The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

BOOKKEEPING AND WRITING.—These two invaluable
accomplishments are taught with great perfection by Mr.
Thompson, and we can renew our recommendation of him to
the notice of our readers. •

WORKS ON CONSUMPTION.-Mr. Cronin, we perceive,
is about to publish another medical work. The subject is a
highly interesting one, namely, consumption.
Scsrooa BOOKS.—We beg leave to draw the attention of
the principals of schools to the advertisements of Messrs.
Cradock and Co., relating to works of education. These
excellent books are all highly necessary to the instruction of
youth.
Before the Wesle)an Conference broke'up, the thanks of
the Conference were presented to George Heald, Esq., for
having presented to the Connexion, free of debt, a chapel,
near Liverpool, on which he has expended about £2OOO.

PAINTER'S PARLIAMENTARY GUIDE FOR 1841.—Mr.
Painter has just published a very useful %nd handy little book
under this title—the cost is only Gd. It contains every pos-
sible information upon matters relative to the constitution of
this country in lords and commons, and about the throne.
The list of members is made up to the latest return. It con-
tains also the addresses of the peers and members of the
house.

MRS. WARE'S NEW WORK.—III the colums of the
Standard have occasionally appeared several very elegant
poems from the pen of Mrs. Katherine A. Ware, an Ameri-
can lady, residing in Liverpool. Mrs. Ware is now in Loudon
arranging about the publication of a series of poems. The
work may shortly be expected. From the taste, fancy, and
high merit of the productions we have seen, and inserted in
our publication, the book may be looked for with anxiety by
the lovers of literature. Mrs. Ware, some years ago, edited
the Boston Bower of Taste, a magazine of some celebrity in
the United States.

SHIP LYDIA.—The ship Lydia, belonging to C. W. and
F. Shand, which sailed from Antigua on the night of the Bth
May last, arrived here on the 2d June, and discharged a full
cargo of sugar and molasses—took on board three hundred
tons of goods, sailed again on the afternoon of the 7th, and
arrived in Antihua on the night of the 2d July, having made
the round in the unprecedented short period of 56 days. She
took out the first accounts of the defeat of ministers on Sir
R. Peel's motion " of want of confidence," which was hailed
with great joy by all the loyal people of Antigua.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The file on Monday went off
with great eclat, and so greatly were the entertainments ap-
proved of, that the proprietor intends giving another gala on
Monday next, when the fireworks and illuminations will be
repeated. The devices in anchors, birds, flowers, quadru-
peds, &c., were greatly admired. The storming of d' Acre is
an astonishing exhibition. All strangers should visit those
gardens, which may be termed, and truly, one of the lions of
Liverpool. The Biscenascope will be exhibited to-night.

THE ETNA.—We were much gratified this week with a
visit on board the barque Etna, which is now a receiving-

ship for her majesty's service at this port, and we cannot do
less than express our approval of the admirable and well-
conducted way in which the Etna is disciplined : her truly
well-tried commander, Lieutenant Wilson, is an "above
board" officer, and long servitude ought not to be lost sight
of. We sigh in vain for some notice in the way of preferment
being taken of the tried lieutenant of 26 years' standing.

SUDDEN DEATH.—A melancholy instance of the awful
uncertainty of human life occurred at Runcorn on Monday
last. A gentleman of the name of Mr. Samuel Whiteley, of
Halifax, Yorkshire, after having landed at Runcorn' from
Liverpool, by the steam-boat, proceeded to the canal, with
the intention of going forward to Manchester by the fly boat,
but he had scarcely been seated a moment, when he leaned
back and expired instantly. The deceased's complaint was
an affection of the heart, and, as he was behind the other
passengers for some distance, it is supposed, in his anxiety
to reach the boat, he used too violent exertion, which termi-
nated his existence without a moment's warning.
THE BRITISH MISCELLANY AND CHESS-PLAYER'S
CHRONICLE. R. Hastings, London.—We have now re-
ceived this weekly publication up to No. 14, and can confirm
the favourable opinion of it which we expressed in a former
notice. Among the games first published before us, we are
pleased to observe several by members of the chess club of
this town. No. 10 contains the game recently won of the
Armagh clue, and N 0.13 has one beautifully contested by the
president of the Liverpool club, against the first player of the
day, Mr. St. Amant. The claims of Deschapelles and of his
competitor, Mr. Lewis, we do not overlook, but, as both
these gentlemen appear to have relinquished public contests
in the game, we consider them defunct as chess players, and
believe no other living player can successfully compete with
the victor of Boncourt and of Szen. We conclude with a re-
petition of our former dictum,—that no amateur of chess
should be without the Chess-player's Chronicle.
TnE LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—A memorial, said to be signed
by upwards of seventy attorneys of Manchester, having been
presented to the judges now on the northern circuit, praying
amongst other matters, for an alteration in the order and
arrangement for trying causes for the hundreds of West
Derby and Salford ; and that those from the hundred of
Salford should be tried in future the first. A counter memo-
rial has been signed by eighty-seven of the principal attor-
neys of Liverpool, in favour of continuing the present mode,
by which the causes ectered for each of those hundreds take
precedence alternately of each other, and has been presented
to the judges by Mr. Richard Brooke, on behalf of the Li-
verpool attorneys : and a counter memorial.of a similar ten-
dency from the Law Library has been laid before them by
Mr. Payne, as chairman of that association.
WALTON BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR.—It will be seen,
by reference to the advertisement, that this grand fancy fair
will be held on Wednesday and Thursday next. We are as-
sured by members of the committee of management that no
pains are or will be spared to render the fete highly attract-
ive, and that visiters may depend on enjoying a treat of no
ordinary kind, whether they regard the number and quality
of the ladies' stalls, the beauty and extent of the gardens for
promenading, the great variety of plants and flowers, or the
efficiency and excellence of the bands of music provided for
the occasion. Thisfete is to be held ill the beautiful gardens
of Mr. Skirving, Walton. The affair will be one of the most
brilliant ever got up in the neighbourhood. We believe the
materiel has come in in abundance. " The stock-in-trade"
will be beyond precedent. A sight of the stall-holders, it is
expected, will be worth all the money alone ; for the loveliest
witches in the county have come forward to aid the intentions
of the committee.
THE PRUSSIAN ARMY.—The Prussian State Gazette of
the 7th instant publishes the following statement relative to
the staff of the army, which is composed of 143 generals
and 665 officers. Amongst the first are two honorary field
marshals, the Duke of Wellington, colonel of the 28th
Regiment of Infantry, and Count Zieten, colonel of the 4th
Regiment of Hussars; 14 generals of cavalry and of in-
fantry, of whom five are princes of the royal family, viz.,
the Prince of Prussia, the Princes Frederick, William,
Henry, and Augustus; 35 lieutenant-generals, of whom one
is a prince of the royal family (Charles); 92 major-generals,
of whom two are princes of the royal familly (Albert and
William Adelbert.) Amongst the other royal princes,
Prince Waldemar is major, the two Princes Alexander and
George are sub-lieutenants. Amongst the foreigners, colo-
nels of regiments are the Emperor of Russia and his son the
Grand Duke Michael, the Kings of Wurtemberg and Hol-
land, and the Grand Duke of Baden.