The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

evening

. ~)f her commander in preseri
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Ong order, and cleanliness especially, recommend her as an
emigrant ship. She was abundantly supplied with excellent
provisions by the shipping agents, Messrs. W. Smith and
Sons, Liverpool. There were but two deaths on the passage.
Mary Mercer, an emigrant from Ashton-under-Lyne,
who died in consequence of a premature delivery of a child

but two hours, and James Walker, a seaman, of
who was dragged overboard by a rope in a squall
nd drowned, notwithstanding great efforts were made to
Three hundred and twenty-three emigrants are
land in zood health as soon as the usual formalites
have been gone through. The subjoined testimonial was
presented to Captain Main for his considerate attention to
the passengers and emigrants. " We, the undersigned pas-
sengers on board the Wallace, respectfully present you with
this memorial conveying our approbation of your ereat ex-
perience in command, of your firmness in maintaining dis-
cipline and good order, end of your vigilance in preserving
cleanliness throughout the vessel, which not only ministers
to comfort, but is likewise indispensable to health. We also
wish particularly to express the gratitude of those who have
been afflicted' by illness, for your endeavours to mitigate their
ind to restore them to health ; also for your
ig amusements to relieve all from the

Liverpoc

prepared t

sufferir
kindne

a voyage. Our wish, sir, is, that all your
future voyages may be prosperous, that you may attain a
green old age, comforted by the reflection of a well-spent
life, and the assurance of securing a happy immortality."
Yours, &c.,
A PASSENGER.

weariness of a

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—It is fortunate for you that the STANDARD is in its
course accompanied with two excellent contemporaries in
the Albion and the Mercury. In common with the remain-
der of the world, you cannot fail, I imagine, to receive a
stream of perpetual light from two such suns ; and you must,
long before this, have recognised an almost special providence
in the circumstance of the two luminaries irradiating our
otherwise dark hemisphere at different ends of the week.
For this mercy the inhabitants of " the good old town," of
every clime and nation and creed, cannot be too thankful ;
because, had their risings been coincident, few indeed could
have stood against the united brilliancy of the combined
orbs.

There was a time when these magnificent planets were in
opposition to each other—in opposition to such a degree,
that many began to think that either one or the other would,
by the attraction of repulsion added to its own gravity, lose
its place in the solar system of the broadsheet. lam not

quiie sure that there is any remarkab'

except perhaps and

Unger from MI
One element

~ however, there is, besides the apprehension
of common danger, which, with magic influence, has, for the
moment, sapped ancient animosities, and engendered an
amiable concord between these most valorous champions.
Beine of - temm"---"- -I.llave over
tins promise of peace with no common interest ; I
congratulate my fellow-townsmen upon the gratifying fact,
that harmony and reconciliation have superseded quarrellinir

and contention. We are thus spared from collision upon a
most vital subject—a collision the bare contemplation of
which is very nearly as horrible as treading upon the interior
surface of a discharging volcano to an hypochondriac who
fancies himself a lump of the lard described in Monday's
Albion.
And what do the most enlightened people of Liverpool
think is this wondrous element, which thus presents pheno-
mena vastly more surprising than those of the Mesmerists,
or the Homeopathists, or even of Mr. Claridge's Hydropa-
thists ? The venerable " Crito " (to whom I shall address
myself at a future time upon his favourite topic) may, and
for aught I know to the contrary does, rejoice in the disco-
very of an agency, which has apparently had the happy power
of exchanging feud for friendship. What, then, is this invi-
sible and mysterious power? Why, it is no other than a
wholesome species of nervous irritability, somewhat similar
to that of which Sir Giles Overreach might be supposed to
be the victim, were he to have sinned only with reference to
his stomach. It is, in short, no other than the circumstance
that the retiring disposition of our present chief magistrate,
whose aversion to display of any kind is next to his unques-
tionable integrity, his chief characteristic, has not led him
into the practice of giving a dinner every month or six weeks
to some sixty or hundred of his townsmen—to men who
ought never to want, and who never do want, but who are
as hungry as paupers when the prospect of a civic feast sti-
mulates the appetite. Really a tremendous catastrophe has
befallen the " classic " Albion and the " venerable " Mer-
cury; a common misfortune has, by their own admissions,
overtaken them, and their wailings are only to be consoled
by that judicious clause in the Municipal Corporations Act.
which, probably in relation to this very case, enacts that all
mayors must be elected annually. It requires no skill in
divination (but if any divination at all be made, it must be
by the ancient mode of the entrails and stomach) to foretel
that the re-election of the present mayor will be opposed by
the unanimous pens of these voracious complainants.
Without doubt, however, there are a tolerably large class
who are by no means satisfied with the conduct of Mr. John
Shaw Leigh, in his capacity as mayor, with regard to the
lamentable lack of dinners. In the eyes, or rather in the
mouths, of these gentlemen, the dining-room of the Town-
should be immediately converted into a gratuitous ordi-
nary, the mayor into a Boniface, the town-clerk into a wine-
drawer, and the surveyor into the superintendent waiter—
an office wherein he might exhibit his skill in design, for why
should not his works be as clever on a table as in a town ?
On the principle of the greater comprehending the less, what
might not the gourmand expect from his tabulated inge-
nuity ? As to the aldermen and town-councillors, they
might be distributed in the establishment as cooks and scul-
lions. Thus, then, is the outline of an eating-house on a
magnificent scale immediately drawn, and the details can be
filled up by the grumbling gentlemen of whom the Albion
and the Mercury are the organs.
Well, but for their information I will mention that the
Town-hall Establishment Committee have just ordered the
kitchen-range in the Town-hall to be repaired, at an expense
of seventy pounds of the corporation money. This looks
promising. Dinners will not always be at a discount. They
may be had for going for shortly; and the doctors may
speedily anticipate a prolific season of dyspepsia.
But, in the meantime, whilst the kitchen -range is mending,
some steps must be taken to bring the mayor to a sense of
his duty—to make him try whether the corporation tinker
has not made more holes than he has soldered up in the
various pots and pans and kettles which form part of the
civic culinary garniture. It certainly will be incumbent on
him to risk an experiment ; but if the mayor should be so
shockingly obstinate, so deaf to the cries of the ravens, as

to persist in not making the Town-hall into a turtle-soup-
shop, then there will be but one mode open for redressing
this grievous wrong.
This mode of redress, happily, has the merit of being as
easy as it will be successful. It is, that a special meeting of
the council be summoned instantly upon the discovery of the
mayor's refractoriness, at which the persuasive eloquence of
Mr. Alderman Earle should be exerted in support of a mo-
tion by Mr. Alderman Evans, for the appointment of a com-
mission, after the approved liberal fashion, to inquire into
the intolerable abuse of his office by the mayor, and report
thereon to the council. The motion fora commission should
embrace two specific points—first the number of dinners the
mayor has hitherto given, and next the number he ought to
have given; besides which, it might be so wisely framed as
to imply Porter's tables (not he of the board of trade) to be
the corporation catechism for the instruction of succeeding
occupants of the chair. A single commissioner would per-
haps be capable of conducting the investigation; and as the
town-clerk must not be supposed to have any bias on this,
no more than on other matters, probably the council would
nominate him to the office. Indeed, if his own doctrine—
that, because his office is mentioned in the charter, he has a
right equally with the aldermen and councillors to debate
and discuss the several motions propounded before them—
be correct, I expect to hear him claiming the appointment
of commissioner as his legal privilege. And as he evidently
is not a man to lose what is his own for want of asking for,
I would confer this office upon him on both grounds first,
that it is his by ancient right, and so gratify his weakness in
antiquity; and secondly, because he is eminently capable of
conducting such an inquiry, and so obtain, after the tempe-
rate manner of a lawyer, the benefit of enlarged individual
experience. The evidence ought to be taken down in short-
hand, and printed along with the learned commissioner's
report, for the information of the council and the edification
of their constituents. By the way, although the mayor's
dinners ought on all occasions to display high celery), I think
the commissioner's salary might be paid in invitation cards,
and this for an economical reason—namely, that, like good
bills, they would readily be accepted. they
Giving your shining contemporaries all the advantage
can make of these valuable hints,
I remain, sir, your obedientls,eurvigoQuE.
Great George-street, Wednesday evening.

The Irish whiskey duty in 1839 was X 1,510,092 ;
in 1840,
£1,032,582; and in 1841,£964,711.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE THIS MORNING, AT TUE
LIVER STEAM MILLS.

We regret to announce that about three o'clock this morn-
ing a most destructive fire broke out in the extensive works
of Messrs. Edward Holme and Son, millers, on the west
side of the Canal-banl
out very suddenly. An alarm was immediately given, and

The flames,

aderstand, burst

messengers were despatched for the tire-engines at the dock
stations and the station in Temple-court. Five powerful
engines from the latter place were instantly on their wa

to the scene of conflagration, and in about twenty minute

afterwards no less than ten' engines were on the spot. Al)!
were playing upon the flames at once, but without effect. No
effort could save the building, and at this moment it is a
heap of ruins. We arc sorry to add that four men were very
severely injured in their efforts to extinguish the flames.
One of them was a miller in Messrs. Hohne's service, and
the other three were men belonging to the fire brigade. They
are now in considerable danger. We have not heard any
probable account of the origin of the fire, nor whether the
property was insured.

DISASTROUS FINANCIAL CONDITION OP INDIA

The Morning Herald of yesterday, in a leading article
upon the news brought from India by the overland mail just

received, observes that—

" Sir Robert Peel has not, it would appear, been at all pre-
mature in his fears as to Indian finances. Monetary em-
barrassments are accumulating throughout the three presi
dencies ; the whole country suffers from the drains of specie
caused by the Affghan war; the currency is becoming so
contracted that the ryot is unable to find silver to pay his
land-tax ; trade is oppressed and stagnant ; the demand for
our goods rapidly decreasing ; the wealthy natives are be-
coming distrustful ; the new loan is not filling up ; credit is
languishing, and prices are falling. These results of our
Indian wars will add to commercial distress at home, and
selfishness may at last induce us to make that demand which
justice and right ought to have begotten, that the Affghan
war be brought to a speedy conclusion, and trans-Indan con-
quest and subjugation be at once stopped."
This disastrous state of things there are few, except the
thoughtless admirers of whig policy, whether abroad or at
home, who must not long ago have foreseen ; and when it is
borne in mind that the rash occupation of Aflghanistan has
already cost, independent of 13,000 valuable lives, the enor-
mous amount of nineteen millions sterling, even these peo-
ple, we imagine, will confess that its occurrence is not very
Let those excellent politicians who but a few
) attributed every evil under which the foreign

urprizing

commerce of Gr

Britain laboured to the effect of " mono-

poly" at home, tell us whether it is not quite possible that
the mismanagement of our foreign affairs, by that sublime
of foreign ministers Lord Palmerston, may not have had

quite as much to do with the matter ! By the bye, may we
not enquire into what hole has the sublime statesman in
question crept from observation of late ? We thought he was
to have led the opposition, in the House of Commons, to
Sir Robert Peel's government ; but it is gratifying to find
that the rouged cheeks of the venerable dandy are not imper-
vious to the blush of shame.

THE DISC-ENGINE AND CAPTAIN CARPENTER'S

PROPELLERS

(From the Railway Magazine.)

We have had the pleasure to witness some experimental
trials of the above apparatus, made in the presence of Sir
Edward Parry, comptroller of her Majesty's steam marine
Messrs. Ewart and Lloyd, the government engineers, several
gentlemen connected with the Admiralty, and a number of
eminent engineers who attended on the occasion.

The apparatus was fitted in the pinnace of H. M. steam.-
vessel, Geyser, which is under orders to sail for China. The
boat is 30 feet in length, 9 feet in width, and is capable of
carrying 8 tons. The engine is of the peculiar kind called
the " Disc-Engine," which appears to be well adapted to
marine purposes. Its nominal power is equal to five horses,
but it was estimated to be performing considerably more
during the trial.

The engine itself occupied a space of 3 feet by 1 foot G
inches, and its total weight, exclusive of the boiler, is 5 cwt.
The propelling apparatus is the invention of Capt. Carpen-
ter, the commander of the Geyser. It consists of two hori-
zontal shafts passing through the stern of the boat, (the
joint made tight by a stuffing box,) one on each side of the
keel, carrying two arms placed at right angles to the shaft,
at the ends of which arms are two lozenge-shaped propellers,
the angle of which with the horizontal shaft may be varied
at pleasure.

These propellers are caused to make about 300 revolutions
a minute, and judging from their effect they appear to be well
adapted for the intended purpose.
The boat made numerous trips up and down the river, and
the facility with which the motion could be reversed, and the
perfect command obtained in steering, called forth the com-
mendation of the gentlemen present. On making use of
Massey's log it was ascertained that the speed of the boat,
when the engine was making 100 revolutions per. minute,
was equal to seven miles per hour.
The form of the boat is very unfavourable to obtaining
velocity, and it was observed that in consequence of the
bluffness of the bows a wave of considerable height was
carried before the boat.

We understand it is intended to employ this boat as an
assistant to the steam-frigate, and that it will be employed
for the purpose of towing other boats into creeks and shallow

where it may be desirable to conduct an armed force

It appears to us that not only for purposes of warfare, but
also for the more peaceful operations of commerce, the com-
bined apparatus we have inspected presents great advantages,
as, from its extreme simplicity, it is perfectly manageable by
ordinary workmen, and the small space it occupies, and its
small weight. os, and nrevent the boat taking a full comple-
ment of men ,
• it b y?. an „e e •s
anc.... afforded by a boat of this kind woatt ens t-
'
a vessel to make considerable way even in a perfect calm.
We are not a little surprised and pleased to learn from
Captain Carpenter, that the whole apparatus was so arranged
that the engine and boiler could be taken out of the boat and
replaced in it ready for operation in less than ten minutes.
This simple fact is the best illustration of the suitability of
thedisc-engine for such an application.
The duration of the trials was not such as to enable us to
determine the consumption of fuel ; but, as far as we could
judge, this appeared to be remarkably small.
The engine employed was only 15 inches diameter, and the
steam pressure estimated at 38Ibs. to the inch. The mean
number of revolutions of the disc per minute was 160, and
on repeated trials we observed that the full number was al-
most immediately got up on starting.
The above experiments were attended by Mr. lierapath.
Another trial, we understand, was made on Saturday. The
pinnace sailed from Woolwich against a strong tide and
powerful head wind, and made such way as surprised the
party on board. Afterwards they took in tow a man-of-
war's launch, having on board fifty men, with their arms and
ammunition, and two cannons with their equipments, and
made good way also against tide and wind. It does not ap-
pear that any log was on board, or any account of the steam
pressure or consumption of fuel, but the experiments were
confined to what may be called ocular inspection of general
deeds.

CATARACT REMOVED BY GALVANISM.—Prof. Pirogoir
and Dr. Crussell, St. Petersburg, the operators. The con-
vex capsule was opened by a crucial incision, and then a
weak galvanic current was introduced into the eye for ::bout
a minute. The pupil became almost instantaneously black
over a large portion of its circumference, and immediately
the patients saw the objects that were presented to them.
The reabsorption of the cataract takes place soon after the
operation.

On Monday a serious fire broke out in the printing-office
of Mr. Lee, at Lewes, which was not extinguished before the
whole of the establishment was destroyed. Noth;ng is known
of the origin of the fire, but it is conjectured that it was oc-
casioned by the 'accidental falling of a spark from a candle
during Sunday evening, and its smouldering till past mid-
night, and then bursting into flames. The damage is esti-
mated at about £1,600. The premises were insured, but not
to the full value.

---
TIMBER DIITIES.—ME:ETING OF THE BELFAST CH AM-
BER OF COMMERCE.—On Saturday, pursuant to an adver-
tisement that appeared in the papers, a public meeting of the
members of the Chamber of Commerce was held at twelve
o'clock, for the purpose of considering the propriety of send..
ing a memorial to government to allow the proposed duties
on timber to have an immediate operation, when it was re-
solved unanimously, that a petition be forwarded front the
Chamber to her Majesty's government, praying them to pass
the proposed measure, and to let it come into operation with
as little delay as possible.
- -

BUTTER.—Fresh butter, of excellent
, •
but much rem• • ' coning unths-
lier hour it fetched s.,
Low
quality, sold PRICEin ouOrFmßarukieTtEoinn: Saturday for 9d. per pound •
at an ear
pose of,
d a reduction was submitted to, and at the lower
price above stated a great deal remained unsold. It is possi-
ble that apprehensions among the dairy farmers, excited by
the cautious arrangements with them on the part of the Lon-
don factors, have led to this eager supply. The latter may
not improbably be alarmed at the probable effects of tin
tariff when it comes into operation. Whatever may have
been the occasion, it is certain that so large a stock of dairy
produce at this early season has not occurred for many years
past.—Taunton Courier.
The extreme drought of the past two or three weeks has
been suddenly terminated by a mild, and for several hour'
copious, rain, which commenced yesterday, though we fear
its extent was but limited. The appearance of the country 1.11
and about this neighbourhood, and in the adjoining e° " "2:
of Hereford, is truly luxuriant as regards all kind of
and pot`'"
but rain is much wanted, especially for the grasses ant_l2",
toes; we therefore hope that a continuation of sea...„s4;;
or-
showers will now come to the aid of the cultivator; 1 n
chards present a beautiful tint, and rich will be the
.bealryciLitt.
cider and perry if no untoward change (wetl the 11
winds, has
is springing up with much vigour, but that fellI;
devourer—the fly, wafted by the late
easterly of thee
pretty generally attacked it ; and the disposition
rb, locusts.• to
voracious tribes, like their cousins-gr.': `.:O welt known
.in
convert " the paradise into a desert, 1 A iet any thin satin_
t pre ntomological
the history of hops, that we cannot yewe ,io„e, wil if,.on,i.ce jer
factory of the crop. The weather°,
.egelati;on.
weeks, give a favourable turn '

in the
the never
A COURTLY ADYENTURU.—At
Journal: near one
pinningo'clock
doors "P the
morning, while the wardrobe-woman was
Queen's hair, there was a sudden rap-tap at the dressing.
room door. Extremely surprised, I looked at the Queen. t,,
see what should be done; she did not speak. I had
heard such a sound before for at the royal
always a particular kind of 'scratch used, instead of tar.!l.° is
I heard it, however, again,—and the Queen called.'llrg.
" What is that?" I was really startled, out,
not cone •
could take so strange a liberty as to come o
the ening who
apartment without the announcing of it paget Queen,,,
I was very sure, would make such a noise. Again ; and no page,
was repeated, and more smartly, 1 gre. the sound
imagining some serious evil at hand, eithery quite alarmed,
king or some of the princesses. The Q regardin the
me open the door. I did ; but what Queen however,g '"
there a• large man. in an was my sur • bid
round his chin, so that he was immense greatcoat, surprise
to ee
hat• I stood quite motionless almost hid be , buttoned up
so surprised, drew back , I ss for a moment between cape and
—I really thought some ruffian felt quite sick4leat ; but he, as if
a madman. " Who i ruffian had broke with sudden terror
know, ma'am," I a sit ?" cried into the house, or
and then, taking answered, ~ Who the Queen. "I do not
The Queen lancrh off his hat, ho is it ?" she called aloud
unexpected expl ed very entered ;
much , the Prince of Wales.
came to inform illation. Ile did I too, happy in this
lights to betold her eagerly,
her there he merely
to cow. that couldpossibly most beautiful northern
IY Arbia 'to ;the ___ ~ be imagined, and begged
Y. gaitery-windows •
.—Dtary of Madame

vertrP

--~--~

SPRING

(From Me AMenceum.)

Winter stares

For the merry Spring„ outleaping,
Over his cold domain hath passed,

the wild-wood glade,

s come forth to meet him,
ivies. 'ileath the old oak shade,

reet him

and away they bear it,
in, a chaplet green, I trow,

Aml shout to see him wear it.
And now gray Winter stands
In the midst of their sportive bands,
And strives. with closed ears, to keep their merry music out;
' 's looks bespeak,

No love 1
And o er

s puckered cheek

1 wist, i' the furrows course about

is, alas ! have drunken
e nectarious draught that binds
their strength, and sunken

1., the laps of the wanton flowers they lie,
On the beds of moss, scent-breathing,
Or cradled soft, 'midst the leaves on high,
With the sunbeams o'er them wreathing;
So his voice awakes them not.

Then he calls on the rains to aid him :
But the rains have wept themselves to death,
And the hail has fled from the sun's warm breath,
And the snow lies in dew on the turf beneath ;
Poor wretch ! they have all betrayed him ;
He calls, but they heed him not.

Then the saucy Spring, grown bolder,
Doth bid old Winter flee ;
And the eye of each beholder
Lights up with ecstacy,
As the hoary King turns slowly
From the little blythesome crew,
And with aspect, changed and lowly,
Doth bid his realm adieu.
But ah ! unpitying they ;
When be turneth to go, the tyrant host
Surround him with odours he hatest most;
They pelt him with thistles and thorned flowers,
They drive him, in scorn, from their festal bowers,
And ere yet he hath faded quite from view,
Or his footfall died away,
They pierce with their songs the welkin blue,

And- with mock

And a thousand b
Prot

hter his path pursue;
,ung leaves dance on the spray,
that timidly,

la, that

balmy day

utely flew

a branch to branch, zrown bolder too,
Break forth in a roundelay.

And joy
There

is the burtben of every song
s joy in the river's flowing,

In the k

e voice of the breeze as it floats along,
e's soft, pastoral lowing;
ar it the grasses and reeds among,
On the marge of the streamlet growing.
Joy on the new-born earth!
Joy in the halcyon sky
Poor mqurner I from thy silent hearth,
Look upward hoptfully,
) those sounds of mirth,

And g'

W rung heart and tearful eye.
And thou, pale child ! that low

On saddest couch art lying—
Go forth, and. Health shall fan thy brow,
And chase away thy sighing.
Go forth, and sport beneath the bough,
Where the gladsome bee is humming,
And thou wilt bless, as I do now,

The young Spring's joyous coming

LITERARY

NOTICES

u, by Robert Nicoll. Second Edition, with a Memoir
the Author. Edinburgh : William Tait. London :
mpkin, Marshall, and Co.

ave perused with delight the unpretending verses
ompose the bulk of the volume before us, and with
terest the narrative of the author's brief career, by
are accompanied. Many of the poems themselves
strangers to us. A considerable number, how-
d not appear in the first edition, published
hor's lifetime, are here added—some of them
us periodicals in which they were originally
world. The work is neatly got up, by poor
and early friend, Mr. Tait ; and we heartily

iot enti

Nicoll's k

prepared to class Nicoll with either Robert

k Shepherd. He could never have
' Tam o' Shanter," or furnished us with
' Bonnie Kilmenie" of Hogg.

ver, his limited opportunities taken into
ich , by the way, were scarcely more limited

either of these poets,) it cannot be

me extent,

' the vision and

that had his lot, after gathering, in
from the wild heaths and streams of

path somewhat brighter than

and toilsome career of radical jour-

ri# Mt, Lwow! NA',Mk)

THE DRAMATIBI

litY 3 AMI

TONEHQUgi

CHAPTER. I.—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARD.
The " Burgundy Vineyard" has not always been as it is at
present, a stately and extensive restaurant. In 1810 the
sign of the establishment was suspended over a poor, stunted,
half-grown hedge, which encircled a muddy enclosure, dig-
by th- - " I 141 e of the gar-