The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

RUMOURS OF WAR.

The Times of yesterday (Monday) says :—it is said,
with what amount e foundation se are unable to state,
that the Austrian Government has resolved to demand
the extradition, or :t least the expulsion of KOSSUTH,
MA ZZINI, and the ►ther foreign refugees now fomenting
revolution abroad uider the shelter of British hospitality;
and that, on the aiticipated failure of this demand, the
Governments of Pr►ssia and of France are prepared to ad-
dress a joint note to the same effect. In the event of a
continued refusal )n our part, we are threatened, so it is
said, with a withdrawal of the Ministers representing
these three Powes at this Court, and with such further
inconvenience as may arise from the destitute condition
in which England it is supposed, will thereupon be left.
That the Austriar Government,with revolt in Lombardy,
with assasination at home, and sanguinary manifestoes
fulminated from this metropolis, should just now be in a
state of considerable excitement, that Prussia should have
caught the infecton, and that the Emperor of the FttEzioft
should be glad o express an unaffected sympathy for his
brother of Aus:ria, are circumstances natural enough,
and if anything could induce us to discredit the rumour
we have mentioied, it is its plausibility.

DEFENCE OF LIVERPOOL-ARRIVAL OF
A WAR STEAMER IN THE MERSEY.

Yesterday Ver Majesty's war -steam-ship Encounter,
carrying 14 guts, arrived in the Mersey from Portsmouth.
We understanl that she has been sent to Liverpool, pur-
suant to orders issued by the Government, and will remain
in the Merser, off the battery at the north end, as a
marine station guard for the port. It is understood that
in a few weeks another vessel of similar capacity will be
sent round froin Portsmouth.

THE DUTY OF GIVING FOR RELIGIOUS

PURPOSES.

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Yesterday morning a meeting was held in the Claren—
don-rooms, at eleven o'clock, to receive a statement of
the Rev. A. Other. of the north of Ireland, respecting
the publicatior, of Prize Essays relating to the duty of
giving for religious purposes. The prize essays were
originated by a committee of gentlemen in Belfast, who
felt that the support of religious objects and institutions
fell upon a very few, and that the effect was only a small
per-centage of what might be produced. Five essays of
co-equal merit were produced, each taking a different
aspect of the subject ; one, for instance, regarding the
matter in a logical, and the others in a legal, scriptural,
moral, and practical point of view. The successful com-
petitors embraced laity and clergy, English, Irish, and
Scotch, Churchmen and Protestant Dissenters of different
kinds. One of them is the Rev. Robert Spence, a well-
known Dissenting minister in this town. A subscription
edition of the whole five, in one volume, is about to be
issued, and nearly 5,000 copies have been already ordered.
An interesting conversation took place after the subject
had been laid before the meeting, in which Mr. Work-
man, of Belfast, Messrs. Groves, Macfie, G. Casey. the
Rev. Dr. Raffles, Rev. Dr. Hume, Mr. Birrell, Mr. Kelly,
&c., took part. A sub-committee was formed, consisting,
in the first instance, of the relusttionists who had con-
vened the meeting, for the purpose of forwarding the views
of the promoters.