The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

Notwithstanding the fine weather experienced during the
harvest, which raised the hopes of the farmer from deep des-
pair, it has continued equally favourable for the preparing the
ground for neat season's culture. Seldom has snch weather
been known. The harrowing operations are forwardly ad-
vanced, and everything at present bears the brightest pros-
pects.—Kentish Gazette.
As the following fact may not be generally known by our
readers, we translate it from a French journal for their be-
nefit :—French Editor loquitur—" Ninety-nine times in a
hundred we thresh the English in the battle-field ; ninety-
nine times in a hundred they thresh us in diplomacy." The
French reads very much like Lord Palmerston's. It certainly
was not penned by the hero of Waterloo.
CAPTAIN SMITH, THE COMMANDER AT PORT NATAL.
—Captain Smith, whose gallant defence reflects so much
honour on his name, is, we believe, a native of Dublin—the
same who, some years since, being forced into a quarrel on
national grounds, fought the Captain of an American frigate
at Gibraltar, and, although wounded three times, continued
the fight without letting his second know he had been hit.
Captain Smith was also wounded at Waterloo, and has now
added to his reputation the character of possessing as much
prudence and foresight in the camp as gallantry in the field.
—Dublin Evening Mail.

NEW PATENT OMNIBUS.—Some omnibuses of rather a
novel description have lately been plying between Islington
and Chelsea. They are provided with a small brass box on
the left hand side of the door, in which are placed three drums
marked with figures; the first with units as far as 9, the
second with tens as far as 90, and the third with hundreds as
far as 900. Passengers entering the vehicle are obliged to
press upon some iron rods, similar in their action to the toll-
gates on Waterloo-bridge. These rods are connected with a
tube under the roof, which, acting like a key upon the drums
causes each passenger to mark his own number, so that the
proprietors are enabled at the end of the day to ascertain how
many persons their omnibus has carried without trusting to
theconductors. The rods also serve the purpose of assisting
passengers to their seats, and of preventing liability to ac-
cident by the omnibus suddenly moving on.
NEW FOWLING PIECES.—At the Paris Academy of
Sciences two fowling pieces were produced, the invention of
M. Philippe Matthien, which possess the following advan-
tages :—After each discharge the gun immediately re-cocks
itself, and a new charge is conveyed in the direction of the
barrel. This is repeated five or six times, and with such ra-
pidity that the gun can be discharged five times in three
seconds. If the sportsman does not wish to fire with this
rapidity, he can stop the action, and wait any time he pleases
between each discharge. It was stated that the combina-
tions of the mechanism were such as to prevent accidental
explosion. This invention is not new. Baron Heurteloup,
the celebrated lithotritist, more than two years ago produced
a fowling-piece and a musket on this principle, and, accord-
ing to report, he has made such improvements that double
the number of charges of M. Mathien's gun may be fired in
almost the same space of time.—French paper.
SEDGWICK POWDER MILLS, NEAR KENDAL.—A serious
explosion took place at these mills about a quarter before
two o'clock on the morning of Saturday last. No idea can
be formed as to the occasion of the accident; but, at the
time mentioned, the watchman, who had been his round and
found all right, had returned to the watch-house, which he
had scarcely entered ere the first blow occurred, and sent in
after him the door which he had closed the moment before.
The extent of the damage done cannot be accurately esti-
mated until it has been repaired; but four mills, with their
contents, were destroyed ; and many windows in the neigh-
bouring cottages, with several panes in Sedgwick House, the
residence of J. Wakefield, Esq., one of the proprietors, were
shattered. The grinding mills, in which the explosion oc-
curred, are erected in pairs, one water-wheel turning two pairs
of stones; and the two pairs of mills blown up were sepa-
rated by an interval of about twenty yards. Fortunately no
life was sacrificed, and no personal injury sustained by any
one.—Kendal Mercury.
THE NEW STREET PILLAR GUIDE.—This is a plan for
the purpose of furnishing, by means of a column with six
sides, upon which the various names are inscribed, informa-
tion as to the residences of the different tradesmen, public
institutions, post-offices, cab-stands, police and fire stations
in the particular district in which the pillar is placed. his
also provided with finger-posts, so as to point, when placed
in a central position, to the principal thoroughfares from
that spot. The top is to be surmounted with the Bode light,
and at the base is to be a place set apart for returned letters
in that district, and for property lost or found. The interior
which is hollow, contains a fire-alarm, the keys of which
are confided to the care of the police. There is also a repo-
sitory for fire-escapes, and an aparatus for using rocket
signals, so as to telegraph information, in the event of a fire,
to the various engine-houses. The titles of the different
streets are placed at the top of a column, whiie the names of
the tradesmen, with the numbers of the shops, occupy the
sides of the shaft. Several of them are about to be erected in
Holborn and elsewhere.—Morning Herald.
It is a fact that the Arrangements made by the magistrates
of Stirling, of which otherwise everything in praise should be
said, included a rather novel mode of admitting and re-
ceiving the Queen into the burgh. An arch having been
erected at the boundary (real or supposed) of the burgh with
something like the appearance of a barrier, it was natural to
suppose that the authorities would be waiting within the
barrier, there to receive their Sovereign and tender their
fealty. But, alas ! the town's wright had reared his scaffold
on the outer side—that is, beyond the boundary, where the
magistrates had no authority at all; and, accordingly, when
the Queen's postillions drove up, although they had pre-
viously got strict orders from her Majesty to stop where the
authorities were stationed, they were driving past the bar-
rier, and would have drawn np on the right side, had not her
Majesty herself perceived the blunder, and called out in a
sharp voice " Stop ! slop !" and it was not till then that the
provost discovered he was not in his own burgh at all when
receiving the Queen!—Stirling Paper.
DOUBLE COSTS AND LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS.—An
act waa passed during the last session, under which some
material alterations will be effected in actions at law. The
principle of the measure is uniformity in all actions res-
pecting costs, the pleading of the general issue, and giving
notice in cases where notice of action is required. These
several matters have been gathered into one form. This
act, which came into operation on the 10th of August, all
actions from that period under statutes of a local and per-
sonal nature, repeals the giving of double or treble costs,
and in lieu thereof gives costs as between party and party.
The second section provides that in all public acts where
double or treble costs have been given, in future only
costs between party and party shall be awarded, besides all
expenses incurred in the prosecution of the proceedings.
The next clause repeals the general issue under local acts
and in the following—all actions in which notice is required
to be given, such notice must be given at least one month
before the bringing of such actions. The act further pro-
vides that all actions under local acts must be commenced
within two years, or in case of continuing damage, then
within one year after the same shall have ceased. This act
does not extend to any proceeding commenced before the
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of the Indian mail, which was no longer to proceed through
France after the expiration of the convention signed by the
postoffices of the two countries. " The mails," it says,
" will hereafter be landed at Venice or Trieste. This will
be highly prejudicial to our country, or by no means advan-
tageous to the English ; but, although the distance be longer
by that road than through France, their correspondence will
follow it in preference. in order to avoid the delays and vex-
ations of every description which their couriers have experi-
enced in France. Such is the result of the impediments
opposed to commercial and political relations by a narrow-
minded and teasing administration." On the other hand,
we perceive by Galignani's Messenger, that M. Dubost, one
of the heads of the French post-office, left Paris on Thurs-
day for London, " This gentleman," it says, "is charged
by the government to negotiate a new postoffice treaty on a
much larger and more liberal basis than the existing one.
The arrangements contemplated in M. Dubost's mission ex-
tend also, we understand, to the more rapid transmission of
the Indian mail from Marseilles, and to the putting an end
to the vexatious delays and difficulties which the couriers of
the London press have hitherto experienced in carrying their
despatches through France."

The Lord Bishop of Ossory, , Ferns, and Leighlin, has added
his name to the already large number of right reverend pre-
lates who have spoken in condemnation of the proceedings of
the Puseyite party. In his charge to the clergy at his primary
isitation of the united dioceses, just concluded, his lordship,
after referring to ministerial duties, and to the present con-
dition and future prospects of the church, expressed his satis-
faction in believing that there was no need for him to admi-
nister caution to his reverend brethren who surrounded him
against the singularity of dress, and gesture, and posture
which one hears from time to time of beirfg introduced by
individual ministers, with a kind of apparent conceit, into the
service of the church in England. Ile was happy to believe
that in the dioceses under his more immediate superinten-
dence, and those of Ireland generally, there was no trace of
such fopperies. The system of the " Tract " writers then
engaged his lordship's consideration. He proceeded to an
exposure of the numerous fallacies of the arguments used by
them in support of their views, and contended that they were
akin to the arguments of jesusitical sophistry, to which, he
said, they could only be compared.
BANK Or ENGLAND.—The usual return of the quarterly
average of weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Eng-
land from the 18th of June to the 10th of September both
inclusive, were given in the Gazelle of Friday. As com-
pared with the previous quarterly returns from the 21st of
May to the 13th of August, the results are as follows :
Circulation, present return ..

former .

LIABILITIES.

Increase..
Deposits, present
former

£19,714,000
18,952,000
762,000
9,833,000
9,330,000

Increase 503,000
ASSETS.
Securities, present ..

former

22.525,000

Increase 634,000
9,177,000
8,496,000

Bullion, present ....
former .

Increase
Total increase, liabilities..
assets
The rest, present return
former

681,000
1,265,000
1,315,000
2,789,000
2,739,000

Increase £50,000
These returns do not present any particular feature for notice.
and indeed lose their interest since the publication of the
general banking returns.

SvOIIR THE COMPOSER.—The following is the letter of
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honoured Friend,—Although I was somewhat prepared for
the second refusal of our Elector, yet when it came and the
long-cherished hope of my visit to Norwich was finally ex-
tinguished, it was a severe blow. To his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge I ahall always be grateful for his
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prompt intercession, and I be
you to offer him my warmest
acknowledgments for his condescending kindness. I con-
sole myself with thinking that my oratorio will be conducted
by you. I have no anxiety respecting its performance. The
orchestral difficulties are less than those of Calvary, and to
your band they will present none. The accompanie recita-
tives of Belshazzar will require the greatest share of atten-
tion. The quartet, • Strike the harp," would, to some
singers, appear difficult, but in unaccompanied t • par -music
you English excel all others. I remember the performance
of some of your glees as finished specimens of this kind of
song. The last two choruses of the oratorio I should especi-
ally have wished to have heard at Norwich, as my orchestra
here did not execute them to my satisfaction. With you I
know that the prescribed pianos' and fortes' will be ob-
served. But I will not make my heart heavy by such fruit-
less wishes. Let me beg of you to express to the committee
my deep regret that I cannot comply wtih their wish. For
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of the pleasure of again being under his hospitable roof.
Debarred from the gratification of seeing you in England,
let me now look forward to that of seeing you again at Cas-
sel. Farewell. Make me happy by a long account of the
proceedings at the festival, and confirm my wishes for its
success. Our warmest greetings to the members of your"
family.--From my heart, wholly yours.—." Lovis SPORE.