The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

LCCAL NEW'.

CUSTOMS' DUTIES.—A. correspondent, under the signature of
14:.duaLtrY—Fair Play would have been a better name—says,
"Will you be good enough to explain the following paradox :
A goes to the Custom-house, and says he has three pounds of
segars for his own use, and be gets them passed free of duty.
B goes some time after, who has got but one pound, and he has
to pay nine shillings duty and two shillings and sixpence entry.
Whence this difference ?" We really cannot tell.

THE INFANT TRUMPETER.—Master Phillipps, the infant
trumpeter, whose performances appear to have created a great
sensation in London, will give one of his entertainments at the
Lyceum Rooms on Monday next.
THE OPTICIAN'S Gutnii.—A very ingenious instrument has
been invented, and is now in the possession of Mr. B. Salom,
the optician. By it he is enabled to ascertain the exact strength
of the eye to the greatest nicety. We have heard it highly
spoken of, and would recommend those who are reduced to the
necessity of using spectacles to inspect it.

HEBREW CHURCH.—Two sermons will be preached at this
church on Sunday next by its minister, the Rev. H. S. Joseph,
"On the state of the Jews." Collections will be made after each
service. This church is, we understand, supported entirely by
the contributions of the benevolent, and is situate in a poor
neighbourhood, where it is much wanted, and has been emi-
nently useful.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY, IRELAND.-It will be seen by an
advertisement in another part of our paper, that the Rey. Dr.
Cook, the gentleman whose powerful eloquence has been exerted
in Ireland in support of the established church of that country,
and on Saturday last, in Loudon, in exposing the degrading
errors of catholicism, will preach two sermons on Sunday next,
at the Scotch Secession Church. Collections will be made after
the sermons in aid of the Irish Sunday School Society.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—As the labourers employed in re-
moving cotton from the brig Providence, lying in the King's
Dock, on Tuesday last, were unloading, a bale fell upon a man
named George Gaon, whose leg was so badly lacerated thereby,
that he died the following day in the Infirmary.

PARISH MEETlNG.—Yesterday a meeting of parishioners
took place in St. Nicholas's Church for the purpose of nominating
and choosing persons to supply the vacancies in the number of
commissioners of highways, to pass the accounts of the trust,
and transact other business. The Rev. Augustus Campbell in
the chair. On the motion of Mr. Thornhill the accounts were
passed. James Aspinall, Esq , Robertson Gladstone, Esq.,
Ambrose Lace, Esq., and James Pownall, Esq. were unani-
mously appointed to fill up the vacancies in the trust from the
Common Council. Mr. Samuel Holme then proposed a list of
seven individuals as new commissioners, which was objected to
by Mr. Godfrey Barnsley, who thought that the commissioners
should be chosen from the rate-payers then present. Mr.
Holme and Mr. Wales stated that the reason why a list was pre-
pared was that it' was necessary in the first instance to know
who were willing to serve as commissioners. After some con-
versation on the mode of proposing the commissioners between
Mr. Hohne, Mr. Barnsley, and Mr. Birkett, it was agreed that
the names in Mr. Holthe's list should be put separately, which
was done, and Mr. Francis Haywood, Mr. James Foster,
Mr. Thomas Kaye, Mr. James Lawrence, Mr. John Holmes,
Mr. John Bartou, and Mr. William Birkett were elected. A
vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and the meet-
ing, which was not numerous, separated.
CONFIRMATION.—The Lord Bishop held a general confirina
tion in Manchester on Sunday and Monday last, when the
rite of confirmation was administered to upwards of two thou
sand young persons of both sexes. On Sunday afternoon the
confirmation took place in St. Ann's Church, and on Monday
at St. Philip's Church, Salford, and All Saints' Church, Chorl-
ton-upon-Medlock.

WATEeLoo.—On 'Wednesday last, Mr. Towers, the spirited
proprietor of the hotel at Waterloo, gave what is termed an
opening dinner, being the celebration of the commencement of
the summer season and the reopening of the hotel. • For the
accommodation of the visitors a splendid pavilion adjoining the
front of the hotel (having the advantage of a view of the open
sea) was erected, calculated to dine 150 persons. In this build-
ing, which was most tastefully decorated and lined with drapery,
about ]OO gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner, Mr.
George Robinson in the chair. After the removal of the cloth,
the customary loyal and patriotic toasts were drank, including
the King, the Queen, the Duke of Wellington, the Town and
Trade of Liverpool, &c. &c. The health of Mr. and Mrs.
Towers was received with much enthusiasm, and Mr. Towers,
in a neat and appropriate speech, regretting the unfavourable
state of the weather, which he never expected would have blown
so many of his friends to see him, returned thanks. The pro-
prietors of the hotel was also drank, Mr. Kilshaw acknowledg-
ing the honour. Other toasts were proposed, and the evening
was spent in the utmost harmony and good humour.
TIIE BISHOP OF CHESTER'S VISITATION. MANCHESTER.—
The Lord Bishop of this diocese held his third triennial visita-
tion at the Collegiate Church, on Tuesday. His lordship was
received at the church gates by the churchwardens and sides-
men, who walked in procession before him to the principal en-
trance of the church. He was accompanied by the Very Rev.
the Chancellor of the Diocese, the Very Rev. the Warden of
Manchester. The morning service was read in the most im-
pressive manner by the Rev. the Warden, and the visitation
sermon was preached by the Rev. E. Girdlestone, M.A , Vicar
of Dean, from 1 Co. x. 2=l.—'All things are lawful to me, but
all thin* art' not expedient: All things are lawful for me, but
all things edify not. Let no mau seek his own, but every man
another's wealth." In dilating upon this passage of scripture,
the reverend gentleman strongly impressed upon his reverend
brethren the necessity of so guarding their conduct as neither
by austerity of manners, or by an inexpedient joining in the•
lawful amusements of the world, to become a stumbling-block
or cause of offence to their weaker brethren of the church. Af-
ter the sermon, the Lord Bishop took his station at the altar,
and delivered an earnest and affectionate charge to the assem-
bled clergy, which was of such a length that we shall be ()Wig-
ged to postpone the full report of it, which we intended to pub-
lish, until uext week. His lordship dwelt at considerable length
upon the present state of the church, the causes which had led
to the hostility now displayed against it, and the means to be
adopted by the clergy in order to regain the ground which has
been lost, the most efficient of which was an increase of
churches and clergymen, and an increase of exertion on the
part of those in whom the prosperity of the church was confided.
His lordship concluded by exhorting his hearers to individual
zeal in the work committed to them to perform, and faithful-
ness in its discharge,—to use their efforts to add fresh members
to the church, and to attract still closer to it those who had hi-
therto been attached to it; let each labour diligently in his re-
spective sphere for the accomplishment of those objects, and,
under the divine blessing, the church would, he firmly believed,
as it heretofore had done, extend and Roursh.