The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

The sister and brother-in-law of the president of the United
Sates have embraced the Roman Catholic faith.
The total population of the American Union as reported in
the census of 1840, is 17,100,572.
Some shocks of earthquake have been felt in various parts
of Scotland.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Henry Pottin-
ger, Bart., to be chief superintendent of British trade in
China.

Several stoppages have taken place at Odessa, amongst
others the house of Eslinger for 400,000 rubles, and Isais for
200,000 rubles.
The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has been appointed one
of the chaplains in ordinary to her majesty.
A beautiful ten-gun brig, called the Heroine, was launched
at Woolwich on Monday last.
A Newfoundland bitch, near Chiseldon, a few days since,
produced the surprising number of 17 puppies at one litter—
and all alive.
At Gloucester the bar complain greatly of the inconveni-
ence of the assize courts, and the judges blame the county
yet louder for the shabby lodgings their lordships are put into.
About fifteen years ago there was only one public-house
at Dowlais iron-works ; but now there are no less than 200.
There were 118,481 hhds. of tobacco exported from the
United States last year, valued at 9,884,951 dollars.
The National Guards at Toulouse have been disarmed by
the government.
Madame Laffarge has been found guilty of the robbery of
the diamonds.
The Bishop of Virginia leaves England for America in
next month, having to be present at the convocation of the
American bishops on the Ist of October.
Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P., was blackbeaned by the County
Galway Club last week.
The receipts of the railroad, Dublin and Kingstown, on
Saturday, to see the Belleisle man-of-war, were four hun-
dred pounds.

Mr. Waterton, the celebrated naturalist, had lately a nar-
row escape of shipwreck off the coast of Elba.

We have reason to believe that parliament will be opened
by commission, and that the Queen will remain at Windsor.
—Times.

The Queen Dowager, it is expected, will pay a visit to the
Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir, about the IGth of September
next.

Accounts from Madrid of the Bth state that the affair of
the seizure of the Spanish boat off Algesiras, by English sea-
men, had been satisfactorily explained by the authorities of
Gibraltar.

The sixteen representative peers elected for Scotland, to
sit in the House of Lords next parliament, are all conserva-
tive.

The lady who put the advertisement in the Tablet for a
governess or cook, who must not be Irish, is herself of that
nation ! The editor avers the fact. What will Mr. O'Con-
nell now say ?

Mrs. Bray describes some of the foaming rivers of Swit-
zerland as like nothing but dirty soap,suds, as if it had been
washing-day with the mountains !

The corn harvest has been commenced on several farms in
this neighbourhood. The crops are very fair, and there is
every prospect of a good harvest.—Carmarthen Journal.

The 99th is now the first regiment to leave Ireland for a
distant station, the singular circumstance of some of its men
cheering O'Connell at Carlow election having precipitated
its departure.

INTENSE AFFECTION.—Captain Beaver of the Niagara
militia, was possessed of a duck so much attached to him,
that the poor animal actually plucked and roasted herself for
his dinner, having previously eaten a quantity of sage and
onions.—Kentueky Messenger.

The law authorities of Sydney have decided that news-
paper proprietors were justified in continuing the insertion
of advertisements, not ordered for any specific number of
times, until the same were ordered to be withdrawn.

Last week in the island of Jersey, a young gentleman, son
of Sir George Clerk, standing on the brink of a rock at Grene
de Lec, in company with two friends, was swept off by a wave
which dashed in from the sea, when he sank to rise no more.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—The celebrated
case of " Campion v. Drew," for breach of promise of mar-
riage, terminated at Cork on Saturday evening, by the jury
bringing in a verdict for the plaintiff of £1,500 damages, and
6d costs. Both parties are of the highest respectability in
the county, and the trial created much interest. The dam-
ages were laid at £5,000.

A most discordant charivari was given a few days since at
St. Martin, France, to a man named Paternelle, who, though
only 33 years of age, was married for the fifth time on the
Ist instant. He espoused his first in 1830, his second in
1835, the third in 1836, the fourth in 1839, and the fifth in
1841 ! this last, twenty days only after the demise of his
fourth wife.

The King of the French, acting in concert with M. Guizor,
has decided upon proposing to the four other great European
powers, that an armed intervention should take place in Spain
in the event of any new outbreak or revolution in that
country, of whatever nature it may happen to be.
In the court-yard of the fortress of Nuremberg stands an
extraordinary relic, the old lime-tree, planted by the Empress
Cumegunde, wife of the Emperor Henry 111 ; everything is
done to preserve it from decay, and it still bears its leafy
honours, after beholding the revolution of seven centuries.
The following appears in the Dublin Freeman's Journal:
On Sunday last there was a grand reception in, the Con-
vent of the Sisters of Charity, Stanhope-street ; his Grace
the Archbishop presided. Several of the clergy attended,
and amongst the spectators was the celebrated Dr. Pussy,
who appeared to be deeply interested with the imposing and
affecting ceremony."

A RECIPE FOR THE RHEUMATISM.—Thirty drops of
hartshorn, two large table spoonfuls of the best salad oil ;
mix these together in an eight-ounce phial, fill the bottle
with spring water, and sweeten it with the best loaf sugar.
Take two table-spoonfuls of this mixture the first thing in
the morning and the last at night ; take it till you find the
disorder removed.

JAMES WOOD'S WILL.—Lord Lyndhurst, presiding at
the judicial committee of the Privy Council, gave judgment
in the appeal against Sir Herbert Jenner's decision respect-
ing the will of the late Mr. James Wood. He overrules the
judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner, establishes the validity of
the will, and gives the whole of the immense wealth of the
testator to his four executors, subject to the payment of the
codicil in favour of the corporation of Gloucester.
STRANGE SCENE IN A COURT OF JUSTICE.--At the
Croydon Assizes, on Thursday, two men named Watkins
and Seton were found guilty, and sentenced to transportation
for fifteen years, for attempting to murder a man named
Collier. The moment Mr. Sergeant Taddy (who presided)
had pronounced the sentence, a scene ensued that almost
defies description. The prisoners, who are most powerful
men, rushed to the front of the dock, and with dreadful
oaths declared that they had been " sold like bullocks,"
and they uttered horrid imprecations upon the judge. Mr.
Keene, the gaoler, and one of his assistants laid hold of them
and attempted to remove them from the dock, but their ex-
ertions were of no avail against the greater power of the two
prisoners. Inspector Collier, of the P division, and several
of his men jumped into the dock, and a desperate struggle
then took place, dining which some of the constables were
kicked and severely injured by the convicts. The court was
in the utmost confusion, the women shrieked, and business
was
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came intocompletely
suspended. A number of bad characters
the town in the morning were about the court,
and the intention of the prisoners was evidently to incite
them to attempt a rescue, but they were awed at the firm
demeanour of the police, and did not attempt any violence.
The prisoners were at length removed to a strong room,
where they were put in irons.

EXECUTION OF JOHN SELF FOR THE MURDER OF
JEMIMA STIMPSON.—NORWICH, AUG. 14.—From the time
of his conviction, Self was unceasingly attended by the minis-
ters of religion, by the chaplain of the Castle and the curate.
Their admonitions and exhortations drew the confession
from him which has been already published. His conduct
was indicative of penitence to the last. The hill being co-
vered with stock, the confusion was very great, and for some
time there was a total suspension of business.Tdhisepn of
warehnettis
and friends of Self had visited him during the week, t_o whom
he is said to have expressed great penitence and contrition.
Precisely as the clock struck twelve the culprit emerged from
the prison door, accompanied by the chaplain and the usual
prisoner's
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The Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev. Dr
Hook, Vicar of Leeds, to a canonry in York Minster.

It is reported that Mr. Hume is to replace Mr. Chalmers
as member for the Montrose Burghs. Mr. C. is willing to

The decision' of the privy council in Mr. James Wood's
case will put £400,000 into the pocket of Mr. Alderman
Wood.

The laying of the keel of a large war steamer of upwards
of 1,000 tons burden, to be named the Infernal, has been
completed on the same slip whence the Devastation was re-
cently launched at Woolwich.

The Roman Catholic Chapel at Walcot, Bath, known as
Portland. Chapel, has been purchased by the Rev. S. H.
"ITV iddrington, the rector, under the sanction of the lord
biShop of the diocese. and will be immediately converted into
a Protestant Episcopal chapel, annexed to the rectory of
Walcot.

EXPORT OF MACHINERY.—We were much gratified at
witnessing the arrival, at the Broomielaw, on Thursday, of
the splendid ship Ganges, to load machinery for Constanti-
nople. She is the largest vessel which has ever ventured
above Port Glasgow, being 728 tons register, or about 150
tons larger than any vessel that has ever come to our
harbour.—Scottish Guardian.

The Globe, of Tuesday night, says :—" As, in her Ma-
jesty's present condition, any undertaking involving anxiety
or fatigue might prove injurious, we understand that Dr.
Locock has interposed his veto; and that the new parlia-
ment will be opened by commission instead of by the Queen
in person."

PITHY AND PLEASANT.—A recent writer, giving an ac-
count of British dependencies, thus speaks of Bonaparte's
" frightful rock," as he was wont to call it :—St. Helena, on
its first discovery, contained sea-fowls and some seals and
turtles, with a forest of trees and shrubs, all peculiar species,
with one or two exceptions. It is now a mere rock, devoured
by rats '

On Saturday, an engineer employed on some repairs in
Mr. Carnions water-mill, Bexley, while in the act of screw-
ing on a nut to one of the bearings, had his clothes caught
by a wheel of 10 feet diameter, and 15-horse power, and
which was making 120 revolutions in a minute. lie was
drawn into the mill, and crushed to death in an instant.

The revenue of the Lisbon custom-house for the economic
year, from the Ist July, 1840, to the 30th June. 1841, accord-
ing to the official return, as published in the Diario de Go-
verno (including 182,5-10,601 reis, or £41,832 4s 5d sterling,
the 15 per cent in favour of the Portuguese flag) amounts to
1,965,085,347 reis, equal to £750,401 4s 6d sterling.
Mackerel, which are in large shoals off this coast, are now,
though so late, more plentiful than they have been all the
season. Those which had shodden their roes are now getting
their roes again, and are very fine. They are sold on our
beach from 15s. to 20s. a-hundred (132). Soles still continue
cheap, about 6d. per pound.—Brighlon Herald.
A man named Charles Webb was committed for trial by
the Birmingham authorities on Tuesday last, for a postoffice
robbery thirteen years ago. The amount he took was £7OO,
and upwards of £4OOO was expended upon the pursuit, but
he escaped all the activity of the most experienced officers.
He ventured to appear in' Birmingham last week, when he
was immediately secured.

NEW LINE OF TELEGRAPH FROM LONDON TO DOVER.—
A new line of, telegraph from Dover to London is now in
rapid progress. A telegraph is erecting ior the purpose on
the top of the shot-manufactory, at Topping's-wharf, in
Tooley-street, Southwark, which will be the London termi-
nus. Another station on Forest-hill, Peckham Rye, is
nearly completed ; others on elevated spots throughout the
line, at Knockbolt Beeches, Wrotham, Blue Bell-hill,
Chatham, Isle of Sheppy, Whitstable, Herne Bay. Minster,
Broadstairs, Deal, and Dover, will be finished in a short
time, and in about two months the whole line from Dover to
London will be in active operation. The code of signals to
be used are those of Lieutenant Barnard Watson, R.N., and
this telegraph will be similar to that established between
Holyhead and Liverpool, which has been working upwards
of fourteen years.—London paper.

SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE.—A serjeant in the 60th rifles,
named Cullen, committed suicide on Monday, in Beggar's
Bush barracks, Dublin, by shooting himself through the
head with his rifle. The cause of this act is that a young
lady, residing in one of our squares, near the barracks, fell
in love with Cullen, and he returned her passion. She pro-
posed to elope with him, but he being under the apprehension
of the punishment usually attached to desertion, applied to
his officers for permission to wed the fair one. These gentle-
men refused their consent, which had such an effect upon the
unfortunate man that he fell into a state of deep despondency,
during which he committed the rash act. He placed the gun
under his chin, and discharged it through his head, shatter-
ing it to such a degree that not a trace of his features can be
discovered.

A letter from Rome supplies the following details of the
lamentable consequences of the scene which took place after
the 20th ult. :—A woman and two children, were found dead
on the ground,' eight were mortally wounded, eighty-nine
had severe wounds, which have not proved mortal, ten had
limbs broken, and 587 received bruises and others injuries.
When the people were cleared away from the spot, there were
found upon it 479 men's hats, 99 of which belonged to abbes
and other ecclesiastics; 89 short cloaks belonging to abbes,
and two monks' frocks • 180 women's caps and bonnets, and
bonnets, and ten reticules, and purses. '

THE ARMY IN IRELAND.—(From the United Service Ga-
zette.)—The effective strength of the army in Ireland on the
10th of the present month was as follows, viz.:—

Rank and file
Royal artillery (horse brigade and battalion) 841
Five regiments of cavalry (4th, sth, and Gth
dragoon guards, 10th royal hussars, and 12th
royal lancers)
Eight regiments of infantry (20th, 29th, 45th,
58th, 84th, 86th, 98th, and 99th), and 33 in-
fintry depots 13,125

15,241

THE. SABBATH AND THE RAILWAYS.—The Rev. C. L.
Reay, vicar of Swanbourne, Bucks, has addressed a letter to
the Morning Herald, in which, after complaining that on
the Croydon rail Way there are 12 trains daily, whilst on Sun-
days there are 18, says—" A few (lays since a long string of
railway advertisements fell in my way, containing the times
of departure of trains on various lines of road, with the latest
changes and arrangements; and, with a view to ascertain
whether the Croydon directors had the sanction of general
practice for their extraordinary disregard for the Sabbath, I
counted the respective numbers of daily and Sunday trains
which the several companies run ; the result is as follows :
Daily Sunday
12 4
6 4
6 miles only
6 3
6• 4 •

London and Birmingham ..
Grand Junction
Birmingham and Gloucester
Birmingham and Derby....
Midland Counties
North Midland
Manchester and Leeds
Great Western......

In all these, there is a considerable decrease in the Sunday
labours—to a certain extent the several bodies of proprietors
and directors regard the feeling of the country, and acknow-
ledge the propriety and duty of a day of rest. '

FANNY ELLSLER'S APPROACHING DEPARTURE FOR
EUROPE.—We learn that Mademoiselle Fanny Ellsler, the
elegant danseuse, who has created such a sensation, and ob-
tained such a triumph in the theatricals during the last year,
has taken a passage in the Great Western for Europe, to sail
next Sunday at noon. She returns partly to close the eyes
of her aged father, who resides at Vienna, and is now 72
years of age, having been a pupil of Haydn. Since Fanny
Ellsler made her debut in New York, on the 14th of May,
1840, she has danced over one hundred nights, and cleared
one hundred thousand dollars—a theatrical career unprece-
dented in this country. For some time past she has been at
the sea shore, to recruit her health and strength, which are
now fully re-established. She has had offers from every
large city in this country to remain another year ; and for
three months in Havana she has been offered 50,000 dollars ;
but her desire to fulfil her previous engagements in Paris and
London, and to visit Vienna, has superseded every other in-
vitation. Her career through this country has been one of
novelty, surprise, wonder, cash, and curiosity, at every step.
She returns to Europe covered with the admiration of the
New World, and with 100,000 dollars in her pocket, besides
wreaths, presents, &c. So farewell to Fanny Ellsler.—New
York Herald, July 31.
CONVOCATION AT EXETER.—At a Diocesan Convocation
holden at the Chapter-house of the Cathedral on the 6th of
August, the Rev. Dr. Coleridge and the Rev. Mr. Collyns
were chosen to represent the diocese of Exeter in the Lower
House of Convocation. The Rev. Prebendary Dennis, in a
learned and eloquent address, brought before the clergy the
present state of our ecclesiastical system, pointing out the
innovations and perversions by which it has been so lament-
ably deranged; the duties of the canons as assistants of the
bishop in the examination of candidates for orders, an office
now delegated to an examining chaplain ; the appointment of
bishops by the Sovereign--an innovation utterly at variance
with the principle and practice of the Church of Christ for
the first 1,500 years at least of her existence ; the heavy blow
inflicted on the Church by the cutting off ten of her Irish
bishoprics; the tyranny exerted over the Church by the
silencing her voice in convocation ; the ignorance of ecclesi-
astical law, even in the ecclesiastical courts ; the Eccesiasti-
cal Commission, and the recommendation of the suppression
of the primitive bishopric of Sodor and Man, which, how-
ever, the combined exertions of the Church and memory of
Bishop Wilson prevented. These and many other topics the
very learned Prebend dwelt on with much eloquence, and
appealing to the Canons of the Church, the statutes of the
realm, and ancient records, showed how the ancient princi-
ples and customs of the Church had been violated by modern
aggressions and innovations. Prebendary Dennis has em-
bodied the main points of his address in a petition.—
Standard'

CONTINENTAL CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE BANKS.
—At' the Croyden Assizes on Monday, before Lord Chief
Justice Tyndal and a special jury, an action was brought by
Mr. Allen George Bogle, against Mr. John Joseph Lawso,
for a libel published in the Times newspaper. The defendant
had pleaded first not guilty, and secondly a justification. The
article complained of stated that a conspiracy had been dis-
covered on the continent, by which it was intended to plun-
der the continental bankers by means of false letters of credit
on the bank of Messrs. Glynn and Co. of London ; that the
parties, as far as could then be ascertained, were 14 in
number, whose names were then given. Amongst them
were Cunningham Graham, an anonymous partner in the
house of Bogle, Kerrick and Co., and Allen Bogle, son-
in-law of Cunningham Graham, and chief partner in the
house of Bogle and Co. ; there was also the name of the
Marquis de Bombel. Then followed the examination of some
witnesses taken before the authorities at Florence, and copies
of some letters found upon some of the conspirators, direct-
ing the manner in which the money so raised was to be dis-
posed of. In one of those letters it is said " that Bogle was
to get his share of the money easily, as he would not have
much to do in the affair." The defendant withheld the name
of the author of this communication, and on his part it was
shown that the plaintiff could not deny that Perry, one of
the actors in the conspiracy, had, before the authorities of
Antwerp, openly accused Mr. Bogle of being concerned in
the conspiracy, and that in certain letters seized by the French
authorities, the plaintiff was also charged with being an actor
in the conspiracy, and his conduct was expressly referred to.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages one
farthing. The trial occupied thirteen hours. On Tuesday,
morning the judge refused an application to grant his certifi-
cate, that the plaintiff might obtain his costs. The conse-
quence is, that the plaintiff obtains one farthing damages and
pays his own costs.
THE TWO JOHN WICKLIFFES.--REMARKABLE
The Gentleman's Magazine for August says—" It is an ex-
traordinary fact, but not the less true, that there were living
at the same period two John Wickliffes, both born aboutthe
same time—both educated as ecclesiastics at Oxford, and
becoming there the heads of houses, the one of Canterbury,
the other of Baliol—both prebendaries, the one of Worcester,
the other of Chichester—and both dying within a year of
each other. This is the more remarkable, as the name of
Wickliffe is a local one, and the only locality in England
bearing the name is the village about six n-Ales from the town
of Richmond, in Yorkshire, where the Reformer is said to
have been born in or about 1324. This fact may not only
clear him from several apparent inconsistencies of conduct,
but from the graver charge preferred by Anthony Wood,
Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, and other writers, that the zeal
which he displayed in withstanding the errors of Papacy was
occasioned by nothing else than the loss of the wardenship
of Canterbury Hall, Oxford, of which they say he was first
deprived by Archbishop Langliam, and finally by pope
Urban V ; and that " what he afterwards did was merely
out of revenge, and not at all of conscience, and that, being
a man of good parts, he exercised them to an evil end."

TIDE TABLE.

Evs. ! Height,

Sundays, Holydays, 4-e

H. H. I H. M. I A. i.
Friday .. 20 1 5 n 125 18 4 Black Game shooting b.
Saturday 21 1 45 2 6 17 4
Sunday.. 22 228 233• 16 0 11tH Sunday after Trinity
Monday .23 3 16 3 41 14 0
Tuesday 24 I 4 8 4'37 12 7 St. Bartholomew.
Wednes. 25 5 8 5 42 11 2
Thursday 26 I 624 7 3 10 0 Prince Albert born 1819.