The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE NEW FRENCH PROTESTANT C MlCH.—This church
which has lately been built as a substitute for the one that for-
merly stood in Threadneedle-street, is now nearly completed,
and will be opened for public service in the course of next
month. It is built under the powers of the Charter granted
by King Edward VI., in the 15th century, to the French
protestant Consistoire, and which, amongst other things,
commends the order to the care and protection of the Arch-
bishops and Bishops of this realm. The cost incurred in its
erection, including site, is estimated as between £7,000 and
£B,OOO. Two French divines, M. Martin and another, have
been appointed to officiate by the Consistoire, in whom the
patronage is invested.—London paper.
THE NEW STREET PILLAR GUIDE.—This is a plan for
the purpose of furnishing, by means of a column with six
sides, upon which the various names are inscribed, informa-
tion as to the residences of the different tradesmen, public
institutious, post-offices, cab-stands, police and fire stations
in the particular district in which the pillar is placed. It is
also provided with finger-posts, so as to point, when placed
in a central position, to the principal thoroughfares from
that spot. The top is to be surmounted with the Bode light,
and at the base is to be a place set apart for returned letters
in that district, and for property lost or found. The interior
which is hollow, contains a fire-alarm, the keys of which
are confided to the care of the police. there is also a repo-
sitory for tire-escapes, and an aparatus for using rocket
signals, so as to telegraph information, in the event of a fire,
to the various engine-houses. The titles of the different
streets are placed at the top of a column, while the names of
the tradesmen, with the numbers of the shops, occupy the
sides of the shaft. Several of them are about to be erected in
Holborn and elsewhere.—Morning Herald.
It is a fact that the arrangements made by the magistrates
of Stirling, of which otherwise everything in praise should be
said, iccluded a rather novel mode of admitting and re-
ceiving the Queen into the burgh. An arch having been
erected at the boundary (real or supposed) of the burgh with
something like the appearance of a barrier, it was natural to
suppose that the authorities would he waiting within the
barrier, there to receive their Sovereign and tender their
fealty. But, alas ! the town's Wright had reared his scaffold
on the outer side—that is, beyond the boundary, where the
magistrates had no authority at all; and, accordingly, when
the Queen's postillions drove up, although they had pre-
viously got strict orders from her Majesty to stop where the
authorities were stationed, they were driving past the bar-
rier, and would have drawn np on the right side, had not her
Majesty herself perceived the blunder, and called out in a
sharp voice " Slop! stop .1" and it was not till then that the
provost discovered be was not in his own burgh at all when
receiving the Queen!—Stirling Paper.
DOVBLE COSTS AND LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS.—An
act watt passed during the last session, under which some
material alterations will be effected in actions at law. The
principle of the measure is uniformity in all actions res-
pecting costs, the pleading of the general issue, and giving
notice in cases where notice of action is required. These
several matters have been gathered into one form. This
act, which came into operation on the 10th of August, all
actions from that period under statutes of a local and per-
sonal nature, repeals the giving of double or treble costs,
and in lieu thereof gives costs as between party and party.
The second section provides that in all public acts where
double or treble costs have been given, in future only
costs between party and party shall be awarded, besides all
expenses incurred in the prosecution of the proceedings.
The next clause repeals the general issue under local acts
and in the following—all actions in which notice is required
to be given, such notice must be given at least one month
before the bringing of such actions. The act further pro-
vides that all actions under local acts must be commenced
within two years, or in case of continuing damage, then
within one year after the same shall have ceased. This act
does not extend to any proceeding commenced before the
10th of August last, whether action or information.
INDIAN MAILS THROUGH FRANCE.—TiIe Courtier
Francais announces, that Lord Lowther had visited Paris fur
the purpose of making new arrangements for the conveyance
of the Indian mail, which was no longer to proceed through
France after the expiration of the convention signed by the
postoffices of the two countries. " The mails," it says,
" will hereafter be landed at Venice or Trieste. This will
be highly prejudicial to our country, or by no means advan-
tageous to the English ; but, although the distance be longer
by that road than through France, their correspondence will
follow it in preference, in order to avoid the delays and vex-
ations of every description which their couriers have experi-
enced in France. Such is the result of the impediments
opposed to commercial and political relations by a narrow-
minded and teasing administration." On the other hand,
we perceive by Galignani's Messenger, that M. Dubost, one
of the heads of the French post-office, left Paris on Thurs-
day for London, " This gentleman," it says, "is charged
by the government to negotiate a new postoffice treaty on a
much larger and more liberal basis than the existing one.
The arrangements contemplated in M. Dubost's mission ex-
tend also, we understand, to the more rapid transmission of
the Indian mail from Marseilles, and to the putting an end
to the vexatious delays and difficulties which the couriers of
the London press have hitherto experienced in carrying their
despatches through France."
The Lord Bishop of Ossory, , Ferns, and Leighlin, has added
his name to the already large number of right reverend pre-
lates who have spoken in condemnation of the proceedings of
the Puseyite party. In his charge to the clergy at his primary
visitation of the united dioceses, just concluded, his lordship,
after referring to ministerial duties, and to the present con-
dition and future prospects of the church, expressed his satis-
faction in believing that there was no need for him to admi-
nister caution to his reverend brethren who surrounded him
against the singularity of dress, and gesture, and posture
which one hears from time to time of being introduced by
individual ministers, with a kind of apparent conceit, into the
service of the church in England. lie was happy to believe
that in the dioceses under his more immediate superinten-
dence, and those of Ireland generally, there was no trace of
such fopperies. The system of the " Tract " writers then
engaged his lordship's consideration. He proceeded to an
exposure of the numerous fallacies of the arguments used by
them in support of their views, and contended that they were
akin to the arguments of jesusitical sophistry, to which, he
said, they could only be compared.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The usual return of the quarterly
average of weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Eng-
land from the 18th of June to the 10th of September both
inclusive, were given in the Gazette of Friday. As com-
pared with the previous quarterly returns from the 21st of
May to the 13th of August, the results are as follows

LIABILITIES.

Circulation, present return
former

Increase 762,000
Deposits, present
former .

Increase 503,000
ASSETS.
Securities, present . . . . .. £23,159,000
former 22,525,000
Increase.
Bullion, present . 9,177,000
former . ..

Increase
Total increase, liabilities
assets
The rest, present return . .
former

681,000
...... 1,265,000
. . 1,315,000
2,789,000
2,739,000

Increase £50,000
These returns do not present any particular feature for notice,
and indeed lose their interest since the publication of the
general banking returns.

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his friend
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severe blow. To his Royal Highness
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acknowledgments for his
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beg you to offer him my warmest
respecting its performance. The
con-
sole myself with thinking
by you. I have no anxiety r oratorio will be conducted
orchestral diflioulties are. lessest n those of Calvary, anti to
your band they will present none. The accompanied recita-
tives of Belshazzar will require the greatest share of atten-
tion. The quartet, '' Strike the would, to some
singers, appear difficult, but in unaccompanied part-music
you Enlish excel all others. I remetiranied
of some of your glees as finished speciaz the performance
iofthis kind of
song. The last two choruses of the oratorios
a should especi-
ally have wished to have heard at Norwich, smy
Withorchestra
here did not execute them to my satisfaction.
know that the prescribed ' pianos ' and ' fortes' will
be you I
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served. But I will not make my heart heavy
-,), such fruo''t ob-
served.
less wishes. Let me beg of you to express to the comialittee.
my deep regret that I cannot comply wtiti their wish. For
the Norwich festival I wrote the Fall of Babylon, and there
I hoped to be present, aid to have conducted its first per-
formance. To the mayor convey my grief at being deprived
of the pleasure of again being under his hospitable roof.
Debarred from the gratification of seeing you in England,
let roe now look forward to that of seeing you again at Cas-
sel. Farewell. Make me happy by a long account of the
prouedings at the festival, and confirm my wishes fur its
success. Our warmest
greetings
to the members of your
%re
•,Y.—From my heart, wholly yours.—" Loins Sroxa."