The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

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CLASSES, LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' rN-
_..,,ioN.—We are informed that the Board of Trade
has just presented a very handsome collection of sculp-
tured ornaments, engravings, &c., to the Mechanics' In
stitution, for the use of the Drawing Classes.
classes are now conducted on the plan of the Govern-
ment Schools of Design.
THE WELBII CHORAL SOCIETV
reference to the adrertisernero-

It will he seen by

character of the male defendant's " hinr;anit .... that the members of this
y,” snriety •will give their seventh public performance on
came to the determination to convict the defendants of a Wednesday the 16th instant, in the Mechanics' lnstitu-
common assault. They were accordingly fined £2 each tion. The progress which this society has already tr-
and costs ; and in delivering the judgment of the court in the department of sacred music, entitles it to e
the chairman characterised the case as one of " great and high position amongst the musical societies of the tom..
unnecessary cruelty."
and the performance here announced will, no doubt, be
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MANCHESTER STATE OF TRADE. looked forward to with interest by the natives of the Prin-
At the opening of business on Tuesday morning, there was cipality resident in this town as well as the public generally.
an expectation that a fresh impulse would be given to the Li. PROBABLE DESTRUCTION OF MODERN Rome.--Many
verpool market, and, through that, to our own, by the New authors have asserted, as their interpretation of some parts
York advices, which reported a upward reaction of itoi of a of the Apocalypse, that Rome will be destroy ed by fire
cent per lb. in the raw material. But the anticipated effect did from heaven, or swallowed up by earthquakes, or over-
not ensue; and both markets have continued inanimate during
the week. As regards goods, all that can be said is, that ex-
, whelmed with destruction by volcanoes, as the visible
tremely little has been done in domestics. shirtings, printing punishment of Almighty for its Popery and its crimes. I
cloths, or any other fabrics. The Greeks are effectually de- am unwilling, having read so many books on the inter-
barred from the purchase of light ith printers, by the weight pretation of prophecy, to deduce any argument of this
of stock remaining unsold at Constantinople; they are, how- kind from the prophecies which are unfulfilled • but I
ever, taking a few T's and long chdhs, chiefly for other ports
beheld everywhere—in Rome, near Rome, and ihrough
in the Levant. In the department of yarns it has been found
country from Rome to Naples—the most
that there were inquiries on Tuesday from the home con-
the whole
sumers, which have had much less result in the shape of orders astounding proofs, not merely of the possibility but of the
than they seemed to promise. The Indian and China mer- exceeding probability that the whole region of central
chants, however, go on hu,,ing suitable counts and qualities, to Italy will one day suffer under such a catastrophe. The
a fair extent ; though a slight difference in price is allowed to
soil of Rome is.lufa, of a volcanic origin ; the smell of the
stand in the way of a bargain. But the Germans do not .
which we found so diaprppo,L
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venture beyond the purchase of such small parcels, as, at this su !Phur, • -

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season, anti under "present circumstances, are necessary to suit of volcanic subterranean act ion still go
supply, in the barest manner, the immediate wants of their Naples the boiling sulphur is seen bubbling •
customers. The letters they have received to-day give an un- face of the earth. When I drew a stick •
favourable account of the sale of German cotton manufactures
at the Leipsic fair. This is not likely to have any sensible ground, the sulphurous smoke followed the indentation;
affect on our yarns, however, as the January fair is always and it would never surprise me to hear of the utter
short, and seldom one of much activity in business. The destruction of the southern peninsula of Italy. The entire
quietness just now experienced is little if any thing more than countryeand district is volcanic. It is undermined, and
what naturally follows a series of very extensive transactions, redolent with subterranean materials for the utter destruc-
and therefore does not diminish that general firmness amongst tion of the whole of the south of Italy, from Rome to the
producers which we have
neighbourhood of Naples. It is saturated with beds of
.previously reported as arising from
their very favourable position in regard to stocks and con-
,ph,ur and the substrata of destruction. It seems as
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tracts ; although it may have modified such extreme quota-
sulphur
tions as were before unattainable. certainly prepared for the fl tries as the wood and coal on
-- --z----=------, the earth are prepared for the taper which shall kindle
M)tETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPO-- OL.
Jan. Hour.
the fire to consume them. I again read the remarks of
14, John Gray and Robert Williams (pf & div) District Court, 'it Dr. Cumming : Rome, he believes, is to be overthrown
16, Martin Luther Pritchard (audit) ........ Ditto, /1 by judgments, not to be converted by the agency of the
16, Henry Cole (audit) Ditto, 11 Gospel, nor to be exhausted by political assaults. It is
16. Richard Abram (audit)
Ditto, it literally to be consumed by fire. Whether ho is correct
16, Richard Deane (audit)
17, William :11atiry (proof and div.)
17, Richard Abram (proof and div.)
cies,. ant
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12. Richard Deane (proof and div.)
19, John Dale Harwood (Ist)
20, Joseph Smith (audit)
ao, James florsfield (audit)
pDii
it
ttoo: 11 mirgcle as great as that which prciteeted the cities of the
22. Joseph Smith (proof and div,) ... , ... , Ditto, 11 ;Aida, fill the righteous Lot had made his PReaPe to the
21, Jame Hoystield (proof and thv.)
13 et'liounlaine.--Tatemend's Tour in Ita% in 1850.

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