The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

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[PRICE FOURPENCE

PAPIER MACHE. JAPAN AND SHOW-ROOMS.

JOSEPH ROBERTS,
8, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

THE NEW AND ELEGANT PAPIER MACHE
REDGRAVE WINE TRAY,
REGISTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT, AND
MANUFACTURED BY THOSE CELEBRATED MAKERS,
JENNENS AND BETTRIDGE,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF GAS CHANDELIERS,
PALMER'S
PATENT CANDLE LAMPS AND CANDLES,
CAMI'HINE AND OTHER LAMPS,
Sheffield Plated Goods, Stoves. Fenders and Fire-irons,
Cutlery, &c.
LONDON TEA URNS,
Tea Trays, Caddies, Inkstands, Card Baskets, Folios, Writing
Desks, in extensive variety.
N.B.—Every Article Sold at this Establishment is warranted
good, and of the best quality.
OBSERVE 1-8, CHURCH-STREET.

CUFFLEY AND COMPANY,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LONDON AND FRENCH
PAPER-HANGING AND ARTISTICAL DECORATION
WAREHOUSE.
HANOVER-STREET,
NEAR BOLD AND CHURCH STREETS, LIVERPOOL.
CUFFLEY AND COMPANY, from long experience
in the Trade, and having been for several years Manufac-
turers of Paper-Hangings engaged for their supply, beg respect-
fully to inform the Public they will OPEN, on SATURDAY, 30th
instant, with the largest and most varied Stock in Town, the
whole of which will be offered at the lowest remunerating pro-
fits, and at a greater reduction of prices than hitherto sold at
Liverpool.

In the selection of the Stock peculiar advantages have been
afforded, from the fact of the principal London and Continental
Houses confining their Patterns to them in this district.
Importations of Parisian Goods will constantly be received at
the above Establishment, embracing the Newest Designs.
Beautiful specimens of Paneling may be seen, and other De-
corations, which are carried out to great perfection.
The Trade, Painters, and Shippers supplied upon the most
liberal terms.
September 8, 1848.

DINING AND DRAWING ROOM
CARPETS.
GEO. WOODS respectfully invites attention
to his STOCK, which now consists of all the
newest and most novel designs in TAPESTRY, VEL-
VET PILE, BRUSSELS, KIDDER, DUTCH, and
other CARPETS, HEARTH-RUGS, DOOR-RUGS,
&c.; MOREENS, DAMASKS, CHINTZES, and every
description of Article for Curtains, WiNuow Ales-
Ns, SWISS EMBROIDERY SHADES, Net and Lace
Curtains, &c. ; FRINGES, GIMP. TASSELS, &C.
Weil-seasoned BRISTOL and LONDON
FLOOR-CLOTHS.

ADELPHI-HOUSE, 21, BOLD STREET.
The only Establishment in Liverpool solely for
FURNISHING.

SEACOME DAWBARN,

TAILOR, Sm.,

110, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

AGENT FOR NICOLL'S NEW REGISTERED PALETOT,

OF LLAMA CLOTH, AS ALSO

FOR TIIEIR OTHER MANUFACTURED GOODS.

CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FILTERED WATER

BY
61NIITI-1 AND b.I2UKGES'
PATENT, ATTACHED, SELF-CLEANSING
WATER FILTER.
THIS purifying Apparatus, being attached to the
Pipe of a Cistern is at all times supplied with Witter. By
turning a cock, filtered water is drawn, whilst by a simple
arrangement the impurities arrested are expelled. It is com-
pact, not liable to derangement, and inexpensive.

AGENT,
W. BENNETT,
Grate Manufacturer and Ironfounder,
67, SIR THOMAS'S-BUILDINGS,
AND

55, WHifICHAPEL,
LIVERPOOL,
Where a Patent Filter of each size may be seen constantly in use.

TO BANKERS, MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS.
E. T. HALL,
METALLIC PEN MANUFACTURER,
BEGS to inform his Customers and the Public, that
he has Removed from 16, Houghton-street, to
23, SOUTH JOHN-STREET,
and most respectfully solicits a continuance of that liberal
patronage bestowed on him for the last seven years.
E. T. H. having made great improvements in his Pens, par-
ticularly calls attention to his Blue Steel Fens, well adapted
for all Writers.
Sold in Boxes, 2s. 6d. per Gross.
Shippers and the Trade supplied Wholesale.
WHOLESALE AGENT for W. LYON'S ANTI-CORRO-
SIVE INK, a Substitute for Writing and Copying Inks com-
bined.
N.B.—Any description of Pen made to order.

IMPORTANT TO LADIES.
THE GENUINE AND POPULAR MEDICINE.
PATRONISED BY THE QUEEN.
THE high and universal celebrity which ATKIN-
SON'S ROYAL INFANT'S PRESERVATIVE continues
to maintain, as a safe and agreeable medicine, renowned for its
efficacy in preventing or removing the disorders to which in-
fancy is liable, affording instant relief in convulsions, flatulency,
affections of the bowels, difficult teething, the thrush, rickets,
measles, hooping-cough, cowpox, or vaccine inoculation, and
may be given with safety immediately after birth. It is no
misnomer cordial I—no stupefactive, deadly narcotic !—but a
veritable preservative of infants ! hlothers would do well in
always keeping it in the nursery. Many thousands of
immediate children
are annually saved by this much-esteemed medicine, which is
an remedy, and the infants rather like it than other-
wise. In short, whether this medicine enters the palace or the
cottage, the proprietor feels an honest conviction of its power
to assuage maternal pain for infant suffering—to convert that
pain into gladness, that suffering into balmy repose. It is
equally efficacious for children or adults, in English cholera,
spasms, pain into the bowels, and other complaints of the in-
testines, owing to wind or obstnictions in the digestive organs.
It is highly recommended by the faculty.
Prepared and sold by ROBERT BARKER, 34, Greengate, Sal-
ford, late 1, Market-place, Manchester, (Chemist to Her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,) in bottles at 15.10..25. 9d.,
and 45. 6d. each. The 4s. 6d. bottles contain seven times, and
the 2s. 9d. three-and-a-half-times the quantity of those at 15.10.
each. Sold by all the Patent Medicine houses and Wholesale
Druggists in London, York, Liverpool, Leeds, Wolverhampton,
Coventry, Dublin, Edinburgh, &c. ; also by all Druggists and
Medicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom.
*** CAUTlON.—Observe the name of " ATKINSON AND
BARKER" on the Government Stamp. Established in the
year 1793,

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GENTEEMEN,

Liverpool, September 25, 1848.

LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SOCIETY
FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST

THE JEWS.

PATRON,
The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER,

I.
HE TWENTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY of this
. AUXILIARY will he held (D.V.) in the COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTION, on IIIf.',NDAY EVENixo, the lfith instant, at
Half-east Six o'clock. The Rev. "luau M`NEILE, D.D., will,
take the chair.

The Deputation will consist of the Rev. J. H. STEWART,
A.M., Rector of Limpsfield, Surrey; Rev. JostAn B. LowE,
A.M., Assistant Chaplain of the Magdalen Asylum, Dublin,
author of the "Annual Feasts of the Jews;" Rev.WM. AVERST,
A.M., Secretary to the Parent Society ; and Rev. A. THOMAS,
A.M., Association Secretary for the North-Western District.
The usual PUBLIC BREAKFAST of the Friends of the So-
ciety will take place, at the ADELPHI /TEL, on TUESDAY
Morning, the 17th instant, at Half-past Eight o'clock, on which
occasion the Rev. II UOll APNEI LE will preside.

TO THE ELECTORS OF ST. PETER'S WARD.

THE unanimous expression of a Public Meeting of
my Fellow-Wardsmen. of all parties, inviting me to offer
myself as your REPRESENTATIVE in the TOWN COUNCIL,
at the ensuing Election, I regard alike as a high honour, and a
call to public duty, which demand my grateful acknowledg-
ment and respectful consideration, . _

I cannot fail to recognise and fully appreciate the special rea-
sons which have influenced your choice on this occasion, and
which have led to the suppression of all party considerations ;
and, on the part of many of you, to the waiving in my favour
of other sad strong claims on your support.
It has been my duty, officially, to occupy a prominent posi-
tion in recent movements on important questions deeply af-
fecting your interests as Rate-payers, viz., the Supply of 'Water
for the Borough, the Rating of the Dock and Corporate Estates,
and the general principles of Nrtional and Local Taxation.
My opinions and conduct on these subjects were, therefore,
already before you, and were sufficiently decided to elicit any
difference of opinion that may exist respecting them. I cannot,
therefore, but regard your invitation, and the unanimity with
which it has been conveyed, as the strongest expression of your
approval of the course I have taken, and as an indication of
your wish that I should pursue the same course in the more
extended and important sphere of the Council Chamber.
'Believing it to he the privilege of every faithful citizen to aid
in promoting the interests of the community, according to the
measure of his ability and opportunity, and that existing cir-
cumstances give a specialty to your claim upon my services, I
feel I should be unworthy this expression of your confidence if
I did not respond to your call, by placing myself in your hands,
resolving', if elected, to discharge my duty faithfully and fear-
lessly.
I regard it to be the duty of your Representatives in the Council to manage, for the benefit of the Burgesses at
large, the immense and valuable Corporate and Dock Estates of
this town—their property—with the most rigid economy, con-
sistent with efficiency; and, in their administrative and legis-
lative functions, to respect equally, and promote impartially,
the rights, privileges, and interests, of every class of the com-
munity.
I hold that all necessary taxation should be equitably dis-
tributed, to render its oppressive weight at all tolerable by the
trading community; and, therefore, that the Dock and Corpo-
rate Estates should be assessed to local rates.
I shall cheerfully aid in maturingand carrying into operation
all measures which tend to elevate the moral, and ameliorate
the social condition of my fellow-creatures.
I shall also feel hound to reflect, in the Town Council, the
opinions of my constituents, on questions which they may
consider of such importance as to require a decided and general
expression of their wishes.

I regard with pride and veneration the principles of the Bri-
tish Constitution, and the Institutions which have sprung out
of them, the value of which is but more surely demonstrated
by every fresh occasion on which they are tested. And I sin
convinced that the truest conservation of those institutions
consists in the gradual eradication of any abuses which the en-
larged experience and progressive character of our age may
from time to time demand.

Should these views meet with your sympathy and approval,
I am willing, if it be your pleasure, to give them practical ef-
fect in the Town Council ; if, on the contrary, they do not ac-
cord with yours, I shall be content to advocate them within the
limits of my present sphere.
I remain, Gentlemen, faithfully yours,
JOHN FERGUSON.

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL,

FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY, &c. &c.

MY LORD,
Ob Ua
nRi t
yhighyour officlongialr position,professed
y attachment
well-known
cseuori
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to
the
civil and religious liberty, your influence both as a nobleman
and statesman, your ample experience of the genius of your
countrymen, and your insight into the tendencies of the present
movements over the length and breadth of Europe, all concur
in deteimining me to address you on a matter of no small
magnitude to the interests of the youth of this great country,
and, through them, to those of unborn generations ; and if
further apology be needed, I find it in the fact that, some time
since, you honoured me with an interview, as part of a deputa-
tion, to remonstrate, in the name of myriads, against the Mi-
nutes of Council on Education. The evils which I then point-
ed out to your lordship, as likely to flow from the influence of
those minutes on our Village Schools, and especially in those
stations with which, as Treasurer of the Home Missionary
Society, I am fully conversant, have been seriously realised.
The predicted hostility to the liberties of the poorer classes, if
they are found among the ranks of Dissenters from the Na-
tional Church, of a system which plays into the hands of the
opulent, and increases the power of unscrupulous partizans of
the hierarchy, has been fulfilled. The foreseen seductions of a
system which adds to the resources of the rich, in exact pro-
portion to their wealth, and increases the means of bribery in
the hands of those who have the predisposition to allure the
poor and the unsuspecting from the instruction to which they
are conscientiously attached, have been witnessed in many a
hamlet and village, and have become historical facts. Our de-
voted Missionaries, who are labouring to dispel the superstition
and ignorance amidst which the clergy of the richly-endowed.
Church have in most instances left the rural yoor, have to con-
tend ristronly agaiiiSt amt. mf.ntai PVils. Alsn apinct the
material advantages which the clergy and their coadjutors are
enab'ed to offer, and the refusal to accept of which they threaten
to punish. We complain, my Lord, that whilst our Missiona-
ries and teachers touch not, and will not touch, the national
resources in doing the work of mind, of truth, and of God,
which others have neglected, they should be continually ham-
pered and thwarted in their benevolent enterprise, by the very
parties who greedily receive the nation's money, and so fre-
quently employ it to the injury of justice, liberty, wad peace.
We complain that those consistent Dissenters who refused to
accept the grant, and who thereby evinced faith in their che-
rished principles, should be subjected to increased discourage-
meats by parties who had no such principles to cherish, and no
such scruples of conscience to prohibit them from accepting
the Government largess. But, my Lord, our sufferings have
not resulted in inaction, nor are our complaints intended to
prepare the way for a retreat from our 'vantage ground. No t
I assure your Lordship, in the name of multitudes, that whilst
we consider our principles infinitely stronger than the com-
bined power of the National Church, the National School, and
National Money, instead of retreating from the conflict, we
mean to rely still more implicitly on the power of that truth.
the diffusi(n of which is our so'e object, and on the virtues of
that Voluntaryism which it is fashionable to decry among the
ranks with which your Lordship associates. And although the
influence of the Tractarian party, from which your Lordship
has already experiencod some little trouble, has introduced a
new element of opposition to the evangelical labours of our
Home Missionaries, yet the decided improvement in 500 vil-
lages and hamlets, the result of the labours of those opposed
Missionaries, affords practical demonstration that the Volun-
tary principle contrasts most advantageously with the cum-
brous machinery of State interference. I believe most so-
lemnly that the: best and wisest way to evangelize the rural
population and to educate the children of England, would be
to withdraw all national resources from every party now re-
ceiving them, and to throw the people on the illimitable re-
sources of untaxed benevolence. At all events, it Is our settled
determination not to receive the aid of the Government ; for.
apart from our principles, which are dearer to us than policy,
we believe it will be found ultimately that that "aid" is an in-
cumbrance. We prefer our freedom, and are resolved to retain
it.

It may not perhaps have escaped your Lordship's memory
that the Committee of the Sunday School Union made a repre-
sentation, similar to that to which I have already alluded, to
your Lordship's noble coadjutors, but without practical effect;
for although the noble President is the friend of the liberties of
the humbler classes, and the friend of justice, and assured the
Committee of the deep anxiety he felt to protect their schools
against the arbitrary regulations of the National School, yet it
was evident there was a concealed power working against them,
in opposition to which his Lordship had attempted to contend
in vain. It is true that the Sunday School Union have admitted
the principle for which your Lordship argues, and against which
we have repeatedly protested. But the defence of our princi-
ples is not weakened ; nor are the facts which justify our oppo-
sition to the Government scheme lessened, by the defalcation
of parties on whose co-operation we might have counted.
I remind you, my Lord, of these steps in your remarkable
pro-endowment policy ; a policy which has already crested
discord and division at home and in the colonies, and which
threatens our Colonial Missionaries and Mission stations with
increasing danger; and a policy which, if persisted in, (allow
me to add with all deference,) will place England in the rear
instead of the van of European nations.
of the is to seize the first favour-
able moment for the public endowment of a priesthood whose
Inaonsdv,tmthyatLoyordu,rint
eisxtreppuorrgdseover the length and breadth
system was denounced by your Royal Mistress, our gracious
Queen, as superstitious and idolatrous, when she ascended the
throne of these Protestant realms. It is certain that your po-
licy has long pointed to this consummation; but still the pro-
ject appears so incredible, that but for its public announcement,
it would not have been believed. You, my Lord, about to en-
dow Popery, to patronize the disciples of Loyola, to invite a
system fraught with death to the civil and sacred liberties of
the people, and to tax the over-burthened nation to sell those
liberties to the hoary foe of all that is great and good in hu-
manity, and soul-stirring in Christianity, and precious in free
inquiry and liberty of conscience? Is this to be the climax of
your political career, the acme of your fame,-the crowning deed
in your public life ? A member of the noble house of Bedford,
whose historical associations are identified with the struggles of
England for constitutional freedom, to appear, during the high
noon of the nineteenth century, when the nations of Europe are
throwing off the crushing yoke of politico-ecclesiastical esta-
blishments, as the champion, patron, and endower of Popery ?
My Lord, the name of Russell is not only historical, but you are
yourself an historian, !and without asking you who were the
ethiveildan
privileges
most inveterate foes of liberty and civilization during the long
night of darkness, or who built the Inquisitions of Italy, and
persecuted lafire and sword those great and holy men who, in
ash
bee
scattered
caatsttelr)eedseoends
the of
soil of our common fatherland—great and holy men who, with
a daring for truth and God, for the rights of man and the ho-
nour of Jesus Christ, leaped in the breach where a Roman
Curtius would have trembled, between ecclesiastical tyranny
e andß froerl inotui osni freedom, o n their
o
and national oppression ;—I say, instead of asking you these
questions, I will merely • ask you how it will read in the pages •f
the future historian, that Lord John Russell re-established Po-
pery in the nineteenth century ? My Lord I beseech you to
think again—think seriously—think long, before yon submit
the odious propisition to the Commons of England. In the
event of such a proposition, the overthrow of the Ministry of
compared wita the calamities to the rising generation which
your success would inevitably produce. But no success is
which you are the head is certain ; but this were a small matter
impossible ! Nevertheless, the attempt will arouse against the
political existence of the statesman who makes it a storm such
as the present generation has not witnessed. The Protestant
people of these lands will lift up their voices like the roll of
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my a
0
mighty thunderings, as in the days of your ancestors; and, as
in the experience the House of Brunswick, the Protestant
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education of 2,070,000 of Britain's sons and daughter's, and
who love them too well to hand them over to the tender mercies
of Popery—which you must endow in England as well as in
2O ,OCo Lord,O of Dissenters
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toy will
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Ireland—will arise to push you from office, and to request yon
to retire to private life, on the day in which you so far forget
yourself as to propose to Parliament your plan for an addi-
tional Church Establishment in this kingdom, which is fettered.
and injured by too many already.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
THOMAS THOMPSON.
Poundsford Park,l3th Sept., 1848.
[Secretaries of Sunday School and Sunday School Unions
generally, are invited to send promptly any communications on
this subject, which they think suitable, to the Editor of Tel[
CHRISTIAN TIMES.
See " ristian Times," Sept. 15, 1848,
Published at 10, Gough-square, Fleet-street, London.

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