The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE,

OXFORD, AUG. 7.—The Lo-rd Bishop of Salisbury has
collated the Rev. W. E. Hony, of Exeter College, to the
honorary prebend or canonry of Grinisten and Yettninster,
anciently founded in the Cathedral of Sarum.

James Wentworth Buller, Esq., having presented the Rev.
J. B. Kitson, late of Exeter College, to the vicarage of
Pe'put, Cornwall, he has been instituted to that living by
the lord bishop of the diocese.
The Lord Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. John
Pendrill, of St. John's College, to the British chaplaincy at
Ghent, Flanders.

The Lord Bishop of Worcester has presented the Rev.
Charles J. Penny, of Queen's College, to the perpetual
curacy of Bobbenhall, Warwickshire.
The Lord Bishop of St. Asaph has presented the Rev.
John Hughes to the rectory of Nannerch, Flintshire.

The Queen has sent a donation of £lOO to the City of
London General Pension Society.
Accounts from Poland state that the harvest is superb.
Another ghost story has been got up in Cambridge.
It is stated that Sir George Cockburne goes to the Medi-
terranean in command of our fleet in that sea.

O'Connell has entered his youngest grandson, only four
days old, a member of the Repeal Association.
Gloucester Musical Festival takes place on the 7th, Bth,
9th, and 10th of September. The choruses will exceed 300
performers.

Twelve convicts have obtained their liberty this week from
the Warrior convict ship, Woolwich, in commemoration of
the visit of the Queen to witness the launch of the Trafalgar.
The total population of Turkey is 23,000,000, of whom
16,000,000 are Mussulmans, and 7,000,000 Christians or
Jews.

The competition among the Margate steamers which ena-
bled the' Londoners to reach that favourite watering place
for one third the usual fares, has lately ceased.
According to the most recent naval intelligence, the Mint.
people are apparently not yet provided for. We find that
Captain George Elliot, a nephew of the first lord of the admi-
ralty, is shortly to be appointed to the command of the
North Star, 28, " ordered to be commissioned."
During the deluge of rain in the storm on Tuesday night
last there was a slight mixture of snow it did not, however,
lie on the ground, but melted as it fell. To have snow in
August is indeed unusual in Lincoln.—Lincoln Gazette.

The following extraordinary inducement was held out by a
solicitor, who advertised last week in a morning paper, for an
office-clerk : " A small salary will be givdn, but he will have
enough of over-work to make up for the deficiency."
What is the Instrument with which every tooth in your
head may be drawn, not only without pain, but without per-
ception of the operation, provided you open your mouth, and
keep your eyes shut? A black lead pencil.

Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow one evening by ob•
serving, " I should not like to go up in a balloon with you,
for fear of ourfalling out."

Why is a fresh-plucked carnation like a certain cold with
which children are affected ? Because it's a new pink off
(an hooping-cough).

A public meeting was held in London on the subject of the
election outrages in Ireland. when it was unanimously re-
solved to petition the House of Commons to appoint a com-
mittee of enquiry.

The Regent's Park will be thrown open to the public on
Sunday, the 15th instant.

The King of Prussia has just issued a Cabinet order di-
recting that, in future, any foreigner wishing to marry a
Prussian subject, within the territories of Prussia, must pro-
duce a certificate of the local authorities at home, attesting
that by the laws of such country, the marriage can be con-
tracted, and will be deemed valid there.

A bill drawn by Captain Elliot on the Lords of the Trea-
sury for a sum exceeding £5,000 sterling has lately bean the
cause of litigation at Bombay : the bill was sent to England,
and, on payment being refused, was returned to India :
an action of trover was instituted by the party who shipped
the opium against the Bombay agents of the firm in China to
which it was consigned : a verdict was found for the plaintiff
to the amount of the bill.

ROYAL. BIRTHDAYS.—The present month is fruitful in
the anniversaries of illustrious persons closely allied to thu
British Crown. Friday next is the birthday of her. Majesty
the Queen Dowager. The Tuesday following (17th instant)
is the anniversary of the birth of her It oysi Highness the
Duchess of Kent, mother of our most gracious Queen ; and
the 26th is that of Prince Albert.

DEATHS FROM DRUNKENNESS.—A few days ago two
men, the one named Thomas Beadle, bricklayer's labourer,
the other named John Bailey, a sweep, went into Mr.
Lodge's, at York, where they drank six pints qf rum, nearly
neat. Beadle fell senseless in the house; but Bailey was
enabled to lease the house, and until he reached the air ap-
peared quite steady. The unfortunate men did not, however,
long survive.

As usual at this period of the year. numerous bodies of
Irish peasants have arrived in this neighbourhood, to assist
in the labours of the harvest. Owing, however, to the very
backward state of the crops, and the smallness of them, very
few of these men can find employment, and there are now,
we regret to say, above sixty of them in our union workhouse.
—Cambridge Advertiser.

For weeks past, during the gloomy weather, many persons
have complained of difficulty in their respiration, and of
being otherwise affected. Medical men of experience at-
tribute the cause to the want of a due portion of oxygen gas
in the atmosphere, and the air not being properly raritied,
occasioned by the absence of sunshine for many days.
BLACK DOINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The Senate of
Georgia has been recommended by its committee of internal
improvement, to raise money by an annual tax of one dollar
per head on all slaves between the ages of 10 and 65 years,
and ten dollars per head on all free persons of colour residing
within the state.—Anti-Slavery Reporter.
It is not to be denied that serious grounds of uneasiness
are afforded by the state of the weather, if its general unpro-
pitious prevalence through the country at large may be as-
sumed from the experience of what is witnessed here. It
may, however, be stated, that, even within the range of 40
or 50 miles, the rains have by no means been equally heavy
or uniform, for in some places a succession of days of fair
and even sunny weather, has prevailed, whilst this metro-
polis has been deluged with showers.—Morning Herald.
MIGRATIONS or BIRDS.—The business of incubation
being now over with most birds, the migrations again com-
mence. The Sanderling, the Mountain Finch, the Siskin,
the Grey Gull, the Blue Gull, the Crossbeak, the Godwit,
the Bar-tailed Godwit, the Cambridge Godwit, the Purple
Sandpiper and the Purre, usually visit us during the early
part and middle of the present month ; and the Grey Plover
and the Knot arrive towards the latter end. The following
generally take their departure in the course of August :—the
Razor-bill, the Field Titlark, the Dottrel, the Turtle Dove,
the Quail, the Cuckoo, the Swift, the Bunting, the Paffin,
the Red-legged Sinew, the Foolish Guillemot, the Lapwing,
and the Wryneck.

A miser, who possessed a fortune of more than a thousand
franks, but who did not expend more than six creutzers a
day for the milk and bread which formed his only food,
lately committed suicide at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, by
shooting himself with a pistol, which he had purchased the
day before, after bargaining for a longtime in order to obtain
a diminution of price on the weapon.
ACTING THE AGREEABLE.—An Englishman seldom lays
himself out to act the agreeable to women—a Frenchman
never omits au opportunity of so doing : hence, the atten-
tions of the latter are less gratifying than those of the former,
because a woman, however free from vanity, may suppose,
that when an Enelishman takes the trouble—and it is evi-
dently a trouble, more or less, to all islanders to enact the
agreeable—she has really inspired him with a desire to
please.—Lady Blexsington's Idler in France.
THE WAY TO TERRIFY.—Prince Belloselaky possessed to
an eminent degree the talent of telling a ghost-story. At
a large party, one evening, the ladies drew their chairs
around him, and exclaimed, " Do, Prince, terrify us a little."
Upon this, the prince ordered the lights to be extinguished,
with the exception of one, which was left burning in an adjoin-
ing apartment, the door of which remained ajar. The narrator
commenced his tale, which turned, as might he expected, upon
the apparition of a horrid phantom, advancing slowly, in the
midst of darkness visible, towards a person in bed. For the
last ten minutes the prince had kept his hand extended on
a marble table ; his voice assumed a sepulchral tone. All at
once, he applied his icy hand open the bare arm of his hostess,
who uttered a piercing scream. The terrified auditors rushed
into the other room, and, in their confusion, extinguished
the solitary light. The sudden darkness redoubled their
panic. At last the servants made their appesranoe with
flambeaux ; and the prince, who began to be alarmed at the
success of his experiment, succeeded with some difficulty in
calming the apprehensions of his fair audience. "Ladies,"
said he, " 'tis all your own fault; you requested me to terrify
you a little, and I like to make myself agreeable."
THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH.—A
remarkable curious instrument, bearing the name of the
" Electro-Magnetic Printing Telegraph," was yesterday ex-
hibited, for the first time, in one of the lecture rooms of the
Polytechnic Institution. The object of this invention is to
convey information from one place to another by means of
the electrical current, in such a way, that words or sentences
transmitted front one locality are instantaneously printed in
another, however distant ; and this, too, without the agency
of any person in the place to which the correspondence is to
be forwarded. The means by which this extraordinary effect
is produced are simple enough. Three wires for the passage
of the electric fluid are first laid between any two given
places. To one end of these wires is attached a dial-plate
with one revolving hand, which is kept in motion by a
spring, A peg stops the hand when required ; and the face
of the dial-plate contains the letters of the alphabet separately
arranged in a circle, each letter having a small hale in the
plate, immediately underneath it, into which the peg is
placed, when the revolution of the hand is to be arrested.
To the other end of the wires is affixed a small frame-work.
and into it are introduced a cylinder, round which the paper
to be printed on is placed ; also, a wheel, having the letters,
of the alphabet arranged regularly on its edge, and a small:
inking roller. All these revolve horizontally and sitnul-
taueously, the wheel with the letters being placed between,
the ink roller and the cylinder for paper. Motion is com-
municated to these parts by a pair of electro-magnets at-
tached to them and communicating with the wires. Thus,
if the word " the" is to be printed, the hand on the dial-
plate is allowed to revolve until it reaches the letter f, be-
yond which it is prevented from passing by the peg. When
stopped, the printer places his finger on a sitting attached to
the plate, which allows a current of electricity to pass to the
wheel with the letters, which immediately presses the letter
t against the paper, it having previously been inked by the
roller, and then retires. The other letters are arranged in
the same way until the word is complete. A peculiar part of
the mechanism, and that which can hardly be explained
without a diagram, relates to the passage of the galvanic cur-
laatantdhat by the
the
cur-
rent from the dial-plate to the wheel with the letters on it, in
order to produce correspodndiailn_gp
inteotioht shall be
hbeot printed so
letter indicated by the
other. This, however, is effected by a simple arrangement
on the face of the dial-plate, which makes and breaks the
current exactly its the way required. The inventor of this
extraordinary machine is Mr. Alexander Bain, the chrono-
meter maker; and it appears to us that its introduction for-
telagrivhie or other similar purposes might be attended with
great success. The length of wires laid on at the Poly-
technic Institution is not more than a mile ; but were it the
distance of a hundred or a thousand, the instantaneous
effect would be the same. There are some minor partieu-
lars which require occular inspection in order to be fully un-
derstood ; but these will easily be arrived at by attending the,
lectures at the institution.

STEAM-BOAT FARES.—The trivial amount of expense at
which persons can travel by steam is now almost incredible,,
and must be felt as a great boon. A traveller from hermit•
may reach London, via Hull, so far as fare is concerned (it
content with the steerage), for 10s. 6d. Glasgow, by steami
to Stirling, and thence by coach for3s. To Stirling Is. The'
opposition on this passage has had the effect of reducing the.
fares to a very low rate, and,, as a matter of course, A bas.
caused a corresponding activity on the part of those eonape_
titors—fer example, during last week the Benledi sailed un
wards of 1,200 miles t... and from Newhaven, Stirling, 11,4,
3Largo.m
Id Twheel;Bail:eidgreeasoof nAtlolabnelvieieveAthila°ta'theiasnisbetherepareeirmhf
or-
route ; the distance from Alloa to the bridga being • le
that from Stirling, and the coach fare from both stroller tto,
audy the same. The fare to Dundee it. Zs. el ace
ill ear
pertb Is. 6d. more. Largo and Leven I . . ; thence tit*
9d. Kirkeldy Is. We have s. osi, . zlnd
only noticed tine' Oyttart
second cabin fares. —Ed iNbriegh Oliset:oor, ett""7"6 .r.

my law

blood has bought

RIVER SHANNON
IN IRELAND. .

L STANDART

TCII 1.1

—ln the hurry of writing my
vela credit to " the Irish town,"
pie strotures and streets, for
or Newtown Pery. There
.several typograpnie mistakes in the course of the
`-.ingobvious,ther areof less importance. W.]
No. 111. •

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narrative, but bt

tinued

Intere,ytino oljectx in •the vicinity—
ell—Carrig-o-Gutnel, &c. •

t6d7Nlt

—Cdstle Conl

k.rthor Qu

ksylum, a fine limestone

also on

[fiery Barracks, a neat building, en-
ror the exercise of the brigade there
of the entrance-gate are appropri-
Ige cannon balls, and there are a
of ordnance in the sheds within.
ontain 5000 stand of arms.

-roums and literary institutions
Club House" in George's-street

and numbers amongst its-members
and respectable inhabitants of the
iers in various parts of the empire.
he same street has spacious .reading
a large and valuable library. The
reading-room, attached to the Com-
also a splendid library, and is well
is•itifd periodicals. There is also a

ics' Institution

ablislancnts for the accommodation of
and commodious. Mr. Cruse's Royal
Geotge's-street, to which I was intro.
houe, combining elegance and comfort
ility and attention. The coaching and
, attached to and from Dublin, Cork,
&c. &c., is extensive, and the rapid
als and departures presents an almost
bustle and animation,

ad 1 Honan's Quay, near the bottom of the
form , the -landward boundaries of a tidal
-aft, of a triangular form, which it is pur-
from the river as a floating dock. The
intended dock is already built—the vessels
the Limerick end of 'Wellesley Bridge by
li of cast iron, which is additional to the
of stone. The dock is now almost ex-
-1 b3r,the turf-boats that supply the city with
fuel, forming a considerable musquitoe fleet.
sloops, without deck, except over a small
to form a place of shelter for the hardy
tork them. They appear to be generally
s burthen, or upwards—have great beam,
&thins; generally sail fast. They ply with
various pails of the river below the town,
,f-50 or more miles. Their frequent appear-
ivena the waters of the Shannon. The boat-
-1 them to a great height above the gunwale,
inble, when on their homeward way, turf
t notwithstanding the top weight—the turf,
ing partly in the water on the lee side when
they•carry' a great press of sail, and acci-
rare occurrence. The turf, of which there
n creeks and inlets in the vicinity of the
Shannon, particularly on the Clare side,
tY, measured in immense square baskets,
ns a load for one of the small sloping carts

side of the riv

milt under the recent poor-law act)
, and is-a large pile, of lime
On the same side, nearer the
ly opposite the quays, there are several
surrounded by trees. The views from William-
lg _Brunswick-street and Wellesley-bridge, and
streets parallel with it, to the county of Clare,
rrie ,of -these, as well as several ship-building
them, and present a pleasing proximity of mare-
and rural tranquillity. '
rises at Limerick, though at so great a distance
ocean, to a considerable height, giving a depth

1 immed

ish styl

equat,',lt •is. 'said, to, twenty feet. The city however, has
slightly benefitted by its favourable position,
both ftr. bNitivarcl • and' inland commerce. It has yet no
tioarft aral with the exception of the trade with
Lo'etTpii; &c:, that-of a few vessels to British America, and
what-LaCi-Uelli'din the introduction, within the last seven or
eight r....5.r5, of steam' navigation, the traffic with the adjoin-
ing.asiticts, which.. might nearly all be carried on by water,
is principally pursued. by expensive land conveyances; and
its uaturaFfesourceg having been but triflingly improved, it
h dr cived eon piratively little advantage from its noble river

•
al tritratary branches, which penetrate a highly improvable
ei.lgenerali/vproductive and populous country for upwards

tavo. 11,i

Thotown,it is to be regretted, has no public walks or out
(lands for health and recreation, if the new or Pery-square
thc-New Town. be excepted,—which is open' only en.the

at of a sub,

—and an embankment on the Clare
rdens in Henry-street are private pro-

g from tvi
ahovethc

an acre of ground, are formed on
'-tire to forty feet in height, (with
.eet,) and command an extensive
the neighbouring country. The

eastern Suburb of Garry Owen, as
fields; contain small streets and
built thatched hovels. common
exhibit a painful contrast to the
an English cottage home. At the
7 may be found some of the
•etr: ains of antiquity and grandeur,
ielst the most picturesque and
, or elevated on eminences, corn-
beauty and extent.

rable Oa y
ind

stores for

) disuetude in consequence,
damp. The most fashion-
street and the Wellesley
torth side of the river,

ned at the joint expense of the
Matthew Barrington. Esq, affords
though it is rather too remote to

r;elc, with some few ex-

SifiM lowland scen

riot peculiarly at-

of -surpas,A

mart led ruin, rears its venerable
)t the Shannon, about four miles
in name, apart from the stirring
in feudal times, calls forth remi-
the days of other years." On a
tarted from the city, with two young
anions, (sons of my friend Captain
double object of viewing its remains,
way. We had' provided a fishing rod
hough not sanguine in this respect, of
mt, or salmon fry. The commencement of
he banks of the canal which alternates
he inland navigation to Killaloe on the
he first length of the canal cuts off a
river, and our path was through a fine,
itry or plain, bounded on the south and
untains. The excursion was pleasant,
udless, and the sun so powerful, with
id, that our attempts in angling were
rs who had pursued " the gentle
.ere scarcely more fortunate. At the
canal noticed, the boats enter the river
'he stream here expands, with an em-
h, on which is the towing path. Some
minences on the right, and the uplands
veral seats, the wood, in belts and en-
is- of considerable growth—giving the
pf an English landscape. The moun-
ultivated in patches nearly to their summits,
small farm-houses and white cottages, ter-
ect on the north : and a gap in the hills to
s the pass of the mighty Shannon between
plassey Corn-mill; in which water and
e both employed; soon rose in view on the
the river, and the castle peering over trees
We visited this establishment—one of the
t part,of the country. It had in the previous
a entirely .destroyed by tire, but the walls being
;orkrnen were employed in repairing it, and intro-
ral mechanical and architectural improvements.
itly situated amongst meadows and fields, stir-
trees. The mill dam or race resembles a little
plentifully fringed with willows and other trees
in moisture. We pursued the footpath along it.
sally threw in our line, but without better sue-
country improved in richness as we proceeded,
;sed two fine villas, on rising grounds forming
ins, bounded by stately forest trees, and furnish-
t bright green pasturage to sheep and cattle.
oaching the river, the songs of the birds were
h the increasing roar of the waters, which with a
it may be said refreshing noise, producing a sen-
olness, fell over a long caul stretching diagonally
stream from bank to bank, and formed a white
)t foam and spray. The water below it is broken
a its course, over a comparatively shallow bed, and
wooded islands on the south side, diversified the
wide and almost glassy expanse of the water above
)ntrasted well with- the roughness of the babbling
ow ; and the opposite shore, which is precipitous,
;t1 with apparently natural woods, completed the

, now an iv
south ban

with the
ng by th,

r in ti:

jurs, w

noticed, for the first time,r several " cots," peculiar
suing their favourite pas-
annon,
hese with anglers pursuing
are small light boats, with flat bottoms, rising
out).*
.m and stern, forming, in a depressed eliptic
off at either end.
gradually narrowed andsostnquealr:eeiliti
small oars, and
propelled and guided,
long-bladed spade.
:ocaris of a paddle, resembling a io'
mach re-
and management with the pa,dddlieffn,:riney m
dhowever,
e common t'v est Indian canoe
,uilt of. boards, in place of being fashioned and hol-
little
of the trunk of a tree, and in being
. cot may be hired for a whole day's tishin°,,,a
a
its of the river, .wi di a man to pull it, who provides
ids, ids, lines, and hooks for the small sum
of half-a-
le.hoatmen accustomed to them guide them skil-
iafely even down the rapids of the river, where a
ation, in steering through passages narrowed by
aid frequently prove fatal to the adventurous navi-
)h Ake estpary of the Lower Shannon, and the
a (-oasl'outside, there are small boats, called " ca-
lit of more slender materials, but more buoyant
being formed of little more than laths;
iy way of planking, with tarred canvas

which are
These I
von-pp.