The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

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as not a vestige to be seen. During the many years

'atilt consequences. At present it cannot be ascertained in
this case, either as to a definita loss of life or of property,
both, however, must be tremendous in extent. - Neither the
Tagus or the Great Liverpool steamers have arrived at mid-
it is re-

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ported, will have to take out the Peninsula mails again on
Monday, owing to the failure of the Wilberforce. She is
expected to bring home a Malta mail, and double mails from
the Peninsula ports.

NlTool.wicH

—On Saturday night last a fine young woman,

Lit& muu _nary i own, resnung with her parents, near the
market-gate, Woolwich, went to bed in good health, and
rose and went dow❑ stairs to light the kitchen fire on Sun-
day morning. When her parents came down stairs some

time afterwards, they found her lying on the floor quite
dead. From the appearance of the body it is supposed she
had died of fright at the time of the terrible thunder-storm
which prevailed at seven o'clock on Sunday morning. What
renders the case more distressing to her afflicted parents and
sweetheart is, that she was to be married on the following
day to a recently discharged sapper and miner at present em-
ployed as a stonemason .at Deptford. The storm and thun-

uer auu ugntning were awl,
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pealing like the nc

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park of artillery when marching, many persons jumped out
of their bed in the firm belief that the French had landed,
and were engaged in deadly contest with our troops; but:
with the exception of the fright, the case recorded above,
and a large hole made in the new road sufficient to bury a
horse in it, caused by the descent of a thunderbolt into the
drain, no other damage has been done in this quarter.
THE WEST INDIA COMPENSATION COMMISSION.—The
e commissioners of compensation terminated their labours on
as the 31st ultimo, after seven years of perhaps the most ardu-

znd intricate duties NO-1i(

a any commissioners were ever
entrusted with, and in the discharge of which they have had
the singular good fortune to give universal satisfaction. The
merchants connected with the West India and other colonial
interests, have, we believe on several occasions, testified their
high estimation of the services of these gentlemen—Messrs.
J. Lewis, H. Elwin, and H. F. Stephenson—and also of their
talented and indefatigable secretary, Mr. Henry Hill. The
thanks of the Queen's government have recently been pre-
sented to their. in the most flattering manner, through the
medium of Lord John Russell, as secretary for the colonies.
Mr. Field in his pamphlet on " Equity Reform," speaks in
the highest terms of the proceedings of these commissioners,
t,,+ses his proposed changes = the administratir

in of the
Chancery Courts upon their mode of adjudication. When
the number, complicated nature, and immense sums often in-
volved in the claims which they have had to &icicle upon is
considered, the very few appeals from their decision (not-

ne proverbial penchant of the colonists for liti-
gation,) is certainly remarkable, and affords conclusive evi-
dence of the zeal and ability with which the business of the
commission has been conducted. There are a few butstand-

►ng cases remaining undisposed, to the amount we believe of
about £30,000, which for the present have been referred by
the coin missioners to the lords of the treasury, the disposal
of which, as well as other matters connected with the wind-
ing up of the commission, awaiting the decision of parliament.
NEW MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.—The materials in-
tended to be converted into paper are usually softened either
by means of putrefaction, or by beating. Putrefactio❑ is a
chemical operation which possesses some advantages ; but
the inconveniences attending it are so numerous and serious,
that the progressive improvement of the manufacture of paper
occasions its use to be, if not altogether laid aside, at least to
be very considerably limited. With respect to the softening
of rags by merely mechanical means, it can only be done by
the machinery now employed by a great loss of time and a
great moving power. It has been thought that this opera-
tion could he brought to perfection by altering the method

of trituration ; and accordingly the softening of rags, old
cords, &c, has been effected by submitting the substances,
either dry or moistened, to the action of a roller, or a vertical
mill-stone turning on asolid surface. The rags, when sorted,
bleached, and torn to pieces by these machines, only require
to be sieved before they are converted into paper.—Moniteur
Industrie!.

CROCKFORD'S CLun.—This celebrated club has lately
been dissolved, Mr. Crockford, the proprietor retiring, it is
supposed, with nearly a fortune of half a million. The nu-
cleus of the new club consists of a hundred noblemen and
gentlemen, from whom a committee has been formed for the
purpose of arranging for the bailotting of the new members.
Thus, contrary to general expectation, this club promises to
retain its original sporting pre-eminence.—Conrt Journal.
THE POST-OFFICE.—The whig-radical :government are in
course of taking steps to deprive the post-masters of all the
provincial towns of the privileges they haue hitherto enjoyed
for keeping private boxes anti accounts, and making up letter-
bags for merchants, traders, and gentlemen in the country.
The proceeds are to be appiied to the general revenue of the
post-office—no doubt with the view of covering, in a small
degree, the deficiency which has been found to arise from the
scheme of the penny-post. Thus, while the entire face of
the scheme of the penny-post. Thus, while thE entire face
of the country is covered with pensioners, commissioners,
and overpaid functionaries of all descriptions, to the tune of
hundreds of thousands a year, the really useful and hard-
working servants of the public are unscrupulously divested
of a material portion of their just incomes, and coolly told
that they may either accept reduced terms or surrender their
situations. Such is whig reform ! It offers another proof of
the fraud, corruption, and abuse which have ever marked the
public conduct of the faction that now afflicts the country.—
Cumberland Parquet.

(From a Correspondent of the Tim(.)
Without some extraordinary event, a change of mit
nistry does not seem possible in France for some
months. Certainly the Gauche, a part of the Centre-
Gauche, and a fraction of the Droite, have said, and
will repeat, " The time for the Mole ministry has ar-
rived ; he is the man for the present state of affairs ;
to him alone it belongs to pursue the career which is
opening," &c. Is all this true ? is it sincere? is it so
self-evident that from the mere force of circumstances
a change of ministry must be the result ? That is the
question we are about to examine,
M. 'Tiers, who at this moment in the Chamber is
at the head of the political men, soi-disant resignis,
acts as•he acted at the time of the coalition. At that
period he intrusted:to M. Guizot the tas:c of over-
throwing M. Mole, because M. Mole was the more di-
rect obstacle; now he coalesces with his former enemy,
because M. Guizot, his ancient ally, has become in his
turn the most prominent obstacle, and which must be
the first overthrown. This is the key of those modest,
disinterested, and philosophical declarations, which only
admit that he has no longer any hope for himself, no
longer any mission, but which push Self-denial so far
as to humble himself before fortune and before the
merits of his ancient rivals. All these false virtues, all
this false disinterestedness, are parliamentary come-
dies.

M. Mole himself, who knows very well that a formi-
dable opposition would be again quickly formed against
him if he were to replace M. Guizot without pledges,
demands, first, before he thinks of forming a Ministry,
that the laws on the fortifications, the secret service
money, and that the projected loan should be discussed
and passed .; he desires that the Oriential question
should be cicatrisee in France, and especially that the
question of a new and more intimate Russian alliance.
should he entered upon and settled. These are the
reasons why this statesman waits, with an appearance
of calm self-denial, and of renunciation of office, till
the propitious moment for seizing power offers itself to
him. In the meantime, and even in complaining to
to his friends of the kind of ministerial candidature
which they make him sustain, in spite of himself, even
in asking from everybody the means of silencing their
reports, and to enable him to quit a part which does
not suit him, M. Mole is, and ought to be well satisfied
that his name is so perpetually brought on the minis-
terial tapis, and that he has been placed before the
public as a permanent en cas (alternative)—a position
so much the more advantageous that the opposition
itself, by a mancenvre which it deems skilful, takes the
initiative, and pays the cost of a war which will be to
his profit. The fraction of the Droite (the legitimatist
fraction) who join in the projects of M. Thiers as to
the replacing M. Guizot by M. Mold plays the same
game as when it approves of certain projects of the
republicans against the government of Louis Philippe ;
it hopes to arrive at its object by a transition : it finds
an immense advantage in setting M. 'liners in opposi-
tion to what it thinks the most exact expression of the
system produced by the revolution of 1830. In short,
the friends and skilful partisans of the present ministry
do not too strongly reject the hopes of M. Mole,
although they adjourn them to six or eight months,
because they perceive that it is necessary, before all, to
gain time, and that in some measure disarming M.
Mole by a kind of adhesion, they reduce him to an
opposition, inert or moderate, which for the moment
is little to be feared.

Thus, then, the position, general and private, of
parties is l'expectative ; the ministry itself is reduced
to this policy ; on the one hand, it does not clearly see
how the politesses and the advances of Russia will end
—it is afraid then of receiving them too well, and by
that means to make too soft a bed for M. Mole ; on
the other hand, it is afraid of not acknowledging them
sufficiently, and to see itself submerged by this system
if it should arrive at maturity. In this position, M.
Mole being more particularly the man of the Russian
alliance, the English Cabinet, if it knows how to take
advantage of circumstances, ought to sustain M. Guizot
by some concessions capable of placing him in a posi-
tion to resist either M. Thiers making use of M. Mole
to overthrow him, or M. Mole himself.
M. Mauguin displays more activity than ever to tie
the threads of the intrigue which he went. to St. Peters-
burgh to set on foot. He runs from M. de Pahlen to'
M. Mole and M. Thiers, it is said even to M. Guizot.
Notwithstanding all his activity, all his. promises, all
his developement of theories, he has not hitherto been
able to make any serious progress towards the Russian
alliance, either among the members of the Gauche or
in the ranks of the Conservatives.

All the papers are occupied with the nomination of
General Bugeaud. There is no longer any doubt that
he has caused the ministry to adopt his old plan, a
little modified, and which would decidedly have for its
object the cessation of the losses occasioned by the
unlimited occupation and permanent state of war. If
this is the case, and we consider it certain, it will com-
mence a new era in the colonization of Algeria. The
concentration of troops will also be able to meet, in
case of necctssity, three eventualities—that of a war with
Morocco, that of a new conflagration of the Oriental
question, and that of a conflict with Spain, which France
would thus attack at the same time by the north and
the south.

A French paper states that the bite of a mad dog, whether
given to the human or brute creation, may be cured by fre-
quently washing the part with new salt water, and taking for
nine or ten days a new laid egg, beat up with some oil of
olives and calcined oyster shells, fried in a pan.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.—The official
return presented to the House of Commons shows a sum,
exceeding £30,000 to be now in the bands of the Ecclesiasti-
cal Commissioners. It is justly complained that this suns
remains inactive and inoperative, and that the augmentation
of the smaller livings, to which a portion of it was to be ap-
plied, is continually delayed.—Morning Herald.