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iate of Ir

eating those witu

and where no wheels were revolving. Far different, in-
deed, was the aspect of Ulster, wherethe word of God had
free course, and was glorified ? But of Ireland they were

now able to say, that with the famine came the mercy of
God—mercy sprung out of the judgment. Reverting to
the famine of 1847, he asserted that the world had never
witnessed a more glorious spectacle of sublime benevo-
lence than that which was exhibited towards the Irish by
England. Though be was well aware of the Scottish and

English benevolence before, he, for one, never expected
such a torrent of charity as was poured into his poor
afflicted country in 1847, not only from the churches but
from the theatres and concert-rooms and other places of
amusement. But while they had English bread in their
mouth they repaid England next year with a rebc

advent of the continental revolutions with joy, thinking
that England might becon
difficulty would be their
Irish people—with all their gushing, buoyant bosoms of
gratitude—they saw that they had been cajolled by the

ne embroiled, an

As regards the

priests; that the English were their true friends,
their enemies,as theyhad been taught tobelieve. (
The speaker next entered into a description of- their ope-
rations, in which they thought it most efficient to unite
industrial and Scripture education. Notwithstanding the
simple and benevolent object of their mission, the priests
had hailed it with curses, and incited the people to the
grossest violence—those very priests who were nursed in
the lap of Government favour. As a specimen of this,
he quoted a couplet from a ballad, the authorship of
which had been acknowledged by a priest in a public
court. This bath.' was an address to some shoemaker,
named Danald Montgomery, who bad rendered himself
conspicuous in the work of persecution, and one of the
verses thus began :

Cheers.)

Stab and bore him
Behind and before him,
Your laostone will floor him,
Brave Donald Montgomery!"

The priests in English towns might assume the airs of
martyrs, and walk the English streets with a bland smile
of resignation, as if they were alone the friends of liberty
—Rome might start her Vindicators and her Free Presses
on British ground—but still they certainly would not be
imposed on by the artfulness of the Papists, who always
knew how to conform to circumstances. In refer-
ence to the industrial department of the mission,
Dr. Dill related many interesting particulars,

ing that, while the girls performed their work with-great
taste, it originated in their bosoms that noble feeling of
.h the Popish consecration of begging
reland. Reviewing tke various

driven from I

connexion with the miss

s,--such as the
!ent habits, the

savings banks for the cultivation of provid
speaker concluded by asserting that the

oint result of

Protest

ant evangelisation and Pivishanaigration wo

to leave !he priests high and dry; to infuse social com-
fort and religious freedom in Rome's British stronghold ;
and, in less than twenty years, to make Ireland " great,
glorious and free." (Loud cheers.)
The REV. J. CAMPBELL, of Melrose, said Ireland had
had her night of weeping, but now she was about to wit-
ness the morninz of joy. With regard to their mission
for the west of Ireland, their schools were rude and ele-
mentary, but they were precisely the schools needed in
the circumstances. They had one central school, con-
nected with which there was a model farm, the whole
being under the charge of two Scotchmen, and producing
considerable benefit. Dr. Duff, the celebrated missionary
and one of the best practical educators, had visited them in
the course of last year,when he had noticed twogreat defects,
and to remove these defects was now their most earnest
desire. One of them consisted in the fact that the
children attending the schools were mostly girls, and that
there were very few boys. The estates were now in the
Encumbered Estates Court, and it was most desirable
that they should be enabled to purchase them, for which
purpose they would require £4OOO, another £lOOO being
necessary for the erection of the requisite buildings. The
first advantage derived from the accomplishment of this
would be the rendering of their institution permanent.
In the second place, they might then make the institution
self-supporting, and be enabled as well to provide an in-
ducement to the parents to send their boys as well as the
girls. As to the constitution of the association, it was pro-
posed to appoint four trustees—two to be nominated in
Scotland, and two ,in England. Lord Panmure and
Mr. Maitland had agreed to act as the Scottish t

and Lord Shaftesbu;l, had almost consented to represent
England in conjunction with Mr. Peto, M.P. Mr.
Campbell then passed to an expression of his hopes
with regard to Ireland. Popieh Ireland, and not Ire-
land herself, had been the curse of Britain ; and soon

,e would bec

ne,inste.

Is race, a
in their

(Cheers). Let them prod;
g the people, and leave the governmerV
t they please with regard to the priests. (Apps
Parliament had all along mistaken the seat of I
ills. In Scotland they acknowledged the deep d
owed to that(

to Britain.
of educatin

ntry, svhiah had
rere bigoted eno

e nort

the matter of regenerating Ireland the

would do the same in England. (;\ phase.)
The Rev. Dr. BIRREL moved the first resolution, to the
effect that, after hearing the information supplied by the
deputation, the meeting highly approve of the project, and
cordially commend it to the sympathy and aid of the
benevolent people of Liverpool. (Cheers.) Let them,
by their practical approval of this resolution, 'convince
Ireland that in Protestantism thcrewas.a.unity more real
than that of which the Romish Church boasted. (Cheers.)
The Rev. SAMUEL AluvroN seconded the resolution.
which he did with great cordiality, glad as he always was

to have the opportunity of supporting a movement, from
whatever party it emanated, which had for its object the
carrying of the Word of God to the Irish people-
Quoting a variety of extracts from 14—

e puns'

tions of Dr. Ne

favourite Roman'

Regions, which claimed for Rome the merit of being the
defender of civil and religious liberty, Mr. Minton,in a hu-
morous and effective speech, exposed their fabrications,
with a view to confirm the impressions which had been ori-
ginated by Dr. Dill, in his eloquent address. The

speaker closed his observations witli a variety
practical hints as to the conducting of the work
The Rev. V. M. WHITE, who apologized for the absence
of Mr. West, and expressed that gentleman's warm inter-
est in the mission, next addressed the meeting. The
resolution had been proposed by a Scotsman, seconded
by an Englishman, and it might not be considered
out of place, if he, an Irishman, supported it. He
concluded by intimating that one gentleman on the plat-
form had requested him to put his name upon the sub-
scription list for £25, another name having likewise been
handed in for an equal amount. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN intimated Oat the donor of the hand-
some gift was Mr. Cropper.
The proceedings closed with a cordial vote of thanks to
the Chairman, proposed by Mr. NEILSON and seconded
by the Rev. Mr.orm

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THE U. S. ARCTIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION.—Active
preparations are making in the United States to fit our
the second exploring expedition, proposed to be sent to
AußstArVia
the Arctic Regions, in search of Sir John Franklin, by
Mr. Henry Grinnell. Its departure is fixed for about
the middle of April. It will consist of the brig Advance,
which formed a part of the first expedition, and is still ire
perfect order, with the exception of her keel, which was
knocked off by the ice. It is expected that she will be
taken into the dry dock in about three weeks. She
will be manned by a crew of picked men, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant Kane, U.S.N., and be amply pro'vided
with sledges and Indiarubber boats, with which to pene-
trate into the frozen regions, using whichever mode of
conveyance may most facilitate their progress. Pemmican,
or dried deer's flesh, will form an essential article of food.
On her northerly trip the Advance will stop at Greenland.
and procure a supply of dogs. The sledges, and other
details of the outfit, are in course of preparation. The
direction to be taken will be the region of Smith's Sound;
and, as the expedition will be accompanied by a corps of
scientific observers, interesting results of a scientific na-
ture are anticipated, even though the expedition should
fail of ita main object.
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G THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 9
Sml L ES AND TEARS. THE LITERARY PAPERS hint that the late Edward VARIETIES.
Quillanan, son-in-law of 'William Wordsworth, left a
--------
LET '5 laugh at those who cannot bear volume of posthumous poems behind him, which will SPELL ACTIVITY in three letters—N.R.G. And
The various ills of life ;
Those brave ones where there 's joy to share, shortly be issued. " sourness" in four—A.C.D.T.
And cowards where there 's strife! ALL the respectable
I lion) it to be a fact, says Pascal, that if all persons
We all have clouds and sunshine, London newspapers, including the
Athenmunz and the Literary Gazette, have resolved to knew what they said of each other, there would not be
The needy with the rich ; discontinue the use of the press privilege of writing orders
For heaven bath wisely tempered four friends in the world.
of admission to the theatres.
Life's feelings unto each.
If there are thoughts that sadden, THE FRENCH
REVIEWERS complain that their liters-
MANY BOOKS require no thoughts from those who read
If there are acts that madden,
tore is being absorbed by the newspapers, and that their them, and for a very simple reason—they made no such
Why, there are things that gladden—
demand upon those who wrote them.
Things that should patience teach. booksellers will now publish nothing which has not passed
the ordeal of an appearance in afeuilleton. NOURISHING DIET.—A returned gold hunter from
Californiays that he once lived for ten days on broth
.n
Clouds will return with winter's hour,
But summer bath its sky; M. AMPERE, a French seven, has published " A Stroll
made from a old door-mat ! It was that made him so fat.
If death's white fingers touch a flower,
in America." He remarks, " The literature of the United
Are there not fresh ones by? States will not certainly he a new world, but it will be one FOUR HUNDRED YEARS have elapsed since the invention
There may be some who hate us province more in the vast empire of civilised literature." of printing, yet books are not in circulation all over the
The while we weep the tear; globe ; while the use of tobacco became universal within
But some are sure to love us A. RECENT WRITER, talking of America, remarks that fifty years after its discovery.
When sorrow blights our cheer. "no country has a literature so rapidly and at the same EXTRAORDINARY RATIONALITY.—We are enabled to
Woe may be in our dwelling, time so grandly growing, and no thoroughly civilized
Our present mirth expelling— nation has a newspaper press so paltry and insignificant." state as a fact, which, though apparently incredible, may
But there's a whisper telling be entirely depended upon, that a lady, being offered a
Of better moments near. " THE ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER," Thomas de Quin- new bonnet by her husband, positively declined the pre-
Lips may be false, and hearts untrue, cey, one of the most remarkable men of the day, is pre- sent, on the ground that she did not want it. Hence it
But all ate not like these ; paring for publication " Autobiographial Sketches," pro- appears that there is not, in all cases without exception,
Though wild winds sweep the green earth throngb,
bably an extension of certain papers recently published in unqualified and absolute truth in the complaint of married
We have the gentle breeze;
an Edinburgh periodical. men that women are always wanting new bonnets.—Punch.
Though touched at times by.sickness,
We find health's golden mine; THE Athenum protests against the practice of authors A YOUTHFUL PARTY.—Six admirals dined together last
If common drink be water,
and students being charged, like attorneys, when they week at Portsmouth, and their united ages amounted to
we now and then get Wine.
wish to make extracts in the ecclesiastical courts from 556 years. The youngest of the party, who was not more
Joy is the twin of sorrow,
Both from the heart's store borrow, documents deposited there : on the substantial ground than 73, is anxiously waiting for his turn to be called into
And each may fill the morrow that the author does so for the national, and not for a active exercise. It is strongly feared by his friends, how-
With weather dull or fine. private, interest. ever, that his age will stand materially in his way, as he
..."."1 MR. ROBERT FORREST, a self-taught Scottish artist, is considered far too young at present to be appointed to
any responsible post. The other admirals join their ships
born at Carluke, Lanarkshire, and bred as a stonemason,
LITERATURE.
died on Wednesday week. His first great work was a (gout permitting) in a few days.—Punch.
-------- ----- statue of the national hero, Sir William Wallace. Mr. QUALIFICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE.—Fanny Fern, a
&ais FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c. Forrest had a permanent exhibition of his own statuary very pretty writer for some literary papers, says she is
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. ready to jump at the first offer of marriage, and presents
non-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor " TURIN," says the last number of the Athenieum, her qualifications as follows :—" I have black eyes and
'
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded " has become the capital of Italian ideas. Gas—railways hair, and am petite. I am as sensitive as a mimosa,
and receive attention. —telegraphs—toleration—popular literature—representa-
spirited as an eagle, and untameable as a cbain of light-
tive institutions—all the chief features of the modern ning. Can make a pudding, or write a newspaper squib;
The Scottish Review. No. I. hap-
{economy has recently been founded in Turin.
world have been welcomed there." A society of political cut a child's frock, or cut a caper; and throw more hap-
piness or misery into ten minutes than any Fanny that
y
This is a new candidate for popular favour, was ever christened. American paper.
which numbers among its contributors several LORD JOHN RUSSELL some years ago spoke sneeringly CURRAN AND CHANCELLOR CLARE.—Lord Chancellor
osifd" the weriteizrinofthe Gaily newspapers,'' now. his lord-
eminent names, including Professor Nichols and Clare, on one occasion, while Curran was addressing him
Thomas de Quincey. The most attractive paper aminstry which includes in its r
as specsreatmarymof the Board of Control, one of the same in. a most important case, occupied himself with a favou-
rite spaniel or Newfoundland dog, seated by him ; and all
among the dozen which the present part contains is writers, namely, Mr. Robert Lowe, the colonial contributor the world will remember the rebuke administered to him
apparently from the pen of George Gilfillan, of to the Times, and now M.P. for Kidderminster. Mr. by that rarely-gifted man. Curran having ceased speak-
Dundee, and is devoted to a review of the life of Lowe was, we believe, born at Bingham, in Nottingham- inn, through indignation, or malice prepense, Lord Clare
Robert Burns. Mr. Gilfillan reads a terrible lesson shire, of which parish his uncle is at the present time raised his head and asked, " Why don't you proceed, Mr.
from the daily life of the unhappy Bard of Coila, incumbent. Curran ?" " I thought your lordships were in consul-
with which many may differ, but in which not a GENERAL Cass, the democratic leader in the American teflon," replied Curran.—Reminiscences of an Emigrant
Congress, on the 3rd of January current, introduced a me- Milesian.
few will cordially concur. From another article we morial from the Baptist Union of Maryland, praying the EXPRESSIVE SIGNS.—To say "Leave the room," is less
quote a passage on • interposition of the United States to secure religious expressive than to point to the door. Placing a finger on
SANITARY REFORM, EDUCATION, AND TEMPERANCE. freedom for Americans abroad. Mr. Hale, " a free- the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak."
Whether they stand to one another as effects or causes ; soiler," said "he thought the object sought a most corn- A beck of the hand is better than " Come here." No
or sometimes the one and sometimes the other ; or, at one
mendable one. He would be glad that all nations should 1 rase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as open-
and the same moment, partly effect and partly cause, they be taught that phrase
was a God, whose laws and commands ingl the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the
stand together in a state of indissoluble union, as the were supreme ; but he did not think this was the nation shoulders would lose much by translation into words. Of
most needed and most potent agencies fitted to work out a to send forth missionaries to preach that doctrine. We, Hawthorne, the American author, it is said his principle
more intelligent, a more moral, a healthier, and a happier were the last people in the world to make
that
appeal.' seemed to be, if a man cannot understand without talking
" Mr. Cass.—lf I understood what the Senator meant, I to him, it is quite useless to talk, because it is immaterial
condition of social existence, Rivalry, and far less ante-
would perhaps reply to him." " Mr. Hale—The difficulty whether such a man understand or not.
gonism, there is none. Whether the leaders in either
is, that I meant just what I said, which is such an unusual
section may at all times see the advantages of the onward
"
progress of the other, may be doubted ;but that in reality thing here, that the Senator cannot understand me.
CHESHIRE AND `VALES.
each is helpful to each, and that they stand mutually aidful (Laughter.)
in the common cause of human improvement, never can AMONG THE REMARKABLE PERSONS who died during -- _ -
be doubted by any enlightened and impartial observer. 1852 were the following :—Mrs. Harlowe, the actress ; CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
That their influence is felt in our day, in a way never felt the Prince de Broglio, Eliot Warburton, G. N. Rodwell, week ended Jan. 16, 1853 ;—Railway : Passengers, par.
before, is obvious to all; and that they form the mightiest Thomas Moore, Vice-Admiral Sir W. A. Montague, eels, &c., £1,768 13s. ad. ; Goods, £1,015 16s. id. ;
instrument of social stability and progress (subordinate, Armand Marrast, Lady Jane Dalrymple Hamilton, Steam-boats : passengers, parcels, &c., £2OB 17s. 9d.—
of course, to the rightful supremacy of true reiigion) can- Marshal Marmont, Duke de Raguse, John Landseer, the Total, £2,993 6s. 11d.—Inerease compared with the corre-
not be questioned. No political movement, change, or engraver; Madame Thiers, Miss Berry, the Queen sponding week last year, £667 Os. 6d.
theory ;no form of government, no action of government, Dowager of Denmark, Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, WALLASEY LADIES' CHARITY BALL.—The annual
unless bearing directly or indirectly on the effective ope- Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, Nicolo Gogel, a Russian ball on behalf of the ladies' charity of Wallasey took place
ration of these great agencies, can contend with,the masses author ; Arthur O'Connor, the Grand Duke of Baden, on Tuesday evening last, at the Egremont Hotel. The
of vice, ignorance, filth, disease, and crime which have Henry Clay, Sir James M'Adam, Duke of Hamilton, attendance comprised the principal families of Wallasey
threatened so portentously our national strength and well Dr. Hubert Mayo, G. R. Porter, Ada Byron (the and neighbourhood, together with several parties from
being. Sanitary, educational, and temperance reformers Countess of Lovelace,) Abbe Gioberti, Prince deLeuchten- Liverpool. Amongst the company present were Mrs. and
are the truest patriots, the best friends of human advance- burg, Vincent George Dowling, Marshal Etienne Maurice Miss Littledale, Mrs. and Miss Reddy, Mrs. and Miss
merit, the real pioneers of the reign of virtue and peace. Gerard, Alexander Mackay, author of "The Western Winch, Mr. and Mrs. North and party, Mr. and Mrs.
What has been done, under some aspects, may no doubt World ;" Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, Countess de Wm. Mann and party, Mrs. and Mr. Commissioner
be regarded as but the " earnest of our inheritance." We Buffon, Alfred Count D'Orsay, Daniel Webster, Thomas Perry, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Stringer, Mr. and
are only on the confines of the
,land of promise. The Thomson, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review; Mrs. Coulborn and Miss Bell, Mr. Mrs., and Miss
Anakim of rotten bones, stagnant pools, dirty puddles, the Bishop of Moray and Ross; the Bishop of Meath; Wright, Miss Mackay, Miss Wardell, and the Misses
W ellington.
airless dwellings, of brutish ignorance, and of worse than and His Grace the Duke of Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Glynne Bateson and the
brutish drunkenness, possess many a stronghold, and many AMUSING ANECDOTE OF GEORGE M.—ln looking Misses Dover, Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, Mr.
a league of land. They are not be dislodged without a over an old English journal the other day, we found an and Mrs. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Driver, Mr. and Mrs.
vigorous and persevering onslaught. But their doom is amusing anecdote of a social concert in the family of Haynes and Miss Jones, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses
written in heaven ; and as surely as we have faith in God, George 111., the party composing a quintette, under the Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Fox and the Misses Anderson,
his laws, his government, and, under God, use the reason direction of the monarch himself. The Princess of Mr. and Miss Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Mr. and
and the instruments his providence has furnished, so surely Wales presided with grace at the harp, the Duke of New- Mrs. H. Hassell, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bourne, Mr. and
may we count on the attainment of a final ejectment from castle played the first violin, the Duke of Devonshire, the Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. and Miss Rimmer, Mr. William,
our country of the foulest evils that have tyrannised there. tenor, and the facetious Philip Dormer discoursed on the Mr. Charles, and the Misses Chambres, Mr. and the
The call obviously is to greater energy in the direction of flute. The story proceeds as follows :—lt so happened Misses Maine and paitv, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Norris
every social advance. If a pig's dwelling incommodes, let that the king had his own notions of time and tune, Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Daunt, Mrs. Maunder and Miss
it be removed; if a gutter sends forth its disease-bearing therefore every member of the concert, while giving his Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Bouch and party, Mr. Ewart, Mr.
vapour, let it be covered and concealed ;if a neighbourhood eyes to his own music, was obliged to give his ears to the Neilson, Dr. Parr, Mr. Peel, Mr. W. L. E. Coulborn,
is a condensed congeries of vice, ignorance, and crime, in king's, and as rapidly as possible to follow the direction Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Maude, Mr. Muller,
kindness and mercy let it be visited and taught ; and if a of the royal performer. On the present occasion it Mr. Low, Mr. Miles, Mr. Crawley, and Mr. Wilson.
public-house fountain of spirituous ruin can be shut, let it became evident, however, that the concerto was going Mrs. Hassell, as lady patroness, admirably discharged
be done by what hands soever that are willing to aid. He wrong, but the most acute of these select amateurs could the duties in connection with the ball-room. Gribbin's
who brings more water, purer and cheaper, helps Eng- not imagine where they were in error. The royal bass_ brass band occupied the orchestra, and played some very
land's sanitary salvation • he who teaches " a beggar's viol was proceeding on its course with all due sedateness ; select pieces of music. Supper was provided by Mr.
brat" some useful knowledge, from the alphabet to the the violin looked in vain, backwards and forwards for Mansell, of the Egremont Hotel.
graceof immortality, aids themarch of mind-power; and he several bars, to see where he could glide in, but could A TALE OF MYSTERY.—During the last few weeks,
who lifts a drunkard for ever out of the mire, or prevents discover nothing resembling what he had heard ; the considerable excitement has existed among the residents
from falling thereinto, is a friend of the anti-drunkenness tenor, knowing there was a difficult passage just passed in Tranmere and Rock Ferry. About three years ago, an
movement. over, and being well aware of the royal practice with old gentleman named Green, who was last seen at a
------ regard to such, boldly went back and repeated it; the public-house in Limekiln-lane, Tranmere, when he was
THE LEPERS IN JERUSALEM. harpsichord, believing the time had been altered from supposed to have had a considerable sum of money on his
fast to slow, slackened its pace ; and the flute, entertain- person, was missing, and has not since been heard of,
—4,-- ing a different opinion, went away at double speed. Such though every effort was made at the time to discover the
(FROM THE DIARY OF AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER, a strange medley was never heard before; nevertheless, cause of his sudden disappearance. On the day when he
In my rambles about Jerusalem, I passed through the the king was seen leaning forward, with his eyes fixed on was last seen he had been collecting the rents of some
quarter of the Lepers. Apart from the interest attached the music, evidently too absorbed in his own performance property, and it was supposed that he had been murdered
to this unfortunate class of beings (arising from the to heed the confusion that distracted the audience, and and buried. After a lapse of time his property was di-
frequent allusion made to them in the Scripture,) there is made the other musicians feel extremely uncomfortable. vided amongst his relatives, and by degrees the affair be.
much in their appearance and mode of life to attract The Duke of Newcastle, a studious courtier, knew not came almost forgotten. Some short time since, a labour-
attention, and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt what to do ;he played a few notes here and there, whis- ing man resident in Tranmere, and yclept "The Admiral,"
and diseases go revoltingly together here ; gaunt famine pered to the Duke of Devonshire, nudged Philip Dormer, dreamt for three successive nights, so it is said, that he
stalks through the streets; a constant cry of suffering whose blowing had become desperate; he glanced at the saw the murderer of Mr. Green and the place where that
swells upon the dead air, and sin broods darkly over the music of the princess, without obtaining any clue to the gentleman's remains were buried. He mentioned the
ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ill.fatea spot. cause of the inextricable disorder ; but still he plied on, fact to a neighbouring clergyman, who paid but little
Wasted forms sit in the doorways ; faces covered with knowing that matters could not be worse than they were. attention to it, but so strongly was the man impressed
white scales and sightless eyes are turned upwards ; The king, at last, brought the concert suddenly to a close, with the truth of his dream, that he began digging about
skeleton arms, distorted and fetid with the ravages oby finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly at the end the spot revealed to him in his dream—a small plantation
leprosy, are outstretched from the foul moving mass ; and of his symphony. The princess, who alone dared to adjacent to a house near the Rock Ferry slip.. He men-
a low bowl is heard, the howl of the stricken for alms. speak, discovered that the king had turned over two leaves tioned the facts to Mr. Green's daughter and described
Alms, oh, stranger, for the love of God ! alms to feed the at once ; the monarch, with the utmost composure, the murderer so minutely, that from the description she
inexorable destroyer; alms to prolong this dreary and turned back to the part which had not been played, and recognised a labourer resident in Tranmere, whom she
hopeless misery ! Look upon it, stranger, you who walk without uttering a word set to work, followed by the met in the public highway, as the alleged murderer, faint-
forth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh other musicians, who were well up at the finish, and in at ing, so say the gossips, at the unexpected sight. Of
air of heaven ; you who have never known what it is to the death with tolerable exactitude. course, such a mysterious affair affords ample food for
be shunned by your fellow man as a thing uncleaned and REMARKABLE OBITUARY NOTICES.—The following village gossips, while the strange and sudden disappear-
accursed ; you who deem yourself unblessed with all the are among the most singular obituary notices published in ance of Mr. Green lends to the affair an air of romance,
blessings that God has given you upon earth ; look upon the course of 1852:—Lydia Burnham, in Groton, U.S., attractive even to persons unlikely to be moved by su-
it, and learn that there is a misery beyond all that you aged 104 years and 9 months. She retained her faculties perstitions of any kind. " The Admiral" ceased his
have conceived in your gloomiest hours—a misery that to a remarkable degree until a few months before her labours a few days ago, although he had previously con.
can be endured, Learn that even the Leper, with death death. There are ten children now living, descendants of sulted a clairvoyant as to the truth of the impression left
gnawing at his vitals, and unceasing tortures in his blood, the deceased, of the fifth generation.—Elie Kurbander, in on his mind during his sleeping hours, the clairvoyant, as
cast out from the society of his fellow man; forbidden to Prague, on the Elbe, aged one hundred years. He was the story goes, fully confirming him in his previous idea,
touch, in friendship or affection, the hand of the un- the oldest pianist, and probably the oldest of all musi- which has however turned out to be all moonshine. If
tainted ; still struggles for life, and deems each hour cians. He was one of the first music masters to Meyer- this affair be really worth consideration, why do not the
precious that keeps him from the grave. The quarter of beer.—Mrs. Mehitable Currier, in Danbury, U.S., aged Cheshire magistrates cause this digger for dead men to be
the Leper is a sad and impressive place. By the laws of 103 years 9 months. She survived her husband forty-six brought before them, and examined as to the " actual"
the land, which have existed from scriptural times, they years, and outlived all her children, twelve in number.— reasons which induced him to undertake his unwonted
are isolated from all actual contact with their fellow men ; Christina Paterson, one of Robert Burns's heroines, operations.
yet therc seem? tow be no prohibition to their going out whose name, at the time he wrote, was Morton. at Mauch. -

In my rambles about Jerusalem, I passed through the
quarter of the Lepers. Apart from the interest attached
to this unfortunate class of beings (arising from the
frequent allusion made to them in the Scripture,) there is
much in their appearance and mode of life to attract
attention, and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt
and diseases go revoltingly together here ; gaunt famine
stalks through the streets; a constant cry of suffering
swells upon the dead air, and sin broods darkly over the
ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ill-fates spot.
Wasted forms sit in the doorways ; faces covered with
white scales and sightless eyes are turned upwards ;
skeleton arias, distorted and fetid with the ravages of
leprosy, are outstretched from the foul moving mass ; and
a low howl is heard, the howl of the stricken for alms.
Alms, oh, stranger, for the love of God! alms to feed the
inexorable destroyer; alms to prolong this dreary and
hopeless misery ! Look upon it, stranger, you who walk
forth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh
air of heaven ; you who have never known what it is to
be shunned by your fellow man as a thing uncleaned and
accursed ; you who deem yourself unblessed with all the
blessings that God has given you upon earth ; look upon
it, and learn that there is a misery beyond all that you
'have conceived in your gloomiest hours—a misery that
can be endured, Learn that even the Leper, with death
gnawing at his vitals, and unceasing tortures in his blood,
cast out from the society of his fellow man •, forbidden to
touch, in friendship or affection, the hand of the un-
tainted ; still struggles for life, and deems each hour
precious that keeps him from the grave. The quarter of
the Leper is a sad and impressive place. By the laws of
the land, which have existed from scriptural times, they
are isolated from all actual contact with their fellow men ;
yet there seems to be no prohibition to their going out
beyond the walls of Jerusalem. and begging by the road
side. Near the gate of Zion, on the way to Bethlehem,
saw many of them sitting on the rocks, their hideous
faces uncovered, thrusting forth their scaly hands for
alms. Their huts are rudely constructed of earth and
stones, seldom with more than one apartment, and this
so filthy and loathsome that it seemed unfit to be occupied
by swine. Here they live and propagate, whole families
together, without distinction of sex ; and their dreadful
malady is perpetuated from generation to generation ; the
groans of the aged and dying being mingled with the
feeble wail of the young that are brought forth branded
for a life of misery. Strange and mournful thoughts
arise in the contemplation of the sad condition and pro-
bable destiny of these ill-fated beings. Among so many,
there must be some in whose breasts the power of true
love is implanted ; love for woman in its purest sense, for
offspring, for all the endearments of domestic life which
the untainted are capable of feeling. Yet they are
doomed never to exercise the affections without per-
petuating the curse. There must be some, too, in whom
there are hidden powers of mind, unknown save to them-
selves, ambition that corrodes with unavailing aspirations;
a thirst for action that burns within unceasingly, yet never
can be assuaged ; all the ruling passions that can be im-
planted
in man for great and noble purposes—never, never
to give one moment's pleasure unmixed with the perpetual
gloom of that curse which dwells in their blood. As I
plodded my way for the last time through this den of
sickening sights, a vision of human misery was impressed
upon my mind that time cannot efface. I passed when
the rays of the sun were cold and the light was dim ; and
there came out from the reeking hovels leprous men,
gaunt with famine, and they bared their hideous bodies,
and howled like beasts ; and women held out their loath-
some and accursed babies, and tore away the rags that
covered them, and pointing to the Shapeless mass,
shrieked for alms. All was disease, and sin, and sorrow,
wherever I went; and as I passed on, unable to relieve a
thousandth part of the misery, moans of despair and
howling curses followed me, and Lepers crawled back into
their hovels to rot in their filth,
lth, and die when God willed.

VICTOR HUGO is said to be at work on a new phillippic
and a new poem.
THE TWO MOST POPULAR POETS Of America,Longfellow
and Holmes, are both professors at Haward University.
tratAxer MARTIN CRIPPS, the companion and fellow-
age of 73 yeas, Clarke, died recently in Sussex, at the
Y•

THE CATALOGUE OT BOOKS at the Leipsic fair for
1853 contains 6764 new publications, a great increase on
previous years.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM is about to publish, from,
family documents, certain memoirs of the court and
cabinet of George the Third.
" PARLIAMENTARY LITERATURE" is assuming a for-
midable position. During the past year the blue-books
sold realized something more than 210,000.
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S new comedy, entitled " Bt.
Cupid ; or Dorothy's Fortune," was produced at Wind.
sor Castle on Friday evening before Her Majesty.
THE LITERARY INSTITUTIONS OF BIRMINGHAM haye
most of them died out, and it is now proposed to arrange
the foundation of one giant insfitution for that town.
MR. DISRAELI'S " Lord George Bentinck," and Miss
Martineau's " History of the Thirty Years' Peace," have
been translated into German, and published at Berlin.
Mn. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, the " literary gentleman" of
the Times, has had conferred on him a German doctorate,
spontaneously proffered to him at the instigation of
Chevalier Bunsen.

M. ALEXANDRE PUMAS is publishing a new novel
of novels in the Consiztuttopne.l, embodying the thoughts
and feelings of his busy lifetline. Its title is " Isaac
Laquedern," and its subject is—The Wandering Jew.
There are to be six novels within the novel. The most
Flcredpersonagesof the Old and New Testaments are freely
Introduced talking and acting.

AMUSING ANECDOTE OF GEORGE lII.—In looking
over an old English journal the other day, we found an
amusing anecdote of a social concert in the family of
George 111., the party composing a quintette, under the
direction o the monarch himself. The Princess of
Wales presided with grace at the harp, the Duke of New-
castle played the first violin, the Duke of Devonshire, the
tenor, and the facetious Philip Dormer discoursed on the
flute. The story proceeds as follows :—lt so happened
that the king had his own notions of time and tune,
therefore every member of the concert, while giving his
eyes to his own music, was obliged to give his ears to the
king's, and as rapidly as possible to follow the direction
of the royal performer. On the present occasion it
became evident, however, that the concerto was going
wrong, but the most acute of these select amateurs could
not imagine where they were in error. The royal bass-
viol was proceeding on its course with all due sedateness ;
the violin looked in vain, backwards and forwards for
several bars, to see where he could glide in, but could
discover nothing resembling what he had heard ; the
tenor, knowing there was a difficult passage just passed
over, and being well aware of the royal practice with
regard to such, boldly went back and repeated it; the
harpsichord, believing the time had been altered from
fast to slow, slackened its pace ; and the flute, entertain-
ing a different opinion, went away at double speed. Such
a strange medley was never learn before; nevertheless,
the king was seen leaning forward, with his eyes fixed on
the music, evidently too absorbed in his own performance
to heed the confusion that distracted the audience, and
made the other musicians feel extremely uncomfortable.
The Duke of Newcastle, a studious courtier, knew not
what to do ; he played a few notes here and there, whis-
pered to the Duke of Devonshire, nudged Philip Dormer,
whose blowing had become desperate ; he glanced at the
music of the princess, without obtaining any clue to the
cause of the inextricable disorder ; but still he plied on,
knowing that matters could not be worse than they were.
The king, at last, brought the concert suddenly to a close,
by finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly at the end
of his symphony. The princess, who alone dared to
speak, discovered that the king had turned over two leaves
at once ; the monarch, with the utmost composure,
turned back to the part which had not been played, and
without uttering a word set to work, followed by the
other musicians, who were well up at the finish, and in at
the death with tolerable exactitude.
REMARKABLE OBITUARY NOTICES.—The following
are among the most singular obituary notices published in
the course of 1852:—Lydia Burnham, in Groton, U.S.,
aged 104 years and 9 months. She retained her faculties
to a remarkable degree until a few months before her
death. There are ten children now living, descendants of
the deceased, of the fifth generation.—Elie Kurbander, in
Prague, on the Elbe, aged one hundred years. He was
the oldest pianist, and probably the °West of all musi-
cians. He was one of the first music masters to Meyer-
beer.—Mrs. Mehitable Currier, in Danbury, U.S., aged
103 years 9 months. She survived her husband forty-six
years, and outlived all her children, twelve in number.—
Christina Paterson, one of Robert Burns's heroines,
whose name, at the time he wrote, was Morton, at Mauch.
line, Scotland, aged 87.—John M`Lean, in Inverness,
Scotland, aged 105 years. He recollected the first post-
chaise, and when the first coal was burned.—Captain
Rowland R. Crocker, in New Bedford, of disease of the
heart, aged 82, for many years a popular shipmaster out
of New York, and was one of the first commanders of the
" Black Ball" line of Liverpool packets.—Mrs. Margaret
Lagedon, near Mount Savage, Maryland, aged 101 years.
She removed to that section when it was a wilderness, and
containing few inhabitants save Indians. She left 500
descendants.—John Wilson, in Edinburgh, Scotland,
aged 101 years and 11 months. He was a mechanic.
Until the last few months he was able to read, and occa-
sionally to walk out by himself.—Francis Russell, in
North Eaton, Massachusetts, aged 67. He was born
February 29, 1784, and has had, therefore, only seventeen
birthdays.—Elizabeth Douglas, in Kirkcudbrightshire,
Scotland, aged 105 years.—David Rennison, in Chicago,
Illinois, aged 115 years 3 months and 7 days. He is said
to have been the last of the " Boston Tea Party." He
was engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill.—Henry Gibson,
of Newberg, New York, aged 101 years and 14 days. He
was one of Washington's Life Guards.—Jose Francisco
Rodrigues, in Havana, Cuba, aged 112 years and a few
days. He was a negro.—Janet M`Donald, at Inverness,
Scotland, aged 105 years. She could thread a cambric
needle to within a short period of her death.—Marguerite
Boatillier, at Genzie, near Cognac, aged 102 years. She
laboured in the fields to within a few weeks of her death,
and preserved her faculties to the last.—Tibby Renton, in
Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 102 years and 3 months. She
was " hale and weel" to within a few days of her death.—
Reuben Edmondson, in St. Louis, U.S., aged 63. He
was better known as " Jack Bowers," the most noted
thief in the Mississippi Valley. He had been arrested
115 times, and incarcerated in various prisons 61 times.—
Charles Bouches, near Montreal, Canada, aged 106 years.
He was married to three wives, with whom he had sixty
children. He leaves forty-three children, sixty-six grand-
children, thirteen great grandchildren, twenty-eight ne-
phews, seventy grand nephews, and eighteen great grand-
nephews.—M. A. Mieville, at Berne, aged 86, called by
his countrymen " the Nestor of Swiss journalism."--
Peter Minotto, in Turin, aged 83 years. He was the last
member of the ancient Venetian nobility, and the only
living Senator of Venice when she was the Queen of the
Adriatic Sea.—Mrs. Mary Pritchard, at Cre'ngilach,
Scotland, aged 108 years. She was married when she was
twenty-seven years old, and lived with her first husband
forty years. She remained a widow two years. She lived
-
thirty years with her second husband. Her sight failed
her three years before her death—her other senses and
faculties were unimpaired.—Joseph Swinden, near Blythe,
England, aged 100 years 11 months and 25 days. Had
not had three days sickness during his life, and only a
day before his death was busy sawing and chopping wood.
—Ann Kelly, in Lewisham, Kent, England, aged 103
years. From early youth she was a member of the thea-
trical profession, and acted at various theatres in Eng-
land, Ireland, and Scotland. She was in the same com-
pany with the late Edmund Kean, and also with James
Sheridan Knowles during his brief career as an actor ;
and it was her proudest boast that shead often played
had
‘the " Jane Shore" of Mrs. Siddons. About
theA age of to
60 she lost her hearing, and was obliged to re-
linquish the stage ; she was then residing in the same
came to ParisP
Knowles.—Pere Nicolet, in Paris, France.
ne 'vas proprietor of the famous eating palace called the
wPnetwititßah Irr.onKnne°a Twenty-one years ago Nicolet
as a cab' driver.a For many years he has dined ten
thousand,
and
with whip and a blouse, to seek his for-
tuneordinar
hogsheadssometimes o f twentyw i-
about twentyconsumption of the house was a dozen calves,
twenty sheep, quantities of beef, fis
tpheorusand., in a day. The
b and poultry, and
ample kitchen day. Pere Nicolet
was his own head
cook, and might
dailyotr
peocruartijoouns.
aide-de- camps. directing His own
the labours of same eight or ten
curious observers might b
advertisement of the generous
nerenormous bulk was a standing
be seen daily in his
kitchen windows, to marvel at h
ollsqualities of his meat. Many
seen peeping throng
he supported his immense "corporation." which
beltsH withe
isswahildi
have died worth £40,000.

NORWICH UNION FIRE-OFFICE.

On Tuesday, the 11th instant, the annual general
meeting of the proprietors of this institution was held at
the office, in Surrey-street, Norwich, pursuant to public
advertisement. Between forty and fifty gentlemen at-
tended, and at twelve o'clock the President, Anthony
Hudson, Esq., took the chair, and called upon the Secre-
tary, Samuel Bignold, Esq., to open the proceedings,
which he did by reading the clauses of the deed of settle-
ment (which prescribed that this meeting should be held,
and the advertisement, as it appeared in the Gazette,
convening the same).

The PRESIDENT then proceeded to lay the accounts
before the shareholders, which he did with great minute-
ness and perspicuity, commenting on the items as he went
along, so that the fullest exposition of the affairs took
place. The president concluded by stating, that though
the year had not been favourable as to a diminution of
fires, for, in fact, it was in amount of loss above the aver-
age, yet there was an available balance, after providing
for every contingency, of £8,595. At the sitting of the
directors on the previous day, they had thought it right
to make an appropriation of £5,000 of this balance, leav-
ing in hand £3,595 to begin the next year's account. The
president observed that one-fifth of this appropriation I
was, by the constitution of the office, available for the
yearly dividend to the shareholders, and being added to
the interest produced by their capital, enabled the direc-
tors to declare a dividend of £3 per share, or £lO per
cent. on the amount originally paid up. (Hear, hear.) He
felt himself justified in avowing, that in no period of the
past history of this great office were its affairs in a
more healthy or satisfactory position than at this time.
(Hear, hear.)

Sonie disc-ursive discussion arose on many matters of
detail, in which Captain Money, Mr. Mottram, the Rev.
John Bailey, and other gentlemen, took part.
At the close, Mr. BIGNOLD shortly addressed the meet-
ing, stating that the dividend which had been declared
would be payable at the treasurers', Messrs. Gurneys, on
and after Thursday, the 13th instant. He further drew
the attention of the proprietors to the still onward course
of this great institution, which, the returns on the table
showed, had increased more than a quarter of a million in
its aggregate sums insured in the last year. This he attri-
buted to three causes—first, the great and distinctive
principle on which the office was founded, that of making
returns to the parties insuring ; no less than £21,072 had
been paid back in this way, between Michaelmas, 1831,
and Michaelmas, 1852, to those who had been insured in
the previous five years. (Hear, hear.) The second
ground of the greatness of this office was, he thought, to
be traced to the confidence of the public in its executive
management. Although its directors were known in this
city and county by their position and influence, they were
only known at distant points, (great seats of business of
this office,) viz., London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dub.
lin, by their strict and honourable fulfilment of the en.
gagements of the office, and in all these agencies their
business was prospering in a very high degree. The third
ground of the greatness of this office was, in his opinion,
to be ascribed to its experienced and well-appointed
agency all over the country. He believed that no office
of the present era possessed a more intelligent and able
complement of agents than were engaged in the service of
this society. Mr. Bignold then expressed a hope that the
future success of the society would fully equal the past,
and drew attention to the progressive rise of the dividend
to the proprietors, which, in 1851, was 245. per share ; in
1852, 425.; and at this year was 60s. (Hear, hear.)
The business of the annual meeting being concluded, it
was declared special, formally to pass a resolution, sanc-
tioning the society's carrying on foreign insurances, which,
after some explanation by the President, was approved
and confirmed.

The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the
president and directors for their able administration of the
affairs of the office, the meeting terminated.
Duty paid to Government in 1851, £74,100 15s. 3d.,
and the amount insured on farming stack, which is free of
duty, amounted to £9,156,8984

CORRESPONDENCE.

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real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite
in any statement of facts.
The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold
himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his
correspondents.

WOODSIDE FERRY-HOUSE.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—When we toast " The Press" at our public dinners, we
ought not to forget its important " mission," to use a favourite
term, as the redresser of public grievances; and it is in full
appreciation of its valuable services in this respect, that I
address these few lines to you.
My attention was attracted a few days since to the very in-
efficient accommodation provided at Woodside Ferry fin' those
who sit at the receipt of customs. Instead of a commodious
building, in which so large an amount of traffic could be con-
ducted with comfort to those concerned in it, there is a nest of
little pigeon-hcles arranged in a kind of promiscuous proximity
(as though division and addition had been practised at random),
ill ventilated, most imperfectly protected from the weather,
and without sufficient height for a tall man to stand erect.
Surely the Commissioners can hardly be aware of the interior
of a place which presents so fair an outside, or some other
influence must be at work to prevent its reform. It may be
asked, what concern have I, as simply one of the public, with
the comforts of a place through which I have merely to pass in
my way to and from the steamers, in common with many
thousands more, who have the like brief business to perform
in it? I answer, not much, or perhaps none at all, excepting
a strong feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate clerks whose
business compels them to remain so large a portion of their
time within its walls: It may be that their position precludes
them from complaining, though I have heard that it is no un-
common thing for one or other of them to be laid up from ill-
ness so produced. It is, therefore, as one of the independent
public, who am simply an observer, that I desire, through your
columns, to call the attention of the proper authorities to the
fact, in the confident hope that the appeal to them will not be
a vain one. I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Birkenhead, 21st Jan., 1853. ALPHA.

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TENANT RIGHT FOR ENGLAND.—No. I.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—As the important subject of securing a tenant right
for Ireland is now before the legislature in Mr. Napier's series
of bills, it is, I believe, a fitting opportunity to direct public
attention to the necessity of improving the present law of
tenure in England with reference to agricultural improve-
ments. I shall, therefore, with your permission, offer the
following remarks ; premising that the whole subject may
occupy three or four letters.

The progress of nearly every department of industrial acti-
vity has been of so startling a character within the last few
years, that the spirit of enterprise has almost paused to dis-
cover a new field of operations upon which to exert its skill for
effecting improvements. In nearly every branch of manufac-
tures the resources of science have been almost exhausted—in
mechanics, in chemistry, and in mineralogy. The steam-
engine has been applied to locomotion to an extent which ren-
ders ancient fables no longer incredible, while electricity in
the spread of intelligence has almost outstripped the power of
belief. While skill and ingenuity have done so much for every
thing which may add to the comfort and luxury of man, the
question may be asked, how is it that so little has been done
to supply his actual necessities? While our population is year
by year increasing in number, and still more so in the means
of purchase and the consequent increased consumption of food,
our amount of production has not kept pace with the demand,
so that England might be rendered independent of foreign
supplies for the most indispensable requisite to the mainte-
nance of her people. The simple fact may be broadly stated,
that we have but the same number of acres available for culti-
vation, while the number of people to be supplied with food is
daily being added to. The only legitimate resource, therefore,
is to increase the fertility and productiveness of the soil, to
cause two blades to grow where but one grew before, and reap
each year from each acre a greater quantity than was done the
year preceding. This can only be accomplished by improved
scientific knowledge, by the investment of that capital which
is too often thrown away on idle speculations, and by an eco-
nomical devotion of industry and skill to the desired object.
In the giant strides which science has made towards perfection
in manufactures, in locomotion, and in commerce, has nothing
been done towards the far more important art of agriculture?
Has the genius of Enterprise, mindful of everything else, been
only neglectful of the cultivation of the earth, the mainstay of
national greatness, and the foundation of every other pursuit ?
This can hardly be said to be the case. The discoveries of
Liebig and others in science have done much, and the actual
operations of practical agriculturists have also tended to prove
that the land may be made capable of yielding produce even
beyond the requirements of man. We read of improvements
effected by means of draining, of sub-soiling, and other me-
chanical contrivances ; of the wonderful effects of bones,
guano, and other foreign and artificial manures; of the pecu-
liar advantages of particular courses of cropping, and the suc-
cessful application of industry and skill to the cultivation of
the soil. But while these facts are instanced as proofs of what
may be done, it is nevertheless a fact that they have been con-
fined to a few individuals, whose names stand prominently
forward as pioneers of agricultural improvement; while the
great body of English farmers have been content to follow the
beaten track, and till their land in the same manner as their
fathers did before them. This unwillingness on the part of
agriculturists to avail themselves of improvements, the advan-
tages of which have been so clearly demonstrated, must be
attributed neither to apathy nor to want of intelligence. Eng-
lish farmers, as a class, are quite as intelligent as the inhabi-
tants of the large towns who have been more boasted of, and
fully as alive to the importance of increasing their products by
the aid of capital and skill ; but causes over which they have
no control have operated as an incubus upon their energy, and
stayed the course of improvements, from which all classes of
the community would have received direct and immediate
benefit. In every other pursuit, the man of capital, of enter-
prise, and of skill, is protected in the possession of the fruits
of them. He invests his wealth, and devotes his energies,
with the moral certainty that he or his family will profit by the
advantages derived from them ; and the natural consequence
is, that wherever there is a reasonable prospect of profit, there
is no want of either money or industry to prosecute it to the
utmost limit of improvement. The tenant farmer, on the
other hand, has no such advantage and no such protection.
He is bound by the law to restore the land of which he has the
use, in the same state of fertility as that in which he took it;
but he has no claim, either by the statute law or that of cus-
tom, for any additional value which he may have given to it.
He may be fully aware of the advantages of the numerous
improvements which have been pointed out to him ; may en-
tertain no lingering doubts as to the results of particular ma-
nures, or the profitable returns from additional expenditure;
but then comes the conviction that he has no further interest
in it than the mere annual return, and that he would be ex-
pending his own property to confer an additional value on that
which belongs to another. He may even entertain the most
confident opinion in the honour of his landlord, but that is
subject to numerous contingencies, and never can be consi-
dered a security upon which any man of ordinary prudence
would hazard the outlay of Isis capital, or even exhaust Isis
energies. It is in vain to convince a practical agriculturist
that a certain expenditure in labour, in manure, in farm build-
ings, or in other adjuncts to his art, would add to the produc-
tiveness of his fields, when he is equally aware that no impro-
bable contingency may deprive him of the advantage without
any legal redress, and that he has no title to that property
which his own outlay has created. He is consequently deterred
from the risk, and compelled by force of circumstances to
continue the former system; for though he may be also con-
vinced that the immediate returns in increase of crop will
more than reimburse him for the amount lie has expended, it
is not in human nature to expect that a man will undertake all

the hazard, to afford another the certainty of perhaps the

greatest share of the profit. This was the case in the former
system of taking tithes ; and so strong was the impression
that the Church taking a share of the increased produce tended
to retard improvements, that the Tithe Commutation Act was
passed, fixing the amount of tithe upon the simple question of
marketable value of grain, without any reference to acreable
quantity. But if the case was so strong as to call for legisla-
tive interference where but a tithe of the increase was taken,
how much stronger must it be where so large a proportion is
concerned as that which now absolutely depends upon the will
of the landowner ! The effect is evident. The means of great
improvement are capable of being exercised by the agricultu-
rist ; he has the knowledge, the will, and in numerous instances
the requisite capital ; but as a tenant farmer he has no ade-
quate security, and the improvements are consequently not
effected. The evil of this want of protection is evident in se-
veral ways, all tending to the same unhappy results, because
they retard that growth of supply which is indispensable to
national security. I am, Sir, yours,
Cheshire, Jan. 20th, 1853. AGRICOLA.

" THE SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT ST. ANNE'S

CHURCH, OLD SWAN."

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In reply to a paragraph in your last publication, en-
titled " Singular Exhibition at St. Anne's Church, Old Swan,"
I have to state, in the first place, that the exhibition, if it may
be so called, was not singular, but plural. Secondly, there was
neither three nor four Irishmen, but only one present. There
was also one Englishman, your humble servant, with two wo-
men and two infants, a boy, and two girls; in all, nine in-
dividuals. Thirdly, they were not under the impression that
they were in a " Romish mass house." Fourthly, they did not
approach the communion rails in front of the communion
table, nor did they commence a series of external evidences
of devotion. Again, the incumbent was not at his reading
desk; and, I am prepared to prove there was no intrusion
committed by any one of the party. I think there was no
delay before the party were removed, and though one police-
man was sent for, he was too late to be of any service, though
it was quite unnecessry to call him, as we considered ourselves
dutiful members of the church. On arriving at the church,
we entered, without delay, pew No. 44, one of three shown to
us by the sexton. Soon after being seated, the sexton came to
me and stated that the individuals with me could not remain, but
that I might. I informed him that " they were with me and
I with them." He replied that a party had " engaged the pew
for the morning," whereupon I with the rest left the pew and
were shown to another. Some of the party entered, but the
incumbent took upon himself the responsibility of ordering
them out, I directed them to tit in the free teats, to which