The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

e of life, prizing them more and more as time

He is come to bid the middle

t and the future,

between buoyant child

.nt with thani.

umour, while the.

t can, and endea-

happiness of

!owes to tell the old to

r grandchildren,

they theme

Ives once were, when

the world a beautiful garden

daisies and sweet-scented flowers

come in sight, and this year he

ly face,

a mild benignant aspect

ars the port and count,

fish, artificial place as

London that the honours due to Christmas can be paid

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a dramat

was full of point and
were the subjects of t

Association ; and so they chose the brother of the Bishop
of Oxford, a convert to Popery himself, and, of course,
more Popish than the Pope himself. The brass band
thought that " Ireland for the Irish,'" should not be
altogether ignored; and they urged the justice of letting
Burke, the originator of the association, have the first
slice out of its funds. The orders from Rome were,
however, peremptory— Rome ever was, and ever will
be, immutable in her decrees—and so Wilberforce,
the English turn-coat, has been preferred to Burke,
the natural born Irish " Cawtholic ;" and so the
a Association is a house divided against itself.
y the way, it is said that this same Wilberforce,
when he turned Papist, did penance for having
eason are tnamtamea been connected with Protestantism at Rugby, by working

common railway-porter at the Rugby station. If
was not the real way from Oxford to Rome, I know

not what is. What abject debasement of mind and body
is required of her slaves by that absolute church whieh has
its seat in the seven.billed city ! Another instance of the
tyranny exercised by Romish priests_over " the faithful,"

has been given by one Rev. Peter Cooper in connexion
with this rupture. This pious ecclesiastic has had the
audacity to threaten, with untold vengeance, the unfor-
tunate editor of the chief Dublin newspaper, devoted to
Pope's service, if he dared to publish the protest of
hrass The editor, however, I am happy (for

isregArd the f

ulminatio

s of th

1 to discharge his duty to the public by printing

this is a very pretty quarrel a;
amazingly on this side of the

acted on principle in the

. .
questi m of patronage, and have not put an ignorant
member of the clique, or a thick-and-thin political sup
porter, over the heads of old servants. Mr. H. R. Rey-
nolds, the late Assistant-Solicitor of the Treasury, has
been Dffice of Solicitor, vacant
Mr. John Greenwood,
't.ant-Solicitor, in the
Mr. Hitchcock

ularly promoted to the
decease of Mr. Maule

Ir. Reynolds. The claims
ps superior to those of Mr
near obtaining the appoil

Greenwood, and
,ment ; but no fair

ces.
_
ould not hear so many and such loud
sm. and the u

le filling up of t

ust dis-

The old Tower of London has this week resounded, not
with the fearful roar of artillery, hut with the merry sounds
of revelry. Instead of grim warriors in the

heavy mea-

nd brave gallants footed it
Lie walls blush for very shame at
such Unveneral)le conduct. The great duke himself sanc-
tioned the entertainment, and if he did not dance a lively
John Annderson, cry, met tare with one of the beauties invited thither by the
Scotch nisileer.

, who gave the ball, he was the cause of
dancing in others, who in the hopes of winning
his approbation, exerted their agility and gracefulness
in motion to the utmost. A spectator at this delightful
ball and banquet might have fancied that the days of the
gay Plantagenets were back again, and that the House of
York once more made the old Tower to reel with dances

stcr School have added to our dra-

matic entertainments this week, and given us an oppor-
tunity of witnessing the programme of Terence's
" Eunuch us." These Latin plays, which Queen Eliza.
d to enact, although not Quite

unobjectionoble on account of the 'exit
and the freedom of their laneu

heir m

c, are yet very interesting

and instructive t

the scholars

_ ally according to the most authent
tations of the old Roman theatres,
►re correct. As to the

acting, it is usually
lelivery of the I
This year "

.tended to

played

the late Horace Twi
heap of histrionic honours. T

e occasion (which

revailing folly of the day)
situation. The Bloomers

atin farce

he Thais,

Ennuchus, were turned into

Valparaiso „ Amelia

.81,425,873
842,500
410,000
156,000
250,000

X 3,084,373

Making a total of
Equal to the sum of :C625,000 sterling. From the figures
quoted above, we are led to infer that the year will close
with a larger stock of the precious metal in the Bank of
England than at any previous period since December last,
and with a most extraordinary future before us in the
increasing gold production. So well, indeed, is this under-
stood, that on Wednesday there was a strong rumour that
the bank would on the following day reduce the minimum
rate of discount, but this step has wisely been deferred,
affairs in France requiring the exercise of great discretion.
There has not been any marked feature in our share
market during the past week The settlement just passed
has been an extremely heavy one, and a very large amount
of real stock has passed from one set of proprietors to
another. The sellers generally appear to have been
country capitalists, who sold at the impulse of the moment
on the receipt of the first intelligence of Louis Napoleon's
coup d'e'lat; the buyers have been the more sanguine and
perhaps better informed operators residing in the large
towns. Though the amount of business done during the
week has been but small, yet there has been a gradual and
healthy advance daily, with scarcely a fluctuation. The
market to-day is decidedly strong, and promises a more
rapid rise (especially in Midlands, Dovers, York and North
Midlands and Leeds). and a larger business has been done
than on any day during the week at the quotations at foot.
In mining shares there has been a fair business. In con-
of the confirmation of the Aeua Fria lease by
id the extension of the company's

sequence

Colonel Fremor

term from set
advanced to-

en to twenty

day material!

-seven years, these share's have
Iv, and are asked for at 255.

Shares in other Mines

IT at about the prices

of last week. The transactions of the day comprise :
Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire, 111 12 d ; Black-
burn pref., 164; Caledonian, 144 13-16 -; Do. £lO
pref.. 71 ; Kendal and Windermere, 9&-. 10 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 574 48 4- ; London stock, 1151 16 it;
Do. new quarters, 31- p ; Sheffield stock, 321 ; Midland
stock, 5641 4 a 4 11t4; Oswestrys, 10i; Old Dovers,
201 1 1-16; York and North Midland, 22 4.

CorroN

LATEST STATE OF THE LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
—A better feeling has prevailed since the pub-
- port. The Asia's advices announc-

at rather higher prices prevailed in the United
States, holders here aie less anxious to realise, and have
been enabled to obtain rather better rates, although not
to the extent of a quotation. The sales of Friday, Satur-

day, and to-day, are estimated at 19.000 bales, and include
4,000 on speculation and for export. Amongst to-day's
transactions were 2.000 Surat, at 2d. to 3d., 100 Egyp-
tian, at 6d. to 9d., 60 Bahia, at 6d., and 250 Pernam and
Maranhao', at 54-d. to 6+d. per lb.
SUGAR.—Since the publication of the Brokers' Circular
the demand, although steady, has not been active. The
sales of the three days comprise 100 hhds. Jamaica at
295. 6cl. to 32s ; 40 hhds. Antigua (all faults) at 29s ; 30
hhds. Demerara at previous prices; 30 hhds. Porto Rico
at 345. to 365. ; 600 bags Madras at 24,. 6d ; and 4100
also 650 bags Bengal at
a. ; 1900 bags Khaur at 225. 9cl. ; and 110
fine yellow Havannah at 365. per cwt.
No sales have been reported.

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