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 £lOO for a few
hours' labour.--Plymoulh Journal.

THE PETERSNIELD BANK.—We nre 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 SUN

Foy R LIVES LOST.—OnThursday se'nnight
iris yawl was sunk nearly opposite Newtown Head, in

a heavy squall o.

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 POWER 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 PARIS.—TwO nights ago
an omnibus, driving along the Rue Mauconseil, ran against a
cart laden with feather, which a man was delivering 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.—Galiqnani.

The Countess De. Grey has expressed her determination
not only to wear dresses of Irish manufacture, but to recom-

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.—On Friday night, as Mr. Belt,
farmer, of Bewholme, was returning from Hornsea, ac-
companied by two neighbours, be 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.

SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR SEVERN STOKE.—Early on
Sunday morning last, a man named Richard Kinton was
found lying dead on the turnpike road, about five or six
miles from this city, on the way to Tewkesbury. On his
shoulder were marks as though a- waggon had passed over
him ; but from other appearances on his body suspicions
were raised that something else had a share in his death, and
other circumstances conspiring t, render suspicion still
stronger, an inquiry was set on foot by Superintendents
Manton and Craig, of the county police, which resulted in
the apprehension of a labourinc, man named Tippin, who re-
sides, with his wife and three children, in a garret at Severn
Stoke.—Worcester Journal.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S NURSE•—The statement as to
the remuneration allotted to Mrs. Brough is not correct. A
liberal annual provision will be granted to this lady, an en-
signcy in the army to her eldest son, and the rest of the chil-
dren will be provided for. Although it is true that she has
hitherto been moving in a humble sphere of life, yet she is
in every respect treated by the royal establishment as a lady,
and will enjoy all the privileges attached to the honourable
situation which she is called upon to fulfil.—London Paper.
Her majesty has been pleased to appoint the right honble.
Alexander Lord Ashburton ; the Right Hon. John Nicholl,
judge advocate general ; George Carr Glyn, and John Shaw
Lefevre, Esq.s, to be commissioners to conduct a strict in-
vestigation, with a view to ascertain in what manner exche-
quer-bills have been made out and issued since the remodell-
ing of the exchequer by the act of parliament, passed in the
fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late majesty King
William IV., and to point out whether any and what de-
fects are to be found in the existing system, and what addi-
tional checks and regulations can be established, with a
view to guard in future against the forgery of exchequer-
bills, or against the fraudulent or unauthorised issue of them.