The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

THE " VASTLY SUPERIOR" PRESS,

Joseph flume, Esq., the hon. member for Middlesex, having
publicly proclaimed, from his place in parliament and elsewhere,
that the American newspapers were " vastly superiur to all other
newspapers" in the habitable world, we extract the following
from a bundle of American newspapers just received:—firstly,
in proof of the honourable member's judgment and veracity ;
and second, as an example of style and tone for the use of the
hon. member's followers, the proprietors of the dog-cheip
dinrnals

" THE GLOBE'S UGLINESS.—We never saw ugliness surpass
that of the editor of the Globe* in speaking of Judge White asa
Calvin Edson Skeleton, &c: The judge's grey hair and high
forehead give him a most venerable and respectable appearance.
His reviler is the ugliest looking starveling in this city. 'lt is
also miserable for such a pokey-looking creature as the editor
of the Globe to be encouraged by the president to ridicule the
personal appearance of an aged and venerable senator frciarhis
own state."—U. S. Telegraph.

" W e never saw a more ugly head stuck upon a more supreme-
ly ugly pair of shoulders, or upon a barber's post even, than
that of Blair of the Globe. And yet the miscreant is every now
and then trying to ridicule the personal appearance of Judge
White, telling at one time how straight, sleek, and methodist-
like he appears in the senate; at another, reflecting upon his
accomplished and fashionable lady, and vulgarly deviating that
she keeps the judge's head and tail np' for the presidency,
and then again calling him a Calvin Edson Skeleton,' &c, The
beast ought to be sent forthwith to Botany Bay, yoked up with
Whitney, and closely attended by Amos Kendall and Isaac
!lin, besides being hooted after by T. 11. Benton, and sympa-
thised with by Niles, Walker, Shepley, and Bedford Brown,
of the senate. •

" But what, after all, is one's personal appearance? Even
with his never yet surpassed and unsurpassable ugliness, Blair
.1 the Globe might be a decent human being if it were possible
for such a horribly-looking outcast and desperado to be possess
ed of a single spark or decency !"—Mobile Advertiser.
" ONION TIME.—The Montgomery Van Buren organ an-
nounces that the IVe tumpkis Onion, a paper we unexpectedly
killed some time since by calling it by its most appropriate
name,t is about to be revived, resuscitated and set agoing again,
from this lime, we suppose, until the presidental election is
over."—Mobile Advertiser.

• Not the Globe in the use of which Lord Palmerston is so efficien
but an American diurnal, so called.

+ The Wetumpka Union was the title of the paper until the Mobile
man changed the" Union" into Onion, in allusion to its tear.pros•oking
propensities.

RAILWAYS

The following is a list of the Railways Bills which•passe(
both flooses of Parliament, and received the loyal assent, dur
ing the last session :

.
Arbroath and Forfar Z6ooCapita,4ol.
0
Aylesbury 50,000
Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction.. 150,000
Birmingham, Derby and Stonebridge 530,000
Birmingham and Gloucester 945,(X/0
Bolton and Leigh
3,400
Brandling, .
97,000
'Bristol and Exeter 1,400,800
Cheltenham and Great Western
750,01 X)
Deptford .
Dublin and Drogheda. - 600.0(1)
Dundee and Arbroath.
.99800
Dundee and Newtyle....... ~,.....
Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven 99,700
Gateshead and- Durham (Great North) of England 660,000
Great Western
Havle,•• • •- • •• ''' 93,700
Hull and Selby.
Leeds and Derby (North Midland). 1.5410,000
London and Blackwall Commercial
London and Cambridge (Northern and Eastern) 1,200,000.
London aad Croydon.....
Lonnou and Norwich ( Eastern Counties) 1,500,000
London Grand Junction.
Loadon and Dover (South Eastern).
Manchester and Leeds 1 300,001)
Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff .. 300,000
M idland Counties. 1,200,000
Newcastle and North Shields 1'20,000
Preston ana Longbridge 30,000
Sheffield and Rotherham. .. 90,001)
Ulster.
York and North Midland 370,000
The number of rairway bills introduced in the past session
was 55, of which 8 were not proceeded with, 14 were.thrown out,
and 33 received the royal assent. In the session of 1835, the
number of petitions for the introduction of railway bills-was '22,
out of which number 18 passed, and 4 were not passed. ' In the
session of 1831, there were 18 petitions presented, and the num-
ber of bills whirls received the royal assent was 11; rejected or
not proceeded with 4. Session 1833, nrituber of petitions for
railway bills 15; passed 11; not passed 4. Session 1832, num-
ber of petitions 12; hilts passed 8; not passed 4: In' 1831, the
number of railway hills_ which received the,royal assent was 9.
Session 1830; 8. Session 1829, 9. Session 1828, 11. Session
1827, s.—Total railway hills passed during the ten years end-
ing with the last session. 127.—Comprinion to the Newspaper. —.

NEWFOUNDLAND, OCT. IL—A letter of this date mentions
that several icebergs had lately passed in sight of that place to
the southward, adding that it was an occurrence very unusual
at such a season.

THE 1.1..00N.-5 * * Yet is this all to he done? Are the
powers of this great machine to be wasted for ever on a holiday
show? On dropping Dukes of Biunswick out and taking
Cockneys in ? Ou gathering guineas into the pocket of the fu-
ture Mr. Grahams, and putting their future wives wide and wild
between the sky and the earth ? Are we never to have the
power of traversing the deserts of the south, the forests of the
west, and the snows of the north, without the slow travel, the
long labour, and the torturing disease? Are we never to have
the means-of varying our climate without passing from our
own land; of shooting up from the femurs of a feverish sum-
mer into regions where no cloud' intercepts the the sun, and yet
where eternal freshness reigns ? Of meeting the morning, not
in the mists of our heavy capitals, but in the rosy light of the
ethereal Aurora? Of resting above the mountains, and looking
down with philosophic delight nu the infinite variety of form,
life, and beauty below? Of sailing in our meteor-ship among
the world of:,meteors, and floating among the golden and ver-
million canopies of that "great Holdall," the sun, as he slumbers
on the west? What a vast, various, and lovely increase to the
enjoyments, the knowledge, and the social affectious of man
would be given' by this power of rr pid transit, beyond all the
harsh restraints of human domination, the difficulties of space,
and almost the expenditure of time! ** * It is scarcely pos-
sible to conceive that so fine au invention as the balloon would
have been placed in our hands to be for ever worthless; to
tempt us by its'apparent powers, and to disappoint us by its
inutility.—Btarkwood's Maja:ine.
• DEATH OF AIR. JOHN BANISTER, THE COMETHAN.—OId
playgoers will learn with regret, that this mortal scene has clos-
ed for ever, on one of the most admired ornaments of the stage,
in the days of their youth. Mr. Banister died at' his house in
Gower-street, where he had long lived in honourable indepen-
dence, on Monday week. His comic powers were of the highest
oThrder. His Culonet Feignwell, in "The Bold Stroke fort
and his Bashfuleonstant, in The Way to Keep Him," i
sidered perfectate in " The Children in the Wood," were ci,n_
intro-
duced to th specimens of comic excellence. He was
an "At Hoe me" by Garrick, .whose mennerhe mimicked in
!which he entertaiment, called " Banister's Budget,"
the Roscius appeared gave at tle
London Tavern about 'lO years ago, as
" him while shaving himself, and at the
,same time questioninghi`n as to his theatrical views. He
wound up the scene by the
stagei_. on the stage h. ‘,„sl"!‘alk, " Such was Garrick off the
aro,,traalitable." Mr. Banister, though
' he suffered much from th.s
4a,Ataineda portion of his for-
naer spirits, and some of hi,
fannly consisted of twosons and Y sYslaglb, to the last. His
- " daughters, of whom all but
ove daughler survive.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN,

(From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)
Bafoune, Nov. 3, half-past six, p.m.—The second reading of
the propositions relative to the Regency was carried, there be-
ing only II votes against.
Sanz was defeated on the 21th ult., at Sales, by Castanon.
1 There is nothing new from Bilboa. Two Christine battalions
have proceeded from Santander to Portugalete.
News is expected every moment of an engagement between
Villareal and Espartero.
Bayonne Nov. 5, half-past six, p.m.—lt was on the 24th that
Gomez took Almaden. Rodil arrived on the next day, after
the departure 01 the Carlists, whom he has followed into Extre-
madura; he was at Vainurejo on the 2Gth. It is said Gomez
arrived at Guadeloupe on the 27th. Nothing new from Bilbua.
On the 3d Colonel Lebeau proceeded with his division to Ribera,
to support thpmovement of Espartere.
Bayonne, Nov. 6, seven, p.m.—On the 28th Gomez was at
Guadalupe, and Rodil at Mohaj as, in the vicinity of the bridge
of Arzobispo to dispute the passage. No news from Alaix.
Espartero and Villareal were in the neighbourhood of Baltna-
ceda' Nothing from Gilboa. Nov. 6, 10 o'clock, p.m.—Let-
ters from Saragossa of the 4th state, that General San Miguel
took Cantaviej aon the 31st. General Lopez, 400 officers, and
900 privates were found confined in the different prisons. The
garrison and the inhabitants have abandoned the town.
Bayonne, Nov. s.—An order from the Junta of Navarre has
enjoined all the young men who may have been married since
the 24th June, to present themselves at Estella on the 4th in-
stant, on pain of being immediately arrested, and being sub-
jected to the severest penalties.
A battalion of mobilised National Guards, consisting of 800
infantry and 20 cavalry, arrived on the 30th ult. at dose, a vil-
lage of Aragon, situate at the distance of a league from San-
guesa. . Just as the men entered the village they commenced
singing Riego's hymn, accompanying it with shouts of "The
Constitution for ever!" 'rhis battalion together with some
companies of chapelgorris from Navarra, will form a flying cu-
!limn to protect couriers, and escort convoys from Sanguesa to
Pamperuna and 'rafalla.
In order to remedy the numerical diminution which has taken
place in the battalions of Navarre since the Ist September, in
consequence of losses from deaths, wounds, or discharge from
military service, General Garcia forwarded a statement to the
Junta of that kingdom, to demand that all possible measures
might be taken to place the above-mentioned battalions on an
equal footing, in point of numbers, with those of the provinces
of Alava, Biscay, and Guipuzcoa. The Junto has decided that
in future all the young men who are or may be mobilised, shall
form part of the Navarrese battalions, till each of the latter
shall amount to 800 or 900 men.

It is quite positive that the Junta of Navarre and General
Grecia have proposed to the General-in-Chief, Villareal, to as-
sist him in laying siege to Puente la Reyna, which is scarcely
supplied with provisions for eight days longer. On the llst
ult. 65 Carlists, who were wounded in the siege of Bilboa. and
amongst the number three officers of the 2d battalion of Na-
varre, arrived at the hospital of Irache.
The Junta of Armament and Defence, established at Pain-
peluna, has published a ()midi): ordering all males between the
ages of 17 and 50, without distinction of persons, to take up
arms in defence of the Constitution. The consequence is, that
a number of persons of the class referred to have abandoned the
town.

Three Carlists in disguise lately carried off a drove of oxen
jelonging to the hospital of Pampeluna, and also the the two
shepherds who were watching the animals. This occurred at
the distance of 40 paces front the farthest Christino outpost of
Pampeluna.
Desertion is increasing to a most scandalous extent in the
legion of Algiers, the men belonging to which are daily going
over, by twenties and thi►ties, to the enemy. Within these
few last days a battalion of Algiers and, a company of Chapel-
gorris marched to Balcarlos to take up .a convoy and escort it
to Pampeluna.
Don Basilio Garcia, who has been acquitted by the Court-
martial by which he was tried, was lately at Los Arcos, with
his battalion and the Bth battalion of Navarre.
Brigadier Don Leon Iriarte has ordered all the Alcaldes of
the valleys on the Christino line to enjoin all Carlist deserters
in the different villages to proceed to Pampeluna, where they
are to take up arms. On the 29th ult. the half of a company of
A ragonese Chapelgorris deserted from the village of Tajonar,
two leagues from Painpeluna, because they had not received
their pay. Two companies of the same corps immediately
marched in pursuit of, but failed in coming up with the de-
serters; who have committed all sorts of excesses in the villages
through which they have passed.
By order of trio Viceroy, ad interim, of Navarre, all the
church plate is being collected in the villages of the Ribero and
other places on the military line, and, as fast as it is collected it
is. forwarded to Pampeluna by the Commissaries charged with
the execution of the measure.
The Curate of Dello has destroyed two bridges on the road
from Vittoria to Salvatierra. The former city is in a more de-
plorable state than if it were besieged, neither wood, coal, nor
any species of provisions being allowed to enter the place.
It is confidently asserted that the Spanish Government is on
the point of sending two Commissaries to the seat of war.
It appears that Villareal offered battle to Espartero, who de•
clined it. The town of Bilboa. is still besieged, whatever may
have been said to the contrary; and this is the day announced
by the Carlists as that on which they intend to strike a decisive
blow against the place. Some troops that were on their march
to join Espartero, who had written to the Government that he
had not sufficient forces to attack Villareal, have just been re-
called to Madrid. This circumstance proves that the cause of
the Constitution is not prospering in the South, since, by the
withdrawal of a considerable portion of troops from Bilboa,
that town is exposed to the danger of falling into the power of
the Carlisle. A part of the materiel of the siege which Villa:
real had withdrawn from Bilboa, to enable him to meet Espar-
tero, has been replaced.

PORTUGAL.
We have intelligence from Lisbon to the 27th ult. The Diario
Do Govern of the 24th contains a decree regulating the natu-
ralisation of foreigners. Lisbon was tranquil, but much public
and private distress prevailed in all quarters of the country.
The decree convoking the Cortes at Lisbon has at length been
issued; they are to meet on the 18th of January.
LisnoN, Oct. 2-I.—Little or no news of any importance has
occurred during the past week, excepting the disappearance of
Don Miguel from the territory of the Duke of Mudeua, where
he has been collectin., and organizing a military force for the
purpose of making ae'descent on some part of the Coast of. Po-
rtugal, supposed to be that of Algarve, and where it is reported a
steam-boat has arrived, and landed some artillery and officers of
distinction, which has created great alarm here.
General Bacon sailed last week for Lisbon, by invitation of
numerous British officers, claimants on the Portuguese govern-
ment, whose accounts it is ready to liquidate. The claims which
he has to make amount to nearly £lO,OOO. He has, we under-
stand, a special invitation from Madrid to repair thither for the
purpose of taking the command of two or three thousand cavalry,
to be raised and equipped in this country. The general is to act
independently of Evans's corps, and to be under no Spanish chief.
Twelve or fourteen ships of war, English and Frewch, wero
in the Tagus, in a threatening position. The Queen made an
excursion down the river, almost under the guns of the two
squadrons, which saluted her, and the band of music struck up
Don Pedro's favourite air, instead of that of the constitution.
The Portuguese Ambassadors at London, Paris, and Brus-
sels, and the Charges-d'Affaires at Copenhagen and Rome,
following the example of Prince Ferdinand, and almost all the
nobility and clergy and most respectable part of the Portuguese
nation, have refused to take the oath to the constitution of 1822.