The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the
PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held, in
pursuance of the Act of Parliament, at the White Lion
Hotel, in the city of Bristol. on THURSDAY, the Nth
instant, at Twelve o'clock. Tae Chair will be taken at
One o'clock precisely.
FREDERICK RICKETTS, Chairman.

The Transfer Books will be closed on Monday, the 18th
of August, and not he reopened until after the said Gene-
ral Meeting, on the 28th of August.
By order of the Board of Directors, 1
J. B. BADHAM, Secretary.
Bristol Office, Broad-street, Ist August, 1845.'

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
THIRD SHARE'S.
NOTICE.
THE Holders of Scrip Certificates of THIRD SHARES
in the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, are re-
quested to send them to the Secretary, on or before SA-
TURDAY, the 30th of August instant, with their Names,
Residences, and Additions, distinctly written in full, in
order that they may be correctly registered.
All Shares not so claimed will be registered in the
names of the parties to whom they originally belonged,
and who have duly executed the Parliamentary Contract..
The Secretary will give Receipts for the Scrip, to be
exchanged, as soon as practicable after the completion of
the Registrt, for Certificates under the Seal of the Com-
pany ; when any Shareholders who may not already have
signed the Deed will be required to do so.
By order of the Board of Directors,
J. B. BADIIAM, Secretary.
Bristol Office, 30, Broad-street, Ist August, 1845.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.

Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet. c. 110.

THIS Railway will commence at the Rugby Station of
the London and Birmingham Railway, and will pro-
ceed in nearly a straight line to Derby, using so much of
the Leicester and Swannington Railway as lies in its
course.

From thence it will join the High Peak and Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Railways.
The principle of this Railway is to obtain a direct
through line between some of the most important districts
in the kingdom with the least possible amount of new
railway, and consequently the smallest expenditure of

capital.
The proposed Railway will form a direct continuation
of the London and Birmingham Railway, to Manchester,
and thus supersede the necessity of any direct Manches-
ter and London Railway, as the distance to London by
this route will be as short as by either of the proposed
direct Manchester and London tiailways.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication
between Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and
between all the towns on the North Midland Railway and
London.

The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway will open
a direct communication between Manchester and Derby,
and will considerably shorten the distance between Man-
chester and Nottingham and Manchester and Leicester.
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct
communication from that town to London, which has
been so long considered desirable by the inhabitants.
The same wiU apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield
and Chesterfield Branch of the North Midland Railway
is made.

The support of the London and Birmingham, the North
Midland, and Manchester, Buxton, and Midlands Rail-
ways, may be expected for this line.

A report on the line, by one of the most eminent engi-
neers of the day, is in coarse of preparation ; after which
a detailed prospectus, with the names of a most powerful
directory, together with the amount of capital, &c., will
be published. In the meantime communications may be
addressed Ito EDWARD ASHWORTH, Esq., Stock and
Share Broker, Manchester, and Messrs. D. and J. NEIL-
SON, Liverpool, and to the Company's Solicitor,
T. G. BREWER, Esq.,
13, Gray's Inn Square.

DEMERARA RAILWAY COMPANY,
To be Incorporated by an Act of the Colonial

Legislature.

CAPITAL £250,000, IN 10,000 SHARES OF £25 EACH.

DEPOSIT £2 10S. PER SHARE

A portion of the Shares to be allotted to parties in Europe,
aid the remainder to Subscribers in the Colony.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
CHARLES CAVE, Esq., Chairman.
John Stewart, Esq., M.P., Albany.
Henry Barkly, E‘q I\l.P Eaton-place.

Sir James Carmichael, Bari.,Susex-gardens
George Anderson, Est., Lime-street-square.
James Brand, Esq., East India-chambers.
James Cavan, Esq., Park-crescent.
Andrew Colvile, Esq., ('urzon-street.
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool.

Henry Davidson, Esq., Lime-s.treet-square

_ James Douglas, Esq., Glasgow.
John Gladstone, Esq., Carlton-gardens, and Fasque, N.B.
Robertson. Gladstone, sq., Liverpool.

Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Fenchurch-
John Kingston, Esq., Lime-street-square
George Labalmondiere, Esq., Lime•street

Michael Finsbury-circus

.
Charles M`Garel, Esq., Wimp°le:street.
Thomas Murray, Esq., Liverpool.
Thomas Naghten, Esq., Fenehurch-street,

Henry Porter, Esq., Winslade House, Topsham, Exeter.
George Rainy, Esq., Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park.
AririarTkVerticitaCti,rfAP.:Ther6Ca.
Sir Robert Schomburgk, K.R.E., New Kingston, Surrey,

HONORARY SECRETARY.
Henry Hill, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER
James Locke, Esq.

SOLICITORS.
:Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, 57, Coleman.street

BANKERS

Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave, Ames, and Cave.
THE colony of British Guiana possesses superior phy-
sical capabilities for the construction of railways, the
country near the sea presenting an almost absolute level
over an area of several hundred square miles.

The entire produce of the district called the east coast,
which is in the county of Demerara, consisting of sugar,
rum, molasses, &c., as well as the supplies of the planta-
tions, comprising coals, bricks, lime, lumber, and other
bulky articles, are at present conveyed to and from
Georgetown, the capital of the colony, and the port at
which they must be landed or shipped, in punts and
coasting schooners, at considerable risk and expense.
It is to this district that the proposed Company intend
first to direct their operations, by constructing a railway
from Georgetown to Mahaica, a distance of 20 miles,
along which line there are, besides sugar plantations,
many villages containing a numerous and increasing po-
pulation.
As all the risk and delay, and a great part of the ex-
pense now incurred in carrying on the traffic would
thereby be obviated, there can be no doubt that it would
be wholly transferred to this railway.
Estimates of traffic, founded upon the tables published
by the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of
British Guiana for the year 1844, have been carefully
prepared, from which it appears fairly that, on a moderate
scale of charges, and after making a deduction of 40 per
cent. for working expenses, a return of 10 per cent. upon
the capital of the Company may be expected.
The Provisional Committee are also satisfied that a
great addition to their contemplated profits will progres-
sively arise from the continued influx of labour into the
colony, as well as from the natural increase of, the popu-
lation. The existing estates along the line are capable of
doubling their present production as soon•as they can (by
an accession of labour) be fully cultivated, and thereby
yield an adequate profit; and the cultivation of many
estates now abandoned, will be resumed.
The Committee look forward to an early extension of
the Railway towards the county of Berbice, which would
still further augment the traffic.

There can be no doubt that a project so advantageous
as the present in every respect to the interests of all
persons connected with British Guiana, will meet with
the approbation of her Majesty's Government, and the
cordial support of the authorities in the colony, many of
the principal residents of which have suggested the
present project....

Early steps will be taken for the incorporation of the
company by an Act of the Colonial Legislature, to be
sanctioned by the Crown, by which due provision will be
made for limiting the responsibility of the shareholders
to the amounts of their respective subscriptions.
Estimates of cost have been already prepared, and the
execution of the work will be intrusted to a skilful
cngineer, who will be sent out immediately to superintend
the construction of the railway.

Applications for shares, in'tbe form annexed, and for
copies of the Prospectus, may be made to the Hon.
Secretary, Henry Hill, Esq., at the West India Com-
mittee Rooms, Old Jewry, on or before the 25th instant.
Copies of the Prospectus may also be bad from A. F.
Ridgway, Esq., 42, Leicester-square ; Messrs. Sandbacb,
Tinne and Co., Liverpool • Messrs. T. Daniel and Sons,
and Messrs. Evan Bade, Sons, and Co., Bristol;
Messrs. J. T. and A. Douglas and Co., Glasgow; Sir
John Kingston James, Bart., and Co., Dublin.
CHARLES CAVE, Chairman,
London, .Auoust 8, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the Demerara Railway

Company..

Gentlemen,—l request yo-u
will allot to me shares
of £25 each in the above Company, and I hereby engage
to accept such shares, or any smaller number which may
be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of £2 10s. for
each share, and all further calls which shall be made
thereon, and also to sign an agreement to conform to
such regulations a 3 shall be established by the Colonial
Act of Charter for the incorporation of the Company. - ,
Name in full.. • • • •

Residence

Profession or Trade
Data

Reference

it is seldom that a tax is allowed to die a natural death,
for just'as the period originally allowed to its existence is
drawing to a close, some pretext is found for renewing it.
The coal duty. imposed by the Act 'William IV. for a term
of seven years, after having been renewed for seven more,
would, in the course of events, have expired on the 31st
of December next ; but parliament has come to its aid,
and is about to grant it an extended life till the sth of
July, 1e62, by which time it will have become such a re-
spectable old impost, that there will be something like
irreverence in wanting to get rid of it.

6 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
. . . ............ . . _..,
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Etttraturr. A PRIMITIVE QUAKER.—NO, Johnny Derbyshire THE FOREST OF THE ISER.—Beyond the region of ROMISH RESPECT F
would not have bowed down to any mortal power. He stunted underwood, begins the mighty and primeval forest NATIO
would have marched into the presence of the king with of the Iser. Hundreds of thousands, yea, millions of gi-
N 0 'l' ICE S. his hat on, and would have addressed them with just the gantic pine and fir stems, torn up by the roots by tem- Our readers will probably no
-- same unembarrassed freedom as " The old chap out of pests and cast upon the earth, are strewn about in magni- the very remarkable case of
A Dictionary of the English Language. By Alev. Reid, the West Countries" is made to do in the song. Aa to ficent confusion. The moss-covered roots bristle uP to which we had occasion to relate
A.M. Simpkin and Co., London ; Oliver and Boyd, any of the more humble and conceding qualities usually about half, the height of the house, in all imaginable fan- autumn. That young lady, far Edinburgh. Edinburgh. attributed to the peaceful Quaker, Johnny had not an tastic forms, whilst tender underwood overgrows the daughter of a gentleman who hi
This dictionary is certainly an acquisition to the atom of those about him. Never was there a more pig- sleeping monsters, and fans them with their rustlingleaves. event we related, delivered his
school-room, and even for the closet. The omission of headed, arbitrary, positive. pugnacious fellow. He would Dark ivy and solemn evergreens stretch their hands across post of Dutch minister at the 1
obsolete words we consider an advantage, as it reduces argue any body out of their opinions by the hour; he them, and the motley liverwort with its silvery patches ticed from her father's abode b
the size of the volume, and removes from before the young would " threep them down," as he called it, that is, point glistens in the eternal night of the impenetrable forest. Archbishop of Turin, who used
scholar a mass of redundant matter which is only calcu- blank and with a loud voice insist on his own possession Wherever you find a path, it is over the carcases of those her flight, and, under the proto
lated to mislead and mystify. The rules for pronuncia- of the right, and of the sound common sense of the mat- stems, or across a sinking morass, the only uncleared she was consigned to a cony
tion are very valuable, and those with respect to vowels ter; and if he could not convince them, would at least ground of the forest. Wood is used for everything, and speedily apostatised from the 11
are novel and, if observed, would effectually remove those confound them with his obstreperous din and violence of the mountaineers know how to apply it to every purpose. attempt to rescue her in the narn
provincialisms too common in our languaage. It is action. That was what he called clearing the field, and I can conceive nothing wilder or more romantic, than a father, and the international rig
neatly got up. not leaving his antagonist a leg to stand on. Haying thus ramble through such a half decayed forest in the evening ineffectual; the highest civil anti
fairly overwhelmed, dumbfoundered, and tired out some or at night. In the valley, the dark waters of the Iser declared itself incompetent to vi
il New French Grammar, wi'h Exercises. By F. A. one with his noise, he would go off in triumph, and say to rush along their broad bed, strewed with large blocks of even under the most imperious,
Wolski, Master in the High School of Glasgow. Simp- the bystanders as he went,—" There, lads, you see he granite; on either side rise lofty pines, slim, and arrayed in the convent the young lady a
kin and Co., London ; and Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. hadn't a word to say for himself;" and truly a clever fel- in their own graceful draperies; below, amidst-the way- hour. In relating the unparal
This is one of the best elementary works we have met low must he have been who could have got a word in edge- ing beach and birch, are the ghostlike stumps, now repre- attended this elopement, we me
-with, and ought to be extensively adopted in schools and ways when Johnny had once fairly got his steam up, and senting contesting giants, now wearing the appearance of M. Heldivier wait zealously sup!
families. was shrieking and storming like a cat-o'-mountain.—mes, insecure bridges, climbing over rocks—rocks that look England and of France at the
Johnstone's Edinburgh Tales. like monuments raised by nature to the memory of the his own successor, the represer
George Cruickshank's Table-Book FANCY PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED CRIMINAL first parents of the forest. Everything glimmers, spar- vernment, who happened to bt
is full of racy, matter. The paper on Social Ornithology LAWYER.—" Master Willis, here's Mr. Montecute kles. and shines. The air, the water, the forest, the earth, shown great apathy in the trans
is of the true a Beckett order, and the illustration is a gem. Crawley. the lawyer, come to talk to you about your de- all shine with light. And yet what breathless stillness, of Holland had submitted, with
fence. He's in a great hurry ; so, if you please, you must what awful silence withal! Such is the world of the Iser to the illegal detention of one
law
convent.itselfJew;Crawley!
mily
arising
out of sno man„at the bar who could so completely extract the ever it pleased, and not a passenger have been pinched for
is a very good number this month. It is not so awfully cannot. allow them to be buried
stain of blood from a murderer. Had he defended Sawnv want of elbow-room on the journey. London might visit
learned as it used to be, but not less generally interesting Bean, dipped a hundred times in infanticide, he would New York, and New York return the visit comfortably
_in, the Second Chamber of the Si
on that account. The political article on " Tory policy" have presented him to the bar as a she herd with the the next trip. If a line of these monster ships were esta- But our attention has been mo
contains some just views on passing events, and ought to
arenceol.ignotveorfntmhiesnnt
ewfaarsiotuhesrterafonrsmaci
the subject by a discussion whic
bloom and fragrance of Arcady upon him! piVorthy man ! Wished from Liverpool to America, apedestrian might
be generally read. What a constitution had Mr. Montecute Crawley, to walk from the Old World slap into the New, withA tonlol
Foreign Affairs is reported to 1
-- stand the wear and tear of his own feelings, racked, ago- more fatigue than going over Hungerford Bridge.
Wade's London Review. London : C. B. Christian,
Whitefriars, Fleet-street. nised, as they always were, for his innocent, his much- might he levied at every monster ship to pay the expenses
" It is true (said he) that a II:
This publication increases in interest. It contains this persecuted client, the homicide or highwayman at the bar of the line, and there should be branches to the different
explanation
month some excellent articles. Happily, his emotion was always so- very natural, and so. towns along the coast. If the middle of the decks also
very intense, that again and again it touched the bosoms were slightly paved, and the hatchways left open to repre-!oat his child in a most unexpect
of the jury, who could not—simple creatures !—but be- sent ditches, and the bulwarks made higher to stand for ,always been much respected at t
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. Here so eloquent, so earnest a gentleman, when he not hedges or hurdles, what a capital steeple-chase might be
The tale of St. Giles's and St. James's, by the editor,lady voluntarily quitted her pars
only vouched for the innocence of the unfortunate ac n- started from one continent to another! We do not des-
continues to be the leading attraction of this cheap shit- convent, where she abjured her
sed, but he wept a shower of tears in testimony' thereof.--
pair of having everything, shortly, more or less of a mon-
ling's worth of original literature. The whole of the anti. the Rornish Church. So severe
Tears, in fact, were Mr. Montecute Crawley's great wea- ster size. Our taxes have been so for a long time. Look
Iles, however, are written in an excellent spirit.der feelings of a father and the
pons ; but he had too true a notion of their value to use at London, too, what a monster it is getting! If it keeps
them save on extraordinary occasions. With all his ten- growing as it has done lately, railways will have to be has of course been followed by at
Simmonds's colonial Magazine.been conducted on the part of th
derness, he had great powers of sea'-restraint; and, there. started down the principal streets, for a person to get
The number before us contains some valuable statisticalutmost zeal. But we find tha
fore, never drot a tear upon an brief that brought him from one end to the other. Our follies, too, our armies,
matter. The map which it contains, " The Emigrant's work of a power which has, in tl
andabuses, all the same monster •
Less than five guineas,i: He had heard Of "the wants,
Guide to the Cape of Good Hope," with its accompany-peculiar rights and peculiar laws luxury of woe," hundredand was determined that with him at that nothing less than.a monster reform will ever sweep
log article, are well worth the price of the number, to any responsibility towards the
least the luxury should bear its proper price. His coarse them away. A change, however, cannot be far distant.
try—the power I allude to is tha
and stony-hearted brethren at the bar, had, in the envy Let us hope the same prodigious size will characterise
The Edinburgh Tales. Conducted by Mrs. Johnstone. Church. All our efforts to obtai
and brutality of their souls, nicknamed 'Mr. Montecute henceforth our enjoyments, our money in the funds, our
therights of the father, and t,
Chapman and Hall, London. W. Tait, Edinburgh, - Crawley- the watering-pot. But he—good, silver-tongued triumphs, the number of our years and children. In short,
The present number contains an admirably-commencedauthorities to answer these let
tale by - man—aeded not the miserable est. He talked and wept, that every man w:11 possess a monster fortune, with a
proved ineffectual. The Sardinir
five quaker by her husband. and wept and talked, as though jhe felt assured that all the monster heart, family, and friends to enjoy it !—Geo.
world believed his words and tears, and that only the an- Cruikshank's Table-Book. declared that it was not in its
The securities for strangers are
• gels knew them to be false.—Douglas Jerrold's Shilling -
Hood's Magazine. as they are for the native inhabits
Under the management of Mr. Rowcroft this periodi. Magazine.
TABLES OF MORTALITY. of Turin has equal right# toward
cal makes excellent progress, and promises to take a high
THE CAPABILITIES OF THE BLIND.—JOhrr Genelli, aand it is at once his right and h
stand. blindd man of Combassi, learned statuary in his twentieth The usual quarterly tables of the mortality in 115 of of his Church to whosoever dean
rear, after he had lost his sight ; and, although blind, the
figures he cut in profile were both betutitul and re- the districts of England (inclusive of the principal towns,) power can cross the threshold of
The O'Donoyhue. Curry and Son, Dublin,showing the number of deaths registered in the four quay-
dinian government has replied t
increases in interest. The present number containseome sembled the originals. He is also said to have occa -ionally ters of 1814, the number of deaths in the June quarter of by a declaration of impotence ant
employed himself in crayon-painting. Wezel, in the graphic scenes. 1845, and the average number of deaths in the five June These explanations were but I
second volume of his Essay on the Knowledge of Man
4s. , quarters, 1840-44, have been published by the authority of satisfaction to the Stares-Gener
SELECTIONS. mentions another blind man, who not only played skil- the registrar-general. vernment was openly accused of
filly at cird., but was also a good chess.plaver. In In the metropolis, the population of which is estimated deputies, who indignantly asked
, Diderot's excellent letter sue lea akeugles, a l'uvaa.e der
How TO GET FREE QUARTERS IN LONDON.—Wit • at 1,915,104 according to the late census, the deaths in sunk so low as to endure so ignor
of a man
_Do...n
cenx gut voyent, some notice is taken' ' - the spring quarter, ending on the 30th of June last, honour, and to allow these pret
the deuce don't you make yourself useful to the common- blind, who was livinga at the time the author wrote (le-li ).
wealth by calculating a gradient, laying down a curve, or He • • • lie judged was a cliymist and a musician, core oily amounted to 11.267, somewhat above the ordinary average, rights to prevail over the law of n
preparing a table of traffic in order to obtain the proper and symme ry, new Tory we w ten aeother as to beauty t k ii 1 The Quarterly average of fise June quarters, from 1810-
-14 having been only 10 855 and that of five years
CAMILLO SI.
qualification for a railway witness; nothing in this world 10.,,,,.. „,,,„se-, and need,. ,o.e - '. , . .

xpand t

as a pr

to sit at your window for a
a-week, and note down the
hich jingle along the Broomie-
etter, to ascertain the quality

11 not 1

n wine cellar, and

papers also have been
and spread it far and
Ong remain contented

object cam; in his way

d made no'mistake in passing

nt to the C(

which the box w

finstrorlh

Const

counterpane, but will soon
carpet. A newspaper and

try to spare

that opposite houses

tner converts, in those days, and in the following
i. who were many of them governors and nobles,
!d lands of considerable extent upon those who con-
d them ; and the first oratories or places of worship
ive been built upon those lands. These first
re called cathedrce or seder, cathedra'-sees or
-v's const,mt residence thereon; and

oratori

eats, from the cl

Nn which hath a see of a bishop
ced in it is thereby entitled to the honours of a city ;
t query —whether it is not also necessary that it should
be a borough incorporate; and whether the new sees
erected, or to be erected, under the authority of the Ec-
clesiastical Commission, and some of the Welsh sees,
would rightly confer the name of city on the places
wherein they are situated ?

THE REV. DR. WOLFF.—It is with unfeigned satisfac-
tion that we perceive that a subscription has been set on
foot to reimburse Dr. Wolff the sum of £4OO which he
has expended out of his own slender income " in his ha-
zardous and persevering, although unhappily unavailing
endeavour to rescue from destruction the lives of two
inili-
Majesty's service, supposed to be in
~pardy under the despotic and cruel government of the
King of Bolcbara." It is not intended that the contribu-
tion of the public should be applied to ostentatious pur-
poses, but to the effectual and permanent benefit of Dr.
Wolff and his family. This is as it should be, for the man
who has spent the best of his days, and worn down his
Acts of charity—for the temporal
eternal benefit of his fellow-men—well deserves
to have the evening of his days made comfortable, and to
feel assured that when he is called away from the scene of
his earthly trials snd sufferings, those whom he may leave
behind him, dear to him as life itself—are not left desti-
tute. Few men have deserved better—to bare, we will
not say, such a boon conferred on them—but—such an act

tary officers in h

pnstitution, in not

of just

nil (Cr

,narterly tables of the mortality in 115 of
the districts of England (inclusive of the principal towns,)
showing the number of deaths registered in the four quar-
ters of 1814, the number of deaths in the June quarter of
1845, and the average number of deaths in the five June
quarters, 1840-44, have been published by the authority of
the registrar-genei.al.
In the metropolis, the population of which is estimated
at 1,915,104 according to the late census, the deaths in
' the spring quarter, ending on the 30th of June last,
amounted to 11,267, somewhat above the ordinary average
The Quarterly average of five June quarters, from 1810.
44. having been only 10,855, and that of five years
(1840-44,) 11.948. The deaths registered in the four
quarters of 1841 amounted, respectively, to 13,171, 11,471,
11,825, and 13,656.
Of the 11.267 deaths in the quarter ended the 30th of
June last, 1,813 occurred in the western district of the

I invariably the most unhealthy and most inimical to lon-

The total number of deaths registered in the sprin,
at_

districts of England, amounted exclusively of the metro-
polis, to 29,462 ; of which 1,121 occurred in the south-
eastern division, including Maidstone, Brighton, the Isle

'ilazine
cured

of Wight, Winchester and Windsor; 939 in the south-
midland, including St. Alban's, Wycombe, Oxford,
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge ; 9;0 in the east-
ern, including Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar-
mouth; 1,695 in the south-western, including Devizes,
Dorchester, Exeter, Plymouth, Bath, Redruth, and Pen-

ight, then

power of deg

zance ! 4.750 in the western, including Bristol, Clifton,
Stroud, Cheltenham, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Worcester,
Kidderminster, Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Bir-
mingham, and Coventry ; 1,513 in the north midland,
including Leicester, Lincoln, and Nottingham, Basford,
and Derby ; 10,308 in the north-western, including the
great manufacturing and commercial towns of Stockport,
Macclesfield, Liverpool, Blackburn, Preston. Rochdale,
Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Prescot, Choclton, Manchester,

Salford, an/ Ashtori'; 4,611 in the York division, includ-
ing Sheffield, Huddersfield,• Halifax, Bradford, Leeds,

Sunderland, Gateshead, Tyuemouth, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Carlisle, Kendal, and Cockermouth ; and 1,798 in the
Welsh division, including Abergavenny, Pontypool, Mer-
thyr-Tydvil, Wrexham, Holywell, and Anglesey.

The Quarter]
iAttroMP.Tf:22

:e of five June quarters (1810-44)
a Ls,-£0,C09 - atia the

deaths registered in the four quarters of 1844, amounted,
respectively, to 32,570, 27,454, 26,959 and 30,302. The
population Is taken at 4,663,808.

e metropolis and the
115 provincial districts, give, with a population of
6,578,912, 40,729 deaths, during the last quarter (ending
June 30); 39,491 deaths, as the average of five June
quarters, from 1840 to 1844; 41,624 deaths, as the quar-
terly average of the five years, 1840 to 1844 ; and 46,041
deaths; 38,925, 38,784, and 43,958 in the four quarters of
the year 1844, respectively; of the 11,267 deaths (from
all causes) registered in the metropolis during the 13 weeks
ending 28th of June, 1845, 1,885 were occasioned by zv-
mode (epidemic, endemic, and contagious) diseases. Of
the deaths from spradic diseases, 1,193 were caused by
dropsy, cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable
seat; 1,938 by diseases of the brain, spinal marrow.
nerves, and senses ; 3,478 by diseases of the lungs and
other organs of respiration ; 419 by diseases of the heart
and blood-vessels; 860 by diseases of the stomach, liver.
and digestive organs generally ' • 125 by diseases of the
kidneys ; 150 by parturition and diseases of the generative
organs •, 85 by rheumatism and diseases of the bones and
joints, &c. ; 25 by diseases of the skin and cellular tissue;
744 by old age ; and 329 by violence, privation. and in-
temperance. Amongst the deaths from zymotic diseases,
we find that 246 persons were swept off by small-pox
(nearly 100 per cent. above the average of the five June
quarters, 1839-430 322 by meazles, 201 by scarlatina, 463
by hooping-cough, 83 by croup, 45 by thrush, 84 by
diarrhoea, 17 by dysentery, 11 by influenza, 308 by typhus,
80 by erysipelas ; and 13 by syphilis.
We quote the following general remarks from the
report of the registrar-general :

13Ombay;

New 'Yorl

" Small•pox has prevailed epidemically in many dis-
tricts ; and the mortality from that disease has been con-

dren unpr

by vaccination

and one who bad been inoculated, also died of small-pox.
In many districts no deaths from small-pox occurred ;
in others, the disease was introduced by miyratnry

- • -•-•••, EY nernew.
PUNISHMENT ANDAMENDMENT.OO7 —Whatever is to be
effected towards the genuine reformation of the culprit,
must be the result, not of the punishment itself, but of
-redient, not of the essence of the punish-
- -.re held out of reward, or part re-
y, on the practice of industry and a
behaviour. And yet—some one may
-t a child, we punish it, and

some added

ment ; as whe

milsion of tt

ntuourers, 111 provided, probably, with household com-
forts and conveniences. The neglect of vaccination is
adverted to by several registrars. The registrar of Lei-
cester says, ' I have registered 50 deaths by small-pox
from January 1 to June 30, 1845 ; only one of the 50 per-
sons had hpen L.t. -

we re-

..mity, three mtants, two sisters snd a
brother, all died of small-pox in the short space of 11
days.' Small-pox,' observes the registrar of Great Mar-
low, ' has appeared in part of my district. I find, on
inquiry, that a vast number of parents have not availed
themselves of vaccination, although perfectly aware that
it can be done free of expense.' The number of deaths
(143), in the north sub-district of Yarnarb,ol- '

- - is much
Move the average in consequence of the prevalence of
the small-pox, which has proved fatal in 62 cases. Of
•

used without previous vaccination. One
y is recorded in which vaccination is said to have
rformed, a midwife was the operator, and the

Is number

case onl

two months old

NATION S

ROMISH RESPECT FOR THE LAW OF

Our readers will probably not have altogether forgotten
the very remarkable case of Mademoiselle Heldivier,
which we had occasion to relate with some minuteness last
autumn. That young lady, being still a minor, and the
daughter of a gentleman who had, within a few days of the
event we related, delivered his letters of recall from the
post of Dutch minister at the Court of Sardinia was en-
ticed from her father's abode by the machinations of the
Archbishop of Turin, who used direct falsehood to screen
her flight, and, under the protection of these pious frauds,
she was consigned to a convent in Turin, where she
speedily apostatised from the faith of her family. Every
attempt to rescue her in the name of the sacred rights of her
father, and the international rights of her country. proved
ineffectual; the highest civil authority of the Court of Turin
declared itself incompetent to violate the door of a convent,
even under the most imperious obligations of justice ; and
in the convent the young lady has remained to the present
hour. In relating the unparalleled ci,cumstances which
attended this elopement, we mentioned that the claim of
M. Heldivier was zealously supported by the Ministers of
England and of France at the Court of Turin, but that
his own successor, the representative of the Dutch Go-
vernment, who happened to be a Roman Catholic, had
shown great apathy in the transaction, and that the King
of Holland had submitted, with very questionable dignity,
to the illegal detention of one of his own subjects, the
daughter of his own late Minister, in a Piedmontese
convent. Independently of the peculiar and romantic
interest which attached itself to this deplorable case, the
facts were such as it became every English or Protestant
family, having any intercourse with the king of Sardinia's
dominions, to know, and the questions of international
law arising out of those facts are of such moment that we
cannot allow them to be buried in oblivion until some
fresh catastrophe reminds the world of their existence.
But our attention has been more particularly recalled to
the subject by a discussion which has recently taken place
in the Second Chamber of the States-General of Holland.
The government was there formally called upon to give an
account of this nefarious transaction, and the Minister for
Foreign Affairs is reported to have given the following
explanation :

" It is true (said he) that a Dutch ambassador, who has
always been much respected at the Court of Turin, has
lost his child in a most unexpected manner. This young
lady voluntarily quitted her parents to take refuge in a
convent, where she abjured her faith, and passed over to
the Rornish Church. So severe a wound to the most ten-
der feelings of a father and the rights of a Dutch subject
has of course been followed by an investigation, which has
been conducted on the part of the Government with the
utmost zeal. But we find that this occurrence is the
work of a power which has, in the kingdom of Sardinia,
peculiar rights and peculiar laws, and which is not subject
to any responsibility towards the government of the coun-
try—the power I allude to is that of the Roman Catholic
Church. All our efforts to obtain an acknowledgment of
the rights of the father, and to force the ecclesiastical
authorities to answer these legitimate demands, have
proved ineffectual. The Sardinian government has openly
declared that it was not in its power to act with effect.
The securities for strangers are the same in that country
as they are for the native inhabitants ; but the Archbishop
of Turin has equal right# towards the one and the other,
and it is at once his right and his duty to open the doors
of his Church to whosoever demands it, and no temporal
power can cross the threshold of the cloister. The Sar-
dinian government has replied to all our remonstrances
by a declaration of impotence and incapacity."
These explanations were but little calculated to give
atisfaction to the Stares-General of Holland. The go-
vernment was openly accused of cowardice by one of the
deputies, who indignantly asked whether Holland was
sunk so low as to endure so ignominious a stain upon her
honour, and to allow these pretensions of ecclesiastical
rights to prevail over the law of nations.—Times.

CAMILLO SIVOIII

The subject of our sketch was born at Genoa, the birth-
place likewise of Paganini, on the 6th of June, 1817. We
may mention as a remarkable circumstance, that on the
evening of the night on which he was horn_ hi. mn,

ouLwitnstancting her delicate situation, was induced to go
to a concert given by Paganini at the Teatro Santo Au-
gustine in Genoa; when the performance of the great
Maestro produced such an effect on her mind and nerves
as to precipitate her acconchment, and the young Sivori
came into the world somewhat before his time. Hardly
had he reached the age of 18 months, when he gave evi-
dence almost miraculous of that innate mental direction
that urged him on in his peculiar path to subsequent fame.
After an earnest entreaty his father, who was an opulent
citizen of Genoa, purchased him a child's fiddle. He be-
gan at three years of age to apply himself, morning, noon,
and night, to practising on this instrument, and, without
any assistance or instruction, he was able in a short time
to play many airs he had heard his eld,

Jr excu
on the guitar. The report of this spread allsisters over Genoa,
and the boy was calledprodigioso. He was invited every-
Toe highest nobility in the city had him at their
viiries. Even the King and Queen Dowager, when they
heard such wonders of the child, invited him frequently
to the palace, and showered presents on him.
In his sixth year, a new phase took place in his for-
tunes. Paganini arrived at his native city. Ile heard on
every side miraculous accounts of the young Sivori. The
father was one of his friends. He wrote to him next day,
requesting him to bring the child with him that he might
hear him. When he heard him play, he counselled the
father to have the boy immediately instructed. " Leave
the child to my teaching for a short time," said Paganini,
" and I will truly tell you whether his time would or
would not be thrown away in studying music and the
violin." In short, such advances did he make in his
jaraetioa e.. 41 atwaieia-undar:Paglioh3i, that in two months

Fuuiiu, winten expressly for htm
by his great master, together with six short sonatas. All
these pieces, composed for him and written with Paganini's
Own hand hn hoe .ove and respect, and

carries everywhere with him.
After the departure of Paganini for Germany, he
studied under Costa, the music of the Italian school, and
afterwards with M. Dellepiane, with whom, in 1827,
when between eleven and twelve years of age, he pro-
ceeded to Paris and London. At Paris be played twice
at the Conservatoire, where he obtained tremendous suc-
cess. He played for the first time in London, for
Madame Pasta's benefit, at her Majesty's theatre; and
subsequently gave two concerts on his own account, as
he had previously done at the French capital, at which
his suttees was unparalelled. M. Dellepiane, who was
first violin at 'the Theatre Carlo Felice, at Genoa, and
master of the Conservatoire of the same city, was taken
ill ; and Sivori, to preserve his post and his salary, re-
placed him at the theatre and Conservatoire, giving M.
Dellepiane the entire benefit of his services. After two
years Dellepiane died, and the young artist still held the
two places, for the use of his master's widow, during the
space of an entire year, until a situation was procured
which enabled her to live without extraneous assistance.
Sivori, though still a mere youth, was retained in the
directorship of the theatre as well as the Conservatoire.
The violin upon which he played, manufactured by An-
dree Guarnerious, though the best he could procure in
his multitudinous researches, did not reach his idea of a
true instrument. Possessed of the most sensitive and
refined ear, nothing short of perfectibility could satisfy
his choice in a violin. Paganini, he knew, was possessor
of several such as his heart could desire ; but how to
procure one of then was the difficulty. He spoke to his
father and induced him by urgent entreaties to write to
Paganini, offering him any sum he named for one of his
best instruments. Paganini's answer was alike a proof
of his own generosity and his liking and opinion of the
young artist. " I will not sell you the violin, but I will
present it to you, in compliment to your high talents.'
This is the same instrurn

pon which Sivo-ri now las
in public. Sivori travelled to Nice on purpose to receive
the violin from Paganini's own hands. This was in the
year 1840, shortly before the death of the great Master,
and though he was then in a very delicate state, he en-
treated Sivori to play to him, and his last words to him
were :—" You will be the only survivor of my manner.
Go to Paris—study there—there all great artists beget
their great reputations. Go to Paris. After Paris you
require no more."

The disturbed state of the French capital prevented his
then visiting it; but after a tour of 18 months—in which
he received the highest testimonials of ability—he played
at Paris, and was there presented with the medal of the
Society of Music. Sivori next visited Belgium. Public
crowns, medals, &c., were showered on him wherever he
played. Arrived in London three seasons back, he gave
his first concert at her Majesty's Theatre with the same
magnificent success that had previously, and has since,
marked his course, and placed him on the very pinnacle
of public favour. Sivori plays on Monday and Tuesday
next, at the Zoological Gardens, in this town. Be leaves
London in October. Engagements await him at Ham-
burg, Bercen, Hanover, Stockholm, and Copenhagen,
&c. He in!enis passing the winter at the last-named
capital, and returns to London in the spring, being
his fourth season amongst us. In the following autumn
he purports making a tour to America, and we, have
little doubt the same success that has followed him every-
where in Europe, awaits his visit to the new world.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--Three grand fetes are an-
nounced in another column. The first will come off this
evening, on which occasion an extra gala will take place
for the benefit of the Foresters' fund. An archery meet-
ing will then be held ; a silver cup and other prizes will
be contended for ; and, in addition to the usual display of
fireworks, a gigantic design, emblematic of the order of
Foresters, will be introduced. If we anticipate, as we
certainly do should the weather prove favourable, an un-
usually large attendance on this occasion, we are certainly
warranted in expecting an overwhelmingly numerous
assemblage at M. Jullien's concerts monstre; fixed for
Monday next, the 18th, and Tuesday, the 19th instant ?
Preparations are being made, we understand, on an ex-
tensive scale, with the view of rendering these concerts
fully equal, if not superior, to any musical fete ever be-
fore witnessed in Liverpool. The programme will embrace
some of the most admired symphonies, overtures, opera
selections, quadrilles, and valses ; and in addition to Jul-
lien's orchestra, which will be stigngthened by artistes
from London and the provinces,embracing altogether
about one hundred performers, Signor Sivori, Eerr Koenig
and Mr. Richardson will perform some of their favourite
solos. The proprietor of the gardens is entitled to the
gratitude of the public for the spirit and enterprisehe has
displayed in providing so delightful a treat.
Heroine is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our
language ; the two first letters of it are male, the three
first female, the four first a brave man, and the whole
word a brave woman.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We hear that a matrimo-
nial alliance is on the lapis between Daniel O'Connell,
Esq., M•P.. and Molly Maguire, of Maguire's Grove.
The estates of the interesting couple are contiguous; and
we hear there are to be bonfires over the whole country
in celebration of the event.—Punch.