The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

A WRECK ENCOUNTERED AT SHA.

(FROM Tll3 GUIANA CHRONICLE, AUG. 15.
Sir,-1 beg leave to inform you, that on the 28th of July last,
1 fell in with the brig Queen Adelaide, of Sunderland, in 1at.26.
10. N., long. 32, 38, \V., waterlogged—her foremast was stand-
ing, but the rigging had been taken away, as also part of her
deck ; she was timber laden, and appears to have been deserted
some time from the number of barnacles that were attached to
her ; there was part of a signal at her foremast head,—every
thing bad been taken off her deck, but the lower anchors. You
will Act' oblige me by making the foregoing public.-1 am,
Sir, your obedient servant, E. C. FRIEND,
Master of the barque Rosendale
Demerara, Aug. 15, 1836.

The corporation of South Bolton have diminished the salary
of the receiver and treasurer from £tiO to £l5 a year, and have
considerably increased the duties to be performed by him.

A ShIA I.E. TEA. PARTY.—On Friday se'nnight 1,100 persons
of the Wesleyan Methodist persuasion sat down to tea in St.
Andrew's flail, Norwich. They were admitted at ls. each.

A notice was attached to the Guildhall door a few days since,
the preamble of which ran thus:—" We, the two asses, and
mayer of the borough of Totnes, do appoint a meeting," &c.
the excision of the " sore" having been made by some wag.—
Pfstste.in Times.

The inhabitants of Oswesti v have subscribed for a magnifi-
dent silver candelabrum for seven lights, as a testimony of
respect to the Hon. Thomas Kenyon, the High Steward of that
town. This splendid testimony of regard is now fiuished, and
will be presented to the hon. gentleman on Friday.—Valopiari
Journal.

A ma❑ was boasting about his knowledge of the world, when
a wag in company asked him if he had ever been iu Algebra?
" I cannot exactly tell," says he, " but I think I once passed it
on the coach."

A beautiful full-grown white hare was shot on Friday last,
near Walton, by James Dunn, Esq. It has been preserved,
and is nuw in the collection of Mr. John Huntington Dawson,
of Rosemary-lane, in this town, to whom it was presented by
Mr. Dunn.—Newcastle Journal.

A PRODIG T.—Tnere is now living, at the wonderful village
of Holmpton. in Holderness, a male child of the following ex-
traordinary dimensions:—Height. two feet six inches; CirCuFn-
lerencY of the body, twenty inches and a half; circle of the
arm, six inches; ditto at the thickest part, nine inches ; and
oth/r Nits is proportion. He weighs two stones and one pound,
i and s not yet ten months old.

Tas TRADE.—The deliveries last week amounted t0420,2001b.
The East Inaia. Company's declaration for the December sale
is out, and it amounts to 4,000,000 k; consisting of 500,(01b;
of Bohea : 2,920,0001 b. of Congou. Souchong, and Pekoe.
450,0001 b., of 'lwankay and firsonskin ; and 130,0001 b. of
tiysott.

PADDY AT SEA.—An Irishman, while on his passage to
" this country," in search of harvest work, was observed to walk
up and down the deck at a brisk pace, occasionally giving a
look at the captain whenever he came in sight, as if to attract
his observation. On being asked by the steward for his passage
money when nearing the destination, Pat replied, " Arrah,
honey, be aisy now ; sure the master won't do such a dirty trick
as charge a poor shairer who has walked the whole way !"
T o 14E3 OF RESPECT.—The Rev. Joshua Wood, B.A. assis-
tant miuister of Christ Church, Bradford, has been presented
with a handsome silk gown and cossack by the ladies of his con-
gregation, as a testimony of his valuable services. A similar
token was presented a short time ago to the Rev. W. Morgan,
8.D., Incumbent of the saute church.
AURORA BOREALIS. —A very singular appeacanee was ob-
served in the heavens on Tuesday evening, occasioned by the
aurora borealis, which were not confined to the north, but
covered the whole sky. The light spread out in some points
like rays from a common centre, in all the variety of the most
splendid colours; the remarkable of which was a deep rich
purple, with which a large portion of the sky was illuminated.—
Edinburgh Courant.
CONSERVATISM IN EAST WORCESTERSHIRE.—OR Friday
evening last the Conservative Association of East Worcestshire
dined together at the Foley Hotel, Druitwich. About 300 sat
down to dinner. Mr. Pakingtou presided, and was supported
on the right by Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Mr. W. Coventry,
and on the left by Lord Deerhurst, Mr. Barneby, the member
fur Droitwich, and Mr. Hawkes, the member for Dudley.
Among those present were Major Bond, Col. Smith, Captain
Bennett, the Rev G. E. Lander, Lloyd Williams, Esq., F.
Holland Esq., &c. The room was tastefully decorated with ban-
ners hearing Loyal inscriptions. Among the latter were "Church,
King, and Constitution, ' " Loyalty to the King, submission to
the laws, and justice to the people,'" " Church and King," &c.
The meeting comprised a great portion of the wealthy and influj,
ential gentry of the eastern part of the division of the county,
and had the size of the room permitted, a much greater number
would have sat down to dinner on this occasion.

'f URN le FLY.—A method of preventing the ravages of
the turnip fly has been adopted at Hampstead. The practice is
founded upon the fact that the fly emits its eggs in the autumn,
and they are not hatched till the next spring, when the warmth
and the fruitful state of the soil by reneated ploughings and
liarrowings, admit of the generating effects of the sun's rays.
It is at this period the turnip is generally sown ; the plant
therefore springs up about the time the ay is hatched, and a
supply of food being thereby affulded, it is not surprising that
the fly should multiply and thrive. if instead of sowing imme-
diately, the soil is brought into as fine a state as possible, and
the sowing delayed for ten days, although the fly would be
hatched, it would die for want of its natural food. The exist-
ence of a fly in the field may be ascertained by placing cabbage
leaves at night, and examining them in the morning.
WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.--INDICTMENT AGAINST LORD
MOREETE: ANL) OTHERS.—A most ridiculous charge was brought
against certain of his Majesty's ministers at the above Sessions
on Friday week, by a person named Flood, who, about two ses-
sions ago was taken into custody, and committed to Newgate,
for throwing some papers from the gallery of tha House of
Commune into the body of the house. The clerk of the indict-
ments considered the charge did not constitute an indictable
offence, and he therefore could not hand it to the jury; but
Flood maintained that his indictment was properly drawn, and
that he would not be biassed by auy man. In the indictment,
Lord Morpeth, as Secretary of State for Ireland, was charged
with having, on the 10th of August last, at the House of Com-
mons, &c. maliciously instigated a certain person, whose name
is unknown, to threaten violence to John Flood, late of Callen,
in the county of Kilkenny-, &c. and Lords Melbourne and Dun-
cagnon, and Mr. Spring Rice, were charged with aiding and
abetting the said Lord Morpeth, &c. &c. -Flood loudly corn-
, plained at the clerk's refusing to pass his indictment, which he
said was dune at the Mitigation of his Majesty's ministers.