The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTFT

TUESDAY, NOMEMBEIt 9,

AanivicD.—Susan Drew, —., from New Orleans—Robert Ker,
from Quebec—Rosebud, Montgomery, from Palermo—
Fanny and Jane, Lovering, from Naples—Brothers, Gloster; Isa-
bella, Brake; and Caractacus, Harrison, from London—William
and Jane, Jones, from Hull—Jessie, Kessock, from Limerick—
Nancy, Duffy, and Friendship, Duncan, from Dundalk.

Rhoda, Paul, sailed from Malta, for Liverpool, 16th October.
Black Cat, Chesser, sailed rom Leghorn, for Liverpool, 24th
October.

John Peat, Guthrie, hence at Genoa, and sailed 28th October for
Leghorn

Manna, Balpam, and Emma, Wick, hence at Genoa
Countess of Westmoreland, Stewart, hence at ditto
Lawsons, Keay, and Bethea, -, sailed from Marseilles for
this port 21st October
Anne Jane, Rigby, sailed from Singapore for China 10th Aagust
Wetherall, Conacher, sailed from ditto
Amity, Scott, from Colombo at St Helena, and sailed 18th Sept.
for this port
Shakspeare, hence for Bombay, was spoken 29th October, in lat
4.51 long 12, three days out

Norniandie, hence for New York, was spoken 2gth October, in
lat 46, long 16
Amity, Bell, from China for this port at Anjer, :st August
Marchioness of Bute, Kemp, hence for Sydney, at Madeira, with
yards sprung, and sailed again 4th Oct.
Nabob, Wilson, hence at ditto, and sailed 14th Oct. for Sydney
Magic, Trewavas, hence at Smyrna
Gondola, Wadner, sailed from ditto 17th Oct., and Mary, Walker,
lath, both for this port
Albanian, Winsor, sailed from Zante for this port 29th Sept.
Prompt, from Montreal, was off Point Lynas at 11 a.m.
John Campbell, from Africa, was at anchor in the Victoria Chan-
nel at 12 16 p.m.
Off Holyhead, at 12 noon, wind W.S.W., three barques, inward-
bound, no numbers shown

lISCELLANEOUS

Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and his late distinguished
vlsitors recently subscribed .1:480 to alleviate the distresses
of the unemployed miners in Ruabon and Wrexham.

The Duke of Northumberland has recently given the libe-
ral donation of £2OO to the Metropolis Church Fund. It is
the second donation that the noble Duke has made to that
fund.

On Friday last George Gifford, Esq„ of Ballysopp, in the
county of Wexford, dropped almost instantaneously dead
while looking at a pack of hounds drawing a cover in the
neighbourhood of his residence.— Wate)ford Mail.
Mrs. Thom, the widow of the unfortunate maniac who
called himself Sir William Courtenay, and who was shot in
the mad affray near Canterbury a few years since, died lately
at Guernsey.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—On Thursday next, the
day to which the meeting of Parliament was prorogued by
the Queen's Commissioners, the two Houses will meet for
the purpose of further prorogation until Tuesday the 21st of
December.

The slaughter-house system of immense returns, and the
smallest calculated profits, is now paralysing and destroying
the merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdom,
and pauperising and starving the labouring population.—
Oastler's Fleet Papers.
• HERRING FISHERY ON THE FRENCH COAST.—A large
French lugger entered Dieppe harbour on Wednesdry, that
had been engaged in the herring fishery. In addition to her
hold being filled, the fish were piled up to the top of her bul-
warks. The cargo was said to fetch nearly 5,000 francs.

DTIBLIN UNIVERSITY.—SeveraI candidates are already
spoken of as likely to succeed Dr. 'Lefroy in the representa-
tion of Dublin University. Serjeant Jackson, G. A. Hamil-
ton, Esq., and the Hon. James King, are all named. In
the event of Serjeant Jackson being elected, Lord Bernard
will probably be the new member for Bandon.
The Rev. Mr. Marshall, who lately retired from the mi-
nistry of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, will, it is re-
ported, present himself, at the approaching ordination of the
Bishop of Durham, as a candidate for the Holy Order of
Deacon ; the Rev. Gentleman receiving his title from the
Rev. Dr. Gilly, as one of the curates of Norham.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY.—There has been
no contradiction published, or any denial of, the statement
put forth by a protestant Galway paper to the effect that Dr.
Caen, titular Bishop of Elpliin, had given in his adhesion
the present government. The Limerick Chronicle states
that there is another Roman Catholic prelate in the south of
Ireland who has declared himself as decidedly favourable to
the new order of things.

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN SADDLEWORTH 'WORKHOUSE.—
At an early hour on Thursday morning, Oct. 24, one of the
inmates of Saddleworth workhouse, named James Buckle, a
man from -10 to 50 years of age, was discovered with his
throat cut almost from ear to car. He was found in the
privy with a razor near him ; he died almost immediately
after the discovery. The unfortunate luau had been placed
in the workhouse only on the previous evening.—Leeds In-
telligencer.
AN EX-JOINT OF THE TAlL.—Edward Ruthven, ex M.P.
for the county of Kirkdale, was on Saturday last discharged
as an insolvent. He admitted in the course of his examina-
tion that he qualified to sit as a member of parliament
through the aid of friends, who would do the same for him
again. The commissioner remarkedert
that
tit was well known
thet persons, without having any propy hemselves, were
able to obtain qualifications to entitle them to sit in parlia-
ment.
The fire at the Tower was not quite out on Friday morning,
but no further danger is anticipated. The engines remain on
the spot.

There is now in Merrimac, Massachusetts, a boy of ten
years old so short that he is obliged to get upon a stool to
kick the kitten.---American paper.