The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

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Dt•krifi ,ELEPHANT,---On Wednesday week orie
of the elephants in The menagerie of Mr, Wombwptl, now ex-
hibiting in Leeds, died. It was a female, and supposed to
be about thirty years of age. The cause of death is not sa-
tisfactorily explained. It has been sold to the Leeds Philo-
sophical Society for £2O. The hide weighed 5 cwt.—Hali-
fax Guardian.

THE POISONING CASE AT STOCKPORT.—TweIve of the
judges met on Saturday last, in the Exchequer Chamber, and
after hearing the arguments of Mr. Welsby in favour of the
objection, and Mr. Townsend in support of the indictment,
unanimously decided that the indictment was correct, and
the prisoner, Robert Sandy, therefore now stands convicted
of murder, and will .redeive sentence at the next Chester
assizes.

FORGED EXCHEQUER BILLS.—The Oxford Herald says :
—" Two cases of great hardship have come to our know-
ledge; one is that of an individual, whose little fortune of
£4,000 was vested in these bills, the whole of which, upon
examination, were pronounced to be forgeries ; the other
was the case of a person who held £lB,OOO worth of Excher
quer Bills, when, upon inspection, 16 out of the 18 were pro-
nounced to be spurious.
Mr. Kennedy, the editor of the Hull Advertiser, is going
out, we understand, in the employment of government, to
Texas, and will, most probably, ultimately have the appoint-
ment which the whig-radicals bestowed on Captain Elliot, of
consul in that country. Accompanied by Mrs. Kennedy, he
sailed from Liverpool on Friday in the Acadia royal mail
steamer, for the United States.—Hull Packet.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 20.—News reached here last night of a
dreadful catastrophe, occasioned by an explosion in the coal
mines of P. Felix (Hainault,) of a depth of 1,450 feet. A
number of persons were soon at work to clear away the mass
of crumbling earth, &e., that choked the entrance to the
mine. A young engineer, who was first on the spot, ren-
dered all the assistance in his power, exhibiting a great cool-
ness. He succeeded, with the aid of a miner, in abstracting
four dead bodies, and five wounded men ; but, alas ! 29
miners are supposed to be under the earth, whether living or
dead is not known.

EMIGRATION.—A large and powerful association is now
in progress of formation, having for its object the establish-
ment of an extensive and national system of emigration to
our North American colonies. An object so beneficial to
the poorer classes of this country, and so conducive to the
general trade and prosperity of the empire, cannot fail to
meet with general co-operation. But this association is also
supported by a union with the baronets of Scotland and
Nova Scotia, whose territorial claims on the ancient pro-
vince of Nova Scotia will thus, it is anticipated, be made not
only available to themselves, but beneficial to the distressed
population of these kingdoms.

THE LUCKY LIVING.—(From a Correspondent.)—The
vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York, in the presen-
tation of his Grace the Archbishop, has gained this appella-
tion from the very extraordinary fact that there are no less
than eight successive vicars now alive, every one of whom is
a dignitary of the church. These fortunate individuals are
Dr. Webber, Dean of Ripon ; Hon. E. Rice, Dean of Glou-
cester; the Rev. Archdeacon Harcourt, the Bishop of St.
Asaph ; Hon. G. Pellew, Dean of Norwich ; Hon. H. How-
ard, Dean of Lichfield; the Rev. H. Dixon, Canon of York
and Ripon; and the present incumbent, the Rev. S. Creyke,
recently appointed to a canonry at York. -