The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

EXETER HALL.

THE unique BOWYER BIBLE, 45 Vols. folio, in
a splendid Library Cabinet, wrought in magnificent
Sculptures of Scriptural Design, and of the value of 3,100
Guineas.

This is the highest Allotment in Mrs. PARKE'S last GRAND
CLUB SUBSCRIPTION for the distribution of 80,000 Pounds'
worth of Property in the Fine Arts, in 17,773 Shares, of ONE
GUINEA each. No Allotment of less value than One Guinea
and a Half. Many Allotments in superb Pictorial Cabinets,
and rich Carvings and Framings, of One, Two, and Three
Hundred Pounds each. The Distribution to take place at
Exeter Hall on the 29th

Shares to he had at S. ALKER's, Carver and Gilder, 99,
Basnett-street.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE
FIFTH CALLJOUFN.eC2TST.NPERRASIILIIAI; ?AZ. MAKING £lO
PER SHARE CALLED UP.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors
of the BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE AND CUE-
SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMAANY have, under the
Provisions of that Company's Acts of Parliament, passed a
Resolution calling upon the Proprietors for an INSTALMENT
of A 2 ss. per SHARE, payable on or before the 16th day of
June next, 1848, at one of the undermentioned Bankers,
LONDON Messrs. Glyn,'Halifax and CO.
LIVERPOOL The Liverpool Borough Dank,
MANCHESTER Messrs. Cup.liffes, Brooks and CO.
CHESTER' Messrs. Dixons and Wardell,
Messrs. Williams and CO.
WAR RINGTON Messrs. Parr, Lyon and CO.
MACCLESFIELD Messrs. BrOCklelltirSt and Co.
The Bankers are instructed to charge interest at the rate of
5 per Cent. per annum upon all Calls paid subsequent to the
above-mentioned date.
In conformity with the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act,
cap. 16, sec. 16, "No Shareholder shall be entitled to transfer
any Share, after any Cali shall have been made in respect
thereof, until he shall have paid such Call, nor until he shall
have paid all Calls for the time being due on every Share held
by him."

JNNIES 'BANCROFT, Chairman.
JOHN GIBSON, Secretary.
Company's Tees, Argyle-street, Birkenhead,
20th May, 1843.

Observe that the Signature of the proprietor, "G. C. Seileant,”
is written on the Government Stamp.
QERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy.
against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica, and Lum-
bago. Sold by the Proprietor, G. C. SERJEANT, No. 7, Lo-
vell's-court, Paternoster-row,- London; and by all Vendors of
Medicine. Price 2s. 9(1. per Bottle.

_ .
The astonishing snccess which has crowned the application
of this external Medicine in the most hopeless and deplorable
cases, when the unhappy setierer had despaired of ever gaining
even the least relief, and this after the ablest advice and every
other means had completely failed, most justly entitles it to the
attention of the afflicted.

This excellent Medicine, so universally esteemed, is unat-
tended with the least danger or inconvenience; hundreds have
experienced its happy and salutary effects since it was first
introduced; and such are the properties of this invaluable
specific that persons labouring under the most distressing
:thentnatism, Rheumatic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered
thereby incapable of assisting themselves, have been relieved
in a few hours.

Amongst many which are being daily received are thefollow-
tng testimonials :

Wl-s tr
teoetm,
yCrbipedp!beygaGteo.nt
SIR,—I have been several weeks confinedei
and Rheumatism, not a part from my head to my feet free from
pain, and as helpless as an infant : not even a finger could I
move. In this unpleasant situation I was informed by my me-
dical attendant he had applied all the usual remedies, and that
I might remain months in my deplorable situation.
Fortunately your remedy was made known to me, or I might
have been to this day confined to my bed. After a close appli-
cation of four days, my troublesome companion began to dis-
appear ; in a week I was capable of :Aalking about my room,
and by another week's perseverance in the use of yOur Medi-
soifr,anyooutlrieroa)etditaecakt,
cyionue,lvvial
ls
pelleambs
el etdo tsoenl
seixL ob
servant,— D. W. STONE.
lou ne
. —Fle2'ar fmu,l

Morleu's Hotel, strand, 18th August, 1846.
SIRS have hitherto had a prejudice against having recourse
to advertised medicines, but as I have for years been a severe
sufferer from Lumbago, as well as Sciatica, and having tried
several of the most eminent Physicians of London and-Paris, I
was induced by a friend to make a trial of your liquid, called
" Serjeant's Lotion." I think it in gratitude due to you to say
in less than an hour from the time I applied the Lotion, I felt
the most pleasant and indescribable relief. The immediate
effect was to produce a short but tranquil and most refreshing
slumber, from which I awoke to enjoy that which was, from its
novelty, greatest happiness—perfect quietude and freedom
rom natn. The number of poor souls that suffer as I have is
immense, and if the publication of this testimony can induce
one to accept of the salvation you offer, I shall feel that I have
not lived in vain.—With many thanks, I am yours,
HEN RI VI LLENNEVIC.
14, Belmont-place, Wand.wrortle-road, Oct. 26, 1844.
SIR,—I feel in duty bound to acknowledge, that after suffer-
ing acute pains from Sciatica, or severe Rheumatic affection in
the hip-joint, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded to
try your embrocation, and have the pleasure to say that after
three applications I was restored to my usual health ; and, al-
though two yea'ts have passed, I have no return of the disorder.
—I am, Sir, gratefully yours, EDWARD NOYES.

Sold by Pend!ebury, Russell street; Titherington, Oxford-
street; Hogarth, Great George-street; Fisher, Bold-street;
Coupland, Parker-street ; Gerrard, Oldhall-street ; Parkinson,
New Scotland-road; Neal, Scotland-road; Simpson, Scotland-
road, opposite St. Martin's Market; Alackow, Vauxhall-road;
Britten, corner of Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Great
Homer-street ; Cox, Fox-street ; Gillard, Richmond-row Low,
Islington • Walker, London-road; Parry, Christian-street;
Wagstaff, George-place ; Priestley, Lord-street; Smith
Woodside. Price, Wavertree

FREE TRADE AND THE COURT !

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR.,—The conversation which took place in the House
of Commons respecting her Majesty's recommendation of
British manufactures will no doubt be properly understood
and appreciated by the enlightened working classes of this
country. • It speaks volumes as to the estimate of free-
trade theories, which go upon the mere supposition that
if we buy goods from another country, such country will
as a matter of course take our goods in exchange, and in
that exchange leave this country.a remunerating profit.
The supposition is a fiction of the free-trade theorists, and
is contradicted by stubborn every-day facts.
The Court is coining to the opinion that free trade is
free delusion, a free humbug, a free curse; and can never
be anything but a delusion. And the consequence is, the
Queen of England has issued commands that the ladies
privileged with the opportunity of appearing in the draw-
ing-rooms shall do so in articles of British manufaCture.
This is as it ought to be. English manufactures- for the
English is reasonable, is proper, and is nothing more. It
is preposterouS in English artisans to purchase goods of
foreign manufacture merely on the supposition that fo-
reign artisans will buy ours: Such a reciprocity by no
means follows, and can never become general, although a
few hot-brained theorists and rude citizens may pass their
neighbour,-perchance, to benefit—themselves!
I trust, Sir, that " ALL ENGLAND" will follow the ex-
ample of the Queen, and do what is practicable towards
resuscitating the languishing trade of our own manufac-
turers and their dependent artisans; and if this be done,
we shall soon see our commerce revive, and money easier.
I will conclude these remarks by a paragraph (copied
from the Liverpool Mercury) illustrating what sort of
goods foreigners will take in return when they supply us
with their commodities :—" Itis stated that from 1:32,000
to £13,000 IN GOLD are now transmitted weekly to
-Holland, in payment for cattle, butter, and other provi-
sions!' Mark that! In gold—not in cottons. In gold
—not in cutlery. In gold—not in linens. In gold—not
in any one of our manufactures, great or small.
Mark that, ye farmers of Lancashire, of Cheshire, of
Yorkshire, and of every shire in England. This is a fact
every one of you ought to know and remember. Here
are twelve to thirteen thousand pounds in gold—good
hard cash—paid weekly to Holland for that description of
goods you produce, and by the sale of which you have to
pay your rents, taxes, and -domestic expenses. That is,
your English neighbours, your countrymen, are sending
their money abroad to buy 6` cattle, butter, and other pro-
visions," while you are waiting for their custom, and on
the verge of insolvency. Yet this is free trade!
Bear in mind then, that "gold," not manufactures, is
the pay that foreigners expect for their produce, agricul-
tural or mechanical.

AN ENGLISH ARTISAN.

May. 1848.

Archbishop Murray has peremptorily refused his signa-
ture to a declaration against repeal, which has been got
up under the sanction of the Irish government.
PROCESSIONS IN DUBLIN.—The Dublin police com-
missioners have issued a cautionary proclamation against
the assemblage of processions in the streets. Several
parties were apprehended for forcing their way through
the streets; amongst others Dr. Gray, who was after-
wards liberated. Several others were bound over to keep
the peace.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE.—We understand that the
people of Liverpool will be afforded an opportunity of
seeing, the week after next, the The Merry Wives of
Windsor, at the Theatre-Royal, by the distinguished
artistes who gave so much delight last week in London.
Among them will be Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. J. Leech,
and Mr. Mark Lemon, of Punch; Mr. John Forster, of
the Examiner : Mr. F. Stone; the artist ; Mr. E. H.
Lewes, the author of Blancke, Rose, and Violet; Mr.
George Cruikshank, who everybody knows ; Mr. Dudley
Costello, and others. They will be supported by Miss
Fortescue, Miss Ann Romer, and Mrs. Cowden Clarke.
The performance will be in aid of the funds of the Slinks-
perian House Committee.
SYMPATHY WITH THE POOR.—It will be strongest
when it is least maudlin. The poor man wishes to be
treated like a brother/not to be praised as an angel.
Those who flatter him do not love him.—Politics for the
People.
AN ECONOMICAL. RIDER.—An innkeeper observed a,
Postilion with only one spur, and ingured the reason.
" Why, what would be the use of another?" said the
postilion, "if one side.of the 'horse goes, the other cannot
stand still." . .

---TOJOIIING A HALF-MAC DOG.—" Excuse my anxiety,
but how is Dash ? I should have asked if Mrs. P—e
kept her rules, and was improving ; but Dash came upper-
most. The order of our thoughts should be the order of
our writing. Goes be muzzled or operto ?re ? Are his
All ther dbougts
Ih here
protestare
11,,
intellects sound, or does he wander a little in his conver-
sation ? You cannot be too careful. to watch the first
symptoms of incoherence.. The first illogical snarl he
makes, to St. Luke's with him..
gOl • o' wad, if you believe the oyeAre e ;
they seem to he very rational and collected. But nothing
is so deceitful as mad people to those who are not used to
mnilyordopesrpe in nd
E irittitliealily ci f
I Thatshis hasge
decided
ra
ne
theni..Try him with hot water : if he won't lick it up
it is a s7gn=---he does not like it. Does his tail wag hori-
zontally the fa t e
of deportment ,
cheerful ?—I mean when he is pleased, for otherwise there
is no Judging. You can't be too careful. Has he bit any
of the children yet? If he has, have them shot, and
keep him for curiosity, to see if it were the hydrophobia.
They say all our army in India had it at one tiMe; but
that was in Hyder-Aily's time. Do you get paunch for
him ? Take care the sheep are sene. 'You might pull
out his teeth (if he would let you), and then you need not
mind if he were as mad as Bedlamite. It would be rather
fun to see his odd ways."--Charles Lamb.