The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

part, I see great injustice and much very exceptionable
matter in these rates and regulations; and were I a mem-
ber of a body that had received the same treatment—was

the value o
Council, solely .
momentarily altered—was my property
same uncalled-for and uncommunicated

,assed for the purp-ose, -directly and

l'aced under t

'estrictions—l

should have adopted, if it were in my power, the same
means of resistance, and would have looked to my fellow-
tradesmen for encouragement and protection. In such a
dilemma, I would not have sought for precedents. I
would not have enquired whether, generally taken, strikes
were successful or not—whether, at the last building ope-
ratives' strike, they obtained the extra hour on Monday
morning and Saturday afternoon or not : I would simply
have satisfied myself that my remonstrances had been
ineffectual for good—that my oppressors had determined
on carrying out their project, and that the hour, not for
aggression, but for self-defence had arrived—then I would
have ceased to conduct my business, now rendered not
only unremunerative, but, with one act, destructive of a
great part of my machinery, until it had been again made
worth my labour, and not likely soon to suffer the same
hazardous and serious interruption.
It is because I consider the carowners have exhausted
every resource prior to resistance that they have my hearty
sympathy. I consider " the conspiracy" was formed not
by them, but against them ; and I am perfectly persuaded
that the exaggerated evils complained of in the drivers
would have found a stimulus, not a remedy, in the new
scale of legalised Charges..

I am, sir, yours &e.,
A PROTECTIONIST

I6th Sept., isso,

THE GRAND MOVING MIRROR OF AMERICAN

SCENERY.

Mr. hough, of the United States, has recentl) intro-
duced into this country pictorial representations of Ame-
rican scenery on a grand scale. This moving mirror is at
present exhibiting at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
street. Its magnitude is the least of its pretensions.
Thene are throughout the production a correctness of de-
lineation and a finish which proclaim the work to be the
effort of no mean artist. With no intention to disparage
those herculean feats of the pencil which we have had the
pleasure of inspecting on former occasions, and which
were also the production of American artists, we do not
hesitate to affirm that they bear no comparison to the
picture under notice, in point of artistic rank. Their
chief merit was the correctness and minuteness with which
they brought before the eye the vast expanse of trans-
atlantic scenery: it was impossible to go beyond this in
their praise. Mr. Hough's picture is quite destitute of
that unfinished, sketchy surface which might be expected
from an undertaking of such magnitude, and which cha-
racterised the pictures alluded to. The eye is pleased
with the pictorial effect produced, at the same time that
the interest is excited by the geographical information
which is imparted.
This exhibition is commenced by a representation of an
evening scene on the Mississippi. This is followed by
scenery on the Nile ; a very pleasing picture. A good
idea is conveyed of the vastness of that stream, which rolls
on for more than a thousand miles without receiving any
tributary. Along the sandy plain are to be seen innu-
merable objects of interest to the historical and biblical
student :—that range of stupendous mountains, which at
intervals approach close to the banks of the river; those
mighty monuments of masonic skill, which, after the
lapse of thousands of years, appear in almost pristine
freshness, to defy the power of that hand which is uni-
versally admitted to be the common destroyer ; and the
ruins of places whose names alone remain to the present
generation, are amongst the most interesting objects.
The representation of a Pilgrimage to Mecca is given.
Among the objects of interest in the Nile, the most pro-
minent are several small strips of land, forming miniature
islands, profusely clothed with vegetation. The principal
one is the delightful little island of Rhoda, said.to be the
one from which Moses was launched, in his. tiny vessel,
into the Nile. Among the objects on the hanks are the
old town of Gheza and old Cairo.
The nest is the most remarkable representation of, the

exhibition—the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. This cave
was discovered in the year 1802. It is situated half way
between the cities of Nashville and Louisville, and is only
half a mile from Gross River. Its entrance is somewhat
confined ; but no sooner are you within, than you find
yourself in a vast natural apartment, more than forty feet
high, and fifty feet wide ; a strong current of air rushes
out during the winter, but during summer takes the
reverse direction. This atmospheric stream is in perpe-
tual operation, either outwards or inwards, according to
the season, and has the effect of preserving the tempera-
ture of the cave unchanged throughout the year. The
thermometer stands perpetually at 59 deg. fah. The
extent of this remarkable cave is immense ; it contains
226 avenues or roads, the largest of which extends six-
teen miles, a great number of " rooms," and several
rivers and sheets of water ; one of the latter is designated
the Dead Sea ; there are also the rivers Lethe and Styx.
The depth below the surfaee of the earth is 60 feet. Soon
after being discovered, the cave was a source of employ-
ment to miners—large quantities of saltpetre were pro-
duced ; here competition, however, soon destroyed that
trade. Many of the appliances used by the workmen
still remain in the cave, and owing to the peculiar pro-
perties of the atmosphere, the lapse of many years has
failed to injure them. In the year 1843, strange to say.

two mummies were found not far from the entrance
The first " room" is an acre and a half in area, and o
great height. The traces of mining operations are flume
rous ; in othet respects nothing very remarkable is obser.
vable. Avoiding numerous avenues in which no particular
features exist, Mr. Hough directs the attention of hip
audience to the " Gothic Avenue." The roof of the
cave is here supported by pillars formed from stalactites,
-erasion of Gothic architec•
‘,..autv of them

The coup d'ceil gives the imp'',
ture ; hence the name. Besk
natural pillars, the roof is all around hung with stain,,_
which reflect the light of the explorer's torches in a thou
sand brilliant devices. The Gothic Avenue leads to the
Gothic Chapel, an apartment formed by two corresponding
,ws of stal,-- -Mars ; the resemblance to the shell of

a primit

Ind most remark

e p
is very dos(
!ars, which must have taken a
e fluted like Doric columns. and

Some of these r"
formation

terranean atmosphere arc

ea of st

store patients suffering from pulmonary
many invalids abode in this underrroun

purpose of benefitting from
It was near this part of the

New York, retnair

chapel, you ar

withot

Leaving tt

Then fol

the " Fairy Grotto

boundary, but

very eon) pl

of the ris

lace, b

ns explori
cently, hov

ver, " Stept

," the

de, has

a retr

which enabl

taken by the change indicated, to escape i
other beautiful objects is a cascade. which fall

with snow-balls ; tl

" Echo Riv
Vilson, the

Seottis

h-vocalisi

The " City of Tempi(

St. Cecelia's Grotto" i.

Another compartment has tl

rocky abutments on the floor

On Tu

POLICE IN7

CURIOUS CAPTURE

arance pre
But these

House, to

a very singular manner

wever, discov

to a lady in that neighbor

tter from the runaway r

questing the lady to go by a particular train to Birming-
ham, fell into the hands of the police. At the appointed
time Rawlinson was at the railwav-station, and when he
looked to grasp his dear one by the hand, he was himself
grasped by a police-officer.

THE GLCRIOIIS

a, an In.

CIO. I.

YESTERDAY

UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW

nan havin

his son, a lad of about fourteen years of age, got into the
witness-box. Constable 647 stated that he took the pri-
soner into custody on Saturday afternoon, for robbing the
boy of ten sovereigns. The elder complainant then stated
the case. He had a mare for sale at Donnybrook fair,
whi:l was held the week before last. The prisoner having
exam -- which was ac-

ed the animal, offered £lO for hi
cepted by Kirk. It appeared, howevc

advance ten shillings in payment ;this

son left Ireland with Hogc
with him until he found a et

he was to pay over the bala

Jay last, Kirk's

being t

ier for the animal, v 5
with the boy's exper

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.

The New .York Herald, of the 3d instant, gives the
following details of the emigration this year to the United
States:--

The following are the returns of the arrivals of passengers
from foreign ports, during August, 1850:
Great Britain 12,464 Norway and Sweden.. 925
Hanse Towns 2,151 Belgium
France..
Chagres . 670
_Other ports 536

Total 18,868
This is a decrease on the preceding month of upwards of
14,000, the number for July being 34,000. As compared with
August of 1849, there is also a great falling off. In August
last year, the number of arrivals was 30.23?. The emigration
for the last eight months, as compared with the corresponding
eight months of 1849, is as follows :

Arrivals for the first eight months of 1849.
Arrivals for the first eight months of 1850

Decrease during eight months
ies tolerably well with ,

This t

182,191
150,908

'e here.

e not t

Our I!ish fellow-countrymen I
in such numbers this year as last, waiting, perhaps, to
reap the harvest and the potato crop, which is abundant;
but the demand for passage across the Atlantic may be
expected, in -

few weeks more

Distrirt

ter regatta will take place on Thu
)Dle tree in full bloo

y next

now ar

garden

)f Mr. Flint, farmer, Moss Sid
On Monday last, the hands at four cotton mills at Roch-

out on account of a dispute

said to be her

y the west line of railway, t
On Monday a little boy, r

haft of Stanley Co.

150 yards, and was literally;

adent thief was

cautioned

paid to them other
y when he was arrc

,utlaport

in the year,

Tike the convol-
flower only pro-

only one person

1 with a

e boys

t it in liquor.

out against

ged on pay-

e commit-
have con-

iday, the
proceed-
le course

ompany,
mounted
it of the
like a

CHESTER AND

tne .nat
Town-1

ion of Indu
when the st

krupt, they wool

£4,567, and the -maw

T EXF

)N.—On.
o❑ with
ig at the

nt that would be raisec

I were

I an opinion
gar the total

is prat)
In corm

with the
ly to be

counter. and

,536 square feet of floor.
For sundries, 16 square

manufactures 510 square feet of floor, 940
4,595 of wall. For machinery, 1
303 of counter, and 408 of wall.
feet of floor, 197 of counter, and 290 of wall. This gives
a total, 11,112 square feet of floor, 1,440 of counter, and
5,293 of wall.
YORKSHIRE GENIUSES
raw Yorkshiremen,

. On Sunday, a number of
r had been transplanted from their
ehores of Morecambe, by
Saturday evening
North

inland hills to the picturesq

wriu
'dint

of surprise, but the marking
pointers, a complete poser. and

ern a subject

" Uh ! lze Bitten id ! its lec
torn o handell on railrooad tl

tic telegraff.
is thing 'ull

_.6s. We cud say soon send word ileum
wi' this thing wad were deaing just neaw." This expla-
'ration appeared to be generally acceptable to the corn-
, but there always were and always will be sceptics
in every company, and so it happened amongst our York-
shire friend.

Jn if they
11 'em wad

time railrooad gan

One of themwith a look of ineffable
disdain at what he considered the other's ignorance, ex-
claimed,—" I'ds newt at sort. When chaps hey' neaw't
to dea, they play ad this for yale ; loo' yo, thor (pointing
at the fingers) ull shift, un they triun to send urn to suns
o' these fingers. Aw'l bet ony o' yo a glass o' yale, us

aw cond id to 24." This feat was attempted, and repeated
until our uncouth Yorkshiremen broke the board, when
they all immediately decamped.—Lancaster Gazette.

for Liverpool on Friday next, and will, consequently,

IGN OP

'ROTECTION

.n esta

,re under t

the Britis

be done 13y rejecting the quantities of damaged American'
flour which, from its low price, is mistakenly adopted as
cheap.

Mersey on Thursday, under the command of Captain
Moodie, for Cadiz. She now carries the Spanish pennant,
and looks remarkably fine on the water. She will be fol-
lowed, shortly, by the royal mail steamer Hibernia ; and
both vessels will be employed as mail-steamers from Cadiz

to Cuba

THEATRE ROYAL.—AIR. AND AIRS. CHAS. KEAN'S
ENGAGEMENT.—Yesterday evening Mr. Charles Kean
and Mrs, Kean appeared at the Theatre Royal, to com-
hey

hve nig

wring w

mence an engagement of
... . ._.
will personate a few of their most popular characters.
The opening play was " The Wife's Secret," in which no
two performers at present upon the stage appear to greater
advantage, It is a piece, in fact, which they may almost

. .
be said to have made their own. The performances con-
eluded with the new farce, written for Mr. John Reeve—
" My Father did so before me"—which was received with
hearty applause. To-night the play will be that of
" Strathmore," followed by the comedy of " Charles the
Second."

REVIEW.—Major-General Sir Archibald Maclaine,
Colonel of the 52d Regiment, stationed in this town, ar-
rived here on Monday for the purpose of inspecting his
regiment. He was accompanied by his lady. On Wed-
nesday he inspected the troops, numbering nearly 700,
who mustered on parade at the barracks, Everton. The
men were highly complimented by the colonel for their
efficiency. In the evening Sir Archibald and Lady Mac-
daine entertained the officers of the regiment at a mag-
nificent dinner, at the Adelphi Hotel, to which about
thirty officers,
in full uniform, sat down. Sir Archibald
Maclaine presided, and in the course of the evening many
appropriate speeches were delivered by the colonel and
his guests. Lord Cathcart, the field-marshal of the
northern division, and his staff were expected to be pre-
sent, but his lordship was unable to attend, as he is at
present suffering from indisposition. The admirable
band of the 52d Regiment was stationed in an ante-room.
ORIGIN OF RAGGED DORMITORIES.—The small begin-
ning which occasioned the general idea of ragged dormi-
tories took rise in an event for which I can vouch. The
missionary who had formed this school was standing one
day in 1846, at its door, when two adult thieves appealed
to him on behalf of a wretched boy who had, they said,
been cruelly maltreated and kicked out of doors by his
mother, because his day's prowl for the purpose of thiev-
ing had been unsuccessful. " Why do ,
you not take pity
on him yourselves ?" asked the missionary. Why !"
why, if you knew what a thief's
you would not train dog to
thieving." It must have been, thought the missionary, a
desperate case which could have so forcibly excited the
lifeon eiosf a them he
wellm
as answered,
we
do,'
sympathies of two hardened depredators; and he determined
to see into it. He soon found the boy ; and his condition
supportedo ut
of
th
was too debased for any description which would not
e four mainlymissionary's Lord
K
ex-
cite loathing. Ilving made.the lad decent, he took him
to the model lodging-house pi Great Peter-street, bene-
tly ce in-
naird. The boy was kept there for four months ; sup-
portedslender private funds. This circumstance forced on his
attention the necessity of providing shelter for such volen
three
commenced m
out en
of d
th and
solely bye
juve-
nile outcasts, and he drew up an appeal to certain bene•
volent persons to that effect. The secretary of the Ragged
School Union immediately promised at if tie missionary
would find house-room, he would fi tbo *
was taken in Old Pye-street, which " i .4.
as the Westminster :Juvenile Refuge ,
dustry. This establishment wasjOteili'a- " ;
Duck-lane, where it now flonrii-11/1
_P
formerly covered a thieves' PsPl*.joo4c,sl,R7Ner
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