The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

The Rev. Dr. Raffles, on Sunday, completed the fortieth
Year of his ministry in Liverpool.
Mr. Ramshay will resume his sitting in the County
Court on Thursday next, at nine o'clock in the morning.
It is understood that Father Gavazzi will lecture in
Liverpool in the early part of next month.
Two omnibuses on a new construction commenced ply-
ing on Thursday between Scotland-road, the Queen's
Dock, and Mount.pleasant. The fare is 2d.
An inquest was held, on Wednesday, on the body of
Mary Dwyer, 79 years of age, who resided in Park-street.
bier death was the result of a fall.

On Wednesday night, a numerous and highly respect-
able party met at Mr. Franklin's, in George-street, in
celebration of the anniversary of the sth of November.

The £5O prize given by the Liverpool Academy has
been awarded to Mr. 'Hunt's pre-Raphaelite picture,
"Scene from the two Gentlemen of Verona."

Owen Hughes, a labourer employed in the alterations
of the Custom-house, has been killed by being crushed
on the chest with the portion of a falling wall.
The Hon. Montague Wilde, son of the Lord Chancel-
lor, is, it is rumoured, to be appointed registrar of the
Manchester Bankruptcy Court.
On Tuesday evening last the Rev. Mr. Moriarty. an
Irish clergyman, preached a sermon in the Irish tongue at
St. Paul's, to a very crowded and respectable congregation.

Mr. E. F. Chipp, one of the most brilliant and famous
of metropolitan organists, is engaged to perform on the
. Powerful organ of the Collegiate Institution, in December.
Sunday being the anniversary of the birth of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, the event was celebrated
in the evening by the ringing of the different church bells.
NATIONAL AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION.—A lecture
on this subject will be delivered in the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, by the Rev. J. A. Baynes, 8.A., on Friday
evening next.
The United States and Liverpool mail steam-ship
Atlantic, West, commander, will take her departure from
the Mersey for New York at about noon to-morrow,
(Wednesday.)
A lecture on Mormonism will be delivered at the Con-
cert-hall, on Thursday evening next, by the Rev. J. B.
Lowe, M.A., being the third of a course now proceeding
Under the auspices of the Church of England Institution.
The Distil) Family, whose unequalled performances
on the sax-horns have been so highly and frequently
Praised, are to give two concerts at the Philharmonic-hall
on Thursday and Friday next. _

A CASE OF DEEP DISTRESS will be found in our ad.
vertising columns of this day. We hope most cordially
for an ample response to Mr. C. Mitchell's introduction
of it to our readers.

In the action Cross v. Cheshire, upon a promissory
note for £268 2s. 3d., which was tried at the last Liverpool
assizes, and a verdict entered for the plaintiff, the court
above has refused to grant a new trial, which was applied
for on Tuesday last.
On Tuesday evening an interesting lecture, " On the
Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation," was delivered
at the Collegiate Institution, by E. Wheeler, Esq. The
next lecture will have reference to the relative advantages
of the screw and paddle-wheel.
THE COAL TRADE.—We understand that the negotia-
tions between the coal trade and the Dock Committee are
Proceeding sutisfactorily, and that arrangements are in
Progress for providing an improved system for the landing
and loading of coals in connexion with the railways.
The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Africa. Ryrie, commander, left the Mersey on Saturday,
at eleven, a.m., for New York, with the usual weekly
bulls, a full cargo of French and other 'goods, and 100
Passengers.
A meeting was held, on Thursday, in the Town-hall,
'lanchester, to inaugurate the Manchester Diocesan
Church Building Society, which has been formed under
the auspices of the bishop, for the purpose mainly of lend-
ing assistance in the building of churches, and for endow-
ing them.

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