The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

EMIGRATION

Having breakfasted at the inn, I took my way towards the
quay where the steamer lay. The whole road from the town
presented an almost continuous stream of men, women, and
children hastening to the station, most of them decently
dressed, the women generally wearing bright coloured shawls,
but without bonnets, and many of them dispensing with the
immediate use of shoes and stockings. These, I learned, were
emigrants (and their more numerous relatives and friends,)
about to take their departure from the several homes of their
infancy in the neighlturhood for South Australia, via Cork,
where they would finally embark. Captain Bingham gave
me a hearty welcome on board of the Garry-Owen, and the
scene that presented itself on the quay and on the deck—" the
emigrants farewell"—was one of affecting interest, relieved,
however, by no small admixture of the ludicrous. The few
articles the poor emigrants had gathered together, and which
probably constituted all their worldly wealth, were readily
handed on board, and the business of leave-taking became
general. Men, women, boys, and girls evinced tokens of
the most poignant distress, that to an English eye appeared
to be too openly extravagant, though, doubtless, sincere.
Young and old cried and wept, many of them uttering ejacu-
lations, accompanied by gestures indicative of the greatest
sorrow. Some of the females, seated on the stones that
strewed the quay, rocked their bodies to and fro, as if in the
deepest despair, while they chanted doleful lamentations in a
plaintive strain. Embracing and kissing, and violent, but
cordial, shaking of hands, served to complete the pathetic
portion of the picture. While this was going on, many others
in the back ground, not connected with the emigrants, were
dancing, and singing, and fiddles, and bag-pipes on the quay,
and occasionally bugle horns on the deck, were loud and
merry,—the hissing steam from the funnel forming 'a sort of
drone to the strange medley of the doleful and the comic.
The whole scene would have formed a subject for the pencil
of a Hogarth. We at length started, amidst the repeated
farewell cheers of the crowd on the quay, and in a short time
most of the emigrants regained their composure and their
accustomed cheerfulness. I was informed, however, that
this was but a ruction or revulsion of feeling, and that
these poor people would for years and years retain the most
affectionate remembrance of their early homes and kindred
when separated from them by the wide and tractless ocean,
and embrace every opportunity of communicating with them
by letter.

The day was fine, and the voyage up the Shannon was
rapid and delightful. There was a considerable number of
cabin passengers, and several amateurs entertained us as we
dashed along, by songs, glees, duets on the bugle horn, reci-
tations, &c. ; Mr, Parry, the chief engineer, an excellent
musician, and quite an original, also greatly contributed to
the general amusement, and we landed at Limerick, highly
gratified by our aquatic excursion.

The Princess Lieven is residing at the splendid hotel of the
late Prince Tallevrand, at the corner of la place de la Con-
corde, Paris. It is now the property of Baron S. Rothschild,
and it at the present time displays one of the many incon-
gruities of the French metropolis to English eyes—namely,
a placard at the entrance-gates, exhibiting Apartmens a
loner presentment." What would our haute noblesse say if
such a practice were observed in London?

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Aleppo, June 10 1814, which states that the English steam-
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steam-
boats, Nimrod and Notocris, had arrived at Beles, on the
Euphrates, after a navigation of 16 days and a distance of 375
leagues. Lieutenant Campbell, who commanded the expedi-
tion, had ascertained that both the Tigris and Euphrates are
navigable for large vessels, and that those rivers present a new
passage to the British possessions in India, " Documents
stolen from M. Lascaris: at Alexandria, in the year 1814,"
continues the writer, contained important information
collected by this gentleman," who was despatched by the
Emperor:Napoleon to explore Mesopotamia and the Euphra-
tes, in order to ascertain the possibility of discovering a
passage to India by the Orontes. The British Ministry
determined to verify those plans. Colonel Chesney was de-
puted on this mission in the year 1835. Great Britain then
ascertained that the Orontes, which falls into the Mediter-
ranean, was navigable as far as Latakia (the ancient Antioch).
That the ancient harbour of Seluecia, situate at the mouth of
this river
• , could be rendered an excellent harbour at a small
expense. That it was easy to make a road to Aleppo, and
thence the Euphrates through the valleys, and that the dis-
tance,
15 leagues, could be easily traversed. A coal bed was
-
discovered at the foot of Mount Taurus, 16 leagues from
Tarsus. Near this coal bed, which is of considerable extent,
has been discovered an iron mine, which gives 60 per cent, of
metal. These mines are surrounded by oak woods of great
value. The writer
calculates that the journey may be made
from Bombay to Liverpool in 34 days—viz., from Bombay to
Beles, 16 days ; from Beles to Alexandretta, 3 days ; thence
to Liverpool, 15 days. The letter concludes by stating that
there is no doubt but that in a few years the English will
monopolise the trade of Bagdad, Bassora, Aleppo, and all
Mesopotamia.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)
PROMOTIONS.

Rev. Roger Smith, late of Magdalene College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of Astwick, with Arlsey, Bedfordshire, in the
patronage of Miss Dove, of Gosmore, Herts.
Rev. Mr. Barton, Curate of Hambledon, and Evening
Lecturer of St. George's, Portsea, to the Incumbency of
Trinity District Chapel, Portsea.
Rev. M. Forrest, to the Vicarage of Urswick, Lancashire.
Rev. T. A. Bolton, to the Curacy of Alverthorpe, York-
shire.
Rev. C. Bowen, to the Lectership of Armley, Leeds.
Rev. J. V. Chandler, of Witley, to be Rural Dean of the
south-western division of Stoke Deanery.
Rev. H. Clayton, to the Perpetual Curacy of Croxdale,
Durham, vacant by the cession of the Rev. T. W. Peile ;
patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. •
Rev. P. Galindo, to be Curate of Stow Market, Suffolk.
Rev. R. Govett, jun., to be Curate of St. Stephen's,
Ipswich.
Rev. George Medley, to be Curate of Diss, Norfolk.
Rev. S. G. Packer, to the incumbency of St. Peter's
Church, Bethnal Green, London.
Rev. George Procter, to be Curate of Attleborough,
Norfolk.
Rev. F. H. Riching, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ather-
stone, Warwickshire.
Rev. T. Shurt, of Christ's College, Cambridge, to the
Curacy of Sherbourne, near Leamington.
Rev. H. J. Stevenson, to the Curacy of Seckington,
Warwickshire.
Rev. Frank Sugden, to be Curate of Benhall, Suffolk.

TESTIMON lAL TO MR. BRINDLEY.—The inhabitants of
Wigan have presented Mr. Brindlev with a purse containing
thirty-nine sovereigns, for his exertions in opposing the doc-
trines of Socialism.

A SAILOR'S WEDDING.—On Tuesday were married, in
St. Nicholas Church, James Stubbs, mariner, to Charlotte
Savage. The espousals took place under curious circum-
stances. The tar had just returned after a six years' cruise
amid the battle and the breeze to Portsmouth, from China,
when he fell in with the father and mother of a shipmate,
who had a daughter on board the emigant ship Ward Chip-
man, now lying in the Roads wind-bound, for Australia, on
hearing which Jack declared she shouldn't go there for a
husband, he would have her himself. Things being settled
so far, Jack, with his intended father and mother-in-law,
started for Bristol. On arriving they found she was on board,
and in the Roads. Nothing daunted, however, by the few
miles between him, the tar, with his aforesaid companions,
got on board the emigrant ship, struck the bargain, got in a
boat alongside, in a short time was at Rownham Ferry, had a
light family supper, and next morning was married (by license)
to the satisfaction of all concerned, little more than 12 hours
after the parties had first seen each other.--Bristol paper.

Windermere sailed from Saugor 144; June, and Meg of Meldon,
27th June, both for Liverpool; Taglioni 21st June for London ;
Currency, 27th June, for Cork, and Tapley, sth July, for
Duke of Lancaster, Candler, from Bombay, at China
Sophia, Johns, and Tweed, Lawson, hence at Sincapore
Collingwood, Guthrie, sailed from Sincapore 20th May, for
Bally, and John Dugdale, Milward, 24th May, for London ;-„gia,44
John Ewing, Ivanhoe, hence and Manila, at China
Thomas Lowry, Graham, and Coromandel, --, from Sydney,
at ditto
Duchess of Clarence, Birch, sailed from China sth May, and
Monarch 10th May, both for Liverpool; James Ewing, 10th May,
for Cork ; Java, 22nd April, Orleana, 3rd May. Julius Caesar, 11th
May, and Anne Laing, sth May, for London

Oberon, -, hence for China, was spoken 26th May, in lat.
19 N, long. 24
Hudson, Leggett, from Newport for Liverpool, at Milford, with
sails split and cargo shifted

Competitor, -, from Sydney, at Sincapore, and sailed for
Calcutta
John Horrocks, ----, sailed from Sincapore for London

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.—Wind N.N.E. moderate.
ARRIVED.—Shannon, Pike, from Mobile—George, —, from
Quebec—Calypso, —, from Alexandria—Water!illy, Payne,
from Leghorn—Albatros, —, from Nantei—johanna, Mener,
from Embden—and Lotus, from Quebec.

SAlLED.—Sentora da Conceicao, Novo, for Lisbon—and Alaba
mian, Lane, for New York.

Crusader. Inglis, sailed from Calcutta for London 4th July
Helen Jane, and John Tomkinson, hence at Batavia
Adrastus, hence at Sincapore
George Armstrong, Jones, from Madras and Sincapore. at China
Dartmouth, Jacobs, sailed from China 27th April, and Kingston,
and Clifford, 28th April, for London

Chebar, -, from Whampoa, at Macao, and was to sail for
Cork 13th May

Ayrshire, hence to Sydney, was spoken 29th July, in lat. 13 N,
long. 25 30 W
flebe, hence to Genoa, was spoken 20th Aug. in lat. 36, long. 7
W.
Harriet, -, hence at Algiers
Tartar, Nickell, hence at Gibraltar
Aurora Liberal, Mundig. hence at Oporto
Oporto, sailed from Oporto for Liverpool 30th August
John Brooks, Lockhart, hence at the Cove, for water, the tank
having leaked : bound to Grenada
Peel's One ! Hunter, front► Richibucto for Liverpool, off Cove
Martha, Murphy, hence for Quebec, off ditto
Jessamine, Jamieson, from Hull, at Plymouth, for Liverpool,
leaky
Mary Ann Peters, hence off Bardsey, 4th Instant, for Africa
Catariqui, Jackson, hence off Cove, 3rd instant, for Cove.