The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

moral and religious appreciations, and rocks to sleep the
"truths which lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul,"

I has lost what pal

efficacy it had. We have dragged

these truths from: their

ibering minds,

and placed them

More them face to face. He meforth, if custom b

favour, it will be a custom wilfully persevered in and sup-
] ported against the

eaehing and example.
s of this

It is worse than idle to expect to acquit themsel

responsibility, by acknowledging the fitness of these truths,
which is like nothing but the homage which Vice pays to
Virtue, and can share in nothing but the reward of vice. It

is in vain for the drunkard to condemn intemperance, or the
lewd to paint the beauty of chastity. Apostolic Christianity
is not to praise Apostles, but to imitate them. The subject
of our enquiries is not speculative truth, but the practical
following, of the Apostles, and practical indifference is self-
conviction. It is well for them to amuse us by their amiable
commendations of our object, but let me tell them that,
"before their own Master they shall stand or fall." They

will hive to answer HINI, whether they tried to use the

influence which they tell us has been given them. to promote

,ey have happily the sense

o:Juno' MISSIONAIIY S

A meet.

ing was held at the National School-room, New Brighton,
on Wednesday. The Bishop of Chester presided. A
series of resolutions were passed.
OXTON Cuuacn is to be consecrated by the Bishop of
Lichfield on the 3rd of October, on which occasion it is ex-
pected the Bishop of New Zealand will preach. The Rev.
D. Mountfield, curate of St. Chad's, is to have the living.
ENTERTAINMENT TO RAILWAY DIRECTORS.-0/I Tues-
day, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., entertained upwards of
thirty directors of the Great Western Railway, at Wynn-
stay-hall, Ruabon. Sir Watkin has become a director of
the Great Western Company, and takes great interest in
the Shrewshury and Chester line, which is now the pro-
perty of the. Great Western,
THE HARVEST IN NORTH WALES.—A gentleman who
has passed through Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire
within the past week says the yield of grain this year far
exceeds that of any harvest since 1832. Harvest opera-
tions are vigorously going forward in both counties, and
nearly the whole of the wheat has been housed.
THE BIRKENHEAD MAGISTRATES have granted new
licenses to the following parties :—Mr. W. Bate, Chester-
street ; Mr. Samuel Street, Dock-quay ; Mr. George
Lacey, Dock-quay ; Mr. John Lea, Oxton-road ; and Mr.
J. T. Williams, St. Mary's-gate.

BIRKENHEAD FERRY RECElPTS.—Receipts for the
month of August, 1853 and 1854: 1853, £2,635 16s. ;
1854, £2,842 15s. 11d. Receipts from 28th April to 31st
August, both inclusive : £10,096 ls. Bd.; 1854, £11,717
ss. 7d. Expenditure during same period : 1853, £6,390
16s. 10d. ; 1854, £6,888 4s.
THE BIRKENHEAD FERRY STEAMERS.—The Birken-
head Ferry Commissioners recently signed a contract with
Mr. Laird for a new steamer, and Mr. Laird has received
the first three months' instalment (21,800). Mr. Heb-
son, the superintending engineer, has recommended that
new boilers be supplied to the steamer Wirral, and the
committee have instructed him to prepare specifications,
in order to obtain estimates of the cost. Complaints
having been made of the inability of the captains and
crews of the boats to interfere with drunk or disorderly
passengers, it has been resolved that they should be sworn
special constables.
WYNNSTAY HALI•

IVERPOOL STANDARD, AND

On the 4th inst., at Parkfiel-&-i3irkenh,

d, Mrs. Edwin

Roberts, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Birkenhead, the wife of Mr. W.
Blackburne, of a son.
On the sth inst., Mrs. F. Elliott, Camden-street, of a
daughter.

On the sth inst., at Bath-terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
the wife of Mr. Edward Howard, of a daughter.
On the sth inst., the wife of Mr. J. Postlethwaite, of
Clarence-street, Everton, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., in Castle-street, Northwich, the wife
of Mr. John Russell, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Peel-terrace, the wife of W. H.
Duncan, M.D., of a son.

On the 9th inst., at Elm Cottage, Fairfield, Mrs. A. C.
Edwards, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Woodside, the wife of the late Mr.
James Hume Plumer, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., the wife of Mr. J. A. Dutton, Low-
hill, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at 72, Upper Parliament-street, Mrs.
R. A. Macfie, of a son.