The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

OUR SUPPLIES OF FOOD.

The subjoined extracts from letters received from vari-
ous parts of England and Ireland, with reference to the
crops generally available for human food, will be read
with interest at the present time. They show that, al-
though the grain crops are pretty well got in, they are in
many cases damaged, and in others deficient ; and that
nothing at all cheering can be reported with respect to
the Potatoes. It is anticipated that our supplies of Oats
from Ireland this season will be good, but that only a
small quantity of Wheat may be expected thence. To
meet this, our imports from abroad are daily increasing.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Sept. 30.—Since Sunday we have
bad almost constant rain, and rs a large breadth of grain
is still abroad, we fear the quality will be much deterio-
rated by the untoward change. According to our inqui-
ries to-day, it would appear there is a good deal of Wheat
still out in the remote districts, as well as Barley, whilst
of other grain the great bulk is yet in the fields.
Peterborough, 30th Sept.—We have had a good supply
of Wheat ; the condition of the greater part is bad, from
the incessant rain we have had all the week ; the supply
of Barley, Beans, and Oats is upon the increase.
Great Waltham, near Chelmsford, Sept. 29.—During
the months of June and July I quite hoped to be able to
report an average crop of Wheat, and the quality pro-
mised to he very fine as harvest approached ; but as
thrashing has proceeded there is universal disappointment
as to the yield, and throughout this county (Essex) there
is a deficiency of 14 bushels per acre compared with the
crop of 1847, which we reckon to have been 1 qr. per acre
over an average. From the long exposure to the damp
and unfavourable weather, the quality is below our anti-
cipations. The colour is generally good—not much is
sprouted—but the average weight is not more than 6011 b.
per bushel. The crop of Barley will, it is feared, be a
little deficient in quantity, but the quality generally much
better than could be expected after such unfavourable
weather. It has been secured in good order, and the
greater proportion will be of very useful malting quality.
Oats are not a heavy crop, but secured in good condition.
Potatoes are very bad—worse than in 1846. In many
cases of the early sorts not more than 1-10th are sound,
while of the later kinds fully I-3rd are already diseased.
Turnips will be generally good.
Wisbech,3oth Sept.—We have had an incessant rain
now for two days, which has caused the samples of Wheat
to come in in very bad condition.
Waterford, 30th Sept .—W e had some rain in the be-
ginning of this week, but the wind having changed to
east, it has since been fine, and rather cold, with occa-
sional frosts at night. The harvest is now, we may say,
all secured, consequently the state of the weather is of
much less importance. People here have almost ceased
to talk of the Potato disease ; it is now so universally ad-
mitted to be only a matter of time, when they shall entirely
cease to be fit for human food, already they are relatively
much dearer than either Indian Meal, or coarse Flour.
Limerick, Sept. 30.—Wheat comes forward more
plentifully from the farmers, and the condition and qua-
lity show some improvement.
Cork, Sept. 30.—We have received two letters under
this date, which, as far as regards the native grain pro-
duce, are contradictory. There is nothing favourable
from this quarter respecting Potatoes : the disease still
goes on steadily, and each day they get more objectiona-
ble for human food.

Belfast, Sept. 28.—The grain harvest is now so far ga-
thered as enables me to speak with something approaching
to certainty of the result. In Wheat the breadth sown
was fully an average, and in some districts the quality and
yield will be as good as usual, whilst in others both will
be so deficient that I do not over-state the general estimate
of the crop as being one-third below an average. Barley
will be a full average and of superior quality, whilst the
breadth of Oats is admitted to have been much larger than
usual, and the yield and quality being unusually good, it
is not saying too much that the surplus of Oats will com-
pensate for the deficiency in Wheat.—The breadth of
ground under Potatoes was large, and, up to a certain
period, was most promising ; but, as it came up to that
period (earlier or later in the season, according to the time
of planting), symptoms of disease showed themselves, more
virulent in some districts than in others, but in all suffi-
ciently so to excite great alarm, and the result has been
the premature raising and consuming of a large portion of
the crop ; this is still going on, and, with the disease, will
reduce the quantity by fully a third (some say a half) ;
still, from the breadth planted, there is now mere of them
available for human food than we had during the entire of
last season, and this calculation places out of account the
quantity consumed since the disease made its appearance.

MR. DUNCAN'S SECOND LECTURE ON THE
CURRENCY.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Duncan gave his second lec-
ture on the effect of our Monetary Laws in producing
periodical panics and suffering of the commercial and
working classes; and notwithstanding the disadvantage
of a wet evening we were glad to observe a numerous and
attentive audience present. In the opening portion of
his remarks the Lecturer gave a lucid history of the pro-
ceedings which followed the suspension by Pitt of the
restrictions of 1797, by which the country was enabled to
meet, without the aid of paper money, the immense ex-
penses of the war with France ; and proceeded to shew
that the act of 1819, restoring cash payments was not
understood by its author, and was foisted by a juggle
upon Parliament and the country. He shewed that
Leonard, Homer, Mr. Huskisson, and others had acted
incunsistenily upon the question. He then proceeded to
skew, in opposition to the fallacies of the bullionists, that
gold depreciated as well as paper, and that Peel's pound,
said to be invariable, had depreciated last year ; and yet
this was the solid rock on which the mercantile interests
of this great country depended ! In 1797, had the sus-
pension of cash payments not taken place, the Bank of
England would have been bankrupt, and it was equally
certain that if Lord John Russell and Sir Charles Wood
had not written their celebrated letter in October last the
Bank of England would have been bankrupt again.
There were failures in Liverpool and in London. Take
the house of Reid, Irving, and Co., who had failed !
Why, if they had only got an act of Parliament extended
to them in the same manner as the Bank of England had
acts of Parliament extended to it, they would not have
failed. Manufacturers and tradesmen were driven into
a corner by the present false system ; but directly the
Corporation, in which the government had a sort of
quasi partnership, were affected, then•the laws, by which
all other tradesmen were crushed, were suspended and
declared bad. (Applause.) He then reverted to the end
of the war, and to the dreadful suffering of the nation
after the declaration of peace, in consequence of the re-
sumption of cash payments. ,He quoted from Sir James
Graham's work on " Corn and Currency," to show that
the first effect of the peace was to prostrate the whole of
the large amounts realised by the merchants and traders
during the war. After having referred to the language
used in the House of Commons by Mr. Prosperity Robin-
son, and to the recantations uttered by Ricardo and Hor-
ner on the subject of the currency, he alluded to Sir Ro-
bert Peel—a man, he said, who had never yet originated
any public measure—who had not given any evidence of
possessing a creative mind—but who had given extraordi-
nary instances of tergiversation on the emancipation ques-
tion and the corn laws. He also quoted from a speech of
Lord Ashburton, a gentleman, he said, of creative mind,
who had looked into the future and could see no end to
the pressure so long as we adhered to bullionism. (Ap-
plause.) Mr. Gilbart, the manager of the London and
Westminster Bank, bothered Sir Robert Peel dreadfully,
and he wanted him to retract ; but he stuck manfully to
his text. He was asked, " Are you of opinion that a
suspension of cash payments would be necessarily the
consequence of a war ?" His reply was, " Necessarily
is a strong term : but I think it would be the best
measure, and I should certainly adopt it." A ques-
tion was then asked him about securing the convert-
ability of the note ; and he answered, " In a time of
war I would stop payment at once, because it would
be better to do so before the gold went than afterwards."
This was Mr. Gilbart's defence against invasion. But
the country was now in a state of invasion, not of the
French or any other nation ; but an invasion of paupe-
rism. If they found their poor-rates rising £7,000,000 a
year—he dare say it would next year be £B,ooo,ooo—and
progressively increasing, they might safely say that pau-
perism was a state of war. It was a war of the hungry
and the needy against those who possessed property ; and
it became a question whether they were taking a wise
course to preserve that property. They would not suffer
the people to be self-sustaining, and the consequence was,
that they forced them to become thieves and spoliators.
After referring to some other points, Mr. Duncan pro-
ceeded to the bill of 1844. At the end of twenty-five
years' experience, Peel had fairly admitted that the bill of
1819 was a decided failure. If not, why did he introduce
the bill of 1844 ? In that bill he began by asking the
question, " What is a pound ?" And he answered it by
saying, "A pound is a certain quantity of metal, of defi-
nite weight and fineness; and the obligation to pay a
pound is an obligation to pay 123 grains of gold, neither
more nor less." Now they found that the weight of the
pound had been constantly varying. In the time of
William the Conqueror the pound was 12 ounces, or 576
grains ; under Edward the Third it varied from 437 to
384 grains : in the reign of Henry the Eighth it was 213
and subsequently 192 grains ; in Elizabeth's time it was
172 grains, in Charles ll's, 129 grains; a very clear proof,
indeed, that the pound, "according to law, to immemo-
rial usage, to the ancient monetary policy of the empire,"
had always been " a definite weight of definite fineness !"
If the pound had been thus reduced, there was no reason
why we should not reduce it still more, to sixty, fifty,
forty, or even to a single grain. He mentioned this as an
instance either of his gross historical ignorance or of his
still more disgraceful conduct in palming a falsehood
upon the people. But in the very speech in which
he gave this definition he violated the whole of his
principles Mr. Duncan here explained the provi-
sions of the bill of 1844. Thirty-one millions of notes
were allowed to be issued by the bankers in different
parts of the kingdom, without being based on gold.
If they went beyond that they must find the metallic basis.
But what, then, became of his doctrine that the obligation
to pay a pound was an obligation to pay 123 grains of
gold ? Thus, they found, he just carried the principle as
far as it served his purpose, and involved the whole com-
munity in misery, simply and solely because he trifled
with the truth. The lecturer next reviewed Mr. Jones
Lloyd's theory of a natural cycle of prosperity and adver-
sity, upon which he made some caustic remarks, touch-
ing, in conclusion, upon the operation of the new poor
law, which was ena2ted, he said, for the purpose.of keep-
ing up the bullionist system. Contrasting the condition
of the labouring classes in England with that of the slaves
in the West Indies, he said that in this country we abso-
lutely forbid the working man to live. Skilled labourers,
sober, industrious, steady men, attached to their families,•
with every moral inducement to work, and willing to
work, could not get it. They went to their employer, who
said, ".I am very sorry, but prices are so low we cannot

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afford to employ you ; there are no sales." The"! 4334
this cry in every direction ; but no effort was made Wm
vestigate the subject and get rid of the nuisance.
was it that intervened to prevent those who were Iv lig,
to consume from doing so ? It was nothing but bill
ism, which said, " You shall produce up to a certiotsie
point, but no further." He would show them the nos
of the check. In order that the employer might getigib,
profits, and the laborers good wages, prices must be
They could not receive high profits or pay high wage :ere
of low prices. When prices rose, all the population /18
comfortable. The foreigner came and sold carge'dito
partook of all their high prices, because all comal9,lo
were high. He brought, say a cargo of wheat.
he had sold it, he considered what he would take "05
He thought of iron, perhaps; but he found that ironto,
£l2 a ton, and he could buy it in Sweden for sio
He said, " I find that by an act introduced by Mr. "
Lloyd, and passel by Sir Robert Peel, there is one r?„,;
modity that is always cheap—which never rises in triry
that is gold." He went to the bank of England wit°, of.
notes he received for his cargo, purchased gold, al. 60
tied it away, instead of their manufactured goods. to
that they were hit double. They lost their gold, s'',llo,o
their manufactured goods were left on their hands.
Bad
lecturer pursued this part of his subject at some lentb,
proved from returns of declared and official value, 1,70
from £60,000,000 to £70,000,000 were annually lost to
country by the way in which the foreign trade was earl
on.
eerel
At the conclusion of the lecture he was loudly ch
as he had frequently been during its delivery.

CORRESPONDENCE.
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CONVERSION OF CHUN-AH-YOU.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.?•-n 'A,
SlR,—Should you deem this communication of s7l
cient interest to be entitled to a place in your columPo'n,
shall be obliged by its insertion in 'your next impress'
My chief motive in visiting the Chinese Exhibition
tb
.with a view to enter into religious conversation %.itntup
native of China who accompanied it ; for until last
day I was not aware that any clergyman bad hadb;
conference with him previous to my having spoken l? p I
When I had surveyed the contents of the Exhi
fixed on three colossal gilt statues as a pretext yoo,
introducing the subject of Christianity to Chun'an--;,unk
but, now that he is a Christian, called Dili
Taking an opportunity of seeing him quite disengao-gs,
approached and asked him which one of those three
tues represented Jos. He said they all represent
I then observed to him, that to make an iniegeloo?
matter of religion was very wrong. He said, "
Catholics make images." " That is true," I reriblet
" but the Catholics do wrong in this; because the,l3oo
which is the word of God who made us, says, lika
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any !be,
ness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is iS
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the eartiboe
" But," said he, " Catholics read the Bible." " Sell of
they do," I replied ; " it does not thence follow that,
joll,
are at liberty to make images in connexion with relic,ooy
The reading of the Bible, without doing what it et bi
mands or abstaining from what it forbids, willl,l3,3°cet'
sufficient to please God and to save us from puh's"-: ioe'
Those who make an image in connexion with rehgoll
are idolaters ; and the Bible says that idolaters, ats.dr
as the fearful and unbelieving and other wicked ei'V
ters, shall have their part in the lake which burneth do
fire and brimstone. Those who read the Bible, angble
contrary to what the Bible tells them, drag the "d to
after them ; whereas the Bible ought to be allowe De
lead, and not made to follow them." HerenPlicee
laughed. I observed that the subject about which log,
speaking was no laughing matter. lie said, "You /
sir, excuse my laugh, I could not help; you said 50 faint
about people dragging Bible after them." th'en" be
bitoiot
asking him whether he were a Christian or a p:-Ifinot
said that he was not yet a Christian, because he L'4 oed,
been baptized. " There is another reason," I eoutfoo.4
" why we should not make any image of God ;
having never seen him, we do not know to wliatcot;
like." He then said, "If you never see him, l'c'e.sre
know he is ?" " Very easily," said I ; for thel;aicb
many things which we have never seen nor can see'- that
we believe exist nevertheless. You have within Yeliwbieb,
which fears, hopes, loves, &c., that is, your soul ; goo'
though you never saw it, you know to exist within borer
You have been at Canton ; but though I was never toil a
and so never saw that city, I believe that there is 5 that
place as Canton. Why, then, should we not believe hoe
there is God though we never saw him, when we d at
ourselves and his other creatures above and all arouniego
as witnesses of his existence ? Besides, his Son, Jesus
of
Christ, has declared him to us, and is the brightnshere,
his glory and the express image of his person, and, IRO
fore, we must not make any image of God, because
Christ is the image of him, and that one image is bito
cient ; and those who do not believe in him and kri° pole
through Jesus Christ will be destroyed, for " therel!_ ice
other name under heaven given among men whereby
must be saved." He then said, " They will noth,aidy
stroyed if they never hear about him? " "Ce
risb
not," I replied. " The heathen or pagans will not Pe,pot
because they have not believed in Jesus Christ, o'l4,
whom they had not heard, but because they did not u,O
ship God rightly, but made an image through vvhick;,,
worship him ; and you will be without excuse if you o'4
tinue to do as you were taught from your youth, beesa
to
you have heard of Jesus Christ ; for it was withiLv-gtion
make him known to yoiu that I entered Into conve';':, of
with you. He came into the world to obey and (-nod
notus, ptheraitsh,bonsotenvaerveheetearrsneolf
laifned; beneldiehveeswiinuheinmmea*b_ooL4
more, as a judge, to call all men, who have h
Gospel preached to them, to an account as to their ha of
received and obeyed it, and to reward with the Plihre
heaven those who have believed on him as the stwi net
for their sins, and as the Lord their righteousness;, pot
to punish with everlasting destruction those who did and
repent of their sins, believe in him for their parddn'svocif
did not obey his Gospel." "Do you say," he thert,
" that there shall be anything after this life ? is sP'
there shall be; because the Bible tells us that
root;
pointed unto men once to die, but after this thejogtp.ith'
and we shall assuredly meet again, and then if, 11,e pd
standing what I have said to you, you shall be 01 shiP
have paid no attention, you will be punished, but
.0 f lee
have delivered my soul, because I warned you 1000
from the wrath to come, and to believe in Jes,ls hid
for salvation." I then told him that I would see,iosce
again ; and the substance of my subsequent inlersbjeet
with this interesting young man, shall form the s'l
of a future letter.
Believe me to be, sir, your faithful servant, ,oS,
SAMUEL FEN.'

Wavertree, 26th Sept., 1848.

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THE " BIRKENHEAD PROPHETIC HE—A n
,„,- A/Vi
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAiv-
ic
SIR,—I am obliged by your publication—last vireeniad
my note respecting the " Birkenhead Prophetic ger; e
it has brought me the following, which perhaps 113b5c7
be so good as to insert for the satisfaction of the su
bers generally.
" Dear Sir,—lf you wish it, I shall gladly returl.ll49o
any balance due on the Prophetic Herald ; d°lolo°
to those subscribers who have paid me would 531;d i°
about £5O. I hope however to have a number Poearift.'
about three weeks, as the matter is already in 1103ng;ift'
The delay has been totally unavoidable on TO Po.°
Faithfully yours, THE Enll.°
Birkenhead, Sep. 27th, 1848. WI)
Now, Sir, I think the subscribers cannot do betters or
accept the editor's offer to return their money, f°l. 011111
pears that the number' for January, 1847, is nOO °sllolc
manuscript, and with the many duties the editor l'a_cto'
ott
dertaken, they may rest assured there is no Pro v p e
the work being more regularly published. For t°21001;
I shall be quite satisfied with having the numbers T'svitb;
published put into a readable form, they being Ye ot
out index or title-page; and I have written to re cc
subscriptions may be returned to me.—l am,
obliged, A SUBSCRI'

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.-- etin4ver'r
wouldgmb
atlgrO.ed swh,
ndEeenir Saleicficcwetoari was
ndt
hahtenhe
accordance
cnohwdnaie Trrht, un
undertaking.—Baron
hosi
ndre
gaaty.
tea.B—tpatTurhorhepneoLscooeniololfui:iirs;:::
f tif
ing, or not, the raising of £50,000, on preferentjuau Fful,
the money was required to complete certain v,r uhlt,
wpsinoeiOimcivtcei
hoodgfewgatohrrueeeelss:oolgguf
irtvtieoehanet ,
materials,
amplews
oari dksatbl ece
oirnembgawmdcaaossrdtrnaiileotl
idwoi
sn,oistuhttboi rat]
otitisceteoo,
eeei pst,
The bondholders, if they chose to make a 53 Ise"
ti
• then OPP
the means of accomplishing that part of the un, thn-ce
trade, by damming up the pool; but in the firs Pre ea
it had been deemed better to propose the issue °,oweret,
rential mortgages. The resolution thereby e 930rf
the trustees to borrow £50,000, the tenders the reetho
would have a prior claim for their interest tiliun
nue that would be derived from the damming' gr'tbe
pool by the money proposed to be borrowe 0 raise ent
Bailey, jun., M.P., seconded the resolution, .t epr,
money as stated.—Mr. Rendel, the civil 04'1; slresole
into some statistics of the docks. The vwr6 aeresOf
i‘colomrppleetthedDeoocmk porfiselitahcereWs,oothdesidEegßeratsoinn of k (1013,0 r
DOC o it
from Morpeth Dock to the Great Float) of 3.1 acv
sf 610 h•
making altogether 16 acres of basin and 7 acswat aPP.ad
accommodation. In order to make the Great I:_;coocu,,s,
cable to the trade of the port, it was necessarytgue;o9
the water ; and preparatory thereto a large "13/00..0
sary to carry off the land water from 13idston
.eth 11: of
been made at an expense of £30,000. Thelkl;3% a co."; es,
and the Egerton Dock had been completed irapo
es,
£160,000. It remained only now, therefore, e thste
the waters in the Great Float, in order to 1333 tr3'lteo
tensive space available for the timber traa _flpo
great importance, but very inadequately c(,ut to Foie
at Liverpool. The Liverpool dock trustees wept for 4(1
liament last session for a bill to construct a,uutu
timber trade, upon which they propose", under, jO
or six years. He thought, therefore, it vr_i cs 00
the bondholders upon the Birkenhead
Don
works, , the
£500,000. This work could not be executa7rutecrol
already expended upwards of £200,000 ?_ iownue...3oo.
.£60,000 in plant, to spend £50,000 more I(' f this 'icor
He had no doubt but that he could proe e the
for t
who would execute the works altogether „ever ,
Baron Goldsmidt said he had no and whatever Wool
and that if
waters of the Float, for the accommodation .a
contoorso..,
ultimate prosperity of Birkenhead,
a, n„,., her,o,oou
so large a sum as £150,000 in the undertialigi e, 2., .3
the
not hesitate a single second in advan, _
resuluti th
himself, so great was his confidence. nu
mortgages to the existing shareholders t
ber, was also carried.
carried.—Another resolution, giving p.refortneel?..,ctu,
theilt the ltith v

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vit C°ltrAßtsox.—Why is a solar eclipse like a woman
•„PPlog her boy ?—Because it is a " hiding of the sun."
eY NATURAL.—" I hate to hear people talk behind
41,7 s hack," as the robber said when the constable called
Stop thief "
..rtptsWentli:tt distinguished " knight of the hammer" best
Pet ,s,how. a " Ragged School ?"—A. Tatters-all.—Pup-
AX lone d RISH ACQUAINTANCE.—An Irish gentleman was
a aY speaking to a friend of the dangerous qualities of
mou htual acquaintance—" To say the truth I don't like
allot° 7,2lirelY—l really think that he would murdher a
hd " Alurdher a man ! (exclaimed the friend) y—wh
eo 1)1W her a bull !"
pat •—The following are said to be the largest British
t're, which we have on record :—The Cowthorpe, in
ehire, which measured 48 feet in circumference at a
rdlcs
from the ground •, the Shrewsbury, 44 feet at the
the 'om ; the Essex, 36 feet at the bottom, and known by
re
nam
nce and Fairlo
fee"
; and the Hatfield, 38 feet dr-
-me 120 t high.
earagEEN CORN PUDDING.—rake of green corn twelve
, and grate it ; to this add a pint of sweet milk, a
111arter of a pound of fresh butter, four eggs, well beaten :
pepper
and salt, as much as sufficient. stir all well toge-
theeraod bake four hours in a butter dish. Some add to
podPgredients a quarter of a pound of sugar 'and eat
Tngyith sauce.
0p,,!! UHOLERA—The following fable may not beliln-
roo7loe at the present moment :—One day a
.traveller
~porue plague going into Cairo, and accosted
. it thus-
-3,000 what Purpose are you entering Cairo ?" "To la
tpeopi,.., I
Some time after the same traveller met
ilzil4a,gue again, and said, " but you killed 30,000_41r
th 7, plague replied, " I killed but 3,000 • f
kut est.
'New en"E OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—On
aY morning early, as the Duke of Wellington wss
gro-g an horseback from Chatsworth to Chesterfield, his
hat4eee was accosted by an old Peninsular veteran of the
could °f Jackson, who, in a style which no imostor
action C.aunterfeit spun a somewhat long yarn about an
ustir-ni,n Spain at which he had been present, and in the
who iNilbourhood of his illustrious commanding officer,
Jackso'eollected the circumstances referred to and gave
son n half-a-sovereign. Still the story went on—Jack-
also „„'light another battle over again, where the duke
ray Commanded. " Give me back the half-sovereign,
,oe old fellow " said the duke, " and there is a whole
kiet ior yo-
.7
u .I;ckson has hitherto told his stories gra-
'4 41a1Y, but he now intends to set some value on his
collections of the Peninsula."—Leicester Journal.
Ig',4IAICSPEARB AND CERVANTES.—On the 23d of April,
16, the gentle spirit of the great Cervantes passed from
Zrtit ; a day the more mournfully memorable because it
;tat Shakspeare expire too ! It is a singular coincidence
i_kt these kindred spirits, the great high priests of nature,
aptin her lore, initiated in all her mysteries, and the
wan rarely gifted of all her sons, together winged their
ivl3 heaven. Thus from the ark, when her mission
ite done, and the wide world of waters had subsided,
iltthts forth the gentle dove—like them, to return no more.
littlas the dove, to administer to the happiness of Noah's
of e, world, left with it the green olive-branch which told
So aid verdant hills and vallies of the reappearing earth.
;to Id Shakspeare and Cervantes leave us, in their works,
tlia,,"„ergreen inheritance ;—fields yielding fruit richer
llett;:uat of the fabled Hesperides, and flowers tinct with
Inst tut .E. R. Denny's Lecture at the Collegiate
—`o4, on the Life and Genius of Cervantes.

ren of the Ocean" yacht going to the rescue of
This ,‘ The Ocean Monarch" emigrant-ship.
4104„" i's a very truthful representation of the Ocean
titb,„,'"ca and the surrounding objects, and has been de-
telr" and drawn by Mr. Henry Melling, who was him-
rt
evera eyewitness of the distressing event, and is, more-
Ike nautical man. He has painted a picture of the ca-
!iee,, Y with great fielity and accuracy of proportion. The
oe. corabines then eal state of things at the time. The
Net„B- tePresented with her anchors down, and with her
fo-and sails all standing, the latter aback and shiver-
the4l wind, as they appeared just before the more fu-
Iteithat,age of the combustion. That remarkably large
4tgaLlog letter T is seen on her foretopsail; and the
her,„.of distress (the American jack half-mast high) at
The fire is sweeping her deck abaft and mid-
ther",and the immense number of emigrants, and most of
Thew, crowding the forecastle, bowsprit, and jibboom.
Ned,,,,,'Yacht was the first that went up, and was there
i sh,`",ng assistance a full hour before the steamers. She
tetid.-7n as making a tack to windward, with her boat
the; Loosened to launch overboard on the next tack, as
Tilotinded the bow of the ship.
and Ocean Monarch was a noble and frigate-like vessel,
Prevcat under full sail, with all her courses down, just
Was t),"118 to the fire. A dense mass oark bwn smoke
the e first indication of the combus f dark brown smoke
the e first indication of the combustion, ,b
asso
seen from
kleach. t and shortly afterwards the ship's wizen-mast
3'aebttillorriast fell successively overboard in flames. The
the is represented as affected by that peculiar heave of
to :ayes, (with about twelve feet scud of a sea,) which is
so4ecially characteristic of fast-sailing craft of leer de-
lves ni,"; She was hauled close to the wind—which she
afft-ev'tYllelY running before from Beaumaris—with her
Per,d °Psail and square-sail set. The commodore's broad
at e'en!' is, at her mast-head, and the R. M. Y. C. ensign
alb% gr. The Gem, a fine small yacht belonging to
kiO4 tad theinhg, on her return from Beaumaris regatta,
-urniag hull of the Ocean Monarch at 6 p.m.,
11"21'e daY of the calamity. There was not then a single
foZiajere to be seen about the wreck ; and, but for the
tetZng of the Gem's anchor and cable, at starting, which
fltyled her departure, she would have been amongst the
ill° render some assistance.
111 th: Seaway, and the general perspective of the vessels
sati.:-.Picture, are well carried out, and the mastery of the
kg' .picture,
his peculiar line will be obvious to all nautical
-who see the print.

-4131T10N OF THE LIVARPOOL ACADEMY.

(THIRD NOTICE.)
14 uie resume our remarks on this interesting exhibition
. e second room, where are to be met with some paint-
Vs ofst a begin very h first-class character. Amongst these we
qwit
E2Bl. The Funeral Procession of Henry the Seventh.
810,7,:„Pooclall. An interior of great merit. The fore-
kent- i,tains some excellent painting and the manage-
of Lae distance, disclosing the long aisle, crowded
tleverrgeously-dressed churchmen and mourners, is very
fi9. k "ot Boatmen looking out (Coast of Dover—
n.
14. ..Zn,9, A.R.A.—is a very striking little picture. The
ihotte Oil the ground, in particular, is excellently fore-
ened, and is a gem in itself.
2„: Eringing a Stag from the Mountain—R. Ansdell
to tr of those efforts in which this artist is inferior only
292"1111-andseer. It is a very clever picture.
Portrait of Thomas 111uncaster. Esq.-7.D. Wil-
qtiO4*--the work of a young artist, we believe, is a
t14,,,,1at likeness of a very well known gentleman. It
great promise.
Nei and 316. Miniatures—by .1. B. Cros—are exquisite_
cf the art. The latter especially, a portrait of
keele, the pianist, is an unmistakeable likeness.
t 81!1.betuto to the first room, where we find
qte -.utrance to the Menai Straits. H. B. Pyne. A
kik:Pe, Arlen of the artist. The rainy sky opposite the
albtist'Lls delightfully painted. Another painting by this
~a 1357
Heath Scene. The view in the distance is one
utast ml Rut bits of painting in the exhibition.
7,,Ghtk•rcuins of the Temple of Eunout, Ancient Her-
-1124 ;A2B, ,Upper Egypt—D. Roberts, R.A.—is a noble
nnely conceived, and betraying great power of
aogloation and of artistic skill.
p 11°adside Forge : Moonlight—E. Williams, sen.—
titit et, clever picture. The glow of the forge upon the
3 and objects near is very skilfully painted.

FASHIONABLEQ, SOCIETY IN THE UNITED
A.TES-PAINTED ON THE SPOT.

(From the New York Sun.)
the a leading characteristic of the fashionable society of
14t4.,,uited States, as it is called at the present day, is its
of tO vulgarity. We shall presently explain the cause
144 113; but, in the meantime, let us, unmooorveind by the
phi 4111 of anobdom, glance at the_m which
ktionable vulgarity displays itself. lt manner
us very
41ves "3 say, that amongst the women who regard them-
Itlatlt as the leaders of fashion, there Is a brusqueness of
Ilsss,:r, Which is probably intended.to be taken for self.
ksitivsl°4 and smartness, but which is really nothing but
4441. 6 rudeness. Load talking at table—impertinent
441 tf at strangers—a disregard of those little civilities
Idell.beesucies of life which are always respected by the
'adies red Person—lead us to suppose that the fashionable
/1411ec:'' this day imagine that the best. way to prove their
~e°,llrtel°§tY in the scale of refinement, is.to despiseall the
t6tes and politeness which characterise the demeanour
this asses, which they affect to call low and vulgar.
ti.exelil,Fertanly, these fashionable people a
itese Z." The " common people" f America, as
lnaeii-`"0-fashionables style the massesoofthteheir coun-
7Ple ihallid countrywomen, are amongst politest
World, and have the nicest sense and. appre-
'• atv,"; thosethusand nameless amenities which give
Clf iT4 refinement to society.
''s bewhiskered and moustached snobs who flatter
thp ' that's
11„se
,not exactly the word—who dandle around
• the —gle exclusives —of gawky fellows who have
t 4 'ariliness to avow the shop or the desk.—of stu-
Padies, living on their relatives, with loins admirably
atter,,j'ag them to officiate usefully and honourably as
,711a472,0'ut Who are too lazy to work, and to beg are not.
`4rnqu---of silly chaps who have inherited thet.wOle
firot,er dollars of successful hodmen, or indefa
110,htipb,s' and now ae the air and manners of the fin
ZuileT:,44 ; of all these bipeds, it is hardly worth ou
011111; SL.Peak It is tt hto say, that they are quite
thews ofe
suchog women as we have described.
._
qte ani—tnualis glenough to observe the little antics which
eavghable d off t Newport, or the Springs—the
triclLay.wel h a ade the waiters snigger—.the
attettptsilact courtlym ease and self-possession,
fiwall'illecessful as those of the elated supernumerary
'4l th,-`4,3 himself inve t d on the Broadway boards, with
'l'l;glorY of tinsel !s e
a-L▪ ess, s,leat secret of all the vulgarity, coarseness, silli-
er s°ciet
insolence which characterise American fashion-
hat i 9 iS to be found in the fact,. that mere wealth,
s the as good, the reputation of wealth,. con_sp.-
%„4,Ppar„,o.Pen sesame" to its delectable precincts. Luis
W u LeauT In, all directions. Wit, genius, talent, grace,
"44tith-ty-I'doali,LPees for nought in comparison with the
mar,