The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

CHESTER &BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.
TENDER FOR LOANS.
THE Directors of this Rail Way will be prepared„on and
after the Ist day of August next, under the pdwers in
their Act of Parliament, to take up LOANS of .MONEY
on Mortgage of the Tolls arising therefrom, sums of not
less than £lOOO, and to remain for Three oive Years as
may be agreed upon, for which Interest at the rate 0f,5 per
cent. will be paid half-yearly.
Tenders, stating the amount, to be addressed to Mr. J.
JAMES, ie Treasurer, at the Company's Office, 2.l„Pen-
wick-street. '

WAI. DIXON, Chairman of the Board
Liverpool, July 13, 1840. •

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY

THIRD INSTALMENT OF £5 PER S ARE ON
THE NEW SHARES.
THE, Directors, in pursuance of the provis' ns of the Act
of Incorporation, have this day made CALL of the
THIRD INSTALMENT of FIVE PO 1 DS per Share
on the Call of Fifteen Pounds per Share on the New Shares,
and have appointed that the same be paid to one of the
Company's Bankers on or before the Ist day of August: the
Proprietors are therefore reqUested to pay the same accord-
ingly: The Company's Bankers are— . .

In LIVERPOOL. :The North and South Wales Bank

In CHESTER

Messrs. Dixons and Wardell

Interest at the rate of Five Pounds per Cent. per Annum
will be charged on-all Sums remaining unpaid after the date
appointed for payment. WM. DIXON,
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
24, F'enwick-street, Liverpool, July 13, 1840.

On Saturday the Directors of the East India Company
gave a grand dinner at the London Tavern to Lieutenant-
General Lord Keane, G.C.8., G.C.H., to commemorate his
brilliant services in India. The directors were honoured on
the occasion with the company of her Majesty's Ministers,
the Commander-in-Chief, and other distinguished officers of
high military rank.

It is still a speculative question, amongst the members of
the Royal Household, whether arrangements will be made
for an approaching " interesting event" to take place at
Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, or Claremont.
Three weeks ago a Paris banker lost his pocket-book, con-
taining notes to the amount of 61,000 f. He immediately ad-
vertised a reward of 6,000 f for their recovery. On Saturday
he received back the pocket-book, emptied of all its contents,
with a note signed F. P., to the following effect :—" I will
return you your 61,000 f with interest when I am as rich as
you are."

The death of Lord Arden brings into operation the Act,
passed in 1813, for the regulation of the Court of Admiralty.
The object of this measure, which was introduced by the late
Mr. Henry Martin, then member for Kinsale, was to prevent
the registrar from employing at interest for his own use the
suitors' money deposited in his hands.

On the 28th ult., the anniversary of the coronation of her
Britannic Majesty, the British Protestant Chapel at Leghorn
was opened, when au appropiate and impressive sermon was
preached by the Rev. S. J. Gambier. The foundation-stone
had been laid two years previously by the British consul.
This is the first Protestant church that has been built in
Italy. It has been erected by the respectable British resi-
dents of Leghorn.
ROYAL MARRIAGE.—The Constitutionnel states that the
marriage of the grand duches-s of Olga, daughter of the Em-
peror of Russia, with the Duke of Nassau, is positively to
take place, and that the affiancing will be officially announced
at the expiration of the time precsribed for the mourning of
the late King of Prussia.
We hear, from sources which give every assurance of its
truth, that the question between this country and the Neapo-
litan government, as to the sulphur monopoly, is on the eve
of a satisfactory settlement. The monopoly is to be abolished,
and compensation is to be given to those British subjects who
have really suffered by it, to the extent of their actual losses.
—Sunday Paper.
THE LATE How CAPTAIN BEST.—This lamented officer,
who unfortunately perished by the upsettine of a' boat off
Norfolk Island, was in his 30th year ; he was promoted to a
company in the 50th (Or Queen's Own), commanded by the
Hon. Colonel Woclehouse, 15th August, 1834, and accom-
panied his regiment when it was ordered to New South Wales.
Captain Best was the 10th and youngest child of Lord
Wynford.

The Northampton Herald states that the nurse who is
selected to attend on her Majesty at her approaching con-
finement is the same who was the confidential attendant on
Mrs. Norton, and who could not be found on a notorious
trial, when it is supposed her evidence might have been par-
ticularly inconvenient to Lord Melbourne. If the fact be so,
it shows a marvellous want of delicacy, as well as an unbounded
stretch of influence on the part of the favourite premium.
THE NEW MASTER IN CIIANCERY.—It iS confidently
stated that the Mastership in Chancery, vacant by the dis-
placing Lord Henley, under the recently passed act of parlia-
ment, has been offered to Mr. John Romily, the son of the
late lamented Sir. S. Romily, and that the learned gentleman
will accept the appointment.—Sunday paper.
WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.—Since our last report
the operations on this wreck have been greatly retarded by
the prevalence of strong westerly gales during almost the
whole period. Another iron gun, 32-pounder, which was
slung on the 27th ult., was got up on the 29th ; but, not-
withstanding every exertion, the quantity of wreck recovered
during the gales has very little exceeded one-third of what
might have been expected in more moderate weather. It is
the desire of government to melt down all the brass guns
that may be recovered from the Royal George, for the pur-
pose of using the material for the bronze work of Nelson's
monument in Trafalgar-square. The foundation stone of
the column is to be laid on the Ist of August next.—Hamp-
shire Telegraph.

FASHIONABLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LONDON STAGE.—
"Mr. Charles Kean told me that a noble patroness of his
met him at a soiree, and that the following dialogue passed
between them :—My Lady.—Ah, my dear Mr. Kean, how
do you do ? How long have you been in town ? Mr. Kean.
—About three weeks. My Lady.—Well, and shall we see
you act? Mr. Kean.—l am acting! My Lady.—Where,
pray ? we must go. Mr. Kean.—At Drury-lane. My Lady
(with an extra quantity of haw-hawing.)—Where is Drury-
lane ?"—Mr. Bunn's " Stage.".

YANKEE DISCIPLINE.—GeneraI Howe's army running
rather short of fresh provisions previous to their descent on
Long Island, a foraging party was sent out one night to
drive off, if possible, some of the rebel's cattle. The pro-
vincial watchword for the guard was Cambridge, and pass-
word Swamp. It happened the foragers stumbled unawares
on one of the advance provincial sentinels, who, hearing
them approach, bawled out in the true Yankee dialect,
" Cambridge!" to which no answer being given, repeated it
again—" Cambridge, I say once mole ; if you don't say
Swamp I'll shoot." Upon which the British party instantly
cried Swamp." " Pass," was the reply! In consequence
whereof, without the least interruption, they drove off a very
large herd of fat black cattle.

A grand challenge sailing match, in honour of her
Majesty's nuptials, is announced by the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club, as being open to all yachts belonging to any
club in the kingdom, not exceeding 26 tons. At the last
meeting the members selected a piece of plaae, of the value
of 50 guineas, to be sailed for, from Greenwich to Gravesend
and back, on the 23d inst. This match is expected to be
the greatest treat. to the amateurs of sailing that has taken
place for many years, as several of the fastest yachts are
already entered for the contest.
THE BARA.BBAS SYSTEM.—We observe that some of the
leading chartists, as well as the Glasgow cotton-spinners,
have been released from gaol before the expiration of their
sentences. It does not appear that these parties have given
any sign of penitence, or held out any reasonable hope that
they would in future abstain from practices similar to those
for which they were oonvicted.. On the contrary, they glory
in their defiance of law, and avow their determination to
persist in sedition. The only stirrer of sedition who endures
the uttermost vengeance of the law is Feargus O'Connor,
and against him Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Dictator of Great
Britain, has an implacable personal spite.—Manchester
Chronicle.

A SUBSTITUTE.—An Irish officer in the 40th rang his bell
so often that no servant the landlady could hire would stop
in the house,. or could stand the running up stairs. The
officer consequently received notice to quit, which being un-
willing to do, and finding the cause of warning, be promised
never to ring his bell again. Upon this understanding he
retired to his apartment. In about half an hour the whole
house was alarmed by the report of a brace of pistols in the
captain's room. Up rushed the landlady, the lodgers, and
the servants, and burst open the door, in the full expectation
of some dreadful catastrophe. " Coffee," coolly said the
captain. On their expressing surprise, the lodger cried,
" Why, as you do not like me to ring the bell, of course I
must find some substitute."

AGRICULTURE AislD TAXATION.--Let us go back to first
principles (for it is well sometimes to begin at the beginning),
and ask, if those who pay taxes ought not to be protected in
such interests as will enable them to pay those taxes? The
answer must necessarily be in the affirmative. Well, then,
the true basis of the corn laws is to enable the agriculturists
to pay their portion (say one-half) of the national burdens—
hence the protective principle; for it were worse than Egyp-
tian cruelty to place the agriculturists on a par, as to price,
with untaxed foreigners, without granting them at the same
time a corresponding reduction in their burdens. Would
these foreigners accept of honourable terms of national co-
partnership, and take their share of our taxes, incurred to a
great extent by subsidies to them, to fight their own battles ?
Moreover, if it be a facto as it is usually stated as such, that
about four-fifths of our manufactures are consumed by our
own trade, is it not the legitimate argument, in behalf Of the
agricultural interest, that a measure tending to their injury
(and as a necessary consequence to the injury of that impor,
tint portion of our trade, inasmuch as it would recoil back •
and that speedily, with a multiplied force upon the raanuf,i,
turing interests) would be impolitic and dangerous) And it
were mere infatuation to believe that such injury 'would be
compensated by a great additional n
ature
of
feretinginngtsra.deT;hiattifsn,rceoin.
trary. to both reason and
states would supply us plentifully with their corn, there cau
exception of America, little reliance
be no doubt, so long as they got pacidnulfodrbeitp;labneuts woniththtehme
to take our goods in return.