The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

The railway par
to turn thei

note to a cry that should be taken up through the length
and breadth of this Protestant empire. (Hear, and applause.)
What had been done by m misters was perfectly ridiculous, and
would be laughed to scorn; for, as Mr. Disraeli had said, the
present was a great political exigency, which was met by a
remedy purely technical,—pot a single principle had been

asserted Or vindicated, and no remedy hatcteei;offe-rel
(Applause.) Mr. Holme then analyzed the speeches made at
the late Roman Catholic meeting at the Music-hall, in order,
he said, to give his audience some faint idea of what was in
store for them if Popery should become triumphant. After
having, at very considerable length, reduced these orations into
mince-meat, lie said he had given them quotations from
speeches, not of a distant date, but words uttered not ten
days ago, and these might be taken as fair specimens of what
would be the -case should the Papists ever again achieve the
ascendancy. Before he sat down he called upon them to do
this,—to be determined to value their privileges, and at
all costs to maintain them,—to continue these spiritual
privileges to our own population, to our sister country Ireland,
to our colonies, and to the world at large. (Cheers.) Mr.
Holme, after some further remarks, introduced the lecturer,
and sat down amidst great cheering.
The Rev. Mr. CLOSE commenced by saying, that when he
received an invitation from_ the secretary of the society to de-

liver a lecture, his first feeling was to decline, for he was the
minister of a very large parish ; and besides, when he consi-
dered the names of some of the clergymen in this town, he
thought his coming to Liverpool to deliver a lecture on Popery,
was very. much like bringing coals to Newcastle ; however,
he had. given his consent, anu would at once go back to three
centuries ago. Just as the Reformation was hurling back her
superstitions upon Rome, she was enabled to make such tin
effort as shamed all the combined efforts of Protestantism.
The lecturer then went on to state, that a about
the period he referred to. two great men met at Paris,

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attention to the commercial can.

and the more efficiently to carry out the same, they repurchased
several of the lines they had previously sold—among others, the
Eastern Comities, which now pays them a rental of £2,000 a year
for the wires they retain. In this manner, in expensive street
works, and in erecting the great:office in Lothbury, £lOO,OOO

'heir receipts for commercial r

has been expended. The rent of the
is £BOO per annum. '
at that station range from

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rlsiderable telc
nd Co. for term
struments adaote

ment are prepared to receive tend
graphic lines, and have applied to Bettie
The present company having expended in
to the Voltaic battery system about £25,000 to £30,000, and
which are worked at an annual expense of £4OOO to £5OOO in
batteries, chemicals, wear and tear, and superintendence
cannot now adopt the more modern and improved systems
By Henley's instruments all this expense is saved, added t
which, even in the hands of mere boys, cen'ainty of action i
ensured
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hese important advantages, which, combined with a
new and economical system of laying wires, (which, with
Henley's instruments, are not required to be so thick,)
enable the company to adopt the low charge of one shilling for
r each message of 200 words, for any distance not exceeding 100

posed company will not only be a very popular compiny,
with proper management, a very profitable one.

Several other gentlemen commented upon the expen-
siveness of telegraphing in England, under the present
monopoly, as compared with the cost in America, one of
whom stated that. for 265., he had, during the excite-
ment in the cotton market in this country, forwarded an
important communication by the mail steamer to Boston,
and thence to New Orleans, and received a reply
in time for the next steamer to this country, the
tell upc;ti I messafe consisting of
_forty-five words, whilst he had

and back. \lr. Sansom next read a long and learner
paper on mosses, as newly classed by a German botanist
and a discussion ensued, which was proceeding when ou
reporter was compelled to leave.

The Gateshead Observer says that building of iron
ships upon the Tyne is likely to increase to a considerable
extent. Messrs. Coutts and Parkinson are laying down
the keel of another iron vessel, of about 1000 tons register,
intended for the Calcutta trade. This makes the third
iron East Indiaman, of the largest class, progressing at
the same time in their yard.

EXTENSIVE RUBBERY.-At the High Court of Justi-
ciary, on Monday, Mary Ann Jones, Ann Wright, Samuel
Main, and Thomas Jackson, were indicted for the robbery

of William Gordon, cat

of £667, in the Gra.ssma
the 12th November last
pocket-book, which was

Edinburgh, on the n

. The money- was in notes in a
abstracted from his pocket. _ The

and sentenced to ten years' transportation.
SALE OF CHURCH LIVINGS.--On Friday the Messrs.
Shuttleworth put up to auction, at the Auction Mart, the
perpetual right of presentation to the rectories of St.
Brooke and St. Evans, situated in the diocese of Exeter
and archdeaconry of Cornwail, in the county town of
Bodmin. The gross annual rent-charge of the former in
lieu of tithes amounted to £961, but which, including the
glebe, and deducting rates and taxes, was estimated at
about £lOOO per annum. The parish contained about
1730 inhabitants, and the incumbent was 63 years of age.

,er rectory

Tins was Knocked (
estimated at £470 per annum, and the incumbent N

under the reserved price.
OPINIONS or LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S PAPAL
SURE.—Nearly all the London papers are unanimous i
condemning this measure as abortive and practically
useless. Even the Times does not consider it " adeouate

to. the emergency," and the Herald is strong in its con-
demnation. The John Bull says,—" We can attach but
little value to Lord John's additional prohibition of all
territorial titles whatsoever, if the enforcement of it is
still to remain optional with the executive government.
Such a provision, to be effectual, ought to be so framed
as to place it out of the power of a pro-Popish Govern-
ment, like that of the noble lord, to give the law of the
land the go-by in favour of their Popish proteges, in con-
sideration of political services to be rendered by them in
return, with a view to the maintenance in power of the
pro-Popish faction."
LIvERPOOL PUBLIC LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND Gr'AL-

tions have been announced-to the -Committee :—Tbe
Mayor of Liverpool, £so;_ William lirown, M.P., £100:
T. B. Horsfall, Theodore W. Rathbone, Hugh ornby,
Jos. B. Yates, and J. P. Heywood, £5O each; James
Aikin, Son, and Co., Robert M'Andrew, William Rath-
bone, and John Clow, £25 each ; Samuel Holme, and the
Misses Yates (Farmfield), £2O each ; The Recorder,
£l2 12s. ; J. A. Picton, Thomas J. Kilpin, Jeffery and
Morris!), William Balleny, and W. Ridyard, £lO each ;
Thomas Fleming, Rev. Dr. Raffles, Dr. Dickinson, Alfred
King, Thomas Palmer, Thomas Bouch, Thomas Milner

and Son, Thomas Chaffers, T. F. Hampton, Miss Rhoda
M. Hope, and Miss Charlotte Hope, £5 each, &c., eze.
From the Earl of liarrowby, the Parliamentary Library of
the late Earl ; from the Committee of the Liverpool
Library, a sct of Duplicate Works, consisting of more
than 2000 vols. ; from the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks,
Dodsley's Annual Register complete, and several vols. of
the Edinburgh Review ; from John Eden, the Parker
Society's Publications from the first, the continuation of
the series to be presented also ; from John Mather, sets,
nearly complete, of the Edinburgh and Westminster
Reviews ; from the Secretary, 200 vols. ; from Edward
Fletcher, 106 vols. ; from Thos. Fleming, 50 vols. ; from
Robert M'Andrew, 32 vols. ; from the Rev. D. Janice,
30 vols.; from A. Leighton, the British Poets, in 20 vols.,
with other works ; from Thomas Sansom, a collection of
native Mosses, and other collections for a Botanical
'Museum ; from James Boardman, a model of the Port-
land
Vase, wood blocks for printing tbo figures on it, &c.
A numerous Provisional Committee, core ptising all the
literati of die town, has been organised.