The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-28 00:00:00

EXHIBITION

CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO.
THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WA-
1. TERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at
the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater-
street, Bold-street.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad-
mission, One Shilling each.

It is reported that.Wallaek will probably be the lessee fc
Drury-lane Theatre for next season.

Balfe has been named as one of the parties in negotiation
for Mr. Hamlet's splendid theatre in Oxford-street.
Lord and Lady Dinorben's extensive establishment is to
be broken up in consequence of the noble lord and lady's
intention of passing some months abroad.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, and the Hon. Joseeline
Percy, at the date of the last letters, were cruising in his
lordship's yacht off the coast of Greece, all well.
Lord Ashley has deferred his motion regarding the em-
ployment of children and young persons in mills and factories
till August 4. His lordship will then move an address to
her Majesty, to cause inquiry to be instituted thereon.
A'woman of the name of Day, of Harborough, was last
week delivered of twins for the third time. She has had
eighteen .children.—Northampton Mercury.
Nothing exceeds the modesty of the Hawkeye girls. They
wont be courted by daylight, nor in the evening, unless the
candles are extinguished.—Chicago Democrat.

An Irish clergyman, who preached a discourse in behalf of
a blind asylum, began by gravely remarking, " If all the
world were blind, what a melancholy sight it would be !" -
At the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, there is
exhibited one pourid of glass, spun by steam into a thread
4000 miles long, and woven with silk into beautiful dresses
and tapestry.
At the late York Assizes, Ann Gilmore was convicted•of
the murder of her own chill, at Hull, in March last, by
giving it laudanum and oil of vitriol, and was sentenced to
death.

On Tuesday last, Alexander M`Glachan Smith was trie
at York, for the wilful murder of William Duke, a polic
officer, at Huddersfield, and acquitted on the ground
insanity. .

We understand great preparations are making at Wentworth
House for the reception of the Queen and Prince Albert,
who are expected on a visit to Earl Fitzwilliam early next
month.—Sheffield Iris.
In a shop window of one of the shoemakers at Lincoln is
to be seen the following inviting invitation:—" Wanteda
Woman's Man."

During the several days of the exhibition of the Royal
English Agricultural Society, at Cambridge, it is computed
that not less than 60,000 persons could have been in the
town,

ORTHOGRAP lIICA L TRANSNOGRTFICATION.—A blael,
smith lately made out a bill against one of his customers, i
which a charge was intended to be made for steeling two mfo
tocks. But the son of Vulcan, who had been more used 1
wielding a sledge hammer than studying Doctor Johnson
wrote the following item :—" To stealing two mad duck.
two shillings."

SUGAR AN ANTI-SCORBUTIC.-It is a curious fact that
in countries where sugar is much used, scurvy and other cu-
taneous diseases are almost unknown. On board American
vessels, where the seamen are allowed the use of sugar at
pleasure, such a disease as the scurvy is scarcely ever heard
of; and would the cheapness of sugar permit the British ship_
owners to be as liberal to their seamen as the Americans are,
the health of that class of men would be materially improved.

WATER. SPOUT AND HAIL STORM.—On the afternoon of
Friday last, a water spout, accompanied with an unusally
heavy shower of hail, broke out on a turnip field situated to
the westward of the farm offices at CrailingTofts. The water,
which rushed down the declivity with the violence of a torrent,
carried along with it a quantity of the soil across the turnpike
road into a field of barley on the opposite side, whereby a con-
siderable portion of the grain was pressed down covered with
clay to a considerable depth. For some time great difficulty
was experienced by foot passengers passing the place from
the accumulation of hailstones, which covered the road at one
part to the depth of at least 18 inches.—Kelso Chronicle.
During the morning of Wednesday a large flagstone, near
the Post-office, New-road, Driffield, attracted attention by
being observed to have risen about three inches from its bed,
without any visible cause. On being lifted up by Mr. Wm.
Clark, bricklayer, to ascertain the cause, he discovered two
large species of fungi, or gross mushrooms, growing under
the flag. The mushrooms were two and a half inches high,
but much flattened with the pressure, weighed 1,11 b., and the
largest measured six inches in diameter. The power must
have been very great to move the flag, since it was fastly
bedded and wedged in between those adjoining. Similar cir-
cumstances have also lately occurred in other parts of the
town, which may be attributed to the very wet season.

TORPIDITY OF REPTILES.—On Saturday last as a ship':
wright was sawing a piece of oak, 35 feet long, and two feet
diameter, he discovered at about 12 feet from. the root, a
small cavity in the centre of the wood which contained a
frog. The surrounding part of the timber was perfectly
sound, indeed in the whole piece there was not even a crack.
The frog was immediately removed and placed by the man
in his tobacco-box. Nourished by the heat of his pocket,
the reptile soon evinced symptoms of life, but it was confined
in such an unhealthy atmosphere, it was not very lively,
nevertheless it lived for more than 18 hours. It is supposed
the tree was upwards of 200 years old.—Yorkshire Gazette.
POPERY AND SOCIALISM.—On a recent occasion, Mr.
O'Connell, in his place in the House of Commons, inquired
whether Socialism had made any progress in Ireland? in-
tending by this question to attribute its absence to the morel
influence of popery. Mr. Owen, the originator of this dia-
bolical system, visited Dublin in 1823, and called a meeting
at the Rotunda, for the purpose of propounding his views but the detestable nature of his principles were ably exposed
by several gentlemen, belonging to that class of protestants
who are contemptuously called saints, by Mr. O'Connell and
his party. But who introduced Mr. Owen to the people of
Dublin? Mr. O'Connell himself. Now mark the unblush-
ing effrontery of. the man. As the Magnus Apollo of popery
he introduced the leader of the Socialists to the Irish people
in 1823. Notwithstanding his patronage, Owen and his
Principles were banished from the Irish capital by some
faithful and gifted protestant men. Yet in 1840, Mr. O'Con-
nell calls on the British public to give popery full credit for
the absence of Socialism from Ireland. Mr. Owen's patron-
age reminds us of the trite proverb, " Like master like man."
In 1839, he was introduced to the Queen of England by her
Majesty's prime minister, Lord Melbourne, having been
previously introduced, in 1823, to the peotile of Ireland, by
Lord Melbourne's master, Mr. Daniel 0 Connell.—ilfora-
ing Herald.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.--(From a Sydney
paper.)—A few days ago, as a vessel, bound for New Zea-
land, was about to sail out of the heads of Port Jackson,
one of the intermediate passengers attracted the attention of
the water police authorities who accompany each ship until
her final departure from our shores. Though habited in
male costume, the passenger alluded to could not conceal
feminine gait and manner, and giving but vague and unsatis-
factory answers to the queries which were put to her, she
was suspected to be a runaway female convict, and as such
was taken ashore. Being marched up, in her male attire,
from the female watchhouse to the barracks, for identifica-
tion, it was discovered that she was a respectable middle-
aged single lady, of considerable property, who formerly
was governess in two or three families of the very highest
respectability in Sydney. 'When interroated by Captain
the superintendent of police, as tog the cause of her
being disguised, she unhesitatingly answered that she was
about to purchase, a landed estate at New Zealand, and tear-
ing that the native chiefs and others with whom she might
have to treat in her purchase, might be disposed to take un-
due advantage of her sex, in making the bargain, she had
resolved to pass herself off as a man. The vessel,
which pro-
ceeded without the passenger of doubtful sex, conveys pro-
perty of hers to a very considerable amount, as well as
upwards of £9OO in cash. The lady has also.extensive pro-
perty in Sydney, which, it is said, she intends to convert into
cash, and with it, to follow her fortunes in the new colony.