The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
Several bills were forwarded a stage, but no discussion of any
interest arose on either of them.
Mr. Buckingham's compensation bill was read a second time,
counsel were heard against the claim, and the further considera-
tion was postponed to Wednesday.
Some petitions were then presented, and the house adjourned.
At the second sitting, after the Speaker had been summoned
to the House of Lords to hear the royal assent given to certain
bills, Lord JOHN RussEr.i. moved an adjournment of the house,
and the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—AVEDNESDAY.
Lord Denman took his seat ou the woolsack at five o'clock.
Several bills before the house were forwarded a stage.

• AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not mean to occupy much
of their lordships' time, although the subject to which he should
call their attention had become important from the large body
of their fellow-countrymen engaged in the service of the Queen
of Spain, and from the conduct of his Majesty's government,
which had embarked this country in a system of dishonourable
and disgraceful warfare. (Hear.) He had prepared himself
to enter into an examination of the whole question, not only of
the propriety of issuing the order in council, 1 but also of the
treaty completed by the former government. But he had been
informed by those to whom he must bow, that the discussion
mould be improper at the present period. When he looked at
the accounts that had lately been received from the seat of war
—when he saw the uncertainty of the government of Spain—
When he saw the uncertainty and incapacity of his Majesty's
present government,•which, from the exhibitions that had lately
taken place, might be expected soon to take their seats on this
(the opposition) side of the house—when he saw the impossi-
bility of being able to discover what was likely to be the course
of the British government, he had been advised by those with-
whom he was concerned not to go into the'.question, and he very
unwillingly bowed to their opinions. He would, however, fur a
few moments occupy the time of the house, in proceeding to
move for leave to withdraw the motion of which he had given
notice, to draw their attention to this subject. He believed
that many of our unfortunate countrymen had entered into the
service of the Queen of 'Spain from the want of having that
intelligence and information which it was the duty of his Ma-
jesty's ministers to furnish them with. He alluded particularly
to two points to which he had called their attention about six
weeks ago. The first was—whether those individuals who bad
been enlisted in the service of the Queen of Spain were in-
cluded in the convention signed by Lurd Eliot. The noble
viscount said they were included in that convention, and in
another place, a noble lord, the S‘ecretary for Foreign Affairs,
also stated that these troops were positively included in that
convention. He thought a greater instance of negligence in
the desire to ascertain what was the state of the northern pro-
vinces did not exist, than that which had been shown by his
Majesty's government,: when they stated to the house that it
was thei, belief that the decree which bad been issued by Don
Carlos was a positive forgery. He considered that his Majes-
ty's ministers had been totally forgetful of their duty in the
course they, had adopted. If they had openly declared war
against Don Carlos, they would not have placed this country in
the scandalous, disgraceful, and infamous situation, in his
opinion, in which it at present stood. (Hear, hear.) He had
undertaken the subject with much reluctance, but he had been
merely actuated by a wish to discharge his duty honestly and
independently, as a peer of parliament, and that he was deter-
mined to do through evil report and through good report. He
merely wished to call the attention of the country to the position
in which the unfortunate persons were placed, and were likely
to be placed, who had engaged in that warfare. He hoped the
question would come before their lordships next session in all
its bearings ; and he should conclude by moving that the order
be discharged.
Viscount MELBOURNE gave the noble marquis credit for the
manner in which he had brought forward this question. He
would not enter into the question of the claim of the Queen of
Spain to the throne, but be believed she was supported by the
majority of the weight, influence, and strength of that country.
It was the interest of this country that Spain should be united,
prosperous, and independent of foreign influence. The noble
lord had charged him with having deceived the persons who had
joined the Spanish expedition. This charge rested upon the
validity of the decree, which was undoubtedly believed to be a
forgery. (Heal.) It was believed in Paris and in many other
parts of Ehrope. All that was required by the treaties entered
into he was ready to defend.
ThehEarf of CA RNA avoN then addressed the house, and was
followld by Lord it aova HAM, who was left speaking.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock, but as only 38
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members were present the house was adjourned:

A YANKEE HURRICANE.—During the late hurricane in Can-
ton, Illinois,. the wrecks of houses, furniture, fences &c.,
were hurled about iiithe air. In one instance, a fence-rail was
driven through an ox! Torrents of rain fell, which soon turned
to hail Some of the' hailstones are said to have been as large
as a, goose-egg! The Sangannon river overflowed in some
places to the width of four miles.—American paper.

THE YITCA GLQRIoSA.—There is a present in flower, in the
garden of A. C. B. Crawford, Esq. of- ArcliniTran, •Ilie finest
specimen we have ever seen of the largest plant of the Yucca
species. called the Yucca Gloriosa. The perpendicular height
of this plant, from the stem to the top of the flower, is about
thirteen or fourteen feet; and its root is about twice that length,
extending along the wall of the garden, in serpentine coils, the
circumference of which is about eighteen inchess. The flower
is nearly six feet long, consisting of bell-formed blossoms of a
rich greenish or yellowish white colour, broadest in the middle,
and tapering off at the extremities, where, as yet, the flower is
not in full bloom. As a whole, the plant has a magnificent ap-
pearance, and excites additional interest from its gigantic size
and the circumstance of its species being seldom seen in flower.
The Yucca was originally introduced from N. America in 1596.
An erroneous idea prevails that the same shoot sends forth a
flower every seven years, Those well informed on this point,
however, assure us that the shoot which has once flowered never
flowers again. The root produces other shoots, which in their
turn, give fornwers, not periodically, but sooner or latter ac-
cording to the streneth of the plant and the nature of the soil
and climate. We observed in the same garden numerOusother
plants of the same species; but none of these were in flower, nor
were any of equal dimensions.--Ayr Advertiser.
THE MILK TREE.—That extraordinary production of the ar-
borary kingdom, pale di v etco; or "milk-bearing cow tree,"
which flourishes in Para in South America, is among the lofti-
est of the forest--g-rowing to the height of one hundred feet and
upwards. It bears a delicious edible fruit, which has the uni-
ted flavour of strawberries mixed with cream; and its trunk
yields as fine bowls of mik as those from a cow. " It seems ra-
ther startling," says Mr. Webster, in his voyage to the South-
ern Atlantic. "to talk of a tree yielding milk, but such is the
fact' and it is drunk by the people in large quantities, and was
used by us at the gunrootn table for mixing with tea in lieu of
cow's milk, from which it is in no wise distinguishable in gene-
-rat use. The milk is a rich, white, bland fluid, without odour,
and of the taste and flavour of common milk. It mixes readily
with tea or coffee, without curdling or undergoing any change,
and in every respect like cow's milk. Boiling. waterdoes not
alter it.. It keeps unaltered six or seven days in the tempera-
ture of eighty-five degrees. It appears to differ from all the
known milky juices of plants' and to approach in obvious pro-
perties to animal milk, from which it differs widely in chemical
operation. There is no cream or caseous (cheesey) matter in it.
I kept a bottle of the milk until our arrival at Trinidad—eight
after my procuring it—when it was sent to the Admira'lity.
Some, which I had myself, had separated into a sourish milky
water and a white mass, which, when taken out, and dried in
the air, was a white inflammable substance, not softening at the
temperature of the body, melting ut one hundred and forty-four
degrees, tasteless, insoluble in water or spirits, and resembling
white wax more than any other substance I could compare it to.
It burnt with a bright agreeable flame, without smell, and was
neither greasy nor resinous; I am therefore inclined to consider
it as a species of wax." To complete the marvel of this tree, we
must mention that it affords the most valuable timber fer ship-
building, and that is isfso used in the dock-yard at Para.