The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-05 00:00:00

The duty on the exportation of bar-iron in Sweden has
lately been reduced one-half, or from 325. to 16s. banco per
ship pound.
The Earl of Mulgrave, eldest son of the Marquis of Nor-
manby, is about to proceed to Canada. His lordship starts
in a few days.
Mr. Wyon has submitted to the queen the model of a £5
piece of gold, which her majesty approved, and ordered to be
coined.

Mr. Estcourt, M. P.,has sold his beautiful seat, New
Park, near Devizes, to dward Colston, Esq., for £50,000.
We regret to learn that eight more Jews at Damascus had
forfeited their lives, upon the supposition of having been
concerned in the murder of Father Thomas.

The Duke of Cleveland is seriously indisposed. His.
Grace's malady has, we understand, assumed a shape that
excites considerable anxiety amongst his friends.
Last week, several spring-knife cutlers and grinders sailed
from Hull for St. Petersburgh, in Russia ; and, we under=
stand, many others are preparing to follow them.
THE LAKES.—Tourists have already began to assemble in
the ` land of mountain and of flood," male famous by the
poets, Wordsworth, Wilson, Southey. Coleridge, and others
We understand that the Lord Chancellor has appointed
William Adam Hulton, Esq., barrister-at-law, judge of the
newly constituted court of requests at Bolton.
Great distress has prevailed in Greece, and the price of.
provisions had been considerably augmented. The severity
of the winter had been such, that upwards of 500,000 cattle
had perished in the snow in Routnelia alone.
Most of our inquiries have nosy been answered from the
hills and moors ; and upon the strength of these we may
safely characterise the present lambing season as one of the
most favourable that has occurred in Scotland for a quarter
of a century.—Dumfries Courier.
The following is an extraordinary instance of the quick-
ness of vegetation. A gentleman who has a garden near
this city examined his asparagus bed on Saturday Morning.
There was then not a plant to be seen, but to his astonishment
on Monday, he could have cut a dish for dinner.—Cork Con-
stitution.
GOOD Nzws FOlt THE DONKEYS !—At a meeting of the
West Lothian Agricultural Association, lately held, it was
agreed " that a premium should be awarded against the next
is
thi t h os rd tehg er
abdeesdt tbwuot yuesae rf -old da
ndi omnakl e y
to, withis
proper a v i ews toa ft
ursa isoi;
the roll of the brute creation.—Glasgow Courser.
A HANDsoME COMPLIMENT.—Among the regular toasts
drink at a late celebration at Ithaca, New York, we find the
following very pretty compliment to the ladies :—Woman—
There's a purple half to the grape, a mellow half to the
peach, a sunny half to the globe, and a better half to man."
CRARTisT PIKES:—A few days ago, whilst the ploughman
of Mr. Huntley was engaged ploughing a field at Sherburn
Hill, near the city of Durham, he turned up from the mother
earth a poke, which at first offered some obstruction to the
plough ; and. on examination, it was found to contain forty
pike heads. They were handed over to the authorities.—
Tyne Mercury.

ABSENCE OF MIND..--" Well, friend, where are you
going?" said a Boston tyke the other day to an acquaintance
whom he met with a horse and a harness. "'Co Tadcaster,
to be sure, to fetch coals." " Fetch coals ?" said the other,
why where's your cart?" The astonished carter, looking
back with some alarm, " Bang it if I ain't forgotten 't !
what a jok"!
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GARDEN Pors.—A patent has.been taken out fora garden
pot. In appearance it is like a common one, but it has an
of water ; which, on account of the porous
outer or second side, by which aninterrnediate space is formed
for the supply
nature of the material used in the manufacture, gradually
a ro
iters.thugh the, inner pot and yields to the flowers and
shrubs therein planted a continued and uniform supply.