The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

DIED

Lately, at the residence of her great niece, Whitinonlgseti;
Birmingham, in the 74th year of her age, Mrs. Ellen Bibrer—
wood, of this town, deeply regretted by a large circle oC
friends.
On the 16th ult., at Yapbank, New York, Jane Bine, the.
wife of James Browne, comedian, of this town.
On the 25th ult., aged 18 months, Hannah Zillah, youngest
elan, Epworth-street, London-road'.-
Wrexham, aged 4 years and 9 monthro.-
SdaaOuragnhhttliheerel26oefnt,hCea jilt., Captain
a tM
daughter% of Mi.. J. W illiams, of this tows..
On the 26th ult., aged 41, Mr.l. L. Hogg, St. Anne-street--
On the 26th jilt., Mr. R. J. Smith, M.P. for-Lisburn.
On the 26th ult., aged 30, Mr. Benjamin Foster, Pattern--
maker.

On the 26th ult..- at Crown-place, aged 63 Mr. T. Pa --
ton, son of the late J. Partzngton, Esq., of Ben
near Manchester.

On the 26th ult., very suddenly, aged 23, Mr. Riots-
Hughes, draper, Town-hill, Wrexham.

On the 26th ult. at Kindle-house, Burgh-by-sand, CUM.-
berland, aged "6, ult.,
the beloved wife of Hugh Robinson.,
late of this town.
-

On the 26th ult., at the residence of her son-in-law, W. F.:-
Tyzack, window-glass dealer. Cockspur-street, aged
Christian, relict of the late Mr. James Casson, watch-maker
formerly of Douglas, Isle of Man. ao
AleOn the 26tCheyneh ult., at
E his residence, Broughton, Man Manchester„
Mary, Wife of Mr. James Richard/Mrs,
xander , sq., BA., barrister-at-law.
NoOrnthtEhegre2m7toh ult.,n t.

On the 27th ult., at his residence, North--street, Barri,
aged. 29, Mr. Thomas Fairbrother, eldest son of Mr. EdwarCL
Fairbrother, of Airington.

On the 29th ult., at his residence, Moor-place, aged 761,
Mr. William Bewsher, organ-builder, of this town.

On the 29th ult., aged 68, Ralph Percival, Esq., of Sandbady
Cheshire.

On the 29th ult., at Ramsey, Isle of Man, aged 62, Jane •
widow of the late Mr. Robert Allen, of Ballavarrey, pariah 011
Andreas.

On the 20th ult., at Manchester, James, eldest son of srr—
George Rae, of Islington, in this town.
On the 29th ult., at Oaklands, near Portsmouth, aged 7T,.-
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles James Napier, the " Victor of Scmde..."'
On the 30th ult., at Glyn Abbot, Holywell, T. Mather, Esq..
On the 30th ult., John Davies, Esq., solicitor, of this town...
On the 30th ult., at Mount Vernon-green, aged IS, Kate_
White.

On the 30th ult., at York-terrace, Everton, Gertrude,,
daughter of Mr. Charles Brant Bowyer.

On the 30th ult., at Blackpool,
.in the 64th year of big BM
George Ormerod, Esq.. of Fernhill, one a her Majestre jug_
tices of the peace for this county.

On the 30th ult., at Little Sutton, Cheshire
William Amery.

On the 30th ult. at Dublin, of English
Littler, late of Bold-street, in this town, ar

142, Mr.

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the late Mr. Richard Littler, of Tarvin, Ch

(ingest son og

On the 31st ult., aged 3. Helena,
William Tyson, West Derby-street

ghter of Mr.

On the Slat ult., at 16, Moore-plat
tion, Mr. Thomas Martin, for uproar
employ of Messrs. Percival and Sons,
On the Ist inst., at Edinburgh, Ei
James Marke Wood, Esq., of this tc

49 of consump—
kty years in the*
ns,Dale-stree

)ean, the wife oC

On the 2nd inst., in the 54t1
Williams, smith,No. 10 Court
formerly of Shrewsbury.

age, Mr. William
street, Islington,

On the 2nd inst., aged 48, Mar
Aldersey, flour-dealer.

'eliet of the late Willini

On the 4th inst., At Iter residence, South Castle-street 4 Miss
Mary Jones

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MORNING

bill-brokers, money-changers, stock-brokers, bullion-dealers,
and so forth—within half a mile of the Royal Exchange

sound, who are real"

for:splitting up our honest coin. It will never be in our
time, oh, Lady. the QUEEN I The mint people laugh at it,
and they are no bad judges in that b

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easily pleased. The place is a little town. 'Fire and water
were at work ; tons of coals burning at one time in various
fires ;—yet no smoke. I declare you could have seen as
much on Salisbury plain. In brief, there was no smoke.
What led to this ? I'll tell you. There is not a worthier
set of men in the world than our English brewers,—l am
not now to condemn them for their tremendous profits.
I speak of them as kind and generous men. Two or three
Spitalfields weavers, long an ingenious and sorely op-
pressed people,—oh, God, take pity on them ! I never
saw such abodes of misery and woe and hunger in my life
as the places of these weavers. They went to Tau-
MAN'S brewery ; they .had a cup of nappy ale—they had
never in all their lives till then tasted anything like it.

They grew bold—but not impudent ;—mentioned diat they
were stifled,—their rooms were damp, hot, and savoured
of that nasty, pasty flavour, inseparable from loom-work.
They dared not open their windows, • " the blacks " came
and settled on their delicate textile fabric, in one minute
it became tainted,—a thing of naught. TRUMAN'S people
were vexed; it was their smoke in Brick-lane that did the
mischief. They took advice, got hold of a droll eccentric

one "I'll do the' trick for you," said the eccentric.
Smoke consuming ? Nonsense ! Bosh ! We'll try. That
eminent firm save in coals by this process about £3,000
a-year. This is by eating their own smoke ; and the
Spitalfields weavers turn out their silks and satins
unsmire d. Why don't do 141—,--•

ilec ,wers Likewise ? Touching
the eccentric person referred to, he is a London trades-
man; a good many years ago he lost, I think it was £70,000;
in his wrath he said, or swore, he should neither shave or
,__ Ibe shaven, or have his hair cut, till he had made up that
!.or nim ; same money. I saw him the other day, poor fellow,
short, he became a all over hair.

The lion and lioness at the West-end just now—and
they have it nearly all to themselves—are the Queen
CHRISTINA. and the Duke DE RIANZA.RES, the former a
decent-looking lady enough, - but I did not see her very
well ; RIANZARES, her husband, is a fine military-looking
fellow. They are about a great deal. RIANZARES, your
readers may be aware, was a soldier when CHRISTINA cast
her eyes on him • he paced to and fro in the Palace court-
yard, she loved him for his looks, and being mistress of
her own actions—or at least fancying so—she married him.
While they are here, the Times is not in Spain. Signifi-
cant fact ! The " leading journal" has been interdicted ;
and no wonder; there have been some slashing articles in

it lately touching Spain, cutting right and left ; and
though there have not been a dozen good foreign leaders
itythe Times during the like number of years last past,
some of old MIIIIRA.Y'S verve was perceptible in those
articles which have given mortal offence at the Court of
Madrid. The Times, it may truly be said, has had no
foreign editor since :1- AMES Multna:r died, a few years

fond it—and- in the full vigour of the grandest intel-
lect which ever adorned the glorious newspaper press
of London. MURRAY was originally a Presbyterian clergy-

man, a ripe scholar, and a famous linguist ; he came froin
never-fading Scotland with these qualifications only. They
were enough. He was employed on the Times, the
managers of which then, as now, encouraged no sham
literature on their paper ; at the close of the last war, and
during its hottest part, JAMES MURRAY was sent abroad;
many perils he had—did the Times some service ; happily
they knew it. He returned to England unscathed—was
made a partner in the Times, and was the foreign editor
for years. For a common man's son, MIIBRA.Y had the
most princely tastes. Epicurean entirely, at table ; he
ate well, but delicately ; his wines recherche, in the real
sense of that abused and misunderstood word ;—the clean,
blood-purifying, and body-cherishing wines of Germany

being preferred. In his books he was also omatcl7lesii.
Tom BARNES, MURRAY'S colleague, on the other hand,
was riant and robust in all his operations ;—would have
preferred old port—but was compelled to stick to claret,
of which he always had a pipe open. BARNES would
" rough it" with a beefsteak and a bottle of that same
port, while MtYBRAY would have rather dined off grasshop-
pers fried in garum, a sauce made of the liver of anchovy
or red mullet macerated in vinegar, pepper, salt, parsley,
garlic,whitewine, and sweet herbs, if my recollection serves
me aright, according to PLINY and ALEXIS SOYER.
The dinners of MURRAY and BARNES were different
affairs altogether. At MURRAY'S mahogany you minded
your P's and Q's ; now and then, a classical allusion was
good, always given in English ; the vernacular rarely--
I may say never. At BARNES'S table you could not help
eating and drinking more than at MURRAY'S, and the
gttests never got so early away. Both those great men
are gone; aye, and a greater in his way: the veritable
" thunderer"—STEßLlNG! a perfect man in action and
appearance, died a driveller—silly ! His faculties had
been, doubtless, too much pressed, they gave way; and
STERLING could not—would not—did not outlive them.
The past has been the most disgraceful week on record
'at Drury-lane Theatre ; Slam", the lessee, is not to blame.
Some good musical performances have been given; the
artistes, if not all well-educated musicians, have in their
number several good ones. Operas were duly advertised,
people went in crowds ; waited at doors which were not
opened, and much worse when opened on other evenings.
Rows occupied the time, and filled each pause the night-
ingale had made. A person whose name I don't give, be-
cause he has no business to meddle with musical affairs,
which he don't understand, has had the management of
these operas, and has disappointed the public, as he had
before at Exeter-hall. I only wish ALFRED BIJNN had
been there to kick him out. SMITH, the lessee, would
have done the "manager's last kick" to the party referred
to, but SMITH is gouty at present. I was in the green-
room two days ago and found him full of bounce, lots of
money on the table (plenty to do with it), and lots of
parasites and shadows. GUSTAVUS BROOKE is going to
do" Othello ; he has got some blazing portraits about
worth looking at • let us hope he may be so himself—on
the boards of Drury-lane as well as on those of paste.
Cuesiditt KEAN has closed, having banked at CouTTa's
many f...thor arkc•-•-cr aid ...a-nth% of the
sort. KEAN and his wife are off to the country.

GRAND MASONIC BANQUET.—Great preparations are
making at Stockport for the reception of the Grand
Master, the Lord Viscount Combermere, at the provincial
meeting on Thursday next. Workmen are erecting three
triumphal arches over the Wellington-road South, leading
to St. Peter's-square, and Churchgate and Hillgate.
EVANGELIZATION IN IRELAND.—A lecture on this
subject, in connection with the recent missions to the
south of Ireland for the conversion of the poor Romanists
to Christianity, has been announced for Friday next by the
Rev. V. M. White, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street.
TICE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SNIP NIAGARA, Capt. Lang,
took het departure hence for Halifax and Boston, on Sa-
turday, at 10 30, a.m., with 155 passengers and a very full
cargo on board, beside the usual mails.

AN INQUEST was held, on Saturday, on the body of an
infant found in a coal vault, in Warren-street, and a ver-
dict of wilful murder returned against the mother, who
was committed for trial. •

CHOLERA. IN LIVERPOOL.—Touching the fatal case of
Asiatic cholera, reported to the Health Committee on
Thursday last, Mr. Henry Behrend, M.R.C.S., writes :
" Having the medical charge of several of the houses for
the reception of German emigrants, I have during the
last fortnight seen some tolerably severe cases of choleraic
diarrhoea, all of which, however, readily yielded to simple
treatment. The details of the fatal case have been for-
warded to the Lancet ; but I may state that Dr. Vose,
who was in attendance, agreed with myself that he had
never seen a more marked example of the Asiatic type of
the malady. There can be no doubt that this case was of
foreign origin, as the cholera was raging in Hamburg at
the time when our patient left that port. lam of opinion,
therefore, that we have nothing to fear from the occurrence
of an isolated instance, and concur with the Medical-officer
of Health in believing that there is no reason at present to
apprehend an outbreak of epidemic cholera in Liverpool.
No fresh cases have since shown themselves, and I shall
be much surprised if we are called upon for some time to
see any true cases of cholera that cannot be traced as
direct importations from the Continent. Nevertheless, as
even this contingency should, if possible, be avoided, I
recommend the local Board of Health to adopt some
stringent measures with regard to the houses for the
reception of German emigrants."
GAROTTING.—On Saturday night, about half-past eleven
o'clock, Dir. Richard Edwards of Seacombe-street, Everton,
was attacked by several men in Dalrymple-street, top of
Scotland-road, as he was going home. After garotting him
they stole his watch, a gold Albert chain, and a few cop,
pers from his waistcoat, but missed 10s. in silver in his
coat pocket.
A SEAMAN, recently returned from America,. was, on
• Saturday night, robbed in a house of ill-fame, in one of the
worst districts in the town, of £54 in gold, and a cheque
for £30..'" His liquor was " doctored," and he fell into a
deep sleep, on awaking from which, he found himself in a
strange street, with his money gone.

A BOLD TllEFT.—Andrew Prentice, a young seaman,
was, on Saturday, charged by Frances Carpenter with
stealing £l5. The prosecutrix, an elderly lady, attired in
deep mourning, stated that she was the mother of the late
surgeon of the Australia, who was drowned on the voyage
from New York to -Liverpool. Hearing that he had left
some money and effects, she came to Liverpool to receive
them, and the prisoner was shown to her as being the
best acquainted with what belonged to her deceased son.
She met Prentice at the office of Mr. Guinn, where a
number of articles were pointed out to her, and she also
received' £l5 as part payment of the deceased's salary.
She placed the money in a reticule basket, and then pro-
ceeded in a cab to her lodgings in Myrtle-street, the pri-
soner, notwithstanding that he was told his services were
no longer required, mounting the box, and accompanying
them. He forced himself into -the house, and while she
and her friends were examining the articles they had ob-
tained from the ship, the prisoner went into the room
where the reticule basket had been placed. He remained a
few minutes, and then ilsocamped, and immediately after-
wards the money was missed. The prisoner was subse-
quently apprehended in Dublin-street. He had purchased
a quantity of clothes on Thursday, (Wednesday being the
day when the • money was missed,) and he had also depo-
sited £8 in the hands of the persons with whom he lodged,
to keep for him. Committed for trial.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN WILLIA3I-STEEET.-011 Friday
evening, as a man named Joseph Parr, a carter in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Stock, glass-merchants, in William-street,
was assisting in unloading some rubbish into a float, a
ladder from a neighbouring warehouse fell upon him and
struck him on the back. The deceased lifted the ladder off
himself, and when he got up he looked very sick, and
seemed much hurt. He, however, took a.load of rubbish
to Tabley-street; but soon afterwards went home,
com-
vramr n.inful. After partaking

paining wax ins DECK Was very --
of some supper he went to bed ; he had been in lied abotit
an hour when he got much worse. He was quite black in the
face, foaming at the mouth, and not able to speak, and died
about eleven o'clock. An inquest on the body was held
yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death Nvas returned.
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S works are
making rapid progress. The line between Dublin, Belfast,
and Port Patrick was opened on Monday week, the corn.
pany having selected the occasion of the Queen's visit to
commence operations. • Mr. Dargan has nearly completed
the street work to connect the offices in College-green, by
neans of subterranean wires, with all the railway termini
n Dublin, so that that city will be in telegraph communi-
ith Galway, Belfast, and the intermediate towns,
h Port Patrick (Scotland), and in a few days the
;nstown and Killarney will be opened. By
month the company expect to complete the
nd, also, the line from Preston to Carlisle,
• ,

connecting Liverpool with Glasgow, Greenwich, Paisley,
Edinburgh, and the line now making between Carlisle and
the cable end at Port Patrick,

PRODUCE.—There has been a very firm market
for all descriptions of Sugar, and the sales com-
prise 600 hhds. West India, 5,500 bags Bengal,

and 8,500 mats of Mauritius. Foreign continues

in active demand, at full prices. No sales in
Molasses. For Coffee a fair demand, particularly
for the ordinary qualities. Jamaica, 50s to 71s
for ordinary to good middling ; St. Domingo, 44s
to 45s ; Bahia, s to 44s 6d per cwt. 850 bags
Malabar Pepper brought 4d per lb. Trinidad
Cocoa, 34s to 35s per cwt. Rice in very active
demand, at an advance of 6d to is per cwt. Rum :
Owing to the limited quantity on show, sold at an
advance of 2d per gallon on recent prices. In Tea
business has been transacted to a fair extent,
operations having been chiefly in medium to fine
Congous ; the last mentioned have an upward ten-
dency, whilst for the first a slight concession in
price has to be submitted to, a few small parcels of
common are offering at 101-d, but the bulk is held
for 10/4 to lld per lb. Saltpetre without change,
and only 250 bags sold, at 25s 6d for 91-, and
27s 6d per cwt. for 6 per cent. refraction. Ame-
rican Rosin in great demand; 3,700 brls. have
been sold at 4s 8d to 4s 9d to lOs 6d, being an
advance on the common qualities of 2d to 3d per
cwt. About 2,500 salted Monte Video Ox and
Cow Hides sold at 5d to 51d per lb. The demand
for Olive Oil has been steady. 130 tuns Seal Oil
are reported ; pale, at £33, straw, at 232, and
brown, at £3O I.os per tun; Cod Oil in limited
demand, without change in price ; Rape Oil in
good demand, pale selling at 40s to 41s, and brown
at 39s • Linseed dull, at 29s 3d to 29s 6d per cwt.
Nothing doing in Spirits of Turpentine. 325 tons
Palm Oil are reported at £36 lOs to £37 per ton,
and 100 tons to arrive at the former price. Tallow
dull, at 52s 6d for Petersburg Y.C., and at 51s to
51s 6d per cwt. for South American. The sales of
Jute amount to 750 bales, at extreme prices,
£2l lOs to £23 being realized for fair common to
good middling. To-DAY Sugar has been in very
good demand ; the sales, including Saturday's
transactions, comprising 190 hhds. Antigua at
325. 9d. to 365. 3d. ; 80 hhds. Barbadoes, chiefly
grainy, at 335. to 395. 6d. ' • 6,400 mats Mauritius,
at 31s. 6d. to' 355. • 260 hhds. Cuba Muscovado,
at 325. 3d. to 365.; 300 boxes Havana, at 225. 6d. ;
and 2,500 bags Pernams, at 18s. 9d. to 19s. 9d.
per cwt, 100 puns, St. Lucia Molasses NIA at

15s. 9d. per cwt., and 50 puns. Demerara Rum at
full prices. There has been a fair amount of busi-
ness done in Tea, principally in blackish leaf kinds
from is. 20. per lb. upyards. A public sale of
3,200 packages is advertised for Thursday next.
Of Rice 600 bags Bengal sold at 13s. per cwt.
1,500 bales Jute realized £22 to £22 10s. per ton.
30 chests Me Lac Dye sold at ls. 9d. per lb. ; 60
chests Shell Lac, at 425. 6d ; 280 bags Saltpetre,
at 245. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt., (122 and 8+ per
cent.,) and 650 bags Bombay Linseed, at 50s per
quarter.
Messrs. Jos.:Ronmsox and Co. in their monthly
circular say

Since our last monthly circular, the accounts from the
East have been more satisfactory ; the prospect of con-
tinued peace has, in a degree, restored confidence, and
altogether changed the tone of the.wool market. Manu-
facturers generally are very busy, there being no scarcity
of orders ; and as stocks in their hands are very mnch
reduced, many have come into the market and purchased
freely, notwithstanding the large quantity introduced at
the recent London sales. The imports for the month are
to a fair extent ; but the quantity offering is not so great
as it would have been, in consequence of the bulk of ar-
rivals being reserved for the public sales to be held this
month. The transactions here have been all by private
contract, but the prices obtained were at extreme rates,
and the market closes with an upward tendency.
Messrs. W. GREAME and Co. in their monthly
circular say :

During the earlier part of the past month the attention
of the trade was much occupied with the public auctions
proceeding in London, which terminated on the 13th ult.,
and the favourable result of these sales, combined with
the continuance of fine weather, and the prospect of a
pacific settlement of the all-absorbing Turkish question,
has tended to improve the tone of this market : during
the past fortnight there has been more inquiry for most
descriptions of wool, and a fair amount of business has
been done at very firm prices. For English and Irish
combing wools there has also been considerable inquiry,
buyers evincing more anxiety to supply themselves with
these descriptions as stocks decrease. Clothing fleeces
and skin wools are also more • inquired for, and command
rather higher rates. For Scotch wools there continues a
fair demand, and our quotations are fully supported.

WooL.—There is no particular feature in the
market worthy of comment, the business of the
week has nnly been to a limited extent, at about
previous current rates ; public sales are fixed to
commence here on 21st instant, when about 11,000
bales will be offered. We do not expect to see much
animation in this market until these sales come
off, as the chief portion of present stocks are held
over for that period. Imports for the week, 1,419
bales, chiefly Portugal, Iceland, and Scotch.

CARDINAL WISEMAN IN
LIVERPOOL.

HIS ➢ISQUISITION ON THE FINE ARTS,

Ox Tuesday evening, after formidable placardings and
other means to arouse public attention to the event, Dr.
WISEMAN made his bow to a Liverpool audience, in front
of the orchestra in the Philharmonic Hall, amid, as was
to hare been expected from the amount of preparation, a
-considerable display of boisterous welcome. The splendid
and spacious hall was well filled, particularly the boxes
and galleries, and of the number present a considerable
proportion were ladies, while a numerous body of Romish
ecclesiastics, of different grades, and collected from carious
localities, surrounded the lecturer, or were dispersed in
conspicuous positions among the auditory. The orchestra
having been in a great degree set apart for the less in-
fluential, although not less devoted admirers of the doctor,
the clamorous evidences of approbation of his person and
sentiments which issued from that quarter were, on his
appearance, and during the evening, both numerous and
noisy. As in the case of other actors of eminence, the ap-
pearance of the chief performer on this occasion was
heralded by a burst of music from a brass band which
occupied the centre of the orchestra. The musical strains
having subsided, the reverend lecturerer made his debilt,
attired in Cardinal costume. Whether it was the amount of
preparation, or the notoriety of the individual, which in-
duced us to expect something grand in the advent of a

" Cardinal," or, reverting to the solemn dignity and grave
theatrical. propriety with which we have been wont to
witness that character invested on the stage, by
KEMBLE, MACBEADY, and other representatives of
such state, we know not ; but certain it is, we
felt disappointed in the show. True enough, we
beheld before us a burly priest, decked out in trappings
of red, and it might be, for aught we could tell to the
contrary, purple and fine linen ; there was no stinted dis-
play of jewels to adorn him outwardly ; and added to all,
there was also conspicuous in the individual an air of
swaggering superiority. Still the whole aspect of the man
and his attire inspiredus with no higher idea than that of
" Bartlemy-fair " finery_ The mein and garniture of Dr.
WISEMAN were much more akin to those of "Jack Falstaff,"
who, according to his own admission, required "to purge
and live cleanly, like a gentleman," than in keeping with
the purity of aspect mid simple dignity of deportment
manifested in the appearance of any of our English
Bishops.

on Assyrian art, a

Dr. WISEMAS having been trumpeted forth by his ad-
mirers as an oracle of wisdom, an embodiment of erudi-
tion, and a paragon of refinement ; and he having chosen
for' the subject of his lecture a theme admirably calcu-
lated to draw out his sympathies With the beautiful, to
give scope to his talents, and a fair field for the display of
his acquirements, we were led to anticipitate some grati-
fication from the matter he should utter, if we could find
nothing to admire in his appearance and manners. Here,
again, we were doomed to disappointment. His delivery
was ungraceful, and far from pleasing. His composition was
.common-place, abounding in mixed metaphors, and false
figures—his manner hesitating, uncertain, and conveying
to his auditors a painful conviction of his want of familiarity
with the subject he was treating of; yet, as is generally the
case with mere pretenders, he was bold enough in his asser-
tions. It was while attempting to illustrate his assumptions,
or to apply them in argument, that his ignorance became as
disagreeably apparent as the vulgarity of his diction and
address had been previously repulsive.

‘, The Highways of Commerce are the Highways of the
Arts," was the inviting text he had chosen for his homily ;
and, in the course of it, he favoured the audience with no
limited display of his critical acumen in connexion with
the fine arts. In doing this, he made an ostentatious
parade of historical names and events, and from them drew
inferences as violently opposed to ordinary logic as they
were at variance with established facts. For example, in
descanting on the unchanging stability of Egyptian art,
manners, and religion, he informed his audience—who ap-
plauded the information to the echo—that the Romans,
with all their boasted power, were unable, even by all their
efforts, to modify Egyptian art, or to remodel the religion

of that impassive and unbending people.. What exertions
the Romans might make to remodel the arts of Egypt, we
have no knowledge of, and of such exertions we believe
Dr. WISEMAN to be equally ignorant. On the religious
point of his argument, however, he ought to be aware that,
unlike the Romanists of modern time, the ancient Romans
never attempted to subvert the religious systems of those
nations they subdued. We allude to this, merely to show
one of the numerous fallacies inculcated by the doctor.
In unfolding his theories of art, some of which were
crude enough, Dr. WISEMAN ostensibly confined him-
self almost exclusively to sculpture; we say ostensibly,
because in reality he did not do so, as witness his ex-
cessively apocryphal description of Eutrnsean Art, in
nearly the whole of which, to use the language of SIIERI-
DAN, he must have been "indebted to his imagination for
his facts." The arts of Egypt, Assyria, and Greece,
were discussed by the doctor entirely in connexion
with sculpture, ignoring altogether the existence of
architecture as an art. Such an omission, if unintentional
and occasioned by ignorance, would only prove the unfit-
ness of the lecturer for the task he had undertaken, and
in that case we would recommend for his cogitation the
poet's maxim :
" Let those teach others who themselves excel."

If from any sinister motive he suppressed allusion to that
important branch of art, the omission was of a much less
pardonable kind. Be that as it may, however, he ought
to have known that among the Egyptians and Assyrians
sculpture was employed almost exclusively in subordina-
tion to, and as an auxiliary of, architectural effect. To
the Greeks, so far as we are aware, belongs chiefly the
merit of raising sculpture to the dignity of an independent
art. The subject of sculptural art, however, although
seemingly not new, is certainly not very familiar to the
Doctor; still, like some of his betters on this subject,
assuming a virtue if he has it not," he adventures a
theory ; and by this theory upsets the conclusions of
nearly all prior fine-art essayists. By inspecting the
fragments of Assyrian art in the British Museum, Dr.
WISED/AN discovers that Grecian art was borrowed from
Assyria, and not derived from Egypt, as heretofore has
been' generally supposed. How does he prove this ? In
Egyptian art, quoth he, all is quiet, motionless, inert—a
perfect sameness in endless repetition ; or, as the doctor
facetiously, if not wittily remarked of the sculptured
figures on the monuments of Egypt, "they look like a
regiment made to order, and clothed by contract." The
peculiar aptitude of this sally, as illustrative of a conflicting
artistic theory, we confess our inability to perceive ; but
let that pass. In Assyrian sculpture, on the contrary,
says the lecturer, exaggerated indications of animal strength
are the predominating and distinguishing characteristics.
Grecian art embodies indications of strength, and to these

it adds vigorous action ; ergo, the Greeks derived their
sculpture from Assyria ! So, at least, says Dr. WISEMA.N;
but Greek sculpture will be found to possess:numerous
other features in common with those of Egypt and Assy-
ria—it possesses repose as well as action—is imbued with
attributes of delicacy as well as of strength—is not desti-
tute of repetition in many of its parts,—and, in short,
gives unmistakeable evidence of being an improvement

upon the primitive yet noble sculptures of Egypt.
In tracing the progress of art through the period of
its decadence and revival, the lecturer exhibited no
greater profundity of knowledge than he displayed in
the analogy he sought to establish between Greek and
Assyrian art, while his pretended candour was much more
questionable ; the statements, in this and other instances,
being coloured to meet the dogmas inculcated by
that Church whose doctrines he advocates. Another
fallacy the doctor laboured hard to establish was, that
no military excursion of any kind had ever been
attended by a spread of the arts of civilisation ; and in
illustration of this opinion he enlarged upon the absence
of civilizing results in even the celebrated expedition of
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Is Dr. WISEMA.N ignorant of
the fact, that improvement may be conveyed to the invaders
as well as by them ? Does he wish us to believe that the
Romans derived no civilizing influence from their invasions
of Greece and Egypt ? or to come nearer to our own time,
would he insist that the semi-savage inhabitants of Europe
obtained no advantage from the Crusades, beyond the
fruitless glory of planting the banner of the cross upon
the citadel of Jerusalem ? In point of fact, his lecture
was a claptrap, studiedly prepared for the gross digestion
of the ignorant. That it met with applause from a
moderately well-dressed audience, is no proof to the con-
trary of this assertion ; and when the exceedingly mal
apropos occasions, seized on for such applause, are taken
into account, it renders the conjecture doubly colourable,
that the approbation was concocted and so far managed by
some one who, like ADDISoN'S " trunk-maker in the upper
gallery," knew exactly when such demonstrations were
necessary to hide a weak point, or to mask a defective argu-

ment ; but who, unlike that functionary, was not quite in-
telligently followed in his noisy hints. As an example, we
might instance the fact, that when the lecturer described
the beauty and durability of some antique mosaics, the
applause, though loud and hearty, was so mal-adroit in
its delivery, as to render it difficult to determine whether
the plaudits were meant to express admiration of the
mosaics—satisfaction with their durability—or a compli-
ment to the doctor's ambidextrous mode of dealing with
the fact. Other cases might easily be cited, to show the
nature of the "drill" to which a portion at least of the
assembly' had been subjected, as witness the effect pro-
duced at the conclusion of his description of Venice,
when he applied to that city the common Italian phrase
"it superba," the use of this adjective being rewarded
by six distinct rounds of hand-clapping and cheers. So
easily were the applauses of the willing audience won.

Of Dr. WISEMAN'S want of tact it may not be inappro-
priate to point out his allusion to the utter destruction of
the A.sssrians, on account of their persecutions and cruel-
ties. We join him heartily in reprobation of persecutions,
and world go all lengths with him in any effort for
the abatement of cruelty ; but before committing our-
selves entirely to his views, would like to be favoured with
some information as to his affection for heretics, and
to be male acquainted with the social and religious
position assigned by him to the INQUISITORS—those meek
administrators of the kindness of his church.

As a performance, for such it must be looked on, we
consider tin " Cardinal's" exhibition in Liverpool as one
of very inferior merit. A contemporary informs us that,
on the Sunday preceding, Dr. MNBILE warned his
congregation against the alluring blandishments of the
wily lecturer. Had the reverend Dr. been quite familiar
with the persmal and intellectual graces of the lecturer,
we venture to think he would have spared his hearers on
the subject. The lecture was a mere bundle of disjecta
membra, delivered in a strain as little seductive as one
could well conceive, while the personnel of the lecturer
was anything 'tut bewitching. Half the audience
collected, we venture to say, were attracted by curiosity
to hear and see tie man whose audacity has made him so
notorious ; and tint curiosity gratified, we should think
little likelihood mists of his being able to re-attract an
assemblage with ary pretensions to intelligence or social
position.

We perceive that, in this quarter, the tawdry displays
of the pseudo-archbishop are not yet completed. He is
about to give another performance in dedicating a new
Roinish chapel in Li3card, assisted by his subordinate and
coadjutor the pretended Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury ; ad-
mission to witness which show is to be by tickets, which
may be purchased in various quarters, at prices ranging
from the trifling sum of ten shillings to half-a-crown—a
means of raising funds for what are called religious pur-
poses, forming a fitting addendum to the raffles and lot-
teries by which the Popish exchequer has been frequently
and largely augmented.

Mus. H. B. STOWT returned from the continent last
week, much benefited in health by her quiet residence in
Switzerland. She will take her departure for the United
States, per the Arctic, to-morrow.
DEATH PROMAPOPLEXY.—On Saturday evening, about
eight o'clock, a man tamed John Burrows, a labourer,
residing in Back Berry-street, dropped down in Wood-
street. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, when
a verdict of died of apoplexy was returned.
WILLIAM LAW was, Cu Friday, brought up at the Polite-
court, and remanded, on suspicion of having stolen a watch
and $132 from the bag of Thomas Leslie, an emigrant, at
his lodgings, in Townsead-street. The prisoner had a key
which opened the prosecitor'sbag, and £26. 10s. in English
coin was found with him.

MANCHESTER Coax EXCHANGE.—The committee, in
compliance with the wish of a considerable majority of the
standholders and subscribers, have decided upon opening
the hall for business upon Thursday in each week, instead
of Saturday, as heretofore. They have it also in contem-
plation to open the Exchange on Tuesdays for the accom-
modation of sugar, tea, and coffee merchants, &c.
ANN HICKS, THE STALL-KEEPER in Hyde-park, whom
Lord Seymour ejected when preparations were making for
the Great Exhibition, is now at Melbourne, having arrived
out on the Ist of January last, Wafter a long voyage. In
writing to England on the 15th of May, she states that
she has sent a petition to Her Majesty the Queen to grant
her a few acres of land oat there, instead of the money
due to her for the materials of .her cottage in Hyde-park ;
and that if she receives no answer, she should try to get
home next year, and petition the Queen in person.
ROMANIST PROSANITT.—The Queen of Spain, who
lately gave a rich dress to the statue of the Virgin in the
Cathedral of Seville, has just presented the infant Saviour
of the same church with a handsome dress and mantle,
the former of cambric, embroidered with pearls, and the
latter of green velvet and gold. These articles were placed
on the statue of the child with great solemnity on the
15th ult., in the presence of the authorities, by the Duke
de Montpensier, in the name of the Queen.
ONE OF THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SCE NES ever witnessed,
says the Halifax Guardian, took place in the cemetery
there on Sunday week, when the remains of the great se-
cularist, Mr. Shackleton, of Queenshead, were about to be
consigned to the tomb. Mr. Walters, Baptist minister
of this town, had' received an invitation to perform the
burial service, and was consequently upon the ground for
that purpose ; but Mr. Robinson., secularist lecturer, of
Wilsden, accompanied by about one hundred of the friends
of the " departed," (who had followed the hearse from
Queenshead) came to do this last office for his late colleague,
in accordance with the wish of Mr. Shackleton. Mr. Wal-
ters and Mr. Robinson consequently met together at the
grave of the " departed," where they held a long conver-
sation, which terminated by the former being allowed to
carry out his intention. The friends of the " departed"
having assembled around the grave, the reverend gentle-
man commenced the service, which for a time was listened
to with the attntion and apaarently the regard becoming
so solemn an occasion. Afterwards, however, it became
evident that the service was not congenial to the feelings
of the secularists, many of whom expressed their dissatis-
faction by informing the reverend gentleman, at almost
every sentence that fell from his lips, that " This wornt
t' wish of departed.' At .ength their conduct became so
disgraceful that. Mr. Walters was compelled to withdraw
to another part of the ground, where the burial service
was concluded, whilst Julian Harney, of London, and Mr.
Robinson harangued those who remained around the grave
of the "departed." • After these gentlemen had spoken
some time on the useful life their late colleague had spent,
these disreputable proceedings were brought to a close
rather abruptly by the grave-digger, who became very
vehement in his appeals to the friends of the " departed"
to leave the place.
A MAN AND HIS WIFE BURNT TO DEATH.—A fire,
by which two persons were burnt, and the lives of nearly
a dozen other persons were jeopardized, happened on Satur-
day morning in White Lion-place, Edgeware-road, London.
The groundfloor of the building was occupied by a Mr.
Thomas Daniels and his wife, while the whole of the
upper rooms were tenanted by poor persons and their
families. A police-constable of the D division, who was on
duty in the neighbourhood, while passing the premises,
perceived smoke rushing through the windows into the
street, and, without delay, raised an alarm. Screams from

the lower part of the hoiise clearly told that some one was
in that part of the premises. Assistance having arrived,
and some of the lodgers having descended the stairs, the
room was entered, when a pitiable scene presented itself.
The whole of the bedclothes, curtains, and the rest of the
furniture in the room were blazing with such fury as to
threaten with destruction the whole of the building.
Mrs. Daniels was in the midst of the flames. ' By the ap-
plication of buckets of water, the neighbours and police
were enabled to get the flames sufficiently under to allow
them to get the woman out, but not until she was burnt
in a fearful manner. The husband of the woman for some
time could not be found ; but, upon searching for him, he
was at last found in a cupboard, which he had entered,
either by mistake, from thinking it was the door of the
room, or hoping, by shutting himself up, to escape the
flames. Unfortunately, he was as badly burnt as his wife.
They were both removed to the hospital, where they died
shortly after their admission. The engines of the parish
and London brigade, together with the escapes belonging
to the Royal Society for the Protection of Life

were soon on the spot, but, unfortunate!
be of any assistance, the fire having 1
before their arrival. As to the cause of tne outoreo.
nothing 13 definitively known.

LECTURES ON COMMERCIAL LAW

On Thursday, Mr. Leone Levi delivered his first
lecture on this subject at the meeting room of the
Chamber of Commerce. There was a good attendance
of mercantile gentlemen, and the chair was occupied
by the mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., who opened the
proceedings with some observations on the importance of
commercial knowledge, and the necessity of advancing
with the spirit of the age. The lecture was an initiate
one, and comprised a kind of si
topics which Mr. Levi intended to

Lry of the varioti

succeeding lectures. Ile expressed a wish that the lec-
tures should be conducted after the Socratic mode, and
that young men should supply themselves with pens and
paper to enable them to take notes, and that they might
ask any questions they considered necessary. He would
be happy to afford them every information. It was agreed
that the lectures should be arranged as follows :—Four on
the law of partnership, and four on bills of exchange.