The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

VISCELTATInouR

Lord Biggitersh vex to Berlin as envoy extoordinqy Rail
minister plenipotentiary ; an apppintment equally creditible
to the government as honourable to the able and accom-
plished nobleman and diplomatist.
A rev. rector in a Durham parish, on Sunday, the 26th
September, gave out his text, then suddenly stopped, as if
he had forgotten some very important matter, and said
" There will be divine service on St. Michael's-day, (Wed-
nesday); but as it is commonly known to he Mlchaelmas-

day,thereforeldo not think that many will attend

is a day on which the landlords always expect their rents."—
[We presume that the landlords, who are described by this
anonymous sneerer to be so exact to the day in their demand
for rent, are the Whig landholders of Durham.]

. France, it is calculated, produces 18r30 millions of gallons
of wine, worth nearly 1000 millions of francs a year, or
£40,000,000 sterling ; and about twenty-five millions of
gallons of brandy and spirits, worth about two francs per
gallon, besides vinegar. In the preparation of these articles
of consumption about three millions of people are employed.
The vineyards near Bordeaux yield a million of hogsheads of
wine, of which 100,000 are converted into brandy. The red
sorts, on the spot, from 2000 to 3000 per ton of 4 hogsheads.

FAILURES AT GLASGOW.—We regret to learn by letters
from Glasgow, that there have been within a short period
three commercial failures in that city. The first, on Satur-
day week, was a commission• house connected with North
America ; liabilities estimated at £lO,OOO. The cause as-
signed was the want of remittances by the Britannia. A con-
siderable portion of this sum is due to that devoted town,
Paisley.. The second was a calico-printing concern, on Sa-
turday last—not in extensive business. The third and most
important took place on Monday last. It was in the shipping
and commission business, and the liabilities are estimated at
from £40,000 to 60,000. The failure was unexpected, and
the cause assigned is over investment in West India produce.
—Morning Chronicle.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—For a long series of years we have
not been called on to record a more extensive and more de-
structive conflagration in Glasgow than that which occurred,
on Wednesday night, at the Lancefield Company's cotton-
spinning works, the property of Messrs. Wm. and Alexander
Graham and Co., of this city. A very large portion of these
works, known to be the most extensive of the kind in Scot-
land, have, by a sudden and awful calamity, been laid in
ruins, the valuable machinery wh'i'ch they contained entirely
destroyed, and several hundreds of poor and industrious
people thrown out of employment, to add to the sad amount
of destitution and misery which is already too widely preva-
lent in our city and its neighbourhood. It is impossible to
estimate, as yet, aright, the loss which has been sustained by
the partial destruction of these works. We believe, how-
ever, we are not below the mark when we state that it can-
not be less than £30,000; and we arc happy to hear that tha
loss will be more than covered by the insurance. From 300
to 400 people will, however, be thrown out of employment ;
and it is here that the greatest misery connected with the
catastrophe lies.
STATE olf TRADE.—PAISLEY.—During the whole sum-
mer, hopes have always been entertained, that the week or
month to come would bring along with it a more favourable
change of circumstances : these hopes, it will be observed,
are now over, and the relief committee are making earnest
preparations for the worst. As a sample of the sufferings of
part of our population, we can state the case of one family
which has been investigated into, and found living on nothing
but potatoes, and by begging herring brine from the shops as
the only thing they can obtain to relish their scanty and
wersh morsel. The family consists of a father, mother, and
two children; and the residence is in Causeyside. It has
been proposed, that the Provost of Paisley, and others to be
named, should be appointed as a committee to wait upon
those persons in the town and county who are able, but who
have not hitherto subscribed to the relief fund. 2d, That a
deputation be immediately despatched to London to solicit
the assistance of government—to endeavour to obtain part of
the London relief fund, raised in 1826—and generally to pro-
cure subscriptions in the metropolis for relief of the dis-
tressed operatives of this county.— Glasgow Chronicle.