The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-19 00:00:00

self an affectionate younger sister, but to the vigilance
which is necPssary for keeping a mad woman in order.
(Hear, hear ) And what, my lord, are the appropriate
responses to such maniac outbreaks? I am disposed to
say, personally a strait-waistcoat, and politically pity and
contempt ; for it would be to treat thc;rn as of too much
consequence to suspend any of the civil privileges which
they so grossly abuse. (Applause.) She is never to be
nationally elevated by the exertions of a man whose cou-
rage, if he has any, is caprice, and his cowardice, calcu-
lation ; a man whose rapacity is covetousness itself, while
his generosity is but the dividing of the spoil—a new
edition of Sallust's great conspirator " alieni appelens,
sui profueus ;" or as Tacitus has more briefly and
pointedly expressed it, rapti prodiyus. (Loud cheers.)"

There are words of wisdom here, and the descrip-
tion of the Beggarman Rebel is capital. When will
the thousands of the people of Ireland learn to dis-
tinguish truly between their real friends and enemies,
between improving landlords and avaricious dema-
gogues, between the ministers of the Church of
Christ and the subaltern officers of the great
usurper?

The harvest home has during the past week made
glad the hearts of thousands of the yeomanry and
peasantry of Great Britain. A month of unpa-
ralelled fine weather has witnessed the ripening and
securing of abundant crops ; and as the farmer lifts
up his eyes to survey his corn-fields yellow in the
glowing sun, and their produce filling to overflowing
his barn-yards—as the thrasher whistles over his
task—and the humble gleaner is winnowing in the
gentle wind his little store—where do we see the
evidences of a nation's thankfulness to that benefi-
cent Providence whose dispensations have so abun-
dantly rewarded its toil and fulfilled its most sanguine
hopes ? As yet we see it not. The silent uttering
of praise has risen, indeed, from beneath many an
humble roof ; but the nation is as yet mute. From
the church throughout the land no voice has gone
forth, as in early and better times. This should not
be : it must not be. A Christian people ^nd the
heads of a Christian church must not permit the
scoffer and the scorner to brand them as ungrateful,
and forgetful in the day of their prosperity of the
beneficent hand who has showered down plenty
upon their heads.

It is not yet, however, too late to avert this re-
proach and shame. May it yet be averted !

A NEW WAY TO SELL A BAD BOOK.-At a
meeting last week, at the Corn Exchange, Dublin,
a Mr. O'Callaghan gave notice that at the next
meeting he would move " that there be ordered a
number of copies of the Liberator's Memoirs of
Ireland, Native and Saxon,' to be distributed as re-
wards to such repeal wardens, in Ireland, England, and
Scotland, as shall during the present repeal year have
actually collected and transmitted to the association
twenty pounds." Of course " the rent" suffers for
this ; and a very decent speculation it will be for
the publisher and the disinterested author of " Me-
inoirs of Ireland, native and Saxon." Truly our
neighbours on the other side of the Channel are a
most gull,ble people!

MR. 'W M. EWART AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.--
The extreme attention which your " liberal" par-
liamentary philosopher pays to his constituents is
proverbial; and accordingly we find that Mr. Wm.
Ewart, the rejected of a dozen places, has just
vouchsafed to enlighten the electors of Dumfries
with respect to his sayings and doings during the
past session. The following notice of his visit, which
we extract from the Dumfries Herald of the 14th
instant, does not satisfy us that the honourable
member has gained many " golden opinions," or is
in much better odour amongst the community
which he represents, than amongst others which
have commenced by regarding him as a phoenix,
and concluded by regarding him as a tomtit or a
hedge-sparrow. Our contemjarary says :

" He comes down from LondX; pays a visit to his
private friends in this neighbourhood ; rides round to the
different burghs ; delivers duly to each his set string of
vague generalities about free trade and education, (which
every constituent here can, say now by heart,) with *an
account of what ministers have done and what they have
not done, but what he him has done and still intends
to do; answers a harmless ry or two ; makes his best
bow—and makes an end of is friendly personal inter-
course with our burghs, which see him much seldomer
than they do the man in the moon"!

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The final quota-
tion of Mexican was 334 to 4 ; the Deferred 94 to 4•, Por-
tuguese, 44 to 4 ; Spanish 184 to 19 ; the Three per Cents.
26 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 to 53/ ;
the Five per Cents., 1014 to ; Danish, 864 to 874; Bra-
zilian, 73 to 75; Belgian. 1044 to 1054 ; Colombian, 254
to ; and Russian, 1144 to 115. "The English stocks
lave fluctuated very little to-day, business having been
limited. Consols for money closed 944 to 4; and for the
account, 94-k; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1014
to 102; India Bonds, 68s. to 70s. premium ; and Exche-
quer-bills, 60f. to 625. premium.
CHANGE OF BANKING HOURS.—We understand that
the bankers in this town, during the last week, have una-
nimously signed an undertaking to close their establish-
ments on Saturdays at one o'clock, instead of Friday, as
heretofore, and that this alteration will take place imme-
diately. The public generally will find it an advantageous
change, for ever since the acceleration of the mail, Friday
has been a post day to London, and is now almost uni-
versally adopted for paying wages, instead of Saturday.
It is said that the merchants, brokers, &c. intend holding
a meeting, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the
same regulation could not be extended to their business.
PAYNE'S LATITUDE CALCULATING SCALE. Our
clever townsman, Mr. Payne, of the firm of Melling and
Payne, opticians, instrument makers, chart sellers, &c.,
South Castle-street, has invented an ingenious instrument
for correctly calculating the latitude at sea after an obser-
vation. It resembles the sliding Gunter scale, and, by
an easy operation, performs at once calculations which,
on paper, require five lines of figures; and it renders un-
necessary the applica%ion of the rule for adding or sub
tracting the declination. The true altitude and declina
Lion being given, the latitude, north or south, is instantly
found by mere inspection. The instrument will, we doubt
not, be valuable even to the navigator, who still adheres
to the usual method of calculation—by which the declina-
tion is sometimes applied the wrong way, so that the ship
may become endangered, or her voyage retarded—as it
will furnish a test of accuracy, while its use is at once
simple and pleasing.

•
CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.—On Saturday, at the
Police-court a man named Parkinson was placed before Mr.
Rushton charged with this offence. A man of the
name of Waddington said that the prisoner was at the fair
at Oraaskirk that week, and bought a horse from a gentle-
man of the name of Nightingale, of Skipton, in York-
shire, for £25. The horse was to be delivered at the
Castle Inn, in this town, and it was agreed that when the
witness delivered him he was to receive £25, and return
£l. Waddington took the animal to the inn named, and
delivered it; upon which the prisoner sent for a stamp,
and gave him his promissory note for payment of the
amount. The prisoner took the horse away, and the man
packed up the horse cloths and left the parcel at the
Castle. Prisoner and witness went together to several
places and ultimately arrived at the railway station, where
Parkinson gave witness 15s. to carry him home to Skipton.
The latter spent this money, and being in a delemma,
went to the police, and chargcd the prisoner with felony.
Mr. Rushton after examining Waddington discharged the
prisoner, as it clearly appeared that there had been a
sale and delivery, and the charge could not be legally sus-
tained; but he recommended the prisoner to give up the
horse. Mr. Wardle appeared for the prisoner. but did
not deem it necessary to put a question to the witness.

CONGItEGATIONAL PSALMODY.—Last night Mr. Hui-
lab (the adapter of the \Vilhem method of vocal tuition)
delivered his announced lecture on this subject at the
Amphitheatre, before a very numerous and respectable
audience—assisted in his illustrations by upwards of 100
of the pupils of Mr. Crowe's upper singing school, (un-
der the superintendence of the latter gentleman,) and who
occupied the stage. The lecturer, who has a pleasing and
distinct enunciation, furnished an interesting history of
psalm music from the earliest times, and of the various
metrical versions with music that had appeared over a
long period of years of the Psalms of David. Many of
these collections were extremely faulty in the music which
was to accompany them, and many of the fine old melo-
dies had become sadly mutilated by modern hands. The
pupils sung a number of psalms in proof of this position,
including the tunes called " Chichester," " Cheshire,"
"The Old 100th," "The London New," &c. He con-
tended against the idea that had seemed to prevail, that
in church music the notes should be generally of one
length, which rendered the music tame and monotonous--
expressing an opinion that psalmody, consistently with its
high purpose, was capable of great modulation and effect.
He noticed the various celebrated authors who had con-
tributed to the improvement of our church music, and
furnished a practical demonstration of the ancient system,
now exploded, of substituting the tenor for the soprano in,
the melody itself—a remnant of the observance of the
Romanists, in whose churches the males were the sole
choir. Several of the psalms sung by the pupils were
beautifully pathetic, and were loudly applauded. At the
conclusion they gave " St. David's" and the original
" Evening Hymn." Their proficiency, after a very short
practice, and without in some instances a rehearsal,
showed, he remarked, how easy It would be, by grounding
congregations in the elementary principles of music, to
improve and elevate our whole congregational psalmody.
He was listened to with great attention, and was warmly
applauded in his several elucidations of h's subject.

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