The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

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CORN FROM PORT

belonging to Norwa
cargo comprising •500 quarters of u
Portugal, and imported in a NorweL
of the suspended navigation laws ; the Nymph, from
Oporto, has brought 757 bags of bean
her cargo ; and the Senhor dos Pass
St. Michael'4. 75 onarters of beans

rrived f

eat, the produce of
an ship under cover

Portugal

These arrivals of grain from Portugal are of
much interest, as the supplies of grain from that parti-
cular southern state of Europe have been exceedingly

wheat,

trifling and rare during the recent influx of such produ-ce

UFCOVERY OF ONE THOUSAND POUNDS' WORTH OF
BANKRUPT'S PROPERTY.--In March last a fiat in bank-

ruptcy was issued against David Edwin Columbine, soli-
citor to the defunct London and Exeter Railway Com-
pany, but an injunction obtained from the Lord Chan-
.

his wife. Last weel
worth £5OO. which I

deposit

3, has likewise been made le-

ditors, and turn
the bankrupt had in Fra
gaily available for the same purpose
Messrs. Jennens, Bettridge, and Sons have just com-
pleted a very magnificent_ order for the Pacha of Egypt,

papier macho

The trays ar

artier t

e five in number ; two ar

greater dimensions than the tea trays in use in this coun-
try. They are made thus large to suit the Oriental
fashion of sitting on the ground, so that after all, though
only trays in this country, they really serve as tables in

the east. No two are alike' in pattern or in colour, and
in one we observed pieces of mother-of-pearl of larger

size than

papier macice articles
THE SWINTON ML

Man named Caleb Barker on the 4th inst

of the old

has attempt

to destroy himself. A few. nights since the inspector had
occasion to go into his cell, when, on, attempting to un-

the inside,

It was instantly forced open„
from committinz self-destruction

just in time to
He had

......
torn a long strip from a woollen rug which covered his
bed. and. after fastening this round one of the bars over

was in TRC RC", CT muuricg litnic uaa.aa 11,6, La W.
made round his neck, when he was frustrated.
EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION IN THE DRAPERY
TRAHE.—An investigation has lately taken place tending
to impugn the honesty of transactions in the drapery
trade. At a meeting lately of parties interested, seal-
-

ile hou,

packets of goods from many of the who
examined, and the result showed that there was much

reason for complaint. At
cotton thread, marked

mea

cases even 25 per cent. less than the quantity indicated by
the stamp, while in no single instance did the measure-
ment reach the full standard. In tapes the deficiency was
found to be still more considerable.
We find it stdted in the Literary Gazette that " Miss
Coutts has determined to prepare a domicile at Shepherd's
Bush, under judicious and merciful regulations, capable
of maintaining a considerable number of discharged fe-
male prisoners, who have been condemned for offences,
punished, and then thrown upon the world characterless,

tainted, abandoned, and helpless. To these the gates of
reformation will be opened. They will be instructed in
the consoling and upholding value of morals and religion.
They will be taught the means of industry, whereby they
can earn their bread. They will be rescued from the ne-
cessity of guilt ; and if not doomed to ruin by evil dispo-

sitions which cannot be changed, they will be restored,
repentant and virtuous members, to society, instead of
being outcasts and curses to that and to themselves."

THE SALE OF ARSENIC.—The Times of Saturday has a
long article on this subject. The following concluding
paragraph contains, however, the pith of the whole, and
contains a recommendation which is well worth attending
to z--" We might go on multiplying almost endlessly the
possible and almost probable instances in which the lives
of the innocent may be destroyed for want of a very easy
precaution in regulating the sale of arsenic. The adding
of a powerfully nauseous taste to the deceptive sweetness
and slight acid which are said to be its present charac-
teristics, or the introduction of a strong colouring pro-
perty, would not injure its efficacy for any proper use, and
would thoroughly deprive it of its power in the hands of
the secret assassin. We hope to see our advice taken
without delay, for of all the hoyrors with which our crim-
inal annals have been recently stained, none is so revolt-
ing or so frequent as the crime of murder in the domestic
circle by means of arsenic "
THE COAL TRADE

PRICES.—A meeting of owners

and representatives of collieries vending coals at the ports
of Tyne, Hartley, Blyth, Wear, Seaham, Hartlepool, and
Stockton, was held at the Assembly Rooms on Thursday.
The business was conducted with closed doors ; but we
learn from a circular which has fallen into our hands, that
the meeting considered " That the very inadequate remu-
neration generally derived from capital invested in the
its district, during the last two and a half

collieries o: