The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

IMPORTANT TO PREACHERS.—By a recent decision of
the Court of Queen's Bench, clergymen of all denominations
are allowed to preach in the open air, when they please, pro-
vided they do not interrupt the public thoroughfare.
Amongst the books bequeathed to the King of the French
by the late F. H. Standish, Esq., of Duxbury Hall, is a Bible,
which belonged to Cardinal Ximenes, and which is valued at
25,000 francs.
ENORMOUS CUCUMBER.—Some cucumbers, grown on a
new principle, and exhibited at the Chiswick horticultural
show. on Saturday week, measured 24 inches in length.
They were grown in the short space of six days.
THE LATE JOHN BIBBY, ESQ.—We have the pleasure
of informing our readers, that the friends of the late John
Bibby, Esq., a respected merchant of this town, have
erected, by public subscription, a monument to his memory,
in Seaforth Church. The subject represented on it is a figure
of hope, in alto relievo, life size, executed by Mr. William
Spence, of Brownlow-hill, in this town. The following in-
scription is cut on it :

IN MEMORY OF THE LATE
JOHN BIBBY, Esq., OF LINACRE,
WHO DIED 17th JULY, 1810, AGED FIFTY-SIX YEARS
This monument is erected by his surviving friends,
to mark their respect for his singular abilities
and high character as a merchant, as well
as their deep sense of the valuable
services rendered by him to
the interests of the town
Liverpool.
"MY FLESH, ALSO, SHALL REST IN HOPE."

CHARGE OF FORGFRY.-011 Monday, at the police-office,
two well-dressed men, named John Anderson and Jabez
Chadwick, were placed before Mr. It. Houghton, charged
with having uttered several forged Bank of England notes.
Constable Lloyd stated that in consequence of information
received from Mr. Mozley, he went to the lodgings of the
prisoner Anderson, in Elliott-street, and charged him with
having passed a forged £lO Bank of England note. He
(Anderson) admitted the correctness of the charge, said that
he had previously passed three forged notes of the same
amount, and that he had still one left. He had obtained
them, he said, from a little man at the race-course, but re-
fused to tell his name or address. Mr. Mozley, of the firm
of J. Barned and Co., Lord-street, said that Anderson came
to the office on Wednesday, and asked for the change of a
£lO note. Witness gave him change, in the hurry of busi-
ness, without minutely examining the note. The note was
sent to London, and returned as a forgery. It was certainly
a most excellent imitation, and there was nothing on the face
of it which would warrant him in saying that it was a forgery.
Another person was in company with Anderson, but he could
not say whether Chadwick was the individual. The prisoner,
when asked, gave his name " Anderson," and his residence,
" Elliott-street. Mr. Henry Savage, of the Bullion-office,
Lord-street, stated that he also had hanged for Anderson a
£lO note, which he thought at the time to be a good one.
On taking it to the North and South 'Wales Bank, the clerks
handed to him a cautionary notice, sent by Mr. Dowling,
and on examining the note narrowly, it was found to be is
forgery, though capitally done. The prisoners were remanded
until evidence of the forgery, which will have to be brought
from Somersetshire, can be obtained.

CRICKET.—A. return match between nine of the Liverpool
club, assisted by Captain Shewell, Bth Hussars, and Lieut.
Broughton, Royal Artillery,—and eleven of the Manchester
club, was played on the ground of the latter, at Moss Side,
on Monday last, the Manchester winning by 50 notches, as
follows :

MANCHESTER

Ist Innings. 2d innings.
Wright c. Captain Shewell .. 10 b. Miller 8
T. Bellhouse c. Miller ...... 20 c. Ellis
R. Garnett c. Morgan .- • 2 c. George Thompson
C. Garnett b. Ellis
J. Potter o. Cameron ...... 1 b. Ellis
Hampson e. Captain Shewell 9 c. Cameron
Campbell b. Miller
Fairweather c. Morgan...... 4 b. do.
John. Cooke c. Miller
H. Matchett not out 0 b. Ellis.
W. Hollins hit wicket ...... 0 not out

Wide Balls
Bye
No ball

4 Wide Balls
1 Bye
1 No Ball

LIVERPOOL

Ist Innings.
Miller c. C. Garnett.
A. Todd c. J. Potter

2d Innings
6 b. It. Garnett
3 b. do.

Burgoyne stump Hampson.. 17 c. Fairweather ..... 7
Lt. Broughton b. J. Potter.. 0 c. John Cooke ' 1
Captain Shewell s. Hampson.2l b. R. Garnett
G. Thompson b. J. Potter .. 0 b. Hampson
C. Cameron b. R. Garnett .. 19 b. J. Potter 5
Morgan b. do. 14 not out
T. Todd b. J. Potter..
Ellis s. Hampson
Lyon not out

The Earl Talbot, the lion. It. Clive, and the Don.
Spencer Montague, are on a visit to our townsman, Mr.
Richard Earle • and Sir Charles Leman, Bart., and the
Rev. Dr. Bucidand, are staying with Mr. Samuel Turner.

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received 'by that O NaE ng
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were having
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habit of assembling at No. 9, Plumptre-court, Shoe-lane,
for the purpose of manufacturing base coin, on Saturday
afternoon Inspector Penny, Fink, 17, Farrar, 200, and Hum-
phries, 74, G division, proceeded thither for the purpose
of making a capture of the parties. On their arrival they
found that the house was the residence of a sweep, and that
it was fastened. They instantly made a forcible entry, and
going to the second floor they found that also barricadoed,
so as to prevent their immediate entrance, on which they
forced the door, when they found a man standing before
a large fire with his shirt off, in the act of melting, together
with moulds and implements for manufacturing base coin.
A large quantity of newly manufactured counterfeit sixpences
were lying upon a table in the apartment, and a female in
the further part of the room washing. On seeing the officers,
the man instantly threw down the moulds, and jumping upon
them smashed them to pieces, but the officers collected the
fragments and seized the whole of the implements, together
with spoons and other articles of "Queen's metal, &c., used
in their illicit trade. When about to take the party into
custody, they made a desperate resistance, the man placing
himself in an attitude -of self-defence, and swearing that they
should not take him. He was at length overpowered and
handcuffed, when a hackney-coach being procured both pri-
soners were conveyed to Rosomond-street station-house, fol-
lowed by an immense mob of persons hooting and pelting.
In the course of the day the prisoners were taken before the
magistrates at Hatton-garden, where they gave their names
William Berwick and Ann Coates. The offence and appre-
hension, however, having taken place in the city, the case
was referred to the city authorities, and the prisoners were
again taken to the station-house, and ultimately before an al-
derman, who remanded the poisoners for the purpose of se-
curing the attendance of the authorities of the Mint.— Times.
DEPRESSION OF TRADE AT GLOUCESTER.—UPOR no oc-
casion scarcely since our city has become a port has there
been such a general depression of trade as that which has
existed here for the list six weeks. Business of all descrip-
tions seems literally suspended, and there is now, in the
midst of summer, a far larger number of persons out of em-
ployment than there were durin,, the intense frost of last
winter.

SHOCKING MURDER AT BARNARD CASTLE.—Within the
last few days, the inhabitants of Barnard Castle. have been
thrown into a state of considei•able excitement by the disco-
very of a murder eonimittell tinder circumstances of great
atrocity. The name of the deceased was Anthony Chapelow,
aged 57 years, a farm-servant; residing at Startforth, and in
the employment of Mr. Hunter, of Pecknal, near Barnard
Castle. He was arthe house of Mr. T. Straker, in a state of
intoxication, on Sunday 'evening last, which house he left
about eleven o'clock, 'in 'coinpani with a matt named Dent,
who had been drinking with him. He proceeded along
Bridgegate, on his road home, hut had not gone above 200
yards when some person Or persons committed the atrocious
deed. He was found in 'a yard about twenty
minutes after
he had left the house. ' He had received several kicks on his
body, apparently by the shoe-heel of a man, and was sadly
bruised, but life was not extinct. A cart was procured,
and
he was conveyed to his Own house, where be lingered in a
state of insensibility until Monday morning, when he died,
without being able to give any,clue to the perpetrators of the
deed. Dent and two Other *men are at present in custody,
suspected of being tonceited in the ofigir.—qai"46°4 Q -

MISCELLANEOUS

The Archbishop of Canterbury is making a tour of confir-
mation in Kent.

1,200 Egyptian invalided soldiers, who were sent back
from Constantinople, were retained at Alexandria, in hopes
that when recovered they might still serve.
The tower of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, one of the
finest specimens of English architecture of the twelfth
.and
and thirteenth
.centuries now entire in the metropolis, is said
to he iu an unsafe state, and the fine peal of bells so well
known in London, are to be rung in order to test the sta-
bility of the tower, when a report will issue from the vestry
on the subject. Mr. Rose, the architect, insists that there
is no danger in the experiment of ringing the bells, and is to
watch the effect during the performance of the ringing.
RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The following are the receipts of
the principal railways in operation for the last week—that is
to say up to the date at which the respective returns are
made :—London and Birmingham, £17,435 ; Greenwich,
£926 17s 6d ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,257 17s 3d ;
South Western, £6,307 fis sa; Northern and Eastern, £906
13s 8d ; Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,909; Midland Coun-
ties, 12,930; North Midland, £1,406 9s 10d; Hull and
Selby, £BlO 13s ld ; Manchester and Birmingham, £323 ;
Great North of England, 11,122 17s 6d ; and London and
13lackwall, £1,004 7s 10d. It is to be remarked that no
public return is made iby the Great Western railway com-
pany.'

THE BANK or MANCHESTER.—The bank of Manches-
ter, which for some time past has been the only joint-stock
bank of issue in the county of Lancashiro, has come to a
resolution to withdraw its notes payable to bearer on demand,
and to cease any further issues from this day. This bank
was established in the year 1828, and commenced its issues
shortly afterwards, and having given the principle a fair trial,
and finding that a circulation of local notes is objectionable
in that county, its directors have at length prudently decided
to discontinue their issues, and to use hereafter the notes of
the Bank of .england only.

MARRIAGE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S DAUGHTER.—On
Wednesday, at St. George's Chapel, Hanover-square, Lon-
don, Viscount Villiers, M. P., eldest son of the Earl and
Countess of Jersey, to Miss Peel, eldest daughter of the
right honourable Sir R. Peel, Bart., M. P., and Lady Peel.
The Lord Bishop of Oxford officiated at the ceremony, in the
presence of a numerous family circle.—Their Royal High-
nesses Prince George, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge,
attended by Baron Knesebeck and Lady Augusta of Somer-
set, were present at the solemnization. At the conclusion of
the ceremony the wedding party repaired to the family resi-
dence of the right honourable baronet, in Whitehall Gardens,
where a sumptuous entertainment was given to a highly dis-
tinguished assemblage. The bridemaids were Lady Frances
Vane, Ladies Clementina and Adeliza Villiers, and Miss
Eliza Peel. The company began to arrive at half-past twelve
o'clock, and were conducted through the spacious vestibule
up the grand staircase, adorned by the magnificent full-
length portrait of John Kemble, as " Rolla," by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, to the drawing-room, the landing leading thereto
being ornamented by a profusion of fragrant plants, where
was suspended the superb production of the late talented Sir
David Wilkie, so well known to the visitors of the Royal
Academy exhibition, as the preaching of John Knox. In the
drawing-room, which was appropriated for the the reception
of the visitors, where the portraits of the Duke of Welling-
ton, (the celebrated full length,) the late Earl of Eldon, the
late Lord Stowel, the late right hon. George Canning, the
late Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Miss Peel,
(now Viscountess Villiers,) all by Sir T. Lawrence. It is not
generally known that the right honourable baronet is in the
possession of a larger collection of the original productions
of that eminent painter than any other individual in this
country. The dejuner was laid on an extended table, ar-
ranged along the centre of the gallery. It was served up in
a style of princely splendour, the viands being of the most
recherche cuisine. Shortly after two o'clock the company
sat down to the elegant wedding breakfast ; and soon after-
wards the happy bride and bridegroom started for Middleton-
park, Oxon, (the seat of the Jersey family,) to pass the
honeymoon. Their Royal Highnesses Prince George and
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, with their attendants, re-
tired at three o'clock, and the nuptial party shortly afterwards
broke up.
There is a vacancy in 'the representation of the North
Riding of Yorkshire, occasioned:by the death of Lord Fever-
sham, whose eldest son, the Hon. William Duncombe, re-
presented that division of the county in the last parliament,
and was re-elected a few days since; he is now, consequently,
Lord Feversham. The late baron was in his seventy-seventh
year, and married Lady Charlotte Legge, aunt of the Earl of
Dartmouth. The present peer is in his forty-sixth year, and
married in December, 1823, Lady Louisa Stewart, daughter
of the Earl of Galloway, by whom he has a large family, his
eldest son and heir being now in his sixteenth year.
THE " POPULAR" MINISTRY.—The popular ministry are
at some loss to account for their defeats in London, West-
minster, Dublin, Liverpool, Leeds, Ilull, and in other large
constituencies, which they were formerly enabled to com-
mand. There is no re-action they assert, the advantage hav-
ing been obtained by a long and careful attention to the re-
gistry ; as if that long and careful attention to the best and
most legitimate means of defeating them afforded no proof of
re-action ! This care and attention has not however been
confined to the conservatives, but has been exercised in an
equal degree by the antagonist party ; but bricks arc not to
be made without straw ; and although there has been no re-
laxation of exertion on the part of the liberals in regard to
the registry, there has been a sad falling off in the number of
dupes disposed to register for the purpose of voting for the
liberal candidates. The fact is, that in the course of the late
elections, thousands of persons who had originally registered
with the intention of supporting liberal principles have been
found voting for conservative candidates. If this be not re-
action, we know not what is.—United Service Gazette.
TnE SPEAKERSHIP.—The fist question to be decided on
the meeting of the newly elected House of Commons will, of
course, he the choice of a Speaker. Mr. Shaw Lefevre will,
no doubt, be set aside in favour of a gentleman of sound
conservative principles. Mr. Henry Goulburn, and Mr.
C. W. W. Wynn, M.l'. for Montgomeryshire, are mentioned
as candidates for the vacant chair of the House of Commons
—the latter appears the most likely to be selected. Mr.
Goulburn, it will be remembered, contested the Speakership
in May, 1839, with the late Speaker, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and
was only defeated by a majority of 18 votes, the numbers
being 317 and 299. Mr. C. W. W. Wynn contested it in
the year 1817 with Mr. C. Manners Sutton, and was defeated
by a majority of 160 votes ; the numbers being 312 and 152.
The late Speaker, Mr. S. Lefevre, has only held office about
two years, but his predecessor, the right honourable James
Abercrornby (now Lord Dunfermline) remained Speaker
nearly four years and a half, having served in two consecutive
parliaments. He was first elected in February, 1835, in the
Peel parliament, by a majority of 10 votes over Mr. C. M.
Sutton, who was afterwards elevated to the peerage by the
title of Viscount Canterbury. Mr. Abercrornby was re-
elected in 1837, and he continued to occupy the honourable
post of speaker to the House of Commons until May, 1839,
when he resigned, just two days before the temporary resig-
nation of the late Melbourne ministry, after their defeat upon
the Jamaica question. Mr. S. Lefevre was then proposed as
the new Speaker by the resuscitated whig government, and
was elected, as we have already stated, by a majority of 18,
in a house of 620 members (including tho tellers.) It is un-
certain whether there will be any opposition made to the
choice of a conservative Speaker, the chief question being as
to the individual member of that party most likely to be
fixed on.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—As a clergyman of this diocese, ac-
companied by two ladies, was returning home from the
neighbourhood of Enniscorthy on Saturday night last, they
were furiously assailed, while passing through Taghtnon, by
a mob, which, it is understood, had been chairino. Mr. Hawk-
shaw. The elder lady was struck on the head and neck by
several stones, and is now suffering from concussion of the
brain. The young lady received a blow on the hip, which is
considerably bruized. The driver was struck severely on thc
side. This blow was doubtless intended for the clergyman,
as the man who threw it was seen to pick a large stone and
deliberately hurl it at that gentleman's head. Two of the
mob having vainly endeavoured to seize the horse's head,
one of them caught the elder lady's foot, and attempted to
drag her from the car ; the rapid speed, however, at which
the horse was then moving, combined with her own resistance,
contributed to defeat the design.— Wexford Conservative.

AN AMERICAN JUDGE.—J. H. Carr, judge of Monroe
county, Missouri, died suddenly in a drunken frolic, at tha
place, a few days since. He was a man of property and dis-
tinetion.—New York paper.

MOST AFFLICTING OCCURRNNCE.-011 Saturday, the
10th instant, the neighbourhood of Downhill was cast into
gloom by a sad disaster which happened a company of fishers
belonging to that place. They had gone out (five in num-
ber) in a small skiff to lift their lines, but before they suc-
ceeded in doing so, the wind and sea became boisterous.
For some time the storm continued to increase in fury, and
though the poor fellows battled nobly with the fiercer ele-
ments, they were finally overpowered, and sunk beneath
the wave, no more to live till awakened by the trump of
God. The boat floated to the shore, all severed in pieces,
but none of the bodies have yet been found. Four of these
men have left wives and families unprovided for. The case
of the fifth is very mournful : he had a brother drowned be-
fore he was born, and for that brother his parents, named
him, and now he too has met a similar fate.—Derry Sentinel.

POPULARITY OF THE CONSERVATIVES.—The constitu-
encies of England and Wales in which the Coneervatives
have gained during the late election, number—
In the cities and boroughs* . 78,676
In the counties

223,713

The constituencies in which the Whig-
Radicals have gained number—
In the cities and boroughs 48,776
In the counties..

51,637

Difference in favour of the Conservatives 172,076
* Cardigan and Thetford are not included.
' The accuracy of this statement cannot be questioned.—
Standard.

It is pretty clear that ministers, in dissolving the old par-
liament, calculated confidently on being supported by the
new ; or else why the choppings and changes they made among
their own body previous to the dissolution ? This could only
have been done to prevent the necessity of the parties vaca-
ting their seats, if appointed after the election. Mr. Stanley,
however, the new paymaster of the forces, takes nothing by
his motion ; but, on the contrary, loses seat, place, and pay.
Unhappy whipper-in !
THE' TEa TRADE, LONDON, JULY 19.—There has not
been so firm a market for tea since our last report, and we
quote a fluctuation of about id .to Id per pound, taking the
extreme rates of last week for company's congou—viz., 2s
to 2s 3.41 per pound cash. We have public sales again
to-morrow of about 12,000 packages, and this has to-day
checked any extensive business. The deliveries of tea last
week in London increased by 90,000 pounds over those of the
week preceding, many parties having laid in extra stock,
even private consumers probably, in anticipation of a further
rise in prices. About 522,000 pounds paid duty. The ave-
rage price of company's congou to-day was about 2s -Id per
pound cash.

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT--FOUR MBN • DROWNED.--I
have just received intelligence of a most painful occurrence
that took place in the channel between the island of Rathlin
and themain land, on Tuesday, the 6th inst. A fishing boat
had put off from the above island to put shell-fish on board
one of the Derry steamers, and after having done so the boat
put into port Morn, on of the small watering places on the
coast. When returning to Rathlin, the sea, that had been
very calm, got quite tempestuous ; the boat lived for some
time, but was at last overpowered by the waves, and the four
poor fellows who manned her met a watery grave : the boat
and some of the tackle drifted ashore, but by the latest ac-
counts none of the bodies have been recovered. One of the
men has left a wife and seven children to bemoan his fate, and
I have heard that the others have also left families unpro-
vided for.—Derry Sentinel.

On Friday last a very singular accident occurred in the
family of Mr. Aylward, of the King's Head Inn, Billing-
hurst, Sussex. It appears that the barn being infested with
rats, a ratcatcher was employed to ferret them out. After
some time, the family were alarmed by the shrieks of the
nurse, who had charge of an infant nine months old. She
had left the babe sleeping in an upper room, and on her
return, was dreadfully alarmed by seeing a ferret, which had
fixed itself on one of the child's temples, and was sucking
the blood. The nurse instantly seized the animal, and with
great difficulty forced it to relinquish its hold ; it, however,
bit her several times severely before assistance arrived, and
struggled to get back to the infant, who would, no doubt,
have been killed but for the provhlentiol erriTal of the ntir@eg
—.-MOrnftw Ile, rat

SUICIDE FROM DREAD Or A WOREROLISE.—A co-
roner's inquest was held on Friday afternoon, before Mr.
Wakley, M.P., at the Orange Tree, Orange-street, Blooms-
bury, on view of the body of Joseph nous, aged seventy-five
years, who hung himself, under the distressing circumstances
detailed in the subjoined evidence : —Mr. John Cheetham, of
10, Kingsgate-street, Holborn, harness-maker; stated that
he had known the deceased between six and seven years.
He was an organ builder, and occupied a small room on
the second floor in witness's house. On his (witness's) re-
turn home at eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, his wife
gave him a note, which she had found about five o'clock on
the stairs. it was in the deceased's hand-writing, and con-
tained the following words :—" Mr. Cheetham, Mr. Rous
will be much obliged to you if you will open his ddor," bet,
as he could only partially open it, and thinking that the
deceased had put a box against it, he pushed it violently,
when it flew open, and the deceased who was hanging to it
by a rope, swung round, and came in contact with his face.
Witness, being very much teritied, had not sufficient pre-
sence of mind to cut him down. He ran into the street and
called two men, and they took him down. He was dead
but not quite cold, and a handkerchief was tied over his
eyes. By the Coroner : The deceased had been for nearly
three years without any employment. He had pawned and
sold all his tools, and nearly all his clothes, and had latterly
been without any means of subsistence. Witness had fre-
quently advised him to apply for parochial relief, but he
had always said he never would, and that he would rather
hang himself than go into the union workhouse. Mr. W.
Tylcot, of Bagnigge-wells-road, stated that the deceased
had been for the last twelve months in the greatest distress.
He had frequently been without food the whole of the day,
and in the evening he would go to the Queen's Head, a
public house nearly opposite his lodgings, to borrow a few
halfpence of some of his acquaintances who frequented the
parlour, " to get himself," as he used to say " a morsel of
bread." Witness, and the other friends of the deceased,
had frequently advised him to apply to the parish, and
offered, if he went into the workhouse, to subscribe a small
sum weekly to furnish him with pocket-money. The de-
ceased always shuddered at the idea, and said he would
rather destroy himself than " be confined in a union hastile."
Witness saw him last alive at the Queen's Head late on
Monday night, when, after thuch persuasion, he said he
would apply the nekt meriting to the parish for outdoor
relief. The Coroner saki that this was far from being an
isolated case. The generality of persons who had formerly
been in easy circumstances were extremely unwilling to ap-
ply for, parochial relief, for fear of being sent to the work-
house. The jury, after having deliberated three quarters
of an hour, returned a verdict of Temporary insanity."
RAPID CONVEYANCE.—On Wednesday morning week a
train of 52 goods' waggons, containing up*ards of 180 tons
of goods—the gross weiglit With the waggons being actually
more than 300 tons—was brought down from Selby to this
place, by the company's engine Liverpool, in the short space
of one hour and fifty minutes, a distance of thirty-one miles.
—Hull Tacket.

A Lancashire agriculturist, near Manchester, in a letter to
the editor of the Mark Lane Express, says : I have a cow in
my stock which has had about five calves, two of which she
has dropped since she came into my possession. She is now
giving not less than twenty-six quarts of milk daily ; and this
appearing of a superior richness, induced me to try what
weight of butter her milk for seven days would yield. The
trial was completed yesterday, and the butter weighed 221 b.
31oz. We make up our butter into printed lumps of Boz.
each ; and to the half-pound weight a halfpenny of the new
coinage is added. I had a cow ten years ago, which gave
201 b. 6oz. in the week. Do you think the prize dairy cow at
the Liverpool meeting will have such solid pretensions to dis-
tinction as either of these animals?

The dowry of the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Peel, who
was married last week to Lord Villiers, the eldest son of the
Earl of Jersey, is stated to be 150,0001.
DERIVATION OF " PENNsyLvANIA."—The origin of the
name is thus explained. It was a proposition of King Charles,
that the province should be called Penn : or that this name
should form part of any appellation that might be fixed on.
This was resisted by Penn, lest it should be imputed to him
as vanity. He himself proposed to call it New Wales, but
this was for some reason disapproved. Peßn next suggested
Sylvania, as the province was so beautifully diversified with
wood, to which the king insisted on prefixing the name of
Penn, in honour of the admiral, whose memory he revered.
Buckingham's America.

STATE OF TRADE.—The failure of the eminent banking-
house of Geymuller and Co. of Vienna, intelligence of which
reached this town by the Hamburgh mail on Monday even-
ing, produced a decidedly unfavourable effect upon our yarn
market yesterday ; the German buyers generally suspending
their operations until the effect of this unexpected and ex-
tensive failure is better ascertained. The amount of busi-
ness done was consequently very small; and rather low
prices were, in many instances, submitted to. The demand
for manufactured goods were also extremely limited, and the
business done in printing cloth was generally at rather lower
rates. We think it right to state, in the reference by the en-
gagements of the banking house of Daintry, Ryle, and Co.
which appeared in the Guardian of Wednesday last, that
there was an inaccuracy of expression which was calculated
to mislead the reader. liabilities of the Manchester
firm arc upwards of half a million (in fact about £600,000),
but a large portion of these is owing to the Loudon hankers;
and the amount which will eventually fall upon Manchester
and its neighbourhood is comparatively small.—Manchester
Guardian.

HALIFAX, JULY I.—The number of emigrants who had
landed this year at Quebec, to the sth June, was 12,426; the
New York paper states that, in the month of June, 1800
passengers had landed there.
ROPE-MAKING IN AMERICA.—The rope-walk of the
Navy-yard is one of the finest I ever remember to have
seen. It is nearly half a mile in length, and two stories in
height ; it is built entirely of the same beautiful granite as
that used in the construction of the dry-dock, and is roofed
with iron and slate. The window-shutters are all cased with
iron, and the whole is rendered fireproof. Some very recent
and excellent improvements have been introduced into the
machinery here, by a native American engineer, Mr. Tread-
well, by which a steam-engine at one end of the building is
made to furnish the requisite power for performing all the
operations for rope-making, with very little aid from the la-
bour of men, from the first combining of the hemp, and
spinning it into threads, to the tarring and twisting the yarn,
and the winding of the whole into the hawser or the cable
required. I had seen some of the best rope-walks in Eng-
land, both in the royal dock-yards and in the private esta-
blishments of London and other ports; but I remember no-
thing equal to this of Boston, either in the beauty and per-
fection of the building and the machinery, or the admirable
uniformity of strain in every strand and every fibre in the
rope produced ; or the finished roundness, smoothness, and
flexibility of the largest hawsers and cables, of which several
were submitted to our examination, both in progress and
completed.—Buckingham's America.

THREE LIVES LOST.—Yesterday evening, sbout sit
o'clock, a most distressing and fatal accident occurred at the
Surrey side of Westminster-bridge. It appeared that seven
persons had hired a boat at Hungerford-market to proceed
up the river, and upon their return (the tide running down
very fast(, and they not being able to manage the boat, they
struck against the fourth pier of the bridge, and the whole
party was immersed in the water. A loud scream almost
immediately brought four boats to their assistance, and they
succeeded in saving four of them, the other three having met
a watery grave, notwithstanding the exertions of the Thames
Police boat and several men from the establishment of Mr.
Lyons, the boat builder, who used the drags for a considera-
ble time, but without success. The boat itself was towed
ashore, and, after a considerable interval, was taken back to
Hungerford- m ark e t.—Morning Herald.
LETTER ErrveLorEs.These, in the manner in which
they are now used, are of modern contrivance ; and amongst
ladies and gentlemen who like to see how prettily they can
fold up a letter and exhibit the devices on their seals in the
most ornamental position, have now become extremely fa-
shionable. They are also supposed to conceal their contents
from the inspection of the impertinent and curious through
whose hands they may pass, more effectually than the former
and now vulgar method of folding the paper. But this is.
quite a mistake. The paste used in attaching the three under-
most corners of the envelope has so tender a hold, that it is
the easiest thing possible to withdraw either of the ends, slip
out the letter, read every word of its contents, and then re-
store it to the place of its fancied security, without having
broken or in any way defaced the pretty wax ornament which
has been so tastefully laid on the upper corner. To make an
envelope of any use, the wax should be applied to each of the
ends, so as to hold all of them together ; but this would re-
quire such a load of wax that it would mar the beauty of the
invention, and the sooner the old method is resorted to the
better.

THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.--The par-
ticulars of the population of the United States, as exhibited
in the return made to Congress under the last census, was
received by the late arrival from New York. It appears
to comprise 14,181,575 whites, 386,069 free coloured,
and 2,483,536 oth-rs, making a grand total population of
17,031,180. The number of seamen in the service of the
United States is estimated at 6,100, but is not included in
the above return.

Her
mVfstal arrived on Saturday, June 19,
from
sTbampico, and Havannab, by way of Ber-
muda. She bad specie to the amount of 700,000 dollars. She
is to sail for Quebec in a few days. The London Journal of
Science states, that under the old system of packets to Hali-
fax in North America, the expense to government was
£40,000 a year ; but under the new system £20,000 is real-
ised, making a saving of £60,000 per annum.—Halifax
paper.

AFFECTING INCIDENT.—The Texas papers state, that at
the meeting of the committee in Cincinnati to agree upon
suitable measures to express the public feeling on'the melan-
choly occasion of General Harrison's death, a motion was
made, and unanimously adopted, that Judge Burnet be re-
queSted to deliver the eulogy upon the late President. The
Judge was present, being chairman of the committee. He
declined the request, and never," says the Cincinnati Re-
publican, " did we witness deeper feeling or listen to truer
eloquence than in the remarks he made. ' I cannot accept,'
said he ; 'I couldinot speak. I knew Harrison 46 years ago ;
he was a brother to me then ; we have been brothers ever
since. Our hearts were knit together, and I should choke
were Ito speak of him. He is the last of the little band who
started this city. lam alone now, all alone, and I cannot
talk of my friend. I cannot.' And the manly tears fell
down his cheeks, and the sobs which were heard coming alike
from the aged and the young of both parties told the deep
sympathy which all felt. The scene was touching. It over-
came all who witnessed it."

OPERATIONS AGAINST THE BOYNE.—Mr. Abbinet has
been for some time past successfully engaged in removing
the wreck of this ship. On the Sth instant two charges of
1001bs and 601bs of powder were lowered into the after-part
of the ship, and fired with considerable effect by Daniell's
battery, The diver visited the spot on the following day,
and the workmen were then engaged in removing what they
could by means of a machine constructed for the purpose ;
it is a powerful and weil-constructed scoop. By means of
this instrument a great deal of mud was removed, and con-
siderable quantities of timber and iron work were brought
up. But the most curious thing recovered on this occasion,
brought up in the scoop, was a beautifully ornamented brass
field-piece 31 inches calibre and 4 feet in extreme length. It
has the following inscription in Swedish, translated by Mr.
Vanderburgh, of this town :—" With GOD'S help, by King
Charles XII., taken at the battle of Clitzow, 9th July,
1702." This battle was fought between Augustus, King of
Poland, and Charles, on the plains between Cracow and
Warsaw, the former !laving about 24,000 men, and the latter
little more than half that number, yet Charles gained a com-
plete victory, and took possession of the enemy's camp,
baggage, cannon, &c.. of which the one now recovered was
one. It seems somewhat curious that this gun was raised
from the deep on the anniversary of the day Charles took it
from the Poles. In addition to the above inscription, this
gun has also the following :—y F.A.H.Z.5.1.C.8." and
under this, "E. U.W.C. H U. R .F. ;" crossed under this
again there is a shield. having on it two swords crossed.
Te operations are still proceeding. The gun here men-
tioned was doubtless brought from Guadaloupe, as the
Boyne had in her many trophies from that island, when
she was burnt.—lfampshlre Telegraph.

In consequence of the melancholy loss of their son, who
was on board of the ill-fated President steamer, the Duke
and Duchess of Richmond do not come to Scotland with
their family this season, but mean to remain in seclusion at
Goodwood, in Sussex. The splendid apartments at Gordon
Castle will, therefore, be still and pihint in tin osopcc of the-
m)* family,-44erdefn