The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

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'DANCERS.

MECHANICS' INSTIT lON.
rllO-MORROW (Wednesday) EV ING next, the lith
I instant, at I half-past Seven, . KOMBST will (le-
deliver his FIFTH LECTURE. Subject—Sketch of the
German Language and Literature.
•Admission to Non-Members, One Shilling.
SPANISH CLASS.—On THESDAY E next
Mr. DE LA CRUZ will Open aTJ CLASS forVENING SPANISH., Terths, One Guinea per Annual.
W. B. HODGSON, Seer,
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MUSIC FROM STONES !
THE NEW ROCK HARMONI N
JOHN DAVIES, Organist of indwall Church,
-I.M. will exhibit the ROCK HARM ICON, at. WA-
VERTREE, To-monuow, (Wedne Y,) the 17th instant,
'in the Assembly Room at the W ertree Coffee-house ;
also, in the: Music-hall, LIVERPnnT•
Av,
except Wednesday.
Admission, Gd.

BUT ONE WEEK MORE IN LIV POOL.
TABLEAUX VIVANT INDI NES.
PORTICO, NEWINGT .
viR. CATLIN'S LECTURES on t NORTH AMER-
IVA ICAN INDIANS, Illustrate by Twenty Living
Figures, in Full and Splendid Ind- Costumes, forming
GROUPS and TABLEAUX, will be given on each Even-
ing This 'WEER, at Eight o'clock, and for the accommoda-
tion of People living out of Town, they will also be Repeated
on WEDNESDAY, TFIURSDAY, 'FRIDAY, and SATURDAY
Mornings; at-Twelve o'clock,
Admission, One Shilling. Front Seats, Two Shillings.
Programmes may be had at the Rooms.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
rpHis Popular and pre-eminently attractive; Retort is
OPEN Daily, from Seven A.AI. till Dusk : le GRAND
EVENING FETES take place every A ND.A.I and
FRIDAY during the Season, with the R AN FESTA
at- Dusk, the GRAND- ILLUMIN ON OP ST.
PETER'S. This inconceivably na ficent Spectacle is
succeeded by 'the Pyrotechnic Otio rs of the GIRAN_
DOLA OF ST. ANGELO, with its splendid incidents,
andterminating with. the Gorgeous Cascade of Brilliant Fire,
Tremendous Flights of Rockets.
The famous performing Elephant RAJAH will promenade
the Garden, drawing a splendidly decorated Car, with the
attendants in the full Eastern Costume, during the After-
noon.

To enliven the Evening's Promenade, Mr. STUBBS'
ROYAL HARMONIC BAND will Perform a favourite
Selection of Music.
•• The Gardens are illuminated with beautiful tripod Gas
Lamps.

FIRE ON BOARD THE MAIL STEAMER TEVIOT.

(From the New York Daily Express.)
HAVANNA, JULY 14.—1 am sorry to advise you of another
unfortunate accident to one of the English royal mail steam-
ers. About nine'fi.m. to-day, the Teviot was discovered to
be on fire. She unfortunately lay some distance from the
city, in the upper harbour, and it was full an hour before
sufficient succour arrived. When the boats from the Spanish
men-of-war name alongside, the commander, Croker, and the
greater part of the crew of the Teviot were below endeavour-
ing to extinguish the flames which were raging to the en-
gine-room. A Spanish officer immediately took command of
the upper deck, and, slipping her cable, she was towed to the
shore and grounded. Meanwhile the crew, at work below,
cut a hole in the side of the ship near the water's edge, for
the convenience of getting water, and, with the assistance of
three or four engines from on shore, succeeded, after three
hours' incessant labour, in subduing the flames.
The fire originated in the engine-room from a heap of
packing, which, it is supposed, ignited spontaneously, and in
a very short time the whole of the light wood-work and ceil-
ing were in flames. The stairway to the fire-room is com-
pletely burned away. Several of the timbers and deck beams
are burned about half through, as also the plank of the lower
deck over the engine. Fortunately none of the machinery is
at all injured ; and the furnaces which were full at the time,
did not take fire, otherwise the boilers would have been
burned through before they could have been filled. The
state rooms of the officers and apartments of the servants
and crew are completely broken up. The powder was first
put into the boats, and after that the specie and the furni-
ture of the boat. None of the state rooms for passengers,
nor cabins, were injured otherwise than by smoke.
The damage is estimated at twenty thousand dollars, and,
I should think, would fully equal, if not exceed that amount.
The boat was to sail to morrow for England. She will now
be detained, and as yet it is not decided if she will proceed
without some important repairs, Capt. Eliot (of Commissioner
Lin celebrity) was on board, and was very active and efficient
in his services. He proceeds to New Orleans, on his way to
Texas, shortly. There is no other English steamer in port,
and the mails will, therefore, be detained.
(Prom the Charleston Courier.)
We learn from Matanzas, that the British steamer Teviot,
reported in our paper of Saturday last as having taken fire at
Havana from the spontaneous combustion of her coal, was to
leave that port on the 19th for Nassau, N.P. she having
received no material injury.
Teviot arrived at Falmouth on Friday. The Falmouth
letter says that she has sustained much damage.]

Mr. William Martin, the Christian Philosopher and Poet,
has completed the model of a boat to be driven by what he
terms " swan foot paddles."

TI .., Luft 'put Knltteireld, In Styria, was on the 26th ult.
so dreadfully ravaged by a ffre, that .)6 houses and W farm
buildings were entirely consumed, and six persons lost their
lives.
MENTAL CAUSES OF AroPLEXY.—Such is the power of
the mind, there is scarcely a passion which has not, by excess
of action, terminated existence. Love has done it; anger
has done it; grief has done it; and also joy. But there is
one mental emotion which, in our experience, never struck
the human body with a fatal blow ; it is hope. Hope, when
well grounded, never creates evil ; it is a true anchor. The
other passions may agitate the soul, as the angel Bethesda's
waters ; but hope rather resembles the healing influence that
angel left behind.
A MYSTERIOUS MEETING OF COLLIERS.—On Monday
last, the inhabitants of Halifax were surprised by the appear-
ance of an unusual number of colliers in the streets. It
appeared that a public meeting was arranged to be held by
them in the Oddfellows' Hall. It was calculated there were
about eight or nine hundred present. What was the end or
object of the meeting we could not learn precisely, as wo
applied for admittance to report the proceedings, but were
denied. We have since been told, that it was a preparatory
meeting to a general strike amongst all the colliers, and that
delegates attended from Sheffield, Wakefield, and other
quarters; but so secret were they in their proceedings that
they turned out all stewards and banksmen from the meeting.
The object to be gained is not so much a question of wages,
it is said, as the formation of a general union, to act in-
stantaneously, and stop machinery, railways, &c.—Bradford
Observer.
COMMISSIONS or LUNACV.—By a recent act of parliament
considerable alterations in proceedings under commissions of
lunacy will be effected. It received the royal assent on
Friday week, and is entitled" An act to alter and amend the
practice and course of proceeding under commissions in the
nature of writs de lunati co inquirendo." It authorises the
appointment by the Lord Chancellor of two commissioners,
being sergeants or barristers of ten years' standing, who are
to be styled " The Commissioners in Lunacy," and to whom
all commissions of lunacy are to be directed. The commis-
sioners are in future to perform the duties in lunacy hitherto
referred to the masters in chancery. There are also to be
ex-officio visitors of lunatics under the existing laws, and
their proceedings are to be regulated by the Lord Chancellor,
who can also appoint special commissioners, and is likewise
empowered to make general orders regulating the practice
respecting commissions of lunacy. The number of jurymen
is also to be fixed by the Lord Chancellor, but not to be less
than twelve. The salary of the commissioners is to be each
£2,000 per annum, and the office of "clerk of the custodies
of idiots and lunatics" is abolished. There is a provision
for retiring annuities to the commissioners, compensation to
the officers, &c., and the salaries of the clerks, &c., to be ap-
pointed, are to be fixed by the Lord Chancellor and the lords
of the treasury.
MELANCHOLY DEATH or DROWNING.—We have to
announce the melancholy death, by drowning, of Mr. John
Dallas Edge, barrister-at-law, and seneschal of Castlecomer.
He arrived from Castlecomer on Thursday afternoon, where
he had been, leaving his lady and two children on a visit
with the family of his father. In the course of the same
evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, he was walking in com-
pany with his brother-in-law and a friend, Mr. M'Mullen,
when they met Mr. Hamilton, of James's-street, who had a
small row-boat on the mill pond of Mount Brown distillery.
The entire party resolved to amuse themselves for a while
rowing. The boat was moored towards the centre, andiz:aedslitineoecl
with a grappling-iron was used by Mr. Hamilton to bring
her to land. The line slipped out of hiefsraehueagnhhditm,hanortodmoMf
hisirt
Maunsell stripped and went in after it.- Ile recovered it,
Alaunsell held on, and
and, fastening it to the boat, was swimming to the shore-,
when his feet became entangled in thdebsowttehoeds. He call
assistance, and the lamented deceased in an instant di
himself of his coat, and went to the assistance of Mr, aun-
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Mr. Maunsell held on the boat, and .
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succeeded in rescuing him from his .were then procured, and the body Pr c..)us situation. Drags
Mr. Edge was not re-
covered for more than forty minutes.—Dublin 111
paper.
STATE OF JAMAICA.---The pr • Jamaica may be
prosperity of
said to be nearly at its lowest ebb" Her glory has immerged
beneath her natural horizon.- main NI, hen it will culminate
is a question that few willpretend predict
to answer, fewer
.
with a degree of cert • ainty. We may be proceeding onward
because we cannot retrograde
muc I I further, but our progres
is imperceptible, and we are without the hope of approxi-
mating a goal which will either delight or relieve us. There
must be some political to bring about a mercantile change.
Sugar and rum so depressed—wages so high and exorbitant—
servants idle—money scarce; and 'no prospect of labour sup-
plies to bring down extravagant wages. At the same time,
the very persons who ought to study how to bringi
wages grs t
too
a medium, are those who are endeavouring.
to
rvaastse themwant of
a maximum beyond endurance. But there
tiso a
be endeavour-
union throughout the country; each seems losers in the end.
ing to cheat each other, and all are
equally
Of what avail are the rich resources o
Of what avail is the industry of its proprietary, without the
means of their development. Our
labourersicesetahreeira species of
gentlemen ; they inherit at theleastt
have eavch his own superiors ;
they ride each his own horse,
his own vine. watch, and.
We shall can sit rather than work
under
staken place. In
en-
deavour to show how thislut
arose with the dawn of
freedom, errors innumerablehae been adopted for respectth to
thcnew
policy which ought toh e protection
property. The laws were of the landholder's
imperfections. hastily framed,
and that led to severalssess.ouwas.._ The distinction of
right—and that of po I ill defined. The labourer
imagined that his fee simplewasd
to his heirs never to end—that it was
to hold to him and l for ever, instead of his being tenant at
considered a !nere t . t
Lai Ivl 1, and nothing will eradicate
that impression. bu a o deprivation of all lands and a
new pactiOn being formed between the employer em-
ployed. A system is recommended by the colonial and.
minister,
which is called " Metairie," by which
the labourer becomes
a small farmer, paying produce • instead of rent, but which
we are certain would not do here ; for, the moment he found
any other vent that would b •
for his produce, he would bring
him a farthing more per load
disappoint the
individual
to whom,
for everything, perhaps, he was beholden and carry them to
another market. Unless. a t. ' inuee., tue proprietor intended to
abandon planting altogethercompletely abortive.--Cornwall
and leave it to his labourers,
this scheme would prove• C /1
Chronicle.