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THE SABBATH MORE 'Tis Sabbath morn I —The solemn sound of bells Is borne upon the quiet holy breeze, Prom hallow'd churches, that in yonder dells Lift up their heads, half hidden by the trees : The birds, methinks, sing with a sweeter lay, And the sun, too, shines brighter on the Sabbath-day ! The streamlet with a clearer ripple flows ; The very flowers a richer perfume yield : Even the cawing of the stately crows, That undisturb'd stmt o'er the new plongh'd field, Seems musical to me; while in the grove With a more dreamy sound the rustling branches move I All toil is o'er: —I miss the blacksmith's stroke— The anvil's ring —the carter's noisy song— The forge's roar, and e'en its wreath of smoke Now curls no more yon fir-tree boughs among— The noisy mill, too, for a time doth cease ; And all things tell alone of rest and holy peace ! But now the bells are silent ! and appear (Within that sacred building, old and grey) The honest Rustics, who are met to hear The Word of God, and keep His holy day ! 'Tis sweet to see the group assembled there— The Youth, and timid maid, and those with silver hair ! nrough the stain'd windows the glad sunshine streams Upon the Gothic pillars, worn and old, And on each fretted arch, until it seems That they are built of precious stones and gold ; And casting on the floor, in colours faint, The shadowy outline of some rudely pictured stunt ! Though few they are and simple, there that raise Their voice to-heaven responding to the prayer— Nor pealing organ mingles with their praise— Yet think not thou that God the less is there ! Tor He bath said, " Wherever two or three Are gathered in my name, there in the midst I'll be." Oh! there is something in a Sabbath morn ; As if a charm to this sweet time were given, To wean the mind from all that's earthly born, And lift the heart adoringly to heaven, Making the spirit strive to break the chain That binds it to this life of chequer'd joy and pain ! WILLIAM BYRNE, in Hogg's Instructor. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The London Quarterly Review, No. 1. London : Partridge and Oakey. In the present publication we have a new com petitor in what used to be considered the highest walk of periodical literature. The tone of the new aspirant is bold, and although it occasionally dog matises in a style with which we cannot entirely sympathise, in many particulars the number gives token of intended good. In a paper devoted to Dr. Forbes' " Memorandums in Ireland" we find a considerable amount of wholesome truth, leavened, evenalthongh it undoubtedly is, by a spirit of re ligious sectarianism. The effects of Maynpoth training upon the Irish nation and priesthood are well put at the conclusion of the paper referred to ; the reviewer a ft er glancin g at th e f ac t th a t, prior to the establishment of Maynooth College, the Irish Romanist ecclesiastics, being trained at French seminaries, presupposed them to be pos sessed of a respectable social position ; and by the elevated tone of secular education and feeling ex isting in the French seminaries, and among French society-, ensured the m a cer t a i n amoun t o f intel lectual culture, and a degree of constitutional in dependence of the Romish Pontiff, and the councils of the Vatican : he then proceeds thus to glance at the results of THE MAYNOOTII ENDOWMENT The British government conceived that, with these advantages, they (the priesthood) also contracted those volitical feelings in regard to England which prevailed in France at that period ; and that they returned with principles of dissatisfaction towards the British sovereign and constitution. They therefore, in an evil day, deter mined to endow a Roman Catholic College in Ireland, to prevent the necessity of sending the youth of the country to France for their education. The erection and endow ment of Maynooth College was the result. And how has this precious do-evil-that-good-may-come E3Ttem worked ? and what has been its effect upon the Irish Catholic priesthood ? In the first instance, so meagre was th e government allowance, and so wretched the accommodation, that none but the lowest of the people would avail themselves of it; and the candidates for the priesthood were selected out of the hedge-schools, none being accepted but such as could be depended on for servility to their ecclesiastical superiors. These were placed under the most rigid ultramontane discipline and instruction, being taught to look to the Holy Pontiff as - their lawful sovereign in all things ; their obedience to the British sovereign (the heretic) being subordinate to that due to the Pope. We know this to be the case, be cause we have heard it avowed by men of education, as Yell as by others; and it is practically manifested at many public dinners, where the health of the Pope is frequently drunk before, and sometimes to the studied exclusion of, that of the Queen. It was also proved at the time of Smith O'Brien's abortive attempt, by the mass of letters promising him support, from most of the leading in Ireland ; and the recent extension a the errant to Maya , -.41, cbqn ryln i s „,„ al,. — 1 44- - worse instead of better. The candidates for the priest hood are still selected from the same class, only in greatly augmented numbers, so that not only are priests educated there for Ireland, but for England and the colonies, and the United States of America, and a mass of low-bred disaffected men are disseminated into every portion of the British dominions. The truth of the above remarks is too obvious to require the aid of argument, and too self-evident to admit of denial ; yet, in the face of these im portant and startling truths, we have men—sena tors—Protestant Christians, who are so besotted by the chicanery of a pseudo-liberalism, as to advocate and assist in the perpetuation of an in stitution so monstrously perverted —so practically dangerous to our religious and civil liberties, as the Popish College of Maynooth. Christianity in China : the History of Christian Missions, and of the present Insurrection. London and Liverpool : W. S. Orr and Co. For long and numerous years it has been a well founded complaint among men of business, as well as among literary men, that almost nothing is Gown of the history or of the political or social institutions of the Chinese. It is, no doubt, quite true that from time to time books have been written and published purporting to convey authentic i n t e lli gence relative to the past and resent condition of that immense yet carefully secluded empire ; but, on examination, these books have generally been found mere repetitions of each other, the earliest displaying little beyond acknow ledged ignorance on the subjects treated of, the later remarkable for nothing more than the indus try with which the previous ignorance had been repeated, if we except the absence of that ingenu ousness which led the original authors to declare the very imperfect nature of their information. For upwards of three centuries the inquisitive operations of European commerce and the benevo lent exertions of Christianity have been directed to the establishment of the Christian faith among the -Chinese people, and to an understanding of their social and commercial laws and customs, with but little practical effect in either instance ; and we see ionly slender ground for expecting that much infor mation on those subjects will be obtained from the work whose title stands at the head of this notice. It is a readable collection of such scraps of infor mation as are to be met with in missionary reports, in newspaper paragraphs, and in commercial mani festoes, arranged with comprehensible continuity ; - but it is greatly deficient in system, and is des titute of generalisation or originality. To those who wish to possess, in a condensed form, the chief points of floating intelligence relative to China and its affairs, which are to be met with in s great number of isolated publications entitled to varying degrees of credit, the book will prove a welcome boon ; but it will not avail much to those who wish to acquire systematized information on the subjects of Chinese policy, laws, or social Customs. - Benedictions ; or, the Blessed Life. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E. London : John F. Shaw. The popularity o f D r . C umm i ng as an aut h or , a preacher i s t oo we ll k nown an d too w id e l y 2 l amitted to derive enhancement or to sustain jury from what may be expressed concerning him •lin either capacity through the channels of ephe- Ine ral criticism. His success as an eminent teacher °' Christian t ru th, an d a d ev oted ad voca t e o f th e 3.nterests of his Master's kingdom, are fully attested in the zealou s affection of an extensive, intelligent, n a ttathed co ngrega ti on ; w hil e hi s mer it s as an author have been recognised by the extensive and ha ?oat unexampled rapidity with which his works e been sought after and bought up. In the e of such testimony, little remains for us to do ire 3 :: 4l (l statin g 'that the work before us is in all "4 13ect ._ i s a fitting companion to its predecessors. .are admonitions contained in the present volume fttion nently practical in their tendency and appli l'alloLafair specimen of which will be found in the —ma advice as to the lf „I'ItaCTICE Or MERCY AND LOVE. i te r t tawn -°l 4 (l e g;et rid of that selfishness which thinks of „ ° her' s , h,, v ngs, however little, and nothing of a ;r 1 " get what in i e v great—which is ever jealous lest it do efer to it w i th , - I , e serres, and ever afraid lest you do not its due----h ow ea l . ` , and that not a little, which it thinks is ou illust ra t e :IT could y our heart beat, how truly would Lion christia all history is teaching, that in propor floes th e desert nity b egin Preads over the mass of mankind, blossom even as the 'horrid state, which imse. tn rejoice and the wilderness o But when we fall into that Ceram snrne think nothing Perfection of 911 Sciloe••" The ld Ivor carai for zne, and I care nothing for the world,"—we shall feel it sounds very grand, but it is very miserable. We know there is no happiness in any such feeling. There is no help for us but to love, if we would be happy. Hate men, and you will be more miserable than they ; love men, and they will be blessed by your love, and its reflex operation will bless yourselves also. Look upon the world's goodness with thankfulness to God-; look upon the world's sins with compassion and with prayer ; look upon the world's injuries with forgiveness ; and pray that the Spirit that builds up the Christian character with all that brightens and beautifies here below may make you merciful, and give the benediction now, and the fulfilment of the pro mise then—" For they shall obtain mercy." Thus will you tread one of the fairest paths of the blessed life. The present volume is published uniform with the other works written by Dr. Cumming, and, like them, it is a beautiful specimen of the typo graphical art. The Universal Library; Nos. 23 and 24, contain ing the Mutiny of the Bounty and Ritson's Robin Hood. Loltdon : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. This very handsome and cheap issue of English and foreign authors continues to increase its claims on public favour. Ritson's collection of poems, songs, and ballads, relative to the cele brated Robin Hood, with all the historical notes, beautifully printed, and besides that tastefully embellished by clever wood-cut engravings, for so small a charge as the cost of one number of this series. Could we say anything further to recom mend the Universal Library than that such num ber is a fair specimen of the work Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences ; Translated by G. H. Lewes. London : Henry G. Bohn. This is a book of no ordinary pretension ; what its claims to occupy the position it seeks to hold may be, we shall be better able to point out as we proceed, than we can hope to be at the mere thres hold of the edifice its author endeavours to rear. At the very commencement of his work, Mr. Lewes tells us Auguste Comte is " the greatest thinker of modern times,—the man whose doctrine is to the nineteenth century something more than that which Bacon's was to the seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries." Such, indeed, may be the posi tion M. Comte is entitled to hold ; but, if so, we greatly fear Mr. Lewes will do little to either - place him or maintain him on so honourable and pro minent a pedestal. Few injuries are so fatal to fame as those inflicted by the laudations of inju dicious friends, and no hurts are more dangerous to reputation than those occasioned by indiscreet adulation. M. Comte is a savan of no inconsider able acquirements and merit, and his speculations are at least bold, if they are not also always charac terized by philosophic caution. His philosophy has, no doubt, been received by a crowd of admiring followers ; may we venture to express a hope that they have not all been as indiscriminating in their faith as Mr. Lewes has been unhesitating in his praises of that philosophy which he shows himself by no means well fitted to expound. The task which Mr. Lewes has imposed on him self, that of popularizing a series of very abstruse and comprehensive theories, is, indeed, a difficult one, and to have been only moderately successful in the accomplishment of it would argue capabi lities of no mean order, the possession of which it would be wrong entirely to deny to that gentle man. What we chiefly blame him for, is having permitted himself to be blinded and carried away by an unreasoning admiration of his oracle. We can easily understand, and readily sympathise with a poet led captive by the intensity of his feelings, whether those feelings lead him to an adoration of the genius of a brother poet or induce him to an equally enthusiastic worship of some imaginary excellence ; but we cannot permit the same lati tude of inference and deduction in framing what purports to be a philosophic essay. It is too much the fashion of the present day to dignify rhapsodies with the name of philosophy ; and, although we feel bound to admit this has not by any means been the general character of the works published by Mr. Bohn, in his Scientific Library, we must be forgiven in thus freely protesting against the pro mulgation of ill-considered opinions under the guise of philosophic cogitation. The Dublin University Magazine for .Yovember. Dublin : James IV-I`Glashan. The November number of this magazine, like most of its predecessors, contains many interesting and instructive papers. It opens with a clear biographical summary of the dashing career of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, in which the chivalrous exploits of that intrepiksoldier are set forth and commented on in a style at once pleasing and instructive. In this biography the writer dwells with gratified partiality on the general bravery and numerous gallant deeds achieved by the " Irish Brigade," which for a long period cut so conspicuous a figure in the wars of Europe. Thc effusion ur x.-.,— , _ m„,-- r i., ;. fillin.wf J r a poetical esion on " The Battle of Lough wi iy,' • which is in turn succeeded by a curious contribu tion entitled " Pig Lore." In the course of this, which, notwithstanding the singularity of its title, is an erudite article, the writer glances at and indicates, rather than discusses, the various in cidents of honour accorded to the pig in ancient times ; peeps slyly at the unmerited disgrace it has fallen into among certain tribes and people ; refers with considerable gusto to the " Danmow Gam mon," and other similar festivals, once popular in England, and treats of its universal appreciation in Ireland in the following strain : I POPULARITY OF PIGS IN IRELAND. Ireland, however, is the paradise of pigs, where if he, who but too often forms the sole wealth of the cotter—he who, in common parlance, " pays the rint "—be not supplied with every luxury that the heart of pig can wish, he at least shares the best of those enjoyed by the family; and repays the kind attentions by a faithful and affectionate attachment to all its members, familiarly rubbing his sides against the knees of his master, basking beside the babies in the sunlight at the cabin door, or nestling with them on the flickering hearthstone, entertaining himself the while, like Tennyson's sow— 'With meditative grunts of much content.' A friend of ours, having been previously made acquainted with the fact, paid a visit to a neighbouring cottage, after the hours of work were over, and there, as he expected, found the master of the house walking briskly up and down in the rays of the setting sun ; he was followed by an unwieldy pig, which turned with him as he paced to and fro. An inquiry into his companionship elicited the following reply, given with the quiet earnestness of a man who feels that he is simply performing one of his daily duties, without a thought of its being in any way a singular one :----` Sure, y'r honour, and the crayter dosn't have his health without the exercise; and it isn't all alone by himself that he will take his walk, and he's grown too proud to walk with the childer now.' " " Our Portrait Gallery " contains a cleverly etched portrait, and a pleasing biographical sketch of the " Bishop of Meath." Three chapters of the adventures of " Sir Jasper Carew " advances those dashing papers towards a conclusion. The number contains a good and charming variety, in which something will be found suited to the taste of all palates. NEW MUSIC. Calm is the deep ; The Morning Star Polka ; and one of three sacred melodies, " Sound the loud timbrel," published by Jewel and Letchford. The first is a descriptive ballad, the poetry by T. Chamberlain, the music by W. H. Birch. The melody of this song is well suited to the words ; the other pieces named will be found a fair accession to our general musical stores. Tice Violante Waltz. London : Cramer, Beale. Amidst the4multitude of new dance music which is offered to public patronage, it is often difficult to point out any special claims to recommendation. This is not, however, the case with the piece before us. It is not only exceedingly pretty, something more than mere keeping time with the step, but what to many will prove an attraction, it may be played by any young lady of ordinary proficiency on the piano -forte, with satisfaction to herself and her hearers. It is the production of Charles H. Compton, a young composer of great promise, and will do much to extend his reputation. Wray's Musical Casket. Liverpool : Beswick. The congregation of the Church for the Blind must be familiar with the great musical talent of Mr. Wray, the organist ; but he has a more extended reputation through his compositions, of which not the least valuable is the work before us. It contains three songs, entitled " Attach ment," " Constancy," and " Friendship ;" the words by John Murphy, Esq. ; a charming Polka, and a Schottisch. The work is dedicated by per mission to the Countess of Sefton, whose patronage of the composer has been earned solely by his o wn genius. The Musical Casket will form an appro priate and at the same time a very acceptable present to piano-forte players at the approaching festive season, when the Elizabeth Polka and the Mary Agnes Schottisch will give animation to many a brilliant party. CHOOSING A FII7BBAND.—An extraordinary custom prevails among the Vizies, a tribe occupying an extensive district in Cahill, among the mountains between Persia and India. The women choose the husbands, not the hus bands their wives. If a woman be pleased with a man, she sends the drummer of the camp to pin a handkerchief to his cap with the pin she uses to fasten her hair. The drummer watches his opportunity and does this in public, naming the woman, and the man Ja obliged to marry if lie can Pay her price to her father. THE LIVERPOOL STANDA RD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. LA.ItGE DIAMOND.—The public journals of Amsterdam contain the following paragraph :—" Some time back letters from Brazil stated that a slave had found at Baga gem a large diamond. We learn that it has been pur chased by M. Willep, minister of Holland at Rio Janeiro, for 881,250 f." PROFESSOy, PHILLIPS states that in a comparatively modern geological period every part of Yorkshire below the level of 1,500 feet was covered by the waters of a glacial sea. Icebergs appear to have floated over the whole of the Hull district, depositing, where they melted or overturned, the materials brought from the higher hills. Amongst those were blocks of stone from Cumber land and the West Riding, now found perched on the limestone hills. Some of them must have come over the Pass of Stainmoor, a height of 1,440 feet. A HORICEOPATITIC DIIEL.—In the height of the quarrel between the Homoeopathists and the Faculty of Paris, the editor of a medical journal, having somewhat severely attacked the disciples of Hahnemann, was called out by one of the tribe. " Rather hard," said he, "to have to risk one's life for pointing out the importance of an in finitesimal dose." "No great risk surely," rejoined Jules Janin, who was present at the discussion; "such a duel ought, of course, to represent the principles of homoeopathic science—the hundredth part of a grain of gunpowder to the thousandth part of a bullet !" ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.—An oyster, or rather a water muscle, in which the artificial pearls are formed by the Chinese, has recently been sent to this country. These pearls are only obtained near Ning-po, and until lately very little was known of the manner in which they were formed. The steamer Hermes, however, on a late visit to that place, was able to obtain several live ones, in which, on being opened, several pearls, as many as eighteen or twenty, were found in the course of formation. The one sent only contains simple pearls adhering to the shell. It appears they are formed by introducing some pieces of wood or baked earth into the animal while alive, which, irritating it, causes it to cover the extraneous substance with a pearly deposit. Little figures made of metal are frequently introduced, and, when covered with the de posit, are valued by the Chinese as charms. These figures generally represent Buddha in the sitting posture, in which that image is most frequently pourtrayed. Several specimens have, it is said, been preserved alive in spirits, and others slightly opened, so as to show the pearls. THE COOK.—Moralists do not cease to repeat that Rome would never have had sumptuary laws had it not ' been corrupted by the cooks from Athens and Syracuse. This is ap_ error. All the ordinances of the consuls pro scribed frofusion, excess—in a word, all the ruinous expenses of a passionate and ridiculous gastrophagy, at the same time respecting the magiric art itself; that is to say, that industrious chemistry which composes, decom poses, combines, and mixes—in a word, prepares different substances which gluttony, delicacy, the fashion, or luxury may confide to it for the space of a few minutes. Why render the cook responsible for the extravagant tastes and follies of his age ? Is it for him to reform mankind ? Has he either the means or the right ? What is asked of him, and what can be asked ? To understand exactly the properties of everything he employs, to perfect, and correct, if necessary, the savours on which he operates ; to judge with a true taste, to degustate with a delicate palate, to join the skilful address of the hand, and the prompt and comprehensive glance, to the bold but pro found conceptions of the brain ; and, above all—it cannot be too often repeated—to identify himself so well with the habits, the wants, even the caprices and gastro nomic eccentricities, of those whose existence he embel lishes, that he may be able, not to obey them, but to guess them, and even have a presentiment of them.—Soyer's Pantropheon. RECEIPT FOR MAKING CHEAP BREAD.—At a time when bread is so dear, and when a further advance is not improbable, the following receipt, which we have received from the wife of a clergyman in the north, is of such practical importance to all classes, that we consider it. a duty to give it a prominent place :—" Take a pound and a half of whole rice, boil it gently over a slow fire, in three quarts of water, about five hours, stirring it occasionally, and afterwards beat it up into a smooth paste. Mix this, while warm, into 14 pounds of flour, adding to it, at the same time, the usual quantity of yeast. Allow the dough to work a eertain time near the fire, after which divide it into loaves, and it will be found, when baked, to produce 28 or 30 pounds of excellent white bread." Our corres pondent writes :—" It answersrfectly. The quantity is have doubled, you will perceive. I have tried it several times in different quantities of flour, but it has not once failed. I have had it weighed each time, and the proportion was the same on every occasion. The bread is remarkably light, and at this time especially, when cholera is fearfully severe in our parish. it is particularly wholesome. The poor are all delighted at the saving which it causes in their consumption of flour." Perhaps some of our readers who make the experiment, and recommend it to their poorer neighbours, will also let us know the result. We apprehend tnat the best rice would be found to answer much the best.—English Churchman. IRVING AT HOME.—I went in the forenoon, with Mary H., to Washington Irving's. His house, or villa, which stands on the banks of the Hudson, resembles a peaceful idyll ; thick masses of ivy clothe one portion of the white walls and garland the eaves. Fat cows fed in a meadow just before the window. Within, the rooms seemed to be full of summer warmth, and had a peaceful and cheerful aspect. One felt that a cordial spirit, full of the best sentiment of the soul, lived and worked there. Washington Irving, although possessing the politeness of a man of the world, and with great natural good temper, has, neverthe less, somewhat of that nervous shyness which so easily attaches itself to the author, and in particular to one gifted with delicacy of feeling and refinement. The poetical mind, by its intercourse with the divine spheres, is often brought somewhat into disharmony with clumsy earthly realities. To these belong especially the visits of strangers and the forms of social life, as wo Kouu society upon earth, and which are shells that must be cracked if one would get at the juice of either kernel or fruit. But that is a difficulty for which one often has not time. A portrait which hangs. -in wasnington Irving's drawing-room, and which was painted many years since, represents him as a remarkably handsome man, with dark hair and eyes, a head which might have belonged to a Spaniard. When young, he must have been unusually handsome. He was engaged to a young lady of rare beauty and excellence ; it would have been difficult to find a more handsome pair ; but she died, and Washington Irving never sought for another bride. He has been wise enough to content himself with the memory of a perfect love, and to live for literature, friendship, and nature.—Bremer's Houses of the New World. MODERN EFFEMINACY.--After all, deny it who may, we are over-refining in our habits : we run too much to mind and mental exertion, and, too little to muscle and muscular exercise ; we become too much, far too much, the slaves of an elaborate civilisation—of a subdivision in the labour of social intercourse : too much dependent on each other—too little dependent on ourselves. A statistical return of the number of persons in the higher classes of life, who have ever seen the sun rise for a week together, or who are fit for anything before breakfast, would be a warning and a caution to us all. How very bald the pre sent generation is—how very much older it looks than it really is—how little we ourselves observe—how much we take for granted the observations and the conclusions of others—how much the imagination is worked at the ex pense of the judgment—how much we associate with those who think like ourselves—how little with those who think otherwise ; and what an affinity of trash and prejudice is talked, and written, and thought, and acted on, that a little brisk travelling in a practical country would go far to strangle in its birth ! Where is the parent among us who would not compound for the sweep of the grassy prairie, with all its possible risks and all its certain benefits, against the card and the billiard table—those green and fatal levels with all their paltry aims, and all their corrupting at mosphere ? Who is there who does not turn with some thing like contempt from some young gentleman who smells of bread and butter and pachouli, stars about through all the insipid p l ea sures of a London season, and retires for the autumn to shoot in shiny boots for a bow-and-arrow tlaiemwanhiwteh-golohvased faced—unnecessarily toxophilitesof St. it may be, but still has faced—a grisly bear, in all the terrors of his five-inch claws, with nothing between his bow-and-arrow breast-pin, , to personal security and an unpublished work but a charge of ball and powder and decent nerve to back it ? We do not, for an instant, wish to commend all the world to hunt in the far West ; nor do we despair of the man whose means do not enable him to choose his way of life. We only hint that, even under difficulties—in a position of life far removed from independence, compelled by stern fate to a sedentary and a studious existence--he may still spend his intervals of labour in a manner calculated to open the mind and strengthen the body : and whether he be born to mete tape by the yard, or to the enjoyment of ten thousand a-year, he may still open his eyes to the big world that is stirring about him, and endeavour, as far as in him lies, to acquire, not a proficiency in accomplish ments whose end is but the accomplishments themselves —not the mastery of acquirements whose main merit it is that they keep the mind free from depravity and idleness —but rather a knowledge of mankind and of himself—the unfettered use of all the better functions of mind and body, the head to conceive, the heart to resolve, and the hand to execute every good thing. Think of some of the evils that beset the social world in which the wealthy among us live ! The one large meal, the business and the pleasures of life so needlessly carried out into the small hours—the drowsy lengthened sleep—the dawdling breakfa.st unenjoyed, or only got down by the free use of the whip and spur of the palate—the eschalot and the pepperbox, or the homoeopathic treatment of devilled kid neys' for those whom over-indulgence shall have left not untouched in this particular—th e constant tonic, the in evitable bitter, that in the tea, the coffee, the sherry, the pale ale, of every-day existence, literally pervades the cup of life : the blessed dawn unenjoyed, the morning saun tered through, the reckless misuse, or worse than that — the non-use—of the best and the noblest faculties. Over drawn, declamatory as all this seems—inapplicable as it is to the better and the worthier—who can deny that, with the wisest and the best, there is much margin left for the improvement of mind and body, and their prac tical application to the great duties of life.—Church of England Quarterly. A SCENE AT Cessst.—Herr Hassenpflu g , since 1850 the Elector of Hesse's Prime Xinister, has again been the chief actor in and the victim of a scandalous scene. On quarrelled with Count Ysenburg, the the occasion of the annual shooting expedition in honour of St. Hubertus, the patron of German sportsmen, Herr s fi s u o g n-in-law. In the course of the evening of the Proceeded to Herr HassenPflug's p the ro p o P s u a b l public square, i , house, to demand an explanation of certain expressions which had escaped his Excellency's lips in the dispute. saE H lm as ectoe sen rd p ay Herr Hassenpilug was at the theatre, and to the theatre the Count the Count followed him, and, inviting him to come out, peremptory demand for an explanation and apology. It appears that Herr HassenPflug would not explain, and where he made a scorn, for Count Ysenburg, who was accompanied by a servant holding a cane, stepped apologize with the utmost back, took the cane from t h h e at to° he k trea him ted in t t h o e the servant's hands, and commenced belabouring his Ex cellency, who cried lustily for help, iii • s cries attracted a crowd, but the' Count prevented th e interference of the populace by saying, "Good people, I am Count Ysenburg, and the man I am beating is the Minister Hassenpflug." Saying which, he continued thrashi ng . his unfortunate Excellency until the cane broke in his hands, and then left the Premier covered wi th %psi. The greatest ex citement prevails at Cassel, and the embarrassment of the Court all description. Cou n t Y sen b urg h As l e ft owed b e:Mud...Kohler Zeihmg. VARIETIES. A CONUNDRUM worse than the following we have met with :—What wind would a hungry sailor wish for at sea ? A wind that blows fowl and then chops. COLD AND COUGH .—A most healing beverage is barley water, sweetened with honey, and acidulated with vinegar. A wine glassful drunk two or three times a-day will soon loosen the enemy's hold. THE HUNGARIAN POET VOROSMARTY is occupied with the translation into the Magyar dialect of all Shakspere's dramas. King Lear is ready, Romeo and Juliet and Richard 111. will be soon. _ _ _ ALEXANDRE DUMAS, writing to a Paris journal, states that between the 11th December 1851 and the 11th De cember 1852, he wrote as many as forty volumes, which "comprise something like 120,000 lines, or 8,000,000 letters. Such has been my year's work." CentrTcuouc.- 7 - - Three millions five hundred thousand lbs. of India rubber were imported into this country during last year. The total value of the India rubber goods manufactured in the United States is estimated at ten millions annually.—American Courier. FRANKLIN AND FRENCH. Franklin, when he was am bassador to France, being at a meeting of a literary society, and not well under. tan ling the French when declaimed, determined to a p'iud when he saw a lady of his acquaint ance express sati, fiction. When they had ceased, a little child, who understood the French, said to him—" But grandpapa, you always applauded the loudest when they were praising you." Franklin laughed heartily, and ex plained the matter. CITY CniLDßEN.—Fanne Fern pities city children. " Here comes a group of pale-faced city children on their way to school. God bless the little unfortunates ! Their little feet should be crushing the strawberries, ripe and sweet, on some sunny hill-slope, where breath of new-mown hay and clover-blossoms would give roses to their cheeks, and strength and grace to their cramped and half-deve loped limbs. Poor little creatures ! they never saw a patch of blue sky bigger than their satchels, or a blade of grass that dared to grow without permission from the mayor, aldermen, and common council. Poor little skeletons ! tricked out like the fashion-prints, and fed on diluted skim-milk and big dictionaries, I pity you." JAPAN CUSTOMS.—A very singular custom at the mar riage of the Japanese is, that the teeth of the bride are made black by some corrosive liquid. The teeth remain black ever after, and serve to show that the woman is married or a widow. Another circumstance is, at the birth of every child, to plant a tree in the garden or court yard, which attains its full growth in as many years as a man requires to be mature for the duties of marriage. When he marries, the tree is cut down, and the wood is made into chests and boxes to contain the clothes and other things which are made for the new-married couple. The Japanese may marry as often as they please ; mar riages with sisters are prohibited ; but they can marry any other relative. A PROLIFIC AND LONG-LIVED RACE. — The Bathursts were a prolific and long-lived race. Sirßenjamin Bathurst, who died in 1704, left three sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest son was the first earl, and the third the father of the Bishop of Norwich. The four had amongst them a hundred children • the bishop's father, by two wives, had no fewer than thirty-six, the prelate himself being a twenty-third child. The first Earl Bathurst lived to the age of ninety-one, and retained his faculties, dying at last in consequence of a fall. His nephew, the bishop, lived to his ninety-third year, also retaining his faculties ; and, what is perhaps more remarkable, his last illness was the first which had ever compelled him to keep his bed. _ _ _ AN AWKWARD STAGE FOR SIR RICHARD.-Sir Richard. Steele, at a time when he was much occupied with theatri cal affairs, built himself a pretty private theatre, and before it was opened to his friends and guests, was anxious to try whether .the hall was well adapted for hearing. Accordingly, he placed himself in the most remote part of the gallery, and begged the carpenter who had built the house to speak from the stage. The man at first said that he was unaccustomed to public speaking, and did not know what to say to his honour; but the good-natured knight called out to him to say whatever was uppermost ; and after a moment the carpenter began, in a voice perfectly audible—" Sir Richard Steele ! for three months past me and my men have been a-working in this theatre, and we've never seen the colour of your honour's money : we will be very much obliged if you'll pay it directly, for un til you do, we don't drive in another nail." Sir Richard said that his friend's elocution was perfect, but that he didn't like his subject much.—Thackeray's English Humorists. POETS MILITANT.—We find the scholar-artizan (Ben Johnson) in arms, and daring heroic deeds. He went through one campaign in the Low Countries, and per formed an exploit better fitted for description in the pages of Livy than in those of a literary biography. In the sight of both armies, he engaged in single combat with one of the enemy, slew him, stripped him of his arms, and carried them away in triumph. This, at the age of eighteen, was a warlike achievement of no mean kind, and is enough to show that, whatever other fault his slan derers have attributed to him, he did not at any rate lack chivalrous courage. A poet militant is not without pre cedent. Eschylus fought at Salamis ; Horace ran away at Philippi ; Johnson's immediate successor, Davenant, was knighted for his valour at the siege of Gloucester ; and a later laureat, Colley Cibber, bore arms in the Revo lution of 1688. If "silent le,ges utter arma" be true, the same remark will apply to letters. Though more con genial to his nature than the toils of the hod and trowel, the profession he had adopted left Johnson no leisure for the enjoyment of the "calm air of delightful studies." Like Coleridge, in our own day, he soon laid aside the sword for the pen. Both felt that with this weaker in strument their mission was to be worked out.—Lives of the Laureates. - TITE1:0;;OF FISII AMONG TICE ANCIENT Rostaxs.— The love of fish became a real mania : turbots excited a furore of admiration—the murana Helena was wor shipped. Hortensius, the orator, actually wept over the death of the one he had fed with his own hands ; the daughter of Drusus ornamented hers with golden rings ; ed,u 1.... ..... ----- - ~....,1 ~,,,,,,L 1 „,,,, ~..14. ,-..0d -.illy. It heard the voice of the master, whose happiness depended on his fish. Sometimes, in a moment of over tenderness for his dear murcena Helena, Vedius Pollio, a Roman 1 knight of the highest distinction, and one of the intimate friends of the Emperor Augustus, could find nothing bet ' ter to do than to feed them with the flesh of his slaves, who were thrown to them alive. It is true that these wretched creatures generally deserved this terrible chas tisement ; for instance, Seneca speaks of one who had the awkwardness to break a crystal vase, while waiting at supper on the irascible Pollio. This unfortunate slave, having managed to escape from the hands of those who were conducting him to this horrible death, he went and fell on his knees at the feet of Cusar, whom he implored to inflict some less frightful torture. Augustus, moved to the very soul, granted him his liberty, had all of Vedius's vases broken, and ordered that the pieces should be used to fill up the reservoir in which the barbarous knight fed his murcena Helena.— Soyer's Pantropheon. BARON VON HIIMBOLDT. — In fulfilment of an appoint ment we went at once, and were admitted by his faithful servant, the companion of many an arduous journey. His mansion is a plain edifice, situated in a retired part of the city ; and he would not have been now at home had not the king gone to Konigsberg, for his residence is generally with the king, at Potsdam, who keeps him near his per son, as his father did before him, not only for his society and conversation, but, no doubt, also as a counsellor, wise from his many years, and his large experience in the world. We passed through his library, which fills, on all sides, a room of considerable size ; and he issued from a door on the remote side of the apartment, opening ap parently from his private room. He met us with great kindness and perfect frankness, and with a pleasant re buke for my having hesitated to call on him, (I had written a note, asking permission to call,) implying that he was not ignorant of my position and efforts at home. I then introduced my son and Mr. Brash, and we were at once placed perfectly at our ease. His bright countenance expresses great benevolence; and, from the fountain of his immense stores of knowledge, a stream, almost con stant, flowed for nearly an hour. He was not engrossing, but yielded to our promptings, whenever we suggested an inquiry, or alluded to any particular, for we did not wish to occupy the time with our own remarks any further than to draw him out. He has a perfect command of the best English, and speaks the language quite agreeably. There is no stateliness or reserve about him, and he is as affable as if he had no claims to superiority. His voice is exceedingly musical, and he is so animated and amiable that you feel at once as if he were an old friend. His person is not much above the middle size. He stoops a little, but less than most men at the age of eighty-two. He has no appearance of decrepitude ; his eyes are brilliant, his complexion light ; his features and person are round, although not fat ; his hair thin and white ; his mind very active, and his language brilliant and sparkling with bright 1 thoughts. We retired greatlygratified, and the more so,as a man in his 83rd year might soon pass away. When we were about leaving Berlin, I addressed a note to the baron, expressing our great satisfaction at the interview, bidding him farewell, and asking for his autograph. He readily replied ; but instead of his signature merely, he sent an interesting original letter, written on the occasion.—Pro feaaor Silliman's Visit to Europe in 1851. Oun LORD'S LOVE OF Nixtrua.—No one ever loved nature with a purer, intenser love than the Saviour him self. We delight to contemplate this feature in the Sa viour's character ; there is so much of childlike and pure humanity about it. When he walked by the Sea of Galilee, as he often did, and felt his jaded spirit soothed by the refreshing sight of its clear waters, and the mu sical murmur of its waves—when he pointed his hearers to the trooping ravens that hovered above him, or to the lilies of the field that decked the sides of the mountain—or when we follow him to the lone mountain, where he . loved to retire at the close of the day when his spirit was wearied and broken down by the wickedness of his age— we feel that we are in fellowship with one who, though Divine, has the purest human sympathies ; and not the least attractive and prominent of these is his intense love of nature. His frequent walks by the seashore, and on the quiet road, skirted with trees, leading from Jerusa lem to Bethany, his wanderings upon the mountains, and all his many beautiful allusions to familiar but never-to be-forgotten objects in nature, bore witness to the ardent love with which he looked upon the heavens above and the green earth beneath. His spotless spirit was in harmony with everything that was good, and beautiful, and true. Hence some of his most striking and appropriate illustra tions were taken from the mountain flowers or from the moorland birds, or from the varied forms of placid beauty or towering grandeur which the scenery of Judea daily brought before him. He loved the quiet, sequestered, rural retreat. His sympathies for man—and everything that was human—were of the purest, the strongest, and the most enduring character; b u t h e loved t h e solitude and the calm of the mountain summit, or the woody slope, or the margin of the murmuring brook, or the lone shore of the lake, or the peaceful hamlet nestled in the forest shade and sheltered by the towering hill, where there was little or nothing to disturb the uniform processes of social life. Hen ce we fi n d hi m oftentimes on the mountain or by the se a s h ore, or i n th e s h a dy walk, or in the midst of the fruitful corn-fields. His love of nature was intense, but not by any means ascetic, not selfish—not leading him to overlook the great interests of congregated masses in . the towns an d c iti es o f hi s coun t r y. He who was thrilled with the beautiful landscape of mountain, lake, and valley, of richly-cultivated fields—where heart had done its . ntmost, or where nature was left in ail its wild rdesalnatted—,:feTtpler lspirit j 3 ibloelopes sleweep gr and e ur— that of eeandpiieoiro yt th b ur s t oy Working Olivet, upongeett paused i his casittye v s i it that e fn deepest a s lay l3,et ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DIS TRESS -GRATIFYING FACT. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I am anxious to publish the following fact through the medium of the press :—A few days ago, Mr. Springman sent the sum of £B5 16s. 3d. to the treasurer of the above society, Mr. Bencke, with the remark, that this generous benefaction had been placed in his hands by five Hungarians, who were on board the Charles Bartlett, in June, 1849, when run down by the Europe. Mr. Spring man, then Austrian Consul, by his kind and active ex ertions, not only provided them with the means of pur suing their voyage, but undertook to represent their interest in the law-suit that was then entered upon. They had lost all their things, and upwards of £6OO worth of linen, in which article they traded. The courts, after nearly four years, decided in favour of the Chas. Bartlett, and Mr. Springman had the gratification of announcing to his proteges, that £BB5 16s. 3d. were to be paid to them. Acknowledging the kindness they had received when in distress here, they readily met Mr. Springman's wishes to contribute to the funds of this society, the state of which is still very much below its requirements, owing to the numerous and unceasing demands made upon it. I have much pleasure in thanking Mr. Springman on behalf of the committee, and am, Sir, yours truly, D. J. HIRSCH, Hon. Sec. German School, Sir Thomas's Buildings, Nov. 14, 1853. THE CASE OF THE REV. DR. HILLCOAT. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD . Sin,—As an incumbent of a church in one of the first commercial towns perhaps in the world, though I am little known through the channel of correct information—a circumstance which may be very strangely accounted of in its absence,—l deem it due to society at large, and espe cially to that body to whom I must be more or less known in my official capacity, to announce my forthcoming pub lication with an apology, where there would exist indeed a trespass upon public feeling, did not a case unparalleled in its history and painful in its narrative most imperatively demand such publication. Under other circumstances, as uncontrolable as the events themselves are mysterious, I had paused. My feel ing both for Church and State in this peculiar crisis of England's weal or woe would have yet kept me' silent, but when liberty can be no longer secure,—but, as the voice of my country shall approve it,—it would be inconsistent with the principle that yet, by the goodness of God, I am enabled to hold dearer than my life, to withhold any longer a statement of the truth,—the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,—that, at least, the ministry be not blamed. But I may not anticipate. That which is well nigh ready for the press will (D.V.) speak for itself, and may it be received in the spirit that dictates it. It asks no favour, nor seeks other apology than the most painful necessity must admit. Deeply concerned that there should exist cause for such 'painful intrusion upon your pages, I remain, Sir, your faithful and obliged servant, the little-known but uncom promisingly-faithful friend of Church and State in truth ful liberty, H. B. W. HILLCOAT, D.D. The Castle, Lancaster, Nov. 11, 1853. CUSTOMS' REFORM. TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I beg to lay before the public, through the medium of your excellent paper, a statement of one of the grievances of which the shipbrokers of this port justly complain. I refer to the extra labour which the new Customs Act enforces on them. Under the old method of passing entries outwards, the Customs' and Dock officers were satisfied of the contents of packages by the shipping bill and cocket, but by the new regulations the cocket is abolished, and the broker who loads the vessel is obliged to obtain from each shipper a copy of the bill of lading, and to see that it is endorsed in the manner of the old cocket. He has then to prepare from these a manifest, which (with the bills of lading) must be left at the Custom-house under a penalty of £2O. Now, this plan is ridiculous, and uncalled-for in every point of view, viz.:-- Ist. As a check against the evasion of dock-rates (which it purports to be), it is utterly useless, because any shipper, dishonest enough to evade the dues, would certainly take care that the copy of the bill of lading tallied with the entry. 2nd. As a means of simplifying the passing of entries (which it is also said to do), any person practising Custom house business can bear testimony that it increases, rather than diminishes, the trouble. But the point to which I more particularly solicit your, and your readers' attention is, the work which it entails upon the shipbrokers' clerks. In some offices a clerk is exclusively devoted to the preparing of these manifests, and indeed in all shipbrokers' offices, where a large business is done, it at least impedes the regular routine of the count ing -house. Hoping that the attention of the commercial public may be directed to this important matter, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, 11th Nov., 1853. J. M. DRUNKENNESS IN LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I am glad to see in your columns of to-day a letter from "Clericus, ' exposing the prevalent vices of this town ; and as he has brought before the public the question of keeping open the public-houses on the Sunday, I trust you will allow me space in your valuable journal to make a few remarks on the subject. The opening of public-houses on the Sunday has long been complained of as an evil, and as yet no remedy ha., been ' r 4-1. suggest an aopeai to tne proprietors of public-houses themselves. Are there not amongst their number men who have a character to uphold ? If so, I would ask them if, because the law of their country permits them to do what their conscience condemns as offensive to the law of God, they have not sufficient moral courage to resist the evil ? To the respect able portion of the publicans I would say, show an example to your fellow-townsmen and to the country at large (and prove to them that a publican can be respectable), by closing your houses on the Sabbath day. Let the world see that Liverpool will not be behind-hand in anything calculated to promote the public good ; and be assured that you will be rewarded for it in the satisfaction you will have in doing what you know to be right, even though you may be permitted to do wrong with impunity. If you follow the honest dictates of your conscience, you will be gainers thereby, remembering " That they who honour God, He will honour." Would it not tend greatly to the advancement of the desired end, if, in grantinc , new licenses (if such must he granted), the magistrates would grant them only on condition that they should close their houses on the Sunday ? If such a stipulation were made, and if the police had orders to enforce its observance, it would soon gain ground. - Public-houses as well as shops would be dosed on the Sabbath day, and publicans, instead of being frequently stigmatized as a degraded class, would hence forth stand up and occupy a position amongst the respect able portion of the community. Apologising for the length of this letter, I remain, Sir, yours faithfully, A. J. I. P.S. In accordance with your regulations, I enclose my card and address. Liverpool, November 8, 1853. [We think it only proper to state that many publicans keep their places of business closed during the whole of Sunday ; and that magistrates have not the power to attach to licenses such conditions as are suggested by our respected correspondent. El). L. S.] HORTICULTURE. Twa gardener's work will now, in all the departments, consist principally in keeping up the artificial temperature in glass structures, and in preparing ornamental and culi nary plants for forcing. Of the former kind, the various flowering shrubs recommended in our previous instructions, such as moss-roses, lilacs, Deutzias,Wiegelas, besides which the beautiful Himlayan primulas, lilies of the valley, violets, mignonette, &c. ; a good supply of these beautiful and easily forced plants is indispensable where a large quantity of cut flowers is in demand, because, if judiciously used, they will economise the more valuable camellias and other greenhouse and stove species. In the kitchen garden the forcing beds must be prepared for rhubarb, sea-kale, asparagus, &c. Mr. W. P. AYRES, the eminent horticulturist, of Black heath, who is so well known by his numerous valuable and practical works on plant culture, has published the following useful suggestions in the Gardener's Chronicle : USES OF La&vES.—ln the present state of agricultural economics, when our leading farmers are debating the value of long straw or chopped straw, or no straw at all for bedding their cattle, it is remarkable that leaves which are everywhere at the present time, and voted a nuisance, should not be used for littering farming stock. For some weeks past my cows and horses have been bedded with leaves, and nothing can answer better, being cheap and plentiful, and moreover forming an excellent bed. Of the quality of the manure from such a combi nation of nutritious substances, it is scarcely necessary to speak, but .it may not be out of place to remark that a combination of horse and cow manure, with leaves properly fermented and reduced, would perhaps for horti cultural purposes, especially for pot plants, form one of the finest manures that could be used. The bailiff of a gentleman in Sussex, on a heavy land farm, used leaves for litter some years back, and by using them plenti fully in the fold-yard, produced such quantities of manure as quite to eclipse his neighbours in the quantity and quality of the corn crops he produced. Here then is a source of manure which even Mr. Mechi, with his prejudices against timber trees, cannot object to; indeed it is questionable if the leaves of the "brave old Oak " were they collected and made the absorbent of animal excrement, would not contribute as much to the land, and rather more than they bad taken away. However, the experiment is worth trying, and at the present time leaves in most country places may be collected in abundance. I would strongly recommend gardeners to try the experi ment of manure for potting purposes, prepared as inti mated above. For soft-wooded plants I think they will find it perfection, especially if fermented at a tempera ture sufficiently high to destroy all insects and their eggs ; for I find cow-dung, which' has been subjected to sufficient heat to char it, is just as good as when kept until it is three or four years old. It is an excellent plan to subject all composts intended for potting plants to a temperature sufficient to destroy both seeds and insects before using it, and if it is a little warm at the time of using it, tender plants will be much benefited thereby, and at this cold season men will do much more work in a warm shed with warm soil, than if their hands are in a cold soil from morning till night. In fact, a heating apparatus, such as a stove for the purpose, or arrangements for using the waste heat of a hot-water boiler, is a very necessary and profitable appendage of an establishment where much potting is to be done. NOVEL MODE of POCICET-PICEING—A lady, returning from church on Saturday week, was accosted in George street by two respectably-dressed females. The tallest of the two requested assistance in deciphering the address on a letter, which the lady, in her desire to be of service to a stranger to the town, readily tried to give. While doing so, she remembers that the younger of the two pressed unnecessarily close upon her, but she thought nothing of that at the time, imagining that she did so from her eager ness to ascertain the proper direction. Before the lady had gone far, she found that she had been relieved of her purse, which, however, fortunately only contained a . few shillings. The elder female was rather fashionably attired, and appeared to be above 80.—.8dinburgh Adverturen ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1853, " You began by observingpthat it was truly gratiking us to you to feel the improved freedom of expressing Brat opinions ; that three or four years before you c ould nc t : have ventured, even before a Bible Society meeting, speak so explicitly. " You then went on to observe, that the enemy of souls had invented different delusions, accommodated to different nations, most readily to beguile them ; that to the perior levity and gaiety of the continental character he usually addressed temptations to. profligate dissipation; but, regarding the English as too reflective and sober to be thus caught, his trap for us was to send among is professed teachers of religion, who perverted us by circa; lating ' the soul-destroying doctrine of re pentance: DI, cuse me for saying that I was horror-struck by such a phrase, which to my ears sounded like a direct contradi° tion of the great subject of our Lord's Baptist forerunner s preaching ; of his own while on earth ; and of that which , ' after the consummation of his ministry, his inspiratil directed his apostle Paul to preach ; and to oppose "' hie I must regard as utterly subversive of the very intro tory stage of the Christian discipline of the soul. am well persuaded that such was not your real meni` ai rd but that you meant only to reject the idea which sho r consider our own repentance as the meritorious cause,_,° as the real expiatory act, producing our own forgiven'i " But I hardly think more than a small minority your audience would h ave been led to this candid ex planation, or caught anything but the coarse and abusiv,e language in which you stigmatized the preaching re p ante generally. " Believe me, while I feel myself called on freely. tn. express my sentiments on what appear to me 111-adviseO and misleading statements, still (with full conviction tha' t I myself often run into heavier indiscretions of langua.e) with general respect for your long course of Christian usefulness, " Yours faithfully, -" W. D. CONYBEAO " To Rev. Hugh 111`Neile." IRELAND. • n; THE MEAGHER CLUB have agreed to present a coei gratulatory address, and a purse, containing a . money, to John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, on his val in New York. had THE CHOLERA AT CORR.—No new case of:cho,era 0. occurred on shore at Queenstown up to Friday aft e , r fh ° a d The poor man who died of this disease at Whitegt,' had been engaged carrying the clothes of the parties w",,1 also died of cholera on board the Kossuth, and he SP ent several hours assisting in that ship. REPRESENTATION OF CLONMEL.—Mr. Sohn f o r is the favourite With the Romish priests of Cleland, s the prize to be contended for in that borough. l ie Romanist—a man after the heart of li`Hale, and, cn A s' e rs quently, just the thing for the reverend returning 1:4- of the borough of Clonmel. SALE OF THE GLEOGALL ESTATES.—The DWI° c ot • Estates Court had, on Friday, to deal with one of th e In extensive properties that has as yet come before it for so so It was in the matter of Lord Glengall, who aPPe ar r,„ to owner and petitioner. The object of his lordshiP • •- dispose of a portion of the family property, with a em u . relieve the rest from the encumbrances which had mulatad upon it. This object is, we may say, ' attaia for the produce of the sales effected will provide them e s- r required. The principal portions of those lots of the Csh. estates sold on Friday were bought by the Earl of Glen gall's family trustees. a te ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—ThOS. Hughes, third al of the Eblana, one of the Dublin mail-boats, b etWe L t° ' Holyhead and Kingstown, while on board attending ' that a duty, at eight, p.m., on Saturday, heard the cry woman and child had fallen over the jetty. Hehol af diately jumped overboard and succeeded in getting d he the woman and bringing her to the surface. She 4 t 4 ,0 time had lost the child, which had sunk. He dived after it, and held it up by his teeth while he adjust_,7 e d rope round the body of the poor woman, who was Ilan, up by the persons on the jetty, and afterwards brough t ; e the child himself, with the assistance of another Or which was thrown to him.—Dublin Evening Mail- IRISH WAY OF GOING TO AMERICA.—On 111 ,1 " ul night, the captain of the Leibnitz, which is about to for New York, was alarmed by one of his sailors infanta! him that there was fire in the hold. An examinatio n made, when it was discovered that there were as malt; sixteen persons concealed in a cargo of old rags, molt view to getting a free passage to America. They l'-+A supplied with oatmeal and water, on which they we re - subsist during the voyage, and were with much -iffficultY the routed from their hiding-places. It was fortuna te . th discovery was so soon made, for as they were provided t he matches and candles it is more than probable, *on he . dry nature of the rags, a fire would have broken out , fore they could have got half way across the Atlantic, 911.; which might have ended in the destruction of the vessel. Galway Packet. ftv firs t DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—The .0 half-yearly meeting was held on Monday, at the officeq, Dublin. The surplus of receipts on the half-year's trams, after payment of all working charges, repairs of i v e6 o ut and other disbursements, amounts to £25,266 185. au. , ~:„0 of which the parliamentary investment of one per eenW,"is the capital has been made in government stock• result would have warranted the directors in reconnue,,le ing the payment of a dividend of three per cent. for tile half-year, were it not necessary to provide for the losso; the steamer Queen Victoria. The directors regret t ? t., that they have been obliged to abandon all h o pes of „ 1 s that vessel, and, therefore, the amount at which sh enW:to.. at present in the company's books must be wr i s ,„,, ne nd The available balance enables the directors to rec ° " e ar. the payment of a dividend of 2 per cent. fir the half-)was, A CASE or WITCHCRAFT.—An e x traordinarf. ‘ „ ca ' e coe. tried at the Petty Sessions, on Monday co'ury and coran, acn. and jun., were charged by — fro m them, under the following circumstanies Sally Conry with extorting money and va'n e hus band had been ailing of some distemper which bathed medical medical appliances previously employed, upon which Cer applied to Mary Corcoran, who told her that unless tarn herb were administered, and a portion of the IT:, band's clothing burned between sunset and sunrise, that e „ death would impend over the house. As the g't_ter d° fi • their mystic skill, the brace of sorceresses reedy/ of the stones of potatoes, sevenpence in cash, and a portion hnsband's clothes. But notwithstanding the poten t , 1 81 1,70.„ employed, no good effects followed, and the poor ""„ et t becoming at length sensible of the imposture, cumin the Coury s _ the pseudo-witches before the magistrates, who sett two Corcorans to the Quarter Sessions for tri al, ha/ 7 refused bail for their appearance.—Galway Vindi cator MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.-- ea, deeply regret to announce the death of a fine young gde tleman under peculiarly painful circumstances. 'Pi e so n ceased, Mr. Howard Straton, aged about sixteen, wa s i o f of the late John Straton, Esq., cousin to the Ea a Roden, and agent to his Dundal estate, who died erf;;o - of months since. The deceased was out on .cu to , day, in apparently perfect health and vigour, an d % t hat acted business through the town, though it is stated the since his father's death he has not been at all well. In 0„, course of the night he is supposed either to have toied while in a state of somnolency, or to have pre ci l At himself out of the bed-room window, at the family 11i4 deuce in Seatown-place, and, on being missed I. ' in brother, who slept in the same apartment, was found e be state of almost insensibility in the yard, from whe ne o was brought to his room, and although there was 11 v ere pearance of any of the limbs having been broken , or seday, external fractures, he expired at an early hour on T nes in his death having probably been occasioned by severcos ternal contusions. The deceased young gentlemanie ip very much esteemed, and was the pride of every cir d which he moved.—Newry Examiner. d fri ti" MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—The Wale., or . 0 0 gives an account of a mysterious affair which has „g . , is rise to numerous but as yet unsatisfactory conjectu,' art, that city. As the gravedigger, m St. John's churcah A was, on Thursday week, closing up a grave in , gee i a body had been newly deposited, some children re"' In' cry that they had discovered the body of a fatal e ' tian, vestigation not only proved the truth of this asset one but further showed that the body, which mus t to of time have been interred, was in such an advanced sichave decomposition as to prove that the individual 0 115 held, been dead zearly twelve months. An inquest u'ar e (te at which Dr. Cavet, having inspected the body o.middle ceased, stated it appeared to be that of a femal e o of age. It was very much decayed—in fact, the S e rf ,ed putrefaction was over, and the flesh had been e o T!,, ;ti s of into matter resembling soap. There were the rein and the grave-clothes on the body. There was some s .. ! T w i tll. a piece of ribbon about the face, a scapular arcA",, atan neck, and a row of ribbon on the right wrist. Th e i which composed the clothes was very much o ce ha il deponent saw no reason to suppose that any , y u l ° , e dee as t been used in the present case. He presumed ntern'e at died a natural death, as she was dressed for ed at He considered that the death must have occ n h rr ean fo d rend ee la twelve months ago. The jury, after hearing t evidence, returned the following verdict n ot and the jury are of opinion that the deceaseatend by her death from any foul or unfair means. 4 deP ll : POLICE JUSTICF.S' JUSTICE.—'On - i jtto."' reg al consisting of Major Boyce, Messrs. Mart h i , i 'tite Vice ucn- Bonsall, waited upon the Lord Lieutenant a i " an mug Lodge, with a memorial, which was adopte".„, - se 0' - -- „a to tial meeting held some days ago, for the Pti r r - purs n 'han into consideration the course that should be o , c ,nag act bring the conduct of Mr. Police Magistra te , t hat tr . g before the executive. This personage dc idea /slat% distributor had committed a breach of the Pea ce n on, a tract into the hand of a person named re _ raj a 1; he awarded punishment against the aggressor 9,,c,_cur The conduct of Mr. O'Callaghan in this Ina l 1 1 4 a dd, n' d the liveliest feelings of contempt, and, we rilig .bertY , 513 dignation, amongst all who regard rational b ichili t th: are not the slaves of bigotry and intolerance' es. 0 Ultramontane party lauded this justice to Op 1, 0 ,100:: deputation having read the memorial to Inn , t,, t iott! received the following reply :—" I have listeenraea_a it w ° h r"- ose Lord St. Germans) with much pain to your In n is a matter of deep regret that the meeting 0 the use a half you are present should have sanctioned ristian n the Pn, charity, and to be calculated to prejudic e i - oists language which appears to me inconsistent wi,th " bile mind the right of free discussion. The menno e _ . they say that he audaciously, pute to a magistrate gross misconduct in his t a tn n u a tic t l , bigotedly lent himself to sustain the intolera they descrl and to crush the rights of British subjects daring,„wot the judgment pronounced by him as being d they Ogg° stitutional, tyrannical, and intolerant —an ..4.uated daringly, unconstitu i a/big.ote. that in pronouncing that judgment he was act ge thg pray me to institute an inquiry into the facts lt hn. t , improper motives. Having thus stated the e ,.CZ w not advert farther to the language of this mett tha t if the charges which they prefer against Mr. 0 C well founded, his office can afford him no Court of s will proceed at once to remind the memoriah„.as.t_s_ben he he is amenable to the law, and that the Court t Bench is the proper place in which persons can.a.'',dso not only whether that judgment was righteous, In,...ateti in pronouncing it were improper. That triblVatioe whether the motives by which the magistrate was a n ct ," can correct an error, and can punish an offender. -r r o t. the ra yer, 10 , 0 reasons I must decline to comply with the P memorial."—Mr. Martin intimated that they la" I Cour t of a dvised by competent legal authority th at the Which Queen's Bench was not the proper tribunal before to bring the matter. His Excellency, in reply, redid did not think the Executive should be called uP°l l ,. s out o stage of the business to interfere, as by doing so_n 44 _ u ee ds be trespassing upon the prer ogative a the Court of Beach.--The deputation then withdrew. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. Dr. G. Aspinall, to the Incumbency of the Episcopal Church at Dnffus, Morayshire. Rev. R. Dellis, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. James's Chase►, Jersey. Rev. T. tl. Chase. A.M., to the Perpetual Curacy of Lyd brook, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Rev. J. F. Coils, D.D., to the Rectory of Laindon-with- Basildon, Essex. Rev. F. H. Curtis, to the Sub-mastership of Norwich Grammar School. ....... Rev. J. W. Ellaby, M.A., to Curacy of Mary-le-port, Bristol. Rev. H. I'. Fletcher, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bicker, Lincolnshire. Rev. G. Fritche, M.A., to the Curacy of Littleover and Fend-rn, Derbyshire, and to the Chaplaincy of the County Lunatic Asylum. Rev. J. F. Greensmith, M.A., to the Curacy of Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham. Rev. Frederick Harvey Freeth, late Chanter in the Collegiate Church of Cumbrae, to nn Honorary Canonry, next in rank to the late Provost. Rev. ➢i. Hathaway, 8.A., Incumbent of St. George's Church, Darlaston, Wednesbury, to the Chaplaincy of Walsall Union. Rev. J. Hawksley, 8.A., to the Curacy of Aylburton and Glotfcesterslnre. Rev. E. HOare, M.A., to the Incumbency of Trinity Chuich, Tunbridge Wells. Rev. E. E. Jones, to the Incumbency of the newly-con secrated church of St. Paul, Gorsedd, Flintshire. Rev. J. Kynaston, A.M., to the Curacy of St. Briavel's, Gloucester. Rev. J. H. Lang, M.A., to be Chaplain of her Majesty's ship Arrogant. Rev. E. Layng, M.A., to the Curacy of Down Hatherley, Gloucester. __ Rev. J. D. Mannington, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's, Rev. A. Pott, M.A., Vicar of Cuddesden, to be Principal of the new Diocesan Theological College in the diocese of Oxford._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rev. H. G. Randall, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. Peter's, Bishport, near Bristol. Rev. A. Sedgwick, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Thomas's Church, Preston. . . . Rev. C. V. H. Sumner, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Curate of Gaston - with-West Cliffe, near Dover, to the Rectory of Ringwould. near Deal. Rev. D. Travers, M.A., to the Rectory of Swanage, Dorset shire. Rev. W. A. Voss, 8.A., to the Curacy of Little Tintern, near Chepstow. Rev. G. C. White (late Provost of Cumbrae), to an Hono rary Canonry in the Collegiate Church, and to rank next to the Dean of the Diocese. _ _ Rev. W. H. Wilson, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Bertley, near Ilexham. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFEEMENTS.—The Rev. Henry Francis William Ralph, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Nether-Knutsford, Cheshire, on the nomination of the Rev. Robert Clowes, the Vicar.—The Rev. Thomas Staples Pepper, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Ormskirk, Lancashire, on the nomination of the Rev. Joseph Bush, the Vicar. — The Rev. Robert Vincent Sheldon, to the Curacy of St. Matthew's Church, Liverpool, on the nomination of the Venerable Jonathan Brooks and the Rev. Augustus Campbell, Rector of Liverpool, on the resignation of the Rev. R Walker. _ _ NORTHWICII UNION WousuousE.—The chapel re cently erected for the accommodation of the inmates of the Northwich Union Workhouse has been licensed by the Bishop of Chester for the performance of divine service. MALPAS.—The land given by T. T. Drake, Esq., as an addition to the churchyard of this parish, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on Friday last, the 11th instant. LOWER WHITEEY.—The yard or cemetery recently attached to this chapel is to be consecrated by the Bishop of Chester to-day (Tuesday), the 16th instant. THE ARCHDEACONTLY OF MONTREAL has been conferred on the Rev. H. M. Lower, late curate of St. Paul's, Wol verhampton. It has been accepted by that gentleman. THE NEW BISTIOP.—The Right Rev. Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Limerick, has been translated to the See of Derry and Raphoe, rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Ponsonby. The Rev. Dr. H. Griffin, rector of Clonfeacle, in the diocese of Armagh, and formerly a fellow of Trinity College, has been selected as the successor of Dr. Higgin in the See of Limerick. CONSECRATION OF THE NEW AFRICAN BISHOPS.—St. Andrew's Day has been appointed for the consecration of the Rev. Dr. J. W. Colenso, of St. John's College, Cam bridge, bishop designate of Natal, and the Rev. Dr. John Armstrong, of Lincoln College, Oxford, bishop designate of Graham's Town. The officiating prelates will be the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, and the Bishop of Norwich. PRESENTATIONS VACANT.—The Professorship of Classical Literature in Haileybury College ; patrons, the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company. The Rectory of Deal, Kent ; value, £5OO a-year ; patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Incumbency of Peterstone-Wentloog, near Newport, Monmouthshire; value, £BO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The Vicarage of Rumneg, near Cardiff ; value, £BO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The Chaplaincy of the House of Correction, Beverley ; patrons, the visiting justices. SONS OF THE CLERGY.—At the Annual Court of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, on Thursday, the Archbishop of Canterbury was re-elected president; Lord Denman vice-president; Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., Mr. Alderman Copeland, and Mr. Freshfield, M. P, joint treasurers ; and 42 noblemen and gentlemen, Clergy and laity, headed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, were elected members of the Court of Assistants for the year ensuing. During the past year the governors have distributed 15,000/, among necessitous Clergymen, their widows, unmarried daughters, and children. The corporation will celebrate its bicentenary festival next year. v.n.. , ..EAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. The monthly meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge was held on Tuesday, the Lord Bishop of Capetown in the chair. The report states that the society has, since 1840, made grants to the amount of upwards of £BO,OOO in aid of colonial bishoprics, cathedrals, and colleges alone. During the year 1853 the income of the so ciety, though equal to that of former years, has been found insufficient to meet its greatly increased expenditure, the audit sheet showing a deficiency upon the transactions of the year amounting to 1:5,684. Between April, 1852,and April, 1853, the number of books and tracts issued has amounted to 4,284,310, namely—Bibles, 163,799; New Testaments, 79,483 ; Prayer Books, 324,928 ; other books, 1,154,253 ; tracts, &c., 2,571,847. Since the year 1733, when the Society began to report its issues of books and tracts, it has circulated 110 millions of publications. Translations of the Scriptures have been made during the, past year into French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Maltese, Polish, Arabic, the Ogybwa language, the language of New Zea land, and the language of the Arawak Indians. The Prayer Book has been published in French, Dutch, Ger man, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Modern Armenian, Maltese, Arabic, Turkish, Amhanck, New Zealand, Ogybwa, and Muncey. THE REV. DR. M'NEILE AND THE EDINBURGH REVIEW THE following letter has been addressed by the Very Rev. W. D. Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff, to the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, in reply to his letter which we published last last week " Llandaff, November 8. "Dear Sir,—As you have thought it advisable to publish in the Times a letter, heavily criminating a most dear and valued son of mine for an article in the Edinburgh Review on church parties, which you attribute to him, I trust you will allow me in return to communicate, through the same channel, some observations, which may, I trust, plead his justification. The different schools of theological opinion prevailing at the time in our country must surely be ad mitted, on all hands, to form a very fit object for investi gation in a publication which professes to exhibit to the public a general review of the opinions, &c., which have been introduced to the public mind. " In executing such a task, it appears as difficult to treat such a subject without a general classification of the several prominent schools as it would be to draw up an elementary view of the Greek philosophy without a pre vious specification of the various sects of the Lyceum, Academy, Portico, &c. I conceive that, in treating of these schools and their adherents, much must depend on general impressions which have been conveyed to the judgment by various channels, although the critic may have probably never thought at the time of keeping a journal of the several items on which the general opinion was founded. In some instances the opinion may in part have been derivative from the judgments inculcated by parental education ; and I feel it very probable that I may myself have been the party to mislead my son—l myself (while warmly attached to the old evangelical party of Wilberforce and the Christian Observer, which all who have known my Oxford life know that I embraced at a period when to do so was almost to attach a black letter to one's name in the eyes of the most influential clerical party, i. e. from 1810 to 1820.) Yet I must confess that the pages of the Record from its commencement nearly were regarded by me with strong regret, and, as I thought, deserved reprobation. I certainly thought that it often took a very objectionable view, tending to discountenance those prac tical exhortations to morality which the Apostles them selves never shrunk from delivering with the greatest plainness, fulness, and boldness. I have not preserved any reference to individual passages, but I have a general recollection of one which will sufficiently explain what I mean. I distinctly recollect a paragraph in which that paper expressed regret that our communion service had collected into one series a body of scriptural texts like those which accompany the collection of alms ; fearing that such a collection and concentration of all these texts might give an undue weight to the imporauce and meri torious character of such acts of benevolence. Now, the scruple is in its motive certainly not to be condemned ; but yet, the allowing any scruple of our own minds to lead us to suppress any portion of the teaching of our Lord and his inspired followers has, I think, a clear Anti nomian tendency—tendency I say, because the reviewer and myself would equally feel averse from asserting, or believing even, that the Recordites are capable of wilfully and openly proclaiming doctrines which, in their naked form, they would probably themselves shrink from, as hostile to the very foundations of Christian truth. " I have given this particular instance, although I cannot, at present, exactly refer to it ; but if the Record shall deny that it has ever published a paragraph substan tially agreeing with my citation, I shall willingly go to the expense of having its columns searched and re-pub lishing its very words. " I must now proceed to a second point, in which I shall be most reluctant to say anything which may hurt your feelings, for my son has always taught me to look with high respect (in exact accordance with the note in the Review) on your general influence of character in the second commercial city of our empire; and yet I fear that I may have been the very person who first taught him to consider you as a leader of the violent and extravagant ultra-Evangelical party. I never, indeed, thought that you meant deliberately to inculcate unchristian views, but I thought you very commonly suffered yourself to be hurried into the most intemperate and indiscreet language. I will mention the circumstance which first impressed me with this opinion ; it was the first time when I ever heard ' you speak of the Bible Society. I cannot give you the exact date, but I believe it was between 1830 and '35 ; the place was London, and, therefore, I suppose, as I am not familiar with any other London platforms given to that cause, the locality was in Exeter-hall. " The speech I allude to, of course—not having taken any note of at the time—l cannot give very minutely ; but I believe I report its substance and, particularly the Phrases I object to, very exactly.