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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

rheumatism for your pains. In short, every-

thing is as bad as bad can be

blic rooms are not

r amiss

you can get a g

I luncheon or dinner quickly

and cheaply. The committe
to the purse al wheezing

)n great bother

barristers, owing to the dis-

nee betwee

the rooms, staircases, &c. Then

the library, a very good room of itsel
get the books, the acts of parliament you want ?
mounting a ladder like a hodman. The Lords' library is
certainly better, though they had none a few years ago.
A young man (then) who did little offic;-..) for the Earl of

mit how are you to
By

NHATT

—humble ones—got together a few sheets

of England that they had no library ; a few presents of
books were made, a nucleus was formed, and the Lords
have now got a tidy collection. The young man aforesaid

was appointed librarian

ie has fbr

,rs driven his

ninety guinea cat

the continent ; so much for being "born to good luck

They have got rid of poor tortured and torturing REID

What he would have done, had he had his own way,
moLus himself, were he embodied, I am sure could not
TD's scheme, mod or bad,

tell. Certainly Profes
foolish or wise, had not fair play—probably this was well
I never saw such complication in my life c he would think
nothing of riddling a whole foundation with brick-holes

putting a fiery furnace—NEDUCHA.DNEZZAR'S nothing to
it—and all for the sake of pure air ; everybody eAllin
ut the same time for windows that would open and coal
fires that would warm. REID may have been clever at
the lecture table, but his working—what a falling off was
there ! Lords and Commons are going to set to in right
earnest in order to make their houses comfortable. They
will never succeed.

From "the new palace at Westminster" to that archi-
tectural oddity, Buckingham Palace, is only across the
park, up Birdcage-walk, if you like it. Here you will find
un illustration of bad management as regards the outside

of a building, to a far greater extent of deterioration than
that I have referred to respecting the interior of West-
minster Palace, as it is called after the olden name. The
interior of Buckingham Palace, considering that it was
designed and built for a free-living bachelor, afterwards
Stted up for a married king ; hence the ridiculous question,
Why is Buckingham Palace the cheapest in the world ?
Because it was built for one sovereign and furnished for
another. Subsequently, as we all happily know, and re-
joice to know, the building was and is now dedicated to
her Majesty Queen VICTORIA. and a family of children
The changes produced in the structu

f GEORGE the

Foxrpan seem to be still beginning—never ending. I need
not hesitate to affirm that the stables and the kitchen are
the only two departments worthy of mention, "which have
escaped the finger of improvement. GEORGE the Founx H
could design for both; he was also an excellent landscape
gardener, as the beautiful bit of park and water in front
tof Buckingham Palace testify to this hour. In the true
principles of art, from the Grecian edifice down to the late
pavilion at Brighton, all his ideas were grotesque—inhar.

monious—defYing unity. Hence, since Buckingham House
was changed from the modest-looking brick building of

our boyhood to the present palace on its site—now thirty
years agone—masons, plasterers, and bricklayers have never
been a year away from the building ; and now the time-
desecrated stink of Pimlico is entirely absorbed—made
dead and tasteless by the oceans of white lead and rivers
aturpentine,vvith which the rotten stone of whichthe walla
are constructed is now being bedaubed. Paint—nothing
but paint—quoth the master of the works, can prevent
the walls froth crumbling. The whole exterior of the
-palace is benetted with scaffolding. This was the principal
cause of the QUEEN not proroguing parliament in person ;
she had no place nearer than Windsor in which to put on
the "regal purple." St. James's Palace, though the most
commodious in Europe for levees, is but an indifferent
place for a Queen to robe in. Prince ALBERT, they say,
is in treaty for a beautiful country residence two or three
miles out of town, situated in the luxuriant shades of St.
Jobes-wood. There is, considering its proximity to Lon-
don, a large expanse of farm land attached, so that his
Royal Highness can indulge his favorite agricultural pur-
suits. It is meant, also, as a " hop-step-and-jump" resi-
dence for the royal children.

Among the few legal and other friends one has still left to
enjoy the kindly cigar and the club smoking-room, rock-

ing-chairs, the commission appointed by .the QUEEN to
inquire into the Birmingham borough prison has afforded
subject of conversation in lack of other. At the Home-
office they are all primed ; I may venture to affirm that
they almost know which way the inquiry will go, or rather
end. The commissioners could not have been better
selected. There is all through a compound of what is
necessary in a commission of the sort : of sound legal
knowledge in Mr. WELSBY, the barrister; a great ac-
quaintance with the statistics of morality and vice, prison
discipline, &c., in Captain WILLIAMS; and Dr. BALM'S
ame is a guarantee for an intimate knowledge of those
peculiar and fell diseases to be found even yet within our
prison walls. The doctor has had ample opportunity of
acquiring this knowledge in that government pest-house,
Idillbank Penitentiary, where the most robust fellow that
ever snared a hare "on a shiny night," and the burglar,
with his mask and lucifer, fresh from agragrian outrage,
broad as HERCULES and brown as autumn, begin to lose
their health after twelve months' imprisonment,—so much
30, that no prisoners, of whatever grade, are kept in Mill-
bank more than a year or a year and a half,—more mur-
ders them. Captain WILLIAMS was a good while at the
Bx.°Mee, and his reports as a prison inspector have
always been read with interest, and spoken of eulogisti-
cally in Parliament. Birmingham borough prison has
been a queer concern for some time. Captain. MACON.
VOCIFIE,of the Ito. yaj,
Navy, several years ago was very
popular in our literary, scientific, and gossipping clubs ;
he was then secretary to the Royal Geographical Society,
patronised by WILLIAM IV., and Was welcome every

where, not more from his position than for his amenities.
Sir JoHN Falivicmx took him out with him to Van
Diemen's Land as his Mend and secretary, when that
bug-lost sailor was appointed governor. MA cozmocui E
returned to England, and was appointed the governor of
the Birmingham prison. The deputy died ; and m —ACON-
NOCIIIE, swelling with the honour of his profession, in-

geed upon a gentleman, instead of a mere turnkey, I
appointed to the vacant deputyship. He had his wa
lam afraid to his own leaving the place. In short, as tlu
nd no pitch hot.'

sailors say, " the

MACONNOCIIIE left Birmingham borough prison to take
care of itself. The deputy he recommended—a lieutenant

—became a great man ; and his patron went to Paris
where he now is. Yon will soon find out whether then

igression of the prison rules, harshness,

or cruelty

At all events, the inquiry, I promise your

Birmingham readers

Everything connected with the divine art of printing;
From noble CAXTON down to the last number of the

If our fax

printed and most

The inventions which the company has been formed to
carry out are those of Major Monowssi, who has ob-
tained letters patent for their protection. They apply to
almost every department of the art of letterpress printing,
and it is not forming too high an estimate of their impor.
tance and value to say that they must lead to a complete
revolution in that great branch of industry. Perhaps the
great point accomplished by M. BENIOWSICI is the inven-
tion of a practical system of "logotypes," or small blocks

of type consistir

g each of

group of letters of frequent re-
selected, after long study, of the

most frequent combinations of letters, di away witch the
chief objection to their use, experienced' with attempts
made by the late Mr. WALTER, of the Times, as they may
be conveniently disposed of in a case not occupying more
space than that of a compositor's on the present system.
The case is arranged in suitable divisions, depending on a
simple alphabetical organisation ; but instead of the ordi-
nary sloping trays, it consists of a great number of rows
of long holes which slope forward towards the compositor,
and which contain the types placed lengthways. Being
distributed into these holes at the back, they fall down the
incline towards him, and are stopped in front by a slight
ledge, or bend ; they are picked up by a pair of nippers,
which does away with the injurious effects of handling
them by the fingers. Such is the rapidity with
which matter can be composed in this manner,
it is found in practice that a person, if only slightly
accustomed to it, can set up 4,800 types per hour, while a
skilled compositor at present can only set up between
1,000 and 1,500. As many as 5,000 an hour might cer-
tainly be reckoned upon. Another useful feature of these
types consists in their having foot letters, and while they al.e
set up may be read like the print which the composed types
would print, and so enable corrections to be made without
taking a proof. They also have index letters on their
side, by which distribution from pye is facilitated; and,
whenever unattached spaces are used, being made of steel,
with a silver coating deposited electrically, they are easily
caught up with a magnet. In casting type, and in the
type-matrix, important improvements have also been
introduced. Major BENIOWSKI'S inventions include a
circular printing machine, the great feature of which
consists in placing the forms inside a cylinder, so that,
when driven round, the centrifugal force tends to fasten
the types, and thus dispensing with lateral pressure,
types half length are sufficient, and thus the cost of a .
fount is reduced to one-half. The receiving boys are dis-
pensed with in this arrangement, as the sheets are delivered
by the continuous action of the machine, as soon as
printed on each side. Combined with a double composi-
tion, 40,000 copies per hour might be thrown of, and
under given circumstances of producing power the machine
will only occupy about a fourth part of the space of those
on the best construction at present in use. The last point we
have to notice, the patent inking rollers,constitutes,perhaps,
the most valuable of the entire series of inventions. They
consist of hollow cylinders, formed of vulcanized India
rubber, united without a seam, and furnished with appro-
priate bosses at the ends for mounting in the machine. A
few strokes of a condensing syringe fills these cylinders
with air of a high pressure, the precise amount of which
will make the elasticity or rigidity of the roller whatever
we please. The inconvenience, cost, and uncertainty of
the composition rollers, always sensitive to atmospheric
changes, are thus removed altogether; while the dura-
bility is equal to that of other articles of the same material.
There are many other points in the patented processes of
the company which deserve notice, if space and time per-
mitted. I must conclude, however, with the general
observation, that they have received the strong approval
of practical men, and that the company itself has been
formed under the best possible circumstances to ensure the
complete and permanent success of the undertaking. The
reunion was finely managed; the legislators present were
determined to unbend, and they did so. For the ogre-
mens much, if not all, was due to Joim HENRY DOYLE,
Esq., a popular and accomplished member of the London
and Dublin Literary Societies.
" Old Drury" has once more become vocal, though not
by "native talent." The chef d'ouvre of WEBER com-
menced a short musical season on Monday evening. Der
Freischutz,--stupendously dithyrambick, its numbers
were little understood, even by educated musicians, that
lonely night, almost a lifetime ago, when it was first pro-
duced at the old English Opera House—the Lyceum,—
since burnt down, much to the loss of one, and the near
ruin of another, she a great creature—Miss KELLY.
Thereanent let me give a curious fact. I was sitting
chatting and " chaffing" with Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT,
of the County Fire-office, having previously had to wait
a minute or two. Mr. ARNOLD, the part proprietor of the
Opera House, and the greatest encourager of the English
lyric drama that ever breathed in breathing England,
left the distinguished fire insurance director. ARNOLD
had been higgling for a renewal of his policy for the Eng-
lish Opera House—" Can't do at the money," quoth Mr.
BEAUMONT • " can't afford more," replied Mr. ARNOLD.
They parted on a quarter per cent. Afterwards I was in
the house, and in two hours more the uninsured struc-
ture was in flames ! —burnt to the ground long
before morning had much advanced. That quarter per
cent. difference was a bad job for ARNOLD. Well, the
Freischutz had been produced at the old unburnt
house : mild Carl MARIA VON WEBER'S unpretending
virtue had preceded him here ; the fathers of the present
generation of vipers-musical were then living, noble
artists, better, I avow, than their children, and a million
times more kind and generous ! ARNOLD, our then
musical MECSNAS, had a rehearsal of the German Opera ;
it would do, and it wouldn't do :—there were nice bits in
the.overture, finely set; they could not be there without
surrounding ore of the right sort ; then came that melan-
choly piece of musical discontent and desolation, " Through
the Woods," in English, and above all the Jagyar Chorus.
Those morceaux on the first night of Ansui...'s produc-
tion of this " wilderness of sweets" well nigh reconciled
the vox populi, as PIERCE EGArr used to say ; but there
were hisses in the pit—the people there raised their crests
like fiery serpents. Even musicians left the theatre, say-
ing it would not do. It was repeated, and like many
friends—sure test of excellence—grew on acquaintance.
It was very well rendered at Drury Lane. They have
since given Lucretia Borgia, the only severe and classical
opera of DONIZETTI, in a most respectable manner.
FreiBchutz was in German, the Borgia in Italian.
What next ?

As a melancholy -pendant, and from delicacy I have
refrained from noticing the fact till now, Mrs. WARNER,
who gained so many golden opinions on these self-same
boards, is now, poor lady, in a bad state, with cancer for
her bedfellow ! Why should I conceal the fact ? it has
been hinted at, which is worse than being mentioned.
Mrs. WARNER has had a painful operation performed.
With all her talents, popularity, and hard work, she is,
in addition to being sick unto death, steeped to the very
lips in poverty. Mrs. CHARLES KEAN, like a queen, sent
her sister MELPOMENE WARNER £5O the other day :
"'twas well done, because 'twas quickly done."
To attempt to describe the "wen," as COBBETT used sa-
tirically to name the metropolis, when it is out of town, is
at best a dull affair, much more so, seeing it is attempted
every autumn as regularly as that nutty period of the year
makes its appearance. Our scientific people are all out of
England. It may be a few, too old to be knocked about,
are innocently botanizing by the bonnie English hedge-
rows, or gathering shells by the " salt sea wave," as Mr.
BUNN said or sang. By the bye, the great ALFRED, late
of T. R. D. L 7 has returned from America, after reading
his Shakesperian reminiscences to thousands of the Yan-
kees, who have a keen appreciation of the immortal WIL-
LIAM. Our artists also, painters and sculptors, are on the
loose. A stroll among the picture galleries, however, of
our more spirited publishers, is still left for the denizen of
London, or the visitor. This is a treat which lasts all the
year round, but is never better worth enjoying than at
present. Civility, it is well known, costs nothing; and the
proprietors of the galleries referred to are at all times de-
lighted to see a country cousin or two drop in,—there's no
intrusion. I take shame to myself that a shower, and no
cab in the distance, drove me for shelter into the ever-
welcome portal of HENRY SQUIRES and Co., Cockspur-
street, the other day. "Bother,—no apology," was the frank
observation of HENRY, to my whine on account of
long absence. There was a goodly array of paint-
ings and engravings at once before me. Of
the latter, who could not but be struck with
" Quitting the Manse, or the Free Church Question in
Scotland," from the picture, painted by G. HARVEY, of
Edinburgh, and engraved by ATKINSON. A thousand
thoughts filled my mind as I contemplated this fine work,
replete with sentiment and subject. " Free Church Ques-
tion !"—how it was debated in both Houses at the time.
What a foolish movement it was considered by Church-
men. So it was, and is. The famous Kirk of Scotland,
which, till then, had stood long and angry siege, became
like a house divided against itself, and did not stand.
Cleft in twain ; neither branch can now properly claim
the motto of the " auld Kirk,"—Nec Tamen Coneu-
mebatur. But the Scotch Free Church is advancing; it
maybe, like a divided stream, to meet to part no more.
The picture is a glorious work : the heads and counte-
nances just such as WATTLE SCOTT painted in his novels.
There is a fine picture well placed in SQUIRES' Gallery;
it is by old NoRTUCOTE, R.A., " Jacob blessing Ephraim
M and onosson." Exquisite in tone ; colouring in part
worthy of TITIAN. The LANDSEERS, painters and en-
gravers, all illustrious in one family, have done nice bits
here ; such, for example, as, " There's Life in the Old Dog
yet," by Sir EDWIN—not grown so grand as to forget his
old friends ; he's off to Balmoral in a twinking to eat
grouse with the QUEEN and PRINCE ALBERT, and paint
a "deer or twa." The celebrated picture of NELSON,
" Forty Minutes before the commencement of the Battle
of Trafalgar," and others, I may notice before I have done
with the fine arts; WELLINGTON likewise, at three periods
of his life, is worth a pilgrimage to see. How like life !

ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, lIARDMAN
STREET.

ABOUT four months ago, Mr. D. C. BROWNE, who has
met with much success in this town as a teacher of music,
was appointed organist of the above church, since which
time the choir has been considerably improved, both in
efficiency and numbers, consisting now of, ten boys

(trebles), two alto's,t;Otenors, and two basses, who sing
the chants antiphonally, reminding us of the cathedral
choirs. Mr. BROWNE evidently knows how to train
boys ; but this may, in some degree, be accounted for

,
from the fact of his having been for nearly seven years in
Norwich Cathedral. Another valuable addition is now
being. made in the shape of a new organ, under the
orgamst's:sole direction, and built by our old townsman,
Mr.BEWSHEIL, whose work has invariably given great satis-
faction. We subjoin the particulars
GREAT ORGAN, CC TO F, 54 NoTEs.-1. Stop diapason
treble, 2 feet, speaking 4 feet-2. Stop diapason bass, 4
feet, speaking 8 feet-3. Open diapason, 8 feet-4. Prin-
cipal, 4 feet-5. Twelfth, 3 feet-6. Fifteenth, 2 feet—
q. and cornet, 3 ranks-8. Pausanne or
large trumpet, 8 feet-9. Wald flute, 4 feet--10. Kohl
flute. sometimes called Keranlophial, 4 feet-11. Krum

54 NOTE
-2. Open

,:-L Stop qiapa.

C0311111.E1?CIAL 4, MONETARY NEWS

MONDAY NIGHT,

ALTHOUGH the general impression prevails that
all apprehension as to the breaking out of hostili-
ties in the East is at an end, the delay in arriving
at any definitive settlement has caused a general
inaction in monetary affairs, and the fluctuation
in the value of Public Securities has been very
trifling, with a slight tendency in favour of an
advance. This unwillingness to operate has been
also influenced to a considerable degree by the
unsatisfactory state of the Foreign Exchanges, and
the continued drain upon the resources of the Bank
of England. It appears that, notwithstanding the
recent large purchases of Wheat on French ac-
count, the balance of trade with France is still
against this country, and large exports of bullion
are being made to other parts of the Continent,
in order to provide against the anticipated defi-
ciency in our supplies of food, of home growth ;
and this demand proving more than the large re-
ceipts of gold from Australia can supply, a very
uneasy feeling has been produced. The demand
for commercial purposes has not, however, been
to any inconvenient extent,. and confidence in com-
mercial security has not, therefore, been disturbed,
a result attributable to the healthy nature of
almost all mercantile operations, and the absence
of any undue speculation.
A general inactivity seems to pervade commer-
cial transactions, owing to the uncertainty which
prevails both as to political and monetary affairs.
Holders are not willing to sacrifice in the face of a
probable rise in prices, and an easier money market
for discounts, while speculators are disinclined to
operate largely, with the possibility of a fall, owing
to the protracted settlement of the Eastern ques-
tion, and the continuance of the drain upon our
stock of specie.
The same inactivity prevails in our manufac-
turing districts, which are affected by similar
causes, with the exception of the trade in mil-
linery and light goods in Leicester and Notting-
ham, the demand for which is still brisk.
The recent alteration in the Customs' duties, by
which rates have been substituted for ad valorem,
duties, has already led to some modifications.
Twilled handkerchiefs, known in the trade as China
silk handkerchiefs, have been ordered to be deemed
Pongees, and charged with duty accordingly. An
order has also been made, that in cases where
foreign goods are imported with the name of any
English firm upon them, the practice hitherto
pursued of stopping such goods shall be continued,
except where they are imported by the firm whose
names they bear.

We are still without any new feature in our
SHARE MARKET; the same languor, andflatness,
inactivity prevail. The amount of real business
done each day is extremely small, and with the
exception of Eastern Counties Shares, which have
advanced 10s. per share, the prices of all shares
continue to decline. London. and North-Western
is heavy at 111, Midland at 71, Leeds at 75, or
thereabouts, and in the present dulness, even at
these prices, it would be a matter of difficulty to
sell a large lot. The local stocks are very steady
and inclined to advance, especially Bank and
Insurance Shares. We add this day's prices
Caledonians, 331 s ; East Lancashire, 18; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 751 * 4 ; West Riding
Union, 3d; Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, 17+;
London Stock, 111 • Midland Stock, 71+ *; Dover
Stock, 21* 1*; Bank of Liverpool, 22 ; North
and South Wales, 5+ ; Union, 124.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 20th of August gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :

Public deposits
Other deposits
Rest ...

£4,063,046; Increase £747,654
11,623,683; Decrease 566,437
3,351,848; Increase 7,622

On the other side of the- account--

Government securities £13,027,682; the same as before.
Other securities ... 13,876,950; Increase 265,229
Notes unemployed ... 7,644,880; Decrease 218,345
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,002,810,
beinc, a decrease of £97,205 • and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,171,793, showing
a decrease of £137,781, when compared with the
preceding return.