The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

NELSON'S GRANDSON, Philip Ward, has received a
cadetship from his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
TOE VENTILATING SHAFT of the houses of parliament
is to be raised twelve feet higher.

- tHE NEWCAITLE cholera fund now amounts to above
£6,000.

ehr TUESDAY WEEK a poor woman died suddenly at
Bristol of the effects of the fog acting upon weak lungs.
TIIE QUEEN bas presented a donation of two hundred
and fifty guineas to the Edinburgh blind school.
THE SWEDNII gOVERNMENT has decided on a vast
system of railways, the execution of which will be con-
fided to an English company.
A CART HORSE twenty-one hands high, and weighing
twenty-five cwt., was exhibited at Munster fair. At three
years old he drew five toes.
A WOMAN, named Avery, was convicted at the Central
Criminal Court, on Thursday, for an assault on her hus-
band, and sentenced to hard labour for four months.
MONUMENT TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON.—The town of
Grantham has raised 0,000 for a monument to Sir Isaac
Newton.

Miss CALVERT, a young lady, has been committed to
Carlisle gaol, by the justices of Peurith, on a charge of
tealing various articles from several shops.
THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT has begun to prose-
cute the Mormons, contrary to the wishes of the majority
of the bishops and clergy.

EARL Fiizwimasi's annual sale of fat stock took
place at the farm at Wentworth Woodhouse, on Thurs-
day. The bidding was so spirited that in about half-an-
hour the whole were disposed of.
Ma. WALTER DE WINToN, of Maestrigh Castle, whose
name was the first on the list for the sheriffship of Rad-
norshire, is a minor ; but he will be of age before the
" pricking" of the list of sheriffs.
AT WOOLWICH there are the large number of 28,000
ship and garrison guns arranged on the ground of the
Arsenal, on the south side of the stores, and upwards of
4,000,000 cannon-balls and shells on the other.
A SPECIMEN of the little Auk, a bird which abounds
on the shores of Greenland and Spitzbergen, but which is
seldom seen on the English coast, was caught at South
Luffenham, Lincolnshire, a few days since.

A NtrlinEß, OF CROSSBILLS, birds whose presence is
thought to foretoken a severe winter, were seen on the
18th ult., at Forthingham, iu Lincolnshire, and four of
them were captured.
SOME OF THE Rumex BREAD taken at Shefkatil has
been handed about Constantinople, and is everywhere re-
garded with astonishment. People wonder how it is pos-
sible for human beings to consume such repulsive material.
THE YOUTHFUL EARL OF EINTORE delivered a lecture
last week to the Inverary Mutual Improvement Society,
on the subject of self-culture. The noble earl's address,
we are told, was highly admired, and was remarkable for
the religious tone with which it was pervaded.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday morning the
dead body of a man was found lying on the side of the
Edinburgh mail road by Tweedshaws. No marks of
violence were visible either on the road or the body. He
appears to have been a travelling blacksmith, about 30
years of age. There was nothing in his pockets but a
pair of spectacles and a tobacco pipe.—Dumfries Courier.
THE SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW.—Prince Albert is,
as usual, an extensive competitor in the cattle and pig
classes ; and Sir Harry Verney, Claydon-house, has an
ox of Brobdignagian proportions ; while some of the
finest specimens of Earl Derby's remaining stock have
been selected for competition. The judges made their
awards yesterday.