The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

CONSOLATION FOR THE DISTRESSED.

As prices have varied so little forsorne time past,and on the
whole have rather risen than fallen, we take the liberty of
suggest ing that the present is a very good time for landowners
to dispose of their estates, and farmers to part with the in-
terect in their farms, if they are really dissatisfied with their
position in this country. We have the less hesitation in
tendering this advice, because we have before our eyes
several large and respectable classes who are just now in
precisely the same predicament, and who have no alterna-
tive but to change their plan of life or put up with a very
moderate scale of emolument. The County Courts and
other legal reforms, it is said, have reduced the profits of
the metropolitan practice to so low an ebb that several
thousand persons dependent upon it must either take to
some of her profession or be very poor men. Changes in the
made of conducting trade of all kinds are rendering it im-
possible, we are assured, to carry on a small business with
profit, or a large business with security, and in London, at
least, the race of small tradesmen bids fair to be extin-
guished. There is no alternative, however, but that every
one should adapt his conduct honestly and promptly to
actual circumstances. The coal trade is deserting the ea,
and rasing to the rail. Every coal train supplants a col-
lier, and Durham is being beaten out of the field by York-
shire and the Midland Counties. If such is the natural
course of events, there is no help for it. Parliament can
not interfere, any more than it could to give the whale
fishery a monopoly against gas, sailing vessels a monopoly
against steam, or stage coaches a monopoly against the
rail. Changes of fashion have ruined multitudes ere this.
The prevalence of liberal opinions in theology has con-
demned thousands of clergymen brought up in the old
school to languish in small rural incumbencies and see less
learned and not more earnest men rise to rectories, canon-
ries, and bishoprics. A law of change pervades the com-
mercial, the political, and the religious world, and there is
no possible remedy for it. Each man must manage for
himself, and bear with patience what he cannot mend.—
The Times.

GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGE..
MEN.—On Friday last the North-Western Province of
England of the above association held its first meeting at
St. Simon's School-room, Bolton-street, Liverpool, to
elect the officers of the province. The Earl of Ennis-
killen, the most worshipful Grand Master, was expected
to have taken the chair, but was unavoidably detained in
Ireland, in consequence of the Grand Lodge meeting there
this week ; it was proposed, and carried unanimously, that
Lawrence Newall, Esq., P.G.M., of Rochdale, take the
chair, and W. Ward, D.M., of the Liverpool South District,
the deputy-chair. The meeting was opened with prayer
by the Rev. T. Brien, after which the election of the
officers took place. There was a very numerous attend..
ance of delegates from the diffe, ent districts in this pro-
vince. The following brethren were also present :—Sir
Wm. Verner, T. J. Ouseley, Esq., of Shrewsbury, A.
Byfor'l, Esq., the Revs. T. Brien, Willis, Fenton, and
Mathias. After the election of officers, business of
moment was transacted, and the meeting closed about
five o'clock.

BIR'rILS.
On the 12th inst., the wife of Mr. George Bowers, of Lower
Mersey-view, of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Bank-house, Runcorn, the wife of John
Johnson, or a son.
On the 16th inst., at Warrington, the wife of the Rev. H. C.
Stubbs, of a son.
On the 16th inst., Mrs. John Llewellin, of Gill-street, ofa son.
On .he 17th inst.. at The Meadows,: Birkenhead, the wife of
A. E. Watson, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., the wife of Mr. P. Mooney, of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., the wife of Mr. Mark J. Letcher, of Fox-
street, of a son.
On the 18th inst., the wife of Captain Leitch, German-terrace,
Birkenhead, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Egremont, the wife of W. J. Powell,
Esq., ofa son.
On the 19th inst., Mrs. Geo. Taylor, of Everton, ofa daughter.
On the 20th inst., Mrs. James Parnell, of a son.