The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Single barrel rifle guns are made to fire two balls in suc-
cession from the one charging.
It is expected that the Preston and Lancaster Railway will
be completed by next June.
ASTONISHING !--Mr. Hume, M.P., for Kilkenny, has
subscribed.five pounds to the races of that city.
A printer down east says, that many of his subscribers
would make good wheel bores, they hold back so well
At the London Polytechnic Institution, meat is cooked by
means of reflectors, a hundred feet distant from the fire.
The whole of the inside roof of St.. Paul's Church, at Mon-
treal, has fallen in and destroyed all the pews.
Sheridan, having threatened his son Tom to cut him off
itwith a shilling, received the retort,—" Where will you get
?"

The Hungarian minstrels have done a great business at
Philadelphia. Their receipts for three nights were over 1700
dollars.
Thalberg's concerts in the west of England, last week, pro-
duced about £650. He has since gone to Ireland.—Musical
World,
A man in New Orleans, whose physician directed a rigid
vegetable diet, asked if mint juleps came within the re-
striction.

In working a limestone quarry at Rock, near Alnwick, a
stone was discovered, bearing upon it all the marks of a petri-
fied nest of snakes.
Mr. James Montgomery has written six poetical pieces on
" Christ's Miracles," to be published for the benefit of the
Bristol General Hospital.
To THE GLOOMY.—Affixed to a cottage in Cook's-grounds,
Chelsea, is a printed notice that the inmate " goes out cheer-
ing."

A fine brown eagle was winged and taken by a sportsman
at Sheffield the other day. It measured across the wings
five feet four inches.
The Canton Repository, speaking of a rabid dogs, says—
" The same dog bit his owner, a Mr. Hang, of this town,
and some other dogs."
An author at Tournai is now engaged; on the 115th volume
•of a history of his native town. A.ll the former volumes have
been printed and published.
A barber at Fulham announces that he curls-ladies' hair by
steam, so adieu to curling irons, and all such vulgar old-
'fashioned affairs.
Captains in the Russian imperial' navy have the power of
beating any of their crew to death ! An instance occurred
this last summer, at Sinemunde.
A PATRON.—The Steubenville (Ohio) Herald says :—" A
subscriber who has been patronizing'us for nearly ten years
'without paying, and Whose lovelYtvife,'not long since, broom-
-sticked our collector out of the house-for presenting the,bill.
wanted to know of us last week ujny we stopped his paper."
•
Anew route to New Orleans is shortly to open—viz., from
Brunswick, (Geo.) the finest port South, across the Florida
peninsida, 207. miles,. to Tallahasse;
.thence to lola and-St.
Joseph; thence by steamboat to NeW Orleans—saving two
'days.—New York
" Throw, physic to the worms." Mr. Physic's cocoonery
at Germtintown;.Pa., is the largest in the world. It has fed
this season 2,000,000 of worms, and has 400,000 mulberry
trees growing. He is about planting 60 acres more—and•the
yearafter next calculates feeding fifteen millions of worms.
—New York •P &per.
lIIS ,AL HIGHNESS PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE.
—We understand that ,his royal highness will return to this
country at the dose of this or early in the ensuing month.
,Lettets•Verf received in town onSaturday, from the prince,
!wheils'in excellent health and spirits. His royal highness
continues at Gene-Va. • • •
EXTRAORDINARY PECU.NDITY.—Mr, Weeks, of Salisbury,
by a judicious cro,S of the Creole and Spanish fowls, to which
he gives the name of " Prolific," - has now iu his possession
10 hens,. hatched in 1838, which have already laid 1,270 eggs.
Allowing 'these eggs to
.weigh 11 oz. each, the weight of the
above wilt amount to no lessahan 1.101b5.--Merthhyr paper.
At Mar Ledge, near Braemar, the Duke of Leeds and a
party of sportiug frioacts.thave had excellent sport, shooting
red deer, ptarinigan, grouse; and black game. His grace and
friends up -to the Ist instant had bagged upwards of 900
brace:' -
,„ win • ,
"A• ;three,. man upon whom sentence of death was passed
;at
.!frtil:Varwick, assizes, •for their participation in the lite
BiSrnbagham riots; have been ordered to he transported for
;life.- • • - , • .
Allivaiik,Biurl-',-Messrs. D. and J. Edwards, of Genessee,
Allegany county, have now growing in their garden a seed
beet, 9;, be red or blood species, nine and half feet
high- 1,7-Wm. York poper.
QtrEEN.ELIZABETH, who governed forty-four years created
but sii-earls and eight or nine barons during her reign. The
whigsduring their reign of nine years, have, according to
Lord'Breugham, made upwards of fifty peers !
A lady named Earle was accidentally poisoned at Chelten-
hani,-the Other day, by having administered to her in mis-
take, ten grains of muriate or morphia, dissolved in an ounce
of water instead of a 1` sedative mixture." ,
We understand that the staffs of the militia are about to be
inspected,:with a view to the discharge of such men as may
be found inefficient, it being intended to re-organize this truly
constitutional force in the early part of next year.—Standard.
SIGNIFICANT ANNOUNCEMENT.—The following appears
in a Nottinghani•paper :--" The public are hereby informed
that the believers and friends in the doctrines .of Zion Ward
have nothing whatever to do with Squires, or the
,devil now
in Nottingham."
FiturTs-na. CHARTISM.—The barracks at Loughborough
have at length been completed; at an outlay of £7OO, and on
Wednesday evening the detachment of the 9th dragoons took
possession of them. Loughborough will in future be a mili-
tary station.
The following laconic epistle may be seen in the window
of a coffee-house in Featherstone-street, City-road :--11 Stolen
from this window, a china cup and saucer ; the set being now
incomplete,'the thief may have the remainder a bargain."..
The 'Bunker Hill Aurora informs us that the first cargo of
—kr— .4. --
at East
BostOn on Monday week. Other cargoes are coming, so that
a full supply will be in readiness before :winter.---New .Fork
Paper.
It is calculated that a dissolution of *parliament would give
an_ immediate, majority of 50 to the conservatives, to say
nothing of the rats who would go over to the opposition side
of the way, as.soon as they found the whig house in danger
of falling.Wss .
io PROVIDENCE.—Another of the Elliots has been pro-
vided fora Admiral the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming,
cousin to Sir Charles, half brother to Lord •Elphinstone, and
commander.in-chief at Portsmouth, has been appointed to
the governorship of Greenwich Hospital.
MINERALS OF Ranswasnial:.--Alurnine is said to have
been found in the iron ores of Radnorshire, and that it is
well worth the consideration of those iron masters who are
at a great expense in importing the red ore of Lancashire.-
4.lferthyr Guardian.
THE EXTENSION RAILWAY.—A meeting of the directors
of this railway, with those of the Grand Junction, was held
yesterday at Newton. We have not heard the result ; but,
from the buoyancy of the shares in the Extension Company
last night, we should presume that it is of a favourable cha-
racter.—Manchester Chronicle.
" Broomstick Marriages," or in other, words, the matri-
monial contracts which the New Marriage Act has legalized,
are considered by the Owenites as a vast concession in favour
of their foul and atheistical system of Socialism. This was
admitted on the part of Mr. Farmer, in his late discussion
with Mr. Brindley, on the immoral and pernicious principles
of Owenism.—Falmouth Express.
A young ensign of a regiment, stationed not far from
Manchester, residing in lodgings, the sitting-room of which
was very small, was visited by one of h's fashionable friends,
who, on taking leave, said—' Well, Charles, and how much
longer do you mean to continue in this nut-shell 1" to which
he wittingly replied—" Until I become a kernel."
THE TYPOFACE.—The Bordeaux papers mention that a
young sculptor of that city had discovered a method of tak-
ing casts of the human face, which, without requiring that
the features should be reduced to a state of perfect rigidity,
allows them to preserve all their natural play, and thus pro-
duces an exact resemblance with the animation of life. His
name is Pellet,and he designates his apparatus the Typeface.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton embarked on board their
yacht on Thursday last, at Devonport, which sailed the same
day for Lisbon, where it is the noble lord's-intention to pass
a few days, and then sail for Gibraltar, and from thence go
to Naples, and then return, by Cadiz, to the French coast,
when they land, and go to Paris for the winter.—Morning
Herald.

BERLIN, SEPT. 29.—Two more Roman Catholic families,
consisting of 19 persons, have lately joined the Protestant
church, because on occasion of marriages the Romish clergy
required a promise that their children should be edhcated in
the Roman Catholic religion ; a promise which the parties
refused to give, had the ceremony performed by a Protestant
clergyman, and with their relations quitted the Romanish
church.

HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.—We understand thnt within the
last fortnight no less than five cases of highway robbery have
occurred upon the Liverpool road, about two or three miles
from this city. It is strongly suspected that the delinquents
are excavators employed on the railway. The robberies have
generally been committed within a short distance from the
place where the Birkenhead line crosses the highway.—
Chester Courant.
We are informed by a correspondent at Southampton, who
is known to us, that Lord Durham and Mr. Poulett Thom-
son passed a good deal of time together just before the new
governor's departure, and were often seen, on board his
lorilihip's yacht and elsewhere, engaged in earnest conversa-
tion. ° It was remarked by spectators that Mr. Thomson
seemed to exhibit somewhat ostentatiously his intimacy with
the ex-dictator.—Colonial Gazette.

THE .BISHOP OF NEWFOUNDLAND.--The Right Rev.
Dr. Aubrey Spencer, the: newly-created Bishop of New-
foundland, sailed for his diocese on the Ist instant, in the
Toronto line of packet ship; via New York. To those who
have the interests of the Church of England at heart, it will
be gratifying to know that in going out to his extensive and
important diocese, the right rev, prelate has had -his hands
considerably strengthened by the Societies for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel and for the Promotion of Christian Know-
ledge in foreign parts ; and it will interest the public to
know that their generous feeling has added the sum of £5OO
per annum towards the revenue of the new bishopric, in-
creased the number of missionaries, providing £lOO for the
outfit of eich, and raised their stipend from £l5O to £2OO per
annum. With these auxilliaries, and the aid of the powerful
eloquence, high example, and Christian devotion to his
duties of the gifted and excellent bishop, we trust it will not
be long before the differences which have existed in New-
foundland may be happily reconciled.
ARRESTS OF CHARTISTS.—On Monday, at Rochdale,
James Mellor, a resident'at Heywood, against whom a true
bill was found by the grand jury at the last Liverpool assizes,
was brought before the magistrates, in custody of Mr. Turner,
deputy constable of Heywood. Mr. Job Plant and Mr.
Nathaniel Bottomley were tendered as bail.—Mr. Royds
asked the constable if they were approved as bail ; if they.
were responsible persons.—Mr. Turner said he did not know
that; they could answer for themselves. They were severally
asked if they were worth £5O, after their debts were paid ;
and each answered' in the negative.—Mr.-Royds said, then
they could not be taken as bail.—Mellor was evidently desir-
ous of a little display after the manner of Stephens and
O'Connor, and commenced an address about being a poor
working man, but ready to defend his own cause ; but Mr.
Royds, who does not appear to have much sympathy with
speech makers, cut him short by telling him to procure suffi-
cient bail. The constable asked what time would be allowed
the prisoner to get sureties.—Mr. Royds said he must keep
his prisoner of course, until the sureties were accepted. He,
then took him out of court, and after some delay, he again
brought Mellor forward with four persons as sureties. Their
names were Thomas Greenhalgh, Nathaniel Bottomley, Ro-
bert Holt, and Henry Green, and they were accepted as bail
in £25 each ; the prisoner being bound in £lOO, to appear at
the next Liverpool assizes, and there answer such. bill or bills.
of indictment as may be then and there preferred against
him.—Benjamin Vitton.of Middleton, another chartist,_ was.
presented by the constable of Middleton, under a bench war-
rant, for a like offence with Mellor. were Williaai
Collinge, weaver, of Heabers; and 'ho is Smithies, retail:
brewer and beer-seller, of Middleton ; they were -accepted,
and the recognizances in like sums=namely, ,Fitton in £lOO,
and his sureties in £5O each—were completed, and they. left
the court.—Manchesler Guardian.