The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

BEST CULTIVATED FARMS,

To Mr. Joseph Woolf, of Haslington Hall, as tenant upon
a rack-rent of a farm 500 acres in extent, in the best and
most complete management, the premium of £l5. To Mr.
John Jones, of Church Minshull,•the second premium of £lO.
To M. Bost, Esq., of Shrewbridge Hall, farmer, the premium
of £5, as the owner and occupier of a farm, not less than 60
statuate acres, in the best and most complete state of man-
agement. To Mr. William Harrison, of Sparrow Grove, as
a resident tenant upon a rack-rent of any holding not less
than 50 acres, who had within seven years previous to the
29th September, 1838, covered the largest quantity of land in
proportion to the extent of his farm, with hones upon per-
manent pasture, after the rate of 30 cwt. to the acre, the
premium of £lO. The second premium for using bone
manure, £5, was awarded to Mr. John 13u1shaw, of Marton.
STOCK.
For the best hull of any age, with a view to the dairy, £lO,
to Mr. Woolf. For the best ditto yearling, in the hands of
the breeder £5, to Mr. Bennett, of Chickley. For the best
dairy cow £7, to Mr. Ravenscroft, of Leighton. (The cow
shown for this prize was upwards of ten years old.) For the
best calving heifer not more than three years old £l, to Mr.
Burgess, of Delamere Forest. For a pair of the best stirks,
not none than two years old, in the hands of the breeder, £3,
to Mr. Prescott, of Morcroft. For the best boar under three
years old £5, to Mr. Pabst of Stableford For the hest
ditto under six months, in the hands of the breeder, £3, to
Mr. Woolf. For the best breeding sow under three years old
£3, to Mr. Prescott. For the best rain bred in South Cheshire,
£5, to Mr. Harding, Mount House Farm, Alpraham, who
also obtained £3 for the best yearling rain in the hands of the
breeder; £3 for the best pen of three years, having had lambs
during the present year; and £3 for the best pen of three
yearling ewes in the hands of the breeder. The premium of
£2 for the best breeding sow under 18 months, was awarded
to Mr. Ravenscroft, of Leighton. Entries were made for
three sweepstakes. That for the best short horned heifer,
two years old, was awarded to Mr. Martin, of Henhull Cot-
tage, Ditto, one year old, to Mr. Prescott. For the best
pair of horses to Mr. Robinson, Legh Green Church, Min-
shull. Premiums were also awarded to labourers in husbandry,
male and female servants, and cottage tenants. The judges
of the stock were Mr. Robert Walker, agent to Mr. Jeffery,
of Chillington, Mr. Denham, agent to Lord Wilton, and Mr.
Crane, agent to Sir R. Puleston, Bart.
Mr. Martin, the secretary, afterwards announced that the
funds of the society were in a must prosperous state, there
being a fund of at least £250 in hand, after paying the past
year's expenditure, and premiums awarded at the present
show.
Mr. Wilbraham, the vice-president, in a highly compli-
mentary and flattering speech, proposed the health of the
chairman, Lord Combermere, the president of the society.
Due honour having been done the toast,
The Chairman returned thanks. He said it was only a
few sears since he had turned his sword into a ploughshare;
therefore he could only be inexperienced in agricultural mat-
ters, and unfit to preside at such a meeting as the present,
composed as it was of all grades and classes; but he could
only again assure them, that he would do all in his power to
pro Mote and forward the views of the association. lie wished
to impress upon their minds the necessity of attending.to
dairy matters, as cheese was the staple. commodity of the
counts'. His first advice to them was, •to keep the "cold
steel" (the ploughshare) out of the land as much as possible,
as dialog the late war theland had been worked much more,
than it ought to have been, and drain and manure it well.
In his lordship's opinion the best manure was bones; but it
was necessary to dry thedand well first, and not to put bone
manure upon newly laid. down grass, as it would produce no
effect. .flis lordship had some land on his own estate, which
was formerly not inure than lOs an acre, anti the application
of bone manure had increased its value to 35s an acre. It
was cold clay land, but dry • and with such a soil bone ma-
nure agreed admirably, Hei had been told, and he feared
with some tiuth, that Cheshire cheese was tint now to
be obtained so fine in quality as formerly; the falling off in
quality his lordship ant United to the use of the screw press,
in place of the good old custom of tratching ; and he much
wished-he could prevail upon the ladies to return to the old
system, as the whey could not be got out with the screw so
well as by the method to which ha alluded.
Mr. Wilbraham, in thanking the company for drinking his
health, which was given from the chair, drew a comparison
between the state of agriculture generally 25 years ago and
the present period. Formerly, the pigs sent front Ireland
strongly resembled greyhounds, and the sheep had all the
fine points of the race-horse—as tegarded bone and sinew—
well adapted for the latter, but not quite the sort of animal
for good mutton—(great laughter;)—now, the animals sent
from that country were far superior, and, no doubt, these im-
provements in the breed had been brought about by means
of societies like the present, the advantages resulting from
which were equally evident in Norfolk, the Highlands, and
other places where they had been established.
Sir Philip Egerton, on the health of the members for the
county being drank, acknowledged the toast.
Shortly before seven o'clock the noble chairman gave
"The Cheshire Dairy-maids," and the company soon after-
wards separated.

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND ANNUAL, FOR 1838.—8 y the statis-
tical tables in this volume, we perceive that the free popula-
tion is gradually, though not rapidly, increasing, the total
number of free inhabitants in Van Diemen's Land at the
close of 1837, being 21,649, and in 1838, they amounted to
23,244, being an increase in one year of 1,595 free settlers.
The religious sects amount to eight, viz., of Church of Eng-
land Protestants there are 16.094; Church of Scotland, 2,551;
of Home. 2,218; W eslevans, 1,289; Baptists, 175; Inde-
pendents, 635; Quakers, 90; Jews, 132. There is also a re-
turn of the convict population, which amounted, at the close
of December, 1836, to 15,400, males; the females were 2,196.
At the end of December, 1837, the males had increased to
15,606, but the females were only 2,086, showing a decrease
in this class of 110. 'Thus we have a grand total of 41,512
persons. The capital, Hobart Town, consists of twenty-one
streets, containing 1,847 houses;, of these eighty have been
built since last year's returns. There is also a list of imports
and exports between other countries, from which it appears
that, in 1837, the imports at Hobart Town amounted to nearly
£350,000, at Launceston to nearly £200,000. The exports
from Hobart Town about £230,000, froln Launceston above
£260,000. and both export and import trades appear to be in-
creasing, but DA/ in any extraordinary manner.

Elie Wink:pool ,i-.tanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING, 007'. 30, IS3B.

(a" The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the United
States, Captain Holdridge, Which arrived here yester-
day, we have received a file of New York papers to
the 13th instant. This fast-sailing vessel accomplished

the passage in 16 days. The Royal William had ar-
rived at New York on the 10th, having had a passage
of 20 days. We subjoin the most important extracts
from the papers.
(From the New York Gazette, Oct. 9_.) _

1 • • n , ,
RESUMPTION•., OF SPECIE PAYMENTS —The Banks in this"
city yesteiday (says the Savanhah Georgian, of the 2nd in-
stant,) resumed specie payments. Everything has passed
off quietly. So far from runs being made on the Banks, de-
posits of specie have been made—a fact illustrative of the
abundance of the precious article, and the confidence of the
people in the Banks.

Tit E Cnops.—The St. Martinsville Gazette of the 21st ult.
says on this subject :—" It is pleasing to hear from all gnar-
ters that the crops of cane, cotton, and corn will be unusually
good this year. The late refreshing rain will have a very
good effect npon the cane crop, though it has come rather
late; the cane has, however, one month more to grow and
ripen, before grinding time. Cotton is very, fine, and pick-
ing is going on very rapidly .The season has been remark-
ably favourable, so far, awl all that our planters inay desire
now, is good prices, good demand, and good money, which
we sincerely hope they wilt realize."

We have been informed, that his Excellency the Earl of
Durham has expressed a wish that Sir John Colborne should
immediately assume the administration of the GoVernment
of Lower Canada; and that it is the intention of his Lord-
ship, during the rest of his residence in the Province, merely
to exercise his functions
,as High Cominissionel in British
North America. Colonel Cooper, the Military Secretary of
,
the Earl of Durham, came passenger in the Canada steam-
boat from Quebec to Sorel, audit is understood that his visit
to Sir John Colborne is connected with the proposed ar-
rangements of the Earl of Durbarn.--Afontrea Gazette.

(From the New York. Gazette, Oct. 10.),
A DESTIKCTIVE FIRE
.IN CINCINNATI—The Cincinnati
Whig, of October 4th, says:—.A destructive fire occurred in
our city yesterday afternoon. It commenced about half-past
two, and raged .near .an hour: .All the houses fronting on
the west side of Walnut-streef for about a square south of the
corporation line were consumed: They were mostly, if not
altogether, owned and inhabited by Germans, many of
whom, we understand, are thrown destitute upon the coiri-
munity. The depositing of hot ashes in a box or barrel in
the cellar was the cause of the fite. Every exertion was
made by our citizens, Whigs, Natives, and Locofocos, to
arrest the flames.

Montreal Herald says the population of Lower Canada may
be estimated at about 520,000,- that of Upper Canada at
350,000, and that of the two races in both Provinces at 400,000
French and 470,000 English. The population of Nova Scotia,
New Bruniwick, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland
is about 30,000.

(From the New York Gazette, Oct. 11.)
Madame Caradori Allen is charming the Bostonians with
her syren sounds at the Masonic Temple. She has not ap-
peared at either of the theatres.

. .
The boundary Commissioners and assistants, 12 in all, de-
parted last week from Bangor for the line and have probably
atrived before this time. Their destination is the North West
Angle of Nova Scotia.—Bangor Whig.

AP,RIVAL OF THE ROYAL WILLIAM, BRITISH STEAM PACKET,

TWELVE DAYS LATER FRoAI ENGLAND.
The steam ship Royal William, Captain Swainson, R.N.,
arrived.yesterday in 191 days from Liverpool, by which we
have received our regular files of London papers to the 19th
of September, Lloyd's lists to the same date, and Liverpool
papers to the 20th. The Royal William left Liverpool on
the 20th, and had a rough passage. She was oat of fuel two
days before her arrival, and was under the necessity of burn-
ing every combustible on board, casks, spars, planks, &c. &c.
Having on board no less than 68 pasengers, there was also
some privation in the matter of provisions.

( From the Norfolk Herald, October 7th.)
VESSEL BURNT.—The brig Patriot, Capt. Hawley, of this
port, bound to New York, with a cargo of pine fuel, while
lying at anchor in the bite of Craney Island (four miles be-
low the town) on Saturday night, caught fire about nine
o'ctock, and we regret to state, was entirely destroyed. We
learn that all hands were ashore, except the Captain, who did
not discover the fire until it had spread entirely beyond his
cunt tot. The fire is stated to have caught from the camboosse,
'through the carelessness of the cook. The French" frigate
Astree, and the U. S. frigate Macedonian, promptly des-
patched boats to the assistance of the burning vessel, but be--
fore they could reach her, the fire had complete possession
fore and aft, and running up the masts and riggihg, exhibited
a lofty pyramid of flame—a spectacle of melancholy mag-
nificence, interesting, though painful to contemplate. The
brig was towed into shoal water, where her hull, with its com-
bustible cargo, continued to feed the relentless flames during
the night and part of the next day. The Patriotzwas owned
by Mr. F. Bigelow, of. this burough, and Cioleittn;qttitisur:ed
by the year id one of 'the Boston•officea.