The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

A.dvices from Athens of the 10th inst, announce the retnrn
of the King and Queen on the 9th from a short tour through
the islands. Rumours of a change in the Cabinet were
afloat, but were not considered well-founded. Two new
journals had made their appearance at Patras. In their first
number they called upon the King to fulfil the promise he
made on his accession to the throne, to give a constitution to
Greece, and on the protecting Powers, but particularly
England, to insist on the accomplishment of a pledge they
had guaranteed.
The announcement of the failure of the respectable firm of
Hunter and Coventry in the corn trade, produced a consi-
derable sensation with renewed anxieties in that department
of business on Wednesday afternoon. The amount of their
liabilities have, however, been much overstated by the most
of our contemporaries this morning. The real amount does
not exceed £lOO,OOO, and the debts owing them, and the
stock on hand taken at present prices, exceed £120,000. It
will naturally be asked by business men, if such be the
real state of their affairs, how does it occur that they could
not obtain support to enable them to go on ? The fact, how-
ever is, that the wheat market is at present so completely
under the influence of panic, that it will scarcely sell in large
quantities at any price, whilst at the same time the discount
market is literally shut against all paper connected with corn
transactions, notwithstanding the abundance of money.—
Stondard.

STEAM NAVIGATION INVENTED BY THE SPANIARDS.—
A. letter from Madrid, published in the Commerce French
paper, contains an account of the discovery in the Royal
archives of Salamanca of authentic documents, proving what
has heretofore rested on vague tradition. The following
extract is from a register kept by the Minister of the Marine:
" In 1542 Don Blasco de Garray, captain in the navy (Capi-
taine de Vaisseau), submitted to the examination of the
Emperor Charles V, a machine moved by the steam of boil-
ing water, by which ships. however large, could proceed on
a calm sea without oars or sails. The Emperor ordered that
a trial should be made, which took.place in the Roads of
Barcelona on the 17th of June, 1543, and succeeded perfectly.
This experiment was tried with a vessel of 200 tons burthen,
named Santissima Trinidad, commanded by Captain Don
Pedro de Learga, who had arrived at Barcelona with a cargo
of wheat. The Emperor Charles V and his son, afterwards
Philip 11, Don Enrique de Toledo, the Governor Don Pedro
de Cardona, the Grand Treasurer Ravago, the Vice-Chan-
cellor Don Francisco Gralla, a great number of other dis-
tinguished persons of Castile and Catalonia, and numbers of
naval officers, some on shore and some on board the vessel,
were present at the attempt. The Emperor, the Princes,
and the other illustrious personages, were astonished at see-
ing the ease with which the machine moved the vessel; but
the Grand Treasurer Ravago thought it right to advise that
the invention should not be adopted in the vessels of the
State, because, according to his opinion, the machine was too
complicated, and would be too expensive, and there would be
reason to fear an explosion of the boiler." " The special
commission ordered to report on the experiment confined
themselves to stating that a vessel moved by steam had first
completed three leagues in two hours, and then a league in
an hour, and tbat it could be made to move twice as swiftly
as a common rowing galley. The Emperor did not pay any
more attention to the invention of Don Blasco de Garray,
but be presented. him with 700,000 maravedis, and promised
to raise him successively to the highest rank in the Spanish
navy. The late M. Rayuonard, of the Academie Fransaise,
has left among his papers a ballad in honour of Garray, which
was sung in the streets of Barcelona in 1542."

THE BRINDLE PROPERTY.—AII the circumstances re•
lative to the celebrated " Brindle will" cause will, doubtless
be in the recollection of our readers ; also, that actions fo r
libel have been brought by the Rev. Thomas Sherburn,
Roman Catholic priest, against the proprietor of the Lan-
caster Gazette, on account of certain letters which appeared
in that paper ; and that one is now pending between Mr.
Sherburn and Mr. Eastwood, the writer of those letters.
A petition, signed by 144 members of the Roman Catholic
congregation of Brindle, has been addressed and presented to
the Rev. Dr. Brown, Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster,
which, after congratulating the rev. gentleman upon his
" return to the bosom of his flock, after his long absence
from them," says—" We are, as you know, a very nume-
rous and a very poor congregation ; the greater portion of
us are hand-loom weavers, suffering under the most cruel
privations. The hand of Providence has taken suddenly from
us the only member in our congregation to whom we could
look for relief : in him we always found a kind friend and a
liberal benefactor; his doors were always open to the calls
of the needy ; with him we have lost all that we had to con-
sole us under our afflictions ; from Brindle Lodge the poor
man never returned empty-handed ; but now his house is
left desolate; there is no one to open the doors to the
afflicted widow and starving orphan; these is no one to re-
lieve the distracted father, unable to prsserve his wife and
children from the most heart-rending destitution." The
petition then animadverts upon the conduct of the present
possessor of the property, after which it says—" We have
seen the second anniversary of our departed benefactor pass
over without being recommended to that congregation of
which he was the ornament and support : in the chapel of
Brindle Mr. Heatley is no longer recommended to the
prayers of the faithful! ! The small legacy of X 5, and in ad-
dition of £1 for masses, has been withheld. No stone or
tablet marks the spot where lies the late wealthy squire,—
the friend to the poor, the liberal benefactor to the church.
It is with confidence, right rev. sir, that we present our-
selves before you, humbly beseeching you to exert your au-
thority, and remove this scandal from among us. We are
aware of the discipline of the church in early ages, when
bishops and doctors, who have been canonised for their vir-
tues, obliged those who had sinned through avarice to make
restitution, or deposed them. We live in days when the
good example of our clergy is of the utmost consequence.
To behold confessors taking family property from relatives
fills the mind with horror and disgust. Religion must be
seriously injured by such examples. Catholics cannot and
ought not to submit to it." The petition also begs the
bishop to cause the property to be restored " to the natural
and rightful heirs."—Preston paper.
SHEEP-STEALING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sabbath last,
an extraordinary charge of sheep-stealing was brought against
two Cumberland drovers, or farmers, who gave their names
as Foster, and were apprehended and examined at Raccleugh,
or Raicklaw, toll bar, on the Moffat and Crawford toll road.
We have been informed that the Fosters had been at Falkirk
tryst, where they had purchased a large lot of sheep—fifty
scores, we believe—but in driving them south for Carlisle, it
was alleged, that in the good oleborder fashion, they bad re-
cruited the original numbers by taking up some stray lots as
they went along. Be this as it may, we know that our friend,
Mr. Hewetson, of Auchenbenzie, had been at the tryst,'
where he had also purchased a lot of sheep, which were on
their way home, when they were adroitly taken out of a field,
and driven away. They were afterwards got among Messrs.
Fosters' lot, along with another lot belonging to another per-
son. Mr. Hewetson's drivers gave chase to the Fosters, in
consequence of information given by a servant of Mr. Hep-
burn, late in Comrie, now farmer at Hoddam. His servant
had seen Mr. Hewetson's sheep taken in the direction of the
larger lot. On Mr. Hewetson's servants getting up to
Messrs. Fosters' sheep near Crawford, a plump denial was
given to their flock being among Messrs. Fosters', and nothing
but a put-off abusive rebuff was returned, and all inspection
denied. Another "brother in affliction," who was minus a
small lot of 17, on making similar inquiry, met with the same
treatment. Meantime Messrs. Foster, who had been look-
ing out for grazing quarters for their large lot, very abruptly
moved their stock, driving on—thus under most suspicious
circumstances—without stopping, nearly 25 miles. Mr.
Hewetson's drivers were advised to apply for redress and as-
sistance to Mr. E. Irvine, justice of the peace of Newton,
son of the late Lord Newton. On the circumstances being
stated to him, he instantly set out, and went up to Messrs.
Foster, who by this time were past Newton on the Moffat
side. Mr. Irvine's application was met with a similar re-
fusal, and no satisfaction given. It became necessary then,
on his part, to swear in constables, which he instantly did;
and, having previously sent an express to Lanark for the
procurator-fiscal of the county, he then went in due form
and with goodly force in search of the Messrs. Foster. They
were overtaken, forcibly stopped, and taken into custody ;
and the procurator-fiscal meantime arriving, they were ex-
amined along with various witnesses, and warrants granted
immediately to commit them to Lanark gaol, whither they
were forthwith removed. Mr. Hewetson and his drivers
identified upwards of four-score of his sheep ; and the per-
son in search of the small lot of 17, also got them snugly
ensconced among Messrs. Fosters' stock. It is impossible
to give too much merit to Mr Irvine for his prompt and effi-
cient conduct on this occasion. To him alone is due the re•
covery of the lots of sheep ; as in another day, we doubt not,
they would have been " ower the border an' awa," where
never more they would have been seen by their rightful
owners.—Dumfries Times.
FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
—A most alarming accident occurred on Monday evening,
on the Brandling Junction Railway, a whole passenger train
having been thrown off the line, and the carriages tumbled
topsy-turvey over an embankment eight or bine feet high,
and yet the passengers, of whom there were between forty
and fifty, escaped without having sustained the slightest in-
jury. The particulars of this occurrence are briefly these :
The seven o'clock train from Sunderland to Newcastle started
as usual, and proceeded to near where the railway crosses the
Cleadon Lane, where the engineer felt some slight inter-
ruption, and immediately turned off the steam. The train
was then moving at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour.
The sensation was but momentary, but the direction of the
engine was suddenly changed, it having left the line, and was
approaching diagonally the edge of a fearful precipice, form-
ed by the embankment of the railway, about eight or nine
feet in height. The engineer and his assistant maintained
their positions on the engine with the greatest composure,
which, in the end, proved most fortunate ; for had they
leaped off, they would, in all probability, have lost their
lives. On the engine went, followed by its tender, over the
embankment, through a quick-set hedge at the bottom, into
the adjoining field, and was finally brought to a stand-still
several yards from the railway. The engine maintained its
erect position the whole time, and sustained no injury, with
the exception of the pipe which carries the water from the
tender to the boiler, and which was broken asunder. The
engine man instantly opened the safety valve, to allow the
escapement of steam, and then descended from his perilous
position. In the meantime, the most heart-rending cries
were heard from the carriages, which were thrown together
in a state of indescribable confusion. There were five carriages,
two of them being first class and three second class, attached
to the engine. Fortunately, the connecting rod between the
tender and the first carriage broke, and thus separated the
engine from the train. The first carriage remained upon the
line ; the next being dissevered from its companions, was
thrown over the embankment; the next, a first class carriage,
was crushed against the following one, and all the others
were partially overturned, some of them having been thrown
over the embankment, against which they rested obliquely at
the bottom. The scene at this moment as described by an
intelligent individual who was in one of the carriages, was
horrifying in the extreme. Some of the passengers were
escaping by the windows which were uppermost; others
crept out below ; men, women, and children were seen ecransb-
ling over, round, and beneath the vehicles, anxious to secure
their own safety. On proceeding a few yards down the line,
the cause of the accident was soon discerned. There lay the
mutilated remains of a horse, which had evidently strayed
upon the line from one of the adjoining fields. It was cut
completely in pieces.
SHOCKING PROFANITY.—We learn from the Northamp-
ton Herald that a Baptist jubilee has been held in that town
—fel' what purpose is not definitely explained, but we are
told in aid of the "Jubilee Fund." The affair seems to have
lasted some days, as we read that beds were provided for
visitors by tickets—as they label coats and bonnets at the
theatres, we suppose—and that the " creatute comforts,"
as Mr. Jay terms marriage, were further cared for by sup-
plies of tea and refreshments gratuitously to Ministers, also
by tickets. However, in what way these people may amuse
or busy themselves, is perfectly indifferent to us, so long as
they avoid any gross offence to God or man. But we are
not called upon to overlook such offences ; and what else are
we to denominate the fact that there was sold at the bazaar
held on this jubilee occasion by the Baptists, a note, assimi-
lating in size and print to a Bank note, the promissory obli-
gation of which runs as follows :
No. 1

OLD BANK OF HEAVEN.
I promise to give you ETERNAL LIFE,
and none shall pluck you out of my
hand.*
TEN THOUSAND.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
A good title to thou shalt be saved.t
Heaven is worth Whoso believeth shall be saved.
more than Whoso believeth shall not be damned 4
£lO,OOO. JESUS CHRIST.
* John x. 28. -l• Matthew xxv. 16. :Mark xvi. 16.
We will not trust ourselves to make any remark on the
above, further than to ask—ls this, then, the boasted nine-
teenth century ?—John Bull.

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