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

THE LIVERPOOL STANijAiiii.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Ten o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Last Night.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILL.

LORD STRADBROKE moved the third reading of the
Birkenhead Dock Bill, when the Marquis of SALISBURY
moved that the suppressed 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 WICKLOW supported the Marquis of Salisbury.
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Ultimately the amendment was withdrawn and the bill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 filled by the newly-elected repeal member
for Limerick, Mr. James Kelly. The rent was expected
not to be much under £2,000.
BIRTH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.—On Friday the
Duchess de Nemours was safely delivered of a son, to
whom the King of the French has given the name of
Duke d'Alengon.

THE BIBLE IN CHINESE.—China has been opened
by recent events, not only to commercial speculations but
to missionary enterprise, and there appears to be quite
as much ardour in the religious world to send the mes-
sage of divine truth among its millions, as there is in the
manufacturing and commercial world to supply them with
calicoes and woollens. In our native land, the London
and Church Missionary Societies have made new and
successful efforts to raise funds for this specific object,
and it is rumoured that the weekly collections made in
London by order of the bishop are intended for the
planting of English episcopacy 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 missions 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
Presbyterian churches, and that they are about to establish
an extensive mission in that country.—Captain Pidding's
Chinese Olio.

RIGHTLY SERVED.—Reay and I (Lord Eldon) went up
from Oxford 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 got to the Somerset coffee-house Reay sent him
a letter, stating, that as he had thought it important to
inform the public that he bad dined at Maidenhead-bridge,
and upon a leg of mutton, he must expect that some of
the public would inquire how the mutton had agreed 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 had not disagreed with him.
Two days afterwards he sent a treble letter, representing,
that as his friend 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 should have
inquired how the mutton and French beans, or some other
vegetables, bad agreed with him, and assured him that he
should repeat his kind and anxious inquiries every day till
his answer came. 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 a new 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 be the gentleman that sent the person
that has been here from Chipping Norton so many letters.
Poor man ! he came all the way from Chipping Norton,
20 odd miles the other side of Oxford, and insisted upon
seeing the pane of glass, the leg of mutton, and all the
rest, taken out of the window, and a new pane of glass
put in, before he would eat a morsel.'—Life of Lord
Eldon.