The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

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" A TALI Or BEEP TRA."-4 Scotch minister, who
cared about no, sublunary things (except now and then a
visionary tale of bawbees might cross his mind), on one
occasion being taken seriously ill, called in the doctor,
and. admonishing him first " not to draw a lang bill, for
ouldna afford it," asked him the nature of his com-
plaint. After feeling the parson's pulse, looking at his
tongue, tapping his chest, &c., the doctor declared that
he was starving himself. " Lord, doctor," said the
minister, " ye're a witch ; for Jeannie (his housekeeper)
gaed away twa days since, and I've no had a pickle of
brose since !" " Why minister, man, ye maun have some
beef tea." " Lord, doctor, I hae nae tea in the house,
nor beef either; ye maun be a feul to think of finding ony
here." " Weel, weel, minister, I'll sen' ye some beef tea
doun." " Na, na, doctor, ye'll put it in the bill."
" Minister, I'll send it doun free of charge, and mind ye
talc it." The doctor sent down the beef tea, and next
day called to see how his patient was getting on. " Weel,
minister, how are ye the day !" " Hegh, man! I'm awfte
bad ; of a' the pheesick I ever teuk in ma' life, the beef
tea beats a'. Why, man, it widna stay wi' me ava; it
made me worse than ony mittick." ".Why, minister, I'll
try the tea mysel." So putting some in a skillet, he
warmed it, tasted it, and told the minister it was excellent.
" Man," says the minister, " is that the way ye sup it."
" What ither way should it be suppit ? It's excellent, I
say, minister." It may be gude that way, doctor, but
try it wi' the cream and sugar, man! try it wi' that, and
then see how ye like it!" It is needless to say how the
doctor laughed at the simple minister fancying that all tea
should be taken with creamland sugar.
THE DILIGENCIA.—Tired of gazing upon the placid
features of the valley through which the road continued, I
turned to examine with some minuteness the diligence and
its equipments. These, whatever might be their other
merits, unquestionably possessed strong claims to origi-
nality. On a low seat in front of the coupe sat the driver,
grasping in one hand sundry ropes that represented reins,
and in the other wielding a stunted whip. His voice, how-
ever, was in more frequent use than the lash, and truly
that tongue found no rest. From the moment of starting,
a series of yells, whoops, and shouts, were poured forth in
a way a Red Indian might have envied, and were em-
ployed to urge forward the team : were these ineffectual,
then a few blows of the whip, smartly applied, never failed
to encourage the flagging animals into a canter. But then
the foremost mules, whom the lash could not reach—how
are they to be stimulated ? What is this ? Whiz goes a
pebble at one with unerring aim—and lo ! the driver and
zagal are seen to be provided with bags of this ammuni-
tion, with which, from time to time they assail the sleek
animals, who, on their part, receive the shower with much
shaking of their long ears. At the foot of a steep accli-
vity we found five additional mules in waiting to drag us
up the ascent ; these were harnessed to the others with all
sorts of tackling, aad being attached without the slightest
attempt at method, some in front, some at the sides, or
wherever fancy thought proper, the whole mass had pretty
much the appearance of what in Australia is called a
" mob of cattle." This, however, was the time for our
driver and his man to come forth in all their strength.
While one rains a pitiless storm of missiles, the other
leaps to the ground in a half frantic state, rushes up to the
mob, dashes right and left a whirlwind of blows upon their
hides, hallooine, and screeching at the same time with all
his might. Away,' then they go up hill in a gallop, half
hid in dust, kicking out at each other and their tormentor,
who runs by their side. Behind follows our lumbering
ark, pitching and heaving among the ruts, and its timbers
creaking at every plunge.-212urray's Cities and Wilds of
Andalusia.

A THRILLING SCENE.—In the midst of the routed
enemy when the mass was dissolved into separate fights,
I witnessed a scene which made a very deep impression
upon me. As something ili,,at my saddle-girth wes
broken, I stopped to mend it, and was thus left behind in
a small meadow, through which ran a wide ditch, that
could not be leaped with a horse, the edge being so slip-
pery with the frost. All at once I saw one of the enemy's
hussars, closely pursued by two cuirassiers, rush from
among the brushwood at a little distance on the other
side of the ditch. As this ditch parted me from them,
and I had a loaded pistol, I continued to stand quietly by
my horse, awaiting the issue of the affair. When the
hussar came nearer, I recognised in him a man who was
formerly a subaltern, and had long been in my company.
He was a fine, handsome fellow, when he enlisted, six
years ago, into our regiment, a genuine Cumane from the
environs of Debreczin, wild, disposed to all sorts of mad
pranks, but brave and trusty in service, at the same time
a particularly good horseman ; not wholly uneducated, '
for lie was the son of the overseer of an estate-•-in short,
an ideal of the Hungarian hussar. * * Iwanka, on his
part, recognised me, and lowered his sword as he galloped
past, by way of saluting me. Obstructed by the ditch, lie
faced about resolutely against his two pursuers. Then
ensued a fight than which nothing finer or more pictu-
resque could be exhibited in a circus by an equestrian
company, -only that it was bitter earnest, and for life or
death. The hussar, who rode a handsome stallion of the
best Hungarian breed—and many of the insurgents were
well mounted—managed his swift steed with wonderful
dexterity. He turned him so short upon his hind legs,
and dodged so quickly to the right or left, that for a long
time the cuirassiers, on their clumsier horses, could not
come at him, though they had dealt many a tremendous
blow. The Hungarian, too, had aimed many a one at
them with his glistening blade, but it had always glided
with a loud droning sound from the impenetrable breast-
armour, at length the hussar's tschako was struck off
and he was covered with blood from a wound on his
forehead. " Nimnz pardon !" (take quarter !) repeatedly
cried the cuirassiers in their Bohemian German ; but,
raising himself upright in his saddle, he replied, " En
Magyar wagyrk ."' (I auk an Hungarian !) anti iovelipd
fresh blows at his antagonists. His very horse seemed
to participate in his master's ardour for fighting. His
black hide was dotted with white flakes of foam ; his red
nostrils were widely distended ; his long mane flickered
widely in the wind; his large eye seemed to flash. * *
As the hussar dashed pest, and prepared himself for a
desperate blow, one of the cuirassiers, seizing the right
moment, thrust the long, pointed, glistening blade of his
pallasch into the right arm-pit of his antagonist with such
force that it came out on the other side. With a loud
exclamation of Jesus Maria ! the hussar sank from his
horse, and was instantly dead.—Scenes of the Civil War
in _Hungary.

THE REVOLUTION AND THE BANK OF FRANCE.—That
France, ever since the revolution of February 1848, has
been in a state of almost hopeless monetary embar-
rassment, is well known to all the world. In fact, noth-
ing but the most consummate prudence, and the adoption
of the wisest measures on the part of the Bank of France,
has saved them from a general public and private bank-
ruptcy. What those measures were, will immediately be
explained. In the mean time, to show the magnitude of
the difficulties against which they had to make head, it is
sufficient to observe, that in twenty-one months the
Revolutionary Government has incurred a floating debt
of £22,000,000; and that the deficiency for the year 1849,
wholly unprovided for—and which must he made good by
Exchequer bills, or other temporary expedients--is no
less than eleven millions and a half sterling. It is not
surprising it should have swelled to this enormous amount ;
for the very first demand of revolutionists, when they
have proved victorious, is to diminish the public burdens
and increase the public expenditure. And they did this
so effectually in France, that in one year after the revolu-
tion of 1848, they had increased the public expenditure
by £162,000,C00 francs, or about £6,500,000 ; while they
had caused the public revenue to fall by 248,000,000 frames,
or nearly £10,000,000 ! This dreadful prostration of
industry which such a state of the public revenue implies,
would have proved altogether fatal to France, had it not
been rescued from the abyss by the surpassing wisdom
with which, in this crisis, the measures of the Bank of
France were conducted. But the conduct of that estab-
lishment, at that trying crisis, proved that they had taken
a lesson from the archives of history. Carefully shun-
ning the profuse and exorbitant issue of paper which,
under the Dame of assignats, effected so dreadful a de-
struction of property in France in the first revolution,
they imitated the cautious and prudent policy by which
Mr. Pitt surmounted the crisis of 1797, and brought the
nation triumphant through the whole dangers of the war.
They obtained an act from the legislature authorising the
issue, not, of £6,000,000 sterling of notes, as in 1793 and
1794, but of £400,000,000 francs, or £16,000,000 sterl-
ing, not convertible into gold and silver. This, and this
alone, it was that brought France through the crises of
the revolution. Specie, before this aid was obtained, was
fast disappearing from circulation ; the Bank of France
had suspended cash payments; three of the principal
banks in Paris had become bankrupt ; the payment of all
bills was suspended by act of government—for this plain
reason, that no debtor could find cash to discharge his
engagements. But this wise measure gave the French
people that most inestimable of all blessings iu a political
and monetary crisis—a currency which, without being
redundant, is sufficient, and, being not convertible into
the precious metals, neither augments the strain en them,
nor is liable to be swept away by foreign export. In con-
sequence of this seasonable advice, the crisis was sur-
mounted, though not without most acute general suffer-
ing; and industry, since a government comparatively
stable was established, in the person of Prince "anis
Napoleon, has revived to a surprising degree over the
whole country. Indeed, it may be doubted whether the
general misery which prevailed in France, desolated by a
revolution, but sustained by a moderate inconvertible
paper currency, was greater than was felt in the manu-
facturing cities of Great Britain, saved by the firmness
of government and the good sense of the nation from a
political convulsion, hut withering under the fetters of a
contracted currency, and unrestricted admission of foreign
produce.—Blackwood's Magazine.
ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF A HIGHLAND CUSTOM.—At a
Jewish marriage I was standing beside the bridegroom
when the bride entered : as she crossed the threshold, he
stooped down and slipped off his shoe, and struck her with
the heel on the nape of the neck. lat once saw the im-
pression of the passage of Scripture, respecting the trans-
fer of the shoe to another, in case the brother-in-law did
not exercise his privilege. The slipper in the East being
taken off indoors, is at hand to administer correction, and
is here used in sign of the obedience of the wife arid of
the supremacy of the husband. The Highland custom is
to strike for good luck," a they rry, tale hide with an

old slipper. uittio no uw, 1,1•4,411‘1.6
plied.—Urgithart's pillars of Hercules.
No BUSINESS OF His.—A correspondent says, "Com-
ing from Aberdeen one day by tliie Dundee and Perth and
Aberdeen Railway, I was amused byla laughable incident
which occurred in, the carriage in which I had taken my
seat. An old woman was sitting opposite me ; and
as we came • near to Montrose, the guard looked in
as usual, and said—" Any one here for Montrose ?"
There was no answer, and we were a good way on our
road to Forfar, when this old woman inquired at the
gentleman who sat next her if 'phe was near Mont-
rose yet ? ' Near Montrose !' see he, !We're nearer
Forfar. Did you not hear the guard asking if there was
any one for Montrose ?" Hout, laddie,' said the lady,
'wha was gaen to answer thou impudent scoundrel ? Fat
bolus@ led he fear I woe gam '.—Perth Advertiser.

SINGULAR MEETING OF THIEVE%
A meeting of an unprecedented character was held at
the British Union School-room, Shakspeare-iralk, Shad-
well, on Monday evening. It was convened by the Met•
ropolitan Correspondent of the Chronicle, for the purpose
of assembling together some of the lowest class of male
juyenile thieves and vagabonds who infest the metropolis
and the country at large ; and although privately called,
at only two days' notice, by the distribution of tickets of
admission among the class in question, at the various
haunts and dens of infamy- to which they resort, no fewer
than one hundred and fifty of them attended on the oc-
casion. At first their behaviour was very noisy and
disorderly, but before the close they became peaceable,
and even respectful, in their demeanour. Nineteen had
fathers and mothers still living ; thirty-nine had only one
parent; and eighty were orphans in the fullest sense of
the word, having neither father nor mother alive. Of pro-
fessed beggars there were fifty, and fifty-six who acknow-
ledged themselves to be habitual thieves. The announce-
ment that the greater number present were thieves pleased
them exceedingly, and was received with three rounds of
applause.
When it was announced that one, though only nineteen
years of age, had been in prison as many as twenty-nine
times, the clapping of hands, the cat-calls, and shouts of
" brayvo," lasted for some minutes, and the whole of the
boys rose to look at the distinguished individual. Some
chalked on their hats the figures which designated the
sum of the several times they had been in gaol.
The boys were interrogated as to their manner of life,
&c., and their answsrs should be read by all who are en-
gaged in the work of Ragged Schools.' Our limitel space
will not allow of much extract.
A lad about twenty was about to volunteer a statement
concerning the lodging-houses, by which he declared he
had been brought to his ruin ; but he was instantly assailed
with cries of " Come down !" " Hold your tongue !"
and these became so general, and were in so menacing a
tone, that he said ho was afraid to make any disclosures,
because if he did so he would have, perhaps, two or three
dozen of the other chaps on to him. [Great confusion.]
The correspondent of the Chronicle :—Will it hurt
any of you here if he says anything against the lodging-
houses ? (yes, yes.) How will it do so ?
A Voice : They will not allow stolen property to come
into them if it is told.
Correspondent : But would you not all gladly quit
your present course of life ? (yes, yes,) Then why not
have the lodging-house system, the principal cause of all
your misery, exposed ?
A Voice. If they shut up the lodging-houses, where are
we to go ? If a poor boy gets to the workhouse he
catches a fever, and is starved into the bargain.
Correspondent : Are you all not tired of the lives you
now lead ?—(Vociferous cries of " Yes, yes, we wish to
better ourselves," from all parts of the room.) However
much you dread the exposure of the lodging-houses, you
know, my lads, as well as I do, that it is in them you
meet your companions ; and ruin, if not begun there, is
at least completed in such places. if a boy runs away
from home, he is encouraged there and kept secreted from
his parents. And do not the parties who keep these
places grow rich on your degradation and your peril ?
(Loud cries of " Yes, yes.") Then why don't you all
come forward now, and, by exposing them to the public,
who know nothing of the iniquities and vice practised in
such places, pnt an end to these dens at once ? There is
not one of you here—not one, at least, of the elder boys,
who has found out the mistake of his present life, who
would not, I verily believe, become honest, and earn his
living by his own industry, if he could. You might have
thought a roving life a pleasant thing enough at first ' • but
you now know well that a vagabond's life is full of suf-
fering, care, peril, and privation ; you are not so happy
as you thought to be. and are tired and disgusted with
your present course. This is what I hear from you all.
Am I not stating the fact ?—Renewed cries of " Yes, yes,
yes ;" and a voice—" The fact of it is, sir, we don't see
our folly till it's too late.") Now I, and many hundreds
and thousands, really wish you well, and would gladly do
anything we could to get you to earn an honest living.
All, or nearly all your misery, I know, proceeds from the
low lodging-houses—[" Yes, yes, it does, master, it does !"]
—and i am determined, with your help, to effect their
destruction.—(A Voice,—" I'm glad of it, sir; you are
quite right, and I pray God to assist you.")
The elder boys were then asked what they thought
would be tlw best mode of effecting their deliverance
from their present degraded position. Some thought
emigration the best means, for if they started afresh in
a new colony they said they should leave behind them
their bad characters, which closed every avenue to
employment against them at home. Others thougLt
theris, would be difficulties in obtaining work in the
colonies in sufficient time to prevent their being driven
to support themselves by their old practices. Many
again thought the temptations which surrounded them
in England rendered their reformation impossible; whilst
many more considered that the same temptations would
assail them abroad which existed at home.
During the course of the proceedings one of the most
desperate characters present, a boy who had been twenty-
six times in prison, was singled out from the rest, and a
sovereign given him to get changed, in order to make the
experiment whether he would have the honesty to return
the change, or abscond with it in his possession. He
was informed, on receiving it, that if he chose to decamp
with it, no proceedings should be taken against him. He
left the room amid the cheers of his companions, and
when he had been absent a few moments all eyes were
turned towards the door each time it opened, anxiously
expecting his return to prove his trustworthiness. Never
was such interest displayed with any body of individuals.
Many mounted the forms in their eagerness to obtain the
first glimpse of his return. It was clear that their honour
was at stake; and several said they would kill the lad in
the morning if lie made away with the money. Many
minutes elapsed in almost breathless suspense, and some
of his companions began to say that so large a sum of
money had proved too great a temptation for the boy. At
last, however, a tremendous burst of cheering announced
the lad's return. The delight of his companions broke
forth again and again in long and loud peals of applause,
and the youth advanced amidst triumphant shouts to the
platform, and gave up the money in full.

EFFECT UPON PRICES OF THE GRAIN CROP OF 1849.
—The fluctuation of the two last seasons was not pecu-
liar to Britain, but extended to the continent of Europe.
We do not mean to aver that the fluctuation was the same
in England, Denmark, Germany, Russia, and Poland.
No doubt it was experienced in different countries in
widely different degrees. But, if a valuation of cereal
produce had been taken all over Europe, in 1848 and 1849
respectively, and if an average had been struck, we have
good grounds for believing that the yield of the former
year would have been pronounced indifferent, and cer-
tainly greatly inferior to that of the latter. Now this at
least we know, that from the foreign harvests of 1848 we
have received many millions of quarters of grain, whereby
the price of wheat has been reduced below 40s. per quar-
ter. The fall commenced long before harvest time, and
therefore no calculations as to the amount of the crop of
1849 could have contributed towards it. The bulk of our
last harvest has not yet come into the market; and that
bulk, unless Mr. Gladstone has committed the most egre-
gious exaggeration, is sufficient of itself to supply our
whole population for a twelvemonth. If we got even
eight or nine millions of quarters from abroad in a bad or
indifferent year, what may we expect in a good one ? Is
it likely that the supplies will be lessened ? It would
puzzle the whole race of political economists to suggest a
reason why. We anticipate that, so soon as the naviga-
tion shall be opened, the produce of 1849 will be poured
into this country ; that our farmers will then be compel-
led to bring forward their crop at any sacrifice, and that
the result will be lower prices than we have seen for up-
wards of a century. Two thunder clouds meeting toge-
ther must necessarily dissolve in rain. Two harvests of
such magnitude, competing in a limited market, muse
necessarily bring down prices.—Blackwood's Magazine.
A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SOLOMON: THE BALM OF
GILEAD.—To my great satisfaction, wo had in our com-
pany one of the most celebrated c haracters existing at
this day; a man whose name is as widely known as that
of any human being, except, perhaps, Bonaparte. He
is not above five feet, but, notwithstanding his figure,
soon became the most important personage of the party.
" Sir," said he, as soon as he set foot in the vessel, " I
am a unique ; I go anywhere, just as the whim takes me.
This morning, sir, I had no idea whatever of going to
Dublin ; I did not think of it when I left home ; my wife
and family know nothing of the trip. I have only one
shirt with me besides what I have on; my nephew here,
sir, has not another shirt to his back : but money, sir,
money—anything may be had at Dublin." Who the
devil is this fellow ? thought I. We talked of rum,—
he had just bought 100 puncheons, the weakest drop 15
above proof : of the west of England,—out he pulls an
Exeter newspaper from his pocket : of bank paper,—his
pocket-book was stuffed with notes, Scotch, Irish, and
English ; and I really am obliged to him for some clues to
discover forged paper. Talk, talk, everlasting ;—he could
draw for money on any town in the United Kingdoms ;
aye, or in America. At last he was made known for Dr.
Solomon. At night I set upon the doctor, and turned
the discourse upon disease in general, beginning with the
Liverpool flux—which remedy had proved most effectual
—nothing like the Cordial Balm of Gilead ; at last I ven-
tured to touch upon a tender subject—did he conceive
Dr. Brodum's medicine to be at all analagous to his own?
" Not in the least, sir ; colour, smell, all totally different:
as for Dr. Brodum, sir,—all the world knows it—it is ma-
nifest to everybody—that his advertisements are all stolen,
verbatim et literatitn, from mine. Sir, I don't think it
worth while to notice such a fellow." But enough of
Solomon, and his nephew and successor that is to be—the
Rehoboam of Gilead—a cub in training,—Southey's Life
and Correspondence.
A BIVOUAC IN A CRITICAL POSITION.—The cannon-
ade had scarcely ceased when rain and wind again com-
menced, and made our condition most uncomfortable on
the spongy clay soil, without protection from the weather.
However, with the long watching, and agitation of mind
and body, sleep asserted her empire as the night drew
near. We had lain down behind an elevated part of the
ground, which protected us from the cutting wind, when
it occurred to somebody that for this night we should
bury ourselves in the earth, and cover ourselves with our
cloaks. Preparations were immediately made for this,
and sea ei•al l_oles were dug with tools supplied by tho
horse artillet y. The Duke of Weimar even aid not despise
this kind of premature burial. Here I demanded, on
payment of eight groschen, the blanket mentioned above,
wrapped myself in it, and spread my cloak over me, with-
out feeling much of the dampness from it. Ulysses, I
am sure, did not repose with greater comfort and satisfac-
tion in the cloak which he obtained in a similar way. All
these preparations were made contrary to the wish of the
colonel, who made us observe that the French had a
battery standing upon a hill opposite to us, behind a
copsewood, with which they could bury us in real, ear-
nest, and annihilate us at their pleasure. Put we -could
not abandon the sheltered spot and our sagaciously in.
vented snuggery; and this was not the last time that I
remarked that people do not shun danger to escape from
jnconvnicuoce—g9fihe'P Campaign in Prancc, in 1792.

THE TEN HOURS' BILL DEFEATED.

The friends of humanity will learn with pain, that the
efforts which have for years been making to ameliorate
the eondition of our toiling factory operhtives, and which
they trusted had been at length crowned with success,
haue just been rendered abortive by a decision of the
Court of Exchequer, legalizing the practice of working by
relays. Manufacturing selfishness and chicanery combined
have defeated the just intentions of the legislature. Ca-
pital is still to be allowed to chain down the human being
to the insensate machine, until nature faints by its side.
Nay, it is to press harder upon him—to be more exacting
in its tyranny—and to revenge upon his head the crime
of having attempted to release his limbs from its cruel
bondage. _ _ _ _ • _

The following comments upon this decision, which
appeared in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last,
betray too palpably this revengeful spirit
The effect of this decision, and of the act for limiting
factory labour to ten hours per day, will probably be to
increase the time of adult male labour in factories to an extent
which has been almost unknown for severa! years past. It is
pretty well known that one of the motives—perhaps the leading
motive—of the promoters and advocates of the Ten Hours Act
amongst the factory workers, was the shortening of their own
labour, in the belief that, owing to diminished production, the
the prices of goods and yarn would advance, and thus cause
an increased demand for, and a better remuneration of, their
own labour. That a very general impression prevailed amongst
the men employed in factories that they shoWd be able to
command at least twelve hours' wages for ten hours' labour,
we have no doubt ; and now, one striking effect of the measure
which they promoted seems likely to be an extension instead
of a curtailment of the duration of their emplopment. Such is
frequently the result of human schemes, especially when they
are founded on vague notions of speculative philanthropy
rather upon a careful consideration of the reai interests of the
labouring classes."
Our contemporary is exulting in the fact that the time,
during which adult labourers are to be worked, may now
be increased. We neither admire his taste, nor think
very highly of his philanthropy. A day's work for a day's
pay is what most men consider a reasonable arrangement.
It leaves a fair allowance of time for bodily rest, enjoy-
ment of domestic comforts, and performance of a parent's
duties. But the steam engine requires no such rest. The
millowner sleeps all the sounder from the knowledge that,
whilst he refreshes the body, his poor drudges are con-
verting sinews and bones, health and happiness, into
money for his use. It was of him that Horace wrote—

"Populus me sibilat ;
At nihi plaudo, simul ac Contemplor
Nummos in arca."

Our contemporary, we suspect, is a little premature in
his self-congratulations upon this decision. He says:—
" We cannot help thinking that the decision which has just
been pronounced in London, must make some of our contem-
poraries feel a little uncomfortable. When decisions in accord-
ance with the law, as it is now establisded, were oronounced
in Manchester and elsewhere, the most unmeasured abuse was
noured upon the heads of the magistrates, especially if they
Happened to have any connection, direct or indirect, with the
manufactures of the district. We are told by the poet, that
" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread ;"
and it happens, somewhat too frequently, that persons with the
most limited knowledge,—or perhaps the most consummate
ignorance,—of law, undertake not only to decide, offhand,
legal questions, which task to the utmost the knowledge and
experience of the most accomplished lawyers, but to pronounce
them so clear and so easy, that any magistrate who views them
in a different light to themselves, must have had some corrupt
motive for his decision. There has been a good deal of this
sort of remark in certain oaarters ; and we can only express a
hope that the parties who nave so freely indulged in it, will now
make suitable apologies for the injustice which they have com-
mitted." _

ki truth, to have

Although we may ourselves he said, wit
been amongst the " fools," whilst the Guardian obviously
has been all along one of " the angels " in the case, we
must distinctly state that we have little of apology to
make. We conceived the intention of the legislature to
have been distinctly and honestly to restrict factory work.
ing to ten hours per day; and that it never contemplated
the relay system. The factory inspectors so understood
the law. The Guardian himself opposed its enactment,
on the supposition that it was bona fide to limit the hours
of lybour to en hours. The achievement, therefore, of
the mill owners, has been only such na one as an Old
Bailey lawyer would be proud of. They are enabled, by a
flaw in the wording of the act, to defeat the intention of
the legislatuce. Let the operatives, however, take good
heart They have stanch friends left yet. The veteran
Oastler still lives, with Lord Ashley for his colleague in
the good work ; and we have no fear that parliament will
readily be ineuced to sanction an amended measure—a
a measure so framed that were the Guardian's " angels,"
who we presume ale the mill-owning magistrates of this
county, will not be able to prevent its provisions.

MEETING OF OPERATIVE PORTERS LAST

/NTIGFIT

A meeting of the dock and other porters was held last
evening in the Music-hall, Bold-street, to take whatever
steps might appear feasible for aiding the progress of a
bill now before Parliament ; the object of which is to re-
peal certain clauses in the Dock Act, by which merchants
are prevented employing porters to discharge their own
cargoes from vessels entered in the Albert Docks. The
question is a life and death one to the numerous porters
of this town, and for a long time that class have been in-
stituting the most energet measures to procure the re-
moual of the obnoxious clauses. Several meetings have,
on different occasions, been held, and much sympathy has
been expressed by many of the merchants for the hard-
working class whose interests have so materially suffered
from the system of " lumping." Long before the
usiness of the evening commenced every seat was occu-
pied. Sir Francis C. Knowles, Bart., Tindal Atkin-
son, Esq., Mr. A. Jones, Town-councillor, and Mr.
Wheeler, solicitor, were present.
Mr. JNO. LANCASTER was called to the chair. He
said it was unnecessary for him to read the placard calling
the meeting, as the purpose for which they had met was
too well known. They thought it desirable they should
hive another public meeting in the midst of the struggle
in which they were engaged. He thought they were
entitled to better treatment from the Dock Committee
and Town Council than they had hitherto received.
(Hear, hear.) He went on to reprobate undue legisla-
tive interference with the working man's capital labour.
On Wednesday last their case was taken into considera-
tion by the Town Council—there were many right-minded
and right-hearted men in the Council,—(hear, hear,)—
and an instance was related in which thirty-five days had
been required to discharge the cargo of a vessel ; he
remembered a large American ship, under the old system,
being discharged in about as many hours, although
nearly the whole cargo had to be weighed ; but
these were extreme cases. He admitted that vessels
could be discharged in less time now than formerly;
but what was this to be attributed to ? Why to
the altered circumstances of the tariff, for a ship might
now be discharged from both hatchways without let
or hindrance ; it might also be in part accounted for by
the slovenly and rough way in which the work was done.
But to return to the council meeting ; one member of that
body had said that the porters were taught to believe that
they were ill-used ; that gentleman also said he had made
inquiries, and found that the master porters never paid
less than 3s. per day to their workmen. He (the chairman)
thought any person present could contradict this. (Hear.)
He referred to the year 1848, when the objectionable act
was passed, and assigned as a reason that prompt measures
were not taken at that time by the parties to prevent the
measure becoming law; that they, as working men, did
not clearly see their course, nor were they aware, to the
full extent, of the threatened evil. Since that time the
system had developed itself, and they now knew
the inconvenience of their position. In this respect they
were no more chargeable than certein parties concerned
in opposing the water scheme, the evil character of which
was not fully seen when the application to parliament was
made. Having referred to several gentleman who op-
posed their efforts, he concluded by contrasting the part
taken by Mr. Brown, M.P., who had taken their case in
hand, and to Mr. Parker, who defended them in the
Council. The question was a merchant's and a rate-
payer's question, as well as a porter's.
Mr. JOIIN SCHOLEFIELD, secretary to the association,
and an operative, came forware to move the first resolu-
tion. He believed it was now about two years since th'
first met within these four walls to devise means to obtr‘in
the repeal of the act referred to : that legal friend entered
the room and lent them his assistance, and had since
stood by them.—(Cheers.) Since that time, he (the
speaker) had been before the Dock Committee, a commit-
tee of the Council, and other committees, and on some of
those occasions he had heard it laid to their charge that
they were, as a body, one of suspicious character; he had
heard gentlemen intimate this, who, he considered, did
not bear very good characters themselves. In the course
of his remarks, he said that the merchants generally were
averse to the present system, by which their goods were
seriously damaged, owing to the reckless manner in which
they were handled. The resolution was as follows :
"That this meeting being strongly opposed to unne-
cessary legislative interference in the employment of labour
pledges iteelf to use its utmost exertions for the success of the
measure now before Parliament to repeal a clause in the Dock
Act, which operates as a restriction upon the free disposal of
labour on the dock quays."
Mr. PETER KEHOE, another working porter, seconded
the resolution. He addressed his brother labourers in
rather a humourous vein, which elicited considerable mer-
riment. He said he had found out that in all their meet-
ings they had been looking after the little fry ; they had
not looked after the big fish. He was working in the Al-
bert Dock on one occasion, when a man came up to him
and demanded what he had done with thirty-seven bags
of corn which were missing ; he knew nothing of them,
but was told to look. He did look during two or three
days, but without success, until asked by another official
what he was looking for, and on being informed, this
man at once pointed out fourteen bags which had been
warehoused without ever having gone through the scale,
and told him that he could strew him as many more which
had never been weighed ; so this at once accounted
for the deficiency, and gave him an insight into the mode
of conducting the business of the warehouses.—(Applause
and laughter.) But that was not the only instance he
could relate of a similar kind. Upon discharging a ship
load or cott,m, tl.reo bales were missed, and it was found
Afi -2, a lapse of about rwo hours one was found, in
another two hours the second, and after the same length
of search the third. These were not the only instances
he could adduce of the unsoundu as of the Albert Dock
system.
[Sir Francis C. Knowles, Bart., was left speaking.]

It ha's Deen discovered that Mr. Jardine, who, with his
father, have been actuaries of the Dartford Savings Bank,
and hitherto carried on the first drapery establishment in
the town, is, by his own confession, A defaulter to the
institution to the amount of X2OOO. His property will
produce about X7OO, and he gave a bond for XlOOO.
The barque Jubilee, of Sunderland, was wrecked near
Girvan, Scotland, 0 Wednesday. The mate (04d 'our
Pemep perished.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

nediAßx.—The Globe says the prolongation of the
armistice between Prussia and Denmark, which was liable
to suspension since the 2nd of January, for a further
period of six months, is stated to be due to the exertion
of Lord Palmerston.

HAMBURG'S, sth.—The ice in the Elbe is beginning to
break up.
PARIS, SUNDAY.—The official journal Napoleon denies
positively that there is any foundation in the rumour of a
change of ministry. It also says that the riot in Paris
on Monday was in virtue of orders from Louis Blanc.
Immense numbers of families continue to arrive in Paris,
owing to the dread of outbreaks in the provinces. A
Marseilles letter of the 7th states that there is great agi.
tation in that city and the whole of the department.
The troops had received orders to be ready for action, and
ball cartridge had been supplied to the National Guards.
The Red Republicans are said to have formed a plot to
take the arsenal and prefecture by surprise, but it had
been denounced in time to take precautions.

LONDON MONEY MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The English Market quiet to-day, with very little doing.
All Foreign Stocks beeter, except Russian scrip, which is heavy
and lower. Russian Loan, I/ 2 pm.; Mexicans 292 30; Peru
vian, 72 80. Consols Account, 953 ; ditto Money, 95 i;
Exchequer Bills, 55 8 pm. ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents,
981 1.

LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The Railway Market also very quiet, but prices close rather
lower than they opened. Caledonians, at one time, 112 12,
closed sellers at 11i; London and North Western, 1141 ;
ditto New Quarters. pm.; Midlands, 44 5; ditto Halfs,
232 die. ; North Staffords, 10i die. ; South Eastern and
Dover, 194 ; Caledonians, Ili ; ditto Preference, 71 ;
Easteon Counties, 7i ; Great Northerns, 13i dis. ; Great
Westerns, 65i 6i; Leeds Fifths, 72 dis. ; York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Preference, 5i 5 dis.; York and North Midlands,
191.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, SACKVILLE- S rREET,

EVERTON.

Since last February a beautiful new church has arisen
on the vacant land between Great Homer-street and the
Netherfield-road. It is now nearly completed, is to be,
opened next Thursday, (as will be seen by an advertise-
ment,) and dedicated in honour of St. Peter. Unlike the
majori4 of episcopal edifices recently erected in Liverpool,
this church does not owe its existence to the aid lent by
any society, but has been raised entirely by private sub.
scription, Charles Inman, Esq., being the chief and a
most munificent subscriber.

St. Peter's is a Gothic structure, of the decorated or
middle pointed period, and consists of chancel, with south
aisle and vestry ; nave, with north and south aisles ; en-
gaged tower and spire at west end of north aisle, and
north porch. The length of the nave is 87i feet by 26,
aisles 73 feet by 131, chancel 38 feet by 21, chancel aisle
21 feet by 14, vestry 13 feet square. The height of the
nave to the ridge is 57 feet. The height of the steeple is
152 feet, and of beautiful proportions ; the tower of four
stages, the last being octagonal, with belfry windows on
the four cardinal faces, and the other four strengthened
with buttresses. The harshness of outline generally ob-
served in spires is in this instance beautifully relieved by
three stages of lucerne lights, and surmounted with gab-
lets and Ileurs de Es, the finial being a gilt cross and
weathercock. The west entrance is finished with double
doors, within the thickness of the walls, and is to have
besides an iron gate and padlock, so that, in fine dry wea-
ther throughout the week, the church may be exposed to
a thorough ventilation. The entrance to the tower is
deeply moulded, of three orders, and is very effective
The north porch is open, and forms a fine feature in 11

is Ifi

side elevw

be filled with a figure or St. Peter. The vestry door is
on the north side of the chancel, double doors being
formed in the thickness of the buttress. The angles of
the chancel are treated in a peculiar manner, being sup-
ported by buttresses thrown over in a semi-arch, like a
flying buttress. This is accounted for by the limited na-
ture of the grdund, and to give a clear passage all round
the building without sacrificing any part of the chancel,
or doing without buttresses altogether—an instance where
necessity, or peculiarity of site, in the hands of a good
architect, originate peculiar beauties.
The crosses which surmount the various apices of the
gables are all of beautiful form and most varied design.
The tracery of the windows is very beautiful, and in each
instance varied in form. There is a gradation maintained
from west to east; the large west window, pouring a flood
of light into the interior, is geometrical in its tracery, and
of four lights ; the side windows partake more and more
of the flowing principle, until we arrive at the chancel
ea.

window, in five lights, which is purely flowing and of
exquisite beauty. It is eventually to be enriched with
stained glass.
The church is built of hard red sandstone, pointed with
black mortar, and very well executed ; the ridges of roofs
are all finished with crest tile, of fleur delis pattern.
Workmen are now fixing up the beautiful iron railing on
the low wall which surrounds the whole building.
On entering the church by the west door, ,the interior
has a very striking effect ; the nave separated from the
aisles by arcades of five bays, the pillars and afehes all of
polished red sandstone, the finely moulded chancel arch,
the deep and spacious chancel beyond, with the rich and
intricate east window filling up the centre in the vista,
form a most chaste and dignified tout ensemble. The
floor is laid throughout with red and black tiles, the chan-
cel and aisle with a superior description of tile, from Min-
ton's manufactory : the richest and choicest of fine har-
mony of colour and. design forming the floor of the
sacrarium or space within the altar rails. The benches
are all open, with kneeling and foot-boards, and all mova-
ble, for the convenience of thoroughly cleaning the church.

The galleries,—kept behind the pillars, areas unobtru-
sive as possible, and the front is finished with panels and
tracery. A gallery, although objectionable for various
well-founded reasons may yet result in giving greater
effect of apparent space and loftiness to the nave, which
forcibly struck us in this edifice. The chancel is raised
one step above the floor of the church; about half way
down the chancel two other steps are shown ; and east-
ward of this another elevation or dais, upon which stands
the communion table quite clear of the east wall. In the
western half of the chancel are finely carved benches for
the accommodation of the choir.

The organ is to be placed in the chancel aisle. This is
a great departure from the usual modern custom, founded
apparently on the belief that one of the organ's appro-
priate uses is to block up the west windows of a church.
Against this Mr. Hay has strong and well grounded tech-
nical and scientific objections. Mr. Bewsher has very
generously granted the use of a small organ for twelve-
months, when the committee expect to be in a position to
purchase one suitable to the situation.
The pulpit is fixed on the northern side of the eastern
bay of the nave ; and from its happy position the preacher
will be seen without difficulty from the most remote
corners of the galleries, as well as in every part of the
body of the church. The reading desk is on the opposite
side, and, like the pulpit, of careful and chaste design. It
is raised only one step, and is formed simply of an open
traceried frost supporting a book-board, wisely adopted
by the committee and minister, in preference to the huge
square box commonly used, and which is anything but
sightly.
The interior timbers of the roof are exposed, the prin-
cipals having moulded ribs, supported by shafts with caps
and bases ; all the wood-work throughout the building is
of fine Baltic timber, slightly tinted and varnished.
The regulations for heating and ventilation have re-
ceived due attention.
The church contains about 1,200 kneelings, and will
cost £4,100, exclusive of the railing around it.
On Thursday next, on the first opening of this beautiful
structure, a sermon will be preached in the morning by
the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, when the Mayor and
several members of the Council are expected to be present.
In the evening, the Rev. W. W. Ewbank will occupy the
pulpit ; and on Sunday next the morning sermon will be
delivered by the Rev. D. James, and that in the evening
by the Rev. S. B. Sutton, the talented and eloquent in-
cumbent of the church, who, we are persuaded, will be a
great blessing to this rapidly increasing district.
We need only say, in conclusion, that the architect em-
ployed is Mr. John Hay, to confirm our assurance that this
fine building is as elegant and symmetrical in appearance
as it is substantial in all its requirements, complete in ell
its proportions, and consistent throughout with the strict-
est ecclesiastical order.

It affords another proof of a remark which we have
previously made, that it is marvellous bow Mr. Hay can
accomplish so much at comparatively so small a cost.
The chief contractor for the building was Mr. Wells, on
whom the masonry devolved ; plasterer, Mr. Goodall ;
joiner, Mr. Leader; plumber, Mr. Holt; and the whole
work is of a very superior description.
The church has been licensed by the Lord Bishop fo:
the performance of divine service for the period of twelve
months, before the expiration of which it is fully expected
that the endowment fund will be provided and the church
ready for consecration.

NEW ZEALAND.—Her Majesty's
. ship Acheron, Captain
Stokes, has discovered a magnificent harbour to the south
of Queen Charlotte's Sound.
TURN-OUT.—The throstle piecers at Messrs. John
Bright and Brothers' mills, Rochdale, turned out on Fri-
day week, in consequence of a threatened reduction of
wages, and yet remain on strike.
The Lord Chancellor will, prior to the next circuit,
confer the rank of Yueen's Council upon the following
learned gentlemen :—Messrs. Grainger, Greaves, Peacoek,
and Edwin James.
Lord Shaftesbury has desired to be relieved from the
duties of Deputy Speaker of the Lords, to which he had
been appointed in conjunction with Lord Denman. A
warrant under the sign manual has accordingly been issued,
appointing Lord. Denman and Lord Campbell to preside
in the House of Lords, as Deputy Speaker in the absence
of the Lord Chancellor.

TRAGEDY AT MALTA.--111 the house of the Prince
Leonforte, at Sleima, a desparate attack has been made by
the cook on the coachman, both Palermitans. It seems
that during the absence of the former at market the latter
had forcibly assaulted his wife, and went even to the ebtent
of threatening to cut her throat if she would not yield to
his embrace. The husband learned his disgrace, and,
resolved on revenge, stabbed his enemy seveh times. He
is not yet dead, but lies in the greafest danger.
LIVER THEATRE.—We have had at this favourite
establishment a treat during the week, in the perfor-
mances of Mr. Dillon, an actoz new to the boards of Li-
verpool, and his wife also a stranger amongst us. Mr.
Dillon appears to great advantage both in tragedy and
comedy, and has won many admirers during his short en-
gagement in both. He possesses a good figure and voice,
and promises to become at no distanst period an ornament
to his profession. Mrs. Collins is also excellent in genteel
comedy, but is not so well fitted by nature for tragic act-
ing. We learn that the very obliging box keeper, Mr.
Briscoe, takes his benefit; and that some of our best
tunateig ievoi 41.04 iril be cliepleiyed on the occasion.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY

REPORT.

Monday Night

There is not, any material change in our Share Market
this week. The prices of the heavy stocks are a fraction
higher than on this day week, and the transactions in
them have not been numerous nor important. The
public are on the tiptoe of expectation for the London
and North-western report, to be out on Thursday. This
is expected to be highly satisfactory ; but as to the divi-
dend, the knowing ones differ. Some say only 5, a
greater number 51, and a still greater 6 per cent. We
ourselves are inclined to the latter opinion. As to other
lines, the amount of dividend is pretty well known, and
the effect_ upon the value of the shares has taken
place accordingly. The accumulated bear account is
causing this fraternity to smart severely just now. They
are paying very high rates for the loan of shares ; and,
should the meetings be of a kind to give an impulse to
prices, they must some of them be annihilated. There is
no change in local stocks.
Our markets have been generally quiet during the past
week, the Cotton trade particularly ; but this is in a
great measure to be attributed to the unpleasantness
which occurred in our relations with Greece, and the
slight effort at disturbance in Paris. Both these affairs,
however, have proved only transient difficulties, for not only
has the Parisian business turned out to be a momentary
flash in the pan, but the mediation of the French Govern-
ment has been accepted by Great Britain in the Greek
difficulty, which may thus be considered as good as
settled. The buyers of Cotton are at present placed on
the horns of a dilemma. They have left purshasing to
the last moment, and every fresh arrival of news from the
States brings spinners into the market with avidity ; but
the activity only lasts for a day or two. In fact, each
fresh reduction in the estimates makes them desperate ;
and still,,having postponed the evil day so long, they are
afraid to come forward to any extent, and the result may
be that, with orders in abundance, they will actually find
themselves unable to manufacture goods without loss if
further reductions in the estimates should send prices
still higher. With regard to the news from India, the
improving rate of exchange is spoken of as the best
feature. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Some of the Corn markets in England have made a
slight stand against the declining tendency so long noti-
ced. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Saturday, fully last
week's prices were realized for best Wheats, and other
kinds had not given way : at Wisbeach ls. advance was
obtained for general runs of Wheat, and other markets
show a disposition to be steady : we must not, however,
hide the fact that the majority still look downwards. In
Ireland, with the exception of Waterford, which is a trifle
higher for Wheat, rather lower prices have prevailed.
Indian Coro, although holders have done their best to
keep to previous prices, has gone further bac,c, and 2s. 6d.
per ton less money is quoted from some of the principal
markets. The Messrs. Sturge state, in their circular of
the 6th instant, that the general'average price of Wheat
the first week in February, 1849, was 455. Id

January 19, 1850, 41s. ; so that taking this authority as
our guide, and making a further deduction for declining
markets since this latter date, we may fairly state the
present average at 40s. The question of the amount of
imports likely to arrive in this country in the coming
spring is now fairly under discussion. The free-traders
anxious to make as little mischief
_as possible
from the operation of the
make it appear that, v

vaunted measures

England

parent

as low

as 40s. per quarter, we may expect very little from abroad;
but we have seen a circular this afternoon from a German
house in London, supplying information from several of
the principal exporting markets of the Continent, which
shows that pretty generally the reduction in prices here
”e produced a corresponding result there, and that, in
"here is Pl-- hatever

act, L.__ imost a positive certainty that w.
course our markets take, theirs will immediately follow.
Added to this, we know, as we said last week. of nume-
rous cargoes already on their way from the Mediterranean
and Black Sea. Arrivals into Liverpool and Runcorn on
Friday and Saturday :-1516 qrs. Wheat, 5 qrs. Barley,
1179 qrs. Otits, 1000 qrs. Beans, 440 qrs. Indian Corn, 681
brls. Indian Corn Meal, 2111 Ids. Oatmeal, 82 scks. 3026
brls. Flour.

The sales of Cotton on
of which were taken by sr
firm. To-day 5,000 ball
trade, including 800 Br
mained steady.
Since the publication

s, 2,000

: the market w
)Id, nearly all

and 500 Surati : I

markets have been exa
at the same time firm

:Iy_ quiet in everything, but

incr there is scarcely a

report.
The Wool market still continues active, but as there
so little stock on the market (on account of the bulk
recent arrivals being kept back for the sales which are tc
take place here on the Ist of March), we have nothing of
moment to report. The sales in London, which cow.
mence on the 14th instant, are expected to realise price!
above the last series. Imports for the week ending tin
11th inst. :—Foreign 348, Irish 64, Scotch 6.

The arrivals of timber from British Ame
past week consist of one ves
deals, since sold ; price not
port deals has been sold at
transactions in Timber ar
prices nominal at our last quotations
During the week the Iron market declined a little ; but
to-day Scotch Pig Iron is firmer-48s. 6d. to 49
the quotation for mixed numbers
The small supply of Iris-
the decreased stocks, hat
part of holders, which, he
end of keeping prices stat
anything like an extensive
tend upwards : long mid(
quoted at 38s. to 41s. (land( _
At this season of the year, circulars connected with the
American provision trade are only published once a fort-
night ; and as we consequently omitted any notice last
week of this branch of trade, we subjoin the full par-
ticulars to-day, as quoted from the circular of
Black, Whittingham, and Co
Bacon : The stock of old havii
higher prices have been obtaine
are 900 boxes, leal ing about 500
has been made for low, and `,
New was in fair demand last week at 355. to
having demanded an advance of ls. per cwt
merely in retail at 365. 6d. to 375. for fine, 345. for good
to 325. for ordinary.—Beed: Old has been in active del
the sales about 2000 tierces, from 50s.
quality brought 655. to 705., good 75s
Pork : There has been a speculati
western P.M.. 2000 barrels having found buyers at 31s
good 365. 6d. to 375. 6d. in small parcels ; new moves freely at
565. for good brands. Irish is offering at Cos.—Hams : A retail
business doing in new at 455. to 475.; no de
Shoulders have been inquired for, and con "
of fair quality at 195., 205., is now asked.---1
last week was good, the sales being over
prices ; but there has been les '
without alteration.—Lard: TI
about 120 tons, at lower price
accepted for fair quality, shot
last

£8 2s: 6d. per stanaarc

The
d the

site unimportant

Butter to our market

ed a firma
Is merely a

and has not resulte
is. The prices of B

gee from bone, new

become still further red

; Baltimoie extra 80s.—
e business doing in old

; for the las
d. to 335. 6d.

a decline of is. (

POLICE COURT YESTERDAY,

UTTERING BASE COIN.--Ann Grundy was charged with
uttering a base half-crown, to a shopkeeper named Sarah
Bentley, and there had been a subsequent utterance of a
similar coin. The prisoner was sent for trial at the

STEALING MANURE.--.

•William P,

lor, were charged with havi
premises of Mr. Kelly, surge,
and having carried off from

in Great

nure, without leave or I
be imprisoned for t
pal-de) for 21 days.
THEFT AT CHI

11)1e yard a-lo
Powell was ordered to
cul-

months, and the c

brought up, charged wi
the week before Christmas, tak
boys' school attached to Christ Church, Hunter-street, on
the plea that be had been sent for it by the maker to take
it and clean it. Mrs. Elizabeth Horrocks, a fern '
plowed on the premises, not suspecting anything
delivered the clock, which the prisoner promised tc
on Monday. He, however, never made his reapp(
and had pledged the clock. Other similar charge
preparation against the prisoner for receiving cl
other parts of the town. He was committed for trial
but will again be brought m) as regards the other
semeneagnawamaz=zzareasomm.T-_

ices, in

—This

PABLO FAN Q S EQUESTRIAN COMPANY.
excellent company is, it will be seen, about to leave our
town. The arrangements and programmes for the pre-
sent week are, it will be seen, of a first rate charactc-
THE FLUTE AND PIA.
Percival—whose exquisite a.
on the flute we have frequents,
many of our readsrs have hat,
delighted, has established himself
fesfional teacher. Rio
rich reward.
THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE.—In the district of Vain-
hall (with a population of 13,028) there is but one dis-
senting chapel, and in it the services are in Welsh ; yet
there are but 510 Welsh, many of whom cannot speak
the language, in the district. On the contrary, in Beving-
ton district, where there is a better paying population,
there are nine dissenting chapels for an entire population
of B,ooo.—Missions al Home, by Dr. Hume.
THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE. —During
the past week, Mrs. Warner, the celebrated tragic actress,
has appeared in a succession of favourite pieces, assisted
by Mr. R. E. Graham and the strength of the local
company. The pantomime has wound up each evening's
entertainment. This week it will be seen that the
" Fairy Minstrels," who had the honour, a short time
ago, of displaying their musical abilities before her
Majesty, are engaged. They are well worthy of support.
MR. BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES.--We are glad to
see that Mr. J, Silk Buckingham, whose great powers of
description are so well known and appreciated, is to de-
liver a course of lectures for the Sunday-school Institute,
and that, for the first time, perhaps, the great body of
Sunday-school teachers in this town will have an oppor-
tunity of heating him. We think the Mayor and the
other gentlemen who are to preside at these lectures d,
themselves great honour in givingy
names to thlti Important

xtraordinary

apport of their
ve trust the

ill o§o do their pait. G7lnnliatt,
in its remarks on Mr. BuckingkaufE nbl;tties, says of his
Oriental
osncenPearlye,sthiniee, " His graphic descriptions of
sketches
aeislluesftrations of Eastern man-
ners,narratives, his striking elucidations ofS
his picturesque Scriptureeri ipntcuirdee ndti
difficul-
ties, eaunld-
ties, and his interesting expositions of the fulfilment of
prophecy, especially in regard to Tyre and Sidon, rendered
this lecture one of the richest intellectual feasts that cart
well be conceived. His thorough acquaintance with the
whole subject, his well-furnished mind and,varied,
learning, combined with his facility off .4 son, his
clearness of statement, and his high-taied.enthusiasm,
secured at once the confidence and the admiration of his
hearers, and impressed them with a deeper conviction of
the reality and truthfulness of the vorrious scenes and
events which were depicted ages ago bfthe pen of inapt.
Wiwi! ;