The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

sill be taken do.wn, so fa.r back as A
in North John-street, and that a

offices will be erected in their ste
pation of the Royal Insurance I
A very great improvement will tt

VERi CONSIDERATis .
male upon the verge of II yam_
Mr. 11. R. Sandbach, of this town, second lieutenant
communication from her future lot,
of the Royal Denbigh Rifle Brigade Regiment of Militia, •
ing her—not that he bad bought the ..
has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant; and Sir taken a house, or furnished it, or provided trinkets for
Thomas Erskine, Bart., has been appointed to the second the happy occasion—these would have been only ordinary
lieutenancy from which Mr. Sandbach stepped by promo- attentions, and our swain was resolved to be more than
tion. - ordinary in the nature of his preparations for the coming
OPENING OF MONK'S PERRY TO THE PUBIJ.C.—The event and for its contingencies. Perhaps be had insured
Commissioners of Birkenhead, we understand, have given his life ? No, he hadn't. He had been more considerate
notice that on and after the 25th of May, instant, boats still. He had enrolled his future wife in a burial club.'
will-run every half hour through the day, both ways, fur lEarnszzi.nmENT.—A respectab:y-dressed man, named
the conveyance of passengers, the contractors by the Benjamin Martin, was yesterday charged before the ma-
Woodside ferry having tie privilege of using the Monk'e gistrates at the Police-court with embezzling the sum of
at their option. £6 3s. 7d., the property of his employer. It appeared
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, it will be seen by a refe- that the prisoner had for a considerable time been in the
rence to our advertising columns, open for the season on service, as warehouseman, &c., of Mr. Forshaw, an
Monday evening next. We previously noticed the pro- agent, who has business premises in Fret"-'
gress• of the painting in commendatory terms; but as it Mr. F. bad occasional dealings with
draws towards completion, it far exceeds the anticipations Wilson, of Prices-street. and has
sanguinely formed from the fame the artists have hitherto bay. On Thursday. 0--
enjoyed : "

n received the other day a

Messrs. Etch

, out as we shall notice it more in detail next upon the latter gem.,..
.., we conclude by urging our readers to pay them a for the same, purporting to be from his employe
.....
visit the first opportunity after the opening. for the amount stated, which, as it
WEEKLY STEAM NIAIIS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
was immediately paid to him. The
AMERICA.—The government-have entered into a further 1 wards left his employment, the ref
contract with the British and North American Royal comine known. and suspicion at

1e mone

_..1 Company, the effect of which is to secPrea weekly that he had gone to Manchester, Mr. Forshaw went there
communication by steam between Liverpool and the on Friday last, and communicated with Inspector M`Mul-
United States of Amer;ca. A steamer of great power lin, who eventually found him in a public-house in Great
and size will be dispatched direct from Liverpool to New Bridgewater-street. The prisoner, on being told the
York every al'ernate Saturday, during eight months of charge against him, with the usual caution, said that
the year. These trips are to be performed as additional "keeping _
The sum a £2 18s. was found upon him,
higher company than be r ught to have was
voyages, and irrespective of 'the fortnightly voyages to the cause."
Halifax and Boston. and he had on an apparently new suit of clothes. He (IP
_
CORNS.—We feel very much pleasure in adding our clined to say anything in Lb,.
own testimony to Mr. Levi's proficiency as a chiropodist. for trial at the sessions.
He has extracted corns from many gentlemen in this town, THE WEATHER.—During the past week, the v.
and all whom he has operated upon state that the expedi- in this part of the country has been, on the whole, n,.tion, the freeness from pain, and his whole management, seasonable and delightful, bringing up the previous lee-
of relieving them from this very troublesome annoyance way ha vegetation occasioned by the cold .
of March and
have far surpassed their expectation ; and that he may be April, which last was marked b‘, --- '
considered as without a rival in his profession. It is, seventies, with easterly winds.
therefore, with the greatest confidence that we would a heavy rain fell, and we have sing
rec rornend all suffering from corns to profit by the pre-
showers—all tending, with the inter
sent opportunity, as the stay of this celebrated chiropo-
sunshine, to promote the growth of t
dirt will be very limited.—See ado. produce, whether of the field or g
THE ROYAL AMYFIIEHEATRE.—A new piece, entitled change was, as a matter of co
island. On Si'
" The Carpenter of Rouen," was produced for the first
westerly wind, which is alway
time at this theatre on Tuesday night. It possesses crops on this
Rr•arscs. ...t ..._t, • .. .. . . . . • .. .• , nhh. FAH of hnil t‘ml.. -'

court, and was con

rather unusual

On Tuesd

moon

'y article of

The favourable

Lecompenied by a

escription o
We ma'

limited space precludes our entering. , however.
do so at a future period. In the meantime, we cannot
forbear expressing our approbation of the highly creditable
manner in which Mr. Hudson Kirby, Mr. George Wild,
Miss Williams, Miss Clara Bell, &c., enacted their
respective parts. The Ethiopian minstrels continue
favourites, as is testified by the plaudits with which they
nre received.

• ••••.4 utity a in extent.
The weather has since been extremely fine and sunny.
The country already presents, in ail rural districts in this
Neighbourhood, a charming flush of what may be called
delict,te virgin verdure. The wheats are very forward,
and look well. In some instances they were so rank that
sheeps
p r
in, have been turned in to shorten the blade. The
ee

g corn is also very prornisir
some fine-locking potato

Ind we have I
dens, the bias
grass in the I-

augurs a weighty return of un.,
fields was never, we think, n t(h
Even the tardy oak is putting ,
We find that on Sunday forenoon a
experienced at Windsor, Surrey, accompsuied by thunder
and lightning, and that a lady and,. gentleman, who were

nore for,-

rd at a

leafy tic

,acton,

overt:Tken by the storm vv.....
near Wingfield, were thrown out H liinietelyo,n),,
Coe horse hating taken fright at thee
extremely vi, id and
A nuniical composer being Red hall doprz,%aby-,
thing lately, replied that his last prk srs a coarrpsttitrrs
—wish his credii