The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOn ATANIIIRDe

THE DONCASTER CUP.—This piece of plate consists ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
of an elegant cup of the cinque cento shape and style of FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.
ornament. On the cover there are two groups of horses—
the one in the wild state, and the other domesticated— The anniversary meeting of this society was held last
which form a very pleasing contrast. A figure of Victory evening, in the theatre of the Collegiate Institution. The
crowning a horse with a wreath surmounts the cover. society is the oldest of the kind connected with the Esta-
On the body of the cup there are four compartments blished Church. This circumstance and the public ap-
filled with designs, in low relief, representing four different preciaiion of the immense amount of good it has effected
styles of racing—the English, the Italian, the ancient render its proceedings in the highest degree interesting to
Roman, and a race by torehlight. The foot is ornamented all parties who wish prosperity to the operation of the
with horse furniture and stable implements. machinery of the Church of England. The theatre was
THE-PRODUCTIVE COST OF GOLD.—We now arrive at filled by a most respectable audience. The platform was
the highly-important question, as to what is the present occupied by the clergy of the town and neighbourhood,
and probable productive cost of gold in Russia, and what and a number of ladies. Many influential friends of the
may be that found in California, as compared with the cause were also in the body of the theatre. The following
product of gold in the year 1717, when the existing stand- include some of the persons present :—The Lord Bishop
and of value of £3 17s. lnid was fixed. At the cost of of the Diocese; the Right Rev. Bishop of Toronto ; the
Russian gold it is difficult to arrive, as the mines are Ven. Archdeacon of Liverpool ; the Ven. Archdeacon of
worked partly by the Government and partly by private Derby ; Revs. J. Stewart, rector of West Derby ; 'J.
individuals, and all with convict or serf labour, probably Jones; A. Jones ;W. Pollock ;J. Cordeaux ;A. Knox ;
costing some 3d. or 4d. a day ; but as the Government W. Pollock; J. Connor ; W. Brewster; J. Howson ;J.
impose a duty of 25 or 30 per cent. on all gold produced Gardiner ;F. Haggitt ; Moran •, T. C. Cowan; D. T.
by private individuals, such gold must be produced con- Barry; G. W. Warr; J. Butler; H. Maiden; J. Robin-
siderably under £2 18s. 10d. the ounce, or private indi- son ; Canon Trevor,. G. U. Pope ; E. Roberts; T. F
vidnals would cease to work thpir mines t therefore OPP are Redhead ; W. Hughes; D. J. Hirch • TT'

vforian

within the mark if we assume the productive cost of Rus-
sian gold at about 40s. the ounce. With regard to the
productive cost of gold in California, at present we can
form no correct opinion as to either cost or quantity. A
chy's

Fish ; H. AS. 31
Welsh; T. Hon
P Homan; W.

D. D. S

C. H. Burton ; W
D. James

eva
J. Bavlee; T. G. LE

G. Dover ; J. G
S. Winne, W

_Jour is said trequently to produce one or two
ounces.—Sanjars's Elements of Taxation.

Al.yor

J. N. Wood,

Tt., and Ald. H. Swainson

tine is shewn in the fifth volume of his "Life and Corres-
pondence," now publi- ling. A great. uncle of his had
left certain estates, of considerable value, in trust for a
great nephew, John Southey Somerville, afterwards Lord
' Somerville, and his issue, with the intent that if he, who

was then a child,
should descend to the Southeys. Lord Somerville a _
lately dead without having left issue, and the poet
laureate was under the impression that he had a legal
claim to the property, and look advice upon the subject.
It turned out, however, that the testator had not taken
proper care that his intention should be carried into effect.

le estal

upon Southey's claim were not sufficiently
im to take legal proceedings in

In my life," he says, " t

caprice of a

rie off frotii what the I

me had it taken its course, and now the law interferes and
cuts me uff from what would have been given me by a

testator.
Chancery

It is, however, a clear gain to esca

DIVIN

tai star

s told of Bis

rgot his sacred callins,
nd who, among others,

the ardent pursuits
s a bit of a geologist:

wer family, he was

Istant visitor in Westmorland, espc

nd dales with a hammer in his pocket, as
edgwicks and Buckiands do now•a-daps, chipping
any little pebble he stumbled over ; probably to see
whether it was the phildsopher's stone, or contained any
appearances of that precious metal which has been recently
discovered in such quantities in California. In one of

bout th
he S

these rambles it chaileed that he got to the top of Helm

Crag, not many miles from Kendal, and picked up a sub•-
stance, which he at once pronounced to be thrown from
!Erna or Vesuvius, or some volcanic crater. On his way
home, he came, naturallY.enough, to the conclusion <natu-
rally we say, for what we wish we readily believe,) that
Helm Crag itself was an extinct volcano. At the dinner
table he produced this piece of lava as proof conclusive of

ibmsso

impeding the progress of Christianity—and, at present, no
one can be so blind as not to see in the British Empire a
mighty tower of scriptural faith for the regeneration of

est form. Can any one be so blind as not to perceive that
God has raised this nation from a very small beginning to
her present lofty pre-eminence for some great purpos
Without any desire to be a c
providential arrangements, p
powerful dominion, which a
language is spoken as a mots

trument to eite

tions into e
warlti. Sli

lqueror, Great
sesses the larg€
world has ever

in I

ledge of CI

rist, the I

.ms, influence, and institt

quarter, I may say, every cc

awe been in perceiv

they mad

hile, for th

t her v

hin a few short

years, ow
;s, and fall
fore it. I

gradually extinguished

God has plac

he Islands

but the pr
.he Ocean