The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-22 00:00:00

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THE SNOW DROP.
DY 11.111 Y 110 WITT.
The snow drop!—'tis an English flower,
. ~ And grows beneath our garden trees;
For every heart- it has a dower... •
And old and dear remembrances !
All look upon it, and straightway
Recal their youth like yesterday.—
Their sunny years, when forth they went,
Wandering in measureless content
Their little plot of garden g.round
The mossy orchard's quiet hound ;
Their father's house, so free from care.
And the familiar faceS there t

The household voices; kind and sweet,
- That knew no feigning—hushed anti gone !
The mother, that was sure to greet
Their coming with a une tone;
The brothers, that were children then,
Now, anxious, toiling-, thoughtful men ;
And the kind sister, whnselglad-mirth
. Was like a sunshine GO:he-earth—
These come hack to-the soul supine,
.tiowf.r.of the spring, at lobrof Mine!
And thou, among the dinini'd and gone,
Art-swat:tattered thing 'alone !
• Unchanged—unchangede very flower
That grew in Eden droopingly—
And now beside the peasantldoor
:Awakes his little children's glee,
Even as it filled his heart with joy
Beside his mother's door, a boy !
The same —and to his heart it brings
The freshness of tho4e vanished springs!
Moom,'then, Nit flower, in sun and shade.
For deep thought in thy cop is laid ;
And careless children; in their glee,
A sacred memory make of thee !

ItTOTICES.
THE SCOTTISH MONTHLY MAGAZLNE.

This magazine, like all its contemporaries, caters for
every variety of taste, and fastidiousness itself might riot
here ; but 'we no More feel ourSelvies bOund•to notice
every article written than we Shoidd_ be to partake et
every dish of a profuse feast; indeed, in both cases,
there would probably always be some which, thOugh
sairdirry enough to ethers, would be insipid to onrselves.
In bur.preserit entertainment, we shall confine ourselves
to the sirloin and the iiatinCh. The first article, eetitled
" Our Zelations with India," is replete with matter of
eneral, and, to Liverpool, of deep local interest. But,
before we adv;l3rt to the questiod more immediately con-
n6efect With our town; we name a few observations to biter,
respecting the government of India. We dO net perfeetli
agree With the conclUsion drawn. by Mi. T. L. PeacOck,.
(the assistant examiner of India correspondence, in the
India House;'to the corernittee appointed last ses-
sion to report On- the silt monopoly ih British India,)
arthoUgh that opinion is fortified by the high adtho-
ray of Sir Philip Francis, the presuMptive Junius,
that what they are pleased to call " tributes" are,
hi' every case, prejudicial to India. We take the
same view 'of dui stilled that is very perspicuously
exhibited by the author of the present article. Speaking
of that " tribute" which .is supposed to be paid by a
balance, in commercial barter, unfavourable to India,
--.‘6 the writer justly remarks :The mercantile returns
are procured by an exchange of commodities alike
beneficial to the inhabitants of both countries. If
the. Indian merchants did not find it profitable to take our
exports, they would leave themin the hands of our mer-
chants. If our merchants did Pot feel it 'profitable to
,
exchangeheir wares :fa what They import in return,
Wouldv cease to export
,to , The process ;by
which the mercantile returns are obtained enriches India,,
at the same time that it enriches this country." The.
lamentation over an " absentee government" is a profit-
leis sorrow. India must either 'be governed as it now
is, (we mean as regards constitutional structure, not
practical policy,) or at once be made independent. But
this enbject cannot be discussed-1u the brief notice of a
nichitilly publication. We preeeed atiotn6f
arising out ot " our relations with India," svlfichinvo lves
considerations of great interest to the merchants Of
Liverpool ; and, " in limine," we would ask, why are we
distracted with the clamour of reform, which benefits
none, whilst ques'tion's of this kind, moinentous ifi• their
issaes,'inimediat'eiii their consequences, not spoulative,
but certain in their result's, call loudly upon-
gence, the prudeuce, the interest of. Liverpool k Before
a.connnittee of the House of Commdns "on the salt mo-
nopoly of the East India Company'," We find it•styed by
Mr. lltincan Grob, shipping agent of LivertidaL-`,`
have upwards 0,3,400 tons, now r.sliipped in the l3ornbay
trade, and I might say that the capacity of these 3..090,
tons is about 5,000; one-half. of 5000 is vacant, in my
MLitt experience r the laStistoti I *sent out from'Liverp'ool
tbl3embay was the She is -it ship* thitt Would
carry 1,000 tons; I put 250 tons of ballast (250 tons of
metal) to ballast her out; therefore, when she left she
had 600 tons spare freight-600 tons of spare 'room"
" Similar statements were made by other shipping agents,
and remain Pncentradicted:" 4.` Mr. Alexander • Reid
stated that;at the time of his exanrinatirm, there was
a ship loading at Liverpool ,xhiCh was taking rn 80 tons
of salt to be put down at Calcutta, at 20s. '6(1:, and the
Coromandel or coast salt costs tire East India Company
395.' 41 per tOn, being 10s. per ton higher than Liver-
poel salt, and tlf a very ;inferior quality." This is but
One branch' of a great commercial "rinpoliCy to which the
mercantile body should be vigorously directed; it'ia Werth./
of their regard; we recommend the whole article of the
present number of the-S;cottish Mon-they Magazine to the
careful' perusal of 'readers. "T.he nett paper of interest
to us is a review Of Backeand'.s'Briclgeiidier firealr e:
With the first paragraph of this paper we scarcely know
how to deal; the language is the language of the author
of the paper, but for the opiaionexpressed Mr. Buckland
a field responsible. We' diff'dr 4qtßO'ectio" frdm•Mr. B,
Oith regard to his almost ''endleoioo.i.4 of worlds;
pot trim any fear that the rock upon which diVine revela-
tion rests will be shaken by such speculations, but because
we think the evidence he produces insufficient—the in-
ductidn too 'meagre to support. his conclusions. The
author observes that " the researches of Oplogl bring
bafdre us no confusion." Confusion! What builder
or a-system, who has props of hypothesis and buttresses
of conjecture at his command, will fail to raise an impos-
ing_ Structure ?' Men have speculated upon the size•-of
Creatures in Jupiter, arid detet mined the limits of magni-
tude there possible; the soul has been affirmed to be
identical with electric fluid; and in the following qnota-.
don from Buckland there is evinced the same kind apti-
frlde to jump at Conchisions without sufficient evidence,
and the bOundirig leap easily clears all " confusion."
We give an example 'rule tusks of the DenOtheriurn
nary also have been applied with mechanical advantage
to hook on • the head of the animal to the back, &c.the
dhienahnight thus repose, &c.—these tusks might have
been further used to assist in dragging the-body but of
the water." Why, very true, all these might be as
4uPposed, but iris not less possible that they might not
be; and the whole of the illustration is eniployed to sup-
p'ort thehypthesis that the Denotherium Was "an animal
destined -to livein water" ; and what, 'think ye, is the
ground of this hypothesis ? Why, as Mr. Buckland
affirm; because " It is mechanically impossible that a
lower jaw, nearly four feet long, loaded With such heavy'
tusks at its extremity, could have been Other Wise than
euMbrous and inconvenient to a qnadrupedliving on dry
land." Why, this is pronouncing, in no very modest
terms, upon the possible ,economy of animal life, the
fitness of things, assigning the "•sufficient reason" of
nature; we can point to a thousand instances in the ani-
Mal kingdom can,
arrangements, no doubt smbservient,
perhaps essential to existence, mock the explanations of:
"mechanical" philosophy. Who would ever have
reasoned himself to the conclusion that the ponderous
head of the elephant, with all its appendages, was ever to
be 'supported by muscular fibres'? "We do not make
these obserVations to disprove-the verity of Mr. B.'s ex-
perienee, but to.show that, on questions afflirding little
light of evidence, it is easier to indulge in'donjectere
than to establish truth. We highly value the advantages
derived from comparative anatomy, and adthire the
application of them under the 'skilful hand of Cuvier ;-
hut comparative anatomy cannot prove the period when
Ein. ariitnal exiited, howeter-orrekly it may assign the
Class 'to which 'it belongs. The reviewer's reflections
upon the Bridgewater Treatise are just, and evince, a
comprehensive acquaintance vvith geology and its cognate
branches of science.

TORPEDO.--M. lilatteucci, by aid of new apparatus, has suc-
ceeded in magnetising needles with the fluid produced by tlici
torpedo, and even to elicit sparks from this tisit, which may be
teen (luting the day-time.— Aihencsuin. •

FLARE-UP AT LowELL.—The factory girls, at Lowell, turned
out.on Saturday, because their wages Were reduced tWelve and
a half cents. a week, or rather because the companies have in-
creased the price of board so as to produce that effect. We
learn front the Lowell Advertiser, that yesterday afternoon, at
two o'clock, the girls were assembled in the Grove ou Chapel
till, between Gorham andSonth-streets, to the number of about
m
two thousand. They-were iceopanied.by
,Several hundred men
And,boys, which gave the whole scene the appearance of 'a "'e
neral
,muster." They appeared cheerful and bappy, and seemed
to think it a fine holiday. They had a regular ineet•ing in the
gAtyooll, on Saturday evening, but concluded to bold their
mekings in the day time, as mete bteorning. their eharacter..-L-
Boston Transcript. .

SERIOUS FA itutue.—We exceedingly regret the necessity
Which devolves upon us of recording a fact whieh trill have a
'very Material effeet'arion the trade and conimerCe of this city,
I,l.!vit We fear upon the county generally, we mean- the failure of
_l'd:Ssrs: Fdrster, bankers, who stopped payment (tin; (Friday)
7,ottsitt:thag very unexpectedly, and much to the•sarprise' of evert
The consternation caused by this event it is imposeible to ties'cr.iti're
reinettr, laitintdfor some time no one would give credit to the
etier, frOm is
8 unfortunately too true; we are' assured, how-
win he ~,,,,, trittlauthority, that the loss ultimately-sustained
dreadfol the whifethrltvd. We have already adverted tir the
the failure of me.srs: „,,e, voimn'eree of this city has received in
th: 4zxtert's batik; this, as may naturally be
supposed, formed
regret here this (Friday)Ams°,,Zitint; topic of conversation and
solviney tilt•N
Glaring the"coniplete A notice was issued de-
walsersrs. Connell's batik, and
at' t*Vo o'clock a publid meeting
at the Town Flail, of
which we give a Summary in kw:Atter i'ld
vbelviwatole of the manti-
hhartiotnrottiook ibeeliallr,'
teas attended by the gentry of the.eity Ti!tran• The meeting
factureriiind p'fincipal tradesmen.
and a it unifier of reSolaticins were passed,
the MO.d'perfect confidence- in the other banking e:tl:l;illailtig
of this toivii hhd neighbourhood, and every ont-pledatt_...llkii
to take the notes of the existing banks.—Car/i,le Pnlriot.''''