The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

SINGULAR DOWRY.—A shoemaker recently got married
to the daughter of a nailer in Ardee, and the fortune the
Man of lasts got With the maid of the anvil is six years' sup-
ply of nails for whatever shoes he makes!
Mrs. Bolton, of Storrs Hall, Windermere, last week, ac-
cording to annual custom, distributed a quantity of coals to
each poor family in Bowness and the adjacent district.—
Carlisle Patriot.

WELLINGTON TESTIMONI AL.—We are happy to announce
that the subscriptions for this public-spirited undertaking
already amount to the munificent sum of £6,200.—Glasgow
Mail.

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LONGEVITY.—Within a circle of a tnile•in the township of
Finsthwaite, reside three individuals, whose united ages
amount to 281 years.—Lancaster Gazette.
The Earl of Shrewsbury has begun the erection of a new
Roman Catholic chapel and school at Alton Towers.— Wor-
cester journal.

The Earl of Stradbroke has purchased the extensive estates
of Viscount Middleton, in the county of Waterford for
£98,000.

INCREASE OF EMIGRATION.—Instead of 1,500 persons
who emigrated to Australia in 1838, the total number of 1839
is actually 15,000 ten times the number.
Mr. Cornwall Legh has been actively canvassing the con-
servative freeholders of this town and neighbourhood during
the week, and we are happy to say with a success which
places his return for this division of the county beyond the
shadow of a doubt.—Stockport Advertiser.
REPRESENTATION OF NORTH CHESHIRE.—For several
days during the week, Mr. Cornwall Legh has been actively
engaged in a personal canvass of the electors, resident in
Macclesfield. We are told that the success he has met with
has been highly satisfactory to him, and the friends of con-
servatism.—Stoffordshire Gazette.
CHICHESTER.—Mr. Hector, the present Whig member
for Petersfield, has expressed his intention of resigning his
seat at any future election. Mr. J. B. Carter, son of the
late member for Portsmouth, comes forward on the Whig
interest. but without the slightest chance of success against
Sir W. Jolliffe, the Conservative candidate.—Brighton
Gazelle.

The will of the late Mr. John Holroyd, of Northumber-
land-street, Strand, plumber to her Majesty, the public
offices, &c., was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury on the 6th inst., and the personal estate sworn under
£90,000. The deceased, many years since, saved the life of
his late Majesty George the Third, when fired at by Hatfield,
the lunatic, at the theatre.
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—This nobleman has lately be-
come owner, by purchase, of the Astley Estate, Cheshire.
There were many competitors for the property, but which
was eventually knocked down to his lordship at between 78
and £79,000. Very various, indeed, were the views of the
bidders as to its value, some of whom ceased their biddings
after £56,000 had been offered.
ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—About ten days ago, a
gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Rothbury, took
a fishing excursion. In a single day's fishing in the Coquet
with a fly, he caught the incredible number of 13 well-grown
Salmon ; the largest weighing 171b5., was taken out of the
Birkey Pool, a place well known to anglers.—Newcastle
Journal.

In 1444, 28th Henry VI., a petition was presented to the
House of Commons, stating, that for default of halfpence
and farthings, men, " travailling over contrees, for part of
their expences of necessitie, must depart our Soveraigne
Lorde's coigne, that is to wete, a penny in two peces, or
elks forgo all the same peny for the palement of an half-
peny."

In a paper read by Mr. Read, before the English Agricul-
tural Society, in March last, it is stated, that if a pound only
was laid out in drainage on each acre now in cultivation in
Great Britain and Ireland, (and not including any waste
grounds,) a demand for country labour, amounting to 48
millions sterling would thus be created, inasmuch as there
are 48 millions of acres so cultivated.

FALKIRK BURGIIS.—It is understood that Major Ander-
son, of Essex, is to offer himself as a candidate for these
burghs at the next election ; and Mr. Gillon has obtained
leave of absence from the House of Commons for a month,
with the view, it is imagined, of meeting his opponent in an
active canvass. The London correspondent of the Caledo-
nian Mercury anticipates a dissolution in autumn at farthest,
and urges reformers to prepare for the contest which will
then take place.—Glasgow Mail.
The column to the Emperor Alexander, recently erected
in St. Petersburg, is 135 feet high, without the figures which
surmount it ; it is constructed of blocks of marble of enor-
mous dimensions—one of them is no less than 84 feet by
121 feet in size. The whole cost of this monument was
£400,000 sterling. These " barbarians" of the north will
find it difficult to believe that in civilised and wealthy Eng-
land we cannot raise a twentieth part of the sum to rear a
monument to the great naval hero of the age and country ;
and that much less than a moiety of it is refused for the
erection of a structure, in which British merchants will be
expected to meet for centuries to come.—Art-Union.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF METALS.—We have before us
the annual statement of imports and exports of metals, fur-
nished us by Mr. John Richards, and now present to our
readers an abstract, carefully made, which will be found use-
ful, while we must refer those anxious for further details to
the document itself. It appears that the exports for the past
two years are as follows :

EXPORTS.
1838. 1839. Increase. Decrease.
Iron tons 102,766 112,599 9,793
Steel
Copper cakes
Copper sheets
Tin blocks..
Tin plates
Lead
Spelter
Quicksilver.. lbs. 2,360,672 2,423,081 62,409
From which it will be seen that the increase in the exports of
iron, on that of the preceding year, is about 9i per cent. ;
steel 85 per cent. ; copper, in sheets and nails, 15 per cent. ;
lead 3 per cent. ; spelter 82 per cent. ' • and quicksilver nearly
3 per cent. ; while in cake copper the decrease has been about
10 per cent:, and there has been also a decrease in tin blocks
and plates—in the former to the extent of 24 per cent., and
the latter about 9 per cent. The imports for home consump-
tion for the past three years are thus enumerated :

325

940
20,343

IMPORTS.
1838. 1839. Increase Decrease
last 12 months.
Iron tons 11,477 17,301 18,516 1,215
Steel 23 23
Copper llO 171 13 158
Tin
_1 1

1837.

Lead lO 85 12 73
Spelter 2,335 3,506 4,760 1,254
Quicksilver-lbs. 309,099 408,580 331,247 78,333
Showing an increase of nearly 7 per cent. on iron, and 26
per cent, on spelter, in the year 1839; or upwards of 50 per
cent. on the former, and 100 per cent. on the latter, in the
two past years. The decrease has principally been in quick-
silver, which shows a diminution of about 25 per cent., while
it should, however, be remarked, that the excess of stock in
London on Ist January,
1839, is 140,0001b5.-111;ning Journal.
1840, over that of Ist January?

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sec.
Devon, J Gething, 400 Sincapore, Lintin and Canton,
W & J Tyrer
Warlock, 330 Calcutta, Bold & Starkey
Patriot King, J Clarke, 338 Calcutta, T & J Brocklebank

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Calista, C Pallott, 302 llonduras, D Buchanan & Son
Calder, W Turner, 226 St. Thomas, Imrie & Tomlinson
Hardware, W Viner, 152 Demerara, J Bibby & Co
Eblana, W Rowlands, 152 Trinidad, J Gordon or J Poole & Co

UNITED STATES.
Corsair, J Harland, 527 Savannah, Wildes, Pickersell & Co
Sheridan, A De Peyster, 1001 New York, Brown, Shipley & Co
Rowena, E Read, 428 New Orleans, Focke & Boult

' BRITISH AMERICA.
Sarah, W Taber, 417 St. John, N.B. Wildes, Pickersgill & Co
Lavinia, E Brown, 249 Montreal, Buchanan & Co
Earl of Durham, 3 C Dixon, 244 Halifax, Wildes, Pickersgill &Co
Susan Crane, T Coffin, 116 Halifax, N.S. Graham & Taylor
Augusta, W Rae, 417 Quebec, J Poole & Co
Eagle, A Campbell, 140 St John, Ntlnd, Graham & Taylor