The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

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Two corn-mills were, last week, burned down, in the
isle of Man. One, a windmill, took fire by friction.
Several beautiful primroses, in full blossom, were ga-
thered near Worcester, on Monday last. _ _

The Jews of Exeter are preparing an address, thanking
the Pope for his kindness towards their brethren in Rome.
THE SHORTEST DAY.—The 22d December was this year
the shortest day, the sun on that day having attained his
greatest degree of south declination.

In the report by the chaplain of the Aberdeen prisons,
it is stated :—" As usual, drunkenness far exceeds all
other causes of crime put together."
On Thursday afternoon a stout gentleman, apparently
60 years of age, came to the Euston Railway station to
meet a train, when he instantly fell down and expired.
On Friday, at York, sentence of death was recorded
against Thomas Ridehalgh, a tall, stout man, for the
murder of James Hudson, a sawyer, at Bradford.
There are five Sabbaths in each of the following months
of 1848, viz., January, April, July, October, and De-
cember.

The corn mill and hat factory of Mr. Mason, Londcn-
road, Newcastle-under-Lyne, have been destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at £3,000.

A mysterious but most diabolical attempt was made
last week to set on fire the new inn at St. Bees. The
damage done was about £lOO.
The abandoned ship Lady Kennaway has been brought
safely into a British port, and the statement of the captain
shows that no blame was attributable to the crew.

The East India Company have announced their inten-
tion of exporting the extraordinary quantity of 236,953
gallons of London porter to . Bombay
_ _

BRISTOL DOCKS.—A Committee has been formed to
make these docks free. The docks cost £600,000, and
the year's receipts are £35,000, paying £2 12s. per cent.
The number of bankrupts in the two Edinburgh Ga-
zettes of last week was 33—a number unprecedented
since 1620.

The Exeter Water Company have offered to supply
water gratis to the baths and washhouses about to be
established at Exeter.

The money-order department in the post-office through-
out the kingdom has been placed by the Postmaster-Ge-
neral in the hands of Mr. Rowland Hill.
The total number of British steam-vessels which en-
tered the ports of the United Kingdom, from France, in
the year 1846, amounted to 47, the voyages to 1651, and
the tonnage of the vessels to 228,189 tons.

Dr. Wigan, author of the work " On the Duality of the
Mind," died last week after a short illness, brought on by
standing over an open drain in the neighbourhood of Re-
gent-street.
So abundant have haws been this year that in Notting-
hamshire they have been used to feed pigs, a purpose for
which they are said to be well adapted when crushed and
mixed with barley-meal. _ .

A FACT FOR THE SANATORY COMMISSION.-It is a re-
markable fact, that whilst the influenza has proved so
fatal in the metropolis, not excluding the west-end,
Brighton has been entirely exempt from the epidemic.

LARGE AMERICAN ClLESE.—Amongst a quantity of
American cheese recently imported, one cheese measures
in diameter three feet one inch, is one foot one inch thick,
and weighs 4931 b. nett.
A discussion on teetotalism is about to take place be-
tween the Rev. Joseph Rayner Stephens and Dr. Lees, of
Leeds, the former maintaining that the system is unscrip-
tural, and tending to infidelity.
ISLE OF DOGS.—On this tract of land our monarchs kept
their hounds, during their residence at Greenwich. Parts
of the royal kennel, with gatehooks, and of the dwellings
of the attendants, have been discovered.
Messrs. Trueman and Cook have arranged with their
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An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Coates,
Hillaird and Co., was held on Friday. The liabilities are
£65,828, and £22,255 assets only. An offer of 3s. 6d. in
the pound was made, but it was rejected, and the estate
will be wound up in bankruptcy.
During the week ending on Saturday week, there died,
in London, 1,946 persons, being exactly 900 above the
average of the corresponding period during the last five
years ; but 470 below the number of deaths in the week
ending the 11th instant.
From the report of a County Court case in the Shrop-
shire Conservative, it appears that the costs attending a
plaint for the recovery of £5 Is. Bd., entailed upon the
defendant, although he immediately paid the amount,
costs amounting to £8 Bs. 6d. besides the original debt !
A reward of £5O has been offered for the apprehension
of Lord William Paget. It appears that a true bill was
found by the grand jury, at the Central Criminal Court,
on Sep. 20, against Captain Lord William Paget, R.N.,
for obtaining money under false pretences."
RELEASE OF BARBER, THE LATE CONVICT.-011 Sa-
turday information was received by private letter in the
metropolis, that the late convict, Barber, who was ba-
nished from this country some years since, has received a
free and unconditional pardon, and that he left Sydney on
the 16th August last.
The Western Times says, that at a late meeting of Pu-
seyite clergymen, in the diocese of Exeter, a suggestion
was made and applauded, that the water used in baptism
should be saved for the purpose of washing surplices, as it
would be &desecration to waste it after it had been con-
secrated.

In the case of a lad, named J. W. Ward, who had been
convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to seven years'
transportation for stealing his grandfather's watch, it now
turns out that his uncle had induced him to perpetrate the
theft, and that he (the uncle) had pocketed the principal
portion of the money obtained for it.
Disease and death are still frightfully prevalent at
Hull. Typhus and scarlet fever are found in almost every
unpaved, ill-drained alley in the town. Within a few
days, in a confined court in Collier-street, containing only
10 houses, thirteen persons have been attacked by scarlet
fever, which in most cases ends fatally.
Mr. Conway, a gentleman living in Monmouthshire,
has declined—on religious scruples—to be made a magis-
trate. He is a Baptist, and says, that "if elected to that
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honourable office, he would have to put in force laws for
the support of a legalized establishment for the advance-
ment of religion, which is a great moral and social wrong."
DISSENT.-Mr. Benjamin Newton, one of the preachers
amongst the " Plymouth Brethren," has left Plymouth,
with the determination of not again resuming his minis-
terial labours. This last secession completes the retire-
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INFLUENZA.—This disorder, now so prevalent through-
out the country, has attacked, with considerable violence,
both the officers and men belonging to the Royal Horse
Guards, and the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards,
stationed at Windsor, but very few in either regiment
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having escaped its visitation. Only one case throughout
the large number who have been allacked has proved
fatal. The disease has been equally prevalent in the
towns of Windsor and Eton and the neighbouring villages.
A morning paper mentions that Brighton has entirely es-
eaPed this epidemic.