The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-21 00:00:00

FUTURE.

Towns containing more than 20,000 Inhabitants to Return

in future One Member each.
Birkenhead 1 Burnley
Staleybridge-3.

Inns-of-Court to Return in future Two Members.
London University to Return in future One Member.
Additional members, 6.
The following are the new franchises common to coun-
ties and boroughs granted by the new bill :-
1. Persons in receipt of salaries from public or private
employment of not less than £lOO. per annum; payable
quarterly or half-yearly.
2. Persons in receipt of £lO. per annum, derived from
Government stock, or Bank or India stock.
3. Persons paying 40s. per annum to income or assessed
taxes.
4. Graduates of any University in the united kingdom.
5. Persons who have for three years possessed a deposit
of £5O. in any savings-bank.

NEW FRANCHISE FOR COUNTIES.
6. All occupiers rated at £lO. per annum, residing else-
where than in represented towns.

NEW FRANCHISE FOR BOROUGHS.

7. All occupiers rated at £6., who have been resident
within the borough two years and a half.

THE LITTLE BUSHMAN who acted as guide to Mr. Gor-
don Cumming's exhibition of African spoils, was seized
with small-pox the week before last, and died within a few
days, in the infirmary at Inverness.
WRECK OF TILE TATLEtru.—There is a liklihood of the
large sum of money belonging to the Provincial Bank,
Ennis, lost last December near Crusheen, being recovered.
We believe there is no doubt a man named Considine was
the finder, and that he was one of the passengers in the
ship Tayleur, wrecked on Lombay. He left, as he stated,
with the intention of going to America, but he took a pas-
sage in the above vessel for Melbourne. After arriving in
Dublin, he wrote home for some money, and this fact be-
coming known, inquiry was made where the money came
from, as it was well known that the family were distressed,
and he has been taken into custody in Dublin.—Limerick
Chronicle.

THE EMPRESS EIIGENIE.—It is said that the Empress
since herreturn from Fontainbleau to the Tuileries has been
in thatpeculiarstate of health which produces amorbidstate
of mind, and for which doctors all agree that there is no
remedy save change of scene and travelling. One of the
settled ideas which has taken possession of her imagina-
tion is gratified by the pursuit of every memento of the
unfortunate Marie Antoinette, and her whole recreation
is in the pursuit of every souvenir connected with the
unhappy Queen in the Palace of the Tuileries.
THE JEWS AND JUDAISM.--On Tuesday evening the
Rev. Dr. M`lceile delivered a lecture in Exeter-hall, on
this subject. The lecture comprised an elaborate treat-
ment of the subject, as a grand evidence in support of the
truths of inspiration, against the specious theories and
fancies of the secular organ, the Reasoner, and the works
of Theodore Parker. Man was considered as a longing
creature, panting after " something which he has not yet
attained, a mystery to himself, the solution of which could
be found, and only found, in Christianity, cordially un-
derstood and embraced." This introduced the considera-
tion of the Christian view of the adequate causes which
have been -at work in the world, and the results produced,
which cannot be denied, and must be accounted for—
questions which have not been decided by any reasoning
hypothesis. The lecturer then introduced the Jews, their
religion, and history, as facts or links in the chain of evi-
dence. The history of the Jews corresponded to the letter
of prophecy respecting them, and they were a sign and a
wonder which could not be greater—an accumulation of
miracles attesting the truth and origin of prophecy. Their
religion in the Old Testarnent was the.gospel in a figure,
its distinguishing feature vicarious sacrifice or a suffering
unto death as a penalty in the place of the culprit, which
brought before us the divine source of that great doctrine
of the Christian revelation.