The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

,ervation

Very many dissenters have come
church through the ministry of the Re
town ; and several of them are to be cr
ing visit of the bishop.
tenham for confirmation

There are SO
—Cheltenham

A week of splendid weather has ena
in this neighbourhood to reap and car.
portion of their wheat. The crop is c
many parts very thin, in others excel]
there may be a fair average quantity,
—Berks Chronicle.

IMPORTANT TO SHIP-OWNERS.,
at this port has received direction
Treasury. to grant clearances to
ports in Ireland, without requirin
ceipt for the payment of the Sken
thus satisfactorily disposed of, hr
tween the Chamber of Commercl
of the Treasury. The result affm,
of the practical utility of that boil
cial interests of Ireland.—Dublin

.The government provision contract I
exceeding that of last year, the
of 2000 tierces beef and pork. The q
this occasion is 13,000 navy tierces c
navy tierces cured pork. Proposals f
received on the 24th of next month. '
year was 9000 tierces of beef, and 17.(
former by Dublin and Cork houses, the
Russell, of this city. The prices this year will Fxceec to
of last both in beef and pork.—Limerick Chronicle.
The fact. cannot be too generally
know-
chimney is built, the mortar with which it
be mixed with salt, there will be no necessii
as in every damp spell
.of weather the salt
the soot will of course fall down. A chi
treated in the above manner twenty-nine yi
in use every winter since. Part of the tim,
used with a grate and bituminous coal, btu'
and wood. The stove-pipe frequently c
suffered to burn in the chimney, wit'
of danger.

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AERIAL WREEL.—The Athenceutn mentions a w
vented by a Mr. Beale, by which he says he has prof
elongated cylindrical balloon, "at a considerabl
through the air in any direction, its longer axis hr
lel to the horizon. -He says the experiment was maus.
a committee of gentlemen of the Society of Arts. lit
says that by means of the same principle, with a wile
only 21 inches diameter, worked by a common watch spt
he has propelled, "with considerable speed," a .small b
heavily laden with shot, through a trough of water. .He a
not say whether the wheel was now acting on the water of
the air. If on the former it amounts to nothing.
HOLYHEAD.—Active preparations are made, under t,
superintendance of the harbour-master, to blast the roc,
called Stag Rock, situated about 400 yards from the pier
end, in the E.N.E. direction. This rock derives its narn
from the circumstance of the Stag frigate having struck o
it, and received damage, in a gale of wind, about 58 year
ago. Previous to that time it was unknown to exist, an
subsequently not a single vessel is known to have touched o
it during the long interval. The name of the lock has prove
a terror to many strangers, but the fact that its marks of
bearings were until recently unknown e4k to Our old
fishermen. proves how unfounded were their fears. "
of moderate draught of water might have passed
at low water, without any damage.—Car-
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF
][AN.—On the evening of Tuesday
Cooper, the son of a gentleman resi'
the coach from that city at the Susse
Fleet-street, for the purpose of joining th._
at school at Brixton. On the following aftertt,
out for the purpose of taking a walk, mid has not ?h.
heard of. He is about 14 years of age, fair complexion
was dressed in a suit of dark green clothes, and blue
cay, and his linen marked " J. A. Cooper."
FATAL ACCIDENT AT JERSEY—A LADY AND
DAUGHTER DROWNED.—A dreadful accident tank pl
St. Maio a few days ago.• A. lady, the directrice
Monsburge post, was walking on the quay, accompar
her two children. a boy aged nine years, and a girl, age
eleven, when, unfof tunately approaching too neer 6
of the quay, the little girl fell into the water, drawif
her the distracted mother, who, holding her son, drag
also into the water. Several persons seeing the a
dashed at once into the sea to save the lady and her c
but, unfortunately, they succeeded in saving only t}.
the lady and her daughter were brought oa shore corn
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