The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18

—Wind N.W

The Laura, from Sincapore, that arrived at Cowes, 15th insti.n`„
experienced very severe weather to the eastward of the Cape of
Good dope and in rounding it

Elvira, Gill, and Matilda, -, from Ca:cutta, and Rothschild,
-, from Bombay, at St. Helena
Harmonp, Douglas, hence at the Cape of Cood Hope
Fortfield, Willis, from Whitehaven, at ditto
Gratitude, Harvey, from Hayti, at ditto
Columbine, Woolverton, and Betsey Black, Fartant, sailed from
Smyrna for Liverpool 22nd July
Thalia, Rogers, hence at Leghorn
Albanian, Wiusor, sriled from ditto for Liverpool Bth Aug.

Robert, Symonds, hence at Gibraltar, with joss of fore topmast,
and sailed Stli Aug. for Odessa
Harmony, Pike, hence at Cadiz
Loochristy, Dotty ; Pauline, Schreyenburg, and Auguste, Kirk-
hove, hence at Ostend
Union, Heyde; Louisa, Rooms, and Harriet, Beniest, hence at

Antwerp
Minerva, Domansky, from Memel to Fleetwood, was driven on
shore last night, near Southport, and will he a wreck : crew saved
Sultana, Lyall, from Singapore for Loudon, off Anjier, 24th April
Kinnear, Millard, from Sydney, N.S.W., cff Dover, sailed gth April.
On the 14th July, in lat 10 N, long 24 \V, exchanged signals with
the Matilda, tram Calcutta for this port. On the 26th July, in lat
33 N, long 40 W, the Christina, from Batavia to Cork
Sydney, , from New Orleans, at Havre
Aurors, Warren, hence ter New Orleans, was spoken on the Sth
August, iu lat 42, wig 15
Actif, Vander Brock, trom Ostend for this port, at Dartmouth,
leaky

ktepito, Gomez, from London at Sams gate, with damage, having
been in contact with the Lracilian, of Liverpool, off Folkstone
Magdalen, Brown, from Newfoundla, d for tlis port, at ( ardigan.
with loss of mainboom. On the 31st J niy, in lat 47, long 42, sixikst
the Don Juan, from Cadiz for Newicundland •
Mary Walker, hence for Demerara, was spoken on the
30th July, in lat 43, long id 30
Lydia, Bryant, hence for Savannah, was spoken on the 10th Aug.
in lat 49, long 11
Ferris, Long, from St Petersburgh for this port, at Longhope
Susan. Jones, hence for Dordt. at Cardigan, with loss cf bowsprit
Mary Lloyd, Donaldson, hence and L's )on, at Monte Video
Mary, Duncan, and Eve, Marshall, hence at St. Domingo
British Tar, of Whitby, that was on Arklow Bank, floated olr
yesterday, with loss of toasts, and drifted down channel
Mary. Lloyd, Donaldson, hence and Li.bon,at Monte Video,

z. aNi. June 26.----The Matilda arrived here iiorneirleuttri°
for Liverpool, experienced a hurricane in :May, in long. ;8 v., and
was eight days on her beom ends. The Exmouth was in company

pany at the time

11SCELLANISOUS

The next meeting of the Provincial Medical Association is
fixed to be held at York.
The boys at Eton are 590 in number, fifty mare than last
year.

The meeting of the British Association of Science com-
mences at Glasgow on the lith of next month.

According to the census of New Orleans, there is not a
married woman in that city under thirty years of age !
During the year ending June 30th, there were 192 tires in
New York, involving a loss of 3,225,409 dollars.
Mr. Vandenhoff and his daughter are playing at St. John's,
New Brunswick. Fanny Elssler is gone to Washington.

Ladies originally wore masks, as the sole substitute known
to our ancestors for the modern parasol—a fact, perhaps, now
first noticed.

Prince Louis Napoleon is the son of Louis, the ex-King
of Holland, and Hortense Beauharnois, daughter of the Em-
press Josephine, and was born in 1804.
A native of Legbourne, Lincolnshire, who was transported
to Botany Bay twenty-one years ago, returned home the.
other day a gentleman of fortune.

Mr. Yates, Mr. P. Bedford, and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley,'
have, during the present week, been amusing the Birming-
ham public with their original parts in " Jack Sheppard."
GROUSE SHOOTING.—We understand that on Wednesday'
the grouse on the Welsh moors were found tolerably abun-
dant, and strong on the wing. Good spdrt was enjoyed.
'Recent statistical calculations that have been published,
show that American bank stock and canal and railway shares,
to the extent of nearly 200,000,000 dollars, arc held in Great
Britain.

Of the last five centuries, France has spent three hundred
and twenty-six years in foreign and domestic wars, and dar-
ing that period 184 great battles have been fou4,,rbt.
The motion for a communication to inquire into the pro-
priety of giving the Mayor of Lancaster a salary, has been
negatived by a considerable proportionate majority in the
town council.

' There are n railways in Lancashire, eight of which are
completed, and the whole of which form an extent of 1434
miles, and were executed at a cost of £4,604,000.
Wh3iiis the penny postage stamp like an idle schoolboy ?
D'ye give it up ?—Because he has to be lickt and put in a
corner, to make him stick to his letters.
Earl Grosvenor foregoes. his usual grouse-shoot exeurajoiL
to Scotland this year, and will try the Denbighshire hills, in•
the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, recently conferred by dui;
Crown on his noble father.
The electors of lierefordshire are about to call forward!
Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P. for Sudbury, as a candidate,
for the representation of the county of Hereford at the next
election.

As Mr. Chas. A. Harty, third son of the late Sir Robert
W. Harty, Dublin, was cutting bread and butter the other
day, the knife slipped, inflicting a wound that brought on
lock-jaw, of which he died on Monday.

Two of the children baptized by the Rev. Dr. Gordon,
when officiating in the north of Scotland, in contempt of the
interdict of the supreme court, were named Non-intrusion
Robertson, and Anti-Patronage WlCay

CRICKET.----SUSSEX V. ALL ENGLAND..--This match
which commenced on Monday, terminated on Tuesday in fa-
♦our'of All England by four wickets, after some of the fmest
play ever witnessed.
Scott, the American diver, has repeated his performance of
jumping from a height of 140 feet into the water from the
Chain Pier, several times during the week. He continues to
attract numerous spectators.—Brighton. Gazette.

BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT BANK.—At a meeting of the
shareholders of the Town andaistrict Bank, which was held
on Tuesday last, we understand that a dividend of seven per
cent. was declared.—Birmingham Advertiser.
Among the causes to be tried at Warwick Assizes, is one,'
we understand, Muntz v. Sturge. being an action brought
by the mayor to recover from Mr. Joseph Sturge his share of
the expenses incurred by the erection of booths at the election
for this borough.—Birmingham Advertiser.
On Wednesday, as the Midland Counties railway train,
from Leicester to Nottingham, was passing near Kedgeworth,
a full-grown partride rose in the air, when, coming in contact
with the chimney of the steam-engine, it fell dead into the
tender.

From a published statement of the receipts and expenditure
in connection with •the turn-out of power-loom weavers,
which lasted about five weeks, it appears that the total income
was £2033 Os. fild., of which £2032 17s. 4:ld..was expended
in relief, leaving 3s. 14 in hand.—Stockport Advertiser.
HARBOUR OF REFUGE.—Captain Bullock, R.N., who hag'
been for some time employed in making a survey for a har-
bour of refuge in the small Downs, is now engaged in boring
for the chalk on the Goodwin, with a view to fix a means of
saving the lives of shipwrecked sailors thrown on those dan-
gerous sands.—Preston. Pilot.
Rinnornsm.—During the late assizes, trials for ribbonisnli
took place in the following counties :—Antrim, Cavanr
Derry, Donegal, Down, Leitrim, Louth, Longford, Limerick,.
Monaghan, and Tyrone. Some idea may be formed of the
extent of the ribbon conspiracy from the above enumeration-
--Dublin Evening Packet

KREOSOTE.—A few drops of Kreosote to as many galltwO
of ink will effectually prevent mouldiness. When added. 10
whiskey, it gfves it the peat flavour ; and we may say that*
large quantity of " genuine Hollands " sold in Landon, i°
nothing more than gin, or cheap whiskey, with the additioll
of a little Kreosote.

It appears from a parliamentary return that, since 1830, PI
less than one hundred and ninety-two railway acts have passed
through parliament, the amount of capital authorised to D.
raised by which was upwards of sixty-two millions sterling..
I IWELsu HONBSTY.—Mrs. Anne Williams, a grocer, at
Merthyr, Glaworganshire, died five or six years ago, owing
$•500 debts more than there were assets to pay. Her chine-
Sera opened a public-house at Rumney ironworks, and bs°l
saved £lOOO. They now invite the creditors of their decestio
parent to come in and be paid.