The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lady Fitzgerald, of Clare, has given £lOO to the Mendieitf
Society of Clare.
Lord Willoughby has caused a quantity of beef to be distri-
buted to the poorer inhabitants of Griinsthorpe and its vicinity.
On Thursday last our member, Captain Polhill, with hil.
usual benevolence, distributed amongst the :poor inhabitants. of
the borough nearly 101) tons of coals.-13edfurd paper.
SPINNERS' DISPUTE AT PLAESThN.—This unfortunate die,
puce stilt remains unsettled, and' the masters have determined
not to admit of the interference of a third party in the matter.
Cot Nry CONSTITUENtY.—The eleetval lists of both divisions
of this county stand as folloWs:—We4t Worce.sterahire, 4,654;
East Worcestershire, 5,995. The first retains in 1832
were
West Worcestershire, 1,122; East Worcestershire, 5,161.
Worcester Herald.
The approaching marriage of the Earl of Winchilsea to the
Ilon. Miss Bagot, Maid of Honour to the Queen, will take
place at Brighton, and it is expected that their Majesties will
give the bride away. Lord Maryborough intends to be. present
at the ceremony, which, we understand, takes place the begin-
ning of the new year.
Four ships from British North America, timber-laden, viz.;
the Othello, the Christopher, the Asia, and the Egfred, are re,
ported to have become water-logged and abondoued in the
Western Ocean, Several other ships, on the same voyage, have
sustained considerable damage.

NEW /IA ttwAT§ —Active steps are taking towards forming
a railway from Manchester to London. One also is contem-
plated from Bolton to Preston. The latter is to enable the
goods of the bleacher to be conveyed with more speed than
heretofore. The expense in crossing the vallev„ of the Ribble
will be enormous. An embankment of three miles long will be,
necessary, one tulle of which will requite the removal of 2,0Q0,000
cubic vards, and, with the bridge over the Ribble, will cost more
than £200,000.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAM NiIi'IGATION.—The British and
American Steam Navigation Company have entered into con-
tracts for the building of vessels. The engines, of 460 horse-
power, to be ready to go on board on the Ist of September ; and
the first vessel to start on her passage the Ist of March following.
She is to have capacity for twenty-five days' fuel, 600 passen-
gers, and 800 tons of measurement goods.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.--The contemplated marriage
between C. W. Codrington, Esq., M.P., and Lady Georgiana
Somerset, second daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, will be so-
letnnised on Tuesday, at Badminton. The president of the
board of controul has arrived at Corsham House, Wilts, on a
visit to Mr. Methuen, M.P. It is reported the right hon. baro-
net is on the eve of marrying one of the daughters of Mr. Me-
thuen.

A SHIP WITHOUT A CREW.—Sunday morning 'a ship without
a crew was blown into Buffin Bay. I'he coast-guards as soon
as they boarded her, were much surprised to tinct by,her,appear
ance, that she had been in that deserted condition fora long
time, as a great deal of seaweed was adhering to her sides, 4.9 a
no unusual quantity of water was in her lioNl4--causequentiy.n&
leak had been sprung. We suppose she bad capsized at sea;'
and after much fruitless toil to bring her to rights her despair-
ing crew had deserted hen—Galway.Advertiser.
TEA.—The Treasury.. letter and Customs' order, the former
dated the 26th of November, and the latter the Ist of December„,
lately published, relative to the return of the duty on bohea tea
exported, apply only to such bohea tea as may now remain in
the bonded warehouses on which the duty of Is. 6d. per pound
was paid on or before the 31st of July last, and the exportation
of which must be duly certified by the proper officers..
THE OLDHAM 'I'UUN-OUT.—The contest at Oldham still con.
tinues; Messrs. Ogden and Haworth's hands refusing to aban-
don their demand of an advance of ed. per. thousand-hanks.
Hitherto no unusual disturbance has occurred, and the town
is as peaceable and orderly- as if all the fit6fory popnlatiOn were
well and fully employed. -The number of hands at a stand is
about 4000, taking the spinners at 400, piecers 1000; tart];
frame, &c. hands 1300, power-loom weavers 1300. -
THE OLDHAM SHOEMAKERS.—The jeurneythen shoemakers.
of Oldham, who are members of a trades' union, heyeforaevend
months refused to work for certain of the mitsteri, except on,
such terms at the council of their union pleasigt t©-dictate. The
employers are consequently obliged to obtain otheikeerkmen.•
who have been assailed by blows, and other perentiainitries;
from the turn-outs, and the windows of houses Occupies' brtheut
have been broken alniost every. night. in consequence of
representations made to the magistrates on the subject; 54 of
the inhabitants were sworn special constables at the petit
sessions on Thursday.

OWENITES AT 5l liDDLEToN.—AI party of Owenites attended
at Middleton, on Monday last, to introduce to the radicals there
the " new social system,' which includes a community of pro
perty, a rejection of the Holy Scriptures and their great Author,
and a complete change in the several relations of husband and
wife, master and sarvant, parent and child, &c. A meeting
was got up in the political school-roein but, after lecturing for,
two hours and a half, the apostles of atheism were obliged to go
away without having gained a single Convert.
DEATH OF Dn. litePoN.—We have to announce the death
of the Rev. Dr. Itippon, which took place on Saturday last, id
the 86th year of his age. This venerable minister was pastor
of the Baptist Church formerly worshipping in Carter-lane,
Toolev-street, front which place they were removed to the New
Park-street. In his pastoral office he laboured with great suc-
cess. He accepted his charge on the Ist of August, 1773, which
office he filled for upwards of 63 years. It is worthy of remark,.
that Dr. Nippon succeeded the venerable and learned Dr, John.
Gill, who pastor of the same church for the period of 54 years;'
by which it appears that the pastoral office of the church was
filled by these individuals for the period of 117 years.'

CONSERVATIVE ROMAN CATHOLICS.—It is gratifying to
serve that the Gages, the Gerards. the Traffordstav,iitriltite(h.t(itohllneif,vtoanrs,e,
and the Fazakerlevs are not blind to the times in which we live,
in every
:place iu
and have wisely embraced those Conservative principks
and
encouraged.ghaivpipniglywfeoirgthhtea countyn g:reice=
REPRESENTATION OP SOMRIZSETSHJRE.----A vacancy in the
representation of the eastern division-of this county is antici=
pated as a probable occurrence at no very distant day. The
candidates by common report for this distinguished honour are
in the Conservative interest Sir A. Hood, Mr. Jolliffe, of Am-
merdown, and Mr. James Gordon. The radicals arc said to be
looking equally to Sir R. Strachey and Mr. Piggott.
CONSERVATIVE GRNRROSITY.—Mr, Wvndhain Lewis, the.
Conservative member for Maidstone, and his lady, have in ad-
dition to a most liberal subscription to all the charities in the
town, without reference to political partyor religious persuasion,
given six hundred pounds within the last few days, to be dis-
tributed among the poor of the parish. Of this sum Mrs. Lewis '
contributed.£3oo, the distribution of which was undertaken at
her request by the ladies, who used every exertion to discover
the most deserving objects of charity, and under theirmanage-
ment upwards of 1,0(X) families have received donations of coals
and clothing of various descriptions, Mr, Lewis's £3OO have
been distributed by the gentleman-:.niaongst upwards of 806
families, each of them receiving a suffivient. *quantity of beef,
bread, and beer, to provide a Chrloteas dinner of good old
English cheer. The supplying of these articles has been divided
between nearly 120 tradesmen, the quantiry supplied by each'
is certainly small, but the profit is nevertheless acceptable to
Many of them.
BRADFORD.—Notwithstanding the depressed state of com-
mercial enterprise in many cf the large towns in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, in Bradford there are many milts, warehouses, and
other large buildings in course of erection, and the demand for
dwelling houses of all descriptions is so great that fretluentlt
they are engaged before the foundation stones are laid.. In
houses from £l5 to £23 per annum, there is a great scarcity,
and it would well repay any capitalist to build about au hundred,
in a pleasant and airy situation within ten minutes' walk a the
town. •

LEIPZIG BOOK TRADE.—We observe, by the catalogue of
the late Michaelmas fair, that 3,467 new books, and 59 mans of,
the earth and heavens were brought forward. Some striking
facts connected with the progress of intellectual culture may be
gathered from comparing the present with' many of the bygone
fairs: we find that at the fair of 1589 the catalogue containecl362
publications; at that of 1616, 731; and that of 1780, 2115.
It is curious also to mark the chang4,l proportions between Latin
and German works; in the sixteenth century there were two'
Latin fer each;German publication; and two centuries later
there are 2 German to 1 Latin.—Athemeuin.

STUFFING FOR A GOOSE.—Billy W. and his wife Sally, two
relies of the i)1(1 school, who, reside in Barnsley, bethought
themselves the other day, fur the first time since their tharriage,
that they would have a goose for dinner. Sealy, with no ,malt
dagree of consequence, went to the market and purchased one;
and on her returi hone she said to her husband " Now Billy..
my lad, wot is it to be shift wee, ?" " Oat (its green, Sally, my
lass," replied the delighted husband, who marched offtl, his
work in expectation of returning at noon to a glorious dinner.
The dinner hour arrived, and off Billy started, snuffing his nose
as he truhred along, fancying he smelt the stufling. Grace
having been said, Billy conlinet.ced camiug
a 61 t , they
mg lass,"oo e,
saidher
billy, " wuts this here?" pulling a quantity of green Ivor:fed.
frcri Inc inside u.. 111 hist fork. "lArhy, stufaug, to be sure Billy,
nowt else it house at woe green but that." This is literally a
didno tha so itovor to be stuff We cwt. at win. greeu.? and weerd
fact.

WATER MARK 41N PACER.—In the insolvent debtori' court
yesterday, Mr. Commissioner Bowen .observed to the has that
he held in his hand the first volorno of Blaciottone's Commentaries,
the title page of which bore the date of the %ear JK,9, and the
water mall' that of 1820. It was impossible to sny where
the mischief arising from this diseroiptuc-v might.' extend.
4 number of individuals have beets et.nvicted or perjury,
and many 'will.eauses deckled, on no better evidence then
the water-mark on paper. Mr. *oudroffe remarked that
the court bad need paper for several. months bearing the date
of the year' 1837, but the government had answered the diffi-
culty by stating that the revenue year commenced nn the 10th
of July,'iand the paper issued after that period was not taken
into account until the ensuing year. The subject had'verr
properly been niiiieed by the press.-010be.