The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

SOUTH HANTS ELECTION.---Tuesday next is the day
fixed for the nomination. Lord Charles Wellesley, the
second son of the Duke of Nirellington, is the candidate. No
opposition is anticipated.

In the list of patents sealed last month is a singular one,
viz.—to " Lady Ann Vavasour, of Melbourne Hall, York-
shire, for improvements in machinery for draining land.—
Sealed 7th July—Six months for enrolment."
OMINOUS COINCIDENCE.—In a Glasgow paper we find a
paragraph announcing the arrival of Father Mathew the
Apostle of Temperance, in that city. The next paragraph in
the same paper, oddly enough, states the explosion of a dis-
tillery which blew down the wall separating the distilling
house from the printing office of the Temperance Record.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—As might have been anticipated
from the outset of the controversy Mr. Longfield has with-
drawn,, and in his own words " for ever," 'his pretensions
on the representation of the University. In his letter of
resignation, addressed to the editor of the Evening Packet,
Mr. Longfield expresses his satisfaction, that as the College
is to be representee, by a second gentleman who has matri-
culated at Oxford, the honour should have devolved upon a
person so well qualified to fill the arduous post as is Mr.
Alexander Hamilton.

Saturday the Queen Dowager completed her 50th year.
Notwithstanding the absence of that illustrious personage
from town, Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, was beseiged
throughout the day by the principal nobility and gentry,
anxious to enter their names in the visitors' book. In the
neighbourhood of Bushy-park, at Hampton, Hampton-
court, &c., the children of the parochial schools were regaled
with a substantial dinner, and the principal inhabitants
dined together in the afternoon. In the evening her Ma-
jesty's tradespeople in the metropolis illuminated.
Theatricals, as Mr. Robins truly observed, have in these
days got to a very low ebb ; as a very excellent and complete
equipment for a private theatre, four rolling scenes, three
skies, 11 side scenes, a foot lamp, stand for 301ights, four
lanterns, &c., brought the high amount of £l. lls. 6d.
Other articles fetched equally low prices. The billiard table,
complete and in capital condition, brought only fourteen
guineas, and a mail coach, (one of the four-in-band club),
sold only for seven guineas—about the worth of the wheels I
The Duke of Wellington accepted the office lately held by
Lord Hill on Friday. We have reuson to believe, however,
that the arrangement is merely temporary, and that Sir G.
Murray will eventually succeed to the appointment. The
reason assigned for the Duke's acceptance of office is said to
be that Her Majesty was so bewildered by the number and
pressing applications of candidates for this important ap-
pointment, that she requested the Duke of Wellington to
relieve her from the delicacy of the position in which she
found herself placed, by accepting it, pro tempore, himself.
We repeat our confident belief. however, that his Grace will
remain in office a short time, and that his place will ulti-
mately be supplied by Sir G. Murray.—United Service
Gazette.

CHEAPNESS OF FRUIT.—OD Monday in Clare-market,
London, ripe gooseberries of a large size were selling freely
at one penny per quart ; well-flavoured mellow pears, one
hundred for twopence. Remarkably fine fresh-gathered
Kentish cherries, retailed in full weight (avoirdupois,) eight
pounds for sixpence. Green gages at fourpence, and fine
Orleans plums at threepence per gallon. Large well-
flavoured
apples, fit for pies and puddings, at one half-penny
per dozen ; whilst sugar-loaf cabbages were retailing-at three
for a penny. French beans and scarlet-runners at threepence
per peck ; large size cucumbers, two for a penny ; and water-
cresses, four bunches for a halfpenny. Such a scale of prices
for the same edible commodities has not been recognised by
the oldest person who attends the stalls in the above market,
and some of them are far advanced in senectitude, and have
frequented the same for upwards of forty years.
SUICIDE.—BRIGHTON, August 15.—A most determined
act of suicide was committed here yesterday morning, about
ten o'clock, by a gentleman named Peate, who had been
some time domiciled at a house in Bloomsbury-place. He
is a married man, and on rising in the morning desired his
wife to go below and see to the breakfast preparations, and
she accordingly proceeded to comply with his wishes. No
sooner, however, had she left, than, securing the door of the
apartment, he, with considerable difficulty, owing to the
smallness and position of the window, forced himself through,
and after hanging for a few seconds outside by the window-
sill, dropped to the pavement below. The window was one
of a second floor chamber, and his leg was broken by the fall.
A Mr. Brown, surgeon, residing in the neighbourhood, was
on the spot immediately, and rendered the proper assistance ;
but, notwithstanding that the injuries to the leg were the
only ones discoverable, the unfortunate gentleman expired in
little more than half an hour. We hear that the deceased
had been much afflicted with the gout and other complaints,
and that on more than one occasion he was thought to exhi-
bit an appearance of deranged intellect.
WATERSPOUT.—The Mersey, Captain Steel, belonging to
Liverpool, arrived at Oporto from the former port, reports
having seen a waterspout on the 3d instant, which rapidly
approached the Mersey, but passed about three ships' length
off her. It then made a direct course towards a small
schooner about a mile and a half ahead of the Mersey, which
Captain Steel supposes was ingulfed in the vortex, as the
weather was thick at the time, with heavy rain, thunder and
lightning; and on its clearing up in about 15 minutes after,
the schooner was not to be seen either on deck or aloft. The
schooner was apparently steering the same course as the
Mersey when the waterspout was first seen. The schooner
was under a heavy press of sail at the time, and the weather
being hazy did not probably perceive it until it was close
upon her. The Bayonne Islands bore by compass S.E. by
S., distant 36 miles, the wind from the north westward.
BALLOON ASCENT.—On Friday afternoon an ascent was
made by Mr. Green, in the Albion Balloon, from the race-
course, at Weymouth, Dorset. On account of its being the
first that has ever been made in the county, an immense
assemblage was attracted to witness the event. The balloon,
On quitting terra firma, passed over, at an altitude of about
1,500 feeto Weymouth-bay and the cliffs at Hillsworth, the
aeronauts having throughout their voyage a fine commanding
view of the Channel. The descent took place near Bland-
ford, in about an hour and a half after the ascent. The bal-
loon was the same that Hampton nearly lost his life with,
on three occasions—namely, descending, after an ascent from
Rochester; in the sea, off Dover; and his parachute expe-
riments at Cheltenham and Bayswater. Mr. Green was
accompanied by Captain Currey.
AMERICAN PINE Triunnu.—During the month of July.
this year, 6,408 tons of shipping arrived at Liverpool, with
5,719 pieces of fir, against 27,454 tons, 23,537 pieces in July
last. Between February. and July, last year, inclusively,
51,455 tons with 37,227 pieces arrived, against 15,649 tons,
11,241 pieces received this year. The sales were limited, and
we fear sales are likely to decline gradually in extent till the
10th of October, the period for the operation of the new du-
ties, because buyers naturally look now for new wood, and
as this can only be possessed by consumers through an im-
mediate payment of Ils 6d per load to the customs, which
neither benefits buyer nor seller, this impost (about to be
cancelled in the course of a few week,) naturally interferes
as a dead lock for the present on all the operations in the
trade. We judge that the imports which are sold on arrival
till October merit attention from speculators, because of the
unprecedented depression, and that, then, buyers will get
possession of their woods at merely nominal duties, and
meantime getting a deduction of the existing duties. The
stock at the end of July, including all recent arrivals, was
estimated at 2,384,000 feet ; on the 31st May, it was
2,755,000 feet, since when 351,000 feet having been imported,
the consumption for the last two months appears to have been
722,000 feet. 11,000 feet of good Quebec was sold by auc-
tion, in one lot, at 121c1 per foot. Other sales have been
effected, by retail, at from 13d to 14d per foot. St John, in
cargo of good quality and average, has been sold beneath
18d per foot, but the precise rate has not transpired.
Sales of middling qualities have been made off the quay, to
the extent of 11,000 feet, at from 171 d. to 19d. per foot.
But most of the imports of the month have been either
stored, or held on board, which appears to be more natural
and proper course for importers just now. Quebec red pine,
of fair quality, has been sold at 20d. and 22d. per foot.—
Trade Circulars.
WILL OF THE LATE LORD MANNERS.—The will of the
above nobleman, whose decease, about six weeks since, will
be recollected, was proved on Monday last in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury. The executors are Lord Charles
Manners and the Rev. Thomas Manners Sutton, Sub-Dean
of Lincoln ; his lordship's widow, Lady Manners, being
appointed co-executrix. The amount of personal property is
sworn to be under £250,000, and the disposal of the effects is
arranged in the following morning ;—The testator bequeaths
to the executors beforenamed the whole of his money secured
upon mortgage, and all money in the funds and on other
securities upon trust, with the consent of his son, the present
lord, to be invested in the purchase of lands, and directs the
estates purchased to be settled on his son. To his widow,
Lady Manners, he bequeaths a legacy of £2OOO, and so much
out of the trust fund as will make up the amount of her
marriage settlement. Her ladyship is also to have the en-
joyment, during life, of such plate, books, linen, &c. as she
may require. To each of the executors the testator gives
£5OO. The residue of the estate is bequeathed to his lord-
ship's son and heir, the present peer.

George Lorimer, the chief mate of the brio- British Queen,
lying in St. Catherine's Dock, was brought before the Thames
Police magistrates on Wednesday, charged with the murder
of Robert Meiklejohn, the captain of the brig. The brig on
the night of the 11th April was lying at anchor at Aligny, ou
the coast of Africa. The captain's bed was spread upon
deck, and he and the mate were walking on the quarter deck,
in the dark, when a plunge and a cry, " Don't, Geordie,
don't," were heard, and then the mate called out, " Forward,
there !" The cook and a seaman ran aft, and accused the
mate of having hove the captain overboard, to which he
muttered something about giving him a shove. When they
looked over the ship's side the water was gleaming and
sparkling, as it does when stirred on dark nights in tropical
climates, and some one was seen struggling, but soon dis-
appeared, and that was all that was seen of the unfortunate
captain. The sharks were round the ship in great numbers;
a man was lowered down a few days before, who had died
of fever, and the corpse scarcely touched the water before
the ferocious monsters had seized it. No doubt existed
from the evidence as to the captain's being thrown over-
board, but the prisoner on that day had shown several symp-
toms of insanity, and shortly before the murder he had run
forward and given the false alarm, " The captain is over-
board 1" He was committed to take his trial for wilful mur-
der. The captain was only 25 years of age, a native of Scot-
land, and a fellow-townsman of the prisoner.

CENTENARY COMMEMORATION.—On Sunday last was
held the centenary of the memorable sacramental occasion at
Cambuslang, consequent on the great religious revival which
took place in that parish in 1742, under the ministry of the
Rev. W. M`Culloch. Amongst the ministers who assisted
on that occasion was the celebrated Whitfield. The number
of communicants was three thousand, many of them from
distant parts of the country. " The tables," says Mr.
M'Culloch's account, "were all served in the open air, be-
side the tent, below the brae." The deeply cherished re-
collections of this solemnity led to a very general desire that
the centenary of the communion should be celebrated in a
manner consonant with the hallowed associations with which
it is remembered. Public notice having been given of the
arrangement in our own paper, an immense concourse of
people assembled at Cambulsang from all parts of the sur-
rounding country. A great number went from thin city, and
several from a distance of many. miles. The service was
performed in the open air in the "kirk glen," an exceed-
ingly sweet and romantic retreat, the tent being placed, as
near as could be ascertained, on the very spot where it rested
while occupied successively by Whitfield and the other wor-
thies who assisted the pious minister of the parish, It was
pitched on the margin of a small brook, from which the
ground rises gradually to a considerable height, and spreads
out in the form of a beautiful amphitheatre. On this acclivity
the congregation was seated, and the aspect it presented was
indescribably grand and imposing. There could not be
fewer than six thousand persons present at one time, while
crowds of people were constantly going and coming during
the whole of the day, so that the number who actually visited
the glen during the services may be safely stated at not fewer
than from 10,000 to 15,000. Worship was commenced by
Dr. Brown, of St. John's, Glasgow, who, on the congrega-
tion rising at the first prayer, was evidently so much over-
powered by the magnificence and solemnity of the spectacle,
as to be for a brief space unable to proceed with the devo-
tions. The rev. Doctor, with short intervals of praise and
prayer, preached for upwards of two hours and a half, from
the text chosen by Whitfield, a hundred
namely, " to you who belive, He is precious." years before At the close
of the services Mr. Robertson gave out the last three verses
of the 72d psalm, which at his rec,u,r,st were sung by the con-
gregation standing. The services were not over till nearly
half-past six in the evening.--GlasgowGuardian. -

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VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

WEST INDIES, Av.
Alice Brown, J Palmer, 172 Cuba,
SOUTH AMERICA.
408 Maranham,
UNITED STATES.
Jessie Miller, W Crowder, 382 Charleston,
Patrick Henry, J C Delano, 100.0 New York,
BRITISH AMERICA.

Cornubia, T Bell,

J Gemmell, j un

W & J Tyrer

Cannon & Co
Chapman & Co

Falcon, J Donaldson, 270 Quebec,
Traveller, J Needham, 263 Miramichi,
Winscales, S Connolly, 320 Montreal,
Princess Victoria, J Gray, 251 Dalhousie,
Margaret, (steamer) N Shannon, 370 Halifax,

Chapman & Willis
Eshelby & Co
W Fisher & Co
Craig & Preston
D & C Maclver

EUROPE.
Diamant, C H Jansycn, Danzic, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Aurora, W Llewellyn, 85 Dordt, A F Moore
Clio, W H Rundle, 80 Gibraltar and Malaga, J Glynn & Son
Louisa, G Chalker, 119 Gibraltar and Cadiz, Wood & Ititson
Jim Crow, W H Carter, 104 Harlingen, A F Moore
Clara & Mathilde, H P Russon, Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Union, A V Heyde, 150 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Hoop & Verwachting, B J Potjewyd, Amsterdam,
Bahr, Behrend & Co
89 Liston, Hughes & Co
100 Amsterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co
91 Antwerp, J Johnstone
100 Bergen, Bahr, Behrend & Co

Mary Ann, T Giles,
Marchiena, R B Legger,
Henriette, J Luckies,
Minerva, C Barford,

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUGUST 16.
Considering the lawless state of the manufacturing dis-
ricts, with the entire stoppage of machinery, we have again
to report a favourable aspect of our market with reference
both to demand and price. Fully 3,000 bales have been sold
to the trade, and some inquiry has been made by exporters
and speculators, but to what extent they have operated.
Extreme prices are readily paid, and the market is by no
means well supplied.

COTTON MARKET, AUGUST 18.
Our Cotton market is quite a paradox, notwithstanding the all
but general stoppage of :machinery by the mobocracy, the de-
mand continues good, and a large business is daily transacted.
Granted that a fair proportion is done by speculators, yet the bulk
is on consumers account. Within the last three days 15,000 bales
have changed hands—Tuesday 5000, Wednesday 5000, and to-day
5000—of this quantity not more than 5000 are for speculation.
Prices are a decided id It, up since last Friday, and at this ad-
vance Cotton is shewn very sparingly, so that the buyer has not
much choice.