The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

The weather during the past week has been extremely fine,
varied by occasional showers, which must have been of infi-
nite service to the growing crops. The face of the surround-
ing country looks surpassingly beautiful.—Stockport Adver-
tiser.

THE WEATHER.—Fine fertilising showers have fallen
during the week, by which the crops of grass and corn have
been materially strengthened, aided as their growth has
been by an alternation of warm sunshine. The gardens in
our neighbourhood look most lovely, and there is promise of
a most prolific crop of all kinds of fruit. The
counts throughout the country give the
sentations.--Leeds IntelligenCer.
Throughout this part of the north the country presents
charming aspect. The late rains have produced a striking
change in the appearance of the crops, which now give pro-
mise of abundance. The wheat is strong and healthy. The
oats just bursting into blade look remarkably well, and the
flax, generally, wears such an appearance as must be highly
gratifying to those who take an interest in the efforts now
making to improve the cultivation of that valuable crop ;
while the potatoes are just what an Irishman loves to look
at in the ridges. Yesterday morning we bad a slight thunder
storm, and the rain fell very heavily for a short time, but it
soon cleared up, and we had a delightful afternoon.— Ulster
Times.

e cheering repre-

ISLE OF MAN.—At the commencement of the week the
atmosphere was exceedingly_chill, owing to the prevalence of
the easterly wind, which changed, however, a few points on
Tuesday, rendering the air more genial. Copious showers
of rain have occasionally watered the smiling face of Mona,
which fell chiefly in the night. The fruit blossoms are now
carefully expanded, and seldom, indeed, have the
and orchards given greater promise of abundant produce, and
throughout the island agricultural crops of every description
are looking remarkably healthy. On the whole, produce of
all kinds gives hope of great abundance, and if fine weather
continues, an early harvest will afford to the country

garden

relief from the pressure of the times which now prevails to
a great extent among the labouring poor both in this island
and across the channel.

The Rev. W. R. Sibthorp was on Saturday admitted to
Priests Orders at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott.
The coal trade is reviving at Newport. A number of ves-
sels have arrived within the last fortnight.
A FAT LIVING. —The annual value of the Prebend in
Wells Cathedral, which has lately become vacant by the death
of the Rev. T. Escott, is three pounds!

The railway from Naples to Rome has at length obtained
the approval of the Holy See. It is said that an arrange-
ment has been made between the two states, according to
which Naples will undertake the work and the expense, and
Rome repay its share in annuities. A railway from Rome to
Florence is spoken of as a thing quite resolved on.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that the Russian army

in Poland is about being placed on the peace establishment ;
the cavalry is to return to Russia; but the Gazette thinks
that these measures indicate a concentration of a large

military force in the southern parts of the_empire, for ti

. •
purpose of carrying on active operations in Circassia.
In the neighbourhood of Guildford-street, Southwark

accoucheur,residing there, rejoices in the appeopriate name
of " Caudle." Not less so, in the Broadway, Blackfriars,
is a hairdresser, literally and truly bearing the name of
" Catchpole."
The Cologne Gazette states, from the frontiers of Italy,
that since the closing of the University of Pisa, occasioned
by the seditious and tumultuous conduct of the students,
several arrests have taken place among that body.
WoFur. WIT.—How do a feeling-hearted man and a cart-
horse resemble each other ? Because they both stop at the
cry of " Wo !"
Osbaldistone, the great horse dealer, now a bankrupt, is
also a solicitor and coroner for Hertford.
On the 19th instant the railroad between Harnburgh and
Bergedorff was opened, and 800 passengers were conveyed
along it. On the 20th, the number was 900. Considering the
present circumstances of Hamburgh, this may be regarded
as a large number.
A Vienna letter of the 16th instant says—" The works on
our railroads are going on with great perseverance ; that to
Prague will be finished in three years, and that to Trieste in
six years."

The Courrier de Lyon says :—" The accident on the
Versailles Railroad has not diminished the traffic on ours.
In the four days of the festival of Whitsuntide 10,493 pas-
sengers, being upon an average of 2,576 a day, were conveyed
by it. During the same period in last year the number was
9,776, being 720 less than on the last occasion."
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued
an order to admit 12 shipwrights' apprentices at the,:Wool-
wich Dockyard immediately, that number being a regulated

proportion,accordingto the:men borne on the books of ti

ilocifyard. Their lordships have also decided upon entering
100 apprentices every year, to be distributed amongst the
various dockyards, in the proportion of men borne on their
books.

PALLIATION.—" Pray, sir," said the commissioner to an
insolvent brought up to be discharged on his petition—" Pray,
sir, how could you wilfully, and with your eyes open, con-
tract such a number of debts without any visible means of
paying them ?" "My Lord," said the petitioner, " you
labour under a great mistake—l have never in my life wil-
fully contracted a debt; on the contrary, I have invariably
done everything to enlarge them!"
The Nuremburgh Correspondent announces that 6,000
marks have already been remitted to Hamburg from that
city, and 10,000 from Augsburgh, and that the Bavarian
ministers, in the absence of the king, had made a general
appeal to the people of Bavaria in favour of the distressed
inhabitants of Hamburgh. The Post Ampt Gazette of
Frankfort informs us that at Stuttgardt the booksellers are
getting up a lottery of books and prints, the profits of which
are to be sent to Hamburg.
LANDS HELD OR FORFEITED BY A GAME OF CIIESS.—
There is a method of playing at chess called Curzier Spiel at
Stroepke, a village between Magdeburg and Brunswick, on a
board of 8 squares by 12. This village holds its lands upon
the tenure of forfeiture if any of their community loses a game
at chess. Some of the inhabitants are expert at this play,
but as the stake is so high, they decline finishing a game with
a stranger, and defer the party sine die.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the
last weekly returns of 38 railways, 1,345 miles in length, will
be of interest :—Number of passengers on 23 railways,
280,644 ; consequently, the total of the week must be about
400,000. The receipts for passengers on 37 railways,
£71,048 12s. lld ; ditto for goods on 30 railways, £18,452
19s. ld; total, £89,501 12s. This is an average of £66 10s.
per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the
rate of more than £3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000
of passengers.—Railway Magazine.

A NEW COPPER MINE IN JAMAICA.—We are exceed-
ingly gratified to be enabled to announce that another valua-
ble copper mine has been found in the neighbourhood of this
parish, situated upon Flamstead Plantation, Port Royal
Mountains, the property of the Rev. Mr. Fyfe ; and that so
satisfactory are the indications, that the necessary capital
has at once been subscribed for by one or two opulent and
influential houses in this city, which will thus prevent the oc-
currence of much of that indecision and delay which generally
accompany appeals for public co-operation. Who knows
but that this is only the commencement of a new era in the
existence of Jamaica, and that from an almost exclusively
sugar-growing colony, she may yet rise to equal, if not su-
perior, importance in mineralogical wealth. Should this and
the Mount Vernon mine succeed in fulfilling the hopes of
their projectors, we need have little doubt of seeing many
others following in the same steps. —Jamaica Standard,
April 15.
INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF
THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.—The 141st anniversary
wne
meeting of the members and friends of this society Was held
on Friday, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The clergy, in their
robes, met at three o'clock in the Consistory Court, at the
west-end of the cathedral, to meet his Grace the Archbishoncshp
werep
of
of Canterbury, the president of the society.
There
present
London,the Lordnurb
am Mayor.
Winchester,
ianl
cd
he
er
smt
ee
rn: and
Chester,sheriffs L
i theo ln, ti
Nor-
wich, Salisbnry, Llandaff, Sodor and Man, the Archdeacons
, the Rev. A.
Hale and Robinson, the Rev. Ernest 1-lawkDins
acnatdh odsworth, Rev.
M. Campbell, Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rev. W.
clergy.
a ryvuelyl ,
aedNrreari' service was
large number of
Tthheemmaestrpopaloelitßean•vc.leWr
per-
formed, after which the Bishop of
sermon. Ilis lordship's discourse was founded Salisbury preached thei
chapter of St. John's Gospel, 20 on the 17t 1
and
listened to with profound attention. An 21 verses. It wassung.
and the Bishop of London pronounced the
anthem
.wa.s
appears from statements put forth by benediction. It
the societ that there
is still a great want of colonial clergymen, especially in
Van Diemen's Land, fo h. more
_.....
ve
r w ich place a bishop wilt rY
shortly be appointed. The B* re-
;shop of Australia has also
presented to the society his need of clerical assistance. In
the diocese of Toronto a college has beenestablished for the
education of candidates for holy orders.
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PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
f the proprietor,s
the comenYtos
COMPANY.—The third half-yearly meeting eat
of this company was held on the 27th inst.e,ii 0
1 the c_
dheani rd
f o r
office, 51, St. Mary-axe, Sir John Campbell
a divirt stated
reo
receive the report of the directors aildsd,.eelrerbee
"' ' arshares of £5l)
to be £3,900
the six months ending 31st Marchie,!_if.,,,
the receipts of the company for that,.thatil,4o2
that tut„rdai instalments to
p capital of the
in excess of the previous half-year.
~ ~
each had been subscribed for..;
stated that 703 ad-
the amount of £169,312 wear&nis. .1
company amounted to £4OO,
It ....1, India, where a very
sion of the company's ope,,rbscribed %riling had been mani-
ditional shares had
towardsbeeni the under
of 1800 tons and 590.. favourable feeling
san hi,
18a7varl as hie"loor thatthe further exten-
,,t stearn-sia: proceed to take up her
Ceylon, and Suez, in
woucalcutta, Ina, of similar size and power,
fheesrtseed.pewTehre, Hindustan
it
was laefireas,
station between
and the eB nn3e
engers and goods through
destination. Arrangements
for the sa
follow ~ of pass
would soon
the transi .
active progress and that
for improving
d to be in . .
,fresh
state
September next,,
t and co-operation of the Pacha of
Egypt were ,
~__ oppor
d been
recently received. A. divi-
et the them had assuranceseffecting
for the half year was declared, and
EgYOt Tal ner cent. . .
dend of ' directors being moved and unanimously se-
thanksto the .
d, the meeting separated.
came
d and
condo
P°"g
y AND THE BIBLE.—.I 0 Roman catholic churches
- continent the second commandment is l • omitted,
the
a wa)s of Exodus and D
ork, in the books
anaplaced in different positions. In the one book,
tenth are
not
covet
"Thou shalt
and in the
Thus her, " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife.,,having omitted the second commandment they
divide the tenth into two to make up the number. In con-
.
sequence, however, of these being differently placed in the
two books, they cannot tell which is their ninth and which is
their tenth ; so that if you look into their various catechisms,
even the large one of the Council of Trent, you will find that
although the question occurs " which is the first command-
ment, " which is the second," " which is the third," and so
on, yet when they come to the last, they are the ninth and
tenth commandments?" Such are the shifts to which the
creatures of the system of anti-Christ resort.

Prescot