The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS

PRIESTLEY, CHEMIST, Lord-street, Liverpool, begs
el • particularly to call the attention of his Friends and the
Public to his improved Preparation of the very justly cele-
brated article SEIDLITZ POWDERS, to form the SEID-
LITZ WATERS, which approach nearer than anything yet
discovered to the Chalybeate Waters of Germany. The
style of preparing PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS is pe-
culiar to himself, and combines scientific skill with great ac-
curacy ; and though numbers of people unacquainted with
the business, and others, have of late years attempted imita-
tions, they have invariably been found to be spurious com-
pounds, neither possessing the agreeable flavour nor the me-
dicinal properties of the Seidlitz Waters.
Sold in Boxes, 2s. each, containing twenty-four Powders,
to make one dozen tumbler glasses, and in Tin Cases, 10s.
each. The latter are put up in a very eligible form for ex-
portation, or to use at sea, and will keep any length of time
in all climates. Prepared and sold only by JOHN PRIEST-
LEY, No. 52, Lord-street, where also may be had Seidlitz
Powders in Packets.
IMPROVED SODA POWDERS.

It has been observed that the Soda Water, when kept in
jars, parts with its carbonic gas; that carriage of it to a dis-
tance has been attended with risk and considerable expense ;
and that, from these inconveniences, its use has been con-
fined chiefly to large cities and their environs. To obviate
these objections, and to extend the use of this agreeable and
efficacious Water, the ingredients for making it are offered
to the public.—Sold in Boxes, at ls. 6d. each
FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.
In this preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Pro-
perties of Sarsaparilla Root. To persons, therefore, who,
from various causes, would experience great inconvenience,
or with whom it would be utterly impossible to prepare the
Compound Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses
the advantages of portability and of keeping in any climate,
will be found a most desirable mode of employing this much
esteemed Medicine.

Two teaspoonsful of the Fluid Extract, put into a wine-
glass full of water, makes a preparation equal in strength to
half a pint of the Compound Decoction, formerly prescribed
by the London, Edinburgh. and Dublin Pharmacopoeias.

The diseases in which it has proved most beneficial are
those of the Skin ; such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive
Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, &c., arising from a diseased
state of the system at large. For removing Blotches, Pim-
ples, &o. from the Face, this Medicine has no superior.
The extensive use and high reputation of this preparation
has led to numerous imitations, disguised by the name of
Syrup, Essences, &c. The whole medicinal virtues of the
Sarsaparilla consist in its extractive matter, and it possesses
no real property in the form of essence, while the Syrup is
injurious to the digestive organs by causing acid fermentation

efir Etinrpoot &tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1840

By the overland mail we have received intelligence
from New South Wales, to the 18th of June. The
state of Sydney is described in the papers as most
alarming, so many crimes having been recently coin-

mitted there. Robberies were almost of daily recur-
rence. Much discussion had taken place on the subject
of the Bushranging Act, designed to give security
against marauders. By the provisions of this act, any
man may seize and detain another who may be detected

with fire-arms in his possession. It was alleged t

the governor, that the act would prove a great means
of preventing the excess of crime.

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The merchants of Port Philip had convened a meet-
ing of the inhabitants for the purpose of memorialising
the government for the establishment in Australia Felix,
of a supreme court of civil and criminal judicature.
Further outrages had been committed by the French
on the inhabitants of the South Sea islands. A letter
from Tahiti states, that the French frigate which left that
place for the Sandwich Islands last year, had been at
the latter, and succeeding in extorting 20,000 dollars.

The captain threatened to commence hostilities unless
his demands were immediately complied with, but
offered protection to all foreigners, except the Protes-
tant clergymen. The officers of two American ships of

war, just arrived from Tahiti, had drawn up and
circulated a spirited protest against the arbitrary pro-
ceedings of the French. It was also probable that a
memorial on the same subject would be presented to
the American government.
The Sydney Herald complains bitterly of the Irish im-

migrants that had recently arrived in the colony. They
are described as " the most troublesome, the least
useful, and the least prized of all those arriving by

government or bounty ships." It is added that
the Irish immigrants are not of this character, but t

' the mass of those sent out from the Popish counties
are of the lowest grade of character," and that settlers

from the interior dread the risk of contamination by
bringing them upon their establishments. Most of
them were idle, dissolute, and reckless, having no fixed
employment, and possessing nothing in their personal
appearance to recommend them. They appeared to
have been taken from workhouses, or discharged from
gaols, in order to swell the ranks of the Popish faction
in the colony. We cannot avoid making one quota-
tion from the Sydney Herald, in reference to these indi-
viduals, and with respect to the indisposition of the
colonists to take them into their employ. That journal
says—" There is a moral reason which prevents re-
spectable settlers from engaging the services of such
men. There is a strong suspicion that many of these
men are shipped off for party purposes. Ireland
abounds with daring criminals at this day, and it is
strongly suspected that many of these are shipped to
Australia to be out of the way when wanted.' Who,
with such suspicions in his mind, confirmed by the
appearance of the men, would willingly receive into
his family the suspected burglar, murderer, whiteboy,
or bludgeon-man ? Who would willingly receive
under his charge the lazy, ignorant, priest-ridden zea-
lots, who have escaped the halter, the penitentiary, or
the hulks, by the misplaced lenity of the Marquis of
Normanby ? No one would wish to identify his esta-
blishment with their names." These suspicions, we
have strong reasons for asserting, appear to be but too
well founded. The Marquis of Normanby, during his
administration of Irish affairs, systematically afforded
" a license for crime, an indemnity for felony, and a
bounty in favour of atrocity, manslaughter, rape, and
murder." Many of the criminals whom he discharged
by proclamation, have been shipped to New South
"Wales. This is the way in which the Whigs protect
the colonial interests of Great Britain. Under their
paternal care one of the most flourishing of our colo-
nies is converted into a den of emancipated thieves.
We hope that the colonists will send home a strong
remonstrance against this infamous system. If it is
allowed to proceed much further, there will be a com-
plete stop put to the emigration of respectable capi-
talists. It is a gross fraud upon the colony to appro-
priate the immigration fund to such a purpose as that
of sending out a horde of idle vagabonds, reeking
with crime, and tutored in all those mysteries of
abomination which are so sedulously inculcated by the
ruffian disciples of Peter Dens.

The expiring effort of an enemy is always danger-
ous. The clutch of a drowning man drags down alike
friend and foe to share the watery grave which is clos-
ing over him; and the downfal of a faction is ever
marked by the same desperate and blind struggle to
involve in a common fate its adherents and its op-

ponents.
Let our readers look back to the proceedings of the
whig corporation of Liverpool during the last twelve
months. Let them examine the reckless shifts, the
fraudulent expedients, the deep artifices, the com-
pounded jesuitry and open dishonesty, with which it
has struggled to retrieve its fast-sinking popularity, to
strengthen its hold upon the public purse, to prop up

and stay its tottering power ; and the conclusion to
which they must inevitably come will be, that whig in-
fluence in our corporation has seen its last and best
days, and that the hour of its final extinction is fast
approaching. Perhaps we shall not be far wrong in
asserting that that that hour has already arrived !

It has arrived if conservatives will be true to them-
selves, as we trust they will be ; for how can they be

otherwise ?

Let every conservative, whether a voter or not, pre-
pare to put forth his energies, at once and to the ut-
most, to promote the return of conservative candi-
dates in every ward. Let every conservative voter at-
tend upon his notice of objection to defend his fran-
chise at the Session's-house. Let no negligence, no
plea of business or of pleasure, no over-certainty of
strength prevent this paramount duty. Let it be borne
in mind that upon the issue of the approaching con-
tests the Whig faction, not only in Liverpool but
throughout England, have all at stake—that, mad-
dened and desperate with the prospect which is before

hem in case of defeat, they will fight to the last man ;
hey will spare neither intimidation nor open corrup-
ion ; and that, if deprived by other means, they are
.eady to buy the right to trample upon the liberties of

their fellow-townsmen. The purse of the Protector
Society, we may rest assured, is not closed now when
only half the work of its owners is done.

Conservative electors ! be firm—be vigilant. At-
tend the Session's-house and SECURE YOUR FRAN-
CHISE! The opportunity now offered you must never
allow to pass by unimproved. Our opponents must
not be permitted to enjoy for another year the
power of lavishing your money to secure their own
party interests. Be firm, then, again we impress upon
you. Be vigilant and active; but above all ATTEND
THE REVISING COURT AND SECURE YOUR FRAN-
CHISE.

The last lecture of Mr. Brindley's course on So-
cialism was delivered, on Tuesday evening last, in the
Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street, in the presence
of a very numerous and respectable audience. The
subject was, the fraud of Socialism on the operative
classes, and an exposure of the " community" system.
Mr. Brindley's masterly and eloquent denunciations of
the infamous practices of the Social leaders cannot fail
to do much good. The facts which he laid before the
meeting respecting the tricks of these abandoned men
will open the eyes of the operative classes to the real
character of the community system—a system which
Mr. Brindley has demonstrated to be one of unmiti-
gated fraud and villany. The meeting on Tuesday
evening sent a deputation to wait upon Mr. Hollick,
the Socialist missionary, and Mr. John Finch, late go-
vernor of the " Community," in Hampshire, to chal-
lenge them to come forward to rebut, if they could,
the charges brought against the Social leaders by Mr.
Brindley. Those persons, however, thought fit to de-
cline the challenge, conscious, no doubt, that Mr.

Brindley's facts were unanswerable. The " Commu-
nity" in Hampshire turns out to be a piece of " com-
mon" land, which is nearly unapproachable on account
of mud. On this land, which has been rented, not
purchased, there has been erected a "superior habita-

tion," in the shape of a hovel, which answers the pur-
pose of workshop, kitchen, store-room, sitting-room,
lecture-room, and dormitory. This is all that has been,
as yet, produced in return for about five thousand

pounds advanced by the poor operatives who have been
gulled into the belief that the " Community" was to
be assembled in a " splendid palace," far exceeding in
beauty and grandeur that of any earthly monarch, and
surrounded by beautiful gardens, so as to resemble a
second Paradise ! Mr. Brindley's description of the
miserable abode in Hampshire, and of the still more

niserable manner of life which its inmates led, will not

be speedily forgotten. Nor will the testimony of Ar-
mitage, a poor operative of Sheffield. who had been

plundered of his little all by the community-mongers;
soon escape the memories of the thousands of working

en who listened to the lecturer

It is quite evident that Mr. Brindley has inflicted a
deathblow upon the abominable system of Socialism,
as far as Liverpool is concerned. After his fearful ex-
posures of this strange compound of blasphemy and
obscenity, hypocrisy and delusion, fraud and swind-
ling, we feel assured that the Socialists will be univer-
sally scouted and derided. We have no hesitation in
adding that no decent female, no, nor any man who has
in him the feelings of a man, or who has any regard
for his own character, will ever sit down in the society
of a Socialist. Every one who avows himself to be
one of this filthy and degraded crew ought to become
an outcast from society. This is the only way to ba-
nish the monstrous nuisance from the land. We hope
to see our operative friends acting upon this sugges-
tion to the very letter.

DEAFNESS.—We have great pleasure in directing the at-
tention of our readers to the success attending Mr. Swift's
practice on the human ear.—( See advertisement.)
ASPHALTUM PAVEMENTS.—We beg to draw the attention
of our engineering friends to an advertisement which appears
in another column of our paper this day, relating to the lay-
ing down of bitumen pavements. It appears that the prices
of the Parisian Bitumen Company are considerably lower
than others, and we are assured that the material is of a su-
perior quality, whether in respect to its durability or hard-
ness. The South-Eastern and Blackwall Railways have
used it to a great extent, and it has been found to answer
most admirably.
We understand that the ladies' committee of Christ Church
School have presented the Rev. Fielding Ould with a hand-
some gown and cassock, &c., as a testimony of their high
estimation of his zeal and affection in the discharge of his
pastoral duties to the congregation at large, and particularly
in the superintendence of the school under their direction.
The gift was accompanied by an appropriate letter from the
secretary of the committee.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'Clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tins DAY

A steady continuance of fine seasonable weather, and re-
cently very favourable accounts of harvest in the late dis-
tricts of Great Britain and Ireland, have decidedly conduced
to increase the dulness noticed in the early part of the week ;
since which, and up to this date, the transactions in any
branch of the corn trade here have been extremely unim-
portant ; at the same time, although there appeared little dis-
position among holders to recede, our previous quotations
were scarcely sustained.

The duty on foreign Wheat is raised to 20s Bd, on Oats to
6s 3d, on Rye to 12s 6d per qr., on Flour to 12s 5d per bar-
rel, on colonial Wheat to 5s per qr, and on Flour to 3s per
barrel, leaving the duties on other produce for the ensuing

week unvaried.
A few small parcels of Wheat, Oats, Flour and Oatme

comprise the principal arrivals into this port since Tuesday
last, having scarcely any Coastwise, and no Grain or Flour
fresh in from abroad.

Having a very limited attendance of buyers at this day's
market, the Wheat Trade continued to exhibit a languid ap-
pearance, our local millers being rather inactive ; and the
sales, chiefly confined to a few parcels of old for Ireland
and the interior of this country, a decline of ld to 2d per
701bs. in the value of most descriptions of English, Irish
and foreign, was pretty generally conceded.
Barrel Flour even in the face of advancing duties, was in
slow request, hardly supporting late prices ; and a small lot
or two of good fine Irish new Flour was offered at 52s per
280 lbs.

ROBT. MAKIN and SONS

ARRIVALS OF CORN,

From the 6th to the Bth October, 1840, inclusive,

COAST-

STATES

Without any supply of English malting Barley, and hav-
ing little good foreign remaining over, inferior qualities were
in limited demand on the terms last noted.