The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPRIGGING.

Partiality for old customs and appliances was, for some
time, an obstacle to the employment of chain for bobstays,
bowsprit snrouds, topsail ties, sheets, &c. It was, by the
more prejudiced, considered a monstrous deviation from all
known practice and example in the art of shiprigging to sub-
stitute iron for hemp. But by degrees this prejudice has
been removed, and at this moment it would be as difficult to
find a ship wholly rigged with hempen rope, as it would have
been before to meet with an application of iron. The chain
has been found to answer, but iron in an improved form
(wire rope) has been introduced as a substitute for chain.
Many naval officers and master mariners who have tried it
as standing rigging, declare that they approve of its use.
The wire rope is recommended for its lighter weight and
greater strength and durability than hempen rope. Its com-
pact form makes it preferable to chain. A piece of it is at
present on trial on the Blackwall railway. This work will
put its pliability and toughness to a severe test but it is ex-
pected the result will
.prove that its properties as a running
rope are also of a superior order. hi this case, its employ-
ment for all marine purposes will be speedy and general.
The Oriental steam-ship, 1700 tons, has been fitted with
it, as have also several yachts and steamers.
The following are the dimensions of the Oriental's rigging:
Fore rigging
Forestays 6 „
Main rigging
Mainstay 44 ~
Mizen rigging
Minn stay
Funnel shrouds
The Oriental made a very quick passage out against head
winds, to which the lightness of the rigging no doubt, con-
tributed in a considerable degree.

'TUE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—Lord Ebrington
arrived on Friday morning from Dublin, in the Admiralty
steamer Merlin, Captain Townley, and proceeded immediately
by railway to London. His excellency was accompanied by
his sons, Messrs. John and Dudley Fortescue, and Mr., Mrs.,
.and the Misses Matthew Fortescue.
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THE LATE DR. STEWART.—The funeral of this much
Ilamented gentleman took place yesterday. The mournful
;procession left the residence of the respected minister about
ten o'clock, and proceeded along Russel-street, Seymour-
'street, and St. Anne-street, to the Cemetery, Low-hill. Six
mourning coaches and one private carriage, followed by about
MO gentlemen, attired in black, accompanied the hearse,
which was preceded by Dr. Raffles, in his private carriage.
CO'N'SUMPTION OF THE SMOKE OF STEAM-ENGINE FUR-
7NACES.—In this age of steam, there is not a more important
desideratum, as affecting the convenience and health of the
;public, than the combustion of the smoke in the furnaces of
,both marine and land engines. Various plans have, from
year to year, been devised ; but while some have proved abor-
live in practice, others have been marked by but paitialasurce:
etas. We therefore hail with the greater gratification
eget invention, which is practically found to attainf the object
r which
in wiew to an extent hitherto unachieved, a
pant has consequently been taken out. This newa
a
applica-
tion is the more valuable, inasmuch as it combines the almost
entire consumption of smoke, with a very
of fuel, and at the same time supplies the considerable saving
boilers with a regu-
lar 4legree of heat, rendering them less subject to corrosion.
Its practical effects are abundantly demonstrated in two of
the Woodside ferry-boats, now
Cleveland and Ellenborou h,tlie Plying
on the ricer,—the
g
great satisfaction of passengers, emitfarnaces of which, to the
scarcely any perceptible
quantity of smoke. The invention, which is simple in detail,
is equally applicable to lan engines, and, if generally adopted,
would remove
mthaede_nse and murky clouds of smoke that
nu
hang over ourmanufacturing towns, and by permitting the
access of pure air, conduce to the health and comfort of the
inhabitants. Mr. Joseph Williams. manufacturing chemist,
Bedford-street, ToxtetliP ark, in this town, is, we learn, the
agent of the patentee, for the disposal of this valuable inven-
tion. It has been recently noticed in the London papers
that several applications have been made to the Lord Mayor,
recommending the adoption of some means of preventing the
nuisance of the volumes of smoke from engines in that
crowded metropolis, as well as from steamers on the Thames ;
and his lordship intimated, that notice of a motion on the
subject had been given for the consideration of the Court of
Cominon Council. That court would do well to avail them-
selves of the advantages held forth by the new and success-
ful " patent furnace."

LITERARY NOTICE.

Parliamentary Speeches, dnring the Session 1840. London :
William Edward Painter, Strand. Royal Bvo., 358 pages.
This is an admirable collection of all the speeches worthy
of preservation, delivered by the most distinguished and
honourable men, peers and commoners, during the last session
of parliament,—and with the advantage of greater accuracy
than is generally to be found in necessarily hasty newspapers,
i
many of them, (as s announced in the title-page of the book),
being "corrected by the speakers" themselves. They em-
brace the most important subjects affecting the interest of
this great country,—amongst which are, " Want of confidence
in Ministers,"—" Progress of Socialism,"—" Provisional
Grant to Prince Albert,"—" The Corn Laws,"—" The Irish
Registration,"—" The War in China,"—" Church Rates,"
—" Ecclesiastical Dutiesand Revenues," &c.—When we add
that they comprise the principal addresses of many of the
highest dignitaries of the Church,—of Lord Stanley, Sir R.
Peel, Sir James Graham, and Sir R. Inglis, and others who,
though great conversatives, alike refused to place confidence
in the Melbourne administration on all great political ques-
tions,—it were almost superfluous to seek for a further re-
commendation of the work. But the utility and cheapness
of the work are such that we shall stand excused in offering
some brief explanations of its plan and purposes. " Its ob-
ject," as stated in the introduction, is to preserve the sum
and substance of each great question—not by the hackneyed
repetition of a long debate, but by presenting, in a united
whole, the speeches of the great conservative leaders—un-
mixed with baser matter." The work was published in num-
bers and parts of series, so printed that each speech could be
procured separately, for the small sum of threepence, and the
sale has already been great. The whole now form in one
volume a complete record of the great debates, and as the
compiler anticipated on the outset " deserves a place in the
library, not as a matter of temporary interest only, but as
serving to the political history of the period." Of the highly,
talented, and truly oratorical speeches in the volume, deli-
vered by Lord Stanley, Sir Robert Peel, and the other great
leaders before named, we need say nothing here. Their
powers as speakers, and their worth as conservators of all
that would enoble our country, and relieve her from the
trammels which the vicious policy of the whigs has imposed,
are too widely acknowledged by the honest and enlightened
to require any eulogy from us. Nor could we do justice to
the sentiments they have uttered by submitted extracts
from their corrected and eloquent addresses as here supplied.
The whole must be perused with care, as we feel assured they
will be with pleasure by the conservative reader. We cannot,
however, take leave of the work without adverting to the ad-
mirably penned essay which forms the " introduction" to the
work, in which the author has in a masterly manner enume-
rated the various delinquencies of the present whig adminis-
tration, and their utter unworthiness of the confidence of the
country. We regret that we have but room for the follow-
ing introductory paragraph to this portion of his subject :
The confidence of the Commons in the Melboure Ministry
has been distinctly tested on six occasions during the early
portion of the present session, that is, between Christmas
and Easter of the current year—a House of Commons, -be it
observed, of their own, and far in the third year of its exist-
ence—and with what result? They have had two majorities,
one of nine and the other of sixteen. On the other hand,
they have sustained four defeats, and the conservative ma-
jorities have amounted severally to 10, 16, 28, and 1051 Yet
the Melbourne Ministry maintains its place ! The mere
statement of these facts is surprising ; and when accompa-
nied by the eloquent speeches which this work will contain,
must completely settle the question of confidence or no con-
fidence. It is remarkable that, even as regards parliamentary
eloquence, in the present House of Commons—to say nothing
of the undisputed superiority of the conservative peers, it is
all on the side on which argument predominates, and the
whigs are alike poor in both. The counterpart of such a
work as this is impossible. When a series of heads of con-
servative statesmen were published, a series of portraits of
reformers followed. Will the speeches of the Palmerstons,
the Russells, the Morpeths, the O'Connells, the Bulwers,
the Humes, and the Wakleys, appear in sequence of those of
Lyndhurst, Wellington. Peel, Stanley, Graham, Goulbourn,
Herries, Gladstone, Follett, Sugden, Pollock, Thesiger,
D'lsracli, Inglis, and other eloquent conservatives? We
believe not.

NEWFOUNDLAND & BRITISH NORTH AME-
RICA SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE POOR.

We shall not be wrong in surmising that not many of the
inhabitants of Liverpool are acquainted with even the exist-
ence, and still fewer with the utility and efficiency of this
valuable society. An auxiliary society for this town and
neighbourhood has been formed, and at a meeting of several
of the clergy and laity held here towards the close of last
month, for the purpose of hearing the statements of Samuel
Codner, Esq., one of the vice-presidents, relative to the re•
ligious state of British North America, the following inte-
resting but lamentable particulars were elicited.
1. That Newfoundland had been a possession attached to
the crown of Great Britain, since its discovery, A.D. 1497.
That there exists in that island an extent of coast of not
less than 1400 miles, peopled by inhabitants of British de-
scent. That so late as the year 1822, (the year before that
in which the society was formed) the entire number of cler-
gymen of the Church of England officiating in that island,
amounted to no more than seven. That there was also at
that date, in existence, only one free daily school, which
was at St. John's, the capital, in which school was one
Bible, from which no less than FOR. Tv female children read
in turn.

The zeneral ignorance of the population is thus pointedly
stated by Chief Justice Forbes,—" Not one in twenty can
read or write, and how can you govern such people ?
2. There is manifested a great desire among the people
to receive instruction—their situation is most painfully felt
by themselves, and the more so because almost all their
mercantile transactions are carried on by barter. They are
therefore most anxious for the establishment of schools
amongst them, for the instruction of their children, so much
so, that many have come forward to aid the society's opera-
tions, by bringing timber from the woods to build school-
houses; and on a recent visit of the superintendent of the
schools to this country, no less OAR .4exen petitions from
different places were presented by him to the committee,
praying for the extension of the means of education to their
own neighbourhood. Mr. Codner's statements related fur-
ther to the constitution of the society, and the rules of its
procedure. Its object is to supply reigious instruction, as
well as secular education. The masters and mistresses, to
whom the management of the schools is committed, are ex-
clusively members of the united church of England and Ire-
land. The committee holds them responsible to the local
episcopal authorities. The Bible is read as a regular school
book at all the schools. In places where churches are
wanting, divine service is celebrated in the school-houses,
on the Lord's day, under the sanction of the Bishop, and
the children are afterwards instructed in the formularies of
the church of England. Children, however, of such parents
as dissent from the church of England, are allowed to attend
their own places of worship. It was stated also by Mr.
Codner, that much substantial benefit had already resulted
from the society's efforts, in proof of which he quoted the
testimony of the late Governor Sir J. Cochran, and of Judge
Des Barres, as well as of the Bishop of Montreal ; and let-
ters were read from the Bishop of Newfoundland, and from
the Rev. T. Bridge, Rector of St. John's, and Chaplain to
the Bishop of Newfoundland. Various inquiries were then
made, by some of the clergy, with the view of obtaining dis-
tinct information with respect to particulars; after which, it
was resolved unanimously,—That it appears from the au-
thenticated statements of S. Codner, Esq , that the inhabit-
ants of Newfoundland and British North America, have a
strong claim on the sympathy and active benevolence of the
Christian public in general, and of the town and neighbour-
hood of Liverpool in particular.
The secretaries of the Liverpool Auxiliary are the In-
cumbent and Curate of Christ Church, by either of whom
subscriptions will be gratefully received, for the purpose of
carrying out the laudable object of the society.

THE PERSECUTED JEWS IN THE EAST.

COMMUNICATION FROM SIR MOSES MONTZFIORE TO THE

LORD MAYOR.
The Lord Mayor has just received the following letter from
Sir Moses Montefiore, on the subtject of the hon. and highly
respected Knight's mission to Damascus :

" Alexandria, Sept. 9, 1840.
" My dear Lord Mayor,—The deep interest your lordship
has taken in the cause of my persecuted and suffering bre-
thren at Damascus, and the readiness with which your lord-
ship kindly granted the use of the Egyptian-hall for the
merchants on the subject, induce me to trouble your lordship
with this letter, to inform your lordship, that amidst much
opposition, many discouragements and fears, we have suc-
ceeded in obtaining from his highness the viceroy—
" A tirman fur the unconditional discharge of the nine
unhappy persons confined at Damascus, on the accusation of
being parties to the murder of Father Thomaso.
" Permission for such of the Jews as had fled to return to
their homes unmolested.
" A general declaration that the Jews should have the
same protection as all other subjects.
" It will, I am certain, impart to your lordship much sa-
tisfaction to learn, that so far our mission has not been in
vain. More was anticipated when we left home, but the turn
political affairs have taken, the agitation that prevails here,
the disturbed state of Syria, and the opposition of the French
authorities, have hitherto prevented our proceeding to Da-
mascus, or obtaining a new trial, and thus daring our ac-
cusers to bring proof that my co-religionists were in any way
implicated in the murder.
" The rise, progress, and end of the Rhodes affair afford
an useful lesson to persecutors, and demonstrate that where
cupidity is united to religions fanaticism, truth is altogether
shut out, guilt escapes, and innocence alone is sure to suffer.
" Notwithstanding our difficulties, it is not our intention
to quit the East without visiting Damascus, unless compelled
by actual hostilities.
1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord Mayor,
Yours most truly,
" MOSES MONTEFIORE.
‘• To the Right }lon. the Lord Mayor," &c.
DARING ROBBERY:A most daring robbery was commit-
ted, on. Friday evening last, about eight o'clock, by some
villain at present unknown. He thrust his hand through a
pane of glass in the window of Messrs. Medder and Syred,
pawnbrokers, Oldhall-street, and, grasping a small lot of
American gold coins, amounting in value to about £l2, im-
mediately decamped out of sight. A very great outrage,
particularly at such an hour, in a great thoroughfare, when
the moon and the gas rendered the street as light almost as
day.
ST. SIMON'S BRANCH OF THE LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—Last evening a very numerous
meeting of the members and friends of St. Simon's Branch
of the Operative Protestant Association was held in the
School-room, Moorfields. The meeting was one of a
monthly series, which are producing great and extensive
good. The Reverend J. R. Connor presided, and he
delivered an interesting speech, showing the grounds of the
Protestant cause, and the reasons why it was necessary for
the people of England to combine for its defence. A num-
ber resolutions were afterwards moved and
seconded, of appropriate
and
carried unanimously, and the meeting sepa-
rated about ten o'clock.
DEATH OF Ala. MARSHALL.—The attack upon Mr. Mar-
shall of the county of Donegal, on the 9th ult. haseventuated
in death. The ruffian who aimed the deadly blow at the de-
ceased was admitted to bail, but we take for granted that the
magistrate who took the recognizancea for his appearance
will feel it his duty to resort to means of preventing his es-
cape, as death has ensued. The deceased, we understand,
made a most satisfactory deposition of the circumstances of
the attack, and of the identity of his assailant. The magis-
trate who took the deposition should issue a warrant against
the person charged with the crime of murder.—Dublin Even-
ing Post.
METEOR.—Between two and three o'clock on Friday after-
noon, while a gentleman was proceeding to Granton Pier,
and passing by Golden Acre he observed a brilliant meteor
shot from a hazy cloud, which floated at no great height in
the atmosphere, in the direction of Newhaven. The course
of the meteor was vertically down •, the length of it, as it ap-
peared to the eye, was about a yard, of a pear shape, and the
colour of the light that of burnished brass. Its meteor form
distinguished it at once from a thunder bolt ; besides, no
audible report accompanied the phenomenon. The sun shone
brilliantly at the time, and the clouds generally consisted of
isolated masses, with considerable spaces between them ; and
that from which the meteor darted seemed to occupy a lower
stratam of the atmosphere, and was of a less dense and more
hazy appearance.--Scottish Standard.

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blinded and deceived.
There is only one more quality wanting to make the
morsel wholesome as well as tempting, and this is, that
they should incur only a limited liability. There is a
strong power at work among the band of unsound
speculators to obtain this consummation of their
schemes—a system of limited liability as applicable to

companies

experience and good sense which is hitherto opposing
it; sometimes the one and sometimes the other is in
the ascendant. The Bubble Act was repealed in 1825,
which had been founded upon an experimental know-
ledge of the mischiefs and unprincipled trading pro-
duced by the unfettered transfer of shares, contrary to
all practice, among private traders. The same act of
1825, and another of 1834, enabled the Crown to grant
privileges to companies involving this among others of
a limited responsibility. But in November of the same

SECOND EDITION.

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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tuis DAY.
Although the arrivals up to Friday were trivial, and the
wind has continued in the east, a tolerable number of vessels

increasing quantity of Grain coastwise and from Ireland, with
a good supply of Oatmeal and a few small parcels of Flour.
From abroad, however, the present imports of Grain are
light, and we have no Flour thence fresh in for to-day.
As, from the prevalence of auspicious weather during the

last week the bulk of harvest, .even in the remote coun-

ties of the north, now considered safe, apprehensions upon
that subject have subsided, and the labours of autumn pro-

Igdora, all

speenlative feeling seems to be suppressed for the moment.
Under these circumstances, in connexion with the repeated
decline in Mark-lane, and the prospect of ample deliveries
from the English and Irish growers, most articles of the
trade this morning were further depressed in value. Upon
a moderate demand for Wheat, however, good runs of Fo-
reign and English Old nearly retained the reduced rates of
Friday; whilst English New, owing to the limited supply at
hand, maintained last Tuesday's prices. Irish Wheat, on
the contrary, was 3d. to 4d. per 701bs. cheaper than on this
day week, and several parcels left unsold.
Irish Flour must be noted Is. to 2s. per sack, and free
foreign 6d, per barrel, lower, with a slow sale for each.

Of bonded States Flour 1500 barrels changed hands for

export at our quotations

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A parcel or two of English new Barley appeared, for
which no certain price is yet named.—Foreign dull at the
rates of last week.—Malt, Beans, and Pease remained un-
altered.

Upon a fair supply of Irish Oats, prices gave way fully Id
per 451bs, at which the best kilndried samples moved off
gradually ; but of ordinary and undried parcels it was ex-
tremely difficult to effect any sales whatever. _

Oatmeal upon a 'very limited inquiry was 6d per 2401bs

ROBT. MAKIN and SONS

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 6th to the 12th October, 1840, inclusive

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THE MESS CATERER OF A TROOP SHIP.

Mr. Sparks being Voted by unanimous consent " a junior,"
he was condemned to offices that the veriest fag in Eton or
Harrow had rebelled against. In the morning, under the
pseudonym* of Mrs. Sparks, he presided at breakfast, having
previously made tea, coffee, and chocolate, for the whole
cabin, besides boiling about twenty eggs to various degrees
of hardness ; he was. under heavy recognizance; to provide
plate of butteted toast of very alarming magnitude,
ham, kidneys, &c., to no end. Later on, when others saun-
tered about the deck, vainly endeavouring to fix their atten-
tion upon a novel or a review, the poor cornet might be seen
with a white apron tucked gracefully round his spare pro-
portions, whipping eggs, for pancakes, or with up-turned
shirt sleeves, fashioning dough for a pudding. As the day
waned, the cook's gallery became his haunt, where, exposed
to a roasting •fire, he inspected the details of a cuisine, for
which, whatever his demerits, he was sure of an ample re-
muneration in abuse at dinner. Then came the dinner
itself, that dread ordeal, where nothing was praised and
everything censured. This was followed by the punch-
making, where the tastes of six diffefent and differing indi-
viduals were to be exclusively consulted, in the self-same
beverage ; and lastly, the supper at night, when Sparkie, as
he was familiarly called, towards evening grown quite ex-
hausted, became the subject of unmitigated wrath, and most
unmeasured reprobation.
" I say, Sparks, its getting late ; the spatchcock, old boy ;
don't be slumbering."
" By the bye, Sparkie, what a mess you made of the
peasoup to-day !By Jove, I never felt so ill in my life."
" Na, na, it was na the soup ; it was something he pit in
the punch, that's burnin' me ever since I tuk it. Ou, man,
but ye're an awfu creture wi vittals."

" He'll improve, Major, he'll improve • don't discourage
him ; the boy's young ; be alive now there ; where's the
toast—confound you—where's the toast ?"
" There, Sparks. you like a drum-stick, I know ; mustn't
muzzle the ox, eh ? Scripture for you, old boy ; eat away ;
hang the expense ; hand him over the jug—empty—eh,
Charley? Come, Sparkie, bear a hand, the liquor's out."
" But won't you let me eat?"
" Eat ! Heavens, what a fellow for eating ! By George,
such an appetite is lean against the articles of war ! Come,
man, it's drink we're thinking of; there's the rum, sugar,
limes ; see to the hot water. Well, skipper, how are we

getting on ?"
" Lying our course ; eight knots off the log ; pass the call.
Why, Mr. Sparks."
" Eh, Sparks, what's this ?"
" Sparks, my man, confound it ;" and then, ' omnes cho,.
rusing, Sparks !' in every key of the gamut, the luckless
fellow would be obliged to jump up from this meagre fare,
and set to work at a fresh brewage of punch, for the others.
The bowl and the glasses filled, by some little management on
Power's part, our friend, the cornet, would be drawn out, as
the phrase is, in some confession of his early years, which
seemed to have been exclusively spent in love-making, devo-
tion to the fair being as integral a portion of his character as

tippling was of the worthy major's.
[We copy the above humourous caricature from the pages
of " Charles O'Malley."]