The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

Pi'llE tIVEitPtIOL ."I"ANDAIIINe

PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.

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WANTED to RENT, a neat and comfortable
VILLA RESIDENCE, with Corti-house and Stable,
and good Garden, in the neighbourhond of West Derby or Aig-
burth. Rent not to exceed if..o per Annum.
Apply to ROBT. S. jnNSEL, Surveyor, Sweeting-street,
Liverpool.

A LADY, who receives into her Country Residence
A
(within an hour's railway distance from Liverpool) Four
Young Ladies to Educate with her Daughters', under a superior
Governess and Masters, has now a VACANCY for'FWO. As
this arrangement embraces unusual advantages, the highest
references will be expected.
For particulars apply at the Standard-office.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are willing to
receive LOANS of MONEY on the security of-the Bonds of the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, at the—late of Four Pounds
per Centum per Annum Interest, for periods of either Three,
Five, or Seven Years. Th uterest payable here or in London.
All offers to be a ssed to GEORGE WITHERS, Esq.,
Treasurer to the " erpool Docks, Dock-office, Liverpool.
By order,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, Liverpool, December 5, 1850.

LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
THE DIRECTORS of the LIVERPOOL, CROSBY,
and SOUTHPORT RAILWAY are—prepared to receive
TENDERS of LOANS, on securit Debentures and uncalled
Capital of the said Railway • . urns of not less than £2OO,
and for periods of not 1 than Three Yearr, at the rate of
Four per Cent. per Anrrtrm.
Applications to be' made or addressed to the SECRETARY
By order of the Board,
ROBT. S. MANSEL,
Sweeting-street, Liverpool, Feb. 17, 1851

Secretary

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TO PRINTERS AND STATIONERS.
THE COUNCIL of the BOROUGH of LIVER-
POOL are prenared to receive TENDEIS from Parties
willing to CONTRACT for the supply of STATIONERY and
PRINTING of the various qualities and descriptions enume-
rated in a schedule to be obtained at the Town-clerk's Office.
The Contract to continue for the ter .efTliree Years, from
the Ist March next.
Tenders, under seal, addres To the Finance Committee,"
to be left at the Town-hal!, at or before Twelve o'clock on
FRI DAY, the 28th instant.
Printed particujoi and Forms of the Tender may be ob-
tained on app 1O
WM. at the Town-clerk's Office.
SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-clerk.
February 18th, 1851.

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these alp all bright parts in the picture
has also some dark shades : there are vast m
of the labouring poor in this place, many, very many,
of whom are without any adequate means, _ either of

secular or spiritual instruction, living it
and, what is the usual accompaniment of ignorance,
living in vice. (Hear, hear.) Now, I gladly own much,
of late years, has been done to remedy this great social
evil ; new schools have been established, new churches
have been built, ana additional ministers appointed to
these new spheres of labour ; and, under God's blessin

ignorance,

Just published, price Fourpence, 52 pages,
JESUITISM : ITS PRINCIPLES D PRACTICES.
With the Oath of Secrecy, S nstructions, and Pro-
cess of Consecrating Regici(jc.s: A Lecture, delivered in
Islington Presbyterian ChurcTi, on Thursday, January 30th,
1851. by the Rev. VERNER 51. WHITE, A.B.
Liverpool: E. HOWELL, 6, Church-street. London: WHI-
TAKER and Co., -I(Ve Maria-lane. Edinburgh : OLIVER and
BOYD.

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this state of things is to exist ?" and earnestly call on the
lovers of scriptural truth to assist them in this effectual
The anniversary meeting of the subscribers and friends method of stemming the inroads of Popery and infidelity.
of the above society was held last evening, in the theatre The report closes with a hearty recognition of the valuable
of the Collegiate institution. The meeting was more and efficient services of their late senior secretary, the
fully and respectably attended than on any previous occa- Rev. C. W. Lawrence, "to whose courteous manners,
sion recently. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester unwearied zeal, and earnest solicitations, the society is
presided. The Rev. W. W. Champneys, of Whitechapel, indebted for may of its most valued friends and sup-
London, the Rev. J. Bardsley, of St. Philip's, Salford, porters in Liverpool."
and the Rev. J. Miller, of Birmingham, attended as a The Rev. J. BARDSLEY rose to move the first resolu-
deputation from the parent society. The following clergy- tion—that the report be printed. He proceeded to trace
men and gentlemen were on the platform :—Rev. Messrs. the origin of the establishment of the parochial system,
Miller, Champneys, Bardsley, Howson, Dr. M'Neile, now more than a thousand years old, and showed the
Pollock, Brewster, Ould, Falloon, Dover, Warr, Hamp- the means of spiritual instruction and superintendence,
ton, Powell, Hughes, Minton, Barry. D. D. Stewart, F. which was ample at a time when the country was exclu-
Barker, H. Jones, Cowan, Ingham, Boutflower, Groom, sively agricultural, was no longer adequate, now that we
Lawrence, Marlen, Robinson, Maynard, Anderson, had become a great manufacturing people. As an instance
O'Hara, Wright, Moeran, Hulbert, Dr. Hume, F. Parry, of the extraordinary increase in the population, and the
&c., &c., and numerous others ;T. B. Horsfall, Esq., R. character of the change that has been going on in Eng-
L. Jones, Esq., Edward Cropper, Esq., C. Bushell, sq., land, he observed that ir. the year 1700 the population cf
and H. J. Webster, Esq. We never attended a meeting Lancashire did not exceed 166,000 ; but by the present
more numerously or influentially attended. It was de- census it will be seen to be not less than two millions
dared by severe! persons present to be the " best meeting The increase in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, WaT
ever held in Liverpool." shire, aid Middlesex, had been quite as rapid
At the request of the right rev. prelate. the Rev. reverend gentlemen they went on to show the 0'
W. Pollock implored the Divine blessing on the proceed- of the society, and touched on the fact of the
ings. sessed by tee bishop of preventing the appol.
His LORDSHIP then proceeded nearly as follows: any curate whose doctrines might not be sound;
Ladies and gentlemen, before I call upon the secretary to ferred to the objections which had been taken to this, Dom.
proceed with the regular business, I wish, very briefly, to he hoped that veto would always be possessed and
express to you the great gratification I experience at being exercised as it had been on a late occasion. Speaking o'
present here this evening, and at seeing around me so the direct benefits of ehe society he said that the societ
large and so influential an assembly. I should deem it a had been the means of providing 300 incumbee.-
duty, and also a pleasure, at all times, and in all places, annual income was less than £2OO
to bear my willing, my grateful testimony to the benefits
which the Pastoral Aid Society has conferred upon the
Church of England, and, through the church, upon the
country at large. (Applause.) But there is
this diocese, in which I feel myself hoe
testimony more than at Liverpool—(.., )—nor a
any time more than at the present.—(Hear, hear.) I
say no place more than at Liverpool. Your town far
surpasses in importance all the other places in my diocese,
both as it regards its magnitude, its extent of population,
and its wealth. I look with pleasure upon its increasing
greatness, and upon the prosperity of its merchants
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