The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

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and will, it is expected, be found well adapt
ent objects which they have in view. Perio
be sent to the parents. Annual examinations of ti
by university examiners from Oxford and Cambrid
given, the results of which will be published, and
will be distributed, in the lecture-hall, in the prese
pupils and their friends, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, who
has kindly consented to undertake this pleasing duty. Al
sion has been made to the nature of one cl
previous paragraph, and there
ber of valuable prizes will be
the schools

1 for the differ-
i cal reports will

is reason to hope that a num-

red for competition in all

We now come to a very important b
namely, the course of religious training, with an e
view to which, as in the case of King's College, Londc
institution was founded. All the day scholars will as
in their several places in the Lecture-hall, at the comi

of education,
1

went of the morning business, attire
to be worn in the schools, and the
played at King's College, London,
Archbishop of Canterbury and the
be read by the Principal, all the ott

doctrines and institutions of

will be daily given to the different classes
the English department, and also by the hi
different schools, to the classes more immediately unch
superintendence. In this manner, the r
the student will, with the Almighty b 1(
folly equal to the high secular education which cannot f
be imparted under such judicious arrangements.

by the

The institution will commence operations on tile 23rd of
January, but a formal opening, to be attended by its dis-
tinguished friends, will probably take place previously.

THE LIVERPOOL ANTI-CORN-LAW

ATHER

(From the Times.)
The confessions of those enlightened benefactors to their
own pockets, who subscribe ..£lOO now, that they may here-
after realize £l,OOO, at the expense, as it of course must in-
evitably be, of the rest of the community, and who coolly
denominate themselves the while an Anti:Monopolist
League, continue to increase in intensity and delicacy. A
gentleman who seconded a motion at the " Great League
Fund Meeting" at Liverpool, " mentioned, with all humility
and without any desire to be considered egotistical, that he
had gladly given his £lOO for the next year to accomplish
the objects of the League. He bad hopes that he was pro-
moting his own individual good to no small extent by ex-
tending free trade principles. He was not ashamed to avow
his belief, that his £lOO subscription would bring him back
a hnndred times £3OO if the objects of the League should
.mith SILOC.OI:2_"

How beautiful is the modesty with which this humble se-
conder shrinks from the ostentatious mention of his Tar,
charity ! He feels perfectly miserable at thus being obliged
to trumpet his own pra
that he has subscribed :I
nimous a purpose as that contemplated and
League. But he shortly reflects that there
such great necessity for being ashamed of his subscriptic
his money is no gift, but only a speculation ; it will bring
no small profit to himself; so he takes courage, anc
how this is to t

,y that this was a particular
crotch.. .id that his anticipations were of
too sanguine a nature; but they should recollect that (ay,
here's the rob) he was a large railway proprietor, and that,
if the principles of free trade were extended, and the diffe-
rential duties taken off colonial produce, and corn admitted
freely into this country, a double quantity of sugar would be
imported, a double quantity of coffee would be consumed
and a double quantity of corn would be sent from one ex-
tremity of the country to the other. The fact of this sugar,
coffee, and corn being transmitted by means of the several
railways of the country, could not fail to increase the gross
revenue and profit arising from those railways to an extent
which he could not attempt to predict ; but if it should raise
one-half per cent. net profit on the railways, that half per
cent. would give 10 per cent. additional value on the capital
embarked in them, and that 10 per cent. would give him 100
times £lOO. Upon this view of the subject, therefore, he
trusted the meeting would contribute largely, because the
SPECULATION was the most certain in which they could be
engaged."
Here, then, we have it,—there is no mincing matters here
—the thing is a " speculation," and " no mistake" about it.
All is clear and " level to the meanest capacity." The

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t (!). of his own,

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"class" benefit which is proposed to be realised is calculated
with most mathematical exactness. No monopoly in corn !
no monopoly in sugar! no monopoly in coffee ! and why ?
Is it because monopolies are absolutely unjust and impolitic?

By no means. It is because a diferery monopoly is wanted
for a different class of persons. It is to be done simply that
there may be a rise in railroad shares, and that the share-

depreciated—other classes may suffer—bUt they
right to enjoy a monopoly, so let them bear the _
that exclusive advantage formerly enjoyed by these iniqt
class-men is transferred to property invested in railroads-
and if the privileged class of railroad shareholders gai
thereby a means of turning their already existing monopol
to the greatest possible advantage—this, so far from bein
objectionable as class legislation, is the best of all reasons
why the proposed change should be mad

are no

with the £lOO for the League, and rush straight therse tc
the offices of the railway companies, and invest your capita
accordingly. This is no foolish romance; ti
bug here about the cause of humanity and i
forth ; we bring you no Dissenting minis
" anti-religious" influence of the corn laws
the middle classes; no, we, prop(

ulation

certain gain ; we seek, _
and unnatural value of certain descrir
raise, by equally artificial means, the vl
tious of property; and we recommend _
to invest in this last-mentioned privileged class of property
forthwith. " Favour the land," says the landlord. " Flow
unjust," says the public carrier, " to benefit one class at the
expense of another; but doubtless railroads and house traffic
ought to he encouraged! This would be the best result of
the abolition of all monopolies—excepting this only one."
" After all, gentlemen" said the leather seller to the com-
mittee who were deliberating how and with what to fortify
their town, " after all, there is nothing like leather."

ACCOMMODA7

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

parties concernec

IVERPOOL STA

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SIR,--I observe that in your

ay's number you

Church, I

advice or instruction of the verger of Christ
willing to believe that he did not intend to act impertinently
though, certainly, my ideas of civility differ, in some degre
from those which he would seem to entert
I may intimate that my remonstrance v
apply to the minister, but to the system by which a per
devoted to the reformed religion is debarred f
spiritual comfort in one of the churches of our

xas not d

signed to

being prepared to pay for it, and
to the practice of the conventicle

) nearly

When I wrote I was not aware the Church was a propri
tarp one, and that the seats in the upper gallery were free
You will do me the justice, I am sure, to insert th
nation

Yours; r

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treatment which " E. M." h

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churches o

r land," is beyond

Loss OF TDB HENRY DAVIDSON.—Extract of a letter
inserted in the Bombay Times from the captain, dated Singa-
pore, Sept. 6_:-7" Sir,—l take the liberty of forwarding you

len, wit

h cotton, from Bom

an account of the loss of the Henry Davidson, of London
600 tons burc
leaving Singapore-roac
the eastward. On the

was made, the weather very hazy. Pedra Branca supposed
to be about2o miles distant. At 2 a.m. aloud rippling noise
was heard at N.E. close to. The anchor was cleared, the
lead hove, and the ship's head turned S.W. It suddenly
became calm, and in an instant the ship drove on a shelf
of rocks under water. Ten minutes after there was thirteen
feet of water in the hold. In half an hour the water was
washing over the guns on the upper deck. Another anchor
was let go, in the hope of keeping her on the reef. At 4 a.m.,
the sea washing over the gangways, we took to the boats, and
made for the James, anchored near us, with another vessel,
hound through the Straits of Ithio, all of which had drifted
20 miles out of their supposed position, and thus proving our
misfortune to have been caused by an unusual current. At

daylight we returned to the wreek, and were saving some
sails and materials, when she swung off the reef, and, giving
a heavy plunge, went down head-foremost, and carried with
her a large cutter filled with sails, and two seamen belonging
to London!'

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