The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

AUTU Season of nisi bosom friend of the maturir Conspiring with him now to load and bless With fruit the vines that r I the thatch eaves run, To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells Who bath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swathe, and all its twined flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; Or by a cider press, with patient look, Thou watcheat the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou bast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn, Among the river gallows, borne aloft, Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourne, Hedge•crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. KEATS REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The Comedies ofAristophanes, (A new and literal translation.) By W. J. Hickie. London : 11. G. Bohn. In the book before us, which forms one of Bohn's Classical Library, and the first volume of the dramas written by Aristophanes, we have six of the comedies, rendered as literally into English as the differing idioms of the Greek and English languages will permit. The plays here produced are " The Acharians," " The Knights," " The Clouds," " The Wasps," " Peace," and " The Bi r d s ," all produced in as plain an English ren dering as is compatible with a due understanding of the various habits, customs, and phrases of the Greek poets and people. In addition to the trans lation, which exemplifies the terse and significant conciseness of the Greek original, Mr. Hickie furnishes his readers with copious notes and parallel passages from different translators and commen tators, who have illustrated the author, or translated his works, in Latin, German, or English. He also supplies illustrations from original English, historical, and dramatic authors. The aim of the present edition is evidently completeness joined with portability and cheapness. It will, when finished, form a valuable addition to the English collection of Greek and Latin classic authors. Hogg' s Instructor. Edinburgh : Jas. Hogg This serial, which, as noticed on a former occasion, has been changed from a weekly into a monthly publication, continues to labour hard in its efforts to deserve public favour. It opens with an elaborate essay devoted to Disraeli as an author more than as a statesman ; although the essayist does his best toinduce a belief that the brilliant orator, the sagacious and chivalrous statesman,and the dashinc , novelist, are merely convertible phases of the same intellectual essence. In his endeavour to effect a demonstration of this somewhat difficult proposi tion, the author of the essay gilds with no stinted distribution of ornament the literary labours and achievements of the author of " Vivian Grey" and " Coningsby," while, with equal profusion and much less candour, he hints doubts and hesitates dislike in reference to his political career. Such a course of procedure is disingenuous and unworthy. There exists no regulation, literary or otherwise, to induce a compulsory admiration of Mr. Disraeli's wonderful political aptitude any more than there did to ensure his ministerial sway ; but candour, not to say generosity, ought to restrain even a political opponent from . insinuating implied feeble ness in one walk of life, by affecting an intensity of admiration for another. As an example, it could scarcely be admitted, as a fair mode of testing the essayist's ability as a critic, to insinuate that he was a brilliant conversationalist, or had exhibited wonderful self-possession in unfolding and uphold ing some false and scarcely plausible theory in physical science. To laud him for the latter quality to such a degree as comparatively to obscure the former, would be about as fair a mode of action as lie has exhibited in his mode of treating Mr. Disraeli. It is an attempt to smother his greater fame, by heaping admiration on what the critic takes pains to exhibit as the smaller. The second article in the Instructor is a silly and sad attempt to spin a pathetic story out of an incident which its author, with much labour and an infinity of vulgar Scotticisms, fails entirely to accomplish. The story is as unskilfully elaborated, as it is tastelessly over laid and encumbered by provincial vulgarisms. In point of fact, instead of being intended to pre serve what might have been an interesting little domestic tragedy, its sole aim appears to be a wish to embalm in a printed form some childish and strictly local idioms of the Scottish dialect—not, be it understood, the racy, musical doric of Burns, of Ramsay, or of Scott, but of some twaddling, loquacious, and illiterate Moorland herd. A patois as inexpressive as it is repulsive. The number contains a fair and readable essay on " The Life and Poetry of Milton," chiefly devoted, however, to laudation of a new edition of the poet's works. In the essay, nevertheless, there is a considerable amount of interesting reflection. "Monsters of the Deep" and " Glasses from Life's Phantas magoria" are amusing as well as instructive ; and in the " Notes on a Visit to France" much sharp ness of observation and readiness of description are manifested, as will be gathered from the following epitomized view of PERCH TOWRg. A pretty good idea of French towns in general is got by the sight of one. The old towns are each other's Photographs. Your juvenile readers may, however, at once banish all ideas of what they have seen at home, if they wish to realize a French town. Let them bring up again the bright tableaux of Bagdad and Bassora, which their " Arabian Nights" created. Open bazaars display the gayest wares ; and blandishments to allure unwitting wayfarers into a purchase are formed by a prodigal num ber of huge-sized letters, the literary decoration of every house. Silence, said to be characteristic of Oriental houses , is altogether wanting. The Sunday carpet of Cairo streets has its representative in a pave of stone blocks, more rudely sculptured than the worst parts of London could show, and sorely testing the benignity of one troubled with corns. 'While fine shops line either side, a gutter in the middle forms a meridian of longtitude for the whole street, while ropes thrown across from house to house at through it, dragging after tarn - Mar TtiniberhiguegV, which correspond in clumsiness to the blocks over which they jolt. Foot-pavements are superfluities, except in the best parts of Paris, and in those towns where English intercourse has initiated the luxury. Close to the market, the old church, with ornate win dows and walls crumbling to decay, chimes an accom paniment to the great vocal choir outside. Every tongue is vibrating as fast as a steel spring. To dispute about prices is so identified with habit and character, that abate ment is very energetically argued as a matter of course. Where this is not going on, other merchants, of garlic or cabbages, make quite as much noise with their protesta tions of Tin bon marchi if the listners will but " deal here, and not with those imposing people over the way." Yet a sense of dilapidation is begot. The strange gable roofs, with tiers of attics one above another, run so high up as to make the whole appear as a basement floor, with a " Primrose-hill" at the top. The centre of gravity, in innumerable instances, goes beyond its valid boundaries, giving to the houses every legal claim to be entered in the category of leaning towers of Pisa, as illustrations in works of juvenile philosophy. Too high, too broad, too huge in every sense ever to get a thorough overhauling, their ruinous aspect continuously sets us moralizing. Very like is the present condition of the northern towns, and much, too, of Paris itself, to what our pictures give us of London in olden times. Mediaeval architecture and rains arrest the eye, and bespeak the status of centuries back, wonderfully contrasting with the exquisite and tasteful embellishments of the splendid parts of the ca pital, which as plainly indicate France to be in the rear of nations by as many hundred years. The number contains, besides the articles to which we have alluded, a couple of sweet poetical contributions ; and, as a whole, the September publication is entitled to claim a fair rank among the monthlies. • .THE JEWS IN POLAND.—We learn from Warsaw, that the government has lately published the following order with reference to the Jewish ceremonial observed at the As the custom in Jewish c elebration of marriage :—" ages of cutting a part the hair of the fiancees de pends, for the most part, upon the good pleasure of the Rabbine or Jewish priests, the latter shall for the future abstain from this ceremony, and shall so engage to do in wri o „„ t hl,g• Those who refuse to enter into this engagement ue Punishe! If it should happen a detention of two or three years in a house of correction that any Rabbi or priest should infringe this order, he shall immediately gated in the active army; and if he is not fit for military service, he shall pass ten or twelve years in a nitlitarY Penal colony. The Jewess who shall have sub ofmitted to this ceremony shall be compelled to pay a fine five silver Jewish benevolent ronbles which shall be appropriated to the fort.: flea ' which de Frank- VARIETIES tint he has become hunchbacked. GENIUS unexerted is no more genius than a bushel t• acorns is a forest of oaks. A GOOD WORKMAN WANTED.—He must be able to rivet the attention," must understand how to join " a broken rest," be able to " sharpen the understanding," and to bring rambling arguments ff "to the point." Any " old file" having a few wise saws," will p r obably suit. Persons used to " vice":need not apply. EVERY FAMILY at Matagorda, Texas, can have a salt water bath on their own premises. Under the city, at a depth of about eight feet, is a stratum vein of saline water, and clear as rock crystal. Almost every house holder has dug a well, inserted a chain pump, and erected a small bath house in his own garden. CHARACTERISTIC CANT OF THE AGE.—We live in an age of universal cant, and I swallow all your shams on the easy condition that you swear to mine ; and whenever I hear people praising the present age, and extolling its wonderful progress, and all that, I just think of all the quackery I see advertised in the newspapers, and sigh heartily to myself at our degradation ! Why, man the " Patent Pills, for the cure of Cancer," and the Ag.ape mone, would disgrace the middle ages. And it is not a little remarkable that England—so prone to place herself at the head of civilisation — is exactly the very metropolis of all this humbug !—.Dodd Family Abroad. YOUNG PEOPLE have an astonishing craze for every thing that can bear the name of multum in parvo :—a knife with a dozen blades of different design ; a stick that is at once a staff, a whistle, a telescope, a toasting-fork, an eel-spear, and a yard-measure ; a pencilcase that has as many contrivances in it as there are colours in a pencil of light ; a penholder, a toothpick, a seal, a sovereign-guage, and a letter -weight; last, not least, a theory of universal appliance. The world is all before them ; they have much to learn ; they entertain a vast admiration for the man who can supply them with quintessences.—Hogg's In structor. CUVIER AND SATAN.—In the Gentleman's Magazine, for this month, an article called " Traits of the Trappists , " and bearing the signature of " John Doran," concludes with a characteristic anecdote of envier. He once saw in his sleep the popular representation of Satan advancing towards him, and threatening to eat him. " Eat me I' exclaimed the philosopher, as he examined the fiend with the eye of a naturalist, and then added, " Horns ? hoofs ? Needn't be afraid of him !" This might 'he threats of some of Sato- • snd domestic prosperity. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ADVICE TO A BRIDE.-I beg to remind my new daugh- SIR,-As a shareholder in one of the above undertak es ter that the husband has in his daily avocations a thousand ings, and having leisure to think over their affairs, parti iie understanding," elements of disturbance to which the wife is an utter cularly respecting the long-pending dispute, as it has been arguments "to the point." Any stranger ; and it will be her privilege, and her title to the called the Battle of the Ganges," with all the accompa --ke saws, will probably suit. r espect of all whose respect is worth having, to make his nying rival projects with the view of abstracting each -1,. own fireside the most attractive place in the universe for I other's traffic, and competing fares when the lines come --, have a salt the calm repose of a weary body or excited mind. into competition, which has and is still causing both coin -at a VITALITY OF EGGS.-It is well known that eggs will panies to spend every year such a heap of money, thereby keep a considerable time in milk of lime or other means causing diminished or stationary dividends, when, from of entirely excluding the atmosphere : and we have an ac- : the extent of traffic increasing so enormously, the share count of some, dug out of an old wall of a sacristy near holders would have every right to expect at least one per Tag° Maggiore, quite sound after having been encased cent. additional dividend in both undertakings, lam led there 300 years. It becomes then a curious inquiry, how to conclude that, so long as human nature is what it is, long the productive vitality of the eggs can exist in this no settlement can ever be arrived at between both boards state of atmospheric exclusion-whether they retain it, of directors, so long as jealousy, avarice, and ambition in like toads, snakes, and cold-blooded animals, sometimes fluence the actions of fallen man, .and unfortunately the found in solid stone ? Can any of your readers give or exercise of those feelings under other names and motives refer us to any instances, respondent to the question ?- is considered necessary for the protection and interests of J. Prideaux. each body of shareholders. THE MISAPPLICATION of English words by foreigners is What, then, is to be done, in order to give the share often very ludicrous. A German friend saluted us once holders an equivalent and just return for their capital with, " Oh, good-bye, good-bye"-meaning of course, embarked, and to secure the public safe and expeditious " How d'ye do ?" It is said that Dr. Chalmers once en- travelling? It is impossible the shareholders can have tertained a distinguished guest from Switzerland, whom the power and influence effectually to control the executive he asked if he would be helped to kippered salmon. The in every particular,-any gross mismanagement could be foreign divine asking the meaning of the uncouth word checked; but, where a difference of opinion exists amongst kippered, and was told that it meant preserved. The the members of both companies, the majority, no doubt, poor man in a public prayer soon after offered a petition desirous of equity and peace ; but how to bring together that the distinguished divine might long be " kippered to that majority , scattered as they may be over the globe, the Free Church of Scotland.' a difficulty insurmountable presents itself, evidently prov- A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT.-At the recent cap- ing that the shareholders in such mighty concerns, as a ture of Amoy the four city gates were thrown open. body, cannot accomplish the desired end. Through three of them the " patriot army" entered, and To the Legislature alone we must look, to solve our dif took possession of the town, while the fourth was left open ficulties, determine our relative positions, and by their for the accommodation of the Tartar officers, in case they sovereign power put an end to the present state of things, should be of opinion that- I not less injurious to the public from the insecurity of tra- He who fights and rur.s away, yelling, than detrimental, in a pecuniary point of view, to May live to fight another day. 1 the shareholders. The convenience of this arrangement so forcibly struck the I would, therefore, recommend a petition to both houses Mandarins, that'they evacuated the town without further of parliament drawn up, embodying the matters in dispute, ado. praying them to define the extent or limits of the broad STATE OP SCULPTURE IN ENGLAND.-It has been said, gauge, establishing some fixed rules for amalgamation, so writes " a Working Sculptor," that sculpture can scarcely as to embrace the much-vexed question of the Shrewsbury sustain itself in England, that it is an art not suited to lines, laying down some final regulations respecting the the English taste, and which never can flourish here. promotion of new or competing lines, in order to avoid the be made applicable to tii ~enings 01 ‘,...... _ -i s That it is at a very low ebb is very evident from the enormous expenses (legal and parliamentary) incurred friends in the Popish community levelled against the Pro- amount of talent and labour in the market unemployed, very session, regulate the rates of fares where competition testant Church, which knows, also, how to value their or not employed as it ought to be. Much is said about art exists, and so place these two great companies in a friendly menaces.-Church and State Gazette. education, and training men to a high pitch of perfection, ' footing, for the benefit of the country. Such petition to A DAGUERREOTYPE OF SYDNEY. - The streets of so that they may be able to carry out designs properly ; , lie for signature of the shareholders of both companies at London are said to be paved with gold. The streets of but the matter is not considered with that regard to truth various convenient places; presented next session and sup. Sydney are slabbered with slush. The principal thorough- and right which should influence our reasonings. What ported by members favourable to railway interests. fares are in a most filthy state, and the pavements are still i s the use of stocking the market with that which no one The railway committee of last session, in their report, w orse, because, besides being filthy, they are absolutely will purchase ? Where are your buyers of art-labour ?Do condemns competition as injurious to the public, and the dangerous. In the parts where there are pavements, they exist in sufficient numbers, and do they know how to Legislature have thrown out all new bills for a mixed those pavements are generally in a very dilapidated state, buy in the best market ? In a word, have our aristocracy gauge, and bills for the extension of the broad gauge whilst other portions of the pavement are repaired with a a sufficient knowledge of art to enable them to judge northward, so that their opinion on those points has been slippery substance, on which people may be seen sliding whether a piece of sculpture be good or bad? I see enough expressed ; but whether the President of the Board of and slipping, unless they prefer going into the street to of them to know that very few of them have this knowledge. Trade intends bringing in a bill founded upon such report avoid the dangers of the footpaths. The attention of the What can be a better proof of this than the fact that or not, still his hands should be strengthened by such a proper authorities requires to be attracted to the state of hundreds of figures are yearly imported from the continent, petition. the lightning conductor at the powder magazine on the and eagerly bought, which are a disgrace to the maker and Hoping, if this should meet the eye of any of those who Flagstaff-hill, in Fort-street. The conductor is led over the buyer Schools should be established take a more active part in the matter, that it may have the roof of the magazine, being supported upon several for the education of the sons of the aristocracy in some consideration and be the means of inducing the di small chocks of wood, and at the gable end, facing Miller's th e t rue pr i nc i p l es o f ar t , w hi c h principles are to be rectors of both, or either company, to lead the way in such Point, the chocks have fallen away, so that the rod actually f oun d i n G ree k ar t an d i n th e wor k s o f Flaxman. When a step in an energetic and determined manner, lays upon the gable end of the building, which might have they have formed their taste they will find that there are I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ' H. H. the effect, in a heavy lightning storm, to set the magazines men to execute designs in England, and that she stands at Liverpool, Sth September, 1853. on fire-a blow up not to be desired by the residents in the head of the world so far as sculpture is concerned.- - F or t-street. Altogether the way in which the rod is laid The Builder. .INION along the chocks seems a very rude idea in these days of HAYDON PAINTING CLARKSON, THE P hisniece n wife - - SRA KSPEARE PILGRIMS.-A curi ous statement has just looking much better than when in town, Playford is a been prepared of the number and nations of the several fi ne o ld b u ildi ng ; 1593 the last date, but must he much VIL-RELIGION IN THE SENATE.-" The only memorial visitors to Shakspeare's house, at Stratford-upon-Avon. older they say. It is surrounded bY a moat, with running of religious legislation during the session is the successful The statement has been compiled from the signatures of water. Clarkson has a head like a patriarch, and in his effort of Mr. LUCAS to ensure religious attendance upon the parties themselves; and for the period from the Ist of prime must have been a noble figure. He was very happy Catholics in English prisons: , to see me ; but there is a nervous irritability which is Such is the triumphant exclamation of the Mtion-and 2 111 ,2 y 6 , ;18a5n1d, of to these, 011i ng o la f A nd pri fu l, rn lB is s h 2 ed , the is is 58, peculiar. He lives too much with adorers, especially the fact, if fact it be, is a sufficient cause of triiph to the Ireland 9, United States 444, East Indies 1, Australia 3, women. As he seemed impatient at my staying beyond Nation and every other enemy of Protestant truth. But 3 , a certain time, I went to bed, and wished him good night. can it be possible the Legislature of this great Christian Brazils 6, dGemalifolrEinia, Ch 2 a , nn F e r l an l c s e lan 4 ds , N l e , w H Zealand ungarY 1, I slept well, and the next morning walked in the garden country has passed a whole session in deliberating on and Italy 3, Newfoundland 1, South America 1, Russia 2, Swe- an d fi e ld s . He breakfasted on milk and bread, (alone) providing for the wants of the people, and yet has done den 1, Mauritius 1, Cape of Good Hope 2, Canada 1, Hol- i and I breakfasted with Mrs. T. Clarkson up - stairs, I nothing whatever to count4ract the heathenism which is land 3, Finland 1, Bagdad 1, Madeira 1, Belgium 1, Austria i , promised to sketch him at ten, and at ten I was ready. admitted to exist in all our large towns ? The vigilance 4. For a like period, from the Ist of May, 1852, to the When all was ready, the windows fitted, he said, of a most watchful foe to our religion has failed to detect 30th of April, 1853, the return shows a slight i n c r e as e, th e ,/ Call i n t h e ma id s ," In came six servant girls, and any effort of the kind, its only act being a law compelling total being 2,821 :-England 1,898, Scotland 4, Ireland 14, washerwomen (it being washing-day.) "I am deter - Protesta nt cler gy men to retire from the cells of Romanist I United States 306, A ustralia and New Zealand 8, South mined they shall see the first stroke." In they all prisoners ; and inviting the attendance of Popish priests, America 4, F rance 12, Egypt 1, Switzerland 5, Cape of ; crowded, timidly wondering. Clarkson said , " There who will teach the criminal to look to himself for pardon Good Hope, 1, Germany 8, East Indies 3, Hungary 2, I now, that is the first stroke; come again in an hour, and rather than to God, whose commands he has broken-and Islands of South Pacific, 1, Russia 3, Canada 5, Silesia 1, ' y ou s hall see the last !" We now began to talk. He to respect the laws of Pope Pius rather than the statutes California 1, Turkey 1, China 2, West Indies 1, Spain 3. sa id, " When Christophe's wife and daughters, all accom- of Queen Victoria. Whether this is legislation befitting a Jonathan, it will be seen, considering the distance at which pushed women, were brought or introduced by him to Protestant Parliament or no, let the people of England he lives from the poet's house, is about as great a Shaks- Wilberforce, and others in high life, there was a sort of consider. If the boasted strength of a coalition Govern peare worshipper as John Bull himself.-Athenceum. shrink at admitting them into society. I told him I meat is made apparent in such miserable weaknesg as this, FOREIGN COMPLAISANCE.-Ask what you will of a ' believed it, because when I resolved to place the African in so fatal a compromise of the most momentous interests foreigner, be it an inquiry into the financial condition of lin front of the picture, on the same level as the Euro- of the people , it behoves us to p ra y that Her Majesty may his country, its military resources, prison discipline, law, peans, th ere was th e sa me delicacy ; but I got him, and be endued with a little more of the firmness of her royal or religion, he'll never acknowledge his inability to an - I put him in at once. Shame prevented remonstrance.-- grandfather, and choose men of right principles for her swer, but give you a full and ready reply with facts, dates,) Life of Haydon, by Taylor. advisers. and data, all in most admirable order. At first you are 1 A PRIMEVAL TREE.-The Boston Courier has the VIII.-RAILWAYACCIDENTS.-IS it not possiblethatthe overjoyed with such ready sources of knowledge. You following curious, although somewhat hyperbolical ac- principle of mutual insurance could be advantageously ap - flatter yourself that even with the most moderate oppor- ' coun t of a tree lately felled about 20 miles from a place plied to cases of accidental injury or death on a railway, in tunities you cannot fail to learn much ; by degrees, how- : called Murphy's Camp, in California :-" It measures at such a manner as to afford at once a relief to the railway ever, you discover errors in your statistics, and at last, the ground 98 feet in circumference, and 85 feet 10 from companies and a compensation to sufferers ? Suppose the you come to find out that your accomplished friend, too ' the earth, which size it holds for 100 feet. It is 300 feet various railway companies were to form themselvesmon fund into a polite to deny you a reasonab le g ratification, had gone to hi g h, though the top has been broken o ff. There are mut ual insurance company, paying into a com the pains of inventing a code, a church, and a coinage for many trees in this vicinity higher than that, from 50 to some small sum per head for every passenger-a less, sum your sole use and benefit, but without t he sli g htest inten- 170 feet in circumference. It is estimated that this tree than one p enn y would p robably be sufficient-and binding tion of misleading, for it never once entered his head that w o u ld sq uare 25 feet at the butt, and consequently a cut themselves to pay to any individual injured, or to the you could possibly believe him ! I know it will sound of 12 feet in length would make 90,000 feet of lumber. representatives of any individual killed through the badly ; lam well aware of the shock it will give to many IA party of men are now at work in taking off the bark for negligence or default of any railway official, such sum as a nervous system ; but for all that I will not blink the !50 feet in height, in sections, so that it can be p ut to g ether would be deemed a fair and reasonable compensation, the declaration-which I desire to record as formally and as ' again. It is about one foot in thickness, and will be sent amount to be decided by arbitrators appointed in the flatly as lam capable of expressing it-which is, that of to the World's Fair, where it will be put up, and have the usual way. Many advantages would, it is conceived, be one hundred statements an Englishman accepts and re- C a lif orn ia s pecimens exhibited in it. Thirty feet in denied from such an association :-1. The public would lies upon abroad, as matter of fact, ninety-nine are un- I diameter is quite a room, large enoug h to hold political travel with greater satisfaction, as compensation for injury true. Full fifty being lies by premeditation , thirty b y i g - : mass meetings in just before a presidential election. It is would be offered them, instead of having to he fought for norance, ten by accident or inattention, and the remainder, I estimated by those who have counted some of its rings, through a tedious and expensive and uncertain course of if there be a balance, for I'm bad at figures, from any that the above-named tree is not less than 6,500 y ears law. 2 . Any delinquent company of directors who would other cause you like.-Dodd Family Abroad. 1 old, or 500 years older than this world, according to the deliberately hazard the safety of travellers, from a parsi- INTEREST IN FAVOUR OF YOUTH.-Never at any for- vulgar notion. It must have been something of a tree monious desire to secure a good dividend, would have the mer period of our history has the child-life been magnified . when Adam and Eve went round to name the p roductions disposition checked b y remonstrance from all the other into such importance in the pages of literature , and in the of the forest. Can any one (the American editor con- companies. 3. No company would be so seriously affected, eyes of thinking men. Look at the last novel : the first tinues) read this story without indig nation at such a even b y a g reat calamity, as to cause any very great de volume is a minute analysis of childish experience. Look ' stupid act of vandalism ? A tree which, from its descrin- pression in the value of its shares. Let us hope that some at the innumerable schemes of education ; think of the ; tion, must have been one of the noblest works of nature- scheme of this kind will be adopted. esteem in which the teacher of youth is now held; think ' the wonder of the vegetable world-the pride and glory of the host of books composed expressly for children, ser- ! of the American forest-murdered-we can find no other mons for schools, manuals of devotion ; the man who ' appropriate word-that a basket-full of chips may be sent overthrew ancient history, writing Greek legends for his to a show-shop ! ' Any man who could have a hand in so grandson, the most popular author of the day penning a , wanton an act of barbarism, deserves to have his shin " Child's History of England ;" a veritable Archbishop 1 bones made into button - moulds and sold for three cents inditing "Easy Lessons on Reasoning," and " Easy Les- I a gross." sons on Money Matters.' It is the mark of a missionary I'HE Nonmex " CONQUEBT,"-" I think," says Mr. H. epoch, dissatisfied with the past, and doubtful of the pre- Duesbury, "it can scarcely be called a conquest in the sent, but having in hope, and better than hope-expecta- usual acceptation of the term, that is, a conquest by a tion. And no one, certainly no statesman, represents this distinct foreign nation. The early Britons established tendency more strikingly than Mr. Disraeli. His mind is themselves in Amorica, the subsequent site of Normandy, singularly well. balanced in the regard which it bestows and the Britons, still under the Romans, established a alike on the past, the present, and the future. He is ab- colony in Bretagne, the adjoining province, now Brittany. solutely unrivalled for the intensity of his gaze, and the I The people to whom Normandy was allotted in 918, were depth of his insight into the secrets of the future. Pro- the same as those to whom Northumbria and E. Anglia phecy, fortune-telling, astrology,soothsaying - call it what were allotted in 872, and. they that were invited as mercenaries you will-this fascinated gazing into the future as into the in 975. Further, it appearsE the nready, eye of a basilisk, is a part of his oriental heritage ; as, in A.D. 978-1016, married Emma, the sister of Richard, Duke like manner, also, and as the natural effect of it, is the of Normandy, and aun of the Conqueror le ; that he fled to warmth of his interest in the possibilities of youth. Where Normandy, after the D t anish revenge, and ft his wife and do we find such biographies of youth as in the Hebrew two sons, Edward and Alfred, there ; that after his death, Scriptures ? It is because youth is in the season of pro- Canute, the Dane, married his widow, who still left her mise, and because of the many senses in which the child children in Normandy ; that after Canute came the son, is the father of the man, none is more often true than Edward, (called by the priests the " Confessor," and whose this, that the achievements of the man are but the schemes dominion he was entirely under,) who had been reared and of the stripling.-Hogg's Instructor. educated in Normandy, and who brought over Norman SEVILLE AND ITS INIIA.BITA.NTS.-Seville is situated priests and favourites to succeed the Saxons. (The Saxon on the banks of the Guadalquiver , in a large p lain, whence p riests were not over obedient to the Pope the Normans it derives its name of Hispalis, which, in Carthagenian, were ; so the Pope, after then manner of popes, cur cursed means a flat piece of ground, if we may believe Arias Harold and blessed his oppot.) He invited h cous . m . Montano and Samuel Bockhart. It is a vast, straggling William over to see him, and left him his throne • rds. keep the great earl quiet ) and shamefully neglected and town, of very recent date, gay, smiling, and animated, He married the daughter of Earl Godwin, (apparen y tly to and must really appear a charming place to Spaniards. . /3. ur ity e between er o t n h e e , It would be impossible to find a more striking contrast ill-used her ; hence most e ear bit l te ,s r so a n ni ) animosity , catacomb in the open air, on which neglect is after shipwreck on the Norman coast, where he saw to Cordova The town of Cordova is dead :itis an os- parties ; and Harold's (t ssl i o a ay a sprinkling its white dust ; the few inhabitants you William, who offered him his daughter in marriage and meet at the corners of the streets look like apparitions swore him, not being able to help himself, on a tub full of that have mistaken the hour. Seville, on the contrary, is the bones of the saints, (probably taken from the nearest full of the petulance and busy hum of life ; the sound of shambles or graveyard,) not to attempt the throne of ,aiptv nods over her at every instant of the day ; she I England. William seems to have relied, in fact, on his consoiaLion OI LIIOSe tl, Ito ...., u..,aapp, r i-4-...... sivtrarss eau& near descent, the will of the -late king, and this happy.. She enjoys herself, while her sister, Cordova, have scarcely given a name to a 7iiigretab i i", R i ver ! , gag wrapt in silence and solitude, appears to be dreaming or district in England ; and, although they introduced their mournfully of Abdoraman,-of the great captain and all barbarous French in law language, the tongue of England his departed glories, brilliant meteors in the nights of the (still so called) to this day is essentially Saxon, with a past, while all she now possesses are ashes. To the great small prop o rtion of British, Celtic, and Latin left by the disappointment of travellers and antiquarians, whitewash Romans. The Builder . reigns supreme at Seville ; the houses have a new coat of HOURS OP LABOUR LA very mortifying comparison it three or four times a year ; this gives them a look of may be made between the daysofactua and of nominal cleanness and neatness, but effectually prevents any inves- life, even in the case of the favoured individuals who may tigation of the remains of the Arabic or Gothic sculptures have attained the statutable age of threescore years and which formerly adorned the place. Nothing can be less ten. Let us presume that the person in question shall varied than this network of streets, where the eye sees really be a painstaking, hardworking man, severely intent but two tints-the indigo of the sky, and the chalky upon discharging what middle-aged gentlemen call the white of the walls, on which the azure shadows of real business of life. He shall rather transact than enjoy the neighbouring buildings are thrown ; for in warm existence, and comport himself in every c ountries the shadows are blue instead of being grey , so were bound to produce at the nd o;vay as i t hou g h h e e that the objects appear to be li g hted u p on one side b y p ointed p i ece of work. It would scarcely be tot y in his uch aP. to the moon, and on the ot her side b y the sun ; the absence, dock off thirt y entire years from the tale, for during the however, of all sombre tints produces a general appearance first twenty years of an average Englishman's existence of life and gaiety. Do orwa y s closed by iron gates allow he is passed from the nurse to the preparatory school, you to look through and see the patios ornamented with from this to the grammar-school, if heand from , this again to of his thoughts e a columns, mosaic pavement , fo untains, flower-pots, shrubs, colle ge ; and during this period, and pictures. As regards the external architecture, it lad, the mos t ser i ous occupation at offers no particularly remarkable features ; the houses are tain a competent skill in the concoction of Greek lambics, rarely more than two or three stories high, and you hardly and an intimate acquaintance w ith th e scansion of Ari s meet with a dozen facades that are interesting in an ar- tophanic choruses, according to the theories of various tistic point of view. The streets are paved, like those of German illuminati. We allow the ten years before the all Spanish towns, with small pebbles ; but, on each side, grave for repose and prepar a ti on . Forty years remain, this there is a kind of pavement consi stin g of tolerably large although in how few instances it besaid-in flat stones, on which the crowd walks in single file. If a country at least-that a young man b eg i ns to domant man and woman meet, the man always makes way for the work so early in life as at twenty years of age ? However woman with that exquisite politeness which is natural to this may be, the forty years soon become twenty on any Spaniards, even of the very lowest class es. The women reasonable scale of allowance for sleep, daily ablutions, of Seville quite deserve the re p u tation for beauty which spells of illness, and so forth. B u t t o return to the they enjoy ; they are almost all alike, as is a lways the twenty years of waking life, he is a mo s t remarkable case in pure races of a well-defined type ; their long eyes , indeed who shall spend but one-thi r d o f hi s waking hnim: opening to the temples, and fringed with long brown in serious and useful thought. In all probability lashes, produce an effect of black and white, which is un- who has ever lived has done so much as this • no man known in France. When a woman or young girl passes Isaac Newton in the exact sciences-Lord St. Leonard's Sir you, she slowly drops her eyelids, and then suddenly opens in conveyancing lore-James Watt in mechanicaulam'earvedn's them again, shoots at you a look so searching that you are tions-or Walter Scott in poetry and fiction. pro perfectly unable to bear it, rolls the pupil of her eye, and portion is, in truth, disproportionate ; but still, take then again drops the lashes over them. The Bay- calculation for what it may be worth, and the prodigies t of adere Amany, when dancing the Pas des Colombes, was industry and longevity contrive to devote about six years the only person who could convey the slightest notion of and eight months of actual life to business purposes. Of the murderous glances which the east has bequeathed to course, we e xc l u d e f rom ou r recko n i ng all shams and Spain ;we have no terms to express this play of the eyes ; make-believes. Sir Isaac Newton, in his half-hour's the word ojear is wanting in our vocabulary. These saunter under the pleasant lime-groves of Trinity, is hard glances, which are so full of vivid, sud den brilliancy, and at work, while the man who sits for fourteen hours at a which almost embarrass strangers, have , however, no par- stretch u pon a high stool in an office , frittering away his titular signification, and are cast upon the first object time, or waiting upon Providence, is a mere idler. H ( 1 that presents itself ; a young Andalusian girl will look has gone to town i n th e morn i ng with a grave as with the same passionate expression at a cart Passing by, with a brown umbrell a , and he has penned himselfPct and pin the sun has 1 w Th eli at .s ma pen n t a dog running after its tail, or a group of children play- a dirty den for the period named, but at the end of the ing at bullfights. The eyes of the people of the north time he has not even a hatched eg g to show for his pains. are dull and meaningless in comparison ; is life a hr li wae w d h aliti ta th th ou e ghT ur wh o e f ff a ect lon f g or a l d never left its reflection in them.-Gautier 's Wanderings in Spain. I Is and a half.-The Times. raminivorous I NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. H. Bellairs, M.A., Rector of Bedworth, Warwickshire, to an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral. Rev. H. B. Bullocke, M.A., to the Vicarage of Mullyon, Cornwall. Rev. F. W. Collison, 8.D., to the Rectory of Marwood, Devon. Rev. H. J. Davis, Vicar of Gonwil Gaio and Llansawel, to the office of Surrogate. Rev. T. E. Espin, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln Col lege, Oxford, to he Professor of Pastoral Theology at Queen's College Birmingham. Rev. 'ff. Evans, jun., 8.A., to the Rectory of Eriswell, near Mildenhall. Suffolk. Rev. H. H. Higgins, of Liverpool, to be Chaplain of the Rainhill Lunatic Asylum, Lancashire. Rev. F. Hocken, M.A., to the Rectories of Phillack and Gwithian, Cornwall. Rev. D. Parry, M.A., to the Incumbency of Nerquis, Flint shire. Rev. C. R. Rowlatt, M.A., to the Vicarage of West Thur. rock, Roadord, Essex. Rev. T. Smith, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Ossington, near Newark. Rev. J. Sowter, 8.A., to be Chaplain of the new Essex Lu natic Asylum, Brentwood. Rev. G. Stevenson, M.A., to the Incumbency of All Saints, Newmarket. Rev. F..Thring, M.A.', Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, to be Head Master of Uppingham Grammar School. Rev. J. S. Utterton, M.A., Rector of Calbourne, Isle of Wight, to the Vicarage of Farnham. Rev. F. Wheler, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Chad's, Lichfield, to - the Vicarage of Dunchurch, near Rugby. BURNLEY CHURCIL — The works necessary to the resto ration of Burnley Church are proceeding rapidly, although it is not expected that the restoration will be completed before next Midsummer. AUGMENTATION OF POOR LIVINGS.—ThB Rev. Leveson Vernon Harcourt, son of the late Archbishop of York, is, as Chancellor of the Cathedral of York, patron of certain benefices in the neighbourhood, and appropriator of the tithes in each parish. As the opportunity of doing so has presented itself by the falling in of leases, Mr. Harcow avoileLlaimself of the powers of 1 and 2 William IN iormerly zit), now £365 ; Wales, tormerly trz, flow L2ll Letwel, formerly £145, now £265 ; Woodsets, a new church, endowed by Mr. Harcourt with £lOO per annum. BANGOR CATHEDRAL.—The North Wales Chronicle, remarking on the necessity of extended accommodation for the English and Welsh congregations at Bangor Ca thedral, states that " for several Sundays past every pew and bench were crowded, and many were compelled to return to their homes, to exercise in private that religious observance which they were unable to attain in public. The labour and zeal of our several clergy have most suc cessfully awakened a corresponding sympathy on the part of the inhabitants, and in a far greater ratio than might be attributed to the increase of population. These are, indeed, signs of the times which indicate the advancement of intelligence, and the advantages which accrue from its proper religious culture. The example set by our vene rable prelate cannot fail to operate beneficially on all within the range of his benign influence. His lordship, notwith- standing his advanced age, continues to take an active part in the services of the cathedral, and preaches twice every Sunday when in residence." ECCLESIASTICAL CONFERENCE AT BERLIN.—A kind of Ecclesiastical Conference, or Church Union Meeting, is to be held from the 20th to the 23d of this month at Berlin. The object of the meeting, which is of a purely voluntary character, and at which both clergy and lay members of the so-called " Evangelic" Church usually attend, is to concert measures for raising up a spirit of practical piety and counteracting the infidelity and latitudinarianism so long prevalent in Germany, more particularly in Prussia. The origin of these meetings dates from the troublous times of 1848, when the Kirchen Bund, or Church Union, was first founded. It has since held its yearly conference at Wittenberg, in 1849; at Stuttgard, in 1850; at Elber feld, in 1861; and at Bremen, in 1852. The meeting this year in the capital of Prussia gains an additional interest from the recent encroachment of the Romish Church in Germany and the consequent struggle between the govern ments of Prussia, Wurtemberg, Nassau, Baden, and Hesse, and the prelates of the diocese of the Upper Rhine. CURIOSITIES OF IVIEDICAL PRACTICE IN ENGLAND. —The census of 1851 showed 21,435 persons practising one or more departments of medicine without qualification. The youth and sex of some of the practitioners were also r emarkable. In Birmingham there was on " herbalist " under 20 years of age, two " keepers of lunatic asylums " under 20, fourteen female leech-bleeders, and one female physician ; one female " dentist" i n Taunton ; a " phy sician " in Norwich under 20 ; two " medicine vendors " in the Tower Hamlets under 20 ; one "midwife " in Preston under 20; one a phypician " in Canterbury under 29; two `physicians ", in Bristol under 20 ; a female " chemist and druggist " in Colchester under 20 ; one " physician " in Darlington under 20; and one female " surgeon" in Cornwall under 20. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND 'GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVE ISER I EXHIBITION OF THE LIVE_RP OOL TIJA.L WC LDEMY. __.___ feres with our plans, causes uneasy , tells us we are not of sufficient importance to make her LONDO more prompt. To the business man time is money, and to the business wo _ A THE annual opening of ademy of art c fail to be an event of more than mere passing interest in a it is more—it is peac any community pretending to intellectual culture; and we accordingly look with much satisfaction at the interest evinced by the intelligent classes of Liverpool in the open ing of the twenty-ninth annual exhibition of the works of art under the auspices of the Academy That exhibi- tion was opened to the public yesterdi having taken place on Saturday. On both days, we are glad to learn, the attendance of visitors was large The numbers who on Saturday visited the allelies were more numerous than on any previous occasion, and in- Auded, besides a large number of ladies and gentlemen )elonging to Liverpool, a very considerable accession o visitors from Manchester, Preston, and other towns an( places in the neighbourhood, and, as was to have been ex pected, all manifested a lively interest in the collection, and most of them expressed sentiments of approbation as to the exertions of the committee in making the requisite arrangements, and of congratulation as to their success in securing the display of so interesting a collection of rn Tr 7 7=l" 7 4'P,7? FO.RER hstentions" took place ly at Orleans, where in 8,000 electors INTELI the transatlantic steamers has be( but the rivalry of the principal se 13, 1853. IBEit 3t this bonus never a !Wed. The Emperor M. Lefevre, a French States, where he has, The Val owed the n has given tleman asked an audience from Napole ready to undertake the whole sch ATTIVaI w, The ACite n a om of a deserted French vesse!: .rived from Cardiff. A British ves- el of tallow had been lost at the south of ailoe. ,racers and crew saved themselves in the boats. Advices from Punta Arenas, Central America, ar e .,t ° le 20th July. Business was very dull, and great do.' unity was experienced in procuring cargoes. The gove l t ment had it in contemplation to clo se the port of Pg" and establish another in its st ead at a more nor; '";ne more convenient fo r the cornnierc withou The Avo< «•it ively tueriy poun, „4.,;„ I of the republ imeiyuz 1 Th e ~c , narticu ' 1 France ance of gov invariably a COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. n, Nnv.—The stock market is dull, and NEW YORE, AITGrST Money is more at ease, and the rates for 'Ape • e r The Exchange on England, with an . 081 _ 4 kPt fhP rafi, enntinueS to advance, closing prices goer lament, wl himself lower. 3 he assist- I declining a buy his Wet to 1091 per cent. t, test This per- CorroN.—(From W.P.Wright's Circular, of a .. „ te a A 0 reposition of 30—The operations in cotton have been on ... a s s i ,!,4 -c ; ....the end scale, except on Saturday, when 3,000 bales were cil 7 1 :a rates, ar o is , port designated of; buyers are not disposed to pay the present ,of „arse, the necessary holders are unwilling to give way. The chief business oll• ast v.c made by government. been for export and on speculation ; our domesti c , u 0 There ~..._ Jeginning, eight vessels, which sumers are taking very moderately just now. There ,n he ., number afterwards, however, Will be increased to 16, and alteration to note in the qUotations from last v6 '.l. ee' ..'ffect they are to run in three lines between France and New lower grades, however, are entirely York, the Gulf of Mexico, and Brazils. sales a reduction would have to be submitted to.. , eO. It was declared very positively on the Bourse on Thurs- 8 0 0 " 3 • 1 sales since 23d inst. to last evening amount to , _ bje ct pictures. day that accounts had reached the French Government of The accounts from the south are conflicting on til M na ge Considering the reputed taste, the intelligence, and the the refusal of the Emperor of Russia to accept the note of the new crop. From some sections we hear of (r o e wealth of Liverpool, it would probably be saying more of the Porte in a modified state, and that it was for the by rain, worms, &c. from others, that the pros Peel nominal, and ty . 08 than strict justice could approve of, were we to aver that purpose of discussing the course to be pursued that M. improved, and that a good crop will be made. ISO Fould had been summoned to Dieppe by the Emperor 1853 1852 1851 _ ,„,, 000 Receipts at the ports 3,221 GOO 3 018 000 2,331, 00 . •'SC:00 0 the exhibition is in all respects what might have been an- Napoleon. An opinion is held by some politicians in Paris Exports , to Great Britain! 737'000 1,665,000' 2 1,416,00 1,7,-iOOO ticipated or wished, either in respect to the character of that the Emperor of Russia himself has, by means of France '427,C00 4000 3 01,060 N:ooft the works shown, or as regards the accommodation for corruption at Constantinople, assisted in producing a „ other for, ports 363,000 352,000 265 , ,t 3 1 577,e decision of the Divan which gives him a pretext for pro- Total exports 2,527.0 , 0 2,439,000 1,0 5 = '142,'", their advantageous display, or for the comfort and Stock on hand longing the occupation of the Principalities. convenience of visitors. As to the last named ground BELGIUM.—A succession of fetes, almost unbroken since BREADSTUFFS.—In consequence of a break in t he - 0 00' of complaint, if any such exist, the public have the the marriage of the young Duke of Brabant with the still supplies of flour last week were retarded; and Or, 0 ,11 , • e s Igor 0 1 more youthful Duchess; has' marked the royal condescen- the article . comes forward slowly, present prw ji be , matter pretty much in their own hands, for by afford mon and the popular sympathy, in all the principal towns remunerative to the millers. There has been a_ . ,,, s oil ing countenance and pecuniary aid to the academy, of Belgium. At'Antwerp the king and the newly-married demand for flour and wheat for the French P° l- 7 1 ter that body will experience little difficulty in procuring royal pair had a most enthusiastic reception. also for Belgium. Further, there have been seme c i for the most ample and suitable accommodation which even HANOVEH—It is stated that the reigning Duke of sive purchases of flour for October delivery 8 t „Iprieg the most fastidious could desire. To improve the Brunswick, who has no issue, is about to abdicate. The Western Canal, being 25c. per brl. above the car" m bille' character of the works exhibited is an achievement titular duke, so long notorious in London and Paris, is de- of the day of purchase on the spot. These e ° 4 f the probably less within the reach of public aid ; yet by no barred from the succession, having been dep rived of his causes have not onl y sufficed to counteract the dee" s aile, means absolutely beyond the operation of their influence ; duchy by the Germanic Diet. The consequence of the decline in the English markets, but even to prod , ",hose 01 , but to effect this most desirable object, the public and the projected abdication of the present duke will be, commer- advance, the quotations being 12c. per hrl. abov e 'lied academy must co-operate in a liberal and enlightened cially as well as politically, important. The duchy of this day week, the market being' still scantily st l P.Pbash e ; spirit. Preconceived theories of artistic excellence, and Brunswick is merged in the kingdom of Hanover, which the enhanced rates. Wheat declined lc. to 2c. P e `i 1 0 slavish imitations of particular schools must not be per- thereby becomes nearly as large as Saxony. towards the close of last week. There was a good ue mated to overrule the dictates of sober reason. To secure AUSTRIA.—The Russian reply to the despatch contain- for Indian corn. rice' true excellence in art, nature must be appealed to as the ing t he modifications of the Porte is expected at Vienna PR ; OTISIONS.—There is no alteration to notice . 0 11 90 . guiding star of the artist's course, and a truly great about this period. The Russian cabinet's objection to the The demand is moderate but steady, and prices s we t° artist can no more be created by even the most d e voted modifications will refer principally to the treaties of Kain- tained. study of pictures, than a great poet or philosopher could be ardji and Adrianople. IRON.—A limited business in Scotch pig, at reared up by the most painstaking familiarity with books To prevent further complications, the Austrian govern- per ton s six months. not ice ' alone. Severe self-culture in the various walks of litera- ment, supported by the Ambassadors of the great Powers, FREIGHTS.—There is very little alteration t° r lb , tare and science, and a continual looking up to nature in has proposed the opening of direct negociations on the The rates to L iv e r pool are , for cotton, 7-32 d. to ta.;, 1 1 re an humble yet intelligent spirit, must form the ground- points in dispute. These negoc ia t ions are to be conducted flou, 2s. 6d. per brl. • grain, in bulk, 7d. to 1 % 01 113, work of an artist's efforts, who aims at anything bey ond b y the Count Nesselrode and the Ottoman Ambassador, bushel. To London : &Jur, 2s. 9d. to 3s. per b rl. ; r lb .; the evanescent fame of , mere coterie commendation. who is tille sent to St. Petersburgh. This proposal, it is in bulk, 9d. per bushel. To Havre : cotton, ic• P e Familiarity with the noble works of those great masters hoped, be accepted by the litigant parties. The Rus- flout, 65c. to 70c. per brl. ; wheat, 18c. per bushel. ct ice. whose excellences form an exhaustless subject of admira- sian Ambassador is said to assert that the evacuation of NEW ORLEANS, ArGIIST 27.—The market was 5° tion, and a never-failing theme of commendation and the Principalities will shortly commence, and that in any with small sales, and prices were nominal. Da' delight, will, no doubt, do much to incre ase his resources case the Russians will not pass the wi n from nter in those Cons t antinople ing lugust 25, . CEARLESToN AuGlIsT 2,201 bales 27.—Receipts 14 S.I her wet °;;;es ens as an originator of really estimable works ; for it is cor - TURK EY.—The news of the 25tUp, and rectly said by Sir JosnuA REYNOLDS, (we . quote from and of the 26th from Odessa is not satisfactory. The pre- export. Cotton attracts very little attention. "Liit t` memory,) "He will ever be found most original, who is valent impression in the Turkish capital is that Russia withoit change, and the sales 1,200 bales. x ' most familiar with the ideas of others." " But, says the will consider the proposed modifications equivalent to a Liverpool, ice. e 0 same master, with, equal truth, "to follow in the path of rejection of the Vienna note. At all events the Porte is 31011 LE, AUGUST 22.—Receipts for the w eek t o a great man, it is not necessary that he occu py his foot- • p re p arin g for the worst, as fresh troops are continually Angus; 19, 69 bales. Exports to Havre, 2,01 prints or step into his worn-out slippers. Mere imitation sent off to Varna and Shumla. On the 25th a detachment Quotations nominal. No freight for Liverpool• is the bane and destruction of true greatness in any walk of the Imperial Guard left Constantinople, and it is again of science or of art, In carrying into practice the artist's rumoured that Mehemet Ali Pasha, the Minister of War, efforts to attain excellence, public countenance is indis- is about to follow it to the camp. pensable, as approbation and reward .are " the breath A letter from Shumla of the 15th ult., states that the of life" to an artist, without which he must inevit- army of Omar Pasha consists of 05,000 men and 180 pieces ably languish and die ; and, on the public, therefore, of cannon. He was daily receiving reinforcements, whilst in a great degree, depends the course an artist has to the Russians, it was said, had lost 13,000 men by typhus steer. Relying upon this truth, we know it is but too and diarrhoea since their entrance into the Principalities. much the fashion to lay blame upon public patronage, The Russians, to the number of 5,000 men, pitched their when the error has in reality rested with the cultivators of tents on the 10th at Totragun, on the left bank of the art. The effect of public encouragement upon art, and Danube, so that the sentinels of the two armies are within the products of artistic culture, must of necessity act and musketshot of each other. react on each other. If the public confer the reward, the Letters from Odessa state, that the wheat in the town artist, in a great degree, sets the current on which favour stores amounts to 2,000,000 of chetwerts, and that the is wafted to his door. Art, in this country, is acknow- rent of warehouses had been quadrupled. ledgedly of recent origin, and it is no disparagement to The latest accounts from the Danubian provinces state the general intellect to avow that intimacy with artistic that the Russian army is suffering severely from disease, excellence is by no means universally diffused. Still we and that provisions have reached a famine price at Bu are not to infer from that, that the public is either illiberal charest. It is believed that the Emperor would willingly or unjust in its treatment of artists. Capricious and fickle withdraw his troops if an "honourable excuse" were it may be in its tastes, as those' generally are who have offered to him. no fixed principles to guide them in their judgment ; but, It was positively stated at the Russian Embassy in with all its waywardness, the liberal hand, the generous Paris, that when the Emperor was informed that the impulse, is not absent. Let artists be true to themselves, Porte had modified the note of the Conference of Vienna and loyal to the legitimate object of their allegiance, and before accepting it, he observed in a tone of much modera they need not fear the absence of public sympathy and tion, that he would willingly make concessions for the support. Let them remember that it was not following express purpose of meeting the wishes of the European the conventionalities of a particular school which induced Powers, but that he would not humilitate himself in the BUONAROTTI to compass the wonders of his " Last eyes of the world by submitting to propositions proceeding Judgment." It was not conforming to principles evolved direct from the Sultan. in the labours of a particular master, which enabled RUSSIA.—A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 27th tilt., DE VINCI to conceive and delineate the sublime and mys- in the Hamburg News, says : "The manceuvres of the terious beauties of " The Last Supper." Nor was it fol- corps of Grenadiers of the Guard has just been terminated lowing the dicta of CIRABUE which urged upon RAPHAEL by a grand review in presence of the Emperor and of all the design and execution of the " Transfiguration. No ! the Court. The next day the troops took repose, and then Each and all of these great works may have been in some were marched off to their winter quarters. The Emperor degree beholden to the maxims and rules of preceding is shortly to set out for Warsaw, and may perhaps even professors or schools of art ; but they owe their value and visit Austria?' Another letter from St. Petersburg, of their greatness' to the independent workings of intellect in the same date says : " Intelligence has been received here their respective authors. We have been .led into a some- from Teheran, that the proceedings of the sect of the Babis, what lengthened digression on this subject, because, from who some time ago attempted to assassinate the Shah, still what we can learn, there appears to be an under current conti nu e . They lately spread a report that the Shah was of popular feeling in 'favour of what cannot be looked on dead, and the rumour gained such ground that his Majesty as other than a tramelled and factitious style of art. We thought it advisable to make a public promenade, accom hope that such is not the case ; yet, as sincere admirers panied by his Ministers and several officers of the Court, of legitimate art, we have deemed it right to allude to the through the bazaars and the principal streets. Several subject as one of vital importance to its interests. Babis were arrested, and tortured in the most cruel man- To return to the exhibition, however ;we learn from ner in the presence of the people." the catalogue, that there are 712 works of art contributed Apnice.—The royal mail steam-ship, Forerunner, Capt. by 333 artists, being an increase of 112 pictures over the Barnwell, arrived at Plymouth, on Friday, with mails number exhibited last year. Of these there are a con- from the west coast of Africa, &c. The Forerunner made siderable number from the pencils of artists who occupy a good passage, and would have reached home earlier but a prominent position in British art, including specimens for her being obliged to call at Ferrol for coals. She by the late J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. ;W. P. FRITH, R.A. ; brings news that the boats of the Faith, which were sup- C. STANFIELD, R.A.; J. P. KNIGHT , R.A.; C. LANDSEER, posed to have been lost, with the purser and crew with R.A. ; NOEL PATON, R.S.A. ; J. A. HousToN, R.S.A. ;J. mails, had since been seen, and search was being made for G. GILBERT, R.S.A. ; besides characteristic contributions them by the Ferrol and Waterwitch. from the studios of our best resident artists, in nearly all H.M.S. Volcano and the American frigate Constitution the walks of art, comprising landscapes , sea -views, p or- were at Sierra Leone. The Britomart sailed the day pre traits, conversation pieces, historical incidents, and still vious to the arrival of the Forerunner at that place. The life. There is, likewise, a numerous display of miniatures Polyphemus was off Accra. exhibiting various degrees of merit ; and a small collection Admiral Bruce was expected at Lagos on the 16th of of sculpture. The latter is placed in such a situation as to August. The slave trade is said to be more than usually be seen to great and manifest disadvantage. From the brisk. artists and the subjects we have enumerated, it is not difficult to infer that, as a whole, the collection must be AMERICA. one of an interesting and highly gratifying kind; and we ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. might well be content to conclude our preliminary notice at steam this point, but reflection induces us to perceive that in even .American royal By the British and North ship America, Captain Shannon, which reached the Mersey the few general remarks which we are enabled to offer, we on Sunday afternoon, we have intelligence from New York ought to say a word in reference to the sta ndin g assumed by to the 30th and Boston to the 31st alt. our local celebrities, artistic and non - arti stic. In the por- The America brought 79 passengers, among whom were trait department we recognize with pleasure twofemale por the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Canada, Lady Elgin, and traits by JOHN ROBERTSON, both of which are possessed of three children. She also brought $127,569 on freight. high merit, and deservedly hold a distinguished place in that walk of art. The portrait of Sir J OHN BENT, recently The_ steam-ship Europa, which sailed from this p ort at 11 30, a.m., on the 20th ult., arrived at Boston at 5 30, Mayor of Liverpool, is a favourable specimen, by WEST- a m. COTT ; and SAnuSAMUEL HOLME, Esq., the present Mayor, is . The Georgia had arrived at New York with $1,300,00C also represented at full length, in a painting by FATTEN, dust on freight and $2O , who likewise presents a half-length portrait of Triceilas . g old "0 000 in the hands of pas BERRY VonsFALL, Esq., M.P. Among the numerous s pictures falling under the general denomination of conver sation pieces, " A Shebeen, at Donnybrook," from the pencil of E. NrcoL, deserves prominent consideration; it is instinct with life, and is so prodigally imbued with indivi duality of character and varied expression as to remind us of WILKIE'S earlier productions. " Life among the Gypsies at Seville," by J. PHILIP, is also a meritorious picture, containing bold drawing, rich colouring, and Copious grouping. Of TURNER, STANFIELD, FRITH, N. PATON, MARTIN, and others whose names have b een lon g and favourably known to the public, it is not necessary here to speak, more especially as in after notices we shall have ample opportunities of referring to their peculiar 'styles and merits. Meanwhile we content ourselves with commending the exhibition to the favourable consideration of our readers, as one which will afford them much rational gratification, and which is well deserving of public en rt 1 couragement and support. 1 steamers ready-built in Englan4 mission was verbally granted, in s, some of the ministers. The first of October for New York. Dieppe is as the principal starting O.— :melts for a seaport must .re to be, for the be'-' ARRP:TAL OF THE HUMBOLDT. 1,0 1 By tle United States Mail steamship H u mboldt , . r _oce arrived at Southampton on Thursday, we have in telbg from New York to the 27th ult. deo° The ItTew York papers have published the corresPoniatice between Lord John Russell and Mr. Crampton, redregt to the reply to the tripartite treaty proposition frol.,:,1„a11, Britain and France. In answer to Lord John Pilo after alluding to the geographical distance bet w eo ,ts o f country and Cuba, it informs him that, if the 111 ,t e , re Lt this country should in any way be affected, it wn.,,-,1,7,4,31',,," regarded with indifference. In short, though or has threateningly declared herself free to act sing l% t ot conjunction with other powers, assurance is gi c ' e rice r there will be no hesitation on the part of President o f tl to protect and uphold the interests and d i g nitY Unted States. Accounts have been received of immense ini the u/ to _ l crop in the Southern States, in consequence of rain;, and the cotton has been very much darnag"'Lite Lerd Elgin had left Quebec for Halifax, en Iv Engand. a oi Tin yellow fever in New Orleans has increast — one C 1 34 of the latest reports mentions 315 interme nts in Adfices from Jamaica to the 12th ultimo state L" political and commercial situation was unch ange tA The steam-ship Cherokee, one of the New s-or“ Califoriia steamers, was destroyed by fire a t New the M 26 ult. ore tli arrivals from California, but no later De scs. fortnightly gold will be two millions. scerea to United States Minister to Mexico is eniP° negotiate for a railroad through Sonora to Calif°. FOREIGN 2111SCELLASZ ° ..,C 611 ; THE FORT SMITH Herald learns that an /PlA tain has been discovered in Scott county. Seco- tb o mens of lead, silver, and iron, from that sect ica country, have been received at Fort Smith. COAL AT SlNAL — Egypt is in a state of ase l l7, - , en 't; now about something else than the ani nuj ,„;,dture The Nile has risen well this year ; the agr - a nd 11 1 '; valley is safe ;and the Cairo people have leis ure b e en c" : ' • e ha s t ja r tion for the grand news—that a coal Ton Breato covered on Mount Sinai. The news is of ve r Y,; ti eer 4 i t , examine to the Pacha, and he has sent off enure to j examine into the matter, and ordered prePar, 3l e the CO for the immediate working of the del co st• oef should prove to be of a quality that will rep t o . s clio, ° 4 ENTERPRISE REWARDED.—The fast-sawn,' po'il; Dee, belonging to the St. John Wrecking l ' i co yag e ,, e o Company, has just returned from a successful o..sie„f the Bay of Fundy, laden with some of the loar_e of W treasures of the deep, richly repaying th e enterPl7.oo,/ owners. We understand she will immediatelY 40,0' an old wreck supposed to contain $40,000 to St. John (N. 8.) Freeman, Aug. 18. rece, A MYsTEßtous INDIVIDUAL. — A man NC— c liAlrAY lodged in the gaol of Pithiviers, France, on a„ re f alp vagabondage. He is of gigantic strength, hth".l,,iip, tell his name or answer any question put tO; a l. t e. body presents the peculiarity of being at.lVltittec over. There may be read on it ProserPTe4 1 Mille " Eurydice," " Armide," " Arthemise„ 1 5 ,',01; Marine," " Pas de Chance," " Sternuth, 18,;1e," " L'enfant de Malheur," " Adam e t Eve, k %et' B. Lucien ;" and there may be seen, also, On afl ti of men and women, of a man armed with syvord,,,d of anchors, of a cock, &c. The police are Inatr-atea exertions to discover who this profusely ibis 410; vidual can be. od e THE AMERICAN YACHT IN ITALY.— , 9 40 1. 01, singular coincidence, the celebrated American erg tr. North Star, Captain Vanderbilt, with about 8 0 P o it!),.6 board, arrived in the port of Civita Vecchia, oil, intention, on the part of the owner and hi i s po tD o e l t) . ; paying a visit to Rome, just at the period w . ` t- t hro covery of the so-considered Mazzinian plot had 6 .01 government into a paroxysm of suspicion a nd ° a p, police authorities, staggered by the imposi n g wld e . o asf tah sympathising vessel path s and in t g h e expedition,number us se t eie t s h ps e e;ilreev l ir t; land ; so that, after two or three days' the North Star proceeded to Naples, wher e e s d to s ee no better reception, and was ultimately fore _ great ship of 5,000 tons, building at East Boston by. Mr. 3.llCay, and intended for the Liverpool and Austra lian trade, had been Great t ep Tt h e e f Montreal _ launches m ROM. UV u papers announce the formation of a joint-stock company to run six iron ships, of SOO tons, between that port and Liverpool. Two bales of the new cotton crop, received in New York from Charleston, had been sold at 13c. per lb. The first bale of Sea Island cotton was received in Savannah on the 26th. • was to more hospitable shOres of Malta. BREAKING A CONTRACT.—" the Gazette des Tribunaux,"a tions :—Aug. 26th. The interments yesterday were 219. Deaths by yellow fever, 200. The interments to-day numbered 183. Deaths by yellow fever, 154. Aug. 27th. 0. L. Dabbelstein, the Mexican consul at New Orleans, died to-day. The interments were 185, of which 159 were caused by yellow fever. The New Orleans papers give an account of the operations of the Howard Association. The Ited up to August 20th, was 4,550 ; LLIGV 111 1G . , .Thfty,were providing nurses employed. Five deaths from yellow' re - v - 4 300 nurses Mobile on the 23d ult. The firing of cannon in the streeg had been discontinued on account of its bad effects on the sick, but the burning of tar was continued. A correspon dent of the New York Tribune, says, " The officer in charge of St. Patrick's Cemetery informed me that they have fights there every day over the dead. Many of the Irish pull up the pickets of the fence and bury their dead, without a certificate or any account taken of them. Cattle had got into the cemetery and trampled upon and in the new-made graves. At Potter's Field they bury in trenches, dug from two to two-and-a-half feet deep. A deputation of citizens from Baton Rouge has arrived to assist in nursing the patients." A disturbance had occurred at Niagara Falls. It ap pears that the Deputy Marshal proceeded to arrest a coloured waiter, named Sneed, alias Watson, on the charge of having killed a Mr. Jones, at Savannah, four years ago, and for whom a reward of $1,500 had been offered. The other waiters, believing that their companion was arrested as a fugitive slave, rescued him from the officers, and, after a severe fight, started with him for the Canadian shore. The ferryman, who had some misgivings about the matter, rowed out into the stream, and then came back to ascertain the nature of the negro's offence, Upon being informed that it was murder, he promptly returned the man to the American shore. By this time upwards of two hundred negroes had assembled at the landing, fully prepared for a desperate resistance. The officers, however, called to their assistance some three hundred Irish railroad labourers. A regular pitched battle ensued ; the negroes were put to flight, and the prisoner was conducted by the officers to Buffalo, where he will be detained till the necessary papers are received for his transfer to the south._ tip le, 4 lf 1 A married e et ter",os after living t „ 0 . 0 to E e i be ' erns for some time, resolve. few days ''il At " 4 0 e r e They sold off all their furniture, but fincling f , os l eti iva t l i it realised was not very important, they P r° 'earb' ni ef. mit suicide, and yesterday they went at an v i ell o ol i ft the Canal St. Martin to execute the design' ;f,,al°;o ° AP leaped in first, but after a while, being a ent l icelip 1 , q . .) he raised his head above water, and Pe a r n - 1 ;0; 1 ' standing quietly on the bank watching n,, i : con e { 0 abusing her, and said that, according to tn`' e fet , r t il l er she ought to drown herself. Instead, b n l e t„l' L e ,4 (1 1 eV plying, reftiseiE sh l e ,o ac re c l u t s i,o e ril d ii h e im of intending ti ;le'l l 'ir r whilst he saved himself bL i sw ou irn t a tremendous thrashing. went to seek for the guard, and the liiefle` the ta ar arrested. On being questioned they mei e r ft 3 o f tb e f d THE EARTTIQVAKE AT TIEEBES.-1 0e ,,„" t 0„ - ,a Pe,' lle, got o s u o t m o:f a p n t ' 17leyrseerni:aisynre;1,, :))I:;;:aiarPrl f ii ; e e n !, of the 26th ult., gives the following parts rol" t / 0 new houses, solidly built, and struction of Thebes by an earthquake :-, tslc-e_,l f or e e' 0' have lost their lives, and 18 have been ose'''es ‘ , 'di! ruins badly wounded. The town was con i Jo on a ti'4 o f , o beeo . t ilp pa rtlY strutted of wood and bricks. The firs t I, ll3 ;ir se 'e a ,t s'll ; e6 ,,t , ' destroyed, and had not the inhabitants -- „ a ri d L - , e bi g y would have been buried in the vili l l s ; h ; a ninP4eo;e . ' i class of houses are so much injured asl ° ; -. the:v. 6 . lY The whole population are encamp bunch n y e ° . tr 'Thebes, where water was formerly so 0 obari o t 4 , scarcely any, and the dust raised by th e ar cis i nil ei . 3 houses has so covered the gardens agingvineYd the 0 ~,, fruit has lost all its savour. The „n tin draelet e t , * when informed of this sad event,. ent fiv - , 19t . s •t a ats• gt a quantity of military tents to the inhabit , far ~ 0) .., 3 Thebes, but also the neighbouring v ill a ges af .elo ww fo ll't have so much suffered that there are 17 of t ti ,do 13 b e lf,l quite uninhabitable. The town of Chalcis vox , t 0 ,4 some houses destroyed by this earthqua ke i at O le vl o' 18 years shocks have been frequently fel .„, f e lt Athens, sometimes several s hocks have be" Ir on' the sce of 24 hours." fr °lll ,i • NEW STYLE OF NAVIGATIoN.—A. le tt e r le, a 010i , , , of the 22d ult., in the New Prussian Gaiei be 13: i ,,,ti ~ young nobleman, Mr. S—, nephew °I „ ti d Ili'„0? . ; 1 W--, who, by his Herculean strength;nst 01776 1 rashness, such as racing on horseback arN es tre T: a il,a train, and swimming from this place to '`. -1- 0 4 a)? v,,, an open umbrella in his hand, has aecl w o pern' e a t,4 renown, recently made a bet that he VN' ri ding i l iev; passage from Venice to Trieste alone, and sta g font' Di' i, planks four feet long by one foot vride, an planks thick, strongly attached to each other in the a; . va4 iron clasp, and with no other help than Teleids,l, day morning last this young gentleman mat: o io - a fy ante before the Prezetta on this raft of his o . lit a n . t) , on which it was very difficult to stand alnled the ~ serve an equilibrium. Scarcely had lie as hoW e Pe i: than he was upset by a wave. He did not _., re , ie ff i courage, but, bringing his raft to the shn l ' ine pro y ;„ ale:: and, after placing on it a box containing so ted os ", again started. After six hours' uninter rl P o f St . i j e ' V t of his arms he was seen from the s teeple _he A Church at a short distance from Carole:_ie {b t,/ appeared from sight. The Trieste G.?_-,, e , , o adr4g.ll this extraordinary voyage was accomnli s 7 The t -C ,- neP S -- arrived in that port safe and soul _,„ n iy P . : from Venice to Trieste is more than. ,e,'„`,,, froP miles, allowing for the necessary deviau" straight course." AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE the performances during the past week have been chiefly confined to a re petition of those pieces in which the combined talents of Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone form the chief at traction ; and among them " Mr. Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus" has continued to prove a leading feature. The houses have generally been well filled, and the histrionic acquirements of the two performers we have named have met with their usual and deserved modicum of applause and patronage. Besides the parts sustained by Mrs: Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone in the "Ascent of Parnassus," they have likewise repeated their characters in " The Serious Family," " Green Bushes," " The Mouse trap," and " The Flowers of the Forest". On Friday evening the performances were for the benefit of Mrs. Fitzwilliam, when an entirely new play, entitled "Ap pearances are Deceitful," from the pen of Mr. Palgrave Simpson, was produced for the first time on any stage. The comedy, as we are informed in the announcements, has been written for the purpose of displaying the stage capabilities of the two stars, who have for some time back been shining with gratifying lustre in our theatrical sky. The mode of its production was welcomed and applauded by a numerous auditory, who, in a style of enthusiasm, acknowledged their approbation of Mrs. Fitzwilliam's varied skill and representative powers. The new comedy was followed by " Parnassus," the stock piece of the sea son, which was, as usual, received with loud demonstra tions of delight. Advices from the City of Mexico to the 9th ult. state that the establishment of a national bank had been unfa vourably reported upon. The black vomit was prevailing at Acapulco. Many deaths had occurred. Gen. Manuel Villada had died of the disease. Accounts from New Mexico announce that the Mexican troops had again ad vanced, as if to take possession of the Mesilla Valley. Letters from Montreal report the arrest and liberation on bail of the Hon. Charles Wilson, mayor of the city, on a charge of murd er . Thi s charge arises out of the colli sion between the troops and the people on the occasion of the Gavazzi riots. The British mail steamer Quito was wrecked on the 1 elv oth of August. Sh e s t ruc k unexpec t e dly upon a rock, twc miles from Huasco, and, rebounding from it , , was dashed against another, sous to stave in her bottom immediately. The Quito was a new iron vessel, the property of Donthe Pacific Steam Navigation Company. One passenger, Cruz Tobar, was drowned. $420,000 in Th in e s t p is eo p i u e , ionft o would be shipped Panama 24o on th e 6th ultimo with across the isthmus, and the balance via Valparaiso to England. whi ch ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. AND NORTSWESTERN WESTERN RAILWAYS AND GREAT HORTICULTURE STOVE, CONSERVATORY, GREENHOUSE, &C.—The plants for winter display will now require all the attention of the gardener. The seedsmen have received their stocks of bulbs, which are in excellent condition this year. An early selection should be made, as the best are usually chosen first. A good number of Hyacinths, Narcissus, Jonquils, early Tulips, Sachenalias, &c., should be put in, as they supply a most agreeable means of decorating the house when other flowers are scarce. Lay out the stems of Chrysanthemums singly to neat sticks ; this is not only necessary for improving their appearance, but it also assists in preventing mildew, by admitting the air thoroughly to all parts of the plant. KITCHEN GARDEN.—The fruit crop is now ready in most places for gathering and storing : this operation re quires much care and attention. Dry weather and very careful handling are essential to its future preservation. Those intended for the fruit-room should be perfectly free from bruises and other defects, and all windfalls should be rejected. Take up the onion crop, and dry it under shelter, if possible, with free admission of air and light to ripen the bulbs. If new beds of strawberries have been planted, they should be watered with weak liquid manure during dry weather. Earth up the winter crops, such as celery, cabbage, brocoli, &c• declare(