The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

lecture

in the last three years, ending January, 1847, snows tnau
the quantity of corn (of Irish growth) so imported,
amounted, in 1844, to 2,801,206
_quarters ; in 1845, to
3,251,901 quarters •, and in 1846, to 1,825,394 quarters.
The quantity of wheat, flour, and oatmeal amounted re-
spectively, in 1844, to 839,567 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. ;
in 1845, to 1,422,379 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt.-; and in
1846, to 723,562 cwt.' and 553,148 cwt. The number of
cattle, in the year 1846, was as' follows :-186,483, oxen,

; 6,363 calves; 259,257 sheep and lambs ; 486,8275winc.
SUDDEN ACQUIMTION OF £3o,ooo.—An extraordinary

curred town elderly female, named M'Cormack, who has
for some time resided in Coppice-row, London, a few
doors from Clerkenwell Workhouse, where she has con-
trived to maintain a decent maintenance by vending in
her small shop various articles of confectionary. The old
lady, who is upwards of sixty, on Saturday deceived a let-
ter from a solicitor, announcing to her the death of an
noed relative_ who had resided near Aberdeen (of which

place Mrs. M'Cormack is a native), ana aiso.tnat sue 111.1
been bequeathed property to the amount of no less a sum
than £30,000.
SUPPLY OF HOME-GROWN WHEAT.—The following are
given as the quantities of home-grown wheat which have

1845. January to Jnne

Weekly aver
120,833

3,141,6j"2

July to December 130,727
1846. January to June 2,694,479.... 103,633
July to December ..., 3,234,482.... 124,403
1847. January, four weeks 546,690.. 136,672
The town of Yarmouth is bound by ancient charter to
send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred herrings, which
are to be baked in twenty-four pies, or pasties, and then
delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton, who is
to convey them to the Queen.
AN ENCYCLOP/EDIAN NEWSPAPER.--A project has
been started by Mr. Luke Hansard, (a gentleman who
has proposed many very benevolent schemes, but which
have never been carried out, we apprehend, to the extent
of his wishes,) .to bring out a newspaper, which is very
properly to be called The Spirit of the Times, for its con_
tents are to embrace no less than sixteen distinct heads of
information, to each of which a whole page is to be devoted.
The publication, it seems, is first to appear in two sheets
equal to the Times, and next in a separate form, in octavo.
The price for both forms is extremely moderate ; and if
the projector may only be enabled to realise his vast con-
ceptions of the moral uses to, which_ a
_newspaper may be

made to subserve, there can be no doubt that a new era in
journalism will take its date from the appearance of his

SCOTLAND.—The north of Scotland
is nearly in a state• of insurrection. At Burghend, two
vessels laden with meal for export were deprived of their
-argoes. . At Lossiemouth and Findhorn several carts were
sized, and the captured victuals lodged in storehouse,
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aces in the neighbour. - oerng in a similar
state of excitement, forty soldiers from Fort George have

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of Keith, an inland town, are said to be pouring in large
numbers. Passing over intermediate districts, the food
riot folly has also reached the south. In Stranraer, dis-
turbance was raised because two meal-dealers would not
sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves
were also stolen, but the promptitude of the authorities
prevented them reaching any great height. The Edinburgh
Deputation Fund amounts to-day to £24,000 6s. 2d. The
Scotsman's " commissioner" to the Highlands appears to
think that the Highlanders are by far too indolent, and
that the distress, although severe, has in some instances
been exaggerated.

--DUE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.—A numerous
meeting to promote this important object was held at Bir-
minglianciin Tuesday. The eviU resulting from the beer-
house system from Sunday traffic on canals, railroads, &c
were a!aly pointed out by the various speakers, and ttlsO
i theinjurious consequences to the working classes pro-
duced by late payments on Saturday evenings. A memo-
rial was read to the meeting, signed by 1,298 tradesmen
of the town of Birmingham, (who had long opened their
shops on Sundays,) expressive of their desire that an end
should be put to all trading on that sacred day ; they
asked protection, declaring " that they would gladly leave
off trading on the Sabbath, and enjoy its rest, did they
not fear being ruined by loss of custom, if others were al-
lowed to carry it on." This is, no doubt a very prevalent
feeling in all towns throughout the kingdom, and calls for
attention from the legislature, as well as the public in ge-
neral. We understand that some tradesmen in a small
way of business in this city incur loss rather than wound
their consciences by keeping their shops open on tbe Sun-
day ; such persons claim protection.—Worcester
Journal.
MURDER AT DERBY.—On Tuesday evening last, a
horrid and brutal Murder was committed by a person
named James Cross, a gardener, living up in a courtt in
t
St. Peter's-street, Derby, upon his wife. It appears
tihat
Cross and his 'wife were in the house alone, and ia ,
from some unexplained cause, probably the result of
_a
quarrel, he attacked the woman in a furious. manner, al.-
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entered. We deeply regret to state that the diabolical
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conduct of the man Cross was not confined to the murder
of his wife. It appears that Mrs. Osborne, baker and
flour dealer, in Peter's-street, who resides very near to
Cross, hearing screaming, ran into the house, and that, on
seeing her, Cross plunged a knife into her throat, and
stabbed her in three different places. She now lies in an
exceedingly dangerous state, with, we fear, but a slight
chance of her recovery. Mr. Osborne, who was at home,
immediately followed his wife, and was horror-stricken at
the sight. The murderer, on an alarm being given,
wiped his bloody knife and endeavoured to escape, 1)14
was taken into custody.