The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

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Ir. J. H. Webster

ith reluctance that I
ur placing the name of " Georn
Icilman," in the list of the " Protestant Defc
but it seem s, from the remarks you make on ins...
ing my explanatory note in the Standard of yesterday, to t

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Holt, common

" It would app.-_
to put it, that I. Georg,
.. councilman, some tim,
ago had a circular letter addressed to me, intima'ing that
unless I made a reply to the contrary, my name would be se
down in the list of the committee; and that, in fact, I bac
given a silent approval of the insertion. Such is the impres
sion that your observations would naturally convey to fin
mind of the reader.

After the full explanation and positive denial given per-
sonally to you, that I had received no such letter, note, or
intimation of any kind whatever relating to the subject, this
does not appear very candid on your part.
In conclusion, I beg to state that I did not sign the requi-
sition to the Mayor at all, and that the name of George Holt
attached to it is not mine; and to repeat that I did not receive
any note from you or any other party. on the subject, and that
your insertion_of my name and office is unauthorised by me.

"One would hope that the defence of Protestantism, to th
principles of which I am so unfeignedly attached, does no
depend upon advocacy of this kind.—Your obedient servant

" Mr. H. J. Webster,
Hon. Sec. of the Protestant Defence Committ

BRITISH EMIGRANT'S FRIENDLY SOCIETY

On Thursday, a meeting of the originators of tl
Friends' Emigrant Society was held in the

taken With reference to the establishment of an Emigrants
Home in Liverpool. The attendance was rather scanty
Among those present we noticed Wm. Brown, Esq., M.P.
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq.. M.P., James Aikin, Esq., Glad
stone, Esq., Rev. Dr. Rattles
Mr. BROWN, M.P., pm
objects of the meeting

led, and briefly explained the
ling in very pointed terms to the
reat necessity which exists for an institution such as the
Originators of the meeting then present contemplated.
The SECRETARY pro tem. (Mr. Thomas Cook) read a report
of the committee which had been appointed at a preliminary
meeting held in October last. The report set out by stating
that for some time past the public mind had been called to the
friendless state of emigrants embarking at Liverpool, but,
notwithstanding the pressing importance of the matter, no-
thing had yet been done. A private meeting had been held
about twelve months ago, but, owing to the existence of a
difference of opinion, nothing to remedy the evils compisined
of had been effected, For four years the Philadelphia Emi-
grant Friends' Society had an agent in Liverpool, but the
utility of that
_agency was limited. The report then detailed

derived f

THE COLUMN OF
AMtnre anb 3ortirulture.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
This society met on the evening of Friday week, in the
Royal Institution, and seldom has there been a meeting
more interesting or better attended; The President oc-
cupied the chair. James Smith. Esq., of Jordan•hill,
F.R.S.S., L. and E., was elected a corresponding mem-
ber, and to the same class of mbership were H. C.
Mayor, MA., Fellow

received.

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