The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

ALTERATION OF TIME

The GENERAL CHASSE, to Carnarvon and Bangor,
will in future leave at Seven o'clock instead of Six, as here-
tofore, through Holywell, St. Asaph, Abergele, to the Albion
Hotel, Bangor, by Three o'clock, and Sportsman Hotel,
Carnarvon, at Four o'clock. Performs the journey from
Liverpool to Bangor and Carnarvon in One Hour less time
than any other Conveyance.

1. CHELTENHAM.—The HIRONDELLE, well-
known fast and splendid Coach, every Morning at Eight
o'clock (Sundays excepted), . through Chester, Wrexham,
Overton, Ellesmere, Salop, Iron-bridge, Bridgnorth, Kid-
derminster, Worcester, and Tewksbury, to the Plough Ho-
tried out of curiosity, I tel, by Eight o'clock the same Evening, from whence

Notwithstanding the sys-

his vast metropolis, we

the distinction of being

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Coaches proceed to Bath, Bristol,. Southampton, Exeter,
and all parts of the West of England.
2. HEREFORD, LUDLOW, and LEOMINSTER.—
A new Coach. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Morning, at Eight o'clock, via Shrewsbury and Church Stret-
ton to the City Arms Hotel, Hereford, by Eight o'clock,
from whence Coaches proceed to Monmouth, Chepstow,
Cardiff, Swansea,,and all parts of South •-

3. CARNARVON and BANGOR.—The GENERAL
CHASSE, splendid fast patent safety Coach, every Morning
(Sunday excepted) at Seven o'clock, via Chester, Hawarden,
Holywell, St. Asaph, Abergele, and Conway, to the Albion
Hotel, Bangor, at Three, and the Sportsman's Hotel, Car-
narvon, at Four o'clock.
4. NEWTOWN and WELSHPOOL.--The ROYAL
OAK, old-established and favourite fast Coach, every Tues-
day, Thursday. and Saturday Mornings, at Eight o'clock,
via Chester, Wrexham, Ruabon, Chirk, and Oswestry, to
the Royal Oak Inn, Welshpool, by Three o'clock, and the
Bear's Head Inn, Newtown, by Half-past Four o'clock;
returns the alternate days.

JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET,

SATURDAY EVENING.—The funds are still of the improv-
ing order, and consols for the opening were S 9 to Bank
stock 157 to 8.- Exchequer bills 4s to Gs premium.

In foreign stocks the variations have been unimportant.
Spanish Active with the Coupons were 25 to *. Portuguese
Two-and-a-half per Cents. (commonly called Fives) 32 to
the One-and-a-Half per Cents. (commonly called Threes) 20
to 3ex a div. of 4. a div. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were 491 to jex div., the Five per Cents. 97 to 1. Belgian
97 to B. Brazilian 794 to Mexican 281 to 9+. Colom-

bian 23i to

The attention of smaller capitalists in the way of invest-
ment is still directed to railway shares. London and Bir-
mingham were 82 to 4, Great Western 261 to 71, the half
shares 19 to 13, Gosport 6 to 7 premium, South Western 57
to 8 per share. South Eastern and Dover 161 to la, North
Midland 21 to 19, Brighton V} to A, Blackwall 4A to 4 disct.

W4LSALL ELECTION

MR. JOHN HENJAMIN

success in
driving the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, the whig-candidate, from
the field, Messrs. Rawson, Prentice, and Acland, the emis-
saries of the anti-corn-law league, have, in imitation of the
three Tooley-street tailors, been amusing the good people of
Walsall, during the past week, by their electioneering antics,
publishing manifestoes in the name and on behalf of " the

MITR, OF MA

DATE FOIL WALSALL

lESTER, CANDI-

BIRMINGHAM

Ir. Forster, jun. havin
3e itineran'

g declined to act as the puppet of

itators, one of them, Mr. Archibald Pren-
tice, was sent off to Manchester to fetch a candidate from
thence—every respectable man in Walsall, rejoicing in the
name of liberal or radical, having in vain been solicited to
come forward. During his absence, Mr. Acland (another
.1 I • I .•

-corn men), pu

forth an address to the elec-
tors, as pub;ished in Saturday's Herald, informing them that,
should his colleague, Mr. Prentice, not succeed in search of
a candidate, he (Mr. Acland!), rather than that the cotton
cause should suffer, would offer himself as their candidate;.
and, in order to keep up the excitement, he forthwith com-

menced a system of.speechifying in public streets, with
the view of enlightening the people on the subject of " the
bread tax," during which every clap-trap was had recourse
to for the purpose of exciting a laugh or a cheer. This
course of proceeding, accompanied with the most foul-
mouthed abuse of Mr. Gladstone and his conservative friends,
continued up to Saturday morning, when Mr. Prentice
returned from Manchester, bringing wilh him " John Ben-
jamin Smith, Esq., one of her Majesty's justices of the
peace, chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,•
and president of the national anti-corn-law league."
A meeting was' forthwith called by the anti-corn law de-
puties, for halt-past one o'clock, for the purpose of intro-
ducing the last new candidate; labelled as above. The Dragon
Inn, at which the deputies, with the candidate elect, have
put up, for very prudent reasons, being in the centre of the
market, a crowd was speedily collected, when Mr. Acland
presented himself at the window, mounted on a stool, and
informed the meeting that Dr. Bowring, who had been in-
vited to stand by " the league," had declined the honour, on
the plea that he was engaged for another borough, and he

therefore had the pleasure of introducing to their notice his
worthy friend and employer, John B. Smith, Esq., president
of the league, for whom he endeavoured to get up three cheers.
Mr. Acland hoped the electors would not be influenced by a
set of monopolists " to vote against their conscience," as he
bad been informed that a certain tory banker in this town
(alluding to•PMIr. Forster, the late conservative representative)
had refused to discount a bill of £2O for a regular customer,
because he would not promise to vote for the tory candidate.
Mr. Forster, who fortunately was passing along the street
at this moment, heard with no little indignation this bare-
faced and most unfounded assertion, and he immediately beg-
ged to be heard in reply. The moment Mr. Forster was re-
cognised by the crowd he was heartily cheered, and a way
being instantly opened in front of his traducer, he asked Mr.
Arland on whose authority he made the statement he had
just heard him utter?
Mr. Acland declined to give his authority! for which he
was assailed with hisses and other marks of disapprobation
by the crowd.

Mr. Forster then observed, that as he was plainly referred
to by Mr. Acland, he begged to assure the meeting, that
there was no truth whatever in the statement ; and, further,
that he had not, nor did he intend to exercise the slightest
undue or unworthy influence v. ith any of the electors during
the present contest.

This manly declaration was received with loud applause,
and Mr. Acland skulked out of the way, saying that he would
make further inquiry into the circumstance, and would be
more careful what statements he made for the fliture.

Mr. Smith, of Manchester, afterwards came forward, and
addressed the meeting, declaring that he would not leave
Walsall until he had given every elector an opportunity of
recording his vote. Mr. Smith proceeded to explain his
principles and his views on the subject of the corn laws ; but
it is unnecessary to follow him throughout the details of his
political creed, which are in substance similar to those con-
tained in his published address to the electors which he issued
yesterday evening.

As a specimen of the means resorted to by Messrs. Acland
and Co. to accomplish their object, they have given notice
of their intention to have a Bible placed on a table in the
market place, in which the people are to be shown the various
passages of Scripture wherein, as he impiously asserts, the
Word of God denounces all taxes on food and corn. In ad-
dition to this, he has publicly threatened to publish the names
of those electors who may vote against Mr. Smith.
Last night the new candidate and his anti:corn-law coad-
jutors again addressed the people from the front of the Green
Dragon, the great drift of the speakers evidently being to
convince the electors that there was to be " no mistake" with
the present candidate, who himself repeatedly assured the
crowd that he would poll to the last man. In the mean time
there are rumours afloat that the London Reform Club, sorely
vexed at the stupid interference of the anti-corn-law dele-
gates, who have marred their hopes of securing the return of
a " liberal" representative, intend to try the forlorn hope of
sending a ministerial candidate into the field in order to see

what can be done in the way of compromise with the mar-
plots who have inilicted so much mischief on their cause.

Mr. Gladstone has been nobly supported by the conserva-
tive electors of Walsall during his canvass. Intending to re-
join his family, from whom he was called rather suddenly, he
will leave Walsall in a few days ; but his absence will be
brief, as he is well aware that the opponents with whom he
has to deal are not very scrupulous as to the means they use
in turning circumstances to their advantage. The following
address, which he published late last night, will be read with
no small gratification by his conservative friends and well-
wishers throughout the country. Although there are many
" turns " in the " tide " of electioneering affairs, there is, in
the present contest, little doubt of his success.

`! TO THE ELECTORS OF WALSALL

" Gentlemen,--Having now completed my canvass, allow
me to offer you my most grateful thanks for the uniform kind-
ness and civility which I have experienced from all, and the
positive promises of support which I have received from a
large majority of electorS, placing beyond doubt the certainty

honest, representative of those loyal conservative principles;
which I rejoice to find have
taken suchileep root in your bo-
rough, and are rapidly extending themselves.
" It has been my desire to wait personally on every elector.
Should I in any case not have done so, I hope the omission
will be attributed to an accidental and not to any other cause.
" You are no doubt aware that hired itinerants have been
sent here from Manchester to dictate to you the choice of a
candidate ; they have commenced a system of agitation to-
tally regardless of the peace and comfort of the inhabitants;
vainly hoping, by partial and gross misstatements, most un-
warranted quotations from the Holy Bible, and unprovoked
vulgar personal abuse of myself, to induce you to break your
promises, and thus promote the return of a candidate
pledged to vote for the total repeal of the corn laws ; the
effect of which, you may rest assured, whatever it may be
elsewhere, cannot be otherwise than most ruinous to Wal-
sall, involved, as its interests are, in the prosperity of the
home trade, of which the landed proprietors, and the nume-
rous classes employed in agriculture, form so great a pro-
portion. _ _

" I feel, however, the most perfect confidence that the
good sense and right feeling of the electors and inhabitants
of Walsall will insure a signal failure to the efforts of these
dictators, in their attempt to create between landlord
and tenant, employer and operative, and to poison the minds
of the labouring classes of the community.

" I shall remain in town fora few day's, for the purpose of
again calling upon those electors whom I have not yet had
the pleasure of finding at home ; when I shall rejoin my fa-
mily, and be ready, at the shortest notice, to repair here
whenever my friends may deem it desirable ; and on the day
of election shall proceed to the poll in the fullest assurance of
their efforts being crowned with success.—l have the honour
to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" Walsall, Jan. 2, 1841." " J. N. GLADSTONE.

The Bank of England stands in four parishes ; to the
poor of each it presented on Wednesday £lOO.
PORTSMOUTH.—The steam-vessel Avon, Lieut. Pritchard,
has passed on to Sheerness from Plymouth, with men for the
Monarch, 84, and Vernon, 50, at Sheerness. The Incon-
stant, 36, Captain Pring, has arrived at Plymouth from Cork,
with volunteer seamen for general service. Ths Vindictive,
a fine frigate, to mount upwards of 50 guns, is preparing here
with every despatch for commission; and at Plymouth also
are two more of the same class bringing forward, namely,
the Portland, 50. and the America, 50. The greatest dis-
patch is used here in the equipment of the St. Vincent, 120,
a three-decker of the largest class ; she is getting rigged, and
otherwise fitting for sea. The pendant will be hoisted in
about a month. The Vengeance, 84, is in the basin, rigged
and masted, and only waiting orders for commission. The
Driver, a new steam-ship recently launched here, is in dock
preparing for immediate commission. She is intended for
the Mediterranean. The Impregnable, 104, Captain Thomas
Forrest, C. 8., and Belleisle, 78, Captain Toup Nicolas, are
in Plymouth Sound, where they will complete their crews
and sea stores. They will not proceed to the Mediterranean,
however, for some time. The Indus, 84, Captain Sir James
Stirling, and Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, are alongside
their respective hulks, fitting out. Both ships will be ready
for sea about the 25th of January. The above are the only
ships equipping here, but orders are daily looked for to com-
mission several more. The steam firigate Phoenix is rapidly
refitting in the harbour, to return to the Mediterranean.
There is no commander yet appointed to her. It is expected
that she will proceed about the sth of January. The Apollo
and Athol, troop-ships, are nearly ready for sea. They will
go to Cork to transfer troops, the 42d regiment, thence to
the lonian Islands. The Neptune, 120, is to be overhauled
at this port for commission, if necessary.—Brighton Gazette.

GUIANA BOUNDARY EXPEDITION.—An expedition has
this week left this country for Guiana to explore and settle
the boundaries of that important colony.—ln order to fully
understand the objects of the expedition, it is necessary to
state the position in which this country stands in reference
to our possessions in South America. The present colony of
British Guiana was conquered from the Dutch, and ceded to
Great Britain by the treaty of Paris. This. country, there-
fore, is entitled to the same extent of territory as was pos-
sessed by the Dutch; and, as far as the Dutch outposts and
^ns extended, Greif Britain claims the right to ex-
•• There • d • t 7

nad never been any .reaty
between Portugal, Spain, and Holland when in possession of
this part of South America, in regard to their respective
boundaries; and, as far as these powers are concerned, they
are, therefore, undetermined. The Brazilian government,
however, which is always grasping, has lately laid claim to a
large, portion of the country el.-'

by, and hitherto sup-
posed to belong to, Great Britain. They have encroached
largely on the south-western boundary of the colony ; and
so barefaced have been their proceedings, that they have
even ventured to seize upon Pirara, a village in which En-
glish colobists were settled as early as 1811, and where, as
late as the year 1838, a missionary of the established church
founded a protestant mission. This village has recently been
taken possession of by a detachment of the Brazilian militia,
and the mission dispersed. A second attempt of the mis-
sionary to found a mission, further eastward, on the right
bank of the Russunasie, met with a similar fate. The Bra-
zilians have also, for some time, pursued an atrocious sys-
tem of making predatory incursions into the country,
where they surprise the Indian villages by night, set fire to

'KU. THI

NDER STORM IN LONDON

(From the Morning Herald of yesterday.)

SPITALFIELDS CHURCH STRUCK WITH LIGHTNINC
AND MUCH DAMAGED.—Yesterday morning at half-past
o'clock, during the violence of the thunder-storm, a larg
body of electric fluid struck the beautiful spire of Spitalfleld
Church, about 20 feet from the top, and descending, did
good deal of mischief. The shock was very considerablt
and terrified many of the inhabitants of tbe neip,hbourbooc

were found strewed about in different directions, some as fa

as ten feet from the building. Had not the spire itself beet
of immense strength, it must haie yielded to the shuck, anc
been dashed to pieces. Fortunately no persons were passini
at the me as the violence of the storm was such, that m
personvould venture out, and thus no injury to human lift
has taken place. The, large clock in front of the spire was Sc

the
injured by lightning that it instantly stopped, and such i
the damage done to the steeple that the Rev. Mr. Stone, tb
rector, and the churchwardens, did not deem:it advisable t
ring the bells, or open the porch or western entrances durini
the day ; and those of the parishioners who attended divin

. ,
service in the body of the church, which isnot at all injured,
*ere admitted at the northern entrance in Church-street.
The lightning during the storm, which at this period of the
year iu the metropolis is almost unprecedented, was in the
whole of this neighbourhood (Spitalfields) most awful, so
that it is much feared that considerable damage has taken
place.

STREATHAM CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—TOTAL
DESTRUCTION OF THE SPIRE. Yesterday morning, be-
tween six and seven o'clock, the inhabitants of Streatham,
Surrey, were thrown into the utmost consternation and
alarm, in consequence of discovering that the spire of the
church was in flames, it having been struck by lightning.
An alarm was instantly given, and the parish engines were
soon on the spot : but there was not a sufficient quantity:of,
hose to reach the flames. In the meantime a mountede x.
press had been sent to London for the engines, and in an
incredible short time, the one from the Waterloo-road station,
under the direction of Hamilton, the engineer, was on the
spot, and the own instantly got to work. In a very short

time, the engines from Souihwark-bridge-road, Watling-
street, and Morgan's-lane, arrived, and with the united aid
of the firemen (to whom the greatest praise is due), the clock
and the fine peal of bells were saved from. destruction, but
the spire is totally destroyed. The loss will fall on the
Union fire-office. The curate and churchwardens were on
the spot, and expressed the greatest apprehension for . the.
safety of the bells. The ringers, as soon as they were allowed
by „the firemen (the water wetting them through to the skin),
rang a merry peal, to the great satisfaction of the, inhabitants.
But for the timely arrival of the first London engine, the
whole of the sacred edifice must have been destroyed. _

THUNDER-STORM.—Yesterday morning, shortly after four
o'clock, the town of Greenwich and its vicinity were visited
by one of the most awful thunder thunder-storms, accompa-
nied with continued lightning of the inost vivid appearance,
ever remembered in this locality. It-was followed by a long-
continued and heavy fall of hail, which has done considera-
ble damage to the glass of the numerous market-gardens in
the neighbourhood. It continued with unabated violence till
six o'clock; and from that hour its fury was lessened until
seven o'clock, when it entirely ceased.
THE THUNDER-STORM ON THE RIVER.—(From a Cor-
respondent.)—The dreadful " war of elements" yesterday
morning was awfully grand on the bosom of " Old Father
Thames." Several vessels were coming'up the river with the
flood tide at the time ; and the vivid flashes of lightning,
illumining and darkening their sails, followed by the loud
peals of thunder, rendered the scene not an imperfect repre-
sentation of a naval engagement. The crews of several ves-
sels lying off the Tower, on being aroused from their slum-
bers, were in the greatest state of trepidation imaginable—
they actually believing that the garrison had commenced a
cannonading upon them. The shipping on the river did not
sustain any damage from the electric fluid.

(Fronz our own Correspondent.)
On Snnday morning, about five o'clock, the neighboUrhood
of the metropolis was visited with the most awful storm of
thunder and lightning which it has ever been our fortune to
witness, and which we fear has been attended with most de-
structive effects. Our first intimation of its presence was by,
being roused from sleep by a sudden glare of light within our
bedroom, which was succeeded by a roll of thunder, so unlike
anything which we have hitherto been accustomed to desig-
nate by that name, that at first and for some time during its
countinuance we could scarcely brinz ourselves to believe
that it was indeed that awful phenomenon which was sound-
ing upon our ear. It was not the sharp. crash distinctly re-
verbrated until it dies away in a low rumbling sound in the
distance, and which Maturin has fancifully compared to "the
trampling of mailed steeds upon a rocky pavement," but a
continuous roar as of a thousand pieces of artillery, discharged
so quickly in succession as to produce but one prolonged re-
port. For five minutes, at the least, we should imagine this
terrific peal poured itself out over the multitudinous streets
of the silent metropolis, mingled with the hissing sound of a
shower of hail and sleet which dashed against the windows
and streamed down the roofs of the houses, until another
flash, more vivid if possible than the first, seemed for a mo-
ment to awe even the very elements into silence.
We could imagine the impression produced by the sudden
bursting of a Congreve rocket into a dungeon cell, whose
occupant had languished in darkness until even the light of
his gaoler's flickering lamp dazzled his enfeebled vision ; and
the glare of that flash was more overpowering than could be
produced by such an explosion ; whilst the darkness which
succeeded was even denser than " dungeon darkness."
Possibly the latter might be the result of a nervous affection,
for we admit that for some seconds afterwards we were
completely blinded, and the same effect was produced upon
every individual with whom we have conversed upon the
subject. The thunder which almost immediately followed,
was nearer and louder than the first peal ; and as flash suc-
ceeded flash, and one report chased another, we were glad to
close our eyes and to stop our ears, in the vain hope of
shutting out their overpowering and frightful magnificence,
[Our correspondent then adds some further particulars
which will be found above.]