The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

POLITICAL MOVEMENTS,

The requisition of the radicals of Newcastle to that pink of
coxcombs,• Sir Win. Molesworth, Bart., to come forward on the
first occasion for the representation of this town lags most
lanieutably. The signatures are few and of an utterly con-
temptible character, and it would seem that Mr. Attwood's
cunning attempt. to hook the whigs, gudgeons as they are, is
not likely to be successful in respect to the present sapient
proposit io n. —Newcastle Journal.
REPRESENTATION of LEEDS.—It is rumoured that Lola
John Russell will be invited to offer himself for Leeds, in case
of a general eleetion.—Halffaz Express.
We have pleasure in announcing that Lord Melbourne has
appointed a a in of Mr. John Martin, the eminent historical
painter, to a clerkship in one of tha Government 011 ices—
.
We learn from good authority that in Northam and Apple-
dore, once the strong hold of Lord Ebrington and .his party,
out of 155 electors, 140 have pledged themselves to vote for Sir
T. Arland at the nest election.—Dorset County Chronicle.
A meeting of the elecctors of Ilalbeck took place on Thurs-
day evening, when 160, out of 180 voters, promised to support
Sir William Molesworth, should ha accept the invitation given
to him to become a candidate for the representation of Leeds.—
Leeds Times. _

It is stated that Mr. Barkley, who is on the Continent, sill
not again offer himself for York, should en election occur
either during the winter or spring. The York Tories talk of
bringing forward the Marquis of Douro, in connexion with
Mr. Lowther.—Halifax Express.
The result of sixteen parish meetings in the county of York
on the subject of the diet table, ordered by the Poor Law Com-
missioners for the paupers, is a determination to support the
poor by voluntary subscriptions rather than submit to such
treatment.—Leeds Intelliyencer; r ,
The Poor Law Commissioners have objected to the payment
of the ordinary fee of eightpence each to Coroner's Jurors, but
most inconsistently they do not object to the payment of the
constable's expenses in summoning the Coroner, but recom
mend that the charge should in future come out of the Church
rate. The duty of sending for a Coroner is imperative on the
parish officers, who should not be left in a state of uncertainty
as to the manner of meeting the inevitable expenses incurred in
the fulfilment of a public Lenefit.—Taunton Courier.

IMORTANT TO BRITISH SHIPMASTERS.

The following has been received at Lloyd's :
"Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
"Whitehall, November 21, 1836..
" am directed by the Lords' Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, to inform you that it has been represented
to his Majesty's Government, that the ordinance which has been
in force in Sweden since the Ist July last, directing all Foreign
vessels, arriving from ports where a Swedish c.insul is station-
ed, to be provided with a manifest of the cargo, duly attested
by such consul, under a penalty of 60() rix dollars, is but imper-
fectly known' to British shipmasters, who, in more than one in-
stance, have already become liable to the above-mentioned
penalty.
"Their Lordships therefore request that you will have the
goodness to take such steps as may appear to you best calcu-
lated to give the ordinance increased publicity among the ship-
ping interest. A copy of the ordinance was transmitted to you
by Lord Palmerstonsis direction, in February last, and the same
regulation had previously existed with respect to Swedish ves-
sels. " I am, Sir, &c„
(Signed,) " DEtits LA IMMO! ANT.
" To G. IL Robinson, Esq., /—•

Extract of a letter from the A.gents at Genoa. Nov. 17 :
" The Board of Health ordered that dean bills of health
should be given on the 12th; and haVe accordingly since that
time abolished the quarantine against vessels proceeding from
Trieste, Venice, the Hungarian and Illyrian coast.

• Ftee.—The whole of the neighbourhood of Copperas-hill ,
and Brownlow-hill, was thrown into the greatest consternation
about ten o'clock on Friday night, by a tire which took place
in a chandlery warehouse, belouging.to Messrs. Banks & Co.,
in Trowbriage-street, and 's hien, at first, threatened the most
direful corisequenees to the surrounding neighbourhood. In the
building where the file was first observed, a large steam appa-
ratus had lately been erected for the purpose of performing all
the operations of smelting. 'this apparatus, which is fixed iu a
cellar of part of the building adjoining that where the chand-
ler's stores are kept, was in operation, we believe, as an experi-
ment. The fat was thrown over the sides of the boiler, and at
ouce communicated itself to the fire underneath, when the
flames ascended with fearful rapidity to the ceiling above. The
chandler's workmen were plying their usual vocation within a
portion of the same building. An immediate alarm was then
given, and the fire-bell was tolled. In justice to the fire police,
we must say, that the engines, which were accompanied by Mr.
Whitty, the superintendent, were promptly on the spot. Intact,
fifteen minutes had not elapsed from the moment the alarm was
given to the time when they arrived at the warehouse. The tire
had by this time reached the roof of that part of the warehouse
where it had originated, and the flames were making rapid. ,pro-
gress towards another part of the building which was 1r,107
itih°etdehhox'uebrtt but te whole
with candles in a manufactured state, and barrels of raw tallow.
This threatened the most dire destruction not only to the tl
building itself, but to the entire street iu which it. was
a.
situat-
ed, and many of the inhabitants were making actillee
t scene of
tions to remove their family. and furniture
danger. Happily the fire-engines being instanti,l:y°,:nseisillte4dreileviivi
brought into requisition, the raging elemee
l the engines had
sub-
dued, and in a little more than an afterhourfc,
tows of the surround-
arrived, the whole was got under, and the
exertions of the man who
sytreet
engine were most praise_
ing neighbouis were quieted.
had the practical management o'fr
cackle's' so t
[halt ee
been
has 1 ibeekein seux:
worthy on this occasion, for if the fire
tinguished, there is not the Halts.:
would have been destroyed; 1 ,
tained is comparatively small.
THE HIGHLANDS.--ShOaring is at last brought to a close in
this quarter, but under circumstances which have no parallel
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. It was melancholy,
as it was certainly a very unusual sight to see two men during
the whole day with their spades shovelling the snow from off
the corn before the shearers. The heavy storm towards the end
of last month literally levelled and smashed to the ground the
standing corns, of which there was a very great deal in the
country at the time; and sheep in the grazing districts, driven
to the lower grounds, also broke in, and spite of the utmost vigil.
ance by day and night, did incalculable damage to the crops.
The farmers, alarmed at the state of things, and seeing that
certain loss would be the result of leaving their crops thus ex-
posed, commenced cutting down, or rather lifting up, with no
en:it evireusi is
loftsifm
spread be t he
odpaoyns ftahier olreefodusl;
like tolerable order was bound aWedhatwas actually drench-
stooked according to the degreewhat. was int anything
and
of set up i 4n,.
moisto i•
weather that we have vet had, the consequence is, that all thus
bound in au improper manner has clotten together, impervious
to the wind until again openedand both straw and grain
are in a great manyinstances.allebil perfectly destroyed. Peas;
and beans,
even in most favourable places, are a lust crop.
Potatoes, except. in a very few places, are now lifted, and the
loss from frost has not at all been so great as was at one time
anticipated ; but the deficiency upon the whole is still gieat.—
Perthshire Advertiser. .

Itl appears from the papers from New Orleans that there has
been
a pressure on the money-market there, in consequence of
the measures of- precaution taken by the banks to retain their
specie. They had been discounting freely during the summer,
and
the enormous speculations iu the real estate had caused a
great demand for accommodations. •
At the port of Gloucester has been commenced the magnifi-
cent undertaking of forming a line of public wharfs upwards of
100 feet long, in continuation of the present basin (double its
length,) at which ships of the largest size, capable of entering
the Gloucester and Berkely Canal, will be enabled to lie along
• side and discharge their cargoes. At that point the canal is also
to be widened 31) feet. A canal is likewise to be cut, he effect
of which will be the removing of a considerable portion of the
coal and barge trade to wharfs at some distance from the
present basin, and the giving of greater facilities for the larger
Vessels.