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alone, no fewer than.ll2,ooo copies of the Scriptures hac
dicnoced of ositlyin fha weir,» Flarnnnefwa+o,l +llg

ntages of the society not oni
for they had the Ei

at home, but to

.-orld at fa

every language, and without such aid no missions could
be useful. He implored those present to:befriend the in-
stitution as the purest and holiest of any in existence.

Chapel, seconded the resolution. Thrmigh the blessing
of Gott they had been enabled to distribute His word in
many parts of the world. He heartily joined his protest-
ant brethren of the Church of England in the good work,
and said that all who regarded the good of the country,
and desired that idolatry should be put down, would give

The resolution was unanimously carried
The Rev. Mr. CARTER, Chaplain of the Borough Gaol
moved, after an appropriate address, a resolutior
effect that the general aspect of affairs, the state
country, the increased efforts of popery, the progre
education, and the facilities afforded for the circulation of
the sacred volume, called loudly upon all the friends'of
the society for individual and collective exertion.
Mr. J. T. BOURN2 (of the parent society, and latterly
from South Africa) seconded the resolution. He charac-
terised the Liverpool Bible Society as the stablest, the
firmest, and the most energetic of any in the kingdom.
He had long been absent from them in a southern clime

to the

d. this

ame determination to apply all the

.esources of his mit

to promote the advancement of the society. God had,
during the past year, poured his blessings most abundantly
upon them. The society had received in the gross, last
year, £ll7,ooo—the largest fund yet entrusted to them by
the Christian public. The issue of Bibles the year before
last had been a million and a half, and last year 1,400,000.
Thus, within these two years, more than two millions of
persons had been taught the means of being rescued from
Satan to God, and made heirs of eternal salvation. Many
high and honourable men, including many of the bishops,
had joined and aided them ; and he was delighted to hear
Sir R. Peel, at the recent meeting at Tamworth, so
warmly and sincerely espouse -their cause, his convict;on
apparently being that England was: destined to be the
grand fulcrum on which the world was to be evangelized.
had assuredly the strongest reasons to take courage
ad to make new exertions for the future.

from the past,
The political elements abr
hostilities amongst the natic
doubly imperative
IVli. BROX

, and the threatenings of
is, rendered such a course

entered into a detail of some part of his
journeys in the Cape of Good Hope and South Africa,
and concluded with an eloquent appeal to those who know
and feel the truth, to come forward and assist the society in
visiting- the district, and distributing the word of God
the poor and destitute. The Doxology was then

3ourorE stated that he

id give further informa-

tion as to his journey at subsequent m
will be held this evening, for St.
Hackie's-hey Schools.

eetings, one of which
Paul's district, in

DRESS CONCERT OF THE

LIVERPOOL

PHILHARMONIC SOCIFXY,LAST NIGHT

So immediately after the attraction of Jenny Lind's
performances at the Theatre Royal, it was scarcely to be
expected that even the above• society, liberal as its
committee.are in their efforts to provide their subscribers
with every musical treat within their reach, would have
attempted, or could have succeeded in providing one of
so recherche and interesting a character. Last week, we
had the charming and famous nightingale, with Lumley's
operatic torps, in their most admired pieces. Yesterday
evening, we had the opportunity of comparing with them
the Covent Garden company,—of comparing Grisi with
the new rival to her throne ; of assuring ourselves of the
superiority of Mario over the new tenor, Gardoni, of lis-
tening to the wonderful tones of Alboni, and hearing Cor-
bari, Thmburini, and Signor Rovere, one of the best
buffos of his day. The additional attraction of an instru-
mentalist of no ordinary talent in the person of Mr.
Lindsay Slopyr was announced, but he did not appear.

A more splendid audience we never saw met to-w- elcome
any performers than those assembled in the Collegiate
Institution on this occasion. Every part of the institution
was crowded—almost inconveniently so, —a proof at once
of the numerical strength of the society and the taste of
its members. Nor were they fated to be disappointed of
their anticipations. The overture from " Anacreon," by
Cherubini, was finely played ; after which, a recititive
and quartette, from Bianca and Faliero," announced
for the first piece of part 2nd, was swag by Mille. Alboni,
Grisi, Mario, and Tamburini, and very finely sung. An