The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the COMPANY
of PROPRIETORS of the LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE will be
held, pursuant to Act of Parliament, in the COTTON SALE..
ROOM, in the Exchange-buildings, in Liverpool, on MONDAY,
the 30th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN H. YOUNGHUSBAND,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Dated this 21st day of January, 185 k.

IVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. THE
_ll_4l GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the GOVER-
NORS of this INSTITUTION will be holden in the DISPEN-
SARIES'-OFFICE, No. 21, South Castle-street, on THURSDAY
next, the 26th instant, at Two o'clock, to transact the usual
business of the Charity, and to E ect Officers for the
ensuing year.
Subscriptions and other Contributions -received at the
Dispensaries'-office, 21, South Castle-street, from Ten to
Eleven, and Three to Four o'clock daily.-3y order of the
Committee, JONATHAN BROOKS, President.

The Treasurer begs to acknowledge the foll Owing Contri-
butions for the past year :
DONATIONS. se. s. d.
James Molvneux, Esq., Gambier-terrace 3O 0
John Huddleston, Esq. 'OO 0 0
John George Woodhouse, Esq.
Mrs. Wordsworth
Maxwell Hyslop, Esq.
A Friend. per M. Blandin, Esq. 1 0 0
Richard V. Yates, Esq.
British and North American R. M. Steam-packet
Company : portion of money collected for admit-
ting visitors to view their ships, per Messrs.
D. and C. M'lver
From William Stewart, Esq., one Coupon for £l6O
Stock iu the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
and £4. Is. dividend on same, being two shares
of the fund placed in his hands for G. Jenner, or
several charities named at the timeof subscription.
LE ;..kCIES.
The late Edward Segar, per Mrs. Adriana Segar
and Halsall Segar, Esq., executors
The late Ann Renshaw, per Edmund Molyneux,
and William Taylor, Esqrs., 4200, less duty £2O. ISO 0 0
Received from the Estate of Elizabeth Saul, de-
ceased, per payment of Abrm. Wren, Esq., her
executor, the amount of a specific Legacy be-
queathed by ber to the South Dispensary l9 19 0
The late Mrs. Olivia 111‘Lean, late of Low-hill, Liver-
pool, per Mrs. Barton and James Barton, Esq l5l is 8
COLLECTIONS.
Proportion of Collections from the Welsh Calvanis-
tic Methodists, per Mr. Davies
Proportion of Collections in Churches for the Local
Charities, per Rev. C. H. Burton

6 18 5

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of the SUBSCRIBERS to the SCHOOL for the DEAF
and DUMB, held at the leuititution, Oxford-street, on
THURSDAY, the 19th of JANUARY, 1854,
The Rev. A. CAMPBELL, President, in the Chair;

The Annual Report having been read, and Mr. ARTHUR
Thom PSON, the Treasurer, having given the Statement of the
Accounts,
It sott4, Resolvid,—That the Report be adopted, and, with
the Statement of Accounts. be printed and circulated under
the direction of the Committee.
It was Resolved,—That the thanks of this Meeting be given
to the Chairman, Officers, and Committee, for their services
during the past year, and that the following Gentlemen be
the Officers and Committee for the year ensuing;—.
Rev. A. Campbell, President.
Mr. Richard Rathbone, Chairman.
. Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer.
Mr. Edward Banner, Secretary.
Mr. Harmood Banner, } Auditors.
Mr. Wm. M'Crackan
Rev. Thomas Bold, 'Rev. F. Barker,
Rev. James North, Rev. W. Brewster,
Mr. R. R. Rathbone, Mr. J. B. Brancker,
Mr. Edward Gibbon, Jun., Mr. Josb. Matthews,
Mr. J. Mawdsley, Mr. H. T. Browne.
Mr. Arthur Ellis, I Mr. H. Grazebrook, Jun.
Mr. Henry A. Grey,
Mr. James Barton
Mr. Richard Lloyd
Mr. David Buxton,
It was Resolved,—That the tl
to the Rev. A. Campbell for pp

Nottage, Surgeon.
1, Dentist.
1, Principal.
banks of this Meeting be given
-esiding on this occasion.

WORKING MEN'S REFORMATION
SOCIETY,
Under the Patronage of Aft. Alderman EDMUND
MO LI'NEUX.

At a PUBLIC MEETING, held in the Society's Room,
Beau-street, on FRIDAY EVENING last, Lord Palmerston's
avowed intention of endowing Roman Catholic Priests to
perform the superstitious and idolatrous rites of the Apos-
tate Church in our Prisons and Hulks was brought under
consideration, and the following Petition to the Legislature
submitted and unanimously adopted t

"To the Honourable the Commons of the United Ilingdor!t of

Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament anenaled.
"The Petition of the undersigned Working Men, residing
in the Borough of Liverpool, humbly Sheuieth,
"That your Petitioners beg to approach your Honourable
House with sentiments of loyalty to our most beloved Queen,
and with feelings of deep veneration for the Protestant Insti-
tutions as by law established within these realms.
"That your Petitioners, believing those Institutions to have
been established on the sound basis of the Protestant Re-
formation, and that they have conferred blessings which the
subjects of no other country enjoy, feel deeply solicitons that
they remain unimpaired.
'That, while your Petitioners would perpetuate the reli-
gious toleration which is characteristic of the English nation,
your Petitioners venture to submit to your Honourable House
the danger likely to arise to those Institutions from the ap-
pointment of Roman Catholic Chaplains to our Gaols, or to
the Navy or Army, inasmuch as your Petitioners believe
that that religion only abows authorities by permission, the
head of which is professedly above Kings and Princes ; and
to .beg that your Honourable House will interpose the au-
thority of the Legislature, in order that the Priests of the
Romish Church should not be paid out of the funds of the
State, nor permitted to interfere, in any way, with the reli-
gious worship carried on within any of the public buildings
of the United Kingdom.
"And your Petitioners will ever pray."
In submitting the above petition to the working men of
Liverpool, we feel that no explanation is necessary. All who
assert and maintain the universal supremacy of the Queen of
England within these realms, and renounce, abjure, and de-
test any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or poten-
tate, ecclesiastical or civil, will protest against the introduc-
tion of Romish priests into prisons or elsewhere, by her
Majesty's Government, to teach that religion which Her
Majesty has sworn to be superstitious and idolatrous. All
real loyalists must believe that the support given by Parlia-
ment to this idolatrous system is a dishonour to the British
Senate, and a disgrace to this free and Protestant nation.
All who love true religion and genuine liberty know that
Popery is essentially opposed to the genius of both, being
immoral in its principles, injurious to the well-being of
society, and subversive of the Protestant institutions and the
established religion of England.
We therefore appeal to all real loyalists, and to every sin-
cere Christian man in Liverpool, and earnestly icvite them
to lose no time, but at once sign the petition to stop further
trimming and compromise with Romish priests, who lack
but the power to rekindle in England the fires of Smithfield,
and to re-enact in Ireland the murderous and perfidious
scenes of 1641 and 1798.

J. PARSONAGE, President.
JNO. BENNRII, Hon. Sec.
THE PETITION LIES FOR SIGNATURE at the STAN-
DARD OffiCe •• at the INSTITUTE, Beau-street ; at the SECRE-
TARY'S, 60, Great Homer-street, and in various parts of the
town.