The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1851.

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PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The concert of this So-
ciety, which takes place this (Tuesday) evening, is ex-
pected to be very fully attended. The principal performers
will be Miss Louisa Pyne and Herr Formes, and Mr.

Chisholm will perform a solo on the bassoon. The en-
gagements for the ensuing winter are likely to prove ex-
ceedingly attractive. An extra choral concert is to be given
on the 14th October, when selections from the hitherto
unknown vocal works of J. S. Bach are to be produced,
while, on the 22nd and 24th of October, we are to have a
great treat by thP exertions of the glee and madrigal party,

Albert, gained great popularity in London during the
past season. There is also a talk of Mr. Sims Reeves
appearing in the oratorio of " St. Paul."
A FEW HINTS ABOUT BLOOMERISM.—The " lady"
(Mrs. Dexter) who has been lecturing about the female
dress reform in London, and who has exemplified the
matter practically. is well known to those members of the
press who have dived into the dens of infidelity in which
the metropolis abounds. The "John-street Institution,"

in which the lecture was delivered, is one of a number of
infidel institutions regularly advertised in the Reasoner
and similar publications. This fact alone throws a sus-
picion on the movement, which is by no means a novelty
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gland. It was regularly adopted more than a dozen
years ago at the Socialist Ihil, Liverpool, when scores of

females joined in the dances at that s
tired in a precisely similar costume,

Tian REFOIUJATION IN IRELAND.—A placard with the
above heading, and to the following effect, has been exten-
sively posted over the town :—" Rev. P. O'Dwyer. R. C. P ,
having in writing accepted the challenge from the Rev.
Thos. Atkinson and Rev. W. A. Darley to a public dis-
cussion in Liverpool on his denial of their statements with
reference to the number of converts from Romanism and
the persecution endured by them in the district of Doon,
a public meeting will be held at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street. on Tuesday evening. The chair to be taken
by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile." It will be seen whether Mr.
O'Dwyer will meet his opponents this evening. We very
much doubt it.

PACIFIC MAIL STEMMER SANTIAGO.--This fine steam.
ship reached the harbour on Wednesday morning. She
has completed in Glasgow the alterations necessary to
perfect her for the company's mail service in the Pacific;
and we learn that the run from Greenock to the Bell Buoy
has been accomplished in the unprecedented short snare

of 13 hours and 42 minutes, and adding 40 minutes; the
time occupied thence to the Rock Light, gives 14 hours
and 22 minutes for the whole run. The Santiago, on the
voyage from Glasgow, was under the able command of
Captain Boyd, well known in the Glasgow and Liverpool
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trade, and we have his authority for stating that, by three
successive trials with common log, tie ascertained rate of
speed of the Santiago was upwards of 14 knots an hour,
without the aid of wind and tide. We understand that
the other three steam-ships huilding by Mr. Napier for
this company are larger and more powerful vessels, con-
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great performances now recorded of the Santiago.
THE HONORARY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF CHARITIES.
—There is perhaps no class of our fellow-townsmen to

which, viewed as a hody, the citi
a debt of consideration and gral
medical officers of our charities

.ns.at large owe so deep