The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

FURNISHING IRONMONGER, 10, CHURCH-STREET.

PARISIAN BITUMEN PAVING COMPANY.
THE opinion of several eminent Engineers having been
taken as to the merits of the Bitumen okhis Company,
the Directors feel justified in stating tha it is capable of
resisting the effects of heat, vet, and fro , and is fully equal,
if not superior, to any of the Asphal ow in use, while its
price, the carriage from London in ded, is considerably
less.

The Directors, before mentioning the various uses to which
Bitumen is applicable, have great pleasure in calling the
attention of parties interested in the subject, to a most mas-
terly exposition of the qualities of this celebrated Mastic,
delivered at the Architectural Society, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
by Mr. Tite, who brought to the task not only a compre-
hensive knowledge of what had been done, but a mind deeply
imbued with the conviction that much yet remained to do
towards developing all the resources of which such a material
was capable.
The Directors are well aware that the qualities of their
Bitumen, to be appreciated, must be known, and feeling
that the public will soon be freed from those prejudices
against its use which carelessness of application has alone
generated, beg to say, that they have ready prepared a large
quantity of Bitumen of a proper consistency applicable to the
following purposes, viz. :

To the Covering of Viaducts, or Arches of Railways, Bridges,
Catacombs, Wine Vaults, Cellars, &c.
To the Paving of Pathways, Court Yards, Garden Walks,
Stables, Coach•houses, Barns, Tun Rooms, Malt Houses,
Granaries, Warehouses, Wharfs, Esplanades, Cause-
ways, &c.
To be delivered in Liverpool or Manchester, at £3 per Ton,
cash price ; or
The Directors will execute any of the above Works, in Li-
verpool, Manchester, or the Neighbourhood, at ss. 6d. the
square yard each, inclusive of all expenses.
Directions for Use will be forwarded with any quantity.
And the Directors will guarantee Vie Durability of Works
executed by the Company.
J. DICKINSON, Secretary and Superintendent.
Naptha, Pitch Tar, (raw and refined,) Tar Oil, Black
Varnish, and Lamp Black, in any quantities, at reasonable
rates.

AGENT FOR LIVERPOOL :
.1. WENSLEY, 1, Surrey-street, Kent-square.

ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY GUARD.—On Thursday after-
noon, as a railway guard named Harrison, was proceeding from
Leeds to York by the half-past eleven morning train, he en-
deavoured to pass from one carriage whilst the train was in
motion, near the Bolton Percy station, but he missed his
step, and fell down, whereby he vt as so much injured on one
of his legs and one arm, that both the limbs were obliged to
be amputated the same day.—Leeds Intelligencer.

RUMOURED APPOINTMENTS IN THE LAW.—The persons
who are spoken of at Westminster for the officer of Solicitor-
General are Mr. Dundas, Mr. Seargeant Talfourd, Mr.
Charles Austin, and Mr. Erle. Mr. Dundas, in the event
of his appointment, would be certain of his re-election for
Sutherland. Mr. Erle, in similar circumstances, would be
almost certain of a defeat at Oxford. Mr. Sergeant Tal-
fourd's seat is in a doubtful condition. Mr. Charles Austin,
in the event of hiS appointment, would in all probability be
sent to Edinburgh. Mr. Justice Littledale has consented
to continue in office until the conclusion of Hilary term,
after which, and before the commencement of the spring as-
sizes, it is expected that he will certainly retire.—Timer.
STATE OF IRELAND.—A gentleman of this city, Exeter,
has lately received a letter from his intelligent daughter, who
has been iu Ireland for some months. The following ex-
tracts are very interesting and important I must tell you
a little of the kind feeling of Popery here towards us here-
tics. A few miles from this place (Buttevant) there is a large
Roman Catholic chapel and congregation, and a very small
Protestant church thinly attended. It happened that the
person who used to pull the bell of our church was absent,
when a little boy, 12 years of age, was called in, to toll it for
church. Poor little fellow, it came to the all-powerful Ro-
inish priest's ear; on which the boy was brought to the Po-
pish chapel the following Sunday and publicly cursed and ex-
communicated for entering the Protestant Church, and as-
' sisting the Protestant worship ! It needs no comment, lam
sure. Yet the whigs and radicals on your side of the water
are for giving Popery more power ! Heaven help us Pro-
testants should they ever get what they want—repeal. I
don't know what our English girls would say were they made
to do the following penance :—For looking at a Protestant
soldier the priest made an Irish girl walk barefooted to the
bishop of the diocese, a great distance, carrying her shoes and
stockings in her hands, she being ordered not to put them on
on any pretence—she was given a letter, and ordered to bring
back an answer, to make sure that she went! I saw a man
the other day who hqd not had linen on his back for 10 years ;
his hack looked like leather, and I was tooldhioti:vea, butfors I
pen-
ance. .I am afraid we shall have a terrible disturbance yet in
Ire
; John (her husband) says I shall go
no, I will never run, a la Lord Ebrington, who has just left
when he ought to he here. Dan. O'Connell is agitating the
people dreadfully. I wonder government does not stop it;
but it appears they wish to excite a row everywhere, perhaps
with a view of picking up the crumbs in the scramble. The
Papists openly make their boast, and say they shall have the
tire yet, to make the Protestants dance in Pray God to pro-
tect our dear old England, and detect all traitors, for we hpve
plenty of such here, and I fear there are too many with you."
—Exeter Gazelle.

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