The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

IRISH SOCIETY.—A meeting of this society will be
held in Liverpool on Monday week, and more OAP
twenty sermons will be preached in its behalf on Sunda'',
the 17th instant. We rejoice that such a society has IT.:
ceived the promise of such support in Liverpool. Its ou,
ject is to instruct the Irish-speaking population of Ireland
in the Scriptures in their own tongue, and already it has
been instrumental in teaching multitudes, many of whafi
are living witnesses of the happy results of searching
Scriptures, and making the sacred volume the standard
of doctrine and rule of life.

FAST SAILING.—On Tuesday last, the new pilot-boats
George Canning, No. 7, recently launched by Mr. Peter
Cato, Brunswick Dock, made her trial trip to test ber
sailing qualities in competition with No. 12, hitherto the
swiftest sailing boat of the fleet. The two boats left the
Prince's Pier-head ty*ether, the wind blowing strong from
S.S.E., and proceeded up the Mersey to Rock Ferry. and
from thence back and round the Crosby Light Ships
beating back against the ebb tide and strong wind. The
George Canning acquitted herself to admiration, beating
No. 12 in every point of sailing; and when she arrived at
the George's Pier-head, No. 12 was a considerable (Vs'
tance behind. The George Canning is a beautiful speci-
men of naval architecture, well finished, and reflectsgreat credit on her builder. Her appearance excite
universal admiration ; though a little out of trim, she in°
proved herself the fastest bbat in the service.

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLun.—The Secretor''
of this flourishing Club has received separate and special
warrants for upwards of twenty vessels belonging i.O
members, authorising them, under the hand and seal of the
Lords of the Admiralty to carry the Blue Ensign of ger
Majesty's Fleet, with the distinctive mark of the Club";
the Crown and Liver. We have now therefore a Club ca
our own town, having the honour and privilege of flying
the national flag, irrespective of any other yach club. Tee,
promptitude and condiscen'ion of the Lords of the Au,
miralty in thus attending to the wishes of the Club, eee-
veyed through their honorary secretary, affords a gratify'
,
ing proop of their desire to encourage the fine sciences 0,l
building and sailing ; and if we may judge from the spirit
in which the matter has been taken up and patronized
here and elsewhere, we may venture to say that they V"ll
have no cause to repent of the confidence they had placed
in the members. The monthly meeting will take place
place this evening, when a large number of additionsl
members have to be ballotted for, and about an equal
number are to be proposed.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—George Godwin, Esq.,
F.R.S., F.S.A., the Honorary Secretary to the London
Art Union, to whose energy and talent the public are
mainly indebted for the eminent success of that refined
and refining society, as well es its exemption from the
penalties of the Lottery Act, is now delivering a highly-
successful course of lectures, upon the History of Archi-
tecture, at this institution. in his lectures of Tuesday
and Friday last, he has traced the progress of architecture
from the earliest record of it in Genesis, to the period of
its most successful application by the ancient Greeks, il-
lustrating his remarks by a great number of beautiful
diagrams, representing the best specimens of the arehi•-
tecture of the ancient nations whose ruins are now extant.
Two lectures only remain undelivered, in which Mr.
Godwin proposes to consider the Roman, Byzantine,
and Gothic architecture—summing up with a review of
the present state of architecture, and especially as it ap-
pears to exist in our town. We are glad to find Mr.
Godwin's audiences to be increasing, a sure sign of ap-
preciation ; and we trust that it is not the last time he
will honour us by his presence at this institution.--
Amongst the audience on Friday we noticed the Rev. 11-
M`Neile and family, and several of our town-councillors
and aldermen.