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6 THE LIVERPOOL. STANDAR, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. A CONFESSION. Dr. A. Hume, and relates •ahiefly to the part ;per- MOTTO FOR THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH." Between .' THE ARTIFICIAL Pnormsmoss OF SALMON has been ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ---- -0 , ---_ formed by the chivalry and soldiers of the you, me, and the Post. Punch. commenced at Perth. WHEN first I looked upon thy face, AN UNPUBLISHED SONG, by Dante, has been found in UPWARDS of £1,200 has been raised for the sufferers by SCOTLAND'S DISSATISFACTION. counties which border the Mersey, at • the Memor- the library of the Prince Barberini, at Rome. the late inundations at Cork. 0 sister of the meek-eyed Dove I I wondered at its gentle grace, able battle of Frodden, Whieh has formed a fertile THE BEARD AND MOUSTACHE MovEst - Err.—Railway NOTHING—A NEW DEFINITION.—That portion of a TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. But never thought of love. and stirring theme for the minstrelsy of both Guard : " Now, ma'am, is this your luggage ?" Old lady lady's head on which her bonnet rests. SIR —I have been induced to write to you from the And when, (who concludes she is attacked by brigands) : " Oh, yes ! LADIES' MOU . . zns.—An old beau says -" A lady's mouth • ' again, in later days, kingdoms. After alluffing, in felicitous 'terms, to desire of addressing your English readers on the subject of Thy simple tale of grief I heard. gentlemen, it's mine. Take it—take all I have; but spare, never looks so beautiful as when she is pronouncing the the metrical celebrations-of the evenfin both coup- `Yes: ,, the present agitation in Scotland, as lam aware that in oh spare our lives! !"—Punch. word tries,we find the following judicious . remarks on the H ANN AH MORE . —" " I know not," says Mrs. H. More, A NAVY SURGEON, who loved to prescribe salt water, England, as well as elsewhere,many misrepresentations have My heart outwent my lips' weak praise, ANWAR ORE. — been given as to the true spirit of that agitation. lam • But ne'er a pulse was stirred. PRESENT CONDITION or LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. "whether my writings have promoted the spiritual welfare fell overboard one day. " Zounds, Will," said a sailor, also anxious to show that the Scottish movement has not Three centuries and a half have passed, and a monarch, of my readers, but they have enabled me to do good by "there's the doctor tumbled into his own medicine chest." Slowly, at length, the feeling grew, who unites the blood of the Scottish and English royal private charity and public beneficence. lam almost A FEAnyur. STRlKE.—Talking of strikes, we hope the All common passions far above ; originated in any desire to revive or create national anti pathies between the two countries. - lines, rules on both sides of the - Border. The sword has ashamed to say that they have brought me thirty thousand Emperor of Russia will not take it into his head to strike I found th a t when thyself I knew, become a plough-share; and the descendant s of Scotti s h pounds." the balance of Europe. It has been admitted in England that Scotland does possess grievances to complain of ; but, say some, there is To know thee was to love. knights, who found a grave•witlf their people at Flodden, GRAY mentions, in his recently-published letters, an WAITING son THE Csnsusan.—Charles (seven years will be a stupid affair, Georgy." are proud and happy to sympathise with the men of the old alderman he knew, who, a ft er living forty years on old)—" This Geo v(a no necessity for her appealing to her separate nationality. - r g' • Now, this is an important point, as it relates to the most But now, when years have passed, and these palatine counties, and are as. Jealous for the honour of the the fat of the land (not milk and honey, but arrack-punch young lady of nine winters)—" Oh ! yes—only a white Have brought us mutual joy and pain, district as the children of the soil. But though the people and venison), and losing his great toe with a mortification, frock and black mitten Party —very slow !" Old nurse successful method of redressing those grievances. How was this to be done ? Have we not, year after year, sought When children gathering round our knees, of our own island are one in heart and interest at present, said to the last that he owed it to two grapes which he wonders what next.—Punch. But closer dra w the c h a i n ; it is well to revert to the troublous times of the past. eat one day after dinner. He felt them lie cold on his KENNY DODD ON THE RUSSIAN QUESTION.—To all and yet found not ?—asked, and it was not given unto us ? Have we not, until patience became exhausted, appealed, Whatever we may say of the aggressors, let us honour the stomach the minute they were down. appearance we are not far from a war ; but where it's to I find my days have been so free memorialised, and petitioned, and all to the same effect? memory of the stout -' hearted patriots ; and while we record CARRYING THE BABy.—The most beautiful sight in be, and with whom, is hard to say. There's no doubt but This we did as Scotsmen and loyal Britons, ever anxious From loneliness, despair, or strife, their gallant deeds, let us learn to imitate them in similar nature, met lately by a florid correspondent, was a woman, fighting is a costly amusement ; and I believe no country to remain as such. Then can it be matter of wonder that, If my late love grew dear to me, circumstances. There was lately a little cloud like a man's " Grace was in her step, heaven in her eye, and in her arms p a y s so heav il y for her fun in that shape as England ; since our prayers have been unheeded, we now fall back How precious is the wife I h an d, rising in the south beyond the channel, which may a baby." A rosebush with a bud clinging to it was nothing but, nevertheless, there is nothing would so much tend to upon our nationality ? even yet be the forerunner of a storm; but if so, and if compared with such a heavenly combination. But what revive her drooping and declining influence on the con- Nor thou with disappoi n t m e n t hearln thus. raising our national voice —for, in the words of the battle of Hastings must be fought again, the story of was poor John like, when the baby was handed to him to tinent as a little brush at sea. She is, I take it, as good A secret I had ne'er co n f esse d, Professor Aytoun , Scotland stands where she did,—we do it shall be told like that of Flodden or of Bannockburn. carry ? as certain to be victorious ; and the very fervour of the s o because it is our dernier resort. No animosity—no Were that slow trust that made thee dear In the centuries that have passed, our island empire has A Nuw, BUT NOT IMPROVED, VEESION.—During a enthusiasm success would evoke in England would go far mischievous desire towards England has given birth to it, Less rooted in my breast. been consolidated at home and extended abroad, yet the discussion at a late church convention in America, the to disabuse the foreigner of his notion that we are only and time will show how mistaken those have been who Not thine the vain and wanton look two counties of Lancashire and Cheshire have increased Hon. Luther Bradish (late governor of New York) spoke eager about printing calicoes and sharpening Sheffield first promulgated such a report. I cannot see why the instead of diminished in relative importance. Lancashire of new translations of the Bible lately put forth in ware. Believe me, it is vital to us to eradicate this fallacy ; On which the moths of p ass io n f ee d, fact of Scotland merely asking for her rights ought to alone outnumbers Middlesex in population and the two America, and produced much amusement b y, quotin g onean d un til the world sees a British fleet reeling up the Nor is thy soul such trivi a l book ; create any animosity between the two countries, and I will As he who runs may read. together, will probably in after years, equal the whole of of these, in which for the words, "no variableness nor Downs with some half-dozen dismasted line-of-battle ships not believe that Englishmen are so illiberal as to view the Scotland. Nor is their importance limited to mere shadow of turning , " there is substituted "no parallax, or i n their wake, they'll not be convinced of what you and I Scottish movement with prejudice. We do not reproach Nor envy I the vagrant race numbers ; that is one of the smallest elements in the tropical shadow. know well, that we are just the same people that fought Whose loves as soon as felt are gone, calculation. Two prominent parties in the State are both FAST AND LonsE.—An Irishman, just landed in this the Nile and "Trafalgar. Those industrial exhibitions, I your countrymen with having created our wrongs—nay, Who wander on from face to f ace , identified with this one shire; and, to use the language of country on a sharp frosty morning, was run at by a fierce, thi n k, brought out a great deal of trashy sentimentality we look to you to aid us in redressing them. Our own Till age shall leave themVone. the law, the cross case recently tried before the Supreme noisy mastiff, who threatened to devour him ; whereupon about universal brotherhood, peace, and the rest of it. I apathy and the disinterestedness of our representatives Court was Manchester - versus Knowsley, Knowsley versus Pat stooped down and seized a stone, with which he suppose the Crystal Palace rage was a kind of allegory to have been the main cause, and from the effects of these we The gourd that in a night appeared Manchester. Our own neighbourhood, too, modern as it expected to stave in his assailant's frontispiece, but found show that they who live in glass houses shouldn't throw seek now to recover. be Next noon had withered o n th e san d ; i s, has l i nks of i nterest that connect us w i th the past, th e s t one f rozen f as t— a p h enomenon u tt er l y new t o hi s stones ; b ut our s hip s , T om , our s hi ps, as the song says, It cannot rights distinct from those of England, and which were questioned that Scotland possesses certain The oak a hundred y ears h ave reare d, f or the Hall of Speke contains the trophy of Norres, and experience. "A fine land of liberty ;" soliloquised Pat, are " hearts of oak !"—The Dodd Family Ab r o a d. rights referred to in the Articles of Union, and their For ages crowns the land. the Church at Sefton proclaims the prowess of Molynenx. sulkily, " where they let their dogs loose, and tie their THE IBIS.—A most beautiful feature in the Nile voyage guaranteed to the country by that document. —Blackzeood's Magazine. It is interesting too, to trace a stream of noble blood, stones fast to the ground."—American Paper. is the sight of birds, as tame as if domesticated, perching sec urity Now, the Articles of Union were all that made a Britain, pure and distinct, ' amid centuries of change;—to follow it A MATCH FOR Aiimmurny.—Sometimes Mr. Aber- on your boat, on the housetops, on the palms, on the and were also intended to place Scotland on the footing of like a thread of gold or silver, amid the complicated tissue nethy would meet with a patient who would afford a useful backs of oxen and of camels, chirping, warbling, skipping, REVIEWS OF BOOKS. o f a more homely fabric. Thus, the representative of lesson. A lady, the wife of a very distinguished musician, everywhere as free and joyous as if they never knew an equality, or as near as possible, with England. These Molyneux is at this hour the military head, the Lord consulted him, and finding him uncoartems, said :" I had enemy. Nor have they an enemy in the native population, Articles have not been held sacred, and it is this fact produced the complaints in Scotland pro h h as hic The Poetical Works of Alexande r P o p e . Edit e d Lieutenant of this great county; while the representative heard of your rudeness before I came, sir, but I did not f9r the Egyptians do not molest birds, only travellers w - • • Facts cannot be overturned. These Articles were never intended by Robert Carruthers. Vols. I. and 11. London : of Stanley, still . keeping his position i/i the race . of expect . th . is ,, ." When Abernethy gave her the Prescription, affright them with the sportsman's gun. This may be. to be broken, or else they would never have been framed— honourable ambition, has stood foremost in the councils she said . What am Ito do with this ?" " Anything because the Egyptians are an unarmed people, but, to N. Cook. to *ud e otherwise would turn history into fiction, and the of his Sovereign. Nor is the soil of the district exhausted you like. Put it in the fire, if you please." The lady took whomsoever the credit belongs, let Egyptians have the A new and comprehensive. edition of Pope's yet. n produces fruits which are rare and valuable in him at his word—laid his fee on the table, and threw the praise of the land where birds are safe and free. Most ri gh ts of nations would be but a bagatelle ! Well, then, not a province (though treated in some d tl Scoan i s 'works, in the middle of the nineteenth century, themselves, and still more rare in their combinatio n ; prescription into the fire, and hastily le ft the room. sweetly do they carol at sunrise, and at sunset in the as. i i i after the labours of that emine n t au th or h ave b een commerce and manufacture, agriculture and mining. Abernethy followed her into the hall, pressing her to take acacia groves and among the palms. Some, of unknown respects as such), t s impossible she can have any rights as one ; but as a nation she has, and as a nation she SO frequently published, may appear to some parties And, though last not least, it possesses another union of back her fee or to let him give her another prescription s ; names, are of . beautiful plumage and delicate form ; but calmly demands those rghts to be respected, just as a superfluous undertaking ;by the majority of the rare and valuable qualities • for while history has been but the lady was inexorable, and left the house.—Maca- the bird, for which the traveller l ooks from the moment England would have done e if placed in the same position. intelligentpublic, however, the production will be delighted to honour the Talons of its sons, tradition and wain 's Memoirs of Abernethy. he enters Egypt, is the pure and sacred Ibis. We had looked i n ts a da t equally l ug eas h t ters.,, zealous in proclaiming PEN-AND-INK SKETCH OF Nicuoras.—The Emperor several times seen at a distance a bird that we conjectured If, as has been foolishly hinted in some quarters, the Articles of Union be a dead letter, then, logically speaking, is of a great height, and is very proud of it ; too proud, must be this, but to-day we had a nearer view, that by there is no union, but a confusion instead. If they be perhaps none, have contributed so much to the purification and refinement of the English language The number also contains interesting papers perhaps, as he has acquired the habit of certain airs,which comparison with the sculptured form quite satisfied us of held faithfully by " all concerned," and as Scotland desires often give him a strong resemblance to a peacock when its identity. It was a most delicate creature, about a foot from the pen of the Rev. J. S. Howson, James them, then the union is not only the more secure, but we as Pope has done. To the sweetest • harmon of Stonehouse, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Thom, the Rev. about to spread his tail. It is a fact well known in St. long, from the beak to the tip of the tail, with long, are t he true Britons.—l am, Sre , M. G. versification he added precision of expression,and W. Thornber, and others. It is likewise illus- fortethrseburg:. that every well-grown man newly recruited slender legs, and a neck that curved gracefully and ter- Edinburg h ,l Nov. 7 1853 sonorous accuracy of language' - ' --..........--i sss redundant y of every kind he ag c e a , of engravings,lithographs, and measures heights with him. His air is serious, his glance white, and, when it flew, seemed rather to swim with refull ßu v de es n c es b s ow a e n d d ; crated by a number to a chaste __ propriety of I. • . . ' wood-cuts ; and is altogether a publication highly wild, even a little savage i his entire physiognomy has gentles ' t motion on a buoyant sea. The selection of such something hard and stern in it ; his gestures are abrupt, a bird as sacred, and the association of it with their LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL. euetion he added creditable to the society whose proceedings it vigour and terseness, combined with , polished ele- reco rds, and he cats his words in pronouncing them. The Em- religious sculptures, shows a nice sense of beauty in the Old TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. --.. pe th ro e r never shows himself but in the military costume, Egyptians.—Rev. J. Thompson's Letters from the Nile. SlR,—The accompanying statement, which I have care t' ; and by his precept and example, did much The Bible of the Reormation Rtformed. Three to establish the language in itspre sent stiffness of which is in perfect keeping with his tastes, ARCHEOLOGY. —A discovery has been made on the fully compiled, will_speak for itself.—l remain, Sir, yours a classi c t on e. This, position as Volumes in Seven Books. By John Finch, Esq., and which makes his great height still more conspicuous. small Danish island Yhrlen, which may not be without its obediently G. W. M. Meanwhile there is a want of ease in his movements , inte s ar n olge a h n i t storians and antiquaries of the day. This Liverpoo'l, November 19th, 1853. s, be it remembered, is a merchant, Liverpool. London : James Rigby. character .. to which Pope's poetical and prose tom- To their credit generally, it must be admitted sinceafall from hishorse,he drags one leg after him in a dis- . little i t n spot is situate between the islands of agreeably inelegant manner.—The Czar and the sultan. Thorseng g and Fyen, close to Fuhnen. Some persons, ob- A__ TABLE, SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF positions, as compositions, are entitled, apart from that the merchants of Liverpool adhere with a ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN CHlNA.—After Alexander serving near a few moleholes in the ground several coins PARTIES IN THE rOUNCIL. and independent of a considerable amount of coarse- rigid and becoming pertinacity to the man a gemen t h a d ma d e war aga i ns t Paor, or Porus, an d slain him, he lying about, commenced digging up the soil close . theretc ; When n . ess and indelicacy of sentiment which they occa- of their important, and often very complex business marched against the Emperor of China. That monarch when, to their surprise, they found the remains of a last Councillors. Party. How Elected. sionally contain ; and which,did not consider himself equal to the conflict, and went in leathern bag, which had been decorated with gold orna- electd degree, may in a very great matters, l e aving the field of literature and art to . . be attributed to the manners of the be cultivated by such hands as have more leisure chsguise to the Grecian camp. He was discovered, and ments, in which, and round about it, were a quantity of --- --,., —...-- --...-- ''."..''.....-. A 0 L.--RVERTON. Period. To reproduce his works, therefore, in ato bestow on its seductive, though often unpro- brought to Alexander, who asked him how he could act in broken necklaces and bracelets of silver, of very curious _ Alderman E. L n sdale R form so elegant yet so as bring ; 4, such a manner? The Emperor replied, "I was anxious workmanship, and 250 pieces of silver coins. These coins cheap, to .., readily ductive and ungrateful soil. When a literary out- to see you and your army. I could have no fear on my i n part contained on the obverse side the bust of some 1 1 i 5 5 1 Itrt Ake a g C Defeated J. Johnson. T. 1). Anderson litisttien reach of the humbler class of readers, while break from mercantile avocations takes place own account, as I knew I was not an object of dread to person, with and without a sceptre, with the inscription 1853 S. M. Mellor R No opposition. those a o n f ty and completeness will recommend it to among their number, the effort is certain to excite Alexander; besides, if he were to slay me, my subjects " Adelred Rs Anglo :" and on the reverse a cross, with an ampler means, is to confer on society a boon atte ntion and to call forth remark ; but when, as would instantly raise another king to the throne. But of inscription, but which as yet has not been made out. It No. 2. SCOTLAND. Alderman W. Bennett. C of no ordinary . character. The edition now under in e the instance before us,. it assumes so bold a this I can have no fear, as lam satisfied Alexander can is thought that these coins belonged to some portion of 1850 1851 James Thompson R No opposition. never be displeased with an action that shows a solicitude the " Danegold" by which king "Ethelred the Unwise," 1852 John Bingham consideration is .t 2 consist of four volumes, two onlY character as to essaY the nuProvement -- reforma - to obtain hi s f r i en d s hi p ! , Th e conqueror was completely at the conclusion of the 10th century, sought to compro as yet bein g 1853 John Woodruff R Defeated Jas. Jack, C. life of P published. The first is devoted to a tion it is called — of our accepted version of the overcome by this truly Chinese flattery, and concluded a raise the devastating incursions of the Danish King _ — ............................ ope, on the production of which, Mr. Car- Holl Scriptures curiosity is awakened with a ruthers, editor of the Inv erness treaty by which China was spared on condition of paying "Svend Tveskjog. " Besides these coins there were others, No. 3.—VAUXHALL. C well-directed - , . i nqu i ry . , f oo t treat The Emperor returned to his capital to make b ear i ng By z antine and Latin inscriptions, with busts and 1850 Al derman Preston .... la C b owrier, has livelier start, and a watchful is set on R DftedT.L.Hodson R. , bestowed much andpreparations for the entertainment of his great ally; and bishops' mitres on them. In all, there are 30 differentß lifted. Alex. Shand, C. our. His to ascertain the amount of interference intended to the third day he returned with an army, the dust of which sorts of coins found, all of which will soon be forwarded - I,Bg John Edward Moss B radle y 1853 William Nicholson biographical sketch conveys to the reader a lively be made with that sacred volume which professing announced its great numbers, which made Alexander pre- to the Ancient Northern Museum at Copenhagen. The idea of the t, irrascible, jealous, and somewhat vindic- Christians of every denomination are taught to pare his force for battle. When both lines were opposite, i s i an d i n question has never been touched by the plough- No. 4. ST. PAUL'S. tivepoe whose sickly and deformed body was the look on with reverential awe. The extent and the Emperor of China, with his ministe . rs and nobles, share; and it appears that . this fund has been the result of 1853 Alderman Thos. Bold . C„, C R NpeofroptpdosftoSnaage, R. tenement of a mind ill at ease, yet generally cha- character of the professed amendments intro- alighted and went towards the Grecian Prince, who asked some former plunder, which, for security's sake, was placed John R. s . -., ~ ... No opposition. 1851 rt. inctrume .... racterised by spiritedand becoming independence. duced by Mr. Finch, we pretend not to esti- him why he had broken faith ? " I wished," said the in the position in which it was found.—Atherueum. 1852 Elliovmera odfrey Emperor "to show the number of my army, that you A HALF-Noisy THOROUGHFARE.—Every man who has IS" Holden As a bin pher, Mr. Carruthers displays no small mate or designate; that is a task more fitting for might be ' sat i sf i e d I made peace from o ther motives than shifted much about in London, knows that a half-noisy NO. 5.—ExcHA was. amount of industry, tempered with good judg- the pen and more congenial to the studies of some an i na bili ty to make war. It was f r om consulting the thoroughfare is much more excruciating than a wholly 1550 Aldmn.Jas. Lawrence*, ment and sound sense ; b his style is easy, me n- of our learned divines. We shall confine our oh- C nbmit. The heavens aid no i s y one. Upon the edge of Oxford-street you may doze 1851 T. Littledsit* strained and mar ed. stars that _I have been led . to t , s _ o y delineative ability of servations, and they shall be brief, to the fact that you, and I war not with nens Alexander was so as by the margin of the sea • your ear becomes' accustomed 1853 Cherie no ordinary power ; while his penetration and sense Mr. Finch, in the form of prefatory and introduce gratified that he released the Emperor from paying tribute, to the uniform roar, and soon almost ceases to heed it. Turner 1852 J is i r t , e 6 s . T_ y s ier CASTLE. __ of justice secure a f • as he was too wise, too pious, and too great a prince ;he But a half-noisy thoroughfare brings every available his estimate of P air amount of impartiality in tory remarks, has attached to his version of the wasperfectlysatisfied to have hisfriendship.—Montomery method of confusing and distracting human ears to bear 185 Q Alderman Thos. Do a v T er. C standing o e's e P haracter as a man, and Bible some very peculiar dogmas of sectarian Martin's China. upon you; heightening the effect of every bit of uproar 1851 Hugh Hornby* R as a poet and satirist.. The following faith, and in terms by no means sparing or choice, RUINS.—In digging out the ruins by a dull setting of silence. Every omnibuss seems to 1852 T. Avison may be taken as a fair, and also a favourable, sneei- however carefully they may have been chosen, DEATH .. AMONG THE fth. rings up some re e run its wheels over your , every new urs o ca S li men of Mr • Carruthers' I •-- •style. It conveys a hvely attacks the religious observances of all who do not o f of Pompeii, every turn o e spade b ancient life, some witness of imperial luxury. For and wagg ons out of doors is a new outrage upon the repose N O .•7.—ST. PETER'S. idea of Pope, in his every-da rt f ' far the greater art, these relics have a merely curious in- within. Instead of the one noise' running throngh the 1853 Alderman Jas. Parker. C happily indicative of th _ yso o life, and is coincide with his views on the subject of religion ; terest ; they belong to archaeology, and find appropriate day, you have two hundred noises at two hundred inter- ism Harmood Banner e p r evailing tone of society whileheexhibits uncompromising bitternes s against resting-places in historical museums. But there are some vals in the day. When we got baby to sleep after dinner, . 1852 J. C. Fernihough R} No opposition. as that was to be met with in the literary and the privileges and observances of the Established ism James Holm. fashionable circles which characterised, if they did exceptions. Here, for instance, the excavator drops, an there came punctually a series of special nuisances that not adorn, the initiatory Church. The introduction of such matter into uninvited guest, upon a banquet ; there he unexpectedly had their regular days for disturbing . her ; and we came to • No. B.—l. ITT STREET. decade of the eighteenth such close contact with what purports to be a nar- obtrudes himself into a tomb. In one place he finds a I know their times. Qn Monday evenings there was a horn ; isso Alderman T. Robinson. C Century.miser cowering on his heaps, another shows him bones of , after which (separate concern) a German band; organs; ! ; 851 John Gladstone, jun C No opposition. , restive of the sacred oracles of God, cannot be dancing girls and broken instruments of music lying on THE GAY PERIOD OF POPE'S LIFE The Homer subscription had brought the pc; et honour, I looked on by any Christian as other than untie- boys whistling "Pop goes the Weasel." Tuesday, 1853 W. P. Jeffreys ... P. Mann the marble floor. In the midst of painted chambers, baths, ! Ethiopian serenaders ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop /85 3 i «' . rmiam C Defeated J. Smith, R. wealth, and troops of friends. coming ; while many, and those neither bigoted nor Ile year 1714 may be considered as marking the commencement of the gayest halls, columns, fountains, among the splendid evidences of I goes the Weasel." Wednesday, a detached performer on ----- No 9 .—GT. GEORGE. ---- _ illiberal, will view the proceeding as highly rep ro- material wealth, he sometimes stumbles on a simple inci- the bones; a brain-crushing machine drawn by a donkey _ Alderman ' period e. was the beginning of a decade of h of Pope's lif e . I t Il not bltl . ' asou e y impious. The Word of dent, a touching human story, such as strikes the imagina- 1833 Jos. Cooper. U 1851 Thos. Wagstaff . C No opposition. • P hia rosPe ap ro bi ns t wa.s Years, san i gta n n w e hich, through all circumstances, ensi e, if —a man on a platform grinding all our heads in it ; other tion ands uggests the mournful interest of the great dime- !or ; band of Scotch fiddlers, scraping and scratching 1852 John McNicoll C Defted Jno. Rogers, R. God they must feel is of too sacred a character to ter, as the sudden sight of a wounded soldier CODJIIreS UP ' hideous strathspeys with unrosined horsehair ; boys whis- 1853 Alexander Shand C No opposition. yet assumed the philos ' h exu l tant defiant. He had not be thus, as it were, surreptitiously ma d e the vehicle the horrors of a field of battle. Such, to our mind, is the fling " Pop goes the Weasel." Thursday, oPhieleide3, cor- . --- ,„ ,„ ,,, —_— robe, or hardened down into severe satire and ethi u ' P cs. er' H s is wit was sportive ; and No. tO. --HODNRY-ST. his enemies_ His he always supposed himself to o e sure of vituperative sectarian controversy, and in thi s latest discovery of the excavators in this melancholy field. no cans, and trombones ; Indian beating tom-tom ; 1853 Aldmn. Samuel Hoime* C roundedu. by n a cloud of enemies—he could afford t smile view will lend no favourable countenance to the It is, a group of skeletons in the act of flight, accompanied acrobats and two drums ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop 1851 Thomas Fleming C by a dog. There are three-human beings, one of them a goes the Weasel." Friday, Ethiopan serenaders; psalm- 1852 John B. Brancher at. Is Pe was the sword with which he had cut his work before us. ----.. young girl, with gold rings and jewels still on her fingers. singing by an old man playing the violincello, with two 1853 Jas. Agpinal Tobin Tray through the w orld , and it was bright and trenchant, ready fo r Lorenzo Benoni : Passages in the Life of an The fugitives had bags of gold and silver with them, girls in white tuckers, every two lines first read by the ~. service. At first his good fortune seems to Italian. Edinburgh : Constable and Co. snatched up, no doubt, in haste and da r kness. But the old man, and then sung wh b is y tl t in h g e ~wrhooplegoesstretutivh Weasel. e t l h ., e , 1 , 40. 11.—ABERCROMBY. 1853 Aldmnn. R.C. Gardner. C have chara trans ter. an pited him into excesses foreign to his real fiery flood was on their track and vain their wealth, their corn n • organs ; boys This story, which is given in the form of an C . No opposition. set up fora bon-vivant and rake—fro- flight , the age of one , the youth ' of the other. The burn- S a t u rda y; y ' street fights and shouts ; extra carts (butchers' 18521851 Hugh Neill autobiography, is written with much spirit. The Robertson i;.a W e allstene* i rt Defeated e. B. Hall. C. 8 3 William quented the October Club and uhg-houses (but was adventures and scenes introduced run through the dog turned back to share the fortunes of its mistress, dying gur d y ; h arps and accordions ; brain-crushing machine; . never known to bet); d boasted of sitting till two in the i ng lava rolled a b o v e ' them and beyond ; and the faithful carts very aggravating); German B an d ; Ethiopians ; h ardy r ----- morning over b Y an d champagne, and grew periods of boyhood, adolescence, and manhood. and at her side. Seen by the light of such an incident, how knife-grinder (most excruciating) ; Finnan haddocks ;• No. 12.—LIME. STREET. ashamed of business:: Poor authors, of course, were his 1853 Alderman J. B. Moore*. they are elaborated with such skill and art as to vividly that night of horror looms upon the sense ! Does hearth - stones; and " Pop goes the Weasel" until eleven Special av ersion. He sketched plans and architectural seem the truthful flow of individual experience. not imagination picture that little group, in their own o'clock at night.—Dickens' Household Words. 1851 James Johnson designs with Lord Burling•ton ; lounged in the library of house, by the side of their evening fountain, languidly A LADY OF DAMASCUS.—We will first describe the 1 1 8 8 5 5 3 2 I . . B A . . L P io ic y r d o k n (rhe mayor) C R .'1 No opposition. Lord Oxford ; breakfasted with Craggs chatting over the day's events and of the unusual hea t? daughter of the host—a very fair specimen of her sex in _ -- talked of the The Ecclesiastical History of England and Does it not hear, with them, the troubled swell of the Damascus. Her eyes are beautifully dark, her eye-lashes, No. 13.—ST. AN N's. Spanish war with the chivalrous borough, the English Am airaus 34°rdaant' Lord Peter- Normandy. By Ordericus Vitalis. London : waters in the bay ; see, as they do, how the night comes eye-brows, and hair of a glossy jet black ; the latter, ; or, in the evening, Henry 1853 Allman. E. Molyneux. C Joined in the learned faille i Arbuthnot. With young G. Bohn. 1851 Itp l l o r s nard H W o(i H s Houghton ? :t. Ef e t f e e d at l P. F s r h e a m m e l , R. Lord Warwick and other beaoux-esprits he had delicious down in sudden strangeness, how the sky opens over head tinged with henna, hangs down her back, and reaches To the student of Eng li sh ecclesiastical history and flames break out, while scoriae, sand, and molten rocks nearly to the ground, in a succession of plaits, each ter- 1852 John . Nicholso o n n C No opposition. ' lobster nights and t , avern in Windsor Fores t . At the co different from life the annals of Ordericus Vitalis are invested with a come pouring down ? What movement, what emotion, minating with black silk braid, knotted and interwoven what surp • ! The scene grows darker every instant, the with various sized golden coins ; her features (excepting No. 14.—WEST DERBY. UntrY seats of Lords Har- Peculiar interest, connecting that history as they h o llo w monothne of the bay is lifted into yells and shrieks, th e e y es ) ar e all small, but compact. The nose is Grecian, ' 1850 Ahiman. Sir. John Bent* C --cConicßi,:inthgugrrsotv, e a ,: d wa C a lhaln, he was a frequent visitor do with the events which, occurring on the adj acen t the air grows thick with dust and hot with flames, and at the lips cherry, and slightly pouting, the chin dimpled, 1851 It. M. Beckwith and he may claim the merit o f f l i e la s ;e r g ' Ide.milinodrepLrtitTa73;, continental state of Normandy, produced a lasting 1852 Arthur Henderson the mountain's foot is heard the deadly roll of the liquid the form of the face oval, and the complexion clear, with Defeated W. Earle, R. other poet to rend er effect on the ecclesiastical . institutions of this lava. Jewels, household goods, gold and silver coins, are a rosy tint. The bust and figure are unexceptionable, the tinction in which he w asEn scenes classic ground—a dis-ILrancis A. Clint country. The volume is prefaced by some admi- snatched up on the instant. No time to say farewell ; arms comely, the wrists and ankles well turned, and the 1853 No. I5.—N. TORTETH. followed by Gray and Walpole, the latter actin darkness in front,and fire behind, they rush into the streets, f ee t and hands perfect models for a sculptor ; yet this is 1553 Aldmn.Thos.Toultain.. C and rural gas historian of patrician improvement rable introductory remarks from the pen of M. streets choked with falling houses and flying citizens. How one out of the many nondescript beings that we en- 1951 Thomas Royden beauty. In the society of ladies of rank and Guiza- The period comprised in that portion of fi nd the way through passages which have no longer out- cou nt ere d w ith tzar and veil in the street. Her face and 1852 Hilton Halhead frillr_lty,edipinutive figure of the poet might be seen, the annals contained in the volume under conside- lets ? Confusion, danger, darkness, uproar everywhere, the 1853 Matthew Gregson discoursing . 1 t of b k yelvet, i!ith tie-wig and small sword, ration extends. from the Birth of Christ to thefigure are well set off by the headdress and oriental cos- shouts of parted friends, the agony of men struck down by f ume. On the top of her head she wears a small red cap, ~- . a m — 7 -- mg on tonics of wit and gallantry, his fine eye N O. lu.---o. LOXTETH. and,handsome intellectual , face soon making the defects year 1066, .and necessarily embraces many interest- falling columns ; fear, madness, and despair unchained; which is encircled by a handsomely-flowered handkerchief, lB5O Al dm n . John H. Turner R here penury clutching the gold it cannot keep ; there glut- C Dftd E. C. Hindley, R. ..7 . h is person forgotten ; for, in company entirely to his mg events in the history of the Church ;it is par- tony feeding on its final meal ; and phrenzy striking in the gold and o m ve o r ne t y he a la re tter - strings of pearls and pieces of small 1851 John Stewart tastefully arranged in festoons. In the 1852 Wm. Jos. Horsfall K n iT a ' , Pope . then possessed the art and gaiety that could titularly rich in the legends and traditions of the dark to forestal death. Through all, fancy hears the young cen t re o f h er re d cap is a diamond crescent, from which 1853 James Robertson ... laug h d own many a summer sun." The accomplished period, as these were to be met with in monkish girl's screams ; the fire is on her jewelled hand. No hangs a long golden cord with a blue silk tassel, usually * s * Those marked * have been Mayors.—C. Conservative, .4a4yMary Wortley Montagu had recently quitted her rec or d s time for thought, no pause ; the flood rolls on, and wis- ornamented with way's ; her vest fits tight, and admirably R. Radical. retirement at Wharncliffe and shone " brightparticular - ' dom, beauty, age, and youth, with all the stories of their displays the unli.od figure. In summer this vest is of star" in the brillianto f a P RECAPITULATION. C. R. circles.the metropolis. ope was often by her tide, whispering flatteries that were after- love, their hopes, their rank, wealth, greatness, all the once blue or pink satin, bordered and fringed with gold lace ; 5 Wards represented entirely by Conserva . VARIETIES. affluent life, are gone for ever. When unearthed, a ft er in winter, cloth - edged with fur is substituted for the 20 0 Wards to be changed to curses. The Duchesses of Queens- fives, Nos. 5,8, 9, 10, 15 berry, Hamilton, and Montagu . smiled graciously on the -1- many ages, the nameless group has no other importance to satin; and over the vest is worn a short gray jacket, No Ward represented entirely by Radicals 0 0 P la l uz u ll r e e d ii pzl, td carr ied him to their concerts and n as t is o n a n ii ts ht afLlik t e ,;. fl i . t . that leap over a , a good mankind than as it may serve "to point a moral or adorn chastely embroidered with black silk braid. The vest is 4 Wards represented by 3 Conservatives and a tale. —Athenaeum_ confined to the waist by a zunnar, in summer. of a silk - 1 Radical—Nos. 7, 13, 14, 16 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. Vols. I. and 11. London : N. Cook. A new and comprehensive. edition of Pope's - works, in the middle of the nineteenth century, after the labours of that eminent author have been so frequently published, may appear to some parties a superfluous undertaking ; by the majority of the intelligent public, however, the production will be looked on with a very different eye. Pew authors, perhaps none, have contributed so much to the purification and refinement of the English language as Pope has done. To the sweetest harmony of versification he added precision of expression, and sonorous accuracy of language. Rudeness and redundancy of every kind he carefully eschewed ; to a chaste propriety of diction, he added vigour and te rseness, combined with, polished ele gance ; and by his precept and example, did much to establish the language in its present position as a classic tongue. This, be it remembered, is a character to which Pope's poetical and prose com positions, as compositions, are entitled, apart from and independent of a considerable amount of coarse ness and indelicacy of sentiment which they occa sionally contain ; and which, in a very great degree, may be attributed to the manners of the period. To reproduce his works, therefore, in a form so elegant yet so cheap, as to bring it readily within reach of the humbler class of readers, while its beauty and completeness will recommend it to those of ampler means, is to confer on society a boon of no ordinary character. The edition now under consideration is to consist of four volumes, two only as yet being published. The first is devoted to a life of Pope, on the production of which, Mr. Car ruthers, editor of the Inverness Cowrier, has bestowed much and well-directed labour. His biographical sketch conveys to the reader a lively idea of the irrascible, jealous, and somewhat vindic tive poet, whose sickly and deformed body was the tenement of a mind ill at ease, yet generally cha racterised by spirited and becoming independence. As a biographer, Mr. Carruthers displays no small amount of industry, tempered with good judg ment and sound sense ; his style is ea s y, uncon strained, an d marked by delineative ability of no ordinary power ; while his penetration and sense of justice secure a fair amount of impartiality in his estimate of Pope's character as a man, and standing as a poet and satirist.. The following may be taken as a fair, and also a favourable, swci men of Mr. Carruthers' style. It conveys a hv'ely idea of Pope, in his every-day sort of life, and is happily indicative of the prevailing tone of society as that was to be met with in the literary and fashionable circles which characterised, if they did not adorn, the initiatory decade of the eighteenth century. THE GAT PERIOD OP popes LIFE. The Homer subscription had brought the poet honour, wealth, and troops of friends. The year 1714 may be considered as marking the commencement of the gayest period of Pope's life. It was the beginning of a decade of prosperous years, in which, through all circumstances, his spirit was sanguine, exultant, defiant. He had not yet assumed the philosopher's robe, or hardened down into severe satire and ethics. His wit was sportive ; and his enemies —for he always supposed himself to be sur rounded by a cloud of enemies—he could afford to smile at. His pen was the sword with which he had cut his way through the world, and it was bright and trenchant, ready for any service. At first his good fortune seems to have transported him into excesses foreign to his real character. He set up for a bon-vivant and rake—fre quented the Octob er Cl u b and gaming -houses (but was never known to bet); boasted of sitting till two in the morning over burgundy and champagne, a n d grew ashamed of business. Poor auth ors , of course, were his special aversion. He sketched plans and architectural designs with Lord Burlington ; lounged in the library of Lord Oxford ; breakfasted with Craggs ; talked of the Spanish wa r w ith the chivalrous Mordaunt, Lord Peter borough, the English Amadis • or in the evening, joined in the learned raillery of Arbutlanot. With young Lord Warwick and other beaux-esprite he had delicious lobster nights and tavern gaieties—how different from life in Windsor Forest ! At the country seats of Lords Har court, Bathurst, and Cobham, he was a frequent visitor -- criticising groves, and he may claim the merit of having walks, glades, gardens, and porticoes ; done more than any other poet to render English scenes classic ground—a dis tinction in which he was followed by Gray and Walpole, the latter acting as hi stor i an of patrician improvement and rural beauty. In the society of ladies of rank and fashion the diminutive figure of the poet might be seen, in his suit of black velvet, with tie-wig and small sword, dis coursing on topics of wit and gallantry, his fine eye and handsome, intellectual, face soon making the defects of his person forgotten ; for, in company entirely to his mnd, P o p e th en possessed the art and gaiety that could " laugh down many a summer sun." The accomplished Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had recently quitted her retirement at Wharncliffe, and shone "a bright particular star" in th e brilliant circles of the metropolis. Pope was often by her tide, whispering flatteries that were after wards to be changed to curses. The Duchesses of Queens berry, Hamilton, and Montagu smiled graciously on the laurelled poet, and carried him to their concerts and pleasure parties on the Thames. The Maids of Honour in the court of the Princess Caroline—the beautiful Mary Bellenden, Mary Lepell, Miss Griffin, and Mrs. Howard, admitted him to their confidence—" took him into their protection, contrary to the laws against harbouring Papists"—and instructed him in the tracasseries of the court, or joined him in ridiculing pompous Ministers of State. They had also their own grievances to ur into the poet's ear; for th e lif e o f a Maid of Honour was little better at Hampton Court, under the philosophical Caro line, than Fanny Burney found it at Kew or Windsor under the regime of Queen Charlotte and George 111. Of Pope's great satire, " The Dunciad," one of the greatest and most important, if not the greatest and most important in the English language, Mr. Carruthers gives us the following judicious ESTIMATE OP THE DITNCIAD. • The object of the satire (which was chiefly to expose authors unworthy of exposure) is undignified, and in many parts is effected at the sacrifice of decency and pro priety. Swift has been accused of familiarizing Pope with images physically disgusting and impure, which most men instinctively shun. This indelicacy, however, was appa rent before the acquaintance of the two wits commenced. It is seen in Pope's boyish lines on Elkanah Settle, and in subsequent productions, especially his imitationsof Chaucer and Spencer. But as Swift was at Twickenham when Part, at least, of " The Dunciad" was composed, and as the grossness we have alluded to is nowhere so conspicuous as in thi s poem, the Dean's conversation and example may Lave still farther vitiated the taste and blunted the per- Mtions of his friend. The second book of " The Dunciad" 19 g r eatly dis fi gured, and in some p ar t s ren d ered a b solutely r ePillsive from this cause. In these remarks we think Mr. Carruthers t'essea his inferences rather severely upon the an of St. Patrick's, particularly as he himself admits that Pope required " no prompter" in indeli cacy, as was apparent in his boyish lines. 15 The second vo l ume commences the poetry, which of with copiou s no t es , an d con t ains many nick 'r ri '; best k nown an d most a d m i red pieces, the " Rape of the Lock." Both volumes el e Profusely as well as tastefully illustrated by aeverlY-exeeuted wood-engravings, among which seve ra l gliff e • characteristic portraits of the poet, LeBllrulg considerably f rom eac h o th er i n some e.et of e g, yet all less or more tinctured with simi- haracter and expression. .Pro,•„_ ,• the Historic Society - -,ectings and .Papers of .1 : The ifit Eancaghir and Cheshire. L i verpool 7,1,6t0ric goeieetv ~,,,,---, raactioiis. of a Literary Society is neces ---1 tan times an object of much local interest, and that interest is enhanced in a very high de gproertea' Zt il l e o l ' ea l l ' il e at p u a r p ee re are themselves of an im elegance and ta, s ,. and. are written with literary this number, o ne vx, ' a A essing 9 p t e h c papers printed m e n u ar local charms is on the subjectof Ltaan.cnagahire and Cheshire-men of the sixteenth ceixtury ; it 1 4 from the pen of SLANDERS are like flies, that leap over a man's good parts to alight upon his sores. THE FASHIONABLE STRIKE AMONGST THE LOWEST CLASSES.—A brute of a husband is one who fancies, when he marries, that he is at perfect liberty to treat his wife as if she were no better than a street-door, on which there was nailed the polite request : " Please to ring and knock." THE MODEST MAIDEN, the prudent wife, or the careful matron is much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband happy, and reclaims him from vice, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.—Goldsmith. TIEN-TE THE CHINESE USURPER.—In his habits he is silent and reserved; he lives in close retirement, only showing himself occasionally to his immediate followers, and then only to issue his commands. His expression, though far from prepossessing, denotes mildness, com bined with great decision and a degree of firmness verging upon obstinacy. His complexion is sallow, with a decided saffron tinge. In stature he is about the middle height ; and though of about the same age, is taller and less strongly built than Hienfoung the Emperor, whose deposition he seems resolved, at all hazards, to effect. He travels in a palanquin enclosed with curtains of amber coloured silk, borne on the shoulders of sixteen officers of distinction ; his preceptor, or privy councillor, or adviser, carried by eight coolies, follows immediately in his wake ; and then come Tien-te's 30 devoted wives, for all of whom he is said to possess the sincerest affection. They are arrayed in costly apparel, and follow each other in single file, not as they might on the shores of the placid Serpentine, in Clarences or Broughams, but in commodious arm-chairs picked out with vermillion and gold. A long retinue of servants and a vast array of soldiers bring up the rear of the procession, which is said, upon the whole, strongly to resemble those gorgeous affairs occasionally exhibited on the boards of the Lyceum.—Quarterly Review. BARBOURNE GRANGE—THE ENGLISH PARK.—III no place save England can you find those emblems of solid wealth which are to be found in every county into which our country is divided. We allude, of course, to those domains called " Parks," in which the country residences of our nobility and gentry are situated. In France you may have fine houses, dignified by the name of chateau, in which hospitality may be supported; but they lack that indescribable appearance of comfort which an English country residence possesses. There is that about the appearance of an English park which finds no parallel in France, and which England alone can produce. Around a French mansion in the country there is dreariness, and comparatively a desert. Round the mansion of an English country gentleman there is the broad domain, ornamented by ancestral trees, which are typical of the strength and wealth of the class to which they belong; and Barbourne Grange is such a place. The house is one of those solid structures which combine elegance with comfort, and is essentially an English country gentleman's residence. The house is white all over, being cemented over the bricks of which it is built. In the centre are folding glass doors, leading. to which is a low flight of stone steps, ornamented with diminutive trellised work and small stone carvings. At each end of the mansion are green-houses, stored with the choicest productions of the horticultural world, and communicating by glass doors with chambers in the house. Around the mansion is a noble park, to produce which must have been the work of centuries, seeing that every tree with which it is ornamented is of gigantic size and in high Perfection.—Dick ,Dinsiny. EXTENT OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN INDIA. — Our territory is equal to all continental Europe, Russia I excepted. Peshawur is as far north of Tanjore as Stock holm is of Naples ; Chittagong as far east of Kurrachee as Athens is of Paris. Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden, unitedly, do not equal either our territory or our population. The re port of the grand trigonometrical survey, which has lately been printed for parliament, gives the total,—area in square miles, 1,368,113 ; population, 151,144,962. And a corrected copy, with which we have been favoured, adds seven millions and a half to this population, most of which is in our own territories, but part in the native states, making the total 158,774,055. But the fact is, that even from our territories many of the returns are no better than guesses, and from the native states few are to be relied upon. It has, however, generally proved that ac curate returns give a higher population than previous estimates ; and after considerable attention to the subject for years, we should not be surprised to find the official statement gradually coming up from its present advanced figure, to nearly two hundred millions. This splendid empire is distributed into four governments or presidencies —Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and Agra. The first is the seat of the governor-general and the supreme council ; the next two have each a governor and council ; and Agra is administered by a lieutenant-governor without a council. The army is—Queen's troops, 29,480 ; company's Eu ropean troops, 19,928 ; company's native troops, 240,121 ; total, 289,529 ; native contingents, commanded by British officers, and available under treaties, 32,000 ; total at the disposal of the governor-general, 321,529. This is a great army ; yet its proportion to the extent of the empire pre sents a forcible comment on the nature of the British rule. Compare it with the proportion which the armies of the continent bear to the population of the respective coun tries, and you might imagine that they were holding con quered nations, and we governing our hereditary soil. Forty-nine thousand out of the whole are Englishmen—a less number than is generally found necessary to garrison the one city of Paris. Even the native rajahs, with a population of 55,000,000, have 400,000 soldiers ; while we, with double the population, have 110,000 less, though they are guaranteed against external war, and we have to take all risks. Then our 240,000 native troops are a strength or a weakness, just as our authority is popular or the re verse. Were their attachment lost, how formidable would they be, taught in our mode of war, and five times as nu merous as the English soldiers. Were they and the troops of the rajahs united against us, it would be 50,000 against 640,000. You may travel through India for days together without coming on a military station. You may pass through kingdoms with three millions or more inhabit ants, containing only one post of European troops. You may find great cities without a soldier ; the remains of vast fortifications, near which not a uniform is visible. Facts such as these, when contrasted with the constant display of military force in the countries of even civilized Europe, forcibly prove that the power of the English has foundations in the homes of the people as well as in the cantonments of the soldiery. In the native regiments the officers are, as to numbers, about half native, half English ; but no native officer can rise higher than to a sort of cap taincy or majority, and even then is under the youngest European ensign, —a position much worse than that en joyed by Hindoos in the armies of the Mussulmans. Ben gal, Madras, sod Bombay, have three distinct armies, and three contmanderpin-chief,—Quarterly Review. WAITING FOE TkE CARRIA.GIL—CharIes (seven years old)—" This will be a stupid affair, Georgy." Georgy (a young lady of nine winters)—" Oh ! yes—only a white frock and black mitten party —very slow !" Old nurse wonders what next.—Punch. KENNY DODD ON THE RUSSIAN QUESTION.—To all appearance we are not far from a war; but where it's to be, and with whom, is hard to say. There's no doubt but fighting is a costly amusement ; and I believe no country pays so heavily for her fun in that shape as England; but, nevertheless, there is nothing would so much tend to revive her drooping and declining influence on the con tinent as a little brush at sea. She is, I take it, as good as certain to be victorious ; and the very fervour of the enthusiasm success would evoke in England would go far to disabuse the foreigner of his notion that we are only eager about printing calicoes and sharpening Sheffield ware. Believe me, it is vital to us to eradicate this fallacy ; and until the world sees a British fleet reeling up the Downs with some half-dozen dismasted line-of-battle ships in their wake, they'll not be convinced of what you and I know well, that we are just the same people that fought the Nile and "Trafalgar. Those industrial exhibitions, I think, brought out a great deal of trashy sentimentality about universal brotherhood, peace, and the rest of it. I suppose the Crystal Palace rage was a kind of allegory to show that they who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ; but our ships, Tom, our ships, as the song says, are "hearts of oak !"—The Dodd Family Abroad. THE IBIS.—A most beautiful feature in the Nile voyage is the sight of birds, as tame as if domesticated, perching on your boat, on the housetops, on the palms, on the backs of oxen and of camels, chirping, warbling, skipping, everywhere as free and joyous as if they never knew an enemy. Nor have they an enemy in the native population, for the Egyptians do not molest birds, only travellers affright them with the sportsman's gun. This may be because the Egyptians are an unarmed people, but, to whomsoever the credit belongs, let Egyptians have the praise of the land where birds are safe and free. Most sweetly do they carol at sunrise, and at sunset in the acacia groves and among the palms. Some, of unknown names, are of beautiful plumage and delicate form ; but the bird, for which the traveller looks from the moment he enters Egypt, is the pure and sacred Ibis. We had several times seen at a distance a bird that we conjectured must be this, but to-day we had a nearer view, that by comparison with the sculptured form quite satisfied us of its identity. It was a most delicate creature, about a foot long, from the beak to the tip of the tail, with long, slender legs, and a neck that curved gracefully and ter minated in a long, crooked beak. It was of stainless white, and, when it flew, seemed rather to swim with gentlest motion on a buoyant sea. The selection of such a bird as sacred, and the association of it with their religious sculptures, shows a nice sense of beauty in the old Egyptians.—Rev. J. Thompson's Letters from the Nile. ARCH2SOLOGY.—A discovery has been made on the small Danish island Yhrlen, which may not be without its interest among historians and antiquaries of the day. This little insignificant spot is situate between the islands of Thorseng and Fyen, close to Fuhnen. Some persons, ob serving near a few moleholes in the ground several coins lying about, commenced digging up the soil closethereto ; when, to their surprise, they found the remains of a leathern bag, which had been decorated with gold orna ments, in which, and round about it, were a quantity of broken necklaces and bracelets of silver, of very curious workmanship, and 250 pieces of silver coins. These coins in part contained on the obverse side the bust of some person, with and without a sceptre, with the inscription " Adelred Rx Anglo ;" and on the reverse a cross, with an inscription, but which as yet has not been made out. It is thought that these coins belonged to some portion of the " Danegold" by which king " Ethelred the Unwise," at the conclusion of the 10th century, sought to compro mise the devastating incursions of the Danish King "Svend Tveskjog." Besides these coins there were others, bearing Byzantine and Latin inscriptions, with busts and bishops' mitres on them. In all, there are 30 different sorts of coins found, all of which will soon be forwarded to the Ancient Northern Museum at Copenhagen. The island in question has never been touched by the plough share ; and it appears that this fund has been the result of some former plunder, which, for security's sake, was placed in the position in which it was found.—Atheneum. A HALF-NOISY THOROUGHFARE.—Every man who has shifted much about in London, knows that a half-noisy thoroughfare is much more excruciating than a wholly noisy one. Upon the edge of Oxford-street you may doze as by the margin of the sea ; your ear becomes accustomed to the uniform roar, and soon almost ceases to heed it. But a half-noisy thoroughfare brings every available method of confusing and distracting human ears to bear upon you ; heightening the effect of every bit of uproar by a dull setting of silence. Every omnibuss seems to run its wheels over your head ; every new burst of cabs and waggons out of doors is a new outrage upon the repose within. Instead of the one noise running through the day, yon have two hundred noises at two hundred inter vals in the day. When we got baby to sleep after dinner, there came punctually a series of special nuisances that had their regular days for disturbing her ; and we came to know their times. On Monday evenings there was a horn ; after which (separate concern) a German band ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel." Tuesday, Ethiopian serenaders ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel." Wednesday, a detached performer on the bones ; a brain-crushing machine drawn by a donkey —a man on a platform grinding all our heads in it ; other organs ; band of Scotch fiddlers, scraping and scratching hideous strathspeys with unrosined horsehair ; boys whis tling " Pop goes the Weasel." Thursday, ophicleides, cor nopeans, and trombones ; Indian beating tom-tom ; acrobats and two drums ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel." Friday, Ethiopan serenaders ; psalm singing by an old man playing the violincello, with two girls in white tuckers, every two lines first read by the old man, and then sung by the whole strength of the company ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel." Saturday; street fights and shouts ; extra carts (butchers' carts very aggravating); German Band ; Ethiopians ; hurdy gurdy ; harps and accordions; brain-crushing machine; knife-grinder (most excruciating) ; Finnan haddocks ; hearth-stones ; and " Pop goes the Weasel" until eleven o'clock at night.—Dickens' Household Words. A LADY OF DAMASCUS.—We will first describe the daughter of the host—a very fair specimen of her sex in Damascus. Her eyes are beautifully dark, her eye-lashes, eye-brows, and hair of a glossy jet black ; the latter, tinged with henna, hangs down her back, and reaches nearly to the ground, in a succession of plaits, each ter minating with black silk braid, knotted and interwoven with various sized golden coins ; her features (excepting the eyes)are all small, but compact. The nose is Grecian, the lips cherry, and slightly pouting, the chin dimpled, the form of the face oval, and the complexion clear, with a rosy tint. The bust and figure are unexceptionable, the arms comely, the wrists and ankles well turned, and the feet and hands perfect models for a sculptor ; yet this is one out of the many nondescript beings that we en countered with Tzar and veil in the street. Her face and figure are well set off by the headdress and oriental cos tume. On the top of her head she wears a small red cap, which is encircled by a handsomely-flowered handkerchief, and over the latter - strings of pearls and pieces of small gold money are tastefully arranged in festoons. In the centre of her red cap is a diamond crescent, from which hangs a long golden cord with a blue silk tassel, usually ornamented with pay's ; her vest fits tight, and admirably displays the unlift . d figure. In summer this vest is of blue or pink satin, bordered and fringed with gold lace ; in winter, cloth - edged with fur is substituted for the satin; and over the vest is worn a short gray jacket, chastely embroidered with black silk braid. The vest is confined to the waist by a zunnar, in summer, of a silk Tripoli scarf—in winter, by a costly Cashmere shawl ; and from under this a long robe reaches to her ankles, and is divided into two long lappels, lined with satin and fringed with costly trimmings. This latter robe partially conceals the shirwal, or full trousers, which hang loosely over, and are fastened round the ankles ; the tasty mixture of colours, and the graceful arrangement, render the costume a perfect study. Latterly European shoes have been much used by the Damascene ladies, especially those gaily flowered kid shoes imported into Syria from Marseilles.—The Thstle and Cedar of Lebanon. THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT BOMBAY.—We were in some doubt whether I should be admitted into the body of the synagogue ; but Ibrithim came forward to meet us, and led us to the " chief seats," placing us between him self and David Sassanin, the richest Jew in Bombay—a very fine-looking old man, with an eye like a hawk for brillancy and depth. The synagogue was a long room, with a high divan all round it, on which the worshippers sat cross-legged. A chair was provided for me to put my feet on. Down the middle were two benches, back to back, for the boys; of the congregation ; and nearer the door a desk, like a high sideboard, at which the reader stood ; opposite to which was a curtained recess, contain ing the Law. All present wore veils, generally white, with blue striped borders and a single fringe at each I corner ' • but some of the younger b oys h a d th em o f spot ted net, adorned with little tufts of wool of various colours. I never saw a handsomer set of men ; and this, with their varied dresses of rich colours, and the beauty of the little children, who, gaily dressed and covered with ornaments, were curled up by the side of their fathers; or sitting on their knees, and ever and anon roving about or eating sweetmeats as bribes to be quiet, rendered it: a most picturesque scene. But though this was my first impression, it soon changed to astonishment at beholding the heartlessness of their worship, which excels anything I have ever seen as a mockery of devotion. Every man had a prayer-book, but the service was gabbled over in a way that rendered it impossible even for Mr. Mitchell, who is a good Hebrew scholar, to follow it. The boys seemed to strive who should read loudest, and shouted " amin, amin, arnin," as if it were very amusing, looking about and laughing the while. The men were talking, and I soon found there would not be the slightest objection to my sketching the scene. Water was (brought me, and I took the group on my left hand. No sooner did David Sassamin perceive that I was sketching him, than he put down his book and spread his hand upon it that I might observe his valuable diamond and ruby rings. Several were called up to the desk in succession to read different parts of the service, which they did in a sort of loud chant, rocking themselves to an d fro. Several kissed tohfem the re m p di ea d tedl it y in , young boys, after reading , came to ki ss th e h an d and fringes of David Sassantin and a vene ra bl e o ld man who sat next him, who laid their hands on the head of the boys. It was a pretty a c t i on 011 both sides. One or two little girls were there with their books. During one part of the service, each ma n collected the frin g e s a t the f our touching the same per f unc t o ry style in which Romanists generally cross both hers eyes of his w themselves. Then they drew th e veil over the right side of the face, and uttered a lamentab le cry. Then the whole congrega ti o n turned towards the west, an d, bending, uttered a confession of sin. This was the only part of the ith veil the and m. Most serv i ce in which there was the slightest appearance of earnestness,..-Mrs, CglinMackenzie's Six Years in India. RECAPITULATION. 5 Wards represented entirely by Conserva tives, Nos. 5, 8, 9, 10, 15 No Ward represented entirely by Radicals 0 0 4 Wards represented by 3 Conservatives and 1 Radical—Nos. 7, 13, 14, 16 5 Wards represented by 2 Conservatives and 2 Radicals—Nos. 1,3, 4, 11, 12 2 Wards represented by I Conservative and 3 Radicals—Nos. 2 and 6. 16 Wards. Total 44 20 SCOTTISH RIGHTS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlB,—Allow, me to thank you sincerely for the pleasure and satisfaction you have afforded to myself and other Scotchmen, resident in Liverpool and elsewhere, by the disinterested advocacy you have devoted to the vindication of Scottish Rights, and, while doing so, I trust you will bear with me while I make one or two remarks. The claim of Scotland to have additional representatives in the House of Commons was so well and clearly stated in your first article on the subject, as hardly to require further illustration. One point, however, appears to have eluded your observation, and that is, that an augmentation of the number of Scotch members would have a tendency to elevate the moral character of the House ; for it is a singular fact, that, notwithstanding the number of notoriously corrupt elections which have from time to time, and particularly during the last two sessions, been brought to light by indubitable proof, no one case has been either proved or alleged against a Scotch constituency. Another may also be noted, which is, that although no property qualification is requisite for a Scotch burgh member, and although these constituencies have been occasionally wooed by the O'Connor and Magrath tribe, in no instance has a worthy of such description found his way into the British senate through the agency of a Scottish constituency. Could better evidence be ten dered of the fitness for self-government on the part of Scotchmen, than the existence of facts so conspicuously - creditable . to their judgment, their moral training, and their political integrity; or could they advance a higher claim to the possession of increased political influence than by pointing to the significant fact, that, surrounded by glaring examples of political turpitude, their pufity of political action and feeling remains untainted even by the breath of suspicion ? As to the subject of a separate Secretary of State for Scottish affairs, few would be inclined to question the propriety of such an office, who are acquainted, as I am, with the manner in which parties, having important public Scottish business to transact in any of the Govern ment departments, are warded off from post to pillar, between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Lord Advocate ; the one finding that the appli cation does not fall within his province, or that the in formation sought must, of right, be communicated by the other. Private convenience, or personal indolence, being thus made to stand in the way of.public business. In your last article you make correct allusion to bene fits conferred on England as well as Scotland by Scotch men, and put that properly forward as a plea for the sympathy, respect, and assistance of our English brethren. Under this head the catalogue might easily have been much enlarged ; I shall, however, confine myself to an observation or two relative to one subject you there allude to, I mean the Darien Canal. Upwards of a hundred and fifty years ago the Scotch organised a company, and took active measures for having a ship canal cut through the narrow isthmus which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean. A line of route was marked out, and a settlement of Scotchmen was Made in C 0111104911 with it on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus; but, through the agency of the East India Company, and the anti-Scotch partialities of William 111., the scheme was discountenanced and the company ruined. Within the last few years the Current of mercantile traffic has again directed attention to the necessity of a ship canal through the same isthmus . ; and what takes place ? A scheme is now on foot to execute this canal, and it has been declared, within the last twelve months, by competent authorities, that the best route in existence for it, is the identical line pointed out by the Scotch Darien Company a hundred and fifty years ago ; nay more, that its Atlantic harbour shall be Port Escoses (Scotch port). Here we see an important undertaking and a vast source of national wealth sacrificed, lest its prosecution and development should interfere with the successful prosecution of English enterprise in another direction. Is not this fact alone conclusive as to the English connexion not being one of unmixed benefit to the trade and commerce of Scotland ? Trusting you will excuse the inroad thus made upon your space, and again offering my best thanks, for your aid in the good cause, I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, A SCOTCHMA/sT. Liverpool,l9th November, 1853. NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1853. BY jOITANNES RIISTICITS. XV. EDUCATION.—As a matter of curiosity, I should like to see a prospectus of the course of instruction which would meet the views of the popular declaimers against our national ignorance. It is the fashion now-a-days of some leading characters to attribute everything that goes wrong to a want of education in the people ; and perhaps this may be true in the abstract ; but can these learned philosophers devise any scheme of education which will be a remedy for all our physical, moral, social, and political evils ? Mr. Cobden attributes the reappearance of cholera, juvenile depravity, the Preston strikes, and the Russo- Turkish war, alike to the ignorance of the people, and quotes how many out of thirteen jurors signed with a X, but can Mr. Cobden or any of his " school" point out what, and what degree of, education would prevent all these calamities ? The old Tory doctrine was that the clergy man was the best schoolmaster; but Toryism, it is said, is exploded now—the clergyman, as a teacher of the young, gives place to the popular lecturer, and the church is less resorted to for instruction than the Mechanics' In stitute. This " emancipation of the intellect" has been the boast of the nineteenth century, but its fruits are crabbed and unwholesome. The poor peasant who makes his mark on the register of his child's baptism is, in nine cases out of ten, a more honest and respectable man than the town operative who divides his leisure be tween the newsroom and the debating class, the shilling novel and the penny concert. Let us be just : the educa tion that makes a human being an honest man—" Gbd's noblest work"—is not a matter of alphabets and numerals, but of right principles and proper feelings. He who fears God, honours the king, and loves his neighbour as him self, is sure to be a respectable member of society, both morally, socially, and politically, whatever amount of so called ignorance he may happen to be convicted of by Mr. Cobden. XVI. THE FREE LENDING LIBRARY.-If the branch of the library at the North Corporation Schools is to be of any extensive benefit to the public, it will be necessary to extend the hours of delivery, or to increase the efficiency of the librarian's staff. Even if the benefit be gratuitous, parties who have come a long distance should not be com pelled to wait half an hour or more, and then, seeing no chance of being served, have to return without the desired volume. Some allowance must, of course, be made for want of expedition at the commencement, but it ought not, under any circumstances, to take a quarter of an hour to issue three volumes, when thirty or forty people are waiting, as has, it appears, been the case hitherto. Then, as respects the hours of delivery—it may be very conve nient to the tradesmen and apprentices in the neighbour hood to attend between seven and nine in the evening, but it is not so for clerks and others residing at Everton, Kirkdale, and Walton, who leave their offices at six, and have to loiter about for an hour before the library opens. Nor is it particularly pleasant, especially during the win ter nights, to find oneself, between seven and nine, in the very midst of one of the worst localities in Liverpool, obliged to elbow the way through crowds of drunken and quarrelsome Irish, in Scotland-road, or Marybone, or Bur lington-street. The managers of the Free Public Library will do'well to re-model the arrangements for the north branch, and so extend its usefulness. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. G. Aldington, M.A., to the Curacy of Boughton Mon chelsea,near biaidstone. Rev. Samuel Arnott, M.A., to the Curacy of St. James's, Westminster. Rev. F. Borradaile ' M.A., to the Vicarage of Bishop's Norton:cum-Atterhy,Lincolnshire. Rev. H. T. Deacle; M.A., to the Curacy of Holy Trinity, Bungay, Suffolk. Rev. D. C. Delafosse, M.A., Rector of Shere, Surrey, to be one of the Domestic Chaplains to His Majesty the King of Hanover. Rev. H. Dowson, M.A., to the Curacy7of Church Eaton, Staffordshire. Rev. J. Dunkley, 8.A., to the Curacy of :St. Stephen's, Birmingham. _ _ _ Rev. H. Farish, M.A., to the Incumbency of Eccleshall, Bierlow Yorkshire. Rev. J. C. Gregory, late Curate of St. Clement Danes, London, to the Incumbency of Barnard Castle, Yorkshire. Rev. M. W. Gregory, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Roade, near Northampton. Rev. W. Holls, M.A., to the Rectory of Bradfield, with the Rectory of Rushbrook annexed, near Bury St. Edmund's. Rev. W. H. Hugel!, M.A., to the Incumbency of Tad.. dington, Derbyshire. Rev. R. Huxtable, M. A ~ to be Prebendaryin Wells Cathedral. Rev. W. Keene, M.A., late Haad-Master of Bishop Corrie's Grammar School, Madras, to the Perpetual Curacy of Whitby, Yorkshire. Rev. F. V. Mather, to the Curacy of St. Paul, Clifton. Rev. R. Mitchell, 8.A., to the Curacy .of Hope, near Ca st leton, Derbyshire. Rev. %%. B. De Moleyns, M.A., to the Curacy of Wrington, Somerset. Rev. A. P. Morris, M.A.,to be Morning Preacher at Arch bishop Tenison's Chapel, t. James's. Westminster. Rev. G. Naylor, 8.A., to the Rectory of Rougham, near Bury St. Edmund's. Rev. J. P. Oliver, 8.A., to the Chaplaincy of Her Majesty's ship Minden, . . . Rev. C. Otway, 8.A., to the Curacy of; Stoneleigh, War wickshire. Rev. F. Spurrell, M.A, to the Rectory of Faulkborn, Essex. Rev. D. L. Williams, M.A., to the Curacy of Carnarvon. Rev. E. Wood, MA., to the Incumbency of Bradfield, near Sheffield. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. LOWER WIIITLEY.—The yard or cemetery, recently, attached to this chapel, was• consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, for interments, on Tuesday last, the 15th inst. CHEADLE. — The piece of ground recently added to the churchyard of Cheadle is to be consecrated, by the Bishop of Chester, to-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 23rd instant. PREFER3IENT.—The Rev. Arthur Francis Sheppard to the Rectory of Lumplugh, in the county of Cumberland, void by the death of the Rev. Joseph Gilbanks. Patrons, the Trustees of the late John . Roper, Esq. Value, £256, with a house. The Rev. Russell Cope has been licensed to the Stipen diary Curacy of St. Peter's Church, Chester, on the nomi nation of the Rev. Frederick Ford, the Rector. THE REv. E. BOTELER CHALMER, jun., A. 8., senior curate of Tintwistle, near Manchester, has been appointed Association Secretary for the Northern District to the Colonial Church and School Society. A SEE NOT A SINECURB.—The Bishop of the Cape of Good Hope observes that his diocese is four times as large as Great Britain ; that many of his journeys have to be made in a cart or on foot ; and that he is to a large extent responsible for the support of each clergyman whom he appoints.. Natal is 1,200 miles from his see ; Graham's Town between 500 and 600 ; and at present the whole population of the diocese is 800,000. He mentions one truly astounding fact—that some English emigrants have actually been converted to Mahomedanism by certain Malay settlers! PRESENTATIONS VACANT.-The Rectory of Little Sax horn, near Bury St. Edmund's; value, £3OO a-year ; patron the Marquis of Bristol. The Vicarage of Bramford, near Ipswich ; value, £lOO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chap ter of Canterbury. The Rectory of Little Plumstead, with the Rectories of Blundall and Wilton annexed, near Nor wich • value, £BOO a-year ; patrons, the representatives of the late Incumbent. The Vicarage of Neateshead, near Coltishall; value, £240 a-year ; patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The Rectory of Curry Mallet, Somerset ; value, £4OO a-year ; patron, the Crown. The Rectory of Sal combe Regis, Devon ; value, £l5O a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. THE AMERICAN CHURCH.—A letter from New York, dated 28th ult., says :—" Since my last, our general con vention has met and adjourned. Its session, which was held in this city, has now become a matter of history, and we propose merely to give you a few remarks on its general character, and a short summary of its acts. It may be interesting. however, to some of your readers to learn how the convention or council, which the American church calls its general convention, is composed. It is composed of two houses, sitting separately, and the concurrence of both of which is necessary to the passage of any canon. The upper house, which sits with closed doors, is composed of all the bishops of our church ; and the lower, of four clerical and four lay delegates from each diocese, who are elected by the diocesan conventions, which meet annually, and are composed of all the clergy canonically resident in the diocese, and a lay delegation from each parish. The upper house now numbers thirty-two bishops, The senior bishop present presides, and the Rev. Dr. Balch, of Pennsyl vania, is its secretary. The lower house elects some pres byter for its presiding officer or speaker. The Rev. Dr. Creighton, of New York, at present fills that office, with great acceptance. The proceedings of this house are conducted with regard to parliamentary rules • and its proceedings are open to the publie, i.e., spectators are allowed to occupy the gallery of the church in which it is held, and large numbers of both sexes are usually present. Questions in this house are often decided viva voce, but when required by the delegation from any one diocese, the vote is taken by orders, the clergy and laity voting sepa rately. The delegation from each diocese has but one vote for either order, and a majority of both orders is required for the passage of any qusstion. This principle, which is observed in all our diocesan conventions, secures either order from any undue aggression on the.part of the other. ADMINISTRATION OF THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER. —An incumbent of the diocese of Manchester draws a doleful picture of the mode in which its affairs are admi nistered :—" Like other ambitious ones mentioned in history, who prayed for a King, we once prayed for a Bishop to be sent among us ; and we had every confidence that as soon as the old Chester diocese should be divided, it would be a happy day for the Church in these parts. But I solemnly assure you, sir, and it is the almost unani mous feeling of the Clergy here, that the work went on much more systematically and prosperously under the old regime than it does now ; and that any progress which has been made under the present system has consisted chiefly in a more careful looking after the fees. When the present Archbishop of Canterbury ruled over us, we never made a reasonable request in vain, and we were never disappointed, if once we had a promise. If he were written to, he scarcely ever lost a post in his reply. Now, excepting in extraordinary cases, we either get no answer at all, or it comes so late as to be of no service, or else greatly to in terfere with our othe r arrangem ents. lam told, indeed, that influential laymen, and one or two popu l ar preachers, of whom the Bishop has a salutary fear , can g et anything done they may with for at any time. - But an ordinary incumbent seems to be quite beneath all c onsideratio n ' There is evidently no occasion to treat him as a gentlenia. by even answering his letters. What we want is sib the performance of those duties without wh ich our eunr. can never prosper. We want the clergy to have a f . gir, share of respect from their own bishop, and nodehat It lshould be lavished on dissenting preachers. al, churches to be attended to, as well as mechanics tutes. We should like to have more time for necessV, intercourse with our diocesan. At present onlyone in every week is professedly set apart for this purer when the episcopal palace is, for a few hours, ex d for an office in town, attached to which is a small duty au disagreeable rocm, occupied by the clerks , whereng. ordinary visitors must wait until they are suram ° :. And happy that poor incumbent or curate who ca n &at: an early interview before the wealthy or the officious , t the querulous layman shall arrive ; otherwise he dance a long attendance, and, perhaps, have to repeat to the visit a second, or , it ma y b e , even a third Tuesday , h . neglect of important duties at home, ere his humble.aiPteli" cation can be attend e d t o . N ow , is this as it sh ould Is one day in a wee k su ffi c i en t for listening to t ile l ; peals, and consulti ng f or th e necess ities, of a cliocese this ? And yet even this is not what we get. Par- o ff mentary duties, and visits to distant friends, take °t too frequently from this small allowance, and we can° o.s get work done, and, consequently, we cannot pros Per ought. And so things go on, many self-denymg an d 11 '; working pastors sorrowing at the state of affairs amon.Est to and some, even if they have the opportunity, dreaawg n as • have an interview with one who should be lookeduP°o-00t a friend and a spiritnal father, but who receives with a scourge in the right hand. We do, indeed , 18. „ 1 1, a change m the state of things, and sympathy in " difficulties." FAMILY PRAYER. e a YD ME following pastoral letter has just been issil the Bishop of St. Asaph to nIY : Mr DEAR ARCHDEACON,—I have, in my charge clergy this year, pressed: upon them the duty of our to bring it to pass, that Family Prayer should be es _,, K re lished in every house in their parish. lam fully *raj that much delicacy is required in a work of this s ort, b cannot but hope that the blessing of the Most ill; would attend our exertions in endeavouring to earl so godly an attempt. f our I can hardly doubt but that the great majority to people will hail with joy the prospect of extendillo every hearth that blessing, of which they themselv es ,,„ the value. But there are three classes of persons IVO . ' " less cordially accept our exertions. In the houses of the great, there is often a diffiesN,b. assembling regularly all the members of a large estabp ment ; a real difficulty, of which they who have never b!7, connected with such matters are hardly aware. At tu 0 1 will happen that great people, who have never been us e d o, or who have neglected the custom, may be litt l e plessc; when the minister of the Gospel presses such matters 11 14, their notice. They may not like to be interfered wi the Now, our success in such a mission must depend ,°„„ 11 we Christian way in which our attempt i s ma de ; and "' we are in conscience bound to make the attempt, s o are the called on to mingle the wisdom of the serpent with pe r. simplicity of the dove. We m us t t r y to l e t such j a sons as we would convince see, that we ourselves ar e a . earnest in our desires to serve God, not to magnify selves, and to enforce our clerical authority ; —that we'; s to promote the good of their households by introdnel n L° Christian custom, not to constitute ourselves the direewo and masters of their families. It is not difficult for d humble Christian to do this ; but it is not easy for alloy us to be in truth humble Christians. We must V i n o wait our time. Mention the subject generally "•ty sermons. Give the owner of a great house an opPorbi;to of speaking to us. And if all other means and opP ° '''.. • nities fail, then it is generally easier to communicate letter than by word of mouth ; and in writing such ill, ter we have an opportunity of expressing our goo. and unwillingness to interfere, where duty does not c o tQ pel us to do so. Writing not as though we would Inl i bie ourselves lords over God's heritage, but as the h llll3 ~,l a servants of Him who never feared the face of man , ";j. will not allow His faithful soldiers to do so, when th e 5 ‘,,t vation of the souls of both master and servants rag be stake. In all this we must use much caution but we not be afraid of man ; and in such a case, if, be 1, special difficulty, it is easy for a clergyman to consult "" bishop. e re The next class of persons with regard to whom t may be some difficulty is of those who differ from ° of Church, and sometimes reject our ministrations , ill course we cannot hope to do much good to those wil° • ,15 not receive our ministry, but as in general all Christi en who profess a sense of religion approve of family P tto I cannot believe that any of our parishioners will objec it our inquiring whether they practise this godly en s tit and in case we find any who are negligent—will not au o f the propriety of our remonstrances, and the kindne ss tie the offer of assistance, in commencing the habit of dotae!,, A devotion, and should we find any so unreasonable, we only pray for them. The third class is the most numerous, and the most e n ; cult to deal with. I mean those who are so dead tO sense of religion that they admit not the duty of fam e prayer, and are offended at our mentioning the subje ct se them. There are in most parishes men who have no se ed of religion—who never hear our public exhortations, :9""t, are offended with our private admonitions. Now, we 113 to b like St. Paul (2 Cor. xii. 16), "being crafty, try t° e ti tod them with guile." We must not by our bluntness o ver y them, and drive them further from religion, but use Christian method to draw them to Christ. If we o n no hold on the parents, we must teach the children to P one and beseech God that these children so taught may br ara te the instructors of their parents. Many a prudent b ored has opened the door of a house, which has been long g who against him, by the h an d o f one o f t h e li tt l e one- all belong to that house. But we must use all patience, to gentleness, that, if it please God, we may win 6c)me er Christ, Who are at present deaf to the voice of the charn l .4 and remember that it was the importunateness of (I t o ° . widow which gained the attention of the unjust a That it was because he went on knocking that the fr ies obtained the loaves. f trYi lls- And here I cannot help mentioning the duty o bes t to teach our school children to pray at home. Th e the way of effecting this seems to me to be to en force to subject on them by oral instruction in school. Th e ,„. ll .ith accustom them to a form of prayer in school, which , -sec some small alterations, may become their bedside Pr 3 : a vy And then to ascertain from them personally and sever whether they do pray by themselves. Mel) I have distributed a form of school prayers sy— be have not yet ascertained the success, but which nin tte tl employed by the children themselves at home if corn° le to memory. The children, too, should be taught to nilliZre• in their regular forms of prayer such petitions as are necessary from their own special wants at the time. I have caused, also, a short tract containing sorae fi n'be liar forms of prayer for children and poor families be be reprinted from my Parochialia, which may P erbar b - oPq found serviceable in promoting this object. And by the assistance of some friends, to put out some fon.- family prayer in Welsh and English. j a ible When we have done all we may obtain but little success, but our Heavenly Father will a c cept our exer tn ' and I hope bless them to se of our people. 'VP * I shall thank you to give om this letter as much publi el you can, and to believe me, yours, truly, THOMAS VOWLER S T. To the Venerable Archdeacon Clough. HORTICULTURE. WnEnE there is a geometrically arranged flow er-P fir hig den, its utter want of beauty during the winter 0' 1 4,14 MY months is felt to be a great drawback. The beauti , , t ai pearance they present in summer makes the cont ras ho' disagreeable • a very little management will'A e tter ever, remedy this defect. Mr. Barron, the head g,r,: g eo: at Elvaston Castle, introduced the plan of filling .. .a y e ~p' metric beds with dwarf evergreens, grown in pots , P . '" lav dwarf by pruning ; by this means the beds, if not 50 ,the liant as in summer, certainly look very ornamentilin'o, and variegated varieties are extensively used at Elva: ,';f• 007 add much to the general effect. An abunilan ee „,., - cti °- evergreens may be obtained in considerable v 'r v lace" every good nursery, and they might be immediateY ' 10- 1 1 in the beds for the present season without p° 11 care t April they could be taken up and potted, and, if v l s:, e nea t for during the summer, would be in better tri to th e winter : they should be removed, when Pnt te t o uiet r j reserve garden. In placing these plants in the g co ves 7 garden, the plants, of course, should be entirelled oil with the soil of the bed, and they should be Pia c „ 3 0c t I close together, so as to produce a dense taa s ', g eine r brilliancy of effect may be introduced in this arl o d ot 0 by placing pots, filled with crocuses, snow-droP s ' -ergr spring flowering bulbs, between every alternate fruite' trthiee: of the marginal row. The season for prug i F nr ig of. lo it. and bushes has now commenced, and an w ill Pe'i c ie, kind should be proceeded with when leisar e ,„ chror t The following good advice, from the Gardenet7eoers _,,, s 0 will be valuable to amateurs and cottage gn;,..pple trees LopriNG.—Nothing shortens the lives: °' ~s e thel l t not much as the removal of large branches, beef." at I _, l ncegg from such amputations do not heal, t, e wow",rhis 0 readily. The surface of the cut blackens , .ne. v 0 and dies, water gets in and increases the als,r o . r aduthe the origin of those hollow trees which flu' re ted.i e olc pieces, if they are not at once broken or 11 1 3 the bin we ll wind. It should never be necessary to Ilse. heal is hn* 1e 0 0 in a properly managed tree; for, afterwhen t i o rs, trained in the nursery, it should be vi sited orth ree Its or down, if not every year, at least once in. tsv ° the shoe eac h in order to take off with the pruning . g uL luat cres s a ilf branches that are too close together, or i , g; ev eutn e other; and in general everything t hat free 0 1 ,74 prove injurious, either by preventing the frl,e4;;; Ti rig . .m t , and light between the branches, or by uff , ro ve bw_ n „ shape of the head, or that hangs over so as n tv ,5„ this in_l' t ful to the undercrop, should be cut off. .- 1 ° '''' et aciell perly requires intelligent foresight, unit ed _,, t° e ta a don, ie , i a acquaintance with the phenomena of vl hie h we b1,,, e with the habits of the species or varieties Nv ot reaeb,,r4 to manage. Where the pruning-knife v __ eea veine_ u t , averuncator is a good substitute. It is a t eg ses vi itb_l i instrument, which can be used in °8 rat the latter 173' getting up into the tree, and thus save es it almost invariao little bruises. After an abundant crop, a. been bent ci? _, happens that the lateral branches, ha nir , former position. If they were an cattle, and they wo uld Wog they would be within reach of this, the WV 11, with the weight of the fruit, cannot jeodmetobarcekmahtel tol;3'n branches soil too much. To remedy those ng should be ire4:41,1 take an upward direction. p should be cut back to one o o f n _ e -It gives the b/ in the winter following the heavy crop. of owing to the bending, usually,h- push graceful form, recruits the vigour thecae:, sa a more confining the sap to a smaller number better cror". bt allows the ground beneath to produce by the vie 4 any accident, such as breakage by wind or necessary, la• -- t e l./ of fruit, renders a large amputation _ l a le wax, or Forsyth's composition should be iinv`--iib • d as sPeedilY as applied, in ordert heal t1wN .......... :: .......... ..1n .th upshprr tssid"e, aciltle ------------ Pended tbe THE LONDON BAN3CRIJPTCY COURT has sir . v ,_,,, t ise certificate of Lord Huntingtower for six monttis,f:i;,aa• he did not keep books, which every person rendev P ''' self liable li N ab u l m e S to Eu th o e r b4n u k t ru Es p h tc a y ve la be w e s South Australia, from South America, and ere to th e til played in carrying . copper ore and fuel to and ''.- copper mines. nwimaspreedundintoto. die:be .ra;