The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

some foul affray.
A LADY'S TENDERNESS OF CONSCIENCE

AX-PAYER.-The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has acknowledged the receipt of £lO from a lady,
on account of customs duties, which she had no wish to
evade, on articles of dress imported into this country ;
also of £142 remitted to him by an anonymous corres-
" for the public service." The
be paid into the receipt of the

OLUNTEER

pondent from
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Exchequer.
ETON 141oNTEm.—An adjourned meeting of the "Old
Etonians" took place on Tuesday, at the British Coffee
Housejor the purpose of petitioning her Majesty not to
sanction the abolition of the good old custom of Eton
Montem, which the provost and head master of the col-
lege had attempted to do away with. Lord John Man-
ners (who was in the chair), the Earl of. Falmouth, Lord
Clive, Lord Castlereagh, the Vice Chancellor of England,
and other persons. of distinction, having addressed the
meeting, the memorial was adopted.
A. YOUNG CULPAIT.-At Lincoln assizes, on Wednes-
for

day, John Teft, a boy not thirteen years old, wa
shooting William. Rainforth, a labourer. The prisoner
was employed with Rainforth in a barn. The boy having
neglected his work, the prosecutor scolded and struck him.
Teft took up a loaded gun which the farmer had just put
down, and presented it at Rainforth. It missed fire; but
the precocious culprit deliberately recocked it, fired, and
wounded the man in the shoulder. The jury convicted,
and the judge passed sentence of transportation for 14 years.

WATER tiEssEs.—On Sunday, six large bags, similar
to what hops are put in, were filled with this wholesome
plant, and were lying at Winchester station ready,to be
sent to London, the weight of each about 1121b5., or I,cwt.
They had been gathered in the neighbourhood of Aires-
ford, seven miles from Winchester, by the poor, for a
greengrocer living at that place, who has engaged to send
all he can procure to London two or three times each
week, or oftener if he can get them. It is stated they are
extensively-used and boiled as spinach.
SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT BE.—During the last
3eks- considerable exportations of grain have taken
—e to the continent, and chiefly from the eastern ports
of this country. Early last week the New Superior, from
Boston, arrived in the Thames, with a cargo of corn,
intended for the London market, which, without being
landed,, was immediately bought up- and exported to
France. The Sisters, Gridham, laden with corn, left

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last week for Rouen, and the Nelson, Hewitt, was
z with grain at Boston for the continent.
...::castle-upon-Tyne, Geo. Matthews was found
guilty of the murder of Daniel Hives, at Long Benton,
near. Newcastle. Both parties were " navvies," and had

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had a quarrel, and deceased followed Matthews for the
purpose of giving him into custody, when the murderer
turned round and stabbed Hives in the thigh, about an
inch and a half from the abdomen. He died almost in-
stantaneously. Matthews was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to death. The execution of Welsh (whose con-
viction was mentioned in our last) and Matthews is ap-
pointed to take
_place to-morrow, at Morpeth.
FOOD RIOTS IN SCOTLAND.-The -latest accounts from
Ross-Shire =how that food rioting still prevails to a dan-
gerous extent. A new method of preventing the shipment
of grain is to break open the granaries and mix the dif-
ferent kinds of corn, &c.,—a plan which has been twice
resorted to in the above county. Dingwall has hitherto
been the chief scene a disturbance in that quarter, and,
accordingly, 100 men of the 27th Regiment, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Goodman, have arrived
there from Invergordon, carrying with them thirteen pri-
-1 soners, eight of whom were females.

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I was alsOa boy employed

ppeared that both were at play
kind a tree, and the prisoner pointin.
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re followinz nun

rs of the inhabitants of

Ireland dependent on tht
rain, in addition to their

hi the Highlands and Isl.(
In the rest of Scotland
In England and Ni
In Ireland
1,000,000 oth(

4,000,000 peasantry,

1,500,000

Making in all

7,000,000

Taking 11b. per day of grain, as necessary to sustair
each individual, and 300 days as the period during which]
they may be dependent on grain alone for their food, tin
quantity required will be 1,406,250 tons, or 6,562,500 qrs
of grain. To carry the above quantity across the- Atkin.
tic, or from the Black Sea, would require 2,812 ships, a
500 tons each, for four months. To man these ships pro

perly

Id require 56,240 men