The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL sTANINAiin.

The Daily News mentions a rumour that Mr. Peto,the
eminent contractor, will, at the ensuing general election,
offer himself as a candidate for the representation of
Norwich.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.--On Wednesday, Mr.W.
Lake, a highly-respectable City solicitor, whose offices
are at No. 18. Aldermanbury, left his residence at Corn-
berwell at the usual time, so as to reads his office by
half-past nine o'clock in the morning. About eleven
o'clock his son, Mr. John Lake, called at the office, and
was surprised at finding his father lying on the floor,
quite dead.
RESIGNATION OF A TOWN-CLERK.--At a meeting of
the Carlisle Council, on Tuesday week, Mr. Nanson, the
respected town-clerk, announced his intention to resign
the situation at the next quarterly meeting. So very
valuable have been the services of Mr. Nanson to the
corporation, that the mayor, on learning the announce-
ment of the resignation, declared that in losing Mr.
Nanson the corporation lost their right arm, so very effi-
ciently had he at all times acted in behalf of their interests
The recorder of Hull, Mr. T. Baines, Esq., a well-
known dissenter, in an address to the grand jury last
week, said, in alluding to the condition of the people,—
" The great thing which we should all uni e in seeking,
should be the giving of means to every person of learning
his duty to God and his duty to his fellow-creatures, and
the best way in which those duties can be performed ;
and also we should seek to impress upon their minds,
that their own interests will be promoted just in propor..
tion to their fulfilment of those duties.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—The proprietors of the Globe.
and Traveller newspaper have unanimously voted a
handsome piece of plate to Thomas Chapman, Esq., as a
tribute of respect to that gentleman on his retirement
from its successful direction as managing proprietor for a
period of twenty years. Mr. Chapman has been con-
nected as a proprietor with the metropolitan journals
during the last fifty-two years; and may be termed the
father of the London press, having attained, with good
health and spirits, the age of 83, on the 12th of last month.
SISTERS OF MERCY.—.A community of the Sisters of
Mercy has been recently established in Bristol, in a large
and commodious house. The Sisters of Penance of St.
Dominic, whose labours embrace the whole works- of
mercy, corporal and spiritual, are about to be established
in another portion of that city. At Penryn, near Fid-
mouth, a community of the Sisters of Notre Dame has
been introduced from Belgium with two establishments;
the one for the education of the poor, the other as a pen.,
sion for the more wealthy class.; the establishment for the
poor already educates, and instructs in various branches-
of trade, upwards of eighty poor girls.
THE BRISTOL Docies.—Very warm opposition seems,
to-have been raised at Bristol against making a free port
there. A meeting of the " Free Port Association" wilt
be held to-morrow (Wednesday) when the proposition
will be discussed. A Mr, Visger seems the leader of the
oppositionists. "On that day's deliberation" says the
Bristol Mirror," in our view, will depend whether the
Free-Port Association intends to do anything or not, and,
for our parts, we await with anxiety the result. It has
b-en a point urged by us from the first—time, time, time,
—is the great consideration, and unless this preliminary
step be taken, nothing can be done for the next three
years. Will such ruinous delay be allowed ?"
DEATH OP MR. TERNAN, THE ACTOR.—This gentle-
man, so well known in the theatrical world, expired on
the 7th instant, after an illness of many months, at the
age of forty-two years. He engaged in the management
of the Newcastle and Sheffield theatres, with most disas-
trous results;_the savings of his early efforts were lost,
energies were crushed by the unexpected termination of
the managerial speculation, and despondency took pos-
session of his mind, and entirely prevented him from the
exercise of his profession till his decease, which took
place at the house of his brother at Gravesend. By his
union with Mrs. Ternan, three children are left. Mrs.
Ternan (formerly Miss Jarman) is herself a member of
the Surrey company, where she is the chief actress with
Mr. Macready.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, a
bootmaker, named Poynter, was convicted of obtaining
from Mary Woodhouse, of Nottingham, the sum of £2O,
under false pretences. It appeared that the complainant
entertained an idea that she was entitled to some pro-

eerty as the deecendant of a gentleman- named Stokes,
end the prisoner was introduced to her as a-person likely
to assist her in the recovery of it, and he had, it appeared,
be. artful representations that he was in communication
with a barrister, and that the property would all be
recovered, induced the ptosecutrix not only to-give him
all the money she could raise by other means, but actu-
ally to sell the little annuity which was her sole depen-
dence, and she was in consequence reduced almost to a
state of destitution.
Priooness or F3PERy.—During the last fortnight,
the Rev. Father Gaudentins has administered- the re-
spective services at the Catholic Chapel, Selby,.connected
with the spiritual retreat. These services have been
crowded to excess. Indeed, many hundreds were unable
to obtain admission. At seeen o'clock each morning,
mass was offered ; in the evenings, sermons were extem-
poraneously delivered. The solemn benediction of the
blessed sacrament, amid the blaze of upwards of 130 wax
lights from the altar, intermingled with tibwere of every
hue, zoncluded the service.. Beyond these services, the
whole of his time was constantly employed in giving in-
struction to many converts. On Sunday evening, the
11th, no less than ,it of these made a public profession of
the faith they had embraced. The applicants have been
so numerous, that the Rev. Gentleman has been obliged
to prolong his stay- until the evening of- Sunday next,
when it is expected a much larger numbar of converts
will make a similar public manifestation.—Yorkpaper.
NEW MODE ow- FROPULS2ON.—A new mode of pro-
pelling vessels has been tried with great satisfaction at
Boulogne. It has long been considered a matter of im-
possibility that the principle of the paddlewheel could be
rendered of any useful, effect when totally submerged. Ihe
present invention has demonstrated to a certainty that such
a disadvantage cam be overcame. The principle is based
en. the well-known properties. of the: parabola, as-respects
light, and the same- propertiesare proved to be true as re-
spects hydrostatics.. The blades are sections of a paraho
loid, and are so constructed as to impinge on the concave
surface, whereby the water is grasped and compressed to
the centre of the axis, and thrown off in a direct line with
the plane of the vessel's csurse, thereby rendering the
propulsion superior in efficiency to the common paddle-
wheel, being uniform and continuous without drawback in
respect of back-water. Another advantage exists in the
area of -surface as- compared with the screw, as•lese than
one-half of parabolic- area will work more efficiently with
the same power.
THE Creniree.r..--Tbe Standard of Friday night says,
—As we have already said, Lord J. Russell end Lord
John Cottenham, on Wednesday, urged earnestly the
constitutional necessity for an early session, (before
Christmas). not only to obtain an act of indemnity for
Lord Besborough'e-extension of the Labour Rate Act,
but also to obtain a parliamentary sanction for the reduc-
tion of the 4s. duty on imported grain. On Wednesday,
however, the council broke up without coming to-any de-
finite resolution. At the- meeting of the ministers yes-
terday the subject was resumed ; and on-this latter occa-
sion, the opponents of as early session had the advan-
tage of Mr. Baneroft's asrical from the United States with
intelligence that the sup-ply of grain collected in the Ame-
rican ports for exportation is so ampleos to render it ex-
tremely improbable the the necessity for a reduction of
the duty; thus removing a principal motive for an early
session, and relieving the premier from the obligation to
take another step in what he is said to call "Me adminis-
tration of a deepatism."—[The Times of Saturday dissi-
pates every speculation on this subject. Parliament will
not meet until the 12th of January, and the-ports are not
to• be opened.j,
I.Jeteouli Raceirr STAMP Tax,—A. gentleman in
London has been impressing upon the Government,
through the newspapers and by meansof a-pamphlet, that
an uniform rate-of one penny stamp tax upon all receipts
and bankers' checks, in lieu of the present rates, would
increase the revenue and put an end to• much heart-
burning. The general evasion of the duty on receipts
which prevails at the present time is the great motive for
the proposed-alteration, and s-sine- facts of past years are-
adduced to show that a larger revenue would be the pro-.
bable result of a more moderate taxe In the year 1783 i
when the rates were 2d. for .L2e and under £2O, and 4d..
for all higher sums, the produce estimated by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer was £250,000 per annum. In
1823, when the rates were nearly the same as now, the
gross produce of the tax was—from Great Britain,
£194,534.,. less by expenses of. management, £8791 ; and
in 1843, it was only £187,508, less by expenses of manage-.
ment, £12,753. It is evident that the value o: ;this.'
branch of revenue has diminished rather than progressed
with the increase of population, and hence the prejectoe
of the new scheme would try the effect of a lower rate.
TH.S OVERLAND Rana-el.—The Morning Herald sees
that they have succeeded in showing " the superiority of
the route through France, as the following statement will
prove :—Mr. Waghorn left Alexandria at 12 20 p.ne. on
the 20th instant. The Herald' dispatches left Alexandria
a quarter of an hour later—viz., at 12 35 p.m. cm the
same day. The Ariel, a new and splendid vessel belong-
ing to the Oriental Company, bearing our dispatches,
arrived at Marseilles. at 5 ao p.m. on the 26th instant,
having had very bad weather to encounter. The follow-
ing account of the voyage has been sent to us :—` The
Ariel had gales of wind to encounter all the voyage right
ahead, except during part of the 23d. This. vessel, under
the most favourable circumstances, can make the voyage,
from port to pert, in fire days, and, upon the average, in
five and a half days.' It will be observed that in this
instance, owing to the bad weather she encountered, she
took six days and five hours; and in consequence of the
inundations prevailing in France, out courier took half a
day longer than usual to perform the distance from Mar-
seilles. Yet, notwithstanding these great disadvantages,
in its throat.
the journey from Alexandria to London was performed
whole, but
nine days and a half, and under favourable circumstances
can always be performed in eight days."
SINGULAR FACT—A. LESSON FOR GORMANDISRgs.—
On Friday morning a kingfisher was found dead on the
banks of the pool of Allensrnore, near this city, with a
which
Ip,ehrechbiradbohuatd tawttoeminpcthedes
to
sdwaalhloalwf ltohnegfish,
rinver or a
the dorsal fin of the latter appears to have aleee prevented
descent or return ; fixed, consequently, in the gullet, the
victim caused the death of its beautiful but voracious de-
stroyer by suffocation. The plumage of the kingfisher
is furnished with a sort of metallic suctoce. resplendent
with the most brilliant hues—hence the action
.of water
tproduceshebi
rd
willlittle
darteffect
beneathup
stream and seize its prey transversely. is. remarkable.
on it,h ande
surface
therfae mannere o f
a
Returned to its position on a tree or bank, it commences
the destruction of the captive. Without losing. its hold,
it passes the fish between its mandiblee until it has fairly
grasped it by the tail, and then ends the struggles of the
prey by beating its head against the place where it sits.
The bird next reverses the position, and if it has no young
to which to bear off the prize, swallows its prey head fore,
most. This appears to have been the course in the pee.
sent instance, but the repast being WO bountiful, rued
fatal.—Hereford Journal,

TIIE DAILY NEWS.—The price of this paper is tell
raised to 3d. In an article on Wednesday last, the pro.:
prietors fully explain the reason for this trifling advance,
viz., a combinationofall the:London morning papers against
the Daily News. It appears from this statement that
since the News was reduced to 21d, the Herald and it
have joined at the expense of foreign expresses. The
Times, the Morning Chronicle, and the Post, have also
joined together at the expenses of their expresses. By
the entreaties of the three latter, however, the Herald
has been induced to dissolve with the Daily News, and to
take share with its three fivepenny competitors. While,
therefore, the Times, Chronicle, Post, and Herald, by this
new arrangement, will join at the cost of foreign ex-
presses, the Daily News is left alone to express for itself
at its own cost, and thus incurs an additional yearly ex-
penditure of many thousand pounds.
A meeting was held at Dorchester last week, to take
into consideration the best means of improving the condi-
, tion of the Dorsetshire labourers. 'I he High Sheriff in
the chair. The meeting was attended by the Bishop of
Salisbury; John Floyer, Esq.. M.P., R. B. Sheridan-,
Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott, A. H. D.
Ackland. John Cree, F. R. Martin, Robert Williams,
John Mansell, Esqrs., Captain Foster, the Revs. J. A.
Templar and John Venables, county magistrates; the
Venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset, the Revs. C. W.

Bingham, J. Lane, E. Ludlow, G. Wood, R. Smith, G.
Wood, R. Smith, G. Fisher, N. flandley, Sanderson,
Robins, J. Phillips, T. Thompson, J. Frenow, 0. Fisher,
&c. Resolutions were passed, and a society established
" with the view of bettering the condition, morally and

physically, of the rural labourers and working mechanics
and artisans, by carrying out the- field garden allotment
system, under judicious regulations."
PREACH; T 4) THE DEAF ANI) DVILIB.—It may

not be genet ally known that thare has been for some time
past a chapel in Red Lion-square London, in which pub-
lic worship is performed twice every Sunday for the sole
benefit of the deaf and dumb. The service is that of the

Church of England—singing and the music on the organ
being, as a matter of course, omitted. The experiment of
communicating to those unfortunate persons deprived of
hearing and the power of speech a knowledge of the great
truths of revelation by means of those " signs 'r which
constitute a language in themselves, have been eminently
successful. In the morning, the chapel in Red Lion-
square is attended by from twenty to thirty deaf and dumb
persons. Last Sunday evening the audience consisted of
seventeen. After the usual prayers bad been gone
through, the teacher commented at considerable length,
by means of gestures-, on the Eleventh chapter of the
Ist of Samuel, his audience seeming to comprehend every
idea which he sought to convey. The services lasted far
upwards of an hour and a quarter.
COST OF CONVEYING LANDED PROYERTF. How
:many of the inhabitants having £5OO to invest ever think
of investing it in landsin the way either of purchase or of
mortgage? Are not the middle and lower classes practi-
cally excluded from the purchase of land ? Do the great
consumers of all other commodities deal in this? And

is this state of things beneficial to any class? Dd you
suppose that persons in the rairMle and lower ranks do
not-wish to be purchasers-of land? Let the success of
the late building societies, which are a clumsy contrivance
to supply this demand, answer that question. The Eng-
lishman does not differ in this- respect from the French-
man, the Belgian, or the Prussian, except that the men
of the last three nations can and do supply their wants
in this respect, but the Ei,glishman the law sends empty
away; For who, without some other purpose to gain, or
having some other object in view, halving a small sum to
lay out, would endure the delay, uncertainty, and expense
which he knows full well attend the purchase of land ? -
He knows not what time he may have to wait for the
completion of his title, what -expense he may not incur,'
and that after all the purchase may go off altogether and
he stands plante la without his interest.. Is it to be won-
dered at that, under these circumstances, a thousand per-
sons enter the Stock Exchange to invest,' their savings for
one who goes to the Auction Mart ?L-11f-i4- Stewart's letter.
AW-ITUL STORM.—A moat fearful storm occurred off
the western coast during Thursday and Friday week.
The loss of life and property has been truly frightful. On
Thursday evening, the brig Charlotte, of Newport, and
the schooner Union, of Whitehaven, both bound for
Glasgow; were driven on to the- beach near Poolgwae-
lore, and became total wrecks. The Martha, of Yar-
mouth, was a total wreck—captain and mate drowned.
A schooner bound for Southampton lost,. with all hands,
seven in number. The Sir Peregrine, from Bangor for
Cork, foundered in shallow water during the hurricane.
The crew took to the rigging, and were rescued by the
life boat. The coast on each side- of Aberystwith has

been the scene of many awful disasters.. Friday after-
noon a brig and schooner went on shore at the mouth of
the Davey,.and several of the seamen perished. To the
westward of Padstow, the Samaritan, from• Liverpool for
Constantinople, was lost With the master and seven of the
crew ; her cargo was very considerable. The Buctouch,
of London from Archangel, eras wrecked about four miles
to the eastward of St. David's Head, near Milford ; it is

supposed that the crew have all been lost.. During the
height of the storm the Britain of Cardigan was hurled on
the rocks in St. Bride's Bay, and became a perfect wreck.
At Swansea, Exmouth, Cardigan, Bideford,.and Portland,
the damage has been of a most' lamentable character. At
each of these parts many wrecks are described to have oc-
curred, some being attended with loss of life.
Tomi ,SHIPWRECK.—The American papers contain
an account of the loss of the brig Rienzi, Captain Small,
of Boston, together with sixteen of the crew, in the storm
to which the Great Wevern was exposed in her last pas-
sage from. Liierpoo}. The vessel was fallen in with on the
26th September,. by the Minerva, who took of the wreck
the second mate and four of thearew in a very exhausted

state—the captain, mate, and fourteen of the seamen
having been swept away. The-Rienzi was-on a whaling
voyage. and had, on board 470 barrels sperm oil. On 'the
15th September she was struck by a sea, the hatches
burst off,'and the vessel immediately filled with water.
Captain Small,. his mate, and young son about sixteen
years of age. together with two, boat-steerers,. ship-keep-
er and steward, were drown-A in the cabin. Some of
the err./ were drowned in the forecastle, and others were
washed overboard at the time of the disaster. No pen
can depict the sufferings of the remaining crew. All the
provisions they had for ten days was about half a deep
basket of bread,. which they succeeded in getting from
the hold, and which bad been soaked for 48-hours in salt
water. The day before they were taken off, they caught
a shark by means of a bowline, the liver of which they
ate raw, and tried to drink the blood, but found it bitter.
All the water they had during their stay on the wreck,
they caught by patting an old- shirt in the rain during a
shower,- and wringing it out when it became wet. In this
way they procured two quarts in all.. They were almost
without-clothing and for seven days the/ sea made a con-
tinued breach on them ; and they could only keep on the
wress by, lashing themselves fast. With the exception of
the last day they spent on the wreck, they bad no place
dry whatever, and then only a small place aft—the brig
being entirely lull of water both for ward and amidships.
EXT)ENS-1-711 SUBSIDENCE OF EART.II.—On Thursday
week a singular fall of earth took place in the garden of
Mr. Jesson, Hill-top, near BirMingham. It appears that a.
hollow crashing sound was heard proceeding from the
grounds, and on the inmates of the cottage proceeding.
into the open air, they discovered that the earth, about
twenty yards from the house, had given way, and an im
mense aperture, about fifty feet in diameter, and many .1
feet deee,,presented itself. Inquiry showed that the gar-
den-was• farmed on an old mine, which had been closed
for the last thirteen years.. No danger to the buildings.
was• apprehended, and workmen were speedily employed
to fill the yawning chasm. About four o'clock on Sun-
day morning, however, the inhabitants of the numerous
tenements in the neighbourhood were alarmed by the
crashing of a high wall which skirted rsir. Jesson's gar-
den, which was found levelled with the ground. Terror-
stricken. the tenants of four houses which stood near one
end of the garden rushed from their beds, when a second
portion of the ground was found to have given way. The
houses stand but a few yards from the edge of this second
chasm ; and it seems extraordinary that these buildings
and their numerous. inhabitants-were not precipitated into
the abyss beneath. As it was, a pigstye, with its occu-
pant, was carried away, and the pig buried far down. The
poor people who occupied the i-oases hastily removed
their furniture to the neighbouring lane, until some more
suitable place could be found. Toe houses remain linte-
-1 nanted, as it is expeated that a further subsidence will take
place. It is supposed that the occurrence has- been. caused
by a new coal-pit being sunk in the vicinity, which has
afforded an outlet for the water accumulated• in. the old
mine, and the support thus-afforded by it to the superin-
cumbent earth having been withdrawn, this dangerous
subsidence has been the result.—BirmingharniournaL
TILE NEW. PLANET.—The discovery of the new planet
beyond Georgium Sidus is a remarkable exemplification
of the soundness of astronomical theories. M, Leverrier,
French philosopher, and Mr. Adams, an English mathe-
matician, had both for, some time been engaged in tabula-
ting the disturbances" observed in the motion of Uranus,
with a view to ascertain whether they did not proceed from
the action of an unknown planet. In this. enquiry, M.
Leverrier was the first to publish his conclusions, announc-
ing, with all the positiveness which calculations. based on
sound.principles can give, that there was_such a planet—
that it was. about 100 millions of miles from Uranus,
whose motions it disturbed—that its diameter would be
about 50,000 miles, and that it would therefore present a
disc of about three seconds in magnitude—that its periodic
time of revolution would be about 217- years—and that it
would be found in a certain part of the heavens. This
announcement was made public on the 31st of Aug-
ust; on the 23d of September it reached Dr. Galin,
at Berlin, who the very same evening found the pla-
net where Leverrier bad stated I Leverrier's
calau-
lations did not reach Cambridge until the 29th of
September ; but Professor Challis, the very same
evening, singled out a star which proved to be the
promised planet. And since then it has been readily
found by almost all practical astronomers. How great
must be the nicety of the instruments, and how un-
deniably sound the principles by which an astronomer
is thus enabled to ascertain the existence, bulk, and
periods of an unseen planet, solely from observations of
its effect on another planet 150 millions of miles from
it, and more than that distance from the earth ! M. Le
Verrier calculated the heliocentric longitude of the
new planet to be 322 deg. 24 min., a difference of less
than a degree. M. Le Verrier has been honoured
by the King of the French with promotion (for this
discovery) to an officership of the Royal Order of the
Legion of Honour ; and M. Gallo, who first saw the
star, has been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Thus promptly are men of merit rewarded abroad ! We
find, by a letter in Wednesday's Times, that an English-
man, Mr. Wm. Lassell, of Starfield, Liverpool, !n ob-
serving the planet with his 20 feet Newtonian,, 24 inches
aperture, has noticed an appearance of a ring round it,
like that of Saturn, and also of one satellite. Owing to
the unfavourableness of the atmosphere, Mr. Lassellis
not able to speak positively of this discovery ; though be
felt a " a very strong persuasion that nothing but a liner
atmosphere is necessary to enable hiro to verify the dis-
covery,."