The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-20 00:00:00

a naval officer and a m

rehant,

His tables are admirably
and labour, and will be

interested in naval matters. To

drawn up, evince great acuten(
read with interest by an

merchants generally, and to capitalists particularly, the facts
adduced by Mr. Wise will be found invaluable.

NANKIN AND ITS PORCELAIN TOWER

(From the Bombay Spectator.)

Numerous, as you may conceive, have been the pilgrimages
made to the far-famed " Porcelain Tower." For the first
time in inspecting any of the monuments re'nommes of this
country, no disappointment has been experieoced, whilecom-
paring what actually is, with what the legends of the book-
makers in China describe to be. It is, indeed, a most elegant
and singular structure, as remarkable for its correct propor-
tions as for the rare material of which it is partially com-
posed. I say partially, because the mass of building is not
of porcelain, but is composed of common brick, with a facing
and lining of beautiful white glazed porcelain bricks or slabs,
fixed into the masonry by means of deep keys or shoulders,
cast like a half T, on the brick. Its form is octagonal, and
running up each of the angles is a moulding of large tiles of
very fine clay, glazed and coloured red and green alternately ;

bah]
doorways open, set to the
being elegantly turned with
r,inable fancies of design and

round each story runs a lig
porcelain, upon which four arc
four cardinal points, the arches
lace glazed tiles, cast in all irna

de-formed of green

ation of colour, representing

deities, monsters

It appears to be a '• sight

zes at-

the Chinese themselves, for there are priests or b
tached to the building to keep it in order, who earn their
consideration by distributing to the visitors lithographed
elevations of the tower, with descriptions attached, and who
he duty intrusted to them of illuminating it
on gala occasions

seem to have

This is effected by means of lanterns,
used in lieu of window glass by

made of thin oyster shells

the Chin

on every story, and t

Tect of whose subdued light on-t

more r

reflective surface of the t
beautiful. The walls of Nankir
their extraordinary height and great extent than for the
strength which has been given to them by the builders : in
some places they are not less than seventy feet in height, and
at very few points along an enciente of fully twenty miles in
extent are they less than fifty. There are, however, several
points at which they are open to escalade

I dently bestowed extensiv

year, having, as usual, forgotten to rain

here the undulations of t

am parts

e levels of

foundations. From the peculiar features of the country ad-
joining the town, and from the situation of the Tartar city
or citadel, which is separated from the great straggling mass
of the town by open fields and gardens, it appears evident
that the place could at any time be readily carried by a com-
paratively small force, and retained against a very large one
a undisciplined troops, as long as they had the 'llea
procuring supplies, which, in consequence of the goodn

the road-andits inconsiderable length, could always b

tained from the river. The Chinese, I think, must have wis-
dom enough to know that our stay here, and our examina-
tions of their city from the heights and from the summit of
the Porcelain Tower, have taught us this secret; and it may,
therefore, be considered as an additional reason to the many
that exist, why they should not too soon again tempt the
"devil's children" to measure strength with their bravos.
Three to four thousand seasoned troops, with a few guns,
some powder bags, mining tools and scaling ladders, would
have Nankin under their command in a week from Woosung,
with four or five steamers, and a dozen junks or decked boats
to be towed up by them against the stream ; and from the
important discovery of coal of decent quality in large quan-
tities here, we may always reckon upon being able to keep
steamers constantly employed in bringing in supplies from
all points on the river, whither they can be drawn. But to
render them serviceable to the state, they must never be
under the sole and despotic sway of an admiral. If the ex-
perience of the present military commander-in-chief could
be made available for the benefit and information of his com-
panions of the service, the government would, in all proba-
bility, have much difficulty in finding an officer of any worth

or standing who could be-induced to serve as a joint leader
in a combined expedition, the circumstances of which pro-
mised to be at all similar to those under which the land
forces have reached here.

CHINESE POETRY.—We subjoin the following specimen
of Chinese poetry, published in the second volume of the
Royal Asiatic Transactions, and written 3,000 years ago.
Besides the pleasure its intrinsic beauty will afford, it offers
a convincing proof of the substantial identity of human feel-
ings in all times and countries. The piece bemoans the fate
of a maiden betrothed to a humbler rival, but compelled to
become the bride of a rich and powerful suitor :

)roe robber I.

Some weal

The fluttering

In which ti

bird prepares a home,
3 spoiler soon shall dwell

hindred cares

Mourn fc

e triumph swell

A stronger bird hath ta'en its

Mourn f

How vain t

TIM CHURCH OF I

CEIv-gcn OF ROM

DM!) to soo

illustrate tuts trutn. ii IS e.
•• Appeal to Common Sense
Rev. Philip Skelton " "

D MORE ANCIENT THAN THE
owing anecdote will serve to

written

►in I)

at found ti

I.D. 1770) by the

sixty or seventy years ago

Scriptures, and a few other books
man, in the shops and streets of the cit_
quest controversies with Jesuits, and other abettors of popery;
Wherein he was thought, at least by Protestants, to have
generally the advantage. After some time, a Jesuit of more
than common eminence gave him a challenge to enter into
an argument with him in the Thosel of Dublin, on a day and
hour prefixed. A vast concourse of people, and some bishops,
assembled on the remarkable occasion. The Jesuit asked
him—' Where was his religion before Harry the Eighth ?'
The weaver, looking attentively at his countenance, as if he
observed something extraordinary, asked him, if he had
washed his face that morning ?' and had an affirmative
answer. Where, then (said the weaver), %YRS your face
before you washed it ?' Here erded the dispute in a very
sensible peal of laughter, set up by common sense. This

entered into fr,

wise counsel,

poor man, WLJU
Ecclesiastes, who saved a city by. f
perfectly well that our Reformer
Genevans did, toform a new chur
of England. The Church contracted
from the Apostles' days, a great deal
and carelessness of its keepers, particularly by the Churcl
Rome. The reformers scoured off the rust, and kept
metal; that is the Romish religion, this is the Eugli
The members of the Church of Rome added false doctril
to the Christian faith ; our reformers left the one and ki
to the other: this is ancient, those are new. Our religi

one with that of the

)t undertake, as
the Chu

but to r(

rly Christians, mart

confessors, believed in the first thrc
fended by all councils tri

the disci,

fered, indeed,

neral. Our religion in th,
i Greece, in Antioch, wh

interest and
ted, and so

firBt ca

countr

neat variety of cliang,

kedues

times greater

number—sometimes
44,-,,,richinT state. B

withou

less, neither ade
Apostles taught.

origin long

i some

Iler in

or to that of the Church of Rome.—The V
an, edited by the Rev. Joshua Fawcett, I

lave Churcht ,
cumbent of Wibsey, Bradfor

MISCELLANEOUS

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a bank r

ad old woman

rd, on Saturda

The Dublin Mail of Friday evening announces the death
of Colonel Clements, the member for Cavan.
Lord Clive was returned to Parliament for North Shrop-
shire, on Monday, without opposition.

James Hatton was killed by the blow of a stone in a riot
t Cappagh Chapel, Dunmore, county Galway, on Monday.

Another claimant has arisen to the property of the !att.
r. Wood, of Gloucester, in the person of John Wood;
ierley-hill, Staffordshire.

The Exeter Gazette states that the death of the late
Countess of Denbigh was caused by a too strict observance
of the absurd rules of Homoeopathy.

The present native population o

amounts to

all parts

- aomma VI 1l Ullb-IIU I 1
2,361 ; the remaining 6,000 or 8,000 are from

A pawnbroker of Penrith was last week fined in the miti-
gated penalty of £2 for taking a pledge from a shoemaker,
named Teasdale, whilst in a state of intoxication.
The Worcester town council have determined to oppose
the Birmingham and Gloucester company's proposed branch
railway to that city.

The Tampico, from Litntriek to Glanendough, was recently
lost in Sligo Bay. The master and one of the hands only
saved.

The number of doctors in medicine residing in Paris in the
first of the present year was 1,423. In 1841, it was 1,360;
in 1839, 1,310 ; in 1836, 1,220 ; and in 1833, 1,099.

The Board of Woods and Forests have stopped the erec-
tion of the monument of the Scotch reformers, in Regent
Circus, London.

Her Majesty has signified her intention of taking frequent
excursions to sea during the season, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, in order to give
them the benefit of the sea air.

the pos

-office, and, consequently, postage is charged

The Court of Exchequer, it is understood, has accepted
bail for a house which is a large importer of foreign silk
goods, on a charge of smuggling. The charge, it is said, is
made on the evidence of a landing waiter lately deceased.
An Irish provincial paper has the following startling an-
nouncement !—" A list of the subscribers to the reward for
the murder of James Scully, Esq., appears in our columns of
this day."

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—BOTANICAL GARDEN.—We
learn from the Launceston papers, that arrangements are
being made for establishing a botanical garden in that town,
the local government having granted to the inhabitants seven
acres of land for that purpose.
The latest proof with which we have been furnished of the
" mildness of the season" is the fact, that a man was on
Saturday morning seen at Charing Cross offering freshly-
blown primroses for sale, in the very teeth of the biting gale
then blowing.

Thirteen large vessels are at present fitting with the Ar-
chimedean screw, among which may be mentioned the Great
Britain, no A, building at Bristol, a vessel of more than
3000 tons burden, the Rattler, government frigate, and three
French ships of war.

A ToucH OF THE SUBLIME.—A provincial contempo-
rary, describing a " find " by the Newby-bridge hounds, thus
speaks cf that gallant pack :—" The musical discord of their
sweet thunders reiterated through the valts of heaven till hill,
dale and valley re-echoed the sound."—Lancaster Guardian.

DEATH OF HYLTON JOLLIFFE, ESQ.—This gentleman
expired on the 12th instant, at his residence in Pall Mall.
Mr. Jolliffe was one of the oldest members of the House of
Commons, having represented the borough of Peterefield
more than forty years.

A person named Westgate, from Chalvington, undertook
for a wager, to shoot at and hit 97 penny pieces out of 100.
The match came off in the cricket-ground, when George
Picknell, the Cricketer, threw up the pence, and Westgate
actually hit 99 of the 100!—Sussex Erpress.
A young woman named Iloffam died at Lewisham on
Tuesday from having drunk gas water under the impression
that it would kill worms, with which she was afflicted.::The
water is that which escapes from gas works. It is a deadly
poison.

EXTENSIVE THEFTS.—A young man, in the employ of
Messrs. Campbell, of Glasgow, has embezzled from his em-
ployers, at various times since October last, large quantities
of silk goods, and nledged them. The value of the whole is
estimated at £350.'

The wine trade is again stirring to obtain a remission of
duties, on account of the contemplated treaty with Portugal,
and intend to make a vigorous assault during the next session
of parliament, thongh, we apprehend, with no better prospect
of success than heretofore.—Sundag Observer.

BRITISH CIGARS.-At Worship-street police-office, on
Monday, a young man named Charles Nash was charged
with hawking cigars without a license. It appeared that the
cigars were made from rhubarb leaves, and called by the
prisoner " British manufactured cheroots."

On Monday last William Smith, a little boy, about twelve
years of age, was committed by the magistrates of Yarmouth
(Norfolk) to the House of Correction for three mouths, for
being found sleeping in the open air, and without any visible
means of subsistence.—Sufolk Chronicle.

SECRETARYSHIP OF IRELAND.—A report has prevailed
during the present week, we know not on what authority, that
the Iron. J. S. Wortley, one of our knights of the shire, is
about to accept the Secretaryship of Ireland, vice Lord Elliot
the rumoured successor of SiriC. Bagot in Canada.—Leeds
Mercury.
RENTAL OF MANCHESTER.—It appears from statistics
which have just been published, that, notwithstanding the
the pressure upon trade and manufactures experienced since
1839. there has been an increase in the value of property in
the borough of Manchester, within the last three years, of
not less than £224,494.

On Friday last, Mr. Paisley of Broughton's celebrated
greyhound, Gelert, was unfortunately killed whilstin the act
of striking his game at the fence, after a splendid run over an
extensive fallow near Greysouthern. When the sportsman
got up, the hare and the dog were both found lying dead.—
Carlisle Journal.

We have just heard of a curious and interesting practical
application of a recent and scientific discovery, which will
somewhat startle our readers—the Chinese treaty was copied
by the photographic process of Mr. Fox Talbot; and the
copy, so made, for the safe of securing perfect accuracy, is
now deposited amongst the state papers.—Athena,um.

THE CHURCH QUESTION.---It appears from the roll of
the Court of Session that the Auchterardar and Strathbogie
cases are to be held before the whole court on Tuesday, the
24th instant, to be continued on Wednesday and Thursday,
and to be concluded on Friday—one counsel to be heard on
each side.—Witness.

A terrific affray took place on Sunday, between the Lon-
don police and the inhabitants of Lincoln-court, Drury-lane,
a place inhabited by the lowest orders. The police were
severely injured, one having had his head laid open. A
woman also received the same injury, and another had her
arm fractured.

The law officers of the crown have given an opinion that
magistrates at petty sessions have not power to commit for
contempt parties misconducting themselves in court. The
remedy is, to have informations sworn on the spot against
the party, who will afterwards be prosecuted by the crown at
the quarter sessions or assizes.

THE H ERRING FlsrmrtY.—ln Orkney, the herring fishery
has been very successful during the last month, particularly
at Lewis, where herrings were selling a week ago at the low
rate of ss. a cran. So great has been the success that v
hear the fishermen have been under t

—le necessity of stopping
for a time owing to the want of the means of preserving any
—Edinburgh Paper.

OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP.—The following circular has
been addressed to the Whig and Radical members :—" Lord
John Russell presents his compliments to —, and takes the
liberty of informing him that questions of importance affect-
ing the state of the country will be brought forward at the
commencement of the session, which opens on Thursday,
Feb. 2."

Goon PRAYERS.—The Lacechemonians bad a peculiar
form of prayer ; for they never used, according to Plato,
either in their public or private devotions to make any other
request than that the Gods would grant what was honourable
and good for them : but PlutarA tptl. o. thp.,

petition more—viz., that they might be able to suffer in-
juries.

CIIURCH CHOI!,

-•-ln England there are

that at least 10,000 of these places of worship could support
a choir of eight persons ; this would give partial employment
to at least 80,000 persons, which, considering the times,
would be the means of alleviating many a worthy father's
care in providing for his family.—Musical World.

On Sunday afternoon a temporary gallery in Queen-street
Chapel, Lambeth, which had been erected for the accommo-
dation of the children in the school, gave way, carrying fifty
children it to the ground. The annual sermon was to
be delivered that day, and a numerous congregation were
assembled. Several children were severely injured, and the
life of one is despaired of.

About the middle of last month there was a grand ceremony
at Venice, called the solemn inauguration of the railroad be-
tween Venice and Padua. The Patriarch, surrounded by all
the first authorities, gave his benediction, and then delivered
a ver" • -oeee'

.ery violent si,_ a against such innovations as railroad
travelling, which he thought would facilitate the introduction
of books and liberal opinions?

The will of the Countess Munster has been proved in
Doctors'-commons by Lord De Lisle, General Wyndham,
and Mr. Cameron, the executors. Her ladyship gives to her
three younger sons :C50,000 ; and the remainder of her pro-
perty to her eldest son, the present earl ; her daughters, the
two Ladies Fitzclarence, having been separately provided
for by their maternal grandfather, the late Earl of Egre-
MOrlt,:

If the collection of specie in the vaults of the banks was
any evidence that the merchants were doing a good business,
or that the country was adding to its wealth, there would be
in demonstrating both. There is now in the
mere than 7,000.000 doll,,

no diffict

,unt been in the state of New York a

prcsent
rivals.-

t, tnurzturtr, e,nu the quantity is increasing by daily ar-
-Letter from Genetese Traveller.
half

general meeting of the proprietors of the
a Docks, London, was held on Tuesday, when
a dividend of 2 per cent. on the half-year was declared, the
I company defraying the charge of the income tax. It ap-
peared from a return of shipping that entered the Port of

I St. Kathar

ast two

FOREIGN
. Tons.

TOTA L.
;. Tons

1ti41..1,627 996,330 1,992 316,860 6,619 1,313,210
1842.. 4,766 1,000,000 1,615 287,890 6,381 1,288,490
- - ----

ore 139 1,250Le55377

28,970 Less 238

The Banner of Ulster states that Charles P. Leslie, Esq.
though legally entitled to 25 per cent., pays the full amount
of rent-charge to the incumbents of the parishes in which
his property is situated.

Three days ago, Owing to the imprudence of a workman,
the flax-mills of M. Gamard, of Amiens, were destroyed by
fire, occasioning a loss of 230,000 francs. M. Gamard was,
however, insured.

We observe that the Earl of Ducie's splendid demesne,
with its admired park and mansion, in Gloucestershire, is
announced for sale by public competition in the month of
May next. It is estimated at £300,000 with the timber.
So unexpected and so grievous was the shock sustained by
the bereaved wife of the late Lord Bishop of Meath, on the
melancholy event of his demise, that her mental faculties are
said to have at length given way under the stroke.

The jury summoned on the inquest on the body of Mr.
Harvey who was killed on the North Midland Railway on
Thursday last have returned a verdict of Manslaughter
against Edward Jenkins.

The High'Sheriff of Denbighshire has called a public meet-
ing of the freeholders of that county, for Saturday nest
to petition against the proposed abolition of the ancient
Bishopric of Bangor.

LABEL STAMPS POR LETTERS.—The public should be
aVare that label stamps cut out from envelopes though not
pasted on letters are not recognised as stamps by

SECOND

LIVERPOOL CO

EDITION.

EXCHANG

liree o'cioci

DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

No difference has occurred this week in the duties on any
description of grain, whether Foreign or Colonial.

We are now ten days without an arrival from abroad, with
the exception of 43 barrels Flour; and limited as the supplies
coastwise and from Ireland have been of late, those received
into this port during the last few days are even smaller than
us

as will be observed from our import list below: siill, a
continuance of moderate weather must increase them to some

having refrained as much as possible from

tnd dealers

,urchasing, the

trade generally has presented an inactive appearance since our
last, without, however, any perceptible change in prices,
though the tendency has certainly been to rather less firmness
than was prevalent before.

The present scanty imports not holding out sufficient

attraction to either local or country buyers, we have to report

an uncommonly limited attendance at our Corn Exchange
to-day, and an excessively dull lingering sale for every
article of the trade without exception : calculating
however, upon a revived demand on arrival of the vessels
detained by the late stormy weather, holders continued to
adhere steadily to the general currency stated in our circular
of Tuesday ; and in the meantime, our quotations accord-
ingly appear to stand, in all respects, nominally unvaried.

ARRIVALS OF CORN',

From thel7th to the lgth January, 1843, inclusive.

IRS- I COAST.

DESCRIPTION

CANADA
REIGN. ! ".
WIS TOTAL
E.
•

Wheat ... ... Qrs. 135 4
Barley ....... Qrs. 42
Malt ........ Qrs. 39 100
Oats ........ Qrs. 321 527
Rye ......... Qrs.
Beans ....... Qrs.
Pea5e........ Qrs.
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn ... Qrs.

Rapeseed
Oatmeal .. . . Loa.IJ gl5

;acks. qgg I 10
Eris.

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwis;.s. :—Wheat,
Icy, qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Beans,
meal, 863 Ids.; Flour, 'in sacks.

qrs. ; Bal 2
qrs. ; Oat-

E 0 R.TS.—Foreizn Whe:
.1111• ; Pease, qrs ; -Beau
meal, loads; Flour, s

Barley, qr
Oatmeal

- qrs.; Barley, —qrs.; Oats, 195
qrs.; Indian Corn. qrs. ; Oat-
, 100 bris.—lreland. IVileat, 431

Wheat, 62 qrs
Rye,

- • •
Bar/eY, qrs.; Malt,
qrs. ; Beans, 21 qrs. ; Pease,
qrs.; Oatmeal, 10 Ids. ; Flour, 46 sac