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favourable, districts also, the prospects are slightly more
is found in an alleged intention of Her MAJESTY to visit and the opinion is gaining ground
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St. Paul's Cathedral along with Prince ALBEIT on the that prices have reached their lowest point, and
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. 10th proximo; just as if Her MAJESTY and her Royal will improve as the season advances.
Consort should not attend the metropolitan church, or The great uncertainty which prevails, is owing ,
MONDAY MORNING. visit an entertainment which her amiable disposition to the impossibility of forming anything like a
prompts her to participate in without leave asked, and
THE commencement of last week was more prolific in settled opinion on the probable effect of the threat-
given by those who voluntarily search for precedents' be-
such incidents as form the vivifying principle of political fore they tie their shoe-latchets, and would prescribe to ened war upon monetary affairs. Indeed, this
club-life than any of its predecessors for many months past. others a rule of conduct which they carefully abstain from appears to be the only evil to be dreaded, as from
First came the astounding intelligence thatin discarding our practising themselves. warlike operations being chiefly confined to the
In these stirring times, when the reparation of naval
ambassador from the court of St. Petersburg, the CZAR and L.,. . yßlack Sea and the Baltic, but little interference
military expeditions, and when Wars, and rumours
had resolved on retaining possession of the heavy baggage of wars" fill the eye and the , and choke the under- can take place with the ordinary channels of com-
had
the embassy. Next in the order of unnatural events, standing, from week's end to week's end, the advent of mercial transactions. The highway 'will still be
came the announcement that Lord JOHN meant to strangle more congenial topics steals over the senses with a double open to all the rest of the world, and the large
gratification. The week W 9.1 begun by a quiet inaura- profits made during the last year will also tend
his infant progeny, the new Reform Bill. Each of the tion of the colossal marble statue executed by BAILEY, , in consid h .lof
' erably to lessen even t e evi monetary
assertions, in itzelf considered startling :in the one case memory of GEORGE STEPHENSON, once the ' hurrier" of pressure ; so that, upon the whole, there is less
the law of nations was held sufficient to restrain the act ; a coal-pit, and latterly the Archimedes edes of railways. The
the other it was said involved too flagrant a violation of
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ton.bsvaenappropriatelyplaced cause for apprehension than, under ordinary cir-
re. On theafternoon cumstances, might have been anticipated.
natural affection. Time, that sad dispeller of delusions, of the same day (Monday) the ninth annual meeting of the The Corn trade during the week has experienced
however, upset the conclusions of the inductive theory, Royal General Theatrical Fund was held in the City of very little change, the continued fine weather having
and proved that those who indulged the wild belief were London Tavern, Mr. R. M. MILNES, M.P., occupying the had the effect of delaying a reaction ; but a better
right ; those who urged prescriptive usage and natural chair. :the field days of our histrionic benefit funds in the feeling
may
be said to prevail, and it is believed
olden time—then two in number—
affection, wrong. "Madness in great ones must not un- Brethren in arts, but rivals in renown,"
that the loss to large holders will not be so great
"
watched go," said or snug the Swan of Avon nearly three were enlivened by the wit, enriched by the talent, and as was feared a short time since. The great com-
centuries ago; and since his time, as well as before it, the dignified by the presence of all that was intellectually plaint is from consumers, as the price of Bread has
freaks of distinguished madmen have given colour and noble and characteristically great in art and in letters. not been reduced proportionate to the fall in Wheat
BYRON, SHERIDAN, KEMBLE, KEAN, YOUNG, the elder and Flour.
credence to the apothegm, the most recent illustration Marrnaws,and a host of other stars, major and minor, who In our
SHARE MARKET we have had but a small
being those afforded by the CZAR 'and the nondescript shone brightly in every constellation of poesy and of his ,
British Minister. In the former case the malady must trionic art, were gathered at the earnivals, if, and alas ! business, and prices have fluctuated with Consols.
be looked on as rooted and hereditary, partaking of pa- such splendour of genius no longer grace its celebrations, On Tuesday the decline in these had a considerable
the fault is not in the institution, nor can the falling off influence on shares, say to the extent of £1 per
roxysms ; in the latter, constitutional and desponding, be fairly charged against the profession in whose behalf share or more upon each description. On Wed-
producing languor and prostration. His Imperial Majesty, they annually take piace. At Monday's meeting, it was nesday, however, the rally in Consols was again
who, for a considerable time past, has been in what intimatedu and itnhteslao /riw la gif gratifyingaareota lai) kind,about
to j that the
the central sympathised in throughout the share list, and a
BURNS called "a cankerous mood"—a battle, murder, and rise took place to about the amount of the previous
one.l The Edinburgh Theatrical Fund ! what singular
sudden death kind of humour—has been of late moved to and stirring emotions are conjured up in vivid form by day's fall ; since that day the market has been
a madness that has obviously no method in it. Having those three magic words. The institution itself, though very steady, but with a small business, owing to
first endeavoured to cajole his cher ABERDEEN into a isziecctesablt7;enwasnanveevecnr
nofefusgei:l note. What
lasting interesthat col rile hilth?- the Easter holidays. We annex this day's prices:—
conjoint spoliation of Turkey, which the hesitating Cale- Listen and you shall know. The members and managers Caledonians, 261 -1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1. I. I.
donian durst not carry out, the imperator of all the of that institution never held but one public celebration, 60, 8 4 ; London Stock, 95a4c 4 ; Midland Stock,
Russias, incontinently and with little courtesy ordered and that turned out a notable one. It was in the autumn 582 c 1 1 -1.
of 1826, in the Assembly-room, in Georov-street —a street,
our ambassador forth of his dominions, laying an embargo The return from the Bank of England for the
the boast of Edina, and one which 'would Outstrip, in
on the ambassadorial goods and chattels. The news of so architectural charms, any half-score of streets to be met week ending the Bth of April gives the following
unusual a mode of declaring war threw the west-end with in the Queen of the Mersey.—Round the social board results, when compared with the previous week :
clubs into a ferment. Gossip is the soul, the only vital on the occasion were gathered many a brilliant intellect, Public deposits ... £2,683,754; Decrease £1,762,034
principle of such establishments and in what soil could a including in the galaxy a host of Scotia's most distin- Other deposits 13 819 988. Increase 2 782 835
,
ta guished sons. Conspicuous among the intellectual band Rest ... ... ::•. 3, '
15457; Decrease 602,919
more prolific crop of that material be reared, than out of sat one, whose lofty brow and manly features distin. On
the other side of the account—
speculations arising from this capture of the diplomatic gnished him above all others—whose inextinguishable
goodness of heart singled him out for the post and the Government securities£l3,939,l32, Increase£'2,33l,sl6
strong-boxes ? Among the most popular of the "thou- honour attached to the reputation of being the " King of Other securities ... 15,720,271; Decrease 802,455
sand-and-one"rumours, arising out of this imperial outrage, good fellows" whose easy good humour or playful Notes unemployed ... 4,968,755; Decrease 1,029,500
was one recognising the EMPEROR'S desire to repossess fancy made him the "observed of all observed," albeit on The amount of notes in circulation is £22,410,850,
himself of those curiously confidential communications hep
for his fresent oreaa
riend wion his
as overwhelmed by misfortune, and manner was somewhnt dashed by
being an increase of 2726,610 ; and the stock of
sorrow,
relative to dividing " the sick man's property," which, of adversity had fixed her envenomed fangs in the secret re.. bullion in both departments is £14,140,599, showing
late, received such edifying ventilation. The popularity cesses of his own generous heart. This was Sir WALTER a decrease of £309,119, when compared with the
of the rumours, and the ingenuity of the speculations i SCOTT, the then " great unknown," though greatly sus- preceding return.
founded on them, were alike doomed to rapid and uncere- 1 petted "Author of Waverley." As an enthusiastic ad-
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
monions extinction. They, like the serpents of the Egyptian mirer and judicious patron of the drama, and as one of _ .
• magicians, were speedily swallowed up by the greater the leading literati of the northern. i?ietropotis, Sir Notes issued ... £27,379,605 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
reptile of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S hatching—his lordship's WALTER was, in every respect, an eligible guest to be Other Securities 2,984,900
latest "final measure"—which wriggled itself through all present on such an occasion, and on which he conferred a Gold coin & bu11'n.13,379,605
the splits and zigzags of the Cabinet. Now darting its peculiarity, such as, in all probability, the world will never Silver bullion ... ...
venomed tongue full in the face of Lord PALMERSTON— again witness. The dinner is concluded, for, like all other
now insinuating its terminal vertebrae between the folds Theatrical Fund gatherings, it was a dinner. The feast of . £27,379,6051 £27,379,605
of Sir W. MOLESWORTH'S carefully adjusted mantle— grosser earth is past. The cloth is drawn. The expres- BANKING DEPARTMENT.
hissing now its hated breath below the fastidious olfac- sions of loyalty and patriotism befitting the occasion have Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000 Gov. Securities £13,939,132
tones of his Grace of NEWCASTLE—anon twining its slimy been uttered and responded to, by enthusiastic outbursts. Rest ... ... 3,154,657 Other Securities 15,720,271
folds among the reluctant fingers of the CHANCELLOR of The toast of the day " Success to the Edinburgh Theatri- Public Deposits 2,683,754 Notes ... 4,968,755
the EXCHEQUER, causing dismay and exciting irritation cal Fund" has been given with genial warmth from the Other Deposits 13,819,988 Gold & Silver Coin 760,994
round the council-board, and communicating its malig- chair,—acknowledged in neatly appropriate terms by Mull- 7
-day & other bills 1,177,753
,rant influence through all the ministerial ramifications. RAY, the model of managers, and prince of comic actors— --
Even the cold-blooded Times did not escape the contagion duly honoured by the company, and all is once £35,389,152 £35,389,152
of its sway, but seemed as nicely poised between the more quiet and decoras. A gentleman of fastidiously
autocratic outrage and the strangulation of the new fine features, and bland expression, rises to crave the com- PRODUCE.--The markets during the week have
Reform Bill, as MAROMET'S coffin is said to be between mon-place privilege of giving a toast. The boon accorded, presented little worthy of notice. Sugar has been
earth and heaven,—the " Thunderer" muttering, with ihe proceeded, in set phrase, to give "The Author of dull, in Tea little more doing, Palm Oil and Tallow
melancholy plaint, in reference to the one case, and hurl- Waverley," a toast as welcome as it was common. In an without change. To-DAY there has been a fair
ing defiant teachings relative to the other. The Reform instant every man sprang to his feet and welcomed the
demand for Sugar, especially for refining qualities,
Bill farce, however, although for a long time in course of toast with a swell of joyous glee which made the fine hall
what is called active rehearsal, was not played out for the ring, and ring again. It was soon observed that Sir _
which having been freely met, the sales reached
seas
on till Tuesday evening, when it was gone through in WALTER SCOTT had not risen, and did not pledge the 120 hhds. Demerara, at 325. 9d. to 335. 3d. ; 1000
a style of completeness which reflected credit on the stu-
toast. The suspicion of his being the author had, long ere bags Dates, 325. 6d. to 335. ; 700 bags Madras,
dious assiduity of all the performers. this, been more than whispered, and now received a tacit 295. 6d. - 250 bags Benares, 38s. 9d. ; and 120
Both Houses, like other classical institutions, have and sort of negative confirmation. Again, the hall rung
cases 600 bags Bahia, in bond, at 19s. 6d. per cwt.
broken up for the Easter holidays, the ceremonies, prey'. with wild and yet wilder aclaim, convinced, as every one Nothing
to notice in Molasses and Rum. Several
urinary to the dispersion for fifteen days, having been gone I now felt, that, in thus declining to pledge, the author sat
through on Tuesday night. My Lords, on the occasion, ,i publicly confessed. The clamour is once more stilled, for parcels of Coffee will be offered to-morrow. The
with becoming dignity, quitted their benches, and betook i even the Stentorian lungs of shouting barristers, and the Tea market continues firm, but not many sales to
themselves to a dissemination of those festivities and hos- j cordial plaudits of admiring players, cannot long sustain report—common Congous of fair sound quality,
pitalities which so characteristically grace the baronial- lan ordeal so exhausting as they had then encountered, ilid. to llid. per lb. Of Rice, 1300 bags mid-
hall, in taking their departure scarce listening to the Slowly, and with obvious diffidence and hesitation, the
was an =pos. The act tiling Bengal short of colour, sold at 13s. per cwt.
Aberdonian lay, whose tremulous and uncertain notes gifted baronet rose from his chair. Boo bags
served but to exhibit the bruised condition of the battered ing, the moment an embarrassing one ; but it was soon
yellow
Bombay Mustard Seed sold at
pipe on which the "spring" was played. The Commons, brought to a close. In a few brief sentences, uttered in 50s. from the quay, and 700 bags Bengal Linseed
in their honourable house, like the tuneful tones of his most winning Doric, Sir WALTER at 655. per quarter.
returned his personal thanks for the honour done to him
Linden, showed another sight, COTTON.—The market during the week has ex-
as the previously unacknowledged "Author of Waverley."
when Lord JOHN, as a valedictory oblation, sacrificed his ifin ainand again the banquet hall rung with plaudits of hibited unmistakeable signs of re-animation, not-
newest bantling," the little reform of the great Reform Bill," iration and delight. Prior to the period referred to withstanding the holiday season, the general
the awful and mystic ceremonies of which immolation his several of the "Waverley Novels " had been dramatised, inactivity in trade, and the strike of more operatives
lordship went through with the ready tact of a veteran I and as theatrical spectacles had acquired a popularity, if at Stockport. The sales for the five days up to
performer, embellishing the scene with numerous new not more lasting, at least as intense as they had obtained Thursday, incidents, and exhibiting himself as thoroughly master of reached 40,390 bales, of which 7,450
in their original and more legitimate form. Ere he sat
the situation. The stock properties of the establishment down, and before the sound of his triumph had ceased to were on speculation, and 2,450 for export, leaving
furbished up for the occasion consisted of the usual clap- vibrate on his ear, Sir W A.LT E R seized the opportunity, 30,490 for the trade. Prices have also advanced
traps,—beginning with the good of the country, and which he said had long been denied him, of complimenting to the extent of 1-16 d., and in some cases lid. for
ending with a pressure of more urgent business. This MACKAY on his inimitable personation of Bailie middling. This rise may be attributed to the better
sort of thing—the refuse of the Ministerial wardrobe—was Nicol Jarvie, in the drama of " Rob Roy;" an imperso-
happily glanced at by Mr. DISRAELI, who, cuttingly con-prevail in Manchester, and
feeling which appears to
nation which must be fresh in the memory of many a
curling in the propriety of the sacrifice, said the bill ought j Liverpool play-goer. Such a scene of bewildering excite- the less apprehension which exists as to the
never to have been brought forward at all, unless the meat followed SCOTT'S declaration as can never be erased monetary pressure.
necessity was clear and the means of carrying it certain— from the memory of the beholder. At that moment was To-DAY the sales were from 8,000 bales to 9,000,
just as if Lord Jowa cared more about that bill than he revealed a secret for which ladies fair had sighed in vain,
did about papal aggression, when he fulminated his Minis- which had been withheld from men of station and repute, of which 2,000 were on speculation and for export,
• terial bull on the subject in the famous " Durham letter." and which even royalty had failed in extracting ;it was and the market closed firmly with an evident up-
His object in both instances was of course the same—ad now openly confessed—and from that hour the single ward tendency, notwithstanding the non-receipt of
captandum vulgus—that object accomplished, his conduct banquet oftheEdinburgh theatrical Fundwas immortalised any advices from America. The following are
in both cases was similar, or nearly so ;in the first, he in the literary history of the world.
allowed his highly-wrought indignation to ooze gently out From the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund, and the revela- present quotations compared with the correspond-
tc in assertions growing " fine by degrees and beautifully tion of the authorship of " Waverley," to the living lite- ing period of last year.
less ;" in the second he retires with a bluster of blank rary world, the transition, though a distant, is not an 1853. 1854.
cartridge. The Ministry, he says, were not prepared to unnatural one; and in this latter sphere of action I find a New Orleans, middling 5 15-16 d. Sid.
incur the responsibility of dissolving parliament, and marked sensation has followed the production of Lady BUL- fair 6-id. 6 9-16 d.
staking their existence as an administration on the fate of WER LYTTON
Uplands, middling
this bill. Of course not ; nobody ever thought they were. 'S new satirical sketch, entitled "Behind the
Scenes," in the pungent pages of which her ladyship in- fair
The measure will, his lordship assures us, be re-introduced dulges freely in caricature and lampoon in relation to her
when parliament can attend to it—probably some time gifted lord. Her pen seems to have been sharpened on I SA LES. IM PORTS. STOCK
,--..._.A---..,
about the advent of the famous Greek Kalends—at all the whetstone of family discord, and her ink to have been DESCRIPTION) PRICES. Week i Previ. Week This
events not speedily. Parturient monies, nassitur ridi- strongly tinctured with domestic gall. While her hand is ending! ously ending Ap1.13
CU/u8 mtgs. So far as regards the established stage pro- in, at the ungentle work, she dashes some telling strokes
Apl. 13 thisyr. Apl. Year.
perties of the event and circumstances, the novelties were of blackening hue at DISRAELI, Sir F. THESIGER, slitd i --
novelties indeed, and of themselves constituted a highly other celebrities, who, unhappily for them, or for herself, Lainiseisnd..:: 9aol; 4 4t, 6220
20 4726 180336
wrought serio-comic scene. His lordship, fully aware of have given her cause to censure them. CHARLES DICKENS Boweds .... 34 6-} 10630 111530
15200 245960 /
the relentless perseverance with which the BRIGHT. has commenced a new tale, which he calls "Hard Times." Mobile 44 61 7540' 48740 1
faction of his supporters pursue game they have once It appears in his " Household Words," and among other New Orleans. 34 84
resolved on hunting down, made a dreadfully pathetic notabilities, it brings his readers into familiar acquaint- Pernams,
~ &c. 2t 23 1250 12430 .... 10448 18930
effort to arouse the sympathies of the house and of the ance with the class " Minor Theatricals," the idiosyn- Bahia, ''''c' "6* 370 7880 .... 9669 11580
Maranham 7l 280' 10050 3173• 13958, 20970
country in his behalf. "Pity the sorrows of a poor old cracies of whom are graphically hit off. Theatricals are Demerara,&c ....1 240 . .
73091 314466 392540
.. 1 1241 150
Rad" was rang out in dolorous accents,. as with tears and all agog in preparation for the Easter entertainment, ex- Egyptian 5l 104 1030, 33230 319 96511 59780
in faltering tongue he besought commiseration and for- cept, perhaps, poor CHARLES MATTHEWS, who is again Com.W.l.&c. 6 7t 130. 1660 .... 11741 3370
bearance. All of us have seen, or heard, or read, or surrounded by.i debts and beset by difficulties, his manage- Surat
dreamed of crocodile's tears,. which are believed to be but rial career being in all probability brought to a termina- 31 31 150' 1790 1•• • • 919877841 2035608700
questionable indications of sincerity. Some credulous and tion, he having been gazetted as a bankrupt, and the lease Bengaliladras
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imaginative heathen discourses in eloquent terms upon the of his theatre being, it is said, voided by such an event. 40390' 584980 15727 632678 716070

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, KESIBLE, KEAcc, YOUNG, the elder
MarrwEws,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 earnivals, 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 piece. 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 or 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-
late, received such edifying ventilation. The popularity cesses of his own generous heart. This was Sir WALTER
of the rumours, and the ingenuity of the speculations 1 SCOTT, the then " great unknown," though greatly sus-
founded on them, were alike doomed to rapid and uncere- I petted " Author of Waverley." As an enthusiastic ad-
monious extinction. They, like the serpents of the Egyptian miner and judicious patron of the drama, and as one of
magicians, were speedily swallowed up by the greater the leading literati of the northern metropolis, Sir
reptile of Lord Jona RUSSELL'S hatching—his lordship's WALTER was, in every respect, an eligible guest to be
latest "final measure"—which wriggled itself through all present on such an occasion, and on which he conferred a
the splits and zigzags of the Cabinet. Now darting its Peculiarity, such as, in all probability, the world will never
venomed tongue full in the face of Lord PALMERSToN— again witness. The dinner is concluded, for, like all other
now insinuating its terminal vertebrae between the folds Theatrical Fund gatherings, it was a dinner. The feast of
of Sir W. MOLESWORTH'S carefully adjusted mantle— grosser earth is past. The cloth is drawn. The expres- '
hissing now its hated breath below the fastidious olfac- sions of loyalty and patriotism befitting the occasion have
tories of his Grace of NEWCASTLE—anon twining its slimy been uttered and responded to, by enthusiastic outbursts.
folds among the reluctant fingers of the CHANCELLOR of The toast of the day " Success to the Edinburgh Theatri-
the EXCHEQUER, causing dismay and exciting irritation cal Fund" has been given with genial warmth from the
round the council-board, and communicating its malig- chair,—acknowledged in neatly appropriate terms by Mun-
nant influence through all the ministerial ramifications. RAY, the model of managers, and prince of comic actors—
Even the cold-blooded Times did not escape the contagion duly honoured by the company, and all is once
of its sway, but seemed as nicely poised between the more quiet and decorus. A gentleman of fastidiously
autocratic outrage and the strangulation of the new fine features, and bland expression, rises to crave the com-
Reform Bill, as MA.HOMET'S coffin is said to be between mon-place privilege of giving a toast. The boon accorded,
earth and heaven,—the " Thunderer" muttering, with he proceeded, in set phrase, to give "The Author of
melancholy plaint, in reference to the one case, and hurl- Waverley," a toast as welcome as it was common. In an
ing defiant teachings relative to the other. The Reform instant every man sprang to his feet and welcomed the
Bill farce, however, although for a long time in course of toast with a swell of joyous glee which made the fine hall
what is called active rehearsal, was not played out for the ring, and ring again. It was soon observed that Sir
season till Tuesday evening, when it was gone through in WALTER SCOTT had not risen, and did not pledge the
a style of completeness which reflected credit on the stn- toast. The suspicion of his being the author had, long ere
dious assiduity of all the performers. this, been more than whispered, and now received a tacit
Both Houses, like other classical institutions, have and sort of negative confirmation. Again, the hall rung
broken up for the Easter holidays, the ceremonies, prey'. with wild and yet wilder aclaim, convinced, as every one
urinary to the dispersion for fifteen days, having been gone I now felt, that, in thus declining to pledge, the author sat
through on Tuesday night. My Lords, on the occasion, I publicly confessed. The clamour is once more stilled, for
with becoming dignity, quitted their benches, and betook j even the Stentorian lungs of shouting barristers, and the
themselves to a dissemination of those festivities and hos- j cordial plaudits of admiring players, cannot long sustain
pitalities which so characteristically grace the baronial- I an ordeal so exhausting as they had then encountered.
_hall, in taking their departure scarce listening to the Slowly, and with obvious diffidence and hesitation, the
Aberdonian lay, whose tremulous and uncertain notes gifted baronet rose from his chair. The act was an impos-
served but to exhibit the bruised condition of the battered ing, the moment an embarrassing one ; but it was soon
pipe on which the "spring" was played. The Commons, brought to a close. In a few brief sentences, uttered in
in their honourable house, like the tuneful tones of his most winning Doric, Sir WALTER
returned his personal thanks for the honour done to him
Linden, showed another sight,
as the previously unacknowledged "Author of Waverley."
when Lord Jomv, as a valedictory oblation, sacrificed his it in and again the banquet hall rung with plaudits of
newest bantling," the little reform of the great Reform Bill," iration and delight. Prior to the period referred to
the awful and mystic ceremonies of which immolation his several of the " Waverley Novels " had been dramatised,
lordship went through with the ready tact of a veteran I and as theatrical spectacles had acquired a popularity, if
performer, embellishing the scene with numerous new not more lasting, at least as intense as they had obtained
incidents, and exhibiting himself as thoroughly master of in their original and more legitimate form. Ere he sat
the situation. The stock properties of the establishment down, and before the sound of his triumph had ceased to
furbished up for the occasion consisted of the usual clap- vibrate on his ear, Sir WALTER seized the opportunity,
traps,—beginning with the good of the country, and which he said had long been denied him, of complimenting
ending with a pressure of more urgent business. This MACKAY on his inimitable personation of _Bailie
sort of thing—the refuse of the Ministerial wardrobe—was Nicol Jarvie, in the drama of " Rob Roy;" an imperso-
happily glanced at by Mr. DISRAELI, who, cuttingly con- nation which must be fresh in the memory of many a
curling in the propriety of the sacrifice, said the bill ought j Liverpool play-goer. Such a scene of bewildering excite-
never to have been brought forward at all, unless the ment followed SCOTT'S declaration as can never be erased
necessity was clear and the means of carrying it certain— from the memory of the beholder. At that moment was
just as if Lord Joux cared more about that bill than he revealed a secret for which ladies fair had sighed in vain,
did about papal aggression, when he fulminated his Minis- which had been withheld from men of station and repute,
terial bull on the subject in the famous " Durham letter." and which even royalty had failed in extracting ;it was
His object in both instances was of course the same—ad now openly confessed—and from that hour the single
captandum eu/gus—that object accomplished, his conduct banquet of the Edinburgh theatrical Fundwas immortalised
in both cases was similar, or nearly so ;in the first, he in the literary history of the world.
allowed his highly-wrought indignation to ooze gently out From the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund, and the revela-
in assertions growing " fine by degrees and beautifully tion of the authorship of " Waverley," to the living lite-
less ;" in the second he retires with a bluster of blank rary world, the transition, though a distant, is not an
cartridge. The Ministry, he says, were not prepared to unnatural one; and in this latter sphere of action I find a
incur the responsibility of dissolving parliament, and marked sensation has followed the production of Lady Bur.-
staking their existence as an administration on the fate of WER LYTTON'S new satirical sketch, entitled " Behind the
this bill. Of course not • nebody ever thought they were. se
The measure will, his lordship' assures us, be re-introduced "in the pungent Scenes," . pages of which her ladyship in-
when parliament can attend to it—probably some time •
dulges freely in caricature and lampoon in relation to her
about the advent of the famous Greek Kalends—at all fted lord. Her pen seems to have been sharpened on
fe whetstone of family discord, and her ink to have been
events not speedily. Parturient monies, nassitur ridi- strongly tinctured with domestic gall. While her hand is
cu/u8 /mu. So far as regards the established stage pro- in, at the ungentle work, she dashes some telling strokes
perties of the event and circumstances, the novelties were of blackening hue at DISRAELI, Sir F. THESIGER, aid
novelties indeed, and of themselves constituted a highly other celebrities, who, unhappily for them, or for herself,
wrought serio-comic scene. His lordship, fully aware of have given her cause to censure them. CHARLES DICKENS
the relentless perseverance with which the BRIGHT. has commenced a new tale, which he calls "Hard Times."
faction of his supporters pursue game they have once It appears in his " Household Words," and among other
resolved on hunting down, made a dreadfully pathetic notabilities, it brings his readers into familiar acquaint-
effort to arouse the sympathies of the house and of the ance with the class " Minor Theatricals," the idiosyn-
country in his behalf. " Pity the sorrows of a poor old cracies of whom are graphically hit off. Theatricals are
Rad',zwas rung out in dolorous accents, as with tears and all agog in preparation for the Easter entertainment, ex-
in faltering tongue he besought commiseration and for- cept, perhaps, poor CHARLES MATTHEWS, who is again
bearance. All of us have seen, or heard, or read, or surrounded by.i debts and beset by difficulties, his manage-
dreamed of crocodile's tears, which are believed to be but rial career being in all probability brought to a termina-
questionable indications of sincerity. Some credulous and tion, he having been gazetted as a bankrupt, and the lease
imaginative heathen discourses in eloquent terms upon the of his theatre being, it is said, voided by such an event.
" iron tears" which he alleges trickle " down PLUTO'S If Easter brings a recess of Parliamentary duties, April
cheeks," and SHA.KSPERE tells us of generally comes in decked with the budding promises of
One who loved not wisely but too well— the artistic summer. The SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS,
* * * * * the BRITISH INSTITUTION, and the NATIONAL INSTITII-
Whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood, TION appearing as harbingers of the ROYAL ACADEMY'S
Drop tears as(ast as the Arabian trees fully-decked summer radiance. Occupying a distinguished,
Their medicinal gum. as well as a conspicuous place among the non-academical
No one of all these authorities, ancient or modern, has displays, the Edinburgian brothers, the two LAUDERS,
bethought him of representing an ex-Premier, and such an ROBERT S. and JAMES E., are prolific as well as able con-
ex-Premier as Lord JOHN RUSSELL, "like NIOBE, all tributors. At the British Institution, capital specimens
tears." No, such an event in human history has been left are to be seen from the pencils of F. STONE, F. GoonaLL,
for his lordship's exclusive use in solving the great moral and G. CRUIKSHANK. ; and BODDINGTON and PYRE assist
problem that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The in enriching the collection of the British Artists. The
occasion was a great one, and the event worthy the occa- subject of art is readily suggestive of anew move inscien-
slon. Having been unluckily absent from the conclusion tific art ; that is as art is to be applied to war. Photo-
of the scene, lam not from personal observation able to graphic art having been found useful in the Baltic hydro-
do is to be employed in the East ; and, in
justice to the amount of bye-play which accompanied graV
the climax of the farce. Nor am I capable of depicting additionillc survey
to telescopes
and theodolites, pick-axes and
the effect of the pantomimic display upon the susceptible shovels, our sappers and miners are to be furnished with
on universal joints, with endulums
nerves of the representatives of Manchester and the West cameras,
achea, fixed
whether to make portraitsatt of the Climucks or
Riding ; but the imagination of your readers need not be
d
of the most creative class to realise the full burlesque daguerreotypes of the Tartars is not stated ; but, armed
th instruments of o
occasioned by the non-official leader thrusting his lingual
wi
pectedhes tomake at least a formidablebs ervation
impressionthey are ex-
C
organ into his "weasened" and lantern -jaw. The lacrymose hief among the musical performances of Passion week
peroration of his lordship's appeal, ad misericordiam,
has been the production of Handel's " Messiah," on Wed-
was one from which KEELEY might have derived some
valuable hints. nesday evening, in a style of excellence and completeness
which left little. to be wished for by even the most fastidi-
Besides the parliamentary scene referred to, between
one. The leading solo singers were Madame Clams
Lord Josh RUSSELL and the honourable house, another
N..ovELLo and Miss DOLBY, Mr. Sims REEVES and Herr
scene, nearly as novel if not quite so dramatic in its inci-
dents, has been enacted in another place. The performers R°BliES.
...---
were Lord CLARENDON, on the one hand, and a handfull
of modest deputationists, named NICHOLAY, CUNNING-
HAM, WILSON, COLLETT, and WiLics, 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 remarks were met by a cool
averment of its truth. When he
urged
the general
appro-
bation of the ministerial proceedings in regard to Turkey •
the address, he was told, having been agreed to at a large '
public weeding, was de facto a contradiction to his state-
ment. In fact, his situation resembled precisely that
which, in years long gone by, I remember haviiig seen
depicted in a caricature, entitled " Puzzled which to
Three or four
of or the King of Ilmbuctoo offering one of his
marriage to Captain --.-
arranged .
daughters in
of the sable Venuses are on one side, tittering
with half-roguish glee ; on the other stands
bones fixed on arowafaa-
vages with "skulls and cr
• •°Bs-hesitancy or refusal.spears, ln the
emble-
matic of the fate awaiting
centre sat his ebon majesty 4. magnanimously showing off
ing subjects •of choice. I
the charms of the embarrass ..
his lordship ; it charges all of us
cannot receive this, says
good sense. But, quoth Mr.
with want of honesty and
proposals of Russia in
COLLETT, to have las
• tened to the . . .
Oh, says his lordship,
such a case, was to accede to them. ...
gs. soft
and
the country is satisfied with our proceedin :
fairly, says Mr. WILES, these resolutions have been adopted
. .
by a large meeting, therefore the country is not
unani-
mous in its satisfaction.
poet tells us, " cast their shadows
"Coming events," the
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 mines of all orders and persuasions are
busy as to the why and wherefore, and the proba-

COMMERCIAL 4 MONETARY NEWS

MONDAY NIGHT.

NOTWITHSTANDING the many conflicting reports
received by electric telegraph from the seat of war,
and the doubt which still exists as to the policy
to be pursued by the German Powers, the public
funds have gradually improved in value, without
any very great fluctuation, during the week. No
official change has taken place in the rate of dis-
count, and for commercial purposes money has
been much in the same state as during the previous
week, but little having occurred to induce any
alteration. The returns of the Bank of England,
published on Friday, show some considerable
chango. The stock of bullion has diminished to
the extent of £309,119 ; but this is a very small
sum, arising from the payment of the dividends,
by which the Public Deposits were diminished
£1,762,034. The " other deposits" were increased
no less than £2,782,835, and " other securities"
diminished £802,455, so that it would appear that
ample provision had been made to meet anticipated
demands. There was also a large increase in the
active circulation, circumstances tending to main-
tain confidence in the security of commercial credit.
The season being one of general cessation from
business, there is little that is worthy of comment,
and, indeed, the most favourable feature is the
absence of anything of a contrary tendency. Trade
generally has been dull, and little or nothing doing
of a speculative character, but prices have experi-
enced no great alteration, all parties seeming in-
clined to wait the turn of events rather than enter
into any new transactions. In the cotton manufac-
turing districts, however, there has been a slight
improvement, owing to the demand for Yarns and
goods for the India markets ; and the great number
of operatives out of employ must render it easier
for the manufacturers to reduce their Stocks upon

THE LIYER?OOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL CO

GREAT PROTESTANT TEA PARTY.

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. Macfie, 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. H. Cooke, Rev.
V. M. White, Messrs. Robert A. Macfie, G. Nickson, W.

Clarke, J. Parsonage, 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 tha
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. IVl`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 ab;eilee from the Rev. W. Fal-

loon, Rev. S. Minton, and T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P.
The Rev. H. CARPENTER, 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.
The Rev. V. M. WHITE expressed the satisfaction he
felt in attending such a meeting as the present, although
he confessed he felt something like an opinion that the
name " Working Men's Reformation Society" was not
exactly the name which the purposes of the society would
lead him to choose. It inferred, as it were, the idea that
there might be some among them who were not workers
in the cause. If any such there were, the question
should be fairly put to them, " Why stand ye there idle
all the day ?" But he felt assured there were none such ;
but that all were actuated by an earnest and active desire
to forward the work of Protestantism. As opposed to
Popery, there were numerous ways in which all could find
useful occupation, particularly in exposing the grossness
of the delusions by which that system is upheld. The
mention of delusions brought to his remembrance a case
in which a priest had practised very successfully, and very
artfully, on the credulity of some of his flock in Ire-
land. Some of the priests, not all of them, had
the power to work miracles; and one poor woman,
a member of his flock, happened to be afflicted with a
disease which the doctors could not overcome, and it was
agreed by her friends that she should apply to this blessed
priest, for only the blessed priests can work miracles. The
distemper she was afflicted with she thought was that she
had three black crows in her inside. (Laughter.) On
going to the priest, they met him in the road, busy as he
seemed reading a book, and he did not observe them as
they laid their case before him. He still walked on, pre-
tending not to hear them, as they described the malady,
till arriving at a place where there were numerous black
crows, in every respect similar to those with which the
woman said she was troubled ; here, watching his opportu-
nity, he made a shout, startling the crows ; and giving
the woman a slap on the back, "Ha ! look there, said
he, " these are gone, go thou thy ways and sin no
more." (Loud and continued laughter.) Such (said
he) are the miracles with which the blessed priests
edify their flocks ! He had been asked by many
what was the object of such societies and of such
meetings as the present, and he had been told that polities
are at the bottom of the movement, and some object to it
on that account. Politics, however, he could assure them,
were not at the bottom of the movement. Others are so
careless about the benefits or blessings of pure religion,
that they tell us, if a man has a fair moral character,
we do not need to care what creed he professes. Can
such meh see no treason against God in the delusions,
and irreligion, and idolatry of Popery ? Can they not
see in those the curse of society ? And is it no mat-
ter how the glory of God is interfered with ? A more
unaccountable class, however, he must still allude to—
those who, admitting that in popery there is treason
against God, still say, can you not be content to live in
p• with your neighbours, and allow them the same
freedom which you insist on having for yourselves. These
men maintain that it is uncharitable to do anything to
disturb the good feeling of society, as they say, on such
a subject. It often happens that those who speak most
about charity, exhibit least of it in practice. True charity
is that which is taught in the bible, and which in
God's holy word, we are told, thinketh no evil. Are we
to consider it charity, which would withold our opposition
to that system which enslaves the people, body and soul ?
If we are to send out missionaries, are we to forbid them
to denounce the idolatries of heathen lands ? And if we are
not to do this, are we not more called on to aid in blotting
out the idolatries which prevail in our native land ? The
great principle of Christianity is aggressive; its object and
its principle is to wage war with untruth. Some say, why
do you not, instead of combatting error, fill the people with
truth, and that will of itself drive away the error. Such
reasoning is fallacious. If we would drive away disease,
we must attack the disease ; we cannot combat it by filling
the body full of health. In proceeding to overthrow error,
however, we must do it in a charitable spirit ; we must
love the men while we repudiate and abhor the sins ; and in
doing this we shall only be following our Saviour's blessed
example. One point in connexion with this subject he
should allude briefly to, the report of a meeting in which Mr.
Caine expressed himself strongly in condemnation of this
association and its operations. In speaking of a meeting
held in Bold-street, that gentleman described it as " a plat-
form of parsons pitching into Popery, exciting envy, ha-
tred, malice, and all uncharitableness ; promoting rancour
among neighbours, provoking party feuds, and street i
fights." (Cries of " Shame.") He did not speak n any
way to reflect on the objects and general good intentions,
as well as good results, of the Working Men's Sunday
Services Society ; but simply of the narrow-mindedness of
the sentiments uttered, and the uncharitableness of the
conclusions drawn by this gentleman, who could bring
himself to describe such a meeting as the one referred to
as a platform of parsons pitching into Popery. At that
meeting, every speaker who addressed it carefully incul-
cated the necessity and charity of distinguishing between
the sin reprobated and the man who commits it. Not con-
tent with this misrepresentation of the Reformation So-
ciety, Mr. Caine goes on to condemn the Scripture
Readers' Society and the Town Missionary Society.
Before making such sweeping condemnations, Mr.
Caine would have done well to study some commen-
tator, who would have shown him the meaning of that
Christian charity, with the practical signification of which
he seemed so little acquainted. (Loud cheers.)
The Rev. R. W. WOLSELEY, on rising, said it was his
pleasing duty to move, as a resolution, that " The thanks
of the meeting be given to the ladies, and to the managing
committee, for the eminent services they had rendered to
the society." In moving this resolution, he felt much
pleasure, as he was satisfied the society was not sectarian
in its constitution or objects, a fact sufficiently proved by
the appearance of his friend, if he would allow him to call
him so, the Rev. Mr.White.—(Cheers.) The speaker then
alluded to the war in which we are now embarked as one
directed on our part against religious oppression, in which
he ventured to predict, that, under the guidance of the God
of armies, the Russians would speedily be soundly beaten.
These, however, were not, he contended, the enemies whom
we have chiefly to fear; we have popery on the one hand,
and he supposed he might call them " our tractarian
friends" on the other. (Cheers.) Whether friends or not,
he must, for one, say he trusted them not ; he liked not
their proceedings. He concluded by warning the meeting
of the necessity of protesting, in earnestness and sincerity,
against the soul-destroying errors of popery.
The Rev. D. F. BARRY seconded the motion, which was
put from the chair, and unanimously carried.
The Rev. W. F. TAYLOR, on rising, was received with
loud and continued applause. When it subsided, he
proceeded to say that he advocated the radical reform of
all real abuses, and would apply that rule to the upas tree
of Popery, as well as to any other. He next alluded to
the meeting in Bold-street, to which Mr. White had re-
ferred, and said, their language was then what it has been
since, and is now, bold and uncompromising in its assaults
against Popery, but carefully distinguishing between the
evils of the system and the individuals who have been
deluded by its influence. (Hear.) He also read a passage
from Mr. Caine s speech, and denied that any object of
ncleairittys to disseminate envy, hatred,
ableness, and remarked on the inmthalie
cper,esorenut
uncha-
ritable inconclusiveness of Mr. Caine's assertion. While
they generally assailed the doctrines and evil practices of
Popery without individual allusion, this gentleman charged
them with inculcating personal hostility against Ito-
manists. if he was justified in calling them a platform of
parsons "pitching into" Popery, what was his own case ?
He was, it weptderst9od, a Baptist, and if he was sur-
rounded by is.ts, it would then be a platform of
Baptists " pitching into': parsons. (Cheers.) The tenets
inculcated by this society were, that, wherever Popery
exists, man is prevented from holding free converse with
his God. It holds it as one of mans dearest privileges to
read in his native tongue the Word of God; to approach
God without the intervention of priests or any other me-
diator but the Son of God. Popery prevents this, and it
does more, it corrupts the moral sense, and endangers the
peace and safety of society. This was made apparent from
statistics which have recently been published. From these
statistics, we learn that even in Protestant moral England,
in the ten years preceding 1851, there had been annually
four murders in 1,000,000 of individuals ; in Popish Ire-
land during the same time there had been nineteen mur-
ders annually in 1,000,000 ; in more Popish France there
had been thirty-pne murders to the million annually ; in
Austria, thirty-six, more Popish still ; for Spain and Por-
tugal there were no returns ; in Italy, the land of the
Pope, the land which is in fact the centre of the system
of Popery, the annual murders among a million of the
people amounted to seventy-five. Here, then, was an
illustration of the workings of Popery ; but its immorality
might be tested by other means not less conclusive. He
then alluded to the recent attempt at having Popish
chaplains endowed in our gaols, and said he sincerely
hoped that WOuld nem in Wigged; /414QWQYQrsit should