The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-02 00:00:00

IMPORT OF CATTLE.

Number of cattle, &c. imported from Ireland into, Liverpool,
front the Ist January to the 30th December, with the average
value for the same; and the seine imported Coastwise for the
same period, namely,
htELAND. Per head. £. s. d.
81220 Black Cattle.... £l6 Os.
158 Calves
159136 Sheep
22231 Lambs
504756 Pigs
3774 Horses
310 Mules

Total.

.£2478604 18 0

COASTWISE.
3490 Black Cattle.... 16 0.. 55840 0 0

158 Calves
74614 'Sheep 2 0..149228 0 0
2428 Lambs
9666 Pigs
119 Horses 2O 0.. 2380 o''o
234153 14 0

Total.

.£2712758 12 0

THE Anmy.—The four companies, including hen:l-quarters
of the 10 h regiment, just arrived (ruin. Girfo, have received
orders to move from Cnrk to Fermay, where the depot from
Wexford will join them in a few days.
SHOCKING CASE OF SURADE.—It is with feelings of extreme
sorrow, that we have to record the death of Mr. George Wright,
bookseller, of Church-street, Oldham, an highly esteemed and
truly worthy man. He was discovered about one o'clock on
Friday last to have pot an end to his existence, by having sus-
pended himself from the rail of a bed, in one of the sleeping-
loons of his house, by a string; he had breathed his last when
the afflicting circumstance was discovered. Lie has recently
suffered from severe pain in the back and head, and it is very
probable the intensity of the pain in the head was such; (hat it
threw him into a state of temporary derangement at the time
he committed the lamentable act. Mr. Wright tsar upwards of
filly• three years of age, aiid was extensively known, and highly
iespected for integrity of character and kindness of disposition.
On Tuesday, the melancholy affair was investigated by the co.
roner, I'. F. Dearden, Esq., and a respectable jury, at the Old-
ham Nuns Hotel. The jury returned a verdict, "'That the de-
ceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary derange-
ment."— Manclidster Courier.

MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—OD V,riday the 22d inst.,
the remaining pm tion of this undertaking, extending trout,
Leicester to the Trent, upwards of 22 miles, and including an
iron bridge over the river Tient, of three arches of 100 feet
span each# was let to highly respectable contractors. The
whole line is now under contract. • This important railway, 57
miles in length, wilt connect the manufactining towns of Lei-
cester, Nottingham, Derby, and Loughborough, containing
together a population of nearly 260,000 persons, with each
Other, and with London; and by mesas of•the North Midland
(withi.which it unites at Derby), the York and North Midland
and the great North Midland railway, will form a direct rail-
way communication between the metropolis, Leeds, Yot k, and
Newcastle; the route to these important towns being by the
Midland Counties Railway about nine miles shorter than by
any other railway. The line between Nottingham and Derby
will be completed early in the spring of 1839. and the whole
railway in the spring of the following year. The portion ex-
tending from Leicester to Rugby, and which is taken by Mr.
Mackintosh, the eminent contractor, was commenced on the
26th instant, in a field about a mile south of Leicester.

FRUIT!. Ess Emitsintuv.—A poor but respectable woman, who
resided upwards of forty years in the village of Catrine, had, in.
her younger days, been able to scrape together the surnnf forty-
two shillings, which, with that spirit of honest independence so
characteristic of the Scottish peasantry, she deposited carefully
in the corner of her chest, in the shape of two one-guinea notes,
in the hope that she might perhaps therewith be able to assist
herself at some future time. One day last week she was obliged
to draw one of theM from its hiding-place, and tendered it in
payment of some commodity she was about to purchase, when,
to her no small grief and dismay, she ledrned that the batik from
which it emanated had long since ceased to exist. Her suspicion
was thus very naturally awakened with regard to the value of
her other note; and she ventured to express a hope, thata better
fate awaited her with regard to it, as she "was sure it was not
of the same kind ;" yet, strange as it may appear, it turned out
that though of a different. bank, it had expired upwards of twenty
Years ago. The notes are of the late Falkirk and Kilmarnock
hanks.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
Cowlrtaectet. ENTEaPutsE.--=-Brdish mercantile enterprise is
shown now.a-da)s in some very reinatkable forms. The court •
of the queen-regent of Spain, and the flying camp of Dun Car-
Ins, are lalike, we believe, attended by ethissaries from the chief
London newspapers, whose business it is to transmit regular ac-
couiuts of the respective transactions of the contending parties,
to be published at home. On a late trip to the continent. we
encountered a gent leman-hke young man:who informed us that
he had been commissioned by a manufacturing, house of the west
of England to travel at his leisure over Europe keeping his
eves about him, and pi eking up ideas which he thought likely
to be of service to his eMployerS.. Some of the annuals present_
i•qually striking instances of our national, commercial, and
literary enterprise. For the prepa ration of an annual ornamented
volume, issued to the community at an extremely moderate price,
but in vast quantities, we find an accomplished man of lettets,
and an equally accomplished artist—touring it over the romantic
l parts of the earth, the one with pen and the other with pi tont in
hand.