The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

19, 1853

WARRINGTON.

—On Wednesday a fire was discovered in some
premises belonging to the London and North-Western
Railway Company, at Dallam, and used for drying timber,
prev!ous to its preparation for railway purposes ; however,
coon subdued.

FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—The following gentlemen,
educated at this school, have obtained honours at the
recent examinations at Cambridge:--George Bostock, a
scholarship at Trinity Hall, for classics and mathematics ;
H. Sharp, a scholarship of Jesus College, and the first
mathematical prize; H. N. Bayley, the prize for divinity,
at Trinity College.
% RANGE CELEBRATION.—On Tuesday, the Grand Pro-
tes nt Association of Loyal Orangemen, Lodge 143, held
their anniversary dinner at the Black Boy Inn, Bridge-
street. There was a good attendance on the occasion, his
Worship the Mayor, Mr. Joseph Perrin, and some other
members of the council, being present. The usual loyal
and local toasts were followed by several glees and songs,
and the evening was spent with the utmost hilarity.

LLANELLY RAILWAY.-At the special meeting of the
Llanelly Railway, on Saturday, a bill for making a railway
to Liandilo, seven miles in length, at an expense of
£50,000, in shares of £25 each, at a preference interest of
5 per cent, per annum, was agreed to.

SAILORS' HOME.—The indefatigable founder-general
of sailors' homes, Captain W. H. Hall, R.N., has just
returned to town from seeing the foundation stone laid of
a splendid sailors' home at Cardiff, by the young Marquis
of Bute. Seamen of all nations were present with their
respective flags, &c., and Admiral Sir George Tyler, M.P.,
delivered a characteristic address on the occasion.
A PEACE CONGRESS.—SeveraI of the real guardians of
the peace of the world being now assembled at Spithead,
it is proposed to transfer to them the duties of the defunct
Peace Society. The ships might all be painted drab, and
double-shotted guns with the plugs kept in would much
resemble Quakers.—The Duke of Wellington might then
be called the Joseph Surge, the High Flyer, the John
Bright, the Arrogant, the Richard Cobden, &c.; and we
should have a more influential peace congress at Ports.
mouth than ever assembled in Landon or Paris.—The
Press.

DECIMAL COINAGE.—The committee have concluded
the examination of witnesses, and it is understood the re-
sult will be an unanimous report in favour of the adoption
of the decimal system of coinage and currency, making
the pound sterling the integer, and dividing it into 1,000
units or farthings. Before the committee Dr. Bqwring
produced the instrument (abacus) by which arithnietic is
taught in all the schools of China, and stated that a
Chinese youth, after a month's instructicn, is far more
competent to apply all the rules of arithmetic to the busi-
ness of life than a learner on our plans of instructio:l
would be after the teaching of years. It was suggested
in the committee that the use in all our elementary
schools of the abacus would greatly facilitate and popu-
larise the introduction of a decimal system of currency
and account.

RUMOURED OFFICIAL ORANGES.—It was currently
rumoured at the clubs on Saturday that an important
change is about to take place in the administration, in
consequence of the difficulties in which the eastern
question is still involved. It is stated that the Earl of
Clarendon, who does not feel at home in conducting the
negociations which are pending, and who has throughout
been in the habit of consulting Lord Palmerston on the
subject, and acting upon his advice, will take the home
secretaryship, Lord Palmerston succeeding him at the
Foreign Office. It seems that on the formation of the
recent administration, Lord Aberdeen objected to Lord
Palmerston going to the Foreign Office, his policy having
been antagonistic to that of the Premier in that respect,
but that the pressing circumstances of the present times
'nave induced Lord Aberdeen to waive the very strong ob-
jections he originally had to the direction by Lord Pal-
merston of the foreign policy of the country.—Ministerial
paper.