The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER

2 The Christino troops, under General Coba, are sur-
prised and made prisoners by the Carlist Cencral Balmaseda,
at Quintana de la Sierra.
4 Arrival at Ramsgate of the King and Queen of the
Belgians, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor.
6 The Emperor of Austria, on the occasion of his coro-
nation in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, publishes a ge-
neral amnesty in favour of all persons accused of political
offences.
7 The coroner's jury returns a verdict of " wilful mur-
der" against Elliot, the opponent of Mirtin, in the duel at
Wimbledon-common, together with a verdict against five
other persons as accessories.
The Forfarshire (a steamer), from Hull to Dundee,
is wrecked in a fog upon the Long Stone, Outer Fern Island.
Of the passengers and crew 37 are lost, and 9 saved by the
intrepidity- of the keeper of the light house and his daughter,
Grace Darling.
Two persons are suffocated in Aldgate Churchyard, by
the foul air arising from one of the graves.
Coronation of the Emperor of Austria, at Milan, as
Emperor of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom.
9 Espartero abandons the siege of Estella.
Schah Mahommed raises the siege of Herat.
11 Revolutionary riots take place at Stockholm.
17 A meeting of "the Working Men's Association" is
held in Palace-yard, for the purpose of obtaining, by petition
to parliament, an act, called by its authors, " the People's
Charter."
18 Her Majesty reviews the household troops in Windsor
Park.
Gen. Fuen Mayor,aCarlist officer, and a national guard,
named Alvarez, are executed at Madrid, for conspiracy.
19 Dreadful lire and loss of life in Tottenham-court-road.
The Christinos under Gen. A laix are defeated by the
Carlist General Garcia.
20 Henry Myers, an apothecary, charged with the murder
of Thos. Davidson Pow, by administering to him large quan-
tities of gin whilst the patient was in a state oi delirium
tremens, is tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted.
21 John Young and Henry 'Webber. parties in the duel
on Wimbledon Common, are Henry
guilty of Murder.
22 Luis Napoleon Bonaparte announces to the president
of the council of Thurgau his intention of retiring from the
soil of Switzerland, thus putting an end to the protracted
negotiations on the subject.
24 A large meeting is held at Manchester, for the purpose
of obtaining " the People's Charter."
Lord Francis Egerton is installed Lord Rector of the
university of Aberdeen.
28 Death of Barnes, the pantomimist.
29 Lord Brougham is burnt in effigy at Qoebec.
OCTOBER _

1 The Christino division, commanded by Pardinas, is
defeated, with a loss of 2500 men, by the Carlist General
Cabrera, at Maella.
General Oraa retires from the command of the army of
the centre.
3 Public dinner to Lord John Russell, at the Town-hall,
Liverpool.
Lords Brougham, Melbourne, and Glenelg, are burnt
in effigy at Montreal.
4 The Queen Dowager embarks at Portsmouth, for Malta.
8 Grand entertainments at Venice, on the occasion of
the visit of the Emperor of Austria.
9 Death of Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay.
•

The Earl of Durham issues a proclamation, notifying
to the people of Canada the disallowance by the imperial
parliament of his ordinances relative to " the banishment of
certain persons to Bermuda," and " to provide for the secu-
rity of the province of Lower Canada." Tip> noble earl at
the same time takes the opportunity of justifying the course
he has pursued, and blaming her Majesty's government for
their disapprobation of hip measures, stating that, under these
circumstances, he is unable satisfactorily to carry out his
plans, and shall resign his powers into her Majesty's hands.
The Queen of Portugal opens the session of the cortex.
Disturbances in Saragossa, consequent on the defeat of
Pardinas.

10 The Governor-general of India declares war againsi
Peals.

10 The abstract of the revenue for the quarter ending this
day shows an increase of £655,910 on the quarter, and
£741,045 on the year.
12 The Northern Yacht (steamer), with 24 persons on
board, is wrecked near Berwick, and all hands lost.
A numerous meeting of merchants and others takes
place in London, for the purpose of adopting measures to
carry out the plan of steam navigation to India.
13 Queen Adelaide arrives at Gibraltar.
14 The English consul is ill-treated at Alexandretta, in
Syria, by a number of Egyptian sailors.
15 The King of Holland opens the session of the states-
general.
16 Entry into the northern provinces of Spain of the Prin-
cess de Beira and the eldest son of Don Carlos.
20 Marriage of Don Carlos with the Princess de Beira, at
Arcolis.
22 An extensive fire breaks out at Harrow, which destroys
the house of the heal master, and other premises.
23 The Carlist General Merino crosses the head of the
Ebro at the head of his brigade.
A serious insurrection takes place in Valencia, which
terminates in the assassination of the governor, and the ap-
pointment of a junta by the liberals.
24 Forty persons are killed by an explosion of fire damp
in a coal pit at Harrington.
General Lopez is elected governor of Valencia by the
revolutionists.
25 Grand conservative demonstration at Brill, in Buck-
inghamshire.
26 The linendrapers' assistants of the metropolis meet. in
Exeter Hall, and pass resolutions for the purpose of obtain-
ing the closing of the shops at an earlier hour.
The Queen Regent of Spain, by a decree of this day,
banishes from the capital the wives and children of all per-
sons in the service of Don Carlos.
27 A party of marines seated in a public-house at Chatham,
are attacked by some soldiers of the 67th regiment, and se-
verely beaten. Two of the marines subsequently die of the
injuries they received.
Baron Verteul, responsible editor of La France, a legi-
timate print, is found guilty of libelling the King of the
French, and sentenced to pay a fine of 3,000 francs; having
asserted that the King had discovered and appropriated to
himself the buried treasures of Louis XVI, and Marie
Antoinette.
29 The metropolis and neighbourhood is visited by one of
the most severe storms of wind which had occurred for many
years.

30 The officers of the brigade of guards, at Quebec, give
a grand farewell dinner to the Earl of Durham.
31 Birth of the Prince of Portugal, on which occasion
the usual rejoicings take place at Lisbon.
The Queen Dowager of Great Britain arrives at Naples,
on her way to Malta, and is entertained by their Majesties,
the King and Queen of the Two Sicilies.
NOVEMBER
2 The Castle-Hotel, Tamworth, is destroyed by fire, and
six female servants burnt to death.
3 In consequence of the excited state of feeling of the
population of Madrid, General Quiroga declares the city to
be in a state of siege.
Fifty-five Carlist prisoners are shot at Valencia, by
order of file governor, Lopez, in retaliation for the reported
shooting of 55 Christinos by Cabrera.
4 Intelligence having reached Montreal that the French
Canadians had again risen in open rebellion, martial law is
proclaimed in the province.
A party of 400 rebels attacks the house of Mr. L.
Brown, at Beauharnois, and takes that gentleman, with Mr.
Ellice, jun., M.P., prisioner.
A party of Indians defeats a body of armed French
Canadians, near Caughnawaga, and takes 75 prisoners.
8 The Queen Regent of Spain opens the session of the
comes.
9 Odell Town, in Lower Canada, is attacked by 900 Ca-
nadian rebels, who are compelled, by the volunteers, to re-
tire with loss.
11 Various collisions take place between the people and
the military at Cologne.
12 A republican insurrection takes place at Seville, and
General Cordova is installed president of the supreme pro-
vincial junta.
The Canadian rebels land at Windmill Point, two
miles from Prescott, and take up a position.
13 An engagement takes place at Prescott between the
Queen's troops and the rebels, who were entirely defeated.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews having been unfavour-
ably received by the American public, make their last ap-
pearance on the American boards at New York, and Mr.
Charles Mathews explains at full length to the audience
the causes of his failure.
14 The orange lodges again re-assemble in Dublin.
A workman is shot by the sentinel at the palace of the
Tuilleries, having ignorantly stationed himself on a spot to
which the sentinel had orders to allow no one to approach.
16 Two bailiffs, whilst levying a distress for poor rates on
the goods of the overseer of the parish of Laugfield, near
Todmorden, are assaulted and severely ill treated by a mob.
Attempted assassination of Charles Luuis de Bourbon,
reputed Duke of Normandy.
Death of Mr. Cutler- Ferguson, judge advocate-gene-
ral. and M.P. for Kirkcudbright, at Paris, in his 70th year.
18 Narvaez accepts the office of Vice-President of the
Junta of Seville, and great rejoicings consequently take
place. _ _

20 Grand public dinner to Mr. Urquhart by the Chamber
of Commerce at Newcastle.
The cavalry and artillery at Seville, under the com-
mand of Colonel Ortega, refuseto acknowledge the authority
of Cordova, and leave that place.
Death of the Earl of Sefton, in his 67th year.
The President of the United mates issues a proclama-
tion, discouutenancing all efforts on the part of the Ameri-
cans to give aid to the Canadian rebels.
Further riots at Tormorden, occasioned by proceedings
under the new poor law.
22 The rule calling on the proprietor of the Satirist to show
cause why a criminal information should not be filed against
him, for a libel on the Marquis of Blandfurd, is made abso-
lute by the Court of Queen's Bench.
23 Conservative public dinner at Bedford.
27 Death of Marshal Lobau, commander-in-chief of the
national guard of Paris, aged 68.
28 Murder of Susannah Hayle, a widow, by Hilliard, at
Mountnessing.
The St. Patrick steamer is lost near Church Town, on
her voyage from Liverpool to Waterford, and six persons
drowned.
Forty-four prisoners are shot at Saragossa, by the junta
of reprisals.
29 Violent storm of thunder and lightning, which occa-
sions
much damage amongst the shipping along the coast.
The Austrian troops commence the evacuation of Italy.
Celebration in London of the anniversary of the Polish
revolution.
The freedom of the city of London, in a gold box, is
voted by the common council to Thomas Clarkson, the first
advocate of negro emancipation, and his bust ordered to be
placed in the
30 The arrival of her Majesty the Queen Dowager at
Malta.
31 The Earl of Durham lands at Devonport from Canada.
DECEMBER
2 Harris, the pedestrian, completes his task of walking
1750 miles in 1000 successive hours, being one mile and three
quarters each hour.
3 The French garrison evacuates Ancona, which is occu-
pied by a body of Papal troops.
4 Prorogation of parliament till the sth of next February.
Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, is sentenced by the 6th
chamber of correctional police at Paris to two years' impri-
sonment, and a fine of 500 francs, for having assaulted Mr.
Wentworth Beaumont, in the gardens of the Tuilleries.
Two gamekeepers of Harvey Coombe, Esq., are at-
tacked in Cobha►n Park by poachers, and one of them killed.
The proceedings of the American senate are interrupted
by a mob, which takes possession of the Senate House, and
threatens several of the members, who make their exit by
the windows.
5 Sir Lionel Smith dissolves the House of Assembly of
Jamaica.
Renewal of the disgraceful scenes in the American

senate.
6 John Millie, clerk in the savings bank at Newcastle
upon-Tyne. is found murdered in the bank, which, it appeared,
had been set tire to.
8 Death of Sir James Allan Park, one of the judges of
her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, in his 73d year.
The cotton mill of Mr. Jowett, Ashton-under-Lyne, is
partially destroyed by fire, by which nearly 400 people were
thrown out of employment.
9 The army of reserve of Spain, consisting of 40,000 men,
which had been formed by General Narvaez, is dissolved by
a royal decree.
Disturbance at Fuenza, shortly after the departure of
the Austrian troops.
The Queen of Portugal opens the session of the Cortes.
1U Fungal of Marshal Lobau, which is attended by all
the notional guards and garrison of Paris.
12 Meetings take place about this period, to oppose the
proposed plan of opening the Post-office in London on Sun-
days.
The Dean of the Arches' Court, decides that it is not
contrary to the rules of the protestant church to place an
inscription on a tomb-stone in a protestant church yard re.
questing prayers for the dead, and adding questions from the
Roman catholic version of the Bible.
A proclamation is issued by her Majesty against noctur-
nal and tumultuous assemblages of persons by torch-light.
14 A meeting takes place at the Horns Tavern, Kenning-
ton, to petition parliament against the grant to the College
at Maynooth.
15 Two hundred Carlist prisoners, taken near Cheste, are
shot by order of the Christina general, Van Halen.
16 Espartero attacks Poblacion, commanded by the Cu-
rate of Dello, and is compelled to retreat with the loss of 800
men.
17 The King of France opens the session of the chambers.
The Bank of Belgium suspends cash payments.
18 Mr. O'Connell dissolves, and re-organises on a more
extensive scale, the Precursor Society.
Grand dinner of the Loyal and Constitutional Associ-
ation at the Town.hall, Birmingham.
19 The Times newspaper is found guilty of a libel on Sir
John Conroy, equerry to the Duchess of Kent.
Explosion of fire damp at Wallsend collery, by which
11 persons are killed.
20 Destructive fire at Whitechapel.
The Hon. and Rev. George Spencer is entertained at
a public dinner at West Bromwich, at which one of the
toasts is " His Holiness the Pope, and the reconversion of
our country, the isle of saints."
21 Sir James Graham is installed Lord Rector of the uni-
versity of Glasgow.
Public dinner to the Marquis of Chandos, by the Nor-
folk and Suffolk Agricultural Association, at Eye.
22 An address is presented to Sir James Graham, at the
Trades' Hall, from the merchants, bankers, manufacturers,
and other inhabitants of Glasgow. ,
Death of the Earl of Clarendon, at Walmer-terrace,
Deal.
24 Opening of the whole line of the London and Green-
wich railway.
27 The Rev. J. R. Stephens, of Ashton-under-Lyne, is
arrested at Manchester for sedition, by a warrant from the
secretary of state.
28 Meeting, of the Protestant Association at Exeter Hall,
on the subject of the prosecution of the Protestants in
Ireland.
29 A writ of habeas corpus is granted by Mr. Justice Lit-
tledale, to bring up the Canadian rebels, who had arrived in
this country on their way to Botany Bay.

The Wesley an Centenary Fund leached the noble amount
of upwards of £lll,OOO before the close of the year jus
ended. The tide of contributions is still flowing freely.—

Watchman.
MRS. SWOONS AND THE POT OF PORTER.—During the
engagement of this great actress at Leeds, one evening was
excessively hot, and Mrs. Siddons was tempted by a torturing
thirst to consent to avail herself of the only obtainable relief
proposed to her at the moment. Her dresser, therefore, de
spatched a boy in great haste to "fetch a pint of beer for Mrs.
Siddons," at the same time charging him to be quick, as Mrs.
Siddons was in a hurry for it, Meanwhile the play proceeded,
and, on the boy's return with the frothed pitcher, he looked
about fur the person who ha I sent him on his errand, and, not
seeing her, inquired " Where is M rs. Siddons ?" The scene-
shifter whom he questioned, pointing his finger to the stage,
where she was performing the sleeping scene of Lady Mac-
beth, replied, "There she is." To the surprise and horror of
all the performers, the boy promptly walked on the stage close
up to Mrs. Siddons, and, with a total unconsciousness of the
impropriety he was committing, presented the porter. Her
distress may be imagined; she waved the boy away in her
grand manner several times, without effect; at last the peo-
ple behind the scenes, by dint of beckoning, stamping, and
calling in half-audible whispers, succeeded in getting him off
with the beer, part of which, in his exit, he spilled on the
stage; while the audience were in an uproar of laughter,
which the dignity of the actress was unable to quell for several
minutes.— Memoirs-of the late .Chatlea..tlicatitows, by his widow,