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

NEW MUSIC.

"Oh Day of Terror." Hicne and Son, Church-street

Rossini's celebrated duet of Giorno d' Orrore" has just
made its appearance with English words. All those who
wish to acquire this composition will do well to add Messrs.
1-lime's version to their collection. The words are well
written, and suitable to the music.

The Seaman's .Daughter. Words by Mrs. C. Baron Wilson
Music by J. Vinnin;. Hime and Son, Liverpool.

This is a very feeling monody on the death of poor Grace
Darling. The air—composed by Mr. Vinning, the father of

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words are as folio

When round her ocean-dwelling
Burst the rude tempest's blast ;
When waves, to mountains swelling,
Closed o'er the sinking mast ;
Forth came the SEAMAN'S DAUGHTER,
Like mercy, o'er the wave,
When misery's voice besought her
To succour and to save !

The laurel for the warrior's brow
Fame's glorious fingers twine,
But brighter was the chaplet's glow,
Heroic maid! on thine :
And ever to thy deathless name
Shall hallowed mem'ries
More precious than the wreath of fame—
Pure, bright, unperishing !

Thy firm but woman's spirit shrank
From the homage of the crowd,
While pale decay thy life's spring drank,
And death thy beauty bowed.
Ah ! sadly round thy ocean-home
Now mourns the murm' ring wave,
And, lulled to rest its angry foam,
Makes music o'er thy grave.

MISCELLANEOUS

Mr. Davis has been elected coroner for the county Dublin.
Lord O'Neil is confidently spoken of as the representative
peer likely to succeed Lord Gort.

The subscription for the widow and family of the late Dr
Maginn has reached £l,OOO.

The Viceroy of Egypt has abolished the tax upon slaves ;
and this is considered as a happy prelude to their liberation.
The schooner Arthur and Rachel, of Belfast, was wrecked
off Portpatrick, on Tuesday last. The crew escaped, but the
vessel is a total wreck.
WORTLEY HALL.—We are informed that it is the inten-
tion of the Right Hon. Lord Wharncliffe, at the next half-
yearly rent-day, to reduce his rents 10 per cent.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Tradesmen's and
Operative Protestant Association will take place on the 29th
instant.

Two men were so severely injured by the fall of some
buildings at Hunt's Bank, Manchester, on Monday, that
one of them died on Thursday.
The Dublin Evening Post says, that the latter end of July
next is the period fixed for the Queen's visit to Ireland,
should circumstances not arise to frustrate her intention.
We have every reason to believe that the South-Eastern
Railway will be opened for passenger traffic as far as Ashford,
within 24 miles of Dover, on the Ist of December next.
There is an on dit very current in the East India House,
that the high and important office of Governor-General of
India is likely before long to become vacant.—Observer.
It is stated that Mr. Hudson, of New York, has proposed
a rent of 44 per cent. to lease the North Midland to the York
and North Midland Railway Company.
We are happy in being able to state, that the breadth of
wheat now sown in this country, is generally believed to be
greater than in any former year.
Amongst the Oriental curiosities displayed at the last
meeting of the Asiatic Society, was an autograph letter, on
yellow paper, from the Emperor of China to Governor Lin.
The German Diet have come to a resolution to purchase
the house and the several collections of Goethe, at Weimar,
and to preserve the whole as a German national monument.
Mr. and Mrs. Butler (formerly Miss Fanny Kemble) em-
bark for the United States, at the end of the month, for
their estate near Philadelphia.
The Wilberforce steam-vessel, another of the Niger ex-
pedition squadron, arrived at Devonport on Thursday from
the coast of Africa.

The Observer says that an agent has been employed by
Government to collect violent passages in the speeches
against the Corn-laws, for the purpose of ulterior proceed-
ings.

There is a report that M. Thiers is to return to office ; not,
however, to forward any new warlike project, but to help in
carrying an appanage for the Duke of Nemours through the
Chambers.

On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Mr. Loftus was unanimously appointed
the Company's Standing Counsel in the room of the late Mr.
Sergeant Spankie.
We have reason to believe, that there is not any truth in
the statement of the New York Herald, that the British
and North American royal mail steamers are about to make
New York, and not Boston, their port in the United States.
It is stated that arrangements are in progress by the Com-
missioners of the River Wear, for making the greatest por-
tion of Sunderland harbour into a safe and commodious wet
dock, in which vessels can lie at all times afloat.
Instructions have been received at the Custom-house of
this port, to permit the export. duty free, of coal in our own
and foreign reciprocity vessels, to Malta, Gibraltar, and
Heligoland.—Newcastle Journal.
At Newton, near Guisborough, a man of the name of
Hudson, a soldier on a retired pension, attempted last week
to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Domestic disagree-
ment is stated to be the cause of the rash act.
The bank of Messrs. J. D. and T. Lydall, at Henley-on-
Thames, the only bank in the town, suspended payment on
Thursday. The assets are so considerable that the creditors
will sustain no ultimate loss.

The election of registrar for the West Riding of Yorkshire
takes place on Tuesday (this day), at Wakefield. The can-
didates are Arthur Lascelles, Esq. (son of the Earl of Hare-
wood), and T. B. Hodgson, Esq.
The valuable property of Mr. Nicholas Biddle (so well
known as President of the United States Bank), on the
borders of the river Delaware, called " Andalusia," is ad-
vertised for sale by the county sheriff. We have here the
end of Mr. Biddle's fictitious prosperity at last.

Webster, taking advantage of the differences which have
arisen between Macready and the Matthewses, has engaged
Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Matthews at the Haymar-
ket Theatre. They made their first appearance on Monday
week.

CAUTION TO KEEPERS OF Cows.—Two cows, the pro-
perty of Mr. Banton, of the Coppice-farm, Melbourne, died
the other day from having eaten voraciously of turnip-tops
which were frosted. The cows died in a few hours after they
had partaken of the injurious esculent.

A very fine stag, which had become so savage that he was
dangerous to foot passengers, was shot last week by order of
the Duke of Norfolk. His antlers were upwards of 3 feet
in length, and some of the spears 8 inches. A cast of the
noble animal's head has been taken in plaster of Paris.

It is stated that during the last four weeks there has been
more butcher's meat sold in Newcastle market, than at ;my
former period, for the same time, since the opening of the
market, seven years ago; owing, probably, to the reduction
in price it has undergone.

PRISON DISCIPLINE.—We understand that among other
alterations and improvements in prison regulations, recom-
mended by the inspectors of prisons, there will be one for
an increase in the dietary allowed to prisoners.—Berkshire
Chronicle.

The Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford, as ordinary, has
declined to grant a faculty for the appropriation of pews in
the Church of St. Nicholas (Hereford), and one of the
grounds of refusal is his unwillingness to perpetuate a pro-
perty in seats, which gives rise to trafficking, a practice
which has been long complained of.

EXTENSIVE MUNIFICENCE OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—
So numerous are the benefactions of this amiable lady, that
her treasurer is obliged to have a lithographed circular, with
a blank space for the amount, stating that her Majesty has
taken into consideration the application made to her, and had
directed the sum of to be forwarded.

GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER.—It is reported that a
commissioner, appointed by government, is at present in
town, with the design of getting information respecting the
effect which the new American tariff is likely to have on the
manufacturing interests of Glasgow and its neighbourhood.—
Glasgow Chronicle.

A new kind of railway is to be opened shortly near Dax,
in the department des Landes. It is one formed altogether
of wood, constructed over the sandy soil of that part of the
country, for the purpose of removing the timber of the im-
mense pine forests which exist between Bourdeaux and
Bayonne. The line is now nearly finished.—Sun,

FURNITURE.—AImost all furniture in constant use, parti-
cularly in a large town, is generally improved by washing
with vinegar and water, and afterwards applying cold-drawn
linseed oil, being well rubbed. Great care should be taken
not to let it remain long, and to hive it well rubbed after-
wards. It should again be rubbed a day or two after.
There are still living in the Canton de Vaud, says a Swiss
journal, five of the Swiss regiment which defended the Tu-
ileries on the 10th of August, 1792. :In 1819, all who survived
that sanguinary day, and returned to their own country,
were summoned by Lucerne to have their names inscribed in
a register.

LOST AND FOUND.—An English gentleman, travelling
through the county of Kilkenny, came to a ford, and hired a
boat to take him across. The water being rather more agi-
tated than was agreeable to him, he asked the boatman if any
person was ever lost in the passage. " Never," replied
Terence, " never. My brother was drowned here last week,
but we found him again the next day."

Hambridge, a pedestrian, started to walk fifty miles in
ten hours at Dorchester on Tuesday last. The weather was
very much against him, notwithstanding which he accom-
plished forty-five miles in eight hours and forty-five minutes,
and then gave in, evidently much distressed, it having rained
heavily almost incessantly during the whole time. He was
but indifferently rewarded.

CLEANING PAPER lIANGINGS.—The paper of a room
should be swept every four or five months by cloths bound
round the bristles of a broom ; but when much soiled, it may
be cleaned with bread. A stale half-quartern loaf pulled into
two, paring the rough part from the edges a little at a time
as it wears away, will answer for a small room, if well rubbed
over the paper in every part.
I`'TEW ROUTE OF THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The Cologne
Gazette states, on the authority of a letter dated Trieste,
Ist instant, that the negotiations between the British and
Austrian Governments, relative to the transmission of the
overland mail through Trieste, were being pursued with
much activity, and that it was expected the first arrival
would take place at that city in the month of January next.
OPENING OF A COPPER MINE IN RHODE ISLAND.—A
rich copper mine has been opened at Cumberland, R. I.
Within the last week fifteen tons of ore have been shipped for
Boston, from the mine, commenced this season, and worked
by four men only. The ore was sent to Liverpool, to be sold
at the monthly mart of ore at Swansea. There is not a single
smelting surface for copper in North America.

MANCHESTER ATE-LEN/ELT:U.—This splendid news-room
and library will be finally closed at Christmas next. The
pecuniary difficulties in which the proprietors find them-
selves involved (the arrears being £3000) have rendered this
resolve imperative. Thus, owing to the continued bad times,
in the short space of one month we have seen the Victoria
Gallery dispersed, the Zoological Gardens closed, and now
to the list is to be added the closing of the Athenmum.

CANAL FOR UNITING THE DANUBE AND THE MAINE.—
The Frankfort papers state, that a meeting lately held by the
shareholders of the society for the construction of this canal,
a, report of a satisfactory nature was presented relative to the
state of the works. All the masonry. embankments, and
sluices, are finished, and the works undertaken for the im-
provement of the Altmuhl, are so improved as to allow a
vessel tolerably laden to
pass' from Kelheim to Dietfurt.
There only remains, therefore, the operation of supplying the
canal with water, which cannot be undertaken until the
spring.

IMPOR . TATION OF FoaEIG
the official return of the -NC,vrrir.E.—lt appears from
importation9th instant
of foreign cattle under
piionsstiant, that 2,510 beasts, 698
the new tariff, up to the
cows, 820 sheep, and 900
,s
slay.c been imported from
Germany, Holland, France, and
amounted to £3,411. The importation appears The duty paid has
inferior quality of the stock,
offarimt iners and graziers in the
subsiding, in consequence of the infer°*a .to be greatly
aa and
remuneratingtli e difficulty
porfi
cdei.sp disposing English markets at
sboutasthtoe
breeding counties are greatly reducing their
prevent too great an importation from 'rlcabroades;
butchers stillikeep up their enormous charges, notwithstand-
ing this reduction.