The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

An author that lived somewhere has such a brilliant' wit,
that he contracted to light the pariah with it, and did it.
Mr. Barron has been appointed Chairman of the County
Limerick, in the room of Mr. Faloon, deceased.
The new parliament contains one coloured man—the mem-
ber for Sudbury.

. The three surviving brothers of the Emperor Napoleon,
Joseph, Louis, and Jerome, are at present united at Genoa,
where the government appears to. pay them every respect.
A Paris correspondent of the Prussian State Gazette says
that a reconciliation has taken place between the Queen
dowager of Spain and her sister the Duchess de Berri.
A man, named M`Donald, had judgment of death recorded
against him at the Lewes assizes last Wednesday, for a capi-
tal offence upon the person of a female 85 years old.
Mr. Ducrow, the celebrated equestrian, is in such a state
of mind that it has been found necessary to place him under
restraint.

The number of the families now at the waters of Wiesba-
den is said by the Frankfort Journal to be 2150 ; of whom
1652 are Germans, and 498 foreigners. The latter comprise
214 English and 77 French families.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—One week's traffic on the different
lines of railway now open, as reported in the Railway Times
of Saturday last, amount, within a few pounds, to the enor-
mous sum of £99,000 !
A Bank of England note for three hundred pounds has
been inclosed in an anonymous letter to the secretary at war,
and has been paid by him into the Bank of England, to the
account of the Paymaster General, for the service of the pub-
lic.

PRlDE.—Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great
deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing,
you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of
a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to
satisfy all that follow it.—Franklin.

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—An immense British fleet,
accompanied by a prodigious number of armed steam-ships,
is collecting about the shores of North America. What this
portends cannot be doubtful. A demonstration of British
force in those parts has been long demanded by the uneasy
and threatening appearances of the political hor►zon in that
quarter.
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MEETING EXTRAORDINARY.—The right hon. Viscount
Morpeth, chief secretary ; Norman Macdonald, Esq., under
secretary ; Captain Romilly, private secretary ; and Corry
Connellan, Esq., late private secretary to Lord Plunket, left
Dublin yesterday afternoon for Glencullen, the seat of Chris.
Fitzsimon, Esq. clerk of the Hanaper-office, and son-in-law
to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in order to meet the last named
gentleman at dinner. We have been informed that this cabi-
net council was held for the purpose of devising the most
effectual plan for carrying on the future agitation against Sir
Robert Peel's government, and embarrassing that right hon.
gentleman on Irish ground. The truth of this information
can scarcely be doubted, when we take into consideration the
characters of the respective parties, and call to mind the
" compact alliance upon terms," ratified at Lichfield House.
—Dublin Evening Pacquet.
THE AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION SYSTEM.—A case came
on Tuesday before Mr. Duffy, at the Dublin police-office,
which was characterised by peculiar features of hardship and
severity. Twelve poor emigrants from Galway were the
complainants, and Mr. Fullam, of Talbot-street, the Dublin
agent to Masson and Company, the Australian emigration
agents of London, appeared as defendant under the follow-
ing circumstances :—A man who acted as spokesman to the
complainants, stated that being induced by the fair promises
held out to them to emigrate to Australia, they art anged with
the agent in Galway for a free passage out, on the usual con-
ditions, and paid him lOs each on the occasion, that on ar-
riving in Dublin, whence they were to have sailed on the
28th ult., they waited immediately on Mr. Fulham, to whom
theywere directed as the agent here, but to their great asto-
nishment were told by Mr. Fulham that he knew nothing
whatever abont the Galway agent who sent them, and could
not recognise his engagements, at least until he ascertained
the circumstances by writing to London. He accordingly
did write, and after five days they were told that the person
who represented himself as the Galway agent was authorised
to do so, and that their passage out was secured ; but all this
time they were left depending on their own scanty means,
and Mr. Fulham refused to give them the shilling per day
which by the regulations they were entitled to receive, during
the interval from their being sent to town to the sailing of
the emigrant ship. Mr. Fulham, after some hesitation, con-
sented to pay the poor people the shilling a day each for the
time they had been waiting, and to see their passage to
Australia secured to them.
DINNER AT PORTSMOUTH TO SIR ROBERT STOPFORD.—
The entertainment to the commander-in-chief on the coast of
Syria took place on Thursday. There were present a great
number of naval and military men. The Morning Herald,
in some editorial observations, says The modesty of all
really great commanders is proverbial ; and beautifully did
Sir Robert Stopford on Thursday display that fine charac-
teristic of true greatness. All the merit ho claimed was that
of commanding in chief the Syrian squadron ; forgetful of
himself, he spontaneously ascribed the success of many of
the details suggested by his own sagacity to his second in
command, Sir Charles Napier, and at the same time drew
attention to the past actions of that meritorious officer's
career in Spain and Portugal. How painfully does this ge-
nerosity, this plain heroic magnitude of mind,' contrast
with the conduct of Sir C. Napier at Liverpool, where the
very name of his commander-in-chief was carefully and
deliberately avoided, and his great services passed over un-
noticed ! The gallant conduct of Sir Charles may redeem,
but it cannot justify much of what is past, which it is difficult
even now to forget. The example of his chief and of the
Marquis of Anglesey, whaleelingly and nobly declared that
he owed all his honours and distinctions to the gallantry of
those brave men whom it had been his fortune to lead to the
field of battle,' and who justly added, that ' one of the mat-
ters of the first and greatest importance to all commanders,
whether by sea or lan, was to place confidence in those who
are under them, and not to attempt to do everything for
themselves,' was not without its proper effect on Sir Charles ;
and he, too, for the first time, gave in his adherence to the
primary merit of Sir Robert Stopford; he no longer claimed
the suggestion and execution of all the successes he so bravely
led on. He confessed at Portsmouth that if he bad been
able to perform any services useful to his country or credita-
ble to himself, he owed it entirely to Sir Robert Stopford.'
He had used the whole of his zeal, exertion, and energies to
carry out the Admiral's views to the utmost extent in his
power.' This acknowledgment, though made at a period suf-
ficiently late, and strangely forgotten when it would have
most redounded to the speaker's credit, is at all events now
ample and complete."

DESTRUCTION OF AN OIL MANUFACTORY BY FIRE, AND
Loss OF LIFE.—On Friday, an oil manufactory, on the banks
of the Medway, at Chatham, in the occupation of Messrs.
Chesson and Melling, was destroyed by fire, and the former
individual lost his life. On the premises were erected three,
stills for the purpose of distilling oil from ingredients known
only to themselves ; and so privately was the above establish-
ment conducted that they always kept closely secured the
doors of the establishment from the ingress of any one, the
two parties themselves being the only persons who worked
and mixed the ingredients. At the time of the accident
Chesson, whose life is sacrificed, was attending to a still, No.
1, which was the refining vessel, and having furnished the
furnace with some fresh coal, he repaired to another part of the
building to close a pair of folding doors, which had been left
open in consequence of having just received a ton of rosin
from a van from London. Upon his xetnrn to the distillery
he found the place on fire, and on making his retreat he went
up into the great loft to endeavour to effect his escape, but
the smoke and flames spreading to a great extent, he got
smothered, and became consumed in the burning ruins. The
body when dug out of the burning pile presented a most
awful sight, the lower extremities, legs, and thighs, were
completely burnt to a cinder. One arm was lost. The head
and chest remained whole, but burnt completely through.
The unfortunate man has left a wife and three children, and
the wife is near her confinement. The event produced such
a shock upon her nerves that little hopes are entertained of
her recovery. The property destroyed is about £2OO, and
not insured, besides the building. At the inquest, which was
held on Saturday, it appeared in evidence that the still at
which the deceased was working was of bad construction.
The jury returned a verdict accordingly, and reprimanded
the curving partner for the neglect which had produced the
calamity.

11'1)A:41:Qs:A.—At the Tyrone assizes five men were con-
victed of being members of the Riband society, and for using
the signs and pass-words of that treasonable body ; two of
them were sentenced in the full penalty—viz., seven years'
transportation—and the remaining three to ten months' im-
prisonment and hard labour. In stating the case for the
crown, Mr. Schoales gave the following outline of the con-
spiracy—a conspiracy, it will be borne in mind, the existence
of which has been declared by the government and their
officials to be a mere phantasmagoria to fright men's minds :
" It could be traced to the rebellion in the year 1798, but it
was only a few years since that the attention of the govern.
ment was particularly directed to it, when an act was passed,
under the operation of which, he was happy to say, the sys-
tem had considerably declined. A number of the officers of
the society had been detected and punished ; but he regretted
that the prime mover of its proceedings had as yet remained
undiscovered. It was a system entirely confined to one
class of her Majesty's subjects—namely, the Roman Ca-
tholics ; and indeed it would appear, from the evidence he
should be enabled to produce, that no others could be ad-
mitted, as one of the objects of it was the extirpation of
heresy ; and they all knew what was meant by heresy in the
language of Roman Catholics. Now, it so appeared, that in
the neighbourhood of Fintona nearly all the population who
mere Roman Catholics were connected with the system, and
it became absolutely necessary that some notice should be
taken of it. The system was held together by certain pass-
words which he would read to them, and which were changed
at certain periods, and to persons unacquainted with them
they appeared quite nonsensical. They were similar to those
we have given in former trials. There was also an obligation
of the most solemn nature, binding the members together,
by which they engaged to support one another in the most
awful and worst practices, as long as their present leaders
were in power. They engaged that they would proppgate
brotherly love among the brethren, and that they would not
drink to intoxication, so as to endanger a discovery of the
secrets of the system. There was also a clause pledging the
members to deal only, or, at least, in preference, with per-
sons who were their friends. After some allusion to the so-
lemn nature of the obligation, the learned gentleman con-
cluded by reading the signature to this document, which was
in two words, viz.,—" Narrato narratum."

GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.—On Saturday morning,
shortly before daybreak, a fire, one of the most extensive in
magnitude that has happened in the city for many years,
broke out in Upper Thames-street, near Blackfriars-bridge,
and raged with terrific violence for several hours, occasioning
utter destruction to the large bonded warehouses and stores
belonging to Messrs. Smith and Co., corn-factors, situate
near Puddle-dock, and seriously damaging much valuable
property in the neighbourhood. The warehouses were very
extensive, consisting of two massive buildings, one occupying
a frontage in Upper Thames-street, of near sixty feet, and
extending in depth upwards of one hundred and seventy feet,
the other facing the river Thames, seven stories high, and
equally as capacious. They were separated by a mill (a
brick building) several floors high, and adjoining the grana-
ries of Messrs. West and Green, which it will be recollected
were destroyed about four years ago by fire. All efforts to
save the buildings were, unavailable; the principal front fell
with a tremendous crash into the river about five o'clock in
the morning. Most of the account books were saved. Both
the warehouses were full, and contained grain to the extent
of.; 12,000 quarters, consisting of wheat, oats, barley, beans,
and peas. In the report made by the fire establishment, on
Saturday, to the various fire offices, the destruction of pro-
perty is described as follows :—The whole of Messrs. Smith
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for 1:3000. Other premises in the immediate vicinity are
reported to have sustained damage, but not to any serious
extent. There appears no doubt that the fire originated.
from the overheating of the flue attached to the furnaces
part un-
der the boilers in the lower of the mill, the machinery
in which was used for splitting horse-beans and unloading
vessels at the wharf. The fires that were under the boilers
on Friday night were unusually large, to work the machinery
harder than usual, and as the flue has been recently built, it
will corroborate the suspicion that some of the bored timbers
caught fire, and extended to the floors.