The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

It appears that the Chamber of Deputies had already
granted to Mr. J. Sturz, in 1840, all such privileges and im-
munities as were requisite to induce an association to open
this navigation, with the chief view of establishing a transit
trade to Bolivia, Moxos, Peru, and part of 'Columbia and
Venezuela. By the latest arrival from Brazil, we perceive
that the Senate had, for three successive days, been discussing
this privilege, which was rather factiously opposed by.some
members of the southern provinces of S. Paul's and Minas
Geraes, who, not directly interested in the development of
the north, had allowed themselves to oppose, for party pur-
poses, the desire of government to realise this great plan. It
is, however, constantly stated in those papers that the minis-
terial majority will carry the law, and we may thus congratu-
late about half a dozen different countries, now lying in abject
apathy and the grossest ignorance in their remote interiors,
for their being about to be called into the circle of trading
nations, by having a motive given them for exertion, through
the means of exchange for their stagnant produce for desirable
objects of European industry, offered them by this steam
navigation, and which objects at present are as inaccessible
to them as their abundant produce is worthless.

MISCELLANEOUS

A tesselated Roman pavementhas recently been discovered
in Leicester. -It is supposed to have been sixteen hundrtcl
years in existence.

The parish priest of Dunmanway, county of Cork, black-
ened the outside of his chapel on learning the defeat of Mr.
O'Connell in Dublin.

On Saturday a gentleman named Cooper was killed at
Swindon, by being thrown out of his gig, the horse having
taken fright at the passing of a train of carriages on the Great
Western railway.

Some ground turned up in Bushby Park last winter, which
bad probably not been disturbed since the time of Charles I,
was covered in the following summer with mignionette, pan-
sies, and wild rasberries, none of which grow in the neigh-
bourhood.
The Hon. Charles Villiers, a near relation of the Earl of
Clarendon, was fined 5s by the Wandsworth magistrates. on
Monday for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the public
streets.

The number of sheep required for the iron-works between
Abergavenny and Cardiff is less by 2,000 per week than it
was twelve months ago. There is also a vast decrease in the
sale of veal and beef. l'his is in consequence of the workmen
still refusing to give more than 44d. per lb.— Welchman.
THE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, of palace-visiting
notoriety, would not be taken on board the Diamond, at
Cork, for Port Philip. The master, Captain Taylor, refused
a handsome sum as an apprentice fee, which the Bow-street
officer who accompanied him here offered.—Waterford Mail.
Preparations are being made in the ordnance department
by " taking the remains" for a new master-general and sur-
veyor. It is confidently stated in the Tower that their new
masters will come into power on the Ist of September.
Negotiations are now in progress with a view to the estab-
lishment of military barracks on the site of the late race
ground, in Fulwood, near Preston.

An arrangement has been made that the Yorkshire Dis-
trict Bank shall discontinue the issue of its own notes at the
Leeds establishment, and in future issue the notes of the
Bank of England.
The Paris and Ronen railway, which is as much English
as French, is proceeding rapidly under the superintendence
of Mr. Locke; and we understand that thirty-five miles of
the Paris end of the line will be opened early in the spring of
next year.

The trains of the Great Western railway travel no less than
25,960 miles per week, that is, a greater distance than the
whole circumference of our earth.
ENTH USIASM.—A Manchester gent in search of the won-
derful, returning from Patterdale to Ambleside, over Kirk-
stone, came to the resolution to return home, a# he was un-
able, after a day and a half's fruitless endeavours, to find
any thing worth seeing.—Kendal Mercury.
GOVERNMENT SURVEY.—A detachment of sappers and
miners from the royal army are at present encamped on
Loughrigg Fell, near Ambleside, where they are erecting a
landmark of a peculiar form.

The London and Brighton Railway will be opened the
whole distance from London-bridge to Brighton about the
14th or 15th of September.
At Bainbridge, a township in the north riding of York-
shire, there has long existed a custom of blowing a horn every
night at ten o'clock, from September 27, to Shrovetide, as a
signal to the benighted traveller.
A lighthouse of cast iron, constructed in London, is about
to be erected to the windward of Morant Point, in the island
of Jamaica, so as to enable vessels to avoid the Morant Cays,
a dangerous reef of rocks, twenty-fives southward of that
point.

The committee of baronets have decided on assuming, or
rather re-assuming, the title of " the honorable," as a pre-
fix to a baronet's present title.
Bancroft, the American historian, computes 'that 180,000
Indians are all that remain east of the Mississippi of the nu-
merous tribes whoformerly possessed that immense range of
country. Ardent spirits, the small pox, famine, and the rifle
have destroyed the rest.
THE QUEEN.—It is stated by a correspondent, on good
authority, which he specifies to us, that " When the Queen
Dowager was suffering from illness some months ago, so as
to be confined to her couch, it was her majesty's invariable
custom to rise and meet her assembled household in the
morning, for the purpose of family worship, though com-
pelled, immediately after the service, to retire again to her
couch."—The same correspondent also states, on the same
authority, " That it is thcuuiform prartire of the Queen and
Prince Albert to read a chapter of the sacred volume together
every morning."—Record.
DARING AND DEXTEROUS FEAT.—The following hazard-
ous performance was, at the commencement of last week,
accomplished by a slater, and which, for ingenuity, dexterity,
and courage, we believe was seldom, if ever surpassed :—The
proprietor of a cotton mill situated in the neighbourhood of
Glasgow had occasion to have some alteration made on the
top of a towering stalk adjoining the mill, an iron plate in
that direction, which interfered with the free egress of the
volume of smoke, having gone out of position ; and to have
thrown up a scaffolding, to repair the damage, would have
cost a considerable sum. A slater, however, undertook, for
a few pounds, to ascend to the top of the stalk, by means of
a considerable number of sharp-pointed pieces of iron, which
he drove into the stalk, commencing at the foot, and pro-
ceeding onwards (occasionally descending for instruments)
till he reached the top. He finished his Herculean task in
two days, to the satisfaction of the proprietor, but to the no
small terror of the spectators, to whom, it is said, he appeared
as a speck in the distance, and who were naturally afraid that
be might instantly fall headlong from the pinnacle, and be
dashed to pieces.—Glasgow Mail.

FIELD MUSHROOMS.—Persons at this season of the year
cannot be too cautious in the choice of mushrooms. On
Monday afternoon a family named Harper, residing in Ber-
wick-street, Soho, nearly lost their lives by eating too freely
of some stewed mushrooms, which in the course of the morn-
ing had been purchased of a country-looking lad, who was
hawking them in a basket about the streets for sale. Besides
several poisonous " fungi," there is a variety of the tubei,
which, although an innocuous catsup may be made from
them, yet are dangerous to be eaten, being highly in-
digestible, and apt to swell in the stomach, producing very
painful and dangerous consequences. The best way to test
the quality of mushrooms is to introduce a silver spoon, or
a new shilling or sixpence, or an onion, into a vessel in which
mushrooms are seething; if, on taking either of them out,
they assume a dark discoloured appearance, the circumstance
denotes the presence of poison existing among them ; if, on
the metal or onion on being withdrawn from the liquor still
wears its natural appearance, the fruit may be regarded as
being natural, and of the right sort.—Times.

EXECUTION OF THE K7.,TARESBOROUGH MURDERERS.—
On Saturday at noon, the last sentence of the law was car-
ried into execution upon John Burlinson, Henry Nuttall, and
Charles Gill, who were convicted at the Yorkshire assizes of
the murder of Joseph Cocker, of Knaresborough. Ever
since their condemnation the three men have conducted
themselves in a most penitent manner. In going across
the yard from the condemned cell to the room where thef
were pinioned Burlinson and Nuttall walked with a firm step ;
Gill; who was weak from the effects of disease, was supported
by two of the attendants. At twelve o'clook, the under she-
riff demanded in the usual manner the bodies of the con-
demned, immediately after which the procession was formed,
and the men walked to the scaffold. After the usual preli-
minaries, the bolt was drawn and the men were launched
into eternity. The sufferings undergone by Burlinson and
Gill seemed to be great; their bodies were very much con-
vulsed ; the other seemed to die soon after the executioner
had done his work. After hanging the usual time the bodies
were cut down and removed to the prison, previous to their
being buried within its precincts. All the three were quite
young men, Burlinson being 24 years of age, Nuttall 22, and
Gill 19. Burlinson and Gill were the parties who inflicted
the wounds upon the old man ; Nuttall was present at the
time, and assisted in the rifling of Cocker's pocket. They
all belonged to Knaresborough, where their families reside.
TILE MURDER AT WYMQNDHAM.—JOHN SELF'S CON-
FESSION.—About nine o'clock in the morning of the day of
the day of the murder, Jemima Simpson passed him on her
way from a neighbouring cottage to her work. A few words
passed between them of only common import. At his dinner
hour he walked to her, and found her seated on a bank. He
sat down by her side. She had a knife in her hand : he
asked her to let him look at it. He took it, and put it into
his pocket, and said he should keep it. He began to play
with her ; and, after a time, took hold of her clothes in a
manner that she much resented, threatening to tell her mo-
ther of him, and to expose him. He desisted, and denies at
any time having violated her person. He returned to his
work ; and, brooding over the threat, first thought of mur-
dering her, if she would not retract it. At four o'clock he
left off work, and met her near the fatal spot. After they
had got over the gap, he inquired whether she still intended
to tell her mother. She replied, yes ; and that she would
" mob'' him for it wherever she met him. He said, then
she would tell nothing but lies, and he took her by the
throat. She said she would tell her mother that he graned
her. Upon this, he threw her down, and struck her with his
spade, and repeated the blows till he supposed he had killed
her. She shrieked after the first blow, be believes, but once.
He then took her by the heels, and dragged her on her back
pond,
and threw her into a part of it that was not
turned to the place of the murder, and finding
there e
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herhat and apron, in which she had tied up some
sticks, he took and hid them in au adjoining field, and then
returned for his spade. When he came back, he saw, to his
lie fixed her
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great surprise, the poor girl sitting on the, margin of the
pond about two yards from it. The blood was running from
.Sohen
the way, she caught hold of the grass,
and put his spade upon her neck, to keep
and clinched it in her hands. He threw her into another
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her under the water ; interval, lie pushed
her with it into the middle of the pond, and left her with her
head, and mouth more especially, above the surface. The
of the pond,
whole of this latter scene of the horrid transaction did not
occupy, according to his account, much more than a minute.
He denies having struck her in this second attack, except in
thrusting the spade upon her neck ; and says, that he saw the
wound, which was described as more..lmmediately cau sing
sitting on the side of the pond. On
her death, when she was
being asked whether be was sure that she did not shriek
,
during this part of the he hesitated, and said he did
dot remember that she did ; which might be the case in the
hurry, confusion, and agitation that. must necessarily have
horrid deed. The
accompanied the whole of thisbloody
cloth which was found was what it was sworn to be, and the
wet stocking was his father's. The blood on his trousers be-
longed to the poor girl,
but the stain on his hat was not the
stain of blood. - •

PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE.—The Hon. Mr. Noel, who
was kicked out of Rutland, and Mr. Joseph Hume, who was
doomed to the same fate at Leeds, left Bngland for Antwerp
and the Rhine, on Sunday week.
The directors of the Blue Coat Hospital, Bristol, have
given £lO,OOO for a noble mansion for the establishment.
Mr. Buller has started for the representation of Exeter, in
the expectancy of Sir William Follett being either appointed
a chancellor or chief judge.

The French protestant church are about erecting a capa-
cious building at St. Martins.
In the space of 139 years—that is, from 1700 to 1839 ;
the population of France, notwithstanding the revolutionary
wars, has increased 13,830,680—nearly an annual average
of 100,000.

It is stated that a most influential member of the House
of Commons intends to move, as soon as possible, for a
select committee to inquire into the state of Ireland.

A man named Gilleen was detected in the Nenagh chapel
on Sunday in the act of robbing a person kneeling near him.
Machinery worked by a dog is getting much used for
churning in Carnarvonshire and Anglesea.

The late Session of Parliament was the shortest in dura-
tion of any that has occurred for several years.
A sample of new barley, of superior quality, was offered
in Wolverhampton market on Wednesday last, at 6d. per
bushel.

The late Prussian itinister, Baron Bulow, after a resi-
dence of nearly 20 years, finally retired from his diplomatic
duties at the British court.

PROPER STATE FOR POPPING TILE QUESTION.-4 wit-
ness in a case of breach of promise of marriage said of the
defendant—he was not sober nor tipsy—just in the frame of
mind a man would like to be in to make proposals to a young
lady.

The reason why no news has been obtained from China of
a later date than was received two months since, is that the
S.W. monsoon in the China sea is against sailing vessels
making any but a long passage.
MR. SONIBRIM'S CONSTITUENTS.—During the late Sud-
bury election, the voters who were " in the market" an-
nounced the fact by hand-bills in their windows, bearing
these words—" not polled yet."
MAIL GUARDS.—We are requested to contradict a para-
graph which has recently gone the round of the papers, that
the mail guards, having received an increase of salary, were
no longer .allowed to receive gratuities from passengers.
Such not being the case, the guards have unfairly been de-
prived of the fees they were in the habit of being favoured
with from passengers desirous of rewarding their attention.
—York Herald.

MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE LETTERS DELIVERED
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM :-

Week ending June 20, 1841
Week ending June 21, 1840
Week ending November 24, 1839
Increase since 1840 on the week's letters
Increase since 1839 on the week's letters

3,773,136
3,221,206
1,585,973
551,930
2,187,163

DEATH OF MR. SAMUEL WRIGHT, OF NEW ORLEANS.—
He fell in a duel with Mr. S. W. Oakey, of the firm of Oakey,
Payne, and Hawkins, on the 2d ult. They fought with rifles,
at the distance of forty yards, and, at the second fire, Mr.
Wright fell, and expired in a few minutes. Mr. Wright was
a native of the county of Down, Ireland, and had been a
merchant in this country for upwards of twenty-five years,
a large portion of which time he lived, we believe, in Sayan-
nah.— Vicksburgh Sentinel.
DEATH OF DR. M‘NEVIN.—The following is taken from
the New York Journal of Commerce. It is needless to say
that Dr. M`Nevin was once a formidable man in Ireland.
Arthur O'Connor is now the only survivor of the Executive
Directory of the United Irishmen :—" Died, in • this city
yesterday, Dr. William James M`Nevin, the Irish patriot,
and companion of Emmett, in the 79th year of his age. Mr.
Thomas Traynor is now the only survivor of that little band
that accompanied Emmett to our shores, after the failure of
their attempt to revolutionize Ireland."
A foreigner named La Fontaine has been exhibiting expe-
riments in animal magnetism in the Hanover-square Rooms,
which attracted considerable attention, as well as excited
surprise. The patients are thrown into a state of insensibi-
lity, and during the enchanter's influence resisted all attempts
to excite a feeling of consciousness either of bodily pain or
external operations. The experiments do not appear likely
to produce any advantage.

LOCK JAW EXTRAORDINARY.—The Planters' Banner
(American paper) says a gentleman of that parish, some time
since, harpooned a large alligator in the Teche, which had
committed depredations on his plantations, and was cruel
enough to nail up his jaws and clench them, so that there
was no possibility of his opening his mouth. He was then
set at liberty, and 18 months afterwards he was shot, with
his jaws still close and the nails rusted. He was identified
as the same alligator by the mark of the harpoon and the
manner in which the jaws were nailed. We are assured that
this is a positive fact.

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.--On Saturday evening
last, Portpatrick was visited by a most unusual phenomenon,
namely, a water-spout, which did very serious damage, by
causing the almost total destruction of upwards of twenty
houses. Fortunately no lives were lost. This is to be
ascribed very much to the partial descent of the rain, which
formed a complete volume of water during the time it lasted.
The part of the town which suffered most severely was the
lower part, close to the water-side.—Belfast Chronicle.
MARCH OF IMPUDENCE.—An impudent trick was prac-
tised the other morning, about 11 o'clock, in High Holborn,
London, by a " shabby genteel" fellow who was loitering
near a book-stall opposite Day and Martin's. A gentleman
who had been looking for some time at a volume which was
lying on the stall, marked 7s. 6d., at length took it up, and,
thinking that the individual above alluded to belonged to the
shop, said to him, " 1 will give you five shillings for this, if
you like." " Why, sir," said the man, with the most per-
fect nonchalance," business is very bad, so I suppose I must
take it." The gentleman dropped two half-crowns into the
fellow's hand, and he was out of sight in a moment. The
shopkeeper, who had been busily engaged, happened to per-
ceive the gentleman walking away with the book, and stopped
him, when an explanation took place, and the gentleman had
the mortification to pay a second crown for his " bargain."

THE EUPHRATES EXPEDlTlON.—lntelligence has been
received at the India Board of the arrival of the Hon. East
India Company's armed iron steam-boats Nimrod and Nit-
cris, at Beles, on the Euphrates. This gratifying event took
place on the 31st of May, and thus was completed an enter-
prise of much danger and difficulty, which had geferally
been looked upon as impracticable, and which, in all proba-
bility, nothing but British skill, intrepidity, and perseverance
would have been able to accomplish. The actual distance of
the voyage up the river was 1130 miles; the ascent occupied
273 hours, or about 191 days. The average rate of steaming
was three miles and seven furlongs an hour. The Tigris and
the Euphrates have now been opened to vessels of consider-
able burden, and the ascent and descent of these noble
streams may be made available for the purposes of commerce
as well as of civilization ; for, although the success of this
splendid experiment reflects honouron the Britishnamealone,
the advantages which may be derived from it will be shared
with us by many nations, and, it is to be hoped, by the inha-
bitants of the once famous regions watered by the great
rivers of Mesototamia. The expedition was commanded by
Lieut. Campbell, assisted by Lieuts. Jones and Grounds.
The behaviour of the crews was most exemplary, and not a
single casualty occurred during the whole voyage.
THE CROPS AND THE WEATHER.—Notwithstanding the
unpropitious state of the weather, reaping has commenced
on several farms in the neighbourhood of this city. Alarms
have been raised (but principally by the opponents of the
present corn-laws) that the wheat crop would result in less
than an average. As far as regards this and the adjoining
counties, we know such alarms to be groundless; and, in-
deed, accounts from nearly all parts of the country concur in
representing the various kinds of grain as likely to prove
very productive, if we should now be favoured with fine wea-
ther. From personal inspection through extensive breadths
of land in the midland and northern districts, however, this
report must be alloyed with somewhat of a less cheering
nature : whether it be attributable to the late weather, to
colder climate, ungenial soil, or (what is, we believe, the real
case) to slovenly and improvident culture, the appearance of
the crops in the whole district between Derby and York will
nowhere bear a comparison with the forward abundance of
the more favoured districts of Worcestershire and Hereford-
shire: wheat, in particular, is thin, wiry, straggling, backward,
and apparently diseased. Let our northern agriculturists
look well to their seed and their ploughing, and much of the
evil will be remedied. Concerning the other crops, com-
munications from our Malvern and Pershore correspondents
will be found so generally accurate and applicable to their
appearance in this neighbourhood, that we have nothing fur-
ther to remark, except expressing our fervent hope that the
Giver of all good will now add to his other blessings by
vouchsafing to us a favourable season for the gathering in of
his bountiful gifts. We should add, that the price of the
quartern loaf has now reached Bd. and 9d. in this city.—
Gloucester paper.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—The following horrifying statement,
relative to the capture of a Portuguese slaver, is extracted
from the log of her Majesty's schooner Fawn, cruising the
South American station, and written in lat. 22 30, long. 40
W. :—" On the 19th of February, 1841, Cacupas, on the
coast of Brazil, about 18 miles, observed a large brig stand-
ing in for the land : altered our course so as to cut her off if
possible. On approaching she appeared not to have the least
idea of our being a man-of-war,—allowed her to close within
range of our long 32-pounder,—fired a gun over her, and
another as quick as possible ahead. She then up with helm,
attempted to run, but appeared in great confusion. We con-
tinued to throw the shot over, ahead and astern of her,
without intention of striking, as we were positive of slaves
being on board. After a short time she was increasing her
speed. Lieut. Foote then determined to put a shot into the
hull, but with great regret, on account of the unfortunate
beings on board. Shots were then thrown under her stern
twice, a third was about to be fired, when we observed her
round to. In about twenty minutes we came up and boarded
her. The slaves were all below, with the hatches on; on
turning them up, a scene presented itself enough to sicken
the heart even of a Portuguese—the living, the dying, and
the dead, huddled together in one mass. Some unfortunates
in the most disgusting state of small-pox, even in the con-
fluent state, covered from head to foot ; some distressingly
ill with ophthalmia, a few perfectly blind ; others, living
skeletons, with difficulty crawled from below, unable to bear
their own bodies ; mothers with young infants banging to
their breasts, unable to give them a drop of nourishment.
How they had brought them thus far appeared astonishing—
all were perfectly naked—their limbs much excoriated from
lying on the hard plank for so long a period. Ou going
below the stench was insupportable. How beings could
breathe such an atmosphere and live, appeared incredible.
Several were under the loose planks which was called the
deck, dying—one dead. We proceeded to Rio Janeiro with
the prize. On the passage we lost 13, in harbour 12, from
small-pox and debility ; a number also died on. board the
receiving ship, the Crescent. After cleaning the hold and
fumigating the brig, it was determined by Mr. Ouseley, the
British minister, to send the brig, with a part of her cargo,
for adjudication, to the nearest colony, under the command
of Mr. Johnstone, mate of the Fawn. We sailed on the
19th March, with 180, well provided with medicines, and di-
rected in what manner to use them. Tapioca and limejuice
were also provided. Notwithstanding all the care that a
small crew could bestow on them, we unfortunately lost 20,
chiefly from scurvy and general debility. This unfortunate
brig left Bahia fort on the coast of Benguela with 510 ne-
groes, and 13 days after her capture she had but 37."