The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-26 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Prince George of Cambridge intends to visit Killarney next
month.

It not expected that her Majesty will visit Windsor again
until the commencement of September.
The King of the French his written an autograph letter to
Queen Victoria, congratulating her on her escape.
Sir De Lacy Evans has paired off with Lord Francis Eger-
ton from the Bth of June to the Ist of July.
The five girls born at one birth recently in Jersey are now
exhibiting in Guernsey, at a franc a bead.
Three translations of the Poems ,oaf Burns have been pub-
lished in Germany during the course of the present year.
Seventeen vessels left Limerick for North America, be-
tween the Ist April and Ist May, containing 2450 emigrants.

We hear that Macdonald, who rode the winner of the
Derby, was lucky enough to take a bet of £lOOO to £lO on
Little Wonder shortly before the race.—Brighton Gazette.
We observe that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has
cut off his moustache. This has created some surprise, since
the Prince has accepted the command of a regiment of hus-
sars.—Morning Post.

ORGANS.—So general is becoming the use of organs in
parish churches, that there are at the present moment not
fewer than 600 being built at the various organ-builders in
Lctodon.

It.- is said that the sum cleared by Mr. Dowton's benefit
at the* Italian Opera House, after deducting the necessary
expenses+, will not exceed £BOO, and the same amount has
been raised by subscription.

Mr. WarburtOn's new bill for medical reform contemplates
the establishment of three boards, one for England and
Wales, one for Ireland, and one for Scotland, to whom shall
be confided the sole right of giving a legal privilege to prac-
titioners in medicine and surgery.

We are glad to hear that for the future care will be given
to stocking with game Windsor Park, and the grounds at-
tached to the Royal residence. It is said that the Duke of
Buckingham has offered to present 100 brace of pheasants for
that purpose.

The pigeon which conveyed the result of the race for the
Ascot Cup on Thursday to this paper (the Globe) was thrown
from the window of her majesty's stand, and conveyed the
news in twenty-five minutes, the distance being twenty-seven
miles.

The people of Bengal have flatly refused to send her Ma-
jesty an address of congratulation on her marriage, in conse-
quence of not having received any answer to the one they
sent on her accession.—(More neglect at the Colonial Office.)
LEWES.—The whig-radicals at this place are greatly in
want of a candidate ; they have tried several, but cannot get
any one to come forward. Mr. Blencowe, a magistrate in
the neighbourhood, has been applied to, but that gentleman
has also wisely declined.

It may save some of our readers the trouble of sending let-
ters to the Foreign Office for transmission abroad, by being
informed that the most strict orders have been issued by
Viscount Palmerston prohibiting the forwarding of any 1 ri-
vate parcel or letter through the official bags.—Observer.
The report, which has been so extensively circulated in
military circles during the present week, and which has not
yet been publicly contradicted, of the death of General the
Hon. Edward Finch, Colonel of the 22nd Regiment, is with-
out the slightest foundation in truth.

The mistress of a "first rate" establishment for young
ladies in • Whitehead-grove, London, along with a soi-disant
Captain Horton Claridge, her friend, have been convicted in
£2OO, for keeping an illicit still.

The hops are looking remarkably well in this neighbour-
hood. On those grounds where the vermin was found a
fortnight ago, there is scarcely a trace ,pf them left. Other
grounds are quite clear.—Kentish Gazette.

Some exceedingly old and rudely formed printing types
have been discovered at Mayence, and it is supposed by the
antiquaries of the place that they belonged to some of the
early printers, perhaps to Furthz or Guttenberg.
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The ,menerable John Quincy Adams, a president of the
United States, after the adjournment of the house of repre-
sentatives on the 18th ult., was tripped up by a straw mat-
ting, and thrown so violently as to break his collar-bone.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF ABERDEEN.—The
present liberal member for Aberdeen—Mr. Bannerman—is
to be opposed by a Mr. Lindsay, who has long been a China
merchant, and who is brought forward by the conservative
party.

REPRESENTATION OF BEDFORDSHIRE.—The Bedford-
shire Mercury states, that Lord Charles Russell has inti-
mated his intention of retiring from the representation of
Bedfordshire at the next dissolution, and says that no other
candidate is yet talked of.

The Duke of Sussex was boasting the other day, in the
presence of Lord Brougham, that he had 1123 Bibles in his
collection, in every language and of every date, from the ear-
liest period. " And all of them uncut copies, I suppose,"
said the malicious wit.

A gentleman at the Amber-gate station, the other day, in-
quired of a countryman the distance to Chesterfield. The rus-
tic having taken time to consider of his answer, replied,
" Why, sir, used to be by land thirteen miles, but how far it
is by steam I canna tell."—Derbyshire Courier.

REDUCTION OF THE PACKET ESTABIISHMENT.—The re-
duction in the number of the packets, consequent on the
American mails being forwarded from. Liverpool, by steam,
instead of from this port, has commenced with H.M.B.
Opossum, which vessel proceeded from this place on Thurs-
day last, for Plymouth, to be paid off.—Falmouth Express.
There is this week growing in the garden of Mr. Joseph
Cox, New Brewery, Brampton, a pear tree containing up-
wards of one hundred half-grown pears, and extraordinary as
it may appear, the same tree is now in full bloom with a se-
cond blow, apparently equally as likely to produce fruit.
ARMY IN IRELAND.—TotaI strength of the army in Ire-
land for June is as follows :—Royal Artillery, 827 rank and
file ; four regiments of cavalry, 6th Dragoon Guards, 6th
Dragoons, 12th Lancers, and 17th Lancers, 1,070 rank and
file ; ten regiments of infantry, and 28 depots, 13,892. Total,
15,789.—United Service Gazette.

CANADA CLERGY RESERVES.—From a return laid before
the House of Commons, it appears that the total number of
acres set apart for religious purposes, in Upper Canada, was
2,354,669: of these 500,433 acres have been disposed of, at
the average price of 13s. Gid. per acre. There remain dis-
posable 1,828,290 acres, which Captain Pringle states may
be reckoned, with great safety, worth £1,000,000 sterling.
IRELAND.—Distress of the most appalling character is to
be met with all over the south of Ireland. In Kanturk the
poor are said to be dying by the road side for want of food.
In the Queen's County meetings have been held in various
places, to adopt measures to alleviate the distress. In Lime-
rick all is again quiet; but it is a singular fact that not a
single person was seen to be in a state of intoxication during
the two days' rioting.
ANCIENT BRITONS.--At a meeting of the Royal Cambrian
Institution, held last week at the Freemasons Tavern, the
Marquis of Bute in the chair, the Earl of Powis was unani-
mously elected president, in the room of the late lamented
Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., and the present baronet was elected
a vice-president of the institution, which has for its object
the preservation and publication of ancient records connected
with the history of the ancient Britons.
ROYAL Ex c ANGE.—The general court of the Mercers'
Company met yesterday to receive the report of the Gresham
committee (the mercers' side) on the subject of Mr. Tite's
design for the New Royal Exchange. The report contained
the recommendation of eleven out of twelve of the committee,
that the design should be adopted. The court confirmed
this recommendation by a very large majority, and referred
it back to the joint Gresham committee, to carry the same
into effect without delay.—Morning Chronicle.
There is at present growing in the garden of Mr. Thomas
Hartley, of Croft End, near Broughton-in-Furness, a brocoli
of the amazing height of nine feet four inches, and 25 feet
round the branches, several of which are seven or eight feet
long! This gigantic production of the vegetable kingdom is
now in full pod for seed, and has been visited by hundreds of
people from all parts of the country, and many from a consi-
derable distance, who justly deemed it a great curiosity.—
Carlisle Patriot.

We understand that General Evans has been successful in
his endeavours to put in train the payment of the British le-
gion. If such be really the fact, great praise will be due to
his perseverance ; and we would recommend claimants, of
whatever class they may happen to be, on foreign states, to
discard at once, and for ever, the idea that they have any
thing to expect fro►n the intervention of mere financial agents
and contractors. They will do nothing for them.—Morning
Post.

EXTRAORDINARY BLAST.—The workmen at present em-
ployed by the Duke of Buccleugh at Boykine Craigs, in the
parish of Westerkirk, near Langholm, on a trial for a slate
quarry, have frequently been required to blow away part of
the adjoining whinstone rock by means of gunpowder. A
few days ago they had bored the rock to the depth of three
feet, and charged it with about 2 lbs. of powder (not more),
which, when it exploded, strange to say, lifted out a block of
stone measuring al feet square, and threw it to the distance
of 51 yards at a single bound. What renders this the more
astonishing is, that the block was closely wedged in on all
sides but the front, and the bottom was broken completely
out of the solid stone. By the usual mode of calculation it
cannot weigh less than 3i tons, and now lies on the spot
where it was thrown out of the quarry for the inspection of
the curious.—Dumfries Courier.

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS AT DAMASCUS.—We under-
stand that on Monday evening a meeting took place of all the
influential Hebrews in London, at the vestry room of the
New Synagogue, in St. Helen's-place, on which occasion the
various letters which have been received from Alexandria
And Damascus, containing accounts of the horrid cruelties
corn nitted upon the unfortunate Hebrews at Damascus, were
strictly examined ; and after a long discussion, Sir Moses
Montefiore, on the part of the English Hebrews, and Mons.
Cremieux, the celebrated counsellor at Paris, on the part of
the French Hebrew persuasion, have agreed to depart in the
early part of next week for Alexandria, to be present at the
investigation to take place there in respect to the death of
Father Thomas and his servant. Subscriptions were imme-
diately opened to defray certain expenses, when the three
brothers of the late Baron de Rothschild, who were present,
subscribed £2OO each ; Sir Moses Montefiore £lOO, his lady
£lOO, besides paying his own expenses for the journey to
Alexandria ; Isaac Cohen £lOO ; Mr. Lucas £lOO ; with nu-
merous other subscriptions.

DEPARTURE OF GLENGARRY FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.
—On Monday the fine large ship Perfect, Captain Snell,
cleared out for Port Philip and Sydney, N. S. W., with 74
passengers, among whom are A. JEneas R. Macdonnell, Esq.
alias Glengarry, who goes to the southern hemisphere, for the
purpose of forming a new Glengarry settlement. He has ta-
ken a retinue of followers with him (not of warlike heroes,
like his ancestors of old), consisting of shepherds and agri-
culturists of every description, capable of carrying all the
improved methods of rearing cattle, and agricultural im-
provements, of the old to the new world. He takes oat
splendid stock of all kinds of the far-famed Scottish cattle,
and a vast number of the most approved agricultural imple-
ments, and a frame house or two. Glengarry, we under-
stand, lost his family estate through the reckless extrava-
gance of 'his father, and a short time since sold one of his
own estates for a pretty handsome sum, with which he now
goes•to Australia to play Glengarry on a more extended prin-
ciple than any of his forbears could do. After making a set-
tlement either in Australia or New Zealand, the chieftain in-
tends to return, and take all his tenants, and leave not a
wreck of the retainers of the clan to stray on the lands of
his fathers.—lt is not generally known, that the grandfather
of Glengarry is the Fergus M`lvor of Sir Walter Scott in
Waverley, and that the old chieftain met his death under the
following circumstances :—The Glengarrys, headed by their
chieftain, turned out and followed the fortunes and misfor-
tunes of Charlie in 1745 ; and among the other exploits par-
ticipated in by this clan, was the defeat of Sir John Haw-
ley's troops. The English threw away their muskets, and
the Highlanders standing in need of arms, picked them up
and took them home. The morning after the battle, while
Glengarry and a group of his officers were standing on the
streets of Falkirk, a young Dougal belonging to the clan,
and who had become possessed of one of the English mus-
kets, put priming in the pan, so as he might see whether it
was fit for service or not. The gun was loaded ; and no
sooner had Dougal drawn the trigger than Glengarry fell
dead, the muzzle having been accidentally pointed towards
him. So great was the grief at the death of the well-beloved
chieftain, that nothing would satisfy the clan but the life of
the unfortunate Highlander. A regimental court-martial
was held ; and every man of the clan, even the father and
brother of Dougal, voted for his death', and he was accord-
ingly shot. Glengarry still retains the estates of Moidart.
and Knoddart.—Glasgoto Chronicle.