The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

Duched ; and when it is considered that the information

conveyed through its pages is furnished by the clergy of each
district, and gentlemen extremely well qualified to impart
such information, a full reliance may be placed on it. Its

merits as a work of interest are great, and we cannot but

express our satisfaction in the perusal of its pages, and the
information at all times it has afforded us.

Harry Lorrequer. Walmsley, Liverpool.
race for superiority, between Messrs. Lever
r, is now running; the prize being the public fa-

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your. Mr. Lever has this month come out in great force ;
and if Mr. Lover heads him, it will astonish us. We find
Jack Hinton engaged in a duel with Ulick Burke—for the
upshot of which, vide the number. A story about Castle
Connell, told by Bob Mahon, is worth the price of the num-
Burke's swindling Father Tom out of the fifty won on
offering to pay him in the presence of
the Bishop, is a fine bit of humour. Bob Mahon's capture
by the bailiffs is told in an irresistibly droll style. This is
illustrated, as also Father Tom's progress in his curriculum.

the steeple-chase

The Commissioner. Walmqley, Liverpool

This story progresses slowly. Here and there a smart
ling drops out, but it is a dull story. This number is full
f heavy pleasantry, and is made up of improbabilities and
The illustrations are the best part of the work.

absurd i

Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs. By 11. L

Meyer. Nckisson, London

This is a reprint of a very beautiful work. It contains
accounts of Vulturithe, the Egyptian Vulture ; Falconidx,
Golden Eagle, and White-tailed Eagle. The birds are re-
presented in their natural attitudes, and are exquisitely
drawn and coloured. This work will be invaluable to

naturalists, and will resemble the former except in size

The Claims of Seamen on our National Church to Bishops
•gy (exclusively their own) briefly considered.
tenant B. W. Tracey. London, Hatchard and

Son ; Liverpool, Wareing Webb

)ject upon which Lieut. Tracey has here touched,

is one of infinite importance, not only in a national view,
but as it affects our duty as a Christian people. The defen-
sive arm of Great Britain is undoubtedly her navy ; the
leading source of her commercial prosperity is the strength
of her mercantile marine. In 1840 no fewer than 201,340
seamen were employed in the navigation of vessels belonging
to British ports, exclusive of those employed in the coasting
trade : and vet. it is a melancholy fact, that to no class of

men is the hand of philanthropy and of protection—to no
class of men is the voice of Christian instruction and con-
solation—so sparingly afforded as to these voyagers, to whose
enterprise England owes so much of her preeminence over
the nations of the world.

'he writer before us—himself a " tar "—has ably and
ingly advocated the claims of his brethren to the con-
ration of a British public. The specific, however, which
the establishment of maritime bishops and

clergy—is one which, however desirable perhaps, is, we are
afraid, somewhat unattainable. We do not quarrel with his
proposition,—far from it; but we should greatly prefer see-
ing his admitted talent, and his strong and creditable enthu-
siasm in his profession, employed in agitating for some object
more susceptible of immediate attainment. Improve the