The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

TI-IF LIVERPOOL S'FANDARI).

VARIE ribs.

AN AGED FAMILY.—Tiwre is now residinz at Rusted
N,,ok. in t!.e ,owns.iip of W' ardale and Wasd!e, an
aged fa, 'lr of 'even i,divitio.ds, all in coorl health,—
narnelv, J m M oth,ws 85 ; fthtn rt. 75; Th 73;
Joists, 77; Ma. v, 82 ; 13c tty. 71 ; Richard. 67. Toe r
united ages a onnt to 531) year,.--Blackburn Standard.
FRENCH PURITY OF EI.ECTION.—On Monday lasi-,
the Fre 'en t Irimher of De,itities de,icled that the third
election of Mr. Charles Lafit'e, for the bo- °ugh of Lou-
wa, no' a good elects n. and ought to be annulled.
The ground of his rejection was, nit he had been guilty
of " c .rruption," in liavinz, pro,nised the eiec-
t•trs to cause to he co.struct-d a branch from the Rouen
railroaf to that town !

TRAVELLING IN SPAIN —WC rend in a Madrici•jour-
md—" Ma:l-ern:hes ai h three places for pa.-sengers,
like those or F a• ce, have been established upon all our
roads. It is difficult to give an idea of the multiplication
of public carriag s of all kinds in Spain. They are run-
ning in every direction, and there is so much opposition
t hat 'he fares are extremely low, and travelling has become
so great ly increased, that the in its and other estabisliments
for their accout m ()eat ion are as greatly improved. If our
highways are but cleated of the brigands who infest them,
foreigners will flock to explore our country and its inter-
esting curiositi..s, hitherto almost unknown to the rest of
Europe "—Go/if/wines Meosenyer.
A LIVELY PLACE.—They have a little town out west
which appears to have been overlooked by Dickens, and
other English travellers of his class, and which is all
sorts of a stirring place. In one day they recently had
two street fights, hung a man, rode three out of town on
a ra 1, got up a quaver race, a turkey shooting, a gander
pulling, a match dog fight, had preaching by a Methodist
circuit rider, who afterwards run a foot-race for drinks
all round ; and, as if this was not enough, the judge of
the court, after losing a year's salary at single-handed
poker, and whipping a person who said he did not under-
stand the game, went out and helped to Lynch a man for
hog stealing.—Picayune.
SOUND OF BELLS ON WATER —Dr. Arnott relates a
case where the sound of bells was heard on hoard a ship
sailing along the coast of 13, azil, far out of sight of land.
The sound was heard during att hour or two, at a particular
spot on deck, and it seemed to vary as in human rejoic-
ings. A 1 on hoard came to listen, and w. re convinced
as to the existence and na•ure of the sound, hut to account
for it was impossible. Months afterwards it was ascer-
tained, toat at the time of the observation, the bells of the ;
city of St. S.•lvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been
ringing on the occasion of a festival ; their sound, there.
fore, favoured by a gent'e wind, had travelled over, per-
haps, a hundred miles of smorth water, and had been
brought to a focus by the concave sail in the particular
situation on the deck where it was li.t,ned to.

ARRIVAL AT BEYROOT.—The traveller, whose good
for, une it has been to make his first approach to Syria by
sea, and to land at Beyrnot, must always esteem it a
harpy coincidence thst the most frequented port on all the
coast is likew se precisely the point where a man of taste
and quick fe, ling would choose to receive his first im-
pressions of the country. Long before the vessel nears
the shore, the sunlit peaks aid wavy ridges of Lebanon
arc seen marking the blue sky, while its sides are hid from
sigl t nv rite haze upon the waters ; by and by the craggy
masses of the mountain some forth like eiry promontori- s ;
the eve gradually distinguishes ihe deep-and dark valleys
that cleave its flanks ; the rocky crests assume a balder
outline; and ytu half discern villages se tTered on the
mountain sides, and monasteries like feudal fortresses
crowning their summits. Each object eau:lt sight of is
hailed with delight; all hands are on deck ; every eye is
strained. and each gazer has continually some new disco-
very to impart to his companions. It is always an ex-
citing thing to have a mountain land in view as the termi-
nation of a sea voyage ; but here the charm is felt with
untold strength, for the held before you is endeared by a
'net of associations linked with your earliest and most
hallowed recollections. Meanwhile, the vessel holds on
its course; the lard grows beneath the eye; the white
walls of the country houses. spread all along the plain at
the Mot of the mountain. peep out with a look of welcome
from between their clustering trees, and the air is loaded
with the perfumed breath of orange and lemon blossoms.
At last the anchor is dropped, and you are riding in the
bay of Beyroot, in front of a long promontory, rising
gradually from the water, above which are seen the mina-
rets and towers of the town, and beyond them the sum-
mits of the Jebel Sunnin, and the Jebel Kneese, and the
long lines of the Jebel el Dius.—Library of Travel.
DIVISIBILITY or MATTER.—We not unfrequently
speak of things as being "as fine as a hair." Now the
human hair varies in thickness from the 1.2 oth to the
1.600 th part of an inch ; and it is a massive cable in corn:.
parison with the fibres produced by other animals. The
thread of the silk-worm is many tunes finer, being from
the 1-1700th to the 1-2 00th of an inch. 'I his, however,
is nothing to the slenderness of the spider's thread, which
has been found in some instances to be no more than
1-30,000 th of an inch in diameter. It is difficult even to
imagine criantties so small ; and the best way to realize
them to the mind is to consider that 30,000 such threads
laid side bYside would make a riband only one inch broad.
But this is by no means the entire wonder of the spider's
thread. Each of these slender colds is composed of four
nr six twisted together ; and every- one of these is formed
by the pressing out of a .iscid fluid through a sort of teat-
or spinneret at the hinder pat t of the animal, the point of
which. instead of having a single orifice, is perforated by
not less than 1000 very minute apertures. The thread of
each spinneret most he formed. therefore by the union of
not less than 1000 fibrils ; and four or six of these threads
go to form the cord of 1 30,000 th of an bide in diameter,
of which the spider's web is coostructed. It has been
calculated that two drachm- (12e grains) of such thread
would reach from Edinburgh to London. The fibres
yielded by the vegetable kingdom are not se fine as these;
yet their minuteness is most. astonishing. Every fibre of
flax is composed of a bun-tle of other fibrils, which have
been found to be about 1-2500,b of an inch in diameter.
Similar fibres, obtained from the p;ne-arple plant, have
been ascertained to be no more than 1-5000th or even
1-7000th of an inch in diameter; these when twisted into
threads, and woven. are said to from cloth of very beauti-
fouolttwexhteunret.he
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stomped by drawing the ends apart, are ma
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Cyclopeedia
of Natural Science.
1-12,000 th of an inch,
A GOOD CRITIC S
in
odienisnieesteei:—o-P;PErtet see—Second
Concert of the Philharmonic Society.—A prominent
of Herr Ernst. Much as it may be the continental
feat ore in th••s concert was the first Philharmonic appear-
ancefashion to effect a contempt of English judgment, it is
yet, unquestionably, a fact. that the greatest artists of all
countries seek from the Philharmonic audience the last
and conclusive testimony to their powers. In the case
Ltgoot(pohimnpi.t an dTee nt, tahvtet iaalsrteiacdtyo
sbpeooktehne town
ise
severalthan
of Herr ernst, this was yielded on Monday evening in a
tenraa
oecasiens of this extraordinary violinist. He has, assu-
redly, no superior as an executatit, even among the most
madly emulous of the fas tenable gymnasts ; while in
that dee' er and less ncqu't able excellence, the genial in-
terpretation of musical poesy, no one but he has been
able to sustain the all-passionate idola which Paganini
created. He could not have made a better selection
for the display of his prodigieus capabilities than the
Seelig Cantante of Spohr. The recitatives, the can-
tabile, the I final allegro,—all were abredute perfec-
tion. We have heard Spobr execute this same com-
position, but, nevertheless, prefer its rendering at, the
hands of Ernst. Nothing, of course, can transcend
Spohr's understanding of his oon work; lint the youth
of Ernst is vet hot and fresh with him, and he sings
through his lovely guTh of pathos, not as a cherished relic
of bygone feeling, but as the prompt exponent of pre.
sent and living passion. His solo in the second art,
though less ieteresting to the musician, was, perhaps,
necessary to substantiate his position among ihe wonder-
workers of the day. As a collection of miraculously
achieved difficulies, we have heard nothing beyond it;
one variation, indeed.—an overwhelming torrent of rapid
churns—was so obviously an all but. preternatural marvel
as to compel a tremendous encore. Ernst was vociferously
received throughout, and he deserves it. As a player he
is certainly second to none; but his composer-1 ke feel-
ing and genial attachment to everything intrinsically
excellent in music. place him above all comparison in his
walk of art.—Atlas.
A VETERAN.—The late Sir Jahleel
too once the service in 1777 ; was • d 1 •
ni e a Aeutenant on the 22nd
of November. 1790, and as such served n
Bat fl• ur in Lnrd Bridport's action offCa eiSr hoard the
Vincent's
n 1697 (in which were also his gillant friend, *tut
Admirals at the present Board of Adieu, al ea of the
; was made
a commander on the 3rd of July, 1799; and command
of the Speedy, 1 I-eutt brig, in that
actions in the vicinity of Gibraltar , ar fetieht several
vessels he captured during eeie command near Cape de
Galt, under a heavy fire of musket,. fhills. In the following month at. Yorom the surrounding
four of the enemy's vessels in a
heavy ctober he destroyed
exposed to the guns of a fortification surf, at the time
the beach, and in the next mo ,tit anfaNnd musketry from
dis-
played consummate skill and gallantry November be
Spatiish schooners, and ten other edinvbeating off two
services he won his post rank. wh'cli is dated the ; by these
April, 1800. He was then selected by
Sir
.Lithe 25th of
wards Lord) de Satnaurez as his flag captain, Zeds" (after-
mend of the Cceser distinguished himself in the severe
"m-
-action off Aleesires, of the 6th of July, 1831.
quently, in command of the Minerva,. when that frigate"-
got aground in a fog and was lost near Cherbourg, he ee
fended her during a heavy fire of seversl hours, for wh'ch".
unsurpassable gallantry he received the highest praise
whett acquitted at a court martial for the loss of his ship.
In 1807, when in command of the Spartan frigate, spir-
Jahleel assisted in driving the French garrison out ee
Pezaro and destroying the castle; in the ftllnwing month
he assisted in blowing no the Castle of Cesaratieo, destroy
ing a neighbouring battery, And comet-Hill the island destroy_
Sitssin to surrender; assisted at the reduction of. Zante
and Cephalonia, and particularly distinguished himself
at
the capture of Cerigo, where he was first in command.
These and many other Mai ortant services did this
(Want
officer render in the Adriatic. In the same ship in 1810,
in concert with the Sms, x, fought a most gallant action
with and defeated, a French scoadren in the Bay
of
Naples, in which action he w,is eever, ly woundt d. The
gallant deceased was created a Baronet on this occasion,
and received other honours, and on the 8 h of February,
1811, had a pension cohferte.l up 'n him of £3OO per
annum for the vremids he hat r-ceived. He obtained his
flag promotion as Rear-Admiral on the 22d of July. 1830,
and as Vice-Admiral on the Ist of .idly 1810, oitd
sequently had another pension conferred mein him of
£31)0 rer Annum for coed st-rv,ce : he also r ,eeised a
giant born the P.tri, t c Find. The geraio deteased was
11 e seri of the I. ts Rear- k,linirel Btenton. tle wis twiee
merried. H s elde t son, The femne let Charles Li.,
Brent who bilk:CtellS to tl Baronetcy, was bOill
iti 1807.

INDIA AND CHINA.

(From Yesterday's Times.)

We received on Saturday evening our despatches from
India and China, which left Bombay on the 1:-t of April.
The chef intelligence of the month relates to the con-
duct of a part of certain native regiments on the north-
west frontier, which refused to march to Scinde, in con-
sevence of some allowances granted to the troops on the
banks of the Indus during the time of war being with-
drawn when that province was declared to be in peace
and annexed to the British Empire in India. The pay
of the native soldier is five rupees and a half (11s.) per
month, besides which he receives subsistence money
' (called batta and half-hatta) of one rupee and a half in
cantonment, and, if marching in the Company's territo-
ries, an additional sum of the same amount called " extra
batta," whereby his pay becomes eight rupees and a half
Per month. If he is on a foreign station, and in peculiar
cases of scarcity, he receives 'an additional sum called
ration money," as a conapensation for the dearness of
the articles of his use, such as grain, &c. Thus there
were three indulgences to be considered, viz., Ist, the
cantonment rate of half-batta ; .2d, the marching rate of
extra batta ; and 3d, the extraordinary indulgence of ra-
tieo toOTV-y.
MI cause for alarm had ceased, and the several regi-
ments ordered were proceeding to their stations on the
Indus. Three regiments have been ordered to he dis-
banded,—viz., the 7th Light Cavalry, and the 4th and
34th regiments of Native Infantry.
The 64th regiment, in which but a few began the mu-
tiny, having proved that the mass of the men t-aew nothing
of it, and having volunteered to go to Scinde, had been
allowed to proceed, and with the Foot Artillery, under
Captain Grahain, bad embarked at Ferozepore on the
18th of March. The 6th Irregular Cavalry, which had
not, to its honour, shown the smallest symptom of dis-
affection, was also in progress there. The Artillery had
alsci at first begun to march, but the Hindoo Brahmins
and the Mussulman Mollahs had gone to tamper with the
men, and produced for a time some disinclination, which
ceased on explanations being given. The government,
which has made the concessions to the troops, will take
care to weed the disaffected out of all these corps. _

The propriety of an increase of the Bombay army had
been admitted by the Governor-General, and lists had
been prepared of the officers to be appointed to four new
corps, ft orn which it appeared that the colonels had served
40 years,' the lieutenant-colonels upwards of 30 years, the
majors more than 25. and the majority of the captains 19
and 20 }ears, while it would leave the average of two
brevet-captains to each regiment after 15 years' service.
There was a great wish expressed in Bengal and M"dras
that Scinde should be, made over to the Bombay Prssi-
dency as an appanage, an,4, that its army should he ang-
mewed to meet the demand on its service. In such cir-
cumstances the augmentation of 10 regiments would be
necessary ; but the Bombay army has never yet been
stained with mutiny on any occasion whatever.
The 47th Madras Regiment, which had shown a muti-
nous spirit in Bombay, had been sent to garrison Aden.
The cost of the grant to the Sepoys in Scinde is va-
riously
estimated ; it has ben calculated at £50,000 per
annum, hut the imptovements going on in the districts
on the borders of the Indus will soon repay it. Fortu
nately for India the flourishing state of the revenue will
not cause any pressure front the grant of the batta to the
Scinde and Gwalior armies: Such is its prosperity, that
the Governi.r-Goneral has issued a notification abolishing
the transit duties in the Presidency of Madras. This is
considered as a most useful measure, as introducing uni-
formity into the various provinces of India.
The news from Scinde represents that district as tran
quil and comparatively healthful. The Bombay troops
there were satisfied to retain it, and an augmentation in
that army was expected.
From Lahore the news is of great importance. There
a civil war is raging ; a chief called Cashmeera Singh, a
bastard of Runjeet, is opposed to the new Prime Minis-
ter, Heer Singh, and, as Sikhs support him, it is proba-
ble there will he another revttlution within a few months
in the Punjaub. The notorious Affghan leader' Akbar
Khan, had led his troops to invade Pe-hawur and be will,
in all probability, force the Lahore Government into an
application to the Governor-General for assistance. It is
not improbable that there will he another conflict with the
Affghans on the plains of the Panjaub, a here the Indians,
when not aided by the English, have almost always been
routed by the hardy mountains era. It seems that these
mountaineers have an established right to overcome
the people to the east of the Indus, and when they
lately invaded Peshawur they were surprised at being
beaten back by the Sikhs under forei.vn generals. The
conquest of their country by the British army had
surprised them ; yet now again they are to be seen moving
to tie Indus, and there the British army must again meet
and defeat them. The Sikhs have lost their weight in the
scale of India since the death of old Runjeet, and it is
therefore imperative on the British government to be pre-
pared to conflict with the Shiks ag4inst the Affghans, and
not to allow them to make a junction, which might lead
to numberless invasions on the fertile north-western pro-
vinces of the Company's territories. The late rumours of
a mutiny amongst the native troops had encouraged both
the Sikhs and Affghans to exhibit a ho,tile spirit towards
the British. The antipathy between the Affghans and the
Sikhs is proverbial; they are continually quarrelling, and
as the Sikhs have atterly, by means of foreign generals
and British aid, been successful, the former now seek an
opportunity of having another cor filet, for they are
anxious to become masters of Peshawur, and of Cash-
mere.,

The Governor-General arrived in Calcutta on the 28th
of February, and was well received.
In Gwalior tranquility prevails. The new contingent
was arranged, and the' people appeared sntistipd. It is
worthy of remark, that the neighbouring district of Bun-
delkund has been thoroughly pacified by the subjugation
of Gwalior, and so far was that pacification effective that
the whole of the Bundelkund contingent had volunteered
to proceed for three years to Scinde, thereby demonstrating
that die late disaffection relative to money matters in the
four regiments of Bengal bad not any extensive ramifica-
tions.

In all parts of India tranquility prevailed when the mail
left. Amongst the late passengers from Bombay were Sir
K. and Lady Sale, and their daughter, Mrs. Sturt ; they
left i►► the shiv True Briton, and are coming to England
round the Cape.

The news from China comes down to the 27th of Feb-
ruary, but presents nothing remarkable. Sir H. Pottin-
ger was at Hongkong, which island was healthy. He was,
while waiting for his successor, enga.ted in regulating
some of the buildings at Victoria, and also in making pro-
per arrangements for the trade at the new ports. The
ChinNe were robbing houses and plundering the foreigners
as well at Macao as at Hongkong.
Great anxiety prevailed in India respecting Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly, as the rumours on the sub-
ject were conflicting.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CHINA.
The accounts received state that the Chinese new-year
holidays had almost entirely put a stop to business, and
few transactions either in imports or exports had been
effected. The following report of the Colton. market
comes down to the Ist of January :
Deliverie% in Dec. Stock let Jan.
American
Bombay....
Bengal
Madras ...... 10,915 .. 24,813

Total bales .... 41,877 127,260
Cotton was quoted at T. 5/ to T. 7 for Bombay ; Ben-
gal, 6.2 to 8 6; Madras, 6.4 to 8; American, 6 to 6 5.
In the Cotton Piece Goods market there was a good deal
of activity, and large sales had been made at the
following quotations :—Grey Longc'oths. 2.80 dols. to
3.20 dole. ; Bleached do., 3.60 dots. to 4.20 did& ; Drills,
2.30 (Ms. to 2 35 dols. ; American Sheetings, 2.45 dots.
to 2.60 dols. The demand for Cotton Yarn continued as
before. Sales were with difficulty made at 22 dol.. to 24
dol.. for Nos. 16 to 32. There was no inquiry whatever
for the' higher numbers. The demand for Woollens had
fallen off considerably. We give below the quotations at
which Dirge shipments of Tea had been bought: Congnu
Tea, 15 to 20 per pecul ; Hyson, 32 to 70 per pecul ;
Young Hyson Tea, 25 to 36 per pecul: Hyson skin, 14 to
35 per pecul; Gunpowder and Imperial Tea. 38 to 70 per
pecul. The export of Tea to Great Britain, in the month
of December, in 12 vessels, Was of black. 5,955.1031bs ;
and 4,f green, 592,4521b5.; total, 6,547,645. The total
exports in six months from July 1 to F, b. 22 was of
black, 29,429,3351b5.: and of green, .; iu all,
35' 200 2911b5. Prices of Opium were quite nominal—
ttam .1;, Malwa, 670 dols, to 680 dols.; and Patna, 595
to 600 do's. Exchange on London, six months' sight,
4s. 6d. ; with Bengal, 30 days' sight, 22415. per 100 dols.

n '
CALCUTTA, MARCH 23.
Since the issue of last week our money market has
been tranquil, and capital abundant for all commercial
purposes of a sound character.
In government securities there had been a good deal of
business at advancing valuations for some days. The
Four per Cents. at one time reached within 1 or 12 annas
of par. They have since receded to 1 a 1.2.
Exchange is dull. and few bills for sale. The rate may
be quoted at Is. 104 d. to Is. 104 d. at 10 months' date.
Bank Stock is in demand, and the premium rising.
INDIGO.—The imports of the season have now nearly
closed, and the amount of produce approximates to fy.
mds. 1,70,000. The exports since our last issue of 17th
ultimo, are 4393 chests or fy. mds. 16,992 to England,
2021 chests or fr. mds. 7111 to France, and 2302 chests
or fy. mds. 7787 to the Persian Gulf and Red Se, ; which
make the shipments of the season to the 15th instant,
inclusive, as below.