The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-27 00:00:00

kti EOUS

Valuable strata of coal and iron have been discovered in the
valley of Coiirlaine, above, Killestnn; in the Queen's County,
the property of Mr. Fitzinaurire. -
We regret to state the health of r. lt alph Lanibton continues
to be a source of great uneasiness and anxiety to.his friends
and relations.—Sunderland Herald. -
Sir George Smart has been appointed one of the composers
of the chapels royal, in the room of the late Mr"ttwood.
Lord Brougham, accompanied by the honourable Colonel
Caradock, left Paris on Wednesday evening, to pay a visit to
the chateau his lordship is building at Cannes, on the Mediter-
ranean.

It is proposed to extend the Ulster Canal to the Shannon,
and by such extension to form a continued line of inland navi-
gation from Lough Neagh to Limerick.
The ship canal at Carrick-on-Suir is rapidly approaching its
completion, and vessels will be enabled to take in their cargoes
at Carrick, and sail thence direct for England, with ease and
expedition, within a short period.
On Thursday morning, green peas were for the first this sea-
son displayed for sale in Covent Garden market. Two small
baskets, each containing about the eighth of a peck, were to be
seen in the shop window of Mr. John Solomon, ,fruiterer : the
sum of one guinea per basket was asked for them.
Considerable improvement has been effected in the lighting
of the house of cointhons, chiefly through the instrumentality of
Sir T. French, M.P. fur Scarborough.
On Saturday morning new potatoes fetched half-a-crown per
pound in Covent Garden market.
Lord Dillon has announced his determination to contest Ox-
fordshire whenever there is a vacancy in the liberal interest.
The navigation of the river. St. Lawrence to Quebec, was
free from ice ou the 16th March last, which is considered very
early iu the season.
SILK WEAVING.—If every person who can afford it would
instantly determine to buy three yards of shoe-rikand, the de-
mand would tar exceed the supply, laud to remedy which,
hundreds, if not thousands, of hands would be immediately
employed, which are at ptesent out of work.
SUNDERLAND SHIPPING.—Between Sunderland Pier and
Cox Green, there are now upwards of a hundred ships building,
varying in burthen from 150 to 500 tons each. Within the last
two months above twenty new ships have been launched.—
Sunderland Herald.
A grand ball, we understand, by command of her Majesty,
will be given at St. James's Palace on the 24tb of next month,
being is celebration of her Majesty's birth-day. Her drawing-
room, however, to commemorate this august event takes place
on the preceding 17th of the month.
It is said to be intended to open the Great Western Railway
as far as Maidenhead, a distance of 26 miles, ou the Ist of June.
Nuw MAGI STRA TR.—We understand that Paul Moon James,
Esq. of this town, who is already a magistrate for the county of
Worcester, has recently been placed in the commission of the
peace for the county palatine of La.ucaster.—March. Guardian.
Pigs to the number of 25,042 have been imported into Bris-
tol from Ireland during January, February, and March, iu the
present year.
there is no authority for the rumour of her majesty's visit to
Ireland-this year.—.lforn. Chron.
We were pleased to see the noble Earl of Sefton with his
amiable family at the ope:. on Thursday, after his lordship's
long illness. The noble lord occupied his new double box on
the lower circle.— Court Gazette.
Mr Hawes, it is said, means to recommend the retirement
upon pensions of all the present police magistrates, except two
(Messrs. Trail and Hardwick), who have professed themselves
ready " to go the whole hog" in carrying the projects into
effect—Morning Herald,
The Earl of Essex and his newly-married countess (late Miss
Stephens) left Belgrave-square on Thursday, to pass the honey-
moon at Cashiobury-park, the, delightful seat of the earl, near
Waterford, Herts. His Is lordship is in his 82d year, having
been born on the 13th of November, 1757. Her ladyship is 37
years his junior.
It is stated in the Irish papers that the successor of Col. Shaw
Kennedy, in the office of chief of the constabulary, is to have a
reduced salary of £lOOO, instead of £l5OO. as before.
An exaggerated statement, which appeared in our Wednes-
day's contemporary of last week, regarding the state of health
of Lord Stormont, M.R. caused considerable sensation. The
accounts from Leamingtou, we are happy to say, are favoura-
ble, and hold out the prospect of the noble lord being able to
resume his parliamentary duties after the Easter recess.—Perth
papei.
The Duke of Northumberland has subscribed the munificent
sum of £5OO. to the fund for defraying the expellees of the ap-
proaching meeting of the British Association in Newcastle.
Some time since a person in the neighbourhood of Keswick,
having several hives of bees to dispose of, and being desirous to
attract purchasers, caused a placard to be printed announcing
the sale, with the following extraordinary head lines:—" Ex-
tensive sale of live stock, comprising not less than one hundred
and forty thousand head, with an unlimited right of pasturage!"
The trick succeeded to admiration.

The last advices, from Constantinople announce, as a po-
sitive fact, that the Porte had at length granted a firman fur an
English steam-vessel to ply regularly upend down the Bosphorus
as a passage vessel, but fur the present this permission is restrict-
ed to the conveyance of the Frank residents only, although it is
expected that ere long the Turks and Rayahs will also be allowed
to avail themselves of this desirable and rapid mode of passing
from one place to another on the Bosphorus, where the current
eternally runs down into the Sea of Marmora at a rapid rate.—
United Service Gazette.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 23.—There

has been little change in the flannel market to-day. The buy-
ers are rather more willing to purchase, but the prices offered
are extremely low. Though there is.no decided_alteration for
the better, yet the manufacturers seem in better spirits, and are
anticipating au increased demand. There is no change in the
wool market, and prices remain unaltered.—Manchester
Guardian.

NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT GLASGOW:—The friends and
admirers of the Rev. Robert Montgomery will be happy to learn
that an eligible situation immediately to the west of Blythswood-
square having been procured, the erection of the new episcopal
church will commence forthwith. The necessity of a place of
worship in that neighbourhood has been long felt, and from
what we have hea rd, the proposed buildine willadd considerably
to the architectural beauty of our city.—Glasyow Courier.

THE " PREPARED-CHARCOAL" STOVE.—The question as to
the healthfulness of the prepared fuel burned in the new stove,
whose exhibition at the Jerusalem Coffee-house and the princi-
pal scientific societies of the metropolis has excited so much at-
tention, will soon be set at rest. The patentees announce that
they are now ready to supply the demands of the public; so that
the new wonder will be soon brought to the test of experience,
which has proved fatal to so many wonders of the kind. The
inventor, Mr. Joyce, has just taken out a second patent, for
further improvements in the apparatus.—Mechanics' Magazine.
BALLOON ASCENT.—On Friday afternoon, Mr. Graham,
made an ascent from the yard at the Old Gas Company, in
Reading. The inflation commenced at eleven o'clock, and gas
was supplied till five in the afternoon, the estimated required
quantity being 25,000 feet. The bills had announced that
Captain Currie would accompany Mr. Graham, and that after
the ascent a parachute with a monkey suspended in a basket
would descend. At a quarter after five, on ascertaining the
power of the balloon, it was found inadequate to the projected
freight. The balloon rose with great steadiness and slowness
taking a south-west direction, passing over the hill above the
Kennet. Mr. Graham's account then states that " the balloon
travelled at rather a rapid rate, thought not a great altitude,
for about five miles, when the wind having dropped to a calm,
the grappling irons caught hold of some trees, in a field belong-
ing to Captain Gore, of Grazely, and a safe descent was effect-
ed."—Reading Mercury.
AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION.—An old gentleman of the
name of Agar, living at. Wai field, found himself very unplea-
santly situated, a few nights since, on his return home from
Windsor. Mr. Agar has an old favourite nag, named Black
Jack, under whose care be generally places himself on his re-
turn home from market ; so he had done on the evening in
question, when to his surprise he was awoke from a nap which
had been accompanied with a delightful dream, by the sudden
splashing of water, and to his alarm found himself in the centre
of a large pond, near Winkfield church, into which Black Jack
had very unceremoniously taken him. Mr. Agar very naturally,
as most others would have done, cried out for help ; and he was
eventually, after considerable difficulty, got out by the united
exertions of some 10 or 15 labourers who were on the ground,
but little the worse for the occurrence. This, we should hope,
will be a caution to the old gentleman, to endeavour to keep his
eyes open in future.7Readlny Mercury.
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EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At the petty sessions in Castle-
bar, on Saturday, a woman came forward, and made a charge
of the following extraordinary nature against a man named
Martin Murphy :—She stated that on last Lady-day (25th
March) twelvemonth, Murphy was at Stockport, in England,
and on coming out of a beer-shop he met an Englishman,
whom be asked to drink ; he replied that he would not drink
with any Irish —, and they then had some argument, after
which they walked on together until they came to a precipice,
which was ascended from the town by 70 steps, over which
Murphy flung his companion; he started that night for Liver-
pool, and some time after returned to Mayo. The woman said
she knew nothing of the fate of the Englishman, but acknow-
ledged that she cohabited with Murphy, by whom she has had
a child subsequently to this transaction. Murphy has been re-
manded by the magistrates here; and the authorities in Stock-
port have been written to, in order to ascertain whether such an
occurrence took place there at the time specified.—Mayo Tele-
graph.
We sincerely congratulate the public on the certain prospect
of an extensive cotton mill being immediately established in the
neighbourhood of Greenock. Two falls on the Shaws Water of
32 feet each, and possessing the power of 120 horses, have been
leased to a company of wealthy and enterprising gentlemen;
and we understand that building operations will be commenced
without delay. It is determined to erect one wheel to embrace
both falls, and which will be of the amazing diameter of 66 feet,
and surpassing that of any other wheel in the world. It is
scarcely necessary to add, that a work requiring such a power
must be of great extent, and that when in active operation it
will give profitable employment to avast number of people in
its vicinity, particularly females, who, from the present want
of such establishments, experience difficulty in finding the means
of earning for themselves an honest livelihood. There is also
good ground for believing, that the present undertaking is only
the forerunner of similar enterprises, fur the successful prose-
cution of which Greenock possesses advantages superior to al-
most every locality.—Greenock Advertiser.
MORALITY OF RAILWAYS.—Railways are evidently destined
to be great moral teachers, and not the least important of the
lessons they will enforce is punctuality. The inexorable door
of the station is closed precisely at the appointed time, and the
traveller who is but a second behind has no remedy but patience.
There is no running after the departing vehicle, with hat in one
hand and portmanteau iri the other, shouting to the coachman
to " pull up;"—no retrieving your loss even by post horses, and
a douceur to the boy, on to the next station. While you are
going ten miles, the object of your pursuit will assuredly achieve
twenty or thirty.
THE BANYANS.—A race of people who are, among Mussul-
mans, what the Jews are among Christians, a thieving, money-
making class. They are dispised by the Arabs, and are obliged
to submit to insult and indignity, without being able to retort
or avenge themselves, even it' their religion permitted, which
inhibits them from shedding blood, though there are instances
of their being slain by the Arabs. The features of the Banyan
are regular, and the expression of the countenance is placid
and benevolent; and their figures are straight and well-propor-
tioned ; and their diet consists of milk, ghee, or butter, or vege-
tables. They are the principal storekeepers at Zangihar, are
celebrated for their frankness and the shortness of time re-'
quired by them to transact the most important business. The
Banyan women have the same simple customs. All their glory
was to please their husbands ; they are taught from their earliest
years to admire conjugal respect and lose. Their reserve and
austerity towards strangers, with whom they never enter into
conversation, are iu accordance with their principles, and they
heaid in astonishment of the familiarity that existed between
the sexes in Eutope.—Nurratice (!i a Vogage round the World.

By a7:ivtinantl despatch, accounts have been received fro;
Botoha3, to the 21 of March, and from Calcutta to the IStli of
Petri nary. Commercial affairs were said to be rather on the im-
proving order. Sir Charles Metcalfe had embarked for Eng-
tand, and previous to his departure a grand dinner had been
given to hint in Calcutta, iu honour of his exertions in favour
of the liberty of the press.
PERNANIBUCO.—Letters from Pernambuco of the sth of '
March state, that it was rumoured that a schooner of the rebel
squadron at Bahia had deserted to the imperialists. In other
respects the aspect of affairs had undergone no change since the
receipt of the last accounts. The overland letter received at
Pernambuco states, that the rate of Exchange at Rio Janeiro,
en the 3d of February, was at 3d. per milrea.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.—It is now well understood that the New
York banks are to resume specie payments on or before the 10th
day of May, and that the Philadelphia banks will not resume
at that time. The governor is to issue his proclamation for
the banks of this state to resume immediately after the resum-
tion of New York and Philadelphia. If only New York re-
sumes, it will remain optional with the banks of New Jersey to
resume or not.—Neui Jersey paper.
FIRE AT SEA.—The Bombay papers contain an account from
the Sandwich Islands Gazette of the melancholy loss of the
James Colvin, which took lire at sea through the negligence of
the cook, who capsized his lamp among some shavings and fat,
and neglected to give au alarm. The unfortunate man cut his
throat un the discovery of the fire. Captain Maughain and the
crew were saved in the Catawha, of Nantucket, Capt. Coleman,
which fortunately hove in sight at the time. He rendered all
possible assistance, and safely landed them at the Sandwich
Islands.

A private letter dated New York, March 24, says—" 1 have
nothing of moment to communicate, however, except a very
extraordinary report, which I had yesterday from good autho-
rity; to wit, that Mr. Papineau has actually attempted a nego-
elation with Sir J. Colborne tot leave to return to Canada un-
der promise of indemnity. He does nut ask for pardon, I under-
stand, maintaining that he has committed no offence, no overt
act of treason to be pardoned, but only certain errors of judge-
ment, for which he has been abundantly punished. There is
something approaching to a confirmation of this strange report
in a letter from Di. Nelson, in which the writer declares that
Papineau has abandoned the cause of the 'patriots.'"

Now, MODE OF SWINDLING.—An ingenious plan has lately
been hit on by an accomplished gang of swindlers in the city,
which will give a wide sphere for the most extensive fraud, and
lead some of the Indian brokers into an unpleasant secret. The
plan alluded to is this:—One of the gang takes a counting-
house with cellars, and commences in the ale trade. A second,
who has a counting-house also, encloses him au order through
post, which he pretends he has received from an officer in India,
(the Gazette will at once supply the names of the officers of
regiments stationed there, and quarter-masters are generally
selected,) for a certain quantity of pale ale, cider, and wine, of
course of the best quality, to be shipped by the first vessel going
out, and to be paid for by a bill. The order is executed with a
very inferior article, while enormous prices are charged. A bill

is drawn on the party who is alledg,ed to have sent it from India,
and made payable thirty days after sight; and the transaction
is rendered apparently perfectly regular by the party who had
pretended to have received the order acknowlegin,, it to be all
right. The goods are shipped on board, and the alder of the
bill finds very little difficulty in gettting it discounted by au
Indian broker, particularly as he places in his hands, as an ad-
ditional security, the bill of lading for the goods. Several trans-
actions of this description are said to have latterly taken place,
and it is said that such is the quality of the goods sent, that they
will not sell for one-fourth of what has been charged for them
in India.

THE TOWER OF LONDON.—The arrangements for the ex-
tended admission of the public to view this ancient and inter-
esting national establishment are in a state of great forwardness.
A number of workmen are actively employed, and a building
is in the course of erection adjoining the premises occupied by
the proprietor of the menager►e, to be devoted to the purpose
of an office for the issue of tickets, which, from the increased
-number of persons who will avail themselves di the reduced
charge of admission, has been deemed necessary: The tickets
obtained from this office will entitle the bearers to pass the
guard at the inner gate, who will conduct them to a spacious
anti-chamber or waiting-room, which is now being fitted up for
the purpose. As soon as ten or a dozen prersons are collected,
the warden will introduce the visitors to the interior, and go
round with them to describe the various relics and curiosities
therein contained. The whole of the arrangements have been
personally superintended by the Duke of Wellington, who ex-
pressed his desire that no pains might be spared to render them
in every way conducive to the accommodation of the numerous
visitors who will probably inspect these national curiosities fur
the first time.

HEART OF NAPOLEON.—The following rather curious cir-
cumstance was stated to us lately on very good authority :
When the body of Napoleon was opened at St. Helena, his
heart was taken out, and, preparatory to final destination, put
in a basin of spirits and water, and left fur the night on a table
in the bedroom of the medical man who had charge of the mat-
ter—Dr. Arnold, if we remember rightly. In the course of the
night, the Docter was awakned from a slight slumber by a heavy
splash from the basin, and, starting up alarmed; he rested on
his elbow, and by the light of the taper, looked eagerly round the
apartment before he should spring out of bed. Not the shadow
of an intruder was to be seen. What had moved the basin ?
Had that mighty heart, scorning to be quelled even in death,
regained some of its terrible energies ?—was it still leaping with
life? Ha! catching the appearance of something moving in
the corner of the room, he saw the heart of Bonaparte in the act
of being tugged into a hole in the wall; and jumping from his
bed, was just in time to rescue the noble relic from the teeth of
a rat !—Damfries Herald.
GEOLOGICAL CuitiostriEs.—A discovery of no common inter-
est to the observer of geological phenomena has been made in
excavating a space of ground for the site of two gas pits at the
gas works, Rochdale. These works are situated on a low, fiat
piece of ground, at the foot of the Castle Hill and the Camp
Hill, and on the left of thenew road from Middleton. According
to tradition, the former hill is the site of ah ancient fortress of the
Saxon lord of the district; and the latter hill, at present dimi-
nished much in its height and extent, and covered with gardens,
was thrown up by the Danes, who, in one of their devastating in-
roads, beleagured the castle, and were slaughtered on the flat
grounds bordering the river. The site of the gas works is known
to t his day as " The Kill-Danes." Long before this event, how-
ever, it would seem that a far more terrific 'destruction had swept
ovet the place of this valley. In making the excavation before
mentioned, at a depth of seventeen feet from the surface, were
discovered a number of large and stately trees, ascertained to
be oak; they exhibited no marks of any tool; the overwhelming
power had broken up their roots, and crushed and splinted their
branches, with a force apparently as resistless as our common
storms are to the dried fern. The trees had grown upon a strata
of light-coloured gravel and sand; above it is a thick layer of
loam, or mud, of a dull grey colour; and, lastly, on the surface
is a cake of black earth and turf. The trees are four in number,
all lying from the eastwards towards the west, plainly indicating
that the destructive force, whatever it was, proceeded in that
direction. One of the stems is twenty-four inches in diameter;
they are all of nearly as large proportions, and in most parts
perfectly sound, dark-coloured like logwood, and nearly as
hard ; their weight, in proportion to bulk is very great.

POSTPONEMENT OF THE CORONATION.—II has just been
communicated to us, on authority upon which we can place im-
plicit reliance, that the coronation is to be put off—first for ten
days, and this with a view to its further postponement. All
the London journals of Saturday evening, ministerial and op-
position, are silent upon the subject; but from the quarter from
whence the information has reached us, we are disposed to place
confidence in the fact as stated. The ostensible cause to be
assigned by ministers to the public, is the indecency of holding
such a ceremony on the anniversary of the death of George IV,
a circumstance said to be overlooked when the day was origi-
nally named. But if our information be correct, the more
urgent cause as operating on the minds of ministers is to be
found in the universal feeling of indignation that has been
evinced by persons in every class, and of every party, at the
mockery—not the reality of a coronation proposed by the cabi-
net—the early period of the year at which it was announced to
be held—thus prematurely closing the London season to the
ruin of the tradesmen, and the short time allowed for prepara-
tion. Should our intelligence prove correct, and that any post-
ponement at all occurs, we should not be in the least surprised
that the ceremony did not take place during the present year.
Oh, fur the expectant peers! Even in a matter of ceremony,
or by accident, these ministers can't go right.—Evening Mail.
THE QUEEN'S CORONATION DRESS!—We state npon autho-
rity which we fully rely upon as correct, that the Queen has
been advised to provide, and has actually ordered the materials of
her coronation dress from FRANCE! What will the indus-
trious, and the supporters of British industry say to this ?
Would Queen Adelaide have done this? Certainly not. But
t his is all of a piece with the other arrangements of the approach-
ing coronation. It appears that nothing is to be done upon
that national and hitherto glorious, ae well as interesting occa-
sion, except to place the crown upon the royal head, in West-
minster Abbey. Thereis to be no splendour—nothing in short,
that can give employment, directly or indirectly, to the trader
and artizan. For what purpose then, it will be said, is there to
be a coronation, seeing that the queen is already as much queen
as a coronation could make her ? Our answer is, that the coro-
nation is resorted to, in order to enable the ministers to convert
their dependents into peers, and thus to degrade and swamp the
House of Lords. Thus whiggisin is to be crowned, and not the
queen. It will be ultimately to the damage not to the glorifica-
tion of the monarchy.—Evening

A FAITHFUL SHIPMASTER.—The Algonquin Packet at Phi-
ladelphia had forty days of heavy westerly gales, which obliged
her to run too far south. She brought from Liverpool a cargo
valued at 300,000 dollars, not a package of which was injured.
She sprung a leak, and the leak was two or three feet under
water. Captain Turley's sagacity and efficiency in saving the '
vessel and lives of the passengers, were conspicuous on this oc-
casion. He prepared wood in battens and pieces of canya:„s,
and nailed them over the breach, to do which he had to swilag a
man over the bow with a line round his waist, and as t!„ ship
rose on the sea, he was enabled to give two or three b',ows with
the hammer. No one could remain over more than
Ive minutes
at a time, for with every plunge she made he w`atild be buried
in the sea. Captain Turley, his mate and carp
turn in being dropped over.--New York Ever.iiw star.
FOREIGN LEA D.—Upon a memorial to the lords of the tree-
r.lnter, took their
trea-
sury by Messrs. M'Donnell and Co., p
‘eying that they may be
permitted to withdraw foreign lead te',nporarily from the bonding
warehouse, for the purpose of extreAting the silver from it with-
out the necessity of paying the irr,port duty on the lead, and also
without requiring a previous delivery into bonded warehouse of
the equal weight of lead feir exportation, as is now the case,
upon good and sufficient b and being
that a ght of lead, not slag, within a limited
period; their lordshi
rs are of opinion it. is not necessary to re-
quirequantity
out of warehouse of lead equal to that which is to be taken
.tiiould be placed in warehouse in the first in-
stance, since the, return of the proper quantity can be sufficiently
secured by bmad; at the same time their lordships think that
the whole
(111.antity-, without allowance for waste, should he re-
quired, ar,d that the rewarehoused lead should always be held
to be foreign lead, and on exportation should by the customs be
treated, as such, as fully as if it were lead which had remained
in the, *warehouse from the time of landing of the same out of the
itivorting vessel until the time of its shipment for exportation.
---IWe have been favoured by a correspondent with the above
intarmation an the subject of foreign lead, which, it appears,
may now be withdrawn from the banded warehouse for the pur-
pose of extracting the silver contained, upon more convenient
terms than forinerly.l—Mininy Journal.
THE LEICESTERSHIRE TWlNS.—There• were born on San-
' day morning week, at Woodhouse Eaves, near Loughbro, two
children, completely united at the greater part of the chest in
front, and along two thirds of the abdomen downwards. Had
they lived they would absolutely have eclipsed the Siamese
twins; they lay like the babes in the woods, enclosed in the
attitude of love. The arms were pressed a little upwards during
the birth, but they soon resumed the pasture in which they had
perhaps been gradually moulded. One bad his arms round the
neck of his brother; the other had one arm round his brother's
neck, and the other round the left loin They were both well-
formed. seven months males, and both born dead. Front the
state of the lungs they had never breathed; they appear to have
died in the birth. They bad but one heart, one spleen, one
liver, one stomach, and one set of bowels. 'They were in other
respects remarkably perfect in their general structure and
fotip. mutiier is doing wen,