The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

TEM D4l; (Tuesdsgol.ll.2,oo,.and THURSDAY next;

e 22nd instant,
ALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK,
In the CERT-HALL, LORD NELSON-STREET,

TO GRAZIERS, CATTLE DEALERS, BUTCHERS,
AND OTHERS.
NOTICE.

THE DIRECTORS of the LIVERPOOL NEW
CATTLE MARKET CO. take leave most respectfully to
inform the Public, that with a view to afford increased facilities
for the disposal of Fat and Store Cattle, Sheep and Lambs,
Calving Cows and Heifers, also Horses of all descriptions. &c.,
they have come to the determination of hol <, a WEEKLY
MARKET OR THURSDAYS, com>ike g THURSDAY, sth
June next, at the above Market.
From the facilities of railw ommunication, they are satis-
fied the attendance of ers will be very numerous, and,
therefore, earnestly the owners of stock to forward them
to this market.

From the c al situation of the Liverpool market, the com-
mittee ha etermined to afford increased facilities to dealers
and owners of the above stock, to induce them to frequent the
Thursday's market.
Dated, Liverpool, 101 h 211 a y, 1851.

MONEY LENT on E, WATCHES,
JEWELLERY, SILKS VETS, WOOLLENS, and
every description of Ma ster and Leeds Goods, at Half
the Pawnbrokers' Rate nterest.

Apply to 66, B!slosfeet, two doors from Back Colquitt-street
Private House..

BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS,

ASPECIAL MEETING of the COMMISSIONERS
of BIRKENHEAD was held, pursuant to notice, at their
Rooms, in Hamilton-square, in Birkenhead, on Saturday Even-
ing, the 17th instant, " for the purpose of reconsidering the
proceedings of a Special Meeting of the said Commissioners,
held on the Bth day of May instant, and when it would be pro-
posed to revoke the following Resolution of such last men-
tioned Meeting, viz., ' That the consideration of the subject of
la}ing the Township Rates be deferred until after the Election
of Commissioners in June' ; and also for the purpose of
making" the several Township Rates specified it the Notice.
The Commissioners present were Richard Bryans, Esq.,
Chairman ; Messrs. Mills, Barbour, Watson Coln;_ Pike,
Stevenson, Golborne, Tyler, Lightbound, and.ifichard.
The Notice convening the Meeting havipte, been re id,
A Memorial was read from severs atepayers of Birken-
head, stating that they had heard :t it was the intention of
the Commissioners to hold a • ting for the purpose of re-
scinding a Resolution adopte. • n the Bth instant, the effect of
which was to give a mor, tended franchise to the Township
than it had yet posses • inasmuch as the Memorialists would
not be called upon t' •ay Rates only just laid previous to giving
their votes; and spectfully requesting that the Commission-
ers would not .e guilty of such an unconstitutional act, and
one so cont ry to the spirit of the laws of this country.
Mr. COLE moved, anJ Mr. TYLER seconded, the following
Resolution, viz.:—
" The Resolution of the Bth instant, viz., That the conside-
ration of the subject of laying the Township Rates be deferred
until after the Election of Commissioners in June,' having
been again considered, this Board is of opinion—
" That the decision then arrived at was hasty and prema-

ture
" That sufficient notice was not given for altering at the last
moment the old-established rule of the Commissioners ;
" That the question was discussed in a Meeting of less than
one-half the Board, only six out of twenty-one Commissioners
voting for it ;
" That the delay thereby occasioned would involve a loss of
about .el,OOO to the Township, as well as great inconvenience
in providing for the current Police and other expenses during
a suspended income of five or six weeks;
" That such a sacrifice of ievenue would be wrong in princi-
ple, and altogether unjust to the Bondholders, whose claims
even for interest have been so long deferred ;
" That although the Board is sensible that the laying of
Rates immediately preceding an Election has a tendency to
prevent a free exercise of the franchise, 3 et such evil can only
be remedied by a fresh Act of Parliament, and this Board
think it desirable that steps shou'd be taken fir this purpose;
"/t is therefore Resolved,—That the above Resolution be
revoked." Agreed to unanimously.
Moved by Mr. WATSON, seconded by Mr. PRICHARD, and
Resolved unanimously,
" That an Improvement Rate of One Shilling and Sixpence
in the Pound, on the Townships of Birkenhead, Claugbton-
cum-Grange, and part of Oxton, be now made."
Moved by Mr. PIKE, seconded by Mr. STEVENSON, and
Resolved unanimously,
"That a Lighting and Watching Rate of One Shilling in the
Pound, on the Township of Birkenhead and part of Oxton, be
now made."
Moved by Mr. COLE, seconded by Mr. Biainomi, and
Resolved unanimously,
"That a Sewerage Rate of Fourpence in the Pound, on the
Townships of Birkenhead, Claughton-cum-Grange, and part
of Oxton. be now made."
A Resolution, that the proceedings of the Meeting be in-
serted in the Liverpool Papers, was then passed ; and after a
vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Meeting separated.

PROM £5OOO to £50,000 a- Aar-"Etaibe realised
by either sex, whether emplo or unemployed, by com-
paratively trifling outlays, so rtainly as to rendor failure
absolutely impossible; els y mere fractional outlays, pro-
portionately smaller i es may be as certainly realised.
These lucrative un akings involve neither partnership nor
risk, do not s •ct those embarking to any employment,
neither cou ny objection be raised against them on any
ground atever. These facts are confirmed by the testimony
of high y respectable disinterested parties, including several
baronets and members of parliament, and in every case the
strictest inquiry is not only solicited but is urgently courted ;
indeed, those who do inquire immediately embark in one or
more of the undertakings, and advise their friends to avail
themselves also of such unprecedented advantages.
Printed particulars forwarded to all addressing L. L. D.,
care of E. W. GEORGE, Esq., 7, Clement's Inn, Strand, Lon-
don, and enclosing a stamped envelope, addressed to them-
selves, to return an answer in.

Ifuw 11.1 BE MISERABLE.—Sit at the window and look
over the way at your neighbour's excellent mansion,
which he has recently built and paid for, and sigh out,
' "0, that I were a rich man !" Get angry with your
neighbour, and think you have not got a friend in the
world. Shed a tear or two ; take a walk in the burying_
ground, continually saying to yourself—" When shall I
be buried here ?" Sign a note for your friend, and never
forget your kindness, and every hour of the day whisper
to yourself—" I wonder if he will pay the note ?" Think
everybody means to cheat you. Closely examine every
bill you take ; doubt its being genuine till you have put
the owner to a great deal of trouble. Believe every dime
passed to you is but a sixpence crossed, and express your
doubts of getting rid of it if you take it. Never accom-
modate if you can possibly help it. Never visit the sick
and afflicted, and never give a farthing to the poor.
Grind the faces and hearts of the poor and unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes, your lack of talents, and
believe that at no distant day you will come to want.
Let the poorhouse ever be in your mind, with all the
horrors of poverty and distress. Then you will be mise-
rable to your heart's content, and at variance with all the
world.—American paper.
CURIOUS SECT: A Swiss " ABODE OF LOVE."—
The Gazette Ticinese, of the 2nd instant, contains a
curious account of a new sect, under the name of Frau
Muratori, (Mason Friars,) the chief object of which ap-
pears to be seduction under the mask of peculiar religious
tenets. The matter was brought before the tribunal of
Mendrisio, canton of Ticino, on the 26th of March last.
It appeared from the documents produced in court, that
two young women of Bellenz bad disappeared a few years
ago from their families in an unaccountable manner; that
in the month of August last the police of Milan informed
the Swiss consul there of one Giuseppe Romano having
established a sort of religious fraternity, including per-
sens of both sexes, in the commune of Morbio ; and that
Romano was arrested in consequence of this denunciation,
and that one of the young women of Bellenz was found
among those who were living with him, the other having
died in France. Romano used to style himself the faith-
ful word of God, the representative of the Most High,
the second Saviour of the Universe. He exacted strict
obedience from his votaries, vows of poverty, abstinence,
hatred towards the priesthood, and avoidance of the
church and its sacraments. He had already four women
at his command, but he had declared his intention of
raising the number to twelve, who were to represent the
twelve words of the Apocalypse, and were in time to give
birth to twelve males, to illustrate the twelve stars of the
Holy Virgin. He and his numerous progeny were to
redeem the universe. One of his favourite maxims was,
that he was the great warrior predestined to destroy all
priests and friars, and found a new Jerusalem. The tri-
bunal of Mendrisio has declared itself incompetent to
judge the case, as most of the alleged facts had not taken
place upon its territory.—Galignani's Messenger.
LOVE OF NATURE ABSENT IN FRENCH LITERATURE.
—The love of nature is, undoubtedly, of all the natural
instincts of man, the least developed in the French charac-
ter, and the source of inspiration to which the Frenchlitera-
ture owes the least. Without tracing this peculiarity back
to its origin, and entering into an ethnological or philolo-
gical disquisition, we may add, that even to this day the
nations of Teutonic origin alone seem fitted to understand
and love nature. Even their languages, by their pliancy,
and almost unbounded rage of compound words, seem
better adapted than the more precise tongues of the neo-
Latin family to celebrate the beauties of nature, which
may be painted in a word, but can scarcely be defined.
To confine ourselves to France alone, the very words,
"snow-clad," "cloud-topped," "grass-grown," &c., &c.,
which forms so great a portion of the palette of the pen-
and-ink landscape painter, would be incompatible with the
genius of her language. In its absolute precision (an in-
valuable quality in many cases), it rejects the union of two
ideas in one word as conducing to confusion. The very
word "scenery" is characteristically absent fromthe French
vocabulary. In the long list of French writers, at the most
brilliant periods, even during the splendour of the 17th
century, we look in vein for one lover of nature. Moliere,
Pascal, Labuyere, Boileau, Bossuet, and Racine, seem
completely to have overlooked the picturesque in their
works ; and we must come down to the days of Rousseau,
and of Bernardin de St. Pierre, to find the first traces of
that love of nature which we find interwoven, more or less,
in almost every work of German and English origin. Nei.
ther Lafontaine, nor even Buffon, can be said to form ex-
ceptions to the rule, although at first sight they both ap-
pear to have made nature their chief study. But if we
look more closely, we find that Lafontaine's animals are
all men and women at heart, and men and women, more-
over, with a more than average share of human meanness
and duplicity. There is no real observation of the brute
creation—no mention of habits peculiar to anyone species
of animal; and, above all, not a bit of lanlandscapeinterven!ng
i
in the whole collection of his fables toindicate a genuine
love of nature in the keen and witty moralist, who used
her but as the vehicle for his inimitable satires. Buffon
himself, with all his descriptive power, has no idea of what
even his countrymen in the present day have learned to
admire as "le pittorsque;" and the elaborate, through of-
ten exquisite toilet by which he sought to embellish na-
ture, only proves bow little he understood the power of
her unadorned charms. His description of the horse, for
instance, considered one of the finest specimens of French
prose, is a curious. example of the stern necessities of le
style noble, and his own idea of the vulgarity of mere na-
ture,—the word " l!orse, occurring but once in the whole
description, and being evidently avoided as too unseemly
and trivial an ppresnon.—Eraser's Magazine.

EXPRESS NEWS,
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

THE INDIAN MAIL

Lord Dalhousie will return to Calcutta during the ensu-
ing month, and will, it is believed, leave India shortly,
and be succeeded by the Marquis of Normanby.

The Assam Tea Company plan ships are rapidly in-
creasing, and it is expected in a few years tea will be
extensively procured in India.

The GoVirnor-general of Manila had attacked the for-
tress Sooloo, which he took ; also, 140 pieces of artillery.
The Sultan had fled to the interior. The defences have
been demolished ; the surrounding country laid waste. It
is said the Spanish authorities do not intend to keep pos-
session of the island. The expedition was merely to put
down the conspiracy of the attacking party. 120 men
were killed ; the loss in the defences not yet known.

CEYLON..- court martial had assembled to try Capt.
Watson, of the Rifles, on the charges connected with the
insurrection.

The low estimation of the coffee crops was likely to
prove correct to its fullest extent. The crops for next
season promises well ; 300 acres of fresh coffee lands are
said to have been cleared and planted.

CAPE OF .
The Globe understands GOOD
that MaHOPE jor Hogg and Mr.
Owen havo been appointed commissioners to proceed to
the Cape for the purpose of enquiring into the recent dis-
turbances in K ffir land.

LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY

CLOSING PRICES

, 974 I ; Three-and-a-
-c uCaornt
es or I
per
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5007714; 4B; a
nDki t t
so t
011 c Iko n e
210 11 ; Exchequer-bills
L. and S., 44 7 pm. Foreign Stocks—Mexicans, 344 4. Railway
Shares—London Stock, 1233 4 ; Ditto Quarters, 33 2 pm.;
Midland Stock, 573 8; Ditto Halves, 153 15 dia. ; North
Staffordshire, 74 7 dis.; Soutli•Eastern, 254 4; Caledonians,
134 ; Ditto Preference, 64 ; Eastern Counties, 64 73; Great
Northern, 183 ; Great Western, 843 53; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 58 4; Ditto Fifths, 73 7 dis.; York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 194 20#; Ditto Extension, 54 42 dis. ; Ditto Pre-
ference, 23 2 dis. ; York and North Midland, 234 2 ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 20 30. Consols a shade
below Saturday's quotations; little doing. Railway Market
considerably lAver, closing heavily.