The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Col. 13ttrAnre, of the Mb foot, has been appointed ',tent -
governor, pro tern., of Demerara atta British Guiana.

Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M. P., has bee❑ appointed a deputy
lieutenant of Kerry.

No trace of the Aberdeen Bank robbers, or the property taken
has yet been discovered.

The bloom of plums and cherries is this year unusually abun-
dant; but fears are entertained that much of the expected crop
will be cut off by the late unseasonably cold weather.
It is expected that Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, who is one
of her Majesty's Aides-de-camp, will receive the brevet rank of
Major-general at the approaching Coronation.
There is every .probability of obtaining a brood from the
giraffes at the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park—a fact
very important and interesting to the naturalist.
We observely the Barbadoes papers that a Bill had passed
the Legislature of that Island, legalising the solemnization of
marriages by Wesleyans and Moravians, excluding the Bap-
tists, Ranters, and Jumpers !

The Duke of Cleveland has presented the handsome sum of
one hundred guineas to the Visitor' Reception Fund at the en-
suing meeting of the British Association in Newcastle.
Mr. Wm. Coates, late first teller of the branch bank at Mon-
treal, has been committed for trial, charged with robbing that
establishment of I:10,000.

The Sunderland Joint Stock Banking Company on Monday
last, having male the necessary arrangements with the Bank of
England, commenced the issue of Bank Paper only, and the
withdrawal of their local notes from circulation.

The price of both descriptions of oak bark (stock and coppice)
was on Saturday fixed for the season at £5. Ss. per ton, being
above 10s. lower than last year.-112reford Journal.

Eiskine, in 1796, the height of his career, told Wilberforce
that he had then had thirty-six retainers off his circuit, at three
hundred guineas each.

SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY.—The works on
this line are proceeding with great rapidity. A good portion of
the permanent rails are already laid, and it is expected the rail-
way will be finished in August next.—.'Furth Derby Chronicle.
The projectors of the bitumen and asphaltum companies pro-
mise too much, for if the roads constructed of these commodities
are to be as hard and impenetrable as they give out, how are
the different water and gas-pipes to be brought into action; or
how are sewers to be got at?

Those who heedlessly mix ale and porter with their wine, on
many occasions inflict upon themselves much future mischief,
for the body becomes qu,ckly bloated, and an inordinate quan-
tity of fat is always deposited in the cellular substance of those
who drink these products of fermentation at the same period.—
Lancet.

Mr. Keeffe, who was fired at a few days since near Dungar-
van, has expired from the effect of the wounds he received, but
not before he identified the assassin.

Between the 12th and 18th inst., fourteen packets entered
Boulogne with 459 passengers; and thirteen, with 551, sailed.
Mr. Pearne, the engineer of the Great Weston), died at New
York, in consequence of a severe scalding which he received
while blowing oil the steam immediately after her arrival there.,

To ascertain the cause of Mr. Porson's Reath, his head was
opened, when, to the confusion of all craniologists, and the con-
sobttion of all blockheads, he was found to have the thickest
skull of any professor in Europe.—Notes to Colton's Hypocrisy.
Owing to the number of acres of wheat throughout the coun-
try, which have been ploughed up, and the thinness of much of
that which is remaining, it is to be feared that, muter the.tnost
favourable circumstances, the ensuing harvest cannot, upon the
whole, be a very productive one.

Mr. Liston, who has just completed Iyl sixty-first year, is re-
siding in comparative retirement at his Ptetty villa near Penn,
Bucks. This inimitable porforrner!s only son is senior lieuten-
ant of the Bth, or King's Own Regiment of Foot, and is about
to proceed with the depot companies of his regiment from Cork
to Guernsey.

OFFICE OF SHERIFF REGULATIONS BlLL.—This bill repeals
so much of the Act of Henry the V 1., as provides that " no man
shall be under-sheriff or sheriff's clerk above a year. It ern::
powers sheriffs to appoint special constables; exempting electori‘
from serving during the period of an election. It abolishes all
fees, gjg atuities, allowances, and presents, which may hitherto
have been given by any high-sheriff in virtue of his office, to
any judge or to any other person.' It provides ' that lodgings
fur the judges of assize shall be provided at the expence of the
county. the allowance heretofore made by the exchequer to the
sheriff being paid to the treasurer of the county. It relieves
the sheriff from meeting the judges at places distant from the
assize town, only requiring the sheriff to meet the judges at their
lodgings or town'or country-house.'" The rights, customary
usages, and privileges of the Universities, London, Westrnor-
land, and the counties palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Dur-
ham* are preserved untouched.

FREEMEN'S ADMISSION STAMP DUTY —The bill now before
the House of Commons foi the abolition of the Stamp Duty on
the admission of freemen to the role is as follows:—'' Whereas
the right and privilege of the freemen of the cities and boroughs
in England, who have acquired their freedom by birth or servi-
tude, to vote for members to serve in parliament, have been
confirmed by divers statutes; it is expedient that all impedi-
ments to the admission of persons entitled to the freedom of
corporatitns should be removed, and that the stamp duty pay-
able tit such admission should be abolished; be it therefore
enacted, by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the the same, that, after the passing of this act, no
stamp duty shall be chargeable on the admission of any person
entitled to take up his freedom by birth or servitude in any city
or borough in England returning a member or members to serve
in parliament."
RIOT AND Loss OF LIFE AT PRESTON.—We regret that it
should have become our duty to place on record the particulars
of some very distressing occurrences which have taken place in
the immediate neighbourhood since our last. On Monday, it
seems that in consequence of some accident hiving happened to
a part of the steam department at the factory of Messrs.
Bashall, a short distance from Tardy Gate, the workpeople
were not employed; very unfortunately, as the result proved, a
number of them went to the " Sumpter Horse" public-house,
where they fell in with a party of Irish railway labourers, and
when the liquor was in and brains out, they got to quarrelling
with each other, and a fight ensued, in which one of the mill
workmen had the worst of it. After the fight, the Irish
labourers sallied forth from the house, and proceeded to different
cottages tenanted by English families, where they committed
great excesses, in breaking the furniture, and alarming the in-
mates by the most violent threats. It seems that this defeat had
created feelings of strong resentment in the mill workpeople,
and that a great number of the neighbouring agricultural
labourers sympathised in these feelings, and readily proffered
themselves to assist in wiping off the stain. On Tuesday even-
ing an exceeding large number of these combined classes met,
and they were armed with all sorts of offensive weapons, among
others, from 12 to 20 guns ; and being so compacted, they pro-
ceeded to the quarters of the Irish labourers, the consequence
of which was that an affray took place; one person was shot
dead, and various others were wounded in the most shocking
manner. The shot by which the man was killed was fired from
the window of one of the cottages occupied by the Irish la-
bourers; but by whom does not clearly appear. There has
not been any subsequent outbreak, and we sincerely trust, for
the credit of the neighbourhood, that there will not be. A com-
pany of the 86th foot (unjler the command of Lieut. Edwards)
which had been sent for from Blackburn, arrived about noon on
Thursday, a detachment from which has been stationed on the
spot, to be ready in case of anv further outrage. On Thursday
an inquest was held on the body of John Trafford, the man who
was killed, and after hearing the evidence that could be pro-
cured, the jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter against
some person or persons unknown."—Preston Pilot.

DEFENCE OF THE ALLEGED CRUELTY OF NATURALISTS.—
If the wonderful structure of the lower orders of creation cannot
be studied or understood, or their infinitely varied forms held
in remembrance, without hastening by a few days or hours the
termination of that brief career which in truth scarcely ever
meets with a strictly natural end, then is the student of nature
following out the principles of an elevating and intellectual pur-
suit, all well entitled to command a portion of animal life as he
who, to pamper the refined grossness of a sensual appetite,
bleeds his turkeys to death by cutting the roots of their tongues,
boils crabs and lobsters alive, and swallows unsuspecting oys-
ters by the score.—Encyclopeedia Britannica, new edit.; art.
Animal Kingdom.
COFFEE AFTER WINE.—The system now adopted, in imita-
tion of the French custom, of taking very strong coffee after
wine, though so very agreeable, is injurious, if the wines taken
during the meal have been Port, Sherry, and Madeira, but not
so if those of a lighter quality have been drunk. Great excite-
ment attends upon this indulgence, for coffee bas a great influ-
ence upon the stomach, and likewise upon the brain, Watch-
fulness of long duration, with a feverish reaction, are its
immediate effects; but its distant ones are more upon the ex-
treme capillary vessels of the surface of the body, which it
seems to constringe, and it effects the skin, to which it gives a
peculiar harshness ; and it has been said by someof the French
writers to give it colour; and the sallowness of the Parisian has
been, by score than one medical author, ascribed to the great
addiction to coffee.—Dr. Signiond.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—A gentleman who went into a
banking-•house in Liverpool last week, and catne out with £5OO
in his pocket, remarked a person who seemed watching him.
tie soon after entered the train for Manchester, the very same
man sitting near him in the carriage. On getting out he found
himself minus the whole sum; and confident he had been rob-
bed, and finding the fellow had gone in the train for Birming-
ham, he determined, if possible, to pursue him instanter; so
taking an officer with him, and, and engaging an engine at
Manchester, for which he agreed to pay £15., he gallantly pur-
sued steam with steam, and overtook the train before it reached
Birmingham. They then followed to the station, and getting
out, watched the passengers descend. They soon saw the man
of whom they were in search get out, and having secured him,
discovered the missing money in his possession.—Staffurd
Examiner.

LADIES' FEET IN CHINA.—It appears very ridiculous to Eu-
ropean eyes to see an old lady, verging into dotage, believing
all eyesare turned upon her in admiration, because her feet are
no larger than those of a child five or six years of age. As she
walks through the streets, her progressive motion would incline
you to believe that she had had the misfortune to lose both her
legs, and was obliged to get about as well as she was able on a
couple of wooden stumps. You feel a great temptation to go up
and offer the old lady the use of your stick to help her along, as
she seems in danger of falling every moment, In this tottering
manner they proceed, and if they wish to look behind them, they
are obliged to stop. and then steady themselves while they
gradually twist the whole body round as far as required. This
feeble, helpless condition of the females is very much admired
by the Chinese, who delight to see them in danger of falling.
The women themselves make it one of their principal arts of
attraction; to endeavour to walk, and thus show their dependent
situation. This is very similar to the affected grace of some of
our European demoiselles, who often exaggerate their natural
timidity, in orde.r to rouse the protecting courage of the lords of
the creation.— The Fanqui in China.
Miss CLARA NOVELL() IN MUNICH.—This lady, as our
readers are aware, is making at present a most triumphant pro-
fessional tour in Germany. At Munich she gave her first con-
cert on the '27th of April, and another a few clays afterwards.ce
She then proceeded to Augshurgh, where she sang at a pu b
concert on the 2d instant, and was to give a second concert at
the theatre, previously to her return to Munich. Of her first
appearance at the latter place, the correspondent of the Allge-
meine Zeitunq writes in these terms:—" Yesterday we heard
Miss Clara Novello. The fame that preceded her has beep,
guilty of no exaggeration. Her voice, one of the most beauti-
ful that can he beard anywhere, comprises more than two com-
plete octaves. The tone is light and beautiful, the high notes
lovely and soft as those of a flute, and her pronunciation per-
fectly distinct and clear. The applause was enthusiastic. Miss
Clara will become a great singer, whenever she acquires more
warmth and feeling. tier personal attractions, the simplicity
of her appearance, and her pure chaste tones (for in the voice
also there is maiden purity) will meanwhile win all hearts."
One German paper expresses a wish that the young lady would
condescend to sing some of the beautiful old Scottish airs, and
not confine herself to the new Italian school.