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stance

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d to prevent the

give a 6 ufficient yield to obviate

serious amount of distress

With respect to the grain crops of Ireland, we quo

the foil,

owing from a circular dated Waterford, A

" With the exception of twelve or fourteen hours .
rain on Tuesday, the weather this week has been all
could be desired for the country, and farmers ha
enabled to secure a considerable quantity of Corn s.
Saturday last. The few samples of new Wheat win
have yet app:ared at market are very inferior in qualit
and condition, and give evidence of having suffered a goo
deal from weather. The delivery of Tawny Oats ha

.ve bee

somewhat increased ; their condition, notwithstanding
the improvement in the weather. is anything but sats-
factory, and prices have declined 63 per barrel since this
day se'nuight. The value of old Oats is fully maintained."
We have another rather more gratifying report from
Cork of the same date, yet bearing out our previous re-

irarks, so far as regards diversity of quality

" Another week, like the past, of fi

woul

enable the farmers to secure the grain crops in fine con-
dition, particularly Barley and Oats, which are of superior
y, and above an average yield. The Wheat too,
as has been sown, will render a fair amount of pro-
luce, but in quality rather diversified. The farmers have
been so busily engaged reaping that the deliveries have
not been as large as might have been expected."

THE RECENT POISONING CASE.-A SUG
GESTION TO THE BENEVOLENT.

The case of the poor girl, Elizabeth Rimmer, who was
attempted to be poisoned by her mother and aunt, now
lying under sentence of death at KirHale, is, we are glad
to observe, exciting the sympathy of a portion of the
public. We have received from a parish, in nearly the
most remote part of Northumberland, the following ap-
propriate suggestion respecting her, which we feel plea-
sure in being able to lay before our readers :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

" SlR,—With much concern I have read in your Ir.st
impression an account of the trial of the two women, Rim-
mer, for the attempt to poison the daughter of one of
them. I know nothing of the case further than the brief
account in your journal, but I felt horrified in perusing
the atrocious suggestions of the mother and aunt, prior
to their attempt upon the life of the poor girl.
" Is not this a case demanding the sympathy and assist-
ance of some of the beneficent ladies and gentlemen who
are, happily, so numerous in Liverpool ? Ido not allude
to some temporary pecuniary assistance, or the shelter of
the workhouse, but to a permanent benefit. Why should
not the poor girl be sent to Australia, where there is no
lack of food and shelter for all decent girls ? Surely,
Rimmer can feel no regret at leaving a home such as she
must have had, with fiends like her mother and aunt.—
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"A NORTHUMBRIAN CURATE."

The rev. writer, who has furnished us with his name
and address, kindly offers, in the event of her being wil-
ling to emigrate, and the Commissioners affording her a
passage to Australia, to pay half the usual deposit for
single women, if the other half and the small outfit can
be provided by the compassionate in the neighbourhood.
We feel assured that there will be no difficulty in meeting
the rev. gentleman's views ; and we cordially recommend
the case to the consideration of our readers. It should be
borne in mind that the great offence of this poor girl was
that she preferred virtuous poverty to the life of infamy
urged upon her by her degraded mother and aunt. We
shall be happy to be the recipients of any subscriptions
for her benefit.

COLLISION ON THE RIVER LAST NIGHT.—Last night,
about eight o'clock, the steam-tug Powerful ran foul of a
flat lying at anchor off the south-end of the landing-stage.
The flat received little injury, but the steamer had the
outer part of her starboard paddle-box carried away. No
one was hurt.

CURIOUS FREAK OF LIGHTNING.--Yesterday after-
noon, during the height of the thunder-storm, which
raged about two o'clock, the electric fluid struck the
colour-pole of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club in the gar-
den in front of the hotel at Birkenhead Ferry, and before
it reached the earth its course was most eccentric. The
lightning struck the topmast of the pole on the south
side, from which direction the storm appeared to come,
and wound round the pole to the north side, taking a
groove out of the wood, in shape like the worm of a cork-
screw. After traversing the pole in this manner for some
distance, the fluid darted in a direct line to the earth, split.
ting the lower part of the mast. Considerable apprehension
was felt by those in the immediate neighbourhood that
the lightning had struck an iron steamboat—the Mersey—
which was lying alongside a pier close to, the funnel of
which was seen to shake very much at the time. The
pole that was struck is a little to the south of, and just
behind, the pay-gate at Birkenhead Ferry, and although

there were necessarily many persons about at the moment
of the occurrence, providentially no one received any
injury. The pole, which is still standing, may be seen by

the water for that purpose

INQUBSTS.—Yesterday there were no fewer than seven
inquisitions taken before the borough coroner, Mr. P. F.

Curry. The first was on the body of a man about twenty-
eight years old, named Samuel Little, and the bedroom
steward in the fore-saloon of the City of Glasgow, steam-
packet, who was accidentally drowned by falling into
the water whilst walking along the Wellington Pier-
head, on Sunday evening last.—On Owen Burns, a dock-
labourer, living in Kitchen-street, who died on Thursday
last from the effect of severe injuries received from a fal
whilst working on board the Bollona on the 7th inst.—On
Bridget Burns, a child two years of age, whose death was
caused by falling huid-foremost into a pan of water during
the absence of her parents from the house.— On Margaret
Ann Stout, who died on Sunday morning whilst suffering
from a severe fit of coughing.—On an old man named
Thomas Jackson, an inmate of the workhouse, who died
suddenly on Saturday last.—On Eliza Peters, 15 years of
age, servant to Mrs. Catherine Gregory, 106, Field-street,
Everton, who fell into the area below whilst cleaning the
second story windows of her mistress's house, on Satur-
day morning, and was instantly killed, having dislocated
her neck.—And on William Lamb, aged 11 years, who
was accidentally drowned in the canal in Chartres-street,
whilst left in charge of a boat unloading there.—ln each
of these cases verdicts were returned in accordance with
the evidence.

WHEN LORD DORCHESTER was governor of Canada,
young ensign of the garrison, newly arrived, was invited,
as a matter of course, to dine at Government House. The
governor was a precise, pragmatical man ; while the
young " slip of quality," for such he happened to be,
was, on the contrary, a gauche, ignorant. under-bred lad.
On this occasion ho first mangled a fowl in endeavouring
to carve it, to the silent horror of Lord Dorchester ; and
then he upset a glass of wine on the table on trying to
recover his balance. This was too much for gubernatorial
flesh and blood to bear. " Sir," exclaimed the irate
governor, pointing to the stained damask, •' where could
you have been brought up ?" "My Lord," was the
cool reply, " I was brought up at my father's
table, wilt re we bed a dean tablecloth every
day." Sctre weeks or so thereafter Lady Dorchester
and her young family being in the lower town, which
was then surface-drained by large open gutters, occasion-
ally of very offensive amplitude, one of the children, a fine
little boy, in attempting to leap the drain, fell right into
it. The ensign, who was on guard close by, saw the acci-
dent, and at once rescued the child. Lady Dorchester,
who was, perhaps, the proudest woman living, recognising

" retort courteous" t

ern wno Ilan made the I 3S
nd above referred to, at ..

h your unwhofesome I

god-natured (

spectable

d it 1 the prefect, determine(

I criminal

hc,iated,

rpure-e,

Lion of
nY tamed a
events it 1
to quence of it
lowing circular to

strued

owe to

F an or

instances

body was
tant mi-

that this order

lee been revc

has not as yet been acted upon, and, is conse-
the Bishop addressed the fol..

ged in grief in conse-

118 clerg
dioc

'ore the late./

—" Notice.—Thy. -.se is piun,
y quence of the non-execution of the orders of the Minister
Lt of Public Worship respecting the burial-ground of Cu-
n Band. Songs of thanksgiving would be little suitable to
e so deplorable a situation, and His Grandeur, as has been
i announced to the Government, will order no Te Deum to
ir be sung on the 15th unless the evil complained of shall
I have been first remedied."—l have not yet been able to
5 learn what has been the final result of the above cir-
, cumstance."

It will be a happy circumstance should none of cur
Liverpool friends of civil and religious liberty

pend upon the Bishop of Lucon for a las

his diocese

BANKRUPTCY COU

EMI
William Jones

loner I

to de-

,t resting place in

RT, YESTE

ANT TO ATTORNEYS

Iry to r

Ely, came

fore lfr,

was supported by .11r. D. Evans
Yates, jun., who appeared for
Jones, solicitors to the assignees.
Previous to the case being

his last examination. He
and opposed by Mr. J.
Messrs. Christian and

gone into, the 1

CO:sIMISSIONER inquired wh
Jones did not appear themselves.
Mr. YATES replied that they were never known to
appear in any court whatever. He, however, appeared
more as a friend than as an advocate for the party.
His HONOUR said it was not right for one attorney to
appear for another, and reminded Mr. Yates of a decision
of the Queen's Bench on the subject.
Mr. YATES then fetched one of the firm mentioned to
the court ; after which he applied to the court to adjourn
the examination sine die, on account of the unsatisfactory
nature of the balance-sheet.

Christian and

His HONOUR said he thought Mr. Yates intended, as
the friend of Mr. Christian, to make suggestions, but not
to address the court.

Mr. YATES hoped his honour would allow him to go on
this once, and he would not offend again. He then pro-
ceeded to argue that the accounts given by the bankrupt
were so meagre, together with the fact of no proper books
having been kept, that the examination ought not to pass.
Mr. EVANS said the bankrupt was a very ignorant
man, and the estate was the poorest be ever saw before
the court. He also knew that the bankrupt was so poor
that he had not sixpence in the world.

After some questions respecting several sums of money
paid to the bankrupt, which he explained as having spent
in builiing, it was agreed to adjourn the examination for
a day, the balance-sheet not having been filled in time.
Mr. YATES expressed his doubts as to the poverty of
the bankrupt.

The bankrupt assured the court that he had not one
penny, and was obliged to beg money to enable him to
come to Liverpool to attend his examination.
Mr. YATES.—Then it is useless saying anything about
costs.

ALL SAINTs' SCHOOLS.—The subscribers and friends
of the All Saints' Parish Schaols will be glad to learn
that the foundation stone of the new building is to be
laid on Friday next, at 12 o'clock, by Mr. Alderman
Molyneux, assisted by the Rev. Rector Campbell. The
site chosen for the schools adjoins the church, in Great
Nelson-street North. There can be little doubt from the
arrangements made that the ceremony will be a very
interesting one.

VISIT OF THE ORANGEMEN TO THE ISLE OF
Our contemporaries are having a wonderful lot of talk
about the " visit" which, they will have it, is that of the
" Liverpool" Orangemen to the Isle of Man. The
Orangemen in question are not Liverpool Orangemen at
all; and if our contemporaries had not been so busy the
morning in question, the Orangemen would have arrived
and departed without notice. As it is, a bodyof Orangemen
from Wigan, &c., left Liverpool for the Isle of Man on
Saturday morning, with no parade whatever, and no sur-
veillance of police ; and returned last night in the same
harmless manner.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We are happy to learn
that the lecture season will be commenced on the 17th of
September, with a lecture " On the Political Economy of
the Bible," by the Rev. Henry Raikes, the amiable and
respected chancellor of the diocese. He will be succeeded
by the Revs. Dr. Hume, Mr. Gell, late principal of the
college at Hobart Town,: and who is about to visit New
Zealand as Bishop of Christ Church, Dr. Baylee, St.
Vincent Beechey. J. B. Owen, of Bi!ston, David James,
S. B. Sutton, W. W. Ewbank, and Hugh Stowell, of
Manchester, an array of names as brilliant as the sub-
jects of their intended lectures are interesting.

TOR I.,kw OF DINNERS. A correspondent of an
Edinburgh paper inquires whether the partakers of a
public dinner are liable to the landlord for wines ordered
and drank promiscuously, although the price of the ticket
was previously fixed ? The query, it appears, has reference

to a late two-and-sixpenny banquei
M.P. at a watering place, where a s

dinner to the amount of £52, by sot
duals—leayine the landlord to

,s run up after

compar
himself

unknown indivi-

ig the lion

,earned

The case, says our conter.

porary,

each to the extent of his share, and the landlord will have
no difficulty in recovering the price of the wines consumed-
from those present.

6ANDGATE, IN KENT, a pleasant little watering-place
near Folkstone, offers an instance of what may be done
under the public health act. For £2,850 the town has
supplied with good wate
water is obtained from
Ltely in the rear of the town,
drainage of a small area ; it is received

r aad Word,:
the Greensti

by deep under-
into two small

covered reservoirs, and distributed by gravitation on the
principle of constant pressure. It is softer than the water
hitherto obtained from wells. Every house is drained by
means of stone- ware pipes ; and the sewage is carried into
the sea at low-water mark. Sandgate has a population of
about 1,500: the money has been raised on the security of
the rates, and the debt will be liquidated in thirty years
by a charge of Is. lid. in the pound upon the present house
property—of course to be reduced as building extends.

ROBBERY AT CORK BY A GENTLRMAN.—A respect•
able-looking young man, who appeared before the bench
in the naval uniform of the East India service, was
brought up at the Cork police-office on Saturday, under
the following circumstances :—lt•appeared that William
O'Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass Castle, was staying at the
Albert Hotel, on Friday night, and on retiring to bed, he
left a sum of money, amounting to £3OO in large and
small notes, on the dressing-table of his bed-room. On
awaking in the morning and counting a
nd his money,
other°ney forhe
£3 had disappeared. Without making the slightest noise
n
found that two notes, one for
about the matter, or even mentioning the circums

rice to

any person in the hotel, Mr. oHotel , and
'tBuelillalbnerotrdered a car
and drove immediately to the police-station in Dunbar-
street, where he had an interview with Head-constable
Crowley, to whom he related the particulars of his
loss, and the circumstances, as far as he knew them,
under which it had been stolen. Head-constable Crow-
ley proceeded immediately to h
having ascertained that the prisoner Was the only person
staying in the hotel that night, he ordered all the servants into one room along with the tr;soner.
The
head con-
table then proceeded to search the i
fining of his cap found two notes for and inside
ponding exactly with the amout►t £lO3, corres-
from Mr. O'Sullivan. After some
i that had been stolen
agreed that the hearing of the discussion, it was
to Tuesday. Oa the application of
case should be adjourned
money found on theprisoner
the prosecutor, the
was handed over to him, on
his statement that 1,-
' the money particularly to
his name

Its.L ne
merit that

arses rowel!, bui it --i;--stiai:ri—iirariris name i
ell, and that he is connected with some of the mos
distinguished families in the south of Ireland.

AM AND THE CURATE'S Cow

—".uffinn kirrlstiale, curate of Merlingtoo, woo wa
poor and had a numerous family, lost his only cow.
Surtees determined to raise a suJsception for anothe
and waited on the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventr
late Earl Cornwallis), then Dean of Durk_
of the great tithes of Itlcrrington, to ask what ht.
' Give (said his lordship), why, a cow, to be sure

and owner

as
s,lohiirnioooncletiy eal
sd ,m
willy
bsteward, e
satnedo
w telly 0 himoa nto
fi
ngdi.vg
who had not expected above a five-pound
note' at /rest, exclaimed--" My Lord. I hope you'll ride
to heaven upon the back of the cow !" A wbileafterwar,'
i(lu—rurtim
with—" Surtces, what is the absurd speech tha►. _
he was saluted in the college by the late Lord Barri.-
you have been making to the dean ?" " I see nothing
absurd in it (was the reply) : when the dean rides to hea-
ven on the back of that cow, many of yon prebendaries
will be glad to lay hold of her tail."—Taylor's " Lye of
Surlees."
Surtces,

THE CHURCHES OP OUR LAND. I

They lie in valleys buried deep
They stud the barren Inns;

rivers sweet

)en door, for rich
.hurches of our L

d poor,
,

r ascend

When ti

ler better s

er trust arc
Subduing

ie Churches of our La

God keel)
Our ble

3se temples still from scat
op: and our pride !

Our energ

The Churc

s of.ouiLand

LITERATURE

Sze.—Books, New Pr

ft at Mr

,ttention

Earlsivood ; or, Lights and Shadows of the An
glican Church. A Tale. By Charlotte Anley
Author of " Miriam," &c. London : Hatchard
The story of which " Earlwood" is the title, " i
founded on the records of a history in private life,'
-struction and warninf

and is intended

for the

of the young." But

than merely to warn the rising generation of the
quicksands which surround them, in the spread of
semi-Popery; and he the means of restoring to the
true faith many who, either through fanatical en-
thusiasm or Jesuitical reasoning and deception,
have been led to wander from the simple obser-
vances of our Protestant worship to the mummeries
of Tractarianism, with it: high altars and its in-
..
-ts candles, and its costly crosses
' which can neither add

cense, its flowers,

beggarly element

sanctity to the Christian religion, nor produce
devotion in the worshippers. The authoress has
brought to bear upon the subject no small amount
of polemical learning on theological topics; she
handles her theme with masculine vigour and much
acuteness ; and gives us a volume interesting in
narrative, sound in reasoning, graceful in style,
though not always faultless, yet eminently readable.
The following are the leading features of this
interesting tale, or romance if it maw be so called,
though, says the authoress, " our only romance is
in those deep mysteries of real life which so often
lend an imaginative character to events resulting in
the deeper interests of man's inmost being." Sir
Leonard Sydney, the lord of Glencornbe, is taken
to his fathers, and with him dies a name of many
generations. His two daughters are his only chil-
dren; one is married to a nobleman, the other to
the rector, whose home becomes the mansion-house
of Earlswood. The Countess is accidentally killed
in early life, and her only child is nurtured in the
family of this Christian minister, Mr. Everard,
whose portrait is beautifully drawn ; the other
sister dies too, but not till a larger family are left
to mourn her loss. Lady Gertrude and Alice are
the cousins thus early brought together, and so
fondly attached to one another : to the one a deep,
untold love is cherished by a Mr. Grey, an Oxford
pervert, and tutor in the family of a friend; to the
other, Alice, Ernest Willoughby has long pledged
his heart, and Earlswood was his vacation home.
His mind is plastic, and is won over to the false
faith by Grey, who is a man of deep thought and
sincerity of action. Under the spell he renounces
Alice, and is pledged to celibacy; but is acciden-
tally brought into the company of a Mr. Monteith,
while travelling in the Holy Land, and restored to
correct views upon his errors. Grey meanwhile
has got the confidence of Gertrude, and obtained
her fortune for the founding of a sisterhood, and
she has become a nun. Ernest returns to Italy,
and, advised by Captain Mowbray, seeks to pro-
cure the liberation of the lady. Grey he finds to
be a Romish priest, under the name of Father Paul;
and to his joy he learns that Gertrude has by other
means accomplished her escape. She meets her
father, Lord Errisford ; and, with Ernest Wil-
loughby, Captain Mowbray, and Monteith, she
returns to England. The Earl and Gertrude
has soon the happiness of witnessing the marriage of
Alice and her Ernest. But what of my Lady ? Can
the reader guess from the following quotation, which
may be taken as a specimen of our author's style :

•
" It was an anniversary of that same wedding-day, and
once more I beheld the Earlswood family, trouped on
the lawn together, though the circle had expanded, and
bright young faces were there, which never had I seen
before. Tables were spread out, here and there, covered
with the generous fare of a well-ordered feast, for the
village poor, who were there to celebrate the grateful
event. On the mount, arched by branches of a splendid
ash, an awning was suspended over seats ranged care-
lessly, for the spectators of the rural pastimes below.
There sat Mr. Everard, his hair whitened with age in-
deed, but his countenance unaltered in its sweet expres-
sion of benevolence and peace. On one knee he held a
blooming infant, the little Harcourt Willoughby, who
clapped its tiny hands, with mirthful glee, at the merry
songs with which ` grandpapa' amused him. Two fairy
girls were planing on the grass at his feet ; the elder
wreathing wild flowers round her cousin, little Catherine
Mowbray, whose chief amusement lay in pulling them to
pieces, and then laughing archly, as she threw their frag-
ments back again to Alice. Not far from these, our own
sweet Alice of the glen' and Lady Gertrude Mowbray
sat together, watching, with mothers' pride, the little
ones at their innocent play, which so powerfully recalled
the memory of their own happy childhood. Ernest
Willoughby and Sir Charles Mowbray walked up and
down the terrace, talking over the ' days of yore' ; and
who so happy as themselves ? The former, since his
marriage, had been the curate of Glencombe ; blessed
and blessing others, as an earnest, faithful minister of
Christ, preaching the Gospel in all simplicity, while illus-
trating its powers and holy principles in his own heart
and life. Earlswood was his home, while Mr. Everard
lived to need his children's care, and to him the living of
Glencombe would devolve whenever its venerable incum-
bent might be called away, to rest from his earthly la-
bours in the church above. Algernon, now Everard
Sydney, was alone absent from the family gathering. He
was on a tour round the Lakes ; but not alone. It was
his wedding-tour, and Dora Stuart was his bride. Nor
was the ' old man' there. He lay among the sleepers of
the cemetery ; heartsease and lilies of the valley growing
side by side, around his lowly grave ; and on the head-
stone was recorded the name of ` William Herbert,' who
for more than seventy years had been ' a beloved and
faithful servant of the families of Earlswood.'"

The Transition between the Christian and Millennial
Dispensations. By L. A. du P. Liverpool :

Smith and Ca

This is an exceedingly curious pamphlet. By
ingenious, though inconclusive reasoning,—incon-
clusive through the premises, or the hardness of
our own heart in not accepting them,—the author
seeks to prove—what ?—that the end of all things,
the " end of the days," " blessedness on earth,"
will be in fourteen years from now ! As hinted
above, we do not believe, so faithless are we,—not in
prophecy, but in all modern interpretations of
prophecy not yet revealed,—that the end of the
world is so near at hand. The author, however,
thinks otherwise ; and, seeing it has been long
his practice to study these mystic messages, he
came " into possession of a body of evidences
so convincing to his own mind, that he considers it
his duty to lay them before the Christian Church,
without further delay, as the time is literally at
hand." That the reader may obtain the key to
the conclusions arrived at, we present him with the
following passage :
" It will not be amiss, for the information of those
who are uninitiated with sacred numbers, to reflect a
short time upon their value andsince sacred
chronology turns upon them, as meaning;a
loo7r, upon its hinges.
and chiefly
The most important of the numbers is emblematic of
perfection, completeness, fulness;
Church : as the 7 spirits of Gord
God and his
e eStriveeto7
branched candlesticks, the 7 days of the week, &e:
is formed by the union of 3 and 4 ; 3 particularly regret.'
senting the Trinity, and 4 the Church. Seven is also
composed of 3 parts, viz•, 1,2, and 4, which form a geo-
metrical proportion and progression ; the Ist being the A
of the 2nd, and the 2nd being the z of the 3rd ; more-
over, 2 times 2, or the square of the 2nd, is equal to once
4, or the product of the Ist and 3rd. Not only is the
number 7 constantly alluded to, but its multiples, as
14, 21, 28, 70, &c., and its powers, as 7 times 7 or 49,
7 times 7 times 7 or 343, and other larger multiples and
powers, and their combinations. Six is emblematic of
imperfection, labour, incompleteness, short-coming, &C.,
and refers chiefly to toil, sorrow, the flesh, Satan, the
Beast, False Prophet, &c. So are its multiples, 60, 600,
666, 36, &c. Eight is emblematic of superabundance,
overflowing, &e., either for good or evil. Two bears
witness. Twelve is emblematic of the Church, and so are
Its multiples and powers, 24, 144, 144,000, &c., &c."
Thla- we must account small reasoning; never-
theless the most momentous conclusions are de-

rived from its application. For example, and bear-
ing upon present evencs :

" Fifth period : postponed week,—Dan. xii. 9; Rev.
xvii. 11, and xiii. 3. If the postponed week is to termi-
nate A.D. 1859, it must have begun in the PRESENT
EVENTFUL YEAR 1852, so that the Time of the End must
have commenced, and the words of prophecy must be
e. The great personal Antichrist,
dead of the Empire, must have begun
Now, if we look on the political hori-
Prince Louis Napoleon, the beir-at-
f his uncle, the Emperor Napoleon,

or Septimo

fe.arful career

in virtue of the act p