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

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LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION.
AT a MEETING of the LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT
ASSOCIATION, held in the Music HALL, Bold-
street, on the Evening of MoNDAY, November 21, 1842,
JOHN MIDDLETON, Esq., in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were unanimously carried :
Moved by JOHN HOWARD, -Esq., and seconded by J.
BRINDLEY, Esq•,
" That the Report be adopted, printed, and circulated
under the directions of the Committee, and that the follow-
ing be the Committee and Officers for the ensuing year :
Treasurer.—Mr. Middleton.
Secretary.—Mr. Thomas Gleave.
COMMITTEE.

Mr. Barrow, Mr. Ratcliff,
Crisp, Leders,
Gleave, Parry,
Chapman, Thompson,
Kennerley, Williams,
Devine, Meredith,
Hitchcock, Wood,
Taylor, West,
Lovatt, Simmons,
Middleton, Heaton,
Swindley, Minton,
Welch, 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 Parlia-
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 MAILS.—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.-..While 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 newspaper establishment, including all its
appurtenances, as now organised, and of which he is sole
proprietor. He states that his intention in retiring from the
as practicable, and
Herald is to proceed to. Londonadaii as soon
to establish in that capital y_ weekly newspaper, for
and exhibiting to
movements,
the purpose of defending, explaining,
United Statets, which are now subject,
Europe the institutions, laws, morals, resources,
the
and tendencies of
‘..5 to
of all kinds, and from from imperfect knowledge and s rong
all mis-
representation and falsehood
quar-
ters. He also intends to establish a branch newspape"r in
French and English,
in Paris, to effect a similar purpo
the continent.
DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE ON THE COAST OF SPAIN'.
—The southern coast of Spain
was At Seville three housesvisited on the 29th alt.,
by a most destructive hurricane.
were levelled with the ground, vessels driven 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
lish
revenue cutter was drowned near Cadiz, and a small
brig, the boat of a French man-of-war, and a S E
na ngnish
schooner were thrown on the coast. 'The crews, however,
were saved. The neighbouring shores were covered
great extent with the remnants of vessels. On theto a
30th a
French war-steamer towed into Cadiz the Russian schooner
Enhigheten, which had lost all her masts.
AGRICULTURAL. STATISTICS.—The quantity I f Lan. culti-
vated in the United Kingdom is calculated at 46,322,970
acres; uncultivated, about 15,000,000; unorofitable for cul-
tivation, 15,871,463, making a total r".' 77.191,433 acres. The
land brought into cultivation " inclosure bills" during
th rtv-four years amounts to 3,511,776 acr3s: 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 tl e
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 abont.fl per acre, pro-
ducing £46,522,970, while the average produce of all the
counties in England and \Vales is about three hundred
millions annually! 1