The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

STAMPED

DISMORE'S 2s. Semi-gold PEN, elastic, yet firm.
Will not alter in the slightest degree by use, or corrode if
left in the Ink—a really good useful durable Pen.
Corner of Bold-street.

WHOLESALE PHOTOGRAPHIC WAREHOUSE.
JOHN ATKINSON, 33, MANCHESTER-STREET,
LIVERPOOL, Importer and Manufacturer of every Article
in the above Art, has always in Stock some of the most approved
Lenses and Cameras, of all the various sizes; Glass Baths and
Plates, Collodion Cases, Matts, Passe Partonts, Preservers,
Cansons, Paper, &c. Purchasers taught free of charge.

NEWLY-INVENTED PIANO-FORTES,
Br T. HARRISON.
PIANO-FORTE MANUFACTURER,
B,_ NEWIN G T O N, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
T. H., having just completed one of his NEWLY-INVENTED
PRINCE OF WALES PIANO-FORTES, solicits an early IN-
SPECTION of this splendid and rich powerful-toned Instrument,
which is a new design, and of very small construction.
T. H., having had 29 years' practical experience in the above
Business, is enabled to execute Repairing, Tuning, &c., on all the
recent improved principles.
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Piano-fOrtes made in London expressly for T. HARRISON, from.
25 Guineas. Parties requiring Piano-fortes will find the advan-
tage of applying at the above address, where they will be certain
to meet with a good and well-made instrument, as no spurious
instruments are offered for sale at this Establishment.

N.8.-=Tuning and Repairing in Town and Country personally
executed.

WRYALLS' PIANO-FORTE AND MUSIC
• REPOSITORY,
28, HAMILTON-STREET,
(NEAR WOOD,SIDE FERRY,)
BIRKELiHEAT).
W. R. takes this opportunity of teturning thanks to his
numerous customers, and hopes by keeping only a personally
selected Stock of Instruments of the First Class, combined with
the most Moderate Charges, to merit a continuanceof the patron-
age so liberally bestowed on bin,.
Grand, Semi-grand, Cottage, Grand Square, and Square
PIANO-FORTES, from the Manufactories of Broadwood, Col-
lard and Collard, Allison, Hopkinson, and other eminent London
Makers.
SECOND-HAND PIANO-FORTES, by Broadwood, Collard
and Collard, etc., at greatly Reduced Prices.
PIANO-FORTES and HARMONIUMS for HIRE, by the
Night, Month, or Year.
Harmoniums, Concertinas, Music Stools, Canterburys, &c.
Harp, Violin, and Guitar Strings of the best kinds.

OPENING -OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE,
LONDON.
Lathes, Gentlemen, and Families are recommended to the
CLARENDON
PRIVATE BOARDING-HOUSE,
17 and 18,—ARUNDEL-STREET, STRAND,-17 and 18.
Coffee Room 40 feet long, with every homely comfort.
Close to Theatres, Parke, City, and Rail to Exhibition.
Bed and Breakfast,,3s. per day.

AT ANDERSON'S

MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS AND

LADIES' RESTAURANT,

CASTLE-STREET, ENTRAXCE MARBLE GATEWAY.

NOVEMBER.
SOUPS, 6d. to ls. 6d. • •
Turtle, Mock Turtle, Hare, Game, Ox-tail, Vermicilli, Maccaroni.
Gravy, Jullien, Mutton Broth.

FI S H, 9d. to is. 3d.
Codfish and Oyster Sauce, Codfish au Gratin, Turbot and Lobster
Sauce, Oysters au Gratin, Filets de Sole a la Maitre
d'Hotel, ditto au Gratin, ditto en Matelotte,
Fried Soles, small and large.

JOINTS, ls. to ls. ed.
Roast Turkey and Sausages, Roast Goose and Apple Sauce,
Roast Haunch of Mutton and Onion Sauce, Roast
Beef, Boiled Round of Beef and Vegetables,
Roast Pork and Apple Sauce.

SCOTCH DISHES.
Sheep's-head Broth, Potato Soup, Sheep's Head and Trotters,
Minced Collops, &c.

ENTREES, 6d. to is. 6d

Boiled Rabbit and Onion Sauce, Grilled Bones a la Reform, Hashed
Beef or Mutton, Rumpsteak Pie, Haricot de Mouton a la
Francaise„ Cotelettes de Mouton, Sauce Tomata, Irish Stew,
Jugged Hare, Sausages and Mashed Potatoes, Cotelettes
de Mouton, Sauce Piquante, Ditto Sauce Robert, Curried
Chicken and Rice, Rabbit Pie, Curried Rabbit and Rice,
Sant6 de Fillet de Boeuf a la Francaise, Cotelettes de
Mouton a la Soubise, Dittol'lndienne Ditto a la
Jardiniere, Poulet a Ia Tartare, Fricasade Poulet
a la Creme, Kidneys h Ia Diable, Sauti de Poulet
aux Fines Herbes, Poulet• grille a l'ltalienne,
Coutelettes a la Maintenon, Fille de Brent
l'Ude, small and large, Fille de Beau(
a la Parisienne, small and• large.

POULTRY AND GAME. '
Roast Tnrkey and Sausages; Roast Fowl, Boiled Ditto and Bacon,
Roast Pigeons, Ditt,i Grosse and Bread Sauce, Ditto Partridge.

VEGETABLES AND SAUCES IN GREAT VARIETY.

CHEESE.
Gruyere, Cream, Cheshire, Stilton, Parmesan.
LADIES SPEcIALLI' INVITED TO VISIT THIS ESTABLISHMENT.
THERE IS AN EXCELLENT LADIES' ROOM.

ENTREMETS, 4d. to 6d.
Apple Tart and Fritters, Roll, College, Apple, Rice, Maccaroni,
Bread and Butter, and Marrow Puddings. Tartlets au Confi-
ture, Maids of Honor, Omelette au Fromage, Ditto au
Man, Ditto au Confiture, Ditto aux tines herbes,
Maccaroni au Gratin, Ditto a Pitabenne, Fritters
d'Orange, Lemon Cheesecakes, &c., &c.

BREAKFASTS OR rEAS, 10d. TO IS. 4d.
CUP OF TEA, 4d.; WITH TOAST AND MUFFIN, 6d.

PALE AND MILD ALES ON DRAUGHT:
ALLSOPPS AND BASS'S BURTON ALES.

BEST LONDON PORTER ON DRAUGHT:
BARCLAY & PERKINS, & TRUENIAN, BANBURY, & CO.'S.

BREAKFASTS from 8, a.m., to 11, a.m. DINNERS from 12, a.m.,
till 8, p.m. TEAS and SUPPERS from 5, p.m. to 9, p.m.
WINES AND SPIRITS SOLD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

Excellent accommodation for Dinner Parties in Private Rooms,
and for large Supper Parties in Upper Saloon. Charge for
Dinner, 15.6d.,25., 2s. 6d., and upwards, according to order.

A VERY COMMODIOUS SMOKING AND NEWSROOM ATTACHED.

TO MERCHANTS and BROKERS.
MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS present
advantages to Merchants and Brokers frequenting the
Exchange superior to any other Establishment, from its
contiguity and the quickness with which all orders are
executed, also for the cleanliness and comforts of its
arrangements, and moderate charges.
TO CAPTAINS.
MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS offer
advantages to Captains visiting this Port, being in close
proximity to the Docks, supplying Refreshments at any
hour of a most superior kind, and extending to them all
the comforts of a first-class Hotel.
TO VISITORS.
MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS are most
extensively patronised by Visitors to this Town, being so
conveniently situated to the Railway-stations, Pier-head,
Docks, Landing-stage, and the Piers for the arrival and
departure of the Irish, Isle of Man, and Welsh Steam-boats.
TO LADIES.
MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS espe-
cially provide for the comfort and reception of Ladies.
Separate Rooms are fitted up for their accommodation,
replete with every convenience, where Breakfasts, Lun-
cheons, Dinners, and Teas can be had, combining all the
substantial Viands with all the Delicacy of the Cuisine.
THE WINES and SPIRITS, &c., at
MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS, are all
of the choicest Quality, and the extreme moderation of
the Prices will at once be admitted on referring to the
List of Charges.
TO SMOKERS.
The SMOKING-ROOM at MORRISH'S MERCHANTS'
DINING-ROOMS is acknowledged by all to be the best
in the Town. It is furnished with all the Magazines,
London, Local, and Continental Papers, Chess, Draughts,
Dominoes, &c.

MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS,
LANCASTER-BUILDINGS. TITHEBA RN-STREET.
LIVERPOOL.
Wines and Spirits supplied Wholesale.
Bottled Ale and Porter, in Imperial Bottles, supplied in Town
or Country.
Turtle Soup,los. 6d. per Quart; Turtle Steaks and Cutlets, 18.6 d.
O- Mr. MORRISH has also the REFRESHMENT ROOMS at
Exchange-station, Tithebarn-street, and the Grand Stand, Aintree
Race-course.

THE GREAT NEWCASTLE FIRE.---The late
fearful explosion and wide-spread devastating fire at Gates-
head and Newcastle, destroying property to the value of one mil-
lion, converting a large area of warehouses (filled with sulphur,
nitrate of soda, peat charcoal, and other highly combustible
stores), whole stacks of offices, houses, &c., into a perfect volcano
of fierce, concentrated, incinerating, andlong-enduring furnace
heat, in which not only combustible things, but even bricks,
stones, and iron were burnt up and fused. Safes of the ordinary
kind, iron-doored strong rooms, were alike melted, torn asunder,
their contents charred and destroyed. But amongst the many
instances of preservation in this instance, and in the more recent
destructive fire at Manchester, THOMAS MILNER, and SON
have pleasure in giving publicity to the following gratifying testi-
monial : Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 19, 1854.
Gentlemen,—We have great pleasure in stating that, whilst our
offices were completely destroyed and burnt down in the great fire
which, on the 6th instant, reduced a great many buildings in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead to ashes, two of your large
" holdfast" safes, in our offices, have been the means of pre-
serving our books, bills, and other valuable documents, although
these safes were exposed for about nine or ten hours
to an Im-
mense heat, and dug out of the ruins in a red-hot state. On
opening them we found our principal books and bills in a good
state of preservation. Some of the papers were singed and dis-
coloured, but we are happy to say they can be used for the main
purposes they were intended for. We feel it our duty to state
these facts, and will thank you to make us new safes to specifica-
tion.—We are, Gentlemen, yours truly,.

Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son.

A. LEIDEMAN and Co.

GREAT FIRE IN LOWER KING-STREET.
Messrs. Milner and Son.
Gentlemen,—ln the terrific and destruCtive fire which broke out
yesterday morning, on the premises at the back of Mr. Carr's
coach manufactory, in Lower King-street, and the large pack of
buildings of which our warehouse formed a part, the- whole of
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we bought from your agent here, some few 1, after being exposed to intense heat, fell from the second storey to the basement, and Wassctohe unqualified
rounded by the burning mass. We beg to express
the numerous
gratification it affords us in being able to add
We shall be glad to
testimonials to your valuable invention.
of
inquiring into the
afford any. information to parties desirous
respectfully yours.
Gentlemen, facts herein stated.—We are, F. H. THODE and Co.
ra=during :earst gnit'c'opni
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;;FIRE-RESISTING
of SAFES, with
all MthlLe NER'
Tib-lane, Manchester, Oct. 26, 1854.
1851, 1854, and
1855, including their Impregnable Powder-proof Lock (without
which no safe in the hands of' the public is secure), the strongest,
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TUESDAY, .A7OVEMBE.R 20, 1855

THE DUTY OF ENGLISH CHURCHMEN
TOWARDS THE EASTERNS.

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AT present, and for some time past, the eyes of all
in England have been anxiously turned towards the
East ; and the ears of all anxiously open to receive
tidings of our brave soldiers and sailors there engaged
in resisting Russian aggression, and in propping up
the somewhat decayed fabric of the Turkish Empire.
The war in which we are engaged has already proved
both bloody and expensive ; and is-likely, for all that
appears to the contrary, to cost us much more, both in
men and in money, than it has yet done, before it is
brought to a conclusion. That some few disapprove
of what England has done, and is still doing, is a
well-known fact ; but it is equally well known that no
war was ever before entered upon with more hearty
concurrence upon the part of the people generally.
They had decided that the late Emperor of RUSSIA.
was a merciless despot, determined per fas et nefas to
seize the possessions of his weaker neighbour ; and
that the success of his schemes involved deadly peril
to the cause of European civilisation generally, and to
the commercial greatness of England, in particular :
and, having arrived at these conclusions, they were
impatient of the delays which were caused by the
attempts made, in the first instance, to avert the war
by negotiation, and by the various diplomatic forms
customary under such circumstances. They would
have been well pleased had war been declared at
once upon the passage of the Pruth by the Russian
forces ; and, when the long-looked-for declaration at
length appeared, it was received with enthusiasm
throughout the length and breadth of the land. The
popular gratification was all but universal. Now,
while we concede to the very small minority, who took
a different view, a perfect right to form, and give
expression to, their own opinions, we think that we
have a right to expect from them credit for a generous
and chivalrous impulse in behalf of the-majority. The
people were not anxious for war for its own sake—(in
that sense we are not a military nation, and God forbid
that we ever should be)—but because they believed
that it was necessary, in order to protect the weak from
the injustice of the strong. Even the opponents of
the war—those who deem it to be utterly unnecessary
—must regard its advocates as acting upon a generous
impulse, though they may think it one originating in
misconception. What is wanted, however, is, that the
people generally, who so earnestly advoc.ate the war
against Russia for the protection of Turkey, should
take some little interest in that portion of the Greek
Church which exists under the temporal government
of the SULTAN, and also show some anxiety to diffuse
the light of the Gospel among his Mahomedan subjects.
Here are two distinct fields, inviting the labour of
British Christians, viz., the Christian and Mahomedan
population of the Turkish Empire. The former need
our assistance to elevate and enlighten, the latter to
convert.

Yearly upon Good Friday, the great day of atone-
ment, the Church of England prays solemnly in behalf
of all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and_ Heretics, that God
would have mercy upon them, and take from them all
ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of His
word ; and so fetch them home to His flock, that
they may be saved among the remnant of the true
Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd,
Jesus Christ our Lord. But are we to consider that
our duty is fulfilled when we have thus prayed ?
having thus prayed, are we to sit still, and fold our
hands, as if nothing remained but to wait patiently,
or rather idly, for God's answer ? Surely in this, as
in every thing else, common sense tells us that, while
we look to God to bless our efforts, we should work
with as much diligence as if all depended upon our-
selves—while we acknowledge that God alone can
give the increase, we should be just as careful to
sow the good seed as if the sowing were all that is
necessary.

Now we are quite aware that British Christians are
too apt to regard the Greek Church pretty much in
the same light as they regard the Church of Rome :
or rather, perhaps, while they dread and hate the
latter, they despise the former, regarding them at the
same time as equally and hopelessly corrupt. Still,
we think, a very little consideration will show that
they occupy very different positions with regard to
ourselves. The Church of Rome is aggressive, and
claims dominion over our faith. It would, if it could,
subdue us, in common with all Christendom, to hini
who claims to occupy the chair of St. Peter. The
very reverse is the case with the Greek Church ; and
if it errs at all in this respect, it is in the opposite
direction, in not making sufficient effort to diffuse
such light as it possesses among those with whom it
is brought in contact. The Church of Rome shuts
out all reasonable hope of reformation ; while the
Greek Church leaves ground of hope, that whereinso-
ever she has erred, she may be induced to retrace her
steps. And, above all, the Greek Church is a fellow-
witness with ourselves against that monstrous claim
to supremacy, which the Romish Church so persever-
ingly urges in behalf of her chief Bishop. Nay, her
witness in this respect is even more valuable than
ours : for whereas we were for centuries subjected to
the See of Rome, she never was. We regard not the
submission wrung by the force of circumstances from
the last of the Palceologi. That he was induced by
the hope of Latin aid to barter the religious rights
and freedom of his people, may be a blot upon his
otherwise-noble character; but it affords no argument
in favour of Rome as against the Greek Church,
simply because the submission in question was not
the act of the Church, but was from the first pro-
tested against by her. True it is that Cardinal
Isidore, the Romish legate, subsequently said mass
within the walls of St. Sophia ; but he said it to the
walls. The crowds who commonly filled them stood
aloof, nobly determined rather to trust themselves to
the Moslem, by whom their city was then beleagured,
than accept temporal deliverance at the price of
spiritual bondage. In point of fact, we luaow that
the union between the East and the West, involving
as it did the submission of the former to the latter,
remained a dead letter ; and that the Greek Church
has retained it independence upon Rome to this hour.
But it will be said that, though independent of
Rome, it is equally corrupt. This we deny, but will
not now stay to argue about. Rather, while admitting,
for the sake of argument, that they are equally cor-
rupt, •we would call upon our fellow-Christians to
compare their past opportunities. The arts, the
sciences, the learning, of the West have been at the
command of Rome, and she has pressed them into the
service of superstition. She has shut her eyes to the
light, and sought to shroud herself in darkness. But
the Greek Church, if corrupt, has had corruption forced
upon her. Her children, whatever may be their con-
dition now, have been down-trodden by a grinding
despotism. Poverty and ignorance have been forced
upon them ; and ignorance has engendered, as it
always will engender, superstition. The wonder is,
not that the Greek Church has' fallen from its first
estate, but that it subsists at all—not that Christianity
has become somewhat corrupted, but that it has
not been utterly extinguished. These considerations
we think, aniov sufficient to show that the Greek
"
Va - •
Church has a claim upon us ; and that her position
that occupied by
towards us is widely different from
may best discharge
the Church of Rome. How we
our duty, even while warring
bership with her,
against a nation whose
people for the most part claim mem
we shall endeavour to show when we return to the
subject. That we ought to do something, we do not
anticipate that any one will deny.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING
MANY topics of surpassing interest have, during the past
week, presented themselves for reflection by the cogitating
public of the British metropolis, conspicuous among which
have been the proceedings and embarrassments of pseudo-
statesmen and pretended philanthropists. The necromancy
of these distinguished performers, which has been displayed
on stages widely separated from each other, has met with
formidable competition in the race for popular applause by a
female adept in the art of deception. The didactic effusions
of Lord JoHN RUSSELL at Exeter-hall, and of the Right Hon.
W. E. GLADSTONE at Chester,—nay, even the anti-national
patriotism of COBDEN, and his affiliated brotherhood of sym-
pathisers with the expatriated red-republicans, have one and
all been eclipsed in notoriety by the sublime artifices of " ALICE
GREY." The performers in all the cases have been veterans
in their respective lines of art ; yet it must be admitted that
the lady excels the gentlemen in the ambidextrous facility
with which she played her pranks. While according the palm
of superior manipulation to the artiste whale trickery, like
that of many another counterfeit, was successfully traced at
" Birmingham," it would be unfair to overlook the pretensions
of the other candidates for notoriety. First in the list of
aspirants comes the knot of doughty charlatans who on Mon-
day last assembled in St. Martin's-hall, Long-acre, under the
congenial auspices of Mr. MIALL, M.P., to protest against the
recent expulsions of refugees from Jersey, and against the
apprehended Alien Bill. This country is, and has long been
swarming with refugees from all parts of the continent, and
here the desperadoes of every land have been made secure in
their self-sought and freely-granted asylum. No one ever pre-
tended to say or imagine that the British people were there-
fore identified with the political views of their uninvited guests,
much less that they shall be entitled to embroil our govern-
ment with those to whom they bear personal enmity. If any
man in private life selects an outcast, and, besides bestowing
on him the rites of ephemeral hospitality, admits him also to
the abiding sanctuary of his fireside and his home, he is
not understobd to adopt the stranger's animosities and
friendships. On the contrary, if there be not an express
stipulation of an opposite tendency, the object of such hospi-
talities is expected to deport himself in such a manner as will
in some sort accord with the partialities of his host, or at all
events in such a manner as will neither bring scandal nor
danger upon his establishment. If, however, the stranger so
conduct himself as to draw down either of the latter upon
the individual or the household who have sheltered him, will
any man assert that it is a violation of the laws of hospitality
to extrude him from the mansion whose purity or safety he
has compromised ? Assuredly not ! Mr. MIALL himself
would be among the first to clear his own fireside of such
domestic pests, if by any accident they had obtained admission
to it. Are we, then, to understand that he and his brother pro-
testors are inclined to impose a code of social morality upon
the nation which they would repudiate in their own persons ?
—to regulate the public hospitality by rules which they would
not allow to govern that of their own household? Such a
rabble-rout of mat-contents would have been incomplete with-
out the accession of a Russian emissary, and that element has
been supplied by the adhesion of Mr. COBDEN. That worthy
does not deem it expedient to appear at the meeting in pro-
pria persona, but he sends a carefully concocted missive, in
which, after expressing his cordial sympathy with the objects
of the meeting, he takes the opportunity of insinuating that
the present war is one of despotism against liberalism—the
latter principle being in his estimation represented by the
paternal sway of the CZAR, while the former finds fitting
champions in the valiant armies of the Allies. That the ex-
trusion of the refugees from Jersey, in which place they had vio-
lated every claim to the rights of hospitality; had no connexion,
immediate or remote, with the, war against Russia, every one
knows ; but it would not have suited the object Mr. COBDEN
had in view to have represented the case in its true colours.
He has the cause of Russia to advocate, and he must
devise means for effecting that purpose. That it draws
him into strange absurdities, is no matter of surprise—the
surprise being that a man of his general astuteness is not
more on his guard, and that one so cunning is not more care-
ful in selecting his weapons. Mr. COBDEN is one of the Peace
society men, and, as such, objects to war as productive of misery,
rapine, and, above all, of slaughter. In his letter to the meeting
held under the auspices of MALL, Wiracs, JONES, and Co.,
he sympathizes with the exiles, and condemns their expulsion
from Jersey as a,violation of our Constitutional law, forgetful
of the fact that the gentlemen with whom he desires to fra-
ternize are the avowed enemies of all existing laws, recogniz-
ing only the rights of might. For their benefit he would
uphold a law which he thinks would screen them from de-
served punishment, and leave them secure plotters against
the existence of that and every other law. He denounces war
on the ground of its inhumanity; but he entertains no repug-
nance to the advocates of assassination. He in the most
emphatic terms condemns public slaughter under any
pretext I- but sees no social disadvantage in a mass of
private murder, provided only the victims belong to the ruling
classes, and are not connected with the Russian Autocrat.
The reckless desperation of Russian policy would be
-gratified by the kindling of a revolutionary flame in Western
Europe; and Mr. COBDEN —who knows that in no other place is
it so likely to gratify the CZAR, and to promote his views, as if
the plans were concocted, the train laid, and the torch applied
in England with characteristic effrontery, although
slightly at variance with his usual cunning, joins those who
in all probability have very different objects in view from his.
The poet tells us, "poverty brings us acquainted with strange
bed-fellows ;" surely he could not have contemplated the
alliance so unnatural between an advocate for " universal
peace" and the propagandist of general assassination. The
enlightened constituency of the West Riding may possibly be
proud of their representative, although a strongly expressed
opinion to the contrary, is understood to be prevalent there,
and will be, it is said, emphatically declared on the first pos-
sible opportunity.
Concerning Lord JOIIN RussNLL's two last displays, viz.:
that on Friday se'nnight at the Guildhall, and that on Tues-
day last at Exeter-hall, public opinion is greatly divided. In
the former, most men of judgment see clearly in his reception
the proper reward for that duplicity of political conduct which
induced him to seize upon the subject of Jewish Emancipa-
tion as a stalking-horse on which he might ride rough-shod
over the electors ; but which he conveniently stabled when-
ever his own electioneering purposes were served. Of late,
his popularity has been sadly dimmed, and the wretched
plight in which he was left by the exposure of his double
policy at Vienna sunk him so low, that few in his position
would have thought of attempting a recovery. His Lordship
is admittedly a " plucky old boy," however, and was resolved
to have, another ..trial... Failing on the Friday in his further
attempt upon Israelitish credulity, he came out strong on
Tuesday in his appeal to Christian charity and forbearance.
On the latter occasion he addressed to the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association a very long and elaborate essay, "on the
obstacles which have retarded moral and political progress,"
in which lie no doubt uttered much which was new and not
a little which was true, the chief drawback being, that most
of that which was new was not true, and that which was true
was not new. ' Among the matters coming under the latter
description was his estimate of himself. "What I have to
deliver," said his Lordship, "may seem to you in many parts
to be proving that which has been abundantly and frequently
proved, to be enforcing that which needs no further enforcer
ment—and to be wasting time in discussing the value of that
which has long since been ascertained and appreciated." In
the perfect truth of these observations most people will en-
tirely concur. They are also equally applicable to the ready
prelection of which Mr., GLADSTONE has oftener than once
lately delivered himself in your neighbourhood, the chief point
to be gathered from which is, that iu him, as in the case of
Lord John RUSSELL, the country is possessed of a statesman
out of employment.
Apropos of the lecturing system : many sound-headed men
are of opinion that it is carried rather farther than expediency
would dictate, or prudence warrant. The intent is no doubt
good, although the mode in, and the extent to which it is
carried, may well admit of question, if not of reprehension.
At the present time there appears an unreasoning desire on all
hands to acquire knowledge without devoting to it the labour
and time indispensable for its acquisition. To devise schemes
by which you thcan be converted into philosophers, before they
have ceased to trundle hoops or become adepts in the art of
playing at marbles, seems at present to be the universal rage
Every town, nb matter what may be its size, now has its
in-
stitute in which a " statesman at large" or a peripatetic scholiast,
crammed on some subject or other, may hold forth. It is an
object of merely secondary consideration what may be the line
of erudition in which the" professor", is great. That may be
the history of religious schism, or he, may be devoted to the
most obstruse mysteries of natural philosophy ; he may have
a partiality for unfolding the "beauties of Shakspeare," or ex-
cel on the " Musical Glasses," may have a penchant for " Ad-
ministrative Reform," and be a " dab" at demonstrating that in
his own particular case at least " the right man is not in the
right place." His object is still professedly the same, to make
lads wise without the trouble of thinking, learned without
undergoing the drudgery of study. This rage for acquiring
ready-made knowledge, like that for ready-made clothing, is a
peculiarity of the age, for which no individual is greatly
responsible. It belongs to all, and on all must the responsi-
bility of its culture and existence rest. Its tendency is to
nurture surface learning and give currency to shallow pre-
tence. In our better class of schools, and even in our univer-
sities, the Professor or Master never pretends to teach a
language or a science by lecturing alone. He knows that the
principles of either can only be mastered by constant and

severe study; and that without mastering the principle, the
etudent can never be converted into the scholar. He will not
even recognize as students those who only listen to his pre-
lections, but carefully examines them to test their knowledge,
and supply deficiencies or suggest the means for doing so, in
collateral branches of science ; and ascertaining the extent of
their knowledge of the history of those subjects on which they
are engaged, and in stimulating them to further exertion. A
very opposite course from this is observed amongst the most of
our popular lecturers. The result of the learning-made-easy
system is an extensive cultivation of amusing exhibitions
highly pleasing in themselves, and, if not too much relied on,
much to be commended. Its abuse, however, is obvious in the
glib use of technical phraseology in relation to science and art
which obtrude themselves so unpleasantly, not to say absurdly,
into the intercourse of society. This abuse is also painfully
observable in the ready assumption .of inferences and th,
enunciation of conclusions with regard to questions upon which
the wisest and most profound men of past ages have hesitated
to pronounce a judgment or come to a decision. The tendency
of the age has been and unquestionably still is to work every
thing up to railway speed. The result is, that lads are crammed
with surface information upon the leading features of one or
two things, and are then passed off upon the world as men of
learning and knowledge. The working of our public depart..
ments proves this to be incontrovertibly true. Of the numerous
competitors for-Public employment, the result of the examina-
tions would lead to the belief that "admirable CRICECTONS"
are as plentiful as blackberries ; yet when was complaint so
loud or so well-founded as to the incompetency with which
every one of these departments is administered ? To judge
by outward appearances and surface reports, knowledge of
every kind has departed from age and experience, and been
concentrated in the boldness of youthful speculation, and the
daring of inexperienced temerity. In days gone by it used
to be a proverbial excuse for the shortcomings of youthful
instinct, that it was impossible to put an old head on young
shoulders ; now the difficulty appears to be to find a young
head upon any shoulders. The heads at least are all old now,
if age is to be measured by the assumed acquisition of know-
ledge. The absurdity of such a system will be at once appar-
ent, when we recollect that even the shallowest of these lec-
tures, which is supposed to convey a wholesale amount of
ready-made knowledge into the mind of the unprepared lis-
tener, is itself the result of considerable study, and the con-
centrated essence, if it may be so said, of a large amount of
reading, digested and arranged and compared with collateral
facts and circumstances, of which the mere auditor is not
made in any degree cognizant.
From an incidental allusion to the mismanagement of pub-
lic departments, the transition seems a natural as well as an
easy one to those departments for the management of which
no one is immediately responsible. For nearly a month, two
important Ministerial offices have been vacant ; the Post-
office is without a head, because its head has been transferred
to India, a somewhat lengthened journey, nearly every body
will admit; the Colonies for the better part of a month have
likewise been without a responsible director, the vacancy in
this instance being occasioned by the intervention of Him—

Who kings and tars despatches,

and who, in the present instance, carried off Sir WILLIAM
MOLESWORTII, a Colonial Secretary of pretty generally
admitted intelligence, and good intention, A Ministry which,
for so long a period, is unable to fill up two such important
departments for so long a time, whatever its apparent popu-
larity, cannot be a strong Ministry. This proposition seems
almost self-evident ; but it is borne out, and almost made
certain, by the concurrent statement of men of all political
parties. Of course the remarks of the representatives of the
different political•sections differ from each other in detail; but
among the two leading sections the same result is pointed out
unmistakeably—the one counselling, The other surmising, a
dissolution of Parliament as the means of solving the difficulty
by which they both consider the PREMIER to be beset. In
circles generally well informed, it is freely stated that the
Cabinet is once more diviKled, and seriously divided, on the•
question of questions—the war. On the vital question of car-
rying on the war or not, the Cabinet is said by some parties to-
be much in the same condition in which it stood before the
secession of Mr. GLADSTONE, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Afr.
SIDNEY HERBERT. Another section of club gossip-mongers
maintain that Lord PA.LMERSTON is not " master of the
situation," but is coerced by German influences, similar to
those which caused his retirement from Lord Jour( RusstLes-
government prior to his giving it the coup de grace on the
Militia Bill. These'same parties add;. that it is an attempt to
counteract those German influences which has induced the
generally flippant, but uneommunicatlvr, member for Tiverton
to be so bellicose in his recent speeches, and in particular in
that which he delivered at the Guildhall on Friday week;
which met with so much applause,.while•the appearance of his
quondam colleague was received with derision and oppro-
brium. If half of what is said be.true, as to the controlling
influences behind the Throne, Lord PATIMEESTON should at
once, at least so say the oracles of all the club divans, appeal
to the people ; others, not less observant, who give the
PREMIER credit for being " up to a thing.or two," say that old
PAM is doing all that is right, and iectintiously bringing his-
opponents to a " dead lock," when he will.spiritedly brush up,
and show that he is TILE MINISTER.

The missiom of General CANROBEET to the Swedish court
continues a fertile theme for the gossip of metropolitan and
other coteries. According to some of them; the object of the
gallant general is twofold. The one to negotiate a marriage
between Prince N.ATOLEON, heir-presumptive to the present
EMPEROR of the FRENCH, and a daughter of the Royal Rouse
of Sweden :.- the other, to fix the terms of political alliance be-
tween that country and the other allied powers of Western
Europe. The reception of the French Ambassador has been
of the most regal description. A royal carriage, drawn by
eight horses, was dispatched to bring..- him in state to the
palate, where the whole court had assembled to meet him.
By the Swedish 'press it is stated that the alliance is abso-
lutely concluded, and that, as a consequence, the Government
is about to convoke an extraordinary diet for February next,
whose sitting will be short—not more, it is said,,than three
weeks, and immediately on its rising that war will be deelred •
against Russia. Beyond this, some persons assert it as quite
certain that the plan of a campaign in Finland, drawn up by,
Colonel 11AGELBTIIN, a distinguished Swedish officer, which
was prepared at the beginning of the present war, and sub-
mitted to, the Emrsnon of the FazNen, by whom it was ,
greatly approved of, will be speedily carried into execution.
So rapid- and complicated are the relations of parties and
events in their fluctuations and re-combinations in the course
of a great war,.that there is nothing to create surprise' in the
statements above made. The probabilities are much: rather
that they are premature than unfounded. The announcement
of such intentions by the press is, however, significant of their
being welcome to the great majority of the people.. The sup-
position that such resolutions wilt be carried out lead's to many
serious and interesting considerations. If the Scandinavian
monarch and his people, whosa interests unquestionably lie
that way, join the Western Alliance, how will that operate on
the quasi neutrality of Austria and Prussia ? The answer to
this question is, in all probability, to be determined by the
estiraatuwhich these powers will form of its immediate chances
of success. If its speedy success is self-evident and inevi-
table, it is more than likely that, those valiant and considerate
friends will at once join the coalition, and add the weight

of their persuasion in bringing the Cz to terms. I

very little doubt exist as to the early success, of the Allies with
the aid of this newly-found friend, the F'russo-Austrian game
will most probably eventuate in some new arrangement et
the pieces on the diplomatic checquers, by which an endeavour.
will be made to let Russia down as gently as possible. The
contemplation of a doubtful, or even protracted issue to the
Struggle, would, in all likelihood, bring the two dominant
German powers into:immediate league- with the Caen, which
Would inevitably inaugurate a general European war, of
which no living man can venture to predict the end, on limit
the duration. In such a contemplation of the subject as is
involved in this latter supposition, the safety of Turkey be-
comes a very secondary consideration. To the nations in
Europe it will, be an effort for re-arranging their relations,
for restoring in many instances- degraded nationalities, and
" choking off," to use a vulgar though expressive term, the
wolf which gnaws into their vitals. To Russia, it will be a
deadly struggle for retaining place and prestige, for re-
sisting the disgorgement of her prey, for, opposing the
retrocession of her policy, the relinquishment of her cherished
hopes and fondly indulged day-dreams of a century and, a.
half's duration ; and this will not be accomplished in a day
nor in a year. That it is the real interest of all the European
Powers cannot be doubted, to combine in resistance to the
northern incubus, which presses downward and onward over
the whole range of the European Continent, while it settles
down on Asia, and presses its enormous paw upon America.
Events seem to point decidedly towards the commencement of
such a combination. In Sweden the popular voice-has-sofar al-
ready declared in its favour ; and the recently promulgated Im-
perial decree, which permits the purchase of foreign ships, or the
entrance of materials for shipbuilding, duty free, into France,
will still further enlist the public feeling in its favour. The
bonds of union seem to be more closely drawn between the
Allies and Belgium ; and even Saxony and Bavaria are pluck-
ing up a courage not altogether new to them, but one which has
been long held in ominous and unsatisfactory abeyance. They
now proclaim themselves weary of the present state of matters
in the Diet, and have despatched able ministers to Paris to
lay before the Emperor the strong disposition existing in the
principal minor German States, not only to originate a new
course in their home arrangements, but to claim some share,
as they have some interest, in Europe= negotiations. All
these considerations, while they augur ill for Russia, offer few
well-grounded reasons for believing that the war will be ter-

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