The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Logan, gardener to Earl Spencer, cut a pine this week
of the extraordinary weight of 94lb.—Northampton Herald.
Elizabeth Gordon, residing in Castle-street, in this town,
who had been blind for upwards of 25 years with cataract,
has been restored to sight by au operation performed by Mr.
Mash, House Surgeon to the General Infirmary.—North-
ampton Herald.
NOTICE GIVEN BY A PARISH CLERK.—In consequence of
the numerous burials that have taken place on the Sabbath
Day, I hereby give notice, that for the future any person
wishing to be buried on the Sunday must give notice on the ,
Saturday previous.—American raper.
CHELTENHAM, SEPT. 20.—Lord Segrave has presented
the noblemen and gentlemen hunting with the Cheltenham
staghounds, with twelve fine deer, worth at least £250. That
capital pack resume their sport early in the ensuing month.
Earl Sefton continues in a delicate state of health.
A pedestrian match of great interest is to take place at
Lord's Ground on Monday. It is between Drinkwater and
Mountjoy, the former being backed to pick up• 200 stones,
one yard apart, while the latter is picking up 150 stories, the
50 nearest the basket being given to him. The contest is for
£2oo.—Standard.
The reigning Prince of Hohenzollern, Hechingen, who
was born 22d of July, 1776, died at Hechingen on the 12th
instant of an attack of apoplexy. He is succeeded by his
son Frederick William, who was born on the 16th of Febru-
ary, 1S:01, and who, on account of tile infirm state of his
father's health, has held the reigns of government for several
years

st is in contemplation to hold a grand Eisteddvod, and
music meeting at Abel ystwith, next year, immediately before
or after the festival at Worcester. The proposed meeting is
to be under the patronage of the Duke of Newcastle, and
Mr. Powell of Nauteos, the worthy representative and Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Cardigan.
The Countess of Westmoreland, accompanied by Miss
Chamberlain, the daughter of Sir Henry Chamberlain Bart.,
embarked with her secretary and suite on board the Presi-
dent, at Portsmouth, for New York, on her way to Prince
Edward's Island, to inspect her hereditary estates in that
island.—Standard.
The contemplated marriage between Viscount Duncan
and Miss Phillips, daughter of Sir George Phillips, one of
the newly-created baronets, is fixed to take place the second
week after Christmas. The noble lord has been on a visit to
the hon. baronet at his seat, Weston House, near Chipping
Norton, Oxfordshire.—Standard.
Viscount Villiers, eldest son of the Earl of Jersey, is to be
united early in the spring to the beautiful and accomplished
Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, eldest daughter of the Duke
of Richmond, and grand-daughter of the gallant Marquis of
Anglesea. Lord and Lady jersey, who are now travelling
in Italy, will return to England to be present at the auspici-
ous ceremony. Under the will of the late Duke of Gordon,
the young lady will be entitled to a handsome dowry.—
Morning Herald.
LONGSHAWE LODGE.—The Duke of Rutland and his
brother, Lord Manners, M.P., made several murderous di-
versions on the well-stocked preserves of this shooting box,
the following being an account of the game killed by his
Grace and Lord Manners since the 13th ult. to the early part
of the week before last :—grouse, 1505; partridges, 103 brace;
black game, 73.
The crop of potatoes was never known to be so abundant
as it is this year.
Soap has risen a penny per pound in Edinburgh, in con-
sequence of the rise in tallow.
" Your heel must be something better, I think," said a
gentleman to a buxom lass, who had a hole in the heel of her
stocking. " Why so?" she asked. " Because, Miss," re-
plied the gentleman, " I perceive it is getting out."
A company is now forming to connect Chester with the
Ormshead by railway, which will preclude the necessity of
government doing any thing towards the conveyance of the
mails for Ireland through Wales.
The appointment of a successor to Capt. Sir William
Elliott is not in the gift of Lord Minto. Lord Ainelius
Beauclerk will select his own captain, and will write for his
appointment, which cannot be refused.
It is a singular circumstance that of 27 children born in
the Belper district, Derbyshire, from the 20th of June to the
11th of August, 1838, there are 23 girls, and only four boys.
The dispute among the committee for erecting the Wel-
lington national memorial continues; and Lord Melbourne,
as Minister, has determined not to sanction any plan until
the sense of the subscribers at large has been taken.
EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—A stalk of oats was pulled a
few days ago, on a field belonging to the Rev. Dr. Grierson,
minister of the parish of Cock pen, which measured six feet in
height, and near the root one inch in circumference. The
head contained 259 grains.—Scottish Guardian.
On Thursday last, a respectable tradesman of Exeter, killed
in a field in the parish of Exminster, belonging to Mr. J.
Wills, of St. Thomas, a viper of an unusual size; it mea-
sures more than two feet in length, and four inches round.
There were two near the same spot, but the other made its
escape.—Plymouth Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY STEAM SPEED.--The General Steam
Navigation Company's superb new steam ship Rainbow ar-
rived at Blackwall at half-past five o'clock on Friday morn-
ing from Antwerp—which city she left at a quarter past
twelve on the preceding day; and of course she performed
the voyage, including stoppages, waiting for pilots, &c., in
seventeen hours and a quarter.—Jlorning Herald.
METAL Taans.—We have pleasure in having to report
an improvement in the metal trade, as connected with our
manufacturing interests. Copper is now from £B7, £B9, and
£9l, for the respective qualities. Tin blocks are £B5; bars,
£B7 ' • and refined £9o.—Spelter is steady at £22.—Birming-
hwaAdvertiser.
CAUTION.—We understand that a number of East India
rupees are in circulation, which have in many instances been
passed as half-crowns. They resemble the half-crown piece,
but are rather smaller, and have on the reverse "one rupee,"
They 'are worth only Is. Bd.—Maidstone Journal
Hop-picking, which was last year general throughout the
Worcester and Herefordshire district by the 13th of Sep-
tember, has only just partially commenced. The crops are
little more than half an average in many places, and the
duties of the 49 persons appointed to collect the excise this
year will be extremely light.
Mr. Jacob Smith, draper, of Evesham, whilst out shooting
on Saturday, must imprudently attempted to knock some
apples off a tree in a friend's garden, holding the muzzle of his
loaded gun in his hand, when the trigger catching a twig,
the piece went off, and lodged the contents in his left side,
from which he soon expired.
PROGRESS OF EXAGGERATION.—The Dublin papers have
wonderfully augmented on Monday at the meeting, in Palace-
yard. Twenty or thirty thousand, as some people had it on
this side of the Channel, was an estimate sufficiently exag-
gerated; but the Dublin folk believe that they amounted to
no less than 300,000. Some lies are said to be like snowballs,
which increase as they roll. This lie is more like an avalan-
che.--Mor ?tiny Chronicle.
BAD NEWS FOR AGITATORS.—At a friendly meeting of the
Tradesmen's and Operative Conservative Association, held
at Mr. Searle's, the Peacock Inn, Kidderminster, on Monday
last, 13 operatives enrolled themselves as members of the as-
sociation, declaring that they were prompted so to do from
feelings of disgust and indignation excited by the conduct of
the Unionists. Several other-operatives, we understand, are
also about to follow the same example, add enrol themselves
as members of the Constitutional Association.—Ten Towns
Messenger.
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—During the present
week much interest has been excited on the Great. Western
Railway by the running of two experimental trains, for the
purpose of trying the strength and security of the "perma-
nent way," and the powers of the locomotive engines. On
Monday and Tuesday the sEolus engine run with a train of
nine carriages filled with stones and iron to the weight of up-
wards of 60 tons, and on Thursday the North Star commenced
running with 12 carriages and 10 trucks similarly loaded, to
the extent, it is calculated, of upwards of 180 tons, exclusive
of the weight of the engines, which is 18 tons, The North
Star accomplished the distance from London to Maidenhead
in 54 minutes.

ALBERTAZZL MORI, AND THE GLOUCESTER FESTIVA
The on dit amongst the professionals touching the absence o
Albertazzi from the Gloucester festival is curious. We give
the story as it reached us. Mori engaged Albertazzi for two
months on a provincial tour at 50 guineas per week, and
therefore claimed her services for the festival, as a part of the
agreement. The cantatrice was of a different opinion ; but,
as the covenant was in writing, was seized with " sudden in-
disposition," prior to the beginning of the meeting. The
question now arises, whether she can claim her salary from
Mr. Mori. As Mr. Bunn requires her services for the open-
ing of Drury-lane Theatre, for which she is engaged for 300
guineas per month, the violinist may perhaps be without her
services for the remainder of his tour.—Musical World.
Two PEOPLE POISONED.—The wife of William Chirgwin,
of Breage, labourer, and her brother, were taken alarmingly
ill a few days since; and on calling in a medical man, it was
ascertained that poison had been largely administered to them
in their tea. Suspicion instantly fell on the woman's husband,
from his having refused to partake of the tea, and from his
having absconded as soon as the fact was discovered. Ile
has since been taken, and has undergone an examination be-
fore the county magistrates, but for want of sufficient proof
to warrant his detention, he has been discharged. The wife,
to whom he had only been married about three months, is
dead; but we are happy to learn that her brother is in a fair
way of reccovery. Rumours are still afloat, which we refrain
from giving; but it is hoped that the perpetrator of this dia-
bolical act will soon be brought to justice.—Cornwall Gazette.
ANECDOTES OF POPERY.—Mr. Canning mentioned, at a
meeting of the Reformation Society, held at Cheltenham, on
August 10, the following facts, in order to show the necessity
for operations against the Roman idolatry:—" Of late years
anew town council has been appointed for Glasgow, of more
enfightened and liberal principles than the old. To them
' thißoman Catholics said, that the bells pealed forth on the
sth of November, and that they thought it ill became these
enlightened town-councillors to permit such an exhibition of
old-fashioned opinions and feelings, and the town-councillors
accordingly decided that the bells should not be rung on the
anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. The clergy said, that
without disputing who had the authority over the church
bells, they felt it right to submit to the authorities of the
town; but at the same time they met together, and resolved
to have a sermon that day, on the errors of the IS oman church,
and the bells rung forth a tremendous peal, to summon the
people to religious worship ; and thus, while they obeyed the
mandate of the civil authorities, they asserted their- own in-
herent right to have a sermon on that day. 1 hope that the
bells will ever ring out their peals on the sth of November,
and that these little mementos of what Popery did, and is
prepared to do again, will not be swept away in the liberality
of the times, but remain as nuclei, round which our children
and our children's children may rally, and which may engage
them to protest against the doctrines of Popery, and seek to
bring its deluded followers to the power of God.—ln Paisley,
the Roman Catholic priest, finding that at first things went
very much against him, resolved to have a sort of contro-
versy : he therefore got six Roman Catholic young men, and
made three of them advocate the Romish, and the other three
the cause of the Protestant church. They stood up for seve-
ral Sundays before a very large congregation, and it always
turned out that the three Protestant advocates were over-
come. An inquiry was set on foot, and it was discovered
that it was a regular scheme of the priest; that all six were
Roman Catholics, and that it was agreed that at a pre-con-
oerted signal the three pretended Protestant champions were
to be vanquished.--I might mention another incident which
occurred at Dundee, which illustrates the fact that the Ro-
man Catholics care not for the means by which they attain
their ends. Finding that they could not obtain sufficient
funds, with which to erect a chapel, they induced the mana-
ger of a theatre to give them a benefit.—l might mention
other instances. I will name one which happened to me in
Duinfermline :—I went there to preach on behalf of this so-
ciety, and it was announced that a Roman Catholic would
stand up and oppose me. Several disturbances were made
during the service; and after retiring into vestry, we were
told that a man, supposed to be a Jesuit in disguise, had been
haranguing the people from a tomb-stone against the sermon
which had been preached, but that a Protestant weaver bad
stood up on another tomb-stone, and so nobly and admirably
replied to him, as obliged him to scamper off with all his
might. This teaches us the importance of trying to provide
the labouring classes with able arguments wherewith to meet
the subtleties of the Roman Catholic advocates."—Mr. Can-
ning then mentioned an anecdote of a lady at Bath, who, by
hearing one of his sermons in that city, had been converted
from the errors of Romanism to the Protestant faith. "This
is an instance," continued the speaker, " of the success of
what is called the controversial mode of preaching, and meets
the objection, that this mode tends to exasperate the minds
of the Homan Catholics, rather than conciliate them for the
reception of the truth as it is in Jesus."