The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Robert Gordon, the new secretary of the treasury, has
appointed Mr. Percy Shelly, a son of Sir John Shelly, to be
his private secretary.
On Saturday, Sir Chapman Marshall was elected Lord
Mayor of London for the ensuing year.
The revenue of Leith this year, as appears from the col-
lector's books, is no less than £3OOO. greater than last year.
A variety of the common swallow, nearly white, was shot
at Eslington, last week, by the Hon. T. Liddell, M.P.
The subscription to the Eglinton testimonial progresses
steadily. The amount of the sums subscribed exceeds 1400
guineas.
At the sale of the estates of Sir Culling Earthey Smith,
Bart., at Spalding, the land produced nearly £lOO. per acre.
—Lincoln Chronicle.
It is reported that Lord Lyttleton is to be Lord Lieutenant
of Worcestershire, in place of Lord Foley, who, it is said,
has resigned that office.
The Earl of Somers has given the liberal sum of £lOO. to-
wards the erection of a new church at Wellington Heath,
Herefordshire.
It is in contemplation to erect a Welsh Church in London
for the especial use of the natives of the principality, to wor-
ship their Maker in their own language.
WOODEN PAVEMENTS.—In the Marylebone vestry, on
Saturday, the report of the committee in favour of paving
Oxford-street, with wood was adopted.
The Emperor of Austria has confirmed Baron Rothschild,
of London, in the post of Austrian consul-general, to which
he had been provisionally appointed.
The Rev. Thomas Thornton Champneys, of Merton Col-
lege, Oxford, is appointed resident chaplain at Rio Janeiro,
the value of which is stated to be £7OO. per annum.
The depots of the 18th and 94th regiments are to embark
on or about the middle of next month, to join their service
companies in the East Indies.—United Service Gazette.
Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner, K.C.8., of the Royal Artil-
lery, formerly equerry to King Leopold, has been appointed
first and principal aide-de-camp to the queen.
CONGLETON VIADUCT.—The first stone of this stupendous
undertaking was laid on Wednesday, with all the " pomp and
circumstance" which an event of such importance might
justly demand.
We are happy to hear, that Sir W. Follett's health has
been so much improved by his residence on the continent,
that he will be able to resume his professional duties next
term.—Exeter Flying Post.
Captain Eliot, who killed Mr. Mirfin last year in a duel at
Wimbledon, and fled from justice, has been expelled from
Belgium by the government of that country, on account of
his conduct at Brussels.
WHAT'S IN A NAME.—Among the list of prisoners for
trial at the last Middlesex and Westminster sessions, were
Liberty and his wife for disorderly conduct ; Martin Luther,
for a riot; Mary Music, for being drunk and creating a dis-
turbance ; " sweet" Ann Page, for threatening to murder
Jane Shore ; and a fellow who calls himself Dickey Celestina,
for an assault.

RURAL POLlCE.—Notice has been given by the Lord
Lieutenant of the county, Lord Ellenborough, and three
other magistrates, that it is proposed to move the adoption
of the provisions of the County and District Constables Bill
for the county of Gloucester at the ensuing quarter sessions.
—Cheltenham Gazette.
BOLTON.—The revision of the lists for the borough of Bol-
ton took place on Saturday last, before H. Lawrence, Esq.
The objections were all on one side, viz, by the conserva-
tives ; and 34 of them were sustained, and ten failed. There
were very few claims, and of these only a very small number
appeared to support them.

MORE DEFECTIONS.—We have heard, although we can-
not vouch for the correctness of the rumour, that the Duke
of Devonshire is about, if he have not already done so, to
separate himself from ministers. It is said that the Duke
of Devonshire's decision has not been formed without due
eons i deratio n.—Standard.
The Hon. Henry William Petre, second son of Lord
Petre, will embark in a few days for the colony at New
Zealand, where his noble father has purchased an extensive
tract of land for him. Mr. Francis Molesworth, also goes
out with Mr. Petre.
RAILWAY VELOCITY.—M. de Pambour has stated to the
French Academy of Sciences that on the 3d of August last
he had travelled with the Evening Star engine, taking with
it only the tender and eight persons, at the rate of 544 miles
per hour, on the Great Western Railway ; and that, had the
feeding pump been larger, he thought they might have gone
still faster.

In preparing the ground for the iron railway at Wilmerson,
beyond Tirlemont, in Belgium, a bed of yellow amber has
been discovered, which seems to he very rich, judging by the
number of large pieces which the workmen have carried
away. It is affirmed that there were several hundred pounds,
which appear to have been purchased by Jews.
A CHILD TO BE GIVEN AWAY.—An advertisement has
appeared two or three times, within as many days last past,
addressed "To the rich without children," any one of
whom, on application to the " highly-connected" parents,
who are now poor, may have their " newly-born infant boy,
without the slightest difficulty on their part !" The parents
will give away their child to any person rich enough to keep
it !—London paper.
STATE OF THE BAROMETER AND THERMOMETER FOR
THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1839.—The average height
of the barometer for the month is 29 02 inches ; its minimum
height was on the first day, 28'10, and its maximum on the
11th, 27'70 inches. The thermometer has fluctuated from
62 to 52 degrees, and its average for the month is 57.6 de-
grees. The observations for both were made at eight o'clock
a. in .

AN HONEST COACHMAN.—On Friday morning last, Mr.
Boast, one of Bromley and Newton's coachmen, found a
purse containing upwards of nine sovereigns, in one of the
coaches. lie lost no time in giving the utmost'possible pub-
licity to the Circumstance ; and in the course of the next day
the money was returned to the owners, two ladies in the
neighbourhood, and Boast received a satisfactory reward for
his honesty.—Stockport paper.
The Derby Reporter states from authority, that the Man-
chester end Derby Railway (by the Churnet Valley) is to be
Dru.6l2t. fui waits in parliament, in toe ensuing sc-ssiun,
most vigorous support, and that another survey is now
making in order to secure, as much as possible, a line free
from opposition by land-owners, and calculated' to be most
useful to the district through which it may pass.
The detachments about to embark for Bengal, in the Vis-
count Melbourne, are to be under the command of Captain
L'Estrange, of the 21st Fusiliers. Assistant Surgeon Prim-
rose, of the 44th Regiment, is to have medical charge of
them. They will be accompied by Ensign Lyster, of the
94th Foot, and, in all probability, by another ensign of the
same corps.—United Service Gazette.
A grand conservative dinner was given at Shaftesbury, on
Friday last, at the Grosvenor Arms Inn, which was attended
by upwards of 100 conservatives, of the first rank in the
town and neighbourhood. Henry Seymour, Esq., of Knoyle
House, in the chair. In the coarse of the evening some
very eloquent speeches were delivered, and the whole tenor of
the meeting was such as to prove the great spread of con-
servative principles throughout the county.
CAMBRIDGE CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL.—OR Thursday
and Friday. a very pretty display was made on the site of the
manor house of St. Rhadegund, in Jesus-laue, by the con-
servatives of Cambridge. The whole town was divided into
two portions (the Market, Trinity, and St. Andrew's wards
being one, and the two Barnwall wards the other,) and a tea
party and dance were given. There were at least 3000 per-
sons present each evening.—Cambridge Chronicle.
THE HARVEST IN IRELAND.—The accounts from the
provinces which have reached since Friday, are generally
favourable, particularly those from the counties of Meath,
Westmeath, Antrim, Louth, and Down. Complaints still
prevail, as to the trying weather, from Limerick, Derry, and
Donegal. Connaught, with the exception of Sligo, seems
to have been this year peculiarly exempted from the bad
effects of the heavy rains which fell during the last two
months. The oat crops in Galway will, we learn, be abun-
dant.—Dublin Evening Mail.
TEMPERANCE OF FOX-HUNTERS.—I sat for more than
two hours, one night, in the company of eight or nine choice
spirits, in the smoking-room at the house of Lord Waterford
and Co., and never saw a man wet his lips ; and another
night, during the same period and in the same house, and
about the same number of choice spirits—cigars blowing all
the time—not an imperial pint of any liquid was drunk. So
much for the credit of fox-hunting, which is a greater check
upon sensual indulgences than most persons may be willing
to admit.—Nimrod, Sporting Review.
BOLTON POLICE.—Lieut.-Col. Angelo arrived in Bolton
on Thursday last, and on Saturday proceeded to the appoint-
ment of officers. Those of the old police force were all re-
jected, and those of the new force all elected. There were
additional ones appointed, and were examined by Mr. J. L.
Heap, surgeon, who has been appointed for the purpose.
The regulations are, that they are to receive sixteen shillings
a week, be five feet seven inches in height, not more than
thirty-five years of age, of good character, and not have'more
than three children.

NORTHAMPTON CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL.—ThiS splen-
did festival took place on Monday. The circumstances at-
tendant upon it cannot fail to be as truly gratifying to every
loyal subject in the empire, as its results are sure to fulfil the
anticipations of those to whom the credit is due, of initiating
so adrnirableft display of constitutional feeling as, was exhi-
bite4 throughout the proceedings of the evening. The ban-
quet took 'Place'in the spacious and elegant ball rooms of the
George Hotel, which were very tastefully decorated for the
occasion. Above the chair was placed a banner, on which
were painted the arms of Sir R. Gunning, Bart., and imme-
diately beneath it Was another, on which was inscribed" The
Church and the Queen." At the, extreme right and left of
the chair were placed banners with suitable conservative in-
scriptions, and around the room a number of elegant devices
were suspended between the splendid gilded mirrors with
which its panels were decorated. The gallery was crowded
with ladies in full dress. Nearly 300 gentlemen sat down to
dinner,- and many:more would have been present if the tables
could Ifaier iLeommodated them.
VARiErizs or WiicAT.---At the late meeting of the En-
glish Agricultural Society at Oxford,. Colonel Le Couteur
received a prize of £2O for his essay on the cultivation of
wheat. - This gentleman, who is one of the first agricultural-
ists offh,o clu, has for five years been instituting experiments
in Order. to ascertain the expense and profit of growing the
several Varieties of. this staple of our agriculture. From this
statenient,we learn that the Hoary White, or Velveteen wheat,
produCes per acre, 48 bushels of corn, worth (at 8s) £l9 4s,
and straw worth £5 8s 9d ; total value, £24 12s 9d. The
expenses of cultivation are £9 6s ; leaving a nett profit of
£15.65. 9d per acre. Of the next variety, the Jersey Dantzic,
the items are, produce, £22 Os 6d ; expenses, £9 6s ; profit
per acre, £l2 14s 6d. The third variety, the Whitting-
ton, affords £22 lls 6d of gross produce per acre ; from which
£lO Os. 6d being deducted for expenses, leaves the net profit
at £l2 Ils. The last sort recorded in the experiments of the
gallant colonel, is the valuable variety called the Talavera
Belle Vue, which produces 52 bushels per acre, and 5,480 lbs
of straw, of which the total value is £26 is 6d ; while the
expenses being only £lO Os 6d there remains the enormous
profit of £l6 is per acre.
FATALITY OF THE. WEST INDIES TO THE MILITARY.
—To the long and fatal list of casualties which have occurred
amongst the officers of the 76th regiment, in the West Indies,
we regret to have to add the death of Brevet Major Fitzge-
rald, of that corps, of whose decease at Demerara, after an
illness of four days only, the news arrived in London the
beginning of the present week. This is the sixth officer who
within a period of six weeks, has fallen a sacrifice to the
dreadful epidemic now raging in the above-mentioned settle-
ment. Ensign Phipps died on the 26th of June ; Lieut. and
Adjutant Hopkins on the 29th of the same month ; Ensign
Dickenson on the 10th : Lieut. Col. Dansey on the 12th ;
Capt. Bruce on the 20th of July ; and Brevet Major Fitzge-
rald on the 6th ult. We regret to add that we have also re-
ceived unfavourable accounts from St. Vincent, where the
70th regiment is stationed. A correspondent writing from r
that island, describes the troops there as being very sickly,
from a malignant form of yellow fever, which proved fatal in
12 to 48 hours. The corps, he says, has already lost 60 men.
This scourge first appeared among the inhabitants of the town ;
but when our correspondent wrote, it was confined entirely
to the garrison, situated on an elevation of about 700 feet,
and a mile and a half distant from any habitation. The men
were stated to be greatly alarmed, and to refuse to go into
the hospital.—United Service Gazette.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The following anecdote of
the Duke of Wellington, not generally known, and never be-
fore published, cannot but he acceptable to the reader. It
exhibits in a strong light the indefatigable perseverance and
foresight of the duke, and especially exonerates his grace
from the charge raised against him by many writers of allow-
ing himself to be surprised by Bonaparte while amusing him-
self at a ball at Brussels at the time referred to :—At a din-
ner, a short time since, the duke was asked, " Has your
grace seen the pamphlet published in America, by General
Grouchy, in answer to General Foy's-attack on him respect-
ing the manoeuvres on the day previous to Waterloo ?" " I
have," answered the duke, " and Grouchy has the best of it.
He could not move without orders, and orders he certainly
did not receive. As to his manoeuvres, I knowall about them.
I was a witness to them." " You !" exclaimed one of the
party ; " every one thought your grace was at Brussels." " I
know they did ; but they were wrong, for on the evening in
question I and Gordon (who was killed at Waterloo) left
Bruisels, took a squadron of horse as escort, no one know-
ing us, and joined the Prussian head-quarters. I passed the
whole of that night in conference with Blucher, Bulow,
D'York, and Klest. In the morning I observed to Bulow,
' If I had an English army in the position in which yours
now is I should expect to be most confoundedly thrashed.'
The attack of Grouchy soon after commenced, and the Prus-
sians were defeated. I waited long enough to see that event,
and I then thought it time to be off, and on the 17th Bona-
parte made that monstrous movement on my flank which was
the commencement of the battle of Waterloo."—Dover
Chronicle.

THE CONFESSIONS OF A MILK-MAID.--" What a great
deal of milk must be sent into Manchester in the course of
a year, said I to Mary one morning, as rwas passing her at
the door. Two or three carts, laden with cans of milk, were
passing along the street at the time, and it was this gave rise
to the observation. " And water too, mestur," said Mary,
looking rather archly, as though she knew something about
the matter. "Do you think, then, that they water the milk
much in this part of the country, Mary?" I inquired.
"Aye, observed Mary, " there be cheating in all trades
but our n, as they say, but I used to think our mestur at
Eccles were a ptetty good en' at it, too. I should think,
that when I was milk-maid there, the milk the cows gave was
somewhere about sixty cans a day ; and to carry this milk
to market, in Manchester, we employed two men. Now,
every farthing of these men's wages were paid out of the
water." " Then they could not have very good wages, I
should think," said I, interrupting her story. " Nay, nay,"
continued Mary, " not so bad for farmers servants, either.
Ten quarts of water every morning, and six every evening, at
threepence a-quart, comes to a good deal of money in the
week." " Then you put more to it in the morning than in
the evening, did you, Mary ?" " Why yes, mestur," she
replied, " because the cows would give more in the morning
than in the evening, for we began milking at three in the
afternoon while the milking in the morning did not com-
mence till five. I shall never forget." continued Mary,
laughing heartily, " what a man said to me one morning,
who came to live servant with us. He were a droll chap,
and used to say some funny things to us girls. ' Polly,'
says he to me, ` Polly, which o' all the cows i' the dairy dost
thou think gives most milk ?" ` That there red un,' says I,
to be sure.' ' Nay, nay, Poll,' says he, ` that there black
tit', wi' one urn. (horn) at th' back door.' That were th'
pump, une nanaie, you known,' said Niel 3,, fearing I
should not understand the allusion, and she again laughed
heartily at the joke. " But how," I asked " if they obtained
thieepence a-quart for it in Manchester, Mary, did the
retailer make his profit by it ?" " Oh," said she," "by
putting more water to it, happen." " Well," I could not
help observing, " it must be sad stuff by the time it reaches
the consumer's hands." " Sky-blue, I reckon," added
Mary, casting her weather-eye up at the fine azure above us.
—Manchester Chronicle.
TERRIFIC THUNDER STORM AT BIRMINGHAM.—On
Friday last ,his town was visited by a thunder storm, which,
although short in its duration, was most alaiming in its effects.
About half past twelve o'clock, the sky became suddenly
darkened, and presently a dreadful fall of rain, and large
hailstones took place, which continued for two or three
minutes, and was accompanied by one flash oflightning and
a terrific clap of thunder, which seemed as if rolling imme-
diately over the town, Eight new houses, belonging to Mr.
Dingley, coal dealer, and lately erected iuu Crego-street, Hol-
loway-head, were struck by the lightning, and all more or less
injured. The houses are situate on the left hand side of the
above street, which is opposite to St. Thomas's Church, and
leading from Holloway-bead to the Bristol-road. They stand
alone on a portion of the ground adjoining the field where the
meetings are usually held, and apart from any shelter what-
ever. The account given by Mrs. Turner, the wife of a
journeyman brassfounder, who occupies the house nearest the
Bristol-road, is—that she was standing in her kitchen, iron-
ing, near the door, and five of her children were round the
fire, when suddenly the house was shaken, as if to its centre,
and the kitchen in which she was, presented one body of flame.
Her senses partly left her, and for the moment, she was unable
to move. -On recovering from the shock, she ran round a
little counter, which stood between her and her children, when
she found them all lying flat upon the ground, and senseless.
A little girl, about eleven years of age, was lying against the
counter, and her feet completely doubled under her body. She
raised them up. one by one, believing they were dead and it
was not until five minutes after that they recovered, and
were able to speak. They were perfectly unconscious of what
they had seen or heard. Beyond the terror, no injury was
sustained by herself or family. On examining the house, she
found that the lightning had struck down through the roof,
which it nearly destroyed, and passed through the ceilir, into
the attic, where it had penetrated the back and side walls in
about twelve or fourteen places. It burned two large holes
in the front wall, from which it would appear to have passed
tp the room door opposite, and down stairs into the kitchen,
where she and her children were, and from thence into the
street through the door, which was open. The chimney of
the house at the back of Mr. Turner's, was knocked down,
and the chimney-pieces were much shattered. The other six
houses were also equally shaken, and several panes of glass
broken in each of them, but none of the inmates were injured.
A new zinc gutter hail a.hole completely.; burned through it,
and it was forced down into the water barrel which was under
it. Three fowls belonging to Mr. Turner, which were oppo-
site his door, were killed : two more are missing ; and a sixth.
was severely injured.—Birmingham Adiertiser.