The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Lazy rich girls make rich men poor, and industrious poor
girls make poor men rich.
The quantity of herrings taken in Catwater has realized a
large sum. One set of men earned more than £lO3 for a few
hours' labour.—Plymouth Journal.
THE PETERSFIELD BANK.—We are happy to hear, on
good authority, that the old-established firm of Hector,
Lacy, and Co., bankers, Petersfield, will shortly resume busi-
ness.—Hants Independent.

BOAT SUNK—Four. LIVES LOST.—On Thursday se'nnight
a Garraris yawl was sunk nearly opposite Newtown Head, in

a heavy squall of wind and rain.- She was returning from
Tramore bay, which is about two miles to the north-east of
Garraris. Four men (some say five) sank, to rise no more,
and none survived to tell the sad tale.—Waterford Mirror.
REMARKABLE POKER OF CONSCIENCE.—A pre-paid let-
ter, containing a half-crown, was received on Thursday morn-
ing last by a respectable tradesman in Knaresbro,' in which
the writer acknowledges having, thirteen years since, changed
a bad half-crown in his shop, in the place of which a good
one was then remitted to him.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT IN PARES.—TWO nights ago
an omnibus, driving along the Rue Mauconseil, ran against a
cart laden with leather, which a man was deliveritp, into a
warehouse with a two-pronged fork. The shock threw the
poor fellow out, and by his fall both prongs were driven into
his throat. One of them divided the carotid artery, and
caused his instant death. The driver of the omnibus was
arrested.— Galiviani.
The Countess De Grey has expressed her determination
not only to wear dresses of Irish manufacture, but to recom-
mend and induce, by every practicable means, their use by
all those who attend her ladyship's court, or are invited to
her parties. Lady Jemima Eliot has adopted a similar re-
solution, and scarcely ever appears except in a dress of Irish
tabinet.

The King of Prussia, we understand, is about to send to
this country three clergymen, one for each of the schools of
theology into which Prussia is divided, for the purpose of
studying our method of managing the religious affairs of our
parishes. The King's strong leaning towards the Episcopal
form of church government is not now a secret, in any well-
informed circle ; neither can it be doubted, that in the move-
ment of which we have just spoken, higher objects are aimed
at than the mere arrangement of an improved order of paro-
chial discipline.—Cambridge Chronicle.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.-011 Friday night, as Mr. Belt,
farmer, of Bewholme, was returning from Hornsea, ac-
companied by two neighbours, he proposed, as the air was
very cold, that they should ride a little faster, and trotted
his horse forward ; his companions, continuing their former
pace, had proceeded for some distance, when one of their
horses shied at something lying on the road, and which, on
alighting, it being dark, they discovered to be Mr. Belt, quite
dead. How the fatal accident occurred is of course unknown,
neither have we been able to obtain any further particulars
of the melancholy event.—Hull Times.

Most of the light lands laid down for wheat have been
sown, but a considerable breadth of heavy soils is left for the
spring. In places the young plant had sprung up to a re-
markable height (as much as two feet) owing to the late ex-
traordinary mildness of the weather, and it was necessary to
feed it off with cattle and sheep : this will have a good effect'
in making the blade stronger and more vigorous. The seve-
rity of the frost during the last two or three days will, it is
thought, be somewhat injurious in suddenly checking the
rapid progress of vegetation.—Hereford Journal.