The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-27 00:00:00

AM gRICA N WE AT HER

• (From the New York Courier ollBt4 February.) •
",First it-blew, aridthen,itsnew, andthen it friz."—Toni
TfIENVE4TuBit.—We have a special'unwillingness.to Meddle
with. New. York weather.- There such a fiekleness' in 'its
movements, and such a provoking inconsistency in its character,
that there is. no chance of tieing "true to history," unless you
print your descriptions two or three times a day ;.for if you yen,
Lure upon a compliment in the _morning and speak respectfully
of it as "charming weather for the season," it fa two to one that
it is abominable enough to dispirit a Laplander in the afternoOn
You may manage at evening to thaw your faculties suffitiently
over a-coal fire, to write a paragraph declaring it the coldest
weather _within the memory of the "Oldest itthabittintr but you
stand a glorious chance of burning your...fingers be fore•the paper
goes to press; for it may get. intnotie of its 'meltiug moods; and
before your certificate is read.by the public, Make it More, to the
purpose to say, sultry I- There is no, safety ineornmitting your-
seitto any particular temperature for thirty minutes-at a time.
N'ew York weather is a slippery subject, and let him who disputes
'the Posilion, try his pedestrianism :through NlTall-street at this
'mement,l, and see how-it strikes his "understandings."
Mthis.particular punCtum temporis, the weather is "naiscella•
neous!!:-.7being very much like Joy's Chowder, a sort of "mix-
ture of •inereies"-an olla podrida—not half so pleasant to take
coniPositien, but- pretty much like of every
thing. There is a sprinkling of snow, or was at least last -night,
some rain, some sleet, some hail, and a good deal of what is
classically called splash: The side walks are all ice, and the
boys are skating up and down -the streets, like so many young
Datchreen, as we take it some of them are, froai their pestilent
.deiitterityin running foul of- more 'sober way-passengers. The
`trees are silvered over with ice, and as our neighbour of- the
Commercial well- observed this afternoon, (mind; 'we write this
at 4 o'clock p.m.)if the sun would vouchsafe to show himself,-
the scene would beats brilliant as the palace of Aladdin. Loco-
motion never was- more scandalously 'irreular since man' first
attiripted.ito-Walklperpendicularly. The citizen who makes his
way uprightly in this weather may be ranked hereafter among
the just, for.we- have seen more tripping, and witnessed more
downwright prostrntion within a couple of days than. has.conie
within our cognizance since the election in Massachusetts.
is !' absolutely necessary to take "leg hail, if a man would keep
his "head out of water" during these desperate times. In short,
if our friends at a distance would-know precisely what we mean,
let them be told in so many words that we are having what is
called " fulling weather."
,I 0 a.m. Tuesday.

`PRIZE CHRONOMETER.-Thi very great improvement which
has taken place in the construction Of these valuable and lin=
p'ortaut instruments must be highly gratifying to the scientiAc
World, as well as to- the navigator, who may now, through the
aid of a good Chronometer, fearlessly brave the perils of the
ocean, by determinin'g his longitude to singular exactness.
This result has no doubt occurred from the stimulus given by
government, in the shape of *reward, to the best Chronometer
deposited on public trial for twelve months at the Royal
,Obser-
vatory, Greenwich, where, under some limitation, any real
manufacturer of these valuable machines was permitte 6-
posit two Chronometers. This naturally induced at elicit-
petition among the several makers, and ft is gra ing to trace
their progressive improvetnent: From the Joined rate of
the Prize Chronometer, No. 144, mai ufa red by Mr. John
Carter, 207, Tooley-street, Soofhwar eing, themnly Chro-
norneter on the late public trial entitl to any reward,) it will
be seen that by the uniform and at dy rate .of this Chrono-
meter, any skilful navigator could ave sailed from hence to
China and back again with an err r in longitude -scarcely ex-
ceeding• a mile! !- This important. fact. reflects the greatest
credit on Mr. Carter's talerst and abilities as a Chronometer
maker, .more especially this. being .the third time government'
haS honoured, him with the prize fop the superior excellence of
his Chr.onemeters. _ _

b- •
Mean daily rate of Prize Chronometer,
Jour;
,C A tizEn, No. 111--
Extreme variation
1.534., . ow any two days.
Jdnu
.
. ary....2" 52
February ..2 6)
March ....2 41 '
April 2', 52 Extremes of tempera-. 1 3
May. 2., ;IS tore -11,M 'IV to 51g..1 4
June 3. 19, 2 0.
July _ 2, 44
August ....2 11 2 9',
September-2 51 1 S-
Ch44!pri...2 16 i 6
NovembPr..2 08 1 2 -
December ..2 24 1 4
Greater ratP'inly ' ' 41.
Lesspr rate November 2 . 08

1 36, or one secopd
thirt3•,s4 Autsl,4ellll4pt a second, front actual observation

LONDON GAZET7.`'E.---TvEsDAy, 1114Rcu 24.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNU LLED.
Charles Hancock, Hillingdon, near Uxbrid ge, brickirlalr9•—llsnry
:erwers? P [ladle Suffolk, linen:draper.

BANRITPTS.
Thomas Wailer, Liverpool, merchant, to surrender April 7, ll7sy 5,
at 1 O"cloci, at th,-. Clarendon-rooms;' Liverpool: solicitors, Metgrs.
Taylor, 'Roscoe, and Turner, Bedford-row, London-,Gebrge
UniOn-court, Did Broad-street, and Palmer-terrace, Liolloway, mer-
Chant-,Frageis Frederick Tlynupson, Sloane-scree t, Chelsea, AV141e...
merchant-, Charlotte 13evau, Great Portland,-4tr eet, Marylehme,
iLess-dealer-L-Williain llolt,' plorfolk, groce r-4ichard Owen,
earnarvon; draper—Alio 41 ZIS -tort, 'No'rtftrnptOn,' .ctirver—Thorp4s
KenTiiilgton, Wrawby, Litkeolnshlre, b6rseJclealer-,Ricbard
Trederwen, Montgomeryshire, uneseryntaii—William and 'Lich:lrd
ShreWsbury, drapers—Thomas ifarbult, Tyuemouth, Noe..
thmuherland, comluon-brewer---Johu Bayley, Mariphester; commun-
4OPlit.