The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

•
The weif:ht of the National Debt in.4roldarnoutits to 4,089,4
lbs or 6,2,39 lons 9 cwts. 3 qrs. 13lbs. •
A Dusin A nix IlF.st DriNCE.—We find in I Ile newspapers that
a person has advertised a huuse to let within 15(h1 cards of Ha:
Gate.

A divorce of the Queen of Portugal is talked cal; and a friperi
is renewed as to a new pretension to the hand of --Donna Maria
for the Duke of Nemours. '
GREEK CONSUL AT LtvEttroot..—The King has been gra4
ciously pleased to approve or Mr..l. M. J. Tilby -as Consul at
Liverpool for his Majesty the King of Greece: •
ZOOLOGICAL. GARDENS AT M A NCHEStEß.—Arrangements
are in a state of forwardness for the establishineut of Zoological
Gardens at Manchester.
The Honourable Mr. Lamb, only send Viscount 44elhonrnO
expired at an early hour ou Sunday last, at the residence of hii
lordship, fn South-street. Mr. Lamb had been seriously indis-
posed during the last few days.
MODERN PERIODICALS.—A bookseller in Paris was lately'
asked for a copy of the Constitution of 1812; " 1 chi not deal in
periodicals," said the-Bibliopolist. • ••• ••
Flogging in the Danish army has been abolished by a royal
order dated the 17th ult., and imprisonment with bread and
water substituted for it.
Mr. Hutt, M.P., has received a commun'cation from Mr. Jo
D. Hume,, Secretary. of the Board of Trade, that the Govern-
went have .tnade representations to the Danish Government
against those impositions called Sound Dues.—Hall paper.
OLDHAM COTTON SeilvNEas.-There is now a general turn-
.out of the cotton-spinneis at Oldham; and all the mills of asso-
ciated masters are standing. It is a dispute about wages being
under the list.
EARL RISING.—Dean Swift says that "he never knew any
man rise to eminence who lay in bed of a morning;" and Dr.
Franklin, in his peculiar manner, says that "he who rises late
may trot all day, but never overtake his business."
The Atherieans are about fitting out an expedition on a splen-
did scale to examine.aonoraghlydlte Pacific Ocean, and to ex-
plore the unknown_ regions of the Antarctic. Congress bar
already voted a grant equal to £60,000 sterling towards thu
outfit.

SINGULAR nECOVEiiY OF SIGHT.—Mrs. Wade; wife of Mr.
T. Wade, farmer, of Whepstead, now in her 85th year, after
being blind upwards of twenty-eight years, has had her sight
restored within the last few weeks, without the attendance of a
surgeon, or taking any medicine whatever.—Bury Post.
A young lady of
.Bath, who sent the beautiful little picture,
"The Gipsies of Valenci," to the Manchester Exhibition, to
which she attached forty guineas as the twice, had that. sum re-
mitted to her on Saturday. The lady is scarcely 20 years of
age, and has but lately devoted herself to the study of oil paha-
ing.—Bath Herald.
-3,a MA rca.—An old hard-going veteran, who had been tanned
and roasted to a cinder, on being asked for his opinion of the
county, replied. like a true Salamander, ‘• 0 ! 'tis ;the finest
• place in the world, because ono is always thirsty, and there is
always plenty to drink." .
Lord Melbourne's deceased son
.and only child, the, Hon
George Augesttis,Fredeliek Lamb, iva in hi:4'3oth year, having
been born on the 11th August, 1807. This amiable young man
has long laboured under infirmity which renders his demise ca
happy release. Sir Fidderick Lamb, Lord Melbourne'S next
brother, is now presumptive heir to the title.
ECLIPSES.—There will be five eclipses in the ensuing year,
two visible and three invisible-, The visible vines are both of the
moon; the first will take placetm Thursday, the 20th of April,
at .17,minutes past five o'cloek in the afternoon; and the second.
on. Friday, the 13th of October, at 32:minutes past eight in the
evening.
POLYGAMY.—A schoolmaster ire the State of Ohio, America,
has been indicted for a breach of the law, by haying twelve
wives ! If there be such a thing as a crime carrying its own
punishment with it, we should think this wculd be one of that
character.

THE STYLE MUNICIPAL.—The following specimen of the
"schoolmaster ahoad" is from a gentleman• who has the honour
of tieing a town-councillor of Exeter :—"Sir,—A ineeting of.
the Feot7•ees of —, will be held at the round tree on :thorsday
next, 17t lust at 6 o'clock in the After/icon on p:3-teckluer
ilat,nese.—Exeter, Nov. lot, 1836."
VOCALISTS.—A fatality appears to attend the matrimonial al,
liances of the female vocal corps, both native and foreign. Let-.
tors from Paris state that Madame Grisi and " the gentleman of
moderate fortune," to whom she was married last spring, have
separated by mutual consent. It is also added, though we hope
the report may prove unfounded. that since her recent accouche-
ment, she has lost her voice.

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Momlay week a gentle
man of Stockport was permitted to enjoy the pleasure of a day's.
shooting, in a plantation near to Captain White's.preserves, in
the neighbourhood of Hayfield. After wasting much powder
and shot, for he had fire! upwards of Ort-y times, he retfirnett
home having bagged three rabbits and his favourite pointer! !
—Manchester Cons ier.

Arincoort.—OßlGlNAL.—An officer of the navy being in
company with an assembly of greenhorns, in the country, was
showing his importance by blustering and spinning tough yarns,
Speaking of the swiftness with which he had sailed upon the
seas, ho declared that he had passed so rapidly through the
waves as to tear off the ship's copper. A young sailor who had
been standing by incognito, upon bearing the speech, suddenly
remarked,—" Oh, that's not Worth speaking of,-1 have fre-
quently sailed so fast that we were obliged to heave to, to cool
the ship's rudder irons."
EXTRAORDINARY DtscotßßY.—On Saturday last, as a poor
aged woman was wading through the mud on the banks of the
Thames, on the east-side of Waterloo bridge, in search of coal,.
she turned up a tin box, which she broke open, when out fell e
bag, which contained £5O in gold and £3 in silver. At the
bottom of the box were deposited three £5 and two £l5O Bank
of England notes. There were also _two_diareond rings, one
gold-watch, and several bars of silver. • •
RocunAus OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVES.--The Operative
Conservatives are making preparations for a aublie dinner to
be about Christmas. Mr. Charles Wilkins has promised to be
in attendance: Upwards of 800 tickets -have already been
spoken for. A co-operative Conservative Association has lately
been established at Small Bridge, two miles from Rochdale;
a dinner will take place at Christmas. Tickets are 2s...'each.
Conservatism seems to be increasing in the neighbourhood of
Rochdale.

TUE HIRELING Panss.— Not bills' does "secret service"
money flow to whiy-radical newspapers, but it finds its way through.
the most unsuspected channels to poison the public mind. Who
could have imagined that the following paltry puff would have
been found in Moore's Almanack for 1937? it is in the astrolo-
gical predictions for the summer quarter :—"The New 'Poor
"Law Act appears to work well, and will in the end, if duly
"administered, be of great benefit to the farmer, as well as to
"the poor, both in a moral as well as in a physical point of
"view."—Bolton Chronicle.

PUBLIC MEETING AT BOLTON.—A public meeting, consist-
ing of the different trades of this town, was held in the Theatre,
on Thursday evening, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of aiding the spinners and piecers of Preston, who are at
present out of employment. Several persons of different trades
addressed the meeting; and it was finally resolved, that sub-
scriptions be entered into, and that persons of •all parties who
possessed the means should be solicited to ..subscribe towards

otopporting the Preston Spinners, in their, present struggle.—
Bolton Chronicle.

The village of Saulzoir, near Valenciennes, Was laSt vseek
thrown into a state of great commotion, from a-report that a
man's hand dyed in blood had been seen in a field adjoining,
and conseqiienfir it was inferred that a murder had been coin-.
milted, and a bi;dy dismembered. Inquiry was made, and the
spot pointed out. It was approached with a degree of horror,
which, however, was converted almost into the ridiculous, when
it was discoveied to be no more than a lusui riaturce—a beet root,
which bore the complete form of a human hand, and its owe
natural colour gave the idea of its being bloody.
THE NEW AI4RRIAGU ACT.—We believe that few tick
of the present ministry have given more general disgust
than their registry for births and mai fiages, a centralisa-
tion plan which they introduced to gratify the Dissenters,
at the expense .and to the mortification of the Church
of England. . The execution of this plan will cost the country
at least. £150,000 a-year, which is about double the amount
paid by the dissenters to the church-rate. With what fair-
ness,- therefore, let us ask, cart these persons object to their
small portion of this rate when, to gratify them, a law has been.
passed which inflicts double the stint upon the kingdom generally ?
—Bell's Weekly Messenger.

AR/MST OP AN INDIAN Pri trszetz.--Ills ighness'..sluwab Jalat
loud Dnwlah, uncle to the King of Lucknow, has been arrested
and made a prisoner in the great gaol of Calcutta for debt. This
event took place on Friday. Ms highness,,sia.N yesterday 're-'
leased under the orders or .the Right•HonOurable the Governor
General in Council. The arrest of a native prince of His
11 ighness's rank for debt must become a Aubject of inquiry to
ascertain why. a man of Nuwah jalallood Dowlah's rank, and.
one who is no near a relation to the King of Dude, should he.
placed in circumstances such as to bring on the dt radation he
has suffered from his late imprisonment in a gaol. That the
Government have interfered and obtained his release we know,
but noon what principle we are yet to learn.—Calcutta paper,
July 8.

WHIG Rev. Dr. Willis. of :Limerick,
having proposed to resign .the charge of the. Diocesan School,
which he has superintended for many years, in favour of his son,
the Rev. Thomas Willis, and sought the approbation of the
Lord Lieutenant for such transfer of its duties, an official corn-
municatinn was received from Dublinlast week intimating that
Lord Mulgrave could not think of extending his sanction to the
proposed change; because the-Rev. Thomas Willis- is supposed.
to he in connexion with the Orange Society, having it appears
preached in our cathedral an appropriate sermon on the anni-
versary of the Gunpowder Plot, the sth of November last—
which ceremonial is part of the' service of Ihe Church of Pinng-
land, and duly obseived by her ministers for Mora than two (Ten-
turies! This is a creditable instance of
.whip liberality and
toleration !—Limerick Chronicle. . ,

• FACT ABOUT IRC.I.AND:—I. Incieaied demand It; Citurch-
roam.—By a return lately made by the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners for I relandit appears. let, that there are sixty place., in
which public warship is celebrated in unctnisecrated buildings, jot
;want of churches; that there are 120 churches knew" to the coin-
. thilsionets as standing in'uryent need of milargement,-11. Since
the Union, in 1801, no less than. 700 new churches have been
built in Ireland:—lll.--Increase I.j. f'rotestaittlitn.-10 the year
1792 the number of ,Protestants in Ireland was: (according to
Wakefield) 522,093, of Roman Cat holies, 3;21E097. In 1835
the numbers are returned, _Rowan •Cohtilicst3,427,il2, Prates.
tants 1,516,228, the latter being known to be considerably below
the truth. Thus, while the Homan isrs hay° doubled since 1792,
the Protestants have beCome at least throe times as numerous.
IV. The, follow Mg' Nt Nu priests have lately renounced the errors
of the Romish.church :—.Mr. Nolan, Mr. C,roly, Michael and
William Crotty., Mr. Delany, Mr. Godkin of Armagh, Mr.
Burke of,Weitpoit, Mr. Tankard, Mr. Mal Valli) , —Cum 6l ,t• 1
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for the 'last three days, and is likely to occasion. ''"''''''''ic
more before the affair is fully in
pears that the young lady .(Miss iv_ --''. stli, ' It ap-
pears with' her family was (11 • ---,,,,f Worces _rshire,)
' a yi'''t to I" '.
sent at the Assemblv-room ball •
—m,enharA, .., jug pre-
introduced to Mr. B** -* * ,on Monday eyentiig, ;::as tutre
at first sight with her char an Irish barrister, who, captivated
of his time in winning her aff'ection's, appears to have made good use
to the hour of introcb;'(t• affection's, since it is said, that down
each other. But, i)P -ion the parties were perfect strangers to
this as it may, they arranged and utanag,ed
their affairs so well
o'clock, and duringas, on Wednesday Morning, about nine
to secure the absence of the voting lady's mother.
to met,er.
and occ.ii py the earriage prepared to convey Mr. A.,
and family to.th .eir . home, and in ittoset off at full speed on the
of
road to tlon. As soon as this mancouvre was detected, Mr. A.
set off in pursuit, but hitherto no clue has been d7rcovvred as to
the destination of the fugitives. 'l' 'l' . he young lady is acid to pos-
sess Considerable personal attractions ;•• 1 ., well as large ~,roperty.
—Cheltenham Looker-on,