The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

FAMILIES FURNISHING,

to whom every accommodation is afforded, in the choice of
articles from the Mart, on the most advantageous terms.
His long experience in the business he submits as a guarantee
for every attention to their interests, assuring those who may
have occasion to purchase, that the practice too frequently
adopted of procuring New Furniture, manufactured by un-
skilled artificers, is, in very many cases, attended with an
immense pecuniary sacrifice in the first instance, and a serious
loss eventually, from inattention to the material by the
manufacturer.

Among the Stock of
FASHIONABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
will be generally found a superior description of
SUPERB DRAWING-ROOM SUITES

of real and imitation Ttosewood ; comprised in Card, Loo,
Work, Flower Tables, Chairs, Couches, Sofas, Tea Poys,
Cheffoniers, Canterburies, Screens, Ottomans, &c. &c.

FOLDING CHAIRS AND SOFA BEDS,
Patent Reclining-Spring Seats.
THE MAHOGANY ARTICLES

are of a very superior kind, and comprise Secretaires, Pedestal
and Cellaret Sideboards, Double Wardrobes, Trafalgar Chairs,
Sofa, Pembroke, Snap, Screen and Work Tables, Couches,
Sofas, Children's Chairs, Cribs, Swing Cots, Chests of
Drawers, Night Commodee, Bidets, Hat Stands, Bootracks,
Music Stands and Stools.

FANCY CHAIRS,

Four-post, Tent, Cottag.9_,Canopy

French, Nursery, and

Press-BEDSTEADS,
WELL-SEASONED FEATHER BEDS,
Mattresses, and Paillasses.
ELEGANT CHAMBER FURNITURE
of every kind.
SUPERB CHIMNEY AND TOILET GLASSES.
BATH orGOUT CHAIRS, CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES
and a Large Assortment of the very best manufactured
CARPETING,

of the most approved and fashionable, Patterns, consisting of
Brussels, Venetian, Damask, and Kidderminster.
HEARTH RUGS AND DRUGGETS.
Figured and Plain Floor and Lobby Oil Cloths.

Mr. HODGSON has the honour to announce that he conti-
nues to appropriate a part of his extensive premises solely as a

REGISTER OFFICE

FOR LETTING AND DISPOSING OF ROUSES AND LANDS.
OUT-DOOR SALES & APPRAISEMENTS
solicited, and in cases where pecuniary aid is required Money
Advanced on every description of property consigned for
public sale.
SOLICITORS, AGENTS, & CONSIGNEES
are acquainted that facilities are afforded for the Sale of
BANKRUPTS' STOCK,
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, GLASS, CHINA,
PICTURES—ANCIENT_ AND MODERN,

&c., &c., &c.,
either at the Mart, in Church-street, or on the premises of
the owners.
ESTATES, HOUSES, AND LAND
valued, appraised, or disposed of, by treaty with principals or
their solicitors only.
A SALE by AUCTION ONE or TWO DAYS in EACH
WEEK of NEW and SECOND-HAND FURNITURE,
comprising the usual Assortment of Drawing-room, Parlour
Bed-room and Kitchen Articles—thus affording to families
A READY and CHEAP MEANS of FURNISHING,

*** Families having Furniture, Books,. &e. to Dispose of,
by Private Contract, on addressing a line to Mr. I-1., will be
liberally treated with.

RITCHIE'S
PATENT LETTER COPYING MACHINES,

SOLD, ON THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS TERMS, BY THP
SOLE AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL,
G. J. POORE and Co.,

WHOLESALE STATIONERS, PATENT LEDGER
MANUFACTURERS, AND BOOKSELLERS,
43 CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
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N.B.—The Copying Paper and all the Materials used in
the Copying Press are supplied by G. J. .PoouE and Co.,
and are always in readiness both for the Home and Foreign
Market
The

TRADE and EXPORTERS supplied, at Wholesale
Prices, as AT THE MANUFACTORY.
G. J. POORE and Co. are also Agents for Milner's Patent
Fire-proof Boxes. •
Appointed Depo'sitory for the Religious Tract Society's
Publications, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

MANCHESTER AND. SALFORD PROTESTANT
AND REFORMATION ASSOCIATION.
AT a MEETING of the Committee of the MANCHES-
TER and SALFORD PROTESTANT, and REFOR-
MATION ASSOCIATION, held on the 4th day of Sep-
tember, 1840,
It was resolved unanimously,-
1. That this committee has heard with the greatest surprise
and regret of the result of the action brought by a Romish
priest against the Rev. Hush Stowell, the able, honest, and
•

fearless advoL
this association

taut interests, ant

lie presui

2. That the occasion which gave rise to the action, the evi-
dence adduced on behalf of the plaintiff, the exultation with
which the verdict has been received by the Romanists, and the
general circumstances of the case taken collectively, all tend
to prove that the present attack is the commencement of the
system, devised by the Roman Catholic Institute, for the
prevention of the free public discussion of the absurdities,
evils, and dangers'bf Popery ; and that the proceedings,
therefore, at once assume a form, the importance of which
to the welfare of Protestantism, and of true religion in this
empire, it is difficult to estimate.
3. That this committee is most anxious that public atten-
tion should be directed to the following circumstances con-
nected with the case ; that no attempt was made to obtain

any explanation from Mr. Stowell, of the circumstances un-
der which the alleged libel had received his sanction, except
through the medium of a solicitor, .and then only in such a
mode as at once to compel Mr. Stowell, from a regard to his
own character, to place the matter in the hands of his solici-
tor ;—that all the facts stated in the alleged libel, except one,
were capable of distinct proof, by witnesses in court at the
time uf,the trial, and ready
.to verify them on oath, if the
counsel for the defence had not felt confident that the case
might be safely rested upon the point of law, and upon the
evidence produced by the plaintiff ;—that the single fact so
stated, and not capable of proof, was the command alleged to
have been given by the priest, the plaintiff, to perform the
Penance mentioned in the libel ;—that, in conseauence of the

secresy of the confessional, this alleged fact can only be
proved by the alleged penitent, or by the plaintiff ;--that the
alleged penitent, immediately after the period of the alleged
penance, was confined as insane, and is now a lunatic in the
Lancaster Lunatic Asylum ;—that the plaintiff avowedly se-
lected a mode of proceeding which apparently gave Mr. Stow-
ell the opportunity of proving the truth of the alleged libel,
although the plaintiff must have known, at the time of such
selection, that in consequence of the lunacy of the alleged
penitent, the fact, even if true, could not be proved ;—that by
adopting this mode of proceeding by action, upon the alleged
ground of giving Mr. Stowell an opportunity of justifying,
the plaintiff was enabled to. avoid the mode of proceeding by
applying for a criminal information, the first step of which

proceeding mush .. solemn denial, upon oath,
of the truth of the charge ;—and that the counsel for the
plaintiff abstained from any formal, express, and instructed
• - Dart of his client, of the truth of the charge.

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