The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-05-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VOICE.—He is not an honest man. (Hisses and groans.) Mr. EWBANK continued to observe that he had taken great pains to ascertain Dr. Achilli's character, and he now believed that he was not only an honest but a Christian man. The only objection that he bad ever beard against him, was on account of his time in the College of Malta. On that pcint he bad received a letter from a noble Lord, whose name he was not permitted to mention ; but he would read the following extraft from that letter : " In answei\ to your letter I may safely say that the committee of the Malta college bad no ground to entertain any evil opinion of Dr. Achilli's character and conduct." They should congratulate Dr. Achilli on his escape from the Inquisition, into which he was thrown for the offence of promulgating the Holy Gospel. The Inquisition had certainly improved cf late; for it was an improvement in the Inquisition to find it gorging up its victims. The rev. gentleman then entered at considerable length on the principles on which a controversy on questions of religion should be conducted. He contended that all discussions of this kind should be conducted on the most pure, mild, and charitable spirit which the Saviour had taught them. He hoped that Dr. Achilli would act in that spirit in his mission amongst his countrymen in London. He prayed that in this spirit his efforts would be successful. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Dr. CiticirroN having seconded the resolution, it was proposed and carried amidst loud applause. The Rev. Dr. RAFFLES next rose to propose a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Mr. Ci upper for their kindness in presiding on this oCcasion.  The Rev. D. Fs ROITSSON seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, after which the meeting separated.  etntral fftis'rellany.  It is stated that not fewer than ten thousand trees were uprooted by the gale of Saturdny se'nnight in Strathspey. The first power-looms which have been seen in Knaresborough arrived during the past week. That disgraceful paper, the Satirist, has ceased to exist.  The Duke of Portland has made a great reduction to his tenantry about Mansfield ; in many cases returning 20 per cent.  The Morning Post of Monday contains reports of no less than seven incendiary fires which occurred during last week in various parts of the country. Never, we should think, did the pear trees blossom more abundantly than they do in the present season ; and the apple trees, too, give promise that they will soon be covered with bloom. A destructive fire broke out on Sunday last on the premises of Messrs. Caird and Co., Greenock, engineers, whim consumed property to the amount of upwards of £35,000.  A beautiful cenotaph is about to be erected at Fullarton, in Ayrshire, on the property of his Grace the Duke of Portland, to the memory of the late lamented Lord George Bentinck.  The election of a Director of the East India Company took place on Wednesday, when Major Moore was returned. The numbers were—for Major Moore, 1,096 ; for Mr. Prinsep, 1,026 ; majority, 70. It is a remarkable circumstance that Mr. Benjamin Meredith, the superannuated excise officer, upon whom the murderous assault was committed by the Irishmen, Sullivan and Murphy, at Purley Wood, near Lydney, is a cousin to Jane Lewis, the poor aged Welshwoman robbed and murdered by the same men.