The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

Eler Nlajesly will be nineleeu yeays of uge Ike 2lth of thid
month.

The customs revenue of the port of Liverpol, i t novi one-
fourth of that ut the whole kingdom.

Trirvellers by railroads, though divided into different different
classes, all find themselves upon a level.
The measles have caused frightful ❑tortality at Brussels, ha-
ving carried off nearly sixteen hundred persons.

Sir Jacob Astley's title will be, it is said, Baron Delaval of
Seaton Delaval, in the county of Northumberland, and Melton
Constable, i❑ the county of Norfolk.
It is a singular fact that within die space of three hours on
Tuesday morning we had hail, snow, thunder, lightning, wind,
rain, and sunshine.—Maidstone puper.

The East India Company has voted a sword, of 2000 guineas
value, to Captain Chads, for his exertions in suppressing piracy
in the Indian seas.

The Scots' Greys are to bear the (inure of a French eagle on
their standard, in commemoration of the eagle captured by the
regiment at Waterloo.
It is stated that a marriage is' in contemplation between Lord
Charles Wellesley, younger son of the Duke of Wellington, and
the Lady Honoria Cadogan, youngest daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Cadogan.

A bachelor observed that he would marry, if certain of a wife
perfectly good. A bystander begged bun to bespeak une, as few
such were to be had ready made.
James the First used to say, that the happiest lot in life was
that which set a man below the office of a justice of the peace,
and above that of a petty constable.
The total costs of the Metropolitan Police, for one year ending
the 31st of Dec. last, exceeds £22,000.

The Bishop of Worcester has stated his intention trot to ordain
any gentleman noire than 30 years of age.
The expenses of the Hull Election Committee are calculated
to amount to, if they will not ext eed, £50,000.

" 1 have encountered fraudulent debtors," said the great Lord
Mansfield, " but where I have encountered one fiaudulent
debtor, I have met nine hundred fraudulent creditors?'
Crockford's losses this season are said to amount to little short
£30.000 in cash ; against this may be placed securities
amounting to uearry L 90,000 • which, assuming the latter to
be good, give a balance in the great hell-keeper's favour of
£60,00U.

ENGLISH AND WELSH REPI:ESENTATION.—AS the English
and Welsh representation- exists, the number of members re-
turned fur cities and boroughS, exceeds in fearful disproportion
those who represent counties, for while a country population
of 10,000,000 in. round number's, with a constituency of 510,000;
returns but 159 members ; n borough population, of nut quite
5,000,000, with 28.3,000 electors, returns 341 tepresentatives.

CHANGES TN DEPOTS TUTS Mown-1.-51h Peptd, fromtPorts-
month to Dublin; Bth. Cork to Guernsey; 11th, Cork to Chat-
ham ; 15th, Cork to Plymouth ; 18th, Dublin to Portsmouth ;
32d, Plymouth to cork; 334, Dublin to Liverpool; 35th, Derry
to Glasgow; 36th, Plymouth to Cork_,- 37th, Plymouth to
;
Cork ; .46th, Cork to Plymouth 6oth, Liverpool to Dublin ;
64th, Glasgow to Derry ; 69th, Dover to Cork; 70th, Guernsey
to Dublin; 724, Dublin to Glasgow ; 76th,_ Fort George to
Dublin ; 824, Curk to Sheerness; 85th, Cork to Plymouth.

CA LIT'ION To SERVANTS—Fitters.—Many fires occur in the
metropolis through the negligence of servants, bUt the fire
insurance offices have, within a few days, thrown a " light" on
the affair, by sending round tq-insurers au extract of the act 14th
Geo. 111, cap. 78, sec. 9, Whereby servants are liable, in the
event of fire occurring through their negligence or carelessness,
to a penalty of 1:100, and, in default, to 18 months' imprison-
ment ; and the companies have suggested that the notice should
be put up in 'some part of the house, where it may be seen by
all the servants.—Morning Herald.
SALVAGE.—Dr. Stork, judge of the Admiralty Court, Dublin,
gave judgment on the 7th inst. in the case of the owners of the
Herald, steamer, against the barque Alexander Robertson,
awarding £5OO, (in lieu of £s(xoo claimed for services rendered
by the steamer,) the amount lodged in the court by the de-
fendants, and £75 costs. This judgnient is of great importance,
as being likely to induce a more moderate scale by salvrirs ap-
plying to this court; and this is the first decision of the new
judge, who recapitulated the whole of the evidence in a very
clear manner; and though the salvors have given notice of
appeal, the probability of their following up this step is con-
sidered very doubtful.
Apprehensions of the most painful nature have been excited,
that the vessel (commanded by Captain Farquharson) in which
Mr. Macauley sailed from India, has foundered at sea. The
only present ground for a rumour which carries with it the
greatest alarm and anxiety is a letter received by a well-dnown
merchant in the city of London, and which reached him by the
messenger who brought over-land despatches to government.
It states that four sailors had escaped. No intelligence respect-
ing this, has, however, been received either at the India House
or by the government.—Courier..
New LIGHT Housx.—ln consequence of some accidents
having occurred from the light-houses of Grinez (Pas de Ca-
lais) and Dungeness being in very foggy weather mistaken the
one for the other, a small additional light will be placed on
Cape Grinez, 50 metres less elevated. The additional light will
be varied by bright lights, which will succeed each other every
three minutes, and will be proceeded and followed by short
intervals of darkess. In Ordinary weather the new light will
begin to be perceptible at from three to four maritime leagues.
It will commence from the Ist of October next.
CORREGGIO.—When it had been determined to ornament the
great cupola of St John, Correggio, though then a young man,
was selected to paint it; and, like Raffaelle, his genius expanded
with the opportunity. After Raffaelle, Titian, Michel Angelo,
Da Vinci, and Bartolomeo, who would have thought that
another style, independent of either, and unlike any thing else
in the world, could have burst out ? But so it was. Of all the
painters that ever lived in the world, there is no accounting for
Correggio. Unlike Greeks, Ruffians, and Italians, out he
came into the world, in colour, drawing, light and shadow,
composition, expreSsion, and form, like nature, and unlike
every body else, who ever studied nature at all. Michel Angelo,
Raffaelle, Titian, we can trace ; we see upon whom they were
grafted, when they budded and burst forth. But who is Cor-
reggio ? Nobody is certain. One swears he was poor, another
that he was well off; another says he died in consequence of a
fever which he caught by carrying all his money in copper, the
price of a picture, another protests it was no such thing. Meng's
account is the best, and Vasari's mostly without authority.—
Haydon's Treatise on Painting.
Tile REv. Loan Wm. SOHERSET.—We feel regret that our
notice of the late fatal accident near Wrexham should, by a
misstatement, have given pain to this nobleman, who, we un-
derstand, is a most exemplary paroChial clergyman, and a gen-
tleman of most humane feelings. We were led into the error
of stating, that a verdict of manslaughter had been rettirned
against him by the coroner's jury, through the vagueness of the
account transmitted to us by our correspondent; the fact being,
that the verdict was against his son, a mere youth, the noble
lord not being present at the time of the accident. From
Statements laid before us, we are led to doubt the correctness of
the verdict, though probably it may be in accordance with the
evidence adduced before the jury. Our readers will recollect it
was alleged, that the horses of the timber carriage hid been cut
at from the dickey Of the carriage, and that in consequence they
sprung into a gallop. and that the deceased parties were jerked
from the axle tree where they were seated, fell under the wheel,
and thus were killed. The contrary statement, and it is sworn
to by respectable witnesses, is, that the timber carriage was
twice driven most furiously past the carriage in which lady So-
merset and her two daughters were, the young gentleman being
on the dickey, and that the fatal accident happened before the
alleged cut of the whip was made. At the time the parties fell
off the axle tree, they were 'behind Lady Somerset's carriage,
and fast pressing upon it to the great danger of the vehicle ;
and as they rushed past the carriage, then, and not till theu, the
alleged cut with the whip was made. We have thought it just
to say this much, because the naked facts are of a character erto
give pain to the family of Lord William Somerset; and w
re-
gret much that that pain should, even in the slightest degree,
have been aggravated by any error on our part. We under-
stand that application will be Made to the Court of Queen's
Bench to admit the young gentleman to bail; and from the
nature of the evidence, we cannot doubt but that it will be
granted.—Chester Chronicle.
THE RIVAL STA ENISHIPS.—Tbe race across the Atlantic be.
tween the Great Western and Sirius steam ships, continues to
attract considerable attention, particularly at Bristol, where
heavy bets ara said to be pending on the result. The course is
probably the longest ever run, and the jockeys on both sides are
experienced and skilful. The Sirius had a start of 700 nautical
miles; but still the confidence of the Bristol people in the powers
of the Great Western is unbounded, and the following is their
calculation of the chances iTher favour :—The Sirius was
spoken with on the 17th April in lat. 45 N., long. 37 W. The
Great Western was spoken on the 15th in lat 46 26, N., long.
37 W. At these respective dates the Great Western had run
1,305 miles in seven days, from King's road ; and the Sirius,
1,305 miles, in ten days from Cork. The Great Western aver-
aged 1864:miles per day; the Sirius, 1304 miles: Great Western
gained on Sirius 56 miles per day. The Great Western aver-
aged 71 miles pet hour; the Sirius barely averaged 54 miles,
per hour. Great Western had to run 1,806 nautical miles, and
and according to the past average, she would'accomplish the
Aernainder of the passage in 94 days. Sirius had to run 1,600,
'lnd according to her past average, she would accomplish the
remainder of the passage in not less than 1`24; days. The gene-
ral opinion at Bristol is, that if the weather continued adverse
after the 15th, the Great Western will have reached New York
first. if the weather was fine after the 15th, it is thought that
both ships may have arrived on the same day. The race home-
ward will be one of high interest.
A secret, which has long excited the public curiosity, has just
been divulged. The late Joseph Grassi, professor of painting
at the Royal Society of Fine Arts in Dresden, had in his apart-
ment bessde his bedroom, a room, the door of which was always
covered with hangings, and into which, since his his- return in
1804 from his last tour in Italy, no one has been allowed to en-
ter not even his children. He always carried the key of it
aboutand his
hywapserosof under
b hciasupseildlotwhew
will,.dhoe.nyloi ef
thiswent tn mysteri-
ousbrd; chamber to be built up i
np;relc)uatutition,
or-
dered that this chamber should not be opened fur three months
n, 1835. In his M. Grassi
after his
s death, s
ateatindgthat i
bequeathed
he hadall
nutitse communicatedonteiits to Duke
to
eAugaunsy-
tus, of Gotha;
one what it contained, it was to give an agreeable surprise to
this prince, who had been his benefactor. This room has only
just been opened by the executors of M. Grassi, who found ;n
it seventeen pictures of the most famous ancient painters. Tha
duke took possession of them, and placed them in one of the
saloons of the Royal Academy at Dresden, where they will be
publicly exhibited for three months They will then be sent to
Gotha, and placed in the Ducal Museum of that town. Among
them ase a Titian, a Carlo Dolci, a Salvator Rosa, a Correggioi,
,
&c.—Galtynani.

HAYDON'S ESTINATII or REAM ANDL—Reraloandt van
Rhvn was next to Rubens in po nt of art, and more than equal
to him in originality. Whether in portrait, landscape, or
historical pictures large and small, he was like nobody ; as
wonderful as any, and sometimes superior to all. His bistre-
drawings are exquisite, his etchings unrivalled ; his colour,
light and shadow, and surface, solemn, deep, and without
example; but in the naked form, male or female, he was an
Esquitnaux. His notions of the delicate form of women, would
have liightened an Arctic bear. Let the reader fancy a Bil-
lingsgate fish woman, descending to a bath at a moment's
notice, with hideous feet, large knees and bony legs, a black
eve, and a dirty night cap—and he will have a perfect idea of
Rembrandt's conception of female beauty. Though his histori-
cal pictures are often remarkable for pathos and expression, his
characters are sometimes absolutely runculotts. His Abrahams
• are Dutch old clothesmen ; and yEt his Jacob's Dream is sub-
lime beyond expression. Whatever he painted, he enriched ;
his suitaee was a mass of genius, and his colour a rainbow,
darkened by the gloom of twilight. In portrait, sometimes his
.lignity was equal to Titian, but the characters he painted were
inferior.— flaydoles Treatise on Painting.
W HITIMEA o.—Whithread was a rough speaker; he spoke as
if he had a pot of porter at his lips and all his words came
'brought it. I remember his drawing tears from me upon the
lottery question. After Canning's speech on*Lord Bexley's
resolution about a pound note and a shilling being of equal
value to a guinea, he said to me, "Well, I do envy him the
power of making that speech." This was very curious to me,
because I never could have guessed that it was. at 04 the model
to which he aspired.—Life tf Wilberforce.