The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

Boons FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c.,
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon. London :
Henry G. Bohn.
This work comprises the history of England
from the invasion of Julius Cesar to the accession
of Henry 11., and is translated and edited by Mr.
Thomas Forester. The author is supposed to have
been a native of Lincoln, and was born towards the
close of the eleventh century, probably between the
years 1080 and 1090. His father, whose name was
Nicholas, was an ecclesiastic of some eminence in
the church of Lincoln, as was his accomplished
eon, the chronicler, whose fervid imagination made
him a writer of verse—although his verse never
squalled the prose compositions by which his name
has been preserved as one of the most illustrious in
the annals of historical literature. The introduction
of Henry's Chronicle into the excellent Antiquarian
Library of Mr. Bohn is a circumstance which we
note with pleasure and commend with sincerity.

Electrical Illumination. London : Saunders and
Stamford.

In this pamphlet we find a few remarks on the
present state and prospects of electrical illumination,
by Dr. Joseph Watson, with a description of the
author's patented inventions in galvanic batteries
and electric lamps. To every member of the human
family this thoughtful work commends itself, but
especially to that swiftly-increasing section of the
community who devote much of their time and
study to voltaic electricity, than which, perhaps, no
branch of experimental philosophy receives more
attention from the practically-minded of the present
day.

The Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool : Orr.
Having received this Magazine so immediately
on our going to press, we have only time to notice
briefly its chief contents. It opens with " the
Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853." " The Tree
of Knowledge" is a story from the German. This
is followed by the first part of an interesting paper
"on the ancient music of the Hebrews in general,
and their Temple music in particular." The popu-
lar tale of " Sir Jasper Carew Kent" is continued,
as is also "Nineveh," the first part of which ap-
peared last month. " A Pilgrimage to the Donegal
Eighlands," with some exciting adventures in the
mountains. Among the other contents, we may
notice "The Duke of Buckingham," "Ancient
Sophists and Modern Liberals." " The Isthmus of
Darien," and " Our Colonies." We regret our
inability to find spaae for extracts.

Antiquity Surrendered, or Romanism a Novelty.
London : Sampson Low. Liverpool : Deighton.
Under this title, the whole of the letters from
Dr. M'Neile to Priest Power, and the attempts at
reply, which have appeared in the Liverpool Stan-
dard, have been re-published in London in the
form of a pamphlet. We subjoin the Preface :

" It must now be admitted, that the Roman Catholics
of Great Britain have surrendered the long-boasted claim
of antiquity for their church. Such a claim may, indeed,
Still be asserted without proof and against proof. But
such assertions must be confined to the ignorant. No
priest, or bishop, or archbishop, or cardinal, will have the
hardihood to commit himself to such an assertion before
the world. The matter In dispute is not a matter of
opinion, on which differences might continue after the
fullest explanations. It is a matter of dales and facts,
concerning which there can be no difference, except
between ignorance and knowledge. Can any learned
man of our adversaries,' to use the language of Bishop
Jewell, in his celebrated challenge, ' or any learned man
alive, shew by reference to facts and dates, that the creed
of the Church of Rome as it now stands, in all that dis-
tinguishes it from the creed of the Church of England,
tvas ever heard of as a creed previous to the month of
December, in the year 1564 ?' _

" Can any learned man of our adversaries, or any
learned man alive, deny, on the evidence of facts and
dates, that several general councils of the Church Catholic
condemned, with a solemn anathema, any man who should
st any time compose or profess any other articles of faith
than those contained in the Nicene Creed ?
" Can any learned man, in the face of facts and dates,
aenv, that in defiance of the solemn decrees of those
general councils, a Bishop of Rome did, in the year 15G-1,
compose and profess, and compel his clergy to subscribe,
twelve NEW articles of faith, in addition to the Nicene
Creed ?

" The issue is fairly put in the following letters. Priest
Power has surrendered. Of course, not in so many
words ; but does any man believe that if he had a fact to
'thew, or a sound argument to advance, he would allow
judgment to go by default, and remain silent in the face
of such letters ? It is not yet too late. The invitation
given to him is hereby extended to every priest of every
grade in the kingdom. Will no one speak ? Will no one
rescue Romanism as it is from the charge of novelty ?
Then, assuredly, even the poor ignorant people, who call
themselves Catholics, will soon make the discovery that
theirs is not the old church ; and that the boast of anti-
quity in the mouths of their priests is a vain-glorious
boast.

" May the enlightening grace of Him who came to
proclaim deliverance to the captives, accompany the con.
viction, and lead thousands to the enjoyment of that holy
liberty with which Christ makes his people free !"

D'Almaine and Co , the London music-pub-
lishers, have forwarded to us, among other recent
productions of a high class, the "Glee Quadrille,"
performed with immense success by the London
hands, arranged for the piano-forte by E. Frewin ;
a description of that beautiful instrument, the Har-
monium ; and the Opera Music Books of Rimbault,
a selection of the most favourable and well-known
Italian and French operas.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS..-7.-AN EXTRA-
ORDINARY Cyan OF A BAD FOOT.-Mr. Henry Kenne-
well, son of the late much respected surveyor of the
Southampton district, of St. Pancras, London, states in
a letter to his mother, from Burrs Barra, Port Adelaide,
that in his journey to those mines, from Adelaide, he was
compelled to walk, for want of a conveyance, and in doing
ao he grazed and afterwards poisoned his foot, which be-
came so bad that he wag under a surgeon's hands for more
than four months without obtaining any relief. He was
then induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which
in three weeks completely cured his foot, and he was ena.
bled to commence work without inconvenience.
BONAPARTE'S OPINION.—it was a saying of Napoleon
the Great, that the inhabitants of this country were all
"shopkeepers. Whatever may have been the object of
'the Soldier of Toulon and Arcole," in making this
observation, or whether we receive it as a compliment or
not, it is undoubtedly true that the great bulk of the
population is engaged in commercial pursuits, and our
'superiority in the factory and the counting-house is more
frankly acknowledged by our neighbours than in the field.
If we were not entitled to the latter however, we would
not enjoy the former. But without 'further inquiries into
these matters, we beg the favour of a word or two from
the ladies, to whom by right belongs the onerous duty of
6‘ goinz a shopping," and thus seeing the season when
the bane assernblee and the opera house call for more than
ordinary attention to the toilet,—we wish to speak of the
white about which the Parisian blanchisseuse is so
punctilious—that is, Starch, of cou se. But as many of
our fair readers, no doubt, understand there is consider-
able difficulty in distinguishing the BEST from the WORST,
judging from external appearance alone; what we would
'suggest in such a case, is, to use only such as is known
and acknowledged to be first class, and we know none
that merits this appellation more than the GLENFIELD
?ATENT STARCH. It has been a favourite with the public
for years. This being known to certain individuals, they
began making and selling to the public something resem-
bling Starch, and called it " Glenfield.” In last Session
of the Court of Chancery, the manufacturer of the Genuine
Glenfield Starch (R. Wotherspoon), obtained injunctions
to restrain these parties from thus imposing on the public,
the particulars of which we reprinted at the time. The
real article can be obtained of any " Shopkeeper " in the
town, as also printed testimonials from Her Majesty's
Laundress, &c., &c., in favour of the Starch. The only
test of genuineness being the maker's name, R. Wother-
;spoon, which is printed on every label.