The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

PAROCHIAL ASSESTMENT ACT.

I~TTOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN, that Her Majesty's
.11 Justices of the Peace, of the county of Lancaster, act-
ing for the Division of Kirkdale, in the said county will
hold a SPECIAL SESSIONS, (pursuant to the provisions
of the Act 6th and 7th William the 4th, c. 96.) for hearing
APPEALS against the RATES of the several parishes,
townships, and places, within the said divisign, on FRIDAY,
the second day of December next, at Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon, (by adjournment from the eleventh day of No-
vember instant,) at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street,
in Liverpool.
_ _ .

Parties intendino•' to appeal are required to give notice, in
writing, to the Overseers of their objection to the rate,
seven days, at least, before the day appointed for hearing
the appeals, and to be prepared with evidence, on the hear-
ing, in support of such objection. Dated this 12th day of
November, 1842.

By order of the Magistrates,
J. S. LEIGFI,I Clerks
A. LACE,

PROTESTANT MEETIIjG.
Will be published on Saturday neat, the 26th instant.

AVERBATIMREPORT of the ANNUAL MEETING
of the LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIA-
TION, at the AMPHITHEATRE, On Wednesday, the
26th October, with the SPEECHES of the
Rev. R. J. MiGHEE,
Rev. HUGH M`NEILE,
Rev. HUGH STOWELL,
&c. &c. &c.

CRISP and HEALEY, 20, Slater-street ; NEwLmh,Rane-
lagh-street_; STANDARD-OFFICE, North-cresceit ; and
PERRIS, Church-street

Price 6d

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION.
AT a MEETING of the LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT
ASSOCIATION, held in the Mustc HALL, Bold-
street, on the Evening of MONDAY, November 21, 1842,
JOHN MIDDLETON, Esq., in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were unaniniqusly carried :
Moved by JOHN HowARD, Ea., and seconded by J

BRINDLEY,

" That the Report be adop
under the directions of the Co
ing be the Committee and Offic
Treasurer.—M
Secretary.—Mr.
COMMI

pted, printed, and circulated
immittee, aild that the follow-
cers for the ensuing year :
Ir. Middleton.
Thomas Gleave.
ITTEE.

Mr. Barrow, Mr. Ratcliff,
Crisp, Leders,
Gleave, Parry,
Chapman, Thompson,
Kennerley, Williams,
Devine, Meredith,
Hitchcock, Wood,
Taylor, West,
Lovatt, I Simmons,
Middleton, Heaton,
Swindley, Minton,
Welch, I Waterhouse.
Moved by J. MATTHEWS, Esq., and seconded by
R. HARBORD, Esq.,
" That this Meeting being convinced, from the evidence
lately adduced to the Public, of the necessity of a searching
investigation into the system of Instruction pursued at the
College of Maynooth, and the principles instilled into the
Priests of Ireland; and also of examining into those laws
which the Papacy assumes to establish within this realm of
England, most earnestly recommend that a Petition, em-
bracing these particulars be accordingly presented to arlia-
ment." _ _ _

•-•
Moved by Mr. MEREDITH, seconded by Mr. CRISP,

That the Petition be placed in the hands of our Repre-
sentatives, Lord Viscount Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas,
for presentation

J. MIDDLETON, Chairman

On Wednesday last, some undergraduates at Cambridge,
in two tandems, commenced a race near Shelford, when one
of the vehicles upset, and the driver was pitched on his head,
and now lies with little hopes of recovery.
WEST INDIA Maii.s.—We have learned from unquestion-
able authority, that the West India steam-packet, which is
considered to be due at Falmouth on the 19th instant, is
likely to bring home two sets of mails, one being retarded
six days, and the other accelerated nine days. This arrange-
ment is consequent upon the change of routes necessary to
commence the new scheme of mail service, authorised by her
Majesty's Government to commence operations in England
on the Ist of October, and in the West Indies on the 25th of
October, 1842.—Times.

We are happy to understand that the council of the Duchy
of Cornwall have made a donation through the Rev. Dr.
D'Oyley, rector of Lambeth, in the name of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, of £lOO towards the erection of a
new church, now proposed in the Waterloo district of that
extensive parish. This is probably the first act of liberality,
exercised by the Infant Prince, and we hail it as a commence-
ment of similar acts of liberality to be exercised by him in
future times.

RATHER STRANGE.—WhiIe some boys were playing in
Albany-street, North Leith, on the forenoon of Wednesday
last, they heard a hissing noise proceed from the side of the
road; as they approached nearer, they discovered, to their
horror, a serpent, firmly twined round the lamp-post. They
killed it by striking; it on the head, and afterwards carried it
to the shop of Mr. Marshall, druggist. It measures two
and a half feet in length, and is beautifully speckled with
black, grey, and green colours; but how it came there no
one seems able to conjecture.

The editor of the New York Herald has offered for sale
the whole of the
appurtenances, as now organised newspaper
establishment, including all its
organised and of which he is sole
proprietor. He states that his intention in
retiring from the
Herald is to proceed to London as soon as practicable, and
to establish in that capital adalYand
andweekly newspaper, for
the purpose of defending, explaining,
to
Europe the institutions, laws, moral-exhibiting
i
resources, movements,
and tendencies of the United States, which
are now subject,
from imperfect knowledge and strong prejudices, to mis-
representation and falsehood of all kinds, and from all quar-
ters. He also intends to establish &branch newspaper in
French and English, in Paris, to effect a similar
purpose on
the continent.
DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE ON TysiEteCOAST or SPAIN.
—The southern coast of Spain was vi d sin the 29th alt.,
by a most destructive hurricane. AtSeville three houses
driven
were levelled with the ground, vessels from their
moorings, trees felled, and the public promenades entirely
devastated. Several edifices, and the cathedral in particular,
sustained considerable damage. The entire crew of a Spanish
revenue cutter was drowned near Cadiz, and a small English
brig, the boat of a French man-of-war, and a Spanish
schooner were thrown on the coast. The crews, however,
were saved. The neighbouring shores were covered to a
great extent with the remnants of vessels. On the 30th a
French war-steamer towed into Cadiz the Russian schooner
Enhigheten, which had lost all her masts.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—The quantity cf iand culti-
vated in the United Kingdom is calculated at 46,522,970
acres; uncultivated, about 15,000,000; unprofitable for cul-
tivation, 15,871,463, making a total 77,391,433 acres. The
land brought into cultivation in-111-r " inclosure bills" during
thirty-four years amounts to 3,511,77 G acres. The quantity
of grain (principally oats) imported from Ireland into Great
Britain in the year 1840, was 2,327,966 quarters. Foreign
and colonial wheat and other grain entered for home con-
sumption in the same year consisted of 3,843,745 quarters.
The total quantity of malt on which duty was charged in the
United Kingdom was 40,000,018 imperial bushels. Thei e
are sold in Smithfield Market, in the course of a year, about
180,000 cattle, 1,400,000 sheep. The average rental of all
the cultivated land in the kingdom is about .£1 per acre, pro-
ducing £46,522,970, while the average produce of all the
counties in England and Wales is about three hundred
millions annually!