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

CAMBRIAN CLOTH HALL',
4, PARADISE-STREET,
Second Door from Lord street, Liverpool.
P. JONES, in announcing to his Friends, that he
• will open the above establishment on Monday, the
16th August. begs to inform them that he has just returned
from the various markets, where he has been purchasing a
Stock of the best Woollen Cloths, the most fashionable
Waist coatings, and every other article connected with the
Woollen Drapery Business, to all of which he solicits the
attention of his Friends and the Public.

E. P. J. deems it his duty to intimate, that owing to the
depressed state of the markets, he has laid in his entire Stock
at remarkably low prices, and is therefore enabled to sell
every article on terms so reasunable as to induce him to hope.
that those who may once favour him with their orders, will
afterwards find it their interest to patronise the

CAMBRIAN CLOTH HALL,
12th August, 1841.

AUTUMN WOOLLEN GOODS.
EXTRA FINE TWEEDS, HEATHERS, and other
SCOTCH GOODS, many things curious and rich for
Shooting and other Coats, with every variety In WOOLLEN
GOODS adapted to the Season, are now Selling at tha
LIVERPOOL CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT,
99, LORD-STREET.

THE LAST WEEK.—THE GIRAFFES.
MR. GEORGE WOMBWELL begs leave to announce
to his Friends and the Public. that his EXHIBITION
of the FIVE LIVING GIRAFFES, in BOLD-STREET, will
leave Liverpool on Monday next, the lith inst. ; and those
who have not already seen them must lose no time, for it will
be many years, if ever, that such five beautiful and interest-
ing Animals will be offered for public inspection. The lar-
gest Machine, in the form of a Waggon, has arrived toremova
them. They will proceed from this town to Chester, Shrews-
bury, &e.

LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the WORKS of
MODERN ARTISTS will OPEN in AUGUST next.
All Works of Art sent for Exhibition will be received
fiom the 26th of July to the 9th of August inclusive; and
must be addressed to the Secretary, at the Exhibition
Rooms, Church-street, accompanied by a descriptive note.
No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Ci.t
Frame.

No copies, (except Enamels after known Pictures,)
Works which have been publicly exhibited in Liverpool, eina
be received.

Artists, resident in Liverpool, will be admitted Free to
the Exhibition, on application to the Secretary for that pur-
pose. SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy of Arts.
July 13, 1841.

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SEIEF.FIELD, ASHTON- UND E R- LY NE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the BALP-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Sheffield,
Aslit.:n-under-Lyre, and Manchester Railway Company will
be held on MONDAY, the 23d day of August instant, at
Twelve, o'clock at Noon, at the Cutlers' Hall, in Sheffield, in
the county of York.—Dated this 4th day of August, 1841.
JOHN PLATFORD, Clerk and Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN.
CHESTER RAILWAY.
ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the BOOKS kept
at this office for enterinz the memorials of the Transfer
of Shares in the Sheffield, Ashton.under-Lyne, and Man.
chester Railway Company will be CLOSED, in pursuance of
the Act of Incorporation, from the 16th to the 23d of August)
inclusive. By order of the Board,
JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
15, Piccadilly, Manchester, August, 1841.

The next meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society is ap-
pointed to take place in Bristol.
The New York Express says that the underwriters in that
city have paid the insurance on the steam-ship President.
The Brighton Herald announces on good authority that
the Queen will open parliament in person.
LONGEVITY OF TREES.—The following trees are 'Alai-
lated to live about—elm, 335 years ; cypress, 450 ; cheiros-
.emon, 400 ; ivy, 450 ; larch, 579 ; orange, 630; olive, 700;
ornamental plane, 720 ; cedar, 800 ; lime, 1137; oak, 1500;
yew, 2828 ; baobah, 5150 ; taxodiun, 6000.
A

JAW lIREAKER.—The names and titles of the Russian
Field-Marshal Paskewitsch run as tollows :—Glawno Kom-
mandujuschtchoi General Field-Marshal, Swalleischg Ruas,
Iwan Federowitch, Warshawskoi, Graf Paskewitsch, Eri-
wankoi.

An engraver, who had produced several prints of acknow-
ledged merit, committed suicide a few days ago from a cause
which shows that his strength of mind was by no means
equal to his talent. Having prepared two new plates in aqua-
tint, he was so sensibly affected by their not coming out with
the force and beauty he bad anticipated, that he shot him-
self, and thus, at the early age of forty years, terminated a
career which gave every premise of being brilliant.—Sus.
The president, secretary, and treasurer of the briekmakers'
society in Manchester, have all of them absconded, taking
with them the entire of the funds of the society, amounting
to one hundred and sixty pounds !! ! Nothing has yet been
heard of this trio of delinquents.

By the official returts published by the Customs, the ex-
ports of the precious metals to foreign and colonial parts for
the week ending Thursday last, were as follows :

Silver Coin to Hainburgh
Silver Coin to Rotterdam

Ounces.
34,302
19,600
16,150

Silver Coin to the Mauritius

REMOVING A LIGHTHOUSE.—From the improvements
now making in Sunderland harbour, it has been found requi-
site to appoint another site for the lighthouse ; but in order
to avoid the trouble, delay, and expense of taking it down
and rebuilding it, it has been decided to remove it as it
stands, which transit is now being attempted. The• stone
work has been cut out at the base, and a railway and car-
riage erected, on which the lighthouse now stands ; it was
moved by screw power a distance of 21 feet to the north on
Monday, in which situation is will remain for some time, till
the railway is reversed, when it will be removed to its new
site, at the east end of the north pier.—Neweastle CAroniete.
CHINESE G uNs.—A piece of Chinese artillery, taken from
the admiral's junk at the island of Chusan, has been sent to
this country by Captain Trail, son of Dr. Trail, of Panbride,
who was present with the expedition. The gun is exactly
six feet in length, with a bore of about two inches in diame-
ter, thus admitting a ball of about two pounds in weight, and
has much the appearance of one of our street lamp posts,
only it is not quite so thick. It iseomposed of separate bars,
hooped together after the manner customary with artillery in
ancient times, of which the celebrated gun " Mons Meg," in
Edinburgh Castle, is a specimen. Apparently it is of consi-
derable antiquity, the touch-hole being greatly enlarged, and
the gun otherwise worn by rust. We are inclined to think
that in an engagement it would be more apt to prove destruc-
tive to those who worked it than to those against whom it
was used. Captain Trail has handsomely presented it to the
museum of the Dundee Watt Institution. A similar one has
also, we understand, been forwarded to Cupar, Fife.—Dun-
dee Warder.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BLACKHEATH.—Two houses ill
the Grove at Blackheath were destroyed by fire during Tues-
day night. One was in the occupation of Captain Waller, a
gentleman recently arrived from Java, with his wife and a
family of eleven children. The property destroyed is esti-
mated at £BOOO, which belonged to Captain Waller, and not
one vestige of which is insured. There were bank notes to
the amount of 4:100, 200 sovereigns, and an entirely new ser-
vice of plate, which cost 500 guineas, and which had only
been purchased by Captain Waller a few days since, a vast
quantity of valuable jewellery, precious stones, and other
costly articles, collected in the East Indies, all of,which fell
a prey to the devouring element.
ENGLAND.—The path she has marked ont for herself Eng.
land pursues with energy and a perseverance all worthy of
imitation. The strongest maritime positions upon the globa
she descries, and conquers, or purchases ; her countless co-
lonies are scattered over the world ; her colonial system and
her navigation are based upon formidable financial associa-
tions ; ail useful projects find support from her government ;
her diplomacy, her fleets, her treasures, all she directs to the
accomplishment of an enterprize, not always an equally defi-
nite one, provided it is recommended by its greatness. The
conduct of the mightiest and most perilous affairs does not
distract her for an instant from this leading principle of her
conduct. Against all difficulties, for all emergencies she
makes head and provides. Engaged as she is in the eastern
question, the war in India and the war in China, with the
progress of the experiment of the slaves of nineteen colonies,
with election crises, the reform of her tariff, the embarrass-
ment of a budget in defecit, still does she find time and
means to turn her attention and her resources to the uncer-
tain enterprize of an expedition to the Niger, and a negoeia-
tion with Spain for the cession of the islands of Fernando Po
and Armobon.—Journal des Debats.

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS AND STAGE-COACH ND-
pRIETORs.—An action was brought before the Small Debt
Court, Perth, on Wednesday last, at the instance of Mr.
Dallas Mills, of Avoch, near Inverness, against the pro-
prietors of the Princess Royal coach, which runs batwees
Perth and Inverness, for damages in the following circum-
stances :—The plaintiff was booked at the Star Hotel coach-
office, as passenger to Inverness, on the 21st of July. In
the bills which were posted up in the coach-offices and inns,
the Princess Royal was announced to start " from the
George and Star Hotel Mail Coach-offices, Perth, every
lawful morning at half-past five o'clock," and on the morn-
ing alluded to, the coach left the Star Hotel at a quarter-
past five, but the plaintiff' was present at the Star Hotel-
office eight minutes before the half-hour, when he found the
coach had left that office. It was proved, however, that he
was put on his way to reach the George Inn before the half-
hour, had he been acquainted with the localities, hut which
he did not reach until the coach had started, which was
stated by a witness to be three and a half minutes past the
time advertised. Mr. Sheriff Barclay held that the bill pat
out bore the terms of the contract between the coach pro-
prietors and the public, and that the coach ought not to have
left either of the offices before the half-hour, and he added,
that the plaintiff, although it had been proved that he could
have made up to the coach at the George Inn, was not
bound to run, and, it may be, over-heat himself before he
made up to it, so as to obtain his seat. Mr. Barclay decided
for three guineas of damage with costs of the suit.—Seoick
paper.

BRITISH EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE.
—The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's,
from their agent at Hobart-town, dated the 17th of April,
1841 :—" By the last list you will have perceived the return
to this port of her majesty's ships Erebus and Terror,
Captains Ross and Crozier. Nothing official has as yet
transpired here ; but it is generally understood that the ex-
pedition has been very successful, and these British ships
proceeded 11 degrees lower south than the Astrolabe
and Zel6, and four degrees more than any other vessel has
ever yet reached ; that they were enabled to fix the exact
position of the south magnetic pole at 100 miles distant
thence; and that some extraordinary mistake appears to
have affected the calculation of the Americans who ap-
proached these regions." The Erebus and Terror entered
the main part of the ice, on their voyage of discovery
towards the South Pole, on the sth of January last, being
then in latitude 66. 45. S., and longitude 174. 13. E. On
the 10th of the same month they descried land in lat. 71.
56. S., long. 171. 17. E.; and coming up to it on the 12th
of January, they took possession of it in the name of
.her
majesty. This land extends south to degree 70. Proceeding
onwards, a large volcano, emitting dense clouds of dsmoke,
~.,
was observed on the 28th of January, in lat. 77. 31. '''
long. 167. 30. E. On the 2d of Februarythey
the utmost extent of their voyage,
viz"lst by icebergs 150
.7S. 4. S., and
reached to
long. 173. 12. W. and were here stopped
feet high, and by the fields of ice which
' tending 300 miles to the eastward. expedition pans.
hated about four degrees further south than the Amerioan
and, although in the course Of iThe c were traced as ex-
or French discovery vessels ;
verify the correctness of nanny
former, they also
the voyage it was enabled
of the spots laid down in the_
namely, the existence of water
actually
.n the
seal'l nadnd sp e
1~ u. whales.
isredai
reached
heueeti-.
land, and which the
described
asErebus
over a large spacerrotro charts of the
discovered one singular e.
sailed over for a very considerable dis-
thaantdthtehese‘a,esinsetllas
300 miles from the latitude laid down
and Terror.
dis-
tance, leaving
lion aboundsdi
ally occurred among thel icsresawisd,
asafety,
where they remain the season
in the American
acilaiaaisgt.
Hobart-town in
arrives for further operations. The result of the attempt
ire„dy made has been highly satisfactory, the vessels ba'i
got within what was supposed by the iudiegion of the needle
to be 100 miles of the feagnetie,pule."