The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

Number of vessels. I Tonnage%
—3-6-39,,,q146
32131w`_/

I 20733
20311

increase. I 422 I
Dock Office, 'Liverpool, s, Tress°
'c
essei
It will be seen that there has been a marked incraegll
2gsdon runWe,IITB4HE,R:
every item of revenue, amounting in the whole te ogig
£30,000 over the receipts of 1848'. The most enenilfit
feature, however, of the statement is, the Wt.': feet,'
receipts in 1848 were greater than in the precedinlocev
although a reduction of £40,000 in the rates took P.,ocer;
the commencement of that year. We have, to :'030.1
the prospect in another year of being enabled. 1010
another large reduction, the increase being wit,, tl'e
of the sum last remitted by the Dock COmn3itS'
great encouragement of the commerce of the P°",j3eeln
The statement also speaks most favoura*for
upon our tradeof increased dock accommodation • test
t,"lo°
the present year, we opened the Bramley-310°Ititst
other docks at the north end of the town ;a5 of r 4
late able chairman of the Dock Committee wel3.,',;f
mature in his exertions to provide an increns- hipr
space, may be judged of by the large increase of 53t it hit'
during the present year, and the further fact, thliocia'
during a great portionoithat period been still ins
; ttef
wieeoi
THE WEATHER AND' THE CROPS.—During
just past, the weather has been remarkably COSO !wee
vegetation. On Tuesday morning and forenoon, ,5 f
rather heavy fall of rain. The following five ee'-ter`ls'
fine, with occasional very slight showers. toe;
evening, a feeding rain fell, with an appearance ',ee,
The growing crops in our neighbouring districts
daily more promising, especially wheat and sPriP°
The potatoes are looking better. T 1,1:" of
CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CHURCH, °D. 0
ROAD.—This solemn ceremony, the postponlo;
which last week occasioned so much disapeoint‘oPer.A
the inhabitants of Scotland-road and its vicinitY,;'ele
formed by the Lord Bishop of the diocese alio
o'clock yesterday morning. Owing probably to00:4')
cumstance of the ceremony being appointed for 10, d
morning not being generally known, the congreg,rvt oPePy
not very large. The church—which was originai4tare
by members of the Scotch Church, will for the rpro E„;
appropriated to the use of the congregation
sembling in St. Matthew's Church, Key-street, too,
building being required for the extension into the boa'
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. At
ely°s'
appointed his Lordship walked from the vestryrehde,i
in his episcopal vestments, and preceding the Veil. `'...„bev!,,
deacon Brooks, Rec. Campbell, and the rev. inetroill`q
the district, the two former advanced to the con Wit(
Table. The Consecration Deed having been rer,nov.h",
Chancellor's deputy, and the Sentence of Consec""eArvi
the Ven. Archdeacon, the Bishop, followed hi thresell4'
deacon and about eight or nine of the clergljoce'e;
walked round the church, each reading alternate" ittb
took their places at the Communion-table, whey oint J
of the 24th Psalm. The Bishop and the Archdearbe foes
mer made the declaration and read the prayer 31190°,
for the office. To this solemnity succeeded the Ps'aiilA,
lesson selected for the occasion. After this the
jsco;
preached from the following text :—" Lo, I ern g of
always even unto the end of the world," last versergv
Gospel:of St. Matthew. The tenor of the dise°l2o,sl
to show that though the ceremonial law of Moses .4
perseded by Christianity, yet it was quite consonoc,olof
the genius of our religion that a due regard si_b rift9ol
had to outward services:: in evidence of which, t,:ne,,;01
baptism, and the Lord's Supper, and the 01tigiate?De
public worship, as being outward ordinances or ofd
our Lord himself, were adduced. The institution 0,
ministry, by our Lord, offered anotherarguatent to
of the argument. CO
THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Prin—af
Captain General and Colonel of the Hon. Aru fi
panv, reviewed this regiment yesterday. no
THE HAY HAnvEsvis about commencing in rod'o
of England, and report speaks favourably of the Ltd,
On the east coast a portion has already been se'
good order. 5.g
It is now c3nfidently stated that Ledru Rollins
nu la. -
Of
THE FRENCH AT ROME.—ENGLISH siTE- yob,. ei
—The cheers with which the sentiments of Mr.l gon/eo,
relative to the proceedings of the French arm!! ortl
were responded to by men of all classes, of all tvdn of
and of all religions, in the House of Commons, priolej
Lord Palmerston to state that the British Gev:ed
had declined to take part in the intervention, -olio
witnessed it with deep regret. This declaration ;lobo
ceived by cheering from' all sides ; and, when, ttb,ne tea
lord stated that the Government deprecated illoto"ot
commencement any armed intervention
States, the applause was more enthusiastic and v,er
than has been heard within the Commohs' walls 1(); fileol
a year. Will the English public, however, renilicto°o6
and more indifferent on this question than the ,note
0,
Commons ? In 1823, when the Duke of An'-efc°,Da
marched to the Trocadero to put down the seir',"a bi be
stitutional freedom in Spain, public meetings, leiris,
Tierneys, the Broughams, the James Macdons,osehr
Archibald Hamiltons, the Burdetts, the John •nolti
the Tavistocks, the Macintoshs, the Nugents'oteif
Hobhouses of those days, were held all over the
tot
Ireland, and Scotland. Are we less interested in ist 0,
in tbe
_bole
of Rome than in the fate of Cadiz or Seville ? rot!el
maxima rerum _Roma—the city not of an age ersciciet
but of all nations and of all time—the gem of the
of oiel
world—the prodigy, the mistress, and the queell„ thderolf
—to be laid in the dust, to keero, a pompons raibue
common-places, like Barrot, and a believer in JiTid
Coat of Troves, the liquefaction of the blood of Stbigiltitt
the galler_:_fabli,
arius, the handkerchief of St. 'Veronica—like the No
Falloux, in their places of French ministers. 10001'1
the French cannon penetrate the dome of St• of
the vault of the Sistine Chapel—or
Vatican—the English people—English artists,0 01,411!
men of letters and of taste, should assemble ,:e
meetings and speak aloud. A writer in the -11
the Pope " gentleness itself," and yet in the. 'ioter:e ct
sentence the writer says that Antonelli, his lglntran'Artl
sent the Abbe Paleotti to Paris to press the en es 'l,O
the French soldiers into Rome. This is gentle] _,,
ror
a vengeance, such gentleness as the same be
exhibited towards the Bible Societies, of iorfirrcii w p
charitably speaks in his Enc)elicalLetter—Ei nods
daynnatos ease volumus. This is the man viSetor'.
publican army seeks to restore in the 19th:....//
Herald.