The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

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of the Club, were

assiduous in their attention, and hospitable to all on board,
as was Captain Dearl of the steamer, who landed the gra-
tified assemblage at the Prince's pier, about nine o'clock.

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LARGE STRAWBERRY.—On Tuesday, a strawberry was
left at our office which measured full seven inches in cir—
cumference.—Blackburn Standard.

EWO MEN KILLED.—Two men of the name of Thos.
Hartley and Mathew Wilkinson, were killed last week,
at Priest Field, in Colne, on the East Lancashire Railway,
I by a shoot of earth.
sure, A NOBLE 11- , ODDFELLOW. —The Manchester Unity has

received an addition to their numbers of no less a jaerson-
age than Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, one of the candidates
for the borough of Marylebone. It is said that a medal is
to be struck commemorative of the event.
BEESTON CASTLE.—This ancient structure is now be-
ing rebuilt by the proprietor. It is stated in " Nixon's
Cheshire Prophecies" that " Beeston Castle shall not be
rebuilt as long as a king remains on the throne of Eng-

DISCOVERY OF ONE OF CUYP'S SEA-PIECES.—At the
sale of a gentleman's effects, a few weeks ago, at Burnley,
in Lancashire, an old painting Was disposed of, which

med to attract no attention, e

Pt on account of the

old oak boards upon which the painting was executed_
Upon being cleaned and examined, the name of A. Cuyp
was discovered in a dark sail of one of the vessels, of which
the piece contains seven.
RUNCORN.—THE Docics.—Last week a Russian tra-

der, the Alexander Libau, visited the docks with a cargo
of chump wood from Russia, to be prepared, by the
newly-invented cylinders, for railway sleepers. The
vessel will carry about 500 tons of heavy goods, and is the
largest vessel of the kind that has visited the docks this
year. The quantity of pig iron, thickly deposited on the
dock landings, is enormous. It is computed, at a mode-
rate calculation, to be not less than 5,000 tons, besides a
great number of iron rails for railways.

WESLEYAN CIRCUITS.—We append the appointments
to the various stations in the Liverpool district, as they
are at present set down. We may premise, however, that
these appointments are, of course, subject to further revi-
sion :—Liverpool Circuit North.—Edward Walker, Geo.
Osborne, Danl. West. Liverpool, South—Peter M'Owan,
William H. Taylor, Edward Brice, William Willan. Li-
verpool, Welsh—Evan Hughes, William Powell, (Ist).
''heater—T' 111 `oseph Ay nT P ^k-

—x4dwara _ Itty, _arth. „told and nue,.
ley Mount—Samuel Atkinson. Carnarvon, English—
Robert H. Atherton. Holyhead—Ge rge Hagan. Wrex-
ham—William Coultas, George Buckley. Whitchurch—
Samuel Taylor, John Samuel Jones. Warrington—Jo-

seph Burgess, 'James Scholes, Robert N. Willcox. St.
Helen's and Prescot—William Ricketts, Robert Dyson.
Southport and Ortnskirk—Benjamin Slack, Geo. Dickin-
son. Wigan—Thomas Moss, Henry L. Church. Preston
and Chorley—Benjamin Firth, William Cattle, Thomas
Kent. Garstang—James Bartholomew, William Henry
Lewis, James Faulkner. Lancafter--Thomas Armson,
George Scott, (2nd).

TIIE POTATO CROPS.—The accounts of this crop are
not so favourable ; the early potatoes are now so far grown
as to place them out of reach of the disease ; but appre-
hension begins to he entertained in some quarters of the
later crops. A Cheshire correspondent makes mention
of the appearance of the disease in the neighbourhood of
Tarporley, where he says a field " has the real disease ;"
not meaning thereby " that some potatoes are rotten, but
that many roods are withering at a rapid pace under the
blighting influence of the liotrytis infestans." We hope,
however, that this may not turn out to be extensively the

case. The early potatoes are saved. and a most bountiful
crop they have proved. Up to the latest moment very
few diseased potatoes have been received in the markets,
certainly not more than in ordinary seasons. We, says
the Manchester Courier, have had 'some specimens of
kidney potatoes brought to our office this week, which
betrayed the worst symptoms of disease • the!, we •-t ac-
companied by others grown in the same 6ill, w I ich vere
of large size and to all appearance excellent, er .inly
without any blight whatever; bath were grown n . gar-
den at Moss Bank, Moss Side, near this town, and the
party who forwarded them to us stated that they had not
been over manured, but, on the contrary, rather scantily
supplied, for fear of the disease; they were till within the

.ast week or ten days perfectly healthy, but since they
have rapidly drooped and decayed. This is a solitary
instance of such an extensive devastation, considering the
small area of land planted, and we are inclined to attri-
bute it to some defect either in the seed or tillage, but
most probably the former. As regards the late crop, there
can be no doubt that the disease of former years has ap-
peared in some places; but in most instances under our
notice it appears to have affected the crops to only
limited extent, and only in a few fields in the same dis-
trict. We do not see anything at present to cause alarm.
nus although the accounts that come to us if"

its week show
;aced than any

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