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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

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" L'EMPIRE C'EST LA PAIL"

When will incorrigible doubts be dumb ?
When will injurious suspicions cease ?
Proclaim anew, with cannon, fife, and drum,
" The Empire is Peace—is surely peace ! "

• in each cold
•eft of brothe

husband.

or sire;

Read, in the brow of England grimly bent,
Her hands all busy with the gear of war;
In voted war tax and hot armament,
And out-look as for foemen, near and far-
" The Empire is Peace !"

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NAVAL OFFICERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.
SlR,—The Atlantic Telegraph Company have received
the following handsome presents from the Mayor of
New York for the English naval officers who assisted in
this enterprise, and also for Mr. Woodhouse, the engineer
on board the Niagara, namely :

23—Tuesddy ...
24—Wednesda:
25—Thursday.,

21—Sunday.
22—Monday

1. To Captain -Geo:W. Preedy, C. 8., of her Majesty's
ship Agamemnon, a gold box, with inscription and ad-
dress on parchment, handsomely mounted.
2. To Captain William C. Aldham, C. 8., of her
Majesty's ship Valorous, a gold medal with inscription.
3. To Captain Joseph Dayman, R.N., of her Majesty's
ship Cyclops, a gold medal, with inscription and address
on parchment handsomely mounted. I WIND AT HOLYLIEAD, YIISTERDAY, S. W
4. To Henry Woodhouse, Esq., C.E., a gold medal
with inscription.
The whole of the above were accompanied by letl
from the Mayor of New York, and may be s
at the offices of the company during the next
days.—l am, &c., GEORGE SAWARD, Sec
Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22, Old Broad
street, London, August 24

Where is not record of the blessed truth?
Read, on Sebastopol's blood-boltered stones ;
Read, all the way from Petersburg to Pruth,
On steppe and waste, in heaps of whitening bones—
" The Empire is Peace !"

Read, in the rice fields on Ticino's bank,
Where the green blades wave greener for the slain ;
In the blood-fattened grasses that now grow rank
From the death-pits on Solferino's plain—
" The Empire is Peace!"

Read, in the rapine, ravage, scathe, and dearth,
Through Piedmont wrought by hostile sword and fire.
"The Empire is Peace !"

Read, in the gathering hosts along the Rhine,
The cannon bristling on each fortress front,
The turfed and angled earthwork's sheltering lines
On Scheldt or Meuse, against invasion's brunt—
" The Empire is Peace !"

Read, in the gloom, as of a thunder cloud,
The stir, as of a pent volcano's power,
Where, free a while to speak her thoughts aloud,
Italy, sad and stem, awaits the hour—
" The Empire is Peace !"

And if these records of the truth be weak,
To sweep your stubborn doubts, like dreams, away ;
With trumpet-tongue let the armed thousands speak—
Who late through Paris marched in war array—
" The Empire is Peace !"

A waggish candidate, coming in the coarse of his
canvass to a tailor's shop, said, " What we look for here

are measures, not men."
" Captain," said a French soldier, " I should like to
carry home a souvenir of this country to my sweetheart.
The corporal says that the best thing they-have pro-
duced here is their Raphaels. Now, would it not be
well to carry back to her a few of them."—Paris Cha-
rivari

THE ACCIDENT ON GOATFELI
know that Dr. Smith, an English tourist
tally dropped into a crevice In one of the precipitous
cliffs of Goatfell, in the island of Arran, on Sunday
last, and who, it was feared, hsd perished, was found
on Tuesday morning, still alive and unhurt, although
greatly exhausted. He was extricated and received
every attention, and in the course of the day rec overed
so far as to be able to proceed to Glasgow that after-
noon, at which city he arrived in safety on the evening
of the same day.
CURIOSITIES OF MARRIAGE.—The miners everywhere

—lt is gratifying to
who acciden-

evince a predilection for very young girls as part
life. More than half the bachelors and spinsters who
wed are twenty and under twenty-five years of age. The
mean age was—bachelors, 25.9 years ; spinsters, 24.7 ;
widowers, 41.9 ; and widows, 38.8. One table (page
nine) is worthy of study ; it shows that although great
irregularities prevail, the general law evidently is, that
in the counties were the women are the most ignorant
they marry in the largest proportions under

ners in

twenty-on,

lumbers of thei

26—Friday

Saturday

LIVERPOOL,

6 59.
8 29.
9 37.
10 30

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ARRIVED

tieptum

thrown into groups
Bards

Arhen the counties
the relation is perceptible. As
21,872 widowers and 14,487 widows married during th
year ; and out of 100 men, • 14 were widowers, 86 wer
bachelors ; out of 190 women, 9 were widows, 91 were
spinsters.—Registrar General's Return.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN WHITE.—The oldest magistrate

-marriages,

in the United Kingdom died on Monday night, at his
residence, Patrick's Hill, at the patriarchal age of ninety
and-upwards. Captain White's earlier life was varied
by adventures, " moving accidents by flood and field ;"

old, had he been given to gossiping since his retire-
ment, he could have compiled out of his personal history
an agreeable autobiography, illustrative of the poli-
tical and social character of the times on which he was
cast. After the peace which followed Waterloo, his
" occupation was gone," and he settled down in his
native city to the quiet life and duties of a " burgess"
under the " old regime." He filled the office of city
sheriff upwards of thirty years ago, when the city was
not as well lighted, nor as well guarded as it is at pre-
sent ; but, such was the energy with which he pursued
malefactors, that he boasted " he would hang a shirt out to
dry over night, and it should be found in the morning."
By his death a pension of £250 a year reverts to the
funds of the harbour board—his full- pay upon retiring
from the post of harbour master, which he had filled for
several years.—Cork, Reporter.
THE BERWICK "ARRANGEMENT." -Mr. Richard
Hodgson, who so gallantly contested Berwick-on-Tweed,
last week, in the Conservative interest, has published the
private and confidential " compact" under which the
seat for Berwick was vacated, which is as follows :

" (Copy.) (Private and confidential.) With a view to
the peace of the borough, and believing that it would
promote that object if it were represented by one mem-
ber of each side of politics, I, the undersigned Ralph A.
Earle, undertake, on my honour, to vacate my seat before
the close of the present session of parliament, and with
that view I engage to deliver to Mr. Majoribanks, on or
before the Ist day of August, a formal application signed
by me, addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
asking for the Chiltern Hundreds. The application to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not to be sent in
before the last three days of the session. And we, the
undersigned, C. W. Gordon and R. A. Earle, undertake,
neither directly nor indirectly, to oppose the return of
Mr. Marjoribanks to fill the vacancy so to be created,
and that we will use our best exertions with our friends
and supporters to prevent his return being opposed.
This undertaking to be sacredly kept secret between all
parties concerned. (Signed) Ralph A. Earle, Charles
Wm. Gordon. July, 14, 1859."
AN Ixisu Row IN Guy's HOSPITAL.-Dr. Steel, the
medical superintendent, waited on the magistrate, on
Wednesday, for his advice under the following singular
circumstances :—He said that a male patient died in one
of tne wards at four o'clock in the morning. The wife
was there, and left shortly afterwards, but returned in
about an hour with a number of Irishmen, and de-
manded the body instantly to be delivered up to
them. The gatekeeper told her that he could not comply,
as it was against the rules of the hospital. They then all
rushed in, and, headed by the female, entered the ward
and forcibly carried away the corpse. Their conduct
caused considerable excitement in the building at that
unseemly time in the morning, and, as it was likely
to be of much inconvenience if such conduct was repeated,
he wished his worship's advice how to act against the
female. Mr. Combe : Was any opposition given to the latter
as to the removal of the body after death had taken place.
Dr. Steel : Yes, sir. It is against the rules to remove them so
soon. The corpse is first removedto the dead-house, where
it remains a short time, and is then given up on
the application of the relatives. Mr. Combe : Is any
operation gone into after death ? Dr. Steel : No, sir,
unless with the consent of the relatives, or a post
mortem examination ordered by the authorities ; but
here a mob rushed into the hospital, and, with force,
carried away a corpse, contrary to the known regulations.
—Mr. Corabe : I dare say they thought the body was
about to be cut to pieces, and they went in to prevent
it. The Irish are particular about their dead. Did
the female commit any assault upon your officer ?
Dr. Steel : I cannot say that she did ; but I consider
her conduct very bad in bringing a mob of unruly persons
to the hospital at such an unseemly hour. Mr. Combe :
I recommend you to give instructions to your gate-
keeper to prevent a mob entering for the future. When
any of the deceased's friends demand the corpse, only
allow sufficient inside to convey it out. Dr. Steel : I

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shall take your advice in future.. Applicant then left
the court.

AUGUST 26, 1859.

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