The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

CANDLES

AT a MEETING of the TALLOW CHANDLERS, held
on Friday evening last, it was resolved to advance the
Price of CANDLES a HALFPENNY per lb., in conse-
quence of the late advance in the Price of Tallow ; and they
respectfully request all Dealers in Candles to do the same.
Liverpool, 10th August, 1840.

ELOCUTION

MR. JONES, PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION, (from Lon-
don and Edinburgh,) begs leave to infornthe
that he will remain a Month in LIVERPOOL, for the purpose
of receiving or attending Pupils in the above-mentioned
portant Branch of E

commodation of
Public Speakers, Teachers, and other Gentlemen, who have
not leisure to receive regular Courses of Instruction, Mr. J.
tuulertakes tb impart his System in TWO LESSONS. '"

lucation

Terms and other particulars may be known of Mr. Jogs,
No. 24, Bold-street.

gust 5, 1840,

LIVERPOOL & HARRINGTON WATER-WORKS.
CONTRACT FOR COAL AND COAL SLACK.
PERSONS willing to supply these Works with COAL
and COAL SLACK, for the use of Five Steam-engines,
for One or Three Years, to be laid down at all, or any, of
the following stations—Bevington-bush, Soho-street, Cop-
peras-hill, Water-street Toxteth-park and Lodge-lane,
Windsor, are desired to send in their respective TENDERS
on or before the 18th day of August instant, addressed to
the Chairman of Directors, at the Works, in Hotham-street,
Copperas-hill.—By order,
THOMAS THOMPSON, Manager.

POPERY AND THE REMEDY.
rPHE REV. T. D. GREGG, A.M.., Chaplain of St.
"
1. Nicholas Within, Dublin, will, at the
request, of the
LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION,' deliver an
ADDRESS to the Inhabitants of Liverpool, at the AMPHI-
THEATRE, Great Charlotte-street, on WEDNESDAY E.
ING, 19th August, on NATIONAL RELIGION ... CHRISTIAN LEGISLATION as the means under Goa
of eradicating POPERY, and every other Anti-Christian Sys-
tern, and promoting to the utmost the virtue, happiness, and
prosperity of all classes. Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock.
Tickets of Admission, to the Boxes, Is. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery,
3d. ; may be procured at THE OPERATIVE PROTESTANT
DEPOSITORY, 26, Elliot-street ; LIVERPOOL STANDARD
OFFICE ; LIVERPOOL MAIL OFFICE; Mr. LEDERS, 62,
London-road; Mr. HARRISON, Ironmonger, opposite St.
James' Church, Park.
Members of the Operative Protestant Association may ob-
tain Tickets Free, by application to Mr. LEATHERBARROW
at the Depository, Elliot-street.

Any proceeds, 'after the expenses are paid, will go to thi
benefit of the Operative Protestant Association.

ELECTION OF DOCK COMMITTEE.
AT a MEETING of MERCHANTS and DOCK-
La- RATE PAYERS, 12th August, 1840, at No. 4, Ex-
change Alley, convened to consider of proper Persons to be
put in Nomination to supply the Vacancies in the Dock
Committee—
SIR THOMAS BRANCKER IN THE CHAIR—
It was resolved unanimously,
That WILLIAM POTTER, JOHN CROSTHWAITE, CHARLES
CHALONER, ROBERT SELLAR HENDERSON, and TllomAs
BOLD, Esquires, are proper Persons to be elected Members of
the Dock Committee, in the room of the five Gentlemen now
retiring therefrom, and that they be earnestly recommended to
the Merchants and Rate-payers accordingly, and that this
Meeting do now pledge themselves by all legitimate means
to promote their Election.
THOAS BRANCKER, Chairman.
The Committee Tor conducting the Election sit Daily, at
Eleven o'clock, at No. 4, Exchange-alley ; and they take
this opportunity of correcting a misunderstanding which has
been industriously circulated, with a view of dividing the
Conservative party on this occasion, but which atterm-4
trust, a very few words will suffice to frustrate
the Gentlemen now nominated is fay,. to
,'-arehouse Room on the Dock Quay by just an
means, such as the Letting or S.
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The Election will take place en .Monday next, the 17th
instant, at the Dock ()thee, between the hours of One and
Four o'clock. The qualification of Electors is the payment
to the amount of ,ClO Dock Rates in the preceding year, and
each Elector will have to provide himself with and sign a de-
claration to that effect, which may be procured at the Dock
Office.

NORTH AND SOUTH \VALES BANK.
Iti°722L GIaREERBAII, 1?11214 'Nrotf glee P FOURTH—
TORS of the STOCK of the NORTH -
WALES BANK, will be held at the Clarendon Ro,
South John-street, on FRIDAY, the 21st instant, at Ek
o'clock precisely, to receive the Report of the Directors
the business of the year ending 30th June last; and to el
three Directors, viz., one in lieu of the gentleman who g
out by rotation, but is eligible for re-election, one in Oar
the late Benjamin Thomas, Esq., and one in place
Director who has resigned.
By order of the Board,
THOS. A. CORLETT, General Mane
Liverpool, 6th August,.lB4o.

PLURALITY' Or OFFIC

Roberts, residing in

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following important offices :—bor
and master of the national school

The Dublin and Kilkenny Railr
completed the purchase of the enti
yearly meeting will be held on the

id SOUTH

Company have
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to state

We are happy in having it in o__
Lords of the Treasury have made New Ross an independen
port, it being now under the surveillance of Waterford.—
IVez/brd Conservative.

COUNTS' OF WATERFORD ELP.crzoN.—The new candidate
in the field for the representation is the Hon. R. Carew. We
believe no other candidate will come forward ; and the un-
disputed return of Mr. Carew may be therefore looked for.—
Waterford Chronicle. •

From inquiries instituted, it appears that in the coi
the last month no fewer than sixty cases of self-destr
occurred in London and its suburbs, of w'"'
poison, twelve by throat-cutting, five by s,
remainder were cases of hanging and drowni

ich twenty we

A new conservative newspaper is about to be started in.
Ludlow, under the title of The Ludlow Standard, to be con-
ducted by Mr. R. Gooch, late editor of the late Hereford
County Press.

Captain Sir Henry Loraine Baker, Bart., C. 8., is appointed
to the command of her Majesty's ship the Howe.
Mr. Bowden, a commissioner of stamps and taxes, has re-
tired. It is not intended, we are informed, to fill up the
vacancy thus occasioned.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert do not visit the Marquis
and Marchioness of Westminster at Eaton Hall this autumn,
as erroneously stated in the Cheshire papers.
DALICEITH PALACE. --The statement that the Queen
Dowager will visit the Duke and. Duchess of Buccleugh in
September or October, at this splendid seat, is without foun-
dation.

We are informed that the Marquis of Clanricarde is about
to succeed the Earl of Auckland, as Governor-General of
India ; but we know not to what degree of credit the state-
ment is entitled.

MELANCHOLY LOSS'OF LlFF..—Last week, three brothers,
the eldest under ten years of age, suns of a poor man, went
to the mountain of Moelfammau, near Mold, and ate a
quantity of whinberries, which brought on the cholic, and
caused their death the same day.—Chester Courant.

Mr. Hooper, the late deputy of Queenhithe ward, was on
Saturday unanimously elected alderman, in the place of the
late Mr. Veuables. He was proposed by Mr. Routh, of the
firm of Crawshay and Co., who also twenty years aft) dis-
charged the same duty to the late alderman : the nomination
was seconded by Mr: Howell.

DISCOVERY OF COAL ON THE BLACK SEA.—A coal mine
is said to have been discovered at Penderaclia, one of the
finest ports in the Black• Sea, belonging to the Sublime Porte.
A Turkish steam-boat was sent to examine the locality, and
bring specimens to Constantinople. It returned using the
coal for the production of its steam.

GALLIPOLI OIL.—We have authority for saying, that, in
the pending treaty between Great Britain and Naples, the
question of the discriminating duties on olive oil, the pro-
duce of the Two Sicilies, is included ; and that, on the rati-
fication of this treaty, this oil will be introduced into Eng-
land at 495. duty per tun, instead of 89s. as at present.—
Leeds Mercury.

Seaman Beale, of Ten-

EXTRAORDINARY
terden, has a wether hog, which has, for
suckled a lamb. The lamb was often seen apparently suc
ing the sheep, but it was not supposed that it derived any nc
rishment from its efforts. However, on sheering the weth
it was found to be otherwise, and that a stream of milk coi
be produced from him equal to that from a ewe.—Roc/et
Gazette.

some tir

A shipwright of Portsmouth yard found
the timber recovered from the
guinea in a good state of pre,

' The France circulates a rum(
Austria to the treaty of the Fo
and that its ratification is give
France should protest, Austria is
reflect.

r. John

fniptrial pzieltatitfift._

isoRDSXMaI3A
HOpjEco-",),L MSENT.

The royal assent was given by commission to the Exche-
chequer Bills Bill; the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, the Ad-
ministration of Justice (Court of Chancery) Bill, the Infant
Felons Bill, the Population (Ireland) Bill, the Stock in Trade
Rating Bill, the Railways Bill, the Austrian Treaties Bill,
the Postage Bill, the Non-parochial Registers Bill, the Mu•
nicipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, the Borough Rates Bill,
the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill, the Population Bill,
the Midland Counties Railway Bill, and other bills. The
Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Clarendon.

Upon _the motion of Viicount DUNCASNON, the Coal Du-
ties Bill was read a second time, and was committed, and
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The .Consolidated Fund Bill was read a third time and
passed, upon the motion of the same noble viscount.

LICENSE OF COUNSEL

The Bishop of LoNDON presented a petition of the inhabi-
tants of London, including some members of the bar, praying
for some alteration in the law which enabled prisoners' coun-
sel to address the jury on their trial on their behalf. He
begged to be understood to disclaim any intention to throw
any imputation upon any individual member of the bar; but
he begged to say, that he thought that there were some por-
tions of the Scripture which forbade persons exerting them-
selves to prove a man innocent, when he had confessed him-
self guilty. The occurrence of a late melancholy case tended
to confirm his belief in the opinion expressed by the petition-
ers as to a change in the law.
Lord BROUGHAM was at some loss to understand the
grounds upon which the petitioners rested their prayer. It
was a privilege upon which the elucidation of truth, the pre-
vention of injustice, depended ; and the life, liberties, and
property of the subject were not worth an hour's purchase if
the freest scope, he would say more, if the most unrestrained
license, was not given to the bar.
The Bishop of LONDON said the noble and learned lord
had admirably demolished the phantom of his own creation,
for he had said nothing which called for the observations
of the noble lord.
In the Loan Societies Bill and Joint Stock Companies
Bill, for which conferences between the two houses took
place, their lordships abandoned their amendments.
Their lordships then proceeded to give judgment in two
appeal cases ; after which they adjourned at a quarter before
eight.