The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

CASE OF URGENT DISTRESS

A. mother and two daughters are left in the most indigent
circumstances, by the long illness and death of a son, upon
whom rested their sole dependence for support. He had
just completed his apprenticeship with one of the most re-
spectable mercantile houses in the town, when the hand of
affliction arrested his usual earnings, and entailed upon his
family expenses they bad no power of meeting. One daugh-
ter is desiring a situation as governess ; the other is keeping
a school, with every prospect of being enabled to support her
mother; but unless a few pounds can be raised, the school
must be broken up, and the furniture disposed of, as the
sum already kindly contributed is insufficient to meet the
liabilities unavoidably incurred during the illness of the
young man, and for the funeral expenses. The case is fully
'known to the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, the Rev. W. W. Ewbank,
and the Rev. D. James. Any contributions will be thank-
fully received by the above, or by Mr. Crisp, 20, Slater-
street, and at the Standard-office.
W. Dixon, Esq. £lO 0 0
Messrs. Gra'harn and Taylor 1 0 0
Messrs. W. and J. Tyrer 1 0 0
Rev. Dr. Tattershall 1 0 0
Rev. W. W. Ewliank
Mr. H. Thornton ....
Mr. J. H. Mather 0 10 0
Messrs. Crisp and Healey

THE BRAZILIAN TREATY.—We understand, by letters
from Rio de Janeiro, via Pernambuco and Liverpool, that
the question of the duration of the existing treaty between
this country and the empire has been decided in favour of
the interpretatio❑ put on the clause by our Government ;
consequently, no new duties on British merchandise can be
levied till November, 1844. It remains to be seen what
bonus this Government has given to that of Brazil for its
acquiescence.—Morning Chronicle.

On the 16th inst. a man named Bourdin was tried at the
assizes of La Bourbon Vendee for the murder of his wife, by
whom he had a family of four children. He had been living
for some time unhappily with her, and had criminal relations
with their female servant. The evidence was so strong that
it was impossible for the criminal to escape punishment, and
he had,also confessed his crime. From the day of his arrest
to his trial he bad simulated insanity, but when before the
tribunal he abandoned this course, and defended himself with
great coolness. He was found guilty, and condemned to
death.

SPECIMENS OF FRENCH ADVERTISING.—A dealer in
hams advertises that his hams are so well cured that the
longer they are kept the better they are; and of such an ex-
cellent quality, that if eaten constantly by women of the
worst temper imaginable they will render them gentle and
tractable as lambs. They are particularly recommended as
diet for children, to give them a quiet disposition. Another
person advertises pommade for promoting the growth of hair,
and states that he is so certain of its efficacy, that he makes
a rule of never accepting any payment of a purchaser, how-
ever bald, until he have his head covered with hair.—Literary
Gazette.

SAD, IF TRUE.—The following story is from Galignani :
" A short time ago, a melancholy event took place in the
theatre at Leghorn. A player on the bass, named t,emmini-
nani, wishing to make his talent known to the public, an-
nounced that he was to play a piece between the acts of the
opera. The connoiseurs, however, thought but lightly of
his talent, and assembled to laugh at the performance. When
the poor artist was playing the rondeau of Lucia on a single
string, conversation, laughter, and noise drowned the sound
of the instrument. He exhibited marks of extreme emotion,
and at last his agitation became so great, that he could no
longer do justice to his powers. When he arrived at the
phrase—Tu delle gioje in seno, io della morte, (Thou bast
joy in thy heart, and I death,) he let the instrument drop,
remained a moment motionless, and then fell heavily on the
stage ! The people of the theatre rushed from the side-
scenes, and bore him off. Medical aid was applied, but in
vain : he was dead !',
FRANCE AND BELGIUM.—The Courrier Francais pub-
lishes a memorial, addressed by the Commercial Chamber of
Marseilles to the Minister of Commerce, in which it declares
itself in favour of the projected Customs' union between
France and Belgium. The memorialists expose, in support
of their opinion, the advantages that must accrue to France,
but particularly to her southern provinces, from the free
importation into Belgium of their wines, salt, soaps, olive
oil, silk, &c. Marseilles would soon become the general
entrepot where that country would supply itself with the
productions of the south, not only of France, but of Italy,
the Levant, Barbary, &c., even of British India and China,
when a direct commercial intercourse shall have been opened
with those two countries, vid Alexandria. The Chamber of
Commerce, moreover, considers that the association would
not only increase the maritime and commercial importance
of France, but also her political influence, by extending the
circle of her territorial defence, now compromised and en-
dangered by the existence of onerous treaties, and concludes
that the Customs' union, advantageous to the two contracting
parties, would be peculiarly profitable to France.
FRENCH CONQUESTS.—The Presse, of Friday, replies to
several of its contemporaries who depreciated the value of
the Marquesas Islands because of their being small and thinly
inhabited, and reminds them that, in England, the establish-
ment of Singapore, when formed by Sir Thomas Raffles, had
also been ridiculed by the beau esprils of the British press,
" which," it says, " did not prevent its becoming in very
short time one of the most splendid commercial entrepots,
and the rival of the noblest harbours in India." According
to that journal the Marquesas Islands may yet acquire the
same degree of importance, and must infallibly become, at
no distant period, the entrepot and the market of the entire
of Polynesia. It accordingly urges the government to con-
solidate the power of France in that Archipelago, and highly
commends another project, said to be entertained by M.
Guizot, for reducing Madagascar under French dominion.
" If it be true, as we have been assured," adds the Presse,
" that seven men of war, of which two sailed from the island
of Bourbon, are now laying the foundation of an extensive
establishment in Madagascar, we loudly approve such a pro-
ject. Madagascar may become an admirable colony. The
resources it offers are immense. The island is 400 leagues
long by 150 wide, and contains a population of 6,000,000
souls. It is separated from the African continent by an arm
of the sea, the Mozambique Channel, little more than 100
leagues in width. It is certainly one of the most important
points of the globe. Now that the road to India via" Suez is
generally preferred to that of the Cape of Good Hope, the
communication between Europe and Madagascar would be
easy and prompt. The island possesses the finest harbour
perhaps in the world—that of Diego Suarez, which is spacious
enough to contain thousands of vessels, and whose entrance
can be as readily defended as that of Brest. If we were
masters of that point, Bourbon would no longer be for us an
island lost in the Indian Ocean, and our merchantmen who
frequent that colony would not be compelled to go and seek,
during five or six months of the year, in the English posses-
sion of Mauritius, a refuge against the storms that visit the
rock on which Bourbon stands. We have heard with plea-
sure that a company for the colonization of Madagascar on a
grand scale is now in progress of organization at Nantes, un-
der the auspices of a number of respectable citizens who
lately visited the island and studied its resources. Should
the co-operation of the government and chambers be required
for the accomplishment of this project it will no doubt be
liberally granted. France is beginning to be aware of the
means by which she can alone become a great maritime power.
It now behoves her to carry them into effect, and this the go-
vernment can easily achieve in a country distinguished, like
ours, by the vivacity, and, we might even say, by the impe-
tuous genius of its people.