The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, ITESTIVY, JUNE 7, 1853.

GRAND MILITARY CAMP AT COBHAM.
MIDSUMMER HOLIDA/*S.
ARCUS'S ANNUAL CHEAP EXCURSIONS,
1311 FROM LIVERPOOL
TO LONDON, OXFORD, LEAMINGTON, KENILWORTH,
COVENTRY, AND BIRMINGHAM,
On SATURDAY, JUNE 18th,
.SATURDAY, JUNE 25th,
And SATURDAY, JULY 2d,
Offering a choice of from Two to Twenty Days !
Further particulars respecting the Iloun of DEPARTURE,
RATE of FARES, and DAYS of RETURN, see small bills, which
can be obtained upon application.
HENRY R. MARCUS,
19, LEIGH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
C--7. Early application is requested.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

NOTICE.
TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS.
M 0 Irf L r PAYM T,s%

TT will much oblige if Instructions be issued that in
future no Payments due to this Company for the Carriage
of Goods be made to any other than the Persons authorized to
receive the same, who are provided with printed Cheque Books,
from which the counterparts will be signed in acknowledgment
of the amounts paid.
BRAITHWAITE POOLE,
Liverpool, ld June, 1853. Manager of Merchandise.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
INCORPORATED 18-16.
THE CHARGE for PORTERAGE or DELIVERY
upon all MESSAGES between the following Places is
DISCONTINUED; namely,
Between Manchester, Liverpool, Wigan, Warrington,
or Stockport.
Between Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Hud-
dersfield, Mirfield, Dewsburv,Wakefield, Todmorden,
North Dean, Stales bridge, or Rochdale.
Between Mancheter and Sheffield.
The Charge will, therefore, he One Shilling only for Messages,
including Delivery, w thin a Distance of Half-a-Mile from each
of the before-mentioned Stations. BY ORDER.
May 27th, 1853.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if ourfriends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

THE ZOOLOGICAL BAND.—We have received a letter from
Mr. William Emidy, denying the statements made by Mr.
Crooby before the Liverpool Election Committee with re-
ference to the Zoological band. We cannot enter into any
discussion on the truth of matters deposed to on oath, and
any letters on the subject can only be inserted as advertise-
ments.

The great pressure on our space, owing to the proceedings be-
fore the Liverpool Election Committee, of which we have
given a full report, has compelled us unwillingly to omit
several literary notices and interesting communications.
"FOREIGNER" enquires for the best way to learn the method
of book-keeping in use generally by retail shopkeepers. He
says he has consulted treatises by Morrison, Chambers,
Tuck, Jones, Hutton, and Wallace, and neither of them gives
so much as even a meagre illustration, so far as he can see,
of the system upon which be wishes to be enlightened.

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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1853

THE ROMANISTS AND THE ESTAB-
LISHED CHURCH.
ONE of the strongest objections raised to the
admission of Romanists into Parliament was the
doubt how far they could be bound by oath not
to make use of their legislative power to injure
the Established Church. It was this apprehen-
sion, entertained by many friends of what is
called Civil and Religious Liberty, that so long
delayed the consent of Parliament to the Eman-
cipation Bill, passed in 1829 ; but several of
the leading members of the Romish Church
were ev-amined before a Committee of the House of
Lords, and so solemnly asseverated that the in-
dulgence might be granted, without injury, that a
special form of oath was devised, and the opponents
of the measure consented to forego their objection.
It had been said that no form of oath could bind
the conscience of a Romanist, because he could
readily obtain absolution for any violation of it,
more particularly if it had been violated in order to

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION.

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

THE Ministerial scheme for the future government
of India has at length been propounded, and Sir
CHARLES WOOD laboured through an oration of
five hours to render palateable a measure which it
is impossible to believe that the House of Commons
will sanction. It was a voluminous preface to so
small a production, and in its very prolixity be-
trayed a consciousness of the weakness of the cause.
He entered into an elaborate statement of almost
all that concerned our Indian empire, interspersed
with numerous quotations from writers on the sub-
ject, as though he were reciting an historical treatise
on British India, and then brought forth the
Government proposition, to continue the anoma-
lous system which at present prevails for an
indefinite period, with some slight modifications, in
order to get rid of the more prominent objections
to the wholesale patronage of the Directors in
Leadenhall-street. The want of direct responsi-
bility he proposed to remedy by a promise that he,
as the President of the Board of Control, would
lay an annual statement of Indian affairs before
Parliament. The rest of his measure may be briefly
stated. The twenty-four directors chosen by the
holders of Indiastock are to be reduced to twelve, and
the Crown is to nominate six more from Indian
servants of ten years' standing. The appointments
to Haileybury College, to the scientific military
branch at Addiscombe, and to assistant-surgeons,
are to be thrown open to public competition, and
the rest of the patronage is to be left in the hands
of the directors. Some minor alterations are also
proposed in the local government of India. So
paltry a reform, which, in some particulars, would
render matters worse, is by no means satisfactory,
and it is to be hoped that the House of Commons
will show sufficient independence of ministerial
control as not to permit the present opportunity to
be thrown away for effecting so important an im-
provement as might be accomplished by placing our
Indian possessions under direct Imperial control.

THE CONTEST. FOR BIRKENHEAp

COMMISSIONERS.

CONFIRMATIONS YESTERDAY BY THE
LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.

The R.i2ht Rev. Dr. Graham, the Lord Bishop of
this diocese, commenced a series of confirmations in
Liverpool yesterday, which his Lordship will continue
during the week. _ _ . _ _