The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELISTS CHURCH.—The third oi
a Series of Lectures will be delivered to-morrow evening
by the Rev. Robert Davies, minister of St. Paul's. Sub.
ject—The Blessed effects of true Religion.
Miss Osborn, the daughter of Sir John Osborn, Bart.
whose case we have before noticed as having been brought
up at one of the metropolitan police-offices, charged with
stealing a pot of potted meat, was on Saturday committed
to the London sessions for trial.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Common!
gave his first grand parliamentary entertainment for the
present session on Saturday evening, at his residence in
Eaton-square. The guests were chiefly members of the
ministry. Mr. Cardwell was amongst the company.
TEIGNMOUTH.—The surplice is still continued. Or
Sunday last, the greater part of a very small congregation
left the church, amidst much noise and confusion. Re-
port says, that the worthy incumbent is preparing for a
siege, and that on Sunday next the police are to guard the
church to prevent an uproar, that the surplice worshippers
may not be disturbed.— [Vest Briton.
REV. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S NEW WORE.—The
popular author of " Luther," " The Messiah," and other
poems, and whose last work, " The Gospel Before the
Age," has caused so much discussion, not only among
English critics, but in France and Germany, ha-, it will
be perceived, by our columns to-day, a new work in the
press, under the noble and expressive title of " CHRIST
OUR ALL IN ALL." A sublimer theme human pen can-
not handle.

TRACTARIAN CONCESSIONS.—We publish i❑ another
part of our paper two pieces of intelligence which, we
feel convinced, will be received by our readers and the
public in general with extreme surprise and satisfaction.
We allude to the intended dissolution of the Camden
Society, and the concession of the Tottenham clergy on
the subject of church innovations. Both these circum-
stances are at the present crisis of ecclesiastical affairs
most important. They indicate a proper appreciation of
the perilous aspect of things in the church.—Times of
yesterday.
THE PACKET-SHIPS UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND•
It appears, by our late accounts from New York, that
some apprehensions were entertained at that ei'y for till
safety of these fine packet-ships, which sailed from this
port on the 26th of November and Ist of December res-
pectively, especially as the packet-ship Oxford, Captain
Rathbone, which left Liverpool on the 18th December,
had arrived in safety on the 20th ultimo. The New York
Herald remarks :—" They have been out in severe wea-
ther, and the probability is, that they have lost spars.
and, perchance, masts. They have been a long time at
sea, yet hundreds of fast-sailing ships have tven longer is
making voyages of an equal distance. For instance, the
John arrived at Philadelphia last Sunday, after a passage
of 131 days from Leghorn !"

SWITZERLAND.—Lausanne letters and the Swiss jour-
nals of the 11th instant announce that the Grand Council
of Vaud had assembled on that day, and would probably'
give to its representatives in the extraordinary Diet the
same instructions as those of Berne, Soleure, and Zurich.
Two of the cantons, Friburg and Geneva, had declared
against all intervention with the rights of the government
of Lucerne. The former had instructed his representa-
tives to declare the admission of the Jesuits into Lucerne
an act of sovereignty of that canton, exercised in virtue of
its constitutional authority, and with which the Diet wee
incompetent to interfere. Protesting beforehand against
any decision the assembly might adopt, whether it resolved
to invite or corrpel Lucerne to expel the Jesuits, the Grand
Council of Friburg apprised the Council of State of its
readiness to invest it with full powers, and supply it with
an unlimited credit to enable it to adopt efficient measure
of defence. That body was likewise empowered to ap-
point a Commander-in-Chief of the cantonal forces,
who would most probably be M. Vonderweid, a swiss
officer in the Neapolitan service. Geneva, however, w 0
not disposed to proceed to the same extremities as Fri-
burg, and would join in a pressing and friendly invitation
to Lucerne, in.consideration of its federal position, to re-.
scind its decree relative to the Jesuits. The Grano
Council of Zurich, after a warm discussion, in which the
Landammann Zehuder denounced the Jesuits as a moral
plague, which it was incumbent on the confederation to
remove by force, if necessary, appointed for its represen-
tatives in the extraordinary Diet Dr. Fourrer and Coun-
cillor Ruttimann. The former, however, only obtained
100 votes out of 199, and the second 99 out of 194.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Fan. 17.
The business in this market, on Saturday, was inter-
rupted by the statement of Sir Robert Peel, and the
uncertainty as to the actual time of the duty being taken
off. About 2,000 bales were sold at previous prices•
Yesterday, prices continued very irregular. The sales
were about 4,000 billes, chiefly at last week's full prices•