The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

To THE REV. H. M`NEnt

Liverpool, Stemb.
" Ray. SIR,—We the undersigned,23d memep er,bers of thelBlo pro-
visional committee, beg leave to inform you that the ship..
wrights of this town, desirous of being united in defence of
our Protestant constitution, the safety of which is so much
endangered by the open violence of avowed enemies, and the
secret treachery of professed friends, have determined on
forming a branch of the Protestant Association for Toxteth-
park, the district where they principally reside, and havede-
puted us to request that you will accept the office of presi-
dent of the society, and will preside at the meeting to be
called for its formation.
" DUNCAN GIBE,
WILLIAM WHATHAM,
CHRISTOPHER WATSON,
WALLS BUCHANAN,
JOSEPH EDWARDS
WILLIAM TURTON

_.,
JOHNSON BUCHANAN,
JOHN PARRY,

JOHN ELLAM'ES,
CHARLES H TINTON

JOHN LONGWORTH,
ANDREW CLARKE,
ROBERT NPCLAY,
JOHN HUDSON,
GEORGE SMITH,

GEORGE BICKERSTAFF
JOH!, KEWN,
DANIEL GELLING,
EDWARD LAW."

We understand the reverend gentleman has accepted this
invitation, and it will be seen from an advertisement, that a
meeting will be held at the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of
forming the association alluded to. Our operative friends
will not be found wanting on such an important occasion.

Nearly 32,000 quarters of wheat, and 14,000 cwt. of wheat
flour, paid duty at the port of Glasgow during the last week.
The Carmarthen Journal complains, that, in consequence
of the establishment of a rural police force in Shropshire and
the adjacent counties, the number of beggars perambulating
the counties of Cardigan and Carmarthen has perceptibly in-
creased.

A FACT.—There are now four men in the employ of
Messrs. James Brown and Co., Bagley-mill, near Leeds, who
have had seventeen wives. One has had six; two have had
four each; and one, though only twenty-eight years of age,
is wearing his third

The surgeon who opened the body of the late unfortunate
Mr. Yarworth is now laid up dangerously ill from having
punctured his hand Aightly while dissecting the vicinity of
the spine : the gentleman's arm is dreadfully swollen up to
the shoulder.

CURIOSITY.—We have before us a watch seal originally
the property of James Tran, a relative of a person in our
office, made from a part of the rock of Gibraltar, thrown up
at his feet by the first shot fired from the Spanish floating
batteries at that impregnable fortress.—Perth Constitutional.

EFFECTS OF TIDE PRODUCTIVE HARVEST.—The contract
just entered into with the guardians for supplying the whole
of Okehampton union, Devon, with best seconds flour for
the ensuing quarter, has been effected at 40s 6d per sack ;
that for the last quarter was 51s 6d, being a reduction of Ils
per sack upon the next quarter.—Bristol Mirror.

A subscription on behalf of the family of the murdered
missionary, Williams, has been commenced by the London
Missionary Society. Earl Fitzwilliam has given £5O, the
Duke of Devonshire £25, the Duke of Northumberland £25,
and the Bishop of London and his family £l3 75.

LATEST ABSENCE or MIND.—We hear that after the
wedding celebration betwt.en Mr. Gage and Miss Knightley,
at Firlie, on Monday last, a gentlemau of Lewes rode home
a strange nag instead of his own, and never found out his
mistake at all. It is thought he had no time to look at the
horse, from being too much taken up with the bridal.—
Sussex Advertiser.

The Lzinster Express contains an account of the appre-
hension of a gang of robbers. The gang are five in number,
and have been engaged for a long period in committing de-
predations in the counties of Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, and
Dublin. They have all signed a confession of the several
robberies in which they were engaged, and each wishes to be
accepted as Queen's evidence.

Sir C. Lemon has offered the site for the erection of a
mining college at Truro, £5OO to the building fund, and a
bequest (at his death) of £lO,OOO, or if necessary, £20,000,
in trust for the endowment of professorships, &c. The
building fund he proposes to raise by a levy of one farthing
in the pound sterling on all metallic minerals in the county
for 12 years. The Education Committee of the Privy
Council and the Council of the Duehy of Lancaster approve,
and the Queen sanctions the proposed institutions.

Her Majesty's brig Pantaloon, of 18 guns, Lieutenant
Tryon commander, is now in our river, engaged in procuring
volunteer seamen for her Majesty's service. She had been
for some days lying off Buncrana, in Lough Swilly, where
her object has been attended with considerable success.
We have no doubt, from the interest with which her motion■
are watched, that many persons will avail themselves of the
opportunity of entering the naval service in her from this
city and neighbourhood.—Derry paper.

AN INTELLIGENT POLICEMAN.—At the Borough Court,
on Thursday last, a case was heard against Mr. Lees, of the
Nag's Head, in which a Jew was the complainant. The
Jews, as may be generally known, swear by the Old Testa.
ment, and whilst the oath is administered, stand covered.
When the case was called the Old Testament was required,
and therefore, a policeman was despatched for one. On his
return he said to the inspector, I' Aw connot get an owd
Testament, but I've browt a Bible an that'l happen do."—
Bolton Chronicle.

SPLENDID RuN.—One of the most splendid runs ever
witnessed took place with the Devon and Somerset stag_
hounds on Saturday. They met at Harford, seven miles
from Dulverton, and after running for upwards of eight
hours at a toppieg rate, and in sight during most of the time,
the hounds were called off at half-past eight, and the stag
made his way over the Brendon-hills in the direction towards
the forest. The distance the stag ran is estimated to be at
least sixty miles.
In our list of marriages the week before last, we recorded
that of Mr. James Hobbins, of Chaddesley Corbett, to Miss
Harriet Chambers, which took place under very peculiar cir-
cumstances. On Monday week, whilst Mr. Hobbins was
stepping into his carriage with his young bride, he fell down
and was taken up a corpse. It may be recollected that Mr.
Hobbins wass seventy-seven years of age, and his bride in
her seventeenth year.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
THE VICAR OF GEDNEY AND THE METHODISTS.—AII
examiner and proctor, deputed from the court of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury to take evidence against the Rev. Mr.
Escott, the vicar of Gedney, for refusing to bury a child who
had been christened by a Wesleyan minister, and whose
body now remains aboveground, assembled on Tuesday to
hold a court in the vestry of the church, where the necessary
testimony was gone into, and the court adjourned to London.
The Wesleyan body are prosecuting the suit.—Lincoln
Mercury.

The Board of Customs having received a report f.-oin Fal-
mouth that certain contraband goods had been found in the
mail-boat of the Royal Tar steamer, on her return from the
Peninsula, on the 30th ult., sent down an order to detain the
boat when the steamer should go down again, which the offi-
cers effected on Monday, when she went on shore to receive
the mails. In consequence of the company's having been
made acquainted with the extensive illegal traffic of the crew of the steamer, they were all discharged, and two of them
who were passengers to Falmouth in the Devonshire
steamer, were, on their arrival, apprehended, and remanded
to prison, to await the decision of the board as to a prosecution
being instituted.
Rear-Admiral Cochet, who was about to make a voyage in
the steam-packet Torridge from Barnstaple to Bristol, on
Thursday last, fell overboard at high water, just before the
packet was announced for starting. The gallant Admiral
was followinghis servant, who carried the Admiral's luggage
on board, and in an instant the Admiral was missing. The
servant ran over the packet and stared in amazement to find
his master, when one of the sailors, hearing a voice in dis-
tress crying out for help, looked over the side of the packet
and saw the Admiral ingulfed in the water, holding on by
the paddle-wheel. The sailors instantly flew to his assist-

ance, and rescued him from his perilous situation, without
being injured much, but prevented from pursuing the voyage
that trip.—Exeter Times.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On the 9th of June. 1840, at
about ten o'clock, p.m., in Closepettah, near Mysore, the
wife of a Rajpoot, Sivasing, was confined. of a boy after the
usual time. We have seen the child
.with our eyes, but we
have not seen such a description. of. child in this world nor
heard about it. The child's head is as large as a cocoa nut,
and around it are ten others. as b.ig. as limes ; and on the
head, which is in the. middle, the hair is four inches long ;
it has two small ears without opening or holes, and there is
no tip to the nose ; the teeth are as big as tamarind stoner,
it has two eyes as big as limes, and the tongue hangs out of
the mouth about nine inches and is about three inches in
breadth. The child appears otherwise about the size of one
of a year old. It died about half an hour after its birth.—
Bombay Paper.

TDB MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—Fowles, the supposed
murderer of Martha Keeling, at Newcastle-under-Lyre, as
reported in our last, was apprehended near .Northwich on
Friday last, and was on Saturday committed, under the find-
ing of the coroner's jury, for trial for wilful murder. A small
sum of money, together with a ring and a brooch, identified
Tas the property of the deceased, were found in his possession.
he prisoner was conveyed to Stafford gaol on Sunday morn-
ing. On the way, it is said, he became very communicative,
and told Mr. Cottrill that he did not commit the murder,
but that he was in the room at the time it was done. He
said it was done by a person who had been at Lichfield vanes
as a fidler, and had slept with him on Wednesday night.
They divided the money, and the fidler took a large bundle of
clothes. They parted just against Jackson's doer. Fowles
is the nephew of a gentleman who holds a respeenble pnbiic
offiee in the eounty of Chester.

HYMN FOR HARVEST TIME.

BY CHARLES WEST THOMPSON.
'Neath summer's bright and glorious sky,
While proudly waves the golden grain,
And through the falling fields of rye
Come on the joyous reaper train,—
While nature smiles, and hill and plain
Are tranquil as the sleeping sea,
And peace and plenty brightly reign
By home:And, hearth, and forest tree,—
God of the season, unto thee we raise
Our hands and hearts in melody and praise.

There I,i a sweet breath frimi the hills,

The incense from the mountain air,
Which from a thousand flowers distils
Its odours delicate and rare :
We feel the balm—we see it there—

Among the bending wheat leaves move,
Rising the tops in dalliance fair,
As if the very life was love :
God of the harvest, whence its breezes blow,
Receive the humble thanks thy creatures owe.

Our loaded wain comes wending home ;
Then let us rest beneath the shade
Of this old oak, our verdant dome,
And watch the evening shadows fade ;
O'er mount and meadow, lawn and glade.
They spread their deep'ning tints of gray,
Till all the scene their hues pervade,
And twilight glories melt away ;
God of the world, who round thy curtain throws,
Thanks for the time of quiet and repose !
How still is nature all around !
No song is sung, no voice is heard,
Save here and there a murmuring sound,
As if some restless sleeper stirr'd :
The grasshopper, night's clamorous bird,
Chirps gay, but all is !lusted beside ;
And silence is the soothing word,
Whose spell diffuses far and wide :
God of the universe, by night and day,
We bless thee for the gifts we ne'er can pay.