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G THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 9 Sml L ES AND TEARS. THE LITERARY PAPERS hint that the late Edward VARIETIES. Quillanan, son-i n -l aw o f 'William Wordsworth, left a -------- LET '5 laugh at those who cannot bear volume of posthumous poems behind him, which will SPELL ACTIVITY in three letters—N.R.G. And The various ills of life ; Those brave ones where there 's joy to share, shortly be issued. " sourness" in four—A.C.D.T. And cowards where there 's strife! ALL the respectable I lion) it to be a fact, say s P asca l, th a t if a ll pe rsons We all have clouds and sunshine, London newspapers , including the Athenmunz and the Literary Gazette, have resolved to knew what they said of each o th er , th ere wou ld no t b e The needy with the rich ; discontinue the use of the press privilege of writing orders For heaven bath wisely tempered four friends in the world. of admission to the theatres. Life's feelings unto each. If there are thoughts that sadden, THE FRENCH REVIEWERS complain that their liters- MANY BOOKS require no thou g ht s f rom th os e w ho read If there are acts that madden, tore is being absorbed by the newspapers , and that their them, and for a very simpl e reason —th ey ma d e no suc h Why, there are things that gladden— demand upon those who wrote th em . Things that should patience teach. booksellers will now publish nothing which has not passed the ordeal of an appearance in afeuilleton. NOURISHING DIET.—A returned gold hunter from Californiays that he once lived f or t en d a y s on broth .n Clouds will return with winter's hour, B u t summer bath its sky; M. AMPERE, a French seven, has published " A Stroll made from a old door-mat ! It was that made him so fat. If death's white fingers touch a flower, in America." He remarks, " The literature of the United Are there not fresh ones by? States will not certainly he a new world, but it will be one FOUR HUNDRED YEARS have elapsed since the invention There may be some who hate us province more in the vast empire of civilised literature." of printing, yet books are not in circulation all over the The while we weep the tear; globe ; while the us e of t o b acco b ecame un i versa l w ithi n But some are sure to love us A. RECENT WRITER, talking of America, remarks that fifty years after its disc over y. When sorrow blights our c h eer . "no country has a literature so rapidly and at the same EXTRAORDINARY RATIONALITY.—We are enabled to Woe may be in our dwelling, time so grandly growing, and no thoroughly civilized Our present mirth e x p e lli ng — na ti on h as a news p a p er press so pa lt ry an d insignificant." state as a fact, which, th oug h apparen tly i ncre dibl e , ma y But there's a whispe r telling be entirely depended upon, that a lady, being offered a Of better moments near. " THE ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, " Thomas de Quin- new bonnet by her husband, positively declined the pre- Lips may be false, an d hearts untrue, cey, one of the most remarkable men of the day, is pre- sent, on the gro un d th a t s h e did no t wan t it. H ence it But all ate not like these ; paring for publication " Autobiographial Sketches," pro- appears that there is not, in all cases without exception, Though wild winds sweep the green earth throngb, bably an extension of certain papers recently published in unqualified and absolute truth in the complaint of married We have the g entle breeze; an Edinburgh periodical. men that women are always wanting new bonnets.—Punch. Though touched at times by . sickness, W e find health's golden mine ; THE Athenum protests against the practice of authors A YOUTHFUL PARTY.—Six admirals dined together last If common drink be water, and students being charged, like attorneys, wh e n th e y week at Portsmo u th, an d th e i r un it e d ages amoun t e d t o w e now and then get Wine. wish to make extracts in the ecclesiastical courts from 556 years. The youngest of the party, who was not more Joy is the twin of sorrow, Both from the heart's store borrow, documents deposited there : on the substantial ground than 73, is anxiously waiting for his turn to be called into And each may fill the morrow that the author does so for the national, and not for a active exercise. It is strongly feared by his friends, how- With weather dull or fine. private, interest. ever, that his age will stand materially in his way, as he ... " . " 1 MR. ROBERT FORREST, a self-t a u g ht S c otti s h a r tist, is considered far too young at present to be appointed to any responsible post. The other admirals join their ships born at Carluke, Lanarkshire, an d b re d as a s t onemas o n , LITERATURE. died on Wednesday week. His first grea t w ork was a (gout permitting) in a few days.—Punch. -------- ----- statue of the national hero, Sir William Wallace. Mr. QUALIFICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE.—Fanny Fern, a &ais FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c. Forrest had a permanent exhibition of his own statuary very pretty writer for some literary papers, says she is intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. ready to jump at the first offer of marriage, and presents non -court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor " TURIN," says the last number of the Athenieum, her qualifications as follows :—" I have black eyes and ' of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded " has become the capital of Italian ideas. Gas—railways hair, and am petite. I am as sensitive as a mimosa, and receive attention. — telegraphs — toleration — popular literature — representa- spirited as an eagle, and untameable as a cbain of light tive institutions—all the chief features of the modern ning. Can make a pudding, or write a newspaper squib; The Scottish Review. No. I. hap {economy has recently been founded in Turin. world have been welcomed there." A society of political cut a child's frock , or cut a caper; and throw more hap piness or misery into ten minutes than any Fanny that y This is a new candidate for popular favour, was ever christened. American paper. which numbers among its contributors several LORD JOHN RUSSELL some years ago spoke sneeringly CURRAN AND CHANCELLOR CLARE.—Lord Chancellor o si f d " the w e rite i z r in of the Gaily newspapers,'' now . his lord eminent names, including Professor Nichols and Clare, on one occasion, while Curran was addressing him Thomas de Quincey. The most attractive paper aminstry which includes in its r as s p ec s re a t m ary m of the Board of Control, one of the same in . a most important case, occupied himself with a favou rite spaniel or Newfoundland dog, seated by him ; and all among the dozen which the present part contains is writers, namely, Mr. Robert Lowe, the colonial contributor the world will remember the rebuke administered to him apparently from the pen of George Gilfillan, of to the Times, and now M.P. for Kidderminster. Mr. by that rarely-gifted man. Curran having ceased speak- Dundee, and is devoted to a review of the life of Lowe was, we believe, born at Bingham, in Nottingham- inn, through indignation, or malice prepense, Lord Clare Robert Burns. Mr. Gilfillan reads a terrible lesson shire, of which parish his uncle is at the present time raised his head and asked, " Why don't you proceed, Mr. from the daily life of the unhappy Bard of Coila, incumbent. Curran ?" " I thought your lordships were in consul with which many may differ, but in which not a GENERAL Cass, the democratic leader in the American teflon," replied Curran.—Reminiscences of an Emigrant Congress, on the 3rd of January current, introduced a me- Milesian. few will cordially concur. From another article we morial from the Baptist Union of Maryland, praying the EXPRESSIVE SIGNS.—To say "Leave the room," is less quote a passage on • interposition of the United States to secure religious expressive than to point to the door. Placing a finger on SANITARY REFORM, EDUCATION, AND TEMPERANCE. freedom for Americans abroad. Mr. Hale, " a free- the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." Whether they stand to one another as effects or causes ; soiler," said "he thought the object sought a most corn- A beck of the hand is better than " Come here." No or sometimes the one and sometimes the other ; or, at one mendable one. He would be glad that all nations should 1 rase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as open and the same moment, partly effect and partly cause, they be taught that phrase was a God, whose laws and commands ing l the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the stand together in a state of indissoluble union, as the were supreme ; but he did not think this was the nation shoulders would lose much by translation into words. Of most needed and most potent agencies fitted to work out a to send forth missionaries to preach that doctrine. We, Hawthorne, the American author, it is said his principle more intelligent, a more moral, a healthier, and a happier were the last people in the world to make that appeal.' seeme d t o b e , if a man canno t un d ers t an d w ith ou t t a lki ng " Mr. Cass.—lf I understood what the Senator meant, I to him, it is quite useless to talk, because it is immaterial condition of social existence, Rivalry, and far less ante would perhaps reply to him." " Mr. Hale—The difficulty whether such a man understand or not. gonism, there is none. Whether the leaders in either is, that I meant just what I said, which is such an unusual section may at all times see the advantages of the onward " progress of the other, may be doubted ;but that in reality thing here, that the Senator cannot understand me. CHESHIRE AND `VALES. each is helpful to each, and that they stand mutually aidful (Lau g h ter.) in the common cause of human improvement, never can AMONG THE REMARKABLE PERSONS who died during -- _ - be doubted by any enlightened and impartial observer. 1852 were the following :—Mrs. Harlowe, the actress ; CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the That their influence is felt in our day, in a way never felt the Prince de Broglio, Eliot Warburton, G. N. Rodwell, week ended Jan. 16, 1853 ; —Railway : Passengers, par. before, is obvious to all; and that they form the mightiest Thomas Moore, Vice-Admiral Sir W. A. Montague, eels, &c., £1,768 13s. ad. ; Goods, £1,015 16s. id. ; instrument of social stability and progress (subordinate, Armand Marrast, Lady Jane Dalrymple Hamilton, Steam-boats : passengers, parcels, &c., £2OB 17s. 9d.— of course, to the rightful supremacy of true reiigion) can- Marshal Marmont, Duke de Raguse, John Landseer, the Total, £2,993 6s. 11d.—Inerease compared with the corre not be questioned. No political movement, change, or engraver; Madame Thiers, Miss Berry, the Queen sponding week last year, £667 Os. 6d. theory ;no form of government, no action of government, Dowager of Denmark, Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, WALLASEY LADIES' CHARITY BALL.—The annual unless bearing directly or indirectly on the effective ope- Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, Nicolo Gogel, a Russian ball on behalf of the ladies' charity of Wallasey took place ration of these great agencies, can contend with,the masses author ; Arthur O'Connor, the Grand Duke of Baden, on Tuesday evening last, at the Egremont Hotel. The of vice, ignorance, filth, disease, and crime which have Henry Clay, Sir James M'Adam, Duke of Hamilton, attendance comprised the principal families of Wallasey threatened so portentously our national strength and well Dr. Hubert Mayo, G. R. Porter, Ada Byron (the and neighbourhood, together with several parties from being. Sanitary, educational, and temperance reformers Countess of Lovelace,) Abbe Gioberti, Prince deLeuchten- Liverpool. Amongst the company present were Mrs. and are the truest patriots, the best friends of human advance- burg, Vincent George Dowling, Marshal Etienne Maurice Miss Littledale, Mrs. and Miss Reddy, Mrs. and Miss merit, the real pioneers of the reign of virtue and peace. Gerard, Alexander Mackay, author of "The Western Winch, Mr. and Mrs. North and party, Mr. and Mrs. What has been done, under some aspects, may no doubt World ;" Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, Countess de Wm. Mann and p ar t y, M rs. and Mr. Commissioner be regarded as but the " earnest of our inheritance." We Buffon, Alfred Count D'Orsay, Daniel Webster, Thomas Perry, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Stringer, Mr. and are only on the confines of the ,land of promise. The Thomson, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review; Mrs. Coulborn and Mi ss B e ll, Mr. Mrs., and Miss Anakim of rotten bones, stagnant pools, dirty puddles, the Bishop of Moray and Ross; t h e B isho p of Me a t h; Wright, Miss Ma c k a y, Mi ss Wardell, and the Misses W ellington. airless dwellings, of brutish ignorance, and of worse than and His Grace the Duke of Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Glynne Bateson and the brutish drunkenness, possess many a stronghold, and many AMUSING ANECDOTE OF GEORGE M.—ln looking Misses Dover, Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, Mr. a league of land. They are not be dislodged without a over an old English journal the other day, we found an and Mrs. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Driver, Mr. and Mrs. vigorous and persevering onslaught. But their doom is amusing anecdote of a social concert in the family of Haynes and Miss Jones, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses written in heaven ; and as surely as we have faith in God, G eorge 111., the party composing a quintette, under the Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Fox and the Misses Anderson, his laws, his government, and, under God, use the reason d i rect i on of the monarch himself. The Princess of Mr. and Miss Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Mr. and and the instruments his providence has furnished, so surely Wales presided with grace at the harp, the Duke of New- Mrs. H. Hassell, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bourne, Mr. and may we count on the attainment of a final ejectment from castle played the first violin, the Duke of Devonshire, the Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. and Miss Rimmer, Mr. William, our country of the foulest evils that have tyrannised there. tenor, and the facetious Philip Dormer discoursed on the Mr. Charles, and the Misses Chambres, Mr. and the The call obviously is to greater energy in the direction of flute. The story proceeds as follows :—lt so happened Misses Maine and paitv, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Norris every social advance. If a pig's dwelling incommodes, let that the king had his own notions of time and tune, Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Daunt, Mrs. Maunder and Miss it be removed; if a gutter sends forth its disease-bearing therefore every member of the concert, while giving his Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Bouch and party, Mr. Ewart, Mr. vapour, let it be covered and concealed ;if a neighbourhood eyes to his own music, was obliged to give his ears to the Neilson, Dr. Parr, Mr. Peel, Mr. W. L. E. Coulborn, is a condensed congeries of vice, ignorance, and crime, in ki ng ' s, an d as rap idl y as poss ib le to f ollow the d i rection M r . Buchanan, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Maude, Mr. Muller, kindness and mercy let it be visited and taught ; and if a of the royal performer. On the present occasion it Mr. Low, Mr. Miles, Mr. Crawley, and Mr. Wilson. public-house fountain of spirituous ruin can be shut, let it became evident, however, that the concerto was going Mrs. Hassell, as lady patroness, admirably discharged be done by what hands soever that are willing to aid. He wrong, but the most acute of these select amateurs could the duties in connection with the ball-room. Gribbin's who brings more water, purer and cheaper, helps Eng- not imagine where they were in error. The royal bass_ brass band occupied the orchestra, and played some very land's sanitary salvation • he who teaches " a beggar's viol was proceeding on its course with all due sedateness ; select pieces of music. Supper was provided by Mr. brat" some useful knowledge, from the alphabet to the the violin looked in vain, backwards and forwards for Mansell, of the Egremont Hotel. graceof immortality, aids themarch of mind-power; and he several bars, to see where he could glide in, but could A TALE OF MYSTERY.—During the last few weeks, who lifts a drunkard for ever out of the mire, or prevents discover nothing resembling what he had heard ; the considerable excitement has existed among the residents from falling thereinto, is a friend of the anti-drunkenness tenor, knowing there was a difficult passage just passed in Tranmere and Rock Ferry. About three years ago, an movement. over, and being well aware of the royal practice with old gentleman named Green, who was last seen at a ------ regard to such, boldly went back and repeated it; the public-house in Limekiln-lane, Tranmere, when he was THE LEPERS IN JERUSALEM. harpsichord, believing the time had been altered from supposed to have had a considerable sum of money on his fast to slow, slackened its pace ; and the flute, entertain- person, was missing, and has not since been heard of, — 4 ,-- ing a different opinion, went away at double speed. Such though every effort was made at the time to discover the (FROM THE DIARY OF AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER, a strange medley was never heard before; nevertheless, cause of his sudden disappearance. On the day when he In my rambles about Jerusalem, I passed through the the king was seen leaning forward, with his eyes fixed on was last seen he had been collecting the rents of some quarter of the Lepers. Apart from the interest attached the music, evidently too absorbed in his own performance property, and it was supposed that he had been murdered to this unfortunate class of beings (arising from the to heed the confusion that distracted the audience, and and buried. After a lapse of time his property was di frequent allusion made to them in the Scripture,) there is made the other musicians feel extremely uncomfortable. vided amongst his relatives, and by degrees the affair be. much in their appearance and mode of life to attract The Duke of Newcastle, a studious courtier, knew not came almost forgotten. Some short time since, a labour attention, and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt what to do ;he played a few notes here and there, whis- ing man resident in Tranmere, and yclept "The Admiral," and diseases go revoltingly together here ; gaunt famine pered to the Duke of Devonshire, nudged Philip Dormer, dreamt for three successive nights, so it is said, that he stalks through the streets; a constant cry of suffering whose blowing had become desperate; he glanced at the saw th e mur d erer o f M r. Green an d t h e p l ace w h ere th a t swells upon the dead air, and sin broods darkly over the music of the princess , without obtaining any clue to the gentleman's remains were buried. He mentioned the ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ill.fatea spot. cause of the inextricable disorder ; but still he plied on, fact to a neighbouring clergyman, who paid but little Wasted forms sit in the doorways ; faces covered with knowing that matters could not be worse than they were. attention to it, but so strongly was the man impressed white scales and sightless eyes are turned upwards ; The king, at last, brought the concert sudd en ly t o a c l ose, w i t h the truth of his dream, that he b egan di gg i ng a b ou t skeleton arms, distorted and fetid with the ravages oby finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly at the end the spot revealed to him in his dream—a small plantation leprosy, are outstretched from the foul moving mass ; and of his symphony. The princess, who alone dared to adjacent to a house near the Rock Ferry slip.. He men a low bowl is heard, the howl of the stricken for alms. speak, discovered that the king had turned over two leaves tioned the facts to Mr. Green's daughter and described Alms, oh, stranger, for the love of God ! alms to feed the at once ; the monarch, with the utmost composure, the murderer so minutely, that from the description she inexorable destroyer; alms to prolong this dreary and turned back to the part which had not been played, and recognised a labourer resident in Tranmere, whom she hopeless misery ! Look upon it, stranger, you who walk without uttering a word set to work, followed by the met in the public highway, as the alleged murderer, faint forth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh other musicians, who were well up at the finish, and in at ing, so say the gossips, at the unexpected sight. Of air of heaven ; you who have never known what it is to the death with tolerable exactitude. course, such a mysterious affair affords ample food for be shunned by your fellow man as a thing uncleaned and REMARKABLE OBITUARY NOTICES.—The following village gossips, while the strange and sudden disappear accursed ; you who deem yourself unblessed with all the are among the most singular obituary notices published in ance of Mr. Green lends to the affair an air of romance, blessings that God has given you upon earth ; look upon the course of 1852:—Lydia Burnham, in Groton, U.S., attractive even to persons unlikely to be moved by su it, and learn that there is a misery beyond all that you aged 104 years and 9 months. She retained her faculties perstitions of any kind. " The Admiral" ceased his have conceived in your gloomiest hours—a misery that to a remarkable degree until a few months before her labours a few days ago, although he had previously con. can be endured, Learn that even the Leper, with death death. There are ten children now living, descendants of sulted a clairvoyant as to the truth of the impression left gnawing at his vitals, and unceasing tortures in his blood, the deceased, of the fifth generation.—Elie Kurbander, in on his mind during his sleeping hours, the clairvoyant, as cast out from the society of his fellow man; forbidden to Prague, on the Elbe, aged one hundred years. He was the story goes, fully confirming him in his previous idea, touch, in friendship or affection, the hand of the un- the oldest pianist, and probably the oldest of all musi- which has however turned out to be all moonshine. If tainted ; still struggles for life, and deems each hour cians. He was one of the first music masters to Meyer- this affair be really worth consideration, why do not the precious that keeps him from the grave. The quarter of beer.—Mrs. Mehitable Currier, in Danbury, U.S., aged Cheshire magistrates cause this digger for dead men to be the Leper is a sad and impressive place. By the laws of 103 years 9 months. She survived her husband forty-six brought before them, and examined as to the " actual" the land, which have existed from scriptural times, they years, and outlived all her children, twelve in number.— reasons which induced him to undertake his unwonted are isolated from all actual contact with their fellow men ; Christina Paterson, one of Robert Burns's heroines, operations. yet therc seem? to w be no prohibition to their going out whose name, at the time he wrote, was Morton. at Mauch. - In my rambles about Jerusalem, I passed through the quarter of the Lepers. Apart from the interest attached to this unfortunate class of beings (arising from the frequent allusion made to them in the Scripture,) there is much in their appearance and mode of life to attract attention, and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt and diseases go revoltingly together here ; gaunt famine stalks through the streets; a constant cry of suffering swells upon the dead air, and sin broods darkly over the ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ill-fates spot. Wasted forms sit in the doorways ; faces covered with white scales and sightless eyes are turned upwards ; skeleton arias, distorted and fetid with the ravages of leprosy, are outstretched from the foul moving mass ; and a low howl is heard, the howl of the stricken for alms. Alms, oh, stranger, for the love of God! alms to feed the inexorable destroyer; alms to prolong this dreary and hopeless misery ! Look upon it, stranger, you who walk forth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh air of heaven ; you who have never known what it is to be shunned by your fellow man as a thing uncleaned and accursed ; you who deem yourself unblessed with all the blessings that God has given you upon earth ; look upon it, and learn that there is a misery beyond all that you 'have conceived in your gloomiest hours—a misery that can be endured, Learn that even the Leper, with death gnawing at his vitals, and unceasing tortures in his blood, cast out from the society of his fellow man •, forbidden to touch, in friendship or affection, the hand of the un tainted ; still struggles for life, and deems each hour precious that keeps him from the grave. The quarter of the Leper is a sad and impressive place. By the laws of the land, which have existed from scriptural times, they are isolated from all actual contact with their fellow men ; yet there seems to be no prohibition to their going out beyond the walls of Jerusalem. and begging by the road side. Near the gate of Zion, on the way to Bethlehem, saw many of them sitting on the rocks, their hideous faces uncovered, thrusting forth their scaly hands for alms. Their huts are rudely constructed of earth and stones, seldom with more than one apartment, and this so filthy and loathsome that it seemed unfit to be occupied by swine. Here they live and propagate, whole families together, without distinction of sex ; and their dreadful malady is perpetuated from generation to generation ; the groans of the aged and dying being mingled with the feeble wail of the young that are brought forth branded for a life of misery. Strange and mournful thoughts arise in the contemplation of the sad condition and pro bable destiny of these ill-fated beings. Among so many, there must be some in whose breasts the power of true love is implanted ; love for woman in its purest sense, for offspring, for all the endearments of domestic life which the untainted are capable of feeling. Yet they are doomed never to exercise the affections without per petuating the curse. There must be some, too, in whom there are hidden powers of mind, unknown save to them selves, ambition that corrodes with unavailing aspirations; a thirst for action that burns within unceasingly, yet never can be assuaged ; all the ruling passions that can be im planted in man for great and noble purposes —never, never to give one moment's pleasure unmixed with the perpetual gloom of that curse which dwells in their blood. As I plodded my way for the last time through this den of sickening sights, a vision of human misery was impressed upon my mind that time cannot efface. I passed when the rays of the sun were cold and the light was dim ; and there came out from the reeking hovels leprous men, gaunt with famine, and they bared their hideous bodies, and howled like beasts ; and women held out their loath some and accursed babies, and tore away the rags that covered them, and pointing to the Shapeless mass, shrieked for alms. All was disease, and sin, and sorrow, wherever I went; and as I passed on, unable to relieve a thousandth part of the misery, moans of despair and howling curses followed me, and Lepers crawled back into their hovels to rot in their filth, lth, and die when God willed. VICTOR HUGO is said to be at work on a new phillippic and a new poem. THE TWO MOST POPULAR POETS Of America,Longfellow and Holmes, are both professors at Haward University. tratAxer MARTIN CRIPPS, the companion and fellow age of 73 y eas, Clarke, died recently in Sussex, at the Y• THE CATALOGUE OT BOOK S at the Leipsic fa ir for 1853 contains 6764 new publications, a great increase on previous years. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM is about to publish, from, family documents, certa i n memoirs of the court and cabinet of George the Third. " PARLIAMENTARY LITERATURE" is assuming a for midable position. Durin g th e past year the blue-books sold realized something more than 210,000. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S new comedy, entitled " Bt. Cupid ; or Dorothy's Fortune," was produced at Wi nd . sor Castle on Friday evening before Her Majesty. THE LITERARY INSTITUTIONS OF BIRMINGHAM haye most of them died out, and it is now proposed t o arrange the foundatio n o f one giant insfitution for that town. MR. DISRAELI'S " Lord George Bentinck," and Miss Martineau's " History of the Thirty Years' Peace," have been translated into German, and published at Berlin. Mn. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, the " literary gentleman" of the Times, has had conferred on him a German doctorate, spontaneously proffered to him at the instigation of Chevalier Bunsen. M. ALEXANDRE PUM A S is publishing a new novel of novels in the Consiztuttopne . l, embodying th e th oug ht s and feelings of his busy lifetline. Its titl e i s " I saac Laquedern," and its subject is—The Wandering J ew . There are to be six novels within the novel. The most Flcredpersonagesof the Old and New Testaments are freely Introduced talking and acting. AMUSING ANECDOTE OF GEORGE lII.—In looking over an old English journal the other day, we found an amusing anecdote of a social concert in the family of George 111., the party composing a quintette, under the direction o the monarch himself. The Princess of Wales presided with grace at the harp, the Duke of New castle played the first violin, the Duke of Devonshire, the tenor, and the facetious Philip Dormer discoursed on the flute. The story proceeds as follows :—lt so happened that the king had his own notions of time and tune, therefore every member of the concert, while giving his eyes to his own music, was obliged to give his ears to the king's, and as rapidly as possible to follow the direction of the royal performer. On the present occasion it became evident, however, that the concerto was going wrong, but the most acute of these select amateurs could not imagine where they were in error. The royal bass viol was proceeding on its course with all due sedateness ; the violin looked in vain, backwards and forwards for several bars, to see where he could glide in, but could discover nothing resembling what he had heard ; the tenor, knowing there was a difficult passage just passed over, and being well aware of the royal practice with regard to such, boldly went back and repeated it; the harpsichord, believing the time had been altered from fast to slow, slackened its pace ; and the flute, entertain ing a different opinion, went away at double speed. Such a strange medley was never learn before; nevertheless, the king was seen leaning forward, with his eyes fixed on the music, evidently too absorbed in his own performance to heed the confusion that distracted the audience, and made the other musicians feel extremely uncomfortable. The Duke of Newcastle, a studious courtier, knew not what to do ; he played a few notes here and there, whis pered to the Duke of Devonshire, nudged Philip Dormer, whose blowing had become desperate ; he glanced at the music of the princess, without obtaining any clue to the cause of the inextricable disorder ; but still he plied on, knowing that matters could not be worse than they were. The king, at last, brought the concert suddenly to a close, by finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of his symphony. The princess, who alone dared to speak, discovered that the king had turned over two leaves at once ; the monarch, with the utmost composure, turned back to the part which had not been played, and without uttering a word set to work, followed by the other musicians, who were well up at the finish, and in at the death with tolerable exactitude. REMARKABLE OBITUARY NOTICES.—The following are among the most singular obituary notices published in the course of 1852:—Lydia Burnham, in Groton, U.S., aged 104 years and 9 months. She retained her faculties to a remarkable degree until a few months before her death. There are ten children now living, descendants of the deceased, of the fifth generation.—Elie Kurbander, in Prague, on the Elbe, aged one hundred years. He was the oldest pianist, and probably the °West of all musi cians. He was one of the first music masters to Meyer beer.—Mrs. Mehitable Currier, in Danbury, U.S., aged 103 years 9 months. She survived her husband forty-six years, and outlived all her children, twelve in number.— Christina Paterson, one of Robert Burns's heroines, whose name, at the time he wrote, was Morton, at Mauch. line, Scotland, aged 87.—John M`Lean, in Inverness, Scotland, aged 105 years. He recollected the first post chaise, and when the first coal was burned.—Captain Rowland R. Crocker, in New Bedford, of disease of the heart, aged 82, for many years a popular shipmaster out of New York, and was one of the first commanders of the " Black Ball" line of Liverpool packets.—Mrs. Margaret Lagedon, near Mount Savage, Maryland, aged 101 years. She removed to that section when it was a wilderness, and containing few inhabitants save Indians. She left 500 descendants.—John Wilson, in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 101 years and 11 months. He was a mechanic. Until the last few months he was able to read, and occa sionally to walk out by himself.—Francis Russell, in North Eaton, Massachusetts, aged 67. He was born February 29, 1784, and has had, therefore, only seventeen birthdays.—Elizabeth Douglas, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, aged 105 years.—David Rennison, in Chicago, Illinois, aged 115 years 3 months and 7 days. He is said to have been the last of the " Boston Tea Party." He was engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill.—Henry Gibson, of Newberg, New York, aged 101 years and 14 days. He was one of Washington's Life Guards.—Jose Francisco Rodrigues, in Havana, Cuba, aged 112 years and a few days. He was a negro.—Janet M`Donald, at Inverness, Scotland, aged 105 years. She could thread a cambric needle to within a short period of her death.—Marguerite Boatillier, at Genzie, near Cognac, aged 102 years. She laboured in the fields to within a few weeks of her death, and preserved her faculties to the last.—Tibby Renton, in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 102 years and 3 months. She was " hale and weel" to within a few days of her death.— Reuben Edmondson, in St. Louis, U.S., aged 63. He was better known as " Jack Bowers," the most noted thief in the Mississippi Valley. He had been arrested 115 times, and incarcerated in various prisons 61 times.— Charles Bouches, near Montreal, Canada, aged 106 years. He was married to three wives, with whom he had sixty children. He leaves forty-three children, sixty-six grand children, thirteen great grandchildren, twenty-eight ne phews, seventy grand nephews, and eighteen great grand nephews.—M. A. Mieville, at Berne, aged 86, called by his countrymen " the Nestor of Swiss journalism."-- Peter Minotto, in Turin, aged 83 years. He was the last member of the ancient Venetian nobility, and the only living Senator of Venice when she was the Queen of the Adriatic Sea.—Mrs. Mary Pritchard, at Cre'ngilach, Scotland, aged 108 years. She was married when she was twenty-seven years old, and lived with her first husband forty years. She remained a widow two years. She lived - thirty years with her second husband. Her sight failed her three years before her death—her other senses and faculties were unimpaired.—Joseph Swinden, near Blythe, England, aged 100 years 11 months and 25 days. Had not had three days sickness during his life, and only a day before his death was busy sawing and chopping wood. —Ann Kelly, in Lewisham, Kent, England, aged 103 years. From early youth she was a member of the thea trical profession, and acted at various theatres in Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland. She was in the same com pany with the late Edmund Kean, and also with James Sheridan Knowles durin g his brief career as an actor ; and it was h er proudest boast that shead often played had ‘the " Jane Shore" of Mrs. Siddons. About the A age of to 60 s he lost her hearing , and was obliged to re linquish the stage ; s he was then residing in the same came to Paris P Knowles. —Pere Nicolet, in Paris, France. ne 'vas proprietor of the famous eating palace called the wPne t w it it ßa h Irr.onKnne°a Twenty-one years ago Nicolet as a cab' driver. a For many years he has dined ten thousand, and with whip and a blouse, to seek his for tuneordinar hogsheadssometimes o f twentyw i about twentyconsumption of the house was a dozen calves, twenty sheep, quantities of beef, fis t p h e o r usand . , in a day. The b and poultry, and ample kitchen day. Pere Nicolet was his own head cook, and might dailyotr peocruartijoouns. aide-de- camps. directing His own the labours of same eight or ten curious observers might b advertisement of the generous nerenormous bulk was a standing be seen daily in his kitchen windows, to marvel at h ollsqualities of his meat. Many seen peeping throng he supported his immense "corporation." which belts H with e iss w a h i l d i have died worth £40,000. NORWICH UNION FIRE-OFFICE. On Tuesday, the 11th instant, the annual general meeting of the proprietors of this institution was held at the office, in Surrey-street, Norwich, pursuant to public advertisement. Between forty and fifty gentlemen at tended, and at twelve o'clock the President, Anthony Hudson, Esq., took the chair, and called upon the Secre tary, Samuel Bignold, Esq., to open the proceedings, which he did by reading the clauses of the deed of settle ment (which prescribed that this meeting should be held, and the advertisement, as it appeared in the Gazette, convening the same). The PRESIDENT then proceeded to lay the accounts before the shareholders, which he did with great minute ness and perspicuity, commenting on the items as he went along, so that the fullest exposition of the affairs took place. The president concluded by stating, that though the year had not been favourable as to a diminution of fires, for, in fact, it was in amount of loss above the aver age, yet there was an available balance, after providing for every contingency, of £8,595. At the sitting of the directors on the previous day, they had thought it right to make an appropriation of £5,000 of this balance, leav ing in hand £3,595 to begin the next year's account. The president observed that one-fifth of this appropriation I was, by the constitution of the office, available for the yearly dividend to the shareholders, and being added to the interest produced by their capital, enabled the direc tors to declare a dividend of £3 per share, or £lO per cent. on the amount originally paid up. (Hear, hear.) He felt himself justified in avowing, that in no period of the past history of this great office were its affairs in a more healthy or satisfactory position than at this time. (Hear, hear.) Sonie disc - ursive discussion arose on many matters of detail, in which Captain Money, Mr. Mottram, the Rev. John Bailey, and other gentlemen, took part. At the close, Mr. BIGNOLD shortly addressed the meet ing, stating that the dividend which had been declared would be payable at the treasurers', Messrs. Gurneys, on and after Thursday, the 13th instant. He further drew the attention of the proprietors to the still onward course of this great institution, which, the returns on the table showed, had increased more than a quarter of a million in its aggregate sums insured in the last year. This he attri buted to three causes—first, the great and distinctive principle on which the office was founded, that of making returns to the parties insuring ; no less than £21,072 had been paid back in this way, between Michaelmas, 1831, and Michaelmas, 1852, to those who had been insured in the previous five years. (Hear, hear.) The second ground of the greatness of this office was, he thought, to be traced to the confidence of the public in its executive management. Although its directors were known in this city and county by their position and influence, they were only known at distant points, (great seats of business of this office,) viz., London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir mingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dub. lin, by their strict and honourable fulfilment of the en. gagements of the office, and in all these agencies their business was prospering in a very high degree. The third ground of the greatness of this office was, in his opinion, to be ascribed to its experienced and well-appointed agency all over the country. He believed that no office of the present era possessed a more intelligent and able complement of agents than were engaged in the service of this society. Mr. Bignold then expressed a hope that the future success of the society would fully equal the past, and drew attention to the progressive rise of the dividend to the proprietors, which, in 1851, was 245. per share ; in 1852, 425.; and at this year was 60s. (Hear, hear.) The business of the annual meeting being concluded, it was declared special, formally to pass a resolution, sanc tioning the society's carrying on foreign insurances, which, after some explanation by the President, was approved and confirmed. The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the president and directors for their able administration of the affairs of the office, the meeting terminated. Duty paid to Government in 1851, £74,100 15s. 3d., and the amount insured on farming stack, which is free of duty, amounted to £9,156,8984 CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. WOODSIDE FERRY-HOUSE. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—When we toast " The Press" at our public dinners, we ought not to forget its important " mission," to use a favourite term, as the redresser of public grievances; and it is in full appreciation of its valuable services in this respect, that I address these few lines to you. My attention was attracted a few days since to the very in efficient accommodation provided at Woodside Ferry fin' those who sit at the receipt of customs. Instead of a commodious building, in which so large an amount of traffic could be con ducted with comfort to those concerned in it, there is a nest of little pigeon-hcles arranged in a kind of promiscuous proximity (as though division and addition had been practised at random), ill ventilated, most imperfectly protected from the weather, and without sufficient height for a tall man to stand erect. Surely the Commissioners can hardly be aware of the interior of a place which presents so fair an outside, or some other influence must be at work to prevent its reform. It may be asked, what concern have I, as simply one of the public, with the comforts of a place through which I have merely to pass in my way to and from the steamers, in common with many thousands more, who have the like brief business to perform in it? I answer, not much, or perhaps none at all, excepting a strong feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate clerks whose business compels them to remain so large a portion of their time within its walls: It may be that their position precludes them from complaining, though I have heard that it is no un common thing for one or other of them to be laid up from ill ness so produced. It is, therefore, as one of the independent public, who am simply an observer, that I desire, through your columns, to call the attention of the proper authorities to the fact, in the confident hope that the appeal to them will not be a vain one. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Birkenhead, 21st Jan., 1853. ALPHA. --.--- TENANT RIGHT FOR ENGLAND.—No. I. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—As the important subject of securing a tenant right for Ireland is now before the legislature in Mr. Napier's series of bills, it is, I believe, a fitting opportunity to direct public attention to the necessity of improving the present law of tenure in England with reference to agricultural improve ments. I shall, therefore, with your permission, offer the following remarks ; premising that the whole subject may occupy three or four letters. The progress of nearly every department of industrial acti vity has been of so startling a character within the last few years, that the spirit of enterprise has almost paused to dis cover a new field of operations upon which to exert its skill for effecting improvements. In nearly every branch of manufac tures the resources of science have been almost exhausted—in mechanics, in chemistry, and in mineralogy. The steam engine has been applied to locomotion to an extent which ren ders ancient fables no longer incredible, while electricity in the spread of intelligence has almost outstripped the power of belief. While skill and ingenuity have done so much for every thing which may add to the comfort and luxury of man, the question may be asked, how is it that so little has been done to supply his actual necessities? While our population is year by year increasing in number, and still more so in the means of purchase and the consequent increased consumption of food, our amount of production has not kept pace with the demand, so that England might be rendered independent of foreign supplies for the most indispensable requisite to the mainte nance of her people. The simple fact may be broadly stated, that we have but the same number of acres available for culti vation, while the number of people to be supplied with food is daily being added to. The only legitimate resource, therefore, is to increase the fertility and productiveness of the soil, to cause two blades to grow where but one grew before, and reap each year from each acre a greater quantity than was done the year preceding. This can only be accomplished by improved scientific knowledge, by the investment of that capital which is too often thrown away on idle speculations, and by an eco nomical devotion of industry and skill to the desired object. In the giant strides which science has made towards perfection in manufactures, in locomotion, and in commerce, has nothing been done towards the far more important art of agriculture? Has the genius of Enterprise, mindful of everything else, been only neglectful of the cultivation of the earth, the mainstay of national greatness, and the foundation of every other pursuit ? This can hardly be said to be the case. The discoveries of Liebig and others in science have done much, and the actual operations of practical agriculturists have also tended to prove that the land may be made capable of yielding produce even beyond the requirements of man. We read of improvements effected by means of draining, of sub-soiling, and other me chanical contrivances ; of the wonderful effects of bones, guano, and other foreign and artificial manures; of the pecu liar advantages of particular courses of cropping, and the suc cessful application of industry and skill to the cultivation of the soil. But while these facts are instanced as proofs of what may be done, it is nevertheless a fact that they have been con fined to a few individuals, whose names stand prominently forward as pioneers of agricultural improvement; while the great body of English farmers have been content to follow the beaten track, and till their land in the same manner as their fathers did before them. This unwillingness on the part of agriculturists to avail themselves of improvements, the advan tages of which have been so clearly demonstrated, must be attributed neither to apathy nor to want of intelligence. Eng lish farmers, as a class, are quite as intelligent as the inhabi tants of the large towns who have been more boasted of, and fully as alive to the importance of increasing their products by the aid of capital and skill ; but causes over which they have no control have operated as an incubus upon their energy, and stayed the course of improvements, from which all classes of the community would have received direct and immediate benefit. In every other pursuit, the man of capital, of enter prise, and of skill, is protected in the possession of the fruits of them. He invests his wealth, and devotes his energies, with the moral certainty that he or his family will profit by the advantages derived from them ; and the natural consequence is, that wherever there is a reasonable prospect of profit, there is no want of either money or industry to prosecute it to the utmost limit of improvement. The tenant farmer, on the other hand, has no such advantage and no such protection. He is bound by the law to restore the land of which he has the use, in the same state of fertility as that in which he took it; but he has no claim, either by the statute law or that of cus tom, for any additional value which he may have given to it. He may be fully aware of the advantages of the numerous improvements which have been pointed out to him ; may en tertain no lingering doubts as to the results of particular ma nures, or the profitable returns from additional expenditure; but then comes the conviction that he has no further interest in it than the mere annual return, and that he would be ex pending his own property to confer an additional value on that which belongs to another. He may even entertain the most confident opinion in the honour of his landlord, but that is subject to numerous contingencies, and never can be consi dered a security upon which any man of ordinary prudence would hazard the outlay of Isis capital, or even exhaust Isis energies. It is in vain to convince a practical agriculturist that a certain expenditure in labour, in manure, in farm build ings, or in other adjuncts to his art, would add to the produc tiveness of his fields, when he is equally aware that no impro bable contingency may deprive him of the advantage without any legal redress, and that he has no title to that property which his own outlay has created. He is consequently deterred from the risk, and compelled by force of circumstances to continue the former system; for though he may be also con vinced that the immediate returns in increase of crop will more than reimburse him for the amount lie has expended, it is not in human nature to expect that a man will undertake all the hazard, to afford another the certainty of perhaps the greatest share of the profit. This was the case in the former system of taking tithes ; and so strong was the impression that the Church taking a share of the increased produce tended to retard improvements, that the Tithe Commutation Act was passed, fixing the amount of tithe upon the simple question of marketable value of grain, without any reference to acreable quantity. But if the case was so strong as to call for legisla tive interference where but a tithe of the increase was taken, how much stronger must it be where so large a proportion is concerned as that which now absolutely depends upon the will of the landowner ! The effect is evident. The means of great improvement are capable of being exercised by the agricultu rist ; he has the knowledge, the will, and in numerous instances the requisite capital ; but as a tenant farmer he has no ade quate security, and the improvements are consequently not effected. The evil of this want of protection is evident in se veral ways, all tending to the same unhappy results, because they retard that growth of supply which is indispensable to national security. I am, Sir, yours, Cheshire, Jan. 20th, 1853. AGRICOLA. " THE SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, OLD SWAN." To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In reply to a paragraph in your last publication, en titled " Singular Exhibition at St. Anne's Church, Old Swan," I have to state, in the first place, that the exhibition, if it may be so called, was not singular, but plural. Secondly, there was neither three nor four Irishmen, but only one present. There was also one Englishman, your humble servant, with two wo men and two infants, a boy, and two girls; in all, nine in dividuals. Thirdly, they were not under the impression that they were in a " Romish mass house." Fourthly, they did not approach the communion rails in front of the communion table, nor did they commence a series of external evidences of devotion. Again, the incumbent was not at his reading desk; and, I am prepared to prove there was no intrusion committed by any one of the party. I think there was no delay before the party were removed, and though one police man was sent for, he was too late to be of any service, though it was quite unnecessry to call him, as we considered ourselves dutiful members of the church. On arriving at the church, we entered, without delay, pew No. 44, one of three shown to us by the sexton. Soon after being seated, the sexton came to me and stated that the individuals with me could not remain, but that I might. I informed him that " they were with me and I with them." He replied that a party had " engaged the pew for the morning," whereupon I with the rest left the pew and were shown to another. Some of the party entered, but the incumbent took upon himself the responsibility of ordering them out, I directed them to tit in the free teats, to which THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1853. they moved ; but the minister followed them and told them he could not do with them, and immediately ordered them to be put out of the church. .1 then immediately left the church and proceeded with my eight companions to the new church, where the worthy Bishop of Madras was in attendance. To him I stated the treatment to which I had been subjected. His lordship did not turn us out, nor did he accuse us of being excited ; I rather believe he was gratified that some.were be ginning tg,,.turn from the error of their way.—Your obedient servant. ROGER EAVES: 14, Mercers-terrace, Green-lane, West Derby. [lf the individuals complained of conducted themselves decently and orderly, the clergyman was not justified in having them turned out of the church ; but we have since been in formed that not only did they misbehave themselves, but one of them was overheard to say, "Now let us go to some other church and kick up a row."] SCRIPTURE READERS' SOCIETY, The annual meeting of this institution was held at the Collegiate institution, on Tuesday, the chair being taken by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, and the platform occupied by several clergymen and gentlemen. His LORDSHIP said the object of the society was to spread the light of the Gospel among the poor and ignor ant classes of the population who were crowded together in this immense town; and if the society's operations lay within that narrow sphere, still it lies nearer home. The present state of Liverpool in this respect gave rise to very mixed and varied feelings. It was a picture that had its bright and dark parts, its lights and shades. There were many things to be thankful for, and there were many things still to wish for ; there was very much that, thanks to the Christian spirit of the place, had already been ' done; and such was the necessity and magnitude of the case, that there yet remained much for them to do. It was a very gratifying thing, one of the things that called for our thankfulness, that there had been of late years such a vast increase in the number, both of the churches and the clergy in the place. That was a most gratifying fact, a matter of great joy, and he hoped that through God's blessing it had also been a matter of great benefit to this large town. But at the same time, if we compared the total amount of free sittings in all our churches with the number of the poor population in this vast town, we must be painfully impressed with a feeling of the utter inadequacy of the existing church accommodation to meet the exigencies of tile case. He feared there were very many of the poor who never thought of entering a church ; but, if they were ever desirous of doing so, there were not free sittings in our churches to receive a tenth part of them. Alluding to the duties which the clergy have to perform, his lordship said that most of them had three sermons, or even more, to preach every week, and they must make some allowance for the tax that it was upon a clergyman's time to prepare those discoures in estimating the portion of time a clergyman can devote to the pastoral visitation of the poor, in going from house to house. He did not say that he was to omit that last duty, but still he certainly could not, from the nature of the case, give the whole of his time. But he was sure all of them must feel that if each clergy man, in his own church, in his own sphere of labour, was left to worked single-handed and alone, without help or assistance, either from a curate, Scripture-reader, or dis trict visitor, it would not be from want of desire or heart in him—but from the physical circumstances of the case it was utterly impossible lie could get through his work, or fulfil a task which would be far beyond his strength. ' Happily, through the liberality of the people of Liverpool and the aid of great societies, help was provided in the way of providing curates to some extent, and the especial object of the society for which they were met that night was to strengthen the hands of the clergy, and to give them as sistance, in affording them what their own stipends in many cases could not afford, the help of a Scripture-reader to go among the people where they themselves could not go, and to carry the Word of the Gospel to the multitudes of the poor in the several districts of the town, and espe cially that class of the poor who had not been brought up to attend Divine service or seek religions instruction in our churches, and to whom, if they were to hear the Word of the Gospel at all, it must be carried to their own homes, their own doors, and their own firesides ; and it was to create and give machinery for this purpose that the present society had been established ; and lie hoped through the means of it and through God's blessing, great good might be effected in Liverpool in this way. The Rev. F. BARKER read the report, which stated that "The society was first intended for the special en lightenment of poor Roman Catholics in scriptural truth, but its objects were subsequently extended. The sub. scriptions amounted to £1,311, the donations to £482, and the interest to £l7. There were 800 subscribers to their fund, and the balance now in the bank amounted to £609. The committee estimated their expenses would shortly be £1,600 annually, with' necessity for increase. The report stated that the Rev. J. Bardsley had been ap pointed superintendent clergyman of the society, and gave a detailed account of his proceedings. Amongst these were a weekly meeting in Cornwallis-street school, to dis cuss the principle of Romanism, when any one who de sired might enter into the argument. Some Romish champions came forward at first, but from the tenor of the report they appeared very shortly to have exhibited the better part of valour—discretion, many running away. The society's readers had been very useful to the Romanist population, many of whom are searching after the truth. The visits during the past ten months amounted to 45,837, of which upwards. of 9,000 had been to Romanists." The report also stated that the Rev. Mr. Lowe had furnished the society with a number of tracts on Romanism for cir culation. Amongst the remarkable features of the report was a statement that an Irish Scripture-reader had been reading the Word of God to many Roman Catholic families from Ireland in their own tongue. The report concluded by calling for further assistance to carry out the efforts of the society, and thus extend the cause of true religion. The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL said, it was impossible to think of the population of such a great town as this with out mingled feelings of sorrow and alarm. With sorrow for the spiritual destitution of which so large a propoi ton of them seem to be contaminated, and with alarm for the responsibility consequent upon themselves. They (the clergy) were prepared, to the best of their ability, in per formance of their ordination vows, " to drive away all strange and erroneous doctrines," whatever form they might assume. But then he thought the time was come when it was incumbent upon them to press upon the laity the practical recognition of that faith, that the church did not consist of the clergy alone, but that it was a mixed body, the clergy and laity combining, and of which the laity, as they were the most generous, were the most important part. If they proposed lay agency as necessary, it was desired because, in the present state of the body politic, it was utterly impossible for the clergy to do the work alone. After reading an extract from the seventh annual report of the London society, he con cluded by recommending the report of the committee to the anxious and charitable consideration of all who heard him, and having named the gentlemen who had consented to act upon the committee, sat down amidst loud applause. Mr. HORSFALL, M.P., said he never recollected to have listened to a more admirable report than the one which had been read to them. While it gave them ample details of the operations of the society, gave them at the same time a testimonial of their committee as to the effi ciency of their Scripture-readers, and also the testimony their Scripture-readers bore to the efficiency of the laity who acted as the committee. At a meeting held in that building a few evenings ago, by the Working Man's Church - Association, he read the proceedings of that meeting with great interest, and he was struck with a startling observation made by their excellent rector, that it was es'imated that there were generally in circulation amongst the population not less than 28 million of infidel and other demoralising publications. If that were so, it required no stronger argument to point out the necessity of some such counter-action as was contemplated by the Scripture Readers' Society. But it was not the infidel publications only with which the Scripture-reader had to contend. These publications undermined the principles of the population ; but there were other adversaries which undermined their practice. They had heard in the report that they had seventeen Scripture-readers ; but what were these when every Sabbath they had 1,452 public-houses open ? What were these Scripture-readers when they knew that Sabbath after Sabbath they could not pass through the streets of the town without seeing an immense number of shops open of every kind ? It might seem strange for him to say that the British legislature was one of the most powerful enemies the Scripture-reader had to contend with. Year after year they were paying £30,000 to support a great anti-Scripture reading society. Why, what was the fact ? They were sending their Scripture readers into the streets of Liverpool to tell the people to search the Scriptures ; and the men from Maynooth, who were enemies to British legislation, were coming to the same streets and telling the people that the Bible Society was a pestilence, and that the Word of God in the vulgar tongue did more harm than good. It was by the act of the British legislature that the money of England was paid to enable these men to come to this town ; and when the Scripture-reader went to tell the people that there was hut one mediator between God and man, the emissaries of the British legislature were coming to tell them that there were many mediators. So long as the Constitution remained as it was ; so long as they had the power to protest; so long as they had the power to repeal a law, it was their duty to do everything in their power to get the law repealed. Upon these grounds he contended that no law could be binding upon a man which violated the law of God, and believing, as he did, that that law violated the law of God, it was their duty to seek to have it repealed by every means in their power. He believed that no law founded upon expediency ever did, or could, conduce to the individual, social, or national happiness of mankind. (Loud cheers.) The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. Mr. Bardslev, Mr. Wm. Gregson, and the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, and a liberal collection was made. LONGEVITY.—The decease of the " oldest woman in the world"—Mary Benton, the well-known " old woman of Elton," took place last week. There seems to be some dispute as to the precise age of this wonderful woman. On the coffin-plate it was stated to be 117, but it is gen erally supposed that this is considerably beneath the fact. A correspondent states that if she had survived until the 13th February next she would have attained the unprece dented age of 122 years. Her form, as might be expected, was very much bent, but her conversation was free and lively, and her eye, though dimmed, retained much of its former lustre, and she was able to dispense with the assistance of spectacles to the last. This interesting per sonage was a native of Cockfield, in Durham, and resided for some time at Long Newton, previous to her coming to her daughter's house at Elton.—Halifax Guardian. THE ARMY.—The following important notice has just been posted up at the Horse Guards, under the head of " Encouragement to Soldiers." It is stated that by Her Majesty's warrant, it is provided that commissions are to be given to deserving non-commissioned officers recom mended by their colonels. In appointments to the cavalry, a sum of £l5O will be granted as an outfit; and in the appointments to the infantry, a sum of £lOO as an outfit. All sergeants, corporals, and privates, are also t o be allowed a gratuity for length of service or good con duct ; a sergeant to have £l5, a corporal £lO, and a private £5. They will also be allowed a progressive pay per day over and above the usual pay. It was stated in a note that several regiments of cavalry at present offer an opportunity for recruits joining from the age of 16 to 25. Since the alteration of the standard of height many young men join the line. LOUIS NAPOLEON AND THE NOTTING' HAM FACTORY GIRL. A few weeks ago, a widowed lady, whose education seminary is well-known and justly esteemed i n th e Midlull Counties, was not a little surprised at the arrival of 01° girls from the neighbouring town of Nottingham, of whom she knew that they were the daughters of a poor journey man saddler. They were accompanied thither by a felua ll relative, who expressed a desire that the girls might , 1 1:4 received into the seminary, as they had b een b ou ntiful provided for, and could now amply a ff or d t o rec eile. first-class education. The curiosity, or rather the OP P cions, of the mistress were very naturally excited, and" prudently determined to make inquiries b e f ore s h e d e el upon the course she should adopt with regard to the r l markable applic a ti on . Th ose i nqu i r i es t erm i na t e d int' discovery of a story which, of course, prevented her r t , ceis mg the girls i n to a m i sce ll aneous sc h oo l o f yob ladies, and a few particulars of which we are able to sent to our readers : Three or four years have transpired since little 1 0 .,, Shaw, (as we shall call our heroi ne ,) th e e ld es t d au gb of a humble saddler, first attracted general attention' her native town. As she went to an d f rom her (111 labour, many remarked the superior beauty and carriag the young lace girl ; and still, from her haughty der ment, few were surprised when she suddenly disappe without having even apprised her parents or any of j companions. It was hi n t e d th a t th e on l y son of anvg baronet, whose mansion stands on the banks of S " thirty-armed" Trent, had something to do with mysterious flight of the runaway. In vain did soma her relatives institute a search; their endeavours pro: utterly futile, and the investi ga ti on was soon g i ve n Not till somewhere about six months ago was the set ) : revealed. Then a letter was recei ve d b y th e pareatSi. Katie, dated from the Elysee, and communicating fact that their daughter had found a friend in the El ror. Money was inclosed, and a d es i re ex p resse d that younger sisters of the writer should be sent to some class educational seminary, and rendered fit for a hit' grade of society than the one in which they were bv, The result of the application to obtain admission t e : o school of the kind we h ave a l rea dy d e t a il e d. It ap p a tt n t w th e lev iu l t i hn a f v ot e rhte a u l n i baa t tr he eon et, sEnglish particulars sonb e;aut that f ya r tohma ind a l:pa r oa e rn l ie i s a t b soh l e et ha s e o c cv tir .:s; panied her protector to several balls, at one of wllich attracted the attention and gained the favour of tb Prince President, now the Emperor of the French pel to whom she was willin g ly t rans f erre d b y her &SA companion. A few weeks ago sh e was s till a t the E 1974 and subsequent remittances have been received by parents. _ _ 10 4 The Nottingham girl, whose singular career we traced above, is, we believe, the so-called Mrs. HoW whose name has appeared so conspicuously of late in nexion with the Emperor, and upon whom, it is said, Empress to-be looks with no favourable eye. LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of the members, subscribers, friends of this institution was held on Wednesday, 'l t o Savings Bank, Bold-street. The Bishop of Chester P sided. There was a large attendance of ladies. Mr. BAINBRIGGE, the honorary secretary, read d g report, which was Of a very encouraging nature.- - number of residents during the year has been limite d & twenty-six, five of whom were daily governesses. ,‘ hundred and ninety-three names h ave b een en t e red the book of registration, out of which num b er 62 b s e formed engagements. The two ladies who com men t ' their payments for deferred annuiti es i n th e prev i o us 1 0 are still pursuing their purpose, and arrangements now in progress to secure for a third lady a sia. i t ol annuity. With feelings of grateful respe c t th e co mmi eb record the late Miss Hamilton's bequest of £531 (Ts.l for the foundation of a permanent annuity, to be ei).1,10 by a governess in the decli ne o f lif e , w h o s h a ll h av e b OO a native of Liverpool. A lady, w h ose generous eoo have never slackened in favour of the institution, desaio of laying the foundation stone of another annuity, to like " the Hamilton," perpetual in its benefits', obtained a donation of £5O from the late Dowager -IL Hoghton, and a considerable further amount has e e o subscribed. The present recipient of the perrosad annuity of £l5 from the benevolent fund, is a lady aide circumstances and time of life rendered s uc h an s the greatest importance. A fu r th er sum o f £l2 has b paid, in three donations, t o as many l a di es, w hose 19 , fortunes brought them strictly within the intentio n this fund. The report concluded by the e nu meratio n several presents to the institution.—The t r e a s u rer's ste p ment showed that the total amount expended during o year had been £570 4s. 10d., and that th e t o tal casP i f hand at the present moment, after discharging liabilities, was £203 7s. 7d. The balance in the hand the bankers to the credit of the benevolent fund £Bl 2s. t , The Yen. Archdeacon BROOKS moved the adoption 0 the report, and stated that, in 1852, th e num ber d applications for governess es was 206— more b y betf o i 60 and 70 than the number of applications in 1851. del applications in 1852 came from a much more e xtea t y neighbourhood than before, and this showed that r d institution was making its own progress. The nuolb e i, registrations in 1552 was 193, eleve n more th an in IN4 Dr. NOTTINGHAM seconded the re s o l u ti on f or a dopt' the report, and it passed unanimously. 1 , The next resolution, which was moved by the Revb B. Lows, and seconded by the Rev. D. JAMES, spoltt,i o / the progress made by the institution sin ce its format 1850, and the great encourageme n t f or f u rther el tions. 0 0 The CHAIRMAN here explained, with reference to l d particular annuity, of which Miss Hamilton vaag . oil founder, that there was the condition a tt ac h e d to "' m il the recipient must be a member of the Chu rc h o f Eng 1 :00 He was desired to make it understood th a t th er e ve s ,: o k intention, at any rate there was no resoluti on a t all t bd l ing, to attach the same restriction to other annuities it had been thought fit to attach to this. dJ The Rev. Dr. HUME moved, and Mr. Light, seconded, a resolution, tha n ki ng th e l a d y f r i en ds 0' institution and re-appointing a committee. A resolution was next passed fixing the annual rat i o , to take place in Janua r y i n eac h year i ns t ea d o f Detlif ber. In acknowledging a vote of thanks, his loriv°eil alluded to the interest he felt in the i ns tit u ti o n, and 100 upon the necessity of treating governesses with 0 1 0 and consideration. Th e y were , h e sa id, re fi n ed sn " t! , sitive by education, and keenly sensibl e o f their POI and, though n o t mem b ers o f th e f am il y , ye t a ttache , ' by ties of mutual confidence and respect. THE MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN LIVERN arw In the STANDARD of Tuesday last we g a v e some P. d ias culars relative to the singular suicide of a female 1 1 0 00' in Cases-street, Liverpool. Subseq ue nt investig o ol o 0 and the evidence at the coroner's inquest, have ti::; 0 210 111 still greater air of mystery around the unfortuviSd. Mrs. Crown, by whom the rash act was cornonl:h o line s At the inquest, on Tuesday, a Mrs. Chubb, '"'"„ c ed opposite the house occupied by the deceased, deP, - ",. gb. follows :—Last week she told we several times tnaLialo was in a great deal of trouble. I often saw her in o°, She was more or less in drink every day last wee'', 00 0 Sunday morning, about half-past nine, I went ove r di , washed out the shop. After dinner, I took her sein e 301 and she said, " I will drink this noggin if I never have ye! more." I asked her if I should fry her some beef fo r dinner, and she said, " Oh, no, I cannot eat anYin i h ol° She appeared inn very low way. She told me she r ,e, letter that morning from London. I saw her reau l „, r , letter. She said, " I wish I had not received this lettl.to She said she had received instructions in the lei te ‘ t° make the best of her things, and to make her Wag London. She said they did not know in London WS difficulties she was in here. She said she did n ot 0 1 1 ; 4 1 anything so much as the taxes • it was the taxes sh e frightened at. She sa id she had never been in such u'elfl culties in her life before. I wanted her to clean he r ,, s pi as she would h ave some customers i n , it b e ing afternoon. She said, " Oh, lam gone very care l 94o don't mind."—Afterwards, as related in our last , i; o tif Crown went to the attic stair, and hung herself- 41 ;L so° being disc overe d i n t h e a ft ernoon b y a little boy, 1" of Mrs. Chubb. the The jury returned a verdict to th e e ff ect that ceased hung herself in a fit of temporary insanitP„ a rtiCU: In connexion with the deceased, the following r „,elio lays have since been discovered :—ln the first' ” - - t h January, last year, Mr. A. 8., who is connected svi d lyi large establishment at the north end of the town, C" De b at the house of Mr. Evans, shipbroker , 15, Galton-snoi and took apartments—a bedroom and back parlour:St a lady and gentleman, who were married. The deret4l who said her name was M rs. Palk, shortly afterW; 9 o came to reside at the h ouse . She stated that she ' c i d married woman; that her husband was a merchant ; 4 10 that the person who took lodgings for her was her e 0 ;0 , William. During her residence with Mrs. Evans, o d Palk received no visitors except her reputed cousin' she conducted herself generally in a becoming and i l o r like manner. She was not at all addicted to o r it ' ing. Mr. A. B. (her cousin William) dined ye d her every day except Sunday. He came to town e„io° morning by the Bootle omnibus, a little b e fore t' o g) o'clock, and several times a we e k ( a t fi r st ev e r y morin i i he got off the omnibus at the end of the street, and e l 'of at the house between n i ne an d t en o ' c lock i n th e mor e Mrs. Palk never rose till about ten o'clock in the 0 1 0 0 ing ; and Mr. A. 8., a ft er l eav ing his h a t i n the Ora, below, always went up to see the lady in her bedrnd Mrs. Evans h a d h er suspicions aroused by this do conduct, especially as the husband of the lady never 0 , 3 , 4 0 his appearance, although the lodgings were taken 0' man and his wife. On Good Friday morning Mr. to, came to the house at half-past ten o'clock, went Wm, bedroom of Mrs. Palk, locked the door, and re0, 13 ,,4 there for a considerable time. As soon as Mrs. P a 'to° was made acquainted with this proceeding, she intin i , her suspicions to the lady and her supposed pareo l t di and gave them notice that the lodgings must be vec i :oft' Mrs. Palk pretended to be very indignant that • 1 0' Evans should suppose she was a person of doubtfill, c a n racter ; but Mr. A. B. did not return to the house ~9 61 3 0 ,°, except to take away some things which Mrs. Pall' a jel' left. The money due was paid, and the lodgings wer', d efr on the Saturday in Easter week. About the same fria, man, answering the de scr ipti on o f " C ous i n Willity called upon a house- agen t, re p resen ti ng th a t th e fri e o itll of a young woman f rom L on d on h a d l e f t h er £5O, which he wished to start her in business in the E.D . ., o ' f to ° Cases-street, and, after sund r y n ego ti at i ons, the shnrgri; taken, and Mrs. Palk th en assumed the name , 03" the iad shop been was regularly summoned fn r p t thei;goi; a C g r e o n w t but n. T t h h e e rent deceased o f had The fate of the poor girl has been before detailed• said that Mr. A. .s who is in a delicate s a t amarriedhealth,m n is and no t thatat preenh 5' t Liverpool. AT THE KENSINGTON Petty Sessions, Mrs. G. E - 4 1 ,, : t Victoria Grove, K ens i ngton , appeare d to a very n°/,'15t1 formation, for p ena l t i es i ncurre d un d er the 14th and tott' Vict., c. 116. " b y perm i tt i ng h er f ema l e servan t to s o itt on the sill of an upsta i rs w i n d ow , i n or d er t o clew whereby the life of the servant was endangered, n,.n tio public decency sho c ked." A f orma l i naccura cy in formation alone prevented the infliction of the pow' PREFERM has been co dendale, in t of the Rev.] patron there house. PREFI Rev. §.in4 Launceston. to the Incurn Rev. W. A Rent. Rev. G. Be Rev. F. H. Rev. L. Br and Dhoon, 1 Rev. C. Ca Rev. E. W Enington, I Elham Unim Rev. Lord Suffolk. Rev. A. B. Rev. C. E. yan, Cornwa' Rev. H. Je nagch, Kil Rev of Down Rev. W. K Rev. C. Ki Rev. La Isle of Man. Rev. W. Chaplain to t Rev. W. Pe Cranbrook, E Rev. A. M. street, Dublir Rev. W. Po rary Canonry Rev. W. L. Trinity, Will( Rev. C. W. Norfolk. Rev. A. Sr College,Yorl Rev. 'A. S Worcester. Rev. C. Th near Barnet. Rev. W. School, Nort Rev. J. Wi Nixon, Staffc Rev. C. 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