The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

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FOR EXPORTATION.

ASPINALL'S EAST INDIA PALE ALE AND
BITTER ALE,
In Hogsheads, Barrels, Half-Barrels, and Quarter-Barrels. For
Exportation and Home Consumption. Warranted to keep sound
and good for years.
ANCHOR BREWERY, BIRKENHEAD,
WALMER-BUILDINGS, WATER-STKEET, LIVERPOOL.

Copy of a Letter from a Liverpool Merchant.
"Liverpool, sth March, 1855.
"Sir,-1 beg to say, that I have shipped Beer supplied by
you, in wood and bottle, for five years, to the East and West
Indies, South America, and other markets, and that it has always
given the greatest satisfaction to my friends abroad, invariably
arriving out in the best possible order and condition. My orders
are to ship " Aspinall's Ale," and no other.—Yours most
obediently.
"Mr, H. K. Aspinall, Anchor Brewery, Birkenhead."

Fami-
lies to the prices and quality
HENRY K. ASPINALL would call the attention of Private
Table Beer, Brewed and carefullyespecially for Private
Use. prepared of his Pale Ales and Preston Pans
--
Extract from a letter from Adelaide, Australia.
"Aspinall's Pale Ale is very much approved of here, and brings
high prices. It is largely consumed at our clubs and hotels." •'•
Extract from a letter from Constantinople.
" AspinalPs Pale Bitter Beer would sell well out here in bottl.
A few consignments have already brought high prices. It is very
clear and fine flavcured." --
Aspinall's Pale Ale and Preston Pans Table Beer will keep
sound, brisk, and clear to the last, providing the vent peg is kept
tight, and the cask carefully tilted, so as not to disturb the beer.
The tap must be regularly scalded after the cask is empty.

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Southport William Mercer, 135, Lord-street.
Waterloo and }Mr. Jones, Druggist.
Seaforth
Runcorn Thomas James, High-street.
Everton John Wright, Druggist, St. Domingo-road.
Birkenhead Offices, near Woodside Ferry.
Orton William Coulter, Grocer.
Rock Ferry -. Weston, Coal-yard, near the Ferry.
N.B.—May be had, by applying to the Brewery, the names of
the eminent medical men residing in Liverpool, Birkenhead and
the neighbourhood, whose families use ASPINALL'S PRESTON
PANS BEER and PALE ALE, and who have kindly offered to speak
as to its wholesome qualities.
The Drays will deliver in Liverpool and surrounding districts
as nearly as possible on the days mentioned. Orders must, how-
ever, be registered on the day previous.
MONDAY and THURSDAY.—EVerIOD, Walton, and District.
TUESDAY and FRIDAY.—Waterloo, Seaforth, and North of Liver-
pool.
WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY--Aigburth, Garston, Wavertree,
and District.
EVERY DAY.—Liverpool and immediate neighbourhood.
HENRY K. ASPINALL,
Sole Agent for Comas, DELAYIELD, and Co.'s tine-tlavoured
LONDON PORTER.

THE

Ktberpoot tanbatt.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1856

ECCLESIASTICAL ROUTINE

WHEN England the other day, after forty years of
peace, found herself at war, she was quickly convinced,
by painful experience, of the necessity for various
changes and improvements in her military system.
Her system, like her old tents and old weapons, had
been laid up in ordinary since the eventful day of

Waterloo ; and, when suddenly called into action,

►vas, like them, found to be utterly unfit for service.
The routine, which had answered upon the whole
tolerably well in other times, was found to be unsuited
to the present ; and a change was imperatively called
for : and, however unwilling the grey-beards of the
service may be to admit the fact, a change has been
commence& which nothing but a speedy and imei-
pected return of peace, if that, can hinder from,

becoming complete and entire. Had the necessity
for such change been urged before the war broke out,
few, if any, would have been convinced ; and even
those few would hardly have thought it worth their
while to enter upon any agitation in order to bring it
about. But the English are a practical people, and
are far more readily influenced by one fact than by
ten thousand arguments, however rational may be
the theory in support of which they are urged : and,
accordingly, no sooner did they hear the accounts of
hunger and cold, disease and death, among our
troops, with which the papers teemed some twelve-
months ago, than they loudly demanded a change in
the system which had led t 6 such melancholy and
pernicious results. We will not say, that they did
not go in some = respects a little too far ; we will not
say, that the blame was in every case apportioned
with strict justice : all we insist upon is this,—that,
as soon as they were convinced by the stern logic of
facts that a change was necessary, a change was
demanded.

Now it is somewhat strange that a people, which
is so readily convinced by facts in questions of a civil
or military nature, should be so difficult to move in
matters ecclesiastical. The evils of an antique military
routine have but lately been demonstrated ; and
already routine is condemned. The same incubus has
been weighing upon the Church, and producing un-
numbered evils for, at least, the last hundred and
fifty years, and scarcely a voice is raised against it,
except by those who would fain sweep the Church
away from the face of the earth. It may be that the
difference may be accounted for by the fact, that,
whereas the evils of military routine were developed
and demonstrated at once by the outbreak of the war,
those which afflict the Church, and retard her progress,
have been of more gradual growth. The former
could not but be seen and felt. The latter have come
upon us imperceptibly, so as that we are not conscious,
at any given moment, of things being in a worse state
than they have ever been. And yet we are convinced, as
we are certain that all will be, who will patiently inves-
tigate facts, that routine is the very bane of the Church.
Take, for example, the number of our dioceses. Origi-
nally they were seven, one for each kingdom of the Hep-
tarchy : but our forefathers knew nothing of routine,
and consequently found no difficulty in increasing
them. At the period of the Reformation they were
more than twenty ; and by HENRY VIII. were in-
creased to within one of their present number : and yet
the population has increased five-fold ; the north has
become in many parts more populous than the south ;
and large towns and cities have sprung into existence
in places where then a few scattered cottages alone
proclaimed the presence of man, many of them pos-
sessing more inhabitants than whole dioceses three
hundred years ago, nay, some of them, more than
dioceses of our own day. If this were all, our case
would be a strong one. It would be this : that we have
the same number of Bishops, plus one, which were
considered necessary three hundred years ago for apopu-
lation of just about one-fifth of our present numbers.
And even if we were to admit the truth of Mr. HORACE
MANN'S fancy statistics, and by which he endeavours
to prove that only one-half of the population belongs
to the Church ; and further admit that the Church
has no duties to discharge towards, and no concern
with, thosewho dissent from her; still the disproportion
would be sufficiently glaring, about two-and-a-half to
one. In other words, we should require somewhere
about forty additional Bishops to place the Church
upon the same footing, with reference to the popula-
tion, as at the Reformation. But, in point of fact,
this is not all ; for it is well known that of all the
additional dioceses which HENRY VIII. considered
necessary, only a portion were founded ; and, besides
what he did, and intended to do, in the way of new
dioceses, that he provided for the revival of the
Chorepiscopi, or country-bishops of the Primitive
Church, under the somewhat erroneous name of
Suffragans. By an act passed in the 26th year of his
reign, no less than twenty-six towns were appointed,
principally in the south, from which these assistant
Bishops should take their titles. " They were to be
consecrated," says BINGHAM, "by the Archbishop,
and two other Bishops, and by the act to have the
same episcopal power as suffragans formerly had
within this realm ; but none of them either to have
or act anything properly episcopal, without the con-
sent and permission of the Bishop of the city, in
whose diocese he was placed and constituted." In
fact, they would have been pretty much to their
respective Bishops in their dioceses, what Curates are
to Incumbents in their parishes. It was, then, con-
sidered necessary at the time of the Reformation,
not only to have a larger number of Bishops than at
present, fixed in permanent sees, but, to provide by
these suffragans for cases of emergency. If, for
example, the Bishop of any diocese required assistance,
he was to present two persons to the King, who
should nominate one of them to be his suffragan,
and require the Archbishop to consecrate him. This
act was repealed by 1 and 2 PHILIP and MARY,
tap. 8., but wAS.reci.73:.l. !n the following reign, and
remains in force, we believe, to this hour ; though,
since its revival, it has never been acted upon.
And why is it not acted upon? The wants of the
Church are admitted, nay, cannot be denied in face of
such facts as one which we noticed only a few days
ago, viz., that, in consequence of advanced age and
infirmity, the Bishop of DURHAM had handed over
the administration of his diocese to, the Bishop of
MANCHESTER,—to a Bishop whose chief city would
alone find more than sufficient occupation for his
whole time and energies. Why, then, instead of
adding an
additional burden to one already over-
burdened, was not a suffragan consecrated to assist
the aged Bishop MALTBY ? Why, some years ago,
was not a suffragan appointed for Bath and Wells,
instead of additional labour being thrown upon the
Because it would have
Mate Bishop of SALISBURY . P
been contrary to routine : which same routine also
requires each Bishop to have a Cathedral with a Dean
and Chapter, a Palace, and four or five thousand a
year, and thereby raises very terrible obstacles to
any permanent increase of the Episcopate. And
though the Church is failing, miserably failing, in her
warfare with the world ; and our mining and manu-
facturing districts are approaching day by day more
near to a condition of absolute Heathenism ; yet
Churchmen cannot, or will not, see any necessity for
departing from a routine, which dates from a period
when the state of things was altogether different from
that which exists at present.

MEICCA:NTILE ADVICES from St. Petersburgh, of the 18th
ult., contain the significant announcement that the banks
have limited the amount of their cash paynients, " owing to
the scarcity of bullion ;" but that they bad not ceased issuing
such entirely. This will explain the urgent efforts recently
made at Berlin and elsewhere tQ raise a loan, on almost Any
term,



FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MonxING.

DURING Christmas week the metropolis has been the
theatre of fun and frolic, as have likewise been ail other places
throughout the length and breadth of " _Kerrie Englaude." In
London at least there has been no apparent lack of enjoyment, or
of the means of procuring it. Christmas-day, the greit Christian
anniversary, was celebrated as a London. Christmas generally,.
is : after the celebration of an early and earnest religious ser-
vice, it was set apart as a day of festive pleasure, and social
and domestic joy. The initiative in this national_ mode of
celebration was properly taken by Her MAJESTY THE
QUEEN, who in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, accom-
panied by her Royal Consort and their youthful family,
ushered in the day by attendance on Divine Service. The
.Royal baron of beef, flanked on either side by the traditional
boarl head, and woodcock pie, and decorated with holy. and
ivy were placed cold on a sideboard of the banqueting-hall
of the Castle, at an early hour. The baron is in all respects a
joint worthy of the ancient and well maintained hospitality of
England. It weighed four hundred and twenty-five pounds,
and was cut from a five-years-old Highland stot, fed by ,
PRINCR ALBERT at the Norfolk Farm in the Windsor Great.
Park. In quality it was admitted to be of rare excellence,
and along with its portly companions it continued to grace
the sideboard for the refection of the royal and noble guests
who were honoured with the entree to the Castle during the.
week-. To-morrow (New-Year's7day) HER MAJESTY will dis-
pense her annual bounty to the poor of Windsor and Clewer,
to the amount of £250 in food and clothing.
While the quiet and stately Christmas festivities of royalty
have been observed with the customary ,magnificence at
Windsor Castle, and with a slightly diminished grandeur,
though with an equal amplitude of cordiality, in many a lordly
hall throughout the country ; and while the yule-log has been
kindled and the yule-flagon quaffed in many a yeoman's
cottage, the in-dwellers of the " wen" (the epithet by which
old COBBETT delighted to stigmatise the metropolis,) have
been neither idle nor abstemious, so far as can be judged by
external indications. Besides the substantials and dainty fare
prescriptively devoted to Christmas, London has presented
attractions more than usually numerous and seductive. The
Theatres, Concert-rooms, and other exhibitions of a kindred
character have been more than usually cared for,- and have
been more than usually attended. The Crystal, Palace, the-
British Museum, the National Gallery, the Polytechnic, the
Panopticon, the Zoological Gardens, and Panoramas without
number, have contributed pleasure, mingled with instruction,. I ,
to thousands upon thousands to whom a holiday is at once a
time of rest and recreation.

If the close of the year brings with it a season of festivity,-
in which the joys of social intercourse and the harmonies of
domestic happiness are more widely disseminated than on or-
dinary occasions, it also brings with it matter inducing serious
thought and is provocative of grave reflection. It is the period
which, of all others, is peculiarly fitted to suggest anticipa-
tions of the future, and with these to inwreath it may be a
withered chaplet of flowers which bedecked the past. In the
language of the great Scottish bard :
This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain,
To run the twelve months' length again.
I see the old bald•pated fellow,
With ardent eyes, complexion sallow,
Adjust the unimpaired machine
To wheel the equal, dull routine.
The absent lover, minor heir,
In vain assail him with their prayer;
Deaf as my friend, he sees them press,
• Nor makes the hour one moment less.
Conspicuous among those thoughts which "will not be re-
pressed," and which flavour with a dash of sorrow the brim-
ming cup of anticipated pleasure, are the memories of those
who have been "snatched away in beauty's bloom," or, like
ripe ears, have fallen before the mower's scythe. Few in-
dividuals, and still fewer households, have not some such me-
mory to haunt and sadden them.
For each has had his dream of joy,
His own unequall'd pure romance,
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrills at lovely woman's glance.
And each can speak of whispers in a milling ear,
Of kisses on a glowing cheek,

Each kiss—each whisper far too dear,
For modern lips to give or Speak;

While individual-experiences, however, are most potent in
guiding restricted feeling, and while poignancy of emotion is
at all times most efficiently soothed by generalised sensations,
there always exists in the human mind an extent of 'Sympathy
so widely diffused as to link whole communities in a common
bond of regret, or to awaken in their bosoms a unison of
chastened admiration—something which all can deplore, or in
which all can take delight. No spell is so potent for these
purposes as that which is awakened from the tomb ; the obi-
tuary, like the church-yard, is the ground on which all meet
on equal terms. Casting the eye retrospectively over its
sombre pages, food for reflection is forced on even the most
thoughtless. That for the year whose-knell ia.now.ringing
contains the names of many whose deeds and acts were
" familiar in our ear as household words." Without alluding
more pointedly to those of the illustrious dead who have been
sacrificed ou the altar of war, and whose memory will retain
a lasting verdure in the proud remembrances of a grateful
nation, it is impossible to forget how many of those who, for
good or evil, exercised a telling influence on public affairs.
The Senate has to bewail the loss of a conscientious legislator,
and the model of an English gentleman, in the death of Sir
ROBERT INGLIS ; and an earnest upholder of right in the
case of Colonel SIBTHORP ; in the sturdy old Radical,
JOSEPH Hums, the House of Commons has lost a distin-
guishing and characteristic feature ; and in Sir WILLIAM
MoLsswosxm the Cabinet has to deplore the removal of a
man of character, who, however bewildered by cob-web
mysticism in politics, deservedly maintained the character of
personal honesty, and was generally admitted to be above the
stimulus of selfish ends. Art has sustained severe loss in the
death of the venerable Comm- FIELDING, and the energetic
PATsrc PARE; as music has in the broken and now silent
lyre of Sir HENRY R. BISHOP. Physical science has to mourn
over the ashes of DE LA BECHE, and Professor GREEN
-
HOUGH ; and classical literature must lament the severing of
that silver cord which linked elegant erudition with the
name of DEAN GAISFORD. Within the last few days
artistic refinement has lost an enlightened and munificent
patron in the death of the patriarchal Memenas, SAMUEL
RoGERS. In even so brief a retrospect, the sensitive reader
is tempted to exclaim with the poet— .

Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, s's
Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease,
In still small accents whispering from the ground
A grateful earnest of eternal peace.
Having, as it were, closed the record of the past, the appr0a.......s
of the year, which will be ushered in by to-morrow's matin
chime, invites a forward glance; and here again "grim-visaged
war " presents " his wrinkled front," and lays his withering
hand on even the fairest anticipations. It invades and vales
the counting-house of the merchant—abates the niTtble
celerity of the shuttle—and slackens the bounding sail of the
mariner. It dins its discordant rattle in the court-yard, of the,
ducal domain—sends its shriek into the happy cirels:which
surrounds the domestic hearth—and with its harrowing groan
affrights the home of peaceful industry. With such.an array
of unwelcome attributes, as the accompaniment of war, it can-
not be a matter for wonderment, that men of all political per-
snasions sigh for the return of Peace ; yet it is infinitely ere-
dit'able to the sagacity as well as spirieof the Britiih pedide,
that, though anxious for the cessation of the wa4,they are not
prepared to accept a peace which would be but a.compromise—
a brief armistice to shift. the burden of hostilities from, their
own shoulders to those of their posterity. The-rumours of an
proachiug settlement of the dispute, which have of late been
current, have without doubt engaged the anxious attention of
all ranks of the community, au.d the various items of the.
alleged terms of accommodation have been keenly scrutinised.
Like other misty sayings, -xvhich originate from oracular
minds, the suggested terms of peace have shown a consistency
akin to that Of the quicksand, and, have proved themselves to
to be _ _ _

- like the borealis race
That flit ere you can point their place.
Each succeeding day has seen new-rumoured proposals,
differing from those of the preceding day chiefly in be-
coming more and more unlikely. Sober444ed men are
satisfied that the course of hostilities has proceeaed either
too far or not far enough to admit of their 'cli'scontinuance
at the present time. Russia has been so beaten as to
make her know that she cannot get out' of the struggle as it
stands, without a serious loss of prestige ; and she has not yet
been sufficiently mauled to make her submit 'to palpable de-
gradation. The latest " peace rumour" has been thrown out
in the shape of a pamphlet, which has appeared In Paris,
under the title of "The Necessity of a Congress to Pacify
Europe," and the object of the writer is, laconically enough,
expressed in the title. Many of those benevolent gentlemen,
who, with a singularly sensitive eye to the rise and fall of
stocks, profess great skill in the art of "seeing visions and
dreaming dreams;" with wonderful disinterestedness of purpose,
point to the publication of this brochure in Paris, as indica-
tive of its unison with the sentiments of the EMPEROR. No-
body believes in the probability of such a conference; but
many are uncharitable enough, to say they descry in the
" scope and tendency" of the pamphlet a remarkable sympathy
with the pulsations of the Stock Exchange.
A congress of another sort is authoritatively stated as about
to assemble in Paris ; that is, a military council or conference
to arrange the plan of proceedings by the allies in the next cam.
paign. At this conference, the interests of Britain are to be
entrusted to the care of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Sir R.

AIREY, and Sir EDMUND LIONS. The conference, it is said,
has been conceded chiefly to the representations of Marshal
PELISSIEB, who will also be present. The object, to secure
unity of action and a combined plan of operations among the
allied commanders, the want of which, although always ac-
tuated by the most friendly feeling, has been severely felt
during the two last campaigns. The Times, which has an
unwearying partiality for prying into the secrets of states and
individuals, and penetrating the resolutions of such important.
conclaves as this war conference, has got its "witching eye"
upon the affair, and has already so wormed itself into the intri-
cacies of the "mare's nest," .as to find out.that "what plan of
campaign is resolved on will, of course, be a secret till the
hour of its execution arrives." When the glory of political
sagacity and foresight can be concentrated in so occult a de-
liverance, who would not be an oracle ? Jesting apart, it is
to be hoped that some arrangements may be come to by which
not merely the general plan of the campaign may be settled,
if another campaign there is to be, but that all its details and
particulars may be so far determined on, as wholly to exclude
the possible intrusion Of that awful bugbear "chance medley"

from any share in the operations.
The absence of Parliamentary duties has in numerous in-
stances afforded opportunity or excuse for honourable mem-
bers 'to direct the streams of their pent-up oratory against the
auditory nerves of their constituencies, and in every instance
the conduct of the war and the probabilities of peace have
formed leading topics for the display of their eloqUenee—a
spirited maintenance of hostilities as the only means of secur-
ing an honourable and satisfactory peace being the general
prescription,. and that has met with uniform and enthusiastic
approbation from the rffteners. A night or two ago, the- ore--
torical interlude was played at tedious and enormous length_
by the LORD' ADVOCATE of Scotland, who, at a soiree in trae.
Assembly Rooms, Leith, addressed a large gathering of his,
constituents, together with their wives and sweethearts. The'
notabilities present were principally Free-churchmen and
other dissenters, assisted for the nonce by a strong phalanx of
Whig lawyers from Rainburgh. To this respectable, but
motley gathering, the national representative of Scotland ad-
dressed himself at great length, the general stream of his very
wordy eloquence being applied in white-washing all the Mi-
nisters, past and present, who have been in any degree blamed
for misconducting the war. Like a true- descendant of Sir
Pertinax Mac Sycophant, he bedaubed Lord ASEDDEEN, Lord
PALMERSTON, and Lord PANMURE, with fulsome adulation, be-
stowing a similar meed of his discriminating admiration upon.
all the other Ministers to whom he has booed, or may have to
boo-as their humble servitor and Loan advocate. His admi-
ration of everything was seemingly sown broadcast. to the
winds, or on the drowsy ears against which he rattled it.
The. House- of Commons even, that tribunal which so sharply
condemned the- incapable and insincere waNministry which
he-laudi so. much, and all other institutions of the state,
came in for a share of his highly valuable laudation. The
bohea he had imbibed had inspired him with. a: spirit of
almost universal admiration; but, true to its-established
character, that treacherous beverage insinuated- into his
gentle nature a-leetle, just a leetle of its scandalous tempera-
ment, and through its influence the political sucking-dove
was incited to abuse. The milk-and-water torrent* of the
Loup ADVOCATE'S wrath was poured upon the audacious
and trucculent Press, which, taking upon itself the ungra-
cious but important task- of telling the truth, drove from
office a ministry whose ignorance and supineness were-only
equalled• by their insincerity and factious selfishness:. If
ever. the- British- nation was indebted to the intelligence andi
independence of the Press,- it was so at the close of
last year, when it aroused the ire of an indignant
people in wrath- against those- who, by their incapacity
and treachery, were cruelly sacrificing the lives of
our brave countrymen—squandering the national treasurer',
—and bartering the national character for the sake of
gratifying their personal predilections: The House of Cons--1
mons, which. Mr. MONCRIEFF .lauds—the country he wou/4-;
willingly cajole, both recognised thevalue of the service ren-
dered by the press, and practically. thanked it for its hones
labours and fearless intrepidity, by echoing its sentiments, and.
giving validity to its condemnation-- These services and thie;
press, however, are alilte repugnant to the feelings and desires •
of the MAC SYCOPTIA.NT school- of statesmen, whose chief if
not whose only object is to make-matters--smooth at head
quarters. The press -has a -higher-duty. to- perform than is.
recognised or dreamed of by such politicians, and that duty it:
performs Rine like laehrpnce from censors of the 31oNenize,
calibre, who are disturbed by any shaking np.of
the soft easy cushions
On which knaves repose and fatten.

From the official press critic of modern Athens it is pleasant
to escape, and to reveLamong the delights of• pure and unso—
phisticated art. Such delights have been recently afforded, to
a moderate extent of indulgence, by- the charming singing _of
the whole world's favourite, JBMITY LiND. This admirable
vocal artiste appears to-night, in Exeter-hall,for the first thr..e
as chief soprano in HANDEL'S oratorio, of• "The MnssrAzi.!.'
Expectation is high as to her singing the music of this nollo
oratorio. The. simple, expressive, and truly artistic style of
her vocalization inspire the highest hopes of excellence, and
every one is prepared to. witness her triumph in the arduousy ,
yet noble effort. Much has been said,.and said foolishly, ante
the imtrained and instinctive character of this gifted lady's •
singing. Instinctive. it no doubt.is, and impulsive too, but..
the instinct and the impulse both.are subservient to, an&
regulated by,. careful. and assiduous study. With her the:
critic's maxim, ars .celare aria's, is reduced to practice, and
the result is,. the eloquence of song.poured, ortt in the richness.
of expressive and seductive melody. She truthfully enunciates.
her own sensations, and these find. .in echo in the hea.e..-- a.
every listener.. _

THE FAT.T. OF-KARS.

THE LIVERPOOL BTANI3AI,D.