The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGISTRATION.

The interest which all classes of politicians have taken
in the registration courts is but little, it any, abated.
William Eekerslev, the obj,ctor-general to the League,
has been struck off the list, by Mr. Mathews, in conse-
quence ofhis qualification being wrong described in the i-e-
-gister. On the oth,:r hand, Mr. Brandreth has decided the
description to be good, and therefore holds that all his
objections are valid. How these contradictory decisions
are to be reconciled yet remains to be seen. The deci-
sion of Mr. Mathews, however, will have the effect of
setting aside upwards of 1,500 objections made by
Eckersley in this district.

The Duke of Grafton died on Saturday, at Euston
Hall, Suffolk, at the advanced_age of eighty-four. He is
succeeded in his title and estates by the Earl of Euston.
SPAlN.—Accounts have been received from Bayonne
to the 25th ult., which state that the reconciliation be-
tween the principal men of the Esparterist and Progres-
ista parties was complete, and that their was cvcry reason
to fear that their united en•:cavours would ere long suc-
ceed in producing a new insurrection in Spain. • .
RE-OPENING OF THE ADELPHI THEATRE, UNDER
THE MANAGEMENT ON MR. WEBSTER AND MADAME
CELESTE.—On Saturday, this pet theatre, which has
been closed foe the last six months, was re-crened under
the auspices of the enterprising lessees of our own
Theatre Royal, Mr. Webster and'Alaciatne Celeste, Mrs.
Yates, the former fair manageress continuing her services
as the leader of the female acting department. The
theatre was crowded on tile occasion. An address having
been delivered by Mrs. Yates, from the pen of Mr.
Giltert, the curtain rose and discovered the whole
of the dramatic company, who sang the national
anthem, amid-t warm demonstrations of loyalty. Mad.
Celeste, the new manager, was in the centre, on the arm
of Mr. Webster, the lessee. Paul Bedford, 0. Smith,
Wilkinson, Wright, Mrs. Fitzwilliarn, and Miss Wool-
gar, (the favourites of former times.) are retained ;. and
Hudson (a very clever actor), James Vining, the excellent
" fop," and Mr. F. Matthews, with several new person-
ages, whose merits are yet to be known, are added to the
company.

LIEUT. PUDDICOMBE.—This officer, accused of steal-
ing some plate, frour the hause of a gentleman, at Cork,
where he was present at a ball, was tried for the alleged
offence, on Friday, and acquitted.
RumourtED BREVET.—The expected military brevet
will include lieutenant-generals, major-generals, and co-
lonels of 1837; lieutenant-colonels, majors, and captains
of 1836; and will cause the following changes :—Major-
General Lord Frederick Fitzclarcnce to command the
Dublin distriet. vice General Wyndham, promoted ;
Major-General Prince George of Cambridge to be In-
spector of Cavalry, vice General Lygon, promoted; Co-
lonel Sir Robert Sale to be Deputy Adjutant-General in
Ireland, vice Colonel Napier, promoted ; Colonel Sir
Richard England, K.C.8., to be Adjutant-General' in
India, rice (Monet Sir Robert Sale, to Ireland ; Colonel
Love, C. 8., 73rd Regiment, to be Colonel on the Staff
at Corfu, vice Prince. George of Cambridge; Colonel
Spink, to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in Ireland,
vice Bainbrigge, promoted.—Limerick Chronicle.

TOM THUMB AND HIS EQUIPAGE.—The general, his
carriage, pair of ponies, coachman, and footman, weighed
one day lately, at Spaikbrook gate, near Birmingham,
7 cwt., 2 qrs., and 4 lbs.

The Rev. Jacob'Smith, 'Wesleyan Minister at Sunder-
land, was drowned on Thursday last, Whilst bathing in
the sea at the North Sand, between Sunderland and
W hitburn.

DREADFUL AFFRAY.—Last week a scuffle took place
between two men, named Tansy and Martin, at Halifax,
during which Martin gave Tansy a complete swing round
against the wall ; and the point of a knife in Tansy's hand
being in the direction of M'artin's ►eft ear, the latter,
during the turn at the wall, drove his head against it with
great force, Tansy's elbow resting at the time against the
wall, thus giving a double force to the contact with the
knife, which entered just below the left ear, and inflicting
a dreadful wound, from which the man died on Tuesday.
A HINT TO OUR CABMEN.—According to a report of
:he Prefect of Police of Paris, the hackney-coach drivers
of that capital deposited in the hands of the authorities
18,079 f. in money, and articles to the value of 22,719 L, in
,d 1 40,816 f., left by mistake in their vehicles during the
year 1843.

I, aDY
CIGAR SMOKERS OF Muxico.—Of all the petty
vices practised by tl.e. Mexicans, thr, vicio inoeente of
smoking among ladies is the most intolerable ; and it is a
habit of which the loveliest and most refined equally par-
take. The puro or cigarro is seen in the mouth of all ;
it is handed round in the parlour, and introduced at the
dinner table. .li.'vcri in the hall-room it is presented to
ladies as regularly as any other species of "refreshment;"
and it) the dance the senorita may often be seen whirling
round wi:h a lighted ogarrito in her mouth. 1-lie belles
of the southern cities are frequently furnished with tena-
zitas de cro (little Baden tongs) to hold the cigar with, so
as to prevent their delicate fingers from being polluted,
either with the stain or scent of tobacco, forgetting, at the
same time, its disagreeable effects upou the lips and breath.
—Gregg's Northern Mexico.
ICE IN A RED• HOT CRUCIBLE.—PIace a platina cruci-
ble over a spirit lamp, and keep it at a red heat ; pour in
some sulphurous acid, which, though the most volatile
of bodies at a common temperature, will be found to be-
come completely fixed in the hot crucible, and not a drop
evaporates—being surrounded by an atmosphere of its
own, it does not, in fact, touch the sides. A few drops
of water are now introduced, when the acid immediately
coming in contact with the heated sides of the crucible,
flies off in sulphurous acid vapour, and so rapid is its pro-
gress, that th,, caloric of the water' passes off with it,
which fells a lump of ice to the bottom ; hut taking ad-
vantage of the moment before it is allowed to remelt, it
nay be turned out a lump of ice from a red-hot vessel.—
Mining Journal.
SCOGGAN, QUEEN ELIZABETH'S .JESTER.—Scciggan

the Queen, and not bang.
having once borrowed £5OO of
able to return them, contrived to find out the time when
the queen went out, as she was obliged to pass by his
houSe, He bad a coffin made; and, having kt his family
into the secret, he laid, -himself in it, and had all his
friends invited to liia funeral. The queen, happening to
pass at the moment they were carrying the corpse with
ceremony, inquired who was dead. " Madam," they re-
plied, "it is your devoted servant Scoggen." " What!"
she exclaimed, " he is dead, and I was not even informed
of his being ill! The poor man owed me £soofbut I
forgive him the debt with all my heart !" Scoggon in-
stantly rose up in his coffin, and cried out. " 1 thank your
majesty ! The favour she bestows on me is so agreeable
that it has brought me to life again."—.Fraser's Magazine.
VOLTAlRE.—Remember the prophet and precursor of
that great reformation. Recal his person so softly appa-
relled, his residence so dercately furnished. See hini in
his study. It is hung wits the portraits and needlework
of sovereigns. His portfolio is full of their correspond-
ence. He is proud of nothing so much as of being a gen-
tleman of the chamber. He delights to compare Louis
the Fifteenth to Trojan. He will not bow to God, but he
cringes to Maclaine Pompadour. He receives a pension
through her influence. He is enabled by her bounty to_
display the ostentation he delights in. He drives out
every day in a gilt coach with four horses. He insists
upon the inhabitants of Ferney calling him " Mon-
seigneur." He despises and tramples on " the canaille."
The main offence of Christianity, in his eyes, is, that it is
a religion of the people ; the chief fault of the apostles,
that they were not gentlemen. Yet this luxurious lord,
who sapped all the autheriiy that was above and all the
faith that was beneath him, could write about the tyranny
of monarchs and the evils of their sway !—Hon. G..
Smythe.
PROBABLE DURATION OF THE SUPPLY OF COAL IN
GREAT BRITAIN.—AIthOUgh the present known coal
fields of Great Britain contain, perhaps, sufficient coal to
supply her wants for from 2,000 to 3,000 years to come, it is
a vet y erroneous basis of calculation to assume that the
whole is at our disposal. Under the present system, in
the finest description of coal in the northern field, there is
even, in its extraction, a loss of 301 per cent. The views
of the theoretical geologists, without allowing for waste,
would lead us to the most incorrect practical conclusions :
while Conybeare, Lardner, and others would make our
coal resources sufficient for 1,500 or 2,000 years, Profes-
sor Sedgwick and Dr. Buckland, allowing for loss in
working, calculated from practical experience, are- con-
vinced that 400 years will leave little more than the name
of our best seams. Of forty-five feet of coal in a section
of all the coal strata in one of the best pits of the Tyne,
not thirty feet are workable. In the north, coal cannot
be extracted at a profit if less than 2ft. Sin. in the wes-
tern part of Well's End, the Bench= scam is considered
unworkable at 21t. Min. though there arc times when-it is
worked at twenty itches. The thinnest seam worked in
Yorkshire is thirteen inches, in North Lancashire tweet ty
inches, in the Northumberland and Durham districts 2ft.
Gin., St. Lawrence 2ft. 9in. Most of the thin seams
above are worked for home consumption, and cannottear
the expense of transit and competition for manufacturing
and commercir,l purposes. Already the Tyne portion of
the northern coal-field begins to feel the difficulties of ex-
laustioo in the finer description of coal ; and that of the
Wear and Tees (!ess worked than it) has t 1 e advantage in
commercial competition, of from nine to ten per cent. in
price. —Mining Journal.

---*‘/SECOND EDITION.

Stondord-office, Ten o'clock.

ARRIVAL OF L: RE PETREL FROM
RIO DE JANEIRO.-- Reduction of
Tonnage Duties in the Brazils.

By her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieut. Cresen, arrived
at Falmouth on Saturday night, we have dates from Rio
de Janeiro, of July 28 ; from Bahia, of August 14; and
from Pernambuco. of August 21. Her freight is valued
at £45,000, in golrl, gold dust, and diamonds. The fol-
lowing were her passengers :—Mr. Dale, British consul-
general at Monte. Video), lady, Ind son; Mr. S. Chap-
than ; Mr. A. L. Bonaffe, Mr. T. G. Burozzo, Don D.
briotto, Mr. T. F. Pereira, and Lieut. Snckley,,R.N.

Her Majesty's packet Linnet, next following, Lieut.
,Dicken, arrived at Rio de Janeiro, July 23, and would
sail on her homeward voyage, it was anticipated, in 14
days. oonsequeotly she may be looked for at the close of
this current week. The Alfred, with Commodore Purvis,
was at Rio .de Janeiro. The Ardent, steamer, left Rio
for the coast or Africa on July 27. The Racer arrived
ugust.ll, at -Bahia, on a cruise, and sailed again next
day. •, The Bridsh barque Gwalior, from London for
Bombay. had put in with loss of topmasts, at Pernam-
buco, and sailed for her destination on August 21.
• The Petrel's detention was from the pending negotia-
tions existing. at Rio relative to the treaty with Brazils,
now about to expire; but it is confidently stated that it
has not been sent to England by this packet. The Linnet,
it is supposed, will positively bring this commercial desi-
deratum. The Royal family was in good health ; and the
Emperor maintained his popularity. No change has
taken place in the administration.
A material reduction is being about to take in the Bra-
zilian tonnage dues, to commence the 6 h of November
next, of which the folowin.2 are the particulars: