The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The letter from our correspondent at Birmingham has been re-
ceived, and shall have our best attention.
The Advertisement, " Sale of Property in Crowton," was pot
received until the morning of the 16th instant. For this tea-
son it could not appear in our Friday's paper.
" A Ship Carpenter" will perceive that we have suggested a
plan which would obviate the unpleasantness to which he
alludes.

"Ben Jonson's Song," which appeared in our paper last
week, should have been quoted from that interesting work
" Shakspeare and his Times."

Elie Eibtrpool gftanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1838.

ozr The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn-
ing at 5 o'clock.

Ttii UNITED STATES.—By the Sheffield, which ar-
rived here on Sunday morning, we have received New
York papers to the 27th ultimo. The news brought by
these papers is not of great importance. The commer-
cial affairs of the union seem to be improving. The
banks of New York were enlarging their discounts,
which had given an impulse to trade. The Treasury
Notes Bill, the object of winch was to relieve the pecu-
niary embarrassments of the executive, had been passed
by the Congress and received the royal assent of the
President. The House of Representatives bad received
for their consideration several important communications
relating to the north-eastern boundary—a subject which
is likely to prove a source of protracted excitement,both
in the United States and in the British colonies.

The Prince, de Joinville had arrived at Boston, and
was treated with great hospitality.
A destructive fire had occurred at Albany ; but confla-;
grations of an extensive character happen so frequently+
in the States that they almost cease to excite any curio-
sity.

The following may be quoted as the most important
commercial extracts :

(From the Courier and Enquirer, May 26.)
EXCHANGE.—The transactions for the packets of the 24th,
closed at 7 a 71 per cent. premium on England; frs. 5 35 012
France; 39 a 39i cts. on Holland; 37i cts. on Hamburg, and
771 a 78 cts. on Bremen.
FREIGHTS—To Liverpool the packets continue to fill at our
previous quotations, a first class ship was hoiever taken up
yesterday at 7-16 d for square, and id for round bales cotton.
To Havre engagements have been made at a 1 c.
MONEY MARKET, &c., MAY 26.—The stock market rallied a,
good deal yesterday, and a larger business was done, generally
at au advance of ia li per cent, United States Bank sold at
1191; Phenix Bank, 1051; Del. and Hudson, 801; Harlon
Railroad, el ; Stoaington, 40, and Boston and Providence
103 i. Morris Canal declined to 71. Sales were also made of
Vicksburg Bank at 73 end Bank of Kentucky at 93. Trea-
sury Notes i a per cent. discount, and 6,per cent. do par.

A Convention of the South Carolina and Georgia Banks are,
we learn, to meet at Charleston on Tuesday next, when the
banks of that city have resolved to propose to the convention,
that a resumption of specie payments should take place on the
Ist November next.

The Suffolk Bank of Boston has agreed to receive for thirty
days, from the Associated Banks, the fractional bills of these
banks whose notes they redeem, for the purpose of withdrawing
them from circulation.

NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET, MAY 15.—We yesterday
received, by express mail via New York, Liverpool accounts to
April 9th, being two days later than those received by steam'
ship Great Western ; and, although of an unfavourable nature,
our market keeps firm in prices for all kinds, but not so much
doing. We note a sale of 350 bales middling fair Tennessees,
at 9 is per lb., and a few other small lots were sold at our quo-
tations. A belief gains ground here, that the U.S. Bank, from
the various ways her agents raise funds and ask time for the cot-
ton they purchase, she intends monopolizing the balance of the
crop in this country, at the same time get her agents to speculate
in Europe, being, no doubt, carried away by the estimates
of 16 a 1,650,000 bales. We, however, feel confident, it will
turn out 1,800,000 bales by the Ist of October, having now re-
ceived in the ports 1,530,000, and a large quantity left in the
interior, which will now come in, from the late rise of water and
good prices quoted, Louisiana and Mississipi, 71 a 14c ex:
tremes, fair 11 a Ili; Tennessee and N. Alabamas, 7 a 12c.,
fair 9 a 91c.

DAILY STATEMENT OF COTTON,
1838.—May 12. Stock on hand,
11 "le
~ 13 & 14 Received to-day
.------ff
31:60:1_.1-
115,136

CANADA.—The New York papers furnish us with very
little news from Canada. It appears from the following
extract that the Earl of Durham had arrived at the mouth
of the St. Lawrence :

"ARRIVAL OF THE EARL OF DURHAM.—Captain Forrest, of
the schooner Albion, from St. John's, N.F., and Halifax,' states,
that a brig of war, which accompanied the Hastings, 74, from.
England, the latter having Lord Durham, the new Governor
General of Canada, arrived at Halifax previous to the 16th inst.
The brig had left the Hastings off the mouth of the St. Lawrence,
she being unable to pass the Gulf on account of the ice. The
armed steamer, which also accompanied the Hastings from
England, had endeavoured to get into Sydney, C. 8.. to replenish
her fuel, having only one day's consumption left, but was pre-
vented by the ice. She was momently expectedat Halifax, whey',
the Albion left. The Pique frigate, from Halifax for Quabec,
for the safety of which fears had been entertained, was safe in,
Arichat. Captain Frost also states, that the ice extends along
the shore, north of Halifax, for upwards of sixty leagus, He
has been familiarly acquainted with the coast far twenty years,
and has never before seen it look so formidable at this season oi
the year."—Boston Advertiser.

We presume that no person can or will be surprised,
after what they have seen or heard, at any act of folly
perpetrated by our present rulers, nor at any 4. blow"
which they may aim at the Established Church, to satisfy
the rapacious demands of those hard and inflexible task-
masters, the Popish and radical members of Parliament,
upon whose fetid breath they depend for continuance in
office.

Finding that their attacks upon our national establish-
ment have signally failed—that they have covered them
with disgrace and defeat, and have well nigh perilled
their political existence—that England, in its length and
breadth, is rising in indignation at their treachery , and

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JUNE 19. 183 S.

at every successive election rejecting the candidate who
dares to avow that his principles are in accordance with
theirs—the only door left open for them through 'which

to wound the church is either in Tieland or in colo-
..- flies.- Chained down to their bargain with relentless vi-
gour, the allies of ministers insist upon the fulfilment of
the "compact`:`' the pound of flesh must be given, whe-
- • 'titer the life-Stood 'of office flows or not. The Church in
Ireland, which is part and parcel of the Church of Eng-
r land, as that church is part and parcel of the Church of
Christ, stands in the way of Papal absolutism, and it

must be removed or destroyed before Fatter can

breathe in freedom, or the " bachelors" of Mavnooth
riot in the filthy and damnable questions with which, in
pursuance of the education they receive in that English-
paid college, they are required to insult the chastity of
every nation, and familiarize to indecency every fair
daughter of Papal Ireland; and to obtain this end no
means arevared. O'Connell himself, powerful as he is,
would be nothing in one week but an old barrister, with
a round hat and a seedy wig, if the Popish priests of
Ireland pleased to pull him down, or if his political de-
struction were necessary for the good of their church
and the advancement of their pernicious and arbitrary
doctrines; and if these same spiritual gentlemen, who
can flourish a horsewhip at the hustings as dextrously as
they can fulminate a curse against the poor peasant who
• dares to vote against "the church" should choose to
turn her Majesty's ministers out of the well-stuffed
couches in Downing-street, Lord Palmerston might curl
leis whiskers and write protocols in Hampshire—Lord
Glenelg snore in undisturbed peace each rosy morn, un-
this northern hemisphere had got well aired,- and the
Nvidow's mite Would have leisure to add to Russell's
History of England a few pages, in which he might, with
admirable propriety, chronicle his own political abortions.
• But what won't a whig do to retain office ? Saciifice
principle? Bah! With spendthrift prodigality they have
expended all they had, and they are now obliged to bor-
row every grain from their noble-minded antagonists.-
- Sacrifice the church? Aye, to-morrow, if it would save
their places! And they must soon do the bidding of
Popery, if they would have its support, for Popery can-
not flourish where Protestantism exists in full vigour,—

nor can the Ministry exist an hour if Popery blows upon
it with its withering breath. Let the thirty-nine joints
t of the tail be lopped off, and where is the ministry with
its majority of 20—and that decreasing at every election ?
They would be-gone to that obscurity from which most of
them ought never to have emerged, and which will be a
great national blessing whenever it occurs again.
Our readers may prepare, in a short time, to hear that
thesewretched officials, not being able to injure the esta-
blishment at home, will attempt to withdraw the whole

or part of the grant made to the Established Church in
Canada, when it is a well-known fact that that country
is at present most scantily supplied wtih religious teach-
' -ers,--that vast tracts of country have not a single pastor,
and that-it is the refuge of the vast numbers of Irish
Protestants, who annually emigrate thither to escape
from the persecutions which they suffer at home.
The .abominable scheme will he introduced when the
Colonial Estimates are brought forward, and
.it behoves
our COnservative Senators to be on the watch. Their
hands.must be strengthend by the constituency, and pe-
ctitions must be forwarded without delay against such a
measure of injustice. Will it be believed that a Popish
bishop and a numerous staff are maintained in Canada
at the expense of the British Government, to propagate
that creed which has•sworn hostility to her institutions,
. and yet, that a most insufficient grant is about to be de-
creased or swept away altogether, when Popish treach-
ery has ended in Canadian rebellion, and that colony
saved to the Crown of Great Britain only by the devoted
loyalty. of those Protestant subjects whose spiritual des-
titution is• disregarded and their earnest appeals re-
jected ? We trust that the poor Irish Protestant whose
cabin is fired—*hose property is destroyed—who is .an
object of persecution, and is often hunted over his na-
'Eve mountains at the imminent peril of his life, and who
is obliged to flee froM the land of his forefathers to seek
Ahat:petice which he'lools for in vain at home—may ne-
.• ,ver pine in misery and spiritual destitution in a far dis-
taut land, cut off froin cthnmunion with the Church, and
,separited ;by a Pine farest of 50 or GO mile's in extent
,from the nearest place, of worship, in oider that a
wretched administration, may be kept in office—that the
,insatiable maw of !tome Anay, be filled—and that the life-
-blood of England may be drawn away.
Petitions are being prepared in several towns against
.a withdrawal of the'grant to the Church in Canada, and
we hope that Liverpool will not lag behind. The sub-
Ject is both interesting and important. frow 'can re-
spectable Dissenters permit, a government to make na-
tional grants to support the Papal Church, and yet with-
draw it from one which is accordant with Scripture?
They say Popery is liberal—is qemocratic. Yesl where
she is weak, as in 'England.. But is she liberal where
she is strong ? 'Let the Protestant peasantry expelled
from the Tyrol, because they refused conformity to the
Romish Church, and who are at this moment driven froth
their own land at the mandate of the Vatican—let them,
• - we say, answer the question.

THE CORONATION.—We haVv repeatedly expressed
-our hopes that the event„oft.he'coronaticn of our gracious
Queen Victoria—an event, so interesting hi its character
to every loyal subject—would be :celebrated with all the
.pomp and circumstance which,rit deserves in thislarge
commercial town : and we are glad to 'find that there is,
At length, some prospect. that our .expectations will be
realized, and that Liverpool, which has been; always
foremost in mercantile enterprise..will.signally maintain
that respectable station which its inhabitants liaveii right
:to claim, in giving expression to their devoted attach-
ment to the throne.
. . .

Out readers will have perceived that resolutions have
been passed for the purpose of making the celebration of
the day worthy of the town. But resolutions alone are
not sufficient. There must be the most. active exertions
..,and the most liberal donations for the purpose of carrying
those resolutions into effect: As yet, wefind that, little,
!eon!iparatively, has beendonei, but.mhen. we. take into
consideration the very numerous and,„respectable list of
gentlemen who are appointed as a committee for conduct-
mg the festivities of the day; we have„not. the slightest
'doubt that a stun commensurate, with the exigencies of
4.be occasion will be speedily collected: , .
'• We are glad to. observe that the Mayor has issued a
recommendation that all business should ;be suspended,
3 lunch as possible, for the day. "This is just as it should,
13e." Aliclasses shoqldhave an equal opportunity afforded
!•tiern for joining in the celebration. The various trades,.
'clubs; societies', &c., of the town are als,o invited to join.
the processioti—a call which we feel confident Will be
Promptly obeyed. It is likewise to be hoped that each
Ward will muster strongly on the occasion,. and produce
splendid display of banners. We would strenuously
advise the intermixture of the party colours as much as
Possible, as that would tend to obviate any unnecessary
expresSion of political feeling on the part of those who
'flight be mere spectators of the procession. In assigning
the order in which the various trades; clubs, &c., are to
'Tiaroh, we would suggest that the ballot should be
adopted. This will satisfy all parties that no undue pre-
ference is given to any particular class; and will do away
with any feeling of jealousy which might exist.
As the timefor collecting subscriptions is so very short
it i 8 advisable that all who intend contributing towards
the " emanation Fund" should come forwards as soon
as Possible, in order that there may be no delay in m-
eeting all the arrangements. While upon this subject,
'Eve would suggest that all the inn-keepers and licensed
vietuallets should open a subscription list in each of their
houses.
We are convinced that a very large fund might
be derived in aid of the fund by this means. Would it
not be also proper in every large establishment in town
to have a sepaiatecolleetion for the same purpose ? We
:are sure that, even among the operative classes, many
would be found willing to contribute their mite in aid of
an object so truly loyal in its nature.

CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPIIS.—Within a few days, four
fresh elections have taken Mace, in consequence of vacan-
cies arising from different causes, and, in every case, the
COnsefv4Oves bare be en successful. In Dungannon, the

Hon. Mr. Knox was returned without any opposition,
In the county of Inverness, also, a conservative has been
returned without a contest. I n Linlithgowshire the fol
lowing was the final close of the poll :
Hope (Conservative)
Johnston (Whig)

Conservative majority .

The poll at Maidstone closed in favour of Mr. Fee tor
who was unseated in consequence of the petition recent-
ly promoted against him. The numbers were—
Mr. Fector (Conservative)
• Mr. Rob arts [Whig)

Conservative majority

We look upon this last election as a most decided tri-
umph. In April last, Mr. Fector was returned by a 1.12:
jority of 128 only—now his majority is nearly doublitl.
If this be not a proof of reaction, we do not know what
can be considered as such.

In the last important decision which took place in the
House of Commons, the ministerial majority was only
twenty. The newly returned conservatives will diminish
that majority to sixteen, and yet it is a favourite boast of
the radical press, that the ministers have "an excellent
working majority !" What this majority will be after the
coronation, we shall soon have an opportunity of judging.
That it will be materially diminished, we. have not the
slightest doubt.

RAILWAY SPEED.—The Sun engine, which brought down
the seven o'clock train from Manchester, on Friday night, ac-
complished the distance-31 miles to the mouth of the tunnel—
in the short space of 41 minutes. This is at the rate of one
mile in 80 seconds, or of 45 miles per hour.

MORE FEATS IN STEAM.—We have latterly perceived in the
papers, various reports, ostentatiously put forward as "un-
rivalled steam-packet," " unprecedented speed," " unparalleled
expedition;" but none of them, we belive, have exceeded the
usual speed of the Ocean steamer, which sails weekly between
this port and Cork : we understand that she made the voyage
last week, hence to the latter port, a distance of nearly 300
miles, in the short space of 23 hours.—Albion.

PASSENGERS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The number of
gentlemen and ladies visiting Europe this year is unprecedent-
edly great. Not less than 500 had or would leave the States'
for this country between the Ist of May and the Ist of June.
The Monongahela, which arrived on Saturday, from Philadel-
phia, had fifty cabin passengers ; and the Sheffield, which ar-
rived on Sunday, from New York, was full. The Sheridan
and Columbus, which were to sail on the Ist instant, had all
their berths engaged- The approaching ceremony of the coro-
'nation of the Queen has doubtless, attracted many visitors from
the western continent.

IMPORTANT TO THE TIMBER TRADE.—It is rumoured that
since the New Zealand scheme has been in agitation, Mr. P.
Thompson has consented to admit spars for ship purposes from
thence free of duty, provided they are more than 70 feet long,
the Riga spars seldom exceeding that length.- Heretofore it
was understood that no spars of that description should be ad-
mitted at a less duty than fixed to be paid on Riga spars, on the
ground that none other of the size and length requisite, and of
equal quality for the navy, could be elsewhere supplied.

„CRICKET.—In consequence of the nnsettled state of the wea-
ther, the match between the Liverpool and Wavertree clubs,
which was to have come off yesterday, on the Liverpool ground,
is postponed till Thursday week.

THE BROUGHAM INSTITUTE.—The half-yearly meeting of the
members of this institute was held on Thursday evening, in the
lecture-room, which was tolerably well filled. Mr. Lawrence
Heyworth was in the chair. After the reading of the report se-
veral resolutions were moved and seconded by Mr. Arland, Mr.
Walter SMith, the Rev. Mr. Martineau, Mr. Gaiter, Mr. H. T.
Atkinson•, the Rev. Mr. Giles, and Mr. Lewin. Mr. L. Hoy-
worth was re-elected as president.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Mr. Atkins has again been
unfortunate in the weather. We shall begin to think his an-
nouncements of a gala as good as a weather glass, and to indi-
cate rain as surely as the pointer of the barometer when it points
at the watery word. Owing to the heavy rain yesterday the
gala has been put off to to-night, weather permitting, or the first
fine evening. Of course it will 'rain to-night.
THE THEATRE Ito AL.—Last evening, Mademoiselle Celeste
commenced her engagement of 10 nights at this theatre, in the
drama, writtten we believe expressly for her, entitled " St.
Mary's Eve." Her acting in this drama is singularly beautiful
—it is bold yet chaste; and there is a touching sweetness in her
French pronunciation whilst supplicating for the life of a bro-
ther. As a dancer she is second, only, we believe to Taglioni.
For our own part we do not admire the operatic style of dancing,
nor any sort of dancing which would put us to the blush that
we had brought a lady to witness it ; nor do we much envy the
taste of the admirers of soch. There will howeverbe professors
of it so long as it is patrouised. So far as-grace of motion, flexi-
bility of limb, and agility go, Mademoiselle Celeste is an .extra-
ordinary dancer. But it is in her acting we most admire her,
and in which we think her chief excellence now rests, for ex-
cellent as her,dancing is, we think it on the wane. The house
was a very good oite.
SCHOOL ExAmtNAitorc.—At the examination of Messrs-
Sorley's classical and commercial school, Great George-street
yesterday, prizes were presented to the following young gentle
men, for superior excellence in their respective classes, viz.:—
Masters William H. Lenox, William B. Hilton, Thomas B.
Robertson, John N. Clarke, Arthur Sinclair, Allan Morison,
Henry Walthew, Gordon Badenach, Charles Bolton, Louis H.
Hernitz, and James R. Boyd,•Liverpool; Jocelyn A. Mackay,
Beech Park, near Lurgan, county Armagh; George R. Grant,
Barbados; James B. Sorley and William B. Sorley, Glasgow.

ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, KEY-STREET, LIVERPOOL..—We
understand,- that the Rev: J. Leighton Figgins, 8.A., Incum-
bent of Linthwaite, near Huddersfield, has been licensed by the
Bishop of this Diocese to the pastoral charge of the Church and
district of St. Matthew's in this town : and will enter on his
ministrations, on Sunday the Bth of July next.
CHURCH PREFERMENT.—The Most Noble the Marquis of
Westminster has presented the Rev, Thomas Francis Barker to
the living of Farndon, Cheshire. '
The Dean of Chester, Dr. Davys, has refused the request of
the mayor and corporation for the use of the Cathedral, to cele-
brate a musical festival in aid of the Chester charities.
TXELET TO THE REV.WM. THISTLETHWAITE.—An elegant
marble tablet, which reflects great credit upon the sculptor, Mr.
W. Spence, of Liverpool, was placed in St. George's Church,
Little Bolton, as a tribute of respect of the congregation to their
late pastor, the Rev. W. Thistlethwaite.
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TOKEN OF RESPECT.—We have this week to record another
instance of esteem for a clergyman. The ladies of Pendleton,
who have lately been confirmed by the bishop, have. presented
the Rev. A. Lane with a handsome pocket communion service
—expressive of their gratitude for his kind attentions to them,
and invaluable labours at ail times, but more especially during
-the season preparatory to confirmation.

CONSECRATION.—On Saturday the bishop consecrated the
new church at Abram. His lordship was attended by the clergy
of the neighbourhood. The sermon was read by the Reverend.
Rector of Wigan, after which his lordship preached a most ad-
mirable and truly scriptural sermon.

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The Old Quay Company's steam-boat made her first trip from
Manchester to Warrington on Thursday. No saving in point
of lime was effected.

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SHARES.—On Tuesday last
Mr. John Holmes, auctioneer, sold by auction four Leeds and
Liverpool Canal ghares, at the Hotel, and they each. brought
£655. To this add the duty, £l9 2s. id., and the aggregate is
£674 2s..ld.—a very high price. Others were bought in at the
same rate.—Leeds Intelligences.
FISHER'S INK.—This is a most excellent invention, as it does
away with the necessity of any preparation of the cloth what-
ever: it may be used in the manner of common ink, and it is
indelible. We have seen it subjected to the severest tests.

THE: NEW POOR LAws.--The guardians of the out-townships
composing the Warrington Union, have unanimously agreed to
petition both houses of parliament for a repeal of such parts of
the new poor-law amendment act as renders it compulsory on
townships to become parts of unions, Lord Francis Egerton or
r. Wr Patten, Esq., will present the petition to the commons,
and the Earl of Stanhope that to the House of Lords.

IDENTITY.—A man has been in custody for sometime at War-
rington o❑ suspicion of being an escaped transport. In addi-
tion to a very close resemblance to the description given in the.
Hue and Cry. the prisoner admitted that he was the party.
"wanted." However, the old saying, "Better be born luck},
than rich," was, in this man's case, literally verified ; for on an
officer sent from the hulks at 'Sheerness seeing the accused, he
at once pronounced him not to be the man of whom he was in
search. On Monday, the prisoner was brought before Mr.
Lyon, and discharged from custody, the worthy magistrate giv-
ing him a trifle to help him on his way home.

THE ORIGINAL 'LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK STEAM-PACKET
COMP ANY.—Whilst the Leviathgns and the Behemoths of the
steaming hemisphere, arep with terrific farce, puffing and blow-
ing their various projects intq notoriety.; at one time detailing
with ingenious technicality, the amazing power and surprising
swiftness of their vessels,—at another, with all becoming diffi-
dence, descanting, in.style most pithy, upon the yrfat bulk of
experience, gentlemanly attainments, and scientific acquire-
ments, which their commanders will• carry with them across the
Great Western Ocean; it affords us satisfaction to state, that
the above popularly constituted establishment, (such-has been
the great number of applicatiofis for shares,) will ere long be in
a position successfully to vie with their neighbours for ti portion
of public favour, The command of its ships, we know, will be
confided to men, who, (whether they be adjuncts .of. the "glo-
rious service," or members of the..l‘ British Couimercial Ma-
rine,") have in all respects proved themselves efficient for the
performance of so important a duty as that which will shortly
devolve upon them. ,

Lamas' BAZAAR.—Our readers-will perceive, by the ad-
tisement, that the ladies connected with the Wesleyan Metho-
dist Schools, in Liverpool,intend holding a bazaar, in aid of those
institutions, on Tuesday, (this day,) to-morrow, Wednesday,
and Thursday next, in the Exhibition-rooms, Post-office-place.
We understand that the contributions of articles for the bazaar
will be on a very liberal scale; and doubt not, that the inhabit-
ants of our town and its visiters will avail themselves-of this
opportunity of gratifying their taste, as well as of affording
their support to the cause or the instruction of the rising gene-
ration. The Methodist schools were among some of the first in-
stituted in Liverpool, and have been the means of communi-
catingreligious and useful knowledge to many-thousands of the
children of the poor and working classes.- At this time .the
number Under instruction exceeds 3,500, the expense of whOse
education amounts to little short of £I,OOO per ahnum. The
income of the schools being found inadequate to meet such ex-
penditure, the ladies have been induced to resort to this measure
to supply the deficiency: we sincerely hope their expectations
may.be:realized. , .
NELSONIAN REMINISEENCES.---This is the title of a series of
naval sketches which .have appeared in the Metropolitan Mag-
azine. Some of them appeared originally in the Albion, into
which others were copied from the above periodical. These
sketches are great favourites with the American public, most of
them having been copied into the United States papers. The
popularity of the "Reminiscences" has naturally excited curi-
osity to ascertain the name of the writer, a curiosity which we
shall take this opportunity of gratifying. The author, then, of
" Nelsonian Reminiscences" is Lieutenant Parsons, R.N.,
who, after serving his King and his country in the navy, and
principally in the scenes which his pen has so clevely depicted,
commanded, for several tears, the George the Fourth, steamer
between Liverpool and Newry. Mr. Parsons is a perfect gen-
tleman as well as a gallant officer; and we feel great pleasure
in adding, that the author of " Nelsonian Reminisences" is a
.resident of the good old town of Liverpool. May. he continue
to enjoy life, health, and prosperity,; and delight the world by
" fighting his battles o'er again."—Albion.