORD ADVOCATE took the oaths and his seat for Leith. JEW BILL. Lord Jour; RUSSELL gave notice that he would move for leave to bring in the Jewish Disabilities Bill on the 24th instant, instead of the 22nd. ROMISH INTOLERANCE IN SPAIN. Sir R, H. INGLIS drew attention to a decree which bad been published in Spain, prohibiting foreigners in that country, whether domiciled or travelling through, from professing any other than the Romish religion. He wished to know if any information had since been received, and whether the Foreign Secretary intended to protest against the decree in the name of Her Majesty.—Lord Jowl RUSSELL said Lord Howden was requested by the late Government to communicate verbally with the Foreign Minister of Spain on the subject. He had done so, and the answer was that the decree would not change the Spanish law, as it had existed before the publication of the decree. MORTALITY IN EMIGRANT SHIPS. Mr. HILDICARD inquired whether Government had caused inquiry to be made into the mortality, which , according to recent accounts from Australia, took place on board four vessel s c h ar t ere d b y th e E m i gra ti on Com missioners to convey emigrants between the ports of Liver pool and Melbourne.—Mr. F. PEEL said that great mor tality had certainly taken place on board the four vessels referred to, but it was chiefly confined to the childr,e n ,; Very few adults were fatally attacked. Pre cau ti o n ea' been taken to prevent the overcrowding of these ve ssels in future. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. Mr. SPOONER asked Lord John Russell whether 111 r. Sadleir had any authority for saying, on the hustings at Carlow, that " the noble lord had proffered !I political refutation of the course which he had taken withrespectto the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which that distin guished nobleman had had the manliness to proffer;" and for saying, that the principle of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been deliberately and openly abandoned ;" and asked the noble lord, whether the noble lord still th ou ght that the aggression of the Pope of Ro m e, w hi c h i n d uc ed his lordship to bring forward th e E cc l es i as ti ca l Ti t l es Bill, was " insolent and insidious," an d f u ll y j us tifi e d t h e intro duction of that measure.—Lord J. RUSSELL said that Mr- Sadleir had informed him that the report referred to was' not correct in the portions referred to, and he had state& what he really did say on the occasion, which he (Lord J. Russell) had no occasion to complain of. THE MADIAT, In reply to a question from Mr. Kinnaird, Lord J RUSSELL said there was no objection to lay upon the' table all papers connected with the case of the Maniai. . . The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a bill to authorize advances from the Con solidated Fund to discharge money borrowed for metro politan improvements on the security of the crown ' estates, and to charge the same on the London-bridge Approaches Fund. Some routine business was then disposed of, and the house adjourned. DRIED FRUIT TRADE.—The advices from Greece with reference to the forthcoming crop of currants continue to be uniformly favourable. The worst symptoms have as. yet manifested themselves at Cephalonia, which island was the least affected by it last year. THE REV. RICHARD LEE, of St. Dunstan, Stepney, has lately disappeared. His defalcations amount to up" wards of £ll,OOO, and a composition has been offered to his creditors of 6s, Bd., in the pound. A FATHER'S APPEAL.—The following touching adver tisement appeared in the Times of Thursday :—" Eleanor Clara.—ln trouble—Oh ! come to me. I will not alloy you, my child, to be thus hunted about by designing women, who impose upon your generous heart. No mo ney shall be spared to promote truth and justice. Call these country people nn more your relatives, for my sake. Your friend and father, T. J. D." THE LANCET states that insanity is on the increase among the working classes in the parish of St.Marylebone, and that none but those whose duties bring them in con tact with the sufferers, can form an idea of its fearful spread. There are now no less than 494 chargeable to the parish. In St. Pancras, insanity also prevails to an unusual amount, especially among the humbler classes. A COURT MARTIAL was held on board the Waterloo, 120, at Sheerness, on Monday, Captain the Hon. Montag° Stopford, president, to try a seaman belonging to the Boscawen. lie had repeatedly deserted his ships, and entered the army, from which he had also deserted several times. The Court sentenced him to four dozen lashes and twelve months' imprisonment. THE NURSERY AND THE SCHOOL—The care of the Hair in infants and young children is, by inexperienced mothers and nurses, too little regarded. No mistake car , be more injurous than the supposition that neglect in this' particular can continue with impunity. The seeds of strength or weakness are laid in the nursery ; and the ma" jority of the fine flowing ringlets, or bald heads of after years, are traceable to this early period.—OLDRIDGE' BALM OF COLUMBIA, long celebrated for its genial one invigorating qualities in promoting and restoring the growth of the Hair, is peculiarly fitted for application during the tender years of infancy and childhood ; and no nursery or school, where personal advantages are held i° any estimation, should be without it. For cleansing the. Hair, the Balm is most valuable, as it e ff ects t h e essen tis , object on the first application, and immediately remove 9 the scurf. For embellishing the Hair the Balm is pre' eminent. A smooth, rich and beautiful appearance, vcit h a gentle waive, or glos s y r i ng l ets, f u ll , l uxur i ant, and graceful, being the admirable results of its use. Sold by all respectable Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationer s ' Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 1 ls, per bottle ; no other prices are genuine. Ask for " Qldridge's Balm," and never be .... .,Per suaded to use any o th er art i c l e as a su b s titute.-131 lington•ptreet North, Strand London . • TI Rah day War chaff Cha: Hod Ls, Josii Dagl Hadi G. J Robi H. G Th Sind that mont of h cress in teri for tt eireul the vi anew delay, ing tt Court doubt Week 4, intim deter kirk Hele cons° stock for c c fixed then Mt coun alad th at Atin v Nv„l tlAt the, Of 0 1 OVvt i ape ° Oh3e theth e Per the IAT reu e the the , sire tion Garc Wid !ce the i The e on e. thic or' expe