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VIOLETTA. TEhe following charming poem is from a volume entitled -"Poems, Narrative and Lyrical." By Edwin Arnold, of Vniversity College, Oxford.] Oh 1 Was there ever tale of human love Which was not also tale of human tears ? Died not sweet Desdemona ? Sorrowed not Fair, patient Imogen ? and she whose name Lives among lovers, Sappho, silver-voiced, Was not the wailing of her passionate lyre Ended for ever in the dull, 'deaf sea ? Must it be thus ? Oh ! must the cup that holds The sweetest vintage of the vine of life Taste bitter at the dregs ? Is there no story, No legend, no love-passage which shall bend, Even as the bow that God had bent in heaven, O'er the sad waste of mortal histories, Promising respite to the rain of tears ? Meseems do remember one ! It told Of lovers led by angel hands together, Who met most strangely, and who loved most strongly, To the last kiss of life. I heard it often, Down at Caserta, by the seven waters ; Tioretta sang the story to her lute At the Ave-Mary. Oh ! 'I would I had The merry music of her easy tongue, And the quick flash of her Italian eye, So should ye listen to the very last. She said—l think it was at set of sun— Down the green hill, where the Velino rushes, And through the valley where he rests ; and then On to the village came a wayfarer Of noble bearing ; young and fair he was, With smoothest face and forehead, whereupon Time had not written wrinkles. At his heels The scabbard of his sword kept even time, Merrily clinking on the mountain stone With every stride—Oh 1 but he had an eye To make a lady look once and again, Where, if she looked, she could not choose but love. The village girls dancing about the well, Stayed the quick music of the mandoline Even at the quickest, as he passed them by; Whereat, with smile and ready compliment, And jewelled bonnet doffed, and brown curls bowed, lie questioned of the leagues that lay between him And the " Tre Mauri." " Not a league, fair air, But you shall find the castle and the court Full to the roof, and it were very pity To dull such doublet with the mountain mist, And rust your new sword ere the sun bath seen it." "Nay, I must on 1" " Well, there's the haunted chamber If you can look a ghost into the face As you can look a girl, I nothing question There's sleeping-room ; so farewell, signor mine." Montorio left them laughing, and at night Beat with his dagger-hilt upon a door, Which opened up into the spacious court 110 f what was now as ostel, but had once Been Albertino's pace. L ittle necked he - Though there were dances on the garden grass, And rustling satins, and brocades of gold, In every alley ; and the glint of gems, And quiet float of feathers in the hall ; Only he eased him of his belt and sword, And after ortolans and Alban wine, Followed the torches of the seneschal Along the rushes to an ancient room, 'Where, after many drowsy beads, he slept, Dreamless and still. Above him in the turret There sat two sisters, beautiful—but one Most beautiful : even as the evening star Sits in her place among the silver worlds Most silvery. The lady Violetta, On wrist and arm of rounded ivory Resting her brow, read from the painted page The legend of the Milanese Manzoni, Until the night was old : close at her side Sat Beatrice, at the broider frame, Drawing the stained silks slow and slower still, For that her eyes were heavy ; so at last, Bidding her sister seek her in the chamber, Her quiet feet left Violetta reading, With bright eyes wearied, but with heart unfilled. how long the story held her, that I know not ; But long enough it was to let the sand Slide from the thrice-turned glass, and the light flicker, As though it strove to live and look upon her ; So that she started, and with opened lips, As when a bud opens to be a rose. Breathed from the dying lamp its little life, And stripping off the flowers from her forehead, Let the great waves of gold go to the ground, And walked in the white moonlight to her bed. And now she sleepeth, beautiful and calm, 'With those long glossy tresses for a night-robe, And her blue eyelids down upon her eyes. Ha I—methought Beatrice's hair was black I Whose are yen sleeper's clustering curls of brown ? • Brown I—She has missed the chamber, and is laid By young Montorio, most unwittingly Wandering hither slumbrous and unlighted. Look, they are sleeping side by side ; their hearts Beating one measure, and their warm breath meeting, And his bright locks and her long tresses tangled; Whose eyes have never met by daylight. Stay 1 Stir not !—and speak not I—oh, how shall it end ? They sleep I the spangled night is melting off, And still they sleep . ; the holy moon looks in, In at the painted window-panes, and flings Ruby, blue, purple, emerald, amethyst, Crystal, and orange colours on their limbs; And round her face a glory of white light, As one who sins not ; on the tapestries Gold lights are flashing like the wings of angels, Bringing these two hearts to be single-hearted. They sleep and it is morning I—Her white hand Falls light as snow on his, and sends a dream— A quick, strange dream, into his heart, whose joy Goes through the spirit to the sense, and lifts The curtain of his eye, What cloth he gaze on ! is the dream vanished, but the dream's dear glory Left him for comfort ? Ah I that hasty cry Bath snapped the spell 1 She starts—and she is gone— Rose-colour from the forehead to the foot. He thinks it is a spirit, and will kneel ; But, kneeling, spies a bracelet : pearl and gold Warm from the wearer, where her foot was last ; So bath he kissed it lovingly, and laid it 'Close at his heart, and when the house was up, Asked of the busy hostess earnestly -4' Who bolds the upper chamber of the turret ?" - "The lady Violetta and her sister, Mast night, fair sir ; but when the sun was up They rose, and parted from us, Venice-ward." lie wrote the name upon his heart, and wandered Away into the world to search for be.. Twice a year ended : at Perugia There was a solemn masso Whitsuntide, The chant of priests andg of choristers .Rose with the ringing of the loaded censors And the low breathing of a people's prayers, So that the sound went through the fluted pillars, Down the long nave, out by the portal-arch, - Into the square, and smote upon the ear -Of one who walked disconsolate. He turned, Following as it were an angel's word, And bent his proud knee on the marble, praying • And as he prayed, the weight went from his heart, And the dull longing, and the baffled search Of twice twelve moons faded before the song Of her who knelt beside him, for she sang "The psalm of ended trials." Presently The veil was raised, and it was—Violetta ! 'Once more Montorio was by her side ! Oh 1 shall I tell you how he wooed and won her, Or when he won her, how he stamped the kiss, The long-delayed and life-expected kiss,. Upon her rose-leaf lips, and took her wrist And clasped the bracelet on, and whispered low, With a light laugh that none might understand, Sweet Violetta 1 hadst thou not lost this, And thy dear self beside, I had not won A noble, beautiful, and gentle wife." REVIEWS OF BOORS. e Triplet, a New Dance. By Edgar Webster. Liverpool: J. Smith. 'is handsomely got up piece of dance music , by permission, dedicated to Lady Constance Ararosvenor, and comprises "The Grosvenor Galop," end " The Sutherland Valse a deux temps. The -measures are lively, and the directions for executing the figures explicit. It is well printed, and taste -irully illustrated. - :The Man of Sin. By the Rev. W. F. Taylor, M.A. Liverpool: Howell. wring Lent of the present year the Rev. W. F. 'M'aylor delivered a course of seven lectures, in St. 3 °lnes Church, and these have been published 'icier the above title. The separate subjects are judiciously treated, under the heads of " The Demonolo g y of Popery," " The Man of Sin the _Eon of Perdition," " The Persecutor," " The 13Iasphemer," " The Mystery of Unity," " Satanic Influence," and " Judicial Blindness." Under - these varied heads the pretensions of Popery are _rigorously scrutinized, and pointedly denounced. -Silo lectures were received with much favour during the course of their delivery ; and their popularity is more likely to be enhanced than Adeteriorated by publication. They invite and will irepay attentive study. _Protestant Conversation Cards. Liverpool: Howell This may, and no doubt will, by some, be eon 21dered a singular title to what professes to be, .2nd in reality is, a valuable means of diffusing Ananong the working classes a knowledge of those 43ssential points of difference which exist between 4he Church of England and the Romish Church. Mese Conversation Cards, in the words of their -Compiler, the Rev. James P. Shepherd, are "an attempt to explain and expose the Romish doctrines ..and ceremonies, as they now stand unrepealed from - the Council of Trent." The diffusion of religious knowledge by such means is not new, and the inerit of this application of such means consists in the directness, perspicuousness, and truth of the Intelligence conveyed. On these points we are .able to afford commendation <to the labour be atowed in the effort. The intention has been well zrealised. The Illustrated London _Magazine August. London : Piper, Brothers, and Co. 'his magazine, of which the present is only the -I second part, is got up with much taste in so far as - alio eye merely is concerned. Its contents also resent a goodly array of authors' names, whose .l eoutributions grace, or are supposed to grace, the Itunber. How far this latter supposition is the 'wn ii .e one, may be learned from a piece of vapid *neetation pertly put forth by Mr. Horace Mayhew, 1 1 ,Ver the title of "Materials for an Autobiography." 'e general tenor of the paper is flippant, silly, and ' e° i .i t t t , e ulytible. The tone of its insufferable vulga -t,' h owever, can only be guessed at from one or ° s Peeini illlrth ',ens' "My mother was very pleased at tread , says Mr. Horace Mayhew. " I have ,- Pant 't u ivereiy room zy of novels . " I have suffered se ,the same welling in an English railway." In mess the ores 11r. Mayhew says, " I hate to wit of a man who does not deserve it." We pretend, t i ema , mie n e c' es t s to measure the extent of this gen . to ponder 'er b ut would sincerely recommend -pos ov er s his own denunciation ; and, if able, refo rm hi s lyr e regret thetocs:rearae aglestYle of English composition. s of a serial, whose aim mission y of such ungra ' a ble , disfigured by the ad- A ar e pointed out, and tical rubbish as that we venture to hope for an im vroungut in its ftiti i Q ullmabors, 1 The Dublin The present r I Mac/az ae for Sepentbel nber will support the character a litera serial. Its con- tents are varied, clever, interesting rally well written. Among and gene vill be its papers found a valuable essay on " Industrial Education." It is founded on lectures delivered by Dr. Lyon Playfair, Professor Forbes, Sir H. de la Beche, and others, besides embracing also a resume of educa tional essays, recently published, relative to the state of artistic and industrial education in Eng land and on the continent. Besides this and other papers of great merit, there is also a capital contribution entitled " Geology, Popular and Artistic." By students and amateurs of geo logical science, this will be read with interest and profit. We cannot, however, avoid feeling the want of those admirable political articles, with which, in bygone days, the pages of the Dublin University Magazine were wont to be enriched. Illustrated Handbook to Belgiwn and the Rhine London : Bradshaw. Travelling through Belgium, on the Rhine, and in Rhenish Prussia, has become such an every-day occurrence, owing to the facilities afforded by rail roads and steam-boats, that a portable handbook of easy reference has become a kind of necessary. The demand, however, has been well supplied by the publisher of the celebrated " Railway Guide, who has here given all the necessary information as to routes, hotels, passports, means of travelling, &c., with a popular description of the various ob jects of interest to be seen. The book is profusely illustrated with maps, plans of the streets in the various towns, and engraved views of public build ings, &c. The latter may not rank high as works of art, but they are sufficiently distinct to give a good idea of the objects delineated. The book will be warmly welcomed by all who travel in the di rection described, and from the moderate price at which it is published, will, no doubt, command an extensive patronage. Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : tlackwood. The number for September opens with an article on " Scotland since the Union," being a review of a recently-published "History of Scotland from the Revolution, &c., 'by John Hill Burton." The reviewer, while describing Scotland as " tranquil, prosperous, and enterprising," sets forth a series of complaints. They want, he says, more of the public money spent there, a Secretary of State for Scotland, and a greater number of representatives in Parliament. He forgets the old adage, to let well alone. It may be that, if the demands were granted, Scotland would not be so prosperous as she is at present. Ireland has had all these things, and her Celtic population is almost extinct. -" Fo reign Estimates of England" is an amusing com mentary on a recently-published work by Schle singer, a German author of some repute. It is well that we should sometimes "see ourselves as others see us." A second part of " New Read ings in Shakspere" exposes a number of the ab surdities of which Mr. Collier has been guilty in his volume of alleged emendations, and the expo sure is justified on the ground that, "if the glory of Shakspere be a theme for national congratula tion, the purity of his text ought to be an object of national concern." The critic overhauls the plays seriatim, and promises the remaining ten in the next number. One curious fact is, that a word in the first part of King Henry IV. which has puzzled all the commentators is made clear by a reference to Dick Swiveller's " Marchioness," in the tale of " The Old Curiosity Shop." After a humorous story, entitled " The Duke's Dilemma, a chronicle of Niesenstein," we have a continuation of " Lady Lee's Widowhood," which has become something more serious as the catastrophe ap proaches. " Coral Rings" is an interesting and instructive description of those wonders of the southern seas, the coral reefs. The number con cludes with an ably-written letter, from Liverpool, on " The Extent and the Causes of our Prosperity," a subject too important to be passed over in a hasty notice, but which we shall return to more at length_ another time. The writer entertains similar views to those which we have previously advanced, and his remarks are well deserving of serious and at tentive consideration. Wanderings in Spain. By Theophile Gautier. London : Ingram, Cooke and Co. This lively narrative, of personal experiences and wanderings in the Peninsula, is written by a Frenchman, if we mistake not a Parisian literateur, and its pages bear testimony to the thirst for novelty which constitutes so prominent a feature of the Gallic character. Theatres, balls, masques, and bull-fights mingle in strange, yet picturesque, confusion with cathedrals, religious processions, Moorish architecture, and fantastic carvings. The following description of varied scenery, travellers and costume, as witnessed by our anthor, is artistic and suggestive : APPROACH TO MADRID. The lofty mountain crests glistened and sparkled in the sun, like the skirt of a dancing-girl's robe under its shower of silver spangles ; others, again, had their peaks surrounded by clouds, and merged imperceptibly into the sky, for nothing resembles a mountain so much as a cloud. The whole view was composed of one succession of pre cipices and undulations. It is beyond the power of art, whether of the pen or the pencil, to convey an adequate idea of their different colours and forms ; mountains realise all that the imagination can picture of them, and this is no small praise. The only difference between the reality and the idea we form of it, arises from the fact of our fancying mountains look larger than they do. We are only aware of their enormous size by comparison. On gazing attentively, you perceive that what, at a distance, you took for a blade of grass, is a fir-tree sixty feet high. From time to time we met travelling maragatos in their costume of the sixteenth century, which consists of a tight-fitting leathern doublet, fastened with a buckle, wide breeches, and broad-brimmed hat. We also met several Valencianos, with their white linen drawers, like the robes of the Klephts, their handkerchief twisted about their head, their white gaiters bordered with blue, and without feet, after the fashion of the antique Knemis, and their long piece of cloth (capa de muestra), cros se d diagonally by bright-coloured stripes, and draped over their shoulders in a very elegant manner. All that we could perceive of their flesh was as tawny as Florentine bronze. Then, again, we saw strings of mules, caparisoned in the most charming fashion, with bells and party coloured fringe and housings, while their arrieros were armed with carbines. We were enchanted, for we had found an abundant supply of the picturesque of which we were in search. The higher we ascended, the thicker and broader became the strips of snow ; but a single sunbeam made the mountains stream with water, like a woman laughing in the midst of her tears ; on every side little brooks, scattered about like the dishevelled tresses of some Naiad, and clearer than crystal, forced their way downwards. Madrid, like Rome, is surrounded by a desert ; it is impossible to convey an idea of its aridity and desolation. There is not a tree, a drop of water, a green plant, or the least appearance of humidity; nothing but yellow sand iron-grey rocks ; and when you leave the mountain, you do not find even rocks, but large stones. From time to time you perceive - a dusty yenta, a cork-coloured spire, just showing its nose on the horizon, large melancholy looking oxen dragging along one of the cars we have already described; a countryman on horseback, or on a mule, with a fierce expression of face, a carbine at his saddle-bow, and a sombrero slouched over his eyes, or long strings of whity-brown asses, carrying chopped straw, which is corded up with a net-work of small ropes, and that is all. The ass which walks first, the coronel, has always a small feather or rosette, indicating his superiority in the hierarchy of the long-eared tribe. In the course of his perigrinations M. Gautier visited nearly all the towns of note, and inspected most of the scenes of interest in Spain, all of which he describes with a playful and appropriate fancy. The volume is plentifully embellished with, generally speaking, well-executed engravings of remarkable edifices, or striking scenery, and both the pen and the pencil have been cleverly, as well as industriously, employed in recording the ex periences of the traveller. Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South. By David Urquhart. London : Triibner and Co. Liverpool : G. J. Keet. The volume, of which the above is the title, is one which at the present time is sure to command an attentive perusal by all who take an interest . in the vexed question of Russo-Turkish politics. Its author is a gentleman whose familiarity . with numerous points involved in that complicated dispute is undeniable, although there are, no doubt, many well-informed individuals whose judicious consideration of the subject, even as stated by My. Urquhart, will ensure their rejection of some of his conclusions. Notwithstanding this, however, the labours of our author in collecting the information eontained in the volume before us, and in so con densing that information as to render it readily available to the general student or politician, have been such, and so well b es towed, as to entitle him to a large meed of public approbation. His means of acquiring information on the subject have been extensive and peculiar, and he has availed himself. of those means with industry a nd no littlee 11. In stating his various propositions , he aims at perspicuity and terseness ; although it must be i admitted that in some instances at least, his success in the latter aim is obtained at a conside rable sacrifice of the former. The work, which has been prepared at different periods extending o ver a considerable number of years, takes a comprehen sive,. not in every instance a sound or unpre mixed view of Russian aggression, OA that has - been openly or covertly displayed in the various events which have agitated European politics during and even long antecedent to the first half of the present century. In doing so, Mr. Urquhart systematically reviews the hidden as well as the more open demonstrations of Russian policy, as these have been applied in the affairs of Spain, Hungary, Norway and Finland, and Denmark ; on the Danube, and on the Euxine; in the Levant, and on the shores of the Red. Sea. In all of which he labours to show the existence of a consistent and unceasing system of aggression on the part of Russia. It would be unreasonable to demand an indisputable demonstration on every point of belief adduced by Mr. Urquhart on so widely open a subject of controversy as he has here chosen for himself; but it is not too much to expect from him some reasonable ground of presumption for the various hypotheses he advances, and in this expec tation the candid reader will not be disappointed. He states his cases broadly and with seeming honesty and unreservedness ; and is at least suc cessful in showing that there are sufficient grounds for -a watchful, if not indeed a distrustful, vigilance on our part, in regard to even the most innocent looking movements, of Russian diplomacy. The spirit of the book may, to a congiderable extent, be gathered from the following TO MR. URQUHART'S ANTI-RUSSIAN FAITH Treaties are to her [Russia] the scaffolds by which she builds, as she ascends she knocks them down. That of Vienna, in 1815, gave her Poland, but did not prevent her, in 1846 , from disposing of Cracow. That of Adrianople, in 1829, gave her the mouths of the Danube on conditions, but does not prevent her, in 1853, from blocking up the entrance in violation of those conditions. That of Baita Liman, in 1849, gave her a conjoint occupation, for seven years, of the principalities, but does not prevent her, in 1853, from assuming and practising a separate and exclu sive occupation. So, too that of London, in 1841, gave her the exclusion of foreign vessels of war from the Euxine, on condition of respecting the integrity of the Ottoman empire ; and so, also, it does not prevent her, iu 1853, from violating that integrity. Wilful misinterpretation, or disingenuous misap plication of the provisions of treaties, when it suits her own purposes, constitutes the gravamen of the charges which Mr. Urquhart brings against the policy of Russia, and it must be admitted that he establishes a fair ground for questioning the good faith of that power in many of her diplomatic arrangements. In an equally succinct and successful manner he disposes of not a few of the fallacies which have found currency and belief in this country relative to the inadequacy of Russian resources. The following will be found an interesting as well as a truthful resund of THE CZAR'S FINANCIAL MEANS. I cannot (says he) omit noticing a ground of confidence which has recently, for the hundredth time, presented itself as a novelty ; it is, " The Emperor has no money." The same thing was said in 1827, when he came forward to support the Bank of England, as he had already sup ported the Bank of France. £6,000,000 were vested in English and French securities, £22,000,000 of bullion were then held in deposit. She receives nearly £5,000,000 yearly from her mines, and actually her stock is quoted at 16 per cent. above par. She offers to remit a claim of £80,000,000 roubles for a province being [query lying] between the Caspian and Little Ilibet, and to pay the difference ; yet, according to diplomatic report, " The guards, the crack corps at Zarskoi Zelo, are destitute of clothes and everything." Well, then, they can be clothed as well as fed in the principalities. Napoleon believed Europe to be in danger from the poverty of Russia ; she preserves the appetites of poverty, while knowing how to employ the seductions of wealth. It is her gold you have to fear, and not her steel. She makes a little go a great way, and she takes it from yourselves. *• It has long been the habit to dispose of all warnings by the trite phrase, " Russia is a poor country, she cannot get money, and without money war cannot be made." All these acquisitions (referring to a long catalogue of enu merated aggressions) have been effected in peace. Poor as she is, she has so husbanded her means, and you have so mismanaged your wealth, that she can be able to come forward to support the tottering credit of the banks of London and of Paris. The house of Rothschild may hold down the head of the Emperor on the grinding-stone of an artful contract ; but Russia commands' the monetary operations of the two first capitals of the world, and controls their policy by the Stock Exchange. Without committing ourselves to a full adoption of all, or indeed of any, of Mr. Urquhart's views as to the peculiar policy which this country ought to observe in her relations with Russia, remote as well as immediate, we can have no hesitation in recom mending his book to the attentive and careful study of all who feel an interest in those questions, now under consideration, relative to the course of events likely to arise out of the complication of Russian and Turkish affairs. In Mr. Urquhart's volume, they will find an important body of information from which they may readily elaborate their own theories, whether these regard the abstract or the practical bearings of the subject,—a subject of deep interest, in a commercial sense, and one thickly beset with difficulties. It is only fair to add, that an edition of the book has been issued at a very cheap rate. VARIETIES ♦ CONSENT to common custom, but not to common folly. A FALSE RELIANCE.—An American editor, throwing himself upon the indulgence of his readers, fell through, and was taken up hi a stupid condition. AMERICAN TOAST.-" The ladies; the only endurable aristocracy, who rule without laws—judge without jury— decide without appeal—and are never in the wrong." YOUNG TURNIPS, when boiled in their skins and pared afterwards, are said to be of better flavour, and much less watery, than when cooked in the usual way. To SETTLE A CROCODILE.—The sure way, according to ancient practice, was to confront him with a mirror, when he incontinently died of fright at his own defor mity.—Fraser. _ _ _ "DICK, I say, why don't you turn that buffalo robe t'other side out?—the hair side is the warmest." " Bah, Tom, you get out. Do you suppose the animal himself didn't know how to wear his hide ? I follow his style." AT CORK ASSIZES a learned gentleman, dissatisfied at his success with a witness, complained to the court. Paddy exclaimed, "My lord, I'm no lawyer, and he wants to puzzle me."—Counsel: "Come, now , do you swear you're no lawyer?"—Witness : " Faith, an' I do ; and you may swear the same about yourself, I'm afraid." (Roars of laughter.) THE SLEEP or A PASIIA.—His Excellency not foster ing feelings of the most friendly nature towards Namik Pasha, the new Commander-in-chief of Arabia, who was passing through Mosul on his way to the head-quarters of the army at Bagdad, and unwilling to :entertain him,:was suddenly taken ill, and retired for the benefit of his health to l3aasheikah. On the morning after his arrival he com plained that the asses, by their braying during the night, had allowed him no rest;' and the asses were promptly banished from the village. The dawn of next day was announced, to the great discomfort of his excellency, who had no interest in the matter, by the cocks : and the irre gular troops who formed his body-guard were immediately incited to a general slaughter of the race. The third night his sleep was disturbed by the crying of children, who, with their mothers, were at once locked up for the rest of the sojourn, in the cellars. On .the fourth he was awoke at daybreak by the chirping of sparrows, and every gun in the village was ordered to be brought out to wage a war of extermination against them. But on the fifth morning his rest was sorely broken by the flies, and the enraged Pasha insisted upon their instant destruction. The Kiayah, who, as chief of the village, had the task of carrying out the governor's orders, now threw himself at his excellency's feet, exclaiming " Your highness has seen that all the animals here, praise be to God, obey our lord the sultan; the infidel flies alone are rebellious to his authority. lam a man of low degree and small power, and can do nothing against them ; it now behoves a great vizier like your highness to enforce the commands, our lord and master. The pasha, who relished a joke, forgave the flies, but left the village.—Layard's Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. _ _ _ . - A LIvE ArTHORESS. — Once I was driven by a young Irish friend to call upon the wife of a rich farmer in the country. We were shown by the master of the house into a very handsomely furnished room, in which there was no lack of substantial comfort, and even of some elegancies, in the shape of books, pictures, and a piano. The goodman left us to inform his wife of our arrival, and for some minutes we remained in solemn state, until the mistress of the house made her appearance. She had been called from the washtub, and, like a sensible woman, was not ashamed of her domestic occupation. She came in wiping the suds from her hands on her apron, and gave us a very hearty and friendly welcome. She was a short, stout, middle-aged woman, with a very pleasing counte nance ; and though only in her coloured flannel working dress, with a nightcap on her head, and spectacled nose, there was something in her frank good-natured face that greatly prepossessed us in her favour. After giving us the common compliments of the day, she drew her chair just in front of me, and, resting her elbows on her knees, and dropping her chin between her hands, she sat regard ing me with such a fixed gaze that it became very embar rassing. So,' says she, at last, `you are Mrs. M— ? —`Yes.'—' The woman that writes ?'—' The same.'—She drew back her chair for a few paces, with a deep-drawn sigh, in which disappointment and surprise seemed strangely to mingle. ' Well, I have he'rd a great deal about you, and I wanted to see - you bad for a long time ; but you are only a humly person like myself after all. Why I do think, if I had on my best gown and cap, I should look a great deal younger and better than you.'— I told her I had no doubt of the fact.—' And pray,' con tinued she, with the same provoking scrutiny, `how old do you call yourself ?'—l told her my exact age.— ' Humph !' quoth she, as if she rather doubted my word, two years younger nor me ! you look a great deal older nor that: After a long pause and another searching gaze, Do you call those teeth your own Yes,' said I, laugh ing ; for. I could retain my gravity no longer ; in the very truest sense of the word they are mine, as God gave them to me.'—' You are luckier than your neighbours,' said she.—' But airn't you greatly troubled with head aches ?'—' No,' said I, rather startled at this fresh inter rogatory.—' My !' exclaimed she, I thought you must be, your eyes are so sunk in your head. Well, well, so you are Mrs. of Belleville, the woman that writes. You are but a humly body after all:—While this curious colloquy was going on, my poor Irish friend sat on thorns, and tried, by throwing in a little judicious blarney, to soften the thrusts of the home truths to which he had unwittingly exposed me. Between every pause in the conversation, he broke in with—' I am sure Mrs. M-- is a fine-looking woman—a very young-looking woman for her age. Any person might know at a glance that those teeth were her own. They look too natural to be false. —Mrs, Moodie's Life in the Clearing,. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAP.D, AND GENERAL Clr 'TMERCIAL ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. THE PROPOSED NEW CHURCH IN LIVERPOOI TO THE ITOR OF THE LIVEEPOOL STANDAE SIR,—I was much pleas& week on the proposed new church in Liverpool, and I am sure that I express the opinions of every true Christian in saying, that I trust they will meet with a cordial response. It is not, however, for the advantage—confessedly a great one—that more church accommodation would be afforded to the busy thousands of this great commercial port, nor the still greater advantage that the opportunities for divine worship will be more frequent than heretofore, and the service performed with an order and regularity which might prove a beneficial example for other churches. These are benefits of no ordinary magnitude, and suffi cient of themselves to entitle the proposal to approbation ; but they would be far outweigT general expectation should be realised of the new church proving a means of healing the unhappy differences which, we would fain deny, now separate our Zion into parties. Why should High Church be so high, or Low Church so low, that neither can discover any good thing in the other ? It is a grievance which should excite the deepest feelings of humiliation, and if any means could be devised by which the breach should be healed, and unity restored, I feel certain that the event would be hailed by Church men, of all ranks, with joy unspeakable. My letter was, however, intended to call attention to your remarks re specting the proposed choral aid to the services of the church. Why should music be withheld from any part where it can be appropriately introduced, or the practice of intoning forbidden when it serves so well to keep the congregation together, as they audibly join in the re sponses ? Music is the very language of heaven, and can never be out of place, whether for the purposes of prayer or praise. Of course I do not mean the elaborate compo sitions by which the Church of Rome seeks to please the ear and gratify the taste of her worshippers, but the simple, yet sweet melodies—the plain, but noble chants, and the other choral accessories which the pure Church of England has sanctified to the purposes of her devotion. These can never be out of place. The words used in sing ing should, I think, also be confined to the Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer, for I view with great ob jection the introduction of doggerel rhapsodies, which, - under the name of hymns, are in Coo many of our churches. I trust no apology is needed for this brief trespass on your valuable space.—l am, &c., A cn" ußclimAN, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, —ln this age of church extension, it is not very surprising to find an appeal in behalf of a new church in Liverpool; but the manner and matter contained in this address are somewhat unusual, and the grounds of its claims to public support are so extraordinary, that some observations respecting them may not be out of place. That a serious want of church accommodation exists in Liverpool, no one can deny who has taken the trouble to make even a cursory examination of its enormous popula tion, teeming as it does with thousands of the poorer classes, most of whom are quite beyond the reach of pastoral care. Districts, containing some 8,000 souls, are found with church-room for, perhaps, 1,000, and two clergymen are probably appointed to minister among such a multitude, while 1,000 souls are assumed to be the greatest number that one active and zealous minister can properly take into his charge. Churches are then undoubtedly required, where the poor can hear the glad tidings of salvation as set forth in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, pointing as with a sunbeam to that blest yet rugged path in which the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err. In a recent appeal for this church in the London Times, and partly in the Liverpool papers, the proposed building is denomi nated a "poor man's church ;" and it is, moreover, said, that the greater number of those who desire so much to see the Rubrics and the Prayer Book "justified," and the churches fitted up with architectural correctness, are— the poor! It also states that the rich and influential are satisfied with things as they are ; and, after a specious preamble about bringing (not the Bible but) the Book of Common Prayer frequently before the people, calls upon those very rich and satisfied people to aid the cause which they are said to disregard. Surely this is nothing more or less than a scanty garment of humility to hide a worth less and base deception. Can any one believe that the poor and uneducated man has any taste or desire for subjects of which he has never even heard, such as correct architecture, fast and feast days, daily services which he never could attend, and ru brics which are to him as an unknown tongue ? And is the wayfaring man to be a critic of stained glass and en caustic tiles and piscinas, credences, five-crossed stone altars, and rood screens ? Far be it from me to depreciate correctness of style and arrangement in our churches, but I maintain it to be a fallacy and popular imposition to seek thus to pin the pure faith of Christ to things having no possible connection with doctrine at all. If religion be a creed of piscinas and high pitched roofs, and open seats, and even of prayer books, and yet not of the Bible and of Christ, what is its value? It is a faith of man's invention, of man's mind, of human taste, and not of Christ. I have thought it my duty to say thus much, in order, if possible, to influence the liberal and influential of our town and neighbourhood to extend their generosity in such channels as will best promote the well-being of man and the glory of God. I will therefore subscribe myself no Puseyite, although for years A MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. have rend with great interest your article on " the proposed new church in Liverpool." I participate very largely in the `hopes with - which you regard the pro ject, and shall rejoice to see the day when an accessible - dal& service shall be tablished in this town Any one who has resided in—l will not say a cathedral city, be cause, happily, the daily service is not now confined to cathedrals, and, unhappily, all cathedrals are not, as they should be, models of church observance to their several dioceses—but any one who has resided in a place where the daily service could be resorted to, and who has valued and used the privilege, must feel that its absence is a heavy loss. Surely of the thousands who, at this port, take leave of the land they love, and enter upon the perils of the deep, there must be many who would be glad that some portion of their last hours here should be passed within the house of God, and that the feelings which are then uppermost should find expression in the prayers and benedictions of the Church. So, too, of those who return hither after long absence, or who, after encountering dan gers which seemed to exclude all hope, have ultimately reached in safety." the haven where they would be." What more natural, in the devout mind, than the wish at once to return thanks to God for His mercy, by joining in the services of His temple ; and what more chilling to such a feeling, than the denial of the opportunity ! It often happens, moreover, that Liverpool is the first place to receive, and the last to part with, eminent members of our own and kindred communions, on holy mission bound. Archdeacon Sinclair and Mr. Hawkins lately embarked here on their voyage to visit the Alm a rican Church. The Bishop of Fredericton, on the day of his last departure hence to his diocese, did receive 'the Holy Communion at St. Philip's Church ; as did the two. American bishops who visited this country last year, at less craved: and blessed is the work which aims at pro viding it for such as he. Then, as to the home and resident members of the Church. Consider the number of clergy and devout laymen who visit Liverpool, or reside for a while in the neighbourhood, during the summer months. Is it not a reproach to a town like this, if it can not afford them the same spiritual advantages which they enjoy at home ? Look, also, at that portion of the popu lation who are en►aged in pursuits which • exhaust the Mental energies, disturb the equability of the temper, and leave no heart for intellectual effort ; but which do I an earnest craving for the calming, comforting influence of Divine worship. lam not picturing an imaginary case. To speak of one class only —one, however, of which the description just given is eminently true—l have known the jaded schoolmaster betake himself habitually to one 'or other of the metropolitan cathedrals (St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey) during the precious hours of his half holiday, there to seek Him who has promised to the weary " rest for their souls." For such the excitement of preach ing would be quite out of place,: what they want is the soothing and the comfort of common prayer. With you, I do most earnestly hope that nothing may be done, in connexion with this noble design, to awaken the strife of controversy. That is an evil which I dread and deprecate with an intensity I cannot describe. 'My business, however, is not with details : I only write to express my joy at the project which has been formed, and at the prospect of its accomplishment, trusting that it will be well and wisely carried forward to a successful issue, and with all my heart wishing its promoters God speed. Liverpool, Sept. 1, 1853. LAICUS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sin,—Your ' excellent remarks upon the proposed new church will be well appreciated by all sound Churchmen, and will doubtless be of good service to the praiseworthy object of erecting in this town a church, in the services of which " nothing is to be omitted which may tend to the decency, devotion, and solemnity of the Anglican wor ship, and in which a good choral service may be com bined with a hearty congregational response." Your suggestions as to the mode in which the services ought to be carried out I heartily agree with, excepting your opinion that the prayers should be "read," and not " intoned ;" this opinion, with a little consideration of the relative merits of the practices, I think you might be induced to abandon. Reading the prayers is quite inconsistent with a good choral service ; in fact, when prayers are read, the service can only be semi-choral ; and what argument in favour of the people's responding heartily in unison with the har mony of a choir would not be destroyed, if you deny to the congregation the practice of intoning. If they re spond heartily in unison, and so as not to spoil the harmony of the choir, they must intone ; and unless they adopt one tone, they cannot with one voice glorify God. And why should the clergyman be denied the privilege of assisting in worshipping the Lord " in the beauty of holiness" by only being allowed to read instead of saying, i.e., intoning the prayers ? If, as I said before, the use of one tone is necessary for the people, how are the people to get it ? Surely, by the use of the same tone by the priest, who would then lead the ONE 'VOICE of their sup plications before the Throne of Grace. You can only have " a hearty congregational response" where the practice of intoning is adopted by priest and people, where the one leads the other, whether the ser vice be choral or not. By the use of one tone by the priest, and response in the same tone by the people, no one is afraid of hearing his own voice, it being in unison with that of his neighbour ; and the indistinct muttering of the responses in every variety of tone which we now hear in the churches of our popular preachers would be got rid of. You rightly say that " innovations of all kinds should be strictly eschewed ;" reading the prayers is an in novation, and one to whose charge may be laid the persent state of congregational worship in our churches. Where shall we find in the majority of them any approach to what you call the "magnificent simplicity of the ritual of the Church of England ?" The prayers are read to the people "distinct" enough, truly, in the cold, colloquial style and they =teat thew elves mostly W ith C 7 ricour is now made to resemble the coffee-berry. The chicory is ground, and made into a stiff paste, and in this state is so moulded as to resemble the real berry. A . NEW BEATITUDE.—A country editor says, " Blessed are they who do not advertise, for they will be rarely troi bled with customers."--New York Journal. 1 NORTH REMEMBERING.—QuarIes says: "At the first ent ;ranee into thine estate, keep a low sail. Thou must ris e with honour; thou canst not fall without shame. He th at begins as his father ended, shall end as his father be ;gan." CONVERSION AT CAMP MEETINGS.---" Sal," cried a girl, k poking out of the upper story of a small grocery, and a Aldressing another girl who was trying to enter at the front door, " we've all been to camp meeting, and beef!. 3onverted ; so, when you want mull on Sundays, you'll have to come the back way." EDINBURGH seems'inclined to believe that the founda tion of a National Museum of Scotland is a settled thing. The Scotsman reports that Dr. Playfair has been there, comparing sites and preparing for the final examination of the President of the Board of Trade. "It is almost certain," says our northern contemporary, " that next session Government will be prepared to propose a grant" for this purpose.—Athemeum. CONSIDERABLE LATITUDE.—Sir Richard Jebb, being called to see a patient who fancied himself very ill, told him very ingenuously what he thought, and declined pre scribing for him. " Now you are here," said the patient, " I shall be obliged to you, Sir Richard, if you will tell me how I must live, what I may eat, and what I may not." "My directions as to that point," replied Sir Richard," will be few and simple. You must not eat the poker, shovel, or tongs, for they are hard of digestion ; nor the bellows, because they .are windy; but eat anything else you please !" AN APPLICATION is before the Treasury for a new ex ploration of a portion of the Australian continent. M. Ernest Haug, if' the requisite means are forthcoming, in tends to start from the mouth of the river Victoria, to trace this stream to its source or sources,—thence to con tinue in an easterly direction, accordingto the nature of the country and the facilities for pursuing the journey. In this cross movement it is expected that the party will strike the upper waters of some stream falling into the Gulf of Carpentaria ; and when so much of the geography of the continent shall have been ascertained, the explorers propose to make their way back again to the known world through some of the old settlements. PAID M.P.'s.—ln primitive days, honourable members were paid by their constituents, and, besides the usual presents of a horse to ride to Parliament, were entitled, by a statute of Edward 11., to four shillings a day, if they represented a shire, and half that sum for a borough. The famous Andrew Marvel, member for Hull, in 1661, is said to have been the last who received parliamentary wages. Occasionally the electors were able to strike an economical bargain, As an instance, we are told that "John Strange, the member for Dunwich in 1643, agreed with the pru dent burgesses to take his wages m red herrings." We are further informed, that " in the same reign the citizens of York, being anxious that the dignity of that ancient corporation should be properly represented, unanimously agreed that their members should be allowed four shillings a day if they kept a house in London during the session, but only two shillings if they went to board."—Willis's Current Notes. _ _ _ A GREEK HOLIDAY NEAR JOINNINA..—It being a holiday in the Greek calendar, we passed numerous groups of Christians enjoying the charming weather, in gorgeous dresses of Albanian lace and embroidery, dancing the. Ro maim in circles on the grass ; while others, assembled round low wooden tables, were tearing to pieces with their fingers lambs roasted whole on the spot, drinking and singing. I saw one striking group of Moslems. An aga, or Mahommedan gentleman followed by several attend ants on horseback, was setting out on a journey, and had been accompanied as far as the first rising ground by his wife and her companions. I rode by just as they were parting ; and a bitter leave-taking it seemed, more than I could have deemed possible where polygamy is allowed. The waving of the white veils, as the ladies threw up their arms in an agony of grief, was very picturesque.—Bowen's Journey from Constantinople and Corfu. BUTCHERS' Snors IN Pmciit.—l observed a great number of butchers' shops, whose mode of cutting up their meat resembles our own ; nor can the markets of London boast a better supply of flesh than is to be found at Pekin. But they sell it cooked as well as raw ; and on my entering the shop I saw on a stall before it an earthen stove, with a gridironplaced upon it, and on m y employ ing a variety of signs to obtain the information I wanted, the butcher instantly began to cut off small thin slices of meat, about the size of a crown-piece, which he broiled as fast as I could eat them. I took about a dozen of these slices, which might altogether weigh about seven or eight ounces ; and when I paid him, which I did by giving him a string of small coins, he pulled off, as I suppose, the amount of his demand. I saw numbers of people in other butchers' shops as I passed along, regaling themselves with beef and mutton in the same manner.— The English man in China. ANIMALS DRIFTING- ON IcE.—Every arctic traveller is aware of the fact that polar bears are seen on the ice at a great distance to sea, and quite out of sight of land ; and my own experience bears testimony to the fact that not unfrequently they are found swimming in the sea when neither ice nor land is in sight. The arctic fox, and I believe also the wolf, animals not generally known to lake water, are often set adrift upon the ice, and are thus blown out to sea, where they perish when the ice dissolves, if they had not previously died of starvation; and cases are known, although perhaps not recorded, in which human beings have been blown away from land upon the ice, and were never afterwards heard of. Two persons to my knowledge have disappeared in this manner from the coast of West Greenland ; one of them, however reached the opposite side of the straits, where he spent the remainder of his life among his less civilised brethren. And the ships engagnd in whaling on the west side of this strait sometimes have to discharge a deed of humanity by taking up from the drifting fleet a group of natives, whose avocations have proved too decoying to be safe.—lngle field's Summer Search for Sir John Franklin. A "DASHING" WEDDING.—" Well, if ever we should get married, we shall certainly adopt the sensible advice of Punch, and make the affair ' a runaway, match with the consent of our friends.'" This was our fervent mental declaration some fourteen months since, when, much against our inclination, we were staying at the house of a young neighbour during the preparations for her marriage with a good-looking clerk in the bank. This young neighbour was Emily Mason, the eldest daughter of a re tired commercial traveller, who managed to keep up a very respectable appearance, with a wife and five children, on three hundred a-year. We had always given the Masons credit for being people of good common sense, and our for thei men tal used to quote them as an example of prudence ; but, alas ! the folly they exhibited at the union veneration of Emily twits h George Burleigh quite sapped superiority, and caused us to imagine that weddings, like cards, were invented to amuse mad people. We knew that George Burleigh had scarcely two hundred a-year, and that " comfortable apartments" near Islington, with. a " small domestic," would form the extent of his estab lishment ; we knew that Mr. Mason had nothing to spare for extraneous luxuries ; and of course were considerably startled when we heard of six bridesmaids, a grand break fast for forty people, four dashing carriages, with grey horses and white favours ; that Emily was to wear splendid lace veil instead of a bonnet, and that the whole paraphernalia was to be in imitation of the style in which the daughter of a duke is married. Every member of the family seemed bewildered by the approaching event, and the simple legal contract of marriage was evidently about to be performed in much such a .temporary galaxy of spangles, foil,' white tulle, and blue foil, as one expects to witness in the last scene of a Lyceum Christmas piece. The confusion and profusion of dressmakers, tailors, white gloves, orange-blossoms, milliners' boxes, confec tioners' trays, wine-baskets, and silver-decked cards, completely destroyed the natural state of household pro priety, and every room and every person seemed bitten by a matrimonial tarantula. The staid and stout mamma grew so "puce" in the face amid the perplexing anxieties and duties crowding on her, that she rushed about like an animated pickling-cabbage. No sooner had she tied on a very tight-fitting dove-satin dress, under the scrutiny of Miss Flouncem, which added a deeper suffusion to her cheeks, than the cook, hired for the occasion, begged her most earnestly to look out the jelly-glasses ; no sooner were the jelly-glasses produced, than her presence was demanded in the passage touching the arrival of " the cake" from Piirsell's ; then, where, was the blonde lace she had promised Julia P in her private drawer up-stairs ; then, where was the parcel of almonds for blanching ? in the store-closet down-stairs ;'Emily begged her to go directly to Regent-street to match some pink silk, and Maria requested her to be sure to call in Covent-garden to insure the bouquets. Poor Mrs. Mason (she might with justice have been taken for the long-sought realisa tion of " perpetual motion") ; but she wanted to "'do the thing handsomely," and to show her friends that she knew "what is proper on such occasions," so she endured bravely, like a maternal heroine as she was, and felt as important amid her embarrassing duties as a parish beadle at the head of a charity-school. Where George Burleigh was during his visits on the two last evenings of prepara tion we could not quite make out. We fancied we caught a fading shadow of him at the street door once or twice as Emily gave rather an abrupt slam to the said door, but certain it is that he was not admitted into either of the receiving-rooms, and it is our belief that he was positively ordered out of the house. The night before the eventful morning, the excitement and confusion increased to an alarming extent ; some of the most important essentials were found defective at the last moment. Mr. Mason had discovered that the sherry was not drinkable, and then doubted if there were champagne enough. A journey from Bayswater to Fenchurch-street after eight p.m. was indispensable, and off he went, poor man, looking very like an escaped lunatic. Frank, the youngest son, de clared his vest was too short for the fashion, and flung himself into a severe hysteric of bad words about the tailor's masculine want of attention. Tom, the eldest, had not been able to get grey horses to all the carriages, without extra charge. Maria was in an agony to find that one of the bridesmaids intended to wear a far more splendid dress than her own. Julia was loquaciously bitter against a pair of tight shoes just come from the maker's ; and Emily, the bride, was on the very precipice of fainting, from the effect of general flurry. Mrs. Mason, long after midnight, was busied among the " things for breakfast," and was so lost to reason, that when Mr. Mason asked where his new black trousers were, she re plied, " They will be brought up with the custards, my dear." Dresses had to be altered, tradesmen had to be sent to, servants had to be schooled, and everything had to be looked for that should have been found a week be fore. We suspect that not a member of the family got one hour's sleep, and for our part we own to having en tertained desperate notions that the mere "broomstick" system of marrying was preferable to such a dreadful disturbance in a quiet family. We can never describe the wedding morning. We seemed in a sort of mist, and can only distinctly recollect that Emily was dosed with neat brandy, and that George Burleigh had to go hack for the ring ; that the guests made long speeches while the bride was gasping : that the bridegroom looked as happy as a duckling in a furze-bush ; and that Mr. Mason, between French champagne, Italian cream, and English sentfment, was compelled to retire from the public breakfast table to the private bed-room. We were never more glad than when, after an unlimited amount of tears, and hugs, and distresses, Emily and her husband left for the London bridge Station ; and so sickened were we by the foolish wedding display of the Masons, that we resolutely made up our minds to abjure any dunce of a like future.--.Bliza Cook. ISER heard f and why ?—bec ise the music is choir, the people go to listen to kJ-tiePl:. lead the devotions of the people, by praying which, they taking up, might join in with the t St. 3 the consequen ;tion of ham ned to the Campbell, in a note to the sermon nblished to the late improvements, tells us tl. the - ayers ai, intoned, and will not be ;" 1 - e e is, that L " plain, but sweet melody of our own church music" is shorn of half its beauty by the nriese. " 1 -'- - - it : for th.,—:- - - nusic there r and con- desirable resnond AD ER gregation wil The unitedv I ha - rmony of the quire, blendec service, and forms "1 Rom( a by th sweet melody of our own church: preciate it—Dissent cannot understand Intonation of the service will, I trust, the rule at the new church, or they will certainly omit that which tends ad solemnity decency devotion ► most materially to ih e Anglican worship."—Yours, respectfull A SUBSCRIBER TO THE BUILDIN( Liverpool, September 3d, 1853 HE CHEECI Sim ATHITEFIELD-LANE QITAI TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVE I was glad to see a letter I poraries, calling attention to a deep qua] lane being badly fenced in. lam afraic STANDARE I done until sou of your contem y in Whitefield- .ccident occurs quarry being opened on a piece of waste without the slightest protection whatever the dark might walk into it, as it is open to ti have noticed several, I ma the field, and I understand two or three already happened ; and, as it is getting d ing should be done to protect the sir, yours respectful ROMANIST AGGRESSION. TO THE EDITOR OP TILE LIVERPOOL ST . rson in .oad. I tdren daily in ceidents have The insidiotts polic sion of the papal hierarchy demands of all classes of Protestants in the Brit common with many other Protestants, I was favourable to the passing of the Romanist Emancipation Act, thinking that, with the lapse of time, a change had taken place atchtul vig n a measure e Pope of Rome tiled in the dark among the Romanist laity, and they had e( to be under that mental thraldom to tl and his satellites, the priests, whiel ages, and that a more tolerant country had taken place ; but. 1 spirit and attachment to ooking at the general line of the Romanist body, priesthood, since the Emancipation A I was wofully mistaken, for, instea of cond. passed, ffind being satisfied with being placed on the Queen's subjects, t footing of e the with the rest of evidently using this con- cession as a vantage ground on which to obtain ascen dancy, and if they once get this point, then farewell to the freedom of Englishmen, both temporal and spiritual. I boldly ask the question —are the bulk of the population of Ireland in the enjoyment of either civil or religious As regards the paternal and Protestant government of the country, they are; but the priests of the court of Rome step in and mar all, reducing the people over whom they exercise sway to mere serfs, devoid of both civil and religious freedom. They pretend to acknowledge that in civil matters they are the Queen's subjects, but they say that, in religious matters, they are the subjects of the Pope of Rome, a foreign potentate. Now, as religious obligations are more binding, and over ride all others, it is evident that they are more the subjects of the Pope of Rome than of the Queen. Some years since, when Pio Nono had the unparalleled impudence to in terfere in the internal affairs of this country, by issuing his bull, and dividing the land as if it were his own, claiming spiritual jurisdiction over the Queen's subjects, and sending a cardinal to carry out his behests, without as much as saying by your leave, did the Romanist body shew any opposition ? Not the least, but they seemed 'rather gratified than otherwise, as being one step nearer the subjection of this country to papal supremacy. If the Foreign Secretary had refused permission for Mr. Wise man to land in the country as a cardinal, he would have evinced the proper spirit of a Protestant, and of a minister of a Protestant and rightful sole Queen of the country. As things have been allowed to take place, there is now something like a tacit acknowledgment of a claim by a foreign power—the papal—to exercise jurisdiction in this country, and claim a sort of divided allegiance over the Queen's subjects. freedom P The Romish power is essentially an encroaching power, and its priests are always silently at work to make that power dominant over every other. I have no doubt but the present visit to Liverpool of Mr. Wiseman as cardinal is part of the policy of Rome, intended to familiarise the British public with Romanist institutions. He comes, in the first instance, to lecture on a scientific question. He thus gains a footing among Protestants. His lecture may be a clever one. He obtains notoriety. People begin to think that a man who can deliver a scientific lecture may be worth listening to on religious topics. They talk of him, and his name and abilities appear in print and obtain commendation, particularly from the Radical and Popish section of the press. All this is very jesuitical and a means to an end, that end being the subjection of the human intellect to serfdom under the Pope of Rome and his priesthood. The object of this letter is to raise a g voice among my fellow-subjects and put them against the insidious DOlky of Rome. In this letter, I purposely avoid touching upon the religious true Protestants Christians. td, - I think, I may add, all real A PROTESTANT DISSENTER. THE TITHEBARN-STREET RAILWAY STATION. THE EDITOR OF THE LIVER', )L STANDARD, SlR,—Having frequently seen in public journals, and having not unfrequently heard in company verbal state ments of the inconvenience, not to call it by a harsher name, to which travellers were subjected, in railway sta tions ; without having myself experienced any of the an noyances, although I have had a pretty extensive know ledge of the practical working of railways in many parts of both England and Scotland, I was inclined to treat the complaint as the exaggerated opinions, if not the inven tions of querulous individuals scarcely able to look after themselves, and willing to charge their own inefficiencies as grave crimes a r ,ainsf the directors and officials of rail way companies. My experience in the Tithebarn-street station of the East Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, in Liverpool, on the afternoon of Wednesday last, however, was sufficient to remove any film from my eyes as to the gross bad management to be seen qt important railway stations. On the afternoon in question, I had occasion to accom Ms - luggage forwarded to the train while he was pro curing his ticket, the first difficulty encountered was vetting his liggage dis of over founa deal of altercation between him and the pants of the carriage, and both with the porter to have charge of that department, as to whether the car riage was full or not full. While this was going on, a gentleman approached, and being probably in the same unenviable position as to the chances of obtaining a seat as my friend was, a warm discussion ensued between him and the porter aforesaid, in which the term "impudent . I scoundrel" was rather freely used. Ultimately an addi t tional carriage was put on, and all parties, as I suppose, so near as to can or occu who seemed were accommodated. Tad this been don Lt an earlier period, much unnecessary annoyance would have been avoided, and such altercations between passengers and the subordinate railway officials would have been obviated. One effect of which was a great hubbub on the platform, y for the exercise of their industry, which T an opportunit. had my pocket - picked - during the dispute Surely such discreditable scenes are concomitants of railway travellin ment ox indispensabh id if not, the manage. I am ht at once to set about seekin a, remedy Sir, yourobedient servant, Liverpool, 2nd September, 1853 A SUFFERER NOTES NOTICES, IND OPINIONS. A' JOHANNES BUSTICUS V. RECEIPT' STAMPS.—It has long been a maxim with a large portion of the trading community, that " it is no sin to cheat the government,"—hence smuggling—the pur chasing of smuggled goods—the evasion of taxes, and a disuse of stamps, have all been looked on as matter of domestic economy, rather than as breaches of moral obligation to the state. Now, if it were considered that a certain amount of revenue has to be made up every year to meet the exigencies of the nation, every individual who evades paying what is legally required of him must shift the burden on to the shoulders of another, and does in effect precisely the same thing as putting his hand into the pocket of his neighbour. If the matter were viewed in this light, one cannot suppose there would be so much evasion of rates and taxes as there unquestionably is. The reduction and equalisation of the receipt stamp will, I should hope, cause the revenue derivable from this portion of our financial system to be more generally paid than it has hitherto been. At present, scarce one in a hundred ever thinks of giving or taking a stamped receipt ; and one reason for its disuse may have been the diversity of stamps ' • another, the necessity of having it on a separate piece of paper from the invoice ; and a third, the incon venience of having to be always provided with a variety of blank stamps, some of which may lay on hand until they become unfit for use. These difficulties are now, however, all done away by the new act ; and for the sake of public morality as well as the public revenue, it is earnestly to be hoped, that every merchant and trader, every shopkeeper and dealer, will make it a matter of conscience to give a stamped receipt on all occasions, when so required by the law. _ VI. CHEAP GAB.—lf the reduction of the price is too great a sacrifice for the gas company to make without further deliberation and further delay, can they not give us cheaper meters ? Surely, the present rent is enormous, and must pay for the article a dozen times before it is worn out. Yet we cannot purchase, but are compelled to rent, and to rent of the company too. Let this be looked into. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS has arrived safely in Paris, and is now exhibited to the public in the Jardin des Plantes. He is exceedingly rotund and fat ; his skin of a light rose-coloured tinge, paler under the belly, and he is en tirely without hair. O n t h e b ack are inumerous black spots slightly prominent, from which, especially on coming out of the water, a viscous reddish fluid may be seento distil. He is very gentle and familiar, answe rs readily to the name of C oco , an d runs towards the first person who call s him. Thirty goats which supply kiln arrived with him in Pa r i s . He does not, however, exclusively o n m ilk, b ut ea t s me l ons an d some other vege table productions, with milk DAY, UMBER 6, 1853. CHRSHIR-L ) IIOLTIIEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the .st 28, 1853 : —Railway : Passengers, Par', : goods, £1,397 6s. 7d. Steam-boats • " Increase as con!: with the corresponding week last year,. £2,751 175 : FATAL Sionl.--Inquiries have been instituted int° the loss of life and property by the recent floods in Wale It is said that thirty human beings perished Late quantities of cattle, sheep, furniture, and farm pr od j. Houses and works were destroye4 . 19r,4 In Brecon 16 bridges were demolished, and .erially damaged. Other counties will also have large sums to pay for replacing or repairing bridges. RAILWAY TO TIIE VALE OF CLWYD.—The inbehabiirring tant ,- of the picturesque and fertile Vale of Clwyd are st themselves to obtain the great advantages of railway 0 01 ' munication, without which the natural resourc es of their district cannot fully be developed. Looking a t the vario us plans which have been proposed, we are o f o pinion th at the best line is that which it is proposed to construc t fro', Ruthin to Corwen , and thence to some convenient pehll along the Vale of Llangollen, to join the Shrewsbury an u Chester Railway ; continuing the line also from Ruthin Rhyl, to connect what would then be a main trunk lin e with the Chester and Holyhead . Railway. -Chester Courant. FESTIVITIES AT ABERGELE.-011 Tuesday there were, great rejoicings at Abergele, to welcome to Kinmel-Pari" late Hugh Robert Hughes, Esq., the successor to the Th.„ Lord Dinorben, who, with is bride, came that daY his newly-inherited demesne. The gentry of the neigh' bourhood, and the various friendly societies, escorted Yr. and Mrs. Hughes from the railway-station to KinineLl ii i , procession, and nearly every house in Abergele was a",l decorated. Mr. Hughes was married on the 18th of AP' lgst, to Miss Florentia Liddell, the daughter of the non' IND 7 rA LES. -...iiii..-- CHESTER were swept awa, H. T. Liddell, M.P. for Liverpool. NOVEL HARE HIIET.—On Tuesday there was an a nl . ing scene on the beach at Aberystwith. In front of Terrace the ladies' bathing machines were being pre then to receive the fair candidates for a dip in the sea, suddenly the utmost consternation was created boffin by fortunate hare, which dashed amongst them, folle, some boys, and then went away for the rocks at the end. In passing the gentlemen's machines a fresh ac, sion was made to the number of pursuers. Poor puss e a much exhausted, but by some clever doubles she toel ess to reach the rocks, and was there, for a time, lost. il l to than half an hour, however, some h oun d s we re broughL e the place, and having unea r th e d h er l a dy s hip, a brief c' smong the crags resulted in her capture. -ea THE NEW SCHOOLS AT EASTSaI were formally Opel% yesterday week, whelk the event was ce l e b ra ted With °CI propriate ceremony and festivities. After vt• the church, the juvenile cavalcade passed ontowsds 'l s . ham Ferry, and returned in the same order. The p rc fpg sion then broke up, and the child ren assembled in 3 -- belonging to the Rev. Canon Eaton, the vicar, wher e the ; amused themselves with various pastimes. I n the nf th school-room they were afterwards liberally supplie d ‘ v • l g tea, coffee; buns, and other refreshment s . In the even s a . a tea party was h e ld i n th e new sc h oo l- room , a t which; number of ladies and gentle men w h o h a d t a ken an fle w ' be part in promoting the establishment of the schools, L• . sides many of the parents of the children, were pre The room was decorated with garlands of flowers , some engravings, maps, &c., were disposed along the w, 3312 1, c ; Amongst those present we re th e R ev . C anon Eaton 1 . occupied the chair), the Rev. P. H a i nes , the Rev. T " Redhead (of Rock Ferry), the R ev . C. Barton, (of Weir borough), Mr. J. Torr, and Mr. R. Morris ; also the Ile : Dr. Hume, the Rev. G. W. Warr, and other clerg from Liverpool. After tea several of the clergymen other gentlemen present addressed the meeting on the subject of education, and the necessity for eitenclinloll lvartages as widely as possible amOngst all classes . The proceedings terminated about nine o'CIOCI* STRANGE ELOPEVENT.—An affair of this kind, 5C what too common in the present day, has lately excitea some conversation at Bangor. A dashing-looking rai ddie 'd aged man, and an interesting young lady had been not ices for some days courting the summer breezes in the vall,,,, e Yd and on the hills, and had occupied apartments as man' - wife, at one of the lodging-houses in Bangor, when a dee' tive officer arrived from Birmingham, and made some very particular inquiries about them. At length, the la tter accompanied by Tomlinson, the local officer, accosted theta on Sunday afternoon, and endeavoured to persuade the der o d to separate from her companion, and place herself u their care, with a view of returning to her friends ili k -r 4 ,,f mingham, but without effect, as she persisted, in spi te their remonstrances and persuasions, in remaining 111 the gentleman ; and the detective employed for her rqn" very was obliged to go back without having the satisfac to r, of succeeding in his errand. It appears that the femal e a lady of great expectations, within a few months of attain:ing her majority ; and her companion is in business as boot and shoemaker at Limerick. The parties, it aPPen r ,, met at the Dublin Exhibition, when the elegant apPearaii— the and blandishments of the Irish Lothario overcame „ Fe delicacy of the fair one, who, we understand, is higrii connected, and the result was an elopement. They 'e society together for Ireland.—North Wales Chronicle. CHESTER REGATTA.—The annual regatta t ook Place On Wednesday, on part of the River Dee, from the seat of Pots, of Heron-bridge, to the umpire's boat, nearly o Pir k , site the Waterworks. There were ten races and one fel l over. The following are the most important contests A Challenge Cup, value fifty guineas, given by the 9 `,. Grosvenor, M.P., for four-oared out-rigged boats, to, 7 rowed and steered by gentlemen amateurs. To be two consecutive years by the same club or crew : Nenle" l (Nemesis Rowing Club, Manchester,) 1; Queen of the Pe e ' (Royal Chester Rowing Club,) 2. The Champion PrO e t ? of £6O, for four-oared out-rigged boats : The Derwen (Newcastle,) 1; St. Agnes, (Manchester,) 2; The P al , (Chester,) 3. A Prize of £lO, for skiffs Confidence, Candlish, Newcastle,) 1; Never-Mind-It, (J. Spoor , islele castle,) 2. There were five skiffs, all from Newcastle. en; tered for this race, but only two ran.—A large coniiss!:„;' dined at the Hop Pole Inn, Mr. C. P. Potts in the Amongst other toasts the chairman gave "The IT,T i aulh- Mr. Littledale, the commodore of the Mersey Ya' l " e ived and that of the rest of their patrons," which waS; e ~f ic and with great cheering. Mr. Littledale l o rded thanked the company on behalf of the patrons. lore him great pleasure, at the late Liverpool Regatta, tomate honour of presenting the crew which came fro,ll24„nate ter, with the Ladies' Cup ; he hoped that the 11 Iolni eIR u• result, as regarded the Chester crew to-day, w° l ' l " two late them, as the lesson which Englishmen learn ove d years ago, in yacht matters, from America, bad P ro such a stimulus, that this year five yachts had been,,lle which had overcome the conquerors of the " America' re• trusted that the Chester Club would be urged on t 0 it newed exertions, and that success would accompany future efforts. THE WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—The montuky ing was held on Thursday. It having been that under the Board of Health Act the treasurer tog brolt local board must give security, the subject was under consideration. It appeared that Mr. Colburn an d ' Penny had waited upon Mr. J. Naylor, banker, who was w • f h e ling to become security for his partner, Mr. Geo. Arkle, undertook the office. It was agreed, on the motion of A Colburn, that Mr. Arkle be the treasurer to the bf a t ";,, The law-clerk read an opinion of Mr. Cowling, balT s l e a s e as to the power of the commissioners to purchase or o f a ferry. The opinion was to the effect that the expens e taking a ferry and providing boats must fall on a gel t° district rate, and could not be defrayed out of mone y ascertain be borrowed. The clerk had written to the general b; )3 ; l e s i 4 '.n.ence to the legal opinion, but no answer had 45 It appeared that the committee of ~onsideration the applications for the 0;31 and inspector of nuisances. There wer e te d —.antes, out of whom seven were reserved, an d regne s i .,l l to appear before the board. The committee had a ; I° o opinion of one of the candidates, but su b s equen,,tt r ., gentleman in the borough engineer's office, Mr. 0 1 ,r le f, - t son, was strongly recommended as possessing the b i g,' ce s qualifications for the office. Under these circums t ' l lhe the committee determined to leave the matter witll,o general board. After some conversati on , during t 'ca,"-ere Mr. Colburn and one or "Is.r members thougll might be some difr M sad had um of survey IT in introa u , r. MY ll ,, e , r6 f;e candidates had bCeCinvited u - d by it was moved by Mr. Neville, seconded that Mr. M`Pherson be appointed. endment, the resolution was canied ° then proceedings of the committee iv . ere we re cu. The minutes of the finance committee Imp read and confirmed, and from a statement made by 1J 3 Hill it appeared that on the 30th June last there I,;taili balance in the bank of R 1,786 ; and calculating, c :bora l arrears of rates to be got in, there was, including_ n t'Aftel debt, a balance against the township of 1.3, 3( - 7 "' bog"' some routine business had been disposed of, the the commit Mr. Halli& being no mously. _AB QUEEN AT HOLYHEAD.-1101yhead, Sn11"1;°_, i,„ ~s . -„, did not fail during the Queen's stay there in the ulg" liar festation of its loyalty. It had its triumphal arebeslwe; fireworks, and bonfires, after the fashion of largerif I'leery and under the superintendence of Mr. Evansie 0 the London House, a stirring inhabitant, these 10:1,1 b 9 the respectable show. Prince Albert, accompaulep-ad °",l i• Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, went to the 'aingui";lch North Breakwater on Sunday morning week, esgi-rp i 0 4-", r. nutely the very simpleyet bold and effective mallll-tlie 3';„v- e it is extended, foot by foot,ointo the sea; and ill, carr"•', noon the Queen drove in the Hon.W. O. StauleY,6prials a quarries, st otet ahi ve to the quarries whence the immense mass of ro,r;mlearuin muchwvtaalyiteisr u, struckTec skhpespecially, :4 Queen llewitheyn, returnedt bore he quired in constructing it is obtained. They 8.1. Prince is 1° °°° °certall"j. coniPattend a rough conveyance for SovereigniY, rebel but one which enabled her more thoroughly t° how the works are carried on. Mr. Bendel was ii.l„ visited ance. During the afternoon, the royal tourists al.?' nrince aaynyadethotthreenoyoudnglathoef;s. the South Stack Lighthouse, Prince Albert and the od of Wales descending to the rock on which it sttirsurveY spending some time in its examination, and ill notberg; of the fine coast scenery which it commands* tided by 1.-- count says, "At half-past six, the Queen, atte , ,hippsy ed at tm-.i.w... arrived at the temporary landing-stage, erect _ Duchess of Wellington, Miss Bulteel, and Colonel. -Li. ow pier, at the western end of the breakwater, mense concourse of her subjects were assembled, Two ?. to testify their loyalty to their beloved Snverenraiting 'i the boats belonging to the royal yacht were niwas reeei7; convey the royal party on board. The Queen the ordij- -e by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, and one of ,_,,d til • of an English tar.---11'bence seamen—a fines pecimen boat, frail w we honour of handing her Majesty into the ,,,„ pulls of the oarsmen,,,,, ''',, two she was, after a few vigorous royal vaeht. I.''' d erects ova,' .0,5 r in number, transferred on board the . , 11 arrived in about half an hall ' ti) looked remarkably we , resented at the Y hthouse ... tel They had been prese ig , hi) appeared .."' youthful Princes, who were dressed in naval costume''af• with which they ...........-.....-..-'--••••-"""".m.,.. psolemaseeds, gunk eggs, Academy of Sciences some observations on the falling,,,r i 5 FALLING STABS.-31. Gravier has communicated testtaDre, of the month of August. It appears that the nnir,„r. decreasing year by year. According to M. Gray.le,_ j,!'ive sonal observations, there were seen in 184,5, eigl,; 'two; stars ; 1846, ninety-two ; 1817, one hundred anl4.eicbt ; 1848, one hundred and thirteen;' 1849, nine- :rand 1850, eighty-three ; 1851, seventy-one ; isa, so_',Y,tiptie, 1853, fifty-two. Should this rate of dirainution,c,(f.ether• in 1860 the falling stars of August will cease l_ii.rrof tile It is also to be remarked that the falling sl'inutoere'vl month of November, which are infinitely inoretervo than those of August, are diminishing in lit"' Galignani. adjourn& I