The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL. ALADY and her DAUGHTER , long acc ustomed to TUITION in Liverpool, are about rernovingwith a few Pupils into a healthy and improving district on the Cheshire side. Requiring additional means to extend their connexion, they would, for the advance. of SEVENTY POUNDS, Board and Educate a little Pu_pit, for the space of three years. To an Orphan this offer would be eligible, as she would in all respects be treated as one of the advertiser's family. References will be given to Families of the hiuhest respectability, and also to Parents of Pupils they have had with them for many years. Address, G. P. M., Standard-office. CORPORATION OF THE LONDON ASSURANCE Established A.D. 1720. No. 7, ROYAL EXCHANGE. CORNHILL, No. 10, REGENT- AND -STREET, LONDON Governor,—WlLLlAM KING, Esq. Sub-Governor,—ROßEßT COTESVrORTH, ESQ. Deputy-Governor,—EDWA RD BORMESTER, Esq FIRE INSURANCES effected upon every descrip tion of Property, including Rent, with the usual reductions allowed on and in 13uildinga of Certified Warehouses, 4c. and for single management, according to the lowest rates current. NOTICF PERSONS ASSUREiViJA I NST FIRE by this Corporation, whose Policies expire at CEIRISTMAS, are respectfully re minded, that for their own security, they should renew them within FIFTEEN DAYS from the said QUARTER DAY. LIFE ASQURANCES.—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 informa tion may be had at their Offices, or sent free, on application to JOHN SMALL, 2, South John-street, CARNE and NEPHEW, 20, Water-street. Agents for Liverpool and adjacent parts; or to HENRY ROBERTS, Sandford-street, Birkenhead. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED IN 1836. Empowered by Acts of Parliament. OFFICES. 8 fi 10, WATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL, AND 21, POULTRY, LONDON. TRUSTEES. Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, Bart., M.P. Adam Hodgson, Esq. - Samuel Henry Thompson, Esq. DIRECTORS IN LIVERPOOL. Chairman—William! Nicol, Esq. Deputy-Chairmen. Joseph Hornby, Esq., and Joseph C. Ewart, Esq. Thomas 13rocklehank, Esq. John Hore, Esq. William Dixon, Esq. George H. Lawrence, Esq. William Earle, Esq. ~ Harold Littledale, Esq. T. Stuart Gladstone, r.sci• John Marriott, Esq. George Grant, Esq. Edward Moon, Esq. Francis A. Hamilton, Esq. Charles Saunders, Esq. Francis Haywood, Esq. H. Stolterfoht, Esq. Robert Higgin, Esq. John Swainson, Esq. George Holt, Esq. I James Aspinall Tobin, Esq. Secretary—Swinton Boult, Esq. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. ,r) Chairman—William Ewart, ESQ.. I ‘ l .' • Deputy-Chairman—George Frederick young, Esq., M.P. I William Brown. Esq., M.P. Hon. F. Ponsonhy Sir Wm. P. de Bathe, Bart. John Ranking, Esq. Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P. J. M. Rosseter, Esq. Frederick Harrison, Esq. Seymour Teulon, Esq. James Hartley, Esq. Swinton Bon.lt,Esq.,Seeretary Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P. to the Company. Resident Secretary—Beniamin Henderson, Esq. Auditors—T. B. Blackburne, Esq. and Daniel James, Esq. CONSTITUTION. Liability of the entire body of Shareholders unlimited FIRE DEPARTMENT. Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Mercantile Risk freely Insured. Foreign and Colonial Insurances effected. Premiums as in other established offices. Settlement of losses liberal and prompt. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Premiums as low as is consistent with safety. Bonuses not dependant on profits, being declared and gua ranteed when the Policy is effected. Surrenders of Policies favourably dealt with. Thirty days allowed for the renewal of Policies. Claims paid in three mouths after proof of death. Policies not disputed except on the ground of fraud. Full Prospectuses may be had on application at the Offices of the Company as above, or to any of its Agents in the Country. Persons whose Fire Policies with this Company expire on the 25th instant, are respectfully reminded that receipts ,for the renewal of the same will be found at the Head Offices in Liverpool and London, and in the hands of the respective Agents; and those who, preferring the security offered by this Company, may desire to remove their Insurance, are tnformed that no expense will be incurred by such removal. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. BENJ. HENPgRSON, Resident Secretary, Loudon, Decootber, 1851. Co be Oen, MO be SOLD, with immediate possession, a mode rate-sized Detached HOUSE, Gardens, &c., situate in the 11101st salubrious part of the Hamlet of Wavertree, together with complete Outbuildings, Bze,, The Grounds contain a large COMierVator, connected with the Morning-romh. and four other Hothouses, (in three of which are choice Vines, in fresh bearing,) and a Summer house, lighted with Gas, &c. The Garden is laid out tastefully, in the French and Italian styles, forming a Nursery of the choicest Plants, Shrubs, &c., from all quarters of the globe ; is well Walled, on which are Trees in full bearing, and inter spersed with Invisible Rock Walls , &c. Has Walks thoroughly drained, between 500 and 600 yards in length, for recreation. The Evergreens, growing in great luxuriance, form an attractive garden in winter as well as summer. The House ccntains four Entertaininprooms and six Bed rooms, with Three of which tjsere are Dressing-rooms ) and two good ttics, and plentifully supplied with excellent spring 1 7..ter. The House ardens, &c. occupy 5777 square yards, and are Freehol ith this a Purchaser may have one or two small Fields,: esired, adjoining. For partiettlars, price, &c. apply to Mr. GEO. BROWN, on the Premises'; Wellington-road, Smithdown-lane, any day, between the hours of eleven and two o'clock, (Tuesdays and Fridays excepted.) iJiz anteb. 'WANTED, after Christmas, a respectable Party, to occupy a small DRAWING-ROOM and one or two BED-ROOMS, iu the house of a Private Family. Partial Board, if required. Neighbourhood—Falkner-square, St. Saviour's. For address apply at the Standard-office. PARISH OF LIVERPOOL, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SELECT VESTRY of this Parish are desirous of APPOINTING to the Office of MASTER of the WORKHOUSE. Brownlow bill, within the Parish, a Person thoroughly qualified by prac tical experience to Superintend, Discipline, and Manage the said Workhouse according to the rules and regulations of the Poor-law Boar be Establishment at present contains 2,200 paupers, of all ages, d when completed will accommodate 3,000. He must be a healthy, a ttie Person, not under Thirty, nor more than Forty-five, .aka rit old ; of unexceptionable moral character; and competent tio,the Keeping and Checking of Accounts. He wilt be required to devote his whole time to the duties of the office, as defined by the Poor-law Board ; and his attendance at Divine Service, in the Church attached to the Workhouse, Twice every Sunday, will be indispensable. The Salary will be £3OO per Annum, with House as at present Furnished, with Coals and Gas, but without any other Perquisites whatever. Candidates are required to forward to me, on or before the 19th January next, their Applications, with testimonials in closed, the former to be in their own Handwriting, stating Age, present Occupation, whether Married, and, if so, what Family. By order of the Select Vestry, CHARLES HART, Z estry-clerk of the said Parish. Parish Offices, Liverpool, 27th December, 1851. ifnstiranrt p.ntirro. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, .REGENT-STREET. WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO ACT OF PAR LIAMENT. TRUSTEES. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. i Edw. Vansittart Neale, Esq Spencer H. Walpole, Esq. M.P. I Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. DIRECTORS, Samuel Driver, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq H. P. Fuller, Esq. John P. Griffin, Esq. Thomas Littledale, Esq. E. Lomax, Esq. S. Miller, Esq. Edw : yansittart Neale, Esq Peter Hood, Eig • - Capt. Hon. G. F. Hotham, R.N Sir Thomas N. Reeve W. Studley, Esq. CONSULTING ACVJARY. W.S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S. PROVINCIAL SUPERINTENDENT. H. R. Addison, Esq. MANAGER. F. Ferguson Camroux, Esq. Life Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments. sums payable to the Assured at the ages of 50, 55, 60, and 65, or to representatives in case of early death. Half credit given for Premiums for the first five years. Policies indisputable. LIVERPOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Thomas Littledale, Esq., Chairman Matthew Gregson, Esq. George William Ewing, Esq. William Fisher. jun., Esq. AGENT. S. LEE TROTMAN, Esq. Offices, 3, YORK-BUILDINGS, SI'VEgTING-STREET. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED 1821. CAPI'I A L TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Hastings Edwd. Wenham Martin, Esq The Lord Walpole Thomas Amyot, Esq. Sir Henry Jardine, Knt. Henry Browne, Esq. John Stracey, Esq. &c. &c. &c. DIRECTORS. President—Anthony Hudson, Esq. Vice-President—George Morse, Esq • Major-General Sir Robert John Thomas BOciseon, Esq.,R.N. Harvey, C. B. Timothy Steward, Esq. Charles Evans, Esq., Chancel- George Durant, Esq. for of the Diocese of Nor- Robert John Harvey Harvey, wich. Esq. Edward Stewart, Esq. Sir William Foster, Bart. Lewis Evans, Esq., M.D. Henry S. Patteson, Esq. SECRETARY—SamueI Bignold, Esq. The Public are respectfully reminded, that all Insurances renewable in the LIVERPOOL AGENCY on the 25th day of DECEMBER, 1851, must be paid at the Office, Exchange-street West, on or before the 9th day of JANUARY next, or the Society will cease to be liable for the sums insured. This Society paid £73,395 lls. 10d. Duty to Government for the year 1850. It INSURED, during the same year, £9,428,436 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 'MILLIONS. f ROBERT NEILSON, AGENTS { JOHN JOHN ANDERSSON. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1851. instirante Rotirts. NORWICH EQUITAB SOCIETY, BANK-S' AE FIRE ASSURANCE 'ABET, NORWICH. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Sondes. H. N. Burroughes, Esq., M.P. Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. Sir John P. Boileau, Bart. Sir Hanson Berney, Bart. John Graham, Esq., R.N. John Longe, Esq. Po'icies which expire on the Atli DECEMBER must be re newed within fifteen 'lays from that date, or they will cease to indemnify the holders from loss. AGENTS JAMES S. SKIPPER, 20, Brunswick-buildings, T. 0. COOPER & SON, Rumford-street. GEORGE GOLDING, Soho-street. THE NEXT PERIODICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, TAKES PLACE AT 31st DECEMBER, 1852. PARTIES PURPOSING TO EFFECT ASSURANCES WITH THE SOCIETY, ARE REMINDED OF THE AD VANTAGE TO BE DERIVED FROM LODGING THEIR PROPOSALS BEFORE THE 31sT DECEMBER OF THE CURRENT YEAR, THEREBY SECURING THE BENEFIT OF A FULL YEAR'S STANDING OVER LATER EN TRANTS, AND BEING ENTITLED TO RANK FOR TWO YEARS' ADDITIONS AT THE ENSUING INVESTIGA TION. Edinburgh, 5, St. Andrew-square. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. WILLIAM LINDESAY, Secretary. Agents for Liverpool-- BELL, GOULDIE, and Co., Exchange• street East. ✓ Agent for Chester.. ....JAMES SMITH, Old Bank. Agent for Manchester....TnomAs BOOTHMAN, 39, Cross-st.. King-street. YORKSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ESTABLISHED 1824. Parties having Annual Policies falling due on the 25th of DECEMBER, 1851, are respectfully informed, that they should renew the same within Fifteew Days from that date. AGENTS. LATHAM .HANMER, Jun., 1, Dale-street. F. L. MAWDESLEY, No. 3, Cook-street. JOIIN ATKINSON, 25, North John-street. LITHERLAND and GROOM, 42, Lord-street. A NCHOR ASSURANCE COMPANY' FOR LIFE, FIRE, AND ANNUITIES. CAPITAL, £1,000,000. ESTABLISHED IN 842. OFFICE, 67, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. LIFE ASSURANCES, adapted to every contingency, may be efft-cted with this Company at Premiums most economically rated. ANNUITIES are granted by the Company on terms ex ceedingly favourable to the Assured. FIRE ASSURANCES are issued at Premiums commen surate with the risk arising from the nature or position of the P. operty. T. BELL, Secretary and Actuary. Branch Offices, Dude-place, Manchester ; 5, Grafton-street, Plymouth ; Exchange-buildings, Hull; Grey-street, Newcas tle-on-Tyne; and 5, Hermannstrass, Hamburgb. AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL, viz., Mr. HUGH BROW.W, Spekeland-buildings, opposite the Postoffice and Custonf:house. Mr. M. WOTHERSPOON, 20, North John-street. Messrs. A. and E. JACOB, t, Parker-street. Messrs. LUCAS and KIRBY. Sweeting-street : and Mr. WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE, Lancaster-buildings, Tithebarn-street. POLICIES which expired on Christmas Day, (the 25th December,) must be renewed within Fifteen Days from that date, otherwise they will become void ; the RENEWAL RE CEIPTS are now in the hands of the respective Agents; and all Transfers of Policies from other Offices will be made Free of any expense. R OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, LIVERPOOL. CAPITAL, £2,000,000, in 100,000 'SHARES of .e2O Each _ _ TRUSTEES JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq. I R. B. B. H. BLUNDELL, Esq. DIRECTORS. :Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman. Deputy-Chairmen. John Campbell, Esq., and John Bramley-Moore, Esq. George Armstrong, Esq. Edward Johnston, Esq. Michael Bousfield, Esq. Roger Lyon Jones, Esq. Ralph Brocklebank, Esq. James Lawrence, Esq. David Cannon, Esq. Francis Maxwell, Esq. William Claxton, Esq. George Maxwell, Esq. Thomas Dover, Esq. Robert M'Andrew, Esq. Richard Harbord, Esq. I Edmund Molyneux, Esq. Robt. Ellison Harvey, Esq. Henry Moore, Esq. R. Brodhurst Hill, Esq. William Smith, Esq. rhos. D. Horuby, Esq. I John Torr, Esq. John C. Jack, Esq. I Auditors.. • n) Titherington ' ' - E and {.t ri l l in ha Dickinson, ' E'I. S q • ' Physician.— Richd. Formby. Esq., M.D. Surgeon.—Hugh Neill, F.R.A.S. Surveyor.— Sam]. Holme, Esq. Solicitor.—Septimus Booker, Esq. Actuary and Secretary.—Percy M. Dove, Esq. BIRKENHEAD BRANCH, OFFICE—HAMILTON-BUILDINGS, HAMILTON-STREET. Surgeon.—James T. Vale, Esq., Hamilton-square. The Directors beg to announce that they continue to RE CEIVE PROPOSALS for FIRE and LIFE INSURANCES. The large Capital of the Company, and the number and in fluence of its Proprietors, enable it to take rank with the most eligible offices in the kingdom, with respect to the advantages offered to the Public. FIRE INSURANCES Will be effected at moderate rates of premium. The Company, having the advantage of a resident 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 assure Lives on any of the following contin gencies, viz. :-- For the WHOLE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE.—The Premiums to cease after a LIMITED NUMBER OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS. For a Sum to be payable at age GO, 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. : GUARANTEE OF AN AMPLE CAPITAL, MODERATE PRE MIUMS, LARGE PARTICIPATION OF PROFITS, SMALL CHARGE FOR MANAGEMENT. &c. The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors. Fees to Medical Referees are likewise granted by this Com pany. PERCY M. DOVE Policies falling due at CHRISTMAS should be, renewed Manager. on or before the 9th of January. December 22, 1851. TO CORRESPONDENTS, C• We shall he happy, at all times, to receive communications on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged. tiberpool tanbarbf TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 30, 1351 THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE ELECT FOR TEN YEARS THE prolongation of the powers of the President of the French Republic has been voted by ten to one of the French male population who have arrived at " years of discretion." It is fortunate for the cause of order, and of some strong government over the restless Gallic race, that the numbers have been so decisive. Had a large proportion of the people refrained from voting, or had the majority for Louis Napoleon been only a million or two, a stage would have been left for further intrigues and dissensions, and a plausible pretext would have been afforded for further violations of laws and liberties. As the case stands, Louis Napoleon is the chosen ruler for ten years certain of the French nation—he is the elect of universal suffrage. It now remains to be seen how he will use his victory. Should he act wisely, and with moderation, perhaps future historians may be enabled to say that the end justified the means by which he acquired power. Should he act rashly, and give loose to inordinate ambition, both the end and the means will be branded as infamous. We have, however, great hope that prudent councils will prevail, and that he will be satisfied with ruling a common wealth as a responsible president, and not as a military dictator. The anticipated dangers of May, 185'2, are no longer to be feared ; that, at least, is something gained. Let us hope that other and greater perils to the nations of Europe may like wise be averted. REAL AND SHAM REFORMERS STRONG is the anxiety of the Reform-mongering tribe of every shade to impress on the public mind that the Conservative party are absolutely hostile to all improvement of our electoral law; and pro portionately great is their vexation at finding that that party takes the proposition for reforming the Reform Act into consideration, without passion or foregone conclusion. It would have answered the agitators' purpose much better had the leaders of the Conservative party hastily and hotly denounced the whole scheme, and declared that no reform at all was wanted, because magniloquent appeals would have been =OP tf? the multitude ; ,and op, portunities without number would have been given to the traders in reform movements to extol their own patriotism and liberality at the expense of their rivals. But the Conservative party could not, consistently with their principles and with their history, take any such course as that which their opponents evidently expected they would adopt on the spur of the moment. They could not stand upon the Reform Act, to which they were no con senting parties, and maintain that it was perfect and incapable of all improvement. They could not enrol themselves as " Finality men," because they had ever protested since the passing of the act of 1832 against its unfairness and defective working. The Conservative party are for amending the re presentation of the people in parliament—a real, not a sham, amendment; and this the soi-distant popu lar leaders will learn to their cost, should the present Ministry survive long enough to meet Parliament, and should theyactually produce their long promised bill. Then it will be seen which of the two great po litical sections is truly desirous to have the House of Commons purified from the taint of bribery, to have the electors secured in the free exercise of their franchise, and to make the representatives directly responsible to their constituents. If any party has particularly suffered from corruption in the House of Commons, from the want of frequent appeals to the country, and from the insufficiency of the control which the electors are able to bring to bear upon their representatives, that party is the Protectionist; and they can hardly avoid entertain ing a desire to see the electoral law amended in this respect. Whether triennial Parliaments and the ballot-box contain the remedies for the defects of the existing representative system, remains to be discussed and decided. Should they be proved to be indispensable to attain the end in view, then we believe we are warranted in saying that the Protectionist party will not oppose them ; but the case of necessity must be thoroughly established. On the other hand, it is manifest, that, to purify the House of Commons, such hopelessly corrupt snuggeries as St. Alban's and Harwich, with many others, must be utterly disfranchised, and the members thus at disposal distributed equitably amongst the counties now most inadequately re presented. Will the purity-professing Reformers heartily and honestly aid in effecting this palpable amendment of the electoral law ? That will be the test of their sincerity. Unless they agree to cut off the rotten boroughs root and branch, and to en large the honest county constituencies, we—and we believe the country—shall stigmatise them as reformers merely for factious purposes, and their reform measure an arrant slam. THE CLOSING YEAR, 1851 ! THE year 1851 stands on the brink of the grave. In a few short hours, not days, it will be interred in the tomb of the past. Regarding is as already defunct, and remembering the pious maxim—De ,nortuis nil nisi bonum, what word of eulogium, what sentence of respect or admiration, can we conscientiously pronounce over it ere committing it to the narrow house of history, and sending it to keep company with the thousands that have gone before ? Alas ! not a word of eulogium—not a sentence of respect or admiration can we charge ourselves with pronouncing over the poor remains of this perishing year. We doubt if even the elo quent Bossuet himself, were he alive, could contrive to compose a decent funeral oration over so ignoble a subject. And yet this year, which expires so ingloriously, was ushered into the world with greater promise, was heralded by louder proclama tions and more imposing pomp than any of its pre decessors in our time. Its advent was announced as the dawning of a new era in the destinies of mankind ;—its coming was hailed as the realisation of a glorious present, which dreamers of bright visions declared would completely eclipse the past, and open the way to a future too brilliant for man's imagination to conceive in its totality. The year 1851 was to have witnessed the inaugura tion of the grand temple dedicated to Universal Co ncord, Fraternity, and United Industry, whose foun dations, it was said, were built upon adamant, and whose duration was to be not for an age, but for all time. It was to have seen the kindling of new lights in sciences and arts, which were to shed an all-sur passing and magnificent illumination from pole to pole. It was to have originated the development of pure elemental principles of right, the reforma tion of old ideas, the obliteration of antiquated pre judices and of condemned social incongruities, and the recasting of the whole moral and social fabric of mankind into a novel and a beautifully-philoso phic and comprehensive whole. In England it was to have been the witness of unprecedented pros perity, of superabundant commGrce, of teeming plenty, and of general contentment, happiness, and progress towards a yet more advanced state of human felicity. The " good time coming," which looms in the misty future about as dimly as does the mythical golden age in the hazy past, was to have come in earnest. Moreover, it was to have been signalised for the complete triumph of the British Crown over the Tiara of Rome. In short, 1851 was to have been the annus mirabilis which all historians would hereafter refer to, when dilat ing on the regeneration of the human race, as the date from which it took its start. Well, in due course the year 1851 was born ; it has lived its regular period ; it is on the point of expira tion. What has been the sum of its achievements? An elaborately got-up scenic spectacle at home ; a terribly tragic revolution of blood and violence abroad ; a general repudiation, throughout the world, of the new-fangled doctrines of theoretic freedom in every thing ; a return to old Conserva tive maxims; a retrogression to forms and princi ples of government more stringent and absolute than any that has been tolerated for half a century. The well-bepuffed a temple of Concord has indeed been inaugurated with extraordinary theatrical show and glitter, and with gorgeous state cere monials ; but the curtain having fallen on the dramatic exhibition, nothing remains of the flatter ing illusion but the vain remembrance. Yet of all the solid and substantial things which this marvel lous year was to have brought forth, the fragile glass palace was the only one that has been realised. The brittle crystal shell remains; the ideas and principles if was designed to inaugurate have been scattered to the winds. Where is the universal peace that was to follow this fraternisation of all nations ? We can discern nothing abroad but bristling bayonets, hostile armaments, the prepa rations of impending and wide-spread contentions —powers against powers, and peoples against rulers. Where are those reciprocal interchanges of indus trial benefits which were prophesied as certain to be established in accordance with our example? We can perceive them not ; on the contrary, we behold certain evidences that the idea of granting them is scouted by all the leading commercial states in the old and the new hemispheres. Con- fining our view to our own country, where are the contentment, the prosperity, the grand develop ment of resources, the increased pro44ction, the extended employment, the high moral culture, the pleasing progress towards perfectibility, so glow ingly predicted ? We mark them not. We see doubt and gloom and perplexity on every counte nance. We hear cries for more troops, more munitions of war, more money for our distant colonies. We think we can see indications of increased military establishments, as defences against possible aggressions, and of course in creased taxation, already too heavy to he borne. We behold a large portion of the empire depopu lated and confiscated, and the very pick and choice of our bold peasantry—from the north, from the south, from the east, from the west—leaving our shores. We see our Government falling to pieces through internal dissensions, which not even the terror of the external convulsions surrounding us can restrain. In prospect we have a dangerous agitation excited by a new scheme of revolutionary reform, thrown down by a reckless minister in a moment of desperation. Such, simply and without exaggeration, is the position in which we find our selves at the close of this year which was to hare worked all but miracles The Roman Emperor wept because he had lost a day ; we may bitterly weep because we have lost a year—worse than lost one, for we have not remained stationary, but have fearfully retrograded. The captivating words " fraternity," " disarmament," " retrenchment," " prosperity," have all been changed : 1851 bears on its pall the ominous scrawl—" Revolutions, wars, taxation, and interrupted commerce." THE NEW YEAR, 1852 BEFORE the issue of another number, we shall have crossed the border, and have fairly entered upon leap year. It comes so insensibly, the transition is so imper ceptible as we float down the stream of time, that it is like the gradual passage from a large river to the open sea ; and thus year after year passes on, with landmarks which the observant can see and note, while the unthink ing never recognise them. The rapidity of time has passed into a proverb, but there are those to whom its flight seems tedious. The idle, the anxious, the oppressed, the aspiring, the afflicted,—all of whom are unhappy in some form,—feel as if their hours were days and their days years. But the universality of the contrary feeling, in every part of the world, is a significant proof of the great preponderance of happiness and enjoyment in the materials of human existence. To the infant, a year is the fourth or fifth of the sum of its existence ; to the man, it is a thirtieth or fortieth part; to the grandsire, a seventy ninth or eightieth. There is, therefore, an arithmetical reason why time should appear to fly faster as we grow older; for each year bears to the preceding ones a dimi nishing ratio. We have our individual eras, the year commencing with each of us at the anniversary of our birth ; and our social eras, marked by some event of importance or interest, as a death or a marriage. We speak also of the ecclesiastical year, commencing with the first Sunday in Advent, and of the legal year, which is marked by the proclamation of new king or queen. But the year which is on the eve of change is the civil one, by which matters personal, social, ecclesiastical, and legal are still regulated, which is the standard of reference in history and biography, literature, and science, and which is not partial but universal in its application. In the coarse of any of these years, it is the present which demands our attention ; that is, our real possession to lose or to enjoy ; and the conscientious feel called upon to fulfil the promises made, or to carry out the resolutions formed, when that present existed in the anticipated future. The sensualist lives to himself; the benevolent lives for others ; the truly religious man lives to his duty and his God. Our present, however, is now diminished to a vanishing quantity ; we speak only of the past and the future. In another article we have taken a view somewhat retrospective, let our thoughts here be prospective. It is sufficiently known, that within the course of the passing year the Standard has ceased to be the property of the gentlemen whose names were so long associated with it. Yet, the transition has been so gentle, that we question whether some of our readers have noticed it, except by the evidences of improved arrangements, which have been silently but steadily showing themselves. It is no necessary disparagement of our respected predeces sors, to say that we have already noted several points which admit of, and indeed call for, a beneficial change ; and we have no doubt, that even to ourselves improve ments will be suggested from time to time, either from within or from without, which it will be at once a pleasure and a duty to adopt. To secure a better thing supposes that we are at present in the possession of that which is good ; and this is precisely the idea which we intend to convey. It will be at once our ambition and our pride to exalt the high character which the Standard has hitherto sustained, by a more judicious application of old elements, and by the introduction of new and valuable ones. On the subject of principles we have nothing to alter, and therefore require to say little. We are still sound Protestants, and true-hearted Churchmen ; the advocates of the rights of all classes in the community ; and the pro moters, as far as in us lies, of religion in the state, the family, and the individual, as the foundation of right go vernment and sound morals. The experience of every day is a comment on their correctness. While political charlatans are spouting treason, and frantically uttering dogmas of which they neither comprehend the nature nor the con sequences, the liberties of nations are stricken down, and the lives and the properties of individuals are the sport of the strong man. While indecent railings assail our Church and Constitution on every side, infidelity is rampant, and Popery unusually aggressive ; yet England still survives as the glorious model to which foreign pa triots desire to assimilate their respective constitutions. It may suit the purposes of the fool or the desperado to cry " overturn, overturn ;" but the man of experience does not forget that the tree which may be cut down in an hour, has required, perhaps, a century to bring to its present condition. Nor is the fact without a moral, that religious and political revolutions are usually called for by the same advocates : they generally go together, and the issue of both is similar. The only country of Europe which formally renounced God, is that on which Reason has conferred the smallest portion of her favours ; and, after sixty years of empty boasting and empirical states manship, the nation is found bleeding and prostrate, hav ing scarcely reached the first round in the ladder of social progress. It will be our constant endeavour, therefore, to " hold fast that which is good," a practice which is not at all inconsistent with " proving all things." On one class of subjects which have not hitherto re ceived a marked degree of attention in this paper, we feel a deep interest; and it will not be from want of good wishes, or lack of cordial exertions on our part, if they are not aided by the public as they ought to be. We allude to the literary status of the town, its condition, capabili ties, and requirements, on the subject of education, and our public institutions generally. In some of these de partments much has already been dcne, but much yet remains to be done ; and our condition as compared with other towns is certainly far from flattering. Of the staple subjects of " ships, colonies, and commerce," we hear, perhaps, enough ; of party politics and angry disputations more than enough by far; it will surely be an agreeable and healthful variety to turn from time to time to a class of subjects, whose judicious treatment cannot be injurious, and must be improving. Our public institutions,—social, sanatory, benevolent, religious, literary, and mercantile, — are less known than many of them deserve to be ; and we hope that an occasional visit to some of the most interest ing, and an examination of thorn, will be attended with pleasure and profit, both to our readers and to ourselves. We claim indulgence for a few words on another sub ject. It is with no small gratification that we refer to the quiet gentlemanly tone by which the articles in our paper have always been characterised. Their spirit has been creditable to our predecessors at the editorial helm, as to our readers, who, we are happy to say, would appreci ate and tolerate nothing else. We know that it is a received maxim, more lax than creditable, that a com mittee may perform acts which to an individual would be degrading ; and similarly, that a newspaper may be guilty of offences, with which none of its conductors would dare to identify himself, This system of conventional morality may be very convenient, but it must be repudiated at once, and heartily, by ti oee who recognise the higher and holier principles of abstract right and wrong. It is grow ing upon us in our own town, not stealthily and silently, but openly, unblushingly. There is a sort of brigandage of the press, which regards every man, woman, and child as its lawful prey, unless the toll called " black mail" be paid for immediately in the shape of advertisements, sub scriptions or printing. It would be disgraceful in a semi civilised state ; in an intelligent and Christian community like this, it is intolerable. We appeal to the respectable portion of the press in town, whose kind feelings and good offices we have always had the happiness to possess, and to reciprocate, to assist us in abating the evil. The body of ancient chivalry is dead, but its spirit still sur vives,—the desire to protect the weak against the wicked. On this subject, at least, our trumpet shall not utter an uncertain sound. We have fired a warning salute to day, partly to show the offender the range of our guns ; we hope for his own sake, and for the sake of public decency, that he will exercise the better part of valour, viz., " discretion," and not provoke either a broadside or a cannonade. The various minor improvements, some of which have already received attention, it is, perhaps, unnecessary to specify in detail. Our readers will not fail to note, in due course, an enlarged sheet, a more systematic arrangement of matter, an improved summary of church, clerical, and university intelligence, and certain mechanical arrange ments of an improved character. These, however, are but a few of the points in which we are desirous to study their tastes and interests, and we hope that the fact of their being unsolicited and unexpected on the part of our readers, will in no degree diminish the gratification with which they will be received. Our exordium has been longer than we designed ; but it was not quite needless in presenting " the compliments of the season." The year which is almost upon us threatens to be somewhat monotonous ; but that is no reason that it should be deficient either in enjoyment or improvement. The Exhibition is a thing of the past; the Crystal Palace is become a somewhat unimportant fact; the Cardinal, after all his boasting, has fouid his level in England, like water in the pipes ; the Queen's visit, which is really a thing of yesterday, has practically acquired the dimness of remote tradition. It is thus that, in a large community, one event effaces another from public recollection before it has made any per manent impression, and the topics which promise to be of absorbing and enduring interest, fade and melt into others, like the pictures of dissolving views. Yet there is a permanence amidst all this change. There are principles which are enduring as the hills, truths which always find a response in the human heart, duties which always call for performance, errors that are always to be shunned, motives and action that are always honoured and valued by the good. We do not promise our readers that we will regard every subject of passing interest as more im portant than any that has gone before, that we will always shout with the mob and hiss when they hiss, or follow the tossings of the froth on the surface of the stream. Yet we have a strong hope that we shall gratify public taste not less than if we did all this ; and that our seed will yield no less a harvest. But whatever may be the issue, it is now our duty to take leave. And we beg to assure our readers, that it, is riot with the glib formality of the world, but in the loved sincerity that means all it says, that we wish them singly and unitedly the enjoyment of a HAPPY NEW YEAR. THE MAIL BITING HIS BRIDLE A FORTNIGHT ago we ventured (without previously ask ing the gracious permission of the Liverpool Mail) to deprecate the unhandsome tone in which our Town Coun cillors are frequently spoken of, by those cvli ) ought both to know and practise better. Our remarks were evidently applicable in an eminent degree to certain individuals, whom we shall not name even now ; but they were inten tionally expressed in general terms, for the avoidance of even the appearance of personality. We do not expect, and never did, that our contemporary would understand a motive of this kind—how could he ? We explained the matter to the satisfaction of all intelligent and respectable readers last week, and these, after all, are the only persons whose opinions are valuable. We lament that there are " leaden" intellects in the world, and these, as might be expected, are unusually dull. It appears, however, that our "bow at a venture" struck him between the joints of the harness and, besides, that there were two shafts on the string. In allusion to a letter on the subject of the Scripture Readers' Association, we showed him that we would not bow down and worship any of his particular idols ; and our views coincided with those of a gentleman whom the Mail has often and deeply injured, and therefore whom he " can never forgive." Hine ilice lachrynue ! We beg that he will not mistake this quotation for high Dutch. So far from regret. ting that our musket was double-shotted, we rejoice at it; and now that we know the points on which his consci ence still shows tokens of sensibility, he shall hear from us again. Why should those who defend be less coura geous than those who assail ? Do we not read " Thrice is he armed that bath his quarrel just ?" To retort his own expression, we briefly place the offences " on record, for future and fuller castigation." Our contemporary possesses a certain low species of talent in a very unusual degree. and that is, the capacity for crowding a large number of blunders into a small space. For instance, because we defended several classes against the indecent sneers of a few members of one, he infers, with characteristic inaccuracy, that we are setting up a rivalship of ranks. He must have been looking in his glass when he wrote this, for the pen and ink portrait represents his own pleasant features. But there is a danger in looking into the glass too long ; for men some times come " to see double," and then, of course, instead of single-mindedness, they are prone to duplicity though we tell him civilly that he assailed an innocent gentleman as the supposed writer, there is not one woad of repentance or apology ; but he atones for one offence Again, in his own way, by committing another. And as if this were not enough, he assails the proprietor of the Standard, a comparative stranger in the town, without the remotest semblance of a cause. His only regret now is, that he missed his aim ; for his hospitaty and civility, like the tender mercies of all his class, are cruel. But the richest condensation of blunders, is where he attempts scholarship. With his usual swagger, and affectation of superior intelligence, he declares that raleat quantum is " dog Latin," and that " valeot quart-urn" is the true reading ! ! Here, in a single line, are ignorance, insolence, and untruth. We beg pardon of our readers for descending to criticism of remarks at which a schoolboy might blush ; but the quarrel is not of our seeking. Quart-urn ! Ha, ha ! " I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word." The Helicon from which the slashers of the Mail draw their inspiration is pretty well known ; but we caution them not to hint at it so plainly in future ; or if they will adopt a sly double-entendre, why, surely, pint um might suffice. His logic is neither better nor worse than his philology. He seems to say that we do not know our own meaning, but that he does ; that we are not judges of the propriety of alleged conclusions from certain premises, but that he is ;—in short, that we must just accept his interpretation, and then his abuse. 'We beg with all due respect to decline both. We are very sorry indeed that we can only lay before our contemporary facts and arguments ; it does not belOng to us to confer on him the intellect to appre ciate them, of which he stands so wofully in need. But one kind hint to him,—confidentially, if he pleases. Before he attempts to " chop logic" with us, he should try to learn the alphabet of the science, or at least get up a few of the principal terms, for the purpose of mystifying his readers. There are several cheap works that would suit him; Pinnock's Catechism is strongly recommended for beginners. In the peculiar style of gentlenianly language in which he occasionally indulges, we are threatened with " future castigation." Oh dear ! He also says, "We defer our fiercer denunciations." We are sorry that he puts himself to inconvenience, as, perhaps, his excellent tern. per might spoil by keeping. Seriously, this literary foot. pad threatens us with extermination if we do not salute his flag, and acknowledge him the only true journalist in Liverpool. We beg to decline this too; and to tell him that if this style of bullying continues, one of us must eat the leek, like Pistol. But he must look into his glass again to ascertain which. There are some writers who resemble the cuttle-fish, and when a dangerous antagonist is at hand, they squirt out a large quantity of ink, that they may escape in the clouded waters. From the wordy style of the Mail's gas conade, it is evident that he is retreating ; and we do not believe one word respecting the threatened attack, because he has promised it. When a man is bent on some mis chievous act, it requires a certain amount of honesty and manliness to give his opponent warning ; we are to sup pose that he possesses them, qualities, hut they certainly do not appear in his columns. It sometimes happens, however, that the symptoms of ill-nature cannot be con cealed, for as Campbell's Wizard says : " Coming events cast their shadows before ;" but these warnings, though important, are undesigned. It is a merciful arrangement of Providence, that the snake with the deadliest fang is also provided with a rattle in its tail. There is just one thing which we really dread, and that is the praise or ap probation of the Mail. We implore him to spare us from anything so worthless and injurious ; but he may rattle his fiercest thunderbolts about as thick as hailstones— they have lost their fire. He teljs us that he will never hereafter believe any assertion of ours unless accomparied with an affidavit. Alas ! how shall we s rvive this calamity ? Perhaps we will not care to convince him, but be satisfied with the approval of the intellectual, moral, and religious of the public. There are some who folloW the principle of judging their neighbours as thy lead their own lives ; and we have heard it suggested, uncharitably perhaps, that the Mail's frequent abuse of mankind argued that the specimens which he knew within doors were not first- At all events, he has succeeded almost, to a miracle in giving the degree of ctAibility with which many of his own pieces of long-bow practice is received. Let us fairly understand each other. Once for all, we advise the Mail to mind his own business, if it he sufficient to occupy him. He is too old in a certain grade of moral and social virtues to mend ; but he has at least selfishness enough to guard him from knocking his head against a post. There is a saying, too, about people with glass heads ; he knows it well enough, and the application of it. The record of his offences, public and personal, would more than fill an entire copy of our paper ; but we shall comment upon select passages from time to time if he will persist in establishing such rival entertainments. We know him well—his history, his practices, his motives, his —no, but we shall be obliged to any of our readers who will tell us first whether he is guided by any fixed prin ciples ; and second, if so, what they are. His insolent threats of abuse we treat as the Knight of Kerry used to treat a cold when he had it—" with sover, ign contimpt." It is not our business to become the moral scavengers of the town, and to remove every nuisance, even when it is admitted to be such. But there are certain occasions on which patience ceases to be a virtue, and becomes a crime; and then we tell the Mail, frankly and fairly, our scrip shall always contain a sling and a stone for the forehead of the shameless brag LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH The Globe's correspondent PARIS, istration of several departm that tl ts, by wl already been eff,cted, could only power, with a parliamentary sysi utterly impracticable. No p.a.!' should attempt them would lat guard will be reduced to abou sons between 25 and 35 years of beyond the sublieutenants. A' Df the admin :tone by dictatorial ce they wou!d be overmnent which The national of per- No officers to be rs abor , that gr. lent. T 1 be appointed by the P to be paid. By this arrangement the line= be reiluced. It i thought that he president will require 10,000,000 francs per an n um. 1(12,000,000 were voted, the nation would he satisfied. The agreement with the associated hankers and capitalists of Paris, and the Paris and Lyons Railway stated to have been on the point of conclusion, has beet anions urged by the Governs declined to accede. 'Ph various numbers notice fished by the papers, is departments as are co voting, however incomE BY SUBMARINE TELL PARIS, MONDAY II take place it VIENNA, DEC •ope at fined a 'victory of v peror o that of St. Andrev orders have been re and raw nt BERLIN, the A4rh-lt (kill 1. It not colic lectio - n will be from t nr Snnin_ 'l i i , A nstr The Archthil peror's brother, is on boa The Austrian Presse ever to act in opposition to the wishes he votes g such of the them where er the Te Deum day, Sa lender )rt time 1 'ter of Conservative to take t in comr states, that the duchies veromelits of Naples, lid Maximilian, the em- LEGHORN, Dec. 20.—Henry Stratford, calling 't Aldborugh, and .his brother, Edward Stratford. ;- of death commuted to ten years' impriso- - and six years for the latter. Chart liberty. -Gro CE, Dec. 23 bardo•Venetian Lo CONSTANTINOPLE.—M. 'FeTat from the French consul not to rnunication with the Porte. TATTERSALL'S I METROPOLITAN.-30 to 1 on the f taken—Any odds apt Don Ped 2,000 Gt:INEAs' STAKES —lO to 1 agst Fillius; tat CHESTER Cup.- Goldfinder ; taken -10 to 1 DEI:BY.-9 to 1 00 tbe field —l5 to 1 Claverhouse —25 to 1 agst Orelio ; tak, LONDON MONEY AND St The English market was im 'asy, and several buyers abou self Lord ,ford has bee {erne-Brewed ; taken taken-100 to RR MAR NETS ugh dishe jug so.—ltailway Shares exceedir MONDAY most cases pric closed scarcely s, es nave ) strong but yet ppearance, money s the close there to & per shay all day, and in The market A large l per eel- field, and Lincolnsl ctivity in Alex re ; Caledeni 3-16th ner s Consols Account, a Quarter per Cent k, 1174 Nottingham, ar , Enstern Count shire . and Brighton, Berwick, It kshire, CO} 1 South to! N liester, Shet ks good, with ,st, 95 64 North'S k awl North 11-1 ANCH ESTER Si owing were the closing price Lancashire, and Cheshir London Sic 16; Midlar East Lancashire, 151 Shams, M. and B. C., 1 shire and Yorkshire, 6O LO DO' CORN MARKET Wheat obtained. dearer. ling _ our the turn higher saleable nt '0 .tlO Lanca- oth ish White Whea , Red Ditto. against 52,924 last year, I casks. The deliveries l .n increase of is casks Stock, 5 LONDON CATTLE MARKET The supply of beasts and slteer Fridty's prices. Calf trade unalt 20G; _Sheep,_l,l - 70 ; 'Calves, 1 —MoN DAY .e of Is. p Gil. to 4s. 6(1.; V(': ase this punted tc MONDAY and trail from A 1 - e ' Xa" over on her b e am C;;CisTri 4 blowing fresh from tl in, for Ilarre, for shelter. FRANS TTBSTANTIAT preach a sermon, in S platter Foreign • ucev peasts, , r this r it Dec.— Seallant led, fell etl. It running nchael's Church, on Sunday on the above evening next, in answer to One pre subject by the Rev. Dr. Cahill, in See -street Om Sunday week TRAINS BETWEEN MANCHE The Lancashire and Yorkshire, ------ - Western Railway Companies, having been running o tion trains between Manchester and Liverpool for saw past, both starting about the same time, have now arrangements for the passenger traffic. The trains of both companies will leave the Victoria station, Manchester, alternately, for the Exchange and Lime street stationv, and from this town, alternately, from the Exchange and Lime Creet stations, to the Victoria station, Manchester.