The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Government are about to settle £l,OOO a-year on the
Duchess of Inverness.

Last week omnibuses commenced running between the
Bank, London, and Brompton for two pence.
A ewe, the property of Mr. Scott, Corncockle' parish
of Leeds, dropped a fine healthy lamb on Wednesday.
Mr. Swinnerton, proprietor of the Macclesfield Courier,
has been unanimously elected mayor of that borough.

Fifty boys have been expelled from Heriot's Hospital,
Edinburgh, for insubordination.

George Hudson, Esq., M.P., was on a visit last week,
we understand, to the Duke of Cleveland, at Raby Castle.

The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet
Company have put a stop to the sailing of their packets on
the Lord's Day between Folkston and Boulogne.
A member of the Independent congregation at Brom-
yard, near Worcester, has been excommunicated by the
church for " slandering his pastor."
Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.8., is appointed
Vice-Admiral of England, in the place of Sir G. Martin,
made Admiral of the Fleet.

The Times says that Parliament will meet on the 10th
January, only a week beyond the time to which it is pro-
rogued. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

In the Police Court at Dundee, the other day, it was
decided that a tenant cropping his land with potatoes which
were an entire failure, was not liable for rent.

A correspondent of the Times, states that it is intended
to place the Wellington statue on a pedestal, in the area
opposite the Horse Guards.
Venison, imported whole from Hamburgh, was offering
in Hull shambles, on Tuesday, at 6d. per lb. for the fore
parts, and Is. for haunches.
Owing to the recent dulness in the grain markets the
bakers of Greenock have reduced the price of bread ; the
41b. fine loaf now sells at Bd., coarse 7d.
On Thursday the price of potatoes fell in onr market
from 2s. 4d. to 2s. per peck (of two stones), with a pro-
spect of a further fall in the price.—Greenock Advertiser.
At Southampton, on Thursday, a fire destroyed entirely
the extensive range of workshops, being the coach reposi-
tory of Mr. Jones, extending from Above-bar-street to
the Spa-road.

Professor Schonbien has been experimenting with his
explosive cotton in mines in Wales, and it is said with
tremendous effect, one ounce of the cotton proving equal
to a pound of gunpowder.
WHEAT SOWlNG.—Throughout the fens of Lincoln-
shire, the seed wheat has been got in, and with few excep.
tions in a most promising manner, there never having been
known a finer seed-time.
On Monday evening a masked ball was giyen at Black-
heath-hill, near London, in a cavern 180 feet below the
surface. In this ball-room 1500 persons assembled, and
kept up their amusements with spirit until day-break.
The market for iron continues firm for cargoes in Wales,
extensive contracts being offered for railway companies at
home and abroad ; and in the Clyde prices are equally
firm for pig iron, for the opening, in December, of the
great markets of the United States.
A bill will be introduced in the ensuing session of par-
liament for placing the tidal harbours of the kingdom un-
der a greatly altered and uniform management, as recom-
mended in the repor:s of the Tidal Harbours Commission.
Copies of the proposed measure will be early distributed.
THE LADY POACHER.—We hear that the information
for poaching against the Duchess of Marlborough has
been defeated on a technical noint of law. The statute,
not looking to a violation of its provisions by females,
only introduces the masculine gender " he," and therefore
" she," the duchess, escapes its operation.
SINKING OF A SCHOONER.—On Friday morning, a
large schooner that bad arrived in the Thames offGravesend,
by some accident stove a hole in her bottom, and bega❑
instantly to sink. The master and mate took to the boat
and made for the shore, but the schooner and her contents
sank.
AN OLD FIAT.—A case is now before Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane's court in which the fiat is dated so far back
as 1801. The bankrupts were merchants in the City.
Most of the creditors are dead, but those who survive, as
well as the representatives of the deceased, now claim a
dividend, which has not yet been declared.