The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 'TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1851.

COURT AND FASHION.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION, domestic habits, which lead men into evil companionship and
crime, is strikingly illustrated an the case of the canal and rail-
s way " navvies" as they are called. The peculiar nature of the
LECTURE LAST NIGHT. employment of these men, leading them to strange and distant
POPULAR INSURANCE, WITH REVIEWS OF EXISTING places beyonr, their homes, where in consequence there is little
compromise of character, induces a nomadic course of life, as
wiIdMODELS OF INVESTMENT, AND SUGGESTIONS OF and irresponsible as that of the Tartars. Great numbers
A BETTER SYSTEM, &c. of them have been recently employed in Northamptonshire, and
The fourth lecture of the present course was delivered, before the County Chaplain tells me, "nearly every second man in the
jailnut forles the last !tat! tt sixwo. monthsn
of the
ewo ;107d
noun railroad;thbeeru;
~
the members of the above valuable institution, in the Concert-
liall,last evening,on the important subject of Popular Insurance. the kingdom have passed throu;vh'thee jails since thneavc'el.essation
by the Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A., incumbent of Bilston, Stafford-
of
240,306 averaged
labour." Yet the wages of these men to the number
shire ; Joseph Hubback, Esq., in the chair. The meeting a yeaa!,l?)6l;
whenverag etg
e.e-t0 railways a y ea r
weree a ch ,Lnnteh e
their T aggmoneyregate .4'
waslo.2GL3n66e
having been opened with prayer by the Rev. the Hon. Secre- their character was done, their good habits were done, and
tary, and the chairman having briefly explained to the meeting themselves done in every way.
99 cases out
the objects, advantages, and tlre great success which had Erskinen e
very declared
luu atwere the al
throughislTr
strongy As Assizes
drink.e in I 814j,ut that
attended the efforts of this institution ; and having stated that Coleridge added at Oxford, that "he never knew a case
tbirl
eo nesteducgiipmwt
climax
xtehfaotirnet,s7, him,:riintoxicating
tcaivinilagi
il which
liquors,"
i stating
t directly or indirectly
e
its advantaes and usefulness would be materially increased
if the young men of the town, for whose improvement it was atun dte Juder a
nPr tieusrovn. a r‘a te'll
established, were to join in still greater numbers than they were not for this drinking, you and I should have rothine: to
do." Of the 7018 charges entered at Bow-street Police.office
had already done, called upon Mr. Owen to deliver the lecture
last year (183 a), half of them were for being drunk and inca-
for which he was announced. pable; and if you add to these the offences indirectly instigated

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The marriage of his Serene Highness Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weimar with the Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox,
daughter of the Duke of Richmond, is definitively fixed to
take place on Thursday next, the 27th instant. _

It is announced that a rna;rimonial alliance will shortly
take place between the Lady Adelaide Paget, youngest
daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea, and the Hon.
Frederick Cadogan, youngest son of the Earl of Cadogan,
and brother of Viscount Chelsea.

With deep regret we announce the death of Lady Ward,
at Schwa!barb, in Germany, on the evening of the 14th
instant. The melancholy event is stated to have occurred
very suddenly, from paralysis of the limes, after a long
and painful illness of eleven weeks. Only a few short
months ago we had to announce the marriage of this beau-
tiful and accomplished lady. The remains of the deceased
lady have been forwarded to Himley, near Dudley, in
Staffordshire, the burial place of his lordship's family,
where they will be interred this day (Tuesday.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Ar-
thur, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the
Princess Louisa, left the castle at twenty minutes past ten
o'clock for the station of the Great Western Railway, in
the town. The royal cortege consisted of five landaus
and pairs ; and a guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards
received her Majesty and the Prince at the Railway Sta-
tion. At half-past ten o'clock the train started and pro-
ceeded to Gosport, where the royal steam-yacht was in
readiness to convey the Queen and Prince and Royal Fa-
mily to Osborne. At 0-;borne, owing to the death of his
Majesty, the King of Hanover, uncle to the Queen, the
court will remain in complete retirement. There was no

The Rev. Lecturer, in opening, said—Suppose we first I by intoxication, the proportion rises to at least 75 per cent.: it
enquire whether provident societies ought to exist in any is significantly added, "a great and sudden diminution ensued
form ? In other words, is it consistent with humble faith upon the public-houses being compelled to close at twelve
in the providence of Jehovah Jireh, for any man to insure O'clock on Saturday nights."
at all ? Is it, as some represent it, a turning the future into These are the blushing, guilty, damning facts that disfran-
a lottery, a speculating upon Providence, a gambling with chise the ale-house from the right of being the poor man's
the grave rearities of health and sickness, life and death? club-house; but even the ale-house, disastrous as it is, is not
Are these hard words true bills, or must they be ignored on the the most formidable enemy to the stability of a club : it i-
most superficial enquiry ? We affirm the christianity, legality, possible that a club may outlive the constant drainage of the
and duty of club.rnembership. tavern, but the principle of an uniform payment, like a pul.
Primitive christianity was itself a vast wide-spread voluntary monaryalisease, is absolutely fatal to institte tonal existence.
provident society, wherein "no man said aught of the things It is an aggregate suicide such a club can no more help run-
which he possessed was his own, bat they had all things corn- ning out than the sand of an inverted hour-glass ; its course is
mon." The church was the sacred eleemosynary chest filled but a question of time. Between A.D. 1793 and 1832, 19,787
by the voluntary oblations of the brethren, out of which the societies deposited their rules with the clerks of the peace. On
destitute were relieved, the sick maintained, and the dead the expectation of life at eighteen years, not one of these socie-
buried. The aggregate form of provis'on for the contingency ties ought in thirty seven years to have died a natural death ;
of individual claims was thus recognised and sanctioned. It yet, in 1836 only 5,409 of them were in existence, the others
was the most efficient method, and has lost none of its effici- having become defunct or bankrupt. The lodges of the " Odd-
ency, nor of its evangelical sanction, by assuming the form of Fellows," a great society which begun in the early part of the
a mutual assurance society, constituting at once the savings' present century, have not had an average duration of fifteen
bank, club and virtual mortgage of the operative class. oif years—a period obviously inadequate to fulfil the purposes of
any man provide not for his own, especially for them of his such a society. In 1843, 225 lodges closed for want of funds,
own house, he bath denied the faith. and is worse than an and many more applied for help. In 1847, 81 lodges, and in
infidel." Tnir LEGALITY of such institutions has been pro- 1848, 138 lodges—on an average more than 100 a year—were
mulgated in the various statutes which, during the last seventy broken up, the funds being insufficient.
years, have been passed for their better regulation and security. The two great essential principles of a sound Provident
We don't blame the government for not having earlier made Society are.
operative clubs the sulaect of legislation, as they were not Ist—GOOD TABLES, AND 2ndIy—GooDarANAGENIENT.
numerous enough at any earlier period to attract legislative No management can long escape the ruinous issue of inaccu-
attention, nor to require on public grounds its interference. If rate tables, nor can the best tables continue to survive the
it 'le replied, the government, in its parental Character, would operation of uniformly bad management ; hence both are
have done wisely to have suggested and originated such soci- indispensable to the permanent solvency of a society.
eties for its citizens, we reply, the citizens themselves create Ist.—The Becher Club at Stourbridge is founded on correct
the government, and hence in England it is the usual and more Tables.—Every member pays according to his age on entering
natural order for movementsratber to originate with the people the society. and on this principle only can the payments
than with the legislature. The people are jealous of any seem- become sufficient to secure the benefits proposed. The ruinous
ing, dictation, and better submit to the check of authority than and clearly unfair system of an uniform scale of contr'butions
to its spur. we have illustrated by the past experience and present pros-
TEI E DUTY of belonging to some one society of the kind has pects of the Odd-Fellows'Societies ; societies whose name is an
presented itself to the writer's mind, in the following light obvious misnomer, unless it be meant that " the odds are
For the last twelve years he has been considerably engaged against" any of them making an even return for the uniformly
in Me administration of poor law relief. He cannot disguise even payments of their members.
from his reluctant notice the painful fact of how large and over- Indeed in 1844 no less than '20.000 members left its Lodges.
whelming a per centage of applicants for relief had been for Wherever the principle of each member paying the same sum.
long periods of their lives in the habit of earning wages, the whatever his age may he, prevails, the ultimate insolvency of
surplus of which remaining over and above the cost of their that society is inevitable.
maintenance would, if properly invested, have secured them It may not be immediately perceptible—the minute of ont-
an honourable independent subsistence for the unproductive goings whose ultimate congeries cause the run upon its ill-
residue of their lives. Their frugal contemporaries, whom they starred bank, and put a final stop to its issues, accumulate
scandalised by their example, they further tax with the burden slowly at first, and insidiously as the steel particles gather upon
of their subsistence. They commit a constructive injustice the lungs of the knife-grinder, but consumption sets in at last,
upon their more provident fellow-citizens, and when society and all the cod-liver patchings of honorary subscriptions—
inveighs against the gratuitous pauper, not because he is poor, central grants—diminished club-pay. or other shifts, can only
but because he viciously made himself so, society is not unjust defer for a brief adjournment the on-coming catastrophe.
in such a retaliation upon its trespassers. Like a shipwrecked crew that abridge their miserable rations
The gracious law of England, that makes the poor-rate corn- to prolong them at a point just short of staving, as if they
pulsory, would deal with scarcely more than even-handed jus. would temporise with famine and haggle about the niggard and
tice to compel the club payment too, for why should Ibe corn- unwelcome terms of death, but can't out-run the hrd bargain
pelled to contribute to the support of my neighbour,and he not at last, so the Odd-Fellows are embarked upon a clumsy raft
be compelled to contribute in some shape to support himself ? that can't hold out for sheer want of provisions, even if they
If it were an infringement of the liberty of the subject to cont. fall upon no foul weather, such as a bankrupetreasurer, or
pet rt y neighbour to support a club, it Is an equal infringement absconding secretary, to expedite their foundering!
on my subject liberty to compel me to support my neigh ;our. It stands to reason, that a man entering a lodge at 40 must
I only ask for equal legislation, make poor rates and club rates be 22 years nearer that time of life, when the sickness and
equally voluntary, or equally compulsory, and both would be infirmities of age usually come on, than the youth that enters
the better for either alternative. at 18. Common sense suggests that each man should pay in
Scripture enjoins as at once a social and a personal duty, proportion to his liabilities—men do so in every other depart-
providence and frugality. In the writer's observation, too, ment of the business of life, and what constitutes the club an
provident men are as generally distinguished by their hoepita- exception? Old men must in the course of nature be more
tile as by their frugality ; they have imbibed this two-fold burdensome than young men. If to secure £1 sick allowance
spirit from that divirib magnanimity that first fed the hungry at 20, require £2 7s. a year, it would require £4 13s. 64 for a
thousands intim wilderness, and then after they had eaten and man at 40 years of age.
were filled, " gathered up the fragments that remained, that "Truly," Mr. Greig observes. "these so-called Friendly
nothing be lost !" It is this habit of " gathering up the frig- Societies are mere lotteries, where those who are sick the
means" that constitutes all the difference between the lot that soonest, or die the youngest, have all the prizes, while the
"lives fr om hand tomouth," and that which has " bread enough blanks are reserved for those who contribute the longest, and
to eat and to spare." That which Scripture thus enjoins, have therefore the most powerful claim upon their full share
nature and providence alike illustrate. Each passing season of the funds."
prepares for its successor—the subsoil organisations of spring How much of "the penny wise and pound foolish policy"
elaborate the growth and increase of summer, and the ripen- prevails in popular habits and opinions ! As it is well said on
ings of autumn create the supply of the insolvent winter. the individual scale, "what maintains one vice, would b ing up
Youth is a gymnastic school of exercise for manhood, and the two children," so on the publ c scale, the neglect of simple
hardy vigour and occupati nof manhood realise the store that inexpensive precautions entail an awful waste of life and pro-
shall support the infirmities of age. The body corruptible is nertv. In the Unions of England, not less than 27,000 cases of
the seedling of the body incorruptible—it must be " sown a

escort to conduct her Majesty from the castle to the rail-
way station. The court mourning for the late King of
Hanover is to commence this day (Sunday), to continue
deep for a fortnight, when half-mourning will commence ;
and the pe►iod of mourning will altogether terminate on
Sunday, the 14th of December.—Observer. _ _

Sir Henry Bulwer's departure, to resume his diplomatic
functions at Washington, is understood to be postponed
until after Christmas.

DEATH OF COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR.—This
distinguished officer departed this life at Brighton, on
Sunday, after a long illness. He was member for Lisburn.
He served in Spain with the 10th Hussars, and was aid-
de-camp to the Marquis of Anglesey at Waterloo.:,,

COLLEGE OP

P. Aftiis, Nov. 22

THE EARL MARSHAL'S ORDER FOR A GENERAL MOURNING
FOR HIS LATE MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER.

In pursuance of her Majesty's commands, these are to
give public notice, that upon the melancholy occasion of
the death of his late Majesty the King of Hanover, Uncle
to her Majesty the Queen, it is expected that all persons
do put themselves into mourning fur ten days, to com-
mence on Sunday next, the 23d instant.
NORFOLK, Earl Marshal.

DEATH OF THE

KING OF HANOTER

The death of this venerable monarch took place on
Tuesday morning in his palace at Herrenhaus: n, in the
eighty-first year of his age, and the fourteenth of his
reign. His Majesty Ernest Augustus (formerly Duke of
Cumberland) was the last surviving son of King George
111., and uncle of our most gracious Queen Victoria.•
The following telegraphic official announcement of the
king's decease was received by the French government :

"Hanover, Nov. 18, Half-past Eleven o'Clock, a.m.
"THE MINISTER OF rnANcE TO TILE MINISTER FOR

FOREIGN AFFAIR

"The king died this morning at a quarter to seven o'clock

The deceased Prince—the fifth and last surviving son
of George ITT.—was born at Kew on the sth of June,
1771. His early days were spent at the place which gave
him birth, and his first preceptors were Mr. Cookson arid
Dr. Hughes. In the year 1786 he accompanied his royal
brothers, the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge, to the
University of Gottingen, there to complete their studies
and close their academic career. In 1790 he entered the
array, and served in the 9th Hanoverian Light Dragoons

from that period until 1793, when he obtained the com-
mand of the regiment. During the whole of the follow-
ing year he ser,,ed and took an active part in the war

which then raged on the European continent. In the
command of the first brigade of cavalry, in charge of the
outposts of Marshal Walmoden's army, his Royal High-
ness gave several proofs of his gallantry in the field ; and
during a rencontre near Tournay he lost an eye and was
wounded in the arm. His Royal Highness took part in
the sortie from Nimeguen, and afterwards commanded
the•rear-guard of the British forces in the retreat through
Holland—a post of ereat importance and difficulty. The
year 1796 saw his Royal Highness return to England,
where he remained until April, 1799, when he was created
Duke of Cumberland, Earl of Armagh, and Duke of
Teviotdale, with a parliamentary grant of £12,000 per
annum. In 1801 the deceased was appointed Colonel of
the 15th Hussars, and invested with the command of the
Severn district, from which he subsequently removed to
the South Western district, residing at Winchester until
1807. In the latter end of that year he went abroad and
joined the Prussian army, then engaged in the great
struggle against the encroaching power of Napoleon. His
Royal Highness took part in several important engage-
ments fought about this period, and on the defeat of the

natural jidy," ere it Can be " raised ri spiritual body," and
thus life itself is a didactic series of preparations for eternity
Human experience in all its shifts and changes corroborates

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premature widowhood, and More than 100,000 cases of orphan-
age are ascribed to causes capable of removal, chiefly sanitary,
and these probably to previous poverty superinduced by in-
temperance. It is now admitted that the age of superannuation
might be considerably deferred and abridged by improved
sanitary regulations. _ . _ _ .

providing against the contingencies of life isgenerally admitted
and acted upon among the better informed classes, is obvious
from the fact that in A.D. 1837, nearly. six hundred millions
worth of their property was insured against fire alone I These
people know what they are about, and they don't advise you to
do something which they don't do themselves. Their candid
invitation to the working classes is " to do as they do"—to set

The allowance of one-fourth sick-pay for cases of incurable
sickness in the Becher Club system, is an excellent rule. Such
cases are found to be rare, but this only enhances the impor-
tance of the provision—the allowance, small as it is, would
probably exceed the average pay from the parish, and would
intercept the independence of the poor man on his hopeless
road to the Union, and bid him turn back to his home again.

aside a part to secure tue wiluic, ~, ...,...... _
tage of present means, to insure the enjoyment of an ulterio
provision. And why don't the working classes do it ? In the
first place, give them their due, meny more of them do insure
in clubs or savings' banks than we are aware. They have not
half the credit due to them on this score. Mr. Greig states
that the total number of societies to which the working classes ,
contribute is not less than 33,232, and the number of contribu-
tors is not less than 3,032,600. They have a capital of no less
assume the form of a national gauge of social character.
than £11,360,000, and an annual income derived from their
contributions and interest, of no less than .et. 980,000 l There The Becher Club is happy in the 2nd essential feature of a
are no operatives in Europe equal to those of Great Britain in permanent society, viz ,
the wealth, intelligence, and influence of their order. Vast as 000 n MANAGEMENT.
the sum is which the operatives have thus invested in various Its management humbly seeks its illustrious type in the
societies, an immense amount of it unhappily will be wrecked national constitution of Peers and Commons, i.e.,' in a mixed
in the profuse expenditure, incorrect tables, suicidal rules and ministry, consisting of both honorary and ordinary members—
other calamitous mismanagement of the systems they have the former from their education and experience are able to
adopted. afford sound and wholesome counsel—from their position to
It is always easier to persuade working men to get money, control, and from their influence to promote the interests of
than to save it. They work hard enough, and for the most part the society; and the latter as identified in sympathies, inter-
live hard enough ; but too many of them drink hard, and that ests, and even prejudices with the main body of the contribu-
is the retributive cause of every other hardship. 4 There must tors, are calculated to inspire the confidence, and attract the
be labour, for it is the law of God, and it is the law of social attention of their fellow operatives. We want to see more and
necessity and progress; but there need be no hard workit g, nor more of this combination of the two classes. It promotes that
bard living, but for the hard drinking. Yet hard as it is, or mutual intercourse, reliance, and amicable feeling which forms
rather soft as it is on the part of the drinkers, the drinking will a bond of union between the successive layers of the Common-
go on, as long as the club-box .6 lives and moves and bath its wealth, anti like the old Roman cement hardens into a mass
being" in the dry and thirsty climate of the ale-house. A that stands together for ages, alike against tumult from within
paragraph in the "Lahotwer's Friend," asserts that out of 9,000 or invasion from without !
societies reported, 8,000 were held at the ale-house. As an illustration of the value of such a management, look
There is scarcely a greater contradiction than the association again at the exclusively "operative" government of the old
of the club and the cup, (i.e.) of the means of saving, with the club system. With none but beneficial members at the helm
means of wasting,—they have no moral amilgani—it is the un- of affairs, it presents all the political evils of what is called
natural alliance of frugality with profligacy—it is like the mar- 4' class legislation," with the disadvantage of being adminis-
riage of a pattern husband with a slattern wife, they together tered by the less educated and responsible class, " and the re-
verify the old pagan fable of the tub of Danae that was full of suit," says Nelson, " is, that the real and essential objects of
holes, whose daughters were condemned to be perpetually fill- such clubs have been overlooked and rendered secondary to
ing it, while all that was laboriously poured in, as wastefully idle pomp and parade. Those funds which were meant to pro-
and hopelessly ran out. vide for disease and old age have been squandered in the follies

The Becher Society's exclusion of members from its benefits,
who shall have justly forfeited them by fraud, by disease con-
tracted by profligacy and drunkenness, or by felony, is a fea-
ture equally valuable in a financial and moral point of view.
It is my humble conviction, that if such secietarian principles
were generally established, the influence on public morals
would be incalculable. Expulsion from such a club would
become a national brand, for the club itself would naturally

French by the allied forces, his Royal Highness procee

to Hanover, and took possession of that kingdom on be-
half of the British Crow. In 1810, when the Regency
question formed the subject of much public excitement,
the Duke of Cumberland entered into its discussion with
great energy, and vehemently opposed the government of
the day on every point at issue. His consistent opposi-
tion ti, thr recognition of the claims of the Roman Catho-

lies for Patliani-entary emancipation is also a matter of
bistro y. It was about this period of the Prince's life that
a very painful affair, in which the tenderness of a kind
master to the memory of a faithful servant, who in a
_ against

and bubbles of youth." - A gaudy and expensive silk flag,
Like Danne's tub gilded and flaunting like Jezebel's petticoats out of the window
Is the public-house club, of an ale-house, signalises the lodge anniversary. The sly old
Their customers' mouths are the holes; publican, in dressing his club victims in simi'ar sashes, knew
111 spared i,, the chink what would attract the vulgar eye; and when he would seduce
That's wasted in drink,
To the bane of their bodies and souls. the young citizens' heart from a worthier and more natural
union with its equals in age and station, he woos them into
The immense power in the hands of the working men to pro- the treacherous embrace of the old system, by setting his band
mote their social comfort and independence is demonstrated by of music to the delusive tune of—
t, v., .1..11 .oes7s 54* RH k ',Mr,

the fact, that they are spending 57 millions a year in araent
spirits, beer, and tobacco ! equal to an income of 165. a week to
nearly one million four hundred thousand people. Surely if so
much can be spared for the indulgence of bad habits, a tenth
of it could be easily diverted to the cultivation of good ones.
The lecturer heard a story in Manchester of a calico printer,
who on his wedding-day was persuaded by his wife to allow her
two half-pints of ale a day as her share. He rather ‘Ninced
under the bargain, for though a drinker himself, he would have
preferred a Perfectly sober wife. They both worked hard ; and
he, poor man, was seldom out of the public-house as soon as
the factory closed. The wife and husband seldom saw much of
each other, except at breakfast; but as she kept things tidy
about her, and made her stinted and even selfish allowance for
housekeeping meet the demands upon her, he never complained.
She bad her daily pint, and he perhaps had his two or three
quarts, and neither interfered with the other, except that at
odd times she succeeded, by dint of one gentle artifice or ano-
ther, to win him home an hour or two earlier at night, and now
and then to spend an entire evening in his own house, but these
were rare occasions. They had been married a year, and on
the morning of their wedding anniversary, the husband looked
askance at her neat and comely person with some shade of re-
morse, as he observed, " Mary, we'n had no holiday since we
were wed, and only that I haven't a penny in the world, we'd
take a jaunt to the village to see thce Mother!"
" Would'st like to go, John?" said she softly, between a
smile and a tear, to hear him speak so kindly, so like old times.
"If thee'd like to go, John, I'll stand treat.'
"Thou stand treat," said he, with half a sneer, "bast got a

fortun', wench ?"
Nay," said she, "hut I'n gotten the pint o' ale,

John still didn't understand her, 'till the faithful creature
reached down an old stocking from under a loose brick up the
chimney, and counted out her daily pint of ale in the shape of
365 three-peaces (i.e.) .e 4 Ils. 3d., and put it into his hand,
exclaiming, "Thee shalt hare thee holiday, John !"
John was ashamed,—astonished,—conscience-smitten—
charmed—wouldn't touch it. "Hasn't thee bad thy share?
Then I'll ha' no more," he said. They kept tbeir wedding-day
with mother, and the wife's little capital was the nucleus of a
series of investments, that ultimately swelled into a shop, factory

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warehouses. country•seat, a carriage, and for naught I knoW,
9 mayor of his native borough, and its M. P. I almost think at

last.
Drink is the desolating demon of Great Britain. We have
spent in intoxicating drinks during the presant century
as much as would pay the National Debt twice over There
are 180,000 gin-drinkers in London alone, and in that city, 3
millions a year are spent in gin ! In 13 years, 249,000 males,
and 183,921 females were taken into custody for being drunk
and disorderly. In Manchester not less than a million a year
is spent in profligacy and crime. In Edinburgh there are 1,000
whiskey shops, 160 in ole street, and yet the city contains
only 200 bread shops. Of 27,000 cases of pauperism, 20,000 of
them were traceable to drunkenness. In Glasgow the poor
rates are £lOO,OOO a year. "Ten thousand" says Alison, " get
drink every Saturday night—are drunk all day Sunday and
9 M •—•,+ not able to return to work till Tuesday or Wee

Aonday, anti H.. _
nesday. Glasgow spends £1,200,000 annually in drink, and
20,000 females are taken into custody for being drunk."
And what are some of the normal results of such appalling
statistics? Insanity, pauperism, prostitution and crime.
As to the insanity affiliated on drink, the Bishop of London
states that of 1271 maniacs whose previous histories were in-
vestigated, 049 or mure than half of them wrecked their reason
in drinking.
As to its pauperism, it is estimated that not less than two.
thirds of our paupers are the direct or indirect victims of the
same fatal vice.
As to its prostitution, its debauching influence is romotely I
traceable in the 150,000 harlots of London, and in their awful j
swarms in all our large towns and cities. •
ITS RELATION TO CRIME IS EQUALLY coNcLusivs.
In Parkhurst Prison it is calculated that 400 out of 500 juve-
nile prisoners are immured there, as the incidental results of
parental debauchery.
The Chaplain of the Northampton County Jail lately informed ,
the lecturer that " of 302 prisoners in this jail during the last
six months, 176 attribute their ruin to drunkenness: 64 spent
from 2s. 6d. to tOs. a week in drink ; 15 spent from 10s. to 175., 1
"
and 10 spent all their savings." " Is it not remarkable, lie '
adds, " that out of 433 prisoners in this jail, I have not had
one that has one 6d. in a savings-bank, nor above six that ever
had a 6d. in one. On the contrary, I have many members of
friendly societies, of course unsound ei.es, which with two or
three exceptions all meet at public-houses," and there not only
learned to drink, but became familiarised with crime.
The influence of the ale-bonse in consolidating those anti.

see how they each meet the trials of that day, when " the rains
descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat
upon that house" which they respectively build. Let us see
how the one falls, and "great is the fall thereof." and how the
other "stands, because it is built upon a rock."

THE HOUSE BUILT UPON THE SAND--
Is usually situate in the darkest, dirtiest, dismallest part of the
town beyond the beat of the highway rate, poor rate, paving and
lighting rate, sewer rate, or any other rate except the curse-
and-quarrel rate, with which the wretched tenants are for ever
rating each other. The only thing that bears a hint of any
value is the land, every square inch of which is bricked over
and vaulted under, close and fasted as a city cemetery, as if the
earth had not another acre to spare, and man must be content
to occupy as little surface as passible, to leave more to grow
food to feed him. Human beings are stalled in these crammed
and crowded bins, the only difference between them and the
cattle, being the better victualling of the latter. The rain that
like a heavenly unction pours fertillity upon other quarters,
on this spot only multiplies mud. and peninsulates every house
and entry with a moat of puddle, exhaling with industrious
hostility the retributive penalties of sanatory neglect, in a con-
tinuous malaria generating every type of rheumatic, typhus and
ntli.7r malignant fevers. The high wind, that like the rough
fidelity of en old friend, disturbs but purifies the stagnant at-
mosphere of every other spot, here serves but to aggravate the
local fcetors, by the larger circulation of their nuisance, accu-
mulating the dilapidations in stock by the tottering down of
more ruined chim flies, and the forcible ejectment of lditional
slates and pantiles.
The very frosts that, like a sharp humoured sarcasm, provoke
the interchange of mutual hospitalities among their happier
fellow-citizens, seems here to freeze more bitterly than else-
where, and seal up every cracked door and broken casement,
with a stuffing of rags hardly spared from their shivering
wearer's limbs, waving in the wind as intelligible signals of
distress, or stiffening in the cold, as in predictive imitation of
their owner's fate, whom vice, and its matricidal offspring
penury, had socially worn to tatters like them. It is among
these grim neighbours you are to search for "the House built
upon the Sand," and if yon dare venture at nightfall under a
roof, whose ill-chosen foundations may bring down its ruins
upon you,—on that ba. ren social sand of as improvident
drunkard's heart, which grows nothing green—that dry sand
whose insatiable thirst every tide leaves dry and thirsty still—
that dull sand that only retains any impression made upon it
'till the next fl ,nd of inundating drink obliterates it—that
treacherous sand that has engulphed many a pretty little craft
that mistook it for an anchorage—that suicidal sand that must
be worthless so long as it lies on the brink of those depths that
drown it every day—that wretched sand, that is itself a heap of
wrecks and fragments, lashed by the waves of intemperate fury
from its native rocks, and spewed out, as if the sea of life were
sick of it, upon a shore of weeds and dreary waste—on such a
sand, the improvident man builds the horse that is to be his
home, and the home of the wretched squaw, his wife, and of his
children. _ _

.....
There he is to rear the disastrous duplicates who are to repeat
himself to the contamination and misery of another generation.
On his model, a characteristic progeny is to be formed, destined
like devil's Nazarites from the womb, to be the plague and
pest; the corrupted and corrupters of their future human kind—
at once a hurthen and a bane to their contemporaries, like him-
self, he and they shall be the crypto-gamia—the fungi of society,
vegetating at its gateposts, rotting its timbers, betraying its
unsoundness, and accelerating its decay. Degenerate, delete-
rious, abandoned, the wretched character sees no hope of relief
hut in its own destruction, no refuge but in • scape from itself.
The devilish charm of drink holds him spell-hound within a
fatal circle, drawn with alternate cups and rags, and he cannot
break from its toils—drink is the Delilah that has shorn hint of
his strength—he cannot "go out and shake himself as at other
times, for the Lord bath departed from him." Poor dram-
struck wretch—he's cup-crazed—drink has" put out his eyes"—
like the blind Samson in the mill, he grinds in the malt-house,
and Philistine lords and loggerheads make game of his prosti-
tuted strength—but, my lords, I would have you beware how
you trifle with such aiant.besotments too long—it's dangerous
sport—like the old judge, he may pull a house down about your
ears, as well as his own ! You have suffered this Samson vice
to grind on in the moral blindness of its victims, take heed lest
it realise on your hands a civil Frankenstein whose monstrous
hypostasis shall dog the footsteps of its social progenitor,
affiliating on the homicide neglect which quickened it, a puni-
tive reaction in the cost, misery, and shame, of its hideous
subsistence. . . - -

yencer.
DESTRUCTIVE Firtz—A FACTORY BURNED.—On Tues-
day night the extensive factory belonging to Messrs. 1:).
M'Phail and Co., cotton spinners and power loom manu-
facturers at Greenhead, Bridgeton, was completely de-
stroyed by fire. Not fewer than 300 persons were dally
employed, and to them the loss arising out of so unlooked-
for a catastrophe, at this inclement season of the year,'
must he very distressing. The damage cannot be less
than £2o,ooo,—Glasgoto Chewier.,
A NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—We understand:
from positive authority, that a new Westminster Bride
is to be erected. It is to be built as near as possible to
the present structure. Notices have been given to the
inhabitants of the north end of Bridge-street, Westmin-
ster, of Manchester-buildings, of Cannon-street, up to the
Board of Control, and of ether portions of the east end of
Parliament-street, that government were prepared to
bring in a bill this session to pull down their houses to
make room for a new bridge.—Morning Herald.
A VOICE FROM KAFFIR LAND.—To Richard Cobden,
Esq. and the Members of the Peace Congress.—Graham's
Town, Cape of Good Hope. Gentlemen,—Your presence
is much required here just now. Our Governor has
entirely failed, by talking and treaties. to keep the Kaffir°
quiet ; and having taken up the barbarous sword, has met:
with little or no better success. Do send us out by the
next mail two or three of your patriotic members as per-
manent residents, that you may talk the savages into sub-
mission.—Yours obediently, AN ANXIOUS COLONIST.
MIRACULOUS Esc...FL—A man belonging to Kelty, °II
returning from Dumfermline the last market day, on tear'
ing a small fence, instead of finding himself on terra firma,
found he was descending into an old coal shaft, upwards of
40 feet in depth. His, neighbours becoming alarmed et
his absence, a search was made next day ; and finding his
little Skye terrier sleeping at the mouth of the pit., thel
were in time to release him from his miserable position.-
With the exception of a few bruises, he is now quite well,
although he was quite insensible when lie was rescued
from his gloomy prison.—Caledonian Mercury.
LORD PALMERSTON AND THE KOSSUTH DEMONSTRA'
TlON.—Lord Palmerston received a deputation on Tues-
day, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which presented
addresses from Finsbury and Islington, congratulating bi°
lordship on the aid he rendered the Sultan of Turkey in
the liberation of Kossuth. Lord Palmerston expressed
his pleasure at having been instrumental in liberating the
patriotic Hungarians and ,Polest-and,-in speaking of the
great moral power of this country in foreign affairs, de,
dared the government derived it entirely from the appro..
bation and cooperation of the people..
CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS.—It appears from the se'
counts relating to trade and navigation which have just
been issued, that there was a decrease in the consumptio°
of spirits in the last nine months, compared with the pros
ceding year. In the nine months ending the 10th Oct.,
1850. the quantity of spirits—rum, brandy, and genes's--
was 3,521,938 gallons ; and in the nine months ending the
10th ult., the quantity entered for home consumption WO
3,449,089 gallons, showing a decrease of 72,849 gallons.
Less spirits were consumed during the time the Great Ex'
hibition was open than in the preceding year.
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thinning
ENzlE.—De
the front
the legal profession in Scotland. To-day we have to add
the name of another eminent lawyer and judge to 04
ath teas rreacneknst 1
Off.
melancholy list, which within the last two years has ill'
eluded those of Jeffrey, Monereiff, Maitland, and the a'
Lord President Hope. Lurd Mackenzie died on Monds/
at ernoon, at his seat in this neighbourhood, Belmont,
near Corstorphine. His lordship, who for a considerable!
period has been in extremely weak health, had attained
the age of 74, having been born in 1777.
IMPROVED LIGHTHOUSES.—Various ingenious Ugh!.
houses have been proposed by Mr. Wells, of the Advil;
rally, and are under consideration. He objects to colonrel
mother?" - - lights, which in dense atmospheres are subject to optics'
4, Not long I dare say Artie, but ye can tak thy porridge, lad, illusions as to colour, (in ordinary lights and reflectore
an ver'e sharp set, hut yo know thee father like's his children there is, in general, too much similarity), andalso tb.
to be at meals wi him."
The toys whiled away an hour before the children turned towers are usually too high, deceiving as to distance.
_:.,
another wistful thought at the great saucepan simmering their is proposed that there should be openings in the tolvv'
d se
porridre on the fire,—but the simmering itself grew impatient, below the lantern, fitted with plate glass, and shape
to
—every now and then up bobbed the white head of the milk to as to allow initial letters or other distinctive marks „
the top of the pot, took a rapid survey of the apartment, spot- appear, the light also, where practicable, to be more o_,"
And sitter have to spare • tered over a morsel into the fire, and instantly bobbed down the level with the eye from a ship's deck.—Littering
Gin ye'll consent to be his 'bride, again, as if it were ashamed of its petulance, or were afraid it
Gazette.
Nor think on Donald mair ;" had gone too far. AG*
Another strikingly good and politic rule of the Becher Club Edward the second boy could bear the suspense no longer. How KOSSUTH MASTERED THE ENGLISH LANGIT-- ~,,
is, the compelling all members paying for sick allowance also "Mother," says he, " its hard upon ei,ght o'clock, Father —lt is stated that, in thrus"
1837, when condemned to
srso,
to contribute for a deferred annuity of at least half the amount. should ha' been home these two hours—should I run and see years' imprisonment by the Austrian Government, ls-vol
This rule is a great security against fraud. No doubt num- see what ails him ? We sba'nt see the pictures he promised us suth, at the end of the first year, was offered the choieeos
berg enter lodges having concealed ailments, and defects tonight." one book for his amusement, provided that it was
of health and constitution, not always, nor easily detected "Go Eddard," she said rather solemnly, " and God Almighty g'
with thee my child, and bring thee Father back to us "
even by the club doctor. Now, if such a man's health be so go
defective as to cause him to make unusual claims on the sick It was barely nine o'clock, but the uniformly regular and him three, they should not be political :he selected
_A
fund, that very fact would probably render his life of shorter domestic habits of the man, made his absence even at that English Grammar, 'Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary, ec'e's
duration, and consequently give him an inferior chance of early hour the ground of some anxiety to his family, the more Shakspere. Having obtained these books, he comeoenoo.
becoming an annuitant, and thus the loss to the one fund so, as on this particular evening he had promised his daughter the study of the language, beginning with the transient's
would be compensated by the gain on the other. It is also an. to meet her at home at seven o'clock at the latest, to treat her of the first scene of "Th Tempest,"whichoccupied bid
would e
eligible rule of the Becher Society to enable members to secure and the two eldest boys with a visit to the Town Hall, to see •well' it
all its benefit by a single payment down, or to reduce their the exhibition of a Panorama of the Holy Land. about a fortnight. This was in 1837; and how WO'
payments at the rate of one penny on each contribution, or to Ile could afford them an occasional indulgence of this kind, now understands the language is shown by his spec c betls
remove from a lower to a higher class. For instance, a mem. for he squandered nothing on selfish sensualities of his own. HORRIBLE MUTILATION.—A few days since Elita,„,ith
her 20 years of age, by paying down at once 18s. 24d. will Hie enjoyment was to minister to theirs', and his reward was, Edward. twenty-two years of age, aservant, living.
""
lessen his monthly payments by one penny, and so on for eacti instead of the common spectacle of a father and children Mrs. Dalrymple, No.
.II
18s. 24d. he may be able to advance. And again, the same mutually indifferent, if not averse to each other. a family
4, Colebrook- , „„r
member, by a single payment of £23 138. I d., may secure at fondly and even proudly attached to its bead—a family that don, after doing her usual morning's work, cut off her to
once les. a week in sickness, ss. a week after G 5 years of age, realised the venerable and lovely title of a Father, and lived in hand at the wrist with a carving-knife and threw '' eyes
and .elO at his death. the social religion of filial love and reverence. the fire, having previously attempted to destroy bers, the
Further, if a man altered his plans, and propose to emigrate, " Grey hairs were here and there upon him, yet he knew it with iron skewers. The bleeding being profuse fr°Threr
another law of the society enables him to turn his contributions not," they were not the premature indices of trouble, bleached two divided arteries, she thrust the stump into the mt.
into a capital to travel on, by the sale at its full value of his in some dare transits of bygone sorrow, but the witnesses of which had the effect of cauterizinr the vessels- and e,eeo
interest in the society. habitual sobriety and seriousnessof thought, investing the honest - ci e ~
'n the hemorrha e and thus saved her life.. Lel • At'
The Report of the Mining District Commission informs us yeoman with a natural dignity, a kind of aristocracy of age. pi g g ,oto ..,
that the miners of Cornwall have £200,000 in the Savings Bank, The house he lived in, though a humble one, was suited to thrust her right hand into the fire and .burnt it to al
je ktti
and after such a statement we have no need to be told they are his family wants, and moreover every brick' his own. It when her mistress, hearing an unusual noise ill is foen,
an industrious, intelligent, and provident people. The total was his first Savings Bank that house, and laboriously he chen, went' to ascertain what was the matter, an oas
amount of deposits in Savings Banks ror England sod Wales on wrought and sacrificed and saved penny by penny, as if he her with both hands in the fire. She pulled her fr° 'Or
20th of November, 1848, was .#25,371,176 ; for Scotland, had piled it together brick by brick, and it was a proud day rte A
fire, and sent for Mr. Fairhead, a surgeon in the 0.00
1,080,191; for Irelnnd, £1,358,061 ; and for the Islands in the the first meal the family ate under their own roof, and the
British Seas, -'236,710 ; total, -420,046,130. In such a tabular children looked excitedly at their Father as they sat down to found hers s one
bourhood, who promptly attended, and, oe 4
statement, we have the true solution of the contrast presented it, when the good man slightly faltered in saying the grace,— time with her right hand burning by the side oi.d bet .$
between the general condition of the working classes in the " For these and all His mercies, the Lord's name be praised!" she bad cut off. He took her hands out and 131 000:4
Sister Kingdoms. Philosophers, Patriots, Heroes, and even Martyrs make the kitchen floor, and afterwards sent his may; obe
All the facts presented in this Lecture exhibit a boundless room for this man among you,—there is not one of you need with her in a cab to St. Bartholomew's HosPite“ entire
field for social regeneration, anti demonstrate the abundant be ashamed of such a competitor for your glorious laurels I—
she tbe et
material there is in the hands of the working classes themselves spare a leaf or two to weave a chaplet for the chivalry of lies, and is likel to recover, but with for h
now y
for their economic and moral elevation. The policy of govern_ home ! for the vanquisher in the sharp fight with poverty and loss of her hands. The only reason she assigns srvisei
d 0 9' boe
silent, and indeed of our 'teeing men generally has been toil, family burthens and scant wages 1 rash act is, that she thought she was doing G° A.
strangely suicidal in relation to the improvement of the masses. Ten o'clock arrived, a later hour than the children scarcely „...... -•
SINGULAR ZOOLOGICAL FROIOLEM SOINI4-.1 Gat
The Poor Law is improved, but I have no confidence in it as a remembered him to have ever been out of his bed—their six weeks back the boa constrictor at the Zoolegi rabbit(
regenerating agent—there is no adequate classification of cha- mother's growing uneasiness infected the group of the three dens, Regent's Park, in its. rapacity to swallow age ,c.),
racter—it has some of the worst evils of the old jail system in elder ones, the four juniors were long fast asleep, except Baby, ''• is
a modified form. I have as little confidence in penal discipline who now and then gave vent to an unusual restlessness by a blanket, placed in its cage for walla i. .
sucked in a
as a regenerating agent—too much importance has been at- cry that called up Mother to its tiny cot-side. Mother looks warmth, and measuring five feet by four.
.seeks Cps
tattled to jails and workhouses, and too little to schools and round her neat matron bed-chamber with a sad misgiving to- watching on the part of the keepers for five "_, its vi lA,
homes. " The domiciliary condition of the working man must night as if something had befallen lam, to whose industry with day, the reptile, on Saturday week, disgorge' t oig to
be Christianized," said Lord Ashley, one of the best friends of her own economy she owed those comforts that like so manyths
per. The watchman, on going his rounds s a P°.o
the million, since the days of the Howards and Romillys. The links of love bound them to one another. " God briny thee kit, it dip
the saw the animal labouring to get rid of the blau.ol 4..,
healthy cell, the decent bed, and wholesome provisions of the home mu own lad !" she softly ejaculated. lifting up her eyes he ass" 011"
ofwhich
jail, present a premium rather than a terror to the houseless Heaven, eyes that glistened back in the magic mirror of the protruded from its mouth, and b ,
_ket g boo
tramp-- to the inmate of a workhouse, or to the stifled unit in memory taking in at an affectionate glance the history of a doing so by taking hold of and pulling the W 1 tb 4
tbst 011"
the crowded dormitories of the but or lodging house. simple loving life e'en from its wedding-day. Mid-night at for which act of kindness it was thought
osti°Ss Ifet
Next to a really national system of sound Christian educe- length past—the children down stairs would not go to bed, seemed grateful, inasmuch as it offered no oPP the hilted
tion, we know of no scheme, so likely to benefit the working though a sleep heavy as their hearts every now and then over- did not strive to in'ur him. On examination me _d
e was' els"'
classes, as the establishment of a well ordered Provident Society. powered them, as if their long flow of tears, like loss of blood foundto b j hshrunken in size, and it. fleost is.
" Under a scientific and amply developed system " says Mr. stanched by a swoon, had a narcotic influence on the mind to was e muc 1
or bearlt .tb lee
Neison, " Friendly Societies would be calculated', in a short suspend its grief in slumber. Mother opened
for
re door for of the greater portion of the loose woo ted v"
time, to completely remove the cause of nearly all that distress, perhaps the fiftieth time that long vigil night, f
might she heard composing itsmuch satura Nes, 040
surface ; it was
__ sa .
poverty, and misery which haunt our manufacturing towns, footsteps in the street which she thought be her hus- ture, and in many parts covered In.& sliraYite a• ;is for
and fill the unions with the working classes of the country; but band's. Nearly opposite her was another watcher, and their Sae .t -abooe 10 a
boa was a present to the Zoological
Owing to the imperfect and unstable foundation on which they doors several times opened simultaneously—at that house was , who gave 1 eeell heo
are at present built, instead of being a help and support to a a poor wife, with a sickly crying infant in her arms, waiting in U
• relight to England by an officer, , aid
.„ ss
for the return of
poor man, they involve him in those difficulties, for which he cold and hunger find trembling . . a drunken months fine one, but had ps'd agite-01'
ago ; it is a very Hob, an Iv atssoso
might otherwise have provided." Such a moral and social 'husband. He came at last reeling cursin and
g nghting healthy state, and was just becoming
ex treele ' beestbe
wretched •
revolution might be effected through these institutions, if well between two policemen, and the wife saw them drag the casualty took lace;p it has now an
robobly_. by
conducted, as the world has never witnessed, nor history ever him past her to the station, too drunk to recognise his own ated appearance, and drinks frequently,
P its body _
had the gratification to record. The increasing intelligence of door ! The contrast between herto wretched neighbour's lot and of the great absorption of the liquids of iliA:
the age must shortly overtake the subject, and deal with it, as ' her own happier one, seemed quicken mother's foreboding or Al°
its grave importance to the social welfare deserves. anguish,—she felt she had not been thankful enough perhaps, blanket. THE "grl 0101 till
In concluding our subject, bow shall I paint
'the moral, social, and therefore God had issued the fiat to her,—" call me not HOLLOWAY'S PILLS FOR .. _ AND yE igorii. OP
and religious contrast daily acted and wrought out in all their Naomi, but call me Mara, for the Lord bath dealt bitterly DIGESTION, DISORDERED SroM !I,
and jos thar,o
miserable or merry details, between the spend-thrift and the with me," and then she checked herself, and inwardly prayed CONSTITUTIONS. The stre . . ening :,,, great'digesllot
save-thrift. 1 long to leave upon your minds, after these dry for more submission and greater thankfulness. She turned ro ertios of these astoni. ,ng pills are • _se pio
whose th 3 os9'
statistics sonic tiling more domestic touching and telling to get within doors again and found Emily awake and weeping. The
PPs of low or ne -411 s habits, or ,as ir
into yeur hearts, Li d lodge there. But the difficulty is to in- was pale with ,
poor girl and when her mother irreso- . Person
imp to - , ould give them a stud by thAfece:i;
vest with any palntuble interest, back-street scenery too cool. lute] shook her head as if she wasn't sure but a good cry organs are impa . te
do herselfgood
mon not to he o diens, and too vulgar not to be repulsive. would
in d* • e had been tried in eti. 0,
010 osis I
There is none of the light romance, nor graceful poetry of life, brothers—" Mother, mother, I saw him in my dream ,just now, after every other e tem
resided fors ....ecti 000
capable of being wi yen into the picture, but there's all its ter. implored tere was blood upon my father's face." "Hush child," in the army ..,1
a, others that have ...co_ ed 0
rible or trivial tiuth and soberness. her mother, "thee must tens dream that way, or yen r rewhen suffering from bib Tea by the
rible cim s,
We take two, men as we find them, the drpnken and improvi- doubt God when ye waken—Hearken Emily,— there's a cart liver ' • beep cVreu
comp aints, have invariably
dent man that builds his house upon "the sand," and the stopped anunst our door I" . 1-1,311 5 Pills,
sober and saving man that builds upon 4. the rock," and let us "A. what 7 a cart ?" screamed the girl, with a look of piteous .4 i (Tory

The improvident drunkard dies as he lived, without a thought,
or care, or one provision for the morrow—the rags upon his
back made him a sorry scare-crow to bid others shun the ale-
house; but their reversion wouldn't pay the sexton ft:n*om hole
he dux to bury him. He had been so long and often "dead
drunk" that desth, as if indignant at the repeated simulation.
of his office, smote the drinker really dead at last I and "the
house built upon the sand," like the earth that " swallowed up
Korah and his company," engulphs within its voracious maw,
wife, children, and every living inmate that belonged to him I
He had swallowed his children piecemeal, as at the banquet of
Thyestes before, his ruin realised the filicidal fable of Saturn,
in swallowing his whole family in the end. It was his last
draught this side Lethe, his next will be the cup filled to the
brim, with weeping, and wailing, and knashing of teeth !
Yet yonder fellow. workmen of his, had all the while no
higher wages than his own, nor a better choice of neighbour.
hood to build his house upon, and nearly twice his number of
children, but his neighbour was more man than animal—he
was a wise, as well as "a knowing one," and he and his
children inhabited
THE HOUSE BUILT UPON A ROCK.
_ _ . . _ _

It was harder perhaps to get out the foundations, but then
it was all the stronger for it! And what was the kind of
" rock" he built upon, but the solid basis of an unassailable
christian character? An honesty that through fair weather
'f, - "-Rt —' I --

and foul, against wind or wave, sunshine or he a, ic comes
out stilt "a rock." An industry that in spite of all monotony
of spot or lot. in discharge of every debt and duty keeps its
head above water, like a rock standing where Providence had
fixed it. A forethought that takes a high but not haughty
view of things beyond it, in its exemplary provisions for the
future, like the head-land that is at once a beacon and obser-
vatory to the horizon that surrounds it. A hospitability that
bids the parched hungry wayfarer welcome to its simple board,
in the image of the Scriptures, " like the shadow of a great
rock in a weary land." A sobriety and firmness that when the
tempest roars above its brow, and the waves dash only them-
selves to pieces at its feet, and wind and tide brawl round it
like a drunken phrenzy, stands lofty and immovable as the
rock in the seas. And a piety whose sacred melody was
pitched to no earthly tune. but owes its sweet household har-
mony, like the sculptured granite of Thehais, to the vocalising
light of Heaven,—this is the rock on which the homely philo-
sopher and Christian builds, and it stands the onslaught of the
storm, when like the pulses of creation in her fever, the ele-
ments beat never so furiously against its walls!
But let us stP-- a g"--

eai impse a. interior of the dwelling.
How happy mother looks down on the chubby-cherub face of
baby number seven, asleep on her knee, so like his father, in
all his innocence, playfalness, simplicity, and every thing ex-
cept the tint of anxiety. at odd times, when work was scarce
and wages low, and theirapnetites had rather the start of their
provender. There's actually a bit o' lace on baby's cap, for it
had been christened that morning, and the old christening
cap that had stood as a sort of mute sponsor for all seven of
them. looked neat and clean and white as ever, as if it had
been bleached over and over again, with its repeated washings
in yonder spring water, which flowed as clear as their mother's
conscience, soft as her heart, and unsullied as her character.
The very cradle in whicn baby will be beguiled just now, seems
to smell sweeter and rock gentler than most other infant equi-
pages. And mark you those six tin cans ranged orderly and
tidily along the tables, burnished bright as mirrors that re-
flected in each shining oval the merry phiz of its particular
milk-bibber. The young tipplers had never tasted any thing
stronger than warm porridge in their lives, yet locked all the
fairer and comlier for their diet, like the pul-e-fed Hebrew
youths at Babylon. They are waiting, not for supper, for that's
been ready this half-hour,—mother is never behindhand with
meals nor anything else if she can help it,—" an hour for
everything, and everything in its hour" is her rule, " or else,"
says she, "breakfast things don't get off the table 'till it is
time for dinner, and there's no time for tidying anything be-
tween them."

" I wonder where's father," says Arthur, the biggest boy at
14, who has lately got a job of work, and coming home hungry
after his day's labour, wants his supper. " Will he be long

When your committee contemplate all the pecuniary
Pants which they have been enabled to make, and con-
sider that they have now an active superintendent working
in the abundant, and until lately destitute, harvest fi,ld
of 'Liverpool, they cannot help lifting up their hearts with
deepfelt gratitude to the good God who has thus far helped
them. But there is another side of the picture : it is a
gloomy and a dark one. There are yet many thousands
of •untaught children, possessing immortal, responsible
souls, in our streets ; thousands of precious jewels in the
back lanes and courts of Liverpool ; any one of which
souls, according to the balance of the sanctuary, would
outweigh all the silver and gold of the town. It may be
asked, why, then, do we not go on to gather in these
numortals ? The answer is a very plain one. It is,
Instead of having funds to promote the formation of addi•
tional schools, our treasurer is under obligations for more
Ittoney than we have at our disposal for those existing.
We are, therefore, compelled to decline many applications
We would be most desirous of meeting : for example, a
very excellent school has just been opened in Pembroke-
street, Pembroke-place, not only intended for evening
Instruction of boys and girls, but also for ragged infants
during the day. This school has been relying on your
Union for pecuniary assistance, but our limited means
have prevented us from complying with the application.
Other of the Ragged Schools have expressed their willing-
ness to open day schools for young ragged children—a
Plan which it is most desirable to promote—and naturally
look to this Union for that assistance which it is unable
to render. Surely this ought not to be We are willing
to-take the measure of blame which we deserve. Doubtless
We have been lacking in our exertions and cold in our
Prayers for this glorious cause ; but now we cry aloud for
our ragged children to their fellow-inhabitants of Liver-
Pool; On ! that we might receive a willing response from
every heart in this over-crowded town, when they hear
the piercing cry which issues from the haunts of our
native ragged ones, " Come over and help us, ere we
die," and that they might thereby be made to hearken to
the command of our Saviour, " tovest thou me ?" then
"feed my lambs 1"

'We need money, but not less urgently 'do we require
Ragged School teachers. Three schools have been closed
for want of labourers But we need most of all the ear_
nest, persevering, faithful prayers of the children of God
for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, without whose aid
not one ragged child will be brought to confide in Jesus
for salvation.
The following are the officers for the present year:—
Treasurer : A. T. Ritchie, Esq. Secretary : James
Bert, Esq. Committee: Thomas D. Anderson, Esq.,
James R. Brougham, Esq., Rev. C. M. Birrell,
_John
Cropper, Esq., James C. Duncan, Esq., John Drysdale,
Rev. William W. Ewbank, M.A., Rev. William
If. balloon, M.A., Rev. William Graham, Rev. Henry
Y. Higgins, M.A., Edward Heath, Esq., Joseph King,
Jun., Esq., Rev. John Kelly, Rev. Samuel Minton, M.A.,
Rev. Henry M. Mosse, M.A., Rev. William Maynard,
)4.A., Samuel Martin, Esq., Thomas Matheson, Esq.,
James H. Macrae, Esq., John Nottingham, M.D., Regi-
nald Radcliffe, Esq., John Stitt, Esq., H. H. Statham,
Esq , R. Uibbert. Taylor. M.D., Rev. Verner M. White,
Rev. J. R. Welsh, Rev. R. W. Wolseley, M.A.

Mary Crawford was committed to trial for having ob-
tained, under false pretences, two half• crowns from Patrick
Hart, a grocer, in S ewart-street. The prisoner lived as
servant with a Mrs. Hart, a relative of the prosecutor, and
a few days ago went and represented that her mistress had
sent her to borrow some silver, which tale was subse-
quently found to be a fabrication.
Maria Murphy was committed to trial for having, on
the previous Saturday night, in St. John's market, picked
the pocket of Mary Ann M'Connell of sixpence in copper.
—A little girl, named Ellen Stewart, was sent to gaol for
three months for having picked the pocket of Ellen Scott,
on the same night, and in the same place.
Bridget Doran was remanded for seven days on the
charge of having passed a base half-crown, on the previous
night, at the house of Mr. John Cartmell, licensed
victualler, Mill-street, Toxteth-park.
ASSAULT UPON POLICE-OFFICERS.—Joseph Rudd, of
the Old Swag, was charged with assaulting police-officers
168. 615, and 402 under the following circumstances:—
Police-officer 168 stated that on Saturday night, about
eleven o'clock, he was on duty in Edge-lane, when he
saw the prisoner in company with others. The prisoner
and one of the other persons had their coats off, going to
fight. He (the officer) desired them to go home, when
the prisoner struck, and a dog which he had bit his (the
officer's) leg, and tore his trowsers. He knocked for
assistance, and police-officers 615 and 402 came up, when
one of them was thrown down and his leg fractured. The
prisoner, in reply, said he was going along Edge-lane at
the time stated, in company with a friend, being at the
time the worse for liquor; the police-officer (168) came
up, and, telling them to move forward, seized him by the
collar, and in the scuffle they both went down, when the
other officers came up and interfered. Richard Wood, a
friend of the prisoner, stated that the officer had acted in
the manner alleged, and denied positively the statement
that any one had his coat off. The prisoner was fined 20s.
and costs.—Wm. Moran was fined in the like amount, for
assaulting police-officer 447, in Grafton-street, on the
same night.

William Earle was committed to trial for having stolen
a quantity of mason's tools belonging to a workman
named James O'Brien, which had been left in an outhouse
connected with the new buildings which are being erected
on the site of the Blind Asylum, in London-road. The pri-
soner alleged that he had received the tools in payment
for a debt from a person who had brought them to him.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

At twenty-five minutes past four on Saturday afternoon
the Liverpool eleven o'clock first and second-class passen-
ger train made its appearance at the Weedon station, its
proper time ; the previous arrival of a coal train compelled
the Liverpool train to bring up at a short distance from
the platform until the coal train was shunted, a process
which occupied but a few minutes.
Immediately this was accomplished the passenger train
came forward, and stopped at the platform. Before, how-
ever, it did so, Mr. Bruyeres, the superintendent, (who,
with Captain Huish, the general manager, were sitting in
a first-class carriage,) got out and w.:lked to the station, in
order to learn the cause of the stoppage. Mr. Bruyeres
remained on the platform, and when the carriage contain-
ing Captain Huish came up leaned against it, and was con-
versing with that gentleman when the porrer at the station
observed a cattle train coming up at full speed ; so sudden,
indeed, 'was its appearance that there was nut even time
to apprise the passengers of their fearful danger before it
ran into the rear of the passenger train with immense
force. The effect of the collision, to use the expression of
one of the unfortunate passengers, was " perfectly terrific."
None of the carriages, however, were thrown off the
metals. The cries of the passengers, among whom were
several ladies of distinction, were painful in the extreme.
Some minutes elapsed ere the people belonging to the
station could extricate the passengers. k.aptain Huish.
who received a severe wound in the head, together with
Mr. Bruyeres, who was also injured, exerted themselves
in a manner highly commendable in attending to the suf-
ferings of their fellow passengers.
Messengers were at once dispatched into the town, and
to Weedon Barracks. for snrgical aid, which was imme-
diately rendered, and every means to alleviate the suffer-
ings of the injured adopted. One gentleman was taken
out of a second-class carriage, next to the engine, having
a fearful gash at the back part of his head, from which
blood flawed copiously. He remained insensible up to the
time the last train left Weedon on Saturday, but has since
rallied slightly. The name of this gentleman is Curry.
From a ticket found in his possession, it appeared he had
come from Warrington. and was going to London. There
were numerous cases of severe injuries. About twenty of
them are reported ; amongst whom are Colonel Pennant
and his lady. They were, however, enabled, in a short
time, to proceed to their residence, near Wolverton.
It was stated that the Marchioness of Conyngham and
her waiting-maid were passengers by the train, and that
they did not escape the effects of the collision.
Immediately after the sufferers had been attended to,
and measures taken to clear the line of some broken coal-
trucks that obstructed both lines of railway, an investiga-
tion was made by the officials regarding, as it then appeared,
the extraordinary conduct of the driver of the ca tle-train.
Long.before the train reached the station the semaphore
signal was down, to signalise the driver to stop—that there
was a train setting down passenge s at Weedon ; but,
according to the evidence of the signal man, who was at
his post, not the least notice was taken of it by the driver
of the cattle-train, who never diminished his speed, (from
15 to 20 miles an hour,) but dashed up into the Liverpool
train in the manner already described. The driver says
that he used ,every means in his power to check its career
without avail, and at the last moment, with his fireman,
jumped off, and thus preserved their fives. The engine
was examined by competent parties, and was discovered to
he out of " gear" in consequence of an attempt by the
driver to reverse the engine. It is stated that the driver
exceeded the speed at which he should have travelled.

It was nearly two hours before the line was cleared to
enable the traf~ to. woreed.

The Postmaster-General has notified that, althoutth
money prepayment of letters is no longer permissible, yet

with letters, under the duty of affixing stamps on the let-
ters as soon as they arrive with them at the post-office of
the district.

The line of the railroad from St. Petersburgh to Warsaw
has been, by command of the Emperor, already marked
out, and the earthworks have been commenced. As the
contemplated line is nearly double the length of the
Moscow and St. Petersburg!), it is not expected that it
will be completed in less than 10 years.
A SENSIBLE RETORT.—Some "strong-minded" women
who lately presented an expression of sympathy to Madame
Kossuth, from the " Society for the Emancipation of
Women," were very pertinently answered by her to the
effect, " that all her time was occupied by her t

duties, and that having submitted herself to the guidance
of her husband, she had no emancipation to wish for."
A faw days since, a young woman, named Sarah Tur-
pin, who had been in service as a chambermaid, but
lately residing at No. 5, White Hart-court, Tottenham-
court-road, London, murdered her child, aged three
months, and afterwards committed suicide. She cut the
child's throat and her own, leaving the former on a rug
before the fire, and then running and jut-ming into the
Serpentine, where she was found dead at half-past six the
next morning.

The Record states that it is now fully arranged that the
first public meeting of the Protestant Alliance shall be
held at the Freemasons' Hall. London, on Friday next.,
the 28th instant, at noon ; and that the chair will be
occupied by the Earl of Shaftesbury. There can be no
doubt that one principal object of the meeting will be to
commence formally the war against Alavnooth. But we

believe that this will not form, by any means, the sole
topic brought under consideration.
The action by which penalties to a large amount are
sought to be recovered against Mr. Alderman Salomons,
for voting after his refusal to take the oaths at the table
of the House of Commons, will be tried in a few days.
The record is duly passed, and a special jury obtained.
Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Peacock. Q.C., will conduct Mr.
Salomon's defence, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and
Mr. Rramwell, Q.C., will appear for the plaintiff. The
Speaker of the house and the tellers at the division will
be the chief witnesses.

" Jenny Lind," says the Literary Gazette, " intends
to return to England in 1852."
The Earl of Carlisle is in his fiftieth year. He is the
seventh earl, and is unmarried.
Mr. Sheriff Alison, the historian, has been elected lord
rector of Glasgow university, without apposition.
The Earl of Eldon, at his late rent-audit, returned 15
LIST OF SCHOOLS. per cent. to his tenantry in the county of Durham.
The Derby Reporter says that an inhabitant of that
St. Bartholomew's Ragged School, Naylor-street.— town possesses a live rabbit which has a pair of perfect
Established by the Rev. G. Dover, in 1846 ; attended by wings,
the lowest class of labourers' children ; average attend- At Messrs. Togwood's paper manufactory, Cambridge,
Mace, 140 boys, 130 girls. a patent apparatus has been erected for making their own
, Cleveland Ragged School, Ashton-street.—Established gas, which they thus obtain at is. 6d. per 1000 feet.
~ny teachers of Dr. Raffies's Sabbath School, in October, The importation of coffee in the nine months ending
1846 ; attended by chip and grit sellers, and dock labour- the 10th of October, 1850, numbered 35,270,4261 b., and
tro children ; average attendance, 90 boys, 80 girls. in the corresponding period of the present year was
Campbell-street Week.evening and Sunday School.— 37,888,4261 b.
Established by Mr. Barlow and others, in September,lB46 It is reported that Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Napier will
attended_ by labourers' children ; averate attendance, 60 have the command of the Cape, and that the appointment
boys, 66 girls. has been urgently recommenced at the War-office and
i Toxteth Hall Ragged School, Mill-street.—Established Horse Guards.
:3D Carming.street Congregation's Young Men's SncietY, The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.8., has
In 1847 ,• attended by labourers' children ; average attend- appointed H. Mackworth, Eq., to be an inspector of
4110 e, 80 boys, 70 girls. coal mines, in the room of J. K. Blackwell, Esq.,
,_llarper-street Ragged School, Toxteth-park.—Esta- resigned.
uilished by Mr. Milne, in December, 1848 ; attended by It is reported that the newly-elected mayor of Binning-
eaildren of the lowest class of labourers ; average attend- hare intends to resign, in consequence of the council
atice, 30 boys, 80 girls. having rescinded certain resolutions proposed by him and
,!ndustrial Ragged School, 24, Park-street, Toxteth.— passed prior to his election to the mayoralty.
11rillinally established by Mr. Ware, at 202, Bedford-street, The good people of Newport made Mr. Blewitt, M.P.,
December, 1848 ; attended by boys of a precarious and Mr. Jones, the chairman and vice-chairman of the Niagara (s.), Stone, from New York at this port, at 445 a.m.
keens of living ; average attendance, 60 boys. insolvent Monmouth and Glamorganshire Bank, their left sth Nov. Has £195,847 in specie on freight, and
,thirty-
Cornwallis-street Ragged School, formerly York-street Guy Fauxes this year, and burnt them in effigy. three passengers.
'etioEstablished by Mr. Jones, and a member of the The Queen of the West, flatlet, hence at New York, w. ith
James and Henry Waleby, two youths, are in custody, part of her cargo thrown overboard, having sprung a leak in a
F°lxonittee of the Union ; attended by chip and grit set- in London, charged with robbing their father, a builder gale, about eight days previous to her arrival.
'era ; average attendance, 65 boys, 60 girls. in Hackney-road, of £485 in notes and gold. None of Charles Crooker, Duncan ; Richard Alsop, Smith; Sardinia,
Dr.
iercui:cistre,
The north-eastern part of the coast has been visited
et Sunday Ragged School.—Established by the money has been found. Pendleton • Rappahannock, Cushing ; Continent, Drummond ;
!;) r ton s Congregation, in 1848, and Canning-street Columbia;Furber ; and West Point, Allen, all hence at New
Longregation, in 1849 ; attended by labourers' children ; with a heavy snow-storm. The Vesta, a vessel trading York.
Average attendance, 70 boys, 80 girls. Judah Towro, Lewis; Olympus, Wilson; and John Garrow,
between Hull and Hamburgb, was lost, but the crew Hamilton, all hence at New Orleans.
„.....St. Saviour's Free Evening School, Holden-street
witadsor.—Established by the Rev. G. W. Warr, in Ja ' saved. The storm did not extend beyond the Norfolk coast. Sir ItichaqiJatcekrsoplinßnelayi Lord George Bentinck,
417, 1849 ; attended by apprentices and others; averagenu The Medical Times has ascertained that the marketable and Tamo'l ,at
Changee:otnA.lontreal.
4ttendance, 36 boys, 30 girls.value of every private soldier dying in our East India
possessions is £135, this sum being required to train, hence at
, tlt:timon's Ragged School,Bolton-street.—Established Austria,
jmiiiveeTnrnitea: Borland,
Ahenceul
dn , hence
e
nce and Halifax,-at Charleston.
°Y the Rev, J. R. Conor, in 1849; attended by thieves equip, and bring from Europe another man to place in Madagascar, hence at Havana.
his stead.
Wilson, hence at Maranham.
411 d others ; average attendance, 90 boys.
On Wednesday morning, William Anscomb, aged 36,
to,,Vindsor Ragged School, Barton-street, Windsor.—Es- a stoker at Bethriall-green, London, died in great agony,Messenger, Lewis; Mary and Elizabeth, Blasden ; Vigilant,
Cook;. and Blue Vein, Williams, all hence at Oporto.
iptlirsished by teachers of St. Clement s Sunday School, in in consequence of eating a pint of mussels For his supper Charlotte Maria, Roach, sailed from Malaga.
on the previouss
evening. Several other persons have
s'-'4; attended by thieves, rope-workers, and others ;Crishna, Spence, from Batavia, at Saa Francisco.
.1,
Hannah, Gotta, hence at Harnburgli.
;age attendance, 50 boys. lately had a narrow escape from the same cause. William, Brown, and Isabel, Modhurst, hence at Gibraltar.
hi: Edge Ragged School, 1, Wavertree-road.—Esta- The celebrated Lola Montes has been engaged by Mr. Stadt Berlin, Holme, hence at Copenhagen.
w'Shed by the Rev. F. Barker, in 1849 ; attended by rope- Barnum for twelve months, at a salary of £32,000, to Ruby, Jarvis, hence off Figueira.
ters and others ; average attendance, 50 boys. dance in the United States. She was to sail from Havre Corinthian, Kemp, hence at Mauritius Sept. 22.
.V
hi; auxhall Ragged School, 63, Gascoyne-street.—Esta- in the Humboldt steamer—the same that conveys Kos- SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. I.—The Novelty, Harrison, of Liver-
pool, hence for Sydney, was wrecked 4th July, on Duke of
It'elled by Dr. Hume, in 1849; attended by boys who such across the Atlantic.
°„11( during the day ; average attendance, 25 boys. Clarence Island. The captain and part of the crew arrived at
We understand that the Lord Mayor of Dublin, mayors Apia 20th July, having been nine days in the long boat. They
nla !adustrial Ragged Schools, 66 and 68 Soho-street.— of Cork and Limerick, and chairman of the Galway com- left twenty-two persons on the island, for whom the English
ablished by members of the committee of the Union, missioners, will be invited by the president of the French consul sent the schooner Adelaide to take them to Apia.
%my:larch, 1849; attended by thieves, vagrants,and others; to visit Dieppe, respecting the transatlantic station to be NEW YORK, Nov. s.—The captain and fourteen of the crew
btage attendance, 75 boys, 48 girls. established there, and for which the French government of the Charlotte, from Bombay for Liverpool. were picked up
liCadson -street Rageed School.—Established by the Rev. have voted a large sum. ifnratmhegribata., and taken by
aadrmroenvyi ~
b.," Wolseley, in October, 1849; attended by chip and A new cab company, which is about to commence busi. misty arrived at New York. The James Corner, fromPNew
bey. ll' Bellere and factory-workers • average attendance, 74 ness in London, proposes to affix an "indicator" to each Orleans for Liverpool, touched on a reef, off Key West, 29th
6, 60 , ,
, girls. cab, so that the person hiring the cab will only have to Oct., but got off without damage, and proceeded. The Tele-
tat 'u Swan Ragged School, Mill-lane.—Established by a look at the " indicator" on entering and leaving the car- graph, Simpson, for Tampico, put back to New Orleans, 26th
Oct., leaky.
by tuber of the committee of the Union, in 1846 ; attended liege. in order to see how far he has travelled, the miles
, to
---------- --- ao ... Pe- workers and others ; average attendance, 20 boys, being marked on the face of the " indicator." WEDNESDAY. Nov. 19.—Wind S.R.
riga' Mr• George Waterston, partner in boiler-works on the ARRlVED,—pacific (s), Nye, from New York—St. IlarlampY,
%toordan.street Ragged School. —Established by St. Tyne, has been killed by an explosion. An old boiler Kruger, Cronstadt—Oregon, Herron, Quebec.
‘tta:',Bls Presbyterian Young Men's Society, in 1850 ; had been repaired for a steam-boat; the steam was got SAll,ED.—Revere. Howes, for New York—Janet, Burke, San
Francisco—MarthaTansn
ll
;,
Ns b""ed by dock labotters' children' average attendance, up to test it Mr. Waterston was standing on the top of
rs,?Ys, 26 girls.
Hansen, Anatinwer'pLrgi.4l—aCir A yag,n;it leyo,y, Boyce,
te—Johan aanm
4110-street Ragged School, Back Gill-etreet.—Este- the boiler, Marking with ahpietcheeobfoiclheralbkurssotme places
where the steam escape Simony, Oakjar, Kiel—Centurion, Blampied, Beirout—Tres
NI, e,_d by Mr. Rogers, inMay,lBso ; attended by labour- d that a gardener named Hermanos, Cadiz.
The Essex Standard relates
iley cuildron, and butchers' boys ; average attendance, 58
o
•Dothhae,a,hhatienceceaattt Nintewa. Orleans.
Anna Dot
Roderick
Q' 40 girls, 13:..eks and his wife had recently added a bedroom to their
dwellinr and the new wall not being dry, induced by the
tlie are-street Ragged School.—Established by Mr. Jones
Emilie, and Jernbarden, both hence at Christina.
Ireh!thera, in June, 1850 ; attended by labourers' chit- coldness of the weather, made a fire with charcoal in the
apartment in which theialept. On the following morning Kingston, O'Neile, from,St. John, N. 8., at Queenstown.
6 thipi.aa'r.age attendance, 60 boys, 15 they were found by their only child, a daughter ten years Saucy
_Jack, Cousins, hence at Fremantle.
Juno, isrlinstrom, and Norway, Hughes, hence at Alexandria.
4y 41...tt;nurch RageedSchool,Clare-street.—E, stahlished of age, in their bed lifeless. British Queen, hence at Malta and sailed for Syra Bth in.,
er._ Olosse, in 1851 ; attended by labourers children ; Sir R. Murchison has communicated to the Times the
Naomi, Cothay, sailed from Hongkong for this port Sept.
4!rattendance, 65 boys. fact that Lord John Russell has granted £5OO to Lieut. Coaxer, Bell, sailed from Penang for this port Sept. 6. t 23.
iord..s.
.. 4.,. tret (202.) Ragged Schhol.—Established by Pym from the Treasury, towards paying his expenses to Pakenliam, Dingle, sailed from Bombay for this port 0ct.15.
Yars,.`Lord, ins 1851 ; attended by labourers' children ; Siberia in search of Sir John Franklin, at the same time Amathea, Wilson, from Mauritius, at Madras.
~ hr,attendance. 40 girls. kindly adding, " I trust he will not in the ardour of his Garde Nationale,
fsailted from St. Nazaire 11th instant, and
Elizabeth Moore, hence, and
kt, it; a
,Prow Ragged Sewing School.—Rstabliihed by pursuit risk unduly his own life. I heartily wish him Mganrayisaltheil,bvalrifaorrahlives.iamardt.
IP and it: W. Wolseley, in January, l 851; attended by success."
Mary Holland, from San Francisco, all at Valap:rdasisto.i
kes ,„ g.rit sellers, and factory workers; enrage attend. A singular illustration of the ductility of iron has been Dominica, Murphy, from Quebec for Cork,
lc 11) girls produced at the establishment of Mr. G. Downing, Crown from Quebec for Dublin, at Queenstown 17th instant.
kll.,ll4tty Ash
,7Qed ~.r Ragged School, Black-horse-lane.--Esta- ironworks, Birmingham.. It is in the form a a book, the Vigilant, ogivell, from Catania at Malta, and sailed for this
'll'sr,,, !:`l. Jackson, in Match, 1851 ; attended by Is- leaves of which are
.of iron, rolled so fine that they are port Bth instant.
and Grecian
hence, Grecian (s a), Hardie, from Con-
LklisN, mats en ; average attendance, 18 boys, 16 girls. no thickerithan a piece of paper. The book is neatly Emma, Way, -Ihtshliehl,,u strisl Ragged School, High Park-street.— beopd in red morocco, and contains forty-four of these pnx sailed from Malta Ist instant; Polhill, (after putting
'140,.' ,) Y a number of ladies, in 1851 ;no report. iron cgs es, th© whole being only the fifteenth of pm inch 59ge-eteNq Da; ancl Evening Ramrod 840401. thick. stasnthinople, both at Malta.
back,)Y7th'; Mountain Maid, and Donna, or, the Bth, all for
tate port,

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—The noise of the hammer
is now heard incessantly, and up to the latest hour within
the glass palace, and a corresponding amount of achieve-
ment marks the close of each day. The nave was never
fuller of packages than it is at present—a circumstance
which is partly attributable to the inadequacy' of the
wharfage for the reception of the goods. The working
staff at the Exhibition has been considerably reduced, the
weekly exrenditure not amounting to one-fourth of the
sum at which it stood a month ago. It is said a ball is to
be given within this palace of glass, the profits of which
are to be handed over to the London hospitals.

(*Hipping fit:ring-rim

TUESDAY, Nov. 18.—Wind N., light,

ARRIVED.—LiIIias, Pendleton, from St. Petersburgb.
SAlLED.—Sandbach, Bellis, for Demerara—Yorkshire,
Briggs, New York—William and Ann, Miter, Rotterdam—
Julianne, Luyties, Cuba—Neomie, Johnston, Charleston—
Coquette, Rooke, Africa—lntegrity. Barras, tden—Regina,
Wakeham, Jamaica—Patrician, Burke, Calcutta—Camelion,
Hooper,_ Batavia—Patriot, Wyhe, Oporto.

The David Cannon, Robinson, her.ce at New York. On the
29th Oct., in lat. 42, lon. 56, was run into by the brig Sedulous,
of Aberdeen, bound east. Carried away fore, main, and mizen
channels. 4 lie Sedulous carried away her bowsprit.
Mora, hence at Venice Nov. 11.
Vigilant, Von Groenendel, hence at Ostend.
Auguste, Waldack, hence at Schelde.

ton manufacturer—Richard Collins, Clitheroe, grocer—Thos.
Carr, Doncaster, innkeeper—John Hill, Thorne. Yorkshire,
wine merchant—Joh❑ Whitwain, jun , Huddersfield, woollen
cloth manufac,urer—John Clarke Sanford, Paternoster-row,
London, stationer—John Fuller, Ely, Cambridueshire, stone-
mason—Richard William Dadd, Chatham, victualler—Spencer
Ashlin, Eastcheap, London, cornfactor—Archibald ltfouat,
Creed-lane, London, wine merchant—John Custaner, Green-

rutty Is. per qr. over the rates or last ;stout-atty.
improvement took place in granaried parcels of I.
Foreign Wheat; and a fair amount of business has
acted to-day, and also during the w,ek. The wind

in advance o f
A similar
?.nglish and
been trans-

nuing contrary, there are ko sn
abroad. Malting and Grinding.
as last quoted. There was a ;

Gem, hence at Gibraltar sth Nov.
Victorioso, hence at Trieste.
Ellen Gillman, hence at Palermo 30th Oct., and Orontes (s s)
sth Nov.

Amadigi, hence at Constantinople Ist Nov., and Saunders
sth Nov.

Frances Ann, sailed from Palermo for this port Ist Nov., and
Royal William 4th Nov.

Jane. sailed from Patras for this port 22nd Oct., and Effort
24th Oct.

Ladona. from Quebec, at Deal,

Success, from Port Philip; Oriental, from Shanghae; Syren,
from Algoa Bay; Contractor, frcm Savanilla ; Hartley, from
Callao; Cornelius Grinnell, and Thomas Church, from New
York ; City of Hamilton, from Qitebec • Dart. from Madeira •

SATURDAY, Nov. 22.—Wind N.N.W. to N.N.E.,
fresh breeze.

ARRIVED.—Rob Roy, Rankin, and Otterspool, Hughes,from
Calcutta—Royalist, Kerr, Bombay—W. A. Cooper, Sears, Bal-
timore—Susan G. Owens, Michaels, Charleston—Warbler,
Westcott ; C3lumbiana, Cowell ; Horizon, Thompson, and
Clara Wheeler, New Orleans—llarwood, Goodwin, from Mira-
michi—J. S. de Wolf, Bradshaw, and Irene, from St. John,
New Brunswick.
SAILS n.—Old England. Packman, for Fernando Po—Marga.
ret. Dove. Melbourne—Patriot Queen. Roddock, Calcutta—
Phcenix, M'Knight, Antigua—San Hines, Uribe, Havana—
Ranger, Paige, Itahia—Araminta, Ferran, Mobile—Arabella,
Parker, and Lord Ashley, Roberts, New Orleans—Pioneer (s.),
Eldridge; America (a.), Shannon ; Joseph Walker, Hoxie, and
Theodore Lincoln, Higgins, New York—Frankfort (s,), Corbet,
Genoa—Progres, Heyde, and Minerva, Deswelgh, Ostend.

Europa (s.), Lott, from Boston at this port ; left 12th Nov

3rings 180,000 dollars in specie on fr
Henry Winch, hence at Moulmein

Hope, Quick, and George, Tyson, hence at Paimbceuf.
Prima Donna. Bevans, hence at St. Nazaire.
Canada (s.), Harrison, and Baltic (s.), Comstock, hence at
New York.
Aron Vale, Griffiths, hence at Beirout, and sailed for Alex-
andria.
New Union, Cohn, hence at Beirout, and sailed for Alexan-
dretta.

Henry Ismay, Gallienne, from Tampico at Laguna, and
loading for Liverpool.
Puke of Wellington,
at Milford 19th Nov.
Emma Graham, for this port, off Falmouth 20th Nov.
Gustav von Haggeron, _icharmberg, from Stettin, for :this
port, at St. Mawes 19th Nov.
Edina, !dear, from St. Petersburg for this port, at St. Mawel
19th Nov.
George, Crisp, sailed from Beirout, for this port, 11th Oct.
Thomas, Calogna, and Anna, Spiro, from Ibrail at Queens
town 20th Nov.
Richard, Kraeft, from Galatz, for Belfast, at Queenstown
20th Nov.
Chimbo, Artola, from Havana, and William, Kiell, from Ta-
ganrog, both at Falmouth 19th Nov.
Avon, Creighton, from Matanzas at Falmouth 20th Nov.
Teresina, Russo, from Alexandria, for Gloucester, at Fal-
mouth 20th Nov.
Cervantes. Macayo, and Quintin Metsys, from Havana, for
Antwerp, off Falmouth 20th Nov.
H.M.S. Huzaar,-from Cape of Good Hope off Falmouth 20th
November

Spicer, from Rio Janeiro, for this port,

Zeilein, Schmidt, from Jamaica, for Hamburg, off Falmouth
20th Nov.
Anne Mary, Hilton, from Calcutta at London.
Acadia. Galilee, from Mobile at Toulon.
The Great Western, from New York, is aground in the Wa-
terloo Basin, with a list to starboard.
The Emma, from Newfoundland, ashore on Burbo, has gone
to pieces, and liar cargo (oil) is floating about ; 100 casks picked

up. and taken to the depot. •
The brig Pomona, of and from Whitebaven, for Dublin, with
coals, was fallen.ip with yesterday morning, in_a sinking state;

thirty miles N.W. of Black Combe, having been in Contact
with a schooner on the previous night, and the crew taken from
her by the fishing boat Valentine. and brought to this port.
NEW YORE, llth Nov.—The Wyoming, which sailed Ist of
Nov., from Philadelphia for Liverpool, returned into the Dela-
ware 9th Nov., with masts sprung, and loss of spars.

mille'r—George \Wieling. Chelmsford, nuctionei;r:LWr.
White, Winchester, builder—Thomas James Lough and Chas.
William Lewis, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street-within,
London, drysalters—Sarah and Nicholas Thomas Isherwood,
Ludgate-hill, London, house decorators.
DIVIDENDS.—Dec. 9, G. & R. Cappur, Nantwich, Cheshire,
cheese factors—Dec. 10, J. Pownall, Manchester, brewer—Dec.
10, S. Dethick and T. R. Kay, Newton-heath, near Manchester,
common brewers.

lots mit i

SUNDAY. Nov. 23

—Wind S.E., light

„
Aims,En.—City of Glasgow (s s), Wylie, from Philadelphia
—Susan G. Owens, Michaels, Charleston—Olive, Olive, St.
John, N.B.—Caroline, Iceland—Mary Catharine, Petersburg—
Alpha, Blomer, Savanilla—Roscius, Eldridge, New York—
Astrologer (s.s.), Walker, Constantinople—Lebaniga, Tarra-
gona—Ville d'Eu, Caignard, Treport—Carl Auguste, Shu:tz,
Danzic—Belvidere, Edmunds, Rotterdam—Union, Ostend.
SAlLED.—Ashburton, M'William, for New York—Eclipse,
Kerkbove, and Providentia, Deswelgh, Ostend—Gannet (s s),
•
Sullivan, Rotterdam.

CERTIFICATES.--Dee. 9, .1. Stevenson, Liverpool, merchant
—Dec. 9, W. Crankshaw, Colne, cotton spinner—Dec. 9, J
Collins, Clitheroe, provision dealer.
FRIDAY, Nov. 21.—PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED
and Jones, Liverpool, engravers—Bre tin and Co
pool, Irish provision merchants—K.Hilton on
Manchester, cotton spinners—J. Kay and Co

Abd-el-Bader, far Trieste, has put back, with damage.
The Great Western, from New York, that t'as aground in
Waterloo Basin, has been got off, with damage to keelson, &c.,
and making water.

Eggs 124 7 6
Potatoes,*peck 0 6
Cucumbers,cach 0 6
Apricots, *doz. 0 0

7 8 Woodcocks
0 9 Black Gain(
0 A Pigeons
0 0 Lark

James Connor, Bennet; Lady Sale, Trevellick ; Shannon,
Waite; and Osborn. Nowell, all herce at New Orleans.
Gondar, Barstow, hence and New York, at Philadelphia.
Rebecca, Sayer, and Plymouth Rock, Caldwell, both hence
at Roston.
ClGsina, Meredith, hence at Prince Edward Island.
Paragon, King, and Messenger, Cane, both hence at Halifax.
Sophia Burbridge, Richards, hence at Quebec.
Genova (5 s), Cuming, hence at Leghorn, and left 13th Nov.
for Naples.
John Robinson, Sims, hence at Leghorn.
Albatross (s s), hence at Helvoet.

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STATE OF TRADE

Pino, Zuppar,„ sailed from Leghorn for this port 9th Nov.
Jessica, Hayes, from Cork, at New York. _ _

HAMILTON, CANADA WiiST. Nov. 3.—The Britannia (a),
arrived here Ist instant from the river, with the cargo of the
propeller Hibernia, which struck a rock in the St. Lawrence,
and carried away her fore foot, and damaged part of her cargo,
ex Alice Hill, California and Ann.__,_ _

QUEBEC, ti ov. B.—The Victory, M‘Leod, hence for Plymouth,
was wrecked near Little Yetis, in a snow storm, 26th Oct. :
crew saved. The Pursuit, Murray. has put back, waterlogged,
having been ashore on Crane Island.
FALmourif, Nov. 21.—The Blossom, from Brancaster for
Liverpool, which put in here, with damage, has commenced
discharging.

MONDAY, Nov. 17.—Wind N.N.W., light,

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