The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

Insurance Notices.

INSURERS in AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
are reminded that the ATHENYEITNI FIRE OFFICE
REDUCED the Rate of Insurance upon FARMING STOCX at
Midsummer last to 3s. per cent., without the AverageClouse;
the propriety of which step is apparent from the fact of the
combined Offices having now followed the example.
The Athenaeum offers similar advantages to Manufacturers,
Warehousemen, and Merchants, upon many descriptions of
risks, both at home and abroad ; the lowest rate being
charged consistent with the actual risk incurred in each case.

CHIEF OFFICES.
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BRANCH OFFICES

Athenaeum-buildings, Princess-street, Manchester ; Tithe-
barn-street, Liverpool; 110, Grafton-street, Dublin; and
69, Muhren, Hamburg.
CAPITAL, £2.000.000.
HENRY SALTER, Manager.
Agents for Birkenhead—Messrs. H. W. CA RR & Co.

Application for Agencies, accompanied by references, to be
made to the Manager.

ANCHESTER AND LONDON LIFE
11 ASSURANCE AND LOAM ASSOCIATION, No. 77,
King-street, Manchester; No. 454, West Strand, London ;
and No. I, Cavendish•row, Rutland-square, Dublin.

TRUSTEES.
Robert Sharp Barlow, Esq., Bolton.
Philip Pleydeil Bouverie, jun., Esq., London.
John Platt, Esq., Oldham.
The business of this Association is that of-
1. Life and Survivorship Risks of every description—Civil,
Naval, or Military.
2. Loans, of and upwards, on Equitable Terms, Life
Assurance being contemporaneously effected, on ap-
proved Personal or any other sufficient Security.
3. Assurance upon Half Credit Ccale of Rates.
4. Endowments for Children, on Non-returnable or Return-

able Premiums.
5. Policies payable to Bearer.
6. Whole World Policies, being perfect securities, payable

to Bearer, or otherwise, at moderate additional isles.
7. Policies, without extra rates, to Persons in the Militia, or
others, not forfeited if killed in defending the country
from invasion.
8. Notices of the Assignment of Policies Registered.
9. Medical Referees paid by this Association.
10. Age of the Life Assured admitted on all Policies, reason-
able proof being given.
11. Stamp Duty on Policies paid by the Association.
**a Four•fiftls, or Eighty per Cent., divided, every Five
Years, amongst all Policy holders entitled to Profits.

'Secretary, Manchester—Charles Henry Minchin.
Actuary and Secretary, London—Wil iam Jas. Strickland.
Applications for Agencies to be made to the Secretary, at
either Office. •

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
ANIJ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS.
ESTABLISHED IN 1836.
Empowered by Acts of Parliament.
OFFICES.

37, CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

AND
20 * 21, POULTRY, LONDON.

TRUSTEES.
Sir Thomas Bernard Bit ch. Bart.
Adam Hodgson, Esq. Samuel H2^• :y Thompson, Esq.
DIRECTORS IN LIVERPOOL.
Chairman—Thomas Brocklebank, Esq.
Deputy-Chairmen.
Joseph C. Ewart, Esq. and Francis Haywood, Esq.
Thomas Boot' Esq. George Hall Lawrence, Esq.
B a an, Esq. Harold Littledale, Esq.
V.";"i:m '-L q. William Lowe, Esq.
Ceorge Ct tr^,- Esq. Alexander Macgregor, Esq.
Tiiorn:s Esq. John Marriott, Esq.
Francis A. llamiliou, Esq. !Thomas &liar, Esq.
Robert Esq. Charles Saunders, Eaq.
George Hot,; Esq. John Swainson, Esq..
Hugh Hornlty, Esq. iJames Aspinoll Tobin, Esq.
Secretary—Swinton Boult, Esq.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON.
Chairman—Matthew Forster, Esq.
Deputy-Chairman—George Frederick Young, Esq.
Edward Barnard, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.
William Brown, Esq., M.P. Hon. F. Ponsonby.
Sir Wm. P. de Bathe, Bart. John Ranking, Esq.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P. Edward Thompson, Esq.
Frederick Harrison, Esq. Swinton Boult, Esq., Secretary
Donald Larnach, Esq. to the Company.
Resident .Secretary—Beniamin Henderson, ESQ.
Auditors—Thomas Buddicom Blackburne, Esq., and Daniel
James, Esq.
CONSTITUTION.
Liability of the entire body of Shareholders unlimited.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
PROPERTY INSURED AGAINST Loss OR DAMAGE BY FIRE
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE BRITISH COLONIES, AND
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
The Premiums received
In 1837 were £11,987 in 1842, £23,804.
In 1847, £49,402 in 1852, £98,655.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
LOANS GRANTED ON LIFE AND REVERSIONARY
INTERESTS.
INSURANCE EFFECTED IN ALL ITS BRANCHES,
Including the issuing of Policies the premiums on which may
cease after a atipula'ed number of payments, varying from 4-
to 20 years; and others providing for the sum insured being
paid at a given date. or sooner in the event of death.
ANNUITIES, IMMEDIATE OR DEFERRED.
POLICIES ISSUED FREE OF STAMP DUTY.
Peculiar advantages are afforded the Assured, residence in
the Australian Colonies being allowed, without payment of
extra Premium, and great facilities are afforded in the pay-
ment of Renewal Premiums through the several Agencies
throughout the Colonies. Permission is also granted the
Assured to reside in the United States of America at the ordi-
nary Rate of Premium, and the license as to travel has been
greatly extended.
Moderate Rates for the East Indies and Foreign Countries.
The Premiums received on Life Policies amounted
In 1837 to £1,755 it 1812 to £3,163.
In 1847 to £21.197 in 1852 to £50,800.
THE BONUSeS OF THE COMPANY ARE GUARANTEED
WHEN THE POLICIES ARE ISSUED.
Persons whose Fire Policies with this Company expire on
the 25th instant, are respectfully reminded that receipts for
the renewal of the same will be found at the Head Offices in
Lirerpool and London, and in the hands of the respective
Agents; and those who, preferring the security offered by
this Company, may desire to remove their Insurance, are
informed that no expense will be keit:red by such removal.
Further particulars maybe had on &i-,!'cation at the Offices,
37, CASTLE-STREE.', Liverpool; ant, 20 and 21, Poultry,
,
London; or to env r, ' • i.

SHIN ON Secretary to ibe Company.
BENJ. H RNOLRSON, Resident Secretary, London.
AGENT FOR EIRKRNHEAD :
Mr. ROBERT HUGHES, Brandon-street, Hamilton-square
December, 1853.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY
OF CANADA.

ROTiCd is hereby given, that the Directors have made a
c 3.11 or .£2 10s. on each and every Share of the A series of the
Company, and a call of 10 per cent. on each class of the De-
beMures of the Company, payable at the Bank of Messrs.
GLYN, MILLS, and Co., Lombard-street, London. The said
crl:s are due on MONDAY, the 6th of February, 1854. If not
paid on or before that date, interest at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum will be charged on those in arrear. Shareholders
have the power of paying up the whole or a portion of their
Shares in full, and intere_t at the ntte of 6 per cent. per
annum will be allowed on all sums paid in anticipation of calls.
The Directors itrther give Notice, that, by a recent Order
in Council of the Government of Cursda, the Debentures of
the Province will be issued in January next to those Sl' -e-
-holders who shall pay to Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. e 5 per
Share (that is, £2 lOs. per Share in addition '0 the ca'l now
advertised) on each of their Shares, and in full on the Deben-
tures of the Province to which such Shares are entitled.
By order of the Board,
WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Secretary.
2, Leadenhall-street, London, Dec. 3, 1853.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY
OF CANADA—CONVERTED QUEBEC and RICH-
MOND and ST. LAWRENCE and ATLANTIC PAID-UP-
IN-FULL SHARES.—Notice is hereby given, that the IN-
TEREST, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, accruing on
these shares up to the 31st Deceml.er, 1853, will be PAYABLE
at the bank of Messrs. Glyn, Milk, and Co., 67, Lombard.
street, on and after Monday, the 9th January, 1854. Such
holders in these stocks as have already had their shares con-
verted into grand Trunk paid-up-in-full shares will please
send them to this office on or after Monday, the 2nd of
January. The shares will then be registered in the books of
the Grand Trunk Company at the London office, and the cer-
tificates will be returned to the proprietors with warrants for
the interest due.
oft The paid-up-in-full shares of the Quebec and Richmond and

antic Companies not yet sent in for con
ng. forwarded to this office, be exchange
p in-full Grand Trunk shares, and war
ie on them will, together with th
on, and after the 9th January

for converted paid
rants for the interest

-By order of the B..nard,
WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Secretary
:es of the Grand Trunk Railway Cotopany of Canada
2, Lea.denhtol-str.eett LoAd.9ll) PET, 16, U.5)3i,

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TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 20,1853,

BEFORE we shall again address our readers,
the glad season of CHRISTMAS will have commenced,
and we therefore take the present opportunity of
offering a few remarks as to the obvious duties
which ought not to be neglected. This is one of
the especial festivals of the Christian Church,
instituted to commemorate the birth into the world
of the SAVIOUR of mankind, and, by common con-
sent, sanctioned by long practice, is devoted to
general festivity, the union of families and friends,
and the endeavour to realise the message of the
the angels to the shepherds that the glad tidings
should be to all people. Every return of the
season should remind us of our Christian duties,
and those whom Providence has blessed with the
means should remember that there can be no true
joy for them, if the poor, whom they have always
with. them, are forgotten in the distribution of
good gifts. Let it also bo horse in mind that it
is the time for general reconciliation and forgive-
ness of all injuries one to another, and that, if
this duty be performed, the new year will be com-
menced with more of that mutual good will and
friendly reeling which it was one of the special
objects of our Savroun to promote. We appeal to
many who need no arguments to enforce the truths
so readily comprehended, and in the full confidence
that, while the privileges are enjoyed, the duties
will be performed, we conclude by wishing to all
our readers the enjoyment of

A. MERRY CHRISTMAS

WE are now beginning to experience something
more of the difficulties which it was predicted
would result from the strong infusion of the demo-
cratic element into the Constitution, through the
operations of the Reform Act. In the good old
Tory times, so much maligned by modern Liberals,
and during which England rose to her culminating
point of national greatness, the country had the
advantage of a responsible head, and a change of
Administration was an event rare enough to create
a more than ordinary sensation. But during the
last twenty years England has witnessed more
Ministerial changes than perhaps during any pre-
vious half century, and now it seems difficult to
get over more than one session of Parliament
without a move in the Cabinet which breaks up all
previous arrangements, and renders some new
combination necessary in the modern craft of
statesmanship. It was only two years ago,—in
December, 1851,—that Lord PALMERSTON was
unceremoniously dismissed from the office of
Foreign Secretary, on the eve of Lord JouN
RUSSELL'S proposal for a new Reform Bill, and the
excuse made was that he had acted too indepen-
dently, and had recognised the coup d'etat of
LOUIS NAPOLEON without consulting his col-
leagues; but not a word was said about his objec-
tions to the RUSSELL scheme of Reform ; so that
the Radicals continued to believe him to be the very
pink of Liberalism. The foreign excuse answered
the purpose. Lord JOHN made his promised pro-
posal_ for a new Reform Bill ; but the scheme :ell
from hi_ 'ips still-born, exciting laughter and con-
tempt rather than serious opposition. The Ministry
fell, and the Earl of DERBY formed a Conservative
Administration. In December, 1852, the Conser-
vative. Government was defeated through the
treachery of the PEELITES, and Lord PALMERSTON
once more accepted °lnce, though in a new capacity,
with the very colleague who had previously dis-
missed him. Another year has passed, and now in
December, 1853, and while the promise it- still

unperformed of another new Reform Bill by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, Lord PAL3IERSTON has once more
resigned, and is now a gentleman at ease to spend
his Christmas without the cares of office. The
resignation took place as far back as Wednesday
last, but it was not untie Friday that the public
were made acquainted with the fact, and then only
through two of the London morning papers, both of
which were profuse in their assertions of the sole
causebeing his objections to the proposed new Reform
Bill. The over-carefulness with which the denial of
differences on foreign affairs having had anything
to do with the resignation was asserted, has led to
the not unnatural suspicion that the real cause is a
dispute in the Cabinet with reference to the course
to be pursued in the quarrel
and it will need the assertion of a more

Turkey

truthful authority than the
everything; by turns, and n(

,etween Russia and

Times, which has been

long, to convince

he intelligent portion of the British public :that

Lord PALMERSTON an

any one point of British

policy, or that ti

,e pressure from withoul, a all

Notion

S.ecretary, It is, however,

amusing to witness the- readiness with which the
Times allows its ancient grudge against the ex-
Minister to appear, by reiterations of the assertion
that, whatever may have been. Lord PALMERSTON'S
ultra-Liberalism in foreign affairs, he has no such
tendencies in home politics,.and that all the specu-
lations on his support indulged by English Radicals
were an utter delusion.

Let us, however, for the: sake of argument,
assume the version which has.been so industriously
and semi-officially put forwardlto be the correct one,
and it may afford us a subject of congratulation
amidst the chaos of political parties. It affords a
key to the solution of the watery so industriously
concealed two years ago, and may, perhaps, be
attended with similar results. There is an old
saying, that rats will leave a falling house, and it
may be that Lord PALMERSTON, foreseeing the
defeat of Lord JOHN RUSSELL on his new scheme
of Reform, is willing ta be- in readiness to take
advantage of the chapter of accidents when the ill-
assorted coalition shall experience its inevitable
fate of falling to pieces like a rope of sand. In
the event of such a catastrophe, it would be diffi-
cult to say what new combination would be
attempted, though every real Englishman would
gladly hail such an event as at least a relief. It is
clear that, with the present House of Commons, a
restoration of the Cabinet of the Earl of DERBY
would afford no better prospect than a year since,
when they found themselves in a minority, but it
may be that some few who then sold their prin-
ciples for place may have since discovered their
mistake, have grown wiser by experience of the
strange associates with which they found them-
selves connected, and become willing to retrace
their steps, in order, if possible, to regain the height
from which they have fallen. It may be that some
who then held aloof from supporting an avowedly
Conservative Ministry will, see the necessity of
carrying on the QUEEN'S Government with some
reference to Constitutional principles, and forego
their several individual crotchets, in order that
the important interests of Great Britain may not
be quite at the mercy of political charlatans,
bidding for popularity by concessions to democracy.
It would be premature just now to enter into
speculations as to probable or possible Ministries,
but we can imagine there are many true Conser-
vatives who would not object to see the hands of
the Earl of DERBY, as Premier, strengthened by
the accession of Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. SIDNEY
HERBERT, and even, perhaps, of Lord PALMER-
STON, whose objections to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
Reform schemes would prove a recommendation.
Political treachery has almost destroyed all con-
fidence in public men, and therefore we cannot
hope to see such a Cabinet as would realise our
ideas of what an English Government should be ;
but at least some approach to it might be made
until :he time when the electoral body shall show
:WT• due appreciation of their principles by return-
ing- Conservative representatives.

The Morning Post of Saturday , which may be
considered the mouthpiece of Lord PALMERSTON, II
entered into an elaborate denial of the statements
made by The Times, without in reality denying the
assertion that the main cause of the resignation
was to be attributed to the difference of opinion as
to the terms of the new Reform Bill. It carefully
avoided any allusion to Foreign affairs, and con-
fined the refutation to those details in which the
ministerial organ so freely indulged. Lord PAL•
MERSTON did not from the first object to all re-
form ; he was willing to go so far, but would not
be dragged through the mire in which Lord JOHN
RUSSELL was anxious to lead him, particularly as,
his position of Home Secretary, the duty devolved
upon him to support, and carry out the details of
the measure. A just complaint is made that The
Times should be enabled to divulge the secrets of
the Cabinet, by its statements of the Dill having
been referred to a committee of five ministers, of
which Lord PALMERSTON was one ; and a further
complaint that such false charges should be so
positively stated, although several weeks must
elapse before Lord PALMERSTON will have the
opportunity of entering into any explanation before
the only competent tribunal—the Commons House
of Parliament.

On Thursday Lord PALMERSTON left London on
a visit to the Marquis of LAF SDOWNE, at his seat,
in IVllshire ; and on Saturday reports were cur-
rent that the latter nobleman also contemplated
resignation. The rumour may have originated in
the visit of Lord PALMERSTON, but, whether true
or false, is not of so much consequence as some
people would be inclined to imagine. The Marquis
of LANSDOWNE enjoys only the nominal position of
a seat in the Cabinet ; he has no office to vacate ;
no other than nominal duties to perform, such as
giving " advice gratis," and his removal would
involve no other change than an order at the
Council-office not to place a seat at the Board for
Lord LANSDOWNE.

The vacancy in the Home-office by the retire-
ment of Lord PALMERSTON- was, it is said,
offered to Lord JOHN ItussELL, whose previous
position having been merely nominal, rendered
such an appointment by no means unlikely. It
appears, however, that he prefers to serve with
Lord ABERDEEN as a volunteer, rather than
under him as Home Secretary ; and, therefore,
refused the office, which has since been offered
to Sir GEORGE GREY. It must not be sup-
posed, however, that the Ministerial difficulty is so
easily got over. Among the various contrarieties
which made up the Coalition Cabinet, it was gene-
rally admitted that Lord PALMERSTON was by far
the ablest Minister ; and the inference is obvious,
that if with his assistance they could barely keep
together, his separation must be fatal to their
longer continuance ;n office. The instance of two
years ago is almost a parallel case, with this
striking difference, that the Conservatives form now
a much more powerful minority than they did at
that time, and with, nothing to recommend the
present Ministry to popular favour in their policy
either at home or abroad, we may reasonably calcu-
late upon soon being able to make the gratifying
announcement of the resignation of the whole
Cabinet.

IF it were possible to admit the necessity or
propriety of any change being made 'n the system
of Representation, even accord;ng to the views
which have been mt forth by the organs of Minis-
terial policy, we should find that the Conservatives
have the least reason to raise any objections from
reasons of party interests. Au alteration that
would diminish the small boroughs and augment
the county electors and county representatives,
would considerably add to the strength of the
Conservative party in he House of Commons ;
and should this be the dritl, of the measure now in
embryo, it may be Lord JOHN RJSSELL'S repentant
efforts to repair some of the miscidef which .'ais
whole political I;fe has been spent in perpetrating.
It would be an evidence of his tact, -oecause io
Radical could with consistency oppose a scheme
for which he has been always insisting, though it
may be but a modification of his demand for an

extension of the suffrage and electoral districts
The Constitution would indeed be in safer hands
than it is now, when the preponderance rests with
of small towns, who sell their f
to the highest bidder, and know no other principles
than their pecuniary interests. It was this

the vot

ranchise

cetrayal

it important trust which

threatened disfranchisement: which , weuld break
up the strong-holds- of. Whiggery and pocket in-
fluence. It' is the confident belief of many of the
Conservatives that:• a reform in the direction of
enlarging the constituencies, by reducing the limit
of qualification for county voters, and giving the
additional representation• to. populous districts,
would prove an- advantage ;, the only drawback to
which would he the miSchievons precedent of
making changes in the system of representation
without an inevitable necessity. A further im-
provement might be the disfranchisement of those
Irish constituencies under the influence or intimi-
dation of Romanist priests,, a measure which would
of itself help to purify the House of Commons.
It is, however, perhaps-useless to speculate on any
change, now that-the Coalition Cabinet has com-
menced dropping: to pieces; and further, for the
simple reason that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
utterly failed in: getting up any pressure from
without, to intimidate the House of Lords into
giving their consent to his. Bill.

WE stated last week, upon the authority of the
Albion, that the petition against the return of
Messrs. HORSFALL and LIDDELL had been with-
drawn, and the report has since been confirmed.
Our radical contemporaries have laboured hard to
multiply reasons for this obvious acknowledg-
ment of defeat, but have studiously concealed the
only true cause—that the- petitioners had no case.
The Liverpool limes had the honesty to acknow-
ledge that our representatives were free from all
suspicion of blame, a fact with which every elec-
tor was long previously acquainted, for it is idle
to suppose that even the most sanguinary Radical
ever imagined that the petition had the slightest
chance of success. It was only presented in order
to carry out a rash threat made by Mr. ROBEIZT-
SON GLADSTONE ; and, with a full conviction that
it must involve the parties to it in heavy costs, for
making charges which they knew to be frivolous
and vexatious, the first opportunity was gladly
seized upon to retire from the foolish project. We
are amused with vague threats about the disfran-
chisement of the Freemen of Liverpool ; but their
character for electoral purity received so trium-
phant a vindication in the protracted investigation
into the election of Messrs. TURNER. and MACKEN-
m, that the legislature would never sanction so
ruthless a violation of constitutional rights. Such
a measure would not, however, serve the turn of
the Radicals, for at the last election there was a
large majority of Conservatives, independent of the
votes of the Freemen.

IT is one of the most pleasing facts which we
learn from English history, that our greatness as a
nation commenced with the Reformation of the
Church of England, and has since kept almost a
sirogar rate of progress with that of the perform-
ance of our duties, as the great head and centre of
Christianity. Before the reign ofQueen ELIZABETH,
the political position of Great Britain was of little,
if any, more importance than the space which she
occupies on the map of Europe. The glorious
work of the restoration of the national faith to its
primitive purity had been commenced, but its
progress had been suddenly checked by the bigotry
of the first MARY, and it was not until her sister,
the maiden Queen, was seated upon the throne,
that the Reformation became an accomplished fact.
From that time England commenced her career of
commercial greatness, confirmed and strengthened
by her naval and ;military prowess, until, at the
close of the last long war, she had attained the
topmost pinnacle, and reached a height of national
supremacy to which all history presents no parallel.
It would, indeed, appear that she had been in-
trusted with the mighty mission of awakening the ,
attention of the world to a knowledge of Divine
truth, and, like :,he chosen family under the fast
disnensit'ukn, been appointed the witness and keeper
of lloly ti,e fountain of civilisation, and the
great bulwark against error and superstition. In
the Ailillment of the important duties with which
she w3is intrusted; 71u:, ji,tle was done so long as
her deliverance of the message to the heathen
was confined to isolated missionary efforts ; but
the glorious work- was commenced ir earnest when,
by the establishment of the Colonial Episcopate,
the Church began really to lengthen her cords and
strengthen her stakes by the legitimatl* recognised
means of the three orders—Bishops, Prieete, and
Deacons. It is more than fifty years since the
first step was taken in our North American
Colonies ; but within the last twenty years the
greatest progress has been made, owing chiefly to
the munificence of a few private individuals, who
responded to the call of the late Primate, with a
liberality worthy of the days when our cathedrals
were built and endowed. In 1787, the bishopric
of Nova Scotia was founded ; in 1793, that of
Quebec ; in 1:14, Calcutta ; and in 1824, Jamaica
and Davbadoes. But since 1835, less than nine-
teen years, no fewer than twenty-three Colonial
Bichoprics have been founded, comprising the vast
possessions of England in North America, the
West Indies, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and
i New Zealand.

But not only has such rapid progress been made
yin what may be called the materials for carrying
out the high destiny of England, but the choice of
those men who have been appointed to the Colonial
Dioceses has been most happy. With new and
arduous duties to perform, totally dissimilar from
all previous experience, and involving fatigue
and labour of no ordinary kind, the majority
have proved themselves eminently fitted for them
by the possession of those gifts and graces which
could alone render their mission successful. Our
own Bench of Bishops, which is now equalled in
number by those of the colonies, does not present
an array of more piety, more zeal, more learning,
and more determination to accomplish the task
before them, than do the pioneers of christianity
and civilisation who have gone forth to plant the
Church in the wilderness, and spread the glad-
tidings of salvation among the ryots of India
and the sealers 5.1 :ho back woods, until the pro-

phecy shall be realised, that " The earth shall be
fell of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters
cover the seas." Of ar she progress which is
boasted by modern intelligence, none is so truly
satisfactory, none has been so really successful, as
the establishment and extension of :he Colonial
Episcopate, and it is to be hoped that exertions
will not be spared until every spot which owns the
sway of England's Sovereign will also enjoy the
supervision of such men as nave already been
chosen to carry the Jlessings of the Church of
England to the farthest corners of the earth.

HANDEL'S MESSIIII.—The demands for tickets for the
Oratorio at the Philharmonic Hall, this evening, have been
so numerous that very few, if any, remain to be disposed
of. This musical testimonial to Mr. Sadlow will be one of
the events of the year.
ST. PETER'S CuiauEs.—The subscription in behalf of
the fund for the restoration of the chimes of St. Peter's
Cbr”ch, has so far progressed that the committee have
applied for tenders to perform the work. Further aid is,
however, required to cover the anticipated expenditure.
HOLMES' BANS.—In our last appeared a notice, by
order of the Governor, ordering the holders of Holmes'

notes held by each, on or before inursuay inquiry
we find that the return made to the bank and branches

0: making a total of £25,567 of notes

his over-Issue

ities to upwards of £15,000;