The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

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EGYPT AND THE NILE.—Our readers will be pleased
to hear that this attractive and instructive exhibition is
still open for a short time longer. Last week it was
visited by the mayor of Liverpool, who expressed himself
much gratified.

THE MEKCEIaNTS' DINING Rooms„as we have already
noticed, are under the management of -Mr. Morrish, who
gave on Friday one of the most striking evidences of ,his
ability to ester liberally by placing on the table a mag-
nificent baron of beef, weighing about 400 lbs. So well
was it appreciated that in little more than two hours it
was emblematical of the Barebones Parliament.
BRUTA4., •IMURMIR BY GREEK SArimits.—A man named
Timothy Harrington, residing in John-street, Cardiff, who
kept a small -shop, and had given -some credit for articles
to two Greek sailors, was in the act of accompanying them
to their ship to•get payment, when on reaching the east
side of Bute Dock, near the ballast crane, they svddenly
attacked him with their knives, inflicting such frightful
wounds that he almost instantly-expired.
THE Loss o-i SHIPPING.—So,,great has been the loss of
shipping property on the north toast during the last three
months, that some of the marine insurance clubs have
lost a quarter of their capital-. One shipowner alone in
'Shields has -sustained losses tc the extent of something
like £15,00C. The seamen's benevolent societies have
also felt the pressure severely. One of these, the South
'Shields,Loyal Standard, seems to stagger 'under the
demands upon it. It has •paid £333 during the last three
.months for the relief of its members, and daring the past
•eleven months £l,loB.—Nesocastle Journal.

ROTAL`CONCERT.—On New Year's Day• her Majesty
gratified, the numerous circle of distinguished visitors, at
WindserCastle, by a grand.performance, in-St. George's-
hall; -of a selection of music from Mendelssohn. The first
part of the concert consisted of the Lobgesang (Hymn of
Praise),.cornposed for a festival in honour of Gutenberg,
the inventor of printing. .The second part comprised the
published portions of the unfinished Oratorio Christus,
and a scene from Larely, an incomplete opera. The
instrumental portion of the:orchestra comprised her Ma-
jesty's.private band, aided by the addition of many of the
most eminent performers of the Philharmonic Society and
the Royal Italian Opera.
'EMIGRATION.—The 'emigration trade of this port is
about to lose the services of Capt. Patey, R.N., who has
just been appointed to. H.M. steam-frigate Amphion,
33 guns. Capt. Patey succeeded Lieut. Hodder as the
Government Emigration-agent at this port; and the duties
and responsibilities of his office have immensely increased,
owing to the extensive emigration to Australia, and to
the necessity of his having to put in force the provisions
of the new Passenger. Act, passed in the last session-of
'Parliament. We believe the manner in.which Capt. Patey
has carried out these arduous duties has given general
satisfaction, and that the appreciation of his straightfor-
ward and gentlemanly .conduct will be placed on record
by the presentation of a service of plate, for which an
ample fund has been subscribed by a .number of ship-
owners in the Australian trade, who have formed them-
selves into a committee for that purpose.-eA/bion.
THE CHEMICAL WORKS AT NEWTON JUNCTION.--
These works, which have not been in operation during the
past eight moliths, are about to be removed, in accordance
with the arrangements ,made by the Messrs. Muspratt.
It will be remembered that an action was brought against
the proprietors, on account of certain damage alleged to
have been done to the plantations, crops, and herbage in
the vicinity of the works, by the smoke and deleterious
vapours engendered by the chemical operations ; and that
the case was withdrawn from the assize list on Messrs.
.Muspratt's undertaking to pay a certain sum, and to re.
move the works from the locality. On Thursday prepara-
tions were made, under the superintendence of Mr. S.
Court, engineer, to blow up the monster chimney, as the
first practical step towards .the entire removal of the
works. 150 lbs of gunpowder were placed round one-half
the. circumference of the base of the huge fabric. On
being.fired, it brought away the brickwork of ebout half
the thickness of the wall, the fracture extending about
six feet high. Nothing more was done on that ,occasion ;
the final work of demolition being reserved for yesterday,
at half. past one o'clock. The chimney is 135 teet high ;
contains 3,500,000 bricks ; and cost £7,000 erecting.
PROFOSED TELEGRAPH BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN
AND .THE UNITED STATES.—A project has been formed
for constructing a submarine telegraph between Great
Britain and the United States. .It is proposed to corn-
rnenceet the most northwardly point of Scotland, run
thence to the Orkney Islands, and thence by short water
lines to the Shetland and Fseroe. Thence, a water. line of
200 to:300 miles conducts the telegraph from Iceland ;
from the western coast of Iceland another submarine line
conveys it to Kioge Bay, on the eastern coast of Green.
land; it then crosses Greenland.to Juliana's Hope, on
the western coast of that continent, in .60 deg. 42 min.,
and is conducted thence by a water line .of about 50 deg.
miles, across Davis's Straits to Byron's Bay on the coast
of Labrador. From this point the line is to be extended
to 'Quebec. The entire length of the,line is approximately
estimated at 3,500 miles, and the submarine portions of it,
at from 1,400 to 1,600 miles. The peculiar advantage of the line being divided into several submarine portions is,.,
that, if a fracture should at any time occur, the defective
rretert could be very readily discovered, and repaired
BB4,4s4lViadaand.at a comparatively trilling expense. From
erg
inrgen.
~,arslands it is proposed to carry .a branch to
Christiana:l; w,, 4 connecting it there with a line to
from Stockholos°ll3°irn line way easily cross
Gottenburg, and Copenhagen ;
Bothnia to St.
ztr:burg. The whole the ,Gulf
this
fois
4500,000. of
great internetion expense
rk is estimated considerably below
AWFUL SHIPWR,te,......
Ab_eolut half-past seven ,o!elock
on Wednesday morning,
ayacc?-rigged brig was seen
atr:geht before the wind,
running through Bermes,.
Keweliisn! from about .
which was blowing a hurricane
bv W. She passed ouMicle the
shout a mile and a-half from the Banitioand% which lie
she put about and fetched tip close under wthse ogLei when
the islands, and cast anchor, hoping to ride out liter at there ; but she dragged her anchors, and
very g
grounded on a shoal called the Bridge, and about 9.-que
soon
r
of a mile in shore from the larger of the islands. An
attempt was then made, about nine o'clock, to land the
crew, two of whom made for the shore in the small Lost
and were upset and drowned about half way between the
ship and the main land. About half-past ten o'clock, the
fury of the sea appeared to abate a little, and we could see
the long-boat lowered with two men in her, and for some
time efforts appeared making to get the remainder of the
crew into the boat ; but we could only see three in her at
every time, and for more than an hour they seemed to
contend with fearful chances against the fury of the sea,
till, at nearly twelve o'clock, the boat swamped, and three
more human beings lost the
ir lives. We could then
descry five men more standing on the weather quarter of
the brig ' • it was then within half an hour of low water,
and no boPe appeared but tie strength of the ship. The
men appeared to leave the quarter deck, and go below,
perhaps, for refreshment. At three o'clock a.m., the
wind abated. At ten minutes to four o'clock p.m., the
mainmast fell over. In five minutes more, the foremast
fell over, and all were gone ! Ten had perished, and the
ship sank from our view. Some few articles of clothing
found show .her-to have been a Greek vessel.—Welter,forci
A-W.lm

S.,Wavertree, has do grounds for the remarks which he has
made. There was quite sufficient reason for the address not
appearing in our columns in the fact that it extended to a
pamphlet of twelve pages, copies of which may be obtained
at the office of the National Club, in Whitehall. We have
always given publicity to the statements to which he refers
when it has been in our power.

W., Birkenhead.—lt was 5 months and 21 days, from the time
the Marco Polo left the Mersey until her arrival off Holyhead;
but the actual extent of her absence from the Mersey would
be 5 months, 22 days, and 2 hours.

Air. James Gillespie complains that, in the local Sanatory Bill,
which has been drawn up and is in the hands of the Health
Committee, no provision has been made for the closing of
burying grounds. He strongly inveighs against the practice
of bolding schools in close proximity to graveyards, and sug-
gests that the new bill should contain some provisions on the
subject. We have no room this week to publish his letter.

tC7- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communication
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.

Eibcrpool --ztanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 4, 1853.

CONSERVATIVE PROSPECTS.

THE beginning of a New Year—if it suggests serious
reflections, also inspires cheerful hopes. The year
1852 will be a memorable one in the history of
party. The annihilation of "The Whigs" will be
referred to that date ; while the national Conserva-
tives will be able to look back to the same period
with honest pride, for proofs of their own consis-
tency and independence, their courage and patriot-
ism. The accession of Lord DERBY and his col-
leagues to office in 1852, an 1 their withdrawal from
it in the same year, have been alike honourable to
themselves and ‘lisgraceful to their opponents. The
Whig Cabinet, with all its family sympathies and
widely ramified interests, finding they were no longer
able for the discharge of their duties, "shuffled off
their ministerial coil" at a moment, and under cir-
cumstances, which rendered the task of their suc-
cessors as difficult and embarrassing as might be.
The Conservative Government were no sooner
installed in unsolicited office, than their ingenuous
and straightforward predecessors addressed them-
selves to the congenial undertaking of making
things as unpleasant as 'possible in every depart-
, /Tient of public affairs. But, to accomplish their
patriotic ends, Lord •SOHN and his colleagues
deemed it necessary•to invoke the aid of all the
guerilla 'chiefs, free-lances, and other skirmishers
of the House of Commons. And thence arose his
famous CuESHASP-PLACE CONSPIRACY, destined
to give the coup=le-grace to the " Liberal" party
and to Whiggery. Lord DERBY and his Govern-
ment, regardless•of the onslaughts of this monstrous
Opposition, proceeded calmly and courageously in
the discharge of their responsible duties, looking
neither to the 'right nor the left, and, as we may
with all safety affirm, utterly careless whether in the
course of duty they retained or lost the offices to
'which they'had been called. One great subject of
controversy—not yet conclusively settled—they
determined to set at rest; undertaking to accept
the verdict of the country upon it as final. The
general election afforded that verdict. HER MA,.
JES-riN'Government, at the opening of the new
Parliament, declared that they would no longer op-
pose the commercial policy adopted by the country
—whatever their theoretical belief with respect to
it—hut would use their mast earnest endeavours to
carry out its principles in the fullest and most bene-
ficial manner. On taking"the first practical step in
this direction, they are met by the old cabal Oppo-
sition ; and, being outvoted by a narrow majority
of all colours, they resigned into the hands of their
Sovereign the trust which, against such opposition,
they could not honestly and honourably discharge.
'And how, and why, were they beaten ? They were
beaten by disappointed and jealous rivals, aided 'by
Democrats, and Papists, and conspirators, who have
made a vow against. every Government which.will
-riot concede their demands; they were beaten upon
a proposal which they submitted as a necessary
means for enabling' them to carry out the policy
dictated to them bythe country. In sober truth,
they were beaten, because their opponents wanted a
raffle for place, and were afraid of supporting any fair
and just measure of taxation, which was obnoxious
to the lowest and most troublesome classes possess-
ing the electoral franchise.

So much for the Tear that is gone. The year
1853 opens upon a British Government unequalled
for the discordant inconsistency of its component
parts, even by the pretentious and despised 'Go-
vernment of "A•LL THE TALENTh 1" a Government
so manifestly absurd on the face of it, that it can-
not be expected, with all its resources, to continue in
power for any length of time. Indeed, next to the
actual existence of a strong Conservative Govern-
ment, nothing can be more suggestive of hope and
cheerful anticipation to the great Conservative
party, than the formation of such a' Cabinet as Lord
ABERDEEN'S 'We believe, therefore, as we wish,
that 1853 will a happy year for the Conservative

cause.

MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.

THE NEW PREMIER.

`WE were only enabled to give in a SECOND
EDITION, last Tuesday, the speeches of the Earl of
LBERDEEN and the Earl of DERBY, in which the
former professed to explain his position and policy,
and the latter commented on the unfair hostility to
which he had been exposed. If the speech of the
Earl of ABERDEEN is to be taken as an exposition
of his sentiments, it neither does credit to his pre-
vious character, nor justifies his fitness far the office
which he has assumed. His assertion that the
foreign policy of this country for the last thirty
years had been marked by a respect for all inde-
pendent states, a desire to abstain as much as pos-
sible from the internal affairs of other -countries,
and above all to secure the peace of Europe, was
positively untrue. Does he forget the army of
ragamuffins sent to help CHRISTINA'S daughter
to the throne of Spain,—the assistance twice given
to DONNA. MARIA in Portugal,—the bullying of
Greece in the PACIFICO ,affair,—the truckling to
Russia in Captain BELL'S affair,—and the nume-
rous escapades which Lord ,PALMERSTON'S
_great
forte was to excuse or explain away ? His .pro-
fession of zeal for Free Trade was a gratuitous
assumption, after the declarations made by the late
Ministry, and came with sorry grace from a wan
who turned only when his late leader turned,
though he spoke with all the confidence of a man
whose life had been devoted to the cause. In his
remarks about National Education and Law Reform,
he merely re-echoed the sentiments of his prede-
cessors, and therefore could claim no ground for
preference ; but on the former subject we have a
right to question his power to do anything good,
considering the union of Radicalism, Infidelity,
and Romanist-Li with which he has allied himself ;
and, on the latter subject, people will draw compa-
risons between Lord ST. LEONARDS and his suc-
cessor, not greatly in favour of the latter. His
statement respecting his alliance with Lord JOHN
RUSSELL is something worse than childish ; it is
either a positive attempt at deception, or it betrays
the senility which should have warned him of his
unfitness for the duties which he has undertaken.
He should not have thought of approaching Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, unless he had thought the latter
was a Conservative; and Lord JoHNwould never
have associated himself with Lord ABERDEEN,
unless he had thought him Liberal." Is there a
sane man, from Land's End to John o' Groat's,
who believes in the Conservatism of Lord JOHN
though the Liberalism of the new Pre-

RUSSELL