The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Amongst the company present at one of the promenades
of the British Association at Glasgow, was the Contessina
Amerigo Vespucci, a lineal descendant of the original dis-
coverer of America.

There is no truth in the paragraph going the round of the
newspaper press, that " 300 officers of the excise have been
discharged within the last month, in consequence of dispen-
sing with permits for tobacco." The fact is, that not one
officer has been or will be discharged.—Lincoln Gazette.
It is worthy of remark that at the late Ilereford Musical
Festival, only two foreign vocalists were engaged, and at Hull
there were but three. We do not mention these facts from
any illiberal feeling toward foreigners, but simply to show
that a taste for English music, and a more general disposition
to encourage native artistes arc now prevalent.

The following race horses were on Wednesday shipped for
Russia, on board the Manchester, from the stables of Mr. D.
Russell, Black Horse Inn, Carr-lane. They were the pro-
perty of Mr. Kirkby of York :—The Alderman, Resolution,
Narcissus, Rose Bradwardine, Ant, Remedy, Tivy, Lalla
Rookh, Juvenile, Marchioness, Filly by Huntingdon.—Hull
Rockingham.

A memorial to Lord Lichfield, the postmaster general, is
now in course of signature, at the Manchester Exchange, its
prayer being that his lordship would be pleased to establish a
receiving-box for letters in that establishment, now that the
post-office is removed into Brown-street. This, if granted,
will be a great convenience, as there are nearly 2000 sub-
scribers to the room.

GRACE DaaLlNG.—Manv inquiries having been made
respeeting the moneys raised for Grace Darling and others
who assisted at the wreck of the Forfarshire steam-boat, we
have authority to state that £742 16s. 6d. stock have been
vested in the funds for Grace, in the names of the Duke of
Northumberland, the Rev. W. N. Darnell, Archdeacon
Thorp, and Archdeacon Singleton ; £246 12s. 7d. has been
paid to William Darling, and £27 to each of the seven
boatmen.—Newcastle Journal.
The distemper amongst cattle is now very prevalent in this
part of the kingdom. At 13utley-cum-Newton, near Prest-
bury, a farmer has had all his cows so dreadfully affected by
it that he has for some time been under the necessity of de-
stroying all the milk drawn from them. In another part of
Cheshire the disease has assumed so horrible an appearance,
that, upon giving the cows' milk to the pigs they were all
poisoned. At one farmhouse the milk of upwards of twenty
cows had so diseased an aspect that it was thrown away. The
tongues of the animals are horribly black, and their hoofs
dreadfully diseased. We have heard of many sheep being
affected in a similar manlier. A person of Deanrow, Wilms-
low, has lost a cow by it very recently.
MINING IN DERBYSHIRE.—At the present junction, the
lead mines in the peak of Derbyshire, especially those situate
at Wirksworth, Cromford, Matlock, and Winster, are in full
employ ; besides, a great many persons are also busy in turn-
ing over hillocks or old works, supposed not to have been
disturbed since the Romans held sway in this island. The
lead market presents the greatest activity, which is chiefly to
be attributed to the heavy orders received for this article from
France, there being nearly a total absence of Spanish lead.
This branch of commerce is upon the advance, being now
worth £2l per ton.