The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Portafoglio, a Malta journal, announces the disap-
pearance of Al: Giovanni Serin, director of the Branch
Bank at Bologna, leaving a deficit of• 500,000 crowns.
We are informed that Mr. Kean when in Leeds, remitted
£lOO to the performers at the English Opera. Manse in Lon-
dob, who we believe; were in great -distress at the time.—
Leeds Intelliilencer.
CHILD BURNT.—On Wednesday, James Platt, a child
aged six years, was burnt to death in Mersey-street, Warring-
ton. His clothes had. ignited by being suffered to stand too
near the fire,

Dr, Babingten was once in. attendance on an Irishman,

exclaimed with great naivete, My dear doctor, it's no use
your giving me an emetic; I tried it twice in Dublin, and it
would not stay upon my stomach either time."
A cluster of hazel nuts was last week plucked from its
parent stem in a wood near Urswick, in Furness, which con-
tained the astonishing number of thirty-four, all of tolerable
size, and each containing a good kernel.
On Wednesday,.the .Mayor and magistrates of Clonmel
sentenced sixteen sh••emakeis to six weeks' hard labour in
the 1-louse of Correction, for combination against their em-
ployers, which proceed to threats and menaces. •
The ships of all nations that passed the Sound in the month
of August, 1835, were from the North Sea, 1136; from the
Baltic, 1199; total, '2335. Of those from the North Sea,
398 were English, and from the Baltic 332—total English, 730.
Sir Robert Peel has' been mentioned as one of the most
probable successors of the Duke of Sussex to the chair of
the Royal Society, should Sir John Herschel persist in
declining the honourable post.

Private carriages, even with patent axletrees, are found,
it is said, to have been injured by the violent motion they
are subject to whilst fixed to railways. This, perhaps, might
be obviated by their beint, either swung or placed upon a
kind of spring.

JOSEPH A UY. AT, RF.OLCED CHARGES.—Mr. J. Colson, at
the Coburg Inn, has this week been favoured by Ad) tri.th
one of his offers of information of something to his advantage
upon - receiving a remittance—not £1 as of old—but for ss.
only !—Hampshire Advertiser.
CAUTION To SPORTSNIEN.—It appears, from a recent
opinion delivered by the Judges, that any person joining a
pack of hounds as a spectator, even though he were invited,
is liable to a supplemental charge of £3 135.. 6d, fur a game
certificate.—G/Cucester Paper.
We understand that early in the ensuing month the cele-
brated Jim Crow Rice, Frank Johnson, and the Avon orator,
George Jones, sailed together fur Europe. Jim goes to jump,
Frank goes to fiddle, and George to learn to dance. "Go it,
ye cripples !"—Heir York Herald.

MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SHOM—At the exhibition
on Tuesday last, there was a beast, the property of Mr. Jas.
Barratt, of Lyin, Cheshire, which .for syminetry, weight,
and fatness, excited universal admiration. It weighed 260
stone. The owner was offered £45 for the animal, but re-
fused it.

SINGULAR PRANKS of A MANIAC.-011 Tuesday after-
noon a poor fellow, who had come from Darwen, went to the
Bridge inn, and by his manners soon manifested that he was
not in his right senses. After remaining for a little time in
the lobby, he proceeded to a stable, where he undressed him-
self and put his clothes into a tub, covering them with dung,
and swearing that two devils were in them. After securing
the fiends he rejoiced much, and gave some money to a lad to
purchase him a great coat, declaring that be would never
resume his garments. lie then carried on a sort of conver-
sation with the devils in the tub, with reference to their
choice of liquors, asking them if they would have ale or gin,
and the latter being preferred, he ordered two glasses of that
cordial for them. An officer, being informed of the circum-
stance, soon arrived, and secured him, the poor madman in-
sisting that the tub containing the devils, whom he called by
name, should accompany him. The tub, accordingly, was
rolled before him in order to soothe him, and he was con-
veyed in custody to a place near-by. We have not heard
what became of him since, but we hope he was forwarded to
his friends in Darwen.—Bolton Chronicle.

Tun JOINT-STOCK BANKS. —lt will be remembered by
most of our readers, that, on the occasion of passing the Tem-
por• • Joint Stock Tem-
porary Bank Bill at the close of last session, the
Chancellor of the. Exchequer expressed his intention to bring
the subject of joint-stock banking under the consideration of
the house of commons in the next session, with the view of
passing a permanent law for its better regulation. It is to
be hoped that this important question will meet with the
most ample discussion, and that a measure may pass the le-
gislature, which will place the 'joint-stock banking system
upon a much sounder footing, and one that will increase the
security of those who transact their business with them. We
find that this intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has created much interest amongst all classes of bankers,-
particularly joint-stock hanks; and, in consequence, Mr.
Blewitt, M.P. for Monmouth, and a director of the Monmouth
and Glamorgan joint-stock bank, which was established
under the provisions of the act, 7th George IV. c;!p, 46, sec.
9, has addressed.% circular to the managers of the joint-stock
banks, in which he states that it is probable parliament will
not meetuntil-Felnuary next, and then expresses his opinion
that the intervening period 'cannot be better employed than
in considering and communicating with each other on such '
defects of the present system as may come under their respect-
ive notice. Thatgenlieman also suggests, that, in order to
concentrate all the information possible on this most impor-
tant subject, a meeting of delegates from the different joint-
stock bauks should take place in London, not later than No-
vember nexL fur-the purpose of considering and arranging
the preparation of such legislative enactments as may appear
necessary for the-better protection and improvement ofjoint-
stock banking. •
Wino anti' Tony.—The titles by which the two great
contending political parties in the state have been distin-
guished for about a century _and a half, are at present ex-
citing a keen- controveriy bet Ween two of our learned London
contemporaries.. The titles, wing, and tory, were both origin-
ally nicknames, irbick'inranguage, like caricatures in paint-
ings although not truly descriptive, point out the prominent
characteristics more strikingly than correct portrait's. Like
other names, the future application often creates a departure
from the original significance, and they are often made de-
scriptive of very_ different "classes of individuals; siill the
names of whig and tory have, in all the phases of their use,
been happily discriminating, from the days of Walpole to
those of Melbourne, and from Temple to Peel. A whig is
a croucher to the crown, and a sycophant to the sovereign :
a tory is the supporter of the throne, and an advocate of the
naonarch'S rights. A whig in opposition can shed the royal
blood—in power, can lick the royal shoe; a tory, even when
he politically disapproves personally reveres: A whig aspires
to official power from love to himself: it is wielded by the
tory fur the good and glory this country. A whig is in theory
an economist, in practice a spendthrift—a democrat in his
public creed, and'a tyrant in the domestic circle: a tory jus-
- titles the liberality of his expenditure by the beneficence of
his purpose, and the feelings nurtured in private appear in
the fruit of extended philanthropy. A whig promises much
but gives little : from a tory we obtain more than he led us
to expect. A wing is fair in profession.: a tory honest in-
deed. A whig in power, like a beggar on horseback, does
not know how far he may be driven. A tory takes his stand
on the rock of the constitution, and says to the waves of agi-
ta:ion raging around, "thus far shalt thou come and no far-
ther."—Glasgow Constitutional. ,

- A HORSE DEALER'S TRICK.—At the last Newton Fair,
Mr. (no matter who) attended and had the good fortune
to dispose of his horse for £39, in the Course, a fellow hav-
ing the appearance of a gentleman's servant accosted him,
and after teaming several farmers with whose names he ap-
peared to be perfectly, familiar, offered to "swap" a horse he
was riding for a pony belonging to Mr. —. As a matter
of course, it was a horse of very superior breed, his sire was
the celebrated Herbert Lacey, he was bred by a farmer and
had been in a dealer's hands, moveover, £29 had been bid by
a dealer for the horse, but his master would not sell until he
was assured that the animal's new possessor would use him
kindly. All this proved unavailing, and no exchange appeared
likely to take place, when up comes a dealer, boldly offerini,
the £29, and to all appearance, extremely anxiousto get pos-
session of the hunter. They did Lot make a deal, and the
gentleman's servant walked the horse away. The dealer then
suggested to -Mr. —how.easy• he could turn a penny, and
by making the required exchange put a£s note in both their
pocketi. Ile boldly offere'd-L3O for the horse, and appointed
to meet Mr. --,-, at the Mill Stone after he had made the
exchange. ,This was dou&eventually, Mr.— giving £l4
and his.pony wofth £9 for the hunter. On going to the pub-
lic-house,•tile dealer had " bolted," and the hunter was soon
diseoVered to be broken-winded, and not worth a £5 note.
The case was put
.into the hands of Mr. Jones, the deputy
constable of Warrineton,: who had the good luck to fall in
with the parties at,Chester fair, on Wednesday, and such was
the eloquent appeal he made to them, that they were induced
to refund the surplus revenue and defray all expenses. The
hunter has since been on their hands, and has been the means
of effecting a second similar fraud.
THE CHARTEnTsts.—The real objectof that cunning knot
Of vagabond agitators who got up what they call "the people's
charter," has as yet been unexplained. It is simply this. A
general opinion prevails among the "liberals," that the next
session of parliament will be fruitful in jobs ; that a system
of godless education will be carried into effect, and a " rural
poiice" established.; both or which hopeful projects will give
birth to a crowd of commissioners, assistant-commissioners,
constables, and stipendiaries of ail'kinds. Now, who so likely
to profit frorn'this goodly shlwer of patronage as the radical
"demonstrators?" WhUtle Harvey railed against the Whit's,
called.theM by all sorts of -ugly names—" thieves," " swind-
lers," &c., and Whittle therAy got a place. Feargus O'Con-
nor., Vincent, Elting, Edmonds, Hetherington, and the rest
of them, are pursning the same course; and should they rail
loud enough, there is no reason in the world why they should
not feather their nest's in the same way as their brother pa-
triot of Southwark. In orderthat they may be "in the way"
when theV are "'wanted," they invent what they please to
". the petiPies charter," and get appointed, or appoint
themselves; '-'de elates" to sit in " convention" at West-
minster (hiring, tie next ses,ion of parliament. One unlucky
circumstance islikely to mar this pretty device. From their
dupes all over the corntry they have 'hitherto been able to
collect only twenty pounds—a sum scarcely sufficient to sup-
ply ein and tobacco to the " devil's chaplain," and leaving
the rest of the " convention" wholly unprovided for. The
" demonstrators," in fact, find it as difficult to " raise the
Wind'! as Mr. Murph) ; and this obstacle, we repeat, will
most probably put an end to the whole scheme. —lforning

Herald. ,
A CHILD KILLED BY A Car.-LThe Convent de St Claire
at Dombes-leS-eaui, has "lately been the theatre of a catas-
throphe which has. plunged a highly 'respectable family int°
the deepest grief by the loss of a beloved child, and created
a deep sympathy among the inhabitants of that part of the
country, as much. inde,:d, from the melancholy nature of the
circumstance itself as from the unexampled manner in which
it took place. Monsieur and Madame B— had placed
their only child,• a beautiful girl of ten years of age, m the
above-mentioned convent, conducted by Ursuline nuns dur-
ing several years, and enjoying a high reputation as an
establishment for female education. The unfortunate child,
Louise B—, it appears, had incurred the punishment of the
caeot, or prison,—the usual mode of correction adopted in
French schools,—and was in consequence shut up in the place
used for that purpose. It was observed that the moment the
door was closed upon the child, her screams were heightened
to a remarkable degree; but no particular importance was at-
tached, to the circumstance, and she was left in the cachot,
situated at the bottom of the garden, and at such a distance
from the house that her cries were inaudible to the inmates.
About an hour after the child had been shut up, a violent
knocking was heard' at the outer gate of the convent, which
being opened, a labouring man, who happened to be conduct-
ing a cart along the road which passes near the premises, pre-
sented himself, and in an authoritative tone demanded "whom
they were murdering in the convent," adding that he had
distinctly heard the siehs and groans of a dying person pro-
ceeding .from the premises at the bottom of the garden, and
insisted on- knowing the cause. The nuns immediately
ex-
plained to the man riM fact of the child's imprisunment, and
assured him that his imagination had attached more import-
ance to.the matter than was necessary. The man neverthe-
less insisted upon seeing the child, and the nuns were ulti-
mately compelled by his positive and determined air to accede
to his
~request, and they htd no sooner arrived at the spot
where , the child was con fired than the convulsive sobs and
faint highs which ,struck their ears excited apprehensions for
her safety. The door was immediately opened, when a
spectacle of indescribable borror presented itself. The un-
happy child was lying on the ground in a state of the must
•
agonizing convulsions, and a cat employed in tearing away
the tlesh-from 'her neck and face. Every effort was had re-
:course to in order to savelli,! life of the child, but sueh was
the. nature of the wounds inflicted on the neck and face of
•the unhappy sufferer that she expired three days after the
event. iu a state of the most horrid deliriuM. It is supposed
that the cat; which happened to be shtit-up with the child,
became in the first instance frightened by its screams, and
subsequently infuriated.—French paper,

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 16, 183,8.

{Z The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this

morning at 5 o'clock-.

TILE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—Since our last,
we have had an accumulation of news from the United
States and Canada. Before we proceed to give any
extracts from the papers, we lay before our readers
the following important passage from a private letter,
received yesterday by a respectable mercantile film in
this town :

New York, Sept. 18, 1838.
Things again look bad in Canada ;—not so much from the
renewed hostile preparation on the border, as the rising dis-
content manifest in the two provinces. The French are as
insolent as ever in Montreal, and their Jacobin newspapers
are re-appearing. The murderers of Chartrand have been
acquitted. The jury. composed of Frenchmen, perjured
themselves; and Jalbert, who murdered Lieutenant Weir,
of the 32d regitnetlt, trill not be convicted, because the prin-
cipal witness has beets bribed to abscond to the United States.
In Upper Canada the old Radical party is again at its
tricks of agitation.
It you ask the cause of all this, I will tell you in a word.
Lord Durham an& all with him are Radicals. They on all
occasions take part with the malcontents, as• far as they can
do so without committing themselves. They pretend that the
whole affair is a dispute between a Tory and a Whig party,
—that both have been to blame. and the Tory party rather
the most so. In consequence, Lord Durham published his
amnesty, by which all the'captured escaped punishment, and
many are nateat large, and at their old trade again. The
anti-EnglishfFelings of the Governor-general and his adher-
ents are apparent to all, and the natural effects are disgust
on the part of the loyalists, and a renewal of treasonable
practices on the part of the disloyal. There is full and com-
plete impunity enjoyed by the rebellious.
Now, my dear sir, I tell you one thing, that unless the
whole system be changed, Canada will not be ours five years
from this. If the Whigs remain in power, and continue
their system, let who will be governor, the same result will
ensue.

The packet•ship Europe, Captain Marshall, which
sailed from New York on the 19th ult., arrived here
yesterday, bringing letters and papers to that date.,
The following is an abstract of the news :

The papers do not contain any political news of general in-
terest. Their commercial intelligence is, however, import-
ant. The arrival of the packet-ship United States, on the
14th, bringing advices from Liverpool of the 9th of August,
when it had been ascertained that the crop of corn, in this
country, would be short, had produced a spirit of speculation
in flour and grain, the prices of which suddenly rose m the
New York market. Afterwards, when men began to reflect,
prices receded a little. Still, the market was firm. George-
town, common western and Ohio flour was quoted at nine
dollars, and sales ranged from nine dollars to nine dollars
twelve cents.

The same arrival had produced a contrary effect on the
Money Market. It brought advices of a decline in the value
of American securities in England; and a corresponding de-
cline, in most of the stocks, took place in New York.

The Cotton Market was active, at a slight improvement
in price, in consequence of the favourable accounts from Li-
verpool.
The exchange on England ranged from al to 91: a few
bills reached 110 The United States Bank, in Philadel-
phia, had drawn at the latter rate.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathews (Madame Vestris) had made their
debut at the Park Theatre, to an immense house. The the-
ire was literally packed an hour before the curtain rose.
Hundreds, if not thousands, it is said, went away unable to
obtain admittance to the lobby. She was enthusiastically
received.

An Admiralty yacht had arrived at New York, from ifal-
mouth. with despatches for Lord Durham.
The New York papers do not contain any Canadian news.
Nor do the papers direct from Quebec and Montreal coutain
ant-.

A messenger arrived in the Europe, charged with de-
spatches from Lord Durham to Lord Glenelg.
A French brig of war has arrived off Vera Cruz, in forty-
days from France, with the information that an additional
force of fifteen vessels and one thousand men would be sent
by the French Government to aid in the contemplated attack
on Vera Cruz. The brig of war Laperouse, still blockaded
the port of Tampico.

By the Cceur de Lion, which arrived at this port on
Thursday evening, we have news from Quebec to the
10th, and from Montreal to the 9th ultimo. The fol-
lowing is an abstract of the news brought by this
arrival, as given in the Standar'd

The absence of two material witneeses, of whom it is sus-
pected that they have been suborned, has compelled the
Attorney-General to postpone the trial of the rebel Jalbert
for the murder of Lieut. Weir until the ensuing term. All
the convicted state prisoners have been respited. The jury
impannelled at Montreal to try the murderers of Chartrand,
one of the unfortunate loyalists who during the recent dis-
turbances fell a victim to the demoniacal fury of the revolu-
tionary assassins, have " agairist the head and front" of the
most unequivocal testimony, acquitted the prisoners. The
inhabitants of Pictou presented to Sir George Arthur on his
arrival an address, in which they assure him of the confidence
they repose in the system of policy he has pursued, and
declare their zealous and unflinching attachment to the con-
stitution, which it has been his object to maintain. An ad-
dress, dictated by a similar spirit with that which actuated
the inhabitants of Pictou has been preferred to Sir George
by the residents at Cobourg, and to evil of them his Excel-
lency has returned a suitable acrd respectful reply. The elders
and worshippers of the Presbyterian congregation at Quebec
have transmitted to Lord Durham a memorial, in which they
urge the renewal of the allowance which the home govern-
ment at one time granted to their officiating minister.—
During the administration of Lord Gosford, it was enacted
that the payment of the sums of money advanced to the
provincial clergy should cease, as soon as the deaths of the
incumbents then enjoying them should occur. This restric-
tion the memorialists contend has been violated in the in-
stance of the present Bishop of Quebec, to whom, although
his appointment was subsequent to the regulation, the usual
stipend . has been afforded. The memorialists respectfully
solicit the good offices. of Lord Durham in their attempt to
retrain the salary which their clergy were allowed; his Ex-
cellency has promised to transmit their memorial to Lord
Glenelg fur his consideration and approval. The news from
the frontier acquaints us, that the dispositio❑ of the rapparee
population, who infest it, is still restless and lawless. The
Prescott Sentinel, on the authority of a private letter, states
that great activity prevails among the borderers, and that
meetings are daily held for the purpose of convoking and
effecting a renewal of aggresssions on Canada. Whether
this information be correct or apocryphal, we have no means
at present to determine. The Quebec. Herald asserts that
arms and ammunition still continue to be smuggled by the
rebels from the United states. The.incident most pregnant
with ominous moment, of which the Quebec papers inform us,
is extracted from the Bangor Whig. From that journal we
learn that the Governor of Maine is so resolutely determined
to risk the survey of the North Eastern boundary, that be
has dispatched 1000 stand of arms, with which he intends
to equip and prepare the Lincoln frontier regiment to con-
front and resist any opposition or hindrance the surveyors
may be fated to encounter.