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could command about £2ooo.—Apply to A. 8., Lyceum Li-
brary, Bold -street, Liverpool.

14th Augast, 1841

thibilrations.
NEW MAPS AND ATLAS.

MICHELL'S MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, to
which is added the greatest Part of BRITISH AMERICA,
MEXICO, and TEXAS ; the Lands belonging to the various
Tribes of Indians are dstinctly defined. The Scale is Twenty-
five Miles to the Inch, the largest yet published, being, ac-
cording to the Government Surveys of the United States.—
Price £3 3s.

MICHELL'S MAP OF THE WORLD, on Mercator's
Projection, with a Book of Reference of Nine Hundred
Pages, (Octavo.) This Map is justly considered by all who
have seen it to the.best extant —Price of Map and Book of
Reference, £3 3s.

BRADFORD'S ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICA, com-
prising a General Map of North America, Maps of each of
the United States, Texas, Upper and Lower Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, &c., &c., with a copious History
from the First Settlements, and full Statistical Information.
—Price £4 4s.

To be had of the Agent, Mr. FITZPATRICK, No. 20, Ex-
change-street East, or at the STANDARD-OFFICE,

Lately published, in two handsome volumes octavo, in cloth
price 325. small paper; or £2 Bs. royal, with proof im-
pressions,
Dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Bishop of London,
THE CHURCHES OF LONDON,. a History and
Description of the ECCLESIASTICAL EDIFICES OF THE
METROPOLIS.
By GEORGE GODWIN, Jun., Architect, F.R.S. &F.S.A.,
AND
JOHN BRITTON, Esq., F.S.A.
WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS.
Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by L. and G. SEELEY,
Fleet-street, London.
*** Of the 75 Churches described and illustrated in this
work, 42 were erected by Sir Christopher Wren shortly after
the great fire : a connected series of views of these buildings,
such as is here for the first time published, cannot fail to be
Interesting both to the admirers of that great architect, andf
to the promoters of Church Building in the present day. 0
the more important, views both of the exterior and interior
have been given ; drawn and engraved by the well-known
artists and enzravers, McKenzie and Billings, Le Keux and
Challis. The steel engavings amount in number to fifty-
nine, and those on wood, by S. Williams, to fifty-seven ; so
that the work is decidedly cheaper than of those usually de-
signated " Annuals." Of the descriptive part it may be
sufficient to say, that it has been pronounced Creditable to
the Author, by all the most respectable periodicals. The
following highly favourable notices appeared at various times
during the publication of the work in numbers, and the names
of the periodicals attached to the extracts will be a sufficient
warrant for their impartiality ; but if it could possibly
strengthen this assurance, the proprietor pledges his word
that no one of them has been solicited, and they may there-
fore be fairly considered as the perfectly unbiassed opinions
of the various editors.
CIVIL ENGINEERS' AND ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL.—NO.
3.—" This very useful and popular work has arrived at its
eleventh number.... The author is entitled to the warmest
encomiums of the profession, for his efforts in the endeavour
to inculcate into the minds of the public a taste for this im-
portant branch of architecture."
THE ASIATIC JOURNAL.—" Three parts of this elegant,
acceptable, and very cheap work, have appeared, and they
do infinite credit to the artists and the authors. Each num-
ber contains two views of a Church, with historical and an-
tiquarian matter.
LOUDON'S ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE.—" The two
numbers before us contain four exquisitely-engraved plates of
St. Paul's Cathedral,—a beautiful wood Engraving of the
Cathedral as it appeared before the fire in 1666, and others
of the monuments to Lord Nelson, the Marquis Cornwallis,
and Bishop Heber. The letter-press appears to be compiled
with taste and judgment, combining historical relation with
critical and professional remarks : and on the wrapper of
each number is given a glossary of technical expressions, for
the use of non-professional readers. The extreme cheapness
of the work, and the superior manner in which it is got up,
cannot fail to ensure it a very extensive sale."
THE LITERARY GAZETTE.—" This undertaking is worthy
of the rising talent of Mr. Godwin, and promises to be a
very complete and interesting production. The number be-
fore us is altogether a favourable specimen."
THE SAME. Nov. 10.—" This pretty little publication
proceeds with undiminished neatness and accuracy in its
graphic, and with increasing interest in its typographic de
partment

Notices of the concluding number.
The publishers of this interesting and elegant series have
brought their work to a close. It is appropriately dedicated
to the Bishop of London, who has done so much in preserv-
ing some of the City's most ancient ecclesiastical structures
from destruction, in the various improvements that have
been made in the different streets, as well as for his Lord-
ship's exertions to increase the number of the places of wor-
ship. As an instance of the care with which this publication
has been conducted, it ought to be mentioned that in the
concluding number the proprietor has presented other im-
pressions where the former plates had been accidintally
issued in a style inferior to the best of the series. The pub-
lishers promise a continuation of the series, to consist of the
churches of Westminster, Southwark, and the Suburbs,
should the work now concluded meet with the favour which
it fully merits."—Record, August sth, 1839.
" This work is now complete, and comprehends a valuable
collection of engravings, on steel and wood, of the Metro-
politan Churches, illustrated with descriptions at once popu-
lar and erudite. It makes a very handsomt‘, book, at a rea-
sonable price, and we trust that the patronage of the public
(which it well deserves) will excite Mr. Godwin to extend
his plan."—Asiatic, Sept. 1.
" The 30th number of this publication has made its appear-
ance, and contains sketches of nine of the me-tropolitan
churches from St. Alphage's London-wall, down to St. Bo
tolph's Aldgate. Many interesting historical facts are brought
s
into notice in this series of brief, but careful notices, an the
vignette woodcuts, with which it is so freely illustrated,'
are
of a very neat kind. In this number there is, moreover, a
view of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, and another of St.
Stephen's, Walbrook, from the pencil of Mackenzie, which
are of more than ordinary interest. The latter especially
does much credit to one of the best architectural dratsmen
to whom the school of England has ever given birth.--41torn-
ing Herald, August

AUTUMN WOOLLEN GOODS.
XTRA FINE TWEEDS, HEATHERS, and other
SCOTCH GOODS, many things curious and rich for
Shooting and other Coats, with every variety In WOOLLEN
GOODS adapted to the Season, ire now Selling at the
LIVERPOOL CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT,
99, LORD-STREET.

THE LAST WEEK.—THE GIRAFFES.
MR. GEORGE WOMBWELL begs leave to announce
to his Friends and the Public, that his EXHIBITION
of the FIVE LIVING GIRAFFES, in BOLD-STREET, will
leave Liverpool on Monday next, the lith inst. ; and those
who have not already seen them must lose no time, for it will
be many years, if ever, that such five beautiful and interest-
ing Animals will be offered for public inspection. 'The lar-
gest Machine, in the form of a Waggon, has arrived to rensove
them. They will pruceed from this town to Chester, Shrews-
bury, &c.

LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
?THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the WORKS of
I MODERN ARTISTS will OPEN in AUGUST next.
All Works of Art sent for Exhibition will be received
from the 26th of July to the 9th of August inclusive ; and
must be addressed to the Secretary, at the Exhibition
Rooms, Church-street, accompanied by a descriptive note.
No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Gat
Frame.

No copies, (except Enamels after known Pictures,) leer
Works which have been publicly exhibited in Liverpool, efts
be received.

Artists, resident in Liverpool, will be admitted Free to
the Exhibition, on application to the Secretary for that pur-
pose. SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy of Arts.

July 13, 1841

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Sheffield,
Aslacn-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company will
be held on MONDAY, the 23d day of August instant, at
Twelve o'clock at Noon, at the Cutlers' Hall, in Sheffield, in
the county of York.—Dated this ,Ith day of August, 1841.
JOHN PLATFORD, Clerk and Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN.
CHESTER RAILWAY.
Nova-, IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the BOOKS kept
at this office for enterinz the memorials of the Transfer
of Shares in the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man-
chester Railway Company will be CLOSED, in pursuance of
the Act of Incorporation, from thelGth to the '2.3d of August,
inclusive. By order of the Board,
JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, August, 1841.

The next meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society is ap-
pointed to take place in Bristol.
The New York Express says that the underwriters in that
city have paid the insurance on the steam• ship President.
The Brighton Herald announces on good authority that
the Queen will open parliament in person.
LONGEVITY OF TREES.—The following trees are ealcu.
lated to live about—elm, 335 years; cypress, 450 ; cheiros-
.emon, 400 ; ivy, 450 ; larch, 579 ; orange, 630; olive, 700 ;
ornamental plane, 720 ; cedar, 800 ; lime, 1137 ; oak, 1500;
yew, 2828; baobah, 5150 ; taxodium, 6000.
A JAW BREAKER.—The names and titles of the Russian
Field-Marshal Paskewitsch run as follows :—Glawno Korn-
mandujuschtchoi General Field-Marshal, Swalleischg Russ,
Iwan Federowitch, Warshawskoi, Graf Paskewitsch, Eri-
wankoi.

An engraver, who had produced several prints of acknow-
ledged merit, committed suicide a few days ago from a cause
which shows that his strength of mind was by no means
equal to his talent. Having prepared two new plates in aqua-
tint, he was so sensibly affected by their not coming out with
the force and beauty he had anticipated, that he shot him-
self, and thus, at the early agsl of forty years, terminated a
career which gave every promise of being brilliant.—Sun.
The president, secretary, and treasurer of the brickmakers'
society in Manchester, have all of them absconded, taking
with them the entire of the funds of the society, amounting
to one hundred and sixty pounds! ! ! Nothing has yet been
heard of this trio of delinquents.

By the official returns published by the Customs, the ex-
ports of the precious metals to foreign and colonial parts for
the week ending Thursday last, were as follows :

Silver Coin to Ilamburgh
Silver Coin to Rotterdam

Ounces.
3.1,302
19,600
16,150

Silver Coin to the Mauritius

REMOVING A LIGHTIIOUSE.—From the improvements
now making in Sunderland harbour, it has been found requi-
site to appoint another site for the lighthouse; but in order
to avoid the trouble, delay, and expense of taking it dowa
and rebuilding it, it has been decided to remove it as it
stands, which transit is now being attempted. The stone
work has been cut out at the base, and a railway and car-
riage erected, on which the lighthouse now stands ; it was
moved by screw power a distance of 21 feet to the north on
Monday, in which situation it will remain for some time, till
the railway is reversed, when it will be removed to its new
site, at the east end of the north pier.—Newcastle Chronicle.
CHINESE Go NS.-A piece of Chinese artillery, taken from
the admiral's junk at the island of Chusan, has been sent to
this country by Captain Trail, son of Dr. Trail, of Panbride,
who was present with the expedition. The gun is exactly
six feet in length, with a bore of about two inches in diame-
ter, thus admitting a ball of about two pounds in weight, and
has much the appearance of one of our street lamp posts,
only it is not quite so thick. It is composed of separate bars,
hooped together after the manner customary with artillery in
ancient times, of which the celebrated gun " Mons Meg," in
Edinburgh Castle, is a specimen. Apparently it is of consi-
derable antiquity, the touch-hole being greatly enlarged, and
the gun otherwise worn by rust. We are inclined to think
that in an engagement it would be more apt to prove destruc-
tive to those who worked it than to those against whom it
was used. Captain Trail has handsomely presented it to the
museum of the Dundee Watt Institution. A similar one has
also, we understand, been forwarded to Cupar, Fife.—Dun.
dee I firrder.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BLACKHEATII.—TWO houses in
the Grove at Blackheath were destroyed by fire during Tues-
day night. One was in the occupation of Captain 'Waller, a
gentleman recently arrived from Java, with his wife and a
i
family of eleven children. The property destroyed s esti-
mated at £3OOO, which belonged to Captain Waller, and not
one vestige of which is insured. There were bank notes to
the amount of XlOO, 200 sovereigns, and an entirely new ser-
vice of plate, which cost 500 guineas, and which had only
been purchased by Captain Waller a few days since, a vast
quantity of valuable jewellery, precious stones, and other
costly articles, collected in the East Indies, all of which fell
a prey to the devouring element.

ENGLA.ND.—The path she has marked out for herself Eng-
land pursues with energy and a perseverance all worthy of
imitation. The strongest maritime positions upon the globe
she descries, and conquers, or purchases ; her countless co-
lonies are scattered over the world ; her colonial system and
her navigation are based upon formidable financial associa-
tions ; all useful projects find support from her government ;
her diplomacy, her fleets, her treasures, all she directs to the
accomplishment of an enterprize, not always an equally defi-
nite one, provided it is recommended by its greatness. The
conduct of the mightiest and most perilous affairs does not
distract her for an instant from this leading principle of her
conduct. Against all difficulties, for all emergencies she
makes head and provides. Engaged as she is in the eastern
question, the war in India and the war in China, with the
progress of the experiment of the slaves of nineteen colonies,
with election crises, the reform of her tariff, the embarrass-
ment of a budget in defecit, still does she find time and
means to turn her attention and her resources to the uncer-
tain enterprize of an expedition to the Niger, and a negoeia-
tion with Spain for the cession of the islands of Fernando Po
and Armobon.—Journal des Debate.

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS AND STAGE-COACH PRO-
PRIETORS.—An action was brought before the Small Debt
Court, Perth, on -Wednesday last, at the instance of Mr.
Dallas Mills, of Avcch, near Inverness, against the pro-
prietors of the Princess. Royal coach, which runs between
Perth and Inverness, for damages in the following circum-
stances :—The plaintiff was booked at the Star Hotel coach•
office, as passenger to Inverness, on the 21st of July. In
the bills which were posted up in the coach-offices and inns,
the Princess Royal was announced to start " from the
George and Star Hotel Mail Coach-offices, Perth, every
lawful morning at half-past five o'clock," and on the nsorn-
ing alluded to, the coach left the Star Hotel at a quarter-
past five, but the plaintiff was present at the Star Hotel-
office eight minutes before the half-hour, when he found the
coach had left that office. It was proved, however, that he
was put on his way to reach the George Inn before the half-
hour, had he been acquainted with the localities, but which
he did not reach until the coach had started, which was
stated by a witness to be three and a half minutes past the
time advertised. Mr. Sheriff Barclay held that the bill pnt
out bore the terms of the contract between the coach pro-
prietors and the public, and that the coach ought not to have
left either of the offices before the half-hour, and he added,
that the plaintiff, although it had been proved that he could
have made up to the coach at the George Inn, was not
bound to run, and, it may be, over-heat himself before he
made up to it, so as to obtain his seat. Mr. Bareley decided
for three guineas of damage with costs of the suit.—Seotek
paper.

BRITISH EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTII POLL
—The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's,
from their agent at Hobart-town, dated the 17th of April,
1841 :—" By the last list you will have perceived the ratans
to this port of her majesty's ships Erebus and Terror,
Captains Ross and Crozier. Nothing official has as yet
transpired here ; but it is generally understood that the ex-
pedition has been very successful, and these British ships
proceeded 11 degrees lower south than the Astrolabe
and Zele, and four degrees more than any other vessel has
ever yet reached ; that they were enabled to fix the exact
position of the south magnetic pole at 100 miles distant
thence; and that some extraordinary mistake appears to
have affected the calculation of the Americans who ap-
proached these regions." The Erebus and Terror entered
tile main part of the ice, on their voyage of discovery
towards the South Pole, on the sth of January last, being
then in latitude 66. 45. S., and longitude 174. 13. E. Oa
the 10th of the same month they descried land in lat. 71.
56. S., long. 171. 17. E. ; and coming up to it on the 12th
of January, they took possession of it in the name of her
majesty. This land extends south to degree 79. Proceeding
onwards, a large volcano, emitting dense clouds of smoke,
was observed on the 28th of January, in lat. 77. 31. S.
long. 167. 30. E. On the 2d of February they reached to
the utmost extent of their voyage, viz.,
long. 173. 12. W., and were here stopped by
lat. 78. 4. S.
150 a
icebergs
0-
feet high, and by the fields of ice which were traced
tending 300 miles to the eastward. expeditionThehan
the Ameriean
trated about four degrees further south t
in the course of
or French discovery vessels ; and, although
hcorreetness of many
the voyage it was enabled to verify pine-
the existence of water
discovered one singular error—
"land, and which the Erebus
of the spots laid down in the charts of the former, they also
over a large space described
land 300 miles from the latitude laid clown
dis-
tance, leaving the
It is said that the sea in this dires-
hales. Not a single taut{.
and Terror actually sailed over fora for a very considerable dis-
in the American chart. It
and the vessels reached
ally occurred among
where they will remain till the season
Hobart-town in safety,
tion abounds in seals a
operations. The result of the attempt
already further
arrives forthe s Pcerremw s 7
de has been highly satisfactory, the vessels Lma,
?wade
got within
what was supposed by the indiestima of tits needle
to he
100 miles of the magnetic pole."