The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

*ales by auction.

Interesting SALE of Guaranteed SPECIMENS of the Modern
SCHOOL of PAINTINGS, to be held, for convenience of
Purchasers, at the New SALE-ROOM, HACKIN'S-HEY,
on THURSDAY next, the ::3rd instant, at Twelve o'clock
precisely.
MR. R. WINSTANLEY (of Basnett-street)
begs to announce to the Amateurs of Liverpool, that
he has received instructions to submit to peremptory SALE,
in consequence of the Owner entirely withdrawing from the
pursuit, a Genuine COLLECTION of Modern PAINTINGS,
of quality and of pleasing subjects, by the following favourite
Masters :
E. J. Millais, A.K.A. H. P. Parker, Gilbert,
Redgrave, R.A. Kidd, Williams, sen.
Anthony, Egg, A.R.A. F. H. Herring, sen.
Holland, J. B. Tyne, H. Johnson,
Hemsley, H. Bright, Abraham,
Clater, S. R. Percy, T. Hanby,
Wm. Oliver, Carmichael, Wingfield,
Hi!der, H. B. Willis, Surtees.
Andrews, R. Tonge,
With exquisite Specimens of J. H. Dell, a rising artist of
great ability, and whose works are in high request, together
with those of others of celebrity.
The Collection will be on view TO-MORROW (Wednesday),
the 22nd instant, at the Saleroom, Hackin's hey, (behind the
George Hotel,) where catalogues may be had, and at the
Office of the AUCTIONEER., 14, Basnett-street.

LUCAS'S, LIVERPOOL. SELECT SALE.
THIRTY SUPERIOR HORSES,.
By Messrs. LUCAS and CO.,
OnTiftittsoAV rre'ret, the 23rd instant, at twelve o'clock, at
their Repository. Great Charlotte. street, I.iverpool,
TIIIRTY HORSES, consisting 'of a Pair of
Bay Catriage Horses, 16 hands high., Two Brougham
Horses, Six well-known Hunters, Hacks, Gig Horses, &c.
On view MIS DAY and To-moanoW, and on the Morninz
of Sale.
N.B.—On Private SALE, Foar Alilerney and Guernsey
COWS.

IMPORTANT SALE OF SPLENDID CART STALLIONS,
BROOD MARES, &c.,
By Messrs. LUCAS and CO.,
'Oa SATURDAY next, the 2Stb instant, at One o'clock pre-
eiSely, at their Repository,' Great Charlotte street, Liver-
pool.
SIX CART STALVIONS and Two superior
BROOD MARES, the Property of Mr. George Wilson,
who has spared neither trdtbie or expense in selecting them
from the choicest breeding districts in England ; they are
remarkably handsome, of toae choicest colours, yoeng, sound,
and free from bletnighes, and constitute as fine a Stud of
Draught Horses as Can be produced.
On view two days plias to the sale, at LUCAS'S Repository,
Liverpool.

rIPHE LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.--lar. FEENY
1 begs to inform ,the,Professional Gentlemen and other •
'Strangers visiting Liverpool, that his 'NEW ESTABLISH-
-46 ENT is now is full operation (every (soffit- being provided
' -for the despataggluticheons and Dinners), and will be happy
to see the largelarge nunTher of Gentlemen''whi have hitherto
ñvoured him 'th ithir support.
The Upper Saloon+ in the New Merchant's" Dining Rooms is
unequalled by ;any hi tke'Kingdom for tbenagniticence of its ,j
Decorations and itsireteral comfort and elegance, being ligiet
and well ventilated, and perfectly free from the smell of the
cuisine, the bitchen bring at the top of theanilding.
The Joints are 'taken hot to earti Table, and served bra
professional Carver,,,,at the discretion .of "the Customer.
During Lent, affisti Table d'Hdtewilltbe provided on Wed-
nesdays and 'Fridays, from One to Threeo'clock, is. 6d. eadr..
Bills of Fare, fOr each day, are posted at the entrance grkt
at Eleven 'recto& A...M. Soups ready attEieven o'clock.
BIEL' 'OF FARE FOR THIS WEEK.
SOUPS.
Mock Terale. Saddles ajnOdlNTlSsUnebes
Chesterfteld. Menai
Mulagatavrmy. Ribs and Sirloins Beef
Filletatif Veal and Ham
Julienne. Boiletteeef and Boiled Mutton
Vermicelli. Roast :amid Boiled Fowls and
Gravy. grtielkefe•
ENTREES.
Getelettes de mouton a la
Soubise.
roqueste de Volaille.
Steaks is Ude.
Ortinedin de veaux alartilestine
Bilet deVolai de a la liareago.
Carbonade de mouton sauce
,piquente.

sittS.A.
Turbot arine.
Filets +3e merlau a l'ltalienne.
Boudiu IYHomard.
Soles a la NW raznde.
Truttessaumostee en matelotee
Soucttie,of ti'tentiiders.
Cod and.Cyster Sauce.
Turisst .anthLebster Sauce.

SWEETS.
.FadiMg St. Clair. Tartelettes de abricots.
Afaiids of honour. Cal4net Tuddinsr. Pastry. Stk.
FIRST .S ADS) ON.
DINNERS FROM JOINTS, 'POULTRY, GAME, ,Zac.,
From 10d. to Is. 6d.
UPPER SAIA:OON.
Dintser,Anelading Soup, Joint, Vegetables, and Cheese... 1 6'
Ditto, witirSoup, Fish. Joint, and•Gbeese O.
FEENA"'S MERCHANTS' NEW DINING ROOMS,
SLAVER-,COURT, CASTLE-STREET (Three Doors from Dale-
street.)

i,r RING FA.iSHIONS.

J. MAcLENNAN begs to.actiounce the arrival
of some of the Choicest Designs and Greatest
N.ovelties in PARIS and LON OON MANTLES
that'have ever been produced, which he is now
showing, along with some Elegant Plain EN-
VELOPES, specially got up-for himself.

EMBORIUNI FOR FOREIGN AND BRITISH
SHAWLS AND MANTLES.
44, B 0 L EE T.

tibttrpoot t tbarb

TUESD.AY MORNING, MARCH 21,1854.

THE ,proceedings in the House ;of Commons, so
far , from being worthy of a deliberative assembly
entrusted .with .the management of -the mighty
Empire of Great Britain, present :but a sorry
spectacle, rep:Of:ling us of the descriptions we
occasionally meet of the doings in the American
Conpess, or the :dissensions of the 'B'ir'kenhead
Commissioners. abomt the removal of -a gas lamp !
To what particular 'circumstance this melancholy
fall is 40 be attributed may be considered, Au open
question. Is it that the Reform Act has,,asit was
predicted., ,opepecl. tlie Senate to a class ..of .men
whose sayings and doings are a burlesque on, legis-
lation ? Or is ,it that tLe age in which we live,
notwithstanding.the vaunted march of intellect,iits
experiencing :a kindof intellectual decay, the march
being retrognade instead ,of progressive ? But,
perhaps, the more probable ;solution is the fact ,of
the country having .a Ministry without a Govern-
anent, a patchwork of political sections having no
;naity of section, no fixity ofprineiple, commanding
no respect, and, therefore, possessing no influence..
I,oud. JOHN RUSSELL, who never had a principle
beyond a reckless anxiety for change, and holding
no lQeognised place in the Cabinet of which he is
said .to be a member, assumes to be the leader of
tlete gOkii4 of Commons. Such a position, however
was wont to involve responsibilities, -of which he
appears to have no idea, and imply (lades which he
has neither the will nor the ability to perform, if
even he possesses the comprehension of their ne-
cessity. When the late Sir ROBERT PEEL OCCII-
- a similar position, he was de facto as well as
de jure the guide Of legislative business, and no
measure .of any importance was proposed without
his sanction or the expression of his opinion, which,
if adverse, was fatal to its success. To his treach-
ery, it is true, is owing the present disjointed state
of political parties, the destruction of all confidence
in public men, and the fact of high places being
filled by what can only be termed a Ministerial ano-
maly ; but there is also a melancholy contrast in the
mode of procedure so humiliating to those who take
pride in the dignity of the British Senate, that we
may anticipate the time will not be far distant when
a seat in the House of Commons will no longer be
esteemed an honour, but left to be scrambled for
by the greedy aspirants for place and pay, and popu-
lar demagogues—men who make promises to their
credulous hearers, in the style of JACK CADE, or of
the Reformers of twenty years ago, who predicted
meat a penny a7pound, and bread for nothing, as the
result of their exertions The report of the proceed-
ings, on Tuesday last, affords a case in point,
though by no 1:1e,41,1.5 a singular ones After sundry

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND at NERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,

British and French troops, will soon reduce Russia
to-the condition of a suppliant where she deemed
her voice to be all powerful. The question of
Peace or War is still in the balance, but, should
the latter be inevitable, we have no doubt on
which side victory will rest, and it is not unlikely
that in a lucid interval the Emperor NicsoLes will
arrive at the same conclusion.

Mn. HORSFILL, on Friday, presented a petition
to the House of Commons, from the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, praying that no letters of
marque or privateering commissions should be
granted ; and that any vessel sailing under letters
of marque against the property of this country,
unless owned and manned by natives of a country
with which we may be at war, and sailing from a
port of such nation since a declaration of war, shall
be deemed a pirate ; and also praying that treaties
may be entered into with France, the United
States, and other countries, in order that their
co-operation may be obtained in such regulations,
The importance of this question can hardly be
over-estimated, and, should the long-anticipated
war with Russia be at length realised, it is to be
hoped that precautions of the kind alluded to will
be adopted. Prom the geographical position of
Russia, hemmed in by narrow seas, our 'fleets will
be able to keep the ocean clear of Russian pri-
vateers, so that her only resource would be to
grant 'letters of marque to vessels 'belonging to
other nations with more accessible 'seaports. Their
trade, however, would be rendered dangerous
should the nations referred to 'agree to the pro-
posed arrangement ; and, as The United States
acted upon the same principle during the Mexican
WSJ' of 1846, they can hardly refuse to coincide
'With it now, when far greater interests are at
Stake. It has long been qvdmitted, as one of the
ltsages of civilised war'far'e, that all means may
be taken to injure and annoy the enemy, but an
opportunity may now be -afforded to abolish a pruc-
ice at all times fraffil of evil, and the More 'to

be dreaded since the vast increase of connterte
has covered the Ike:au' with richly-freigliteihnte-
chant ships.
Another quedio'n of great interest, an 4
has several iiitneslgeen unsuccessfully pessed upon
the attentionentlinisters, is the position cif neutral
vessels oontainitg Russian produce. 'The ‘presump-
tion is, eta:alit-rade with a nation'with4hich we
are at war tis contraband, and the ;filerehandise,
however ovhica or shipped, consequently liable to.
seiaure. the recent extent of toin'tratre with Rus-
sia, paftiAlarly in imports of kasgan produce,
has, howevec, entitled the stringency Of the rule
some 'modification adapted toitke peculiar cir-'
carastanees of the case, and Ministers have; there-
Syre,lrgfased to pronounce a•dealCd'opinitm mitt
they ',kw had an opportunity ,of coming ton
4ErraTigerlent with the French4%kovernment on fhe
subjett.

kWgzecorded last wash irmar latest intelligence
',the:l.-awfully sudden death-ef 'Judge TAtaieuen,
who was summoned 'to his • own account -while
fillar4ing the Grand Jurreff' the Staffbrdlassize.
ltis,w6rth, in every capa4Win which he has been
'known to the public, is`-toe 'fully appromitted to
nedd any additional cidoeium from -Ins.,lkut the
sitbjert on which he was-Tub-raged, whertihis spirit
returned to the GOD A.V.ho-gure it, may betaeserving
•of comment. He was %rattling With roma. feeling
theiffightful increase .oftiinie in the distirict where
he-was then plesitTang,:,nutd whieh'was painfully
evident not only in the.great number,Ofprisoners
• itthe calendar, but: in`Fthe serious• nnture of the
.ibffences with ilt F; • were. *sbarged. The
advocates of progyesiehawboasted of *hex success,
:thepeople have enjoyed- to the fitirthat love of
-*Mimi. liberty viiidlivis !said to be tille:zharacter-
idie4 Englishmeivkilnextion; if afett,vs general
Aps.seme would cleiire,quits-been considerably ex-
tended, until the iiEfficiiltyis rather to And scholars
.thamischools ; employment has been:singe, at high
wages, trade abundant; wkd yet, ,thh all these
. advadtages, the ;ffitilanolnly fruit-is.anincrease of
crime a the worst character. Is mill, a result to
lead.to the conclaiion that all ,exertitAlftio amelio-
rate. tile social condition -,of the ,populltion have
been is vain P Orcinght: at not rather to produce
the conviction that'those'-whohave deemed them-
selvestke depositories ...of peritical wMolthave been
but blind guides, relying Avon' their .town foolish
notions-cf what is good, and rejecting Mut wisdom
from, .onf.bigh whiff .tisl-the only sure tmeans of
exalting: s nation. in !the good old days,of Con-
servativeicule, when. to gear God and honour

the king".,was a politiral •atiern which none dared

'dispute, -social distinctions were obsermatl, and
...obedience .to those in authority was a political
virtue. : Lileralism, honieverilas taught the baleful
:doctrine that the peasant isras good as-the;peer,
, least-in hi own estinaationt ; .Y'ree-trade in corn
las been followed by free-trale in religion.and
-everything ial6e ; and new we , are' beginning to
reap pome of #ae fruits. Tertito 'vial influence vas

'to sacrified. because Reform had given. the
mannfacturerrtte ascendant in pa-lilies, and when
Liberal Ministers had to sznyeader something itto
democracy in order to keep their places, the same
suicidal -policy -was pursued withont the masses
being-in any degree more satisfied. :In our own
Bounty; when trade viss flourishing., tiae operatives,
thinking•they had f..se staff in their,own hands,
struck ,vOrk,; and ire for months -been living
upon Che,fity,:in a stat of voluntary idleness, and
supporting ,each ether in insubordination, with
the insane.say of Ten :p.ar cent., a cry which few
of them .comprehend, .eft that they are 'taught
it means
In the county of
at some indefinable :futuze•
some • great:advantage in store forthem.
Stafford, where „employment in coal and iron:aud
the potteries has peen abundant, the assize tells
lamentable tale .of fearful,cTimes committed under:
no pressure of -want, but in 4he wild excess of:
indulgence. These are the results of Liberalism,
the precursors of intdelity and •rebellion ; and yet,
with such warnings before thew, the Radical
4ection of the Ministry—for we .cannot believe the
more respectableyortionare willing parties to it—
have the temerity to propose a new Reform Bill,
by wag& the dearest interests of the empire will
e virtually handed over to the representatives of
the turuwmts of Preston and the men who swell
the criminal calendar in Staffordshire. It is time
that those who can appreciate religion and loyalty
and virtue Ana pause, and seriously consider
whether some exertions should not be used to
restore not only a Conservative Ministry, but
Conservative principles in legislation. Poor human
nature, in its best estate, requires the restraint of
wise laws ; but, it is a sorry' prospect :for the
future, when the choice of legislators is in the
hands of those who cannot govern themselves, and
the direction of public affairs is entrusted to the
worst enemies of the State. It will not do to
repose in the ease of private life, as though cir-
cumstkinces will right themselves, or it will be
found, when too late for remedy, that private virtue
affords no safeguard against public profligacy.

THE EARL OF LICHFIELD died on Sunday, at his house,
Stanhope-street, May-fair, London, in the 59th year of
his age.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—About twelve o'clock,
on Friday morning, an accident occurred at the Pimbo-
lane Colliery, belonging to the Earl of Balcarres, situate
in Upholland, about four miles from Wigan, by which a
young man named James Peel, met .with an immediate
death. The deceased, who was employed as a hooker-on
at the bottom of the shaft, had just taken some tubs filled
with coal to the pit eye to hook on, and other tubs were
being wound up the shaft at the same time, when 'n piece
of coal about six pounds weight, fell from one of the lat-
ter after it had ascended about eighty yards, and, striking
bim 411 the creNY/1 Qt vie bead wiled Win on the spot,

human chaiacter ; and this, the writer ventures to think,
was because the subject was a genial one, and the colour-
ing was that of his own heart. How true of himself is
that aphoristic sentence, in which he says of his loved
and venerated master, Dr. VALrf He had no sense
of injury, but as something to be forgiven."—(Notice
prefixed to " Ion.")
The idea of his principal dramatic character is that of
"a nature essentially pure antdisinterested, deriving its
strength entirely from goodness and thought, not over-
coming evil by the force of will, but escaping it by an
insensibility to its approach ; vividly conscious of existence
and its pleasures, yet willing to lay them down at the
call of duty ;" and how nearly does he seem, in MILTON'S
phrase, to

To something of prophegtticAtsttaria?in,"
In his tribute to one of his early professional friends—the
late Sir BENJAMIN MALKlN—wherein he says, in words
which have now become so touchingly applicable to him-
self :—" The other has been taken from this world in the
prime of life, and in the fulness of his powers ; leaving
with us the recollection of an intellect as masculine and
as refined—of judgment and feeling as discriminating and
just—and of social qualities as warm and equable, as have
ever passed, by the mysterious dispensation of Provi-
dence, from vigorous exercise into a memory and an
example." (Preface to lon, note p. 16.)
It may, perhaps, be thought that the intellect of the late
judge was more remarkable for its exquisite refinement,
than for robust strength. This, with the native kindli-
ness of his disposition, fitted him rather to vivify and to
illustrate the beautiful in nature,- and the lovelier phases
of human character, than, in his own expressive words—
"To grapple with the miseries of this time."
Yet, it was an earnest denouncement of these, that, as if
overwhelmed by the contemplation of what was so abhor-
rent to his own nature, he breathed out his last words,
and died. From the other world, his solemn sentence
comes to us in heavy malediction of those inveterate
social distinctions which he well characterised as " the
curse of English society." His were not the

"Sympathies
Which find no kindred objects in the plain
Of common life."—bn, Act 11., Scene 2.
He knew that there are a thousand circumstances which
occur daily to sadden and distress a man, wherein, not-

withstanding—
.. The falling music of a gracious word,
Or the stray sunshine of a smile, will be
Comfort enough."—lon, Act V., Scene 2
Of these, and far more than these, he was ever a bountiful
giver, and yet how many amongst us selfishly deny them.
Such teaching as this shines out in almost every page of
his works, but nowhere does it find more graceful utter-
ance than in the reply of lon to the suggestion that it is
but little which he can do to relieve the suffering to which
he has devoted himself.—(Act 1., Scene 2.) :
" It is little: •
But, in these sharp extremities of fortune,
The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter
Have their own season. 'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'tl by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when Nectarean juice
Renews the life of joys in happiest hours.
It is a little thing to speak a word
Of common comfort, which, by daily use,
Hath almost lost its sense; yet on the ear
Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, 'twill fall
Like choicest music ; fill the glazing eye
With gentle tears; relax the knotted hand
To know the bonds of fellowship again ;
• And.shed on the departing soul a sense
More precious than the benison of friends
About the honour'd death-bed of the rich,
To him who else were lonely, that another
Of the great family is near and feels."
His " Vacation Rambles," and " Memorials of Chas.
Lamb," afford the fullest evidence that the indications o'
his character, to be gleaned from his more imaginative
works, were completely borne out by the actions of his
daily life. He has well said, in one of his noble orations
—" Believe me, there is no path more open to the
influence of heaven than the common path of daily duty."
(Speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, 1848.) From
various instances which have already become public,
sufficient is already known of the "timely kindness" and
"judicious counsel" with which he aided, warned, or
encouraged young aspirants to literary fame. One case
of this sort may here be alluded to. The writer of the
present article was the means of originating, some years
ago, an effort to benefit one of our poets in humble life—
• a native and a resident of this county, Jons CRITCRLEY
PRINCE. The response of the author of lon was one of
.the first in date, and the handsomest in amount, as well
;as the most kindly in sympathy, which was received in
reply to the appeal then made. If this may be taken
as an example of. " timely kindness," let the following
serve as an instance of " judicious counsel.: "—(Speech at
Manchester, Oct. 23,1845:)
"A season has arrived in the history of mankind, whet
.talent, which in darker ages might justify the desire to
quit the obscure and honourable labours of common life
in quest of glittering distinction, can only be employed
'with safety in adorning the sphere to which they are na-
tive; when, of a multitude of competitors for public favour,
.few only can at-rest attention ; and when, even of those
-who attain a flattering and merited popularity, the larger
nuniber must be content to regard the richest hues of
Lit&ir fancy and thought but as streaks in the dawn of
-that jocund day,' which now ' stands tiptoe on the misty
,mountain's top, and in the full light of which they will
speedily be blended. But, if it is almost too late to be
.ambitious, except on some rare occasions, of the immorta-
lity Which earth can bestow, yet for that true immortality
Of which fame's longest duration is but the most vivid
symbol—for that immortality which dawns now in the
childhood of every man as freshly as in the morning of
the world, and which breaks with as solemn a foresha-
dowing-in a soul of the most ordinary faculties, as in that
of the mightiest poet ; for that immortality, the cultiva-
tion of wisdom and beauty is as momentous now as ever,
although no eyes, bit those which are unseen, may take
note how they flourish. In the presence of that immor-
tality, hew vain appears all undue restlessness for a little
or a great change in our outward earthly condition ! How
worse-than idle are all assumptions of superior dignity in
one mode of honourable toil to another—how worthless all
differences of station,—except so far as station may enable
men to vindicate some everlasting principle, to exemplify
some arduous duty, grapple with some giant oppression,
or to achieve the blessings of those who are ready to
perish' ! How trivial, even as the pebbles and shells upon
this end and,shoal of time,' seem all those immunities
which can only be spared by fortune to be swept away by
death, compared with those images and thoughts, which,
being reflected from the Eternal, not only through the
clear medium of Holy Writ, but, though dimly, through
all that is affecting in history, exquisite in art, suggestive
.tin eloquence, profound in science, and divine in poetry,
salon not only outlast the changes of this mortal life, but
,shall defy the chillness of the grave."
When BLACKSTONE resolved to succeed at the Bar, he
irrote a Farewell to the Muse, which was afterwards
patilished in Dodsley's Miscellany. It was thought, in
his 'day, that fora man to be eminent in the profession
which the future writer of the Commentaries had chosen,
all ;partiality for the " fresh fields and pastures new" of
,literatitre must be renounced. And though, besides the
.lamented ornament of the Bench who has just been called
away, several of its present occupants have wielded the
author's pen with admirable grace and power ; and though
WARREN, A.LISON, JEFFRE, and Sir WALTER SCOTT, con-
fer equal lustre upon the legal andliterary professions, the
same prejudice still exists in our own day. Even TAL-
,Foxin) thought it necessary to assert, in the preface to
Otis first work, that he could not "charge himself with
having permitted it to interfere with any professional or
psiatte duty ;" and fcr a motto to his noble classic dramas,
he took part of the apologetic couplet in Pope's Epistle
to .4,-,batiknot-
-0, I left no calling for this idle trade,
No duty broke." •
It is probable that he designed—(if, indeed, he has not
placed it ail record in his works, like the present LORD
CRIEIt JIIKLCE of the Court of Queen's Bench, and his
own predecessor in the Common Pleas, Sir WILLIAM
BLACKSTONE)-•-t0 return again in later life to the delights
of literary pursuits. This, however, has been denied
Ulm. He had done enough : enough, at least, to call forth
and justify that common note of mourning which has
rim from all classes of his countrymen on the announce-
ment of his death. And yet, in such a death, for such a
man, there is surely something not merely appropriate,
but august and sublime. The Judge, in his robes—the
Dramatist, in living action—the philanthropist in earnest
pleading against the social vice and wrong which intensi-
fies, if it does not produce, so much of crime and misery--
thus he was struck down : his work done—his mission ac-
complished—his dying words a solemn bequest of Warning
to us all. The affecting tribute of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE,
it cannot be tedious to repeat :—" He was sitting, as I
-am, administering justice ; people were trembling at the
thought of having to come before him, but, in a minute,
his ftinction was over, and he was gone to his own ac-
count , Re had one ruling purpose of his
life—the doing good to his fellow-creatures in his. genera-
tion. He was eminently cautious and kind, generous,
simple-hearted, of great modesty, of the strictest honour,
and of spotless integrity." These words will sound a
noble requiem above his grave—a sanction to the wide-
spread sorrow, and the natural pride of his contempora-
ries ; and a consolation to those to whom the loss is near-
est. His character will long survive him, and his works
are his enduring monument.
" There stand they—fortresses upreared by man,
Whose earthly frame is mortal ; symbols high
Of power unchanging,—thought that cannot die;
Proofs that our nature is not of a span
But of immortal esawce, and allied
"—WORKs,p.242.
To life and joy, ands ove unperishinff•
Liverpool, 20th March, 1854. DELTA.

SATURDAY was the birthday of the Princess Louisa,
(9urt4 4ugllkr Qf her )14esty.