The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO GRIMSBY.-
Highness Prince Albert will arrive at Brockl
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vi lams in relation to the family of Mary Ann Staight,
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Grimsby Docks on the 18th. the poor girl for whose murder Pulley suffered the last
A hen belonging to an inhabitant of Dundee lately laid penalty of the law, on Monday week, at our County Gaol,
two eggs of the ordinary size, joined together by a hollow has been communicated to us from a source on which we
about two inches in length, and a quarter of an can place the most implicit reliance. fi.ro,

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Mr. William Bufton, of Lady Harbour, Eardisley,
six ewes, which have produced nineteen lambs, and
hundred ewes that have produced two hundred la
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the injuth
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This woman had two brothers,

ine twins are to be seen alive and well with the ewes.
The Angel Inn, at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, is sub-
ject to a rent charge of forty shillings for a sermon against
drunkenness, on the bequest of a Mr. Solomon, who
looked " upon that sin to bethe inlet of nearly all others."
A collier has been committed for trial at the next York
Assizes, on a charge of having wilfully stopped an air
passage in the Swinton Park Gate coal pit, near Rother-
ham, so as to cause imminent danger of an explosion of
fire damp.

Earl of Coy
chers some

was killed at Pirton by a gang of poa:
;n the Journal at
ight, the other

since, as was re

ier, while en

eu in excavating at the bottom of a
well, and blasting the soil with gunpowder, was blown
nearly out of the well by the sadden explosion of a charge
he was ramming down. Prom the effects cf this accident
he recovered ; but afterwards, while at work repairing a
wall on the premises of Mr. Rising, the wall fell upon
him and crushed him to death. The melancholy fate of
the girl Mary Ann is mentioned above; but we may add
that her grandmother died three days before Pulley's
Worcester Journal.

One of the Queen's gamekeepers lately killed, on Loch-
nagar, a fine eagle, measuring more than seven feet from
tip to tip of the wings, which is to be stuffed, and placed
in the principal entrance of her Majesty's highland resi-
dence at Balmoral.

A BIRMINGHAM CHARACTER STARVED TO DEATH.—
Many of our readers whose recollection extends back
some thirty years, will remember hearing of the exploits
of a " Birmingham man," whose fleetness and agility
were the theme of general astonishment throughout the

Emigration from Lincolnshire seems greatly on the in-
crease. A few days since nearly fifty persons at once
started from the Midland Station, in Lincoln, for Arne-
about twenty of the number came un by the Great

Northern, from the neighbourhood of Boston.
NEW MOTIVE POWER.—In our next journal we shall
be enabled to lay before our readers the particulars of an
extraordinary

_ ~00ke, but he was
better known as " Jack the Greyhound," and began his
career by a settled and decided indisposition to work.
These were the old coaching days, and Jack picked up a
'iving by running at the sides of the various coaches for

of engines, boiler;, or the use of either fire or water
description will be in detail.—Mininq Journal.
The London correspondent of the Oxford Herald says
that Lird Melbourne was admitted a member of the
Romish church several years before his death, and that
the natter was kept secret through the advice of his Je-
suit confessor.

milei, throwing summersets every few strides, and never
allowing the vehicle to slip a single foot a-bead. This
sort of agility was generally rewarded by a shower of
coppers, a considerable quantity of which he managed to
pick up. At length, so habituated did he become to this
mode of progression, that he resolved to accomplish a feat
which had never hitherto been, or would henceforth be
attempted. This was to run by the side of the mail from
London to Birmingham. lie actually performed this
exploit; his mode of locomotion being that of an alter-
nate rinmhar efe.vsn --

One of the most remarkable features in the importations
at the present time is the arrival of window glass, parti-
cularly from Belgium. One vessel. the Princess Victo-
ria, has just arrived in London from Antwerp, with 990
cases of the article on board.

The Literary Gazette states, that " preserved ginger"
is now made in London of lettuce stalks, compressed
into shape by steel moulds, and sweetened and flavoured;
while " orange marmalade" is often made of the pulp of
oranges and turnips, the skins of the oranges being used
to make candied orange peel.
Mr. Frederick Wordsworth Haydon, son of the late la-
mented artist, has been appointed by Lord John Russell
to a landing waitership in the Customs department. It
will be recollected that Mr. Haydon's eldest son received
an appointment under the Crown at the hands of the late
Premier, when he was in office.

91.eps ana summersets. It is said that he
ran a still more incredible race, namely, from London to
Liverpool, alongside the coach. But these times did not
continue. Weakened by a somewhat reckless mode of
life, the bitheness of youth left him, and with it his occu-
pation went too. His rooted dislike to labour, however,
remained unimpaired; so he resolved to turn conjuror,
and endeavoured to pick up a precarious living by exhi-
biting his tricks—which principally consisted of walking
barefoot over red-hot iron, applying a heated poker to
his tongue, &c.—in public-house tap-rooms. Even this
means at length failed him, and during the last few weeks
he has subsisted by begging. On Tuesday week, how-
ever, a woman residing in London Prentice-strFt.t, Bir-
mingham, found poor Jack, clothed in rags, sitting on
her door-steps in an insensible state. He was conveyed
with all speed to the workhouse, but no efforts could
save him, and he died almost in a moment after. On
Thursday an inquest was held on the deceased, when it
was found that the unfortunate fellow had been literally
starved to death.—Birmingham Journal.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday at Ponte-
fract, during the fair and market, Mr. Matthew Chad-
wick fell from his horse in a fit, and died almost instanta-
neously. The deceased was 42 years of age. The event
caused considerable excitement in the town, which was
unusually thronged on the occasion of the annual fair and
market.