The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

It has been ascertained that marriages have decreased
fully a third in all the districts in which the tee-total system
has been introduced.—Dublin Morning Register.
The Constitutionnel Mates, that Nourri Effendi, ambassa-
dor of the porte ip Paris, would proceed to London to assist
at the conference on the affairs of the East, until the arrival
of Schekib Effendi, appointed ambassador of the Ottoman
porte to the British court.

SINGULAR FACT.-It is ascertained that twice the num-
ber of deaths occur at the age of 40 that happens in the
preceding and succeeding years ; and that the same singular
law holds good with respect to the decennial periods, 30, 50,
60, and 70.

EXPLANATORY RETURNS.—The following ludicrous an-
swer was given, in return relative to the constabulary force,
to the question Is the Watching and Lighting Act (3 and 4
William IV., cap. 90) carried out in the parish ? Answer,
Every one fins theire own candel !—Preston Pilot.
As a reward for the services of the 45th Regithent of Foot,
during the chartist riots at Newport, it is the intention of
government to make them a light infantry regiment, and for
that purpose they are ordered to Woolwich to make them-
selves proficient in their military duties.
The Suabian Mercury states that steam navigation is about
to be established on the Vistula. Two iron steamers are only
waiting at Danzig for the breaking up of the frost, to com-
mence regular passages as far as Cracow and Warsaw.
They have been constructed in England by order of the
Governor of Warsaw.

On Thursday evening last, the Rev. William M. Bunting,
Wesleyan minister, administered the ordinance of baptism
by immersion, in the Baptist Chapel, George-street. This
is the first instance, within our knowledge, of the ordinance
of baptism being administered by immersion, in Manchester,
by any of the Wesleyan preachers.—Manchester Guardian.
QUIETNESS AT LAST.—A bickering couple residing near
Manchester, were recently overheard in high controversy, and
the repentant Benedict exclaimed, " I'm determined i'll have
one quiet week with thee." " But how wilt thou get it?
how wilt thou get it? how wilt thou get it? " said his'
taunting spouse, with that reiteration which married ladies
so provokingly practise—" I'll keep thee a week after thuo'rt
dead !" was the tender rejoinder.
There are no less than twelve vessels of large burden now
in port, prepared to receive passengers for British North
America, and the berths in nearly halt that number are alrea-
dy engaged. The tide of emigration from this district has
never set in so strong in our memory, as in the present
season, and bids fair to surpass all anticipation. We seriously
believe Limerick will afford an outlet for 6,000 agricultural
labourers and artisans, to Upper and Lower Canada, before
the fall of the season.—Limerick Chronicle.
SECRET SERVICE MONEY.—By a return of the sums
granted under the head of secret service money, it appears
that the amount granted in 1831 was £41,000 ; in 1832,
£44,325 ; in 1833, £39,400 ; in 1834, £57,690 ; in 1835,
£36,800 ; in 1826, £36,000 ; in 1837, £35,900 ; in 1838,
£35,900 ; and in 1839, £39,900.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOCK WORK.—An improvement in
clock work at present excites great interest in the scientific
circles in Paris. M. Neuberger has discov6red a method of
applying to pendulums of all dimensions a movement which
requires to be wound up only once in three months, without
in any degree affecting the regular working of the mechanism.
—Polytechnic Journal.
DiiATII OF CAPTAIN DICKINSON, R.N. C.B.—We have
to announce the deraiie of this gallant officer, one of the
heroes of Navarino, under Admiaal Sir Edward Codrington.
Captain Dickinson was Knight of St. Anne of Russia, the
legion of honour, and other foreign orders, conferred on him
for his brilliant services. His post commission bears date
May 13, 1828.
THE MONMOUTH CHARTISTS.—Vincent and Edwards,
the chartist rioters, have been found guilty of conspiracy. On
Monday, at the Monmouth assizes, Mr. Baron Gurney sen-
tenced Vincent to be imprisoned for twelve months, and the
defendant Edwards to be imprisoned for fourteen calendar
months, to give sureties to be of good behaviour for five
years, themselves in £5OO and two in £lOO each. Both
defendants are in custody under a sentence of Baron Alderson
at last assizes ; this sentence will, therefore, detain Vincent
for eight months, and Edwards for thirteen months, after the
expiration of the former sentence.
THE GREATEST MUSQUITO STORY YET.—A correspond-
ent of the Cincinnatti Sun writes concerning the musquitoes
of Michigan, that a man living near Grand River, being in
the woods, was exceedingly annoyed by the musquitoes, and
took shelter under an inverted potash kettle. His first
emotions of joy for his happy deliverance and secure asylum,
were hardly over, when the musquitoes having found him,
began to drive their probosces through the kettle ; fortunately
he had a hammer in his pocket, and he clinched them down
as fast as they came through, until at last such a host of them
was fastened to the poor man's domicile, that they rose and
flew away with it, leaving him shelterless.

EDINBURGH ANTIQUITIES.--On Wednesday, the workmen
employed by the improvement commissioners' contractors,
in lowering the roadway of West Bow, came upon a vaulted
chamber from four to five feet under the surface ; it was built
of finely-dressed stones, closely joined and cemented with
mastic, and the bottom laid with fine wrought pavement,
puddled underneath. It was about twelve feet long by about
six or seven in width, and the same in height. As there was
no aperture of communication into this structure, conjecture
was, for some time after its discovery, busy in assigning a
use to it, till at length a piece of pipe was found, near the
bottom of it, which at once pointed it out as an ancient wester
cistern, which it is likely may at some period have been em-
ployed in supplying the inhabitants of that once populous
neighbourhood.—Edinburgh paper.

We quote the following from the Northern Bee of St. Pe-
tersburgh :—ln 1809 there was only one political and literary
journal published in Finland; now, 13 periodical publications
are announced ; seven appear at Helsinfors, the capital of
Finland, two at Abo, and one at each of the towns of Wasa,
Wybourg, Borgo, and Uleaborg. Nine of these journals are
in the Swedish, and four in the Finland language.

THE JEWS AND THEIR MESSIAH.—The Dorpzeitung
says that the Jews of Constantinople have, with their Rabbi,
declared that they will not wait any longer than another year
for their Messiah. If within that time he does not appear,
they will conclude that he has already come, and then they
will try to discover by what religion he is recognised. The
Rabbi is entirely of this opinion, and has• even proposed to
his congregation to profess Christianity forthwith.

HEnrr.—The hemp of Russia may be superseded, ere long,
by the flax of New Zealand. It is believed, says the New
Zealand Journal, that the labour of obtaining the latter in its
coarse state, and the charges of importation, will be fully
compensated by a price of £lB per ton here ; the expense of
dressing will be about £l2 more; so that at £3O per ton,
New Zealand flax, in a state to supersede Russian hemp, will
be delivered in this country. The price of Russian hemp, in
1839,
,was £45 per ton,—it is now £36, and £4O may be
deemed the average.

Mr. Thesiger, by accepting a seat in the House of Com-
mons, gives up, it is supposed, £lOOO to £5OOO a-year,
derived from parliamentary business. As a set-off to this,
however, his business in the courts will be increased, and he
is placed on the high road to the highest honours of his pro-
fession—to which few men have a more rising and univer-
sally-acknowledged claim

The Queen, through the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, pre-
sented the infant daughter of the Hon. Robert M. and Lady
Harriet Clive, with a massive gold cup, accompanied by a
spoon, knife, and fork of the same precious metal, on the
occasion of the young lady's christening, and for whom her
majesty was graciously pleased to stand sponsor.

THE AUSTRIAN STATES.—The population of the Austrian
states, according to a recent statistical account published by
M. Sommer, at Prague, and M. Springer, at Vienna, amounts
to 34,922,430 souls, of whom 2,168,694 are inhabitants of the
grand duchy of Austria ; 935,575 of the duchy of Styria ;
1,195,874 of the Illyrian kingdom ; 814,892 of the Tyrol ;
4,001,925 of Gallicia and Lodomiria; 11,138,942 of Hungary
and its dependencies ; 2,170,392 of Transylvania; 995,861 of
the, military provinces ' • 4,534,197 of the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom ; and 373,479 of Dalmatia. The people inhabiting
these countries are—Germans, Sclavonians, Italians, Hun-
garians, Walachians, Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Albanians,
and Zingari or gypsies. These different people having for a
series of years more or less mingled with each other, the
number of each distinctly cannot be precisely ascertained.
Thus the German population is estimated at 6,000,300 souls ;
the Sclavonian, with its various ramifications, at 14,820,000 ;
those of Italian origin at 5,027,197 ; the Magiars, the greater
portion of the occupants of the fertile plains in the interior of
Hungary, at 5,305,000; the Walachians at 1,567,000 ; and
the Jews at 603,000. To these must be added the other
races less numerous inhabiting different parts of the empire.

HELSTON ELECTION.—When Mr. Bassett was returned
for Helston, the evening organ of the government announced
the fact, with the observation, " this balances the liberal loss
at Lewes," thereby wishing the inference to be drawn that
Mr. Bassett was a whig, although the local journals, whom
one would suppose to be best acquainted with the matter at
the time, declared him a conservative. What will the writer
of the paragraph in question say when he sees the fact an-
nounced, which there is no contradicting, that the new
member was conducted into the house by two conservative
members, and took his seat on the opposition side ? What
the motive of the ministerial paper was in making the state-
ment may be easily imagined. For our part we wish that
every loss of the liberals may be " balanced" in a similar
way.

NORTH MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Between Derby and Ro-
therham, (and on to Sheffield by the Sheffield and Rother-
ham Railway,) the principal operation is laying the perma-
nent road. A double line of rails is laid for a considerable
distance north and south of Chesterfield. The following
contracts are all completed or nearly so :—The Beighton, 12
miles north of Chesterfield ; the Eckington, Whittington,
Chesterfield, North Wingfield, and Clay Cross. On the
line north of Beighton, and up to Rotherham--the Staveley,
South Wingfield, Lodge-hill contracts, and down to Derby,
great exertions are being made to have a double line ready
for the opening, and a great portion of this distance is laid.
The only earthwork remaining on this part of the line, is
finishing the sides of some of the large excavations, and
completing an embankment at Bull-bridge. The stations
will be completed shortly, as most of them are now roofed in.

HIGHWAYS.—The committee of the House of Commons
appointed to inquire into the operation of the highways act
have made their report. They recommend that the forma-
tion of parishes into districts should be compulsory; that the
board of guardians under the Poor Law Unions should con-
stitute the board to direct the repairs of highways, and that
the paid officers of such unions be made applicable to carry
into effect the improvements recommended by the com-
mittee. The board to continue for three years or longer, if
not dissolved by two-thirds of the voters at vestry meeting.
The committee recommend the power of impounding stray
cattle on the highways to be extended to the owners of ad-
joining lands, and that the expenses be settled by one
magistrate ; and that where there are no pounds, a fine of
one shilling per head should be levied independent of ex-
penses of proceedings. In lieu of a bill of indictment at
the sessions, the surveyor be summoned before justices at
petty sessions, who may appoint some competent person to
report upon the state of repair, and thereupon make such
order as may be necessary, subject, however, to appeal at
the quarter sessions. The parochial assessment act, now
applicable to the poor rates, to be extended to the rates
levied for the repair of the highways. The statute duty by
individuals to be repealed, and the materials carried on at the
cheapest rate. The fees to clerks of peace and clerks to
justices to be regulated by tables of fees made by the justices
of the quarter sessions, and settled by the judges of assize.
Extra-parochial places to be made liable to repair the high-
ways. The committee recommend the present highway act
to be repealed and substituted by a new act, to include such
alterations and additional provisions as now suggested.

THE Inow TRADE.—An unusually large meeting of the
Staffordshire ironmasters took place at Dudley on Thursday
last, preparatory to the quarterly meetings, which will be
held next week, commencing at Wallsall on Tuesday, the
7th instant. The state of the trade was fully gone into, and
the report on the whole highly satisfactory. The quantity
of pig iron made in Staffordshire last year is calculated at
rather more than 338,000 tons, and the number of puddling
furnaces 581, each consuming l 2 tons per week. It is fur-
ther calculated, that, owing to the reduction of 20 per cent.
in the make, the accumulation of pig iron during the pud-
dlers' turn-out will be worked down in the ensuing quarter.
Orders in the midland counties are steady, and an advance
of ss. per ton has taken place in Scotland. The trade is al-
together considered in so healthy a state, that it was decided
by the meeting that no further reduction should be made ;
and as the Shropshire trade is to a considerable degree ruled
by the Staffordshire prices, we conclude that a similar result
has attended the meeting of the Shropshire ironmasters which
has since taken place.— Worcester Paper.

&JAW fug Entelligthrt.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3.—Wind E.S.E.

Artmven—Saneho Panza, Smith, from Naples—lduna, Gron-
wald, front Odessa

ALSO ARRIVED—Formosa, Cuboe, from Cork—Charlotte, Wil-
liams, from Newport
SAILISD.—GIobe, Oliver, for New Orleans—tErial, Robinson, and
Lavinia, Brown, for Mobile—lsabella, boring, for Havre and Rouen
Henriette, Claussen, for Pillau—Ambassador, Tate, for Charlotte
Town—Margaretha, Koster, for Amsterdam—Swallow, Wilson, for
Stettin—Scotland, Robinson, for New York—Britannia, Oliver, for
Halifax, N.S.—Ganges, Blyth, for Dalhousie, N.B.—Louise, Rooms,
for Antwerp—Cardova, Owen, for New Orleans—Dit-on, Le Gros,
for Caraquet, N.B.—Livingston, Salkeld, for Sydney. N.S.W.

Tiber, , from Trieste, at Dublin
Gertrude, Black, from Leghorn, ditto
Off Point Lynas, at 7 a.m. No. 1421, Kingstown. (steamer.)
Joseph Storey, Spencer, from the Cape of Good Hope for Lon-
don, at Falmouth, out 87 days
Tweed, Lawson, fell over in No. 1 Graving Dock, this morning,
and received damage

Marchioness Bute, -, hence to Mobile, was spoken 27th
ult, in lat. 50, long. s _

_ .
Harmony, - hence to the Cape of Good Hope. was spoken
13th ult. in lat. 48, long. 13

Cora, Melville, sailed from Rio Janeiro to Cape Good Hope on
the 10th January
Lady Wright, Wright, hence at St. Michael's
Harriet, Beniest, hence at Antwerp

Venilia, Kranenburg, hence at Helvoet
Philadelphia, Morgan, from New York at Portsmouth, sailed on
the and of March, in company with the Yazoo, Trask, for this port
Virginian, Higgins, hence at New York 28th February
Randolph, Bilton, from Pernambuco, off Falmouth

SATURDAY, APRIN 4.—Wind variable and moderate

ARRIVED.—Mary, Robertson, from Mauritius—Alan Kerr,
M'Kechnie, from Bombay—Actress, Toole, from New Orleans—
Iris, Dickson, from Savannah—Lynx, Watson, from Terceira—Wm.
Sorlie, , from Cephalonia—Daniel, Mathews, from Lisbon—
Splendid, Dishon, from Seville—Gustav & Leopold, Kell, from Wol-
gast—Hercules, Schwann, from Wismar—Johannes, —, from
Harlingen.
SAILED.—John Woodall, Williams, for Rio Janeiro, &c.—Angli-
cania, Burridge, and Alcyone, Dales, for Quebec—Aurore, Briard,
for Cape Breton—Liverpool, Davenport, and Ambassador, Wade,
for New Orleans—Fanny Connell, Dixon, for Lisbon—Elizabeth,
Clark, for Laguira, &c.—Otter, Preston, for Constantinople—Snow-
drop, Nicholls, for Beirout, &c.—Elizabeth, Stone, for Trieste.

Columbus, Green, from Pernambuco, at this port; sailed 27th
Feb. Left loading the Pakenham, for Falmouth, Superb, for
Trieste, Ranger and Matthew Plummer, for Hamburg. On 9th
March, in lat. 25 N, long. 42 W, spoke the Octavio, from Lima for
Liverpool, 95 (lays out. On 19th March, in lat. 31 N, long. 15 W,
spoke the John Souchay, from the Mediterranean for Monte Video.
On 28th March, in lat. 50 N, long. 22 W, spoke the Carribbean,
from Mauritius for Cork

United States, Barr; John & Robert, M'Kechnie ; Girard, - ;
St. Lawrence, Brown; Diadem, Leslie; and Thnoleon,
hence at New Orleans
Alexander Edmonds, hence at Savannah
Leila, , hence at Baltimore'
Montezuma, , hence at Philadelphia
Oxford, Rathbone, hence at New 'York 13th March
Roscius, Collins, hence at ditto 13th; lost spars, &c.
Sheffield, Allen, hence at ditto, 17th
Frankfort, Russell, hence at ditto, 18th
British Queen, (steamer). froni London, at ditto, 18th March, in
16 days from Portsmouth
North America, Lowber; Siddons, Palmer; and Europe, Mar-
shall, hence off NewNork,'lgth March •
Abeona, Grant, hence at St. John, N.B.
Rapid, Bolton; Phoenix, Hartley, and Petrel, Turcan, hence at
Madeira

Ann Wise, —, from Savanilla, off Bardsey, 2nd April
Great Western, (steamer) from New York, at Bristol, 3rd April;
sailed nth March. Arrived out in lsi days. On 29th March, in
lat. 49, long. 27, spoke the Champlain, from Philadelphia for Liver.
pool

Wm. Shand, -, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 29th March,
in lat. 49, long. I I

Romulus„ hence for Algiers, was spoken 10th March, in
1at..40, long. 11

Shaispeare, -, hence for Charleston, was spoken 12t1]
March, in lat. 43, long. 33

Clifton, hence for New Orleans, was spoken in lat. 24
long. 80

Elizabeth Bruce, -, from New Orleans for Liverpool, was
spoken 10th March, off Matanilla Reef

Edwin, —, from Natchez for Liverpool, was :1( I 4th
March, in lat. 28, long. 7g
Alert, (packet) from Falmouth, at Pernambuco, 25th January
Bruce, Campbell, from London, at Havana
Unicorn, Mullins. and Chas. Quint, Mulenear, hence at ditto
Reindeer, (packet) from Tampico, at ditto, and sailed 6th March,
for Falmouth, with 600,000 dollars on freight
Tynwald, —, and Andes, , hence at Vera Cruz
I ronside, , hence at Galveston
George Canning, , hence at Laguira
Ann Hall, --, hence at Mobile
Banffshire, —, from Dundee, ditto
NEW YORK, March 12.—Francis .2st, —, hence for London-
derry, sprung a leak, and put into Newport, (Rhode Island,) and is
discharging. 18th March.—Agnes, , from New Orleans for
Liverpool, went on shore on the Tortugas, blit was afterwards got
off, and taken into Key West, with little injury. Belmont,.—,
from Montego Bay, (Jamaica) for Liverpool, went on shore on
Carysfort Reef, but was afterwards got off, and taken to Key West,
badly injured, and it was supposed would be condemned

SUNDAY, APRIL s.—Wind N.N.W. light.
/Imam:tn.—Yazoo, —, from New York ; sailed 4th March—
Indian, Frost, from Calcutta—Ann Wise, Thorns, from Savanilla—
Tamenend, Borland, from New Orleans—Mount Charles, Good,
from Cadiz—Julia & Elizabeth, Lawson, from Tonsberg—Freiheit,
from Lubeck—St. Antonius, —, from Copenhagen—
Recovery, Blodjen, from Reryugada=-Waterlilly, , from Bilboa
—Effort, —, from Smyrna—Thomas Dempsey, —, from
Africa—and Harriet, Scott, from Charleston.
SAlLEU.—lndependent, Morris, for Quebec—Carlton, Allan, for
Miramichi—Sterling, Saunders, for Savannah—Tamerlane, Fisher,
for Quebec—Huntress, Putnam, for New York—Martin, Brown, for
Trinidad—and Lyons, Agry, for New Orleans.

Cumberland, Power, hence at Apalachicola
Perseverance, Corkhill, and Cynosure, Brice, hence at Rio Janeiro
Petrel, (Packet) from Falmouth, ditto
Michoelson, hence at Havana
Amalia, Zimmerman, hence at Pillau
Eduard, Zeilcke, hence at Danzic
Sir Charles Forbes, Laing, from Batavia, at Hambro'
Garland, Wright, from Bahia,
ditto

Java, Pickering, from Manilla, off the Cove
HALIFAX, March 2.—The John Porter, parted her cables 15th
March, during a gale at S.E. went on shore atthe entrance of St.
Mary's Harbour, and is expected to become a wreck

MONDAY, APRIL 6.—Wind

ARRlVED.—Hirolldelle; , for Lisbon—Clipper, —, from
Bilboa—Elize, Paton, from Rostock—Flora, Horsfall. from KraFe-
roer—Danzic Packet, Tannen, from Danzic—Circassian, White,
from Requijados—Elizabeth, Englishman, from Rotterdam—Her-
culean, Grindall, from Bombay ; sailed 20th Dec. and from St. He-
lena 13th Feb.—Clifton, Spalding, and Telumah, Glidden, from New
Orleans—lsaac Newton, , from Mobile—Margaret Johnson,
M'Auley, from Charleston—Heywood, Jones, from Bombay—Helen
Jane, M'Doual, from the Mauritius; sailed 10th Jan. and from St.
Helena 12th Feb.—Henry, Salter, from St. Joseph's—Limnos,
, Skipton, , and Syra, —, from Odessa—Effort,
Orfeur, from Smyrna—Octavia, Bayfield, from Callao ; sailed 30th
Nov. and from Huanchacoo 17th Dec.—Alexander, Leeds, from
Baltimore.

Isabella Cooper, , from Calcutta, at this port; sailed
Dec. On 2gth March. in lat. 48, long. 16, spoke the Hindoo, from
Van Diemen's Land for London

Highlander, Bottomley, from Calcutta, at this port; sailed 24th
Nov. On 23th Jan. in lat. 36 S, long. 18 W, spoke the Rosalind,
from Calcutta for Bristol. On sth March, in lat. 27 N, long. 35 W,
spoke the Robert Watt, from Cork for Puerto Cabello
Royal Saxon, Atkins, from Calcutta, at this port; sailed 22nd
Nov. On Ist March, in lat 23 N. long. 33 W, exchanged Nos. with
568, Arica, and Ist April, off Tuskar. the Commerce, hence for
Africa

Patrick Henry, Delano, from New York, at this port: sailed 9th
March. On 25th Feb. in lat. 48, long. 28, spoke Duncan; for St.
John, N.B.

Diana, , for London, at St. John, N.B.
Novo Born Fin, Mesquieta, hence at Lisbon
Ruby, Arming; Marshall Blucher, Mathews, and Monne'',
Downes, sailed from Lisbon for Liverpool 24th March
Felix Destino, De Luz, hence at Oporto
Albatros, Aiken, and John Taylor, Tyrrell, hence at Old Calabar
Harriet, Carrell, cleared at Gibraltar 20th March. for Liverpool;
Premier, Neuman, 23rd March for Malaga, and Gem, M'Kenzie,
25th March, for Seville
Leonora, Harrison, hence at Demerara
Clyde, Matches, hence for New South Wales, at Rio Janeiro
Tamerlane. -, for Quebec, has put back

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Ric.
Duchess Clarence, W Birch, 274 Sincapore and Canton,

_ J
Bibby & Sons
Madonna, R Miller, 504 Bombay, Brodie & Hamilton
Tweed, R Lawson, 447 Bombay, Bold & Starkey
John Blake, W Churchward, 229 Sincapore, Cotesworth & Wynne

AFRICA.-
Hero, T Grant, 388 Africa, R & G Henn
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Elizabeth, R Goddard, 229 Hobart Town and Sydney,

Coteswoith SilVynne
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.

Mary, W Duncan,
Amphitrite, J M'Neil,

91 St. Domingo„ R Shell
278 Barbadoes and St. Kitt's,
..

Imrie & Tomlinson
Irlam,
,
Sisters, H Short, 141 Cuba and Nassau, N.P. Claypole & Son
David, J Adair. 144 Cuba, Campbell & Rudd
Trinidad, T Sowden, 343 Demerara, Bold & Starkey
Norman, G W Bond, 149 Kingston, Jamaica, Graham & Taylor
SOUTH AMERICA.
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Agricola: Grayson,
Adriana,