The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

BRAZIL.

The following very important intelligence being part of
a letter to a commercial house in this town, was posted
in the Underwriters'Rooms here on Friday. It explains
the statement previously alluded to in the London papers:
" Bahia, July 30.
"The latest dates from Rio are to the 17th instant.
The packet had been detained in consequence of a nevr
treaty, the ratification of which is to be sent on by her.
It is Also reported that Monte Video is again to be a pro-
vince of the Brazils, she having-solicited the protection of
the, empire under the guarantee of Great Britain and
France. It is evident that there are preparations made
for sending troops to the river Plate."
Ibe packet is now overdue about three weeks, and as
it is asserted that she was detained at Rio for the ex-
change of the ratifications, her non-arrival gives some
colour to the report. We believe, however, says the
Herald of yesterday, that we will be found right in pre-
suming that no treaty conferring any special privilege on
our commerce in the ports of Brazil is to be expected,
and that the basis of any arrangement will be merely to '
place us on the footing of the most favoured nations.

Thomas Forsaveth, Esq., has been appointed Recorder
of Cork.

The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, vicar of Bradford, has reached
home, after a voyage across the Atlantic and sojourn in

the United States of some months' duration.

LAUNCH.—On Thursday next, at eleven o'clock, a new
steam-boat, belonging to the Steam Tug Company, will
be launched from Mr. Royden's ship-building yard,

Baffin-street.

HORTICULTURAL CURIOSITY.—There is now in the
garden of Henry Ashton, Esq., Woolton•wood, an apple-
tree of the peach kind, a part of which is in full bloom,

while the other part bear's a quantity of delicious ripe

fruit.

VISIT OF LOUIS PHILIPPE TO ENGLAND.—We under-
stand that their Majesties and the Royal Family will
remove to the Palace of St. Cloud about the 25th, and that
the King, after seeing his family installed, will go to Eu,
from which place he will proceed to England.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly general
irkenhe amdeeßtianigi,o,afy the proprietors ietors in the
Chester
to
was
have been held yesterday, being one of the days named in
the act of parliament ; and in pursuance of the notice
several proprietors assembled in the director's-room, over
the office in James'-street. Mr. William Jackson pre-
sided; and the only business done consisted in the adop-
tion of a motion for adjournment till the 30th of January'
announced
next.

The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Hibernia, Captain Judkins, which would leave Bo,ton and
Halifax on the 16th and 18th instant, may be expected
here towards the end of the week. The Great Western,
which would leave New York on the 20th, will be due in
the following week.—[The Albion, from which the above
is taken, is incorrect as to the Great Western. That noble
vessel would leave New York on the 14th instant, and may
be expected here on Saturday. Indeed, it is a subject of
speculation whether she or the Hibernia will arrive first.]
GENERAL ToM THUMB.—This small spec;men of the
human kind and yet great phenomenon, gave his first
levees yesterday at the Liver Theatre, to numerous and
delighted audiences. The public are infinitely self-de-
. .

ceived with respect to the size and conformation of the
general. We have b: en accustomed to associate with the
idea of such beings as himself, something dwarfish and
repugnant. Geoffry Hudson, the favourite of Queen Hen-
rietta, wasa small man Cu: short; and most of the species are
inelegant in shape and appearance. Our friend Tom has none
of these characteristics. He is (as the bills say, and they
are, as far as we can estimate, right) but twenty-five
inches high—and as perfectly formed as many of the men
of larger species that we see every day. He is somewhat
infantine in face, and marvellously active. He runs up
and down the table, ranged along the pit of the theatre,
with an alacrity worthy of any of the " children of a larger
growth" who disport in the same atmosphere. At the
conclusion of the performances, he saluted (price one
shilling) a number of the rising generation, and
not a few ladies of a certain age, who appeared
delighted with the treat, as no doubt was Torn
himself. We may add that his carriage, a perfect
gem, was exhibited yesterday in all our public thorough-
fares, drawn by two ponies, with a coachman and tiger
unapproachable in littleness, and excited, wherever it was
seen, the surprise and admiration of beholders.

SIR ROBERT AND LADY SALE.—The gallant General
and his heroic Lady are expected in Liverpool this week,
on their return from Ireland ; and on Thursday next, our
wor:hy Chief Magistrate will entertain the distinguished

officer at a dinner at the Town-ball, a select party being
invited to meet him on the occasion ; on the following
day, the General and his Lady, we believe, will be the
guests of his Worship at Elms-wood. Invitations to the
dinner on Thursday evening have been forwarded to Lord
Stanley, Earl Sefton, Lord Francis Egerton, J. Wilson
Patten, Esq., M.P., Edward Mitchell, and Major Pot-
tinger, of the 6th Regiment of Foot, now in Chester, both
of whom have served in India with Sir Robert.

FIGURES IN STONE, ILLUSTRATIVE OF "THE COT-
TAR'S SATURDAY NIGHT."—We invite our readers, and
all the admirers of sculpture, to an inspection of the
splendid group of nine figures, in stone, from the chisel
of the celebrated Mr. Anderson, illustrative of Burns's

beautiful, domestic, and affecting poem, of "The Cottar's
Saturday Night." The figures are admirably and cha-
racteristically finished, even to minuteness of detail; and
the whole are calculated, in an eminent degree, to exhibit
the " masonic" skill of the artist, and his just apprecia-
tion of the fine and natural conception of the bard of Scot-
land,—an admirable likeness'of whom, as " the neighbour

lad" is happily introduced. We shall notice this im-
pressive work of art—which must have cost great and per-
severing labour, united to no common stuck of genius—
more fully hereafter. Meantime, we can but wish Mr.
Anderson every success.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON A SON OF THE LATE
POET CAMPBELL.—A commission de lunatico inquirendo
was opened on Saturday, at the Ship Inn, Waltham Ab-
bey, before Mr. Commissioner Winslow and a special
jury of sixteen gentlemen of the county of Essex, of whom
Mr. J. Colvin was foreman, to inquire as to the state of
mind of Mr. Thomas Telford Campb 11, aged 40, only son
of the late poet Mr. Thomas Campbell. The commission
was taken out at the instance of the trustees, under the
will of a relative, from which the subject of the commis-
sion derives an annuity. The inquiry was rendered ne-
cessary by the demise of his father, under whose will be,
however, takes no property. After the jury had been
sworn, and the proceedings were about to commence, Mr.
Campbell, having expressed a wish to be present, walked
in the court, & took his seat by the side of the learned ccm!
missioner. He is about 5 feet 5 inches in height, dark .
complexion, very good humoured countenance, with a
stout, robust, muscular frame. He throughout paid the
greatest attention to the proceedings, and evinced no
symptoms of a disordered intellect. The counsel for the
commission, which was unopposed, stated, in his open-
ing address, that Mr. Thomas Telford Campbell was
perfectly harmless, but had several singular delusions.
One was, that Chinn's lozenges, which he bad formerly
' taken had got into his bones and destroyed his constitu-
tion ; and he had some time since accustomed himself to •
lie down in the sun in the forest, in order, as he said, to
evaporate Chinn's lozenges out of his bones, and eradi-
cate the diseases they had engendered. He took occasio-
nal dislike to some of the inmates at Dr. Allen's, at whose
asylum he abode, and had been known to attack some,
when, as he said, they got into his way in the passage,
although on such occasions there was plenty of room for
him, and he would afterwards say he thought he ought to
thrash them well. He had exhibited some extraordinary
conduct to the tailor who worked for the establishment,
and to the slaughterman who killed the beasts, &c., for
the use of the inmates ; in the latter case he had eaten
part of the brains of an ox which had been just killed ; he
would have them warm from the head, without being
cooked, and ate them without any bread. After the
evidence had been gone through and Mr. Campbell had
put several questions to the witnesses the jury after
consultation of about an hour announced, that although
two jurors objected to give a verdict at variance with
the medical testimony, yet that ]4 jurors out of the 16
were of opinion that Mr. Campbell was of sound mind.
A verdict was accordingly recorded, "That Mr. Thorne°,
Telford Campbell was of sound mind." Mr. Campbell
throughout conducted himself with the greatest urbanity'
coolness, and composure; indeed, no one could have sup'
i:osed that he had been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, or
that his intent cts had been impaired. •