The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

.AIISCELLANEOUS

811DMEN DEATH.—On Saturday night liat, tis Lydia
Hill, bervant of Mrs. Ryder, Cowcill-street, Manchester,
was proceeding hrough Ormond-street, accompanied by
Georg!. Sheppard, a coachman, of Rosamond-street, she
suddenly sank down by his side, and expired.

The. Ten Toums' Messenger• of Friday publiahes a long and
the grand lodge meeting and dinner

Col;lecieratiot; of I

held Itt Birmingham on the sth instant

We hear that, among other things which are in contem-
plation at the past-office, it is intended that all letters pre-
paid by money, not by stamps, shall be charged double
postage. The object of this change is to diminish, if not en-
tirely suppress, accounts between the postmasters and the
general post-otlice.—Brighton Gazette.

TRADE BETWEEN AMERICA AND PRESTON.—We under-
stand that a vessel is now being built upon the Marsh, whose
registered burthe❑ will be upwards of 300 tons. She is in-
tended, we believe, as an American trader, and it is expected
that by the time of her return from her first voyage she will
be enabled to get clear up the river to Preston.—Preston
Chronicle.

The day for the celebration of the royal christening has
been fixed for Tuesday, the 25th instant, the invitations for
that day to those distinguished personages who will be pre-
sent at the ceremony having been issued by the Lord Cham-
berlain.

The Lord Chancellor, on the recommendation of Sir James
Graham, has directed that the names of John Clemison,
E. Edward Francis French, Esq., Charles Gaman, Esq.,
Henry Raikes, Esq., Edward Roberts, Esq., and Bevis
Thelvrell, Esq., should be inserted in the commission of the
peace for the borough of Chester.
A shocking accident occurred on Thursday to a young
man, 20 years of age, named Henry Reeves, who fell from
the parapet of a house in Hope's-court, Whitechapel•road,
London, to the pavement, with such violence as to fracture
his skull, besides sustaining other severe injuries, whilst at-
tempting to catch a pigeon which had alighted on the roof.

ACCIDENT TO THE LYNN MAIL.—We regret to learn
that the Lynn mail. in consequence of crossing the road,
owing to the heavy fall of snow, was overturned early on
Thursday at Royston, and Simpson, the coachman, who has
driven this mail for some years, was killed on the spot.
Simpson was not driving at the time, having given up the
reins to the guard, in consequence of indisposition—Standard.

CONTINENTAL FORGERS AND SWINDLERS.—MOSt ex-
traordinary discoveries have been made within the last few
days, and two of the party arrested, in an affair relative to
Belgium and Prussian forged bank-notes, but we defer for a
few days giving the full particulars, in order not to thwart
the ends of justice.—Galignani of Tuesday.
RADICAL EXERCISE OF POWER.—Since the passing of
the Irish municipal reform bill, most of the constituencies in
that country are in the hands of liberals, and the patronage
they have to bestow is almost exclusively showered on the
heads of the radicals. We find for instance that of twenty
harbour commissioners elected by the town council of Cork,
but two are Conservatives; two are liberal Protestants, and
all the rest are Romanists. Where is the deference to the
prejudices of their opponents int the part of radicals. They
go straightforward in carrying out their principles, and
reward only those who have done them some political service.

There is a pleasant notice for John Bull in Friday night's
Gazette—a notice that touches him in the tenderest point—
his pocket—and cannot fail to convince him of his folly in
committing his affairs to stewards who mancged them so
miserably as to bring him in debt, on the transactions of a
single year, by no less a sum than two millions three hundred
and fifty four thousand and ninety six pounds, five shillings
and two pence three farthings—aye, even to the farthings he
is " tillipped " by the punctilious penman aho furnishes the
account. It is rather losing business when the balance leans
so heavily to that siie of the scale, and we do ❑ot wonder
that, with all his proverbial patience, he got restive when,
notwithstanding the perpetual pull on his pocket, he found
his family so indiffirently supplied, and that, though his ser-
vants were rioting in waste and wantonness, his children
were literally famishing for food.
LIMERICK, THURSDAY EVENING.—I am very sorry to
say that the spirit of agrarian outrage is still busy here. A
barbarous murder was committed on Monday last, in the
broad light of day, between ten and two o'clock, upon the
person of Dennis Roughan, steward or cow-keeper on Mr.
Walier's demesne of Castlewaller. The neighbouring pea-
santry, it would appear, had been for some time in the habit
of committing depredations upon the woods which cover a
large portion of the grounds, and the unfortunate Roughan
had summoned several of the delinquents before the magis-
trates. A few clays previously to the melancholy occurrence
two men had forcibly entered the house of the deceased, and
not finding him within, had broken and destroyed whatever
they could lay their hands upon. On Monday, Roughan
having reason to suspect that some persons were actually en-
gaged in cutting the timber, repaired to the spot where he
believed the damage was being done. His suspicions were,
unfortunately, but too well founded, for, on his interfering to
put a stop to the trespass, he was instantly felled to the
ground, and in that helpless posture deliberately murdered.
Suspicion has already fastened upon an individual as the
perpetrator of this savage act.

THE EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL. AMERICA.—The earth-
quake in Central America (intelligence of which was brought
by the last packet that arrived from New Y ork, at Liverpool,),
seems to have been unsurpassed in the extent of its ravages,
at all events for many years past. The scene of this terrible
calamity was Costa Rica (i.e.the Rich Coast), one of the states
of Central America. It is bounded on the south-east' by
Veragua, and extends from the Spanish Main to the Pacific
Ocean, east and west, comprehending the western part of the
high land that devides the plains of Panama from those of
Nicaragua. It is a very mountainous district, and but little
known to Europeans It is only inhabited in its western

districts, those bordering on the republic of New Granada
being either unoccupied or in possession of independent In-
dians. Sugar, Timber, and Indian corn are exported to Peru
Chili ; and the district is said to contain some considerable
mines of the precious metals. Some mines of gold are worked
at the present time, those of the mountains Del Aguacate and
and at Real del Monte. San Jose, the capital, contains about
16,000 inhabitants, and the ravages of the earthquake here
were of the most heatrending nature, a very large number of
lives having been lost, and property to a great amount des-
troyed, by this fearful visitation. The state contains two
harbours—Puente de Arenas, on the eastern coast of the
Gulf of Nicoya, and Matins, on the Atlantic. Costa Rica
is divided into two departments, Oriente and Occidente.
Its commerce consists of cattle, hides, wax, and honey.
Dr. Shuttleworth was born on the 9th of February,l7B2, in
Lancashire ;of which parish his father was then Vicar. His
mother was daughter of Philip Houghton, Esq., and grand-
daughter of Sir Charles Houghton, Baronet, of Houghton
Tower, Lancashire ; and he was paternally descended, through
its younger branch, from the ancient family of the Shuttle-
worths of Gawthrop, in his ❑ative county. His Lordship
received his first education at the Grammar School of Preston,
Lancashire, of which parish his father was also Vicar, as
well as a Prebendary of York Cathedral. At the age of 14
his Lordship was sent to Winchester College, Oxford, and
in the year 1800 was elected thence to New College, in the
same University. Three years afterwards, he obtained the
Chancellor's Latin Verse Prize--the subject " Byzantium. "
His learning, abilities, and high character,procured for him
afterwards the honor of becoming Tutor to the Honorable
Algernon Herbert, and subsequently to the present Lord
Holland. In the years 1814 and 1815 he travelled through
Italy with the late Lord Holland ; through whose influence,
as Chancellor of the. Duchy of Lancaster, in connection with
the late Whig Government, it is generally thought that he
was selected to succeed Dr. Otter in the Bishopric of Chi-
chester. Whilst he was again on the Continent in 1822, the
Wardenship of New College, Oxford, became vacant, by the
death of Dr. Gauntlett ; and on his Lordships return, the
Society determined to elect him as Dr. Gauntlett's successor.
In the following year his Lordship entered into the holy state
of matrimony with Emma, daughter of the late George Welch
Esquire, of High Leck, Westmorland. This excellent lady
is now left with a family of five children. His Lordship lived
to occupy the See of Chichester only a little more than a
single year ; and departed this life greatly respected by his
Clergy and friends, in the sixtieth year of his age.
THE OXFORD POETRY PROFESSOR.—Another effort has
been made to induce the committee for conducting the elec-
tion of Mr. Garbett, to withdraw that gentleman's claim for
the approaching contest, and the request has been backed by
a memorial, signed by 214 non-resident members of convo-
cation, being about one-seventh of the whole number. Lord
Ashley, as chairman of Mr. Garbett's committee, gives the
following reasons for declining to entertain the proposal :
He says, that "in selecting and bringing forward Mr. Gar-
" bett, his college had no reason:to suppose that they would
" disturb the peace of the university ; nor has it been his
" nomination which has produced any such effect. His name
" has never been identified with any opinions or publications
" calculated to provoke opposition, nor can we contemplate
" the selection of any individual as a substitute more tree
" from objection on this score. Believing, therefore, that
" the excitement now unhappily existing has arisen from cir-
" cumstances over which we have had, and can exercise, no
" control, and that even the withdrawal of both the present
" candidates would afford to the university no security
" against an early recurrence of similar difficulties, we feel
" that it is due to the numerous members of convocation who

" through us have tendered their support to Mr. Garbett not
" to abandon at this advanced stage of the contest the inter-
" ests confided to us ; still less to abandon them on a ground

" which would seem to admit an itnputation to which Mr.
" Garbett is in no degree liable." His lordship adds, " that
he sees no mode of avoiding an election in the usual course,
unless the Oxford committee of both candidates could agree
on some plan by which the sentiments of convocation could
be so clearly ascertained as to decide the contest and super-
sede the necessity of a poll."

COAL IN BORE Yo.—Among the recent geological disco-
veries which are communicated through the India papers is
that of the superior quality of coal found to be procurable at
Borneo. The honourable company's steamer Diana had
brought over several specimens, and from all accounts there
is every prospect of an abundance of the mineral being ob-
tained in that quarter. A coal formation is found ou Pulo
Cheremin, an island at the einbrosure of the Borneo river,
extending along its coast, and running out towards the sea,
by which it is covered at high water, and also taking a di-
rection inland ; but to what depth or extent has not as yet
been ascertained, although manifestly considerable. The
coast of the island, in fact, presents a naked surface of coal ;
and it is probably from the glistening appearance which it
has when the tide is out, that the island has obtained its
name of Pulo Cheremin, or Mirror Island, Some of the
most intelligent Nakhodas from the country had stated that
there were mountains of coal, by way of describing the quan-
tity, and that hundreds of ships might be laden with it. This
intelligence is conceived to he of great interest, and, viewed
in connection with the future establishment of a steam com-
munication to China, of the highest importance. Specimens
of the coal have been forwarded to Calcutta, and the subject
would, it was thought, obtain the attentive consideration of
the supreme government, and lead, not only to farther in-
quiry and research, but to effecting an arrangement with the
Borneo chiefs to form depots of coal on the coasts, which for
a steam communication might be said to be on the high road
to China.

Oust COLONIAL PossEsszoNs.—it is a trutful and proud
boast that over the dominions of our sovereign thsre is never
complete darkness. The area of the British Empire comprises
an extent of 2,250,000 square miles, equal to 1,440,000,000
acres, ever a large portion of which there are only from one
to three mouths on each spuare mile of surface; while in the
United Kingdom alone the proportion of mouths to each
square mile is about three hundred (a denser population than
that of China, with its 368,000,000 inhabitants). The direct
annual revenue of the transmarine possessions of England is
£23,000.000 sterling, while the whole cast of the civil govern-
ment of those vasi possessions, to the home exchequer, is
but £228,000. Their maritime commerce amounts yearly
to £55,000,000, of which one-half is carried on direct with
England ; and the profits on which, to the whole empire, are
therefore equivalent to double the amount if carried on with
a foreign country ; the burthen of the shipping entering in-
wards and outwards annually in all our possessions amounts
to the enormous quantity of saven million five hundred thou-
sand tons, of which 250,000 tons is direct to and from Eng-
land. The troops of the line—cavalry, infantry, and artillery
—raised in our maritime possessions, or paid by them with-
houutndarsehj dilalinng cost from the home-exchequer, amount to one
fifty thousand men; and the militia (consisting
entirely of Europeans) comprises 250,000 men at arms ! The
property annually created in our maritime possessions
amounts to £387,000,000;
, „ &L.,—has beenh
immoveable in them—including land, timber, mines, houses,
roads, buildings, forts, ship
and the amount of moveable and
merchandise, estimateda r boitr cattle,fo r eac h horses,
colony, s h reopn,
rtnr data, at the enormous stun of two thousand four hundred
million sterling

SECOND ELiITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCLIANGE.—Tis 1)A

From

R. .11V

S' arc717,7r.)

Upon a change of wins' and the disappearance of frost, we
have to report since the close of last week several fin ther ar-
rivals of Foreign %neat, which are being placed in bond ; a
few more parcels of Grain, Flour, ant' Oatmeal, are also in
Coastwise and from Ireland, which, added to those stated on
Friday, are inserted below.

liOur market this morning was tolerably well attended by
home and country millers, who continued, however, to exer-
cise the same degree of cautio❑ and forbearance as we have
latterly had occasion to notice ; all descriptions of Wheat,
therefore, were in very limited demand, prime qualities
scarcely supporting the rates of this day week, whilst the
secondary and inferior runs, in several instances, declined in
value Id. to 2d. per 701 b Irish, and Foreign duty-
paid Flour, commanding very little attention, the two former
kinds were ls. per sack, and the latter 6d. per barrel cheaper.
Barley, Malt, and Pease remained in the same dull state
as on Friday. The low sales of Beans last week induced
some inquiries to-day, but the holders again generally re-
quiring the prices of Tuesday last, few sales were effected.

Oats being scarce, maintained our last quotations, at which
ittle business was transacted.

Oatmeal, continuing to attract the notice of speculative
buyers, a few thousand sacks have changed hands within the
last few days at 275. 9d. to 28s. per 2401b5. for the best marks
of Irish ; the dealers at the same time purchasing very spa-
ringly.

A RpivAr,c OF cor.N.
From the 11th to the 17th January, 1842, inclusive

I 'X- COAST- iCANAOAI NO-
L WAND. Sg• ;14Z U.STS. REIGN.; "TA'

9240 12038
1670 3385