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

conditions tabs arranged Si in the
steam-packet undertaking.
Mr. J. Sturz, the active negotiator of this contract and
enterprise with the government of Brazil, is advantageously
known in connection with other projects conducive to the
promotion of the material interests of that country, and ac-
cording to late accounts, is about to obtain the concession of
peculiar privileges for the navigation of the great river Ama-
zons by steam.

of the Wegt India

MISCELLANEOUS

A Turkish gentleman is appointed to H.M.S. Monarch

The population of Edinburgh, it appears by the census, is
138,194, being an increase in ten years of 2,140.
There is to be a complete change in the uniform of the
French infantry, which will extend to the ordnance service.
The 72d Highlanders were reviewed by Prince Albert, at
Windsor, on Thursday.
A respectable young man, named John Smith, was killed
upon the Dublin and Kingston Railway on Monday night.
The reformers intend giving Lord Morpeth a dinner in
Dublin. It will not take place immediately ~but it will come
off soon.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the office of
High Steward of the borough of Barnstaple, voted him by
the Town-council.

William Major, the aged man left for execution at Exeter,
has been respited. The crime he was charged with was
murder, but it did not appear that he committed the deed.

A French officer writes home to say the Shah of Persia
cuts off heads at the rate of thirty or forty per day ! Plea-
sant country !

The celebrated steeple-chase horse Jupiter was recently
shipped, per Rob Roy steam-ship, from Hull, for Vienna, as
a present to Prince Lichtenstein.
A fine boy, about four years of age, son of William Lisle,
a labourer at the Railway Station, at Hexhain, died on Wed-
nesday of hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a dog about
a fortnight before.
In the small village of Swinburne, containing twenty-three
inhabitants, there are now living eight individuals, whose
united ages amount to six hundred and eighteen years ; the
majority of the above are following their ordinary occupations.
The address in the House of Lords, in reply to her majes-
ty's speech on the opening of the new parliament, will, we
understand, be moved by Earl Spencer and be seconded by
the Marquis of Clanricarde.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and Birmingham
Company was held on Friday, and a dividend of 44 per share
declared. The last dividend was only 3 per share. The
working expenses are reduced to about 3.5 per cent.
MOLIERE.—A monument is about to be erected at Paris
to the memory of this great writer. The titles of the differ-
ent comedies will be inscribed on the pedestal. It is expected
that the inauguration of the monument may take place on
the 17th February, 1842, the anniversary of Moliere's death.
IRISH FREEDOM OF ELECTIONS.—A black proscription
list, containing the names of the persons who voted for
Messrs. Christmas and Reid, at the late election for Water-
ford, has been published and circulated with malicious
industry.
An awfully sudden death occurred in Downpatrick last
week. A man named Montgomery, who for the last three
months was in the habit of taking between two and three
quarts of raw whisky every day, dropped down dead in a fit
of intoxication.

At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the
Eastern Counties Railway, held on Friday, in London, the
chairman stated, that the line would be opened all the way
to Colchester, fifty-two miles from London, in the Septem-
ber of the ensuing year. The completion will be at an
average expense of £34,000 per mile, and the entire cost of
the line £2,300,000.

In the American Navy an official order has been lately
issued for all officers to cut off their soap locks, and enacting,
where whiskers are worn, that they shall not descend beyond
one inch below the tip of the ear, and from thence making a
straight line to the corner of the mouth. Moustaches and
billy goalies are absolutely prohibited to be worn by naval
officers in uniform.

The project for rendering Belgium an integral part of
France, by the union of the customs of the two countries,
is likely to meet with very general opposition. The Augs-
burgh Gazette regards the proposed incorporation as a poli-
tical arrangement—and consequently opposed to the principle
of European equilibrium—to which none of the Five Powers
will consent without mature deliberation.

There is at present residing in the parish of Great Hazelly,
Oxon, a woman in her 40th year, who has favoured the parish
by producing 19 illegitimate children, she was married 20
years since, had one child by her husband, who absconded
before it was born, and has never since been heard of : the
woman, for 19 following years, has produced an illegitimate
child, making a total of 20, 13 of the children are living: the
cost to the parish of this expensive family exceeds £360.
RoLss OF THE BAR.—In one of the cases at Nisi Prim,
only one counsel was engaged on the side of the plaintiff. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow, who was on the other side, objected on the
part of the bar, as a point of privilege, that in every defended
case there should be a junior counsel employed as well as a
leader. This being coincided in by the bar generally, the
case was stopped for a moment till the attorney for the plain-
tiff handed a brief to a second counsel.—Hereford Journal.

SHARP PRACTICE.—At a Justice of Peace Court held
here a few days ago, one of our townsmen brought an action
against his neighbour for ls. 9d. The defender established a
counter claim for Is. 3d., when the former obtained a decree
for the sum of sixpence. By the rules of the court the suc-
cessful litigant had to pay a shilling for the oath given by the
defender in support of his counter claim, and the justice
awarded a portion of the expenses, amounting to Is.
against the pursuer. The latter had, therefore, to pay 2s.
for the recovery of his sixpence.—Inverness Courier.

THE POOR LAw ACT.—It is intended by the conservative
party that the Poor Law Commission, which will expire in
the course of a few months, shall be renewed for another
year. It is felt that in the short session of parliament,
about to commence, it would be impossible to deal satisfac-
torily with so important a question as the Poor I .aw Amend-
ment Bill, as propounded by the 'Whigs ; but it is consola-
tory to know that the new administration fully purpose to
divest the obnoxious measure of its harsh and uncalled-for
provisions, and to adapt it to the real requirements of the
country.—Newcastle Journal.
THE CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS.—We understand
that the Society of Friends in this town has been applied to
for the use of their Meeting House, to hold the ministerial
Anti Corn-law Conferences in, but have declined to lend it,
as they consider the conference of a political character. Al-
though a few of the members of that society have been so
imprudent as to assist in some of the various systems of poli-
tical agitation, which have now become so common, the ge-
neral body of that society entirely disapproves of such pro-
ceedings.—Manchester Courier.
A ridiculous story, copied from the Pottsville Miner's
Journal, has been put in circulation, stating that the bitu-
minous coal used on board the British steamers plying to this
country has frequently during the voyage ignited. The con-
signee at this port of the Great Western has thought proper
flatly to deny the fact. It was scarcely necessary ; for bitu-
minous coal having, time out of mind, been the sole fuel used
in some of the most populous countries of the world, and
having been piled up in cellars and in every possible way for
use when wanted, without any instance of spontaneous com-
bustion occurring, the idea that it should now for the first
time take place was too ridiculous to deserve a moment's
consideration.—New York Morning Chronicle.

FREEDOM OF PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND.—A curious
and somewhat interesting case came on at the Tyrone assizes
on Monday. It was brought before Judge Crampton. The
simple facts are that a Miss Graham, who is disposed to
conform to the Protestant religion, was assaulted by her
uncle, who was anxious that she should be educated as a
Roman Catholic, and, in endeavouring to coerce her to sub-
mit to his wishes, treated her with great cruelty. Subse-
quently to this circumstance she was placed in a boarding-
school, it being understood that she was to enjoy full reli-
gious liberty. However, this understanding was violated;
for on the 26th of July, as Miss Graham was proceeding to
visit a female friend, she was waylaid by her uncle and others,
who placed her in a covered car and carried her off. The
young lady appeared before the court, having been brought
before it, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus. The result
was, that the persecuted lady has been placed under the care
of a Protestant lady of independent fortune, who will permit
her the free exercise of her religion.

THE CROPS.—The most favourable weather for the ripen-
ing of the corn crops has, wish the exception of one day,
prevailed throughout this district during the present week,
and the atmosphere is now as bright and genial as could well
be desired. Some patches of barley have been cut in various
parts of Northumberland. The wheats have assumed a
yellow hue, and notwithstanding the late rains stand full and
strong upon the ground. It is believed that by the termina-
tion of the present month, should the weather continue
favourable, of which there is at present every reasonable
prospect, the harvest will have become general in the North
of England. The statements which have appeared in certain
" liberal" journals in the metropolis as to the prospects of
the harvest are as preposterous as they are wicked, and can
have been put forward with no other view than either to
favour the nefarious designs of a set of gamblers in grain, or
to increase the distress and discontent of the manufacturing
population. At present there is no probability that the crop
of wheat will be deficient in quantity or quality, and it may
be hoped that in a very few weeks flour will be much more
reasonable in price than now, though the management of in
terested parties, unhappily prevails.—Newcastle Journal.
SLEEPY JUROP.S.—In the course of an inquest held yes-
terday before Mr. Wakley, a juror, addressing the coroner,
asked if the witness then under examination might not be
allowed to sit down. Mr. Wakely replied, that he deemed
it a very bad plan for witnesses to be sitting while giving
their evidence, for they might perchance fall asleep, while
standing kept them awake. He did not know whether the
jurymen themselves, for the very same cause, should not be
required to stand; for he often met with jurymen who
seemed marvellously inclined to take a nap. He recollected
on one occasion a very bulky gentleman, who weighed about
twenty-five stone, who had been summoned as a juryman,
and who, after being sworn and seated, said to the person
next him, " I'm sure I shall go to sleep, so take this," giving
him a pin, "and when you see me going off, just prick me
with it." He presently after dozed off, but the person who
held the pin, not knowing his temper, refrained from using
it, and let him slumber till he was aroused by the beadle,
when he became quite enraged at not having been "pricked"
by the gentleman he had appointed to that office, and he was
with difficulty pacified. At an inquest at Harrow, some
months since, the beadle was obliged, during the inquiry, to
be continually handing snuff to the jury to enliven them ;
and at a more recent inquest he held in Marylebone, after
viewing the body, and before any witnesses had been ex-
amined, the foreman went home; and on the beadle being
sent for him, he actually found him in bed and fast asleep !
To prevent, therefore, the witness's falling into such a
lethargic state, he had adopted the plan pursued in all other
courts—namely, to make them give their testimony standing.
—Herald.

From " A Few Notes on Unpaid Letters" we take the
following :—" The penny postage has already wrought an ex-
traordinary change in the public ideas of the value of money.
Formerly, according to the old maxim, ninepence was but
ninepence; but even twopence has now become a sum ster-
ling, to demand which is to stir men's blood as violently as
if the said coins were flung in their faces. To put a letter
into the post, and an intimate friend to the expence of two-
pence, was, only the other day, perfectly natural; under the.
present system it is fiendish. A letter sent free costs the
sender a penny ; to receive a letter not prepaid, is to expend
double the amount. In the degree of attention shown to this
little fact, it is not impossible to find a test of the principles
of mankind—of the whole corresponding portion of creation
at least. The last post Office returns show that there are upon
an average 7,65-1 persons—monsters in the human form, we
should rather say—in this metropolis alone, who walk about
day by day, droppin: stampless epistles into ravenous letter-
boxes, from sheer misanthropy—hatred of their fellow-crea-
tures ; which feeling they are pleased to call forgetfulness,
sßaefTeePlessness, or copperlessness, as convenience may dictate.
The man tserinusly upon the character of such a correspondent.
whose letters are not prepaid may be thus de-
nounced .—He is selfish, because he would rather you should
pay twice than
that he should' pay once ; he would rather in-
flict an injury his friend than act fairly himself; he is
disloyal, because nh
e ought to grace his letter with the head
of his queen, and he d
brother's two pocketseclpi
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one of his own.—Omnibus.