The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

ENGLISH DEFINITIONS FOR AN IRISH
DICTIONARY.

UNITED IRISHMEN.—Natives of Ireland, who are always
quarrelling with each other. and every one else.
CONFEDERATES.—A political party, bent on dissolving
all existing ties between Ireland and the rest of the world.
MORAL FORCE.—Brickbats, fruit in an advanced stage
of decomposition, blazing tar-barrels, and shillelahs.
PHYSICAL FoacE.—Threatening to use pikes and rifles,
and running away from them when used by others.
A SAXON.—Every man who receives rent from land,
follows an honest calling, keeps a civil tongue in his head,
a whole coat on his back, and does not subscribe to Mr.
Mitchel's paper.
SAXON OPPRESSION.—Paying Irish debts out of En-
glish pockets, feeding Irish famine with English subscrip-
tions, and supporting Irish labour out of English wages.
IRELAND'S OPPORTCNITY.—M4teriaIs for a row, and
no police " convanient."
ENGLAND'S DANGER.—Not Mr. Mitchel's bluster.

AN IRISH PARLIAMENT, SITTING IN COLLEGE-GREEN.
—A convention of Kilkenny cats.
MARTYRPOM.—Circulating 40,000 of your newspapers
per week, ,and pocketing the profits.
LIBERW.—The absence of locks, gaols, writs, and
policemen.
FRATERN3TY.—Enc,ouraging men to cut each others'
throats. _ _

EctuALITY.----Alloming nobody to keep anything that
anybody else ca.n take from him.
IRELAND FOR TILE IRlSgr-A country of quarrelling
Y,4,Lers, unemployed labourers,,and rifle clubs ; or, in other
words, electoral difisions,,,extmiop of suffering, and vote
!bast—Punch.

May 30, 1848•

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION.—The nomination wr
take place tomorrow, and the friends of Mr. G.
Legh are confident of his success.
CIRENCEST2R ELECTION.—On Wednesday this elec-
tion terminated in the.return of Mr. Mußings, the ett
servative. The poll was stated to be—Mullings; 2""
Ponsonby, 130; majority, 132.
EMIGRATION.—It is said that the Government cost°.
plates an immediate application to Parliament for astir'
rity to raise a loan for emigration. The amount, it issue,'
will be at least £500,000, perhaps £100,000.p
Lord Portman has been appointed by Lord Morhi
churchwarden for the Crown in Marylebone, instead:
Lord Kenyon, who has filled the office under every lur*
nistry, for thirty years.
The Right Hon. T. B. Macauley has now neitherasetl
in the Cabinet nor Parliament. The hon. gentleman I'
withdrawn into private life, much to the relief and saw;
faction of the Grey section of the Ministry, who have lA'
owed him a grudge.
OUR DIPLOMATIC DOINGS.—Our well-informed et
temporary, the Morning Post, contains the following
its correspondence from Madrid The British atm'
have been taken down at the Embassy, and its memb.....ersr
including his Excellency, are busily employed lahl'w
leave of their mistresses and paying accounts.
LANCASHIRE ELECTION.—The petition against, t‘,,,lttr
return of Mr. Armstrong for Lancaster was withdravah.,""
Monday, in consequence of a decision by the commit
..11
upon a whole class of cases, the admission of which wool
have given Mr. Stanley a majority, being adverse to 'L
petitioners.
The amount subscribed for iqr. Cobden, according to
...
the treasurer's accounts, was £i 6,761. The expenses weir°
£6,500, and the balance has been handed over to 31'
Cobden. who says that " through this liberality, he is 1'„lr
in possession of an ample competence, and that hal
retired from the risks and anxieties of business, he
devote himself to public life."
RUPTURE OF SPAIN WITH ENGLAND.—The offico)—
mcddlesomeness of Lord Palmerston in Spanish politic:
has produced its natural and expected effect. Thy Spanish
Ministers have refused to guarantee the immunity of s
British embassy, which was the open focus of disaffectio?
against themselves. Mr. Bulwer, therefore, received 11l
passports, and arrived at Dover on Wednesday. Wutp
that Mr. Bulwer's mischievous prompter, Lord Palmer, 5,',
ton, could be as summarily banished from the Foreign
Office.
NAVIGATION LAWS.—A very numerous meeting -
seamen was held in their Hall, Suaderland, on Monde);
to adopt petitions to Parliament against the propo-au
alterations in the Navigation Laws. The greatest appre-
hensions are entertained of the working of the free trade
system in shipping affairs, and the sailors are unanill
in rendering all the opposition in their power to the fatal
measure which impends over British maritime supremacy
and which will deprive our bri.ve tars of the employmen
and comforts they now enjoy under those provident 101
that have been tested by the experience of centuries, and
which are now to be sacrificed to senseless clamour.
THE " GOOD TIME" NEAR.—Nine-tenths of our f&
low citizens will be glad to hear that the bill for the trans:
fer of the Docks passed the House of Commons vyithoto
further opposition on Tuesday, and that it was read a first
time in the House of Lords on Thursday last. A meeting
of the Dock Company (probably the last) will be held 00
day, to obtain the sanction of the present proprietors,
preparatory to its being read a second time by their Lori;
ships. In all human probability, therefore, the bill wici
become law in about one month from this time, an
BY OR BEFORE THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER NEXT T
DOCK DUES OF BRISTOL WILL BE REDUCED BE"14
THOSE OF LIVERPOOL !—Bristol Mirror, Saturday.
DIVISION ON THE JEWS BILL.—We find the follow-
ing among those who voted for the second reading of tts,
Jews Bill in the House of Lords :—Archbishop of Yoriri
Bishops of St. David's, Worcester, Manchester, 9°
Hereford, Duke of Cleveland, Earls Sefton, Ellesmere;
and Derby, Lords Canning and Hardinge. Ale°llgris
those who voted against were, Archbishops of Canterba f
and Armagh, Bishops of Bangor, Bath and Wells,
isle, Chichester, Exeter, Gloucester and Bristol, LiehTle r
Lincoln, Llandaff, London, Oxford, Ripon, Rochestek
Salisbury and Winchester; Dukes of Wellington 34.
Newcastle, Marquis of Salisbury, Earls Cardigan, Eglis,
ton, Aberdeen, and Harrowby, Lords Delamare, Skelmer
dale and Stanley.
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„a. •ra't
RUMOURED CHANGES IN THE mINISTRY.---.‘' °l'
moured in London that there is to he a modificatien •
the government—that Lord John Russell shrinks froinj',ll:
budget (which will, it is said, reveal a deficit, of some 'is,
or six millions !), and that he wishes for the aid of sir4-1t
Peel, whether as colleague or substitute is uncertain.
ouoo
there are difficulties in either supposition. On °ewes
hand it would scarcely be spirited to shrink the diffiet.od,
of the crisis, by leaving his successor in the lurch ;
on the other hand, it would be awkward to adjust f
,to.'
net in which two " leaders" should be found. Itr n' the
rious, however, that Lord John is heartily tire", -I,ora
task of government. Another rumour is
Clarendon is to be replaced by Lord Hardinge, With
tary rule, in Ireland.
elected
bY
YORK CITY ELECTION.—Mr. Milner was elee, of the
majority of 643 over Mr. Henry Vincent. Mr. , che
Wilkins polled only 56 votes. Between the polite, to the
trio there was not much to choose, but it is 0:t mode-
returned one to say that he appears to be the 111":,,BgogIle'
rate man of the three. Vincent, the Chartist ee'.'" . s
is of course well known ; and Mr. 'Sergeant Vlllol'
pears to have had a violent relapse irn bis politiezil feelingsill
and opinions, for he avowed himself at the nomination
favour of household suffrage, vote by ballot, elect rta
districts, triennial parliaments; opposed to the gateF
the present gaol discipline, &c., &c. • and his terg
iv,
nienv,
tion obtained for him 56 votes ; a paltry acknowledg,,was
certainly, but quite sufficient for the pretensions 11'
intended to reward.
eraill
THE BANK ACT.—The expectation is now gen,
noised abroad, that the Lords' Committee will, toolo4'
immediately, report that the Bank Act of 1844 had le';;
to do with the distress felt in commercial circles in of"
last autumn :—and that the Committee of the 1-leusf, a
Commons will only be prevented from agreeing ,ioas
similar vote by the continual presence and active exer.,4e.-
of some members of her Majesty's Government. 7 the
ther this is a fit line of conduct for the Ministers ot.tte
Crown, let our readers judge. Here is a cesunl, to
nominated by the Ministry itself, and so nominated s for
secure a majority. And yet, so entirely has the ease be
be
Sir Robert Peel's bill been broken down, that it al" the
only by the greatest exertions that a verdict against
bill will be averted,—if, indeed, it be averted at all.
_t
find o'l
THE JEW BILL.—We are truly rejoiced to . tisa
the House of Lords has rejected this most unchton 00
measure. The second reading came on for discussiowe,
Thursday night, when, after a most animated arid
resting debate, the House divided, there being 10alot
—Content : present, 96—proxies 32,—total, 128-, oritl
Content : present, 125—proxies 38,—total, 163. 1 0611
against the 2nd reading 35. The Earl of ELLE/anon.° 9„a
opened the• opposition to the bill in an able speettiwe
concluded by moving that the bill be read a secon
that day six months. The Archbishop of CANTEInia
' the Earl of WINCHILSEA, the Bishop of 0xF0ae,,,,0-
great speech), the Earl ofEGLI/qTOUN, the Earl efl,",oko
ROWBY, and Lord STANLEY opposed the bill. The "Div
of ARGYLE (in a maiden speech), the Bishop of St• the
yin's (in a speech that ought to expel him from
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bench), and the Earl of ELLESMERE—we are sorry t°
supported the bill. s oa
A SCENE.—There was a famous passage of arn.do
Tuesday night between Messrs. O'Conner and C°' oar
in the House of Commons. The former twitted POO,
Mr. Hume severely for deceiving the people by P°7t P,OOl
ing his motion for the Little Charter : upon h'' and
and conscience he believed Messrs. Hume, Cobde°os.
Co., only intended to use the people for their own r,bo
poses." This called up the ex-leader of the League' but
not only snubbed O'Conner most unmercifully,
_ers,
" defied" him, and sneered at his miserable folio3oa.
" I have set the honourable gentleman publicly At rid
ante, and all his followers," said Mr. Cobden, 000
never failed to beat them by votes whenever I met XOO
at public meetings." To this the Chartist cliseTbne
replied that he never met the Leaguer but once at a 11001.
meeting in his life. " I said the followers of the 1111,," it is
able gentleman," explained Master Cobden. Rea ;7,00
e
time for the friends of the man of " unadorned cloeu_pita
to look more closely after him. After the Malts
these loose assertions have a very ugly look.
_Nire
EFFECT OF THE REJECTION OF THE JEW BIL.L.War
hail the decision of the House of Peers for more Oa fel
pears upon the face of it. Practically, it excladrl3o gres;
from a seat in the British legislature. Such is t' 11,4 t
fact palpable to all! But it does infinitely enleo/. yes"'
force of the declaration is not simply negative. e
we have been legislating as if divine laws were eu for oar
and human laws another ; as if we had one cede for the
households, another for our parliament ; one creed, ai 61;
church, another for the cabinet. Religion has beesipaht#
tion, not a reality ; a bugbear for the million, a eOlO
sham to the enlightened few. Clergymen from 1, denying
have warned their congregations of the guilt 0 there
Christ, the source and origin of all our laws, anuot, col?;
presentative of such congregations in the House r, at the
mons has dared to refer to that supreme Lawgiver, o:irted,
risk of ridicule, pity, and contempt. The hearts r
.
pious have bled, the spirits of the weak have aicesa in the
the thoughts of the reflecting have become eutungtter t,,10
presence of the huge anowily. Anything is he
falsehood. Infidelity is preferable to hypocr.ipn'othiel:o'
contradiction could not last. God is God, or he,l'ticallto
If lie be the guide in tne household, he is etelPrthe si
in the legislature. If his blessing be needed 1",, orgeeyo
chamber, it is required ten thousand times ro°rvvich ate
,„
in the el. ,mber from which proceed the laws.f,roo9 Of co
govern physically, morally, and socially, mil; peers L:0
sponsible and immortal souls. The House 01_. jt ',tor
vindicated by its voice the national consistencZ,e lawsto
said the denier of Christ's divinity shall not tenoitiootoo
Christ's believing children, but the minor pr.?P_t the la
contained in a major, which further declares,Ps'of is °_";),
of God are immutable and universal, as he
,ben tt/i; of
nipotent and omnipresent. We must be pertur,be,sbeccia
that a true, a believing Jew, " one not wearieh.',,
religion, of which he has abandoned the realty' has il°
never have demanded what a Christian parlione)i,
the power to grant. A Jew more attached to
of his to
than desirous of worldly honours in the land
„rivilegeo of
porary sojourning, would shrink from the ,I!_c on
eagerly desired by Baron Rothschild, and t„_.l,loa tic al
British parliaments than of final restoration. ,rb_e !tea
Jerusalem, England is not the land of Cariaateeii s
disability of the Jew rests in himself. It has e_uch it PIO
upon him by hands purer than mortal: by
a:_ ,e;
be taken off. For the Jew two alternative;
setiuor, peir;se,
believes and becomes amalgamated with ail;,01 c°,irth-
he disbelieves and stands apart. There is “.e0 kis
If he cannot believe, let him not at all events'
eait°r'
.ars
right for a mess of pottage.—John Bull.
(apparently an Irishman,) "has been
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"OUR GOOD OLD-ENGLISH PRINCIPLES."
tr good old English Principletl've heard my father say,
A.cle shap'd the country's destinies in many a stormy day.
thus it was he answer'd, when I asked him what they were,
iißo look into your Bible boy, you'll find them written there."
Arr, let a man sit calmly' down, his Bible on his knee,
tell Inc what a country's creed, a country's code should be,
What
ttrhoitsh,
Our should teach, or that forbid—and here I pledge my
good n old English principles shall comprehend them both.
rirst_t
gland's King, is bound to swear he will maintain the
Of _ocause
tri d and true religion as the basis of his laws
.I,._at. with
the humblest workin man that toils within the land
W!! mete out equal justice with a free unsparing hand.
:pule, all the king can look for from his subjects, is, that they
Now if
as he rules righteously, like liegemen shall obey,
Vavr, if the King is faithful to his Coronation Oath,
gay that these are principles, that must be right, for both.
next there's the Church of England, where, ev'ry Sabbath-
day,
We poorest man in England is free to kneel and pray;
Yet have
e'sraxr. salves Bible read aloud, his Maker's praises sung,
have ion preached to him—in his native tongue.
man in. England to 'worship God is free
Thou
hilio conscience urges him—however that may be. Yet loth,
nigh arid low to act on them too oft, alas ! are
Nexthere, again, are principles that must be right for both.
To 1,1 the Laws of England, a man is free to do,
ii_Veak, to write, to print, whate'er is honest, just, and true.
-,i,.ncslltoose is occupation, may have, and hold, his own
AT,e the proudest nobleman—aye, more, against the Throne,
Is ,1a all that's ask'd in turn of him, all that the law can claim,
t he leaves another man as free to do the same.
The wealth and honours like the rain, but on the few may fall.
`,l Principles that leads'to them, exist alike for all.
For w.
Thos. ; WrOnlfa man may do, for ev'ry evil deed,
'aws a rorli have fram'd some punishment, or some redress
_ ..de?reed;
Those p at may befal a man, age, sickness, or distress,.
beneartivs do all that I aws can do, to make the suirrin,„
f- them we have fiourish'd, and have fill'd the world with
It t 'ame,
But, rue that other nations have, without them done the same;
While we have, the world has seen those nations oyerth
Xing
"e stood triumphant, through our principles alone.'
beclareslZ°,n, the wisest man that on this earth e'er trod,
_s Engiond'i " all is vanity !" except the fear of God,r.own
,„'et her h " !oyes the welfare of her people, of her U
wnen farcld fast the maxim which King Solomon lays down.
Ifien net;letch'd fine-spun theories, when diplomatic skill,
when ri-Y Party politics, have wrought sufficient ,
Shop Most vile expediency shall to the winds be driv n,
Know the worth of pciples. which have their source in
Heav,,

VARIETIES.
,Among the many properties of human nature, which
ii itiost exceed comprehension, come the parsimony of the
rich and the extravagance or the poor.
....DOGS AND HORSES.—A wit recently said that " the
rrench theatres are gone to the dogs, and the English
theatres to the horses."
Some sound beams formed of the wood of the mul-
berry tree have been found in the coins of Ninevah, where
they are supposed to have been placed at least 7 hundred
Years before Christ.
,i,ccording to Jones's Glasgow Directory for 1789, the
morning,
for Edinburgh started at nine o'clock in the
" or any other hour that the first two passen-
telt might agree on."
An Irishman being asked what he came to England for
irLd, " Is't what I came here for, you mean ? Arrah, by
1,"" Powers ! you may be sure that it was'nt for want, for
the Plenty of that at home.
A Poor poet having written some doggrel verses to a
,e'',.°ll4 lady, in which he repeats the phrase, " I saw thee
she returned to him, for answer, that she would
"Le care he never saw her again.
It is a singular fact that a native of Morocco, who
50°313anied Mr. Lancaster to Ireland, found the Irish
I,nage perfectly intelligible, and was himself under-
/vi °Y the people. The same person could converse
under-
With the Welsh, but not so readily.
ioi,Laleornedg
SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.—The servant of a Prussian
officer one day met a crony, who inquired of him how lie
:vith his fiery master. " Oh, excellently !" he
" we live on very friendly terms ; every morn-
e we beat each other's coats; the only difference is,
4Zit.es his off to be beaten, and I keep mine on."
at otijnost insignificant people are the most apt to sneer
hope Xs; They are safe from reprisals, and have no.
:egeheli-itn-hi•ering in their own esteem but by lowering their
have -"urs• The severest critics are always those who
ovositionn.ever attempted, or who have failed in original
talk VERsATILE CHARACTER.—A Yankee in the West,
Y: the Sawville Gazette, advertises that he will mend
mill lecture on phrenology. preach at camp meetings,
atd COvrs at the halves, keep. bar, lecture on temperance,
he g.O clamming at low tide. He says during his leisure
or edit
have no objection to weave, rock babies to sleep,
,dit a newspaper.
a iIii3GRNLINE DISSENTER.—The Manchester Examiner,
„it eral and dissenting paper, publishes the following
eaetch of a genuine dissenter :—" A genuine dissenter,
tehg,er for his principles, anxious for his cause, has a strong
opleUey to become intolerant. He will have everything
doubt his own mark. There must be no hesitation—no
4etitu_t,—no demurring : tbat's our principles, and if you do
cid tiOt vocate these out and out, why you are either unde-
-0; eti, or weak, or vacillating, or inclined to be a turncoat,
something or other that is equally as bad. There must
~110 admissions—no concessions—no ' give and take' in
114111„ Mt. We are absolutely right, and you are abso-
-. fi wrong—and that's the short and the long of it !"
has 11 a PLANET NEPTUNE.—This newly discovered planet
ti a diameter of 43,000 miles, consequently it is about 200
uies larger than the earth, and may be seen with a tele-
se(inPre of moderate power; the motion is retrograde at pre-
Eel'', and its mean velocity of 12,000 miles anhour is six
" slower than that of the earth, Being on the con-
ixlB of the knciwn system, and at the distaance of 3,000
pa',.,li°ll miles from the sun, it can only have the 1-300th
til,—,nthe light and heat we receive from that body ; but
'tut. -tieney of light, at least, may, in some mfasure, be.
hY moons, two of which have been.discove!ed ,
that ~ecs, like Saturn, it has a ring, whose diameter is to
the planet as three to two, and consequently, 64,500
the breadth of the ring is unknown.— Recent
.d:-"cries in Astronomy," an able article in Frazer's
lazine
for the present month.
CH RAILWAYS.—Ihave no hesitation in declaring
first their record-class carriages are as comfortable as our
c We found ourselves seated on thick cushions,
hovered with soft leather, and stuffed either with wool or
thhrse hair. No easy chair could be more delectable;
ere was padding behind us, above the shoulder, and in
b_e,Panel at the window. They are six feet across from
mah`to front, and five feet eight inches high, holding
out inconvenience five persons on each side ; let a
before legs be ever so long, he can stretch them out
him in these carriages, the fare by which to Amiens
7iellrtY miles distant) is 2s. 11d. each. Our portmanteau,
geheifecgiraietilg
aetsipt,iitlo,yin-pf;ot:ucre.pounds, and two hat cases, were
In three stations out of four,
ticket diys we found women officiating as the
thepartition They are placed at a glass window in
of the
secured by wire-work waiting room (sane a'attente), well
, •
for the female clerk's in
which a small hole is reserved
his
ticketand such cbanfigengaeirsh,e ma dyeblieverrecteoivtihnegtrafovrelhleisr
piece of money.—The Parson P and Pencil.
AUSTRALlA.—Mechanics
RATE OF REMUNERATION. Fie:, LABOUR IN SOUTH
4aoUSTßALlA.—Mechanies and artisans are fully employed
for 'they have no broken days in summer here, and very
ac, if any, in the winter) at from 6s. and Bs. per day,
Carding to ability ; but I may as well particularise.
in repenters, bricklayers, and walling-masons, if employed
etcswn, are paid 425. per week ; if in the country, 48s.
eweek, the price for the labour only of the wall-work
~.;g at the rate of ls. 10d. per yard for nine-inch brick-
a°llc, and 2s. 10d. per yard for eighteen-inch stone-work.
;lawyers get 10s. per 100 feet, superficial, for hard wood,
s• per 100 feet for deals or cedar. Blacksmiths'
3Zges are 365. per week. Tanners and curriers, 30s. to
423' Per week. Boot and shoe-makers earn from 30s. to
s• Per week: end tailors from 355. to 425. Machinists,
tsed to the making of agricultural implements, get 355.
13° 455. per week ; founders, 30s. ; whitesmiths, 369.; fe-
thale domestic servants, with good board and lodging in
doe house, £l5 to £2O a-year, or ss. to Bs. a-week ; male
enTestic servants, £2O to £25 a-year, with good board
u lodging in the house ; and labourers, in town, earn
fr°2ll 208. to 255. per week, and in the country they get
in 10s. to 12s. per week, besides rations, consisting of
teau lbs. flour, 10 lbs. fresh meat, 2 lbs. sugar, and lb.
not to I am bound, however, in truth and justice,
Ca"
'0 include in my general invitation to the inductrious
"se whose only implement of industry is the pen, be-
bre „we nave too many of that class already. The num -
soee,°;_oupernumeraries who compete for office employ-
sta KeePs the ratio of salaries low, and, in some in-
bernee,.s, counting house services have a less weekly reniu-
131,auon than those of the out-door labourer, even con -
04bullock-drivers frequently earning more than men
~oberal education ; indeed, many men qualified for
e!' rdinate commercial or professional pursuits, are
.e`friaPelled to engage themselves in pastoral occupations,
(144_8 ordinary labourers, for hire. Scholars and quill-
tejters are the last ingredients in the elementary consti-
handi,_ a a new country ; men, like yourselves, who can
thew spade, carry a hod, use a trowel, hew wood,
„water, drive a plough and oxen, and plant and sow,
jst.—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine.
tall.lvr LlND.—lmagine a simple young woman, neither
style nor short, but of a safe sort of middle height—plain in
fh110,..7° to rusticity—soberly dressed—subdued,thought-
testifi'lng, and with an earnestness in the thought that
jf es that the mood is habitual ;—such is Jenny Lind.
ave).l,l! judge as the world judges—generally wrong—you
dail"...T set her down as a plain sort of clever shopkeeper's
you'l_nter• In a crowd of females, if you noted her at all,
eyes, perhaps, be arrested by a pair of thoughtful
interest seemed to ask, not answer ; gaze with more
irra st into your thoughts than proffer any of her own.
zittellrilretteraoetivcondsof beauties you would wonder what she did
foe Innocence and simplicity (though mighty as the
of the world) have no worldly attraction.
Must educate us up to them. Society with its
111..e_retripous flambeaux lights us away. Place our sweet
ernY in a circle of gaily dressed belles, indeed would she
uow, tho
'colour of th ugh,
coswith a corresponding alteration of the
eir stoma
Like a snowy dove trooping with—crows."
tibieslitY is
the triumph of expression; the power
which
esoulbo.ass
to make beauty—to create out of
e n
Lind's is a divided being ; one part of
pier
erthpro raising, the other of heaven. Never was there a hap-
100:.:Pteresnsion than that the eyes are the windows of the
and Jenny Lind's eyes are the windows through
nieh her beautiful mind looks upon the world. Alas,
must it retire disappointed and dissatisfied !
And Yet
If be so barren—so
and again does it return, and seem to ask
lour _ u—so prosaically mean—so calculatingly hol-
fui —l° immoveable to all high purposes, and yet so fret-
% ":-B,lsti° gre.at to small incitements and so small to great,
upon eyni4c.ti_v_e fear suggests. Such, called to pronounce
buce, she must declare to be the case. In fresh

springing hope, and reawakening trustful sympathy,. the
world is timidly questioned ; and yet the same, not de-
pressing, but puzzling reply seems to be made. The wish
to believe struggles with cold proofs. Lind is really too
true for this false scheme of shows,—really too poetic for
this wilderness of stubborn facts, over which we trip a
dozen times a day. and yet arise again without teaching
ourselves caution.
"The world is not for her, nor the world's laws "
—Hargrave Jennings.

erntral It tttlann.

The cost of carting a puncheon of rum from St. Katha-
rine's Dock to one of the London railway stations, ex-
ceeds the whole freight from London to Rotterdam.
A railway parcel was received at Wellington, Somerset-
shire, containing a covey of partially fledged partridges,
hatched by a new process.
The accounts from all parts of the country are of the
most cheering kind respecting the prospects of the har-
vest.
Amongst the novelties of the season is advertised a
pleasure voyage to the Eastern hemisphere, including
India, China, Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand.
A potter, named Wilson, of Hylton Ferry, near Sun-
derland, has been committed to prison, charged with the
wilful murder of his wife.
In Herefordshire there is an abundant prospect of
apples and pears. Cider is selling there at threepence
per gallon.
Capt. Townshead, M. P., has announced to his tenants
that he intends no longer to preserve his game, but gives
it up entirely to them.
A few days since, a man named Fisher, living at Badg-
worth, near Gloucester, poisoned himself by taking a dose
of mercury, which he imagined was Epsom salts.
FIRE IN HUNGERFORD MARKET.—On Tuesday, the
hay stores 183 feet in length, were totally destroyed with
their contents by an accidental fire.
No clue has yec been discovered to the murderers of
the child Henry Lazarus, in Spitalfields, but it remains
involved in great mistery.
John Lyng, who accompanied Captain Cook in his last
voyage as boatswain's boy, and witnessed his being
speared by the lances of the Indians, recently died in
Greenwich Hospital, at the advanced age of 97.
G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq. was on Monday unanimously
elected the first Mayor of the Borough of Wolverhampton.
Thomas Walker, Esq., solicitor, was elected the first
Town Clerk.
A solicitor hauled Moss has brought qui tam actions
against 1,400 licensed victuallers in the metropolis, to re-
cover £lOO from each, for having Derby, and other sweeps
in their houses.
During the last year grants from the literary fund,
amounting altogether to £1230, were made to thirty-
eight distressed writers, of whom twenty-six were authors,
and twelve authoresses.
Franconi's celebrated equestrian troupe of performers
terminated their engagement at Drury-lane Theatre,
London, on Tuesday night, and on Thursday morning
embarked for Havre, en route to Paris.
Mr. Green, the aeronaut, made his 395th ascent from
Colchester, on Wednesday, at 4h. lm. p.m., and landed
at Diss at half-past five, travelling the distance of fifty
eight miles in one hour and twenty minutes.
James Robertson, convicted at Perth Circuit Court of
the murder of his illegitimate child, underwent the awful
sentence of death, at Forfar, on Friday morning, in
presence of about 5000 spectators.
At the Central Criminal Court, last week, C. Abbott,
aged 54, was convicted of several robberies on the Great
Western Railway, and sentenced to fourteen years' trans-
portation.
The first consignment of West Indian pine-apples that
has arrived this year, was brought over by the Avon
steamer, and it is stated that the crop of fruit will proba-
bly be good but late.
Many of the mills at Bacup are stopped, and no less
than 1,700 workmen are parading the streets. On Wed-
nesday a procession of 1,500, headed by a collecting-cart,
passed the Institution-house, where upwards of 400 lbs. of
bread, and other articles, were given to them.
Several of the railway trains which conveyed from Lon-
don cockneys desirous of seeing the Derby race at Epsom,
transported nearly two thousand persons each; and some
notion of the number of these lovers of horse racing may
be formed from the fact that the trains left London
Bridge every quarter of an hour.
A farmer, named Luke Bull, has been committed for
trial, charged with the manslaughter ofan imbecile old man,
named Barnes, at Chaceley, on the borders of Worcester-
shire. The deceased had taken a stake out of the farmer's
hedge, and for doing this the latter struck him several
times severely across the arms, legs, and belly.
The Opera is just now anything but successful in
London this season. At the Queen's Theatre, the lessee
(Mr. Lumley) complains sadly, while at the other house
(Covent Garden) they must lose terrific sums. Their
expences are at an enormous rate, not less it is understood
than £lOOO every night the curtain is drawn.
Jenny Lind surpassed all her former efforts, in Lucia
di Lammermoor, at her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday.
Since Mrs. Siddons's picture of the distraction of Belvi-
dera, nothing on the tragic stage has been so terrible and
so mournful as Jenny Lind's representation of the mad-
ness of Lucy Ashton.
The Daily News states that it has been informed that,
from time to time, a bracelet or other article of jewellery,
belonging to Louis Phillippe or his family, is offered for
sale to the wealthy members of London fashionable so-
ciety, in order that more money may thus defray the ex-
penses of the royal exiles.
Samuel Brown, aged 60, who was recently convicted at
the Central Criminal Court of making a false statement
on the registration of his 'marriage with Esther Field, a
young lady of 20, entitled to £l2OO a-year, whom he had
induced to elope with him, was on Friday sentenced to
six months' imprisonment and hard labour.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A youth, the son of Mr. Edward
Jowitt, steward of the Earl of Mexboro', and a companion
of his, were both greatly injured last week, whilst loading
an air gun, with which they were shooting rooks. The
gun burst, and broke young Jowitt's arm in two places,
and his companion's in one.
PIECEMEAL INTERMENT !—The Tweedmouth sexton
having been called upon, on Wednesday, the 9th instant,
to bury an instalment of a body—a leg which had been
amputated—remarked that he had already, that same
week, given separate burial to a leg, an arm, and a foot !
What it is to hold a sextonship near a railway !
The Bishop of Durham, who has been paying the Ecde-
ciastical Commissioners, during the wholeof his episcopate,
£11,200 a-year, under the act of 1836, has communicated
his intention of paying a further voluntary annual sum of
£2,000 for the remainder of his incumbency in the bishopric
—leaving the mode of applying the money to the discretion
of the commissioners.
Among the medical students to whom the London Col-
lege of Surgeons has lately granted a diploma, is a Hindoo
gentleman named Soorjoocomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty,
of Calcutta, who is one of the four Hindoos sent by the
Bengal Council of Education to study medicine and sur-
gery at the London University, and who has passed with
honours after a very severe examination.
On Saturday week, Mr. Henry Field gave a concert at
Bath, which was numerously attended. His performances
on the piano were warmly received, but in the second part
there was a confusion observed in his playing, and it was
soon found that he had been taken seriously ill. His
attack proved to be congestion of the brain, which carried
him off a few days after.
An extraordinary excitement exists in Swaffhain and
neighbourhood, in consequence of its having been disco-
vered that a burglary, committed on the premises of Mr.
Thomas Spanton, of the Friars Thorn Farm, on the night
of the 34th ult., was concocted by the rural police, under
the management of superintendent Peglar, of the Castle-
acre district, Mr. Inspector John Law, and privates Smith
and Haylett.—Bury Post.
THOMAS DREWERY.—Our readers will rejoice to learn
that the wife and children of the innocent convict, Thomas
Drewery, are now on board the ship destined to convey
them to Australia. They left Hull for London by the Foyle
steamer, on Saturday last, and on Monday joined the ship
Royal George, which left the London docks on that day,
and will sail from Plymouth for Port Adelaide on the 30th
instant.—Hull Packet.
There has been an extensive land-slip at Culbone, in
Somersetshire. About eight acres of Culbone Wood
moved a hundred yards towards the sea, sinking several
hundred feet ; the trees and shrubs on the land are stand-
ing, and the whole mass looks like an island on the beach.
A road to the church was cut away by the falling land.
Many years ago the caverns beneath the wood had been
the resort of smugglers.
THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of South Stafford
shire, owing to the present disturbed and unsettled state
of the continent, and the failure of many foreign houses to
which goods were consigned, is now suffering very consi-
derably. The make of iron has in consequence been
greatly reduced, and it is generally expected that at the
next quarterly meeting there will be a fall in price to the
extent of 20s. per ton. No reduction among the great
houses has yet been submitted to, but that it will occur,
unless matters change wonderfully, seems to be pretty
generally understood in the iron districts.
LORD FITZHARDINGE AND MRS. BARKER.—SaIter,
a livery-stable-keeper, brought an action in the West-
minster County Court against Earl Fitzardinge for £l5.
155., the hire of a horse ridden by Mrs. Barker. The
Earl hired the horse for Mrs. Barker, in 1846, and after-
wards bought it ' • and the question was whether the £l5.
15s. was not to have been included in the £65 paid for
the horse. The plaintiff's books were produced, and the
entry of the hiring was found to be interpolated writing.
The Judge thought the item had been squeezed in"
long since 1846, and gave judgment for the defendant.
ANOTHER WOMAN SHOT BY A SOLDIER.—A soldier,
named Relly, aged twenty-two, belonging to the 14th
Regiment of Foot, stationed at Monmouth, has shot a
young woman who lived with him in concubinage, He
was out drinking with her on Thursday night, and was
confined for absence from his barracks. The woman sent
to him for money, and he returned her half-a-crown,
which she expended in treating some other soldiers. On
his release he loaded his gun with ball cartridge, called
the woman to his room, and deliberately shot her through
the body, near the groin. She is said to be mortally
wounded.
DANGEROUS CLASSES.—The Bishop of St. David's, at
the meeting of the Society for Improving the Condition of
the Labouring Classes, reminded his hearers that, besides
the section of society usually called " the dangerous class,"
there is another class equally dangerous. The dangerous
class he had just been speaking of, and which was -better
known under that description, consisted of those who,
having nothing, desired all the enjoyments of property
without any share of the labour by which it is produced.
The other dangerous class consisted of those who had the
property, but were insensible of the duties belonging to it
—who made an irritating, ostentatious parade of all the
luxurious enjoyments which that property placed within
their reach, but who were negligent of the opportunity and
means which it afforded them to improve the condition of
those below them. That he held to be an equally dan-
gerous class, and one infinitely more culpable.