The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

CIVIC PROCESSION TO ST. PETER'S.

It being known that according to the-revived custom of
late years, our newly-elected chief magistrate, James
Lawrence, Esq., would proceed with his friends, and the
civic officers, from the Town-hall, on Sunday morning, to
attend divihe service at St. Peter's Church, where a sermon
was to be preached in behalf of that old and excellent in-
stitution, the Blue Coat Hospital,—a number of our most
respectable and wealthy citizens, and residents in the
neighbourhood, assembled in the council chamber to ac-
company his Worship, some arriving in carriages, and
others on foot, for about an hour before the time of start-
ing. At about a quarter before 11 o'clock, the procession
moved, by the usual route, along Castle-street and Lord-
street, in the presence of an immense assemblage of per-
sons. It was preceded by the Blue Coat boys : the town's
officers, bearing the regalia followed, and after them the
Mayor, Town-clerk, three officers in full military cos-
tume, clergymen, &c., and finally a long train of gentle-
men walking three-and -three. The bearers of the civic
regalia wore new cloaks of fine blue cloth, bound round
the two capes with gold lice, and with the Liver hand-
somely embroidered in bullion in front at each side. They
proceeded somewhat slowly, and formed a very interesting
spectacle, reminding the spectator of what he had read or
seen of the municipal demonstrations and dignity in olden
times.

Amongst those who joined the procession or were in
attendance at the hall, we observed Messrs. James Aspi-
nall, G. H. Lawrence, Bromley-Moore, D. King,
Fletcher, Rogers, Jacques Myers, H. Holmes, Brook,
James E. Whitelegg, T. Bold, James Phillips, Robert
Gill, Mulleneux, Carter, Toulmin, the Rev. Rector
Campbell, Messrs. Turner, (bank,) Hutchinson, (late
Churchwarden,) Robinson, Royden, S. Holme, G. G.
Hornby, Cooper, Houghton, Barton, R. Horsfall, Wil-
kinson, Pemberton, Miles Barton, Dr. Grindrod, Sir J.
Walmsleyf the late Mayor, Sir T. Brancker, Messrs. P.
Wright, R. L. Jones, Adam Norris, Adam Hodgson,
Raymond Houghton, Statham, J. C. ThoMpson, W. Bir-
kett, Ewing, Taylor, Tinne, Harbord, Ald. Turner, Buck
Lloyd, John Campbell, H. Banner and son, Rigby, &c.,
&c. The whole number of gentlemen was about 150.

From the anxiety to be present at the service, nearly
all the seats in the church, with the exception of some
pews reserved for the gentlemen in the procession, were
taken up before the procession reached, and many parties
who could not be accommodated were constrained to de-
part. The morning service was impressively read by the
rev. curate, previous to which a new version of the 100th
psalm, written for the occasion, was sung with great taste
and pathos. Before the sermon, a hymn for the occasion
(also bearing on the condition of the children) was sung
with equal effect. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Rector Campbell, from Ecclesiastes, chapter v., verses 9
to 13 inclusive—a most appropriate discourse bearing on
the necessity and christian duty of the rich to assist the
less fortunate poor, and especially to aid them to the at-
tainment of a sound moral and scriptural education. Be
concluded by a strong appeal on behalf of the children of
the Blue Coat School, whose temporal and eternal welfare
were strenuously attended to in that institution. A
collection was afterwards made which amounted to £BB ss.

UNITED STATES.—Tbe packet-ships England, United
States, St. George, and Southerner, which left New York
early in the last month, arrived here, the two former on
on Saturday, the latter on Sunday. By the England we
have received New York advices one day later than those
brought by the last steamer; but containing, however,
not an item of intelligence worth extracting, either of a
political or commercial nature. The passage occupied
twenty-four days.
IRISH SOCIETY.—A list of the sermons to be pre ached
for this excellent society on Sunday next, will be found
in an advertisement. We can only hope that the friends
of scriptural truth will liberally respond to the appeals
which will be made to their generosity.
BASE COIN.—A. man, apparently a labourer, was yes-
terday charged before Mr. Rushton with having uttered
a base shilling to a Mrs. Jones, of Canning-place. He
was committed.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—A dreadful encounter took
place on Thursday night last on the Ravensworth Estate,
about three miles from Newcastle-on-Tyne, between a
paaty of watchers and some keepers, during which two
of the former were so dreadfully injured that they now
lie in a most precarious state.

POCKET PICKING.—At the Police-court, yesterday,
Johu Day:es, a youth, was charged with picking the
pocket of Margret Saville, of Temple-street, of 3s. 6d.,
while she was standing, on Saturday afternoon, at the
shop window of Mr. Kempe, of St. James's-street.
There were other boys with the prisoner at the time, but
they escaped.—Committed for trial.
On Sunday at noon the flag of distress was hoisted at
the Rock Light House, it was instantly seen by the Maga-
zines Life Boatmen who immediately went out and found
two vessels a-ground on Great Burbo, the one a brig
called the Fortune, and the other a schooner called the
Theodore; though driven on the bank were no worse, and
both captains thought they would get off at high water.
LYNN.—POOR RATE.—At a meeting of the Court of
Guardians held on Wednesday, a rate for the relief of the
poor of the parish of St. Margaret, of Is. in the pound,
was laid. This, with the three rates which have already
been collected, makes therpoors'-rate alone for the year
ss. Md. in the pound on the assessment.—Cambridge In-
dependent.

On Saturday, in the Bail Court, the Solicitor-General
applied for a rule, calling upon Mr. Moon to show cause
why a quo warranto should not issue requiring him to
show by what authority he claimed to exerc'se the office
of alderman of the ward of Portsoken, in the city of
London. He made the application on behalf of Mr.
Salomons, who had been previously elected, but who
declined signing the usual declaration, being a member
of the Jewish persuasion. The rule was granted.
THEFT FROM AN EMPLOYER.—Yesterday, at the
Police-conrt, a boy named John Fitzgerald, was charged
with having stolen six pairs of foreign made slippers
from the shop of Mr. Crossley, of Bold-street, by whom
he had been employed as an errand boy. It appeared that
he had abstracted the articles from a box, in which were
many others of a similar kind, and had offered them to
pledge at Mr. H. Cowen's shop, in Old Hall-street. Mr.
Cowen questioned him as to the ownership, and his re-
plies being contradictory, he was detained, and the owner
found. He was committed for trial.

WALKS THROUGH THE EXHIBITION OF
THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1844.