The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-30 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 30.—Noon, Wind N.N.t.—Moderate.
(An Irish mail—High Water 3h 52rn p.m.)
ARRIVED—The Alexander Savin, Ohrt, from St Peteraburgh—Tha
Hibernia, ,:steamer) from Dublin, after being on shore—The Mersey,
(steamer; from Dublin—Jupiter, Henek, from Wolgast.

The Republic, Williams, hence, ut New York, 6th instant,
The Adelaide, Bainbridge, hence, at Waterford, leaky, having struck
on Mockbeggar Patch, 24th instant, on leaving this port, bound for
Mobile.
The Fearon, Brian Boru, and Henry Turner, hence, at Dublin.
The Independence, Nye. from New York, off Cork, 2.th instant,
passed Cape Clear 22d instant ; on the following morning encountered
a strong east wind, and spoke the United States, hence for New York,
the Hibernia, hence for New York, in sight. On 26th iiistaUt, spoke
the Calcutta.
The Isabella, Dogherty, hence for Dundalk. was stranded near
C 24th instant, and sunlione man drowned.
The piece of the head of a vessel which was picked up near Gray-
stones, 27th instant, belongs to the,Etna, (Steamer) which arrived here
this morning.
Liverpool, Godfrey, from London to New Orleans, is on shore nett
Sheerness, with masts cut sway and bilged.
Portland, Roberts, from Poole for this port, struck on an anchor and
tilled at Penzance 24th instant.
Sarah, Rees, of Swansea, was on her broadside. with bow stove, at
St. Ives 24th instant, and dischathing, having been in contact with the
Magic, Trewarvas.
Mt Isom), Dec. 23. A vessel, supposed to be a brig or schooner, has
been seen a little south 'cif Ramsay island. on her beam ends, drifting
down the Channel, with her sails fiat on the water.

I Next year a fair trial of the English and Scottish greyhoUnda
may be expected, as Lord Eglington has declared his intention
to challenge any seven greyhounds 'tired in England with seven
greyhounds bred in Scotland, one hundred sovereigns each dog,
each brace of dogs to be tried the best of three runs, and five
hundred sovereigns the main. The luau h to come off in No,
• vember next, somewhere in England.—Ginsgow Courier.
11.)CHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MoNDAY, Dec. 26.—The
Issarket—ro.day has beets extseruelv still and thinly attended;
nroi very little business of any kind has been done. From
Christmas day to the new market (which is always the first
Monday after the sixth day of January) business is almost at a
stand here. For wool higher prices have been generally asked
to-day, and perhaps some six or ten shillings more per pack
have been given tot skin wool.
A NLIV VELOICPEDE —We learn from the Philadelphia Cen-
tinel, that one muddy day at the beginning sit November, a huge
portly gentleman. having got into a New York omnibus, the
flooring suddenly g,iye Way beneath him, and with his head and
shoulders in the 'omnibus, and his legs and feet in the mud, he
was ~,nstrained to. run a considerable distance before the bus
could be pulled up. lie now goes by the name of the "The
• New Telocipede.
A recent letter from Grenada states. that several hundreds of
captured Africans have lately beers imported into that island
who have been apprenticed out for three years, some in town,
but most of them its the country. It is supposed they have been
brought from the American settlements on the Wtstern Coast
of Africa. We could wish to know, by whom these Negroes
were captured, and with what view? And whether such im-
portation is not equivalent to the slave trade, although under
another name.

REcRUITIG.—We understand that orders have been issued
by the commander-in-chief to the several regiments of the line,
that on all Mime occasions recruits wilt he admitted of the sta.
• Lure of five feet stx inches, being a diminution of one inch trete
the present standard. With regard to the household infantry,
the royal artillery, and the cavalry. the standard of height is to
remain unchanged—viz , five feet eight inches for the two for-
mer, and six feet for the latter.
Ma 7settAs TA I.l.ol4.—Specimens of this substance were lately
found in a bog on the borders of Loch ()tie. This curious mi-
neral was first observed by some peasants on the coast of Fin-
land in 1735; Atte' wards it was fenntl w one of the SwediSh
lakes. A similar substance was found at Strasburg
,by Dr. Her,
man, and in this country by Professor Jameson. It has the
cutout, and feel, and taste of tallow, but without smell. It is as
volatile and ceeibustible as any of tile ve.atile oils or naphtha.
On Thu,s lay night, a ball was given at the Lowther Rooms,
in. King Wid,a,,,,Heet, Strand, bs a party of ladies • and
genttemen of the Jo,s ish persuasion. Several lathes Proceeded
to the rooms in the *am:l:tier-coach No. 1,824, taking with them,
in a brown paper petrel, diatuMals and other jewellery of the
value of near £2,000. In the sr hurry, the whole of the party
forget the parcel until nearly half an hour .afterwards. Not
one of the 'wiles knew the coachman, the number of the coach,
of even the colour of it, and their consternation at their loss
Was, it linty be well ii»agined, extr;'rate. The coachman, on
returning to his sten" in Trafalgar-square, opened his vehicle,
and discovered the precious parcel. On ascertaining the very
valtable nature' of its contents, he immediately proceeded to
the house from whence he bad convc)ed the ladies, cud to their
great giatification returned the property.
Merveaux has cemmunicated to the
French Academy of Sciences a curious circumstance respect-
ing seine nightingales in his garden. They had built their nest
in the lower part of a hedge, when some water in the neigh-
bourhood rose with such impetnosity as to inundate the garden.
M. Merveaux watched the nightingales with some anxiety, and
one day, when the water had reached to within six paces of the
nest, he only perceived two eggs. lie at first thought that the
nest had been abandoned, but coming to, it very soon after, he
only saw one, and waited this time to s e the result.. lie was
much astonished to behold the last egg disappear with the birds,
who, flying cautiously, but rapidly. calcite:. it tea new nest, at
the highest part of the hedge, where he saw all four eggs de-
posited in safety; and where they were afterwards hatched. He
could not ascertain how the parent birds carried these eggs.
Hoax.—Some mischeivous wag has played off the following
trick at Glocester, which has created nitwit merriment in that
city. About six o'clo,d: on Monday evening' a person passing
tbiough the Fox Entry found a brown paper parcel. A youug
man behind him called out " halves." They proceeded to open
when they discovered a packet inside, endorsed " To John
Chadborie Esq. James Wood, Esqr.'s codicil." The tricky
tinders were in ecstacies. With the visions of the £20,000 re-
ward before their eyes, they started off to Mr. Chadborn, aho
received them most courteously; but wishing that all due
t‘irinalitiee t:hould be complied with, rent to several alder,
mei) and term-councillors to lie present at the openieg of the
packet. Fold of paper after fold were duly unrolled amidst the
must col:tending feelings of hope, leas. and breathless anxiety:
It cauntit be expected that we should paint the last scene of this
eventful inquiry when out tuinb:ed ti piece of dirty oil-cloth,
which the sag had enelosed in order to create a sensation in the
city, in which he succeded to his heart's content.
StNGUI.a a CIRCUNISTANCE.—Thu' ship Persian, Commander
Hopkings, for Sydney, New Saudi Wales. which enortmered
the hurricane on ruts,Utlay, the 29th nit., in the Downs, end which
iiidueed the captain -eut away the masts, as the only means of
saving the ship, cargo. and emigrants, has ieturned; and has
been hauled into the West India Docks, to undergo the hetes-,
sary repairs. Th- following singular circumstance occurred on
board the ship whilst lying its the Downs during the gales--
A few minutes before the commencement of the hut ricane, a
fine Newfoundland dog, which had been pursuing ills gambols
on the deck, suddenly cominenced pinning furiously from one
end of the ship to the other, foaming at 111, mouth, cud exhibit-
ing all the symptoms of hydrophobia, when some of the crew,
!metalling alarmed, betook them shift for safety; the animal
then descended below, where there were pecerat passengers, and
ran through every.pthahoreuttcoitt,itet;tzsm7hiltilepy. n the same violent manner,
meantime, but, fo t una
ot injury. The captain, in the
to folios,/ deg and destroy
it. The- anreinilyeal.,ewdattgain, suddenly made his Appearance on the
bounding towards the stern of the vessel, where a
boat is
usually attached, leased into it. gazed for a moment,
plunged into the foaming waves, said 1... is‘ma.
ftabitta.