The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-13 00:00:00

THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.

The Young QUEEN of Portugal, accompanied by her mother,
the Duchess of Braganza, landed at Portsmouth at nine o'clock.
on Sunday morning. Her Majesty immediately on her arrival
gave. an audience to Sir J. Whatley, the bearer of the King's
invitation to Windsor, which was accepted.
,The following letter from the Home-office was received by the
Mayor of Portsmouth on Friday morning, and in consequence
of it, a meeting of the corporation was held in the afternoon of
that day, when addresses to the EApress and the yoting Queen
were agreed to :

" Whitehall, Sept. 5.
" Sir,—l am directed'by Viscount Melbourne to acquaint you
that their Majesties the Duchess of Praganza and the Queen of
Portugal are expected to arrive at Portsmouth to-morrow or
Saturday, and that the King has been pleased to command that
the Empress and Queen should be received on their arrival its
this country with all the honours usually paid to crowned heads,
and I am to request that every respect and attention may be
paid to their Majesties on their landing at Portsmouth.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
"The Mayor of Portsmouth." "G. LAMB."

The address of congratulation on her arrival in. England was
resented by the Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth on the
following day.
Supposing her little Majesty's land forces should have the worst
of it in her war with her " sometime" lover and uncle, Miguel,
the King "de jure," and supposing he too should find leisure to
honour England with a visit, will his Majesty's ministers carry
their neutrality so far as to command the Mayor of Portsmouth,
should he disembark at that port, to receive him "with all the
honours usually paid to crowned heads?" We should like to
know.

Since writing the above, we perceive by the Court Circular,
that her Majesty, a.:companiecl by her Imperial mother and
suite, left Portsmouth at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, and
arrived at Windsor, at six in the evening of the same day.
His Majesty, attended by the officers of his household, re-
ceived the Queen on her arrival, and conducted her to the
Royal apartments.
Dinner was served in the evening in St. George's Hall. The
Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester were present
to meet their Majesties and their illustrious guest.
The officers of the Household and the Visitors at the Castle
also bad the honour of dining with their Majesties.
Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, arrived at the Palace from London
a little before seven o'clock to dinner. Covers were laid for
fifty.
The young Queen is expected to remain at the Palace for
several days.
The King went to Isleworth yesterday and paid a visit to
Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.
On the 3cl inst. at Grendon Church, by the Rev. J. Clare, M.A.,
Vicar of Bushbury, Sir John Hanmer, of Hanmer and Bettisfield
Park, in the county of Flint, Bart , for Shrewsbury, to Geol.-
giana, youngest daughter of Sir George Chetwynd, of Gren-
don Hall, in the county of Warwick, Bart. The lovely bride,
attired in white satin, with a profusion of blond lace, and a
splendid veil to correspond, was attended by her sister and the
two Misses Hanmer. As soon as the ceremony was over, the
party, including several noble relatives of the bridegroom, par-
took of an elegant dejeune a la fourchette, atter which the
happy pair set off in a carriage and four, on a tour through
the continent.
The Marriage of Sir John Harmer, Bait, to Miss Georgiana.
Chetwynd, was celebrated on Tuesday, by his numerous friends
and supporters in this town, a large and most respectable part),
of whom dined
.together at the Talbot Inn, Colonel Francis
Knyvett Leighton, President ; and Robert Burton, jun., John
Eaton, jun., Rice Wynne, and W. Wybergh How, Esqrs.,
VicC-Presidents. The dinner and wines were in the usual ex-
cellent style of the Talbot Inn ; and after the cloth was drawn
the health of the King, as also of the Queen and Royal Fa-
mily, were severally drank with 3 times- God save the
King" being sung (after His Majesty's health had been
drunk) in fulf-chorus. The President then appropriately intro-
duced the health of "Sir John and Lady Hamner," which was
drank with enthusiasm ; and Mr. Thomas Hanmer returned
thanks in an address which elicited the warmest and most de-
served plaudits. The health of " Mrs. and the Misses Han-
mer" was rapturously received, and was followed by that of
" Lord Hill and the Army;" " The Navy of Great Britain;"
"The Lord Lieutenant of the Countyi" " Lord Kenyon;"
&c. ; and the festivities of the evening were prolonged to
a late hour. About 400 of Sir John Hanmer's supporters also
dined, and spent the evening in festivity, at other inns in the
town ; cannons were fired, and the bells of the several churches
sent forth their cheerful peals throughout the evening.—Salo-
pian Journal.

CHOLERA BLOWN AwAY.—The cholera bee undergone a
more unequivocal diminution within the last six or eight days
than during any former Period since the commencement of its
present irruption. The deaths have diminishe,4l to sixty-nine
in the week, the number a fortnight ago having been nearly
2,0. In fact, the late sudden reduction of temperature, and
the change in the atmosphere effected by the late heavy gales,
seem to have had a beneficial influence on the epidemic.—
Medical Gazette.

NEW APPLICATION OF MECHANICAL POWER—SUBSTITUTE
FOR THE CRANE.—An ingenious, very simple, and cheap me-
thod of transferring heavy bodies to short distances, and, by
affording a moveable point of suspension, enabling builders,
where it is necessary to use large blocks of stone, to lay them
down with precision, has been contrived lately by Mr. Moon,
of this neighbourhood, and successfully employed in the con-
struction of a dam dyke which he is at present erecting at Rus-
sel Mill. Two strong poles, set up at a small angle towards
each other, and properly stayed back, are placed at each end
of the proposed erection, over which a strong rope—in the
present case three smaller ropesrturn,i,irg parallel are used—is
thus passed at a considerable height. Phis rope is traversed by
a block sheath, from which the stone is suspended in the usual
manner, and raised by means of a compound pulley; guy
ropes are attached to the sheath, so that the stone is easily
made to traverse backwards o! forwards, and brought with accu-
racy to the situation where tis wanted. By this means blocks
of 15 cwt. have been readily transported upwards of 30 yards.
It is obvious that, by a little complication, the apparatus might
be easily, constructed so as to command the stone where re-
quired, in a lateral as well as longitudinal direction; and thus
might become of general applicability in circumstances where
the use of the trane might lie inadmissible, or at least inexpe-
dient, either from its more confined latitude of motion, or.
what must be an important consideration in regard of small i
jobs n a country situation, the expense of the transference of
erection of such a ponderous instrument.—Fite Herald.
THIS ESTA BLISHED CLERC4r.—WC have been favoured by a
kind friend with the following religious and patriotic sentiments
of the enlightened and celebrated Dr. Chahners:—"lt is owing
to the learning of the priesthood that Christianity has kept her
ground on the high platform of cultivated and well-educated
humanity, and that she enters so largely as a bright and much
esteemed ingredient into the body of our national literature. It
is well when this degree of respect and acknowledgment eau be
obtained for her among the upper classes of life; and more
especially in a free and enlightened nation like our own,it is of
unspeakable benefit that Christianity should have been so no-
bly upheld by the talent and erudition of her advocates. There
are many who look with an evil eye to the endowments of the
English church, and to the supposed indolence of her dignita-
ries. But to that church the theological literature of the Scot-
tish church stands indebted for their best acquisitions; and we
hold it a refreshing spectacle at any time that meagre Socinian-
ism pours forth a new supply of ilipparicies and errors, when we
behold, as we have often doue, an armed champion come forth
in full equipment from some high and lettered retreat of that
noble hierarchy; nor can we grudge her the wealth of all her
endowments, when we think how well under her venerable aus-
pices the battles of orthodoxy have been fought; that in this holy
warfare they are her sons and her scholars who are ever foremost
in the field, ready at all times to face the threatening mischief,
and by the weight of their erudition to overturn it. Whatever
the ensuing changes in the state of our society may he, there is
none that would more fatally speed the dis'orgaiiization and
downfall of this great kingdom, than if the baud of violence
were put forth on the rightsand revenues of the church of Eng-
land. If the ecclesiastical establishment should fall, and that
because the temporalities which belong to them have been pro-
nounced by the oracles of our day as an oppression and a but:-
den on the general population, then. instead of truth being their
judge or their executioner, they shall have fallen at the hand of
cunning and deceitful witnesses—they shall have perished in tho
midst of a strong delusion, at the mandate and by the authority
of a lie."—Dublin Packet.

SAxONY WooL.—To the late King of Saxony, when Elector,
is due the merit of having first brought the breed of Spanish
Merino sheep into Germany, which has since transferred the
valuable trade in fine wool almost wholly from the Spanish to
the German sbil. From the period of its first introduction
until 1814, when Europe once more began to enjoy the bles-
sings of a general peace, this wool was gradually, although
slowly, spreading itself over the surface of the kingdom of
Saxony; hut when the continental trade was thrown quite
open, by the events of the short campaign of 1815, and the
minds of men were set at rest by the flue! catastrophe of Napo-
leon, the Saxon wool dealers began to open a regular trade in
the article to England, and they soon discovered the real
value of this new branch of German commerce. In the first
year, viz :—ln 1814,
there were imported into England only
3,593,1461b5. ; 1819, 4,557.9381b5. ; 1824, 15,4:32,65i lbs. ; 1818,
23,110,8821b5. This prodigious increase in the demand for
German wool naturally excited the emulation of the States
lying contiguous to Saxony; and the flock masters of that.
kingdom carried on, for a considerable period, a very prosper-
ous trade in rains and ewes with the land owners of Silesia,
Bohemia, Austria, and other parts, who were fleArous of chang-
ing the nature of their flocks to this more profitable breed.
All the superabundance of grain, which had no external vent
to carry it oft was given to the sheep, in order to accelerate
their approach to the maximum degree of fineness of which
their wool was susceptible; thus actually creating a profitable
consumption for their corn, through the eagerness exhibited:in
England to obtain a superior quality or .wook742,outterty Jour.
of eel Agriculture.

• The olive, the laurel, and the palm tree were sacred to Apollo;
the fig, the vine, the ivy, and the fir to Bacchus, and the ruse to
Venus.

POPISH EPISCOPAL INSOLENCE, LOYALTY,

AND GRATITUDE !

At a dinner given to Sir William Brabazon by the
anti-titheists, anti-unionists, and other mal -contents of
the county Mayo, "The Catholic Hierarchy and Priest-
hood of Ireland" having been given from the chair,
Doctor Mac Hale, the notorious Bishop of Maronia, in
returning thanks, favoured the world with the following
specimen of Popish Episcopal moderation and gratitude.
We only quote two passages as forcible commentary on
the Church Temporalities' Bill, and particularly on the
. * " clause which extinguishes, as far as human power
and injustice can, the number of our Bishops :
" It is gratifying to see the Catholic hierarchy waxing strong,
even amidst its privations; while the favoured hierarchy is
dwindling away of atrophy, from the very abundance of the
luxuries that are spread around it. The one is falling away,
because, like the elms, the roots merely run along the surface;
while, on the other hand, though many a winter of persecution
has passed over it—though many a woodman has gone forth
with the axe to fell the forbidden tree—yet still does the Irish
Catholic hierarchy remain, like the lofty pine among the Alpine
mountains, uninjured by the storms, for its roots are embedded
in the rock of ages (cheers.)" "Is it to be wondered at, then,
that I should be a constitutional agitator? (cheers.) They may
talk of the despotism of Don Miguel, and the despotism of the
Pope, but they do not know these countries. I tell them that
there exists there more of popular representation than exists in
all Ireland !—(bear, hear.) This is the reason that having
gone into despotic countries, I have returned more an agitator
than I went. Give me the happiness with the despotism of
these countries, and let them keep their misery with their liberty
at home. Bat the time is rapidly passing away when an ans-
tocracy can continue to govern a country. I have made it, and
ever will make it, one of the most sacred subjects of religious
instruction that the people should give their votes to the most
worthy—(cheers.)"
No doubt, the rev. agitator would prefer the land of
darkness, where he could easiest rule—here is too much
light breaking in upon Ireland, bad as she is, to admit of
Monkish dominion to the extent that would please the
Bishop of Maronia. However, let him not despair—
Whig rule, if it last much longer, will make the country
black and grievous enough to Protestants, and leave
nothing to the malignity of the Popish Priesthood to
wish for.— Warder.

DIABOLICAL TRANSACTION-THREE LIVES LOST.

On Monday last, the village of Ashford-in-the-Water, near
Bakewell, was the scene of considerable excitement, in conse-
quence of the perpetration of a most diabolical act, by which
three of the workmen employed in the Red Soil Mine, at Shel-
don, lost their lives, and several others were severely injured,
It appears that the miners employed in the Red Soil, and those
employed in the Magpie Mine, which is adjoining, bad, in the
course of their operations, arrived at the same point, and a com-
munication had been made from the one mine to the other; the
consequence has been, that the proprietors of the two mines have
been in litigation for several years, and we understand that some
weeks ago the grand jury for the Mineral Liberty of Ashford
were required, by the proprietors of the Red Soil, to go through
the workings of that mine in order to ascertain whether such
workings were or nut in the Red Soil vein. The jury, by their
verdict, decided that the whole of the operations of the Red Soil
proprietors were confined to their own vein. The jury were sub-
sequently directed to proceed with their survey for the purpose of
ascertaining whether the Red Soil vein extended into the ground
in possession of the Magpie proprietors, but when they came to
the point of communication between the two mines they found
their further progress stopped by rubbish being. placed there for
the purpose of preventing their proceeding into the Magpie
works, The consequence was that a penalty was laid on the
prorietors of the Magpie Mine for causing the obstruction.
urther unsuccessful attempts have been made by the jury to
enter the Magpie Mine through the opening, and heavier penal-
ties have been imposed. Matters were in this state when, on
Saturday last, the workmen in the Red Soil Mine perceived
smoke issuing from the Magpie Mine, which rendered it very
difficult for them to continue long at work. On Monday morn-
ing last, the Red Soil miners assembled at the top of the shaft,
but previous to descending, one of the men, named Wildgoose,
was sent down for the purpose of ascertaining whether there
was as much smoke in the mine as might endanger their safety
in working. Ile proceeded about 40 fathoms, and finding the
annoyance had been discontinued, he called out to the men that
they might advance. Eleven men then descended, and Wild-
goose returned to the tap of the shaft. The way into the mine
is down a perpendicular shaft for about 40 yards (down which
the miners clamber by the help of cogs driven into the sides),
into a drift gait or level, which proceeds for some distance, and
then down other shafts'ind along other drift gaits to the waggon
way, where the point of communication between the two mines
4s situated. Four of the men had got into the waggon way when
they experienced a dreadful feeling of suffocation from what is
supposed-to have been the fumes of sulphur, &c., which came
from the opening into the Magpie, and it was evident that some
infernal mixture had been wilfully ignited by persons in that
mine. Two of the men retreated up a shaft about 14 yards into
the drift gaits, and gave the alarm to the other men who were
descending. The other two (Joseph Knowles and Thomas
Henstock,) were so overpowered by the poisonous vapour as
to be unable to get up the shaft; they lay down on their faces,
and by inhaling the moisture from the earth saved their lives;
they were the last who were extricated. One of the men was,
with great difficulty, enabled to get so near the surface as to
give the alarm to the persons on the mine hillock; and after
great exertions, and at the utmost personal risk, eight of the
men were rescued alive, but, horrible to relate, the other three
men were not extricated until life was quite extinct.
The names of these unfortunates are—Thomas Wager, of
Longstone, aged 41, who has left a wife and eight children
Isaac Bagshaw, of Sheldon, aged 40, who has left a wife and
three children; and Francis Taylor, of Bakewell, aged 22, who
bas left a wife and one child. The bodies of Bagshaw and Tay-
lor were found jammed together in one of the shafts. Wager
evidently lost his life in attempting to save two of the men, who,
in retreating, he found lying insensible in one of the levels.
Some of the men passed him at the spot when he exclaimed,
" for God's sake come back and assist me to get up these two
poor fellows." He was found lying in the sh4ift a short distance
from them, and about three yards below the two dead bodies,
which he had found it impossible to pass. We consider it our
duty to mention the praiseworthy conduct of Critchlow Brockle-
burst, one of the Red Soil miners, who was instrumental in
saving the lives of tour men by his individual exertions. He
descended the mine amid the noxious vapour, and carried the
men out singly on his shoulders, one of them (John Oliver) he
bore a distance of eighty yards lip the shafts. Such conduct
needs no comment, and we trust it will not go unrewarded. We,
however, do not wish by particular mention of this man to detract
from the praise justly due to several others who cheerfully
braved the danger, and rendered the most valuable and necessary
assistance to the sufferers. The dead bodies on being brought
out of the mine presented a shocking spectacle, the counte-
nances exhibiting the usual appearance of persons who have
died from suffocation, in addition to which the heads and faces
were much cut and bruised, no doubt by their frantic attempts
in escapa from that miserable death. Several of the miners
were much injured, not only internally by the stifling smoke,
but by accidental wounds and contusions caused by their endea.
sours to leave the mine. .

-We have with most of the sufferers; they describe
the appearance in the nine to have been like a bluish mist
arising from the point which communicates with the Magpie
Mine. Au incrustation (apparently of sulphur,) of the thick-
ness of half-a-crown, was taken from the lips of Taylor's corpse.
The candles carried down by the miners were similarly incrusted.
A post-mortem examination of the bodies took place at the De-
vonshire Arias, Ashford, by Dr. Reid and Mr. Farnsforth, both
of Bakewell. A highly respectable jury (Mr. G. Lancaster, of
Bakewell, foreman,) chosen from the townships of Bakewell,
Great ItQwsiey, Alport, and Over Haddon, none of whom have
any interest in either of the mines, assembled at Ashford on
Tuesday morning, to investigate this shocking affair, before Mr.
Mandel., the.coroner. The inquest room was for some hours
open to the public, but the evidence of the witnesses was found
to implicate so many persons, that the coroner and jury were
of opinion that the ends of justice would be best consulted by
holding it in striet-privacv. We, therefore, as well as the pub-
lic, were excluded, a4d .cannot consequently give a report of
the evidence; butt have taken great pains to make ourselves
acquainted with all the particulars which have transpired rela-
tive to this atrocious deed, and we doubt net our account will be
found substantially correct.
___

The inquest sat again on Wednesday, and after sixteen wit-
nesses had been examined, it was adjourned until Wednesday
next, in order to allow of the attendance of John Oliver and
others who were so seriously injured as to he At present unable.
Ito kayo their beds.—Derbyshire Courier.