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3 THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY, TUESDAY OGTOBEB 18-17. THE COMING ELECTION. aumuiate ana provolce you in jariyje, ana now ana men the eye gets a greater and further gleam of insight altogether, you see a stiller, more entire, more equable 9C PROPOSED SALE OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. To the EDITORS of ihe LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen, I see by the papers that a negotiation is actually on foot for the sale of these docks to the Liverpool Dock Trust and no doubt the Birkenhead Dock Warehouse interest will keep company.

When that sale is effected, the death-knell of Birkenhead is rung; mark the prophecy. How the mighty have fallen! But yesterday, Liverpool lay prostrate before Birkenhead, as the craven spirit shrinks in the presence of the bold and upright to day, Birkenhead licks the hand that wounded, and would have slain she kisses the rod with all becoming humility. Alas where are all her noble spirits gone, or what has come over them Quo! deus vult perdere, priua dementat, and their last effort is to furnish a fitting epitaph for Birkenhead and themselves, sic transit gloria the blank to be tilled up when the fatal deeds are signed, eoled, and delivered. It is a curious history altogether, to the uninitiated, this same sale affair and there is much more in it, and in the management and motive of it, than meets the eye time will yet develop facts which are yet but obscurely hinted at. To those who look at things merely as they lie on the surface, and who are believers in the marvellous, there will appear a striking resemblance in this proposed sale, to the tale told of the fatal influence of the serpent's eye oo its coveted prey there is the object, and there is the eye, and out of the charmed circle the devoted rpt its rirnnitQ rret loe onA loi- a mni jco3 ail lauge us tile eye marks it witti a more fixed intensity, until at last it embraces its destiny, a self-immolated victim, deprived of all power of escape or defence.

la those who are interested in the welfare of k.enTd 1S distressing to see such mismanage-ment. No man who has watched the conduct of the Liverpool au thorities fhroughout the whole of their struggle with the Birkenhead Commissioners, could TiiT 1 lneir opposition, and can till less doubt the uses to which they will turn their present triumph no man who has taken note of the proceedings of the Liverpool Dock Committee in the question of dock warehouses, can hesitate in his conclusion as to the use they will make of the Birkenhead docks and warehouses, the honied plausibilities of the chairman of that body, at the last Coun-atl meeting, notwithstanding. Men who could sacri-: Uce the interests of the commercial and consuming body ot Liverpool to the extent of at least several Hundred thousands a year, in the extra charges occasioned by the absence of warehouses around the flocks, for the sole purpose of keeping up the value oi private warehouse property, will not hesitate to sacrifice whatever sum nl'mimm to secure the Birkenhead property, that the same Diect mav hp still thn hafiaH t. enhead docks and warehouses would be a most material check on them, and they know it, and it there-lore is their interest to have the keys of these properties in iheir possession. The Birkenhead docks may be finished by them, to save appearances, but the vessels sent there will be few and far between, and the warehouses will be deserted halls, monuments of Birkenhead incapacity, and Liverpool cun-aing, duplicity, and dishonesty.

The parties to benefit by the sale are the bondholders and the Dock Warehouse Company, and also toe owners of private warehouses in Liverpool; while the entire population of Birkenhead, owners of property, rate-payers, and all classes who have had the misfortune to invest their property or their bodies within its bounds; the commercial people of Liverpool, and the general consuming body there, and also the manufacturing districts, will be injured. Of all the suicidal acts of which the present Birkenhead authorities have been guilty since the first appearance of dissension among them, that now under consideration is the most fatal. Can they shut their eyes to the fact, that in selling their docks they are literally selling their country the country which Jias been placed in their hands for safe keeping The course they take to extricate themselves from difficulties which their own unworthy jealousies of each Other have originated, proves how unfit they are to conduct the important interests entrusted to them. vne man of respectable genius were worth the whole oo of them, and that man they discarded "Oh I whero was Roderick then One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth ten thousand men but Roderick has been called to the rescue only when the enemy has entered the citadel, and to advise purely on terms of capitulation. Isu' i00 for an attempt to repair the mischief Bondholders are proverbial for their exacting propensities, and they must have their pound St flesh they can have tin intoi-nct i tu hi mi.

11UG3L1UII beyond getting their money, and a sale to Liverpool otters a ready means tn ottt head and its docks may go to the dogs for all they eare so long as they get their own. From them it is idle, tear, to expect aid in carrying out the Kheme while any chance offers of a purchaser at par or thereabout, and the great indiscretion on the part ujivutu uuiimsis in tneir listening tor ne moment to a proposal of sale to Livernotfl. nr opening a negotiation in that direction. They will now lie i ili3. uununoiaers ana aocK warehouse people, (and no marvel at all, when the present market l.

i- uuiu (jimierties is considered.) lean Quite understand tW nno i-: UllMbl CAlDVlllll U14- Ottmstances, it is an object of vital importance to the Dock WarehoiiKe nnmin their power lies, a sale of the docks on condition of iy property oeing included in the bar-gam; but it must be remembered (if I am rightly advised as to (hp fontl hot tu i en-head and of the Dock Warehouse Company are uukl ouu ougiii in no way to be mixed up. Care then should be taken that no party con- T.u, me warenouse interest sftould have a question ot the ducks. If they desire to sell their warehouses to Liverpool, let them do and Birkenhead will, at a fitting time, build warehouses for herself; but the Docks are the pro-perty of the town, and must not be dragged in to private thel" which purely But is lit too late ta reconsider the whole ques-Urn Let look at the large interests that lie on the Birkenhead side, and which will be ruined beyond redemption by this sale. I set aside the pro-perty in Birkenhead and its owners, but what are toe Directors of the r.nncoshiva ri.i,: uuu iicaiiiie ej UI1C- taon Railway about, when they do not step in to prevent a consummation which will he so disastrous to their own property They, I contend, and such ther radway interests as look to Birkenhead as a terminus, ought to unite without an hour's delay to save Birkenhead from its commissioners and its necessities, and keep the Birkenhead docks for Birkenhead. It they do not, they will not be doine justice to their own shareholders, nor the propertied which they have the management.

An arranse-ment with them would not only meet the objects of toe bondholders, but crive a strt ti, nrL. is more, it would give confidence, for there can be ao confidence while a single individual of the mere men remains on the Board of Commissions. A moderate si im IVAtlM fvat- A 1 i Hie uca3 into working trim, and in two or three years hence, peonle would wonder at the infatuation which coulf have areamt of handmg over a property, then rising into national imnnrtnnoa i 6 ri i.ij vl men wno would fiold it to rum Birkenhead, without even an attempt V861 for themselves. There 38 little doubt Parliament would readily sanction any arrangement by the railway companies which Dock scheme carrinS out the Birkenhead wiihtrebeman sound Judgment among the waole idy of commissioners, or who has a spark of energy in his composition, he will hold it his para-niount duty to enforce this view on the board, and tollow it up, that the sentiments of the different railway companys may be ascertained. 0 A LOOKEK-ON.

P.S With all the talk of sale, have the Dock Commissioners the poiver to sell the docks Can you give the public any idea by what chance it is that Messrs. Samuel Holme and Ambrose Lace, both members of the Town Council of Liverpool, are connected with the Birkenhead affairs? Are they bondholders or not and if they are, under what circumstances did they become so Was it through their connexion with the Herculaneum AJock and was payment made them (in part payment of any interest thev may have had in that property) 111 Birkenhead Dock Bonds And can you give us any idea whether they have taken any and what part in advising the sale to Liverpool of these docks, or in any way promoting that object Sj- We have cheerfully allowed our able correspondent to have all his say" on Birkenead affairs, which are so important as to demand the best consideration for the suggestions of clever men respecting them. But why should it be supposed that no Birkenhead man should be a commissioner Ebits. A SCRAP OF THE OLDEN TIME. Totlie EDITORS of thn LIVERPOOL MERCURY.

Grntlemen, The following extract from the Mercu-riiM Politicus of August lt3th, 1650, a republican paper describing a visit of King Charles the Second to the An-dertons, of Eaxton, in the cuunty of Lancaster. showB the violent spirit of the times "August 14, 1650. This day Charles Stuart lodged at Jbuxtonburh, sis miles this Byde of Preaton, being Sir Hugh Anderton house, who was prisoner at Lancaster, but at liberty by the Scotts. This Anderton is a bloody papist, and one that, when Prince Rupert was at Boiton, boasted much of buiug in blood to the elbows on that cruell massacre. The next night tbeyr king lodged at Brine, six miles from Warrington, being Sir William Oerard house, who is a subtile jesuited papist.

This dissembling Scott trusts none bo well in Lancashire for nu hoites as the papists." The flrripTit anA vacnnnl.ln loi-v iiiiHiiiea are now '847) represented by William Ince Anderton, Ef of C-UXton. and Sir Jnliii floronl i'Wull einty palatine of Lancaster. your very obedient servant, Qremge-ttrett, Birkmhead, Sept. 8, 1847. it if ci it I It the EDITORS fi.

bihkvury. Gestlimek Tho.l 1 land Wm ii ui uie election tor Scot- which terminated in the defpat nf tht terminated in Mr Tnornh 11 nK1Ste-nt uPriht former, Cwho has since, however been elec ted.) was maklei. r.f vever, oeen eiec- Liberals of t0 generally Knew the scandalous part some of the superintendents nf tho 1 01 their surprise would Te TurneT in tadtaSSkS ne of whom acSy had here ri lnt a in which he would treat all n- 'mT mc servant canvassea SSH Phi. ud used every means to deleathim. Another nf tham tlift uuuutiy ucuiuicu Jill he Station-house, after Mr.

Thonihill's defeat, that it that ffentlfimnn iu uume into me csiauon- be would kicfc him ot- This officer h-hYeaPhani for kimS, himself having been kicked out of two police forces, and Mr. Thorn-hill, knowing he was unfit for the situation, voted against his appointment hence arises his malignity against the worthy councillor. Indeed, most of the superior officers of the north division indulged themselves in every species of ribald jest upon that gen- "'s uniiK, eitneriree or oiner-Wise, to that (Jetrroo tht i. v.ioi. nic were uiuit lur uulj one, whose turn it was for night duty, was in such a couiu not go on auty at an, but was obliged to repair to bed instead.

These are certainlv voi- jiuuiiu servants aim am that, should there be any opposition to Mr. Parker. a oimi ar i i vuuiac ui tttiivassiug ia 10 oe pursueu dv thesp nffippro in a nr i i. their pet again to the Watch Committee. But, Gentlemen, if they do attempt to play such a part, or in any way, directly or indirectly, interfere with the elections in any of the wards, further than recording their votes if they have any, I will take good icare that the public shall be made acquainted with their conduct, and with their names also; for it is proper that such scandalous behaviour should be exposed, and I am only sorry that the above facts, (for facts lliov arc ov.A on 1.q i mm jfiurcu, uiu nvi uume auoijer to my tnnwlplcfp- fnr.

if ftipw ha 1 have been apprized of them. ass VL.U 1'UJUICE OFFICER. The Tpmninrlpr tf nur wiicajjuiiuciaa iciLcr will require some consideration.EiTS. To the ELECTORS of SOUTH TOXTETH WARB. Gentlemen, It is with feelings of regret that it now wmumii.

iu jour nanas ine trust tnat 1 nave held for th lust throo n.U arM a11' 110 doub; aare "of the great exertion! luaikiug, ns regiirus oanatory" measures. In respect to my own health, I am most happy to in- noDe that vnn nil in tii anmA jz 1 am one of those who think, that if each peraon looked after hls own health, there would be little need for oanatorr" enmminpos Tt u- i txtio uccn Diitu fjy our oppo- nents that I have taken no part whatever in discuSons ri "uo 'ne letter, nut beliere tne, Gentlemen, you have at all times been uppermost -t 10 vlu uinxinj least said sooneet mended." 1 am grieved to inform you that we of the trade" are Still SUttennir nevfirplv i.wlco,! it 1 that we contrive to pipe a stave. We are looking for- neH ,,,05 win oe aeal brighter. It is needless to say that I am an advocate for baths; ana now that th Hininon 1 purpose, I propose that the land connected with it shall hn MnDorlod I. tti, ciiuimuutj oatn, to De tree ot admission to all person who support me at the present Should tou i re elect me, you shall not only have a slip vr.

proposea petty enlargement of the market, I promise that you shall have a new one erected during the next twelve months. With these sentiments, I am, Gentlemen, Your humble servant, OctoHr mm, ARR ELL J0ANS' ST, MARTIN'S IN THE SMOKE. To the EDITORS of the LIVERPOOL MERCURY; GeNTLKIIKV .1 lotto, lot-1. I signed Sigma, on the Bubject oi free churches for the POOr. I read It Wlf.h anrmro tkt biiai.

i uncvo over tne success which so deservedly crowns the efforts of the vuwin aim me xvectors ot iiiverpool, but I grieve because my mind reverts to another church, in-tended evnrAtulv fn tK. o. tields a noble building, with ample accommodation, yet deserted by the poor, comparatively useless to the district, and a disgrace to the Establishment. The bane 18 Tractarianism, a syBtem which is there carried out at theexpenee of the Corporation The people are driven from the church by the ill savour of its doc truies arid the absurdity of its antics the law of the land is violated by the obtrusion of a looie cross on the commu- V' "ie corporation are infringed trom the Bishop or the permission of the Council and the property of the cit.irens (for such I deem the income of the Corporation to be) is diminished, by the annihilation of sittings in the pews alluded to above As a burgess of Liverpool, I feel indignant at such an knT- t00' that my filings are the fee lingsof thousands; and, therefore, I trust that 70U Will allow mm rv frnanaua fnwl-Un. prescribe the rnean which I consider will prove an.

antidote to thn tvi a mmnkm rhe n.st ot November 1. at hand let us call upon the wreral candidatei for our votes to bring the matter before the Council The illegal acts are sufficiently obvious i irtt, 1 he tnkmg down of the paws. Second, The setting up the cross. Let the wardens be brought up, and compelled to restore the church. Let the cross be sent over to St Anthony's.

Let th good old reading desk be brought in Ah-B room where 't has been thrust, and let all this be done at the expense of the congregation. 1 tie Corporation funds have been drawn upon too lsreelv already for Sr. Martin's. W. (the public) were made to pay for down the pews, for making an artificial chancel a thing for isll the world resembling Womb- Well 8 menafffirip fnr alnnla Lt, i.itpy desk, 4c, to no end, and all merely that ecclemaatiMl .1 im rVniBi.m mL curtseying to the west bowing to the east, half face, right fade.

law, mums up, ac i 1 irum uidiLur. jravour us with a tew I pari of churches," a subject often talked of, but never acted IKally nne cnurcn like this Worth srritmer nhmit tho ti contending for the honour of the Church of England ia Worth Vllidirfltinir nnil pnnnoiwa ik.t il J0 lUB UUIJ OI tne Press to take nn t.hA Tnnftor ami nnt k. l.t tj i vne, win uuu vqie ror any gentleman who will not pledge himself to use his some crnnrl hnm hann rinna I fM. AnA "uuuhb tu iviucuj1 uie eirn complained ori Your humble ervant, Liverpool, Oct. 6, 1847.

A BURGESS. THE SEWERAGE OF LIVERPOOL. To the EDITORS ef the LIVERPOOL MRRCTTRV. beg leave, through the medium of VOUr DftDer. to exnnsn nn art oKInh but a robbery by act of Parliament.

There are in the town a considerable number of streets, especially about th nt.Hlrirt 1 uuocwera passing tnrougn tnem, yet the inhabitants of these streets are obliged to pav a c4utu MJiiuuni 10 tnat wnicn the inha bitants of another street pay who are accommodated with good sewerage. For instance, in Upper Stanhope street and the neighbourhood, there is no sewer.yet the inhabitants, and those of Wood-street, Watson-street, Hampton-street, have been paying a sewerage rate for some years, and for what 1 here is no appearance of any thing of the kind the money has been collected for the alleged purpose of making sewers, and there have been none madef The question is, what has been done with the money? Has been employed to make sewers in other streets? If it has, why should they pay for improving places that thoy do not reside in I am sure your readers will agree with me that it is not right for one man to pay for repairing another man's property and in my opinion it does not mitter whether he is compelled by law or not, the injustice, oppression, and robbery remain the same. Theise things ought to be remedied, and that very boob. Persona residing in these neighbourhoods are very much inconvenienced by the want ot sewerage. But that is not the only evil: the health of the residents is seriously endangered by the effluvium which arises from the undrained channels, much dirty water and refuse tiom the houses being thrown oh the surface, either at the back or front, and there remaining till swept away by the scavengers, before which operation two or three days will elapse.

Then, ajain, the residents pay for the scavengers, who would not be wanted so often there were proper sewerage. There have been a great number of fever cases in that neighbourhood lately, and not a few fatal ones, many of which, I am sure, might have been prevented. These are plain facts, to prove the truth Of Which, if any Onp HnnhK tho nlann ran anoalr ft itself. It has SDoken. no ueen tatten 01 it; so too, nave spoken, and hope I shall not be disregarded.

Ii any of our Town Councillors would take the trouble uV'i place' and endeavour to get it altered, he Rrellt service both 10 'he inhabitants ported he T3n U- the cholera is C0inR as re' crin mos Wf'n ti? in neglected places nnd lor? and there.r"-e, inhabitants, Town Coun- yourTelve, lnteie9t in the matter, bestir fs nine" rem.ember. "a stitch in time much remains recent improvements, many" Meantirne, amlvill2ed country as will astonish AIRPLAY. "-PITS uie most enchant ng viewa nf lw c' bay and other portions of that intoILTf- can be obtainld itllf beaulif'l habitats to xJSmZ in" lay out walks, plant trees, erect ael Irl to therein, and otherwise to beautify ft Thl commendable determination on the part of thS VCT' tomans, and we trust they will carfv out witl-; and energy. Such a hill near the imilTh' idohzed, especially if the beautiful cenery could transferred with it If properly laid HwWifl become one of the Lions of the North, not only for own Klko hilt for thnmitB nf tho Jj 101 1,8 llu Hritja prospect commands, and which every visitor should rnaltn point of hehnlriintr. We a ur jiverston friends every success in their undertaking, for a finer OlnnO for hefllthv Mpronh'nn mnriAl nl i mi irntirH nn deserves pre-eminently to be called "The Hill of ALMS-GIVING HUETFUL to the GROWTH OF A SELF-SUPPORTING SPIRIT IN IRELAND, In the following interesting letter there is a yo- iuuic ux nisirucuon, 00m on tne condition of Ireland and the Irish, and the conduct, which is most' ad visable on the part of England and the in order that industry, not beggary, may be relied upon uy uie poor To the EDITOR of the TI3IES.

Sir, It is with feelings of no slight satisfaction that I see now daily nviHrnpAB ihmiKrh iha EVrriioi. ii.nt ----4 vi.b xltgtioil piCDO, IWftt the Lnghsh people are beginning rightly to appreciate satisfaction to me, because I may pardonably hope that ine occw iiiijii, wnen ireiano, laoourea to sow through your columns is at list beginning to bring forward fruit. Vnv anma a nnHi T.tl t.nnn An 1 uujd yaoi. muciB unvc iippuuiVLl ill columns from many clergymen of the Church of England. nimrfR.inry an nnanimnn.

that they should again be called upon to solicit alms uuiipiEgnuuuc, uii uciiaii UI LUC Juui auu starving Irish;" and your paper of this day contains a Innrr Icttow CJ- uii uurgvyuv, uejrciiiiiig intii. uuioi of honest indignation at. the impudent appeal, and putting forth some reasons why there should be a further contribution of alms from England to the poor starving Irish," but confined locally to places on the western coast. To have refused eleemosynnry relief to a distressed people when those amongst them who were in irant could not obtain food by law from the community of those who ha A an 1-J .1 vuuugu uuu tu Hpare, wnust tne law puiiioiieu mem as criminals if they took that food by force, would have o. iiiiiiuicfli uiukil auu injustice.

illt? tnuiuiuu principles of humanity and equity forbade us to stay our hnndn mill, linnnvo. miinh minht rlanrA. cate the means of relief employed, it was contrary to our nature tO COinnAl nr nnrmii htttnlaca runnlp in RrJirv The Legislature has, however, at length remedied that wrong it has granted a first instalment of enlightened legislation to Ireland, despite the determined opposition of Irishmen to the booh, and has at length declared to ha lam that ml 1. .1 C. nip.

pnuuipic UI fUlC, LllUb llflV II. professes to enforce obedience to the laws which protect property, it at the same time will not suffer men to be tempted by want beyond human endurance to break thhsp Inure Kt will r.ni.. zc "low a 11111, it iu ucatliuuuil, to sufficient relief to support life from the common stock of the local community. Having advanced thus far in the civilized government of Ireland, appeals to our humanity for the "poor and starving Irish" no longer have any just foundation. We hnviia i relit Ik.

ibjjci uie vittiui, ub it, is now oeing repeueu nay more, when the true causes of that "poverty and starving" condition of" the Irish "are beginning at length to be in some degree appreciated in England, industrious, and painstakinrr, and enterprininir RnirliMhrripn- wbn 'W their bread by the sweat of their brows," have a right to repel the claim with indignation and scom. Sir J. Burgoyne, in his letter of reasons for giving assistance to the Irish, thus truly describes their condition "The great mass or a dense population spread over the face or the country lived, as is well known, on the potato. A family onoe located on from ouo to three or tour aoras or land woe pro-videdfor a cabin could hn rafsnd expense of a sixpence th potatoes, at the cost of a very UUU wwur, auyyuau mom. witn a svJJicKnc) of food with which from habit the.V Wore lObrfr.tlu rnnipni nnH rt ntn- -eltl.

cow, or donkey, or pony, and occasionat labour at a vory low wisi, anTu mem wnat was requisits to pay a rent, and for such clothing and other articles as were absolutely necessary, and which, with a-ereat nronortion. wr hn human existence. The foundation of the whole, however, was the possession of the bit of land. It was the one, and-the only one, thine absolutely necessary. 77i mil f- and generally well paid, being the first demand, on all money i uiuociu wcure inai essential tanure, and only, wnat remained became applicable to the other objects Although of the lowest grade, it was an easy mode of subsistence, and led to the enoouragement of early marriages, largo and a mjuuij luuicaoiug uupumuon ana trc tnei same time asorded the proprietor a verv.Eond raltirn nfnrnAI fnr Kia lattA SXa hardly wonder at the continuance of this system.

us ii, una ueea ctuica. He then proceeds to describe the condition of the email farmers of .20 to 30 acres of land, and says, "Their farming if ih mm! selling produce, after paying their rout, affbrddd a little better ciu.uiuy uuu iiHiu oonuons tnaU' enjoyed by the cottiers." There are men (and the counsels of such appear, unfortunately, to have prevailed in the government of Ireland UDon whom All nnnnitnnifti -rr- thrown 1 here are men who cannot read human nature though the index point never so plainlyi There are well-intentioned men who, by a kind of perverse inoentiitv nr otnliilttv r.i.,u l. 1 oiniuuiu uil HIV most mischievous remedies for any evil. dobs all inis painiuny taitniul description of Sir J. Burgoyne iridimtP-' hllfe-thn lITlivnvatll ut uuuiciueu laziness and apathy and want of enterprise amongst the Irish A "few days'" labour, without a "sixpence expenee," procures the Irish cottier his cabin tie Utile labour supplies him with a 'sufficiency of potatoes for food," with which he is perfectly and Mb rent and buys his clothes 1 What! and is the Dorsetshire peasant and the Suffolk lahnurar.

tn whnm ttlvm tf il ji.i yj t4uii muuur me'year round scarcely affords sufficient brea'l, and who has blore "iivo niiuiu iBieiii recouection oeen rendered desperate by the insufficiency of the pittance of 7s. sr r-- fj k.q rens ior nis cottage and to provide bread-for hia family, to be inked by his clergyman to contribute his mite for the ''Ipoor a iiaui.iiiiiij vuiuuiiieu: wnn the cottages andthe food with which "a very Uttls uwowaiiPHw. luiuui nupuiicn out, ine response is tney are starving. They cannot now starve bu law: thr.m iV thri. ar.

plea. But it snid they are wretchedly poor and dis tressed. Uur answer is, let them work as we dol and their poverty will become wealth, and their distress will DA rllDnDrpn mln fthllnanni ll n. thtnt timet nA llijbir will 1. K.t ucn.cr pi-tjuemiy.

'UlVe wine iv a ynuyiv 10 Toiuntaruy increase the amount of louuui "im iw nSuB unvv oeen content" to live on The nroDOlition nnrrinn As n-c ui. lb a contradiction. Potato wova nnt mum iuuui, yuiumarny given, would have procured them a better food, and would havelmade the "slovenly farms" yield a better return would in fact, have been the first voluntary step out of poverty and wretchedness towards eomfOrt and independence. 1 But that voluntary step has never been taken. Why? Because the Irish people preferred poverty 1 arid wretcrtedneHS nnd itunpnrionn wttK' i to comfort arid independence, and wealth with httrd worh.

And it is expected that they will take that voluntary step now, if we only subscribe alms enongh to provide them meanwhile with a sufficiency or fnnn (In uiminh a mnli t. un, pertect conception of the Irish character It did require, in times past, "a very little labour" to procure them the most wretched subsistence, wherewith thev were content;" give them that subsistence without an labour at all, and think you not that still therewith thev will be "conlentV It is apparent that if "a little labour" would procure subsistence to an Irishman, hard work (to which Englishmen are accustomed, and to which, for the sake of the benefits which accrue to' them i luiu iiuiiiHii nature 11, wicy vuiumamy yieia tnemseivesl would have procured something bevond mere. subsistence; the continually accumulating value of which surplus production over consumption would long since have changed the poverty of Ireland into wealth. And it is as apparent as Irishmen were "content" with a wretched existence procured by "a very little labsur," that the necessity of diioLeubu wno mune me Epur to that "very little labour for when the necessities of the merest animal existence were supplied, the very little labour" ceased they were "content" with a mud hut iiu putatoeB. was tne spur ot necessity alone that drove them to a very little labour." The necessity was small the lahnnr nm nrnnnrtinnnt in r.

1 1 ImB pieaseu QfT t0 la.nd "amine in a particular kind i i inuustry, win grow abundance of all kinds of food, far beyond any thing that the land of Enir and vif- il. Tho nt i. a I1-' IU lliuour by the providence of God, which ought in truth to be regarded as a blessing, has been increased to the peonle Of TrelftFlll. Tf th tahniip nt ttia nannln L- necessity, be given, there is no shadow of doubt but the vuvii roui-. ajul experience teachea hb that they will not voluntarily give this labour WithOUt thn Hnilt nf OnOOUttv- Viai ii Duuiweni, uicir wamB.

out experience vuvil VUlHCmuiCllt. Willi mua huts and potatoen, with "a very little labour." f.uwo ium. uiti, men, oo we, in our mistaken hu- mnmtv. vnn nnd tn Hn 9 WItK ui a. cnaranlpr nf hi nnnlo nrt ika i t-lucjmuirj jiiuruy to the nnnr Tnsn nnnlr) tlniTa.t A we would lighten that necessity, under the presnure of llu iu ucn nuiuii, iney aiono win work: we would, in rent rout tlia rvroatAot t-ii- 1 ft.u.coi, oiuuiuiiiig-uiocK tnat the most perverse ingenuity could devise (lookine at the piuf's luiroiuo inn urogress ot tne country out of that "slovenly cultivation." and that miseryand wretchedness with which, and "little labour," uumoiii we wouia aegrade them into contentment with subsistence on charity.

But it is only the people on the western coast, says Sir J. Burgoyne, who will want this assistance those on the eastern coast, from their proximity to England, have a market for their produce, are better off, and can pay rates. 1 he people on the eastern coaet are better off becnitfiR thpv urn mn-n nnj ii iimumuuuG nnu nicjr are more industrious, because they have amongst them large admixture of men of English blood, who have transplanted among them the characteristics of their race industry and enterprise. The qualities wanted to make the people of the weBt of Ireland as prosperous are Bimply industry and enterprise. Will giving them English alms and supporting them on charitable donations promote either of those qualities? They will take our alms and live thereon in "content." One other Btep by the LeoriBlature in the right direction will leave the west of Ireland without the shadow of an excuse if it does not progressat equal pace with any other part of the United Kingdom.

Once let the Legislature facilitate the transfer of land, and the sale of mortgaged estates once let them let in men of capital to the responsible ownership of the soil, and get rid of the present helplessness of nominal landlords without power, of receivers in Chancery, taking the responsibility of the lords of the soil, and of absent and irresponsible capitalists, as mortgagees carrying off without return or care the usufruct of the land, and the opportunities will be afforded for the development of industry. At present, and I do not ROPulf a ii morn thaiiict i'nr tioirn 7 utcu uvcr every -part of it, from Dunfanaghy Head, in Donegal, to Cape Clear, in Cork, the west of Ireland ia a disgrace to the ",.,1011 iur us Hegiecieu capauinties, ana its poverty and wretchedness, in the face of every natural advantage that can lead to wealth. There are to be found neglected the finest harbours, magnificent rivers, an almost continuous succession of hikes, affording natural water carriage of the cheapest kind, unlimited water, power, rich and discovered mines, thousands of uncultivated acres, and a sea teeming with fish. The harbours are unfrequented the Shannon impresses you with melancholy at its vast and deserted expanse the lakes alh exept by an occasional turf-boat no water- -wneel betokens industry the minerals are unwon trie na is a dreary-looking watte; whilst Oomishinea a theeBtin the tight of "the starving What Surolir among the p.o'pVr.SK mvites them to Inhnu.V 'mpngiy deaden thpi. wnat must propose to charity OhT t0 either' but t0 them on refused advania S'hi man who Inland sternly Pite of herself one penny, and compel her, in to convert ta01'e than labour verT Httle" less nZVX souro of wealth heralmost bsund- hshmaiu imDel "rf Iet.eTe'y soft-hearted Eng- of this, that 0f the feel assured that removal of western cb a'one lmPcl ttle lr'n of the petua te S3 1 "lr.k'and.m 80 dow? has to per- grading "content." wretchedness, nnd their de- to-da7 from by your paper of 'relaiTd hart 7h' a3ymc former "Commissioner" in dvimr 7 Per unexampled opportunities of stu- their viVtum whilst admiring of "ot bm8 oiind to their faults and icuiaiii, very raitniuuy, yours, CAMFBELL rosTER- BOUROWINGS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH.

TnnRnsimiu The Lon thi.n -tuesaay, the o.ii Uctober, to' fdiL80" which been called tx do UI petitioning tne liovernment but nnhnrt piev 'he Pressure of railway calls question t0 have taken afy interest in the man wiih th the n.ewPaPer reporters and a geritle-Mn mL name of Green. Thewhole a viiwT h- T8 etnded nooPe. 'f the reporters, with a HttJB great interest, had not got up Or I fm2.ng them8les and they persuaded Mr. ureen to vote himnp intn tul ir 00: id v.will, uiD JI1111DC1I UUL again, vote himself thanks for hi. hi a VVote hlm.self chairman of a committee, vole oK then vote the meeting dis-Bolved.

Talk of the late Mr. Matthews and his mono-poiyiogues the best and busiest of them could not be compared with the wonderful personations of Mr. Green. "a uuw iu wiihl iney oeiievea wooia nave been a meetirig, where they hoped to have several lOniZ-WInHart miauiIi ua zc .1 w.itw wmmii iu papci, uuv II Hiey nad not "put in their own spoke," as the eayinK is, there i. i "-cii uu uu in nccp up a uiacuBuiuii, auu me whole thing must have ended in a series of soliloquies by ii ircciiw, hiiciciuri', 111111, iTxr.

vreen is tne only person who wishes to suspend all the railway works in thn IrinnAnm of 1 1. I alone in his fear he will not persuade the "uifcr.iuicn 10 accsue 10 nia views. Novelties. There whs a new Ministry announced at Madrid, on the 4th instant. On the 3rd proximo there .11 a uoi uiuuii.

wile or tne novelties, at leasr, 19 "uioiueu to mac a montn. TlfJHTNBGtt1! nn TUtr TWihtwu TIT trt rtn. a inuiiAi W1AIV11.I1.-UUU1C lUillL idea of the pnst scarcity of money may be entertained from thA fnllnwlnrr XT. l.il 1CCS3 lIlctUBlX tour Marquises, as many Earls, and three Barons, all of Hiaciiu in hid uuuivopediu IU11U certain sums, varying from JESO to 200, have, up to the DreSPnf. tTinmant nn.t oar.

1 1. 4 ovim oniric oiajjcih-c ah cur IICAl v.n.uwu ztv ft WUlilWl UVVVHUk UIU HtfiriPW tnnrleo A rinhrWfttnln Tit Ci a Tf 1 Here fl thfi RhHirmnn -nt' tha nat Tunniinn PllUv come for the railway call. Master: Tell him it's no use his waiting; he must call again. INVALUABLB AdVICB to Ellr.wiv DlREOTnns Tf thn mnrninir ia unit nJ ,1 i 11 u' "r't jm biiuuiu lauuo uiucis tu uavu nil tne third-elass carriages thrown open instantly; but if the ihio, mull uaye tnem ciosea as last as you can. 11 thm nr I 1 1.

1 1 j-Br-" jvu ifiunciTc lua dci.uiiu ituu iirai Gil 1 I i- iiivci uiicu tsuu.yuui: (jucKets also. RAlI.WAyS. For alight that ever I could read, Could ever hear by Times or Chronicle, The course of Railways naver did run smooth Eor either it is difficult in curves, Or else the gradients were "unkimmon steep, Or else it stood upon Directors' whims And ivV the calls were paid, and the line done, Explosions, accidents, lay hold of it. Swift as the telegraph, short as dividends Brief as the lightning when it greasy is, Or like the steam; that travels o'er the earth, Ibat.ere the stoker can aloud cry Ease her Thei boiler bursts and blows us up. So quick upon the rail we meet contusions.

Midsummer Night's Steam. THH FT-APPV' Pt.MIV I 1 1 OI the- Hann'v fTumilw I .1 i rr-' -kji wiw uo tuo JUCIK.C1VVS 11V1I1U under the same roof together. now to Spnd a WauK in Manchbstkb. Procure a money-order for five shillings, and endeavear to change it. Thb Virpcr-rc nit mn 11 Tl I .77 i iiAasuiiii, il BeemE SO DB an established fact that nobody has gut any money, nnd therefore if the businesaof the country is to go on (which we humbly suppose it is,) we see no alternative but resorting to an exchange of commodities, since transactions tor cash have become almost impossible.

Though a man mav hn without nnlA in.v.;a iri.i.. a goid watch his pocket and those who are without vuiu uiy ob possessea oi silver spoons. We think it-exceedingly likely, that a system of barter will shortly DO HRtAnliah.tr! 1 .1... f'cciii iu BL.iiinaiiuu in ousiness which must othsrwise ensue from the limited quantity of IhnV to :l.l.i. i in jum now avaiiaoie.

vy wisn a tew euter-risinir tradeftnin nmtU lma A u. wicno in me gtcatuiau we nave hinted at, by advertising their intention somewhat in tha fnlfnwinrr I'mhinn il ah VUIIDCUUC1IVO Ul bllC neAa Or mnnnv rtia 1 ,1. i ot Elegance and Magaiin sJes Modes des Minories, have resulvad on reducing all their articles from sprite in cash agsntiemaniy rap-ratcal, lined throughput with-best blanketing, and hitherto charged one pound, will be supplied for three silver dessertspoons, and can be made to measure for three table-spoons, trousers froma plated candlestick upwards, and fancy vests, beginning lit a silver pencil-case. Or we may see something like; the following It has been said that money is the. root of all evil and, there being now no money, it' is to be presumed that every thing is good.

Inspired with this supposition, Messrs. Screw and Doo have determined on offering their first-rate stock of linen drapery.ta the public, without the intervention of money, receiving the value of their various elegant novelties in kind. They have some exquisite shawls, which S. and D. are enabled to offer at a leg of mutton each and "cicoreKrenuniiitu musuns tnat may ne nad at the surprisingly moderate rate of a mutton-chop per yard.

Gloves of the best torn-make can be put in at a quartern loaf the pair and hati may be procured at all prices from a basin of soup to a tureen. We are perfectly aware that the 'system of labour exchange was tried some few years ago by Robert Owen, the philanthropist, and a few other sons of harmony, who tf they wereJegitimate sons of harmony, behaved very ill to their nnrpnl. fnt thnv lrir.1-..! rtnA- 1...., i 7V -vv i jiuvi iiiiiuiuilj' out of doors. 'Ihe labour exchangeiiri those days, being got up by a few people bonded together in brotherly imucu uui a mum quarrelsome ousiness, ana the police had to, be called in every five minutes to preserve that peace which it wasthe aim of the united hmih tn promote. We do not, however, argue from the failure of the former undertaking any reason for discouragement to that whinh 1R nnn nrnnniA HTKa 1 f'vtnmi, AllcinilCUlllBJCJIVCD UI lllti Owemtes arose from their very natural anxiety to get a i ir yuunua ior a pair or ooots value ten BtllllinirS.

And aa thuvn Mtara aavarnl n.I.U ll. t-7 opihiqi eciACU wivu 11U3 oanie Sort ot predilection, the thing fell to the ground. Things juc oiicieu, nnu as noooay nas any money, every body will of course be flocking to the tradesman that fltrprft to Intra Inhnn- in ii -r ui v-vvuamji; mr mnour, as long as the practice lasts. SlrnnNn Rkhh Wrt 1 i Jonowing account of a case of "Second Sight" from a correspondent, which may not prove uninteresting to some of our readers September, 1831, a worthy and highly-esteemed inhabitant of this town died suddenly, on the bridge over the Mernmae, by the burstinar of a blood vessel. It was just at day-break, when he was engaged with another man in raising the drawbridge, for the parage of a ihe Buddenness of the event, and, above all a vaaue rumour that some extraordinary disclosure was to be made, drew together a large concourse at the funeral After thesolemn services were concluded, Thomas, the" hrnthfir nt tn npnn man Kimaoif Christian, rose up, and desired to relate some particulars regarding the death of his brother.

He then stated (his manner was calm, solemn, and impressive') that more han Previous to his death, his brother had told him that his feelings had been painfully disturbed bv seeing, at different times, on the bridge, a quantity of human Wood that, sometimes, while he was gazing unon it, it suddenly disappeared, as if removed by an invisible hand that it lay thick and dusk, amidst the straw and litter that, many times, in the dusk of the evening, he had seen a vpnqt rnminn rlnmn i .,11 mm, wuiun vaiusnea i i a th? dr.awi ana at the same time he a vuite caning a rami ana lamentable tone, lam dying! and that the voice sounded like his own-that then he knew the vision was for him, and that the hOllr nf nm nnnnvlnrn moa Wl iu I iiuiiu. i ii uuiuu, moreover, stated, a few days before the melancholy event took place, his brother, after assuring him that he would be called UDon to teatifv tn tha uj ii. niiitu in; ju given him of the vision on the bridge, told him that he had uiu imuie vessel go up tne river, whose lmao-A he hnn flonn in Kln ,1., IC iiuu, nuu uiai wnen it snoillrj 1yrtnK if 'u'hlmHt, take place; that night after "a'u wiiiu seemea to nirri tne sound of the horn for tne raising of th6 draw, and that it was to him Very solemn nnd ciroliil "Vn oil unwir, uutituiueu ine narrator, how my brother died; that he died fulfillimr the VISinn that hia hlnA ll. tt uluuu uuw, upon tne Dnace. as ne miw it.

even hpfnra t. umiii nnu mat 18 last words, as heard by the captain of the vesBel, were, "I am dying!" There was something in the circumstance of mo me with faces, bent earnestly on the innnlror ih solemnity of the narrator, and the fearful character ef lne yet unouneu corpse of his brother inv hnfnrn him nrUInU "iiii.ii rao unicuuueu co receive every ntent fee inn nf i. I i IL Mrioi.iiiuii nnu iu overpower, at least for the moment, the convictions of reason and the arguments of philosophy. Torquay and Tor Directory. A Dnfl's Fl Ii i nv Tununon ri.

tu. i "i.iv. ju tin, uuy or rrmce umur lunens ot welcome, royal salute was fired from cannon placed on the Castle-hill. The nnwnnteri anA 1 outinu seems to nave occasioned much alarm among the dog tribe, and several highly-prized animals made their eficape from the town and have not since returned. One dog-tragedy in fact occurred.

A vnlmihlo -X 7 -isnivuuuiaiiu uug naa lonowea frniiTei I Ross-shire on the day in question, and oeen mgiy enjoying mmself, unt the inLTnfr wilen Pcor off uZr At KPLgtali0p' fh0Win 6ver mark of extreme ini tt he seen to spring from the pier, Ue TheT the which at least haPlf a reached th; oTher W.lm D0 untiI he ilad allost reached the other side; there, however, the strona cur- nont h-iln' Bnd thoueh the ferryS was Mt iefl'whe 8Rnk il couI rescued thunrleV Ia 1 Blw8yB nk into deW waterduring SKS? nolure. Cattle, also, show great awMe were io sensftivl SKETCH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Most of our readertare already aware that Mr. R. W.

Emerson, the distinguished American essayist and lec turer, is aoout to pay a Visit to tnio country, uuruig rriuuri he Will a nf InnllireH nt OUr MflfihainVl' Institution. The following sketch of Emerson and hie writings, extracted trom Uiinuan 8 wauery oi iiiierary Pni-tviilta Brin m.UiI-. infAMiiliiiii' nt. fhe nreiient time. The is marked by all the peculiarities of ir.

uiiHllarrs style, and expresses a rew opinions to whinh nil Ilia wnrlrii will tint nflsent. Nevertheless, it is a most; graphic, powerfully-written sketch, and will serve as one of the shadows cast before the "coming man." WhileThomas Carlyle was sojourning atCraiaenput-tock, there crime in upon him, unannounced, and all the iuj Hum a stranger, ne waB yuuug, irtit- haired. his face tvenrlniy nn nf unirit like dye an enthusiastic admirer of Carlyle, and of all that Carlyle loved. He had travelled from the far west to this mountain shrine; and his abrupt entrance, his nnnaiinna h.a tnlu 1 Ilia lull, UCCIJ UllCULCU till, llllltll VI Hid solitary; and he still speaks of it as an advent. The stranger's name was Emerson, a name which has since become a sound of note in his own country, and can, already, start many a spirit within the circuit of our own shores.

Ralph Waldo Emerson dwells in Concord, Massachusetts. He is a married, abstemious man, who lives and labours upon a farm of his own, and whose sole luxury is tea. He writes occasionally in the North American Review, and in a periodical called the Dial. He has, in his own name, issued, first of all, a little tractate, called Nature," containing the key to his metaphysical and ethical system several lectures, delivered in various towns and colleges in hia neighbourhood; and a volume of essays, which Carlyle has recently introduced to the English public, in a commendatory and characteristic preface. When he comes to lecture in Boston, he is hunted, crowded after by the elite of the town and there he stands up, a middle-sized, middle-aged enthusiast, whose face, they say, as he goes on, gets absolutely phosphorescent," and "aBthe face of an angel." He has founded a school of Transcendenta'ists in New England.

Did you meet with or hear of Emerson, when America?" asked a friend of ours of a distinguished utilitarian. "Which of them was the reply. "I didn't know there was more than one." Oh, I see whom you mean it will be the cracked one." Yes, depend on it it is the cracked one I'm inquiring for." Well. I heard him. and hn is inenmmiTehlv the rnnRt eloquent man I ever heard but he givss his audience no no no wisaom, do you mean, Mr.

u. No information." (Statistics, we suppose he meant.) Thus much of the man. Ralph Waldo Emtrson is the only original mind America has hitherto produced. After centuries of imitative slavery, it has at length born a native man. He has come straight from the wilderness, dripping with the dew of the aboriginal woods, and touched with their mild and eo'emn darkness.

He is the first of a brood of Titans, who, inhis own yet Laugh and leap On the continent, and run up the mountains of the west on the errands of geniHs and love." His province, intellectually, has been, to try to map out the domains of "Cloudland," and from the thick darkness of mysticism, to protrude certain sharp points and brilliant edges of meaning. He has united in his single 6elf much of the abBtruse conception of the German, the ethereal subtlety of the Greek, and the practical acuteneso of the American understanding. His insight is quiet and keen, may be called rather a mild, warm breath of enthusiasm passing over all things, and solving them as it goeB by. He sees, because he has first loved, and to this soft key, what lock but must yield His utterances are abrupt, and scattered amid much surrounding darkness, and remind you of those tongues of flame which you sometimes see high up amid the smoke, and cut off from the fire beneath. On the wide moor of his thoughts stands up, every now and then, a little sentence, like a fairy, and tello us the way.

His power comeB anil goes, like spasms ef shooting nnin tUn U. I npi nm, biicu, uur mull nil? 1113 ui.ciiaio 1 a 113 arc like those intense bits of blue we catch through summer uiuuus, oe so oracuiar in nis power ana mystery, ana so practical withal to be at home in the rarest regions of thought, and yet have an eye so keenly alive to the proprieties of every day-life, and niceties of domestic economy to have written at one time the Oversoul," and nt another Prudence," is the highest praise we can bestow on Emerson. His scenery has a fearless Americanism about it. He hates to talk of Alps and Appe-niuec, the Pyrenean and the river Po. His own woeds, that seem tp wait till he has passed that they; may resume their mystic converse the clouds forming themselves into, cherubic shapes above his lonely walkl the wind, coming to him from the depth of the forest, with music and meaning on its wings are dearer far to him, and sweet to his ear as the rustle of his own green or yellow corn.

'I'here ia a fine under-songin his eloquence, which reminds you of the quiet tune sung by a log in the fire, to one sitting by it half asleep at the eventide. Yet listen to that log, we chaTge you, ye sons of men for there is an oracle in the simple unity of its sound, a deep mystery in its monotone. It has grown amid the old forests; in darkness it has drank in strange meanings; whispers from the heart of the earth have come to. it in secret and, hark how sweetly and sagely it discourses, touched into eloquence by the tengue of fire. Emerson understands well the virtue of "sitting still," and tHeyet rnrer virtue or iiience.

tie Knows tnat many scenes in nature, and works of art, are best described by not being described best represented (as in the case of the artist who, called to paint Agamemnon's grief over Iphigenis, gained ihe praises of oil antiquity, and of all time, by not doing it at all) by dropping the curtain, that to exclaim and make orations when the hills are reverberating the eloquence of the olouds or when the deepest breast of the earth is speaking with choked accents; or when you stand before some masterpiece of genius; were nearly as absurd as to cheer the thunder or encore the earthquake that a tear twinkling in the eye of enthusiasm as it beholds some great object, or a half-uttered monosyllable, or a convulsive gesture, is; a truer tribute to power nnd grandeur than a thousand artificial raptures -that silence is aot only elder, but stronger than speech, that the greatest objects in the universe are the stillest, that the forests murmurj but the stars speak not; that the, ocean hath a voice, but the sun, is silent; the seraphim sing, the Shechinnh is uumo; Aaron spoge, xtiosess race out snone: sweeny discoursed the high '-priest; bat the Urim and Thummim, 1, 1 1 1 a 1 1 ine uncut, muncs uuun ins menu, uaoneu imiu a meaning deeper and div'ner far This meek silence Emerson 1.... A IT ic 1 uvea neurit, nema mrge umure uibi 1111 icui. axsj sits quietly till the spirit corn or rather, he lies supine, silent, dissolved, till lifted up into sudden statuie by the passing power. His theoretical views we do not pefectly comprehend. They seem a strange, dim something com pounded ot the views ot Fhvo, fiotinus, jMchte, and Swedenborg.

His mind, originally cognate to those men, nas emreny arunit in ana aigesieu meir tueumanuns and added, as he reproduces them, a fir-tree odour from 1. r. 1 1 u. .1 I. 1 1.

ins UWM wuuuil. OCHUlIIUliy Ulies IIW uciuiud uicui, Babe-like Jupiters sitting on their clouds, and prattling from age to age to each other, and to no contemporary." He is another such added to their number and scattered, 1 1 I- 1 1. I nnu imperrect ns are sun nis ne nu? given to their notions a more perfect and poetic form than they ever had before, or than we deem them susceptible of receiving. The key to Emerson's entire nature nnd philosophy is love. A child-like tenderness and minuiiuHy 01 airecnon Dreame 111 ma wriuuuo, icie is, if not an innocent," as it is beautifully called, an infant, and will for ever be a child.

He sees 1 it in infancy the perpetual Messiah sent intn men's arms to woo them back to Paradise." Bard or hern cannot look down unon the word or ffesture of a child it is as great as thev." Himself, we are told, one of the most innocentand ingenuous of human beings, he finds in the extension of thia child-like dispnsition the hope of humanity, and thus he prophesies, All men shall yet be lovers, and then shall every calamity be dissolved in the universal sunshine." As a writer, hie mannerism lies in the exceeding unexpectedness of his transitions in his Btrange, swift, and sudden yokings of 1 .1 i 1 1 vilC I11UOI. UIMHIlt H1IU UlirCiaitU lUCUOi III UlCTllJ, onu abruptness nf sentence in the shreds of mysticism which are left deliberately on the web of Mb thought and in tUn II .1 1 nnl II. ine in iruuuubiun, uy miiiuai luuiuruuo utiuiiast, ui ine Venent Illlfiaiitmo rtf nttztn nhraannlntrv anA 1rUl.n 1.11. iu. ii- ut zj mm iiuiiu i nt, iiikuim ui lueausui.

His style falls often, as if dying away to the sound of iiibi. nrvcci iiiuuuiniiuil auiuuiiuicD iiiiu a wruill! rounded nnd rnlliniy irrnntniu. nf InrmiTialiftn aa in U. plnan nf tU TUU. IVr.

II ril. 11111, 111 j.aiuiir, tvncir, ill uie soul, he says, "pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a hPHllliful annrn fA. Un. her coronation robes, and goeth out through universal love to universal power." But his style is in general careless and neglected, as ever yetwaB the attire of prophets, and 111 ci 1, rtiiu uue 11, ruuti ill 14 ill uuu iru 111-iure 1 tie nana of the unseen power which swayed them. His "Nature" is the most finished of his worka his Orations" the iiiugL aumirtius nnu Bicit-my ine niHpa.vtj me most practical and comprehensive.

Among the latter we prefer "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," and "Love." In the first two, like the shadow of Nemesis, he traverses the entire circle of human life, and traces the austere and awful laws of sure and swift retribution, which nreside over it all, vice its own punishment, the world full of judgment days puniBhment, a fruit which grows unsuspected, and ripens unseen anrd the pleasure which concealed it expounds the "stern ethics which sparkle 011 the chisel edge," and draws the sage, and within certain limits, and with many exceptions, the true inference, that justice is done now: In "Love" there burns the Greek fire of a genuine Platonist and 1 ou are reminded in its melting diction and ethereal spirit of the fine fragment by Shelley, which bears the same title. He sees in it the radiance of the sou), the flowering of virtue, the fine madness of the mind seeking fnr one who had originally, and in some antenatal state, belonged to itself, and tries to draw from it hia favourite dedunttnn that tUa ..,,1 T. 1C 1, he Bhows himself admirably free from the cant of frpnina n'mnllo nn II- v.t .10 mnwin, uub nn solemn obligations proclaims, that for its pitiable and lamented sore, bleeding from ago to age, the one simple plaster of prudence had ever been sufficient nnd declares that, for his own part, no golden mist of transcendentalism shall blind his eyes to the stern laws of nature and of life. Hourly are these essays of his making their way into public favour among us. Th's is owing partly to their style, partly to some extravagancies of statement, whinh nana Kaun n.A.l..

uac.ij. tnunt at Dy persons as incapable of imbibing their real spirit as of hreathinn with a. thn B8 Ii 7" nu ui unimoorazo and partly to the fact that he has put his most peculiar and staggering lucubrations in the foreground of the volume What? choke-pear ''History the drift of which is to prove that there never has been and never can be, any such thing Yet, here and there' we find a lonely spirit cherishing their strange and fitful utterances, and rolling their musical cadences, like a sweet morsel," in joyous secresy. And many whose course ot rendin cr noon nml. lU.t 11...

nj i onvi, mat iiipj, miu naming absoh tely new in him, admit that he has given to certain old changek'ss trwths a new and noble terminology, and contend that he is the only practical transcen-dentahst that has yet existed. And, at times, you find a secluded thinker, who recognizes in Emerson his own "rejected" thoughts, which come back upon him with a certain alienated majesty. And thus i'b his Renius, likea delicate pencil ray, insinuatingitsgentle way into the midst of us. He has been, compared to Carlyle, tut has less pictorial particla.of his savage mirth. Here and there a shooting phnue, a glancing metaphor, the startling abruptness of a sentineat, te- mi.

uur nnai ana tearless veraict on jMinfraiii is, mat no mind, in the present generation, lies more abandoned In the Buirit-hrenth nf eternut nnliire Nnne ndlvlita through it more transparently, as through the soft veil of a summer tree, the broken particles (a sun hi-vered into fragments of glory) of The light that never was on sea or ehore, Tho consecration and the poet's dream." THE LAST MOMENTS AN1 FTTNT.RAT. OR" THE LATE REV. JOHN ELY. The Rev I ii, nr aji.i, oajo 1.11,7 jfceua wag born at Rochester, in Kent, on the 20th of August, 1793. His father.

Mr n.Jn;ai a.h;i.u.t kiu vuiiivi 'J mt mvuiici. ouu uunuci, t7, ne.wa8 young: his aged mother survives him. iiiy received his education for the ministry at Hox-tnii i I (.,,., 11 n. i. uwc mo 1VCI, -T.

illtS V. John iJiackburn, the Rev. John Alexander, and other eminent ministers were his contemporaries; He settled at Rochdale June, 1814, and was ordained in the summer of 1815. After a nineteen years' pastorate in that town, with mmh i i cucdb as tvi; nuve seen, anu navmK declined many other calls to larger spheres, he at length Saw It hlfi illll In 1 -i. i wis ituu toe cnurcn ana congregation at Salem Chapel, Leeds, subsequently removed to Ii.unt Ti.

i i noo iiojicu ne came to lieeos on the 1st July, 1833, and was designated over the church and eon arena! inn in Anmmt f.n 71- 1 1 .1 luiiuvriiiij. a nau mere- fore more than completed a ministry of fourteen years in Leeds, and of thirty-three years at Leeds and Rochdale. He died in the fifty-fifth year of his age, leaving a widow and one daughter. Mr. Etv'a cnnntiintion hurl haan u.

t. auiciv illness in the commencement of the year 1845. A journey on the Continent in the summer of that year considerably re-established his strength. Still he had a presentiment that his life vrnnln nnt UiraciMn n.nl...J T. Qivtn, 1 fiiuiuiigcu.

xUIIIIK recent visit to Harrogate his labours were excessive, The mum ill ins laim llllltroo Was Ills oemg tnO- roughly chilled by performing the funf ral of one of his mem hern nn 3nt, 1 lU wa.u.uaj, mju nm ui UClCltlUCl, TI IbUlU. two hours after Mb return home he was seized with vio lent snivenng, Bucceeaeu Dy tne oppositite indications of fever. Internal inflammation took place, which, not- Ullthfitanrlinn- thn mnut ui .1 I iuv awivuuuD aiVCIlllUU IJ1 UU) UJUlCEti advisers, could never be Bubdued. During the week ba- rore nio aeatn ne seemea to ne recovering, but on the oumruiij no Decame aeciueaiy worse, ana aurtng the last mentr nt' hi- lUn nm hit. 1110 uincctci? uiauu uullBlullfc prugrcoB.

JH Tuesday evening' the medical report was so discouraging that Mr. Ely expected a very early dismission from his mortal labourg, and summoned some of his nearest friends. On Wednesday he appeared somewhat better; But oa 'I'hiirfirtnTT gflarnnnn hn anain ciiaiii usvniiii; UJUUII Y7UIBC, UUU in the evening he called bis family and a number of his friends round his bed to receive hin Avina (nfimnn. faith'. He lav in extreme debility, aud coiild scureelv uncloBe his eyes, or speak more than a few words at a time.

Yet he nnu in full nnnseunnn nf hiu nlav aA culine understandincr. He addressed bin friends perfect calmness and composure. The dying declaration oi sucn a man deserves to De recorded. Oiving one of his hands to one friend, aad the other hand to another, he addressed the company as follows: "It is on the fullness, freeness, and sufficiency of Christ in bis person and offices, that I repose my only hope of salvation. This IS the dnetrine haun ni-ennheil nnA UI.

1 r. uuw uiiumy support. Should such a man as I doubt The time of rtennrture i ot ov un, luugm agooa ngnt; a nave iu, i imic iicpi me raitn aenoeiorttt there IH kill nn fnr inoa mnirr, ill ir-i- Liord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that and not to me only, but unto ail them al.o that love his tiller vuae, ne cnauenged scrutiny by asking, "Have any of my stronger-minded friends any question to ask me They having declared their entire satisfaction with the clear and full testimony he had borne.be said. "Have nnv nf mv 0 iinuHii uiniui any inquiry to make?" A question being nut. he replied.

wo earnest: earnestness earnestness." He afterwards said, 1 I don't want a scene," his mind revolting at any tflinsr artificial and. after lither wn-d nt' i "u.uj laiiii anw cum- tort, he lifted up his feeble arms thrice, and said. Ble you 1 bless you bless you 1" Within two or. three hours of his death he seemed to awake from a state of insensibility, and exclaimed, Oh something new I can understand it but I can rely on pardoning blood." I hntn Worn thn loot mtn, A Un 1. nuuu uncicu; except tnat, oa Demo- anker! inmciihal if ha ii- i.

to lhrist as his Saviour, he said, I nm." The lamp of life burned mil. orudiiullTr onA UA own nio preaia at a quarter before three o'clock on Saturday morning. And thus, in the full hnnn nf th 12 1 7 rv uiv uunfici, itiiaeu away from the world this good and useful man, bis death being in nertect ennitiRtennv with hiu 1 u.i. A. ouu imijf Ill remnTMl haa nroatc uniJ ill 1 i- i "'u niiitu it win luueeane dlfhCUlt to HI Keldnm.lf ever uou on 11,111 1U Hill I t'U IU Leeds more universally respected, beloved, and lamented.

His funeral took place on Friday at the Leeds General Cemetery, being preceded by a most affecting service at Parade Chanel, nnradnnteit ho lU. T- 11. n. of Liverpool, an early friend of the deceased minister! aiiH mc ginvo wao Dy tne Key. lhomas SCaleR- The attendnnnn nf I- -7 iiiiiiidicid ui various denominations, from the town and country, was exceed- nnu ocvcim ui sne most eminent oi the congregational ministers from other parts of the kitigdom were present.

The chapel was crowded with mourners. Odd Customs at Swbdisk was greatly amused at witnessing a bride displayed at Wisby, literally pro bono publico, though I cannot say I much admire the way the tottlander conduct the usually sensitive, nerve-tiying ceremoney of holy matrimony, and fancy not even our Widow Barnaby" would go through it (till after supper.) The fair betrothed was married at home, about six 0 clock the eveaing, and immediately afterwards was brought to the window, in which a number flighted candles WBre placed, where she had to blush (ifshetould) and show herself till eleven! an immense crowd beini gathered below, having the privilege, accorded by vile custom, of demx.ndini7 her In nntni .1 .1 i 1 0 ivinniu, auumu silv DO absent from it longer than suited their notions of pro- wi i.uiuj, 111 uns neneojeune pillory was a ClerffVinan. nnd enrml! m.hlir. ijr IU lliQ night. I merely name this to show it is a practice froa which the elite are not exempt.

The lady was very bridally attired, and appeared, as I thought, particularly steady under fare, never shrinking from the admiring volleys which she received, but enfilading the street in return with eloquent glaacee, whilst the newly riveted parson could scarcely be forced to the front, though repeatedly ca led fnr he evirfentl I Li -7 leather about him than hiB more courageous half. ffBily aa moaeBt man. 1 went nome guiltless ot the sin of coveting a neighbour's wife whose tastes gave preference to the reeking glare of a public illumination, rather than to the pale witching beams of the sweet and lonely honeymoon for I cannot but think, in this age of freedom, the display misfit have been avoided, if really z. as luuiil UI IBY hli foul readers may well imagine it. To the formr.

i-ciwj oei, um cusiom must be any thing but favourable, as nan imnoine Tinthinir mnm -7 mvic iinciv m- duce a man to put off the evil day than the heavy dis- hlirseTnent nf i i. nujiuuMivu no ituuiu nave io maKe paving the terrible penalty I have described. Rambles Sweden and Gottland, Ba i particular about Scotch tradetman who had amassed, as he believed, 4000, was surprised innnLetk wlth a balance-sheet, showing his fortune to be 6000. "It canna' he" miA th count agen." The clerk again declared the balanee to be 6000. Ihe master counted himself, and he also Drought out.

a inmlnn nf Ptdlfl Q.lll u. 1 V.7 7 win uu uau a lurfting doubt of the existence of the extra 2000 so, one night he sat down to give the columns one count more." At the close of his task he jumped up, and rushed through the Rtreetfl In ilinnur nf rain tn tu i UUK vl nw clels ihe clerk's head, capped and drowsy, emerged from an errand of his midnight visitor. Whose's there ha mumbled. and rvhnt. do vnn vc-mtn" i r.i.

nuiuurr, ai, una Buuuu ui iu linocKer. to lllQUlre the ii, o.uiir, ye scooneral!" exclaimed his employer, "ve've addeH the year of our Lord amang the poonda Caithness Chronicle. GraDUATRFJ hWa An nnt i.n. il says an American paper, where the following specimen ui pjinuunicu juBucr, 111 our siate, comes trom but, wherever it belongs to. it deserves tn hn .1 a fine model of magistrates.

On a warm summer's day three men were brought before a fair, round Dutch magistrate, accused of drunkenness. His honour having premised, with a heany swig of cool punch, began with the first Justice. You rascal, pe you kilty or pe you not ki tv Prisoner fJniliv. i II3VHCI. uiticaBiriiij.

justice. Vat 'get drunk on nottm' but blackstrap, you wiilian, you Den dis pe my everlasting sentence, dnt you pe fined forty shillings. The second culprit being questioned in the like manner, as to guilt or innocence, likewise owned himselt guilty. Justice. Now tell wile drunken rascal, vat you get drunk on? Prisoner Sling.

Juslice Vat you get drunk on slink, you graceless wagabone you swillm' sod, you Dan I give my tarnal sentence, dat you pe fined twenty shillings. The third and last prisoner was now brought forward, and, like the others pleaded suilty. ustice. Vat you get drunk on Prisoner. Punch.

ustice. Ah, you dripplin rogue you 1 I fines you nottin' at all, vor I gets drunk on puuch mineself Bometiincs. Voracitv op a Pike. On Sunday morning week several respectable inhabitants of Shrewsbury were walking in the Quarry, and perceived one of the ducks which tne.h'ibit of taking a bath in the ford below the Welsh Bridge, floating down the stream in a manner which plainly showed that "something was the matter Ihe poor duck was flapping its wings, wi.h its head under the water. Mr.

Craig, solicitor, who was walking in the Quarry, called to the boy who ferries over thi boat behinging to Mr. Evans, to look after the duck. He jumped into a skiff, which he paddled into the centre ot the stream, and on pulling up the duck, its head was lound gorged in the throat of an enormous pike, at least six pounds weight, which, however, had aa objection to fresh air, and, instead of allowing itself to be an out-water tenant, slipped back to its watery element, aHer disgorging the head of the duck, which isnow doing well. Shrewsbury Chronicle. The Life op Oysters.

Oysters le-id, on the whole, as is known, a tolerably quiet life, but even they cannot oret through this world, it appears, without their troubles. Now they are attacked by a kind of star-fish that lies watching till they open their shell to take in fresh water, and then darte in its long tough arms, kills them, add consumes them in a fresher state than they have ever yet been enjoyed by any epicure; now their sorrows proceed from within, in the shape of a small worm that destroys them; and sometimes, according to the testimony of the people of Sylt, thty are attacked successfully by a bird called thence an oyster-fisher, who disturbs iheir tranquillity whenever he can find an opportunity of introducing his long sharp beak. When thia may be however, does not seem very clear. There sre also but those who are so foEtunate aa to cpe these danaem' pass iheir time comfortably enough, for thirty oi fStJ' at even nn in himdrrl voova them the more bonouraWe packed into barrels, and sent off to CaMm4PRd Hamburgh, or St. Petersburg, where duly Jowtf tbm went, ate.