The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

There have been some renewed trifling disturbances on the

part of the Arabs in Constantine.

It is rumoured in parliamentary circles, that her Majesty
will prorogue parliament in person, on Thursday the 16th

nstant.

HINT ABOUT UMBRELLAS.—A correspondent of the. Liver-
pool
Mercury suggests an improvement which he says has
been found most convenient by all who have adopted it, viz.
—carrying your umbrella hung from the braces. •
It is understood that 54 surgeons of the royal navy. have
accepted the commuted allowance offered by ►he Admiralty,
and will be placed on the retired list.—Hampshire Chronicle,
The French, not merely of Bordeaux but of Paris, are in
great excitement at the arrival of five female Indian dancers,
that menace to eclipse Taglioni and Fanny Elsler outright.
On Wednesday last, the Earl of Stamford and Warring-
ton, arrived at his seat at Dunham Hall, on which occasion
the Bowden bells rang a merry peal to welcome his lordship.
-, Sir Philip Crampton, the Surgeon-general for Ireland, de-
nies that he has, as- alleged, become a convert to the doe-,
trines of animal magnetism.
Both the wheat and oat harvest commenced partially last
week between Croydon and Lewes. Near Brighton great
part of the wheat has been laid as fiat as a turnpike road.
BARON BoLr.sNn.—lt gives us pleasure to state that Mr.
Baron Bolland, although unable to resume his professional
duties, is able to be about again. Mr. Sergeant Andrews
tried the prisoners at Lewes in his absence.--Hertibrd Be•
former.

EARL SEFTON.—This distinguished and much bieloved
nobleman has been removed from his town residence to

Stoke; and we are truly sorry to learn, that his lordship re-
mains in the same alarming state, almost without the possi-
bility of recovery.—Reading Mercury.
A further promotion of clerks to pursers, and of second
masters to masters, is expected about the latter end of this
month, none having been advanced at the coronation.—
Hamyshire Chronicle.
MAGISTERIAL PATRONAGE.—It appears by a return to
the House of Commons, that the Middlesex and Westmin-
ster magistrates have the patronage of 220 places, the aggre-
gate of the annual income of which is £22,250 Bs. 21d.
The Marquis of Waterford has sold his -vatch brig the
Charlotte to the lion. Col. Fulke Greville, who was expected
to sail on Monday from Cowes, with despatches for the Earl
of Durham, at Quebec.
The young nobleman to whom allusion has been made as
about to give a tournament on a magnificent scale, at his
baronial castle in Scotland, is the Earl of Eglintouni whose
seat is Eglintoun Castle, in Ayrshire.
On Saturday last, as some men were mowing near Luthrie,
the electric fluid was attracted by their scythes, anti one of
them had his watch nearly melted, and was himself consider-
ably benumbed, but not seriously injured.—Edinburgli Even-
ing Post.
We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the re-
port of Lord Shelburne's marriage with Miss Elphinstone de
Fla hault.—Morning Chronicle.
The two Americas do not produce a single heath, nor the
southern part of the Continent a rose.—Floricultural Mag-
azine.

The present receipts of the Newcastle and Carlisle Rail-
way Company exceed by one thousand guineas per month,
those of the corresponding period of last year.
Mr. Abercromby, son of the Speaker, one of our foreign
diplomatists, is, it is said, about to be united in marriage to
Lady Mary Elliott, eldest daughter of Lord Minto.
The following anagram may amuse some of our readers:—
Victoria Regina, in Old England.
I reign a victor in a golden land.

The Duke of Montebello has demanded the expulsion
from the Swiss territory of Prince Louis Napoikon Bo-
naparte.
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STATE OF TRADE, Mosaay.—Little business has been
transacted to-day, and there as been no improvement in
prices. It does not afford a fair remuneration to the manu-
facturer, nor any adequate compensation to the hand-loom
weaver.—Blackburn Standard.
SCOTT THE LEAPER.—On Tuesday, and each of the two
following days, the celebrated Samuel Scott, plunged into
the tide from off the summit off one of the highest masts in
the port of Swansea, a fiat which astonished the spectators.
—Methyr Guardian.
The grand entertainment to be given by her Majesty at the
new palace, on the 17th instant, in honour of her august
mother's birthday, will be a sumptuous dejeuner, and not a
ball as at first rumoured in the higher circles.
We pledge ourselves to convince the most sceptical, that
letters, taking one with the other, can be carried throughout
the kingdom for a penny, with an average profit of cent. per
cent. on each.—Fraser's Magazine.
The Bishop of Llandaff is, we are happy to state, quite re-
covered from the serious indisposition which that revered
prelate was labouring under a short time since. His lordship
is at present on a visit to Lady Wilson, at SidElOnlh.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET. AUG. 6th.—There iS but
little change in the market to-day ; perhaps, rather more
business has been done, and at prices certainly not lower
than those of last week. There is no alteration in the wool
market : the prices may be quoted the same as last week.—
Manchester Guardian.
Very stringent measures will be adopted to punish the slop-
dealers at Woolwich and elsewhere, wbo induce soldiers to
sell their necessaries; this has been found necessary in con-
sequence of the great frequency of the crime, and with a view
to diminish corporal punishment as much as possible.
We are glad to be able to contradict the statement of the
death of Mr. Poyntz, the member for Midhurst. Mr. Poyntz
has been very ill, but is now much better The rumour ori-
ginated in the Brighton papers, and is still going the round
of the local journals•—Morning Herald.
We are happy to announce the convalescence of Lord Stor-
mont, after a long and severe indisposition, with which lie was
attacked soon after the demise of his deeply-lamented and ac-
complished lady. His lordship has arrived at Lord Mans-
field's, in Langharn.place, fur the purpose of resuming his
parliamentary duties.—Morning. Herald.
The report of the Irish railway commission is not given in
favour of any particular line or lines, but comes to the conclu-
sion that, as no rail line in Ireland would pay more than four
per ceut., the government should take the railway system in
that country under its management.
Lux uttIANT CROP.—A stalk of Wheat has been left at this
Office, by a respectable farmer of Itathrautlan, which measures
seven feet and a half inch. The head is quite full, This re-
markable instance of early vegetation is a good omen of a
plentiful crop.—Downpatricic Recorder.
Colonel Wyndham, Major 'Jones, Royal Engineers, and
Mr. Buck, Civil Engineer, examined the River. Fergus on
Tuesday with a view to making the river navigable for ves-
sels of 300 tons burthen up to the town of Ennis. Mr. Buck
is now making the requisite survey, for the purpose of ascer-
taining the probable cost of the work.—Linierick Standard.
Lord John, Russell professes to feel himself exceedingly
scandalised at being called upon, as he expresses it, " to bow
his neck to the yoke of the House of Lords ;" yet the noble
lord can bear the O'Connell yoke without venturing a word
of complaint, and willingly becomes the slave of the lowest of
the low without any (avowed) sense of degradation.
SPORTING WAGER!—Mr. Lamb, of Youghal, rode his
splendid llav Horse from that town to Cork, on Tuesday a
distance of 30 English miles in two hours and eighteen minutes,
winning the wager (1.:500) in sporting style, having twelve
minutes to spare. This is a feat almost unprecedented in Ire_
land, and shows the very superior qualities of the horse, being
as we understand, twenty-five years old.—Limerick Standard:
MOOR GAME.—It is likely that the game in the moors in
the neighbourhood of Rochdale and Whitworth will be very
scarce this season, as great quantities of the young birds have
been found dead: no doubt they have been killed by the se-
vere storm on the 4th ult. One person alone, in one day last
week, found upwards of fifty birds dead on one moor near
Whitworth; and large quantities have been found by others.
—Bolton Chronicle.
On the Ist of July, Holland had in commission nine fi igates,
seven corvettes, four large and one small brig, three steam-
boats, thirteen gun-boats, each carrying five guns, and twenty-
five, with three guns;-together manned by 4,793 men. Not
in commission, three ships of the line, thirteen frigates, seven
corvettes, nine large and three small brigs, one steam-boat,
and a great number of gun-boats.
On Sunday morning last, a farmer residing at Miln's
Hill, Tonge-lane, near- Middleton, had an excellent cow died
of the milk fever; and on Monday three Manchester butchers
were observed dressing it. A watch was consequently kept
by a number of navigators employed on the railway; and,
on
towards'ruesda Manchester in a.van, when a
Tuesday
morning, the three butchers
aboutwer e seentwok
takingoc lo'clock
it oif
general attack was made by the navigators, who took the cow
from them, cut it into pieces, and threw it into the canal. They
also broke the van to pieces, and beat the butchers in a
shocking manner. It is only a few weeks since another
butcher from Manchester was sarved in a similar manner,
near the same place.
THE WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE.—On Thurs-
day last, the preachers and other deputies, .amounting to
about seventy, from different parts of England and Scotland,
held their first meeting in Bailie-street Chapel, Rochdale.
Part of the day was occupied in the case of Dr. Warren,
which was not concluded till the following morning. On
Sunday morning, Mr. Eckett, from London, preached; in
the afternoon, the -Bev. Mr. Kennedy, of Paisley; and in
the evening, the Rev. Mr. Peters, of Liverpool. On Mon-
day the case of chapel trustees was brought before the meet-
ing, and underwent a long discussion. The business on
hand is not likely to be got through before the end of the
week.—Manchester Guardian.
Some researches recently made in the cathedral of Rouen
have led to the discovery, under the pavement of the sanctuary
of the statue of Richard Cceur-de-Lion, which used to orna-
ment his tomb, and a box enclosing his heart. This statute,
which is in perfect preservation, is six feet and a half in length,
and represents the king in a recumbent position, with his
feet resting on a lion couchant. The tomb was once enclosed
bY a railing of silver, which was sold in the middle .of the
13th century, in order to pay the ransom of St. Louis. This
tomb is to be restored and placed in the chapel of the Holy
•V irgin.

There is at present working at the North Midland Railway
Tunnel, at Chevet, near Wakefield, a Polish refugee, named
Francis Frowiski. This man was a doctor in his native land;
but, being driven thence by the Russian tyrant, adversity
now compels him to carry bricks and mortar. He has been
in Yorkshire three years, and from the notice he has met with
at Wakefield, we hope that something will be done to elevate
a man who is " ashamed to beg" (though not to work) into
a station more like his former one than the brick-yard.—
Leeds_Mercury.
FIRE AT THE LANCASTER TuEATIiE.—On Monday, just
previous to the ornmencement of the Misses Smith's concert,
some calico-looking cloth, on which were painted some of the
temperance mottoes, and which were used to fit up the right
wing of the stage, accidentally ignited. As may he imagined,
from the inflammable nature of the material, a blaze of fire
shot up in an instant. By great exertions on the part of the
performers, in which they were assisted by some of the audi-
who rushed to the spot, the cloth in question was torn down,
and the fire extinguished before any further damage was done,
The performances soon after proceeded.--Lancaster Guardian.
The Duke of Wellington had a long conference yesterday
at Apsley House, from one till three, p.m., with the Earl of
Haddington, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey,
and Lord Lyndhurst. There have been several meetings of
conservative peers at his grace's mansion, during the last few
days, on the subject, it is understood, of the Irish tithe bill—
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earls of Rosslyn, Aberdeen,
Haddington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Bishop of Exeter, and
other peers, assembled at Apsley House on Saturday and the
preceding ay. ,We understand the noble duke has, at pre-
sent, no intention of making a continental tour, as reported.
His grace, after the prorogation, will probably proceed as
usual to Walmer Castle for the autumnal months.—Morning
Herald, Tuesday.
CIRCASSIA.—We have received, via Constantinople, ad-
vices from our correspondent in Circassia dated the 14th ult.
which fully confirm our previous announcement of the catas-
trophe experienced by the Russian fleet in the Black Sea on
the 11th ult. Three ships of the line, two corvettes, five
brigs, two steamers, and two smaller craft, had been com-
pletely wrecked on the coast, and ]1 ships of war stranded,
and supposed to be irrecoverable. It was believed that not
fewer than 30 Russian ships had been put hors de combat by
the hurricane. The garrison of the fort of Scotcha, having
made two sorties to protect the wrecks of the two corvettes,
was attacked by the natives, and compelled to retreat with
the loss of 1000 men out of the 1100 of which the party had
consisted. The Circassians, after plundering the cot vettes.
set fire to them, and burned four other vessels., under the
very guile of tho fort—Threes, Thuriday,