The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA

We have received, through the " Boston Mail," advices
from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo to the 6th ult.

There had been a severe and important naval engagement
be tween the squadrons of Buenos Ayres, under Commodore
Brown, and Montevideo, under Commodore Coe. Victory
crowned the efforts of the latter, and the blockade of
Montevideo has been raised in consequence.

The Bankers' Circular calculates that there is a sufficient
quantity of wheat now in the kingdom to last till October,
1842.

FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—FIVE LIVES LOST.
—A fatal explosion of fire damp took place on Tuesday noon,
at Messrs. Stansfleld and Briggs' pit, Brunswick, near
Wakefield, and by which five human beings were hurried into
eternity.

The whigs are not always very delicate towards her Ma-
jesty, notwithstanding their exemplary loyalty. At the
banquet given to the Yeomanry Cavalry at Berkeley Castle
last week, Earl Fitzhardinge followed the toast to the Queen,
by another—" Luck, and a boy."

Lord and Lady Rolle have entertained a select circle at
Stevenston, their seat near Torrington, during the week. The
venerable lord, who completes his ninetieth year on Tuesday
(this day), is enjoying the best health, and has been out with
his fine yeomanry corps since Wednesday, that regiment
being ordered out for eight days' continuous duty.

Of all the members of the now happily defunct ministry,
the late foreign secretary is said to have been the most reso-
lute in refusing to resign, and it is even affirmed that the
noble lord was ready to " swamp the House of Lords ", or
try another dissolution of the Commons, had not the large
majority in both houses cut off all hopes. It is to be hoped
that there is no sufficient authority for this statement, but
the " factious tone of his lordship's speeches since the open-
ing of the session agrees wonderfully with its tenour.

TRADE OF LEEDS, OCT. 16.—The demand for woollen
cloths in the Piece Halls at Leeds on Saturday last was as
brisk as has been known on any market day for some time
past, and on Tuesday also the improvement was sustained.
Nor were the sales confined to one description of goods ;
extensive purchases of the higher qualities of cloths for ex-
portation were made, as well as of the darker and heavier
kinds of woollens for domestic consumption.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—We regret to state that an ac-
cident occurred at Waldridge Colliery, two miles west of
Chester-le-Street, about nine o'clock on Thursday morning,
by the breaking into the mine of a large quantity of water.
Between 60 and 70 men and boys were below when the rush
of water took place, but they were fortunately enabled to
effect their retreat into some old workings, from which they
were afterwards safely brought to the bank. Their escape
may be considered as truly providential.—Tyne Mercury.
MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Tuesday evening, an old man,
who said he came from the Isle of Man, and complained that
he was in want of food, was allowed to enter a stable in Cum-
berland-street, to sleep on some straw. In the morning he
was found dead. On Wednesday morning, an old woman,
a cinder gatherer, fell down in Princes-street, She was taken
up by the police, and died while being carried to the office.
Both bodies were unclaimed on Wednesday night. —Edin-
bur/in Post.

We are rejoiced to see by the last Gazette that the gallant
bearing of the officers of both services in the late operations
before Canton have not gone unrewarded. Sir Hugh Gough
receives the Grand Cross of the Bath, Captain Herbert is
appointed a Knight Commander, and Colonel Burrell and
Lieutenant-Colonels Morris, Adams, Mountain, and Pratt,
are nominated companions of the same honourable order.
Of the naval officers employed, Lieutenants Chambers,
Coryton, Hayes, Hamilton, and Wood, are promoted to the
rank of commander; while Messrs. Bryan, Sanlez, Need,
Miller, Tayler, Purver, and Bate are appointed lieutenants.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.—The Paris journals of
Monday, which arrived at a late hour on Thursday, com-
municated the important intelligence of a disturbance,
amounting almost to an insurrection at Madrid, and an at-
tempt to carry off the young Queen, with a view to release
her from the authority of the Regent. The attempt was un-
successful, but great fears were entertained for the peace of
the Spanish capital. It would appear that the movement is
extending in the Basque provinces, and the French govern-
ment has issued an order for the removal of all the Carlist
refugees to some distance from Spanish frontier, proof, if
any were wanting, that Louis Philippe anti M. Guizot are
guiltless of a correspondence with the movement party.—
Standard.

E LATE LORD SYDENHAM.—We are assured that Lord
Sydenham's death was occasioned by a combination of gan-
grene, spasmodic gout, and lockjaw. He died after agony
prolonged for two weeks. One account of his sufferings,
which we have seen, is so terrible that we should not have
mentioned them, except for the purpose.of stating with what
noble fortitude they were endured by him. It seems that a
perfect self-command never abandoned him. In the midst
of torments that those around him shuddered to behold, his
attention to business was collected and regular, and he left
nothing undone belonging to that first session of the first
parliament of United Canada which closed precisely along
with his life. He was fully aware af his own state, and he
made his will and took leave of his suite and servants with
cheerful composure. He knew how entirely his constitution
was broken, and it looks as if he had courted death there,
then, and so, as the most desirable of possible events.—Co-
lonial

THE BANK OF MANcut sTrtt. A general and very
numerous meeting of the shareholders of this bank took
place on Wednesday last, but, as reporters were excluded,
the information must be limited. The following figures may,
however, be relied upon :—The profits of the year, up to
June, 1841, were £50,000, and for which a dividend of 5 per
cent., amounting to £37,000, was ordered to be paid,—thus
leaving £13,000. It was stated that there was the sum of
£36,602 reserved from the profits of the years 1838-9, which,
together, made £49,602, and that this sum was to meet any
contingencies that might arise. The contingencies of the
year, in the ford' of bad debts, amounted, by estimate, to
£31,000, (not including any since June last,) so that there
was still £lB,OOO to be carried to the reserved fund. The
paid-up capital is £741,000, and the number of proprietors
515. Three of the retiring directors were re-elected, viz.,
John Brown, Samuel Prince, and J. C. Dyer, Esqrs. The
only new director was John Potter, Esq., son of Sir Thomas
Potter.