The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

Compared wit

Mud? to the 21st
st £17,536,000, ben

months from the Ist
is now £17,793,000 ag
£259,000. The deposits at.

May, the circu

n
b .a increase of
£8,011,000 against

£8,045,000, being a decrease of £34,000, and making if

tal of thr £25,806,00u.
£21,181,000 against £21,366,000. being a decrease of
£185,000 ; the bullion is £7,320,000 against £7,032,000, be-
ing an increase of £288,000, and making the total of the as-
sets £28,501,000. The surplus or rest is now £2,605,000
against £2,817,000, being a decrease, during the first month,
of £122,000. There is not much room for remark in the
foregoing comparison. When the period of the financial
quarter is taken into account, it is perfectly evident that the
bank directors have been acting with great caution and judg-
ment in the management of the circulation, in order to pre-
vent any advance in the value of money that would be injuri-
ous to trade in its present depressed state. The oldest and
most experienced merchants rzcollect no period since the
large discount houses assumed their present degree of impor-
tance in the London markets, when the rate of interest was
kept so long and so uniformly steady, measured as it can
only safely be by first-class commercial securities. It will
be observed that the present bank return presents the same
peculiarity as the two last which have been issued. It com-
mences on Tuesday, the 29th of March, and ends on Satur-
day, the 18th of June. From the bank having omitted to
publish their averages in last Friday's Gazette, there has
been an additional delay of four days between the date of the
return and the day of its publication, instead of three days,
which was the usual time.

liabilities

The securities are

THE BURNING OF THE GEORGIA.—Within the last two
or three days further accounts have been received relating to
the loss of the ship Georgia, belonging to London, which, it
will be recollected, was destroyed by fire while on her home-
ward voyage from Calcutta, and of the safety of her com-
mander, Captain Mitchell, and five of the crew, who were
reported to have perished with the unfortunate vessel. The
following statement of Captain Mitchell, which has just been
received by the owners of the ship, detailing the sufferings of
himself and crew, will be found to be somewhat interesting .
" Algoa-bay, April 1, 1842. Gentlemen,—On the Ist of
last month, when about 1,000 miles from the Cape of Good
Hope, and 300 from the nearest land, we discovered the
cargo of the Georgia to be on fire. We immediately tried to
the utmost of our power to extinguish it by throwing water
down amongst that portion of the cargo where the flames ap-
peared to have a hold, but to no use. I then caused all the
hatchways to be closely battened down, which continued so
for seven or eight hours, and the fire apparently was being
—hen the ship Thomas Sparks, on the passage to
I hailed the commander, Captain
Sparks, requesting .. to stop by us all night, as the ship
was on fire, but he refused to answer without I came on
board his ship, which I did, taking with me in the long-boat
five of the crew. Upon Captain Sparks ascertaining the
circumstance which I related to him, he agreed to stop by
the ship and render all the assistance he possibly could. I
then left him for the purpose of returning to my own ship.
When within a short distance of her she appeared to make
sail and follow Captain Spark's vessel, who had hoisted a
light and gone a-head. I, together with those in the boat,
shouted with all our might, but was unable to make them
hear, and they pursued their course. I think my mate,
whom I had left on board, must have mistaken the light
which was hoisted by Captain Sparks as a signal that I was
going to remain some time on board of her, and that he was
to follow ; at least I cannot form any other idea for his so
unaccountably leaving us. By great exertions at the oars
we kept sight of both vessels' lights for two hours, when we
lost sight of them in the distance. I kept in the same direc-
tion, or as near as I possibly could, as the ships were steering
till noon the following day, when, giving up all hopes of falling
in with them, and having no water or provisions except a few
pumpkins, which providentially happened to be in the boat, I
made for the land, making a sail of our shirts, and steering by
the sun and stars. On the fifth day we made the land, and on
reaching it searched for water, which we happily succeeded
in obtaining, but not being able to get a supply of provisions
from the wild natives we were compelled to put to sea again,
intending on starting to coast it to this place. However, on
the seventh day we were overtaken by a storm and were ne-
cessitated to make for shore ; when within half a mile, and
the sea running high, the boat filled and turned over. After
a long struggle I was washed on shore on one of the oars.
Three of the crew clung to the sunken boat, which kept
turning over every wave, and one saved himself by swimming.
Providentially all of them reached the beach in safety, though
greatly exhausted. After travelling fifty miles barefooted,
we got conducted to a Wesleyan missionary station, where
we met with very kind attention. I arrived here to-day,
having travelled twenty days in a government waggon, which
was returning from Natal. I expect to get a vessel in two
days bound to the Cape, where I shall get a vessel for Eng-
land. The fate of the Georgia lamat a loss to conjecture.
When I left her the fire had all appearance of being under.
Had she put into the Cape there would be accounts of it.
You will know before the receipt of this. Yours respect-
fully, WALTER MITCHELL." The ship Thomas Sparks
arrived at St. Katharine's Docks about three weeks since,
having on board the remainder of the crew of the Georgia.
The fire was confined beneath her decks till the second day
after the Thomas Sparks coming up, when it broke forth
and speedily consumed the vessel. Mrs. Mitchell, the wife
of Captain Mitchell, together with two of the seamen's
wives, supposing their husbands had been lost with the ship,
as was reported, went into deep mourning, which they con-
tinued till Wednesday last, when the gratifying intelligence
was brought to them of their preservation. They are at
present residing at Shields. The vessel's loss is estimated at
£B,OOO.

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I'HE INCOME TAX.—An Advertisemhnt in our last publi-
announced meetings of the Land Tax Commissioners
of the district for the purpose of choosing the commissioners

cation

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for the " general purposes" of the act for levying the Income
Tax. The commissioners for ' general purposes" so appoint-
ed, will appoint additional commissioners to examine and
make the assessment. These two sets of commissioners,
namely, the commissioners for " general purposes," and the
additional commissioners, act for their respective parishes in
districts only ; and the Lords of the Treasury are empowered
by the act to appoint commissioners for " special purposes"
who may execute the powers committed to them in any part
of the kingdom. The " additional commissioners" appoin-
ted in the way above described, will require returns to be
made by parties where income is chargeable ; and if they are
satisfied with the returns, and no objection be made to them
by the inspector or surveyor, they are to cause the assess-
ment to be made. If the surveyor or inspector shall be
dissatisfied with the assessment made by the commissioners
they may refer the case to the commissioners for "general pur-
poses," who are to decide on the same; or the additional com-
missioners may refer the case to the commissioners for
general purposes, without making any assessment, and they
are to enquire into the circumstances and make an assess-
ment. The inspector or surveyor may inspect the assess-
ments, and object to any with which he may be dissatisfied,
and certify to the commissioners any errors he may have
discovered • and the commissioners, having inquired into the
case may alter the assessment. The inspector or surveyor
must give notice of his objection to the party to whose assess-
ment he objects, in the same manner as in the case of the
assessed taxes. Any person thinking himself aggrieved by
the assessment of the additional commissioners, may appeal
to the
commissioners for general purposes, giving the survey-
or or inspector ten days notice of his appeal. The commis-
sioners, from time to time, are to fiz days for hearing appeals
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committed to them in any part of the kingdom. The At
takes effect from the sth of April last, but it is now under-
stood that the first payment cannot be levied earlier than
towards the close of the year, the arrangements connected
with the working of the measure being of a most elaborate
character.

THE NELSON MONUMENT.—The rapidity with which the
works of this national column are proceeding astonishes, it
is said, even the subscribers themselves. The two workmen
have actually succeeded in raising another stone. A third
hand is to be taken on immediately.—Punch.

MILITARY COMPOSITORS.—The Guernsey Star of Thurs-
day, June 23, gives the following reason for requesting ad-
vertisers to send in their advertisements for next publication
one day earlier than usual, viz. :—" in consequence of the
militia going out on Monday next, and the whole of the men
of our establisi.ment having to attend to their military
duties."

THE NEW CITY LAW COURTS.—The intention of the
corporation of the city of London to reconstruct the Courts
of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, will he
carried into immediate effect. Upon the termination of the
present sittings, which takes place on Friday, the 6th of July,
workmen will immediately commence pulling down the pre-
sent courts in Guildball.yard, where the new courts are to
be situated.

We regret to hear, that in Bilston the state of the working
population is most distressing. One of the guardians has
assured us that the cases which are brought before him con-
tinually are such as to harrow his feelings, and deeply affect
his spirits. It is stated, that in that parish alone there are
3,000 persons in a state of complete destitution.—Birming-
ham Advertiser.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DENTH.— A. case of awfully sudden
death occurred in Thistle-street Baptist Chapel, Bristol, on
Sunday morning ; as Mr. Brown was giving out the hymn
to be sung, and repeating the following words :
" The bruised reed he'll never break,
Nor quench the smoking flax,"

he fell back and instantly expired

SMOKING

.BERLIN, JUNE 10.—An association
principle of mutuality, for paying the fines
mbers as may be condemned for smoking in

had beeh murdered. It appears that an affray took place be-
tween the deceased, whose name was James Edmunds, and
two lads named Thomas Jenkins and Thomas Palmer. In
the course of the fight, Jenkins struck Edmunds two heavy
blows, on which the wife of the deceased and a neighbour
assisted him into the house, when he almost immediately ex-
pired in their arms.—Bristol Journal.
BALLOON ASCENT.—On Monday evening, Mr. C. Green,
veteran aeronaut, ascended in his balloon, the " Albion,"
from the gardens of the Royal Standard Tavern, Albert Sa-
loon, at Hoxton. It was announced as Mr. Green's 200dth
ascent, the first this season, and the last preparatory to his
intended voyage across the Atlantic, with the great 'Nassau
balloon, on a visit to America. The announcement attracted
a numerous company to the gardens. At precisely twenty
minutes to seven o'clock, Mr. Green stepped into the car,
and the balloon being freed from restraint, ascended amidst
the plaudits of the spectators, and having attained some
altitude, bore away towards the south-east.
DISTRESS IN LEEDS.—MEETING OF SHOPKEEPERS.—
On Wednesday evening, a very numerous meeting of shop-
keepers and tradesmen generally was hold at the Court-house
in Leeds, for the purpose of bringing before the public the
decay of their trade, and of petitioning the queen and the
legislature to adopt instant measures for the alleviation of
the public distress. The mayor occupied the chair, and
many very important statements were made. The general
opinion of gentlemen present appeared to be, that a falling
off of about one-half had taken place in all retail trades ; and
the overseers gave a most alarming account of the spread of
pauperism. The meeting was in no ways connected with
party, being called by the mayor, in compliance with a writ-
ten requisition, signed by 216 tradesmen, embracing men of
all political parties. All the resolutions were carried unan-
imously.

Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons of London, have issued
their usual circular, in which they state that the delay in
bringing the new tariff into operation has impeded business
in those articles on which the duty is to be reduced, though
the transactions in other articles have been extensive. Thus
the consumption of sugar during the present quarter is said
to exceed the consumption of the corresponding quarter last
year by 8,000 tons, producing an excess of revenue of above
£200,000. The belief is expressed, that as soon as the tariff
becomes law there will be an increased activity in commerce,
and that the customs alone will increase above £2,000,000,
compared with the year 1841. The distress in the manufac-
turing :districts is ascribed to the system of competition,
aided by the " unchristian Poor Law." Indigo is described
as being very dull, 900 chests less than during the :corres-

poncling quarter last year having been taken for home con-
sumption. This, however, is not considered as any real
decline in the consurngtion, but merely to be owing to the
desire of parties to take advantage of the new tariff, which
will reduce the duty from 28s. to Is.

TUE IRISH PEASANTRY.—The conduct of the peasantry
at the burning of Lorrha glebe was highly commendable. It
was only last week the archdeacon returned, after a sojourn
of fifteen months on the continent, with his venerable rela-
tive, the lord bishop of this diocese, when he was met by the
people, and welcomed with acclamations, the horses taken
from his carriage, and drawn home in the midst of the great-
est rejoicings. The house being so long without the family,
large fires were made for the purpose of airing it, when one of
the chimneys took fire, without creating alarm, and the family
went to bed, leaving it to " burn out" until about twelve
o'clock. On the night of Thursday, being affected with the
smoke, the archdeacon found the upper rooms in a blaze, in
consequence of a joist leading into the chimney having taken
fire. On the alarm being given, several hundreds of the pea-
santry came, and succeeded to a great extent in saving the
furniture ; but we regret to hear that several valuable arti-
cles of curiosity collected by the archdeacon during his re-
sidence abroad, together with the entire linen of the house,
were all consumed. Several of the peasantry were severely
injured by the fire, having their hair and eyebrows scorched
in rescuing the furniture from the flames; the archdeacon is
a great favourite, from his giving constant employment to
the labouring people, and his charitable demeanour to the
poor, who had on this occasion no other means of evincing
their gratitude.—Limerick Chronicle.
HURRICANE IN FRANCE.—The Courrier de Lyons gives
an account of a terrible whirlwind on the 24th ult., at and
in the environs of Chauffailes, in the Saone et Loire, which
unroofed most of the houses of the town, scattering the tiles
and slates like so many feathers, and making the tall chimney
of a steam-engine bend like a reed. In its course it des-
troyed the crops and vegetation to a vast extent, dilapidated
whole forests, and rooted up many single trees. Some large
walnut trees were carried 200 yards from the spot where they
grew. In the commune of Chauffailes alone 124 houses were
destroyed, and one man killed ; at St. Uguy de Roche four
were killed;; and at Coublan nine persons perished. The
whole country was covered with wreck and ruin of every des-
cription. The Perfect and Sub-perfect immediately ordered
estimates to be made of the damage done, but it is so vast
that it will require a considerable time to make out the
return. Subscriptions for the relief of the poorer sufferers
have been opened. In another account from Chauffailes,
published by the Journal du Rhone, it is stated that—" In
the small parish of Coublans alone 130 houses were—not
thrown down, but carried away ; the roofs and beams flew
about in the air ; six persons of the same family were crushed
to death, others mutilated ; poor infants were suffocated in
their cradles, carts lifted on to the roofs, entire forests torn
up, and the largest trees carried to an immense distance.
Those trees that remain standing are covered with mud to
the height of 10 feet, and look as if they had been scorched
by fire. The number of persons killed is already ascertained
to exceed 20. A great manufactory of spinning cotton had
just been erected at a short distance from us; all the ma-
sonry was finished, and the carpenters were putting on the
roof ; the whirlwind has not left one stone upon another."—
Le Conslilulionnel.

DREADFUL FIRE. IN LONDON.—A most destructive fire
occurred about three o'clock on Thursday morning, on the
premises belonging to Mr. Ramsay, a painter, situated at
No. 13, Bermondsey Wall. An alarm aroused the family to
a sense of their danger ; and, by the time they had made
their escape, the whole of the premises presented a most
awful appearance. Before the engines arrived, so rapid
.had
been the ravages of the fire, that it had extended to the im-
mense range of premises belonging to Messrs. Cotton and
Owst, hoopbenders, on whose premises were deposited many
thousand loads of hoops, which soon ignited, and blazed
forth in an indescribable manner. The flames, being shifted
by the wind, simultaneously set light to the undermentioned
buildings :—No. 12, Bermondsey Wall, belonging to Mr.
Mansell, chemist ; No. 11, the Golden Fleece, public-house ;
Nos. 1,2, and 3, Salisbury Lane, belonging to Messrs.
Carver, Robertson, and French ; Nos. 42, 43, 44, and 45
opposite, belonging to Messrs. Honeyman, Goodacre, and
Moore, all of which are greatly damaged and all uninsured.
When the fire had reached this spot, the firemen were in
hopes that all fear of it extending further was at an end :
but, all of a sudden, the roof and party walls of Messrs. i
Cotton and Co.'s premises fell n with a tremendous crash,
and instantly after the flames shot forth with increased vio-
lence. About four o'clock the wind shifted, and the flames
were blown right across the street to Crosby Place, setting
fire to the private house belonging to T. Bramley, Esq.
which is partly demolished ; it then laid hold of Captain
Page's residence, being No. 3, which is considerably da-
maged; No. 1, belonging to Mr. Wheeler, is partly con-
sumed ; No. 2, Mr. Fleming, is quite down ; No. 4, Mr.
Little, potato merchant, quite down ; Messrs. Landels' gra-
naries, No. 14, Bermondsey Wall, totally destroyed, with
an immense quantity of corn; Mr. Spry, baker, No. 15;
Mr. Saunders, cookshop keeper, No. 16; and an uninhabited
house, all three quite destroyed. Many of the above houses
are uninsured. Notwithstanding the fire broke out at three
o'clock, it is unextinguished at the hour this account is
written (halt-past one). The engines are still pouring im-
mense streams of water upon the burning buildings. The
loss of property must be immense.—Standard of Thurs-
day.— On Friday another fire broke out in the premises of
Mr. O'Neil, 16, Bermondsey-street, which entirely reduced
the house and furniture to ruins, and considerably damaged
the adjoining premises.
AUTOGRAPHS IN THE TOWER.—A lady, Miss Wilson, of
No. "63, Newman-street, London, has for some time been
zealously, and indeed laborlaboriously, employed in taking casts
from the autographs, inscriptions, and devices, cut on the
walls of the various chambers and apartments in the Tower
of London by the prisoners who at different times have been
confined therein. She has explored with the eye of an ex-
perienced antiquary the cells and dungeons of the Bell-tower,
the Beauchamp-tower, the Broad Arrow-tower, the Martin-
tower, and the White-tower, and transposed with the skill of
an accomplished artist fac smiles of all that is curious and
important as connected with the object of her research. The
result is the rescue from decay and obliteration of a vast num-
ber of morceaux illustrative of the history of past times, and
strongly characteristic of the individuals whose sufferings
and imprisonment have been beguiled or forgotten in the
operation of the manual labour which it must have cost to
cut these inscriptions on the solid stones of the walls of their
prisons. The autographs are very curious, the manner of
the cutting in sonic degree showing the state of mind of the
prisoner from the care taken in the operation, or from the
reckless flourish or scrawl, which was meant to set care at
defiance. The mottos, inscriptions, or legends, carved on
the walls are also curious, and contain many a moral that
may be read even in these days to the edification of many a
reader. In an historical point of view these inscriptions are
also important; they give dates, and are explanatory of many
minutice from which the great structure of his history is
compiled. The artist in taking casts, which she is about to
publish, has been of opinion that a cast will transmit a more
perfect notion of the original cutting, than could be done by
an engraving, or by any other mode of copy, and that noth-
ing but a cast could convey a perfectly accurate conception
of the labour exerted on the original stone, the precise depth
and peculiar character of the letters, and thereby a correct
estimate of the state of the feelings of the individual by whom
they were formed, at the moment of his or her most melan-
choly task. This appears to be a right idea, and certainly
nothing could give a transcript of these carvings so faithfully
as a cast. There are autographs, devices, and inscriptions—
some cut only with scissors, and even with more fragile
tools—by the hands of Anna Boleyne (whose name, by the
way, is on the walls of the Tower spelled " Brllen"), by
Lady Jane Gray, by Lord Dudley, by Queen Elizabeth, and
other eminent and unfortunate persons.

POPISH PEI SECUTloN.—Doubtless our friends are becom-
ing anxious to know, as the assizes are drawing near, what
the priests of Rome are doing in pursuance of their menaced
crusade against the liberty of the press. Wer
in will tell them.
The action of which the attornies, Messrs. instanley, Cat-
terall, and Co., gave us notice, as stated the Gazette, some
weeks since, is going on. That part of the legal proceedings
called filing the declaration, has been accomplished—the da-
mages are laid at ten thousand pounds—and the trial will
take place at the assizes for the southern division of Lancas-
ter, which come on at Liverpool the latter end of the present
month. Now, then, Protestant readers, what think you?
Why you will think, as we do, that the tyrannic9l and perse-
cuting spirit of Rome burns as vividlyin our time as in its
most palmy days. Now we once more beg to draw public
attention to the course of conduct pursued by our assailants
in this matter. Having received every assurance that the
statements which Mr. Eastwood had it in his power to make
were strictly true, and susceptible of proof in a court ofjus-
bee—believing, that in giving publicity to that much injured
gentleman's important revelations, we were about to send
forth through the columns of the Lancaster Gazette, " the
tauth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," we felt
it a duty incumbent on us—a duty which, as honest defend-
ers of the Protestant cause in these parts we dared not shrink
from—to give to these statements all the publicity in our
power. The statements appear in the form of a series of let-
ters, which we print week by week. Does any body venture
to impugn the truth of the facts alleged in these communica-
tions, by any counter-statements ? No. Does any man ven-
ture to put his finger on this or that allegation and say it is
untrue? No, though the author of the statements, who
writes all the while under his real signature, is constantly
inviting the party accused to come forward and, if they dare
contradict his assertions. Do the parties accused, supposing
it inconvenient to take the same means of refutation which'
the author has adopted for the publication of the charges,
come to us in the usual way and say, " Sir you have put into
your paper certain matters at which we feel aggrieved, will
you give up the author, or will you prefer taking the respon-
sibility on yourself ?" No. They do this—they communi-
cate verbally through an attorney to the effect, that if we
presume to put into our paper letters or statements relating
to certain persons we ahall be prosecuted. A more audacious
attempt to muzzle a free press and break down its independ-
ence than this could not be conceived ; and as unfettered
organs
of public opinion, we spurned the menace.—Lancas-
ter Gazette.

Nyverheid, Lievens; Charles, Reckness, and Uniao, Vander-
heyde, hence at Ostend
Sophia, Lievens, hence at Rouen
Lightfoot, Senior, (with loss of bulwarks, galley, and one man
overboad) and Joseph, Lowe, hence at Newfoundland
Gipsey, Davies, hence at Harlingen
Annegina, Potje, hence at Zaltkamp
Zeelust, Mik, hehce at Zenichzee
Kate & Jane, Proom, hence at Helvoet
Wilton Wood, front Buenos Ayres, at Monte Video
Black Dog, Atkinson, from Tarragona, at Barelona
Brenda, Tyrrell, hence at Port-au-Prince
John Walker, M'Bi ide, hence at River St. Lawrence
Hope, Rowell, and Frances, Smith, hence atCronstadt

SATURDAY, JULY 2,

ARai v ED.—Westchester, Ferris, from Charleston—Clarendon,
Grant, from Bombay—Randolph, Colt, from Sincapore—Lavinia,
Brown, and Sanders, Bully, from Odessa—Eleanor, Srntor, from
Marseilles—Wm. Parker, Sewell; Mersey, Hamilton, and Helen
Stewart, Brown, from Quebec.
Patriot, Pollock, and Hopewell, Leslie, hence at Hamburg
Agenoria, Dunn, hence at Riga
Intrepid, Roberts, hence at St. Petersburg
James, hence at Berbice
Brigand, hence at Honduras
Alcy one, Johnson, hence for Quebec, off Scilly
PORT WILMA M, June 27.—The Solway, Simon, from Liverpool
to Barhadoes, which was driven on Pestell Beach, on the 23th of
January last, has been assisted off and brought into the Pier