The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

IiOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

The musical festivals of the approaching autumn will he at
Hull, Birmingham, and Hereford.
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Upwards of seven tons of flint glass is manufactured
weekly in Manchester.

Potatoes were last week sold in Whitehaven at two-pence
half-penny per stone.
A detachment of the 79th Highlanders left Stockport, on
Wednesday morning last, en route to Gibraltar. •
A very fine specimen of the hoopoe was shot, on Thurs-
day, on Skircoat Moor, near Halifax.
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The United States government have been experimenting
with success upon a 130-pounder (cannon) at Boston.
The list of subscriptions to the monument to the memory
of the late Earl of Durham, up to Saturday last, exceeded
£2350.

Combustibles, such au lucifer matches, &c. are prohibited,
by sec. 62 of the last postage act (3 and 4 Vic. c. 96), from
being forwarded by post.
Three hundred excise officers have been discharged within
the last month, in consequence of dispensing with permits
with tobacco.

The occupier of land may shoot or destroy rabbits without
a game certificate : there is no penalty for shooting wild
ducks without a certificate.

JOHN THOROGOD.—A paragraph has been going the
round of the papers, stating, that the rate and costs had been
paid, and Mr. Thorogood released. The statement is al-
together erroneous.—Patriot.
A PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.—A fine stag, a present
from the Marquis of Breadalbane to her Majesty, was, last
week, forwarded by the mail to Windsor.—Perth paper.

The Adelphi Theatre, which is now in ruins, is expected
to be rebuilt by the close of the ensuing month, when it will
he opened for the season, under the management of Mr.
Yates.

An elderly young lady, in Boston, has sued a schoolmas-
ter in that city, for a breach of promise. She inferred the
contract from the fact, that he had taken tea at her house
twice a week for ten years.

Last week, in the parish of Gulval, on the farm of Mr.
John Samson, innkeeper, Penzance, no fewer than 174 pota-
toes were found growing from one stem, the greater number
of which were saleable.

An immense number of meteors, known in the northern
parts of Europe, by the name of " St. Lawrence's Tears,"
were observed to dart along the sky over the United States
on the usual anniversary, viz. on the night of August 10.

A physician at Bath advertises for a wife, and says he
adopts these means " to avoid the tedium of courtship !"
Mrs. Trollope is about to become a permanent resident in
the neighbourhood of Carlisle, having purchased a little man-
sion called Eamont Lodge.
One evening last week, as Mr. Whitehead, constable of
Bilston, was endeavouring to take his seat on the mail whilst
leaving Wolverhampton at a rapid rate, he missed his hold,
and fell with such violence upon his head that he was ren-
dered insensible ; he expired in the course of a very short
time.

Considerable sensation has been excited among the en-
gravers in the Potteries, by experiments that are now being
made by a gentlemen from London, in transferring designs
and patterns from lithographic prints to earthenware. Ap-
prehensions are entertained that it will supersede engraving
altogether : the effect is really beautifnl. Staffordshire
Gazette.

The Staffordshire Gazette expresses a confident opinion,
that if there be an election for the borough of Walsall under
the forthcoming registration, the Conservative will he re-
turned.

A workman in the iron foundry of Mr. Thornwill, at Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, was killed on Wednesday, by an immense
quantity of iron falling upon him.

The differences between the colliers in the neighbourhood
of Stourbridge and Dudley and their masters, on the subject
of wages, have been adjusted, and the men have resumed
work.

A joiner named Halliwell was killed in a cotton factory at
Wigan last Wednesday, by a mallet falling from an upper
room upon his head.

In the neighbourhood of Lancaster nearly all the grain is
cut, and the sample is generally good.
The commissioners of excise have determined that apothe-
caries are not liable to prosecution for selling spirits of wine.
This decision was elicited by an attempt on the part of the
non-licentiates of Drogheda to prosecute the licentiates for
vending a few ounces of that article.
The Great Western has crossed the Atlantic 28 times
during the period of the 14 months just elapsed without ac-
cident, maintaining an almost uniform speed, of which the
average time was 16 days going, and 13 to 14 days coming
back ; the last voyage was even accomplished in eleven days
and a half.

The quantity of sulphur now warehoused in the Tyne is
immense, and the demand for it next to nothing. The ma-
nufacturers seem determined to dispense, as far as possible,
with his Sicilian Nlajesty's assistance, by obtaining their sup-
plies, in future, in the shape of pyrites, from the hills of
Wicklow. A considerable quantity has already been re-
ceived.—Gateshead Observer.

At an early hour on Thursday morning, an elegantly dressed
female threw herself into the river from the middle arch on
Westminster-bridge, and was instantly carried away by the
tide. She was attired in a black satin dress and white silk
bonnet.—Times.

In Manchester, a night asylum for the destitute, which
has existed for two years, has been productive of much benefit
—no fewer than 20,335 individuals have been relieved during
the last year-1, at an expence of £365, or £1 per day.
About ten days since a woman called at a country post-
office, not a hundred miles from John O'Groat's, with a
letter which she wished posted, and tendered
.four eggs as
prepayment of the postage of the same ! I—John 0' Groat
Journal.

PROLIFIC GRAIN.—Last March Mr. Bakes, of the Malt
Shovel Inn, Idle, showed a single oat grain in a small plot
of ground by itself. This single grain has produced 55 stems,
many of which are of unusually large dimensions, and
upwards of 2,000 grains.—Leeds Intelligencer.
A correspondent says that from the wide spread of Con-
servatism of late at Thirsk and Northalerton, there is now
not the least shadow of a doubt that whenever a dissolution
of parliament takes place each of those boroughs will send
a •Conservative member to the Commons House of Parlia-
ment. —Leeds Intelligencer.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—We have had another
week of fine harvest weather, and the great bulk of the corn
in Yorkshire has been housed. The temperature has been
cold, with a drying breeze. The accounts from all parts of
the county speak favourably both as to the quantity and qua-
lity of the grain.—Leeds Intelligence,.
APPRENTICE PAUPER CHILDREN.—A few days ago, Mr.
Alderman Farebrother and Sir Peter Laurie refused an ap-
plication of the Relieving Officer of the West-London Union
to apprentice two Protestant pauper children to a Roman Ca-
tholic shoemaker, and Aldermen Kelly and Wilson have
since refused to revise that decision.

PENNY POSTAGE.—A FLOWERY EPISTLE.—A letter was
received by a gentleman in town yesterday from a distant
part of the country, containing a beautiful bonquet, consist-
ing of a moss rose, lily of the valley, fuchsia, myrtle and
pansies, all in full bloom, and for the small charge of one
penny!

The Derby Mercury infers that there will shortly be a new
election for that borough from the circumstance that there is
tan unusual stir among the Whigs there, and from the volun-
iary and gratuitous distribution of ale in several of the pub-
ic houses in that interest having been in constant exercise
for more than a week. Mr. Ponsonby is the member who is
expected to retire.

COMBINATION IN CORK.—For some weeks the northern
part of this city has been in a state of alarm, owing to a
" turn out" amongst journeymen coopers. The combination
was resisted by the masters, who brought into their service
country tradesmen ; the consequence of which has been, that
several of the countrymen have been assaulted by those who
have struck work, and numerous informations are now pend-
ing against the offenders.
SQUINTING CURED.—Mr.Featherstonhaulgh, of this town,
has during the past week successfully operated in four cases
of strabismus; on two young women of 20, a boy of 15, and
a man of 25. The obliquity in the vision of these parties
has been entirely cured, and we may add by way of en-
couragement to others suffering under the same defect, and
who desire to be relieved, that the operation occupies only
five minutes.—Bolton Chronicle.

A PERTINENT QUERY.—A friend of Mr. Cartwright the
celebrated dentist, took his son to have his mouth inspected
by that able artist, who, with wonderful celerity, removed
seven of the boy's first teeth. Upon the boy crying out with
surprise, and a little pain, Cartwright said, " Never mind,
Johnny, your teeth will come again." Johnny, with tears
in his eyes, inquired, " Will they come again before dinner,
Mr. Cartwright ?"—Bentley's Miscellany.

ANTIPATHY TO FAT.—Some of the Gentoos enter their
dwellings by a hole in the roof, and any fat person, who can-
not get throught it, they consider as an excommunicated
offender, who has not been able to rid himself of his sins ;
and an eastern prince had an officer to regulate the size of
his subjects, who dieted the unwieldy ones, to reduce them
to a proper volume.—Millingen's Curiosities of Medical Ex-
perience.

CLEVER THIEF.—I was less startled by a robber story (a
standing dish in Italy), in which my companion had himself
played a part in the south of France. A robber stopped a
diligence, and stripped all the travellers of their ready money
while eight of his comrades were seen behind some bushes
with their muskets levelled. When the thief had secured his
booty, it was found that the dreaded eight were merely scare-
crows dressed up for the occasion.—Raurner's Italy and the
Italians.

PORTSMOUTH.—TIIe three port flag-ships, namely, the
Britannia, 120 ; Ilewe, 120 ; and Royal- Adelaide, 120, are
rapidly getting ready for sea, and are only delayed by the
want of more hands. The Medea steam-frigate, Commander
Warden, and Vesuvius steamer, Commander Henderson, are
fitting out with all despatch at Chatham, it is reported for
the Mediterranean. The Stromboli steamer, Commander
Williams, left Spithead on Sunday, under orders to join the
fleet in the Mediterranean as soon as possible. She took out,
for disposal among the ships, a detachment of 300 marines,
under the orders of Colonel M`Callum. Although several
ships are ready for commission, no orders are yet received
to hoist the pendant, nor is it expected until the return of
the admiralty to London.—Brighton Gazette.
MARRIAGE SEPARATION.—In our last number was re-
corded the marriage of an eminent divine (D.D., a fellow of
some standing in one of the smaller colleges of this univer-
sity, and formerly connected with a large educational esta-
blishment in the metropolis) with a lady of a highly respect_
able family in this county. We hear, with great concern,
that an almost immediate separation took place, under cir-
cumstances of a most painful and peculiar nature. The mys-
terious and unaccountable conduct of the reverend doctor has
given rise to great speculation, and it is confidently rumoured
that the affair will give employment to the learned civilians
in Doctors' Commons.—Cambridge Advertiser.—[The par-
ties referred to are the Rev. Richard Newton Adams, D.D.,
vicar of Rempston, near Nottingham, and Miss Martindale,
of Sawston.—Leeds Mercury.
DISSENTERS' DEGREES.—Every one who has observed
the eagerness with which preachers seise upon the academical
honours of Aberdeen and America, will justly estimate the
good sense and gentlemanly feeling of the Rev. R. Newton,
the president of the Wesleyan Conference, who, after run-
ning a course of unparalleled popularity in the United States
in the early part of the present year, refuses to avail himself
of the " D.D." which was sent to him by the first packet
after his departure from New York. It is a fact not gene-
rally known, that neither Dr. Hannah nor Dr. Bunting
would have availed themselves of this peculiar distinction,
had they not been publicly chronicled as " doctors" before
they were aware of the honour intended for them.—Hull
Times.

The Peteral packet, Lieut. Crooke, which left Falmouth
on the 3d instant for the West Indies, is the first one by the
new route, with the island mails, providing the commanding-
officer at Barbadoes is prepared, by having three steamers
at hand. The.mail-boats are, under this arrangement, to be
done away with. The following is an abbreviated statement :
The packet from Falmouth will make Barbadoes its first
place of arrival, as heretofore, deliver the mails for the
steam-packets, and proceed to St. Lneia, land the mail, and
go on to Martinique, Dominica, Gaudaloupe, Antigua,! Mont-
serrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, Tortola, St. Tlion!as s, St. Juan
(Porto Rico), and Cape Henri (Hayti), the final port of de_
parlous, as by the former regulation.