The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

precious aft

ys, was taken away on Saturday evening,
having received, at the utmost 244; odd signatures !
Whether it has been forwarded to the house of Lords for
presentation,
.or been sold by its convectors to some free
trade dealer in butter and bacon, we have not learnt.
GRAND. OniNING OF IRE BIRRE-NBEAD GARDENS.—
Mr. Jones, the spirited tenant of this hotel and gardens
if not " the Boy Jones," is apparently determined to b;
" the coming man." If the Corporation would only g<
ahead after hi ' •

'lr several

ion, or rather their
the old ferry el Birk

should speedi
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of the million„ instead of remaining, a

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lead the resc

last few months, a useless and profitless property of the
Liverpool burgesses. We wish his fete all the suc=ss
which his enterpzise merits. itlay he go up like his
rockets,!:
Art EXCELLENT SUGGESTIPN.—At the church znis-
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sionary meeting, in London, a few days since, the. Rev.
Hugh Stowell, after grateful allusions to the jubilee-fund,
threw out a hint that a second similar fund might and
ought to be raised for the purpose of founding a bishopric
in Africa—either at Sierra Leone or Abeokouta— and
that the first bishop to p.reside over the interesting see
should be a native of Africa—a second Cyprian. The
neverend gentleman is, we are glad to hear, following up
the suggestion, and has. received several subscriptions,
with a view of carrying, it into effect. Ho will, we have
no doubt, be glad to. receive from any of our readers a
contribution for so noble an object.
THE WEST OF ENGLAND INSURANCE CDMPANY AND
THE LIVERPOOL FIRE BRIGADE.—We insert in Our naner

LIVERPOOL CHURCH OF ENG.LAND INSTITUTION:
This institution, which has, during the last few months,
been passing from the transition. stage of formation, (a
stage which necessarily occupies some considerable space,
when the contemplated association is one of magnitude
and weight), to that of permanent operation, newt stands
before the public with a more inviting aspect than it was
possible it could assume, on those several occasions' when
only in its first processes of formation ;it was alluded to . ••••-,44+rvaiI,g FLIELIOII tee ins
in these columns. Although frequently sketched before, police force, are necessarily distributed over the various
we are so thoroughly persuaded of its immense impor- districts of the town, a fire, if occurring either at the ex-
tance in a commercial town like Liverpool, that we heal- treme north or south ends, must first be announced to
tate not to give another brief outline of its purpose and the central station in Temple-court. It is a natural re-
design. The institution in the first place, as will be seen suit that time is lost which might have been most vain-
by a reference to the printed syllabus, is under the imme- ably employed : that the engine from the station is fre-
diate sanction and fostering care of numerous influential quently on the spot long before any effective number of
members of the local clergy, the venerable Archdeacon the firemen have learnt where the fire has taken place;
Brooks being president. In the next place, the terms and that property is destroyed which might have been
have been graduated on so moderato a scale as to render saved, if even a small force had been present in time to
the proposed advantages accessible to almost every young check its first spread. We should think that a system
man. The design is, while affording all the benefits could be devised by which every fireman, hearing a bell
derivable from a connexion with the other literary insti- rung, could knew at once the district to which he ought
tutions of the town, to direct the mind to the important to proceed ; and that, in case of the fire being in a distant
business of religion, and thus to combine the expansion of outskirt, the announcement ought to be immediately
the moral faculties with the culture of the intellectual given to the firemen stationed in such eutskirt, insteai. of
powers. These are the great objects of the promoters of their having to run down to the central station to learn
the institution. More detailed information relative to the fact. With respect to the West of England Cora-
the regulations and economy of the association may be pany, whose gratuitous co-operatics with the brigade
readily obtained by application at the charitable society's would he so advantageous to the public, we trust in future
rooms, Slater-street, the temporary place of business of no cause of jealousy or ill-feeling will be permitted to ex.
the officials of the embryo association. Last evening a ist. They are entitled to have as early an announcement
meeting of the committee was held at the rooms above of fires as the local body.
referred to. Besides the members of the committee, Dr. MEASURES.—The ridiculous custom of bottling porter
Hume and the Rev. W. Pollock attended ; the latter in vessels " reputed" as quarts and pints, but which never
gentleman was called to the chair, but the business was contain either one or the other quantity, is now obviated
purely formal, viz., to arrange the pieliminaries necessary by Messrs. J. P. Dillon and Son, of Great George,street,
to a general public meeting prior to commencing the who substitute bottles imperial measure. The advan-
active operations of the institution. tages, particularly for faroilies, are obvious.

this day a letter from Mr. W. Whiteho-use, the agent in
Liverpool of the West of England Company, not for the
purpose of taking any part in the uphappv differences
which have recently occurred between that company a:
our Police Fire Brigade, but to direct attention to or.t
two points in the communication itself, which appear
us to be capable of being turned to advantage. It r
does appear to us to 1
that

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