The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

LATEST FROM SPAIN.

Accounts have been received from Madrid to the littif
instant. Two battalions of the National Guard °.
Seville resisted the order for their disarmament, and ths'
great excitement and disorder prevailed there.
Further accounts had reached Madrid from the pm'
vince of Mercia, stating that Bonet, who had not bees,
engaged, as eroneously stated, at Elda on the sth
had on the following day recaptured the artillery 0111`
prisoners captured by General Pardo from the insurgent4'
Additional arrests had taken place, but the Count d°
Las. Nevas and several officers of the National Guardj
against whom warrants had been issued, had escaP'"
the search of the police.
A few Senators and about 70 deputies of the former
majority had signed and presented an address to the
Queen, in which they expressed their unalterable devo;
tion to the throne. They had likewise voted an ad'
dress to the Queen-mother, and deputed Messrs. Carr!'
quiri and Vilches to compliment her Majesty in their
name on her arrival in Spain. The proceedings in the,
case of Messrs. Madoz, Cortina, and others, were 00'
yet terminated. The prisoners were still in solitary 000'
finement.

The Political Chief of Murcia had written to the
Minister of the Interior, that the insurgents of Cartll2l.
gena had retired from Murcia, carrying off all the public
monies, together with large sums exacted from the
wealthy inhabitants of the place. The Queen's troops
reoccupied it on the Bth ; General Jose de la Concha at-
rived there on the same day.

WALLASEY DocKs.—The Wallasey Dock Bill 105
passed the standing orders.
THE CHASE.—The Cheshire fox-hounds will meet ou
Monday, the 19th, at Beeston Castle ; Tuesday, the 20th,
at Tatton Park ; Thursday, the 22d, at Hankelow ; Fri;
day, the 23d, at Hurleston ; and Saturday, the 24th,
Broadfield Green, at half-past ten o'clock.
GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL.—We understand that.it
has been determined to hold a grand fancy dress ballirl
the splendid suite of rooms at the Town-hall, in about
month from the present date, for the benefit of the public
charities. The arrangements will be on the most exten-
sive and magnificent scale.

SALUBRITY OF THE MERSEY DISTRICT.—III the lath
quarterly returns of the registry in the rural districi;i
bordering upon the Mersey, the deaths are in gene;
much below the usual average. In the township of Hale'
r'
containing, by the late census, a population of 645 Pe
sons, not one death occurs in the register between AP""
26, 1843, and January 30, 1844, a period of more th
nine months.

FLATTERING TESTIMONY ITO THE CREWS OF Tet
MAGAZINES AND THE LIVERPOOL LIFE-BoATS.---4
following letter, addressed to the chairman and members
of the Dock Committee, in relation to the services of tbeLsse
boats on a recent occasion. was read at the meeting of t"
Dock Committee on Thursday last:—" The Marine Stir:
veyor reports that on the morning of the 11th instant If
Magazines and Liverpool life-boats proceeded (in tom
the Mona and Victoria steam-tugs) to the assistance e'
the ship Franconia, ashore on Great Burbo Bank, nee'
.!!
the Formby light. ship, and succeeded in transferring
the passengers, amounting to 158 persons, to the Me°i'
Victoria, and Hero steam-tugs, without any accidee
although the sea appears to have been heavy at the tiros'
The Magazines life-boat having arrived first on the st_i
bad made two or three trips previously to the arrival;
the Liverpool boat. The master states that he ha4jd
many as forty-four persons in the boat at one time, betw
menwr,•• crs-cww—cre-wle•ref mcmcnr prornytitauc 4.1 - tions of the life-boat crews on this occasion appear to WO'„ been extremely praiseworthy." (Sisiied,) D. Luap.
THE RATTLER AND PROMETHEUS STEAMERSII
From want of space in our last number we briefly alluded
to the recent trial of speed on the Thames between H. I"
formersteamers
vessel Rattler
had and e
aPtreonm
theeth eof
nearly half a knot per hour, their relative speed hely(
8.757 and 9.240 knots per hour. It will be recollects
that the Rattler has been fitted with the screw expressly
for the purpose of comparing its powers with those of the
the paddle wheel, but as this could not be fairly tested u't
two ships of different form and capacity, the gorerntnell,
caused her to be built upon the same model as the third
class war steamers, (of which Prometheus is one,) and t°
latterus merelyo ae stating ttihn
the rate
thatrate the
have the same amount of engine power, draught of water'
&c. &c. The result of the late trial has, we understand'
given great satisfaction at the Admiralty, and fully bear!
out the favourable opinion we expressed of the merits 01
the screw propeller when our port was first visited by the
Archimedes nearly four years since. We are glad to see,
that this important subject has at last been taken up with
a degree of spirit becoming of the present administration
at the head of our nasal affairs, by whom a series of ex-
periments have been ordered to be made upon the Rattler,
with various modifications of the screw propeller, so as t°
ascertain the best possible form prior to its general intro'
duction into H. M. navy. These experiments have been
confided to the care of Mr. Brunel, projector of the Gres'
Britain, of Bristol, Mr. F. P. Smith, patentee of the sere(
propeller, and the officers of Woolwich dockyard. TbiS
is doing things as they should be done, and we hope ere
long to see the unsightly, cumbersome and dangerous pad
die boxes entirely dispensed with, and substituted by the
use of the screw propeller.
THEATRE,-ROYAL.—During
M
AT
Madame Celeste,
e. —steD:huaisngadthdeedpatsot week
atthtreactatiloennteid
lessee,
the performances at this theatre her own beautiful actil
in " St. Mary's Ere," and " The Pretty Girls of Stet'
berg." The new comic pantomime "The Merrie Det
of Edmonton, or Great Bed of Ware," got.up for the
purpose of displaying the amusing feats of the Boleno Fax
mily, has concluded each evening's entertainments, set
been very favourably received. It is got up with gree,
splendour, and some of the tricks and metamorphoses all
admirably managed. On Wednesday evening the farce
the " Rendezvous" was introduced as the interlude, I
which the acting of Mr. Compton convulsed the house,ly
with laughter. This actor in the line of characters which
he takeffistt, almosteso:i
twuci
hnsocwehaisci oh unapproachable-nocmeurr. iwn tehbHes it,se,rßf arecenepdeeaazltove nod eit,::,:or
was a comedy of itself. On Friday Madame Celeste too,'
asombeenoe
excellent delineations of Napoleon. The house was
crowded and fashionable one, the novelties of the even
ing being a scenic drama, ebtitled " A Christmas Cart;
or Past, Present, and Future," founded upon the recent"
published " Carol" of Charles Dickens. The piece is er
cellently got up throughout—both scenery, machineT
and characters—and the tableaux presented are vr,
striking. The dinner at Bob Cratchit's (Cratchit,
Compton) was famous. " Never was such a goose,i„
Mr. Ross, as Master Peter Cratchit, was a most odd 6 0
and irresistibly droll. The ball at Fizziwig's, toovore,
quite a racy affair, and not a few of the audience, w° 0019.
say, were longing to join the merry company. Ws SC
recommend our readers to see this " Christmas r -aroi,
It has a moral worthy of their serious consideration, 94
will be an excellent aid in enforcing the lessons wh;f
Dicken's has conveyed somewhat more at length in '-
inimitable book.

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LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARIC
FEBRUARY 19,
A 10
Potatoes, I), 901 b s 2. do.
_B2. cl 3. Hay,
Cloverold .2.t.113.
00
667_
01
illi
0
Pink-eyes
Short-tops
Cattle
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92 Storaawts,Wheat. 00 33......
00 : i
Turnips, 1-, ton .... 2) 0 —23 0 Barley .... 0 3 --- 0
Carrots 29 0 —32 0 Manglewurzle 0 0 -7:::..e
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1844.
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