The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of this Institution will be held in the News-room, on
TUESDAY next, the 2nd of May, at Six o'clock in the Evening.
JOSEPH ANDERSON, M.D., President.
Committee-room, April 24 1848.
N.B.—A Proposition will be submitted to the Proprietors to
raise the Subscription to £1 6s. for the ensuing year.

CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS will be held
at the Company's Offices, 15, Eden-quay, Dublin, on 114
DAY, the 4th of May next, at One o'clock, to receive the Report
of the Directors for the Half-year ending the Ist of March, 1848.
By order, PHINEAS HOWELL, Secretary.
Office, 15, Eden-quay, Dublin, 20th April, 1848. -

BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: Incor-
porated by Royal Charter. Paid-up capital '1,c00,000.-
7, ST. HELEN'S-PLACE, BISHOPSOATE-STREET, LONDON,
24th Marck, 1848 —This Bank GRANTS CREDITS on its
branches at Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and
Quebec, in Canada; at St. John's and Fredericton, in New
Brnuswick ; at Halifax, in Nova Scotia; and at St. John's, in
Newfoundland ; also upon its Agents in New York, Messrs.
Richard Bell, William Mac Lachlan. and Henry Edward Ran-
som, on receipt of the amount at the London-office; and the
credits are paid on presentation, together with the current pre-
mium of exchange on bills, at the customary usance, without
any charge. Similar credits on the branches and agents of this
bank are granted at all the branches of the Provincial Bank of
Ireland, of the National Bank of Scotland, and of the Man-
chester and Liverpool District Bank.
The Bank collects bills in the Colonies, and through its Agents
in New York undertakes to buy and sell stock, receive divi
(lends, and to collect bills in the United States, and transact
otber money business.
For further particulars and terms apply to the Secretary.
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The steam-ship Unicorn left Glasgow on Saturday,
(where for the last four months she has been receiving a
thorough repair in machinery and hull,) to resume her
station between St. John's and Halifax.
THE ILL-FATED EMIGRANT SHIP OMEGA.—On Friday
it was announced at Portsmouth, that this unfortunate
ship, which was supposed to have foundered after the emi-
grants, 336 in number, had been taken out of her, and
nearly 200 of whom subsequently, yerished by the wreck
of the Barbara, on the American coast, has been passed,
perfectly sound, 80 miles west of the Scilly Lights, by the
bark Franklin. Not a soul was on board, and the vessel
was drifting with the currents, leaving little doubt that,
had the emigrants remained on board, every one would
have been saved. The bulk of the unfortunate people
who perished were natives of Bradford.
THE PRIESTS AND AGITATION.—There are some more
rather equivocal symptoms stirring of the faith that should
be placed in the abstinence of the Roman Catholic clergy
from the movement just now in progress in Ireland. The
Cork Examiner re-publishes the declaration in favour of
Repeal adopted by the diocese of Cloyno and Ross, " for-
tified" with the signatures of the bishop and 140 of his
clergy ; all, in fact. The Examiner, also, says—" The
Roman Catholic bishop and clergy of the diocese of Water-
ford and Lismore have adopted a petition to the Queen in
favour of sOf-government. Our correspondent says that
' the document is a perfect identification of themselves,
come weal come wo, with the people.' "
EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF MUSICAL MECHANISM.—
Our townsman, Mr. Smith, of Lord-street, who has long
been the first in this town to introduce novelties con-
nected with music, has kindly afforded us an opportunity
of inspecting and witnessing the operation of a new and
most ingenious, though simple, piece of mechanism, called
the Antiphonel, which, when fixed on the harmonium,
the organ, and the piano-forte, enables persons quite
unacquainted with music to play any air, tune, overture,
or piece, provided only that the parties be supplied
with books. The invention is peculiarly adapted to
churches, as by means of it the best compositions may be
given, in strict accompaniment with the voices—the only
requisite in the player being. a correct ear as to time.
This invention must be seen in order duly to appreciate
its simplicity and excellence.
THE NEW STEAM-SHIP UNITED STATES.—On Satur-
day afternoon, at half-past four, the new steam-ship
United States, under the command of Capt. Hackstaff,
arrived in this port, from New York, after a successful
trip across the Atlantic of thirteen days fifteen hours.
She is the first American steamer propelled by paddle-
wheels that has entered the Mersey. On Sunday she
steamed into the C2bourg Dock. The United States is a
fine-looking vesse , lthe hull being formed more after the
style of the New York packet-ships than the model adop-
ted in the construction of British steamers. She is built
very full both fore and aft, which gives the vessel great
length of flooring and increased buoyancy. She has three
masts, barque rigged. She has two powerful engines,
with 80-inch cylinders, and 9 feet stroke. They are the
largest engines made in the United States, and are sup-
plied with steam from four boilers Besides stowage for
860 tons of coal, there is room for 800 to 1,000 tons of
freight. She has ample accommodation for one hun-
dred and sixty cabin passengers : the saloon is eighty
feet long and fitted up with two rows of dining tables.
We understand she is destined for the New York and
Havre line. Captain Hackstaff, the commander of this
splendid vessel, received from the passengers who came
over with him a most gratifying testimonial, not less de.
served by his own merits than those of the fine steam-
ship which he commands.
Loss OF THE GENERAL WOOD CONVICT SHIP.—
DREADFUL BUTCHERIES.—In addition to what has al.
ready appeared as to the loss of this vessel, it appears
from a letter written by Lieutenant Seymour, a psssenger,
that on the night of the 2nd January last, the day on
which the General Wood sailed from Sincapore to Penang
settlement, a mutiny of the convicts took place. The
captain and the officers were all murdered or thrown over-
board. The fate of Mr. Gill, the mate, was peculiarly
horrible. Lieut. Seymour says, this unfortunate officer,
after being severely wounded by the convicts, made his
way to the door of the cabin in which the passengers were
assembled, and was, for the moment, rescued from the
convicts and dragged inside the cabin by the captain.
After lying on the deck some time, suffering from his
wounds, and being apprehensive of further ill-usage, he
crawled to the galley window, and thence threw himself
into the sea. Lieut. Seymour had himself a very narrow
escape ; he was forced overboard, but contrived, though
wounded by a cutlass, to get hold of a rope, and conceal
himself in the gig, where he was discovered in the morn-
ing, and being recognised as a passenger, and not an
officer, he was ordered on deck, and his life spared. The
crew were all, or nearly all, murdered or drowned. The
lives of the passengers were spared. The convicts navi-
gated the vessel until the 20th of January, when they
came in sight of the Great Natunas, and on the following
morning they ran her on a rock near Palo Salaout, on the
island of Bungarow. They left about thirty Lascars.
twenty convicts, and those of the crew who had not been
previously massacred, on board the vessel, which shortly
afterwards went down in deep water, and took to the
boats, the passengers being with them., They reached
the island at sunset, where they were welt received by the
Malays, who afforded them assistance, and proposed to
send them to the Rajah. This, however, was objected to
oy the convicts. In the meantime, the passengers having
acquainted the Malays with the real character of the
parties, the Malays took part with the passengers, and
succeeded in rescuing them from the convicts. The con-
victs then took to their boats, leaving about twenty of
their number behind, who have been made prisoners.
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of
labour.