The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

HEART AND HOME

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The Earl of Chichester has declined the appointment
. .

Sir Harry Smith embarked at Portsmouth on Thursday
the Vernon, for the Cape of Good Hope. •

rze importations of walnuts from H,

a London

Last week

ton having, in the handsomest

manner, consented to cancel it

COSTLY MULLERITE ASYLUM.—At Ashley Down, near
Bristol, a large asylum is being erected at a cost of £lO,OOO.
for a sect known as Mullerites.—The Builder.
A woman at Broughton Hackett, near Worcester, has
died of a rupture of the stomach, produced by having

eaten a great quantity of cold potatoes and buttermilk.
The Newcastle Journal says " We can testify of our
own knowledge to the fact of several farmers, holding all
their wheat of 1846 ; one a grower of nearly 250 acres."
Mr. Robins announces the sale of a beautiful marine

ilia, at Kemp_ Town, which affords a very tempting

No doubt there will be much competition, as the
residence is appointed in the most perfect style.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Osborne to-day,
when it is expected that a day will be fixed on when the
thanksgivings of a grateful people can be offered up for
the late abundant harvest.

)ecome
;ment ?

Who wil
to fill it

lat dignity, or who

The answer must be—the Pope !
ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—The specie in gold and silver of
the value of a million of dollars, brought home from South
America by her Majesty's ship Fisgard, was delivered at
the Bank of England on Tuesday morning.
Alexander Dickson, who erected the hustings which fell

week, for culpal

31e neg'

quitted.
The potato crop turns out

so exceedingly_y

this season, that one gro;ei•as realised
sic 01,11, .Ithrilioh he has sold at mode-

Comml

LENT OF THE JEWISH YEAR.—Tuesday
4t day of the year 5608 of the Jewis.

MO V VV Ola VLAG 01.1 llCal all Ulla, •-••/•••-, •••••• --
Monday, being the last day of their old year, was kept as
a strict holiday by the Jewish people, who suspended all
business till after sunset.

✓
The late James Alexander, Esq., of Hermitage, mer-
chant in Glasgow, has bequeathed the residue of his large
fortune. amounting to from £50,000 to £60,000, to endow

an hospital for the education, the clothing, and, if neces-
sary, the support of poor children of both sexes in that city.
A girl, only fourteen years of age, living with her pa-
rpyits sf. Erne_ has eloped with a labourer. The silly girl,

before leaving, broke into her father's cabinet, and took
considerable sum of money. The pair were captured at
viTpqtpru seaport. and the man is in custody, some of the

stolen property being found in his possession.
A new martyr-mania is springing up in the shape of
sympathy shown to people refusing to take oaths. The
third case, within a few months, occurred in Leith last
week, and as the party was as usual sentenced to a month's
imprisonment, a meeting has been held to commiserate
his fate. All the offenders have been young men of the
debating society age, and glib in casuistry.
At a meeting of Roman Catholics in London, last week,
resolutions were passed expressive of their " heavy indig-
nation at the late iniquitous proceedings of the Austrian
despot at Ferrara," and that " Pope Pius IX. deserved
their unbounded respect and admiration as a wise tem-
poral ruler, and as a firm assertor of national liberty and

independence

e in an adver-
tisement of a very extensive sale of land at Cheltenham.
This town has been so long and so highly favoured, that
there hnvp hpen few nnnortunities of obtaining land near

it, and we are not surprised therefore to learn that very
great competition is now taking place as to who shall be-
come the purchasers of the present advantageous sites.
PERILOUS POSITION OF THE MACEDONIA.—It is sin-
gular that the two v

,els—the Jamestown and the Mace-
donia—placed so liberally by the American► Government
at the service of the Irish people should have fared so

The former, it will be recollected, was lost on her

,
way to Mexico, and the latter, on the 16th instant, was in
a dangerous position off the Isle of Arran, and we have
not heard the result.

The solicitors to the Marquis of Chandos, in a letter to
e Mornina Chronicle. state, that the whole of the Duke

Buckingham's interest in his real and personal pro-
perty was purchased by the Marquis of Chandos, for con-
siderably more than its value, in May last, and deny that
the change in the ownership of the property was not made
known until the execution was put into Buckingham

The venerable pile, Lanercost Abbey, so greatly ad-
tired by antiquarians for its rich architectural beauties,
now in ruins, in consequence of the falling of the roof,
hich took place during the gale of wind on Thursday
eek. On examination it was discovered that the roof

given way in that part of the abbey in which divine

regret.
IND SOLDIERS

,' LErrERE

—The Postmaster-

ihould be fOrwarded in future at the reduced rate
.age, whether they be liable to foreign postage or
The foreign rates of postage, however, must be paid
11 cases, -in addition to the reduced rates of British

in .
postage.
The arts of the Parisian claquers would seem to have
been introduced into England ; for the Stamford Mercury
mentions that while the play of Black-eyed Susan w-
being performed at the Victoria Theatre, a sailor u-
touched by the distress of the heroine, that he IT

some irritant

•der to

protect her from her assailants, but

to retire by one of the players, who remind&

tlem an

,ek, in cor

,und a tar

on the surface
A that place, with the tail and

Ine of t

paws of a rat protruding from its mouth. The eel,
ch weighed about two pounds and a half, had evidently
an a victim to its own gluttony, in endeavouring to
flow the rat whole. _ _ _

;iesiPiiWeiier attained by Bank Stock was in
1818, when it touched 292, and the lowest

..s, has tended to discourage the power of production ;"
and this opinion, coupled with the fact " that the demand
for their staple commodity is increasing," led to the con-
clusion "that an advance of 2s. per chaldron should be
made." It was resolved that the prices of London and
coast coals be assimilated, and the prices be—Best coals,
265. 6d. per chaldron ; second class, 245. 6d. ditto ; other
prices to be in proportion. The measure is restricted to
54 cwt. per chaldron.—Newcastle Advertiser. ,
SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—CAUTION TO GAII.-
'NERS.—On Saturday, as some little boys were playing
1 event has in the vacant ground opposite to the Jarratt-street Rooms,

Deadly Nightshade, which had been pulled up by the roots
by some person, and incautiously thrown there. The shin-
ing blackberries of this poisonous plant, which are sweet
and pleasant to the taste, tempted one of the boys, a
grandson of Mr. Ayre, Mason-street, to eat
.of thern.. A
few hours afterwards he was seized with vertigo, delirium,
and strong convulsions, nor was the cause of the boy's suc
ferings known to the parents, until Mr. Munroe, surf,
who was in attendance, pronounced him to be pois,
narcotic poison.

cases were applied, happily with suc
lirium lasted some days. We uncle]
fair way of recovery, though had n

ted to t

Ise Might hay

though the d,

flers to burn; and not throe

kTMENT OF A V

to prevent such dange

—On Thursday a most revolting case of cr

barity, on the part of a hu

band towards his wit

covered by Mr. George Campbell, one of the sub-inspect-
ors of the poor of Glasgow. From information which Mr.
Campbell received, he went to the house of a man named
Geo. Fay, in South St. Mungo-street, and on examining
the premises, he discovered Fay's wife in a water-closet,
where, according to her statement, she had been kept by
her husband ever since May last. The dimensions of the

closet were only 3 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 11 inches, and
the height 10 feet. The poor creature was in a most
wretched condition, being literally covered with filth and
vermin, with scarcely an article of clothing on her person,
and in a half famished state. The inhuman monster was
given into the custody of the police, as well as a girl named
Margaret Hume, the servant, and two lodgers named
and Alexander Holland, who are charged
indices in the offence. Every care and

lexander Hur

mid to tl-

e woman by

!ted she will shortly recover from

i close confinement.—Glasg