The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

INFIDELITY.—We hear that a lew is now perambulatibg
the agricultural districts in this county, preaching, by ap-,
pointment, in the open air, denying our Saviour. .Should
this be tolerated ?—Chester Courant.

Eight hundred acres of land in the fens of Lincolnshire
were sold by Mr. George Robins last week, at Spilsbv, for -
fifty-one thousand four hundred and eighty guineas.-1, n-

colnshire paper.

Lord Western has recently presented Cranmer's or the
Great Bible, to the Duke of Sussex, as a tribute of respect
to his Royal Highness, whose collection of Bibles in all
languages and of all editions is probably the finest in the
world.—Evening paper.
IMPORTANT TO MERCHANTS.—The following is an extract
of a letter from Sir Henry Parnell to one of his constituents
in Dundee :—" The exertions I have made order to pre-
...

vent the government of France from imposing additional
duties on British linens and yarns imported into France have
been successful, so far as to prevent those measures from being
passed during the late session of the French chambers; and.
I believe that active steps will be taken by our government to
protect our linen and yarn trade from such a measure here-
after taking place."
PAYING FOR THE WHISTLE.--II will be remembered that
in November last the corporation of this borough entertained
at a public dinner (the mayor in the chair) that notorious
libeller of English female chastity, Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
and so extensive and costly were the preparation, that two
penny balls and other low temptations, calculated to debauch
the mind, were resorted to in order to "raise the wind"
.and
meet the expenses; but notwithstanding all these means and
appliances to boot of the committee, one individual of it has
had to pay £9O as his share of the transaction.—Stockport
Advertiser.

BALLOON ASCENT.—A Mr. Brown, in imitation of Mr.
Green, has taken to aerial navigation. He ascended from
the Sheffield Botanical Gardena on Monday, accompanied
by a Mr. Seeing. The ascent took place at 20 minutes to six -
o'clock. The balloon has been entirely made by Mr. Brown,
and is next in size to the great Nassau, while all the improve-
ments in aeronautics have been introduced in the preparation
of the silk and the various details, and it is, perhaps, the most
perfect air vessel ever made in this or any other country: Mr.
Brown passed over Doncaster, at a quarter past six, at a great
altitude, and was going in the direction of Guole or Beverley.
—Siteield Iris.
TioN...On Saturday last, as two young gentlemen were
walking near the Serpentine, they saw a lad, about I,l'year
of age, with a lucifer match in his hand, attempting to firelat
a small cannon which lay on theground before him'; but the • .
match failing to do it as readily as he wished, hp knelt down,
and applying his breath to the almost dying embers of the
lucifer, a spark caught the priming, and with aloud explosion
the cannon burst. The bdy fell to 'the earth in 'seerning agony.
The gentlemen hastened his; assistanee•,_ and on raising
him they discovered that one eye was completely forced from .
the socket, and hanging on the cheek, itiat his face was dread-
fully lacerated, and the other eve so Much injured that to all
appearance blindness wilt be the poor boy's lot for the re-
mainder of his days. He was conveyed to St. George's Hos-
pital.—Standard.

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MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlrE.—The lovely and amiable
Lady Mary Alethea Talbot will be shortly led' to..the altar of
Hymen by the young. Prinee'Doria, of Rime, who besides,
immense possessions in Naples and Tuicany, has the three—
finest palaces in Rome, containing the most splendiecolfeel.
Linn of paintings in Italy. His Highness is also nearly re- ,
lated to the royal families of Naples and Sardinia. He istst
present on a visit at Alton Towers, where are also his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Douro,
and other fashionables. The nuptials are to be celebrated-
at Rome. The Prince is in the 25th year of his age, and her
ladyship in her 21st year. She is grand-daughter of Mr.
William Talbot, of Rocklands, in this county, and niece to"
the member for Rosa.-117e.rford paper. . .•
THE HARVEST IN Iltfil.AND.—The reports of the appear-
ance of the crops in the west of Ireland are much more satis-
factory than could have been expected, considering the late-
ness of the spring, and the partial failure of the potatoe crop. •
The wheat and oats, if not injured by the present heavy
rains, will be a full crop—the straw of the latter rather short.
The potatoes, notwithstanding the blight, which was princi- .
pally confined to the middle sowing (the early and late ones -
having escaped), will yield more than an average return: ar
Hay and flax, however, will be a short crop—the former, on .- •
the high grounds, is very poor, while on the low lands it has
been in many districts injured by the floods, and is still
uncut; the latter has not been sown in the usual quantities,,.. -(
and, generally speaking, is looking very badly. Should the
present rainy weather be succeeded by a few weeks of sun-
..•
shine, an abundant harvest may be calculated on.--Dublin
Evening Mail.
• • trait
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—The following lamentable
occurrence at 20, Upper Lisson-street, Lisson-grove. Mary=. 5111
bone, has thrown a respetable family into the greatest aftlic7;!l;
tion, and caused no inconsiderable degree of excitement
throughout the neighbourhood :—lt appears that aborit two
months ago a fine little boy named John Evans, sons of a..., e,-A
painter and French polisher, residing at the house above
referred to, was seized upon and bitten in the lower part
the stomach by a dog, supposed to be in a rabid state; a SOT, ,•,1.7.
geon who was sent for immediately, cauterized the part, and •
no unfavourable symptoms were evinced by the child until
Thursday last, when he experienced much difficulty intireath-,sl:,e
ing, and in other respects seemed unwell. Medical aid was
once more obtained, but in spite of all the exertions tised,
rapidly got worse, and on Sunday. afternoon died
.from
ilia-
effects of the wound. The deceased who has fallen a victim
to that most dreadful of all maladies—hydrophobia—wai no
more than 10 years of age, and during the last few hours of
his existence the agony he endured was terrible in the ---
extreme.—Standard.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOcIETY.—A letter from Lady Grey,
was read on Monday evening at the Entomological 'Society.
ou the habits of the Elator Putator, a beetle, which was,said:
to be possessed of electrical properties. The writer stated ..„-
that on one flying on her shoulder it made her start, giving
a shock from the elbow to the shoulder, which was accom-
panied by an explosion similar to the ticking of a clock.
These singular effects' of this insect had been noticed 'oti
several
.previous occasions, and Lady Grey wore a silk dreis,
at the time, to which it was probable that the electrical effect
was to be ascribed. A communication was read from 11.1 r...":
Spence, P.R.S:, on the deplorable and almost total tlestruc..,e4l
Lion of the apple crop in Herefordshire and Worcestershire,,.:
a similar effect having been produced in Devonshire. So
great was the failure of the crop, that where 50 casks-ha.d;i:4'..e
previously been obtained the average will not this year exceed,
five casks. He considered it desirable that the society shoeld'• •
make an investigation into the cause, which, the farmers. nt...;;-,q44
tributed to a blight, from the effects of the frosty nights in.
May before the full expansion of the blossom; but' a pinkish
aphis has been found on the trees in great abundance, to: i'l`
which, in all probability, the savages.are to, be.ascribed..--
Standard.
• LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.—On, Friday evening, Thomais
13adger, Esq., held an inquest at theißed Lion public-house; .•
Charles-street, touching the death-of Mr. James Thompson, ,
of the firm of Thompson and Son, cutlery manufacturers,'
Charles-street. It appeared from the evidence of some Metii-I:!ein
bars of the family of the deceased, that he was subject to. t
great nervous debility and consequent depression of spirits.-
Since Monday he had suffered much front this.'distressinir,l,o
malady, but still not to such an excess as to excite pastime:a-4;
larly the fears of his friends. It was his custom to riSelie.
fore the rest of the family, and on Friday morning he .vrairl;"
heard to go down stairs as usual before six o'clock.. Soon
after the family were disturbed by a peculiar anise,
hastening down stairs they found the deceased seated before
a looking-glass, with a razor in his hand, and a very severe. 7 rt,
wound inflicted upon his throat. The assistance of Mr.
Gregory, surgeon, was procured without delay, but It,:wati • • 2
unavailing, as the deceased expired in a very short time.:
jury were satisfied that the act .had been committed
under the influence of temporary insanity; and found a Ver.'
diet accordingly. The deceased was highly esteemed by a -
large and most respectable circle of friends, who deeply ..
lament the sad catastrophe. The age of the deceased 'mitt-
63.—Sheffield Iris.
CoMmuNICATIoN BY SIGNALS.—An exhibition of .what, • ,
was said to be a novel method of communication by means,
of signals took place yesterday in -Trinity-Square, On tile •
northern side of Tower-hill. The place selected ..fer, this -.,
exhibition was a very inconvenient one : a flag-staff tifspar,
with pullies and other apparatus at the top of it, was flied OA ''•
the summit of a heap of rough blacks of granite, that were
piled up for the purpose of paving the streets; there Was no ;
accommodation whatever for those who were to. display the'
signals, or for those who were to behold them. The novel
method consisted apparently in the hoisting to the top of the
,:s
flag-staff a great variety of pieces of canvass, painted black;
and cut in the shapes of squares, diamonds, triangles, care:
des, &c., and in occasionally combining an angle and a cir-,,,
cle, or an angle and a square, or an ungle.with
and so forth. These signals are to be interpreted by
ence to a code of signals, which is said to be prepared, hut„.,
not yet published; and the new system is meant to suPereeite
the system of signals by means of flags now generally. in-use.'
It was not explained in what respect the new system is s:ipes
rior to that already adopted, and indeed, from the inerinve-
nient and imperfect manner in which the business was yes-
terday
conducted, it is difficult to give any opinion as to the
merits of the invention. Several persons were furnished
with printed letters, the words and Sentence's of which were
written opposite to the aforesaid squares, triaugles,, s.:ee, •
which triangles and squares were tantanibuht to the expres-
sion in the word or sentence, and. indeed, if used in confuse
lion with the projected vocabulary of the code of signals, -
may be made to signify anything whatever. The experiment .
of yesterday was, however, as has already been said, too im-
perfect for a fair estimate of the project to be formed. The
pieces of canvass of which these are made were described by
Mr. Smith, the inventor, to be capable of being joined toge-
ther, and of forming a vessel sufficiently large to contain.
seven tuns of water. What connection a canvass water-butt .
has with the communication by means of signals is not very
obvious.— Times.
FRENCH VOYAGE OP DlScovEßy.—The Moniteur; of
Thursday publishes a letter from Captain Dumont d'UrYille
„.
dated "Island of Conception, April 10, 1838," announcing'
the arrival in that harbour of the corvettes Astrolabe and
Zelec, sent by the French government on a voyage of 'dis-
coverv_ to the Austral regions. After remaining an !eittire= '
month in the Straits of Magellan M. d'Urviile left thein
the Bth of January, and, steering towards the south, came
within of the first mountains of ice on the 15th. Seven
afterwards, at break of day, his progress was: checked by
solid barrier of ice, which he sailed along at a, (Optative of
240 miles, from let. S. 64 deg. to 61 deg. (near the.Neiv.Q4' .
ney Islands.) On the 2d of February he continned to .ailvalle°
southward, and on the 4th, being in lat. S. 62 the.two':
coavettes were so hemmed in on all sides that Captain d'.U,r, • 7
ville was beginning to despair of extricating them, when 011:,.
the 9th, he availed himself of a strong B.S. E.; wind to heie,'
all sails, and so got clear of it. He then coasted, the liartier, •
of ice for a distance of 300 miles, without perceiving any
opening, and on the 15th, having reached-the 33d deg. Of
long. (Paris), after visiting the points explored by Weddell
tahnedsseaeni,niv,gitehh Islands,erampart
he
ef iperemeexet(eienddinwgesntl‘eartrhawbayrdlitioewvol,
Orkney Islands, the eastern part of those of New Shetlatia,
and, turning again to the south, he explored, between 4"
63d deg. and 64th deg. of latitude, a hitherto unknovvo re-
gion, for a distance of 181) miles. Crossing the whole of til
straights of Barnsfield. he left the Austral shares on_ the 7th_
March, after a most painful navigation of 52 days amorig tfie
ice. The crews being much fatigued, and the scurvy having
manifested itself with considerable intensity among
particularly on board the fZelee, Captain d'Urville.cletc
mined on making fot the nearest harbour of the coast Of C1"4!:
and safely reached the Bay of Conception on the 71h
THE BOWIE KNIFE.—The papers the other day
great deal of twaddle about the origin of the Bowie kn '
bu.a.
their statements were entirely wrung. The first persor*.c,l,-,1.
had a Bowie knife made in this country was the father w5...4
James Bowie, who was killed at Alama. The old may ;
originally from Scotland, and settled on a plantation uy„it.e...,
Red River. He used it altogether as a hunting and cane,g"Tow:
Col. James Bowie, or, as he was more familiarly callea,,i'the
Bowie, improved upon it, as he thought, and first •
weapon in a duel, He became notorious by his b100d,..e",,,ai
at Iberville, on the Plaquemine Bayou, in Louisiaoao•vner him
there shot down, and as his antagonist was stuenin.,g 80a cut
to despatch hitn Jem Bowie seized him by the wat' e of Jon
• him nearly in half with his knife. The “brolhfrt_ie
Bowie, spoken of in the Express as the inventor of t 1 k_.ll.ifhee'
is Reason Bowie, who lately lived at Thibadouxville, °lle' is
Bayou La Fourche, near Lake Chicot, in Louisiana.
near
El yvibnlei rissd, ;u
sanded tsoo
bfar a from
p e
perfect
bctei
as
was
the knife
himself. Again, the Express says Jem
at the Alamo. This is untrue; writer of this
was butchered in bed. Col. Almonte
""d us of the history
at ticle so; and Jew Bowie himself inforree This was also
and origin of the knife as described 8290evrL,
Attakapas in
corroborated by Dr. Gault, of Nova lb
Bowie knife, in. 136- •
whoie possession we saw the original
nr,g)w%,;ihya,t he i
as
sdienesanic.ribneoclwii:
ge, in the 'AlatiO, ia
The knife found.with Col. Bowie's bag dUsbnaan, a the POI
be was si3iclwaibteied helpless, and,
now in the possession of Miss -
Theatre.--:-American ,Paper: