The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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conclusion

—.—The Edinburgh correspondent
of the Daily News writes that a circular has been issued
creditors on the private estate of Mr. Allison, iron
"oprietor of the North British Mail,
intimating that a dividend has been declared of 7 15-16 d.
in the pound. If the rejected claims are appealed against,
the dividend will be 2 1-15 per pound.
An order in council has been issued, directing that all
vessels arriving in the United Kingdom, from ports and
places in the Levant, not having foul bills of health, are
to be cleared immediately on arrival, by the tide-survey-
ors, and not to be subjected to a quarantine of the inte-

N. FAMOUS DIVI

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At a marriage which was solemnized at Christ Church,
Bristol, a fcw days since, the officiating clergyman closed
the ceremony by raising the veil of the bride, impressing
a kiss on her forehead, and then blessing her from the
altar. This, which is said to be a revival of an old custom
in the church, excited some commotion among the nu-
merous persons in the body of the sacred edifice.

INDIA RUBBER. PAVEMENT.—The court-yard of the
Admiralty, Whitehall, has been covered with a pavement
of India rubber. It is laid down in pieces about twelve
inches square and one in thickness. The quadrangle at
Buckingham--palace, formed by the erection of the new
wing, will also be covered with this material, which its
projectors have named " Kamntolite." Its chief recom-
mendation in that it-deadens all sound.

The barque Commerce, 267 tons, Alexander Halliday,
master, of and from Galway, with 68 passengers, for St.
John's, New Brunswick, was totally lost on Port Monton
Island, a little to the westward of Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
on the morning of the 31st May, and we regret to state
that eight of the passengers, and an apprentice belonging
to the ship, were drowned.
WASTE LANDS.—It is stated in " Fleming's Policy,"
that there are 14,700,000 acres of waste land in the United
Kingdom, viz. :—ln England, 3,454,000; in Wales,
530,000 ; in Scotland, 5,250,000 ; in Ireland, 4,600,000 ;
in the British Islands, 166,006. It is believed that one-
fourth might be reclaimed for wheat culture. [Other ac-
counts state 25 millions.]
A lady has invented a new mode of teaching astronomy
by means of a parasol, instead of a celestial globe, and
terms this new instrument an astrorama. The silk of the
parasol represents the firmament, upon which the con-
stellations are pourtrayed. while a plumb line hangs down,
and when brought to the edge of the silk, shows that the
axis of the heavens, represented by the parasol stick, is
rightly inclined.
On Sunday week, about one o'clock at noon, the mill
of Messrs. Hirst, Day and Co. known as the Albion Mill,
at Dewsbury, was burnt to the ground. The damage sus=
tained is supposed to be from £BOOO to £9OOO. The con.
flagration is said to have originated in the spontaneous
combustion of some waste material. Upwards of one
hundred mill hands will be thrown out of employment by
this calamity.
A CURIOSITY.-1n the forge of Mr. Wyatt, at the
Waterloo Inn, Oldswinford, there is, at the distance of
about half a dozen yards from the hammer and fire of the
forge, the nest of a robin, with young birds, being the
second brood hatched in the same spot this season.—
Singularly enough, the old bird remains in fearless security
feeding and tending her brood, while the workmen, who
are almost constantly employed, are at work quite ose to
the nest.—Birminghatn Journal.
STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION.—The steamer Neptune, be-
longing to North Shields, was off the port, a distance of
about six miles, on Wednesday in last week, when the
boiler burst, and the captain, named Benjamin Baxter,
was so severely scalded, that he died shortly after being
landed at North Shields. The fireman also, named Wm.
Robson, is not expected to survive the injuries he received
from the same cause. The steamer, it appears, had been,
racing, to secure the towing of a vessel intQ Shields.

of the

Le; by being enclosed thus it w

ved from the Chaff, dust, and weather, which would I
urious to its durability ; gutta percha strap (from ti

-wheel, which was attached to the crank shaft
yed the motion to a detached part, where the
rashed, this was fixed between two stacks of wh

thrashed them in seven hours, in a most perfect
without injury to the corn, and bringing the stray

not been through the process. We understand the ca
of the latter improvement was in consequence of the r
chine being so contrived that the sheaves were pr•
broad instead of the end way. From 25 to 30
busily employed in attending to its opr

were put in t

off their long strawed wheat easily ten quarters per hour;
indeed, so far as the machinery was concerned, the ques-
tion appeared to be, what can the men give the machine
to do I not what can the machine do, because that scarcely
appeared to have a limit. The consumption of coal for the
seven hours was not five hundied weight, or not more
than three shillings in value, and the control of the ma-
chinery so simple that any man on the farm might manage
it.—Hull Packet

READFUL STORM.—Allendale, Northumberland, has
been visited by a dreadful storm. -At Bridge-end Mill,
whioi is situated at the confluence of the river Allen and
Wooley Burn, the farm-yard was soon filled with water,
and the pigs were floating about, and were with difficulty
rescued by the neighbouring inhabitants. The dwelling-
house was filled with water, to a considerable height, and

soon rendered tenantless. Another rivulet which flows
into the Allen, at Allendale Town, came down in such
fury as to choke up the bridge over which the turnpike
road crosses, sweeping away a considerable portion of th 3
arch and embankment along with it. The candle house at
AHendale Town was filled with water within a' few inches
of the top, and the chandler' in attempting to save the life
of his dog, narrowly escaped through a window with his
own

At a house near the village Of Catton the water ac-
cumulated to so great a depth behind the house, that it
burst open the back door and rushed out at the front,
carrying a portion of the furniture along with it down the
road towards the village. At Mount Pleasant, a thunder-
bolt struck the chimney top, brought Gown a parr or
ceiling, and made a small hole through the lintel of the
chimney-piece, which is an immense block of freestone.—
The water entered the horizontal flues at Langley Smelt
Mill,4and swept away lead fume of considerable value. At
Stublick the lightning set a thatched cottage on fire, and
burnt it down. The cottage was not inhabited. Two
cows were killed, one at Old Town, and the other at
Newfold House. Some persons were stunned and slightly
injured; but, fortunately, no lives were lost. The grass
and turnip fields have sustained more or less injury, accor--
ding to situation, and in some fields the soil has been com-
pletely swept away.
DR. WISEMAN AND HIS CHAPEL.—From the Ere
Nouvelle (Paris paper) of the 20th instant, we translate
the following fragment of a letter which had been addressed
by " Mgr. Wiseman" to 'all the Bishops of Germany,
Belgium, and France, inviting them to assist at the open-
ing of the Popish Chapel in St. George's-fields on Tues-
day next. Dr. Wiseman's object is to edify us, poor
ignorant Protestants, with a " demonstration"—a not
"unusual thing in these exciting times. If any part of this
demonstration take place in the public 'streets, we trust
that the attention of the police will be directed thereto.
Here is the portion of the letter alluded to :—" The 4th
of July is the day fixed for the solemn opening of the
large church of St. George in this city, and I ardently
desire, not only that the ceremonies should be performed
with all suitable pomp, but also that our holy religion
should derive from thence a new splendour and a powerful
impulse. Nothing can make us. more surely attain this
double object than the presence of foreign pontiffs. The
presence of a great number of bishops will add much to
the splendour of the solemnity • it will prove, moreover,
to Anglicans and other Protestants, that it is we, and not
they, who are recognised abroad as the true Catholic
Church of this country, and will give to all a visible proof
of the unity of the faith and of worship which binds toge-
'the pastors of the universal Church. I need not add what
consolation the presence of ' Your Greatness' (Voire
Grandeur) would afford to the Catholics themselves. I
come then, in all cordiality and effusion (sic), to invite
Your Greatness to do us the honour of assisting at this
festival—the greatest, probably, and the most splendid
that England may have seen since the period of the Refor-
mation." Dr. Wiseman depends, then, upon a theatrical
display to convince Protestants that the Romish Church
is the true Catholic Church of this country.—Church and
State Gazette.