The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT PROJECT.

The London Times, of Friday last, contained a notice
of application to parliament, in the ensuing session, for
its sanction to one of the most comprehensive and im-
portant projects recently brought before the public.
The project in question, for the carrying out of which
a company is formed, of which Messrs. Mallaby, Towns-
end, and Newall, of Birkenhead and a London firm,
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are the solicitors, is styled the National Gas Association,
and proposes to take powers to supply the entire metro-
politan district, including the towns and villages round
for a distance of seven to ten miles. To enable them to
do this, they propose the erection of gasometers, the
laying down of pipes, &c., in and through such parishes
and places as may be found necessary ; and to take
power to contract with the existing incorporated gas
companies, to supply them with gas, or for the entire
purchase of their works and rights and privileges. The

most important and novel feature of the unut.
the proNsal to take powers and lay pipes from the me-
tropolis northwards, taking apparently the direction of
the London and and Birmingham Railway, through the
counties of Hereford, Bedford, Buckingham, and North-
ampton, from which county it pursues the route of the
Midland Railway, through the counties of Leicester and
Derby, terminating at Normanton, in the latter county,
a place two miles west of Derby, which is intersected by
the Birmingham and Derby Railway. By a paragraph
in another part of our paper, it will be seen that reparts

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are in circulation that Companies are being formed (of
which this is perhaps one) for the manufacture of gas at
the pit-mouths, and its conveyance by pipes laid down
along the lines of railway to the various large towns ;
and that water, both fresh and salt, is to he similarly
transported. We have heard, but cannot vouch for the
lact,that the projector and head of the scheme of which we

have given the outline from the parliamentary notice, is
Mr. Wm. Jackson, our enterprising neighbour of Bir-
kenhead. Perhaps this may throw. some light upon
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SERMON IN AID OF THE BLUE COAT

HOSPITAL.

On Sunday forenoon, David Hodgson, Esq., the new
mayor for this borough, and his friends, atrended (in ac-
cordance with annual custom) divine service at St. Pe-
ter's Church, the collection being in aid of the funds of
that excellent and long-established charity, the Blue-
Coat School. The company began to assemble at the
Town-hall soon after ten o'clock, and shortly before eleven
walked in procession to the place of worship, preceded by
the interesting children of the establishment, and the mu-
nicipal officers having the regalia. About a hundred gen-
tlemen followed the Mayor, amongst whom we noticed
the following members of the corporation, and others :
Aldermen Horsfall, Bramley-Moore, Crooke, Bushby,
Sands, Brancker, Leigh, Molyneux, and Griffith. Mr.
F. Shand, Mr. Holt, Mr. Glazebrook, Captain Gregg, (of
the staff department,) Mr. Barton, Mr. Reid, Mr. Wm.
Birkett, Mr. Robt. Horsfall, Mr. P. Wright, (Clerk of
the Peace,) Mr. Plumpton, Mr. Boyden, Mr. Jno. Law-
rence, Mr. Webster, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Benn, Mr.
S. Staniforth, Mr. Brooke, (Excise Solicitor,) Mr. R. B.
Hill, Mr. J. Buck Lloyd, Mr. Parker, Mr. Aspinall,
the Rev. Rectors Brooks and Campbell, Mr. Jas. Law-
rence, the Rev. Mr. Monk, Mr. Tinne, Mr. Csp-rie, the
Rev. Mr. Hornby, Mr. Littledale, Mr. T. Bold, and
others.

Although the day was somewhat unfavourable, it being
wet underfoot, a large concourse of people surrounded
and accompanied the procession, in the route to and in
Church-street, where others also joined it.
Prayers were impressively read by the Rev. Mr. Hal-
ton, the curate; and before the communion and the ser-
mon, appropriate hymns were affectingly sung by the
children of the schuol, joined by the congregation, to
whom printed copies were distributed.
An appropriate discourse was preached by the Rev.
Rector Brooks, founded on the 35th verse of 20th chap.
of the Acts. " I have shewed you all things, how that so
labouring, ye ought to support the weak, and to remember
the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ' It is more
blessed to give than to receive.'"
The preacher dwelt on the meek, generous, forgiving,
and ever alleviating character of the Saviour towards the
human race (whose semblance he bad taken) in their va-
rious sufferings and afflictions ; and drew a strong paral-
lel of the conduct which the community who professed to
follow him, so far as their imperfect nature would allow,
ought to pursue—in not aiding the less fortunate in their
physical wants, but in instructing and teaching them the
way unto the salvation of their immortal souls. At the
close be made a more direct and affecting appeal in behalf
of the children whose benefit he was teat day the advo-
cate. The institution was the oldest in the town, having
been established 137 years ago, and during that period
thousands had been instructed to become not only useful
members of society, but, from the Christian education
they received, to inherit hopes of a glorious immortality.
He also stated that, out of 350 children now brought up
in the school, the whole, with the exception of four, were
more or less orphans; and, after stating that the funds
had latterly decreased, he concluded by impressing upon
his hearers the words of the text, " It is more blessed to
give than to receive."

- A collection was then made, and the sum of £65 4s. 4id
was raised in b,ehalf of this noble charity. This sum in-
cludes a donation from the Mayor, which, we are informed
upon good authority, was equal to, if not greater than
the auto usually contributed by his predecessors.

THE IRISH SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of the
Bristol Auxiliary of this excellent, and at the present
eventful period,. invaluable society was held last week.
The deputation consisted of Dr. M'Caul, the Revds. W.
Herbert, F. C. Ewald,. and T. Nolan,
The barrow used by Sir Robert Peel, on the occasion of
turning over the first sod of the Trent Valley Railway,
was designed by Mr. Arthur Hill Holme, of this town.
It was a very beautiful, indeed magnificent, piece of
workmanship, richly and elaborately carved, and cost, it is
said, considerably upwards of forty pounds. After the
interesting ceremony, for which the barrow was " built,"
was performed, Sir Robert caused it to be placed amongst
his collection of valuable curiosities at Drayton Manor.
The barrow was made of mahogany by Messrs. S. and J.
Holme, of this town.
THE PAPAL STATES.—Extract of a letter dated An-
cona, 18th September : —" The church festivals having
just terminated in commemoration of the pretended
racle performed by a painting of the Madonna in the ca-
thedral church of this town, in opening and moving its

eyes, I send you for publication, if you think proper, with
the Cardinal's pastoral invitation to this diocese on this
wonderful miracle. My object in addressing you on this
subject, though an Italian and a Catholic, is to show that
we are not all blinded by the superstition with which our
priests would overwhelm our people. With much morti-
fication, I shall see this subject discussed by the free and
enlightened press of Europe tthrough many channels), to
the disgrace and degradation of my own country ; but pray
allow this letter to appear, as the protest of one, in the
name of many nurturing the same sentiments, which must
for the present remain buried in our own bosoms, or other-
wise expose ourselves to persecution,—sentiments agree-
able to the true first faith of our fathers, and opposed to
the present superstitious veneration of images with its
accompaniment of debasing credulity and tendency to
ignorance and tyranny. My handwriting is disguised and