The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

RE-GILDING EXECUTED AT REDUCED
CHARGES.

The new Patent Frames manufactured by Machinery being
now brought to the greatest perfection, may be seen in great
variety, and their price not one half that of the old Wool
Frames of corresponding size and section.

WHO WOULD WRITE AN INDIFFERENT HAND,
When a beautifully free and flowing Style of Penmanship cam
be acquired in a tete Easy Lessons,
AT MR. AND MRS. THOMPSON'S
PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISAMEXT,
8, CLAYTON-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL.
MR. THOMPSON, who has been established at
No. 8, Clayton-square, upwards of seventeen years, sole
Inventor and Head Teacher of a new and superior system of
Writing, enables bad writers to acquire a free, expeditious,
and commanding style of Penmanship, in a few easy Lessons
of one hour each, private, or in class.
LADIES, in Class, meet at Three o'clock on Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, and are completed in a remarkably free
and lady-like Handwriting, the only fashionable one of the day.
GENTLEMEN meet in the Evening of the above days, First
Class at Seven, Second Class at Eight o'clock, and are com-
pleted in a good, bold, free, and expeditious business hand.
Lessons given strictly private at any hour, to suit the conve-
nience of the Pupil.
MR. THOMPSON
GIVES LESSONS IN THE USEFUL ART OF
BOOK-KEEPING
BY DOUBLE ENTRY,
containing the general principles and particular rules now used
in the mercantile houses in Liverpool.
The Pupil is thoroughly instructed in a variety of extensive
and diversified transactions, including Purchases and Sales,
Goods on Consignment, Shipments Abroad, Joint Adventures,
Making Insurances, Partnership, Posting and Balancing the
Ledger, Balance Sheet, &c.
Commercial Arithmetic, Mental Calculation, and Short-hand
taught in a few Lessons.
For Cards of Terms apply at No. 8, Clayton-square.

SASSAFRAS CHOCOLATE.
DR. DE LA MOTTE'S NUTRITIVE, HEALTH
RESTORING AROMATIC CHOCOLATE,
PREPARED FROM THE NUTS OF THE SASSAFRAS TREE.
Sold by the Patentee, 12, Southampton-street,
Strand, London.
THIS CHOCOLATE contains the peculiar virtues of
of the Sassafras Root, which has been long held in great
estimation for its purifying and alterative properties. The
aromatic quality (which is very grateful to the stomach) most
invalids require for breakfast and evening repast, to promote
digestion, and to a deficiency of this property in the customary
breakfast and supper, :nay in a great measure be attributed the
frequency of cases of indigestion generally termed bilious. It
has been found highly beneficial in correcting the state of the
digestive organs, &c., from whence arise many diseases, such
as eruptions of the skin, gout, rheumatism, and scrofula. In
cases of debility of the stomach, and a sluggish state of the
liver and intestines, occasioning flatulence, costiveness, &c.,,
and in spasmodic asthma, it is much recommended.

JENNY LIND'S VOICE LOZENGES, strongly
eJ recommended
TheseLotozecnlgeersgywmeerne, SesinpgeecirasilcuphrliecpSap:eedalieferrs, and
e
Actors.
private use of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, who has been in the
habit of using them since her arrival in England, and with the
most beneficial result, and on the occasion of her visit to Bir-
mingham on Thursday, the 26th of August, she at once afforded
the Proprietor, Mr. Charles Belton, of 43, High-street, Bir-
mingham, an interview, when after expressing herself in the
highest possible terms of approbation as to their very valuable
properties, and the great relief and comfort she had found from
the use of them, presented to him her autograph certificate,
requesting him to make free use of it, to give the Lozenge her
own name, and to assure the public, on her authority, of the
great advantages to be derived from the constant use of them.

TESTIMONIAL.
" I certify that I have used Mr. Charles Belton's Voice Lo-
zenge, and that I have found it useful in strengthening and
clearing the voice. (Signed) "JENNY LIND.),
These valuable Lozenges are now offered to the Public, and
may be obtained from all respectable Chemists throughout the
kingdom, in Boxes, Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. Wholesale
Agents—Ey...Ns, Sox, and Co., Liverpool ; W. EDWARDS,
DICEY and SurroN, and BARCLAY and SONS, London. Pre-
pared only by C. BELTON, Chemist, Birmingham.

Observe that the Signature of the proprietor, "G. C. Serjeant,"
is written on the Government Stamp.
SERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy
against Rheumatism? Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica, and Lum-
bago. Sold by the Proprietor, G. C. SERJEANT, No. ], Lo-
vell's-court, Paternoster-row, and 21 Bell-yard, Temple-bar,
London; and by all Venders of Medicine. Price 2s. 9d. per
Bottle.

This excellent Medicine, so universally esteemed, is unat-
tended with the least danger or inconvenience, and hundreds
have experienced its happy and salutary effects since it was
first introduced.

The astonishing success which has crowned the application
of this external Medicine in the most hopeless and deplorable
cases, when the unhappy sufferer had despaired of ever gaining
even the least relief, and this after the ablest advice and every
other means had completely failed, most justly entitles it to the
attention of the afflicted.

Such are the properties of this invaluable Specific that per
sons labouring under the most distressing Rheumatism, Rheu-
matic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered thereby incapable of
assisting themselves, have been relieved in a few hours.

Amongst many which are being daily received are the follow-
lug testimonials :-
14, Belmont place, Trandsworth-road, Oct. 26, 1844.
Stn,—l feel in duty bound to acknowledge, that after suffer-
ing acute pains from Sciatica, or severe Rheumatic affection in
the hip-joint, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded to
try your embrocation, and have the pleasure to say that after
three applications I was restored to my usual health ; and, al-
though two years have passed, I have no return of the disorder.
—I am, Sir, gratefully yours. EDWARD NOYES.

4. Paternoster-me.
"Sin,—Having been informed of tne surpnsing cure of Mr.
Barnes, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who was so severely afflicted
by Rheumatism, the intense pain causing delirium, that he was
compelled to be confined by a strait waistcoat to prevent his
committing any violence, and whose case was considered en-
tirely hopeless, I was induced to ascertain the particulars, and
being satisfied of the truth of my informatiop, encouraged meto make a trial of your most invaluable Medicine, entertaining
little hopes of success, having been many years so severe a suf-
ferer, and tried many said to be very valuable remedies. lam
very happy in being able to add my testimony of the benefit
I derived : after a few days' application the use of my limbs are
perfectly restored, and I am now able to attend inv business,
and, making an allowance for my age, neverr,was betteri n my
life. To those, however severely afflicted and honeless their
case may have been pronounced, I beg of them to make a trial,
feeling quite satisfied they will be restored to the use of their
limbs, from the severe cases that have yielded to this Medicine.
Health is a great blessing to those who can enjoy it, but to
those who are deprived, none feels it so severely as the trades-
man or mechanic, as it generally causes loss business, and
brings ruin on families. I shall at all times feel it my duty to
make it known to those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am
for my restoration, and am, Sir, yours truly,
GEORGE POLLARD.
October 20, 1844.

Ti 71-sfreef, Cripplegate.
SIAM I have been several weeks confined to my bed by Gout
and Rheumatism, not a part from my head to my feet free from
pain, and as helpless as an infant: not even a finger could I
move. In this unpleasant situation I was informed by my me-
dical attendant he had applied all the usual remedies, and that
I might remain months in my deplorable situation.
was made known to me, or I might
haFvoetennatteol
Fortunately
ryeraedconined to my bed. After a close appli-
cation of four days, my troublesome companion began to .dis-
appear; in a week I was capable of walking about my room,
and by another week's perseverance in the use of your Medi-
cine was enabled to leave Loodon. Fearful of another attack,
you will please to send six bottles.—l am, Sir, you r obedient
servant,— D. W. STONE.
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FOREIGN 15- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE•

SPAIN.

Accounts from Madrid of the 4th inst. prove that Senor
Salamanca is decided on taking the goodwill of the pa-
triotic portion of his countrymen by storm. The Madrid
Gazette publishes a royal decree, appointing General
Espartero senator of the kingdom. The same journal
contains a circular, addressed by the Minister of the Inte-
rior to the Political Chief, prohibiting all publications re-
lative to the private life of the Queen and her august con-
sort, under the penalty of the suppression of the journal
and the confiscation of the security lodged by the proprie-
tor, or of a fine of 60,000 reals if the offence was com-
mitted in a pamphlet. General Manuel de. la Concha,
Marquis of Douro, had been appointed Captain-General
of Catalonia. The General was admitted on the 3d to a
private audience of the Queen, who gave him the most
flattering reception, and presented him with a horse from
the Royal stables. The General left in the evening for
Catalonia. It does not appear that General Narvaez has
as yet resigned the post of Ambassador in Paris. On the
2nd instant a body of Carlists entered the town of Olat, in
Catalonia, but on the approach of a superior force they
retired, after seizing the money in the public treasury, and
put:ing to death 14 sick soldiers lying in the Military
Hospital.
The Madrid Gazette publishes the royal decree of the
new Ministry :—General Cordova, Minister of war ; De
Escosura, Home Department ; Ros de Olono, Commerce ;
Cabalero, Foreign Department ; Salamanca, Finances ;
Sotelo, Marine, Justice. The Presidency of the Council
is reserved for the Duke of Frias.
The Journal des Detats announces that a royal decree
was signed at Madrid on the 2d instant, authorising the
return of all political• emigrants without exception, and
that all prosecutions commenced against them should be
annulled. The Duke of Frias left Bayonne on the 4th
instant for Madrid. The Duke of Sotemayor likewise
left for the capital on the same day. On the 3d instant
the Queen, by a royal decree, recalled General Espartero,
and created him Captain General of the army.
Accounts to the 6th state that the name of Espartero,
proclaithed through the streets by the public criers, re-
vived many political recollections. The squares were
thronged with people, and her Majesty was greeted with
acclamations. The cries of " Long live the Constitutional
Queen," were mingled with those of "Viva Espartero,"
and " Viva the National Militia." Several friends of the
ex-Regent bad illuminated their houses. On the sth,
her Majesty attended a bull-fight, and on entering the
circus was cheered with the greatest, enthusiasm. General
Narvaez had also repaired thither, but the jibes and jeers
of the spectators compelled him to make a hasty retreat
before the entrance of the Queen.
Nothing is more common than to see Spanish officers
begging alms in the streets of Madrid, after having vainly
tried to earn a livelihood as servants, or as common la-
bourers.

Official notice has been given that the coast of Albania
is under blockade.
A proposal has been made to establish a university at
Sydney, New South Wales, in order to enable young men
born in the Australian colonies to complete their educa-
tion without proceeding to Europe.
The Catholic Almanac for 1847 says that the number
of priests in the United States is 834, being an accession
of 98 in one year; and also that there are 812 chinches,
72 of which were erected during, the past year.
Lola Montes has been created a countess by the King
of Bavaria. She takes the title of Countess Lansfeld,
which was that of a noble family now extinct. It was
reported at Munich, that a large annual income was se-
cured to her. She gave a grand entertainment in conse-
quence.
The Earl of Durham has arrived at Montreal on a visit
to his Excellency the Governor-General and the Countess
of Elgin. The noble Earl returns from North America
in the spring of next year. The Countess of Elgin's
health was greatly improved when the last accounts were
received from Canada.
AN ENGLISH AMBASSADOR AT ROME.-011r corres-
pondent in Rome—as will be seen by his letter—refers to
a report current there that an envoy from the court of
St. James's, in the person of Lord Minto, is on his way to
the papal court. A similar report has been confidently
repeated in London by parties who ought to be well
informed on such a subject.—Daily News.
The first Turkish expedition ever undertaken for a
merely scientific object has just left Constantinople. A
caravan of sevens, chiefly composed of Turks, but led by
a German, Herr Schwarzenbach, has set out for the
Taurus and Mesopotamia, with orders to measure heights,
hunt for antiquities, and gather ethnographical, geogra-
phical, and geological details.
THE VlNTAGE.—Letters from Strasburg state that it is
impossible to conceive anything more magnificent than
the present vintage ; it is rich and abundant in the ex-
treme. Immense quantities of champagne are being ex-
ported, especially to the north of Europe. The price of
wine is falling daily, while that of vessels increases. In
some districts the sellers will return one cask of wine for
three empty vessels.
A TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSS'ELS.—On the 3rd in-
stant, during the absence at the theatre of M. Evenepoel,
some robbers broke into his residence, murdered his
sister and two female servants, and stole a variety of
plate and jewellery. A large house-dog was also found
killed, and a little spaniel cruelly injured. Two young
men, who were courting the servants, and a cab-driver, are
in custody, on suspicion of having committed the offence.
Letters from Berne of the 3d instant announce that,
after a discussion which lasted two days, the Diet decided
—first, that the question of the Jesuits was a federal one ;
and, second, that the cantons in which that order existed
should be summoned to dismiss them, and that those in
which there were no Jesuits should be forbidden to admit
them under any denomination whatever. That resolution
was voted by twelve cantons and two half cantons. The
representatives of Lucerne, Schweitz, and 1 alais respec-
tively protested in the name of their constituents, and de-
clared that they would maintain the Jesuits in spite of the
injunction of the Diet. No period was assigned to the
four cantons in which the Jesuits are- settled (Lucerne,
Friburg, Schweitz, and Valais) to obey the decree of the
Diet; but, as the assembly is to meet again in a few
weeks, there is little doubt but it will then adopt coercive
measures to enforce obedience to its decision. In the
course of the sitting of the 3d, the Directory informed the
Diet that the Government of Lucerne was constructing
additional fortifications on different points along the fron-
tier of Argau. That communication was referred to the
committee charged with presenting propositions for the
dissolution of the Sonderbund.
PROPOSED EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM SWIT-
ZERLAND.—WhiIst England is offering every facility for
the reception of Jesuits, the Pope—the Holy Father of
the Church to which they belong, is guarding himself
against their devices •, and Switzerland, where they have
settled in considerable numbers, is struggling hard to
expel the dangerous fraternity. The Swiss Diet, on the
3rd inst., decided (by a majority of twelve Cantons and
two half Cantons, against eight Cantons and one half
Canton) to interdict the Jesuits from admission into the
Swiss territories, and called upon the four Cantons in
which they are now established to expel them. The in-
ternational differences of the Swiss Cantons are not,
however, exclusively religious. Seven of the Cantons
have formed themselves into a League, called the Son-
derbond, the object of which is probably more positively
against the Radicalism of the other Cantons than in favor
of their own toleration of Jesuitism. The population of
this Republic within a Republic is only about 350,000,
against a population in the remaining Cantons of nearly
1,700,000. The Swiss Diet first declared the existence of
the Sonderbund illegal—a decision to which the seven
Cantons of which it is composed have refused to submit,

And as they may be expected equally to treat with con:
tempt the subsequent decision as to the expulsion of the
Jesuits, the Federal Union of the Cantons is virtually at
an end ; and war is, therefore, apparently inevitable.
A CURIOUS WILL.—The Courrier des Etats Unis
gives an account of a singular will left by a wealthy notary
in Paris, about 25 years since, and which is yet in course
of fulfilment. His greatest pleasure in life had been to
gather his numerous friends around his table and treat.
them splendidly, being generous and a good liver, and he
conceived the notion of perpetuating these social gather-
ings after his death. Accordingly, by his will he institu-
ted an annual banquet for twenty of his chosen friends,
appropriating to the purpose the sum of 2000 f. The
details of the feast were strictly enjoined, directing the
expense always to be 100 f. a head. The memory of the
deceased was to be toasted, and the subject of conversation
to be as friendship or politeness might dictate. The feast
was to be inviolably the same, 21 plates to be always set,
(one for himself as perpetual head of the table,) and the
2000 f. to be expended. The first year the twenty friends were
all there, but year after year they were removed by death,
until in twenty years they were reduced to eight. These
partook as customary of the feast, and toasted the memo-
ries of their departed companions. Last year, however,
• there were but two, who solely shared the luxurious but
melancholy banquet. The two knew each other but little,
and met yearly at this table. Their positions were very
different. One was very rich, while misfortune had re-
duced the other to destitution. The rich and the poor
man sat coldly opposite to each other, until, warmed by
the wines, they had forgotten their different circumstances.
On the Ist of June, this year, the feast again returned,
but the rich man was dead, and the poor and only survivor
seated himself at the table laden with silver, with its 21
covers and its delicious viands. There he sat the victim
of poverty, subject to all privations, pervaded by a feeling
of sadness and desolation, at a magnificent banquet of
2000 f. Pressed by his wants he made bold to request that
the sum which was supplied to this yearly feast for himself
might be appropriated to his daily sustenance. The law-
yer showed him the positive clause of the will, which he
was compelled to see executed to the letter. The poor
man retired in sadness, thinking how many days he would
be obliged to go without a dinner, while once a year be
was compelled to be surfeited with a feast prepared for 21
persons, and valued at 2000 f. A singular piece of folly
truly.