The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

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Mr. Oakeley is, at last, a priest in the Church of Rome.
The report of a death from cholera on board a vessel at
Falmouth is positively contradicted.
The creditors of Messrs. Fry, Griffiths and Co., have
consented tfftake 4s. in the pound by instalments.
A HANDSOME DIVIDEND.—In the Bristol bankruptcy
court last week, in re R. P. and S. Pratt, a dividend of
five-eighths of a penny in the pound has been declared.
A few days since the royal court of Guernsey sentenced
a man, who had been convicted of theft, to be transported
to England for a term of three years.
The annual Polish ball and concert took place at the
London Guildhall, on Wednesday evening. There were
upwards of 2000 persons present.
On Wednesday morning, a considerable fall of hail and
snow took place between Ipswich and Monningtree, and
also in several other parts of the eastern counties.
The church of All Hallows, in London, still possesses
an income, originally given to it for the purpose of buying
faggots for burning heretics.
A few days since a gentleman caught in the river Con-
way, near Llanrwst, a salmon weighing twenty-six
pounds. _ _

Mr. Samuel Sinith, worsted spinner, near Halifax, a
bankrupt, has been committed to York Castle for not giv-
ing satisfactory answers to the questions put to him.
Many of the army messes are prudently economising
their table expenses, and following the example of the
first men of the land in diminishing their expenditure.
The boy Allnutt, 11 years of age, has been fully com-
mitted for trial, for the murder of his grandfather at
Hackney, by poison. _

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RARE PRODUCE.—A day or two ago there might have
been seen growing in the garden of the Dean of Durham,
without the aid of any artificial means—a fine and luxu-
riant crop of green peas.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The Gazette of Friday week
contained announcements of 28 fiats of bankruptcy ; that
of Tuesday last contained 44 more, and that of Friday last
24 more—altogether 96 fiats in eight days.
On Saturday Mr. Benjamin Marcus, a learned Polish
Jew, was baptised, and received into the Romish Church,
before a large number of persons, in the chapel attached
to St. Mary's College, Oscott.
THRESHING BY STEAM.—This novel fact has at length
been introduced in Norfolk ; and the " glowing furnace"
is now at work at the barn-doors of the speculative far-
mers in that county.
TIMBER UNDER HEARTHSTONES. —The recent fire in
Drummond-street, Euston-square, when a poor lady was
miserably burnt to death, has b-en ascribed to ignited
cinders falling through a crack in the hearthstone.
A great sensation has been caused at. Norwich by the
apprehension of Mr. George Thurtell, the well-known
florist, and latterly professing landscape-gardener, on sus-
picion of several felonies.
Several of the children attending' the infant school at
Bury, in Norfolk, narrowly escaped death last week, from
the effects of some seeds of the laburnum tree, which they
had imprudently eaten.
Some thieves, on Sunday night, concealed themselves
in the office of the London station of the Great Western.
Railway, and carried away the safe containing £l2OO in
gold and notes.
The Rev. F. Oakeley, a well-known seceder from the
church, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on Sunday
last, by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman, at an ordination held in
the chapel of St. Edmund's College, near Ware.
A London law stationer has sued the Earl of Morning-
ton, in the Westminster County Court, for the expense of
copying some deeds, and the noble defendant has been
ordered to pay the amount claimed.
A man was found drowned a few days ago at Hammer-
smith. He was twice identified—first, as a natural son of
Lieut.-General Sir Brent Spencer ; and next, as Mr. G.
A. Polland, of the firm of Polland and Hopewell, army
accoutrement manufacturers.

Mr. George Thomas Dunn, elected Mayor of Newcas-
tle-upon-Tyne, has declined the honour, and paid the fine
of £lOO. Sir John Simpson, elected Mayor of York, has
done the same. Other gentlemen must, of course, be
appointed.
A subscription has been begun for the purpose of erect-
ing a bust or some other memorial of the late Dr. Men-
delssohn, in some appropriate public building in London ;
and the Queen and Prince Albert have intimated their
intention to contribute £5O.

GLUT OF Fisu.—Billingsgate Market was on Saturday
completely glutted with a supply of soles and herrings. At
such a low rate were these fish sold that the dealers were
retailing herrings at twenty a groat, and good-sized soles
at ld. the pair.
On Thursday afternoon, the conductor of one of the
London and Blackwall omnibuses, being falsely accused
of theft by a passenger, who had left his Macintosh cape
in the omnibus, became so much excited that he burst a
blood vessel, and fell dead in the street.
A case of shooting, with intent to murder, occurred on
Tuesday at Cawstou, about eleven miles from Norwich.
A respectable farmer, named Page, was fired at by his
brother-in law. The cause of quarrel was a refusal on the
part of Page to lend his relative two sovereigns.
A few days ago, two brothers, named White, residing
at Shaston, in Dorsetshire, quarrelled, and fought for
some time; during the fight one of them fell on a brick
floor with such violence, that he fractured his skull and
died within a few hours.

The chief Rabbi (Dr. Alder) says the Jewish Chronicle,
has recently established a Talmudical Society, for the
purpose of maintaining the study of the Talmud. The
society meets twice a week, for one hour, at the rey. doc-
tor's house.

On Friday night, a young man, named Harkins, who
had set fire to a corn-stack, near Greenock, concealed
himself in a hole which he had made in a heap of bark in
a tan-yard adjoining, and was found dead next morning,
the superincumbent mass having fallen upon and smo-
thered him.
The late Sir George Philips, Bart., died possessed of
personal property amounting to £30,000, which, with his
freeholds in the counties of Warwick, Worcester Oxford,
Gloucester, Lancaster, and elsewhere, he has left to his
son, Sir George Richard Philips, Bart., M.P., his sole
executor.

NEW ARTICLE OF FOOD.—An article having been re-
cently imported from Alexandria into the port of Glou-
cester, described as " saggins," but which is stated to be
a grain called " denarii," which is used in the Levant and
in Egypt for food, it is ordered by the lords of the trea-
sury that it shall be admitted duty free.
A few days since, an infant, eleven months old, the
child of a cutler living at Sheffield, was choked with a
small piece of apple, which it had bitten from a larger
piece that had been given to it by its mother, as a play-
thing, to amuse it while she was occupied with her house-
hold affairs.

A notice has been issued from the Post-office giving the
public the firivilege of writing upon newspapers sent by
post, provided a penny stamp be affixed upon them. This
privilege is to be confined to inscriptions on the newspa-
per itself, and is not to extend to the cover, which, as
heretofore, must contain nothing but the address.
Two persons, named Sale and M`Koy, are in custody in
London, and have been remanded for an indefinite period,
charged with the murder and robbery of Mr. Bellcham-
hers, in Wilton-street, London, on the 11th ult. The
parties had been in company together, and the bolt with
which the fatal wound was inflicted was traced to the
possession of one of the prisoners.
The Glasgow papers tells a curious story of a lady who
refused to go home with her husband on the first night of
their marriage. The husband went home himself, but the
lady remained behind and absconded. Months passed
before she was discovered in a town at some distance from
Glasgow, and then she went with her husband, and the
second honeymoon is not yet expired.
The men on board her Majesty's ship Superb, eighty
guns, lying at Malta, on the Ist instant, having persisted
in expectorating on the deck, had their tobacco stopped.
They thereupon broke into mutiny, and smashed all the
crockery. They were soon induced to return to their
duty, six or eight of the more violent having been cap-
tured. The prisoners will be tried by a court-martial.
FIFTH OF NOVEMBER FUN.—The Mayor of Mon-
mouth prohibited bonfires and fire-works on the sth of
November, but some wag, determined to have his diver-
sion, stuffed a public pump with combustibles, and set fire
to it. We have heard that " lighting a pipe at the pump"
is proof positive of being drunk, but it would appear that
this rule is not free from exception.
DREADFUL Loss OF LIFE.—A great storm ravaged the
coast of Mayo on the Bth inst., when over thirty poor
creatures lost their lives. Nine persons, natives of Innis-
turk, were drowned in an endeavour to reach home with
some provisions for their starving children. Nineteen
fishermen were drowned in the Sound of Achill, and five
others off Achill Head the same day.
The Edinburgh Review has now only a nominal con-
nection with Edinburgh. On the insolvency of Messrs.
Constable and. Co. in 1826, it became the property of
Messrs. Longman and CO. ; aad on the death in the be-
ginning of the present year, of Mr. Macvey Napier, the
editorship was transferred to England, where it will hence-
forth be printed.