The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-21 00:00:00

ON DITS.

THE ROYAL MIMIC.—The papers state that " the Queen
is a decided mimic." If so, we hope her Majesty will ex=
ercise her powers-in the art-by " taking off" her Miriisters.
A correspondent informs us that the big o'. Master
Martrish, and " immaculate" little :John O'Connell, and
divers joints of the Tail, including some ministerial hacks,
are in a day or two to appear in the Court of Exchequer be-
fore " James, Lord Abinger," to answer the wrongs of an
ill-requited attache, when it iS guessed some curious, if not
important disclosures will be made to aid the inimitable un-
tiring pencil of H. 8.,

HYMEN.-.lt is reported an ill-matched couple, recently
united, have quarrelled, and that the young Adonis is to have
six hundred per annum to do what he likes with.—Aye.
The young lady at a certain great house, did, we know,
stamp upon the Morning Post, and direct her servants never
to admit the paper again.,
Lady Clarke, the wife of Sir JameS Clarke, the Queen's
private physician, (as we hear), does not hesitate to say that
her husband cannot be disinissed the' Palace.—Queiy. why ?
The dismissal of Sir John Conroy; which we announced in
our last, from his office of Comptroller of the DU-chess of
Kent's household will, it is said, lead, to explanations any
thing hilt pleasant in high quarters.—Argus.

PROLIFIC PlG.—There is a sow pig in the possession of
Mr. Thomas Seel, of Wellington-road, Ashton-under-Lyne,
grocer, and bred by Mr. Wm. Labrey, tea-dealer, Market-
place, Manchester, that has given birth, at five times, to the
astonishing number of 84 pigs.. She had the first time, 15 ;
second, 14 ; third, 16 ; fourth, 17 ; fifth, 22, Sixteen of the
last have been reared, are turned six weeks old, and are very
fine healthy pigs.—Manchester Courier.

It was lately decided by Mr. Justice Coleridge that an
innkeeper cannot legally maintain any charge in his bill for
waiters, chambermaids, boots, &c. unless it can be shown
that the defendant had agreed to pay such attendants. In an
action, therefore, lately brought in the bail court, an item of
£9 for services of this nature, was ordered to be struck out.
MURDER IN SUNDERLAND.—On Thursday last the body
of a man, which turned out to be that of Joahnn Friederick
Cerkholtz, master of the brigantine Phcenix, of Settin, was
found in the river Tyne. It was found tied to a large square
piece of limestone, weighing upwards of a hundred weight.
The rope was tied tightly round the waist, and both ends had
been safely knotted in a very complicated manner. On the
body there was no other apparel than a pair of stockings, a
flannel shirt, and a cotton shirt, torn open. The right side
of the frontal bone of the skull and the orbit of the right eye
had been driven in upon the brain by a violent blow, and
over the right eye was a deep horizontal cut above an inch
and a half in length, which appeared to have been inflicted
with some sharp instrument : there was a smaller cut on the
forehead, and some trifling bruises about the face and the
left hand. From the confession of a boy, named Muller, one
of the crew, Jacob Friederick Ehlers, the mate;-is the mur-
derer. Blood was found on his jacket, and, he bad threat-
ened to murder the boy, if he revealed the deed. The mur-
der was done in the night, and the body was thrown out of
the cabin window.

RIVAL POLITICIANS IN NEW Yonx.--Two violent politi-
cians, the one a sand-paper manufacturer, named Edward
Walk, and the other a carpenter, named James Van Schaick,
met on Monday evening, at some porter house, up town, and
got into a warm debate on politics in general and the cause
of the milk in cocoa nuts in particular. The latter being an
abstract question of some difficulty in the solution, the dis-
cussing parties abandoned it, and concentrated the whole of
their force upon the former one. During the debate, the
sand paper man accused the carpenter of shaving and gouging
the point. - This excited the wrath of Mr. Van to such a de-
gree, that he seized Mr. Walk by the collar, and gave him an
admonitory and introductory shake. Walk thereupon shook
his fist in the other's face, and told him he had licked a good
many better men than he in his time, and could do so again.
The belligerents then clinched and rolled on the floor, when
Mr. W. took occasion to bite off one of the ears and a bit of
one of the whiskers of his antagonist. This sanguinary and
arbitrary proceeding put a stop to the conflict, and Mr. Van
Schaick gathered up the piece of his ear, wrapped it up in a
piece of a newspaper, and carried it to the upper police office,
and made a complaint, upon which Mr. Walk was arrested
and held to bail in the sum of 500 dollars.—New York
Herald.

A CHEESE FOR TILE QUEEN.-Our much-respected
neighbours, the yeomanry of West Pennard, have in contem-
plation the presenting of a cheese to her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria, accompanied by expressions of their
loyalty and patriotic feeling, and their respect, esteem, and
approbation for her unremitting zeal to promote the public
welfare. The cheese is intended to be no less than one of
ten hundred pounds weight ! and when their spirited design
is fully and satisfactorily put into practice, we shall be led to
ask, where (we should like to know) is such a cheese to be
found again ? West Pennard contains about 3000 acres
of land, which are chiefly devoted to dairy purposes ; and it
has been unanimously agreed by the yeomanry that the cheese
be made from the milk of 700 cows, the number kept in the
parish. It will be a novel and a noble present, and, we doubt
not, will be most graciously received by her Majesty. We
are at a loss to conceive how it is possible to make a cheese
of such magnitude, but, from what we know of the superior
skill of the dairy-women of this part of the county, we may
safely say that they will accomplish their design well. Should
time and opportunity permit, we hope to have the pleasure
of being indulged with a sight of this royal cheese. We can-
not but feel the most sincere respect for our Pennard friends
when we see them oflering so manifest a token of their loyalty
and attachment to our youthful Queen. In sentiment we
heartily join with them, and hope that we shall soon have to
notice its having been presented, and graciously received by
her Majesty.—Sheerness Journal.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 17.
The number of Beasts to-day has been exceedingly limited, and
the quality generally middling; the demand for Beef has been very
brisk at advanced prices from our last quotations. The supply of
Sheep and Lambs has also been somewhat smaller than that of the
preceding week ; good Wether Mutton has been very much in de-
mand, and sold quickly at an advance in price ; good Lamb has also
been in great demand, and sold np readily at large prices; those
of inferior quality were neglected. The best Beef was eagerly
bought of 7d, second quality 7d, and inferior bid Ifr ib. Good
Wether Mutton realised 7d, varying from that down to 6d r lb.
agreeable to size and quality. The best Lamb was readily sold at
8d with some of an ordinary description at a shade less. Number
of Cattle at market : Beasts 744 ; Sheep and Lambs 7896.