The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

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COLONIAL STATISTICS.

The following statements as to the population, commerce,
and currency of the British Colonies in the year 1836, are
gathered from Mr. Porter's Tables, just published, and may
be very acceptable to our readers generally :
Low En. CANADA.—The population was 572,227; the im-
ports, 1:1,941,053 ; the exports, £1,034,514 ; the paper cur-
rency in circulation, £343,972; however, the population is
really supposed to exceed 600,000.
UPPER CANADA.—The population was 367,841 ; the out-
standing government debentures, (at the end of 1836,)
£159,165 in Upper Canada, and £241,600 in England; the
number of cultivated acres, 1,282,131.
NEW BRUNSWICK.—The population was 119,457; the
number of emigrants. 5,826 ; the imports, £863,788 ; the ex-
ports, £547,720.

NovA SCOTIA.—The imports were £733,510 ; the exports,
£446,097.

CAPE BRETON.—The imports were £8,809 ; the exports,
£34,460.

PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—The imports were £1,39.1 :
the exports, £11,610; the parer money was £14,780.
NEWFOUNDLAND.—The population was 74,705 ; the im-
ports were £579,799 ; the exports, £787,099 ; the amount of
coin, (supposed) £BO,OOO to £100,000; the numbers of acres
cultivated, 11,062.

ANTIGUA.—The imports were £191,817 ; the exports
£175,868.
BARBADOS.—The imports were £615,503; the exports,
£636,853.
DommicA.—The imports were £68,077; the exports,
£78,282.
GRENADA.—The imports were £147,315; the exports,
£201,080.
JAMAICA.—The imports were £2,108,606 ; the exports,
£3,315,670; the paper currency was £289,518 16s. (checks
not bearing interest.)
MONTSERRAT.—The population was 7119 ; the imports,
£9219 ; the exports, £19,069 ; the amount of coin about
£2OOO.

NEvis.—The population was '9250; the imports, £32,511;
and the exports, £34,885.
ST. CTIRISTOPTIER'S.—The imports were £98,344 ; the
exports, £145,703; the amount of coin in circulation (sup-
posed not to be above) £12,000.
ST. LUCIA.—The population was about 15,330; the im-
ports were £60,344; the exports, £69,040 ; the number of
acres in crop, 9459.
ST. VINCENT'S.—The imports were £155,522 ; the ex-
ports, £349,480.
TOBAGO.--The imports were £73,937 ; the exports,
£196,974.
TORTOLA.—The imports were £15,225 ; the exports,
£23,129; the amount of coin about £lOOO.

TRINIDAD.—The imports were £469,208 ; the exports,
£437.731.

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BAIT AM A.S.—The population was 19,365 ; the imports were
£143,211 ; the exports, £88,694.
BERMODAS.—The imports were £116,067 ; the exports,
£21,967 ; the population was 8862.
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Ertan,ll3c7E;._thlel:eirniomuptiotrotfs coin, £4607 1:L60407,713285.
;10E.
_ DSEr.,ARA.—The imports were £770,839 ; the exports,
X 499,042. exports,
HONDURAS.—The population was 2453.
imports
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ivlAuurrius.—The population 84 ' 0
was ,2 2 ; the paper cur-
the exports, £599,893 ; the amount
population was 77,096; the
Nxw SOUTH WALES.—The
of coin in circulation was £425,259 17s. 2d., and of paper
currency £99,487.
VAN DIENIEN'S LAND.—The population .
imports were £332.548 ; the
.exports, 258,609
4: was 43,895 ;the
GIBRALTAR.—The population was 10,')19. .
MALTA.—The population was 1C '34- •
),.) ; the imports were
£685,531; the exports, 4367,942.
lONIAN LSI. ANDS.—ne population wa,- 90i 2r2 - . , , ; the coin
currency, £ll,OOO.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The population was 150,110 ; the
metallic currency was about £150,000 ; the pap! r, £201,648.
ST. HELENA.—The population was 4977 ; the imports
were £40,352 ; (no account of exports is kept.)
SIERRA LEONE.—The population was 35,678; the im-
ports were £95,800; the exports, £66,903. •
GAMBIA.—The population was 3902 ; the imports were
£114,772 ; the exports, £147,732; the amount of coin in
circulation, about £20,000, without any paper currency.

—.A PATRIOTIC BAKER.—" A baker of Constance." says
the Cherbourg paper, " was pulled up the other day for
selling bread under weight. lie alleged as an excuse that he
intended this bread for his English customers, and that he
would not have cheated his French customers for all the
world ! The rogue was fined according to law."

NAME. Passen- Cash.
• , gers.
pr.wlc.' p. day.' per day.
-C. X. I X.
Birmingham -- 15478 1371 191 -
Grand Junction - 8462 87 121 -
South Western - 5189 671 9i -
Liverp. and Manch. - 4611 1481 211 -
Great Western - 3989 1111 16 -
Newcast. & Carlisle - 1691 28 4 -
Greenwich..
Bluing. & Derby - 1204 311 41 -
Manchester &Leeds 12268 915 671 91 1752
Croydon 16990 959 91+ 13 2427
York &N. Midland 3062 483 251 3 . 437
Midland Counties.. 6121 , .666 18 21, 875
Ulster - . . 7728 ' 198, . 24 34 1040
Shore. & Brighton. 6847 --- - -, 978
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On Tuesday 'Madame Gremlin, residing at L'Atac, in St.
Ouen's parish, in the island of Jetsey, presented her husband
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with FIVE daughters, of whom four were sti
fifth died shortly after birth. The father of I

t L'Atac, in St.
ited her husband
ill-born, and the
her husband had

twenty-one children.—Guernsey Star.
CURIOUS FACT.—At a recent meeting at the Royal Insti-
tution, London, Mr. Faraday directed attention to a shot
which he had received from Woolwich. Experiment had
shown, that, by filling a hollow iron shot with lead, its speed
and force, when fired, were greatly increased ; but a singular
effect on the heavier lead was observed. The lead was found
to have receded—to have been compressed into one half the
space it occupied previously to being discharged from the
gun. In the case exhibited, the iron case or shell had been
tilled with leaden bullets, round of course ; hut, after being
fired, and the iron shell broken, it was seen that all the balls
had coalesced, each sphere had become a polyhedron, and
complete aggregation had ensued. This effect is, doubtless,
attributable to the difference of inertia in the two metals, and
to the instant of time that elapses before the inner metal is
acted upon by the enormous force of the explosion.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHANCERY PRACTICE.—A family of
the name of H—t. The father was a highly respectable
clergyman, possessing some valuable freehold estates—on his
death the family was involved in law ; the Court of Chancery
was the scene of action—the suit or suits continued, I think,
upwards of forty years ; and every branch of the family was
eventually reduced to extreme wretchedness and poverty.
About fourteen or sixteen years ago, a number of attorneys,
the sons and grandsons of their departed parents who had
been engaged in the suits before them, met at a certain inn in
S—shire, which might be named. They examined their
bills ; they had ascertained before they met the amount of
money in the accountant-general's hands, and found it just
sufficient to satisfy them, and they then determined (the
parties in the case being all reduced to pauperism) the suit
ought no longer to be persevered in ! This was generous.—
Woolsack.

ANECDOTE or Doc.—There is a Scotchwoman who
travels about our neighbourhood with a basket, of the name
of Jane Stirzaker, or Jenny Tysick, as she is commonly
called. She owns a small dog that generally accompanies
her. A few years ago she had :A young child, which the dog
was very fond of, being in the habit of lying with it in the
cradle. But it so happened that the child took an illness and
died. Jenny was at that time living at Hawkshead, but her
infant was buried at Stavely. From the mother's distress of
mind at the time, little notice was taken of the dog ; but,
soon after the funeral, it was found to be missing, nor could
any tidings be heard of it for a fortnight. But the poor mo-
ther, passing through Stavely, thought she would visit the
church-yard where the infant was interred ; when, behold!
there was the little dog lying in a deep hole which it had
scratched over the child's grave ! It was in a most emaciated
state of hunger and privation. It had been seen occasionally
for some days in the streets of the village.—Kendal Mer-
cury.

A FRIEND IN NEED.—A few days ago, a little boy, driv-
ing a donkey on the turnpike-road from Zedruth to Cam-
borne, came to the gate, and being unable to pay the toll,
was obliged to retrace his steps to obtain the means, if he
know where to find them. On his way back, he fell in with
a sailor, who seeing the poor little fellow in tears, asked
what he was crying for. On being told, he desired the boy
to follow him ; and on reaching the gate, the toll being again
demanded for the ass, Jack- asked in a careless manner if a
man might carry anything through without paying. He was
answered in the affirmative; when suddenly turning round
and seizing the ass, he carried it through the gate in triumph,
to the great delight of the driver.— Woolmer's' Exetei-

PROSPECTS OF GAME.—The prospects of a very large brood
of moor game was never more cheering than it has been this
spring on the moors near Blackstone Edge until within a few
weeks, when numbers of the railway men have been in the
habit of going in the moors in pursuit of and destroying game.
On Sundry last, a game keeper under James Dearden,Esq.,
of Rochdale, went in pursuit of seven of the railway men,
who abused him in a shameful manner, and destroyed in his
presence ]5 nests of grouse eggs. The keeper was glad to
get off the moors with his life.
BEDFORDSHIRE CIJCUMBERS.—In the southern counties
of England, pickling cucumbers are easily raised withoutany
artificial heat, being sown in drills in the open ground. The
earth is made fine and level, and shallow circular hollows are
formed with the hand, a foot wide, and half an inch deep in
the middle. The distance between each hollow is three feet
and a half, and the distance between the rows five or six feet.
Eight or ten seeds are deposited in each cavity. This is done
in the beginning of June. When the plants appear, they are
thinned out to three or four, the weakest or less healthy be-
ing rejected. They are watered occasionally, according to
the state of the weather. The cucumbers are gathered chiefly
from the middle to the end of August. Vast quantities of
these open-ground gherkins are taken to the London market.
The village of Sandy, in Bedfordshire, has been known to
furnish 10,000 bushels of drill cucumbers in one week.
The heart of Boieldieu, the composer, which was presented
by his widow to the city of Rouen, has been removed with
great ceremony from the chapel in the cemetery, where it
was deposited in November 1834, to the monument which
has been erected for its final reception at the expense of the
municipality.
THE SEA SERPENT ONCE MORE.—The strange monster
that has regularly, once a year, made its appearance in the
neighbourhood of Nahant, has this season taken up its resi-
dence on the coast of New Jersey. The United States Ga-
zette publishes a letter from Mr. Job Salmon, of Cranmer
Town, near Manahawk, dated April 9, saying that four or
five persons saw his majesty of the great deep on the 28th of
March, quietly sunning himself on the surface of the waters
in Dinner Point Creek. It is a snug sort of hiding-place for
his snakeship, just large enough to allow him to sport at his
ease, which he seemed to be doing, when Mr. Job Salmon
and several others suddenly came upon him one day proceed-
ing down the creek. He appeared of a black colour, 50 feet
long, eight inches in diameter, and holding his head five or
six feet above the water. A posse of villagers, to whom the
news of this extraordinary arrival had been communicated,
with arms, ammunition, harpoons, stakes, seines, lines, and
divers other instruments, proceeded" to the beach to give a
warm welcome to the stranger, but he had snuffed the secret,
and hurried himself away.—New York paper.
EPIDEMIC AMONGST CATTLE.—At the recent meetirbpr of
the Royal Agricultural Society, Dr. Whitlaw declared his
full persuasion of the deleterious nature of butter cups, and
other species of ranunculus in pastures, to the cattle feeding
on them—attributing to the poisonous properties of these
plants not only the recent epidemic, but all former attacks
of the kind, rendering the animals poor and unwholesome as
food. He would, therefore, recommend to the society and
the public to try the experiment of ploughing up the old rs -
tures, saturated as they were already with the poisonous exu-
dation of deleterious weeds. He would also refer to the evil
effects of bringing animals to such a degree of obesity that
their fat might be literally termed neither more nor less than
the ". essential oil of dung."—The Duke of 'Richmond said
that butter cups were no novelties in our pastures, and there-
fore, that if they were indeed the cause of the distemper in
question, why, he would ask, had we not had it before? Be-
sides, it would be presumptuous ,in any man to assert the
cause of a disease before gleaning from every quarter the ex-
perience on which he was to found his reasonings.—Worces-
ter Journal.

THE GREAT BOY.--In the Albany Evening Journal there
is an account of a young Vermonter, the son of a Mr. Den-
slow Barber, of Richmond, Chittenden county, who, though
but 3 years and 11 months old, is 4 feet in height, weighs
about 1001bs., and with the exception of a'slight curve of
the legs below the knee, occasioned by walking too early,
and the great weight of the body, is in every respect propor-
tioned like a man, and has the muscular strength of a boy of
16. The general expression of the face exhibits the spright-
liness and prying curiosity of the child of 6 or &years, while
the hair, whiskers, voice, and physical lineainents, are those
of a man of 30.

THE NEW CONSERVATORY AT CIIATSWORTH.—By the
summer of 1840 (says the author of Sketches in Derbyshire),
this will prove another attraction. It is on an immense scale,
extending over au acre of ground ; and, when replete with
choice exotics—some of nature's rarest gifts—cannot fail to
become a novelty of general interest, and to have many
claims on the attention of our more learned horticulturists.
Some idea of its magnitude may be formed on knowing that
the centre arch of the roof is 76 feet high, with a span of 70
feet ! affording ample room for the stupendous growth of the
American aloe (Agave Americana); or, indeed, the loftiest
green-house plant ever fostered in these islands.

EARTLIQUAKe.—A letterfrom the Carpathian Mountains,
received at Vienna, says —" On April 26, we had a violent
shock of earthquake, attended with a frightful storm ; and on
the 30th, between ten and eleven at night, the shock was re-
peated with such force that at Altendorf, the frontier town
between Galicia and .Hungary, many chimneys were thrown
down, and the church-bells were set a ringing. Large cracks
are to be seen in house walls, and fissures have been made in
the banks of the rivers. Soon afterwards we had a return of
winter, and the mountains are again covered with snow,
which has also Wien on the plains and in the valleys. From
the 7th, however, the weather has become rather mild, but
vegetation comes on slowly."
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DEATH OF AN OPIUM EATER.—A man, who played the
pianoforte at a public-house in Ratcliffe Highway, killed
himself on Wednesday, by chewing a large quantity of opium.
He was in the habit of taking laudanum ; but not having his
phial with him on that evening. he sent for a pennyworth of
opium to a druggist's shop. Awoman in the shop sold the
quantity asked for, and the pianoforte-player put it in his
mouth and kept it there till he fell down in a stupor. The
stomach-pump was applied in vain.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &c.
Friends, T Arnold, 287 Sincapore, Sykes, Schwabe & Co
Cordelia, G Creighton, 378 Calcutta, Taylor, Potter &Co
NEW SOUTH WALES.

Argylcshire, It Scott, 858 Sydney, N.S.W. Cotesworth & Wynne
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Lima Packet, It Singleton, 210 Trinidad, • T& H Murray
Thomas, J L Perry, 112 Jamaica, Graham & Taylor
Isabel, IL Shaw, 352 Antigua, C W & F Shand
Sirius, D Croal, 236 Berbice, W N Moore