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THE SLUGGARD'S REVEILLE. Awake oh ! sluggard. See the morning Through your window peeping ! Time and Nature do their work While you lie idly sleeping. The bramble climbs your garden wall; Within it grows the thistle tall— The weed—the nettle, sting and all! A harvest for your reaping. Awake—behold the lovely morning Through the world diffusing Light and beauty, health and joy, Which you're in torpor losing. Up ! from heaven the Over earth is streaming; Hill and vale are wide awake, 'With life and music teeming. The bee comes laden to the hive: But when, or how, are you to thrive, Who thus lie smould'ring, half alive, In leaden slumber dreaming? Awake—your heavy clay bestirring, Use your eyes for seeing. Quick ! put off the stolid sloth, And prove your nobler being. lden glory Make the little ant your teacher — From her wisdom borrow. She for future want provides, To save her future s - trrow. And if you've nought for time to crave, Oh ! have you not a soul to save, While every step is toward the grave, That inay be yours to-morrow? Awake! if in you dwells a spirit Born to live for ever; Lest the stealthy spoiler come Your dull life-string to sever ! Haste! the precious rosy moments Flee beyond o'ertaking. Each a swift-winged witness goes Where your account is making ! And what, if this sweet flower and dew Of life and time allowed to you, Be found perverted, in review, When you're forever waking? Arise—dig up your buried talent; Learn for what you're sowing; Ere the great Reveille sounds, And Time has done his mowing ! LITERATURE. H. F. G. Ilooxs 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. The Botanic Garden and Fruitist. London Groombridge and Sons. This work is under the patronage of the Queen, and, considering the beauty and exquisite finish of the coloured illustrations, is a really cheap pub lication. As a guide-book it will be found equally serviceable by the owner of a large or a small garden; and to the student, "in populous city pent," it must be a welcome visitor, for it wafts the fragrance of the flower garden and the orchard to our firesides, and tells us that— Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read, And read again, and still find something new— Something to please and something to instruct. Letters of "An Englishman." London : H. G. Bohn Here we have the modern Junius in a handsome volume for a few pence. The letters on Louis Napoleon, the Empire, and the coup d'ltat of December, have been considerably amplified since they appeared in the Times ; and the compilation is opened with an advertisement in which the remarkable author announces his aim to be "to denounce tyranny, strip the tinsel from success, tear the mask from the leprous visage of hypocrisy, aroynt the juggling fiend of Jesuitism, champion the rights of intelligence and reason, and trumpet the historic and eternal truth, that Despotism is national degradation and decay—Freedom, pros perity and virtue." lYe believe these letters to be the production of a patriot. We must confess they are not lowered in our estimation by the assaults of the great un-Englishman ; and their estimate of the French Emperor and his plans is, we fear, more reliable than that intruded by Richard Cobden upon his sceptical countrymen. It must be pleasing to those who regard Napoleon the Third as an impostor, to know that the two best books elicited by the doings of the Emperor are both revere exposures of that personage. We refer to Victor Hugo's famous pamphlet, and to the letters of "An Englishman," both of which contain passages of powerful eloquence, seldom equalled in the literature of modern times. Elementary School Atlas of General and Descrip tive Geography, for Junior Classes. Edinburgh : __.... William Blackwood and Sons The twenty maps contained in this demy octavo volume are reduced from the larger school atlas of the author, Mr. A. Keith Johnston, and include a map of Canaan and Palestine, printed, like its com panion plates, in colours. ,There is at the end a copious index of names of places contained in the maps. The justly-acquired fame of Mr. Johnston forms a satisfactory assurance that the work is well done; while the respectability of the publishers must strengthen the favourable opinion of its character. All that an able and experienced geographer could do in its compilation, and every good feature which the publishers had it in their power to introduce, are visible in this tasteful, cheap, and substantial volume for the young, which we cordially commend to public and private in fitructors. Chalmers's Bridgewater Treatise. London Henry G. Bohn. The recently-published biography of Dr. Thomas Chalmers has made the religious public of the south thoroughly familiar with the life-story of a man who, in his own country, enjoyed a popularity as a preacher to which none of his contemporaries attained. He had, on a few occasions, wandered from the quiet routine of a Scottish preacher's life ; and, under the auspices of royalty, and in the British metropolis, he had the distinguished honour of defending Church Establishments in a series of powerful and eloquent lectures, which quite took London by storm. But his labours were chiefly confined to the pulpits of his native land, and the drudgery of the Professor's chair in two of her universities. He was pre-eminently national in his character, although by no means wrapt up in silly prejudices. Like Francis Jeffrey, he could not feel thoroughly at home save in the land of his birth ; and thus his merits, except to a certain section in the south, were only revealed to his countrymen. And it has been asserted, by the best critics, that those merits were estimated at a sufficiently high rate—that, indeed, he rose to be a popular idol on the credit of preaching, which possessed no other charm than that it came from a large and earnest soul. A. matter of moment in the pulpit, this earnestness, and one not to be undervalued; hut now, we believe, it is pretty generally admitted that the depth claimed for the Doctor by thousands of his admirers vanishes whenever the oral becomes a printed discourse ; that the cumbrous and un wieldy sentences rolled out in the richest Doric, with tremendous effect, by the "old man eloquent," appear now dim and doubtful; that the specimens of humour which were wont to set many an audi ence in a roar, when uttered in that rough Fife ac cent, are now for the most part dull and dismal ; that, in short, the works by which posterity tvill judge Chalmers lack the learning and the brilliancy which might be claimed for them while their author was alive. This opinion has been confirmed in our mind by a perusal of Dr. Chalmers's treatise " On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man." Written in compliance with a request conveyed in the most flattering terms by the Bishop of London, and for a sum of money left by the Earl of Bridgewater for that purpose, the treatise is considered one of the ablest, though not perhaps the most splendid, of the author's productions. " It travels over most interesting ground," says Dr. Cumming; "and with a beautiful and m us i ca l pace, such as Paley neither knew nor sheaved. It pourtrays old thoughts in new colouring, an d throws over the investigation a splendour pecu liarly the writer's own." The work appeared in 1833, and enjoyed immense popularity. Now, for the first time, however, we have it in a cheap form; and, notwithstanding our previous remarks, we think Mr. Bohn has done well in marshalling this volume among the noble array of works given in the " Scientific Library." At the same time we cannot avoid remarking on the deformities which mar the beauties of the performance; and it has forcibly occurred to us that a judicious collection of the beauties of Dr. Chalmers would be an appro priate publication. We fear thatthe his sale of voluminous works falls short of the enterprising publisher's anticipations. It is even averred that, when purchased, the books are little read. Hence it becomes a necessity that an intelligent abridgment of his writings should be published : only by the adoption of such a course can his position amo ng the literary divines of the nineteenth century be rendered permanent. The volume which has sug gested these remarks, when we consider the beauty of the type and pap er , i s a won d e rful instance of Mr. Bohn , s enterprise and spirit. Its value is greatly enhanced, too, by a biographical sketch of Chalmers, from the pen of th e popular D r. Cum ming o f London, of which we may say with truth, that it is for the most part pleasantly compiled. Of course the adherents and members of the • Scottish Free Church will take exception to the spirit of the closing part of the narrative, which relates to Dr. Chalmers' disruption from the estab lishment, with which Dr. Cumming, as our readers know, is still connected. LITERARY GOSSIP. AI. JEST, a famous engraver, died suddenly at Florence a few days since. THE ROYAL ACADEMICIANS have elected Mr. William Powell Frith to the membership vacant by the death of Mr. Turner. AMONG THE PICTURES in the British Institution ex hibition, opened on Monday week, the Athenceum takes note of one by Mr. R. Ansdell—the subject, Lytham Common, Lancashire. It is favourably criticised. THE OLD CASTLE OF WARTBOURG, near Eisenach, is being restored by the Grand Duke of Weimar. The restoration of the hail in which Luther translated the Bible is finished. THE COUNCIL OF THE LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY have been considering a plan for constituting a physiolo gical section. There is no society in London devoted to to the cultivation of physiology. WHITECHAPEL has purchased the great obelisk which was exhibited at the Exposition of 1851, and placed it in the market-place. This will preserve in the metropolis at least one memorial of the Hyde-park gathering. - - - SHEETS are circulating' among the members of the Royal Society, and the societies established for the pro motion of natural knowledge, containing an appeal to the government for enlisting their influence to enable the learned societies to centralise their forces. A COURSE OF LECTURES, being delivered at the Mu seum of Practical Geology, Jermyn•street, London, by Professor Robert Hunt, are nightly crowded with work ing men : the charge to each course, sixpence. None save working men are admitted. DR. SWEINDJOERN EGILSSON, who 'died last Sept., has left a complete MSS. translation, in Icelandic verse, of Homer's " Odyssey." This is the first translation into this tongue of an ancient Greek poem. It is now printing at the royal press. AT THE MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUA RIANS, on the 3rd instant, Dr. Wiseman sent for exhibi tion a valuable MS., illuminated by miniatures, of the service and ceremonial performed by Queen Mary before her marriage with Philip of Spain, on touching for the evil, and on blessing cramp-rings. THE NEW PRESS LAW at Madrid orders that all matter printed must, before publication, be submitted to the governor of the place or the fiscal of the press. Editors must be 25 years of age—be in the enjoyment of political and civil rights—pay 1,000 reals direct taxes annually— and have lived and kept a house a year in the locality where they publish ! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1853. the surgeons, lawyers, clergymen, and who, boasting of high descent and unimpeachable family trees, suffered this shadow from the past to supply the place of the sub stance of the present. There could be no society while these things continued, and so we discovered." DECLIVITY OF RIVERS.—A very slight declivity suf fices to give the running motion to water. Three inches per mile, in a smooth straight channel, gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gathers the waters of the Himalaya Mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, at 1,800 miles from its mouth, only about 800 feet above the level of the sea—about twice the height of Sr. Paul's in London, or the height of Arthur's Seat, in Edinburgh—and to fall these 800 feet in its long course the water requires more than a month. The great River Magdalena, in South America, running for 1,000 miles between two ridges of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in all that distance ; above the commence ment of the ],OOD miles, it is seen descending in rapids and cataracts from the mountains. The gigantic Rio de la Plata has so gentle a descent to the ocean that in Para guay, 150 miles from its mouth, large ships are seen which have sailed against the current all the way by the wind alone—that is to say, which on the beautiful inclined plane of the stream, have been gradually lifted by the soft wind, and even against the current, to an elevation greater than that of our loftiest spires.—Arnott's Physics. CURIOUS MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. The French speak in the nose, the Germans in the throat, and the English through the teeth. Books and paper were formerly sold only at stalls, and the dealers therefore came to be called stationers. A poker laid over a fire concentrates the heat of the passing smoke, and creates a draught through the fire. Water is called hard when from containing too much carbonic acid it holds lime in solu tion. A pound of wheaten flour consists of bran 3 oz., starch 10 (z., gluten three quarters of an oz., and sugar one quarter. The spring of a watch weighs 0.15 of a grain, and a pound of steel makes 50,000. The pound of steel costs 3d., and a single spring 2d., so that the 50,000 produce £416. Turnpikes were so called from poles or bars swung on a staple, and turned either ways when the dues were paid. A turnpike road by law is sixty feet wide, and parish roads about thirty feet. Children lose weight during the first three days after birth ; at the age of a week they sensibly increase ; after one year they triple their weight, then they require six years to double their weight, and thirteen to quadruple it. THE WAISTS OF AMERICAN LADIES.—The unna tural length and ridiculous smallness of their waists baf fles description. A waist that could be spanned is an English metaphorical expression used in a novel, but it is an American fact; and so alarming does it appear to an Englishman, that my first sentiment, on viewing the phe. nnmennn, wag one of pity for unfortunate being's w hn might possibly break off in the middle, like flowers from the stalk, before the evening concluded. No less extra ordinary is the size of the ladies' arms. I saw many which were scarce thicker than modtrate-sized walking sticks. Yet, strange to say, when these ladies pass the age of forty, they frequently attain an enormous size. The whole economy of their structure is then reversed, their wrists and arms becoming the thickest parts of the body. Here is a subject worthy the contemplation of the ethnologist. How comes it to pass that the English type —which I presume has not, in every case, been so affected by the admixture of others as to lose its own identity— how comes it to pass, I say, that the English type is so strangely altered in a few generations ? I have heard various hypotheses : amongst others, the habits of the people—the dry climate. The effect of the latter on a European constitution would have appeared to me suffi cient to account for the singular confirmation, if I had not been persuaded by natives of the country that the small waist is mainly owing to tight-lacing. This practice, it is said, is persevered in to an alarming extent ; and if report be true, it is to be feared that the effects will be felt by future generations to a greater degree than they are at present.—Dublin University Magazine. VARIETIES. GIVE the devil his due. Certainly, says a contempo rary ; but it is better to have no dealings with the devil, and then there will be nothing due to him. FAME is like a young duck in a mud-puddle —very easy to see, very easy to talk about after you have seen it, bu it is an awful job to get hold of it. WHY is the letter D like a squalling brat? Became it makes Ma Mad. Why is the letter Y like a young spendthrift ? Because it makes Pa Pay. A GENUINE YANKEE thus advertises his wife : " On the 16th of August, on the night of Monday, eloped from her husband, the wife of John Grundy. His grief for her absence each day growing deeper, should any one find her, he begs him to—keep her." A Fix.—Johnson says be was never in a tight place but once, and that was when:he had an insane bull by the tail. Had be held on, be said he would have been drag ged to death over a stubble'field ; while if he had not held on. the critter would (have turned round and gored him. The question now is, which did Johnson do, hold on or let go? A GOOD PLACE FOR HUNTING.—" Well, farmer, you told us your place was a good place for hunting, now we've tramped it for three hours and found no game."— " Just so ; well, I calculate, as a general thing, that the less game there is the more hunting you have." Two VOCALISTS begged of Dr. Arne to determine whether of the twain were the better singer. After bear ing them—" You are the worst singer I ever heard in my life," exclaimed the doctor to one of the combatants. " Then," cried the other, exultingly, " I win." " No," said Dr. Arne, " You can't sing at all." LOVE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.—Men and women whose life was ceaselessly occupied with ideas and intrigues of love, were naturally always susceptible of its influence ; and if, as Rochefoucauld observes, " there are some people who would never have fallen in love, if they had not heard love mentioned," many persons, through bearing it talked of wherever they went, fancied they bad found it where it did not exist. Surprised at these effects of the imagination, some men endeavoured to explain them by causes of a most ridiculous character. In order to prove that the seat of lore is in the blood, Segrais re lates a story of a German gentleman, whose faithless mistress, desiring to get rid of him, ran him twice through the body with a sword. He did not die of his wounds, but, strang. to say, when he bad recovered, said Segrais, " He felt as much indifference for the princess as if he had never loved her, and he attributed this to the loss of blood."—Guizot. LIFE IN A FIFTH FLOOR IN PARIS.—The patient is old, ugly, and unmarried ; she lives on £5O per annum. At eight she gets out of bed. At nine she shakes the dust out of her little carpet from the window of her attic. At ten she sips a bail cup of chocolate. At e'even her nose gets troublesome, and she takes snuff. At a quarter-past eleven she says her prayers—short. At twelve she takes out of a drawer the silk string which guides her lap-dog in the garden of the Tuileries. At a quarter-past twelve she puts on her brodequin, and looks in the glass twice. At half-past twelve she sallies forth to take the air—what she does abroad who can venture to say ? At four she returns and scolds her dog, who forgets his manners in the streets. At half-past four she whips him. At five she eats her dinner —soup and a beef-steak. At six she falls asleep over a pious book. At eight she puts on her night-cap. At nine she sets her watch right. At ten she goes to bed. At half-past the lamp goes out for want of oil. At eleven she snores. Such is life at sixty in a fifth floor at Paris. TELL YOUR WIFE.—Yes, the only way is to tell your wife just how you stand. Show her your balance-sheet. Let her look over the items. You think it will hurt her feelings. No, it won't do any such thing. She has been taught to believe that money was with you, just as little boys think it is with their fathers—terribly hard to he reached, yet inexhaustible. She has bad her suspicions already. She has guessed you were not so prosperous as you talked. But you have so befogged your money affairs that she, poor thing, knows nothing about them. Tell it right out to her, that you are living outside of your income. Take her into partnership, and I'll war rant you'll never regret it. There may be a slight shower at first, but that's natural. Let her see your estimate, and when you come home again, she will show you that you have put her bills too high. True, she had had a guinea bonnet last winter, but " it is just as good as ever ; a few shillings would provide it with newstrings, and refit it a little ; the shape," she says, " is almost ex actly as they wear them now." And you will be sur prised to see how much less expensive she can make your wardrobe. My dear friend, if, like Spain, your outgoes threaten to exceed your income, be sure to tell your wife of it. Not in a tone and manner that will lead her to think you don't want her to buy furs this winter, but just as if you wanted a counsellor in the day of your trouble. And if she does not come up, heart and soul, and most successfully to your relief, put me down for no prophet. THE INCORRIGIBLE.—A good story is told in an eastern paper of the treatment of a drunken husband by his ami able spouse. After trying various expedients, all to cure drunkenness, she at last bethought herself of another plan of making a reformed drunkard of her lord. She engaged a watchman for a stipulated reward to carry Philander to the watch-house, while yet in a state of insensibility, and to frighten him a little when he recovered. In consequence of this arrangement, Philander awoke about eleven o'clock at night and found himself lying on a pine bench, in a strange and dim apartment. Rsising himself upon his elbow, he looked around until his eye rested on a man seated by a stove, smoking a cigar. " Where am I ?" said Philander. "1 n a medical college," said the cigar smoker.— " What-a-doing there ?" " Going to be cut up."—" How came that ?" " Why you died yesterday, while you were drunk, and we bought your body to make anatomy. " Its a lie ; I'm not dead." " No matter; we bought your car case from your wife, who had a right to sell it, for it's all the good she could ever make of you ; if you are not dead that is not the fault of the doctors, and they'll cut you up dead or alive." " You will do it, eh ?" asked the old sot. " Aye, to be sure we will ; now directly," was the resolute answer. " Well, can't you let me have something to drink before you begin ?" This last speech satisfied the watch man that Philander's was a hopeless case, and, as his re ward was contingent on his successful treatment of the patient, he was not a little chagrined at the result ; so, with no gentle handling, he tumbled the irreformable in ebriate out of the watch-house.—American Paper. A TOWN IN THE COUNTRY.—A periodical writer gives the following amusing sketch of country quarters : " There was so much party feeling, so much jealousy, so much pride, so much affectation, so much opposition in social matters, so much petty Miss I— would not go where she was at all likely to meet Mrs. K—; that Mrs. Buttercup and her daughters, whose father had made a fortune by bricklaying in this town, was now too high and mighty to associate with Mrs. Stanley, whose father wss about to retire from business. The surgeon's wife, from Wantage, because her family was related, through some seventieth degree, with the aristocracy of the country, would not associate with thelawyer's wife,whose origin was traceable to something like a clergyman's family at Read ing. In short, our unfortunate party only brought out or laid before us the actual condition of affairs, to which before we had been blind. Our doctor initiated us very speedily into the state of feeling prevalent in this quiet place, almost beyond the precincts of civilization, or rather that artificial process by which natural men and women are converted into stone automatons. We found that even those who could keep handsome establishments —live in handsome houses, dress in a handsome manner, who bad made their fortunes, by speculation, merchandise, or any other similar source, and over whose heads a whole generation had passed since the disgraceful fact of having attained an independence by their wits or energies —even oldthese family fa were l not admi t t ed wi thin th e therefore sacred p reei n compelledetsof the to y form a cot er i e , f r om which they, in like manner, excluded all retired t ra d es people,—those who had risen from nothing to independence : so that these again, in order to do as others did, formed another sub-society, from which all present d ealers i n merc h an di se —all still serving in shops—w ere utterly excluded, compe lli ng these again to fall back upon themselves; the large shopho ld er associat ing with his fellow —the smaller with his fellow; and , ao on, until th e c h arwoman who worked at Lord 8, held her nose above the charwoman who worked at Sir W. M —'s- We at last discovered that the only gentility of the town wall concentrated is the penal of CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of guod faith; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understoo that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. LETTERS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS.—No. I To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD S I lt,—There are various subjects which occupy the attention of the English newspaper press, each of them possessing a con siderable share of importance, and occupying, in a correspond ing degree, a large share of public attention. Politics, the Church, the Law, Education, Crime, the social and moral Im provement of the Population, Sanitary Regulations, Taxation, the Government of the country, the sayings and doings of public men, Colonial affairs, the Agricultural, Shipping, Com mercial, and Manufacturing Interests, Scientific Discoveries, popular Amusements, &c., by turns come under public review and form the subject of conversation. There are, however, several other subjects which, though considered not sufficiently dignified for editorial notice, are still not without importance— as eating, drinking, and sleeping are necessary portions of the duties of a minister of state—and, with your permission, I propose to treat on some of these minor themes, in the form of occasional letters on familiar subjects, and I commence with that of DOMESTIC SERVANTS I do not know whether Liverpool and its neighbourhood is an unenviable exception to other towns; but few will deny that there is almost a general complaint of the difficulty of getting a good domestic servant, or at least such a one as we can remember in our childhood, or our progenitors have told us of. I do not menn that such beings do not exist; but the great majority of families in the middle class of life, who are obliged to be content with one, or at the most two, of these domestic helps, find themselves in the disagreeable position of repeatedly changing, in the vain hope of getting a better; or of putting up with discomforts, for which remonstrances bring no remedy, and disputes in which a threat of discharge operates ineffectually. I will take the case of a small family in want of a servant. Application is made to the various tradesmen in the neighbonrhood who are likely to hear enquiries for situa tions, and perhaps in a short time there are several candidates for the vacancy. One had her last place in a public-house; another refers for her character to a distant place; and then it is verydubious as to those qualitieswhich are most desirable; a third cannot undertake to do any washing; a fourth has an objection to young,children ; and a fifth is dressed in tawdry finery, as though in emulation of her mistress. The majority of them are Romanists, who must go to mass and confession at most inconvenient hours. Almost all ask wages which a short time back were considered high for good servants; and now there is a further stipulation for a weekly allowance of tea, sugar, and butter, and perhaps beer in addition. Then comes a demand for part of the Sunday out, though it maybe directly opposed to your own notions of such a day being well spent. and sadly interfere with your own arrangements. But what, in such a case, is the poor housekeeper to do ? The mistress has the only alternative of herself turning household drudge, or putting up with a domestic which she confesses to her acquaintance requires more trouble to look after than it would be to do the work herself. This is no extreme case, but one which is in the experience of almost every mistress of a house- hold in Liverpool. She must put up with dirty habits, ill performed duties, and accumulated discomforts, for which a comparatively high rate of remuneration is paid, or try again with the same results, by being compelled to take another who has been discharged for the same faults. But, supposing that, in despair of choosing aright from the number who seem occupied in finding situations, she re sorts to some public institution where young females are trained and at a certain age sent out to get their living in domestic ser vice, she is not much better off. The new maid is, perhaps, too young to do all that is required, and never having been out before requires much teaching. After all, she may prove of bad temper, and vicious disposition ; the terms of the hiring may preclude the ordinary remedy ofdischarging her; and the slightest attempt at what should be wholesome coerrction may result, as was the case a short time since, in a prosecution for ill-treatment and cruelty, supported on the sole evidence of a girl, whose great fault may have been the very vice which is directed to the disgrace and ruin of those who have been so unfortunate as to have taken her as an inmate. Much has been said by sentimental writers about the intimate relations of a domestic servant with the family, as constituting a member of the household, and the mutual good feelings and confidence which ought to exist between them ; but how is it possible to preserve this amiable state of things under such circumstances as now prevail to so great an extent ? It is clear that there is something wrong in the system, and it is full time that some attempt was made to effect an improvement for the mutual be nefit of both employers and employed. It is by many believed that the class of domestic servants has been considerably deterioriated since the alteration in the Poor-law, by which the system of compulsory apprenticeship was abolished. Then the agriculturists were compelled to take all the poor children who had a settlement in the parish ; the boys were brought up as farm labourers, and the girls, after the regular habits of a good farm establishment, formed, when out of their time, good domestic servants for the dwellers in towns and private families. Now the children of poor parents—by the facilities for obtaining employment in manufactories—acquire habits of independence while still but girls, and resort to do mestic service as a mere change of occupation. Having had none of the discipline of regular training, they are of restless disposition, spending their money in finery, to display on their Sundays out, and, reckless of consequences, do not hesitate to leave a situation rather than amend a fault, although the result may be a resort to a life of infamy, of which their imperfect education conceals from them the misery. The blame, however . is not all on their side, for many housekeepers have the mse l ves to thank for the inconveniences which they suffer. They are not sufficiently firm in imposing restrictions; they too readily consent to stipulations, which they feel theyought not fairly to grant ; and concede indulgences which were better for both parties to be withheld. It is difficult, in such a state of things, to suggest an adequate remedy; but something might be done by the establishment of an Institution, similar to the Sailors' Home, where female ser vants out of place might find a shelter under matronly surveil lance, and their character be correctly ascertained. With such a resort, housekeepers could not have so much difficulty in ob taining a 'good servant ;, and this might operate as a check against the conduct of too many of the latter class, who do not hesitateto leaveone place and take the chanceof finding another. If the employers made it a rule to resort to such an Institution, the good servants would have the preference, and it is probable that this fact might of itself operate beneficially by proving an incentive to rood behaviour. I have thrown out these few wills, in the hope that the question, of which few will deny the importance, will be taken up by those who possess sufficient and am, Sir, yours, &c., inguence to give it a practical bearing; EPLIRA. ROMISH INTERFERENCE WITH RAGGED SCHOOLS. The following latter hay been addressed by the Rev. Dr. M'Noile to Mr. Power, a priest in connection with St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel in this town : SlR,—The mistress of our Industrial Ragged School has addressed a letter to the managing committee, in which she says that you and one of your brethren visited the school on Thursday last, and insisted on withdrawing some of the chil dren on the plea that their faith was in danger, especially because they were taken to divine service in my church. After a description which I need not transcribe, she says : "I asked Mary to go for a policeman. Finding a different reception from what they apparently anticipated, they became quieter, remarking that they considered a great indignity had been done them, by sending for a policeman, as they moved in the position of gentlemen, and considered themselves such. I answered, that when I met gentlemen, I expected gentle manly conduct, and as their's had been the reverse I had been necessitated to act as I did. I farther said that there were starving Catholic children or the streets that it would be better to look after and care for thsn to take children from a place where they were kindly treated, and that the children came here, we did not go for them; and, moreover, it was their neg lect of such children that ctused schools of this kind to be opened. Mr. Power repliedthat it was the souls of his flock he was anxious about, not their bodies, and quoted What shall it profit a man,' &c. The souls of those children in the streets are not in danger,' but oh! the souls of those in this place are in danger,' theref)re we will remove them, and by this day week there shall nit be a Catholic child in this school, nor while I am pastor of St Patrick's Church shall a Catholic child be permitted to comehere." And near the conclusion of the letter she says, "About this time Mary Ind the policeman appeared. Mr. Power tried to smile, remarking,' We are good friends now, behaving better;' but the other priest stormed and used some abusive names towards Mary, ordering her away, and asking me to do so also. Mr. Power then began to bravado about what he had done and what he would further do, saying, My name is Power.' You have already repeatedly said so,' I replied. Yes,' he said, 'it is a powerful name !' " This communication froth the mistress has been sent to me by the committee, and I am thereby induced to write you this • letter. I am aware that I need not, as far as you are concerned, appeal to the word of God as contained in the Holy Scriptures; because, although you profess to believe the inspiration of the Scriptures, you deny that they contain a complete rule of faith, and thereupon appeal to the Church as the authorised and infal lible interpreter of Scripture. I shall not now insist upon the fact, that although we know of men who, in their capacity of individual witnesses, have written what we can appeal to in proof of the inspiration of the Scriptures; we do not and cannot know or any men in the ca pacity or organization of a Church until we have the Scriptures first, because it is only in the Scriptures that we can learn what a church is. You cannot evade this, except by making the Church bear witness of herself; in which case we apply to the body what the Head applied to himself—" If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." St. John v. 31. But in the present instance I am content to appeal to the Church. My faith is the faith of the old Catholic Church, represented by three hundred and eighteen fathers assembled at the Coun cil of Nice, A.D. 323. It is what has ever since been known as the Nicene Creed, and received by the whole Church as resting on most certain warrants of Holy Scripture. The same was reiterated at the Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431, with a decree that it should be lawful for no man to " profess, write, or compose any other form of faith." The same was reiterated at the Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451, the Bishops exclaiming, "No person makes any other ex position of faith." We neither attempt, nor dare to do so." The same was reiterated in the third session of the Council of Trent, A.D. 1546, the assembled fathers reciting The Nicene Creed, and nothing else, as the faith of tlo Church. The Nicene Creed is my creed, the creed of the branch of Christ's Holy Catholic Church in this realm of England. How comes it, then, that you differ from us ; and in so doing declare yourself a dissenter from the thcrees of Nice, Ephesus, Chalcs. don, and Trent ?* The reason is, that you have unfortunately embraced a new creed put forth by the Bishop of Rome after the middle of the sixteenth ceniury. It was published as a 'creed for the first time, on the 9th of December, 1561. This new creed contains all the points of controversy between the Church of Christ and the Church of Rome—the Church of Christ as she was from the beginning, and the Church of Rome as she has been fer the last three hundred years. This new creed contains all the differences between you and me,—between what you teach and what I teach. What you hold ih common with the Church from the beginning, I hold also. Confine yourself to the faith of the old Church, and you and I will agree. But all that is peculiar to your faith is new. Of course you will deny this. Well ! To the proof. I have given yon chap. ter and verse for my faith. And I hereby invite you, I will not say challenge; the word sounds harshly, and I neither feel nor mean to express any harshness ; but I give you a fair opportunity to show, if you can, when and where the Church—not some heretical individual or individuals, observe, but the Church, when and where the CHURCH—ever proclaimed as her faith, any one of the twelve articles which I, as a Catholic, reject, and which you as a post Tridentine Romanist, a follower of the novelties of the 16th century, maintain. When I call them novelties, you will observe it is as articles of faith in the Church. Ido not deny that individuals, in the exercise of their private judgment, held and wrote many of them at a much earlier age—indeed I think it is easy to trace some of them to the Heathen schools of Pythagoras and Plato. These philosophers taught the sinfulness of matter, the holi ness of abstaining from certain meats, the super-angelic sanc tity of celibacy, and that the departed spirits of the illustrious dead were mediators betsseen the gods and men. In their gropings without revelation they knew no better ;—but I do deny distinctly that the Catholic Church of Christ ever embo died any of them in her creed, or that they were ever set forth by authority for subscription by the clergy until after the Council of Trent had finished its sessions, and the Pope saw that something more pointed than the wordy decrees of that council was required to stay the progress of the Reformation. Come, then, the press is open, public opinion is alive, more alive to this subject than it has been for many years, if you can show that your distinctive creed is the old creed, do so. and you will prove yourself better entitled to the name you seem to he so proud of, than by any conversation, however triumphant, with a poor school-mistress. If you cannot do this, if you cannot show that your faith, where it differs from mine, is older in the Church than 1564, you will scarcely, I think, be able to justify yourself in the eyes of the people of England, in taking a poor sick woman out of her bed and compelling her by your threats to go out in a cold winter day to demand her child from a school where the old Catholic Nicene faith is the religion taught to all the pupils. You wi❑ scarcely justify yourself in the assertion that the souls of children in the streets are not in danger, but the souls of children learning the old Catholic faith are in danger—in other words, that ignorance, and vice, idleness, blasphemy, and crime, the teaching of the streets, do not endanger the soul, but learning the word of God, and the creed of the Catholic Church does. You will, however, he a competent witness to prove that ignorance and vice, idleness, blasphemy, and crime, do not separate men from the modern Church of Rome, but that acquaintance with Catholic truth does. This is the sore place. To separate souls from God costs Rome little, but to separate people from herself coats her much. Therefore, she can forgive profaneness, and Sabbath-break ing, and theft, and adultery, and murder; for these she has easy penances, and easy payments, but she cannot forgive what she calls heresy; for this she has dungeons, and tortures, and death. The people of England were sluw to believe this. They thought it too monstrous to be true. But facts are forcing upon them the painful conviction, and you are adding your feeble note to the sound which has issued from the prison house of the Madial. You may treat this letter as many of your reverend brethren have treated similar letters from members of our true Catholic Church ; but, be assured, your silence will be ascribed, even by your own people, not to contempt, nor to the conscious dig nity of strength and truth, but to the norelhj of your distinc tive creed, and your utter inability to defend in the light the unscriptural traditions which you are teaching the ignorant in the dark. In conclusion, unless you can disprove the statements of this letter, not by mere assertion, but by documentary evi dence, I charge you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, not to presume to withdraw immortal souls from the teaching of the Church of God, into a conventicle set up by the Bishop of Rome in the year 1364. Waiting yoiir reply, and hoping that you will have the honest boldness, either toprove yourself right, or to acknowledge your self wrong, I am, Sir, a priest (in the sense of wpcaigvrepog, i Peter v. 1., for there is not, and cannot be upon earth a priest in the sense of hpEvc, i e a sacrificing priest, Heb. viii. 4, our sacrifice is ONE, once offered, and our priest is ONE, once entered into the true holy place, as our faith is ONE ; but in the sense of presbyter, I am, Sir, a priest) of the Catholic Church, HUGH APNEII.E. Aigburth, 15th Feb., 1853. *DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS, "These things having been read, the Holy Synod decreed, that it should be lawful for no one to profess, to write or to compose, any other form of faith than that defined by the Holy Fathers, who, with the Holy Ghost, had been assembled at Nice." " But those who shall have dared to compose, or to profess or to offer, any other form of Faith to those wishing to be con verted to the acknowledgment of the truth, whether from Paganism, or from Judiasm, or from any sort of Heresy, that these, if they were Bishops or Clergymen, that the Bishops should be deposed from their Episcopacy, and the Clergy from their Clerical office ; but that if they were Laymen, they should be subject to an anathema.' "—Mansi, vol. iii. p. 1362. EXTRACT FROM THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON "The Catholic faith delivered by the Holy 318 Fathers (viz, at Nice), and by the Holy 150 Fathers (viz. at Constantinople), also by the other most Holy and glorious fathers (viz. at Ephesus), we guard, and according to that we believe. The most Rev. Bishops exclaimed, No person makes any other exposition of faith. We neither attempt nor dare to do so. For the Fathers have taught, and writings preserved, those things which have been set forth by them: and other than these we cannot speak.' " "Those principles which have been set forth are sufficient; it is not lawful to make any other exposition." EXTRACT FROM THE THIRD SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, yEn. 4, 1546. "This holy oecumenical and gener: fr al Synod of Trent, &c., &c. "Therefore, that this its pious solicitude may have its beginning and continuance by the grace of God, it determines and decrees that before all things the Confession of Faith is to be premised, following in this the examples of the Fathers, who in their Sacred Councils were accustomed to oppose this shield against all heresies, in the beginning of their actions, by which alone they both sometimes drew Infidels to the faith, vanished Heretics, and confirmed the Faithful." "Wherefore it (the Council) commands that this Creed, which the Holy Roman Church uses as that summary in which all who profess the Faith of Christ necessarily agree, and that firm and only foundation against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail, shall he read in those words in which it is read in all the Churches, which is as follows : "Then follows the rcicenee greed—nothing else," garpi. 1, it.. 8. u-to—raay. Yie C. 89• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY, FRB. 15. Lord Lyttelton laid on the table a bill to extend further the practice of vaccination ►n this country. CLERGY RESERVES IN CANADA. The Bishop of EXETER moved for papers connected with the clergy reserves in Canada, and proceeded in a speech of considerable length to describe the origin of those reserves, and their position at the present time, when a measure for resuming them was contemplated, adding that the present Ministry were the last persons from whom such an act of confiscation was to have been expected. One of the documents he moved for, and a copy of an official letter from the Lord Bishop of Quebec to the Duke of Newcastle, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on the matter of the clergy reserves, in Canada. In that letter his right rev. friend declared that no measure could have sacrilege more plainly stamped upon it than one which provided for the absolute confiscation to godless uses of property solemnly dedicated to God, in order to satisfy the claims of the American loyalists. He asked their lordships were they prepared to sanction that sacri lege ? There had been times when the House of Lords would have spurned the very notion, and he begged to re mind the Government that the act would be in direct con travention of the coronation oath. —The Duke of NEW CASTLE declined to enter at large into the question on the present occasion, more especially as it would be his duty to bring the matter before the House on a future occasion. The true defence of the measure was, that it was founded on the right of internal self-government which had been conceded to the Canadian Legislature. After some obser vations from Lord DESART, the production of the papers, with certain exceptions, proposed was agreed to. The House shortly afterwards adjourned. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. Several petitions were presented. TRANSPORTATION. The Duke of NEWCASTLE, in reply to Lord Mont eagle, stated that Western Australia would in future be the only colony in that part of the world to which con victs would be transported. Even to that colony he did not think it probable they would be sent for any long period ; but with respect to Van Diemen's Land and other parts of Australia, transportation would imme diately cease. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY OF IRELAND. The Earl of CARDIGAN called attention to the absurdity of continuing the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, now that England and Ireland were so closely connected by improved means of communication, and asked whether the Government intended to carry into effect the inten tion announced by Lord John Russell when First Lord of the Treasury, or of doing away with the office of Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland.—The Earl of ABERDEEN declined to enter into a discussion on the expediency of abolishing the office, and said that the present Government had no intention of taking such a step. LAW OF EVIDENCE Lord BROUGHAM brought in a bill to extend Lord Denman's Act for amending the Law of Evidence to Scotland.—Their Lordships then adjourned. FRIDAY, FEB. 18 The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gave notice that he would ask a question on Friday next as to the intention of the government in regard to the future government of India. The Transfer of Aids Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Viscount CANNING, the Valuation Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, committed, reported, read a third time, and passed ; the standing orders having been suspended in order to enable their lordships to expedite its progress, it being intended that it should come into operation on the 21st inst. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, FEB. 15. On the motion of Mr. CARDWELL, it was ordered that no railway or canal bill containing any powers of amalga mation, lease, working arrangement, or other combination of interest between different companies, be read a second time before the 14th of March next, unless the parties in terested in promoting such bill shall elect to proceed with the same on the terms of striking out in committee any such powers as aforesaid. SOAP DUTY Mr. CHARLES TURNEi presented a petition from Liverpool, praying for the repeal of the duties on soap. INCOME TAX, In reply to a question, Lord JOHN RUSSELL declined to state what were the intentions of the Government with relation to that tax until the Chancellor of the Exchequer made his financial statement. TRANSFER OF LAND Mr. DRUMMOND moved for leave to bring in abill to faci litate the sale and purchase of land. He insisted upon the necessity of some change in the cumbrous and expensive system of conveyances, by means of a registration of titles of all real property. The objection to a registration of deeds did not apply to a registration of tides, and if such a registry were appointed, it could be improved as exi gency required.—Mr. HEADLAM seconded the motion, and leave was given to bring in the bill. CANADA CLERGY RESERVES Mr. F. PEEL, in moving for leave to bring in a bill to enable the legislature of Canada to make provisions con cerning the Clergy Reserves, gave a short history of those reserves, which dated from the year 1791, when the pro vince was divided into two parts. An appeal was made to the Imperial legislature, which passed the act of 1840. Great changes had taken place since that period ; the population had more than doubled ; but the object of this bill was not to alter or interfere with the present condi tion of things ; it merely vested in the Canadian legisla ture the power, if it saw fit, of altering the existing arrangement, the matter being, not of imperial, but wholly and exclusively of colonial concern.—Sir J. PA KINGTON had heard the announcement of the intentions of the government on this subject with deep regret, con sidering that this was a measure to commit a grave breach of national faith, and to deprive our Protestant fellow subjects in Canada of endowments solemnly guaranteed to them by the act of 1840, introduced by Lord J. Rus sell himself, which, uniting the two Canadas, expressly settled the question of the clergy reserves.—Lord J. Mrs- SELL denied that the act of 1840 was to be regarded as an irrevocable settlement. The question was, whether or not parliament should adopt with regard to this subject the rule that in all matters of local concern the local le gislature should be allowed to decide. After some further discussion leave was given to bring in the bill. GRAND JURY DHSS. Sir J. YOUNG obtained leave to bring in a bill to renew the provisions relating to the collection of grand jury cess in Ireland, contained in the expired act of 14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 65. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. Mr. MORRIS took the oaths and his seat for Carmarthen COUNTY ELECTIONS On the order for the third reading of the County Elec tions Polls Biil, Colonel SIBTHORP denounced the bill as a democratical and dangerous measure of disfranchisement, and moved to defer the third reading for six months. — Lord R. GROSVENOR declined to postpone a measure which had been sanctioned by so large a majority of the House.--Upon a division, the motion for the third read ing was carried by 131 to 30.—A clause, providing that the poll shall not be taken at any licensed public-house or beer-house, gave rise to some discussion, but ultimately the bill passed. PARISH CONSTABLES Mr. DEEDES moved the second reading of the Parish Constables Bill, and stated that its object was to con solidate and amend the existing acts, the provisions of the Rural Police Act having been partially adopted ; and he proposed that those counties which should hereafter adopt the latter act should be exempted from the opera tions of this bill. The bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee. The House went into committee upon the Land Im provement (Ireland) Bill, the clauses of which were agreed to.—The Designs Act Extension Bill was read a second time.—The Transfer of Aids Bill was read a third time, and passed.—The Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. ELECTIONS Mr. Burr obtained leave to bring in a bill to limit the time between the proclamation and an election in coun ties, and between the receipt of the writ and the election in boroughs ; to limit the holding of elections for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and otherwise to regulate the proceedings of elections. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Mr. T. DUNCOMBE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals by extending the power of appeal. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. A new writ was ordered for West Worcestershire,in the room of General Lygon, called to the Upper House. Mr. W. BROWN presented a petition from the guardians of a union in Lancashire, referring to a recent decision with respect to the settlement of bastard children, and praying for an alteration of the law. HOP DUTY, Mr. FREWEN moved a resolution that the Excise duty on hops is impolitic and unjust, and ought to be repealed. He mentioned instances of the injurious effects of the tax, from which, he contended, the hop-planters ought to be relieved.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped the House would not be disposed at present to enter upon a full discussion of this important question. If Mr. Frewen proposed to repeal the tax, he (Mr. Gladstone) objected, that the House ought not to repeal a tax until it had ascertained what was to be the expenditure of the year. If he desired only to condemn the tax, nothing had a worse tendency than for the House to indulge in the ventilation of abstract opinions upon particular taxes with out being prepared to give the country the benefit of its thecon de n Housen at i w o n e . e d O r n e f e e i t e h e e r t e g e r o n u t e n r d t e , i h n e t w h a e s some discussion the motion was negatived by J 77 to 93 . iicaoontio'inn.cedAtfhteat THE CASE OF TIIE MADIAI. Mr. KINNAIRD moved an address to her Majesty to take steps for bringing under the notice of the Grand Duke of Tuscany the strong feelings prevailing in England in consequence of the persecution in Tuscany of those who profess the principles of the Protestant religion. The case of the Madiai indicated a religious reaction and a determination on the part of the hierarchy of the Church of Rome to put down Protestantism by force wherever the civil power enabled them to do so, and on this groun d he asked the house to call upon her Majesty's government, in concert with the governments of Prussia and Holland, to remonstrate, not dictatorially or menacingly, but in the name of religion and humanity, with the Grand Duke. He gave the details of the arrest of several Florentines for no other offence than reading the Bible, to show that the persecution was systematic ; thousands, he said, living in Tuscany under a reign of terror.—Mr. LLTAS opposed the motion. He said, admitting, for the sake of argument, that the Tuscan government w ere t o b e bl ame d f or punish iug the Madiais for the clime of proselytism, what had been the conduct of this country in respect to Romanists persecuted in different parts of the world ? 'Who ever heard of our Secretary of State remonstrating with the Emperor of Russia for persecuting and torturing Roman ist nuns ? Had not Lord Palmerston actually re commended the expulsion of the Jesuits from Switzerland ? The conduct of that noble lord in the case of Tahiti was, he contended, exactly parallel with that of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. At this moment acts of persecution were going on against Romanists in Protestant countries quite as deserving of our interference as the case of the Madiai, and he should bring some of them before the Huse. The system of law in Sweden WB5 quite as per. secuting as that Of Tuscany, and in Mecklenburgh Rolnisb priests had been conducted by the police across oil frontier for the crime of saying mass in private..--Lor n JOHN RUSSELL said his conclusion was, that if Protestant state should condemn persons because they he: become Romanists, or taught oth e rs t o be com e so, sic" conduct was morally wrong, Mr. Lucas had said We were not justified in considering ourselves friends of reli gious liberty while we were indifferent to persecution! against Romanists. But it could not be maintained tba; such was our general conduct ; in no part of our dooli" nions were persons punished for endeavouring to induc e Protestants to become Romanists. Persecution for reli gious opinions was odious and detestable, and the Govern' ment of England was justified in raising its voice against it• Holding this opinion, he recommended the house to leave this case in the hands of the Government. Its voice had been heard, and he trusted that, altho ug h th e M a di e i and others might suffer, the general opinion of the world world secure religious liberty.—Mr. BOWYER said the Madiej had been convicted not of a spiritual but of a civil offence . —Mr. Daummoivn observed that religious persecution , even by the Inquisition, was always justified by the pies that the offence was against civil society. Before tb, e o , Romanists we re con d emne d, h owever , Protestants should look a little at w h a t th e i r own con d uc t was. Th ey said the Romish priests bad by their: authority put down the Scriptures; and so they had. Protestants had taken th e Bible, and by it they destroyed the Church. Now, the, might as well begin to men d th e i r own ways fi rst, f a r they had not gone the length of persecution of the nil; holders of the Church, it was simply because they cola, not do it, and the lan guage th a t h a d b een ma d e use 01 towards such men as the Bishop of Exeter and °there , who had upheld the authority of the Church, showed whe t was at the bottom, and what Protestants would do if thef could.—ln the course of the further discussion o n tile sul ject, Lord PALMERSTON defended himself from th e accusations of Mr. Lucas. The motion was ultimatelf withdrawn. MANCHESTER EDUCATION. . A select committee was appointed to inquire into the state of education in the municipal boroughs of Manches; ter and Salford, and in the contiguous townships 0 Broughton, Pendleton, and Pendlebury. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control, took the oaths and his seat on his re-election f o r the borough of Halifax. RELATIONS WITH FRANCE On the order of the day for going into committee o f supply, Mr. DISRAELI proceeded to call attention to the veil important subject of our relations with France. After 0 peace of nearly 40 years' duration, it was somewhat start' ling to find rumours afloat that that long interval of trail' quillity was at length likely to he disturbed; and he felt justified, therefore, in making some inquiries upon the,. subject. These rumo urs h a d acqu i re d f orce f rom t h e fac t that this country was i ncreas i ng it s armaments, w hich cou'd be only for the purpose, as was supposed, of resist' ing some contemplated foreign aggression. He OW nothing on the part of the present ruler of France calew lated to excite alarm. It was stated that he was hut the instrument of the army; but he would remind them that , however much might be dreaded from an army r,e• turning from co nques t, th ere was b ut little to b e dreaded from the fact of an army, under other circunV stances, being in the ascendant. France might, there' fore, be under a military government, but it did not fo/' low that it was under a warlike one. He deplored a great deal of what bad passed in France, and sympathised with the fallen ; but the moral he drew from all that had t a ken, place was, that it was extreme l y d i ff i cult to understand French politics, and that as long as the French govern' merit and people acted properly towards this country to all our commercial relations, so long we should be satin' fled, and leave entirely to them the management of theit, own domestic concerns. H e quo t e d a speech of Lord John Russell on the affairs of France, deprecating the attacks in some portions of the press against the French President. When that speech was made the noble lord was prime minister. He was now one of a new ministrl , and his (Mr. Disraeli's) object was to know how far the sentiments of that speech were still the sentiments of the, noble lord, and ho w f ar th e y were s h are d i n b y his OP leagues ? He then referred to the speech of Sir Jame° Graham, who had spoken of the Emperor of France as 6 despot who had t ram pl e d on th e r i g h ts an d liberties o ` , 40,000,000 of people, and said he would n o t b e so impel.' tinent as to speak of such a speech as an indiscretion oa, the part of a minist er w h o was one o f a ll t h e talents, a nd . he must therefore a s sume it was d es i gne d . Wi th reepe o to the speech of Sir Charles Wood, he would say that b 6 believed he did not mean to say anything offensive , but he had a h a bit o f say i ng o ff ensive things without: meaning it, which he could only say was a most awkward accomplishment. He concluded a most effective speech amidst loud cheers from all parts of the house.—Lord . 1 ' RUSSELL said the speech of the right hon. gentleman was full of party spirit, and notwithstanding the risk of raising suspicions as t o th e i ntegr i ty of the relations of the two governments towards each other, he persevered in a course of observations which it would be absurd t 6 deny were deeply imbued with faction. He proceeded t° reply at some length to the observations of Mr. Disraeli , and said the two objects nearest his heart were the fur' therance of education and the amendment of the repre sentation of the people, to both of which he would direct his attention as circumstances might seem suitable.—Al q COBDEN said there was grea t m i s t rus t i n t h e public rain; owing to the inconsistency between the declarations and the actions of both the last and the present government' He thought by a little diplomatic management that a° arrangement might be come to by which this rivalry armaments might be put an end to, and the force of either country materially diminished.—Sir J. GRAHAM Said that no one could be more desirous than himself for the maintemance of peace, and denied that he had called the Emperor of France either a despot or a tyrant. It we° when declaring his opinion that this country was not Pre pared for universal suffrage that he referred to Fran c ' which he described as a country celebrated for its eon; nence in arts, arms, and s c i ence , an d w hi c h, notw i t h s t a n°, ing the possession o f un i versa l su ff rage, h a d prostra ted its liberties at the foot of a single man.—After some fur ther discussion the subject dropped. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. Sir J. GRAHAM, in moving the navy estimates, sai d they were not recommended on any ground of a hostile character towards any fgreign power whatever, but for reasons which had been sustained by the reports of to! committees. He stated that the next aggregate increas e amounted to £399,905, upon the three items of wage!: victuals, and stores, and he indicated the cause of Ow increase. He gave explanations of various reductions , savings, and improveme n t s i n th e nava l d epartments ; 13„ developed the views of th e government w i th relation 11 matters connected with our steam and general navy ;_ andr tendering further elu c id a ti ons w h en d es i re d of the differa. votes, concluded by mov i ng a vote o f 45,500 men for til l service of the n av y, i nc l u di ng 12 , 500 mar i nes, and 2,00 boys. This vote was agreed to after discussion, and also th a following votes, viz., £1,236,000 f or the M.' r Senn lV and marines, and £615,456 for victualling. The committee then adjourned. THE JEW BILL. In answer to Mr. Walpole, Lord J. RUSSELL said if be could bring on his resolution respecting the o aths, an d with reference to Jewish disabilities, before eleven o'clol on Thursday night, he should do so. If n ot, he shoill postpone his motion to some other day. The house shortly afterwards adjourned. THE CASE OF THE MADIAI. The following despatch, from the Foreign Secretary to the British Minister at Florence, has just been published : " LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO SIR HENRY BULWVER• " Foreign-office, January 18, 1853. " SlR, — According to the last accounts received frovi you the Grand Duke of Tuscany still hesitates on the sub' ject of the Madiai. " But this is a matter on which hesitation implies caPi ; tal punishment. It is the same thing in effect to conder°, o a man to die by fire like Savonarola, or to p u t him death by the slow torture of an unhealthy prison. "It seems to be imagined, indeed, by some gover o 4 merits on the conti nen t, th at if t h ey avo i d the spectacle of an execution on the scaffold they will escape the °dial to themselves; and the sympathy for their victims, whi g c o attends upon the pu n i s h men t o f d ea th f or o ff ences 0' political or religious character. " But this is an error. It is now well understood tba e the wasting of the body, the sinking of the spirits, the weakening of the mind, are but additions to the capi punishment which long and close confinement too often involves. " If, therefore, as has been lately reported, one of tlt Madiai were to die in prison, the Grand Duke mu st expect that throughout Europe he will be considered s,,' having put a human being to death for beinz a Protestant " It will be said, no doubt, that the offence of Fralii g i twaso seduce not t ihtetatethdeo ethers so b ei ng pfraos from uatnhpPeur Romanoiise h s t e a d n . t c , ~ :ab t u b t; i , the vNo t i h ua a rd t iina Tuscan government had the most i n ercifg o ce i f n a ff eni t s e dt e ch n e ni e i s on c , an n n o o d t m b e e a p n e t r t m o have shortened the period of iro,' prisonment allotted by, law to his offence ; that such interference.tboeamiraienntdtlhyast "All this, however, will avail very little. Throughoe the civilized world this example of religious persecutio o will excite abhorrence. Nor will it be the least of the reproaches addressed to the government of the Gray, Duke that the name of Leopold of Tuscany has been 01 0 : desecrated, and the example of a benevolent sovereiC thus departed from. The peaceful, mild, and ingeouot" character of the Tuscan people makes this severity the 1e 55 necessary and the more odious. "As this is a matter affecting a Tuscan subject, it Of, be said that Her Majesty's government have no r i g ht ti interfere. If this means that interference by force a t arms would not be justifihble, I confess at once tboo o H ve e r r e lk ig l o aje th st e y s h r a g s o n m o e t o t t h s e w r b ig ifl l i nothing but the most extreme case would justify ell c t o t i lievdd swordin the tmosto punish g inations opinions, against i e t 0 , st " You are, therefore, instructed to speak in the ref i serious tone to the Minister of Fore'gr. Affairs, and to 1 1;, t uht i osa r e e :p‘ l eo y ßoifn d put e rtte n hoive y fuai the truth of such an allegation. before him all the considerations stated in this despec to You will do it in the most friendly tone, and take'care, o t assure the government to which you are accredited, tPo, none are more sincere in their wishes for the indePer i 4 C e n ce and happiness of Tuscany th an the Q ueen of G 1,7 Britain. —I am, &c., " J. RUSSELL. mim........ FRAMPTON'S PILL OE HEALTH.—" For upwards ) 01 , n i ne years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Win a c c l more Hill, Middl esex ,) 1 h ave exper i enced the cier":eil of this excellent M e di c i ne . 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