The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

LOUIS NAPOLEON IN LONDON.

Louis Napoleon was in London. on a flying visit, on
Monday last. We have good authority for stating the
fact, incredible as it may appear. He went back, as he
came, in disguise; his business being of a strictly private
nature. What that business was, we are, of course, unable
to say. We can only conjecture—from the romantic
attachment known to subsist between the Prince Presi-
dent and the Marquis of Normanby—that the recent
desertion of that nobleman has deeply affected the heart
of his bosom-friend, and that he found the impulse to
follow him irresistible. Whether Pylades and Orestes
met, and if so, how they met, and how they parted, " this
deponent saith not."—John Bull.

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.—On Sunday morning a very
able and expressive appeal was made on behalf of tbe
Orphan Boys' Asylum, by the Rev. G. W. Warr, the
minister of the above church. About fifty of the boys
were present, and their exceedingly neat appearance and
decorous behaviour created much interest, and reflected
great credit on the conductors of the institution. A
liberal collection was made.

ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH SUNDAY AND DAY SCHOOLS

—Sermons were preached on Sunday last in St. Philip's,
and St. John the Evangelist's, and collections made to aid
in defraying the debt incurred by the purchase of the
building in Pleasant-street, commonly known as Provi-
dence Chapel, formerly belonging to the Baptists, and its
adaptation for schools for the accommodation of about
400 children. The morning sermon at St. Philip's was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds. Sunday
being the " festival of the conversion of St. Paul," the
Rev. Dr. directed the attention of his audience to the
conversion of St. Paul ; and in the ever.ing, at St. John
the Evangelist's, continued the subject. Two more
powerful appeals could scarcely have been made than these.
The subject of conversion was treated in a manner exhi-
biting all the talent of a profoundly read divine, and all the
deep feeling and earnest zeal of a devoted and pious minded
minister of Christ. Long will these two sermons remain
in the minds of those who had the privilege of hearing
them. On both occasions the churches were crowded ;
and numbers were compelled to turn back from St.
John's in the evening, seeing the impossibility of obtain-
ing accommodation. The afternoon sermon at St.
Philip's was preached by the Rev. J. Baylee, the principal
of St. Aidan's College, and respected incumbent of Holy
Trinity Church, Birkenhead. Mr. Baylee dwelt more
fully upon the duty of educating the children of our
poorer brethren around us than did Dr. Hook. He took
as his text the appeal of our Saviour to Simon Peter, and
his command, " Feed my lambs." The sermon was very
impressive, and well calculated to produce a lasting and
beneficial effect upon his hearers. We believe the collec-
tions at St. Philip's amounted to X7l and some shillings,
and the collection at St. John the Evangelist's, in the
evening, to about £33, making a total of upwards of £lOO.
About £4OO is still requisite to complete this praiseworthy
and important undertaking. It is only a small sum to
raise among those of our own townspeople who have the
means of helping on this good work, and who feel the
necessity there is for using every effort at the present day
to afford the vast numbers of poor children congregated
around them, and, in many instances, almost at their own
doors, the opportunity, at least, of acquiring such an
education as shall render them useful and respectable
members of the community in the station of life in which
it has pleased an over-ruling Providence to place them,—
teaching them their own responsibility as immortal
beings, and lead them from the degrading paths of sin and
misery, and eternal death, to the ways of holiness, happi-
ness and heaven.