The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times, writing on the
4th instant, says .:—" This Whitsunday will form an epoch
in the annals of the English residents in Berlin. Divine
service was performed for the first time in the wing of the
Monbijou Palace, which the King last year allotted us for
an English chapel, The want of a fit and proper place
for public worship had been sensitively felt here ever since
residents and visitors have multiplied too numerously for
the confined accommodation of a room in the Embassy.
Up to within about eight years ago the English congrega-
tion thought itself fortunate to be able to meet for worship
in a large room in the most distant verge of the town ;
since then it has been felt as an immeasurable gain to be
enabled, by the activity and self-sacrifice of our clergyman
here, to enjoy the use of a handsome saloon at the back of
an hotel, appropriately fitted up for the purposes of our
ritual ; but in both cases we were trespassers on the suf-
ferance of the Society for the Propagation of Christianity
among the Jews, Which has a mission here. This un-
seemly state of things was represented to King Frederick
William by Lord Bloomfield in the early part of last year;
and His Majesty immediately promised him the use of a
wing of Monbijou Palace for the purposes of a chapel.
Our little community, however, was too few in number
and too little wealthy for it to meet the expenses of adapt-
ing this building to the purposes of worship, and here
again the King came to our help by taking on himself all
the costs of converting and repairing the building, and
putting it in thorough order. This has accordingly been
done in a most royal
.manner, for no expense has been
spared to put the premises into a most unexceptionable
state of thorough, lasting, and handsome repair. Private
liberality has amply seconded this exhibition of kingly
munificence ; for our organ, all the fittings-up and furni-
ture, which have cost considerably above £4OO, we are
indebted mainly to the liberality of Lord and Lady Bloom-
field, who have defrayed all the expenses that the contri-
butions of kind friends in England, amounting to about
£l7O, failed to meet. The Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge has provided us with a very handsome set of
books for the liturgy and communion service, and, in ad-
dition, a dozen excellent Common Prayer-books for the
use of the congregation. This is the history of the ways
and means by which our little congregation of English in
Berlin, without any exertion or cost on their part, has
been put into possession of a commodious place of worship,
with accommodation for a hundred sitters. There is now
no hindrance to the apostolic injunction being fulfilled
here—" Let all things be done decently and in order."

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

By the United States Mail Steamship Atlantic, which
arrived on Wednesday, we had intelligence from New York
to the 27th ult., and $400,000 dollars.
The City of Manchester has arrived at Philadelphia, and
the America at Boston.
The Nebraska Bill had passed the. Senate, but nothing
of moment had transpired in Congress. It was reported
that an overture had been submitted, proposing a new
commercial treaty between Russia and the United States,
of a highly advantageous nature to the latter.
Havannah advices of the 22nd state that the Captain-
General had given several fiteB to the officers of the
French squadron. The emancipation movement was
creating uneasiness. Business was dull. Freights un-
changed and vessels plentiful. Exchange on London, 91-
to 104 premium.
Bermuda advices state that the Legislature was to have
been opened on the 23rd.
Lord Elgin had arrived at Washington. Immense ex-
citement prevailed at Boston on the 26th, on account of
the arrest of a fugitive slave. The military were called
out, and one man killed.
By the late arrival of steamers at New York from Cali-
fornia, $2,669,555 had been received. The stock-market
had improved. The cotton-market was unchanged.
Breadstuffs more buoyant, with an upward tendency.
Provisions easier to purchase. Freights without altera-
tion, and the amount offering moderate.