The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS:

The Standard Life Assurane.
i:6iiii)"* Las jecfleid
a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. r,Sit
The dollars by the last West India packet sold at --
being a further decline of td.
At a meeting at the Earl of Derby's it was resolved°
oppose the second reading of the Reform Bill. Thr47
were 102 members of Parliament present.
Government notices have been issued of guarantee
loans for Trinidad and British Guiana to the amounts;spectively of £40,000 and £50,000. under the act of 17.
Lord J. Russell has granted to the children of the 1t
Professor G. W. Hearn the sum of £lOO from the B
Bounty Fund,
The f;reenock Advertiser remarks that since thee°,o
7eencement of the year there has been scarcely 09'14
dayA
without rain in that part. of the country
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committee has been constituted called the ht.
mittee of Australian Colonists," to afford gratuitea9''

formation to persons desirous of emigrating:
The widows of Pennyeuick and Curetart, two oC.Ce‘f
who fell in the Sikh war, have been provided by her PP
jesty with apartments in Hampton Court Palace. ~,,t,
At a public meeting held at Leeds on Monday
£1,916 11s. 4d was subscribed for the sufferers b/
Holmfirth inundation
The metropolis was. visited with hailstorms of consiclL
able violence.on Wednesday, by which much damage
done in different localities.
" What a strange thing it is," remarked a Frenchel
after making the tour of Great Britain, " thpt you Ale'
have two hundred different religions, and only one gr6i,.of
A wicked hoax was circulated in Bristol, last week's{
the sudden death of his Royal Highness the Prie°' •
Wales.
The estimate for the Post-office packet service for tbs
year 1852-53 is £870,158, and the last year's vote W.
£809,496.
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S.r Walter Trevalyn, Bart., having long been he
abstainer from all intoxicating drinks, is about to sell till
stock of port wine, which has long been improving
age in the cellars of Wallington. t 9
The cause of Achilli v. Newman stands adjourned
the 10th of May next. Dr. Newman has already been Of
the expense of bringing witnesses over from the shores
the Mediterranean to this country.
By the new Sale of Beer Bill, just printed, no debt fro
beer drank on the premises is to be recoverable. •114$
is a provision, making coffeehouses and beershops sub)
to visits by the police.
Mr. Green, the veteran aerial voyager, retires this sedgy
son from mronautic pursuits. He has now made
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vin
ascents, and intends completing the number of 500 di
the ensuing season.
Charles Pickering, a gentlemanly-looking man, plead
guilty at the Middlesex sessions, on Tuesday, to steel,•,iol
240 prints from the British Museum, and was senter.'
to three months' imprisonment.
At the Middlesex sessions, on Tuesday, a dissipated re/0:
low, named a orge Austin, was sentenced to be tranoa
ported for seven years, for teaching his son to thieve,
receiving the stolen property.
On Wednesday, Mr. Justice Crompton, the new 10
appointed judge, appeared for the first time in publie
his judicial capacity, sitting with Mr. Justice Erle, the
Queen's Bench Judges' chambers, Serjeant's inn
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A subscription is on foot to place a memorial wln„cl,s
in the transept of Cockermouth Church to the late r"e,
Laureate. Wordsworth was a native of the town, anal'
ceived the early portion of his education there.
The Governors of the Free Grammar School of „h
Edward VI. at Birmingham have erected a fourth bran`-0,
school, which will accommodate a hundred and tiftl,b°'lo(
and an equal number of girls, at a cost of upwards
£2,000.
Among the passengers who left Southampton on l'u•eb
day in the Royal West India mail packet Clyde, sw.„„bjra
'
took out the West India and Pacific mails, were Pvt,
Harris, the Governor of Trinidad, and Captain Den
the Lieut.-Governor of Montserrat.
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Mr. Robert Blackwood, of the eminent publishing - 00
of Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, died in Edinburgh,
Saturday last, at the age of forty-four. He had retires°
from active business about two years previously, owing
ill health.
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A notice has been issued at the Post-office, that n- .00
papers to any foreign countries, or the British colon,
and possessions, must be put into the Post-office wiitbis
seven days after the date on which they are publishes

this country, or they will be liable to be detained. ho
The body of Alfred Jowell, aged 23, an engineer, °ea
had withdrawn from the amalgamated society, and siqoo
the masters' declaration, was found in the Surrey Cseao.
Friday last, under circumstances which lead to the sePr
sition that his death had been occasioned by foul play'
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A discovery, supposed to have been made by an a
teur chemist, that oat straw and other common straws °,
this country can he converted into cotton by M. Clenj
sen's process, in the same way as flax straw, has crew
considerable interest in the manufacturing districts. A
During the past week there were manifestations of '-
outbreak among the inmates of Barham Union Heil
near Ipswich, more particularly amongst the married we.
who, by the Poor-law regulation, are separated ft°
their wives.
selLveasstabwoeuetk the gwhabilele ootm an n childrencc iewdehreou meu
the wall fell down, and killed three of them on the sPe°l,,
s unoupasastiGngreetn h:
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severely injuring a fourth. It is said the children ut'd
mined the wall while amusing themselves.
An English company is in course of formation for 01:,
plying Madrid with an abundant quantity of vistiejt
Hitherto the greatest possible inconvenience has been to
from the insufficient supply of this necessary elemee:he
that city, and enormous annual expense is imposed on
inhabitants to procure it from a distance.
The standing orders have been declared complied 04
in the following cases before the examiners :—Lancash':4
and Yorkshire Railway (for regulation of capital
creation of new shares and other purposes), Manches;
and Southport Railway (reduction of capital and aban"
went of portions of main line). kB
On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, a fireb r
out on the extensive premises of the St. James's 11°,31.•
Jermyn-strect, London. The fire originated in the ':"0.
then. The floors were extensively burned, and the Liij
luable furniture seriously injured ; the total damage "

amount to several hundred pounds. tiro
' A beautiful woman, with artificially-heightened CO,lo 00
once said to General Shields—who, by the byes
" s„cli '
Irishman—" How is it that, having obtained so 9.e.
nti glory, you still seek for more ?" " Ah, madam," be ,
plied, with more force than politeness, "how is it that,
who have so much beauty, should still put on paint ? „f 6
The man of middle rank believes that the man ai":;to
him stands one step higher on the social ladder mere"ott
overlook him. This one, however, has his eye less urre.
the man beneath him than upon the back of the otle:Prialit
ceding him ; and thus it is, up and down. The rn'"
man receives from the higher no other forgetfulnesS 130
he again throws upon the one beneath him. 0
The Braintree church-rate case, in which there
question as to the validity of a church-rate made by 8 di
nority of parishioners in vestry assembled after a reNop
by a majority, was again argued in the House of Lortileit
Tuesday. Few of the judges were present to assist ti'to
Lordships, and time was taken for considering the Po'

raised.
An old man, named Goodwin, residing at Bratoft, )-
colnshire, occupying a cottage and a few acres of land
has just come into possession of the handsome silei to
£30,000, left by a very distant relative. In addition
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the above sum, each member of his somewhat nualer°4.
family receives £l,OOO, and one of them 20 acres of '
luable land besides.
A man has been arrested in London on a chafg ego
fraud committed in the following ingenious manner.
knocks at a door at twelve o'clock at night, calls tuter
" late post," and produces a small bundle with a legnar
attached, and directed to the resident. Three or
shillings are charged for the delivery, and after the del°
ture of the fellow the trick is discovered. ity
The Commissioners appointed by the Treasury ,0,0)
quire and report on the proposed purchase and ttpprq,:ty
tion of the Crystal Palace have concluded their inves"Do
tion. It appears that there is a project for removing DA,
transept, with a certain portion of the nave east and flys
and re-erecting it in Kew-gardens ; but we are not sof
to state that the Commissioners have yet agreed upon e
report.—The Builder. ftb
The report of the joint committee of the Benchers 0
Four Inns of Court. on the subject of legal education, Pee,
poses to establish five professorships—of Jurisprudelldild
Civil Law, Real Property and Common Law, EquitY, ;iv
Constitutional Law; the institution of regular cxaeilall
tlons and that the degree of barrister be refused te
who have not attended the lectures and passed the e/1
minations. • gOO
On Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, .a vcogr,;,6
belonging to Messrs. Archer and Co., Golden-lane, Citlf ';(1,
proceeding with a load of sugar along the Hampstead-re
London, when the waggoner was attracted by a scree of
and, upon looking round, saw a boy, about 14 Y 076 0
age, lying on the ground, and cut in two by the whe.e—pot
known,thl
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Britishbwb ooadu ygi‘twowilaun. oass :
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nge ctehaes es du ,wh
garf or 0 t3O
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casks, when he slipped from the cart under the wheel,
his op
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thei departmentcutting
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the manuscripts of several autographs of the earlY,Liii.
formers. Eight months since the authorities of the 'the
seum received a note from a Catholic priest enclosing er
purloined autographs, in which it was stated, that to io,
trernis, a man whom he attended had handed them tO '
and requested that they might be forwarded to the Proflty
authorities. On referring to the period when the semi
graphs were abstracted, it was discovered that the Pe
who had committed the felony was a foreigner. till
EXPORT OF SPEClE.—Amongst the cargo takeno?oo,
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer A.,„`riiiit
which left Southampton on Friday, with the Indin,,,T for
was specie to the value of £267,000 ; viz., £87,00" lie
Alexandria, and £lBO,OOO for India. Amongst the goo
sengers per Ripon was Sir Henry Leeke, the cororne
of the Indian navy.
A WELCIIMAN'S USE OF A POST-OFFICE 00,10:;1
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A person residing not many miles from Swansea 00
sum of money to a person residing at a distance, be'", in
at a loss to know how to send it. He had the n300,e„.1, 10
his possession for same weeks, waiting an opportani"t
send it. His creditor hearing this, advised him to ggia;
post-office order for the amount, which it appears he Aft
but instead of forwarding the order to the proper Poat'
he carefully put it by in the drawer. thinking the Poe)
, master would send the money. He was afterwards 0t)
quently requested to remit the money, and even throat
ened with legal proceedings; but his only reply viss„',.eip!
he lead paid the money six months ago, and had a Intan
for the amount. At last his creditor called on hial,
the mystery was revealed.—Stvaneea Heralds

IRELAND.
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EferaLl 3/4"MAW CATHOLIC HIERARCHI7.—The Team
Ilia,'" announces the death of the Right Rev. Dr.
Cilcholas, titular Bishop of Achonry.
bubi!"ll°l4-I,IBIIING.—The price of sring slmon
.i_n
thelin has fallen from ss. to 2e. 6d. pert b. InaLimericekf
waters of the river have been so high since the falls
teroillneatboisterous wind, that the catch of fish is almost
ti
.rort„eli-411MED ESTATES.—The third division of the
lia,4"llgtn estates, in the Encumbered Estates Court,
tor 1e4e,.1 sold by private contract to the noble inheritor
Ikrt. '5OO. or above twenty years' purehas, The pro-
Git,tis situated in the King's and Queen's counties.
!love." WILL CASE.—A new claimant for the vast
Of Ai" the late Mr. Kelly has started up in the person
110...Ace,!•.1"hil Edmund Crofton Kelly, or Screw. county
ite:23on. as heir-at-law of the late Edmund Kelly. of
Isolz"'• Notice of trial has been served for the ensuing
interlat...Roscommon. The case excites considerabk.
leadk-. Messrs. Brewster, Butt, Keogh, and other The
prei'ef,e!lebrities of the bar have been retained.
LY is worth upwards of £300,000.
at pail
"it st,tes n'DDEN TITLES.—T;Ie Wi.,,st!ricathltdeepliTndt_-
auppii d that the Government have within the
Bibles h
Neu:. the military prisons, schools, Sc(i., withd
24'11s books, hearing on their
.emblazi
Ae Papal arms and the superscription of tle
ost
tehbishap of Armagh, and Primate oflreland."tiese
titles tprevilitls
..! the enactment against the assumption of h
u'oaTi Bible bore the modest imprint
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tto iy.ed with the approbation of the Most ev. .
PA,TA
lecide 14 ACCIDENT WITH FIRE ARMS:—A dreadful
11144 occurred on Friday week, at Willmount, near_
tee, e ' "en's' Kilkenny. Two boys, about the age of
4414141'i", Master- Robert. Briscoe and Master Tronson,
Ret absence of Mr. Briscoe from home, contrived
lockedaDistol out of a desk, where it had been always
ilithoat efr• One of them endeavoured to discharge it,
•„„"' when the other lad, Tronson. took hold of
ustn pia pCueing so, it went off accidentally. and shot his
heart-ti'eoe dead' on the spot. The ball wont through
1.4811, causing instantaneous death.—Dublin Express.
_t SQUADRON IN CORK.—Advises from
he Lisbon Thursday last, state that the greater part of
illarti;"n ?quail ron under the command of Commodore
_d
'glled" arrived in Cork Harbour on Monday evening. en,
!hips latelY anehored in the Man-of-war Roads. The
the e"'Posing this s uadron are the Lit Hogue. line of
tlie: ; the Pringce Regent, 90; Leander, 50; and
oa-e.thew stn Amer Dauntless, 24. After having lets Lis-
taii.Zet three itjdays the Arethusa, 50, signalled the
rette,,- that the smallpox had broken out, and: as the
mans was rapidly increasing, the admiral cave instruc-
Nd e the Arethusa to bear up to the nearest port she
' end it is stated that she has arrived at Falmouth.