The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-28 00:00:00

FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS.

Friday being the birthday of the Princess Victoria, when her
Royal Higuess entered her fifteenth year, the day was observed
at Kensington with much feeling of attachment. The bells of
the parish church rang merry peals from an early hour in the
morning; the flags were hoiSted on the church, &c. At twelve
o'clock the Duchess of Kent and the Princess received the con-
gratulations of all the members of their Royal Highnesses'
household. In the afternoon they received visits from the
Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, the Princess
Augusta, the Princess Sophia, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia Matilda, and
Prince George of Cambridge. Alniost all the Foreign Ministers
and the Nobility and Gentry in town called during the day to
leave their names for the Dachess of Kent. At night their
Royal Highnesses' tradespeople in the town of Kensington il-
luminated their houses. In the evening the Duchess of Kent
and the Princess Victoria, with a large suite, went to the Ball
given in honour of the day at the Palace at St. James's, by their
/slajesties.
CHEAP JUSTlCE.—Captain Hall, in his volume on British In-
dia, talking on the judicial system, tells us that, although jus-
tice is administered gratis in the Punchayet or native courts, and
is expensive in the Zil;ah or British courts, out of 310,000 cases
only 700 were determined by the Punchayets, the others all by
the British courts ; and then says, " For my own part, after a
pretty extensive course of observation, not only in the East, but
in that hot-bed of litigation, the United States of North I.rile-
rica, I feel satisfied that of all the fallacious cants by Which
people, who do not often think for themselves, have been mis-
led, one of the most delusive and practically mischievous is that
which cries up what is so insidiously called cheap justice!"
The family of Viscount and Viscountess Galway have been
again plunged into deep affliction by the untimely demise of
their second surviving son, Lieut. the Hon. Augustus Wm.
Monckton (Flag Lieut. to the late Vice-Admiral Sir Edward
Griffith Colpoys), a promising }Toting officer, in his 26th year,
who perished at sea, on board his Majesty's brig Calypso, on
her voyage from Halifax to England, in February last. Mr.
Monckton had served five years on the West India station, and
the death' of Admiral Colpoys having relieved him from his
post, he took his passage on board the Calypso, for England.
It will be recollected that the Noble Viscount sustained a
melancholy visitation last year, by the death of his second son,
the Hon. Chas. Gustavus Monckton, of the 88th regiment, who
was shot dead by a private of his own regiment at Corfu.
We regret to announce the death of the Earl of YreWburgh,
which took place on Wednesday evening, at his residence in
Grosvenor-square, in his forty-third year. Thomas Eyre Rad-
cliffe Livingstone, seventh Earl of Newburgh, Viscount' Kin-
naird, and Baron Livingstone, of Flacraig, in the peerage of
Scotland, succeeded his father, Francis, the sixth Earl, the 234
of October, 1827, and married the 14th ofi November, 1817, Lady
Margaret Ailsa, third daughter of the Marquis of Ailsa; and
leaving no issue by her ladyship the family honours devolve oh
his only brother, the Hon.*Francis Eyre Radcliffe, now Earl of
Newburgh, who is unmarried.
IMPORTANT FACT IN CANAL NAVIGATION.—A trial was
lately made at Redding, on the Union Canal, of a new `mode of
tracking, and the result has shown that the present entire ex-
penses of tracking boats loaded with coal, stone, and other
heavy articles, may be reduced one-half. Six heavily-loaded
boats, containing coal from the Duke of Hamilton's pits, were
attached in a line, the one behind the other, at about six feet
distance and to the last was attatched a light passage-boat.
The towing line (extreme length thirty-three fathoms) was at-
tached to the front boat, and three horses were yoked in the
ordinary manner. By these horses the seven boats in a line
were drawn with very great ease. By the practice hitherto fol-
lowed, each boat is dragged by a horse attended by a driver, so
that six boats would have required six horses and six drivers,
in place of these three horses and one driver. The facility of
thus dragging boats in a line arises from the circumstance of the
boats in the rear being carried through a waterway prepared
for them by the boats in front. As each boat thus proceeds
through the waterway prepared by that in front, and partly by
suction, its considered probable that the steersmen may also
be reduced at least one-half in number, that is to say, that a
steersman in every second boat will be sufficient. It is proper
to add, for the information of canal traders, that a trial was at
the same time made with two horses and four boats, but that
this did by no means succeed to the same extent, the labour . of
the horses, in the latter case, being evidently great, while in the
former it was remarkably easy. In taking advantage, there-
fore, of the mode of tracking above-mentioned, an arrange-
ment among traders for sailidg their boats in company might
be necessary.—Edinburgh Courant.

THE LA.TE STORMS.
The thunder and hail storms of last week, appear to have pre-
vailed pretty generally over the whole district of the North of
England, though with considerable partiality as to their vio-
lence and continuance. In our immediate neighbourhood but
little injury was sustained; but beyond acircuitof twenty miles,
there were numerous instances of its destructive effects. We
have heard of one or two cows and sheep having been struck
dead with the electric fluid, on Friday last, in the vicinity of
this city; but nothing bevOnd that—if we except the accident
to Mr. Parker, noticed elsewhere.
In Westmoreland, the storms of thunder and hail were tre-
mendous. At Appleby, both were most terrific; and some idea
may be formed of the violence of the hail, when we state, • that
at a village in that neighbourhood, as a woman was driving a
brood of strong goslings, but a distance of twenty or thirty
yards, into a place of shelter, every one was struck down and
killed. Mr. Parkinson, of Wood-house, near Lowther, had,
o camen
we regret to say, thirteen sheep killed by the lightning. In
tbe neighbourhood of Kendal the storm raged with great vio-
lence.moretad
n" FGraozmetteo,ne till
"the two
tthunder
r
u n(n Wednesday,)"eere says the West-
and was louder,
while the forked lightning became more vivid, and quicker, in
succession; at two, the elements were at war in all their gran-
deur, as if the dissolution of .matter was at hand; the lightning
hissed, the thunder rattled fiercely over our heads, while the
rain fell in torrents. To this succeeded a hail, or rather per-
haps ice shower, more violent in its fury than ever remembered
here ; it came down in large mis-shapen lumps of ice, some of
them from three to four and a half inches in circumference,
carrying destruction to the glass in its pathway, smiting the
blossom and foliage to the earth, cutting off branches from
trees more than an inch thick, and prostrating many a beau-
tiful flower bed; the early tulip in all its pride and beauty
stooped to the blast, drooped its head and died. About this
time, three o'clock, the wind veered in rapid succession to al-
most every point of the compass, while the storm lingered in
the valley as if pent in by the hills; but at four, it began to
break, force its way over the mountains and leave us. Ilot-
houses, greenhouses, garden-frames, sky tights,—in fact, any
glass in a horizontal position, or on an inclined plane, was
severely visited, and the damage done considerable. Great
loss was the consequence at Dallam Tower, Abbott-Hall, and
in Mr. John Meldrum's garden, as well as at many other
places. So powerful was the force of the hail, or ice, that it
Perforated the glass as if a ball had been fired through it."
In Northumberland and Durham they were also extremely
violent, and a great deal of damage was done by the hail.
"The thunder, (on Wednesday,)' says the Newcastle Journal,
"gave a report that startled the boldest heart, accompanied by
a tempest of rain and hail such as is seldom witnessed under the
temperate climate of England. The hailstones were of an un-
usual size, and the damage done must be very great. We hear,
from all quarters, of the destruction of glass in domes, sky-lights,
vineries, hot-houses, and conservatories, besides great injury to
fruit-trees, Bze., amounting, in some cases, to annihilation. In
the dome of the Royal Arcade about seventy squares of glass
were broken ; several panes in house and shop windows, sky-
lights, green-houses, &c., were also broken, and the gardens
have generally sustained great damage. Mr. Robert Oliver
r, ,
drape on the-Quay, bad 32 squares of glass broke in the sky-
light in his house, and one of the squares was perforated by
the force of a hailstone, without the slightest injury to the glass
except the actual circle, which was cut out as if a pistol ball
had passed through. The circle was two inches in diameter,
the exact size, it is presumed, of the piece of ice by which it was
perforated. Mr. Oliver has preserved the square of glass for
the inspection of his friends and the curious. In Gateshead,
and the neighbourhood the injury sustained was still greater,
particularly in elevated situations facing the west. At Bensham,
we understand, upwards of one thousand squares of glass are
broken; in Ravensworth Terrace, two hundred and twenty;
and the vineries, &c., in Ravensworth Castle are said to have
sustained damage to the amount of four or five hundred pounds.
In the hot houses at Redhugh, 2070 squares were demolished;
and in the whole of the district between the Tyne and Wear
the effects have been nearly similar." At Sunderland, Dur-
ham, and other places, the aestrucuon
done by the hail-stones
was also most serious; in many places, the glass of vineries,
domes, sky-lights, and even house windows, was shivered to
atoms.—Carlisle Patriot.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—The storm of thunder and hail which
we recorded in our last has not been confined to Dumfries.
On the same clay (Wednesday) it appears to have been general
over the south and east of Scotland. It was very violent in
Edinburgh, where it was accompanied with deluges of rain,
and then, it would seem, it passed over into Fifeshire. Betwixt
Forfar and Kirriemuir, two horses and two men were struck to
the ground by the lightning. The horses were found dead, but
the men were alive, though in an almost senseless state. Prompt
medical assistance was rendered them; but their recovery is still
doubtful. In Bathgate, in Linlithgowshire, the storm was rag-
ing about the same. time. A cow was killed by the electric fluid,
and a workman in a quarry was turned completely round by the
force of a flash of lightning, but received no material injury.—
In Roxburgtishire we find the same dreadful tempest. In Kelso
it lasted for several hours on the Wednesday afternoon; and at
Lessudden, a place near that town, a house was struck, the
thatched roof of which was considerably injured. At Newcastle,
Use thunder, the lightning, the rain, and the hail were pecu-
liarly awful and destructive. The hail was unusually large, and
resembled solid masses of ice. Though it fell only for the space
of a quarter of an hour, it broke an immense quantity of glass in
the town and surrounding gardens. In the dome on the Arcade
, there about 70 squares of glass were broken; at Bensham up-
wards of 1000 squares • in Ravensworth Terrace 220; and in
the hot-houses at Redlieugh no less than 2070. In the vineries
and hot-houses at Ravensworth Castle between four and five
hundred pounds worth of glass was lost. Tulip and other
floWer beds were destroyed, and the young shoots of trees were
in some instances cut off, as with a-knife. The same day the
storm was still more dreadful at Durham, where in one Inn 107
panes of glass were broken. At Carlisle, too, it raged simulta-
neously, and with almost equal violence. On Thursday, the
thunder cloud, or a fragment of it, visited Perthshire, where in
several places the accompanying rain was so heavy that the soil
on many of the hillside fields was completely washed away.—
Dreadful peals of thunder during a great part of the day rattled
among the lofty peaks of the Grampians. On the evening of
the same clay the grand and romantic scenery around Keswick
was visited I.± y the same all pervading storm. It came on from
the South East, and appears to have been the debris of that
which raged so dreadfully at Newcastle the day before, driven
back by a change of the wind. In the latter town it had come
on from the' North West, precisely in an opposite direction.
The Cumberland mountains were immersed in darkness and
storm; their peaks were illumined wHi vivid flashes of light-
ning; the thunder echoed among their caverns;
And Skiddaw answered from his mistv shroud
Back to the joyous hills that called to him aloud.
'The above are the principal places from which we have ac-
counts of the storm; but it must have been general over the
south and east of Scotland, and the north of England. The
aggregate of the damage done by the " skiey influences" must
amount at least to many thousand pounds. It is difficult to
form any correct theory of the storm, especially in the present
imperfect state of our information regarding its progress. It
appears; however, that a mighty cloud, surcharged with elec-
trical matter, and bearing in its bosom vast quantities of water
and hail, corning from the Atlantic, had passed over a great
part of England and Scotland on the Wednesday, and had been
broken by the hills in the inland country, and dispersed in va-
rious directions, northward and eastward, by changes, or by
cross and andercurrents, of the wind. On the Thursday the
wind, shifted towards the east, and, accordingly, we learn that
the thunder at Keswick came from that quarter. The hail does
not seem to have been general, and, as far as we can learn, was
pectiliar to this district of country, and the neighbourhood, of
Newcastle and Durham. But it is the part of the meteorologist
fully tp -explain these phenomena.
On a Fliday. in tbe beginn,ing of August time or foili years
ago, we remember a thunder storm, similar to this in violence
and extent passing over this district, and indeed over the greater
part of Britain. A man was killed by the lightning in the vici-
nity of Dornock, and many fearful accidents happened in vari-
ous parts of the country.----Dumfries Journal!

itiarketo.
LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET,
Friday, May 24, 1833.

There is a good enquiry for SCGAR, and 1150 hhds. B. P. have been
sold at very full prices, with 5800 bags Mauritius at the quotations,
and 300 bags Bengal at 595. 6 61s. 6d. for middling to good white. The
only sale in Foreign is 500 boxes yellow Havana at 235. gfe
LASSES are in fair request, about 450 puns. have been disposed of at
255. ty cwt. for Grenada, 255. 6d. for Demerara, and 275. for a •small
parcal of fine Jamaica ; the Demerara were chiefly in store.—COFFEE.
There has been a fair enquiry for Plantation, and the sales which
comprise If,o casks of Jamaica, and 50 bags Demerara, were at former
rates ; clean ordinary qualities, as also the fine descriptions, are most
in request, whilst for the middling sorts there is less demand ; 20 bales
of Mocha, of middling quality brought 755. 4fff cwt. Of Foreign, 85
bags common ordinary Brazil sold at 535. 4' cwt.—ln COCOA, GINGER,
PEPPER, or PIMENTO, nothing has been done.—The sales in Rum are
confined to 170 puns., for which a slight improvement in price has
generally been realized, particularly on the better qualities, viz. Ja-
maica 26 to 30 ag cent. 0. P. at 2s. 7d. 6 2s. 9d., Demerara 33 to 35 41,
cent. at 2s. Bd. ' 28. 11d., and common Leewards at Is. Bd. e Is. 9d.
41,' gallon.

Nothingwhatever has occurred in INDIGO, LAC DYE or SIIELL LAC ;
and the sales of SALTPETRE do not exceed 500 bags at 365.' 38s. 6d.
Air cwt., duty paid.

The market for DYEWOODS is dull, and sales made on lower terms
for both LoowooD and PUSTIC ; two cargoes of Campeachy offered'
to-day, only 50 tons sold at £7 10s., about 70 tons Jamaica at £6 to
£6 7s. 6d., and 60 tons St. Domingo weathered at £6 ; a few tons of
Cuba Fustic sold at £ll 7s. 6d., and BRAZILETTO Wool) £9 2s. Gd.
ton ; nothing reported in other descriptions of Woods.—There are no
sales of TURPENTINE to report, but prices remain without alteration.
—Of TAR also, there are no sales ; the market for each description is
rather dull.—The season for Montreal ASHES has opened unusually
early, a vessel having arrived from Montreal on Thursday, bringing
350 brls., but the price was previously so depressed, that this import
has not caused any further decline ; about 180 brls. of Montreal Pot
Ashes have changed hands at 245. 3d. e 255., and 40 to 50 brig. Mont-
real Pearls at 265. 6d. G 265. 9d. V cwt.—FLAXSEED is very dull of
sale.—Nothing done in CLOVER SEED, and sales could only be effected
at very reduced prices.—A few hhds of QUERCITRON BARK have been
disposed of, -Philadelphia at 95., and Baltimore at Bs. 6d. V cwt.—No
alteration in BEES' WAX.—The sales of HIDES have again been limit-
ed, 2000 dry salted Brazil brought 51d. G 6id., and 6000 dry East In-
dia Kips, sold mostly at 610. na 70. a lb as in quality; damaged at
proportionate rates.—No transactions in Neutria or ChinchillPSnlNs.
—1 bale of good mixed Buenos Ayres Honsß HAIR sold at 91d. V lb.
—No sales of OAK BARK.—TODACCO continues in limited demand, and
the business has been confined to 10 hhds. of Virginia leaf, 30 of stem-
med, with a few of Kentucky stemmed to the home trade ; a few of
Virginia leaf, and 40 of Kentucky leaf for exportation.
MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE.—The principal business done in
Barsistofin has been in small lots at £l5 V ton.—For 2000 bags Si-
cily SUMAC offered by auction, there were,no bidders, and it was con-
sequently withdrawn.—AnnoLs and CREAM OF TARTAR ale in mode-
rate request,—There is but little doing in MADDER ROOTS, and prices
are without alteration.—The sales of MADDEIti have been principally
of Spanish, of which several parcels have been disposed of.—The mar-
ket for OLIVE OIL has been dull, and holders, havingbeen more anxious
to sell, have submitted to a decline of £1 to £2 V tun; the sales of the
week have been about 30 tuns, chiefly Spanish ; Gallipoli is now of-
fered at £5B tun.—VALONIA continues very dull of sale.—Little has
been done in Fist' OILS this week, and Coo cannot now he bought
under our advanced quotations, at which one or two sales have been
effected.—SEED OILS are without alteration.—LlNSEED inquired for
and scarce.—ln PALM the sales ontinue only trifling.—OlL OF TUR-
PENTINE dull of sale, and rather lower prices are accepted.—On Wed-
nesday, 175 bales Flem►sh FLAX and Tow were offered by auction, and
taken by the trade at fair prices ; the finer descriptions are more in-
quired for.—HEMP continues in limited request at our quotations.—
Some parcels of Buenos Ayres TALLOW have been taken by the Soap
trade at 435, e 435. 3d., and Odessa at 445. 9d. Of Petersburgh yellow
candle the sales have been very trifling.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, 27TH MAY.

Wind at Holyhead, S.W. light breeze in the morning, W.S.W. in
the evening.
Passed inward hound this day, No. 1082, Margaret, B.Seh. at 6 30
a.m.

SALES. Current IMPORTS.
Prvsly 1 This Prices of This I Prvsly
DEsCRIPTION. this Year Week this Day. Week this Year
Sea Island Georgia 8650 600 Ild e 22d .
Stained Ditto lOlO 30 _ 7 10 1 3823 161546
Upland Ditto • 119060 5620 61 —-8
Alabama } 42110 1700 61 74
Mobile .61 8 6819. .165162
New Orleans 75540 3770 64 9
Pernambuco .. . 22620 660 ..... 1 9 104 z 14880.
Aricati & Ceara. Bl 94 S
Bahia and ,Macaio 10690 1280 8 9 11482
Maranham i 15730 920 in —9l 1 : 24744
Sawginned Bi 81
Mina. • .
Para 9O 71 8
Demerara & Berbiee lllO 60 81 104 156 1145
Barbadoes 250 7/ . 81
Common West India 2740 30 63 —Bl i 7 2694
Bahama 7l 9
Carthagena lBlO 61 64 371
Smyrna lOO 20 63 —7l 229
Egyptian ...... ....
Surat
Bengal .• 1270 5 51 948
Sea Island (#.• public . .
sale this day)
344940 16370 . 11920 395710

Monday Evening, May 27,

Since the above an extensive business has been done in Cot
sales amounting to 10,000 bales at id. a lb. advance on Frida:
tations for American, and at full prices for other descriptions.
Arrived-4 vessels from. America.

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