The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, MAY 6.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
C. O'Hara and Co., Liverpool, dealers in sacks.—Christie
and Co., Old Acrington, ironfounders.—Keen and Pritchard,
Eccleshall, grocers.—Gowa and Koppel, London, merchants.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Thompson, Morpeth, spirit-merchant
AN
Richard Edwards, Sod bury.K RUPTS.
William Lane Martin, Grayesend, ironmonger.
George Wheeler, Richmond, grocer.
Samuel Cockerill, Northampton, draper.
James Evett, Shiffnal, apothecary.
Thomas Pearson, Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire, merchant.
Francis Farrand, Alrnondbury, fancy-cloth-manufacturer.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
founder.—
J. Coupe, W
R. igan, ironfounder.—R. Coupe, Wigan, iron-
It. Atkinson, Manchester, brewer.—W. Hill, Hulme, oil-cloth-manufacturer.—J. Procter, Burnley, butcher.
—J. Wayne, Manchester, provision-shopkeeper.
DIVIDENDS.
May 27, R. F. Gower, jun., London and Valparaiso, Tiler-
chant.—May 27, J. Dawson, London, shipowner.—May 20, D. J.
and J. G. Elster, London, merchants.—May 28, J. Holland
and E. Warden, Preston, tallow-chandlers. May 29, W.
Hulme, Manchester, tailor.—May 30, G. T. Whittington, Great
St. Helens, merchant.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
May Dewhurst, Skipton, cotton-spinners.--
May 29, E. Pownall, Ipswich and Harwich, shipowner.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Gibson, Fearn, Rosshire, shipowner.—J. Smellie, Glut.
gow, draper.

FRIDAY, MAY 2.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Trippett, Brother, and Co., Liverpool, and Trippett, Gar-
rettson, and Co., New York, provision merchants; as far az
regards F. T. Garrettson—Smith and Conolly, Manchester,
cotton manufacturers—Ogden and Hadfield, Lees, Lancashire,
cotton spinners—J. Hulme and W. Pownall, Macclesfield, silk
manufacturers.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
G. Charnock, West Derby, near Liverpool, baker—first div.
of 3s. 9d., any Wednesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool.
J. Blain, Liverpool, stationer—first div. of 2s. 9d., an Wed-
nesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool. y
Brown and Todd, Liverpool, provision merchants—first div.
of 5d., any Wednesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool.
W. Laycock, Liverpool, iron merchant—first div. of Is. sd. any Wednesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool. ,
Golborne and Dobbs, Liverpool, wine merchants—sixth div.
of Id., any Wednesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool.
J. Cheshire,. Hartford, Cheshire, salt manufacturer—second
div. of 6d., any Wednesday, at Mr. Morgan's, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Bonser, Newgate-market, London, meat salesman,
and Merton, farmer.

BANKRUPTS.
Richard Gudgin, Cople, Bedfordshire, licensed victualler.
John William Creed, Tilbury Fort, Essex, innkeeper.
John Moores, jun., Aylesbury, draper.
Charles Salter and Richd. Morris Evans, Upper King-street,
Bloomsbury, and Cornhill, London, tailors.
Frederick Auguste Dietrich, Bennett-street, Stamford-street,
Blackfriars-road, London, hat manufacturer.
Frederick Water Froggett and Jas. Van Putten, Mark-lanes
London, corn merchants.
David Kirby, Brackley, Northamptonshire, linen draper.
William Rolfe Golder. spencer
Charlca ThomaS spencer Devey, Woburn, auctioneer.
Thomas Bagg, Birmingham. victualler.
Isaiah Harper, Dudley, builder.
James Merrell, Holy Cross, Worcestershire, cattle dealer.
William Gray, Sunderland, draper.

June 2, J. Holland, Preston, ta DIVIDENDSIIow chandler—May 30, A. G.
Robinson, Leicester, woolstapler.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
May.
Hoar.
14, Margaret Meikle (Ist) District Court, 11
15, Charles Roope (2d) Ditto, 11
15, William Griffiths Williams (2d) Ditto, 11
19, Stephen Vertue (proof and div.) Ditto, Il
22, Henry Douglas Cooke (proof and div.) Ditto, 11
22, William Walker (proof and div.) Ditto, II
22, John M‘Lean (2d)
22, John Wilkinson (audit)
22, Edward Alanson (audit)
23, Edward Alanson (proof and div.)
23, John Wilkinson (proof and div.)

Importations of entire cargoes of ice continue to take
place from the north of Europe to an extraordinary extent.
The importations from Norway during the past month
have exceeded 16,000 tons weight,
DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN THE CILGWYN QUARIES:w
On Thursday last an explosion, which has greatly injured
four persons, and might have been attended with fatal
results, took place in the Cilgwyn Quarries. Half a ton of
blasting powder was kept iu a building appropriated to the
purpose, about 100 yards from the works. The foreman,
John Williams, had just been engaged in weighing some
powder for a quarryman, when the smith and two boys
entered the hut, the former requesting leave to weigh two
chisels which he had forged only a while before, He
placed them in the scale, and immediately a terrible ex-
plosion followed. The men and boys were thrown to the
ground with fearful violence on the spot where they stood,
but the roof and walls of the hut, the casks of powder,
Sic., were blown to a great height and distance. The fore-
man was the first to recover from the shock, and he ran a
considerable distance with his clothes in flames, so that he
was much burnt. The smith also was dreadfully burnt
and mutilated. The boys were contused, but their in-
juries are less severe. It is thought the chisels must have
retained sufficient heat to ignite some remains of the'
powder on the scale, and that this, communicating with
the exposed powder, caused the disaster.
GIPSIES IN THE AKHRIDHA.—On leaving the suburbs
large parties of Zingari, or gipsies, employed by the She-
reef Bey in various agricultural works, were setting out
to their labour. These people are very numerous in
Albania, and their peculiar physiognomy and dark com-
plexion at once distinguishes them from the natives, who
are mestly light-faced and yellow-haired.—Leer's
nals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, Brc.
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taken to the frock coat and pantaloons. Mrs. Kernble,
two years ago, set the example, on horseback, which has
been followed by Miss Bloomer, of Seneca Falls, and
others. Mrs. Swisshelm jumps into this style, also. In
Syracuse it is quite the rage ; and, in fact, in several parts
of the country, ladies of some distinction have put foot
forward in this reform, which transforms the female ap-
pearance completely. The question naturally arises, if
these steps in this new evidence of progress are to be con-
tinued, what is to become of the old east-off petticoats ?
We suggest that nothing better can be done than to catch
the dandies throughout the country, and in Broadway par-
ticularly. and invest them with the old robes of preroga.
tive. They will cut more of a swell than ever, in the fur.
belows and flounces of the ladies.—.Areu, York Herald.
REMARKABLE CUSTOM OF REGICIDE.—There is a tra-
dition among the Nairs, that, anciently, the Samiry Rajah
was, by the law of the land, compelled to commit suicide
by cutting his throat in public at the expiration of a
twelve-years' reign. When that ceremony became obso-
lete, another and an equally peculiar one was substituted
in its stead. A jubilee was proclaimed throughout the
kingdom, and thousands flocked from all directions to the
feasts and festivals prepared for them at Calicut. On an
appointed day the Rajah, after performing certain religious
rites, repaired to the shore, and sat down upon a cushion,
unarmed, bareheaded, and almost undressed, whilst any
four men of the fighting caste, were allowed to present
themselves as candidates for the honour of regicide.
They were bathed in the sea, and dressed in pure gar-
ments, which, as well as their persons, were profusely
sprinked over with perfumes and water, coloured yellow
means by of tumeric. A Braman, then putting a long
sword and small round shield into each man's hand, told
him to "go in and win," if he could. Almost incredible
though it may appear, some cases are quoted in which a
lucky desperado succeeded in cutting his way through the
thirty or forty thousand armed guarrls who stood around
the Rajah, and striking off the Sovereign's head. This
strange practice has of late years been abolished.—Bur-
ton's Goa and the Blue Mountains.
A YANKEE MILLENIUM.—You will pardon me if
here digress, a few moments, to suggest a theory I have
long maintained, in order to shew its applicability to the
United States and Mexico. I believe in the coming of
the millenium. But he who supposes that eta is to come
as if by a miracle—that it is not to be a result—the natu-
ral result of events moral, physical, religious, and politi-
cal, which will occur seriatim, in regular succession, and
all tending to such result, must be a very superstitious
blockhead. All that has occurred in this country are
but links in the chain of circumstances which divine wis-
dom has decreed shall take place, leading to the millenium.
I regard the discovery and settlement of America—the
rebellion and independence of the United States—the
opening of the African slave-trade—its abolition, and the
civilisation and christianisation of the African negroes,
by means of the enlightened slaves and emancipe'es and
their descendants, in the British and American colonies
in Africa—the annexation of Texas—the progress of re-
publican principles—the acts of despotism in Europe
within the last twenty years inciting emigration to Ame-
rica—the British East India and Chinese conquests—and
the acquisition, by the United States, of California—all,
as events, the grand ultimate result and effect of which,
in my judgment, is to be the union of all nations into one,
as foretold in Scripture. It is the principle of " cause and
effect." That one will have a glorious republican consti-
tution. It will be a confederation whose sole object will
be " to promote peace on earth, and good- will among all
mankind."
It will have free trade, no banks, few taxes,
no army or navy, and will be composed of every State on
the globe; and its grand metropolis will probably be at
Washington, New York, Mexico,
or Jerusalem, lam
not certain that the process of " annexation" to the
United States is not one mean devised to effect such end.
Half a century hence, Great Britain and Ireland may
each become part of us ; and certainly each island would
make quite a respectable State in our confederacy. The
Canadas will be of us sooner, as will be the Antilles, in-
cluding Hayti. I feel emotions of pride and joy when I
reflect that my own beloved country and Mexico are to
be the chosen foremost standard bearers in this divine
conquest of the despotisms of the world, and the consum-
mation of the glorious scheme for the redemption of man.
Mexico is no unworthy adjunct to us. She has earned
the distinction destiny accords to her by much tribulation
and suffering. She has been, as were our ancestors, trod-
den down beneath the heel of the oppressor. She threw
off, as they did, the chains that bound them, and won her
freedom. Mexico spews the same right to the possession
of republican liberty that we do. But she has since heel
distracted by the unprincipled factions of unprinsiisled
military chieftains and political demagogues. Sae has
had her Arnolds and her Burrs. She has been Jeapciled,
and plundered, and outraged ; and yet, from the time of
the land pirate Cortez and the ince Montezuma, she hes
encountered and borne all her misfortunes with a tenacity
of endurance almost unequalled in history; and it seems
as if her sufferings have been, in the and, but stimulants
to renewed exertions for freedom, and increased efforts to
sustain the great principles of eiTil and political liberty.--•
New York Herald.