The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

Ma be soree
,onsolation for those persons who are to be assessed under
schedule D, that they are not obliged to submit themselves
to local commissioners, as, under the 31st section of the act,
they can deliver their returns sealed, directed to the special
commissioners (which cannot be opened either by the general
or assistant commissioners), and upon the amount being de-
termined by them they can give a certificate to the appellant
so that he may pay his assessment quarterly, under some
letter or number, without his name even being mentioned.
CAST-IRON BUlLDlNGS.—Buildings of cast-iron are daily
increasing at a prodigious rate in England, and it appears
that houses are about to be constructed of this material. As
the walls will be hollow, it will be easy to warm the buildings
by a single stove placed in the kitchen. A three-story house
containing ten or twelve rooms, will not cost more than
£l,OOO, regard being had to the manner in which it may be
ornamented. Houses of this description may be taken to
pieces, and transported from one place to another, at an ex-
pense of not more than £25. It is said that a large number
of cast-iron houses are about to be manufactured in Belgium
and England, for the citizens of Hamburg, whose habitations
have been burnt.—Mining Journal.
MELANCHOLY EVENT.—On Thursday week several vessels
sailed from Maryport with coals for Ireland, and amongst
the rest, a fine brig belonging to Bangor, called the Sophia.
In the course of the day it came on to blow a gale of wind,
with a heavy sea and very coarse weather, when the Sophia
sprung a leak, and suddenly went down, with all hands on
board, viz.—Captain M`Kee, a remarkably fine young man,
the mate Ferguson, and three young sailors, two of them the
sons of widows. The master was unmarried, but the mate
Ferguson has left a wife and family. A Carrickfergus vessel
was within a quarter of a mile of the Sophia when she sunk,
but did not see any of the unfortunate crew, nor a single
spar arise from the wreck.—Belfast Chronicle.

By the Great Liverpool, from Alexandria, we have re-
ceived private letters from China, which mention the return
of Sir Henry Pottinger to Hong-Kong, from Macao, and
his intention to join the expedition in the north in 10 days,
and proceed with it to Pekin. The general opinion at Macao
and Hong-Kong was, that the plenipotentiary was resolved
to take all responsibility on himself, and direct the most de-
cisive measures to be adopted to bring the war to a close, by
a simultaneous attack on lekin by the land and sea forces.
The plenipotentiary's well-known firmness of purpose, and
his tact in keeping the naval and military authorities in
good humour, promise the most happy results; and we may
soon expect to hear of the British flag being planted in
Pekin, and the Emperor of China having acceded to the
reasonable terms our arms have been sent to enforce. We
have good reason for stating that two or three of the most
important positions for trade will be retained, and that a
large naval and military force will be permanently stationed
in China, for the future security of British commerce.—
Naval and Military Gazette.
Tax LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—In addition to the de-
tails which we have already given of the deeply deplored
accident which has deprived France of the heir to her throne,
and the Royal family of its most distinguished member, we
have gathered the following :—The Prince Royal left the
Tuilleries in the carriage we have described, but it is not
true, as has been reported. that the horses were frightened
by the falling down upon them of a front boot, as the car-
riage had no boot or seat on the fore wheels. Every part of
the carriage was in perfect order, having been carefully ex-
amined in the morning, a duty uniformly performed pre-
viously to any of the Royal carriages being used by the
family. The horses were not frightened by anything, nor
did they suddenly run away. The accident arose in the fol-
lowing manner :—The Duke of Orleans, in returning from
Paris, was accustomed to take the avenue leading from the
Porte Maillot to his residence of Villiers, and from thence
obtained entrance to the park of Neuilly by the gate which is
opposite to this avenue. But on Wednesday his Royal
Highness wished to go by the road which crossed Sablonville
obliquely to the old Neuilly road, and then enter the park by
the grand gate. Having been driven very fast, the horses,
on reaching the Porte Maillot, became excited, and in spite
of all the exertions of the postillion, took the road to which
they were habituated, instead of the diagonal road the Prince
intended to go. Finding themselves approaching their
stables, the animals became still more eager, and the horse
the boy rode kicked out several times, and struck the cross-
bar, which, from the nature of the carriage, came rather
close to his haunches. Then it was that the Duke stood up,
and fancying that the postillion had lost all command of his
horses, called to him. The boy replied that he still held
them, and in fact the hand-horse was perfectly temperate,
the lad firm in his seat and pulling at the bridle. Not suc-
ceeding in getting them into a trot, the Prince, who was ex-
tremely expert in gymnastic exercises, attempted to do what
he had frequently practised before while his carriage was
moving, but probably not with the same velocity. He put
one foot on the step, and then sprang to the ground. The
fatal consequences are too well known. They are sadly
aggravated by the fact, that had his Royal Highness forborne
but a few minutes longer, he would have been spared to his
family and country. It is presumed that the Prince saw that
if the horses continued to be unmanageable, the carriage must
be overturned with great violence over some heaps of stones
which were laid on the side of the road for the purpose of
repairing it.—Galignani's Messenger.

WHY is FRUIT SO CHEAP ?—lt is a fact not generally
known, that at the commencement of the fruit season 2,000
baskets of cherries were imported from France into this
country, each basket weighing Gib. The consequence was,
that the English growers were under the necessity of sub-
mitting at the outset of the cherry season to a very low price
for this article. The effect, however, of this early importa-
tion was principally felt in the south of England, where the
supply of home-grown cherries has proved unexpectedly
abundant, and of this abundance the people of Yorkshire
are now largely partaking. A fortnight ago 420 baskets of
cherries, each 481 b. weight, arrived at the Leeds market,
per railway, from Kent. This arrival reduced the price at
Leeds Id. per lb., but its effect upon the wholesale dealers
was somewhat serious, it being their custom to purchase
from the growers in this neighbourhood, whose practice it is
to arrive at the market very early, and dispose of their fruit
to the dealers before the regular market business begins.
This large importation of cherries from Kent being unknown
to them until after their usual purchases had been made, they
of necessity had to submit to a considerable reduction on
what would otherwise have been the market price. We
understand that the low price of cherries in this neighbour-
hood is not so much owing to importation from abroad as to
the abundance of this article in the south—an abundance
which has for many years existed, but which, prior to the
opening of the railways, could not be participated in by the
Yorkshire people, in consequence of the serious injury which
the fruit sustained in the unsteady mode of transport by stage
coach, or the protracted journey of the carrier's waggon, or
the fly-boat and steam-vessel. In Bent, cherries are said to
be so plentiful now, that had there not been a ready outlet
to this and the neighbouring districts by railway, the greater
part of them must have been thrown away. Large imports
of red currants from France have already arrived in the
metropolis and many of the provincial towns, and they are
generally preferred to the home-grown fruit. Apples and
pears also are now being brought in from Hamburgh and
Rotterdam, and abundant supplies are expected during the
season. Indeed, so extensive has the foreign fruit trade
become, that we have heard that several persons in this
neighbourhood are about to take up their residence in France
and Hamburgh during the summer, for the express purpose
of purchasing fruit to forward to England.—Leeds Mercury.

SUN'S IN AID OF PUBLIC WORKS IN ENGLAND AND
SCOTLAND, SINCE 1800.—By a parliamentary return Just
printed, we find that, since the year 1800, the following sums
have been voted or applied, by loan or grant, in aid of public
works in England and Scotland respectively, since the year
1801, omitting fractional parts of pounds :
Communications with Ireland
Canals (the Caledonian, and the Crinan)
Harbours, docks, lighthouses, &c.
Roads. bridges, and ferries 1,203,249
Fisheries (bounties, £51,000)....
Improvements of cities and towns
Churches (in Scotland, £67,945) •.
Colleges (Edinburgh, £137,250)
Prisons, and other places of confinement
Relief of p00r........

9,329,255
Advances by commissioners for issuing exchequer
bills for public works and employment of poor . 6,332,150

Total
With respect to the largest sum in the above account, that
for harbours, docks. &c. it includes £92,497 advances to the
West India (London) and the Liverpool docks, since repaid.
As to roads, bridges, and ferries, with the exception of
£623,000 for London bridges, it is nearly all for roads in
Scotland. Under the head " Improvements in cities and
towns," no other city or town has received any thing except
the metropolis ; the improvements in Westminster amount-
ing to £333,634 ; and those in Regent-street, the Strand, &c.
to £909,323. Under the head " Churches," we find that
churches in Westminster have derived the benefit of £52,768 ;
the exchequer bills issued by the commissioners for building
churches have amounted to £1,500,000 ; in addition to this,
the expenses of the commission for building churches have
been £83,397 ; and £67,945 for churches in Scotland includes
an item of £5,000 for the hall for the general assembly,
Edinburgh. As to colleges, £27,500 has been applied for
the College of Surgeons, London ; £5,000 for the College of
Surgeons, Edinburgh ; and £132,250 for the college at Edin•.
burgh. As to prisons, £126,201 (including £62,477 for the
model prison) is the amount voted or applied to the building
and repair of prisons in the metropolis ; £492.933 to the
Penitentiary at Millbank ; £94,619 to Bethlehem Hospital
(for criminal lunatics, &c.) ; and £67,7-13 to prisons in other
parts of the kingdom,—viz. Sheerness, Edinburgh, Isle of
Man, Dartmoor, Isle of Wight, and Perth. The amount
set down for poor relief is composed of the following items :
In 1801, Bethnal Green, £24,226; 1805, Orkney and Shet-
land, £11,715; 1826, the manufacturing districts (from canal
revenues), £13,866; and 1837, Scotland, £6,719.

STATE OF TRADE.—We are happy to be enabled to state,
that the improvement which manifested itself last week has
continued down to the present time ; and that a more healthy
feeling prevails in the market than at any period for some
time past. The large sales of produce made under the
operation of the new tariff have liberated a considerable
amount of capital which had been for some time locked up,
thereby placing additional means at the disposal of the more
active and enterprising merchants of the country; and, as a
general impression prevails that the prices of cotton manu-
factures are now at their lowest point, the inclination to make
purchases for foreign markets has become more general.
Since Tuesday last a very considerable amount of business
has been done in shirtings, domestics, and other goods suit-
able for shipping, and also as in yarn, especially in the num-
bers and qualities adapted to the Russian market. In print-
ing cloth no improvement has yet been manifested; but we
understand that some considerable orders for prints have
been received from the West Indies, Canada, and the United
States ; so that it is to be hoped that that description of
cloth, which is now much depressed, will, ere long, partici-
pate in the general increase of demand. It is necessary to
observe, however, that, hitherto, even in the fabrics that are
selling the most freely, little or no improvement of price has
yet been realized. In some descriptions of shirtings, an
advance of Id. to 3d. per piece was demanded on Tuesday by
the principal manufacturers ; but it was not generally, if at
all, acceded to by the purchasers ; and the amount of busi-
ness done was to some extent limited by the demand. In-
deed, it is not very probable that any substantial improve-
ment in prices can take place, until, by the result of a good
harvest, or by a change of the corn-laws, the great bulk of
the working classes of this country, whose entire earnings
are now absorbed in the purchase of food, shall be enabled
to procure those supplies of clothing of which they stand so
much in need,
In order to show the operation of this cause
upon the market, we may observe, that the exports of yarn
from 11u11 during s
the -
first six months of the present year
show an enormous increase upon those of the same period in
1841. The quaute ... i.n..... year are the 7294
following:—
Hamburg.
St. Rotterdam
peAmsterdamter.
ru.gi
.. i... . .
.....•.•. •. •. .... bales 14,465 11,787
............. 6,045
4,798
Gottenburg ........... 9,517 4,644
......
Other ports .., ..... 307
.... ..
. . _
....... 2,567
. _

Total ba1e5......... -----
"1'i31213 Ine;•eits2e3O6f3nlearly
rate, it would
the home trade
This statement, it will be seen,
great
50 per cent. during the present year; a
of this country had continued in a healsiuhpyr
have been difficult, if not impossible, to
that has been exported. Owing, however, t(1)3 supply the quantity
diminution in the demand for manufactured goods, many
the spinners, whop reviously supplied the home demand,in"of
have been seeking their yarn for foreign markets, untilths
also have been to some extent glutted.—Manchester GuL-
dian, liberal paper.

rHE AtTRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

MISS GRANT'S BENEFIT,

AND LAST APPEARANCE.
MISS GRANT, of the Theatre-Royal, Ctivent-garden,
begs leave most respectfully to announce to her Friends
and Patrons in Liverpool, and the Public.iin general, that
her BENEFIT and LAST APPEARANCE this Season
will take place on WEDNESDAY next; the 27th instant;
and in soliciting a renewal of tha4' kind support and
patronage which they so liberally extended to her during
the Three Seasons she had the honotii• of being a Member
of the Liverpool Company, returns them her grateful thanks
for that encouragement with which they have ever greeted
her humble efforts.

The Performances will commence with Barnet's celebrated
Grand Romantic Opera of
THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH,
With all the Original Music, as performed Two Hundred
successive Nights in London, with entirely new Machinery,
Scenery, and Decorations, for this occasion.
Eolia.. (the Mountain Sylph) .. Miss Grant,
As performed by her with distinguished success at the
Theatre-Royal, English Opera House, London.
To be followed by the favourite Melo-Drama of
THE SERJEANT'S WIFE.
Lisette Mrs. R. Honner.
A FAVOURITE DANCE BY MONSIEUR & MADAME SCHMIDT.
To conclude with the Musical Burletta of
THE BEULAH SPA.
Caroline Grantley .. (in assumed Characters) .. Miss Grant,
Being her first appearance in that part ; in which she will
introduce, by particular desire, the celebrated Scotch Ballad,
" Sound the Pibroch ;" and, in the disguise of a Minstrel,
" By the Margin of Fair Zurich's Waters."
Magnus Templeton.. Mr. W. J. Hammond.

Tickets to be had of Miss GRANT, No. 1, ord Nelson-
street, opposite the Church for the Blind at the Music
Shops and principal Hotels, and at the x-office, where
Places may be taken.

41 ZOOLOGICAL GAR NS.
THIS popular and pre-eminently att ctive Resort is open
Daily, from Seven A.M. till Dus The

GRAND EVENING efES
take place every Monday and Frida uring the Season, with
THE ROMAN STA.
At Dusk
THE GRAND ILLUMINATION OF ST. PETER'S.
This inconceivably magnificent Spectacle is succeeded by the

. ,
Pyrotechnic Wonders of the
GIRANDOLA. OF ST. ANGELO,
with all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous
Cascade of brilliant Fire, and tremendous Flight of Rockets.
To enliven the Evening's Promenade,
MR. STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND
will perform a favourite selection of Music.
The Gardens are Illuminated with Gas Lamps.

Ely. Überpoci &tanbarD.

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1842.

The late calamitous event which has occurred to the
heir of the French monarchy has excited the fears of
every friend to the peace of France and of Europe.
After all the revolutionary movements; after all the
blood which she has shed in torrents—on the scaffold
and in the field; after all the millions of treasure which
she has lavished, and the giant energies which she has
put forth for the attainment of the countless visions
which have dazzled her frivolous and restless popula-
tion; France is still a working volcano of passion and
power, which the impulse of a moment, or the accident
of an hour, may let forth to devastate the world, and
to achieve the ruin of herself, one of the finest empires.
The revolution of July has done little for the quiet-
ing of her unruly spirit. Nay, it has done worse than
nothing. It has dazzled the turbulent amongst her
population with expectations, and then mocked at and
falsified them. That revolution aimed at a republic ;
it achieved only—a monarchy surrounded by republican
institutions ! It aimed at the universal supremacy of
the French nation in Europe and throughout the world.
It achieved only—Louis Philippe ! And at this mo-
ment the nation burns under the consciousness of its
own discomfiture, and is only kept down in a state of
uneasy, threatening calm, by the unrivalled policy,
wisdom, duplicity, or what you will, of one man, the
founder, the first, if not the last, of the dynasty of
Orleans.

The position of that man, and of the people whom
he rules, is so well described by a writer in the Foreign
Review for this month, that, at a time like the present,
when so many anxious eyes are directed to France and
her prospects, we cannot resist here quoting the ob-
servations of that writer :

" Suppose a man placed in a situation of daily perplexity ;
having to consult not one interest, but half a dozen ; finding,
before each point that he would arrive at, a thousand ob-
stacles that he does not know of; and being compelled to
advance or retreat, to wind or to double, according to the
opposition which he meets with, and of which no single
party can hold count. We cry out perfidy because the man
gives his word and breaks it; because he does not go straight
to his point but obliquely ; because he uses friends as tools
merely, and seems when he has done with them to throw
them away.

" Such a man has Louis Phiiippe been. Of the three
parties in the country, two he must have displeased : he has
ended by discontenting all. Not one single soul out of his
thirty-five millions of subjects (subjects is not the word, we
forgot what substitute the July revolution found for it)
trusts him or loves him. He moves among all parties quite
solitary. Ministers and generals come and have their audi-
ence, and cringe, and smile, and disappear. The king has
vast shrewdness and memory. He knows how many cabi-
nets Monsieur Mol6 has formed part of: how many oaths
Monsieur Pasquier has taken : in what a variety of port-
folios Monsieur Guizot has locked up his papers—this, with
a fine imperial eagle upon it, that with a shield bearing three
gold lilies, the last with the cognizance of the Marie that
was to be a truth after 1830 :—he knows that Monsieur
Thiers, after his protestations of love and loyalty, will ex-
ert himself to the very utmost to destroy the foundations of
his monarchy, and that his aim, and the aim of his party, is
a republic : Couriers Francais and Siecles, Chambolles,
Barrots, and their like, he knows that their loyalty is a mere
fiction, and could they catch him tripping, or off his guard,
that the Orleans family must go as their august cousins have
gone before them. He cannot tell the truth, but two parties
in the country are ready to swear that he is perjured : he
cannot give fifty pounds in charity, but Carlists and repub-
licans sneer at him for not giving more : he cannot go
abroad, but republicans are ready behind every tree to mur-
der him ; or stay at home, but men cry out, " Look at the
tyrant lurking in his palace, and trembling before an of-
fended people !" The friends who raised him to the throne
have disclaimed him, and cursed the day on which they ever
trusted him. And every night when he goes to bed, his wife
thanks God for having preserved him yet one day longer,
and trembles for the next and what it may bring."

It is now vain to speculate whether, in the person of
the unfortunate Duke of Orleans, France would have
found a monarch suited for the emergency upon which
he would have been thrown, upon the death of this
master politician ; whether he could have won her fickle
spirits to the contemplation of a state of calm and
rational liberty, or curbed their uneasy longings for
blood and conquest. But that a regency will fail in
doing this we are as confident as that we now exist.
A dark prospect lours upon unhappy France ; and the
only hope that we dare indulge in respecting it—and
Lord Palmerston's meddling hand has left that a slen-
der one—is, that England may not lie drawn into its
vortex of ruin.

That appalling distress exists through the country,
and amongst the manufacturing districts especially, is
too certain. It needed not the evidence of the sages
of the late Clayton-square gathering to assure us of
that fact. The hideous form of Poverty stalks over
the land. Pale, hungry faces gaze upon us from be-
neath many a roof-tree which, but as yesterday, rung
with happy laughter or with wild riot. Gaunt forms
start up on every side—their rags fluttering in the
wind, and frenzy or despair shining out from their
blood-shot eyes—which, but as yesterday, walked
stalwart and erect in health and comfort. A blight,
deadly as the hot breath of the simoom, has fallen upon
the industry of England ; and the shopkeeper, the
merchant, the shipowner, and even the millionaire who
saolnatelyraerds, reelinvelledand sickenprospect of his
busy marts
the fast accumu-
lating
ofu-
itig ho
in the
commerce or in their suburban palaces, beneath the
same shock which has spread desolation and want
around the humble hearths of the industrious poor.
That all this, and more, is true, we know ; and the
causes which have produced it and the proper remedies
to be applied for its removal are what we desire ear-
nestly to arrive at. But is this important object to be
attained amidst brawling public meetings or even
amidst the struggles of contending debaters in parlia-
ment ? Is the cool and patient deliberation, which
such a subject eminently requires, to be found in the
frothy declamation of platform orators ? Is it to be
found in the pot-walloping auditories who meet to
shout, and, if need be, to riot at such gatherings—in
mobs of lumpers and hodmen, tinkers and sweeps ?
Are questions which the wise approach not, save with
doubt and fear, to be solved by men who would be
puzzled to put together a milkman's score, or even by
men, cunning in arithmetic, deep in tare and tret, and
learned in the ledger, yet ignorant as the spectacles
upon their own noses or the four-acid-ninepenny hats
which cover their cranial developements of everything
which lies deeper beneath the surface of ordinary ken
damised
than the stones beneath the dust of a maca