The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

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Standard Office, Seven o'clock

COMMONS.-LIST NIGHT.

3 FOR IRELAND.

"lade last night his statement of
for Ireland. He said,
ultural labourers in

persons employed as
is, at the present mo-
.

)er of superintendents is 185 ; the
payment of all in the debt con-
The number of labourers has in-
3eptember last to 440,687 in De-
reek's account they were stated at
d and eighty thousand • and, at

the on:

£5&5,01

1. Sii

he gu
A the '

ense.of employing
and it is calculated

£700,000 and £BOO,OOO,

a of government it was
es, which should be em-

to levy rates, and to

'overnment, and by this means
food, to establish soup
s they were able, dis-
cants, and that they

usable test of work—(hem:,
ian should be allowed to
and, or on the farmers, and

~a•ta

trrangement-, he might
fle in addition to the

These arrangement

A on under the superintend-
spector General of Ford-
wno had consented to go to
a called on. That gentleman
m with the Lord Lieutenant, and
- thinks best, with the Board
of the Poor-law, with
y torce, and with any other
may be calculated to assist him.—

mission

with regard to proposing this
relief, and for the more effici-
mith food who are in want, will

Iwith that already done ; e

e same time, care will be
ant will see to it, that its

m of public works, already in
transition. There will be no
)ple at once, but when all the
not scheme are made, then no
It take place, or new public
[-fear.) The Lord-Lieutenant
le roads already commenced, if
will be left in a most miserable
fat these, at least, shall
be allowed to
,dvance, a claim
hould not be a burden
e so severe that, pass-

ssors of property in Ireland.
irden of thesg public works
d, and he, therefore, should
a instalment became due, if
should be remitted, keeping
,e-half should be paid. It
3 was placing a considerable

ltry,and which pre-

1 proposiiiOns entailing ex-

therwise have proposed: It
hese grants from the consoli-
ii sums paid by the people on
sugar; and it should al-
Lat these were levied upon the
'their daily toil. He also pro-
exceeding £50,000, to be re-

cember, for the purchase of seed

►ould be made to the pro-
In proposing these ad-
)t nor could he expect to

Hided. It was not in the
i the effect of such a cala-
, it necessary to make the
it not been for a paper put
urging his countrymen to
they should take steps to
p supply of food. He was
ation could have imagined
;overnment to turn famine
The utmost they could
BUt what surprised him
; a union workhouse capa-

but which contained tnt
es would not be collected
those who ought to have
o scarcely were capable of

ie vague and visionary- plan,
duty of paying rates for the

[lie interference of

might be made in this
ted to proprietors by loans
rty—by public works—by
vcn to the destitute by law.
A separate. In advancing
e taken that such advances
3ses for which they were
taken by the laws passed in

lisiress

Act more particularly

nd it to other ini-

echnical difficulties

of that act, allowing pro- I
per cent., to be re-paid in

llowance for repayment if

h a plan with any plan for the
so proposed to consolidate and
, to undertake by the state the
f the waste lands of Ireland.
1,000,000 to this purpose—that
art with it he might sell it, but
to improve there should be a
land by the Commissioners of
its value was below 2s. 6d. an

iould be reclaimed, roads be

fed into lots of from 25 t

for a number of years or sold
undertake, by that grant, the

lied tenantry from other Proper-
id he thought it would be a nu-

If a „body of small independent
t think that the small holdings
3ery of Ireland, for in the county
small landlords were the most
were the most prosperous. In
vhich they proposed to introduce

the measures which
[ear, hear.) With

the relief of the 'destitute,
hould no longer be confined to

itute poor in Ireland, ern-
ye relief either in or out

ermanently disqualified
bour, thus giving the
destitute at their own

as full he proposed
power to give leave

lief to the able-bodied poor
to be given in food only.

power to take persons into

rrelief until the next meeiing
Such were the measures for

reposed immec

raturr.

OETRY

lately to

ON SEEING TWO SPAR-

SNOW

e thaw quite fled,)
you know,
trift and fall

and ground belaw
ack as night ?"

Lde rcply.

s birth,

;s that remain

Leather !

!ways kind,

The older bird

a I may

3t has been severe,

we find

ri the opening year
I b. kind. '

Od, will bring warm life
fevered land;

:ed with grief.
Hand.

hould have-our crumbs,

.rth to him was gives,

that but for Heaven,

—..cp...--.

ICES

I. S. NVE.LK

y. Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
translated by Thomas Roscoe.
n, York-street, Covent-garden.
that the " Life of Cellini " is
nd interesting pieces of biogra-
yet, however, it.seems that the

world has not possessed a genuine copy, although in
the . translation published in 1822 by 31r; Roscoe was
carefully collated what was generally acknowledged to
be the best version extant. The present translation,
however, possesses the advantage of having been care-
fully compared with a copy of the original manuscript in
the handwriting of Cellini himself, which was accidentally
discovered in 1810 at the shop of a bookseller in Florence,
and is now deposited in the Laurentian Library, in com-

pliance wit the will of its discoverer, and has been pub-
lished v ' tirn by Signor Molini of Florence, and forms
ik.
one of the volumes of the Biblioteca Italiana Portatile.
Mr. Roscoe?s well-known talent as a translator is a suffi-
cient guarantee of the faithfulness of the English version,
which is will'worthy of a place in a " standard library."
This adiiitlon is enriched by numerous valuable notes by
the translator.

The Medical Times for November last contains its
usual amount of original and compiled matter. Amongst
the former will be found articles of current interest—one
by Dr. Orpen, of Birkenhead, giving his experience of
the follies of homoeopathy ; another by Dr. Daunt, enti-
tled " Hints on Medical Emigration," in a series of
letters. Medical ramblers from home would be interested
by a perusal of its useful suggestions. It appears that
there is such a thing as a preference to be made in the quali-
ties of medical degrees : for peripatetic medicals Edinburgh
has the above recommendation before others. As in the
New World, the New Athens of the Old World is the most
famed for its science of the healing art. Other seats of
learning may be grown hoary with the wisdom accumu-
lated from earlier dates ; but the university of modern
Athens enjoys the credit of having the elastic powers of
youth combined with the vigour of maturity ; and, as the
world goes, these qualities are more generally useful for
ordinary contingencies of life, than the ornate crown of
grey hairs powdered and courtly, which our aristocratic
English universities rear with so complacent and bland-
ishing a smile. Ambitious of the future and envious
superstition of the past, may he said to characterise the
contending national seats of instruction. The one
adapts itself to the requirements of the present ad-
vancing age, the other hugs' the past, and like a-
certain crustacean insect of the deep piogresses
sideways—` Festina lente" dramatised in educational move-
ments—The elastic onward stride of the one renders it
the more worthy of the practical student, the mouldy
literature of the other may attract the literary and luxu-
rious son of wearying out old England. The engineer
stops not to trace out monkery. The monk lags far be-
hind the former, and picks up his classic bouquet on the
road, with which on some single brilliant occasion in his

me, ne wilt adorn his pallid brows, there to be laid aside for
the most part, converted thereby, as he opines, into an ama-

seat of learning will best furnish the medical ad-
venturer into foreign climes. The Reviews are not
numerous, but the Lectures are-reported with spirit. The
causes of epidemic fever are discussed in one paper. The
evidence brought forward is quite of a piece with the
facts so recently reported in our columns, and also set forth
in Dr. Duncan's able pamphlet, and systematised in our
Health of Towns' Advocate. We cannot extract, but we
wish 'the public could only know the accumulating evi-
dence in the experience and scrutiny of the medical world.

The Pharmaceutical Times, a journal of Chemistry
applied to the•arts, agriculture and manufactures; for the
same month, contains a mass of most valuable information
on the subject treated on ; and it embraces many current

thoughts a-nd experiments detailed in its various contribu-
tions, which will be sought in vain elsewhere. It is cheap
and voluminous. We observe, like many others, it per-
sists in orthographizing—" Sanatory," for Sanitary—
Sanitua is the proper root.