The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

and without noise, ostentation, or c
real good has been done."

ay, a great amount of

lowing is a statement of the valuable publications
of the Society, sold at very reduced prices in the office, and
thereby at great loss to the Society:-31,240 tracts; 90 vols. of

32,791 tracts ; 32 volumes of tracts ; 87 controversial ;o7G

LYING-IN HOSPITAL —We draw the attention of our
readers to the annual meeting of the subscribers to this
hospital, and sincerely hope that public sympathy may be-

come excited towards one of our most deserving charities.
We understand that during the past year a greater num-
ber of patients have been admitted than in any previous
year. We are sorry to add that its funds are in a very de-
pressed state. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile has kindly pro-
mised to preach a sermon in aid of its funds on the 16th
of December, and we hope other Clergymen will follow
in succession, in making public appeals for so excellent a
charity.

THE MERCURY AND ABERCROMBY WARD.—Tbe
grave charge of our contemporary against the Conserva-
tive Committee in this ward, of treating, intimidation and
bottling of voters, turns out to be a cock and bull story,
amounting to nothing after all. A man going up to vote
for Mr. Kaye, " said something in a low tone" to Mr.
Muricaster, who, the Mercury's informant says, replied
" you shall have a glass after, I'll see ;" and Mr. Hand.
a member of the Select Vestry, was observed to walk up
to the polling booth with a regisrar of-
The bottling story was • told by a tory to a gentleman of
our acquaintance," of remarkably gullible character, no
What a pity that a party should be reduced so

low, as to have recourse to such paltry charges to ac
for their defeat !
THE WAREHOUSE "Fix."—The Journal intimates
that we ought to make an apology for baying discredited
his statement with respect to the difficulty encountered in
getting insurances effected upon the Albert Dock ware-
houses. We do not see the necessity of doing so. Our
contemporary, however, has proved so far right, with re-
spect to the existence of a combination amongst the in-
surance offices to charge a high rate, as almost to warrant
a charge of being an accessory before the fact. The al-
leged " fix," however, is nowhere visible. Liverpool can
insure its own without London aid. We may ask, how-
ever, what becomes of the confident assurances of Mr.
Evans and others,. that the dock warehouses would be
insured by the London Companies for a two-and-six-
penny rate. These companies do not seem overfond of
such warehouses.

ST. PAVL'a CHURCH ScnooLs.—The sermons which
we announced in our advertising columns last week, as
being to be preached at St. Paul's Church, in support of
the schools connected with that church, were delivered
on Sunday last ; in the morning by the Rev. John Jones,
incumbent of St. Andrew's Church and Rural Dean, and
in the evenir.g by the Rev. Fred. Parry, Minister of St.
Clement's Church, Windsor. The civic procession at-
tending the new Mayor to St. Peter's Church, interfered
very seriously with the attendance at the morning service.
For as the schools are situated in Exchange Ward, the
aldermen and members of council, for that and St. Paul's
Ward, would gladly have availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity of countenancing and supporting the efforts making

in behalf of the schools, situated. as th—ey are, in near pro-
ximity to the warehouses and offices of the merchants,
brokers, &c., of this great emporium of commerce, and
giving education to the children of warehousemen, porters,

late the wealth of the merchant princes of Liverpool.
The rev. gentlemen, for whose services the committee are
so much indebted, exerted them very energetically to re-
commend the charity to their hearers, Their stirring
appeals were of a character not to be evaded ; end the
earnestness with which those appeals were made, must
have carried conviction to every heart. The collections
amounted to £2O, a sum very far from adequate to meet
the urgent claims of these institutions.
PRIVATE BUSINESS FOR THE NEXT SESSION.—The
private business before parliament in the next Session
bids fair to find our legislators very little less labour than
they had to discharge in the last. Many of the parlipr

however, are 0

a widely c

ovemoer wit

!most exclusively of

The symptoms of mania for new pro-
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