The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET: YESTERDAY

We are well supplied with Beasts for the ifitie7c4iliWyear;
trade is steady at about Friday's prices. The number of neep
and Lambs is not large, yet it is quite equal to the demand.
Buyers do not purchase readily ; however. prices can scarcely
be quoted lower. Calves are not so plentiful • they are sold
freely, at rather more money. Pigs are a dull sale; owing to
the hot weather. From Holland there are about 200 Beasts,
1,620 Sheep, and 124 Calves ; and 20d Beasts from Scotland.

MINCING-LANE.—YESTE RDA Y.
Cotton and Rice continue to wear an upward appearance:.
In other articles no alteration The public sales advertised for
to-morrow are large and various—say; of Sugar, 200' hhds.
West India, and 7000 bags Mauritius, Bengal, and Madras.—
Coffee : 4000 bags, chiefly Ceylon.—Saltpetre : 1000 bags.
Rice : 10,000 bags:—Tea : 12,000, which prevents any business
being done in these articles by private contra Ct.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND

The annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society,
in aid of this Society, was held yesterday evening, in the
school-room of Christ Church, in Christian-street,. and,
notwithstanding the inducements of the season, was well
attended.

The Rev. Mr. MOssE, a young clergyman from Ireland,
was called to the chair, and (after prayer) ably opened'
the business of the meeting, deducing some statistics from
a printed document te show the cheering prospects of the
society even in adverse commercial and political times ;
and showing that there were in Ireland 2,964 Schools,
80,222 teachrrs, and' 224,132 scholars. After noticing a
variety of advantages attached to the working of the
society, he strongly. urged the teachers and others who
were friends of the society to continue their endeavours,
by personal services and pecuniary endeavours, to move on
in'its behalf, if they expected a blessing hereafter.
Mr. O'NEIL, the Secretary, read the report, which was
to the effect that notwithstanding the badness -of the
times the Society had remitted last year the sum of £lOl,
including donations; that great gratitude was due to the
Rev. F. Ould, and to the Rev. D. James, of St. /Wary's,
for two sermons preached ; that great thanks were due to
the ladies who had exerted themselves in its behalf ; and
the document concluded by affording a number‘ef statis-
tics sheaving the number of schools, &c.

The Rev: Mr. BUTLER (from Ireland), movedlhe adop-
tion of the report, in a feeling and impressive address.
The Rev. G. WARRR, of St. Saviour's, seconded the
resolution in a very eloquent address, which breathed
great Christian feeling towards the benighted in. Ireland,
and was replete with forcible illustrations, which produced
a strong and sympathetic effect on the meeting. Ho es-
pecially pointed out the. great object of the Society,—

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namely the exclusive proniotion of Sunday Schools, and
the doing so by providing tuition for the childrenrand also
affording Bibles to the able-bodied who applied, at the
smallest possible price, and to the destitute who applied,
for nothing.
The resolution was unanimouely carried.

The Rev. R. WILLING, Rector of King's Court, Ire-
land, moved the second resolution, expressing the-grateful
thanks due to those Christian friends in Ireland who had
contributed to the success of the great cause, and expres-
sing the hope of the parent society that the auxilliary
society here would continue their kindly exertions in be-
half of Ireland.

This was seconded by the Rev. Mr. CATHCART,. (as we
understood,) in an energetic speech.

A collection to a handsome amount was made, . and
after a brief address from the chairman, and the singing
of a hymn, the meeting separated.

THE CELEBRATED CHINESE COLLECTION,
FROM HYDE-PARK CORNER, LONDON.

This extraordinary- collection was opened in Islington
Market, only yesterday, and, from its magnitude and
variety of subjects,me can only now say, upon a necessarily
very brief view, that we were struck with astonishment,
and not a little bewildered. The entrance to the struc-
ture, or building, in which the whole is contained. is in
the Chinese style of architecture, and is in itself a rich
specimen. The apartment occupied by the collection is
225 feet in length, .by 50 in width, with a lofty ceiling,
supported on numerous pillars. The great hall is so re-
splendent with objects, great and small, that one wonders
how they have been collected, and how so massive a
building, (wnieh- appears as if permanent,) and its va-
luable contents, could be transported from town to town.
The impression upon the visitors is, taking the rooms and
the varied and curious objects within, that they have sud-
denly got into a-new world. Everything is in keeping with
Chinese character, habits, costumes, &c. There are a
great number of scenic representations :all round this ob-
long hall, each representing a stage of a theatre, with
paintings behind, and full length figures in the foreground,
in various and rich costume, illustrative of historical or
judicial scenes appertaining to China. There is also a
variety of, paintings, drawings, arms. curiosities, and a
thousand works of art interspersed within the " Cases"
or compartments. All along the floor of this splendid
apartment, the decorations of which are finely carved and
richly gilded, are large glass cases onpedestals, contain-
ing stuffed birds. animals, reptiles, &c. One com-
partment represents the Emperor- on his throne,
surrounded by his dependants; another, the Judge
in his. court; another, the merchant in his shop, &c.
But it is impossible to particularize. There are also
many. fine specimens of Chinese junks, from the man-of-
war, mounted with metal guns, and fit to cross the Mer-
sey, to the beautiful and elaborately carved ivory mo-
del, suitable for a chimney ornament. There is a capital
Sax-horn and Cornopean band, who play charmingly.
We should add that the collection of Chinese lanthorns
susp ended from the roofof the m agnificent pavilion arebeau-
tiful, some of them as large as. English summer-houses,
and all beautifully painted, gilded, and curiously designed.
The apartment is splendidly illuminated in the evening
with ;gas ; and last night when the whole large room
was lighted up with a variety of gas-lights along each
side, and from the huge Chinese lanterns appended from
the roof ; (and the room at the same time filled with
fashionable company, promenading to the music of a
spirited band), the result was highly effective and pleasing.
We shall have an opportunity of noticing this extraordi-
nary collection more at length next week.
It would be injustice not to notice in brief some curious
and valuable porcelain, which (with a vender's shop) form
a striking feature of the exhibition.

DISTRESSING EVENT.—On Wednesday the Rev. Dr,
Davies, minister of the Unitarian chapel, Gloucester,,
committed self-destruction by hanging himself at his resi-
dence in Barton-street. The unfortunate gent?eman. fell
on his head some weeks since, and suffered severely from
it. The French revolution has deprived him of his pro-
perty, and latterly his mind had evidently been affected.
THE PRICE OF BLOOD PARIS.—Le Droit, speaking
of the frequent assassination of gardes mobiles in open
daylight, says that for some days past papers have been
posted in the ateliers, offering rewards of fifty, francs to
whomsoever should kill a garde mobile, forty. francs for
killing a soldier, thirty for a national guard, and twenty
for a gardien de Paris. The Constitutionnel, after wating
the above, adds that in the Faubourg Passionniers a pla-
card has been posted, offering 20 francs for the head of a
garde mobile and 10 for that of a national guard.
A LEAP FOR. LIFE.—A young gentleman, named
Parker, has made a surprising leap into the Tweed, near
Coldstream. He was in a dog-cart. The horse took
fright, and dashed towards the Tweed bridge. The near
wheel of the carriage struck the wall of the bridge, and
rase up so far as to allow the end of the shaft to get upon
the top of it, on which it slipped a considerable way,
Fearing that he might meet a worse fate, Mr. Parker leapt
from the dog-cart over the parapet-wall into the stream,
at a place where the water was deep enough to save him
from striking the bottom, and he'escaped afterwards by
swimming. The depth from the parapet to the water was
forty-five feet,
Though the King has power to confer titles, he has none
to resume them. Parliament, however, has, and the
power was exercised in the case of George Neville, fourth
Dube of Bedford, who was degraded by authority of Par-
lia.ulent, on 4000nAt of his poverty.—Rollo and his Race.