The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-10 00:00:00

LAND SEEN FROM THE RUBY.

At 2 p m.;;;iiocal7ll;fore topsail yard a low sandy island,
bearing N.W., abOut 10 miles, and at 3 p.m. this island bore
•W. by N. distant 10 miles; that will place the island to be iii
lat. S. 39. N. long, per three chronometers, in 112.3 East:
This small island lies in a S.S.E. and N.N.W. direction, and
is about 10 feet high ; it is a white sandy end coral beach, with
some black stuff like sea-weed growing on the top of it. On the
S.E. extremity of this small island saw a large piece of wood
sticking up, which at first tie thought to be the mast of some
small vessel or boat; but upon a nearer view, found it to be
large drift tree hove upon the bEach on its end sticking up;
we discerned this tree almost as soon as we saw the island.

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Ou its eastern side we saw several black reeks; above water,
and one of them pretty high, say 6or 7 feet, the others were
just-a-wash, and maybe covered at high water; they• project a
very little way from tine ; island and, from what I saw, it ,
pears to be quite bold within half a cable's length all round.
The N.N.W. elid of this island is the highest part of, it, antl
I 'think it is about one mile iu circumference. We saw an im-..
unease nutnber of birds and a great quantity of ilirift wood passing
us, and a current running strong to the N.E. with fine smooth
water, we steered between it and the west London shoal, and
saw no other danger.
WILLIAM WARDEN; Commander.
China Sea, Ship Ruby, Dec. 16, 1834.

THE REV. Davin 0. CROLY.—We understand that the Rev?
David 0. Croly, of the Ovens, author of the pamphlet on Ec-
clesiastical Finance, which has excited so much interest, is now
publishing an address to the lower orders of the Roman Catholics
of Ireland, for the two fold purpose of disabusing them on the
subject of religion and politics, and to set them "right in regard,
to himself. This address is to be followed by the publication of
a work on the difference in religion between the two churches,
in which this important subject is fully considered.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-011 Saturday morning, at St:
George's Church, by the Dean of Carlisle, the Hon. G. 11. Ca.;
veudish, brother of the Earl of Burlington, to Lady Louisa
Lascelles, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Hare-
wood. Immediately after the ceremony thy happy pair pro
ceeded to the Duke of Devonshire's seat at Chiswick. Among
the distinguished company present were the Duke of Devon:jib+,
the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl and Countess of Sheffield,
Earl and Countess of Burlington, Countess of Morton, Mr. and
Lady Catherine Cavendish, Mr. and Ladyy. Louisa Lascelle,
Mr. and Lady Emma Portman, Mr. and Lady Caroline Las-
celles' Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lascelles, Hon. MisSes Caseates,
Lord Claude Hamilton, &c.
GETTING PEOPLE INTO GOOD 1-IVMOUR.—In the course or
his examination before the parliamentary conitnitte,. Mr. Guth
-
rte, the surgeon, being asked whether" the having a close cor-
poration secures harmony, does it ?" answer42,'Nm4acenty:ene
docters cannot assemble to discuss any qaestion and retrain in
a state of harmony lung; and I therefore recommend a. (limier
occasionally to be
.given to the doctors exam ining. the druggists,
that they may get into good humour again With one another;
which is very necessary sometimes.".
FINE FOR LIDEL.—It is intimated by a Sunday contenipOra-
rv, whose paragraph we extract, that ministers have remitted
die' fine of,LaX) imposed by the Court of King's Bench upon a
man of the name of Franks, who had been *convicted of a most
atrocious liurl 'spoil the respectable clerk of the Merchant Tai-
lors' Company. Upon this occasion we reed not say much.
Lord Denman even aid not think the sentence too severe. The
court was in full possession of the facts.. Subsequent tnerits'
there are uoue. 'I he culprit is one of the radicals of the common
hall; a friend and confederate in city politics of Sir John Key
and Mr. C. Pearson. By these few words of explanation the
public will fully understand to what noble purposes the royal
prerogative of mercy is now applied, and 116 w much the present
ministers are devoted to the pure and equal administration of
justice.—Mom log Post.
TRIAL OF THE WoLVERHAMPTON RlOTECt.—Between 20
and 30 persons were brought up on Saturday, before Francis
Twemlow, Esq., and a bench of magistrates, at Stafford, charged
with having been concerned in throwing stones at the military
during these riots. The worthy chairman sentenced them re-
spectively to six, five, four, three, and two months' hard labour.
Several bad been previously discharged on their own recog-
nizances, and the bill was ignored in respect to cue man
(Edward Silver) for throwing at the military at Wolverhamp-
ton, the principal witness being too ill to attend and give evi-
dence before the grand jury.
CURIOCs TEST OF A PREACHER% TALENTS.—TWO friends in
the north were a short time since disputing about the compara-
tive talents of their respective ministers Both at last waxed won-
drous hot upon the subject, till at length one of them settled the
question by exclaiming, with all the consciousness of victor v in
the dispute, at the same time addresiug his opponent,." Your
minister, sir, is a pefect driveller, a downright squeaker. When
he speak% of a certain gentleman, the monarch of the nether
world, he calls trim, in a weak. tremulous voice, as if afraid to
pronounce his name, ' the deevil :' but our minister calls him
• she devil' at once; and more than that. Sir, he speaks as if he
did not care a for him."—The Laird of Logan.

ElPRPilili OF Coststurrer.s..--By a return just laid on the
table of the House of Commons, it appears that the whole ex-
pense of committees of the two Houses of Parliament in 1833
and 1831 amounted to £35,590. The Whole number of cora-
tuittees was 75, which. would give a small average for each, but
many of them cost little or nothing: The most costly were the
committee en the Warwick Borough Bill, which ended in
nothing, and the expense of which was £11,865.; the committee
on the borettgh of Liverpool was also costly, £3,16.6.; as was
that on Carrickfergus,.ll,l2o. The Cottmons Committee on
medical "education coat £2,532. The -committee on triannfah;.
lures and einnmerce cost £915. and that on the ,hand-loom
weavers £866. These are the most extravagant 'of the public
-investigations, and, knowing the cost of them, tve shall be
• enabled to decide whether or not the reit:tits were worthy of
the sums. In general we believe not, particularly as they. do
not include, we-presume. the expense 'of ..prirititig the %rarities
,voluminous reports bY which those results .'are made. knoWn
the public. • .
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RAAIR 'NATURAL CCRIOSITY.—Whet: v.rskine ' Terry the
other afterneen, enjoy iug the good cheer of the worthy hot of
the little inn there, we were shown a rare ouriosity„winch our
,readers. may be assured has not been surpassed by.anything
that hits yet appeared in the Ditmfrir' Courier---a get( tiursing a
chicken: Mrs. Taylor. the 'thrifty latidlady,..had la`tely set a
duck on half a dozen of eggs to hate!). A lewdaye ago, one of.
the eggs broke; .and a young. chicken . s Lithe 'forth, .earlier, of
course than the, expected • ducklings: To provide for chickey,
the gudewife carried it to a hen %hal had shortly before hatched
a brood; but this dame Would have neihing to dO with the
'stranger, and pecked it most unmercifully., Poor chickey wait
nearly deserted, when a young cat, which had only three days
before given birth to some kittens, took •ebnipassion on the out=
east, and actually carried it to its snug berth, in s.corrier of the
out-house—carefully laid it down on the 'mat beside its own
kittens, and has continued, wdgith the grelvesateit eahre reae and
latten oftithions
to watch over it. We plee ourse te, tity
story; but we recommend our very sceptical readers to pay a
visit-to the ferry of an aftertion, where, after satiifYing them=
selves with their own eyes, they will haVe fiche to ace the other
• beauties of the place before sailing home.—Glasgow Courier.
An ACCIONNT !—Ow 1 ri4ay a gentleman eiecirleriblly slipped
down in Fleet-street, London, atid put his arin through a pane
of glass in the shop window of an extensive linen-draper. The
shopman ran out and demanded payment of the pane, which.
he said cost three pounds. The party at fire (detect five Ail.:
bugs. but at length agreed to give a sorssreign; but, pretending
he had not silver enough, tendered a £lttnote. The proprietor
of the shop, on getting hold of the note, spill "mow I shall take
three pounds;" and, consequently, gave seven sovereigns to
the gentleman, who, pretending te he greatly annoyed, WI the
house, asserting that he should seek reparation in another;
quarter% It was then discovered that the note was a forged
one.
FUNERAL OF AIR. C. MATIIF4S.-ofi rnarning, at
half-past ten, Mr. Mathews's remaiiii Were intetikl in the
western vestibule of St. Andretr's church 4 Ply !numb. A large
number of these diltinguished for rank, .tesPeclahilitY, and
intelligence, attended the funeral, and every honour was paid
to his memory b 7 the authorities. In the procession were the
ReVerends J. smith and R. Luney; Sir George Magrath
S.D. ; J. C. CoOkworthy; AI.D.; Air. W. S. Ffarris, surgeon,
as conduct/n.5. The pall-bearers were Capt. Ross, C. 73.: J.
Moore, Esq., Idavor of Plymouth; Capt. Hot-116y, LB. ;
Major Svnionf ; Major Hersey Smith and Colonel Hamilton
Smith; Mr. Charles Alathess (son of the deceased) followed
as chief mourner, accompanied by H,. Gyles, Esq., and Capt.
Tincombe; Messrs. Franklyn, Brady, Jacobson, and
Wightwick, besides numerous other friends and admirers of
the deceased; and the procession was closed with the earriatrOs
of Major-Gencral Sir Willoughby Cotton and Admiral Sir
William Hargood. The impressive funeral service was per'
formed by the Hey. J. C, Smith.—Derottport Telegraph.