The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

NOTHING IS LOST.

Nothing is lost; the drop of dew
Which trembles on the leaf or flower.
Is but exhaled, to fall anew
In summer's thunder shower;
Perchance to shine within the bow
That fronts the sun at fall of day ;
Perchance to sparkle in the flow
Of fountains far away.

Nought lost, for e'en the tiniest seed
By wild birds borne, or breezes blown,

Finds something suited to its need
IVhere'er 'tis sown and grown;

Perchance finds sustenance and soil
In some remote and desert place,
Or 'mid the crowded homes of toil
Sheds usefulness and grace.

The touching tones of minstrel art,
The breathings of the mournful flute,
Which we have heard with listening heart,
Are not extinct when mute;
The language of some household song,
The perfume of some cherish'd flower,
Though gone from outward sense, belong
To memory's after hour.

So with our words, or harsh, or kind,
Uttered, they are not all forgot,
They leave their influence on the mind,
Pass on, but perish not.
As they are spoken, so they fall
Upon the spirit spoken to,
Scorch it like drops of burning gall,
Or soothe like honey-dew.

So with our deeds, for good or ill,
They have a power scarce understood;
Then let us use our better will
To make them rife with good;
Like circles on a lake they go,
Ring within ring, and never stay;
Oh, that our deeds were fashion'd so
That they might bless alway !

REVIEWS OP BOOKS.

Otthrum, the Dane; a Tale of the _ffTtarchy.
By Robert Story. Second Edition. London :

ron,onans

As the author tells us in his preface, " The de-
inand for two editions of a long poem in little
snore than a year, imposes on the author a pleasing
duty," The poem itself has already met with a
very flattering reception from the metropolitan
and provincial press ; and we can do little more
than reiterate the encomiums which have been be-
stowed on it. Its success has been one of the best
}tests of its merits, and with that both author and
publisher should be content.

Aubrey Conyers ; or, the Lordship of Allerdale.
By Miss E. M. Stewart. London: Ingram,
Cooke, and Co.

A tale of diversified interest, and abounding
ip -picturesque and romantic incidents, has been
published under the above title. It is from
the pen of the accomplished authoress of the
""City Tales," and is well adapted to sustain
2nd enhance her reputation as a writer of
llction. The dialogue is spirited, and in many of
Cie scenes disclosed in this novel, it is deserving of
sligher designation. As is usual with the works
published by the firm which issues it, " Aubrey
Conyers" is profusely embellished with cleverly
executed pictorial illustrations.
W Life of Roger Mowbray. By Alexander

Somerville

London : Varton and Co

Fhe object ofthis little inculcate,
lby7eference to actual incidents, the advantages to
be .derived from filial duty faithfully discharged,
strict integrity of act and purpose, firm self-
reliance, and intrepidity. The events which form
the introductory steps of the narrative are not of a
very startling nature, although some of them are
aetailed with much force and no small amount of
descriptive power. In particular, the circum-
stances of terror and destruction, accompanying
the bursting of an extensive mill-reservoir, occa-
sioned, as narrated in this instance, by the heedless
temerity of two youths, are pictured with a vivid-
liCSS and power, as well as a minuteness of deline-
stion, painfully true and striking. The volume
owes a considerable portion of its interest to the
sndicious introduction of biographical sketches of
individuals, who, by industry combined with me-
ilianical skill, commercial prudence, and unswerving
integrity, have been the means of improving, ex-
tending, or creating important branches of human
industry. Conspicuous among these sketches is
the brief notice of Samuel Slater, the " Father of
-American Manufactures." -This gentleman, who
Was a native of Belper, in Derbyshire, having
served his apprenticeship as a cotton-spinner, at
the establishment of Mr. Strutt, M.P. for the
borough of Nottingham, and present Chancellor
of-the Duchy of Lancaster, went first to London
and afterwards to New York, where he arrived,
after a tedious passage of sixty-six days, in the
latter end of 1789. Having, according to this
immtive, carried with him an accurate recollection
ef-the details of cotton-spinning machinery, and a
considerable intimacy with the minor details of
Fractical mechanics, he was enabled to construct
and maintain the first cotton-mill erected in Ame-
rica. The career of this singular man, as a manu-
facturer and financier, was for a long period so suc-
cessful, that he was reckoned unassailable by the
stomas which occasionally sweep the atmosphere of
commerce and strelt its fields of enterprize with
the wrecks of many a stately edifice. The pecuniary
crisis, which in 1828 desolated the busy marts of
the United States, and uprooted no small portion
even of English commerce, shook the stability of
the successful Derbyshire adventurer ; ultimately,
however, he escaped from the perilous vortex, and
'was a munificent contributor to the support of
schools, churches, missions, and other charitable
end benevolent institutions. The fortunes of Roger
Nowbray himself are traced through all their vary-
ing phases from indigence to wealth, influence, and
legislative honour, in a lucid and interesting flow
of narrative. Its author, Alexander Somerville,
Leiter known by his newspaper contributions, under
the signature of " One who has Whistled at the
Plough," has himself seen many vicissitudes in
fife, having first come before the world as a soldier-
Politician, for some freaks in which capacity he was
objected to severe military punishment; and lat-
terly, it may be in the recollection of some of our
Faders, he appeared as the ready castigator of
some of the figments published to the world by the
less Acropulous members of the " Peace Society."

C" Coal-fields and our Coal-pits ; the People
in them, and the Scenes around them. By a
Traveller -Underground. London : Longmans.
This, though strictly a popular work, as contra-
distinguished from those of a thoroughly scientific
mature, partakes, nevertheless, sufficiently of the
practical and the exact to render it useful, while
Its more popular qualities contribute to its value
2.9 a book of interesting and amusing character.
The immense commercial importance which Great
Britain has acquired among the nations, not of
Europe alone, but of the world, has been so im-
impcliately dependent upon the development and,
appreciation of its invaluable coal-beds to the or-
dinary purposes of every-day life and of manufac-
ture, that whatever tends to throw light upon the
natural history and present condition of those
fields of enterprise must necessarily be an object
of general and abiding interest. The work be-
fore us is eminently so. The author, who is evi-
dently well acquainted with his subject, commences,
after a few prefatory observations, by a comparison
between coal and gold, contrasting the value and
utility of the former with those of the latter. We
1101 not follow him through his course of specula-
lion on this subject, but content ourselves with his
enumeration of the

CONSEQUENCES OF CONTIGUITY TO COAL-FIELDS.

Contiguity to coal-fields has exercised a far more im-
Vortant effect on cities and towns than most men would
expect. Take only, for example, that of the small central
toal-fleld of England. Its area scarcely equals that of the
larger Scottish lakes, and yet that limited coal-field has
made Birmingham a great and flourishing town—the first
iron deptt in Europe ; and it has filled the surrounding
country with crowded towns and villages. Think only of
What the coal from the Staffordshire coal-field has done—
'tow many thousand steam-engines has it set in motion—
'Low many thousand railway trains has it propelled across
the country—how many thousand waggon-loads of sfilt
bas it elaborated from the brine—how many million tons
of iron has it furnished, raised to the surface, smelted, and
Lararnered ! Think, further, to what ultimate and oppo-
urposes this coal has converted its manufactures.
aik down a certain street in Birmingham, and you hear
volleys
oi sharp reports from guns proved by extra
33.ir0 of powder. Some say a gun a minute is made in
you o,llaln ; that is one result of the coal. Then look
little I,4l°se grosses of steel pens, piled up in grosses of
thors, dives, about to slip into the hands of editors, an-
good, theTes, novelists, poets, lovers, the bereaved', the
of Engianda? the merchant and his fifty clerks, the Bank
offices, the' the innumerable minor banks, the assurance
offices, the
~,ttrehouses, the customs, the government
steel pens, yvtc_ e• And all this only out of guns and
the Staffordshir"4t, then, shall not still come forth from
titude of useki coal, when we begin to think of the mul-
which fill the toyel ornamental Brummagem goods'
World ! Think 0111°PB and the dwellings of the.civilized
this character that Ya °fp
the eastly and countless
articles
of
to mind every thing )t-i!oar
ed in the Crystal Palace. Call
scrodp bervico, glass ornament, a gilt or sil-
barrel, down to a gilt button,

and all come from the Staffordshire coal.! I go not to
Wolverhampton, I pass not to the great Staffordshire
iron-works, I stop not at the Smethwick iron-works,
where Fox, Henderson, and Co. have erected a fortune
and a colony out of and upon the Staffordshire coal ; but
I stop in the very town of Birmingham itself, and when I
have at length succeeded in grasping the idea of the entire
possible products of this well-employed coal, I say that is
the true philosop'her's stone—it is discovered at last.
Not one of .all Father Newman's questionable miracles,
not one of the numerous marvels which he details of the
saints in the Popish cathedral at Birmingham, not all of
them together can equal the accredited and unquestionable
marvels of.coal. Let all the saints named rise up again,
and unite their marvel-working power, and one ton of coal
will beat them all ! Let the saints walk, after decapita-
tion, with their heads comfortably under their arms—let
them cross seas on their outspread mantles—let them call
up plagues on heretics, and call down blesiings on priests ;
see visions of virgins, and dream dreams of St. Dominic
and St. Fran& ; the whole of these saintly dreamings are
every day surpassed by the realities of the results of coal
at Birmingham. One day's guns will plague the heretics
more than a thousand saints. One box of steel pens will
conjure up more visions before a thousand eyes, and that
for year after year, than all that Eremites!or Anchorites
ever beheld in cave, or cell, or chapel. Dr. Wiseman, let
the author tell you a secret (not under seal of confes-
sional secresy) ; your greatest enemy is not the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury,nor Dr. Achilli, nor Judge Camp-
bell, but COAL, for what it originates—from steel pens to
steam printing-presses."
In various portions of his book, and connected
with other incidents, our author dwells, with
equal emphasis, on the importance of coal ; but.
in a community like that of Liverpool, where
the application of that mineral to purposes of na-
vigation is so well known, it cannot be necessary
to multiply instances of a similar kind to show
that the book is one written, and well written, on
an important subject. An exceedingly interesting
division of the work, we should say, is devoted to
a narrative of the customs and social habits and
condition of those more immediately connected
with coal working. This portion contains anec-
dotes and brief notices of men who, from their
connexion with coal-works, have become eminently
distinguished in society. We could have wished
to add some extracts from these, but space forbids.

VARIETIES

" I'LL ME ROUND this way in a minute," as the second
hand said to the hour hand.

WHAT relation is a door-mat to the scraper ? A step-
farther.
THE EFFICACY OF PREACHING.—The following IS
seriously told by Mr. Faber, a pervert from the English
Church to Romish idolatry :—" A Jesuit, a famous
preacher, by his sermons converted men by scores. And
it was revealed to him that not one of the conversions was
owing to his talents or eloquence, but all to the prayers of
an illiterate lay brother who sat on the pulpit steps saying
Hail Maries all the time for the success of the sermon."
JET BRACELETS FOR THE EMPRESS OF FRANCE.—
Mr. Greenbury, of Whitby, has just completed three sets
of jet bracelets for the Empress Eugenie. One set is of
" the dolphin headed pattern," with the eyes of garnets, of
a delicate pink ; the others are hardy-looking wreaths of
the oak branch, with a leaf and acorn, all of the highest
workmanship which the article is capable of receiving.
They are put together with the strong elastic cord, with
which these kind of personal decorations are fitted.
IN A LESSON IN PARSING, the sentence, "Man courted
in a capacity of bliss," the word courting came to a pert
young miss of fourteen to parse. She commenced hesita-
tingly, but got on well enough until she was to tell what
it agreed with. Here she stopped short, but the teacher
said, Very well, what does courting agree with ?" Ellen
blushed, and hung her head. " Ellen, don't you know
what that agrees with ?" " Ye—ye—yes, sir." " Well,
Ellen, why don't you parse that word ? what does it agree
with ?" Blushing still more and stammering, Ellen said,
" It agrees with all the girls, sir !"
A FIGHT IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA.---One day,
while lying at anchor, and, whistling for a breeze, the
steward rushed in with the announcement that a shark
and turtle were engaged in a fight alongside. Doubtful
and amazed at the account of so unusual and unequal a
combat, we all rushed on deck, and there, sure enough, we
saw an immense shark and a turtle of venerable antiquity,
if one might judge by his size and the profusion of bar-
nacles and other parasites with which he was decorated.
Without respect for his age and Quaker-like habits, the
shark made furious charges at poor turtle, who opposed
the dangerous jaws of the enemy with the full front of his
back, on which no impression could be made. On one
occasion the turtle did not turn quite sharply enough,
which cost him the greater part of one unlucky flipper.
Indignant at the perversion of such an aldermanic ban-
quet to the voracious and indiscriminating appetite of a
shark, our skipper intervened with a harpoon, but with
such ill-judged aim, that it fell butt-end foremost instead
of on the point, whereupon, in our disappointment, we
would gladly have pitched him after it. It, however,
answered the purpose of scaring away the shark for a few
moments, which the turtle made the most use of to scuttle
off to the bottom, where he was safe from the attacks of
his ravenous admirer.—Power's Three Years' Residence
'in China.

AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN.—David Wilson, an old
revolutionary soldier, and a native of New Jersey, died,
after a short illness, in Dearborn county, Indiana, in
August,lB33, aged 107 years. 2 months and 10 days. He
had, at different periods of his life, five wives, and, at the
time of his death, was the father of 47 children. While
residing in Pennsylvania, near the old Redstone Fort, his
wife gave birth to five children in 11 months. This ex-
traordinary man, when in his 104th year, mowed one
week for Squire Pendleton, of Hamilton county, Ohio,
about two miles from Cincinnati, during which he mowed
one acre per day of heavy" timothy" grass. He was about
five feet six inches in height. His frame was not sup-
ported by ribs, as the frames of ordinary men are, but an
apparently solid sheet .of bone supplied their place. He
could hold up his hands in a vertical position, and receive
a blow from the fist of a powerful man, on the lateral por-
tion of his body, without inconvenience. He served
throughout the entire Revolution, under General Wash- I
ington ; was engaged in most of the Indian wars since,
and was the companion of Marion and Rodgers, and of
many other distinguished early pioneers of our western
and southern wilds. Our readers may rest assured that
this statement is correct, as we received it from Mr.
Alexander Wilson, of North Madison, who is the 45th
child of the subject of this paragraph.—Newyork Tribune.
Wsics IS THE WEAKER Sax ?—Females are called
the weaker sex, but why ? If they are not strong, who
is ? When men must wrap themselves in thick garments, •
and incase the whole in a stout overcoat to shut out the
cold, women in thin silk dresses, with neck and shoulders
bare, or nearly so, say they are perfectly comfortable !
When men wear water-proof boots over woollen hose, and
incase the whole in India-rubber to keep them from
freezing, women wear thin silk hose and cloth shoes, and
pretend not to feel the cold ! When men cover their
heads with furs, and then complain of the severity of the
weather, women half cover their heads with straw bonnets,
and ride twenty miles in an open sleigh, facing a cold
northwester, and pretend not to suffer at all. They can
sit, too, by men who smell of rum and tobacco smoke,
enough to poison a whole house, and not appear more an-
noyed than though they were a bundle of roses. Year
after year they can bear abuses of all sorts from drunken
husbands, as though their strength was made of iron.
And then is not woman's mental strength greater than
the man's ? Can she not endure suffering that would
bow the stoutest man to the earth ? Call not woman the
weaker vessel ; for had she not been greater than man, the
race would long since have been extinct. Hers is .a, state
of endurance which man could not bear.
THE TUBBS IN THEIR WIVES.—We commonly con-
ceive a Turk as a burly individual, surrounded by a great
number of submissive beauties, anxious for the honour of
the handkerchief ; but it is not remembered that there is a
prodigious number of bachelors in the East. In spite of
the disgrace in which celibacy is held, a large proportion
of the men in the middle classes abstain from marriage,
on account of the difficulties thrown in their way by
manners and the competition of the rich. I have known
instances among the Levantines in which a young shop-
keeper has been compelled to spend half his capital to
procure a dirty little wife. The same system of purchase
prevails among the Turks, and is indeed derived from
them. The number of unmarried persons in the Ottoman
empire is therefore very great. The Turks are often
uxorious, and, in case no suspicion of jealousy crosses
their minds, treat their wives with considerable deference.
Few will venture to appear in the presence of their ladies
in the slightest degree intoxicated ; and they *ill submit
to be beaten on the day of Beiram, if, from poverty or
other causes, they have been unable to bring home the
roast shoulder of mutton required by inexorable custom
for the family dinner of that day. Eastern ladies often
resort to this summary mode of proceeding with their
lords and masters, even when not protected by the pri-
vilege of a festival. It is true that, on the other hand,
they are exposed to similar treatment if they carry the
joke too far, or misbehave in any way ; and that the sack
—of which it is now the custom to make fun among wags
who have looked at the outside of Eastern manners—is
always ready to punish serious derelictions of duty.—
Bayle St. John's Turks in Europe.
SPINSTER TEACHERS.--1 never was (says Fanny Fern)
on an august school committee, but if I were I'd make a
sine qua non that no school-marm should be inaugurated
who had not been a married mother. No ; I don't believe
in spinster educational teaching, any more than I do in
putting dried-up old bachelors on the school committee.
What bowels of mercies have either, I'dliket:hke:Pow,Thfore
the poor little restless victims of narrow ben
fifththeye
children are to "hold up Wthheirat
good
hands"(
does ar
thatth
e
have a request to make.
teacher won't take any notice of the Freemason
y d?
) :sligt7le
" They are not to enter complaints." So somlee pooarpoleon
' in jacket and trousers, till she is forced to shriek out with
litt N
girl must be pinched black and blue by
a
pain, when she is punished by being kept half an hour
after school for "making a disturbance !" They are " not
to eat in school," are they ? Perhaps they have mdatan
indifferent breakfast ; (perhaps they are poor, an ve
had none at all, and ABCD doesn't digest well on an
empty stomach ;) but the spinster teacher can hear them
recite with a tempting bunch of grapes in her hand, which
she leisurely devours before their longing eyes. They
" must not smile in school," must they ? Not when
" Tom Hood" in a pinafore cuts up some sly prank that
brings " down the house," yes, and the ferule, too, on
everybody's hand but his own (for he has a way of draw-
' ing on his " deacon face," to order.) They may go out
now and then, to breathe the air, but they must speak in
a whisper ; but even then as if they all had the bronchitis !
No matter if Queen Victoria should ride by, no little
brimless hat must go up in the air till "the committee
had sat on it !" Oh, fudge ! I should like to keep school
myself. I'd make " rag babies" for the littler girls, and
" soldier caps" for the boys ; and I don't think I would
make a rule that they shouldn't sneeze till school was dis-
missed; and when their little cheeks began to flush, and
their little heads droop wearily on their plump shoulders,
I'd hop and play " hunt the slipper ;" or, if we were in
the country, we'd race over the meadow, and catch butter-
flies, or frogs, or toads, or anything on earth except a
"School Committee."

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE,

THE GREEK CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sin,—After having traced, in a very brief manner, the
origin and progress of the Greek Church, I purpose to
show the tenets which that church professes. In former
letters, I have shown the cause of the separation of the
Eastern and Western Churches. In entering upon this
subject, the features of which are peculiarly interesting,
and more particularly so at a time like the present, when,
although the Emperor Nicholas appears to agree to certain
propositions ; still, can it be imagined that the Czar, who
has moved so vast an army, with all the munitions of war,
will be likely to give up his views of aggressive attempts
upon a country that his predecessors have so long desired.
It is, I believe, generally known, or at least those who may
be acquainted with history know that Constantine, the
Emperor, tolerated Christianity, himself became a Chris-
tian, and established the seat of his government at Con-
stantinople. The son of the reigning autocrat of Russia
is named also Constantine ; and it may be, considering the
traditions of Russia, which I believe assert that Con-
stantinople shall be again in the power of the Greek
Church, that the ambitious designs of the Czar may have
the object of placing his son, the present Duke, upon the
throne of the once great Constantine,—they connecting,
by powerful relationship, the union of two great nations.
Some may treat such a remark as an absurd idea ; but it
may be asserted, and with some degree of truth, that the
fanatical zeal of the Russian Greek Church will not slum-
ber ; and, as it has been stirred into a flame, it will not be
so easily quenched. In tracing the origin and progress of
a church that has so widely extended itself, histories of
bygone ages unfold their ancient leaves, and point out to
us a portion of that country possessed by the followers of
Mahomet, as being a spot where an Alexander, the son of
Philip of Macedon, was born, and who led his armies as
far as a portion of our Indian possessions. Then Greece,
again, once so full of poetry, where Sappho and Anacreon
sung, where Solon, the lawgiver, and Pericles, the Athe-
nian, lived ; and where the brave Leonidas, with his noble
three hundred, fell for his country against the numerous
army of Persia. In reading the history of these countries
we are impressed with events which have already passed
away like a dream ; and it may, perhaps, be naturally
asked, but what of the future ? That is impervious to
mortal ken; and it can only be said that present events
may show but in a very faint view, to the observing and
thoughtful man, something, although obscure, of the
future. In describing the tenets of the Greek Church, it
will be observed that there is an analogy between the
Roman and it. It is true that she does not acknowledge
the supremacy of Rome, but she does not deny the
church's infallibility. Although she is an advocate
for the use of the Scriptures, still she believes in tradi-
tion. She abounds in penances, confessions, absolutions ;
and, though strenuously denies the idea of purgatory, yet
she advocates the propriety of prayers for the repose of the
departed; she rejects images, but, at the same time, she
permits the adoration of pictures, and prays to the Virgin
Mary ; has great faith in relics, encourages monkery, and
asserts the great efficacy of the signing of the cross. Thus
we may observe that in many things the similarity be-
tween the Roman and Greek Churches is self-evident.
Transubstantiation also she denies by name, but her litur-
gies, of which there are a great number, fully confirm her
belief therein. In the Eastern Church, with her various
sects, there are about 67 liturgies, and these fully establish
her belief in the various doctrines above named. It is
necessary, for the purpose of proof, as well as affording a
matter of great interest, to give as succinctly as possible the
portions of prayers of the Greek Church, in order to show
that, although she may deny some of these doctrines, yet
her prayers fully evidence her belief in them. As regards,
first, the infallibility of their church, this is fully elicited
by their styling themselves "the one Holy and Apostolic
Church;" and as to their doubt of salvation beyond the
pale of their own church, the following statement will
fully testify. On " Orthodoxy Sunday," the first Sabbath
in Lent, an " anathema" is hurled against other churches
where, according to their idea, prevailing errors exist. As
regards her declaration that she has never been a perse-
cuting church, various accounts, gathered from the pages
of history, shew persecutions of fire, sword, and exile,
against heretics who were obstinate. The Greek Church
is particular in not exercising open persecution against
heretics, as they imagine it might more widely extend the
number of schismatics ; but when the rigid censorship
exercised against the press is known, it may be fully dis-
covered how the policy of the Greek Church exercises her-
self in matters concerning those who might be opposed to
their doctrines, and who, by them, are denominated contu-
macious schismatics. In comparing the scrutiny which
other countries exercise towards the press, we see the
natural consequences it produces. Bound in the iron bond
of slavery, they are obliged to regard their thoughts before
they utter them ; and anything spoken or published un-
warily is visited with the most condign punishment. If
we turn our eyes to that country situated opposite our own
sea-girt home, we see Napoleon 111. exercising his despotic
influence in curbing and restraining that mighty engine,
the press. The contrast to other countries as regards the
above allusion, cannot be more fully developed than by
comparing them with our own country. Here we pre-
serve that saying which was expressed by the great Alfred,
" that the English should be free as their own thoughts."
As I have more to add concerning the tenets of this church,
I purpose (D.V.) finishing this subject in my next letter.
Birkenhead, Aug. 27, 1863.
_ G. B. H.

P.S.—ln my second letter, for Jewelrins, read Demetrius.

NICHOLAS WISEMAN!S "COMMERCIAL"
LECTURE, AND THE PROCEEDS THEREOF.

TO TIIII IMITOR 077 TEM LIVERPOOL STAirDA.II.D.

Sm—Allow me, through the medium of your valuable
paper, to put the Protestant community on their guard
against a certain claptrap of Popish manufacture.
Nicholas Wiseman, or as the placards call him, "His
Eminence, Cardinal Wiseman l is to deliver a lecture at
the Philharmonic Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 30th
instant. One of our local Radical organs thus announces
it:— _ .

CA RDINAL WISEMAN'S LECTURE.—His Eminence, Cardi-
nal Wiseman, is announced to lecture at the Philharmonic
Hall on Tuesday evening. We understand the tickets are
sought for with avidity, not only by Roman Catholics, but by
Protestants of all denominations, who are desirous of seeing
and hearing a lecturer so well known, not only by his con-
nexion with the most prominent events of the times, but also
from his reputation as one of the literati of the age. The lec-
ture is upon a subject most interesting to the people of Liver-
pool ; and, quite apart from controversial theology, it is
entitled "The Highways of Peaceful Commerce are the High-
ways of the Arts." The proceeds are to be devoted to the
building fund of the new Literary Institute in Hope street.

Now, I could have no objection to a Romanist delivering
a " commercial" lecture, were that all ; but the last few
words of the above paragraph plainly show what the
object of the lecture really is—it is an example of the
of the Popish principle of " the end justifies the means."
A casual reader might say, " Oh, the lecture is for a very
praiseworthy object; it is for a literary institute;" but
that " literary institute" is also called " THE CATHOLIC
INSTITUTE." Allow me to say a word about it. In a
placard upon Copperas-hill Chapel wall there is a deal of
puffing respecting this Catholic Institute. It says the
Catholic youth of Liverpool are led away by attending
debating societies, "pernicious news-rooms," &c. &c., and
that on that account this institute is established where
" select" newspapers, &c., are to be had. There is also a
portion of the building set apart for mass. This is what
your contemporary calls a " Literary Institute." Protes-
tants of Tory Liverpool ! remember, if you buy a single
ticket for this lecture, you are supporting the " Catholic
Institute,"—an institution that is afraid of the light, for
it wishes to hinder poor ignorant Papists from attending
debating societies, where they would have an insight into
the real principles of their religion, and from reading
Protestant newspapers, lest they should see the workings
of their religion.
Protestants, be not led away by "commercial lectures"
in favour of Popish Institutes.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A PROTESTANT.
Liverpool, August 27, 1853.
p.S.—I have heard that there is a nunnery to be built
in connexion with this " Institute."

AGRICULTURAL

CAPABILITIES

OF CANADA

THE following animated letter, dated from Marysburgh,
near Kingston, Canada West, has been addressed to our
London contemporary, The Times:—
" Truth is stranger than fiction. Were we to read of a
nation of antiquity possessing, in one province, unnumbered
acres of the finest land in the world, lying waste for want
of cultivation, and, in another, annually expending millions
to support men having the will to work but not the
opportunity, we should conclude the nation to have been
insane. Yet England is doing this to the present hour. I
am aware of your taste for great facts ;' therefore, instead
of fancies or theories, I send you a few facts.
" At the Great Exhibition, in 1851, the prize wheat of
' the whole world' came from Canada. This determined me
to visit the district where it was grown,—Prince Edward.
That visit induced me to settle there, and I have now above
500 acres of freehold land there, at an average cost of 255.
per acre, all cleared and capable of cultivation. The entire
district is more densely populated than any agricultural
district I know in England, and our market town has five
churches, five hotels, two banks, four steamboats daily, two
newspapers, and every description of requisite warehouse
and shop, The soil, climate, language, and habits are so
exactly similar that I cannot imagine myself out of Eng-
land. Wheat is 55., rye, 35., barley, peas, and corn, (maize,)
2s. 6d., and oats, 2s. per bushel. The wages of an active
young agricultural labourer 4s. to ss. per day, with
board: And such board ! Imagine an English ploughboy
asking for sugar to his custard pudding daily, after beef,
pork, or mutton, and butter. Yet this have I seen here,
and not seldom ; and a labourer's wife, if not working, is
boarded for 2s. 6d. per week. The cost of emigration is
£4. 10s. per head. The best time, April, or early in spring.
" It may be said, ' How may this be known to be true
and not exaggerated ?' The reply is ready and simple. I
am responsible, and I believe not wholly unknown to you
as a public man in England, and I give you my name in
confidence ; and I will, in this district alone, which is a
mere speck in Canada, insure employment to one hundred
young, able, williv honest agricultural and house
servants, male and female, emigrating early in spring, and
I will receive ten at a time on my own estates, and employ
them until they can suit themselves ; and the intending
emigrant may test my statements by corresponding (post
paid) with the Rev. Macaulay, of Picton ; the Rev. J.
R. Tooke, of Milford; Father Lalor, of Picton; or D.
Smith, Esq., or C. Mortimer, Esq., of the same place,
bankers ; to give time for which, I write at this season.
" By some Australia may be preferred ! this is a fatal
error. Admit gold to be procured there ; what is its use ?
To buy land and necessaries. That may be done here
without it ; and, while the emigrant is making half the
circuit of the globe, he might here work a season, and then
take a farm ' on shares'—that is, have one-fourth of the
proceeds for his labour; or buy, and have ten years to pay
the money. He can also buy stock on credit if his
character will bear scrutiny ; and everyone will lend him
a helping hand. I know a man and his wife who left an
English union twelve years back, now owning two hundred
acres of paid freehold land, and keeping their pleasure
carriage and pair ; and also an Irish hodman, (a drunkard,
too,) having his seventy-five acres paid up, and stock worth
£lOO, though he has a wife and six children. Yet England
pays millions for poor rates, and paupers starve rather
than remove. I could add more, but I know the value of
your space."