The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

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which our

ry occupies is not the result of a hasty
experiment or any novel theory, but the result of a long
ancestral history. For' years the leading features in the
history of our country were military or naval, or both.
Waterloo and Wellington are familiar to us all ;

they would have had no place or opportunity had the)
not been preceded by Trafalgar and Nelson. (Hear, hear.
• would they, perhaps, have bad place for opportua
they not been nreceded by Blenheim and Marl

borough, (Cheers.) La
now going on is not between armies, but between prin-
ciples, and the representative of the house of Marl-
borough desires to emulate on the field of peace
the laurels so nobly won by his great ancestor
on the field of battle. I rise,,then, to ask you to express
your thanks to him, a nobleman who is not ashamed to
avow himself a Christian and a Protestant—not ashamed
to come before the nation as the open advocate of the
nation's Church (great cheering) ; and who, instead of
seeking health and amusement upon the mountain, at
this festive season,—not festive for the grouse, but
the grouso-eater (laughter),—bat who, retiring from
the drawing-rooms of London, and the noble seats
of ancient aristocratic honours and hospitality with which
the country is adorned,—deprives himself of much he is
so fitted by nature and so qualified by attainment to
adorn, in order that he may come among us,
and that he may express his- desires for the good
of our country in the able and eloquent way he has
described to you to-day—the best of all ways, by putting
forth the hand of the aristocracy and aiding your hands
in this good cause. (Hear, bear.) Bat I may be allowed
to say to him, and I am sure yea will agree with me,
that much as we value the honoured of the land, the coro-
net would be comparatively weale if it were not for the
good sinews that come at the bottom ; whilst, at the same
time, your, the owners of those sinews, would never be
.anything better, if you should ever in a rash hour attempt
to separate the honour of the nation from the honoured
coroneted heads of the aristocracy. (Applause.) I rise
to propose a vote of thanks to the Marquis of Blandford—
thanks from this meeting of British-Protestants and British
Christians ::Liverpool Protestantsand Christians, can't I
say ? (Cries of " Yes," and cheers.) Well, I will say,
Liverpool Protestants ; and you will respond to the thanks
before my worthy friend on my left can get up to second
it, without any argument or eulogy-from me. (Repeated
cheering. with the Kentish fire:)

ntlemen, the contest

The Noble MARQUIS, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, expressed his desire on all occasions to do every-
thing in his-power to promote the benefit of the Church.
(Hear, hear.) He believed the Church of England was
united, in a way they little thought of, with the civil and
religious liberty of this country ; and that to it we were
indebted for the prosperity we enjoyed, for the security of
our institutions, and for the general happiness and well-
being of the people. (Cheers.)
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TITe doxology having been sung, the vast assemblage
separated about a quarter past ten o'clock.

AMOUNT OF COLLECTIONS AFTER SERMONS PREACHED I

IN THE FOLLOWIN(

CHtTRCH ES

St. Bride!

£ s. d.
18 0 0
6 8 9
10 8 3

1851.
£ s. d.
59 0 0
8 0 0
14 3 0
28 0 0
15 3 6
30 8 6
18 12 0

St. Clement's' Windsor
Christ Church. Everton
St. George's, Everton
St. James's, West Derby
St. Jude's
St. John's
St. John's, Knotty Ash
St. Mark's......
St. Mary's, Bootle
St. Mary's, Wavertree .
St. Mary's, Edge-hill .....
St.. Matthew's, Tosteth
St. Michael's .......
St. Luke's
Mariners' Church .........
St. Paul's, Prince's-park
St. Thomas's, Seaforth .....
St. Silas'
St. Stephen's, Crown-street

16 0 6
16 9 2
14 8 1
20 0 7
12 1 6

69 11 8

6 2 6
20 10 0
4 10 0

10 1 3
5 12 3
4 3 4

5 16 3

. 72 2 8 113 0 0
, 18 0 0 20 0. 0
• 617 0 27 0 0
. 11 12- 9

£230 13 4 451 13

Exceeding last anniversar

£221 0 1

Sermons are yet to be preached on to-morrow (Wed.
nesday) evening, in St. Augustine's, Shaw-street, by the
Rev. Thomas Nolan, MA. ; and, on an early opportunity,
at St. Nicholas's, Parish Church ; St. Michael's,, Pitt-
street ; St. Mary's, Bootle ; St. John the Evangelist's,
Knotty Ash ; and St.,Peter's, Everton.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE LAST NIGHT.—.AbOUt ten
o'clock last night, as a horse and " Hansom's" cab, which
belonged to Messrs. Busby, had been drawn up at their
office, the horse started off, while the dri

some fare, at a fearful rate down Dale
several persons had narrowly escaped, the horse swerved
towards the glare of light proceeding from the shop
of Mr. Howell,, druggist, and, in continuing its course in
an oblique direction across the street, came in contact with
a poor woman,, named Ann Bridges, who was so seriously
injured that she died ere she reached the Northern Hos.
pital. The poor woman, a widow, had kept an oyster.
stall for above three years in the position in which she met
her death. The driver was taken into custody.

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extract of a letter.

MOST BLANC.—. dated Chamoun►,
August 19.—" An unsuccessful attempt to ascend Mount
Blanc was made yesterday by a party of five travellers.
The weather has been generally very unfavourable, but
Monday and Tuesday were so fine that the gentlemen pre-
pared for the ascent. The guides prognosticated a change.
The party, however, would not attend to their advice, but
insisted on starting about 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
About 3 in the afternoon it came on torain. They crossed the
Glacier des Boesons in safety, and reached the Grgnd Mulcts
about ball• past five. Here they passed a miserable night,
and returned this morning in rather a crest-fallen proces-
n sion , reaching Cham ouni about noon. Chamouni is crowded

with visitors, and the greatest difficulty is experienceu
getting anything like a bel. The weather has been, at the
same time, anything but pleasant. The road between this
villageand Sallendier has beeome very dangerous from the
storm. Several of the bridges have been carried away by the
torrents; regular carriage communication has been repeat
edly stopped, and the Perces of the lady tourists '
been put to some very serious trials. A char.a.,
overturned last week, near Les Perches, in consequem.
of the road having been cut up by a torrent, and one
voun- 1, '-

banc was

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