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The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon.

London :

'ew, Feb., 1551.)

note with pleasure and commend with sincerit

Electrical Illumination

London : Saunders and

In this pamphlet we find a few remarks on the
present state and prospects of electrical illumination,
by Dr. Joseph Watson, with a description of the
author's patented inventions in galvanic batteries
and electric lamps. To every member of the human
family this thoughtful work commends itself, but
especially to that swiftly-increasing section of the
community who devote much of their time and
study to voltaic electricity, than which, perhaps, no
branch of experimental philosophy receives more
attention from the practically-minded of the present
day.

The Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool : Orr.
Having received this Magazine so immediately
on our going to press, we have only time to notice
briefly its chief contents. It opens with " the
Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853." " The Tree
of Knowledge" is a story from the German. This
is followed by the first part of an interesting paper
"on the ancient music of the Hebrews in general,
and their Temple music in particular." The popu-
lar tale of " Sir Jasper Carew Kent" is continued,
as is also "Nineveh," the first part of which ap-
peared last month. " A Pilgrimage to the Donegal
klighlands," with some exciting adventures in the
mountains. Among the other contents, we may
notice "The Duke of Buckingham," " Ancient
Sophists and Modern Liberals." "The Isthmus of
Darien," and " Our Colonies." We regret our
inability to find spaae for extracts.

Antiquity Surrendered, or Romanism a Novelty.
London : Sampson Low. Liverpool : Deighton.
Under this title, the whole of the letters from
Dr. M'Neile to Priest Power, and the attempts at
reply, which have appeared in the Liverpool Stan-
dard, have been re-published in London in the
form of a pamphlet. We subjoin the Preface :
" It must now be admitted, that the Roman Catholics
of Great Britain have surrendered the long-boasted claim
of antiquity for their church. Such a claim may, indeed,
still be asserted without proof and against proof. But
Such assertions must ba confined to the ignorant. No
priest, or bishop, or archbishop, or cardinal, will have the
hardihood to commit himself to such an assertion before
the world. The matter in dispute is not a matter of
opinion, on which differences might continue after the
fullest explanations. It is a matter of dates and facts,
concerning which there can be no difference, except
between ignorance and knowledge. Can ' any learned
man of our adversaries,' to use the language of Bishop
Jewell, in his celebrated challenge, or any learned man
alive, shew by reference to facts and dates, that the creed
of the Church of Rome as it now stands, in all that dis-
tinguishes it from the creed of the Church of England,
was ever heard of as a creed previous to the month of
December, in the year 1564 ?'
" Can any learned man of our adversaries, or any
learned man alive, deny, on the evidence of facts and
slates, that several general councils of the Church Catholic
condemned, with a solemn anathema, any man who should
at any time compose or profess any other articles of faith
than those contained in the Nicene Creed ?
" Can any learned man, in the face of facts and dates,
deny, that in defiance of the solemn decrees of those
general councils, a Bishop of Rome did, in the year 1564,
compose and profess, and compel his clergy to subscribe,
twelve NEW articles of faith, in addition to the Nicene
Creed ?
" The issue is fairly put in the following letters. Priest
Rower has surrendered. Of course, not in so many
words ; but does any man believe that if he had a fact to
Clew, or a sound argument to advance, he would allow
judgment to go by default, and remain silent in the face
of such letters ? It is not yet too late. The invitation
given to him is hereby extended to every priest of every
grade in the kingdom. Will no one speak ? Will no one
rescue Romanism as it is from the charge of novelty ?
Then, assuredly, even the poor ignorant people, who call
themselves Catholics, will soon make the discovery that
theirs is not the old church ; and that the boast of anti-
boastquity in the mouths of their priests is a vain-glorious
.

" May the enlightening grace of Him who came to
vroclaim deliverance to the captives, accompany the con.
viction, and lead thousands to the enjoyment of that holy
liberty with which Christ makes his people free !"

D'Almaine and Co , the London music-pub-
lishers, have forwarded to us, among other recent
productions of a high class, the "Glee Quadrille,"
performed with immense success by the London
hands, arranged for the piano-forte by E. Frewin ;
a description of that beautiful instrument, the Har-
monium ; and the Opera Music Books of Rimbault,
a selection of the most favourable and well-known
Italian and French operas.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—AN EXTRA-
ORDINARY CURE OF A BAD FOOT.—Mr. Henry Kenne-
well, son of the late much respected surveyor of the
,Southampton district, of St. Pancras, London, states in
a letter to his mother, from Burra Burra, Port Adelaide,
that in his journey to those mines, from Adelaide, he was
compelled to walk, for want of a conveyance, and in doing
1130 he grazed and afterwards poisoned his foot, which be-
came so bad that he was under a surgeon's hands for more
than four months without obtaining any relief. He was
then induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which
in three weeks completely cured his foot, and he was ena-
bled to commence work without inconvenience.
BONAPARTE'S OPINION.—It was a saying of Napoleon
the Great, that the inhabitants of this country were all
shopkeepers. Whatever may have been the object of
"the Soldier of Toulon and Arcole," in making this
observation, or whether we receive it as a compliment or
not, it is undoubtedly true that the great bulk of the
population is engaged in commercial pursuits, and our
superiority in the factory and the counting-house is more
frankly acknowledged by our neighbours than in the field.
If we were not entitled to the latter, however, we would
not enjoy the former. But without further inquiries into
these matters, we beg the favour of a word or two from
the ladies, to whom by right belongs the onerous duty of
going a shopping, and thus seeing the season when
the balle aesemblee and the opera house call for more than
ordinary attention to the toilet—we wish to speak of the
white about which the Parisian blanchisseuse is so
punctilious—that is, Starch, of cou-se. But as many of
our fair readers, no doubt, understand there is consider-
able difficulty in distinguishing the BEST from the WORST,
judging from external appearance alone; what we would
suggest in such a case, is, to use only such as is known
and acknowledged to be first class, and we know none
that merits this appellation more than the GLENFIELD
PATENT STARCH. It has been a favourite with the public
for years. This being known to certain individuals, they
began making and selling to the public something reaern-
bling Starch, and called it " Glenfield." In last Session
of the Court of Chancery, the manufacturer of the Genuine
Glenfield Starch (R.. Wotherspoon), obtained injunctions
to restrain these parties from thus imposing on the public,
the particulars of which we reprinted at the time. The
real article can be obtained of any " Shopkeeper " in the
town, as also printed testimonials from Her Majesty's
Laundress, ere., &c., in favour of the Starch. The only
test of genuineness being the maker's name, R. Wother-
spoon, which is printed on every label.

_ _ •
To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—Is the following just? A few weeks back I took a
small house in the hundred of West Derby, in a bye-street from
the main road, and owing to the imperfection or misinterpre•
tation of a verbal understanding, I am under the necessity of
quitting ; meanwhile I am presented with the following bill :

Is. 19d. per pound on the

rent. Can I resist part or whole for six weeks' occupancy, as
no doubt I shall be favoured with a similar account at the next
house? And, further, as to the items. It appears to me to be
a kind of legal imposition, inasmuch as regards the first item—
viz.,

lighting,—why, there is not such a thing in the street. I

do not know what they intend to do, but my neighbours were

in still darkness throughout the past winter; and as to the
second charge, that of paving, there is not even the shadow of
Books FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &e., intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- a stone, unless such as lie about to the danger of passengers
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor both by day and night, thrown here and there by rude boys. And then, again, the sewer rate. lam sure there is no such
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention. thing done or about being done; in fact, Monday week, during

1 the snow storm, I had to make my way by the hind entrance,
unless I had endangered my health by getting wet feet, as the

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Henry G. Bohn.' - ------ ' gutters were overflowed, owing to the want of a drain to carry
This work comprises the history of England
off the superfluous water occasioned by the melting of the from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the accession snow.
And, oh! what will it be in a thunder-storm? Lastly,
as to the water, for I shall say nothing about that rate styled
of Henry 11., and is translated and edited by Mr.
"GENERAL." During this warm weather, when there is the
Thomas Forester. The author is supposed to have
been a native of Lincoln, and was born towards the least wind up, I dare not open my windows, else I should be in
close of the eleventh century, probably between the a Saharian state of bewilderment. I have not said as much on
the subject as I should wish, or expressed myself satisfactorily,
years 1080 and 1090. His father, whose name was fearing lam already trespassing on your valuable columns.--I
Nicholas, was an ecclesiastic of some eminence in am, Mr. Editor, yours, &c., A CONSTANT READER.
the church of Lincoln, as was his accomplished
Eon, the chronicler, whose fervid imagination made
him a writer of verse—although his verse never
equalled the prose compositions by which his name
has been preserved as one of the most illustrious in
the annals of historical literature. The introduction
of Henry's Chronicle into the excellent Antiquarian
',Hoary of Mr. Bohn is a circumstance which we