The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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Eleven thousand barrels of oats were exported from
Limerick last week to England and Scotland.

It is said that Government have determined to shorten
the term of the soldier's enlistment to ten years.
Dr. List, the celebrated economist, has committed sui-
cid,-, by shooting himself with a pocket pistol.
During twenty-four hours, on Thursday, no less than
twelve fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis.
Lord Ashley, it is stated, declines coming forward to
contest the representation of the city of Bath at the gene-
ral election.

The story of Lord Tweedale's marriage being null and
void, from a previous contract entered into with another
lady in Scotland, is a fabrication.

W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., has generously returned
half the amount of retits to his tenants occupying garden
land, in consequence of the failure in the potato crops.
A pension of £lOO a-year has been offered by the go-
vernment to Father Mathew !! !—" The force of humbug
can no further go." _

Triennial stakes on the turf are beginning to spread,
and in a few years will be found in the programme of
every respectable meeting in the kingdom.
A Cantab has admitted, in a letter to The Times, that
his charge against a proctor, of arresting a young lady,
was only founded on a general rumour to that effect.
Mr. Cannan, son of the late Mr. Cannan, official
assignee, is appointed to fill the same berth in the place
of the late Mr. Alsager.
Flixton-hall. Suffolk, the seat of Robert Shafto Adair,
was on Saturday night destroyed by fire, occasioned by
the overheating of a flue The damage is estimated at
£30,000, and a part only was insured.
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The Duke of ltichmond has signified his wish to have
the money subscribed or his testimonial, used as the
foundation of an institution for the relief of farmers re-
duced by advrse circumstances.

A WARNING.—Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's new no-
vel, " Lucretia ; or, the Chih!'ren of Night," is generally
pronounced to be a disgrace to the writer, and a shame to
us all.

Herrings caught at Brighton in the morning are sold in
the Midland Counties in the afternoon! at the rate of
from twenty to twenty-five for a shilling, or at a reduction
of 200 per cent.
A report has been circulated that it is the intention of
Government, in the next session of Parliament, to abolish
the window tax, and raise the property tax to five per
cent., leaving the income tax untouched.
Lord John Russell has announced that he cannot, of
his own act, continue the pension granted to the now de-
ceased widow of Mr. Hood to the children. An applica-
tion must be made to Parliament.

PRICE OF CORN.—The prices of wheat and other kinds
of grain advanced at all the leading markets last week.
Wheat rose from 4s. to ss. per quarter at Wakefield mar-
ket on Friday.

On Saturday morning week, about one o'clock, the
United Secession Church, Pollockshaws, was di.covered
to be on fire, and was entirely consumed. We understand
the church was insured with the Sun Fire Insurance Co.
for £BOO.

Notwithstanding the high prices of provisions gene-
rally, yet poultry and game is now selling in London at
unusually low prices. Pheasants are being sold at 4s. a
brace; hares at ls. 6d. each; geese at 3s. each ; and
fowls at 3s. a couple.

A military board having recently been appointed by the
Commander-in-Chief, to consider the present allowances
of fuel to the army, and the issues having been considered
insufficient, the War-office has ordered that the present
quantity of fuel shall be increased one third.
Two brothers, Frenchmen, master and mate of a St.
Malo vessel, have perished in the Tvne by suffocation, in
consequence of having placed a pan of lighted coals in the
cabin where they slept ; the only ventilation being a bro-
ken pane of glass.
ZINC TRADE —The smelting and manufacture of zinc
is becoming an important trade in Belgium. During the
last ten years the progress made in this branch of manu-
facture has been extraordinary. The borders of the river
Meuse produce large quantities of the ore.— The Builder.
AN EARLY LAMB —On Tuesday, the lith instant, a
ewe, belonging to Sir George Musgrave, Bart., ot Eden-
hall, veaned a fine lamb on the snow, and the mother and
her offspring are doing well. Several more are daily ex-
pected.—Carlisle pap(r.
Professor Schonbein communicated to the Academie
des Sciences, on the 23d November, that his gun cotton
is not prepared by the same process as the explosive cot-
ton which has hitherto been experimented with so gene-
rally.

At Blackburn, on Monday night, a fine lioness, which
has been in Mr. Wombwell's possession, we believe, for
some years, gave birth to three fine cubs, two of which,
with their mother, are " doing as well as can be ex-
pected."
Mr Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, and Mr.
Morgan, secretary of the General Association of Steam
Ship-owners, had an interview with the Earl of Claren-
don, on Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade, in
reference to the Steam Navigation Act.

WEST INDIA PINEAPPLES.—The attempt made to
import pineapples from the West Indies throughout the
year has eve/ y prospect of being realised, and a parcel by
the Tay brings this tropical fruit in time for use in
England at Christmas.
On Monday night a daring burglary was attempted in
Mr. Bailey's premises, Norwich. The burglars being de-
tected by Mr. Bailey's sons, an affray ensued, and one of
the men was shot, but not killed. He was conveyed to the
hospital on the same night, where he now lies in a preca-
r.ous state.

SHOP ROBBERIES.—The London papers contain se-
veral reports of robberies at bakers' shops, by individuals
in an apparent state of destitution. On Tuesday a simi-
lar practice was adopted by two men who visited the shop
of Mr. Squires, confectioner, of High-street, each taking
a loaf. They were handed into the charge of the police.
The following announcement appeared among the mar-
riages in the papers last week :—" On the 2nd of August
last, at the British Ambassy, Paris, by the late Bishop
Luscombe, Dr. Lardner, to Mary, only daughter of Col.
Spicer, late of the 12th Lancers ; the marriage having been
previously solemnized in the United States."
To MAKE STRONG TEA.—It is not generally known
that the way to make good tea is, first to pour in the boil-
ing hot water into the pot, and then to put in the tea, not
mixing it at all. The reason is obvious, for the hottest
water is on the top, where the steam rises, then the tea is
better infused, and the flavour drawn out more properly.
The demolition of the ornamental colonnade forming
the front of the south wing of Buckingham Palace was
commenced on Saturday ; from which point the new wing
begins. The excavations for both wings fronting St.
James's Park are complete, and the foundations are al-
ready laid.

A dinner was given to Captain Pechell, M.P., by the
guardians of Brighton, on Monday, at the Old Ship, by
way of testimonial for his exertions in opposing the efforts
of the Poor Law Commissioners to control the parochial
affairs of Brighton, and his opposition to the New Poor
Law in general.
An Irish labourer, named Owen Murray, died in Lon-
don on Monday last, from suffocation, produced from in-
flammation of the larynx, superinduced by a piece of bone
which he had swallowed, His life might have been saved
had he consented to the performance of an operation for
the extraction of the bone.

SACRILEGE.—During the night of Friday se'nnight the
parish church at Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, was
broken into, and a quantity of black cloth, the hanging
of the pulpit, and other articles, were stolen therefrom.
A reward of £lO has been offered for the apprehension of
the offenders.

A rencontre took place between the gamekeepers and
watchers of the Marquis of Anelesey, and Josiah Spode,
Esq., of Armitage Hall, near Rugeley, and a determined
gang of poachers, from twelve to fifteen in number, in a
preserve on the Armitage Hall estate, on Monday night
last. After a desperate conflict, in which one of the
keepers was severely wounded, and a poacher shot through
the thiali, five of the offenders were secured.
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p shortly before eight, and then locking up the door,
went to breakfast. It was during his absence that
thieves contrived to enter the shop, and swept off trays
containing no less than 149 gold and silver watches, of
the value of nearly £lOOO.
The anticipated contest for the representation of East
Worcestershire, it is understood, will not take place. A
conference between the supporters of Captain Rushout
and of Mr. J. H. H. Foley was held at Worcester on
Saturday, when it was arranged that no opposition should
be offered to Captain Rushout on this occasion, and that
at the next election none shall be given to the return of
Mr. Foley.

A boy, named James Lawrence, aged fifteen, has been
committed to Hertford gaol, for shooting another boy,
named George Tomlin. It seems that the prisoner was
keeping birds on a farm at Hoo, near Lord Dacre's park,
when Lawrence said he would shoot his companion. Tom-
lin ran away frightened, and the prisoner then fired at
him : the gun was charged with peas, some of which pe-
netrated so far into his back as to cause his death in three
days.
NOVEL IMPORTATION.—There is now a regular supply
of rabbits imported twice a week from Ostend, in which
the poulterers of the metropolis are doing a brisk trade.
The prices vary from GO. to Bd. per lb. They are in ge-
neral much larger, but inferior in flavour to our rabbits.
The extent of the trade may be supposed by one poul-
terer in Holborn importing 50 dozen weekly. The num-
ber of geese, ducks, and wild water fowl imported is daily
on the increase.
A GOOD DINNER.—At an entertainment given by the
late Sir Watkin W. Wynn, on his coming of age, in 1770.
15,000 people dined in Wynnstay park. Among the items
consumed were 30 bullocks, 50 large hogs, GO calves, 80
sheep, 18 lambs, 37 turkeys, 10 quarts of shrimps, 80 bar-
rels of pickled oysters, IGG hams, 18,000 eggs, 150 gallons
of milk, 80 quarts of cream, 70 hogsheads of ale, and 120
dozen of wine, besides bread, cheese, vegetables, spices,
&c., in abundance.
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—An inquest was held on
Monday in Melton Mowbray, on the body of a man un-
known. It appeared that on Sunday morning last, two
men, named Bilson and Bakewell, went into a hovel about
a mile from Melton, when they observed the dead body of
a man lying behind a board in one corner of the hovel,
quite stiff and cold. From the evidence of Mr, Berridge,
surgeon, it appeared thst the poor man had died from
starvation, a few hours before his body was found.—Lei-
cester Journal.
As a proof of the intensity of the frost we have a little
fact to record, which is in itself a very curious circum-
stance. On Monday week, two gentlemen in a garden,
at the foot of Stramongate, observed a blackbird fluttering
on the branch of a tree, and on approaching it they found
that the poor creature was fast attached to the branch by
the frost, and they were not able to liberate it without
breaking off the twig. It was sometime before they were
enabled to restore its warmth so that it could avail itself
of its timely rescue.—Kendal Mercury.