The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-16 00:00:00

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Puss IN TROUBLE.—A ludicrous scene occurred in the en-
closure appropriated to the monkeys in the Jardin des Plantes.
By some chance or other, an unfortunate cat had found its
way in among the nimble inhabitants of this vast cage, who
immediately made common cause, and assailed the intruder.
Puss showed fight, and,, for a time, by the aid of her formid-
able talons, kept her enemies at bay; but at length the big
ape came foremost in the fight, and seizing the cat by the
neck; forced it down with its nose upon the planks, and very
scientifically began with great deliberation to bite off its
claws,,and as he finished each claw, he put the disarmed
paw to his nose to ascertain that all was smooth. This pro-
cess was continued till the screams of poor puss and the shouts
or the spectators attracted the-notice of the keepers, who
came and put an end to the operations.—French paper.
AN EXCURSIVE SPEAKER.--At a dinner which followed
the laying of the foundation-stone of the Peterhead Aca-
demy, a Mr. King, bookseller, in proposing the toast of the
press, delivered 4 speech which is thus described in the
Aberdeen Constitutional:—" After a fluwery speech, in the
course of which he touched upon the press in general, and
the newspaper press in particular, and on antiquity, Greece,
Rome, courage, patriotism, generosity, noble daring, legisla-
tion, philosophy, genius, poetry, sculpture, oratory, slave,
manacle, scourge, principles of liberty, the Am.:1)(1s, Ho-
mer, the Grecian Demosthenes and the Roman Cicero, reli-
gious knowledge and the sages of Greece, blasphemy, and
the light of the sixteenth century. knowledge is power, the
liberty of the subject, the management of Government, strong
right hands, flashes of electricity, and a number of ether
articles too tedious to mention,. concluded by proposing " the
Liberty of the Press." (Drank with great cheering. Air—
" Bid me Discourse.")

We understand that early in the ensuing month the cele.
brated Jim Crow Rice, Frank Johnson, and the Avon orator
George Jones, sailed together for Europe. Jim goes to jump
Frank goes to fiddle, and George to learn to dance. "Go it
ye cripples!"—New York Herald.
- MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL Snow.—At the exhibition
on Tuesday last, there-was a beast, the property of Mr. Jas.
Barrett, of Lym, Cheshire, which for symmetry, weight,
and fatness, excited universal admiration. It weighed 260
stone. The owner was offered £45 for the animal, but re-
fused it. ,
• SINGULAR PRANKS OF A MANIAC.—On Tuesday after-
noon a poor fellow, who had come from Darwen, went to the
Bridge Inn, and by his manners soon manifested that he was
not in his right senses. After remaining for a little time in
the lobby, he proceeded to a stable, where he undressed him-
self and put his clothes into a tub, covering them with dung,
and swearing that two devils were in them. After securing
the fiends he rejoiced much, and gave some money to a lad to
purchase him a great coat, declaring that he would never
resume his garments. He then carried on a sort of conver-
sation with the devils in the tub, with reference to their
choice of liquors, asking them if they would have ale or gin,
and the latter being preferred, he ordered, two glasses of that
cordial for them. An officer, being informed of the circum-
stance, soon arrived, and secured him, the poor madman in-
sisting that the tub containing the devils, whom he called by
name, should accompany him. The tub, accordingly, was
rolled before him in order to soothe him, and he was con-
veyed in custody to a place near-bv. We have not heard-
what became of him since, but we 'hope he was forwarded to
his friends in Darwen.—Bolton Chronicle.
THE JOINT-STOCK BANKS. —lt will be remembered by
most of our readers, that, on the occasion of passing the Tem-
porary Joint Stock Bank Bill at the close of last session, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed his intention to ling
the subject of joint-stock banking under the consideration of
the house of commons in the next session, with the view of
passing a permanent law for its better regulation. It is to
be hoped that this important question will meet with the
most ample discussion, and that a measure may pass the le-
gislature, which•will place the joint-stock banking system
upon a much sounder footing, and one that will increase the
security of those who transact their business with them. We
find that this intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has created much interest amongst all classes of bankers,
particularly joint-stock banks; and, in consequence, Mr.
Blewitt, M.P. for Monmouth, and a director of the Monmouth
and Glamorgan joint-stock bank, which was established
under the provisions of the act, 7th George IV. cap. 46, sec.
9, has addressed:a circular to the managers of the joint-stock
banks, in which he states that it is probable parliament will
not meet until February next, and then expresses his opinion
that the intervening period cannot be better employed than
in considering and comMunicating with each other on such
defects of the present system as may come under their respect-
ive notice. That gentleman also snagests, that, in order to
concentrate all the information possible on this most impor-
tant subject, a meeting of delegates from the different joint-
stocklranks should take place in London, not later than No-
vember next, for the purpose of considering and arranging
the preparation of such legislative enactments as may appear
necessary for_the better protection and improvementofjoint-
Stock banking.
WILIG AND TORY.—The- titles by which the two great
contending political • parties in the state have been distin-
guished for about a century and a half, are at present ex-
citing a keen controversy between two of our learned London
contemporaries. The titles whig and tory, were both origin-
ally nicknames, which in language, like caricatures in paint-
ing, although not truly descriptive, point out the prominent
characteristics more strikingly than correct portraits. Like
other names, the future application often creates a departure
from the original significance, and they are often made de-
scriptive of very. different classes of individuals ; siill the
names of whig and tory have, in all the phases of their use,
been happily discriminating, from the days of Walpole to
those of Melbourne, and from Temple to 'Peel. A whig is
a crouches to the crown, and a sycophant to the sovereign :
a tory is the supporter of the throne, and an advocate of the
monarch's rights. A whig in opposition can shed the royal
blood—in powar, can lick the royal shoe; a tory, even when
he politically disapproves personally reveres. A whig aspires
to official power from love to himself: it is wielded by the
tory for the good and glory of his country. A whig is in theory
an economist, in practice a spendthrift—a democrat in his
public creed, and a tyrant in the domestic circle; a tory, jus-
tifies the liberality of his expenditure by the beneficence of
his purpose, and the feelings nurtured in private appear in
the fruit of extended philanthropy. A whig promises much
but gives little: from a tory we obtain more than he led us
to expect. A whig is fair in profession : a tory honest in-
deed. A Whig in power, like a beggar on horseback, does
not know how far he may be driven. A tory takes his stand
on the rock of the constitution, and says to the waves of agi-
tation raging around, "thus far shalt thou come, and no far-
t her."s-- Glasgow Constitutional.
A Mass: DE.ALER'S TRICK.—At the last Newton Fair,
Mr. (no matter who) attended and had the good fortune
to dispose of his horse for £3O. In the Course, a fellow hav-
ing the appearance of a gentleman's servant accosted him,
and after naming several farmers with whose names he ap-
neared 16' be perfectly familiar, offered to "swap" a horse he
was riding for a pony belonginis to Mr. —. As a matter
'of course, it was a horse of very superior breed, his sire was
the celebrated Herbert Lacey, he was bred by a farmer and
had been in a dealer's hands, moveover, £29 had been bid by
a'dealer for the horse, but his master would not sell until he
was assured that the animal's new possessor would use. him
kindly. All this proved unavailing, and no exchange appeared
likely to'take place, when up conies a dealer, boldly offering
the £29, and to all appearance, extremely anxious to get pos-
session of the hunter. They did not make a deal, and the
gentleman's servant walked the horse away. The dealer then
suggested to Mr. how easy he could turn a penny, and
by making the required exchange put a £5 note in both their
pockets. 'He boldly offered £3l) for the horse, and appointed
to meet Mr.
exchange. This was done eventually, Mr.— giving £l4
atul his pony worth £9 for the hunter. On going to the pub-
liC-house, the dealer had "bolted," and the hunter was soon
' disenvered to be broken-winded, and not worth a £5 note.
The 'case was put into the hands of Mr. Jones, the deputy
cum stable of Warrineton, who hail the good luck to fall in
with the parties at Chester fair, on Wednesday, and such was
the eloquent appeal he made to them, that they were induced
to 'refund the surplus revenue and defray all expenses. The
hunter has since been on their hands, and has been the means
of effecting a second similar fraud.
THE CHARTERIsTs.—The real objectof that cunning knot
.ofvagahood•agitators-who got up what they call "the people's
Charter," has as yet been unexplained. It is simply this. A
general opinion prevails among the "liberals," that the next
session of parliament will be fruitful in jobs ; that a "
system
of godless education will be carried into effect, and a rural
police"established ; both of which hopeful projects will give
birth to a crowd of commissioners, assistant-commissioners,
constables, and stipendiaries of ad kinds. Now, who so likely
to profit from this goodly shower of patronage as the radical
" demonstrators?" Whittle Harvey railed against the Whigs,
called them by all sorts of ugly names—" thieves," " swind-
lers," &c., and Whittle thereby got a place. Feargus O'Con-
nor, Vincent, Elliott, Edmonds, Hetherington, and the rest
of them, are pursuing the same course; and should they rail
loud enough, there is no reason in the world why they should
not feather their nests in the same way as their brother pa-
triot of Southwark. In order that they may be "in the way"
when they aro " wanted," they invent what they please to
call "‘..the people's' charter," and get appointed, or appoint
themselves,," delegates" to sit in " convention" at \Vest-
minister during-the next session of parliament. One unlucky
circumstance is likely to mar this pretty device. From their
dupes •all 'over„the country they have hitherto been able to
Collect-only _twenty pounds—a sum scarcely sufficient to sup-
ply gin and tobacco to the " devil's chaplain," and leaving
the rest of the " convention" wholly unprovided for. The
" demonstrators." in fact, find it as difficult to " raise the
wind" as Mr. Murphy; and this obstacle, we repeat, will
most probably put an end to the whole scheme.—lforaing
Herald.
A Cramp KILLED BY A CAT.—The Convent de St Claire
at Dombes-les-eaux, has lately been the theatre of a catas-
throphe which has plunged a highly respectable family into
the deepest grief by the loss of a beloved child, and created
a deep sympathy among the inhabitants of that part of the
country, as much, indeed, from the melancholy nature of the
circumstance itself as from the unexampled manner in which
it took place. Monsieur and Madame B— had placed
their only child, a beautiful girl of ten years of age, in the
above-mentioned convent, conducted by Ursuline nuns dur-
ing several years, and enjoying a high reputation as an
establishment for female education. The unfortunate child,
Louise B—, it appears, had incurred the punishment of the
cachot, or prison,—the usual mode of correction adopted in
French schools,—and was in consequence shut up in the place
used for that purpose. It was observed that the moment the
door was closed upon the child, her screams were heightened
to a remarkable degree; but no particular importance was at-
tached to the circumstance, and she was left in the cachot,
situated at the bottom of the garden, was
l such a distance
from the house that her cries were inaudible to the inmates.
About an hour after the child had been shut up, a violent
knocking was heard at the outer gate of the convent, which
being opened, a labouring man, who happened to Ire conduct-
ing a cart along the road which passes near the premises, pre-
sented himself, and in an authoritative tone demanded "whom
they were murdering in the convent," adding that he had
distinctly heard the sighs and groans of a dying person pro-
ceeding from tire premises at the bottom of the garden, and
insisted on krmwing the cause.- he nuns immediately ex-
plained to the man the fact of the child's imprisonment, and
assured him that his imagination had attached inure import-
ance to the matter than was necessary. The man neverthe-
less insisted upon seeing the child, and the nuns were ulti-
mately compelled by his positive and determined air to accede
to his request, and they •had no sooner arrived at the spot
where the child was confined than the convulsive sobs and
faint sighs which struck their ears excited apprehensions for
her safety. The door was immediately opened, when a
spectacle of indescribable horror presented itself. The un-
happy child was lying on the ground in a state of the most
agonizing convulsions, and a cat employed in tearing away
the flesh from her neck and face. Every effort was had re-
course to in order to save the life of the child, but such was
the nature of- the wounds inflicted on the neck and face of
the unhappy sufferer that she expired three days after the
-event in a state of the most horrid delirium. It is supposed
that -the cat, which happened to be shut up with the child,
-became :in—the-Tint instance frightened by its screams, and
subsequently infuriated.—French paper.

The alteration which has taken place in the time of
departure of the Mails from this town has caused
some irregularity in the receipt of our paper by
distant subscribers. A reference to the table which
appears in another column will satisfy our friends
that we are not accountable for the later delivery of
the STANDARD in the North of England and else-
where.

The tiberpool etanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 16, 1838.

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

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—Since our last,
we have had an accumulation of news from the United
States and Canada. Before we proceed to give any
extracts from the papers, we lay before our readers
the following important passage from a private letter,
received yesterday by a respectable mercantile firm in
this town :

New York, Sept. 18, 1838.
Things again look bad in Canada ;—not so much from the
renewed hostile preparation on the border, as the rising dis-
content manifest in the two provinces'. The French are as
insolent as ever in Montreal, and their Jacobin newspapers
are re-appearing. The murderers of Chartrand have been
acquitted. The jury, composed of Frenchmen, perjured
themselves; and Jalbert, who murdered Lieutenant \Veir,
of the 32d regiment, will not be convicted, because the prin-
cipal witness has been bribed to abscond to the United States.
In Upper Canada the old Radical party is again at its
tricks of agitation.
It you ask the cause of all this, I will tell you in a word.
Lord Durham and all with him are Radicals. They on all

occasions take part with the malcontents, as far as they can
do so without committing themselves. They pretend that the
whole affair is a dispute between a Tory and a Whig party,
—that both have been to blame, and the Tory party rather
the most so. In consequence, Lord Durham published his
amnesty, by which all the captured escaped punishment, and
many are now at, large, and at their old trade again. The
anti-English feelings of the Governor-general and his adher-
ents are apparent to all, and the natural effects are disgust
on the part of the loyalists, and a renewal of treasonable
practices on the part of the disloyal. There is full and com-
plete impunity enjoyed by the rebellious.
Now, my dear sir, I tell you one thing, that unless the
whole system he changed, Canada will nut be ours five years
from this. 1r the Whigs remain in power, and continue
their system, let who will be governor, the same result will
ensue.

The packet-ship Europe, Captain Marshall, which
sailed from New York on the 19th ult , arrived here

yesterday, bringing letters and papers to that date.
The following is an abstract of the news :
The papers do not contain any political news of general in-
terest. Their commercial intelligence is, however, import-
ant. The arrival of the packet-ship United States, on the
14th, bringing advices from Liverpool of the 9th of August,
when it had been ascertained that the crop of corn, in this
country, would he short, had produced a spirit of speculation
in flour and grain, the prices of which suddenly rose in the
New York market. Afterwards, when men began to reflect,
prices receded a little. Still, the market was firm. George-
town, common western and Ohio flour was quoted at nine
dollars, and sales ranged from nine dollars to nine dollars

twelve cents.
The same arrival had produced a contrary effect on the
Money Market. It brought advices of a decline in the value
of American securities in England; and a corresponding de-
cline, in most of the stocks, took place in New York.
The Cotton Market was active, at a slight improvement
in price, in consequence of the favourable accounts from Li-
verpool.
The exchange on England ranged from 91 to 91: a few
bills reached 110 The United States Bank, in rhiladel-

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phis, had drawn at the latter rate.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathews (Madame Vestris) had made their
debut at the Park Theatre, to an immense house. The t he-
tre was literally packed an hour before the curtain rose.
Hundreds, if not thousands, it is said, went away. unable to
obtain admittance to the lobby. She was enthusiastically
received.
An Admiralty yacht had arrived at New York, from Fal-
mouth, with despatches for Lord Durham.
The New York papers do not contain any. Canadian news.
Nor do the papers direct from Quebec and Montreal contain
any. A
messenger arrived in the Europe, charged with de-
spatches from Lord Durham to Lord Glenelg,.
A French brig of war has arrived off Vera Critz, in forty-
days from France, with the information that an additional
force of fifteen vessels and one thousand men would be sent
by the French Government to aidin the contemplated attack
on Vera Cruz. The brig of war Laperouse, still blockaded
the port of Tampico.
By the Cceur de Lion, which arrived at this port on
Thursday evening, we have news from Quebec to the
10th, and from Montreal to the 9th ultimo. The fol-
lowing is an abstract of the news brought by this
arrival, as given in the Standard :
The absence of two material witnesses, of whom it is sus-
pected that they have been suborned, has compelfed the
Attorney-General to postpone the trial of the rebel Jalbert
for the murder of Lieut. Weir until the ensuing term. All
the convicted state prisoners have been respited. The jury
impannelled at Montreal to try the murderers of Chartrand,
one of the unfortunate loyalists who during the recent dis-
turbances fell a victim to the demoniacal fury of the revolu-
tionary assassins, have " against the head and front" of the
most unequivocal testimony, acquitted the prisoners. The
inhabitants of Pictou presented to Sir George Arthur on his
arrival an address, in which they assure him of the confidence
they repose in the system of policy he gas pursued, and
declare their zealous and unflinching attachment to the con-
stitution, which it has been his object to maintain. An ad-
dress, dictated by a similar spirit with that which actuated
the inhabitants of Pictou has been preferred to Sir George
by the residents at Cobouig, and to.each of them his Excel-.
lency has returned a suitable and res.pectitil reply. The elders
and worshippers of the Presbyterian congregation at Quebec
have transmitted to Lord Durham a memorial, in which they
'urge the renewri of the allowance which the home govern-
ment at one time granted to their officiating minister.—
During the administration of Lord Gosford, it was enacted
that the payment of the sums of money, advanced to the
provincial clergy should cease, as soon as the deaths of the
incumbents then enjoying them should occur. This restric-
tion the memorialists contend has been violated in the in-
stance of the present Bishop of Quebec, to whom, although
his appointment was subsequent to the regulation, the usual
stipend has been afforded. The memorialists respectfully
solicit the good offices of Lord Durham in their attempt to
regain the salary which their clergy were allowed; his Ex-
cellency has promised to transmit their memorial to Lord
Glenelg for his consideration and approval. The news from
the frontier acquaints us, that the disposition of the rapparee
population, who infest it, is still restless and lawless. The
Prescott Sentinel, on the authority of a private letter, states
that great activity prevails among the borderers, and that
meetings are daily held for the purpose of convoking and
effecting a renewal of aggresssions on Canada. Whether
this information be correct r apocryphal, we have no means
at present to determine. The Quebec Herald asserts that
arms and ammunition still continue to be smuggled by the
rebels from the United states. The incident most pregnant
with ominous moment, of which the Quebec papers inform us,
is extracted front the Bangor Whig. From that journal we
learn that the Governor of Maine is so resolutely determined
to risk the survey of the North Eastern boundary, that he
has dispatched 1000 stand of arms, with which be intends
to equip and prepare the Lincoln frontier regiment to con-
front and resist any opposition or hindrance the surveyors
may be fated to encounter.

RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF LORD
DURHAM.
Extract of a letter from New York, of the 19th u'

by the Europe:—

It is here reported, for certain, that Lord Durham has
resigned his Viceroyalty, immediately on receiving the des-
patches from the government at home. The report is
generally believed in New York, and is of course made the
subject of many speculations. All the accounts we receive
agree in stating that preparations are snaking for another
insurrection, and those who wish that the Canadas shall re-
main attached to England have gloomy apprehensions for
the winter.

We hope, with the Lancashire Herald, that their
apprehensions will prove groundless; but if they are
not, we fear that we cannot expect the same enthusi-
astic assistance from the loyal colonists, as these brave
men afforded on the last occasion. The coldness, and
even repulse with which they were met by Lord Dur-
ham, must have its natural effect in damping their
zeal. If it he true, as is generally believed in the
States, that he has resigned, his place must be filled by
a man of far different character and political tenden-

The Europe has brought a messenger charged with
important despatches from Lord Durham to Lord Glen-
elg, and which may contain the official communication
of his lordship's resignation. The arrival of the mes-
senger is, at all events, rather critically co-incidental
with the rumour in New York. No other message,
we believe, has been dispatched from Canada since
hostilities ceased.

The New York Daily Express states that

" It is rumoured in Upper Canada, among the best in-
formed circles, that Sir George Arthur has already resigned
the Lieutenant-Governorship of the 'ProvinefV,.