The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

STATE OF TRADE.—There continues to be a fair demand
both for goods and yarn, without any change of prices since
last week.—Manchester Guardian.

A Sor TO CERBERUS.—The government papers say that
Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, M. P. for Southwark, is to be
appointed registrar of hackney carriages under the new act.
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Lord John Russell left town on Thursday for the Isle of
Wight. Lord and Lady Ilowick departed for Antwerp on
the same day in the Princess Victoria steamer.

YARMOUTH ELECTION.—SeveraI meeting of Mr. Wil-
shere's friends have taken place, and have evinced a deter-
mination to return him again as their member. This is being
done without the hon. gentleman's knowledge, he being on
the Continent.—Norwich Mercury.

Yal nAOKIIIN Az Efinrr.-...-tm Montray Week, a retdaric-
ably fine trout was caught by Mr. Timothy Thackray, fisher-
man, at Otley, near Pool Mills, with the minnow. It
measured from the head to the tail 225 inches, round the
body 12 inches, and weighed four pounds and a'quarter.—
Manchester paper.

On Friday last, the Sheffield and Birmingham "Telegraph"
coach was overturned on Whittington Moor, in consequence
of one of the wheels coming off. The passengers were
thrown into the mud, but flittunately no serious injury was
sustained by any one.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--The marriage of Lord
Viscount Milton and Lady Frances Douglas is intended to
take place on Monday, September 10th, in Scotland, at the
Earl of Morton's. The marriage is to be solemnized by the
Rev. J. S. Upton, domestic chaplain to Earl Fitzwilhain.

So strict a❑ eye is kept over the movements of foreigners
in France, that an American having lately forgot his lodgings,
was obliged to go to the Police-office to obtain the necessary
information; when, to his great surprise, he was told who he
was, where he lodged, and where he had taken his dinner.

The parish of Milton Abbot, near Tavistock, is in a most
desolate state, owing to the want of female society. There
are but six married farmers, six-and-thirty bachelors, all re-
spectable steady agriculturists, four widowers, and only one
unmarried female therein.— Western Times.

Stanfield, the royal academician, is on the eve of taking
his departure for Greece: After visiting the various islands,
and all the objects of art in that interesting country, he in-
tends to return through Sicily, and to "winter in Rome."
Stanfield will be absent from England six or eight months.
STRANGE BRILLIANCE.—An Inverness paper; in con-
gratulating the public on the immense catch of herrings last
week, winds up his remarks by saying, "On Wednesday
evening the quays of Wick and Puleneytown presented a
most brilliant sight—with almost every station lighted up,
and hundreds of persons actively engaged in gritt:dy,S-c"
The Yatch squadron at Cowes has sustained a serious loss
this season, by the secession of four of their leading mem-
bers, namely, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Durham,
Belfast, and Errol. Earl de Grey, also, we believe, does
not intend to go afloat this season. The Duke of Norfolk's
cutter yacht Arundel Las been purchased by Wm. Wan-
ham, Esq.

A NOBLE BEER SELLER.—At the seat of Lord Lyttleton,
at Hagley, a bazaar was held in order to increase the funds
for building a new church, towards which the sum of £1,450
was raised. The noble proprietor had on a tent " George
Henry Lord Lyttleton, licensed to sell beer, ale, and cider
by retail, to be drunk on the premises."
EXTRAORDINARY PACKAGE.—The following letter was ac-
tually sent by Messrs. P. and Co., army contractors, Long-
acre, London, on Monday last :—" Sir, I havesent off a crate
directed to you, containing one quartermaster, threeserjeants,
three corporals, one drummer, and forty privates, for the
Wiltshire Yeomanry, which I hope will arrive safe.—Yours,
&c." The expected crate must be a rather large one.—Bath
Journal.

A. swarm of honey bees have made their nest in the cornice
which surrounds the steeple of Christ Church, above the se-
cond story windows. The industrious little insects may be
seen laboriously improving "each shining hour," going and
returning loaded with their sweet provision. Their location
was discovered by the dropping of the honey on the steps be-
low, during the intensely but weather in the early part of the
week.—Baltimore Sun.

We stated last week, that, in one diocese alone, there were
not less than twenty applicants for episcopal ordination, from the
ranks of the dissenting ministry. We would repeat it again
with all the emphasis we can give it. A clerical friend of ours
has assured us, that he himself has received several applica-
tions from priests of the voluntary principle, requesting him
to employ his influence with his diocesan, for the same pur-
pose.—Christian Advocate.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL. MARKET, MONDAY, AUG. 20--To-
dav being the wakes, is generally injurious to the transaction
of -business; but more goods have been sold than is usual at
these times. The demand for flannels still continues brisk;
but prices are but low, considering the high price of wool,
There has been no change in the price of flannels or wool to.
day, though iu the latter article there has been rather more
doing.
THE Moons.—The grouse on the moors in this neighbour-
hood are very numerous, but only in poor condition, which is
owing in a great measure to the severe weather in the spring
of the year; notwithstanding this, the birds are exceedingly
strong on the wing. Good shots are also very plentiful on
the southern moors of Scotland, and in a pretty forward state.
—Kendal Mercury.
AN INFANT DWARF.—oollSiderable curiosity has been
excited in the neighbourhood of Shenhousemuir, for the last
fortnight, by the birth of an extremely diminutive child. It
is a girl, and was born at the full time, though measuring
only seven inches, and weighing two pounds. The face of
this fairy-like child is no larger than a watch dial; but we
are happy to add that, "with the mother, it is doing well."—
Caledonian Mercury. .
THE QUEEN AND HER MlNlSTERS.—Ministers seem de-
termined not to let her Majesty escape them for even a single
week of the parliamentary recess which has just commenced.
Finding that her Majesty had taken Norris Castle in the Isle
of Wight, for a short period, Lord Melbourne and Lord John
Russell have taken houses at Ryde, in order to be as near as
possible to her. Lord Palmerston is also, we are told, hurry-
ing down in the same neighbourhood. What a pity it is that
this respectable trio do not establish themselves under the
same roof with the Queen, in order that in the most minute
occurrences of her daily and hourly existence, they may be
at hand with their advice and assistance! Truly the presence
of these "battered beaux" can confer no dignity on her Ma-
jesty's retirement.—United Service Gazette.

MOWING MATCH.—On Tuesday last John Hampson. of
Little Hoole, and Henry Hosker, of Longton. met in a mea-
dow on the estate of Mr. George Taylor, of Longton II all, to
decide a wager, made about which would soonest mow an
acre of grass. At seven in the morning the two competi-
tors, with their respective friends, were on the ground; and
the whetting of scythes announced the approach of a hard
day's labour. Both men appeared to entertain the greatest
confidence of success. At one o'clock p.m. each man had
mowed three roods, when Harnpson manifested symptoms of
fatigue and distress, and was advised by .his friends to give
in. Hosker, on the other band, declared himself able to
mow at the same rate till sunset; consequently he continued
his work, and finished his acre of 71 yards to the rod, in seven
hours and three quarters.—Hanchester Courier.

ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAmity.—A few days ago, a boy,
about fifteen years of age, an apprentice of Mr. Hull, wheel-
wright, of Melbourne, attempted to poison his master and
mistress by putting arsenic into the sugar which they were
about to use fur breakfast, stud which they actually put into
their coffee ; but, the cream not being added to it, the poison
was detected by its colour. The wretched boy had bought
the arsenic under the pretence of poisoning rats and mice,
which he said were so troublesome that travellers would not
come to their house. Mr. Hull keeps a small beer-shop.—
The lad got up before the rest of the family to mix the poison
with the sugar. He has absconded.

THREE CRops OF POTATOES IN ONE SEASON, FROM THE
SAME RooTs.—The following is an instance of the great
productiveness of that valuable esculent, the potato:—Aaron
Berry, of Longton, blacksmith, gathered, at an early period
of the spring, a crop of forward kidney potatoes. which were
sold in Preston market at 7d. per pound. Ele carefully
planted the same roots, which produced a better crop in
quantity than the former. He has the third time planted the
very same roots, which are progressing, and promising to be
as fruitful as the first. They are to be seen now growing.
The stems for the second and third crops never raised them-
selves, nevertheless they continued fresh and green in ap-
pearance.—Preston paper.

Too HOT OR TOO HEAVY.—Wednesday afternoon a young
woman, who was engaged in what is called in Sheffield
" ironing," having overheated the iron, placed it on a step
outside the door to cool; while there, it caught the eyes of
one of those prying thieves who are ever on the look-out for
an exposed article. The sharper laid hold upon the " sad
iron," which, although it appeared literally to stick to his
hand for a moment, was rather too heavy to be carried away
—the thief, indeed, needed no bidding " hands off." Hudi-
bras alludes to the numerous dangers "which environ the
man that meddles with cold iron ;" we believe the sharper in
question will long remember the "hot iron."

CLOUD OF GNATS.—A remarkable phenomenon was ob-
served on the evening of the 2d instant, at Boudry, near
Neufchatel, in Switzerland. Opposite to the mountain of
Boudry a flight of an immense quantity of whitish objects
was seen, which some persons took to be birds of a dirty white
colour, about the size of a pigeon—others to be volumes of
smoke. This moving mass was in width equal to the height
of the mountain, and was about ten minutes passing along,
the objects of which it was composed always preserving their
distances. Upon close observation it was, however, found
that it was an immense cloud of gnats, which became visible
only when the insects got into the oblique rays of the setting
sun.

SINGULAR ESCAPE.—A remarkable escape from destruc-
tion by lightning occurred at Wandsford on Sunday after-
noon. About two o'clock, during a short, but heavy storm,
Mr. Isaac Smith, farmer, of that place, happened to be in
the act of drawing on a pair of boots, when the electric fluid
entered the window, and, IA ith a loud explosion, struck one
of the posts of the bed, close to-Which he sat, and shivered
it into laths from top to button'. It then passed between the
floor and the wall to the kitchen beneath, forcing pieces of
plaster with great violence to the opposite side of the room,
and finally made its exit up the kitchen chimney, splitting
several of the stones at the top. One of the daughters of Mr.
Smith experienced a stunning concussion of the head, from
which she suffered some inconvenience for a day or two, but,
happily, no other injury was done by the awful visitation.
The house was filled with a sulphurous smell fur some time.
—Lincoln Mercury.
EXTRAORDINARY CANINE SAGACITY.—The following
fact, which we lately witnessed while passing in one of the
steam-boats down the Clyde, so far exceeds any ordinary in-
stance of sagacity in the dog, that one is almost tempted to
pronounce it a real case of ratiocination. As the steamer
approached, a little dog, seemingly a terrier, was seen to
issue from a boothy used by the salmon fishermen, and waded
into the water till nothing was observed but the animal's
nose. It immediately returned, however, with the end of
the lope to which the net-floats are fixed, which it carried a
considerable distance upon the ground, where it carefully
left it high and dry. Now, as every one may know, just be-
fore the advance of a steam-boat in a narrow river, the water,
owing to the action of the paddles, suddenly subsides, and
as suddenly again rushes in violent waves above water-mark.
Had not the dog known this, and taken the proper precau-
tion, the rope and floats would to a certainty have been car-
ried off. This curious incident elicited the strongest admira-
tion from all the passengers.—Scotsman.
A WEDDING POSTPONED !—On Sunday last the house of
W. Toinkins, Esq., near Yeovil, was robbed of several arti-
cles of food, and amongst the rest of a large piece of beef.—
Suspicion fell upon James Grant, a man about to be married
on the following day, and a search warrant being procured
his cottage was searched. Amongst the articles found were
the identical piece of beef, knives, forks, a gold brooch, shirts,
&c. belonging to his master. On Grant being taken to pri-
son the bride elect voluntarily came forward and exclaimed,
" Well, James, if you are transported for fourteen years I'll
wait for you until your return." So that it may be truly
said the marriage is postponed for the present.—Dorset
County Chronicle.

DEATH OF A DIIUNKARD..—On Saturday evening, Mr.
John Bunbrow, a young man of considerable property, but a
notorious drunkard, was removed from the parlour of the
Blucher's public house, at Boinford, into the stable, where
he was laid upon some straw in a stack, he being at the time
in a state of brutal intoxication. The landlord visited him
several times during the evening, and found him snoring.
Thinking at last that he had slept enough, the landlord sent
his son to awaken him, when the lad returned and said he
was dead. A surgeon was immediately sent fur, who pro-
nounced that he had died of apoplexy from excessive drink-
ing. The deceased was about 30 years of age, and the patron
of the living of the parish in which he resided. His conduct,
and that of his associates, has of late years been disgraceful.—
Essex Herald: