The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. Michael Hutton, 8.A., curate of Saxby, Leices-
tershire, to the living of Seaton, Rutland. Patron, the Earl
of Harborongh'
The Rev. Edward William Batchellor has been instituted,
by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, to the rectory
of Cold Ashton, in that county and diocese, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Whittington. Patron, the Rev. E.

W. Batchellor.
The Rev. A. Lambert, 8.A., incumbent of Monk Bretton,
to the rectory of Cumberworth, in the county of York.
The Rev. Henry Foster, M,A., to the stipendary curacy
of Largashall, near Petworth.
The Rev. C. A. 1. F. Smith curate of St. Andrew's, Ply
mouth, to the office of chaplain to the Sailors' Home in Lon-
doe.
The Rev. Thomas Rutherford Dickinson, late curate of
Ribehesler, to the perpetual curacy of Salesbury, Lancashire.
The Rev. F. F. Clark, M.A., to the ministry of the new
chnrch at Hartshill, Staffordshire.
The Rev. W. Jones, to the perpetual curacy of Nefyn,
Carnarvon.
The Rev, J. Hebden, to the perpetual curacy of Heyhouse,
Whalley, Lancashire.
The Rev. Richard Quarrell, M.A. to be chaplain to the
Workhouse, Bath, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W.
Elwin.
The Rev. William Chamberlain, to the incumbency of the
principal church in the Island of Trinidad.
The Lord Bishop of Derry has been pleased to appoint
the Rev. Dr. Boyton to be vicar-general of the diocese of
Raphoe, in the room of the Rev, Dr. Stopford, promoted to
the see of Meath.

Lord Brougham was received by their majesties the King
and Queen of the French on Thursday evening.

There has been recently found, says a Belgian journal,
amongst a heap of old books, purchased at St. Troud, the
sixth known copy of the first Bible printed at Mentz.
It was announced on Friday at Smithfield, that one of the
first butchers in Newgate market had failed for several
thousand pounds by over-speculating in foreign cattle. To
one party the liabilities are upwards of £4,000, to others
£l,OOO, £7OO, and minor sums of £2OO to £3OO. This is the
first failure in cattle speculation.
MONSTROUS SWINE.—Mr. John Halliday, of this town,
reared two pigs at his mills, Ballidassidy, which were killed
on the 3d instant, and their united weight amounted to sixty-
three scores ten lbs. ! The larger one was of the Irish breed,
and weight thirty-six score; the depth of flesh on its shoulder
being inches. It was not two years Did. The other was
ten inches deep on the shoulder.—Fermanagh Reporter.
PETERBORO2—ELOPEMENT.—This city was all in com-
motion on Thursday, the 3rd, from a report that Mr. Searle,
a medical practitioner, had carried away the lovely daughter
of Mr. Porter, surgeon ; it turned out that the fact was so,
and the fugitives were followed by the father to London ;
but he was too late—for so determined were the parties to
have the knot promptly tied, that they repaired to the far-
famed Gretna Green, and on Saturday morning, were mar-
ried by the priest who officiates at that hallowed spot. They
returned to Peterboro' on Tuesday evening last, and have
taken up their abode at a mansion in Broad Bridge street,
near the residence of the lady's father.—Stamford Mercury.

NEW ORDERS IN BANKRUPTCY.—The rules and orders
framed in pursuance of the new Bankrupt Act were promul-
gated on Monday. They are very numerous, and have re-
ference to the practice of the court in town and country, and
to the management of estates by official assignees. The order
of the Lord Chancellor, which precedes the others, princi-
pally requires the transmission by the secretary of bankrupts
of fiats to the Court of Bankruptcy, or to district courts as
directed. There are 45 general rules, and 36 relating to offi-
cial assignees. Copies of all country proceedings are to be
sent to the Court of Bankruptcy, and all proceedings now in
the possession of solicitors in cases after the Ist and 2d W.
IV. are to he brought into the Court of Bankruptcy and filed.
The rules are of a general character, with explicit directions
to practitioners on the working of fiats, summoning of tra-
ders under the new branch of the act, and the termination of
cases. The orders respecting official assignees are very sig-
nificant. By the 13th rule it is declared " that no official as-
signee shall keep under his control, upon any one estate,
more than £lOO, or in the aggregate of moneys of bankrupt
estates more than £l,OOO, and an excess beyond such sum
shall be paid by him forthwith into the Bank of England."
The other rule (the 33d) on the same subject is to the fol-
lowing effect:—" That if the official assignee shall keep under
his control more than-1;100, of money belonging to any one
estate, or more than £l,OOO in the aggregate of moneys be-
longing to bankrupt estates for more than one week, he shall
be charged in his account by the commissioner with such
sum as.shall be equal to interest at the rate of 20 per cent. on
the excess of the said sum of £lOO or .£l,OOO as the case may
be, for such time, as such moue, shall be under his control
beyond the said week, and vAlless t
the official the money has been kept
from proper causes,.assignee shall be dismissed
from his office by the commissioner or the Lord Chancellor,
and be liable to the costs and expenses, and have no claim for
remuneration.
GROWTH of FLAXIN IRELAND.-0,
Tuesday last a
meeting took place of "The Belfast Society for the Promo-
tion and Improvement of the growth of Flax in Ireland."
As to the project itself, we have a good opinion of its
by sucfhcordial success, if it continue to he fostered
coopera-
tion. Not only
is the soil and climate o Ireland,
as repre-
sented at the meeting, equally favourable to the growth of
,eparation.
flax, but we believe that it has been established by analysis
that her water is equally favourable for its pr
(What would not Napoleon have given had France possessed
these natural advantages when he
contemplated a prize of
1,000,000 francs to the individual who should discover a
method of spinning flax like cotton ?) And, presuming Ire-
land to possess these advantages, there are few obstacles in
the way of her turning there to zuscount. A proper selection,
by competent agents, of the proper seeds to be naturalised,
and a judicious selection of persons from Belgium to super-
intend and instruct the peasantry in the processes of culti-
vating and preparing the plants, are the main requisites_ ; and
neither of these undertakings require more than ordinary
discretion. Belgium has availed herself of our mechanist!,
our engineers, and our operative manufacturers, What is
there to prevent Ireland availing herself of the flax-growers
and flax-dressers of Belgium? :for, if successful in growing
flax, need she fear competition e ith Belgium, or any other
flax-growing country, in the sale of it ; for her agricultural
labour is more abundant and cheaper than theirs. It may
turn out, perhaps, as Sir Robert Bateson surmises, that the
north of Ireland is not sufficiently genial for the plant; but
of the capabilities of the south there is no doubt; and why
should not the southern provinces prove to Ireland, in the
growth of flax, what the southern states are to America in
the growth of cotton ? The reward of the enterprise would
be to Ireland a rich one—a vast source of employment for
labour, and a vast export of valuable produce. England,
alone, is a customer for the article to the amount of
X 5,000,000 or £6,000,000 a year, and she would have " all
the world before her" besides."—Herald.

'.

N '

TARIFF OF THE GERMAN COMMERCIAL UNION.

(From the London Times.)

This paper, which has been so long expected, and upon the
contents of which so many dreary forebodings base been
uttered by our manufacturers, has at last come to hand ; and
we are happy to say that the prognostications of evil so
widely disseminated have proved almost entirely without
foundation ; indeed, we had hardly expected to have found
the document so harmless to British interests and commerce.
The most important articles of British export are, with one
exception, (that of tigured goods of mixed cotton and wool,
such as mousseline de laine.) left in almost the same situa-
tion in which they were placed by the last tariff; nor have
our imports of iron been more effected, though it is quite
evident that strenuous efforts have been made by various of
the German states producing that article to procure the im-
position of a heavier duty upon English iron of all sorts, and
indeed almost one-half of this state paper is taken up with
protocols and arguments for and against increasing the duties
upon the two articles of cotton and iron. Fortunately, how-
ever, some of the most important and influential states of
the Union saw the mischief that would be inflicted upon the
general well-being of German commerce by an incresaed tax,
which would tend to cripple their own trade to a degree
hardly to be foreseen ; and the consequence seas, that with
the exception of the increase upon printed goods manufac-
tured of a mixture of cotton and wool, the tariff is really very
little altered.

Quantity.

centnerl

Il centnerl

1 centnerl

centnell

centner

centnerl

centnerl

centnerj

1 ship's
last, 37i
centner;

or by
rafts, 75
cubic ft.'

1 ship's
last,or by,
rafts, 90
cubic ft.

ship's
last.

4 sheffels
or 1 ton.

in which the present differ

1 centneril

11 centner;

!I centnerl

1 centnerj

,1 centnerl

1 ceLtner

1 centnerl

1 centnerj

fl. kr.

Il centnerl

li'der
lard.
Expt.

it