The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—l will not stop to discuss with you the question
as to Dr. Brown's title to the designation which I gave
him—because, however convenient this may be to you as a
subterfuge, it is wholly immaterial to the matter at issue.
Let it suffice that he is the acknowledged superior .of
the Catholic clergy of this district, and, in that capacity,
undoubtedly the fittest person to inquire into their conduct.
Your ether excuse for withholding the information
asked, will avail you no better—for I venture, as a lawyer,
to tell you that, by proving the truth of your statement,
you would have a valid answer to any action for libel.
You have, therefore, no apology for withholding the
name of this alleged delinquent. Public morality demands
it. The vindication of your character, as a public jour-
nalist, must suggest it. A sense of justice, if not of deli-
cacy, to the Catholic clergy of the district, forbids you to
withhold it. I again, therefore, ask you to furnish me, if
you can, with the name of this profligate priest, that he
may no longer be permitted to prostitute his sacred office,
and scandalise our common Christianity.
If, however, you still decline to give me his name, I
must assume that you cannot, and that the article in
question is a base fabrication, manufactured to give point
and zest to an article otherwise too contemptible to be
notioed.—l am your obedient servant,
JOHN Yevzs, Jun.
20, Feawick-street, 11th March, 1854.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I beg to inform you that, as you have not replied
to my last letter, I shall publish in the Liverpool Mer-
cury, and Northern Daily Times, of to-morrow, the
correspondence which has taken place between us on the
subject of your attack on the Catholic clergy of this
neighbourhood.

You will exercise your own discretion about publishing
it yourself.—Your obedient servant, JOEN YATES, Jun.
20, Fenwick-street, 13th March, 1854.

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

THE Pinimatittoxic Co;cERT, on Tuesday evening,
was attended by an audience fashionable and intelligent,
and so full as to crowd the splendid hall of the society.
The occasion was the second subscription concert of the
season, and the piece selected the sublime oratorio of
" Elijah," the masterpiece of Mendelssohn, which was per-
formed in a manner worthy of the great composer, and
creditable to the Philharmonic Society,and to the town of
Liverpool. The chief vocalists on the occasion were,
Miss Birch, Miss Huddart, Herr Richardt, and Herr
Carl Formes ; the orchestra and chorus numbering two
hundred performers : both chorus and orchestra being
efficient and well trained, as well as numerous and power-
ful. Having said this much, we have said as far as must
convince every one, conversant with the subject, that the
performance was a noble one, so much depending in an
oratorio, and especially one of Mendelssohn's, on the com-
bined power and steady execution of the choruses.
Of Miss Birch, who was in excellent voice, it.is scarcely
necessary to say more than that, as usual, she displayed
her wonted taste and culture ; her intonation was pure
and correct—her style admirable. She confined herself
to the execution of what was set down for her, and that
she did with the sweetness and polished grace of a finished
artiste. Asa concert singer, of high class, Miss Huddart
fully justified the favourable opinion we expressed of her
vocal talents, on the occasions of her appearing as one'
of the operatic company in the Theatre Royal. Her
singing of the devotional and charmingly expressive air
in the second part, " 0 rest in the Lord, wait patiently
for his blessing," was a charming effort, a triumph, indeed,
of eloquent vocalisation. It embodied a fine feeling of
earnestness, and pathetic as well as persuasive beauty.
So completely were the audience delighted with the
execution of this piece, that, tnalgre the etiquette of an
oratorio concert-room, their applause burst forth, in
unmeasured volume, and continued, with unmitigated
furore, till they had succeeded in obtaining its repetition.
This, by the way, it must be admitted, is a style of win-
ning satisfaction, which, if not peculiar, is seemingly. at
least, native to a Liverpool auditory. If any drawback
was observable in this lady's style of singing, it might
be noted in a somewhat nervous excess of energy, and
an effort at dramatic effect ; as a whole, however, her
performance was so gratifying, that any such depreciating
remarks might safely be set down as hypercriticism.
Herr Reichardt is a pleasing and correct rather than a
great or astonishing tenor. He possesses one good
quality, in addition to an excellent voice, he evidently
endeavours to understand his author, and to render his
meaning accurately. His singing, throughout, was effec-
tive, and it was well received. On Herr Carl Formes'
rendering of the music of " Elijah," much praise has
been deservedly lavished. To great power of execution
he added many of the accomplishments of the artiste,
and the graces of the musician ; still there was a mani-
fest inequality in his execution. On the present occasion
his singing was sometimes so loud as to savour of vio-
lence, at other times, so lax and feeble as to smack of
•carelessness. Of the valuable services rendered by the
chorus, it would not be an easy matter to speak in terms
,of over-strained praise. The numerous complicated and
'beautiful choruses were given with steadiness and telling
effect ; the various points were well and skilfully taken
up; and the fugue parts were executed with great pre-
• cision, and showed good and careful training. The
oratorio, we perceive, is to be repeated, in the same place,
on Tuesday next.

MR. JOHN CALCOTT BEATTY has been appointed ensign
in the 4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry)
Royal Lancashire Militia.
TOWN COUNCIL.—A special meeting has been convened
for Thursday next, for the purpose of electing an alderman; ,
vice Mr. Molyneux, deceased ; the terms of office to expire
on the 9th of November, 1859.
THE SCREW STEAMER ALBATROSS.—A statement
having appeared in some of the London and Liverpool
papers to the effect that " Messrs. Wilson and Son, of -
Liverpool, the agents of the Cork Steam-packet CompanVi .
received notice on Thursday that Government would re-
quire their fine screw steamer Albatross, Captain Hansen,
engaged in the Liverpool and Lisbon trade, for the con-
veyance of troops to the Mediterranean," we have been
requested by Messrs. Wilson and Son to contradict the
announcement, there being no truth in it.
DECIMAL COINAGE : THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES.
—The Institute of Actuaries, at an adjourned meeting
held in St. James's-square, last week, adopted the following
resolution on this subject :—" That this meeting is of opi-
nion that the plan recommended by the Decimal Coinage
Committee of 1853 is the best that has been proposed ;
and that the council be requested to prepare a petition to
Parliament urging the adoption of that plan ; with a re-
commendation for the issue of four mil pieces, as necessary
for the protection of the interests of the poorer classes.'
Thanks were voted to Lord Overstone, Mr. Brown, M.P.,
and Mr. Wood, for the aid they had lent to the cause.
ROBBERY AND BURGLARY.—Yesterday, Thomas Bail,
alias Thompson, Thomas Cole, and John Harris were
brought up, on remand, before the country magistrates,
at the County Police-office, in Clayton-square, charmed
with breaking into the house of Mrs. Douglas, residmg
in Edge-lane, and stealing a quantity of Jewellery, on
the night of Thursday, the 2nd instant. The inves-
tigation was gone into at considerable length, and ter-
minated in all three prisoners being committed for trial ,
REJOICINGS AT HALEWOOD.-011 Tuesday last, at
Halewood-house, the residence of James Lowther, Esq.,
the marriage of his amiable niece, Miss Emily Moore
Lowther to Mr. Thomas Walker, son of R Leftwich,
Esq., of Aigburth, was celebrated by great rejoicings.
The day was ushered in by firing of cannon, flags flying,
&c. A sumptuous breakfast was given to the relatives
and friends • and the numerous agricultural labourers,
workmen, &,e., were also regaled with an excellent dinner •
in the true old English style. Not only were all belong-
ing to the establishment amply provided for, but the sur-
rounding tenantry and neighbours from the different
townships partook of the good cheer, consisting of roast
beef, plum pudding, &c., with an abundance of excellent
ale from the Halewood brewery. Early in the afternoon
all the children belonging to the Halewood School were
regaled with tea, buns, &e., and allowed to sport on the
lawn and grounds. The day was most propitious, and the
pleasure was much enhanced by the presence and kind
assistance of the worthy curate, the Rev. T. Chambers,
aided by the master and mistress of the schools, and the
clerk of the church. The appearance and conduct of the
children, amounting to some hundreds, was truly tify-
ing to all who had the pleasure of witnessing the rural
and innocent scene. After the happy couple had taken
their departure, the festivities of the day were concluded
by a select dinner party, followed by a ball in the evening.
Everything passed off without the slightest alloy, and all
left much delighted with the day's proceedings.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—A special meeting of the
council was held yesterday, Thomas Bouch, Esq., presi-
dent, in the chair. The proceedings of the committee on
the subject of letters of marque and privateering were
read and adopted. The following are the resolutions of '
the committee :—That no letters of marque or commissions
of privateering should be henceforth granted by the Go-
vernment of this country ; that among other precautions
against the abuses of privateering and letters of marque
issued by foreign nations, the following should also be
comprehended, namely, that any vessel sailing under letter -
of marque or privateering commission against the property
of this country, unless under the command of a subject of
a nation at war with this country, and fitted out and
having proceeded from a port or place of such nation after
declaration of war, should be deemed a pirate by the laws
of this country, in accordance with the principle proclaimed
by the government of the United States of America during
the Mexican war of 1846 ; and that public notification
thereof should be given to all nations. That it is of the
highest importance that the Government of this country
should open negotiations without delay with the govern-
ments of France, the United States of America, and other
nations, with the view to obtain their concurrence in a
declaration that all sailing under letters of marque or com-
missions of privateering against the property of any sub-
ject or subjects of any nation so declaring to be, at all
times and under all circumstances, piracy. That the fore-
going resolutions be laid before the council, with a reeom-
, mendation that memorials be forthwith prepared in ac-
cordance therewith, and forwarded to the proper quarters,
praying that steps may be taken at once for the attain-
ment of the ends therein suggested, so far as her Majesty's
Government may deem practicable. A memorial to the
Privy Council, embodying the above, was submitted and
agreed to: The Chancellor of the Exchequer's propositions .
as to a stamp duty on foreign bills of exchange was dis-
cussed, and a special committee was appointed to consider
the details. A deputation was nominated to attend a
meeting in London on the subject of the importation of
Peruvian guano.
ST. MICHAEL'S BURIAL GROTIND.••••411 consequence 'of
an order from Lord Palmerston, the Home Secretary,
stating that in future no more than one burial should take place in one grave, and that after the' Ist of January
next the yard should be closed, a numerous meeting of
grave owners and other parishioners was held last night at
the Parochial school-room. Mr. Cookson, the church-
warden, was in the chair, supported by his colleague, Mr.
Christian. Mr. Pemberton asked if notice had been given "
to the grave owners, and also to the Health Committee
and the Town Council ? The Chairman said that notice '
had been given by advertisement and by placards. Mr.
Pemberton said he was surprised at this order of Lord
Palmerston to close a new burial ground, in which he had
bought a family grave, and many others were in the same
position. He had paid the Corporation for this PreP!
and it was a great hardship that he should be deprived
wits'
such further use of it. There was no honesty nor Jus""r
such an order, and he thought they ought
ought to
the town authorities as to the best course w.hieel. .
ea Mr.
be pursued to prevent its being carriedgYon one
Spumy expressed similar opinions.
He hosed, and many
interment in the grave which he had rairc
The Chairman stated
MR. JOSEPH Tnoursoar the well-known writing master, died on Saturday, after an illnees of seven years. ' owners had not used them at alliie yard contained, only
to confer uutn
that out of 1,224 graves which which' only one interment
During that period his sons superintended the duties of
n y one at all. After some
of his establishment, which will still continue to be carried had taken Place' and in ianall the speakers were unani-
-282 had been sold, in most of
on by them.
further discussion, in which
was resolved that a de-
OBTAINING GooDS ON FALSE PRETENCES —John vemen y 12., Mr. Pembertea, Mr.
Beasley was yesterday brought up at the Police-office, putation of three, .gei in company with the church-
charged with obtaining timber at different times, to the Pitcher, and Cal tvait
u.Turves,
pon the Mayor and other authori-
amount of about E2O, from Gilbert Harrison, timber mer- wardens, shoowulul
_min _,
mous in condemning the order, it
eeretilipogrt‘lo'fasthadiedoerataea-
cil in order to confer with them as
chant, Parliament-street, in the name of Mr. Thomas ties of
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advisable course to be pursued. It was then
Pearson, with whom Beasley formerly worked. He was
to
the
that a small subscription be entered into to pav
also charged with obtaining locks, keys, and other iron-
mongery articles, to the amount of fifteen shillings, from
Messrs. Creasy and Parton, Great George-street, also hi I,on. It was stated, as a proof of the dryness and conse-
the name of Mr. Pearson. The prisoner was taken into 1 "
, quent healthy state of the ground, that some graves 44 Vi; Ii p•/•
thei rinvieteirezarayyeve,x,npiFngnsest,o and
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custody on the charges by Povey and M'Culleell, the deter- Jug been opened after an interval of nearly twenty y • R.
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tive officers, on Saturday last. He did not deny the the coffins previously interred were feud quite ao *lf R. ly 1 I air).
WI.
Charges, and was committed for trial at ilia assizes.

AT nss TEMATRE-ROYAL, during the past week, the
. drama has been placed greatly in abeyance, its place being
taken—we had nearly written usurped—by the perform-
, antes of a troupe of artistes,whose feats of dexterity must
be witnessed to be credited. Much we have heard and
.read concerning the marvels of this description performed
,by the Celestials ; but, till the arrival and displays of
these Orientals in Liverpool, we had treated the idea of a
man standing with outstretched palm against a board
while another from a distance hurls pointed knives at
him with alarming rapidity, sticking one or more of them
deeply and firmly into the wood between each two fingers,
as a matter which depended so much upon what is fami-
liarly known as "travellers' license," that the narratives
" passed by us as the idle wind." Here, however, that
and much more was plainly to be witnessed. During the
present week "the Celestials" transfer their services and
wonders to the Royal Amphitheatre. They are, indeed,
well worth seeing. An English opera company, which
includes Miss Louisa ryne, Miss Pyne, and Mr. Harrison,
Sig. Borani, and Messri. Horncastle, and Bowler ; the three
first-named, prior to their departure for America, com-
menced a short engagement at this house last night. The
performance last evening was " Fm Diavolo," and the list
of pieces to be brought out includes " Maritani," "Crown
Diamonds," "The Enchantress," and "The Bohemian
Girl."

AT TIIN ROITA,G AMPIIITIONATRE, Mr. Honey has, we
greatly fear, been "wasting is sweetness on the desert
I air." Very inefficiently supported by the resident com-
pany, he has struggled on with rich and racy displays of
sterling comic acting, and endeavoured to charm audiences
worse than deaf for his purpose, because they would not
come at all. This is pitiable and disheartening—indeed,
.quite enough to damp the ardour of any actor ; yet, not-
withstanding all disadvantages, his versatility of talent,
highgood humour, and the love of Ids profession, have
borne-Wm through what, we sorrow to think, must have
been to him anything but a pleasurable engagement.
New BOLD-.TEEEL—The fir:t of a new
aeries .of .Saturday evening concerts, in which classical
music, performed by artists of established reputation, is
to be given at.* cheap—almost, indeed, a nominal rate—
took place in this elegant hall, on Saturday last. The
audience was so numerous, and of so highly respectable a
character, as to bold out the best encouragement for a
continuance of these concerts. The performers on the
occasion were Madame D'Anthrney and Miss Jessie Ham-
mond, as vocalists ' • and Mr. Baetens, Mr. Haddock, Mr,
G. Hirst, and Mr. \V. Rogers, as instrumentalists. The
concert was miscellaneous, and of a high order ; in pa.rti-
cular, we would mention the finely artistic style in which
Messrs. Hirst, Batens, and Haddock gave an adagio and
allegro trio froin Beethoven ; and also a violin solo from
De Beriot, by Baetens ; both pieces were most admirably
executed.

CLAYTON-BALL.--DRAMATIC READING EL—From an
advertisement it will be seen that Miss Grey is about to
give a short series of dramatic readings in the Clayton-
hall, commencing to morrow (Wednesday) evening with
Shakspere's fine historical play of King Henry VIII. Of
this young lady's qualifications as a dramatic reader, the
Loudon press speaks in terms of high approbation.

s.[~~~:~

FRIEND S.

OH ! all things are changing,
And friends of to-day
May leave us to-morrow
Alone on our way ;
When trouble's before us
Their numbers are few,
For clouds disperse friends,
As the sun does the dew l

Butterflies flitting from
Flower to flower,
Are seen not when storms come.
They hide from the shower ;
They sip only sweets in
The sunshiny day,
When winter draws nigh they
No longer will stay
E'en so 'tis with friends, for
While life's sky is biue,
So long will they prove to
Us tender and true;
But oh ! should a dark cloud
O'erahadow the sky,
And our late joyous hearts
Be oppress'd with a sigh,
In vain may we hope that
Our friends will remain,
They'll leave us till fortune
Is smiling again !
Liverpool, March, 1854.

LITTLEQUILL.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

Modern Husbandry ; a Practical and Scientific
Treatise on Agriculture, and the general Ma-
nagement and Economy of the Farm. By G.
H. Andrews. London : Nathaniel Cooke.

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In a modest preface, the author of this work
informs us that his intention in its publication is
to provide intelligible and really useful information
to practical farmers, and to amateur agriculturists,
who pursue husbandry on a moderate or small
scale - and to supply such as those with an amount
of well-digested hints and directions which will
suit their circumstances, without trenching on the
province of those more elaborate treatises by which
the theory and practice of agriculture has of late
years been so successfully elucidated. In following
out this intention Mr. Andrews has been emi-
mently successful ; but the scope of his labours has
not by any means been so limited as would merely,
though fully, justify us in stating that his promise
had been fulfilled. On the contrary, he enters at
very considerable length into all the practical ques-
tions which bear directly on successful farming.
As the nature of the soil, in every situation where
they are carried on, exercises an important influ-
ence on farming operations and their results, Mr.
Andrews commences with an elaborate, yet easily-
comprehended, chapter on what may be called the
geology of farming. Starting with a consideration
of soils and sub-soils, he leads his readers, by an
easy and interesting process, through the study of
alluvial soils, bogs, peats, and mosses ; discusses
t he underlying strata, and considers their relation
to draining, to cereal and other produce ; their
effects on stock, as to breeding, rearing, and feed-
ing ' • and shows their immediate and remote rela-
tion to the general economy of the farm, and the
comfort as well as profit of the farmer. Having
briefly, yet clearly, explained these matters, he
next devotes his attention to the various tenures
under which land is held, and to the burdens which
are peculiar to its occupancy and cultivation. On
the subject of draining, he is at once comprehen-
sive and sensible, detailing with perspicuity the
different modes of draining pursued in various
quarters, under different circumstances, and with
a view to opposite results, as these results are to
be affected by the nature of the locality, and the
intentions of the farmer. The choice of situation
for farm buildings occupies much of our author's
attention, but not more than its importance de-
mands ; and, in addition to mere situation, he
enters minutely into the details of building accom-
modation required on farms of various orders,
giving ground-plans and elevations of several
kinds of farm-steadings, including, of course, under
this head stables, cattle-sheds, piggeries, manure
tanks, thrashing and other machines, steaming
apparatus, &c., in addition to the dwelling of the
farmer, and the comfortable lodging of his ser-
vants. An excellent chapter is devoted to the
consideration of manures, and their modes of appli-
cation and results. All the matters enumerated,
it will be observed, are processes or means ante-
cedent to what, in strict language, may be termed
culture, although inseparably connected with it ;
on the subject of culture our author is explicit and
comprehensive, availing himsely freely of the pro-
mulgated experience o those who have 'devoted
their attention to particular branches of cultiva-
tion. Crops and their rotation, cattle and sheep
feciding, and the rearing of poultry as matters of
profit and of mere economy, as might have been
expected in such a work, are largely treated of,
and the best authorities on the various subjects
are either quoted or referred to. The volume,
which is a very handsomely got-up one, is pro-
fusely illustrated by engravings from well-executed
drawings of implements, apparatus, buildings, and
processes ; of delineations of the various breeds of
animals ; and it is, moreover, published at so cheap
a rate as to bring it easily within reach of all who
take an interest in agricultural studies, whether
that interest finds its fruition in a mere under-
standing of the various operations and results, or
in their practical development as an important
business of life. To the practical farmer it will be
found a valuable text-book • to the amateur a
source of pleasing and rational amusement.

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Edited by an English Churchman. London :
Henry G. Bohn.

The second volume of this edition of Gibbon's
great and greatly censured work has just been
issued, and m appearance and concomitants it jus-
tifies the_ professions made by its spirited publisher.
The text is reprinted verbatim from the authentic
work of the author, and, instead of being emascu-
lated and interpolated in the parts generally con-
sidered objectionable, their evil tendency is coun-
teracted by explanatory notes. The author is
allowed to speak for himself—to state his own case,
as it were—while counsel is heard. in opposition to
his statements, and the sound deductions of Chris-
tian authorities are placed in juxtaposition with the ,
plausibilities of those superficial arguments by
which Christian institutions have been assailed.
The work now under consideration is to form one
of a new series to be denominated " Bohn's British
Classics," intended to comprehend the works of
Pope, Addison, Dryden, Goldsmith, Robertson,
Hume, and others ; in all of which Mr. Bohn
pledges himself to the production of an unmuti-
lated text, carefully collated from the best standard
copies of the respective authors. It was but the
other day we took occasion to refer to Addison as
the great founder of our cheap periodical litera-
ture ; we now have satisfaction in recalling to
memory that Mr. Bohn has been the pioneer in.the
cheap reprints of standard works, and that to his
enterprise and correct judgment the public is
indebted for cheap editions of many, very many
works of sterling excellence, which, but for his
spirited exertions, would in all probability have'
remained exclusively in possession of the opulent,
and have been known only to the recluse.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh :
Blackwoods.

The high reputation of this magazine is well
sustained in the number for the present month,
several of the articles in which are entitled to
serious consideration, as conveying much valuable
and interesting information. It opens with a
withering exposure of the attack on Mr. Disraeli,
in a recently published anonymous biography.
Some of our Radical contemporaries are grievously
irate at the epithets which the reviewer applies to
the anonymous assailant, but the real grievance is
that they are well deserved, and the champion of
truth and honour has expressed himself in intelli-
131e Saxon. In the continuing part of " The
Quiet Heart," the story is further developed, in
that peculiar
ti
quaint style which lends a charm to
such descn:P o
The most interesting article is,
ns•
perhaps, the one entitled " The Russian Church,
and the Protectorate of Turkey." The writerenters at some length into the question of the
pretended orthodoxy
of the Greek arch in Rug-
sia, and thus sums up his argu
of s ing, first, that the homo-
geneity of the Russian and Eastern Churches, on which
the Czar lays his strongest claim to the protectorate he
demands, has no foundation in fact, and that the Christian
communities on which he would impose his protection
deny the orthodoxy of his faith, and regard him as the
ounced by Russians
usurper of spiritual power; second, that the doctrines of
the synod of St. Petersburg are den . . y . ,ormi.
themselves, and the establishment oppose 4 i? a '
dable sectarianism, and that that Church
4- its internal
Is itself rather_
in a condition to require protection agains.
sn .
enemies than to afford it to others; third, that even 1).
posing the Russian and Eastern Churches to be identical,
the -protectorate in question would, in consequence of the
temporal privileges preserved by the Patriarch of Con-
stantinople, as already noticed, be the positive introduc-
tion of a dangerous foreign influence in the domestic ad-
ministration of the Ottoman empire, and that the Sultan
yiould thereby become the vassal of the Czar; fourth,

that as there are numerous Christian subjects of the
Sublime Porte who do not belong to the Greek commu-
nion, their protector, where protection is needed, cannot
be the Czar ; and, fifth, that the semi-independent Mold°.
Wallachians also disown the doctrines- of the Russian
Church, and reject her protection."
" The Two Arnolds" is a well-tempered critique
on Poetry, with especial reference to the respective
productions of Matthew and Edwin Arnold.
" Count Sigismund's Will" is an entertaining
description of a French novel recently dramatised.
The article entitled "News from the Farm" is more
especially interesting to dwellers in Scotland, com-
menting as it does on the improvement of the dwel-
lings of the Scotch agricultural peasantry. Tinder
the head of" The Epidemics of the Middle Ages" we
have a review of a recently published German work,
by Dr. Hecker, descriptive of theßlack Death, which
raged in the fourteenth century, the Dancing
Mania which afterwards broke out in Italy and
Germany, and the Sweating Sickness which had
its origin in England, but extended over the Con-
tinent. The Magazine concludes with an able
article on the new Reform Bill, upon which we
commented last week.

Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical
Society of Liverpool, during the forty-first and
forty-second sessions. Liverpool : Deighton and
Langhton.
This, which is number seven of the published
proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philo-
sophical Society, is highly creditable to the institu-
tion from which it emanates. The papers contained
in it are varied in their subjects, and embrace
discussions on topics of much popular as well as
scientific interest. They are devoted in a large
degree to speculations on matters connected with
literature and the arts, but not to the exclusion of
those in which practical utility is combined with
those refining influences. Thus, while we have
interesting papers on architecture and architectural
criticism ; on the nature and tendencies of " fine
art ;" on philology and popular literature.; on
subjects which may be reckoned antiquarian, and
on others which may to some appear merely fanci-
ful; we have others of an eminently practical
character, and happily apposite to the locality, and
the pursuits most in unison with the interests of
Liverpool, and her eminently adventurous and
enterprising population. We find valuable essays
on " The Deviation of the Compass on board iron
steamers proceeding to the Southern Hemisphere ;"
on " The general character of the Storms which
pass over the British Isles ;" on " The His-
tory of Nautical Terms ;" on " The Fauna of
Liverpool ;" on " Time-balls and Sympathetic
Clocks ;" and on " The Teas and Coffees of Com-
merce." So wide a variety of subjects is highly
creditable to the industry and diversified talent of
the society, while their discussion cannot but be
productive of public good. In the consideration of
so many topics much study is involved, and
although that study may not result in the finished
graces of polished literature, or be conveyed to the
position, a vast amount of information is elicited ;
and any society which can bring so varied a range
ear in the most measured cadences of melodious cora-
of intellectual inquiry into a common focus, is one
which deserves well of the community, and of which
that community has just reason to be proud.

Two Papers on Church, Music. By the Rev.
Augustus Campbell, A. 31., Rector of Liverpool.
Liverpool : Deighton and Laughton.
_

These papers, which were read before the Liver-
pool Ecclesiastical Music Society, on the 29th of
November and the 30th of December last, were
received with the greatest fervour by attentive
and intelligent audiences. They were noticed
widely at the time of their delivery, and we are
glad to find them reprinted in a tasteful form.
The subject is one of deep importance and general
interest, and the Reverend Rector has brought to
bear on it a great amount of study and no small
degree of enthusiasm. His arguments in favour
of the cultivation of Church Music are well put and
are clearly illustrated.

Orr's Circle of the Sciences. Part 11. London
and Liverpool : W. S. Orr and Co. -
_

The second part of this excellent repertory and
popular manual of practical science fully sustains
the reputation accorded to the first. In plan it is
comprehensive ; in execution, lucid and attractive ;
science, strict science is here displayed in a form as
winning as its elaboration is clear ; and in the
pages of this work the youthful mind is indoctri-
nated with the mysteries of physical knowledge
through familiar illustration, and by easy as well as
pleasing steps.
The Universal Library. No. 29. London :
Nathaniel Cooke.

The twenty-ninth number of this handsome and
cheap miscellaneous collection is devoted to the
" Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins," a ficti-
tious narrative, characterised by no less an autho-
rity than Southey as "a work of great genius."
Among youthful readers, at the commencement of
the present century, the story of Peter Wilkins
contested the palm of popularity with " Robinson
Crusoe ;" and although of late years its attractions
have been overborne by the pretensions of many
inferior productions, it has still maintained a res-
pectable place in the literature of fiction. It is in
the present form handsomely got up, and published
at a cheap rate. •••••••••••
Sidd's Own Journal. London : Groom. bridge.
A Magazine especially devoted to the beauties
of nature must be welcome to many readers whose
tastes are not violated by the conventionalities of
artificial life, and Mr. Kidd has made his task so
evidently a labour of love, that he leaves scarcely
anything to be wished for. The number for March
contains many interesting articles, and much
valuable information on singing-birds, domestic
animals, and plants, while it is enlivened by
several pieces of poetry, all redolent of the charms
of nature and praises of the Great Author of all.

The Home Companion, an excellent repertory of
fireside reading.—Some Thoughts„ a pleasing mis-
cellany in which household duties, fireside amuse-
ments, and tasteful literature, are happily combined.
—The People's Magazine, Nos. 1 and 2. This is
a deserving candidate for popular favour ; it aims
at telling the truth, rather than courting popu-
larity.—he Ragged School Union ; a useful
chronicle of those really benevolent and interesting I
institutions, in which the youth of the lower classes
are sought to be rescued from the thraldom of
ignorance and vice.—The Christian Family Advo-
cate; a zealous and generally discreet advocate of
Christian principles, and an inculcator of Christian
charity and duty.—The Band of Hope Review ;
a useful, as well as an ably-conducted periodical
which seeks to inculcate on the youthful mind the
value, and the moral and physical advantages to
be derived from temperance. The volume is ap-
propriately dedicated to the Earl of Shaftesbury,
by whom it is much commended.