The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-18 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

TE!E MINES OF CORNWALL.--We shall this week eon-
our attention to. the mines of Cornwall, which form-
ed the subject of the article in our last number, and may,
willrout detracting from the advantages to be derived
fromoperations
mining abroad, which yield ores of
silt er, and copper, the latter producing from 23 to 30. per
Cent., direct our notice to our mineral riches at home.
From auth. ntic docutuents we find that at the ticket-
ings or sales of copper -ore in the county of Cornwall
during the past twelve months (but which, however, do
nut comprise all the ore raised) the quantity sold amount-
ed to 150,617 tons, the value of which was £893,402 135.,

• giving a produce of 40 copper. 12,271 tons. Among
the most productive mines we find that the Consolidated
Mines raised 20,093 tons, producing £130,000, averaging.
£6 9s. per ton. Tresavean, 13,100 tons; the value of
which was £79,400, averaging £6 Is. per ton. Fov-vey
Consols, producing 10,722 tons, value £62,750, averag-
ing £5 17s. per ton. Great St. George, 8,055 tons,
value £33,22318'5. average' £4 2s. 6d. Dolcoath, 6,342
tons, value £37;2'31 135., average price £5 17s. 6d.
• Wheal Wood, 5,407 tons, value 29,142 195., averaging
£5 7s. 6d. North Roskear, 5143 tons, value X 29,194 9S,
average £5 13s. 6d. East Crinnis, 3,879 tons, yielding,
£26,960 4s. Gd., average £6 19s. East Wheal Crofty,
1P:423G tons, value £33,441 18s., average £6 4s. As 11—
lustrative of the richness of the ores in particular dis-
. tricts we may notice those of Levant, which mine pro-
duced during the past twelve months 1,967 tons, amount-
ing to £31,005 17s. 6d., being at the rate of £l5 15s. 6d.
per tun. It is not, however to these particular mines we
are solely to direct our attention ; nor is it to those which
appear in the ticketing papers, as many have lately been
" put on" which not only afford promise, but, indeed,
yield returns; and when we consider that Cornwall has
been found to produce silver, and in some instances giv-
ing 4,800 ounces of silver to the ton of ore, we do not
hesitate in expressing an opinion that capital may be be-
neficially employed in this country without incurring 'the
risk of outlay in foreign parts, with the cost of extensive
establishments, and the contingencies necessarily attend-
,' Ant. Well satisfied are we that the Mines of Cuba, of
Chili, and of Columbia, produce ores_ yielding from 20
:to 30 per cent.; and we have data sliming the advan-
tages arising from the prosecution of operationsin those
countries; but at the same time that we consult the
ticketing papers of sales at Swansea, and the prices which
the ores obtain, we cannot but observe that the sale or,
ores raised from the Irish mines, out of the whole quan•
tity of 3,160 tons, amounting to £26,480 45., sold on the
3d instant, these produced by- five mines in Ireland alone
amounted to 2,153 tons, the value of which was £12,410
7s. ; and here the remark properly may be made, that
the public are too oft disposed to attach a value to South
American or any other foreign adventures, which if they
for an instant entered into a comparison with, or weighed
the advantages attendant on home concerns, Would not
fora moment be entertainei ; Ireland alone affording to
the adventurer an ample, field fur discoveries, promising,
as she undoubtedly does, much mineral wealth, requiring
only enterprise and science to render available.—Min-
ink Journal.

The appointment of a ;First Lord of the Admiralty
seems to be as difficult to Lord Melbourne as that of a
Lord Chancellor. It is a pity that. the noble premier
cannot in the case of the aniiralty, as in that;of the
Great Seal, resort to the expedient of a commission, in
order to gain time, and see how the office may be dis-
posed of to the best advantage. A commission to e2te-'
cute the office of chief member of another commission
would be a startling.novelty, but we are not yet quite
sure that the administration may not in its distress be
compelled to
_resort to it. It is yno wonder, by the by,
'that the whigs are so fond of commissions of all sorts.
It is a fine expedient for frittering away the importance
and dignity of any office in the state, so as to reduce it
to a • level with the capacity and reputation of the kind
of men whom this party can find in its ranks. In the
article of commissioners the party can boast of countless
numbers, but when the affair in hand is to appoint to an
office which attracts the attention, interests the feelings,
and engages the thought of the country, then it is that
the miserable poverty of the party becomes visible to all
eyes—then it is that the party are driven to resort to all
sorts of discreditable shifts and contrivances, in order to
postpone or 'evade the. risk and responsibility of a final
and effective appointnient. '
It is a month at the least since the‘Office-of First Lord
of the Admiralty was in effect vacated by the appoint-
meat of Lord Auckland to be Govertuir-General of India,
and the office still remains vacant. We certainly should
not have expected that so much difficulty would be found
in providing an adequate successor to Lord Auckland,
who, when he held a subordinate situation under a tory
government, was not, to the best of our recollection, con-
sidered as a genius of the highest order. But the case
is altered now. Lord Auckland among the whigs is
quite an " Admirable Crienton," to occupy whose vacant
chair no competent man is to be found. Never was the
adage so completely verified as at the present day—

" A very small man as a tory
Is a very great man as a whig."

The difficulty, great as it is, of finding a successor to
Lord Auckland must, however, be overcome; and the
idea has for some time prevailed that Lord Nlinto is
the person whom the administration has selected as the
wing of all whips Imst fitted to sustain the hazardous
comparison to which the successor of Lord Auckland
must necessarily be exposed. Lord Minto has not only
a brother, as we stated the other day, but a brother-in-
law also, already at thedintraity board, 'so that the
.cottntr.v has the greatest iason in the•world to feel con-
fident that, in a snug family party of this description,
nothing can possibly go wrong. With the great advan-
tage of having his family about him, it is thought that
Lord Minto may manage the affairs of the Admiralty
almost as well as they have been managed by the admi-
ratite Lord Auckland himself'. This consideration, corn-
blued with the difficulty, or rather the impossibility, of
finding any• other wuig who is at all presentable for the
office, has, we understand, induced ministers to overlook
the dangerous anomaly of having an important board like
that of the admiralty, whose various members are sup-
posed to exercise a constant control over the conduct of
each other, composed alinost exclusively of persons inti-
mately connected by the ties ofblood or marriage.
When we say that ministers have determined to over-
look the impropriety of having three members of a family
at the same public beard, we are, however, perhaps in
error: This was their determination yesterday morning
—it was their determination up to a late period of the
day yesterday—it was announced in their evening organs
of yesterday, with the addition that .the appointment of
Lord Nlinto would appear in last night's Gazette; but
ministers, having led their organs into the rash assertion
that deliberation, or procrastination rather, was at an
end upon this subject, re-resolved, it would seem, after
all; to deliberate and procrastinate yet a little longer.
Tile Globe of last night says, that " the appointment
of the Earl of Minto to the important office of First Lord
of the Admiralty has been decided within the last few
days. It will be gazetted this evenin,g." Tnere must.
certainly be some hitch in the affair, for the promised
announcement did not appear.in 'the Gazette of last night.
What the Globe asserts to have been decided within the
last few days has, it appears from the silence of the
Gazelle,. not 'set been decided at all. We do not doubt
that ministers will eventually give the appointment to
Lord Minh); but the hesitation which they have shown
to do so is any thing but complimentary to his lordship,
nod proves that ministers hate no great confidence in his
ability to discharge the duties of the office with honour
to himself and satisfaction to the country, although Lis
lordship have the assistance of two near relations, who
have had some eXperience•at`the 'same board. •
It is really lamentable that the party which has ob-
tained possession of the reins of government in Great
Britain should he compelled to present itself before the
world in a state of titich utter destitution as to be unable
to find 'among all its friends and connexions an unobjec-
tionable First Lord of the Admiralty.—Morning Post.

THE VOCAL STATUE OF MEMNON AT
THEBES.

The ea•termost of the two sitting colossi has been the
wonder of the ancients, and the subject of some contro-
versy among modern writers; uur were the numerous
inscriptions which decide it to. have been the Memnon of
the Romans sufficient to convince every one that this was
the statue reported by andient.authors to utter a sound at
the rising of the suu. Strabo,.who visited it with."Elius
Gallus, the governor of Egypt, confesses that he heard a
sound, but could " not affirm whether it proceeded from
the pedestal, or from the statue itself, or even from some
of those Who stood near its base ;" and independent of
his total disbelief that it was of Memnon had as. vet been
given it. ' • * * The nature ofifie stone,
which was also supposed to offer some difficulty, is a
coarse, hard gritstone, spotted with numerous chalce-
donies, and here and there coloured with black and red
oxide of iron. The height of their colossus is forty-seven
feet, or fifty-three feet above the plain, and with the
pedestal, which is now buried from six feet ten inches to
seven feet below the surface, completes to its base a total
of sixty feet. The repairs of the vo,;al statue are of blocks
of sandstone, placed horizontally in five layers, and form-
ing the body, head, and upper part of the arms ; but the
line of hieroglyphics at the back has not been completed,
nor is there any inscription to announce the era or name
of its restbrer. * The sound it uttered was
said to resemble the breaking of a harp string, Or accord
ing to the preferable authority of a witness, a metallic 11
ring, and the memory of its daily performance, about the
rst or second hour after sunrise, is still retained in the
ancient appellation of Salasiat (salutations) by • the rim.
dern inhabitants of Thebes. The priests, who no doubt I
contrived the sound of the statue, were artful enough to
allow the supposed deity to fitil in his accestomed habit,
and some were conseqtrently disappointed on their first
visit, and obliged to return another morning to satisfy
their curiosity. This fact is also recorded on its feet with

the precision of the credulous. In the lap of the statue
is a stone which, on being struck, emits a metallic sound
that might still be made use of to deceive a visitor who
was predisposed to believe its powers; and frOm its posi-
tion and the squared space cut in the hiock behind; as if
to admit a person who might thus lie concealed from the
most scrutinous observer in the plain below; it seems to
have been used after the restoration of the statue, and
another similar recess exists beneath the preseet site of
this stone which might have beep.intended for .the same
'purpose, when the statue•was in its mutilated state. In
a subsequent visit to Thebes in MO, On again examining
'the statue and its inscriptions, I found that one Bellilla
bad compared it to the striking of brass; and feeling con-
vinced that this authority was more decisive than the
vague accounts,of those writers who had never heard it,
and recollecting the metallic sound of the stone when
struck, I determined on posting some peasants below and
ascending.myself to the lap of the statue, with a view of
hearing from them the impression Made by the sound.
Having struck the sonorous block with a small hammer,
I inquired what they heard, and their answer, "You are
striking brass," convinced, me that the sound was the
same that deceived the Romans and led Strabo to observe
that it appeared to him as the effect of a slight blow.
Wilkinson's Topography of Thebes. •

SPEECH OF MR. ROBERT ROSE, AT THE
BROUGHAM DINNER, LIVERPOOL.

We should have forgotten by this lime that so great a
man as Lord- Brougham had some month or two since
dined at the Amphitheatre, if as great, if not a greater
orator, Mr. Robert Rose, a gentleman of colour, had not
.published a. speech which he delivered on that occasion
•to the select few who bad nerve enough to, remain some
hours after the chairman had vacated the chair, and Mr.
James Aiken had undertaken to supply his place.
"Civil and religious liberty all over the world"--to
which "every where else," we presume, was added by
the patriots and philanthropists then and there present—
was the toast to whiCh the " gentleman of colour" re-
•sponded,'and that te performed his part bravely the fol-
lolfiing
exttact vvill show
" Even as some time-honoured edifice, glittering taitlz the
mellow radiance of vernal splendour, so hath the munificence of
your benevolence imparted haliewed brilliance to a laud Where
gloom was hovering, which seeined bereft of hope, and consigned
to wretchedness, adding, as if with a wand of magic, new fea-
tures to the scene. inasmuch as 'that land, originally so like a
garden of Eden, which should never have been trampled ou
tile oppressor, is now repeopled with new forms, as it were, with
cheerful tones and merry countenances; —and I think, nay, I
am sure—that they will never, never prove themselves unworthy
of your kindness. (Cheers.) They breathe iu free air ;-(Does
Mr. Rose here allude to the blacks of St. Domingo?)—they
walk erect,—they feel,—they reason,-(laughter,)—they can
reason,—(laughter,)—they move• with limbs -unshackled and
with brow undaunted,—they sustain the sacred digdity or hu-
manity,—they exult in the glad consciousness of liberty! and,
as they can now do—what the animals or wild beasts of the
woods could always do—(laughter)—roam at large over the
ground; as they pace it with buoyant steps, I have no doubt
they can discover that the herbs-of the field,• and. the flowers of
the garden flourish fur them as well as for others of the human
species, (laughter,) and show me the wretch wbo dares to say
they display no signs of intellect, and ought not to experience
the advantages of knowledge. (Interruption.) Who is he,
and where is he who dares to hazard such an abominable asser-
tion? Let him stand forward! I am here to answer him.
(Cries of "Personal.") Gracious heavens! is he so wedded to
his lamentable dulness, or is he so immersed in his own filthy
selfishness, (cries of "Personal,") as to be dead' to all human
sympathy ? Do hut point him out to me. (Cries of " Stop,"
and partial hissing.) Some of you may hiss, like serpents, but
you do not possess the serpent's sting. (Laughter.) have not
been personal intentionally, but, "the guilty flee when no man
pursues." (Loud laughter.)

In another part of his speech the gentleman of colour
said :--

" What heart doth not bound with inward pleasure,—what
heart doth not feel ennobled with the idea that it cau identify
itself as palpitating to him who exists in the same age as Henry
Lord Brougham." (Enthusiastic cheers.)

The subjoined note is appended to Mr. Rose's speech,
and explains the irreverent and unseemly interruptions
which lie:liad to contend against :

"The members, of a committee of West Indians, selected for
the publication of the foregoing speech, think it their duty to
remark, that a full report of it is rather injured, from the inter-
ruptions which Mr. Rose experienced.; and it is their wish, in
publishing this, to do him justice, as far as possible, under ex-
isting circumstances, in the eyes of the public and of his coun-
trymen, to whom copies of it will be transmitted. The annoy-
ance which he received, and which they exceedingly regret
should hate occurred, proceeded from a very few Americans, who
were the only persons who appeared trievince no sympathy with
the object which he had in view. This they consider due to him
to state, as many casual observers might" be disposed to infer
thait.he trespassed too long on the attention of the meeting.
When attending on him to -communicate their project, be kindly
offered to correct the report, and likewise expressed a desire that
the proceeds arising frost its sale should be appropriated to cha-
ritable purposes."

- We would recommend Mr. Rose to lose no time in
sailing for Charleston,U.S.;—so florid u.speaker will be
of immense advantage to the ceuse of " civil and religious
liberty" in the land Of the free.