The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

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sanctioned by custom that dates from a remote antiquity,
jealously preserved, and esteemed binding as the law it-
self, have been laughed at as absurd, and forsaken as
worse than useless. It was the comfort of the Jew to he
i❑ no land a stranger. Go where he would his Sabbath
was spent in a synagogue, in which he listened to and

joined in worship spoken in the language employed in the
tabernacle of the land of his birth. He felt that he must
cease to be a Jew if be ceased to pray in Hebrew. The
superstition is removed. English has been introduced
into the service of the recusants, who have been bold to
throw down stronger bulwarks long considered impregna-
ble by the defenders of the faith. 'We ask in this csse, as
before' " Whither is Judaism tending
answer the question,

h it may

guides us here in our conjectures. A people even less in-
clined to change than the Jews, proverbial for their stub-
born adherence to the beliefs and cu,toms of their ances-
tors, furnish of the movement

as with another instance
under consideration. It is generally believed that
Turks are blessed in the absence of all schism in their
church, but no supposition can be more groundless. For
Fix years did Mehemet Ali, at the command of the Sultan,
wage war against the powerful Wachabi, whose force he
weakened, but whose heresy be could not extirpate. At
the present hour the followers of Abdul Wachab threaten
the integrity of Islam, and by their determined rejection
of all tradition make their sure advance towards a new
order of things, which again we must rather dimly guess
at than expect to netermine.

Beaumaris,

GENERAL MISCELLANY

Sir Robert Peel has settled out of his
£4OO a year on Mr. Bonham, late of the Ordnance

rivate purse

named Bennett, has b

A young man,
trial at Sheffield for the murde

ommitted

After fot

Ming a churct

at Wakefield by a rnaj

)rity of 900 to 837

a market town that he had made two shillings per quarter
more of his wheat than his neighbour; on being asked
how that happened, he replied that a corn-dealer asked
him the price, when he offered his lot at 2s per quarter
advance, on account of the rain, upon the price of the
we cannot
that Scripture previous market-c

Jay. " I'll have it," said the speculator,
who also purchased three other small lots at a similar
price. This of course enhanced the market. " But,"
said the farmer, " what thi.,k ye followed I—why, the
very next day, up got wheat, for it was said the crops
were ruined; the wily speculator having some thousand
quarters in his lofts, sold as fast as he could, and 1
understand that he gained in one week by this ' artful
dodge, upwards of seven thousand pounds I 1"
TRIAL BY JURY I

WALES.—At the recent assizes, in
man was tried for felony, and, on a jury
oeing empanelled, it was notified to the court that eleven
of the number did not understand English ; upon which
the judge observed that the foreman (the individual who
understood English) could explain the case to his fellow
jurors. The foreman returned a verdict of " guilty," and
the man was sentenced to four months' imprisonti;ent.
On Wednesday the prisoner's attorney applied to the
court, stating that eleven of the jurors, by whose verdict
(understood to be unanimous) the prisoner was sentenced
to four months' hard labour, were not convinced of his

oult, had intended to acquit him, and instructed their
foreman so to do. Mr. Baron Parke smiled, arid told the
attorney to forward an affidavit to the Secretary of State.

A TRUE PORTRAIT.—The League is a complete illus-
tration of " the man with one idea." Cheap bread, the
antecedent—universal comfort and national prosperity,
the sequent. This is the cuckoo note, heard not only in
spring, when it is pleasant, but all the year round, till it
is positively repulsive ; and it is uttered by a thousand
throats whose heads have no more conception of the thou.
sand intricacies of the question for whose decision they
thus ever call, than the sapient bird to which we have re-
sembled them. In one other important point, indeed, 1
they resemble the bird of spring ; they seem to exercise
their one function, according to their own fashion, with a
selfishness resembling hers in the performance of her most
important operation. Their one egg is deposited with no
apparent consideration of the fatal consequences of its
hatching to other creatures far more useful and more de-
lightful than itself.—Record.
THE GREAT BELL AT YORK CATHEDRAL.—This
monster bell, called the Great Peter, was rung for the
first time on Thursday week, in honour of the return of
Mr. Hudson, M.P., for Sunderland. The bell was rung
but three times, and its tone seems very powerful and
equal to the expectations which had been formed of it.
The weight of the hell and all its at pendages, together
with the frame, is calculated to be 29 tons. The bell is
the largest in the kingdom, being five tons heavier than
" Old Tom," of Oxford, and seven tons heavier than
the celebrated " Tom," of Lincoln. The cost of it is
above £2,000 ; its height seven feet four inches, and its
diameter eight feet four inches. It is placed (at a height
of nearly 200 feet) diagonally in the tower, for the greater
security to the building, and above 300 cubic feet of tim.
her have been used for its support. It may be rung with
two wheels, and will revolve entirely, if necessary.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON.--011 Monday even-
ing a destructive fire broke out in the premises of Messrs.
Bradbury, Greatorix, and Beale, French, Scotch, and
Manchester warehousemen, of No. 6, Aldermanbury, by

which a large amount of property has been consumed.
The premises were five stories high, including the base-
ment, and were bounded on every side by numerous
similar buildings. The Guildhall flanked the premises
on the east, Dyers-court, a large and tall row of ware-
houses, were on the north ; and Fountain-court, used as
warehouses, intersected Aldermanhury on the south.
The whole covered an area of ground of vast extent. The
fire originated in the basement, but so rapid were the
flames that ere the engines had arrived, the building was
one mass of flame. The exertions of the firemen were
insufficient to subdue the conflagration, which made such
rapid progress that serious apprehensions were felt for
the safety of the church of St. Lawrence Jury. The ad-
jacent premises of Messrs. Stone and Company, grocers

and tea-dealers, No. 5, Aldemanbury, were seriously da-
maged by water and fire. Others of the adjoining
premises suffered severely, and the loss is estimated ss
high as £200,000. Messrs. Bradbury, Greatorex & Co.
have written to the Morning Chronicle, stating that the
amount of property destroyed beyond the amount ensured
will exceed £20,000.

ENGINES OF THE NOVELTY, STEAMER.—We have
already noticed, briefly, the engines of this 'beautiful
steamer, the first to ply to Constantinople. The boilers
of the engine, the invention of Mr. Borrie, of London.
are of the tubular construction, and occupy but little
space. The motion is communicated by a smaller cylin-
der revolving within an external one, and is attached di-
rectly to the propeller shaft

without the

utervention of

toothed wheels or gearing
engine, when applied to wor

The common reciprocating

propeller, has (on account
number of toothed

f the slow motion of its pis

wheels to bring up the motia

3is mode of communi

disadvantageous, not on account of
:s unsteadiness, but also the great weight of the gearing
_nd the large amount of space it occupies. Another dis-
advantage of the latter cl,ss of engines is the necessity of
having two instead of one, to enable the cranks to turn
their centres. This revolving engine has none of these
disadvantages, for it can be worked to any velocity re-
quired, and as it is never on its centres, like the common
engine, only one engine is required, and the whole weight
of it, including everything, is little more than one-third
the common engine, with its appurtenances. The ordinar
mode of computing the power of a vessel cannot, for se •
veral reasons, be applied to the Novelty, but the motif e
power of her engine alone may be considered equal to taat
of an ordinary
peller is formed of three blades, set to the proper angles
engine of from 100 to 120 horse. The pro
and

placed one before the other. so as to revolve in differ-
ent planes, and it is situate in an opening in the afterpart
of the vessel, commonly called the deadwood in timber-
built vessels. There is also an invention of Mr. Borrie's,
attached to the engine and propeller, termed a patent
friction wheel. Another peculiar advantage of this engine
is, that it is so small that it can be situated in a part of a
vessel where there is very little stowage, an immense ad-
vantage as compared with those engines that almost en-
tirely occupy the main hold. By its application to the
propeller, and doing away with the unsightly paddle.
boxes, (which offer so much obstruction in head winds,) a
new epoch will be opened, and the time is not far distant
(should this experiment prove entirely successful) when
steam will become an auxiliary, if not the principal power,
in most of our superior merchant vessels.