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

BY JOHANNES JLUSTICUS.

111. LIE DECIMAL COINAGE.—As it seems we are to have
an alteration in the currency medium, I should hope there
will be an effort made to issue such coins, and such only,
as will most conduce to the comfort and convenience of
the community. Some of those at present in use are so
near in value to others that they cause mistakes and losses,
and may advantageously be dispensed with ; while, on the
other hand, we require a greater variety of gold coins than
we have hitherto had, or than is proposed under the new
system. For instance, it would very much facilitate the
large payments of gold, which are every day made in
mercantile houses, if we had a larger coin than the sove-
reign, and if we could have a crown in gold, instead of the
present cumbrous silver one, it would ease us of the bur-
den of a quantity of small change. Nor would these coins
be found inconvenient either on account of the largeness
of the one, or the smallness of the other, as those who
have handled the twenty dollar piece and the gold dollar
of the United States will be ready to admit. It will be
desirable, also, to affix such names on new coins as will be
short and distinctive, and enable us to do away with such
compound terms as half sovereign, fourpenny piece, half-
penny, and the like.

IV.LANTI-ENGLISH SPIRIT OF THE Thant Pi:a.m.—l do
not think that the Anti-English spirit of the Irish press is
sufficiently noted and commented on in England. In no
other country in Europe would it be permitted to insult
and abuse and vilify the executive government, and stir
up tumult and disaffpction among the people in the way
that Popish journalists in Ireland are accustomed to do ;
and though the liberty of the press is a very fine thing,
it is quite possible to carry it to a very great and dangerous
extreme, when it would become a curse rather than a
blessing. To condemn a government for objectionable
measures, or to seek to influence it to adopt desirable ones,
is oue thing, but to counsel disloyalty and union with
foreign foes is another ; and it is the latter course which
is adopted by these organs of Pope Pius IX and Pope
Cullen. They are in raptures at a rumoured invasion by
the French, and assure Louis Napoleon that he will not be
opposed by the Irish, but rather welcomed,—they urge the
United States to " annex" Canada, and assure them of the
ready assistance of the Irish,—nay, their hatred of English.
Protestantism even goes so far as to overcome their here-
ditary antipathy to the Greek Church, and they point out
to the Czar how easily he may drive the British forces
from India. Now this is not the natural feeling or lan-
guage of the Irish,—the Irish Protestants are as loyal
subjects as the English themselves,—it is the language and
feeling of the priests,—the Maynooth-taught priests, whose
affections are at Rome, and whom nothing can or ever will
satisfy but the complete extinction of British Protestantism,
and the subjugation of the whole realm to the triple tiara
of the Pope of Rome.

COURT AND FASHION.
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MAJOE-GENERAL WILLIAM STAVELEY, C. 8., has been
appointed commander-in-chief of the forces on the Madras
establishment.

LORD GASCOIGNE CECIL was elected without opposition,
yesterday week, for Stamford, in the place of Mr. Herries,
who had resigned.
Ma. R. INGERSOLL and Mr. Buchanan arrived at Os-
borne on Wednesday from London, and had audience of
her Majesty. Mr. R. Ingersoll delivered his letters of
renal as United States' Minister, and Mr. Buchanan was
presented by the Earl of Clarendon on his appointment
to succeed Mr. Ingersoll.

Tam MAnatatia of Charles Henry Mills, Esq., of
Camelford-house, London, and Hillingdon-park, Uxbridge,
to Lady Louisa Isabella, eldest daughter of the Earl of,
Harewood, was celebrated at Harewood, near Leeds, on
Thursday, the service being performed by the Lord Bishop
of Ripon.

THE LORD BISHOP or LONDON, and Mrs. Blomfield and
the Misses Blomfield, arrived on Saturday, at the Island
of Cumbrae, on a visit to the Countess Dowager of Glas-
gow. The bishop and his family are on a tour in the
highlands, and proceed from Cumbrae to Bishopstown,
Loch gilphead, on a visit to the Bishop of Argyll.
ALIYNOOTH COLLEGE.—The commission of inquiry into
the College of Maynooth is to consist of the Earl of Har-
rowby, Mr. Justice Patteson, Chief Baron Pigot, Mr.
Commissioner Longfield, and Mr. James O'Farrell. The
Chief Baron and Mr. O'Farrell are objected to by the
Morning Herald as being Romanists. The latter is also
a member of the committee of the new Romanist University.
ANOTHER ROYAL RESIDENCE.—We understand that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert is negotiating for the
purchase or rental of a magnificent building, the property
of Mr. Child, the banker. It is situated on an eminence
between St. John's-wood and Highgate, surrounded with
luxuriant woodland, meadow, pasture, and arable land,
and commands extensive views of the beautiful scenery
in and about the metropolis. It is intended, we believe,
as an occasional residence or " nursery" for the royal
children.—John .Bull. _

ROYAL COMMISSIONB.—The London Gazette of Tues-
day 'contains the appointment of three commissions :-1.
To inquire into the state and practice of the county courts,
consisting of the Master of the Rolls, Justices Erle and
Crompton, Mr. Under-Secretary Fitzroy, H. S. Keating,
Esq., Q.C., J. H. Koe, Esq., Q.C., Sergeant Dowling, J.
Pitt Taylor, Esq., and J. R. Mullings, Esq. 2. To inquire
into the law of bankruptcy, consisting of the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole, Sir G. Rose, Knight, C. T. Swanston,
Q.C., M. D. Hill, Q.C., J. Bacon, Q.C., Mr. Commissioner
Holroyd, E. Cooke, Esq., and G. C. Glyn, Esq. 3. Relates
to Birmingham Borough Prison, and to inquire into cer-
tain charges of cruelty preferred by some of the inhabi-
tants against the governor of the gaol. The governor
resigned on Thursday. The commissioners are—W. N
Welsby, Esq.,. barrister-at-law ; W. J. Williams, Esq., in-
spector of prisonsW. ; and W. Baly,
medical superin.
tendent of Millbank Prison.

MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF BRABANT AND
THE ARCHDUCHESS MARIA OF AUSTRIA.
On Saturday week the Duke of Brabant, accompanied
by his father and a proper escort, met his bride, the Arch-
duchess Maria of Austria, daughter of the Archduke
Joseph Palatine of Hungary, at Verviers, on the Prussian
frontier, and conducted her in great state to Brussels.
The ,Duke de Brabant is still very young—only eighteen
Pears of age, but of tall stature, with quite a Bourbon face
of a Lous XVI., or a Duke de
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