The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-12 00:00:00

BANK OF

,NGLAN D.

Average of the Liabilities and 'Ass
the 10th February, to the sth o
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4, W. I
.LIABILITIES Securities £25,764,000
1•i8.542,000
Circulation .
Deposits 10,726,000 Bullion 6,197,000

;ets of the Bank of England, from
)f May, 1535, inclusive. published
V., cap. 98, sec. 8.
I _ ASSETS.

£99,268,000
Downipg.street, May 8, 1835.

£31,961,000

We understand that at the first general meeting of the share-
holders of the Northen and Central Bank of England, held in
the York Hotel on the 30th ult., after the ordinary business 'of
the day had been gone through, a vote of thanks ;vas given to
the directors and manager, for their unreinitting attention to
the interests of the proprietors; and as a further testimony of
their approbation, a sum of fiv• hundred guineas was voted,
to be appropriated,. under the direction of -a committee then
appointed, for the presentation of a piece of plate to each or
those gentleinen.—Manchester Herald.
FIRST CHOICE.—AII provisions entering Tunis pay a duty of
one-fourth of their value before they can be exposed for sale in
the market; and, as if this was not sufficient, the Bey's twelve
cooks, in their state dresses, parade the markets every morning,
and seize whatever is required for the• day's consumption at tile
Bardo, or Palace of the Bey.
At, the King's levee. last week, the Earl of Lonsdale pre-
sented an address from the gentry, clergy, freeholders and other
inhabitants of West Cumberland,.expressive of confidence in
his rilikiestv's late administration ; and the Hon. Colonel Low-
ther, one from Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, ii support of
the protestani church.
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MR. D'lsttaei.t.---On Saturday, about ten o'clock, Mr. Ben-
jamin D'lsracli was brought in a coach to Marylabonne Office
y Collard, an officerOf the establishment. It appears that Mr.
Bennett, a friend of Mr. O'Connell's family, had made au
affidavit, to the effect that a breaeli of the peace was coatempla—
ted by Mr. D'lstaeii, who intended, as he (Mr. B.) verily be-
lieved, to engage with Mr. Morgan 'O'Connell in a duel. A
warrant accordingly was issued (as were also twq others of the
same nature against Messrs. John and Maurice O'Connell, both
of Whom were on 'Tuesday evening held tq hail, by Mit400.4).4),
wtintrplaetd-in--ttie hatufrarCollard; Whb, far want of a know- ,
ledge of Mr. D'Lsraell's place of .abode,.,together with. other
requisite partictilars, read unable to secure him until yesterday
nnorning, when he met'with•him at his residence, No. 31, Park-.
street, and brolight hit& away' to the office in a coach.,—Mr.
Hoskins, the Sitting Magistrate. held him to' bail to keep the
peace towards all his Majesty's 'objects for the reniainderof the
year •. himself in £5OO and two sursties in £250 each.—Sir F,
svkes, of Upper Grosvenor-street, and Mr. Emmet, of Davies-
' street. Berkelyvsquare, offered themselves as securities, and
having been accepted, the parties then left the office.
APPIIO;CHING Cost ir..,-701.1 Friday evening, in a lecture
at the Royal lair oh the-, path of Halley's comet, Dr.
Larilner took occa n to contradict a paragraph which has
been extensively circulated in the public journals, stating that a
letter has been received- from Sir John Herschel!, announcing
that the comet, having altered its course, would not be visible,
and to which he scarcely ceusidered it necessary -to give a can- •
tradictien. He observed that Sir John Herschell knows no-
thing more of the disturbing causes which would influence
its return than any other astronomer in Europe, and that
the statement attribUted to hint was pure 6ctitin. - The only cir-
' cumstanees which can prevent its making its appearance at the
period stated are, that there may be existing beyoudtlse orbit of
Herschell some other planet with which it may have come in
contact, so as to cause it to alter its direction, or that it may
have come into juxtaposition with another comet in the realms
of space, and that their combined attraction may have caused
them mutually to vary their course. Mt. Lubbock has calcu-
lated that it. will makeits apPettrance on the 31st. of October;
M. Damoiseau's calculation makes it the sth of November; .and
Pontecaulet the Bth or 14th of November. On the 10th of No-
vember it will be at its nearest distance to the earth, and will
then most likely be visible amongst the three last stars of the
Great Bear. both after sunset and before sunrise. Whether it
will be visible or not will depend upon circumstances over
which astronomers can have no control, because they cannot
predict the exact case in which its situation may be. It is now
probably about the orbit of Saturn. The only difficulty pre-
sented in the calculation arises from our not knowing exactly
the mass of the planet Herschell, and in proportion as that is
above what is computed, so will there necessarily be an error in
the period of computation. The number of comets known
within the solar system is between 5(.10 and 600, whilst of these
the paths of 137 have been closely examined and described. Of
the above, 30 are known within the orbit of Mercury, although
this islirobnbly not one-half of whatoctuallv exist within that
"space. Taking the number, however, as -30 i and computing
the quantity existing in ti reintive• ratio between the•estimated
differenceS of a sphere the diameter of the orbit of Mercury,
and that of Ilerchekit will give the total number of 3,529,467
within thelimits of the solar system' and as the numbers above
assigned within the limits of the orbit of Mercuryis probably
not half of what circulates there, the total number' in the pla-
netary system may possibly be upwards of 7,000,01)0.