The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-04 00:00:00

bition Rooms, Postoffice

THE
I. Hist
CARACCI
Slater_or

'HE THREE CARACCI.
I PAINTINGS of Subjects from Relig

AGOSTINO,

t the UNION GALLERY,
from Ten till Four o'clock
Six till Ten o'clock in the Even-

nd LUDOVICO

NOW ON VIEW
out of Bold—street,`,

The sum Of £8,500 has lately BEEN REFUSED for these
Pictures. The Ex-Queen of Etruria paid Three Hundred
Thousand Francs for them to Lucien Buonaparte, being at
the rate of £4,000 for each Picture; and they are now con-
sseurs as worth a much larger sum.
t the Union Gallery, for a short

remain on vie

ADMITTANCE—ONE SHILLING.
JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper,

LECTURES ON GERMAN LITERATURE,
LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET.
PROFESSOR W. J. SCHWEITZER, M.A., of Breslau,
has the honour to announce that, under the patronage of
The Worshipful the MAYOR of LIVERPOOL,
. The Right Hon. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON. M.P.,
he proposes to deliver, in the LECTURE Room, LYCEUM,

THURSDAYS, and SATUR-
I and third weeks of December, a
SE of SIX LECTURES, in English, on the LAN-
and LITERATURE of GERMANY, illustrated
riginal and translated, from the Works of

TUESDAYS

s of th

GUAti
by Specimen

me of the most cele'
The first Le(

the Bth

Author

re will be delivered upon TUESDAY next,
at One o'clock in the Afternoon, and be

repeated at Eight o'clock of the same Evening; and the re-
mainder of the Course will be delivered, at the same hours,

ye days named

es and Tickets for the Course, at Half-a-Guinea
be had at Messrs. GEORGE and Jos. ROBINSON,
; Messrs. WILLAN and Co., Bold-street;
Church-street; Messrs. TURNER and RosE,
the Bar of the Liverpool Library,

each, may I
43, Castle.:
Mr. GRAPE

pence.
Liverpoo,

.eet ; and

to a Single Lecture, Two Shillings and Six-

t December

TO CORRESPONDENTS

dent."—This noble ship will not sail, we are in-
ntil the 10th of February. The vessel and
e to be over-hauled, and improvements made in
to give adequate propulsive power. A corres-
suggests the application of the Archimedean
sine engines, in lieu of the paddle wheels,

and the rigging of the vessel in full, as " a steam-sailing-
ship," particularly as she is known to be very fast under
stion, however, arises whether her stern
ire to be reconstructed to admit of that
f propulsion, even were it approved of by nautical

canvassing for M

ust excuse us inserting any communi-

have t

of bringing us into a

porary rather than of advancing

le society, whose motives and conduct
)is to " Laicus" and others, with refer-
4ence of the Pastoral Aid Society.
,t of two shillings and sixpence for
lentioned in our last.

1 appear on Tuesday

asks whether we have heard that Mr.
liberal town councillors are actually
Highton, who is a candidate for the
Borough Gaol? We have heard such

lour, and we believe that it is true

Just Published, Price 4s

POLL

FOR TH

NICIPAL

BOOK

ELECTION ;

the Duplicate Qualifications of the VOTERS,

and the WARDS in which they polled. The Lists
have been examined with the Polling Papers in the
possession of the Mayor. This publication, which
has been compiled with the utmost care, will be found

of great ut

A BOOK OF REFERENCE,

I be found of service to the several Ward

Committees in carrying on the Canvass for the ensu-

mg year

Printed and sold by LACE and ADDISON, Standard-
and sold also by other Booksellers.

Ebt Eibtrpoot &tanbarb.

FRIDAY

MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1840.

By the packet-ship Virginian, Captain Allen, which
1 here on Tuesday, we have received New York
rs to the 13th ultimo, inclusive. The news by this
s only two days later than that brought by the

arrive

President, and is comparatively unimportant

ations in the stock market were not extensive, and

prices were inclining to give way. United States fell
The last quotation at New York was

per cent

;6, and at Philadelphia it was 671. The export of
pecie to Europe continued. The packet-ship Samson,
on the 12th ultimo for London, had 29,000

which

s on board

e page

..rs before us are chiefly occupied with de-
.specting the presidential election. They pub-
.l some further returns which appear to be highly fa .
vourable to General Harrison. Out of the 26 States
of which the Union is composed, New Hampshire
alone has yet decided in favour of Mr. Van Buren.
Virginia is likely to go the same way. The opinions
1-ie great majority of the electors, it is evident, are
totally opposed to the line of policy pursued by Gene-
ral Jackson and his successor. The mercantile and
trading classes have obtained a complete ascendancy
throughout the States.

ktnong the probable measures of the new admini-
upposed that a bankrupt law will be a

.onal bank, in connection witl

is also spoken of.

vices had been received at New

Orleans from Ha

vannah, which state that a considerable part of the town
of Tobasco, in Mexico, had been burnt to ashes, and a

f the inhabitants reduced to poverty am
The British minister at Mexico him'.

Taints of the delay of the goverr

nding to the demands made upon it re,
imprisonment of British subjects in Cali.

fornia, and relative to the system of internal duties
The minister, it is stated, had declared that, unless
reply were sent to him in a given time, he would de•
inand his passports. This threat had caused a grea.

sation in Mexico.

f any importance from Canada

Packet due from New York will be the Nort,
Captain Lowber, which sailed from that cit.
The British Queen and the Britanni

19th t

'ere to sail on the first instant

lock Advertiser

a document c

character. It is a letter fror

)rciir,a

editor of the Patriot, the leading organ of the dis

by mistake, of course—to the ed

of the Greenock Advertiser

The following is the
pc production to which we allude, and which we

vote for ti

edification of our readers

To the Editor of the Greenock Advertiser.
" Patriot Office, London, November, 1840

LII much oblige me by instructing your pu

me a copy of your journal whenever it contair

g to the reli

pious public, such as church

ng of new places of worship, ordinatior

s, instances of bigotry and intoleran

slablished Church, or anylhiny novel c

nt shall be punett

You would further oblige ix

t as early as Possible, and in case

xnything of great importance, perhaps you would favour

me with slips. It will afford me pleasure to mention the nary
authority for anything taken from it.—

am, sir, yours respectfully,

" THE EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT., tt
This letter was forwarded in a printed form, an
no doubt, as conjectured by our excellent contetr.
---,'enock Advertiser, "one of a number

orary, the Grp

circulars sent about the country to newspapers which
are supposed to be of the right stamp." We rejoice
to find that it has been made public, as it will serve to

!hew thi Indefaiaablo exertious made Vial tbs

litical dileonter“ in or

er to bolater up their c

Lhargel

against the Established Church, There must, haw-
ever, be a most deplorable want of grievances when
such practices are resorted to. It is somewhat amu.

sing to find " instances of bigotry and intolerance on
the part of the Established Church" characterised as

information "novel and interesting to religious read-

religions readers

i" of the Patriot must