The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

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Dean Swift's snuff-box is nnounced for sale at Bristol

The Vicar of Newcastle has a third time been presented
by his parishioners with a sum amounting to £5OO as a
voluntary Easter Offering, in augmentation of his salary.
There is a great number of men at present employed in
deepening Peel harbour. Vessels of a light draught of
water may now go up to the mill.
A boy died last week at Tettenhall, near 'Wolverhamp-
ton, from the effects of a surfeit of " pig nuts," of which
he had gathered and eaten a large quantity.
On Tuesday, the Metropolis was so glutted with
mackarel that 12, and in some instances 14, were-sold for Is.
At a bazaar held at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, last
week, the sum of twelve hundred pound# was collected in
aid of the destitute Irish.

Samuel Garrett and James Downes, late keepers at the
Grove House Lunatic Asylum, Bow, Middlesex, have
been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter
of a lunatic pauper named William Rank.
The affairs of Viscount Arbuthnot, the lord lieutenant
of Kincardineshire, are said to be irremediably deranged ;
and it is added that some circumstances have rendered it
advisable for him to leave the country.
The Caledonian Mercury states that the Roman Ca-
tholics of Edinburgh have bought a large piece of ground
on the Lothian-road, and intend to erect a magnificent
cathedral upon it.
A copy of the work written by Henry VITT., in answer
to Luther, which had belonged to the celebrated Cranmer,
and contained his autograph, was sold in London, last
week, for £36 10s.

The Halifax Guardian mentions that a gentleman who
left that town by the railway train for Huddersfield, fell
asleep in the carriage, and was brought back to the sta-
tion from whence he had started.

Mr. Joseph Allday, of Birmingham, is to be presented
with a testimonial by his friends in that town. lle has
long been attached to the press there, and has dole much
for the spread of Protestant principles.
The working classes met at Halifax, Yorkshire, on Fri-
day, in immense numbers, and a resolution in favour of
the government education scheme was carried by a majo-
rity of three to one.

Catherine Foster, who poisoned her husband three
weeks after marriage, was hanged on Saturday, at Bury
St: Edmund's. She walked unsupported to the drop
with a firm step, and never quailed up to the last fatal
moment. She made a full confession of her guilt, but
gave no insight into her motive.
Viscount Cantilupe has issued an address to the electors
of the eastern division of Sussex, offering himself as a
candidate at the ensuing election. He holds himself
unpledged ; is an advocate for religious toleration ; and is
prepared to advocate the repeal of the malt tax.
It was ordered in the House of Commons on Tuesday,
on the motion of Lord Morpeth, that no private bills re-
lating to town improvements, or to public cemeteries, or
to sewerage, be further proceeded with by the house be-
fore the first day of May next.
The Queen has directed that ten shillings a week be
paid to the widow of James Blake,_ the *orkman killed a
short time ago be an accident at Osborne-house, and that
her two children be placed in a school in London, where
they will be fed, clothed, and educated.

EXPORTATION OF GRAIN.—This week the rare and,
we believe, almost unprecedented circumstance has oc-
curred, of a vessel loading wheat at Perth for France.
The grain is part of a cargo imported from the Baltic last
winter.—Perth Courier.

The Lord of the Isles steamer will commence plying on
Monday week, for the accommodation of the public on
Windermere, between Ambleside and Newby Bridge,
calling at Bowness and the Ferry to land and receive pas-
sengers. _ , - - - -.

News has been received of the loss of the iron ship
Ironsidesi corn laden, from New Orleans to Cork ; crew
saved. Also the loss of the brig Salem Alva, bound to
Islay, from Inverness, with barley, which struck on the
Durmet Sands, and all on board perished.
Mr. George Carr. Glyn, the chairman of the London
and North-Western Railway Company, has issued an
address to the electors of Kendal, in consequence of his
having been named by the liberal committee as a candi-
date qualified to succeed Mr. Warburton in the represen-
tation of that borough. _ _ _

Last week Mr. Gale again ascended in his balloon from
Peckham, accompanied by two gentlemen. When the
machine had attained a great height, it was seen to lose
its form, to collapse, and descend with fearful rapidity.
The spectators were terrified, but they soon learned that
the voyagers had descended safely on Penge Common.
IMPORTATION OF lIERRINGS.—The ship Ina, arrived
in London, from St. John's, New Brunswick, has brought
in addition to an extensive cargo of wood goods, the very
large number of 637 boxes of herrings in a preserved state,
and four firkins of butter, the production of that British
province of North America.

PENNY OMNIBUSES. - Several new omnibuses were
on Thursday exhibited in the metropolis, the property of
the Economic Conveyance Company, and which will, on
Monday next,, commence running from St. Paul's to the
Bank, and thence to the Brighton, Dovero and Greenwich
Railway Station, London-bridge; the fare for each pas-
senjer outside being only one penny. _ _

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THE GAME LAWS.--At the recent Bucks Quarter
Session, Dr. Lee's motion, praying that game-law prose-
cutors should pay their own costs, was overruled by 10 to
G. Not one of the magistrates defended the laws, but
Dr. Lee, Sir Harry Verney, Lord Nugent, and the Rev.
J. Harrison spoke against them. Lord Nugent, said he
wanted to see the Game Laws altogether abolished.

SHIPWRECK.—The schooner native, of Cork, John
Macintire, master, from Kinsale for Newport, with 137
sheep, 50 lambs, and 2 horses, with 20 passengers, and a
crew of 5 men, was driven on shore on the night f Wed-
nesday, the 7th ult.. under Milford Cliff, about two miles
west of Hartland Quay, and ten miles N.B. of Bude.
Crew and passengers with one horse saved.
Mr. Gibson has executed his statue of the Queen,
which is now exhibited in his workshop at Rome. He
has given her robe a narrow-coloured border of pink and
blue, a novelty about which the artists in Rome are di-
vided in opinion. The work is considered fine, for the
attitude is easy and graceful, the drapery well arranged
and executed, and the likeness good.
Ship-building on the Wear is unusually brisk. No
fewer than 80 vessels are in progress of construction on
the banks of this river; and every ship-building yard is
employed. This is the highest number of ships that has
ever been in progress at the same time, with one excep-
tion, which occurred a few years ago, when the ships
building amounted to the amazing number of 120.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days ago, as one
of the gentlemen commoners of Winchester College was
discussing a barrel of oysters with a friend, he was sur-
prised on finding in his mouth something harder than the
general nature of the oyster. It turned out to be a very
large pearl, valued by a Winchester jeweller at 200
guineas. The jeweller affirmed that it was the largest he
had ever seen.
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—There have lately died some
of the sheep on the farm at Whitley Abbey, near this
city, and seven lambs have been left without the care of
their natural parents. It occurred about the same time,
that a large bitch, of the shepherd breed, had a litter of
whelps, which were immediately taken from her and
drowned, and the lambs placed under her care and pro-
tection. It is not more extraordinary than true, that the
bitch immediately adopted her new charge, and suckles
and nurses them with the greatest fonthiess.—Voreary
Standard.