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after the question which had been put to the
that the ratepaying clause could not be intr
_ _

After some observations
.. ,ANsoN, who
pointed out the reasons which would induce him to give
an independent vote,

from M

Mr. HORNBY said the strong objection which he
entertained to the bill was, because of its being brought
forward in its present modified form. If the Dock Com-
mittee were sincere in their profession of being anxious
for the construction of warehouses around the docks, he

thought they had committed a very grievous error by not
inserting a clause subjecting them to the payment of local
rates ; because it was perfectly clear that, without such a
clause, it was a matter of certainty that the bill would not
pass the council. That the Dock Committee should be

allowed to destroy large piles of warehouses in the town.
nd substitute them by others not liable to the same rates
is those belonging to private parties, would have been a

to rates, he (Mr. HOrnby) thought them perfectly beside
the question. There had never been warehouses around
the docks until those around the Albert Dock were erected,
and it was well known that parliament had affirmed the
principle of rating those. Mr. Bramlev-Moore had said
that they could not propose a rating clause in the bill,
although he admitted it was right that there should
be one, but he (Mr. Hornby) maintained that they were
bound to do what was just and right, even with their own
property. He would do so, and be thought it their duty
to do justice not only to themselves but also towards
others. He thought the title of the bill ought to be en-
tirely changed, and it should now be entitled, " A Bill to
deprive the Port of Liverpool of Warehouses around the
Docks." If they could avoid the compact entered into
when the last dock act was before parliament, what was to
hinder them, two or three years hence, from evading the
present arrangement ? The arrangement about building
warehouses around the present docks, was not one pro-
posed by the Dock Committee, but forced upon them with
the sanction, and in the face of parliament, and they
were bound to carry it out fairly and fully. As to the
purchase of land at the North Shore, there was an incon-
sistency about that which he (Mr. Hornby) could not
understand. In the original bill, power was taken to bor-
row £340,000 for the purpose of purchasing that land,
and to construct docks upon it. Now, the Chairman of
the Dock Committee told them he wished to take powers
to purchase the land, but not to borrow the money. He
thought the wisest course would be to abandon the hill
altogether. and he would vote for that.
Mr. AIKIN said it had been remarked that it was in
cumbent upon them to go to parliament this
he (Mr. Aikin) begged to remind them tin

session, but

ament for dock ware-

the Almighty giveth men undrstanding.'

meant

Creator, the 01
ereature. Here
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the pleasure tt

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;o break her

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•ation, as afigure:

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persutial

personal act of tue

s a vast difference; and to draw a sponge

ion, is what no earnest seeker of truth

;ervant

lert their own inspira-

They avow themselves to be
' the word of God spoken

the advancement of society in

sons of genius and

We are not in,,eindble to

)e derived from the products of ingenious
mint

,metimes we taste with
are matured under the
ich dross and even some

r with, rather than remain deprived of
it'll any form of original talent can itn-
there must be a limit. There
g, whose safety we
0, it had been our joy to yield the
Emerson come among us, from
fruits of literary hours, gathered

vital and antiwar

By herbs, or with chcippy

the baleful roots, from which, over the
hin her wigwaum, drops may be drawn

n of ac

anoint with death the weapon-
! we love not her fell Botany ;
he brews. Humanity bids her
go gather for the sick ones a

pion, has, with mistaken
d. bearing what,

freeze the life-blood which for ages has
er mighty breast, which has warmed her

ual.

unworthily of AMERI
millions has come, as

and borne her on as the

r a moral strife. But looking.
lit, Britain's intellect and Bri-
ig. Yet let us remem-
ninating view, to think
s unit of her

I believe, on a mis:

n of harm

No : this

naenerous and unjust

Elements of

the British Constitution. By the Rev. J. D.
;, Vicar of Polesworth, Warwickshire. Lou-

E. Paint

kingdom are being brought about, as we are almost daily
subject to, it is more than ever necessary to understand
thoroughly, at all events, the essential elements of that
constitution. The design of the work before us is to give
as popular a view as possible of those parts of our social
system with which ev ry Briton ought to be acquainted.
" Not many years ago," says the author, " the principles
of the British constitution were locked up in the Com-

and the vast majority of Englishmen were free, without
knowing the precise grounds of their freedom." This
hindrance has been removed by such works as that of De
Lame and the one before us. Mr. Schomberg avoids
every thing of an extraneous nature, and gives us a corn-

preliensive vie
England, arrar

Civil Governmen

wing order of
Monarchy—The Legi.la-
'ower —The Ecclesiastical
—The Monarchical Power
and The Checking Power.
their distinctive fea-
intelligibly laid down.
lc are, like all the rest,

and Government of

Live Powei
Power—The Executive Pow
—The Administrative Powei
Under each of these heads i
tures carefully, succinctly, and ,
The following portions of the wo
valuable and instructive :--

THE I EGISLATIN
tate where the la

POWER

" In every 8, c paramount, as in
England, the Legislature is the supreme power. It is,
in reality, the power which gives vitality to the Constitu-
tion. It is the expounder, the maintainer, the amender
3f the Constitution : ncr is this assertion derogatory to
'hical power. The King or Queen of England,
‘Q supreme ; and the royal power in
• hut it is the Constitu-

the rnonarc
as the Ex,

enforcing

tion, through

sustaining thi

might which execute

the heart, which

gives a capacity for
;reign is the hand of
ire is the power at

power divided. It thiis7bt;
dons, and is the more ens

marks and

!cfc to its own inc

Was no saluta

heck of t

;k arising from diffe-

aching claims—the Legislature
!ean, deprived of the bulwark
r and destroy: * * The Le

light to

ited that the int:rest of
nterest of no single one

ill may b
may be p]

without a cour

to see the consequence
the landed proprietary
the moneyed, professii

Byrth, we cannot suffer ourselves to pass them by unno-
ticed. He is alluding (p. 55) to the supposed absence of
incident or interest in the lives of Christian ministers,

anti gray

Dr. Byriti, while opportilnity is at hand Vf.n'iaking him
speak for himself,

" Their histories are not without incidents of the most
stirring nature, connected with the conviction and the con-

the communication of peace and hope to the victims of
despair. It is theirs often to behold, and to be instrumen-
tal in producing that moral and spiritual change in the im-
mortal spirit, which is as lifefrom the dead, and compared
with which the discovery of a new planet will hereafter be
deemed all unimportant event .. It may not bethought
out of place, in writing the memoir of such a man as Dr
"Atter-hall, to touch upon another mat*-- -^4 -Itoget,

~ dot a __der
unconnected with the foregoing 'reflections. The writer
believes that a very inadequate estimate is formed by the
bulk of mankind, of the amount of learning and talent
contributed by the ministers of Christianity to the sacred
cause in which they are employed. The prevailing misap-
prehensions on this subject are productive of serious injury
to the cause of truth. No formal correction of them is
here to be attempted. But there are two considerations in
connexion with the subject which recommend themselves
to the thinking mind. The public labours—we mean, of
course, in the pulpit—of the preachers of the Gospel are
exposed to the danger of being undervalued, from their
frequent and periodical occurrence: No_ other class of

mental workmen so often present themselves to scrutiny
and observation. Their work is never done : the stream
of their toil knows no interruption. The other con-
sideration which will find a place in the estimate of a
candid observer of the intellectual character of the
Christian ministry is, that even if the necessity of unre-
mitting appearances in public be of itself likely to deterio-
rate the quality of the productions of the speakers mind,
the inferiority is rather assumed than demonstrated. It
may he asserted, without hesitation, that any one in the
hAnit of frequenting the places where the minds and
thouz,hts of men fly forth upon ' the wings of words,' the
Senate House and the Courts of Justice, will as frequently,

gested declamations, long speeches, which owe their very
length to the unwillingness or inability of the speaker to
exercise previous thought, and the other qualities which
make up the complement of the most wearying of all
things, a tiresome oration, as he would deplore the same
trial of his patience from the occupants of the seats of
relieious instruction and appeal." *
We commend, in justice to the clergy generally, these

Of Dr. Tattershall he adds, further on, " It was his lot,
and he never repined it, to pursue his work without the
worlds favour, and with little of what men call remunera

of deep yellow bacon which lined it, that plenty and abun-
dance, even to overflowing, predominated in the family.
" The " chimney brace" projected far over the fireplace
towards theil...or, and under it on each side stretched twp
long hobs or chimney corner seats, on which nearly a
dozen persons could sit of a winter evening. Mrs. Burke,
a smart, good-looking little woman, though somewhat
advanced in years, kept passing in a kind of perpetual
motion from one part of the house to the other, with a
large bunch of bright keys jingling at one side, and a huge
housewife pocket with round pincushion dangling beside
it at the other. Jemmy Burke himself, a placid though
solemn-faced man, was sitting on the hob in ques-
tion complacently smoking his pipe, whilst over the
glowing remnants of an immense turf fire hung a singing
kettle, and beside it upon three crushed coals was the
teapot, waitin',' as the servants were in the habit of ex-
pressing it, ' for the masther and misthress's breakfast.' "