The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-19 00:00:00

THOMAS BARNES HA.MPSON, No. 43, School-lane,
Liverpool, in annonneing his intention of commencing
business upon his own account, begs respectfully to draw the
attention of the Professional 'Gentlemen 9f Liverpool, and
the county of Lancaster in general, to hfi having been em-
ployed as Confidential Clerk with Mr. lmer, late Sheriff's
Officer, for upwards of Twenty Years and trusts, from his
extensive knowledge of the general utine of business, to
insure the patronage and support of the Profession in general.
T. B. H. is immediately at liberty to execute with fidelity
and despatch the.following :
WARRANTS OF SEIZURE IN BANKRUPTCY, -
WARRANTS OUT OF THE ADMIRALTY COURT,
WARRANTS , OUT OF THE COUNTY COURT,

DISTRAINTS FOR RENT,
WRITS OF SUMMONS,
NOTICES OF DECLARATIONS, &c.

And further pledges himself that no personal exertion shal
be wanting on his part to merit the favours which he so ear•
nestly solicits. _ .

N.B.—A respectable reference can at any time be given,
if required.

ESSAY ON CHRISTIAN. MISSIONS.

PRIZE OF TWO HUNDRED GUINEAS, 4,c.
URING the last forty years, many excellent Sermons,
1.1 Tracts, and Pamphlets, have appeared on the subject of
Missions to the Heathen; but the want of a comprehensive
work, embracing all the toptcs directly and collaterally in-
volved in the general theme, has long been felt and very
generally acknowledged: It has occurred to a few friends of
the Missionary enterprise in Scotland that this desideratum
in our Christian literature might be supplied by means of
friendly competition, were the theme of Missions proposed as
the subject of a Prize Essay. Dispensing, for the present,
with the consideration of the causes that may instrumentally
have retarded the progress of Christianity throughout the
world, and with the investigation of the most approved me-
thods of Tfractically conducting Missions abroad, a PRIZE of
Two HUNDRED GUINEAS is hereby offered for the Essay,
and another PRIZE of FIFTY GUINEAS for the second best
Essay on " The Duty, Privilege, and _Encouragement of
Christians to send the Gospel of Salvation to the unenlight-
ened Nations of the Earth." The grand object of Missions,
viz., the regeneration of a lost world through the all-sufficient
atonement of the Lord of Righteousness and the renewing of
the Holy Ghost, must be distinctly unfolded and vindicated
from the Sacred Scriptures. The Duty, Privilege, &c., must
be illustrated as enjoined or sanctioned by Divine commands,
Evangelical motives, and explicit prophecies, as well as re-
commended by a review of the beneficial effects of Christianity
on the civilization of the world, and the reflex influence of
the Missionary ent,- -e in improving the spiritual tone and
condition of th Id Churches. Under the head of
Day, must be sided the obligation to advance the
kingdom of the _,ler by means of prayer, counsel, pe-
cuniary contd.', and personal services. Answers must
also be fulmis—,u to all the most plausible objections that
have from time to time been urged against the cause of
Missions.

In order at once to demonstrate the Catholicity of the pre-
sent design, and inspire universal confidence in the rectitude
of the decision, the following gentlemen have been requested,
and have kindly consented, to become adjudicators, viz.:—
The Rev. DAVID WELSH, 0.D., Professor of Church
History in the University of Edinburgh.
The Rev. RALPH WARDLAW, D.D., Glasgow.
The Rev. HENRY MELVILLE, 8.D., Camberwell, late
Fellow and Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
The Rev. JABEZ BUNTING, b.D., President of the Wes-
leyan Conference, London.
The Rev. THOMAS S. CRISP, President of the Baptist
College, Bristol.
The Essays will be received on or before Ist June, 1839,
by the Secretaries of the Church of England, London, Bap-
tist, and Wesleyan Missionary Societies, at the respective
Mission Houses in London, and by the Rev. Dr. BRUNTON,
Convener, or Rev. Dr. GORDON, Secretary of the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland's Committee for Foreign
Missions, Edinburgh. Each must be accompanied with a-
sealed Letter, enclosing the name and address of the author,—
the Letter and Essay bearing some motto or superscription com-
mon to both. No Essay need be forwarded which is not writ-
ten or copied in a clear, distinct, legible hand. The adjudica-
tors are oxpected to make their decision known on or before
lstJune, 1840 ; after which date the Essays will be returned, on
proper application at the several offices where they were ori-
ginally left, with the letters unopened, except those accom-
panying. the successful Treatises. Half of the profits arising
from the sale of the Copyright of the Essay, to which the
Prize of Two Hundred Guineas shall be awarded, to be given
to the Author ; the other half to be applied to such object,
promotive of the great cause of Missions, as the Contributors
to the present Prize may deem most expedient. In the name
of the Contributors, _

STEVENSON M`GILL, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity in the University of
Glasgow.
THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., L.L.D.,
Professor of Divinity in the University of
. Edinburgh.

ALEXANDER DUF4ID.DI,
aurclt of Scotland .."11i8sion, Calcutta