The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

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PRECIPITATION OF RanT.—An interesting example of the
species of information which an aeronautical acquaintance
with the upper regions of the atmosphere is exclusively cal-
culated to place at our disposal, is to he found in the rela-
tion proved to exist betweenthe formation or precipitation
of rain and the condition of the sky above the clouds which
contain it, and consequently beyond the view of an observer
situated upon the surface of the earth. From this we learn
the important fact, that whenever, from a sky completely
overcast with clouds, rain should happen to be falling a
similar range of clouds invariably exists at a certain eleva-
tion above, whereby the rays of the sun are intercepted from
the layer below ; and, on the contrary, whenever with the
same apparent condition of the sky below, rain is altogether
or generally absent, a clear expanse of firmament, with a sun
unobstructed by clouds, is sure to be the prevailing character
of the space immediately above ; thus leaving it a determi-
nate fact, that when rainis pouring from clouds overspread-
ing the earth, the rays of the sun are not operating upon the
clouds in question, while, on the other hand, rain does not
fall from such clouds when the rays of the sun are unob-
structedly acting upon the upper surface.—Poll technic
Journal.

CONDITIONS OF THE EUROPEANS WHEN AT CANTON.—
In all the other parts of the East, Europeans bear themselves
so -haughtily before the natives, and to transcend them in
wealth, luxury, and intellect, that the contrast at Canton is
most striking. Here are generally ahout3oo foreigners, per-
manently resident, and often more, kept so completely under,
that they may neither bring their wives, nor take native
ladies, nor build, buy, ride, row, or walk, without restric-
tions ; wholly forbidden to enter the gates of the city, and
cooped up in a spot which would be considered in Calcutta or
Madras barely large enough for one good dwelling and com-
pound. The foreign factories, or hongs, are thirteen in num-
ber, under the names of different nations, but occupied some-
what promiscuously by the merchants and shopkeepers. They
form a close front along the river, about three hundred yards
in length, with an open space towards the water, which is
here about a quarter of a mile wide. The buildings extend
towards the rear about two hundred yards. Each bong is
divided into several portions, entered by a narrow alley,
which passes through to the rear, and is thus made to con-
sist of rive or six tenements, generally three stories high.
The heat, smoke, noise, and dreariness of the interior of
this mass of buildings, with the total absence of female so-
ciety, gives it, in no small degree, the aspect of a prison.
The front rooms, however, are pleasant, and some of them
have fine promenades on the roof. An open space in front,
about one hundred yards long and fifty wide, serves both as
a wharf and a promenade. But the first of these uses ob-
structs it for the others, to say nothing of barbers, cooks,
pedlars, clothes-menders, coolies, and boatmen, who crowd
it most of the day.—llial,colm's Travels.
GOVERNMENT AND NO GOVERNMENT.--Has the Downing-
street Club any claim upon the name of a government in the
management of our Finances.? The mere suggestion of such
an idea is enough to raise the unextinguishable laughter of
gods and men. Never surely since Exchequers were created
was there such a Chancellor as Lord Monteagle—invested
with the robes of the peerage for the same reason that Sir De
Lacy Evans was invested with the collar of the Bath—because
he covered himself and his office with ridicule and disgrace.
There is no need of encumbering our page with figures ; it is
quite enough to say that now, in the twenty-fifth year of
peace, with all our establishments, civil, military, and naval,
in all their dedartments shamelessly cut down and reduced
to the vary verge of inefficiency, we are failing in our finances
at the rate of from one to two millions a year; and that in
all probability the deficiency will this year, 1840, nearly reach
three millions ! And yet, in the face of this astounding fact,
ministers, to say nothing of some £30,000 lost by Spring
Rice's blundering in his loan—the Newport job, converting
a place of £l4OO a year into a nest of places of £s4oo—the
proposed dotation of £50,000 a year to Prince Albert, re-
luctantly reduced to £30,000 when the Prince himself, it is
said, expected what, under the circumstances, would have
been quite sufficient, £4OOO--the £70,000 for the Queen's
stables—the £30,000 for the education quackery, which, to
say nothing of other objections to it in any other score, is
already turning out to be a miserable failure. Ministers, we
say, in the face of this unprecedented deficiency, and in the
midst of this wasteful profusion, have had the brazen folly to
reduce the Postoffice duty from eightpence (the average sum
of postage) to one penny—thereby risking at least an annual
million, and that on the eve of engaging us in a war, the
extent or duration of which no man is hardy enough to con-
jecture. This they have done out of no desire to make their
budget look less prosperous; all Chancellors of the Exche-
quer, whig as well as tory, are anxious that their accounts
should bear as favourable an appearance as possible—out of
no peculiar taint of stupidity affecting the present ministry
in such matters, for tory financiers have bungled and blun-
dered as well as whigs, but from the one main blight which
plagues them in every thing they undertake—THEY HAVE
NO POWER ! They saw as well as we do, that risking the
Postoffice duty was impolitic ; but it was popular, and as they
must truckle for popularity, the risk was hazarded. They
know as well as we do, that the grant of £70,000 for stables,
and the proposed vote of £50,000 a year to !Prince Albert,
were shameful and enormous ; but the Court wished for the
money, and as they must truckle to the back-stairs, it was
given in one instance, and asked for in another. They know
as well as we do, that the education vote of £30,000 was
other absolutely useless, or if productive of any effect,
designed to act as " a heavy blow and a vast discouragement"
tei the Church of England; but the Irish papists desired it,
and as the main hold of the ministry is by the Tail, the sum
was voted. In all this we cannot descry any trace of a
government—Church of England Review.

SAtrun.—lsabel, Greve, for Valparaiso—Gallovidia, Rae, for
Stettin—Enterprise, Fletcher, for Newfoundland—Ellen Clare,
Roberts, for Genoa, &e. —liinda, Louthean, for St. Thomas—Sir
John Harvey, Cathbertson, for Miramichi—and Citizen, Hatch, for
New York.

Amelia, Judkins, from Laguna. at this port ; sailed 22nd Feb. in
company with the Bleng for London. Left loading for Liverpool,
the Spinster, Alice Jane, Sirius, H. Grayson, Celt, Laurina, and
Chandos ; for London, the Sales; for Clyde, the Thalestris ; and
for Cork, the Joseph P. Dobree. On 13th April, off the Smalls,
spoke the Volunteer, for the Cape of Good Hope
Dumfriesshire, , for Liverpool, remained aground on the
S.W. bar of the Mississippi, 10th March
Fanny, Glover, from Liverpool for New Orleans, was spoken
I.ltlr March. Part of the crew had mutinied, but were subdued,
and confined in irons

Victory, Blackley, hence for New York, was spoken 6th April, in
lat. 42, long. 51
Eliza Heywood, , from Demerara for Liverpool, was
spoken loth April, in-lat. 46, long. 32
Jane Prowse, -, from San Bias, at Mazatlan
Rosalie, Alsop, sailed from Valparaiso for Swansea 12th Jan.
Abeona, Grant, from St. John, N.B. at the Cove
Vestal, , from Monte Video for Liverpool, off Toskar 17th
April

SUNDAY, Aran. 19.—Wind R. light.

AMU VED.--Fenella,Wak eliam. from Malaga—Friederich, Fischer,
front Wolgast—and Wm. Fawcett, (steamer) from Havre.
SAILND.—C.R C. Le Gros, for Hay Chalenr—Norman, Bond, for
Jamaica—Regulus, Thompson, for New Orleans—Bradshaw, Mil-
roy, for New York—Pauline, Schenburg, for Ostend—Amphitrite,
M'Neile, for Barbadoes—Phoebe, Brown, for Mobile—and Thomas,
Edmondson, for Newfoundland.

Mary, Nelson, from Demerara, at this port; sailed 29th Feb.
The George Gordon sailed a few days previous for St. Domingo ;
and the Sanclbach was to sail in a few days for Liverpool. On Bth
April, in lat. 47, long. 25, spoke the Glasgow, from Liverpool for
Montreal
Leone, , hence at Palermo
Mischief, Jones, sailed from Palermo for Liverpool 9th March
Mercer, Mercer, hence at Barcelona
Henriette, Devort. and Louise, Rooms, hence at Antwerp
Libertas, Nodias, hence at Stromness, and sailed 11th April for
Wy burg _ _ . .

Heinrich, Soderberg, hence at Stromness, and sailed I ith April
for Wismar

Columbus, , hence at Valparaiso
PATRAS, March 39.—Fanny Sz Jane, Lovering, from Vostizza,
grounded 28th instant, between Lepanto and the Castle of Rumelea,
and there remains

Phoenix, Hartley, hence for Antigua, was spoken 18th March, in
lat. 24, long. 39 _ . _

Pandora: - , hence for Halifax, was spokcn 9th April, in lat.
45, long. 20
Magnet, -, hence for Montreal, was:spoken sth April, in
lat. 46, long. 36
Nora Creina, Howes, hence at Smyrna
Flying Fish, Edwards, hence at Syria
Tarn O'Shanter, Bertie, hence at Venice
Superb, Melhuish, hence at Messina

MONDAY, APRIL 20.—Wind variable and light.
ARRIVED —St. Andrew, Storer, from New Orleans—Princess
Victoria, Ferguson, from Smyrna—Surprise. Grant, from Bilboa—
Ricka, Doring, from Wolgast—and Elise, Moller, from Altona.
SAlLED.—Phoenix, Kuper, for Antwerp—Urgent, Gibb, for Cal-
cutta--iris, Dickson, for Charleston—Earl of Errol, Wade, for
Cronstadt—Lloyds, Blandford, for Quebec—Elizabeth, Englishman,
and Anna Sieberdina, Ugen, for Dordt—and Mary, Dunian, I'm St.
Domingo.

Helena, Drenning, from Charleston, at this port. On 14th
March, in let. 37, long. 59, experienced a hurricane from W.S.W.
to N.N.W. lost the boatswain overboard from the maintopsajl yard,
lost foresail, jihboom, &c. On 18th instant, oil' Bardsey, spoke
the Priscilla, hence for Pernambuco, and the Ward, hence for St.
John, N.B.

Formosa, —, hence for New South Wales, was spoken 3rd
April, in lat. 44, long. 12
Mary, Hamilton, hence at Demerara

Jolt Horrocks, Bond, hence at Madeira

Pioneer, Cook, hence at Gibraltar

Sphynx, Counibeer, from Malaga, at ditto, and cleared 7th April
for Liverpool
Fanny Connell, Dickson, hence at Lisbon

Diligentia, Mesqiiito, sailed from Lisbon 6th April ; Tartkio 2do,
Almeida, 10th, and Faith, Beer, llth, all for Liverpool
Regalia, —, from St. Domingo for Liverpool, at Kinsale
_ .

t. Marys, Currie, from Jamaica, off the Cove, for Liverpool ;
head of topmast carried away

Ailnabena, Watt', from Calcutta, at Cowes
Amelia, Teasdale, from Matanzas, at ditto
GIIIRALTAR. April 9.—The Reindeer, King, from Leghorn for
Liverpool, put into this port, -- instant, with decks swept, main-
mast badly sprung, loss of jibboom, foresail and foretopsail, &c.
and part of the cargo damaged, having *hipped a sea two days after
leaving Leghorn. The index, Gill, from Malta and Messina to
London, came in last night very leaky, and must discharge, having
struck on a Rock

WEXFORD, April IR.—The Jacob Pennell, from Liverpool to New
York, and Robert Bruce, Tilley, from Liverpool to Cork, struck on
the Long Bank last night in a fog ; the former got off rind pro-
ceeded this morning ; the latter has just come off, after being
lightened

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 20

A little new Butter has arrived, but of indifferent quality, for
which 119 s per cwt has been asked. Beat Grass Butter would
readily bring this price, and possibly 2s to is more. There is a
scarcity of the finer qualities of old, which however does not appear
to affect inferior stuff, that being almost immovable at any price.
The market for new Pickled Butter is expected to open at about
102 s for 2nds —Beef and Pork are in more abundant supply, never-
theless holders continue to require extremely high rates.—The ex-
port trade for these articles is not Wish, the demand being alto-
gether confined to ship stores.—Bacon is less in demand, the late
currency is however suppOrted.