The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Col. Bunbirry, of the 67th foot, has been appointed Lieut -
governor, pro, tem., of Demerara and British Guiana.
Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M. P., has been appointed a deputy
lieutenant of Kerry.
No trace of the Aberdeen Bank robbers, or the property taken
has yet been discovered.
The bloom of plums and cherries is this year unusually abun-
dant; but fears are entertained that much of the expected crop
will be cut off by the late unseasonably cold weather.
It is expected that Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, who is one
of her Majesty's Aides-de-camp, will receive the brevet rank of
Major-general at the approaching Coronation.
There is every probability of obtaining a brood from the
giraffes at the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park—a fact
very important and interesting to the naturalist.
We observe by the Barbadoes papers that a Bill had passed
the Legislature of that Island,. legalising the solemnization of
marriages by Wesleyans and Moravians, excluding the Bap-
tists, Ranters, and Jumpers !
The Duke of Cleveland has presented the handsome sum of
Ire hundred guineas to- the Visitors' Reception Fund at the en-
'Sting meeting of the British Association in Newcastle.
M r. Wm. Coates, late first teller of the branch bank at Mon-
ereal, has been committed for trial, charged with robbing that
tstablishment of £lO 000.
The price of both descriptions of oak bark (stock.and coppice)
was on Saturday fixed fur the season at £5. ss. per ton, being
above 10s. lower than last year.—ffereford Journal.
Erskine, in U 96, the height of his career, told Wilberforce
that he had then had thirty-six retainers off his circuit, at three
hundred guineas each.

SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM, RArLWAT.—The works on
this line are proceeding with great rapidity. A good portion of
the permanent rails are already laid, and it is expected the rail-
way will be finished in August next.—North Derby Chronicle.
The projectors of the bitumen and asphaltum. companies pro-
mise too much, for if the roads constructed of these commodities
are to be as bard and impenetrable as they give out, how are
the different water and gas-pipes to be brought into action; or
how are sewers to be got at ?-
Those who heedlessly mix ale and porter with, their wine, on
many occasions inflict upon themselves much future mischief,
for the body becomes qtuckly bloated, and an inordkiate quan-
tity of fat is always deposited in the cellular substance of those
who drink these products of fermentation at the same period.—
Lancet.

Mr. Keeffe, who was fired at a few days since near Durrgar-
van, has expired from the effect of the wounds he received, but
not before he identified the assassin.
Between the 12th and 18th inst., fourteen packets entered
Boulogne with 459 passengeis; and thirteen, with 553,
Mr. Pearne, the engineer of the Great Westetn, died at New
York, in consequence of a severe scalding which he received
while blowing off the steam immediately after her arrival there.
To ascertain the cause of Mr. Porson's death, his head was
opened, when, to the confusion of all craniologists, and the con-
solation of all blockheads, he was found to have the thickest
skull of any professor in Europe.—Nola: to, Colien's Hypocrisy.
Owing to the number of acres of wheat throughout the coun-
try, which have been ploughed up, and the thinness of much of
that which is remaining, it is to be feared that, under the most
favourable circumstances, the ensuing harvest cannot, upon the
whole, be a very productive one
OFFICE OF SHERIFF REGULATIONS Ilstr...—This bill repeals
so much of the Act of Henry the VI., as provides that " no man
shall be under-sheriff or sheriffs clerk above a year.. It em-
powers sheriffs to appoint special constables; exempting electors
from serving during the period of an election. It abolishes all
fees, gratuities, allowances, and presents, which may hitherto
have been given by any high-sheriff in virtue of his offrce, to
any judge or to any other person.' It provides `that lodgings
for the judges of assize shall be provided at the expellee of the
county, the allowance heretofore made by the exchequer to the
sheriff being paid to the treasurer of the county. It relieves
the sheriff from meeting the judges at places distant from the
assize town, only requiring the sheriff to meet the judges at their
lodgings or town or country-house.'" The rights, customary
usages, and privileges of the Universities, London, Westmor-
land, and the counties palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Dur•
ham, are preserved untouched.
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RIOT AND Loss OF LIFE AT PRESTON.—We regret that it
should have become our duty to place on record the particulars
of some very distressing occurrences which have taken place in
the immediate neighbourhood since our last. On Monday, it
seems that in consequence of some accident having happened to
a part of the steam department at the factory of Messrs.
Bashall, a short distance from Tardy Gate, the workpeople
were not employed; very unfortunately, as the result proved, a
number of them went to the " Sumpter Horse" public-house,
where they fell in with a party of Irish railway labourers, and
when the liquor was in and brains out, they got to quarrelling
with each other, and a fight ensued, in which one of the mill
workmen had the worst of it. After the fight, the Irish
labourers sallied forth from the house, and proceeded to different
cottages tenanted by English families, where they committed
great excesses, in breaking the furniture, and alarming the in-
mates by the most violent threats. It seems that this defeat had
created feelings of strong resentment in the mill workpeople,
and that a great number of the neighbouring agricultural
labourers sympathised in these feelings, and readily proffered
themselves to assist in wiping off the stain. On Tuesday even-
ing an exceeding large number of these combined classes met,
and they were armed with all sorts of offensive weapons, among
others, from 12 to 20 guns ; and being so compacted, they pro-
ceeded to the quarters of the Irish labourers, the consequence
of which was that an affray took place; one person was shot
dead, and various others were wounded in the most shocking
manner. The shot by which the man waskilled was fired from
the window of one of the cottages occupied by the Irish la-
bourers; but by whom does not clearly appear. There has
not been any subsequent outbreak, and we sincerely trust, for
the credit of the neighbourhood, that there will not be. A com-
pany of the 86th foot (under the command of Lieut. Edwards)
whichhad been sent for from Blackburn, arrived about noon on
Tburulay, a detachment from which has been stationed on the
spot, to be ready in case of any further outrage. On Thursday
an inquest was held on the body of John Trafford, the man who
was killed, and after hearing the evidence that could be pro-
cured, the jury returned a.verdict of " manslaughter against
some person or persons unknown."—Preston Pilot.
DEFENCE OF THE ALLEGED CRUELTY OF NATURALISTS.—
If the wonderful structure of the lower orders of creation cannot
be studied or understood, or their infinitely varied forms held
in iernembrance, without hastening by a few days or hours the
termination of that brief career which in truth scarcely ever
meets with a strictly natural end, then is the student of nature
following out the principles of an elevating and intellectual pur-
suit, all well entitled to command a portion of animal life as he
who, to pamper the refined grossness of a sensual appetite,
bleeds his turke} s to death by cutting the roots of their tongues,
boils crabs and lobsters alite, and swallows unsuspecting .
ters by the score.—Encyclopeedia Britannica, new edit.,
Animal Kingdom.

COFFEE AFTER WINE.—The system now adopted, in imita-
tion of the French custom, of taking very strong coffee after
wine, though so very agreeable, is injurious, if the wines taken
during the meal have been Port, Sherry, and Madeira, but not
so if those of a lighter quality have been drunk. Great excite-
ment attends upon this indulgence, for coffee has a great influ-
ence upon the stomach, and likewise upon the brain, Watch-
fulness of long duration, with a feverish reaction, are its
immediate effects; but its distant ones are more upon the ex-
treme capillary vessels of the surface of the body, which it
seems to •constringe, and it effects the skin, to which it gives a
peculiar harshness ; and it has been said by someof the French
writers to give it colour; and the sallowness of the
m Parisian has
to' the great
been, by ore than one medical author, ascribed
addiction to coffee.—Dr. Si9rnond.