The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

ETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY

—Our readers will perceive by advertisement in
column,that the anniversarynieetingof this society

AMONGST

THE JEWS,
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will be hem on monuay evening -ner.t, in tne Hall of the
Collegiate Institution. The chair will be occupied by the
Lord Bishop of Chester. The meeting will be addressed
by several Rev. gentlemen connected with the society, and

valuable and 1
society's labours

teresting information on the subject
and progress will be communicated.
DISFRAINCRISEMENT.—A mistake • has
by the overseers of Manchester, by
_which a

WIIOLE SiLE

considerable number of millowners and manufacturers
have been deprived of their votes at the ensuing municipal
election. It appet rs that when the citizens' list was being
-made out by the overseers, the clerk to whom the work
was entrusted omitted to copy one of the leaves, contain-
ing the names of 200 burgesses, who are, of course, dis-
qualified. The overseers are liable to a penalty of £5O in

each case

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
k ending Bth October, 1854, was as follows :
)arcels, &c., £3,236 18s. 2d. ; steam-boats,
total, £3,764 Hs. Bd. Goods, £1,679 ls. 3d.
133 16s. 11d. Cor-

the w

Passengers;

£517 1 .7s. 6d
Total, including C
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &-c., £2,998
Os. 7d.; steam-boats, £468 16s. 3d.; total, £3,466 16s. 10d.
Goods, £1,440 19s. Od. Total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£4,907 15s. 10d. Increase; £526 15..1d.
A RUNAWAY DEBTOR FROM MELBOURNE CAPTURED
127 LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday last, Mr. L. T. Gaskell, one
of the chief messengers of the Lixcerpool Bankruptcy
nto custody a man named

Court, succeeded in taki

Melbourne;

Jew, who had, it seems, bei

but from which

giving intir

;ration to dos so, far less setting with his numerous
.editors. The levanter from the Antipodes arrived in
iverpool by the Saldanha, and had been followed across

tors, f

io came by the steamer A;teich brought the

Overland Mail to England, arriving before the Saldanha.
Immediatelyjon landing he proceeded on an absconding
debtor's warrant for £12,000 or upwards. It had been
conjectured that Berstien was on board the -Saldanha, the

warrant was put into the hands of Mr. Gaskell, who suc-
ceeded in taking him into custody. Other claims, it is
understood, are also forwarded to be preferred against the
runaway, whose chagrin on being secured was loudly
expressed.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIEVr. The an-

ng of t

s society was nod last night, at the
Royal Justitution, in Colquitt-street, Joseph Ekekenson,
m.p., in the chair. The report of the retiring
council was read. It congratulated the meeting on the
lvancement which the society had made
I session, when twenty-four gentle-

during

en added to the liSt of private member.., and

one corresponding member. The council regretted•to an-
nounce the removal, by death, of Mr. W. B. Falcon, Mr.
H. Thorp, Mr. J. Focke, and Mr. Charles Barber, the
president of the Liverpool Academy. The society now
numbers. 204 members, 137 ordinary members, and C 7
corresponding members. Twelve papers had been read
during the session on various subjects. The council re-
gretted that the proposed union of the other learned so-
cieties of Liverpool with the Literary and Philosophical
Society had provedto beimpracticable, as the Arehmological
ehitectnral and the Polytechnic Societies did not
)osal, and the Historic Sc

y of Lan-

_
.e and Cheshire would not adopt the old name of
Lry and Philosophical Society as the name of the

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The 'report concluded by congratulating
the society on the•visit to Liverpool of the British Asso-
ciation. The report was adopted unanimously. The
secretary announced donations to the library from Mr.
W. R. Hamilton, the Historic Society, the Royal Insti-
tution, the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, and the
Royal Astronomical Society. The following were then
elected five new members of the council for the ensuing
year :—Rev. H. H. Hizains. Roy. John Robberds, Dr.

,
J. D. Edwards, J. Brewer, Esq., and T. C. Archer,. Esq.
The chairman announced that Mr. Edward Heath had
resigned the office of treasurer, and Mr. Thomas Sanson as
secretary. The following were then re-elected as vice-
presidents :—J. B. Yates, Esq,„ B. McAndrew, Esq., and
Dr. Inman. J. P. G. Smith, Esq., was elected treasurer,
and Dr. D. P. Thomson, secretary. The remaining
members of the council are J. Hartnup, Esq., Dr. Ihne,
J. T. Towson, Esq., and I. Byerley, Esq. The meeting
was then adjourned until Monday, the 30th inst.

THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY having agreed with
the Prussian Government to exchange the Thetis, 36, at
Devonport, for two gunboats, the Thetis will be equipped
in readiness to be handed over.
THE PREMIER AT ABERDEEN.—The Earl of Aberdeen,
according to invitation of the provost, magistrates, and
town council. of Aberdeen, attended in the Town-hall

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there ofi Monday last. There was a large and respectable
company assembled, who gave his lordship a flattering
reception. As might be supposed, the speech of Lord
_Aberdeen turned on the subject which engrosses universal
attention just now—the war. His Lordship's peroration
wag as follows :—" Let me observe, that in carrying on the
war with vigour and energy, we have nevertheless done
something to deprive war of its horrors. At the risk and
at the sacrifice of some belligerent rights, we have ad-
mitted the commerce of neutrals, and we have by our
example put an end to privateering—a most dreadful relic
of a barbarous age, and which the world will now probably
never see revived. i say, then,, that we have endeavoured
to mitigate the horror: of war, and I repeat that I, for one,
shall never lose sight of the only legitimate object of all
war—that of arriving at a stable, just, and honourable
peace. Gentlemen, I will szty that war, when it ceases
to be a necessity, becomes a crizne. I should consider any
one who has prolonged the war for a single day, when it
was in his power to make a just, safe, and honourable
peace, would be greatly guilty in the eyes of God and man,'