The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-15 00:00:00

Farmers' clubs, for the dissemination of agricultural know-
ledge, are likely soon to become very general in this county.
We are authorized to state, that on the 31st ult., at a com-
mittee meeting of the Chislett Agricultural Association, it
was unanimously' resolved to establish a farmers' club at
Grove Ferry, on similar principles to those of the Isle of
Thanet Club : the same to be held monthly, on the Thurs-
day nearest the full moon. From the number of agricultu-
rists resident within a convenient distance of the place of
meeting, we venture to predict that the Grove Ferry Far-
mers' Club will soon be a very numerous and influential
body.—Kentish Gazette.
At Dover, on Monday, a few minutes before high water,
a number of persons were very much surprised at the sudden
rising of the tide, at least two feet in the space of about five
minutes, and then immediately afterwards it ebbed, rushing,
boiling and foaming, through the bridgeway with greater ve-
locity, if possible, than when the sluices are running, and for
some little time suspended the operation of shutting the gates,
which the harbour workmen were about effecting. Several
old mariners, who witnessed it, observed that there had been
an earthquake, or some strong convulsion of nature, some-
where.—Kentish Times.
The bobbin-net machine exporters were extremely busy
during the last week, both in sending away the best work-
men and the best machines. Several orders are in town for
machine insides for France, though scarcely any machines
have been building in Nottingham since 1836, except tbose
for Burton's new steam factory at Mapperley. The number
of bobbin-net machines since that year has decreased nearly
one-half in England. A branch establishment of the jingler
stocking frames arc now making new frames in Ostend.—
Nottinyharn Journal.
THE WHIGS—STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—The country
at the present moment presents one of the most singular
spectacles that nation ever witnessed. The ministers of
Queen Victoria seem to hold office by a tenure which obvi-
ously involves the destruction of the monarchy. We do not
say that Lord Melbourne or Lord John Russell is plotting
the ruin of the Queen, or that ministers have any desire to
make the country a prey to rebellion ; but we do maintain
that, whether from ignorance or necessity, their measures
have this tendency.—Cumberland paper.
MARCH OF IMPUDENCE.—CHARTIST MEETING YESTER-
DAY.—The Chartists, it seems, are not yet satisfied with the
rebellious doings of their leaders in Birmingham and New-
port, and evidently think that, if Messrs. Lovett and Collins
were out of gaol, they might supply the places of Frost and
Vincent. In pursuance to this design, they had the assu-
rance to send a requisition to the Master Cutler, to convene
a meeting to address the Queen desiring her Majesty to libe-
rate Lovett and Collins !! ! The Master Cutler very pro-
perly refused, and they then called one themselves for 12
o'clock yesterday. Owing, however, to the fact that the
cavalry were in readiness, the attendance was very thin, and
the attendance spouted was decidedly below par. It sepa-
rated before one o'clock. Chartism in Sheffield seems to he
fast going the way of all other humbugs.—Sheffield Patriot.
PROPOSED BLOCKADE OF CHINA.—The British govern.
ment ought not to interfere for the protection of smugglers ;
but it is for ever disgraced if it suffers the oppression of inno-
cent merchants, and the violence done to its own public func-
tionary, without requiring ample satisfaction. The whole
external commerce and revenue of China is at our mercy.
Without an attack on its unarmed population, or molesting
a single inhabitant, we can bring that government to reason,
simply by cutting off its supplies. Half a dozen British
cruisers—nay, even the pirate vessels employed in the opium
trade—are more than sufficient to stop the whole of the Chi-
nese trade. If they (the Chinese) tell us, " Your trade is
stopped," we shall reply, "So is yours; you have neither
rice nor salt (the necessaries of life, and sources of revenue)
till you come to reasonable terms."—Oriental Herald.
There is an individual now living in Denny, who, about
fifty years ago, being a seceder, happened to step into the
parish church, and heard divine service. Having thus be-
come guilty of the ecclesiastical offence, called in those days
Hearing in corrupt churches," a few days afterwards his
own minister called upon him, and among other things said,
" 0 John, I am informed by he session that you have been
hearing the kirk minister." 'Deed wus I, sir ; deed wus
I, sur, and what about it ?" was the reply. " 0 John !
John ! a rowin' stane gathers nae fog." Verra true, sir,
verra true," retorted John, drily adding, " naither does a
tethered yow sune grow fat, sir." John's wit put an end to
the conversation, and saved him from farther censure.—
Stirling Journal.
NEW APPLICATION OF MACHINERY.—We learn that an
application of machinery, entirely new to this country, is now
in progress of being established in our own neighbourhood,
which will not only benefit ourselves, by increasing our ma-
nufactures, but of great importance to the West Indies. We
refer to the cleaning of coffee imported in the husk. It may
not be generally known that the coffee of commerce is the
seed of a-pulpy berry, not unlike the cherry. The processes
to which it is subjected, before being exported from the
countries in which it is grown, are simple, but somewhat
tedious, consisting of pulping, washing, and drying in the
sun. It is also capable of being dried in the berry, in which
state not only is the quality of the seed superior, from the
aroma being better preserved, but it is less liable to sour,
which is sometimes caused by the fermenting wash, and it is
not subject to be broken into what is called, by the trade,
triage, and otherwise become less valuable. From not hav-
ing, the means of removing the husk, however, it has not
hitherto been imported in this state, except in small quanti-
ties, for the use of those who knew its superior quality. But
we are glad to learn that machinery has been prepared for
carrying on this branch of trade in the Greenbank Mills, in
addition to the cleaning of rice. The produce of the first
experiment in cleaning coffee has been shown us by Mr.
Macfie, from the superior appearance of which, we are con-
fident that every West India proprietor will soon be induced
to prefer having his coffee cleaned in this country, and so far
relieve himself of the often troublesome negligence of the
negro population.—Greenock Advertiser.
WHAT NEXT —lt is amusing to observe the eagerness of
the whig press in running their heads against a brick wall, in
the most approved fashion of passionate despair. The con-
servative party within a few years has been reconstructed be-
fore their eyes (though they hardly know how,) and they run
and roar at it with the blind vehemence of mad bulls. If
bellowing lustily could keep the whigs in power, the Chroni-
cle and others would soon get a long lease for them. Two
years ago they commenced their labour of love for their tot-
tering patrons, by the discovery of a most horrid piece of
meditated treason—to wit, that it was a planned job for Sir
Robert Peel to poison the Queen, and the Duke of Welling-
ton to bring back the King of Hanover to reign in her place.
As the tale about the poison only created laughter, it was
softened down into a deadly fear that though Sir Robert was
too cautious a man himself to administer arsenic to the Qpeen
in a tart, some clerk in the treasury might do so to please
him ; and that then the King of Hanover would come as a
matter of course without the duke being seen in the business
at all. But be it as it might, the tories were to a man traitors
in some shape or another; to that at least our morning and
evening whig organs have stuck without flinching ever since ;
and now, in addition, they have detected a popish plot, to
help them over Christmas. The substance of this alarming
affair, as developed by the Chronicle, is as follows :—Some
cunning tories got hold of the Pope's ear, and bamboozled
him into a belief that the Irish Roman Catholic priesthood
were playing a slippery trick, by educating the people with
the view to prepare them for throwing off their allegiance to
him. His holiness, in consequence, has ordered the Irish
priesthood to leave the people alone to die in their ignorance :
another wrong, of course, added to the many thousands in-
flicted upon them by the artifices of the tories ! What next?
It will surprise no one to hear, after this, that the tories have
made over Ireland to that terrible Turk, Mehemet Ali, on
condition of his bastinadoing Dan O'Connell into the use of
decent language, or of performing some other impossible
feat. It is astonishing what th 6 inventive genius of a whig
in distress is capable off. Munchausen must have been}
whig—probably the second—every body knows that a still
greater " father of lies" was the first.—Morning Herald.