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

EXTRAORDINARY EGYPTIAN STONE COFFIN.

There is now on board of,the-FijieffliTabeth Ann, Captain
Ellis, (lying at the north end of the Queen's Dock,) a re-
markably ancient Egyptian stone coffin, recently imported
from Alexandria, in a vessel called the Hope, whence it
has been transhipped, to be taken to the British Museum, in
the metropolis. We have not been able to ascertain (it; in-
deed, it be yet known) of what distinguished individual were
the mortal remains which it once enclosed; but that person
was evidently,—judging from the representations both On the
lid and the sides of the coffin, which are elaborately cut,--a
female of high rank, and (we have heard it stated) none
other than a daughter of King Pharaoh ! If this supposition
be realized, the hands that hewed this extraordinary relic
must have mouldered in the dust nearly four thousand years
ago! Leaving the learned antiquarians to solve this point,
by deciphering the numerous hieroglyphics, inscriptions, ern-
blems, figures, and devices that appear on the stone in (for
the most part) vivid preservation, we proceed to describe
this truly curious receptacle of mortality, as we saw it in the
hold of the vessel:—The exterior coffin (for there has also
been an inner casement of a different kind of stone) is of
granite of a gray colour. It is eight feet six inches in length,
measured outside, and three feet six inches in width. The
sides are straight and parallel, and the foot square; but the
head is rounded in a segment of a circle. The depth of the
block outwardly, is about two feet eleven inches, and the
.thickness of the stone, left in hewing, is about eight inches.
This portion of the coffin weighs from four to four and a half
tons, and the sides are full of figures of human being's, in
compartments, divided by strips of hieroglyphics, and sur-
mounted by a band, or border, containing representations of
birds, beasts, fishes, &c., of various -k inds. The figure in the
compartment nearest the head of the coffin is that of a female
holding a burning lamp at a doorway, and apparently in
alarm at the approach of the other figures—one in each com-
partment to the foot of the coffin. These figures, somewhat •
rudely cut to a slight depth in profile on the stone, are all
looking towards the female, and each holds in one hand a
spear, resting on the ground; and in the other, what appears
to be an antique key. It has been suggested to us that these
probably represent the messengers of death to the affrighted
lady; but we forbear to speculate on the subject. On the
foot of the coffin (outside) appears a representation of the
sun, and below it, a figure of a galley, or antique vessel,
with rowers.
The lid of the coffin is, however, the most curious and
elaborate portion of this extraordinary casement of the dead.
It consists of a large block of variegated grauite, to fit the
coffin, raised in the segment of a circle on the top, Luigi.
tudinallv, and flat below, so that it weighs from one and a
half to two tons,—making the whole weight of the outer 6r-
fin from six to six and a half tons On the top of this lid, at
the head, is carved, in alto relievo, the face of apparently a
female, considerably larger than life, and terminating below
the chin in a narrow pedestal or column, in the Egyptian
style. Below, there is a figure of a sort of angel, or female,
kneeling with extended wings and arms, and holding in each
baud a branch of Palm. Further down, and occupying the
greater part of the lid, are seventeen lines of hieroglyphics,
each about two inches wide, running longitudinally, or in
columns. On the other end the lid, at the foot, (which
forms a segment or arch;) there is carved a representation of.
a winged female, kneeling, similar to that noticed at the top
of the lid, with the exception, that, in place of a palm
branch, she holds in her bands what appear to be sceptres,
or emblems of authority. •
The exterior coffin is complete, and, for the most part, ap.

parently as fresh and perfeZt as on the day on which it was
received from the hands of the masons. The outward surface
has been polished like marble; and the carving, which has
evidently'bten -done afterwards, still retains the whiter ap-
pearance. caused by the crushing of the material in hewing,
and which, being left without polishing, some kinds of hard
atone retain as long as they endure, notwithstanding the action
of wet qr. damp.
The interior coffin is net less indicative of the peculiar (but,
alas! futi.e) interest which the Egyptian took to preserve
their dead. It is composed of a hard, dark slate-looking stone,
resembling black marble, and when struck sounding like
metal. We have heard it called " emery stone," and believe
it not uncommon on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
About onv half only of this inside coffin has been discovered,
—that which enclosed the lower limbs of the defunct. It is
polished, and is made to open in the middle, with a joint
finely fitted, like that of a snuff-box with a separable lid.
Holes for dowells, or metal pins, to fit it correctly to its place;
are also to be seen. The top and bottom are smooth and ,=iii
flat. The sides, also polished, are fashioned iu resemblance
to the human body—the thighs and legs being raised in alto.
The head part has, doubtless, resembled the arms, shoulders,
B.:c. The interior, which is also poli!bed, corresponds; being e
so formed as to fit the body of a gigantic person,—a place
being even cut in the lid to receive the feet. But notwith-
standing
the labour and cost of the whole mass of material
not a particle of the remains that it enclosed has been pre-
served,---a fact singularly illustraive of the vanity of human
,t
I
wishes to lender iinperishable ' the vile earth" from which
we spring.
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of E
that this cogtEy p t
n, was,and afterthat long
it
h as
se search,
sent home
, discovered
far i n
:.,
by the English Consul at Alexandria, to be deposited in the
.theiea n
interior
British Museum, for the inspection of the public. In that
establishment there are several Egyptian coffins, but none, ~
we learn, equal in antiquity and value to that now under .-
notice. The cost of its conveyance from the interior is said
to have been great,—perhaps 13000—owing to the want of
roads, and the necessity of employing chiefly oven as carriers.
—.Tournal.

The delivery of general-post letters throughout the metro-
polis has been, upon an average, one hour later ever since
the mails were "accelerated" by the railroads.
SEA Faoc.—Lately, a sca frog, measuring four feet and
a half, and proportionately large, was left by the receding tide
on the bench under :he churchyard of LlanfairpwllgwY"oll,
Anglesey. Such sights being rather uncommon in that lo-
cality, the curiosity of the landsmen was much excited. An
Englishman who communicated the fact has since been
afflicted with tetanus or lock-jaw, arising, it is supposed, from
the exertion which he found necessary
to conquer the ditli-
cult of rightly pronouncing the name of the village of
Llanfairpyllgwyngyll.
TOKEN OF RESPECT TO A FAITHFUL CLEIIK•—The minis-
ters and congregation of St. James's church. Mancheqer,
and a few other friends, have presented to Mr. Wm. Hughes,
the highly respected clerk of the above church, the sent of
£lOO, in token of their high esteem for his Christian charac-
dhiisscha zealousrg discharge of
exertions his official duties for
charac-
ter, and as an acknowledgment of his faithful services in the
nearly fifty years, and for
' in visiting the sick and dying.—Mene
chests, Courier,

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LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET.
Necond appearance of Mrs. WAYLETT, the celebrated Vo-
calist and Actress, froththe Theatres-royal, Drury Lane,
Covent Garden, and Haymarket, who, having recovered
from her late indisposition, will commence an Engagement
of limited number of nights.'
rIPHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the lit instant,
and Five following Evenings, the Entertainments will
taturnence with the admired Drama, called
FALSE AND CONSTANT; .
Or, YOUTH and AGE.
Fair Port., Mr. Cook; Standish, Mr. Wallace; Major Fitz-
eilntion; Mr. Raymond; Constance, Mrs. Waylett; Arabella:
Fitz-
Mrs. Howard; Susan, Miss Stuart.
To which will be added the new laughableerlude called
WOOING A WIDOW; VW
Or, LOVE UNDER a LAMP-POST.
_ Daniel Dowgate, Esq., (Bachelor and Dry alter,) Mr.
Bennett; John, (his Servant.) Mr. Howard; Arthur, Mr. J.
~;
rs. Mr Mo
etrris;t Mary, Miss Stuart; Widow
amen, Wayl.
To conclude with (for the first time)
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY;
T. Or. OINGS at DO-TE-OYS HALL!
iekets andD
Places for the Box sto B
be had of Mr. J. FOGG,
Ilothe Theatre, each day from Eleven till Three o'Clock.
' "
35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second price, Boxes, 25.;
opened No Second Price to the Gallery. .Doors to be
at Half-past Six. Performance to commence at
Seven precisely.

In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the
211 ail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the
morning for London,‘Birnzingham, Manchester, 4.c.
This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver-
tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight
o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings.

Ebe iLiberpool g.-tanbatt.

TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 1, 1839.

I'RE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.--By the
Toronto, which sailed from New York on the 10th
ultimo, We have received intelligence one day later
that that brought by_ the Hibernia, which we
give in our last. The_news from Canada is' of no
importance. We subjoin a few extracts relating to
AlteriCatt affairs.

NOTICE.
(From the United States Gazette.) dated
undersigned, observing in the public prints a circular,
niell the 23d October, at Natchez, signed "John Ingersoll,
!Rent for Humphreys and Biddle,,, and offering to make ad-
vances on cotton shipped to them, with a stipulation that the
cottonshall be held, if desirable, until the next summer,
think it their duty to state, as the friends and correspondents
or Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, they are well acquainted
WWII
11 theta and the said John Ingersoll, and they know, as
from other circumstances as from his own declaration, 'in
own handwriting, that, at the date of his circular, be had
the least authority of any description whatever, to buy
tthn or to make advances or stipulation of any kind on any
account of Messrs. Hunaphrevs and Biddle. Since then
'4 undersigned have, at his repeated solicitation, but even
twithout the knowledge of Messrs. H. and 8., given him the
elleral permission, extended to all shippers of cotton to the
thto
,rds of thewr
upon them bills at sixty days' sight for
by bills of l for the
two-
property actually shipped, which bills were to bead solding in open
i tket at the current rate of the day. This is the only
etZelion which Mr. John Ingersoll has with the house,
circhat permission will be revoked in consequence of
this ular.

Philadelpliia, Dec. 7, 1838B.EVAN & HUMPHREYS.

onl'ill.oritte, De92.c. MARKETS.
J.—COTTON.—Stock in hand, including all
bales. Saes the t week
fin
.‘m..ateB,_ at 473 prices ranging fromfor 14 topas 1,11. for goodamount and
Pure' 13i to 131 for good fair; fair .121 to 123/4. Holders and
asers find it diffihult in touching a fixed point in prices.
b Biila °1:1 New York obtai 11 to premium, 60 days. The
al,liks have ceased checkin ng
on New York.
abo 411' ORLEANS, Dec. J .—The rise of water in the river
ve has caused a slight improvement in business. There
has been some stir in the Cotton market this week, and prices
°
_a!e advanced. The week's transactions have been large,
r1:1 about 16,000 bales at per cent. per lb. over last week's
ices. Exports 51,579 bales against 44,069.t0 the same pe-
lod last year. Sugar has been dull, but prices remain with-
°tit change. Molasses is in goo demand 33 to 34 cents.
A UGGSTA, Dec. 5.--COTTON.—d For the pastpeek there has
been. a good demand, and sales have been made at a slight
advance on previous quotations; prime and choice cottons
are scarce and in request.

MONEY MARKET, &c. DEC. 6.
and
stock market to-day presented but little fluctuation,
tiiott the business generally has been limited, with the excep-
tion of Delaware and Hudson Stock, about 1300 shares of
Which changed hands closing at 67k, a decline of 13,‘ per
,!!nt. on the price of Friday ;- Vicksburg Bank and Mohawk
Vtilroad Company improved about 1 per cent. Sales of
United States Bank at 119 i.
moderate amount of business in exchange on Paris was
done for troasmission by the Havre packet-ship Burgundy,
111 sf. 15 a sf. 16i. About 18,000 dollars, in specie, have also
been shipped by this vessel, chiefly in Spanish dollars.
in sterling exchange .nolurtber transactions have taken
Place.
We have New Orleans advices to the Ist instant The
rise of water in the upper rivers had caused a slight improve-
ment in business, and the stock of Western produce had been
Considerably replenished it was still feared, however, that
the rivers might beelosed with ice before a sufficient supply
of Produce for the winter had been received. The Money
Market had been very tight throughout the week, the rates
for good short paper having ruled at 2 to 2i per cent. per
140 nth, and for e aper at 12 er cent. per annum.
t was also probablemortgathat p no improvemepnt would take place
until the Banks had resumed specie payments. Exchange
Englaod continued at 10 to 11 per cent. premium, and
specie at 2to 3 per cent. premium. In domestic Exchange
110 change of moment had occurred. The transactions in
cotton had been fully 16,000 bales for the week, at an ad-
!Ellice of per cent. on the prices of the previous week; but
little business has yet been done fur the Liverpool market.

THE AFFAIR AT HARRISBURG.
PENNSYLVANIA.—We give below the latest accounts we
!'ave received from this State at the time of writing. It will
been seen, the troops have left Philadelphia for Harrisburg,
had as amongst them arc companies commanded by officers
who are acknowledged members of the Loco Foco party,
!'.rid as, no doubt, many of the privates also are, we conclude
that all have come to the determination to maintain the su-
Preinacy of the law.
PHILDELPHI DEC. 9.—The troops that left here on
Saturday morning were advanced only about thirty miles at
fiv
tle clock, p.m. There is a report, that the Senate of the
tete, which, which, Saturday, recollect, is decidedly Whig,
(eld a meeting on and sent a message to the
"big) House of Representatives, sitting at Wilson's. The
roesult we do not know. The earnest desire of the friends of
rder, in
H •
arrisbur this city, is, that there should be no yielding, in
g, of any one principle; and that no offer of com-
promise shall be entertained while the town is crowded with
n °i5Y Jacobins that have disgraced it for some days past.
Ti

wHE CHURCH.—ITS FRIENDS AND ITS ENEMIES.—
° this day give our readers a second portion of the
ad
essay on the Rornanising "Tracts for the
Trries,`. from the Church. of England Quarterly
I?erieu; and also some very pertinent remarks on the
same subject from the Morning Herald. •
The' dangerous tendency of the " Tracts for the
Times" is fully proved in the articles to which we
have referred : but there is another sort of evidence
:hich may be brought to bear with still greater force
POll the subject—we mean the expressed opinions of
. pull
writers in reference to these tracts. Our
treiaders may be aware of the existence of the Dublin
~,uarterlY Review—a publication which was started
the leading organ of the Papists in the United
jpngd°ll), and which is edited by Dr. Wiseman, (a
suit,) Mr. Quin, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell.—
s
iPrtlY after the series of "Tracts" emanating from
.1,?r• Puse-
x and his school was commenced, the Dublin
tilt readily availed itself of the weapons which
t: Oxford divines furnished for the purpose of at-
king Protestantism. That our readers may judge
of e
I'ile Pyish tendency of the " Tracts for the Times,"
e shall transcribe a few passages from this Popish
tilhe"ew.
The most sceptical must be convinced by
e following
language, that we are merely perform-
14e a duty to the Church by exposing the writings in
question

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tob ,:e see learned and zealous, and we have reason
in e'leve, in some instances, amiable men, contend-
6b) Me spirit which belongs to a better church and
etter
anuse in favour of a rigid adherence to prin-
tbiP'" 'and doctrines which we must approve; yet,
ereb,
feR „,d • departing from the consistency of their pro_n-
:--I,;lait, and betraying how powerless they are i
rrwriir'in the weapons which it has long since blunted,
then thrown aside " -
vvi:j'ett
!is nut difficult .to discover the secret springs
*ri „ ',lave been here at work; and inasmuch astliere-
%%l found the latent germs of principles which we
n)'°u;rluf gl,adlY see avowed in the face of heaven, we
cosati-obe.i„an interest in watching the course of the ac-
iro" l'be Party in the church, to which Dr. Hampden's
bergners [Lite majority of Dr. Hampden's impugners
type not to this "party"] belong, hold their only
untli ,1,11, semi-visible church to have existed pure,
tQntday, amidst the wilder theories of Proles-
n44,"sui ; always bearing with it some precious. rem-
qnrb-s a" relics of good old Catholicity, upholding the
apii,°lltative teaching of Christ's Church, and the true
144°Y of his sacraments, and reverencing and per-
hor;.regretting many of those institutions which the
le4ne of the Reformation recklessly swept away."
bte
woul7 doubt not that those who signed the report
alw. Berously and earnestly maintain that such has
-Ada4Y, been the conduct and the belief of their church.
Plesr; we wish it had been so. For had these princi-
Wuoide7l, always practically upheld in England, never
rent ths:le skid separation have occurred, which has
nowe,--'s country from its mother church. Others,
rhes..eer, wip
not so ea4ly see the conformity between
waxL einles and those whereon the Reformation
thit,Clginally based, but will refuse to believe that the
re of separation which it was intended at the
new° that event to place between Popery and the
her, religion, was in reality so thin a film as it must
appear.,,
It haVe only another illustration of what Catholics
tiet ?Peatedly observed, that if two contending par-
to
to se
, la the Protestant church, the one is driven
torts t.ne other with Socinianism, and that other re-
what
with the accusation of Popery. It only confirms
PrineievierY Catholic must feel, that the rejection of a
least, It" of authority necessarily leads, theoretically at
treisto ° the rejection of all mystery, and so to Socini-
son or: Wl,lile its adoption obliges its supporter to rea-
son
par PrilleiPles purely Catholic. This tendency of
tY at Oxford tO run into Catholic principles for

_shelter, has necessarily attracted the attention of
many."
"If they would fearlessly pursue their own doctrines
to their farthest consistent conclusions, they would
surely. find that they have unguardedly, perhaps un-
knowingly, rejected the principles of the Reformation,
and returned to, thoughts and feelings which belong to
other times, or at least to another church."
"Nothing can be more clear, than that, in the
Established Church, there has been a series of learned
divines whose opinions approximated greatly to those
of Catholic's.; who thought that the Reformation, how-
ever necessary, overdid its work.
.They have regret-
ted the licentiousness of religious opinion which it in-
troduced, by removing the wholesome and necessary
restraint of a dogmatic authority in the church. But
is it fair to identify the opinions of these men, how-
ever learned, with the establishment to which they be-
longed? Were they, in the first place, ever considered
otherwise than as a party, or, if you prefer it, a part
of the Anglican church ? Were there not always
many who opposed them in their views ? Can it even
be said that the great body of the flock followed them
in their doctrines, and claimed not, rather in their de-
spite, the privilege of individual judgment ? And has
not the growing increase of sectarianism proved that
the body of their church insists on this right, and ex-
ercises it to the utmost ? And, in the second place, is
not the very complaint, so constantly uttered by this
party, of too much having been done at the Reforma-
tion, the regret that outward pomp of worship, and
many religious institutions, were then abolished, a
sufficient proof that they represent not those who
caused and accomplished that unhappy Revolution?
"No one, we believe, save themselves, will main-
tain that they represent the English church, such as
the Reformation intended it to appear, in harsh and
unyielding contrast to the Catholic doctrine on the
subject." _ _

"Divines of this class, whether living or dead, have
,een more than once subservient to the spread of Ca-

tholicity. The late Mr. Vaughan, of Leicester, was
ever most assiduous in preaching to his Protestant
flock, on the high church doctrine of authority in mat-
ters of faith, on the sin of dissent, and the unsafety of
those who submitted and adhered not to the church;
and the consequence was, that several of his congre-
gallon, convinced by his arguments, hutfollowingthero
up to their real conclusions, passed over to the Catho-
lic faith, and became zealous members of our holy re-
ligion. We had the pleasure of being acquainted
with one who for years had exercised the ministry in
the established religion, but became a convert to the
truth, and, in his old age, took orders in the church.
We asked him, on one occasion, by what course he had
been brought to embrace our religion, with so many
sacrifices. He informed us, that be had always been a
zealous high churchman, and had studied and held the
opinions of the old [no, not the old,—but the innovat-
ing Laudite] English divines. He had thus firmly
upheld the authority of the church ; he had believed
in the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the
blessed Eucharist; he had regretted the destruction of
ceremony and religious symbols in worship, and had
fully satisfied himself, on the authority of. his leaders,
that many Catholic practices, usually much decried,
were blameless, and might be even salutary. His re-
ligious principles being thus formed upon the doctrines
of that school, he could not avoid noticing that, prac-
tically, they were not held by the church in which he
had learnt them ; he looked around him for some
place where they might be found, and, to his astonish-
ment, discovered, that among Catholics his theory of
Christianity alone existed in a perfect and harmonious
scheme. He had little or nothing to change; he

merely transferred his allegiance from a party to a
church, and became a Catholic, that he might remain
a consistent Protestant !"
In our next we shall follow up this subject at greater
length.