The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-04 00:00:00

Malt spirits .
Grain do.

'reland

536,955
11,759,387

42,296,342

United kingdom 27,036,543
Scotland sent 1,828,732 gallons to England, of which 440,000_
was from malt, and 868,744 gallons to Ireland, of which 3;130
was from malt. The quantity of rum, brandy, Geneva,-and•
other foreign spirits which paid duty in the united kingdom
was 4,368;225 gallons, making the spirits of all kinds which
paid duty 30,868,562 gallons. f
FALL of RAIN.--The following table shows the fall
rain that has taken place this year, compared with the years
1837 and 1838,' up to the 19th September in each year, as
measured at the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary
Society. It will be seen, that the quantity of rain this year
has been nearly as great as last year, and almost three times
as much as in 1837. From the Ist June to the 19th Sep-
tember, 1839, there fell 12'90 inches of rain; or nearly 13
inches ; 'whilst in the same months of last year, wet' as the
summer was, there only fell 6'lB inches—less than one-half.
In the month of September this year, there has fallen sia•teen
times as much rain as in the same month of last year :-
1837. 1838. 1839.
Inches. Inches. Inches.
January o'2s 'PB3 .... POB
February
March O.BO .... P 44 .... P 22
April
May 0'14.... 3'65 0'56
June
July PII 2.05 . , 4'40
August P46 .... PB9 .. 2'56
September, up to 19th .. PO4 .... 0.17 .... 2'74

Total quantity..
USE OF STEAM IN INDIAN Wrsi'apEs.—Mr: Wise shovis,
by a careful analysis of a number of voyages selected from
those made by the once princely fleet of the East India
Company, that a great amount of time might have been saved
by the use of a small steam-engine on board these merchant
ships. He gives an analysis of one hundred voyages, ex-
tracted from the logs of the company's ships ; such examples
as the following In the outward voyage of the Taunton
Caitle, out of 2,736 hours, or 114 days, 938 hours were calm
or light airs, 1,389 fair wind, and 439 foul wind." If, there-
fore, steam-power had been used, by having a small engine
on board, such a voyage would have been shortened by
3 X 938 hours, = 2,814 miles, reckoning the use of steam to
gain three miles an hour, which a very small engine would
sufficiently accomplish. "In the homeward voyage of the
Batavia, out of 3,768 hours, or 157 days, 1,834 hours were
calm or light airs, 1,446 fair wind, and 488 foul wind." In
this case 3 X 1,834 = 5,502 miles would have been taken
from the length of the voyage. By a general abstract, given
at the end of the book, it appears that the following may be
taken as an average of passages from England to Bombay :
" 868 hours calm or light airs, 1,518 fair wind, and 306 foul
wind ; total hours, 2,692."
SOCIAL MEETING.—The most triumphant conclusion of
the Anti-Socialist lectures at Cheltenham, took place on the
evening of Friday last, the 27th instant. The room was fully
crowded, 800 persons were admitted at 2d. each, and at the
commencement of the meeting the Socialists evidently mus-
tered strong. The Rev. F. cloSe was again in the chair ; and
at the opening of the meeting.. he exposed in the clearest
manner the unprincipled' subterfuges to which the-Socialists
had recourse. It appeared that Mr. Palmer, who had at-
tempted to reply to Mr. Brindley, at the previous lecture, had
actually been sent down from London to Cheltenham by
Mr. Bailey, the social missionary, as a substitute for him,
although Mr. Palmer, at the first meeting at the assembly..
room, positively asserted'that he appeared only as a private
individual, and came at his own expense ; yet the Chelten-
ham socialists paid a portion or the whole of his expenses !! !
And now, finding that Palmer was a very inefficient ad-
vocate, they-sent him away, gave out that there would be no
discussion, and now .another opponent had appeared in the
person of a Mr. Roebotham, a' regularly appointed socialist
missionary from Worcester ; the meeting was thus taken by
surprise. Mr. Brindley then spoke above an hour, with
amazing effect—and having concluded, Mr. • Roebotham at-
tempted a reply. Having spoken for some time, he was re-
minded of the questions to which he ought to keep ; and
then proceeding to Mr. Owen's principles of marriage, he so
grossly insinuated that his foul charge of " almost universal
prostitution," was applicable even to that audience—that the
chairman rose, and said he could not sit there to hear so foul
a libel uttered against so respectable a meeting, both of men
and women, without putting the question to the meeting,
" whether so foul a libeller should be permitted to utter
another word to a Cheltenham audience ?" A forest of hands
was instantly raised, and the calumniator was silenced, not
half a dozen hands being lifted in his behalf. Mr. Close said,
that after such a demonstration of the feeling of that meet-
ing, he could not hesitate as to his duty as chairman—and he
called upon them to discharge another duty which they owed
to the able and indefatigable advocate of God's truth, Mr.
Grindley. He then put the following resolution, " That
this meeting is of opinion, that Mr. Brindley has fully and
irrefragrably substantiated all his charges against the foul
system of Ovienism, viz. `that it is an immoral, blasphemous,
and atheistical system—that it entirely denounces all mar-
riage, all religion, and openly avows the disbelief in God ;'
and that the thanks of the public are most justly due to him
for his disinterested labours." Again, amidst shouts of ap-
plause, a forest of hands•rosit for the resolution, and not
above four or five against it. The chairman then made some
appropriate remarks of a religious character, and concluded by
saying, that as almost all that meeting had now held up their
hands in defence of their Gott and their religion, he hoped
the proposition,he was about. to make, might not be con-
sidered ill-timed ; he invited them to praise their God even
in the presence of His enemies, and to join in singing the
Doxology—" Praise God from whom all blessings flow ;"
the effect was electrical! such a shout of praise has hardly
ever been heard in any assembly—many persons were effected
to tears! Mr. Whitmore moved a vote of thanks to the
clutirtnan—and a working man rose and waived his hat "for
three cheers for Mr. Close." This honest proposition was
very properly repreSsed by Mr: Close, who said theyjhasdr.
closed with praising God who giveth the victory; and wliiles
he heartily thanked them for their cordial support in defence
of God's truth, all praise should be given to God alone. The
meeting then gradually separated.—Cheltenham Journal.