The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-19 00:00:00

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THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE.
THE Proprietors of the " PORTRAITS OF EMINENT
LIVING DIVINES" beg to announce that a new and
splendid PORTRAIT of the above Gentleman is now pre-
paring, and will shortly appear in this beautiful Work. The
Portrait will be executed in line, in the very best possible
style, by one of the most eminent Engravers of the day, from
an original Painting, ..taken expressly` for the Work, by a
first-rate Artist. Part I. of the Work is now ready, con-
taing a Portrait and Memoir of
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER.
THE REV. HENRY MELVILL, B.D.
London : Published by DAWE and GOWAR 8, Regent-
street; and Mr. NEWLING, Ranelagh-street, Liverpool, by
whom Subscribers' Names will be received.

Just published, price One Penny,
A TRACT on the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST ;
His Peaceable Reign with His Saints, and the End of
the World; proving, from the Prophecies of Daniel, that the
time is near us, even at the door, when the Sanctuary shall
be Cleansed.

" Prepare to meet thy God, 0 Israel !"—Amos, iv. 12.
" Behold he cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him ; and all kindreds of
the earth shall wail because of him ; even so, Amen."—Reve-
lations, i. 7.

Liverpool : published and sold by S. KENT and Co., 1 and
2, Custom-house Buildings, corner of Paradise-street; and
may be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country.
N.B. The usual allowance made to the Trade and Tract
Societies.

Just published, dedicated to her Majesty, price, large paper,
cloth extra, £2 12s. 6d. ; or, in morocco extra, £4 10s. ;
small paper, cloth extra, 31s. 6d. ; or, morocco extra, £3.
THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE, in one ele-
gant volume, small folio, comprising also " A COM-
PLETE CONCORDANCE of the OLD and NEW
TESTAMENTS," is strongly recommended as decidedly
most appropriate and best adapted as a present to a new
married. couple ; as a token of remembrance to a distant
friend, or on birth days or other occasions ; as testified by
the following extracts from a considerable list of critical
notices :

-----Capy of a letter from the Rev. Dr. RAFFLES.
Edge-hill, February, 1839.
" Gentlemen,—l am exceedingly obliged to you for having
afforded me a sight qf the elegant volumes you sent for my
inspection. Your edition of the Bible, in the beauty qf its
typography, and the taste displayed in its decorations, is
certainly unique ; and I trust that many will •be induced to
make a book, so precious as to its contents, and so graceful
in its ornaments, the medium of expressing their regard for
those relations and friends to whom they desire to present
some token of their esteem.
" I am, Gentlemen, yours very truly,
" THOMAS RAFFLES.
_ _

" Messrs. Fisher, Son, and Co., London.
" This is an age of wonders as it respects the efforts of the
Press. Never was the art of printing so well understood as
it is in the present day. ' The illustrated Family Bible' is a
striking proof of the truth of these remarks. As a specimen
of typography it will be regarded by the best judges as unri-
valled in taste and beauty ; and in economy to the public it
is no less remarkable. With pictorial illustrations, eminent
for their skill and adaptation, a Commentary long established
in the public confidence, and Concordance written on a new
and improved principle, it is offered to families at an incon-
ceivably moderate sum. As a present to a newly-married
couple, just entering on the responsibilities of domestic life,
it may prove the means of extensive good to generations yet
unborn."—Evangelical Magazine, February, 1839.
*** The ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE is also pub-
lished iu TWENTY PARTS, at 2s. 6d. large, or ls. 6d.
small paper.
Published for the Proprietor, by FISHER, SONand CO.,
London and Paris, and may be procured through all respect-
able booksellers in the kingdom.
Sold in Parts by AINSWORTH and SONS, Nos. 1 and 2,
Custom-house Buildings, Liverpool.

tniuut,Au. PA.cr.—A few days ago, a loz of St. John's
yellow pine timber, cut up in the Greenock patent saw-mill,
was found to contain a hive of bees, in a most perfect state
of preservation. The log was a root cut of 35 feet in length,
and 26 inches square. It was about 140 years of age, as in-
dicated by the annular fibres of the wood. The age of the
tree, at the period when the bees seem to have taken up their
abode in it, must have been from 30 to 40 years, as all the
timber beyond that age was perfectly sound and without per-
foration. The insects were found in drouses of various sizes,
all the way up from the bottom of the tree to near the upper
end, and each drouse was connected with the other by a small
aperture, or passage, by which a connection was established
between all the compartments of the hive. Bees in all stages
of growth, and without wings, were found in it, and the full
grown bees, in a state of perfect preservation, presented an
appearance exactly similar to that of our own honey bee after
being destroyed by smoke.—One of the cells filled with the
bees still remains at the mill for the inspection of the curious
in natural history.—Greenock Advertiser.

ARRIVAL OF THE BODY OF LADY FLORA HASTINGS AT
EDINBURGH.—The Royal William (steamer,) which con-
veyed the remains of this lamented lady from London to
Scotland, left St. Catherine's Wharf about half-past ten on
Wednesday night, the 10th instant, and arrived at Leith, at
seven o'cleck on Friday evening. It has been the wish of
the afflicted family that the funeral arrangements should be
conducted in as private a manner as possible, and up to the
present moment nothing has interfered to render them in any
degree public. Several of the-servants of the family proceeded
to Leith in the same boat with their departed mistress, and
one of them was especially an object of interest with all on
board—viz., a Swiss girl, who was Lady Flora's maid, and
whose affectionate solicitude, we understand, scarcely ever
allowed her to be absent from her bed side during the whole
of her painful illness. The girl, on her departure from the
palace, her Majesty presented with £5O and subsequently
with a turquoise brooch of considerable value, in token of
her approbation of the unremitting attention and devoted
affection with which she had watched over her persecuted
and dying mistress. The body was intrusted to the care of
Alexander Hunter, Esq., of Edinburgh, the friend and
solicitor of the family, and its arrival at Leith was privately
conveyed in a hearse to the residence of that gentleman near
Calton Hill, whence it would proceed to Loudon on Saturday.

BELLY STATISTICS OF PARIS.—The consumption of
butchers' meat in Paris, during the month of June last, was
much below that of the corresponding month of last year, as
it comprised only 4,837 oxen, 1,968 'cows, 6,438 calves, and
31,186 sheep. In June, 1838, it had been 5,494 oxen, 1,800
cows, 7,332 calves, and 34,204 sheep. The consumption in
June, 1838, exceeded, accordingly, by 657 oxen, 732 cows,
894 calves, and 3,018 sheep, that of the corresponding month
in 1839. This falling off in the consumption is very consider-
able. During the first six months of 1839 there were con-
sumed 36,069 oxen, 8,003 cows, 37,803 calves, and 201,068
sheep. The consumption, during the two first quarters of
1838, was 36,574 oxen, 10,469 cows, 39,238 calves, and
209,925 sheep. The consumption in 1839 was, accordingly,
inferior by 505 oxen, 466 cows, 1,435 calves, and 5,857 sheep,
to that of the corresponding period of 1838.—Journal des
Debats.

JUDGE LYNCH.—A gambler on a Mississippi steam-boat
was detected in cheating while playing cards with the deck
hands, when they lashed him to the end of the piston-rod,
allowing him but three feet of slack rope ; and in this way
they worked him, first pulling him one way and then causing
him to spring for his life to prevent being crushed by the re-
turning piston, and making him keep time to the celebrated
new air of " Here she goes, there she goes," until they had
worked out of him, in sweat and in swearing, fully the amount
of all he had won, when they left him go.
SWIMMING FEAT OF THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX—A Cor-
respondent of the Gazette de France, at Presburg, in men-
tioning the recent visit of the Duke of Bordeaux, states, that
his royal highness performed a remarkable feat in swimming
while stopping there. The duke had told some of his friends
of his intention to swim from the Margaret Island, in the
Danube, to the swimming-school, and, this having got ru- •
moured abroad, a great number of young Hungarian gentle-
men went to wait for his royal highness, in the island, in
swimming costume of brilliant colours. As soon as the prince
appeared on the shore a military band struck up some lively
airs, and the gentlemen advanced to pay their respects.—
The duke appeared flattered with this unexpected reception,
and shortly after, at the head of his cortege, plunged into the
stream. A boat preceeded him with the Hungarian colours
flying, and several others followed the party with bands of
music. On account of the length of the traject a boat had
been stationed half-way for the prince to rest higaself in if be
pleased, but he declined doing so, and swam on, with the
greatest ease, to the end of his appointed course.
NEWLY DISCOVERED POWER IN PROJECTILES.—AII ex-
periment was tried early on Thursday last with a newly in-
vented projectile, intended expressly to meet and set at de-
fiance the improvements suggested by various French com-
missions, for their navy, and which have attracted a greater
degree of public attention in England, from their avowed ob-
ject being " to the advantage of the power which had the
fewest great ships of the line, and the largest population ;
and, consequently to the advantage of France over England."
A large and strong-built boat was the subject of the experi-
ment ; the distance was left to choice, with the single proviso,
that the object fired at should be in sight. The inventor,
Captain Warner, launched with his own hand the destructive
missile, which, reaching the boat at the water-line, exploded,
fairly heaving her up, and scattering the planks into shivers.
One plank alone of the whole retained a breadth of about
three inches, and perhaps two feet in length ; the rest, and
the keel itself, as they fell after the lapse of some seconds
into the water, presented a mere mass of floating splinters to
the eye, and portions of the wood were carried into the neigh-
bouring fields to a considerable distance.—The whole des-
truction was effected by the agency of two and a half pounds
of combustible matter projected by an instrument of perhaps
ten or a dozen pounds weight. There was no recoil, what-
ever, nor any smoke or noise till the shell itself exploded a-
gainst the vessel, and then the percussion of air was tremen-
dous, as it threw down the nearest spectator, and was felt at
a still greater distance like the discharge of an eighty-pounder
at least. At Kingstown it created great commotion, as the
explosion was attributed to the powder-mills at Hounslow ;
and, since the fact has become known, the excitement has
greatly increased. No vessel of the line probably could have
resisted the shock, or escaped total destruction from even
the small quantity of combustibles experimented with. The
most singular circumstance perhaps is, that not the slightest
discoloration was visible on any of the fragments. The power
consequently is quite novel, and the secret jealously pardecl.
Mprmise alatoside. _ •

MANCHESTER.—The increased firmness observed in the
Liverpool cotton market since ThurSday last, instead of
causing an improvement here, appears to have an opposite
tendency, as the demand for yarn yesterday was decidedly
smaller than on the preceding Tuesday ; and, in order to
make sales, spinners were generally compelled to submit to a
reduction of about id. per pound on the prices of that day.
The fact seems to be, that the buyers of yarn will not come
freely into the mallet, until they are satisfied that the cotton
speculation has been fairly broken down, and the price of
the material has reached its natural level. We believe that,
if the prices of Thursday last had continued to the present
time, there would have been a considerable business done,
both in cotton yarn. Not that the spinners, as a body, would
have been disposed to stock themselves heavily with cotton
at those prices ; but their purchases for present consumption
would probably have been rather extensive. The advance of
a halfpenny a pound, however, since Thursday, had a con-
siderable tendency to check purchases ; and many consumers,
who went to Liverpool with the intention of taking two or
three weeks' consumption, have contented themselves with
supplying their immediate necessities ; and, as we have
already intimated the effect produced on the market here, has
been unfavourable. The goods market has been somewhat
better than that for yarn, and the prices are tolerably well
supported, though still by no means remunerative. The
working of short time consequently continues in full force.
The spinners and manufactures at Stockport—who, as our
readers may recollect, have already worked short time for
nearly a month—held another meeting on Monday last, and
agreed to prolong .the period for a second month, commenc-
ing on the 22d instant. It will also be be seen from a para-
graph elsewhere, copied from a Preston paper, that the
spinners of that town have also agreed to work short time,
which indeed may now be said to be universal;, for, in those
establishments where no formal arrangement to the effect has
been made, every opportunity of limiting production is
embraced.—Manchester Guardian.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 15.—
There is still a good demand for flannels, and a fair amount
of business has been done. Purchasers have been obliged to
give a little advance in price. The wool market remains
steady at former prices, and manufacturers seem desirous to
buy for present use only.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JULY 16.—There is little or
no change to note this week ; the usual dullness of the trade,
during the hay harvest, being apparent. Nevertheless, a fair
business is doing, especially in heavy woollens and superior
fancy waistcoatings. Prices are firm, and the raw material
has undergone no change.
THE COTTON TRADE IN PRESTON.—MOSt Of the in-
fluential houses connected with the cotton trade in this town
have come to a resolution to work their spinning machinery r
only four days per week, for one month, commencing from
the 19th instant. A week's notice of their intention will be
given to their hands to-night. Those spinners who are also
power-loom manufacturers will continue to work their power
looms full time as usual; the object being to consume as
much as possible of the stock of yarn now in the market,
and to reduce the consumption of the raw material, by which
the present value of the yarn will be maintained, if not
enhanced ; whilst the price of the latter will, in all probabi-
lity, be considerably reduced.—Preston Chronicle.