The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

It is said that the celebrated singer Maims Poeta has
lost all her large fortune by the failure of M. Geyniuller,
the banker, of Vienna.

An Egyptian goose—a very rare bird in this part of the
country—was a few days ago shot at Wark, on the south side
of the Tweed, by Lord Ossulston's gamekeeper.
All the accounts received from Asiatic Turkey concur in
describing the harvest as the most abundant remembered foi
several years.
A church rate at Cheltenham was carried last week by a
majoz ity of 329; one thousand two hundred and twenty-six
votes having been polled in favour of the church.
A fine specimen of the sturgeon was caught in the salmon-
net at Reiss, on Saturday week. It was of a large size, mea-
suring six feet seven inches long, and weighed about sixty
pounds.

Moore, formerly a chartist preacher, has just died in
Tewkesbury workhouse. Before his death he expressed deep
repentance for baying embraced the chartist cause.
Mr. Holloway,. the ointment man, was discharged in the
Insolvent Court on Tuesday last. His present debts amount
to £2747, and his assets, good, bad, and indifferent, to £230.
At the late Exeter Assizes, sixty barristers were in the
Nisi Prius Court in a short time after its opening, being
more than double the number of causes on the list.

One of the 36 carrier-pigeons despatched from Bayonne
the other day reached Liege, a distance of 300 leagues, in 24
bout s.

Three suicides by respectable persons, brought about by
gambling, and other pecuniary embarrassments, took place
in Lisbon last week.

INCREASE OF EMIGRATION.—Arrived at Quebec, to the
24th July, 22,577 emigrants. To same period last year,
18,280. Increase 4,297.

Mr. Green, the aeronaut, made a nocturnal aerial voyage in
the Nassau balloon on Monday from Vauxhall Gardens,
London, and alighted at Barking, in Essex.
UNITED STATES STEAMERS.—It is confidently reported
that the keels of four or five government steamers will be
laid immediately, viz : two at Charleston, one at New York,
and one at Philadelphia.
During the last week, Dr. Bowring has twice addressed
the Working Men's Association at Exeter, " for the pur-
pose," as a correspondent observes, " of enlightening them
on the three P's—the Principles of Paid Patriotism !"
The tailors and other artisans of a village in France have
formed a society, the object of which is to prevent the giving
of credit to customers who have not paid their debts to other
tradesmen in the same line.

MORE CIVILIZAVION.—A. man named Cutler, a labourer
in Lyme, Connecticut, threatened the life of his employer,
Dr. Noyes, last Tuesday evening. In the attempt to arrest
him, the sheriff, named Huntley, was shot.—American paper.
Two swallows, lately entered a room in the house of Mr.
Dorman, at Pickworth, Rutland, by the chimney, built their
nest in a tea-saucer on the chimney-piece, and batched four
fine young ones, which are now nearly fledged.

Lord Palmerston has announced to the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, that government will appoint no persons to offices
under the Crown where slavery and the slave trade exists,
who are not decidedly opposed to those systems of crime.
There is a talk of a marriage between one of the Sultan's
sisters and the son of Mehemet Ali ; the Viceroy seems in
favour with the Porte, and magnificent presents are to be
sent to him.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has instituted a silk fair,
which is to be held in Florence during the latter part of
September in each year, the 20th of next September being
appointed for the commencement, when it is to continue
open till the following Saturday.
The old and magnificent ruin of Cambridge Castle, the
only vestige of the warlike habits of our ancestors remaining
in that town, is now levelled with the ground, to make room
and furnish materials for the erection of the new county
court.

A most horrible accident occurred last week in the County
of Two Mountains; a man, while in a state of intoxication,
having fallen into a kettle of boiling potash, had been com-
pletely dissolved. Search was made for his body, but not
the least particle of it could be found.—Canada Times.
On the 18th ult. the heavy rains had so loosened the earth
somewhere amid the mountains of Switzerland, that a whole
grove of trees became detached, and, slowly sliding down,
completely planted itself on a field of oats, which it entirely
covered.

The requisition to the Hon. 0. Duncombe, requesting
him to become a candidate for the North Riding of York-
shire, having received 4000 signatures, has been forwarded to
that gentleman, who has accordingly accepted the invitation.
The whigs dare not shew fight.

A respectable mechanic being tried at Hampton-court for
breaking a bough off a tree in Bushy Park, was ordered by
the magistrates, instead of the five shilling fine, to draw a
large roller over the gravel walk of the Wilderness for half
au hour.

It behoves conservative members of parliament just now
to look sharply after the movements of the Board of Trade—
the officials there, faithful to the bidding of their whiz
masters, would connive at any returns, however false, which
might forward the free trade views of the Melbournites.

It is a curious coincidence that the Latin epigram recently
recited at Cambridge was on steam-carriages; and that the
prize was gained by a worthy scion of the mechanically
illustrious house of Boulton—Matthew Piers Watt Boulton,
Esq., of Trinity College.

PAIXHAN'S GUNS.—AII the fortresses. on the coast of
France are preparing to mount Paixhan's guns. The de-
struction effected by them on the coast of Syria has induced
the War Minister to employ them in all fortifications purely
defensive. We shall next hear of their being mounted upon
the walls of Paris.

A BLIND BARGAIN.—A distinguished field-officer, totally
blind, was led to the hymeneal altar last week, by a bloom-
ing bride, " fat, fair, and forty." Besides her personal at-
tractions she gives her happy bridegroom a fortune of not
less than £30,000. Ladies' ages are now, unfortunately,
accurately ascertained by the census returns.—Limerick
Chronicle.

The Queen Dowager of Spain has removed from the Palais
Royal to her new residence in the Rue de Courcelles, Fau-
bourg de Roule; her private money-chest, which is of solid
iron, encrusted with coral and jewels, was removed last
week; many Spanish families have taken houses, or apart-
ments, in the immediate neighbourhood ; the King of the
French has delivered to her Majesty a key of the park of
Mousseau.

NEW RAILWAY TRAIN CONTROLLER.—Vienna letters
describe a useful invention by an Infantry Captain, Herr
Ferdinand Freissauff de Neudegg, of a simple and completely
successful apparatus, enabling the conductor of a steam train
by pressure on a spring, immediately to detach the carriages
from the engine, and instantly stop the former. The appa-
ratus is said to be further so contrived as to act of itself in
the event of the locomotive quitting the line of rails, spon-
taneously, and at once effecting its separation from the rest
of the train.

AFFLICTING EVENT.—The Hague papers give the follow-
ing painful account of the death of Madame Rochussen, the
young and amiable wife of the Dutch Minister of Finance.
She bad lain in a few weeks ago, but was still in a feeble
state, when her brother, whom she had not seen for ten
years, arrived from abroad. Intending to give his sister an
agreeable surprise, he entered her chamber without even her
knowing that he was in Holland. The shock was so strong,
that Madame Rochussen was thrown into a fainting fit,
which terminated in her death, before even the minister
could be called from his cabinet to receive her sigh.
COTTON CROP IN THE UNITED STATES.—Of the growing
crop, it is yet too early to say anything definite. The ap-
pearances thus far are favourable, but as the plant generally
this year is some weeks later than usual, the yield will even
more than usual depend upon the season. With late frosts,
and an open winter, which will allow more time for picking,
a considerable increase may be anticipated on the last crop.
The receipts of that crop, at the Southern ports, are now
nearly drawn to a close. They amount to 1,577,000 bales,
which will probably be increased to about 1,600,000; being
a falling off from the preceding year of 580,000 bales. Very
little of the new crop can be in market before October. As
before observed, however, all speculation upon the quality or
extent of this crop is yet premature.—New York American,
July 31.
CURIOUS STATISTICS OF HEALTH IN NEW ORLEANS.
—According to the report of the Board of Health, the whole
number of deaths from July 1 to 15, was 165—in a popula-
tion of upwards of 100,000—of these a large portion is taken
from that class that is not enumerated at all—the strangers,
viz.,—certainly 29—and most probably, 44 others classed
as unknown. Only 12 eases of fever—of sudden deaths, ar-
ticulo mortis, sun-stroke, &c, are 21—a large number, but
accounted for from the extreme and unprecedented heat that
has prevailed. Of the ages, some remarkable facts are pre-
sented to those living, three over 100 years of age, two from
70 to 80, and five from 60 to 70. And we have also been in-
formed, that there was a case of twins, with the exact con-
formation and connection of the celebrated Siamese twins.—
New York paper.
THE " OVERPAID" ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND.-
From the last published report of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners in Ireland, it appears that the stipends paid to the
36 licensed curates of Dublin amounts to £2,013 19s. 4d. ;
while the salaries to commissioners, secretary, treasurer, and
clerks is £6,262 3s. 6d. Thus we perceive that these lay
gentlemen, a few hours a day at their writing desks, appro-
priate to themselves £4,248145. 2d. more than all the licensed
curates in Dublin receive for their toilsome and continual
labours. The report of these Irish Commissioners is cer-
tainly important in one respect, as it serves to show how the
Irish Church has been plundered and her revenues despoiled
for the purpose of glutting Popish hatred and the cupidity of
Whig-Radical partisans. The entire amount of the salaries
paid to all the licensed curates in Dublin gives an average of
£55 Bs. 7d. per annum to each ! a sum less than what the
lowest clerk of the commissioners receives; and considerably
lower than what a respectable butler or footman costs any of
three salaried commissioners who have entertained us with
the report from which we extract our figures.
INVESTMENTS IN IRELAND.—It iS evident a more fa-
vourable opinion is entertained by the capitalists in England
of the value and safety of property in Ireland; a re-action
arising out of the favourable result of the elections is too
palpable to be mistaken. To corroborate this we might
mention that in one single case Mr. George Robins, who had
announced, three months ago, the sale of £150,000, of free-
hold farms, to be sold in July, had apparently abandoned
the idea altogether, at all events for a long period ; instead
of which we now perceive by our journal of to-day, that he
has fixed so early as the ensuing month to introduce to the
moneyed world some of the finest properties in that country.
In this fine property is necessarily included very considerable
political influence : to illustrate this fact it need only to be
mentioned there are 170 public houses, and dwellings in the
borough town of Mallow, with the power to create sufficient
to render a seat perfectly secure. It is, in fact, no longer in
doubt or uncertainty that rents are paid infinitely more re-
gularly in Ireland than in England, and yet the land there
sells to pay a clear 4 per cent. atter every possible deduction, i
arid in England little more than three. We have heard it
whispered, that the large sales alluded to in this paragraph,
must, from circumstances over which there is no control
whatever, be sold to the highest bidders. All these great
sales come off at Gresham's fine hotel in Sackville-street;
Dublin.—lrish Paper.
MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT SEA.--OR Saturday, the
24th of July, 1841, at seven o'clock in the evening, being in
latitude 48 10 north, and longitude 26 west, wind south-west,
and steering E. by S. S., saw a large shin bearing north
from us, and apparently steering about S. E. She attracted
our notice from our being able to discern something between
her main and fore-masts, which bore an unusual appearance
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