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tU'Alli ONE, WHEN I WANDERED WITH THEE." Fair one I when I wandered with thee, O'er the mountains stern and cold, Pleasure then was present with rue— Moments seemed like drops of gold Where the fern and heather told us Freedom there' bad fixed her throne Where no eye could then behold us, Sped we on our way alone. England's castles, old and hoary, Records of departed pride— Records of chivalric glory — Of her brave who fought and died. These we wandered through, while pleasure O'er us spread her transient smile; Heaven it seemed like. in a measure, Resting on this earth awhile. Through her ancient forests roaming, On her battle fields of yore, Where the white sea waves were foaming, Listening to the ocean's roar. Did'st thou speak, thy voice of beauty Bade my spirit upwards rise; Whilst affection, love, and duty. Gathered strength from those sweet eyes. Loved one I when above and round us Spread the sapphire starlight sky, Links of love and pleasure bound us— Love that cannot, will not die. Fair one ! when I wandered with thee, Love to thee was all my thought ; Loved one! could'st thou now be with me, First love would engross my heart. Liverpool, October, 1853 W. T. W. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. homage and veneration. How unfortunate, then, to see them falling out and tearing each other •to pieces in this way ! Their own charrcter as gen tlemen, the interests of the university of which they are both distinguished members, and their respectability as members of society, call aloud for a cessation of hostilities such as these ; and without pretending to know much about the nature of the controversy in which they have been engaged, with an earnestness more remarkable than the good temper which has accompanied it, we venture to hope they will see the necessity of carrying it no farther, frankly make the admission—" Brother, brother, we were both in the wrong," shake hands •and become friends, uniting their energies in up holding the established character of their alma mater to scientific distinction, and setting the world an example of urbanity and good-feeling on the part of its Professors. The .Pantrophean ; or, History of _Food. By A. Soyer. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The title of the above-named work, together with the celebrity of its author, were sufficient to excite public curiosity in no ordinary degree, as to the nature of the volume, on its first announce ment, and that curiosity must have been rather whetted than impaired by a glance at the extericr which the book presents. On examining the volume, it becomes at once apparent that M. Soyer has applied himself to the study of his art with the enthusiasm of an artist and the industry of a devotee. He ranges the field of edible productive ness with the gusto of a connoisseur, and culls from its stores a collection of rare treasures, historical and gastronomic. He is learned in the ancient history of his art, descants with equal energy and persuasiveness upon the elegancies of modern cuissinaire, and waxes positively eloquent in his disquisitions upon the cooks and cookery of ancient times. Having a sharp eye to the practical portion of his trade (we beg pardon, his profession), M. Soyer bestows considerable attention on the bibative enjoyments of the true epicure, and is learned on the varied qualities of liqueurs. Hear him on the relative virtues of Yhe Works of Samuel Warren, D.C.L. F.R. S. Tart I. Edinburgh : Blackwood a n d gons. This, the first monthly part of a people's edition of Warren's works, contains a considerable portion of those admirable sketches by which, many years ,ago, under the title of "Passages from the Diary of a ;late Physician," the author at once enriched the pages .of Blackwood's Magazine and laid the foundation of his literary fame. That fame, which, exalted and extended by subsequent publications, has so rooted and expanded itself, that the name of Samuel Warren now occupies a conspicuous place ion the roll emblazoned by the cognizances of the ?versatile, yet chivalrous, Scott ; the dramatic and impassioned Johanna Bailie ; the noble, delicate, and fascinating Wilson ; the nervous and brilliant, though caustic, Lockhart ; the truthful and poetic Crabbe ; the soaring Coleridge ; the discriminat ing Bulwer ; the sweet, gentle, and tender Moir, and a host of others, the illustrissimi nomini of - the past and present generation. As is truthfully stated in the prospectus to this edition of Warren 's /works, "no one will deny that the author's uni form aim has been to uphold the cause of loyalty, morality, and religion ;" and the power of intel lectual resource he has brought to the aid of that -rause can only be fully understood by those who are familiar with his works. It cannot be appre- TM' ted at its full worth by any one who has not I'elt their influence, as that is brought out in na tural and pleasing force by the lessons taught in his admirably delineated scenes and incidents. Who can become familiar with the melting pathos embodied in " The Broken Heart ;" or be a wit mess to the severance of those touching ties and incidents of social endearment which are ruthlessly trampled, crushed, and destroyed in the tale of "' Duelling," without having his sympathies en larged and refined—his sentiments elevated, and 'his nature softened and improved ? Powerful as Warren's enchantments are when applied " To ope the source of sympathetic tears," the magic of his wand is not confined to that 'sphere alone ; he waves it widely, and the spell is potent in all the realms of fancy. His humour is -rich, abundant, and racy, as may be readily wit messed in many of the blundering mishaps of littlebat Titmouse," and other of his parvenu heroes ; but, probably, in no instance is grotesque and comic humour displayed with greater vivacity or more sustained power than in the sketch of The Turned Head," with the commencement of ' , which tale the present part terminates. To bring anch hitherto expensive works within the reach of all classes of readers, is indeed conferring a boon upon - society, such as is but little dreamed of by the ge merality of even intelligent publishers of cheap literature. To wish success to a work so pub lished, and of such character, cannot be necessary ; its success is as certain as the undertaking is de /ierving of commendation. 21omwpathy Fairly Represented. By William Henderson, M.D. Edinburgh : Thomas Con stable & Co. From a period long antecedent to the days of 'Cervantes, the professional disputes of physicians, lawyers, and others, enjoying what the public be lieve to be an established right to verify their opinions at the general expense, have formed a fer tile and gratifying theme for public amusement. "Whether this may arise from the satisfaction of - observing professional dexterity and enthusiasm iesnployed in a zealous war, for the establishment of one theory or the downfall of another, and for conducting which warfare the public purse shall _not be called on to produce the supplies, or from -whatever motive, matters little ; it is sufficient to know that when such strife is once begun, it is carried on with bitterness and animation to - which its general bloodlessness adds considerable - zest ; no one feeling disposed to act otherwise than to enjoy the fun, and allow the harmless, though stinging controversy, to expend itself in the ex lhaustion of the belligerents. In the pages of :Blackwood's Magazine, we lately had a spirited cabinet picture of the dispute between the allopathic ..and homcepathic tinkers of the human constitution, from the telling pencil of Bulwer. In that care fully manipulated study, the salient points of the 'controversy were touched on and displayed with the delicacy and tact of an accomplished artist .and the generalisation of a polished amateur. In the work before us, we have the genuine roar of battle bruited and paraded with all the hearty - acrimony which a deeply interested combatant Ilan can infuse into his narrative. The author is a learned professor of an eminent branch of Escu lapian science in the celebrated University of Edinburgh, the antagonist whom he seeks to dis able and expose is a brother professor in the same medical school—not, indeed, a teacher of the same Iwanch of the art as his opponent, but a distin snished practitioner of the obsteteric art ; and both of them are well reputed as gentlemen and men of :science. The real value of the subject in dispute letween these learned controversialists it is scarcely livithin the power or the province of a newspaper 'to estimate ; the mode of discussion adopted be tween the disputants is more easily judged of, and in his preface Professor Henderson furnishes us iwith samples of how that has been managed on loth sides. From those specimens we feel con strained to believe that both gentlemen are more aocomplished in the arts of vituperation than - skilled in the science of logic. A clever example of the Professor's invective may not here be out of Tlace, introduced by the simple remark that his /opponent, Dr. Simpson, is a gentleman whose juvenile rotundity of person and countenance bore some affinity to the supposeddimensions and aspect of 31ynheerTwentybroken,renownedinlegendarystorY• - PROFESSOR HENDERSON'S METHOD OF TREATMENT. Dr. Simpson's tactics strongly remind me of the inge minus conduct of the Dutch in Charles the Second's time, -who kindled bonfires and set their bells a-ringing when ever they had been thrashed at sea, in order to evade the acknowledgment or appearance of disaster. For I believe It was generally admitted, and even by not a few of his "own party, that in the last engagement he was very hand ssomely beaten ; his personal authority as to facts and doctrines show him to be quite infinitesimal ; his informa tion to be singularly defective, not only in homcepathic I:natters, but in the truths that are common to all medical wience; his logic to have its point turned destructively towards himself and his friends, and his theological zeal to be entirely out of place. Yet with the face (the italic Ss Professor Henderson's, not ours) of an old Hollander, here he is again with as much of the former tattered inaterial as he can get to hang together, and as much new aknvas of the sameorig, inally bad quality as his crippled spars will carry, trying to look as if he was unconscious of defeat. It has long been a subject of complaint against the English soldiers, that they did not know when they were beaten ; and here one learned Professor gravely accuses another of the same discreditable kind of ignorance. A perverse public has, how lever, continued to abet the army in believing that in this instance at least " ignorance is bliss," and that it " would be folly to be wise ;" it is not -111dikely that a large section of the same public mill 14 ° sympathise with Dr. Simpson. Jesting tolaPartsee, the cannot but " make the judicious grieve n t .: heads of our distinguished seats of learn 'heatso % o f co r nt rgettmg themselves as even in the versonaltiea. r°Ti,versY to bandy such discreditable to their char Th eir e ff ect upon youth committed Both the gentlemnitist be disastrous in t rill extreme. Gehl men of posaollir9licated in this Y dispute y in the scientific world, are y educated. an ll their talents and rep __, ..Y honourable men, while' °- tation are such as to claim THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. TOILET OF ELEGANCE FOR GENTLEMEN.—For preserv ing the complexion—temperance ; to preserve the breath sweet—abstinence from tobacco ;. for whitening the hands —honesty ; for moustache—the razor; to remove stains — repentance ; easy shaving soap—ready money ; for improv ing the sight—observation; a beautiful ring —the family circle ; for improving the voice - civility ; the best com panion at the toilet—a wife ;to keep away moths—good society; to promote sleep—dispense with the latch-key. CHINESE MODE OF LEADING THEIR PIGS.—In England we must humour and amuse our pig, or he will not budge an inch, but a Chinaman has neither time nor inclination for such an occupation, so when he takes his pig to market he merely passes a thin cord through either ear of the animal, in the form of a loop, to which a piece of rope is attached, which the Chinaman holds in his hand ; in the other he carries a thin cane, but it is rarely needed, as the pig proceeds along the road as quietly and decorously as if he were going to a funeral. We have seen scores of pigs taken to market in this way, and never saw or heard of an instance of misbehaviour on the part of any one of them.—Rambles in Java and the Straits. THE SOUTHERN MIGRATIONS OF THE HUMAN RACE. —lt will surprise no one who has read history that the Russians should yearn for the possession of Constantinople. " Whilst we do not possess the Dardanelles we are without the key of our house," said the Emperor Alexander. This is the argument—the political reason—the State necessity for the long-pursued policy of the Muscovite Cnsars. But there is something under this, and older than the Roman offs themselves,—the instinctive turning of the human race towards the South,—the pressure of the population at all times from the icy regions of the North, from snow field, sandy waste and dismal swamp, towards sunlit hills, rich plains, the vineyard, the orange-grove, blue air and glancing waters. The form of the emigration changes,— the desire of change remains. In one age, a nomadic tribe, carrying its household gods, driving its cattle on before, comes down from the great Steppes. Ages later, it is a Ukraine horde, mounted and armed, that rolls down the corn lands of the Crimea, and dashes itself like a tide against the rocky barriers of the Caucasus, falling back in broken powerless wavelets. Still further down, the tribe, the horde is organised, and officered after European modes. Its march is announced by diplomatic agents, and its advance celebrated by religious rites. But it is neverthe less the old eruption—forced by the old causes. The frost bitten citizen of St. Petersburgh dreams of the gorgeous climate of Constantinople, as the Goth in his forest dreamed of the Italian vine gardens ; the luxuries of Pera, the sunlit shores of the Bosphorus, have the same power on the imagination of a Russian woman as the reports of the surpassing pomp and glitter of imperial life had on the fancy of Vandal savages striving with arid nature for a scanty subsistence.—Atheneum. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. .-~---- VETTURINO TRAVELLING.--A word upon this vetturino system ere I leave it—l hope for ever. It is a perfect nuisance from beginning to end. From the moment you set off with one of these rascals, till the hour you arrive at your journey's end, it is plague, squabble, insolence, and torment. They start at what hour of the morning they please; they halt where they like, and for as long as they like, invariably too at the worst wayside inns—away from a town and from all chance of accommodation—since rye bread and sour wine, with a mess of stewed garlic, will always satisfy them, They rarely drive at full five miles the hour, and walk every inch with an ascent of a f oo t i n a hundred yards. If expostulated with by the wretched traveller, they halt in some public place, and appeal to the bystanders in some dialect unknown to you. The result of which is that a ferocious mob surrounds you, and with invectives, insults, and provocative gestures, assail and outrage you, till it please your tormentor to drive on; which you do at length amidst hooting and uproar that even convicted felons would feel ashamed of. On reaching your inn at night, they either give such a representation of you as gets you denied admittance at all, or obtain for you the enviable privilege of paying for everything " en Milor." Between being a swindler or an idiot, the chance alone lies for you. Then they refuse to unstrap your lug gage; or if they do so, tie it on again so insecurely that it is sure to drop off next day. I speak not of a running fire of petty annoyances: such as fumigating you with pestilent tobacco, nor the blessed enjoyment of that infernal Spitz dog which stands all day on the roof, and barks every mile of the road from Berne to Naples. As to any redress against their insolence, misconduct, or extortion, A is utterly hopeless—and for this reason : they are sure to have a hundred petty occasions of rendering small services to the smaller authorities of every village they frequent. They carry the judge's mother for nothing to a wafering place ; or they fetch his aunt to the market-town ; or they smuggle for him —or thieve for him—something that is only to be had over the frontier. Very probably, too, on the very morning of your appeal, you have kicked the same judge's brother, he being the waiter of your inn, and having given you bad money in change—at all events, you are not likely ever to be met with again; the vetturino is certain to come back within the year ; and, finally, you are sure to have money, and be able to pay—so that, as the Irish foreman said, as the reason for awarding heavy damages against an Englishman, "It is a fine thing to bring so much money into the country."—The Dodd Family Abroad. PARIS AND LONDON.—The French metropolis is un doubtedly the finest monumental city in the world, with this additional advantage, that it can always be seen from an elevated point, while London is usually enveloped in smoke and mist, and preserits a gigantic outline, dim and undefined. Ascend the column in the "Place Vendome," the towers of Notre Dame, the heights of Montmartre, or Belleville, or the artificial mound in the " Jardin des Plantes." On every side you have a bright, stereotyped view. Look down on London from the dome of St. Paul's, the Monument, the keep of the Tower, or Primrose-Hill, and you can seldom distinguish anything beyond the circuit inscribed within a radius of half a mile. Nay, even on a summer's day, you may post yourself on Waterloo bridge, and Westminster or Blackfriars are scarcely dis tinguishable. This is less the effect of climate than of the dense, tangible vapour, engendered by an unlimited con sumption of coal. Our public buildings of Portland-stone, turn dingy and black before the scaffoldings are removed. The new colonnade of the British Museum is already grievous to behold. In Paris, the white gypseous freestone defies time and weather, and looks as brilliant and as clear to-day as it did two hundred years ago. The original Louvre is scarcely more discoloured than the recent addi tions, and the gates of St. Denis and St. Martin are as fresh as when they were erected. Let us do justice to the beauties of the French capital. We can show nothing to compete with the palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, the line of the Rue de Rivoli, the quays, the statues, the fountains, and the extended semicircle of the Boulevards, even in the absence of the trees. But we can produce good specimens of architecture in our bridges, in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, in Somerset House, in many churches, and in the new Houses of Parliament, supposing they are finished before they begin to decay. And, above all, we can point to the forest of masts, extending from London Bridge to Blackwell, Greenwich, and Deptford, which the Seine cannot boast in all its windings, from the Pont de Jena to Rouen and Havre inclusive. These indicate the presence of the world's commerce, and the influence of the merchant princes, who uphold tottering monarchies by timely loans, and wield the power which controls everything. The lords of the circulating medium are the true sovereigns of Europe— " Who hold the balance of the world? Who reign O'er Congress, whether Royalist or Liberal? Who keep the world. both old and new, in pain Or pleasure? Who make politics run glibber all? The shade of Buonaparte's noble daring? Jew Rothschild, and his fellow-Christian, Baring." Paris reigns pre-eminent in many points, but must yield to London in extent, in population, and in riches ; to St. an d Edinburgh i n b eau t y o f s i tuat i on ; and Petersburgh in regularity ; to Constantinople, Li s b on , Naples, Genoa, to Rome in historical associations—before which every other city must bow down in reverential acknowledgment. There is no place in Europe, in the world, to be preferred to Paris for an occasional visit, none where a month can be passed so pleasantly ; but for many reasons it is the very last a reflecting person would select either to live or die in.—Dublin University Magazine for Octobe r . MELTING Momeers.—One winter evening a country storekeeper in the Mountain State was about closing his doors for the night, and while standing in the snow out side, putting up his window-shutters, he saw through the glass a lounging worthless fellow within take a pound of butter from the shelf; and hastily conceal it in his hat. " Stay, Seth," said the storekeeper, coming in and closing the door after him, clapping his hands over his shoulders, and stamping the snow off his shoes. Seth had his hand upon the door, and his hat upon his head, and the roll of new butter in his hat, anxious to make his exit as soon as possible. "I say, Seth, sit down; I reckon now, on such a night, a little of something warm wouldn't hurt a fellow. Come, sit down." Seth felt very uncertain ; he had the butter, and was exceedingly anxious to be off, but the temptation of "something warm" sadly interfered with his resolution to go. This hesitation, however, was soon settled by the rightful owner of the butter taking Seth by the shoulders and planting him upon a seat close to the stove, where he was so entirely cornered in by barrels and boxes that, while the country grocer sat be fore him, there was no possibility of his getting out ; and right in this place sure enough was the storekeeper sat down. " Seth, we'll have a little warm Santa Cruz," said the mountain grocer, as he opened the stove door, and stuffed in as many sticks as the space would admit : " without it you'd freeze going home such a night as this." Seth already felt the butter setting closer to his hair, and jumped up, declaring he must go. "Not till you have something warm. Come, I've got a story to tell yon ; sit down now ;" and Seth was again put into his seat by his cunning tormentor. " Oh, it's confounded hot here," said the thief, again attempting to rise. " Sit down ; don't be in such a plaguy hurry," retorted the grocer, pushing him back into the chair. " But I have got the cows to fodder, and some wood to split, and I must be a going," continued the persecuted chap. " But you mustn't tear yourself away in this manner. Sit down ; let the cows take care of themselves, and keep yourself cool ;—you appear to be fidgetty," said the roguish grocer, with a wicked leer. The next thing was the pro duction of two smoking glasses of hot rum-toddy, the very sight of which, in Seth's present situation, would have made the hair stand erect on his head, had it not been well oiled and kept down by the butter. " Seth, I'll give you a toast now, and you can butter it yourself," said the grocer, yet with an air of such consummate simplicity that poor Seth still believed hims e lf unsuspected. " Seth, here's a Christmas goose (it was about Christmas time) — here's a Christmas goose well roasted and basted, eh ? I tell you, Seth, it's the greatest eating in creation. And don't you never use common cooking butter to baste it with. Fresh pound butter, just the same as you see upon onlyproper take thing in nature to your butter; I mean, b tha oste t sl a ielf go y o o s n e d w er i , th is . t c he ome, Seth, take your toddy. Poor Seth now began to smoke as well as to melt, and his mouth was as hermetically sealed up as though he had been born dumb. Streak after streak of the butter came pouring from under his hat, and his handkerchief was already soaked with the overflow. " Dreadful cold night this !" said the grocer. " Why, Seth, you seem warm. Why d on 't you t a k e your with a spasm o di c e ff or t t o ge t bat off? Here, let me put your hat away." " No," ex claimed tongue l) l r o o S s e e t , h cataract was now pouring down the fell ow ' s f ace , soa ki ng anatd last , clap 1)4 , so that he was literally in a .perfect bath of oil. Well, into his very boots, go lds od clo nig thes h , t, an s d sliding het ify d o o u wn win his b o d y ge," said the humorous Vermonter; adding, as Seth got into the road, " Neigh- bour, I reckon the fun I have had out of you is worth 9d., so I shan't charge you for that pound of butter."—New Orleans Pickayune. STATUE OF BYRON. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. OF EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Here is an array of names, dates, and alleged facts, detailed with an exactness of circumstantiality which admits of no equivocation, directly impugning the vigi lance or impartiality of more than one of our public autho rities, in connexion with the protection, the comfort, and the safety of emigrants. Can such an imputation rest upon the emigration arrangements of our port without seriously damaging its best interests ? If the allegations are untrue, as I sincerely hope they are, shall the com munity of Liverpool labour under a stigma, and its inte rests suffer, because a slander has been uttered, which nothing short of pusillanimity or conscious guilt would shrink from exposing or repelling ? If the charges are true,—but I cannot, will not, dare not believe them to be so,—how imperative the necessity for a speedy and effec tual remedy ? Pecuniary interest—social character—the instinct of humanity—the command of Heaven, call im peratively for a swift and impartial justification from so odious an accusation. In the absence of positive testi mony to the contrary, I am willing to believe that the Glasgow Herald has been abused and imposed upon, and if so, I feel convinced he will not be slow or niggardly in removing a stigma he had no interest, beyond the calls of duty, in affixing ; but the accusation has gone forth, and with others now must rest the task of proving its un truth and its malignant cruelty.—l am, Sir, Liverpool, 15th October, 1863. K TOWNSMAN. NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS. BY jOIIA.NYBS RIISTICI7B. XI. TOWN IMPROVEMENTS.—WhiIe so much has been said and written about forming new streets, making new thoroughfares. and widening old ones, it seems strange to me that no one has suggested the' desirableness of con verting some of the large plots of vacant ground lying between Scotland-road and the canal into public gardens, or open grounds for the recreation of the working claSses. At present these pieces of land are mere reservoirs for every description of filth from the surrounding cottages and manufactories, filling the air with the most noisome •stench—insufferable almost at times to the passers by, and to the resident in the vicinity no doubt a fruitful source of disease and mortality. But how different would be the aspect of this quarter of the town, were these grounds brought to a proper level and planted with trees, or en closed for gardens, or adapted for manly exercises. These open spaces would be as fountains of pure air in the midst of a wilderness of thickly inhabited courts,—promoting health, banishing pestilence, and elevating the moral and physical condition of the denizens of that most miserable and neglected locality. XII. A LIBERAL TOWN COUNCILLOR. — There is an amusing specimen of Radical absurdity now to be seen on the walls, in the shape of an address by Mr. Daniel Powell, to the municipal electors of Vauxhall ward. This gentle man aspires to represent, in the Common Council, what we may, I suppose, designate the Irish Roman Catholic interest, so extensively located in this ward ; and in the true Irish style of speaking to the question," he puts forward as his peculiar and only qualifications for the office of town councillor, that he is " an ardent admirer of the present Administration ! in favour of financial reform ! and a sincere friend of civil and religious liberty !" So, if Mr. Powell be elected, we shall, no doubt, see some excellent fun—the tactics of th e Brigade reacted on a small scale—every question made a peg to hang some Irish or Popish grievance upon ! The Council Chamber will be converted into an arena for our local politicians to try their debating powers. Town improve ments will be discussed on the " broad" principle of civil and religious liberty—(" broad is the road," &e.)—the smoke nuisance will naturally call forth an eulogium on the Coalition Cabinet—and an evasion of dock dues will in troduce a debate on financial reform. XIII. BIBLE BURNING IN NEW YORK. —Talking of civil and religious liberty, I see, by the late files of the New York papers, that the Irish priests in that city are comporting themselves in a manner that is likely to bring Brother Jonathan down upon them " like a thousand of bricks," if they do not mend their ways. It appears that, true to their instincts, the Irish Romanies of Mott-street Sts,—Allow me to correct an error in the communi cation of your London correspondent, which appeared in the last number of your valuable paper. The writer says, that the marble statue of Lord Byron is still entombed in the vaults of the Custom-house, in London. lam happy to inform that gentleman, that the insult to the memory of the poet, as well as to the great artist, Thorwaldsen, in refusing a niche for the work, has been, although tardily, atoned for. The glorious work has found a most appro priate location in the Library of Trinity College, Cam bridge,—the alma mater of the noble poet,—where it stands the admiration of all visitors to that classic spot. B. THE CHARACTER OF LIVERPOOL AS A PORT have recently broken into the Protestant School, threat ened the teachers, dragged out the children, seized the books of Holy Scripture, and, " with hootings, cursing,s, and yells, fit for Pandemonium itself," publicly burnt them, and used the half-burnt leaves to light their pipes with ! The Yankees will, no doubt, appreciate such con duct as this, and hail with delight the arrival of the first batch of priestly emigrants that shall be sent out by the Priests' Emigration Society, now in course of formation in Dublin. By the way, I think the Protestant Associa tion might do worse than devote & portion of their funds to the assistance of this society. —To the high character which Liverpool has ac quired as a commercial entrepot has been mainly attri butable her rapid growth, her vast wealth, and her still increasing prosperity. To secure and extend these advan tages must be an object dear to every one of her enter prising and intelligent sons ; and I speak only the general sentiment in saying no effort will be wanting on their part to maintain and preserve the reputation she has earned through the excellence of her ships, the integrity of her citizens, and the intrepidity of her mariners. Reputation to her has been no bubble, and its maintenance she is pre pared to vindicate through greater perils even than " the cannon's mouth." Reputation is no doubt a rich inherit ance, but like other species of property, if it has its privi leges, it has also its responsibilities ; and experience of the world leads to the inevitable conviction that few posses sions hang by so delicate or precarious a tenure as those based upon reputation—the slightest whisper uninves tigated—the most groundless accusation unrebutted, gives a fatal stab to character, whether it be that of an individual, or of a community. The truth of this remark is so obvious, and its importance is so generally ad mitted, as to render any argument for establishing it unnecessary ; and as an important item in the general business of Liverpool, directly dependant on her character as a port of emigration, the purity of that character ought to be guarded with the most jealous care. What, I may ask, would for a moment support the pretensions of Liverpool to being the first emigration port among the nations of Europe, if those pretensions were left entirely to depend upon her mere local position, and to resolve themselves into nothing beyond the physical advantages she offers for embarkation ? Could not, other ports he speedily made to offer as great facilities as ours, in the first steps of this traffic ? In point of fact, are not nu merous instances of daily occurrence in which such rivalry is making bold advances, and receiving flat tering encouragement ? What, then, sustains Liverpool in her proud pre-eminence ? The character she has laboriously, pertinaciously, and honourably acquired, as affording not alone ready means of egress from our shores, but as furnishing safe as well as rapid— comfort able as well as certain conveyance to whatever land the emigrant may desire to be carried : from this cause, and from this cause alone, is our harbour made the place of rendezvous by emigrants from every quarter of the . British Islands, and from lands beyond the sway of Bri tain's sceptre. This character, so essential to her pros perity, it is the duty and interest of her large community to guard as a sacred treasure—to sustain by the most uncompromising vigilance and integrity—to defend from inroad by the boldest courage. To a large portion of her commerce this reputation is as the breath of life, and as such, not to be tampered with on pain of the most disas trous consequences, altogether apart from the moral de linquency involved in such a dereliction of duty. Those preliminary observations have been induced by ' two occurrences most painful in their contemplation— most appalling in their results, which have recently taken place in connexion with this important branch of our traffic : I allude to the mournful tragedy which, in the case of the Annie Jane, suddenly terminated in the death of nearly four hundred human beings ; and the painful circumstances attending the departure from, and return to our harbour, of the Isaac Wright. In both cases these ships had but recently left Liverpool, crowded with passengers, for whose comfort or safety, so far as can be judged by first impressions and results, very slender provision had been made. I desire to make no accusa tion in either case, but simply point attention to the fact that in both instances, as they are narrated, the character of Liverpool as an emigration port is seriously compro mised. So seriously, indeed, as to call, in earnest and loud terms, for a strict and searching enquiry into all the facts and circumstances of both cases, so far as there can now be ascertained. This, I repeat, is only a matter of justice to the community. If the fact alleged in both cases be in accordance with the truth, or approaching to it, they most seriously impeach the fair dealing of those connected with both these vessels, and so by implication that of our mari time ,community. In the case of the Isaac Wright grave imputations have been laid against the quality of the pro visions, particularly the water, furnished to the emigrants ; and serious complaints have likewise been made of the inhumanity with which the suffering passengers were treated. It is quite possible both accusations are utterly destitute of foundation, and, if so, investigation would speedily dispel the unfavourable impression made by the rumour; but so long as that is not cleared up, the depres sing burden of accusation will attach itself, not alone to the parties implicated, but also to the community of which they form a part. The other, and much more fatal instance to which I refer, that of the Annie Jane, takes a more formal, as well as a more tangible, shape. In one of the most respectable and influentianl papers pub lished in a rival port, the Glasgow Herald, of the 10th instant, I find the following remarks appended to a nar rative of the disastrous and fatal loss of that vessel and her hapless human freight "It may be as well to mention that the Annie Jane was dismasted and put back to Liverpool, previous to her last disastrons voyage. Mr. William Hendrie, a respect able mechanic in Washington-street Mill, tells us that he sailed for Quebec in this ship, along with many other Glasgow mechanics, on Wednesday, the 24th Au gust last. On the following Friday she encountered a gale, and was dismasted. In consequence of the dangers they had already encountered, and the disabled state of the ship, the passengers unanimously petitioned that the captain would put back for Liverpool, which he did, and where the Annie Jane arrived on Friday, the 2d Septem ber. Hendrie and a great number of the passengers here left the ship altogether. They did so, not only on ac count of her dangerous state from being over-loaded and over-crowded, but from the bad usage they had received in reference to their provisions and otherwise. Complaints were made as to this, both to the government inspector and the mayor of Liverpool: we have seen the petition to the latter, but nothing came out of these remonstrances. Mr. Hendrie states, that there would be more than 450 passengers on board, in the first instance, and though many left the ship at Liverpool, their places were taken to a great extent by others to whom the tickets were sold at a reduced rate. He thinks there were at least 80 Glasgow and West of Scotland people on board, many of whom were joiners and smiths, who had been engaged to work on the Quebec railway. Of these 13 left with Hendrie, and the rest would of course be on board, when the disaster occurred at Barra. After undergoing some sort of repair, the Annie Jane again sailed on the 9th of September—that is, one week after her return; and the result is chronicled above." ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. CRAMPAGNB AND BURGUNDY WINES. Under the reign of Louis XIV., a great dispute arose concerning the relative merits of Burgundy and Cham pagne wines, and the preference due to the one or the other. This quarrel originated in a thesis, maintained at the commencement of the 17th century at the Medical School of Paris, in which it was asserted, that the wine of Beaune, in Burgundy, was not only the most agree able but the most wholesome. This thesis excited no murmur at the time ; from the 13th century the wine of Beaune had always enjoyed the highest reputation, and no one dreamed of disputing it. But forty years later they risked a proposition much more rash than the preceding one : it was maintained, in the same school, that the wines of Burgundy were not only preferable to those of Champagne, but that the latter attack the nerves, cause a fermentation of the humours, and infallibly bring on the gout in persons not naturally subject to it. They fortified this incredible opinion with the authority of the celebrated Fagon, chief physician of Louis XIV., who had just forbidden the king, as they said, the use of Champagne wine. The Champagne people took fire —it was time—the dangerous heresy threatened to spread ; so they attacked the Buromndians bravely. The latter de fended themselves with equal courage. The battle waxed warm. Each party sought to crush their antagonists with heavy writings. The inhabitants of Burgundy pre tended that the wine of Champagne owed its vogue en tirely to the influence of Colbert and Louvois, the then ministers, one of whom was a native of Champagne, and the other in possession of immense vineyards. The Champagne growers proved that this assertion was false in every particular. Long before the time of these two statesmen, said they, the French got tipsy on Champagne wine ; ergo, they valued that exhilarating liquor. This argument was irrefragable. They might have added that, from the 16th century, the wine of Ai, a canton of Champagne, enjoyed such renown that the Emperor Charles V., Pope Leo V., Henry VIII. of. England, and Francis I. of France, were anxious to possess this nectar, and tradition assures us that each of these great sovereigns purchased a close at Ai, in which a little house was built for a vine -dresser, who sent them every year a stock of wine, which enlivened their repasts. The subject of liquors is pursued at considerable length, and the book is richly, indeed profusely embellished with well-executed engravings of the drinking vessels peculiar to different countries and periods ; representations of banquets and other festivities, conspicuous among which is an elaborate picture of the grandiose and sympathetic" ban quet, as M. Soyer calls it, which took place in the Guildhall at York in October, 1850, where the Mayors from all parts of the ki gdom assembled in festivity, to honour Prince Albert and enjoy themselves. Altogether the book is a beautiful, and will be found an interesting one. Fern Leaves, from Fanny's Portfolio. London : Ingram, and Co. This beautiful' edition of the sage observations and quietly humorous sketches, is spiritedly illus trated by Birket Foster, whose sedate but expres sive pencil seems guided by the wisdom, while its effects are also softened by the kindly humour of the fair moralist. Of the pen and ink sketches, by Fanny herself, who, it is whispered, is a near relative of Judge Anliburton, the world-renowned " Sam Slick," it would be difficult indeed to speak in terms of praise higher than they merit, and nearly as difficult to pronounce upon them a more favourable opinion than has been already accorded to them by the public and the press of Great Britain and America. They abound in delicate strokes of satire, tinctured with such a charming admixture of good sense and kindly feeling, as at once carries conviction to the heart, while it effec tually disarms resentment. The satirical pen of Fanny is charged with milk, oil, and honey, as well as gall, the latter ingredient being so sparingly used, and so nicely commingled, is only to produce an agreeable flavour in the mixture. Select Speeches of Kossuth. London : Triibner. These speeches, which are edited, condensed, and abridged by Francis W. Newman, under the express sanction of Kossuth, consist, with only three ex ceptions, of those delivered in America, and form subjects of intense admiration to the editor. His enthusiasm, however, has not blinded him to the extreme redundancy of the peripatetic Hungarian's oratory, although it has prevented him from ob serving that the proper instrument for curtailing the exuberant masseg, was the axe and not the pruning knife. Many of the most offensive points of bombast by which Kossuth vainly sought to entrap the sympathies and kindle the enthusiasm of the cautious Yankees, are judiciously omitted ; but even yet a vast deal could be spared. As it is, however, the volume presents a fair memento of the American performances of a very extraor dinary actor. Frederika Bremer's Works. Translated by Mary Howitt. London : H. G. Bohn. This, which forms the second volume of Miss Bremer's works, in the handsome edition published by Mr. Bohn in his Standard Library, is, like the other volumes of the series, carefully and correctly printed from the best text. It is very cheaply got up, and is altogether a handsome volume. The best criticism which can be offered as to the excel lence of the work is furnished by the title-page, which tells us the present is the fourth edition ; when the works of an author during his lifetime run through four translated editions, they need not the aid of commendation ; the public has already pronounced favourably upon their merits. The Alain Family. By Alphonse Karr. Trans lated by R. B. Brough. London : Ingram and Co. A stirring tale of personal adventure, well written. The scene is laid on the Norman coast ; the charac ters are ably pourtrayed, and delineate the rustic manners of the peasantry and middle classes of that country with fidelity and spirit. The volume is illustrated by cleverly designed and well executed engravings. The Life and Adventures of Dick Diminy the eTockey. By Priam. No. 1. London : Vickers. This is the opening of a story in which the " doings" of certain gentlemen on the " turf " are threatened to be shown up. The tact and readi ness of exposition displayed by " Priam" in what may be called his " literature of the turf " are such as to hold out the highest promise of which the kind of work he has u n d er t a k en is susceptible ; and from its commencement we are inclined to augur well of the career of " Dick Diminy." NEW MUSIC. Tkomas Baker's Modern Piano-Forte Tutor. London : Jullien and Co. The term modern piano -forte tutor is applied to this work, because its intention is to assist the pupil in overcoming the difficulties of modern. music. Mr. Baker observes :—" The style of piano forte music being, within the last few years, so entirely changed, and a new school established, it is necessary to pursue a different course of instruc tion, so as gradually to develope to the student the beauties and peculiarities of the modern school. Many good players are unable to execute modern piano-forte music, from not having under gone the proper course of instruction to simplify and explain what appears to them impossible of execution." To obviate the difficulty here pointed out has been the object held in view by the author in this " Tutor," which imparts the necessary explanations, and by that means facilitates the labours of the student in this important branch of study. The plan of instruction is explicit and efficient, and it ought to be an addendum to the musical collection of every school and family. L' Art du Chant, Applique au Piano-Forte. By T. Thalberg. London.: Cramer and Co. In this publication the intention of Thalberg has been to accommodate some vocal pieces by the best masters to the piano -forte, especially attending to the singing part---the melody. His adaptation of these to the instrument has been very ingenious, obviating that defect in the piano which renders it difficult to prolong and sustain sound. The twelve parts, of which the collection consists, will form an excellent addition to our general piano -forte music. Valle d' Adieu—a Farewell to England; the Atlantic Galap ; _News from Home Quadrille— composed by Jullien. Jullien and Co. Three admirable compositions for the ball-room, and quite equal to any of Jullien's former pro ductions. There are beautiful touches of pathos in the " Adieu," and in " News from Home." VARIETIES. LADIES ARE LIKE VIOLETS : the more modest and retiring they appear, the more you love them. HORRIBLE ADVENTURE WITS WOLVES.—A most horrible adventure with wolves occurred, as I was told„ on the other side of the Pruth. A Russian peasant was in a sledge with his wife and four children; when a whole flock of these ferocious animals gave them chase ; the horses were unable to save them, and, in order to check the advance of the wolves, the four children were thrown out to them by their father one by one ; they reached the village in safety by this barbarous sacrifice, and the mother immediately denounced her husband for murder; the case was tried and he was acquitted.—The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk. _ _ _ GRACES OF MANILLA WOMEN.—That which distin guishes the female half-breds, (Spanish-Tagles, or Chinese- Tagals) is a singularly intelligent and expressive physiog nomy. Their hair, drawn back from the face, and sus tained by long golden pins, is of marvellous luxuriance. They wear upon the head a kerchief, transparent like a veil, made of the pine fibre, finer than our finest cambric ; the neck is ornamented by a string of coral beads, fastened by a gold medallion. A transparent chemisette, of the same stuff as the head dress, descends to the waist. Below, and two or three inches from the edge of the chemisette, is attached a variously coloured petticoat of very bright hues. Over this garment, a large and costly silk sash closely encircles the figure, and shows its outline from the waist to the knee. The small and white feet, always naked, are thrust into embroidered slippers, which cover but the extremities. Nothing can be more charming, coquettish, and fascinating, than this costume, which excites in the highest degree the admiration of strangers. —Gironiere's Twenty Years in the Philippines. ELECTRICITY IN WEAvlNG.—Having seen in your journal a paragraph stating that the Chevalier Boreli, director of the Sardinian telegraphs, has invented a sys tem of applying electricity to the Jacquard loom for weav ing figured patterns, I beg to state that Mr. Woodcock, of Islington, explained to me, ten or twelve months ago, a plan for directing a Jacquard loom by the electric current. His plan was to have the pattern painted with some non conducting substance, such as varnish, on a metallic roller connected with a galvanic battery : a row of wires was to pass from end to end of the roller, corresponding with the number of threads in the cloth, so that as the roller slowly revolved by the machinery, the threads would be raised or depressed, according as the current was cut off by the wires coining in contact with the painted pattern. By this means one application would work any number of • machines. I understand Mr. Woodcock also described the invention at the time to several gentlemen in London, and also wrote to several houses at Manchester, re questing them to take up the invention or render assist ance to bring it out. Now, sir, believing, as I do, that the invention will be of vast importance, I hope you will be kind enough to explain this matter, and not allow a foreigner to take the credit which really belongs to a countryman.—Correspondent of the Builder. LIE ROMAN DINING-Roo3l.—The dining-room was commonly decorated with fasces of arms and trophies, which served as a moment° of the warlike virtues of the ancestors of the master of the house. Enchanting frescoes stood out marvellously from the obscure shading of the wall, round which were twined fresh garlands of flowers ; and a mosaic floor—master-piece of art and patience—har monised with the fascinating landscape of the ceiling, the site of which varied with every course. The Emperor Nero, who carried this taste for the beautiful rather too far, devised a sort of vault, in the most elegant style, and entirely composed of movable leaves of ivory, which exhaled sweet perfumes, and whence flowers fell on the guests. In another of his dining-rooms admiration was excited by a magnificent dome, the rotatory movement of which imi tated day and night, and the course of the celestial bodies. These prodigies of ancient mechanism adorned the palace that the prodigal Caesar called " the gilded house." The colossal statue of that prince rose in the middle of the hall : it was 120 feet high ! Studious people, or those who wished to appear so, covered some part of the dining-room with books • for it was a custom introduced into Rome to have recitations or readings during the repast. Atticus had always a reader, and 'Juvenal promises the friend he invites to supper that he shall hear some fragments from Virgil and Homer.—Soyer's Pantropheon. THE DARDANELLES.—The strait of the Dardanelles, which divides Europe from Asia , is upwards of fifty miles in length, with an average breadth of two miles. The shore on either side is fringed with cypress groves, and the strait itself presents a very animated appearance, thousands of white-sailed calques gliding lightly over the waves, and coming and going incessantly from shore to shore. There is a strong current setting constantly from the Sea of Marmora into the Archipelago, and this, added to the defences of the place, render the forcing of the passage by armed vessels a very hazardous undertaking. The fortifications originally consisted of four castles, two on the European, and two on the Asiatic side. Of these two stand at the southern extremity, and two about eight miles further up the strait. The name Dardanelles is now especially applied to some fortifications erected in modern times between the new and the old castles, a short distance from the entrance of the straits. The number of guns mounted on these fortifications, and some others of lesser importance, is nearly seven hundred, besides eight large mortars for throwing shells. Among them are several immense guns, from which stone shot are discharged. The quantity of powder which these guns require is enormous; the-largest is charged with 3301 b. of powder, and throws a stone shot 8001 b. or I,ooolb. weight. They are more formidable in appearance than reality, and the firing of such large pieces of ordnance is not unattended with danger to their own artilleryman. _ Trunsiz.—At Trieste the first thing that attracted my attention was the great variety of picturesque costumes. This being the only port of South Germany, it is a busy, bustling place, and the people of all nations come to trade. Turks, Greeks, Armenians, all the varieties of the people along the Adriatic ; but the most remarkable are the Slays. especially the women, who wear a petticoat of some dark colour bound with bright red or orange, the same or a green bodice with white sleeves, and a white cap, with a white pendant at the back, containing some yards. The men wear dark trousers, very broad to the knee, jackets, and a cap made of fur elevated at the back, presenting a very strange appearance. I went to the Greek church, where I saw some hundreds of these, the women arranged on the north side and the men on the south. I also saw at the village of Sassina aftfte, where every one was clothed in this national Slavonic garb, and the effect was very pe culiar. Nowhere have I met with national costume so ex actly preserved. Everywhere else, even in Switzerland, the influence of cities, aided by the cheapness of Man chester, has tended to destroy all the characteristics. The duomo or cathedral of Trieste possesses interest, as being built on what was formerly the Temple of Jupiter. Under the tower an excavation has been made, and the plinths and portions of some Corinthian columns are exposed and left for view, protected by a railing.—Correspondent of the Builder. ANCIENT versus MODERN GRBATITEBB.-The ancient world signalised its greatness chiefly in monuments of vast size, and sometimes durability. The extent of Ni neveh and the colossal structures of Egypt still strike us with wonder; Grecian-civilisation left us models of beauty which are, and ever will be, the adoration of every man of taste ; Rome adorned her naturally utilitarian labours with the elegance of Grecian conceptions ; the middle ages gave us ecclesiastical models which, from their own point of view, can hardly be surpassed; but the present age, which in all these things is httle more than a copyist of the past, has at last given the world one thing—it is commonly termed a mechanical age, and one of its chief historical characteristics will assuredly be an unheard-of development of mechanical power. Its most vast concep tions begin with the steam-boiler. Ta facilitate the crea ation of steam, to husband its strength, to ad a pt t o machinery which shall waste as little as may be of its giant power, to level or bore through hills, to fill up valleys, to build monster bridges, all to give free course to this great monarch of the age, is the great task of our day. Almost all our monster works by sea or by land are built in homage to the great moving power. Monster viaducts, monster embankments, monster iron bridges, monster ships, double the size of a great man-of-war, are all but implements for the service of the monster power, which seems adequated to move the world itself, if any one would find it the standing place desired by Archimedes. THE BATIIS OF PIPEFPBRS.—From Coire we made a little excursion across the Rhine to a place called Ragatz— a kind of summer resort for visitors who come to bathe and drink the waters of Pfeffers, one of the most extraor dinary sights I ever beheld. These baths are built in a cleft of the mountain, about a thousand feet in depth, and scarcely thirty wide in many parts : the sides of the preci pices are straight as a wall, and only admit of a gleam of the sun when perfectly vertical. The gloom and solemnity of the spot, its death-like stillness and shade, even at noonday, are terribly oppressive. Nor is the sadness dis pelled by the living objects of the picture ! Swiss, Ger mans, French, and Italians, swathed in flannel dressing gowns and white dimity cerements, with nightcaps and slippers, steal along the gloomy corridors and the gloomier alleys, pale, careworn, and cadaverous. They come here for health, and their whole conversation is sickness. Now, however consoling it may be to an invalid to find a reci pient of his sorrows, the price of listening in turn is a tremendous infliction. Nor is the character of the scene such as would probably suggest agreeable reflections : had it been the portico to the nameless locality itself, it could not possibly be more dreary and sorrow-stricken. Now, whatever virtues the water possess, is surely antagonised by all this agency of gloom and depression ; and except it be as a preparation for leaving the world without regret, this place seems to be marvellously ill adapted for its object. It appears to me, however, that foreigners run into the greatest extremes in these matters ; a sick man must either live in a perpetual Vauxhall of fireworks, music, dancing, dining, and gambling, as at Baden, or be condemned to the worse than penitentiary diet and prison discipline of Pfeffers ! Surely there must be some halting place between the ball-room and the cloister, or some compromise of costume between silk stockings and bare feet ! But really, to a thinking, reasonable being, it appears very distressing that you must either dance out of the world to Strauss's music, or hobble miserably out of life to the sound of the falling waters of Pfeffers.—The Dodd Family Abroad. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS, Rev. H. Austen. 8.A., Curate of Tarrant Keynstone, Dorset, to the Incumbency of the new church in that parish. Rev. A. Bell, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Forces, King William's Town, Cape of Good Hope. Rev. L. G. F. Broome, to the Curacies of Whittlebury and Silverstone, Northamptonshire. Rev. T. Cain, M.A., Chaplain of Baldwin, to the Vicarage of Kirk Lonan, near Dougla., Isle of Man. Rev. J. S. Coles, M.A., Rector of Shepton Beauchamp, to the Assistant Rural Deanery of Crewkerne. Rev. J. D. Collis, M.A., Head Master of Bromsgrove School, to an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral. Rev. J. E. Cooper, M.A., to the Rectory of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk. Rev. J. Davies, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Smallwood, Cheshire. Rev. W. F. Ebrington, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Alkmund's, Derby. Rev. F. French, M.A. to the consolidated Rectories of Woriingworth and Southolt, Suffolk. Rev. K. Gale, 8.A., to the Incumbency of North Horton, near Bradford. Rev. E. Hotham, M.A., to the Rectory of Crow•combe, Somerset. Rev. W. R. Hunt, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's Church, Preston. Rev. W. Howard, to the Rectory of St. Peter's, Nottingham. Rev. It. A. Julian, 8.A., to the Incumbency of the Holy Trinity Church, Plymouth. Rev. J. E. Lance, 8.A., Rector of Buckland St. Mary, to the Rural Deanery of Crewkerne, Somerset. Rer. J. Langdon, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Mudford, Somerset. Rev. A. Le Broc. 8.A., to be Chaplain to H.M.S. Terrible. Rev. C. S. Lord, D.D., to the Rtctory of Farmborough, Son . erset. Rev. O. afarden, 8.A., to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Tunbridge- Wells. Rev. J. D. Massingham, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's, Derby. _ _ Rev. X. N. Paszkowicz, Chaplain to the Bromsgrove Union, to the Head Mastership of Newland Grammar School, Glou cestershire. Rev. C. R. Pearson, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Mark, Somerset. Rev. E. M. D. Pyne, 8.A., to the Rectory of Bawdsey, otherwise Bawsey, Norfolk. Rev. W. C. Rawlinson, M.A., to the Rectory of Chedburgh. Suffolk. Rev. J. Russell, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Stephen's, Wil lenhall, Staffordshire. Rev.'lt. 11. Scott, M.A., to the Rectory of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight._ . . _ Rev - . T. F. Simmons, 8.A., to the Rectory of South Dalton, Yorkshire. Rev. R. Smith, to the Curacy of Bollington. Cheshire. Rev. H. St. George, to the Perpetual Curacy of Bellinge, in the parish of Wigan. Rev. E. Symes, M.A., to the Prebend of Ilton, in Wells Cathedral. _ Rev. E. S. Venn, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lanham Episcopi, Norfolk. Rev. J. B. Wakefield, BA., to the Incumbency of South shore, near Blackpool. Rei. S. WestbrOoke, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. John's Church, Huddersfield. Rev. H. S. Wright, 8.A., to the Curacy of Pershore. The following presentations have become vacant by the death of the incumbents:— A prebendal stall in Exeter Cathedrd ; as also the Vicarage of St. Wenn, Cornwall. Patron for the latter, W. Rash. leigh, Esq. The Rectory of Char&ld, Gloucestershire. Value, £4OO a-year. Patron, Mr. J. Neeld, M.P. The Rectory of Compon, Berks. Value, £4OO a-year. Patron, Mr. J. T. Wasey. The Rectory of Buckland, near Reigate. Value, £4OO a-year. Patrons, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' Col lege, Oxford. The Vicarage of Atwick, near Hull. Value, £l5O a-year. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rectory of With ycombe Rawleigh, Devon. Value, £2OO a-year. Patron, the heirs of Lord Rolle. The Vicarage of Llowes, with the Vicarage of Llandewivach, Radnorshire. Value of the united penetices, 300 a-year. Patron, the Archdeacon of Brecon. The incumbency of St. Paul's. Whippingham, Isle of Wight. Value, 4100 a-year. Patron, the Rector of Whippingham. The Perpetual Curacy of St. James, Accrington, Lancashire. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. ORDINATION OP 1 NEW ZEALANDER.—OR Sunday an ordination service was held at St. Paul's Church, by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand. A special feature of in terest was connected with the occasion, by the unprece dented and deeply gratifying fact that one of the abori ginal native race of New Zealand was admitted to Deacon's orders. The name of the new Maori minister is Rota (Lot) Waitoa ; he has been with the Bishop for several years. He is to minister, we believe, at a mission station on the east coast.—New Zealander, May 25. Drocass or GRAHAM'S Towrr.—The Rev. John Arm strong, Vicar of Tidenham, Gloucestershire, has been nominated by the Duke of Newcastle, at the suggestion of the Bishop of Capetown, to the new diocese of Graham's town, in Africa. The two new Bishops are expected to take part at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in Lambeth, this evening, the 18th inst. A royal mandate was on Saturday issued to the University of Oxford, commanding the authorities to confer the degree of Doctor in Divinity, honoris causa, on the Rev. John Armstrong, M.A., of Lincoln College, whom the Duke of Newcastle has nominated to the . Bishopric or Prahams town, South Africa. THE BISHOP OP EXETER.—It is currently reported, we believe on good authority, that, at the recent ex amination of candidates for Holy Orders, in this city, a gentleman who possessed the recommendations of distin guished ability, extensive reading, and exemplary private character, together with an earnest desire to enter the ministry, was rejected by the examining chaplains, with the concurrence of the Bishop of Exeter. The sole cause of his rejection was the Romeward tendency of his writings. Tract NC. inspired his answers to the chap lains ; and, on this account, a highly gifted man was told that, with his present views, he could not be presented for ordination ! We have good reason to believe such was the case ; and congratulate the diocese on the event, as in dicating a resolve, on the part of those in authority, not to supply a temporary halting place within the Church of England for young gentlemen who are on their journey " from Oxford to Rome !"—Exeter Flying Post. THE CLERGY WIDOW AND ORPHAN INSTITUTION. — A special general meeting of subscribers to this institution was held at Warrington on the 6th inst., the Lord Bishop of Chester in the chair. The report of Mr. Beloe, the accountant appointed by the committee to examine into the financial position of the charity, was read, and a balance found to be due to the treasurer of £4120. The treasurer explained that £3676 of that amount was due to Messrs. Parr, Lyon, and Co., and he wished the meet ing to consider the latter sum as due to him rather than the former and larger amount. On the motion of the Dean of Manchester, seconded by the Rev. Canon Slade, the accounts of the treasurer, as audited by Mr. Beloe, were adopted and confirmed. On the motion of Arch deacon Brooks, seconded by Charles Inman, Esq., it was resolved that all the buildings now occupied by the dio cesan board of education be offered to that board for the sum of £5063. The further business consisted in the appointment of a new committee of twelve clergyman and twelve laymen, and also the appointment of the Rev. R. Greenall, as treasurer, in place of the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, who, however, continues in the office of hon. secretary. The meeting then adjourned to the 9th of November. During the meeting the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks announced a donation of £5OO from J. Huddle stone, Esq., of Liverpool. THE PEACE CONFERENCE AND MR. HENRY DRUMMOND, MP. THE following letter has been addressed to the Secretary of the Peace Society by Mr. Henry Drummond, M.P., in reply to an invitation sent to him to attend its meetings in Edinburgh "Albuiy-park, Sept. 30. " Sir,—You have invited me to go down to Edinburgh to assist at a conference of persons calling themselves The Friends of Peace ;' and you have desired me, if I cannot be present, to send yon my written adhesion to the objects of the conference. " All people want peace. If the Emperor of Russia be allowed to keep possession of Wallachia and Moldavia, and to detach the subjects of the Porte from their duty to their own Sovereign, no man will be more peaceable than Nicholas. The title, therefore, of the body is not very appropriate nor distinctive. In your address there are many trite truisms describ ing the evils of war, against which common-places nothing can be said. You consider it as a ' Utopian dream to bring about suddenly a miraculous transformation of nature,' the indulgence of which you disclaim • but your whole address proves that the only part of th e dream you differ from is the suddenness of the ' miraculous transfor mation,' and that you do propose to yourselves to be the means of ushering in a universal reign of peace by means of conferences. Of the first two men born into the world one killed the other ; and in this way ' human nature' has manifested itself ever since that period, and ever will, unless it undergoes a ' miraculous transformation.' " You endeavour to cast obloquy on the profession of arms, and are indignant at ' successful warriors occupying posts of distinction in Courts and Cabinets.' Take the army and the navy as a class, and take any other class of men in the country—merchants, tradesmen, manufac turers, savants, lawyers—compare them together for talents, patriotism, honour, virtue, disinterestedness, kind ness, self-devotion ; for, in short, every quality that en nobles man ; and I assert th a t th e military class is, beyond measure, superior to any other. You would prefer to see statues erected to those who have been most eminent in the money-making arts of peace; and, instead of statues to Marlborough, Wellington, Duncan, and Nelson, you would prefer to see statues to the inventors of spinning jennies and railroads, or to Kant and Jeremy Bentham. You think a broadbrim in bronze more picturesque than a cocked hat. You are severe upon Mars and Moloch, and prefer Mammon to both. Idolatry, like statuary, is an affair of 'taste, but Milton, who seems to 'mow as much about devils as you do, tells us that Mammon was the basest and meanest of all. _ " You quote the opinion of Lord John Russell, that the last war was unnecessary. It was not undertaken until the French Government had declared war upon every crowned head in Europe ; and they who were loyal urged their Sovereigns to reply to these manifestoes with grape shot—the only arguments with which revolutionists should be treated. The Whigs said it was not necessary, merely as every faction not in power takes the opposite side of every question from the one that is; but when they came into office, although they had coquetted with treason and palliated sedition (as they have ever since continued to do, whenever by so doing they could strengthen themselves), they were not one whit less alive to the true safety and honour of the country under Mr. Fox and Lord Grey, than their predecessors had been under Mr. Pitt _ " It requi res ma t c hl ess i mpu d ence to spea k of the de fenceless state of this country, and the sense of its danger, to which the people were with difficulty awakened, as absurd and fabulous tales for which there was not even a shadow of a foundation.' The President of the F r e n c h Republic had reiterated assertions, with oaths, that he TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1853. would preserve the Republic entire ; it has been :biting° manifested that at the very moment he was ninku l f, ame nt assertions he was plotting to seize upon the Gave _ . ,a and make himself Emperor. Yet on this man's trutnaio professions of peace, you advise us to rely .11 ould , at security ! He made no secret of saying that hew, t a proper time, invade this country. A plan for soln,vr. sion was given in to him while he was President the Republic, which he would not look at then, becalve he had other business in hand. After he was EraPer: r v o l referred that plan of invasion to his ministers, who r g et that the plan was good, if it had been carried a nd at the time, but, now that the English were roused and their military spirit awakened, as had been calling out of their militia, the time had gone bL. r e, himself proposed a plan for the repartition of which was put an end to solely by the Emperors f ,It s u-s'L Louis Napoleon has raised the largest numbeof. ~,74) proved a) . ije war-ships that France ever possessed, which cannot n ne . protect its colonies and commerce, because it has cr ny.',d He has been long practising his troops in em barkin r to disembarking by night, which cannot be for gn e ly Vienna, Rome, or St. Petersburg, and which can b e re fer for a descent on our shores. The French people P glory to gain, hate the English with a perfect hatred , au . , while Pr; long to revenge their defeat at Waterloo. facts as these stare us in the face, who shall sag there no need' of common sense to hold up to scorn and de that party in this country which ' excites public opingi" to meet such dangers by a conference for peace? " You state that ' the flower and strength of Eltr o r t fe manhood is living in coerced idleness at the expense ready rest of the community, in order that they may be rorder to fight ;' it would be more true if you had said , in ttoil that the rest of the community may be able to spin e ° an " Agreeably d ew corn in quiet. " Agreeably to the cant of the age, you try to mix some fragments of Holy Writ to sanctify your follY ; o.ti l ie imagining that you are to be the means of introdn e , millenium, you ask `if there is nothing which Carr s oa l men can do' towards that end ? You want a u nive peace without the Prince of Peace : you want the wlfbo more quiet, that men may be left more undisturbed intlo enjoyment of selfish gratification : and you think tha ePTI, one can penetrate the darkness' in which you have all veloped history, both sacred and profane. Yes • Y° ll do something to bring in universal peace.' ' Join toge t t ol et to beseech the Prince of Peace to come again, as Se as promised to do, in the same way as that in which 0 ,.. r .. ; seen to go, and He will come and b r i ng peace with Jr — but without Him ye shall nothing. "At this moment every Sovereign On continental Eio th rir has usurped over the rights of their nobles and °lt v people ; the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the and his priests, the King of Naples, and all the Inn'" absolute German Princes. For this usurpation the 1 Beta are vowing vengeance ; and from England their lea have issued proclamations calling on all subjects 11 ° t tbe war with each other, but to unite i n wa rring on h a te reigning families, and put them to death. If yo any honesty and sincerity among you, transfer your„`"af ferences to Moscow, Vienna, or Constantinople, in i v which I can venture, though unauthori z ed, to proln s ' t t a tt ° a reception much more consonant with your deser ts is the urbanity of the Scotch is likely to give to y ° yid Edinburgh ; and when the inhabitants of that citY, of Manchester, have been brought to dismiss their nintl a trates and police, and to rely upon the pacific disP e ` s `l,`ta of the rabble in those towns, it will be time enotlg, of begin to think about what may be d one w ith the resb Europe.—" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "Rev. H. Richard, 19, New Broad-street." HENRY d-stree' Dar' t.'31°119. COURT AND FASHION. VaCh f" LORD CARDIGAN intends t o b u ild a scr ew-. ~t 0 00. the Kingstown sailing next year. Th e cos t i s to be to n,. Tna idea of getting up a banquet to Lord Palmers in Edinburgh, has been abandoned for the present. I the THE approaching marriage we lately announced of ay youngest daughters of the Earl of Abergavenny ; now add that the eldest, Lady Caroline Nevill, is s“, 1 p to be united to Viscount Lymington, son and heir al Earl of Portsmouth. RD It is reported in diplomatic circles ths . ,t s d violent scene has taken place between Lord Clarendo n d on Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister. Lord Clarc il t i F t is said to have directly char g ed th e R uss i an diP l ° sl , 3 lo with bad faith, and with h av in g d ece i ve d the I' ll ,: the Cabinet to the intentions of Russia with respect Principalities. _ _ THE EMPRESS OP TER FREACH.—The Scotso commenting on the imperial visit to Boulogne, 880. 0 f " The Empress seems to have come in for a large share the admiration and acclam a ti ons —p ra i ses o f her b0,,,,a and amiability being in the mouths of a ll, both French her English, who have had the honour of a smile from t he Imperial Highness. What a curious example it is ef.,;41 whimsical turns of the ' whirligig of time,' that a Spe,: fe ,, lady, who has aunts and cousins in Kircudbrigh te ' r ol should have stood on Monday last, as the wife of fre t of Emperor, surveying the cliffs of England from the fb° 0, the column erected by the great Napoleon to conl.T e r ni , rate his happily only intended' conquest of Britaw THE COURT.—The Court left Bal m o r al on Th'-""_ a pnri for Holyrood Palace, arriving there in the afternom b p re s. Friday the Court left by the Cal e d on i an R a ilway for add. ton, staying oily for a short period at Carlisle andily the At the former station Her Mtvesty was welconle".. e ; c herl Lord-Lieutenant and Corporation. The royal train_i a i n at 3s' Preston at ten minutes to two o'clock, a nd left . e ty's five minutes past two o'clock. D ur i ng Her g e l w ith brief stay at Presto n s h e l unc h e d, and was presen' rea ched an address by the Corporation. Her Majel,, o f S C ''" Windsor shortly before eight o'clock. Th e Thx..-„, (peep, castle, the Secretary of State in attendan ce on t"' nr ri from Balmoral, took leave of Her Majesty after her i -,4 c of at the Castle, and proceeded to London. The x... 5 ,1,-, e k Aberdeen arrived from town about half-past one °''"- on Saturday, and had an audience of the Queen. MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE- re oo TILE two noble houses of De Roe and Wilton we , , tes Wednesday united by the marriage of the eldest dau , fo. c ., of the latter with the heir of the former ancient fT:•i, The ceremony took place at the village church of T n . with-cum-Oldham, in the immediate vicinity of He a ve hall, the seat of the Wilton family, in Lancashi re ,' La dy bride, who has scarcely completed her 21st year, the Elizabeth Grey Egerton, eldest surviving daughter el , Earl and Countess of Wilton, and th e young nobleman upon whom her ladyship has bestowed her hand Hon. Dudley Clarke Fitzgerald De Roe, of the Ist Li fe Guards, only son of the 20th Baron De Ros, and rec A bert.• appointed equerry to his Royal Highness Prince lof The villages of Prestwich and Heaton, where the Ea r Wilton has a seat, manifested the utmost enthusia 6 , ln o d the occasion; scarcely a house but had its union jack banneret, and it might have been supposedthat a lesso n been taken from the French, so numerous were the staffsthatlined the route from Heaton-house t o the &l i f e ! The bride was attired in an exceedingly h eall w ith dress of rich poult de soie, the skirt covered . .„ e ks two deep flounces of Brussels l a ce, he a d e d with n ' a lank. Her ladyship wore a wreath o f Cape ie s ,'lol * entwined with orange blossoms, and ov er her hea" . „„ e j veil of Brussels point. In her h an d she ca""ore bridal bouquet of natural flowers. The bridesmaid s A lice the Lady Catherine Grey Egerton and the LaclY A , T ieg Grey Egerton, sisters of the bride ; the Lady i'f o rd Grosvenor; the Hon. Miss Grosvenor, daughter of "I'be Robert Grosvenor; the three Hon. Misses Montagu e ; ',4.0' 6 Lady Emma Stanley ; the Lady Geraldine Somerset ;fti ,e , Graham ; and the Hon. Miss Blanche de Ros, sister ' me ta bridegroom, and were uniformly attired in white fi';tje.g , muslin dresses over white glace, with blue glace n' l b lue and bonnets of crepe here trimmed with clusters o . fie elit' flowers. The Countess of Wilton wore a WW I° r ich dress of peach-coloured Irish poplin, over which fe11., 3 white silk mantle, superbly embroidered, a bleue,, e , De paille de Iris bonnet completi ng h er costume. l' a l i ate , Roe wore a fawn glace silk dress, with mantle en, ; oes* and a bonnet of white glace and blonde. The Mar e `lli, of Westminster wore a dress of dark blue brocaded , s w hite i white glace mantle, trimmed with rich fringe, and 3 e ss bonnet embroidered with straw stars. The Coun i t v , Wes Derby's costume of light blue and white brocaded'' ree est remarkable for its brilliancy and effect. Among those E„i t er* were Lordde Grey Wilton and the Hon.—Egerton , h g • L t ; e le9 , of the bride, Lord de Ros, Lord Rokeby, Lard " r i 01 0 ' Lord 0. Fitzgerald, Lord Newport, Lord /donate 160 d, Hon. Mr. Bathurst, Captains Wells, Stretham, Stre'. tlje Hogg, Walsh, &c., brother officers of the bridegroo m ,d; Revs. R. Durnford, rector of Middleton ;C. Corset , t ie A. Packer and R. Fletcher, Radcliffe ; B. CromPtP''oter , worth ; Mrs. Durnford, and Mrs. and Miss Dril l/ 1 0 0 f 'of Irwell-house. After the ceremony, as they were ichr the church, four young ladies, dressed in pure whit i e j e otr wreaths of orange blossoms on their heads, strewed 1 4 y 0 g . ful flowers along the path of the bride, the orga n e l to ~, the " Wedding March." The bridal party return t hall to luncheon, and soon after we understand,ltp ur i„s• de Ros and his lovely bride departed for a wede p re e- oe The bride's trousseau comprised upwards oflfio, *„ 0 - We may mention, says the Manchester Guar'igolu:of of gold teaspoons and sugar-tong s , w ith a p a ir vpicht' , ,er dlesticks, presented by her Royal Highness the fr0re,.,;, 1 1 Gloucester; a very handsome piece of jewellerY'Der Royal Highness the Duchess of CambridgeLiienh: l ; Highness the Hereditary Grand Duche ss of ra-'"'. / Strelitz presented a costly so uven i r , " w ith re, 9„_''''ehest,,e and heartfelt congratulatio ns ;" th e D u ke and ' here Northumberland sent a very handsome bracelet ; e fort , a silver fish-slice and fork from the Duchess of n e : pair °f bracelet from the Princess Mary of Cambridge; „ l op rl gold candelabra from the Countess of Derby; tiAoutifei and coffee service from Lord and Lady RokehY ; e legal i f suite of diamonds from the Earl of Wilton ; a ° C ou n tess ° dressing-case and a silver cruet-stand from the Off giver the Wilton ; twenty-four silver knives and three f r om from Lord Grey de Wilton' an elegant b uire t s t e e p r l oa t fte s t ir l i Lady Katherine Grey Egerton : a silver „ e f ro m the Lady Alice Grey Egerton; a gold time - R,... 0a Lam John and Lady Jane Wild ; a silver tea-kettle le`„ silYet Halesbury; a siver hash-dish from Lord Foreste„ rac k salver from Lady Newport ; a silver toast es t re insvu.. o ,s de Ros ; a diamond hoop ring from Lord f....o.Aret most elegant perfume box from the Lady others, Be r n d ' the Lady Matilda Butler; and numerous presents from the Hon. Elizabeth Moats D e r e, rietta Somerset, Lady Macclesfield, Lo n rd 1) g a r'n7 rics/ and Lady Leigh, Lady Lucy Bridg ' e c li h i fielt ad , L Y adY O i rojf the Hon. Mrs. Coventry, Lady Stanley, the Lady Goderic , Dog :the the Lady Georgians Bath the Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Janethe Hon. it ep Cecil to nt Parker,he Lady the Frances h L a tl t l eu M T i o l yd r Mildred JanehH e Hope, e aG , d t yr o h s e vy eman ßroa tle d , h. Ca urn p_ t t7in gr.. 7 ,m 4Ae ra , Mrs. Booth, 3Hloisns. .I.G.rii'airiaaculdthntedhedlieLf.fdrHy. . jF M oreh . n ßirch, Miss Wyndn't . Miss Curzon, Mrs. Gray, &c. We u pied w hi c h occ ch forget to mention a pair of glass egg cups, and _.,„ vv an Mrs 3 d ,n . d3lhiVrsarn.. j:BomrahfnskbSutarnniee,Y'thleir.HlOVnal.ter Wm.d I.l.Vv_ineiteiesrLelyyji:/r00..t, Ita.ecroens-g)incutrimbisupowsitbioyn 3ornartthheataobole whom the young ladies of the hall have ___ e ,tea kindness. There was also a bone, which was . Pr'"" a grea t by " Captain Zooloo," a German dog, which is favourite at Heaton. The nuptials of the Rev. Sir William 311 . 111°11 -E a ' ri ßart- e g ii Castlegar, in the county of Galway, with ML . r. & non , it. second daughter of the Rev. Henry Sing, I Ogden, Panreseoult s d ho w ivn niall: n to the 0 ir ,,,e 1 Ro of th e ss li e, in w g e ' r s e County, :31d in e t o h us e on Wednesday last, the 12th inst. The bride was a by a train of nine bridesmaidai ipanesrmah °f ?ereni"lei