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ANGELS' FOOTSTEPS. Beside an Infant, newly born The angels of the young life stand; Celestial rays their brows adorn, Celestial flowers are in their hand. "Seraph sister," whisper they, " We bring thee tokens from above ; Chosen for Immortality Thy mission upon earth is Love. " We seal on tby sweet, serious brow The cross of holy love and fear; That all who look on thee may know Thou art not meant to rest thee here. " From that all-radiant bow that bends The arch of peace around the Throne, This glorious beam the Spirit sends, To make the Seraph's smile thine own. " To veil thine eye's deep tenderness, See, Pity's holy tear is given; And, that thy every step may bless, Behold, from crystal streams of heaven " These flowers of memory we bring, That by thy footfall, child of God ! Heaven's own Forget-me-not' may spring, To tell where angel-footsteps trod." The Seraphim the new-born's cot Then strewed with flowers of azure pale; And whispering, "Forget me not," Each sped some younger life to hail. Fair, fair the infant seraph grew, And holier from day to day; So gentle, so benign, so true — She was:not meant on earth to stay. She past us on her pilgrimage, In her young hand sweet flowers she bore; Ab I never childhood, youth, or age. Forgot the smile that seraph wore. And as she went she scattered round Those azure flowers upon the sod ; God's own Forget-me-not is found Where'er her gentle footsteps trod. We marked on her sweet, serious brow The cross of holy fear and love; And yet we strove to keep below Her who was chosen for above I Fondly we prayed her yet to stay Awhile, earth's fullest joys to share; But she would upward look, and say, "Come thou with me—my home is there." Thus, sweetly smiling to the last, A denizen of worlds to come, Scatt'ring bright flowers, the pilgrim past Away, to her own Heaven-home. ever in the cause to which we have devoted ourselves. The triumph of the cause will then be our own ; and for us ruin can never arrive, as long as the cause is triumphant. Having dwelt so long upon the ambition, the disappointment, the battlings, and the sorrows of Haydon, we are warned to proceed at a more rapid speed with a consideration of the other papers which make up the magazine. These are nume rous as well as interesting, embracing, inter alia, " A Day in the Savoy Alps," and " Ninu•fid Obelisk," in which much antiquarian lore is brought to bear upon the subject. This is followed by three sweetly-versified metrical paraphrases of scriptural aphorisms. The succeeding paper is one of widely-diffused interest at the present moment. It is entitled, " France, Past and Present ;" and the author, with a vigorous and not unphilosophic eye, takes a glance at the present state of affairs in France, particularly in Paris, and contrasts it with what it was antecedent to, and at the conclu sion of, the last French war. For a few years past the attention of statesmen and politicians in both countries has been directed to the relative military prowess of Great Britain and France, many con flicting opinions having, during the period referred to, been uttered on both sides with a pertinacity of opinion, and in so defiant a manner, as almost to ensure that collision which each party affected to deprecate. The author of these notes, who takes some pains to make his readers understand that he has some pretensions to being a military oracle, as a matter of course, casts his eye inquiringly around for a solution of this problem, and treats us with the following Where bends the emerald arch of peace, In radiant iris-hues of glory ; Where the redeemed never cease The praise of Hallelujah Holy ! Where the pellucid, crystal sea Reflects the loved ones of the world ; And floats the flood of memory, The seraph stands with wings unfurled. She watches for the holy hour When sleep enchains the thoughts of sin; And mortal vision bath no power To mar the spotless seraphim. Then from that sea and iris' dyes, Gathering more flowers and brighter beams, The seraph angel hither flies, To bless her loved ones in their dreams. Through leafy trees the mourner's eye Still sees, at dawn, from yonder sod, That blue Forget-me-nots on high, Mark where her angel-footsteps trod. —Mara, in Dublin University Magazine. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. 2The Dublin University _Magazine for October:' Dublin : James 31`Glashan. This, the two hundred and fiftieth number, like most of its predecessors, is spirited and lively. It commences with one of those delight ful poetical wreaths which of late have formed an mteresting feature of its contents. The pre sent, under the name of " Leaves of October," contains a mélange of charming poetry from the pens of many poets, some new to fame, some only soaring into its enchanted realms. This chaplet from the bowers of song is strung upon a thread of golden tissue, spun by no less cunning a hand than that of our ancient friend Anthony Poplar, whose fine taste and delicate sensibility have fre quently lent lustre to the adornment of this ma gazine. This melange is followed by one of the racy and clashing series, " Irish Rivers," in which topography, statistics, and glowing descriptive imagery are blended with a skill and gusto at once overleaping the pales of dry propriety, and, like the graceful gambols of a startled fawn, bounding in wild freedom over meadow and upland, through thicket and copse, and away far up among heath hells and mountains ; a varied and devious flight, yet nimbly and joyously pursued. To this suc ceeds a sombre, indeed melancholy paper, illus trative of the unhappiness and ultimate misery of over-sensitive genius in its unequal struggles with the every-day world. The paper is founded on the auto-biography of Benjamin R. Haydon, the cele brated historical painter, whose life, like that of Barry, and other kindred'sons of the muses, whose lives have been embittered, and many of their best days wasted, in fruitless efforts to make men wiser and more refined than the circumstances of the age in which they lived would permit. The paper, though of great social importance, is tragic in its hues ; and in tracing the greatness of Hay don's achievements, and their melancholy results, the opportunity is not lost of inculcating the whole some lesson—that even the brightest genius can not drive society, although, judiciously employed, it may greatly accelerate the speed of social im provement, while directing it into a safe and profitable channel. At his opening, the author of this article says truly that mere repetition of effort is not enough to ensure success, but that these repetitions must be directed in the course by which they can best reach and penetrate the public mind. He thus particularises TM? DELUSIONS OF HAYDON. The aspirant who struggles with fortune for fame ought to be prepared for reverses, and know how to meet them. His duty is to bend before them, but rise up after they are past, and pursue his course. A long-continued effort of this kind, when it becomes conspicuous, is called heroism ; it often results in success.. But there is some thing more wanted than mere obstinacy,of intention in the face of obstacles, to justify the epithet and realize that lofty character. An insane shaking of the bars of his dungeon by a madman, though it were continued ever so long, would never command our admiration. And, on the other hand, petulance, ill-humour, vindictiveness, animo sity, and despair, exhibited by the struggler, deprive us of the power of appropriately designating his struggles. as heroic. That disappointment should be nobly borne is essentially necessary to the sympathy of the world for it. And no man can expect to be canonized in its affections who proves himself undeserving of its respect. Although, therefore, there are distinct reasons for our directing the reader's attention for a few moments towards the memoirs of a very remarkable individual, we must not be under stood as by any means adopting the unhappy artist's creed, as regarded either himself or his treatment by others. His whole career was a mistake—a mistake which ended fatally for himself. He believed he was born to be a great historical painter, and never could be brought to suspect that the cause of his failure might possibly lie in his own incapacity as well as in the stolidity of the public, :the corruption of the Academy, and the culpable apathy of Government. He wrote a partial autobiography, and a journal almost as comprehensive as an autobiography, as a warning to students of art—for so he expressly says ;—but only meant to be so as far as regarded the vexations and repulses that would beset them throughout their career, no matter what their talents and deserts might be ;—not by any means intending that his own reverses should put them upon a rigid self-scrutiny, with a view to prevent that collision between them and the world, in which the odds are so fearfully against the individual. In short, we must read the book before us from the beginning in the light of its close, and accept the revelation as another leaf in that mysterious record, the human heart, held up to us to humble our pride, and to reconcile us to our lot, by showing us what too fierce a resistance to it comes to at last. The summing up of the account between the gifted, though erratic, artist and the public, as given in the conclusion of the paper, is a truthful and pregnant corollary from its opening strictures, and may be entitled THE MISDIRECTION OF MA:YDON'S EFFORTS. Ambition took the guise of disinterested enthusiasm ; and that success which he achieved for his country, and ought to have gloried in, proved fatal to him, because he was not destined to be the immediate instrument as well as the remote means of its accomplishment. The magni ficent compartments of those halls in which the councils of f the Empire were thenceforward to be held, were not to ~,o1 enriched by the creations of his fervid imagination. _f_l B , which would have been a bearable disappointment to vistic patriotism, was a death-stab—a lethalis arundo-- rtY. And the " white hairs dabbled in blood" spoke, e ridgy affecting language, which is the last solution of the that Haydon was blind to the last—blind to his own true merit, fame ; to his position, to his success, to his real being , allowing himself only to see what he boasted of i s a moral. in ei a namely, petty and paltry vexations. There much, and soent2itisab It is a dangerous thing to write so world, thu s h ear t bett er than he t ened ' will out one's self, as Haydon did. The probe the autobiographer's thought. He will be seen through where he had flattered himself he had interposed the opacity of langua ge as d a screen between himself and us. His words will become conductors and radiate a truth w hi c h lies deeper th an themselves. 'Out of this truth we draw ou r lesson. Never let us assume the office of apostle, priest, or martyr, without first merging self once and for THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, HARDMAN-STREET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—l well remember that, when I first attended Divine Service at St. Philip's Church in this town, I was struck with the careful and reverent manner in which the service was performed, and such I believe to have. been the general character of the services of that church ; but, last night, I was sorry to observe a remarkable declension from this high standard. The Rev. Dr. Hook was preach ing, on the occasion of opening the church for evening service. Some alteration or renovation appears to have been made in the organ, and perhaps the choir thought that some of the honours of the day belonged to them ; at any rate there was an attempt, which I certainly never heard made in the church before, at musical responses, &c. Nothing, Sir, could be more unfortunate ; the hole thing was the completest failure imaginable. Unhappy in its conception, it was worse in its execution, and forfeited all that character which the services at St. Philip's might always before have justly claimed. I was sorry and grieved to observe the change, and it is to express the hope that it was exceptional—intended, perhaps, to honour the special occasion which it did but dishonour—that I trouble you with this note.—l am, Sir, &c., &c., September 30, 1853, A CHURCHMAN. INTONING THE CHURCH SERVICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Siii,--From the correspondence which has taken place in your columns on the subject of intoning the prayers and other parts of the Liturgy, I presume it is one which has excited much attention, at least among those who know how to appreciate the orderly performance of Divine Service. For my own part, I knew so little of the prac tice of what is called intoning, that I was anxious to hear and judge for myself, rather than be influenced by the many able arguments which have been advanced pro and con, and on Thursday last the opportunity was unex pectedly afforded me. I went to St. Philip's Church, to hear the Rev. Dr. Hook preach on the Feast of St. Michael and all Angels, and, to my surprise, found that the ser vice was intoned, and, as I was informed, for the first time, on the occasion of a new organ being opened. I am not actuated in the slightest degree by any pre judice against the practice, or, indeed, by any bias either way, except it is a desire to see some mode introduced by which the congregation generally may join heartily in the responses. In this instance, however, I was considerably disappointed, and feel much regret that on an occasion when so many strangers were present the mode in which the service was performed should be such as to deter many from repeating their visit. Whether the fault rested with the choir, who were imperfect in their training, or whether the practice is in itself unfitted for an untrained congrega tion, I will not pretend to judge ; but I think none who were present will dispute that it was an unhappy failure, and that it would have been much better had the service been gone through without any attempt at intoning. I can easily believe the possibility of a congregation who are regular in their attendance and partially in structed in music joining with good effect in a musical service where the minister leads in the same tone, which was not the case on 'Thursday last. But, unfortunately, in many of our Liverpool churches the congregations are of a fleeting character, and this would be particularly the case in the proposed new church, the establishment of wluch you have so ably commented upon. For this rea son, especially, I trust that the practice of intoning will not be attempted—at any rate, until the principles of music shall be as commonly known as the rudiments of our mother tongue. I am, Sir, Liverpool, October 1, 1853. NEMO. [We believe :that Thursday was the first time in which the practice of intoning was attempted.] CLERICUS complains of the Rev. Dr. Hook having preached at St. Philip's Church on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. We believe it was in order to suit the rev. doctor, who could not come on either Sunday, and therefore selected one of the festivals of the Church of England. If our correspondent would attend any of the services at St. Philip's Church, he would see much to admire, and nothing that the most scrupulous Evan gelical could object to. CORPORATION BATHS, ST. GEORGE'S PIER. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. - - SlR,—There is an old saying, "If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth . doing well." Now, if the Liverpool Corporation think i worth while to have Baths for the public at St. George's Pier, let them also consider it worth while to make the accommodation what it ought to be. I have, in the first place, to complain of the entrance from the street, which is exceedingly confined ; for if some one happens to be before you at the "toll gate," you are obliged to stand at the side of the footpath like a beggar waiting for alms from the passers-by. If, however, this thought does not strike you, the rain does, if it h a pp ens t o b e an aqueous day. Having at length got through the " turn stile," and the washerwoman's drying-yard, you are ushered into the waiting-room, in which locality you have generally to try your patience (if you want a warm bath) for about half-an-hour, as only four can be supplied at the same time. The said period appears twice as long, for nothing is allowed worth mentioning to beguile the te dium of waiting. , This was not the case a few years ago, for the table was well furnished with books and papers ; but gone is " the light of other days," and bathers must, I suppose, take up with the Corporation's dismal waiting room. St. George's Pier is decidedly a good place, for baths, but why are they not to be made worthy of the town of Liverpool ? Your obedient servant, A TRAVELLER. COMPARISON OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH ARMIES. On the 14th of August, 120,000 men defiled before the Emperor in the Place du Carousel. He took his station in front of the centre pavilion of the Tuileries, a little before two o'clock. The operations lasted until after five. The troops consisted of 85,000 regulars and 35,000 National Guards. It was a sight to make a Frenchman proud, and a foreigner respectful. I had not seen so large a force together since the great reviews of 1815-16, and examined them with an eye of eager curiosity. The impression left on my mind was, that I had seen as handy an army as a good general could wish to lead into the field of battle — ready for service, and fit for anything ; well disciplined, well appointed, quick in movement, robust and intelligent. The ranks of the National Guard contained more fat citizens of the John Gilpin cut than I thought Paris could produce. They looked as if they would rather be behind their counters. The artillery was superb, consisting entirely ofbrass 12-pounders and large howitzers. The cavalry numbered about 20,000. They are much better mounted than they were during the last war, particularly the heavy dragoons and cuirassiers ; still the men and their equip ments are too weighty for the horses. Every regiment of hussars has a different uniform ; the endless mixture of colours produces an effect somewhat bordering on the theatrical. The lately established corps of Guides appeared for the first time in-their full costume, and a magnificent body they are; formed on the same model as those estab lished by Napoleon under the Consulate, and evidently intended, as were their predecessors, for the nucleus of a future Imperial Guard. The infantry of the line are dressed alike, in plain blue coatees, brick-dust coloured pantaloons, and close-fitting truncated shakos. The flank companies carry a small straight Roman sword, in addition to the musket and bayonet. The dress is convenient for service, but not showy. The men generally are of small size, many of them mere boys. Such a regiment as the 79th Cameronian Highlanders, which I saw under arms a few days afterwards at Chob ham, covers half as much ground again, when drawn up in line with a front of the same number. In a hand-to-hand fight, or in a charge of bayonets, they would bear down three French battalions, by superior weight and muscular strength. But the French infantry soldiers are agile and dexterous, keep well together, handle their arms as if they knew how to use them, and are exactly the same sort of light, manageable materials with whi:h Napoleon nega tived the heavy Austrian tactics at Montenotte, and Massena confounded the dogged Russians at Zurich. A Frenchman is naturally a soldier, and acquires the mechanical training , almost by intuition. An English peasant, taken from the plough, is slow at his drill, and requires much more time to master the rudiments. French soldiers march more loosely than ours, and are less erect and military in their gait. Greater freedom is allowed in the ranks ; and from the general down to the drum-boy every' body has a cigar in his mouth. The regimental officers look as if they understood their business, but very few have the bearing of gentlemen. The heavy marching-order is not so ponderous as ours, and the knapsacks are more convenient. If the French army are badly paid, it is a mistake to suppose they are not well fed; they live on all sorts of light condiments ; and, as every man is a cook, he can make something savoury with a roll and an onion. The bands are nothing particular, but the drums are the best in the world. , The Minie rifle is not likely to come into general use. The ball is found to be too heavy and elaborate. A French army will assuredly beat any other continental troops, on. a fair .field, with equal numbers. But how would it be in a battle with England under the same conditions ? Experience says that we should win as before ; but they laugh at experience and tell us she is a superannuated old lady, not to be taken into the account. We have no wish to see the trial, unless it is forced upon us. When King Frederic William of Prussia showed his tall regiment to Lord Stair, he asked him if he thought an equal number of Englishmen could beat them ? "I cannot tell, your Majesty," replied the ambassador ; " but I think a smaller number would try." In a contest with a British army, the object of a skilful French general would be to manoeuvre from a distance, to harass by clouds of skir mishers and batteries of artillery, to turn the flanks, inter cept the communications, and to refuse close fighting. The English comma - rider, on the other hand, would seek every opportunity of bringing his troops into immediate collision ; to decide matters by heavy volleys and the force of the,bayonet. He who best carries out his own plan of tactics, will have the best chance of success. It seems strange, that a nation so practised in arms as the French, should persist in the old-fashioned infantry formation of three-deep, when drawn up in a line ; a system which neutralises the third rank for all active purposes, increases the number of casualties when they are exposed to fire, whether from artillery or small arms, and demands more men to occupy extended ground. They also invariably assail in dense masses of deep extent and narrow front, which cannot deploy in the face of a steady, concentrated fire. We have hitherto beaten their heaviest columns of attack in a slender line of two-deep, which has never been forced. The column is the obvious formation for compli cated movements ; but the Duke of Wellington always fought in lines, and the result of many battles proved that he had no reason to think he was mistaken. We speak of the science of war, without the slightest wish to see it illustrated by experiment. The present number contains three stirring chapters of the adventures of " Sir Jasper Carew, Knt.," besides other papers not enumerated in the foregoing list ; and concludes by one of those fantastic, yet delightful whimsies, which, under the name of " Nights with the Mystics," promise to afford unconnected observations on men, man ners; and passing events, in a manner somewhat akin to those delightful reveries which erst adorned the pages of " Blackwood," when Wilson, Lock hart, and others of the literary lions were in the heyday of their strength and grandeur. Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg. The Instructor for October opens heavily, as the share market is sometimes said to do, with an article on Walter Savage Landor, in which copious extracts are made from the writings of that singularly consti tuted recluse. The work first brought under notice is the extraordinary fiction entitled the " Citation and Examination of William Shakspere," in which Mr. Landor makes the great dramatist an organ for expressing many of the forms of his own peculiar philosophy. In this work the story hangs upon the supposed arraignment of Shakes pere before Sir Thomas Lucy, on a charge of deer stealing, and the interest of it consists in the manly and broad comprehensiveness of the de fence. Among other philosophical effusions which deck the forensic display, the great accused, in answer to the inculpator3 pleadings of the knight of Charlecote's chaplain, is made to utter the following BEHORTA.TION TO HUMILITY IN CLERICAL JUDGMENTS. Let us preachers (it is quoted as from a certain fictitious Dr. Glaston) who are sufficiently liberal in bestowing our advice upon others, inquire of ourselves whether the ex ercise of spiritual authority may not be sometimes too pleasant, tickling our breasts with a plume from Satan's wing, and turning ow heads with that inebriating peison which he bath been seen to instil into the very chalice, of our salvation. Let us ask ourselves in the closet whether, after we have humbled ourselves before God in our prayers, we never rise beyond the due standard in the pulpit ; whether our zeal for the truth be never overheated by in ternal fires less holy; whether we never grow stiffly and sternly pertinacious at the very time when we are reprov ing the obstinacy of others ; and whether we have not frequently so acted, as if we believed that opposition were to be relaxed and borne away by self-sufficiency and in tolerance. Believe me, the wisest of us have our catechism to learn ; and these are not the only questions contained in it. Learned and ingenious men may, indeed find a solution and excuse for all those propositions ; but the wise unto salvation will cry, " Forgive me, 0 my God, if, called by Thee to walk in Thy way, I have not swept this dust from the sanctuary." The writer in the review expresses a high admiration for the talents of Mr. Landor, as these are developed in his published works, and ventures to ensure for them, so far as his opinion can do so, an extensive fame and popularity in the future, to counterbalance the neglect with which they have been treated by contemporaries. The second article in the " Instructor' is ele vated to a much more material inquiry than the ethics or aesthetics of Mr. Landor. It applies to the consideration of preserving provisions without the use of salt—a subject of deep interest to a large class of the community, and to none more than to a maritime population like that which con stitutes so important a section of society in Liver pool. The paper professes to be descriptive of "A Visit to Ritchie and M`Call's establishment," in Houndsditch, where preserved meats are manufac tured. In the course of this visit the various pro cesses of preparation are cursorily described, the details of which are given with considerable gusto. Continuations of several stories begun in preceding tunibers are, in parliamentary phrase, " forwarded their several stages," and new matter is introduced in various ways. A paper, displaying considerable research, lays before the readers of the " In structor" an account of " Gold-finding in Scot land," proving, by incontestable evidence, that such an occupation is not new in Caledonia, although it cannot be denied that many of her per severinc, and intelligent sons have found, and suc cessfully worked, more fertile fields of golden en terprise in other lands than have as yet been opened on her own soil. The number concludes with an excellent article on the " Condition of Agricultural Labourers," made up of scraps from a pamphlet on the same subject, written by the Rev. Harry Stuart, A.M., and published by Blackwood and Sons. The Educational Expositor. Edited by T. Tate and J. Tilleard. September. London : Long- mans and Co. This periodical, although professing to expound the principles and methods of teaching, seems more decidedly addressed to the public as a means of justifying and inculcating certain doctrines as to the social status of teachers, entertained and en forced by a body designated the United Association of Schoolmasters. As we entertain grave sus picion of anythinc , or person which or who, under one pretence, endeavours to effect the accomplish ment of one object, while professing another, we are unable to place unlimited confidence in the purposes of this serial. If the opinions of the United Association of Schoolmasters be well founded and socially safe, let them be boldly and directly advocated. Side-winds and side-wind in struments are not in accordance with the genius and institutions of the British people, and, above all, are peculiarly unwelcome in the hands of those who guide our youth in the early steps of moral discipline. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. THE THEATRE ROYAL has, during the past week, afforded a rich banquet to the votaries of Thalia ;—comedy in her liveliest mood, decked in not a few of her most attractive lures, and attended by some of her broader and more fantastic features, having ruled the hour and graced the stage. Even the sparkle of wit and the blandishments of mirth have not, however, been sufficient to hold undi vided sway in this her temple, nor have the emotions of pleasure been unalloyed by the intrusion of painful thoughts, suggested by the leave-taking of a veteran and favourite artist. Who, in even the slightest degree ac quainted, with the high character which English comedy has attained, is not aware how much it owes to the correct taste of William Farren ? Who, of all the play-goers, is not familiar with the endearingly-remembered name of " Old Farren," a soubriquet the actor had earned and honour ably worn, ere the present race of his admirers could dis tinctly articulate—even lisp his name ? This artist, whose history and fame are indissolubly linked with the best performances of " genteel comedy" which the past and present heroes of the " sock and buskin" can recal to memory, still treads our boards, but only to take leave of us in his public character for ever ; and in parting with the veteran we feel deeply penetrated with the impression that we " shall not look upon his like again." Ere retir ing from the mimic scene to, we trust, a long enjoyment of those laurels he has achieved, he has come to take a kindly farewell of the friends and admirers whose affec tion he has won, and whose esteem he has secured in Liverpool. In thus parting from one with whom we have been long familiar, and whose presence has, at all times, been associated with pleasurable emotions, we cannot but feel that another link of life's mysterious chain has been cut off, and we are forcibly, however reluctantly, reminded, " That Time, who steals our years away, " Shall steal our pleasures too." Fully appreciating those painful truths, we have witnessed the performances of Mr. Farren during the past week with emotions of pleasure, mingled with regret, he having within that period repeated, for the last time on our boards, several of his best characters. To offer a criticism on his delineations of character, would be now a work of superero gation, if not deserving of a harsher name ; his impersona tions have stood the test of time, and have been honoured by applauses from the highest and most cultivated intel lects of his time, including the fastidious plaudits of the aristocracy of birth,—the not more easily acquired, or less highly-prized approval of those, whose 'right to judge has been founded and reared on intellectual supremacy ; nor has the hearty sympathy of unsophisticated nature been wanting to swell the chorus of his triumphal song. The pathos of his Grandfather Whitehead has struck a chord of kindred melody in every breast, from prince to peasant, while the irascible fire which gleamed through the " fitful fancies" of his Sir Anthony Absolute has formed a theme for learned disquisition, and been stamped as true by the hard hands of the unlettered sons of toil. To volunteer praises now in favour of such varied and so generally ad mired exertions, would be indeed "to gild refined gold ; " I but, even •at the hazard of incurring the charge of 'seeming officiousness, we cannot allow the opportunity to pass, without recording—as briefly as needlessly and inadequately,—our admiration of that quiet, graceful, un obtrusive, yet polished, elegance of manner, combined with delicacy, tact, and earnest sensibility, which he infuses into his representation of that magic character—a gentleman. In this class of delightfuls, we must include his representa tion of Sir Peter Teazle and Squire Broadlands, in both of which characters the touches of genuine good feeling and high-toned sentiment, the latter the result of social position, are beautifully and artistically put in ; while the confiding simplicity and native goodness of heart of Dr. Primrose, "in the Vicar of Wakefield," were also delineated with masterly skill. His Lord Ogleby, "in the Clandestine Marriage," is a character of different stamp, depending more upon external grace than on moral quality, and, as such, more calculated to take the eye than to enlist the sympathies. Its personation fixes itself less deeply in the memory, but even there the grace of polished 'manners, as delineated by Farren will not be speedily forgotten by those who have beheld him. Of Mrs. Phillips, the lady who accompanies Mr. Farren in his farewell tour, it would be difficult to speak in terms too highly to be unjustified by her performances. Her Lady Teazle, a trying character, was distinguished by a fine display of natural talent, made the most of by judicious culture. Her demeanour is winning, arch, refined ; her acting combines lady-like dignity, united to perfect ease. The sallies of wit and repartee flow from her tongue, untinctured by malignity ; and in the trying scene in the library of Joseph Surface, where her own humiliation is most complete, her confes sion was marked by a deep sense of moral rectitude, un contaminated by the slightest grossness. In Mrs. H. Wallis, Mrs. Candour found 'an able representative. The pertinacity of her attacks on character of every kind was characteristic and telling, while her vivacity and em pressement in following up the wildest sallies of a vindic tive imagination, made the character in her hands stand out in all its individuality and force. As Maria, Miss F. Baker was pleasing and unobtrusive. Among the male performers, it would be wrong to pass over in silent appro bation the very pleasing and gentleman-like performance of Charles Surface by Mr. F. L. Villers • the Joseph Surface of Mr. Loraine, and the Crabtree Of Mr. Baker, - were also very creditable displays of acting. A burlesque on Shakspeare's " Merchant of Venice," introduced to the notice of a Liverpool audience Mr. Robson, a comedian of brief experience, but, to all appearance, of very diversified, as well as extensive, capability. By no means partial to that portion of ' the drama which is generally known as "the burlesque," we are constrained to make very favour able allowance for it in the hands of such an actor as Mr. Robson, and, aided chiefly by the excellence of his acting, the piece above referred to met with a highly flattering reception. It has been repeated several times, and each time seems making its way still further in popular estima tion, Mr. Robson has also appeared with equally marked success in what may be called the walk of regular farce. He has been well supported by the talent of the resident company, and promises fairly to become an established favourite in our theatrical circle. THE ROYAL. AMPIIITIIEA.THE has, during the past week, been the scene of Mrs. Stirling's histrionic triumphs, that lady having appeared in several characters, and in each displayed her varied talents. On Thursday she took her benefit, and on that occasion repeated her favourite part of Peg Woffington. The play was, as it has usually been, received with loud and frequently repeated applause. The preceding night had been devoted to the benefit of Miss F. Baker. This young lady, who is rapidly rising in popular estimation, was countenanced by a numerous assemblage of her friends and admirers. The pieces selected were " My Wife's Daughter," the " Midnight Watch," and an afterpiece ; the characters of Clara and Pauline being sustained by Miss Baker with her custo mary good taste. She was supported by Mrs. Stirling, and the pieces afforded scope for displaying the talent of the resident company. LIVERPOOL AMATEUR GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION. — On Friday evening, the members of this society gave their fifth public concert, which, we were glad to see, was well attended. The concert took place in the Clayton-hall, Clayton-square, being the first:, public performance there. As we stated last week, the hall is tastefully fitted up ; it is well lighted, and in most respects is very convenient, so far as the audience department is concerned, with _pro bably only one exception—the ventilation — which appears scarcely up to the requirements of a large audience. On the occasion alluded to, the hall was by no means over crowded, yet even in the reserved seats the heat was marked and unpleasant. The concert commenced ap propriately with the " National Anthem," which was sung effectively, and in good taste. In Mendelssohn's fine glee " On ;the Sea," the powers and training of the members, were well and favourably displayed under the judicious conducting of Mr. Lidel. The telling counter-point of this composition was well marked, and the general execution of the piece was such as richly to merit the applause it received. Hatton's song, of " The Sky Lark," was given in a simple yet effective style by Miss Stanley. This young lady has a voice of much sweetness ; it is of good compass, and her denieanour and enunciation are both pleasing. At the conclusion of the song, she was loudly applauded, and enthusiastically encored ; in complying with the call for her re-appearance, she sang another piece which she also gave with much effect. On the piano, Miss E. George performed a difficult solo, a capriccio by Liszt, from " Lucia di Lammermoor." This lady, who is a youth ful performer of much grace and promise, is possessed of many personal and professional attractions; and her style of instrumentation was at once pleasing and effective. Her touch is delicate, and she infuses no small amount of expression into her play. The audience attested their own judgment, and the excellence of her performance, by a unanimous and hearty encore. In the second part of the concert Mr. Lidel gave an "Irish Fantasia" on the violoncello, in capital style, and was de servedly greeted with loud applause. The madrigals and glees were generally given in , a style of excellence which reflects much credit on the exertions of the performers, and in such a manner as to afford good ground for con gratulating Liverpool in being able to number so well or ganised a body of resident musicians among its intellectual institutions. Before closing it would'be invidious not to mention that the piano -forte accompaniments were very skilfully given. ITHE TATLEUR, new ship, which has been built at Warrington, will be launched Ibis slay (Tuesday). THE ST. GEORGE'S BATHS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—At this cold season of the year it has been usual to make the plunge-bath at the Pierhead tepid. This has not been done this year, and the consequence is, that the water is not fit to bathe in. The number of bathers has fallen off to three-fourths the usual average. It waB, it is true, warmed for afew days about a fortnight since ; but now the weather is . colder, this has been changed. By giving this a corner m your valuable paper, you will confer a favour upon your constant reader, SWIMMER EVERTON AND. KIRKDALE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. . SIR,—I notice in the Mercury of last Friday, and since then in many other papers, that Mr. Samuel Mellor is to be returned, without opposition, for the wards of Everton and Kirkdale. As one of Mr. Mellor's supporters in 1850, I must distinctly state that I have been much disap pointed in him ; we have not had his presence in the ward more than once or twice since he was returned; and, from what report states, he has been mixed up in matters which render him otherwise objectionable to his consti tuents. We want a practical man to represent so large a constituency (1,600 voters), and I have much pleasure in informing the burgesses of Everton and Kirkdale, that such a candidate will be found at the poll on the Ist November, and, if I mistake not, will be triumphantly returned. Do not, therefore, allow the constituency to be cajoled into signing any requisition to Mr. Mellor, on the understanding that he is not to be opposed next month. —I am, Sir, yours, respectfully, AN ELECTOR OF EVERTON. Liverpool, 3d October, 1853. THE BISHOPRIC OF GLASGOW. TO VIE EDITOR •OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIB,,—A paragraph, I perceive, is now going the roundof the papers, to the effect that the Right Reverend Dr. Trower has resigned the bishopric of Glasgow and Galloway, and that the Honourable and Reverend J. Liddell is thought of as his successor. I beg, upon authority, to inform you that neither Mr. Liddell nor any other party has for a moment been thought of as likely to succeed Bishop Trower. I also take this opportunity to inform the public that, at a synodical meeting of the College of Bishops, held in Edinburgh, on Thursday last, a memorial was presented, signed by all the clergy in the diocese of Glas gow, praying the College not to accept Bishop Trower's resignation ; and the result of the Synod was, that the Scottish Bishops unanimously declined to receive the re signation of Bishop Trower. You will thus see that no change is to be made in the Episcopate of Glasgow and Galloway. lam glad that this is so, and I pray God that Dr. 'l'rower may long be spared to rule over the diocese in which he is so much beloved and venerated.—l am, Sir, very obediently yours, GEORGE ASPINALL, Ph. D., Incumbent of Duffus. Edge-hill, Liverpool, October 3, 1853. CURE OF CHOLERA. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sru,—You will doubtless, with every other respectable and judicious journalist, feel much interest in any measure which can in the least degree either avert or remedy the direful scourge with which the North of England is now visited, and which, in all probability, will again do its work of destruction throughout the island. I have read, with much satisfaction, a pamphlet published by G. E. Waterton, giving an interesting account of the progress of cholera from an early period ; and it appears that during the epidemy of 1849, that gentleman, with great success, administered to numberless persons in Leeds and its locality, a specific discovered by himself—of the efficacy of which the pamphlet in question affords the most unde niable proof. In my opinion it is of national importance that its merits should be widely diffused; and if, as I believe is the case, an effectual remedy has been brought to light, it is high time, and indeed it is the bounden duty of the authorities to possess themselves of this important discovery, and save, by its ministration, a vast amount of life, which otherwise must be again sacrificed to the ma lignity of this dire pestilence. Though it appears that the discoverer of this specific is not one of the faculty, he is evidently well informed upon the nature of this disease ; and why should human life be sacrificed by any prejudice, either of the medical profession or a sceptical portion of the public ? If the medicine be an instrument of good, let us have the benefit of it, and be grateful to the dis coverer, who, under God's providence, has been the means of relieving so many of his suffering creatures. From all accounts the cures it effected are truly mar vellous, for thousands in the locality where it was used attested its excellence from personal experience of its benefits. Can you, Mr. Editor, advise any course by which, in the first place, it can be brought before the notice of the authorities of this town, and if, after the fullest test of its merits, it should be found to be so well adapted for the emergency, pray let some immediate steps be taken to secure its valuable agency in this populous locality. I am, Sir, yours obediently, STEPHEN F. KNOWLES. Birkenhead, Sept. 29th, 1853. P.S.—I was present at a meeting held at Hunslet, near, Leeds, in February, 1860, when a purse of 280 sovereigns and other presents (got up by public subscription) were presented to G. E. Waterton for the good effects pro duced by the =dicing in question. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS, Rev. S. J. Altmann, to the Incumbency of the new church of St. Andrew, Thornhill-square, Islington, London. Rev. W. S. Austin, M.A., late Rector of All Hallows, Lom bard-street, London, to the Rectory of Bentley, near Col chester, Rey. W. G. Barker, M.A., to be Director of the Church Mis sonary Children's Home, Highbury-grove, Islington, Lon on. Rev. F. L. Bazeley, ➢I.A.. to the Rectory of Bideford, Devon. Rev. J. Blackhurne, M.A., Honorary Canon of York, to the Rectory of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Rev. R. H. K. Buck, 8.A., to the Rectory of St. Dominick, Cornwall. _ Rer..T. Buckley, M.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of M.A., near Malmesbury. Rev. J. Chapman, M.A., to the Vicarage of Arnesby, near Leicester. _ _ . Rev. A. J. Emnson, 8.A., of Downing College, Cambridge, to the Rectory if Eydon, Northamptonshire. Rev. H. Gale, 8.C.L., to the Incumbency of the new church at Studley, in the diocese of Salisbury. Rev. P. A. Lyons, to the Curacy of Dunmore, county Galway. • Rev. S. H. Meyriek, Vicar-Choral and Residentiary Preacher of /Amore Cathedral, to the restored Honorary Prebend of Mondeligo, in the same Cathedral. • Rev. N. B. Milnes, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Ulyerston, Lancaster. _ _ Rev. J. R. Nankivell, M.A., to the Curacy of Huish, Devonshire. Rev. G. Onslow, M.A., Curate of St. Paul's, Deptford, to the Rectory of Catmore, near Wantage. Rev. W. Seaton, M.A., to the Incumbency of Christ Church, now in course of erertion at Pennington, Leigh, Lancashire. Rev. G. Sharp, M.A., Curate of Illoga n, to the Vicarage of Merthyr. Rev. G. Shea, to be Assistant Curate of Galway. Hon. and Rev. T. C. Skeffington, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire. Rev. T. S. Wallace, 8.A., to the Curacy of Great Budworth. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. Howard St. George, to the Perpetual Curacy of Billinge, in the parish of Wigan, in the county of Lancaster, void by death of the Rev. J. Bromi low. Patron, the Rector of Wigan. Value, £165, with a house.—The Rev. Robert Smith, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Bollington, in the county of Chester, on the nomination of the Rev. J. A. Aston, the Incumbent. VACANCY. — The Rectory of Lamplugh, in the county of Cumberland, by death of the Rev. Joseph Gilbanks. Value, £256, with a house. NEWBURGH. — The Bishop has granted a further license for divine services in the new church at Newburgh, in the parish of Ormskirk, in the county of Lancaster, for two years, obstacles to its present consecration still existing. THE REV. H. J, HINDLEY, curate of Walton-on-the- Hill, has been presented by his congregation with a purse containing 80 guineas. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.- - The Dean and Chapter of Lin coln, at their recent audit, increased the salaries of the Lay Vicars by £lO each, upon condition that they shall attend the afternoon services. The salary of the organist has likewise been augmented. Cnuucn OF SCOTLAND.—The enthroning: of the Rev. Charles Wordsworth, warden of Trinity College, Glen almond, and recently elected bishop of the united diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dumblane, took place in St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, on Wednesday. CONFIEMA.TION.—On Wednesday, the Lord Bishop of the diocese held a confirmation in St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, for the district of St. Mary, Holy Trinity, St. John, St. Ann, and Claughton. The number of young persons of both sexes who received the rite amounted to 450, and their serious and proper demeanor excited the warmest commendation__ TESTIMONIAL. — On Wednesday, the Rev. D. T. Barry was presented with a very handsome pocket communion service, with silver plate engraving on the outside, bearing the following inscription:—" Presented to the Rev. D. T. Barry, 8.A., late curate of St. Paul's, Prince's-park, by the teachers of the Sunday school, as a tribute of their affec tionate esteem." CONSECRATION OF FREDERICTON CATHEDRAL. THE following is an account of the consecration of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick, abridged from The Head Quarters, a Fredericton paper : Wednesday, August 31st, being the day appointed for the consecration of Christ Church Cathedral, newly erected in this city, was the occasion of a large assemblage of Bishops, clergy, and laity, from the United States, Nova Scotia, and all parts of this diocese, who felt an interest in this great and glorious work. At ten o'clock the Bishops of Quebec and Toronto, Bishop Southgate, Rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, and our own revered diocesan, were met at the Province-hall by sixty of the clergy, vested in surplices, several members of the bench and bar, in their robes, officers of the 76th Regiment, the worshipful the Mayor, and other distinguished inhabitants of the city and neigh bourhood, who formed in procession, and, attended by little boys bearing banners, on which were depicted the arms of the North American colonial sees, and other ap propriate and ecclesiastical devices, advanced towards the building. On reaching the cathedral green, the clergy commenced chanting the 121st Psalm, and on approaching the great western doors they filed off, allowing the Bishops to pass through and take the foremost place in the procession, which then moved slowly up the nave, chantino. the 24th Psalm to the sth Gregorian tone. At the 7th verse the choir took up the solemn strain, and the full peal of the noble organ burst forth as an accompaniment to the Gloria' Patri. It was an impressive and overpowering scene, and the heart of many a brother and sister in the Lord was sensibly and deeply affected when the venerable prelates, and doctors, and presbyters, thus joined with one voice in the triumphant melody of the Church's ancient song. It may be mentioned here that the doors of the cathedral were thrown open half an hour before the arrival of the procession for the admission of the wives and daughters, and the aged and infirm members of the chhurch ; these having been cared for, and those who formed the pro cession provided with seats, the doors were open to all, and while the gentlemen who had kindly undertaken the trying office were engaged in finding accommodation for the congregation, as far as it was possible to do so, a suitable voluntary was performed on the organ. The building was soon filled in every part, and it was remarked by many, to the honour of the vast concourse of people there assembled, that they had never witnessed more quiet, orderly, and devout conduct in the house of God. The Bishop of the diocese then commenced the con secration service from the throne in the choir, and the sentence of consecration having been pronounced by the Rev. F. Coster, rector of Carleton, St. John, morning prayer was read by the Rev. Richard Podmore, curate of St. Anne's Chapel. The first lesson was read by the Rev. Dr. Haight, Professor in the Theological Seminary of New York ; the second • lesson by the Rev. W. Q. Ketchum, curate of the parish. The exhortation was read by the Yen. George Goster, archdeacon and rector of Fredericton, and the anthem by Dr. G. Elvey, organist of St. George's Chapel Royal, Windsor, commencing: with the words, " Open ye the gates," (Isaiah xxvi. 2), was skilfully sung by the bishop's choir, consisting chiefly of volunteers residing in the city, who were on this occasion assisted by the Carleton choir, and some members of the choirs of Trinity and St. Paul's Churches, St. John. The Litany was read by Rev. Dr. Edson of Lowell, Mass., and I then followed a hymn sweetly sung by thirty children of both sexes, who came forward from the south transept into the choir for that purpose, and touching and beautiful it was to hear the praises of the adorable Trinity rising for the first time within those now hallowed walls from the lips of the youthful members of Christ's holy Church. The communion service was commenced by the Bishop of the diocese. The epistle being read by the Bishop of Toronto, and the Gospel by the Bishop of Quebec. The sermon was preached by Bishop Southgate, from Psalm cxxii., verses 8 and 0, and was an able and eloquent ad dress, expressive of the deep joy felt by the members of the American Church in this event, as au earnest of the wider extension of Catholic unity. I After the sermon, the alms of the clergy, collected by a deacon, and those of the people by the churchwarden and others, were by the Bishop humbly presented on the altar. They amounted to upwards of £2so—the largest collection made, it is believed, at any one time in British North America. The holy communion was then administered by the Bishop, assisted by presbyters, to a large number of communicants, who retired from this first service in their new cathedral, we may firmly trust, with feelings of devout thankfulness to Almighty God for putting it into the heart of their spiritual Father to build this beautiful church for His glory and their good, and with humble prayer that His blessing and presence in the place where He has now recorded His name, may indeed be among them and remain with them for ever. At half-past six o'clock the cathedral was again filled with worshippers, when evening prayer was offered up with the accustomed musical service. The anthem com posed by Dr. Boyce was taken from Job xxvii., commenc ing with the words, " Where shall wisdom be found ?" The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Quebec, for merly rector of this parish, from Ist Chronicles xxii. 1, and contained a masterly defence of the principle of devot ing the best of God's gifts in nature and art to the deco ration of His house, and the solemn celebration of the divine offices. After the sermon, Handel's Hallelujah Chorus was sung by the choir, most effectively accompa nied on the new instrument by U. S. Hayter, Esq., organist of Trinity Church, Boston, and formerly of Hereford and Salisbury Cathedrals, to whose kind co-operation and valuable services the members of the Church in this city are much indebted. A collection was then made, amount ing to £l4, and after the congregation had dispersed, the Bishop addressed the choir in a few affectionate and en couraging words, acknowledging their attention to their duties, and the efficient manner in which they had been discharged. On Thursday, morning prayer was read, and the anthem selected was by Dr. Blow, to the words, " I beheld, and 10, a great multitude," (Rev. vii. 3). Morning prayer being ended, the Bishop, seated in front of the altar, de livered his triennial charge, which was listened to with breathless attention by a large concourse of laity as well as clergy. It would be vain and presumptuous in these short limits to attempt anything like an analysis of this most eloquent composition; full as it was of sound and Catholic principles, enunciated in that vigorous and lucid style which characterises all the productions of the Bishop's pen, and uttered with the impressiveness of a wise coun sellor, the affection and sympathy of a kind father and friend. Evening prayer was again read at half-past six, and the anthem on this occasion, taken from Psalm cxlvii. 3, was composed by the Bishop, and now performed for the first time. The sermon was by the Rev. Dr. Haight, on St. John iv. 34 ; in the exposition of which passage, the preacher set forth in forcible and glowing language the pre-eminent importance of spiritual worship, which, though it be necessarily connected with external acts and observances, yet must not in any wise be superseded by them. After the sermon, a further collection was made, amounting to gl4, and the Hallelujah Chorus was again performed. w as read, and the On Friday morning, the Litany o nl y clergy then proceeded to business, which was conducted with the greatest tinanimity and brotherly love. In the evening crowds were again assembled within the walls, and the choir was also full of its willing and unwearied occupants ; the anthem was by Dr. Croft, to Psalm 32 and following verses, and these interesting and de lightful solemnities were brought to a close by a sermon from Rev. Dr. Edson, on Eph. iv. 4,5, 6, in which he earnestly exhorted the congregation to cultivate the spirit of christian love and catholic unity. The collection at this service amounted to £9, making altogether, with a further donation from• a lady in Fredericton, the large sum of a3O is. 2d. After evening service on Friday, an address was pre sented to the bishops and clergy who had come from a great distance, and with some difficulty, to be present at the feast of consecration. The Lord Bishop of Quebec responded for the colonial clergy and also his brethren, that he and those who journeyed with him felt it a high privilege to be permitted to take part in these services. Bishop Southgate spoke on behalf of himself and the clergy from the United States. He said that, though in the course of his eventful life he had been brought into contact with the Catholic Church in many countries, and had been present on many great and memorable occasions, none had left on his mind a deeper impression than this glorious event, fruitful as it was in import and interest, and indicative of the great truth, that the members of the Anglican Church, under whatever civil government Divine Providence may have placed them, are one in the bonds of mutual love and fellowship, and in union with their great Head. An address was then read by the Venerable Archdeacon, conveying to the Bishop of Fredericton the warm congra tulations of his clergy on the completion of his cathedral church, and an expression of their respectful desire to possess in a more permanent form the excellent charge they had heard the day before. The Lord Bishop thanked the clergy for the kind feelings and sympathy they had evinced towards him, and said he was confident that a report of the proceedings of the last three days would be read with the liveliest satisfaction by his old parishioners and friends in England, who had followed him from the time he left them until this day with their fervent prayers, and who would extend their sympathy and prayers to all the clergy of the diocese, when they saw them aiding their bishop in the completion of this work. Thus terminated the proceedinge of these long looked for days, and, in spite of any deficiencies which have existed, and may still exist, the crowded congregations, the reverent demeanour of the worshippers, and the large amount of the offertory collections, show that the great body of the people take a very hearty interest, and an honest pride, in their new cathedral church. We hear that a public meeting of the parishioners is in contempla tion, for the purpose of closing the cathedral accounts, and presenting the Lord Bishop with an address of con gratulation on the happy accomplishment of his anxious Labours on their behalf. Both of these objects will meet, we are sure, with the ready concurrence of every right minded member. of the community; but we need hardly say that the presentation of an address of this nature would be premature while the former object remains un attained. If we would view with unmitigated satisfaction the sacred structure which now stands forth, complete in all its parts, and ready to embrace within its walls high and low, rich and poor, one with another, let us now come forward with hearts yet warm with the flame of devotion, kindled by the solemnities in which we have been engaged, and free the noble founder from all further responsibility and anxiety in this matter, and then offer our grateful acknowledgments for his indomitable and ceaseless exertions for our temporal and eternal edification. " Freely ye have received, freely give." CHURCH TEMPORALITIES AND CLERICAL POVERTY. (FROM THE " JOHN DULL.") OF all the anomalous and cruel positions in which our social system abounds, there is none, perhaps, more anoma lous or more cruel than that in which the so-called " work ing. Clergy" are placed. In no other country is the dis proportion so glaring between the wealth of the community at large and the scantiness of the provision made for the support of the Clergy. The perusal of a page or two of the advertisements for Curates which appear in the Ec clesiastical Gazette, will furnish abundant proof that men of education, brought up, at a great expense, in the position and with the habits of gentlemen, are "in the market" on terms on which no man, having a decent character to refer to, would take a situation as butler, coachman, or valet. The greater part of the work of our Church is carried on by men whose professional income does not exceed, often does not come up to, the wages of a skilful mechanic, or even to those of the labourer who carries the bricklayer's hod. And this is the case, not only with regard to those who, as Assistant Curates, fill subordinate positions, in which their responsibilities, and the demands made upon them, are limited, as well as their means ; many In cumbents, belonging to the class designated as " the bene ficed Clergy," are doomed to subsist on equally insufficent incomes, while they are expected to sustain all the burdens, spiritual and temporal, which devolve upon a person having cure of souls. Our New District Churches, being wholly or mainly provided for by that most objectionable mode of raising an income for the Clergyman, the system of pew rents, do not furnish to their Incumbents more than a bare subsistence, and often not even that ; so that it may well be questioned whether, of the two, the position of " Per petual Curates," or that of Assistant Curates, is the worst and the more onerous. That under such a state of our ecclesiastical affairs every "season" brings round long Ordination lists, containing the names of numberless young men, two-thirds of whom, at a moderate, calculation, are thus voluntarily, and with their eyes open, dooming themselves to a life of privation, without going through the ostentatious ceremony of a " vow of poverty," is a fact which speaks well for the spirit of the rising generation, and for character of our Universities and other Seminaries of learning. As, how ever, lie who rides a willing horse to death is not the less an inhuman brute because the horse is willing, so the devotion of "the working Clergy" to the duties of a pro fession whose labours are so ill-requited, does not remove the reproach to which the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth is justly liable for keeping their Clergy down to starvation allowance. We are quite aware that many deem it a sufficient excuse to point to what is called " the overgrown wealth of our Church establishment," as furnishing both an explanation of this state of things, and an apology for it. This, however, is no more than an ex cuse,—a convenient and a plausible one, we admit,—for salving over the consciences of a laity who, with rare but honourable excepitons, have become wholly insensible to the duty of appropriating a portion of their worldly sub stance for the Service of God and of His Church. The greater part of the endowments which constitute the wealth of our Church, consist of property devoted by the piety of our forefathers to the particular localities and institutions to which they are attached. They were not intended to relieve posterity of a duty which is com mon to Christians of all ages, the duty of contributing towards the support of the ministrations of religion. The most glaring mis-appropriation of these endowments—as is the case of the Hospital of St. Cross—is not a greater departure from the spirit and intention with which our ancestors set apart a portion of their property for religious uses, than is the neglect of that sacred duty on the part of the present generation, under cover of the alleged sufficiency of the religious endowments of former ages. Nor, irrespectively of this consideration, would these endowments be, as is often alleged, sufficient to meet the existing wants of the Church. They would not be found more than sufficient to effect the objects for which they were created, if those objects were properly carried out. Our Cathedral endowments, for example, which of all our ecclesiastical endowments have been most obnoxious to the spoliation schemes of the pseudo-Church-reformers of the present age, would not be found more than sufficient for the various purposes for which the institution of the Cathedral was originally designed,—not only to present a model to the whole diocese of the decent performance of Divine worship, of daily Service, and weekly Communion, —but to surround the Bishop with an Ecclesiastical Council for the government of the diocese ; to afford opportunities of preparation for their sacred culling to candidates for the ministry ; to form a centre of religious education, including the training of school teachers, for the entire diocese ; and to supply the rewards of honour able distinction to meritorious, as well as a comfortable though humble refuge from the visitations of age and poverty, to aged and infirm clergymen. If all these pur poses belonging to the Cathedral Church were carried into effect, no ecclesiastical commission would be required to appropriate, or, as the case may be, to misappropriate, its " surplus funds." Several of the most urgent wants of our Church would then be provided for, in the proper and legitimate way, and we should not be compelled to have recourse to such palliatives,—hignly commendable though they be as remedies for " the present distress,"-- as the " Disabled Clergy Institutio n ," proposed by a valued correspondent of ours in a letter which appeared in our columns last week, and other charitable institutions, designed to alleviate the sufferings consequent upon the impoverished condition of the great majority of our paro chial clergy. No plan of Church reform will ever be acceptable to the great body of Churchmen, or really conducive to the Church's efficiency, which does not embrace these two points,—the rigorous application of the endowments al ready existing through the piety of our forefathers, to those objects to which they were devoted by the donors,— and the creation of fresh endowments to meet the spiritual wants of our increased population, by like piety and mu nificence on the part of the present generation, setting apart for the service of God and the promotion of Christ's kingdom, a portion of that enormous wealth which has been, and is being accumulated, beyond the example of former ages, in this day of gigantic progress and enterprise. HORTICULTURE. STOVE, CONSERVATORY, AND GREENHOUSE. — The want of sunlight during the past season has been very detri mental to plants under glass ; every care will, therefore, be required in wintering them. In order to harden them as much as possible, every opportunity must be taken for admitting air during the fine weather we may hope for during this month. This must be done in the middle of the day for an hour or two ; and the houses should be closed early before the sun declines, in order to retain some of the solar heat for the night. Recollect that direct solar heat penetrates rapidly through glass ; but radiated heat passes out very slowly indeed. KITCHEN GARDEN.--Gather and house the apple and pear crop ; at least so much of it as the storms have left. In this neighbourhood the operation will not occupy much time. CHOLERA IN SCOTLAND.—A few insulated cases of cholera have appeared in some of the large towns in Scot land, but it does not appear to have fixed itself seriously in any of them. TREASURES or NATURE.—It has been well remarked, that there is not an imperfection that flesh is heir to. for which a remedy is not at hand, to discover which we have only to search the vast laboratory of Nature. A more apt illustra tion can scarcely be off ere d, t h an i n t h e a pplication of , natural production, of Am er i can growth been name ly the BALM OF COLUMBIA, in cas es w h ere the human bead has Asa deprived of its becomi ng an d na t ura l ornament. pro moter of growth, st reng th ener an d restorer of uthe Hair, ed, C. and A. OLD RIDOE ' S B ALM OF C OLU MBIA, s and in cases of b a ld ness i ts v i r tues are iiiiensuttniiensbulep• i nrivalliTiihtes further advantages of the Balm may be st freeing the hair from scurf, producing a heamutcieft.d_nctuartliapprtne: serving it from premature grevnev, and its ue lie Con to the nursery, which should neveirms p w roved a no climate destroys its e ffi cacy, and it sold wholesale and ithout it, no valuable article of trading speculation. retail retail by the Proprietors, 13, ested an t d o London, and by most of l l V h e e tit r u c - s Medne•Venders, Price 3s. 6d., Cs., street North , Strand, bottle; .no be on their guard against it..re Perfumers ego "othe p rices ar ers , genuine.—N.B. Tll°eptfictn-trbatill'illcel `Balm, 13, Wellington•street North , Co., wholesale by Messrs. Katimes and Co 40, Hanover-street, co u n ter fei s " ttsr;,,,,a,is,k London.—sold ( 0 10 I n d . r — i d s g o e l ' , s i LiverpooL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1853 , -_-. CHESHIRE ...41VD TALES. ye resid ing FATAL ACCIDENT.-Mary Cox, aged 7 4 in Leicester-street, Birkenhead, accidentally tell seve re stairs on Saturday night week, and received s . ll " internal injuries as to cause her death on Monds: l ", too the 1 "-„ ere d Ox SUNDAY NIGHT, during the gale, ha shop No. 22, Chester-street, Birkenhead, WaS e ?' some evil-disposed persons, and stripped of all the 6 - tings and lead piping. -On T hi r. e d BIRKENHEAD PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. to the above society and their friends, in the Concti.,,,,t of day a most interesting and instructive lecture was c d i eli . , t v o o e- or, Hamilton-street, by Mr. T. C. Archer, on the s the Physiology of Insects. • ,ffi e for the CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.--i-,- _,.,eosfers week ended September 25, 1853 :-Railway P 9 72 0. 91 parcels, &c., £3,548 17s. sd. ; goods , g 1,4 itioreeee Steam-boats: £616185. 9d. Total, £5,691 yest , as compared with the corresponding week 13 ' £1,131 lls. Od. frog ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday, the arriv e , Chester, due at Birkenhead - at 1 1 , anna did sine until noon. The delay was caused by the ells, ta noa tender running off the line, near the Sutton ' . . da ot owing to some new plates which were being laid% " i i e l d. properly fastened. No personal injury was sn'b li ,i tie gcle):: CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.-At this fair, on . R bic there was but a small show of all ki n dS of stoelc,;::, might be expected, as we have already h a d oae_if o ,' ttle month, and the great October is at h and. averaged 6d, fat sheep ad to 61-d, and pig s e,, per t There was a very short supply of all s t or e stock , sheep, of which there were a fair quantity. , cost ACCIDENT AT THE BIRKENHEAD DOCRS.-'-':ieoteN mornin, a labourer named James Conway acci VorP etli fell into the hold of the ship Sultan, lying Dock, whilst discharging the cargo of guano. l i be o came in contact with a beam, splitting usingosei lis b,s bruising other parts of his face and inj u p ee in the severely. He was conveyed to the dispensary, where of r" attention was paid to his wounds. Had the ,void life• vessel been empty he would doubtless have lost his HOLYHEAD BREAKWATER.-The recent storni;oo3 was severely felt in many parts of North AVales,host fjolr serious damage to the works at the new harbour a te d head, particularly to the pilings. It is 01 0 " ' 3 ' t o le, upwards of 500 logs have been driven by th e ens ward ea* ward on the opposite side of .the bay. The g',7,,e0 plantations at Holywell, Ruthin, and other d,115 suffered severely, the trees being completely striPPeo, Carnarvon the sea washed completely over the but no damage was done. liste : , a . SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-An accident, which ni'fliesce. proved fatal to Mr. W. Vernon and a pariy Of ch i t iii,, curred on Friday morning. Mr. Vernon vi„o''l spirited horse in a phaeton between the Four -'",,„ tbet: and Beeston Station, and as he was descendin6 „ ti os towards the station the reins broke, the c became furious, and started off at a terrific nac e : t h 02 1 riage came in contact with the canal bridge m. O r t force, throwing the ladies and Mr. Vernon out 0.., je ,0 violence. One of the ladies was picked up inseltsPif note the remainder of the party escaped with bruise s : re serious nature. Mr. Vernon and his friends ec ols ceeding to join a pie nic at Peckforton Castle• l a t. lady is progressing favourably.- Chester CouraL,erow LANDORE POWDER MAGAZINE. - The ''''' T ; i '.3. o f e j position and state of the powder ine st ' dr magaz 0 near Swansea, has often aroused public attention; 0, length it is to be removed from its present place t o ° doetl suitable spot. This magazine, which has contd."' 40. of six tons of gunpowder, has been allowed telt:par within a few yards of the South Wales Railvv o l,,,, g 4o l)l l nightly passed by workmen with lights and a 01 ",% - s est° It was also in immediate proximity to darelling'"?.Aeal manufactories. The new magazine has been e T,',0• 0 , 1 Crumlin Burrows, and is now ready for oectiP 3 ,: o j ieer committee of the Swansea Town-council vras ale" who elef effect the removal. 3le t fi .or ROBBERY IN BIRKENHEAD MARKET.-- - night, last week, some young miscreants conceals- o f V, selves in Birkenhead market, and plundered t e e toill stalls of a quantity of brooches, braces, knive s ' per;o, articles. In the morning, upon the market bein g they escaped with their booty without being a e ` the keeper. Subsequently the robbery was disco o o ' 0 11 ' upon search being made in the township, a vont re perq Brown was discovered offering a portion of 'the Posi„ e ‘ for sale. Two other lads were afterwards aPPr,,o.e°'; upon the dock quay, and they confessed to hav''' o " ; l o ' cealed a portion of the plunder under a large ste l lno .4 ( upon search being made, the young thieves asserwideo a second robbery had been committed, nearly the treaf.... the property having been taken away. They ive re A rI V before the magistrates, but were remanded, i n 0e the police might trace the stolen articles. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM meeting went off with a wonderful degree of 1d ly' r of ny in comparison with former meetings. One ; ese e have known that there had been a dissensio n from the allusion made to them in some stray obse„rdieW by the chairman in reference to the publicationlohi chef filed by the Opponents against the directors. .00 ° man, the Hon. R. H. Clive, retired trom the direl: o f tt, the strongest expressions Of regret on the lin'tioje(l,:li shareholders. He mentioned one thing w,b ie , l , l l - de ! P A .!) a little to understand, namely, with the the line is under agreement of lease to the area throf it at 32,- per cent., he said he should do his best ° do e if oleo r b e e oo l in eas m e e d nd t o o d tbhye the Great c open equally to all parties. How is that to b e &reel Seen • re N a N t 'e l st V e e rn stern, Sil bs .a P . esv to seats at the board.-.Herapath,.- .SHREWSBU RY AND CHESTER yearly meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Wednesday, John Williams, Esq., chairman, P,,,:5,%rree...„, The secretary read the report, and afterwards ment which had been prepared in a ccordail ee i „. l ,ou'pe vote of the meeting of the 13th alt., for 013 ' with the Great Western. The chairman stated, tho u - t y the meeting a subsequent offer Into been in ti , d o e lderset Great Western Company, tendering the s hare. t ie n alternative of 31.- per cent. upon their capital, fr e9l t oor e ; January next, with half surplus profits. thel4 seriatim, resolutions to the following effect, will ; tl':a carried unanimously : -That the report be adoPt a dividend at the rate of 1 per cent. per atin nln the over the ordinary stock of the company ; that s tis s -:, dead on the 8 per cent. and 5 per cent. preferelitoC, be made payable on the 14th October ; that 31r.1" joit y signed Nichollsr from as hi re-elected auditor ; that the appointment of oo has CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.-MiChaS....- b ro , fe k e in co t n h fi e rm roo ed m . pf Mr. Parkin, , arrived, and with it the anniversary of our autn and 103 which are appointed to take place on TuesdaY nesday next, under the most favourable a„,, 11 , 51)1 0 0 1,A, with every prospect of. abundant success. I ," l ., e n a terT o o for the present meeting are the Marquis ot„",, ars ° o Viscount Clifden, and C. Greville, M.P., and ISbei,.4 of public money added to the various stakes rea ch ~4 munificent sum of £7OO, a sufficient proof of the I".,„cei of the sport and the high opinion in which the ",-.oo'n, held by all classes of our fellow-citizens. The Pr 7 for the present meeting is the best that has b ee f and is another indication of the skill and ability ,acb yor. ~ W. Topham, the clerk of the course and 0 ban a l The first day's sport comprises The Short', ..or;(, race ; the Mostyn Stakes, for two and th re ! the Innkeepers' Plate, a handicap; a Hanut i e e ;„l , 9 e stakes, and a Selling Stakes. On the WednesuLekteg the Chester Handicap Stakes and the Welter t o : pa programme includes the Grand Stand Stakes, fe,, f i nel olds •,a Sweepstakes, for all ages ; a Handicap concludes with a Selling Race.- Chester Coura"ae I.ci t oilf Tun GUNPOWDER SEIZURE. - At the Birk e- ic. s ot lice Court on Tuesday, before J. D. Case, Es. c ,V,. tof Esq., J. S. Jackson, Esq., and the Rev. .J A '" e ' t foe the adjourned information against Mrs. VO;, 1 - stated came o n what for of the Windermere Steamer, and CaPt n , i - e ceiV had been M d r o . ne Sim si sign, when an adjournment took place to , clients to communicate with the Corporation () , I iv or 4 ' el 9, to induce them to take some Steps, either joi n „ter"i Simon for fo t r lie th f e °" ---11"-e , i' bi e rately, for the purpose of obtaining from the V.i t or ti' / , a mitigation of the penalty, supposing t h e dec ve of tb} Bench to be adverse. The Finance Conuincrtreandede Corporation had refused to interfere, on t ile " cler li ia ll ke r there had been no judgment delivered, bill Orel Or take any steps pending the proceedings befor,e ig oef trates. Under these circumstances, assunn*,eholo„,eol,ie judgment of the Bench would be adverse; Pi n 'f tot would allow him to ask the Bench to je1 1 :400 0 ,4i i f mendation to the government for a midi ig°°-o:tireej• penalty. The Messrs. Wakefield were w holl n e. ki t a e • 0 0 . jet what was done on the Mersey, and con se i been iro!der innocent of how the letter of the law had yrf•cor-40.0 Then, with respect to the other defendants' e a t ° irect w as and Captain Lamb, he besought the V ev t o , hen,eal that there was no evidence whatev e 'o , l " - v) liability of the latter. If that wer e I, o w con test s joined in iargi the information c i - • de r, or with actual possession of the guirpoil be vile 4 that, with regard to Lamb, the case fa t . :; Wa s e Then, with respect to Mrs. Winder, -"'""„ t t 0 ' to t ' by her agents, and she was entirely . ` l°-1 cejl ee r the e re taken place; and the whole of the evlcotoate dotal ld that there was no intention wilfullY W I/1 e that the gunpowder was placed on boar - -ace o f tbe to 11l openly in the face of the law and in th e f and that the red flag was 'displayed i . t ° 1 It W 45 V 9,1 of t fi t whole community that such was ' the ` 3-t. they did 11 gni rtt fest, too, from the circumstance that desire r ' gunpowder into dock, that there W aS hoped obey the law than violate it. li a d e to th e Fr e eif e lo' would assist the parties in their appeal under le f for a mitigation of the penaltY, f° infliction o_, stances, the case was one in which the A s pia; l _; minal penalty would satisfy justice._pressin tR, 00 0 . , there was no intention whatever of ther parties , t ole ' against Mrs. Winder, or any 0 Ob S 0n.., 0 e• Committee. They would not throw of the et i rlt o.ation sa_t tie way of their procuring a in '"to ether for ,11,. The magistrates having consulted gas Mr. Case said the act of .p pct arliament w e mind tha ry t it at the same time it must be borne in üblie, "11`.„ an article of the greatest danger en e t p regul ati°l t l ;" to fore required to be under viry , 0 ,„, i s n that the infor o bench concurred ill the o therefore the whole of the been sustained, and , able to the law. " 1° or t ,L 1 must be considered as e had been no intention on r t ts believed that there infringe the law, and the hoisting boa r t v anybody indication that gunpowder was 00 to ''' flag was an dvantage_„,,, steamer -- a fart which would be of great ft re 'P . O I party in their application to a higher power. n , _ cor e _ d t trates felt very much for all the defendantsta theelr_rte glad to find that there was every disp?sition. rcre of the Finance Committee to do all in the e t. be i ; e li ' s c o t' procure a mitigation of the penalty ; but th „ e aer . bound to act strictly, and to decla re the g.unP9' e r felted, and to impose a penalty of two s hillings is F oc '; 0 ,1 every pound above the quantity allowed 10 3:_f e itet.at decision declared 24,950 lbs. of gunpowdeir 0" der inflicted a penalty of £2,495 upon Mrs. AV u,,„ ,2 47 1 oil Lamb. Of this penalty the bench declared 1 ,1 , o £1,247 1 0 ' hi e J be the property of the Crown, and c00t:1.4,03. property of the informer, Capt. Greig, headiJ Liverpool. It was also decided that the d pa pay the costs, and that Mr. Townsend, the cw_.,itigv • convey the recommendation of the bench for a of the penalty to the. Finance Committee. t ,1( BEFORE • e%C"f" BEFORE THE NAVIGATION IS CLOSED, it,.lwheat that b e t w een four and five million bushels ot be shipped from Canada. St„