The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

SINGULAR DOWRY.—A shoemaker recently got married
to the daughter of a nailer in Ardee, and the fortune the
man of lasts got with the maid of the anvil is six years sup-
ply of nails for whatever shoes he makes !
Mrs. Bolton, of Storrs Hall, Windermere, last week, ac-
cording to annual custom, distributed a quantity of coals to
each poor family in Bowness and the adjacent distrint.—
Carlisle Patriot.

WELLINGTON TESTIM ONI AL.—We are happy to announce
that the subscriptions for this public-spirited undertaking
already amount to the munificent sum of £6,200.—Glasgow
Mail.

LONGEVITY.—Within a circle of a mile in the township of
Fiusthwaite, reside three individuals, whose united ages
amount to 281 years.—Lancaster Gazette.
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The Earl of Shrewsbury has begun the erection of a new
Roman Catholic chapel and school at Alton Towers.— Wor-
cester .Tournal.

The Earl of Stradbroke has purchased the extensive estates
of Viscount Middleton, in the county of Waterford for
£98,000.

INCREASE OF EMIGRATION.—Instead of 1,500 persons
who emigrated to Australia in 1838, the total number of 1839
is actually 15,000 ten times the number.
Mr. Cornwall Legh has been actively canvassing the con-
servative freeholders of this town and neighbourhood during
the week, and we are happy'to say with a success which
places his return for this division of the county beyond the
shadow of a doubt.—Stockport Advertiser.

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH CHESHIRE.—For several
days during the week, Mr. Cornwall Legh has been actively
engaged in a personal canvass of the electors, resident in
Macclesfield. We are told that the success he has met with
has been highly satisfactory to him, and the friends of con-
servatism.—Staffordshire Gazette.
CHICHESTER.—Mr. Hector, the present Whig member
for Petersfield, has expressed his intention of resigning his
seat at any future election. Mr. J. B. Carter, sou of the
late member for Portsmouth, comes forward on the Whig
interest. but without the slightest chance of success against
Sir W. Jolliffe, the Conservative candidate.—Brighton
Gazette.

The will of the late Mr. John Holroyd, of Northumber-
land-street, Strand, plumber to her Majesty, the public
offices, &c., was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury on the 6th inst. and the personal estate sworn under
£90,000. The deceased, many years since, saved the life of
his late Majesty George the Third,.when fired at by Hatfield,
the lunatic, at the theatre.

LORD FRANCIS EGERTO:si.—This nobleman has lately be-
come owner, by purchase, of the Astley Estate, Cheshire.
There were many competitors for the property, but which
was eventually knocked down to his lordship at between 78
and £79,000. Very various, indeed, were the views of the
bidders as to its value, some of whom ceased their biddings
after £56,020 had been offered.
ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—About ten days ago, a
gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Rothbury, took
a fishing excursion. In a single day's fishing in the Coquet
with a fly, he caught the incredible number of 13 well-grown
Salmon ' • the largest weighing 171b5., was taken out of the
Birkey Pool, a place well known to anglers.—Newcastle
Journal.

In 1444, 28th Henry VI., a petition was presented to the
House of Commons, stating, that for default of halfpence
and farthings, men, " travailling over contree.s, for part of
their expences of necessitie, must depart our Soveraigne
Lorde's coigne, that is to wete, a penny in two peces, or
elles forgo all the same peny for the palement of an half-
peny."
In a paper read by Mr. Read, before the English Agricul-
tural Society, in March last, it is stated, that if a pound only
was laid out in drainage on each acre now in cultivation in
Great Britain and Ireland, (and not including any waste
grounds,) a demand for country labour, amounting to 48
millions sterling would thus be created, inasmuch as there
are 48 millions cf acres so cultivated.
FALKIRK BURGHS.—It is understood that Major Ander-
son, of Essex. is to offer himself as a candidate for these
burghs at the next election ; and Mr. Gillon has obtained
leave of absence from the House of Commons for a month,
with the view, it is imagined, of meeting his opponent in an
active canvass. The London correspondent of the Caledo-
nian Mercury anticipates a dissolution in autumn at farthest,
and urges reformers to prepare for the contest which will
then take place.—Glasgow Mail.
The column to the Emperor Alexander, recently erected
in St. Petersburg, is 135 feet high, without the figures which
surmount it ; it is constructed of blocks of marble of enor-
mous dimensions—one of them is no less than 84 feet by
124 feet in size. The whole cost of this monument was
£400,000 sterling. These " barbarians" of the north will
find it difficult to believe that in civilised and wealthy Eng-
land we cannot raise a twentieth part of the sum to rear a
monument to the great naval hero of the age and country ;
and that much less than a moiety of it is refused for the
erection of a structure, in which British merchants will be
expected to meet for centuries to come.—Art-Union.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF METALS.—We have before us

the annual statement of imports and exports of metals, fur-
nished us by Mr. John Richards, and now present to our
readers an abstract, carefully made, which will be found use-
ful, while we must refer those anxious for further details to
the document itself. It appears that the exports for the past
two years are as follows :

XPORTS

1838. 1839. Increase. Decrease
tons 102,766 112,599 9,793
.... 1,478 2,738 1.260

Iron
Steel

Copper calves

Copper sheets
Tin blocks...

3,577

Tin plates
Lead ....

3,252

5;412 6,20 i
3,871 2.931

218,323 197,980
9,100 9,378

940
20,343

Spelter
Quicksilver.. lbs. 2,360,672 2,423,081 62,409
From which it will be seen that the increase in the exports of
iron, on that of the preceding year, is about 91 per cent. ;
steel 85 per cent. ; copper, in sheets and nails, 15 per cent. ;
lead 3 per cent. ; spelter 82 per cent. ' • and quicksilver nearly
3 per cent.; while in cake copper the decrease has been about
10 per cent., and there has been also a decrease in tin blocks
and plates—in the former to the extent of 24 per cent., and
the latter about 9 per cent. The imports for home consump-
tion for the past three years are thus enumerated ;
IMPORTS.

:ron

Steel

1837.

1838. 1839. Increase Decrease
last 12 months.
:..:tons 11,477 17,301 18,516 1,215

Copper
Tin
Lead

110 171 13
-. 2 1
10 85 12

Speller 2,335 3,506 4,760 1,254
Quicksilver..lbs. 309,099 408,580 331,247 78,333
Showing an increase of nearly 7 per cent. on iron, and 26
per cent. on spelter, in the year 1839; or upwards of 50 per
cent. on the former, and 100 per cent. on the latter, in the
two past years. The decrease has principally been in quick-
silver, which shows a diminution of about 25 per cent., while
it should, however, be remarked, that the excess of stock in
London on Ist January, 1840, over that of Ist January,
1839, is 140,000Ibs.—Mining Journal.

GALLANT EXPLOIT IN 1745.—About twenty years ago
a venerable and hale-looking peasant, who could remember
the irruption of the Jacobite clans in 1745, was fond of bask-
ing in the sun. and, with the garrulity natural to old age,
relating anecdotes of old times to such listeners as he could
find in the gardens of his native parish, Cramond, situated on
the Firth of Forth, about five miles north-west from Edin-
burgh. He said he was a " callant," that is, stripling, when
the highlanders crossed the country on their way to the Scotch
metropolis, which, with the exception of the castle, surren-
rendered at their approach. His father occupied at that time
one of those small holdings, then so common, but which are
now merged in the extensive parks and farms which now
distinguish the Lothians. The invaders, he said, were an
ill-clad and half-starved looking, but by no means ferocious
soldiery ; and, as a specimen of their manners, he related
that a party of them happening to cross his father's door as
his mother was busy at the churn, they entered, making signs
for food and chattering Gaelic, and unceremoniously helping
themselves to spoons, emptied the contents of the churn into
their own stomachs. A pair of new Sunday shoes were also
taken from the shelf; but, on the principle that exchange
was no robbery, a pair of well-worn brogues, shoes rudely
made of untanned hide, was left instead. But what the old
man was fondest of telling was an exploit which gave no
small proof of the courage and military skill of the young
farmers of the parish. The " Pretender," before leaving
Edinburgh on his romantic expedition into Derbyshire,
wanted to increase his cavalry, and with this view sent par-
ties, consisting chiefly of officers, to levy horses in the coun-
try round his bead-quarters. One such party had arrived at
Cramond, and had collected the best horses in the parish at
a large square house in the centre of the village, into which
they went themselves to repair the fatigues of their search
with a substantial dinner, and probably somewhat over-
copious potations. Meanwhile the young farmers were re-
solved that their best horses should not be taken away
without an attempt at rescue. The precipitous banks of the
Almond were then as now fringed and tufted with trees and
bushes, among which the gallant farmers contrived to muster
with what arms they could find ; and sallying out from this
rendezvous, they at once surrounded the house where the
partisans of a dynasty for which they had no affection, were
securely regaling themselves. So complete was their success,
that they disarmed, and made prisoners of the whole party,
sent them off in boats to his majestp's sloop of war, the Fox,
then lying in the Firth, and left not a man to return to
Edinburgh, and relate the mishap that had befallen the ex-
pedition. The horses were, of course, recovered.—Saturday
Magazine. •
NEW YORK.—The situation of New York is rather low,
being built upon the southern end of what is called Manhattan
Island, (the name originally given to it by the Dutch,) a strip
of land about fifteen miles in length, but hardly two in breadth
at its widest part. Though called an island, it is more pro-
perly a peninsula, since it is separated from the main land
towards the north by a channel which is little more than a
mere ditch. Manhattan is separated from the state of New
Jersey by the North or Hudson River, and a narrow inlet of
the sea, called the East River, communicating with Long
Island Sound, and the Bay of New York bounds it on the
east, and separates it from Long Island. At present the city
extends from the south point of this strip of land (where
there is a strong battery) about three miles northward ; but
the ground plot is laid out to a much greater extent, and
here and there may be seen isolated buildings, many of them
marking the corners and angles of future streets and squares
destined hereafter to be comprised within the bustle of this
rapidly increasing city. There are two approaches to New
York from the sea; but that by Long Island Sound and the
East River is little used, except for small craft and steam
vessels plying to different ports in the Eastern States. The
other and principal entrance is at Sandy Hook, a channel
lying between Long Island and the coast of New Jersey. It
s somewhat exposed to the winds from the eastward ; and,
on account of a bar or sandbank, the entrance is attended
with some danger or difficulty. Within the Hook is Raritan
Bay, and here of a breadth of several miles, which breadth,
however, decreases, until at the Narrows," the distance
between the Long Island shore and this island is only nine
hundred yards. After passing through the Narrows, the
danger of the voyage may be considered over, and New York
and its environs present themselves to view. The whole
distance from the sea to the city is sixteen miles. Notwith-
standing the vast extent of shipping connected with and
trading to New York, it has nothing like an enclosed har-
bour. But the anchorage between the eastern part of the
city and Long Island shore, which is here lofty, is both good
and safe. The tides rise but a few feet on this part of the
American coast; so were docks absolutely necessary for the
security of the shipping, they could scarcely be made avail-
able. Buildings have already encroached considerably upon
this section of the East River, and numerous small low
wooden piers jut out into the water, for vessels to load and
unload at ; the spaces between them forming a series of small
basins, without gates, are called "slips, and are found ex-
ceedingly convenient for the general purposes of ships and
shipping,. The older portions of the city do not present
much taste or regularity in the buildings and streets, although
great improvements have been made from time to time, par-
ticularly in situations where fires have occurred, the most
extensive being that which took place three or four years
ago. With the single exception of Broadway, however, there
is not a street that would strike the stranger as in any degree
remarkable. Broadway commences at the extreme southern
end of the city, at the Castle Gardens, and runs pretty nearly
along the centre of the island ; but, owing to several slight
ascents and descents, in passing along the ridge, the view is
never so extensive as one might be led to suppose.—Saturday
Magazine.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, kc.
Devon, J Gething, 400 Sincapore, Lintin and Canton,
W & J Tyrer
330 Calcutta, Bold & Starkey
338 Calcutta, T & J Brocklebank

Warlock,
Patriot King, J Clarke,

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Calista, C Pallott, 302 Honduras, 1) Buchanan & Son
Calder, W Turner, 226 St. Thomas, Imrie & Tomlinson
Hardware, W Viner, 152 Demerara, J Bibby & Co
Eblana, W Rowlands, 152 Trinidad, J Gordon or J Poole & Co
UNITED STATES.
527 Savannah, Wildes, Pickersgill & Co
1001 New York, Brown, Shipley & Co
428 New Orleans, Focke & Boult
BRITISH AMERICA.
Sarah, W Taber, 417 St. John, N.B. Wildes, Pickersgill & Co
Lavinia, E Brown, 245 Montreal, Buchanan & Co
Earl of Durham, J C Dixon, 244 Halifax, Wildes, Pickersgill &Co
Susan Crane, T Coffin, 116 Halifax, N.S. Graham & Taylor
Augusta, W Rae, 417 Quebec, J Poole & Co
Eagle, A Campbell, 140 St John, Nflnd, Graham & Taylor

Corsair, J Harland,
Sheridan, A De Peyster,
Rowena, E Read,

EUROPE.
.280 Odessa. J Laird
150 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co
230 Algiers, Cadiz and Monte Video,
Imrie & Tomlinson
Tyro, J Fray, 69 Havre and Gibraltar, Bahr, Behrend & Co
28th May, Nakkskow, 100 Frederickstaat, Bahr, Behrend &Co
Venilia, it J Kranenburg, 154 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Harriet, P Beniest, 382 Antwerp, C G Weber & Co
Margaretha, Ii H Koster, 120 Amsterdam, Bahr, Bchrend &Co
Elizabeth, H Pothoff, 117 Liebau, Ditto
Betsey Hall, J Coaker, 151 Syra & Constantinople, Ditto

Nemesis, W H Hall,
Augusta, F J De Jaeghere,
Alert, S Ban,

SMITHFIELD, MARCH 2.
This day's market was well stocked with all descriptions, except
Calves, of which the supply did not exceed 50. Trade generally
heavy, and prices for Beast, Sheep, and Pigs, lower on an average
of 3d per stone. Flne Veal realises a slight advance, but the aspect
of the market is decidedl-, downwards.