The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-22 00:00:00

Published Weekly. price 6d., Stamped, Embellished with
Thirty Engravings in each Number,'
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, a PICTO-
RIAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER, containing Essays on
Public Affairs ; Literature ; Fine Arts ; The Drama ;
Sporting Intelligence ; Science ; and a complete Record
of all the Events of the Week, at Home, Abroad, or in
the Colonies; the whole Illustrated in a higli style of art
by engravers of the first eminence, printed in a form con-
venient for binding, and comprising 16 PAGES, and 48
COLUMNS OF LETTER-PRESS, fh a typography
consistent with the beauty and neatness of the engraved
embellishments.

The proprietors of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
have no longer to usher before the world a mere prospec-
tus of its purpose and design. The project which they at
first conceived in a spirit of sanguine ambition, has, within
a short period, been crowned with the most gratifying and
unprecedented success ;—with the rapidity of tropical ve-
getation, their seed has grown to fruit, and THE ILLUS-
TRATED LONDON NEWS iS now the only FAMILY
NEWSPAPER, properly so characterized, which, ex-
ceeding all its contemporaries in the amount of public
patronage allotted to it, can claim a

CIRCULATION OF 50,000 COPIES,
and proudly takes rank as the first of all the weekly
journals of the empire.
This fact is a source of mingled gratitude and pride ;
of pride, because no expedients of imposition—no mean
subterfuges have been resorted to, but a stand has been
made upon the simple merits of a system which its pro-
prietors have only now to study to improve into as much
perfection as a newspaper can attain. To THE ILLUS-
TRATED LONDON NEWS, the community are indebted for
the first combination of all the varieties of public intelli-
gence, with the fertile and exhaustless resources of the
fine arts—the developement of a new and beautiful means
of extending and confirming the interest of society over
all the topics within the circle of its life and action—the
giving brighter presence and more vivid and palpable
character and reality to every salient point and feature in
the great panorama of public life.
And in the cementing of this new and happy union, the
Editor of this Pictorial Newspaper has sought no adven-
titious aids to attain his purpose of success. He has not
pandered to the prejudices of the high, nor the passions of
the lower orders of society—he has avowed the counte-
nance of no party in the state or among the people, but
taking the high ground of neutrality, has contented him-
self with the advocacy of justice, morality, and truth—to
raise the standard of public virtue—to palliate the dis-
tresses of the poor—to aid the benevolence of the rich—
to give a healthy moral tone to the working of out social
system—to uphold the great principles of humanity —to
promote science—encourage bell's lettres and beaux arts—
foster genius and help the oppressed—in a word, to enlist
all the nobler influences which impel the progress of civi-
lization and tend to dignify the character alike of nations
as of men. This should be the enlarged purpose of the
honest public journalist, and to take its humble part in
the promotion of such purpose is the cherished and avowed
ambition of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
To achieve this, the proprietors have not scrupled to
enlist the first available talent, both in literature and art,
and the consequence has been a declaration of public
opinion in their favour, and the recorded encouragement
and welcome of the whole provincial press.
When this beautiful work is considered in all its details
—the talent and skill of the artists—the elaborate execu-
tion of the engraver, notwithstanding the rapidity with
which many of the engravings have been done—the varied
talent displayed in the editorial department—the beauty
of its printing, the quality of its paper, and various other
items which could be enumerated, it must be acknow-
ledged, that even in these days of cheap literature, it is
beyond compare the greatest wonder that ever issued
from the press.
*** The great success of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEws renders it necessary that the public should he on
their guard that inferior publications are not substituted
for this paper.
OFFICE, 198, STRAND.

RE-OPENING OF ST. BARTHOLOME S
CHU it(' H, NAY LO R. STRE ET.
ON SUNDAY, the 27th of August, ST. RTHO-
LOM EW'S CHURCH will be RE-0 FINED for
DIVINE SERVICE, when TWO SER ONS will be
Preached, in the Morning, by the Rev. .W. EWRANK,
M.A., of St. George's. Everton. Serv. e to commence
at Half-pact Ten o'clock ; and in the Evening, by the
Rev. THOS. BYRTH, D D.. Rector of Wallasey. Service
to commence at Half-past Six o'clock.

After each Sermon. a COLLECTION will be made in
aid of the Fund for Defraying the Expenses incurred by
the late alterations and improvements.
Dr. WESLEY will, on this occasion, preside at the
Organ, assisted by an efficient choir.

THOS. DOVER,
THOS. CROSTON, Jun., t Churchwardens.

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.
President :
,/
•
The Right Hon. Lord ASHLEY. /
AT a MONTHLY MEETING of the GENERAL
COMMITTEE, on THURSDAY, the 3d instant, 15
grants for Curates were renewed for another year. One
grant of £5O fora Curate was increased(to £lOO. while
five fresh grants for Curates were votest, amounting to
£350 per annum. Endowments frouf the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners to places previously aided. and the filling
in of other grants enabled the Committee thus to act.
Two of the districts have populations of nearly 9000, two
of 11,000, and one 17.554. The Committee have still
upon their list 24 applications from incumbents, charged
with an aggregate population of nearly 200,000 souls,
which cannot be complied with, because the Society's
present income is insufficient to meet the demands already
made upon it.

Incrtased Contributions are therefore most ea:nestly
solicited, that these pressing cases may be assis ed. The
Committee, in addition to the list published last month,
gratefully acknowledge the following recent Contribu-
tions :

X s. d.
Earl of Lonsdale 2OO 0 0
Lord W. Powlett
M. S., per Mrs. Smalley ...
Christian Friend, per Messrs. Nisbet 5 0 0
Friend, per Messrs. Hoare and Co lO 0 0
W. L. Gibson, Esq., Ongar
W., per Record
Mrs. Vaux
.1. Deverell, Esq.
A Lady 5O 0 0
J. Wilson, Esq. 5 0 0
Rev. T. W. Metter
H. M'Kenzie. Esq.
W. Port, Esq ••• •• ... • . ...... 20 0 0
Mrs. Cox, Lawford
Z. A., per Record 5 0 0
H. M. A., per Ditto 5O 0 0
Subscriptions will he thankfully received at the Bank-
ing-house of Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
lane, London, and by A. W. POWLES, Esq., 4 Water-
street. Liverpool.

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.
ASERMON will be Preached in Aid of the Funds of
this Society, at ST. ANDREW*. CHURCH,
Liverpool, on SUNDAY MORNING 'next, the 27th
instant, at the usual hour, by the Re . A. P. IhwiNs,
M.N., Association Secretary for the orth.
The Society sends £5,730 a year to the Diocese of
Chester, for the employment of 65 additional Clergymen,
and Three Scripture Readers, including Eleven Grants
for Clergymen to Liverpool, of the Annual amount of
£9lO.

PROMOLI AND HAUSBURG
BEG leave to inform their Friends and the POI
general, that by their extensive arrangemeti,
the manufacture of
" GOLD AND SILVER LEVER WA LIES,"
they are enabled to submit them at Price: much below
those at which these articles have been b • erto attaina-
ble :
GOLD LEVER, with hard Ena.y ed.)
Dials, Seconds, Capped and Jewe 'd in
two holes, and five actions, maintaining
power during winding, improved detached >'ZiC) 10
Lever Escapement, and double bottomed
cases
DITTO, precisely the same as the above.

IC IQ
is for

but with. Gobi Dials " i 1 1 ICO
SILVER WATCHES, Patent Detached 1
Lever Eseapeinnt j 5 0
GOLD WATCHES, horizontal Move-2
ments, Enamelled, Silver or Gold Dials 5 810
SILVER DO., Enamelled or Silver Dials,
Gold Joints, Gold Balance, and Jewelled} 4 0
in four holes

ALL WARRANTED.
PROMOLI AND IiAUSBUG,
OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS.

TAE-PEACE
AND

PING—PLENTY.
IT is with the above appropriate characters—the Eng.
lish signification of which is " Peace and Plenty," that
CAPT. PIDDING'S Chinese correspondent heads his
last communication from Fo-kein. " Heaven," he adds,
" approving, has rained down blessings on the Central
Nation. In the same Season, Peace is proclaimed, and
Plenty crowns the Land. Since the year 4448," (A. D.
1811,) "when the Earth was revivified by the broom-
tailed Star," (comet,) vegetation h not been so luxuri-
ant as now. The air, redolent of perfume from the fra-
grant tea-blossoms, manifests its fine quality; whilst the
plentiful picking shows how abundant is the precious leaf.
Thus has nature spired with the gods to make man
happy."

The new Season's crop of CAPT. PIDDING'S TEAS,
just received, realises all that be anticipated from the
above communication. Their quality is most assuredly
the finest he has known. Their abundance—with a remis-
sion of duties in prospect—has determined him at once to
'educe the price below what they have ever before been
CAPTAIN PIDDING'S MIXED BLACK TEA is
REDUCED from Bs. 6d. the Catty Package
(!harged.
accordingly
to 6s. the Pound Package. Ilis SMALL LEAF GUN-
POWDER is REDUCED from Twelve Shillings the
Catty Package to Bs. 6d. the Pound Package.
The Signature of the Sole Importer, " Captain Joni*
RHODES PIDDING," lion. Company's Service, Fellow-
Med. But. Society, &c., is on every Genuine Pffickage.
AGENTS IN THIS DISTRICT:
GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 39. Bold-street,
Agent for Liverpool.
J. H. PYER, Confectioner, 32, Great Homer-street,
for Everton and Kirkdale.
Bolton—G. J. French. Draper.
Burnley—T. Sutcliffe, Bookseller, 20, St. James's.,
street.
Blackburn—J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church•street.
Bradford—John Pratt, Chemist, 33, Ivegate.
Halifax—J. W. Foster, Linen Draper, 36, Crown-
street.
Leeds—Kowntree and Cooke, Confectioners, 39, Com-
mercial-street.
Manchester—John Ford and Co., St. Ann's-square.
Preston—Knight and Smith, Waterloo House.
Southport—Samuel Whiteley, Wine Merchant.
Wakefield—J. Stanfield and Co., Booksellers.
tW For agencies, address Capt. Pidding, 22, College.
hill, Landou.