The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

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OPENING

ST. GEORGE'S HALL.

THE ceremonial for the opening of thisi
ficent structure will take place
ON MONDAY, THE 18TH INSTANT,

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and the event is exciting the greatest interest not
only in Liverpool and the neighbourhood, but
throughout the kingdom.

That all may have an opportunity of preserving
a fitting memorial of this important era in the
Metropolis of Commerce, we have made arrange-
ments for presenting our readers
ON TUESDAY, THE 19Tu INSTANT,

WITH AN ELABORATELY-EXECUTED
ENGRAVING

THE RICHLY-DECORATED INTERIOR

Showing not only its beautifulproportions,but the

superb designs with which it is so profusely orna-
mented ; and that due justice may be done to a
subject of such unrivalled beauty and surpassing
interest, the Drawing has been made by AN

ARCHITECTURAL ARTIST OF ACKNOWLEDGED
EMINENCE in his profession ; it will be executed

in the first style of
TINTED LITHOGRAPHY,

MESSRS. MACLURE, MACDONALD, AND MACGREGOR,

Lithographers to Her Majesty ;
And be printed upon superior paper, so as to render
it, when framed, an ornament to the drawing-room.
It is requested that orders may be forwarded
to the office at the earliest convenience. Owing
to the very great expense incurred, the Standard
will, on that occasion, be charged SIXPENCE.

The Post-office authorities have announced their
intention to expedite the night mails for the
North of England and North Wales by dis-
patching them three hours earlier. This will
necessitate the posting of THE STANDARD before
vine o'clock on ilfonday night, instead of mid-
night, as heretofore; and, in consequence, we
are compelled to request that all advertisements
and communications may be sent to the office
before six o'clock on .Monday evening at the
latest. The alteration will afford an advan-
tage to our northern subscribers in the delivery
of their papers sonie hours earlier; and to those
in North Wales there will be a gain of nearly
twenty-four hours.

liberpoot tanbarti.

TUESDAY _MORNING, SEPT. 5, 1854

THE BOUNTEOUS HARVEST.

ANOTHER week has passed of glorious weather
for the in-gathering of the harvest, which was
never more plenteous, whether we consider the
breadth of land which had been tilled with bread
corn, the productiveness of the yield, or the con-
dition in which it has been housed. Such a
measure of blessing is beyond all ordinary expres-
sions of gratitude to the Giver of all good, and
should call for a spontaneous effusion of thankful-
ness as near as possible commensurate with the
greatness of the gift. It is not simply an addition
to the stock of food, but the blessing is vouchsafed
at a time when its beneficent effects are indefi-
nitely multiplied. Coming after a season of high
prices, the bounty of Providence will be directly
and palpably felt by all classes, from the highest
to the lowest ; it will relieve the nation from a
monetary pressure which must otherwise have
ensued from carrying on an expensive war ; and it
will stimulate domestic industry, and home and
foreign trade, so that no one who is willing to
work need be without employment. It will also
materially assist in promoting measur

es of social

amelioration, and, if advantage be taken of this
opportunity, greater progress may

be made in