The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

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hearty enthusiasm
agreea}

amount of £4
of Mr. P

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the Welsh chars
the country and

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INCREASE OF Cal
over son

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city for

since 1840. "W

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of the g

numerous Bible
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consequent,

, worthy of eat

G 1,200 350
101,000 699
140,650 652

men s by the C(

How is this increase of convictions to It
Can it be accounted for frotr. the fact of

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CAUSE OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN
There can be no doubt that•the
Roman empire—so long and r-*
extension, plebeian s.
in reality mainly ow).
Spain and Greece, from which tht:
cient times were chiefly obtained, j
stricted importation of grain from Egj,
which ruined the profit of the harvests and
agriculture of Italy and Greece, at onr'
try and rendering taxes overwhel— •
THE SUCCESSFUL STEC'

er to .1

50 a year from

the surplice feE
port, it appears

very, and patrician co

g to the- failur.3 in ti

; church for the p st
town-clerk consider

of the choir amounted t

a toEs

C 661 16 2d. Tho c
!mounted to £7Bl 1

Often when a dark cloud h -.
mediate spot on which we are standine

een h

each receive

50 a-ica

nation of one of the r

.0 have seen

receive

1400 a• y a

some point in t

distance c

leered by

ursting rays

The su

Just now darkened by the threatening cloud of po per ; year of t chu u• ycrur
rch
but, happily, we can discern a clear gleam of light elsye- of whichhis to tt
£155 5s- •
where. Our readers will be thankful to learn, for ins'
that protestantism is on the increase in Bel--•
will be much gratified by reading the ext•
',ich has lately been receiv-
't ChArlernip 7,nrir P

anee,
They
elow from

The cost of till

a letter w

from a Bel

1 I At Sr. Ti

congre

son to know that that little church has been ellie,„
thered from Romanism ; has struggled manfully agair
many difficulties ; and has been owned by God as an i

ceiving
Corpor
little of
ters, vvt

,tion, on this c

strument for promoting His glory.
appeal which they make to their brethren in Eng._
be heartily responded to. These congregations have b,
visited by clergymen and others who are ready to b
testimony to the vitality of their faith.

We trust that the

port, it appeara that r

and wi

MR. FERRAND ON AC

t meetin

DARBY AND JOAN.—I never heard of the tra,
mentioned by H. I can only suppose that the poet re.
red to was the first person who introduced the ballad
the Manor House. Helaugh Nicholas, h
thority in such matters, whose trade traditions,
the Bowyers, father and son, went back a century .
half, tells us that the ballad was supposed to have b.
written by Henry Woodfall, while an apprentice to Dar)))
The Darbys were printers time out of mind—one Robert day, that agriculture 1.
Darby was probably an assistant to Wynkyn de word, whO the manufacturing dist
certainly left a legacy to a person of that name. The to contin
Woodfalls, too, can be traced up as printers for nearly two caeased four-.
centuries. The Darby, and Joan, his wife, were probably the manufacturing distri
John Darby, printer in Bartholorrew-close, who was reverse. You would b
prosecuted in 1684. for printing " Lord Russell's Speech," ruin. The man who hi
and died in 1704. The Woodfall, the printer, is under- his breast would scout
stood to have been Henry Woodfall, afterwards " Wood- expense of another am
I
am
fall without Temple-bar;" grandfather of Henry Simpson, to his country. Bu
the printer of " Junius' Letters," and great-great grand- the free import of forei
father of the present excellent printer of the same name. the ruin, not only
—Notes and Queries. but also of the ma
NAPOLEON'S RELIGION.—I have been at some pains to prove it. During tl
ascertain the little that can he he scan of his thrsn,,h+. -u•

Freetrad

n excellen

1 1 in the next. _ (t

ig of the admission

'le 15 or
fold, becati

.'"""" " nta LIWUPILS On of this question Mr
such subjects; and though it is not very satisfactory, it manufacturing operativ
appears to me worth recording. i the early periods of high wages, and plent
the revolution, he, in common with many of his country- state of the catton trade

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men, conformed to the fashion of treating an such mat- the
ters, both in conversation and action, with levity and even ver
derision. In his subsequent career, like most men expo- the

it during the last t
.ge of bankruptcy.

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