The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

They have already done and sacrificed muc'

that much cheerfully, to aid the wretched strangers
so unfairly cast upon their bounty; and they must
not withhold their liberality from their own fellow-
townsmen, who are engaged in carrying out their
benevolence.

We understaud that one of the members of 24 lodge of
the Protestant Association of loyal Orangemen will, this
evening, deliver a lecture to the members, after the lodge
has been closed. The subject of the lecture will be as
important as seasonable.

STEALING A WATCH.—A man, named John Jones, was
yesterday charged, at the police court, with stealing, in

a watch, worth

5, from a person name

. .
Beetham. The prisoner was in company with Ellen
Rigby, and a man named Stewart, who were committed
on Saturday for the same offence. The prisoner was also
sent for trial at the sessions.

We are authorised to contradict a report which has
been industriously circulated, that the Rev. G. Cuthbert,
minister of St. Mathew's, is about removing to a distant
sphere of labour. The reverend gentleman's ministry,
since its commencement, has been accompanied with every

been con

THE CROPS.—CANTERBURY, SATURDAY.—The last
few days we have had cold, dry, easterly winds, which
keep out the homeward-bound ships ; and the price of
wheat has advanced from 3s. to ss. per quarter this day.
There is really no reason for the advance. The crops
never looked better, though the pasture lands are begin-
ning to call out for rain. I send you an ear of wheat in
full bloom, and also one of oats.. I suppose you have
none with you so forward. With the weather we had last
week, we should be cutting in five weeks.—From a Cor-
respondent.

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The first sailing
match of the season will take place to-morrow, for three
elegant pieces of plate, given by the club. The contend-
ing yachts, first, second, and third class, will sail from
the Rock Ferry, shortly after ten o'clock, taking " the
Egerton course," and will return to tae place of starting.
Nine fine yachts have been entered. One of the City of
Dublin Company's mail steam-ships will attend and fol-
low the match, for the accommodation of the officers, and
the members, and their friends, leaving the Prince's Pier
at ten o'clock. A good band of music will be on board,
and the stewards will make ample provision for the com-
pany. The contest, it is expseted, will be highly interesting.
We have much pleasure in stating that at the late exa-
mination for Gentlemen Cadets in the royal military aca-
demy, Woolwich, the first place was assigned to Mr.
Charles Forbes Birch, of this town, son of the late Capt.
Birch, of the 73rd regiment. There were eleven other
successful candidates, the answering of all of whom was
highly respectable, but Mr. Birch did not miss a single
question during the whole of a rigid examination. In
his special preparation he was unfavourably circumstanced,
as he had only been ten days upon the spot instead of
several months. • His success is creditable on the one
hand to his own character and attainments ; and on the
other to the Collegiate Institution, in which he was
educated.
HARVEST PROSPECTS.—In the Exchange Newsroom,
on Saturday, a clump of wheat was exhibited from Mr.
Neilson's farm, at Halewood. It was sown the first week
in O(
fully

shot into ear

Mr. Thompson, of Sutton, near

field of grass last Monday, and was a rrying it on

The crop was so heavy

present stated that he bad never seen a finer crop, and it
was in first-rate condition. He intends to take a second
crop from the same field. " Grain" he adds' " looks
excellently well, As concerns the potato blight, my crop

is not enough advanced to give any o:

PRESENTATION TO WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ., OF EVER-
TON.—We have had the gratification to inspect, at the
shop of Mr. Doke, Lord-street, silversmith, a handsome
and costly service of plate, to be, in the language of the
inscription, "presented to William Shaw, Esq., by the
inhabitants of Everton and his friends, in testimony of his

,en years, and in adiniration of his character
as an upright and honourable man. Everton, June 1847."
The plate consists of tea and coffee services, of the en-

of twent

Tee, an,

sugar tongs