The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

TIIF, LIVERPOOL• STANDARD

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-rjloc, Ten o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Last Night.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILL.

LORD STR A DBROKE moved the third reading of the
Birkenhead Deck Bill. wh..n the Marqu;s of SALISBURY
moved that the suopresed clause. agreed upon with the
Shipowners' Association, be inserted. He commented
warmly upon the conduct of the party who signed the
agreement, as detailed in our first edition, on behalf of
the promoters of the bill.

Lord BROUGHAM and MONTEAGLE defended the party;

Lord Wicict.ow supootted the Marquis of Salisbury.

Ultimately the amendment was wi hdrawn and the bill
passed, there being a manifest disposition in the House to
support the Committee in their report.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting yesterday
the chair was fi by the newly elected repeal member
fur Limerick, Mr. James Kelly. The rent was expected
not to be much under £2,000. _ _

BIRTH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.—On Friday the
Ducie-s de Nemours Aas safely delivered of a son, to
whom the King of the French has given the name of
Duke d'Aleiig,in.

THE BIBLE IN CHINEst,. —China has been opened
by recent tavent4, no: only to commercial speculations but
to missionary enterprise, and there appears to be quite
as much ardour in the religious world to send the
in the
of di%iiie truth among its m Mons,
ons, as there is the
manufacturing and commercial world to supply them with
calicoes and woollens. In our native laud, the London
and Church Missionary Societies have made new and
successful rff rrs to raise funds for this specific object.
arid it is rumoured that the weekly collections made in
London by order of the bishop are intended for the
planting of Snglish episc itiar.iy in that soil. America has
long taken a very prominent share in missionary labours
on the outskirts of that hitherto sealed country. The
Baptist and Congregational denominations have for some
time past had (Fissions in China, and we learn that the
facilities now afforded for the residence of missionaries on
the eastern coast, have served to kindle the zeal of the
Preshyterian churches, an I that they are about to establish
an extensive mission in that country.—Captain Piddiny's
Chinese Olio.

NIGHTLY SERVED.—Reay and I (Lord Eldon) went up
from Oxtord to London together, we dined at March's
Maidenhead-bridge, and upon the window Reay observed
that a person of Chipping Norton, whose name I now for-
get, had written that he dined there on a leg of mutton,
upon a day and year mentioned in what was written.
When we gut to the Somerset coffee-house Reay sent him
a letter, stating, that as he had thought it impoitant to
inform the public that he had dined at Maidenhead-bridge,
and upon a leg of mutton, he must expect that some of
tli public would inquire how the mutton had aereed with
him ; and he therefore took the liberty of sending such an
inquiry, from his friend Tom Comical. Next day he sent
him a double letter, hoping that, as probably he had po-
tatoes with his mutton, they bad not disagreed with him,
Two days afterwards he sent a treble letter, representing,
that as his fiend Tom Comical had received no answer to
his inquiry how the mutton and potatoes had agreed with
him, he had probably made a mistake, and stiould have
inquired how the mutton and French beans, or some other
vegetab es, had agreed with him, and assured him that he
should repeat his kind and anxious inquiries every day till
his answer c +me. We were soon afterwards obliged to
return to college, and, stopping at March's, we found that
the pane had been taken out of the window and anew one
put in its place. Whilst we were looking at the window,
old March came in, and, observing us, he said, 'Ay, ay,
one of you must he the gentleman that sent the person
that has been here from Chipping Norton so many letters.
Poor man I lie came all the way from Chipping Norton,
20 odd miles the other side of Oxford, and insisted upon
ste'ng the pane of glass, the leg of mutton, arid all the
re-t, taken out of the window, and a new pane of glass
put in, before he would eat a morsel.'—Life of Lord
Eldon.