The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

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Lord Brackley is now gradually recovering.
Mr. R. Attwood,. of Salisbury, has presented £2OOO to
the infirmary in that own.
More than 10.000 p:,rsons have died in London, of
cholera, within the last two months.
A hawker at Halifax has been fined £1 Is. for selling
rotten pears to children.
The Earl of Durham attained his majority on Wednes-
day. There were great rejoicings on his lordship's estates.
John Bull, by Touchstone, out of Fortress, three years
old, purchased at Stockbridge last year for 370 guineas,
was sold on Monday, at Tattersalls, for 80 guineas.
A brickmaker near Carlisle, has performed the feat of
making 1,000 bricks in one hour, 100 in five minutes, and
26 in one minute. _

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Charlotte Harris,. the woman lying under sentence of
death for the murder of her husband, at Bath, was deli-
vered last week, of a still-born child..
Last week, a woman died at Birmingham from drinking
some herb tea, in which the poisonous water hemlock had
been fused by accident amongst the other herbs.
The Mark Lane Express of Monday notices the enor-
mous amount of importations of wheat and flour, during
the late month, under all draw-backs of the blockade.
The General Post-office authorities have adopted a very
excellent plan, viz., that of receiving in St Martin's-le-
Grand messages fot direct dispatek per electric telegraph.
Mr. Ellis Roberts, who won the prize harp at the
Eisteddfod, has been appointed harpist to the Prince of
Wales.
The crops in High Furness are said to be excellent in
quality. Of wheat the yield will be an average. Barley
and oats below an average.
MANSLAUGUTER.-A railway labourer, named Brown,
was stabbed at Low Moor, by a companion, named Wail-
kin, on Thursday week. Brown has since died,
The Rev. Wm. Dalton, of Wolverhampton, has pre-
sented a donation of £lO 10s. to the Birmingham Eye
Infirmary.
The intramural interment nuisance has excited great
attention in London, and negotiations were proceeing
for its termination. •
£l3O has been presented for the purpose of filling up
the window at the east end of Hereford Cathedral with
stained glass.
The supply of mackarel at Douglas on Thursday was
so abundant, that they were retailed at 10 for 3d. or 42
for a shilling.
A vessel arrived from Ghent has brought 31 baskets and
15 boxes of live plants, as a portion of her cargo, the pro-
duce of Belgium.
The third annual meeting of the Evangeli-.tal Alliance is
to take place at Glasgow on the 10th of October and fol-
lowing days.
Mr. Cash, a director of the Brighton railroad, and a
member of the Society of Friends, died last week of cho-
lera, after a few hours' illness.
The Duke of Cambridge has taken, for a short period,
Plas Newydd, the Marquis of Anglesey's seat in North
Wales.
Robert Coates, the 'well-known pedestrian, who ha's
carried off many prizes over hurdles, against horses, at
long distances, has walked one thousand half miles, in one
thousand successive half hours, at Birmingham.
Last week, at the great sale of building sites at Llan-
dudno (a %illage behind the Great Ormshead), the land
brought only from Is. to Is. 6d. per square yard. Twenty-
six thousand yards were sold,