The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-11 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
It has been officially announced, from the Lord
Chamberlain's office, that the solemnization of her Ma-
jesty's marriage will take place on Monday next, the
10th instant. It is reported that for the ceremonial,
at which the Archbishop of Canterbury will officiate,
assisted by the Bishop of London, the hour of noon is
fixed upon. Arrangements have been made to accom-
modate as many spectators as possible, both in the
Chapel itself and in those apartments and avenues
through which the august procession will move on its
way to the Chapel Royal, and on its return. Prepa-
rations, we understand, are making along the line of
road in those places through which the royal bride,
with her illustrious consort, will pass in their way from
town to Windior Castle, for greeting the happy pair
with loyal demonstrations of affectionate sympathy.
At Eton, in particular, through which the Queen's car-
riage will have to drive, in consequence of the high
flood, it is intended to erect two hymeneal arches of
appropriate classical design, decorated with rich fes-
toons, for the reception of the bridal cortege.

Toque duns procedis, Io Triumphe
Non semel aicemus, to Triuniphe
Ciritas omnis.
As that august procession moves along,
Repeated shouts of triumph swell the song."
Her Majesty has very opportunely evinced a most
gracious consideration for the depressed state of our
silk and lace manufactures, in giving munificent en-
couragement to the productions of British art and na-
tive industr4y by her exclusive patronage. Her royal
example will of course he followed, not only by the la-
dies of the court, but by all our fair countrywomen
who participate in any of the numerous festivities on
the joyous occasion. Viscount Melbourne, the Mar-
quis of Normanby, the Earl of Minto, Lord John
Russell, and other public functionaries, will give large
full-dress dinner parties on the wedding-day; and the
Duchess of Sutherland and the Countess of Suther-
land and the Countess of Minto have each invited a
very numerous'assembly for the evening.
But one wish and prayer will be breathed by British
Christians of all classes and parties on this important
and interesting crisis in the life of our youthful and.
beloved Sovereign ; that happiness, as pure, and per-
fect, and permanent, as any sublunary blessing can be,
may attend on this sublunary union; and that in a
ripe old age our revered monarch, with the worthy ob-
ject of her choice, and partner of her destiny, may he
advanced to the enjoyment of an eternal crown, trans-
m4l4'lo_ll peacethat which decorates her fair brow to
their children and children's children.
Prince Albert.; on his entering the capital of Belgi-
um, was received, by order of his uncle, King Leo-
pold, with all the honours- due to a crowned head. On
his arrival here the Prince is to he created a Field-
Marshal. The question respecting hii rank in; he
country has not been settled by Parliament : the Mi-
nisters have omitted the third caluse of his Naturali-
zation Bill, which r-ferred to this subject ; and, ac-
cording to Lord : i .bourne, they have not yet decided
what steps to take.

A f llovvwho
:'rrn47sTerious ' vehicle,
CHARTIST EXHIBITION EXTRAORD,I,
perambulates the metropolis with a
which has a box placed upon it, advertises on a paper banging
from it that he "Exibits a Dreadfulle Representation
itohr fithree
Riots at Newport, in Munmuth, Whales, with true picture
of Mr. Frost, Mr. Williams, and his Curapanions,
nateraily done in Culurs• All the Chart erists engaged are
to be seen—Only one hapenny to see all this."
SHOOTING AT CotßAGnmortE.—The Marquis of Water.
ford, Lord William Beresford, and the Hon. Paul Methuen,
left on Sunday for Melton Mowbray. During their stay at
Curraghmore, his lordship and friends bagged thirty-seven
hares, two hundred and fifty-three pheasants, one hundred
and eleven brace of woodcocks, seventy-two snipes, and four
hundred and five rabbits—altogethernine hundred and ninety-
nine head of game. His lordship rifled an eagle from its airy
element at a height apparently impracticable.—Limerick
Standard.

PRINCE ALBERT'S BOOTS.—Messrs. Llewellin and Naish,
of St. John-street, have manufactured a very elegant and
even superb pair of boots, as a present to Prince Albert. The
legs are of Morocco leather, and the turn over or top is of
purple velvet. The latter is elegantly embroidered and
flowered with gold. In the centre are the royal arms, sur-
mounted with the letters V. A. On either side of the shield
arc the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. The lower
parts of the boots are patent leather, the stitching of which
with white silk, is a materpiece of closing. The sole is also
a matter for admiration, and the heels are of silver, secured
by gold plufs, placed in the form of the imperial crown, and
the letters Y. A. The whole has but one fault, which
trodden_
under that the boots are altogether too beautiful to b
under foot of man." The box in which they are to be con-
veyed, is a choice specimen of mahogany, having on the top
the royal arms, and being lined with superb crimson velvet—
the manufacturer is Mr. Hiugston, of Park-street.—Bristol.
.Standard.
. . • . .

.By the packet-ship Columbus, Capt. Cropper, which
arrived here this morning, we have received New York
Papers to the 20th ultimo, inclusive. The Columbus
has had a remarkably quick passage, considering the
tempestuous weather which has latterly prevailed. She
has brought home no specie. • She had ten passengers
on hoard.
The last advices received from England at New York
were up to the 14th of December, by the packet-ship
• Garrick. The intelligence taken out by the Garrick
operated favourably upon the markets at New York.
At Philadelphia business was dull, caused partly f'y
the cold weather, which had so completely closed the
navigation; that it would 'be some time before a chan-
nel could be made by the ice-boats, for towing vessels
into the port.
*On the rath of January there was a large business
done„in the Stock Market at New York, but very little
change was observed in the general aspect of the money
madet. In foreign exchanges the business done for
the packet was but light. The supply of bills, how-
ever, was .fair, and generally cf a good description. The
quotations. in .London were from 61 to 71. Opera-
tions in foreign exchanges were materially suspended
in consequence of the expected arrival of the British
Queen, the detention of which vessel in England had
not yet been ascertained at New York. Domestic ex-
changes were improving. Philadelphia bank notes
were bought at 5i to 6.
We have no news of any importance from Canada.
The same remark applies to the South American States.
The Maine boundary question had been brought
before the- Senate, when resolutions were passed for an
inquiry into the negociations which had taken place,
during the last two years, between General Scott and
Sir John Harvey.
We find in the New York Morning Courier and En-
quirer the melancholy details -of two additional explo-
sions of -steam-vessels, one of which, as will be seen
from the subjoined extracts, was accompanied by a
frightful sacrifice of ' human life._ The number that
perished on board the Lexington had not been cor-
rectly ascertained, but it was estimated at about ONE
HUNDRED AND FORTY. Among the lists of the pas-
sengers we do not recognise a single Englishman.
They all appear to have been Am ericans. We give
the particulars
.at as great length as practicable.
[Since writing the above we have ascertained that
" Samuel Henry, of the firm of S. & A. Henry, Man-
chester, England," was among the passengers on
board the Lexington.]
DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF A STEAM VESSEL.
(From the Morning Courier and Enquirer of Jan. 16.)

The city was thrown into a state of extreme consternation,
by intelligence of a most fatal accident having befallen the
steamboat Lexington, which left here on Monday afternoon,
under the command of Captain George Child, on her usual
trip to Stonington. We have gathered from Captain Hil-
lard, almost the only survivor—at least as present appear-
ances lead us to dread from this awful scene of death, from
Captain Brooks of the New Haven steamboat, who received
Captain Hillard on board—from the sloop Merchant, Captain
Meeker, who rescued him, and from Captain Jennings, of
the sloop Ganges, who left Southport, to which place the
sloop Merchant belonged, and whither she had returned, the
following particulars of this distressing event :
The Lexington prosecuted her voyage until half-past seven
o'clock in the evening, when being between Eaton's Neck
and Crane's Neck, a fire was discovered to have broken out
near the smoke pipe, among some bales of cotton which were
stowed near it, or to which at least the flames speedily spread.
An attempt was then made to get out the suction pipe, and
by means of water thrown from it on the flames, extinguish
them ; but these spread with such rapidity, that soon all
access to the engine was impossible, and it continued to work
for a time with fearful rapidity. Captain Childs, it would
appear, then determined to steer the boat for the nearest part
of the Long Island shore, and he was last seen in the wheel
house at the helm. In fifteen minutes, however, the engine
became immoveable, and the course of the boat arrested
about two miles from the land. Here she continued to burn
until about 3 o:clock in the morning, when what remained of
her sank.
It were needless to Attempt to describe the scene of ago-
nized confusion which ensued among the passengers, and in-
deed all on board, as soon as the fire was discovered. No
order was preserved, or any attempt made to preserve it.
The life-boat which was on board was thrown over, forward
of the wheel, was struck by the paddles, and broken to pieces.
The Lexington had three boats besides, which were launch-
ed by the passengers while she was under full way, and im-
mediately swamped. Some twenty of them who had life..
preservers about them, jumped overboard, and the rest were
last seen as the flames drove them from the higher parts of
the steamboat, clinginc, in clusters to the guard-braces, where
they hung till all went down together.
Capt. Hillard, formerly of the ship Mississippi, of this
port—one of the passengers—escaped. When the progress
of the fire was such as to leave no hope, the passengers com-
menced throwing the deck freight overboard, probably in
the expectation that some parts of it would remain floating,
and might be the means of saving some of them. Capt. H.
assisted in throwing about ten bales of cotton overboard, and
in leaping on one of them. One of the firemen of the boat
also succeeded in getting on the same bale, and these two, by
means of a piece of board which they picked up, succeeded
in keeping the bale head on to the sea until about four
o'clock in the morning, when the bale capsized, but righted
again with both of them on it. Until this time they had
kept the upper part of their bodies comparatively dry, but
were now completely wet to the skin. And now the fireman
began to despond, talked of his wife and children, told Capt.
H. thdt his name was Cox, and that he resided in Oak-street
New York. Capt. H. endeavoured to cheer him up, and at
last lashed him to the bale, but at about 8 o'clock in the
morning he expired. At 11 o'clock Captain H. was rescued
by Capt. Meeker, in the sloop Merchant of Southport.
The same ves,,el also rescued Captain Manchester, the
pilot, and a fireman named Smith, who were each on a bale
of cotton. The fireman says, that soon after the fire was dis-
covered, he sought refuge on the rudder, expecting the bo'ler
• would burst, but whilstthere, two boys, who could not swim,
entreated him to give them his place, which he consented to,
on condition that they threw him a bale of cotton, which they
did, and to which he swam. The boat then drifted some
distanceahead ofhim, but when her upper works were burned,
he again floated near her, and saw several of the passengers
and crew on pieces of the wreck. They, however, all gradu-
ally became- exhausted, and fell off.
Captaiii'MJnichester, the pilot, adds little to the above ;par-
ticulars ; he and the fireman last spoken of; were badly
frozen.

We annex a list of as many passengers as on diligent in-
quiry we could learn were on board. We do not, however,
vouch for its entire accuracy ; though in the main we believe
it will be found correct, as far as it goes. Captain Hillard
estimates the number of passengers at 150; but Capt. Man-
chester says he thinks there were no more than 75 on board,
and we find that this latter number is considered at the office
of the Company to which the boat belonged, to be the nearest
probability. What chance is there that any more have been
rescued ?—Capt. Hillard says, that at about eight o'clock in
the morning a schooner, bearing to westward, passed him
while on the bale of cotton, about a mile off. She did not
see him, but it is possible she may have fallen in with some
of the other passengers floating on the pieces of the wreck.
The conflagration of the boat was seen from Norwalk and
Bridgeport, on the Connecticut shore, but the state of the
tide and the ice prevented them getting out their boats to her
assistance, and though the attempt was made, it was found
impossible to succeed. From the Long Island shore, we
have as yet no accounts, and it is possible, as the flames
must have been still more visible there, that some effectual
assistance may have been rendered to the unfortunate beings
who were floating on the waves, yet the sea was so very high,
and the cold so intense, that it seems almost a foilorn hope.
(From the Courier and Enquirer of Jan. 18.)
From the New Haven Daily Herald (extra) of Tuesday
evening,.we find an account of the mode in which the fire
took, which is somewhat more explicit and satisfactory than
any other which has met our eye. " The fire," says that
journal, " was discovered a little after seven o'clock, under
a tier of cotton bales, piled amidship, against the wooden
box or frame which enclosed the pipe leading from the tire-
room below, this boat having her boiler on her kelson, or un-
der deck. This pipe led through the freight above, and the
ignition of the cotton had become so extensive before the fire
engine and hose of the boat could be put in operation, that
both crew and passengers were so overwhelmed in smoke, and
the natural agitation of the moment, that all efforts to subdue
the fire were unavailing."
We understand from a source on which we can rely, that the
pilot, Captain Manchester, says, that shortly after the fire
broke out, he went to the wheel house, got the wheel hard
up, and then the rope parted, it being hide rope, connecting
with the chain and iron rods. He then sprung down to
launch the life boat, which was broken by the paddles, as
has been already described.
A bale of cotton was his next resource, to which lie found
a roan lashed. Finding, during the night, that the man was
dead, he cut bis body loose, fearing that it might cause the
bale to turn over. Manchester was picked up, lashed to the
bale, senseless and.how he came so lashed, he does not re-
collect.

. Smith, one of the hands also saved, says that he jumped
overboard at about eight-o'clock, and swam to a bale of cot-
ton, after floating on which five hours and a half in the wa-
ter, he got back to the wreck, and warmed himself for an
hour by the fire, and then got on that part of the wreck from
which he was picked up.

OAT .
The steamboatSTEAMß Belle' of MissouDISASTERri, bound from New Or-
leans for St. Louis, whilst wooding about a mile below Li-
berty, Illinois, on the evening of Chiistmas-day, took tire
and was totally consumed. She bad on board a valuable
cargo, and a large number of deck passengers. The follow-
ing letter from the commander to the owners gives the par-
ticulars

" Steamboat Susquehanna, Dec. 25, 1839.
Thsixe
osrteasmevbeonato,l3cleolelek
,lazia‘tvia:iglottillsoetiveenminilge
aabtoavbeoLutibehalf-
past ‘
Illinois, at a wood-yard. wooding an alarm of fire
was given on the lower deck,' a;t immediately on hearing
the alarm I started aft, but, being.
theirit way forward with
so much crowded with
deck passengers, who were making
edwtts come time before
roulghhetnhel neck from the hold as high
whatever they could take with therrig,
to my horror,
aI
blaze could
wasreac
coming
oh
ien fig rteh.
as my head. I called to my men for water ' • a number of
them started immediately aft with buckets, but, the wind
being on our stern, 'it soon became impossible for any one to
remain in the smoke.
" Some water was cast on the fire, but to no effect. In
the space of five or ten minutes at least, the whole boat was
one solid blaze of fire.
" Our boat having been landed at the time, fortunately
saved, I believe, every life, but few or none saved any portion
of their baggage.
" Men, women, and children running and screaming, such
erei,haenßderlLafkme.
a s.c,esnheel;snever before witnessed, and hope never to again.
aototal loss, burned to the water's edge, and very
little hope savinge‘ ery
any
effort tthing.o save • PI
fasshmailllchreamsapinosswibitleh. the
on board a largeasi insured for about 11,000 dollars. She had
the fire was discovered, of
powder, which exploded shortly after
the fact that she war:d, making a total wreck. ' Nothing but
explosion must have killed sedhore saved the passengers, as the
an.lt is said that there were'
nearly two hundred passengers,, chiefly Germans; some of
them, it is expected, lost I
16,000 in gold and silver, an.dr—amounts. One man had
of the moment he could cram only saved what in the hurry
into his pockets. The captain
was the last man to leave the boat.- i

, AGAIN.
wi,ich
BOUNDARY TROLFBLE
'f°-'e anh
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eoemn
bt hyetSh
et .
proclamation
mßaut/itoent bo'
. resolutionsii
we publish to clay, that he dissents from the It will b
passed by the legislature of. lowa, and adopted
Court of Clark Co. to suspend all hostilities by the
County
day of July next ; he further calls all the officers of the state,
Ist
civil and military, to exercise their respective duties tosttltite;
full extent, in conformity with the laws of this state. We will
now .have." marching and counter-marching " of troops, and
" rumours of. Far," inahuudance from the disputed territory.
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TOBACCO IN NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,
Humbly Sheweth,—That a system of adulteration of to-
bacco has for some years been practised to a considerable ex-
tent, to the manifest injury of the revenue, and to the ruin
of the fair trader. That your petitioners, in reiterated peti-
tions to the Board of Excise, and to the focal officers, have
prayed that the law against adulteration might be put in force,
for the protection of the revenue, and also for the due protec-
tion of your petitioners, who do not themselves practise such
fraud. That, in consequence, several seizures of adulterated
tobacco were made about two years ago, but were subse-
quently restored by order of government, without the inflic-
tion of any penalty, notwithstanding that no doubt could
possibly be entertained that the tobacco so seized was in an
adulterated state. That in consequence of these restorations,
the local officers have inferred that it is not the intention of
government to prevent or punish similar frauds ; and, not-
withstanding these local officers are perfectly aware of, and
fully admit the extensive existence of this illegal practice, yet
they refuse to take any steps to punish or prevent it, and
state without disguise (in answer to the urgent remonstrances
of your petitioners), that they are convinced that any exer-
tions on their part for its suppression, would not be accept-
able to their superiors, and that, consequently, they will not
venture to act until distinct orders to do so shall he issued
by the Board of Excise. That your petitioners have in con-
sequence implored the interference of the Treasury, and of
the Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer, but that no
attention has been paid to their earnest entreaties. Your
petitioners have prayed a reference to the local officers,
who are ready to bear testimony to the truth of these
allegations, the practice complained of being notorious.
Your petitioners have respectfully represented that the
weight of tobacco upon which duty was paid in the year
ending October 10, 1839, was 1,143,681 pounds less than in
the preceding year, and that the consequent loss of £171,552
to the revenue is altogether caused by this fraud; it being
the full conviction of your petitioners that the consumption
of tobacco has not decreased. Your petitioners have re-
spectfully stated that the existing law 1 and 2 Geo. IV. cap.
119, is sufficiently strong to meet the evil complained of, and
have represented that the revenue is defrauded, not only in-
directly, by the non-payment of duty on the materials mixed
with adulterated tobacco consumed in the kingdom, but also
directly, by the drawback allowance of 2s. 7-id. per pound
claimed and received on tobacco so adulterated when ex-
ported as ships' stores. Your petitioners have prayed the
interference of the local officers of her Majesty's customs to
check this last-named fraud, but have met with the same re-
fusal in that department which was given by the officers of
excise, because these officers of customs had previously re-
presented the case to their superiors, and no notice was taken
of their representations. That your petitioners have conse-
quently been left without any protection from ruinous loss in
contending against opponents who have no advantage over
them except the very large profits they derive from defraud-
ing the revenue, and the time is at length come when your
petitioners have only the choice of two evils—either to be-
come fraudulent or to abandon their trade. Your petitioners
therefore pray, that their case may be fully, and at an early
period inquired into, and that they may be allowed to offer
proof of the allegations herein contained • and further, that
strict orders may be issued forthwith to the officers of excise
throughout the kingdom to enforce the laws for the preven-
tion of adulterating tobacco.
And your petitioners, as in duty hound, will ever pray, &c.
ROBT. & Was. JOHNSON. I THOS. GRAY.
WILLIAM HARRISON. JOHN & JAS. S. HARVEY.
.ROBT. COLHOUN. W. O. DICKINSON.
JOHN THOMPSON. FEATHERSTON & ELDER.
PRINGLE & TATE.