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

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Lieut. Vavnaghen, a German, in the Brazils, has made an
important discovery, viz., that saw-dust (particularly of soft
wood) mixed with gunpowder, in equal parts, has thrice the
strength of powder alone, when used in blowing up rocks.
REFRESHING THE MEMORY.—Making a halt in his reflec-
tions at this place, Mr. Spueers again put his glass to his lips,
and drawing a dirty letter from his pocket, proceeded to con
over its contents with the air of a man who had readit very
often, and now refreshed his memory rather in the absence
of better amusement, than for any specific information. "The
pigs is well," said Mr. Squeers, " the cows is well, and the
boys is boybish. Younr, Sprouter has been a winking, has
he ? I'll wink him when I get back. `Cobbey would persist
in sniffling while he was a-eating his dinner, and said the
beef was so strong that it made him.' Very well Cobbey, we
will see if we can make you sniff a little withbut beef. 'Pitcher
was took with another fever,'—of course he was—' and being
fetched by his friends, died the day after he got home,'—of
course he did, and out of aggravation ; it's part of a deep-laid
system. There an't another chap in the school but that boy
as would have died exactly at the end of the quarter, taking it
out of me to the very last, and then carrying his spite to the
utmost extremity. ' The jtiniorest Palmer said he wished he
was in heaven.'—l really don't know, Ido not know what's
to be done with that young fellow ; he's always a-wishing
something horrid. He said once he wished he was a donkey,
because then he would not have a father as didn't love him !
pretty wicious that, for a child of six ! "—NicholasNickleby,
No. 18.

FRIDAY, SRPTEMBEn. W.S.W.

ARRIVED.—IIzade, 'Simmons, from Mobile—William, Skinner,
from Pictou—Carroll of Carrollton, Bird, from New York--and
Theodore, Pike, from Trieste.

SAILED., —Queen Victoria, Lawson, for Miramichi—Matthew
Bell, Holt, for Quebec—Edmund Perkins, Ingersol, for New York—
George Gustake, Mensignac, for Bourdeaux—*and Sarah Trotman,
Brown, for Genoa and Leghorn.

Robert Syers, Lourie, from Batavia for Berbice, at the Straits of
Sunda Ist May
Snowdrop, Price, and Leila, Orfeur, hence at Constantinople
Renfree, from Gibraltar, at Valencia
Fetdinando, Cartellano, hence at Helvoet
George, Payne, hence at Texel
Freedom, Cox, and Plym. Davies, from Smyrna, at Falmouth
St. Lawrence, Huggup, and Clipper,. Holland, hence at Constan-
tinople, and sailed gth Aug. for Odessa
Wanstead, Faulkner, from Honduras at this port ; sailed 24th
July. Left loading the - Caleb Angus, Seietice, and St. Croix for
Liverpooi, and Arab for Cork.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.-WIND S

ARRIVED.—EIindoo, M'Gill, from Calcutta; sailed 3d May, and
from St. Helena 23d July. The Rochester, which arrived at St.
llelena 20th July, boarded the Caledonia, Stroyan, from Bombay,
for Liverpool, 12th June, in lat. 26 S, long. 54 E, was bearing up
for Mauritius, having encountered a tremendous gale, lost her rud-
der, and rendered very leaky. On 6th September, Off Batdsey,
spoke the Pickwick, from Liverpool, for Rio Janeiro.
SAILED.- Clio, Daly, for Halifax, &c.—Pharsalia, Winsok, for
Philadelphia—Dryad, Loose, for Cuba.

Isabel, Currie, from Antigua ; sailed Ist August. On 6th Septem
ber, in lat. 51, long. p, spoke the Silas Richards, from Liverpool
for New York.

- Mary Ann, from Cork, and Blundell, from Dublin.
Ellen Jenkinson, Walker, from Ancona, at Standgate Creek. On
the 26th Aug. in lat. 40, long. 15, sp6ke the Daedalus, from Liver-
pool, for Africa. On 28th August, in lat. 41, long. 15, spoke the
Margaret, from Liverpool, for Demerara.
Mary Hartley, Webb, hence at Mauritius.
Kirkman Finlay, from Bombay, at St. Helena.
Morley, Evans, from ditto, at ditto; off the Cape, spoke the Crown,
from Liverpool, for Bombay.
Rochester, Kenney, from Whaling at St. Helena.
Munster Lass, Caren, from Cape Good Hope, at ditto.
Joseph Winter, Hodgson, from Calcutta, at ditto, and sailed 12th
July, for Liverpool.
Lima Packet, Singleton, from Liverpool, at Trinidad.
Albion, Betts, sailed from Alexandria, for Liverpool, 15th Aug.
Pioneer, Cook, hence at Smyrna.
Tt. Alexey, Liljia ; Hoppet, 'Humble ; Juno, Beckman ; Columbus,
Silveri ;
,henc'e at Copenhagen.
Hermoder, Nielson, hence at Gothenburgh.
Queen Victoria; Griffin, from Riga, at Thurso, and sailed 31st
August, for Liverpool.
Beiram, Woolner, from Smyrna, at Cove.
Heroine, Jcatt, from St. Domingo, at Ditto.
Superb,, Newlands, and Charlotte, White, sailed from Jamaica,
for Liverpool; Ist August.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER B.—Wind S