The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL

By reference to our advertising columns, it will be per-
ceived that a sermon will be preached on Sunday morning
next in St. Barnabas' Church, and a collection made in
support of this most useful and deserving charity. The
Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool has signified in the
kindest manner his intention of being present. It is always
the most pleasing part of the duty of a journalist, when
he is called upon to express well-merited commendation
of the public acts of those placed in authority—a com-
mendation that is only an act of justice to our presen,
chief magistrate, whose career, hitherto, although short
gives good earnest of what is to be expected from so
auspicious a commencement. The attendance of his wor-
ship at St. Barnabas Church, on Sunday next, and of
those by whom he is sure to be accompanied, must needs
prove most beneficial to the funds of the hospital, of
which it is enough to say, that upwards of 1,400 patients
have been relieved there since the commencement of this
year, and that it is only £3OO in debt ; a good proof (con-
sidering the recent date of its erection) of the prudent
management under which its affairs are conducted. We
anticipate a crowded church and a very large collection.

THE LIVERPOOL TIMES IN A QUANDARY.

Our last week's castigation of the Liverpool Times ap-
pears to have had as extraordinary an effect upon the
editor and proprietor of that paper as if a bomb-shell had
exploded in the hat shop, where his literary labours are
vended. Other journalists—and ourselves amongst the
number—are in the habit, when attackseare made upon
them, of prudently waiting until their passion has blown
off, and giving their rejoinder after the world has had
time to digest the attack which called for it. Our con-
temporary, however, has thought proper to fire out of his
turn. On Tuesday last, he was guilty of the hardihood
of leaving his warm bed at the untimely hour of six in the
morning, to read our humble remarks ; and so terrible
was his combativeness excited by them that he thought
proper to. . .

"Do all that a dog so diminutive could,"

to anniLilate us, in a Second Edition!

With this attempt we have now to deal ; and yet posi-
tively we have scarcely patience to wade through the rub-
bish of which it is composed. We may state, by the bye,
for the information of our contemporary, that we never
saw the attack in question until it appeared, amongst si-
milar rubbish, in the columns of the Journal of Saturday.
So little do our contemporary's second editions come be-
fore the public eye, that we have positively been extin-
guished for nearly a week without knowing it ! But to
our task : The Times complains that we have omitted the
correspondence which passed between us on the subject
of the plan published by the proprietors of this paper.
We cannot, even now, see the advantage of burthening
our columns with it. The letters are simply one from
ourselves to the editor of the Times, requiring the name
of the party who furnished him with the information
on which his malicious remarks were founded, and
the pompous reply of Mr. Thomas Baines, giving
us the name of the Birkenhead Quaker. His other
remarks are either senseless or lying. He informs us
that our conduct contrasts badly with that of Mr. Saml.
Stansfield, inasmuch as he has got the consent of Mr.
Laird for publishing his father's plan of the Docks of
Wallasey. So had we. He says that we "attempted to
pass off" that plan as our own We did no such thing.
He says that we attempted to pass it off—to publish it—
without the name of Mr. Laird attached to it. We did
no such thing. The incomplete plan, indeed, which the
Times saw, had not the name of Mr. Laird attached to it;
but that plan was never published, or intended to be pub-
lished, in such a shape.

To finish the matter, however, for we are quite tired of
the silly Times—we must repeat to our contemporary our
recommendation of last week. The very news-lads, we
can assure him, are tired of carrying about his heavy
lucubrations, and the turnips are longing for his superin-
tendence and intellectual conversation. Why not indulge
both, by throwing down the pen—of whose uses he knows
about as much as a goat does of the use of a razor—and
taking up a spade, of some other irdplement of husbandry,
which his friend Samuel Stansfield will no doubt sell him
cheap. Like Cincinnatus, he can he called from his rural
pursuits—his cabbages, mangel worzel, and other conge-
nial companions—when his Country wants him !

TOWN DUES.—We are authorized to state that the
gentlemen who attended the meeting held at the rooms of
the East India and China Association on the 10th instant,
referred to in the correspondence inserted in our paper of
Tuesday week, attended as individuals, and not under
instruction from any of the associate bodies of the town.
LECTURES ON BOTANY—COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.
—The interesting course of lectures upon this delightful
theme, which will be terminated this evening, has, we
are glad to find, been duly appreciated by our townsmen.
Mr. Roby has evinced a clear knowledge of his subject,
and dues not, as too many lecturers are in the habit of
doing, suppose his audience to possess a previous ac.
quaintance with the science. By the low standard at
which he thus rates them, be renders, it almost im-
possible that he shall be misunderstood by any,
whilst those who previously were acquainted with his
preliminary details, are not displeased by having them
still more firmly engrafted upon their memory, by the
humorous remarks of the lecturer. The illustrations of
this evening are to be upon a splendid scale, and in great
number. We refer to the advertisement for the forth.
coming lectures, premising that we are right glad to find
that the celebrated Dr. Wesley is engaged to deliver his
maiden course at this institution.

THE FuNDS.—SATI7RDAY NlGHT.—Exchequer-hills
have been flat for the last two or three days, and are now
quoted at the lower premium of 535. to 555. It appears
there have been several quiet sales to supply the increas.
ing demand for money, and the Bank Broker, it 13 said,
among his other operations of late, has been a seller of
these securities. Consols left off steadily at 954 to 96 for
money and the account ; Bank Stock, 1804 to 1811; India
Stock, 2704 to 2714 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 951 to
; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1024 to 4;
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1024 to 103; Long
Annuities, 124 ; and India Bonds, 695. to 70s. pre-
mium. In the foreign market very little was done. With
the exception of Spanish, which closed a shade lower,
prices show no great alteration from those of yesterday.
Spanish Actives were last quoted 214 to 4; the Three per
Cents, 314 to ; Portuguese, 434 to ; Peruvian, 22 to
; Mexican, 30 to 4; the Deferred, 94 to 4; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 5-14 to 4; the Five per Cents.
994 to 100; Danish, 854 to 864;' Colombian, 11/ to •,,
Chilian, 99 to 101 ; Brazilian, 74 to 75 ; and Belgian, 103
to 104.