The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

FIRE. DEPARTMENT.

in addition to the benefit of the late Reduction in the Rates
of Premiums, this Company offers to Assurers the advantage
of an allowance for the loss of Rent of Buildings rendered
untenantable by Fire.
Policies falling due at CHRISTMAS, should be renewed
within fifteen days from that period.
The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had at the
Office in London, or of any of the Agents in the Country,
who are authorised to report on the appearance of Lives
proposed for Assurance.
HENRY DES BO RO UG H, Secretary.
92, Cheapside, 21st December, 1839.
The Agents for the Company at the undermentioned places
are as follows, viz.:—

Liverpool
Ditto ..

Messrs. HORNBY and MARSDEN
Mr. W. H. M'DOWELL.

Appleby, E. Allinson.
Ash ton -u nder-Lin e, J. S. Shaw
Blackburn, R. Wilding.
Bolton, C. Briggs.
Burnley and Todmorden, T.
E. flamtnerton. .
Bury, Richard Lomax.
Chorley, J. Waliwork.
Clitheroe, Oddie.
Lancaster, Thob* Albright.
Leigh, T. Whitehead.

Macclesfield, R. Turner.
Manchester, R. and C.
Hervey.
Oldham, John Duncroft.
Preston, Win. Lancaster.
Rochdale, James Hartley.
St. Helen's, John Anadell.
Stockpott, W. Downall.
Ulverston; W. Postlethwaite.
Warrington, Thomas Leigh.
Wigan, J. Griffith.

PROVINCIAL MASONIC MEETING.-otl Wednesday last
upwards of one hundred Freemasons dined together at the
Adelphi, on' the occasion of a provisional grand meeting.
Lord Viscount Combermere was present, and delivered an
excellent address to the brethren. Several other speeches
followed front the different officers. The entertainment, we
understand, was on aanost magnificent scale. The following
is a list of toasts :—The Queen and the Craft: Anthem,
" God save the Queen." Queen Adelaide and the rest of the
Royal Family : Glee, " Hail smiling Morn." Duke of Sus-
sex, G. M.: Glee, " Push the red Wine about." Earl of
Durham, Pro. G. M.: Song, " When I was a Boy with ray
Father and Mother,"—Bro. Raymond. Earl of Zetland, D.
.G. M.: Glee, "The Indian Drum." LoGr. N. Starkie, R.
W. P. G. M. W. D. Lancasliiie: Song, " The tine Old Eng-
lish Gentleman,"-r-Molyneux. Lord Viscount Combermere, ,
R. W. P. G. M. Cheshire : Song, " The.• Flag that braved a
thousand Years." Thomas Preston, R. W. P. G. M. E. D.
Lancashire : Glee, " Mynheer van Dunk." John Drink-
water, R. W. D. P. G. M. W. D. Lancashire : Quartette,
" Prosper the Art." Provincial G. Wardens W. D. Lan-
cashire : Song, " 'Twas the Day of the Feast,"•--M`Guffie.
Provincial G. Chaplain : Glee, " Lightly tread, 'tie hallow'd
Ground." Provincial G. Treasurer: Quartette, `.4 Maying,"
-Pro'vincial f2e; -*crew.? s -Song ,A‘Zuglastel exixects e.very Man..
to do his duty." The Ladies: Song, " 0 nothing in Life
can sadden us,"—Raymond.,.Provincial G. Officers W. D.
Lancashire : Glee, ``. The Evening .Drum." Provincial G..
Stewards : Glee, With a fullsparklingGlass." Masters and',
Wardens of Lodges IV. D. Lancashire : Song, 'f Noiatt
Creena,"—Raymond. F. Maddock,..R. W. D. P. G. M.
Cheshire : Glee, " 0 Willie hrew'd." Provincial G. Officers
Cheshire—Provincial G. Officers E. D. Lancashire : Glee,
" How happily we meet that Masons be."

THE GREAT CHEMIST, BERZELIUS.—NcIicn Berzains
returned, he received us with great cordiality, . We . were
much struck with his appearance—judgin, by the appear.
ance of some of the German savaes, we had expected to find
him au odd, out-of-the-way kind of being;. but lie is totally
devoid of affectation either in dress or manne.. Man of emi-
Renee in Germany startle the stranger in quite a different war;
they may look like men of genius, but would seldom be 'l"'
takep for men of sense. Their pale faces, long " unkempt"
locks, and antiquated garments, afford the must complete
contrast to the healthy looks and unaffected bearing of this
Swedish rival. In fact, from his dress, ease of manner, and
total want of pretension, he might pass, in any society in
Europe, not for Berzelius the great chemist, but Berzelius
the well-bred gentleman. In plane of Dr, Faustus's gar-
ments, he sports a smart carnage cap, silk vest, and blue
coat, very like those of ordinary mortals. He is a well-tnade,
good-looking man, of the middle size, rather stout than
otherwise, but with nothing in his appearance to make us sus-
pect that he had gout, and found it necessary to drink ehaly-
beate water. In a visit to Paris, the preceding summer, they
had tried to kill him with kindness ; but, judging by his
looks, we should say, he will survive many such assaults ;
he travels much, and proposed an early visit to Copenhagen.
If his manner be unaffected, his conversation is equally so :
it has nothing of the shop about it. Not that he shunned—
for that to him would be affectation of the worst kind—all
allusion to his own science. Part of the conversation (which
was carried on chiefly in English, with the aid of an occa-
sional theft from German) turned on our eminent scientific
men ; and nothin could have been more becoming than the
liberality with which he praised these his worthy fellow-la-
bourers. Faraday, Buckland, Scdgwick, Jameson, all came
in for the deserved raced of approbation ; but the Wernerians,
of course, did not escape without a gentle pat. When he re-
marked that their warm attachment to the principles of their
school was in a great measure attributable to their affection
for its head, whom his pupils worshipped as a kind of deity,
and, therefore, regarded every departure from his lessons as
sacrilege—it struck us that the flame may soon he said of
himself and of his school. His pupils revere hint w;til
boundless affection ; but they, must expect IA their turn lo ur
trifled " antigiuttd.'!---Brerfoitelliiteurtionlin !Sweden,