The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
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The magistrates of Middlesex talk of withdrawing the
license from publicans who hire barmaids to figure in the
Bloomer costume.

The case of Mrs. Cumming, lately declared a lunatic,
is to be re-heard before the Lord Chancellor and a full
court of appeal.
The body of a gentleman, supposed to be one of the
passengers in the Amazon, has been picked up on the
north coast of Devon.

On Sunday week, at Thorne, Doncaster, Eleanor, the
wife of Mr. Henry Smith, hairdresser, was safely delivered
of three fine boys, who, with the mother, are doing well.
A gateway of the Royal Pavilion, at Brighton, was
blown down by a gust of wind on Tuesday last, killing a
female, and dangerously wounding Mr. Sheriff, a gentle-
man of fortune, residing at Kemptown.
A surgeon, named Armorer, whilst dissecting a corpse
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, a few days ago, accidentally
wounded his finger with one of his instruments, and he
has since died from the effects of the wound.

An " Established" minister, near Balmoral, wanting
a wifo without wooing, gave a friend in Edinburgh an
order for one, and was supplied, almost, " by return of
train."
At the flood which occurred at Holrofirth in 1799, an
innkeeper was drowned, and his body was found in the
river at Wakefield, where it had been carried by the flood.
He had nothing on but his shirt.
The destiny of the Exhibition building is not yet sealed;
but if it remains, a new roof must inevitably be con-
structed. The cost of that and other repairs is estimated
at about £20,000.
In the Anatomy School at Oxford, among other curi-
osities, they show the skeleton of a woman who had ten
husbands, and was hanged at the age of thirty-six for the
murder of four of them.

The Times refused to publish the advertisement of the
Roman Catholic Defence Association, as the assumed
titles in the advertisement are contrary to law ; but the
same advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle.
The skeleton of a female was found beneath a slab, in
front of the fire-place of an old house at Reading, which
some labourers were pulling down last week. The slab
bore an inscription dated 1707, and the house is supposed
to have been standing about 200 years.

A remarkable circumstance in the corn trade is noticed
by the Hull News :—" At the present time there are not
1,000 quarters of foreign barley, malting or grinding, in
the three important ports of Hull, Newcastle, and Leith.
Last year, at the same time, there were above 100,000
quarters.
The Hon. Mr. Doyle said. in the course of a late debate
in the Halifax Legislature, (Nova Scotia,) that the most
obnoxious thing within his recollection was the labels
which he saw everywhere in Lancashire and Yorkshire,—
" All persons trespassing on these lands will take notice
that there are spring traps set, strong enough to take off
the legs a/a horse."
On Tuesday last a general assembly of the academicians
was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, in Trafalgar-
square, London, when William Calder Marshall, Esq.,
was elected an academician, in the room of Wm. Wyon,
Esq., deceased, and Richard Partridge, Esq., professor of
anatomy, in the room of Joseph Henry Green, Esq., re-
signed, and John Prescott Knight, Esq., was appointed
professor of perspective.