The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-11 00:00:00

Sir N. W. Brady has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin,
and Messrs. Falkner and Tomlinson, sheriffs.
The majority for the conservatives on the Westminster re-
vision is 72. •
We understand that the Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P. de-
rives an addition of £7OOO. a year to his income, by the death
of the Countess Dowager of Pomfret,-,--Aylesbury News.
ARABIA. MUSIC.—Abdel Kader, according to a letter,
from Algiers, is organising a " corps de musique" for his
troops, and has got the leader of a French military band to
aid him in the undertaking.
INDICATIONS OF WINTER.—A. brace and, a half of fine
snipes was on Thursday, the 2Gth ult., shot by a gentletnan
in the neighbourhood of Camborne, and, on examination,
they were found to be in excellent condition.—Falmouth
Express.

THE LAST.—A woman put a loafer's head in a basket
yesterday morning, instead of a squash •, she did not discover
her mistake till the loafer asked if she'd stand liquor.—New
York Evening Star.
The Trains of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway
Company have just commenced to run between the two
towns every hour in the day, namely, from eight o'clock in
the morning to eight at night.
A Pony died on the 22d instant, at Brannan, Trelach, Car-
marthenshire, at the advanced age of 35 years. He was for-
merly kept at Borthlwyd, in the said parish.
THE GLOUCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—This
line connects the west of England with the Lancashire dis-
tricts. Plymouth and Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester,
and Liverpool, will be linked together, and the extension of
commerce, through means of this important junction, will be
necessarily immense.
LIBERALITY OF A RIGHT HONOURABLE M.P.—After
Sheil's return, he shoved pff the few expectants who sur-
rounded him, by- telling them that he was busy reporting his
speech for the press. The poor cori§tituents had to leave
Clonmel " dry and hungry," or rather " hung and not
dry," for they got a good wetting. Only Country D'Alton
and Major Lidwell dined with the right hop'. candidate.
But lo ! when the dinner bill account, 18s. was banded to
Dicky, he handed it round to the Conntand the poor Major,
each of which had to post his 6s. !! ! In former times the
poorest 40s. freeholder was allowed Gs. 8d: per day for his
support at elections.—Nenagh Guardian.
TESTIMONIAL. TO THE RIGHT HON. W. Y. PEEL.—SOme
time since it was stated to be the intention of the inhabitants
of Tamworth to present a handsorae piece 'of plate to the
Right Hon. W. Y. Peel, as a mark of their appreciation of
his conduct while.member for the borough; and also of his
active benevolence in private life. The testimonial, which is
of the value of £2OO, has been received, and was exhibited in
the town hall last week. It bears the following inscription :
"Presented to the Right Hon. William Yates Peel, by the
inhabitantS of the borough 'of Tamworth, as a token,of their
high respect and esteem, and in grateful acknowledgment of
his assiduous, unwearied, and impartial attention to the in-
terests of the town and neighbourhood,,especially during the
years that he was representative of Tamworth in Parliament,
1839:7 WorcesteV JouPnal.
THE JOB JOBll'D.—There is nothing so galling or so irri-
tating as being laughed at; and nobody, can deny that Lord
Melbourne's government has been for some time past carried
on in the pure, and genuine spirit of " laughing at " the
country. Even.upon this very Monteagle -job what do the
ministerial papers say ?—why they say that the conservatives
felt sure that the result of the " job " must have been the
dissolution of the ministry ; and add triumphantly and jeer-
ingly, " the job is jobb'd, and ministers are still where tbey
were ;'' thus laughing at the expectations of the country, that
the exposuie of such trickery and corruption must be follow-
ed by the fall of those who were so deeply and disgracefully
involved in them—thus openly glorying in the almost irres-
ponsible power and authority with which the unfortunate
.domestication of the premier under the roof of the Sovereign
appears to all the world to have invested him.—John Bull.
GOVERNMENT. SCHEMF. OF EDUEATION.—The minutes
of the committee of the privy council have thrown the Chro-
nicle into an ecstasy. With a " small majority" in the com-
mons for them, with a "vast majority " in the House of
Lords against them, and a great " apathy out of doors " to-
wards the scheme, ministers have made a beginning ! Ali the
£30,000 has been spoken for, and in truth half as much more.
Nobody ever doubted that such would be the case. From the
manner in which the £30,000 was positively smuggled out of
the pockets of the English protestants, nobody ever could
doubt what would become of it. The Chronicle calls the
appointment of Mr. Wyse to a lordship of the treasury, on
the back of this £30,000 so tortuously obtained, an act of
" moral courage; " and trusts that at least " ten times the
sum " will be granted next session ! The country will mark
this, The fox has got one toe in this session, and means to
have all ten in the next, and by and by his whole body.—
Morning Herald.
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF THE UNITED SERVICE
CLUB HOUSE.—We find that the secretary of the United
Service Club has, after a careful investigation of the recent
mySterions affair, with which he stands connected by the
committee, been discharged from the service of the club.
Whatever may have been the determination of the late in-
quiry, but little credit results to the committee for their de-
cision. If Mr. Penn was not guilty of a conspiracy to inflict
wounds upon his own person, for the purpose of enabling
him to account, as he has done, for the abstraction of the
contents of the club cash-house, he has been treated with
great cruelty; for, that his sudden discharge is calculated to
lead to such an inference, cannot be doubted. If, on the
other hand, the inquiry in question has terminated in a con-
viction, on the part.of the committee, of Mr. Fenu's guilt,
they owed a duty to society from which they ought not to
have shrunk. If they believed him to be guilty of the abo-
minable fraud of having inflicted wounds upon himself for the
purpose of enabling him to ebstract, without suspicion, the
contents of the cash-box of which he had charge, they ought
to have prosecuted him for the offence. In which light we
view their conduct, it is impossible for any one tO-deny that
it has been exceedingly unsatisfactory.—United Service Ga-.
zette.

Inists TRANQUILLITY.—It is remarkable that Irish dis-
content has an aspect Singularly, different from theinsurgent
spirit of other nations. In the struggles of the luropean.
Jettison for real or imaginary rights, the effort has sometimes
been violent,'but it has been hold. The object was elear, the
result was decisive. Arms were seized by daring hands, the
paroxysm was hot, the waste al life rapid, the Cliaimvaa
broken, or rivetted raster, and Olen the coii test WIA§7, ataa sam42.:
But in Ireland, the struggle always contin,uing„was giway*.
without an intelligible object, always combined. witle.trea-
son to the throne and extirpation to, its religi44,
carrying on a peasant war,. and always profeaair4Z,fell9PuLlp.
fidelity, its religion a plea for acts which vißl.ate,,,tbekst
maxims of virtue, and the desire of civil privilteges•slainu-
lating to total anarchy ; all rendering the case at.once
rent to human feeling, and incapable of political cure. , In
other lands the popular expanse is stirred up as the moun-
tain lake is shaken from time to time by the gust from the,
hills ; it rolls, and roars, and foams, and then,
.when ,the cattle
has passed away, it returns to ita forther serenity, perhaps,
purified by the convulsion. But Popish Ireland is the
" Dead Sea," unawakened by storm without, but perpetually",,
turbid wi4i fires in its bOsom, loaded with sullen sin* in
tke hour of the brightest national 'Sunshine, Shootlng up
flame when all else seem calm, and giving a standing, EflelllA-
rial, from age to age, of a scene where judgment ha:if:alien
on the early vices of the land, and a still unsatisfied-Ven-
geance marks it as a warning to posterity.—Britannia.
RHYME AND REASON OM THE CORN LAWS.---Elliot, of
Sheffield, one of those clever wrongheads who are now and
then to be met with, after writing much rhyme without reason
on the corn laws, has at length stumbled upon some reason
without rhyme on the same subject. He has written a letter
to the chartists of Sheffield to tell them that "if they were
this day arrayed for fight with all their present means (be they
what they may) a troop of soldiers' wives from the barracks,
if they made their appearance unarmed, and with or without
their husbands' cloaks over their shoulders, would scare them
out of the parish ;" and he tells them moreover, for their dis-
couragement, that "the estimate on which he founds this con-
clusion applies, he believes not only to Sheffield, but with suffi-
cient exactness, to all England, Scotland, and Wales." This
is very good, but it might have been better. Had the chartists
arrayed themselves for fight, though only after the mons sacer
fashion of giving up work for a month, there would have been
needed no troop of soldiers' wives to " scare them out of the
parish." Their own wives would have settled that business
and indeed the "rhymer turned proser" has unconsciously
hit upon this grand probability. He tells them to work liar'
and save money, if they would effectually help towards a re-
peal of the coin laws ; and this is true for a reason which
may safely be pledged against all the wild Ebenezer's rhyme.
The repeal of the corn laws, according to his inspiration, is a
synonym for cheap bread ! and bread in this country can only
he cheap to the operative relatively to the money which by his
industry he can procure to purchase it. The men who will
not work would like to have afree trade in a baker's shop, and
these are the men whose mouths are filled with the cry of
cheap bread.—Morning Herald.
THE ROYAL GEORGE.—The operations on the wreck hare
been continued during last week, but with only one small
discharge of gunpowder. The divers have been down at
every slack water, and have made fast chains to whatever
projecting substance they could find, when a strain has been
hove on it by the derrick erected in one of the lighters, and
in this way a large vessel has been fully loaded. One brass
and . three iron guns, the latter with their carriages, have
been recovered, and a beau, 37 feet long, together with
sundry knees, riders, and sleepers; ,among other matters
were a length of junk, and two large copper fish kettles,
usually put away in the boatswain's store room, several silver
shoe-buckles, a shoemaker's fast, and part of a German flute.
In the case of one of the iron guns, only the muzzle ring of it
couldbe felt above the mud, but Hiram London, one of the
divers, managed to pass a chain round it, and by dint of a
heavy purchase, which brought the lighter three or four streaks
down in the water, it was hove, with its carriage, out of the
mud. To-day the diver, Hall, succeeded in bridging up a
12 pounder brass gun, and London, the other diver, slung
and brought up a brass 24-pounder. The value of the guns
and copper already recovered exeteds..trmoo. It appears
that when Colonel Pasley undertook to clear Spithead of the
nuisances of this wreck, it was presumed, from official data,
that 31 iron and 32 brass guns were still remaining in her,
and that time recovery of these, together with the copper
sheathing, would go far towards paying the expense of re-
storing to public use a large portion of Spithead ;
.and even
if the expense exceed the positive amount of the property re-
covered, it will be a great desideratum that the, anchorage
should be cleared of the preSent ineurnbrarice. 'The- divers
have ascertained that the stem is standing ereet,•3o.feet high,
with the bows complete; and therefore, during the ensuing
week, a cylinder. made in the yard, of wrought iron, and
holding 2,0001b5. of powder, will be placed againSt the lar-
board bow, and exploded; of this, notice will be given by all
the vessels hoisting red flags some time before the explosion
takes place ; but if any one has the curiosity to witness the
proceedings, we can inform him, that at every slack water,
if the weather is tolerably moderate, either the divers arc
going down, or the vessels are heaving up portions of the.
wreck, or both conjointly: The divers are exceedingly
adroit in their business, arid show a great deal of resolution
and discretion.-=Hampshire Telegraph.
IRISH MOOES,TY AGAIN.—At a meeting held in theihrnous
town of Killarney, Mr. O'Connell told the " men of Kerry,"
that he was as stout and as hearty, and felt as strong as ever ;
and it is reported that the " men of Kerry" cried out, in good
Anglo-Hibernian, "God increase the
.same to you, Mistlie.r
Daniel O'Connell !" Considering that the strength of Mr.
O'Connell on the other side of the water lies -chiefly in blae-,
ney, and the almost super-paddy .mariner in. which.lie had,
exerted it on this especial .occasion, the increase prayed for
seems rather superfluous. "If Ireland was not backing the
cause of freedOm in England, despotism Would now be esta-
blished there !" "It is said of the'Euglish, that they are a
brave people in the field ; and so they are, but they are still
more brave when they have Paddy' at their side to help.
them !" These, and the like are. pretty fair slaps on the,
blind side of Irishmen in general; but he,had a hit for the"
men of Kerry in particular, which was irresistible. "Is it
not ridiculous," he exclaimed, "that this able and public-
spirited county, proverbial for its produce of men eminent in
every service of Europe—of more men- who have attained the
highest ranks and distinctions than any county in-Europe,.
should be so represented ?" He alludes to Mr. ,Blennerhas-.
set, of whom he'says that although " frpns his respectability,
family, and fortune, as fit a representative as any :county
could desire, he was totally unfit to.represeut:thelive/yi and
talented, and intelligent people of Kerry !" It is no wonder
that the men of Kerry shouted for. jey_s_norivill it be any if
,henceforth all the world-A.6ldd be curious to catch a sight of
one of these lively, and talented, cud, intelligent apeeinsen4-
of hut-lenity- If so he it known Onto. all men that Mistlier•
Daniel 0!Connell is himself a Kerry-mane-the great original'
from whence he-drew—and perhaps .lie,neiter evinced snore
lively talent than in tints killing two birds with one segue;
blarneying the tine fellows of Killarney down' to the griound,
and praising himself up to the sky l--Morning Herald.