The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

TO MARY.

I have seen the young morn, mild and gay,
Shed fragrance, the lark chanting high,
While dew drops bespangled each spray,
As they fell from morn's pensive blue eye.
I have seen those pure tears kiss'd away
By the sun, amidst rapture supreme,
And morn grow in beauty to day,
Like confidence succeeding a dream.
And rapture swell'd loud through the
And jocund and happy all seemed:—
No reverses look'd for any swain,
Nor of blasts, nor of blights did he dream.
I have seen coy day scarce begun,
The sun's glorious rays all obscur'd,
And confiding young morn seem to shun
The display of her beauty, immued.
I have seen mist succeeded by storm;
Lightnings flash, and heard thunder loud roar;
Vapours subtle, destructive seen form,
And mar the fair promise mum wore !
And gloom brooded sullen, where late
Joy gladden'd the swain's buoyant heart;—
But pity for morn's hapless fate
No eye but the sun's could impart.
Dearest Mary ! in this pictur'd see
The fate which too truly is thine:—
Oh! could but its page atter'd be,
What rapture of bliss would be mine !
Well, well do I remember the hour,
Your prospects were bright as the morn:—
All hail'd you as love's fairest flower;—
Some envied that me you'd adorn.
When timid you plighted your vow, •
And sincerity's tear died your eye,-
1 feel the soft thrill, as if %were now
The "dew-drop" kiss'd fondly had I!
And the merry bells gave their rich peal,—
The compliment joyous went round :
None augur 'd of aught but of weal;—
How much the reverse we have found !
Soon the blast of false friendship cut down .
The gourds which life's comforts rich bore:—
Oh ! so fell, so inhuman a frown,
A relative's treachery wore !

HE has "sown to the wind," and "the storm,"
Which e'en now howls in fury, pent up,
" FIE will reap" in retributive form:—
Stern Justice bath mingl'd the cup!
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Though the morn, which so fairly arose,
By blast and by storm were deform'd,
The sun, ever constant, shall close
The day, by his influence warned.

He shines, though by murky, dense clouds
His splendour be hid from the day ;
And soon the base things which love shroud,
Shall be wip'd from your vision away

All the cares, all the trials and fears,
Which so rudely have harass'd your breast,
Like a cloud, after weeping its tears,
Shall leave a bright sunshine of rest!
Liverpool, December, 1838. W. A. H.

SOIREE SECUNDUS APUD INSTITUTIONEAI

REGALEM
LIBERA DESCRIPTIO ET CLASSICA.

" Up lads et at 'em" declamavit bravissimus Wellington,
Quandoque bloody work intervenunt homines aped Waterloo.
Up Signor, et to 'ern," declaroavinaus; the soiree, the soiree,
As, post prandiurn, lazily sorbillavimus our coffee.
We arrived a Colquit-street ; et prce ostio vehiculi,
Erant in long line. Heroinw giggled inside of them
Et generosi et ignobiles kicked up a-dust.
Policemen cried " make way" sub inspectorem Hatch, et
Dowling ducem. Door is open'd per footman qui requiret,
" Who are you ?" Dixit Winstanley, " your ticket ?" Exhi-
hemus id;
All right: "that's, the ticket;" ingrediare; walk in.
Off goes castor et pallium; et up stairs inter populos
We go ; et see large room ornatam cum belles et beaux
Plenty. Mediisque ccetus there stood Bean Albii;
Bene what of it? Why, mirabile ! illius flunky
The Bean stalk non ilium comitat. Requiescat in pace.
Ecce circum feminas formosas; matres providw
Populi magni ' • et in themselves spes inagnm Britannce.
Et among the folks ambulaverunt Yates of the Dingle,
Et Barclay non double X, sed double magistratus ;
Walmsley et called Joshua, (sed non filius Jacobi)
Caput consociationis Reform ; et tall-boy Oxley,
Cum uxore novella quoque formosa; et Green
Puppis illustris; never mind; et Booth qui, est praetor to be;
Et Campbell, (rector;) et all the world and ilium uxor.
Huit heur; presto; to the theatre hastily we go
Doctorem Reynolds audire lecture on solidum gasis
De carbonic acid; oh criky ! the theatre est jam-full
Such a crowd! not a seat! disorder, dismay, damnatos

hottis
Scramblans, squeezans, cramibantis, et sudans multus ;
Try ambulacrum; sed like Irishman's uxor, get from
Worser to worser. Oh blazes! Oh! hot as Tartarus;
Can't stand it, must stand it, pourquoi ? because, non pos.

sum sit it.
Puff, Puff; oh gelu! oh ventus! where are ye ? Es patientia;
Propter doctorem Reynolds begins.—Carbonic acid,
Dixit he, amat •`darkness rather than light." Etiam
Si you suck it up, you certii will " cock your digiti.
Propter gravitatemque illius, it is fond of
A rumble-cum-tumble. Miscete vitriolum, et aquam
Carbon. sodiumque, et non est erratum gasis will fiss up.
Confine this in vase so strong it won't ruptem
De pressure de librw quinque centum per inch. You squeeze
It so tight incipit a perspire; et pulvis est
•
tecipitatur ; veritas solidified gasis.
De Belo magno; facens pustulas on invading digits.
Innumera oblectaus experimenti nobis were shewn.
Unus thickheadus thought gelare a candle light. My eyes !
Ventus blew it out; populi riant; no go, poor fellow.
Et a brass box tegebatur albus over wi' hoar frost
Which Doctor Reynolds absterguit memiui, wi' his vipe.
Hot coffee successit ; sed all was a cram et push
So iter ad cast room; sed oh! proh pudor ; must cut it
Enim viginti clominte Belvidere notahant
Nudum apollinem without blush. Oh! shocking, Oh mama!
"Prmcise shocking." So cut our stick, et ivimus domum.
I'. C. F.

A poor woman, aged 102, lately made application for relief
to the Truro Union, which was promptly attended to.
HosrEast TRADE.—It is gratifying to state, that the hosiers
in Nottingham have advanced the prices of making drawers,
pantaloons, and shirts, from 6d, to 9d. per dozen, according
to quality.
STRAW BONNETS.—In 1817, when straw bonnets first be-
came general, it was common to trim them with bunches of
artificial wheat or barley, in ear, on which the following lines
were written :
Who now of threatening famine dare complain,
When every female forehead teems with grain?
See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes,
Our barns are now transferred to drawing-rooms,
And husbands who indulge in active lives,
To fill their granaries may thrash their wives!
' " '

On Saturday last, the first iron steam-boat ever built in
Ireland was launched from the Foundry Yard of our ta-
lented and enterprising fellow-townsmen, Messrs. Coates
and Young. About three o'clock, the preliminary pre-
parations having been finished, the stays by which the
vessel was held on the stocks were removed, and she glided
majestically into the water, amidst the firing of ordnance
and the hearty cheering of a large number of spectators,
while she was christened the Countess of Caledon. She is
of thirty horses' power, the property of the Ulster Steam
Navigation Carrying Company, is intended to ply en Lough
Neigh, to be employed as a tow-boat to the lighters navigat-
ing the lake, and is to be under the command of Mr. John
Little, who lately commanded the Lady of the Lake on Lough
Strangford.—Belfast News-Letter.
OLD HooKEY.—We have often heard persons called "Old
Hookey ;" but we were not aware of what gave rise to the
cognomen until the other day, when a friend informed us,
that an old gentleman used to pass regularly every morning
along the Strand, wearing an oldfashioned coat, with gaping
pocket holes on the outside. It scarcely need be added, that
be frequently found himself minus of his pocket handkerchief,
by the time he reached Temple Bar. A thought struck him,
which he put into practice. He caused to be fastened inside
of his coat pockets several large fish-hooks; and thus pre-
pared, off he went as usual. When nearly opposite Essex-
street, he found a sharp tug at his pocket; then turning round
sharply, there stood a fellow making horrid faces, and scream-
ing out, with half a dozen hooks stuck in his hand.—" Ah!
(said the old man,) have 1 caught you at last ?" Considering
the punishment quite severe enough, he let the fellow go; but
ever afterwards, when he passed the place, __a parcel of pick-
pockets used to cry out. " There goes Old Hookey,"

POSTOFFICE ROBBERY AT BRISTOL.—An investigation
has taken place before the Bristol magistrates, which has re-
sulted in the committal of a clerk in the postoffice, named
John Bodman, on a charge of felony. The circumstances
are as follows:—On the 13th of October last, a gentleman,
named Stoddart, a carpet manufacturer, of Kidderminster,
put a letter into the postoffice at Bath, directed, "Mrs. Mary
Stoddart, Bampton, near Penrith, Cumberland," and en-
closed a £lO Bank of England note, bearing the uumber
A—G 99315, and a private memorandum by the writer; this
letter was forwarded in due course to Bristol, where it was
the duty of the prisoner to sort the bags, and to have sent on
the letter posted by Mr. Stoddart by the northern mail. The
letter not arriving at the place of its destination, an inquiry
was instituted, when the following facts were elicited:—On
the 15th of October a sum of £l6O was given to the prisoner,
Bodman, to pay into Stuckey's Bank to the 'credit of Mr.
Walton, the postmaster, and amongst the money then paid
in by him was the £lO note which had been posted by Mr.
Stoddart. The clerks of the postoffice clearly proved that,
in consequence of the office regulations, the note could not
have come legitmately into the hands of the prisoner, who
must have substituted it for a
.portion of the cash delivered to
him by the postmaster: and it saving been fully, identified
by Mr. Stoddart, he was committed on the charge of stealing
it.—Bristol paper.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On the morning of Wednesday
week, a young woman, named Rachael Hopwood, aged about
23 years, met a sudden and frightful death at the factory of
Messrs. James Hacking and Co., of Heady Hill, Heywood,
where she was employed as a rover. She was carrying some
bobbins, and one or two of them fell; and she stooped with
difficulty to take them up, when her skirt was caught by an
upright shaft in rapid motion, and which was, at the particu-
lar place where her clothes came in contact, exposed by an
opening in the casing. The poor woman, on finding she was
fast, threw up her arms, and seemed to resign herself to her
fate. The same instant her head struck against the frame,
and the blood flew out in all directions; the next round, her
brains were scattered on the floor; and when the engine was
stopped, her head was literally beaten off. Both arms and one
leg were also broken. It is exceedingly painful to narrate
these horrid circumstances; but the frightful consequences
of neglect cannot be too vividly described to millowners, and
their superintending servants. The coroner's jury laid a
deodand of £5 on the shaft. —Manchester Guardian.
MR. HILL'S PLAN OF POSTOFFICE IMPROVENENT.—
" That stamped covers, or sheets of paper, and small vignette
stamps, the latter if used to be gummed on the face of the
letter, be supplied to the public from the stamp-office, and
sold at such a price as to include the postage. Letters so
stamped to be treated in all respects as franks. That, as
covers of various prices would be required for various weights,
each should have the weight it is entitled to carry printed on
the stamp. That, if any packet exceeded the proper weight,
it should be sent to the dead-letter-office, opened, and re-
turned to the writer. That sheets of letter paper of every
description should be stamped in the part used for the address.
That wrappers such as are used for newspapers should also
be stamped, and that every deputy postmaster should be re-
quired to have them on sale. That the stamp of the receiv-
ing house should be struck upon the superscription, or duty
stamp, to prevent the latter from being used a second time.
Among the advantages more immediately to be derived from
this plan are-1. That the postoffice would be relieved alto-
gether from the collection of the revenue, and from all ac-
counts relating to that collection. 2. The present trouble of
receiving money for the letters would be avoided. 3. The
revenue would be collected in large sums at the stamp-office,
easily and at little cost." Here is a plan, then, as clear and
simple as can well be imagined, and which the mind, almost
without an efiort, can follow into its minutest details. There
would be nothing to do at the postoffice but to sort into towns
and places the letters which are to go out, and to distribute
those Aid arrive to the postmen of the different districts'

LIVERN
STA"; D

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WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen held as, • 7tri r-
cit
at one o'clock this afternoon. It was atten e.
First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, t • :amp, -
tary of State for the Colonies, the First Lord of `.61AtiY,1:01...1
miralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary
at War, the Groom of the Privy Purse, and the Master of
the Horse. Mr. Greville was clerk of the council in wait-
ing; Lord Torrington was the lord in waiting; Hon. Major
Keppel groom in waiting; and Colonel Buckley equerry in
waiting.
The council broke up at two o'clock.
Lord Minto immediately left for town.
The other members of the council will have the honour of
dining with her Majesty this evening.
Her Majesty rode in the park on horseback, attended by
Lord Glenelg, Lord Howick, Lord Cottenhain, Mr. P.
Thomson, Mr. Greville, Sir Henry Wheatley (all of whom
arrived at the castle this morning), Lord Melbourne,
Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Miss Murray,
Hon. Major Keppel, Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stavin, Mr.
Brand, and Hon. C. A. Murray.
Lord and Lady Albemarle arrived at the castle this
morning, Lady Rivers, his excellency the American mi-
nister, and his lady, Mrs. Stevenson, will arrive this evening
and join the royal dinner party.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord Sandon and Lord Ingestre have accepted invitations
to dine with the Operative Conservative Association of this
town in January next.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
The late Richard Tuck, Esq., of Strumpshaw, Norfolk,
has left the munificent legacy of £lOOO to the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital.

In the window of a public-house near Bilston, appears the
following singular announcement :—" A Dead Club held
here."

It is said that the leaders of the metropolitan radicals have
received a hint not to attempt to get up a Durham demon-
stration, lest it should (as it undoubtedly would) turn out a
failure.

Already does Dunstable and other towns feel the effects of
railroads. The decrease of coaches and posting has so
altered the business, that the tradesmen are parting with
their concerns us fast as they can.

It is said that lord Durham, before he left the Inconstant,
received a despatch from London, apprising him that he
would not be received at court. Hence the it►nerant speeches
—hence the countess's resignation of her office in the Queen's
household.

AN ILL WIND, &c.—The glaziers have reaped a most plen-
tiful harvest from the effects of the late storm. Upwards of
1200 squares were broken in Portsmouth dockyard alone ;
and in Gosport scarcely a house in the upper part of the town
escaped damage.
It is the duty of all persons who have substitutes at their
command to economise in their families during the approach-
ing winter as far as possible the use of bread corn, by which
means they will not only lessen the consumption, but ma-
terially assist in keeping down the price.

The house of Bernard and Co., of Bordeaux, which in
1830 was under the necessity of suspending its payments in
consequence of the dishonesty of an agent, has just given a
remarkable example of commercial probity by paying all its
creditors in full, capital and interest included.
MAIL COACH GUARDS.—From the equivocal and very ob-
scure manner in which the subject has been announced to
the public, it is entirely a matter of doubt whether travellers
are expected to fee these persons as heretofore, or not.
The Duchess of Orleans had some years ago planted an
apple-tree with her own hands at the Efferberg, near Wel-
mar. The tree has now attained a good size, and the Count
de la Rochetoucauld, minister to Saxe-Weimar, has sent a
branch of it to Paris for the young prince.
The young man named Blanche, whom we mentioned a
few days ago as having killed an old soldier in a duel, by
moonlight, and without seconds, at Noyen' in the Sarthe, has
been tried for the affair by the Court of Assizes of the de-
partment, and acquitted.—Paris Paper.
An entire reparation of the great tower of the cathedral of
St. Stephen, at Vienna, has been at length decided on, and
all the architectural science of the capital is to be put in re-
quisition for this purpose.
SIR WATK IN WILLIAMS WYNN.—This hospitable baronet
is much improved in health; and last week, with his accom-
plished daughter, arrived on a visit to Mr. Heaten, at his ro-
mantic seat Plas H eaten, near Denbigh. Much hospitality
will prevail at Wynnstay daring the approaching festive
season.

MISS SHIRREFF IN AMERICA.—The Shirreff, last evening
(Oct. 5), arrested a whole audience, and kept them for three
hours, and dismissed them on their own recognisances to ap-
pear again at the National.—New York Star.—This allusion
is to the vocalist. She never could have kept the audience
thus in duresse had she not given her notes as security.—
Philadelphia Gazette.--So decided a hit has the new opera
made, that the stage manager at the National has been bound
over to keep the piece.—Albany Evening Journal.
NOT SO BAD AS EXPECTED.—In the melodrama of the
Caravan, a dog named Carlo played a principal character.
Dignum, the singer, was also in the same piece. One even-
ing the latter went up to Sheridan, and, with a grave face,
informed him that he had some very bad news to relate.
Sheridan eagerly inquired what it was, to which Dignum
answered, that he felt himself so hoarse as to be unable to get
through the songs. Sheridan, seizing him by the band, re-
joined, " My friend, you have relieved my mind of a weight,
I thought the dog had been taken ill."
THE ARMY.—The 37th Regiment is ordered from Jamaica
to Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the draft which disembarked
in the Barossa transport, at Cork, are to proceed in another
vessel as soon as possible for the new station. The drafts
which arrived in the Barossa, and which was nearly wrecked
in the late gale, consisted of Capt. Harvey, Ensigns Shum
and Hamilton, and 62 rank and file. A site has been marked
out at Derry for a new military barracks, outside that city.
Fifty soldiers' wives have been sent home from the 52d Regi-
ment in Gibraltar, in consequence of the regiment being
ordered to Barbadoes.

MIME 'EXPORTATION OP THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The
exportation of the precious metals from the port of London
to foreign ports for the past week, ending the 11th inst., is as
under:—Gold coin to South Australia, 2,280 ounces; Ma-
dras, 1,780 oz.; Hamburg, 325 oz.; Mauritius, 100 oz.;
Bussorah, 20 ez.; bars to Madras 250 oz. Silver coin to
Swan River, 20,000 oz.; British West Indies, 35,280 oz.;
South Australia, 3,845 oz ; Gibraltar, 8,700 oz.; Bussorah,
8,150 oz.

THE LATE SIR ALLAN PARK.—It may be truly said of this
eminent judge, and truly good man, that from an early age
to the close of a long and honourable life he " set Goo al-
ways before him," making religion the constant guide and
director of all his actions. For this in his passage through
life he had occasionally to encounter the sneers of the scoffer;
but that never deterred him from persisting itf a duty which
he justly considered paramount to all others, and which, in
his case, had its temporal reward of soothing the agonies and
the bed of death.

BARBAROUS MURDER.—As a respectable farmer named
Welsh, was returning from the fair of Kildorrery, be was
followed by a party of men, and on coming outside the cus-
tom gap they assailed him in a savage manner, and literally
stoned their unconscious victim to death. He has left a
wife and six children to deplore his loss. Some of the
savages, we are happy to state, are in custody.—Limerick
Ssandard.

AMAZING PRODUCE.—We frequently have to record in-
stances of large crops of turnips, but we have not for some
years heard of one so productive as that lately gathered by
Mr. Weaver, of Tarvin. That gentleman has weighed 687 tbs.
of Swede turnips off five and a half yards (one perch) of
land, which is an average of more than forty-nine tons per
statute acre.—Chester Gazette.

Lord Western has published, in the Chelmsford Chronicle,
a letter to Earl Spencer, announcing the result, of au experi-
ment, which his lordship says he has been making for the last
four years' "of the possibility of creating a new and distinct
breed of sheep." As far as he has gone, the result of the ex-
periment, Lord Western says, bas encouraged the attempt.
His lordship's object was to place the Merino wool upon a
Leicester sheep, and he announces that at the next Smithfield
show he shall exhibit specimens of the new breed.

SCHOONER YACHT ROYALIST—VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
—Yachting, which belongs exclusively to the gentlemen of
England, is about to be turned to other purposes than plea.
sure alone, by J. Brooke, Esq., who is arrived in Hainoaze,
in his schooner yacht Royalist, 142 tons. This gentleman
is about to start on what may be truly termed a voyage of
discovery—to explore the Indian Archipelago. He proceeds
to Borneo, calling on his way at the Cape of Good Hope and
Singapoore, where his researches are to commence probably;
subsequently examining some of the interesting groups of
the Pacific, returning to England by. Cape Horn. It is the
first instance of any gentleman devoting his life and fortune
to the attainment of geographical knowledge in those distant
and dangerous seas, and the voyage of the Royalist yacht
will hand the name of her spirited owner down, deservedly,
amongst those of our most enterprising circumnavigators.
The voyage is expected to occupy about three years. She
is armed with six guns, and carries 20 men, and is in every
way prepared for the pirates of those seas. Mr. Brooke is a
member of the Royal Western Yacht Club; he leaves this
port in a few days.—Plymouth Journal.

POWER OF ARREST UNDER THE IMPRISONMENT FOR
DEBT ACT.—A case has been recently argued in the Court
of Exchequer relative to the construction to be given to the
3rd section of the act, which invests a judge with discre-
tionary power to hold a defendant to bail, on an affidavit of
his being about to quit England. The question at issue was
whether the section applies to those cases in which the in-
tended departure of the debtor is not shown to be for the
express purpose of delaying the creditor, although it may
have the effect of so doing. In the case alluded to (Larnhin
v. Willan) it appeared that the defendant was an officer of
the 22d regiment, now stationed in Ireland, but that having
obtained leave of absence for a few days, he had come to this
country, and been arrested during his stay here, at the suit
of the plaintiff, under an order from Baron Gurney. A rule
was immediately obtained by the defendant to set aside the
order, on the ground that his leave of absence would expire
in a few days, when he would be obliged to return to his mili-
tary duties, and that his intended departure would be conse-
quently compulsory, and not with a view of delaying the
plaintiff. On this rule, however, coming befor the court for
argument, Mr. Baron Parke, with the concurrence of the
other judges, said that the order for the arrest was perfectly
legal, as it was impossible to say how long the defendant
might be detained in Ireland by his duties, and it was the
intention of the act to invest the judges with' a discretionary
power, to be exercised in any case in which the absence of a
party would have the effect of delaying a creditor.
ANCIENT COIN.—A few days ago, some boys, playing near
the River Ikell (Yorkshire), found amongst the stones and
gravel on the bank, which had been washed down by the last
flood, an ancient coin, about the size of the present current
fourpenny-piece, in a good state of preservation ; but the
silver, from the length of time it must have laid in the
ground, has lost most of its nature. The coin is a silver
skeatta of Egbert; King of Kent, and must have been coined
about the year 660. Skeatta in general are denoted by their
rude figures; the present one bears the impression of a stag,
and on the reverse the letters EDJ ERE PT V F.
Several ancient coins have at times been found in this vici-
nity, particularly in digging into "Ellshaw," or, as now
commonly called, " Ashley Hill," close adjoining, which is
a conical tumulus, composed throughout of sand, gravel, and
human bones, supposed by some to be the site of a British
fortress—by others, the rubbish or remains of a monastery,
destroyed in the wars of the Saxons or the Danes. On or
near the tumulus Ella perished with his Bost in the battle
with Hinguar the Dane, on the 21st March, 867. Several
copper stycas have been found here of Ethelred, Edred,
Acbred, Osbert, and Ella, but through carelessness or igno-
rance most of them have been dispersed or lost. The present
coin is now in the possession of H. C. Sharpin, Esq., of
Mount Pleasant, near Ripon.
IMPROVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE.—In London there is
not a house rebuilt, that is not erected in a superior style to
what it was before ; and the renovation of all public buildings
is, in general, effected in a very superior style. The employ-
ment, in Regent-street and Bond-street, of the Louis XIV.
style in shop fronts, is one of the latest improvements in this
department; and, in combination with the immense panes of
plate glass now used for shop windows, and accompanied by
rich gilding on a pure white ground, it has a striking and
most magnificent appearance. The introduction of Roman
cement, about thiry years ago, has been the foundation of
much of the improvement which bastaken place in the eleva-
tions of street architecture. During-this year and the pre-
ceding, a new cement for roofs, terraces, and roads, has been
introduced, the basis of which is bitumen ; but, whether this
will lead to any great change, either in buildings, by the in-
troduction of flat roofs, or in streets and roads, by becoming
a substitute for either fnot or road pavement, remains to be
seen. Our opinion of it is, that it promises well; particu-
larly for flat roofs, Puklig fotpatbs, and prclea
chitectural afa,9atino.

Vortrp.

GOD.

The following sublime ode to the Supreme Being is
translated from the Russian. It was written by one of their
sratinguished poets, Derzhazin. This ode is said to have
been translated into the Chinese and Tartar languages,
written on silk, and suspended in the Imperial Palace at
Pekin. The Emperor of Japan had it translated into
Japanese, embroidered in gold, and hung up in the temple of
Jeddo. It is gratifying to learn, that these nations have
done themselves the honour to bestow those honours on this
Roble composition.
We believe that no man, however powerful his intellect,
or sublime his imagination, unacquainted with Holy- Writ,
ever did, or ever will, compose so exalted a poem. It abounds
in scriptural allusion. The finest parts of the ode were
written when the soul of the author, perhaps unconsciously,
was wrapt in contemplation of passages in the Bible. One
of the most exquisite verses in the poem is that where the
poet, fleeing from the nothingness of humanity, takes shelter
t_ be gloriously consoling idea, that the Divine Spirit shines
on his spirit,

"As shines the sunbeam in the drop of dew."

Immediately after follow the words, "In thee I live, and
breathe and dwell." Is it not manifest that the whole of
this sublimely beautiful passage is borrowed from Acts xvii.,
verse 28, " In him we live, and move, and have our being?"
—New York Observer.
0, Thou Eternal One! whose presence bright,
All space doth occupy—all motion guide:
Unchanged through time's all-everlasting flight,
Thou only Gon; there is no Gon beside.
Being above all beings! Mighty One !
Who none can comprehend, and none explore;
Embracing all—supporting—ruling o'er:—
Being, whom we call Gon—and know no more!

In its sublime research, philosophy
May measure out the ocean deep—may count
The sands, or the sun's rays—but GOD! for Thee
There is no weight nor measure; none can mount
Up to Thy mysteries; Reason's brightest spark,
Though kindled by Thy light, ►n vain would try
To trace Thy counsels, infinite and dark :
And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high,
Even like past moments in eternity.
Thou from primeval nothingness didst call
First, chaos, then existence—LOßD, on Thee
Eternity had its foundation; all
Sprung forth from Thee; all light, joy, harmony,
Sole origin—all life, all beauty, Thine,
Thy word created all, and doth create :
Thy splendour fills all space with rays divine.
Thou art, and vrert, and shalt be! glorious'. great!
Life-giving, life-sustaining, potentate !
Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround;
Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath!
Thou the beginning with the end hast bound,
And beautifully mingled life and death !
As sparks mount upwards from the fiery blaze,
So suns are born, so worlds spring forth from Thee,
And as the spangles in the sunny rays,
Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry
Of Heaven's bright army glitters in Thy praise.
A million torches lighted by Thy hand
Wander, unwearied, through the blue abyss ;
They own Thy power, accomplish Thy command,
All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss.
What shall we call them ? Piles of chrystal light ?
A glorious company of golden streams?
Lamps of celestial ether burning bright?
Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams?
But Thou to these are as the moon to night—

Yes ! a drop of water in the sea.
All this magnificence in Thee is lost:—
What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee?
And what am I then ? Heaven's unnumbered host
Though multiplied by myriads and array'd
In all the glory of sublimest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance weigh'd
Against Thy greatness—is a cypher brought
Against infinity : What am I then ?—Nought.
Nought—but the effluence of Thy light divine,
Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too ?
Yes, in my spirit doth Thy Spirit shine,
As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Nought—but I live, and on hope's pinions fly
Eager towards Thy presence; for in Thee
I live, and breathe, and dwell ; I lift my eye
Even to the throne of Thy divinity:
1 am, 0 Goo, and surely Thou must be.
Thou art ! directing, guiding all, Thou art !
Direct my understanding then to Thee ;
Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart:
Though but an atom 'midst immensity,
Still I am something fashion'd by Thy hand :
I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth,
On the last verge of mortal being stand,
Close to the realms where angels have their birth ;
Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land.

The chain of being is complete in me;
In me is matter's last gradation lost.
And the next step is spirit—Deity !
I can command the lightning, and am dust !
A monarch, and a slave; a worm, a Gon!
Whence came I here, and how ? so marvellously
Constructed and conceived? unknown! this clod
Lives surely through some higher energy ;
For from itself alone it could not be.

Creator ! Yes—Thy wisdom and Thy word
Created me ! Thou source of life and good !
Thou Spirit of my spirit, and my Lord :
Thy light, thy love, in their bright plentitude,
Fill'd me with an immortal soul, to spring
O'er the abyss of death, and bade it wear
The garments of eternal day, and wing
Its heavenly flight beyond this little sphere;
Even to its source—to Thee—its Author there.

O thoughts ineffable ! 0 visions blest !
Though worthless our conceptions all of Thee,
Yet shall thy shadow'd image fill our breast,
And waft its homage to 'thy Deity.
Con ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar,
Thus seek Thy presence—Being wise and good!
'Midst Thy vast works, admire, obey, adore !
And when the tongue is eloquent no more,
The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH SOUTH

AMERICA.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
At a time when the European powers, envious of
the pre-eminence in commerce and manufactures to
which England has attained, are endeavouring:, in the
most insidious manner, to undermine our greatness,
by cutting off our commercial relations with the South
American states, and striking at the root of our pre-
dominance in the East Indies ;—whilst the politicians
of France and of Russia, rocked in the cradle of di-
plomacy, lull their consciences to sleep, and those are
considered the most adroit who can best conceal their
sinister intentions under the cloak of pretended friend.
ship, and disguise their nefarious designs under the
mask of false honour ;—under such circumstances—
such existing circumstances—it well behoves the go-
vernment and individuals of this country to draw
closer the ties of amity, and to avail themselves of
every opportunity of increasing the links of traffic
with the unsophisticated countries of North and South
America,--the uninitiated in court intrigues, cabinet
combinations, and the arcana of political economy !
The merchants of Liverpool, and manufacturers of
Manchester, should join hand and hand to promote
every measure, having for its object the facilitating
and rendering the commercial correspondence with
Brazil, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, and
Mexico, more regular, expeditious, and punctual ; and
they have, much to their credit, recently manifested
their readiness so to do, by promptly patronising the
memorials presented to their adoption, praying the
establisment of competent steam-vessels from Fal-
mouth to those countries, in lieu of the present ina-
dequate sailing vessels, whereby the voyage out and
home would probably be reduced to as many weeks as
it now occupies months.
The Great Western and the Liverpool have asto-
nished the natives of North—so will the Great South-
ern and the Manchester (about to be built) surprise
and delight the nations of South America.

England is undoubtedly the grand centre of the
commerce of the terrestrial globe ; and Manchester
can be, with great propriety and truth, considered the
spot or point of centralization of the commerce, in:.
telligence, industry, and wealth of the United King-
dom. This is not the language of flattery, but of
praise. Flattery is justly deemed the food of fools,
but praise is the proper diet of the wise; and it is very
easy to distinguish the one from the other by their ef-
fects: a person flattered is elated, and receives the
adulation as a favour, conscious of his undesert ; whilst
a person praised receives with modesty the encomiums
justly bestowed on him, and with a self-complacency
and satisfaction which true desert can only give rise
to.

Let us, Englishmen, then look with contempt on
those despots of Europe who, whilst they flatter, hate
us, but cherish the rising states of America with cor-
diality and esteem ; they will then ever esteem and
respect us for befriending them in their time of need,
and protecting them in their time of trouble, when
threatened with invasion, if not annihilation, by a
professed liberal European government. Nothing can
so well contribute to frustrate such aggressions in
America as have occurred in Africa, as quick, regular,
and continuous knowledge of passing events, at the
present eventful moment.

On Wednesday week no less than fourteen f►ne woodcocks
rose from a plantation near the vicarage Millom. Three or
four famed sportsmen wasted a considerable quantity of am-
munition upon them without effect, the provoking birds esca-
ping without a ruffled feather.—Cumberland Pacquet.
LONGEVITY.—There are at this time, in the service of Mr.
Joseph Ingledew, of Kirkby Fleetham, two horses, the united
ages of which amount to 62 years ; and this aged team is
attended by an octogenarian patriarch, the years of whose
pilgrimage have numbered 86. They are all in active em-
ployment, even during the present season of the year.—Hull
Times.

GLASS &IN,Ens.—An article hitherto only used to adorn
the foot of Cinderella in a fairy tale, may now be seen in
that extensive repository of discoveries and improvements,
the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. We allude to a
very curious pair of ladies' dress-shoes, fabricated from glass,
not less flexible than leather or satin, equally light, and far
more durable, to judge from the solidity of their texture.
CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY.—We are most happy to
learn that a New Church Education Society for Ireland has
been set on foot with the best prospects, and that its funda-
mental rules have met the approbation of his Grace the Lord
Primate, and of all the Bishops of Ireland who were as-
sembled in Dublin last week, with the exception of the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Derry and Killaloe. It
is a matter of regret to this discreditable minority, and sacri-
ficing, what one of his talents and attainments cannot but
feel to be a principle, to expediency, or to a point of etiquette,
in deference to that party by which he was elevated to the
episcopal bench.—Dublin-Evening Mail.
TURNPPIKR TOLLS.—Yesterday the tolls on the road be-
tween Chester and Liverpool were taken for the ensuing year
et £3909, being an advance on the current year of £520;
this addition must be attributed to the daily increasing in-
tercourse between this city and Liverpool—influenced no
doubt by the facilities of railway communication from the
latter place to all parts of the kingdom. The tolls from this
city to Northop were also let at an advance of £2UU, our
neighbours of the principality being also affected by the same
circumstances.—Chester Gazette.

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