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—That is not the

JOLTON.- - repeat that it is tyrannical and unjust.
ine MAYOR.—You mean, of course, with respect to the
dismissal of Mr. Taafe ?

Mr. BOLTON..--I am speaking of the rules by which the
schools are regulated ; they are tyrannical and unjust, in-
asmuch as they exclude the Catholics. (Much uproar.)
The MAYOR.—But that is not the question before the
council now.

Mr. BOLTON.—I say the conduct of the committee in the
management of these schools reminds me of a period of his-
tory, in the year 1780, when some fanatical spirit-- (Im-
mense uproar and continued cries of " Order."
The MAYOR.-But Mr. Bolton, that is not the question.
Mr. LLOYD.—Does the passage of history refer to Mr.
Taafe ? If it does not, Mr. Bolton is not in order. (Great

laughter.)
Mr. BOLTON.-it is the same feeling of bigotry and in-
tolerance that led you to expel the Catholics. (Cries of
" Order.")

Mr. BIRKETT.—If we sit here as bigots the town is of our
way of thinking. (Cheers.)
Mr. BOLTON.—If I am not allowed to go on—
The MAYOR.—Go on as to the dismissal.
Mr. BOLTON.—Exactly. I shall not proceed with the
passage from history if I am not allowed. I canot help
thinking that Mr. Taafe's offence was a very venial one, and
that he ought only to have been reprimanded, and his mistake
in the rules of the schools pointed out to him. I think the
committee have acted in that respect extremely harsh ; and
I call on the council not to confirm proceedings which, in
my opinion, are very arbitrary and unjust.
Mr. GLADSTONE.—I am sorry to bring myself again be-
fore the notice of the council ; but I am by no 'means satis-
fied. When I found fault with Mr. Bolton's remarks,
which he afterwards seemed to retract, and called me a" ty-
rannical bigot," he made use of a most unwarrantableexpres-
sion, for he told me " I might sit down" " under it." lam
not of a quarrelsome disposition ; I wish to live in peace with
all men, but that is an expression I will not permit any man
to use towards me. (Cheers.) I will be insulted by no man.
(renewed cheers') I have a character to protect ; it is at-
tacked in this instance ; and I will not allow Mr. Bolton or
any other man to make use of expressions which are not to
be tolerated. (Great Cheering.)
Mr. BOLTON.—I retracted what I said in the first instance,
and I regret having made use of such expressions as Mr.
Gladstone complains of ; but, I repeat, I was speaking of the
conduct of the committee ; and I cannot help thinking still
that the committee have not acted according to the strict prin-
ciples of justice and impartiality ; nor do I think the rules
which they have adopted, in conformity with the rules that
ought to have actuated their conduct. _ _

Mr. TOULMIN.— I think we ought to have an unqualified
retractation ; but that isnot an unqualified one.
Mr. JORDAN.—It is quite enough. (Oh.)
Mr. Aldrn. BARCLAY.—What is the offensive expression ?
The MAYOR.—A tyrannical bigot.
Mr. Alderman BA RCLAY.—I do not yet exactly understand
what Mr. Bolton is accused of. As to the act done by the,
committee, I do myself consider it to be a very tyrannical act.
Mr. Alderman EARLE—Hear, hear, And very unjust.
.Mr. Alderman BA RCLAY.—That is my opinion, and I
shall be prepared to maintain it upon another occasion.
Mr. MELLOR.—I did not understand the words spoken to
be personally offensive to Mr. Gladstone. I understand Mr.
Bolto►► to be speaking of the systam. (" No, no.")
The MAYOR.—It was decidedly against either the com-
mittee or Mr. Gladstone.

Mr. MELLOR.—I understood Mr. Bolton to say that the
ssstem was tyrannical, unjust, and bigotted. (Renewed cries
of " No, no.") That was the meaning of it.
The MAYOR.—It was decidedly, in my opinion, against
the committee or Mr. Gladstone.
Mr. MELLOR.—I beg to add that I confirm Mr. Bolton's
opinion with respect to the system. I think the system
The MAYOR.—You may explain what fell from Mr.
Bolton, but you are not at liberty to go into the general
question.
Mr. MEIN.—I sat next to Mr. Bolton, and after he had
made use of the expression, I heard him say that he did not
intend it to apply to any member of the committee, but to
their acts. lie said he did not mean to apply it offensively
to any member.
Mr, G. H. LAWRENCE.—Mr. Gladstone is satisfied with
respect to the withdrawal of the charge of "bigotry and
intolerance," but he complains that when he said—" I will
not put up with language such as that," Mr. Bolton said,
" If you won't put up, you may sit down under it."
Mr. GLADSTONE.—Y es, Mr. Bolton said I might sit down
under it. I should like to know whether that language is
not personal ? (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOLTON.—I afterwards said that what I said referred
to the system.
Mr. LLOYD.—The first impression among the members
near me was, that Mr. Bolton was referring to individuals ;
but he says he applied it to the committee generally. He
shoved it from the persons, and then spoke of it in relation
to the system.
Mr. JORDAN.—And he had a right to do so. In the House
of Commons every member has a right to explain.
The MAYOR.—I consider that Mr. Bolton has retracted
the charge against the committee and Mr. Gladstone.
Mr. BOLTON.—I spoke of the system.
The MAYOR.—Not in the first instance. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOLTON.—I was speaking of the system, which I con-
sidered unjust and bad.
The MAYOR.—Your remarks were applicable either to
Mr. Gladstone or to the committee.
Mr. BoLToN.—I did not mean to apply them personally
to Mr. Gladstone.
Mr. TouLmix.—He has only withdrawn the expression so
far as Mr. Gladstone personally is concerned.
The MAYOR.—I understand it to be withdrawn with re-
spect to the committee also.
Mr. ROSHELL.—I think he has withdrawn it as fully as
he could.
Mr. Alderman EARLE.—It is great presumption on the
part of any gentleman present to make any further observa-
tion after the mayor has decided that it has been retracted.
Mr. GLADSTONE.—I understood the first charge to be
withdrawn. After Mr. Bolton had explained the first charge,
the second which he made was personal to myself, for di-
recting himself to me and looking at me, he said----" You may
sit down under it." That was an attack upon me. I un-
derstood that was to be withdrawn, and I now must know
whether it is so or not.
Mr. BOLTON.—It was merely a little pettish observation
of my own, brought on by the petulant manner of Mr. Glad-
stone himself.
Mr. GLADSTONE.—PetUIaTit ! What do you expect us to
be made of? (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—It would be more in accordance
with the charity, which we hope ought to exist in Mr. Hodg-
son's mind, if he would facilitate the arrangement.
The MAyoß.—lt is uow terminated.
Mr. EyANS.—With regard to what fell from Mr. Bolton,
I am not surprised that gentlemen took offence at it; but
when withdrawn and apologised for quite sufficiently, I am
surprised that Mr. Hodgson should endeavour to prolong
the subject. I conceive it is amply and honourably adjusted.
Mr. HODGSON.—If Mr. Gladstone is satisfied, I shall not
proceed with the vote of censure.
Mr. GLADSTONE.—I am satisfied if I am right in thinking
that it has been entirely withdrawn.
Mr. BUSHELL.—I don't see how the withdrawal can be
more effectual. (Hear.)
Mr. ROBINSON said he should oppose the confirmation of
the proceedings in consequence of what Mr. Yates had said
With respect to Mr. Taafe considering himself at liberty to
give information to a member of council.
Mr. EARLE said his party had always been attacked when
they introduced the present very " factious opposition ;"
but he hoped so long as injustice prevailed, that there would
be plenty in the council to raise their voices against it. At
all events, so long as he was in the council he would apply as
strong a blister as it was in his power to do. (Hear, hear,
and a laugh.) There was the utmost honour, candour, and
religion about Mr. Hodgson,and yet his sting was generally
of the severest kind. He (Mr. Earle) was not speaking then
of what had taken place in the council, but of what had oc-
curred in a building close by a short time since. (Oh 0
Mr. HODGSON.—I appeal to the mayor whether this ought
to be allowed.
The MAY on.—l think Mr. Earle ought not to proceed.
Mr, EARLE.—I am sorry for it, sir; but it's out. (Great
laughter.) He agreed with what Mr. Evans had said in re-
ference to what had fallen from Mr. Bolton, but when one wit-
nessed injustice, it was enough to make the blood and bile
rise in him, and it was excusable if a little slip were made,
though it might not be in accordance with the rules of po-
lished society. The reason Mr. Taafe had been dismissed
was, because he was a superior man to Mr. Stone, and be-
cause they wanted to bring all the masters down to the level
of the latter. This was the whole secret • and more tyran-
nical, bigotted, and unjust conduct he had never heard of in
his life. It was such a system of religious bigotry as had
never been known in the land before.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that some reference had been made
in the course of the debate to the page of history. Now,
if those who succeeded them should ever be tempted to ex-
amine the records of their proceedings in the council, he
thought that the conduct of Mr. Alderman Earle since he
entered the council, would produce some risibility, if not
something more. Everybody would recollect what had taken
place when he (Mr. Alderman Earle) attempted to criticise
Mr. Stone's letter. That circumstance reminded him (Mr.
Gladstone), of a preacher who was accused of reading other
persons' sermons. By reading them wretchedly, he made them
his own ; and Mr. Earle would have the council infer from
that circumstance that Mr. Stone was incompetent for the
duties of a master of the schools. To-day the council had
heard of Mr. Taafe. Mr. Earle had referred to what he
(Mr. Gladstone) said at the last council of Mr. Taafe : and
whatever grounds he might have for forming an opinion
of Mr. Taafe, he had refrained from saying more on the
occasion Mr. Earle referred to "because he had no wish
to do what might be injurious to Mr. Taafe. That was
his feeling when he heard Mr. Teak's fitness for a master
so highly eulogised. His own, opinion of Mr. Taafe
was
that he had been in that school six years too long, and
that in some respects he was incompetent for the duty.
If any gentleman doubted it, as Mr. Alderman Earle
seemed to do,
Yer .—y much indeed.
Mr. Alderman EARLE
•
GLADSTONE.—Then he would refer them to docu-
ments in possession of the Education Committee, from
which Mr. Yates must have seen that Mr. Taafe was no
great adept at composition or spelling either. (Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Gladstone) did not make this charge without having
ascertained something to justify it. (Hear, hear.) He had
been accused, because it was only natural to feel strongly
where there were two great contending parties, of having in
that council made contemptuous remarks. He had heard
many people attack him in contemptuous terms, and angry
ones he might have made in reply, but nothing more ; he had
made none of a contemptuous character. He contended
that the proceedings of the Education Committee, with re-
gard to Mr. Taafe, could not have been otherwise than they
had been. How was it possible for Mr. Stone and Mr.
Taafe to work together? (Hear, hear.) It would have been
much better for Mr. Taafe to have gone away with a good
grace, rather than have been the means of causing all this
ferment and turmoil.
Mr. MELLOR thought the motion of Mr. Yates deserving
of every consideration, and expressed a hope that Mr. Glad-
stone would bring the present turmoil to a conclusion by pro-
posing some plan for the management of the schools which
would allay unpleasant feelings.
Mr. SANDBACH replied. He was very sorry for Mr. Taafe
because he did not believe that his insubordination originated
with himself.
Mr. YATES said lie would have to vindicate Mr. Taafe's
conduct if Mr. Sandbach continued these observations.
Mr. SANDBACH said it was the conduct of Mr. 'Yates him-
self he was impugning more than that of Mr. Taafe. In the
course of the investigation before the committee, Mr. Taafe
was asked why lie had not made some communication to the
committee if he thought matters wrong, and his reply was
that Mr. Yates told him it was unnecessary for him to make
any communication to the:committee. (Hear hear.)
Mr. YATES denied that he had told him anything of the

kind. _
Mr. SANDBACH said that Taafe's words had been taken
down at the moment. Whether Mr. Yates had acted in the
matter as a councillor ought to have done. he would leave
the members to judge. He (Mr. S.) thought he had not.
(Hear.) He did not like to characterize Mr. Yates's conduct
in the manner which he thought it deserved. He had his
own opinion of it; and so distinct was that opinion that he
should be sorry to have acted in the manner in which Mr.
Yates had. (Hear.)
Mr. YATES again denied that he had expressed to Taafe
the words attributed to him by that individual.
The council then divided upon the amendment proposed by
Mr. Yates, when there appeared :
For it .... • .• • • • .........
Against it ......

The amendment was consequently lost. The following
members voted in the division :
For the amendment—Messrs. Thornhill, Preston, Holmes,
Mellor, Bolton, Aikin, - Yates, Robinson,

A,(6inst it—Messrs. Shaw, Shand, Hodson, Houghton,
Sandbach, Copeland, Edwards, Barton, Blundell, Sands,
Toulmin, J. Lawrence, Cooper, Wood, Birkett, Gladstone,
Bushell, Procter, Lloyd, Rigby, Kilshaw, Parker, Brassey,
G. H. Lawrence, Trotman, A. Smith, jun., Harbord,
Nicol, Chilton, Bramley-Moore, and the Mayor.
Mr. Parker's amendment was not pressed to a division, and
the proceedings were confirmed.
The leases were then read and confirmed, after which the
council adjourned to Friday, for the despatch of the remain-
ing business.

THE DE

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The following members were present at the Dock Com-
mittee Meeting yesterday :—Messrs. Sands (chairman),
Horsfall, Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Sandbach.
Nicol, Aikin, Mellor, Bulley, Evans, robin, Shand, Martin,
Smith, and Ripley. A large pile of English oak, taken up
from the excavation for the new dock, was laid in the com-
mittee-room for the inspection of the members.
Mr. RIPLEY, looking at it, said he was glad to find that
it had a piece of iron at the end of it, which iron was in a
state of perfect preservation, although he supposed it had
been down for 150 or 200 years. This was a strong argu-

merit in favour of the iron light-ship. (Laughter.)
Mr. TOBIN thought there was no argument at all in the
matter. (Continued laughter.)
The light-house at Hoylake was ordered to be repainted and

whitewashed inside and out; and, on the recommendation
of the Sub-committee for the Department of the Marine Sur-
veyor, it was ordered that the new iron light-ship now build-
ing by Mr. Laird should be fitted up with the improved
lanterns, reflectors, and lamps.
Mr. HOLT said that Mr. Horsfall could not have failed to
observe, from his country residence, the superiority of the
improved lanterns over those of the old construction.
Mr. HoRsFALL replied that any improvement in the mode
of lighting the entrances to- the port ought certainly to be
adopted.

Mr. SAM:MACH asked what would be the cost of the im-
proved apparatus?
Mr. HOLT, in reply, said it would be manufactured by their
own Surveyor. There would be three lamps, and each lamp
would cost £416, so that the cost of the three lights would
be somew here about £1,400.
Mr. RIPLEY wished that gentlemen of the commitee would
inquire into the cost of manufacturing this kind of apparatus.
If they would, they would find that their Surveyor manu-
factured k much cheaper, in their own yard, than regular
makers themselves. As Mr. Hartley had sometimes been
charged with extravagance, it was only fair that this circum-
stance should be known.

Mr. TomN.--The difference is that in one case the maker
charges no profit, whilst in the other he puts one on of 30
per cent.

A resolution was then adopted, authorising the Surveyor
to make the necessary lanterns for the iron light-ship upon
the most improved principles

WRITING LETTERS IN THE NEWSPAPEII

CAUTION TO

SERVANT

OF THE DOCK ESTAT

Mr. RIPLEYLa that -he had seen a letter in the LIVER-
POOL STANDARD of Tuesday, purporting to be signed by the
signed by Mr. Askew, the South Harbour-master ; and he
should like to know from Mr. Askew himself whether he was
the author of that letter.
Mr. HORSFALL suggested that the letter be read.
The SECRETARY then read the following letter, which ap-
peared in the last number of, the STANDARD:—
" THE NEW LIGHT-SHIP.
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

" SlR,—The Dock Committee having determined on an
iron light-ship, I hope they may be not more disappointed
than they have been in the last N.W. ship, built under the
superintendence of the Marine Surveyor. I cannot afford
time to discuss the relative qualities between wind, cork, and
wood, with " Proselyte " or any other jack-in-the-box.
" May 2, 1842. " JOHN ASKEW."
Mr. Hour said that Mr. Askew suspected that the Marine
Surveyor was the author of a previous letter, signed
" Proselyte," which appeared in another paper (The Albion),
but without making any enquiry upon the subject from Mr.
Lord himself, he had printed the very improper letter in the
STANDARD to offend him.
Mr. HORSFALL said he was not aware before that any
such letters had appeared.
Mr. HOLT added that it was not the present Marine Sur-
veyor who had had any thing to do with the light-ship :it
was Captain Denham.
Mr. Alderman EVANS said he did not mind the imperti-
nence of thefletter so much as its being calculated to create
dissension among the officers of the dock estate.
Mr. HORSFALL suggested that the committee had better
ascertain whether the letter was of Mr. Askew's writing be-
fore they took any steps upon it.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—Has be not signed ?
Mr. Alderman BARCLAY.—It is signed with his name,
but it may be an assumed signature.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—There can be little doubt whose

it is.
Mr. AIKIN asked whether the subject was worth the
serious notice of the committee ? If one man was in favour
of wood and another of iron, it might lead to a controversy
between them in the papers, but was it worth while for the
committee-to notice it ?
Mr. Alderman EVANS.--I do not think that any officer of
the dock estate ought to write to the public papers upon sub-
jects connected with the estate.
Mr. HORSFALL.—To say the least, it is unbecoming and
improper; but I think it would be only right, if you are all
of that opinion, that Mr. Askew should be called in, and
made acquainted with it.
Mr. Tonr:g asked whether Mr. Askew referred to the last
light-ship built under the direction of the marine surveyor?
Mr. HOLT.—To that of Captain Denham, I believe.
Mr. TOBlN.—There have been two or three light-ships
built since then.
Mr. HoLT.—He says the north-west light=ship.
Mr. RIPLEY would ask what business had Mr. Askew
with that ? He could not reflect upon the marine surveyor
without reflecting upon the committee ; and, therefore, his
letter was exceedingly improper, and, at least, he deserved a
reprimand.
Mr. MELLon. asked Mr. Ripley whether ;le had read the
previous letter of " Proselyte," which had called forth Mr.
Askew's reply ?
Mr. RIPLEY said he had not, but that was a matter of no
consequence in this question. The Dock Committee had
nothing to do with any correspondence in the newspapers ;
but he understood that Mr. Askew had written a former
letter to the STANDARD, and he should like to see that let-
ter.
Mr
this ?
Mr. RIPLEY.—I think it is
Mr. TOBIN said Mr. Askew's opinion was correct, but he
should not have written the letter.
Mr. Alderman NIcoL recommended that Mr. Askew be
called in, before any further discussion, in order to ascertain
whether he was the writer of the letter in the STANDARD.
Mr. RIPLEY.—That is precisely the course I recommend.
Mr. Alderman Nrcor,.—And he might retire after he had
answered the question.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—He certainly had no right to
bring the business of the dock estate before the public ; be-
sides, there is also a sneer at the Dock Committee in that
letter.
Mr. RlPLEY.—Precisely, and by our own servant.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—We dismissed Captain Denham
for something worse than that, certainly, but not altogether
unlike it. Let him answer newspaper correspondents if he
likes, but he has certainly no right to do anything of the kind
in a case like this ; he has no right to bring the business of
the Dock Committee before the public so long as he is a ser-
vant of the estate.
The CH AlRMAN.—Certainly not.
The SECRETARY was then desired to fetch Mr. Askew in
before the committee. In a few seconds he returned and
reported that Mr. Askew was not in the building, but that a
messenger had been despatched for him.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—The letter is his, I have not the
slightest doubt.
The CHAIRMAN.—No doubt of it.
Mr. Alderman EVANS was understood, by the reporters,
to say that it was sufficient ground for dismissal for a servant
of the estate to have written to the public papers impugning
a decision of the committee.
Mr. HORSFALL said, he would leave the matter in the
hands of the chairman, who should inform Mr. Askew that
the committee disapproved of his conduct in writing the
letter.
Mr. RIPLEY should be very sorry if such a matter as this
was likely to lead to the dismissal of so valuable a servant as
Mr. Askew : he did not think the offence deserved such a
punishment; but he did think that the least thing the com-
mittee could do would be to reprimand him for having writ-
ten the letter.
Mr. AIKIN thought, if any resolution at all were passed
against writing letters in the newspapers, it should apply to
all the officers of the establishment.
Mr. Alderman EVANS asked whether the committee were
to be afraid of their servants? They had not been afraid of
" the great captain," and why should they be afraid in this
case ?
Mr. TOBIN.—Who do you mean by " the great captain ?"
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—There never was but one " great
captain" in our service.
Mr. AIKIN would not be afraid of any one in their service ;
but at the same time, he would pass a resolution that no
servant of the estate should write letters to the papers. He
did not think there was any thing in Mr. Askew's letter to
call forth all these proceedings.
Mr. MELLOR was of the same opinion.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—IIe had a good right to address
the public upon any other subject than this.
Mr. iionsynr... thought the subject had now received
sufficient notice.
It was then agreed that the Chairman should reprimand
Mr. Askew for having written the letter.
The committee next proceeded to the consideration of some
financial affairs, and shortly afterwards separated,

Alderman BULLEY.—Is it worth while going on with

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON WEDNESDAY'S
COUNCIL.

I think great praise is due to Mr. Councillor Lloyd, for
the manner in which he opposed the motion to grant addi-
tional assistance in the surveyor's office, on the ground that
the town has not the entire and undivided services of those
already employed in his office; and I think it was very silly
of Mr. G. H. Lawrence to say we ought to connive at this.
I think that Mr. Councillor Yates has clearly proved that
he advised and " edged on" Mr. Taaffe to quarrel with his
bread and butter, and then, conscience-stricken at his own
moral liability to support Mr. Taaffe, he makes a magnilo-
quent appeal to the humanity and justice (! !) of the council
to reinstate him in his situation, after being dismissed for
insubordination, clearly proved by one of his own letters,
concocted and written at the " Hall of Science," in the
Dingle ! _

. .
I think every "fact" stated by Mr. Yates was proved to
have no other existence than in "his own fertile imagination."

I think the Member for Castle-street Ward, commonl
denominated " the lumper in Sunday clothes," must have
great superabundance of gastric juice, to eat and di;
such wonderful facility, his own hard words, when forcL
down his throat (without even the ceremony of mastication,
by Mr. Robertson Gladstone. We heard a wag say, " Twc
to one on Bolton against any ostrich in the
Gardens."

tJu' °logic.

I think Mr. Alderman Earle outdid by " chalks," in grace
ful attitudes, Dr. Braid's somnambulist young lady, whiel
have been so very deservedly admired. I was once firmly uncle
the impression, when the alderman turned up his eyes, ani
his " eyelids quivered," that he was in a state of catalepsy
To be perfectly serious ; when Mr. Earle lifted up his stick
and said to Mr. Toulmin, " this is a thing," and " you ar
a person," the painful reflection flashed across my mind
what the late John Barber said he was alone fit for, viz., "

sign for the Crooked Billet !"
I think Mr. Birkett hit Mr. Councillor Mellor rather hard
when he reminded him of what he said in committee,
byitt about ee, on the
a
the testimonials of an individual being signed
dozen clergymen, " that a recommendation signed by so
many parsons was enough to damn any man !,,
Exchange Ward, hear that ! write it on the tablet of your
memories ! Write it on your banners next first of Novem-
ber,—" THE RECOMMENDATION OF TWELVE PARSONS'
p_ forgot tothe Town-clerk gave a volunteer,B
IS ENOUGH.s.f TO
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sayANY M MAN ! !
which I think made Mr. Alderman Barclay open both his

eyes '
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Wianey, 4 yrs 2

Mr. T. Walter's bf M. ..
A FREE HANDICAP STAKES of 20 sovs each, 10 sovs ft,
with 50 sovs added by the Grand Stand Proprietors.
Mr. Plumer's br f Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs
Mr. Ferguson's br h Humming Bird, 5 yrs

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE SHIP 'WALLACE FOR PORT PHILLIP,

For the satisfaction of the friends of those who went out
in'her, we publish the following letter, addressed by one of
the passengers in the ship Wallace, from this port to Port
Phillip, to the editor of the Port Phillip Patriot newspaper:—
Six,—The ship Wallace left Liverpool on the 18th of
August, bound for Port Phillip, and arrived in Hobson's
Bay on the 26th day of November, after a very pleasant and
short passage of 100 days. She brings eight cabin, and three
steerage passengers, and three hundred and twenty-eight free
emigrants, of whom there are sixty-seven married couples,
fifty-one single men, and thirty-nine single women, and one
hundred and four children from one to fourteen years of age.
She has two surgeons on board, Mr. J. Greenwood, the
superintendent, and Mr. W. W. Burnell, the assistant-
surgeon. She had a rough passage down the Channel, and
was baffled by variable winds about Madeira and the Equator,
otherwise her passage would have been one of the quickest
on record, for after crossing the line on the 20th of Sept.,
she distanced every ship which came in her course, running
the. distance from the line to Port Phillip in 58 days. The
haziness of the morning of the 25th instant prevented Cape
Otway being discerned until very near land, and in conse-
quence the captain preferred dodging about during the after-
noon and night to venturing to the entrance of the bay in the
evening: The commodiousness of the ship, her swift sailing,
and the vigilance and firmness of her commander in preserv-
ing order, and cleanliness especially, recommend her as an
emigrant ship. She was abundantly supplied with excellent
provisions by the shipping agents, Messrs. W. Smith and
Sons, Liverpool. There were but two deaths on the passage.
viz., Mary Mercer, an emigrant from Ashton-under-Lyne,
who died in consequence of a premature delivery of a child
which lived but two hours, and James Walker, a seaman, of
Liverpool, who was dragged overboard by a rope in a squall
and drowned, notwithstanding great efforts were made to
save him. Three hundred and twenty-three emigrants are
prepared to land in good health as soon as the usual formalites
have been gone through. The subjoined testimonial was
presented to Captain Main for his considerate attention to
the passengers and emigrants. " We, the undersigned pas-
sengers on board the Wallace, respectfully present you with
this memorial conveying our approbation of your great ex-
perience in command, of your firmness in maintaining dis-
cipline and good order, and of your vigilance in preserving
cleanliness throughout the vessel, which not only ministers
to comfort, but is likewise indispensable to health. We also
wish particularly to express the gratitude of those who have
been afflicted by illness, for your endeavours to mitigate their
sufferings, and to restore them to health; also for your
kindness in suggesting amusements to relieve all from the
weariness of a sea voyage. Our wish, sir, is, that all your
future voyages may be prosperous, that you may attain a
green old age, comforted by the reflection of a well-spent
life, and the assurance of securing a happy immortality."

Yours, &c.,
A PASSENGER

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Siu.,—lt is fortunate for you that the STANDARD is in its
course accompanied with two excellent contemporaries in
the Albion and the Mercury. In common with the remain-
der of the world, you cannot fail, 1 imagine, to receive a
stream of perpetual light from two such suns ; and you must,
long before this, have recognised an almost special providence
in the circumstance of the two luminaries irradiating our
otherwise dark hemisphere at different ends of the week.
For this mercy the inhabitants of " the good old town," of
every clime and nation and creed, cannot be too thankful ;
because, had their risings been coincident, few indeed could
have stood against the united brilliancy of the combined

orbs.
There was a time when these magnificent planets were in
opposition to each other—in opposition to such a degree,
that many began to think that either one or the other would,
by the attraction of repulsion added to its own gravity, lose
its place in the solar 4ystem of the broadsheet. lam not
quite sure that there is any remarkable cohesion in them yet,
except perhaps under occasional circumstances of mutual
danger from the singeing of some fiery comet.
One element, however, there is, besides the apprehension
of common danger, which, with magic influence, has, for the
moment, sapped ancient animosities, and engendered an
amiable concord between these most valorous champions.
Being of a pacific temperament myself, I have watched over
this promise of peace with no common interest ; and I now
congratulate my fellow-townsmen upon the gratifying fact,
that harmony and reconciliation have superseded quarrelling
and contention. We are thus spared from collision upon a
most vital subject—a collision the bare contemplation of
which is very nearly as horrible as treading upon the interior
surface of a discharging volcano to an hypochondriac who
fancies himself a lump of the lard described in Monday's
Albion.
And what do the most enlightened people of Liverpool
think is this wondrous element, which thus presents pheno-
mena vastly more surprising than those of the Mesmerists,
or the Homeopathists, or even of Mr. Claridge's Hydropa-
thists ? The venerable " Crito " (to whom 1 shall address
myself at a future time upon his favourite topic) may, and
for aught I know to the contrary does, rejoice in the disco-
very of an agency, which has apparently had the happy power
of exchanging feud for friendship. What, then, is this invi-
sible and mysterious power? Why, it is no other than a
wholesome species of nervous irritability, somewhat similar,
to that of which Sir Giles Overreach might be supposed to
be the victim, were he to have sinned only with reference to
his stomach. It is, in short, no other than the circumstance
that the retiring disposition of our present chief magistrate,
whose aversion to display of any kind is next to his unques-
tionable integrity, his chief characteristic, has not led him
into the practice of giving a dinner every month or six weeks
to some sixty or hundred of his townsmen—to men who
ought never to want, and who never do want, but who are
as hungry as paupers when the prospect of a civic feast sti-
mulates the appetite. Really a tremendous catastrophe has
befallen the " classic " Albion and the " venerable' Mer-
cury; a common misfortune has, by their own admissions,
overtaken them, and their wailings are only to be consoled
by that judicious clause in the Municipal Corporations Act.
which, probably id relation to this very case, enacts that all
mayors must .be elected annually. It requires no skill in
divination (but if any divination at all be made, it must be
by the ancient mode of the entrails and stomach) to foretel
that the re-election of the present mayor will be opposed by
the unanimous pens of these voracious complainants.
Without doubt, however, there are a tolerably large clam
who are by no means satisfied with the conduct of Mr. Johr
Shaw Leigh, in his capacity as mayor, with regard to the
lamentable lack of dinners. In the eyes, or rather in the
mouths, of these gentlemen, the dining-room of the Town-
hall should be immediately converted into a gratuitous ordi-
nary, the mayor into a Boniface, the town-clerk into a wine-
drawer, and the surveyor into the superintendent waiter—
an office wherein he might exhibit his skill in design, for why
should not his works be as clever on a table as in a town
On the principle of the greater comprehending the less, what
might not the gourmand expect from his tabulated inge•
nuity ? As to the aldermen and town-councillors, the 3
might be distributed in the establishment as cooks and scul.
lions. Thus, then, is the outline of an eating-house on a
magnificent scale immediately drawn, and the details can be
filled up by the grumbling gentlemen of whom the Albion
and the Mercury are the organs.
Well, but for their information I will mention that the
Town-hall Establishment Committee have just ordered the
kitchen-range in the Town-hall to be repaired, at an expense
of seventy pounds of the corporation money. This looks
promising. Dinners will not always be at a discount. They
may be had for going for shortly; and the doctors may
speedily anticipate a prolific season of dyspepsia.
But, in the meantime, whilst the kitchen -range is mending,
some steps must be taken to bring the mayor to a sense of
his duty—to make him try whether the corporation tinker
has not made more holes than he has soldered up in the
various pots and pans and kettles which form part of the
civic culinary garniture. It certainly will be incumbent on
him to risk an experiment ; but if the mayor should be so
shockingly obstinate, so deaf to the cries of the ravens, as
to persist in not making the Town-hall into a turtle-soup-
shop, then there will be but one mode open for redressing
this grievous wrong.
This mode of redress, happily, has the merit of being as
easy as it will be successful. It is, that a special meeting of
the council be summoned instantly upon the discovery of the
mayor's refractoriness, at which the persuasive eloquence of
Mr. Alderman Earle should be exerted in support of a mo-
tion by Mr. Alderman Evans, for the appointment of a com-
mission, after the approved liberal fashion, to inquire into
the intolerable abuse of his office by the mayor, and report
thereon to the council. The motion for a commission should
embrace two specific points—first the number of dinners the
mayor has hitherto given, and next the number he ought to
have given; besides which, it might be so wisely framed as
to imply Porter's tables (not he of the board of trade) to be
the corporation catechism for the instruction of succeeding
occupants of the chair. A single commissioner would per-
haps be capable of conducting the investigation; and as the
town-clerk must not be supposed to have any bias on this,
no more than on other matters, probably the council would
nominate him to the office. Indeed, if his own doctrine—
that, because his office is mentioned in the charter, he has a
right equally with the aldermen and councillors to debate
and discuss the several motions propounded before them—
be correct, I expect to hear him claiming the appointment
of commissioner as his legal privilege. And as he evidently
is not a man to lose what is his own for want of asking for,
I would confer this office upon him on both grounds : first,
that it is his by ancient right, and so gratify his weakness in
antiquity ; and secondly, because he is eminently capable of
conducting such an inquiry, and so obtain, after the tempe-
rate manner of a lawyer, the benefit of enlarged individual
experience. The evidence ought to be taken down in short-
hand, and printed along with the learned commissioner's
report, for the information of the council and the edification
of their constituents. By the way, although the mayqr's
dinners ought on all occasions to display high celery, I think
the commissioner's salary might be paid in invitation card_sj
and this for an economical reason—namely, that, like go°
bills, they would readily be accepted.
advantage
Giving your shining contemporaries all the
can make of these valuable hints, they
I remain, sir, your obedientTsee
uradut
servant,
Great George-street, Weth_fsr2a.!..r........oning•

The Irish whiskey duty in 1839 Was £1,510,092 ; in 18
£1,032,582; and in 1841, £964,711.

DISASTROUS FINANCIAL CONDITION OF INDIA.

The Morning Herald of yesterday, in a leading article
upon the news brought from India by the overland mail just

received, observes that—

" Sir Robert Peel has not, it would appear, been at all pre-
mature in his fears as to Indian finances. Monetary em-
barrassments are accumulating throughout the three presi
dencies ; the whole country suffers from the drains of specie
caused by the Affghan war; the currency is becoming so
contracted that the ryot is unable to find silver to pay his
land-tax ; trade is oppressed and stagnant ; the demand for
our goods rapidly decreasing; the wealthy natives are be-
coming distrustful ; the new loan is not filling up ; credit is
languishing, and prices are falling. These results of our
Indian wars will add to commercial distress at home, and
selfishness may at last induce us to make that demand which
justice and right ought to have begotten, that the Affghan
war be brought to a speedy conclusion, and trans-Indan con-
quest and subjugation be at once stopped."
This disastrous state of things there are few, except the
thoughtless admirers of Whig policy, whether abroad or at
home, who must not long ago have foreseen ; and when it is
borne in mind that the rash occupation of Aflghanistan has
already cost, independent of 13,000 valuable lives, the enor-
mous amount of nineteen millions sterling, even these peo-
ple, we imagine, will confess that its occurrence is not very
surprizing. Let those excellent politicians who but a few
months ago attributed every evil under which the foreign
commerce of Great Britain laboured to the effect of " mono-
poly" at home, tell us whether it is not quite possible that
the mismanagement of our foreign affairs, by that sublime
of foreign ministers Lord Palmerston, may not have had
quite as much to do with the matter! By the bye, may we
not enquire into what hole has the sublime statesman in
question crept from observation of late ? We thought he was
to have led the opposition, in the House of Commons, to
Sir Robert Peel's government ; but it is gratifying to find
that the rouged cheeks of the venerable dandy are not imper-
vious to the blush of shame.

THE DISC-ENGINE AND CAPTAIN CARPENTER'S

PROPELLERS

(From the Railway Magazine.)
We have bad the pleasure to witness some experimental
trials of the above apparatus, made in the presence of Sir
Edward Parry, comptroller of her Majesty's steam marine
Messrs. Ewart and Lloyd, the government engineers, several
gentlemen connected with the Admiralty, and a number of
eminent engineers who attended on the occasion.
The apparatus was fitted in the pinnace of H. M. steam.-
vessel, Geyser, which is under orders to sail for China. The
boat is 30 feet in length, 9 feet in width, and is capable of
carrying 8 tons. The engine is of the peculiar kind called
the " Disc-Engine" which appears to be well adapted to
marine purposes. Its nominal power is equal to five horses,
but it was estimated to be performing considerably more
during the trial

engine itself occupied a space of 3 feet by 1 foot G
inches, and its total weight, exclusive of the boiler, is 5 cwt.
The propelling apparatus is the invention of Capt. Carpen-
ter, the commander of the Geyser. It consists of two hori-
zontal shafts passing through the stern of the boat, (the
joint made tight by a stuffing box,) one on each side of the
keel, carrying two arms placed at right angles to the shaft,
at the ends of which arms are two lozenge-shaped propellers,
the angle of which with the horizontal shaft may be varied
at pleasure.
These propellers are caused to make about 300 revolutions
a minute, and judging from their effect they appear to be well
adapted for the intended purpose.
The boat made numerous trips up and down the river, and
the facility with which the motion could be reversed, and the
perfect command obtained in steering, called forth the com-
mendation of the gentlemen present. On making use of
Massey's log it was ascertained that the speed of the boat,
when the engine was making 100 revolutions per minute,
was equal to seven miles per hour.
The form of the boat is very unfavourable to obtaining
velocity, and it was observed that in consequence of the
bluffness of the bows a wave of considerable height was
carried before the boat.

We understand it is intended to employ this boat as an
assistant to the steam-frigate, and that it will be employed
for the purpose of towing other boats into creeks and shallow
rivers where it may be desirable to conduct an armed force.

It appears to us that not only for purposes of warfare, but
also for the more peaceful operations of commerce, the com-
bined apparatus we have inspected presents great advantages,
as, from its extreme simplicity, it is perfectly manageable by
ordinary workmen, and the small space it occupies, and its
small weight, do not prevent the boat taking a full comple-
ment of men ; and it will frequently happen that the assist-
ance in towing afforded by a boat of this kind would enable
a vessel to make considerable way even in a perfect calm.
We are not a little surprised and pleased to learn from
Captain Carpenter, that the whole apparatus was so arranged
that the engine and boiler could be taken out of the boat and
replaced in it ready for operation in less than ten minutes.
This simple fact is the best illustration of the suitability of
the disc-engine for such an application.
The duration of the trials was not such as to enable us to
determine the consumption of fuel • hut, as far as we could
judge, this appeared to be remarkably small.
The engine employed was only 15 inches diameter, and the
steam pressure estimated at 381bs. to the inch. The mean
number of revolutions of the disc per minute was 160, and
on repeated trials we observed that the full number was al-
most immediately got up on starting.
The above experiments were attended by Mr. Herapath.
Another trial, we understand, was made on Saturday. The
pinnace sailed from Woolwich against a strong tide and
powerful head wind, and made such way as surprised the

party on board. Afterwards they tool: in tow a man-of-
war's launch, having on board fifty men, with their arms and
ammunition, and two cannons with their equipments, and
made good way also against tide and wind. It does not ap-
pear that any log was on board, or any account of the steam
pressure or consumption of fuel, but the experiments were
confined to what may be called ocular inspection of general

CATARACT REMOVED BY GALVANISM.—Prof. Pirogof

and Dr. Crussell, St. Petersburg, the operators. The con-
vex capsule was opened by a crucial incision, and then a

weak galvanic current was introduced into the eye for about
a minute. The pupil became almost instantaneously black
over a large portion of its circumference, and immediately
the patients saw the objects that were presented to them.
The reabsorption of the cataract takes place soon after the
operation.

A number of counterfeit 5s pieces ar3 in circulation ; they
.rport being of the reigii of George 111, and bear date 1820.
- -

MANCHESTER .AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY

—WTe se,

with pleasure that this railway is opening:on the 10th inst.,
a further length, thereby affording to the inhabitants of the
large and populous towns of Manchester, Macclesfield, and
Stockport, an opportunity of visiting Alderley Edge and
many other agreeable places of recreation during the Whit-
sun week. From the top of Alderley Edge there is one of
the finest views in the county of Chester. as far as the eye
can reach on all sides, and the walk to the top is agreeable
and easy. The ancient church and village of Alderley are
also well worthy of notice, as are the grounds of Lord Stan-
ley, at Alderley. A few miles farther is Chelford Station,
about six miles from Macclesfield, and about the same from
Knutsford : to both places there will be omnibusses running
continually.-211anchester Guardian.

On Monday a serious fire broke out in the printing-office
of Mr. Lee, at Lewes, which was not extinguished before the
whole of the establishment was destroyed. Nothing is known
of the origin of the fire, but it is conjectured that it was oc-
casioned by the accidental falling of a spark from a candle
during Sunday evening, and its smouldering till past mid-
night, and then bursting into flames. The damage is esti-
mated at about £1,600. The premises were insured, but not
o the full value.
TIMBER. DUTIES.—MEETING OF THE BELFAST CIIAW
'lt OF Commeßce.7on Saturday, pursuant to an adve

tisement that appeared in the papers, i public meeting of th
members of the Chamber of Commerce was held at twelve
o'clock, for the purpose of considering the propriety of send-
ing a memorial to government to allow the proposed duties
on timber to have an immediate operation, when it was re-
solved unanimously, that a petition be forwarded from the
Chamber to her Majesty's government, praying them to pass

the proposed measure, and let it come into operation with
as little delay as possible.
Low PRICE OF BUTTER.—Fresh butter, of excellent
quality, sold in our market on Saturday for 9d. per pound:
at an earlier hour it fetched ls.' but much remaining undis-
posed of, a reduction was submitted to, and at the lower
price above stated a great deal remained unsold. It is possi-
ble that apprehensions among the dairy farmers, excited by
the cautious arrangements with them on the part of the Lon-
don factors, have led to this eager supply. The latter may
not improbably be alarmed at the probable effects of the
tariff when it comes into operation. Whatever may have
been the occasion, it is certain that so large a stock of dairy
produce at this early season has not occurred for many years

past.—Taunton Courier.
The extreme drought of the past two 'or three weeks has
been suddenly terminated by a mild, and for several hours
copious, rain, which commenced yesterday, though we fear
its extent was but limited. The appearance of the country in
and about this neighbourhood, and in the adjoining county
of Hereford, is truly luxuriant as regards all kind of crops,
but rainis much wanted, especially for the grasses and pota-
toes; we therefore hope that acontinuation of seasonable
showers will now come to the aid of the cultivator. The or-
chards present a beautiful tint, and rich will be the harvest of
cider and perry if no untoward change occur; the hop plant
is springing up with much vigour, but that fell entomological
devourer—the fly, wafted by the
late easterly winds, has
pretty generally attacked it ; and the
voracious tribes, like their cousins- disposition of these
convert " the paradise into a desertg,7rynan—the locusts, to
the history of hops, that we cannot yet predict anything sat
factory of the crop. The weather is so well known in
weeks, give a favourable turn to w
i
satis-
factory hope,getatio will, iu a
n ._w orcfew
esi.
Journal.

NOBLE BANKERS !—Apropos of Coutts and the Duches,
of St. Alban's, it should be added that a short time ago two
of the richest bankers in London were Peeresses : the Duch-
ess, ess, namely and the countess of Jersey, who, as the heiress
of Josiah, is still the principal partner at Child's. .
jag peri-
odical were at one time said to be in the habit of PaY
to ha% e
odical visits to their respective establishments,
andsense with
been distinguished by the affability d
au_ ffoote
and
which they sustained their positions, inspecredr
entered into general details. But this rep,ot.r
Alban's. Tier
that in part only, of the late Duchess of S
if Bane bank in the
Grace was certainly fond of showing herself
d clerks, with
Strand, and peering questions at the par tw a b
t(r),1::: a nd
h somewhat of a
whom she was no favourite,
when the accounts
interest, only attends the bank oncea.)
On this occasion, the
f Sir Josiah Child's
bore. Lady Jersey ,as the reprbeesienngtaitlev:erro,
are balanced (and the profits strucknk- and the Countess, as the
partners dine together at the
of the table.—Hardcaslie's
principal partner, takes the headii
Banks and Bankers.
—At near one o'clock in the
A COURTLY AnvENTll„n_Te_weelan was pinning u
morning, while the ward "
rsudden rap-tap at the dre...
was saurprised, I looked at the Queen. to
Extremely i
e she' d not speak. I had never
roomCt u ee
n s
door. hair,
see what should bed Tentbre ; for at the royal doors there is
Ethere
1 kind of scratch used, instead of tapping.
I again,—and the Queen called out,
heard such a sound
ho;;.,
, I was really startled, not conceiving who
allwhaeyastda
it,
6 6 What is that'"
a liberty as to come to the Queen's
ewithout the announcing of a page; and no page,
could take sns
would make such a noise. Again the sound
d more sm Al - -
repeated, an al 37. I grew quite alarmed,
was
„hie some serious evil at hand, ' either regarding the
imagi----- of theprincesses. aipiraratms
veenryt
sur,
king or some The Queen, however, bid
the door. , but what was my surprise to see
Idid •
large man, in an immense greatcoat, buttoned up
open
chin, so that he was almost hid' between cape and
[°ll,euet.r:edPl stood quite motionless for a moment ; but be, as if
so surprised, drew back ; I felt quite sick with sudden terror
--I really thought some ruffian had broke into the house, or
a madman. "-Who is it ?" cried the Queen. "I do not
know, ma'am," I answered. " Who is it ?" she called aloud ;
and then, taking off his hat, entered the Prince of Wales.
The Queen laughed very much ; so did I too, happy in this
unexpected explanation. He told her eagerly, he merely
came to inform her there were the most beautiful northern
lights to be seen that could possibly be imagined, and begged
her to come to :the gallery-windowa.—Diary of Madame
D'Arblay,

pottrp.

SPRING

From the Athenceum.)

g, outleaping,
bath passed,

the wild-wood glade,

forth to meet him,

k shade,

greet him

wn from his brow

nd away they bear it,
in a chaplet green, I trow,

im wear it

now gray Winter stands

ilidst of their sportive bands,

ed ears, to keep their merry music out
s looks bespeak,

his puckered cheek
,f joy I moist, the.furrows course about

,est winds

alas ! have drunken

arious draught that binds
strength, and sunken

f the wanton floWers tt

s, scent-breathing,

Ist the leaves on high,
cri wreathing;

Theams o'er the

awakes them not

calls on the rains to aid him
Lemselves to death,

has fled from the sun's warm breath,
w lies in dew on the turf beneath ;
'r wretch ! they have all betrayed him ;
le calls, but they heed him not.
the saucy Spring, grown bolder,
h bid old Winter flee ;
he eve of each beholder

kry King turns slowly
e little blythesome crew,
aspect, changed and lowly

bid his realm

at ah ! unpitying the

neth to go, the tyrant host
T 1 with odours he hatest most ;
Ti with thistles and thorned flowers,
im, in scorn, from their festal bowers,
re set he bath faded quite from view,
lr his footfall died away,
. .

the welkin blue

ter his path pursue

_ .
ag leaves dance on the spray,
hat timidly,

p out at the bah]

rown bolder too,

orth in a rotindela

burthen of every song

.er's flowing,

the breeze as it floats along,

s soft, pastoral lowing;
ie grasses and reeds among,
inarge of the streamlet growing.
n the new-born earth !
n the halcyon sky I
Jrner ! from thy silent hearth,
apward hopefully,

to those sounds of mirth,
4rt and tearful eye.
de child ! that low
t couch art lying—
Health shall fan thy brow,

away thy sighing.
id sport beneath the bough,
gladsome bee is humming,
It bless, as I do now,

Spring's joyous coming

LITERARY

NOTICES,

)ert Nicoll. Second Edition, with a Memoi
or. Edinburgh : William Tait. London:
[arshall, and Co.

with delight the unpretending verses

the bulk of the volume before us, and with
the narrative of the author's brief career, by
accompanied. Many of the poems themselves

strangers to us,

considerable number, how-
-1 not appear in the first edition, published
ior's lifetime, are here added—some of them
is periodicals in which they were originally
rorld. The work is neatly got up, by poor
Liad early friend, Mr. Tait ; and we heartily

prepared to class Nicoll with either Robert
trick Shepherd. He could never have
ke " Tam o'Shanter," or furnished us with
re with the " Bonnie Kilmenie" of Hogg.

is limited opportunities taken into

way, were scarcely more limited

3uth of either of these poets,) it cannot be

1, to some extent, " the vision and
that had his lot, after gathering, in
from the wild heaths and streams of

in a path somewhat brighter than
id toilsome career of radical jour-

had such a man, removed

'emoved

(the ultra-utilitarians and republicans
1 of Leeds,) amongst whom, and for
n permitted to cultivate his intellect

lies in a more generous atmosphere,
n him which might have raised him
in the world of literature, into which

means have cast him

lo doubt that many, very many, of the
)bert Nicoll (and it is upon homely house-
best poems are written) will be cherished
in the hearts and memories of thousands

'n. Bitterly as he was, in politics, opposed
rich we belong, we cannot lay down these,
to mankind, without a liking for the man,
pect for the politician. Light be the sod

man's Magazine, a popular periodical for gene-
London: James Burns, 17, Portman-street.

ved the first four numbers for the present
ation, which we can confidently recommend
a really useful and valuable work. By the
of our national religion, who are not the
azinebecause, amongst the more lively cub-
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For the Liverpool Standard

THE DRAMATIST.
Dl JAMES STONEHOUSE

CHAPTER. I.—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARD.
The " Burgundy Vineyard" has not always been as it is at
present, a stately and extensive restaurant. In 1810 the
sign of the establishment was suspended over a poor, stunted,
half-grown hedge, which encircled a muddy enclosure. dig-
nified by the name of " garden." In the middle of the gar-
den stood two melancholy-looking cypresses, appearing more
like ornaments for a cemetery than a place intended for pub-
lic recreation. Up the centre ran a path leading to the ca-
baret, where the busy and obsequious vintner dispensed his
potables and refreshments. On either side of the pathway,
deeply imbedded in the soil, surrounded by forms as firmly
fixed, were rudely-manufactured tables, at which the guests
on sunshiny days seated themselves. Here and there were
to be seen alcoves constructed of lath, and the resort of those
who wished to be private.
Such were the charms of the place known by the name of
the " Burgundy Vineyard."
Here it was that on Sundays and Mondays the blustering
and rude throngs were wont to intoxicate themselves, who
now, like unruly waves, move towards the Barriers, filling
the air with the noise of their quarrels and disturbances.
On other days of the week certain frequenters of the spot
came to enjoy its attractions, and take undisturbed posses-
sion of the barn adjoining the house, where a game of skit-
tles could be played.
The most constant of these habiluis was a man of about
sixty years of age. His person was short, thick-set, rather
fair-complexioned, of heavy gait and rough manners ; but
his eye was bright, piercing, and intelligent ; and although
care had marked with its finger of iron his broad brow and
pale cheek, still around his well-formed mouth a faint smile
occasionally played, in which wit and humour were evident,
showing that o'er the mind happy thoughts and mirthful
associations still flitted, in spite of poverty and wretched-
ness. An old dilapidated coat, an indescribable hat, and a
pair of shoes the very masterpieces of patchwork, completed
his attire.

One bright morning in February, 1810, although the frost
was sharp and the wind bitingly cold, the man just described
came and sat himself down before one of the tables in the
garden, took off his hat, and passed his hands through the
grey hair with which his head was luxuriously provided.
His hands, by a strange contrast with his person and appear-
ance, were white and delicately formed ; the fingers taper
and slender, were terminated by rosy nails a lady might have
envied.
As soon as the old man had seated himself, the owner of
the cabaret ran eagerly towards him, and placed before him
on the table a bottle of wine.
" I want none to-day, good Pierre," said he. " I feel
tired, and require rest only for a minute."
" The best way to rest, good sir. is to drink a glass of old
wine." So saying, he uncorked the bottle with great dexte-
rity, and poured out a portion of the liquid with the air of a
tempter.
The old man gazed at his host with inexpressible emotion ;
he could not restrain the tears which first glistened in his
eyes and then coursed down his cheeks.
" True, Pierre, true," said he ; "misery and shame are
two sisters always attendant upon misfortune. Come, I ac-
cept your wine. You shall treat me, good friend, this time ;
pour out a glass for yourself. Here 's a bumper to your
health."
" Good health, sir," said mine host, who showed great de-
ference to his guest ; " but let us in doors, where something
more substantial awaits us."

The old man rose, with an intention of departing. Pierre
—confused and evidently embarrassed, permitted him to take
a few steps, when, taking him by the hand, said, respectfully,
" You have good credit, sir, at the Burgundy Vineyard. If
you have forgotten your purse, you must not depart without
breakfast ; tomorrow—any time you please—you can pay
your reckoning."
The old man quietly followed his entertainer, who soon set
out the materials for a substantial meal. As if to excuse
himself for his liberality, and place his friend at his ease, he
said, " When they play one of your pieces you shall give me
a ticket."

The old man was Dorvigne, the dramatist !
" You shall have two this evening. Brunet, lam sure,
will give you the best sittings in the house when he knows
what care you show for a poor old man like me. I will fetch
them and bring them to you to-day."

" Nay, good sir; It is too far for you to go on purpose.
You shall bring me the tickets to-morrow, or any other day
when you come this way."

" Friend Pierre, you shall have them this day ; to-night
they play one of my pieces—The Simpleton. That will per-
haps amuse you."
" Ha, ha! that it will ; I shall enjoy it, I know."
" Ah, my friend, the old man to whom you have behaved
with such kindness—who but for you might have died of
hunger—will make many laugh to-night. They who applaud
his wit and humour will not enquire after his fate."

" But your pieces ought surely to bring you money ?"
" Poverty is not a vice, my friend ; but it is—as Voltaire,
whose bust I see yonder on the mantle-shelf, says—much
worse. To live through the last month, I have been obliged
to sell all my resources for this : those resources arise from
the productions of other days : for at present age and misery
have deprived my mind of all its strength and vigour. I sel-
dom now offer any vaudevilles to the managers ; for, although
they receive them and sometimes pay me, they never play
them. I can see that it is merely out of commiseration that
they accept them, and to have an excusable reason for afford-
ing me relief. My good friend, you are the first, and shall
be the last, from whom I will accept succour. The son of
Louis XV. must resign his post of mental merry-andrew ;
but he will never fall to the sad and shameful condition of a
beggar. The canal runs coldly below ; that shall be his
resting place. You look on me with surprise ; you think I
am becoming foolish. It is not so, my friend. I, Louis
Dorvigne, am the son of a king. My mother was a poor or-
phan girl, daughter of the Conte D'Archambaud. She was
seduced by Louis XV., and died in giving me birth. During
my youth an invisible protector watched constantly over me,
directed my education, and supplied my wants—furnishing
me with money to make an honourable appearance in the
world. All at once the hand that assisted me was withdrawn.
It then became necessary, seriously to consider how I should
gain a living. I have done so till strength, and health, and
talent have failed me. This is my history, my friend. Of
royal origin—attended by success—reputation almost amount-
ing to glory—am I reduced so far as to be compelled to accept
the gift of a breakfast. Well ! we must be contented, and
endure with resignation. Good bye, and thank you you
shall have the tickets without delay.

CHAPTER IL-AN OLD FRIEND

The old man departed. As he reached the outer gate of
the garden the appearance of a number of troops, which
marched past the Burgundy Vintage, arrested his steps, and
compelled him to wait until the whole mass had gone by.
Dorvigne stood to observe the regiments as they moved
towards their barracks, in the Fauberg St. Antoine. They
had been reviewed by the Emperor.
First came the drums, next the bands; then the officers,
the soldiers following. In the midst rode a general, mounted
on a magnificent Andalusian charger. He was attired in a
richly embroidered uniform, his breast being covered with de-
corations. His bronzed face, here and there marked by a
scar, was also made remarkable by a pair of fierce red mous-
taches.

~_.
He„ cast his eyes mechanically towards " the Burgundy
Vintage." At the sight of Dorvigne he could not resist an
exclamation of surprise. Without disturbing the march of
the troops, he beckoned two soldiers to follow him.
Throwing himself from his horse, he stood for a moment
opposite to the Dramatist ; when, throwing his arms around
him, he embraced him two or three times, with the most
lively tokens of affection. .

DOrvignereceivea with much surprise the caresses of an
officer of such high rank, whose features he endeavoured in
vain to recognise. Those features were quite unknown to
him.

" What! you do not remember me ? Have twenty years
of absence so changed me, that my good and excellent mas-
ter does not know his old servant ? one whom he has treated
times out of number with such indulgence ? "
" Dubois !"

" Yes, I am Jean Dubois—' the Simpleton,' as you used
to call me. It is unkind of you to forget me, because I have
supplied you with a model for the most original and success-
ful of ypur dramatic creations."

" What, my por boy—what, sir, I should say—have you
—have you become a general ? "
" Yes, good old friend. In your service I was a sad awk-
ward fellow, and a great breaker of plates. In the service of
the republic and the Emperor, I became a great smasher of
our enemies. That which caused me many a reprimand from
you, was the stepping-stone in the army to my advancement.
But how happy am Ito meet you again ! Two weeks ago I
arrived in Paris : day by day have I sought for your address,
and I was about giving up my search in despair."
" For my address "—said Dorvigne bitterly ; " that was
because I have none, my friend—General, I should say."
" Call me friend ; that shall now be my name. Since you
have no address, you shall take mine, and instal yourself at
home with me."
" General!"

" Aieneial, you know, is accustomed to have his wishes
executed promptly, and punctually, and with precision. You
shall occupy a little room beside mine. It shall be:so."

" But, general!"
"Do you resist? Then I take you prisoner."
" Fetch a cabriolet," said Dubois to one of the orderlies
who attended him, "and you take my horse to the barracks."
In two minutes the cabriolet was ready.
" Come, Monsieur Dorvigne, take your seat."
Dorvigne, half laughing, half resisting, did as requested.
The next moment his old servant was by his side.
. _ -. . .. _ ... .

"On my way home," said General Dubois " I will in-
form you how I attained my present rank, as it appears to
astonish you so much. You have not perhaps, forgotten the
day on which I was compelled to quit your service, telling
me you were not rich enough to maintain a servant. I parted
weepingly from one so full of kindness towards me, and I en-
deavoured to enter into the service of a new master. No one
would have me, because I was so awkward. There was no-
thing left for me but to enter into the service of the state.
I enrolled myself in the army. I soon found my comrades
lost no opportunity to laugh at my bungling, and ridicule the
way I managed my firelock. On one occasion I became an-
gry, the consequence of which was, I challenged my tor-
mentors to fight a duel. All I gained by this was three or
four cuts of a sabre, and a sojourn for a few months in the
hospital.
At length I was cured, and rejoined my regiment. Six
weeks afterwards we found ourselves in front of an enemies'
redoubt, which sustained a murderous fire upon us. Orders
were issued to the grenadiers to take it by assault : we rushed
forward : my comrades fell thickly around me : those who
remained appeared to hesitate, and were on the point of re-
treating. I threw myself by a successful lean into the re-
doubt and shouted, ' Follow me, grenadiers. The Austrians,
intimidated, paralysed with surprise, believed me followed
by my regiment, and for a moment ceased firing : the gre-
nadiers, encouraged by my example, quickly pushed forward
and supported me. We availed ourselves of the moment,
and were soon in possession of the place. A dozen pieces of
cannon fell into our hands.
" The next day I was appointed sergeant. The jeers and
jests of my comrades then ceased never to be renewed. My
talent for destroying seemed to be put forth in tenfold power.
From that moment a wide and brilliant career was opened to
me. I gained promotion step by step until I attained my
present rank of general, with no other patronage than my
_
courage. Each advance in rank has been the reward of glo-
[

riot's -deeds7T may not, remain a ge-
neral."

m eDorvigne a
,wsahsoo shook
quicklyah a
nidn swtiatlhl e d
thei
n a chfair
world days seemed like a gilded sunset passing off in quietness,
peace, and repose. Mixing once again amongst his equals,
flashes of mirth and wit burst from his lips, enchanting hisarminagg little
a
hearers. The poet again delighted those around him with
the charm of his conversation. Nor was he forgetful of his
host atßurgundy Vineyard." Through the interest of his friend General Dubois, substantial benefits were bet
stowed upon him.
After some time of peace the restless Napoleon turned his
attention to the conquest of Russia. General Dubois, to
the great grief of the dramatist, was ordered thither.
For the first three weeks of the campaign, the general sent
frequent communications to his old friend. All at once they
ceased, and Dorvigne one morning read in the Moniteur that
Dubois had fallen before Moscow.
It now became necessary to leave the pleasant little nest
the general had provided. Poor Dorvigne once more fell
into misery.
He went to lodge in a small garret behind the Porte St.
possessed,
by age, and afflicted with a troublesome co -
There having parted with everything he
1. d to the Theatre de Varieties, (the fortune of
• t he applied
plain
• in had been instrumental in establish g,) fora small
which he
bMenarttid.no.able
pennon, • and—was refused.

Poor Dorvigne smiled when Gautrin, the manager, an-
nounced the refusal. From that time his friends ceased to
see him in many an old frequented place. They missed him
at their tables, where his mirthful sallies flashed and sparkled
like the gaiety of his younger days. His most devoted friend,
Barba, the librarian, becoming uneasy, sought him in vain
throughout Paris. Dorvigne having quitted his apartments
in the Rue de Bondy, none knew where he had taken refuge.
A short time after his disappearance, Rubi 6, the director
of the Porte St. Martin, was told by one of his chorus
singers that for four days there was lying in a house in the
Rue Grenetal the corpse of an old man, for whom no one
seemed to care or willing to claim.

On the following day Rubie mentioned this to Barba,
who, heart-sick and overwhelmed with sad presentiments,
hurried to the garret where the body was said to be lying.
What a sight presented itself to his view. There, in a
lone and cold garret, with hardly any furniture, stretched
upon a poor bed, was all that remained of the once much-
loved poet, barely clad, pale and emaciated. A prey to dis-
ease and famine, he had laid him down, exhausted and in
pain, upon his mattress to die. Four days his remains had
waited the office of a friend to give them burial.
On the four nights of those days "The Simpleton" was
played at the Varieties to crowded audiences, who laughed
and revelled in the enjoyment of the dramatist's wit and
fancy.

Thus the son of the peasant, the foot-boy, who seemed
nearly half an idiot, became a general, and died gloriously
upon the field of battle.

The son of a king—the charming poet—the graceful au-
thor, whose thoughts and creations of mind gave entertain-
ment to thousands—one:who might be said to be like one of
our own bards,
" The delight of all circles, and the idol of his own,"
lived through the evening of his days in misery, and died
deeply steeped in poverty !