The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ROMANCE ow' REAL LIVE.—The author of " The
Metropolis," one of the most successful poetical squibs
ever published in Ireland, was a barrister, named Forcott.
We have not seen his singular career noticed elsewhere,
and it is too strange to be omitted. He was a man of
fashion, and a constant guest at the castle, where he was
made welcome, not merely for his social qualities, but
still more for the sums he lost at play with the notorious
Duchess of Gordon. The funds flowed out so much
faster in fashion and piquet than they came in from briefs
and booksellers, that he became ruinously embarrassed,
and- was glad to obtain a place under government in
Malta, which his interest at the castle enabled him to do.
Here, too, his unfortunate passion for pleasure led him
into vice, and rnmours of a very grave charge obliged him
again to fly. He went to Constantinople, and turned
Mahomedan. After a few years, he began to repent of
his change of religion, and contemplated returning to
Christianity. He told his design to several, and, among
others, to the Dragoman of the British embassy, who
frequently warned him of the certain death with which
the Turks visit any apostate who again releases from their
creed, and advised him to keep his purpose secret, until
he had an opportunity of escaping from the watch of his
co-religionists; but, with characteristic imprudence, he
continued to talk freely of his intention. The result was
the fate of which he had been warned. His body was
found one morning, stabbed with a yataglian, in the back,
hi a place called the Little Burial Ground, near the resi-
dence of the British eraliassy.-- Critique in the 13,141 in
Mafflaziae..

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY.

Yesterday forenoon a special meeting of the Select
Vestry was held at the Parish Office, Fenwick-street, to
take into consideration a motion, of which notice has
been given in the Council by Mr. Alderman J. Bramley-
Moore, that the resolution come to on the 10th instant be
rescinded, that the Dock Bill be proceeded with in the
present session, and that powers be therein sought to
enable the trustees to build warehouses in conformity
with the 60th section of the Dock Act 9th and 10th Vie.,
cap. 199, and that the warehouses to be erected shall be
limited, for the present, to the quays of the proposed new
dock at Wapping ; and that a proviso be introduced into
the bill, that the warehouses so to be erected shall not be
opened by the said trustees, for the reception of goods,
wares, and merchandise, until it shall be determined by
Parliament whether such warehouses shall or shall not be
subject to the payment of parochial and other local rates
in the parish of Liverpool.
In the absence of the Rectors, Mr. Churchwarden Fer-
guson took the Chair.

The attendance of Vestrymen was rather limited.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meet-
ing, said that he exceedingly regretted the absence of the
Rectors, on account of illness, and he had been compelled
to take their place. It had been found necessary'to hold
that meeting of the Vestry on that day, instead of the day
following. Having read the circular convening, and stat-
ing the objects of the meeting, the chairman said that the
object of the meeting of the Council seemed rather ampli-
fied, and he should not have been doing his duty as
Churchwarden of the parish if he and his colleague had
not called the special meeting of the Vestry, so as to en-
able them to decide whether a resolution should not be
passed, or memorial presented to the Town Council on
the subject. For his own part, as Churchwarden,
he must say that the Dock Trustees had not dealt
fairly with the parishoners. (Hear.) Some time ago,
a deputation was appointed to meet the Dock Committee.
He had before him a report of what took place on that
occasion, but he would not read the whole of what took
place. The deputation consisted of the Rev. Rector
Campbell, myself, (Mr. Ferguson,) Messrs. Poole, John-
son, and Steens. Mr. Campbell stated the object of the
deputation, and said they appeared as a deputation from
the Select Vestry, and took the liberty of inquiring (with
respect to the bill which the Committee were now solicit-
ing, to enable them to build additional dock warehouses)
whether that bill contained a clause for the rating of the
dock warehouses, similar to that which referred to the
Albert dock warehouses; and if not, to suggest that the
Committee would cause such a clause to be inserted ;
because the Vestry thought if dock warehouses were to
be exempted from rates, it would be an act of injustice.—
The Chairman said, the bill, as it stood at present, was
not vet in the hands of the Committee, therefore he ap-
prehended, so far as the request went, it must be prospec-
tive. The bill was in an imperfect state. It would have
to be laid before the Committee, and then passed by the
Council, before it went a stage further. At present it was
in the hands of a Parliamentary Committee.—The Rev.
Rector Campbell said the Vestry were in a state of
ignorance on the subject, and they wished to get some in-
formation ; also, to convey to the Committee an intimation
that they certainly should object to the exemption of dock
warehouses from rates, and would do every thing they
could to get insertion to a clause subjecting them to rates.
—The Chairman said, he was sure that any suggestion
coming from the Select Vestry would receive every atten-
tion by that Committee; but, at the present moment, the
bill was not in that state of forwardness for them to say
whether that clause was- or was not introduced.—Mr.
Ferguson : Perhaps, should you determine not to insert
the clause, you will have the goodness to inform the
Select Vestry, and give us a copy of the bilL—The Rev.
Rector Campbell : In time.—The Chairman : Of course.
He might state, as from himself, that the trust, generally,
being exempt from the payment of local rates, he did not
know how far it might be disposed to impose them volun-
tarily.—The Rev. Rector Campbell : The Albert docks are
rated.—The Chairman : That was an especial agreement.
This matter, they were aware had been discussed during the
last session; but the warehouse clause having been with- '
drawn, the clause proposed to be inserted by the parish
was withdrawn also. All he kthe chairman) could say
was, the committee were obliged to the deputation for
the trouble they had taken, and every attention would
be paid to their suggestions.—Mr. Poole said the ware-
house property formed four-tenths of the rateable pro-
perty in Liverpool. The assessment of warehouse
property was £400,000, and that of rateable property
about a million ; therefore, it would become very impor-
tant when they bore in mind the large claim which the
parish had on this description of property.—The Chair-
man : I hope you will continue to receive local rates from
warehouse property.—Mr. Ferguson : We shall receive
much less if you build warehouses without being rated.—
Mr. Johnson said they would have a serious loss in property
which would be destroyed for the erection of these ware-
houses.—The Chairman said those observations were made
when the last Dock Act was before parliament.—The Rev.
Rector Campbell: Are you now in a position to tell us when
the bill will come before Council ?—The Chairman : Very
soon. It has been delayed longer than usual, in conse-
quence of the vacancies in the Dock Committee.—The
Rev. Rector Campbell : It will not come before the Coun-
cil at the next meeting ?—The • Chairman : No. He
would, however, undertake that the parish authorities
should be furnished with a copy of the bill as soon as, it
was ready.—Mr. Ferguson said it was the intention of
the Vestry to memorialize the Town Council, if it was not
the intention of the committee to put the clause in the
bill.—The Chairman said there would be ample time for
that. They would not steal a march on them. The de-
putation then withdrew.
The CHAIRMAN continued :—They did not receive a
copy of the bill, and therefore the reverend rector was
obliged to write for one. In the next place, they did not
give sufficient time to the Vestry to consider the bill, but
they took them by surprise, and they knew the result.
The Dock Committee made another attempt to introduce
the bill without giving any notice. This time they were
going to move to rescind the former resolution of the
Council. It therefore appeared to him that the Dock
Committee had not treated the Select Vestry with the
respect which they should have shown to the representa- I
tives of the ratepayers, but on the other hand, he thought
they were treating, the parochial authorities with con-
tempt. In conclusion, he would state that a memorial
should be laid before the Vestry, and any suggestions that
they offered should be attended to. ( Hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Woodruff, which were in-
audible,
Mr. Besrsettrr said that he had not been able to take
any part in the agitation :which had been going on against
the new bill which was about to be applied for by the dock
trustees ; but he objected to the principle of dock ware-
houses being built without the sanction of the rate-payers
—whether the warehouses paid rates or not. He would
therefore move, " That, it appearing to be the intention of
the Dock Committee to submit, through their chairman,
to the Town Council, at a special meeting to be held on
Tuesday next, an altered bill for the erection of dock
warehouses, without any provision being made therein for
rendering such warehouses liable to parochial rates,—Re-
solved that this hoard, after further consideration , are more
deeply convinced that additional burdens would be cast upon
the inhabitants of the borough through the Town Council,
as ratepayers, and gross injustice done to them, should the
Dock Committee succeed intheir present efforts, in oppo-
sition to the almost unanimous voice of the inhabitants,
to obtain through the Town Council powers for the erec-
tion of dock warehouses exempt from parochial rates ; that,
therefore, this board deem it their duty to call upon the
Town Council, the representatives of the ratepayers, to
withhold their consent to any bill having for its object
the erection of dock warehouses unless it contain a clause
rendering such warehouses liable to rates, and unless there
be good grounds for believing that such a clause, notwith-
standing any want of conformity with the standing orders
of the House of Commons, would meet with the sanction
of the legislature."
Mr. EARLE.—I think you had better leave out the
latter portion of the resolution which refers to the sanc-
tion of the legislature.
Mr. BENNErr observed that there was no new matter 1
in the bill, so that the resolution would at once show its
own meaning.
Mr. EARLE said that he understood there would be
some scheme provided at the Council meeting of the next
day, by which they would not interfere with the standing
orders; but he did not know in which way the thing was ,
to be done.

Mr. Poot.r..—ln that ease, the latter portion of the
resolution had better stand.

Mr. EARLE said that if the Dork Committee went for
their bill, it was doubtful whether they could get a rate-
paying clause inserted in it.
Mr. AVISON observed, that as the bill stood at present
it contained no rate-paying clause.
Mr. BENNETT said he should give the Wit his most de-
cided opposition, unless he had a positive certainty of the
rate-paying clause being included in it. when passed.
Mr. EARI.E.—A" certainty which you cannot possibly
obtain. (Hear.)
Mr. BENNETT.—Then 1 shall vote against it.
Mr. WOODRUFF said that he did expect, from the va-
rious explanations and discussions which had taken place
in the council chamber, that the Dock Committee would
not have come before he 'council again for any measure
respecting the docks, without a positive undertaking to
put the rate-paying clause into the bill. He thought that
after what had taken place already in the council, and
elsewhere, the Dock Committee would have waited twelve
months, and that they would then have given the parlia-
mentary notices, and included the rate-paying clause in
the bill. He had great pleasure irx seconding the motion.
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion, which passed
unanimously.
Mr. BEYNErr moved that a copy of the resolution be
sent to the Mayor and the Town-clerk.
Mr. EARLS.---I think Mere would be no incivility in
sending a copy to Mr. Bramley -Moore, the chairman of
the Dock Committee.

The CHAIIIMAN.—Ttey have scarcely shewn us any
civility.

Mr. 13uNNErr.--At any rate, that will be a gentle hint
to them.

Mr. POOLE then rose and said, that with respect to the
subject of a motion, the notice of which he had given at
the last meeting, he thought that the time had arrived
when it was highly necessary that something like an un-
derstanding should become to bv the parish on one hand,
and the dock estate of the town of Liverpool on the other.
They might search the whole of the civilized world to tied
an instance of a town where a quantity of valuable land,
producing one-fourth of the entire revenue of the parish,
was not contributing one farthing towards the parochial
rates. The dock estate • Wa4 established in 1710, when
the old dock site where the old dock originally stood,
and .where the tustorn-house now stood) was converted
into a dock. On that occasion, an application was made
to parliament to empower the trustees to borrow the very
moderate sum—as compared with the dock eKpenditnre of
the present day—of £ti,ooo, and also asking for power to
raise money to pay th interest on the sum laid out on the
Itt A to )verb afterwards 01(1 &flailed again in a

similar manner for leave to give land also belonging to
the burgesses of Liverpool,' upon 'which the Canning and
Falthouse Docks now stand, and also for power to raise
further monies.
Mr. BENNETT.—When was that ?

Mr. POOLE.—It was in 1737. In 1761 they gave the
land on which George's Dock is now constructed, and
they applied for power to borrow £25,000; so that it
would be at once seen that from the year 1710 up to 1761,
the burgesses found the whole of the land for the docks.
(Hear.) In the year 1784, they applied for power to
purchase the laud on which the King's and Queen's
Docks now stood ; but then they ceased to give the land.
They applied for power to purchase the land,—the price
to be repaid by the Dock Estate. From that period up
to the year 1811, the Dock Estate was managed by, and
formed part of, the Corporate Estate of the town. The
management of the Dock Trust merged in the general
Corporate Estate, and was thereafter looked upon as part
of the Corporate property. In 1811 a change took place
in the constitution of the trust, for in that year twenty.
one persons were constituted the Dock Committee ; but
it was rcquired that they should be members of the Cor-
poration, and they were elected by the Corporation, who
were themselves a self-elected body. In 1825 a far greater
change took place in the management of the trust. It
was done through the instrunfentality of the dock rate-
payers, who conceived that, inasmuch as they contributed
the dock rates, they ought to have a voice in the manage-
ment of the estate. He believed it was then arranged
that the dock ratepayers should have the privilege of
electing eight members of the Dock Committee out of
their own body ; leave being given to the Council to
return thirteen other members, making up the number
to twenty-one, and stipulating that the cheirrnan of
the Dock Committee should be appointed out of the
the thirteen nominated by the Town Council. That
mode of government existed up to the present time.
There was, however, one important matter to be taken
into consideration. The Town Council who nominated
the thirteen members out of the twenty-one, also pos-
sessed the power of vetoing any of the proceedings of
the Dock Committee which might come before it. Now,
although the mode of government established in 1825
was that which was now in existence, there could be no
doubt that there had been considerable changes since the
municipal reform bill; for the corporation had previously
been a self-elected body, but afterwards it had assumed
the character of vox populi, and by the operation
of the municipal reform bill the Council had got a consi-
derable quantity of the voice of the people infused into
1 its influence and composition, which, of course, was
wanting, in the will of the parishioners, when it was under
the old regime.—(Hear.) It had been asked how this
monstrous injustice had been permitted to continue from
1708 up to 1848. He (Mr. Poole) declared that he could
not account for it. It appeared to him that it must have
been owing to the apathy and neglect of the people who
were interested in the matter. In the first dock act in
1708, they left out the clause empowering them to pay
parish rates, and when they were subsequently asked
to pay them, the Dock Committee said that they
were very sorry, but the fact was, that their bands
were tied up by the act of parliament. In the year 1825,
the parish assessed the dock estate at £50,953, and this
was appealed against by the dock trustees who took the
question to the court of quarter sessions, where it was de-
cided against the parish, and then the case was taken to
the court of Queen's Bench, where the dcci, ion of Lord
Tenterden decided against the parish authorities. ( Hr.
Poole here read a note of the judgment.) He then pro-
ceeded to state that the dock trustees had disbursed
£259,000 in the shape of wages to dock labourers. Sup-
posing each individual got one pound per week for the
time, this would represent the employment of 5,000 in-
dividuals who got their living by daily labour, and in the
direct employment of the dock estate. Now these 5.000
labourers would represent a population of 25,000 souls,—
taking each person to represent himself, a wife, and three
children. There must be a vast amount of pauperism re-
sulting from this state of things. The revenues of the
dock estate were £259,000. and deducting the expenses,
which would be £59,000, the net income would be
£200,000. This, at a rate of is. 6d. in the pound, would
give £15,000. or about 6 per cent. on the gross income of
£259,000. Now, concerning the tax upon the goods re-
ceived at the port :—he had been at some trouble to ascer-
tain what would be the amount which each description of
goods would have to pay. A bale of cotton, weighing
4001b5., would have to pay one halfpenny ; a ton of coffee
would be charged one penny; and a ton of sugar, one
penny; whilst the dues upon a ship that went to China
and back, a voyage of about twelve to fifteen months,
would be £1 13s. After some other observations, he
moved that a committee be appointed to consider the
propriety of rating the Liverpool dock estate to the relief
of the poor.
Mr. URQUHAF.T seconded the resolution.

Mr. EARLE said he did not rise to oppose the motion,
but he would remark that the opposition to the rating of
the docks was grounded upon the fact. that in the docks
there was no beneficial interest vested in any one, and
that the rating of them would be opposed by the govern-
ment of the country. In Bristol and London, where the
docks were rated, they were the property of private com-
panies. The rating might perhaps be done on this ground,
that they were obliged to send all the Irish who came
from Manchester and Stafford and other places home
again: He had every respect for the opinions of the bur-
gesses, but he would not go into the Council as a mere
puppet.
Mr. URQUHART then rose, and producing half a quire.
of foolscap, read a long speech, which was indistinctly
heard. Ile said that he had no sympathy with Mr. Earle
in his statement that they had nothing to do with the
rates. The rates on the parishioners were greatly in-
creased in consequence of the immense amount of pro-
perty belonging to the Dock Trustees and the Corpora-
fen from which the rates could not be obtained. The
Doak Trust augmented the poor rates more than the
whole town besides from the extent of uncultivated
labour they employ, and the inducements they give for
that class of labourers to locate in Liverpool, who, from
their poverty, are no sooner out of work than they are on
the parish. The reply almost invariably given by appli-
cants at the relief board was, that they were in some way
connected with the dock works. To give an idea of the
amount given to that class of labour, the Dock Trustees
paid last year to labourers, quarrymen, &c., £279,324.
The number of parties engaged in constructing the docks
would not be less than 50,000, who were on the verge of
pauperism. The greater number of the inhabitants of
Pitt-street, St. Paul's, Vauxhall, and Scotland Wards
were employed under the Dock Trust, and they occupied
dwellings for which rates could not be collected. Mr.
Urquhart then contended that the Dock Trust, by the
erection of the North Docks, and by the clearing away of
Nova Scotia, had driven from those sites parties who were
large ratepayers for slate yards, ship-building yards, &c.,
•and were going further to decrease the rateable property
of the parish to the extent of £52,000 by the destruction
of the buildings in Wapping. The Trust had, moreover,
driven from the port ship-building and other trades, and
if they carried out the power they were now seeking, they.
would secure a monopoly of the warehousing trade to the
loss of the parish of rates on at least £200,000 worth of
property. For these reasons he contended that it was
unreasonable that the Dock Trust should be exempt from
parish rates. Mr. Urquhart then read extracts from
letters received from Southampton, London, Bristol,
I,lull, Leith, and Dundee to show that the docks in those
places were rated to the poor and other local taxes. It
was not for them nor the committee to dwell on who the
Dock Trustees are trustees for. Sir William Blackstone
says " the lands of England belong to the people of
England ; " [Mr. AVISON : That is rather a dangerous
doctrine;"] but Mr. William Earle contended with us
that the docks of Liverpool belonged to the whole world,
" therefore (said he) we could not, nor had we any thing
to do w4'l, rating them ; that we were interfering with
that we eild not understand, nor had anything to do
with." If Mr. Earle's views were admitted, the bond-
holders would soon cease to hold a beneficial interest or
hope to have their bonds redeemed ; and who would
advance money for the future to trustees whose trust
was without a locality ? However, the act of George 111.,
ch. 143, settled the nature of the trust, and gave the
council, who had exercised so much judgment and discre-
tion, a veto on all the acts of the dock trust. There were
members of the Town Council who were convinced of the
injustice of the dock trustees taking public property and
employing it to oppose the burgesses in any branch of
trade or commerce, and felt the impossibility of any pub-
lic trust competing with private enterprise and industry ;
tut there were other members who had for many years
contended for untaxed warehouses round the docks. The
cause of the advantages from 04,-Ise docks did not arise
from untaxed warehouses round 'their docks, but from the
competition of dock and warehousing business; warehouses
on the quays are the means only to facilitate the advan-
tages which are appreciated by the merchant, and these
docks are enabled, from their charges, to pay poor-rates,
rents, all expenses, and a large annual profit for the in-
vestment of capital. If the same mode were adopted here
'it would rectify all the existing evils, and could be easily
attained. Let the quays round the docks be sold on Cor-
poration leases, ith restrictions to build warehouses,
within a limitedtime, as to plan and construction : let these
warehouses be built round the docks now constructed—
Lane et ry advantage would be gained to the commerce of
the p 0 t, to the profit of the merchaut,and to the despatch
of trade. The dock trustees would cease to carry on ware-
housing business, or any other trade, as incompatible with
them as trustees, and, in conformity with that character,
pay poor-rates on the amount of their income, and do
away with ever-y- possibility of any interest in that trust,
using public warehouses at rates that do not yield their
expenses. And as the warehouses would belong to private
individuals or companies, the rates would be easily ob-
tained, thus doing away with the necessity of putting down
more rateable property, or making more docks, or ex-
pending above five millions of money to complete the
works contemplated in the bill coming before the council.
• The members of the council should reflect that they are
trustees over the interests of the burgesses. and are blame-
able if they allow their selfish views to injure their trust.
:Fain we have those who consider the interests of their fo-
reign correspondents of more importance to them than
the interests of the parishioners, who maintain that the
docks belong to the whole world, therefore, they have no
right to pay poor rates to any parish for the use of these
docks. After listening to such logic a gentleman moved
from that board and went into the Tos-,n-counril room,
and stated that lie did all he could to convince us that the
docks, warehouses, and all, " belonged to the connam-
nity," while the truth is, lie contended, their advantages
belonged to the community of Liverpool, in perpetuity,
while they paid the local rates in oommon with the
parishioner; he doggedly maintaining ageinSt u 4, that thrl
belonged to the whale world, notwithstandirsig his iowjeer
at the wiseacres he saw at this board, amid Mir ►turiit.aries
lie felt extinguishing his Incifer light, as friction pro-
duced it.

Afr. BENNE'rT ro!se to order.
Mr. Witrroy mai). wisbcd Mr. 171-kric had pert:air:Lod to
iten to it. _ _

RQ UMART Said if gentlemen hat) C:1144"11 an inteve,t
in tbig matter thcry woc►kl not lie to itapationk.

Mr. STEAINS said he was on the sub-committee, an&
. felt deeply interested in the matter ; but he was a worm
and-not a talker.

Mr. URQUIIART continued :—Yet, by the continued.
application of the light of these luminaries upon his obtuse
mind, within forty-two hours after he received the light
from them, he reflected an atom of it into the Council-
room, without stating it was communicated to him bpi
those gentlemen of whom he was then speaking so coa-
temptuously. But from the size and influence of our
churchwardens' intellectual luminary, he must feel wit
others, pity that one who has such a small capacity f
..mental light as Mr. W. Earle, should, from the influen '
i
of circumstances, be placed in responsible situations; and,
had he not been the lesser light of this board, :-nci of the'
selfish, meagre, and interested minority on the Lhotion bi
be submitted to the Council, he would not have conducted
himself as he did towards us. If he is the representatives
of the light of his section, their light is darkness ; and
how great the darkness ! He concluded with the request'
to vote for the committee.
Mr. BENNETT.—Did I understand Mr. Urquhart to say
the little mind of Mr. Earle?
Mr. URQU/lART.—I said the capacity of mind.
Mr. AvisoN.—lt is not usual to make such observer-I
tions in the absence of gentlemen.
Mr. BENNErr was understood to say there was no gees-'_
tleman in Liverpool to whom such observations could -*
be so inappropriately made as to Mr. Earle. :4
Mr. STEAINS thought it desirable that the gentlemen of
the Board should express their disapprobation of suck*/
language.
After a few other observations the- resolution, as pro-
posed by Mr. Poole, was crrried unanimously. Mr. Smethurst, Chairman to the Guardian Society, anti -
Mr. Reay, the Secretary, then entered the room, as a .",
deputation from the Guardian Society, to solicit the co-
operation of the Vestry in opposition to the Dock BilL, !.
Mr. REAY said they had prepared a memorial to the
ws
Council, praying that body to adhere to their last reso-.
lution not to proceed to Parliament this session. They' :
had no confidence in the promoters of the measure, and,
therefore, they could not leave it to them to obtain the:
insertion of the rating clause.
At the request of ihe Chairman Mr. HART read to the
deputation the resolution which had been passed by the
Board, and the interview closed.

After some little conversation, Mr. Hugh Molyncus
was appointed to the vacant seat at the Board, and the
proceedings terminated a little after one o'clock.
In reference to this subject, the Guardian Society hale
sent a letter to each member of the Council, in whice.,
after alluding to the intention of the Dock Committee
"to renew the discussion on the Dock Bill with a view to
rescind the resolutions alrcady.passed by the Council, the
Society calls the attention of the Council to a memorial :
from the Society, to be presented at the Council meeting •
to-day, in which the memorialists state that they " deem
such a proceeding discourteous and unjust, and, therefore, ;
calculated to destroy that confidence in public bodies
which they are ever anxious to maintain. The memorial-
ists, therefore, respectfully, but earnestly, urge upon the
Council to be again firm, and carry out in its integrity the
resolution passed on the 10th instant."

The. separation of his faithful followers from Abd-el-
Kader had obviously produced upon his health an effect
so alarming. that orders were given for their confinement
in the same prison with their illustrious chief.
The beautiful model of the battle of Waterloo is still ma
view. The gentleman in charge of it gives an interesting
and graphic description of every object delineated, and
every spectator becomes thus minutely and accurately as-
quainted with the occurrences which have been of such
momentous consequence to his country's history.
THE FEMALE.AMERICAN SERENADERS.—The first of :
five concerts, by the Female American. Serenaders, was
given last evening, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
street. The attendance was extremely good, and from the
rapturous applause that followed each piece there could
be little doubt of the general satisfaction the concert gave.
As a body they are clever, and play the various instru-
ments assigned to them with great precission. Their -
costume is characteristic of American Indians, and many-
of the melodies they execute are of a more refined charae-
ter than those usually produced at Etheopean entertain-
ments, but here and there are introduced such songs as
" Old Joe," " Buffalo Gals," &c., &c., which have the
effect of enlivening the affair, and from the quaintnesi
with which they are given, keeping the whole audience
in laughter.
THE NAUGHTY NUNS OF NENVINGTON.—At Newingse.
ton, in Kent, are the very slight remains of the nunnery
of Newington. By whom it was founded no record re-
mains. Tradition, however, gives its Gothic walls and
cloistered seclusion an evil repute. The nuns of Newington
strangled their prioress in her bed, and, to hide the deed, '
cast her body into a deep pit. The crime was, however,
discovered, and Henry 111. delivered the unscrupulous
sisterhood who were guilty over to the secular power, to
be dealt with according to their deserts. After this he
filled their cloister with seven secular canons. This fra-
ternity, however, seem to have been as bad a lot as the
sisterhood they succeeded ; for four of the shaveling%
very soon after their admission, murdered one of their
brother canons and they were ousted and executedin hum.
So much for the nunnery of Newington i
FALSE HUMILITY.—Amongst the false- humilities by
which the world is most flattered and beguiled, is that of
the professor in this kind who shrinks from all censure and
reprobation of what is evil, under cover of the text,
" Judge not lest ye be judged;" as if it were the intent of
that text, not to warn us against rash, presureptuous, and
uncharitable judgments, but absolutely to forbid our tak- ,
ing account of the distinction between right and wrong.-
" It is not for us to judge our brother," says the humi-
-1 of this way of thinking ; "we know not how he.
may have been tempted,. perhaps he was born with
stronger passions than other people ; he may have been
ill brought up ; peradventure he was thrown amongst evil.
associates ; we ourselves, had we been thrown in the same -
circumstances, might have been in like manner led astray 2'
Such are the false-charities of a false and popular humility.
If we are to excuse all the moral evil that we can account-
for, and abstain from judging all of which we can suppose .
that there is some adequate explanation, where are we to
stop in our absolutions ? Whatever villainy exists in the •
world is compounded of what is inborn and what comea,
by circumstance ; there is nothing so base or detestable .
but it is the consequence of some adequate cause ; and if:
we are to make allowances for all but causeless wicked-•
ness, there is an end of condemnation.—Taylor's •Notes.
from Life.
THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.--There'S a world of •
buxom beauty flourishing in the shades of the country.
Farm houses are dangerous places. As you are tleinkieg
only of sheep or of curds, you may be suddenly shot
through by a pair of bright eyes, and melted away in a
bewitching smile that you never dreamt of till the mis-
chief was done. In towns and theatres, and thronged
assemblies of the rich and titled fair, you are on your
guard ; you know what you are exposed to, and put oa
your breast-plates, and pass through the most deadly on-.
slaught of beauty safe and sound. But in those sylvan
retreats, dreaming of nightingales, and hearing only the
lowing of oxen, you are taken by surprise. Out steps a
fair creature—crosses a glade—leaps a stile. Yen start,
you stand lost in wonder and astonished admiration ! You
take out your tablets to write a sonnet on the return of
the Nymphs and Dryades to earth, when up comes John
Tompkins, and says, "It's only the farmer's Caugb.ter.".
What! have farmers such daughters now a-days ? Yes,
I tell you they have such daughters. Those farm-housee-
are dangerous places. Let no man with a poetical imagi-
nation, which is only another name for a very tender
heart, flatter himself with fancies of the calm delights of
the country—with the serene idea of sitting with the far-
mer in his old-fashioned chimney-corner, and hearing him
talk of corn and mutton—of joining him in the pens:va
pleasure of a pipe and jug of brown October—of listening
to the gossip of the comfortable farmer's wife of the par-
son and his family, of his sermons and his pig—over a
fragrant cup of young hyson, or rapt in the delicious luxu-
ries of custards or whipt creams--in walks a fairy visiois. .
of wondrous witchery, and, with a curtsey and a smile of.
winning and mysterious magic, takes her seat just oppo-
site. It is the farmer's daughter, a lively, creature of
eighteen : fair as the lily, fresh as May dew, rosy as the
rose itself, graceful as the peacock perched on the pales
there by the window ; sweet as a posy of violets and cloy.
gillivers, modest as early morn, and amiable as ymir owl'
imagination of Desdemona or Gertrude of Wyoming. Yoe
are lost. It's all over with you. I wcuid'nt give au
empty filbert or a frog-bitten strawberry for your peace of
mind, if that glittering creature be not as pitiful as she is
fair. And that comes of going into the country, oat of
the way of vanity and temptation, and" fancying fart*
houses nice old fashioned places of old-fashioned content-
ment.—" The Hall and the Hamlet," by Wiliiagt
Hewitt. •

HOW TO OMB HYSTERICS.—Mr. G. Corfe, in the
Medical Times, gives the following as a specimen of caws
of hysteria frequently met With .at the Middlesex Hos-
pital :—" It is usually about the dead of the night, at
least most commonly in the evening, that a large posse of
police, with a fair attendance of women, carry, into the
out-patients'• room a female, strapped down on the
stretcher. It is stated that she has had a fit, and screamed
and became so violent that all efforts to control licr were
quite ineffectual. We ate summoned to the case just as
we have retired to bed, p2rhaps ; we find a fat, healthy
looking young woman pi ostrate on this stretcher. Her
eyes are fixed, pupils dilated, acting slightly under
strong lamp ; she is pinched, slapped, her hair pulled, atilt •
every effort made to rouse her, but all is in vain. Per-
haps we may see through the case at once, however—the
moral force here is invariably more effectual than the
physical. We noCce a nictating eyelid, and a snort ar
groan is given, yet there she lies, unconscious, apparently.
to all that is gomg on around her. We raison ceinmanal-
ing and authoritative order, that all persons shall lye int;
mediately excluded ; thus, " Policemen, turn out the •
whole of thi.se persons, both male and female." " Foie
policemen sop here to assist US. ;"—V31.131t15. • Nora,
policemen, bring her up to the light ;' pausing.
fiona, severe measures must be taken in this ewe, Mt.
house-surgeon. " "Nurse brit* in two or three pails
full Of cold water !" " You, night nurse, go.
Fro-
cure two or three thick blankets." " Call up the nut geqy
man to shave the head." " Get the stomach-ptimp
order, it' you phase, Mr. House-surgeon." And a4lll
one order follows another; tho policemen stare, andase
all attention :tad mute; there is a pause betaken each
order so given; thu medical oftieees whisper together nix ra;
the probable exposti that will soon take piece, and whiS
the cold water is ,inning into the pails, and the blanks";
are being passed aroma her waist, and the elack:of tius
ligeacisaorsis heard over her fine but dirty laelca of haig,
the patient opens her ryes, and with (apparent !) astonish-
ment cries out, '• :Where ant I ? What are you going to
do with me ? LA me go home! 0, mother, do take Is*
away from these esuel brutes," &c. ; arm thus often am&
aften does our patient get up from the stratciier. ro-b her
eyes, wall: about the room, and leave the building withott
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