The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

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immediate appoiutment of a commission for the purpose
of considering the subject of registration with reference to
facilitating the sae and transfer of land, in order that a
bill for effecting the object may be brought into parlia-
I ment at the cotnmencement of the next session. The other

bills will furnish important suggestions for the consider

tion of the commissioners

COMPVIMORY VA CCIRATION.—By the new act further
to extend and make compulsory the practice of vaccination,
parishes or unions, if need be, are, within six weeks of the
passing of The act, on the 20th inst., to be divided into
districts-far the purpose of vaccination, and places are to
be appointed for the performance of the same, and notice
is to Isegiven, the object being, as described, of affording
increased facilities for the vaccination of the poor. The
paretits and guardians of chilaren, born after the Ist of
August, 1853, are to have such children vaccinated within
three or four months after tht birth, and the children are
to -19 e taken for the inspection of the medical officer, on the
lath day after the operation, to ascertain the result of
A certificate is *co be given of successful vacci-

the same
reation.

In case a child should- not be in a fit state for
vaccination, the medical •officer is to deliver a certificate to
'that effect, to be in force two months. The compulsory
part of the new law is Contained in the ninth section,
which enacts that the -registrar of births and deaths in
every sub-district shall, on or within seven days after the
registration of the birth of any child not already vacci-
nated, give a notice in•writing, in the form prescribed, to
the father or mother, or to the person having the care of
the same, that the child is to be vaccinated, with a notice
when it can be done, and if the father or mother,or person
having the care brit, shall not attend to haveit performed,
or shall not on the eighth day after the vaccination take
the child for inspection, such father or mother, or person,
shall forfeit n sum not exceeding 20s. The penalties im-
posed by the act are to be recovered in a summary manner.
"THE EikrrnEss OF PIIRGATOILY."—The following ex-
tract from the blasphemous stuff which the pervert Faber
has put forth in a book of devotion" lately published by
him, will serve to illustrate the extent 'of that 4` strong de-
lusion" under which apostates from the true church and
the true faith are brought to " believe alie :"—" Look at
that vast kingdom of Purgatory, with its Empress mother,
Mary. All those countless throngs a souls are the dear
and faifhful spouses of Jesus. Yet in what a strange
abandennuerit of supernatural suffering has His love left
them 1 He longs for their deliverence—He yearns for
them iabe transferred from that land, perpetually over-
clouded-by pain, to the bright sunshine of their heavenly
home. Yet he has tied His own hands, or nearly so. He
gives*hem no more grace ; He allows them no more time
for penance : He prevents them from-meriting ; nay, some
havethought they could not pray. How, then, stands the

caseliith the souls in the suffering char& ? Why, is it a
thing to meditate on when we have said it—they depend
almost more on earth than they do-on heaven ; almost more
owns than on Him; so he has willed it on whom all de-
peed and without whom there 'is no dependence. It is
clear then that Jesus has His interest there. He wants
His captives released. Those whom He has redeemed He
now.bids us redeem, us whom, if -there be life at all in us,
He has already himself redeemed. Every satisfaction
offered up to God for these suffering souls, every oblation
or the Precious Blood to the Eternal Father, every mass
heard, every communion receivell, every voluntary penance
undergone ; the scourge ; the hairshirt, ; the prickly chain ;
every indulgence gained, every Jubilee whose condition
we have fulfilled, every De Profundis whispered, every
little alms doled out to the poor who are poorer than our-
selves, and, if they be offered forPthe intention of these dear
prisoners, the interests •of Jesus -are hourly forwarded in
'Mary's kingdom of Purgatory."
BETTER OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S DAY.—It is
a wonderful thing to contemplate how good principles are
sometimes seen to prevail even among men who are not
good. A vast change has taken place in London with
reference to the observance of •the Sabbath, within the
last 30 years ; a change, the production of which is not to
*be traced to any human agency. At the period of the
!battle of Waterloo, the parks were thronged from one
• o'clock to five each Sunday with people of rank and
'fashion. Now, no one is seen there of higher class than a
•man of the turf, or a woman of doubtful character. At
the same period, Sunday was the great day for dinner
-parties at the west-end. Now tlit practice is also
abandoned, or left only to the least respectable of the
iweedthy classes. And the same ehange is still going on.
A day or two since, we saw the following advertisement
in an Edinburgh newspaper:—" Roslin Chapel and
Castle.—By order of the proprietor, the Chapel and Castle
of Roslin are not in future to be exhibited to any one on
Supdays. They will be shown as formerly on every lawful
day." But this was in Scotland, and it may be said, that
the change is easily accounted for. Well, the next news
of the same sort comes from France. A steeple-chase is
announced to be run at Dieppe, and in France all events
of this kind are usually allotted to the Sunday, when the
most people can be present. But now, strange to say, it
.has been resolved to alter the day to Thursday, especially
with reference to those whose religious feelings would be
violated by a Sunday given to racing. This is quite a new
feature in French festivities. But this is not all. From
the•very ends of the earth come the same tidings. The
•latest accounts we have seen of the movements of the
insurgents in China dwell on the vast benefit which the
300,000,000 of 'Chinese will derive from the establishment
of the Sabbath among them. These ameliorations, flow-
ing from Christianity, but not traceable to a real conver-
sion of heart, are very wonderful. They scarcely fall in
with any known theory; and the just and accurate
appreciation of them must be left to that day when
Christ's followers shall see face to face, and know even
as they are known.—Record.

DARING BURGLARY AT LORD DENMAN'S SEAT IN
DERBYSHIRE. -On Saturday week, information was
received in London of a most daring burglary at the seat
of Lord Denman, at Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, where
property and cash to the value of more than £6OO were
stolen. Amongst the missing articles were the massive
gold box presented by the Corporation of London, and
containing the freedom of the city, and also a pair of can-
dlesticks, which had been presented to his lordship by her
Majesty. The burglary was effected either on Wednesday
night or Thursday morning, and the thieves not only took
the cash-box, with some gold and silver, but a handsome
gold watch, which was in one of his lordship's waistcoats,
was taken also. Amongst the list of the property stolen
is a gold box, value £lOO, containing coronation medals of
George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria. The whole
of the valuable property has been recovered. A footman
in the service of his lordship was suspected, and taken into
custody on the charge. Since then the mystery attendant
upon the robbery has been cleared up by the apprehension
of the real offender. On Saturday morning, a man, dressed
in the garb of a mason, presented himself at a pawnbroker's
shop in the city of York, kept by a person named Chapman,
and offered for sale the lid of a silver inkstand, stating
that he found it on the road. The shopman, discrediting
the story, and suspecting it to have been stolen, detained
the man until the arrival of the police, who at once took
him into custody. On the prisoner being searched, the
remaining portions of the inkstand, together with the gold
lining of the box which contained the parchment of the
freedom of the city of London, presented to Lord Denman
by the corporation of that city after the trial of Queen
Caroline, as also the gold medals, were found in the pos-
session of the prisoner, and the silver candlesticks were
found at the place where the prisoner had passed the night.
The man, who gave his name as Simpson, gave the follow-
ing account of himself :—He had been working as a stone-
mason at Birkenhead, and on the Saturday previous to the
robbery he was at Liverpool, where he remained till 3fon.
day, and then proceeded to Manchester. From Manchester
he went to Bakewell, a place about three miles from Lord
Denman's residence, where lie arrived on the Wednesday
evening. At this place he partook of some i
refreshments,
his account in explanation of his wandering n this way
about the country being that he was in search of work.
Having no sleeping place, and passing through Middleton
on Wednesday night, he turned into the grounds of the
noble lord to pass the night there. On reaching the hall
he found the door partially open, and as the family had
retired to rest, it being then past midnight, he went in,
and passed into the drawing-room, whence he took the
property. When about to make a further incursion up
stairs, he was disturbed by a noise, and beat a hasty retreat.
He hastened forward on his way, and concealed the spoil
in his bundle until his arrival in York, where he was ap-
prehended about ten o'clock. The man was a stranger to
the locality of Middleton, and stated that none of the
servants had any participation in the robbery, which he
declared was quite impromptu, suggested by finding the
hall door open. The prisoner was taken before the magic.
traces at Bakewell on Thursday, and committed.