The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

formers in an Oriental spect

Theatre, are sixty horses

being represented at Drury-lam
twelve camels, and several elephant
The Admiralty have afforded G. F. 3ifuntz, Esq., M.P.,
an opportunity of testing his patent metal I
man-of war with it

sheathing a

An Edinbugh bookseller announces that D'Aubigne is
:bout to publish a volume on Cromwell. It is entitled

" The Protector ; a defence from the latest documents."
A few days since a postoffice order for one penny was
issued at Brighton, and the applicant having paid three-
pence for it, posted it to Chester. _ _

Six hundred poor persons last week received Queen
Anne's Easter bounty. The amount given to each reci-

pient was ss. in new half-crowns

-Insurances on sovereigns, about to be sent to New
York, have been effected to the amount of £1,000,000,
for the month of May.—Morning Post.
Last week a field of dry grass, near Derby, was set, on
fire by a spark from a passing train, and entirely con-
sumed.

Major Beniowoski was on Friday tried and found guilty
of assaulting Mr. Urquhart, (the latter having called him
a Russian spy,) at a meeting lately held at the Free-
mason's Tavern, on the subject of Cracow.
The Mining Journal has published its usual quarterly
statement of the sales of copper ores in Cornwall, which
compared with the previous return establishes an improve-
ment of £33,192, on a diminished quantity bf 1887 tons.
The Tweed increases the catalogue of losses sustained

by the West Indian royal mail steam ship company to
five, including the Isis, the Medina, and the Solway, all
large vessels, and the Actreon La small vessel.
POTATOES A HALFPENNY EACH !—On Monday four-
per quartern was asked for potatoes exposed for
Hereford. This is about a halfpenny for each

sale at

A numerous meeting of the Birmingham Unitarian
Brotherly Society was held on Sunday week, when it was
unanimously agreed to petition both Houses of Parlia-
ment in favour of the Government plan of education.

A BLOW TO WHITEWASHING.—It has been decided by
Mr. Commissioner Balguy, that an insolvent who a second
time presents his petition for protection is bound to give
notice to all his creditors under his previous insolvency.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—A gentleman called last week at
Messrs. Herries and Co., in St. James's-street, and left,
under the initials Z.Z.Z., £5OO in aid of*the funds of the
Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's-inn-road.
A full bench of magistrates, at Norwich, have decided
that all Wesleyan ministers, whose names are upon the
circuit plan, are exempt from toll, when going to their
own Sabbath appointinents
It app

s now that the Wesleyan body have withdrawn
their objections against the education plan, in consequence

- The Edinburgh Witness, and the Scottish Guardian—
the free church organs—are divided in their opinions as to
the government education scheme. The former is in
favour of it, and the latter against.
The impression that parliament will be prorogued some
time in June gains ground, and it is confidently said that
the dissolution will immediately follow. Are the Conser-
vatives of Liverpool ready for a general election ?
ETHER SUPERSEDED.—The German newspapers state
that Professor Schonbein, the inventor of gun-cotton, has
discovered a new composition, which produces the same
effects as the inhalation of ether, without causing any
danger. The nature of the new invention is not described.

ICODMIN ELECTION.-Mr. Wyld, the map-seller, at
Charing-cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin, in
anticipation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Mr.
Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are
also spoken of as candidates.

FREAK OF NATURE.-At the Lion Inn, Quatford, near
Bridgnorth, is to be seen an egg with two distinct shells
with a space between each of about half an inch, such
space being filled with what is commonly called the
white.

JENNY LIND.—A letter dated the 31st of March an-
nounces the arrival of Mr. Lumley the previous day at
Munich. The opera chosen by Mademoiselle Lind for
her abed has been put in rehearsal, in order that she
may appear as early as possible after her arrival in London.
FAMILY DISCORD.—At the Sussex assizes, last week,
there were no less than four actions springing out of family
feuds, viz., one by a father against his son, one by a son
against his father, one by a son against his mother, and
one by one brother against another.
It is said the Committee of Privileges of the Wesleyan
body have been in communication with the Committee of
Council on Education, and the explanations and assu-
rances they have received have, it is believed, secured
their cordial acceptance of the overnment plan.
On Monday evening last, a soldier, of the Coldstream
Guards, fell from one of the Greenwich boats into the
Thames, and was drowned, together with his comrade,
who leaped overboard and perished in trying to save him.
The former had been married that morning, and the bride
was on board.

A gentleman, of the name of " William Chadwick, Esq.,
of Ardsey, near Doncaster," has actually published a
pamphlet. with the title " The whole retail trade of the
United Kingdom is endangered by the proposed govern-
ment measure of EDUCATION." surely the force of folly
can no farther go.