The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

MONDAY, MAY 30.—Wind N.

ARRIVED.—England, Garnett, from Calcutta—Sandbach,
Bellis, Demerara—Sarah Botsford, urtey, Trinidad—Lady
Westmoreland, Semple. and Highland Mary, Ashland, Mobile
Mooton, New Orleans—Shand, Christie, St. John,
N.B.—John Garrow, Hamilton. New Orleans—Nichols, Joven,
Odessa— CLanopaine, Havre—Anna Margaretha. Gothenburg—
Ceris, Bosenga, Nantes—Menta, Dordt—Wilton Woed, Buenos
Ayres--Countess of London, Coonforth, Bombay—Ospray,
Honeyman, Mobile—Genova (s.s.) Patten, Montreal—Emperor,
Paxton, Calcutta—Kestrel, Callao—St. Patrick, New Orleans—
Lelia, Gaborne, Bordeaux—Star of Empire, Brown, Boston—
Liberia, Card, St. John, N.B.—Anna, Spigit, Stettin—Count
Frederick, Wolgast—New World, Knight, and Henry Clay,
Caulkins, from New York—Eegaw, Taffa—Rudolph, Caen—
Erbgrossing van Oldenberg, Leer.
SAILED.—Simoom, Ettwood, for Bombay—Queen Victoria,
Chase, New Orleans-29th May, Mapler, Iceland—Giamatteo,
Urcich, Corfu—De Witt Clinton, Funk, New York.

Sarah Sands (a s), Thompson, from Melbourne, for this n."-
at Plymouth.
Bleng, Campbell, from cuionino, and sailed for London;
Tippoo Saib, Stewart, from Calcutta, for this port; Cam-
bridge, Hole, from Calcutta ; Mobile, Ponsonby, from Bom-
bay, and sailed 27th April for this port ; Rydan, Bobbin, from
Mauritius, &c. ; Euterpe, Mooton ; Herculean, Bell, and
Salenn, Gibson, from Bombay ; Amoy, Birmingham, and
Otterspool, Hughes, from Arracan ; Lady Bute, M'Kenley,
from Calcutta, and sailed 19th April for this port ; Emily,
Grisdale, from Shanghae, and sailed 21st April for this port;
Leander, Gray, from Whampoa ; Princess Royal, Mawson,
from Calcutta; and Dauntless, Donovan, from Bombay—all
at St. Helena.

Town of Liverpool, Flood, hence at Pernambuco.
Rothesay, Mure, hence at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.
Kirkman, Finlay, hence at Bombay.
Prince of Orange sailed from Bombay 15th April, and Queen
Mab, 20th, both for this port.
Courier sailed from Langor, Bth April ; Asia, 12th ; and Cur-
rency, 18th,—all for this port.
Leopand sailed from W sung for this port, 11th March.
Livingston sailed from Langor 12th April, for Akyab ; Anne
Laing, 15th April, for Mauritius; and Saindian, for London,
on the 17th.
Stormaway, Hart, from London, at Bombay the 19th April.
Stephano, Campbell; and Mary Stewart, Bulman, hence;
and Don Ricardo, from Macao, at Sincapore.
Dovisana, Robertson, sailed from ditto 6th April; and Sarah,
13th,--both for this port.
Susan, Munro, hence for Melbourne, at Cape of Good Hope.

VESSELS SPOKEN
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1,11,111Jv sva ••••, -
LO. from Buenos Ayres, for this port, April 22, 32 N, 38 w.
Sea Nymph, hence for Pnnce Edward Island, Slay 15, 51 N, 9 W
Golden Fleece, May 19, 49 N. 43 W.
James Turcan, hence for Batavia, March 14, 23 S, 29 W.
Horatio, New Orleans for this port. Slay 3.
Sabina, from Monte Video for this port, April 27, 28 N, 46 W
John umming, hence for New Orleans, May 16, 50 N, 9 w
Armidt, Bombay for this port, Jan. 27. 29 5, 10 E.
William Badger, for Bloston, April 19, 24 N, 53 W.
Wye, London for MeKnourne, March 29, 20 5, 23 W
Aldebaran, hence fo'r Sydney. May 1, 37 N, 13 W.
Agnes Leeds, hence for New York, May 8, 45 N,
Isabella. Norfolk V. this port, Slay 12, 45 N

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On the 27th inst., at Price's-street, Birkenhead, Maria Salt,
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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

THE two main incidents of the week were the celebration
of Her MAJESTY'S birth-day on Tuesday, and running
for the Derby on Wednesday. On the first-named day,
London was alive ; on the second, dead and deserted. A
stranger would not believe how thin the Derby makes the
metropolis of company, until about six in the evening,
when the dust-covered carriages roll home with their
thousands of jolly lads and lasses,—choice specimens of
English breed. Bad as we are, on such a day, we can
turn out men and women, and cattle, the like not to be
seen in the world. Louis NAPOLEON and his suite ride
fine horses, beautiful creatures in hide and symmetry ;
but then the Emperor and his toadies have not so many
as we can show. For fire, vivacity and caper, the French
beasts take the shine out of most of ours. It is all edu-
cation. Prank. English gravity, respectability of de-
meanour, are taught our horses by our skilful masters of
the rnani;ge. Never was monarch's birth-day celebrated
with greater glee and gusto than VICTORIA'S last Tues-
day. Prodigious was the consumption of green turtle,
turbot, salmon, in prime condition at present, together
with the smaller fry of mullet and dory; prime venison
also not a little was spitted ; lots of it at the venerable
fishmonger's opposite the admiralty; and a droll fellow
is he, though blind as a bat, he is not to be done ; it is he
who supplies the Cabinet fish-kettles. Say that you are
a bachelor, your friend the Duke of R. sends you his bi-
yearly H. of V., you are going out of town—Pegwell Bay,
perhaps, on a shrimping excursion,—you send your haunch
to our friend the Ministerial fishmonger,—blind, he ma-
nipulates with skill ; another friend has a haunch from
that plucky old soldier the Marquis of L. ;—it goes the
way of all (such) flesh ; and so with the products of half
the deer parks in England, and let me couple those im-
mense wilds of Scotland where the red deer and the roe

abound. Well, it is not considered shabby for a bachelor,
or a man with a limited batterie tie cuisine, to send his
haunch, as aforesaid, just as you would send a heap of
your parliamentary papers in exchange for DICKENS or
BULWER ; only your fishmonger stumps. I was quite
astounded to note the rich blind tradesman with a haunch
on his lap, one day, which the glorious old Duke of R.
sent to a poor acquaintance once ; the venison-dealer
knew not whence the article had come,—he manipulated,
as I have said, drew his fingers kindly over the fat, felt for
the " alderman's walk ;" and, without hesitation or moral
reservation, mentioned the park where the venison had been
reared. So he would with SEFTON'S or any one. Nice
discrimination. Pardon this episode. All the Ministers
gave banquets on the birth-day,—the grandest being P
MERSTON'S ; the merriest, Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN'S,
the QUEEN'S Attorney-General, which, he being a ba-
chelor in a double sense, he gave at a decent public-
house, where I have dined many a time, and oft, yclept
the Albion, in Aldersgate-street. The guests were all
lawyers, poor and rich ; for little " Cockey" don't value
the sixpence a cowrie. The dinner, I need not tell you,
was of the right sort ; the arrangement of the dishes and
entremets being according to the last and best authority,
each morsel having a " chromatic relation" with its an-
tecedent ; no condiment without a studied specific pur-
pose ; and every glass of wine was either harmonic or in
proper discord with the particular entremet to which it
formed the accompaniment. After dinner, in approval of
the said great authority, there was the cliasse (cognac),
then a rincette (old Port), then sur rincette (Burgundy) ;
next, the Gloria—any liquid but water. Then each
bibed ad lib. Bluff Sergeant WILKINS boozed, and kept
bur on each side of him in a roar. Sir ALEXANDER is
a choice lad enough over a caraffe of punch, and does not
hurry ; on the present occasion he had better not. FRANK
MURPHY, Q.C. and M.P. for Cork, had just got " his
character" all right from the Parliamentary Committee ;
he came down to the Albion, determined to have a night
of it. MURPHY, though a Whig, and having, like all that
class, a tendency to forget old acquaintances, unless, in-
deed, he meet them on Salisbury plain, or the top of the
monument, is not a bad table companion, though not
nearly so good in this respect as he was twenty years ago,
when he and Baron MAULE, and —, and —, used to
see two or three hundred " goes" of OFFLEY'S brandy,
and as many pairs of kidneys disposed of at a sitting. By-
the-bye, Baron MAPLE did not go to either of the legal
banquets in honour of the day ; he was in the Court of
Common Pleas in the morning, apparently well ennuel,
with JOHN JEavis, the Chief Justice, " chaffing" the
Queen's Counsel, who came in without their full-blown
honours, big-bottomed wig, &c. PALMY had all the
cracks at his dinner, and it need to have been recherche;
there were among the learned guests more than one,
whose " feeding" has puzzled me much to ascertain
whether it was that of the epicure or the mere glutton.
Upon my life I lean to the latter belief. Oh, Noos TAL-
FOURD, how you do enjoy a good dinner, and—amiable
trait—how you like to talk of it afterwards The illumi-
nations were very brilliant and numerous, and thousands
of artisans, with their wives and little ones, perambulated
the busy streets till midnight, cheering themselves every
now and then with a grateful pull at BARCLAY, PERKINS
and Co., as Madame MALIBRAN used to call London
porter.

There was a raggamuffin debate in the House of Com-
mons on Thursday evening, the cause of which—abolition
of Church-rates,—drew together a great number of new
members, not the most aristocratic, by which I mean
good-looking, in the world ; for men of sour aspect go to
the conventicle ; several of such, by hook or by crook,
have got into Parliament, and, of course, we must put up
with them. But for a man bearing the time-honoured
name of PHILLIMORE to rise in his place, in the House of
Commons, perfectly sober, (he rarelygoes to BELLANIY'S,)
and move, or as good as move, the abrogation of Church-
rates, appeared to more than one in the house too much
of a good thing. And then the Clay baronet, refining
the motion, as the late Mr. HUSKISSON used to talk of
clayed sugars, came in to have a shy for a little Tower
Hamlets popularity—by moving an amendment, pew
rents, vice Church-rates. The motion and amendment,
thanks to the good sense of Parliament, were lost. I
hesitate not to affirm that the parishioner who refuses to
pay Church-rates, sometimes they only amount to fifteen-
pence a year, as bad as denies the faith, and is worse than
an infidel. Who with any heart would grudge a few oboli,
even for the sake of his boyish acquaintances, the rooks
and jackdaws, to keep the dear old belfry of the parish
church in order ? The decent edifice still stands there:
you—boy—now man,—may have traversed this world of
care from one end to the other ; you like to come home
again; don't you like to see the old church ? I believe
you, my boy ! Yet, if lank-sided Mau, had it all his
way, the parish church might go to —, and I mean
the worst place one can mention. Oh, but say tile oppo-
nents, we object on the score of principle ; I dare say
you do. Some points of the motion, amendment, and
debate, were absolutely profane to my poor thinking ;
higgling about necessaries for body and soul, as if each
was no better than a bundle of old do',—anvbody by
signing a statement that he—anybody—was a Dissenter,
should be exempted from Church-rates ; but, then, the
anybody so exempted would have " short shrift, I trow."
Here it is in the vernacular—that he should not be enti-
tled to the performance of any rite or ceremony by the
.clergy of the Church of England. Sir WILLIAM CLAY
had a long palaver, and the next day strutted about town
to find out what people thought of him. He is essen-
tially vain, tall—l mean long. If he dressed with better
judgment he might, in a crowd of Radicals, pass for a
gentlemanly-looking man ; but he always has such a
" large stock of linen on hand"—l suppose he calls it
wristband, and so much long cloth about his feet, that
he by no means looks so smart as when I remember him
a young Water-company's Clerk.
Ur-MR HUNT, I think it is, who, in one of his graceful
papers, writt.n about this time of the year—tile Chimney-
sweeper's Holiday- mprry month of May—in a happy
moment, when writing about tiso iuvenile portion of the
sooty brotherhood, characterised them oz anodecimos in
black letter. Those were the days when the poor littlo
creatures, all soot and nakedness, with bag and brush,
used to sound their childish pipe in the cold winter morn-
ings, disturbing the occupants of the eider beds in May
Fair. That nuisance was stopped ; so, likewise, lead the
horrible ascent of the five-storey chimney. Still it
appears that the fraternity are ill-used : little boys, with
n wills of their own, are apprenticed to the trade ; and
theo
Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in his place in the house of
Lords, the other evening, in a speech fraught with good
feeling, came forward to mitigate the evils of the class ;
but it is not to be done at least for a hundred years.
Salutary acts are passed, but not_ a creature looks to their
being carried out. I beg pardon—two or three police.
men are certainly on the qui clue visiting the "common
lodging houses," most of them worse
accursed cities. The Building Act is than dens of the
is evaded every day
oyl
chimneys are still constructed narrow
elbows which no machine can touch.
andW . 73g,u
h
at is the occu-
pant of a house, with a decent kitchenin it, to do but
employ the poor sweep. " Yes," says Lord SHAI. TES-
81, Ry , ‘4 get chimney doors." Fudge ! my lord—fudge !
that plan will never cure the evil. What's the use of a
door of any kind if you don't enter ? I felt for the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY ; he is a well-minded man—a serious
youth, it you will. He got a precious drubbing, in a
quiet way, from MILES STAPLETON, a shrewd Whig
lord, who sits as Baron BEAU MONT ; I believe his father
was a doctor—a horse one, perhaps—in Yorkshire, not
very long ago, for the peer is not more than five or six
and forty. The title had been in abeyance many years ;
and I dare say the blood of the first peer, Sir HENRY DE
BEAUMONT, temp. Ed. 11., became slightly degenerate;
ich events do happen : be that as it may, the present
ron is a very cranky, common-looking, but clever
flow, who has travelled much, is fond of letting the
iorld know it : he talks about everything and everybody,
vert in the uttermost ends of the earth ; can tell the
price of rough sulphur in Sicily or uncut blubber in the
arctic circle. He began snapping SHAFTESBURY, who can't
stand that sort of thing, and told the amiable earl that but
for his good character he would say that his chimney-
sweep legislation was the pitiful cant of pseudo-philan-
thropy. SHAFTEsnuay winced, and the bill was sent to
the tomb of all the Capulets—a select committee; like a
petition, ordered to lie on the table. What cellars-full of
the people's petitions they have somewhere ; the petitions
never find their way to the cheesernonger's or the trunk-
maker's. It is said they are to be filed and placed in the

baron is

Victoria Tower, or thereabouts. Vain attempt ! It
strikes me they must be burnt on the sly ; perhaps they
light the House of Commons fires with them ; the "man
wot lights the fires" keeps a little buggy, and hasn't smelt
lucifer matches for years; he gets lots of money for his
cinders—they are worth buying ; ANGUS CROLL, good
gasman, and Sheriff of London, would give something for
I hem in the way of business. LEIGH HUNT, with whom
I began, is now iron-gray, enjoying his quiet with his bit
of a pension—£2oo a year; not so bad when we recollect
how he used to snarl at every government in his young
writing days : a wonderful change has come over the crea-
ture within the last two years ; he is now as amiable as
he was heretofore currish,—delightful in all he says and
writes.

To our foreign and country friends now beginning to
visit the metropolis—for the visiting season, like the west
wind and the " sweet south," has really commenced, as
those who live in London know—l could not recommend
a greater treat than a visit to the House of Lords in the
day time, during the hearing of an appeal. Go in and go
tidy, that's all you have to do—nothing to pay; and, for
the foreign visitor, there is a little funny German engaged,
who would make a fortune were he to try monopologue,
, for he can speak any tongue from Tooley-street to Tim-
buctoo, right and left. I think the little varmint is a
German ; he has been everywhere, can describe the place
of one's birth, whether in an obscure nook at the foot of
the Alps, or Grampians, or great Pyramid, Peak of Derby-
shire, or among those sweet roving blades, the " boys of
Kilkenny,"—a song, by the way, which the youth in
question can sing very well. The present Earl of SHAF-
TESBURY'S father, who was long their Lordship? chair-
man of committees, was vexed, good man, to see so many
foreigners come for admission to the House, some of them
offering money,and making themselves but little understood,
ordered that all decently-dressed foreigners should be ad-
mitted during debate without peer's orders; and to aid them
still further the worthy old Earl got the polyglot shepherd,
referred to, always to be in waiting to answer the com-
ment tots porter vous ? of the Frenchman ; the wie be-
finden sie sich ? of the German ; the musical come sta
ella ? of the Italian, and so on, for I believe, if a stinking
Hindoo, in his greasy turban, had presented himself, our
worthy friend, with all befitting courtesy, would have ad-
dressed him, ap ka sni:d kaisa hai The amazement of
these foreigners at this period of the year is not a bit
greater, scarcely less drolly expressed, than by most of our
own country people who visit the gorgeous chamber in
which the peers of England meet. lam now speaking of
it in the day-time, when an appeal, probably, from the
Court of Session is being heard. If one judges of the
litigious character of a people from their number of law-
suits, the Scotch must be the most law-loving people on
the face of the globe. Three-fourths of the appeals heard in
the House of Lords are Scotch, of the remainder a few
are from Ireland, the rest from the LORD-CHANCELLOR'S
own courts. An appeal from PHILIP in Westminster-
hall or Lincoln's Inn to PHILIP in the House of Peers.
An appeal to the House of Lords sounds magnificently ;
it is hollow, meaningless, almost. In such cases, three
peers make a house; one of them, the youngest bishop,
comes for no other purpose—and it is enough—than to
implore Divine Wisdom on their councils. The bishop
may stay, if he like ; most commonly he retires ; that
leaves the house in possession of the CHANCELLOR and
one lord, knowing, perhaps, as much of law as I do of
low Hebrew. The young peer, however, is busy ; he sits
at the table—writes notes—three-cornered several of them,
sonnets to his mistress' eye-brow, or directions about
dinner. Meanwhile old rusty black, in his metallic wig—
for the harsh invention is driving meal from the heads of
the learned in the law—is going on at the bar spinning, far
more ignobly than spider or silkworm, quiditities of no
use except to the owner,—thus Mr. Brief goes on till
within a few minutes of five o'clock, when the pleasing
intimation is given, " Brother 8., we will hear the re-
mainder of the argument next week." Books are bagged,
counsel are off, the CHANCELLOR has doffed his wig to
cool it, and in a twinkling is eating his minced veal with
a glass of sherry to help him. This is in the room, within
a jump of the woolsack, which he must occupy in five or
six minutes. Numbers of Chancellors I have known,
mostly all of them with good teeth, take a mouthful or
two of the article named as dinner when they were
pressed,—l asked the reason—it was because they had not
time to masticate ; I laughed, and said that some of them
ruminated long enough. After the appeal visitors can
walk round and round the house. I assure your readers
it is quite refreshing to see the attention paid to foreigners
and other country people when they visit the upper cham-
ber of the Legislature.

RAILWAY CONIPETITION.-We hear that the London
and North-western and Great-western Railways have or
are likely to come to such terms as may enable them to do
without the Shrewsbury lines.

A PLEDGE.—On Saturday, at half-past nine, a live
female infant, a month old, was left in the shop of Mr.
Siddles, pawnbroker, Brownlow-hill. As this was a pledge
not calculated to return interest, it was at once trans-
ferred to the workhouse.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We understand that Mr.
Percival, who was educated at the Upper School of this
institution, stands first in classics, in the second year, at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and that he has been
elected a scholar.
THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL
STEAM-SHIP CANADA, Stone, commander, took her de-
parture hence for Halifax and Boston shortly after one,
p.m., on Saturday, with the usual mails and a fair com-
plement of passengers.
Mr. C. P. R ,NEY, to whose exertions the success of
the Dublin E chibition may be attributed, will receive
from the I.o:merriment, early in autumn, a well-merited
recognition of the services which he has rendered to
Irctand, and the cause of industrial progress throughout
Great Britain and our colonies. On the occasion of formally
closing the Dublin Industrial Temple, either in October
or November, the Lord-Lieutenant will confer upon him
the honour of knighthood, as an evidence of the high
estimation in which his energetic labours for the benefit
of Ireland and the intellectual advancement of the Irish
people are held by the government. Mr. Roney, we
believe, will sail from Liverpool on Saturday next, by the
steamer for America, to assume his duties as managing
director of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway.

ARRIVAL OF THE SARAH SANDS.—The four-masted
screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, of Liverpool, Commander
Thompson, from Australia and the Cape of Good Hope
for Liverpool, put into Plymouth on Saturday through
stress of weather and want of coal. She left Melbourne
on the 14th of February and arrived at Table Bay on the
31st of March, having nine days previously encountered
severe westerly gales, which detained her at the Cape until
the 10th of April. On her passage from the Cape to Eng-
land she again experienced contrary north-east winds,
which compelled her, on the 18th of May, to put into
Fayal for supplies, whence she sailed on the 20th for
Liverpool. Strong gales from north and west have obliged
her to put into Plymouth for coals to proceed to her des-
tination. The Sarah Sands reports having seen, at four
a.m. on Friday, the 27th, 18 miles off Brest, seven Eng-
lish men-of-war under sail, standing south-west, supposed
to be Admiral Corry's fleet, which left Plymouth on Wed-
nesday. The Sarah Sands has a large number of passen-
gers, there being 300 souls in all on board. Her cargo is
—from Sydney and Melbourne, 80,000 ounces of gold
dust ; and from the Cape, 20,000 ounces in silver.
WRETCHED ECONOMY IN THE POST-OFFlCE.—During
the past week a most distressing affair has occurred in the
Post-office of this town, which has excited the utmost
sympathy from every official connected with the depart-
ment. A poor bag-collector, named Wright, died on
Friday morning under very deplorable circumstances.
He had for some time past been in a very delicate state of
health, and symptoms of a consumptive tendency were
becoming quite palpable. Not long ago he appeared on
duty in a state of intoxication, and, it being the second
offence of the kind, he was reported to the Postmaster-
General, and the result was his lordship ordered two
weeks' wages to be stopped ; but he was to continue to
perform his duties notwithstanding. As a natural conse-
quence, this reduced the poor fellow to abject penury, and
almost literal starvation , and has doubtless'been'the primary
means of bringing him to an untimely end. He has left
three helpless orphans in absolute poverty ; and were it
not for the sympathy of the clerks and letter-carriers, the
parish would have had to consign him to the grave. He
was employed in the Post-office about fifteen years, re-
ceived but Ids. per week, and was only twice reported for
drunkenness. In connection with this, it may not be out
of place to mention that the senior letter-carrier, a man of
irreproachable character, has lately been absent through
sickness nearly three months, and during that time he has
received on an average only about eight shllings per
week ; and had he not been able to resume his duties a
few days ago, even that miserable pittance nuuld ha-re
been withdrawn. His wages are twenty shillings per
week, which is precisely the same amount received by
the man who was appointed but a few weeks since,
although be has been in the service nearly thirty years.
The above are two fair specimens of that wretched eco-
nomy which is obtaining a firmer footing every year in
the Post-office, and which has no parallel in any other
department of the civil service.
THR FIRST VESSEL FROM THE FRESH WATERS OF
CANADA TO ENGLAND.—By the Toronto papers of the
stl. inst., we perceive that a handsome compliment was
paid to Lapt. Govizin. prior to his departure in command
of the Cherokee, to Liverpool. The citizens of Toronto
invited him to dinner, at which the Mayor presided, and
which was attended by a large number of the principal
merchants of the city. A general feeling of respect for
Captain Gaskin appeared to have pervaded the assembly.
He was spoken of in high terms by all the speakers. The
Mayor, in proposing his health, said very few who were
pioneers in any new enterprise, either in this or any other
country, but had lost money. It was their successors
who reaped the benefit of the experience of such pioneers
who, as a general rule, realise the profits ; under these
circumstances Captain Gaskin was entitled to the respect,
sympathy, and support of the merchants of Toronto, as
well as those of Kingston. It was due to any man who
exerted himself to promote the interests of this country,
that he should be encouraged, and every exertion should
be made to promote the interest of Captain Gaskin and
his good ship, the Cherokee. The cheering which fol-
lowed the toast having subsided, Captain Gaskin said he
was a sailor, and could not make a long speech. He had
for ten years hoped to get a vessel to trade between
Toronto and England, and now that his first wish was
gratified, he hoped to see it followed by many others. He
was sorry that he had to go to Oakville for cargo, he had
hoped to have got a cargo in Toronto ; but he would
bring his vessel to Toronto and clear from that port, and
hoped in three months to see them again. Fresh-water
sailor as he was called, he intended to show some of the
fast sailors how to work up the Channel. He was glad,
very glad, to receive this compliment of a public dinner
from the citizens of Toronto. On resuming his seat, the
captain was again greeted with loud bursts of applause.

PERSONAL BEAUTY.—Among the most valuable attri.
butes of Beauty, whether regarded as conducive to manly
purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to Feminine
Loveliness, a Beautiful Set of Teeth must ever rank
amongst the most important elements of a favourable
personal appearance. The embellishment and preserva-
tion of the Teeth and Gums have therefore ever bee❑ re-
garded with peculiar interest ; and among the mass of
preparations suggested for these desirable purposes, we
could particularize " Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl Denti-
frice,' as unrivalled for its excellence in purifying, em-
bellishing, and preserving these important and attractive
objects.—See Advertisement.

PRODUCE.-For Sugar the demand continues
steady, but being fairly met by holders, no change
in prices can be quoted ; the sales consist of 100
hhds. 8.P., 9,500 bags Bengal, and 2,000 mats Mau-
ritius. The transactions in Brazil have been insig-
nificant, but about 500 hhds. Porto Rico and Cuba
Muscovado have been sold. Of Molasses, the sales
are 700 pun., including 600 Barbadoes at 188. to 18s.
3d., and So Trinidad at 16s. 6d. per cwt., for arrival.
Coffee.-The sales comprise 30 tcs. Jamaica, 180
bags ordinary Riu, 30 bags Ceara, and 150 bags St.
Domingo. Rice.-300 tcs. Carolina have been sold,
chiefly at 245. 6d. to 245. 9d., and 3,000 bags Ben-
gal, at 10s. 9d. to lls. 6d., being rather dearer, and
one cargo of Arracan, to arrive, at gs. 6d. per cwt.
Rum.-The business is 100 puns., at the full rates
of last week. The market for Tea has not been so
active, but prices are maintained. The accounts
from China may probably give a further stimulus to
the demand. In Saltpetre, only a small parcel sold,
without change. In Guano, a good business has
been done at the quotations. The demand for Ame-
rican Rosin is extensive ; 3,500 brls. sold at 4s. 6d.
for common, to 10s. 6d. per cwt. for fine quality.
Of Hides, a few salted Buenos Ayres Horse have
been sold at 7s. each. For Olive Oil the demand
is nearly suspended, and for the few sales made a
slight decline has been accepted. Seal and Cod Oil
are in limited request, without change in price.
Small sales of Linseed Oil are reported at 2Ss. 6d.
per cwt., and pale Rape at 355. 6d. Spirits of
Turpentine are in fair demand at 18s. per cwt.
There continues a limited demand for Palm Oil,
but the price is steady at £35 per ton, at which
about 150 tons on the spot, and 250 tons to arrive,
have been sold. The Tallow market is steady at
475. 6d. to 48s. for Petersburg Y.C. ; 100 hhds.
North American sold at 47's. 6d., and about 200
pipes South American at 455. to 47's. per cwt.
American Lard is dull of sale. Nothing worthy of
notice has taken place in Baltic Hemp. The sales
of Jute have been at prices in favour of the buyer,
and only 400 bales taken at £lB to £2l for good
common to very good, being adecline of 10s. per ton.
TO-DAY the Sugar market is without change, the
transactions since Friday consisting of 170 hhds.
Barbadoes at 345. to 38s. 6d., with 1,200 bags mid-
dling white Benares at 365. 6d. to 375. per cwt.
'!'here is nothing to notice in Molasses, Rum, or
Cofiee. The Tea market is quiet. Of Jute 2,000
bales have been sold to arrive, but the price has
not transpired. 200 bags Sago Flour have realised
20s. per cwt.

WooL.—There is nothing new to report in this
article. Business here is not so animated, and in
the absence of any particular transaction prices
may be considered nominal, yet holders are firm.
In the manufacturing districts prices are a little
easier. The attention of the trade is chiefly occu-
.

pied with the public sales in London, which are

progressing steadily, with a full average attendance
of the trade. Any great amount of activity
cannot be looked for until the close of thi sseries,
which is expected in about a week. Public sales
are fixed here for the 9th and 10th of June, when
about 2,000 bales Buenos Ayres, and 2,000 East
India, Turkey, and other descriptions will be
offered. Imports for the week, 1,049 bales, viz :-
467 Buenos Ayres, 221 Mediterranean ports, 248
Portugal, 61 Irish, 48 Coastwise, and 4 sundries.

GRAND CRICKET MATCH.- LIVERPOOL
OLYMPUS v. ALL ENGLAND.

Yesterday, a match between twenty of the Liverpool
Olympus Club (with Crossland and Armitage given in),
and eleven of All England, was commenced on the ground
of the Olympus, in Prince's Park:
The earlier part of the day being unfavourable, there
was some delay in commencing the play. Notwithstand-
ing the somewhat unpropitious state of the weather, there
was a numerous and highly respectable body of spectators
present. All England having won the toss, went in first
to the bowling of Crossland and Armitage, and, after
some splendid batting, the last wicket was bowled for a
score of 127, out of which, it will be seen from the sub-
joined particulars, that Cwsar obtained 44 runs and An-
derson 26. The bowling of both Crossland and Armitage
was much admired. Liverpool then went in for their first
innings, and when time was called (at seven o'clock), two
wickets only had been lowered for 17 runs, leaving IS to
go in in addition to Gardner and Clare, who had posses-
sion of the bat when time was called. The following is
the score : -
ENGLAND. FIRST INNINGS.
Arnold C Armitage, b Crossland.... 2
Caesar
Caffyn c Lee, b Paget ll
Parr c Paget, b Armitage lB
Guy c Paget, b Crossland 4
Box
Anderson
S. Parr Hurt
A. Mynn, Esq... ... Not out
Clarke c Armitage, b Crossland.... 2
Diver
b I, 1 b 2, sv 2, n b

LIVERPOOL. FIRST INNIINTOS
J. Fairclough h Arnold
J. Lee
P. Gardner ... Not out
W. Clare Not out

HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
—The eighth ordinary meeting of the session will be held
in the board-room of the Collegiate Institution, Liver-
pool, on Thursday next, at seven o'clock in the evening.:

COLLECTION.—On Sunday the sum of £lB 14s. was
collected at St. John's church, Liscard, after a sermon
on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev.
W. Rawson, M.A., of Seaforth.
SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—At the Police-court, yesterday,
a man named Alexander Coombe, was placed before the
magistrates charged with smuggling slbs. of tobacco from
a vessel in the Waterloo Dock. The officer stated that
on Saturday night he met the prisoner coming out of the
Waterloo Dock, and, on :examination, found him in pos-
session of the above-named quantity of tobacco. Part of
it was concealed about his person, and the other in a box
containing a false bottom.—The defendant was fined £5
and costs, and in default of payment, one month's im-
prisonment.
THE MILITIA.—The following commissions have been
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of
Lancaster :-Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's
Own Militia : Lieut. J. Kirkes to be Captain, vice Parker,
resigned ; Ensign A. W. Munro, to be Lieut., vice Cary,
promoted ; Ensign C. E. Knowlys, to be Lieut., vice
Hansard, promoted ; Ensign G. Robinson, to be Lieut.,
vice Oughton, resigned ; Ensign J. W. Whitle, to be
Lieut., vice Brown, who exchanges ; Ensign I. S. A.
Herford. to be Lieut., vice 'Marshall, who resigns.-2d
Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's own Militia : W.
H. Manifold, Gent., to be Ensign and Assistant-Surgeon.
—3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia :
Lieut. J. Bayly, to be Captain.-sth Regiment of Royal
Lancashire Militia : R. Lomax, Gent., to be Ensign.—
Artillery Corps of the Royal Lancashire Militia : G.
Hall, Esq., late Capt. and Brevet Major of Artillery, in
the Hon. East India Company's Service, to be Captain,
with Brevet Rank of Major ; J. Hay, Esq., late 15th
Foot, to be Captain ; W. G. Furnivall, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—A paragraph in to-day's Albion having appeared,
stating that a firm, named " Taylor and C 0.," have ab-
sconded, and the police are after them, you will oblige by
inserting in your paper to-morrow, the fact, that our con-
cern has been established thirty years in Liverpool as
Printers and Stationers, and that we have no connexion,
either directly or indirectly, with the missing firm in
question ; such a statement, unless contradicted, being
calculated to do us a serious injury.
We are, Sir,
Yours respectfully,
T. TAYLOR and CO.
37, Dale-street.
Monday Evening, May 30, 1833.

A MONSTER SALMON.—The largest fish of the above
description captured for many years past out of the waters
of the United Kingdom was taken a few days since from
the River Tay, on the estate of Lord Gray. This prodi-
gious prize weighed 59 pounds, being three feet nine
inches in length, and one foot in diameter across the
shoulders.—Kelso Chronicle.

REPORTED REINFORCEMENTS TO THE MEDITERRA-
NEAN.—It is not true, as reported, that Vice-admiral
Deans Dundas's fleet will be reinforced by the 25th. It
is a matter of impossibility, for the only ships available
for reinforcement to the Mediterranean fleet are not yet
out of the channel. The force under the gallant admiral's
command at present is—Britannia, 120 guns, 1,000 men ;
Trafalgar, 120 guns, 960 men ; Albion, 90 guns, 820 men ;
Rodney, 90 guns, 820 men ; Vengeance, 84 guns, 750
men ; Bellerophon, 78 guns, 650 men ; Arethusa, 50 guns,
500 men ; with as many steamers, including a screw-
sloop.
CONVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN IRELAND.—The
recent proceedings in both houses of Parliament with
respect to the necessity of legislative interposition in the
case of conventual establishments have disturbed the tem-
porary repose of the heads of the Roman Church in Ire-
land. The Ultramontane organs of Dublin publish a
" pastoral" from the pen of Archbishop Cullen to the
clergy and laity of that city, " on the attempts now being
made to interfere, by legislation, with the rights and inde-
pendence of Catholic convents." He defends the nun-
neries and their inmates from the charges brought against
them, and enters into an elaborate vindication of the rules
and observances in those establishments.
MINERAL WEALTH OF IRELAND.—An extensive and
very valuable copper mine was discovered some time since
on the estate of Mr. Arthur Guinness, late Lord Mayor of
Dublin, in the vicinity of Cong, county of Mayo. The
mine has been leased to the Mining Company of Ireland,
who are already working it with energy. The copper lode
is described as one of the richest and most productive in
the United Kingdom, and it promises to become a source
of wealth to the company as well as the landlord. This
property was purchased in the Encumbered Estates Court
last year by Mr. Guinness, who has since effected great
improvements, and built a fine residence on the estate.
ANCIENT STONE COFFIN.—On Tuesday, while some
workmen were excavating some ground in Haydon-square,
Minories, they came upon a stone coffin at a considerable
depth below the !surface. It was fivefeet in 'length by
two feet one inch in width, and 20 inches deep. The outer
coffin of stone inclosed an inner one of lead, which con-
tained dust and the upper part of a skeleton of a human
being, supposed to be that of a female, and about four
feet nine inches in length. The body is conjectured to
have lain there for several centuries past. especially as on
the ground where the discovery was made the monastery
of St. Clair formerly stood, but has been removed up-
wards of 400 years. It is said that on the very spot that
portion of the monastery denominated " The priory for
minor nuns" stood, from which the minories derived its
name.

AN OLD BATH El,Vvvvozr. mr. tiarrington, who sat
to roe Long Parliament, 1640, has left a singular diary of
his personal canvass among the electors of Bath :—" Sa-
turday, December 26. Went to Bath, and dined with the
mayor and citizens, conferred about my election to serve
in parliament, as my father was helpless and ill able to
go any more. Went to the George Inn at night, met the
bailiffs and desired to be dismissed from serving ; drank
strong beer and metheglin ; expended about 35., went
home late at night, but got excused, they entertaining a
good opinion of my father.—Thursday, 31. Dined at the
George Inn with the mayor and four citizens, spent at
dinner 6s. in wine. Laid out in victuals at the George
Inn, lls. 4d., laid out in drinking 75., laid out in tobacco
and drinking vessels 3s. 4d.—January 1. My father gave
me £4 to bear my expenses at Bath. Laid out in all Ss.
for victuals, drink, and horse hire, together with divers
gifts."— Willis's Notes.
EXPLOSION.—An explosion of a most alarming charac-
ter took place in the vicinity of Louth on Thursday
morning, which resulted in the death of a Mr. John
Matthew Barnett, a young operative chemist, and manu-
facturer of an improved fog signal for railways. His
factory was in Maiden-row, and it appears that he had
received an order from the Yorkshire and Lancashire
Railway Company for several gross of " Nelthorpe and
Barnett's fog-signals." He proceeded to the shed, and
having filled some fifty of them, he went to breakfast.
Shortly after his return the explosion took placa. The
factory was blown up, and the fragments hurled in all
directions, and the unfortunate deceased was discovered in
a frightfully mutilated state. He was heard just to articu-
late, " Oh, take me away. Lord have mercy on me ! Oh,
take me away !" but his sufferings were speedily termina-
ted, as in a few minutes he expired. At the coroner's
inquest, a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned by
the jury.
MOVING TABLES.—A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, who is described by the editor as a person who
stands second to no individual in that city in point of
social posftion, intelligence, and personal honour, says :
" I, with three others, utterly disbelieving the reports
about moving tables, tried the experiment. A common
painted small tea-table, having one stem and three feet,
was placed on an oilcloth, on which also our chairs were
placed. We sat placing the palms of our hands flat on
the table, near the edge, each person joining the tips of
his own thumbs, and also joining the tips of his little
fingers with those of his neighbours, thus forming a circle
round the table. In fifteen minutes there was a move-
ment of the table from right to left, which continued
until we were obliged to leave our seats to follow our
hands, which wore kept fixed on the table. The motion
increased in rapidity, and we became both dizzy from
moving round, and tired with the circular length of our
walk, or rather run. I tried to stop the table by pressing
very heavily, and succeeded. It would not go on again,
and it was some time before we discovered that the jerk
of stoppage had disunited two little fingers. In a minute
after these were rejoined, and the table re-commenced
its rapid motion. We then agreed to wish the table to
turn round the opposite way, and it did."

MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

TURKEY.—No later authentic news. The general im-
pression is that peace will not be disturbed.

WEST INDIA MAIL,

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 30.—The La Plata steam-ship
arrived at Southampton this morning, with the West In-
dian and Mexican mails. She brings $139,000, of which
$7,526 are on account of Mexican dividends. Dates :
Jamaica, 12th ; Barbados, 13th ; Vera Cruz, sth ; St.
Thomas, 17th instant.

JAMAICA.—Th 6 general health of the country was
much the same as by last accounts. There were a few
fatal cases of yellow fever. The weather was extremely
sultry, and much more rain was wanted. Some com-
plaints from the agricultural districts.
Barbadoes was healthy.
At Dominica the troops were being moved higher up
the mountains, the town being sickly.
At St. Thomas several cases of fever, but principally
amongst coal ships.