The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-10 00:00:00

THE COURT

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked in the Little Park and Slopes this morning, and in
the afternoon drove out in a pony carriage, accompanied by
the Duchess of Kent and Count Mensdorf. to Virginia
Water, attended by the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Countess
of Dunmore, and the Duke of Buccleuch, and the rest of
the Royal suite on horseback.
Their Excellencies the Count and Countess de St. Aulaire,
the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Marquis of Normanby,
Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Portman, and
Sir Henry Wheatley, have taken their departure to-day.
Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Meinengen, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of
Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady
E. Leveson Gower, Earl of Dunmore, Lord George Lennox,
Lord and Lady Stanley, Marquis of Worcester, and Madame
de Kaas, have arrived to-day at the Castle, and will join the
Royal circle at dinner, which will be served this evening in
the Waterloo Gallery. Covers are laid for 70.
The Royal dinner party this evening is also expected to in-
clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lord Grim-
ston, Lady and the Hon. Miss Montagu, Ladies F. and
Georgiana Kerr, and Lord Mark and Lord Frederick Kerr,
the Earl of Errol, Right Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng,
Lord Paget, Lord George Paget, Mr. and Lady C. Duncan,
Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hope; Hon. Lavinia Lyttelton, Mr.
and Miss Pierrepoint, Hon. James Howard, and Sir George
Couper.
Her Majesty and Prhice Albert and their illustrious
visiters visited St. George's Chapel this morning before noon,
to view the edifice and hear the organ, at which Dr. G. J.
Elvey presided.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE ORANGEMEN

BIRMINGHAM, Monday.—The following is the reply of Sir
James Graham to an address which was forwarded to him for
presentation to her Majesty, by the members of the " Pro-
testant Confederation" of Birmingham :
" Whitehall, June 4, 1842.—Sir,—I am directed by Secre-
tary Sir J. Graham, to acknowledge the receipt of a written
paper, addressed to her Majesty, in the following terms :
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" 'Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most
loyal and dutiful subjects, the members of the Protestant
Confederation of Loyal Orangemen of Birmingham, and its
vicinity, beg leave most humbly to approach your Majesty's
throne, with the most heartfelt abhorrence of the treasonable
person
attempt which has been made upon your Majesty's life and

" ' And while we would on one hand adore that Divine Pro-
vidence which has thrice protected your Majesty from the
hand of an assassin, we would also implore the same Divine
Providence, that it may continue to watch over and protect
your Majesty from treasonable violence and Popish machin-
ation.

" Signed on behalf of the Confederation,
" W. FRENCH, Grand District Master,
6, Smallbrook.street.
" W. GREATWOOD, Worshipful Master,
" Prince of Wales's Lodge.'
And I am to inform you, that Sir James Graham is of
opinion, this is an address which he ought not to present to
her Majesty for acceptance.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
' S. M. PRILLIPPS,

"To Mr. W. French."

The emancipated negroes in the West Indies are, it is said,
rapidly becoming proprietors.

The whole taxation of France is £46,425,725, which, on a
population of 33,540,000, gives a rate of £1 7s per head.
HOSIERY TItADE.—We think the silk glove branch has
amended a shade ; but the hosiery trade, in almost every
branch, is in a truly lamentable state. If anything, the cut-
up is the best ; but then that branch is destroying all others.
It will scarcely be believed that plain silk hose are made cut-.
up.—Nottingham Journal.

POOR-RATES IN THE SOUTH.—In the once bustling town
of New Brentford, such is now the great depression of pro-
perty that the churchwardens and overseers have the greatest
possible difficulty in collecting the rates. So great is the
amount of arrears from the last poor-rates that the new over-
seers speak of being obliged to apply for a fresh rate of seven
shillings in the pound. The amount of pauperism is daily
increasing.—Evening paper.
A VETERAN PEDESTRIAN.—Mr. Edwards, aged 97, a
few days since left Ticehurst, in Sussex, at three o'clock in
the morning, to walk to Lewes, a distance of 25 miles.. He
has walked the same distance, once a year, for trany years
past, and expected to do it at two miles per hour, but on
reaching Lewes, he was three hours behind time, and ex-
pressed an opinion that it would be the last time of perform-
ing the journey on foot.

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A CHILD.-011 Monday last,
a child, between 11 and 12 years of age, who was employed
in a factory at Chorley, threw herself into the canal at Whit-
tle-le-woods, and, before she could be got out, was quite
dead. An inquest was held on the body of the girl on Wed-
nesday, when a verdict of " Temporary insanity " was re-
turned. There was no assignable cause for the act, excepting
that the child complained of being unkindly treated by her
parents ; who asserted that such was not the fact, and that
she had to attend a Sunday school without shoes.—Preston
CAraniele.

COMMERCIAL DIFFICULTIES AT CALCUTTA.—The severe
commercial distress and prostration of trade in Calcutta is
by the Englishman thus described :—" The condition of
Calcutta at the present moment, arising out of the commer-
cial failures, is perfectly deplorable. On every hand we hear
of severe financial pressure. The merchant pushes the trades-
man, the tradesman pushes his customers, the customer is
at his wits end—attorneys threaten actions, take out war-
rants, summonses, and writs ; the sheriff executes. Every-
body is trying to borrow, and nobody is inclined to lend_
The consequence of all this worry, if persevered in, will be
numerous bankruptcies, and immense distress.

IMMENSE STONE.--The largest stone which we believe
has ever been cut out from any of the fine freestone quarries
which abound in our vicinity, has been this week removed
from the Duke of Buccleuch's quarry a
block of thirty tons weight of liver rock, and is intended to
form the statue of Lord Nelson, about to be erected in Tra-
falgar-square, London. It was on Saturday removed from
the quarry to Granton-pier, to be shipped in a vessel sent
down specially by the Admiralty for the purpose of conveying
it to London. The labour of removing it from the quarry
was great in proportion to the ponderous mass, but under
the superintendence of skilful engineers was satisfactorily
accomplished. The cost of the block, with the expense of
placing it in Trafalgar-square, we have been told will exceed
I:3oo.—Caledonian Mercury.

Lt Granton

AWFUL CALAMITY WITH Loss OF LIFE AT ANDOVER.
—The town of Andover, Hants, was thrown iuto great dis-
may on Friday morning, by the falling in of the splendid new.
church, (a gift of that truly excellent divine, Dr. Goddart.).
and the loss of life which consequently followed. It occurred
a short time after five A.M., just as the men had set on to
work. One poor man lost his life, many received slight con-
tusions, &c., but will do well. It is thought there was a
slight settlement in one of the columns, in the centre of the
building, which led to the mischief. The entire of the north
side is destroyed, and likewise the transept. The fine east
end, with the stone-work, has stood firm. It is feared that
on a survey, the larger portion of the building must be taken
down. The loss, it is said, must fall on the builder, Mr,
Dashwood of lihyde.

At a religious meeting, a lady persevered in standing on a
bench, and thus interrupting the view of others, though re-
peatedly asked to sit down. A
reverend old gentleman at
last rose and gravely said, " I think if the lady knew she had
a large hole in each of her stockings, she would not exhibit
them in this way." This had the desired effect ; she imme-
diately sunk down on her seat. A young minister standing
by, blushed up to the temples, and said, " Oh! brother, how
could you say what was not the fact ?" " Not the fact ?"
replied the old gentleman, " if she had not a large hole in
each of her stockings, I should like to know how she got
them on?"

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Great progress is
making in the excavation of the Brentwood cutting, the most
formidable work on the line. They are working in confident
hopes of this work being completed and the rails laid by the
Ist of September. The present rate of removal is about
40,000 cubic yards a month from one contract—the western;
and it is calculated that there are about 70,000 of this con-
tract to excavate. In the other, or eastern contract, it is
computed that there are-About 100,000 yards to be removed,
which, at the same rate as the- western, would occupy until
the first or second week of August. This, however, must
depend in a great measure on the weather. The material of
the cutting upon the whole appears to be very good, and well
adapted for embankments. Sand and gravel are the princi-
pal features ; and some very excellent material for ballasting
will be got out of this cutting. The works beyond Brent-
wood are is so forward a state as to leave little doubt but the
line to Colchester will be opened for public use by the Ist of
October, the time proposed.

EXPERIMENTS AT DEAL.—The preparations for malting
experiments on an extensive scale, with large guns on
the coast betwixt Sandwich and Deal, are now nearly
completed, and the experiments will be commenced in the
course of the next or following week. Major Hardinge and
Captain Fyers, of the royal artillery, have proceeded to
Deal, the latter to join Major Macbean's company, by
whom the experiments will be carried on. Major Hardinge,
oaTrdheoc
as senior officer, will have charge of the whole, and from
lords com-
his great practical knowledge as an artillery officer will be
able to give correct report of the details, and how far they
may be likely to prove of an advantageous nature to the ;
ioraf i thisty a
ncdo utnhter yB.
Ordnarnncle
mlitaisrsvioannedrs
naovfalthseervAicedms
have acted with a spirit of liberality in this mattert
the heads of those important branches of her M worthy of
vice, and have spared no personal exertion • ajesty's ser-
fullest instructions for carrying the in addition ti the
experiments on in the
most effectual manner. The followin
mounted at the Royal Arsenal, Woolw? guns having been pre-
c, are been delivered
at Deal, aloft.' with 50 rounds of balls a d
One 68-pounder, weighing 112 cwt, on
ieptridges for each:-.--
ieut.-Col. Dandasru
principle, removed from the Geyser nt
range on land. One 56-pounder, weighings steam-frigate to try its
Monk's principle ; one 56-pounder, weig g97Bcswett; t,oditto t
one 42-pounder, weighing 80 cwt, ditto tionne 10-inch gun,
weighing 85 cwt, on General Millar's rinciple t roe 8-inch
I gun, weighing 65 cwt, ditto. Several pmagnificent gltlb°
very large calibre, capable of containing solid shot ofutike r
weight were recently cast at the foundry of Messrs loved at
and Co., for Mehemet Ali, Paella of Egypt, and lb o ./these
the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich. The founderso
of one of
guns having expressed a wish to have the
rang been corn-
them tried to its utmost extent their desire
hill of Messrs.
Wake with, and a suitable ship carriage,
811rd:that purpose.
's guns will he forwarded to Dealz° a splendid 32-
A 32-pounder gun, weighing 50 cwt., as of Lieut.=
pounder brass howitzer, constructed n 1`
on
also also be forwarded
Col. Dundass, inspector of artillery, vi •ng their qualities
at the same time, for the purpose of ha"
reported upon. TIPPERARY MEN.—A
LAUDABLE CONDUCT OF
Pliengarrest of two Rockites, for
correspondent informs us thato t
sunday last, between Parsons-
serving a threatening noticeb.:
three miles of the latter town,
town and Borrisokane, t!_
wi of Noss, was mainly effected by the
on the estate of the Earl,
VI Donnell, the well-known waiter of
intrepidity of George
former town, who, accompanied by a
Dooly's hotel in the
friend, was paying a visit to the farmer upon whom the
5 served at the time of the service. The
• g notice was served
otice was armed •
threatening e .
Rockite who served the
to fire, if any of the persons on the
which be threateu dare _
dto approach him. Upon doing
farmer's pretue 5
Isf:llow and his comrade ---.
his work the fellow
the field ; George _ jumped over a
M'Donnell and his
wall and rap_
h two others, followed in full
comrade, wit
up with the cry. One of the
pursuers being nearly notice server the fellow
..,, d the Pistol, which burnt r•
Pre—te hich struck the pursuer
and felled hi to the
ground. e
grOund• While down, the ruffian struck him
with the stone
to th moment of the head, and inflicted
a desperate wound. At
this George *Donnell
pursuit, struck the ruffian • , who was second in the
him down. By the
. united with a stone, and knocked
fel-
low was arrested and efforts of the party the dragged
They. however, detained him
back to the farm-house.
to, and returned fromned him while a messenger went
Captain , Borrisokane with a party of po-
lice. Duff drew the charge of the pistol, which
was composed of powder, wadding, and seven slugs. Had it
gone off one of the party wouid inevitably have been killed.
__, correspondent, a magistrate, justly observes, that a re-
ward to Mr. M Donnell and his friends might produce the
best possible effect,
by stimulating others to follow their
praiseworthy example. We hope the hint will not be disre-
garded.—Evening Packet.

—NVhence the smile or the sadness came
Vainly the world may deem
The cause of my sighs they know :
- ---e that ruffles the stream
Knows not the depth below.

The brei

LITERARY NOTICES.

fional Psalmist. By Charles Danvers Hackett.
London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
?leasure we notice the appearance of this noble
ational " undertaking, the first two numbers of
Nefore us. For years past it has grieved every
_.,,eur of our ancient psalmody to be compelled
-.,, in our various churches, to theranting, jigging me-
todies introduced as a portion of our sublime service, at the
fantastic pleasure of this or that particular organist ; to be
obliged to follow the flimsy and mawkish conventicle airs,
tricked out with every description of modern and distasteful

With sincere

i are now before t

adornment, which a fanciful performer might choose to se-
lect. And even worse than grievous it must have been—and
to us it has appeared almost sacrilegious—to hear, as we
have often been constrained to hear, the noblest melodies of
this or any other land—melodies which will endure when the
" brilliant " and flimsy productions of the present day are

forgotten things—strains which, in their purity are interwo-
-ith our earliest recollections—which are entwined with
nes and the memories of the great champions of our
ed faith, and which have rung through the silence of
a night in many a valley and on many a bill of Eng-
in the olden time, when to have breathed them was to
the penalty of persecution unto death :—worse than
ous it must have been to every lover of our pure and
church psalmody to hear such strains—as we have too
i heard them—strippea of their sublime simplicity—mar-
with foreign ornament—their majestic movements crippled
t‘e introduction of paltry and ridiculous interpolations,
•erted into tasteless travesties, or, at the best dis-
al memories of their original and touching solemnity and

Jy L
and cony

beauty

remedy for such a state of things, so far at least as the
publication of a collection of standard church music can ef-
fect it, we have presented to us in the work now under notice.
-' es of Mr. Hacketts "National Psalmist" we notice

id we doubt not that we shall continue to observe
k progresses, the restoration of many old favourites

to their original chaste simplicity, accompanied by numerous
original productions by the most eminent composers, in which
the style of our ancient psalmody is preserved. When com-
pleted, it will contain, within itself, such a body of music as
might with propriety and advantage be considered as the
standard melodies to be used in all our churches ; and no-
thing would please us better than to see them generally adopted
by the clergy of our own town, as those to be exclusively used
instead of the flimsy and distasteful compositions too com-
monly introduced in the present day. We have authorised
collections of hymns and psalms, and why not also authorised
music to accompany them ? Why not music which congre-
gations could understand and become accustomed to, instead
of a constant introduction of new compositions which no con-

gregation can follow or join in ?
The psalmody of our church service has become an essen-
tial portion of the service itself. Congregational singing is
becoming almost universal ; and yet when a churchman en-
ters any church other than his own, although he finds there
the same prayers, the same service throughout, yet in one
essential portion of that service, he is utterly bewildered.
lie has learnt to join in the psalmody of the particular
church to which he belongs, bad perhaps as it may be, and
's compelled either to omit what he feels as a necessary
s devotions, or if he make the attempt, it is
to mar the effect of the whole, and create that kind of
9m:zing accompaniment which we hear in many churches,
where the congregations seem to be singing half a score of
'werent tunes at once, instead of joining in one simple

portion of h

We make tl:

suggestions independently of any commen-
ts of Mr. Hackett's work, and entreat the attention of
ergy to the subject. So far, however, as that work has
we think it admirably calculated for the purpose of
ing out such a change, and most cordially recommend

it to Sur readers

Time is for ever on the wing ; we see him flying away with
7d-like speed, day by day, week by week, month by month ;
the first we are reminded by our cravings for dinner, the
econd by our washing bill, and the third by the magazines,
bowing to meet us with their varied and
As we dislike to show intentional pre-
ference, we will take the first that comes to band.

respectfull

musing contents

Fraser

A Leigh Huntish article, entitled, " A May noon in a par-
lour window," presents itself first to notice. Two subjects
are considered, " A mother's love," and " A sweet thought
for Saturday evening." The article is exquisitely written,
and will be read with intense pleasure. " Hoaxing histo-
ries, No. 2," entitled " A hoax in George the First's reign,"
we suspect to be a burlesque upon a popular work, recently
published, which has taken hold of the public mind : we al-
lude to "Miss Burney's Letters." If this be the case, the
style is capitally imitated. Some notices of the Shaksperean
drama, " Shakspere and his commentators," contains much
valuable matter. " Mated and checkmated," is an amusing

eastern sketch, illustrative of eastern manners

At a time

like the preient, when the new houses of parliament are
springing up into something like substantiality, the article
entitled " Doings in fresco" will be read with much atten-
tion. We call the attention of Liverpool artists to it espe-
cially, as well as otheriiinterested in the fine arts. The
establishment of the committee of inquiry will be productive
t good to the painters. Nimrod's " My life and
is resumed. Some of the anecdotes are very amus-

The chatty style of these papers is greatly in their
. Nimrod appears to be sitting at our table, telling us
ill these droll things. The Camden Society's publications
t reviewed. The fan of the number is contained in

favour

are nex

" Fitz Boodle's Confessions." The man that can read them
and abstain from laughter must have uncommonly stiff
rnnscles in his face. " Flowers and weeds from Olympus
and Parnassus" contain reviews of Montgomery's Luther
and Charles Swain's charming poem The Mind. The latter
is favourably reviewed ; and we may here remark, that ours
was one of the first notices that appeared of it ; and all other
reviewers " have followed on the same side." Mrs. Adams
dramatic poem of Vivia Perpetua is also kindly spoken of.
Several other works are brought upon the lapis; some patted
and smoothed over, others scratched and tomahawked. Dr.
Maginn has contributed, as a wind up, a learned and graceful
poem on the " Poniatowski gems."

What comes next

Blackwood

Begins with a highly descriptive, instructive, as well as en-
tertaining personal narrative of a journey from Herald to
Ourenbourg, on the Caspian, in 1810. The author is Captain
Sir Richard Shakespear. As a picture of Asiatic I;fe and
travelling, we doubt not it will be highly relished. The
Sketches in Italy are resumed. Venice is visited, and amus-
ingly .and graphically described. Science and Agriculture is
a
_

Ziew of works on these subjects. We next find some
C ever!assageil in the Career of El Empicinadb." This is
y l'
vritte
n, and details transactions in the Peninsula in
spirited st*.
The " Verdict of a French Jury" presents
us with a curiotts
Picture of the mode of administering justice
pers as any
Illiogs of the Day," as clever a series of pa-
"mg, touches the Tames Tunnel,
Madame D Arblay aain
d the Railway.on A tale,h entitled "An-
" from the drama of Victor Hugo, and a review of
Berkley s Theory of Vision," wind up he number—which
may be called a very good
one.
What next ?

in Franc,

What next

The Farmer,

411481corth
e last two months •we 1
We have not seen Ainsworth for • I
The Miser's Dan' gh-
cannot, therefore, tell how the taieth
Daugh-
ter" progresses. " The Russian Prince"
d' Costello
went of a well-told tale, in which cae'' is the commence-
The story
hoaxed by two "fellow students." Miss certain innkeeper is
contributes another legend of the' Monts-Do:els
is too sad to please us. "A Pastoral Wesbtyerlivisir.riiln
very rich. " The Murder Prevented," na" is
Brazenose, is a recital touching a squire who dreau,er, of
murder is about to be committed in his garden. It is3:l: a
in the style of the Ingoldsby Legends. " The Yeomatne:
Ball" is an amusing little anecdote connected with
The
figure.head of the Kilmun steamer. Michael Angelo Tit_
marsh has a letter to Monsieur Guilliaume Peiutre. It is
not written in Michael Angelo's usual felicitous style. Leman
Blanchard has an article, " On People who Havn't Time."
This is clever. The " Gossip about Edward Alleyne," the
actor, and founder of Dulwich College, contains some curious
particularsAnEvening
of him, as well as those associated with him.
~
.vening with Nell Gwynne" is well told.
What next ?

Punch.
Full of fun, squib, jest, burlesque, caricature, absurdity.
The monthly part (XI) for thirteen pence, is the cbeapest
lot of matter for laughter we know of in the market. It is
surprising. where all the, aggery can come from, and how
the publication " can be delae at the price."

With this we cannot do better service than give a list of
s principal contents, all of which must be interesting and
aluable to the agriculturist :-...wheel and Swing Ploughs—