The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

Hall, on Friday evenin

glees and Formes'
drnadrito, the attractions at
the previous ones;
innoHeorubtoWing
uthneiotnwowtehreea,itirnes,
Brooke's benefits. The galsandsu3nig byC' theV
r. G. V.
given. We may almost every instance, most effectively
eape more
Hunting Song •,, ~ eaally mention Mendelssohn's
, Sleep, gentle lady," by Bishop;
"The wanderer's
" Venerabilis night song," by Hauptmann ; and
barba capucinorum," by •
Michael Haydn.
The last-named piece was a novelty in Liverpool,
Th
created
much amusement, and was honoured by an enthusiastic
encore. It is a musical joke, the words " Venerabilis
barba capucinorum" ("the venerable beard of a monk")
being sung in single letters and syllables, with, occa-
sionally, a very singular and grotesque effect. We are
under the impression that the piece has never been pub-
lished, nor has it, that we are aware of, been known that
such a relic of Michael Haydn was in existence. On the
whole, the choruses were given very satisfactorily, the
only defect being the neglect of the piano passages which
one or two•of 'the. trebles manifested. Of the solos, &e.,
we cannot speak so. satisfactorily, as one or two of them
were very indifferently given. Mr. Middleton's song-
" Madoline" was
•admirably sung, and received a heart;
encore. We have to speak lastly of the piano-forte ,2
formance of Herr 'Unger, a German artiste, who rai
not previously appeared in Liverpool. His. „,„„,,,
performance
of a piece by Chopin and two of his own compositions ce
was admirable. His touch is very beautiful, his e
tion brilliant, and the taste with which he played ieen-
not the least pleasing of his qualities. Herr was
undoubtedly entitled to take a high place among our Unger is
class pianists, and we have reason to expect that
soon appear in Liverpool again. The n perfo- anee
was..
conducted by Mr. Lidel, and the accompaniments were
given by Mr. Edmund Smith with taste and

6 THE LIVERPOOL. STANDAR,
AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
A CONFESSION. Dr. A. Hume, and relates •ahiefly to the part ;per-
MOTTO FOR THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH."Between .' THE ARTIFICIAL Pnormsmoss OF SALMON has been ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
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formed by the chivalry and soldiers of the you, me, and the Post. Punch. commenced at Perth.
WHEN first I looked upon thy face, AN UNPUBLISHED SONG, by Dante, has been found in UPWARDS of £1,200 has been raised for the sufferers by SCOTLAND'S DISSATISFACTION.
counties which border the Mersey, at • the Memor- the library of the Prince Barberini, at Rome. the late inundations at Cork.
0 sister of the meek-eyed Dove I
I wondered at its gentle grace, able battle of Frodden, Whieh has formed a fertile THE BEARD AND MOUSTACHE MovEst-Err.—Railway NOTHING—A NEW DEFINITION.—That portion of a
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
But never thought of love. and stirring theme for the minstrelsy of both Guard : " Now, ma'am, is this your luggage ?" Old lady lady's head on which her bonnet rests.
SIR —I have been induced to write to you from the
And when, (who concludes she is attacked by brigands) : " Oh, yes ! LADIES' MOU . . zns.—An old beau says -" A lady's mouth • '
again, in later days, kingdoms. After alluffing, in felicitous 'terms, to desire of addressing your English readers on the subject of
Thy simple tale of grief I heard. gentlemen, it's mine. Take it—take all I have; but spare, never looks so beautiful as when she is pronouncing the
the metrical celebrations-of the evenfin both coup- `Yes: ,, the present agitation in Scotland, as lam aware that in
oh spare our lives! !"—Punch. word
tries,we find the following judicious. remarks on the HANNAH MORE.—" " I know not," says Mrs. H. More, A NAVY SURGEON, who loved to prescribe salt water, England, as well as elsewhere,many misrepresentations have
My heart outwent my lips' weak praise, ANWAR ORE.—
been given as to the true spirit of that agitation. lam •
But ne'er a pulse was stirred. PRESENT CONDITION or LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. "whether my writings have promoted the spiritual welfare fell overboard one day. " Zounds, Will," said a sailor, also anxious to show that the Scottish movement has not
Three centuries and a half have passed, and a monarch, of my readers, but they have enabled me to do good by "there's the doctor tumbled into his own medicine chest."
Slowly, at length, the feeling grew, who unites the blood of the Scottish and English royal private charity and public beneficence. lam almost A FEAnyur. STRlKE.—Talking of strikes, we hope the
All common passions far above ; originated in any desire to revive or create national anti-
pathies between the two countries. -
lines, rules on both sides of the-Border. The sword has ashamed to say that they have brought me thirty thousand Emperor of Russia will not take it into his head to strike
I found that when thyself I knew, become a plough-share; and the descendants of Scottish pounds." the balance of Europe. It has been admitted in England that Scotland does
possess grievances to complain of ; but, say some, there is
To know thee was to love. knights, who found a grave•witlf their people at Flodden, GRAY mentions, in his recently-published letters, an WAITING son THE Csnsusan.—Charles (seven years
will be a stupid affair, Georgy."
are proud and happy to sympathise with the men of the old alderman he knew, who, after living forty years on old)—" This Geo v(a no necessity for her appealing to her separate nationality.
- rg' • Now, this is an important point, as it relates to the most
But now, when years have passed, and these palatine counties, and are as. Jealous for the honour of the the fat of the land (not milk and honey, but arrack-punch young lady of nine winters)—" Oh ! yes—only a white
Have brought us mutual joy and pain, district as the children of the soil. But though the people and venison), and losing his great toe with a mortification, frock and black mitten Party—very slow !" Old nurse successful method of redressing those grievances. How
was this to be done ? Have we not, year after year, sought
When children gathering round our knees, of our own island are one in heart and interest at present, said to the last that he owed it to two grapes which he wonders what next.—Punch.
But closer draw the chain ; it is well to revert to the troublous times of the past. eat one day after dinner. He felt them lie cold on his KENNY DODD ON THE RUSSIAN QUESTION.—To all and yet found not ?—asked, and it was not given unto us ?Have we not, until patience became exhausted, appealed,
Whatever we may say of the aggressors, let us honour the stomach the minute they were down. appearance we are not far from a war ; but where it's to I find my days have been so free memorialised, and petitioned, and all to the same effect?
memory of the stout-'hearted patriots ; and while we record CARRYING THE BABy.—The most beautiful sight in be, and with whom, is hard to say. There's no doubt but This we did as Scotsmen and loyal Britons, ever anxious
From loneliness, despair, or strife, their gallant deeds, let us learn to imitate them in similar nature, met lately by a florid correspondent, was a woman, fighting is a costly amusement ; and I believe no country
to remain as such. Then can it be matter of wonder that,
If my late love grew dear to me, circumstances. There was lately a little cloud like a man's " Grace was in her step, heaven in her eye, and in her arms pays so heavily for her fun in that shape as England ; since our prayers have been unheeded, we now fall back
How precious is the wife I hand, rising in the south beyond the channel, which may a baby." A rosebush with a bud clinging to it was nothing but, nevertheless, there is nothing would so much tend to upon our nationality ?
even yet be the forerunner of a storm; but if so, and if compared with such a heavenly combination. But what revive her drooping and declining influence on the con-
Nor thou with disappointment hearln thus. raising our national voice—for, in the words of
the battle of Hastings must be fought again, the story of was poor John like, when the baby was handed to him to tinent as a little brush at sea. She is, I take it, as good
A secret I had ne'er confessed, Professor Aytoun, Scotland stands where she did,—we do
it shall be told like that of Flodden or of Bannockburn. carry ? as certain to be victorious ; and the very fervour of the s
o because it is our dernier resort. No animosity—no
Were that slow trust that made thee dear In the centuries that have passed, our island empire has A Nuw, BUT NOT IMPROVED, VEESION.—During a enthusiasm success would evoke in England would go far
mischievous desire towards England has given birth to it,
Less rooted in my breast. been consolidated at home and extended abroad, yet the discussion at a late church convention in America, the to disabuse the foreigner of his notion that we are only
and time will show how mistaken those have been who
Not thine the vain and wanton look two counties of Lancashire and Cheshire have increased Hon. Luther Bradish (late governor of New York) spoke eager about printing calicoes and sharpening Sheffield first promulgated such a report. I cannot see why the
instead of diminished in relative importance. Lancashire of new translations of the Bible lately put forth in ware. Believe me, it is vital to us to eradicate this fallacy ;
On which the moths of passion feed, fact of Scotland merely asking for her rights ought to
alone outnumbers Middlesex in populationand the two America, and produced much amusement by, quoting oneand until the world sees a British fleet reeling up the
Nor is thy soul such trivial book ;
create any animosity between the two countries, and I will
As he who runs may read. together, will probably in after years, equal the whole of of these, in which for the words, "no variableness nor Downs with some half-dozen dismasted line-of-battle ships
not believe that Englishmen are so illiberal as to view the
Scotland. Nor is their importance limited to mere shadow of turning, " there is substituted "no parallax, or in their wake, they'll not be convinced of what you and I
Scottish movement with prejudice. We do not reproach
Nor envy I the vagrant race numbers ; that is one of the smallest elements in the tropical shadow. know well, that we are just the same people that fought
Whose loves as soon as felt are gone, calculation. Two prominent parties in the State are both FAST AND LonsE.—An Irishman, just landed in this the Nile and "Trafalgar. Those industrial exhibitions, I your countrymen with having created our wrongs—nay,
Who wander on from face to face, identified with this one shire; and, to use the language of country on a sharp frosty morning, was run at by a fierce, think, brought out a great deal of trashy sentimentality we look to you to aid us in redressing them. Our own
Till age shall leave themVone. the law, the cross case recently tried before the Supreme noisy mastiff, who threatened to devour him ; whereupon about universal brotherhood, peace, and the rest of it. I apathy and the disinterestedness of our representatives
Court was Manchester -versus Knowsley, Knowsley versus Pat stooped down and seized a stone, with which he suppose the Crystal Palace rage was a kind of allegory to have been the main cause, and from the effects of these we
The gourd that in a night appeared Manchester. Our own neighbourhood, too, modern as it expected to stave in his assailant's frontispiece, but found show that they who live in glass houses shouldn't throw seek now to recover.
be
Next noon had withered on the sand ; is, has links of interest that connect us with the past, the stone frozen fast—a phenomenon utterly new to his stones ; but our ships, Tom, our ships, as the song says, It cannot
rights distinct from those of England, and which were
questioned that Scotland possesses certain
The oak a hundred years have reared, for the Hall of Speke contains the trophy of Norres, and experience. "A fine land of liberty ;" soliloquised Pat, are " hearts of oak !"—The Dodd Family Abroad. rights
referred to in the Articles of Union, and their
For ages crowns the land. the Church at Sefton proclaims the prowess of Molynenx. sulkily, " where they let their dogs loose, and tie their THE IBIS.—A most beautiful feature in the Nile voyage guaranteed to the country by that document.
—Blackzeood's Magazine. It is interesting too, to trace a stream of noble blood, stones fast to the ground."—American Paper. is the sight of birds, as tame as if domesticated, perching security
Now, the Articles of Union were all that made a Britain,
pure and distinct,'
amid centuries of change;—to follow it A MATCH FOR Aiimmurny.—Sometimes Mr. Aber- on your boat, on the housetops, on the palms, on the and were also intended to place Scotland on the footing of
like a thread of gold or silver, amid the complicated tissue nethy would meet with a patient who would afford a useful backs of oxen and of camels, chirping, warbling, skipping,
REVIEWS OF BOOKS. of a more homely fabric. Thus, the representative of lesson. A lady, the wife of a very distinguished musician, everywhere as free and joyous as if they never knew an equality, or as near as possible, with England. These
Molyneux is at this hour the military head, the Lord consulted him, and finding him uncoartems, said :" I had enemy. Nor have they an enemy in the native population, Articles have not been held sacred, and it is this fact
produced the complaints in Scotland pro h has
hic
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited Lieutenant of this great county; while the representative heard of your rudeness before I came, sir, but I did not f9r the Egyptians do not molest birds, only travellers w- • • Facts
cannot be overturned. These Articles were never intended
by Robert Carruthers. Vols. I. and 11. London : of Stanley, still. keeping his position i/i the race
.of expect. th.is,,." When Abernethy gave her the Prescription, affright them with the sportsman's gun. This may be.
to be broken, or else they would never have been framed—
honourable ambition, has stood foremost in the councils she said . What am Ito do with this ?" " Anything because the Egyptians are an unarmed people, but, to
N. Cook. to *ud e otherwise would turn history into fiction, and the
of his Sovereign. Nor is the soil of the district exhausted you like. Put it in the fire, if you please." The lady took whomsoever the credit belongs, let Egyptians have the
A new and comprehensive. edition of Pope's yet. n produces fruits which are rare and valuable in him at his word—laid his fee on the table, and threw the praise of the land where birds are safe and free. Most rights of nations would be but a bagatelle ! Well, then,
not a province (though treated in some
d tl Scoan is
'works, in the middle of the nineteenth century, themselves, and still more rare in their combination ; prescription into the fire, and hastily left the room. sweetly do they carol at sunrise, and at sunset in the as.
i i i
after the labours of that eminent author have been commerce and manufacture, agriculture and mining. Abernethy followed her into the hall, pressing her to take acacia groves and among the palms. Some, of unknown respects as such), t s impossible she can have any rights
as one ; but as a nation she has, and as a nation she
SO frequently published, may appear to some parties And, though last not least, it possesses another union of back her fee or to let him give her another prescriptions; names, are of
.beautiful plumage and delicate form ; but
calmly demands those rghts to be respected, just as
a superfluous undertaking ;by the majority of the rare and valuable qualities • for while history has been but the lady was inexorable, and left the house.—Maca- the bird, for which the traveller looks from the moment
England would have donee if placed in the same position.
intelligentpublic, however, the production will be delighted to honour the Talons of its sons, tradition and wain 's Memoirs of Abernethy. he enters Egypt, is the pure and sacred Ibis. We had
looked
intsadat equallylugeashtters.,, zealous in proclaiming PEN-AND-INK SKETCH OF Nicuoras.—The Emperor several times seen at a distance a bird that we conjectured If, as has been foolishly hinted in some quarters, the
Articles of Union be a dead letter, then, logically speaking,
is of a great height, and is very proud of it ; too proud, must be this, but to-day we had a nearer view, that by
there is no union, but a confusion instead. If they be
perhaps none, have contributed so much to the
purification and refinement of the English language The number also contains interesting papers perhaps, as he has acquired the habit of certain airs,which comparison with the sculptured form quite satisfied us of held faithfully by " all concerned," and as Scotland desires
often give him a strong resemblance to a peacock when its identity. It was a most delicate creature, about a foot
from the pen of the Rev. J. S. Howson, James them, then the union is not only the more secure, but we
as Pope has done. To the sweetest •
harmon of Stonehouse, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Thom, the Rev. about to spread his tail. It is a fact well known in St. long, from the beak to the tip of the tail, with long, are the true Britons.—l am, Sre , M. G.
versification he added precision of expression,and W. Thornber, and others. It is likewise illus- fortethrseburg:. that every well-grown man newly recruited slender legs, and a neck that curved gracefully and ter- Edinburgh
,l Nov. 7 1853
sonorous accuracy of language' - '
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redundant y of every kind heag
cea, of engravings,lithographs, and measures heights with him. His air is serious, his glance white, and, when it flew, seemed rather to swim with
refullßuvdeesncesbsowaendd; crated by a number
to a chaste __ propriety of I. • . . ' wood-cuts ; and is altogether a publication highly wild, even a little savage i his entire physiognomy has gentles' t motion on a buoyant sea. The selection of such
something hard and stern in it ; his gestures are abrupt, a bird as sacred, and the association of it with their LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.
euetion he added creditable to the society whose proceedings it
vigour and terseness, combined with, polished ele- records, and he cats his words in pronouncing them. The Em- religious sculptures, shows a nice sense of beauty in the Old TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
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pethroe r never shows himself but in the military costume, Egyptians.—Rev. J. Thompson's Letters from the Nile. SlR,—The accompanying statement, which I have care-
t' ; and by his precept and example, did much The Bible of the Reormation Rtformed. Three to establish the language in itspresent stiffness of which is in perfect keeping with his tastes, ARCHEOLOGY.—A discovery has been made on the fully compiled, will_speak for itself.—l remain, Sir, yours
a classic ton e. This,
position as Volumes in Seven Books. By John Finch, Esq., and which makes his great height still more conspicuous. small Danish island Yhrlen, which may not be without its obediently G. W. M.
Meanwhile there is a want of ease in his movements , inte
sarnolgeahnitstorians and antiquaries of the day. This Liverpoo'l, November 19th, 1853.
s, be it remembered, is a merchant, Liverpool. London : James Rigby.
character.. to which Pope's poetical and prose tom- To their credit generally, it must be admitted sinceafall from hishorse,he drags one leg after him in a dis-. little itn spot is situate between the islands of
agreeably inelegant manner.—The Czar and the sultan. Thorsenggand Fyen, close to Fuhnen. Some persons, ob- A__ TABLE, SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF
positions, as compositions, are entitled, apart from that the merchants of Liverpool adhere with a ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN CHlNA.—After Alexander serving near a few moleholes in the ground several coins PARTIES IN THE rOUNCIL.
and independent of a considerable amount of coarse- rigid and becoming pertinacity to the management had made war against Paor, or Porus, and slain him, he lying about, commenced digging up the soil close.theretc ; When
n.ess and indelicacy of sentiment which they occa- of their important, and often very complex business marched against the Emperor of China. That monarch when, to their surprise, they found the remains of a last Councillors. Party. How Elected.
sionally contain ; and which,did not consider himself equal to the conflict, and went in leathern bag, which had been decorated with gold orna- electd
degree, may in a very great matters, leaving the field of literature and art to . .
be attributed to the manners of the be cultivated by such hands as have more leisure chsguise to the Grecian camp. He was discovered, and ments, in which, and round about it, were a quantity of --- --,., —...-- --...--
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A 0 L.--RVERTON.
Period. To reproduce his works, therefore, in ato bestow on its seductive, though often unpro- brought to Alexander, who asked him how he could act in broken necklaces and bracelets of silver, of very curious _ Alderman E. L n sdale R
form so elegant yet so as bring ;4, such a manner? The Emperor replied, "I was anxious workmanship, and 250 pieces of silver coins. These coins
cheap, to .., readily ductive and ungrateful soil. When a literary out- to see you and your army. I could have no fear on my in part contained on the obverse side the bust of some 11 i 551 Itrt Ake a g C Defeated J. Johnson.
T. 1). Anderson
litisttien reach of the humbler class of readers, while break from mercantile avocations takes place own account, as I knew I was not an object of dread to person, with and without a sceptre, with the inscription 1853 S. M. Mellor R No opposition.
those aonfty and completeness will recommend it to among their number, the effort is certain to excite Alexander; besides, if he were to slay me, my subjects " Adelred Rs Anglo :" and on the reverse a cross, with an
ampler means, is to confer on society a boon attention and to call forth remark ; but when, as would instantly raise another king to the throne. But of inscription, but which as yet has not been made out. It No. 2. SCOTLAND.
Alderman W. Bennett. C
of no ordinary. character. The edition now under in ethe instance before us,. it assumes so bold a this I can have no fear, as lam satisfied Alexander can is thought that these coins belonged to some portion of 1850
1851 James Thompson R No opposition.
never be displeased with an action that shows a solicitude the " Danegold" by which king "Ethelred the Unwise," 1852 John Bingham
consideration is
.t 2 consist of four volumes, two onlY character as to essaY the nuProvement--reforma- to obtain his friendship!, The conqueror was completely at the conclusion of the 10th century, sought to compro-
as yet being 1853 John Woodruff R Defeated Jas. Jack, C.
life of P published. The first is devoted to a tion it is called—of our accepted version of the overcome by this truly Chinese flattery, and concluded a raise the devastating incursions of the Danish King _ — ............................
ope, on the production of which, Mr. Car- Holl Scriptures curiosity is awakened with a
ruthers, editor of the Inverness treaty by which China was spared on condition of paying "Svend Tveskjog." Besides these coins there were others, No. 3.—VAUXHALL.
C
well-directed - , . inquiry . , foot treat
The Emperor returned to his capital to make bearing Byzantine and Latin inscriptions, with busts and 1850 Alderman Preston ....
laCbowrier, has livelier start, and a watchful is set on R DftedT.L.Hodson R.
,
bestowed much andpreparations for the entertainment of his great ally; and bishops' mitres on them. In all, there are 30 differentß lifted. Alex. Shand, C.
our. His to ascertain the amount of interference intended to the third day he returned with an army, the dust of which sorts of coins found, all of which will soon be forwarded - I,Bg John Edward Moss Bradley
1853 William Nicholson
biographical sketch conveys to the reader a lively be made with that sacred volume which professing announced its great numbers, which made Alexander pre- to the Ancient Northern Museum at Copenhagen. The
idea of the
t, irrascible, jealous, and somewhat vindic- Christians of every denomination are taught to pare his force for battle. When both lines were opposite, isiand in question has never been touched by the plough- No. 4. ST. PAUL'S. tivepoe whose sickly and deformed body was the look on with reverential awe. The extent and the Emperor of China, with his ministe.rs and nobles, share; and it appears that
. this fund has been the result of 1853 Alderman Thos. Bold . C„,
CR
NpeofroptpdosftoSnaage, R.
tenement of a mind ill at ease, yet generally cha- character of the professed amendments intro- alighted and went towards the Grecian Prince, who asked some former plunder, which, for security's sake, was placedJohn R.
s . -., ~
... No opposition.
1851
rt. inctrume ....
racterised by spiritedand becoming independence. duced by Mr. Finch, we pretend not to esti- him why he had broken faith ? " I wished," said the in the position in which it was found.—Atherueum. 1852 Elliovmera
odfrey
Emperor "to show the number of my army, that you A HALF-Noisy THOROUGHFARE.—Every man who has IS" Holden
As a bin pher, Mr. Carruthers displays no small mate or designate; that is a task more fitting for might be' satisfied I made peace from other motives than shifted much about in London, knows that a half-noisy NO. 5.—ExcHA was.
amount of industry, tempered with good judg- the pen and more congenial to the studies of some an inability to make war. It was from consulting the thoroughfare is much more excruciating than a wholly 1550 Aldmn.Jas. Lawrence*,
ment and sound sense ;bhis style is easy, me n- of our learned divines. We shall confine our oh-C nbmit. The heavens aid noisy one. Upon the edge of Oxford-street you may doze 1851 T. Littledsit*
strained and mar ed. stars that
_I have been led. tot, s_ o
y delineative ability of servations, and they shall be brief, to the fact that you, and I war not with nens Alexander was so as by the margin of the sea • your ear becomes' accustomed 1853 Cherie
no ordinary power ; while his penetration and sense Mr. Finch, in the form of prefatory and introduce gratified that he released the Emperor from paying tribute, to the uniform roar, and soon almost ceases to heed it. Turner
1852 Jisirt,e6s. T_ ysierCASTLE.
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of justice secure a f • as he was too wise, too pious, and too great a prince ;he But a half-noisy thoroughfare brings every available
his estimate of P air amount of impartiality in tory remarks, has attached to his version of the wasperfectlysatisfied to have hisfriendship.—Montomery method of confusing and distracting human ears to bear 185 Q Alderman Thos. DoavTer. C
standing o e's e P haracter as a man, and Bible some very peculiar dogmas of sectarian Martin's China. upon you; heightening the effect of every bit of uproar 1851 Hugh Hornby* R
as a poet and satirist.. The following faith, and in terms by no means sparing or choice,RUINS.—In digging out the ruins by a dull setting of silence. Every omnibuss seems to 1852 T. Avison
may be taken as a fair, and also a favourable, sneei- however carefully they may have been chosen, DEATH..AMONG THE
fth.
rings up some re e run its wheels over your , every new urs o ca S
li
men of Mr• Carruthers' I •--
•style. It conveys a hvely attacks the religious observances of all who do not ofof Pompeii, every turn o e spade b
ancient life, some witness of imperial luxury. For and waggons out of doors is a new outrage upon the repose NO.•7.—ST. PETER'S.
idea of Pope, in his every-da rt f ' far the greater art, these relics have a merely curious in- within. Instead of the one noise' running throngh the 1853 Alderman Jas. Parker. C
happily indicative of th _ yso o life, and is coincide with his views on the subject of religion ; terest ; they belong to archaeology, and find appropriate day, you have two hundred noises at two hundred inter- ism Harmood Banner
e prevailing tone of society whileheexhibits uncompromising bitterness against resting-places in historical museums. But there are some vals in the day. When we got baby to sleep after dinner, . 1852 J. C. Fernihough R} No opposition.
as that was to be met with in the literary and the privileges and observances of the Established ism James Holm.
fashionable circles which characterised, if they didexceptions. Here, for instance, the excavator drops, an there came punctually a series of special nuisances that
not adorn, the initiatory Church. The introduction of such matter into uninvited guest, upon a banquet ; there he unexpectedly had their regular days for disturbing. her ; and we came to •
No. B.—l. ITT STREET.
decade of the eighteenth such close contact with what purports to be a nar- obtrudes himself into a tomb. In one place he finds a I know their times. Qn Monday evenings there was a horn ; isso Alderman T. Robinson. C
Century.miser cowering on his heaps, another shows him bones of , after which (separate concern) a German band; organs; ! ;851 John Gladstone, jun C No opposition.
, restive of the sacred oracles of God, cannot be dancing girls and broken instruments of music lying on THE GAY PERIOD OF POPE'S LIFE
The Homer subscription had brought the pc; et honour, I looked on by any Christian as other than untie- boys whistling "Pop goes the Weasel." Tuesday, 1853 W. P. Jeffreys
... P.
Mann
the marble floor. In the midst of painted chambers, baths, ! Ethiopian serenaders ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop /853 i «'.rmiam C Defeated J. Smith, R.
wealth, and troops of friends. coming; while many, and those neither bigoted nor
Ile year 1714 may be considered as marking the commencement of the gayest halls, columns, fountains, among the splendid evidences of I goes the Weasel." Wednesday, a detached performer on ----- No 9.—GT. GEORGE.
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illiberal, will view the proceeding as highly repro- material wealth, he sometimes stumbles on a simple inci- the bones; a brain-crushing machine drawn by a donkey _ Alderman '
period e. was the beginning of a decade of h
of Pope's life. It Ilnot bltl. '
asou e y impious. The Word of dent, a touching human story, such as strikes the imagina- 1833 Jos. Cooper. U
1851 Thos. Wagstaff . C No opposition. •
PhiarosPeaprobinst
wa.s Years,
sanigtan
nwehich, through all circumstances, ensi e, if —a man on a platform grinding all our heads in it ; other
tion ands uggests the mournful interest of the great dime- !or ; band of Scotch fiddlers, scraping and scratching 1852 John McNicoll C Defted Jno. Rogers, R.
God they must feel is of too sacred a character to ter, as the sudden sight of a wounded soldier CODJIIreS UP ' hideous strathspeys with unrosined horsehair ; boys whis- 1853 Alexander Shand C No opposition.
yet assumed the philos ' hexultant defiant. He had not be thus, as it were, surreptitiously made the vehicle the horrors of a field of battle. Such, to our mind, is the fling " Pop goes the Weasel." Thursday, oPhieleide3, cor- . --- ,„ ,„ ,,, —_—
robe, or hardened down
into severe satire and ethiu'Pcs.er'Hs is wit was sportive ; and No. tO.--HODNRY-ST.
his enemies_ His he always supposed himself tooe sure of vituperative sectarian controversy, and in this latest discovery of the excavators in this melancholy field. no cans, and trombones ; Indian beating tom-tom ;
1853 Aldmn. Samuel Hoime* C
roundedu. byna cloud of enemies—he could afford t smile view will lend no favourable countenance to the It is, a group of skeletons in the act of flight, accompanied acrobats and two drums ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop 1851 Thomas Fleming C
by a dog. There are three-human beings, one of them a goes the Weasel." Friday, Ethiopan serenaders; psalm- 1852 John B. Brancher
at. Is Pe was the sword with which he had cut his work before us. ----..
young girl, with gold rings and jewels still on her fingers. singing by an old man playing the violincello, with two 1853 Jas. Agpinal Tobin
Tray through the world, and it was bright and trenchant,
ready for Lorenzo Benoni : Passages in the Life of an The fugitives had bags of gold and silver with them, girls in white tuckers, every two lines first read by the
~.
service. At first his good fortune seems to Italian. Edinburgh : Constable and Co. snatched up, no doubt, in haste and darkness. But the old man, and then sungwhbisytltinhge
~wrhooplegoesstretutivh
Weasel.
etlh.,e, 1,40. 11.—ABERCROMBY.
1853 Aldmnn. R.C. Gardner. C
havechara trans
ter.
an
pited him into excesses foreign to his real fiery flood was on their track and vain their wealth, their corn n • organs ; boys
This story, which is given in the form of an C . No opposition.
set up fora bon-vivant and rake—fro- flight, the age of one, the youth'
of the other. The burn- Saturday;y ' street fights and shouts ; extra carts (butchers' 18521851 Hugh Neill
autobiography, is written with much spirit. The Robertson
i;.aWeallstene* irt Defeated
e. B.
Hall. C.
8 3 William
quented the October Club and uhg-houses (but was adventures and scenes introduced run through the dog turned back to share the fortunes of its mistress, dying gurdy ; harps and accordions ; brain-crushing machine; .
never known to bet);
dboasted of sitting till two in the ing lava rolled above' them and beyond ; and the faithful carts very aggravating); German Band; Ethiopians ;hardy r
-----
morning over b Y and champagne, and grew periods of boyhood, adolescence, and manhood. and at her side. Seen by the light of such an incident, how knife-grinder (most excruciating) ; Finnan haddocks ;• No. 12.—LIME. STREET.
ashamed of business:: Poor authors, of course, were his 1853 Alderman J. B. Moore*.
they are elaborated with such skill and art as to vividly that night of horror looms upon the sense ! Does hearth-stones; and " Pop goes the Weasel" until eleven
Special aversion. He sketched plans and architectural seem the truthful flow of individual experience. not imagination picture that little group, in their own o'clock at night.—Dickens' Household Words. 1851 James Johnson
designs with Lord Burling•ton ; lounged in the library of house, by the side of their evening fountain, languidly
A LADY OF DAMASCUS.—We will first describe the 11885532 I..BA..LPioicyrdokn(rhe
mayor)
CR .'1 No opposition.
Lord Oxford ; breakfasted with Craggs
chatting over the day's events and of the unusual heat? daughter of the host—a very fair specimen of her sex in _ --
talked of the The Ecclesiastical History of England and Does it not hear, with them, the troubled swell of the Damascus. Her eyes are beautifully dark, her eye-lashes, No. 13.—ST. AN N's.
Spanish war with the chivalrous
borough, the English Am airaus
34°rdaant'
Lord Peter- Normandy. By Ordericus Vitalis. London : waters in the bay ; see, as they do, how the night comes eye-brows, and hair of a glossy jet black ; the latter,
; or, in the evening, Henry 1853 Allman. E. Molyneux. C
Joined in the learned faille i Arbuthnot. With young G. Bohn. 1851 ItpllorsnardHWo(iHs Houghton ?:t. Efetfeedatl P. Fsrheammel, R.
Lord Warwick and other beaoux-esprits he had delicious down in sudden strangeness, how the sky opens over head tinged with henna, hangs down her back, and reaches
To the student of English ecclesiastical history and flames break out, while scoriae, sand, and molten rocks nearly to the ground, in a succession of plaits, each ter- 1852 John.Nicholsoonn C No opposition. '
lobster nights and t,avern
in Windsor Forest . At the co
different from life the annals of Ordericus Vitalis are invested with a come pouring down ? What movement, what emotion, minating with black silk braid, knotted and interwoven
what surp • ! The scene grows darker every instant, the with various sized golden coins ; her features (excepting No. 14.—WEST DERBY.
UntrY seats of Lords Har- Peculiar interest, connecting that history as they hollow monothne of the bay is lifted into yells and shrieks, the eyes)are all small, but compact. The nose is Grecian, ' 1850 Ahiman. Sir. John Bent* C
--cConicßi,:inthgugrrsotv, ea,:dwaCalhaln, he was a frequent visitor do with the events which, occurring on the adjacent the air grows thick with dust and hot with flames, and at the lips cherry, and slightly pouting, the chin dimpled, 1851 It. M. Beckwith
and he may claim the merit of flielas ;erg'
Ide.milinodrepLrtitTa73;, continental state of Normandy, produced a lasting 1852 Arthur Henderson
the mountain's foot is heard the deadly roll of the liquid the form of the face oval, and the complexion clear, with Defeated W. Earle, R.
other poet to render effect on the ecclesiastical .
institutions of this lava. Jewels, household goods, gold and silver coins, are a rosy tint. The bust and figure are unexceptionable, the
tinction in which he wasEn scenes classic ground—a dis-ILrancis A. Clint
country. The volume is prefaced by some admi- snatched up on the instant. No time to say farewell ; arms comely, the wrists and ankles well turned, and the 1853
No. I5.—N. TORTETH.
followed by Gray and Walpole, the latter actin darkness in front,and fire behind, they rush into the streets, feet and hands perfect models for a sculptor ; yet this is 1553 Aldmn.Thos.Toultain.. C
and rural gas historian of patrician improvement rable introductory remarks from the pen of M. streets choked with falling houses and flying citizens. How one out of the many nondescript beings that we en- 1951 Thomas Royden
beauty. In the society of ladies of rank and Guiza- The period comprised in that portion of find the way through passages which have no longer out- countered with tzar and veil in the street. Her face and 1852 Hilton Halhead
frillr_lty,edipinutive figure of the poet might be seen, the annals contained in the volume under conside- lets ? Confusion, danger, darkness, uproar everywhere, the 1853 Matthew Gregson
discoursing .1t of b k yelvet, i!ith tie-wig and small sword, ration extends. from the Birth of Christ to thefigure are well set off by the headdress and oriental cos-
shouts of parted friends, the agony of men struck down by fume. On the top of her head she wears a small red cap, ~- . a m —7--
mg on tonics of wit and gallantry, his fine eye NO. lu.---o. LOXTETH.
and,handsome intellectual, face soon making the defects year 1066,
.and necessarily embraces many interest- falling columns ; fear, madness, and despair unchained; which is encircled by a handsomely-flowered handkerchief, lB5O Al dm n . John H. Turner R
here penury clutching the gold it cannot keep ; there glut- C Dftd E. C. Hindley, R.
..7. his person forgotten ; for, in company entirely to his mg events in the history of the Church ;it is par- tony feeding on its final meal ; and phrenzy striking in the goldand omveornetyhealaretter- strings of pearls and pieces of small 1851 John Stewart
tastefully arranged in festoons. In the 1852 Wm. Jos. Horsfall
KniTa' , Pope. then possessed the art and gaiety that could titularly rich in the legends and traditions of the dark to forestal death. Through all, fancy hears the young centre of her red cap is a diamond crescent, from which 1853 James Robertson
... laugh down many a summer sun." The accomplished period, as these were to be met with in monkish girl's screams ; the fire is on her jewelled hand. No hangs a long golden cord with a blue silk tassel, usually *s* Those marked * have been Mayors.—C. Conservative,
.4a4yMary Wortley Montagu had recently quitted her records time for thought, no pause ; the flood rolls on, and wis- ornamented with way's ; her vest fits tight, and admirably R. Radical.
retirement at Wharncliffe andshone " brightparticular - ' dom, beauty, age, and youth, with all the stories of their displays the unli.od figure. In summer this vest is of
star" in the brilliantof a P RECAPITULATION. C. R.
circles.the metropolis. ope was
often by her tide, whispering flatteries that were after- love, their hopes, their rank, wealth, greatness, all the once blue or pink satin, bordered and fringed with gold lace ; 5 Wards represented entirely by Conserva-
. VARIETIES. affluent life, are gone for ever. When unearthed, after in winter, cloth - edged with fur is substituted for the 20 0
Wards to be changed to curses. The Duchesses of Queens- fives, Nos. 5,8, 9, 10, 15
berry, Hamilton, and Montagu. smiled graciously on the -1- many ages, the nameless group has no other importance to satin; and over the vest is worn a short gray jacket, No Ward represented entirely by Radicals 0 0
Plaluzullreed
iipzl, td carried him to their concerts and nastisonaniitshtafLlikte,;.fli.t
.that leap over a ,a good mankind than as it may serve "to point a moral or adorn chastely embroidered with black silk braid. The vest is 4 Wards represented by 3 Conservatives and
a tale. —Athenaeum_ confined to the waist by a zunnar, in summer. of a silk - 1 Radical—Nos. 7, 13, 14, 16

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited
by Robert Carruthers. Vols. I. and 11. London :
N. Cook.
A new and comprehensive. edition of Pope's
-works, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
after the labours of that eminent author have been
so frequently published, may appear to some parties
a superfluous undertaking ; by the majority of the
intelligent public, however, the production will be
looked on with a very different eye. Pew authors,
perhaps none, have contributed so much to the
purification and refinement of the English language
as Pope has done. To the sweetest harmony of
versification he added precision of expression, and
sonorous accuracy of language. Rudeness and
redundancy of every kind he carefully eschewed ;
to a chaste propriety of diction, he added
vigour and terseness, combined with, polished ele-
gance ; and by his precept and example, did much
to establish the language in its present position as
a classic tongue. This, be it remembered, is a
character to which Pope's poetical and prose com-
positions, as compositions, are entitled, apart from
and independent of a considerable amount of coarse-
ness and indelicacy of sentiment which they occa-
sionally contain ; and which, in a very great
degree, may be attributed to the manners of the
period. To reproduce his works, therefore, in a
form so elegant yet so cheap, as to bring it readily
within reach of the humbler class of readers, while
its beauty and completeness will recommend it to
those of ampler means, is to confer on society a boon
of no ordinary character. The edition now under
consideration is to consist of four volumes, two only
as yet being published. The first is devoted to a
life of Pope, on the production of which, Mr. Car-
ruthers, editor of the Inverness Cowrier, has
bestowed much and well-directed labour. His
biographical sketch conveys to the reader a lively
idea of the irrascible, jealous, and somewhat vindic-
tive poet, whose sickly and deformed body was the
tenement of a mind ill at ease, yet generally cha-
racterised by spirited and becoming independence.
As a biographer, Mr. Carruthers displays no small
amount of industry, tempered with good judg-
ment and sound sense ; his style is easy, uncon-
strained, and marked by delineative ability of
no ordinary power ; while his penetration and sense
of justice secure a fair amount of impartiality in
his estimate of Pope's character as a man, and
standing as a poet and satirist.. The following
may be taken as a fair, and also a favourable, swci-
men of Mr. Carruthers' style. It conveys a hv'ely
idea of Pope, in his every-day sort of life, and is
happily indicative of the prevailing tone of society
as that was to be met with in the literary and
fashionable circles which characterised, if they did
not adorn, the initiatory decade of the eighteenth
century.
THE GAT PERIOD OP popes LIFE.
The Homer subscription had brought the poet honour,
wealth, and troops of friends. The year 1714 may be
considered as marking the commencement of the gayest
period of Pope's life. It was the beginning of a decade of
prosperous years, in which, through all circumstances,
his spirit was sanguine, exultant, defiant. He had not
yet assumed the philosopher's robe, or hardened down
into severe satire and ethics. His wit was sportive ; and
his enemies—for he always supposed himself to be sur-
rounded by a cloud of enemies—he could afford to smile
at. His pen was the sword with which he had cut his
way through the world, and it was bright and trenchant,
ready for any service. At first his good fortune seems to
have transported him into excesses foreign to his real
character. He set up for a bon-vivant and rake—fre-
quented the October Club and gaming-houses (but was
never known to bet); boasted of sitting till two in the
morning over burgundy and champagne, and grew
ashamed of business. Poor authors, of course, were his
special aversion. He sketched plans and architectural
designs with Lord Burlington ; lounged in the library of
Lord Oxford ; breakfasted with Craggs ; talked of the Spanish war with the chivalrous Mordaunt, Lord Peter-
borough, the English Amadis • or in the evening,
joined in the learned raillery of Arbutlanot. With young
Lord Warwick and other beaux-esprite he had delicious
lobster nights and tavern gaieties—how different from life
in Windsor Forest ! At the country seats of Lords Har-
court, Bathurst, and Cobham, he was a frequent visitor
--criticising groves,
and he may claim the merit of having
walks, glades, gardens, and porticoes ;
done more than any
other poet to render English scenes classic ground—a dis-
tinction in which he was followed by Gray and Walpole,
the latter acting as historian of patrician improvement
and rural beauty. In the society of ladies of rank and
fashion the diminutive figure of the poet might be seen,
in his suit of black velvet, with tie-wig and small sword,
discoursing on topics of wit and gallantry, his fine eye
and handsome, intellectual, face soon making the defects
of his person forgotten ; for, in company entirely to his
mnd, Pope then possessed the art and gaiety that could
" laugh down many a summer sun." The accomplished
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had recently quitted her
retirement at Wharncliffe, and shone "a bright particular
star" in the brilliant circles of the metropolis. Pope was
often by her tide, whispering flatteries that were after-
wards to be changed to curses. The Duchesses of Queens-
berry, Hamilton, and Montagu smiled graciously on the
laurelled poet, and carried him to their concerts and
pleasure parties on the Thames. The Maids of Honour
in the court of the Princess Caroline—the beautiful Mary
Bellenden, Mary Lepell, Miss Griffin, and Mrs. Howard,
admitted him to their confidence—" took him into their
protection, contrary to the laws against harbouring
Papists"—and instructed him in the tracasseries of the
court, or joined him in ridiculing pompous Ministers of
State. They had also their own grievances to ur into the poet's ear; for the life of a Maid of Honour was little
better at Hampton Court, under the philosophical Caro-
line, than Fanny Burney found it at Kew or Windsor
under the regime of Queen Charlotte and George 111.
Of Pope's great satire, " The Dunciad," one of
the greatest and most important, if not the greatest
and most important in the English language, Mr.
Carruthers gives us the following judicious
ESTIMATE OP THE DITNCIAD. •
The object of the satire (which was chiefly to expose
authors unworthy of exposure) is undignified, and in
many parts is effected at the sacrifice of decency and pro-
priety. Swift has been accused of familiarizing Pope with
images physically disgusting and impure, which most men
instinctively shun. This indelicacy, however, was appa-
rent before the acquaintance of the two wits commenced.
It is seen in Pope's boyish lines on Elkanah Settle, and in
subsequent productions, especially his imitationsof Chaucer
and Spencer. But as Swift was at Twickenham when
Part, at least, of " The Dunciad" was composed, and as the
grossness we have alluded to is nowhere so conspicuous as
in this poem, the Dean's conversation and example may
Lave still farther vitiated the taste and blunted the per-
Mtions of his friend. The second book of " The Dunciad"
19 greatly disfigured, and in some parts rendered absolutely
rePillsive from this cause.
In these remarks we think Mr. Carruthers
t'essea his inferences rather severely upon the
an of St. Patrick's, particularly as he himself
admits that Pope required " no prompter" in indeli-
cacy, as was apparent in his boyish lines.
15 The second volume commences the poetry, which
of with copious notes, and contains many
nick
'rri'; best known and most admired pieces,
the " Rape of the Lock." Both volumes
el e Profusely as well as tastefully illustrated by
aeverlY-exeeuted wood-engravings, among which
several
gliffe • characteristic portraits of the poet,
LeBllrulg considerably from each other in some
e.et of e
g, yet all less or more tinctured with simi-
haracter and expression.
.Pro,•„_ ,•

the Historic Society
- -,ectings and .Papers of
.1: The
ifit Eancaghir and Cheshire. Liverpool
7,1,6t0ric goeieetv
~,,,,---, raactioiis. of a Literary Society is neces-
---1 tan times an object of much local interest,
and that interest
is enhanced in a very high de-
gproertea' Ztilleol'eall'ileatpuarpee re are themselves of an im-
elegance and ta,s,. and. are written with literary
this number, one vx,'
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tehc papers printed m
enuar local charms
is on the subjectof Ltaan.cnagahire and Cheshire-men
of the sixteenth ceixtury ; it 14 from the pen of

SLANDERS are like flies, that leap over a man's good
parts to alight upon his sores.
THE FASHIONABLE STRIKE AMONGST THE LOWEST
CLASSES.—A brute of a husband is one who fancies, when
he marries, that he is at perfect liberty to treat his wife as
if she were no better than a street-door, on which there
was nailed the polite request : " Please to ring and knock."
THE MODEST MAIDEN, the prudent wife, or the careful
matron is much more serviceable in life than petticoated
philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She
who makes her husband happy, and reclaims him from
vice, is a much greater character than ladies described in
romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind
with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.—Goldsmith.
TIEN-TE THE CHINESE USURPER.—In his habits he is
silent and reserved; he lives in close retirement, only
showing himself occasionally to his immediate followers,
and then only to issue his commands. His expression,
though far from prepossessing, denotes mildness, com-
bined with great decision and a degree of firmness verging
upon obstinacy. His complexion is sallow, with a decided
saffron tinge. In stature he is about the middle height ;
and though of about the same age, is taller and less
strongly built than Hienfoung the Emperor, whose
deposition he seems resolved, at all hazards, to effect. He
travels in a palanquin enclosed with curtains of amber-
coloured silk, borne on the shoulders of sixteen officers of
distinction ; his preceptor, or privy councillor, or adviser,
carried by eight coolies, follows immediately in his wake ;
and then come Tien-te's 30 devoted wives, for all of whom
he is said to possess the sincerest affection. They are arrayed
in costly apparel, and follow each other in single file, not
as they might on the shores of the placid Serpentine, in
Clarences or Broughams, but in commodious arm-chairs
picked out with vermillion and gold. A long retinue of
servants and a vast array of soldiers bring up the rear of
the procession, which is said, upon the whole, strongly to
resemble those gorgeous affairs occasionally exhibited on
the boards of the Lyceum.—Quarterly Review.
BARBOURNE GRANGE—THE ENGLISH PARK.—III no
place save England can you find those emblems of solid
wealth which are to be found in every county into which
our country is divided. We allude, of course, to those
domains called " Parks," in which the country residences
of our nobility and gentry are situated. In France you
may have fine houses, dignified by the name of chateau,
in which hospitality may be supported; but they lack that
indescribable appearance of comfort which an English
country residence possesses. There is that about the
appearance of an English park which finds no parallel in
France, and which England alone can produce. Around
a French mansion in the country there is dreariness, and
comparatively a desert. Round the mansion of an English
country gentleman there is the broad domain, ornamented
by ancestral trees, which are typical of the strength and
wealth of the class to which they belong; and Barbourne
Grange is such a place. The house is one of those solid
structures which combine elegance with comfort, and is
essentially an English country gentleman's residence. The
house is white all over, being cemented over the bricks of
which it is built. In the centre are folding glass doors,
leading. to which is a low flight of stone steps, ornamented
with diminutive trellised work and small stone carvings.
At each end of the mansion are green-houses, stored with
the choicest productions of the horticultural world, and
communicating by glass doors with chambers in the house.
Around the mansion is a noble park, to produce which
must have been the work of centuries, seeing that every
tree with which it is ornamented is of gigantic size and in
high Perfection.—Dick ,Dinsiny.

EXTENT OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN INDIA.—
Our territory is equal to all continental Europe, Russia I
excepted. Peshawur is as far north of Tanjore as Stock-
holm is of Naples ; Chittagong as far east of Kurrachee
as Athens is of Paris. Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden, unitedly, do
not equal either our territory or our population. The re-
port of the grand trigonometrical survey, which has lately
been printed for parliament, gives the total,—area in
square miles, 1,368,113 ; population, 151,144,962. And a
corrected copy, with which we have been favoured, adds
seven millions and a half to this population, most of which
is in our own territories, but part in the native states,
making the total 158,774,055. But the fact is, that even
from our territories many of the returns are no better
than guesses, and from the native states few are to be
relied upon. It has, however, generally proved that ac-
curate returns give a higher population than previous
estimates ; and after considerable attention to the subject
for years, we should not be surprised to find the official
statement gradually coming up from its present advanced
figure, to nearly two hundred millions. This splendid
empire is distributed into four governments or presidencies
—Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and Agra. The first is the
seat of the governor-general and the supreme council ;
the next two have each a governor and council ; and Agra
is administered by a lieutenant-governor without a council.
The army is—Queen's troops, 29,480 ; company's Eu-
ropean troops, 19,928 ; company's native troops, 240,121 ;
total, 289,529 ; native contingents, commanded by British
officers, and available under treaties, 32,000 ; total at the
disposal of the governor-general, 321,529. This is a great
army ; yet its proportion to the extent of the empire pre-
sents a forcible comment on the nature of the British rule.
Compare it with the proportion which the armies of the
continent bear to the population of the respective coun-
tries, and you might imagine that they were holding con-
quered nations, and we governing our hereditary soil.
Forty-nine thousand out of the whole are Englishmen—a
less number than is generally found necessary to garrison
the one city of Paris. Even the native rajahs, with a
population of 55,000,000, have 400,000 soldiers ; while we,
with double the population, have 110,000 less, though they
are guaranteed
against external war, and we have to take
all risks. Then our 240,000 native troops are a strength
or a weakness, just as our authority is popular or the re-
verse. Were their attachment lost, how formidable would
they be, taught in our mode of war, and five times as nu-
merous as the English soldiers. Were they and the troops
of the rajahs united against us, it would be 50,000 against
640,000. You may travel through India for days together
without coming on a military station. You may pass
through kingdoms with three millions or more inhabit-
ants, containing only one post of European troops. You
may find great cities without a soldier ; the remains of
vast fortifications, near which not a uniform is visible.
Facts such as these, when contrasted with the constant
display of military force in the countries of even civilized
Europe, forcibly prove that the power of the English has
foundations in the homes of the people as well as in the
cantonments of the soldiery. In the native regiments the
officers are, as to numbers, about half native, half English ;
but no native officer can rise higher than to a sort of cap-
taincy or majority, and even then is under the youngest
European ensign,—a position much worse than that en-
joyed by Hindoos in the armies of the Mussulmans. Ben-
gal, Madras, sod Bombay, have three distinct armies, and
three contmanderpin-chief,—Quarterly Review.

WAITING FOE TkE CARRIA.GIL—CharIes (seven years
old)—" This will be a stupid affair, Georgy." Georgy (a
young lady of nine winters)—" Oh ! yes—only a white
frock and black mitten party—very slow !" Old nurse
wonders what next.—Punch.
KENNY DODD ON THE RUSSIAN QUESTION.—To all
appearance we are not far from a war; but where it's to
be, and with whom, is hard to say. There's no doubt but
fighting is a costly amusement ; and I believe no country
pays so heavily for her fun in that shape as England;
but, nevertheless, there is nothing would so much tend to
revive her drooping and declining influence on the con-
tinent as a little brush at sea. She is, I take it, as good
as certain to be victorious ; and the very fervour of the
enthusiasm success would evoke in England would go far
to disabuse the foreigner of his notion that we are only
eager about printing calicoes and sharpening Sheffield
ware. Believe me, it is vital to us to eradicate this fallacy ;
and until the world sees a British fleet reeling up the
Downs with some half-dozen dismasted line-of-battle ships
in their wake, they'll not be convinced of what you and I
know well, that we are just the same people that fought
the Nile and "Trafalgar. Those industrial exhibitions, I
think, brought out a great deal of trashy sentimentality
about universal brotherhood, peace, and the rest of it. I
suppose the Crystal Palace rage was a kind of allegory to
show that they who live in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones ; but our ships, Tom, our ships, as the song says,
are "hearts of oak !"—The Dodd Family Abroad.
THE IBIS.—A most beautiful feature in the Nile voyage
is the sight of birds, as tame as if domesticated, perching
on your boat, on the housetops, on the palms, on the
backs of oxen and of camels, chirping, warbling, skipping,
everywhere as free and joyous as if they never knew an
enemy. Nor have they an enemy in the native population,
for the Egyptians do not molest birds, only travellers
affright them with the sportsman's gun. This may be
because the Egyptians are an unarmed people, but, to
whomsoever the credit belongs, let Egyptians have the
praise of the land where birds are safe and free. Most
sweetly do they carol at sunrise, and at sunset in the
acacia groves and among the palms. Some, of unknown
names, are of beautiful plumage and delicate form ; but
the bird, for which the traveller looks from the moment
he enters Egypt, is the pure and sacred Ibis. We had
several times seen at a distance a bird that we conjectured
must be this, but to-day we had a nearer view, that by
comparison with the sculptured form quite satisfied us of
its identity. It was a most delicate creature, about a foot
long, from the beak to the tip of the tail, with long,
slender legs, and a neck that curved gracefully and ter-
minated in a long, crooked beak. It was of stainless
white, and, when it flew, seemed rather to swim with
gentlest motion on a buoyant sea. The selection of such
a bird as sacred, and the association of it with their
religious sculptures, shows a nice sense of beauty in the old
Egyptians.—Rev. J. Thompson's Letters from the Nile.
ARCH2SOLOGY.—A discovery has been made on the
small Danish island Yhrlen, which may not be without its
interest among historians and antiquaries of the day. This
little insignificant spot is situate between the islands of
Thorseng and Fyen, close to Fuhnen. Some persons, ob-
serving near a few moleholes in the ground several coins
lying about, commenced digging up the soil closethereto ;
when, to their surprise, they found the remains of a
leathern bag, which had been decorated with gold orna-
ments, in which, and round about it, were a quantity of
broken necklaces and bracelets of silver, of very curious
workmanship, and 250 pieces of silver coins. These coins
in part contained on the obverse side the bust of some
person, with and without a sceptre, with the inscription
" Adelred Rx Anglo ;" and on the reverse a cross, with an
inscription, but which as yet has not been made out. It
is thought that these coins belonged to some portion of
the " Danegold" by which king " Ethelred the Unwise,"
at the conclusion of the 10th century, sought to compro-
mise the devastating incursions of the Danish King
"Svend Tveskjog." Besides these coins there were others,
bearing Byzantine and Latin inscriptions, with busts and
bishops' mitres on them. In all, there are 30 different
sorts of coins found, all of which will soon be forwarded
to the Ancient Northern Museum at Copenhagen. The
island in question has never been touched by the plough-
share ; and it appears that this fund has been the result of
some former plunder, which, for security's sake, was placed
in the position in which it was found.—Atheneum.
A HALF-NOISY THOROUGHFARE.—Every man who has
shifted much about in London, knows that a half-noisy
thoroughfare is much more excruciating than a wholly
noisy one. Upon the edge of Oxford-street you may doze
as by the margin of the sea ; your ear becomes accustomed
to the uniform roar, and soon almost ceases to heed it.
But a half-noisy thoroughfare brings every available
method of confusing and distracting human ears to bear
upon you ; heightening the effect of every bit of uproar
by a dull setting of silence. Every omnibuss seems to
run its wheels over your head ; every new burst of cabs
and waggons out of doors is a new outrage upon the repose
within. Instead of the one noise running through the
day, yon have two hundred noises at two hundred inter-
vals in the day. When we got baby to sleep after dinner,
there came punctually a series of special nuisances that
had their regular days for disturbing her ; and we came to
know their times. On Monday evenings there was a horn ;
after which (separate concern) a German band ; organs ;
boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel." Tuesday,
Ethiopian serenaders ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop
goes the Weasel." Wednesday, a detached performer on
the bones ; a brain-crushing machine drawn by a donkey
—a man on a platform grinding all our heads in it ; other
organs ; band of Scotch fiddlers, scraping and scratching
hideous strathspeys with unrosined horsehair ; boys whis-
tling " Pop goes the Weasel." Thursday, ophicleides, cor-
nopeans, and trombones ; Indian beating tom-tom ;
acrobats and two drums ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop
goes the Weasel." Friday, Ethiopan serenaders ; psalm-
singing by an old man playing the violincello, with two
girls in white tuckers, every two lines first read by the
old man, and then sung by the whole strength of the
company ; organs ; boys whistling " Pop goes the Weasel."
Saturday; street fights and shouts ; extra carts (butchers'
carts very aggravating); German Band ; Ethiopians ; hurdy
gurdy ; harps and accordions; brain-crushing machine;
knife-grinder (most excruciating) ; Finnan haddocks ;
hearth-stones ; and " Pop goes the Weasel" until eleven
o'clock at night.—Dickens' Household Words.
A LADY OF DAMASCUS.—We will first describe the
daughter of the host—a very fair specimen of her sex in
Damascus. Her eyes are beautifully dark, her eye-lashes,
eye-brows, and hair of a glossy jet black ; the latter,
tinged with henna, hangs down her back, and reaches
nearly to the ground, in a succession of plaits, each ter-
minating with black silk braid, knotted and interwoven
with various sized golden coins ; her features (excepting
the eyes)are all small, but compact. The nose is Grecian,
the lips cherry, and slightly pouting, the chin dimpled,
the form of the face oval, and the complexion clear, with
a rosy tint. The bust and figure are unexceptionable, the
arms comely, the wrists and ankles well turned, and the
feet and hands perfect models for a sculptor ; yet this is
one out of the many nondescript beings that we en-
countered with Tzar and veil in the street. Her face and
figure are well set off by the headdress and oriental cos-
tume. On the top of her head she wears a small red cap,
which is encircled by a handsomely-flowered handkerchief,
and over the latter- strings of pearls and pieces of small
gold money are tastefully arranged in festoons. In the
centre of her red cap is a diamond crescent, from which
hangs a long golden cord with a blue silk tassel, usually
ornamented with pay's ; her vest fits tight, and admirably
displays the unlift.d figure. In summer this vest is of
blue or pink satin, bordered and fringed with gold lace ;
in winter, cloth - edged with fur is substituted for the
satin; and over the vest is worn a short gray jacket,
chastely embroidered with black silk braid. The vest is
confined to the waist by a zunnar, in summer, of a silk
Tripoli scarf—in winter, by a costly Cashmere shawl ; and
from under this a long robe reaches to her ankles, and is
divided into two long lappels, lined with satin and
fringed with costly trimmings. This latter robe partially
conceals the shirwal, or full trousers, which hang loosely
over, and are fastened round the ankles ; the tasty mixture
of colours, and the graceful arrangement, render the
costume a perfect study. Latterly European shoes have
been much used by the Damascene ladies, especially those
gaily flowered kid shoes imported into Syria from
Marseilles.—The Thstle and Cedar of Lebanon.
THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT BOMBAY.—We were in
some doubt whether I should be admitted into the body
of the synagogue ; but Ibrithim came forward to meet us,
and led us to the " chief seats," placing us between him-
self and David Sassanin, the richest Jew in Bombay—a
very fine-looking old man, with an eye like a hawk for
brillancy and depth. The synagogue was a long room,
with a high divan all round it, on which the worshippers
sat cross-legged. A chair was provided for me to put my
feet on. Down the middle were two benches, back to
back, for the boys; of the congregation ; and nearer the
door a desk, like a high sideboard, at which the reader
stood ; opposite to which was a curtained recess, contain-
ing the Law. All present wore veils, generally white,
with blue striped borders and a single fringe at each
I corner ' • but some of the younger boys had them of spot-
ted net, adorned with little tufts of wool of various colours.
I never saw a handsomer set of men ; and this, with
their varied dresses of rich colours, and the beauty of
the little children, who, gaily dressed and covered with
ornaments, were curled up by the side of their fathers; or
sitting on their knees, and ever and anon roving about or
eating sweetmeats as bribes to be quiet, rendered it: a
most picturesque scene. But though this was my first
impression, it soon changed to astonishment at beholding
the heartlessness of their worship, which excels anything
I have ever seen as a mockery of devotion. Every man
had a prayer-book, but the service was gabbled over in a
way that rendered it impossible even for Mr. Mitchell, who
is a good Hebrew scholar, to follow it. The boys seemed
to strive who should read loudest, and shouted " amin,
amin, arnin," as if it were very amusing, looking about
and laughing the while. The men were talking, and I
soon found there would not be the slightest objection to
my sketching the scene. Water was (brought me, and
I took the group on my left hand. No sooner did
David Sassamin perceive that I was sketching him,
than he put down his book and spread his hand upon
it that I might observe his valuable diamond and ruby
rings. Several were called up to the desk in succession to
read different parts of the service, which they did in a sort
of loud chant, rocking themselves to and fro. Several
kissed tohfem therempdieadtedl it yin,
young boys, after reading, came to kiss the hand and
fringes of David Sassantin and a venerable old man who
sat next him, who laid their hands on the head of the
boys. It was a pretty action 011 both sides. One or two
little girls were there with their books. During one part
of the service, each man collected the fringes at the four
touching
the same
perfunctory style in which Romanists generally cross
both
hers eyes of hisw
themselves. Then they drew the veil over the right side
of the face, and uttered a lamentable cry. Then the whole
congregation turned towards the west, and, bending,
uttered a confession of sin. This was the only part of the
ithveilthe andm. Most
service in which there was the slightest appearance of
earnestness,..-Mrs, CglinMackenzie's Six Years in India.

RECAPITULATION.
5 Wards represented entirely by Conserva-
tives, Nos. 5,8, 9, 10, 15
No Ward represented entirely by Radicals 0 0
4 Wards represented by 3 Conservatives and
1 Radical—Nos. 7, 13, 14, 16
5 Wards represented by 2 Conservatives and
2 Radicals—Nos. 1,3, 4, 11, 12
2 Wards represented by I Conservative and
3 Radicals—Nos. 2 and 6.

16 Wards.

Total 44 20

SCOTTISH RIGHTS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlB,—Allow, me to thank you sincerely for the pleasure
and satisfaction you have afforded to myself and other
Scotchmen, resident in Liverpool and elsewhere, by the
disinterested advocacy you have devoted to the vindication
of Scottish Rights, and, while doing so, I trust you will
bear with me while I make one or two remarks.

The claim of Scotland to have additional representatives
in the House of Commons was so well and clearly stated
in your first article on the subject, as hardly to require
further illustration. One point, however, appears to
have eluded your observation, and that is, that an
augmentation of the number of Scotch members would
have a tendency to elevate the moral character of the
House ; for it is a singular fact, that, notwithstanding
the number of notoriously corrupt elections which have
from time to time, and particularly during the last two
sessions, been brought to light by indubitable proof, no
one case has been either proved or alleged against a Scotch
constituency. Another may also be noted, which is, that
although no property qualification is requisite for a Scotch
burgh member, and although these constituencies have
been occasionally wooed by the O'Connor and Magrath
tribe, in no instance has a worthy of such description
found his way into the British senate through the agency
of a Scottish constituency. Could better evidence be ten-
dered of the fitness for self-government on the part of
Scotchmen, than the existence of facts so conspicuously
-creditable. to their judgment, their moral training, and
their political integrity; or could they advance a higher
claim to the possession of increased political influence than
by pointing to the significant fact, that, surrounded by
glaring examples of political turpitude, their pufity of
political action and feeling remains untainted even by the
breath of suspicion ?
As to the subject of a separate Secretary of State for
Scottish affairs, few would be inclined to question the
propriety of such an office, who are acquainted, as I am,
with the manner in which parties, having important
public Scottish business to transact in any of the Govern-
ment departments, are warded off from post to pillar,
between the Secretary of State for the Home Department
and the Lord Advocate ; the one finding that the appli-
cation does not fall within his province, or that the in-
formation sought must, of right, be communicated by the
other. Private convenience, or personal indolence, being
thus made to stand in the way of.public business.
In your last article you make correct allusion to bene-
fits conferred on England as well as Scotland by Scotch-
men, and put that properly forward as a plea for the
sympathy, respect, and assistance of our English brethren.
Under this head the catalogue might easily have been
much enlarged ; I shall, however, confine myself to an
observation or two relative to one subject you there allude to,
I mean the Darien Canal. Upwards of a hundred and fifty
years ago the Scotch organised a company, and took active
measures for having a ship canal cut through the narrow
isthmus which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific
Ocean. A line of route was marked out, and a settlement
of Scotchmen was Made in C 0111104911 with it on the

Atlantic side of the Isthmus; but, through the agency of
the East India Company, and the anti-Scotch partialities
of William 111., the scheme was discountenanced and the
company ruined. Within the last few years the Current
of mercantile traffic has again directed attention to the
necessity of a ship canal through the same isthmus.; and
what takes place ? A scheme is now on foot to execute
this canal, and it has been declared, within the last twelve
months, by competent authorities, that the best route in
existence for it, is the identical line pointed out by the
Scotch Darien Company a hundred and fifty years ago ;
nay more, that its Atlantic harbour shall be Port Escoses
(Scotch port). Here we see an important undertaking
and a vast source of national wealth sacrificed, lest its
prosecution and development should interfere with the
successful prosecution of English enterprise in another
direction. Is not this fact alone conclusive as to the
English connexion not being one of unmixed benefit to
the trade and commerce of Scotland ?

Trusting you will excuse the inroad thus made upon
your space, and again offering my best thanks, for your aid
in the good cause, I have the honour to be, your obedient
servant, A SCOTCHMA/sT.

Liverpool,l9th November, 1853.

NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS.