The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY.

(From the Times of Yesterday.)
Russell and Peel have the pleasure of informing the public,
that they have received instructions from a great house to
offer for sale on the Ist of April, 1840, at the Crown public-
house, near Constitution-hill, that magnificent pile of build-
ing hitherto used as courts of justice, and known as West-
minster-hall, the business formerly transacted there being re-
moved to the House of. Commons.
A very fine old _ copy of Magna Charta and several lots of
acts of Parliament will be sold as waste paper; being of no
further use.

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- - May be viewed until the day of sale by tickets, which may
be procured on application to Lord John Russell, .at the
office, or Sir Robert Peel, at his private residence (for the
present), Privy-gardens.

SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The next concert of the
series will combine such a host of first-rate talent, that the
admirers of music must necessarily do their feelings violence
if they do not attend. Signora E. Grisi, Madame Balf,
and the inimitable pianist, Thalberg, &c. are announced.
The Festivals excepted, how seldom is it that such eminent
names are associated in one concert in Liverpool ?
LIVER THEATRE.—The announcement in another column
will detail the novelties which the spirited managers of this
little Theatre are about to produce. That they deserve sup-
port no one who has witnessed the performances will deny;
and we are confident they will receive it. In our next we
shall be able to speak of the newly introduced performances,
and of the pieces in which they will appear.
INSTITUTION FOR THE CURE OF DISEASES OF THE EAR.
—This day a public meeting will he held in the Clarendon
Rooms, for the purpose of ,establishing the institution for
the cure of diseases of the ear, as a public charity, of Liver-
pool. The design has our hearty concurrence, and we hope
that the projected charity, which is much wanted, will long
enjoy the support of the liberal and generous inhabitants of
Liverpool.
THE NEW POSTAGE PLAN.—The number of letters re-
ceived at the Post-office in this town, under the penny rate,
is somewhere about one-half more than the number posted
under the fourpenny rate, and double the number received
under the old scale. The deficiency in revenue from the al-
teration, in this town alone, is likely to reach the large
figure oefifty thousand pounds per annum.
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The Earl of Sefton has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
James Hassall, M.A., Minister of St. John the Baptist's
Church, Toxteth-park, to be one of his lordship's Domestic
Chaplains.
HOUSE WARMING.—On Wednesday evening last, at the
rearing of a handsome edifice, in Everton, erected by Mr.
Woolridge for Hays Pyke, Esq., the latter gentleman enter-
tained the whole of his tradesmen and workpeople with a
most substantial and excellent supper. After the cloth was
drawn, Mr. Pyke eloquently p-oposed " the health of her
Majesty," declaring that his politics were decidedly Tory,
as were those of his regretted parent before him; and, con-
sequently, it was impossible that any other feeling than that
of " loyalty," even to the death, could pervade his political
conduct. He also took occasion to remark, that in affairs of
local government, he claimed for himself the independent
right of supporting such men, as without reference to poli-
tical bias, he conceived most likely by their practical know-
ledge and standing in society, to serve the town—Mr.
Pyke's conduct in local election matters having been latterly
much animadverted upon by some of his respected neigh-
bours—he thought it only justice to himself to render this
explanation to his friends. Several good old songs were
sung, one of which, so illustrative of what British feeling
really is when roused, we could like to hear much oftener.
A verse, in allusion to the invasion by the celebrated
" Spanish Armada," was uproariously encored. Here
it is :

" The Spanish Armada,
Sent out to invade her,
Quite sure if they ever came nigh land,
They could not do less
Than tuck up Queen Bess,
And have their full swing in the Island.
And it's oh! the poor Queen and the Island ;
The Dons came to plunder the Island ;
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But—snugin the Hive,
The Queen was alive,
And " Buzz" was the word in the Island."
When it was known that " the Queen was alive,', we thought
the storm of applause would have blown the roof off.
" Smiling Mirth," we understand, presided, until the
" Sma' wee hour ayont the twat."

CHURCH RATES.—IMPORTANT FACT.—It was stated in
the House of Commons two years ago that nineteen-twentieths
of the church-rates were paid by churchmen. The whole
amount for that year was estimated at £600,000, of which
£570,000 was paid by churchmen, and £30,000 by dissenters.
In the same year the sum of £25,000 was voted by parliament
to dissenting teachers, and a further sum of £24,000 towards
the erection of dissenting meeting-houses and the popish
college at Maynooth. Out of these tWo last sums the
churchmen paid seven-eighths, or £43,000; therefore church-
men are actually paying £13,000 more in one year towards
the support of dissent than the dissenters are paying towards
the established church.—Courier.
PRINCE ALBERT.—The following are the terms of the
notice of Colonel Sibthorp, as entered on the Commons'
books yesterday morning :—" In Prince Albert's Annuity
Bill to insert the following clause : Provided neverthe-
less, and be it enacted, that, in case his Serene Highness
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha shall survive her
Majesty, such sum or sums as may be granted by Act of
Parliament, by way of annuity, to his serene highness during
his natural life, shall altogether and wholly cease and deter-
mine, in case his serene highness shall reside for a less period
than six months consecutively in each year within the united
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or shall ally himself
in marriage with any foreign princess or foreign person, or
shall cease to profess and adhere to the Protestant religion as
by law established within these realms.' "—Herald
At a time when " chartism" and " socialism," instigated
by whig treachery to upset all sound principles of govern-
ment, are endeavouring to break down all respect and reve-
rence for the laws of the land and all constituted authority,
it is a most lamentable thing to see conservative leaders in
Parliament assisting the whig ministers and their radical
and Romanish friends, to bring into public contempt the
courts of justice, and destroy all veneration for 4D,r;
judicial institutions in the minds of the people. _ Nei liThrcii
the virtuous and patriotic monarch George 11
render the judges independent of the Crown for
efohirtralciftee:
Why, but to establish that high and honorer
for the administration of justice in the i to break
the House of Commons is apparently labouring
on the subject—
down. Here is the King's own declaration
INDEPENDENCE AND UP-
RIGHTNESS" That he LOOKED UPON THE
INDSESPENTIAL TO THE IM-
.°lng ind which
OF THE JUDGES
PARTIIAL ADMINISTRATION 0
BEST SECURITIES OF THE RIGHTS
gAgi vAES TN I: EL-BAESR ONETIES OFOr THEHIs
CROWN." Words that o
SUBJECTS, AND MOST
ught to be engravers in letters of
CONDUCIVE TO THE HONOUR OF THE
ri h justice.—Morning Herald.
since the marriage of a
goNldeaovrleyr
ethigehstaynycetuaarsryt?afyße
elapsed
sovereign has been celebrated in this country, King George
the Third having been united to Queen Charlotte on the 7th
Sept., 1761.