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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1854 jtiontp. MONEY. —WANTED to BORROW £lOO to '2OO, for One, Two, or Three Years, for which satis factory security will be given, and 5 per cent. interest. — Address T, Standard-office. LOANS OF MON E Y.-BOROUGH OF RPOOL. The CORPORATION LIVE of LIVERPOOL are prepared to receive LOANS of MONEY, for periods of Three. Five, or Seven Years, bearing Interest at the rate of £4 per Cent. ner Annum. Interest paya'de on the Ist January and lat July In every , year. The Security is the " Liverpool Water Account. composed of the Rents, Rates ' and Charges for the supply of Wate r w ithi n the Borough of Liverpool and the Neighbourhood, for Domestic, Trading. Manufacturing, and other Purposes. and for Shinning. THE BOROUGH FUND BEING AN ADDITIONAL OR COLLATERAL. SECURITY, FOR THE INTEREST; AND THE LANDS. TENEMENTS, BEREDITAMENTS. AND ESTATE OF THE CORPORA TION, FOR THE PRINCIPAL. Applications to be made to CAPES ASHLIN, Esq., Trea surer, Public Offices, 2, Cornwallis - street; or to the TOWN CLERK, Town-hall, Liverpool; from either of whom further 'Particulars may be obtained. (By order) January, HUTTLEWORTH, Town-clerk. Town -hall, 2nd 1854. Insurance Notices. YORKSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. RSTABLISIIRD IB24 . Parties having Annual Policies falling due on the 25th of December are respectfully informed that they should renew the same within fifteen days from that date. AGENTS: LATHAM HANNIER, jun., I, Dale-street. F. L. MAWDF.SLF.Y, 3, Cook-street. JOHN ATKINSON, 25, North John•street. LITHERLAND & GROOM, 42, Lord-street. CORPORATION OF THE LONDON ASSURANCE. ESTABLISHED A.D. 1720. No. 7, ROYAL EXCHANGE, CORNHILL, AND No. 7, PALL-MALL, LONDON. GOVERNOR, Edward Burmester, Esq. SUB-GOVERNOR, John A. Arbuthnot. Esq. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR, James Dovvie, Esq. FIRE?, INSURANCES effected upon every description of Property, with the usual reductions allowed on and in Build lugs of Certified Warehouses, 4.c. and for single management, .according to the lowest rates current. FIRE NOTICE. PERSONS ASSURED AGAINST FIRE by this Corpora tion! whose Policies expire at CHRISTMAS. are respectfully reminded, that, for their own security, they should renew them within FIFTEEN DAYS from the said QUARTER DAY. LIFE ASSURANCES.—This branch of the Corporation's business is carried on without any charge for management, 'and offers peculiar advantages to the Assured. Prospectuses, Mercantile Fire Rates, and all other infor mation, may be had at their Offices, or sent free, on applica tion to JOHN SCOTT, 1, India -buildings, Water-street; C. F. CARNE, 13, Rumford-place; Agents for Liverpool and adjaceig ir p k a e r n t i s ,e ; a o d. rto EDWD. ROBERTS, Sandford-street, WATERLO AN O LIFE, EDUCATION, CASUALTY, D SEF-I tLELIEF ASSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated under Statute 7 and 8 Vic. cap. Subscribed Capital, .e 400,00. HEAD OFFICE, 355, STRAND, LONDON. LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD: DIRECTORS. Chairman.—Hilton Halhead, Esq., Merchant. Robert Bickersteth, Esq., F.R.C.S. James Bland, Esq., Merchant. Matthew Gregson, Esq., Merchant. William Joseph Horsfall. Esq., Merchant. James Lord, Esq., Merchant. MEDICAL REFEREE. Alfred Stephens, Esq., 4, Upper Parliament-street. MANAGER.-11Ir. Chas. Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings. Clayton-square. FEATURES OF THIS COMPANY. By the appropriation of profits, a Fund will be created for the Education of Children of qualified Assurers upon Volun tary Principles, also for the relief of qualified Assurers and Shareholders their Widows and Orphans, by providing Annuities, and Homes or Asylums. Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness, insanity, accidents, and other afflictions. Annuities granted. Family endowments. No charge to the assured for policy stamps. Medical men always paid for their reports. Loans granted in connexion with Life Assurance. Rates of premium moderate. An unusually liberal commission allowed to Agents. Detailed Prospectuses may he had on application to T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN., ESQ.. MANAGER AND SECRETARY. Head Office, 355, Strand, London. MONARCH FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ADELAIDE-PLACE, LONDON BRIDGE. , ESTABLISHED 1835. CHAIRMAN : Sir John Muszrove, Bart. and Alderman. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN : John Rinnersley Hooper, Esq. and Alderman. GEORGE H. JAY, Manager. Among the advantages offered by this Company may be atated, ample security arising from a large subscribed Capital, Reduced Rates of Premium for Youna: Lives, one half the Premium for the first five years allowed to remain asa per manent Loan. Premiums payable annually, half-yearly, or quarterly. Bonuses declared every fifth year. Participation by Life Assurers in two-thirds of the profit of the Fire Department. Loans granted in connexion with Life Assurance on approved personal and other securities. All kinds of Life Contingency protected. FIRE. Every description of Fire Business undertaken at the ordi nary rates. _ FOREIGN RISK. Insurances granted on Property in all the principal cities of Europe and the British Colonies. The Renewal Fire Receipts for the CHRISTMAS Quarter are now ready for delivery, and Policy-holders are respect fully informed that the same can be obtained at the Head Office, or of any of the Agents. All Transfers of Policy from other Odices will be made free of charge. AGENTS FOR LivEn?oot.: Messrs. J. P. PLATT and CO No. 53, Castle-street. Mr. R. ANGUS No. 13. Cook-street. THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL, - MILLIONS. OFFICE-26, Market-street, Manchester. LONDON OFFICE-2, King-street, Cheapside. LIVERPOOL OFFICE-3, H igh-street,&s, Exchange-street East. GLASGOW OF F IC ES-118, Ingram-street, and 4. Hanover-street. GREENOCK OFFICE—The Mansion-house. DIRECTORS AT LIVERPOOL. CHAIRMAN—Eyre Evens, Esq. Benjamin Derbyshire, Esq. W. F. Hunter, Esq. Thomas Fry, Esq. Frederick Lyon, Esq. George Glen, Esq. Daniel Powell, Esq. Charles Holland. Esq. l James Smith, Esq. RESIDENT SECRETARY-301m Semple, EMI. LIFE DEPARTMENT. BONUSES.—EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits appor tioned to the Assured triennially, after the fir't five years, and applicable as may be preferred at the time of each valuation. Bonus Rates I .e 1 17 ole2 6 0 I 3 06 I .e 4 69 I -€6 7 6 SPECIAL NOTICE.—No Stamp Duty whatever charged. FIRE DEPARTMENT. BONUSES.—FIFTY PER CENT. of the Profits appor tioned to the Assured annually on Policies of three years' standing—an advantage offered by very few Offices. INSURANCES ON FARMING STOCK. The Public are informed that the Rates for the Insurances of Farming Stock with this Company have just been REDUCED from 4s. to 3s. per Cent. without the Average Clause, and from 3s. 6d. to 2a. 6d. with that Clause. NOTlCE.—Persons insured with this Office, whose Policies expire at CHRISTMAS, are respectfully reminded that they should be renewed within Fifteen Days from that period; and those who desire to avail themselves of the advantages and security of The Lancashire Insurance Company incur no extra expense by the transfer of their Policies. Influential Gentlemen Wanted as Agents, where the Com pany is not represented. Prospectuses, Mercantile Rates, Forms of Proposal, and all other information, will be afforded at the Offices and Agencies of the Company. Mr. WM. HENDERSON, Agent for Birkenhead; Mr. G. J. ASPINALL, Agent for Toxteth.park. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL, .e 2,000,000, in 100,000,,S HARES of .e2O each. HEAD OEFICE, NORTH JOHN-STREET, AND DALE-STREET..., TRILSTEES. John Shaw Leigh, Esq. 1R.8.8. H. Blundell, Esq. DIRECTORS, &C., IN LIVERPOOL. Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman. J. Bramley• Moore, Esq., and Edmund Molyneux, Esq., Deputy-Chairmen. ilichael Belcher, Esq. Richard Houghton, Esq. Michael Bousfield, Esq. Edward Johnston, Esq. 'Thomas Bouch, Esq. Roger Lyon Jones, Esq. Ralph Brocklebank, Esq. James Lawrence, Esq. David Cannon, Esq. William J. Marrow, Esq. Thomas Dover, Esq. I Francis Maxwell, Esq. R. Ellison Harvey, Esq. George Maxwell, Esq. James Holme, Esq. Robert M'Andrew, Esq. I'. Dyson Hornby, Esq. William Smith, Esq. George H. Horsfall, Esq. John Torr, Esq. AUDITORS. William Titherington, Esq., and John Dickinson, Esq. • PHYSICIAN. SURGEON. Richard Formby, M.D. Hugh Neill, F.R.A.S. SURVEYOR, SOLICITOR. Samuel Holme, Esq. ' Septimus Booker, Esq. MANAGER AND ACTUARY, Percy M. Dove, Esq. BIRKENHEAD BRANCH, OFFICE—HAMILTON -BUILDINGS, H ILTDN-STREET. Agent.—Henry Cole, Esq. Surgeon.—James T. Vale, Esq., Hamilton-square. LIFE BRANCH. SPECIAL NOTICE.-STAMPS ON LIFE POLICIES NOT CHARGED. Attention is directed to the fact that to a defined extent Life Premiums are not subject to Income-tax, and that in certain cases Life Policies are exempt from the New Succession Duties. FIRE BRANCH. FIRE INSURANCES will be effected at moderate rates of Premium. The Company, having the advantage of a Resi dent Directory, will be enabled to distinguish itself by its Promptness in the settlement of Claims. No Charge made for the Policy. LIFE BRANCH. The Company likewise assure Lives on any of the following contingencies, namely : POT the WHOLE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE.—The Premiums to cease after a LIMITED NUMBER OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS. For a Sum to be payable at Age 60, or at Death. • PREMIUMS ON CREDIT. A PORTION OF THE PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN ON CREDIT, OR ASSURANCES MAY BE EFFECTED IN VARIOUS WAYS, NOT ENUMERATED, TO MEET THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PARTY MAKING THE ASSUR ANCE. _ The important advantages afforded by the Company in this Branch will include the following. viz. : ..y_OARANTEE OF AN AMPLE CAPITAL, MODERATE PRE- T' u ms, LARGE PARTICIPATION OF .PROFITS BY THE A Sge ß r, SMALL CHARGE FOR MANAGEMENT, &c. Commission allowed to Solicitors. Fees tsoulZiedical Referees are likewise . ' .ranted by this C 0122 • pang. PERCY M. DOVE, Manner. Policies falling due at CHRISTMAS should be renewed on Or before the 9th of January next. December, 1853.. Insurance Notite%. N ORWICH UNION soc I ETY.- ESTA CAPITAL FIRE INSURANCE 13LISI1 ED 1821. £550,000. TRUSTEES. Theßight Hon. Lord Hastings Edwd. Wenham Martin, Esq. The Lord Walpole Thomas Amyot, Esq. Sir Henry Jardine, Knt. Henry BEsq. John Stracey, Esq. &c. To w n, c DIRECTORS. President —Anthony Hudson, Esq. Viee-President—Lieut.-General Sir Robert John Harvey, C. B. Charles Evans, Esq., Chan- 1 Robert John Harvey Harvey, cellor of the Diocese of Esq. Norwich. George Durant, Esq. Edward Stewart, Esq. Sir William Foster, Bart. Thomas Blakiston,Esq.,R.N. Henry S. Patteson, Esq. Timothy Steward, Esq. John Wright, Esq. SAMUEL BIGNOLD, Esq., Secretary. The Public are respectfully reminded, that all Insurances renewable in the LIVERPOOL AGENCY on the 25th day of December, 1853, must be paid at the Office, 6, Exchange-street West, on or before the 9th day of January, 1854, or the Society will cease to be liable for the sums insured. This Society paid £74,037 9s. 11d. Duty to Government for the year 1852. It INSITRED, during the same year, £9,066,080 Farming Stock, which is Free of Duty. In proof of . the public approbation of the principles and conduct of this Company, it may be sufficient to state that its Business now exceeds SIXTY Ali LLIONS. AGENTS { ROBERT NEILSON, JOHN ANDERSSON. NO CHARGE FOR - POLICY STAMPS. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED IN 1797. 70, LomBARD-STREET.Erik,,ZIS7, CHARING . CROSS, WESTMINSTER. NOTICE. The present Septennial period, prior to the next Division of Profits, will terminate on the 2d July, 1834, All Policies now effected (and afterwards continued in force for five years) on the Participating Scale of Premium, will share in the surplus. For Prospectuses. and Forms of Proposal, apply at the Offices, as above, or to any of the Company's Agents. ROBERT TUCKER, Secretary. AGENTS. THOS. CROOK and Son, Accountants. LIVERPOOL.—JAMES ODDIE, Agent to the Manchester Fire-office. JAS. & THOS. LEWIN, Wine-merchants. Thomas Hill Surveyor. Ashton .... {Thomas L. Cunningham, Stationer. John Railton, St. Paul's Foundry. Blackburn i James Wilson, Old Bank. i J. Mawdsley and Son. Bolton Burnley Thomas Holgate, Wine-merhant. r Thomas Crompton, Bookseller. Bury Chorley Richard Cliffe. Lancaster Richard Hinde, Wine-merchant. William James Tate, 57, King-street. Manchester .... { Robert Holmes, Norfolk-street. Ormskirk john Fairhurst, Miller. Preston Edward Pedder, Banker. Prescot S. Proctor, Grocer. Rochdale { James Woods, Attorney. Jonathan Nield, Bank -manager. Salford W. W. Goulden, Solicitor. James on, Ironmon Warrington.... { Thomas ßolt Fell. Old Bankovr.: f Woodcock, Part, and Scott, Solicitors. Wigan Wet° AlAusir. " PASSED AWAY TO HEAVEN."—" Joy ful, joyful Spring."—" The Spring and the Summer both are past."—" Say, my heart, can this be love." By W. VINCENT WALLACE. Price 2s. each. " These four songs, within the compass of a moderate mezzo soprano voice, are among the best English songs that have been published."—Athenceum. .._ " 0 lovely Peace, with plenty crowd d." itcOVELLO'S CHEAP MUSIC is sold by every respectable Music Seller and Bookseller in this Town and Neighbourhood. Catalogues post-free on sending six stamps to 69, Dean-street, Soho, London. NEW Vublirations. Lately Published, price 3s. 6d., cloth hoards. SURGICAL REPORT on LITIIOTOMY, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone, and on Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder. and Urethra. By J. NOTTINGHAM, M.D., Liverpool, Anthor of " Surgical Report on Cataract and Artificial Pupil." CHURCHILL, London: DEIGHTON 8z LAuonroN, Liverpool. Price ss. 6d. by post. THE TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION, with Cases. By Dr. BURSLENI, Senior Physician to the Blenheim-street Dispensary, London. "Original and important observations on the treatment of consumption in the female. . . Dr. Burslem is evtdently a practical physician."—Lqueet. "Of practical utility."—Medical Times and Gazette. London: J. CHURCHILL, Soho. TO BOOK CLUBS TOWN AND COUNTRY LENDING LIBRARIES, MECHA , NICS' INSTITUTES, Src., &c. In the Press. HISTORY of the POLICY of the CHURCH of ROME in IRELAND from the INTRODUCTION of the ENGLISH DYNASTY to the GREAT REBELLION. By the late WILLIAM PHELAN, D.D. With Biographical Memoir by the late Dr. JOHN JEBB, formerly Bishop of Limerick, and Introductory Remarks, by JAMES LORD, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. To be published in octavo, good type and paper. Price, 125 to subscribers, 16e to non-subscribers. Orders may be sent to Mr. Sanders, Pro testant Association Office, 6, Serjeants'-Inn, Fleet-street, Lon don, or to Messrs. Wertheim and Macintosh, 24, Paternoster row. The printed list of those ordering copies will be inserted in the Times of 2d January, 1854, and may be had gratis at the Office. In it are the names of two Archbishops, eight Bishops, twenty-eight Noblemen, and Members of the !louse of Com mons. as well as those of Clergymen and distinguished lay men in various parts of the kingdom. 249 Copies have already been subscribed for. The List for Subscribers will close January 18, 1854. HANDSOME CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR'S PRESENT. Now ready, elegantly bound in cloth, gilt, 384 pages, with Forty-four Illustrations, price 2s. 6d., HOME THOUGHTS for 1854, containing Tales—Essays—Poetry—Historic Contrasts— Biogra phical Sketches of Eminent Men—t.oiterings round London —Papers on Science, Natural History, and the Arts—Notices and Extracts from New Books—Embroidery, Crochet, and Netting, with Diagrams—Useful Domestic Hints —Gardening Notes—Chess and Draughts, with Problems and Games— Arithmetical Questions—Riddles and Charades—and a variety of instructive and amusing matter. " One of the most welcome of fireside visitors."—Black burn Standard. HOME THOUGHTS is also p•iblished in Monthly Numbers, price 2d., each containing 32 pages of letter-press, with V% rapper, and Engravings. Nos. Ito 12 are now ready.— The January Number (No. 13) contains the first chapters of a New Tale, by Mrs. Geldart, Author of " Truth is Every thing," &c. London KENT F.E Co., Paternoster-row ; and all Booksellers. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, a Commercial, Political. and General Newspaper, IS PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, and is delivered at the RESIDENCE of Subscribers by EIGHT O'CLOCK, in any part of Liverpool. or within the districts of A eto Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Woodside, Tranmere, Rock-ferry, Waterloo, Seajorth,Bootle, Walton, Rverton, Fairfield, and Aigburth. Subscripion, in advance, for a year. £3 ; six months, Ns, 6d.; three months, 19s. 6d.—For the Proprietors, • CHARLES WILIAM ER, PUBLISHER. IMPORTANT TO SHOPKEEPERS. Just Published, price 2s. 6d., THE SHOPKEEPER'S GUIDE, designed to give stability to the interest of the Shopkeeper, by in structing him how to place his business upon a secure foun dation ; but especially to guide persons, who, from ill health, or from reverse of fortune, may seek to obtain a livelihood by Shopkeeping, in a path which will contribute to certain BUMPH. CONTENTS : I. SHOPKEEPING.—CAUSES OF FAILURES OF SHOP KEEPERS. 2. THREE WAYS OF LIVING. 3. QUALIFICATIONS FOR A SHOPKEEPER. 4. CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. • 5. SHOPKEEPERS' STOCK LISTS. 6. HINTS TOWARDS THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 7. DIFFERENCEOF REMUNERATION IN THE TRADES AND PROFESSIONS. 8. MONEY, CREDIT, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING BILLS AND PROMISSORY NOTES, LETTERS OF CREDIT, STAMPS, INTE REST TABLES, BANKS AND BANKING, &c. &c. 9. BOOK-KEEPING.—OUTLINE OF A SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM ADAPTED TO A RETAIL SHOP. 10. LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. 11. MISCELLANEOUS ADVICE FOR THE CONSIDER ATION OF THE SHOPKEEPER. 12. THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT. 13. EXAMPLES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN SUC CESSFUL IN LIFE. 14. NUMEROUS RECEIPTS FOR ARTICLES IN CON STANT DEMAND, WHICH MAY BE PUT UP BY ANY SHOPKEEPER, AND SOLD AT A CONSIDER ABLE PROFIT; WITH AN ACCURATE STATE MENT OF THEIR COST, AND THE PROFITS RESULTING FROM THE SALE OF THEM. 15. A LIST OF PROFITABLE AGENCIES OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC IN THE PAGES OF ALL THE DAILY PAPERS DURING THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS. London : HOULSTON and STONEMAN, 65, Paternoster-row, and every Bookseller throughout the kingdom. Price 2s. 6d., ound neatly. MONDAY EDITION for all interested in the prices at MARK LANE and SMITHFIELD MARKETS. Price 6d., free by post, enlarge , i to twenty.four folio pages, (each yearly volume comnlete in itself,) THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE; a Weekly Record of Rural Economy and General News. The Horticultural Part edited by Dr. LINDLEY. In accordance with the wishes of Farmers, Millers, and others interested in the Corn Trade, an Edition will be pub lished in time for post every Monday Afternoon from the commencement of the New Year, containing a Full Report of the Mark-lane and Smithfield Markets of that day. In consequence of the Advertisement duty having been taken off by Government, the customary charges for Adver tisements in THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICUL TURAL GAZETTE have been reduced. 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From the last published Official Stamp Returns, Oct. 1851, it appears that during the preceding year 1850, the Stamps supplied to each of the u n d ermen ti on ed Journals gave them an average publication Of—GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 6,500; Observer, 6,230; Magnet, 4,731 ; Mark-lane Express, 4,730; Examiner, 4,397; Evening Mail, 4,166 ; Economist, 3,826 ; Record, 3,754; Daily News, 3,692; Morning Herald, 3,650 ; Britannia, 3,151 ; Spectator, ; Morning Chronicle, 2,924; St. James's Chronicle, 2,891; San, 2,674; Morning Post, 2,657; John Bull, 2,115; Atlas, 1,884; Globe, 1,875; Standard, 1,577 ; Gardener and Farmer's Journal, 1,165. THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GA ZETTE, price 6d., is published every Saturday Morning, with a Special Edition on Nionday afternoon after Mark-lane Mar ket, and may be ordered of all Newsvenders. List of Con tributors may be had on application at tha Office. Parties intending to commence with the New Volume had better give their orders at once, specifying whethee-Saturday's or Mon day's Edition.—Office for Advertisements and Communica tions, 5, Upper Wellington-street, coygnt-wlert,,Lomlon. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. ttberpool tattbarb. thise with the injustice which has robbed the Church of the crergy reserves guaranteed by a former government. With the exception of the dispute, which has grown into a war, between Russia and Turkey, the state of Europe has been comparatively one of quietude. Louis NAPOLEON has contrived to preserve the Imperial' crown of France, which he so adroitly won, and to restrain the thirst for military conquest which animates his troops. Austria, vacillating between her Russian ally and her professions of peace with the Western Powers, has been successful in doing nothing. Prussia appears to have forgotten her dream of German unity. Spain has lost nothing but her loyalty for her sovereign, the eccentric daughter of an infamous mother, and still retains Cuba from the long-meditated grasp of the American eagle : and the little states are in much the same condi tion at the close of the year as they were at the beginning ; so that 1854 may be said to dawn upon the civilized world amid a calm, the duration of which few will venture to foretel. Having thus taken a hasty glance at some of the more striking events which have now become matters of history, little remains for us to say with reference to ourselves and our readers. Our past labours in the consistent advocacy of the great principles of Church and State have spoken for themselves. With no interests to serve except those of our common country, and no object to gain but the satisfaction of having performed our duty, we have pursued the path which we believe to be the right one, swerving neither to the right hand nor to the left, not deterred by the fear of enemies, nor tempted by false friends. In politics, as in religion, we have been solely guided by the con sciousness of right, and though we may sometimes have been compelled to differ with those whose good opinion we value, we have never been in fluenced by any other motive than zeal for the' maintenance of our national faith in its integrity and purity, and the preservation of the Constitu tion, handed down to us by our forefathers, and under which, by the blessing of Providence, this country has grown in greatness from the glorious days of ELIZABETH down to those of our own VICTORIA. We have no need to make promises for the future, but let the past be the best earnest of the time to come. It is, however, satisfactory to know that our labours are appreciated, and in the steadily increasing circulation of the Liverpool Standard we experience that reward for our exer tions which must prove the secret incentive to constant perseverance. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 3, 1854. THE close of one year and the commencement of another is an event of too much interest to allow us to pass it unnoticed, or without availing ourselves of the opportunity to remind our readers that we are not regardless of the progress of never ebbing Time. The remark that the year just closed has been a most eventful one, has been so often made with reference to previous years, that it has become an observation too trite to excite attention : still there are many circumstances worthy to be recalled, which have had their rise in the year 1853, though their ultimate results may be long distant. England has had a year's experience of a Coali tion Ministry, the income-tax renewed for seven years, and real property subject to a tax on succes sion. To commercial enterprise and industrial activity, 1853 has been a year of halcyon days, high prices, and unlimited demand ; but human nature is never satisfied, and long before the season had Nosed, reports from all quarters teemed with complaints of operatives out on strike for higher wages—so that prosperity failed to bring content, and full employment was the precursor of absolute idleness. Those who indulged in dreams of cheap bread, awoke to the reality of dear food of all kinds ; while the reflecting mind may have learned the useful lesson that every earthly good has its alloy of evil, nothing being perfect but the hope of good things hereafter. The dilatory manner in which measures for sanitary improvement have been carried on has received a salutary warning in a visitation of the cholera, which, though slight at first, and temporarily checked by the frost which has lately set in,. may return with far more viru lence on the approach of warmer weather, should the interval not be wisely used in the application of the means within our power for the promotion of cleanliness, by better draining and ventilation, and a more ample supply of water. The lull in politi cal agitation, during the Parliamentary vacation, has not been unprofitably employed in discussing the wants of our poorer fellow-creatures, the best means of affording the advantages of education to the rising generation, and the most efficient mode of dealing with the increasing number of juvenile delinquents. The interests of the Church have not been neglected—for two members have been added to our Colonial Episcopate ; inquiries have taken place into the great seminaries of learning, Oxford and Cambridge : and though little direct benefit may be anticipated from the labours of a Ministerial appointed commission, the stimulus to self-examination, which has resulted, may not be without a beneficial effect. In our relations with Foreign states, there appears to be less cause for congratulation—for after, like Judaea of old, the land has had rest for nearly forty years, we hear of wars and rumours of wars ; and none may safely predict how long we shall be spared from once more being called upon to put forth our strength to secure the safety of the British Empire, at the cost of war taxes and a heavy addition to the National Debt. Ireland, more than decimated of her population by famine, and pestilence, and voluntary expatria tion, has had an Exhibition of Industry and Art, displaying to the world at large that her latent energy and skill only required the stimulus of encouragement to give them fair play.' Scotland, after a century and a half of union with England, has determined to speak out and demand her full share of the rights which her patient submission has failed to obtain from a sense of justice. The colonies have not been without interest. Australia has started in the race like a young giant, her gold fields surpassing the wildest dreams of Oriental enthusiasts, and attracting im migrants by thousands and tens of thousands; while the wants of the latter have opened an ex port trade for our home produce, which, as yet, seems to know no limit. It is a circumstance also worthy of observation, that, although the almost fabulous accounts of the discovery of gold excited many apprehensions of too great an abundance, we have really experienced a gradual tightening of the money market, through the decreasing store of bullion in the coffers of the Bank of England. The long war which endangered the peace .of the Cape of Good Hope has been brought to a conclusion, and now we are promised new supplies of colonial produce. The West Indies have partially recovered from their long suffering, and at length given up their claim to hold, the purse-strings independent of the Governor. Canada has hardly supplied us with an lineiden.t for comment, except to sympa- WE briefly alluded last week to the erroneous opinion which appeared to prevail with reference to the Foreign policy of the present Home Secre tary being opposed to that which seems to have influenced the course pursued by the EARL of ABERDEEN, in the affairs between Russia and Turkey, and thereby led to the inference that the recent resignation and rc sumption of office had been caused by a difference of opinion on this sub ject. In all the developments, whether real or pre tended, which have been made respecting the recent split in the Cabinet, a variance of opinion as to the details of the proposed Reform Bill has been adhered to as to the real cause of the dis pute ; but notwithstanding the positive assertions of Ministerial organs, professing to be in posses sion of State secrets, public opinion has been rather inclined to the belief that the HOME SECRETARY has ventured to have an opinion of his own on Foreign policy, and that that opinion has been more in accordance with the feeling out of doors than the one which has been acted upon. Now, so far from believing that Lord PALMERSTON has been actuated by any refined sense of national honour, which would prompt the succour of the weak and defiance of the strong, there are many incidents in hisiprevious career as FOREIGN SECRE TARY which lead us to a totally opposite conclu sion. It will be remembered that some twenty years since, a ship belonging to Mr. BELL was seized, in the Black Sea, by the Russian forces, and indignant remonstrances were made to the FOREIGN SECRETARY on this wanton outrage. No satisfaction was obtained for wounded national honour, but compensation was privately made to Mr. BELL for his individual loss, and the affair was hushed up. Shortly after this a young gen tleman, who officiated as Vice-Consul in the petty State of New Grenada, committed some outrages upon the peace of the town at night, while in a state of intoxication, for which he was apprehended, and made amenable to the laws he had broken. LORD PALMERSTON was appealed to. Here was no mighty empire of Russia to deal with, but a defenceless State, and demand was therefore imme diately made, with a threat of bombardment for the release of the Vice-Consul, and compensation to him. In 1840, Mr. URQUHART returned from long diplomatic services at Constantinople, and in a series of pamphlets openly accused the FOREIGN SECRETARY of being the agent of Russia, and in triguing with that power for the weakening and overthrow of Turkey. Again we find him suc cumbing to France under Louis PHILIPPE, when Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS wantonly seized upon Tahiti, and expelled Mr. PRITCHARD, the English resident. Later still we find him sending a fleet to the little State of Greece, not long rescued from Mahometan despotism, in order to enforce by threats the doubtful claims of Don PACIFICO. In every instance, and each of them is too notorious to be doubted, we find the foreign policy of Lord PALMERSTON to be the ignoble practice of commit ting injustice on the weak and submitting to it from the strong ; leaving the legitimate inference that, in the question which is now agitating all Europe, his diplomatic skill and official experience would have been displayed in a similar manner, to be followed by his inimitable ingenuity in explain ing away all the charges, made against him. Not withstanding, however, the little reliance we place on his regard for the national honour in foreign affairs, we believe that he is far more of a Conser vative in domestic policy than many of his col leagues, and that,with an eye to his future position on the inevitable and speedy break-up of the coali tion Ministry, he has manfully resisted the designs of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to make the proposed Reform Bill a means of democratic extension in the government of the country. rived at no one will attempt to dispute, for it must be easier in the addition or multiplication of pence to put down the - onit, and carry on the other figures, than to labour through the process of dividing the product by twelve. So, in the treat ment of shillings, the unit, as at present, will be retained, and the divikion of the remainder by two will be saved. Thus far the advantages of the proposed decimal systemmay be readily admitted, and, no doubt, that is keeping accounts and making the calculations which are continually being required in commercial transactions, there will be a saving of time and labour, sufficient in some large establishments to save the cost of one clerk. But what is the price which must be paid for this obvious advantage ? Not simply a slight change which will be willingly consented to, but a retention of the present pound sterling, and a posi tive re-construction of the rest of our monetary system, involving an alteration in the value of our copper coinage, which enters more than any other into the every-day affairs. and monetary transac tions of the vast majority of our population, and those, too, the least likely to take readily, or even to comprehend, new ways.. By the present system the penny—which is used for toll at our ferries, for postage, for receipt stamps, and as the price of a multitude of articles—is the two hundred and fortieth part of a pound ; by the proposed system it must represent either the two hundredth or the two hundred and fiftieth part of a pound,wronging in one case or the other the payer or the receiver. Some of the speeches slightly touched upon the necessity of decimalising our weights and mea sures, but though that part of the question was postponed, it is absolutely indispensable to the other. In discussing the question, however, some of the speakers dwelt on the inconveniencies aris ing from the conflicting weights and measures used in different districts, owing to the variety of local customs. No clearer argument could have been adduced to show the impracticability of en forcing the proposed decimal currency system. By the act of 5 and 6 George IV., passed in 1825, or nearly thirty years since, all weights and measures were required to be copies of the imperial standards deposited in the Exchequer ; and by the act 4 and 5 William IV., c. 49, passed in August, 1834, local weights and measures were abolished, and all contracts made by any other than the imperial standards were declared to be null and void. Yet, I despite the stringency of these regulations, which were to equalise all commercial transactions,wheat is still sold in Liverpool at per 701bs. ; butchers' meat in London at per 81bs., instead of the im perial stone of 141bs. ; and local customs are maintained as though the law were not in exist ence. If, therefore, people cling to their old and well accustomed ways in defiance of acts of Parlia ment, of what avail will be an act to convert farthings and pence into mils and cents when the old names and the old values will be adhered to, unless the almost impossible alternative be adopted of withdrawing all the present small coinage from circulation, an operation involving immense ex pense, and a delay which has been computed at twenty years ? Merchants, accountants, and clerks may be readily convinced of the saving of time and trouble in keeping their books, and may unite in adopting the proposed system, without troubling the Legislature, but the long-practised habits of millions of people are not so easily changed, and their transactions in the buying and selling of small quantities are those which would be most affected. There is, however, another difficulty in the sub-division of small quantities for which no advantage in large transactions would prove a compensation. Under a decimal system, division could only take place by fifths and tenths, render ing halves and quarters utterly impracticable, so that, in the purchase of minute portions of goods, in which the poor are chiefly interested, they would be constant losers by the impossibility of finding coins to represent the fractional parts. All the arguments which have been used by the advocates of the decimal system may be admitted, as far as concerns the facilities for calculation and keeping accounts in mercantile transactions, but beyond this it is overloaded with difficulties which no in genuity in altering the coinage can surmount ; and the instance we have alluded to with reference to weights and measures is a proof that the long settled customs of a people cannot be changed by acts of Parliament, however stringent their regu lations. IF we may judge by the very numerous public meeting which was held on Wednesday, at the Sessions-house, the high standing of many who took part in the proceedings, and the unanimity which prevailed, the adoption of a decimal system' of coinage has been placed almost beyond doubt, as an improvement of self-evident utility, and which only requires the formal sanction of the Legislature to be brought immediately into practice. Before, however, arriving at such a conclusion, it would be as well to look more narrowly at the arguments made use of by its promoters, the advantages which are sought to be gained, and the difficulties with which it may be accompanied. 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N.B.—A DAY PERFORMANCE on FRIDAY next, the 6th instant, at Two o'clock. Entrance, Concert-street. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s, PHILHARMONIC-HALL. MISS .L ASCELLES, The celebrated Concert Singer, WITH THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND OF SIXTY PERFORMERS, EVERY EVENING, commencing at Seven o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. JANE asks us for full particulars of the mode to be pursued in effecting a matrimonial union at the Registrar's office. She had far better be content with the orthodox mode which she will find in the Book of Common Prayer; but we will endeavour to oblige her. By the Marriage Act, 6 and 7, Wm. IV., c. 85, passed 17th Aug.. 1836, notice of an in tended union is to he given to the superintendent registrar of the district in which the parties shall have dwelt for not less than seven days neYt preceding, for which the fee is one shilling. 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Mitchell's, Redlion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably re quisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. The ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION tO the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is 20s. in adrance—or 225. on credit. . ....,.. , c 1 ; -,-, • ; ,--• ,-,----, , I 1 t +4 . _;... ~•••'_.: .• I 7 ', , .., 1 , - .Z .. ,rr?,:-:;c 3 ,'t i - 4 1- /'.; - ' - ....•..a'_.( 4 , .;i' '' ' ! I s 4 ' I-_- , - ... ~ , . ; , _ ....... , ,- Aec.--------..,.-_---•s--- DOMESTIC POULTRY. ONE of the most interesting signs of the times is the rapidly increasing desire for the cultivation of domestic poultry, which has almost become a passion. This is evident in the number of poultry exhibitions throughout the country, and the immense number of specimens which they have been the means of collecting. There are some matter-of-fact people by whom this new fancy may be ridiculed, but when it is remembered that tons of poultry and millions of eggs are annually imported from foreign countries, in order to supply our markets for consumption, the importance of increasing our own production of these useful animals will be more evident. It has been thought beneath the dignity of an English farmer to pay attention to the affairs of the poultry yard, but perfection cannot be reached without it, and if the same care were bestowed on this department, which has been sometimes given to the improvement of the breed of larger animals, it would often be found equally, if not more, profitable, and constitute a very' important item in the means of supplying the rent In all these cases it is not sufficient that the utility/ e made evident, a certain degree of fashion must be en to them in order to insure their adoption. It was the encouragement given by Earl Sparms& and other noble men, which led to the improvement in the breed of short horned cattle : the establishment of the Royal Agricul tural Society, and many local societies, with annual prizes for superiority, added to .the impetus and may be consi dered the main cause of the great attention which is now paid to the several breeds of cattle, sheep, and other farm animals. The command of capital and indomitable per severance of Mr. MECIII, a London tradesman, gave a stimulus to the extension of draining"and other improve ments in agriculture ; and now the adoption of Similar means of encouragement, with reference to the more abundant supply of fowls and eggs for home consumption, has led to a more rapid progress in this department than was ever before known. It is almost impossible to over estimate its importance ; a fast increasing population must be fed by additional supplies, and every step which is taken to obtain the addition from home produce is assisting in the laudable endeavour to render us independent of foreign aid. It has been said that the man who causes two blades to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, and the same remark will equally apply to the man who exercises his skill in the improvement of so use ful a race of animals as domestic poultry, which might be made to convert more vegetable into animal food than even the ox or the sheep. It will be observed that an exhibi tion of poultry will be held in about a fortnight in this town, and we have no doubt that the commercial emporium of Europe will not be behind in the race for distinction in this useful pursuit. CHILD OVERLAIN.—On Sunday morning last, about two o'clock Joseph Beha, a child five months old, living with his parents at 36, Bevington Bush-road, was taken to bed by his mother, who laid his head on her breast, and covering him up with the bed clothes fell asleep. On awaking about eight in the morning she found the child still in the same position and quite dead. DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND.—On Saturday night, about nine o'clock, as a boy, named William Board man, was going on a errand to No. 1 Court, Comus-street, he kicked his foot against something, which on examina tion turned out to be the dead body of a female child. It was wrapped up among some hay. Medical testimony proved that the child had been still-born. A man with a bundle of hay was seen to go up the court a few minutes before the body was found. WOMAN DROWNED.—On Saturday night, about half past eight o'clock, a woman named Ann Staley, aged 67, wife of John Staley, a labourer, was found drowned in the Brunswick Dock, by police-constable Wilkinson, who heard a splash in the water, and immediately made every exertion for her rescue. In about fifteen minutes she was got out, but quite dead. It appeared deceased was much addicted to drinking, and a short time pr ior to her being found in the Dock she had had some words with her husband, relative to her dissipated habits. A t the conclu sion of the altercation she went out uttering angry ex clamations. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT THE QUEEN held a Privy Council on Thursday, and car Friday proclamation was made in the London Gazette for the assembling of Parliament on Tuesday, the 31st of this month. This is but a few days earlier than the time ordinarily appointed ; but this little difference may hare been occasioned by the natural anxiety to hear the inten tions of the Government with reference to the Eastern question, and also the explanation of Lord PeimEnsros as to his recent resignation and resumption of office. The discussions on these points will find ample occupation for Parliament, and leave Lord Jons - Russszi, sufficient time to cogitate over his new Reform Bill, if he has really any serious intention of persevering in such a hopeless scheme. Convocation, which stands adjourned until to-morrow, will be further prorogued until Wednesday, the Ist of February. THE NATIONAL REVENUE. Tnn quarterly statement of the National Revenue will not be published until Friday next. In the mean time, however, the Observer, a London weeky paper professing to have official sources of information, has published a statement in anticipation, from which it would appear that upon the year's accounts there will be an increase on Customs of about £300,000; Excise, nearly £200,000; the Post-office a trifle, and Stamps from £lOO,OOO to £200,000. The quarter's account will not be so favourable, and this is attributed to the abolition of the Soap duties affecting the Excise, and the reduction of Tea and Sugar duties lessening the Customs returns. The Income Tax is to show a slight increase, the Post-office an increase of about £50,000, and Stamps a falling off. THOMAS'S SHILLING CONCERTS. THE first attempt was made last night to revive the experiment of cheap concerts at the Philharmonic Hall s and it proved triumphantly successful. Last year it was evident that there was sufficient love of music in Liverpool to support first-class concerts at low prices, and perse verance would no doubt have overcome every difficulty. Last night nothing was left to desire ; every seat was oc cupied, numbers were obliged to stand, and thunders of applause testified to the gratification afforded. The or chestra comprised about sixty instrumental performers. Miss Lascelles proved a valuable acquisition as a vocalist, while Mr. T. Harper on the trumpet in " The Soldier Tired," was vociferously cheered. In a word, the success of the Shilling Concerts is an accomplished fact. TOWN-COUNCIL_ MEETING, YESTERDAY. A SPECIAL MEETING of the Town-council was held yesterday, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of making the annual appointments of trustees and members for the undermentioned trusts, charities, and public boards. John Buck Lloyd, Esq., Mayor, in the chair. His Worship the Mayor was appointed trustee of Mrs— Ann Molyneux's charities in Liverpool, _ __• Messrs: J. A. Tobin, Thomas Fleming, and Matthew Gregson, were appointed trustees for St. James's Cemetery, under the local act 7 Geo. IV. Sir John Bent and Alderman W. Bennett were appointed execute the powers given to the Mayor and Senior Alder man by the local act 10 Geo. IV, cap. 15, relative to the Blind Asylum Schools and Chapel. Forty-one gentlemen were appointed members of the Council Commission for the regulation and encourage ment of pilots. Messrs. 11. Hornby, S. Holme, and T. Littledale were appointed commissioners under the local act 10 Geo. IV., for the embankment on the north-west side of the Leasowes, in Wallasey and Great Meols, in the county of Chester. Forty-one gentlemen were appointed commissioners under the acts relating to the Churches of St. Paul and St. John. Messrs. Shand, Bold, R. Gladstone, and Robinson were appointed commissioners of the Liverpool docks. Messrs. Henry R. Hoskins, W. H. Daunt, and Jas. T. Pownall were re-appointed auditors of the dock accounts. His Worship the Mayor, and Messrs. J. B. Moore, James Lawrence, and Samuel Hohne, aldermen, and H. Hornby and John Stewart, councillors, were appointed commissioners of income-tax. This concluded the business of the meeting. THE STRIKES. WIGAN.—The strike of factory operatives in this town, now in its fifteenth week, has been somewhat altered in character during the past few days, though it is yet fir from a satisfactory termination, The three mills at Hindley still remain closed for want of hands, as also several at Wigan. The total number of operatives now at work is about 2.000, or about one-third of the whole number, but 1,000 of them are employedat Messrs. Eckersley's mill alone. The adjourned meeting of coal proprietors was held at. the Royal Hotel, on Thursday, Mr. James Darlington, manager of Ince-hall Colliery, in the chair. It was con sidered that the strike of colliers might now be taken as ended, and, after a brief deliberation, the meeting was adjourned for another fortnight. _ _ _ - PRESTON.—It appears from the returns that the number of unemployed hands relieved this week from the Trades' Union funds, was 15,720; last week, 15,781: decrease, 61. The amount distributed in relief this week was £2,944.85. 3d. ; last week,22,938. 12s. : increase, £5. 165.3 d. In addition to their ordinary payments, the weavers' com mittee has this week given sixpence each to 2,120 children. Many hands are obtaining employment else where, upwards of twenty spinners and their familie s having already left Preston, and nearly one hundred per sons having been removed by the poor law officials. Pub lic meetings continue to be held by the operatives, mostly in the open air, and the interest they excite is unabated; the attendance, in spite of frost and snow, being as large as ever. A FATAL SLIDE.-011 Thursday, as a boy, named John Whitehead, of Trelfall-street, Park, was sliding on a pit in that neighbourhood, he fell, whereby his skull was so fractured that he died four hours afterwards. YESTERDAY was observed as a holiday by the cotton and general produce brokers, and by many other mercantile houses in the town. Some of the banks were also closed, including the Union Bank, Borough Bank, Bank of Eng land, Hevwood's Bank, and North and South Wales Bank. THE GREAT SEAL of Ireland has been placed in com mission, in consequence, it is said, of the intention of the Lord Chancellor to proceed to London, respecting the Reform measure for Ireland. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON has purchased . Beaufort house, in Arlington-street, London, for £60,000. The EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has ordered Messrs. Orsi and Armani, merchants in London, to pay 700 franca into the funds of the Dreadnought, hospital-ship, moored off Greenwich. It is stated that Louis Napoleon sub scribes to many of our charities. FIRE.—On Saturday night, the hat manufactory of Messrs. W. and F. Townend, Cheapside, London, was destroyed by fire. The premises adjoining were also con siderably damaged. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday a train from Old ham dashed into a Yorkshire train which bad stopped at Newton-heath, a new station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. All the passengers of the latter train were scattered about upon the line, or thrown down an embankment. The guard was picked up labouring under severe concussion of the brain. Jane Sykes, a young lady aged about seventeen, on her way home to Lindley, near Huddersfield, was found in an insensible condition, and expired in the station. Her grandmother, with whom she was travelling, Ellen Lord, wife of R. Lord, tailor, of Syke's-hill, Preston, was taken to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, dreadfully cut ; and seven other persons received serious bruises and personal injuries. The station-master says that he had turned on the down red light, signifying a train at the station." It is said that the Oldham train, which does not stop at the Newton-heath station, only st arts 5 minutes after the Yorkshire, which does stop at the Newton station, so that there is a continual danger of accident. ' An inquest was held on Saturday, and the jury returned the following verdict :—" We find that the death of Jane Sykes was caused by the collision of the express train to Oldham with the Yorkshire train, and that the death was accidental. And the jury take this opportunity of ex pressing their regret at the apparent carelessness of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company in allowing the express train to start at so short a time after the above train, and would suggest, that in future more care be exercised, especially in foggy weather." LECTURES ON THE DEMORALIZING TENDENCY 07 POPERY.—Two lectures were delivered in the Temper ance-hall, Bond-street, by Mr. W. P. McCarthy, o Birkenhead, special missionary in connexion with th , Protestant Reformation Society, on the evenings o Thursday and Friday last. On the first-named evening, the chair being occupied by Mr. Parsonage, the lecturer commented at considerable length on the illiberality evinced towards him at a Romish meeting held in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on a recent occasion, at which, after being invited to speak, he was uproariously refused a hearing. He also commented in strong terms upon' the misrepresentation put by Mr. Macdonald, Roman Catholic lecturer, on a speech made by Mr. McCarthy in Birkenhead. To the misrepresentation he (Mr. McCarthy) gave the flattest and most emphatic con tradiction, and said that, while he admitted Mr. Mac donald was a well-conducted private gentleman, he must brand him with dishonesty as a lecturer. Mr- M`Carthy then proceeeded at great length to expose the falsification of Scripture by the Romish Church, wh en suited the purpose of that church to do so, and qute!:g several instances in which perversion of Scripture_ Asa beenn made and sanctioned and verity on h by vteharitchurctlii!_ary idolatrous withmuch minuteness worship offered by Romanists - r 4e to the Virgin . The lecturer next directed attention to the blasphemous..in,Pl The second lecture was devoted to an e po iniquities of the confessional. meries connected with the doctrines of trarusbsittaiLti:ftatre. from Bos t on , with advices to the 21 s t M a rr i 1 11 s E t e Na A-sGhispns, Britis h and North American Royal ult., had not arrived at the time of our going to press. Should she arrive in time, we shall publish her news i n a Second Edition. PHILHARMONIC-HALL. THE GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH Will be Repeated TH IS E VEN ING by THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND OF SIXTY PERFORMERS. (See Advertisement in another page.)