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

THE LIMPOOL STANDARD.

THE DAILY NEWS.—The price of this papef is now
raised to 3d. In an article on Wednesday last, the pro-
prietors fully explain the reason for this trifling advogc'e,
viz., a combinationofall the:Lonclon morning papers against
the Daily News. It appears from this statement that
since the News was reduced to 4d, 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
Dew 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. Ihe 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. B. 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. Handley, 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."
PREACHING TO THE DEAF AND DUMB.—It may
not be generally known that there 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" 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 had 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 be sought to convey. The services lasted for
upwards of an hour and a quarter.
COST OF CONVEYING LANDED PROPERTY. HOB'
many of the inhabitants having £5OO to invest ever think
of investing it in land in the way either of purchase or of
mortgage? Are not the middle and lower classes practi•
tally 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 ? Do you
suppose that persons in the middle and lower ranks do
not wish to be purchasers of land ? Let the success of
the late building societies, which area 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 Englishman the law sends empty
away. For who, without some other purpose to gain, or
having some other object in view, having 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 be may not incur,
and that after all the purchase may go off altogether and
he stands planti 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?—Mr. Stewart' *letter.
AWFUL 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-
loge, 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 Dovey, 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. was 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 ports many wrecks are described to have oc-
curred, some being attended with loss of life.
TOTAL 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 Western was exposed in her last pas-
sage from Liverpool. The vessel was fallen in with on the
26th September, by the Minerva, who took of the wreck
the second mate and four of the crew 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 drowned in the cabin. Some of
the crew 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 had 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 bad during their stay on the wreck,
they caught by putting 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
wreck by lashing themselves fast. With the exception of
the last day they spent on the wreck, they had no place
dry whatever, and then only a small place aft—the brig
being entirely full of water both forward and amidships.
EXTENSIVE SUBSIDENCE OF EARTH.—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
feet deep, presented itself. Inquiry showed that the gar-
den was formed 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 Mr. 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 houses hastily removed
their furniture to the neighbouring lane, until some more
suitable place could be found. The houses remain unte-
nanted, as it is expezted 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.—Birmingham Journal.
THE 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 " distuibances" 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.
Iseverrier 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 150 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. Galle,
at Berlin, who the very same evening found the pla-
net where Leverrier had stated ! Leverrier's calcu-
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 327 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. Galle, 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, in 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 ; thou gh he
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atmosphere is uecesear' tQ enable him to verify the dis-