The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

NOW OPEN, BY SUBSCRIPTION,

FROM
FIVE TO ELEVEN O'CLOCK .EKERY EVENING,
WHITEMAN'S CLUB,
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EXTE VE LIBRARY,
All the MONTHL BLICATIONS, WEEKLY and DAILY
PAPERS, an variety of AMUSEMENTS, consisting of
BILLIARDS NGLISH and RUSSIAN BAGATELLE,
CHESS, DRAUGHTS, &c., and Apparatus for
GYMNASTIC EXERCISES,
TERMS.—Per Year, 15s. ; Half-year, 9s. ; Quarter, ss.
ENTRANCE, 2s. 6d.
Subscribers' Door—Fleet-street, Hanover-street.

LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT
P.AILWAY COMPANY.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, in pursuance
_ll of a Resolution passed at the Ordinary Meeting of the
Shareholders, on the Ist instant, and in conformity with the
provisions of an Act passed on the 20th day of I'ecember last,
intituled "An Act to give further time for making certain
Railways," an•EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of
the SHAREHOLDERS in this COMPANY will be held at the
Clarendon Rooms, South John- treetr-Liverpool; on Ti:ESDAY,
the Twenty-fifth day of J y instant, at One o'clock in the
Afternoon. for the p se of taking into consideration the
Report of the Dire s presented at the said Ordinary Meeting,
'd of determi ' whether a Contract for Executing the Works
"he Cons ction of that part of the intended Line of Rail-
way, whic commences on the south side of South-road, Wa-
terloo, and terminates on the south side of East Bank-street,
Southport, shall be entered into or not.
By order,
JAMES CURRIE DUNCAN, Secretary.
10, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool, 6th Jan., 1848.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, & GRANTON RAILWAY
COMPANY.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a STATED
1 HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-

PRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held, within the Com-
pany's Office, I, Abercromb - du burgh, on MONDAY,
the 31st instant, at Two o' ck Afternoon, for the purposes
stated in the Acts.
No party in arre s entitled to attend or vote.
By er of the Board,
Edinburg , Bth Januar p,AII,B4LBr GEO. FIELD, Secretary.
1, Abercronzbg

DEMERARA RAILWAY COMPANY

2 10s. PER SHARE, MAKING .'7 10s. PER

SHARE CALLED UP.
MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the DIREC-
Tli TORS of the above COMPANY have this day made a
CALL of £2 10s. per Share on each and every Share in this
undertaking, which the PROPRIETORS are hereby required
to PAY, on or before the 31st da --the present month of
January, to Messrs. Puasco COTE, and Co., 62, Thread-
needle-street.

prAiirtc ,HAEL M`CHLERY, Chairman
-lENRY HILL, Secretary.
12, Old Jewry ambeiv, London, sth January, 18.18.

THE LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY

We gave in our cast a summary of the proceedings at
the meeting of this society the evening before, but could
not find room for the whole of what took place. We
find that in the report it was announced that Messrs.
Thomas Milner and Son had offered to the society one of
their holdfast and fire-resisting safes, for the custody of
their books and records. The Rev. Mr. Dwyer moved
vote of thanks to them for their suitable and valuable
gift, which was seconded by the president, W. Bennett,
Esq., and warmly and unanimously passed. The follow-
ing letter was addressed by Messrs. Milner and Son to
the se Lary

,oldfast and Fire-resisting Safe-works,
Lord-street and Cable-street, Liverpool,
December 27, 1847.
—Your allusion the other evening, at the
g to circumstance of the books and

archives of the society having been destroyed in Messrs,
Platt's fire, suggested 'to the writers an opportunity for
making the most suitable acknowledgment, on our part,
of the high sense we entertain of the service rendered to
our invention by the Polytechnic Society,—first, by the
patient and severe ordeal to which its capabilities were
submitted, in which so many of the members were en-
gaged day after day ; and, when its sterling claims were
brought, after being seven times tried, like gold refined,
out of the fire, by stamping them with the sanction of
the society, and giving them currency with the public.
In return for the good service the society has done our
fire-taming principle, by elicitit.g and strongly speaking
the truth for it, we beg most gratefully to tender for the
future safe custody of its archives one of our most im-
proved holdfast and fire-resisting safes,' and in doing so
we have pride and pleasure in warranting it as the
strongest safeguard against fire and robbery extant. So
as your documents are entrusting to its keeping, we will
v, ture to ensure them, without charge, against any

ne mis. (,une which you deplored the
The severe and patient investigation, and

...tety, have not been alone
serviceable to us, but also in diffusing over the world at
large a body of valuable information " on the preservation
of documents from fire," by means of Mr. Woods's
pamphlet, of which we have ourselves circulated some
hundred thousand copies; and though last, perhaps not
ig to place the valuable documentary pro-
,erty of more than 20,000 of her Majesty's subjects in
ouch greater security within as many of our safes than
they would have been in any other. And now, sir, allow
us to assure you that we have not availed ourselves of the
approval which this and other similar societies and scien-
tific men generally have everywhere accorded us—our
theory commending itself to their knowledge, and the fire,
in practice, confirming our theory : nor have we availed
ourselves of our patent rights to merely enrich ourselves,
but rather to enrich and improve our manufactures. At
this moment tho.gubject of your late inquiry, " the means

of preserving documents from fire," has immense import-
ance, the government being engaged in choosing means
of securing the national records,hitherto most inexcusably
neglected—" Domesday Boke " itself having been left for
near a thousand years to the guardian spirit of its great
compiler. We claim for our weapons the first place in
the fire-resisting ranks, 1000° of Fahrenheit in advance of
any others; and as a sample of our improved holdfast and
fire-resisting safeguards, in a spirit of generous, fair, open
rivalry of skill, we wish to throw down our gage for the com-
ing contest on the safe we now propose to present to the Li-
verpool Polytechnic Society, and to summon its members
to see fair play when the trial comes.—We are, &c.,

" THOS. MILNER & SON

`• At, Esq.. Secretary,
" Liverpool Polytechnic Society."

NEW HOUSES, &c., IN LIVERPOOL

We are indebteclto Mr. Rishton, the excellent surveyor
of buildings, for the following return of the number of
and Warehouses erected, or in course of erection,
within the municipal borough, from the Ist of January
to the 31st of December, 1847.

Under 12/. From 121. From 251. From 35/.: Total. I Ware.
per annum. to 251. to 35/. ,upwards.' I houses,

Comparative statement of number of Houses erected
in each year since 1838.

1838118391184011841118421184311841184511846118471 Total

Houses.llos2l

a 0;
"711576r1761
12027113901
24.13_728,____346€1_1220!
19,661

PHRENOLOGY AND MESMERISM.-Mr. Hicks, whose
lectures and experiments created so much interest at Man-
chester, commences a course of lectures at the Concert
Hall this evening.—See advertisement.

'.."'EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH.—Last week there were
discharged from the ship Parker, Captain Risien, from
Demerara, 591 bhds. and 5 brls. of sugar, and 159 casks
rum, into the transit sheds, Prince's Dock, in the almost
incredibly short time of 26 working hours, under the able
superintendence of Messrs. T. White and Son, coopers,
and Mr. James Campbell, lumper.
Miss ATHERToN's CONCERT.—This concert came off
last evening, when the attendance, though not extremely
numerous, was at least extremely respectable. Miss
Atherton acquitted herself to the satisfaction of the
audience. Mrs. Pardy, too, added much to a well-
established name. Mr. Ryalls was, as usual, perfectly at
home. As instrumentalists, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Thomas
exhibited more than could be anticipated—the latter, as a
harpist, is now second to none extant, and we may
erognosticate for him a fame as yet untold.
TILE AVENGER, STEAM-FRIGATE.—By official letters,

one from Lieut. Rooke, the third lieutenant of the ship,
we are informed that of those who left the ship with him
only three besides himself were saved—namely, Mr. Lark-
ham, the gunner; Wm. Hill, steward ' • and James Mor-
ley, boy. The surgeon, Mr. Steele, who was at first re-
ported to have been saved, the second master, Mr. Betts,
master's assistant, Mr. Ayling, and John Owen, a Elea-
man, were drowned by the upsetting of the cutter when
beached. The complement of the Avenger was, we believe,
250 officers and men ; but in addition to her own ship's
company it is supposed she had a number of supernume-
raries on board, ordered a passage to the Mediterranean
squadron.
POPERY NOT "THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY OF BRI-
TAIN."—The Pope, no longer acting by leave of the
"powers that be," extends his episcopate in these realms
by one mark of his pen at the Vatican ; while the Church
of England is obliged to defend one of her ancient
bishoprics by a tedious contest of more than eight years'
duration. Even the productions of the fine arts, when
paid for by the public, are tending to subserve. Pontifical
purposes. We here briefly allude to a picture in the New
House of Lords, to which has been assigned (whether by
accident or design, we pretend not to say) the place of
distinction, immediately over her Majesty's Throne. The
subject is, the baptism of King Ethelbert. Augustine
(who was sent by Pope Gregory towards the close of the
6th century to convert the Saxon King) is represented as
performing the ceremony; and this picture is with all
gravity declared to represent " the introduction of Chris-
tianity into Britain." Every day's experience shows us,
that the old fable of Romanism being the Ancient Chris-
tianity of England is used, unceasingly and successfully.
in drawing converts over to Popery. In the case before
us, the fable is again, and in a very imposing manner,
brought before the public. How little acquainted must
those persons be with the history of their Church, who
know not that this very Augustine was opposed in the
most determined manner by the prelates of the ancient
British Church. Our British Bishops, after having for
some time avoided all communication with this Roman,
and his emissaries, at last consented (in the year 603) to
hold a conference with him; and although Augustine re-
duced his demands of obedience to three, viz.:—An alte-
ration in the time of observing Easter, the form of bap-
tism, and the mode of converting the Pagans,"—yet we
find that the Britiou —fused to comply with his

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request, and to acknowledge his superior authority. It is
perfectly evident that if episcopacy had not been esta-
blished long before Augustine arrived from Rome, this
opposition could not have been offered. So much for a
national work of art, which is .calculated, among other
figments of Popery to mislead this and_ future genera-
tions !—From the Fourteenth Annual Report qf the Bath
Church of Enyland Lay Ad'S'OelatiOn.