The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-07 00:00:00

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Government has resolved to establish a fire brigade, on the
London plan, in the Mauritius.
Mr. Middleton Biddulph is appointed Lord Lieutenant of
Denbigh, in the room of the late Sir W. W. Wynn.

The Royal Marines are now on their way home_ to England
*rom Spain.

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The Presbyterian Syned:of Ulster luive given•iri•their ad-
hesion to the Irish National-System of Education.
There Are forti. lieutenants of the line, who have completed
from twenty to twenty-six years'-service on full pay.
The Middlesex magistrates have determined upon the ap-
ppintment of some female turnkeys, pursuant to the provi-
sion of the late prison net. •
Arrangements are making at Hereford, Wolverhampton,
and other places, to celebrate the Queen's marriage, and it
has been proposed that entertainments shall be provided in
which the ladies can join.
During a severe storm on Tuesday week, the sterPfeW
Much Cowarn church, Herefordshire, built of wood, was,stt
on fire by lightning. • , •
The Chamber of Commerce of this port has mernoriali?.'ed
the Lords of the Treasury in behalf of Mr. Curtis's plan for
communication with India by steam.—NewcaBtle Journal.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Wakefield Banking
Company, on Monday last, a dividend of eight per cent. oh
the year was declared.
A. white globe turnip was last week pulled. on the farm of
E. H. Watts, Esq.,. of Cowpen, near Blyth, Measuring ft.
4 in. in circumference, and weighing 30 lbs.

The Earl of Carlisle having resigned the Lord Lieutenancy
of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the recently created Lord
Wenlock has been appointed his successor.
A child being taken the other day to a place of worship,
no sooner heard the notes of the organ; than, to the great
horror of his parents, the little varlet bawled out,
them to play Jim Crow."
The punishment of intoxication at Dungarvan is the pump,
where, when any unfortunate Bacchanalian is seen in the
town; he is instantly dragged by the tee-totallers, and the
Lynch law is summarily executed.
Messrs. Pardoe, Hooman, and C 0.,. the extensive carpet
manufacturers at Kidderminster, are manufacturing a very
splendid and elegant carpet, intended for the Queen on her
approaching marriage.
Mr. Laurie Murray, the unsuccessful candidate at Bever-
ley, is a personal friendof Daniel O'Connell, and an extreme-
ly active and ingenious speculator. He was the founder of
the National Bank of Ireland.
The Cork harbour commissioners have procured a power-
ful dredging machine for deepening the fiats, and enabling
vessels to sail at early tide. They are about to erect a crane
on the quays sufficient for all commercial purposes.
In the village of Hurworth-upon-Tees„ the birth-place of
Emmerson, the celebrated mathematician, the population of
which is about IWO, there has not been any death for seven-
teen weeks.

A few days ago, Charles Morewood, Esq., of Alfreton-
park, shot in one day in Codnor-park, no fewer than 54
snipes, and bagged them all but eleven or twelve. This
day's execution is unequalled in sporting annals.—Derbyshire
Courier.

Boz's new work, announced for the 28th of March, will be
entitled " Master Humphrey's Clock;" it is to come out iu
weekly numbers at 3d., and in monthly parts at is. Report
speaks very highly of the performan'ce. _

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In anticipation of a forthcoming election, canvassing has
already begun in the borough of Kidderminster. It is ex-
pected when the time arrives that it will be one of the sharp-
est contests that have been known since the borough was
enfranchised.

MARGATE.-It is in contemplation to erect new baths and
make various improvements in the Royal Sea-bathing In-
firmary with the money (1,000) bequeathed to that philan-
trophic institution by the late Mrs. Kidman.—Kentish
Gazette.

Mr. Trevelyan, brother-in-law of Mr. T. B. Macauley,
has been appointed assistant secretary to the treasury, in the
room of Mr. Spearman, resigned. It is said that on her
Majesty's marriage Mr. Spearman will be created a baronet.
SICILIAN SULPHUR MONOPOLY.—The preliminaries of
the new treaty between England and Naples are all ready
signed, and Mr. M`Gregor states that he has taken steps to
ensure the abolition of the sulphur monopoly by the Ist of
Jantiary.—Harlequin of Malta.
LANCASTER BANK.—A meeting of the shareholders of the
Lancaster Joint Stock Bank was held on Tuesday morning
last, when a dividend of 10 per cent. per share on the paid-
up capital ^vas declared, and also that the affairs of the bank
were in a flourishing condition.—Lan_ Gazette.
Infanticide has, under a new and more aggravated form,
again become prevalent among the Rajpoots. It appears,
that instead of killing female children immediately after their
birth, they have adopted the plan of waiting a few months,
and then poisoning them.—Bengal paper.

The goff stone, with which the time and recreations of the
unfortunate Charles the First, while that monarch was a pri-
soner in Newcastle, are associated, has been discovered (says
the Tyne Mercury) at the Shield Field, near this town. It
is a large flag, about four inches in thickness, and three feet
square, having nine iron studs inserted on its surface at equal
distances.

FREAK OF NATURE.—Passing along the north road, a few
days ago, we observed an ass of somewhat curious appear-
ance. The animal was of the usual drab colour; but its legs
were all brindled, the fore ones from the foot to the shoul-
der, and the hinder up nearly to the haunches. Oninquiry,
we found it belonged to one Parkinson, of Bolton-by-the-
Sands, and was the dam of two young ones, both marked in
the same singular way. We are not aware that a similar curi-
osity has been before observed.—Lancaster Gazette.
SOCIALISM.—During the week, Mr. Brindley, has been
delivering a course of three lectures, in the large room ad-
joining the Northgate Hotel, at Halifax, against Owen's in-
fidel system of socialism. We understand that the socialists
at Halifax have it in contemplation to erect one of their halls
of science in that town.—Leeds Intelligences.

COLONEL SIBTHOEP.—A requisition is preparing to the
Mayor of Retford, to call a public meeting of the inhabit-
ants for the pnrpose.of agreeing to an address of thanks to
Colonel Sibthorp, for his truly patriotic conduct in obtaining
a reduction in the allowance to he made to Prince Albert, of
frotnXso.ooo a year to X 30,000.
NEW INVENTION.—We understand that Mr. Thomas
Dalziel, Holm of Drundanrig, has invented a machine for
di7ging potatoes, and forwarded a model of it to the High-
land and Agricultural Society, Edinburgh. Should the an-
ticipations of the inventor be realized, a complete revolution
will shortly be effected in that department of agriculture.—
Dumfries Times.
A MAN CHOKED BY A PIECE OF MUTTON.—Au inquest
was held on Tuesday last upon the body of James Brand-
wood, a weaver, aged GO years, residing in York-street.
Sarah, the wife of Daniel Smalley, deposed that the deceased
assisted her husband occasionally to take in the stalls.
About one o'clock on Sunday morning last, the deceascd
came to her house with her husband to supper. She cooked
supper which was mutton and potatoes. Deceased partook
of it some time and began to sneeze and rattle in his throat.
Her husband put his finger into his throat, and they both
slapped him on the back to try to get something up. De.
ceased was well and hearty when he sat down to supper.
Her husband went for the doctor and during his absence the
deceased frothed at the
been much affected
nose and moiith;
ctirieNnVg the
was rather
as.
sent winter 7
thmatical, but had n,
Mr. Fergus Ferguson, surgeon, deposed that
about ..
14
clock onSunday
imiornindglnast,stheer apparently,ascalledii
to
from suffocation,o
o
and fouled
from an improper passage of the Mod com-
lled choking.
monly
The deceased died in about five
him. He mad a p mortem
minutes after he first saw
on
of mutton produced stopping
up the windpipe, as firmly lee deceased,twthe piece
Monday night,e and ost
ou opening
as a cork would the neck of a
bottle. He
examination
e o
e of the piece of mutton suffi-
The piece of mutton
cofntshi
de e
rheod d Y
the.s
the windpipe found
cent to suffocate a strong healthy
Was about two inches in length man.
and the thickness of a mode-
rate sized finger. A verdict of Died by
Suffocation" was
returned.—Bolton Chronicle.

It is reported that a considerable body of military now
btationed at Chatham, will be marched to Canterbury bar-
racks, until the period of embarkation for the colonies.
Lady Eliiabeth Leveson Cower, eldest daughter of the
Duchess of Sutherland, who is to act,as one of her Majesty's
bride'smaids, or train bearers, at the royal nuptials, is only
in her twelfth year.

- On the 25th of last month, M. Galle, of the Royal Obser-
vatory of Berlin, discovered a second comet, in the constel-
lation of the Dragon, near the star E. It is not visible to
the naked eye. .

The Duke of Sussex and Lady Cecelia Underwood were to

leave Kinmell Park, on Saturday, for Kensington Palace,
The last letters received from Wales stated his royal highness
to have greatly improved in health during the pa4t fortnight..
The York Church Missionary Bazaar closed on Saturday
last, after four day's sale. The whole amount realized far
exceeded the hopes of the prOjectors ;—no less a sum than
£ll4B, including a donation of £2O from the Queen Dowager.
It is rumoured that Lord Alfred Paget is about to resign
his situation as equerry to her majesty. The new place des-
tined for his lordship is said to be that of master of the horse
to Prince Albert, with
.a salary of .01,500 per annum. -
Morning Post. , , . . .

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ELECTION RUMOURS.—The present high sheriff of the
county Cork, Mr:` 3.• J . Heard, has announced his intention
of standing as a candidate for the borough of Kinsale, on the
liberal interest. Colonel Thomas has announced his deter-
mination again to stand for the borough. •
MAD Docs.—We understand that the neighbourhood of
Tarvin has been visited by one of these pests, and that two
children have been bitten. As it is not improbable that some
of the canine race have been bitten also, we advise the in-
habitants to be careful how they let their dogs loose--Ches-
ter Courant.

It is said that at the elevations on the marriage of the
Queen, three of the ministers will have a step in the peerage,
and a fourth be elevated to it ; the four names mentioned are
those of the Premier, Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, and Sir John Hobhouse.
It may notbe generally known, that the moss gathered from
the bark of the ash tree will immediately stop the effusion of
blood from a wound, caused by cattle goading or fighting with
each other. This is an excellent remedy, as it may with
safety be applied in the absence of a veterinary surgeon.

INVERNESS BURGHS.—As it has been announced that
Mr. Macleod, the present M.P. for this district, is about to
retire from the representation, either immediately or at the
first dissolution, a meeting
.of the -liberal electors.has been
held, at which it has been resolved to incite Mr. Morrison of
London to become a candidate. Mr. Morrison belongs •to
the great American firm of Morrison, Craigie, and Co., and
formerlY. repreSented Ipswich. The burghs will also be con-
tested by Mr. Friser, Cromarty House, on the Conservative
interest.

HOLY WELL--We have lately alluded to the stoppage of

the cotton mills, and the consequent distress which exists in
this populous town and its dependent neighbourhood ; and it
affords us infinite pleasure to find that David Pennant, Esq.,
of Downing, has, with that unwearied and unostentatious
regard and watchfulness to the wants and necessities of the
poor, which has ever characterised his long and useful life,
regularly distributed .f. 5 weekly, to the unemployed spinners
—an act of seasonable benevolence, which (added to the other
great but unknown charities of the House of Downing,) we
trust will be followed up at the present crisis by the affluent
and charitable of that now distressed part of the Principality.

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—Cheater Courant.
REPRESENTATION OF CHESHIRE.—We have been in-
formed that it is agreed by a certain party, who usually lead
in such matters, not to " disturb the peace of the county" at
the next general election, but to let the two divisions be re-
presented by four conservatives. In that case. Mr. Wilbra-
ham is to be pitch-forked into the House of Peers, and the
Hon. E. J. Stanley is to be thrust upon Stockport, with Mr.
Cobden, of Manchester, whom he has selected for his col-
league, and is to replace Major Marsland. We do not pre-

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tend to be entirely in the secret, hut if the whigs have select-
ed Stockport as the " Refuge for the Destitute" in their
extremity, we think they will find, to their sorrow, that they
have " reckoned without their host," at least so far as our
conservative representative's seat is concerned.—Stockport
Advertiser.

POPISII OUTRAGE ON FILE WESLEYANS.—On Monday
evening, according to announcernetit, the Rev. Mr. Dixon, a
Wesleyan Methodist preacher, from Sheffield, delivered a
lecture in the Old Wesleyan chapel at Barnsley, " on Popery."
Sometime before the hour announced, four or five hundred
Irish Papists took possession of the principal parts of the
chapel, and whilst the Rev. gentleman was delivering his dis-
course, he was interrupted by them in language of the most
abominable description. Several gentleman, members of the
Wesleyan. body, endeavoured to appease them, but in vain.
They repeatedly exclaimed, " He's a liar !" and cursing and
swearing folloived on all sides. Their conduct was such as
Winihr,We disgraced a common pot-house. In addition to
alt_thiS,_several h} mfr- books were taken away, and others
Awe-fully damaged.—. Leeds Intelligeucer.
- VALUE OF STEAM-VESSELS.—The Corrington, a home-
waid-hound vessel from the West Indies, was fallen in with,
on Saturday-morning last, not many miles from the Nore
Light, during a very severe gale, by Captain Lee. of the
Vivid,: Hull and London steamer. The Indianan hoisted
sigcals ;of distress, and on nearing her, the crew of the
Steamer succeeded in getting a ropemade fast to the vessel,
whiCh was in a terrible condition—her decks having been clean
swept-by-the impetuosity of the hurricane, which had been so
violent that the crew were.compelled to cut away the masts.
By the power Of the steamer she was towed through the
heavy. sea.s,,and .safely moored at the Blackwall ,buoy, near
the West India-dock, by eleven o'clock the same evening.---
Captain. Taylor, of the steam-ship London, also running be-
t Ween this port and the metropolis, on her passage from -the
latter planeioir Salttieet fell in with a vessel which had loSt
her anchors, Sce„ and sustained other damage. The London
took her in tow, and brought her in safety up to this port—
/hat Times.

ConNirs:-.,--Welearn that the quiet Village of Corwen *as
roused frotnits'stamber,-by the Dee over topping- its usual
limits, and the surface of the vale preSented the sublime •ap.
pearance of a fresh water sea, on Friday morning se'nnight
all the fences being covered and the bare .stumps of the
forest only appearing. Many score of sheep were carried-off,
and hundreds of loads of manures. The Shrewsbury and
Holyhead mail got through with six horses ; and fears were
entertained that the noble Bridge would have been swept
away. The storm was severely felt in Bala, by Lyn Tegid,
ne,Nly swamping the town.. Heavy peals of thunder accom-
panied the storm. We hare not heard of any loss of human
life by the flood.—CA.ester Courant.
Gboalotst MAJaarrv'.--When any indiriduahneth--
her of the House of Commons is called into question, let the
question affect him ever so much, the etiquette is that, after
hearing the charges against him and giving his reply, he takes
up his hat and Walks- out, leaving to the rest of the house the
task of 'deciding upon the merits of the case. This does not
apply merely to the perSonal misconduct of members, but
even to their retaining their seats in thehonse in consequence
• of some change in their position, which neither politically nor
morally, could affect their characters. The last 'session
afforded cases in point -in Mr. Harvey and Mr. Charles
Wynn. And now let it be asked whether, if this same par-
liamentary etiquette was observed with respect to a Ministry,
we should at this moment have been plagued With the con-
tinuation of an imbecile whig Ministry to-morrow? If the
placemen had taken up their hats and walked, and left it to
those who do not receive any- of the public money, where

would the Ministry have been before to-morrow morning?
OUT. They had a glorious majority of twenty-one, and as an
Irishman would say, si.ry-four of them were placemen! And
it is a remarkable fact that the greatest number of placemen
whom Sir Robert Peel could command in an unreformed
House of Commons, when be was struggling against the
Reform Bill, life and soul, was just half that number—
thirty-two ! But it was not usual then to offer ships to cap-
tains who had already saved some money in the. service,. if
they would contest the sea-port boroughs in which the:Go-
vernment of course is always a capital customer, and pro
tanto, exercises influence. Many things were not usual then
which are yery.Common now. The bar was not attempted
by creating for those who are too young, or too idle, or too
unknown, by commissionerships in all shapes and of almost
all sizes. But what branch of the public service is there in
which the same game has not been played ? And si.rty.fonr.
•
placemen can after all, make a glorious majority of twenty-
one ~---:llforning Herald.
POPULATION STATISTICS.--It may perhaps better enable
those persons who live at a distance from Preston, an&are
told from time to time of its increasing importance, if_we
make them acquainted with a fact relating to its present co-
pulation as compared with the census taken in 1831, which
calculation has been as carefully made as possible, and the
results may be relied upon as giving the increase rather lesit
than exceeding the exact amount. In 1831 the township of
Preston and Fishwick, which now form the parliamentary

borough and the Preston district of the poor-law union, con-
tained a population of 33,871 persons ; and at the close of
1839, there was a population in the same district of 63,850
persons. By the census of 1831, the whole district com-
prised in the Preston poor-law union contained a population
of 58,838 persons :—at the end of 1839 the number was in-
creased to 93,732. As we have above intimated, our readers,
and the public generally, may rely that these numbers in the
increase of the population are rather under than above the
exact amount.—Preston. Pilot.

A.STRIKING PARALLEL FOR THE WHIGS.—About sixty
years ago the position of the whigs in the House of Commons,
as regards numbers, was precisely what it is now. In the
first and great struggle between Pitt and Fox, they had a
majority, varying from nineteen to two, as we have seen them
have in our own time; but the tories, on the contrary, had
then, as now, the country decidedly with them. Nor does
the parallel end here. With their small though tyrant ma-
jority in the house, the whigs held the voice of the people
nut of it as nothing. Fox declared that the voice of the re-
presentatives was the voice of the people, and that the house
ought not to be affected by any thing said or felt beyond its
walls. Are not the whigs acting at least the same part at
the present crisis ? So also the great majority of the House
of Lords was with the tories ; hut the whigs defied and de-
rided it, as- if it was 4 mere obsolete branch of the legislature,

while the people looked up to it as theii safeguard from the
tyranny and misdeeds of their own pseudo-representative
chamber. The corporation of London then, as now also,
took the lead in the popular movement to exclude the whigs
from power; and, indeed, with the exception of the whigs in
Fox's time, most scandalously abusing the court because it
was against them, whereas they now as scandalously, truckle
to. it because it is in their favour, the parallel is in, almost
every point complete. 1-tow the struggle ended in a former
crisis is well known ; and no one can for a moment doubt
that the parallel will be carried out by a similar termination
in the present one.—Morning Herald.. •

ROWING ONE WAY AND LOOKING ANOTIIF.II.—NO-
merous •as are the virtues of your thorough-paced
radical, taciturnity is not usually reckoned in the catalogue
of his qualifications. To him there is no delight at all to be
compared with that of hearing himself tiilk—no mortification
to equal.that- of self-imposed silence. Indeed it into be dotibt-
ed whether a passion for spouting has not-made more radicals
than idleness, or poyerty, or disappointed ambition, or, any
other cause whatever ; and the longer the man lives, the
stronger does the eaeoellos grow upon Vim. That -an old
stager in this line should miss an opportunity of flaring up,
sounds almost as strange as a" gentleman on town " refus-
ing an invitation to dinner ; and it is this which created such
general surprise, when it was found that the debate on. Sir
John Buller 's motion was allowed to close almost without a
word from the radical section of the house. Were they ashamed
of what they were about, that, in voting their confidence in
her Majesty's- ministers, they dare not lift up their voices and
give a reason for the faith that was in them ? Did they think
that after all their mighty threats and professions, the least
said would be soonest mended ? Or were they so sensible of
the ridicule to which Lord Ilowick exposed himself by pro-
mising to vote Ar ministers after speaking against them,
that they were determined to avoid at least the latter part of
the mistake, by keeping their mouths shut? The meanness
carried on with its own punishment ; for it must have been
no slight penance to endure all the miseries of the " silent
system " from Tuesday night till Saturday morning, and sit
like muzzled curs bursting to bark, though they never have
the courage to bite. It was prophesied in the Herald last
Monday, that, though very clamorous for Sir Robert Peel tc4
speak out, they would themselves sneak out when brought,to
the
scratch ; and they may rest assured that the other part Qf
tt eo
gie prediction will be verified—namely, that by playing Jerry
whigs " for the shifty purpose of keeping their seats
undisturbed for a few months longer, they will, for the most
part, lose them altogether." Such truckling must have the
effect of disgusting the radical constituencies n into i d•ff
of incensing them into
rence, or
for a little more Honestyn tolook out
' dett;r-minatio.
. ; and in either. case
.the "
scripts" will find that rowing one way and looking anothcr is
not good policy at last. 7.? la •
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LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET; FEB. 6.

There has continued a brisk inquiry for the medium sorts of
Butter, particularly for such as bear respectable brands ;—a lot of
fine Ballymoney has fetched 935. Very little has been done in
pickled Butter, but our increased quotations are nominally main-
taihed. Beef and Pork steady. Bacon has rather improved In
price, and the demand is better.