The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

ILLUMINATED CLOCKS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I beg to draw the attention of the authorities to the
clock of St. George's Church. It is called " illuminated;"
but it is suffering under an eclipse at present " as the hours
wax great." It would be a great convenience if a little more
light were thrown into it. By half-past eleven and twelve
the figures are scarcely distinguishable. Apropos of clocks :
—lt has been stated that the Town-hall clock cannot, in con-
sequence of the construction of the dome, be lighted from
within. Could not it be so contrived as to be lighted from
the outside—the light being thrown upon the face of the dial ?
P. S.—St. George's clock all this evening has been scarcely
visible.
19th August, 1841. PEDESTRIAN.

Lord Mostyn and Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., have recently
made considerable additions to their estates in Flintshire.

A tradesman in London recently employed a professional
gentleman to recover a debt of thirty shillings; he suc-
ceeded, and the costs were seventy pounds !
A woman died in Guernsey on Tuesday week of the extra-
ordinary stature of seven feet two. She had been exhibited
as a giantess by her brother, who is seven feet seven inches.
There is not a solitary pawnbroker in the town of Carmar-
then ; " a fact," says the Welshman, " which illustrates the
virtue and prudence of her inhabitants." For a very simple
reason—the Welsh pawnbrokers are particularly fond of so-
ciety.

At the late Wesleyan conference a document was read from
the committee on education, shewing that they have under
their care in Great Britain 3,444 Sunday schools, and 131
day and infant schools,—including a total of 390,627 chil-
dren ; with about 64,250 teachers, and nearly 1,000 school
libraries.

It is reported that Sir Michael O'Loghlen and Mr. George
Evans, late member for the county of Dublin, are to be
raised to the peerage.

Lord Congleton (Sir Henry Parnell) is about to be ap-
pointed a commissioner of the Irish poor laws. .

•
SIGNIFICANT.—At a meeting of the Dublin Repeal Asso-
tion on Tuesday, an attempt was made by Mr. John O'Con
nell to bring forward a resolution repudiating any intention
of Catholic ascendancy in the event of their obtaining a re-
peal of the Union. The proposition was opposed by Mr.
O'Connell as unnecessary, and of course was not persevered
in.

The next Wesleyan Conference is appointed to be held in
London, on the last Wednesday of July, 1842.
On Sunday last the Hon. and Rev. Edward H. Grimston,
late M.P. for the borough of St. Albans, officiated for the
first time as minister of St. Michael's Church. The hon.
and rev. gentleman has a living at Great Ibaey, near Sudbury.
Essex Herald.
At the Limerick assizes, Thomas Barkeley was sentenced
to 15 years' transportation, for administering sulphate of
copper and Spanish flies to his wife (only a fortnight married
of
with intent to kill her, and Catherine Ryan, a paramour
his, was sentenced to the same punishment, for inciting him
to the deed.
of , the murderer,
MAKING THE MOST OF A MURDERER. The skthe mil-
eleton
case,
seumCor ofder the Suffolk Infirmary,d Bury St. Edmund's, with a
money-box below, to which,
stans in a glass in
by an ingeniously contrived
spring, the grisly anatomy points the attention of visitors,
when they approach the spot. The receipts are said to
average £5O per annum.

CONFERENCE OF POLITICAL PREACHERS AT

MANCHESTER

The first act of the comedy called " The Conference of
Clergy and Ministers on the Corn Laws," was performed in
the Manchester Town-hall, on Tuesday, the second on Wed-
nesday, the third yesterday, and the fourth is no doubt pro-
ceeding at this very moment. When all is over we suppose
the Whig and radical journals, and those who act upon their
principles, will shout as if the battle was won, and the agri-
cultural interest laid prostrate. To accomplish that, how-
ever, more will be required than has yet been accomplished.
The proceedings commenced a few minutes after ten
o'clock, by the Rev. Mr. M`luintßow reading some commit-
tee arrangements. After that he said they had received 1500
replies to their invitations, and only six were decidedly op-
posed to them. There was about an equal number who had
expressed hesitation as to the propriety of attending, but by
far the greater number had expressed their entire concur-
rence in the important objects which they considered they
had in view. The speaker then mentioned the names of se-
veral ministers, who, he said, had been taken ill at the ele-
venth hour, and could not attend. On producing a letter
from the Rev. W. M. Bunting, he said he could only read a
part of it, on which there were loud cries of " read all," but
the rev. gritleman resolutely declined complying with the
wishes of the meeting. There was also a letter from Dr.
Chalmers, in which the same method of giving favourable
portions of it only was adopted. It, however, escaped in the
reading that it was the doctor's opinion that the repeal of
the corn laws would not be of permanent advantage to the

country.
Some other business was then about to be proceeded with

when
The Rev. W. GADSBY said, he had felt a little astonished
that, in an assembly of that nature, seeking the benefit of
starving thousands, it should not be introduced by prayer.
To him it seemed a shame, as pious ministers of the gospel,
not to think it worth while to call upon God to bless them.
A MINISTER said, he thought, as ministers, that on all
questions that were deemed of importance to bring them to-
gether, they should acknowledge God.
The Rev. Mr. NOLAN observed that the importance of
imploring the divine blessing was not overlooked ; that as
one of the Manchester ministers, he felt it his duty to say,
that, in previous meetings of ministers, this subject had been
considered ; and that when the gentlemen composing the
provisional committee had returned, and the meeting was
regluarly commenced, the proceedings would be introduced
with prayer, or any other means they might think proper.
The subject had been previously under the serious consider-
ation of gentlemen in Manchester, and he had no doubt the
gentlemen below were considering the matter while he was
speaking. The matter would be decided when the temporary
committee came before the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said, in his mind the series of engagements
to which they had devoted themselves should commence with
prayer. He was told, however, that prayer would most
likely be the course proceeded in, when the gentlemen who
were appointed on the committee returned to the conference.
He confessed that this appeared to him a situation so serious,
and the conference, consisting of ministers of different de-
nominations, so important, that it would be in perfect har-
mony with that meeting, and that preliminary meeting too,
that they should engage in prayer. If it were important that
they should present themselves before the throne of divine
majesty, when, as it was said, they regularly commenced
their proceedings, he saw no reason, convened as they now
were, and while their committee was sitting, they should in
this instance, and while other business was preparing, first
begin their work in prayer to God in that feeling of harmony
in this object, which, he trusted, pervaded that assembly for
that blessing from on high without which nothing could
prosper. Ife then called upon the Rev. Dr. Vaughan to en-

;age in prayer.
The Rev. Dr. VAUGHAN then engaged in prayer.
The Rev. E. H. NOLAN, of Manchester, thought it right
o say, that, privileged as they were in the society of mem-
jers of the society of friends, of Roman Catholic clergymen,
and even, he believed, of dignitaries of that church, it might
be that some held views different to the rest in reference to
the commencement with prayer. (Hear.) The Manchester
ministers, feeling the responsibilily resting with them, had
not introduced this, lest even a slight difference of opinion
should exist. They were all happy at what had taken place ;
and confident that all would feel it was no want of spirituality
on their part, but a mere feeling of responsibility restinc,
upon them previously to the meeting being fully constituted.°
The Rev. JAMES BLAIR, of Dunfermline, thought what
was just said very excellent; but he would suggest, that one
hour be spent in prayer every morning. If it was agreed
for the conference to meet at ten, let the prayer meeting be
at nine, or as the conference might think proper.
The CHAIRMAN said, that, as no one seconded that sug-
gestion, he might say that the general feeling around him
appeared to be, that it was most desirable to wait the com-
munication of the committee already appointed, who would
probably take this amongst other subjects into consideration.
The Rev. Mr. PARSONS, of Stroud Water, suggested that
those wlio wished to engage in prayer might do so previously
to the meetings of conference; perhaps a chapel in the town
might be obtained for the purpose, where those who agreed
in sentiment might meet to pour forth prayers to the Al-
mighty for his blessing to rest upon these meetings. No
person who felt the least objection would attend, and thus it
would meet the views of all parties.
The Rev. Mr. CROMPTON, of Henley-in-Arden.---I think
one great means of preventing discussion would be, if, during
the sitting of the committee below, some of the brethren
present would engage in prayer.
Dr. VAUGHAN suggested, that instead of discussing the
question, it was better to wait until the temporary committee
had returned, and made their report; after which it would
be open to every gentlemen to express an opinion on the
subject.
After a lapse of a few minutes, the committee returned,
and gave their report, recommending the Rev. Messrs.
Atkinson, Chaplain, Cox, and Spencer to act as chairmen of
the conference during its sittings. No allusion, however,
was made to the subject of prayer.
The Rev. Mr. ATKINSON, being the first president selected,
took the chair, which was vacated by Dr. Cox. In opening
the proceedings, he said, they had met together at the call of
suffering humanity, and that call reached them, not across
the briny deep, but through the green fields and populous
streets of our own beloved country. They were met at the
very outset of their procedure with the question—" What had
Christian, and more than all what had Christian ministers,
to do with temporal politics ?" He had yet to learn, that
when they became denizens of that kingdom which was not
of this world, they were to forego all the privileges and for-
get the duties of the present. He had yet to learn that when
they began to be Christians they ceased to be men. Mr.
Atkinson proceeded in this strain, justifying himself and
others who had assembled on the occasion to oppose the
corn laws the rev. gentleman concluded by calling on his
rev. brethren to avoid as much as possible anything which
might commit them to a particular line of party politics ;
to confine themselves entirely to the question of a repeal of
the corn laws ; and, while they showed the courage of lions,
to exhibit the gentleness of lambs.
Several of the conference here again began to be clamorous
to have the question decided, as to whether they would be
allowed to pray or not, in the midst of which
Dr. Pik:SMITH rose. Dr. Vaughan was anxious to know
upon what subject the doctor was about to speak ? but the
doctor being afflicted with deafness did not hear him, but
took from Ids pocket a memorandum book, from which he read
a long speech prepared for the occasion, and with which we
have been furnished in print. It condemned the corn laws
as unjust, and as being contrary to the laws of God, and ini-
mical to the interests of tne country at large ; and that as
Christian ministers they were justified in using all their
efforts to procure their repeal.
The Rev. Mr. MASSIE, of Manchester, then moved
" That the conference in all its deliberations should confine
itself exclusively to the laws restricting the importation of

food."
This, however, he withdrew, on its being announced to
him that that was the subject for which the conference had
been brought together.
The Rev. Mr. FLETCHER then announced that the con-
ference would meet every morning at nine o'clock, and it be-
ing the custom of Manchester families to dine at one, they
would adjourn at the latter hour until four, and the conference
would be continued from four till eight.
Mr. FLETCHER in continuation observed, that it depended
upon the result of the conference whether there wasto be "a
rebellion" or " a glorious revolution," and concluded by
announcing that the committee had left the question of devo-
tional exercise to the whole body of the conference.
Dr. VAUGHAN thought he could see a mode by which any
difficulty might be obviated, and which made no invasion on
the feelings or opinions of any party. The chair might be
taken at nine o'clock, and the first half-hour appropriated to
devotional exercises. It would then be optional with those
who could not conscientiously join in those exercises to stay
away until half-past nine. The reverend gentlemen then
moved a resolution to that effect.
The Rev. Mr. FLETCHER suggested, that the matter
might be left to the decision of the committee.
The Rev. Dr. Cox considered the subject of such para-
mount importance, that he was unwilling to have it thrown
back on the consideration of the committee. He felt as
much respect as any man in the room for the gentlemen
composing the committee ; but to no committee on earth
should the meeting delegate the power of determining whe-
ther they should present their united supplications to the
throne of Heaven. He would warmly second the motion of
Dr. Vaughan, for he thought prayer to God should precede
every other consideration.
The Rev. TIMOTHY EAST supported the motion. He
thought that those Christian friends who could not unite in
those exercises of prayer, might not come at the commence-
ment of the proceedings. If they met as a body without
prayer, he was of opinion that they would be held up to
public disgrace.
The Rev. R. W. HAMILTON, of Leeds, said their was a
simple method of reconciling the opinions of all—namely,
by opening their proceedings with the Lord's praper ; in
which a petition would arise very much in congruity with
the object and feelings of the meeting—" give us this day "
(or " day by day," if you please) " our daily bread." (Ap-
plause.) Nobody could see any invasion of religious or
political feeling in that prayer. He would, therefore, suggest
that they would open their meetings with that form of prayer
which our Lord had taught his disciples.
The Rev. Dr. RITCHIE, of Edinburgh, thought the
question should not have been mooted at all. He wished it
to be understood, that the first exercise in which they should
engage when they met was prayer ; and that if, from any
cause, any gentleman could not join with them, no distinction
should be drawn,—" To his own master he standeth or
falleth." (Approbation.)
The CHAIRMAN then rose to put the question, but was
interrupted by—
Dr. HALLEY, who objected on the ground that the meeting
was composed of persons of different religious denominations,
some of whom could not conscientiously join with others in
such a sacred exercise. He was surrounded by several Roman
Catholic priests ; and he thought that, in fairness to them,
if gentlemen of other denominations were allowed to offer
up extemporaneous prayers, they (the priests) should be al-
lowed to commence by the celebration of the mass. Before
he would join in such a prayer-meeting himself, he would
like to know who were the parties uniting with him. If, for
instance, Mr. Beard, who was a unitarian minister, should
be called on to pray, he (Dr. Halley) would not think it
right to unite with him. But why should he be excluded
more than him (Dr. Halley) ? Why should those who agreed
with him arrogate to themselves any right to conduct the re-
ligious services ? Was it because they constituted a majority ?
He trusted the meeting would not be influenced by any such
reason. They had met to consider the wants of the poor ;
and he hoped the apple of religious discord would not be
thrown in to mar their efforts at removing them. Those
who desired to pray might do so at their homes and respective
chapels ; and by this means ministers of different denomina-
tions might for once come together on common grounds,
without having their harmony interrupted by the introduction
of topics on which they could not agree. (Hear, hear.)
The Rev. F. J. ARCHER, P.P. of Hillsborough Hall,
Blessington, begged to put his decided negative on a resolu-
tion which had a tendency to turn the attention of that great
meeting from the question they had met to consider, by in_
volving them in a religious warfare. As a catholic clergy-
man, he acknowledged that prayer was good ; but, as the
meeting was neither of a political nor religious nature,'
thought it better to confine their attention to the questionhe
which they had met to discuss—a question on which the hap-
piness of so many thousands of their fellow-creatures de-
pended. (The rev. gentleman made some further observa-
tions, but the noise which prevailed prevented his being
heard. The authority of the chairman was exercised to pro-
cure his being heard, but in vain, until at length, he was
i
forced to his seat by some friends near um, and shortly after
order was in some measure restored.)
The CH AIRMAN said, with all re.2pect. for the feelings of
those who had proposed the res;iolrutrieolfriolufsthwaotiwsge thee onlyca,
place where they could meet
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desired that those who had proposed the 4)4l464}ickijrcei/r/
call it. They could meet in their own classes in .t
coteries—for social worship. (Hear, hear.) '
not only on behalf of the consciences of their Roman Catho-
lic brethren, but also on behalf of their suffering fellow-
creatures. (Cheers.) He had every respect for the motives
of those who introduced the subject, but he trusted they
would leave that as an arena in which they could join as
brethren linked together in the cause of suffering humanity.

(Hear.)
Dr. VA UGH AN said, he should not have proposed the re-
solution had lie supposed there were any present who could
not conscientiously join with them in prayer. However, as
there appeared such a strong feeling on the subject, he would
withdraw the resolution. (Cheers.)
Dr. RITCHIE attempted to address the meeting, but was
put down by loud cries of " Chair," " Order," and " No,
no." _

The Rev. G. ARMSTRONG thanked the meeting for not
having adopted the resolution, and he trusted they would now
become a perfectly anti-denominational meeting.
The CHAIRMAN then adjourned the meeting until four
o'clock. _ _

At four o'clock the conclave again assembled. The chair
was taken by the Rev. Mr. ATKINS. The auditory did not
much exceed the number collected in the morning, and very
little interest was excited either within the walls of the Town-
hall or outside.

The Rev. Mr. SPENCER, the chairman of the executive
committee, briefly addressed the meeting, observing that
they were assembled as a jury to try a particular question.
They had heard that trade in Manchester was dead, and
they hai come to hold an inquest on it. As men loving fair-
ness, they should call a counsel to their bar, who should be
heard on the subject of the corn laws, and, if it were neces-
sary, he should have the privilege of producing a witness
from America or elsewhere. He concluded by moving,
" That Mr. Cobden, M.P., be permitted to address them on
the subject of the repeal of the corn laws." (Cheers.)
Mr. COBDEN then delivered a long speech on the evils of
the corn laws, and argued that the removal of all protective
duties would benefit the country generally.
After this several ministers, from various parts of the
country. addressed the meeting ; every evil that presented
itself to their imaginations being attributed to the operation
of the corn laws.

The Earl of DUCIE, who was present, then delivered him-
self of a heavy speech against the agricultural interest, and
the proceedings terminated at half-past nine.
On Wednesday and yesterday the " conference" carried
on its work ; but we really do not think the proceedings worth
reporting. The discussions on prayer was by far the best
part of the whole.
As a specimen of the fairness of the "Jury" as the confer-
ence denominate themselves, it ought to be known, that Dr.
Sleigh, an agent of the Society for the Protection of Agricul-
ture, applied to be beard in defence of the corn laws, but no
reply was vouchsafed by this body of soi disant lovers of fair
play.

MEDICAL HINTS FOR THE PEDESTRIAN.

MUSCULAR EXERCISE IS CONDUCIVE TO LONGEVITY

(No. III.)

A word or two on points not quite indifferent to the person
who wishes to do all things well, and after a salutary fashion.
We should recommend Col. Shaw's early start and pre-
vious breakfast ; and cocoa or coffee, with meat or ens, is
better than tea to walk upon. Tea comes in with better
grace for the fag end of the day—after dinner.
It is not well to drive dinner too late. Though circum-
stances must often have the principal meal under their sway,
yet, where practicable, a dinner of plain animal food, about
three or tour o'clock, is best. This will be generally before
all the day's work is done, and such is not amiss ; for after
the first process of digestion is pretty well over (usually
occupying about an hour after the repast), the body is not
indisposed to some reasonable further exercise, if the party
be in health ; and half-a-dozen miles will be done cheerily,
though not at quite the same quick pace as the morning part.
This is a pleasant division of the day's task, and by no means
hurtful. Perhaps the hungry traveller, about this period,
will feel most interest in those excellent lines in Croker's
" Legends of Killarney" :

" Quam pulchra sunt ova
Cum alba et nova
In stabulo scite legunter,
Et a Margery bells,
Quce festiva puella!
Pinguis lardicum frustis cognuntur.
" Ut belles in prato
Aprico et lato
Sub sole tam late renident,
Ova tosta in mensa
Mappa bene extensa
Nitidissima lance consident."
The translation of which hath been most elegantly and fairly
rendered in the same celebrated authority :

" 0 'tis eggs are a treat,
When, so white and so sweet,
From under the manger they 're taken,
And by fair Margery,
Och ! 'tis she 's full of glee,
They are fried with fat rashers of bacon.
" Just like daisies all spread
O'er a broad sunny mead,
In the sunbeams so beauteously shining,
Are fried eggs well displayed
On a dish, when we've laid
The cloth, and Are thinking of dining."
A glass of beer, ale, or porter during dinner, with a couple
glasses of wine, or a tumbler of spirits and cold water, is
best in our opinion, where the party takes anything
stronger than Adam's ale. Hot water, with wine or
spirits, if you have to turn out into the air again
is bad, as it renders you more obnoxious to catching cold,
but with cold water, and in moderation, we believe
even a glass of brandy is innocent of many counts of the in-
dictment foraged up by teetotalism ! Those who relish a
cigar will put in this supererogation, of course, now and again,
perhaps, before bed-time, after tea. There is a medical ob-
jection to cigar smoking in the morning, whilst doing the
main stroke of your day, because, as a narcotic (though so
mild a one that we have on such excursions indulged at times
ourself), it depresses the system when you want all the steam
you can muster. It may be conceded, perhaps, as an accom-
plishment ornamental to the day's labour ; but it is not good
when at hard work. As to dining, don't set to and eat the
moment you arrive : wait a quarter of an hour. Tea is ex-
cellent to refresh you at the close of matters, and provided it
be not driven too close upon retiring to rest ; for if this be
the case, and it be brewed strong, its most usual effect is to
banish for hours after that crown of the pedestrian's labours
—" balmy sleep."
Finally, whether our pedestrian choose or not to wind-up
with a night-cap of negus, need we add that early rising (and
hard walking) deserves early rest ; and so we will attend him
to his charming little bedroom, with a modest window,
through whose crystal panes, perhaps, come streaming in the
bonnie smiling beams of the bright harvest moon, and, as
they struggle across the neatly carpeted floor, and just reach-
ing the snug little white dimity bed, in the centre of the
room, they tall upon the dazzling snow-white counterpane
with a spell only felt in the country's " stilly night." If one
pencil ray of that lovely moonbeam stray onwards to the bed's
head, and enable him to spell the grateful invitation of the
downy pillow, we will read aloud, for the reader's benefit and
' parting sympathy, the lines over which he has already fallen
asleep :

" To all and each a fair goodnight,
And rosy dreams, and slumbers light !"
am, Mr. Editor, your obedient humble servant,
Liverpool, August 3, 1841. A WALKER

RELIEVING THIRST.-A correspondent, signing himself

•
" A Pedestrian," has, in doing me the honour to notice ap-
provingly these letters, expressed his fears lest the plan
recommended by Colonel Shaw for remedying the evils of
thirst, viz., by plunging the legs into water or wetting them
should be fraught with danger; and he states that his expe-
rience has taught him that rinsing the mouth with cold
spring water, and the use of a soft tooth brush, is refreshing
and quenching to the thirst, without the dangeror other evils
attendant on the swallowing part of the business. I can only
say that this rinsing is very good and unexceptionable where
practicable—only that where the rinsing can be put in prac-
tice the temptation to the swallowing presents itself; and I
think there are few minds strong enough to resist a moderate

pull at a sparkling glass of cold spring water under pressure
of thirst. Now with Colonel Shaw's plan, undrinkable, un-
usable, stagnant muddy pools will afford a relief, free from
any great amount of risk, providing the immersion of the
legs and feet be not too suddenly done or too much pro-
longed. The rule may be safely laid down that this experi-
ment is free from harm, if practised for a moment or two
only, or as I would prefer by the plunging of the legs in and
out of the water two or three times, and no more, so as to
anticipate that general refrigeration of the body which is re-
cognised by a feeling of chill, and which is, I admit, the
point where danger could and would set in, whereby the
balance of the circulation is destroyed, and congestion of the
vascular (circulating) system is on the eve of taking place it}
some important organ of the body—determined by the corn'
parative weakness of the various organs towards the one
with the least vital tone—in other words, the weakest.
Whilst I have thus acknowledged the possible danger, and
even attended to its mode of sitting in, so as to place the pe-
destrian on his guard, I do maintain that if he will take the
rule just broached, viz., to beware of the chill (not here
only, but under all cooling indulgencies) for a guide, he will.
be ordinarily safe in the practice of this, when the nature of
the waters resorted to may be such as to put a stop to the
rinsing altogether, unless be have the limited taste of the
esquimeaux.
If any other point in my letters strikes Pedestrian' as
worthy of, or calling for, his animadversions, I shall esteem
it a favour if he or any other person will take the trouble to
remark upon such.

The total number of deaths in the metropolis, during the
week ending Saturday, the 7th of August, was 759, (males
377, females 3820 while the weekly average during the three
preceding years amounted to 926.

Oysters are such a favourite dish in France, that a native
of that country often begins his dinner by swallowing half a
hundred of them in a raw state.

®The address in the commons on the royal speech will, it is
reported, be moved, or seconded, by Mr. M. Phillips, owe of
the members for Manchester.—Globe.

TIMES.—BiII of fare of the entertainment
given by Sir Watkins Williams Wynn, at Wyunstay, April
19, 1770.—" Thirty bullocks, 1 do. roasted whole, 50 hogs,
50 calves, 80 sheep, 11 lambs, 70 pigs, 51 guinea fowls, 37
turkeys,l2 turkey poults, 8 capons, 25 pea fowls, 300 chickens,
360 fowls, 96 ducklings, 48 rabbits, 15 snipes, 1 leveret, 5
bucks, 4211b5. of salmon, 30 brace of tench, 40 brace of
carp, 36 pike, 60 doz. trout, 108 flounders, 109 lobsters, 96
crabs, 10 quarts of shrimps, 200 craw fish, 60 barrels of
pickled oysters, 1 hogshead of rock oysters, 20 quarts of
oysters for sauce, 166 hams, 100 tongues, 125 plum-puddings,
101 apple pies, 104 pork pies, 30 beef pies, 34 rice-puddings,
7 venison pies, 60 raised pies, 80 tarts, 30 pieces of cut pastry,
24 pound cakes, 60 savoy cakes, 30 sweetmeat cakes, 144 ice
creams, 18,000 eggs, 150 gallons of milk, 60 quarts of cream,
30 bushels potatoes, 6,000 bulidles asparagus, 290 potties of
French beans, 39 dishes of green peas, 12 cucumbers, 70
hogsheads of ale, 120 dozen of ale. There was a very great
quantity of brandy, rum, and shrub. Salt butter cost £36,
besides fresh ditto, rock-work shapes, landscapes in jelly,
blanchmange, an immense quantity of pastry, and one large
cask of ale which held 26 hogsheads. Three coaches full of
cooks were sent from London on the above occasion. It is
thought that there were at the least 15,000 people at dinner
in Sir Watkin's Park at the same time.
ABSURDITIES.—To attempt to borrow money on the ple
of extreme poverty.—To make yourself generally disagree-
able,asome
and wonder no one will visit you,
cold palpable advantage by it.—To sit shivering
Tno suppose the
be-
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miserable salaries, and wonder
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make your servants tell lies for
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make tetoy your be angry
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vote for a candidate at an election because be
shakes hands with yourwife and child and admires the
baby.

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Daughter of Zion I thou hest wandered long
Amid the trackless mazes of the wild :
But thy return hath been with joy and song.
And blissful foretastes have thy path beguiled ?
And, as the rose, the wilderness hath smiled.
To tine its store of fragrant odours bringing ;
And, as of old, for Hagar's dying child,
Pure rills have gush'd amid the desert springing,
And o'er the parched waste a cooling moisture flinging

Daughter of Zion ! lone and desolate
Thy house hath been left to thee—but the sigh
Of those who long have mourned thy sad estate
Hath risen soft as incence-cloud, on high,
And been remembered. Who are those who fly
As doves to their own windows ? Not the foam
Of intervening billows, nor the sky
Of other climes, can chase the thought of home
From the sad wanderer's heart, where'er his feet may roam

Daughter of Zion ! o'er each distant isle
Brood the soft plumes of• God's eternal Dove ;
Earth's fruitful breast, and ocean's countless smile,
Welcome the day of universal love.
Now righteousness hath looked from heaven above,
And Israel's countless hosts no more forsaken,
On to their land, as billowy surges move,
Though long by scorn and whirling tempests shaken,
Once more in Salem's courts the note of praises waken.

Daughter of Zion !
The banished exi

The rans

And eartl

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Of morning do
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Him, who his life h

thy Redeemer reigns—
e seeks his native shore ;

ar of silent eve doth gleam)•
given, his Israel to redeem

THE DUKE OF LANCASTER'S YEOMANRY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANCHESTER CHRONICLE
Worsley, August
_lO, 1841.

SIR,—I have addressed a letter to the of the Stan-
dard, London evening paper, which adverts to a paragraph
in one of its leading articles, on the subject of my supposed
levy of an armed force in flits county. That letter contains,
perhaps, an explanation sufficient for those who are willing
to receive one ; but when it was written, I had not enjoyed
an opportunity of reading the statements to which the Stan-
dard adverted, and I could then form no conception of the
extent of error into which the imagination of the authors of
those statements had led them. I find also that, in some
respects, those who have undertaken my defence, and who
are erroneously described as having done so under instruc-
tions from me, have been as much mistaken in matters of
fact as my assailants. On collecting these publications, I
find myself charged with various offences, some against com-
mon sense and discretion, and others against the law and
constitution of the country, and with intentions of a murder-

ous and bloodthirsty description.
The first and most distinct charge is, that I have, on my
own authority, raised an armed force. Are the editors of
papers in large circulation, and the correspondents whose
letters they admit, so ignorant as not to know that I should
be immediately prosecuted by the attorney-general for such
a proceeding, and that my armed force, raised without autho-
rity from the Sovereign, procured through her ministers,
would be instantly suppressed by proclamation? One of the
said correspondents, in the Manchester Times, describes me,
further, as having called into re-existence a corps which had
been dissolved in virtue of the decease of the late Sovereign.
Before he attributed to me this feat of creative power, he
might have ascertained that the armed force of this country,
of any denomination, is not, like the parliament, dissolved on
the death of the Sovereign. It happens that, in the case of
the Lancashire Yeomanry, that corps has always borne, and
therefore retains, the title of the Duke of Lancaster's Yeo-
manry, and that no Duke of Lancaster now exists. But that
) effect upon its continuance or organize-
title, it has never ceased to exist from its

circumstance h

establishment many years ago.
lam described as having made myself its colonel. It has
no colonel, because, consisting only of three troops, it is not,
by the rules of the War-office, entitled to a commandant of
higher rank than a major, and it is to that command and
rank I have succeeded, on a vacancy, by permission of the
Queen, procured as usual through the recommendation of
the lord-lieutenant. My son has filled another vacant and
subaltern commission, and after all these formidable proceed-
ings, I believe there are still some officers and many privates
wanting to complete the corps up to the establishment allowed
and provided for by the government. It was under these
circumstances that some 40 or 50 of my neighbours and te-
nants expressed to me a wish to form themselves into an ad-
ditional troop, in the hope of being commanded by my son.
The offer was made without any previous knowledge or sug-

gestion on my part.
I am described as having done that which I have not done,
on communication with Sir Robert Peel. I have had no
communication, direct or indirect, with him whatever in the

matter.
I have given elsewhere the reason why I have not taken
any one of the steps which would have been necessary
towards raising the additional troop I am-accused of having
levied. I repeat, however, my confession and assurance,
that if the application of those who, without any suggestion
of my own, wished to form one, had reached me earlier, I
should have had no hesitation in recommending their appli-
cation to the existing government's consideration. I should
have done so on the grounds, first, that I could strongly de-
pend on the loyalty and good conduct of those who made it ;
and next, that the establishment of the force in Lancashire
is far inferior to that of any county I know of similar im-
portance. I do not believe that the corps, at the annual
exercise last June, mustered above 150 men, including offi-
cers. I have served in the Staffordshire Yeomanry when it
mustered between 700 and 800. In Yorkshire, Cheshire, and
Warwickshire, I believe this force is on a similar footing. It
is certainly possible that the present government, or any other
might not consider those circumstances sufficient to authorize
an increase—opinions of public and private individuals may
differ as to the value and efficiency of this description of force
and circumstances of time and place may affect the expedi-
ency of adding to its numbers. My own opinion is, that the
force is a valuable one, and ought to be encouraged within
reasonable limits ; and that, whether to be increased or not,
resident gentlemen do well to undertake the command of ex-
isting corps, though the task may, under circumstances of
extreme, and, I trust, rare occurrence, be responsible and
invidious. No man in his senses could think it a desirable
thing per se to command a detachment of yeomanry in a civil
conflict, which lam said to anticipate. lam quite spre,
however, that if the gentlemen of England are always to be
contemplating and shrinking beforehand from such disagreea-
ble possibilities, the interests of the country at large will
suffer with their own. I will, however, at once admit, that
if the apprehensions of imminent disturbance which I am
supposed to entertain had ever entered my head; the raising
on my own estate at such a moment a single troop of yeo-
manry, is not a measure I should have taken for my own
protection or that of others, and that I should at least have
waited for the fullest sanction of the existing government be-
fore I for a moment entertained such a proposal from others.
As it is, the proposal has originated exclusively in the desire
of some friends and neighbours to serve under my son, and I
pledge myself has had no reference whatever to any particular
circumstances of the time. On these grounds, 1 repeat, I
should not have hesitated, at a proper period for such appli-
cation, &c., before the estimates for the year are made up,
to state this mighty matter in all its bearings to her Ma-
jesty's present ministry, who, should they have thought fit
to reject the offer of the parties, would assuredly have done
so on better grounds than the strange and unfounded suppo-
sitions to which that offer has given rise.
I am not desirous to load your columns with a disquisition
or eulogy on the yeomanry force, but I am tempted to allude
to one of its attributes which I consider a merit ; that, like
malty other institutions in this country, it brings together for
a common and legitimate purpose men of various politics.
I have served myself in the Staffordshire corps under Lords
Hatherton and Lichfield. The latter, I believe, still com-
mands it, and promotes its efficiency to the utmost by his
example and influence. That among the officers in general
my own persuasion in politics may preponderate I think pro-
bable, but in a county where I occasionally reside, Surrey,
Lord Lovelace commands the yeomanry. I see that the
Queen's escort of Hertfordshire Yeomanry, on her Majesty's
recent visit to Passanger, was commanded by Lord Cowper.
If I mistake not, I have seen addresses moved or seconded
in parliament very lately, under Whig administrations, by
gentlemen in yeomanry uniforms. At the last annual exercise
of the West Riding corps, Mr. Stuart Wortley happened
to be mounted on the horse of a brother officer ; the lender
mAa Lord Milton. his announced antagonist for the expected

election.
I believe some of the Blue and. Yellow farmers present
could hardly understand this. I do, and value it.
I really hope that my friends of the whig and radical press,
whom I have usually found fair though uncompromising op-
ponents, will reduce their imaginations to a peace establish-
ment ; condemn the yeomanry, if they please, or me for join-
ing it, but in common justice acquit me of the long-sighted,
sinister, and bloodthirsty intentions which I am hold to say
are not consistent with my general conduct or reputation.
At all events, let them acquit Sir Robert Peel, whom I am
ready to expurgate upon oath of all participation in, or
knowledge of, the matter.—l remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, F. EGERTON.

CHURCHWARDENS OF NEW CHURCHES

The following letter has been addressed by the poor law.
commissioners to a gentleman resident at New
answer to an application, the nature and object of which
will be best collected from the letter itself :
" Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset House,
August 10, 1841.
" JURISDICTION OF THE CHURCHWARDENS OF A NEW

CHURCH IN BEARD TOWNSHIP.
" Sir,—The poor law
of your letter of thecrdlmissioners acknowledge the re-
ceiptbe informed whether the instant, in which you request to
churchwardens of a new govern-
ment church, lately erected within the township of Beard,
have any parochial jurisdiction way or form whatever.
" The commissioners presume anythat the church has been
erected under the the 58th Geo. 111.,
c. 45—an act for building churches in by
ypulous parishes. If
that supposition be correct, they observe, , that the 31st sec-
rvdeivision of any parish
sec-
tion of that statute enacts, thattlsiee
not in any way to
into districts for ecclesiastical purposes
affect a parish so divided in any otiierisrespeet than the act
s ; but the original parish is, for all the
3r, and as regards parochial rates, to re-
in law a parish to all intents, as if no such
division into separate parishes had been made. duties
of churchvvardens appointed under the act are deofiangelFolin the
73d section, and extend only to the care and ma
the church erected for the district for which they are management
pointed ; such churchwardens, t:ierefore, have no jurisdiction
whatever out of the district, and in the district the jurisdiction
is exclusively of an ecclesiastical nature.—Signt ned, by
taryorder
of the board, " George Coode, Assista Seere.,,

ntinuc

Frogmore, which would have fallen to the crown
with on the
death of the Princess Sophia, has, by arrangen3ent her
royal highness, been already added to the domains of Wind-
sor Castle. Twenty acres of the three hundred of which the
estate consists are to form a kitchen garden for the palace
and, altogether, £20,000 will be laid out upon the intended
tribute to this valuable acquisition.