Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1859.

LITERATURE.
The LONDON REVIEW : Alexander Heylin, 28, Pater-

noster-row.
The London Review for the April quarter opens with a
very able, carefully-prepared, and damaging article upon a
book which has probably caused more discussion than any
published in England for several years back—Professor
Buckle's "History of Civilisation." The'present review of
this work is perhaps the severest and the most entirely
condemnatory which has yet been printed ; and if it loses
any portion of its effect among general readers, it will be
because the censure is too unmitigated, and the whole
spirit of the article too much like that of a sentence pro-
nounced upon an offender rather than a. critical analysis
of a very remarkable work. We have already said that
the article is written with great ability, and it would be
impossible to deny that its effect upon every impartial mind
must be damaging to the work it censures, and upon
.many
readers will come with the force of irresistible condemna-
tion. There can be little doubt that the work is at least
premature, that the conclusions at which it
points are supported by evidence too hastily and imperfectly
collected ; and that the author is justly open to very
serious critical as well as moral censure, in having advanced
theories fraught with the gravest consequences, upon data
sometimes incorrect, and much more often insufficient. But i
we by no means agree with the reviewer in believing that,
even inferentially, Mr. Buckle's doctrines can be accused of
Atheistic tendencies. Mr. Buckle's theory—the theory, we
need hardly say, of several other distinguished men of the
present day, and some at least of the great German authors
of the last age—is simply, that human beings are subjected
to similar laws, with regard to their social and moral relations,
to those bywhich they are controlled in all their references to
the physical universe. Mr. Buckle has failed in endeavouring
to systematize his doctrine and prove it by one vast demon-
stration : but we believe it entirely unjust to pronounce such
a theory in its ntmost fulness inconsistent in the slightest
degree with the sincerest faith in the eternal, controlling
presence of a living Creator. Mr. Buckle labours to prove the
existence of systematized, and if the reader likes the phrase,
inexorable laws. The very existence of laws, involves of
necessity the existence of law-makers. Laws are very
different things from causes ; and Mr. Buckle's doctrine,
true or false, does not, so far as we can discover, affect at
all any of the great universal principles upon which the
religion of Christianity is based. Even a Roman College
now will not accuse a man of Atheistic tendencies who
describes in ordinary language the law of gravitation, the
earth's revolution, &c., &c., as inexorable laws. Inexora-
ble for all ordinary human purposes they may safely be
termed ; no one in his senses will ever again start any
theory or set about constructing any machine npon princi-
ples which do not bend to them. Why, then, should laws
equally certain affecting man's social relations, be spoken of
as necessarily an attempt, as some one called it, to " elimt-
nate the power of God ?" In particulars, however, we fully
agree with the reviewer in believing that Mr. Buckle has
attempted presumptuously explanations and demonstrations
which were altogether unnecessary to his purpose, and which
involve inferences quite out of its range and justly censurable.
It cannot be denied, too, that even friendly criticism must
deplore the absurdities into which a man of still greater
mental power than Mr Buckle, the late Ang,uste Comte, was
hurried by a futile ambition to set up as a religion-maker,
and by a total departure from the scope of the principles
whose expositions had made his celebrity. Avowing a
sincere and warm admiration for the great genius of Comte
(a genius which it is idle to affect to disparage—which no
man can sincerely speak of without respect) ; and believing
still that valuable fruit for the world will grow out of
many of his philosophical labours, we cannot, without
feelings of pity and regret, think over the humbling non-
sense which threw such a sadly-ludicrous air over his later
efforts to exchange the patient science of the savant for the
prophetic inspiration of the Apostle. We have been
tempted to dwell upon this very able and even to those
who differ as we do from its conclusions—eminently sug-
gestive article, and can only passingly notice others which
the Review contains. A scholarly and brilliant compari-
son of Homer, Virgil, and Tasso, as epic poets, will
delight readers who are not as shy as Mr. Longfellow of
--,nd old masters, the bards sublime." "Agriculture
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a practical and scientific character, are ably dealt with , the
late Mrs. Schimmelpenninck, and the late Baron Alderson,
are commemorated with kindly appreciation ; Martin and
Aytoun's recent translation of Goethe's ballads is reviewed
with little favour. " Table Talk," a very interesting article,
"Ullman on the Sinlessness of Jesus," " Zwingli and the
Swiss Reformation," and the " Serampore Mission" are
among the well-varied and comprehensive contents of the
number. The peculiar and distinctive character of this

review, while if gives it especial_ value in the minds of a
great body of readers, deprives it of none of its interest and
literary worth to the general public. It endeavours, with
the success which able management and varied literary
resources can always ensure, to combine the upholding of
the religious presence in everything with the diffusion of
valuable teaching in letters, science and art, guided indeed
from one point of view, but not narrowed into one groove.
We can speak with the highest praise of the present number.

At the close of the sitting of the House of RepresenTatives
at Springfield, Illinois, the clerk read the following :—" I
am requested to announce that the Rev. Dr. 111Tarland
will deliver a lecture this evening, in this hall, on the
Education of Idiots. Members of the Legislature are invited
to attend !"

EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.— On Sunday next about
200 sermons in advocacy of the claims of this excellent
association---the objects of which are :---First, The abridg-
ment of the hours of labour in all departments of industrial
labour, especially on Saturday nights. Second, The adop-
tion of a Saturday half-holiday, where practicable. Third,
The earlier payment of wages. Fourth, The rescuing of
shopkeepers and their assistants from the drudgery of Sun-
day trading---will be preached in the metropolis. It is to
be hoped that the appeal then made on behalf of the
association will be warmly responded to by all who
sympathise with its efforts to procure a more general
extension of the benefits above referred to. The association
is greatly in need of pecuniary assistance to defray the ex-
penses attendant on its untiring operations.
BOILER EXPLOSION.---TNYO MEN KILLED.---On Monday
afternoon the locomotive engine, Prince, which is used
for hauling waggons between Job's Pit and Grahamsley,
on the West Durham Railway, was standing at the former
pit, waiting for its return load of coal waggons. It had
been standing about five minutes. An inspector of
waggons for the West Durham Railway Company, named
John Harewood, 30 years of age, was standing. in front of
the fire-hole on the tender, the fireman sitting, it is supposed,
on the side of the tender, when from some cause, probably
the bursting of the fire flue (at the end nearest to the en-
gineer), the doors, fire bars, &c., were scattered over the
place. Harewood was thrown seventy-two yards from the
engine, and his body rebounded eleven yards, carrying him
a total of eighty-three yards to the west, while the fireman,
James M'Knight, was thrown against a bank some fifteen
killed on the spot,
was thirty years of age, and has left a wife and three chil-
dren. The fireman, James M'Knight, having received
severe internal injuries, lingered until seven o'clock on Tues-
day morning, when he expired at Beechburn. He has left
a widow and one child.---Northern Daily Express.

yards to

h. flarewood, who wa

A BoY BROUGHT yr AS A GIRL,—The dazette de Lyon
has the following strange tale :---" In May, 1851, a woman
named Deville, and her daughter Catherine, aged 13, were
taken before the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Mont-
brison, for meudicity.. The woman was condemned to a
certain period of imprisonment, and the girl was ordered to
be detained in the House of Correction to the age of 18.
The girl was sent to the asylum at Macon, and se there
conducted herself remarkably well, and'she was also noted
for her good looks. She was taught sewing and female
works, and could earn a living as a dressmaker. At the
expiration of five years she was discharged. Three weeks.
back the gendarmeria of Chazelle-sur-Lyon (Loiree) arrested
a female and a young man as vagabonds, The female said
that her name was Dubuisson, and the young man gave his
as Catherine Deville. Catherine !'• cried the Gendarme ;
why how can you be named Catherine, when you are not
only dressed in man's clothes, but have a moustache and
beard ?' The person persisted in saying that he was a man
and yet was named Catherine; and the gendarmes, unable to
elucidate the mystery, referred the matter to the law autho-
rities at Monbrison. In answer to questions, the young man
related that he had been christened by. the name of
Catherine, and had been brought up as a girl—first to the
sage of 13 by his mother, and afterwards to the age of 18. in
the asylum at Macon---and that some months after leaving
the latter place he had discovered that he was not drosed
according to his sex, and had therefore assumed man's attire.
As to the mendicity of which he had been guilty, he excused
himself by saying that the only trade he had been taught
was that of a dressmaker, but that it was impossible for a
man to get his living at such a calling. The chaplain and
the sisters of the asylum at Macon having been communi-
cated with, expressed unbounded astonishment at learning.
that Catherine Deville, in whom they had taken so midiinterest,
interest, was a man. Being tried for mendicity before the
Tribunal of Correctional Police of Montbrison, he was con;
demned to five months' imprisonment. The young man
has now dropped the name of Catherine, and taken that
of Antoine."

IMPORTANT TO SAILORS AND SHIPOWNERS.
DUNN AND OTHERS V. MORRISON.—These were sum-
monses heard on the 2nd instant at the Police-court, South
Shields, against the defendant, for non-payment of
seamen's wages; and an important question arose
as to the sum which ought to be paid to seamen
when their engagements terminated before the
voyage was completed, by reason of the ship being
wrecked. It appears the defendant was the owner of a brig
named the Blackstone, which sailed from the Tyne on the
26th of March last, bound to Harburgh, and which was run
down at sea, above 150 miles from land, on the following
Monday. morning, the crew having barely time to.save their
lives in the long boat, taking with them a kettle full of fresh
water, a few biscuits, and a compass ; but fortunately for
them, they were shortly afterwards picked up by the screw-
steamer Lady Alice Lambton, on her passage from Hamburgh
to Sunderland, where they were landed on Wednesday last.
The facts having been admitted, Mr. E. D. Welford, of
North Shields, who appeared for the defendant, stated that
the complainants having issued a summons for wages, and
after the rate of half a voyage, he contended that under the
185th section of the Mercantile Marine Act they were
only to be paid (as the vessel was wrecked before the
termination of their engagement) for the actual number of
days they were employed before such shipwreck ; and that
to estimate the amonnt, they must take the average duration
of the voyage to and from the Tyne to Harburgh, which
would be about a month, and that defendant had offered
them that proportion. The bench held that they considered
a third of the voyage had been performed, and made an
order for one payment of wages after such rate.

TORMENTED WITH A " iS said of one of the
editors of a certain newspaper, that soon after he went to
learn the printing business he paid his addresses to. a
preacher's daughter. The next time he went to church he
was considerably astonished at hearing the minister
announce, as his text :—" My daughter is grievously tor-
mented with a devil."
SINGULAR DEATH BY SWALLOWING FALSE TEETH.—An
accident of a very singular character occurred a few days
ago to Mrs. Watson, wife of Mr. Watson, dyer, of Artillery-
place, Roundhay-road, Leeds. A fortnight ago Mrs. Watson,
whilst asleep, swallowed four false teeth, which stack fast in
her throat. Medical aid was called in, and she was attended
by Mr. Morley and Mr. S. Smith, who performed an opera-
tion, and succeeded in partly dislodging the teeth, but not
sufficiently so, and Mrs. Watson expired on Saturday.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
FALL OF A CHURCH TOWER.—On Sunday morning, at
eight o'clock, the tower of the parish church of Basford,
near Nottingham, fell with a fearful crash, burying with it
a portion of the edifice. The church had for the past two
years been undergoing restoration, and was so far completed
as to warrant the committee in announcing its completion
by May next. The tower was of very ancient date and
much decayed. The damage is great, being estimated at
£2,000. The parish is large and by no means wealthy, and
considerable difficulty had been experienced in raising the
funds for the restoration of the church.

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53, CASTLE-STREET. warranted to resist heat or cold.

FOR SALE, at J. HOWARD'S Music Depot,
9, MARKET CROSS, BIRKNHEAD,
A Square PIANO-FORTE, li.Guineas.
A Six-octave COTTAGE, 5 Guineas.
A 6j-octave New DO., (Guaranteed,) 20 Guineas.
A 6j-octave DO., (Talkien's, 35 Guineas,) 28 Guineas.
Several HARMONIUMS, with Pedals and other improvements,
at equally Low prices. 12a15

TTELLEWELL'S} TIJUNNEMIDAS SPRING and
kiL2 &3, QUADRANT, I BUTTON OVERALLS, for Riding OT
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TTELLEWELL' S EW PAT ENT DRAFT
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l'irties purchasing the above are respectfully_ invited to inspect

-the large and varied Stock of
THOMAS CHESHIRE & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS,
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A large Assortment of Weights, brass and iron, constantly on hand,
Shop Fittings of every description, &c.

Character Formed by Handwriting.

G. VANDERLINE, having just-returned from
INI RAmerica, after an absence of four years, begs to inform his
Friends and the Public, that he has re-commenced his old-estab-
lished method of forming persons characters and habits by their
handwriting; and his long practice in the art has also enabled him
to tell whether the lady or gentleman be fair or dark, married or
single. Any person wishing for a true definition should send
fourteen postage stamps to Mr. G. Vanderline, at Mr. Thomas's
Post-office, 200, Scotland-road, Liverpool, and by return they will
receive a striking proof of the Professor's abilities. 6al3

THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY,
which contains upwards of 500 Models of the Human Frame
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29, PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL.

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