The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

WINE DOES WONDERS.—A piece of land, called Morsel's
Mead, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, which would not let for £5
per annum, was on Tuesday sold at the Vine, in forty-six
small lots, for upwards of £l,OOO. There was a plentiful
supply of the juice of the grape in the sale-room.
POST-OFFICE.---By a circular just issued by Col. Maberly
it has been notified that an allowance of two per cent. will be
made on all sale of stamps and envelopes previous to the
10th instant, and one per cent. on the amount of all sales
which may be effected after that date.

About 180 men are now at work at the new houses of par-
liament. On some of them leaving at twelve o'clock on
,Monday, they were hissed—the greater portion of them have
their dinners on the premises. An inspector and several
men of the B division are on duty at the. entrance of the
works to prevent the men from being interfered with on
leaving work.

DEATH OF TWO HORSES FROII4 EATING WHEAT.—From
some inadvertance or other. a servant of Mr. R. Hillen, of
Sutton, one evening last week, left open his master's barn
door, when several horses entered, partaking bountifully of
some wheat ; it soon proved fatal to two of them, and two
others it is supposed cannot recover from the effects.

The Rev. W. Stone M.A., of Wadham College, curate of
Whitmore, Staffordshire, has been appointed to the head
mastership of the grammar school, Newcastle--under-Lyme.
The Rev, J. W. S. Powell, of St. Edmund Hall, curate
of Kingston-upon-Thames, has been appointed a surrogate
for granting marriage licenses in the county of Surrey.
The Rev. John Ryle Wood, M.A., of Christ Church, and
chaplain to the Queen Dowager, is appointed a canon of the
Cathedral Church of Worcester, void by the death of the
Rev. Townsend Forester, D.D., of Pembroke College.
The Rev. Reginald Pynder Turner, M.A., late of Baliol
College, curate of Hagley, has been instituted to the rectory
of Churchill, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rey.
W. Nettleship,, M.A., of Worcester College; patron, the
Rev. John Turner, rector of Hagley.
Rev. Charles Boughton St. George, 8.A., of Jesus Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the curacy of Chiswick, and to the chap-
laincy of the Kensington Union.
Rev. John Woolaston Karslake, late of Magdalene Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Culmstock, Devon, void
by the cession of the Rev. W. Karslake.
Rev. George Lowe, to the vicarage of Upottery, Devon,
vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Copleston ; patron, the
dean and chapter of Exeter.
Rev. Henry Snow, M.A., to the vicarage of Sherborne-
cum-Windrush, Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the
Rev. George Dandrige ; patron, Lord Sherborne.

Rev. Bohn Clayton, M.A., curate of Redditch, to the
vicarage of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, vacant by
the death of •the Rev. Dr. Davenport ; patron, Earl Amherst.
Rev. J. W. Cotter, to the valuable living of Donough'-
more, diocese of Cork and Cloyne.
Rev. William Moriarty, to the curacy of St. Cuthbert's,
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Rev. William Moxon Mann, to the perpetual curacy of
Thornthwaite, Cumberland, void by the death of the Rev,
Joseph Lancaster.
Rev. E. B. Ramsay, Incumbent of St. John's, Edinburgh,
to be dean of the diocese of Edinburgh.
Rev. William David Roberts, M.A., to be perpetual curate
of Lambedrgoch, Anglesea.
Rev. Granville Coryton, to the rectory of St. Mellion,
Cornwall, void by the cession of the Rev. George Somerset ;
patron, John Coryton, Esq.
Rev. J. Bright, to the perpetual curacy of Adbaston,
Staffordshire; patron, the dean of Lichfield.

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