The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

TO CORRESPONDENTS

ERRATUM.—In Our Cheshire news, last week, we stated that
Oxton church is about to be consecrated by the Bishop of
Lichfield. It should have been Oxon church, a newly.
made parish about a mile and a half from Shrewsbury.
A CHRSHIREMAN.—We are obliged to postpone the publica-
tion of his letter until next week.

Liberpoor 2%)tanbarb.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING,

MB middle of September has come and gone, and with
it may also be said to have come and gone the expected
advent of opening social stir in London. In ordinary sea-

sons, the note of coming gaity has begun to sound in
metropolitan circles before ;the autum has waned so far ;
but, as yet, all is dull and lifeless. The Court, at an
unusually late season of the year, has betaken itself to the
North, and, in the scenes of sylvan wildness and natural
beauty which surround Balmoral, H MAJESTY, Prince
ALBBILT, and most of the other members of the royal

household, are enjoying a temporary sojourn and the in-
vigorating breezes of the Caledonian heather. All who
can command the means of doing so, are still prolonging
their absence from the Capital—at once gratifying their
desire to revel in bucolic luxury, and escape the poisoned
atmosphere which seems to hang over London. The epi-
demic with which the Metropolis and many of the pro-
vincial towns are visited, continues its ravages with un-
abated severity. In London, the extent of the fatality
seems still on the increase. The last returns of the RE-
GISTRAR-GENERAL give the number of deaths in the
Metnpolis, from cholera, at 2,050 for the preceding week ;
and, up to that period, state the number of victims at up-
wards of 6,000, including, in the dire array, persons of all
ranks and every degree. Among, those cut off by the
dread pest, whom the public will miss and remember with
regret, is Mrs. FItZWILLIAM, the talented and pleasing
comedian. This lady, who must have been known to, and
have been a favourite with many of your readers, was the
daughter of Mr. ROBERT COPBMANTv, manager of the
Dover and other theatres in Bent. She was born in 1802,
and may, almost, be said ,to have been, an actress ever
• At the early age of two years she was brought on
the stage, as one of the children in the play of " The
Stranger;" and, when only five years old, she played in
"Tom Thumb," singing all the music; and, at Margate,
when she was only twelve years old, she was the' leading
vocalist at the then fashionable concerts. Her success, in
this department of art, induced her to cultiVate her' vocal
talent with assiduity, and she devoted three- years to
musical study, At the end of this period she'returned to
the stage, and on the boards of the Haymarket appeared
as Lucy in " The Review." When the Surrey was under
the management of Tom Dibdin, she joined the-company
of that theatre; and appeared in a variety of characters,
creating a great sensation as Effie Deans,
i2l' Dln-
Dln's adaptation of " The Heart of Midlothian." Her
success in this character established her reputation
as an actress of varied talent, fixed her in public favour,
and' secured for her any engagement from Ennisror; at
Drury-lane. In December; 1822, she was married, to
Mr. FITZWILLIA.M, air Irish actor of great popularity,
and for several years afterwards performed at the leading
metropolitan theatres, bothiher singing and acting being
highly appreciated by tile public. In America, which. she
visited: twice, she was an immense favourite; and inall
the theatres of note in England, Ireland, and Scotland;.
she watinvariably an attraction of great potency where-
ever sheappeared. So lately as the evening of Saturday
se'nnight; this clever woman' was pursuing her proles.
sional avocations with her- usual vivacity and success;
althouglpshe had been indisposed, and troubled with pre-,
monitory' diarrhoea, for about e week previous. Not
having taken the requisite means for having this stopped
in its earlier stages, on the morning of Monday last she
was seized' with symptoms of a serious character, and
within twelve hours sunk under the attack.
Alarmed at the continuance and increasing, rather than
abating, virulence of the disease; a deputation, from An
Saints, Poplar, waited on Sir Bcfixamirr HALL, the newly
appointed President of the Beard of Health, requesting his

interference to cause an improvement in the draining and
sewerage of the district ; representing, among other
grounds of complaint, that ae large amount of sewerage
was turnedinto the canal, rendering that a fetid ditch,
rank with, pestilential efffirvia, and dangerous to the
health of the neighbourhood. Sir BENJAMIN received
the deputation with his customary official courtesy,
expressed his sympathy in their object; his regret that
they should have such well-founded cause of corn-plaint t
and concluded by affording them.the valuable information,
that the department over which he had the honour (he
did not add and the profit) of -presiding, had no controul

over the commissioners of sewers ! The deputation
retired, much wondering what were the value and Line-
tions of the board so efficiently presided over by Sir
BIESTJAMIN; the subject presenting itself to their bewil-
dered and justifiably alarmed faculties after a fashion
somewhat akin to the following: A dangerous nuisance
is created by the improper sewerage of the district.. The
Board of Health orders, the removal of all nuisances, and
professes to render aid in the compulsory or other removal
of suclinuisances. A complaint is made to the President of
the board, who does not deny the existence of the nuisance,
fully admits the desirableness of having it removed, and
then coolly tells them, that neither he nor his board has
any controul over the matter; and the deputation, as well
as the inhabitants of the district, indignantly demand to
know what is the use of such a board, if it cannot act in

such an emergency

Among the curious on dits in connexion with our peace-
ful war, is a rumour to the effect, that the soldiers' wives
and children, who accompanied the expeditionary army to
Turkey, are on their way home, if they have not already
arrived in this country, temporary accommodation having
been provided for them in the casemate barracks near Cha-
tham ; and it is added that they will be forwarded to their-
friends—that is, the parish overseers, all the Irish being,
it is said, to be sent to. Dublin—so that, after all the fuss
which was made, and all the wire-drawn, distinctions which
were drawn between the military legality and non-legality
of regimental marriages, these poor women, whose devoted
affection found its proud reward in, being permitted to
share daager 4nd brave hardship in the companionship of
their valorous husbands, have been merely deluded with a
ray of hope, and are now, like their less favoured sister-
hood, to be thrown with their helpless little ones. for de-
pendence upon

The cold hand of charity,

or the still colder refuge provided for the parish pauper ;
yet, the husbands and fathers of these outcasts are ex-
pected to fight our battles, arsl, by pouring out their life-
blood, perpetuate the verdure, of our laurels, and uphold
our national renown.

So far as present appearances seem to warrant a conclu-
sion, the year 1854 has been entirely lost as regards the
practical objects of the war. Operations in the Baltic
have been suspended for the season, and, although neither
very brilliant, nor of striking importance, they as yet con-
stitute the only indications of our prowess in connexion
with the Turko-Russian war. It is true that, after a
frightful contest with disease and death, and no slight
struggle with elemental strife, our ships and armies have
made a move towarus inc ,iluic,ls aim ale now, in au "MC.
lihood, within a short distance of Sebastopol. The proba-
bilities arising out of the Sebastopol contingency are vari-
ously estimated; but those whose opinions seem entitled to
•
most weight on such matters, look with deadened hope on
any important beneficial result from that expedition under
present circumstances. To reduce Sebastopol it is generally
admitted will be the work of time as well as of conduct,
and military authorities conversant with the ifack Sea and
its varying climate and stormy atmosphere pronounce
authoritatively that nothing can be done this season in

the Crimea beyond the mere reduction of Sebastopol,
which they say will not have the effect of bringing Russia
to the position of a suppliant for that peace which she has
wantonly broken ; and, without bringing her to that posi-
tion, the safety of Europe and of the world cannot be
secured. In their view of the case, then, the military and
naval achievements of the year will have done but little
in bringing about that conclusion of the war—
Which, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
Lures from afar, but as we follow flies.

Dissatisfaction, widely speading and loudly expressed, is
the natural consequence of such a " lame and impotent
conclusion," and Ministers are loudly blamed as weak
and incompetent, or as insincere and anti•national in their
conduct of the war. Another • -

that of recording the several species of new offences which
from time to time spring up in society, like noxious weeds
in fields waving rich with wholesome grain. The last few
weeks have witnessed the sowing, growing, and ripening
of a new offence ; and to those of strangling, hocussing,
and barking, must now be added the singular delin-
quency of naming the faculty of recollecting, within an
ear-shot, of an affair of HER MAJELTT'S forty-sixth regi-
ment. It has long since been set down as unmannerly to
name a halter within hearing of one whose kinsman, like
the Hibernian's brother, has died by the " accidental fall
of the scaffold ;" and to have mentioned sheep-stealing
among certain Highland clans was, at one time, looked
on as a cants belli in the neighbourhood of Ben More or Ben
Macduchi; and now it is an offence, fortunately bailable, to
say, in presence of a 46th officer, " You don't recollect, do
you ?" The offence was perpetrated last week in Windsor.
Two heroes of that gallant corps, Major Maxwinr,
and Adjutant Al'Arasrnx, had their auditory nerves
shocked by an application of the obnoxious query, and by
the aid of an orderly they hunted down a civilian guilty
of the crime, and handed him over to reproving justice,
True, the civilian was a small one, being only
a little urchin, rejoicing in the ignoble name of
SIMXS. He was :brought before the magistrate, and
duly proved guilty of having uttered the obnoxious words;
but here a painful turn was given to the affair—the ma-
gistrate himself did not "recollect" any statute render-
ing such an interrogatory penal, and the pauvreB mili-
Mires were sent back to their comrades crest-fallen at the
issue of their enterprize, and mortified to learn that want
of recollection was not the exclusive as well as distinctive
attribute of the Messof HER MAJESTY'S forty-sixth regi-
ment.

COMMERCIAL 4 MONETARY NEW.

MONDAY NIGHT.
Iv the price of the public Funds may be taken
as a test of the state of the money market, it has
been marked with quietude, Consols having fluc-
tuated but little, and being as high at the close of
the week as at the beginning. Although the
inteiligence from the seat of war is by no means
satisfactory to the many who had counted - upon
great victories, there is nothing of a contrary cha-
racter, and the news of Schamyrs triumph in Asia
had a very favourable effect. The Bank returns
on Frday show a diminution in the stock of bullion
to the extent of £46,552, but since- the account was
made up there have been some very large arrivals of
gold by the Indian Queen, the Arctic; and other
vessels. There appears a diminution in " other
securities" to the
.amount of nearly half a million,.
but money has- been more in demand:for commer-
cial purposes,. and the rate of discount is slightly
higher. There arereports of several failures both
at Manchester and. London, owing, it is said, to
large advances. on shipments and on produce, but
good dividends are anticipated. There are. also
rumours of stoppages in this town, and difficulties
arising from falling markets, which some attribute
to the failure of carrying on the war with vigour,
upon which many counted:far enhancement ofprices.
In the Cotton manufacturing districts there 'has
been a lull, particularly in the export trade,, but
prices have not as, yet been affected. In the
Woollen trade there• is some inactivity ; but in
piece-goods there is considerable business doing,
and x good season is- anticipated. The Hosiery
and Lace trades are• both- decidedly better, and
prices are on the advance.-
In the Corn trade the demand for immediate
consumption is in advance of the supply, and prices
are consequently higher,. but not to any great
extent. This is the ease' in our own and other
consuming markets, but in many agricultural,
districts prices are stff on, the decline, and it is,
expected will go still.lowerwhen the new Wheat
is brought more generally- into- consumption.
The diiidend on Bank stock has been declared
at 44' per-cent. on the half-year, the payment of
whieh leaves a small surplus.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 9th of Sept:, gives the following
results, when compared with,the previous week:—
Public deposits ... £4,342,706; Increase ... £346,279 '
Other deposits ... 9,166,245 ; Increase ... 636,614
Rest ... ... ... -3,664.,514; Increase ~, 6,251
On the other side of the account—
Governmentsecurities £19R96,955, Increase • £16,926
Other securities .. 141719;492; Increase 458,521
Notes unemployed
The amount of notes in circulation is 219,621,950,
being a decrease of £229,715-; . and the stock of
bullion ini.both departments- is £13,321,819, show-
ing a decrease of £46,552),.when . compared with the
preceding. return_
ISSITE 13-tPAHTMENT.
Notes issued ... £26,630,11900vernmt. Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 2,984,900
Geld coin& bu11'n.12,630,110
Silver bunion .... ...

£26,630,110

£26,630,110

BANKING DIWIRTMYNT,

Prop. Capital £14,553,000 Gov. Securities £10,996,955
Rest ... 3,694,814 Other Securities 14,719,492
Public Deposits 4,342,706 Notes ... 7,008,160
Other Deposits 9,766,2451-Gold & Silver Coin 691,709
7-day &other bills 1,059,551

£33,410. 161

233,416,316

our SHARE MARKET prices have been very
steady, with an upward tendency. The amount of
business done has been about an average. The.
failure of a dealer caused some little confusion on,
Friday, but it is said that the deficiency will no&
be great, and that the loss is pretty generally distriT
bated, the creditors being numerous, for small
sums. At the settlement just passed, catangose
ruled rather high, giving off a little towards the
close. The capture of Sebastopol is expected' to
produce a considerable effect upon prices ; many of
the bull operators anxiously await news from that
quarter. We annex this day's prices :—Caledo-
nians, 331 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 741
4 3 8 3-4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle new third-
shares, 10ip. ;.London and North-Western Stock,
104 1 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Stock,
26 ; Midland: Stock 72 -k ; Berwiek, Capital
Stock, 191- ; South-Eastern Stock, 191 13-16 /4.
East Lancashire, 171 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, £lO shares, 111 12 111 ; Midland Stock,
4* per cent., 'ld.

Corror.—The market during the- week has been
very steady, and prices have ruled dull, though
quotations have not been altered. The• sales up to
Friday amounted to 41,140 bales, of which 1,160
were on speculation, and 7,460 for export, leaving
32,520 for the trade. To-DAT the advises per
Asia were to hand, and the favourable accounts of
the present crop had a depressing effect. The
sales reached only 5,000 bales, of which 1,000
were taken on speculation and for export ; but the
paucity of business may be• partly owing to most
of the merchants and brokers being present at the
opening of St. George's Hall. The market closed
heavily, and though prices are not lower, the turn
is in favour of the buyers. The following is a
comparison of present rates with those of the cor-
responding period of last year :

1853.
5 1&16

18544
6±
61

New Orleans Middling ..
Fair • .....
Upland Middling .
Fair
PRODUCE.—The markets during the week pre-
sented few changes worthy of note. TO-DAY, the
Sugar market kept quiet, the sales since Friday be-
ing confined to 600 bags Cossipore, at 41s. 3d. per
cwt. Nothing has taken place in Molasses. An ex-
tensive demand has appeared for Rum, the trans-
actions, including Saturday's sales, reaching 900
puns., chiefly Demerara, at rather better prices.
There is nothing to notice in Coffee. Some little
business in Tea, partially of a speculative character,
has resulted from the telegraphic despatch in anti-
cipation of the Overland Mail ; the lower descrip-
tions of Congou have been saleable at former
nominal prices. The Bengal Rice offered by Auc-
tion this morning was not sold.

Wool --During the latter part of the past week
the market was quiet, and very little business 'to
report in the article : prices remain without change.
There have been several inquiries for East India
and good Peruvian ; stocks of the Litter are very
meagre, but of the former a few sales have been
made at full rates. A large assortment of this
description Is held over for the next public sales,
which commence here on the 4th proximo. There
have also been several inquiries for Smyrna Wodl ;
but stocks of this class are very small, and held
above their relative value. Imports for the week,
2,987 bales, viz.: 1,502 East India ; 109 Austra-
lian ; 705 West Coast of America ; 308 Mediter-
ranean Ports ; 257 Portugal ; 63 Scotch ; and
43 Irish.

A NonwEenew Gnirnuninf, named Sascold, who had
taken lodgings in Nelson-square, Blackfriars.road, London,
committed suicide by placing a loaded piitol in his mouth,
and discharging the contents through his p,knll.
. _

A Vaisns.x TlAtrintuz..iii-Mtutha .Tfarri/on, who is
91 years of age, is now harvesting for Mr. John Scales,
of Grange, near Barnsley, as gatherer. The wonderful
old woman is in the field by seven o'clock in the morning, as
sprightly as a lark, and braves the toil and heat of the
day as stoutly as the beat of her youngeefellow-workers.
Martha,has now i)cell bireetilag for dalt—Litfir;
In-
telliyencer.

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.

LETTER I.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sra,—A recent visitor to Liverpool, and long attached
to the Church, I naturally made enquiries as to the manner
in which it was supported, and the peculiarities attaching
to its various professions in a town which had taken so
prominent a part in defence of our Protestant Institutions.
I was told of several popular preachers, but was desirous
rather to ascertain the extent of public opinion, with refer-
ence to those party questions in which, unfortunately, so
so many in our Church find reasons for difference as great
almost as that which separates us from Romanism or Dis-
sent. I was informed that by far the great majority were
what is termed Evangelical, while the so-called Tractariau
or Puseyite party was represented by the Rev. Cecil Wray,
at St. Martin's Church. I was further informed that if
I were foolish enough to venture into St. Martin's Church,
I should find the service conducted with such exuberance
of ritual observance and histrionic display, that I should not
be able to believe myself not in a Romish Mass-house, and
that this was so generally distasteful to the pure Protes-
tant feeling which prevailed in Liverpool, that the congre-
gation rarely numbered more than five-and-twenty. I
must confess that I had no particular wish to form one in
the celebration of superstitious mummeries, alien alike to
our Church, as well as to the pure spirit of the Gospel ; yet
I had had some experience of the exaggerated misrepre-
sentations which are too often dictated by the virulence of
party spirit, and propagated through ignorant prejudice,
and therefore resolved to run the risk of forming one of
the quarter of a hundred who were only to be found in
Liverpool to join Mr. Wray in imitating the tinsel cere-
monial with which the Romish Church attracts the vulgar
and the ignorant. Accordingly, yesterday morning, I
wended my way to Great Oxford-street, through a neigh-
bourhood certainly not the most inviting, bat its squalid
features owing chiefly to the prevalence of Romanism, and
found myself outside the Church of St. Martin. Its ex-
terior presents little worthy of notice except the tower, the
body of the church being apparently ornamented to cover
its poverty of design. The interior, however, is consider-
ably worse, a plain barn-like building, in the preaching-
house style, which about thirty years ago was the perfection
of ecclesiastical architecture, thin reeded pillars supporting
long wide galleries, surmounted by arches of lath and
plaster, and instead of the slightest resemblance to the
style of Rome, a very strong leaning the other way, so
that 1 was more inclined to believe myself in some dissent-
ing Ebenezer. Attempts, however, had been made, and
with some suceess, to rem* the original defebts. In the
front of the chancel, a choir had been formed by open oak
screens, and within it were stalls, two rows on each side,
for the accommodation of about thirty persons ; there was
also a lectern, and in the centre, far into the body of the
church, wawa litany desk, appropriately ornamented, while
the pulpit was rather on one side, so as not to hide the
communion place. The building' had evidently been ori-
ginally fitted with square pews, but many of those
near the choir had been converted into open benches
with conveniences for kneeling. The communion place
was considerabkraised, so as to bringrit within full view
of the congregation, and upon the whole I should be in-
clined to admit that the best had been done to adapt so ill
designed a structure to the purposes of Divine. worship.—
' Thus much for the place; but my chief object was the ser-
vice, which I will endeavour to describe as briefly as pos-
sible. At the commencement, the doors at the east end
were opened, and ten boys in surplices entered two and
two, and, proceedinglo the choir, took their places in the
front seats. They were followed by seven or eight men,
also in surplices, who-took their seats in the-stalls behind
the-boys. From the-other door came in the Rev. Cecil
Wray, and two assistant curates, all in canonicals, and
took- their places at desks within the choir. The service
then commenced by reading one of the sentences-and the
Exhortation, followed by the Confession,Which was delivered
in a kind of monotone, the members of the choir and the
congregation following the minister after he had concluded
each sentence. This, it struck me, was no improvement
on the usual way of the congregation repeating the Con-
fession with the minister- The Absolution was also pro-
nounced in monotone, as were also the Lord's Prayer and
the sentences which follow: The Venite was given by
the choir in a quick chant,-in which most of the congrega-
tion joined,. but the full effect was wanting, owing-to the
silence of the organ, arising, I was informed, from the
absence of .the organist through sudden illness, The
Psalms for the day were then chanted to a veryeimple
tune, and'l must confess that I never heard them to more
advantage. So far from the singing destroying the effect
of these beautiful compositions, the language seemed to
strike on the ear far more impressively, and as the- sweet
voices of the youthful choristers were raised or modulated,
as the simple air of the chant was adapted to the varying
length of the respective verses, the meaning was given with
an emphasis far surpassing all that I had ever heard.from
simply saying them. Nor did they occupy more time, the
measure of the chant being fully as rapid as ordinary read-
ing. One of the clergymen then advanced to the lectern
and read the first Lesson for the day,but some of the effect
was lost, owing to a disagreeable echo or ringing sound
arising, I suppose, from the form of the building, The
Te Deum was then given in a four-part chant, which it
struck me was very superior to the double chant often used
for this magnificent hymn. After the second Lesson,
which, like the other, was read from the lectern, the choir
channted the Benedictus, and the Creed was repeated in
a monotone, the clergy and the whole of the choir turning
their, faces to the East, a practice long used in many
churches, though condemned by some ultra Protestants as
superstitious. After the Collect for the day and the two
succeeding collects, the choir sung two verses of the
147th Psalm as an- anthem, which was the whole of
the singing not included in the order for Divine Service.
At its conclusion one of the clergymen came forwark.and
kneeling at the falastool, commenced the Litany in the
well-known music of Tallis, as generally used in most of
Sur cathedrals, the-congregation joining with the choir in
the responses, and, if •'I may judge by their demeanour,
those assembled appeared to feel that they formed a neces-
sary part in the due celebration of Divine Service. The
succeeding prayers were given in monotone, and they in-
cluded the one "in the time of War and Tumult," and "in
the time of any common. Plague or Sickness." After the
Blessing at the end of the Litany, the three clergymen
proceeded into the chancel, tweet them taking their places
one at each end of the communion table, and the other at
a-desk near the sidb: The Kyrie Eleison was chanted by
the choir and congregation, and at the end of the-Nicene
Creed the Rev. Cecil' Wray went at once from .the com-
munion place to the • pulpit, and gave out his text from
Hebrews viii. 10 : "-For this is the covenant that I will
-make with the housenf Israel after those days, saith the
Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them
in their hearts ; and. :I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to me a people." Here, to my thinking, was an
evident improvement upon the ordinary practice of the
minister retiring to-change his vestments. "'never could
understand the objection to a clergyman preaching in his
surplice—which is a vestment specially recognised by the
Church—and preferring the black gown, which is simply
a University distinction, showing the having attained an
academical degree, and no way peculiar-- to the clergy.
There is something also absurd on the ground of Roman-
ist tendency in preferring the surplice la the desk, where
the Romish priests always wear it, and--objecting to it in
the pulpit where -they never wear it. I-must confess that
I also approved of the absence of any; prayer at the com-
mencement of the sermon : they are quite out of place, are
not ordered in the Prayer-book, and unnecessarily lengthen
the service. The Reverend gentleman, in illustrating his
text, made anexcellent and really practical discourse, ap-
plying the gracious promise of the gospel to ourselves as
Christians, and not uttering one- syllable which, by any
stretch of the imagination, couldbe construed into leaning
or tendency towards Romanist doctrines, or opposed to that
pure gospel' teaching, which is the especial delight of pro-.
fessing Protestants. At the conclusion of his sermon, Mr
Wray returned to the communion place, and the collectior

• .
was made during the reading of the sentences of the Offer-
tory, after which the prayer.for the Church Militant was
read, and. several of the congregation, including the school
children, left the church.

I may here remark that, so far from the congregation
being- limited to about twenty-five, there were, as near as
I could judge, between three and four hundred present,
not strangers like myself, but apparently habitual. wor-
shippers, and of these between forty and fifty remained for
the. Holy Communion, which, I understand, is adminis-
tered every Lord's Day. I may however remark that
the congregation, as I was informed, was thinner than
usual, owing to the absence of many families from town at
bhis season of the year, and that the number of communi-
cants is much greater on the first Sunday of the month.
In the performance of this part of the service there was
nothing to call for particular comment,- it being conducted
as usual in most churches, with the exception that each
communicant was specially addressed—a, commendable
practice—and the Gloria was sung by the choir, the
whole finishing with the Blessing.
Having thus taken a brief survey of the performance of
divine service in St. Martin's Church on Sunday morning,
from my own observation, relying nothing upon hearsay,
r s'rk.v *.m.rk that I saw much to- approve, with very
little to which the aigmest oojecuon ought to be_aken.
I should have preferred the congregation joining
minister In the Confem. I should also prefer the re.aa-
ing of the prayers without the monotone, believing fhem
to be far more impressive ; and it would have been as well
or better, I think, if the Litany had been said instead of
sung. These, however, are but minor objections, which
will in no degree outweigh the many practical advantages,
from a strict observance of the rubrics, which were here so
-apparent. Instead of observingi,anything like histrionic
displays, or imitation of Rome, af which I had been told,
I found the order for Morning Prayer observed with a
strict attention to do nothing extraneous, or beyond that
which was commanded; and the result was a far more
lively attention, on the part of the congregation, than in
many churches where the people attend to sit under" a
popular preacher, and leave the important duties of prayer
and praise to the parson and clerk. It is a prejudjce which
commonly prevails among dissenters, that there is no fer-
vour or meaning in any but extempore prayers ; but such
a notion must be dispelled by an attendance at St. Martin's
Church, where all share in the sacrifice of prayer and
praise : and that mind must have but a very imperfect
conception of the meaning of language, which could hear
without emotion, and deny the fervour of the concluding
petition to the King of kings, when, after reminding Him
of His gracious promise, that where two or three are
gathved together in His name, He will grant their re-
quests, it proceeds—" Fulfil now, 0 Lord, the, desires and
petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for
them."

I had intended to have described the afternoon and
evening service, but I find I have trespassed already so
'much on your valuable space, that I must leave the re-

mander until next week

Liverpool, 11th Sept., 1854

VIITOR

A SWEDISH ROTIL PROCLAMATION announces that so
long as the British coasting trade was open to Swedish
vessels, the like privilege will be granted to British vessel's
in Sweden. _ _ _ -

NEW DOCK nr THE TYNE.— On Tuesday the foundation
stone of the Northumberlpd-dock, to be formed at Hay.
hole, on the Tyne, about it mile above Shields harbour, was
laid by Mr. 'Joseph Coweb, the chairman of the River
TYnO Commissioners.
LAIINCH.—On Saturday week, Messrs. William Simons
and Co., of Greenock, launched an iron screw steamer, 220
feet in length and 120-horse power. This vessel, which
is called the Morns, is for the London and Belfast scrow
Nog l*ktt Company.

THE MAGISTRATES at Sheffield recently refused to re-
new the license of the Adelphi theatre in that town,
because it had been let for infidel lectures.
A WARNING.—The operative weavers of Kiddermin-
ster, after ten days or a fortnight's struggle against the
masters, have returned to their work on terms less advan-
tageous than were offered to them at the commencement
of the strike.

MRS. FITZWILLIA3I, the celebrated actress, died on
Monday last. She was in good health on the preceding day.
ROBBERY PROM A CIEURCH.—The parish church of
Watford has recently been robbed of about 14 cwt. of lead,
taken off the roof.

THE FLITCH OR BACON.—A local committee appointed
to revive the ancient custom of the Dunmow Flitch have
heard from Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, that he will present
a flitch of bacon to any one couple who may claim it next
summer, and who can justify their title to the prize.
A PATTERN MAYOR.—The mayor of Oxford, Mr. R.
J. Spiers, has been giving concerts in the town-hall, with
exhibitions of paintings, phothgraphs, microscopes, &c. ;
and provided material "refreshments" into the bargain.
One night he received the townsfolk; on another he wel-
comed 1000 of the school children, and gave them a
concert. Something like a mayor !
SUDDEN DEATH.—A shocking instance occurred at the
Worcester musical festival on Tuesday week. Miss Den-
ning, sister of the Rev. P. Denning, of that city, just after
she had entered the concert room with several friends,
screamed and fell, and, notwithstanding the prompt
medical assistance which was rendered, died shortly after-
wards.

FIEF.--A fire broke out in the establishment of Messrs.
Hitchcock, St. Paul's Church-yard, London, on Wednesday
morning, but was speedily suppressed.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—The report of the directors,
which will be submitted to a meeting of the shareholders
on Thursday, recommends the payment of a dividend on
the ordinary stock at the rate of £3 per cent. per annum,
amounting to £45,741, leaving a surplus of £938 for the
next half-year.

ADMIMON 07 DISSRNTRRS TO OXFORD UNIVRRSITY.
—The new Act on Oxford University will take effect in the
forthcoming Michaelmas term. By the 43d section, from
and after the first day of Michaelmas term, " it shall not
be necessary for any person upon matriculating in the
University to make or subscribe any declaration, or to take
any oath, any law or statute to tiaecontrary notwithstand-
ing ; and by the following provision a degree may be taken
without a declaration or an oath; but the degree is not to
be a qualification for holding any office which has hereto-
fore always been held by a member of the Established
Church."

Guelro IsLAND.—A letter has been• received at the Ad-
miralty from Commander de Horsey, of her Majesty's
ship Devastation, dated August 1, 1864, reporting that
hefound three vessels, under American colours, at the un-
inhabited island of Ayes, in lat. 15 deg. 40'' min. 4,0 sec. N.,
and Tong. 63 deg. 36 min. W., and one day's sail from St.
Croix, shipping guano, of which he reports there is about
200,000 tons on the island, and but slightly inferior to
the Peruvian.

DEA.= OF CARDINAL 1/al.—The scientific world has
just experienced a severe foss in the death, of Cardinal
Angelo Mai, which took plane at Albano, in his nd year.
Cardinal Mai owed his hat to, the high position which he
had acquired in the learned world by his curious discovery
of the Palimpsestus. He had' just succeeded. Cardinal
Lambruschini as librarian of tlie Vatican.
AWFUL .Ti3DGMENT.—On Saturday three weeks a young
man named Thomas Chambers, of London, attended his
mother's funeral, at Saxon-street, Woodditton, in a dis-
graceful state of intoxication. Before the procession set
out for the church, he asked for some gin, and upowbeing
told there was none, threw a shilling upon the coffin, and
wished some to be sent for; but his uncle, Mr. Thomas
Chambers, very properly refused to allow it. On the fol-
lowing day, while in the churchyard, he offered, with
dreadful imprecations, to lay half-a-gallon that "-Tom
Chambers," meaning his uncle, "would be dead in less
than three weeks, and he would go to hell if he would-not
come down and pay it if he lost ; but he was sure to win,
for he would go to hell if he (the uncle) wouldn't be dead."
Dreadful to say, in less than the predicted time, the young,
man himself was a corpse. " Tom Chambers" was "dead
in less than three weeks "—" howbeit he meant it not so
for the rest of his imprecation, the last day alone can re-
veal the issue.—Cambridge Chronicle:.
POPULAR ERRORS.—Numbers of people seem to be of
opinion that the human hair was only provided us as a
temporary protection and ornament, instead of which, it
was designed to list us for life, and with ordinary care it
would do so. It must be treated, however' as other parts
of the body, that is to say, supplied with nutrition, and no
article has ever shown itself so capable of affording this in
the highest degree as Rowlands' Macassar Oil, the success-
ful results of whith during the last half century have
proved beyond question its extraordinary powers in the
growth and improvement of the hair, and which have
obtained it a universal celebrity unparalleled !
TIIE PRINCE O WALES is about entering upon the
naval profession. The Royal Albert, launched. a few weeks
ago by the Queen; is at present at Sheerness, and in the
course of a few days the young Prince will join her as a
midshipman.

DONCASTER Raass.—These time-honoured sports took
place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; and Friday last,
and were attendeday the usual throng of visitors. On
Tuesday, the Great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Mr.
Milner's Grapeshot, beating sixteen others; and the Cham-
pagne Stakes by Mr. Bowes's The Bonnie Morn. On
Wednesday, the St. Leger Stakes were won by Mr. Mor-
ris's Knight of St: George, beating Ivan,, Arthur Welles-
ley, Scythian, and fourteen others ; and the Municipal
Stakes by Lord Derby's De Clare. On Thursday, the
Eglinton Stakes were won by Mr. H. Baker's The Chiciten,
beating Dervish, ny'stone, Andover, and six others; and
the Old Two Year Old Stakes by Saraband. On Friday,
Mr. Gully's Andover beat Hospodar for the Don Stakes ;
the Park Hill Stakes were won by Mr. Nichol's Honey-
suckle ; the Doncaster Cup, by Virago, beating Kingston ;
and the Doncaster Stakes, by Lord Derby's Acrobat, beat-
ing Ivan, The Grand Inquisitor, and five others. 02 the
horses returning into the enclosure, after the race for- the
Doncaster Stakes, a dense mob surrounded Mr. John
Scott, who shouted and yelled in the most savage manner.
Templeman, who rode Acrobat, jumped off, much fright-
ened, and forced his way to the weighing-room ; but John
Scott was not so fortunate. The mob closed round him,
and heavy blows were dealt at his head and body, which
almost produced insensibility ; andit was only by the most
determined resistance on the part of his friends that he
escaped mere serious injuries. This unparalleled ezhibition
of popular feeling is generally attributed to the-running
of Acrobatin the St. Leger, who had beeribackeifor large
sums by the, sporting public. There were large sales of
thoroughbred yearlings daring the week, one of them,
Voivode, by Surplice, realising /4020 guineas
POSTOPFICE CLEM/S.—The Postmaster-General has
given notice to the country postmasters, that henceforward
they wilt be entrusted with the appointment of their own
clerks, and that they will in future be held responsible for
the effitiency and honesty of those clerks. They may re-
quire what security bonds they may please from the clerks
they appoint. The Postmaster-General retains the power
of dismissing provincial postoffice clerks.
CruQuE.—A very curious 'eat is nightty performed at
the Cirque in the Champs. Elysees by an acrobat of the
name of Price. He brings a ladder into the arena, and,
keeping it in equilibrium,by the mere weight of his body,
climbs to the top. Arrived there he performs on the violin
some variations on the "Carnival de Venice," and, always
seated on the top of hie ladder, keeps it moving all rounds
the. circus, and finally descends from his perilous position.
in a manner quite as extraordinary as.the remainder of his.
performance. This startling feat is not inappropriately,
designated as " L'Eehelle animee."—Ga/ignani.
A FARMER in Herefordshire committed suicide froma
too hasty despair at. his pecuniary circumstances. He took
arsenic, and submitted with great reluctance to the opera-
tions of the stomach-pump, which, were unavailing. His,
circumstances, though low, and causing him great appa-
rent anguish of mind, were not irreparable, and, with a
little assistance from his brothers, he could have paid all
his debts. He has left a widow and eight children. Ver-
dict, " Temporary insanity."
BLOCKING TEAGEDY.—TIIO town of Sassari (Sardinia)
has just been the scene of a dreadful traggdy. An officer
of the 6th Regiment of Infantry, quarterefl in that town,
being refused the hand of a young lady belonging to a
respectable family of the, place, felt so much offended that
he determined to take, a terrible revenge. With that in-
tention he proceeded to the young lady's house, armed
with four double-barrelled pistols and several. poignards.
The first person he met was the mother of the young
lady. He discharged one of the pistols at her ; and then
in succession the daughter, her uncle, her father, and a
servant girl fell to the ground, to all appearance mortally
wounded. He then put an end to his own existence with
one of the pistols. Two days after this scene of carnage
the several wounded persons still survived, although
scarcely any hope was entertained of the recovery of any
one of them.

SPEECITES TO A JURY.—On tho 4441. of October an al-
teration will ho mwalc in respect to speeches to a jury in
the superior courts. The party who begins, or his counsel,
is to be allowed, in the event of his opponent not announc-
tng at the close of the case of the party who begins his in-
tention to adduce evidences, to address the jury a second
time at the close of such case, for the purpose of summing
up the evidence; and the party on the other side, or coun-
sel, is to be allowed to open the case, and also to sum up
the evidence, if any, and the right of reply is to be the
same as at present.
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LOOSE liEnAvioun.—Mr. Francis Collman Soper, se-
cretary to the " Working Man's Emigration Society," has
been twice examined during the week on a charge of
roughly treating a Mrs. Skinner, employed in the esta-
blishment of the society. The complainant alleged that
Mr. Soper had tried to kiss her, and in the attempt had
hurt her very-much, besides breaking the bone of her
stays. Mr. Jeffs, a director of the society, gave evidence
implying an habitual disregard of propriety on his own
part as well as that of the complainant and Mr. Soper.
The complainant strongly denied the imputation. For
the defendant an alibi was set up, and though the magi-
strate was at first disposed to send the case for trial, he
ultimately yielded his intention, observing that much
looseness was evidently carried on in the house. Mr. Soper
was then discharged, and left the court.
REPORTED ARREST OF M. MAZZINI.—The Journal de
Genevem of the 9th contains the following :—"A letter
from Berne, of the 7th, informs us that Mazzini has been
arrested at Basle. He was coming from Berne, where he
had spent some days in the house of a patrician, to whom
he described himself as an Italian count, greatly attached
to Austria, and driven into Switzerland by the fear of the
cholera. According to our correspondent, the police had
discovered his residence, and were preiiaring to apprehend
him when he absconded, and left for Basle, under a false
name. The government gave notice to the authorities of
his arrival, and he was arrested on alighting from the
diligence."

A.-kBn9cicis6 APFAIR has occurred at Cincinnati, U. S.
Two young persons who were engaged to each other were
sitting alone, and the young man was endeavouring to at-
tract the lady's attention from a book to himself by ex-
tinguishing the candle. Finally, all his efforts having
failed, he took a double-barrelled shotgun which stoad in
the corner, put on a cap, and pulled the trigger, intending
blow out the candle with the air forced out of the gun by
its explosion of the cap. Unfortunately, the gun was
loaded, and the horror-stricken man heard a loud report"
and saw his betrothed sink to the floor, Weeding and
dying. SIIQ expired shortly afteowards-

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1854.