The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

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W. B. Ferrand, Esq., has beep► appointed a. Deputy-
Lieutenant for Yorkshire.

The House of Assembly in Nova Scotia have contri-
buted £lOOO towards the relief of Ireland and Scotland.

subscriptions in Guernsey for the Irish , amount to

£2,000

A Chinese junk is stated to be on her voyage toLondon
for exhibition as a curiosity.

The late Mr. Byng's estate has been valued for probate
duty at £400,000.

It is most singular that nothing has yet been heard of
the Rev. H. W. Starr, who is supposed to have perished
in some of the defiles of Snowdon.
The Mayor of Leeds has forwarded an invitation to
Count de Montemolin to visit Leeds on his contemplated
tour through the provinces.

The report about the Emperor of Russia having pro-
hibited the exportation of corn is a Mark Lane fabrica-
tion.

A very large quantity of cocoa nuts have been imported
into Sunderland, which are selling at the law price of
threepence each.
The wages of the ship carpenters at Sunderland 'lave
been raised from twenty-four to twenty-seven, shillings a
week
Dr

Adler, the chief Rabbi of the Hebrews, has been
recently introduced to her Majesty. He is about to insti-
tute schools connected with the various congregations of
Jews in Great Britain. _ _ _

St. VALENTINE'S-DAY.-The grand total of letters
and newspapers, passing through the Post-office on Sa-
turday, last stands as follows :—Letters, 422,000 ; news-

papers, 145,000.
. The Brummegem twelve shilling guns, says the Tippe-
rary Free Preto, are doing serious havoc through the
country. New accounts are daily read of. the last explo-
sion.
It present, in Great_ Britain, there is one in 1,585 of

the population deaf and dumb, and one in I,ooo.blinci,
that is, the ratio of the blind to the deaf is about that of
8 to 5, and this, be it remembered, when the advantages
of vaccination are very widely diffused and understood.
On Tuesday last, a serious riot occurred at Leicester,
between the police and the civilians, in consequence of the
interference of the former, by order of the magistrates,
with certain sports and diversions practised by a long es-
tablished custem on Shrove Tuesday.
The wonderful patriarCh of English tenors, Braham,,is
now in London, and is rusticating for a time, after giving
•400 concerts in thirty-seven weeks, two each day, and tra-
velling every morning by railroad, post-stages, &c. He
is in excellent health, strength, and voice.
The upper part of an immense dust heap gave way on
Tuesday, at Camden Town, and overwhelmed a number
of persons who were sitting at its base. Some escaped,
others were taken out insensible, and recovered, and one
was taken out dead.

V • M.O .1.1101., a& 'LP 1.3111, •
A young woman at Bradford, troubled with epileptic fits,
has swallowed, on the prescription of a quack, a human
skull, powdered and mixed with treacle, in occasional
doses, as a remedy for her disease ! A belief in the effi.
cacy of powdered human skull for fits was formerly. very
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GLASS COFFINS.—A patent has just been taken out by
Mr. Parkes, of Peckham, Surrey, for making coffins of
glass by a mould, or of thick plates of china joined toge-
ther by a durable cement, or of wooden cases lined with
plates of glass, united by a mixture of fused glass and
borax.

THE WHEAT .DUTIES.—The amount of duty paid on
foreign wheat from the sth July, 1846, to 19th January,
1847, was £72,059 on wheat, and 460,929 on wheat flour,
making a gross sum total of £132,988. Of these duties
£114,964 were received on foreign wheat and wheat flour,
and £18,024 on British colonial wheat and wheat flour.
Alexandre Dumas, the French feuilletonistey usually
sells his writings by the line, at prices varying from seven-
pence to a shilling. He is said to have been once offered
half-a-crown a line for a navel, but to have refused the
offer on the ground that the man who made it could never
intend to pay him, as the sale of the work could never
replace so great an outlay.
WITCHCRAFT.—At Yarmouth police-court, last week,
a Mrs. Leggett applied for protection against her sister,
who had assaulted and threatened her, because the de-
fendant suspected that complainant had bewitched her
husband, who was never well, though no one could tell
what ailed him. 'The magistrate endeavoured in vain to
convince the defendant that her sister was not a witch,

SIGNS OF FAMINE.—The granaries in and about Stock-
ton and Yarm are so loaded with the " staff of life," that
many of them are in danger of breaking down, and on
Wednesday last the waggons and carts containing grain
and pulse of all descriptions were so numerous in Stock-
ton that the streets were literally blocked up with them.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday last, nine per-
sons left Bideford in the omnibus for Torrington, most of
them for the purpose of attending the market at the latter
place. On passing the quay at Bideford, the horse took
fright, and plunged into the sea, when, dreadful to relate,
eight out of the nine were drowned, the tide being up at
the time. The driver of the vehicle was saved. •

CHINESE SUGAR.—The Sheba from China, was hauled
into the St. Katherine Dock on Thursday, with a cargo
of 600 tons of sugar, the growth of the celestial empire.
It is of a remarkably fine quality, and quite white. It is
packed in bags, each containing 61bs. This is the third
.ch has arrived in the port of