The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-07 00:00:00

THE ABATEMENT OF THE SMOKE NUISANCE, ANDTHZ

POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY,

Since the discussion at the

meeting of the Town Council, on the smoke nuisance
clause, we understand that Mr. Francis Morton has pro-
posed to the Polytechnic Society that the subject should be
brought under consideration at the society's meeting, on
Monday evening next, and Mr. Morton has arranged for
a paper to be read by Mr. John Lee Stevens, of London,
the inventor of the patent smokeless furnaces, in order to
show how the smoke nuisance can be subverted without
obstruction or prejudice to the interests of the owners of
steam boats, manufactories, &c. The smokeless furnaces
are extensively in use in London and other places, their
chief characteristics being great simplicity, the absence of
all moving apparatus or other expensive arrangements,
preventing the formation of smoke, and effecting a large
saving of fuel. The subject is one of great public interest
at the present time, and we have no doubt the meeting
on Monday evening will be numerously attended.
FRAUDS ON THE 'NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
—At the Police-court, on Friday, William Caitchen, chief
cashier in the office of the London and Northwestern
Railway Company, Lime-street, was charged with mal-
appropriating £5OO. It appeared that, during the week
ending the 4th of December, the prisoner received the
sum of £1,309 106. 3d., which it was his duty to pay into
the Bank of Liverpool, or Moss and Co.'s Bank, to the
credit of the company. But before doing so, he gave
instructions to his clerk, Mr. Henry Lane Thatcher., to
make a deduction of £5OO, explaining that he had authority
to do so from Mr. Goalen, principal of the audit depart-
, ment at London, to reduce the balance iu the book produced
by some £3,000 odd, for the purpose of wiping off a portion
of an old balance connected with the East Lancashire
Company. Thatcher did as he was directed. The prisoner
was apprehended by detective-officer Eaton, on Thursday.
Mr. Humphreys, solicitor, who appeared for the company,
stated that Mr. Goalen, the principal of the audit depart- .
ment of this company, was also in custody on a chaasse of
extensive frauds, involving an amount of between £5,000
and £9,000.
THE SCREW-STEAMER ANDES, Moodie, hence to Boston
and New York, returned to this port on account of leaking,
stress of weather, &c. The following is the report of the
surveyors :—On the 4th February, 1854, attended the ves-
sel lying dry in the Huskisson Dock, and found the leak
arose from the stern-bush, the bush being secured by two
strong bolts passing through the sternpost, the bolt appa-
rently having worked itself out of the nut inwards, -the
iron nut being secured by an iron guard outside, which
iron guard still remains perfect. Found the topgallant-
forecastle stove in, namely, the beams and deck of it broken.
Portforward gangway and four chain stanchions broke,
and several started, covering board split. Examined the
hatches, which were well secured, and the goods quite dry
in hatchways, except one bale under the winch, partially
damaged; and on examination of the dunnage in the be-
tween-decks, and the manner the cargo is protected in the
hold with tarpaulings, our opinions are that there is no
damage, and we do not consider it necessary to discharge
the cargo. And, on a careful examination, do not see any
signs of weakness in the hull of the vessel. Recommend
the bolt through sternpost to be replaced, and the other
damage replaced and .repaired. .
INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—Three inquests were held yes-
terday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., the borough coroner. The
first was on Edward Williams, 37 years of age. On the
19th of January deceased had been sent with another man
to bring a horse from the Lime-street railway station to
the house of Mr. Richard Holmes, publican, corner of
Watkinson-street, St. James's-place. He -mounted its
back without a saddle, and on getting opposite to the Rev.
Dr. Raffies's chapel,' the horse shyed, and threw him vio-
lently on to its shoulders. Deceased had sustained by the
shock rupture of the urethra. of which he died in the
Southern Hospital on Sunday last.—On John Mildoon, a
dock labourer, 35 years of age. On Wednesday last, de-
ceased was employed with other men in assisting to load
the ship Duke in the Canning Dock, with a cargo of ma-
hogany for Calcutta. They were putting one log into the
hold, the deceased holding a plank to keep it off the cor-
nices. When the log had been got right over the hatch-
way, he was ordered to let go, but did not do so, and he was
precipitated into the hold, by which the right side of his
head was fractured. He died in the Southern Hospital.—
The third and last inquest was on Ann Pask Hopwood,
the, daughter of Mr. Hopwood, licensed victualler, 11,
Great Crosshall-street, seven months old. Deceased was
in the care of a wet nurse, who lived in the house, and
whilst in her charge the child was overlain.
-FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About half-past sir
o'clock on Friday morning, a collision took place at tilt
Leyland Station, on the London and North-western Rail-
way, by which Robert Taylor, a breaksman on a coal
train, belonging- to Mr. Hargreaves, lost his life. A
Liverpool goods train, from Preston, came up to the sta-
tion, where it stopped, and the breaksman of the train got
off to unhook one of the :wagons which had to be left at
the station. When he had done so, he called on the
engine-driver to run the train quickly into the siding, or
a train behind would be into them ; but he had no sooner
said this, than an empty coal-wagon train ran into the
goods train, and some of the carriages were thrown upon
the two lines and broken. In about two minutes after
this occurrence, the coal train belonging to Mr. Hargreaves
same np from Coppull at a quick rate, and the driver
seeing a signal made to stop, endeavoured to do so, but,
as he was coming down the incline, and was then very near
the station when he saw the signal, in consequence
of the thick fog then prevailing, he could not stop the
train in time, and it ran through the station quite three
hundred yards before it was brought to a stand. As this
last train passed, Taylor was standing on the break of one
of the wagons, and that side of the carriage was turned
inwards towards the other rails, instead of towards the
outside, the consequence being that the man was brushed
off, as it were, by the passing train, and immediately after
he was found lying on the line between the rails. His
jacket, waistcoat, and flannel singlet • were cut through, as
though he had sustained a very violent blow on that side,
and he died in four hours after the accident.
Tian :WIDOW AND HER LOVER.—A young widow, says
the Courrier de Nord, has just married a man frig?"l!s,l
disfigured. He fell in love with her four years he went
ohnoemeevaenndinga,t.t
not did
lielmteprtedsomthe bwloowrdsoubet thwiseebnitsuithesm,4l4.eieT'l7:l3
ravaged his face in a most dreadful
became a widow,
wound. The young woman afteraya e _
kill him, and in the course of time
familiar-
and wrote to the man that she wis
• e aim, so greeatly himwas he
hinasbeeng-nimngarried him
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The town of Finana
ised with his dreadful ugliness,
ra —A terrible earthquake took
EARTHQUAKE IN •
•S in on the 13th 0.
January. TlSpanish
- b Pa dreadful misfortune. On
OnFriday
has just been visited_ bye o
place at Pinang,
clock in tale mon • ling, during
last, between two and t
and while every one wasasleep, the
ken and turned ove • by
1 a series of
in. iiinale,errsia,samy
other '
violent shocks following each m rapid succession,
and aecompanied by a prolonged noise resembling the
rolling of thunder, and followed by numerous fissures. It
crumbled down the greatest part of the Alcazaba (an
soilcc'm pwlaestesididardkennlesy%l
ancient castle of the Moors), broke houses to pieces, and
caused large chasms in nearly all the streets. Eight per-
sons were afterwards dug out in a terrible state of mutilse~
tion."

WHAT IS THAT, MOTHER?

(BY SIRS. HEMANS.)
WHAT is that, mother? The lark, my child !
The morn has but just looked out, and smiled,
When be starts from his humble grassy nest,
And is up and away, with the dew on his breast,
And a hymn in his heart, to yon pure, bright sphere,
To warble it out in his Maker's ear;
Ever, my child, be thy morn's first lays
Tuaed, like the lark's, to thy Maker's praise.
What is that, mother? The dove, my son
And that low, sweet voice, like a widow's moan,
Is flowing out from her gentle breast,
Constant and pure, by that lonely nest,
As the wave is poured from some crystal urn,
For distant dear one's quick return ;
Ever, my son, be thou like the dove,
In friendship as faithful—as constant in love.

What is that, mother? The eagle, boy !
Proudly careering his course of joy ;
Firm, on his own mountain vigour relying,
Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying;
g"# on the wind, and his eye on the sun,
If es not a hair, but bears onward, right on ;
ay the eagle's flight ever be thine—

Onward, and upvral d, and true to the line.

What is that, mother? The swan, my love!
He is floating down from his native grove;
No loved one now, no nestling nigh,
He is floating down, by himself to die;
Death d:•r!< s his eye, and unplumes his wings,
Yet his s, test song is the last he sings;
Live so, my love, that when death shall come,
Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

Pelham ; or, Adventures of a Gentleman. By
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With a
Notice of the Author and his Works. London :
Geo. Routledge and Co.
Among the marvels of the present age—and they
-are numerous and astounding—few are so deserving
of wonder, combined with gratitude, as the facili-
ties afforded to even the humblest classes for
becoming acquainted with the mental labours of
those who confer upon our times an impress
derived from intellect. These facilities •are fur-
nished by a variety of instruments, the chief of
which is the printing press, and its successes in
this way are attained by a rapidity of action and a
cheapness of production which, but a year or two
ago, would have been pronounced as impossible, as
its prediction would have been held incredible.
The author, whose earliest finished work of fiction
is now before us, in a form so concise and so cheap
as to excite astonishment, has contributed in no
slight degree to modulate the intellectual " form
and pressure" of our era. The writings of Sir E.
Bulwer Lytton, even when they could only be ob-
tained in an expensive form, had a wide circula-
tion, and attained and exercised a powerful influence
over the public mind. Most of his works have
been reprinted again and again, and in general at
a decreasinc, price, and with a growing popularity,
till now, in the hands of Messrs. Routledge, if we
may be pardoned the Hibernicism, they have
reached the acme of cheapness. Here in a single
volume we have the whole of " Pelham," published
at a rate not greater than used to be charged for a
night's perusal of it from a circulating library, the
cost not greatly exceeding that of an artisan's mid-
day meal. Added to the novel there is also a
biographical and critical account of the author and
his works, which of itself would be cheap at the
price charged for the whole.
To offer criticism on " Pelham," or to attempt
to analyse its beauties, after these have been felt
and acknowledged for a quarter of a century, would
indeed be a supererogatory labour ; to attempt a
depreciation of its merits would now be a task as
unavailing as it would be thankless. Instead of
essaying such fruitless labour, we shall content our-
selves with bearing testimony to the sound judg-
ment and intelligence displayed in the analytical
essay prefixed to the volume, in which the writer
gives a catalogue raisonne of the author's works
interspersed with anecdotes. It is well written,
and displays candour as well as good taste, as will
be seen from the annexed
SUMMAEY OF BULWER LYTTON'S GROUNDS OP SUCCESS.

By the hints scattered through his writings, and by
what is known of his career, we can trace him through so
many forms of society, and observe him at home in all.
The child escaping from his stately home to the hearth of
cottagers ; the school-boy, vehement in sport and daunt-
less in combat ; the Cambridge student declaiming at the
Debating Society, and employing the long vacations to
wander over England and Scotland alone and on foot ; the
young man of fashion at ease in the gay circles of London
and Paris, and lightly adventuring into the haunts of
thieves and outlaws, to learn the manners depicted in
"Pelham" and "Paul Clifford ;" the secluded scholar
studying metaphysics and Greek in rural solitudes ; the
active member of parliament contesting elections, partici-
pating in the dry toil of committees and the animated
field-days of debate ; the accomplished traveller studying
aesthetics in Germany and antiquities in Rome ; the hospi-
table country gentleman, the oracle of farmers and the
companion of squires—through all such phases passed the
man who has traced with so easy a Skill the " Varieties of
E ?2,lish Life." And in all this he has been true to his
own favourite maxim—" that the duty of man is not to be
one thing alone, but to accomplish as far as possible all the
faculties of his mind, and the faculties will lead of them-
selves to the objects in which he is most fitted to excel."
"If," says Goethe, " we do but our duty to our own minds,
we shall soon come to do it to the world." And in Bnlwer
this comprehensiveness of study and life has been pre-
served from that satiety and weariness which often attend
extreme cultivation by an energy that seems never to know
repose, and which all temporary failure, all hostile criti-
cism, has only nerved into more stubborn perseverance.
No writer has owed so little to partisanship and cliques—
no writer been so assailed at the commencement of his
career, and at each new direction of his powers ; he has
never used his social influence to obtain favourers in the
press—he has descended to none of the acts by which
authors are forced into notoriety by reviewers—he has
fought his way to his present eminence single-handed, and
owes his success even less to his genius than (to use the
expressive English word for the stout English quality) his
indomitable pluck.

Without committing ourselves in any degree to
presumed admiration of our author's expressive
English word," we confess entire concurrence in
his statement of the fact communicated. Inde-
pendent, manly intellect will never be beholden to
the ephemeral influences of clique or coterie.
Small minds may derive a factitious importance
and attain a spurious reputation from the hypbcri-
tical adulation of industrious sycophants ; but he
who would occupy a niche in the temple of Fame
must at least be able to stand alone and upright—
the " God of Day" requires no rush-light to point
attention to his beams. The author of the memoir
gives several illustrations of Bulwer's celerity of
invention as a dramatic author ; among others the
following account of the production of

" THE LADY OF LYONS."

Mr. Macready had just undertaken the management of
Covent-garden with the honourable design to restore the
English drama. One evening the manager, speaking to
Bulwer of his risks and fears, said, " Oh ! if I could get a
play like the 'Honeymoon !' " In legs than a fortnight
from that evening the " Lady of Lyons" was written, and
in Macready's hands. It is unnecessary to speak of the
extraordinary success which attended this play. It was
produced without the name of the author. On the first
night of the performance, Bnlwer was engaged upon a con-
stitutional debate in the House of Commons, and, after
having spoken there with great success, went to the theatre
just in time to see the curtain drop amidst the rapturous
applause of the audience.

Of Bulwer's general sympathy with the too
frequently unfortunate, worldly position of literary
men, we have a fine example in the history of his
most recent dramatic labour,

"NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM."

We should here touch briefly on Bulwer's last dramatic
composition. The causes that conduced to it are well
known. In the autumn of 1850, a large party of friends,
eminent in letters and art,—Charles Dickens, Douglas
Jerrold, Mark Lemon, John Forster,—and the artists
Egg, Leach, Stone, and, we believe, Maclise, had assem-
bled at Knebworth, (Bulwer's residence in Herts,) and
delighted a rural audience with the exhibition of their
theatrical talents in Ben Jonson's comedy, " Every Man
in his Humour." Before separating, the conversation
turned upon the melancholy condition of a well-known
man of letters ; and the idea was started to perform a
play in the provinces, the profits of which should be
applied to the relief of certain authors in distress. "But
why not to the foundation of some permanent fund for
the aid of all writers struggling against fortune now and
hereafter P Why not to the establishment of fixed annui-
ties, rather than the temporary relief to which the laws of
the Literary Fund confine that institution? Why not to
the foundation of a joint benefit society,—such as the
trading classes found for themselves, and from which the
idea of eleemosynary degradation is properly excluded
Why not couple with such a so. Such were the variousciety some of the useful
and dignified objects of a college :"
suggestions that grew out of the first proposals, and into
which Bulwer entered with all the earnestness he has ever
evinced for whatever can benefit or raise men of letters by
profession. " If you will act a play," said he, " I will
write it. If we can gain money enough to found retreats
for authors—whatever name we may decide to bestow on
these retreats—l will give you the land." All present
Elegged themselves with enthusiasm to the undertaking.
--Lhe comedy of "Nor so BAD As WE SEEM" was thus
written, The plan was made known to the Duke of
Dpv
--"silire and received his grace's cordial co-operation.
A room in the
and the play A. duke's house was fitted up for a theatre,
Majesty and pruiepii acted there for the first time, before her
to the e Albert. It was afterwards transferred
Hanover-square Rooms, thence it went the round
of the provinces.
The to the
itself, written as a piece
d' occasion, adapt
amateur performers, and the peculiar talents of selected
interest, is not to be judged
little relief from female
15;.the severe rules of criti-
cism. As a play of character, is excellent ; as a play of
interest, it is deficient ; and the scenes and situations,

though often strong in themselves, are not connected
sufficiently with the absolute necessities of the plot.
Bulwer's real merit here is not in the play, it is in the
object for which the play was composed.

The extracts we have given speak fairly, and we
think favourably of the prefatory essay with which
the cheap edition of Bulwer's works is ushered
into the world. We shall be happy to hail the
succeeding volumes, as welcome additions to our
economical literature.

Blacktcood's Magazine.—Edinburgh :
Blackwoods.

This magazine is always welcome, and the num-
ber for the present month is well deserving of the
reception which it meets wherever the refinement
of English literature is appreciated. It opens
with an article on " Abyssinian Aberrations," the
review of a work by an author of singular expe-
rience, Mr. Mansfield Parkyns, an amateur bar-
barian, who left England when a very young man,
plunged into the heart of Abyssinia, and adopted
savage life with an earnestness and gusto suffi-
ciently proved by his book. As the reviewer
observes :

Fancy a civilised Englishman, gently nurtured and edu-
cated, pitching his tent for three years amongst filthy
savages, adopting their dress and usages, rubbing his head
with butter, sleeping with the butt of his rifle for a
pillow—the grease from his plaited locks being "benefi-
cially employed in toughening the wood"—having himself
partially tattooed, eating raw beef, substituting raw
sheep's liver, soused in vinegar, for oysters, discarding
hats and shoes, and going bareheaded and barefoot under
the broiling sun and over the roadless wastes of Abyssinia,
burning and gashing his flesh in order to produce peculiar
scars and protuberances, deemed ornamental by the people
amongst whom he dwelt, and, upon his return home,
coolly writing down and publishing his confessions.

The third part of " The Quiet Heart" continues
the story with increasing interest in its progress,
as the characters and their proceedings are more
developed, while there is a quiet tone about it
which will commend it to many readers. An
article on the National Gallery reviews, with much
taste and ability, the Report of the Commission,
and offers some valuable suggestions on a subject
which has been too much neglected in this country.
After " a glance on Turkish History," which has
a particular interest at this time, when we are on
the verge of a war, for the protection of the
sublime Porte from the paw of the great Bear,
and a review of Macaulay's Speeches, revised by
himself, there is an entertaining paper on " Fifty
Years in both Hemispheres," by a German mer-
chant, of a singularly adventurous and speculative
turn. " A Sporting Settler in Ceylon" gives some
very exciting accounts of the hunting of elephants,
elks, and other wild animals, with the many hair-
breadth escapes of which he was himself the hero.
The number concludes with a well-written critique
on Gray's poetry and letters, which have been
recently published ; and once more we have no
political essay, Blackwood reserving himself, we
suppose, until the meeting of Parliament shall
have given political movements a more definite form.

The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin :
James M`Glashan.

The February number of this favourite periodical
fully sustains its usual excellence of character. It
opens with a racy paper on " The Food of the
Irish," in which every possible mode of cooking
and using the potato is discussed with much gusto
and in excellent spirit. The many blessings which
accompanied the culture of that esculent are dwelt
on with fondness, and displayed in glowing
language ; the miseries inflicted by its utter
destruction are described with harrowing pathos.
The results which have ensued from its annihilation
are given in the following

REFLECTIONS ON THE POTATO FAILURE.
The potato failure and its consequences, to a certain
degree, helped to quench the rebellion. In large towns or
crowded districts, when the people suffer from want of
food, outrage and rebellion may thrive ; but in a scattered
agricultural district it is far otherwise, and this was
forcibly exhibited in the Ballingarry affair, when the insur-
gents were told to go home at night to get their suppers !
By the ruin of the potato failure much of the hollowness
and forced display of our poor gentry was exposed. The
contrast between England and Ireland was heretofore
strongly shown in the differences between the several
classes of society. The Irish peasant lacked all the
comforts of the same class in England ; while the upper
classes here revelled in expensive mansions, fine equipages,
rich dresses, and routes and festivities, which the same
class in England never aimed at. The Irish gentleman
with £5OO a-year lived in a condition that the Englishman
with £l,OOO a-year never aspired to ; consequently the one
grew poorer and the other grew richer year by year. This
arose in part from race and breeding, and also from the
peculiar condition of the country. The Irishman was a
gentleman often highly connected, and generally possessed
a collegiate education ; the Englishman was a farmer, who
could just read and write ; the Englishman drove his own
market cart—the Irishman hired a coachman to drive his
barouche.

In the same paper we have also complicated yet
interesting discussions on the various topics affect-
ing the social condition of the Irish people.
" Memoirs of the Count de Lally," Part IL, also
contribute to swell the number of agreeable and
instructive papers of which the magazine consists.
Dramatic amateurs will find information happily
blended with amusement in " A Second Peep at the
Dramatic Gallery of the Garrick Club," which
abounds with well-told anecdotes.

The Chemistry of Common L. By Jas. P. W.
Johnston, M.A. Edinburgh : Wm. Blackwood

and Sons.

The second and third parts of this valuable con-
tribution to the popular science of the day are now
before us. They embrace chemical consideration
of " The soil we cultivate—the plant we rear," and
" The bread we eat—the beef we cook." To every
member of the community the inquiries conducted,
and the results set before us, in these pages, are of
the greatest importance. It is only right, how-
ever, to say that the titles above quoted are used
as types of the various subjects to which they
relate. Under them we find fully and philoso-
phically, as well as popularly, discussed the various
processes of vegetation, and the peculiar properties
and relations of vegetable and animal food. We
have also valuable information relative to the best
and most economical modes of preparing the
different kinds of nutriment we use ; and, in short,
in the work before us, we are furnished with prac-
tical directions for the best uses of nature's best
gifts.

Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : Jas. Hogg.
The number of Hogg's Instructor for the current
month is an excellent one. It is, as usual, varied
in contents, and cleverly written. As a manual of
popular literature, it takes a high position, and is
entitled to occupy it.;

Kidd' s Own Journal. London : Spooner.

Mr. Kidd has long been favourably known to
the public for his numerous notes on singing birds,
and the enthusiasm of his love for the beauties of
nature. This is a taste which ever appeals suc-
cessfully to a rightly-constituted mind, and it is,
therefore, gratifying to believe that in the con-
ducting of a monthly magazine the author has
met with a good share of success. The work
before us is devoted to natural history, popular
science, family fancies and things in general, plea-
sant descriptions, moral essays, zoology and botany,
poetry, and the many varieties which, while they
appeal to the better feelings of humanity, assist in
cultivating a taste for innocent pleasures. With-
out any tales of romantic fiction to excite• the
young, it is a work that may be confidently recom-
mended for the domestic circle, as providing en-
tertainment and instruction for either sex, and any
age; the love of nature commencing with the dawn
of reason and only terminating with life.

PALTITY OF LARGE TOWNS IN RITSSIA.—St. Peters-
burgh, Moscow, and Odessa, are the only cities whose
population exceeds 100,000 ; indeed, there is some doubt
whether that of Odessa reaches this figure. There are
only four towns containing more than 50,000 inhabitants
each, and 18 or 20 with a population exceeding 25,000.
In fact, it has been computed from the official reports
that there is only one town with an average population of
7,000, in an area of 130 square miles. Now, the result of
this is obvious. The absence of any market renders it
unnecessary for the proprietor, who has no facilities for
transporting his grain to a seaport, to grow more than
sufficient for his own consumption ; and the peasant only
cultivates land enough to yield the produce required to
support his own family.—Shores of the Black Sea.
A SCENE AT THE WELSH SLATE QUARRIES.—The most
remarkable place in the vicinity, for its human and social
interest, is Bethesda—a town whose very name shows that
it owes its origin to a body of persons among whom reli-
gious feeling is strong. Bethesda is a quarrymen's town,
a slate community. Dissenters are in full force all over
the principality, and nowhere more so than at the quarries.
We happened to be at Bangor on the day when the Welsh
Calvinistic Methodists held their annual field-meeting in
that town, and shall not soon forget the sight ; so neat, so
clean, so earnest, so simple-minded, so honest-hearted, did
they all appear. They came from the quarries, from Con-
way, from Carnarvon, from Beaumaris, from every place
within many miles around Bangor; they sang their un-
pronounceable Welsh with good healthy lungs ; and sat on
chairs, or carts, or waggons,or reclined on the grass, under
a bright blue sky and a cheerful sun, to listen to discourses.
Such was a great day for the quarrymen; but for all ordi-
nary occasions they have their own chapels in their own
Bethesda. And they have their retail shops, too, where
David ap Jones ap Price ap Davies ap Morgan ap Shenkin,
and his brother tradesmen, sell bread, cloth, pins, herrings,
lucifers, candles, penny pictures, saucepans, leeks, lollipops,
and all the other necessaries and luxuries fora working
poptilatio.—Hotteehold Words,

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

EDUCATION FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES.
LETTER IV.