The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney and Port Philip papers have arrived, the date of
the former being to the 10th of September, and the latter
to the 27th of August. The Legislature was sitting and
discussing the propriety of regulating the interest on mo-
ney by special enactment; and the appointment of a com-
mittee to investigate the question of ways and means, in
reference to the revenue of the colony, was also spoken of.
Business had not revived, and the suggestion is thrown
out in the papers, that as English, French, and American
vessels are likely to follow up trade in the Pacific, it would
be as well to send samples of the goods in the markets to
Tahiti for the consideration of the English and French
commanders there stationed. Wool was quoted Is. to
ls. 4d. per lb. The Sydney Herald thus describes the
state of trade at the latest date :

" During the week not the slightest improvement had
taken place in any of the markets, and the sales effected
have been of the most trivial kind. The demand for every
description of imported goods has been languid in the ex-
treme, and a general disposition is evinced to suspend pur-
chases as much as possible. In fact, every description of
business may be said to have come to a stand still. Con-
fidence being wanted, has completely set aside all specu-
lation. In monetary affairs the depression is as great as
ever, and is likely to be so for some time to come."
At Port Philip there was rather more confidence in bu-
siness. The aborigines are stated to be troublesome to
the sheep-farmers ; who, however, if we may credit the
accounts we read, hesitate not to avenge as well as pro-
tect themseves by hunting them down and shooting them.

THE QUEEN OF PausslA.—The Prussian Universal
Gazette of the 18th instant announces the serious indis-
position of the Queen of Prussia. The following is the
last bulletin published :—Her Majesty the Queen has
passed a restless night. Her cough is incessant. Never-
theless, her malady pursues a regular course, and causes
no uneasiness.

MADAME CATALINI STILL ALlVE!—Florence, Jan.
9.—The recent account copied by German Journals from
the Journal des Disbals, respecting the death of the cele-
brated Angelica Catalani, at her villa near Sinigaglia,
proves to be quite erroneous. It appears that, on the
contrary, she is at present in her beautiful villa in the
neighbourhood of our city, and is in the best state of
health that could be expected with reference to her ad-
vanced age. The report that her husband, M. de Valsbre-
que, died in 1828, is equally untrue. He is also still alive,
and resides here.—Allgemeine Zeitung.

ANOTHER DEATH FROM GLANDERS.—A wealthy wine
grower at Verzy, in the Aube, named Beuzard, having a
glandered horse was a few days ago giving him a drench
recommended by the veterinary surgeon, when the gag by
which the animal's mouth had been kept open slipped out,
and M. Beuzard received a wound in his cheek from one
of the teeth of the horse's upper jaw. On the next day
his face became dreadfully inflamed, his nostrils ejected a
purulent matter similar to that discharged by the glandered
horse, his body was covered with gongrenous spots, and
every other symptom of the glanders appeared, and in-
creased in violence until his death, which rapidly ensued.
—Galignani's Messenger.

BISHOPRICK OF NEW BRUNSWICK.—The bishoprick
of New Brunswick will be the next established by the co-
lonial fund. The colony is equal in extent to one half of
England, and is rapidly increasing in population. Sir
William Colebrooke has officially expressed his opinion in
favour of the see, and the Chief Justice, the Attorney-
General, and other leading gentlemen in the colony, are
exerting themselves to raise a fund towards the endow-
ment. The Special Committee, to whom was entrusted
the duty of soliciting subscriptions on the same behalf in
this country, have estimated the necessary income at
£1,200, although they will be prepared to recommend to
Her Majesty's Government the appointment of a Bishop
as soon as a clear revenue of £l,OOO has been permanently
secured. A capital of £30,000 will therefore be required.
The sum of £20,000 from the colonial fund will be appro-
priated to the purpose.

A cape of Good Hope shipping list of the 10th of No-
vember, gives the value of the exports for the quarter
ending the 10th of October at £75,625. It appears, of
this gross amount Port Elizabeth contributed £32,892.
In the general return the leading items were—wool, to
the extent of £16,975 ; wine, £10,403 ; hides, £16.974;
and skins, £5,377. The amount of imports at Port Eliza-
beth for the same period was 26,721 ; but the returns for
the whole colony in this :respect had not yet been pub
lished. Attention is called to the opening of a new port
called Stanford's Creek, about six hours' sail from Si-
mon's bay. Captain Stanford had rendered it navigable
at his own expense, and though small, it is stated to be one
of the safest on the coast. The Colchester had arrived at
Table Bay, on her way out to Angra Piquena. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Bittern, 16 guns, from St Helena, had arrived
in Simon's Bay, having captured, off the west coast, Sept.
23, a schooner under Brazilian colours, from which the
negroes escaped, and a brigantine, name and nation un-
known, both of which had been sent into St. Helena for
adjudication.

MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY.—A few days ago, as some
workmen were employed in demolishing the ruins of a
tower of an old manor-house, near the Chapelle-Gaugain,
on the confines of the Sarthe, they came on a skeleton,
which was recognised as that of a woman. A chaplet of
glass beads was found round the neck, and on two of the
fingers were gold rings, one bearing the letters " C.D.8.,"
and the other, in which was a turquoise, the figure of a
turtle, engraved on the gold, with the word "impossible"
close to it. The skeleton was in a place only just large
enough to hold it. The teeth are in excellent preserva-
tion, and evidently belonged to a young woman. About
200 years ago this residence belonged to Jacques des
Loges, Gentleman to the Chamber of Louis XIII. By a
legal process this estate was declared forfeited, but he was
subsequently allowed to sell it, and in the act of sale he
signed for his wife, whom he declared to be absent, but
engaged to produce her ratification within a period of six
weeks. This ratification, however, is not to be found
amongst the titles of the property, which are otherwise
complete. The wife of Jacques des Loges was Cateerine
de Broc : C.D.B.

TRADE OF IRELAND.—At the period of the Union, the
exports and imports were valued at £10,000,000; in 1835,
they are given at more than £32,000,000; and now, in
1843, they may be quoted at £40,000,000: many of the
Irish ports, indeed, had no existence in 1800, not even as
fishing harbours. The tonnage belonging to the port of
Dublin increased by more than sixty-one thousand lone
on a period of three years ; Belfast augmented its shipping
property by 128,000 tons ; and almost every other outport
has more than doubled or trebled its tonnage since the
Union—viz., Limerick, Newry, Wexford, Londonderry.
Drogheda, and Sligo; in fact, on every point of the Irish
coast !—Montgomery Martin's Ireland.
MITYLENE.—Like Milo and others of the Greek is-
lands, Mitylene has the advantage of possessing hot
springs, and is sometimes resorted to on that account by
invalids from the continent. The two principal thermoe
are roofed. That on the shore of the beautiful harbour
port Jer6 is the better kept and the more frequented. The
other, which is not unworthy of a visit, lies further from
and to the northward of the town, and is also near the
sea-side. The walk to it, by the villages of Moria, Paila,
and Serlidgequev, will please the lover of rural scenery,
and will not be altogether wanting in interest to him who
has a fancy for the chiselled though moss-grown stone,
whence time and weather have not yet worn away all
traces of the masonic craft and its old departed masters.
lie will have a distant view of the ancient aqueduct. To
vary the excursien the townward-bound pedestrian may
climb the steep hill, on which a knot of choriates have
perched their village of Eiloni—a situation often chosen
by the people of this regiou for the sake of increased se-
curity against the attacks of the marauder and the mala-
ria.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 25.
At a congregation just held, the following degrees wee
conferred :

HONORARY M.A.—Earl Nelson, Trinity College; Lord
James de Burgh Browne, Magdalene' College ; Hon.
Aubrey Richard Spring Rice, Trinity College ; Hugh
Seymour, Trinity College ; Thomas Arthur Babington,
Trinity College.

M.A.-1306.rt Ainslie, Emmanuel College; Edward
Bire.h. St. John's College ; John Simeon Hey, St. John's
College; John Henry Buck, Christ's College.

CHURCH REFottm.—An important letter from the Rev.
Dr. Hook, of Leeds, to his parishioners, contains a most
important scheme relative to the ecclesiastical superin-
tendence of the important town of Leeds—a scherne.which
involves the sacrifice on the part of Dr. Hook of half his
income, and the whole of the patronage which be now
enjoys. The whole town of Leeds is at present one parish
and one vicarage. There are, however, 21 district
churches or chapels of ease to the parish church, the
ministers to which are appointed by the vicar of the pa-
rish. Dr. Hook announces that he has been in commu-
nication with the government and the ecclesiastical com-
missioners on the subject of making all these districts
separate parishes, arid the clergymen of them independent
vicars, responsible only to the same ecclesiastical authori-
ties as the vicar of the mother church, and receiving all
fees and emoluments within their new parishes. A bill is
to be brought into parliament in the ensuing session to
effect this important arrangement. The patronages of the
new parishes is proposed to be vested in the bishop of the
diocese and the ecclesiastical commissioners. Dr. Hook,
in consequence of his relinquishment of income, proposes
to give up his present residence, and to go with his family
to a smaller one near the parish church, which was lately
rebuilt with great magnificence by the liberal contribu-
tions of the parishioners. It is a grand object in this new
plan to free the floors of all the Leeds churches, and to
leave them open to the occupation of the poor, while the
galleries alone are to contain pews for those who desire
to have exclusive seats.

SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—The tenth annual
report of the Bath Church of England Lay Association,
among other important matters, thus alludes to the pro-
posed union of these two Welsh dioceses :—" The subject
to which we first bent our attention before the opening of
parliament, was the threatened union of the ancient dio-
ceses of Bangor and St. Asaph. Against that most un-
just and cruel measure we prepared two petitions, in
readiness to be presented at the commencement of the
session ; for that interference we were honoured by the
special thanks of the two prelates, and other leading indi-
viduals in North Wales. These petitions were presented
by Lord Kenyon and Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart. Owing
to the disturbed state of the Principality, smarting as it
Is, in many places, under poverty and acknowledged evils,
it has become more and more imperative on the church
to make her voice to be heard on this invasion of her
rights. Founded as were the dioceses of North Wales,
long before the arrival of Augustine, even from the very
first preaching of Christianity in Britain, they are stand-
ing memorials of our immediate connexion with the
primitive church of these islands. Surely, then, from
their antiquity they are deserving of that protection which
the state fully and freely gives to the endowments of
popish and protestant dissent. Limited as are generally
the professional incomes of our clergy. they are corn-
paritively lower still in most parts of Wales. Almost the
only increase they have comes from the bishop, whose in-
come (if the fiat of the Ecclesiartical Commissioners be
carried out) is to be hereafter circulated in the far
wealthier locality of Manchester."