The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

Roberts, residing in Conway, unite
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following important offices

and master of the national

The Dublin and Kilkenny Railroad Company have nearly
completed the purchase of the entire line of route. The half.
yearly meeting will be held on the 28th in London.
We arc happy in having it in our power to state that the
Lords of the Treasury have made New Ross an independent
port, it being now under the surveillance of Waterford.—
Wealbrd Conservative.

COUNTS• OF WATERFORD ELECTION.—The new candidate
in the field for the representation is the Hon, R. Carew. We
believe no other candidate will come forward ; and the un-
disputed return of Mr. Carew may be therefore looked for.—
Waterford Chronicle.

From inquiries instituted, it appears that in the course of
the last month no fewer than sixty cases of self-destruction
occurred in London and its suburbs, of which twenty were by
poison, twelve by throat-cutting, five by shooting, and the
remainder were cases of hanging and drowning.

A new conservative newspaper is about to be started in
Ludlow, under the title of The Ludlow Standard, to be con-
ducted by Mr. R. Gooch, late editor of the late Hereford
aunty Press.

Captain Sir Henry Loraine Baker, Bart., C. 8., is appointed
to the command of her Majesty's ship the Howe.
Mr. Bowden, a commissioner of stamps and ta.-zes, has re-
tired. It is not intended, we are informed, to fill up the
vacancy thus occasioned.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert do not visit the Marqui
and Marchioness of Westminster at Eaton Hall this autumn
as erroneously stated in the Cheshire naners.

DALKEITH PALACE. —The statement that the Queen
Dowager will visit the Duke and Duchess of Buceleugh in
September or October, at this splendid seat, is without foun-
dation.

We are informed that the Marquis of Clanricarde is about
to succeed the Earl of Auckland, as Governor-General of
India ; but we know not to what degree of credit the state-
ment is entitled.

MELANCHOLY Loss OF LlFE.—Last week, three brothers,
Mr. Hooper, the late deputy of Queenhithe ward, was on
Saturday unanimously elected alderman, in the place of the,
late Mr. Venables. He was proposed by Mr. Routh, of the
firm of Crawshay and Co., who also twenty years ago dis-
charged the same duty to the late alderman : the nomination
was seconded by Mr. Howell.

DISCOVERY OF COAL ON THE BLACK SEA.—A coal mine
is said to have been discovered at Penderaclia, one of the
finest ports in the Black Sea, belonging to the Sublime Porte.
A Turkish steam-boat was sent to examine the locality, and
bring specimens to Constantinople. It returned using the
coal for the production of its steam.
GALLIPOLI OIL.—We have authority for saying, that, in
the pending treaty between Great Britain and Naples, the
question of the discriminating duties on olive oil, the pro-
duce of the Two Sicilies, is included ; and that, on the rati-
fication of this treaty, this oil will be introduced into Eng-
land at 495. duty per tun, instead of 89s. as at present.—
Leeds Mercury.

EXTRAORDINARY SHEEP.-Mr. Seaman Beale, of Ten-
terden, has a wether hog, which has, for some time past,
suckled a lamb. The lamb was often seen apparently suck-
ing the sheep, but it was not supposed that it derived any nou-
rishment from its efforts. However, on sheering the wether,
it was found to be otherwise, and that a stream of milk could
be produced from him equal to that from a ewe.—Rochester
Gazette.

A shipwright of Portsmouth yard found this week, among
the timber recovered from the wreck of the Royal George, a
guinea in a good state of preservation.
The France circulates a rumour that the adherence of
Austria to the treaty of the Four Powers is only conditional,
and that its ratification is given with the stipulation that, if
France should protest, Austria is to have further time to
reflect.

Very many dissenters have come ,into the established
church through the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Close, of this
town ; and several of them are to be confirmed at the ensu-
ing visit of the bishop. There are 800 candidates in. Chel-
tenham for confirmation.—Chellenharn Chronic'
A week of splendid weather has enabled the
in this neighbourhood to reap and carry a v
portion of their wheat. The crop is ext
many parts very thin, in others excellen
there may be a fair average quantit
—BarksChronicle

IMPORTANT TO SHIP-OWNERS .-
at this port has received directions fro
Treasury. to grant clearances to all ves
ports in Ireland, without requiring the 1
ceipt for the payment of the Skerries lie
thus satisfactorily disposed of, has long
tween the Chamber of Commerce of tb
of the Treasury. The result affords ani
of the practical utility of that body, Its
cial interests of Ireland.—Dublin Mere

The coil

The government provision contract for 1841 is announced,
exceeding that of last year, upon the round, by an addition
of 2000 tierces beef and pork. The quantity required upon
this occasion is 13,000 navy tierces cured beef, and 15,000
navy tierces cured pork. Proposals for the contract to be
received on the 24th of next month. The quantity taken last
year was 9000 tierces of beef, and 17,000 tierces of pork, the
former by Dublin and Cork houses, the latter by Mr. John
Russell, of this city. The prices this year will exceed those
of last both in beef and pork.—Limerick Chronicle.
The fact cannot be too generally known, that if, when a
chimney is built, the mortar with which it is to be plastered
be mixed with salt, there will be no necessity for sweeping it,
as in every damp spell of weather the salt deliquesces, and
the soot will of course fall down.
-treated in the above`rnartner twenty-nine yea,
in use every winter since. Part of the time
used with a grate and bituminous coal, but m
and wood. The stove-pipe frequently catche ,re,-which is
suffered to burn in the chimney, without an apprehension
of danger.

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with a stave

AERIAL. WHEEL.—The Atheneum mentions a wheel in-
vented by a Mr. Beale, by which he says he has propelled an
elongated cylindrical balloon, "at a considerable rate through the air in any direction, its longer axis being pc' Id to the horizon. He says the experiment was made
a committee of gentlemen of the Society of Arts.
says that by means of the same principle, v
only 24 inches diameter, worked by a cornav
he has propelled, " with considerable eye
heavily laden with shot, through a trough of water. lie does
not say whether the wheel was now acting on the water ore
the air. If on the former it amounts to nothing.

ith a wheel of

n watch spring,

a small I

HOLYHEAD.—Active preparations are math..
superintendance of the harbour-master, to blast
called Stag Rock, situated about 400 yards from th
end, in the E.N.E. direction. This rock derive,-
from the circumstance of the Stag frigate hP-
it, and received damage, in -1P
ago. Previous to that time
subsequently not a single vessel is known
it during the long interval. The name of th,
a terror to many strangers, but the fact tha
bearings were until recently unknown even to our oldt
fishermen, proves how unfounded were their fears. Av'
of moderate draught of water might have passed over
at low water, without any damage.—Carnarvan p
MYSTER/OCS DISAPPEARANCE OF A Yo,
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a gale of wit

,ek has proved

IJENTt

MAN..—On the evening of Tuesday wet
Cooper, the son of a gentleman residing
the couch from that city at the Sussex Ho'
Fleet-street, for the purpose of joinin;
at school at Brixton. On the followir„
out for the purpose of taking a walk, and has
heard of. He is about 14 years of age, tair complexion
was dressed in a suit of dark green clothe•
cay, and his linen marked " J. A. Coor

, arrived by

on he went

id has not since been

ld blue cloth

FATAL ACCIDENT AT J ERSEIt-
DAUGHTER DROWNED.-.—A dreadful accident took
St. Melo a few days ego. A lady, the directric
Monsburge post, was walking on the quay, accorci
her two children, a boy aged. nine years, and a girl, a
eleven, when, unfortunately approaching too near
of the quay, the little girl fell into the water, dra,
her the distracted mother, who, holding her son, dr.,
also into the water. Several persons seeing the at,.
dashed at once into the sea to save the lady and her cfnla.
but, unfortunately, they succeeded in saving only the boy
the lady and her daughter were brought on shore corpses.-
Jersey paper.

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