The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Beim; in the habit of occasionally attending divine ser-
vice at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, I was agreeably
surprised last Sunday evening at finding the singers again in
their places, as I understood they were paid off and discharged by
the new town council. On eligeiring, I was informed that these
liberal gentlemen have so arranged matters that the singers are
to remain for six months longer ! Is it that these liberal gentle-
men (for so they call themselves) begin to see that they are
carrying their liberal and reformed measures too far, and are
ashamed of their splenetic conduct towards the church ?—or
what is their reason fur coining forward in to very liberal a
manner as to allow the singers to remain six months longer?
By giving me this information you will greatl y ohlig
A Cl-lURCHMAN.
Liwerpaol, 14111 November, 1836.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
8,-7-We have all heard of late a great deal said about the
Corporation Schools, and the change made in the management
of them by•our new-fangled governors.
It has for some time occurred to me that these self-same schools
do not belong to the Corporation, and that the power they exer-
cise over them is usurpvd.
I have some recollection of an old school, in School-lane,
formerly belonging to vile freemen, and to them only. This
school was pulled down some 20 or 25 years ego, and the new
wing of the blue school built on the site thereof. This school
way endowed with a very handsome sum, and some fields where
Abercrombv-square and that neighbourhood now stands did
. belong to,if.
I bare endeavoured to get to the bottom of this piece of busi-
ness. but alt I can find out is. that the old Corporation, (I
know not by what authority, j sold all this property, and built
the new schools with the proceeds.
Upon.this.showing it is plain the schools belong to the free-
men, and to:them alone. Pei haps some of your correspondents
can throw a little mote .light on this subject ; if so, I shall feel
much s, AN OLD FREEMAN,
Liverpool, llth Nocember, 1836.

One Of the learnOd Councillors, chosen on Tuesday last at
Boston, was. 1,4101 P to reed the declaration, whiCh act was per-
formed for him by the Mayor —Lincoln Gar.ette.
The Stewards, of the late Musical Festival here are minus
individually £62, and collectively nearly £l,o9o.—Cheltenham
gazette. .
NAT oa A I.Cottiosirs.—On the small artificial pond called Ca-
nounaills Loch, may ,be daily. seen during the winter a solitary
sea-gull, swimming about apart from the ducks which so nume-
rously frequent, the loeh. tie leaves it every night, and returns
again in the inorniog. For a numberof years he has unerringly,
at a ceitain,seasun. taken his :flight to other shores; and with
the same regularity. as to time, been seen circling around the
little loch before alighting to take up his winter sojourn. But
it is remarkable, that, as it foreseeing the early storm, he has
this year returned a week sooaer than, usual, having made " his
first appearance this Season'. on Tuesday, the 95th October,
(two days before the frost set in.) It may Ite surmised that this
singular bird would not quit his tribe and native eleMent, and
forego the wild pleasure of " brushing the white sail with his
whited wing," unless he had a reason of his own for it; and the
food administered to him by the kindly hind of Dr. Neill is a
very substantial one.
ROCKET ExPEnisikmTs.—On Thursday, Mr. Carte, of the
Citadel at this place, exhibited a number of experiments with
rockets, for the purpose of showing their utility in cases of ship-
wreck. The experiments commenced by showing the faciiity
With which lines may be fired from a vessel to form a communi-
cation With the shore; this was varied to show the distances
which a line may be thrown ; in one instance it being fired di-
rectly at a vessel at WO yards, and another firing over the pilot-
beat, moored at a distance from' the sloop in order to carry the
sliue 150- yards., ~The. wind was blowing fresh from the west-
ward, and therefore tested more strongly the invention. The
rocket is laid in a frame, to which is attached the line, which is
elevated:according to the distance required to be thrown. In
every case the results were most satisfactory; various elevations
,were adopted to,show the range of the rockets.—Hull Observer
REV. D. O'Cnot.v.—This gentleman, who has been favour-
ing the public for some months past with several important
pamphlets, exposing the finances of the Romish Church, and
the political. power which :the priests were assuming, has at
length, in a farewell address to the Roman Catholics of the.
diocese of COrk,,ren tunced completely the errors of the Church
or Rome, and now,. professes himself a member of our Protes-
tant establishment. The Rev. Gentleman, after stating the
reasons whiclr.induced: him to take this step, says I—" What,
therefore, remains for me to do but to attach myself, without
further loss of time,',to an establishment which inculcates the
worship of the true God, preaches to sinners repentance and re-
mission of sins, through Christ, venerates antiquity, rejects
novelties,- condemns superstition, abhors persecution, encou-
rages free inquiry,, and admonishes all to embrace the simple
truths of the Gospel? Ido therefore now confess myself to be
in communion with Church of England, or more prop,e,rly
speaking, with the Christian Church diffused through the wdh3
of which the Church of England is only a portion,
is made up of all such, of every clime and nation,
profess, agreeably to the Gospel, to seek the kingdom
and his righteousness."
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isi
\VINES AT Cures coo WS. —That the wines are ()city
or taste
nut or
scut, and that there is enough tisi:t,ketiedrY,
junior,
will at once be inferred from the fact, thatet,:t , ,
which the house is supplied, and which isi:, A0,i.7 "*()`''.
of Parliament
son, contains a stock which is valued at 1.;iii,,,,,,i,
cellar for yon!"—any of the Irish A.1'11,1,3 %hole or it It be-
would exclaim. I lately ~went througo„
'street, and extends as
it measures 285 feet in
gins tinder Willis's Iluqtnsi St
mentioned
far back as Braham's new The,"".
I saw shelved
length. "When I was in it, MrCtr.ulc,,in,,, „ ~,
to ine, that the number a bottles o,
e pipes, was lit) 001)1
befit' e ine, indcpcodently
~rc about t e American, of innumerable h '
an who,
!t,bougit. of Lcr,i llollami' t_ (t.iiire.hiler'e',l::lrrhe re ,s a
r driiik an incredible quantity'
of
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ties, I:p'
si:eientc.laiseibheeva!rieirief
all
iatl htittlesot they had
surprised t see such
~
I;iihwlPli,?f,i44.,l,vli:s.'.;),,9'VE:=ll,nb,i',l:lsearany . circumstances,—butthey
especially.
ed that they had themselves, emptied them
l'itY.'4Plihin',`Vil' F`' have thought Ind they h
ii ‘Til?""l4,PleY 1. . 1 <.).
6.,61,4
soil, 12a•qaln.111,)uai IS .seen,la v e irdid,
; beet taken to
.00,000 bottles at once?
Been in ecstasies with the sight,
especially. us they were all full.—The grs'ot Metiopais.