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

MISCELLANEOUS

The Archimedes had trial trips in the Forth on Tuesday
and Wednesday.

Strange to record, London, the first mercantile city in the
world, is still without a chamber of commerce !
It is computed that the French army at present in Algieria
is little short of 60,000.

The bank of Messrs. Langmead and Co. of Teignmouth,
has suspended payment.

" Of in the stilly night," as the vatchman said ven they
asked asked him if he ever took a nap.
A Roman Catholic Barrister was recently refused ad-
mission to the bar mess of the Munster circuit.

The Duke of Newcastle is said to be forming a library at
Clumber, for the use of his large establishment there.

An oak as been lately cut in-Shropshire, the weight of the
bark of which is 30 cwt., and that of the whole about 25
tons.

By the ancient laws of Spain, if a woman could prove her
husband to have been thrice drunk, she might plead for a
divorce from him.

It is understood that her Majesty will have another state
ball at Buckingham Palace, on Monday the 20th of July.

The booksellers of Glasgow have agreed to shut their shcps
on Saturday, at five o'clock, during the months of Rule,
July land August, in order to accommodate themselves and
the young men in their employment.
The Attorney General will have much work on hand dur-
ing the ensuing assizes in Ireland ; he has several Ribbonmen
to prosecute, as well as to state the rights of the crown in
some civil action; that are pending.
The coffin in which the late King of Prussia has been bu-
ried was the same that served in 1810 for the remains ( f
Queen Louisa his wife, and which was replaced afterwards by
a marble sarcophagus.

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HAMBURGH, JUNE 20.—Our post-office has received an
intimation from the Post-office at London, that the postage
of our letters would be reduced if reciprocity could be
reckoned upon.
The floating ligheat the entrance of the Tees was brought
to Mr. Mellanby's building-yard to be coppered, and when
hauled upon the patent slipway, upwards of seven tons of
small muscles were found adhering to the bottom, and have
been disposed of for manure.—Tyne Mercury.

AN UNIMPEACHABLEIWITNESS.—On Thursday week a
man was charged before the magistrates at Monmouth with
murdering his wife, but while the investigation was going on
the woman herself appeared, and the prisoner who appeared
to be insane, was of course immediately discharged.

We are informed on good authority that Messrs. Hawes
and D'Eyncourt, the present representatives for the borough
of Lambeth, have received notice from a considerable portion
of their most influential supporters that after the present
parliament their services will be no longer required.—Tines.
The address:from the city of Limerick to the Queen has
been elegantly printed on pink satin, and encircled with a
wreath of Limerick lace, beautifully figured, representing the
rose, shamrock, and thistle, with the royal crown overhead.
—Limerick Chronicle.

The unfortunate Mr. Yarworth is not expected to recover
from the murderous attack made upon him at Piff's Elm.
The Worcester Herald states that he has risen from his bed
but twice during the last six weeks, and his decease was
hourly expected.

We hear that a brevet will positively take place if Her
Majesty gives birth to a son, but decidedly not should a
daughter be born.—Naval and Military Gazette.
The Sultan's favourite wife has had a daughter. Great
rejoicings have consequently taken place in Constantinople,
notwithstanding the disappointment that the child was not a
son.

THE HARVEST.—On heavy clay soils there is a general
complaint of a deficiency of plant, and the ear is represented
to be short. On light soils rather more than average crop is
anticipated. Owing to the unfavourable rumours, there has
been a rise in the price of corn generally throughout the
country ; in a few more weeks we shall be better able to give
an opinion, but we have every reason to believe that there
will be a full average crop.—Bristol Standard.
A pleasant typographical blunder appeared lately in one of
the morning papers. A petition presented by Mr. E. Ten-
nent, from Belfast, in favour of Lord Stanley's bill, com-
plained of the present registration system in Ireland as
" leading to immorality." By the addition of a sing.e letter,
the system of corruption was described as "leading to im-
mortality."

A lady lately observing to one of her maid-servants,
when she came in from the play, that her eyes looked red, as
if she had been crying, the girl, by, way of apology, said,
" Well, ma'am, if I did, it was no harm ; a great many re-
spectable people cried too."
On the arrival of the Dinan diligence at Nantes, on Mon-
day last, an Englishman alighted, who was about six feet in
height, and, calling to the attendant at the office, desired he
would take care of his little brother whom he had left inside.
The worthy official mounted the steps, expecting to receive
a child in his arms, but, to his astonishment, saw a " bit of
a baby" come forth, measuring full seven feet !

BARLEY.—The transformation of oats into barley, it is
said, may be accomplished at will in the following manner :
—They are to be sown late, and cut twice in the way of
grass before they come into ear—the following season they
will be changed into barley.—Athentrum. [A. mode some-
what similar may be adopted with equal success towards
many other cereals and vegetables—for instance, if a cucum-
ber be cut three or four times before fully ripe, the next year
it will produce a boiled cabbage.]
On Monday night a report was in circulation at Walsall
that a large sum of money had been found by the workmen
employed at the Walsall and South Staffordshire Bank, in
taking down the counters, &c., for the purpose of removal to
the new establishment. The fact, we are given to understand,
is, that on removing one of the counters upwards of £3OO in
notes was found concealed about an arm's length between the
counter and the wall, but by whom this sum was secreted is
at present unknown.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts has voted £l,OOO for each of the years 1840 and 1841,
to be placed at the disposal of the Bishop of Australia, for
the purpose of assisting in building churches in New outh
Wales ; and £5OO for each of those years for a similar pur-
pose in Van Diemau's Land ; and William Leigh. Esq., of
Aston-hall, Lichfield, has given the munificent donation of
£2,000 for the purpose of building a church and parsonage-
house in South Australia, and has appropriated 400 acres of
land as an endowment. He has also made over to the so-
ciety two town acres of land in the city of Adelaide, producing
£l5O a-year.
We understand that the Marquis of Saldanha has now
finally settled the object of his special mission to the British
government, and that he will return to Lisbon in the course
of this week. The claims immediately adjusted are those of
the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Beresford, and others, be-
sides the expenses of the expedition sent to Portugal in
1825. The civil claims are to be referred to a commission.
It is also said that the basis of a commercial treaty has been
agreed on between this country and Portugal.—Morning
Chronicle.

PUBLIC CHALLENGE.—Mr. Carpenter, of Hull Farm,
near Chipping Norton, Oxton, challenges to show a fat long-
wooled ewe, bred and fed by him, and now the property of
Mr. Robert Masters, of Weston, in Northamptonshire,
against any man in England, for £5O at Cambridge on the
15th of July next ; age and time of feedinz to be taken into
consideration. The judges to be chosen, one by each party,
and those two to appoint a third, provided one resided in
Oxfordshire, one in Leicegtershire, and one in Gloucester-
shire. Mr. C. is the same person who exhibited a fat ewe
at the Smithfield Show in 1832.—Lincoln Standard.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—Mr. Marsh, chymist, con-
nected with the Royal Arsenal, recently discovered that it is
an invariable rule with iron which has remained for a consi-
derable time underwater, when reduced to small grains, or
to an impalpable powder, to become red hot, and ignite any
object with which it may come in contact. This he expe-
rienced by scraping some corroded metal from a gun, which
ignited the paper containing it, and burnt a hole in his
pocket. The knowledge of this fact may be useful in ac-
counting for spontaneous fires, the origin of which has never
been traced.—Times.

SOCIALISM AS IT as.—The community of Queenwood,
near Titherley, are already falling " into the sear and yellow
leaf." The public of the surrounding towns and villages
have ceased to he excited by.the blasphemous and seditious
lectures, which only a few months since attracted hundreds,
on every Sabbath-day, to this sink of sin and wickedness.
Such is the apathy at the present time, that these worthies
have been compelled for a time to abandon their Sunday lec-
turing for want of visitors, and such is their domestic so-

ciality, that their great man and head farmer, Mr. Aldam,
has actually quitted through a general quarrel ! So much
for the vaunted system, where all is peace, love, and her-
mony.—Salislury Herald.

THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.-A variety of experiments
have within these last few days been tried on the railway re-
cently laid down between Shepherd's Bush and the Great
Western Railroad, across Wormbolt, or, as it is more com-
monly called, Wormwood Scrubs, for the purpose of testing
the efficacy of the atmospheric tubes, the working of the air-
pump, and the speed of the carriages propelled along the
rails. It is gratifying to know that the results of these ex-
periments have all been satisfactory. Amongst those who
were present at the experiments on Monday last was his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who expressed himself fully
satisfied with the result of the experiments. The mere rate
of the carriage with its passengers, weighing & tons 3 cwt.,
was 30 miles an hour ; with the carriage and passengers of 5
tons 13 cwt. it traversed the rail at the rate of 36 miles an
hour ; and during the time of the prince's inspection its ra-
pidity was still greaten—Standard.

A return to an order of the House of Commons gives an
account of the imports of foreign wine into the United
Kingdom for the year ending the sth of January, 1840. The
total quantity was 9,909,056 gallons. and the total quantity
exported was 2,053,085 gallons. The quantity retained for
home consumption, after deducting the amount exported
subsequently to the payment of duty, was 7,000,486 gallons,
and the quantity remaining in warehouse under bond, on the
sth of January, 1840, was 11,233,744 gallons. It is worth
remarking, that it is shown by the same return that the
quantity of French wine retained for home consumption was
no more than 378,636 gallons, while the quantity of Spanish
wine was 2,578,997, and that of Portuguese 2,921,422.

OPENING OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY TO
BRENTWOOD.—This railway having at length reached its
terminus in Shoreditch, was on Thursday thrown open through
the entire line from that point to Brentwood, a distance of
eighteen miles. Crowds flocked at an early hour to the ter-
minus, and flags were flying from every steeple. A de.jeuner
a la fourchette was prepared on an extensive scale, and
several elegant tents, which had been erected for the enter-
tainment, were crowded with ladies and gentlemen. Bands
of music paraded the town, and the utmost hilarity pervaded
all classes. The directors, with a view of inspiring the public
with confidence, departed in one of the trains at twelve
o'clock for Brentwood, amidst a numerous concourse of
spectators, and they returned in time to see the two o'clock
train off. Everything passed over in a satisfactory manner.
The inhabitants of Brentwood have every reason to congra-
tulate themselves on the great increase to their trade and
comfort which this railway must occasion.
A NEW BRASS INSTRUMENT.—We have seen and heard
a musical instrument newly invented by Mr. John Shaw, of
Glossop, in Derbyshire ; an ingenious mechanic who has
made the improvement of brass instruments an object of his
attention for. nearly 20 years. During his time he has pro-
duced five new kinds of valve for lengthening and shortening
the tubes ; and has now constructed an instrument bearing it
general resemblance to the Cornet-a-piston, but decidedly
superior to that instrument in simplicity of mechanism,
quality of tone, and facility of performance. It is so small
that it can be carried in the pocket without inconvenience ;
yet, notwithstanding its diminutive size, its tone is superior
in power and volume to that of the Cornet-a-pistons or the
Cornopean ; and it has a clearness and brilliancy—a crisp-
ness—of which those instruments are destitute, The instru-
ment which we have examined has a perfect chromatic scale,
extending from G below the lines of the treble staff to the
double D in the hands of an ordinary player, but the scale
may be carried still higher by a powerful lip. Its intonation
is exceedingly true; and it seems capable of being played as
easily as a German flute. Such an instrument must be an
important addition to our orchestras, and to military bands
be invaluable. Mr. Shaw has taken out a patent, for the
invention; though the instrument has not yet been brought
into use, nor, we believe even christened.—Spectator.

NORFOLK.—THE CROPS.—Upon the whole, it may be
fairly asserted, that the county of Norfolk never exhibited
so magnificent a prospect in its growing crops of grain as it
does at the present moment. A bountiful and all-wise Pro-
vidence has scattered its blessings through the length and
breadth of this highly favoured land, and the anti-corn law
junta may now say with Balak of old, " I called thee
to curse this people, and behold thou bast altogether blessed
them !" The extreme folly of instituting any measure which
should incur the risk of driving us to a foreign market for a
supply of the first necessaries of life, can never be better ex-
emplified than at the present time. Let any one examine the
crop of grain in this county, and inquire how it has been
produced; he will learn that within the last few years the
acreable yield of grain has increased nearly one-fifth over
and above what was formerly considered an average produce,
and it is not improbable that the forthcoming harvest may
even surpass in productiveness that of any former years. if
we inquire how this has been effected. we shall find that it
arises out of a vast expenditure of capital.—Lincoln Stan-
dard.

EXTRAORDINARY FANATICISM.—The villages of Coombe
Florcy, Halse, and adjoining parishes, in Somerset, have fre-
quently of late been visited by field preachers, whose preten-
sions to extraordinary manifestations of " the Spirit, effect
their followers with strong delusions,' by which they are led
from the plain path of duty into all kinds of visionary fancies
and absurdities. They may be heard at the distance of half
a mile, crying out with stentorian voices, " Come in, come
in, and let the Spirit take possession of you, and convert you,
and drive the Devil out of you !" The 'process, we under-
stand, is this : A circle is formed of their deluded followers,
within which, whoever has a mind to be converted (as they
call it,) is admitted; he is then exhorted and beaten till the
Devil is expelled, and the patient acknowledges himself to be
a convert! After this, they roll upon the ground, or lie ap-
parently lifeless, or in fits of convulsion, for a while, and
then assert that they have been favoured with visions and
lights, and revelations from heaven !—Bristoe Standard.

Ely Ettnrpool &taitbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1840,

We have received a copy of the Guiana Times of the
18th of May. Its contents have been anticipated by a
previous arrival. . '

We have received a file of the St. John's, (N. 8.)
Weekly chronicle to the 29th of May, inclusive. They
contain very little news of importance. The Queen's
nuptials had been celebrated with great eelcit through-
out the province.

We have received a file of the. Halifax (U.S.) Jour-
nal to the Sth of June, inclusive. We regret to learn
from these papers that the dryness of the season and
the heat of the weather had materially injured the grass
and potato crops. The weather in New Brunswick
and Prince Edward Island appears to have been of the
same description, and it is said that much damage had
been done by the fires in the woods, which were still
spreading.

The Lieutenant Governor of the province had re-
ceived a despatch from Lord John Russell, intimating
his regret that it had not been in his power to submit
to her Majesty the recent address of the House of As-
sembly, forwarded for that purpose by the Speaker—
the same having been transmitted without the inter-
vention of his Excellency, and the proceeding being
unusual. irregular, and inconvenient. His Lordship
considered it to be his duty to assent, on behalf of her
Majesty's representative in the province, the strict ad-
herence to those observances to which his station gave
him an indisputable claim, and which could not be dis-
regarded without derogating from the respect due to
his power and authority. The Journal adds that her
Majesty's 1 government approved of his Excellency's
determination not to assent to the address of the House
of Assembly, for the change of the members of the
Executive Council collectively, without the previous
sanction of her Majesty.
We learn from an extract ir. the Halifax Journal,
that the city of St. Domingo had been visited, on the
28th of May, by a great flood, owing to the immense
quantity of rain which had fallen—more than had been
known for 30 years. The current in the river ran at
the rate of 8 or 9 knots an hour, and swept several
vessels from their anchorage. A very large quantity
of mahogany and other woods had been lost by this
sudden rise of the waters, having been swept by the
current out to sea.

The Quarterly abstract of the Revenue has just been
published. It appears that on the quarter ending
July 5, 1840, as compared with the corresponding
quarter last year, there has been an increase, in the
Customs, of £266,601, in the Excise, of £141,640, in
the Stamps, of £82,228, in the Taxes, of £8,436, and
in the Crown Land Revenue, of £2,500. The decrease
on the quarter, in the Postoffice department, has been
£269,000, and in the Miscellaneous Estimates, £10,495.
The general increase on the quarter is £211,699, and
on the year £147,433. The Postoffice department
exhibits a startling falling off, which can only be in
part accounted for by the increase in the stamp returns.
The income from the Postoffice for the last quarter is
only £lOO,OOO. For the quarter ending July 5, 1839,
it was £369,000. The country must look forward to
the imposition of new taxes, unless the other sources
of revenue are found sufficient to make up for this
deficiency.

Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill was on Thurs-
day night " obstructed" by O'Connell and his mi-
nistry, on the motion for going into committee, and,
although the principle of the measure was confirmed
by a majority of 149, the object of the radical party—
postponement—was attained. The committee was
fixed again for Thursday next, when we have no doubt
the same course of harassing and disgraceful Oppo-
sition will be pursued, and the progress of the bill
again delayed.

With respect to the future prospects of the measure
we cannot do better than quote the conclusion of the
admirable and cutting address of Sir Robert Fed :
" The obstruction which had been offered to this bill
might, perhaps, effect its object, and prevent the bill passing

n law liwriftg tio font* eisOpn, He wieseM
hardly ragretted lt, ;amuse lag was sure that the cause of
Ight and justice must ultimately prevail. (Hear, hear.) It
was not in the cause of right and justice that when a pro-
posal was made to consider the details of any measure, the
opposite party raised every possible obstruction to their con-
sideration ; but he firmly believed that the course adopted
would conciliate, not in England, not in Scotland, but among
the sound-thinking portion of the people of Ireland, (hear,)
so much of favour and confidence towards this bill, that the
temporary success of the obstruction now offered would only
lay the foundation for an ultimate and lasting triumph."—
(Loud cheers from the opposition benches.)

Our contemporary the Liverpool Journal, as the
organ of the Roman Catholic party in this town, has
volunteered a reply to our article of Tuesday last, in
which we proved the existence of Ribbonism in Liver-
pool, from documents produced in court upon the
trial of Jones, the Ribbon secretary. That fact is now
established beyond dispute, and no casuistry of the
Journal can shake it. The hideous features of the
monster, whose hands are dripping with the blood of
Irish Protestantism, have been welcomed in Liverpool;
the secret poison, whose operation convulses and mad-
dens Ireland, has invaded our own Protestant town ;
and unless extirpated by the hand of justice or operated
upon by the powerful action of public opinion, may
produce effects the bare imagination of which is re-
volting to the feelings of humanity.
Has our contemporary succeeded in weakening our
position ? Has he shown'that in any of our assertions,
or in the evidence by which we have established their
truth, we have been guilty of misstatement or perver-
sion ? He has not, most assuredly. His feeble attempt
to wipe away the blot which stains the character of his
Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen is from beginning to
end a paltry shuffle. He dare not deny that a secret
association, composed exclusively of Papists, and cor-
responding by, secret signs, extends throughout Ireland
and a great portion of England and Scotland. But,
forsooth, this association is not a Ribbon association—
is a very "harmless" affair—has "no distinct object
or intention, least of all that of systematic murder ;"
and as it affects the character of " the very few Irish
residents in Liverpool who may have been members of
the society," its existence is a matter of very trifling
moment, and ought not to be made a charge against
them.

To prove the innocuous nature of this "harmless"
association, for being a member of which an Irish

judge has been compelled—we use the word advisedly—
to inflict the punishment of transportation, the Journal
quotes the charge of Mr. Justice Ball, in which some-
thing very nearly akin to sympathy with the objects of
the society is manifested. But does even this docu-
ment negative the position which we have taken ? Not
at all ; for in despite of the roundabout attempt of the
learned judge to soften down the features and hide
the dangerous tendency of the association, the truth
forces its way from amongst the intricate and elabo-
rately wrought apologetic tracery in which he has stri-
ven to conceal it, and he is compelled to acknowledge
that this " apparently harmless" society (the Journal
will see our reason for inserting the word "apparently"
in italics) " is formidable in its adaptation to any pur-
pose, however criminal, which, through design or acci-
dent, its leaders might be prompted to undertake."
And what are those purposes ? Who are those
leaders ? Aye, these are the questions to which we
should like to receive a reply. The objects of an as-
sociation so gigantic in its extent—so perfect in its or-
ganization—are not revealed to agents so obscure as
this Jones—are not revealed to the ignorant serfs of
the Irish priesthood, who compose its main body in the
sister country, or to the hodmen and lumpers who
compose the branches in Liverpool. But that the
Ribbon conspiracy has objects of vast and fearful im-
port there are few men mad or blind enough to deny.
Our contemporary indeed would have us to believe
that they are of a similar nature to those of trade com-
binations in Englaful and Scotland; that they are not
of a political or treasonable nature. But when we find
amongst their documents allusion to armed movements
for the purpose of accomplishing political objects;
when we find projects for seducing our soldiers to
" turn their arms against their paymasters ;" when we
find from their passwords that those objects will only
be attained when Ireland's sons "shall be prepared for
fights," it is tasking our credulity a little too much to
ask us to believe that an association, so extensive, is
organised for the " harmless" purposes which its pro-
Popish apologist would have us to conclude..
No ; there is evidence conclusive enough upon the
face of even the few documents produced upon the late
trial which have been allowed to obtain publicity, that
Ribbonism is but the machinery of treason and out-
rage in Ireland. Let any impartial observer examine
carefully the state of that distracted land for the series
of years during which, this conspiracy has been organ-
izing itself; let him view the wild turmoil of faction, of
revenge, of incendiarism, stilled at once, as by a mas-
ter-hand, and succeeded by a calm, boding and unna-
tural, like the temporary quiet of a sleeping volcano.
Let him contemplate the circumstances attending those
mysterious acts of blood which from time to time have
horrified the whole empire, and whose perpetrators,
" known to hundreds, have never been divulged ;" let
him weigh these things and discover, if he can, any
other source to which the state of society of which they
betray the evidence can he attributed.
We never did and we do not now charge any great
portion of our Irish Catholic fellow-townsmen with a
participation in or a cognizance of these atrocities.
No : we trust that it is not in human nature that any
body of men, not utterly brutalized, would willingly
and knowingly become parties to such a hideous sys-
tem. We know that the leaders, the fiends in human
shape who pull the wires of this engine of blood and
death, carefully shroud their designs from the great
body of their wretched dupes ; but is their character
less dangerous On that account ? Is the system more
to be tolerated ? Not at all. In this very secrecy is
its greatest terror. The assassin may not know to-day
whose blood he is to shed to-morrow; but so long as
he is bound by a solemn oath to strike wherever he is
bidden, and to strike even to the death, he is a mur-
derer, although his hand may have never touched blood
or his thought meditated the taking away the life of a
fellow-creature !

We shall not be deterred by the Jesuitry of our
contemporary or the frantic blackguardism of his
" Swiss" correspondent from bringing the subject again
and again before the public. We do this with no feel-
ing of enmity to the Irish residents of Liverpool. We
would on the contrary snatch them from the fangs of
this soul-destroying confederacy of murderers and
traitors. We have in evidence, upon the authority of
her Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland, that Rib-
bonism is increasing that • " there is scarcely a single
post which comes from the country (Ireland) without
bringing him information of the existence and con-
tinued operations of the association;" and we hold it
to be our duty, in common with the whole Protestant
press of the kingdom, to do our utmost in unmasking
the features and betraying the secret workings of this
system of Thuggism, which, to the eternal disgrace of
our common humanity, is allowed to desolate and
brutalize an unhappy country.
In conclusion, let us remind our contemporary that
this fellow Jones is not the only party upon whom jus-
tice has to be done. There are still other parties to be
tried, and further disclosures to be made; and, depend
upon it, that sooner or later the MURDER WILL OUT.

A " contemporary print," in his Saturday's flt of
frenzy, has fallen foul of us for having, amongst other
offences, reprobated the apparent lukewarm ness of cer-
tain leaders amongst the Conservative party, upon the
question of church extension. In alluding in our last
to the defeat of Sir Robert Inglis's motion, by' a narrow
majority of 17, we expressed an opinion to which we
still hold, that, with ordinary exertions that motion
might have been carried ; and we asked, "Wh ere were
Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanitey, and
others of their party, when this motion was under dis-

cussion ?"

To this question the Mail replies, that these gentle-
men were "where they ought to be—voting in the
ranks of the conservatives—in strict attendance upon
their duty," and forthwith he proceeds to treat us with
a volley of his peculiarly elegant vituperation, and to
charge us with insinuating that Sir Robert Peel and
his brother Conservatives had fallen back into " the
ranks of tha assailants of the British church and con-