The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL SeTiINDARL

SlR,—The anecdote related by the Rev. F. Parry at the an-
niversary of our Protestant Association, respecting the liberal
support which a certain wealthy gentleman gave to literature,
by clubbing with a friend to take the Penny Magazine
weekly, reminds one much of the support which many of
your niggardly politicians give to the conservative press, by
your
together to take the Standard, Courier, or Mail, at
half price with a friend, from the Exchange or other news-
rooms. This should not be. When we consider what a mighty
engine the press is, I must say I do think it disgraceful
that the conservative press of this town has not better sup-
port than it has, for there is no mincing the matter that the
radical press is better property in Liverpool than the conser-
vative. If the Liverpool gentlemen feel so indignant at the
remarks of Mr. Stowell respecting the support given to the
Protestant cause in the two towns, let them look well to this.
The leading conservative paper of Manchester is decidedly
good property, and is really well supported by the conserva-
tives of the town. I will maintain, sir, that to give good
support to the conservative press, your merchants and tra-
ders should give their exclusive support to that portion of it,
and, in less than twelve months, they would produce a vast
change in the state of things, and render the conservative
press a vast deal better, as it now is a vast deal more respec-
table, advertising medium than the radical press. lam not
writing in the dark on this subject. For I have been in the
habit of spending some hundreds per annum in advertising,
(not in this town,) and I never gave 6d. to the radical press
in my life, and never would consent to give a single adver-
tisement to them. " Our radical contemporaries have not
much to thank me for," and I never wish them to have. It
is common to say that men in business have nothing to do
with politics; but if I detest radical opinions, and consider
them destructive to the welfare of the country, how can I
consistently do all in my power to spread then,, which I un-
doubtedly do, by giving them advertisements? In politics I
am decidedly •` an exclusive dealer," and intend to continue
so. I think lam safe in saying, that the radical press of this
town is in a great measure supported by conservative adver-
tising. Although I shall not give my name to this, I enclose
it for any friend who may wish to know it.—l beg to remain,
sir, your obedient servant,
AN OUT-AND-OUT CONSERVATIVE.

LONDON MONEY MARKET AND TRADE

REPORT

WEDN

SDAY EVENIN

The Tea market has already lost some of that improved
appearance observable in it yesterday at the public sales,
Company's Congou have gone back to is 91d, and there being
very little business done in other qualities. On Change,
some parties called Company's is 91d.
There were some rather large sales in Colonial and other
produce, which went off generally about the same as yester-
day. .

The Indigo auction goes on without spirit.
The Stock Market opened with a very discouraging ap-
pearance this morning, and Consols at 874-. Eventually, how-
ever, the market revived upon some rather extensive pur-
chases for to-morrow, and at the close of business had ad-
vanced to 88 for money, and for next account 88,1 to a. Bank
Stock was IG4 to G. India Stock 241 to G. Exchequer Bills
lls to 13s premium. The dealers were busily engaged in
making up their accounts for to-morrow, which is settling-
day.

Foreign Securities also improved generally as the home
market grew better. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were
501 to 14, the Five per Ceuts 98.1 to *. Belgian ]OII to 21.
Spanish Active with the Coupons 19k to,. Portuguese Five
per Cents 291 to 304, the Three per Cents 18 to Brazilian
55 to 7. Mexican 244- to *. Colombian 19i to 4.

It is asserted that in the memory of man, there has not
been so wet a month of September as that just past, except
September 1818.

A LEARNED MAYOR.—At the Lichfield municipal regi-
stration court, the learned liberal mayor stated that he could
not decide without coming to a conclusion ! This sage re-
mark was followed by loud peals of laughter.
We are glad to hear that the Rev. Henry Melvin, the
popular minister of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, who has
been dangerously indisposed for nearly a year, returned to his
duties last Sunday.

A correspondent in Wednesday's Times, resident in liam-
burgh, shows that bread is cheaper here than in that city,
where no corn-laws exist.
True friendship is like sound health—its value is seldom
known until it be lost.
A good deal of excitement has been created by the at-
tempts, which are gradually being made, to exclude the pub-
lic from Richmond Park, in order to preserve the game for
Prince Albert.
WHIG FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—EarI Fitzwilliam, who
has often held up himself, and been held up by others, as a
pattern of political liberty, has given four of his Peterborough
tenants notice to quit, because they voted contrary to his
wish at the late election.

The Rev. Robert J. M'Ghee, M.A., the firm and uncom-
promising advocate of Protestantism in Ireland, is likely to
be appointed to the vacant deanery of Cork.
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EXTRAORDIANARY OCCURRENCE.—A gentleman of the
name of Pugh, from Presteign, was in company with others
on the Beacon Hill, Radnorshire, on the 28th of August last,
when he shot a fine grouse, attached to the leg of which was
a canvass bag, containing in an envelope, on which was writ-
ten " Clock, £2 Bs. 6d.," a silver fourpenny piece. Mr.
Pugh retains the coin as a great curiosity.
A SHOWER or FISHES--On Thursday afternoon, during
a heavy thunder shower, a considerable number of small
fishes tell from the clouds, at the Town-hill, about a mile
north-east from Dunfermline. They were in general from
three-and-a-half inches in length, and although they must
have fallen from a considerable height, many of them were
alive after they fell, and jumping among the grass.—Fife
Paper.

RARE AND CURIOUS Booxs.—Amongst the sale of curi-
ous books of the late George Chalmer's library, there was a
copy of Wolsey's Grammar, with the directions for the
school, written by the cardinal himself ; also Marlow's tra-
gedy of Richard Duke of York, from which Shakspere has
unceremoniously plagiarised, was knocked down to Mr.
Rodd, at £l3l ; the highest price ever brought before by a
single play was £97 for the " Taming of the Shrew."
A LOFTY ABODE.—The highest inhabited place upon the
face of the globe is a farm house. situate 13,500 feet above
the level of the sea. or about two miles and a half above
that level. This lofty and elevated habitation is situate on
the highest peak of the Andes, in South America, Chimbo-
razo, which rises to 21,440 feet above the level of the sea. It
may be truly said that the dwellers in this farm house are ac-
customed to, and move in, " high life."
LONDON Comrosrroßs.—The journeymen printers of
London are in a very distressed state. From twelve to fif-
teen hundred compositors and pressmen are said to be out of
work, and there is but little prospect of any improvement in
the trade for some time to come. The many failures amongst
booksellers caused great stagnation, and this has been in-
creased by the small quantity of printing required for the late
short, do-nothing parliament. One or two meetings have
been held by the men, preparatory to a more public one, to
consider the propriety of making an appeal to the public on
their behalf.

SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.--A lad,
about eighteen years of age, on Wednesday night, the 29th
ult., disappeared under strongexcitement ; and, it is supposed,
threw himself off the bridge at Melksham, into the Avon,
and was drowned. To recover the body, his friends on
Saturday were firing a gun along the banks of the river, be-
lieving that the report would burst the caul and raise the
corpse to the surface. On Monday they beat a drum along
the bank, believing that the drum would cease sounding
when opposite the corpse ! Of course both methods failed.
Letters from the northern districts of Northumberland,
North Durham, and Berwickshire, describe the crops there
as being very good, exceeding rather an average; but they
also state that fully one half is yet in the fields, and that
there is little prospect of their being gathered in undamaged,
as the fine weather is completely broken up. The wheat of
the north of England is, it is added, of a better description
than that of the south, this year. The severe weather of the
last week has brought over woodcocks at this unusually early
period.

MAGNIFICENT COLUMN BETWEEN Ross AND WEX-
FORD.—The column erected by General Browne Clayton, on
the rock of Carrig-a-Dagon, adjoining the mail-coach road
between Ross and Wexford, is now completed, and presents
to the eye one of the most chaste and classic ornaments of
which the country can boast. The column, including the
capital, which is of the Corinthian order, is constructed of
the finest cut granite, and is ninety-four feet four inches high.
General Browne Clayton, who commanded the 12th light
dragoons, has erected this column to commemorate the con-
quest of Egypt, under the command of Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie, K.B.—Waterford Chronicle.
A lady once heard a clergyman preach, and was so enrap-
tured with him, that she sent him a letter to the following
effect :—" Dear Sir,—There's my hand, (my heart you have
already,) with my fortune, which is very considerable. Will
you accept? I am, &c., ANNA." The clergyman, unmoved
by the entreaties of the lovely, fair one, replied in the follow-
ing terms :—`• Madam,—Give your hand to industry, your
dowry to the poot, and your heart to God."
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A person of the name of
Richard Shaw, residing at Oldfield Carr, near Poulton-le-
lde, who keeps a quantity of hens, having for a week past
lost the eggs of one of them, which was a constant layer, he
; was induced to make a strict search, but for four or five days
without success. At length, on Thursday week, he saw the
hen come cackling off an apple tree, in the garden, in which
was a magpie's nest. He immediately got a ladder, and ex-
amined the nest, when to his great surprise he found nine of
the hen's eggs deposited in it. The nest is about fifteen feet
from the ground. _ _

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A SUICIDAL FAMlLY.—Saturday evening, between five
and six o'clock, a determined attempt at suicide was made
by a young married lady, whose connexions are of respec-
tability at Brompton. She suddenly rushed down the stairs
leading from Hungerford-market to the Thames, and, in the
presence of several persons, precipitated herself into the river.
An alarm being raised, some men entered a boat and pro-
ceeded to her assistance, and succeeded in taking her out of
the water as she was on the point of sinking, and conveyed
her, in a state of total insensibility, to the Swan Tavern,
where the most kind attentions were immediately paid her.
Surgical assistance being procured, after some time she was
restored to her senses. On being asked the cause of her
making the rash attempt on her life she burst into a flood of
tears, but objected Ito assign the cause. She admitted that
she was married, and that her aunt, a respectable old lady,
resided in 13rompton-row, Brompton, giving the name and
address. Mr. Howard, the landlord, immediately despatched
a messenger to her aunt, acquainting her of the unfortunate
circumstance. On the messenger's arrival, to his astonish-
ment, on communicating the circumstance, the old lady did
not betray the least surprise, but cooly answered that it was
nothing more than she had daily expected, she having at two
previous periods, made similar attempts, and that she be-
longed to a suicidal family, her two sisters having put a pe-
riod to their existence some time since, one by precipitating
herself from a boat into the river, and her eldest sister poi-
soned herself at her residence near Regent's-park. The
young lady having recovered was safely restored to beg aunt,
and she accompanied her once again safe to her residence.
THE MANNER OF DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT IN THE
REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. .--- The following curious
piece of historical information is derived from a rare work,
entitled " Records of Parliament," printed in folio, 1602.
Ann. 27 Reg,. Eliz., Sept. 14, 1586:—The Lorde Chiefe
Justice of England, the Lorde Chiefe Justice of the Common
Pleas, the Lorde Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer, and the
Maister of the Rolles, beyng sente down from the Lordes to
the Commons, the sayd Lorde Chiefe Baron having theingrte
seale of England, declared that her Majestic hmatvoytn
teg•tivth day of
com-
mission to dissolve the present Parliamentv
untill the day appoynted. Which done,
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