The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

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Portland Chapel, Bath, formerly a Roman Catholic place
of .worship, will be opened for Divine service according to
the forms of the Established Church, on the last Sunday of
this month.

Mr. Wigram has been appointed to one of the new jiicle-
ships created by the bill passed in the last session for facili-
tating the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery.
No gentleman has been vet selected as Mr. Wigram's col-
league.

The corporation of the city of Durham and the commis-
sioners under the Durham Paving Acts have effected two
very great improvements in that ancient city—namely, the
enlargement of the market-place and the widening of the
thoroughfare at the foot of Claypath. They contemplate
still further improvements.
Nearly all the miners of Captleton, in Derbyshire, have
turned out, in consequence of the agents requiring them to
work two hours a day extra for the same wages. The rate of
wages has been only 2s. 6d. a day, or 15s. a week. The plea
offered by the agents for the reduction is, that the mines
have become too impoverished to afford an adequate return.
THE LATE JAMES `goon.—The mayor has convened a
meeting of the town-council of the city of Gloucester for
Tuesday next, " to adopt such measures as may be deemed
necessary with reference to the judgment of the judicial com-
mittee of the privy council relative to the will and codicil of
the late James Wood, Esq."

In the London Gazette of Tuesday night, the following
appointments as to the British ministers at foreign courts are
officially announced :—Lord Cowley to the Court of France ;
Lord Stuart de Rothesay to Russia ; Sir Stratford Canning
to the Ottoman Porte; Sir Robert Gordon to Austria ; and
Lord Burghersh to Prussia.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday, a most destructive
fire took place at Southampton, by which, according to a
letter received at London, upwards of 0 houses were destroyd.
The town was partially inundated the same evening, and the
bridge across the river was swept away, and a boy, who was
crossing at the time, perished.
The disposal of the highly valuable property at Tredegar
iron *orks, Monmouthshire, is announced, and the mode
proposed is a species of lottery, the price of each share being
fixed at £lO. The property is divided into lots. One prize
is no less value than four thousand guineas, this being the
Tredegar Arms Inn, Tredegar.—Cambrian.

GREAT PROTESTANT MUETING.—The Rev. Professor
Butler, of Dublin, one of the most distinguished ornaments
the Church of England in the sister country, as a preacher
and public orator, has been invited by the committee of the
Protestant Association to take part in the great protestant
meeting which is to be held at Exeter Hall, on the 4th No-
vember next.

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—Each of the stew-
ards are £l9O minus by the late festival. The enormous
sums given to the foreign " stars " is the reason assigned
for the deficiency. We are informed that the Choral Society
of London have come to the resolution never to attend ano-
ther musical festival at which such inordinate amounts are
lavished on foreigners, to the neglect and injury of native
talent.