The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen held a privy coun-
cil at one o'clock this afternoon. It was attended by the
First Lord of the Treasury;the Lord Chancellor, the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, the First Lord of the Ad.
miralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary
at War, the Groom of the Privy Purse, and the Master of
the Horse. Mr. Greville was clerk of the council in wait-
ing; Lord Torrington was the lord in waiting; Hon. Major
Keppel groom in waiting; and Colonel Buckley equerry in
waiting.
The council broke up at two o'clock.
Lord Min to immediately left for town.
The other members of the council will have the honour of
dining with her Majesty this evening.
Her Majesty rode in the park on horseback, attended by
Lord Glenelg, Lord Howick, Lord Cottenham. Mr. P.
Thomson, Mr. Greville, Sir Henry Wheatley (all of whom
arrived at the castle this morning), Lord Melbourne,
Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Miss Murray,
Hon. Major Keppel, Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stovin, Mr.
Brand, and Hon. C. A. Murray.
Lord and Lady Albemarle arrived at the castle this
morning, Lady Rivers, his excellency the American mi-
nister, and his lady, Mrs. Stevenson, will arrive this evening
and join the royal dinner party.

Lord Sandon and Lord Ingestre have accepted invitations
:o dine with the Operative Conservative Association of this
,own in January next.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
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The late Richard Tuck, Esq., of Strumpshaw, Norfolk,
has left' the munificent legacy of £lOOO to the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital.

In the window of a public-house near Bilston, appears the
following singular announcement :—" A Dead Club held
here."

It is said that the leaders of the metropolitan radicals have
received a hint not to attempt to get up a Durham demon-
stration, lest it should (as it undoubtedly would) turn out a

nilure.

Already does Dunstable and other towns feel the effects of
railroads. The decrease of coaches and posting has so
altered the business, that the tradesmen are parting with

their concerns as fast as they can.
It is said that lord Durham, before he left the Inconstant,
received a despatch from London, apprising him that he
would not be received at court. Hence the it►nerant speeches
—hence the countess's resignation of her office in the Queen's
household.

AN ILL WIND, &c.—The glaziers have reaped a most plen-
tiful harvest from the effects of the late storm. Upwards of
1200 squares were broken in Portsmouth dockyard alone ;
and in Gosport scarcely a house in the upper part of the town
escaped damage. _
It is the duty of all persons who have substitutes at their
command to economise in their families during the approach-

ing winter as far as possible the use of bread-Corn, 6i which
means they will not only lessen the consumption, but ma-
terially assist in keeping down the price.

The house of Bernard and Co , of Burdeauß, which in

1830 was under the necessity of suspending its payments in
consequence of the dishonesty of an agent, has just given a
remarkable example of commercial probity by paying all its
creditors in full, capital and interest included.
MAIL COACH GUARDS.—From the equivocal and very ob-
scure manner in which the subject has been announced to
the public, it is entirely a matter of doubt whether travellers
are expected to fee these persons as heretofore, or not.
The Duchess of Orleans had some years ago planted an
apple-tree with her own hands at the Efferberg, near Wel-
mar. The tree has now attained a good size, and the Count
de la Rochefoucauld, minister to Saxe-Weimar, has sent a
branch of it to Paris for the young prince.
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The young man named Blanche, whom we mentioned a
few days ago as having killed au old soldier in a duel, by
moonlight, and without seconds, at Noven, in the Sarthe, has
been tried for the affair by the Court of Assizes of the de-
partment, and acquitted.—Paris Paper.
An entire reparation of the great tower of the cathedral of
St. Stephen, at Vienna, has been at length decided on, and
all the architectural science of the capital is to be put in re-
quisition for this purpose.
SIR WATKIN WILLIAAIS WYNN.—This hospitable baronet
is much improved in health; and last week, with his accom-
plished daughter, arrived oa a visit to Mr. Heaten, at his ro-
mantic seat Plas Heaten, near Denbigh. Much hospitality
will prevail at Wynustay daring the approaching festive
season.

MISS SHIIIIIEFF IN AMERICA.—The Shirreff, last evening
(Oct. 5), arrested a whole audience, and kept them for three
hours, and dismissed theni on their own recognisances to ap-
pear again at the National.—New York Star.—This allusion
is to the vocalist. She never could have kept the audience
thus in duresse had she not given her notes as security.—
Philadelphia Gazette.--So decided a hit has the new opera
made, that the stage manager at the National has been boand
over to keep the piece.—Albany Evening Journal.

NOT SO BAD AS EXPECTED.—In the melodrama of the
Caravan, a dog named Carlo played a principal character.
Dignum, the singer, was also in the same piece. One even-
ing the ;atter went up to Sheridan, and, with a grave face,
informed him that he had some very bad news to relate.
Sheridan eagerly inquired what it was, to which Dignum
answered, that he felt himself so hoarse as to beunable to get
through the songs. Sheridan, seizing him by the band, se-
joined, "My friend, you have relieved my mind of a weight,
I thought the dog had been taken ill."
THE ARMIF.—The 37th ltegiment is ordered from Jamaica

;o Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the draft which disembarked
in the Barossa transport, at Cork, are to proceed in another
vessel as soon as •possible for the new station. The drafts
which arrived in the Barossa, and which was nearly wrecked
in the late gale, consisted of Capt. Harvey, Ensigns Shum
and Hamilton, and 62 rank and file. A site has been marked .-
out at Derry for a new military barracks, outside that city.
Fifty soldiers' wives have been sent home from the 52d Regi-
ment in Gibraltar, in consequence of the regiment being
ordered to Barbadoes.
THE EXPORTATION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The
exportation of the precious metals from the port of London -'g
to foreign ports for the past week, ending the 11th inst., is as
under:—Gold coin to South Australia, 2,280 ounces; Ma-
dras, 1,780 oz.; Hamburg, 325 oz.; Mauritius, 100 oz.;
Bussorah, 20 ez.; bars to Madras, 250 oz. Silver coin to
Swan Ricer, 20,000 oz.; British West Indies, 35,280 oz.;
South Australia, 3,845 oz ; Gibraltar, 8,700 oz.; Bussorah,
8.150 oz.

THE LATE SIR ALLAN PARK.—It may be truly said of this
eminent judge, and truly good man, that from an early age
to the close of a long and honourable life he " set Gon al-
ways before him," making religion the constant guide and
director of all his actions. For this in his passage through
life he had occasionally to encounter the sneers of the scoffer;
but that newer deterred him from perSisting in a duty which
he justly considered paramount to all others, and which, in
his case, had its temporal reward of soothing the agonies and
the bed of death.

BARB&ROUS Monnun.—As a respectable farmer named
Welsh, was returning from the fair of Kildorrery, he was
followed by a party of men, and on coining outside the cus-
tom gap they assailed him in a savage manner, and literally
stoned their unconscious victim to death. He has left
wife and six children to deplore his loss. Some of the
savages, we are happy to state, are in custody.—Limerick
Ssandard.

ANIAZING PRODUCE.—We frequently have to record in-
stances of large crops of turnips, but we have not for some
Years heard of one so productive as that lately gathered by
Mr. Weaver, of Tarvin. That gentleman has weighed 6871b5.
of Swede turnips off five and a half yards (one perch) of
land, which is an average of more than forty-nine tons per
statute acre.—Chester Gazette.

Lord Western has published, in the Chelmsford Chronicle,
a setter to Earl Spencer, announcing the result of au experi-
ment, which his lordship sap he has been snaking for the last
four years' "of the possibility of creating a new and distinct
breed of sheep." As frir as he has gone, the result of the ex-
periment, Lord Western says, has encouraged the attempt.
His lordship's object was to place the Merino wool upon a
Leicester sheep, and he announces that at the next Smithfield
show he shall exhibit specimens of the new breed.
SCHOONER YACHT ROYALIST—VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
—Yachting, which belongs exclusively to the gentlemen of
England, is about to be turned to other purposes than plea-
sure alone, by J. Brooke, Esq., who is arrived in Harnuaze,
in his schooner yacht Royalist, 142 tons. This gentleman
is about to start on what may be truly termed a voyage of
discovery—to explore the Indian Archipelago. He_ proceeds
to Borneo, calling on his way at the Cape of Good Hope and
Singapoore, where his researches are to commence probably ;
subsequently examining some of the interesting groups of
the Pacific, returning to England by Cape Horn. It is the
first instance of any gentleman devoting his life and fortune
to the attainment of geographical knowledge in those distant

and dangerous seas, 'and (tie voyage of toe Royalist yacht
will hand the name of her spirited owner down, deservedly,
amongst those of our most enterprising. circumnavigators.
The voyage is expected to occupy about three years. She
is armed with six guns, and carries 20 men, and is in every
way prepared fur the pirates of those seas. Mr. Brooke is a
member of the Royal Western Yacht Club; he leaves this
port in a few days.— I-) lyinouth Journal.

POWER OF ARREST UNDER THE IMPRISONMENT FOR
DEBT AcT.—A case has been recently argued in the Court
of Exchequer relative to the construction to be given to the
3rd section of the act, which invests a judge with discre-
tionary power to hold a defendant to bail, on an affidavit of
his being about to quit England. The question at issue was
whether the section applies to those cases in which the in-
tended departure of the debtor is not shown to be for the
express purpose of delaying the creditor, although it may
have the effect of so doing. In the case alluded to (Larnhin
v. Witten) it appeared that the defendant was an officer of
the 22d regiment, now stationed in Ireland, but that having
obtained leave of absence for a few days, he had come to this
country, and been arrested during his stay here, at the suit
of the plaintiff, under an order from Baron Gurney. A rule
was immediately obtained by the defendant to set aside the
order, on the ground that his leave of absence would expire
ip a few days, when he would be obliged to return to his mili-
tary duties, and that his intended departure would be conse-
quently compulsory, and not with a view of delaying the
plaintiff. On this rule, however, coming befor the court for
argument, Mr. Baron Parke, with the concurrence of the
other judges, said that the order for the arrest was perfectly
legal, as it was impossible to say how long the defendant
might be detained in Ireland by his duties, and it was the
intention of the act to invest the judges with a discretionary
case in which the absence of a
effectinany case
delaying a creditor.
ipma‘rvtevr, would to be
have exe exercised
ANCIENT COIN.—A few days ago, some boys, playing near
the River Ikell (Yorkshire), found amongst the stones and
gravel on the bank, which had been washed down by the last
flood, an ancient coin, about the size of the present current
fourpenny-piece, in a good state of preservation; but the
silver, from the length of time it must have laid in the
ground, has lost most of its nature. The coin is a silver
skeatta of Egbert, King of Kent, and must have been coined
about the year 660. Skeatta in general are denoted by their
rude figures; the present one bears the impression of a stag,
and on the reverse the letters E DJ EREPTV
Several ancient coins have at times been found in this vici-
nity, particularly in digging into "Ellsbaw," or, as now
commonly called, "Ashley Hill," close adjoining, which is
a conical tumulus, composed throughout of sand, gravel, and
human bones, supposed by some to be the site of a British
fortress—by others, the rubbish or remains of a monastery,
destroyed in the wars of the Saxons or the Danes. On or
near the tumulus Ella perished with his host in the battle
with Hinguar the Dane, on the 21st March, 867. Several
copper stvcas have been found here of Ethelred, Edred,
Acbred, Osbert, and Ella, but through carelessness or igno-
rance most of them have been dispersed or lost. The present
coin is now in the possession of H. t. Sharpie, Esq., of
Mount Pleasant, near Ripon.
IMPROVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE —ln London there is
not a house rebuilt, that is not erected in a superior style to
what it was before ; and the renovation of all public buildings
is, in general, effected in a very superior style. The employ-
ment, in Regent-street and Bond-street, of the Louis XIV.
style in shop fronts, is one of the latest improvements in this
department; and, in combination with the immense panes of
plate glass now used for shop windows, and accompanied by
rich gilding on a pure white ground, it has a striking and
most magnificent appearance. The introduction of Roman
cement, about thiry years ago, has been the foundation of
much of the improvement which Mistaken place in the elean-
tions of street architecture. During this year and the pre-
ceding, a new cement for roofs, terraces, and roan's, has been
introduced, the basis of which is bitumen; but, Whether this
will lead to any great change, either in buildings, by the in-
troduction of flat roofs, or in streets and roads, by becoming
a substitute for either foot or road pavement, remains to be
seen. Our opinion of it is, that it promises well; particu-
larly for flat roofs, public footpaths, and garden walks.--Ar-
cititectural Magazine.

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GOD.

The followinz sublime ode to the Supreme Being is
translated from the Russian. It was written by one of their
distinguished poets, Derzbazin. This ode is said to have
been transl-tted into the Chinese and Tartar languages,
written on silk, and suspended in the Imperial Palace at
Pekin. The Emperor of Japan had it translated into
Japanese. embroidered in gold, and hung up in the temple of
.Jeddo. It is gratifying to learn, that these nations have
done themselves the honour to bestow those honours on this
noble composition.

or sublime his imagination, unacquainted with Holy Writ,
ever did, or ever will, compose i exalted a poem. It abounds
in scriptural allusion. The finest parts of the ode were
written when the soul of the author, perhaps unconsciously,
was wrapt in contemplation of passages in the Bible. One
of the most exquisite verses in the poem is that where the
poet, fleeing from the nothingness of humanity, takes shelter
in the gloriously consoling idea, that the Divine Spirit shines
on his spirit,

.ks shine the sunbeam in the drop of dew."

Immediately after follow the words, "In thee I live, and
breathe. and dwell." Is it not manifest that the whole of
this sublimely beautiful passage is borrowed from Acts xvii.,
verse 28, ~ In him we live, and move, and have our being?"
—New York Observer.
0, Thou Eternal One! whose presence bright,
All space doth occupy—all motion guide:
Unchanged through time's all-everlasting flight,
Thou only GOD; there is no GOD beside.
Being above all beings! Mighty One! •
Who none can comprehend, and none explore;
Embracing all—supporting—ruling o'er:—
Being, whom we call Goo—and know no more!.

In its sublime research, philosophy
May measure out the ocean deep—may count
The sands, or the sun's rays—but GOD ! for Thee
There is no weight nor measure; none can mount
Up to Thy mysteries; Reason's brightest spark,
Though kindled by Thy light, in vain would try
To trace Thy counsels, infinite and dark :
And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high,
Even like past moments in eternity.

Thou from primeval nothingness didst call
First, chaos, then existence—Loan, on Thee
Eternity had its foundation; all
Sprung forth from Thee; all light, joy, harmony,
Sole origin—all life, all beauty, Thine,
Thy word created all, and doth create:
Thy splendour fills all space with rays divine.
Thou art, and wart, and shalt be! glorious! great!
Life-giving, life-sustaining, potentate !
Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround;
Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath!
Thou the beginning with the end hest bound,
And beautifully mingled life and death !
As sparks mount upwards from the fiery blaze,
So suns are born, so worlds spring forth from Thee,
And as the spangles in the sunny rays,
Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry
Of Heaven's bright army glitters in Thy praise.
A million torches lighted by Thy hand
Wander, unwearied, through the blue abyss ;
They own Thy power, accomplish Thy command,
All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss.
What shall we call them? Piles of chrystal light?
A glorious company of golden streams?
Lamps of celestial ether burning bright?
Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams?
But Thou to these are as the moon to night—
Yes! a drop of water in the sea.
All this magnificence in Thee is lost :
What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee?
And what am I then? Heaven's unnumbered host,
Though multiplied by myriads and array'd
In all the glory of sublimest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance weigh'd
Against Thy greatness—is a cypher brought
Against infinity : What am I then ?—Nought.
Nought—but the effluence of Thy light divine,
Pervading worlds, bath reached my bosom too ?
Yes, in my spirit doth Thy Spirit shine,
As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Nought—but I live, and on hope's pinions fly
Eager towards Thy presence • for in Thee
I live, and breathe, and dwell ; I lift my eye
Even to the throne of Thy divinity:
1 am, 0 Gon, and surely Thou must be.
Thou art ! directing, guiding all, Thou art !
Direct my understanding then to Thee;
Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart:
Though but an atom 'midst immensity,
Still I am something fashion'd by Thy band :
I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth,
On the last verge of mortal being stand,
Close to the realms where angels have their birth ;
Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land.
The chain of being is complete in me;
In me is matter's last gradation lost.
And the next step is spirit—Deity!
I can command the lightning, and am dust !
A monarch, and a slave; a worm, a Gon!
Whence came I here, and how ? so marvellously
Constructed and conceived ? unknown ! this clod
Lives surely through some higher energy ;
For from itself alone it could not be. •
Creator ! Yea—Thy wisdom and Thy word
Created me I Thou source of life and good !
Thou Spirit of my spirit, and my Lord :
Thy light, thy love, in their bright plentitude,
Fill'd me with an immortal soul, to spring
O'er the abyss of death, and bade it wear
The garments of eternal day, and wing
Its heavenly flight beyond this little sphere ;
Even to its source—to Thee—its Author there.

O thoughts ineffable ! 0 visions blest !
Though worthless our conceptions all of Thee,
Yet shall thy shadow'd image fill our breast,
And waft its homage to Thy Deity.
Gon ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar,
Thus seek Thy presence—Being wise and good !
'Midst Thy vast works, admire, obey, adore !
And when the tongue is eloquent no more,
The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH SOUTH

AMERICA.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

At a time when the European powers, envious of
the pre-eminence in commerce and manufactures to
which England has attained, are endeavouring, in the
most insidious manner, to undermine our greatness,
by cutting off our commercial relations with the South
American states, and striking at the root of our pre-
dominance in the East Indies ;—whilst the politicians
of France and of Russia, rocked in the cradle of di-
plomacy, lull their consciences to sleep, and those are
considered the most adroit who can best conceal their
sinister intentions under the cloak of pretended friend-
ship, and disguise their nefarious designs under the
mask of false honour;—under such circumstances—
such existing circumstances—it well behoves the go-
vernment and individuals of this country to draw
closer the ties of amity, and to avail themselves of
every opportunity of increasing the links of traffic
with the unsophisticated countries of North and South
America,—the uninitiated in court intrigues, cabinet
combinations, and the arcana of political economy !
The merchants of Liverpool, and manufacturers of
Manchester, should join hand and hand to promote
every measure, having for its object the facilitating
and rendering the commercial correspondence with
Brazil, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, and
Mexico, more regular, expeditious, and punctual; and
they have, much to their credit, recently manifested
their readiness so to do, by promptly patronising the
memorials presented to their adoption, praying the
establisment of competent steam-vessels from Fal-
mouth to those countries, in lieu of the present ina-
dequate sailing vessels, whereby the voyage out and
home would probably be reduced to as many weeks as
it now occupies months.
The Great Western and the Liverpool have asto-
nished the natives of North—so will the Great South-
ern and the Manchester (about to be built) surprise
and delight the nations of South America.
England is undoubtedly the grand centre of the
commerce of the terrestrial globe ; and Manchester
can be, with great propriety and truth, considered the
spot or point of centralization of the commerce, in..
telligence, industry, and wealth of the United King-
dom. This is not the language of flattery, but of
praise. Flattery is justly deemed the food of fools,
but praise is the proper diet of the wise; and it is very
easy to distinguish the one from the other by their ef-
fects: a person flattered is elated, and receives the
adulation as a favour, conscious of his undesert ; whilst
a person praised receives with modesty the encomiums
justly bestowed on him, and with a self-complacency
and satisfaction which true desert can only give rise
to.

Let us, Englishmen, then look with contempt on
those despots of Europe who, whilst they flatter, hate
us, bnt cherish the rising states of America with cor-
diality and esteem ; they will then ever esteem and
respect us for befriending them in their time of need,
and protecting them in their time of trouble, when
threatened with invasion, if not annihilation, by a
professed liberal European government. Nothing can
so well contribute to frustrate such aggressions in
America as have occurred in Africa, as quick. regular,
and continuous knowledge of passing events, at the
present eventful moment.

On Wednesday week no less than fourteen fine woodcocks
rose from a plantation near the vicarage Minoru. Three or
four famed sportsmen wasted a considerable quantity of am-
munition upon them without effect, the provoking birds esca-
ping without a ruffled featber.—Cumberland Pacquet.
LONGEVITY.—There are at this time, in the service of Mr.
Joseph logledew, of Kirkby Fleetham, two horses, the united
ages of which amount to 62 years; and this aged team is
attended by an octogenarian patriarch, the years of whose
pilgrimage have numbered 86. They are all in active em-
ployment, even during the present season of the year.—Hull
Times.
GLASS SUPPERS.—An article hitherto only used to adorn
the foot of Cinderella in a fairy tale, may notv be seen in
that extensive repository of discoveries and improvements,
the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. We allude to a
very curious pair of ladies' dress-shoes, fabricated from glass,
not less flexible than leather or satin, equally light, and far
more durable, to judge from the solidity of their texture.
CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY.—We are most happy to
learn that a New Church Education Society for Ireland has
been set on foot with the best prospects, and that its funda-
mental rules have met the approbation of his Grace the Lord
Primate, and of all the Bishops of Ireland who were as-
sembled in Dublin last week, with the exception of the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Derry and Killaloe. It
is a matter of regret to this discreditable minority, and sacri-
ficing, what one of his talents and attainments cannot but
feel to be a principle, to expediency, or to a point of etiquette,
in deference to that party by which he was elevated to the
iscopal bench.—Dublin-Evening Mail.
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A "Sr x Tott.s.—Yesterday the tolls on the road be-
eat
- -I°l37rt'inr and Liverpool were taken for the ensuing year
„ s bfing an advance on the current year of £520;
4114,14
- "di mici. )01 ust be attributed to the daily increasing in-
' ' tereque:- een this city and Liverpool—influenced no
''• :' ,46u14AY,Plotr: nullities of railway communication from the
7 __:_,...,.. t all parts of the kingdom. The tolls from this
eitpo,:tl¢rt op were also let at an advance of £2OO, our
--1401li*ii" f the principality being also affected by the same
1 V(faVittnetnces.—Cheater Gazette.
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