The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-29 00:00:00

GEOLOGY

The geology of British Guiana presents phwnomena that
are in accordance with what has been observed in the eastern
hemisphere; the alluvial soil and clays, of which the strata
l
along the sea-coast consists, rest upon granite ; and it is to
b. e observed as a remarkable feature, that masses which have
the beencoa st
,are
discoveredtob
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n a
t a
boring
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of
150
ata depth
rojes flln situ.oOfe et on
The alluvial flats are in many instances covered with a
black vegetable matter, the detritus of the numerous rivers
of Guiana, committed duringl the periodical rains to their cur-
rent, and swept towardspos-iredt their testuaries, where the tides have
in its decomposition, and it Thebrms
caused it to be de atmosphericnolva air
carbonaceous as assistedvege.
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is
AoftteAninfopusni(Tli ttobeharizar dlenp
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ttli'll:egavBicsinity of the Pomeroon, it
direction,
Essequibo,terlas distanceiv e bed c, of f
graniteabout
withfifty
miles from George Town, is a of five tOonsitxhfeeAetr.abisi coast of
rtiove Mazaruni. This
appearing again
hornblende ; it has a south-wensteelr
at the site of the old post, in tinie
granitic bed has become of advantage
dyke, consisting of
the first it is much used for building material. A Georgedv Town, where
greenstone, traverses the Essequibo, and forms
The
ca-
taract in 6 deg. 11 min. N. lat. ; it is calle
rocky regions commence now, denoting primitiveritan• formation
in all its component parts : granite, porphyry, and
the extensive family of trappean rocks, may be trnacentilaletrthoef
base and on the top of the mountains. A peculiar feature
are large tracts of boulders, mostly of granite, which are more
or less accumulated in particular places, sometimes with great
confusion ; and which, wherever they traverse the ricers,
form rapids and cataracts. They assume their grandest fea-
ture in that tract which is called Achra Moucra in the river
Essequibo, in lat. 4 deg. 20 min. Veins of quartz frequently
traverse the great masses of granite; and vast tracts of brown
iron ore are met with in the mountains and the flats which
extend between the rivers, from the admixture of which the
soil receives a reddish tinge. This is chiefly the case in the
savannahs on the Rupuntini, which are frequently covered
with black shining pebbles. In the vicinity of Roraima rock-
crystals are found in the form of hexagonal columns, some-
times solitary, sometimes apparently agglutinated : they grow
out of beds of sandstone, are perfectly transparent, and ge-
nerally terminate in a single pyramid, with from three to six
faces. The leading features of the mountainous regions are'
coloured ochres, indurated clays, granite-gneiss, and trap-
pean rocks, and a total absence of limestone or its modifica-
tions.

* The British portion is called Guiana in official documents;
The
earliest is the swinish name, Goiania the Portuguese.
earlist Dutch settlers called it Guiana, or the wild coast. It
is said to have received its name from a small river, a tribu-
tary of the Orinoco.
It is called the smallest European colony in Guiana, in
the Diet•onnaire G6ographique Universe), Paris, 1828, vol.
iv. p. 615, where the area is stated to consist only of 3120
leagues.
They occupy about 14,400 square miles.

P OF BLossoM.—A female called upon a lady in
the neighbourhood of Ulverstone, a few days ago, to inquire
if she wanted any fine ripe cherries, for that her cherries
were the finest cherries in all the town, and that she was
patronised by all the young ladies of Ulverstone, and many
of them had ordered a pound a day every day for a month,
and that they were only a shilling a ponnd. The lady in-
quired, " Are you not very early with your cherries ? where
do they grow ? have you them in a hot-house ?"—" Oh no,
main, they are not ready yet, but we have plenty of blossom.,,

POLITICAL CHARACTERS.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
LORD LYNDHURST.

The name of Lord Lyndhurst is necessarily familiar to our
readers, for it is a name which is to be found, one Nvoy or
another, in every newspaper that is published. By giving
then, an early place in the list of " Political Characters,' we
feel assured we shall give gratification to the numerous ad-
mirers of that noble and learned lord.

Detraction, it is said, is a tax which eminence must pay to
insignificance ; and the case of no one exemplifies the truth-
fulness of the adage more strikingly than the case of the
nobleman whose name appears at the head of this article.
With detraction he. must be as well acquainted as with the
air he breathes. The Whig-Radical scribes have no more
agreeable occupation than that of slandering, and vilifying,
and endeavouring to blacken in every possible way the cha-
racter of Lord Lyndhurst. No man, it is true, in the
stormy arena of politics can expect to escape censure and
abuse but the abuse with which the noble and learned lord
has been assailed has been of the foulest and vilest kind ; so
foul and so vile indeed has it been that it could with difficulty
be equalled, and could not possibly be exceeded, even if it
came from demons instead of men. Falsehoods the most
extravagant, lies the most monstrous, have been told respect-
ing him ; his sayings have been misrepresented, his motives
maligned, nay, so far has the hostility towards him been car-
ried, that it has been solemnly asserted, as a gravely esta-
blished fact, that he is in league with the devil ! We assure
our readers that we are not stating what could not easily be
substantiated, for, ridiculous as the assertion must appear,
it has been made, more than twice or thrice, in the leading
Whig-Radical newspapers—newspapers written by men of
acknowledged talent, for readers claiming to be possessed of
some glimmering of intelligence and having received the rudi-
ments of education. Alas ! that party feeling should be car-
ried to such extreme lengths as it has been, and still is, with
respect to Lord Lyndhurst, If one-tenth part of what has
been written against him were true, he would deserve im-
peachment ; if one five hundred-thousandth part of what the
wretch O'Connell has said about him were true, he ought
long ago to have died the death of an ignominious felon. If
it were true that his constant endeavour in parliament is
to commit as much mischief as possible, he ought to be ex-
cluded from the Senate; if it were true that the delight of
his soul is to heap insult upon insult upon the Irish nation be
ought to be held up as a mark for public scorn and execration ;
if it be true, as the exemplary Lord Melbourne once insultingly
remarked, " that God had given him splendid talents, but the
devil directed the application of them,' he ought to be shunned
by all who have the good of their country at heart. But, un-
fortunately for the scribes in the pay of the whig-radical
clique in Downing-street, none of these " ifs" are as they
would have them. Lord Lyndhurst is a very different man
to what they represent, and to what they so constantly endea-
vour to make their readers believe. He is a man of brilliant
talent, which he devotes to the beg and the holiest of pur-
poses. He is one of the most eloquent speakers of the day,
and his voice is never raised save in the cause of right and
justice, and the denunciation of evil and wrong doers. He is
the leader of the conservative party in the upper branch of
the legislature •, hence it is that he is so obnoxious to the
snarling curs of the radical press ; " the very head and front
of his offending bath this extent, no more." It is not too
much to say that he would not be the acknowledged head of
a party so virtuous, so great, so able, as the conservatives—a
party combining all the rank, the wealth, the intelligence, the
respectability of the land, but, happily, holding no communion
with the riffraff, the rag, tag, and the bobtail—it is not, we
say, too much to assert that Lord Lyndhurst would not be
one of the foremost men of such a party as this, if there were
the slightest foundation for the foul mass of venomous ca-
lumny with which he is so continually assailed. But perhaps
the hostility of the radicals to his lordship may he accounted
for when we call to mind the extreme mortification they must
feel on seeing an individual raising himself, by his command-
ing abilities, from a station comparatively obscure to a posi-
tion among the proudest to which a private citizen can attain,
and devoting those abilities to the best interests of his coun-
try, instead of joining those men who are endeavouring by
all the means in their power to undermine and destroy the.
time-honoured institutions which, under Divine Providence,
have raised their own, their native land, to the first place in
the scale of civilised nations.

Those of our readers who have had the good fortune to
hear Lord Lyndhurst speak in the House of Lords, have
experienced an intellectual treat, which they would, no doubt,
be glad to have repeated. Closeness of reasoning, felicity of
illustration, an impressive and graceful delivery, are the main
attributes of the noble and learned lord's oratory. There is
no claptrap, no mere rhetorical flourishes. no aiming after
effect, in the speeches of his lordship; they-are peculiarly
adapted to a highly intellectual audience ; there is a weight,
a solidity about them, far removed from the harangue of a
mob orator, on the one hand, or from the vain, frothy, flashy
declamations of a Marquis of Normanbv, on the other. The
addresses of the noble and learned lord are invariably received
by the assembly to whom they are addressed in a manner
befitting at once their intrinsic worth and the eminence of
him by whom they are delivered.
Nothing can possibly be more pleasing than to see Lord
Lyndhurst fall foul of some unfortunate ministerial measure.
He commences his examination of it in a cool, calm, and
statesmanlike manner, and as he begins so he ends; .step by
step, clause by clause, he investigates the government
nostrum ; seizing intuitively upon its absurdities, he makes
them apparent to the view of all, seeing at a glance its de-
fects, he points them out, and suggests their appropriate re-
medies. If the ministerial project be one containing an in-
sidious attack on any of our venerable institutions, or aiming
a heavy blow and inflicting serious discouragement upon
Protestantism, (as most ministerial projects do). Lord
Lyndhurst will denounce it with the severity it demands,
and administer as stinging a rebuke to its authors as their
conduct deserves. But to see the noble and learned Lord in
all his glory, we should be present when he brings forward
his annual motion respecting the measures introduced and
abandoned by the government in the course of the session.
What pen can describe the agony of the occupants of the
ministerial bench as he details measure after measure,
scheme after scheme, bill after bill, which ministers have in-
troduced and abandoned?
,Who can adequately paint the
misery of the Treasury men, when their promises at the com-
mencement of the session are contrasted with their actual
doings at the end of it? Who can describe the intense
torture which these 'poor devils endure when Lord Lynd-
hurst, at the close of his speech, exclaims, in a tone of the
most withering sarcasm, the most unbounded contempt—
" Such, my Lords, are the doings oilier Majesty's ministers !
Able statesmen! Vigorous rulers! Proper men to govern a
great kingdom !" To describe all this as it ought to be de-
scribed is a task to which we feel incompetent, and we there-
fore leave it to the imagination of our readers.
Our space is now fully occupied, and we must conclude by
expressing our most earnest prayer that Lord Lyndhurst may
be spared to fill once again that station the duties of which
his talents enable him to discharge with so much advantage
to the country, and so much honour to himself.

A. T. T. Y.

THE OPERA DANSET_ISE.

A SKETCH FROM NATURE.

Now gay and prosperous i►► the summer stinv-smiling,
And now the victim of chill penury—weeping.—ANsoN

Life is said to be made up of contrasts. Pleasure is sup-
posed to be enhanced by pain ; happiness by misery. Soli-
tude derives its power of pleasing from the enloyment of too
much society ; and comuany is more enjoyed after the in-
dulgence of solitude. There are few minds which accomplish
that happy medium—that juste milieu,—that medic lulissi-
mis ibis, which produces a regularity of happiness—a tran-
quil contentment—that kind of millenium of the mind, which
has been trumpeted up by philosophers as the acme of human
happiness. For our own part, we do not envy the possessors
of this, to us, negative kind of happiness ' • we would enjoy
excess of pleasure, even at the hazard of excess of pain—
would endure misery rather than forego exquisite happiness.
Violent contrasts may be sometimes painful, but they are
likewise pleasing ; and it has been our lot to witness many,
not only in our own experience, but in watching those of
others. We have seen those who had been indebted to us
for a shilling, in the days of early poverty, rise to wealth, and
look down upon us from their carriages in their prosperity.
And it has been our lot to throw half-a-crown into the brim-
less hat of a beggar, whom we have remembered the gay
master of splendid equipages, the head of a magnificent es-
tablishment, and our own successful competitor for the hand
of beauty ; we have sat at the hospitable board of a man sur-
rounded by his friends, and bare envied his social position ;
and we have seen this envied man sacrifice his life to the
offended laws of his country ; and we have witnessed, often,
contrasts quite as painful as these. We remember a prince
of the blood living only in the smiles of a celebrated beauty,
basking in her charms, laying his whole power at her feet,
and piling oath on oath of his constancy and fidelity ; and we
have read of his meeting and passing her unnoticed, while
she was sunning herself upon crutches, with paralysed
limbs and faded beauty, on her premature journey to an early
grave. .These are painful contrasts, but, alas, they are every
day ones.
Some years since, and very few, we recollect one opera
night, lounging behind the scenes, when a dancer of some
celebrity in her profession, but of far greater for the attrac-
tions of her beauty, was the fashion. Numbers of young
men of the first rank were crowding round the fair disciple
of Terpsichore. One was ambitious to hold her scarf, ano-
ther considered the care of her handkerchief a favour, every
one sought to obtain a word, a smile, a look. Wealth poured
out its stores to obtain her favours. Rank exhibited its at-
tractions to excite her vanity and engage her attention.
Exery sentence she uttered was construed into a " Mot,"
and every step she took displaying the graceful contour of
her limbs, elicited rapturous applause. Her neck, head, and
arms were encircled with diamonds. Her person redolent
with the sweetest perfumes, her eyes lighted up with blushes
of delight which shone even through her rouge, and her bland
and joyous smiles displayed the triumph she took in the ad-
miration she • excited. The curtain rose, her admirers re-
tired to their boxes and their stalls, and silent admiration
was succeeded by tumultuous applause. Three or four men
of high rank and great means were the supposed envied pos-
sessors of this beauty—and each one of the four, from the
snug corner of his omnitius box, imagined himself the sole
favourite of the then " observed of all observers ;" for it is
the peculiar fact of a celebrated dauseuse to persuade in secret
that each of her lovers is the only one whom she favours,
and that the adoration of the others is only for the talent that
gives her celebrity. The curtain fell—deafening shouts for
the artiste were heard from all quarters of the house. She
was led forward by the manager, and retired amidst the in-
cense of the adoration she had created. Now comes the
contrast! It was a few years after this—for the sake of
poor human nature we are ashamed to say how few—
that, walking up one of the bye streets near Drury-
lane, we were surprised at the sudden start of a poorly
clad female as she passed us. The start was so per-
ceptible that we turned round, and we found the person still
gazing at us with a look of recognition. Finding herself
observed, she advanced with a timid step ; she was not quite
sipmtyila bottle.rity to
something
Aslight suffusion
in rags, but nearly so, yet everything about her was clean,
and arranged with a certain degree of taste. Her face was
pale, her features attenuated, and she held in her hand an
ern
them
haagt an
ht
a.rdoniseen
n seemedy
beforetr ot egoi
;cht
butei
or
recollection
features
are-
turning paleness drove the
do not remember me?" she faintly said, and asserted in
not wonder that you should'
that seemed to call all
French, " 1 am ut I tun greatly altered, and I do
not know me." Another suffu-
sionthe remains of that beauty which memory,
hern features into life, recalled the
once celebrated danseuse toand I recognised
dim
sial limbs had once been so admired.
She was pale and thin. Her
weak. My eye rested upon the bottle—she saw my
attenuated—
her cheek sunken—her eye languid,h and her voice
And,' no,t s thoughts
I am going
Alt," said she, " do not think it.
ar forotohf, she
to a dispensary for some medicine."
showed me the charitable letter which entitled
here
snae hive shilling,, h I i(lilagrse,
notat' d
pri-
vilege
shocked, and requested to know her resident of medicinal aid, for which she could not
‘;:parted.
e'nture to
's! she I"‘a34
her thoughts. A week or two elapsed, when I re-
ceivedguess
Ia stlitiantsniendg toont
tehl lei
a note, simply saying, lam dying. •
rhe friend who
ct—onltrgaasyte.
has never deserted me through all my trials, will be unable
to pay for my funeral. Will you see to this—promise me
that I shall not be indebted to charity—to the parish for a
pauper funeral."
I sought her out, and found her in the upper story of one
of those blind alleys with which the neighbourhood of some
of the London markets abound. An old apron was slung
upon a rope over the door, to prevent the rush of wind from
a public staircase ; other rags and pieces of paper were thrust
into the broken panes of glass to keep out the chill air, which
unable to warm.
a miserable fire, struggling into ignition, was
A miserable truck bedstead supported the frame of the poor
girl--the apology for a pillow raised by rags supported her
head. A mere tick laid over the sacking was the apology for
the bed, and a rug, with the remains of a cloak that had

Qrs. 105
Qrs.
Qrs. 1 41
Qrs. 525
Qrs.
Qrs. 37
Qrs.
Qrs.
Qrs.
Qrs.
Loads! 3024
. . Sacks 24

Wheat
Barley
Malt
Oats
Rye
Bawls
Pease.
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn
Rapeseed
Oatmeal
Flout .
Ditto

Brls.

330
E 6
336;

8494 44:1 9372
762 i i 818
I 3408
6925

485 1

274 I 274

I 3509

424
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EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, qrs. ; Oats, 244 qrs. ; Pease,
qrs:; Flour, 604 bris.—lreland. Wheat, 1150 qrs.; Indian Corn,
983 qrs. ; Flour, hrls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 502 qrs. ; Barley,
240 qrs. ; Malt, 35 qrs.: Oats, 25 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beaus, 15
qrs.; Pease, 8 qrs.; Indian Corn, 22 qrs.; Oatmeal, 30 loads ;
Flour, 575 sacks, tss4 brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 22, 1840.
Wheat 68s. Od. I Barley.. 375. 3d. I Oats.. 275. 3d. I Rye .. 375. 2d
Beans.. 445. 10d. Pease, 425. sd.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 68s. 6d. I Barley.. 395. id. I Oats.. 265. 4d. I Rye.. 375. 4d.
Beans .. 435. 6d. I Pease .. 41s. 10cl.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheatl6s. Bd. I
Barley 2s. 4d. Oats .... .. is. 9d. Rye .. 14s. Od
I Beans, ss. Od. Pease. Bs. Od. Indian Corn 3s. 4d.1 FlourlOs. oid
Liverpool Averages, week ending 26th May, 1840.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
Qr 5..... 995 580
Prices.. 525. 4d. Os. Od. 1 275. Bd. 475. Bcl. Os. Od.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, MAY 29

ARRIVED,—Douro, Stubbs, from St. Kiti's—Heneetta, Longford,
from New Orleans—Carl Auguste, Beilke, from Danzic—Hopkin-
son, Stephenson, from Bombay—Denmark, Frost, from Charleston ;
sailed sth May—Oporto, Wilkie, from Faro—Concordia, Strack-
holder, from Leer.

Thomas Worthington, —, from Lima, at this port; sailed
26th Feb. has a freight of 260,000 dollars.
Clifton, Hill, from Hobart Town, at this port ; sailed 26th Jan.
On 2nd April, in lat. 20 40 S, long. 37 45 W, spoke the Eliza Kin-
caid, and Cornwall, both from Liverpool to Rio Janeiro. On 24th
April, in lat. 10 23 N, long. 34 W, spoke the Pearl. from Valparaiso
to Cadiz. On 18th May, in lat. 43, long. 17 30, spoke the Harriet,
hence to Baltimore. On 27th May, in lat. 51 26, long. 10, spoke the
Veneznila, (steamer) from Cork to Barbadoes
Engine, Coriet, hence at. Havre
Dorothea, De Boer, hence at Texel
Copse, Louthean, henc,:;, at Jamaica
Hostelina, Day, hence, at Cape Haytien
Wanstead, Agnew, hence, at St. Thomas
Dove, Cobbe, and Kerswell, Glover, hence, at Barbados
Elizabeth, Midwinter, hence, at Grenada
Albion, Dooley, and Wilsons, Campbell, hence, at Trinidad
Margaret, Jackson, hence, at Demerara
Vriendship, Klein. hence, at Zwolle
Augusta, De Jaghine, hence, at Ostend
Emily, Heroine, and Mary and Anne, from Valparaiso, at Iquique
Plumstead, Simonds, from Valparaisa, at Acagetlia, and loading
for Istappa
Brandon, from Guayaquil at ditto, and was loading for Mazatlan
20th February
Hermes, Oliphant, hence, at Lima, and was to sail about the 7th
March for Iquique
Brilliant. Lefevre, hence, at Trinidad
Henry Bell, from London and this port, at Alexandretta
Helme, Astrope, from Alexandretta, at Beiront
Palmyra, Gill, hence, at Malta, and sailed 14th May for Alexandria
Rob Roy, Albanson, hence, at ditto
No. 292, Hibernia, A.S., from New York, was off Point Lynas at
8 a.m., with a pilot
The Syiphide, for St. Petersburgh, was run down yesterday off
the Floating Light, by the England, for Quebec; crew saved. The
masts and sails, apparently attached to the hull, were passed by
the Actaeon steamer at 6 last evening
HELVOET, MAY 6.—The Lively, late Hicks, from Liverpool to
Dordrecht. sprung a leak and sunk oft the latter place
BEAUMARIS, MAY 28.—The Jane, Williamson, for Charente, is
afloat, and remains windbound in Friar's Roads