The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

SEA-MARK, GRANGE, CHESHIRE

The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a column,
which is to be sixty feet high, to be erected on the site of the
Old Mill, at Grange Farm, in Cheshire, took place on Friday
last, the 16th instant. The day was propitious, and the at-
tendance on the occasion highly interesting. The ceremony
was performed in a truly workmanlike manner by John Shaw
Leigh, Esq., the owner of the land, who has not only granted
the site on which the column is to be placed at a merely no-
minal rent, but most munificently given the stone for its
erection from the quarry adjoining. Among the company
present were Sir Edward Cust, Bart., and his amiable and
interesting lady, several ladies and gentlemen from their re-
sidences in the neighbourhood, the Rev. Vicar of West
Kirby, a deputation from the Dock Committee, consisting
of Mr. Thomas Holt, Mr. Thomas Tobin, Mr. Henry
Holmes, and Mr. Thomas Ripley, attended by Mr. Hartley,
the dock surveyor, Mr. Lord, the marine surveyor, and the
Secretary. The scenery from the spot on which the column
will stand is highly picturesque, the estuary of the Dee flow-
ing calmly at the foot of the Welsh hills in the distance ; the
sea, to the westward, stretching out to the horizon ; and in-
land, on the Cheshire side, all the variety of hill and valley,
wood and plain. There are many interesting circumstances
connected with the " Grange Ilan" estate, as it was " in the
olden time," which it would be interesting to record, were
there space to detail them. One may be mentioned. The
whole of the low land to the westward was formerly a " Swan-
nery," where numbers of that noble bird used to feed and
fly. Alas ! they are all now flown off. There still remains,
in the stable-yard, an immense stone cistern, which, from its
dimensions, cannot weigh less than ten or eleven tons, and
which, in former times, was used to steep their malt.
After the stone had been laid, the party were most politely
invited, by the worthy proprietor, to partake of a cold colla-
tion he had most liberally provided to celebrate the occasion,
where, with appetites sharpened by the breezes from the sea
and the fresh country air, the guests did ample justice to the
abundant supply of " boiled and roast," with all the necessary
accompaniments, washed down with richly-flavoured wines.
Toasts were drank, and several interesting addresses were
delivered on the occasion. Mr. Leigh came out in splendid
style, showing, not so much what he does in that way, as
what he can do, if he likes.

The afternoon was spent in the most pleasant and agreeable
manner, and the company broke up and separated about
four p.m.

The column is a plain design, with a ball at the top, and is
intended to act as a sea-mark, in conjunction with other
marks upon the shore, in lieu of the Old Mill, which was
blown down in the gale of January, 1839. Its height, sixty
feet, will make it a conspicuous object from the surrounding
district, and, whilst it will be an ornament to the estate on
which it will stand, it will afford to the mariner a distinct
object on which to cast his eye from seaward to measure his
distance, and enable him to ascertain his true position with
reference to the banks he is approaching, and so guide his
ship in safety through the channels to the desired haven.
The following inscription will be cut in a block of granite,
and built into the column, in the course of its erection, at a
suitable elevation from the ground, namely :

Thii ColuMn
was erected by the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks,
by permission of
John Shaw Leigh, Esquire,
owner of the land,
who also granted the stone for its erection,
Anno Domini 1811,
as
BEACON FORa MARINERS
frequenting the
River Mersey and its Vicinity.

The Foundation-stone was laid by
JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq.,
April 16th, 1841.

HARD SWEARING.-At the Pontefract sessions, on Wed-
nesday last, Sir Gregory Lewin, in addressing the jury on
the improbability of the prosecutor identifying a quantity of
hay, which had been stolen, said that some men's consci-
ences allowed them to go so far, that a witness in America
once distinctly swore to a goose's leg after it had been made
into a giblet pie and cooked.--Doncetater Chronicle.

LITERARY NOTICES

The Penny Mechanic and Chemist,

We have received the last number of this useful work. It
contains a variety of scientific and mechanical communica-
tions, and many illustrative woodcuts of new inventions and
adaptations, of interest to those whose pursuits lead them
to promote the dominion of the world of mind over that of
matter.

Governesses, or .Modern Education. By Madame Riofrey

London and Paris

We hail the appearance of another number of this well-
written work, which is devoted to the cause of the physical,
moral, and intellectual education of youth, and more parti-
cularly of females. Madame Riofrey is evidently a lady of
strong and well-cultivated mind, and of much experience
and shrewdness in the important art of tuition. In addition
to numerous judicious instructions and suggestions for faci-
litating the labour of conveying instruction to the young in
a pleasing and effectual manner, we find throughout her
writings a vein of religion and morality which must always
render them acceptable to all who desire that virtue and the
nobler feelings of the human heart should be more fully de-
veloped in the rising generation of the present day than in
that which has preceded it. Nor is physical education, by
due and vigorous exercise, neglected, but it is inculcated as
not only necessary to bodily health, but to mental serenity
and enjoyment. Some portions of the work are written in
French and Italian, and will be found auxiliary to those who
devote a portion of their time to the study of those elegant
and (in higher life) almost indispensable languages. There
are sonic sweet pieces of poetry both in English and French.
We have but room for the following short extract, from an
article " On Moral Feelings" :
The highest moral feelings are to be met with in those
persons, whose intellectual powers have been best directed.
Mental cultivation is necessary to understand the beauties of
morals, as much as mental cultivation is requisite to under-
stand the beauties of art; and one of the great benefits re-
sulting from the moral culture of the mind in early age, is
that the development of moral feeling assists the intelligence
and guides the mind in the choice of objects to which it is
applied. But a serious evil in education is, that governesses
are wanting who can feel and understand the importance of
moral culture; if this work be commenced in very early life,
while the heart is not yet taken with pleasure, the mind still
free from care, and unfettered by prejudices against duty ;
then indeed may good impressions become permanent.
When moral feelings are cultivated in early age, much
good may be effected by instruction, and by making the laws
of God the foundation of education ; but if through the ne-
glect of parents, or the inefficiency of governesses, moral
culture has been neglected ; nothing can compensate for this
great error; and though the judgment may be correct, the
conscience can never acquire its full powers.

Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated.

Part IV. of this beautiful work is before us. It is printed
uniform with " American Scenery," " Switzerland," " Scot-
land," &c., is illustrated from drawings made expressly for
the work, by W. H. Bartlett, engraved by eminent artists,—
the descriptive department by N. P. Willis, a writer well
known to the literary world by his vivid delineations of re-
markable scenery in various parts of the world. We have
here four beautiful engravings exquisitely drawn and executed,
namely, " Ross Castle," Killarney, " Cormac's Chapel,"
Cashell, a building in the richest Norman style, " the
" Rock of Cashell," topped by a fine castellated ruin, and
" The Interior of Holy Cross Abbey," an early Gothic struc-
ture now the depository of the dead. These are all splendid
as works of art. As pictures we give our decided preference
to " Ross Castle," and " The Rock of Cashell." A con-
siderable portion of the descriptive portion of this number
is (the scenery) being chiefly in Antrim, to original and select
descriptions of that wonder of wonders, the Giant's Cause-
way. The following will suffice as a specimen of the author's
style, and his discrimination in selection :

The guide led us down a slippery and stony road, cut in
the side of the hill which concealed the Causeway from our
view, and, rounding the shoulder of it, we descended to a
small mound, from which we got our first view of the Cause-
way. We were at too great a distance to distinguish any
peculiarity in the view, except the lines of the basaltic pil-
lars, indistinctly marking the face of the cliff, and 1 was na-
turally disappointed at the first glance—but as we descended
to the shore, and approached nearer around the bend of the
bay, it seemed to me that the ruins of some templed and gi-
gantic city, that had been hurled from the sky, were heaped
up before me in a mountain of confused architecture. The
Giant's Causeway, indeed, resembles nothing so much as a
mountain of hewn stones—frustra of noble columns, remnants
of vast porticoes, cast down from a height into the sea. The
upright and regular pillars in the face of the cliff, give you
an impression that there is a city overwhelmed and buried
behind them, and the disinterred Pompeii itself was not so
like as this to the idea I had formed of Pompeii before visiting
Italy.

Our guide kept on his way to the vast projecting quay which
descends from the base of these mountain facades into the sea.
To borrow the very correct language of a clever tourist,
" The principal or grand Causeway, consists of an irregular
arrangement of many hundred thousands of columns, formed
of a dark rock nearly as hard as marble. The greater part of
them are of a pentagon figure, but so closely compacted to-
gether, that, though the pillars are perfectly distinct, the
very water which falls upon them will scarcely penetrate be-
tween. There are some of the pillars which have seven, and
a few which have eight sides ; a few also have four, but only
one has been found with three. Not one will be found to
correspond exactly with the other, having sides and angles of
the same dimensions •, while at the same time the sum of
angles of any one of them are found to be equal to four right-
angles--the sides of one corresponding exactly to those of the
others which lie next to it, although otherwise differing com-
pletely in size and form. Each pillar is formed of several
distinct joints, closely articulated into each other, the con-
vex end of the one closely fitting into the concave of the next
—sometimes the concavity, sometimes the convexity being
uppermost. In the entire Causeway it is computed there
are from thirty thousand to forty thousand pillars, the tallest
measuring about thirty-three feet. Among otheu wonders,
there is also the Giant's Well, a spring of pure fresh water,
forcing its way up between the joints of two of the columns—
the Giant's Chain, the Giant's Bagpipes, the Giant's Theatre,
and the Giant's Organ, the latter a beautiful colonnade of
pillars, one hundred and twenty feet long, so called from its
accurate resemblance to the pipes of an organ."
In the literary portion of the work will be found animated
descriptions, interspersed with legends and traditions, re-
lating to th# numerous caves, cliffs, islets, castles, and
extraordinary objects which abound in that northern part of
the west of Ireland.

Illustrations of the Works of Shakspere. Part I. By G

F. Sargent. London How and Parsons

As stated in the advertisement prefixed, " the design of
the present work is to realize to the senses the scenes, pic-
tures, and associations which Shakspere has presented to the
imagination ;" and, from the specimen before us, we may
anticipate the artist's triumphant success in the completion
of the onerous task he has imposed upon himself. The illus-
trations are line engravings, from original designs, and are
all executed in the finest and most elaborate style of that
delicate art. The present part contains " A Room in Caesar's
House ;" the " Restoration of the Market-place at Athens
a " View of Sicilly;" '• A Wood near Athens ;" and a "View
of Bangor," in North Wales. The figures and costumes in
the first, as well as the architecture of the apartment, are
minutely delineated, in strict accordance with classical truth.
The " Market-place," also thronged with figures in the
foreground, represents a beautiful and appropriate structur
of the Doric order, the design of which the improvers of our
modern towns would do well to borrow, in erecting similar
structures. The portico, fronted by four fluted columns,
supporting a richly carved entablature and pediment, is ex-
ceeding,ly beautiful. The " View of Sicilly," from the sea,
with its distant white town on the shore, and the lofty
Mount Etna rising in the back ground, to a point that emits
a train of dusky smoke from the combustion within its womb,
forms a picture that conjures up a variety of historical asso-
ciations, in which the beautiful, the sublime, and the disastrous
are strangely commingled. The " Wood near Athens" is
bold and picturesque, and will remind the Shaksperean of
that delightful production, " A Midsummer Night's Dream.' '
The last illustration, a " View of the City of Bangor," and
the marine and insular scenery to the west of it, is a fine
picture of that small but romantically situated and antique
city, and, from the point from which it is taken, we should
say, a correct and striking representative.

Fox's Book of Martyrs. Edited by the Rev. John Cum-
ming, M.A. George Virtue, London. Parts 2 and 3.

This work cannot appear in too many editions, and whilst
there is no necessity to offer the slightest recommendation of
the work itself, we are bound to add our meed of praise to
the spirited efforts of the publisher to introduce so important
a publication in such an attractive and economical form.
Each part is embellished with a beautiful steel engraving of
some place or occurrence noticed in the number, and numer-
ous well-executed wood-cuts are interspersed through the
pages, which impart an additional interest to the melancholy
details which crowd upon the reader's attention. The name
of the editor is sufficiently well known amongst the Pro-
testant community to guarantee the most scrupulous fidelity
in the execution of his portion of his duty, and we can speak,
with the greatest confidence, of the care which has evidently
been bestowed upon the typographical and illustrative parts.
In the original edition there is much verboseness and repeti-
tion which may, with the greatest propriety, be omitted,
though we perceive that the judicious editor evidently keeps
before the public gaze the more prominent features of the
history, and nothing is left out which can in any way develope
the disgusting practices of the Papacy, or serve to endear to
the sons of freedom their glorious deliverance from that
galling bondage.

The Churchman's Monthly Review

April, 1841. L. & G

Seely, London

We have had occasion to speak in terms of the highest
commendation of the preceding numbers of this publication,
and the contents of the part before us only serve to strengthen
the opinion we had formed of the utility of such a work, from
the character of the numbers which had been previously pub-
lished. The first article is a temperately penned review of that
vexata guestio,"The Baptismal Regeneration Controversy,"
and the whole tenor of the writer's remarks is earnestly de-
voted to induce his readers to relinquish the question,
as far as possible, as a matter of controversy, and direct it
sedulously into a practical channel. The next notice con-
tains some well-written remarks on the interesting " Visit of
Captain Gardner to the Indians on the frontiers of Chili."
Another article which is worthy of special attention is, the
justly indignant and well-merited castigation which is in-
flicted upon " The State of the American Union," on account
of the horrors and cruelties which are found to exist in the
United States, where the slave trade is still carried on in
unmitigated severity ; and we have only room to direct at-

tention to some remarks, which if viewed without prejudice,
will go far, in our judgment, to settle the controversy which

has recently sprung up concerning the Pastoral Aid Society,
which is charged with the singular fault of being too scru-
pulous in the distribution of its funds—too femlid of mis-
applying ?he means which are placed at its disposal! The
other contents of the number will abundantly repay an atten-
tive perusal.

'WOODSIDE FERRY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—I shall feel particularly obliged by your drawing the
attention of the directors of the Woodside Ferry to the fact
that their money-takers are the most impudent uncivil and
rude persons possible. One day last week, in consequence
of my stopping to count some change which had been given
me, the money-taker absolutely pushed me on the back, in
fact, he almost threw me down, and said—" Go along Nro-
man !" Now if this conduct is permitted, the Birkenhead
Ferry will be invariably resorted to—where politeness is pro-
verbial—by the public generally, as well as by
IVoodside, April 19M

ECCLESIASTICAL

A LADY

AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE

PROMOTIONS

Rev. Dr. Reid, to the chair of-the ecclesiastical history in
the university of Glasgow, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Mr. M`Turk.

Rev. Howell James, to the rectory of Lytchett Matravers,
Dorset, vacant by the death of the Rev. Chris. Fleet ; pa-
tron, John Howell, Esq.
Rev. William Evans, 8.C.L., vicar of Cwmtoyddwr, to
the perpetual curacy of Rhayader, Radnorshire, vacant by
the death of the Rev. James Evans ; patron, Archdeacon
'enables.

Rev. Mr. Jenkins, son of the Rev. D. Jenkins, of Pudsey,
to the curacy of Batley, Yorkshire.
Rev. Arthur Fane, curate of Boy ton, to the vicarage of
Warminster, void by the resignation of of the Rev. W. Dal-
by ; patron, the Bishop of Salisbury.
Rev. John Scurr, to the curacy of Berwick Bassett and
Highway, Wiltshire.
Rev. Joseph Bosworth, D.D., of Trinity coil., Cambridge,
to the vicarage of Waith, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death
of the Rev. George Grantham ; patron William Haigh, Esq.
of Halifax.

Reb. Thomas Riddell, M.A., fellow of Trinity college,
Cambridge, to the vicarage of Kirby Malzeard with Masham ,
Yorkshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. G. Wadding-
ton ; patrons, the masters and fellows of Trinity college,
Cam bridge.

RAILWAY SIGNALS.—On Saturday last trial was made
on the Loudon and Birmingham Railway, in presence of Sir
Frederick Smith, of two plans for accomplishing the grand
object for efficient railway signals. The first was that of Mr.
Pettitt, for effecting a communication between the guard and
engine-driver ; the other a contrivance to enable a policeman
on the line to open a whistle on the engine by fixing a catch
upon the chairs which support the rails, and thus give notice
to the driver in a fog, or under other circumstances, should
anything be wrong a-head. We understand that both plans
proved highly satisfactory.—Railway Times.
SUPPOSED MURDER AT ISLINGTON.—On Sunday the
neighbourhood of the Chalk-road, leading from Battle-
bridge to Islington, was a scene of much excitement. Soon
after daylight, a policeman on duty, whilst going his rounds
near the Sutton Arms, observed what at first sight, appeared
to be a bundle of cloths, lying in a pond, at the corner of

. .
the road, and immediately opposite to the above tavern. He
crossed over to the pond, and on looking into the water saw
a wooman's bonnet. His suspicions were aroused, and on
raising an alarm, severol men, who are in the habit of rising
early to attend little plots of garden ground in the vicinity,
came up, and, with their assistance, the body of a respect-
ably-dressed woman, apparently between 30 and 40 years of
age, was taken out of the water. The face, and the whole
of the front portion of the deceased's person, was covered
with clay, which had adherad to her on her being thrown or
having fallen into the pond. Restoratives were applied, but
in vain. There is no doubt the deceased died instantly from
suffocation, there being a great quantity of mud and clay in
the mouth. The deceased was then removed to the vaults of
Islington Church, where the body lies to be identified, as
well as for an inquest. The pond is only three feet deep,
and the precise spot where the deceased was taken out is
near the centre, so that she could not have walked in, in a
mistake, or fallen in whilst labouring under intoxication ; and
the surmise which gained the greatest was. that she had been
brutally maltreated, and then thrown into the water. Up
to last night the body had not been owned.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—The injection of a solu-
tion of chlorure of aluminium into the aeorta or main arterial
trunk of an animal will preserve it fresh for an indefinite pe-
riod, without imparting to it the slightest taste. The chloric
acid of the salt renders the gelatine or decomposable part of
animal matter incapable of decomposition, perhaps by de-
stroying some alcali for which the acid has a greater affinity
than for aluminium. The latter substance, thus deprived of
its acid, becomes an insipid powder. The particulars of this
discovery, by M. Gannal, will be found in the Bulletin of the
French Academy of Sciences for the sitting of March 22, and
in the Literary Gazette report of that meeting. From two
to five pounds of the salt, dissolved in about twice or three
times its weight of water, is sufficient for an ox. Persons
disposed to make experiments on the subject need scarcely be
reminded, that the smaller animals, such as rabbits or cats,
should be employed. Subjects for anatomical dissection
should also se prepared in this manner. llere is a new field
opened for commerce of a most important description.
Thousands of oxen on the coasts of Spanish America are
slain for their skins only, the flesh being cast upon the dung-
hill ; it may now be preserved and shipped for the West
India markets as fresh meat. No ship in future need be
provided with salt meat. The health of seamen on long
voyages will be preserved, and the comfort of passengers in
emigrant ships to Sydney will be materially improved by the
the application of this important discovery. The table of
the Academie des Sciences, on the reading of M. Gaunal's
memoir, was covered with legs of mutton, fowls, et id genus
omne, which had been preserved for many months by the
new process. The chlorure of aluminium would be very
cheap when made on a large scale for commercial purposes.
Correspondent of the nines.
Mr. Edward Hall, a member of the Society of Friends,
son of Mr. James Hall, late boroughreeve of Salford, a very
active supporter of Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and at the same
time, as the facts sufficiently indicate, a zealous emissary of
the Anti-Corn Law league, was brought up in custody on
Thursday, by virtue of a warrant issued by Mr. Justice
Coleridge, upon the finding of a true bill by the grand jury
at the Stafford assizes, for bribery and other corrupt prac-
tices at the late Walsall election. Mr. Maude, the stipen-
diary magistrate, P. M. James, and Mr. William Smith,
held the party to bail, himself in X 250, and two sureties of
£lOO each, to answer the charge at the next Stafford assizes,
where this and several other cases (as it is generally under-
stood) will be brought under the cognizance of a tribunal
somewhat differently constituted to a committe of the House
of Commons.—Standard's Correspondent.
CHURCH-RATE MARTYRS.—The aspirants to church-
rate martyrdom are running quite a race in this town, and
the "snug thing" obtained by John Thorogood, and the in-
cipient notoriety achieved by Mister Baines, have incited a
whole host of small rivals to take the field in the convenient
crusade of Conscience v. Church-rates. On Tuesday last
some twenty of these pocket-conscienced individuals appeared
at the Guildhall, Weymouth, before Mr. A. W. Horsford
and Mr. W. Bayly, magistrates, to answer to summonses
issued against them by Messrs. Hancock and Robinson, the
churchwardens of St. Mary's Church, for having refused to
pay their respective quotas of church-rate. There was, of
course, a smart muster of radicals and dissenters to encour-
age the embryo martyrs under their sufferings. It was quite
laughable to hear the frivolous and evasive excuses urged on
all sides for the non-payment of the rate. The magistrates,
after hearing the cases, ordered the recusants to pay their
rates, and in default of payment,' distress warrants will be
issued.—Dorset Chronicle.

SAUSAGES.—A cunning chap was taken before the police
of Philadelphia, and fined five dollars for offering to sell
sausages which he had made out of red flannel and minced
turnips.—American Paper.
TAXING Lux u n.t Es.—The Louisville Advertiser says,
that " the Kentucky House of Representatives have added
to a new tax bill upon carriages and gold watches a proposi-
tion to tax ' other luxuries, such as whisky, tobacco, and
hemp !' Whisky and tobacco luxuries ! One is an ' un-
mitigated curse' and the other an intolerable nuisance !
Hemp a luxury ! Why, it is an article of indispensable neces-
sity so long as the whisky and tobacco are used."
FILTRATION.—A. system of filtration has been invented
upon a novel and grand scale, by the medium of which any
quantity of dirty or discoloured water may be rendered as
bright as crystal at the rate of hundreds and thousands of

gallons per day. In order to convey some notion of the rapid
and certain effect of this newly-discovered system, the follow-
ing experiments may be named. The sweepings of a dirty
yard and the cleansing of a coal cellar were cast into one of
these filters, and the water which flowed from it, at the rate
of six gallons per minute, was as pure and clear as if it had
been freshly drawn from a spring. On of these filters has
been lately erected on board the Dreadnought vessel, lying
off Greenwich. This filter supplies pure water for the whole
of the patients on board the vessel. It acts in a double ca-
pacity, that of cistern as well as filter, for as fast as the water
runs in it is drawn filtered. It only requires cleansing once
every six mouths, which can be done in less than half an
hour, without the inconvenience of the filter being taken
away from the vessel. In addition to the above, this filter
will purify oils, wines, spirits, without their sustaining the
least detriment in taste, quality, or colour.—Standard.
REMARKABLE HORSES.—It is not generally known that

the gallant charger which bore Lord Sandys upon the field
of Waterloo, is still living, and may be seen at this time in
the grounds of his noble owner, at Ombersley, in this county.
The horse is evidently on his last legs, as may be supposed
to be the case, after braving the storms of more than thirty
winters. " Copenhagen," the noted steed which carried the
Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, died a few months ago, and
we believe now reposes in an honourable sepulchre near
Strathfieldsaye. The following particulars relative to the
fate of the horse which Sir Ralph Abercromby rode at his
last field in Egypt, and from which the noble soldier fell mor-
tally wounded on that occasion, may not be unacceptable to
our readers. The animal was an Arabian of great beauty,
and in 1822 he was sent to Scotland under the care of one of
the attendants of George the Fourth, then visiting the North,
and was there taken in charge by a gentleman who occupied
a country residence in the county of Avr. He survived for
several years, and his death occurred under the following cir-
cumstances :—One fine frosty morning, as he was parading
the park. a sound as of distant musketry struck upon his
ear, and threw him into an attitude expressive of great ex-
citement. The noise in reality proceeded from a " curling
rink" at some distance, the stones employed in that cheerful
winter game often striking upon each other with such force
as to seem like the report of fire-arms. Evidently fancying
that he heard anew the battle sounds of his early days, the
poor creature started off in a frantic state towards the spot
from which the noise proceeded. He leapt at the park gate,
but, alas ! his former strength was gone, and he tore him-
self dreadfully by the spikes which surmounted the upper-
most bar. Nevertheless, he made his way to the ice, where
he reeled and fell. He was brought back to the park, and
treated with the greatest care ; but the injury he had received
was irreparable at his advanced age, and lie died soon after.
THE Coax LAWS A GUARANTEE AGAINST SCARCITY.—
It is the practice of the French government to grana-
rieskeerirarn.
well stored with corn in the vicinity of allstit t
e
cities, in order to guard against such a scarcity
which
understand perfectly well that in the event so potently contributed to effect their firsttruei-aolfataitiliouirie.
of
fltive
risings, would prevent their receiving „
their own resources ;
crops in other countries, prohibitoryiluan.%
alaiyndseuvpepnliepsopfruulanri
abroad, and throw them entirely ocust,
wisely provide for
they therefore, though at a huera
vc3Orn laws afford a precisely
such an emergency. Now,
any expenditure what-
ever of tlae public revenue ;,efonortamileinrgeantile speculation always
of grain in the bonded stores, ready
similar safeguard withou
keeps an immense supplymwonted demand. Nor is the be-
at all times to meeto
n confined to ourselves alone, for in
'heat rose to a famine price in the
the year 1836, w
of America, their markets were supplied from
United States
.many
instances with wheatand
nefit of such a
and in
England,
roduce of those very states. It was in the year
origi-
nally the P inheviilsni}w°'
alluded to that Mr. President Van Buren, in his speech to
congress, ' delivered this impressive lesson :—" Unhappy • is
the country which depends upon another for the bread she

For well
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Ne know—and so dost thou—
Is round thine honour'd brow

^W ill form a wreath
In Glory's temple, sculptured deep,
When thou in quietude shalt sleep
Reposed beneath.

And Wellington, whom history's page
Will hand along from age to age
THE PEERLESS PEER,
man we hope to greet
eview, or crowded street,

For many a yea

Hero ! thou know'st not how we prize
That form, which, when it meets our.eyes,

Makes us rejoice
To feel we have thee yet OUR duke ;
And, oh ! believe this kind rebuke,

A. people's voice

'Tis even so. From hall to cot,
Where is it thou'rt remembered not,

In festive scene,
Through Britain's isle and distant lands,
Where'er her wide-spread sway expands.

And men convene

And more, far more, the British fair
Repeat thy name, and breathe a prayer

Heartfelt for thee.
While the young mother o'er her son
Dreams he may prove like Wellington.
How proud is she!
We're told the horse that bore thee through
The bloody field of Waterloo
Was, from that day,
At thy command, from labour freed,
To roam at large o'er park and mead
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At Strathfieldsaye.
So like thyself the generous act,

We take the story as a fact,
'Tway nobly done.
On Mount Saint Jean, 'mid shot and shell,
The gallant steed had borne thee well—

His meed was won.
And didst thou not in future days
Upon that charger fondly gaze
in calm retreat?
Went not thy mandate forth that he
'Mid plenty should for life run free,
And evermore protected be
From cold and heat?
Though homely put, yet hear the truth,—
What hadst thou felt had some hot youth
Mounted that steed,
And spurr'd him on o'er hill and dale,
Till his sinewy limbs should quivering fail,
And his red sides bleed ?

Far more we grieve while we admire
Thy patriot spirit's unquench'd fire,
Bright flashing still ;
Yet steadfast as the beacon light,
Firm as thou stood'st through many a fight,
Thy watchword, " God defend the right !"
Through good and ill.
Enough—God bless thee, gallant heart !
Spare for our sakes thy mortal part !
Long may'st thou live
Thine honest, manly course to steer,
Thy country's pride for many a year!
And if all rude our lay appear,
Pr'ythee forgive!