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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

NOTICES.

Blackwood's Ediaburgh Magazine.
This magazine for the present month contains rather
More than the ordinary proportion of reviews, which,
however, are of works of a first-class character. The first
-article, especially, a review of " A Treatise on the Suc-
celoCh, si°
Eq
n sto. Property vacant by Death," by J. R. M'Cul.
that
, is, very interesting, as shewing the opinions of
t very able man utterly opposed to the views of some
of our modern liberals upon the subject of the law of en-
tail, Which he maintains to be not only essential to the
present balanced state of British society, but advantageous
In an economical view. To the want of such a law, abro-
gated by the first revolution, he traces, in a great mea-
etire, the insecurity at tile time he wrote, before the events
of the last few months, of the throne of France, standing
as it did, deprived of an hereditary landed aristocracy, " in
Solitary though not unenvied dignity, without the shelter
of a single eminence, exposed to the full force of the fu-
rlolli blasts that sweep trot-it every point of the surround-
ing level." Another interesting review is that of a " Jour-
b,al,° nt. 1 an Expedition into the interior of Tropical Africa,"
't Sir T. Alitchell. The political articles are
an able review of the state of things in republican France,
and a paper in defence of the Navigation Laws.
we extract portion of a very striking letter from the
nited Statesa entitled American Thoughts on European
nevolutions:2-
REPUHLICANIS7G IN AMERICA PARTAKES OF THE CHARACTER
OF THE MIXED MONARCHICAL SYSTEM OF THIS COUNTRY.
-Al fact, the violent democracy of Paris is exerting a benefi-
' effect upon our people. We see the degrading spectacle,
and learn to value ourselves for a love of law and order. There
1, a reluctance to reduce ourselves tohe level of such a repub-
ie as sprung up like a mushroom in a night, and is likely to
perish in the same way. Our own revolution was not one of
drunkenni riot, and street-singing blouse men . our constitution
cialicstt'-a mere
stren poetical theory of liberty and equality, nor a so-
il dream
okipF ceirsen
of brotherhood. We ne,w learn the secret of our
r
ate n and of that comparative durability which has almost
es. We are, after all, a transplanted slip of
even imagine.
resitre we so ssentially changed, my Basil, as
The sl i'i rit of our people is indeed demo-
cratic : ut 11. e spirit of or constitutiotl is imbued with a
stronger element. The facts concerning it will enable you to
tee one secret of our comparative success, and to judge whether
France can possibly come to anything as good. lie founders
of this Republic were rot Frenchmen, but Englishmen ; I mean
they were of English stock, anti had learned all their notions of
liheraqty from the history of England. Each province of Ame-
rica had taken shape under the British constitution; and when
the provinces became independent, the general government
MfaS organiscd-in such wise s to sul p'y the place of that consti-
' talon. Its founders did not frame a new and untried
constitution, a priori, according to their own schemes;
they simply modified' the great principles of British
constitutional law to suite a new state of things, and a peculiar
People. A monarchy was out of the question ; but they did
not idemenntocratimc sd to ake
rit a d
came in with Jefferso n emocracy. They only
and mad French
e a republic.
The pi
ties at the beginning of the present century. It has become
'dominant but by no means triumphant; and its great obsta-
cle has been the constitution. In the several stales it has
anged the constitutions one after the other, introducing uni-
'versal suffrage and other democratic features. But the national
constitution has not been so easily reached; and it is the
strength of the great party with which Cloy and Webster are
Inentified. and which is a constant check on the popular party.
t is republican, but not simply democratic. The executive
lilagistracy is elective ; but the electors are not the peop'e,
directly, but electoral colleges, appointed by the several states ;
and the office itself is endowed with prerogatives, some of which
are more unlimited than the corresponding tights of the British
crown Our senate is a mere modification of the House of
Lords: it is a body more select than the lower house, and not
„ HoMediately responsible to constituents; and its practical
01.killg shows the great importancd of such a balance-wheel
any government. here is no working without it, in spite
i What your Roebucks may say. The House of Comnions
reappears„, in our House of Representatives, which, like its
sonorous
orininal, is the safety-valve of popular feeling, and gives
VThorou;Vent to a mighty pressure of steam and vapour, which
tnild otherwise blow us to atoms, with a much less endurable
derived,
red, with
our blood, from England. Our new statre
ii;"rill; up with emigrants from the continent of Europe, but
t„7Y all adopt the law of their older sisters; ond thus the insti-
,i'tions of the immortal Alfred may be found among the Swedes
ad banes of Wisconsin. These, then, are the elements of our
; and you observe they partake of the strength of the
riiish empire, which hes beeii legitimately and naturally Im-
Parted,to us, like the mother's life blood to the daughter,of her
‘,.°,!nh• We have indeed characteristic peculiarities. AN e have
some new experiments; but let not France suppose she
Imitate them. We are a new country, a spare population,
and our people have their heads full of, subduing the soil, and
itting water-wheels in streams, and making roads and canals.
have 'lave no natural taste for insurrection and confusion, for we
it alnobody that is idle enough to want such work. Our new
mr, then, has been put into new bottles; and the fool that
t to decant it into tile old vessels of Europe, will ruin
and them together.
The feeling with which the American people regard the
rPublican foolery going on in -Europe is graphically
.f
Retched in the following passage
AMERICAN OPINION OF EUROPEAN REPUBLICANS.
T speak for myself, and for many, very many, of my country-
,oen.
Our mere populace are of course possessed with the idea
sti_ia a universal •Yankeedoodle is the panacea for all the mi-
series of the world. It has been told them so often by demago-
n , that Chineser ardonable. - But even they would probably
itilbloel,rvt3tr.hat the, for instance, are not yet !quite ready for
notes and ballet-boxes, and by degrees might be brought
.oTinfess as much for any country less remarkable and aston-
ishing, than our t wn. But there is a solid mass of good sense
among us that -is not so deceived. It consists of those who
Would rejoice to see a rational republic in France, or in any
other country ; but who know that, with the exception perhaps
Of Holland, such a thing is impossible, and that, in France, rea-
son is more likely to reappear as a divinitied harlot of Notre
Dame than in any more resnectable form. As to Great Britain
even our schoolboys have learned that, with all the stability of
,empire, it unites the freedom of a republic ; and in spite of
. some feeling against John Bull, I scarcely know the man who
-would not be sorry to seelt- suddenly or violently revolution-
ised. On Irish affairs opinion is not so sane among us. Few
-of us know anything about them ; and for the sake of the starv-
ing peasantry of Ireland, there is some sympathy with its tur-
bulent Gracchi. Believe it, the general tone of sentiment on
-this side the Atlantic, among reflecting men, is far more con-
servative than you imagine. Indeed, •all classes stand amazed
at the democracy of Europe. Our wildest enthusiasts are out-
done, even by some who sit in the House of Commons ; ana
the rampant socialism of Paris is ar unlike the worst excesses
of our elections, as the ferocity of a tiger is unlike the playful-
ness of a kitten. Young, as we are, we are better mannered ;
and I must say, dear Basil, that when the old nations of the
World are allowing themselves such license, We have a right to
,gard ourselves as taking new rank, and deservingmore credit
than has heretofore been given us, as, after all, a law-loving
and law-maintaining people. •
, The most gratifying feature of the letter, however,
Is the writer's description of the anxiety with which the
recent dangerous position of Old John Bull was regarded
by his children in the new world :
INTEREST OF AMERICA IN THE SECURITY OF BRITISH
I wishINSTITUTIONS.
yOll could have watched, as I did, the feelings of our
thuole people, while lately, between the arrival of two steamers,
here was a solemn feeling of surprise as to what would be the
rnits of the Chartist demonstration I Till the news came, the
_,Ontest of us held our breath. I assure. you, Basil, the peril
iit_Etigland was observed with a deep anxiety. During all that
tir I met not a respectable man who wished to see a revolu-
tr "an/ result. It was the talk of all circles. Onr merchants
gentleman
for England • our scholars hoped for her; a clerical
ntlernan assured me that he daily played for her. The press
4:rY generally predicted a triumph of order,. but there were
specimens of newspaper literature that ventured an oppo-
re:Jugury. I wish you could have seen this city.when the
lka:"t was known. The news was received with a thrill. There
•bo" s°e lahin at the arturient mountain and the sti
we'l mouse, but a g grave parturient mountain and the still.
\9nniouse, but a grave cheerfulness was the reigning emotioll-
n.
•spardeenly felt that, by the mercy of God, the world had been
.e,,,,,e,(1.fr0m a conflagration which the match of a madman
Ford light, but which only another deluge could extinguish.
Of te°,„ne, I was as a watcher by the sea-side, who, after a night
see tr!Pest, waits for the fog to rise, and then thanks God to
stit,,"7 good old ship coming home, in season, her masts all
'ng, and her flag untorn.
44. we . givinterest
letter : g in another extract on another subject, from the
ra—
You ENGLAND UNCHRISTIANIZED.
firiqt speak.4_ of this Jew bill as the first step 1
i Why, yea, the
itigir"V in tragedy ; there was a former one n farce. There
Jewise;_naes Montefiore t Who made him a knight? "A
te ero".4nlght," said I, at the time—" hear it, ye dry bones,
• - ta-B,VI-leged effigies—ye Paladdins—ye Templars 1 Hear it,
4-Gdbert,—hear it, Richard Coeur-de-Lon! Yes, and

thou, too, old Roger de Coverley ! Hear it, thou true old
English knight; for they that bought thine old clothes now
come for thine old spurs!" So said I—wondering that no one
seemed to wonder. The nineteenth century had not time to
stare. There was not even a London Punch to laugh at such a
Judy, and so Moses was belted and spurred, no man gainsaying ;
and knighthood, that was Sidney's once, is just the thing for
Sir Peter Laurie now.
And if a Jewish knight, why not a Jewish senator ? True,
there is something grand in the idea of a nation that never,
since the Wittenagemote, has seen a lawgiver unbaptised ; and
then there is still a red cross in the flag of England ; and there
has been a pleasing notion that the Christian faith was part and
parcel with the British constitution ; and even we in America,
averse to church and state, have long allowed ourselves to ad-
mire one exception to the rule, and to confess the majestic
figure made among the nations by a Christian empire, shining
forth in splendid contrast to surrounding kingdoms, some of
them infidel and some of them superstitious, but she alone the
witness to reasonable faith, and faithful reason. But who re-
gards it in this light ? Who among you stands up to warn his
country of the glory that is departing ? Who has said anything
in parliament at all adequate to the turning-point of a nation's
religion. I have looked for some one to speak as Burke would
have spoken, of " uncovering your nakedness, by throwing off
that Christian religion which has hitherto been your boast and
comfort." I have longed to see his promise made good,—" we
shall never be such fools as to call in an enemy to the substance
of any system, to remove its corruptions, to supply its defects,
or to perfect its construction." I read The Times, but as yet
I have looked in vain. A few honest remonstrances have indeed
been ventured and cries of oh, oh ! and vociferations of buck-
toothed laughter from the bend es that support the honourable
members frota Cottonburgh and Calicopolis. But who has
stood up as for altars and fires ? I hope, ere this reaches you,
the question will be creditably answered. I hope the Christia-
nity of England
_will not die without a struggle. I suspect it
will be of no use, but I look yet for some John of Gaunt in the
House of Lords. Imagine him, my Basil:—
"This sceptered isle,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
Renowned for her deeds as far from home
(For Christian service and true chivalry)
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world's ran-om, blessed Mary's son ;
This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now—pawn'd out to Jews!"
This is what ought to be said ; and I look for it, if not from
the Lords spiritual, then even from Lords temporal. But
surely it would well become the primate's mouth 1 Of course,
it would do little good ; but then the religion of England would
fall at least dramatically. It would make a picture quite as.
good as the death of Chatham. Do you remember the lawn
sleeves in that picture? The bishops are "in at the death,"—
but nothing more.

The story of " The Cartons" progresses favourably.
We have only room for the following beautiful lesson on

EARLY RISING.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every
morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of _bloom.
and purity, and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious,
like the gladness of a happy child. I doubt if any man can be
called " old" so long as he is an early riser, and an early walker.
And oh, youth!—take my word for it,—youth in dressing gown
and slippers, dawdling over breakfast at noon, is a very decre-
poi ghastly ima,ze of that youth which sees the sun blush over
the mountains, and the dews sparkle upon blossoming hedge-
rows.

SECOND EMIT )N.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY.
The Share Market this morning is firm, and a fair business
has been done at the quotations. By a private telegraph from
London we have learnt that a further advance has taken place
in Shares and. Consols there this morning. •Consols are 851,
buyers, being the hi4hest point since the French revolution in
Feuruary. London Stock, 124 to 126. buyers.
The business of our Stuck Exchange this morning is quoted
as follows i—Ambergates, 58/9 d; Cheshire Junctions, 71 d;
Leeds sths. 1/ d; Do. preference, / p; Preston and Wyre, 34i ;
Do. preference, 351; Lancaster and Carlisle, 51 ; London i's,
I); Shfftieid Bths, 51 d; Do. preference, p; Midland stock,
1021 ; Do. d ; Shrewsbury 8., 34 d ; Dover 1, 9(I •,
Do. 2, 103 / d; Do. 4, 28 d; Newcastle preference, 13- p; Bank
of Liverpool, 161.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—Trus DAY.
There has been a fair demand for Wheat at Id. per 701 b.
higher than this day week.
There has been a moderate sale for Flour, at the full rates of
Tuesday last.
Malt dull, at the reduced rates of Friday.
Beans and Pease steady, without alteration.
Oats dull of sale at the quotations of Tuesday.
Oatmeal 3d. to lid. per .otto cheaper.
There has been a large business done in Indian Corn, at an
improvement on the rates of Friday, but Is. per quarter loner
than on Tuesday last.
A fair business in Indian Meal, with sellers at 14s. and
buyers at 13s. 6d. to 13s. 9d.

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