The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROP'S.;

The weather during the past week has been extremely fine,
varied by occasional showers, which must have been of infi-
nite service to the growing crops. The face of the surround-
ing country looks surpassingly beautiful.—Stockport Adver-
tiser.

THE WEATHER.—Fine fertilising showers have fallen
during the week, by which the crops of grass and corn have
been materially strengthened, aided as their growth has
been by an alternation of warm sunshine. The gardens in
our neighbourhood look most lovely, and there is promise of
a most prolific crop of all kinds of fruit. The general ac-
counts throughout the country give the same cheering repre-
sentations.—Leeds Iratelligencer.
Throughout this part of the north the country presents a
charming aspect. The late rains have produced a striking
change in the appearance of the crops, which now give pro-
mise of abundance. The wheat is strong and healthy. The
oatsjust bursting into blade look remarkably well, and the
flax, generally, wears such an appearance as must be highly
gratifying to those who take an interest in the efforts now
making to improve the cultivation of that valuable crop;
while the potatoes are just what an Irishman loves to look
at in the ridges. Yesterday morning we had a slight thunder
storm, and the rain fell very heavily for a short time, but it
soon cleared up, and we had a delightful afternoon.— Ulster
Times.

ISLE of MAN.—At the commencement of the week the
atmosphere was exceedingly chill, owing to the prevalence of
the easterly wind, which changed, however, a few points on
Tuesday, rendering the air more genial. Copious showers
of rain have occasionally watered the smiling face of Mona,
which fell chiefly in the night. The fruit blossoms are now
carefully expanded, and seldom, indeed, have the gardens
and orchards given greater promise of abundant produce, and
throughout the island agricultural crops of every description
are looking remarkably healthy. On the whole, produce of
all kinds gives hope of great abundance, and if fine weather
continues, an early harvest will afford to the country a great
relief from the pressure of the times which now prevails to
a great extent among the labouring poor both in this island
and across the channel.

The Rev. W. R. Sibthorp was on Saturday admitted to
Priest's Orders at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott.
The coal trade is reviving at Newport. A number of ves-
sels have arrived within the last fortnight.
A FAT LIVING. —The annual value of the Prebend in
Wells Cathedral, which has lately become vacant by the death
of the Rev. T. Escott, is three pounds
The railway from Naples to Rome has at length obtained
the approval of the Holy See. It is said that an arrange-
ment has been made between the two states, according to
which Naples will undertake the work and the expense, and
Rome repay its share in annuities. A railway from Rome to
Florence is spoken of as a thing quite resolved on.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that the Russian army
in Poland is about being placed on the peace establishment;
the cavalry is to return to Russia; but the Gazette thinks
"that these measures indicate a concentration of a large
military force in the southern parts of the empire, for the
purpose of carrying on active operations in Circassia.
In the neighbourhood of Guildford-street, Southwark, an
accoucheur, residing there, rejoices in the appeopriate name
of " Caudle." Not less so, in the Broadway, Blackfriars,
is a hairdresser, literally and truly bearing the name of
" Catchpole."

The Cologne Gazette states, from the frontiers of Italy,
that since the closiug of the University of Pisa, occasioned
by the seditious and tumultuous conduct of the students,
several arrests have taken place among that body.
WoFur, WIT.—How do a feeling-hearted man and a cart-
horse resemble each other? Because they both stop at the
cry of " Wo !"

Osbaldistone, the great horse dealer, now a bankrupt, is
also a solicitor and coroner for Hertford.
On the 19th instant the railroad between Hamburgh and
Bergedorff was' opened, and 800 passengers were conveyed
along it. On the 20th, the number was 900. Considering the
present circumstances of Hamburgh, this may be regarded
as a large number.

A party returning about half-past eight o'clock on Friday
evening, from an excursion up the river Thames, in a small
pleasure-boat, accidentally ran in between the New Cadogan-
pier and a steam-boat, which immersed the party, and two
lives were lost.

A Vienna letter of the 16th instant says—" The works on
our railroads are going on with great perseverance; that to
Prague will be finished in three years, and that to Trieste in

six rears

The Courrier de Lyon says :—" The accident on the
Versailles Railroad has not diminished the traffic on ours.
In the four days of the festival of Whitsuntide 10,493 pas-
sengers, being upon an average of 2,576 a day, were conveyed
by it. During the same period in last year the number was
9,776, being 720 less than on the last occasion,"
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued
an order to admit 12 shipwrights' apprentices at the Wool-
wich Dockyard immediately, that number being a regulated
proportion, according to the men borne on the books of this
dockyard. Their lordships have also decided upon entering
100 apprentices every year, to be distributed amongst the
various dockyards, in the proportion of men borne on their
books.

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PALLIATION.-1 Pray, sir," said the commissioner to an
insolvent brought up to be discharged on his petition—" Pray,
sir, how could you wilfully, and with your eyes open, con-
tract such a number of debts without any visible means of
paying them ?" "My Lord," said the petitioner, " you
labour under a great mistake—l have never in my life wil-
fully contracted a debt ; on the contrary, I have invariably
done everything to enlarge them!"

The Nuremburgh Correspondent announces that 6,000
marks have already been remitted to Hamburg from that
city, and 10,000 from Augsburgh, and that the Bavarian
ministers, in the absence of the king, had made a general
appeal to the people of Bavaria in favour of the distressed
inhabitants of Hamburgh. The Post Ampt Gazette of
Frankfort informs us that at Stuttgardt the booksellers are
getting up a lottery of books and prints, the profits of which
are to be sent to Hamburg.

A very considerable fire occurred at Kingston, Jamaica,
on the 9th ult., by which the steam bread bakery of Messrs.
Atkinson and Hozin was burnt to the ground, and property
to the value of £50,000 destroyed ; it is presumed to be the
act of an incendiary. The Jamaica papers mention that the
troops and men-of-war's boats and crews rendered effectual
assistance.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the
lAct rctuios of 38 railways, 1,3+5 miles in len_gt_h, will
be of interest :—Number ne • 9i4n,G , „.„equentay, , the total or t e week must be about

400,000. The receipts for passengers on 37 railways,
£71,048 12s. lld ; ditto for goods on 30 railways, £18,452
19s. ld ; total, £89,501 12s. This is an average of £66 10s.
per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the
rate of more than £3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000
of passengers.—Railway Magazine.
LANDS HELD OR FORFEITED BY A GAME OF CRESS.
There is a method of playing at chess called Curzier Spiel at
Stroepke, a village between Magdeburg and Brunswick, on a
board of 8 squares by 12. This village holds ts lands upon
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the tenure of forfeiture if any of their 'Community loses a game
at chess. Some of the inhabitants are expert at this play,
but as the stake is so high, they decline finishing a game with
a stranger, and defer the party sine die.
A NEW COPPER MINE IN JAMAICA.—We are exceed-
ingly gratified to be enabled to announce that another valua-
ble copper mine has been found in the neighbourhood of this
parish, situated upon Flamstead Plantation, Port Royal
Mountains, the property of the Rev. Mr. Fyfe ; and that so
satisfactory are the indications, that the necessary capital
has at once been subscribed for by one or two opulent and
influential houses in this city, which will thus prevent the oc-
currence of much of that indecision and delay which generally
accompany appeals for public co-operation. Who knows
but that this is only the commencement of a new era in the
existence of Jamaica, and that from an almost exclusively
sugar-growing colony, she may yet rise to equal, if not su-
perior, importance in mineralogical wealth. Should this and
the Mount Vernon mine succeed in fulfilling the hopes of
their projectors, we need have little doubt of seeing many
others following in the same steps. —Jamaica Standard,
April 15.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF
THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.—The 141st anniversary
meeting of the members and friends of this society was held
on Friday, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The clergy, in their
robes, met at three o'clock in the Consistory Court, at the
west-end of the cathedral, to meet his Grace the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the president of the society. There were
present the Lord Mayor. aldermen, and sheriffs, the Bishops
of London, Durham, Winchester, Chester, Lincoln, Nor-
wich, Salisbnry, Llandaff, Sodor and Man, the Archdeacons
Hale and Robinson, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, the Rev. A.
M. Campbell, Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rev. W. Dodsworth, Rev.
Thomas Dale, Rev. W. Harvey, and a very large number of
the metropolitan' clergy. Full cathedral service was per-
formed, after which the Bishop of Salisbury preached the
sermon. His lordship's discourse was founded on the 17th
chapter of St: John's Gospel, 20 and 21 verses.__lt.7as

listened to with profound attention. An anthem was sung,
ie
and the Bishop of London pronounced the benediction.a_ It
appears from statements put forth by the society, that then
is still a great want of colonial clergymen, more especially Van Diemen's Land, for which place a bishop will very
shortly be appointed. The Bishop Australia
of has
also re-
presented to the society his need of clerical assistance. In
T the diocese of Toronto a college has been established for the
education of candidates for holy orders.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY.—The third
held on
half-yearlythe 27thn
i meetinge, n
toft
hn the proprietors
company's
of this company was n
office, 51, St. Mary-axe, Sir John Campbell in the chair to
receive the report of the directors and declare a dividend for
the six months ending 31st March last. The report stated
the receipts of the company for that half-year to be £3 900
of £5
in excess of the previous half-year ; that 11,402 shares
'
each had been subscribed for ; that the paid-up capital
ofo
th
company amounted to £400,787 10s. s and that instalments toe
the amount of £169,312 were available for the further exten-
sion of the company's operations. It also stated that 703 ad-
ditional shares had been subscribed for in India, where a very
favourable feeling towards the undertaking had been mani-
fested. of 1800 tons and 520-
reported, proceed to take up her
fhensrtseed . p 0
w Theer,
would,Hindo sittan was s steam-ship, rn
station between Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, and Suez, in
September next, and the Rentinck, of similar size and power,
would soon follow for the same destination. Arrangements
for improving the transit of passengers and goods through
Egypt were stated to be in active progress, and that fresh
assurances of the support and co-operation of the Pacba of
Egypt in effecting them had been recently received. A divi-
dend of 34 per cent. for the half year was declared, and
thanks to the directors being moved and unanimously se-
conded and carried, the meeting separated.
POPERY AND THE BIBLE.—In Roman catholic churches
e.s
on the continent the second commandment is alwaYsete inth and
and in the books of Exodus and Deutoronomy ttbeeonne book,
tenth are placed in different positions. In ~ comes first,
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's hous_e,- neighbour's
and in the other, " Thou shalt not covetra Ler
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wife." Thus having omitted the second
they
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To which the doctor
but the last, said,all this, and remembered not one word
And ray, sir, where is the
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to admit luminous replied)particles " " h thank you," said te-
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Can/bridge Advertiivr. off,
walked tnore?perplaxed than before.—

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No new Messiah meets their gaze,
No God the Gentiles may not praise;
Gentile and Jew before him fall,
'Tis Jesus ! crown him Lord of all !

On Olive's Mount his feet descend,
Lo ! Satan's empire hath an end !
Millennial glory,—earth restored,—
For Jesus reigns as sovereign Lord !

Yet Lord thou knowest that none of these
Can of themselves the conscience ear ;
The preacher's voice shall sound in vain,
Unless thy saving grace restrain.

Then let thy promised power, indeed,
Be with the sower and the seed ;
Break up the hard heart's fallow ground,
And let much fruit to thee abound.

THE MIND

(From Charles Swain's new work)

The fine associations of the mind,
With their own loveliness invest each hue
And form of nature !—Unless thus combined
With feelings, holy, eloquent, and true,
What were this gorgeous firmament of blue—
These floating mountains of a vapoury sphere—
This commonwealth of flowers—this vast review
Of wordly splendour, bursting far and near ?
chat were earth itself, unless the mind were here?

There's beauty in the soft, warm, summer morn,
When leaves are sparkling with the early dew ;
When bit ds awake, and buds and flowers are born,
And the rich sun appears, half trembling, through
l'hc crimson haze, and dim luxurious blue
Of the far eastern heav'ns :—there's beauty deep
From mountain tops to catch the distant view
Of quiet glen—wood path—wild craggy steep—
sequester'd coast where lonely waters sleep.

There's beauty in the noontide atmosphere;
len willows bend their graceful boughs to meet
fountain waters—delicately clear :
midway heaven the wild lark carols sweet ;
s beauty in the tender traits which fleet
shores and isles of gold,

klong th

That seem just formed for holy angels feet,
Gleaming with gifts of an immortal mould !
could thy name be lost, while men such scenes behold

Theer's beauty in th
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still blue hour of night,
n streams sing softly through the moonlit vale,
When, one by one, shoot forth the stars to light,
Dreamy and cold, and spiritually pale.—
There's beauty on the ocean, when the gale
Dashes the merry billows to the strand ;
When like a phantom flirts some wand'ring sail,
White as the moon-beam on the glittering sand,
distant flute-notes rise, touched by some skilful hand.

There's beauty on the quiet lake afar,
When the wild birds sleep upon its voiceless breast;
The lonely mirror of a single star,
Pale shining in the solitary west;
There's harmony and beauty in that rest—

So placid—stirless—lonely—and so deep—
We scarcely move, or dare to whisper—lest
A word should break the magic of that sleep,
And start the spirit nymphs who watch around it keep !

There's beauty on the mountains—when the snow—
OF thousand ages on their forehead lies ;
Purple and glittering in the sun-set glow,
The gala light of the Italian skies :
When gorgeously the clear prismatic dyes
Illumine ice-built arches—crystal walls
That like the mirrors of the spheres, arise ;
Or proud magician's visionary halls,
ed for merry masques—for pomps and carnivals.

There's beauty in the old monastic pile,
When purple twilight, like a nun, appears
Bending o'er ruin'd arch and wasted aisle—

----"-• -" ,i^tor ivy rears
Its sacriligious banner o'el th 6 aa..—_,
Once holy with a dying Martyr's tears;
Yet, amidst dust, and darkness, and decline,
suty mantles still the edifice divine !

But, ah ! bereft of mind, which is the light
That melts the shadows of futurity !
Nor early morn, nor noon, nor summer night,
Nor the wild billows of the lonely sea ;
No, nor the sweet and plaintive melody
Of distant flute-notes on the moonlight shore,
May touch one heart with beauty ! If the free
And god-like spring of thought could act no more
were the past to man, and dark his path before.

All beauty is the mind's. The dews of earth—
Her loveliest breathings—her serenest skies—
Ne'er warm'd such noble feelings into birth,
As from our own imaginations rise ;
The bright illuminated memories
Which are the rays of the soul's world !—the gay
And fond creations of our youthful eyes :
Beauties which set not with the setting day,
aold a life within—a charm against decay !