The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAZ

As this is the season when many seek to imitate the
example of their Divine Master, who went about doing
good, our readers will fcol obliged to us for calling their

Dispensary, which needs additional aid, in order to render
it efficient for the wants of a fast increasing population.
It must be needless to enlarge on the advantages of the
assistance offered by such institutions to the poorer classes,
in cases of suffering from sickness and from accidents, to
which working men are more especially liable in the vici-
nity of a busy seaport. These must be evident to all, and
we would now only remind them that the managers of,
this well-conducted Institution are often reluctantly comP
pelled to refuse aid where it is much needed, from the
want of the requisite accommodation. The size of the
building is inadequate to the demands upon it, and a fund
is required to enable more commodious premises to be taken
for the purpose. It should be remembered, that in thus
caring for the poor, the rich do not forget themselves,
for wherever an hospital is established, there the medical
men, from their greater experience, are far more skilful in
their treatment of the sick: and Liverpool, in common with
many other places, is now experiencing the advantage of
well-ordered hospitals.

POST- OFFICE IRREGULARITIES.
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Tun following is a copy of a letter which' we received
on Thursday, from a highly-respectable subscriber. The
card to which he refers was that of a baker in Scotland-
road, Liverpool. Upon its receipt, we forwarded it and
another letter, (also complaining of the non-delivery of the
Standard,) to the Postmaster in this town, and we sub-
join his reply, which is by no means satisfactory, as it
must be evident to any one that the substitution of one
paper for another must have taken place while under the
coutroul of the Post-office officials :

Tintwistle, Manchester, Dec. 21,1853.

" Suz,—On opening your wrapper this morning, I found
the Liverpool Chronicle of last Saturday enclosed. It
was very dirty, and was written upon (arithmetical calcu•
lations). It is very evident that your paper has been
abstracted, and that substituted ; also that it was done by
a very bungling hand, as it was very badly folded. On
opening the paper, the enclosed card dropped out, which
may, possibly, afford some clue. Have you a clerk of that
name ? Or, if not, perhaps they have at the post-office.
" I leave the matter with you to investigate, if you
think proper. _

I remain, Sir, your:, &e

To the Proprietor of the Liverpool Standard."

Post-office, Liverpool, 24th Dec., 1853,

" Snt,—l beg to inform you, that the newspapers to
which you refer, in the enclosed letters, are not recollected
in this office, and I am assured, if they were addressed as
stated, and posted with the rest of the newspapers from
your office, they would be duly forwarded from hence by
the first subsequent despatches. There is no person in
this office of the name of " Wood," neither can I find
that any person here has any connexion with him.

-
"I am, Sir, ......
" Your obedient faithful servant,
" C. B. BANNING, Post-master
To the Proprietor of the Liverpool Standard."

SPECIAL

MISSION TO ROMAN

CATHOLICS,

ON Tuesday evening last, an interesting ceremony took
place in St John's Church, Old Haymarket, in this town,
when nine adults, formerly Romanists, publicly renounced
the errors of Romanism, and were received, by the Rev.
W. F. TAYLOR, 11LA , Incumbent, into the Apostolic
Church established in this country.
A sermon was then preached from the Second Lesson
of the Evening Service, 2 Peter iii. 18, "Grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ," in the course of which the Rev.. W. P. TAYLOR
pointed out from the context—first, the circumstances
which gave rise to the precept—the errors and wickedness
of those unlearned and unstable men who wrest or per-
vert the Scriptures to their own destruction, a text which
he rescued from the misinterpretation put upon it by the
Romish Church ; secondly, the nature of the precept,
which consisted in a growing conformity to the image of
Christ, in fact, " a growing up into Him in all thingsoas
our Head" ;—and, thirdly, the best means whereby to
obey the precept—a desire for, and frequent use of, " the
sincere milk of the Word," accompanied with earnest
prayer to Almighty God for His enlightening grace to un-
derstand it.
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