The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

" God Save the King."

The Rev. Dr. Whittaker, vicar of Blackburn, then proceeded
to'.9ffer tip some prayers to the Most High, praying for a bless-
ing.,On the work in which they were engaged. A' hymn 'com-
posed for the occasion was sung, after which the rev. vicar ad-
dressed the
.assembled multitude in an eloquent and impressive
strain. "Before the people separated, the national anthem,
Godisate the King," was also sung.
The beantiful Mansion of Feniscowles, the -seat of William
Fie Wen, ESq., was opened on the occasion to all who chose to
pai tike of his hospitality.

An edition of `• Joyce's Scientific Dialogues" has lately appeared in three leindsome volumes, with excellent engrav-
ings, edited by Dr. ()betties Gregory, and beautifully printed.
It is gratifying to see this very popular work for young people
placed in the present • advanced state of the arts, by such an
eminent scholar; it was perfect in its day, but the progress of
science has made large additions to its stores. necessary, and
' Dr. Gregory is, unquestionably, the very man to do ail that
was wanting, to preserve to this-useful and very entertaining
work its Weil-deserved popularity.,
Nes: OF COURT AND PISSENTERS.—We perceive that the
Inner Temple Benchers have agreed to resolutions, which they
also 'invite the other Inns of Court to., sanction ; the effect of
which will be to place those who have not graduated at the uui-
`versifies upon the same footing as those who have taken degrees
—in other words, they take away-the plea of the dissenters, that
by reason of their not being able to graduate at the universities,
they labour under, disadvantages with regard to being called to
the bar. The dissenter now will be able to be called to the bar
as soon as a churchman. The mere fact then of having
i a de-
gree will make no difference to him in this respect. It s also
understoodthat the College of Physicians has adopted regula-
tions in a similar liberal spirit. Thegreat complaint, therefore,
of the dissenters is removed; for they now can enter into the
two professions of law and physic as readily as any graduate of
Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin. What more then do they
want? Or rather, will. these coucessions satisfy them ? We
fear not ; because, as we have over and over again stated, the
real aim of the dissenters is directed not so mush to the attain=
ment of the honorary distinctions or adventitimaaadvantages of
university education, as it is towards -the possession of the go-
verning power, :with the. patronege, &c.;,- now vested in mem-
bers of the Church of England. If then the dissenters call for
more, we know where to meet them; for we shall then practi-
cally understand them. Alt they wanted they have now ob-
tained—graduates' preference exists up !linger; and the Inns
of CoUrt and the College of Physicians are open- to them, and
to all. Be it remembered also, that this boon they owe to the
present Attorney-General--one of the illiberal tortes, as we are
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BUCKHAVEN:—SEVRRE STortm.—Sudden and severe squalls
are not unfrequent at this season of the year; the seaman is,
in consequence, in imminent jeopardy. This village was tlirowu
into a state of dreadful alarm on the night of Monday week,
when a boat was missing. The great body of the ffeet had
gone out as far as the May, and had scarcely hauled their lines
when -a tremendous- storm arose. One solitary boat was about
seven miles cast from the island, and was in consequence in
the most imminent jeopardy. The rest had time to reach home
or seek shelter. Without a compass to guide them, or one •
solitary ray of light to gladden their sinking spirits, the whole
crew, eight in number, expected to sink amid the yawning
waves. But she being far behind, was overtaken by the temptest,
amid the united' efforts of the crew could not bring her up to the
wind. Whilst thus exerting themselves, an attempt was made
to reach a brig at some distance, from them, but without success;
the wind blew so strung that she could carry no sail, the bare
mast carrying her at the rate of six or seven knots an hour.
One mast was lashed across, in order to keep her on her way,
and break the waves before conning .contact with the boat :
this is an expedient oftcu resorted to by the Mariner in such a
situation.. Ile skipper, Andrew Thomson, was repeatedly
washed from the helm. Th 4 compass, and sundry other articles,
were swept into the sea. Snow fed thick, the storm increased,
the sea roared, and the night came on. The scene was indeed
a gloomy one; all were drenched with snow and spray, and
exhausted in labouring to keep her water free. But deliverance
was at hand. `They in a most miraculous manner were borne
from the scene of horror and peril, and were dashed into a sort
of creek, about a mile east from Dunbar. —Considering the
state of the weather, we never expected to see them alive, and
the feelings of their numerous friends, when all safe they ar-
rived, may be conceived, but can scarcely be -described. An
express, however, reached the village on the succeeding even-
ing, bearing the unexpected Let joyful news, " All's well !"
The boat was got into a state of repair, and came home on
Thursday. It is but justice to add, that the people of Dunbar
treated them with the utmost humanity and kinduess.—Fife
Herald.

&plantation on Tweedmouth Moor, the property of J. S.
Donaldson, Esq. was discovered to be on .fire.on the evening
of Tuesday week : it is altogether imPossible to suppose that it
could have occurred unless by the hand of an incendiary,
LONGEVITY.—There is residing at Joppa (near Edinburgh) an
out-pedsionet of Chelsea hospital, in the Edinburgh collection,
named John Wright, who was born on the 4th of March, 1728;
so that in a month he will have attained the age of 107! He saw
Prince Charles at Holyrood in 1745, being then seventeen years
Of age, and Was beside General Wolf when he fell on the plains
of Quebec. Ile served in the army thirty-nine years and a half,
and 'was discharged on Jan. 2, 1810, ?a consequence of belay
corn ouf: being at that date aged about 81 years. He is frosts
and vigorous, and retains all his facithies entire, and over his
bottle of ale " fights all his battles o'er again." At quarter-day
he walks from Joppa, a distance of four miles, to.,tlie Excise-
office in Edinburgh, and returns the same day.—Edinburgh
Weekly Journal.
FRENCI-I CRITIQUE ON MILTON.—MiItOjI is a tedious bar-
barian, who writs a commentary, in ten books of rumbling
verse, on the first chapter of Genesis. Ile is a slovenly imita-
tor of the Greeks; he disfigures creation, and instead of pro-
ducing the world by the fiat of God, like Moses, sets the Mes-
siah to bungle at tracing out, with a pair of compasses of celes-
tial manufacture. He spoils 'l'asso's hell and devils, and
makes Satan a casuist in divinity. Upon the whole, the "Para-
dise Lost" is obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable.

THE TEA TRADE, MONDAY.—The clearances last week were
again considerable. Of Bohea the delivery amounted to 545
quarter-chests, 53 half-chests, and 131 large chests, which, with
the delivery of other qualities, make a total of 459,0001b5. The
sales of teas which have. been advertised are looked for with in-
terest. A profit of 2d. to 4d. per pound on the East India Com-
pany's last sale is still realized.
ANOTIIER INCENDIARY FIRE AT ROTHERIIITHR.—On Satur-
day last the premises of Mrs. Bennet, directly opposite the
Thames Tunnel, were found to be on fire. About half-past
eleven o'clock, a female servant of Mrs. Bennet, who has lately
been left a widow, went for some domestic purpose into the back
washhouse, when she was surprised to find various combustible
articles in a state of ignition; among other things sonic tow,
which bad not.been previously on thein-emiges--, and. bad she
nut entered at that moment, in another half-hour the whole
house would have been in flames. At the present moment sus-
picion cannot attach to any particular person.
At a meetinz of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, held at
the Museum, on Tuesday week, the Bev. C. Welibeloved de-
scribed the circumstances under. which a valuable and interest-
ing relic of the ancient monastery of St. Mary was recovered,
which has recently been presented to the society. It is the
mortar formerly used in the Infirmary of St. Mary's Abbey, is
about II inches in diameter, and weighs about 70 _pounds. It
has the tw) following inscriptions :---" Mortanum Sancti
Juhanuis Evangelistne, de Infirinaria Beatm Marine Ebor"
and • the maker's name, "Fr. Willis tie Touthorp Me Fecit,
A.D. MCCCVIII." It was presented to the society by Mr.
Samuel Kenrick, of Birmingham.

The Berne students have set an example which other young
men might adopt with much advantage to the state of society
generally—they have abolished tl}e cubtomtf duelling.

CURIOUS THEFT.—Wednesday a'novel and Oaring theft was
committed in the Parliament House, by abstracting from the
counsellors' boxes several valuable briefi and other bulky
papers, for the purpose of selling them to tobacconists. Somo
of the records have been traced bv the police in
.snutr shops,
and restored in a dilapidated cou-dititiu to the learned owners.
As this klagnillt depredation has been committed iu the Temple
of Justice itself, we presume laWyers will have no heSitation in
holding it to be a furtum grave. This
,purloiner of processes
was apprehended next day.---Caiedonian Mercury.

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A prisone'r Who had been condemned to three years' impri-
•sonment for robbery, with an additional month for insulting the
ju4e4, was brought up upon appeal, on Thursday before tho
Royal Court. The president having announced to him that
the court confirmed his sentence, the prisoner said, "Stop a
moment, and 1 will thank you," and at the same moment he
took off hii wooden shoes and hurled them • one after the other
at the head of the president with extreme violence. Fortu-
nately they missed; but one of them*struck a counsellor on the
chest. The court immediately condemned the ruffian to five
years' additional imprisontnent.—Paris paper.

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II A wrcit, JAN. 28.—Monday evening, a stack of hay belong-
ing to Mr: .1. Kyle, in a field at Crinnhaughill, wits Consumed.
Tins was, OP doubt, the work of an. incendiary. 'ln the course
of that evening a great crowd. of persons paraded the streets
with an effigy, and during the night a number of windows both
in the town and•neighhourhood were smashed. The affair is
undergoing investigation.-IceLo Mail,.

SERIoCS ACCIDENT AT A FLOORCLOTII MANUFACTURY, LON-
DON.—The accident at .Main's manufactory, Dover-road, ori-
ginated as follows :•—An addition was making to One part of the
building, which rendered it necessary to takedown a wall, which
left a stack of drying-frames, containing ten thousand yards of
canvass in various states of forwardness, partially exposed,
when a sudden and powerful gust of wind, acting upon so large
a surface, produced a pressure too great for a building of that
description, and it consequently was levelled with the ground.
No.life has been lost, neither has any person been input d, al-
though forty men are employed in that part orthe•'utaiiufae-
tory. The damage is estimated at under £3,000, and upt'E7,uoo,
as errpueously,stated.
BURGLARS PHYSIK ED.—A few weeks ago the premises of
Captain Harvey, iu Cottage-lane, Steimey, were broken into,
and the safe plundered of a quantity of provisions. '!'he family
expecting the thieves again caused a suet pudding to be made,
in which they mixed 60 grains of calomel, and directed the
police to keep a sharp look-out. The pudding was placed in a
larder, in the midst of a quantity of new provisions, on Tues-
day night last, and next morning, at an early hour, the police-
proceed from the back of men4.lthe beat, hearing a noise
Cap-
tain Harvey's garden, hastened to • the spat; anti saw two
bundles, containing provisions,-ou the top of the palings, and
two boys looking over. He was, howeVer, afraid to capture the
thieves alone, and called up a brother police-man, named
Harrison, 64 K, who resides in Cottage-lane, 'Whniininediately
rose from his bed, gut over the palings, and found the door of
the store room broken open, and the two bundles lying under
the palings. The greatest portion of the suet pudding had
disappeared; and on the same day Harrison, hearing
.that two
boss named Croxford and Chatterway, who had been employed
indisposed, took them into
caul;:•tooidtyh,egrounds, were seriously
and ascertained that the handkerchiefs in which the
stolen meat was wrapped belonged to theM. • Captain Harvey
refused to prosecute. believing that the calomel would
suffi-
ciently punish the offenders, nor was he Mistaken. - The dose
put them into a state of salivation; every tooth" in 'their heads
was loOsened, 'and the boys have not.. yet.recovered from the
effects of the medicine.

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ANTI-WESLEYAN MOVEMENT.—As we are infermed that
souse curiosity exists in the mindi of many friends of the pre-
sent constitution of Wesleyan nacthodisth.iit reference to the
proceedings in Chancery, which Dr. Warren has been long
threatening to-commence agaiwit the trustees of the 'Wesleyan
incthoclist „ chapels in the Manchester first circuit, we are
authorized to state that such proceedings have been,instituted
against the trustees of Wesley Chapel, Oldham-road. The bias
we believe, is filed at the suit of four of the trustees and of Dr.
Warren, against
the ten other trustees and the Rev. Robert
Newton, and seeks the re-instatement of Dr. Warren in pul-
pit of the chapel referred to. A second bill has been iubSequently
tiled by Dr. Warren alone, against all the trustees of Oldham-
street chapel and
r. Newton ; and has in view asiniilar object.
As an expedient to keep alive in Manchester, for atime, the dull
and dying embers of the recent agitation, the experiment may
perhaps succeed. But our readers need not entertain, We think,
the smallest apprehension that Dr. Warren's cause will meet
with any more favourable decision, tdieniat,-/Y, from that tribunal
to which he has now appealed, at the expense of his deluded par-
tizans, than it has already received from a vast majority of the
Wesleyan methodist community. The defendants have been
happy in securing the assistance of Sir William Horne, as their
leading counsel,—a gentleman whose long standing, acknovr-
!edged talents, and extensive practice 'would render the acqui-
sition of his services most desirable under' any circumstances,
hilt whose recent able and successful management of the case
of Mr. Campbell and his co-defendant, Mr. Bateman, in the
suit instituted by the majority of the trustees of the tabernacle
in London, has evinced his peculiar skill in cases similar to the
present. As yet it .is impossible to say how soon an hearing
will take place upon the merits of the question.—Watchatasi,