The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

SEPTEN

On the tr,th inst., at Halton, Chest
P. Edwards, late of this town, of a
t Pleas

On the 18th inst.,
wife of J. B. Bowden, Esq., of a son
On the 18th

st., the wife of

street, of a sor

theO the 18th inst.,
of the
wife of Captain George Houghton, of
p Batticola, a

On the 18th inst., the wife of Mr. Samuel winstanley,
watch. cap maker, Birkett.street, Soho, of a son.
-

On the 19th inst., at Thnrloe Cottage, Brompton, the wire
of Mr. John Campbell, jun., of a son.

On the 19th inst., at Kenyon-terrace, Claughton, the wife
of Mr. W. G. Bradley, of a daughter.

On the 19th inst., the wife of Mr.
provision dealer, Park-road, of a daughte

Thomas Warrington,

On the 20th inst., the wife of Mr. John Heyes, Paradise_
street, of a son.

On the 21st inst., at Tranmere, the wife of Mr. R. B. Sc..ot
land, of a son.

On the 21st inst., at Monument-place, London-road, Mrs
Shain, of a son.

On the 21st inst., the wife of Mr. Thos. Matthews, Sal's—
bury-street, of a son.

On the 22d inst., at Roslin Villa, Oxton, the wife of W. L
Franklin, Esq., of a daughter.

On the 22d inst.. Mrs. Baird, Finchett-house, of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., the wife of Mr. Rigby, Blackfield-terrace,
irkdale, of a daughter.

On the 23d inst., Mrs. J. S. Smith, of Falkner-square, of a
aughter.

On the 26th inst., at Ashley Cottage, near Calder Stones,
Wavertree, Hrs. John Sutton, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 13th inst., at St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev.
A. F. Tomlin Mr. .1. C. Bees, mariner, of Keingsteignton„
Devon, to Isabella. daughter of Mr. W. Fairclough, of this
town, formerly of Wavertree.

On the 13th inst., at Rathfarnliam Church, Dublin, by the
Rev. John Marland, brother of the bride, the Rev. E. F.
Rambaut, of Templemore, county Tipperary, to Magdalene,
second daughter of the late Wm. Marland, Esq.
On the 14th inst., at Adlington Church, by the Rev. T. Car.
penter, 8.A., incumbent, Thomas Whaley, Esq., of Ince-hall,
Wigan , to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Gerrard,
Esq., Adlington-grove, Lancashire.

On the 15th inst., at Sr. Bride's Church, by the Rev. H.
Vallancey, Vicar of Sutton, cousin of the bride, W. J. Bowyer,
Esn ' of Almshoebury, Herts, to Anna Sophia Pratt, only
child of Lieut.-Col. P. Pratt, of Sion-place, Bath.
On the 17th inst., at St. Mark's Church, London, by the
Rev. J. Irving, James Carter, only son of the late James
Houghton
e, Esq., of this town, to Ellen Grace Elizabeth,widow
of h
l at R. Dart, Esq., of London.
On the 19th inst., at Holy Trinity hurch,Birkenhead, by the
Rev. H. G. Vernon, Mr. Thomas Price, to Miss Sarah Vaughan.
On the 19th inst., at St. James's Church, Mr. Wm. Wilson,
aged 72, to Mrs. Eliza Walton, aged 69, both of Lower Grafton-
street, Toxteth-park.

On the 19th inst., at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W. M.
Falloon, Edward, son of the late Capt. Butcher. of London, to
Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Lough,
of this town.

On the 2Gth inst., at the Parish Church, Occhan, Isle of
Man, by the Rev. John Howard, vicar, Capt. W. Douglas
Scott, late King's Own Light Infantry, to Rose Ellen,
youngest daughter of Henry Harrison, Esq., of Summer-
hill, Onchan, and Cheadle, Cheshire.
On the 20th inst., at Heptonstall Church, by the Rev.
David Rathbone, incumbent of Ashworth Chapel, uncle of
the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev, Thomas Sutcliffe, M.A.,
Edward, only son of Richard Ashworth, Esq., of Cowpe,
Ross?ndale, to Ellen, daughter of Royston Oliver, Esq., of
Wood M ilia, near Todmorden.
On the 20th inst., at the Parish Church, West Derby, by
the Rev. John Stewart, rector, assisted by the Rev. Kirk-
De indGlazehrook, Nicholas Small G.azebrook, Esq., of West
rby, to Sarah Anne, second daughter of Richard Tetley,
Esq., of Fremont, West Derby.

On the 20th inst., at St. Swithin's Roman Catholic Chapel,
Gill Moss, near this town, by the Rev. Edward Morron,as-
sic
steCha d by the Rev. John Middleburst. of St. Joseph's Catho-
lipel, Bedford, Leigh, Mr. Walter Bennett Williams,
hat-manufacturer, Leigh, to Christina, third daughter of Mr.
William Eaves, farmer, of Knowsley.
On the 20th inst., at the Cathedral, Manchester, by the
Rev. C. Richson, M.A., Joseph, third son of the late Mr.
John Healing, of H.M.'s Customs, in this town, to Elizabeth
Emma, only daughter of the late Mr. John Grindrod, Man,.
chester.

On the 21st inst., at St. Ann's Church, Manchester, by the
Rev.— Richardson, Mr. William Henry Dodge, of Manche*.
ter, Cot Annie Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr.
Robert Daniels, of Holywell, Wales.
On the 21st inst., at Little Leigh Church, by the Rev. John
Walkerf
, incumbent of St. Paul's, Bury, John Percy Banker,
son o John Banker Esq.,
F of Acton, to Elizabeth Hannah,
Cheshire.
only daughter of William airclough, Esq., of Willow-green,

On the 21st inst., at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W.
M. Falloon, Mr. Edward Newton. of this town, to Anne,
youngest daughter of Mr. Turton, St. Helen's.
On the 21st inst., at the Independent Chapel, Hamilton-
square, Birkenhead, by the Rev. James Mann, John White,
Esq., Islington, to Catherine Ann, eldest daughter of the
late Edward Holt Diggles, iron-merchant, Castle-street, in
this town.

On the 21st inst., at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W.
M. Felloon, Mr. Wait, to Hannah S., third daughter of Mr.
Davis, Bold-street.
On the 22nd inst., at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev:
A. H. Hughes, Mr. David Heron to Miss Isabella Mason.
On the 22d inst.. at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. W. H.
Duck, M.A., Mr. James Fraser, bookbinder, Church-lane, to
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Cuthbert Heatley,
of Samleshury, near Preston.
On the 22nd inst., at St. Catherine's Church, Tranmeret by
the Rev. A. Knox, 8.A., T. A. Bevis, Esq., to Cathenne,,
second daughter of Commander G. S. Parsons, R.N., Holt-
hill, Cheshire.
„ architect;of this town
nillsyq daughter of Wm. Parry,
Jane Murray,,o
On the 22d inst., at Trinity Church, Chester by the Rev.
Esq., surgeon,
Esq., Over, Cheshire, and niece to
-m,
an
Thos. O'Hara, Lsq., Watergate-street, Chester.
dA CY cot ebn"t to James
Maria
On the 23rd inst., at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev.
Hampton, Mr. James Charlton to Miss A. Wilson.
On the 25th inst„ at St. Michael's Church, by the RU.
Carpenter, Sir. Thomas Boden to Miss Ellen Cusworth. ev.
On the 26th inst., at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev- 11.
Carpenter. Mr. Thomas Bell to Miss Jane Scott.
On the 26th inst., at St. Michael's Church, by special
ccnse, Mr. John Lunt to Phoebe, eldest daughter of Mr. Ben-
jamin Robinson, both of this town.

Lately, at New York, afteraThort and severe illness, aged
33, John 11. Rigby, son of Mr. John Rigby, hide merchant,
of this town.

Lately, at Constantinople, from wounds received some
time azo, the Princess Belgioroso. The deceased Princess
was attacked and
travelling in the East stabbed by a discharged servant, whilst
.
of ati.,
eo
bar
gnuseuLmy
On the 13th July, at New Orleans, on board the ship
ption, aged 38, Mr.
Sacham, aged 20, John, only son of Mr. Thomas Muir,
baker, oscoe-lane.
Lydia
On the 6th ult., at Bahia, after a short illness. aged 22
Edmund Flenby, chief officer of the brig George Ramsay.
JoOsenphthNeVa2rdeinugl,t.m' aatsteArfri
On the 9th ult., at Columbia, Arkansas, U.S., after two
days illness. Emma, wife of A. Alexander, Esq., and daughter
of the late Mr. G. Lyon, of this town. Three days previous
she had attended the funeral of her eldest daughter, Elizabeth
Emma, in her 18th year, who died at the residence of her
uncle, C. Whitmore, Esq., Montpelier, near Natchez.
On the 4th inst., at the Rectory, Thurstastere, Frances
Maria, wife of the Rev. John Fish, A. 8., rector of Murata's—
tere. She was fourth daughter of the late Col. Moasom, M.P.
of Mount Eland, in the county of Kilkenny.
On the 13th inst., in the 67th year of his age, John Faithrtill
Fortescue Wright, son of Lieut. John Elvvorthy Fortunatun
Wright, R.N., of Lesoe Castle, Cheshire, and grandson of
the celebrated Captain Fortunatus Wright, and great-great.
great-grandson of John Evelyn, the well-known and author of " Sylva," &c., of Wotton, Surrey, and nephew Of
the late Sir John Evelyn, Bart.
On the 14th inst., at West Derby, aged 42, Mr. c. G.
Stewart, victualler, Denison-street, sun Of the rate Caputo
W. Stewart, of the ship Brooke, of this port. is
On the 15th inst., aged 56, Rebecca Kirkham, relict f M
W. It
I`Conochie, Simpson-street. 0 r.
On the 15th
oftnst., after a short illness, aged' 22, J jts_
youngest son Mr. James Renshaw line
°II -----' "On the 16th inst., aged 51, the Rev. T. Hutton, rector of
Gaywood and of Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk.
On the 16th inst., at Clifton Cottage, Holt-h Tran s
aged 35 much and deservedly regretted by I of
.
a arge circle
relatives and friends, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr-
George Spencer, and only daughter of Mr. John La 1 of
the Farmers' Inn. Birkenhead nil en
On the 16th inst., at Whalton, Northumberland, sudden'''.
aged 65, Dorothy Moore, relict of the late Mr. Daniel Moose,
of this town.
On the 17th inst., at Edinburgh, aged 23, Mary, witeof the
Rev. Dr. Crawford, and eldest daughter of Robert Ran
Esq., Bromborough-hall, Cheshire. kin.
On the 17th inst., John Houghton, Esq., of Mill-lane, West
Derby.

On the I7th inst, at Gildart-street, Islington, aged 69, Mr.
James Barlow, late of Hanley, Staffordshire.
On the 17th inst., at Woolwich 'Barracks, of disease of the
lungs, Colonel James Nesbit Colquhoun, of the Royal Artil-
lery, and inspector of the carriage department at the Royal
Arsenal.
On the 17th inst., in the 20th year of his age, after a land painful illness, Richard, eldest son of Mr. William Brow,
of this town.
On the 18th
don, aged 17, Jame inst.,s
aR.. sont Hurstof . -st
Mreet, Old Swan, of conanm
gr-
T. Higha.
On the 18th inst., aged 2 weeks, Alice Catherine, daughter
of Mr. Henry Rigby.
Es On the 18th inst., aged 21, Alfred, only son of Thos. Alaton,
q port., South.
On the 19th inst., in his 51st year, at Keighley, the Rev. T.
Brayshaw, M.A. late rector of Addingbarn, eldest son of Mr.
Jas. Brayshaw, of Idle, near Bradford, gentleman.
On the 19th inst., aged 41, Harriet, wife of Mr. Thomas
Garlick, publican, Stanley-street.
On the 19th inst., aged 2, Walter Charles, youngest son of
Mr. G. Lewis, Field-street.

On the 19th inst., aged 80, Sarah, relict of the late Mr.
Samuel Venal)les, o Chester.
__.

On the 19th inst., Harriet Louisa, infant daughter of Mr-
John Holme, Woodlands, Camp-street, Higher Broughton,
Manchester.

On the 20th inst., at the house of her brother-in-law, Mr-
Hill, Albion-street, Everton, aged 78, Ann, the eldest and
last surviving child of the late John Thompson, Esq., of
Bridgehouses, Sheffield.

On- the 20th inst., at Stormer-hill, near Bury, aged sg,
Joshua Knowles, Esq., J.P. s

On the 20th inst., Ann Boardman, the wife of Mr. Samuel
Boardman, late car-owner, of Great Homer-street, much
respected.

tin the 20th inst., at Paradise-road, Stockwell, Mr. James
Flewker, eldest son of Holliday Flewker, Esq., of this town.
deeply regretted by all his friends._

On the 20th inst:, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Thos.
Lightbound, Everton-crescent, in her 88th year, Mrs. I,yth_
goe, relict of the late Mr. Thos. Lythgoe, of ;ear,
On the 21st inst., at his residence, 57, Duke-street,, Joseph
Fernihough, Esq.
On the 22nd inst., at his residence, Bridge-street, Birken_
head, aged 71, John Gaskell, Esq., deeply lamented.
On the 22nd inst., after a few days' illness, Mary, the be..
by all
loved wife
who k newher of Mr. Wm. Weir, Brownlow-hill, deeply regretted

'On the 22nd iust., at his residence, the W

aged
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Mr. William Righton, grocer, much regretted.
On the 23rd inst., at 20, Petnbroke-place.
wife of Wm. Wilson, Esq

On the 24th inst., 'aged 16, Alice, eldest
Troughton, Esq., of Upper Parliament-stret
On the 25th inst., at Anfield-terrace, bit
the beloved wife of Mr. James Macintosh,
Mr. Wm. Bunks.

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.

ALL that I said in my last--and more—touching the
angry feelings entertained by the Turkish population to-
wards not only the English but the French residents at
Constantinople, has been vindicated during the week by
the intelligence received. The Morning Post, unques-
tionably the best informed of the London papers in all
matters referring to the Eastern question, stated that two
Ships of war, English and French, have left Besika bay for
Constantinople to protect the French and English there ;
e., to put a stop to the " slitting of noses" spoken of in
lily last. The question is, in fact, once more in a dead
lock, the refusal of the CZAR to accept the Turkish modi-
fication of the note of the four powers having thrown the
'Prospect of a peaceful solution further back than ever.
The decision of peace or war now rests with the SULTAN,
who, I apprehend, will be sorely pressed by his soi-disant
friends to yield all that Russia asks for the sake of pre-
serving peace. In fact, to such an extent has the paltry,
truckling pusillanimity of the Four Powers reached, that,
though they first entered into the quarrel on behalf of the
SULTAN, as the attacked and weaker party, they are now
actually considering the propriety of coercing him, by
main 'force, to adopt the identical course which they
themselves stigmatised as degrading and unworthy of
an independent power. There is every reason to expect
that the SULTAN will be forced into °pen hostilities
by his own people, as I have already stated, and that
the Foreign Ambassadors will before long order up
the French and English squadrons from Besika Bay,
for—what do you think ? To defend the Ottoman capital
from a.Russian invasion? No such thing; but—to take
the SULTAN on board one of the vessels, and overawe the
Mussulman population, in order that Russia may get
everything she asked for at first ; and to prevent her get-
ting which, these very ships originally sailed from port! I
defy the greatest diplomatist that ever was suckled in
Downing-street, or who ever took pen in hand, to say
more on the subject. Austria has slunk out of the
squabble; and France is slinking as fast as she can,
with a 'shew of decency; so that England, for ever, will
have all the glory (M) Meantime, I regret that there are
several say one or two puling prints, weekly and
weakly papers, attempting to throw out qualified hints to
the prejudice of the illustrious Consort, and stating that
he is the cause of these protracted proceedings, for fear of
any evil happening, among the small German States.
Don't believe a word of it.

It is a poor subject upon which to dilate,—the advane-
' ing prices of the necessaries of life ; I have already referred
to it ; they are, in mercantile phraseology, steadily a dvanc-
ing. A quiet little bit of business has been going on for
some time in the city, the fruits of which will extend to
Liverpool, hence I notice it to put your townsmen on the
qui vine. The proprietors of the gas companies, some
time ago, were compelled to reduce the price of their
article, and then toast at the directorial dinner, over
iced champagne,—

-" Ex fume,
Dare thcem 1" (Bravo I Hear, hear !)

was for a brief time in abeyance,—with some of them, at
all events. There was an agitation on the subject, and
the consumers,—dolts, because they got a reduction of
price per cubic foot, thought they had gained the day,—l
beg pardon—night. They did so, to a certain extent, but
the gas became dim, the fine gold was changed, flickerings
were seen, bubble, bubble heard, now and then a hiss or
two,--sure signs of a deteriorated article. The great gas
bashaws have been laying their heads together, chewing
the end, of sweet and bitter statistics, and an advance in
-the price of—that, to many—to most— a necessary of
life,— gas is resolved. Meet ! meet ! meet, oh, Liver-
pudlians ! Oppose it. The proprietors are determined
to make a long pull, a strong pull, and they will
pull together to get back their "old original" and most
enormous prOfits. To be sure, they are paying more for
their coals,—they are getting more for their coke. Allow
them to-have an advance of the smallest decimal coinage
that ever was thought of in fool's brain, and the gas con-
sumers are done—brown ! Stand out, never mind threats
of euttingoffyour —, they won't doit. They know better.

The battle of the registrations has commenced in the
city of London, which, in every improvement pertaining
to the body politic, should lead the way, and it does so
pretty well. Battle of the registrations ! Fiddle-de-dee.
Mere chalk and water now to what it was when these
really salutary courts were first instituted—perhaps the
only good that sprang out of the Reform Bill. There was
SO much laxity—everybody, anybody voting—that, with
all the humbug of the " great reform measure," one is
really reconciled to its boasted advantages by the insti-
tution of these useful and well-worked courts, though they
are now nearly useless, save as turning into some twenty
briefiess* barristers—but well-behaved lawyers-0200 for
the few Weeks they don the wig, and sit on the bench.
How can it be otherwise ? Every point of law—residen-
tiary—was disposed of during the first and second sittings
of the revising barristers. Nothing worthy of remark or
record now can by possibility occur. Vexatious points
arise, certainly ; for example, that of taking objections,
Whig or Conservative —for, let the truth be spoken, the
'latter are as much to blame in this regard as the former.
This year hundreds of objections have been taken, and
hundreds withdrawn, before Mr. 111`CnmsTrE, the re-
vising barrister for the city of London alone. One worthy
cit. has been objected to ten times in two years.
WCIIIINITIE is not a man to be trifled with ; he makes the
futile objectors pay the piper, and this is the best remedy
he could apply. A sketch of T. Y. MTIERISTIE,
Esq., revising barrister for the city of London,
is worth the space I shall devote to it. He pre-
sents a grand example of culture. He is a long-headed
Scot, frae Glasgow, I believe ; came to London some years
ago, without a " peck o'maut " even ; he was a good short-
hand writer—first-rate indeed ; reported medical and sur-
gical lectures, when they were worth reporting—which
they are-not now,—for the Lancet. Glorious productions
those reports. icEuo, the great father of stenography,
Could have done nothing like them ;—they sorely vexed
Cubebs, Sarsaparilla, and Squills, the lecturers at the
hospitals. The thing had never been done before ; and then,
their very words, never mind however much compound—
Greek, or dog Latin,—all the same. The reports of those
lectures did more for Toe WA KLEY'S Lancet than would
have the outlay of ten thousand pounds, which Tom never
had. A clinical lecture is the same to-day, yesterday, and
for ever; unless, indeed, some quaint man arise, like ABER-
NETHY, or learned like LA.W,ILENCE, then lectures would be
worth giving again_ and again. The lectures reported by
MTHRISTIE were stopped as far as he was concerned.
The same thing over and over, Tom WAKLEY, M.P., for
Finsbury, coroner, and editor of the Lancet, was too
knowing a shot to stand that. Anon, therefore, we find
M`Cmaisrln, touched by the Lancet's power, with a big
brass plate on his hall-door, marked "Surgeon,"—soon
after M.D.,—shortly after we find him a kangaroo (short-
hand man) in the court of chancery, hand and glove with
those still splendid exaniplei of humanity,—LYNDMIRST
and BnononAm ;—soon after, we find him a kangaroo
again in the House of Lords for-,--the, Times ! During
this varied period, M`Cnnism was quietly eating his way
to the bar,—was called, and TnoMAs, Lord DENmAJT,
made him Revising Barrister for the city of London.
One man in his time plays many,parts ; M'CunierrE is
by no means an old man, and he has gone through all the
grades I have stated. As a revising barrister, I have
no hesitation in saying that he sees through a sham ob-
jection very soon ; and avails himself, without " com-
punctious visiting," of the salutary .power the act gives
to him, •by making the objectors pay when they do not
prove. Such is a brief sketch of the revising barrister
for London. On the bench he shakes his head, and looks
like a—Lord Chancellor !

I now and then, when ruralising, look for a minute or
two at a newspaper—if I can find one of yesterday, or the
day before—in the garden of a thoronghly rural tavern
within six or eight miles of Lunun, as all the aristocracy
pronounce the name of the metropolis, taking the cue
from the dear departed Duke; superadded to the afore-
said tavern garden, must be a rustic chair, and table to
match, with a small bottle of well brewed, and better
kept Scottish ale, a planter's cheeroot, burning sun to
brown your face and make absent friends believe, when
they meet you, that you have been on the heather killing
grouse and eating it. .With these agremens and the paper
one may have a little passate'mpo, as the Italians say,
without anybody knowing much about it. In one of these
gamesome moods, the servitor put in my hand a good
paper enough, and young enough; but oh, the gobe-
moucherie, which I hate in a newspaper ; give me politics
as hot as fire; raving radical if you like, but no gobe-
moucherie, "an' ye love me, Hal." Well, in the paper
handed to me I read that the people at the mint were
working like Pyracmon, Brontes, Steropes of the Cyclo-
pean race, over the glowing fire, turning out the new
decimal coinage, which I- bad branded as false—spurious
—no go in a recent communication.. You varlet scribe,"
I said to myself, "you have not read the Liverpool
Standard, or you would not thus have lied." There is no
truth in the paragraph going the round of thegobemouches.
Our money will remain as it is. I find the Times news-
paper has had instructions to deny the accuracy of the
statement about the issue of the decimal coinage,—thns I
am doubly armed; but I did not require even the Times
to corroborate the truth of my statement.
The metropolis at this moment is crowded by people
from the provinces ; though London, in itself, is out of
10wn, as the phrase is : so are not its exhibitions, and their
ITitors. Some how or another, I have postponed going to
'nue, Places of resort, it may be too long ; better late than
f er• Three or four times a literary and physiological
lend of
mine invited me to see the people called the
Aztcs e •
Was
,f.. 1 couldn't or didn't go till the other day. Never
to visiii',l)To surprised in all my life ; and as they are about
deseriboreraool, and other places, I shall endeavour to
doll.like "ust:',,. Two children, ahoy and a girl, of diminutive,
formation ee, of bizarre appearance, of a physical con-
terly inco,,,,Thnughly original, of manner and habits ut-
ologist, crilensible, and baffling to the acutest physi-
bearing to arned adept in ethnological science, and
, mita 0,
are placed before—':up, the legendary name of the AZTECS,
tare perhaps,—attl'al; e As a diligent student of human na-
form on opinion,
aauti
(Lents as a curious spectator,—let me
Aztecs? Whence do live"
judgement. What are the
humanity could have theybeen come ? What strange types of
thel forerunners of their deve-
lopment ? Is the story to
of them true or false ? Are
they merely instances of a
caprice of nature, of a whimsi-
cal departure from the ordinary rules of creation ?- Or, are

they indeed members of a race hitherto unknown to us ?
Children of a family with which we have as yet had no
converse, nor of which even, we have had, till within a few
months, the slightest knowledge ? In a word—What
are the Aztec Lilliputians ? Are they a great human
truth : a new page opened in the book of human
life, for us to read ; or, are they a clever impos-
ture ? The first of these questions it would per-
haps take the profoundest scholars, the most erudite
philosophers, the wisest savans of this or any other age,
scores of years to answer. The second question is spoken
to in a moment ; they cannot be the subject matter of an
imposture, for they are here. We have them before us
palpably, substantially, in body, spirit, and truth; we can
feel their tiny limbs ; we can manipulate their doll-like
heads ; we can watch their elfin gambols,— listen to their
shrill unearthly voices ; their whole corporeality is existant,
tangible to feeling as to sight. They are not, like
MACBETH'S dagger,
" A false creation!"

• proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain. But we have
them before our eyes, our hands, our whole senses, in all
the mobility and actuality of life to see, to hear, to touch.
The true avouch of our own senses. DEMOCRITIIS was
once asked, " What is man ?" He answered, "It is that
which we all see and know every day." In the same man-
ner, if I were asked what are the Aztecs, I might answer
they are those strange little creatures, whose strange
clothing is not a tithe so strange as their strange appear-
ance—strange gestures—and strange existence altogether,
—who frisk and play about with a mysterious unconsci-
ousness of their problematical condition of being,. in the
most affectionate familiarity and confidence in their guar-
dians, and who, take them in whatever light you will,
must ever he a marvel to the most ignorant, and a curious
puzzle to the most instructed! I should not have taken
up my pen to examine this vexed question, and so shed
whatever light I might in my humble capacity be enabled
to do, in any other respect or under any other standing,
save that of a scholar seeking to discover and elucidate
truth. Passing over much of the Aztecs' history, we
know that the empire had been in existence for at least
three centuries before the arrival of CORTES, that the
monumental figures, sculptured on the stupendous marbles
and basaltic ruins of American antiquity, correspond in
form, in lineament, and in position to the Aztecs them-
selves, and furthermore that HITERTOS, HA.MMOND, and
VELASQUEZ were trustworthy persons. But the strongest
evidence after all lies in the children themselves. Whether
they are, or are not, the weird children—idols of Ssimaya,
' whether they have, or have not, been worshipped, cap-
tured, wounded —they are here as a sign—a wonder, and
a mark of astonishment ! Original, unique, unrivalled !
I have seen everything worth looking at in London for
( a quarter of a century, but never saw a sight so
1 wonderful and thought-begetting as—the Aztecs. Of
their intellect—what ? Here I must talk taperly ; it
appeared to me less than their little bodies ; the boy was
being put through his toilette, previous to his appealing
in the theatre of the Adelaide Gallery adjoining ; he
made a great pother, apparently wanting to reach a wash-
hand basin near him ;—he was thirsty ; he knew the
facts, that the basin contained water ;—that water quenched
thirst ; these he appeared perfectly to comprehend, hence
his efforts to get at the basin, heedless of the suds ! The
monkey, we are told, will warm himself by the kindly fire,
but will let it go out though there is plenty of fuel within
reach ! The creatures appeared to be much attached to
the gentlemen who superintend them, in one of whom I
recognised an old acquaintance, Mr. ANDERSON, the clever
" Wizard of the North ;" the other appeared to be a
foreigner ; it may be he was an American, named Moan,
or MOYES. Both gentlemen were exceedingly civil and
communicative, answering every question put to them
anent their tiny charge.
It may be to my shame that I. am not an admirer of
American literature, even including WEBSTER'S dictionary
and BORER'S one incident play, though in five acts, and
I do not remember how many scenes—say thirty or forty;
tor, like the great incomplete work of PIERCE EGAN, who,
before his death, contemplated a play, embracing life in
London, life in Liverpool, and life in Dublin; with five
hundred scenes, the new American dram ic " The Betrothal,"
is spun interminably : in truth, it only consists of a pro-
logue, and a simulated death ' • for, like Irene, the prin-
cipal character leaves the stage alive —pardon the intrusion,
for it is only partly applicable. So much for the dramatic
situations, incidents, or what you please to denominate the
stamina of the American drama played at Drury-lane
Theatre before an audience of two or three thousand
people. I need not say that the lessee produced the play
for GUSTAVUS V. BROOKE— applause, nothing but ap-
plause from first to last was the order of its going. The
author has had sent to him all the dramas of England ;
he has read them with the profit of an imitator. Shall I
,say with my master :-
--" 0 imitatores !
Sery u rn peens."
Yes, unhesitatingly. He (BOXER) has made the Eliza-
bethan period his particular " betrothal ;" his style is
identified with it. But, oh dear, Yankee swagger, exag-
geration, and simile, however forcible and amusing, are
not the things for an English stage, like that which Drury-
lane's once was, and may become again. Mr. BROOKE
is eminently successful; like a good boy, he has availed
himself of many judicious hints and observations I have
seen in some of the newspapers. His dying scene in
" The Betrothal," which could easily be rendered repul-
sive, was really a masterpiece,—nothing to offend; much
to appal ! The theatre is crowded, as I have intimated;
the critics —many of them learned ; some of them prone to
encourage the ascerbities, rather than the amenities of
life—they are pleased. With regard to the other theatres,
their seasons are drawing to a close, but only for a short
period. FARREN, the " cock salmon," as he playfully
likened himself unto, many years ago, played for his
benefit (a bumper) his famous character of Lord Oyleby
for the last time. I have seen F /ovum( in this character
more times than I recollect ; I don't think he ever sus-
' tained it better than on this; the last oceasion ; but he
had no one to support him. Oh, BICIIA.RD JONES, and
goodly Mrs. GLOVER, how you were missed ! WIGAN,
the first Frenchman, especially of mauvais svjet, on the
English stage, succeeds FABREN at the Olympic ; with
him in that elegant bijou theatre, and BEN WEBSTER at
the Adelphi, there will be plenty of fun in the Strand, and
its neighbourhood. Young WaLLacic has taken the
Marylebone Theatre. It is far away from the centre of
civilization ; but in the midst, of a dense population, not
very fond of theatres, I am afraid.

A FRENCH SQuAnnox passed Dover on Friday, sailing
to the northward.

ADMIRAL HonTAm, it is stated, has obtained, in conjunc-
tion with the ministers of Paris and the United States, a
treaty which opens to the commerce of the world for ever
the rivers Parana and Uruguay.
MR. LEONI LEVI returned to Liverpool yesterday
morning, and was announced to deliver further lectures of
the series on Commercial Law, at the Hall of the
Chamber of Commerce, in the morning, and at the Col-
legiate Institution in the evening : but the notice had
been so short that it was deemed advisable to adjourn
them until to-morrow (Wednesday) morning and evening.
STEAM-MADE CASKS.—The power of steam has been
ingeniously applied to the manufacture of casks, not only
superseding the ordinary labour of the cooper, but per-
forming his work with a symmetry and finish superior to
the common method. The invention is now employed in
making 300, gallon water casks for the Australian trade,
and we refer to an advertisement in another column for
details of its advantages.

CONSECBA.TION OF A ROMANIST BISIIOP.—There is
no doubt of the Ecclesiastical Titles Prevention Act being
a dead lettea. On Sunday, a Dr. Alexander (loss was.
consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Liverpool by Mr. Wise-
man, assisted by five ROmanist Bishops, at St. Nicholas'
Romish Chapel, Copperas-hill.

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ARE THE ENGLISH A SOCIABLE PEOPLE P-Of course
they are—if sociability consists in liking to have one's
relatives and friends gathered around one, at certain times
and seasons. But is that what constitutes a "sociable"
people ? We rather think not. Let us look a little fur-
ther into the matter. If we recollect right, it is in his
"Dark Ages" that Dr. Maitland illustrates the utter
futility of attempting to establish brotherhoods in Eng-
land, by adducing the fact, that if an Englishman walks
into a public room, to take refreshment, he will, as a
matter of course, look out for a table at which no other
person is seated. Who has not done this, and seen it
done, hundreds of times. Yet what Christian man dares
analyze, and defend, the feelings or the principles upon
which such a proceeding is founded ? Will it be said that
it arises from a wish not to intrude upon others ? Few
will have the courage to say this, for very few indeed dare
deny that when they thus shun their fellow-men they are
thinking exclusively of their own feelings and likings—
that whatever theory they may advocate, when retirement
from society is talked about in religious controversy, they
practically deny. the Divine precept which says that "it is
not good for man to be alone,"--a precept which we believe
would be as applicable in the one case as in the other.
Many a man would be the better, in many ways, if he
would, with prudence and discrimination, determine not to
be alone, and apart from his brethren, when, placed within
reach of them in public places and public conveyances.
He would often find a relaxation in such casual conversa-
tion as such opportunities afford, which would prove an
allowable and even necessary relief to anxious thought and
care, while he might occasionally meet with and impart
useful information and edification. Why should two
reasonable beings, professing" Christian fellowship, get as
far away as possible from each other, or preserve, utter
silence, because they have never ,peen each other before ?
It is no satisfactory answer to this question to reply that
each of them prefers it. The preference has no Christian
foundation, and therefore it cannot be defended. That
there may be times when a man is, necessarily employed
with his own thoughts and feelings, and would be inter-
rupted injuriously by conversation with strangers, we
readily admit; but then this is. manifestly the exception,
whereas the rule is fo: Englishman to hold himself
entirely aloof from strangers, unless he is shut up with
them for several hours or days, and finds that he cannot
get on without them. It becomes an important practical
question to ask whether sociability and friendly inter-
course, especially among the Middle classes, cannot be
obtained in England without the costly aid of the wine-
merchant and the pastry-cook—without, in fact, any other
bribes to the body than it would receive in our own homes.
For if the intercourse of friends be worth anything to us,
surely our bodies must stand less in need of extra stimu-
lants and indulgences when we are enjoying that, inter-
course than when we are alone, or in our families. We
are not now speaking of dinner-parties—that is a sepa-
rate question, and not one necessarily involving " so-
ciability"—but we allude more, especially to friendly
meetings of neighbours and acquaintances, in the evening,
among the middle classes ;' and we do think that good
service would be done if some practical people would
confer together, and come to some arrangement, and lay
down some rules and limits, by which the English middle
classes might meet at each others' houses, especially during
the long winter evenings, without two or three days' pre-
paration, and absorbing two or three days' income, in
wine and mere delicacies, which nineteen persons, out of
every twenty would gladly exchange for something plainer
and more substantial, were they not afraid of being
thought "vulgar." Cannot we have plain " Social Even-
ing Parties," without extravagance, fuss, fine dresses, or
late hours ;" but with kind feelings, good humour, and a
desire to please and to be pleased ? Surely such parties
would have a much more healthy influence and effect, in
many ways, upon young persons especially. We commend
this subject to the consideration of the mothers and daugh-
ters of the middle classes. It will be observed that we
have treated this branch of the subject upon its own
merits, apart from the religious arguments and motives
which might obviously be brought to bear won it.—
.En,glia.h Churchman.

COMMERCIAL 4. MONETARY NEWS.

MONDAY NIGHT.

THERE has been almost a panic in the money
market during the week, the Public Funds slightly
falling in value every day until Saturday, when the
fall was considerable, being more than two per cent.,
and a similar, if not greater, depression was ex-
perienced by almost every description of invest-
ment for capital. This continued and augmenting
tightness has naturally excited much attention,
and various opinions have been propounded as to
the causes which have led to it. Among those
which may be considered most prominent, are the
continued decrease in the stock of bullion in the
Bank of England, as shown by the weekly returns;
the unsatisfactory state of affairs in the East ; the
increase in the minimum rate of discount, and the
demand for money for commercial purposes. All
these circumstances may justify a rise in the value
of money, but they certainly are not sufficient
grounds for that alarm which appears to pervade
all monetary and commercial aflhirs. The rise in
the rate of discount has been but a prudent pre-
caution against the drain of bullion, but the latter
has not, been to any extent to warrant a belief in
there being any serious inroad upon our monetary
resources beyond the requirements of legitimate
trade. It is true, that the prospects of peace being
preserved between Russia and Turkey are daily
diminishing, if any reliance can be placed on recent
reports, but the danger of the dreaded war is con-
siderably lessened by the fact that the necessity for
English interference is altogether removed. If
both these causes, therefore, were estimated at
their true value, there would be little ground for
apprehension ; but, unfortunately, ever since the
Railway mania of 1846 an unnecessary importance
has been attached to monetary movements, and
the legitimate transactions of commerce have to
suffer from the feverish excitement of mere specu-
lators in the Funds, a consequence also induced by
the weekly publication in the London Gazette of
the position of the Bank of England. Were it not
for this latter circumstance, the public at large
would know little, and care less for the movements
of the Bank Directors, which often fail to influence
the large discount houses, and are sometimes
induced by merely temporary causes.
In discussing this subject, we notice that many
of our contemporaries have entered into laboured
disquisitions on the demand for gold for exporta-
tion, as being chiefly, if not solely, caused by the
demands of our continental neighbours, arising
from the higher price of gold on the Continent,
the speculations in foreign corn, and the require- '
ments of Russia for the anticipated warlike opera-
tions. These have, no doubt, had some effect,
though by no means to an extent to justify the
apparent alarm on the subject, when the receipts
from our Australian resources are taken into con-
sideration. There are also the restrictions on the
operations of the Bank of England, imposed by the
Currency Act of 1814, which have been brought
into the argument, but without much reason, when
it is borne in mind that, however objectionable the
act may be in itself, the simple fact that the Bank
of England has even now a balance of unemployed
notes to the extent of about seven millions renders
it virtually inoperative. The commentators leave
out of view the far more important fact of the
greatly increased trade of the country, which is
more than sufficient to account for all the large
demand upon the precious metals which has excited.
so many fears. We have added to our importations
very considerably, and augmented in an equal
degree our exportations, from which we have yet
to receive the returns ; every merchant has largely
extended his business, and thereby rendered neces-
sary the employment of a greater amount of capital,
while the general augmentation of wages in almost
every department of industry, and consequent
accumulations of small savings, has inevitably led
to an absorption of the circulating medium.
Inwhat direction are we, then, to look for any rea-
sonable ground upon which to base the present ap-
prehensions for commercial security P It cannot be
in the particular circumstances of trade, for it must
be acknowledged that, notwithstanding its magni-
tude, it was never more free from hazardous specu-
lation. Prices are high, but not exorbitantly so,
and with no disturbing causes which it is impossi-
ble to foresee or controul, there are few com-
mercial transactions which do not present a prospect
of fair remuneration. We are indeed trading to
the full extent, if not beyond our capital ; but not
to the verge of danger, if a groundless sense of
panic be not permitted to interfere ; and though
we are sending such enormous shipments of British
produce and manufactures to the United States and
our Australian Colonies, California in the former
and the gold diggings in the latter should banish
all ideas of those markets being glutted, at any
rate for a length of time to come. There is, how-
ever, the inconvenience of waiting for the net pro-
ceeds, and to this circumstance may be attributed
that demand for accommodation which seems to
have frightened the holders of capital.
In attributing, however, the monetary pres-
sure to what we believe to be the . real causes,
we must not leave out of view the unsatis-
factory state of political affairs in the East,
which, from the delay in the negociations, and
the uncertainty as to the ultimate result, has
naturally excited much apprehension. But the
danger has been considerably over-estimated, as,
from the turn which affairs have taken,the European
powers are absolved from any active interference
in the defence of Turkey, which by the refusal to
accept the note agreed to by the conference at
Vienna, has assumed the offensive and become the
aggressor. Another element in the question which
must have a counteracting influence, is the recent
strike among the operatives in the manufacturing
districts and the collieries. They would appear to
have selected the most inauspicious time, for a lull
in the demand for their labour renders their idle-
ness of less consequence, and it is to be hoped they
will be the sooner convinced of their folly, as the
masters have now more inducement to stand out
against the attempt at intimidation, owing to the
absence of all demand for their products. So far,
therefore, the strike is less to be dreaded than if it
had occurred in a time of general activity, and
while it may operate beneficially as a warning to
the men of the folly of their proceedings, it will
also help in some degree to diminish the pressure
on the money market, by lessening the demands
for the payment of wages.
The reports from the manufacturing districts
show a still greater depression than has prevailed
for several weeks previously, owing to the state of
monetary affairs and the uncertainty as to Eastern
politics. There is greater anxiety to sell, but bUy-
ers are holding back until something more defini-
tive is known ; and while many :mills have been
stopped, owing to the strike of the operatives, other
masters are about to put their hands on short time,
and there is greater indifference as to those who
are out resuming work. In.the woollen districts,
however, there is a steady demand, which is only
checked by the high price which the raw,material
still maintains.

There has been some fluctuation during the week
in the price of, corn, but nothing of a decided ten-
dency, and as the late favourable weaiher has en-
abled farmers to get in much of their late wheat in
good condition,there isno doubt that it will go lower,
though it cannot be said that the price has been at
any time extravagantly high, when compared with
that of other commodities in general consumption.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 17th of Sept., gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits ... £6,007,833; Increase £756,823
Other deposits . ... 11,053,873; Increase 191,915
Rest ... 3,658,265; Increase 16,557
On the other side of the account—

Government securities £12,527,893; Decrease 239,125
Other securities ... 16,740,682; Increase 1,782,808
Notes unemployed ... 6,977,165; Decrease 691,935

The amount of notes in circulation is £22,421,920,
beinc, an increase of £224,240 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £15,862,398, showing
a decrease of £338,954, when compared with the
preceding return.