The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-08 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Nautical Magazine. London: John Murray. Li-
verpool : Bywater and Co.
We have much pleasure in stating that the new Tide
Table, published by Mr. Bywater, jun. of this place, has
not only received the approval of J. W.. Lubbock, Esq.,
V. P. R. S., and Professor Whewell, of Cambridge, as
well as the recommendation of the Liverpool Pilots'
Committee ; but the following extract from that well-
conducted work the Nautical Magazine will show that
Captain Beecher, R. N., the able editor of that periodi-
cal, entertains a similar opinion respecting its value and
importance :
"In the formation-of this tide-table," says the Nautical Ma-
gazine, " Mr. Bywater has availed himself of a series of tables
constructed by Mr. Lubbock from a course of observations of
the tides, and heights of the tides, at Liverpool, which extended
through a period of eighteen years. With such superior means,
be has produced a more perfect prediction of the tides than has
yet appeared; and has been enabled to add the novel feature
of the heights of the tide, as well as the time of high water.
These times of high water coincide generally within a minute
or two of those calculated by Mr. Dessiou, who has devoted a
vast deal of perseverance and attention to this intricate subject.
We congratulate Mr. Bywater on his being the first to publish
a complete as well as a correct tide-table for his own port."

The Cabinet of Modern Art, and Literary Souvenir.
Edited by Alaric A. Watts. Second Series. Lon-
don : published for the proprietor, by Whittaker and
Co., Ave Maria-lane. 1836.
We regret that the "pressure from without" will not
concede to us a sufficiency of space to do justice to this
most interesting and elegant annual. Whatever fame is
due for introducing these works of art Mr. Alaric Watts
is entitled to the largest share of it; for he led the way
to all the improvements and expensive embellishments
which have been introduced, and which reflect the high-
est credit on his taste and public spirit. We have only
to say that the present volume is graced with twenty-four
engravings—all beautiful—and by the first artists. The
prose stories are extremely interesting, but too long for
making extracts; while to abridge them would divest
them of their chief beauty. We select the following
poetical effusion by L. E. L.
FAIRIES ON THE SEA SHORE.
BY L. E. L.
Ist Fairy—My home and haunt are in every leaf,
Whose life is a summer's day, bright and brief
I live in the depths of the tulip's bower,
1 wear a wreath of the cistus flower,
I drink the dew of the blue harebell,
I know the breath of the violet well,—
The white and the azure violet ;
But I know not which is the sweetest yet,-
1 have kiss'd the cheek of the rose,
1 have watched the lily unclose,
My silver mine is the almond tree,
Who will come dwell with flower and me ?
CHORUS OF FAIRIES.
Dance we our round, 'tis a summer night,
And our steps are led by the glow-worms' light.
2d Fairy—My dwelling is in the serpentine
Of the rainbow's colour'd line,—
See how its rose and amber clings
To the many hues Df my radiant wings ;
Mine is the step that bids the earth
Give to the iris flower its birth,
And mine the golden cup to hide,
Where the last faint hue of the rainbow died.
Search the depths or an Indian mine,
Where are the colours that match with mine ?

CHORUS,
Dance we round, for the gale is bringing
Songs the summer rose is singing.
3d Fairy—l float on the breath of a minstrel's lute,
Or the wandering sounds of a distant flute,
Linger I over the tones that swell
From the pink-vein'd chords of an ocean-shell
I love the skylark's morning hymn, ;
Or the nightingale heard at the twilight dim,
The echo, the fountain's melody,—
These, oh ! these, are the spells for me !

CHOR US.
Hail to the summer night of June;
See ! yonder has risen our ladye moon.
4th Fairy—My palace is in the coral cave
Set with spars by the ocean wave ;
Would ye have gems, then seek them there,—
There found I the pearls that bind my hair.
I and the wind together can roam
Over the green waves and their white foam,—
See, I have got this silver shell,
Mark how my breath will its smallness swell,
For the Nautilus is my boat
In which I over the waters float,
The moon is shining over the sea,
Who is there will come sail with me ?

A Vindication of the Right of the Bishops to sit and
vote in the House of Peers. London : Pickering,
Chancery-lane. Liverpool: W. Grapel.
This is a pamphlet, containing, together with some
sensible and excellently well timed remarks by the edi-
tor, a reprint of "A Vindication of the Right of the
Bishops to sit and vote in the House of Lords, by the
Rev. Peter Heylyn, D. D.," a well-known tract, pub-
. lished, we believe, about the close of the disastrous reign
of Charles I. Were this subject, which is now again
sought to be agitated, argued merely as an abstract ques-
tion of right, Heylyn's defence of that right would be
considered triumphant and conclusive. But, unfortu-
nately, recent events exhibit a growing inclination among
the revolutionary section of the legislature to sacrifice
all vested rights on the altar of expediency, and the peo-
ple in the pursuit of an ideal good are too prone to over-
look consequences and to disregard facts. To show the
inexpediency of excluding the bishops from the House
of Lords it might be urged that a very considerable
number of the members of the present episcopal bench
are men of humble origin, who owe their elevation to
the splendour of their talents as scholars and divines;
that in their persons a constant supply of plebeian blood
is infused into the aristocratic branch of the legislature ;
that, while all clerical persons, episcopally ordained, are
excluded from the House of Commons, two lay preach-
ers, a quaker, and a great number of Roman catholics,
are now actually members of that assembly, who would .
not, were they peers, be disqualified, on account of their
religious opinions, to act as legislators; and that, there-
fore, the safety of the established church, which contains
within its pale at least two-thirds of the people of Eng-
land, absolutely requires the presence of the bishops in
the House of Lords. We have only to add that we re-
commend the " Vindication" to the notice of our
readers.