The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

GUANO-THE NEW MANURE

GUANO, FROM TRH CIIINCHA ISLANDS.—It is from these
well known islands in the Pacific Ocean the Peruvians have
for centuries past supplied, and do, at the present time,
almost entirely supply themselves with this inval ble
manure. Some sixty vessels are now constantly Toyed
in carrying Guano from thence to the main la which, by
its fertilising qualities, produces the most ab • dant crops of
wheat, maize, and all other vegetable p3o: uctions, whilst,
without it, little or nothing would be okained from the soil
Guano, from Chineha, has 13telv heAintro
country by Messrs. W. J.
and in_ offering it to the Br

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goes from the coast of 801 l . , to s,
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and their accredited a - its in the county.
ties in England from .hom the Guano, .
be procured. On a plication to any of them the
be had genuine, apd warranted the same quality as is u.
the Peruvians, who esteem this Guano so highly that a
the utmost difficulty was the Government of that country
duced to allow its exportation to Europe, for fear of doing
injury to their own agricultural interest, which could nul
remedied should the Guano be all exported:. Gus- Is b
applied, in this country, with the greatest to
growth of wheat, barley, hops, turnips, grass lay,. 'at(
and indeed every description of vegetable productic in'
whole of which the increase of crop was most appal t
highly satisfactory, and it only requires to be known to
it general use by agriculturists.

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from Chine

ARRIVAL OF THE PROTESTANT BISHOP IN

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM, JANUARY
The entry of the Bishop of Palestine into the city of
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was mai kea by as favoura.ble circumstances as could p

have been antfeipatedhyth
testant missions in the East

e most sun.

nine frie

On the morning of the 20th instant our little community
was much excited by the arrival of a messenger from Jaffa
with the intelligence that the British Consul-General and
Bishop Alexander had arrived off that port in a steam -friy. ate,
and might be expected in Jdrusalem on the following day.
Mr. N icolayson, a highly respectable and talented Holstein
DaniSh gentleman, who is now a clergyman of the Church of
England, and the head of the mission for promoting Chris-
tianity among the Jews at Jerusalem, immediately started to
meet them. The rencontre took place at Ramleh, the llatnah
of Scripture (still a considerable town),, where the Bishop,
the Consul• General, and a numerous suite, halted to pass the
night. The Bishop took up his quarters at the house of the
American Consul, the wealthiest Christian in the place, and
the Consul-General, with several officers of the Devastation
steam-frigate, alighted at the Armenian Convent.
On the following day they made their entry into our an-
cient capital, in a procession which will be remembered by
those who saw it to the latest day of their lives. When
within five miles of. the gates they .were_
„joined by the few
British and American residents on horseback, headed' by
Mr. Proconsul Johns, who is architect of the intended church,
as well as locum tenens of Mr. Young. On approaching the
town the cavalcade,-which already consisted of fifty or sixty
persons, was swollen by the junction of the hey, second in
command of the troops, who, accompanied by a guard of
honour, and the Janissaries of the Pasha, had been sent to
compliment Col. Rose on his arrival, while all the loungers
of Jerusalem turned out for the occasion. Not the least
interesting object in the throng was Mrs.'Alexander, the fair
partner of the right rev, prelate. Being enciente, it had
been considered by the physician of the mission unadvisable
for her to attempt the journey on horseback. Accord-

ingly a large taterwan or Oriental litter was constructed,
which, supported before and behind by stout mules,.
veyed Mrs. Alexander and the younger portion of her family
over the rocky and precipitous tracks which lead from Jaff
to Jerusalem.

The throng passed on, and the scene which ensued at the
Bethlehem-gate, by which it entered the town, baffles all
description ; on the one side were the gray massive battle-
ments and picturesque towers of Jerusalem—no mean speci-
men of the solidity with which Sultan Suleytuan fortified the
conquests of his predecessor Selim ; and on the other was
the vale that leads to Bethlehem, now rugged and now un-
dulated, with all its light and shade softened in the approach-
ing twilight, while the dark and singularly even and unpeaked
line of the mountains of Moab beyond the Dead Sea walled
in the prospect. The widely-accoutred and unearthly-
looking Bedouin irregulars, who had been playing the djeered,
and gamboling round the procession at the full speed of their
desert horses, contented themselves with firing off their
muskets, being now hemmed in by the motley throng of
citizenss and tellaheen,—Mussulinans in their furred pe-
lises and well-folded turbans, down to the filthy old Polish
Jew in the last stage of wilful hydrophobia.
After acknowledging the presentation of arms at the Beth-
lehem-gate, the party moved on towards the house of Mr.
Nicolayson, and just as the new comers turned their heads
to admire the Titan-like masonry of the tower of Hippicus,
which dates from the days of Herod the Tetrarch, the guns
thundered forth the salute for the eve of the Courban
Bairam. 'Thus, by an odd chance, the Protestant bishop
made his public entry into one of the four holy cities of
Islam (the others are Mecca, Medina, and Damascus,) on
the occasion of one of the greatest festivals of the Mahome-
dan religion. Colonel Rose descended at the Spanish con-
vent of Terra Santa. Dr. Alexander took up his quarters
temporarily with Mr. Nicolayson, his own residence, which
is upon the Pool of Hezekiah, being as yet unfurnished.
On the 22d Colonel Rose, Dr. Alexander, and a large
party, inspected the intended site of the new church. It will
be built upon the most elevated part of the city ; the body of
the church will be Gothic, and the towers in the style of
Mosque minarets, which accords admirably both with the
church itself and with the other public edifices of the city,
for Gothic and Saracenic are the twin daughters of the By-
zantine style. The bishop's residence will be Elizabethan.
The stone necessary for the edifices will be procured from the
Mount of Olives. •

In the afternoon of the same day Colonel Rose presented
Dr. Alexander to Tahir Pasha, who, as I have understood,
received him with great politeness. Of course, it would be
an illusion to suppose that this reception proceeded from any
sympathy with the objects of the mission on the part of the
Turkish authorities.

On the 23d the bishop preached his introductory sermon,
choosing for his text Isaiah, chapter 65, and verse 15 :
" Whereas thou (alluding to Jerusalem and the Jews) has
been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee,
I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many gene-

rations." The tendency of-the right rev. prelate's di'sc-Ourse
was to show that, although Jerusalem had endured, and
might still endure, much suffering in the fulfilment of in-
spired prophecy, nevertheless brighter days were at hand.
In conclusion, we sincerely and heartily wish the fullest
success to attend the worthy individuals who compose this
mission. It cannot be disguised that these individuals have
a severe ordeal of groundless calumny, intrigue, jealousy,
and opposition to go through. Even a few days before their
arrival the Greeks and Roman Catholics had been circulating
cock and bull stories about the decline of English influence ;
they were, however, silenced on perceiving that when Col.
Rose paid his state visit to the pasha on the Eith he was re-
ceived with honours paid only to persons of the highest rank,
a guard of 100 grenadiers having presented arms when he
left the palace.
_ _ _

The mission is sure of the firm support of the British go-
vernment and the British ambassador at the Porte. As re-
gards Syria, the consul-general has lent all the force of his
official authority, personal influence, and popularity, to set
the undertaking afloat, while the mild and benevolent cha-
racter of the bishop, and the sound practical sense and valu-
able local experience of his coadjutor, Mr. Nicolayson, are
sure guarantees that caution, charity, and reconciliation,
preside at all their effofforts.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—The eleventh
half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Blackwall rail-
Way was held on Monday last. The number of passengers
carried during the last half-year was 1,186,351, and the
money received 1:22,509 lls. Ild., exhibiting an increase of
about 40 per cent., whether compared with the receipts of
the previous half-year or the corresponding months of the
previous year. A dividend of 10s. per share was declared.
The voyage of the intermediate India steamer, the first
under the new arrangement, from Calcutta to Suez, with its
results, is well deserving of notice. It appears that the tiete
occupied was exactly a month, stopping at Madras, Ceylon,
Aden, and Suez ; that the whole distance is about 4,9U0
miles. and that the rate of going averaged 190 miles a day.
Her stoppages on the route caused a loss of six days. I:he

letters brought by this vessel have been delivered in London
in 48 days trotn Calcutta, which it seems was the exact time
consumed in the instance of the November mail from Eng-
land to Calcutta in the delivery of the first portion of the
government express, the general delivery of course being
some days later; and hence it is inferred by those interested.
in it that the " comprehensive scheme," when fully ma-
tured, will beat the route by way of Bombay. Whether or
not this may prove to be the case, the experiment is justly a
matter of great interest.

A SIGNIFICANT RETORT.—A young lady, one night at a
party, was much annoyed by the impertinent remarks of a
coxcomb who sat near her. At length, becoming tired and
vexed, she turned towards him with an angry countenance,
and said, " Be pleased, sir, to cease your impudence." The
hoggish fellow was astonished at so sudden a rebuke, and
could only reply, " Pray, Miss, do not eat me." " Be in no
fear," she replied, " I am a Jewess."

EXECUTIONS.—A return has been moved for by Mr
'Swart of the total number of persons executed (for all crimes)
in London and Middlesex during periods of three years, to-
gether with the number of persons committed for murder in
the same period respectively, Sze. From this return it ap-
pears that the total number of persons executed (for all crimes)
in London and Middlesex, during the three years ending De-
cember, 1821, amounted to 98 ; during the three years, ending
December, 1824, to 51 ; during the three years ending De-
cember, 1827, to 53 ; during the three years ending December
1830, to 52 ; during the three years ending Decemer, 1833,
to 12 ; during the three years ending December, 183 G, nil ;
and during the three years ending December, 1839, to 3.
No conviction for murder took place during the three years
ending December, 1836. The total number of. persons com-
mitted for murder during the above period (viz, from De-
cember, 1818, to December, 1839,) amounted to 215.
MARRIAGE A LOTTERY.—Our readers are acquainted with
the singular freak of the young man who made a lottery of
himself. The following has been the denouement of this
ingenious speculation, for the truth of which a provincial
journal refers us to the civil registry of Lyons. The drawing
took place in the fairest manner possible, in presence of
,a,
notary and of several witnesses. Mdlle. Euphrasie li..
Al
young lady of fortune at Lyons, won the young n 811,•ed
singular incident occurred after the drawing had been cl it' .
fortune,e.
The young lady was still unaware of her own good
of most
when one morning a lady waited upon her in a sttge„ um,. ?,,
painful excitement. " Save my life, Mademoiselle; "
I had quite
" Cede your ticket to me." " What ticketroi,
ticket—the ticket for the young man." I love,—l
forgotten it." " Then know, Mademoiselle, that
much
g as as nay
adore him. I had taken thirty tickets; .
it
tkwets are all blanks.
means would allow of my doing.
Myti or you will cause
Yours is the only prize. Cede it to me,n3
a oiselle Euphrasie,
The lottery
my death." " Madame," replied iv4+
should not please the young
man should not please me, or if I_
11 there is a written clause on the
00 francs, and not to notrry
man, we are to divide the 200,0 .
ns for you; as for my ticke'
tickets, that if the young
one another. This chance remains
they were mutual'.
presented himself to Dui)! r,
I shall keep it." An hour
4 binning tbe Conjugal not.
tied, and lost no time in aattsie'w;ards the prize young
obtain the transfer of LupLrasit,
of Carcassonne, and is said to have de-
stroyedticket was a widowwTe
The young couple united by lottery are
herself.ymoon at Narbonne. Cons/ itutionnel.
who had been so anxious to
spending their
MAN.—Therenot •
giEn/CAL ' is " any career
Lire OF A ,
requires a greater activity
wears away the powers of life, because there
which so rapidly
other,.,has to bear the changes of weather continued
which of mind and
is no
body. ";„er,e,flarity in his meals, and broken rest ; to live.
miasma. and contagion. If in the country,
hfna:tihghaeusei;atoi.vitsrt:voefrse considerable distances on horseback, ex-
posed to wind7.andhstorm, to brave all dangers, to go to the
established
by the
humanity, A y fearful truth of medical ;yen
table of mortality of Dr. Casper,
published in his British Reriew. Of 1000 members of the
of
euletbri
medical profession, 600 die before their sixty-second year ;
hrealsiebfe f s
whilst of persons leading a quiet life, such as agricultui i,ts
or theologians, the mortalityis 347. If we take 1"O
only
individuals of each of the classes--43 theologians, 40agri-
culturists, 85 clerks, andB2 soldiers will reacts their seven-
tieth year : of 100 professors of the healing art, 24 only will
reach that age. Tithe • -of health • they can
They are signposts , -
show the road to old age, but rarely tread it themselves.—
Montreal Courier.

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