The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is said that Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland will be a candidate
fur North Devon at the next election.

The Earl of liardwieke has offered a premium of 25 guineas
for the best essay on the•turnip fly, its prevention, and destruc-
tion.—Bury Post.

A chimney has just been finished at Messrs. Dixon's cotton-
manufactory at Carlisle which is 3U6 feet high.—Ciiinbertand
Packet.

1,500 stacks of wheat. in the vicinity of Douglas are now
covered with snow; many of the fieuls of wheat are uiao quite
green.—Mona's Herald (Isle of Man.)
In the North Wales Municipal elections 67 Conservatives
have replaced as many Radicals in the Town Councils.—North
Wales Chronicle.•

It is munch)); enough to see the while radical journals boasting
of the successful result of the late municipal elections, while,
in the adjoining columns, they are compelled to publish lists
proving directly the reverse.

There saems to be a prevalent notion that about next Easter,
at latest, an appeal will be made to the country by a dissolution
of Parliament. It is said, significantly, that the " pear will
then be ripe."—Cornubiau.
. At the sale of an estate at Barnwell, held for lives under the
see of Wells, the agricultitral land sold for £BO, and orchard
land for £l4lO, an acre; so great was the competition, the
auctioneer could hardly decide un the purchaser even at this
enormous price.—Bath Herald.
On Thursday the chain of the machine on Pary's mountain
gave way, and let the carriages fall.. One of them struck a
poor man named Hughes, and dashed his brains out, and muti-
lated William Pritchard so dreadfully that he expired in a few
hours. —North Wales Chronicle.

On Sunday morning the servant-man of Mr. R. Pidsley, of
Pin-court farm, presented his master's gun in sport, ate female
servant, and jokingly said, "I'll. shoot you." when the gun
went off, and a portion of the contents lodged in the poor girl's
abdomen. Surgical aid was procured, and it is hoped she may
recover.—Exeter Flying Lost.
There is no truth in the statement which has appeared in
several papers, that Lord Brougham had been visiting Lord
Melbourne at Brockett Hall. The story built on this false ru-
mour, that the learned Lord was about to join the ministry in
the capticity or Cha.ntallor, therefore fulis to the
ground.—dornarbion.
On Friday a very large meeting of the inhabitants, and those
interested in the Port of Ipswich, took place, at which reso-
luticus were come to build a wet dock. Mr. Palmer exhibited
plans, and read a report, in which it was stated that the total
expence of the undertaking would be 5'3,100i. ; which plan was
adopted by the meeting, and Sir C. Vere undertook to intro-
duce the bill —Bury NAIL
INSANITY OF TAlLotts.—According to a work published in
1827, on insanity, by order of the French government, it ap-
pears that not less than 755 tailors were confined iu Paris in the
Salpetriere alone, and that on an average there are ;285 mad
tailors in every 1,000. Many medical men have attributed this
peat proportion to the sedentary position adopted by this class
of men.

The corporation of Derry has been the foretnost amongst our
Irish chartered bodies to pay a just tribute of admiration and
respect to the splendid talents and powerful energies of Lord
Lyndhurst, by voting his lordship the freedont.of that ancient
arid celebrated ci.y, accompanied by an address. suited alike to
those with whom it ori2inated and to the distinguished person
to whom it is to be presented.—Dublin Evening Mad.

A TEXIAN.—I jocosely asked a ragged hunter, who was a
smart active young fellow, of the steam-beat and ''' t b
aoga_or _res.( .
whether he was a rhinoceros or-e hyaena, as he was so eager for
a fight with the i a vaders. " N eitnet the one nor rother, Colonel,"
says he " but a whole menagerie in myself.—l ain 7is snaggy as
it bear, wolfish ab ,ut the head, active as a cougar, and can grin
like a hyaena until the bark will curl off a gum log. There's a
sprinkling of all sorts in sue, from the Ilan down to Ihe skunk,
and before she war is over you'll pronounce in!' au entire zoo-
logical institute, or I miss a figure in my calculation. I pto- ,
mire to swallow Santa Anna wra•anut gagging, if you will ()my
skewer back his ears and grease his head a little!' —American
paper. • . ..
A widow at Long Ashton, who has a dissolute son whom she
has bought off from enlistment several times, has lately been
much annoyed by threats mi his part of agar" enlisting. The
his old course, when the
young man came home drunk a few nights since and made a de-
claration of his intention of put suing
mother hit upon the follOw
in„ expedient to prevent his threat
being carried into effect:—Withr
the assistance of her daughter,
she bandaged his wrist tightly to prevent haemorrhage, and
then, while he was asleep. 'she placed his hand On a block and
the 29th ultinat
chopped off the fore-finger of his right hand I Ile is
Fthreiday,
tended by a surgeon, wia
be resorted to.— ' more scientific
it is expected that a ll,ow
scientific
will be obliged to • .Iforce.,,ter Journu•
English coast. As -
1-
MEL•NCHOLY SHIP,NRE"..:IOouf
weather, we understand, was,bnisterous, and th_ .), the
e sea excteding-
llheavy, on at least
•a port'
ay advanced the gale increased, and was accont a • Iby the
p mer snow
showers. Between six and eight p.m., the
far as is known, t - attain was at its
height, and, so
.• i was between
this port, G. Gibson,
the Plywell of • • master,1 these hours that
went down between
Harrington and Parton, with all hands
the vessel capsized from deficiency of ballast, or missed stays
and tweat on shore, is not exactly known; but she was after-
wards seen keel upper most, by
persons who apprised the owners
of time catastrophe, and otherwise
prevented valuable property
from floating out to sea. The
a boy, one of whom ( M'Que crew consisted of two men and
more than 20 years. The 'en,) acted as pilot in the moth for
e' master has left a wife and four child-
ren. The other safliday, time former 0 _ era
married,ere James M'Queen and John, Hal-
widow and two
chilfc whom wits also and has left a
escaped the fury of iren. A poor dog attached to the vessel
on the ben evl the waves, got to the shore, and thiew itself
u ence of
Courier. . a family in Cumberland.—Damfries
Manama MALIBRAN —l%l 't' )s ery still hangs over the decease
of this ill-fated child of genius. It was asked its the limes a
few days ago, whether. M. de Beriot had not abruptly left Man-
Chester
with all her apparel dan property ere she had ceased to
• breath • r me , and to those interrogatotacs we take leave to add a
few others which relate to the medical proceedings. Is it true,
or rather is it not true, that when Dr. Emardsle • '" "-
)• way SO uncut
'amnion •ly di •• ' b discharged, Ms patient was going on favourably—
in fact, that site was then nearly or altogether convalescent?
Is it true that it was afterwards thought desirable by some coup
de pratique to enable her to complete her engagement ? Is it
true that manual interference was had recourse to for !he pur-
pose of effecting premature delivery, and that this failed to pro-
duce any other effect than that of overwhelming exhaustion ?
And, is it true that when the body of the unfortunate deceased
was receiving the last offices from the strangers to whom she
was left, the relaxing hand of death completed what art had
been unable to accomplish? . These are queatious of mt.-rest to'
science, to which we trust either M. Belluotmni or Mr. Lev.is
will reply. They will perceive that a great practical lesson is
. involved, sad although they hay° doubtless fully learned it, the
medical world is Mill kept in suspense.—Medical Gaze 1 t.',