The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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SIIAKSPEARE TRAVESTIED. Recently, during tin
performance of Hamlet, at the Theatre-Royal, Greenock
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COILN.—We have before adverted to the extraordinary,
circumstances induced in the corn trade by the serious re-
vulsion that has lately occurred, but were scarcely prepared
to find an article of steady and daily consumption literally
going " a begging" for want of an owner. Such, however,
is the fact; and, at this present moment, houses drawn
upon for corn afloat are declining to receive the cargoes—
involving, of course, the acceptance of bills drawn against
them, and public notice have been circulated inviting
parties to come forward as consignees. It is said that
such an instance has not been known for years.—Standard.
T lIE PICTURE TRADE.--Daring the year 1845, the num-
ber of pictures imported into the United Kingdom, accord-
ing to the customs' return, was 14,001 ! Let us suppose
that only two-thirds of that quantity, or 10,000 per annum,
have been imported during the last twenty years. We

have received, then, at a -low calculation, no less than
200,000 pictures from the continent, during that time ;
or, if we admit the larger number as an average, viz., the
number actually imported during the year 1845, we should
then have received above 298,000 pictures in the last
twenty years.—Fielding ontheßestorationof Old Pictures.

THE MESMERIST OUTWITTED.-At a recent mesmeric
lecture, in Exeter, by Mr. Hicks, one of the experiments
most signally failed, to the chagrin of the lecturer. Hay-

ing, as he fancied, mesmerised a table and a man's hand,
and by some means held the two so effectually together
that it all depended on his single will whether they should
ever again be parted, he placed a shilling in tempting
proximity to the hand " in a fix," and exclaimed, "There
now, my man, if you can take up that shilling, you may
have it." " Thank you," said the honest fellow, as he
very coolly dropped the coin into his waistcoat pocket.
MURDER OF A HANGMAN.—On Thursday, as John
Scott, the " locksman" (Jack Ketch) of the city of Edin-

Aug. 24, 1841.

A DISGUSTING AFFAIR.-At Richmond Petty Sessions
On Saturday, Mr. Baird. the inspector of the V division,
stationed at Richmond, laid before the bench a printed
bill, calling the attention of the public to a match about
to take place in that locality, which cOuld have no other
effect than creating a scene of moral degradation most
offensive to the respectable inhabitants of Richmond. The
following is a copy of the notice, which has been extensively
circulated : " A novel match will take plabe at Mr. W.
Smith's, New Ship Inn, Richmond, Monday,

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August 23," 1847,'at 6in the evening. A -getitl_
matched a man for 101. to kill 21 rats, with one hand tied
behind him. He is to catch them in the pit, and bite
each rat dead with his mouth against a dog. N.B. There
will 1

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which left New York on the Ist
days by the Cambria, has been

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Liverpool on the 20th, and Halifai on the
if no accident intervened, she would reach

Boston on the 2nd
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