The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

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in London there are now 851 private schools.
178 vessels with 11,160 passengers have sailed from
America with passengers for California.
A fishing boat was upset at Pittenween on the 27th ult.,
and seven men were drowned.
It is said that the Bishop of Oxford is about to lead to
the altar the daughter of Baron Alderson.
The female giraffe in the London Zoological Gardens
has produced a young one.
The 75th and 87th Regiments are ordered to proceed at
once to India.
Sir Charles Napier has been appointed to the chief
command in India. Sir Charles will leave England for
the scene of war in India immediately.
In future, regiments are to be stationed in each place
two years instead of one. By this plan a saving of
£lOO,OOO a-year will be effected in the three kingdoms.
Sir Robert Peel has written to the Univesrity Club, of
which he was one of the trustees, to withdraw his name
from that society.—Standard.
At Chelmsford assizes, Wm. Wass, a farm servant,
under notice to quit, was convicted of setting fire to a rick
of wheat, and sentenced to 15 years' transportation.
A maimed soldier, who was refused! relief by a surly
overseer, because he did not belong to that particular
parish, said, " Ah ! sir, I lost my limb fighing for all the
parishes."
The Ocean Mail steamer Hermann arrived at Southam-
ton on Friday night. She left New York on the 20th Feb.,
the day on which the Niagara took her departure, and
which arrived on Tuesday. The Hermann, therefore,
brings no later news.

The Morning Herald says that a Club called " the
Sterling Club," founded in honour of an unbeliever in
Christianity, is patronised, amongst others, by " two
bishops, three archdeacons, four or five sceptics or infidels,
and three writers in Punch !"
In the case of S

arpe v. Arbutbnott,—an injunction
against an action at law,—Mr. Rolt, on Friday, applied
to the Lord Chaneellor to have the cotton which was the
subject of dispute sold, and the proceeds paid into court.
The Lord Chancellor refused.

TEN THOUSAND AN HOUR.—Mr. Moreton, an Ameri-
can printer, died lately in Paris. He has bequeathed
£40,000 to be given as a premium to any body who shall
succeed in constructing a machine capable of striking off
10,000 copies of a newspaper within an hour.
The shipping interest is very much depressed, especially
in the coal trade, and there are universal complaints
among the tradesmen of small trade and very reduced re-
ceipts. The prospects of a revival in spring are thought
to be very gloomy.

John Jones, the druggist, who caused the death of the
wife of Captain Smith, Jermv House. near Romsey, by
sending her home strychnine instead of salicine, was tried
for manslaughter at Winchester assizes on Monday, and
acquitted.

FEMALE EMIGRANTS.—One hundred and sixty-eight
young women, selected by Lieutenant Henry, R.N., from
the various poor law unions in Ireland, sailed in the Lime-
rick steamer, for Plymouth, on their way to Australia,
under government instructions.

A few days since, a stackOf'straw was blown down at
Woodborough, Notts, and fell on a little girl about ten
years old, who remained under the fallen stack until the
following morning, when she was extricated with no hurt,
save some bruises on her bead.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Queen Dowager,
have respectively contributed a donation of £25 to the
fund for the relief of the widows, orphans, and families
of the sufferers by the late explosion at Darley Main
Colliery.

Mr. -T. P. Cooke, the actor, has received the naval
medal for his share in the battle of St. Vincent. He is
the only survivor of the crew of the schooner Raven, em-
ployed in that memorable engagement.
An expert angler, while fishing at Cockermouth, on
Tuesday, with two flies, hooked a fine trout with one,
and a water-hen (by the skin of the leg) with the other,
and succeeded in landing both fish and fowl.

Sir Robert Peel's sch-ooliii Tamworth was opened on
Thursday, and in order that parents may have the oppor-
tunity of testing the system, tickets of gratuitous admis-
sion for boys not on the foundation have been issued.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE..-.The opening night will
be Thursday. Alboni, Belletti, F. Lablache, and Gar-
doni will appear in the Cenerentola, and Carlotta Grisi,
Marie Taglioni, and Rosati, with Paul Taglioni and Louis
D'Or, in the ballet of the Diable a Quatre.
THE NUNNERY AT PECKHAM AND THE QUEEN.—A
correspondent of the Tablet states, on the authority of
the Lady Abbess of the new Nunnery at Peckham, that
the nuns have embroidered a most splendid pocket hand-
kerchief, as a present for the Queen, and have received
the neeessary instructions for forwarding it to her Majesty.
EFFECTS OF THE STORM LAST WEEK IN ST. JAMES'S
PARK.—On Wednesday week, three large elm-trees
were uprnntArl by th. oioloroo car ti .
storm. One, in falling, smashed the iron railings oppo-
site the steps of the Duke of York's column ; another fell
across the iron gate close to the lodge facing the Horse
Guards. The trees which have been torn up are all
sound.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—Two sister steam-ships,
belonging to the West Indian Mail Packet Company, the
Severn and the Avon, built at Bristol, lately broke their
engine-shafts on the same side and in the same place ;
both vessels have been performing Atlantic voyages for
the last six years, without the slightest sign of weakness
in that part of the machinery.

A young woman in service at Falsgrave, adjoining
Scarborough, recently obtained some poison for destroy-
ing vermin, but judging it not safe in her possession, she
was ordered to destroy it. She accordingly burnt it, but
accidentally inhaling the vapour emitted by the burning
substance, she soon exhibited all the symptoms of ordi-
nary poisoning, and it was only by the prompt assistance
of medical skill that she was placed in a fair way for re-
covery.

EXTRAORDINARY INVESTMENT.—The following " spe-
culative lot" was put up to auction at Mr. Marsh's sale,
in London, on the Ist inst. :—" The important and valu-
able reversion in and to a moiety of £12,000 Consols,
receivable on the decease of a lady, now aged 57, provided
she shall have no more children ; the youngest child is 19
years of age, the husband is still living, and is now aged
59 years." The lot sold for £2,180.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday, a fishing
boat of the larger kind came into Scarborough, having in
tow a coble, and on board three men, taken out of the
coble. The oldest man, upwards of 60, was starved to
death, and the other two, when removed from the yawl,
could only walk with some difficulty. The sufferers
sailed on Tuesday morning, at one o'clock, and the
weather becoming boisterous, they were driven off, and
picked up by the yawl.
The hang or lasso, so long practised by a gang of ruf-
fians in this town, is becoming famous. No less than
four of the scoundrels were sentenced to transportation for
ten years at the assizes, last week, for practising the art
upon various individuals and robbing them. The robbery
is committed by means of a hang or lasso, like the lasso
used in South America to capture wild animals, the gag
being thrown over the victim so as to render him power-
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