The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

GREAT PROTESTANT TEA PARTY.

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MOR'SIITG,

THE commencement of last week was more prolific in
such incidents as form the vivifying principle of political
club-life than any of its predecessors for many months past.
First came the astoundingintelligence thatin discarding our
ambassador from the court of St. Petersburg, the CZAR
had resolved on retaining possession of the heavy baggage
of the embassy. Next in the order of unnatural events,
came the announcement that Lord Joins meant to strangle
Isis infant progeny, the new Reform Bill. Each of the
assertions, in itself considered startling : in the one case
the law of nations was held sufficient to restrain the act ;
the other it was said involved too flagrant a violation of
natural affection. Time, that sad dispeller of delusions,
however, upset the conclusions of the inductive theory,
and proved that those who indulged the wild belief were
right ; those who urged prescriptive usage and natural
affection, wrong. "Madness in great ones must not un-
watched go," said or sung the Swan of Avon nearly three
centuries ago; and since his time, as well as before it, the
freaks of distinguished madmen have given colour and
credence to the apothegm, the most recent illustration
being those afforded by the Czar, and the nondescript
British Minister. In the former case the malady must
be looked on as rooted and hereditary, partaking of pa-
roxysms ; in the latter, constitutional and desponding,
producing languor and prostration. His Imperial Majesty,
who, for a considerable time past, has been in what
BURNS called "a cankerous mood"—a battle, murder, and
sudden death kind of humour—has been of late moved to
a madness that has obviously no method in it. Having
first endeavoured to cajole his cher ABERDEEN into a
conjoint spoliation of Turkey, which the hesitating Cale-
donian thirst not carry out, the imperator of all the
Russias, incontinently and with little courtesy ordered
our ambassador forth of his dominions, laying an embargo
on the ambassadorial goods and chattels. The news of so
unusual a mode of declaring war threw the west-end
clubs into a ferment. Gossip is the soul, the only vital
principle of such establishments, and in what soil could a
more prolific crop of that material be reared, than out of
speculations arising from this capture of the diplomatic
strong-boxes ? Among the most popular of the " thou-
sand-and-one" rumours, arising out of this imperial outrage,
was one recognising the EMPEROR'S desire to repossess
himself of those curiously confidential communications
relative to dividing " the sick man's property," which, of
late, received such edifying ventilation. The popularity
of the rumours, and the ingenuity of the speculations
founded on them, were alike doomed to rapid and uncere-
monious extinction. They, like the serpents of the Egyptian
magicians, were speedily swallowed up by the greater
reptile of Lord Joins RUSSELL'S hatching—his lordship's
latest "final measure"—which wriggled itself through all
the splits and zigzags of the Cabinet. Now darting its
venomed tongue full in the face of Lord PALMERSTON—
now insinuating its terminal vertebrae between the folds
of Sir W. MoLEswoßTH's carefully adjusted mantle—
hissing now its hated breath below the fastidious olfac-
tories of his Grace of NEWCASTLE—anon twining its slimy
folds among the reluctant fihigers of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, causing dismay and exciting irritation
round the council-board, and communicating its malig-
nant influence through all the ministerial ramifications.
Even the cold-blooded Times did not escape the contagion
of its sway, but seemed as nicely pOised between the
autocratic outrage and the strangulation of the new
Reform Bill, as MAHOMET'S coffin is said to be between
earth and heaven,— the " Thunderer" muttering, with
melancholy plaint, in reference to the one case, and hurl-
ing defiant teachings relative to the other. The Reform
Bill farce, however, although for a long time in course of
what is called active rehearsal, was not played out for the
season till Tuesday evening, when it was gone through in
a style of completeness which reflected credit on the stu-
dious assiduity of all the performers.
Both Houses, like other classical institutions, have
broken up for the Raster holidays, the ceremonies, preli-
minary to the dispersion for fifteen days, having been gone
through on Tuesday night. My Lords, on the occasion,
with becoming dignity, quitted their benches, and betook
themselves to a dissemination of those festivities and hos-
pitalities which so characteristically grace the baronial-
hall, in taking their departure scarce listening to the
Aberdonian lay, whose tremulous and uncertain notes
served but to exhibit the bruised condition of the battered
pipe on which the " spring" was played. The Commons,
in their honourable house, like
Linden, showed another sight,
when Lord JOHN, as a valedictory oblation, sacrificed his
newest bantling," the little reform of the greatßeform Bill,"
the awful and mystic ceremonies of which immolation his
lordship went through with the ready tact of a veteran
performer, embellishing the scene with numerous new
incidents, and exhibiting himself as thoroughly master of
the situation. The stock properties of the establishment
furbished up for the occasion consisted of the usual chip-
traps,—beginning with the good of the country, and
ending with a pressure of more urgent business. This
sort of thing—the refuse of the Ministerial wardrobe—was
happily glanced at by Mr. DISRAELI, who, cuttingly con-
curring in the propriety of the sacrifice, said the bill ought
never to have been brought forward at all, unless the
necessity was clear and the means of carrying it certain—
just as if Lord JOHN cared more about that bill than he
did about papal aggression, when he fulminated his Minis-
terial bull on the subject in the famous " Durham letter."
His object in both instances was of course the same—ad
captandum vulgus—that object accomplished, his conduct
in both cases was similar, or nearly so ; in the first, he
allowed his highly-wrought indignation to ooze gently out
in assertions growing fine by degrees and beautifully
less ;" in the second he retires with a bluster of blank
cartridge. The Ministry, he say; were not prepared to
incur the responsibility of dissolving parliament, and
staking their existence as an administration on the fate of
this bill. Of course not ; nobody ever thought they were.
The measure will, his lordship assures us, be re-introduced
when parliament can attend to it—probably some time
about the advent of the famous Greek Kalends—at all
events not speedily. Parturient monies, nassitur ridi-
eulus mus. So far as regards the established stage pro-
perties of the event and circumstances, the novelties were
novelties indeed, and of themselves constituted a highly
wrought serio-comic scene. His lordship, fully aware of
the relentless perseverance with which the BRIGHT
faction of his supporters pursue game they have once
resolved on hunting down, made a dreadfully pathetic
effort to arouse the sympathies of the house and of the
country in his behalf. "Pity the sorrows of a poor old
Rad" was rung out in dolorous accents, as with tears and
in faltering tongue he besought commiseration and for-
bearance. All of us have seen, or heard, or read, or
dreamed of crocodile's tears, which are believed to be but
questionable indications of sincerity. Some credulous and
imaginative heathen discourses in eloquent terms upon the
" iron tears" which he alleges trickle " down PLUTO'S
cheeks," and SHARSPEItE tells us of
One who loved not wisely but too well—
. •
Whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
No one of all these authorities, ancient or modern, has
bethought him of representing an ex-Premier, and such an
ex-Premier as Lord JOHN RUSSELL, "like NIODE, all
tears." No, such an event in human history has been left
for his lordship's exclusive use in solving the great moral
problem that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The
occasion was a great one, and the event worthy the occa-
sion. Having been unluckily absent from the conclusion
of the scene, I am not from personal observation able to
do justice to the amount of bye-play which accompanied
the climax of the farce. Nor am I capable of depicting
the effect of the pantomimic display upon the susceptible
nerves of the representatives of Manchester and the West
Riding; but the imagination of your readers need not be
of the most creative class to realise the full burlesque
occasioned by the non-official leader thrusting his lingual
organ into his " weasened" and lantern-jaw. The lacrymose
peroration of his lordship's appeal, ad misericordiam,
was one from which KEELEY might have derived some
valuable hints.

Besides the parliamentary scene referred to, between
Lord JouN Rrssm.i, and the honourable house, another
scene, nearly as novel if not quite so dramatic in its inci-
dents, has been enacted in another place. The performers
were Lord CLARENDON, on the one hand, and a handfull
of modest deputationists, named NICHOLAY, CUNNING-
SAM, WILSON, COLLETT, and WILKS, who waited on his
lordship at his official residence, and complimented him
and his colleagues by presenting and reading a series of
resolutions, in the strongest terms condemnatory of the
ministerial policy as regards the Turkish question ; cut-
tingly severe on the hypocritical " private and confiden-
tial" correspondence between the British Government and
the Autocrat relative to the partition of Turkey ; slyly
sarcastic on the withdrawal of the Reform Bill, and
oppressively polite in the stolid civility with which they
presented now one horn of the dilemma and now another
to his lordship, while urging him to receive and study the
address. In vain he alluded to the discourteous charges
against the honesty and fair dealing of himself and his
colleagues, contained in the address, as a reason why he
should not listen to it. These remarkse wtfiree meet byral aa cool
averment of its truth. When he urged
proceedings rd
in regaffito Turkel.;
bation of the ministerial
the address, he was told, having been agreed to at a large;
public
meeeing, was de facto a contradiction to his state-
ment. In fact, his situation resembled precisely that
which, in
years long gone by, I remember having seen
depicted in a caricature, entitled " Puzzled which to
choose, or the King of Timbuctoo offering one of his
daughters in marriage Captain -." Three or four
to _
of the sable Venuses are arranged on one side, tittering
with half-roguish glee ; on the other stands a row of sa-
vages with skulls and cross-bones fixed on spears, emble-
matic of the fate awaiting hesitancy or refusal. In the
centre sat his ebon majesty magnanimously showing off
the charms of the embarrassing subjects of choice. I
cannot receive this, says his lordship ; it charges all of us
with want of honesty and
good sense. Bat, quoth Mr.
COLLETT, to have listened to the proposals of Russia in
such a case, was to accede to them. Oh, says his lordship,
Soft and
the country is satisfied with our proceedings.
fairly, says Mr. WILICS, these resolutions have been
tadopt ed.
by a large meeting, therefore the country is no una i
mous in its satisfaction.
" Coming events," the poet tells us, " cast their shadows
before ;" and, concerning some of the proposed movements
of our beloved Sovereign, a loyal and interested public is
engaged in anxious speculation. Her MAJESTY having,
it is said, intimated her intention of countenancing,
by her presence, the grand bal costume to be given
at the French Embassy on the 9th of next month,
political quid alines of all orders and persuasions are
busy as to the why and wherefore, and the proba-

ble " I told you so" of such a proceeding, which is
said to be unprecedented. Another fertile theme of won-
derment, among the inveterate gossips of the metropolis,
is found in an alleged intention of Her. MAJESTY to visit
St. Paul's Cathedral along with Prince ALBEIT on the
10th of proximo; just as if Her MAJESTY and her Royal
Consort should not attend the metropolitan church, or
visit an entertainment which her amiable disposition
prompts her to participate in without leave asked, and
given by those who voluntarily search for precedents be-
fore they tie their shoe-latchets, and would prescribe to
others a rule of conduct which they carefully abstain from
practising themselves.

In these stirring times, when the preparation of naval
and military expeditions, and when " Wars, and rumours
of wars" fill the eye and the ear, and choke the under-
standing, from week's end to week's end, the advent of
more congenial topics steals over the senses with a double
gratification. The week was begun by a quiet inaugura-
tion of the colossal marble statue executed by BAILEY, in
memory of GEORGE STEPHENSON, once the hurrier" of
a coal-pit, and latterly the Archimedes of railways. The
statue is a good one, and it has been appropriately placed
in the railway station at Euston-square. On the afternoon
of the same day (Monday) the ninth annual meeting of the
Royal General Theatrical Fand was held in the City of
London Tavern, Mr. R. M. MILNES, M.P., occupying the
chair. The field days of our histrionic benefit funds in the
olden time—then two in number—
" Brethren in arts, but rivals in renown,"
were enlivened by the wit, enriched by the talent, and
dignified by the presence of all that was intellectually
noble and characteristically great in art and in letters.
BYRON, SHERIDAN, KEMBLE, KEAN, YOUNG, the elder
MATTnEws,and a host of other stars, major and minor, who
shone brightly in every constellation of poesy and of his-
trionic art, were gathered at the -carnivals, and if, alas !
such splendour of genius no longer grace its celebrations,
the fault is not in the institution, nor can the falling off
be fairly charged against the profession. in whose behalf
they annually take piace. At Monday's meeting, it was
intimated inter alia, of a gratifying kind, that the Edin-
burgh and the Norwich are both about to join the central
one. The. Edinburgh Theatrical Fund ! what singular
and stirring emotions are conjured up in vivid form by
those three magic words. The institution itself, though
respectable, was never of special note. What circum-
stances, then, have conferred a lasting interest on it ?
Listen, and you shall know. The members and managers
of that institution never held but one public celebration,
and that turned out a notable one. It was in the autumn
of 1826, in the Assembly-room, in George-street,—a street,
the boast of Edina, and one which would outstrip, in
architectural charms, any half-score of streets to be met
with in the Queen of the Mersey.—Round the social board
on the occasion were gathered many a brilliant intellect,
including in the galaxy a host of Scotia's most distin-
guished sons. Conspicuous among the intellectual band
sat one, whose lofty brow and manly features distin-
guished him above all others—whose inextinguishable
goodness of heart singled him out for the post and the
honour attached to the reputation of being the " King of
good fellows"—whose easy good humour and playful
fancy made him the "observed of all observed," albeit on
the present occasion his manner was somewhat dashed by
sorrow, for his friend was overwhelmed by misfortune, and
adversity had fixed her envenomed fangs in the secret re-
cesses of his own generous heart. This was Sir WALTER
SCOTT, the then great unknown," though greatly sus-
pected " Author of Waverley." As an enthusiastic ad-
mirer and judicious patron of the drama, and as one of
the leading literati of the northern metropolis, Sir
WALTER was, in every respect, an eligible guest to be
present on such an occasion, and on which he conferred a
peculiarity, such as, in all probability, the world will never
again witness. The dinner is concluded, for, like all other
Theatrical Fund gatherings, it was a dinner. The feast of
grosser earth is past. The cloth is drawn. The expres-
sions of loyalty and patriotism befitting the occasion have
been uttered and responded to, by enthusiastic outbursts.
The toast of the day Success to the Edinburgh Theatri-
cal Fund" has been given with genial warmth from the
chair,—acknowledged in neatly appropriate terms by MUR-
RAY, the model of managers, and prince of comic actors—
duly honoured by the company, and all is once
more quiet and decorus. A gentleman of fastidiously
fine features, and bland expression, rises to crave the com-
mon-place privilege of giving a Oak The boon accorded,
he proceeded, in set phrase, to give " The Author of
Waverley," a toast as welcome as it was common. In an
instant every man sprang to his feet and welcomed the
toast with a swell of joyous glee which made the fine hall
ring, and ring again. It was soon observed that Sir
WALTER SCOTT had not risen, and did not pledge the
toast. The suspicion of his being the author had, long ere
this, been more than whispered, and now received a tacit
and sort of negative confirmation. Again, the hall rung
with wild and yet wilder aclaim, convinced, as every one
now felt, that, in thus declining to pledge, the author sat
publicly confessed. The clamour is once more stilled, for
even the Stentorian lungs of shouting barristers, and the
cordial plaudits of admiring players, cannot long sustain
an ordeal so exhausting as they had then encountered.
Slowly, and with obvious diffidence and hesitation, the
gifted baronet rose from his chair. The act was an impos-
ing, the moment an embarrassing one ; but it was soon
brought to a close. In a few brief sentences, uttered in
the tuneful tones of his most winning Doric, Sir WALTER
returned his personal thanks for the hbnour done to him
as the previously unacknowledged "Author of Waverley."
Again and again the banquet hall rung with plaudits of
admiration and delight. Prior to the period referred to
several of the " Waverley Novels " had been dramatised,
and as theatrical spectacles had acquired a popularity, if
not more lasting, at least as intense as they had obtained
in their original and more legitimate form. Ere he sat
down, and before the sound of his triumph had ceased to
vibrate on his ear, Sir WALTER seized the opportunity,
which he said had long been denied him, of complimenting
MACKAY on his inimitable personation of Bailie
Nicol Jarvie, in the drama of " Rob Roy ;" an imperso-
nation which must be fresh in the memory of many a
Liverpool play-goer. Such a scene of bewildering excite-
ment followed SCOTT'S declaration as can never be erased
from the memory of the beholder. At that moment was
revealed a secret for which ladies fair had sighed in vain,
which had been withheld from men of station and repute,
and which even royalty had failed in extracting ; it was
now openly confessed—and from that hour the single
banquetoftheEdinburgh Theatrical Fundwas immortalised
in the literary history of the world.
From the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund, and the revela-
tion of the authorship of " Waverley," to the living lite-
rary world, the transition, though a distant, is not an
unnatural one; and in this latter sphere of action I find a
marked sensation has followed the production of Lady Bur,-
WEE IYTTON'S new satirical sketch, entitled " Behind the
Scenes," in the pungent pages of which her ladyship in-
dulges freely in caricature and lampoon in relation to her
gifted lord. Her pen seems to have been sharpened on
the whetstone of family discord, and her ink to have been
strongly tinctured with domestic gall. While her hand is
in, at the ungentle work, she dashes some telling strokes
of blackening hue at DISRAELI, Sir F. THESIGER, and
other celebrities, who, unhappily for them, or for herself,
have given her cause to censure them. CHARLES Dicsniss
has commenced a new tale, which he calls "Hard Times."
It appears in his " Household Words," and among other
notabilities, it brings his readers into familiar acquaint-
ance with the class " Minor Theatricals," the idiosyn-
cracies of whom are graphically hit off. Theatricals are
all agog in preparation for the Easter entertainment, ex-
cept, perhaps, poor CHARLES MATTHEWS, who is again
surrounded by debts and beset by difficulties, his manage-
rial career being in all probability brought to a termina-
tion, he having been gazetted as a bankrupt, and the lease
of his theatre being, it is said, voided by such an event.
If Easter brings a recess of Parliamentary duties, April
generally comes in decked with the budding promises of
the artistic summer. The SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS,
the BRITISH INSTITUTION, and the NATIONAL INSTITU-
TION appearing as harbingers of the ROYAL ACADEMY'S
fully-decked summer radiance. Occupying a distinguished,
as well as a conspicuous place among the non-academical
displays, the Edinburgian brothers, the two LAUDER%
ROBERT S. and JAMES E., are prolific as well as able con-
tributors. At the British Institution, capital specimens
are to be seen from the pencils of F. STONE, F. GOODALL,
and G. CningsnAnn. ; and BODDINGTON and PYNE assist
in enriching the collection of the British Artists. The
subject of art is readily suggestive of a new move in scien-
tific art ; that is as art is to be applied to war. Photo-
graphic art having been found useful in the Baltic hydro=
graphic survey is to be employed in the East ; and, in
addition to telescopes and theodolites, pick-axes and
shovels, our sappers and miners are to be furnished with
cameras, fixed on universal joints, with pendulums
attached, whether to make portraits of the Calmucks or
daguerreotypes of the Tartars is not stated ; but, armed
with these new instruments of observation, they are ex-
pected to make at least a formidable impression.
Chief among the musical performances of Passion week
has been the production of Handel's " Messiah," on Wed-
nesday evening, in a style of excellence and completeness
which left little to be wished for by even the most fastidi-
ous. The leading solo singers were Madame CLARA
NovELLo and Miss DOLBY, Mr. SIMS REEVES and Herr
FoßmEs.

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A GRAND SOIREE of the Liverpool Working Men's Pro-
testant Reformation Society was held last night, at the
Hope Hall, in Hope-street. This building has been re-
cently purchased by Mr. Robert A. M`Fie, as a place for
public meetings, and was liberally granted by him for the
use of the Society on this occasion. The spacious area
was tastefully decorated with flags, transparencies, &c.,
representing the destruction of the Spanish Armada,
Ridley and Latimer in prison, and other appropriate de-
vices. Tea was provided for about eight hundred persons,
and every place was occupied. The refreshments, which
were of excellent quality and abundant in quantity, were
provided by Mr. Hutchins, of St. John's-lane, and gave
general satisfaction. Alderman James Parker occupied
the chair, and amongst those on the platform were the
Rev. H. Carpenter, Rev. W. F. Taylor, Rev. R. W.
Wolseley, Rev. D. F. Barry, Rev. G. L. Ireland, Rev. S.
B. Sutton, Rev. G. F. Matthews, Rev. V. M. White,
Messrs. Robert A. M`Fie, G. Nickson, W. Clarke, J. Par-
sonage, W. Bennett, &c.
At the conclusion of the repast, •
The CHAIRMAN, who was received with considerable
applause, said it augured well for the success of the
association, when he found that during the past year above
eight hundred members had been enrolled, and he saw
that they had been under the patronage of the late Al-
derman Molyneux, whose regard for the interests of the
working classes was unbounded, and whose loss they so
deeply lamented. He saw around him their friends, the
clergy, who had done the work of the great cause they had
in hand ; and he asked what it was that made Liverpool
such a great Protestant town ? what but the labours
of the Evangelical Clergy, who, with Dr. M`Neile at their
head, had for the last twenty years been working dili-
gently in the great cause of the Reformation,
The President of the Society (Mr. John Parsonage) read
letters of apology for their absence from the Rev. W. Fal-
loon, Rev. S. Minton, and T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P.
The Rev. H. CAnPENTEB, in the course of an eloquent
speech, said their object in coming there was not to drink
tea, but to strengthen each other in one common princi-
ple, the great principle of the Reformation, to which,
under the grace of the Almighty, they owed every blessing
they enjoyed. There were some who said that the Refor-
mation was a mere negation—a destruction. It might be
destruction, but it was the destruction of everything
sinful, of human traditions, of all that had overloaded and
buried true religion beneath man's inventions. He pro-
ceeded to descant on the great work which had been done
at the Reformation in making the Scriptures free, in libe-
rating the world from ignorance, and helping to remove
that long night of darkness under which Rome had alone
been able to preserve her baneful influence. He told some
amusing stories from Romish books of pretended miracles
and inventions, even of wild beasts; and said such were
the idle tales which were substituted for the teaching of
the Scriptures.
[Left speaking.]

NEW BRIGHTON COLLEGE having been united to the
Royal College of Preceptors, the Resident Masters and
Pupils of this institution are expected to wear the aca-
demic dress, consisting of a cap and gown, as adopted by
the Council of the Royal College of London.
THE ARABIA, British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship, Commodore Judkius, sailed about noon on
Saturday, for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails
for the United States and British possessions in North
America, 179 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise
on freight.
THE SAILORS' HOME.—As some persons are collecting
subscriptions for a metropolitan institution, and stating
that our Sailors' HOme will be benefited by the funds
they receive, the committtee of the Sailors' Home have
been induced to advertise that they neither require nor
desire such indirect assistance.

Ma. Bylts's AMERICAN REMINISCENCES.—We per-
ceive, with pleasure, that this talented gentleman is about
to give a series of his entertainment, entitled " A Visit
from John to Jonathan." The entertainment, which em-
braces numerous graphic sketches of American life, man-
ners, and opinions, has been well recieved in the metro-
polis and in the provinces, is to be given in Hime's Music-
hall, Bold-street.
IMPROVEMENTS AT GARSTON Docs.—The new ware-
houses in course of erection are somewhat after the plan
of the Albert Dock Warehouses, with the additional ad-
vantage of their ground floors being traversed by lines of
rails which will enable waggons from the railway to be
loaded in any part of them, and the goods thus to be taken
direct from the store to any part of the country without
further handling, and, therefore, in the best possible con-
dition, and at the least possible expense. When com-
pleted, these warehouses must be of great benefit in pro-
moting the rapid loading and discharging of vessels enter-
ing the dock for or with goods liable to injury from ex-
posure, and they will, no doubt, add very materially to the
attractions which this dock already presents to shipowners
and merchants. We understand that a spacious section of
ground adjacent to the dock is being laid out as a place
for storing timber, in-order to accommodate this most im-
portant branch of trade, the increase of which has of latebeen
so great, and the facilities of conducting it at Liverpool so
inadequate and expensive, that any addition to them can-
not but be hailed as a boon by the entire trade. The direct
communication which this ground has with all the neigh-
bouring towns, by means of the railways branching from
it, and the fact that timber can be imported and stored
there free of all dock-dues both on ship and cargo, have
already, we believe, attracted the attention of merchants,
and the present season will not pass without seeing this
excellent locality availed of for the purposes indicated. in
further development of the capacities of the land adjacent
to the dock, some of our more enterprising shipbuilders
have already contracted for ground for building-yards,
and it is to be presumed that graving-docks for the repairs
of ships will soon follow these arrangements. For the
shipment of coal the Garston Dock affords facilities unri-
valled by any other dock in the Mersey. At present there
are several vessels in the dock loading coals for the Mediter-
ranean, the St. Lawrence, the West Indies, and coastwise.
Recently, a large American ship, approaching 1,200 tons
register, we believe commenced loading there, and within
half-an-hour she had 125 tons of coal on board ! With
such means of despatch as this it is impossible but that
this dock should be extensively resorted to, and the export
trade in this grand source of our mineral wealth vastly
increased.—Mercury.

TRH GLASGOW Steam Ship, on Tuesday, in going down
the Clyde, on her outward voyage, ran aground a little
below Renfrew. She appears to have struck on a rock, or
large stone, as her hull was smashed through, starting
the boilers and forcing one of the compartments. Another
account states that her back has been broken.
THE HULL CONSERVATIVES have fixed upon Mr. Mare,
the eminent shipbuilder, of Blackwall, as their candidate
at the ensuing election.
DUTY ON LOGWOOD.—The lords of the committee of
Privy Council for trade and plantations have received a
copy of a despatch from H.M. Consul at Mexico, enclosing
a decree of the Mexican government announcing the
establishment of a duty on the exportation of all descrip-
tions of logwood, at the rate of 8 per cent. upon the valua-
tion, of 50 cents per quintal.
" Mary, my love," said a not very attentive husband to
his wife at the dinner-table, " shall I help you to a piece
of the heart ?" " I believe," said she, " that a piece of a
heart was all that I ever got." There.was a commotion
among the dishes.
AT HORFIELD CHURCH, on Sunday morning, the
clergyman, in making an appeal to his congregation, on
behalf of the expenses of the church, expressed a fear that
there were some present who would much rather spend
their money in the alehouse than contribute towards the
support of their parish church ; whereupon one of the
congregation, a labouring man named Thomas, rose and
inquired if he alluded to him, because if he did, he thought
he had a right to do what he thought proper with his own,
more especially as he thought the infirmary or hospital a
much better object of charity.
A STRIKE IN SPAlN.—There has been a great strike
at Barcelona. The trade of that famous city supports a
large number of manufacturing artisans, and these work-
men " turned out" some ten days ago after the fashion of
the Preston operatives ; but the authorities, mistaking
the movement for an insurrection, attacked the operatives
and killed several people.
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION BILL.—Mr. Bowyer's bill,
now before the House of Commons, proposes to enact that
hereafter notice of an action for criminal conversation,
and of the name of the defendant, is to be given to the
plaintiff's wife, or (if she cannot be found after reasonable
search) left at her last known place of abode ; and she
may, within ten days, notify her intention to appear at
the trial ; in which case she is to have notice of trial, and
may appear by counsel or in person, and make full defence,
and produce such evidence to disprove the allegations and
evidence of the plaintiff, affecting her reputation, as she
shall think fit; and she is to have the same powers as a
defendant to enforce the attendance of witnesses and pro-
duction of papers. It is further proposed that no damages
be recovered in an action for criminal conversation but
that, on a verdict being found against the defendant, he
shall be adjudged to pay to the Crown such fine as the
court shall think fit. The judge is to make such order
with respect to the payment of the costs of the plaintiff, or
of the defendant, or of the wife, as such judge shall think
just and reasonable.
COUNT NESSELRODE.—CharIes Albert, Count Nessel-
rode, who has now attained the mature age of eighty-four,
is the only man amongst the Emperor's advisers who hal;
been well known in foreign countries for the last thirty
years. He was the son of German parents, subjects of
Russia, and born off the coast of Portugal, on board a
British ship. Hence his origin and nationality may shortly
become as mythical and problematical as those of Homer.
He was first a sailor, secondly a cuirassier, thirdly a diplo-
matic attache at Paris, and finally he has become the first
statesman of Europe, and more than a match for Metter-
nich and Palmerston. Though he has exhibited the usual
pliancy and duplicity of Russian diplomatists, it is reported
that, in connection with the present contest in the East,
he has always opposed the extreme measures of the war
party, which appear at present to have the upper hand in
the imperial couneils.—Russia as it is.
CHRISTIANS IN TURHEY.—A parliamentary paper has
been printed, containing the correspondence respecting
the condition of Christians in Turkey. There are ten
documents in the correspondence. The first from C‘olonel
Rose to the Earl of Clarendon, from Constantinople,
dated the 25th March, 1853, was received on the 15th
of April, stating that the Porte had granted to the
Christian communities a new and spacious burial ground.
In February last the firman for establishing Christian
evidence on an equality with Mussulman throughout the
Turkish empire was completed. Lord Stratford stated—
" I have reason to hope that this great act of long-with-
held justice will be followed by other proofs of the Sultan's
beneficence, and of the improved spirit prevailing among
his Mahometan subjects." On the 18th ult., Lord Claren-
don, in his dispatch to Lord Stratford, expressed the
satisfaction of Her Majesty's government that the long-
deferred measure of justice as to the acceptance of
Christian evidence was about to be put into force, and
they doubted not but that it would be received by the
Christian subjects of the Sultan as a further proof to
redress their just grievances, and to remove all future
ground of complaint on their part.

THE EASTERN WAR.

THE FIRST PRIZES.
A letter from Copenhagen, dated Sunday, contains the
Following gratifying and important intelligence :

" The Tribune frigate has just arrived from Admiral
Plumridge's squadron, having taken five Russian prizes
and a number of prisoners."

" CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 6.
" The whole fleet is now in the Black Sea.
" The new Mufti was insulted on the 3d.
" The declaration of war reached Constantinople on
the sth.
" The Porte was about to issue a manifesto in con-
sequence.
" Lord Stratford has addressed to the British Consuls a
circular condemning the Greek insurrection.
" There was nothing new on the Danube up to the 12th."

PARIS, APRIL 16.

" Prince Napoleon left Marseilles yesterday, for Toulon,
accompanied by Vely Pasha, the Ambassador of Turkey
" Letters from Brest of the 12th state that, on the
preceding day, 900 marines had been embarked on board
the Inflexible, the Tage, and the Jemappes, which were
waiting in the roads for orders to make sail for the Baltic.
" Five other ships and three frigates will follow them
without delay.

"The journals of Bretagne announce that a number of
regiments, both infantry and cavalry, destined eventually
to take part in the expedition to the Baltic, were being
put in order of march.

" §t. Bruix will become the centre of a corps of from
5,000 to 6,000 men."

" MADRID, APRIL 11

" Lord Howden has addressed a note to the Spanish
Government requiring that it shall close its ports against
Russian privateers, if Russia issues letters of marque."

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17.

LONDON.—On 'Change there is little business reported.
P. Y. C. Tallow, 665. on the spot ; Hemp nominal ; Lin-
seed Oil, 40s. ; Scotch Pig Iron, 7.85. ; Spelter, £23 6s.
Other articles unaltered.

It is supposed that the prizes referred to by the Times
are merchant vessels, laden with lead and sulphur, and
which Admiral Plumridge went in pursuit of.

THE WAR.

A Galatz letter, speaking of the movements of the
Russian forces into the Dobrudscha, states that about
165,000 men have crossed the river.
The accounts received in Paris from Constantinople
continue to express the greatest anxiety and impatience
for the arrival of the allied forces at the theatre of war.
They concur in speaking of the great effect that would be
produced in the Turks by the presence of 70,000 or 80,000
French and English troops. Confidence would be re-
stored to the Mussulman population and army, and a
greater check would be given to any designs of a revolt.
General Millers is said to have declared that, if the allied
governments wished to avoid the occurrence of another
Sinope on land, the armies and their commanders must
arrive with all possible speed.

The Paris journal, Pays, states that several Russian
officers have arrived in Spain and Portugal, to get up in-
trigues against the Queen of Spain, and in favour of Don
Miguel in Portugal.

FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET.
In English Securities, operations were limited, and chiefly
connected with to-morrow's settlement. Consols opened atB7l,
but closed only 87i, buyers. Railways quite inactive, and in
the afternoon exhibited a tendency to heaviness. Land and
Bank Shares supported at former prices. In Foreign, little
doing; Mexicans a shade lower.

CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Account .. 1 87} A Bank Stock 213 14
Do. Money.... 187 i i Exqr. Bills, L. & 5... par. 4 pm
Three&QrperCents.. 873 /

FOREIGN STOCKS.
Mexicans 23a 4 Spanish Passives .... 3* I
Spanish Deferred
Do. Threes 35 6 Do. Four & Halves 79 81
RAILWAY SHARES.
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...........,....
Amberg.,Nottingham, Leeds Northern ll4 124
and E. Junction.... 44 4 London & N. Western 944 54
Caledonian
Eastern Counties
East Lancashire — , Lincolnshire l9 20
Edinburgh & Glasgow Midland Stock
Great Northern 844 54 North British —
Do. A..... 73 5 !North Staffordshire —
Great Western
L,anc.and Yorkshire 594 604 York, Newcastle, and
Do. Fifths — Berwick ... 64 5
London,Brighton,and !York and N. Midland 45 6
South Coast 97 S I Do. Preference..

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