The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

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tint he has become hunchbacked.
GENIUS unexerted is no more genius than a bushel
t• acorns is a forest of oaks.
A GOOD WORKMAN WANTED.—He must be able to
rivet the attention," must understand how to join " a
broken rest," be able to " sharpen the understanding,"
and to bring rambling argumentsff "to the point." Any
" old file" having a few wise saws," will probably suit.
Persons used to " vice":need not apply.
EVERY FAMILY at Matagorda, Texas, can have a salt
water bath on their own premises. Under the city, at a
depth of about eight feet, is a stratum vein of saline
water, and clear as rock crystal. Almost every house-
holder has dug a well, inserted a chain pump, and erected
a small bath house in his own garden.
CHARACTERISTIC CANT OF THE AGE.—We live in an
age of universal cant, and I swallow all your shams on
the easy condition that you swear to mine ; and whenever
I hear people praising the present age, and extolling its
wonderful progress, and all that, I just think of all the
quackery I see advertised in the newspapers, and sigh
heartily to myself at our degradation ! Why, man the
" Patent Pills, for the cure of Cancer," and the Ag.ape-
mone, would disgrace the middle ages. And it is not a
little remarkable that England—so prone to place herself
at the head of civilisation—is exactly the very metropolis
of all this humbug !—.Dodd Family Abroad.
YOUNG PEOPLE have an astonishing craze for every-
thing that can bear the name of multum in parvo :—a
knife with a dozen blades of different design ; a stick that
is at once a staff, a whistle, a telescope, a toasting-fork,
an eel-spear, and a yard-measure ; a pencilcase that has as
many contrivances in it as there are colours in a pencil of
light ; a penholder, a toothpick, a seal, a sovereign-guage,
and a letter-weight; last, not least, a theory of universal
appliance. The world is all before them ; they have much
to learn ; they entertain a vast admiration for the man
who can supply them with quintessences.—Hogg's In-
structor.
CUVIER AND SATAN.—In the Gentleman's Magazine,
for this month, an article called "Traits of the Trappists,"
and bearing the signature of " John Doran," concludes
with a characteristic anecdote of envier. He once saw in
his sleep the popular representation of Satan advancing
towards him, and threatening to eat him. " Eat me I'
exclaimed the philosopher, as he examined the fiend with
the eye of a naturalist, and then added, " Horns ? hoofs ?
Needn't be afraid of him !" This might
'he threats of some of Sato- •

snd domestic prosperity. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
ADVICE TO A BRIDE.-I beg to remind my new daugh- SIR,-As a shareholder in one of the above undertak-
es ter that the husband has in his daily avocations a thousand ings, and having leisure to think over their affairs, parti-
iie understanding," elements of disturbance to which the wife is an utter cularly respecting the long-pending dispute, as it has been
arguments "to the point." Any stranger ; and it will be her privilege, and her title to the called the Battle of the Ganges," with all the accompa-
--ke saws, will probably suit. respect of all whose respect is worth having, to make his nying rival projects with the view of abstracting each
-1,. own fireside the most attractive place in the universe for I other's traffic, and competing fares when the lines come
--, have a salt the calm repose of a weary body or excited mind. into competition, which has and is still causing both coin-
-at a VITALITY OF EGGS.-It is well known that eggs will panies to spend every year such a heap of money, thereby
keep a considerable time in milk of lime or other means causing diminished or stationary dividends, when, from
of entirely excluding the atmosphere : and we have an ac- : the extent of traffic increasing so enormously, the share-
count of some, dug out of an old wall of a sacristy near holders would have every right to expect at least one per
Tag° Maggiore, quite sound after having been encased cent. additional dividend in both undertakings, lam led
there 300 years. It becomes then a curious inquiry, how to conclude that, so long as human nature is what it is,
long the productive vitality of the eggs can exist in this no settlement can ever be arrived at between both boards
state of atmospheric exclusion-whether they retain it, of directors, so long as jealousy, avarice, and ambition in-
like toads, snakes, and cold-blooded animals, sometimes fluence the actions of fallen man, .and unfortunately the
found in solid stone ? Can any of your readers give or exercise of those feelings under other names and motives
refer us to any instances, respondent to the question ?- is considered necessary for the protection and interests of
J. Prideaux. each body of shareholders.
THE MISAPPLICATION of English words by foreigners is What, then, is to be done, in order to give the share-
often very ludicrous. A German friend saluted us once holders an equivalent and just return for their capital
with, " Oh, good-bye, good-bye"-meaning of course, embarked, and to secure the public safe and expeditious
" How d'ye do ?" It is said that Dr. Chalmers once en- travelling? It is impossible the shareholders can have
tertained a distinguished guest from Switzerland, whom the power and influence effectually to control the executive
he asked if he would be helped to kippered salmon. The in every particular,-any gross mismanagement could be
foreign divine asking the meaning of the uncouth word checked; but, where a difference of opinion exists amongst
kippered, and was told that it meant preserved. The the members of both companies, the majority, no doubt,
poor man in a public prayer soon after offered a petition desirous of equity and peace ; but how to bring together
that the distinguished divine might long be " kippered to that majority, scattered as they may be over the globe,
the Free Church of Scotland.' a difficulty insurmountable presents itself, evidently prov-
A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT.-At the recent cap- ing that the shareholders in such mighty concerns, as a
ture of Amoy the four city gates were thrown open. body, cannot accomplish the desired end.
Through three of them the " patriot army" entered, and To the Legislature alone we must look, to solve our dif-
took possession of the town, while the fourth was left open ficulties, determine our relative positions, and by their
for the accommodation of the Tartar officers, in case they sovereign power put an end to the present state of things,
should be of opinion that- I not less injurious to the public from the insecurity of tra-
He who fights and rur.s away, yelling, than detrimental, in a pecuniary point of view, to
May live to fight another day. 1 the shareholders.
The convenience of this arrangement so forcibly struck the I would, therefore, recommend a petition to both houses
Mandarins, that'they evacuated the town without further of parliament drawn up, embodying the matters in dispute,
ado. praying them to define the extent or limits of the broad
STATE OP SCULPTURE IN ENGLAND.-It has been said, gauge, establishing some fixed rules for amalgamation, so
writes " a Working Sculptor," that sculpture can scarcely as to embrace the much-vexed question of the Shrewsbury
sustain itself in England, that it is an art not suited to lines, laying down some final regulations respecting the
the English taste, and which never can flourish here. promotion of new or competing lines, in order to avoid the
be made applicable to tii ~enings 01 ‘,...... _ -i s That it is at a very low ebb is very evident from the enormous expenses (legal and parliamentary) incurred
friends in the Popish community levelled against the Pro- amount of talent and labour in the market unemployed, very session, regulate the rates of fares where competition
testant Church, which knows, also, how to value their or not employed as it ought to be. Much is said about art exists, and so place these two great companies in a friendly
menaces.-Church and State Gazette. education, and training men to a high pitch of perfection, ' footing, for the benefit of the country. Such petition to
A DAGUERREOTYPE OF SYDNEY. - The streets of so that they may be able to carry out designs properly ; , lie for signature of the shareholders of both companies at
London are said to be paved with gold. The streets of but the matter is not considered with that regard to truth various convenient places; presented next session and sup.
Sydney are slabbered with slush. The principal thorough- and right which should influence our reasonings. What ported by members favourable to railway interests.
fares are in a most filthy state, and the pavements are still is the use of stocking the market with that which no one The railway committee of last session, in their report,
worse, because, besides being filthy, they are absolutely will purchase ? Where are your buyers of art-labour ?Do condemns competition as injurious to the public, and the
dangerous. In the parts where there are pavements, they exist in sufficient numbers, and do they know how to Legislature have thrown out all new bills for a mixed
those pavements are generally in a very dilapidated state, buy in the best market ? In a word, have our aristocracy gauge, and bills for the extension of the broad gauge
whilst other portions of the pavement are repaired with a a sufficient knowledge of art to enable them to judge northward, so that their opinion on those points has been
slippery substance, on which people may be seen sliding whether a piece of sculpture be good or bad? I see enough expressed ; but whether the President of the Board of
and slipping, unless they prefer going into the street to of them to know that very few of them have this knowledge. Trade intends bringing
in a bill founded upon such report
avoid the dangers of the footpaths. The attention of the What can be a better proof of this than the fact that or not, still his hands should be strengthened by such a
proper authorities requires to be attracted to the state of hundreds of figures are yearly imported from the continent, petition.
the lightning conductor at the powder magazine on the and eagerly bought, which are a disgrace to the maker and Hoping, if this should meet the eye of any of those who
Flagstaff-hill, in Fort-street. The conductor is led over the buyer Schools should be established take a more active part in the matter, that it may have
the roof of the magazine, being supported upon several for the education of the sons of the aristocracy in some consideration and be the means of inducing the di-
small chocks of wood, and at the gable end, facing Miller's the true principles of art, which principles are to be rectors of both, or either company, to lead the way in such
Point, the chocks have fallen away, so that the rod actually found in Greek art and in the works of Flaxman. When a step in an energetic and determined manner,
lays upon the gable end of the building, which might have they have formed their taste they will find that there are I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ' H. H.
the effect, in a heavy lightning storm, to set the magazines men to execute designs in England, and that she stands at Liverpool, Sth September, 1853.
on fire-a blow up not to be desired by the residents in the head of the world so far as sculpture is concerned.- -
Fort-street. Altogether the way in which the rod is laid The Builder. .INION
along the chocks seems a very rude idea in these days of HAYDON PAINTING CLARKSON, THE P
hisniece n wife - -
SRA KSPEARE PILGRIMS.-A curious statement has just looking much better than when in town, Playford is a
been prepared of the number and nations of the several fine old building ; 1593 the last date, but must he much VIL-RELIGION IN THE SENATE.-" The only memorial
visitors to Shakspeare's house, at Stratford-upon-Avon. older they say. It is surrounded bY a moat, with running of religious legislation during the session is the successful
The statement has been compiled from the signatures of water. Clarkson has a head like a patriarch, and in his effort of Mr. LUCAS to ensure religious attendance upon
the parties themselves; and for the period from the Ist of prime must have been a noble figure. He was very happy Catholics in English prisons:,
to see me ; but there is a nervous irritability which is Such is the triumphant exclamation of the Mtion-and
2111,2y6,
;18a5n1d,
ofto these,
011ingolaf Andpriful,rnlBissh2ed, the is is
58,
peculiar. He lives too much with adorers, especially the fact, if fact it be, is a sufficient cause of triiph to the
Ireland 9, United States 444, East Indies 1, Australia 3, women. As he seemed impatient at my staying beyond Nation and every other enemy of Protestant truth. But
3, a certain time, I went to bed, and wished him good night. can it be possible the Legislature of this great Christian
Brazils 6,
dGemalifolrEinia, Ch2a,nnFerlanlcselan4ds,
Nle,wH
ZealandungarY 1, I slept well, and the next morning walked in the garden country has passed a whole session in deliberating on and
Italy 3, Newfoundland 1, South America 1, Russia 2, Swe- and fields. He breakfasted on milk and bread, (alone) providing for the wants of the people, and yet has done
den 1, Mauritius 1, Cape of Good Hope 2, Canada 1, Hol- i and I breakfasted with Mrs. T. Clarkson up-stairs, I nothing whatever to count4ract the heathenism which is
land 3, Finland 1, Bagdad 1, Madeira 1, Belgium 1, Austria i
, promised to sketch him at ten, and at ten I was ready. admitted to exist in all our large towns ? The vigilance
4. For a like period, from the Ist of May, 1852, to the When all was ready, the windows fitted, he said, of a most watchful foe to our religion has failed to detect
30th of April, 1853, the return shows a slight increase, the ,/ Call in the maids," In came six servant girls, and any effort of the kind, its only act being a law compelling
total being 2,821 :-England 1,898, Scotland 4, Ireland 14, washerwomen (it being washing-day.) "I am deter- Protestant clergymen to retire from the cells of Romanist
I
United States 306, Australia and New Zealand 8, South mined they shall see the first stroke." In they all prisoners ; and inviting the attendance of Popish priests,
America 4, France 12, Egypt 1, Switzerland 5, Cape of ; crowded, timidly wondering. Clarkson said, " There who will teach the criminal to look to himself for pardon
Good Hope, 1, Germany 8, East Indies 3, Hungary 2, I now, that is the first stroke; come again in an hour, and rather than to God, whose commands he has broken-and
Islands of South Pacific, 1, Russia 3, Canada 5, Silesia 1, ' you shall see the last !" We now began to talk. He to respect the laws of Pope Pius rather than the statutes
California 1, Turkey 1, China 2, West Indies 1, Spain 3. said, " When Christophe's wife and daughters, all accom- of Queen Victoria. Whether this is legislation befitting a
Jonathan, it will be seen, considering the distance at which pushed women, were brought or introduced by him to Protestant Parliament or no, let the people of England
he lives from the poet's house, is about as great a Shaks- Wilberforce, and others in high life, there was a sort of consider. If the boasted strength of a coalition Govern-
peare worshipper as John Bull himself.-Athenceum. shrink at admitting them into society. I told him I meat is made apparent in such miserable weaknesg as this,
FOREIGN COMPLAISANCE.-Ask what you will of a ' believed it, because when I resolved to place the African in so fatal a compromise of the most momentous interests
foreigner, be it an inquiry into the financial condition of lin front of the picture, on the same level as the Euro- of the people, it behoves us to pray that Her Majesty may
his country, its military resources, prison discipline, law, peans, there was the same delicacy ; but I got him, and be endued with a little more of the firmness of her royal
or religion, he'll never acknowledge his inability to an- I put him in at once. Shame prevented remonstrance.-- grandfather, and choose men of right principles for her
swer, but give you a full and ready reply with facts, dates,) Life of Haydon, by Taylor. advisers.
and data, all in most admirable order. At first you are 1 A PRIMEVAL TREE.-The Boston Courier has the VIII.-RAILWAYACCIDENTS.-IS it not possiblethatthe
overjoyed with such ready sources of knowledge. You following curious, although somewhat hyperbolical ac- principle of mutual insurance could be advantageously ap -
flatter yourself that even with the most moderate oppor- ' count of a tree lately felled about 20 miles from a place plied to cases of accidental injury or death on a railway, in
tunities you cannot fail to learn much ; by degrees, how- : called Murphy's Camp, in California :-" It measures at such a manner as to afford at once a relief to the railway
ever, you discover errors in your statistics, and at last, the ground 98 feet in circumference, and 85 feet 10 from companies and a compensation to sufferers ? Suppose the
you come to find out that your accomplished friend, too ' the earth, which size it holds for 100 feet. It is 300 feet various railway companies were to form themselvesmon fund
into a
polite to deny you a reasonable gratification, had gone to high, though the top has been broken off. There are mutual insurance company, paying into a com
the pains of inventing a code, a church, and a coinage for many trees in this vicinity higher than that, from 50 to some small sum per head for every passenger-a less, sum
your sole use and benefit, but without the slightest inten- 170 feet in circumference. It is estimated that this tree than one penny would probably be sufficient-and binding
tion of misleading, for it never once entered his head that would square 25 feet at the butt, and consequently a cut themselves to pay to any individual injured, or to the
you could possibly believe him ! I know it will sound of 12 feet in length would make 90,000 feet of lumber. representatives of any individual killed through the
badly ; lam well aware of the shock it will give to many IA party of men are now at work in taking off the bark for negligence or default of any railway official, such sum as
a nervous system ; but for all that I will not blink the !50 feet in height, in sections, so that it can be put together would be deemed a fair and reasonable compensation, the
declaration-which I desire to record as formally and as ' again. It is about one foot in thickness, and will be sent amount to be decided by arbitrators appointed in the
flatly as lam capable of expressing it-which is, that of to the World's Fair, where it will be put up, and have the usual way. Many advantages would, it is conceived, be
one hundred statements an Englishman accepts and re- California specimens exhibited in it. Thirty feet in denied from such an association :-1. The public would
lies upon abroad, as matter of fact, ninety-nine are un- I diameter is quite a room, large enough to hold political travel with greater satisfaction, as compensation for injury
true. Full fifty being lies by premeditation, thirty by ig- : mass meetings in just before a presidential election. It is would be offered them, instead of having to he fought for
norance, ten by accident or inattention, and the remainder, I estimated by those who have counted some of its rings, through a tedious and expensive and uncertain course of
if there be a balance, for I'm bad at figures, from any that the above-named tree is not less than 6,500 years law. 2. Any delinquent company of directors who would
other cause you like.-Dodd Family Abroad. 1 old, or 500 years older than this world, according to the deliberately hazard the safety of travellers, from a parsi-
INTEREST IN FAVOUR OF YOUTH.-Never at any for- vulgar notion. It must have been something of a tree monious desire to secure a good dividend, would have the
mer period of our history has the child-life been magnified. when Adam and Eve went round to name the productions disposition checked by remonstrance from all the other
into such importance in the pages of literature, and in the of the forest. Can any one (the American editor con- companies. 3. No company would be so seriously affected,
eyes of thinking men. Look at the last novel : the first tinues) read this story without indignation at such a even by a great calamity, as to cause any very great de-
volume is a minute analysis of childish experience. Look ' stupid act of vandalism ? A tree which, from its descrin- pression in the value of its shares. Let us hope that some
at the innumerable schemes of education ; think of the ; tion, must have been one of the noblest works of nature- scheme of this kind will be adopted.
esteem in which the teacher of youth is now held; think ' the wonder of the vegetable world-the pride and glory
of the host of books composed expressly for children, ser- ! of the American forest-murdered-we can find no other
mons for schools, manuals of devotion ; the man who ' appropriate word-that a basket-full of chips may be sent
overthrew ancient history, writing Greek legends for his to a show-shop ! ' Any man who could have a hand in so
grandson, the most popular author of the day penning a , wanton an act of barbarism, deserves to have his shin-
" Child's History of England ;" a veritable Archbishop 1 bones made into button-moulds and sold for three cents
inditing "Easy Lessons on Reasoning," and " Easy Les- I a gross."
sons on Money Matters.' It is the mark of a missionary I'HE Nonmex " CONQUEBT,"-" I think," says Mr. H.
epoch, dissatisfied with the past, and doubtful of the pre- Duesbury, "it can scarcely be called a conquest in the
sent, but having in hope, and better than hope-expecta- usual acceptation of the term, that is, a conquest by a
tion. And no one, certainly no statesman, represents this distinct foreign nation. The early Britons established
tendency more strikingly than Mr. Disraeli. His mind is themselves in Amorica, the subsequent site of Normandy,
singularly well. balanced in the regard which it bestows and the Britons, still under the Romans, established a
alike on the past, the present, and the future. He is ab- colony in Bretagne, the adjoining province, now Brittany.
solutely unrivalled for the intensity of his gaze, and the I The people to whom Normandy was allotted in 918, were
depth of his insight into the secrets of the future. Pro- the same as those to whom Northumbria and E. Anglia
phecy, fortune-telling, astrology,soothsaying-call it what were allotted in 872, and. they
that were invited as mercenaries
you will-this fascinated gazing into the future as into the in 975. Further, it appearsE the nready,
eye of a basilisk, is a part of his oriental heritage ; as, in A.D. 978-1016, married Emma, the sister of Richard, Duke
like manner, also, and as the natural effect of it, is the of Normandy, and aun of the Conqueror
le ; that he fled to
warmth of his interest in the possibilities of youth. Where Normandy, after the D tanish revenge, and ft his wife and
do we find such biographies of youth as in the Hebrew two sons, Edward and Alfred, there ; that after his death,
Scriptures ? It is because youth is in the season of pro- Canute, the Dane, married his widow, who still left her
mise, and because of the many senses in which the child children in Normandy ; that after Canute came the son,
is the father of the man, none is more often true than Edward, (called by the priests the " Confessor," and whose
this, that the achievements of the man are but the schemes dominion he was entirely under,) who had been reared and
of the stripling.-Hogg's Instructor. educated in Normandy, and who brought over Norman
SEVILLE AND ITS INIIA.BITA.NTS.-Seville is situated priests and favourites to succeed the Saxons. (The Saxon
on the banks of the Guadalquiver, in a large plain, whence priests were not over obedient to the Pope the Normans
it derives its name of Hispalis, which, in Carthagenian, were ; so the Pope, after then manner of popes, cur cursed
means a flat piece of ground, if we may believe Arias Harold and blessed his oppot.) He invited
hcous.m.
Montano and Samuel Bockhart. It is a vast, straggling William over to see him, and left him his throne
• rds. keep the great earl quiet ) and shamefully neglected and
town, of very recent date, gay, smiling, and animated, He married the daughter of Earl Godwin, (apparenytly to
and must really appear a charming place to Spaniards. . /3.
uritye betweener
otnhee,
It would be impossible to find a more striking contrast ill-used her ; hence moste earbitlte,srsoanni)
animosity
, catacomb in the open air, on which neglect is after shipwreck on the Norman coast, where he saw
to Cordova The town of Cordova is dead :itis an os- parties ; and Harold's (t
sslioaay asprinkling its white dust ; the few inhabitants you William, who offered him his daughter in marriage and
meet at the corners of the streets look like apparitions swore him, not being able to help himself, on a tub full of
that have mistaken the hour. Seville, on the contrary, is the bones of the saints, (probably taken from the nearest
full of the petulance and busy hum of life ; the sound of shambles or graveyard,) not to attempt the throne of
,aiptv nods over her at every instant of the day ; she I England. William seems to have relied, in fact, on his
consoiaLion OI LIIOSe tl, Ito ...., u..,aapp,ri-4-...... sivtrarss eau& near descent, the will of the -late king, and this
happy.. She enjoys herself, while her sister, Cordova, have scarcely given a name to a 7iiigretabii", River!, gag
wrapt in silence and solitude, appears to be dreaming or district in England ; and, although they introduced their
mournfully of Abdoraman,-of the great captain and all barbarous French in law language, the tongue of England
his departed glories, brilliant meteors in the nights of the (still so called) to this day is essentially Saxon, with a
past, while all she now possesses are ashes. To the great small proportion of British, Celtic, and Latin left by the
disappointment of travellers and antiquarians, whitewash Romans. The Builder.
reigns supreme at Seville ; the houses have a new coat of HOURS OP LABOUR LA very mortifying comparison
it three or four times a year ; this gives them a look of may be made between the daysofactua and of
nominal
cleanness and neatness, but effectually prevents any inves- life, even in the case of the favoured individuals who may
tigation of the remains of the Arabic or Gothic sculptures have attained the statutable age of threescore years and
which formerly adorned the place. Nothing can be less ten. Let us presume that the person in question shall
varied than this network of streets, where the eye sees really be a painstaking, hardworking man, severely intent
but two tints-the indigo of the sky, and the chalky upon discharging what middle-aged gentlemen call the
white of the walls, on which the azure shadows of real business of life. He shall rather transact than enjoy
the neighbouring buildings are thrown ; for in warm existence, and comport himself in every
countries the shadows are blue instead of being grey, so were bound to produce at the nd o;vay asi though he
e
that the objects appear to be lighted up on one side by pointed piece of work. It would scarcely be totyinhisuchaP.
to
the moon, and on the other side by the sun ; the absence, dock off thirty entire years from the tale, for during the
however, of all sombre tints produces a general appearance first twenty years of an average Englishman's existence
of life and gaiety. Doorways closed by iron gates allow he is passed from the nurse to the preparatory school,
you to look through and see the patios ornamented with from this to the grammar-school,
if heand from, this again to
of
his thoughts
e a
columns, mosaic pavement, fountains, flower-pots, shrubs, college ; and during this period,
and pictures. As regards the external architecture, it lad, the most serious occupation
at-
offers no particularly remarkable features ; the houses are tain a competent skill in the concoction of Greek lambics,
rarely more than two or three stories high, and you hardly and an intimate acquaintance with the scansion of
Ari
s
meet with a dozen facades that are interesting in an ar- tophanic choruses, according to the theories of various
tistic point of view. The streets are paved, like those of German illuminati. We allow the ten years before the
all Spanish towns, with small pebbles ; but, on each side, grave for repose and preparation. Forty years remain,
this
there is a kind of pavement consisting of tolerably large although in how few instances it besaid-in
flat stones, on which the crowd walks in single file. If a country at least-that a young man begins to domant
man and woman meet, the man always makes way for the work so early in life as at twenty years of age ? However
woman with that exquisite politeness which is natural to this may be, the forty years soon become twenty on any
Spaniards, even of the very lowest classes. The women reasonable scale of allowance for sleep, daily ablutions,
of Seville quite deserve the reputation for beauty which spells of illness, and so forth. But to return to the
they enjoy ; they are almost all alike, as is always the twenty years of waking life, he is a most remarkable
case in pure races of a well-defined type ; their long eyes, indeed who shall spend but one-third of his waking hnim:
opening to the temples, and fringed with long brown in serious and useful thought. In all probability
lashes, produce an effect of black and white, which is un- who has ever lived has done so much as this • no
man
known in France. When a woman or young girl passes Isaac Newton in the exact sciences-Lord St. Leonard's
Sir
you, she slowly drops her eyelids, and then suddenly opens in conveyancing lore-James Watt in mechanicaulam'earvedn's-
them again, shoots at you a look so searching that you are tions-or Walter Scott in poetry and fiction.
pro-
perfectly unable to bear it, rolls the pupil of her eye, and portion is, in truth, disproportionate ; but still, take
then again drops the lashes over them. The Bay- calculation for what it may be worth, and the prodigiest of
adere Amany, when dancing the Pas des Colombes, was industry and longevity contrive to devote about six years
the only person who could convey the slightest notion of and eight months of actual life to business purposes. Of
the murderous glances which the east has bequeathed to course, we exclude from our reckoning all shams and
Spain ;we have no terms to express this play of the eyes ; make-believes. Sir Isaac Newton, in his half-hour's
the word ojear is wanting in our vocabulary. These saunter under the pleasant lime-groves of Trinity, is hard
glances, which are so full of vivid, sudden brilliancy, and at work, while the man who sits for fourteen hours at a
which almost embarrass strangers, have, however, no par- stretch upon a high stool in an office, frittering away his
titular signification, and are cast upon the first object time, or waiting upon Providence, is a mere idler. H(1
that presents itself ; a young Andalusian girl will look has gone to town in the morning with a grave as
with the same passionate expression at a cart Passing by, with a brown umbrella, and he has penned himselfPct and
pin
the sun has 1
wTheliat.smapennt
a dog running after its tail, or a group of children play- a dirty den for the period named, but at the end of the
ing at bullfights. The eyes of the people of the north time he has not even a hatched egg to show for his pains.
are dull and meaningless in comparison ;
islifeahrliwaewd halititaththoueghTurwh oefffaectlonfgorald
never left its reflection in them.-Gautier 's Wanderings
in Spain. I Is and a half.-The Times.

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I NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. H. Bellairs, M.A., Rector of Bedworth, Warwickshire,
to an Honorary Canonry in Worcester Cathedral.
Rev. H. B. Bullocke, M.A., to the Vicarage of Mullyon,
Cornwall.
Rev. F. W. Collison, 8.D., to the Rectory of Marwood,
Devon.
Rev. H. J. Davis, Vicar of Gonwil Gaio and Llansawel, to
the office of Surrogate.
Rev. T. E. Espin, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln Col-
lege, Oxford, to he Professor of Pastoral Theology at Queen's
College Birmingham.
Rev. 'ff. Evans, jun., 8.A., to the Rectory of Eriswell, near
Mildenhall. Suffolk.
Rev. H. H. Higgins, of Liverpool, to be Chaplain of the
Rainhill Lunatic Asylum, Lancashire.
Rev. F. Hocken, M.A., to the Rectories of Phillack and
Gwithian, Cornwall.
Rev. D. Parry, M.A., to the Incumbency of Nerquis, Flint-
shire.
Rev. C. R. Rowlatt, M.A., to the Vicarage of West Thur.
rock, Roadord, Essex.
Rev. T. Smith, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Ossington, near
Newark.
Rev. J. Sowter, 8.A., to be Chaplain of the new Essex Lu-
natic Asylum, Brentwood.
Rev. G. Stevenson, M.A., to the Incumbency of All Saints,
Newmarket.
Rev. F..Thring, M.A.', Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,
to be Head Master of Uppingham Grammar School.
Rev. J. S. Utterton, M.A., Rector of Calbourne, Isle of
Wight, to the Vicarage of Farnham.
Rev. F. Wheler, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Chad's,
Lichfield, to-the Vicarage of Dunchurch, near Rugby.
BURNLEY CHURCIL—The works necessary to the resto-
ration of Burnley Church are proceeding rapidly, although
it is not expected that the restoration will be completed
before next Midsummer.
AUGMENTATION OF POOR LIVINGS.—ThB Rev. Leveson
Vernon Harcourt, son of the late Archbishop of York, is,
as Chancellor of the Cathedral of York, patron of certain
benefices in the neighbourhood, and appropriator of the
tithes in each parish. As the opportunity of doing so has
presented itself by the falling in of leases, Mr. Harcow
avoileLlaimself of the powers of 1 and 2 William IN
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Letwel, formerly £145, now £265 ; Woodsets, a new
church, endowed by Mr. Harcourt with £lOO per annum.

BANGOR CATHEDRAL.—The North Wales Chronicle,
remarking on the necessity of extended accommodation
for the English and Welsh congregations at Bangor Ca-
thedral, states that " for several Sundays past every pew
and bench were crowded, and many were compelled to
return to their homes, to exercise in private that religious
observance which they were unable to attain in public.
The labour and zeal of our several clergy have most suc-
cessfully awakened a corresponding sympathy on the part
of the inhabitants, and in a far greater ratio than might
be attributed to the increase of population. These are,
indeed, signs of the times which indicate the advancement
of intelligence, and the advantages which accrue from its
proper religious culture. The example set by our vene-
rable prelate cannot fail to operate beneficially on all within
the range of his benign influence. His lordship, notwith-
standing his advanced age, continues to take an active
part in the services of the cathedral, and preaches twice
every Sunday when in residence."
ECCLESIASTICAL CONFERENCE AT BERLIN.—A kind of
Ecclesiastical Conference, or Church Union Meeting, is to
be held from the 20th to the 23d of this month at Berlin.
The object of the meeting, which is of a purely voluntary
character, and at which both clergy and lay members of
the so-called " Evangelic" Church usually attend, is to
concert measures for raising up a spirit of practical piety
and counteracting the infidelity and latitudinarianism so
long prevalent in Germany, more particularly in Prussia.
The origin of these meetings dates from the troublous
times of 1848, when the Kirchen Bund, or Church Union,
was first founded. It has since held its yearly conference
at Wittenberg, in 1849; at Stuttgard, in 1850; at Elber-
feld, in 1861; and at Bremen, in 1852. The meeting this
year in the capital of Prussia gains an additional interest
from the recent encroachment of the Romish Church in
Germany and the consequent struggle between the govern-
ments of Prussia, Wurtemberg, Nassau, Baden, and Hesse,
and the prelates of the diocese of the Upper Rhine.

CURIOSITIES OF IVIEDICAL PRACTICE IN ENGLAND.
—The census of 1851 showed 21,435 persons practising one
or more departments of medicine without qualification.
The youth and sex of some of the practitioners were also
remarkable. In Birmingham there was on " herbalist "
under 20 years of age, two " keepers of lunatic asylums "
under 20, fourteen female leech-bleeders, and one female
physician ; one female " dentist" in Taunton ; a " phy-
sician " in Norwich under 20 ; two " medicine vendors " in
the Tower Hamlets under 20 ; one "midwife " in Preston
under 20; one a phypician " in Canterbury under 29; two
`physicians ", in Bristol under 20 ; a female " chemist
and druggist " in Colchester under 20 ; one " physician "
in Darlington under 20; and one female " surgeon" in
Cornwall under 20.