The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

The four representative Irish bishops in the next parliament
are,—the Archbishop of 'rum, and the Bishops of Ossory,
Kiltala, and Clonfert.

The Emperor of Russia has gone from Kreuth to meet at
Munich the King of Bavaria coming from Bruckenau.—
Augsburg Gazette.
The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by his friend rti r.
Arbuthnot, left Apsley House on Saturday morning for \Val-
mer Castle, where the elite of his grace's political friends have
been invited to pass sometime after the fatigue of a labour-
hi, session of parliament. Lord and Lady Jersey and Lord
and Lady Lyndhurst, who are on the eve of departure to pass
the autumn and winter abroad, will visit the gallant duke, it
is expected, on their way to Paris.
We have heard that at the present moment Lord Breagham
has no intention of visiting Scotland this year, and we be-
lieve we may at all events safely pronounce that he will not
dine with those who call themselves, on the present occa-
sion; " the Radicals of Glasgow."—Scotsman.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, AUG, 27.
The market has been but thinly attended to-day, and busi-
ness rather more languid. The low and middling qualities
of flannels were the goods chiefly inquired after, while finer
descriptions have met with a heavy sale. There is nO change
in the prices either of wool or flannels to-day.

The officers of the 45th regiment, stationed at Canterbury
Barracks, have placed a tablet in tbe Cathedral,' in re-
membrance of their brave companion in arms, Lieutenant
Bennett, who fell in the strict and manly disvharge;of his
duty, in Bossenden Wood, villa of Dunkirk, 31st of, May.
by a pistol shot from the maniac Courtenay.
Our fair equestrians, whom her Majesty's daily example
has so much increased in number, will perhaps be interested
in learning that her Majesty avails herself of a newly—dis-
covered cloth, which, while it is impervious to rain,.allows
the escape of that perspiration which is the neccessary effect
of all healthy exercise.—Observer.
IRON STEAAiERS.—The iron steam, vessel, Voador, has, we
understand, arrived at Pernambuco after a passage of -actual
steaming of only four and a half days from 711aranham.
Sailing vessels are generally, we believe, twenty to thirty
dayS making this .passage, and a fast-sailing vessel arrived
at 'Pernanibuco two days before the Voador, that had been
forty-five days on the_voyage from Maranhain.,.:This proves
the great advantage to be derived from the introduction of
steani-vessels on a coast where the current and wind prevail
so as to prevent sailing vessels accomplishing their-passage
in a reasonable time, and must shortly lead to tbe adoption
of steam-vessels both on the east .and west coast: of South
America.

BANGOg NATIONAL SCHOOL.—The claims of these admi-
rably-conducted establistinients were eloquently pleaded in
the Cathedral on Sunday last, by the. Rev. Robert Davies.,
M.A., minister of St. David's church, Liverpool, before a
very crowded congregation; • among whom were the Most
Rev. Dr. Whateley, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, the Very Rev. the
Dean, Sir John Williams, Bart.,. and the gentry of the sur-
rounding neighbourhood. The impressive appeal of the
able preacher was successful ; a liberal collection of £26 10s.
830. having been obtained. The, subject of the sermon was
"The- indispensable necessity of a scriptural education."
The services of the choir were mist admirably performed.
DI^COVERY AT 11.11:UN G.—While working ,in a quarry at
-Meung, the workmen came to a sculptured stone.. of a circu-
lar form, which. covered a pit of no great depth, at the
bottom of which was the entire skeleton. of a•woman. On
one of her fingers were two rings, one of silver without any
carving; the second thick, and of pure gold, -representing .a
knighiwith his helmet, and a scyrneter suspended from his
tight arm. •

BEIONICKSHME.—The sheriff or Berwickshire- held hie
Registration courts at Greenlaw on the 15th, Dunse on the
17th, and,at Avton on the 20th. current. The result is that
the gain of the conservatives at Greenlaw is 10; at Dunse,
11; and, at Aytoun, 9—making the total gain 30. In the
burgh of Lauder the conservative agent lodged nine claims,
which were all sustained. One was lodged by the other
party ; an objection was put in and found -good, so that in
this burgh alone the conservative interest has gained an
augmentation of nine.

There are very general rumours afloat in Dublin that an
Irish peer, recently married to the daughter of a noble earl,
and who inhmited, upon the death of his father, £15,000
year, and nearly £lOO,OOO iu the funds, has lost every
shilling over which he had control,. including even the life
interest to his magnificent estate, in gambling debts. It is
said that he has been thus fleeced by two members of the
peerage. At present it would be premature to go into parti-
culars.— Letter in the Times.
•
Mr. Betty, jun. only son of the once .celebrated, Master
Betty (the young Roscius), who first appeared at Covent
Garden Theatre on the Jet of December, 1804,' and at that
time created the greate'st sensation ever known in theatrical
history since the days of Garrick, has it appears, adopted
the stage as a profession, although in affluent mrcinnstances,
He will continence his performances in the provinces. -Chel;
tenham has been selected for his debut; and in thattheatre
Mr. Betty, jun, will shortly personate thet character of
Achmet, in Blown's tragedy of " Barbarossa," the part in
which the young Roscius first appeared in London.
MINOR OFVIcIAL CH AN-GM—We are enabled to an-
nounce the following appointments :—Mr. John Wood, now
chairman of stamps and taxes, to be chairman of the excise.
board, in the room of Sir F. Doyle, retiring on account of
ill health. Mr. Hart Davis, a commissioner of exciSe, to.be
deputy chairman of excise, in the room of Mr. Plunkett, de-
ceased, Mr. Stephenson, commissioner for the investi-
,gation of the slave compensation claims, to be commissioner
of excise. Mr. Wickham, private secretary to Lord .Althorp,
and afterwards one of the excise inquiry commissioners, to
he chairman of the board of stamps and taxes. Mr: S. E.
Spring Rice, to be commissioner of customs, in. the room 01
Mr. Binning, superannuated.—Globe.
CELESTIAL PHENOMENON.—Last evening, a very beauti-
. ful aurora borealis was observed. It commenced in'the N. W.,
in a streamer, resembling a rainbow in shape,, shooting up
to the zenith, but shortly it extended itself along the horizon
from N. to the W., and the coruscations were magnificent in
the extreme. This • phenomenon is now pretty generally ac-
knowledged lobe lightning in high northern latitudes, where
the air is extremely verified and pure. The celebrated natural
philosopher, Sturgeon, discovered this, and has a very
beautiful experiment to illustrate it, by means of a glass tube,
with brass at each end, from which the air is exhausted, and,
the electric fluid passing through it, presents all the. appear'
ances of the northern lights.-IFigan Ga.:ette.
VENTILATION AND LIGHTING OF THE HOUSE OF Cor.imoNs•

--A return of the expenses incurred by the recent exper •••
meats in ventilating and lighting the Elousclof csitrinispas-"-
has just been printed, from which- it appears the ventilating .•
and warming experiments cost £6545 9a. 6d.; the, experi-
ment in lighting with gas cost £lOl3 17s. 10c1., and.the can'
die lighting experiments amounted to £514 i Bs. Bd.. The
improved mode of. lighting by candles, which was continued
to the end of the session, causes an increased expense of
£2lss. 12d. per night, the number of candles employed be-
ing 276, whilst in the old plan of lighting the number used
per night was 150. The amount paid to Dr. Reid for his at-
tendance and expenses, including a gratuity of £5OO for the
application of his system of ventilation and acoustics, was
£lOl2 15s. •
SUICIDE BY A DOG.—Mr. Burnell Ward, druggist, of Al
England-street, Hull, had a favourite little dog, and, a fof
days since, for some infringement of good breeding of which
it had been guilty, gave the animal a slight kick. The dog
being unaccustomed to receive such treatment from hie
master, it is to be presumed, took the punishment to heart;
for it immediately trotted off to the foreshore of the Humber,
opposite Belle Vue Terrace, and was observed, by some me°
who were at work near Mr. Medley's slip, to walk into the
water with great deliberation, and drown itself! We confess
we were at first somewhat incredulous as to the correctnessai
this story ; but, on inquiry, we have found it to be strictlf
true.—Hitll Times.
NEWLY-INVENTED CABLE STORPER.—Mr. AlWater,R.S.
who has the management and charge of the chain cables and
iron tanks in Portsmouth dock-yard, has made a great and
ingenious improvement in the stopper of the cable, by sub'
stituting an iron deck stopper with a slip, to slip from the
cable, in place of a rope stopper , now used on board het
Majesty's ships. The present stopper is composed of rope,
having a lanyard and shackle for shackling the Same ou the
ring bolt of the deck. The stopper produced bytir. Atwater, •
has been tried on hoard her Majesty's ship Pique' while a' •
Spithead, at single anchor for a week, and during four years
it ;blew a gale of wind. Great credit is due to this officer far
•
the suggestion, which has been found to answer remarkablY
well in that heavy-ship; it is more durable, lighter, and lee
s
trouble to make than a rope stopper, and can 'always be
issued with the chain cables.
.The coast is nearly the ;Vie' '
—United Service Ga:ette.
MARKERS IN GROUSE-SHOOTING.—If the grouse-shooter's
encumbered with several markers one should accompany hite'
the rest should be stationed in all directions on the hill telt
It is the duty of a marker to watch the birds while the shooter
is engaged in bagging his game and reloading. When birast
are scarce it is no loss of time to follow a marked bird; bli
when plentiful the shooter should not deviate from the line f
beat he has chosen. When birds are abundant markers at
a nuisance. When scarce, a marker may be serviceable, pr°,l
.vided a thorough-bred one can be obtained—some shepherd
lad, whose proficiency may be guessed at by the knowil':,
cunning that glitters in his eye when he is told that his s, ,
vices are required. A youth of this description will lie doors
when a bird riles, put up his hands to his face, like the blindele
of a Waggon-Worse, and mark a bird down-to an inch, a
off. These youths have an unaccommodating knack of
piing wounded birds into their own prover pockets unseeurg
or of hiding them in peat boles, so that neither Turk,. T4;4
nor Spaniard, the retrievers, can find them. Retrievers
seldom used in grouse-shooting; but one will oftentimes "
found use ful.—Oakleigh on Shooting.
RAILWAY FROM NEWCASTLE TO EDINBURGH.---21 rvtoe
LINE PROJECTED.—The project Of a railway from Newt'''. of
to Edinburgh, by way of WoOlet and the midland districts,
the Tweed, is seriously in contemplation, and an explariateld,
survey of the line is now proceeding through Northutnbei btu
but particularly between the rivers Wansbeek and•Caclllipt
the latter of which is the most difficult to pass, as it is a rihe
that requires considerable elevation, in order to meet,Ther
more elevated parts north of it, viz. Itimside Moor. .F..„0
different lines are in course of survey between these twori;a,
—two east and two west of the great north roads; the west,,ott
most, where the greatest difficulties were supposed to Pima-
has been carried as far as Wooler, &c. The greatest iiiennel
thin will not exceed 25 feet. per mile, or 1 in 211 ; a la 4 ja
is unavoiihtble through ltimside Moor, about two milfiret, •
length, The greatest depth of cutting will not exceed 70
and the greatest height of embankment (the valley °f. 110
Ain) 100 feet; the extreme length of these two places' Is 30
chains. The length of the viaduct over the Wansbf...'oy
chains or 1980 feet, and its height 148 feet, that is iintne, l'anri
over the bed of the river (the width of which is 70 feet ;2(1 the
the viaduct over the Coquet is 60 chains or 3960 feet, a.o.iieh
height 180 feet over the bed of the river (the width or
_'ll.l be
is 60 feet.) It is expected that the latter dimensions "fl. but
%Outgreatly reduced by a line proposed to cross near Felt
which will naturally increase the length of the tunnel a its
quarter of a mile; but this again is counterbalauced ibe
having the effect of reducing the height and length
0';. eat-
embankment over the valley of the Alm The depll',„l, does
ting at either end of the tunnel, as at present prop.e.o'7_&r-
-not exceed 34 feet, and the extreme length 6 challis'
wick Warder. • bet
„ ANIMAL. MAGNETISM IN FRANCE.—'3I. DUllutD,amen
offerol
of the Royal Academy of Medecine, some time sineeeztised,
a reward. of 3000 francs to any one who, when
could read withota the assistance of the eyes. 1N1.t.0; chat,
a physician of Montpellier, immediately accepted , of me,
lenge on the part of his daughter, a child of 13 yea7.balista:
who, he asserted, relied in a state of magnetic
revel 1
could see to read, &c. with her eyes so covered us t~,nipat
the transtnisssion of the rays of light. A committee, re the Ph r
• by the royal academy, was appointed to in vestitil,
nomena said to he presented by M
a due examination, came to the conclusion t
tha :_',„`inio), tt `:
ought not to be awarded, because She precautio(i,_ er';_ras
were not such as to prevent the success of Ili 'ugteio'a's toot's,
dlle. Pigeair
Pigeairc, refused to ollow various- innocent preea„pa beeaa,„
tried, which the committee thought necessarY; herb
they were convinced that the girl could not rea!11;11;1100
gers„ unless the bandages were so placed thatel
could pass between its lower edge and the nos..e bot ni7
positively refused to allow any, bandage to b
_7l mada,l,l7.
own, unless he were to regulate its size and fottr,,oal.'_,ereiseo
el.
P. might have it in her possession a few
traderdayat,c.:: p.,s art,
daughter with it, it being during that time l' • foil mee
ing of the academy, by the manner in which s
..1.11. Castel excited much laughter at an unustu,:
the distortion of the muscles of. the face,
rbVl:
j bandage'
Pigeaire managed to detach the lower part I,laced bene`„'
tb
her nose. M. Gerdy examined the bandagespro",',,ir,,)ighit,
she could never read but when the hook was ~,a she used,
and found a few small holes capable of trap
c.s',LAvZst, t
and M. Velpeau, who tried it on, was able to_
omwttt
ee
ace of diamonds with it. The conclusions•aof,_tr„::
were almost unanimously adopted by the
tie)nionstratFed.
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