The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

IMOItTANT TO BRITISH SHIPMASTERS.

The following has been received at Lloyd's :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
" Whitehall, November 2-1, 1836.
" Sts;--I am directed by the Lords' Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, to inform you that it has been represented
to his Majesty's Government, that the ordinance which has been
in force in Sweden since the Ist July last, directing all Foreign
vessels, arriving from ports where a Swedish c..nsul is station-
ed, to be provided with a manifest of the cargo, duly attested
by such consul, under a penalty of 600 rill dollars, is but imper-
fectly known to British shipmasters, who, in more than one in-
stance, have already become liable to the ahove-mentioned
penalty.
"'Their Lordships therefore request that you will have the
goodness to take such steps as may appear to you beat calcu-
lated to give the ordinance increased publicity among the ship-
ping interest. A copy of the ordinance was transmitted to you
by Lord Palmerston's direction, in February last, and the same
regulation had previously existed with respect to Swedish ves-
sels. " I am, Sir, &c„
(Signed,) " DENIS LA MERCHANT.
"To G. R. Robinson, Esq., M.P."

Extract of a letter from the Agents at. Genoa. Nov. 17:—
" The Board of Health ordered that clean bills of health
should be given on the 12th; and have accordingly since that
time abolished the quarantine against vessels proceeding from
Trieste, Venice, the lungarian and Illyrian coast."

FIRE.—The whole of the neighbourhood of Copperas-hill
and Brownlow-hill, was thrown into the greatest consternation
about ten o'clock on Friday night, by a fire wthich took place
in a chandlery warehouse, belonging to Messrs. Banks & Co.,
in: Trowbridge-street, and which, at first, 'threatened the most
direful consequences to the surrounding neighbourhood. In the
building where the rite was first observed, a large steam appa-
ratus had lately been erected for the purpose of performing all
the operations of smelting. This apparatus; which is fixed in a
cellar of part of the building adjoining that where the chand-
ler's stores are kept, was in operation, we believe, as an experi-
ment. The fat was thrown over the sides of the boiler, and at
once communicated itself to the fire underneath, when the
flames ascended with fearful rapidity to the ceiling above. The
chandler's workmen were plying their usual vocation within a
portion of the same building. An immediate alarm was then
given, and the fire-bell was tolled. In justice to the fire police,
we must say, that the engines, which were accompauiEd by Mr
Whitty, the suite' intendent, were promptly on the spot. In fact,
fifteen minutes had not elapsed from the moment the alarm was
given to the time when they arrived at the Warehouse. The fire
had by this titne reached the root of that part of the warehouse
where. it had originated, and the flames were making rapid pro-
gress towards another part of the building which was heaped
with candles in a manufactured state, and barrels of raw tallhaw.
This threatened the most dire destruction not only to the
building itself, but to the entire street in which it was situat
wole
ed, and many of the inhabitants were making active prepara-
tions to remove their family and furniture from the scene of
danger. Happily the fire-engines being instantly
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brought into requisition, the raging element ~,
dued, and in a little more than an hour after the engines had
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engine were most
.had the practical management of the
praise-
worthy on this occasion, for if the fire hud tiouttbren tpoicekly ex-
tinguished, there is not the smallest doul?otsbs
thath 4washbel
enstrseuest
would have been destroyed; as it is, the
taiped is comparatively small.'
liqatutirteicr
this
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant,. lt was melancholy,
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under c
iertruillinge
,idsn
caets
as it was certainly a very unusual sight to see two tnen durittg
the whole (lay with their spades shovelling,.the -snow irinn oft
the corn before the sbearers. The heavy storm towards the end
of last month literally.levelled and smashed: to the ground the
standing corns, of which there was a very great deal in the
country at the time; and sheep in the grazing districts, driven
to the Power grounds, also broke in, and spite of the utmost vigil-
, ance by day and night, did incalculable damage to the crops.
The farmers, alarmed at the state of things, and seeing that
certain loss would be the result of leaving their crops thus ex-
posed, commenced cutting down, or rather lifting tip, with no
intermission be the days fair or foul. What was actuady drench-
ed was left spread upon the lands, and what was in anything
like tolerable order was bound and setup in single sheaves, or
stooked according to the degree of humidity. From the moist
weather that we have yet had, the consequence is, that all thus
bound in an improper manner has clotted together, impervious
to the wind until again opened up, and both •straw. and grain
are in a great many instances all but perfectly destroys-I. Peas
and beans, even in tho most favourable places, are, a-lost crop.
Potatoes, except in a very few places, are now lifted, -and the
loss from frost has not at all been so great as was. at one time
anticipated ; but the deficiency upon the whole..is.still gieat.—
Perthshire Advertiser.

It appears from the papers from New Orleans that there has
been a pressure on the money-market there, in consequence of
the measures of precaution taken by the banks to retain their
specie. They had been discounting freely during the summer,
and
the enormous speculations in the real estate had caused a
great demand for accommodations.
At the port of Gloucester has been commenced the magnifi-
cent undertaking of forming a line of public wharfs upwards of
100 feet long, in continuation of the present basin (double its
length,) at which ships of the largest size, capable of entering.
the Gloucester and Berkelv Canal, will be enabled to lie along
side and discharge their cargoes. At that point the canal is also
to be widened 30 feet. A canal is likewise to be cut, the effecte
of which will be the removing of a considerable p
ortionof the
the
coal and barge trade to wharfs at some distaelarger
present basin, and the giving of greater facilitiesn
for the
vessels.