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Though these compositions are styled the Psalms of David,
yet, he was not the writer of the whole of them. Of a great
proportion however, he was undoubtedly the author, and

among others, of the one immediately before us. It seems
to have been composed upon the occasion of some national
deliverance, and opens with an expression of pious gratitude

to God for the protection which He had vouchsafed' to him,
for having. " taught his hands to war, and his fingers to fight,"

and thereby enabled him to subdue his enemies

having ascribed to God the honour of the victory, he con-

fesses—his own unworthiness, and acknowledges that man can
have no claims to such au exhibition of divine goodness—
" Lord what is man that thou halt such respect unto him,
and the son of man that thou
_so regardest him ? Man is

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like a thing of nought,” He then proceeds to invoke his

future assistance, that He would once more lay bare his arm,
and to go forth in the strength of his might with the army of
Israel, to conquer their remaining enemies and to gain to

them so complete a victory that they might return home
in triumph, lay aside the garments of the warrior
which had so long been dyed in blood, and have leisure
to resume the pursuits of agriculture, and to cultivate

the arts of peace. Transported by the anticipation of
so pleasing a prospect, he pourtrays in glowing colours the
happy consequences which would ensue from it, when plenty

shOdd return to the land, and the granaries shOula be full of
corn, when every herd and every flock should be increased

without limit,_when they should enjoy freedom from foreign

invasion and domestic complaints, and when, amidst the first

and choicest of their blessings, their children should be no

longer neglected, but " their sons should grow up as the
young plants, and their daughters as the polished corners of
the temple," and they no longer be left uncultivated and un-
improved, like the wild flower or the unhewn marble, but

that now, when the din of arms was over, they should be
nurtured with the tenderest care and increasing solicitude,
that they might grow up the future strength and ornaments
of their country.

Indeed, there is nothing of such vital importance to man,
whether we consider him collectively or individually, as the
formation of early habits. As the plant is trained, so is the
beauty or the deformity of its maturer growth. According
to the skill and ingenuity and patience displayed in the mould-
ings of the marble, is the polish and symmetry of the future
column when it comes from the artist's hands. If the ground-
work be not well laid, if the cultivation of the soil be neg-
lected, if the plant be left to grow wild in rank luxuriance, in
vain shall we look forward to the fruit; if the stone be not
reduced to its harmonious proportions, in vain may we ex-
pect it will add to the stability or to the symmetry of the
future building. So it is with man : he is born like a wild
ass's cold ; if left to himself, and allowed to take his own
course without controul, he must fall the victim of his head-

strong passions and
.of his unrestrained appetites. Atten-
tion, and industry, and perseverance, must form the disci-
pline of the youthful mind ; it must be early taught to know
the power and the practice of self-government ; it must not

be left to the fearful chances of accidental impressions, much
less to the positive contagion of evil associations ; but " what-
soever things are pure, whatsoever things are honest, what-
soever things are lovely, must be inculcated and rooted in
the growing habits of the child, must he taught to ' grow
with his growth and to strengthen with his strength.' " From
infancy proceeds the growth of men. They are placed here
in a state of probation for an immortal existence ; and upon
the early direction given to their opening faculties, upon the
early inculcation of right religious principles, depends not
only the colour and the complexion of their life upon earth,
but also their prospects in an eternal world. There is a
restless and a busy principle of action within us, which will
not be satisfied without being called into exertion, and if it
be not guided at first aright, will soon find for itself another
direction. Can any reflecting man doubt the vigilance of
the great enemy of souls, who is continually walking about
seeking whom he may devour ? Can there be a doubt of his
eagerly seizing every opportunity of sowing his tares in so
fruitful a soil, if it be left open and unguarded? Now, as
the tendency to evil and sinful habits is much more easily
prevented than cured, as the teachableness and the docility
of childhood are proverbial, as the mind at that tender age
is susceptible of any impressions, capable, like the plant, of
being bent to any form, and like the marble moulded to any
shape, it is most important to preoccupy it with sentiments
of piety and of virtue, and to instil good principles and good
thoughts into it as soon as ever there is a capability to re-
ceive them. ,

Our Saviour has taught us how acceptable is such an offer-
ing, when he applied the words of the Psalmist to the hosannahs
of the children of Jerusalem " out of the months of babes
and sucklings hast thou perfected praise." It is the advice
of the wise king of Israel " remember thy creator in the days
of thy youth" ; and if this was inculcated, and necessary to
be inculcated under the imperfect ministrations of the law,

1)ow much more necessary is it that a Christian child should
be taught to know that God is his creator, and that of all
mankind—that he is an all wise and a perfect being, and as
he at first made the world by his power, so he continues to
govern and to preserve it by his providence !
To these truths, which are the foundation of all religion,
must be gradually added, as his faculties expand, and his
powers of apprehension unfold themselves, the knowledge of
the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, of the universal
corruption and degeneracy of mankind, the causes which led
to it, the hopeless condition to which we were reduced by the
fall of our first parents, the mercy of God in providing the
remedy, the atonement made for sin upon the cross. He
should be informed that " as in Adam all havp died, so in
Christ shall all be made alive"; he should be instructed in
the history of his Saviour's life ; in the efficacy 'of his
Saviour's death, in the necessity of repentance and newness
of life, in order that the benefits of that death may be ap-
plied to himself, in the certainty of another state of existence
after he shall have passed through this probationary scene,
and of a great day of account when the living and the dead,
both small and great shall stand before God, and be judged
and dealt with out of those things which are written in the
book, according to their works ; in the means by which he
may be enabled to obtain the grace of God here, and the
foundation upon which he may build his hope of glory here-
after.

To these doctrines should be added, that he should be taught
those precepts which contain the great rules of practise, those
unquestionable duties, founded on thosedoctrines, which he
owes to God, his neighbour, and himself : towards God, faith,
reverance, submission, resignation, worship, gratitude, and
love ; towards man, truth, justice, mercy, and charity ; to-
wards himself, temperance, sobriety, humility, and self-
denial. In short the whole gospel of that Jesus, in whom,
as a Christian, he professes to believe, should be laid before
him, and he should be made familiar with those sublime
doctrines, and those golden rules, which it is the glorious and

admirable previlege of Christianity to have fully revealed,
and brought within the reach of all.
Such are the heads of that instruction which should be
taught to all as the basis of their present and future happi-
ness. God has never left himself without a witness ; but
we have a peculiar revelation. He has placed us under the
covenant of grace, and surely if there be any one branch of
knowledge more important than the rest, it is that a Christian
should be instructed as early and as carefully as possible, in
the terms of that covenant into which he has been admitted.
For this blessed purpose it has been the wisdom of our na-
tional church to provide her excellent catechism—a produc-
tion which the wisest and the best has for ages regarded with
the highest estimation, and which they will continue so to
regard as long as purity of doctrine and unaffected piety
shall be dear to Englishmen. It has been well said of it that
it is a production upon which the philosopher when he peruses
it pauses with admiration, and the religionist is enraptured
with its piety. The young should be encouraged to learn it
with the most serious attention, and happy is it for the hoary
headed if he continues to read with growing conviction, grow-
ing delight, and growing improvement. It may well be
called the key of Christian knowledge, for it opens the way
to further improvement. Would to God that every parent
throughout the land would put a true value upon that inesti-
mable blessing, and avail themselves, as they ought, of its
help and of its assistance. From the earliest dawnings of
reason and of conscience, the tendernesi of a mother's affec-

tions cannot possibly be a worthier object, nor one which
will more effectually secure the favour and affection of
Almighty God, than in thus training up the soul of her child
in the nurture and admonition oi' its Saviour ? To every
parent whose pious care thus sows the seed of religious truth
in the mind of her child, it will through every future stage
of her life, and more especially when life closes, be a source
of lasting comfort, to reflect that she has not in this instance
been unmindful of her duty. " Whom," says the prophet,
" shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall he make to un-
derstand doctrine ? Even them that are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breast." In that important inter-
val from the first unfolding of the soul, to the maturity of
riper years, what cpu parents do more useful to their children,
and if they think rightly, is more satisfactorily to themselves
than to see that those children be taught so soon as they
shall be able to learn " what a solemn vow, promise, and
profession" have been made for then in their baptism ?
It must be a subject of sincere congratulation to every de-
vout and benevolent mind, that the vital principles of the
institution, for which I have this day the privilege of plead-
ing, is to perform in this most essential point the duty of an
anxious and affectionate parent. Your Blue-coat Hospital
receives into her maternal arms those whom it has pleased
God to deprive of their natural protectors. Out of 350
children now under its roof, 344 are either wholly or in part,
orphans. Can we conceive of a charity more calculated to
interest the best feelings of the human heart, one which
snatches these helpless and unprotected children from the
dangers with which they are surrounded, supplies them with
food and raiment, shelters them from the pressing evils of
poverty and destitution, and not content with providing for
their temporal wants, teaches them to look forward beyond
the transitory concerns of this world, and educates them for
an immortal existence? Aware that moral duties lose their
energy and their strength, and moral virtues their animation,
and their consistency when unsupported by religious motives,
it is the care of those who are entrusted with its manage-
ment, to bind the strong distinction between good and evil
upon the heart and the conscience, by the solemn sanction of
religious belief. Is not this in strict conformity with the
will of Him who commmnded that little children should be
brought unto him, and blamed those that would-be kept thus
from him ? Is it not in compliance with the injunctions of
Him who declared, " whoever shall receive one such little
child in my name, receiveth me ; who when he laid his hand
upon them and blessed them, openly proclaimed that of such
was the kingdom of God ? May we not confidently hope
and trust that the blessings of God will not be wanting to
further the efforts of those who thus endeavour to promote
his glory, and the everlasting happiness of their fellow-
creatures ?
But it is not mere instruction which is given in this school.
Knowledge is of but little use without practice. To profess
to know God, and yet to deny him in works, the Apostle
brands with the stigma of being " abominable and disobedi-
ent." Whilst, then, their memories are stored with the
facts and the promises of the gospel, whilst they are occupied
with things concerning salvation, they are at the same time
accustomed to acts of devotion. They attend time Lord's
house, they join in congregational worship, they show their
respect for the ordinances of religion by their practical at-
tention to its duties. Religion becomes a habit to them, and
in the little world in which they live they are required to
bring forth the fruits of the spirit. When they enter thus
armed upon a wider sphere of action, they are better pre-
pared to struggle with the temptations which they must meet
with. It does not indeed follow as a matter of course, that
all of them shall escape the pollutions of the world, that
passion, or interest, or evil communications may not lead
some of them astray ; yet even should this be the case, we
may fairly hope that conscience will be more easily awakened,
and that the recollection of early instruction and early
habits may recur to produce repentance and amendment.
Happily, however, as far as regards this charity, we are not
left merely to conjecture. The experience of many years has
assured us that a very large proportion of those whom it has
laboured to guide in the paths of holiness and piety, have re-
solutely continued to walk in them, and that it has sent forth
into the world many honest and useful citisens, intelligent
and upright merchants, many loyal and industrious-subjects,
many pious and sincere Christians.
If such, then, be the wisdom of this institution, and such
the effects which have flowed.from it, go on, I beseech you,
with one heart and with one spirit to promote its future use-
fulness. Animated by Christian faith, mighty in its energy,
and grateful to the giver of all good, join in contributing to
lead these children to industry, to virtue, and to God.
But it is unnecessary for me to exhort you. Your own
hearts will be your best councillors. I will not believe that
there is a single individual here present in whom the desti-
tute situations of these children has not raised a feeling of
generous sympathy ; nor will I believe that there is one who
will not consider it a happiness and a delight to give vent to

that feeling—by throwing in his mite in so holy a cause.
Were any additional inducement required, it is to be
found in the circumstances of the present period ; in the
occurrences of the past week. The birth of an heir to the
British throne is a subject of congratulation and rejoicing,
which should excite in every loyal breast the warmest feelings
of thankfulness to that gracious. Being by whom, kings reign,
and princes decree justice. And how can our gratitude be
more acceptably displayed than in consecrating it, by acts
of charity and benevolence to our fellow-creatures ? How
can we better show our sense of the value of the gift he has
bestowed than by making it the means of conferring benefits
upon those who, though born to a humbler lot in this world,
are yet cast in the same mould, and are equally dear to him,
who, as the common Father of all, is no respecter of per-
sons?

Follow, then, I beseech you, upon this occasion, the
Christian rule of charity. Let each give according to what
he has. You who have much, give liberally ; you who have
little, do your diligence gladly to give of that little. Remem-
ber it was the praise of Mary of Bethany " She has done
what she can." And if, at the great day of account, the joy-
ful sentence shall be addressed to you " Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
beginning of the wo,•ld, for I was a-hungered, and ye gave
me meat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink, I was a stran-
ger, and ye took me in, naked, and ye clothed me ; for inas-
much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me ",—if, I say, it shall be
your happy lot to have this sentence pronounced upon you,
then will you look back with consolation, and with joy upo❑
this day, having found that its reward is in heaven, and its
reward is on high.
Now to God the Father, &c.

At the close of the service, owing to the croweded state of
the church, the collections were made at the doors from the
parties as they retired, and the total amount was £195 -Is 4d,
—a sum nearly six times larger than that collected for the
same charity last year.

Long before the conclusion of the service, the surrounding
streets, also Lord-street and Castle-street, and the church-
yard, again became densely crowded by parties of all grades,
anxious to witness the return of the procession to the Town-
hall, which it was generally expected would form in the
same order as before. In this, however, they were disap-
pointed, as the mayor, the town-clerk, and a few friends,
alone returned to the hall, preceded by the regalia, the re-
mainder of the company (after a prolonged attendance,) hav-
ing taken their way to their respective homes. _
_

the crowds in the neighbourhood soon afterwards dis-
persed, and the town assumed its usual quiet Sunday appear-
ance.

The following is a statement of the respective amounts
collected for the Blue Coat School, by the respective new
mayors, within the last seven years :-
1835 Mr. W. W. Currie
1836 Mr. W. Earle.....
1837 Mr. W. Rathbone,
1838 Mr. H. Hornby...
1839 Sir J. Walmsley...
1840 Mr. T. 801t0n....
1841 Mr. J. Shaw Leigh

£54 4 0
35 12 6
30 14 4i
42 7 6
45 3 G
33 17 3
195 4 4

NORTH DISPENSARY.—On Sunday evening last a sermon
was preached at St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, by the Rev.
D. James, incumbent, after which a collection was made in
aid of the funds of the above charity, amounting to £lsls. 3d.
We hope the example set by the rev. gentleman will be forth-
with followed by the clergy of the town, in order to relieve
the Dispensaries from their present state of financial embar-
ragsment.

LIST OP PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SHIP COLUMBIA.
—Prom Boston—Hon. Washington Barrow, lady, and son ;
Hon. George Cathcart, Lieut.-Col. Belfour, Capt. Forbes,
Capt. John Marshall, Messrs. W. Blake, W. Walton, A. H.
Haddan, W. E. Lewis, J. Emerie, J. J. Lyons, Klancke,
S. Hopkins, F. Aleny, C. F. Shaw, A. H. H. Bernard, C.
F. Adams, Kinnard, Fritz, J. Freeman and lady, J.
P. Stephens, W. B. Huzgins and man-servant, T. Soublet,
Montizambut, R. Gillespie, J. Wrigley, J. Robinson, J.
Gourd, Bullock, and Bush. From Halifax—Capt.
Broughton and man-servant, and Messrs. M'Queen, Miller,
Powell, Curzon, Russell, Hollingsworth, and Robinson.

DEAFNESS.—Mrs. Gardner, we perceive, has been com-
pelled by the pressure of business to remain in Liverpool.
Those who have been under her care speak very highly of her
abilities, attention, and mode of operation. Mrs. Gardner
may be termed a benefactress to her race—and those who
need her assistance will not repent applying for it.
PROPERTY.—Those who are in want of a good house,
may suit themselves by a reference to Mr. Williams' ad-
vertisement.

CANDLE SPRINGS.—A very useful and handy little article
has just been brought out by Mr. Healey, for the purpose of
keeping candles upright in the socket of the stick. It quite
supersedes the use of paper in wrapping round the candle,
and quite prevents accidents occurring.
The application of Captain Taylor's floating breakwater,
for the formation of refuge harbours on the coast of the
United Kingdom, appears likely to be carried out with great
advantage to our maritime commerce, and its practicability
is almost universally admitted. To show the vast import-
ance attached to the invention, it is only necessary to refer
to the names of the patrons, the directors, and others con-
nected with the formation of the company, by means of
which it is to be put into immediate operation, which com-
prising as they do, those of the first eminence in nautical
service and knowledge, cannot fail to impress upon the pub-
lic mind its high utility.

HOAX Or THE ALBION.—Poor Thomas Bolton! never did
any great man descend from his tripod to mingle with the
denizens of this " worky-day world," with less flourishing
of trumpets and showering of bays than the forlorn and ne-
glected EX-MAYOR of Liverpool. Not a line to grace his
retirement or to soften his fall—not a line even ofMercury—
not a word from Chronicle or Journal; whilst the Albion—
more cruel than any—"damns with faint praise," and
" shuffles off the coil," from the object of his worship for
twelve long months, in the space of a shabby paragraph, no
longer than would serve to record the decease of a favourite
hound, or to record the praises of a spavined hackney.
Alas for Thomas Bolton ! when the only commendation to
posterity accorded to him by his sole panegyrist is confined
to his " hospitality at the Town-hall, and the cosmopolitan
character of his invitations! Happierfar would it have been
for him to have been unsung and unwept—happier had his
" liberal" compatriots been able to say of his obscuration—
" We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone ;
But we left him alone with his glory !"

ST. SUWON'S CHURCH, GLOUCESTER-STREET.—On Sun-
day last, sermons were preached towards liquidating the
debt still existing on this church in several churches, and the
following collections were made: at St. Jude's £5O Is. 10d.,
Christ Church £2O 10s., St. Mary's, Kirkdale, £lB, All
Saint's £lO 10s. We cannot too strongly recommend this
interesting church to the liberality of the public.
It is probably known that until very lately the building be-
longed to the Independents, and being advertised for sale
was purchased by some friends of the establishment, and
vested in five trustees, of whom the Rev. Fielding Ould is
one. The debt still outstanding, notwithstanding the col-
lections on Sunday, amounts to nearly £9OO, and we
trust some effort will be made to remove such an in-
cumbrance on the efficiency of the minister (Rev. J. R.
Connor), a truly devoted, zealous, and persevering man. The
district allotted to the church comprises a most degraded and
lamentably neglected portion of the population of the town,
as the following statement evinces. Out of 1462 inhabitants
of four small streets, which are by no means the worst in the
locality, 1280 never profess to attend a place of worship, 95
only go there occasionally, and but 87 attend regularly.
THE WOOL OF THE LAMA.—(From a correspondent.)—

A gentleman of the name of Woolaston, who has resided for
some years among the mountains of Thilbet, has lately dis-
covered a species of the lama, the colour of which is perfectly
black, and its hair as soft as silk. The latter, he says, is
capable of being woven into shawls and other cloths of a
similar description with much advantage. As a staple com-
modity he remarks that it does not possess the properties of
wool, it being much more fine than is the latter material ; but
it would admirably well suit the fine shawl trade, as it is

carried on in the manufactories of Glasgow and Paisley. The
hairs run upon an average 12 inches in length, and are of a
jet black colour, so that they do not require dyeing to enter-
tain a darker shade. A large quantity of twist, which has
been turned in the hills, has already been bought up by the
French merchants on speculation, and sent to France, where
it has realized as much as from 12s. 6d. to 14s. per pound,
while the raw unspun material has met a ready sale at 2s. sd.
to 3s. per pound. The Indian shawls, which have ever been
eeld in high estimation, are manufactured from the fine soft
hairs which forms the under coat of the Cashmere hill goat,
and the above animal, the " Alpaca," (for such is the name
under which it is known by the natives), affords a hair equally
as soft and as long as that which is furnished by the former
creature. The black Cashmere shawls have always fetched
higher prices than any other of a similar descpiption in the
market ; and it is not at all improbable but that the beautiful
silky hair of the " Alpaca" is used largely by the Cashmere
weavers in their manufacture of the latter very valuable as
well as profitable article of commerce.
CURIOUS ROBBERY.—On Lord Mayor's Day, as the pro-
, cession was passing the Mansion House, the thieves were,
as might be expected, very busily employed. Amongst the
persons robbed was a French gentleman. The way in which
the robbery was committed had a good deal of coolness and
comedy about it. The gentleman had his watch, to which
there was a guard, in one waistcoat pocket, and a purse con-
taining 15 sovereigns in the other, and he kept his arms
down so as to protect the property in both pockets. As he
walked along a well-dressed person, who had noticed him for
some time, said to him, " Oh, sir, if you carry your arms in
that way you will hare your pockets picked as sure as you
ever were born." " Ah," said the French gentleman,
" sare, I shall thank you let me know how I carry my arms."

" Why," this way to be sure," replied the polite adviser ;
and, taking hold of one of the Frenchman's, raised it up,
and, with amazing quickness. whipped out the purse, while
the grateful foreigner passed along, saying " Sare, I thank
you vera much for showing me how not to be robbed." The
gentleman did not ascertain that he had lost anything till he
got into Wood-street, where he visited a family and men-
tioned the adventure pretty nearly as it is stated above. The
statement of this robbery at the Mansion \House brought to
mind an impudent robbery which was committed on Ludgate-
bill in the mayoralty of Alderman Thompson- Upon that
occasion a little elderly, dressy man, who had a diamond pin
in his shirt, stood out of the crowd upon the steps of a hall
door, and was enjoying the procession with great dignity.
The sparkling gem in his shirt, however, soon attracted the
attention of a gang of thieves, who went over to the place on
which he stood, and held him by the arms, while one of the
fraternity quietly took the pin out of the little fellow's shirt,
and fixing it in his own, said, " I say, old fellow, dont it
look a precious sight better where it is now, eh ?" It was in
vain the loser cried out. The gang drowned his voice by
their vociferations ; and, getting among the crowd, proceeded
in their work without any interruption from him.

LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITU-
TION.—On Friday evening, Mr. Thomas Venables com-
menced, at this institution, a series of lectures on " English
Minstrelsy and the National Music of England." The mat-
ter of the lecture itself was very interesting, and displayed
great learning and research ; the illustrations, too, were apt
and well performed. This, the first lecture, was for the pur-
pose of provine that England has a national music entirely
distinct from that of Italy, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, &c.
To prove this, numerous illustrations of the melodies of
these nations were brought forward, many of them very an-
cient and also beautiful ; for instance, as a specimen of Eng-
lish music, " Down among the dead men," was given by a
gentleman amateur, in a manner worthy of this beautiful
composition ; and also, by Miss Sarah Venables, " Shall I
go walk," from Queen Elizabeth's Virginal book, and " the
King shall enjoy his own again," " From merciless invad-
ers, &c., &c. As a specimen of the melodies of Scotland,
" Ye banks and braes" was sang beautifully by Mr. and
Miss Venables. The peculiar music of Italy was illustrated
in the Polacca " Son Vergin," splendidly sung by Miss
Venables. The rollicking joyous music, as Mr. Venables
styled it, of Ireland, was exemplified in " Rory O'More ;"
and its pathetic melodies in the " Last Rose of Summer."
Besides those we have enumerated, there were a great num-
ber of other illustrations of the lecture, both vocal and in-
strumental, amongst the mostbeautiful of which were " Chevy
Chase," by Miss Venables,—" Here's a health unto his
Majesty," written for Charles ll.—the march played before
Mary of Scotland when proceeding to execution—and " Fare-
well Manchester," performed by the troops of the Pretender
in '45, when making their retreat. Mr. Venables is evi-
dently master of his subject, and an enthusiast in his art.
His lecture was full of anecdote, and was, together with its
illustrations, a great treat. We cannot in justice close this
short notice without returning our sincere thanks to Miss
Venables for the pleasure she afforded us by her exertions.
Galignani's Messenger contradicts, on authority, the state-
ment that Lord and Lady Holland were perverted to the
Roman Catholic faith.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD AND THE ART

UNION

As our contemporary the Chronicle has condescended to
reply to the following silly paragraph which appears in this
month's Art Union, we cannot allow another publication to
pass without some comment upon it. _

"The Liverpool prize has been awarded to Thomas Web-
ster, Esq., A.R.A. for his picture of ' The Boy of many
Friends;' a work of? rare merit, and unquestionably entitled
to the distinction conferred upon it. We are unable, this
month, to notice the Liverpool Exhibition, but shall do so in
our next."

" We lament to observe, that the press in Liverpool is
doing much injury to the best interests of art, by a system
of remarks (not criticisms) upon the pictures in the present
Exhibition : we allude more particularly to the ill-judged
notices of the Standard and the Chronicle; the writers in
both these papers are evidently totally unacquainted with the
subject on which they profess to write. In illustration, we
need only refer to the blunderings of the Chronicle, both in
manner and matter, and the " fleshings" of the Standard,
coupled with a general vulgarity of style, eminently calcu-
lated to disgust the friends of art. We can assure their
editors, that Liverpool is the only town in which such bad
taste is displayed, and we trust we may venture to hope that,
in future, these gentlemen will confine themselves to writing
upon subjects they may chance to understand, and not imi-
tate Sir Roger de Coverley, who deemed it his duty to make a
speech whether to the purpose or not."
Now, it must be quite clear upon whose authority the
above statement is made. The paragraph evidently emanates
from the " Liverpool Academy," perhaps indited by the
president himself, whose immortal work, No. 184, "Going
out with the Keeper," hangs in a very conspicuous corner of
the large room to the left of the entrance of the second
apartment. We noticed this picture in the following terms :
" 184. ' Going Out with the Keeper.' C. BARBER, Liver-
pool.' This work is by the President of the Liverpool
Academy. It certainly stands per se, as it is without doubt
the worst painting in the Exhibition. The bow-wows are
portraits of some in the possession of Mr. Eastee, our next
door neighbour, only his animals look the more natural."

In the Chronicle we find remarks upon the same work to
the following effect :

" 184. Going Out with the Keeper.' This gentleman
had better remain in with a keeper ere he venture to smug-
gle such a thing as this into any exhibition. Some one must
surely have imposed on the committee in this as well as in
others."

These notices have given great offence. Ours, we know,
has proved particularly vexatious. Whether our opinions
are correct or not we leave the public to judge. Let any
body inspect the picture. We certainly did not draw atten-
tion to the larger animal represented thereon, because we
were not aware of its class ; but as we have since understood
it to be a pony, we may as well call it so. We shall not here
notice this work of art any further, because we shall do so
at length in a few observations upon the Liverpool Academy
—its members, and their claims to public consideration and
favour.

The plain tale of the above paragraph in the Art Union is
this—wishful of giving the Art Union the intelligence that
the prize of the year had been awarded to Mr. Webster's
picture of " The Boy and—(not of)—many Friends"—re-
specting which award, anon—the writer of the paragraph
avails himself of the opportunity of dealing a heavy blow at
the STANDARD and Chronicle fur the pokes they have be-
stowed upon him, while dragging into notice a work which
should have been hung behind a door instead of by its side.
The Art Union, without inquiring into the matter—without
having seen, perhaps, the notices in either paper, relying upon
the authenticity of the authority, inserts the paragraph, and
the contributor is supremely happy.
We have never presumed to call or consider our remarks
criticisms. We have merely endeavoured to draw public at-
tention to such works as we have considered meritorious.
That we have been compelled to omit noticing many works
by the Liverpool academicians is a subject of regret; it is not
from want of inclination, but from the fact that many of their
works are not worth observation—and are best " left in the
shade."

That our remarks have " disgusted the friends of art" may
perhaps be true, if such persons can be called friends of art
who admire pictures of the quality of 184, but that we " are
doing i,ljury to the best interests of art" we declare to be
false. We have been the means of bringing into notice several
very clever young artists—not academicians—and a reference
to our columns will show that we have been at all times ready
and willing to advance the cause " and best interests of art."

We may, perhaps, have unintentionally and slightly
damaged the reputation of a bad painter, who he may be
esteemed a good teacher ; but how can a man inculcate
thoroughly the principles of an art which he knows only in
theory ? But this is from the subject. As to the Art Union
taking upon itself to denounce our notices, we shall say but
little, because we consider it has fallen into a snare which it
would not have avoided, if fully acquainted with the subject.
We shall await patiently the appearance of next month's
number, when its own remarks upon the Liverpool exhibi-
tion will appear. If of no better quality than its usual
notices, we think we may court comparison, with a trifling
balance in our favour.

A word or two upon the adjudication of the prize to Mr.
Webster's picture of the " Boy and many friends." We
cannot see why this picture should have been selected " to
bear off the bell." It is a deserving and very clever one we
admit, but if we are rightly informed, it has long since passed
out of the painter's possession, and at a good price, and it
has been exhibited elsewhere! What encouragement is this
to the artists of Liverpool or any other place to compete for
a prize? Why, artists now will go back to those who have
paid them liberally for their works, and say, " Sir, lend me
the picture I painted for you last year, I want to exhibit it
at Liverpool, as I think it may carry off the prize." What
advancement is this to the " best interests of art." It is
positively ridiculous to award a prize to a picture that has
been sold and paid for. It is not ourselves but the academy
itself that is doing injury to the arts—if injury is effected,
which, however, we do not think is the case—it is not our
remarks, but the vanity, absurdity, and exclusiveness of the
academy that will damage the " best interests," and disgust
the lovers of fine arts.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL
STANDARD.

SlR,—The tide of conveniently assumed loyalty which
formerly manifested itself in the boisterous professions of
self-interested radicalism, has, as was confidently predicted
by every sagacious observer of the signs of the times. long
since arrested the commotion of its waters ; and, with re-
ference to the " good old town " in which we reside, let
Clayton-square bear testimony to the fact, that the voices of
our liberal gentry have not latterly become hoarse, nor have
their throats been made sore, by dint of n:ly very extrava-
gant professions of attachment to the throne. Rathbone,
the thrice-rejected, laments in solitude in his retreat at his
favourite Greenbank ; and Colonel Williams seems resolved
to keep snug in his retirement at Woolton, not having, since
the occurrence of the recent glorious changes, condescended
to favour the world with any proofs of his political existence,
if we except a few letters in which, through that veracious
organ of the radicals, the Mercury, (nomen ingens ') he has
recently thought proper to vent his spite upon our noble and
valued representative, who cannot, indeed, be said to be
otherwise than honoured in becoming the subject of the
coarse and vulgar abuse of such a man. But for loyalty,
truly, we must look to some other quarter, rather than to-
wards the votaries of a disappointed and furious radical fac-
tion. The general and thorough defeat sustained by their
party may, perhaps, in some measure, be admitted as an
apology for their wrath ; but can certainly form, on the sup-
position they are sincere, a most wretched palliation of their
glaring inconsistency in abandoning our gracious Queen,
without a sigh or a protest so far as she is concerned, to the
guidance of men whom they have, in time past, been assidu-
ous in maligning as the country's worst enemies, and as
royalty's determined foes,—men, in short, who could never
be permitted to hold the reins of authority, without the sa-
crifice of everything which a patriot should hold most dear.
Yet such is the fact, and it seems very clearly to expose the
real nature of those loyal and disinterested feelings which
are cherished by the liberal party.
But with all true conservatives, whom I shall take the h-
berty of characterising as the sole bond fide loyalists of the
realm, the elevation of the present ministry to power must
indeed form a subject of patriotic exultation. That a minis-
try who, at the commencement of their career, held forth
promises of peace, econamy, and reform—a ministry indebt-
ed for their elevation to power to the unqualified pledges
which they gave as regarded these three particulars—should,
immediately on their inability to realise these engagements
becoming manifest, he exposed to the lofty indignation of a
discerning British public, and, ultimately, to all the odium
of a literal expulsion from their respective posts, is a fact
which redounds to the honour of the nation whose concerns
that ministry had so long and so grossly mismanaged. I
may here, Mr. Editor, be allowed to make the remark, that
there is one circumstance in connection with the general
election before adverted to, deserving of especial notice. It
is that those who had previously rendered themselves most
prominent by their vigorous advocacy and espousal of the
conservative cause, were invariably returned to parliament
by unusually large majorities, at the hands of their respec-
tive constituencies. Sir R. Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, our own noble and highly-valued representative
Lord Sandon, and others. will form apt illustrations of the
truth of this remark. Thus, therefore, has practical proof
been given of the fact, that the country viewed with appro-
bation the manly and independent line of conduct pursued
by the leading parliamentary champions of our glorious
cause ; and thus, in a word, is the conservatism of the great
bulk of the population of England made manifest beyond the
shadow of a doubt.

The political and social amelioration of Ireland, I would
further remark, is a subject so important as to demand the
serious attention of our new administration. While no one
would be more prompt than myself to discourage any mode
of procedure at all savouring of persecution, I would vet
most strenuously contend that effectual measures should
with all promptitude be taken, with the view of securing
protection to life and property—a course of conduct the
adoption of which will be infinitely better calculated to pro-
mote the prosperity of Ireland, by offering inducements to
the resident landlord, than the truly absurd practice too
often resorted to, of declaiming against absenteeism as a
crime, when, in point of fact, many places, and especially in
the southern districts, have been so infested by the midnight
depredator and the lawless assassin, that no man, invested
with our common attribute of reason, could for a moment
seriously cherish the intention of residing on his own estate,
if in possession of any means of establishing his residence
elsewhere.

But better days, let us trust, are about to dawn, and to
extend even to the many benighted districts so frequently to
be met with in the south of Ireland. Under the auspices,
indeed, of a truly liberal and loyal, because conservative go-
vernment, very sanguine expectations may reasonably be
entertained that the whole of that beautiful and naturally-
productive country will speedily undergo an amelioration of
condition. The Irish are themselves, in many instances,
prepared for this. The writer of this letter had recently
occasion to pay a visit to Dublin, and, though it is well
known that there the arch-agitator has chosen to take up
his head-quarters, it affords him much pleasure to he ena-
bled to state, that while over too many, alas ! of the popula-
tion of that city that turbulent demagogue exercises an un-
happy influence, there are not a few who regard himself and
his conduct with a virtuous and richly-merited abhorrence.
Believing that the sentiments to which I have now given
expression will commend themselves to the sympathies of
yourself and the numerous readers of your valuable journal—
that you will agree with me that conservatives, who are at
all times ready to attest their loyalty by deeds as well as by
words, are the truly loyal, liberal, independent citizens,—"l
venture to request the insertion of these remarks, and re-
main, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant and constant
reader, ANGLICANUS.
Nov. 13th, 1811.

MRS.
favourite
BENEFIT.—We perceive that this very
general favourite and clever actress has announced her bene-
fit to take place on Monday next. Those who wish to be
present must be quick in securing places, as the attractive
nature of " the bill," and the merits of the ben6ficiarc,
will
cram the house to the very ceiling.

PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT —ollSupday last, a boy, who
was probably amusing hin.self at the time, fell accidentally
into Canning Dock. Several men were passing at the time
and ran for the life buoy, but in the meantime policeman
389, hearing of the occurrence immediately ran to tha spot,
and without ceremony plunged into the water, and succeeded
in keeping the boy above water. until he brought him sate to
shore. We hope suchmeritorpus conduct will be favourably
regarded by the Marine Society, as in all probability the
boys life would-have been sacrificed but for the timely inter-
ference of the policeman.

Vottrp.

SIMILES

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

When on the water's placid face
Rudely the pebble's force descends,
The infant circlet you may trace,
As round its mimic life extends.
See how, at first, with youthful stre!
It widens its expansive sweep ;
And, weak'ning with its age, at lend
Melts slowly in the liquid deep !
Ah I such is LIFE! From youth to mar
How short its span!—how soon it fades

Now shines the glorious orb of
Diffusing beauty, life, and light

. „
Joyousness tints each playful!

liood'.

. -
N:ture reflects that radiance bright!—
How chang'd the scene! Yon teeming
Hath cast its veil athwart the sky ;
And now the tempest, fierce and loud,
Dispels those charms that pleas'd the c:
Thus, HAPPINESS sheds smiles and sunshit
And now sad sorrow's tears bedew the grow

Rivers, wherever they may stray,
Whether o'er rugged rocks they swell,
Through urban scenes pursue their yea
Or beautify the sylvan dell,
All onward to the ocean roll,
Submiss to its authority •
They swell the vast,
Absorb'd in its immensity !
LOVE is the ocean of the mind ! And so
All feelings else into that ocean flow

unmeasued whol

Look on that star! so fair, so bright,
Shedding its silv'ry rays around;
Cheering the darksome, dreary night;
With beauty studding the profound!
Fairer and brighter still it seems,
Amidst its sparkling sisterhood—
Their lustre 'minish'd by its beams,
But only prov'd less bright, less good !
So VIRTUE shines, with rays of peace and love
Adorns the earth, and glitters, then, above!

There blooms the rose, the garden's pride!!
In loveliest loveliness array'd :
No flow'r that gems the earth beside
More plainly tells the Hand that made.
Alas ! the heedless, cruel blast
Assails it with its vip'rous breath :
Nov, it lives only in the past,
Shrunk in the cold embrace of death !
How like to BEAUTY ! Such its lasting bloom
It charms to-day ; to-morrow—in the tomb !
LitTrpool, Nov. 13, 1841

J. M. L

LI7'ERARY NOTICES

Smallwood's Magazine and Colonial Review

London

Smallwood,

This periodical presents the greatest variety of perhaps any
of the magazines. The number for this month contains no
less than seven tales, a continuation of the History of 'Ve-
nice, by Dr. Shepherd, five pieces of poetry, several reviews
of new works, and twenty pages devoted to colonial affairs.
The articles, as usual with this magazine, are above medio-
crity, some being of course superior to others in interest and
talent. Miss Louisa Muckleston continues her " Extracts
from the Diary of a Country Gentleman ;" the portion in
the present number is the conclusion of the melancholy tale
of " Millbridge-hall," which is well told, and gives promise

of even greater excellency in this young lady, though she is
already one of the most pleasant writers of the day. The
Italian romance, " La Tomba," is worthy of its talented
author Gabriele Rosetti—can we give it greater praise ? The
" Impromptu to Julia" is prettily love-sick, and reminds us
of 11loore's earlier efforts. Two more chapters, the sixth
and seventh, of the " History of Venice," are fully as inter-
esting as the earlier ones. The extraordinary narrative-of a
Jewish priest of the first century, called " The Impenitent,"
is continued. Fitzball's wonderful tale, " The Devil Stork,"
continues, and is—worthy of its author. We have not
space to particularize the remainder of the articles, except to
say that the " Prisoner of the Valais Royal" is a delightful
story, and possesses the merit of beginning and ending in

the current number, a rare merit in these continuation days.
In conclusion, we recommend Smallwood's Magazine to the
notice of all lovers of light literature—they will be pleased.

FATAL FIRE IN THE BLACKFRIARS•ROAD
TWO FIREMEN KILLED.

(From Me London papers of yesterday

At a quarter before two o'clock, yesterday morning, a most
destructive fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Kindon
and Bathe, floor-cloth manufacturers, at the corner of Wel-
lington-street, Blackfriars-road. On the first

alarm ll

given the police were fully occupied in calling upon the sur-
rounding neighbourhood to quit their beds. The engines
from the Waterloo-road station and Farringdon-street were
soon on the spot, promptly followed by those of the various
other metropolitan stations. Owing to the unremitting ex-
ertions and undaunted perseverance of the firemen, to whom
the greatest praise is due, the conflagration was happily con-
fined to the factory in which it first broke out.
The conflagration raged for some time with uncontrolable
fury, and at one time threatened the surrounding neighhour-
hood with destruction. It had, in fact, caught the back part
of the contiguous dwelling-house, but, owing to the plentiful
supply of water, the fire was confined to the premises on
which it first broke out, and which was completely reduced
to ashes.

At hale-past three all danger of the flames extending was
at an end.

At about twenty minutes before eight o'cl6ck two of the
brigade men, one named William Webb, aged 25, attached
to the Morgan's-lane station, and the other named Joseph
Parke, aged 27, belonging to the Wellclose-square station,
made their way into the ruins through one of the windows
in Wellington-street, with the branches of two engines, and

commenced playing on those portions of the walls where the
tire was still raging. They had not done so more that
minutes when the lofty walk on the west side, together with
the gable end of the south wall, fell inward with a tremendous
crash, immolating the two unfortunate men beneath them,
and, no doubt, instantly launched them into eternity. It is
needless to say, that this occurrence created the most pain-
ful sensation in every bosom. Their brother firemen and
several other persons, regardless of the impending danger
from the still tottering walls on the northern and eastern
side, rushed into the ruins, burning as they were, and used
strenuous exertions to extricate their unfortunate fellow-
creatures. It was a work, however, which occupied them
upwards of three hours, for it was estimated that not less
than 20 tons of rubbish were removed before a sight of either
of them was obtained. The first diccovered was Webb. He
was found with his head shockingly fractured, both legs and
arms broken, and otherwise dreadfully mutilated, arid quite
dead. Parke was discovered an hour after, about six yards
from Webb ; he appeared to have been killed by suffocation,
no bones being found broken. As their bodies were got out
the scene was heart-rending in the extreme, and their fate
excited the deep commiseration of the hundreds of persons
assembled. They were placed in shells and conveyed to the
workhouse of St. George-the-Martyr, where they await a
coroner's inquest. Both of these poor fellows were married,
and Webb has left a wife and two children to deplore his
loss. Large bodies of fire remained in the ruins up to a late
hour last ❑ight, and during the whole of yesterday thousands
of persons were on the spot, but were prevented from ap-
proaching by barriers, at which the police were stationed to
prevent any one passing, it being expected that the front wall
of the factory would fall with every succeeding gust of wind.

Mr. Charles Kean, who is now performing at Liverpool,
has been inure successful than ever in his provincial engage-
ments this year. Theatricals in the country, generally speak-
ing, are in a wretched state.

R URA LITT OF PARIS.—One of the great charms of Paris
as a metropolitan residence, consists in the peculiarly rural
character of the environs. lip to the very gates of the city
the country is really country ; and within view of the
exterior Boulevards small farms are carrying on their agri-
cultural operations with all the rural simplicity of our remote
countries. Instead of ten miles of villas and Londonized
hamlets surrounding our metropolis, the student walks out
from the Pays Latin to watch the progress of the harvest, or
from the Quartier des lnvalides proceeds to botanise in the
woods of Meudon or Vincennes. This is partly the result of
the absence of the coal smoke. It is well known that many
species of flowers (the yellow rose, for instance) will not
blossom within ten miles of London ; Paris, on the contrary,
produces the finest flowers, not only in the Royal gardens of
the Tuileries and Luxemburg, but in the nursery grounds of
the famous rose growers Noisette and Laffay, which in the
Fauxbourg St. Germain enjoy advantages such as it would
be necessary to retreat many miles from London to secure.
In the older portions of Paris every house of note has its
garden ; and it is sometimes startling in a narrow, gloomy,
obscure street, to perceive at the extremity of a long passage
a grove of green acacias, or one of those gaudy flowerpots
which the dry and sunny climate clothes with such brilliant
colours.

THE WIT or CONGREVE.—Mr. Leigh Hunt, in his Bio-
graphical and Critical Notices of Wycherley, Congreve,
Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, to Moxon's new edition of their
works, throws out the following piece of just and piquant
criticism on the wit of Congreve :—" But above all, we must
confess we find the wit ' become tiresome. We love it
heartily in its proper places, in Butler, Swift, and Addison,
where it is serving some purpose greater than itself; and we
love it still more, when it issues out of sheer animal spirits,
and is happy as a child. But wit for wit's sake becomes a
task and a trial; and in Congreve's days it was a cant, like
the talk about ' sense' and ' reason' ;—as if all sense, and
reason, and wlt, had been comprised in the substitution of
the greater faculties of man for the less, and the critical for
the unconscious. Every body was to he witty.' Letters
were to be full of wit,' and end in some witty turn.'
Coffee-houses were to talk nothing but wit.' Ladies were to
have wit and sweetness,' and gentlemen wit and fire' ; not
the old ' mother wit' of Shakspeare and his fell ws, which
was a gift from the whole loving frame of Nature ; but a
trick of the fancy and of words, which you might almost ac-
quire from the brother-wits of the tavern, and which dealt
only inasmuch as it could be likened
chiefly in simile, with a variation of anthitesis. Every thing
os seemed to
steodbteoof val
somethingue,
else; till at length simile and meta-
phornot in seeing into anything very dee Iv
came to be taken for a reason ; and ' sense' itself
owwa.snoscakell, but
iedp fo in discovering how far it was capable r its
of being
split off into a couple of images. The great wits, to be sure,
thani affected
bantered the less, and affected to laugh at the' affectation ;
but it was only for the purpose of guarding its rank and dis-
ley' mnss.elfTahgisrecaatudteoatl•
wit,
more which eh i
it ought,ted came
'manly
its head
eber
in Congreve, and pretty well ceased with him. Vanbrugh
toWv."
was too robust and straightforward to care for it, and Far-
quhar too full of play."

THE CONVICT BLAKESLEV.—The turnkey who was as-
saulted by Blakesley of Thursday in the sham madness
which the convict thought fit to exhibit, was so far from be-
ing injured by the attack as to be able to sit up with his
charge on Thursday night. There was never, we are given
to understand, a worse imitation of insanity than that which
.
has been attempted by Blakesley since his confinement in.
Newgate. Before any of the inferior persons
he appears invariably in perfect possession
moment the sheriff,
the ofs about the prison
his understand-
ing, but for the last few days he has,
or the governor, or Mr. Carverp
the ordinary, or any other
person in authority, entered the cell, begun to play his antics,
and denied that he had killedhaanny
anything more to his body, or that he had done
merely given her " a dig."'
i prudent
a t h e i rby
ial the
pnr
important
sheriffs,
It has been, we believe,"e'llorenestnidgeargeedd
who have been constantly'
n. not to make Sunday next what
arduous duties in the 13:7
in the chapel. The Bev. Mr. Car-
ver will perform
will massnot ofb et the
present, prisoners
for
day"
service, and preach a sermon,
is called " a publichdea
rahat hei would pitch
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Blakesleyg r "t
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portanit . btlheetomsostppfaovseout
it is reasonable
an impression of his insanilly.

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