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be better to
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Clauses 3,4, 5. 6 7, a,
On clause 12 which relate,.
new street in Wapping, which shot,
width of the existing streets, the TOWN-CLERK sug—
gested that as the avermze width of the present streets
as fifty feet, that number should be instred. The
clause went on to empower the Corporation to take land
at the price to be paid fel. it by the Doc'
to make the street wider provided the
such a measure would be for the improvement of the

9, 10, and 11 we

greed to

re of opinion

town.

A con, iderable discussion arose on ti
Hornby, Mr. Earle, Mr. Itathbone, no,

s subject< Mr. 17.

Nir:J. Lawrence

-. being of opinion that the cost of making a wider street
than at present exists should fall upon the Dock Com-
mittee, because the improvements to be made in that
neighbourhood were for the benefit of that estate. This
view wag opposed by Mr. Brannley-Moore, Mr. Hender-
son Mr. Tyrer, Mr. Evans, Mr. Aikin, and Mr. Horsfall.

honk] resist to the
of one shillinz

fib. BRAAILEY-:MORE said t
utmost of his power the espenditur
received from the docks for other than dock purposes_
M•. AININ agreed with' Mr. Moore on this subject
and warned the Council how they proceeded in the matter
lest the trusteeship of the docks should pass into °the]
hands.

Mr. lioasirALL did not approve of the strong language
used on the subject; but, at the same time, tit( re ought
to be some weight given to the suggestion of Mr. Aikin.
for it should be borne in mind that the dock ratepayers
hd interfered on a former occasion, and had succeeded
in wresting a portion of the trust and of the lands of tho
Corporation. lie thought the matter might safely be left
to ar`Jit ration.

attention of the Council
is, that

The TOWN-CLERK called tn...
to the amendment of Mr. H. Hornhy, which
the matter be referred to the Finance and Donk Comm.
tees to settle the proportion that each party amid pal
towards the improve • ent.

Mr. BRAM LEY Moor should positively object to both
the propcs:tion of Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Hornby. It'vras
for the Council to say whether it was an improvement to
have a street wider than the present, and if so, it was for
them to pay the cost Besides, he bAi-ved the Town-
Clerk would tell them that it would be i
one shilling received from shipping oti
matters connected r‘ith the dot

Mr. J. LAWRENCE 1;1;-;
Mr. H. liornby.

l to Expend
wise than for

conded the ame-,doaent o

The MAYon said, as he had originally been opposed
to the clause in the bill as it at present stood, he might
be allowed to oberve, as a reason for the vote he should
tgroet ya
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tnohdne
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really Sound Concuton was, that the Corporation ought
Corporation had made all the improvements which the
increase of the trade of the town demanded, and he
thoughtimprovements should not be confined to any
particular locality. (Hear. hear )
The rotes were then taken, when there appeared for
the amendment, 8; against it, 25: there voting for it
Messrs. lzatbbotte, H. Hornby, Toulmin, G. G. Hornb,
Kilshaw, W. Earle, J. Lawrence, and J. H.
against it, Messrs. it. Houghton, B. B. Hill
Tyrer, Middleton, Litilediile, Aikin, Frerne,
Aspinall, Rob'nson, Royden, P

G. H. Lawrence, Mann
Houghton, Horsfall, Nicol
Chilton, and ►he Mayor.
The clause was then agreed to, the eve
ascertained by the May
ClauAs 14, 15, 16, 17
On clause 19 heir

Bramley-111

Turner ;

, M olyneu,

a width to bE
serted in the Ull.

amendment.
Mr. Atxtx seconded the

4r. EVANS I

Mr. BRAMLEY MOORE 9

riendment, but shot]

ld wisl

did not think the proposal would

,bjected to, but, 0.

Mr. G. H. LATVRENC
merit, but he thought it we
delayed it until there was a proper undo
the warehouse owners.
Mr. ROBINSON said it sh

'proved of
ose t

Id be be

was SE 0:11,

millior

e Dock C
and he tl

to raise under the amendtm
posal might it

amen
tter to ha.

the pr

around the new doc

Mr. Nicol. would suppo

landing with

was merely to give p
the dock cotnmitte,

objects of it at oat
Mr

AKIN said all 0

r hrreeter to 1)1. c

houses on the west side

Mr. 11 ARBORD was sorry the c
been embraced in the original prom

in or opposing the propos
before beard n word about

warehouse owners generally
surprise.
The resolution was then a!
veral members, and pm:sed it

m tte

),-to be r

Rates, Or to be paid for oui
from time to time find conven

position as fallow

pended for this purpose in t
"If the restriction be re
the old docks."

t the pro-
'arebouses

provided it

Mr. new.. F. ai d he should most decidedly of

Mr. TIMER said
possibly foster stil
second part of the scene
lost by a mvjority of 19 to 9.
The rest of the clauses of the
manuscript ones, were then read and

he passing of such a cla

On a clause gibing power to

- -
was a division, but the c

After the clan'es
Mr. ASPINALL

ott,ted to

Etteraturt.

POETRY.

SPRING

BY G. LINN-BUS BANKS,
Author of " Blossoms of Poesy " Occasional Rambles,"
•• spring Gatherings," tj•c.

Written for the Liverpool Standard)

The Spring. the Spring is come again—
The young, the fair. thd sunny Spring;
The bowers are hastening to the Wain,

The bird returns on joyous wing.
Creation spreads her gentle arms,
V% here'er appears th' enlivening ray,
And wins f om beauty's peerless charms
A semblance of eternal day.

Up. up, and watch th' awak'ning sun
Emerging from yon di,tant sky ;
Already is his race begun,
And paths of glory open lie.
He comes to cheer the mourning rarth.
To wake the soil and clothe the trees,
And give the voice of music bit th,
In sounds responsive to the breeze.

Now childhood, with its laughing eyes,
Seeks out once more the healthful fields.
And, like an uncaged captive, files
To taste the swci is which freedom yields.
On every I ill, in every grove,
Some note of gladness meets the eat,
Which breathes of universal love,
And tells the iiyful Spring is here.

Kind Heaven ! whose ever-gracious hand
Doth all the works of nature span,
Again thou visites. the land
Wi*".l blessings for the heart of man.
We own the boundless mercies giv'n.
And lift our thoughts on prayertul wing
To Him, who rei-rns sup•eme in heav'n,
The author of the gentle Spring.

FROM A LITTLE BOY TO HIS MAMMA,

ON HIS BIRTH-DAY.
(Written for the Liverpool Standard

To-day, mamma, Prn twelve months old,
And shall I pass it by
In silence and indifference cold,
And not my genius try ?

No, though 'tis plain I cannot write,
To tell you what I'll be,
My dear papa wilt this indite—
Accept it as from me.

Mamma, I owe my lire to thee,
And with it all my joys;
To you. mamma, 1 hope to be
A prince of little boys I
You often praise my smiling eye,

My acts of childish play;
You often wish your fiiends were nigh,

To hear what they would say;

You often look on me with fea,,
When I begin to walk ; •
You often call me little dear,"
When I begin to talk;

You look to heav'n—you elasp your son—
You breathe a mother's pray'r,
That your own darling little one
May one day dwell up there.

Although, as yet, my walking days

Are partly in perspective.
And, dear mamma, my talking days
You know are still defective:

Although your pray'rs to I,eav'n for me

Or why yot

Lsti ycur bcy to be

Heir to yon happy land

If you and my own
Will tell me all the

ar papa
things,

Beyond this world

lcnt wings by mortals understood,
But such as angels wear

THE SABBATH IN ALGIERS.—Friday iv their sabbath,
but yet on that day there is but little difference in their
devotion from that of other days, excepting that the hat-
teb, or priest, who is above the intoum, officiates on the
sabbath, at one of the clock, for about the space of an
hour. After which be mounts a pair of stairs (six or se-
ven) with a staff in his hand, and there makes a sort of
short sermon, about a quarter of an hour, or little more.
At the time of worship, the gates of the city (Algiers) are
shut, and many shut their shop-windows during service,
and even after candle-light ; and some that are more zea-
lous will not open their windows all the afternoon. In the
morning the women flock out in thousands, to visit the
sepulchres of their deceased relatives. weeping over their
graves, and petitioning to them ; and when they have done
they'll carefully weed and cleanse them from stroyl and
dirt. When the men go to mosque, they slip off their
shoes at the door. and slap one sole against the. other, and
so go in barefoot, and lay their shoes before them, kneel-
ing down and bringing their back parts on their heels, as
for a resting-place. It is a shame, indeed, to Christians,
to take a view of the zeal of those poor blind Mahomme-
tans ; for if they are so strict in their false worship, it
must needs he a reprimand to us who are so remiss in the
true. And I pray God, Christians may take the hint, and
learn thereby to bless the goodness of God, who bath con-
tinued his gospel to them, while such a vast part of the
globe is devoted to a vile and debauched imposter."—
Captivity and Adventures of Joseph Pitts.
SOUTH LANCASHIRE ONCE A LAKE.—On a clear day,
a person standing on the highest part of Barton Moss,
can perceive that the valley watered by the rivers Irwell
and Mersey is completely encircled by art amphitheatre
of hills, except at the point where the united waters of
those two rivers discharge themselves into the estuary of
the Mersey at Runcorn Gap. The opening through
which they fl into that arm of the sea is not more than
two or three miles in width, and if it was closed up, the
greater part of South Lancashire and of the northern part
of Cheshire would be turned into a vast lake, bounded by
the Yorkshire and Derbyshire. hills on the east, by the
high lands, which extend from this great chain across De-
lamere Forest, and as far as Halton Castle on the south,
by a corresponding range of which Rivington Pike and
Haigh and Billinge Hilts are the most conspicuous objects
on the north, and by the range of high land crossed by
the two inclined planes on the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, on the west. This latter range is continued by
way of Pea Hill, and the other high grounds to within a
couple of miles of Runcorn Gap, and the Cheshire hills.
At some very remote period, the waters flowing from the
high grounds whch surrounded this valley, and which
are now carried off by the channels of the Irwell and the
Mersey, and the Sankey Brook, were probably thus col-
lected in a lake in this great natural basin. It was at this
time, probably, that the vast deposits of marl, rich in lime
arid beds of sand and gravel, the latter containing stories
altogether different from the red sand stone rock of South
Lancashire, were deposited on the great Lancashire plain.
Here they are still found in every direction, altering the
natural features of the country, and entirely changing the
constitution of the soil. It is only at few spots that the
red sand stone rises to the surface of the ground, whilst
the coal stra'a in which the northern part of the district is
so rich, are nearly all buried at great depths below thick
beds c f clay.—times.
A NEW YORK AUCTION.—I strolled into one of the
auction .rooms of New York ; I had been in them before,
but not to stop long—l stopped ha:f an hour to-day. These
sales are for goods by wholesal •, and certainly if any Eng-
lish merchant could have seen the rapidity with which his
goods were knocked down, at the most arbitrary prices,
bur rarely, very rarely, good prices, he would be wage, red
in his desire to send further consignments. Yorkshire
woollen chiths were sellieg when I ta CM. in, and during rev
, stay
n they die, live far

I am no great judge of them, but I should be in-
clined to say. from what I could judge, that all were told
at a loss and some at a great loss. A nice superfine broad
chith, tl e colour "invisible green", as it is called, was
knocked off in ahout a minute or a minute and a half, at
21 dollars per yard, and would net about 6s. 93. to the ex-
porter, as this price, of course, must pay all duties and
charges. Other things (woollen) went in proportion,
varvim from l to 21 dollars per yard. They are seldom
more than a minute in knocking, a lot ; and these sales are
always understood to be bond fide, i.e. there is no buying
in again

There were ten or i dozen who seemed to have
c,,me rs buyers, and as many more lookers on. It is im-
possible to describe in writing the quick volubility of the
auctioueer ; tut the language is something like this :—'A
fine piece of superfine broad cloth, gentlemen, invisible
green ; who will make a bid for this cloth ? A beautiful
cloth, gentlemen. I want a bid—a bid—a bid—a bid—a
bid—a bid—a bid. 'What shall I say, gentlemen, what
shall I say ? One dollar and a half is bid, gentlemen—
one and a half—one and a half—one and a half—only one
and a half, gentlemen—going, goine, going at one and a
half—one dollar sixty cents, one s xty, one sixty, one six-
ty, one seventt•, one seventy•five, one seven-eighths, one
seven-eighths," &0., and so he goes on until, in double
quick time, down it comes at two dollars perhaps. In
goods which are not so expensive, the lots are put up in
eight or ten pieces, or quarter or half cases, &c. This
auction system is much reprobated by the respectable
merchants of New York. The British consigner, however,
must always remember that if he wants to sell his goods
immediately the auction room is the only place for that
purpose, and he must take his chance accordingly, for if
once off!red at auction his goods are not to be withdrawn.
—Memoir of B. Braidley, Eau.
RAILWAYS AND NOT FREE TRADE THE CAUSE OF
FUTURE PROSPP.RITY.—Sir Robert l'eel has selected a
period for making the grand experiment, when, under the
existing commercial duties and arrangements, great pros-
perity must have rervacb-d the country under all ordinary
circumstances. £11,492,000 of deposits on English rail-
ways alone (independent of Scotch and Irish), were paid
into the Bank of England on Friday last ; that is the first
deposit of 10 per cent. on a capital sum of £114,020,000
proposed to be expended in railways in England, indepen-
dent of the present large expenditure, in the course of the
next three or four years. When to this sum there is ad-
ded the capital proposed to be expended during the like
period in Ireltnd and Scotland, not yet ascertained, a ca-
pital Fun', of probably one hundred and fifty millions ster-
ling is set forth to he expended, on the manufactures, and
on tire labours of the country, within the above period.
That the projectors of these railways are serious in their
intentions to proceed with them is proved by the payment
of the deposit of ten per cent. Notwithstanding, there
can be little doubt that a certain considerable portion of
them will fail for the current year. Still, however, there
is presented an expenditure of the capital of the country
in the construction of those railways. which cannot fail to
maintain in our manufactures generally, and in the market
for labour, an activity and power which will give to the
country, especially as mca-ured by the finances, an ap-
pearance of the highest prosperity. Supposing Sir ltobt.
Peel's measure to pass (which there is little doubt it will
do), this prosperity will no doubt be attributed to the free
admission of corn ; while it will rest on the temporary ex-
penditure of the capital instead of the income of the coun-
try ; which extraordinary expenditure will, as during the
war, demand an extent of labour, and draw on our mines
and manufactures to an extent which inevitably pr•duces,
celeris paribus, the highest apparent national prosperity.
The reaction will come, as it did after the war. This ex-
penditure, altogether on home objects, is unquestionably
far more solid and advantageous for the country than that
of the war. But a reaction will eventually follow, and the
prostration will be great in proportion to the height of the
previous fever and excitement. But this will be in other
days. Sir Robert Peel has to do with the present. And
the railway peculiarity of the age affords him a strength of
position which he has no doubt well measured, and of
which he is largely availing himself in the gigantic change
which he is accomplishing in the position of this great ex-
pire.—Record.
CHINESE STROLLING DOCTORS. While passing
through the Market-place of Macao, I heard one of
the quack rhetoricans addressing a circle of bystanders
upon the proprieties of a mode of treatment he was
just going to adopt in the case of an old man, who was
squatted close by his side. It appeared as if, a few
seconds before my arrival, a bargain had been con-
cluded between them nearly in these terms of recipro-
city :—` 1 will impart to you,' quoih the doctor, ' the frill
benefit of my professional skill, and you shall give me all
tie money you have got about you ;' for immediately upon
the close of the harangue the old man proceeded, with
cheerful haste, to empty his money-bag into the lap of the
young lEsculatius, who, affecting to be disappointed, ac-
cused his patient of concealing some of his tseen, or cash,
amidst the folds of his garment; but as the common man
in summer is very thinly clad, a shake or two of his doub-
let satisfied the lookers on that all the personal effects had
been fairly delivered up. The old man then retired, but
soon after came back with a basin of water, and placed it
at the feet of the doctor, who then took out a paper, and
made him swallow a small quantity of whitish powder,
without the aid of honey, treacle, or any other agreeable
menstruum. The effect of this powder was supp led to
be that of rendering the patient incapable of feeling any
pain which might attend the operation to be performed.
He then drew some needle's from a paper with an air of
grave preparation, and after rubbing some of the aforesaid
powder upon his own thigh, stuck one of the needles into
it as if it had been a sort of pincushion. The next step in
the process was a selection of a few seeds from a paper
parcel, putting them into his mouth, and giving the rem.
naut to the patient, as a pledge of his generosity. While
the seeds were undergoing the process of mastication by
themselves, he took a pair of Wooden cylinders, and after
holding a lighted roll of paper within them, clapped them
upon the breast of the old man. After they bad remained
a few minutes upon the spot, they were removed, and left
behind them two raised arcela., or bumps, which the doe:
tor, after sipping a little water, rubbed by the seeds, by
this time well reduced by maceration and grinding. He
next pricked the humps with the needle which had been
all the while sticking in his own flesh. To extract the
blond, he applied his month, and drew with such violence
that the old man began to heave a sigh, and the crowd to
respond by a look of anxiety. All the while he pressed his
hands upon the neighbourhood of ►he spot, as if he wished
to make the blood flow in that direction. After the cere-
mony of washing the mouth, he applied a pitch plaster be-
t ween the areolea, and proceeded to treat the back after
the same sort. Here was a sample of `much ado about
nothing ;' when to have made one or two incisions with
his knife, and then applied one of these cylinders, or cup-
ping vessels over them, with a roll of lighted paper within
it, woull have caused a gush of blood, and rendered the
poor old fellow a real service. The art of cupping is very
ancient, and was perhaps long ago known to the Chinese,
though I have not yet found any mention of it in their
books. I was told by a Chinaman that, when young, he
was visited by a native practitioner, who assured his fa-
ther, that unless something of a serious kind were done,
the disease then afficting him would endanger his life. The
father intimated that the physician might use his discre-
tion ; upon which he cupped the sick son very freely, and
a speedy restoration to health was the result. But, in this
instance, the quack either enie'ook the proper method, or
invented one of his own, which, while it would appear
more ostentatious, should effect the least possible amount
at good.— Chinese as thew are.