The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

MECHANICAL BRICK MAKING.—At the meeting of the
British Association, at Birmingham last week, Mr. Cottam
exhibited a model of a brick and tile making machine, invent-
ed by the Marquis of Tweddale, by which it was stated 30
bricks a minute, or nearly 30,000 bricks a day might be made,
whilst a good moulder could only mould from 5000 to 8000 a
day. The clay was put into the machine at one end and pas-
sing between two rollers was rolled into a long bar, which was
cut into the required length of the bricks by a cutter worked,
by the same wheel-work. The bricks on coming out at the
opposite side of machine were carried by it to a distance of
200 yards, thereby saving a great amount of time and money
in carrying, an operation usually performed by boys and wo-
men. As a proof of the superiority of the machine-made brick
it weighed Bilbs, while a common brick weighed only 541bs.
and the machine-made brick carried eight times the weight
which the eoMinon brick would Sustain. •
THE BOOT TORTURE.—I never could comprehend how,
in an age that pretends so much to enlightened philantrophy,
the race of modern boot makers should so long have escaped.
extermination ; for assuredly no race or class of men ever in-
flicted so much suffering on mankind as the sons of Crispin
have done. Breathes there the man who has never suffered
from the pain of a corn or the pressure of a boot ? And yet,
where is the remedy ? Ask the ablest surgeon in London to
relieve you from the pain of a corn, and he will tell you that
he'd soon be the richest man in England if he could effect
such a cure. And yet the torturers are allowed to exist, and,
to persevere in their practice, though we pretend to have
'abolished torture altogether. Talk of the tortures inflicted.
by, the Inquisition, indeed ! why, the Inquisition only mar-
tyred a few individuals, from time -to time, to keep their
hands in ; whereas shoe-makers torture the whole race of
shoe-wearing men.—Fraser.
THE DUTY OF CONSERVATIVES,—Sound Conservative
views, which recognise the laws of God as paramount, and
impress on subjects obedience -to their rulers as a matter of
conscience, are alone calculated to ensure the peace and good
order of civil soeiety, To do this effectually the public press
must be employed, and in the struggle for superiority which
is perpetually going on, Conservatives of influence must take
their places as leaders, and maintain their principles in the
press as well as in the senate. If they can take their lead in
the former, there is little fear of their success in the latter.
But if they suffer' the press adversely to take possession of the
public mind they will, under otherwise even chances, be lo-
sers in the senate. Under peculiarly favourable circumstan-
ces they will make head against the stream of prejudice which
will be continually bearing down upon them ; but the party
which suffers itself to be unrepresented in the press, will, in
the ordinary course of things, remain unrepresented in the
senate.

A RRIVED .—Agrippa, Reid; Treasurer, Farrage ; Three Sisters,
Arney ; and Neriad, Watkins; from Odessa—Woodstock, Austin,
froin Jamaica—Entaw, Allen • Splendid, Howe; Dibdiu, Kruger;
Sheffield, Allen-; Oxford', Rsithbone ; Hudson, Page, Hannibal,
Murnford ; St. Leon, Westcott ; •Cahawba, Smith; Sheridan, De
Pey,ter ; Nimrod, Chadburn ; Mogul, Sketchley ; hence at New
York—Mcintreal,,Griffin ; and Mediator, Champlain; from London
w. at Ne York--Romphis, English, hence at Providence.
SAILED.-Kingston, James, for Africa—Avon, Robinson, fcr Mon-
treal—Abercromby, Ure, for Quebec.

Liverpool, (steamer,) Fayrer, from New York at this port; sailed
24th August, at 2 20. p.m. On 20th August, in lat. 42 40, lon. 53 25,
spoke the Science, from Honduras, for Liverpool. On the 30th
Aug. in lat. 44 50, long. 46 30, spoke the Abeona, from Liverpool,
for St. John, N.B. On Ist September, in lat. 47, long. 38 40, spoke
the Transit, from Dublin; for Quebec. On the 6th September, off
Cape Clear, Spoke the 'Chieftain, from Liverpool, for St. Andrew,
N.B, On the 7th September, off Tuskar, 'spoke the Chandos, from
Liverpool, for Jamaica. The Liverpool arrived at New York 18th
August, at midnight.
WEXFORD, SEPTEMBER s.—The Iliate Felix, Pensamento, from
St. Übes, for Sligo, came on shore at Crosfarnouth, inside the
Saltee Islands, last night, with salt and fruit; the latter saved, as
well as part of the materials. The hull is on the rocks, and likely
to go to pieces. Three of the crew drowned. •

MONDAY, SSPTEMBER 9.—Wind W.S.W.
ARRlVED.—Killermont, Dick, from Benin; sailed 6th June--an,
Heroine, Jeatte, from St, Domingo:

Highfield, Jones, and Warree, hence at Benin
Prompt, Payne, hence at Montreal
Superb, —, from Jamaica for Liverpool, off Cape St. Nicholas
7th Aug.
Clyde. Reid, and Adelaide, Davies, hence at St. John, N.B.
Isabella, Thorpe, hence at Manilla, and was to sail on her return
about 15th May
Manco, Nickells, hence at New York 23rd Aug.
Clio. Daly, for Halifax, has put back leaky—experienced very bad
weather last night off Point Lyhas
CALCVTTA, June 18.—The Elizabeth, that Was lost on the Sand
Heads (as reported 30th Aug.) was in company with the Clydesdale,
from Calcutta for Liverpool, at the time

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AFRICA.

Emma, J Aughterson, 2 ma,
-(4-.AT Hatton & Co
WEST INDIES 'AND MADEIRA.
Blundell, T Hynes, lag Trinidad, J Poole & Co
Regalia, D Cobb, ISO Trinidad and City of St. Domingo,
Imrie & Tomlinson

SOUTH AMERICA.
John Brooks, A Nicol, 180 Laguira and Puerto Cabello,