The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

LAID THE FIRST STONE OF A PROTESTANT CHURCH ON

MOUNT SION.

JERUSALEM, Nov. B.—Extract from a private letter :
"The Bishop of Jerusalem laid the first stone of the Pro-
testant Church on Mount Sion on the 2d instant. Forty
feet of rubbish, the wreck of ancient buildings mouldering
into dust, had to be removed in sinking the foundations."

Clear it away, 'tis the ruin of ages;
Let the mattock and bar on the sterile ground ring ;
And the earth, once the birth-place of prophets and sages,
Again rear an altar to Israel's King.

Away with the dust of the Ishmaelite stranger!
This is not his home, and shall not be his rest ;
And the ashes of those who, in toil and in danger,
For the " Holy Land fought, be with joy dispossessed.
Scatter the fragments' of cornice and column,
The relics of temples a Pagan world built ;
When the curse had commenced—how tremendous, how
solemn !
" Be on us and our children the blood and the guilt !"

Dig deep, and away with the wrecks of His slayers
Who came and who died a world's ransom to pay--
Of Christ(the Redeemer, who, answering our prayers,
Has strengthened our hands in the work of to-day.

We are down to the rock, and the dust yet remaining,
It may be of martyrs and prophets of old,
While Urim yet shone, all its virtues retaining,
And the priest to the people their God's message told.

We are down to the rock, and with Christ our foundation,
Our church shall be reared for the spread of His word!
Till the Jew and the Christian unite as one nation :
Then hasten the work in the name of the Lord!
RICHARD JONES.

[We copy the above beautiful lines (from the pen of the
author of several popular works of fiction) from the United
Service Gazette. They are alike creditable to the head and
heart of the writer.—Standard.]

LITERARY NOTICE.

The Book of British Ballads: No. 6. London : Jeremiah

How, Fleet-street.

The number before us complete the first volume of this
splendidly illustrated work; and we cannot imagine a more
acceptable Christmas present than such a volume, suitably
bound up, would make. No. 6 contains " The Mermaid,"
illustrated by designs from the pencil of Franklin, and en-
graved by Green, Branston, Nicolls, Walmsley, and Arm-
strong. The beautiful ballad of " Lord Ullin's daughter" is
illustrated by drawings by E. Corbonld, engraved by Wil-
liams and Whimper—an artist whose name we do not re-
member having observed amongst the host of talent engaged
upon this work. The illustrations of this ballad are perfect
gems.
" Sir Agilthorn" is illustrated. by the pencil of Red-
grave, and the gravers of Walmsley, Bastin, Branston,
Pastin, and Vizitetly. " Jobnie of Breadislie is illustrated
by designs from the pencil of Gibson, beautifully engraved by
Linton. s, The Dowie Glens of Yarrow" is illustrated by
the bold pencil of Franklin, the migrating being Committed
to Branster, Nicholls, and Evans. A frontispiece and vig-
nette accompanies the number, which, as a whole, is fully
equal to its predecessors.
We trust that the
publisher of so spirited a work receives
thot weed of support from the public which his enterprise
and taste so signally merits.

THE DISPOSITION TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—For some time~
before the individual manifests a morbid propensity to sacri-
fise his own life, the mind may have dwelt upon the idea of
self-destruction. In some cases the impulse is apparently
sudden in its developement : but it will commonly be found,
upon inquiry, that the notion of suicide has been haunting
the imagination for a considerable time before the act is per-
petrated or attempted. When the mind has been directed or
engaged in a particular train of morbid contemplation for any
length of time, the face assumes a peculiar cast, which is
present in no other state of mental feeling. The practitioner
who has had any experience in these cases can easily detect
the existence di the suicidal propensity. With the view to
the prevention of self-murder, how important it is that the
physician should make himself practically acquainted with this
indication! Parkman relates that Lord M. having requested
Stuart, a distinguished artist in London, to paint a portrait
of his brother, a captain in the army, he did so with great ac-'
curacy. When Lord M. saw the portrait, he exclaimed,
" This is not the portrait of my brother,—it is the portrait of
a madman." The painter requested another sitting; his
lordship saw the painting again, when he observed,." My
brother appears more mad than before !" Three weeks after
the Captain blew out his brains. !—F. Winslow's Health of
13fid Mind.
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