The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

A QUESTION FOR SERGEANT ADAMS.
If banishment seem not a sentence too big
For a woman who calls a policeman a pig,
Pray say should its period less be or more
For a man who pronounces Lord DUDLEY a bore ?
—The Press.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—TIIO Un'ted States Mail
Steam-ship Arctic, Captain Luce, arrived in the Mersey
on Wednesday forenoon from New York, with mails and
passengers. She left New York on the 25th ult. The
British and North American Mail Steam-ship Europa,
Shannon, commander, took her departure hence for Bos-
ton, United States, on Saturday afternoon, with upwards
of 100 passengers and a fair cargo, besides the usual
mails, on board.

NEW COUNTY MAGISTRATES.—At the Salford Hun-
dred Quarter Sessions, held on Monday, the following
gentlemen qualified as county magistrates : Thomas
Bazley, Esq., Hayesleigh, Stretford ; Absolom Watkin,
Esq., Rose Hill, Northenden ' • and Henry Butterworth,
Esq., Haybrooke, Rochdale. John Rosson, Esq., Moor
Hall, Ormskirk, took the oaths as a deputy-lieutenant.
On Tuesday, Salis Schwabe, Esq., Crumpsall-house,
Manchester, qualified as a magistrate.—At the Lancaster
quarter sessions, last week, Thomas Rodick, Esq., took
the oaths as a deputv.lieutenant of the county. At the
Preston sessions, on Tuesday, J. German, Esq., qualified.
A WISE REFORM.—The proprietors of the newspapers
in the county of Ayr jointly intimate that announcements
of births, marriages, and deaths, having become so nu-
merous as frequently to cause the suppression of late
news, they have resolved that a charge of two shillings
shall be made for each notification of marriage, and one
shilling for each notification of birth or death.— [The
Glasgow Citizen informs us that this arrangement is to
be general throughout Scotland. We think the plan
might be extended to Liverpool with great propriety and
justice.]

SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—An action was tried in the
Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, which was brought
by a tailor, named Harvey, carrying on business in Lon-
don. against a person who was formerly apprenticed to
him, named Watson, for criminal conversation with the
plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff accidentally discovered his
wife whilst on a visit to Liverpool, merely from having
called at a public-house to procure a glass of ale. It was
supplied to him by his own wife, who was living with the
defendant. Since then the defendant had sailed for Aus-
tralia, and the plaintiff's wife remained behind for a time
to carry on the business, but with the ultimate intention
of following the defendant to Australia. The jury re-
turned a Aerdict for the plaintiff. Damages £5O.
FURS.—The number of foreign buyers at the Hudson
Bay Company's late sale considerably affected the prices
of furs. Skins have not realised, for many years, so high
prices; some lots of Sables fetched fifty shillings a skin.
Mr. John Cripps, of Bold-street, anticipating the advance,
fortunately bought a great number of skins previous to
the sale, and will have manufactured, by the first of
August, nearly one thousand boas in Mink sable, real
ermine, very choice, Miniver, and Chinchilla, which he
will offer all at one guinea each. Of these, he feels con-
vinced, equal value cannot be given in the season under
thirty-five shillings ; also, a variety of dark sables, equally
cheap.—Shawl, Mantle, and Fur warehouse, No. 14 and
16, Bold-street, Liverpool. John Cripps, proprietor.