The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1851.

mote parts of the States

A no ice of " The

Ansayrii,

:enery,

enticing and beautiful descriptions of Eastern
manners, and customs, with apeculatione upon the won
ders of modern modes of locomotion. This work, which
is by the Hon. Frederic Walpole, R N., gives a descrip-
tion of a very remarkable sect, the Ansnyrii (or Assassins),
the followers of the Old Man of the Mountain, so cele-
brated in the history of the Crusades. The number con-
with a review which extinguishes with consid,-rable

vigour, tempered however with much humour and satire,
a very vapid, crude, and ignorant work by a Mr. Francis,
called " A History of the English Railway."

Ireland, Past and Present.

This is a little pamphlet, devoted to the report of a
speech made by Mr. Joseph Fisher, one of the guardians of
ioughal Union, at a meeting of various deputies assem-
iled at Limerick, in Octoberlast. Mr. Fisher, in this speech,
takes a very comprehensive sketch of the general state of
Ireland, and enters into laborious and interesting statis-
tics in regard to the exports of grain, in elucidation of his

views. Mr. Fisher's arguments, founded upon the dimi-
nution of Irish exports end the increase of emieration,
and his various calculations upon these subjects, evince
great research and an intimate acquaintance with the

general condition of Ireland. The tacts he establishes,
and the remedies he sugzests in this speech. deserve the
perusal of all who take an interest in Irish affairs.

THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE,

days, will
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ye been inquiring within the last few
) follow from the Freemasons' Hall meet-
Protestant Alliance, and what the alliance

persons

ans to do
That meet

ng was held

, we apprehend, chiefly to set an

example to the country at large. The provincial towns
seldom move in any public matter until they see the
aolis. The Freemasons'

3n taken n

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Hall meeting tested pu

It showed that

blic opinion

which conk

only have been, previously surmised ; that
the people were fully alive to the importance of the Mny-
nooth endowment, and would gladly aid any measure to
abolish that endowment. The crowd which assembled on
that occasion proved that there was no one subject on
which the people felt more deeply.
As to the next steps to be taken, we believe that Glas-
gow, and Manchester, and Birmingham, will quickly
show that they require little instruction on this point.
Public meetings are, we understand, in preparation in
each of these towns. London was naturally expected to
take the initiative: bu' London unsupported can do no-
thing. The whole country must join in the demand, and

the Parlia

nt will not then dream of withs

tending the

voice of its various constituencies

The demand that Maynooth shall be removed from the
list of national institutions, must be generally made, or it
will not succeed. Every borough town, therefore, ought
at once to meet, and place a petition in the hands of its
representatives. Every village. also, should in like man-
ner apply to its county representative. Taken up in this
manner, with one consent through the whole country, the
application will be attended to; but if not so made, it
will be evaded.—Record.

MR. MECHI'S BALANCE-SHEET.

There has been a lone and anxious inquiry for Mr.
Mechi's balance-sheet. This gentleman,--a respectable
dealer in razor-strops, in Leadenhall-street,—took a farm
in Essex some five years ago, and has been zealously
employed ever since in endeavouring to prove that free
trade was an excellent thing, and that farmers might live
very well on 365. per quarter for wheat.
But what the farmers felt most anxious to see was, the
balance-sheet. They knew, of course, that so long as Mr.

strop profits on a farm in Essex,—so long that wonderful
" experiment" might proceed. The only practical test to
be applied to it was,—Does the farm, taken alone, pay ?
And for the reply to this question, the balance-sheet was