The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The crops of hazelnuts and filberts this year, it is said, will
be abundant almost beyond parallel.
Red currants, of a description superior to our own, have
been lately imported in large quantities from Rotterdam.
11. Waddington, Esq., of the midland circuit, has been ap-
pointed recorder of the city of Lichfield, in the room of the
late T. Jervis, Esq.
Between the 11th and 18th instant, 21 packets entered Bou-
logne with 1,578 passengers, and the same number with 1,150

Mr. G. Shepperd, linen-draper and tailor, of Souihinolton
has a pear-tree in his garden, 15 feet wide and 5 feet high
having on it the astonishing number of 1633 pears.

..rvoy made of the
The ordnance department h..had
lands surrounding the barracks at Winchester, preparatot v.
it is said, to their being disposed of by public auction. -
Gambling is said to be the besetting vice of Spanish or
cers, who are, in all other respects, models of abstinence and
sobriety.

Major Sir James Hamilton, Bart., has been appointed to
the staff of the commander of the forces in Canada, Lieut-
General Sir John Colbourne, G.C.8., as brigade-major..:•
On Monday, a mushroom was.gathered at Doncaster which
measured 35 inches in circumference. This is the more re-
markable as mushrooms are exceedingly scarce.
The Frankfort Journal states that the Queen of England
has sent to Professor ltaumur, of Berlin, a coronation medal
in gold,• accompanied with a letter couched in the most graci-
ous terms.

Sir Robert Peel is at Longsbaw, on the Derbyshire moors,
(a shooting box belonging to his grace the Duke of Rutland)
enjoying the diversion of killing grouse.
Government have for the present postponed the appoint-
ment of the Irish Poor Law Commissioners, in consequence
of which the expected vacancy in the representation of Wa-
terford does not take place. •
A gang of burglars, who have committed various depreda-
tions in the vale of Marchwood, Dorset, were last week ap-
prehended in a small coppice near Axminster, and committed
to Dorchester gaol for trial.
GREAT CuntostTy.—Mr. It. Hemstock, of the Angel Inn,
Newark, has a young pig, which bas two noses, with perfect
.nostrils, two mouths, two tongues, and two complete sets of
teeth, in one head, all quite perfect, which is considered a
great curiosity.—Cambridge Chronicle.
In England the shoemakers are celebrated for their love of
political disquisition and free institutions. According to La-
vater shoemakers are all celebrated for having only female
children. In Paris the tailors form the class of operatives
which takes the lead in its love of what is called liberal go-
vernment.

THE POOR-RATE.—Such is the state of the affairs of the
more needy Fortion -of the householders of the township of
Stockport, that the overseers, unable to collect the rates, are
under the unpleasant necessity of issuing 1500 summonses
against as many inhabitants for the amount of their respec-
tive rates, 200 of whom are summoned for Saturday next.—
Stockport Advertiser.
A tact which is communicated by a correspondent who is
to be relied on, speaks volumes as to the destitution of top-
masts in our great naval arsenals at this moment. A noble-
man, a member of the Yacht Club, lost his topmast about
three weeks ago, and put both into Plymouth and into Ports-
mouth for a supply, but in vain. There was nothing!—
Times.

The Queen of Spain has sent over a commission for the
purchase of 500 horses in this country, for the purpose of
partially remounting her cavalry. We have not heard that
any cash has accompanied the order.
A Treaty between France and Tripoli, executed in August
1830, has just been published for the first time This docu-
ment gives notable evidence of the grasping ambition of
France, and of the deplorable incapacity of Lord Palmerston.

It is felt in well-informed quarters that the number of our
troops in Canada must be increased by at least 2,000 or 3,000
men. It will be remembered that the 'ministry refused, on
the application of Sir John Colborne, to grant an addition.

CAUTION TO SPORTSMEN.—Yesterday week, a serious acci-
dent occurred to Mr. Thomas Crosby, of Leeds, corn-porter.
As he was returning from the Craven Moors, where he had
been 'shooting during the week, he got out of the vehicle in
which he had been riding near Cookridge, and whilst pulling
his gun after him by the muzzle it unfortunately discharged
itself, and lodged the contents in his shoulder. He was con-
veyed to the Leeds General Infirmary, where several por-
tions of the fractured bone were removed on Saturday, and
the patient is now going on favourably.—Leeds Intelligencer.
A CANDIDATE FOR PLACE.—English people wonder ! an
American servant always (as in Miss Sedgwick's tale) ad-
dressing her mistress as "Mrs. Ardley," and Americans are
highly amused at such a dialogue as the following between a
nobleman of remarkable simple manners and habits and a

candidate for the office of butler in his house: "Butler—
My lord, I find your lordship wants a butler. I should be
happy to take the place. Lord—(after some mutual explana-
tion) —What are your expectations? Butler—Two hundred a-
year, my lord, and—yes, my lord, I expect two hundred a-
year. Lord—Have you any thing more to say? Butler—l
should expect the liberty to go out when I please, my lord,
to spend the evening with a friend. Lord—Anything else?
Butler—l should expect the liberty ofenjoying a Bottle a wine
from the cellar when I have a friend with me. Lord—Any-
thing else?- Butler—As I said before, my lord, two hundred
a-year : my expectations are two hundred a-year. Lord—
Say three, and I will be your butler."
DYSPEPSIA.—The effect of mental disquietude in produciug
this prevalent complaint is far greater than is generally sup-
posed. It is well known that persons in good health, of sound
digestive organs, who take plenty of exercise, and are free
from anxiety, may eat almost anything, and in quantities
which would kill those in different circumstances. In refer-
ence to this point, Dr. Brigham observes—" We do not find
dyspepsia prevalent in countries where the people do eat
most enormously. Travellers in Siberia say that the people
there often eat -40 pounds of food in one day. Admiral Se-
ripchoff eat a Siberian cat, immediately after breakfast, 25
pounds of boiled rice, with 3 pounds of butter.. But dyspep-
sia is not a common disease in Siberia. 'We do not learn
from Captain Parry or Captain Lyon that their friends the
Esquimaux are very nervous and dyspeptic, though they in-
dividually eat 10 or 12 pounds of solid food in a day, washing
it down with a gallon or so of train oil. Captain Lyon was,
to be sure, a little concerned for a delicate young lady Es-
quimaux, who ate her candles, wicks and all; yet hedoes not
allude to her inability to digest them.

A GHOST IN SPECTACI.ES.—I once saw what nobody, ex-
cepting always the audience of that particular night, could
have Seen—the Ghost of Ilamlet's father acted at Covent
garden Theatre in spectacles. Armour. of course, was the
costume, and chalk are complexion. The performer was
►he late Mr. Chapman, who was remarkably near-sighted.
Having acted the Ghost so frequently as to have entirely
forgotton the part (for who can expect people to remember
things for ever?), he had put on his spectacles on the out-
side of the casque which covered his " ancient" head, and
being suddenly called to the stage, on he went, helmet,
glasses, and all. When once on, to remove the glasses would
have been impossible; a ghost without speculation in his
eyes, taking off a pair of spectacles, would have been fatal,
and, accordingly, the ghost performed his duty, even to the
time of cock-crowing, framed and glazed, as ghost was never
seen before.

A correspondent says—" Some of the holders of old wheat
are desirous of having it believed that there is a maggot in the
new; but well-informed persons think the maggot is in their
own heads.—Morning Herald.
We are informed that the London and Southampton Rail-
way will open its next stage, viz., 15 miles further than
Woking-heath, its present terminus, on Monday, the 17th of
September next. This will bring the railway close to Hart-
ley-row, on the western road, 38 miles from London, and
within seven miles of Basingstoke.—Standard. .
THE EXPORTATION OF THE PRECIOUS METAI.S.—The ex-
portation of gold and silver coin and bullion from the port of
London to foreign ports during the past fortnight, ending the
24th inst. is as under :—Gold coin to Cape of Good Hope
and Ceylon, 500 oz.; British West Indies, 142 oz.; bars of
gold, Hamburgh, 2350 oz. ; silver coin, British West Indies,
9231 oz.; Gibraltar, 4603 oz. ; bars of silver to Madras, 4008
ounces.

MPOC.TATION OF TIMBIER.—During the last few weeks,

large cargoes of timber, chiefly from America, have been
landed at Leith Docks. More than a dozen vessels are al-

ready discharged, and several others are entered on the re-
ports —Glasgow Courier.

RETIREMENT OF LORD NORMANDY FROM THE TURF.—
We have seen a letter from Dublin, which states that the

Marquis of Normanby has lost so much money by the Turf,
and is so disgusted with his associates at the Currah and the
company he invites to Normanby lodge, that his entire stud
is advertised for sale.—Newry Telegraph.
GAME.—The prospects of the sportsman in this neighbour-
hood (Dorchester) are not so good at they have been in some,
former years. Some of the coveys are numerous enough,
but the destruction caused by the wetness of the breeding
season, and in some quarters by the over-shooting of last
year, are somewhat seriously felt.—Dorset Chronicle.
We understand that in consequence of the great increase
in the price of bread, it is the intention of the Poor-law Com-
missioners to restore to the magistracy the power of fixing,
or recommending, a rate of wages for the agricultural labour-
ers commensurate with the prices of the necessaries of life.—
Salisbury Herald.

We regret to have to announce the melancholy death of
General Onslow, of Great Staughton. The General, with
his family, had been to an archery meeting, and in the course
of the day he complained of a violent pain at his chest, which
shortly after left him, but returned again with greater vio-
lence in the evening. After having taken some medicine
he sank down in a chair and expired ahuost instantaneously.
Upon a post mortem examination, the disease he died of
was ascertained to be of the heart.—Standard.
LAUNCH FROM HER MAJESTY'S DOCK-YARD, SHEERNESS.
—On Thursday afternoon a new' steam-ship, the Acheron,
was launched -from the dockyard amidst au immense con-

course of people. The following are her dimensions :—be-
tween the perpendiculars, 150 feet; keel for tonnage, 128
feet 7 inches; extreme breadth, 32. feet 9 inches; depth of
hold, 18 feet; register tonnage, 720 tons. She was built
under the superintendence of Mr. Fluckan, jun., and is a
very fine specimen of naval architecture.—lbid.
SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. —The survey
of this railway is, we are glad to learn, proceeding rapidly.
From the entrance into Manchester to Durnford Bridge, the
exact line has been determined : and, for nearly the whole
of the distance, the breadth of land required has been nicked
out upon the ground, and negociations opened. for its pur-
chase. We understand that Mr. Vignoles will proceed
shortly with the staking out on the Yorkshire side,—North
Derbyshire Chronicle.
A Goon CONSTITUTION.—There is a labouring man re-
siding at West Drayton, near Belford, who for the last 26
years has drank six quarts of small beer daily, (Sundays ex-
cepted), and two quarts of ale, so that during the period
above stated, he must have consumed about 18,000 gallons of
small beer, and 6000 gallons of ale. For the last 18 years
the same individual has walked backward and forward to his
work, at least 10 miles daily, making in the whole a distance
of 56,160 miles. The man is at present in a good state *of
health, and promises fair to continue his accustomed prac-
tice and exercise for many years to come.—Cambridge
Chronicle.

NAPLES, AUG. 7.—Her Majesty the Queen and the
young prince are perfectly well. The prince was baptized
on Saturday by the name of Charles Louis Count of Trani.
The city has on this occasion done a great deal for the cha-
ritable institutions; on the other hand no pardon, promotion,
or other favour, either on the part of the government or his
Majesty, has been yet made known. Vesuvius is again
quite still, to the great regret of the foreigners now here. At
present there is nothing but a majestic pillar of smoke, but
no fire visible.

RAMSGATE, AUG. 22.—The Marquis and Marchioness of
Winchester and Lady Cecilia Paulet, Count Alexis Stro-
ganoff, and Countess Zavadowski, a Russian lady of high
rank, are among our latest arrivals. It is rumoured that it
is in contemplation to build a palace_for her Majesty on the
WesUCliff. The visitors here this week and at Margate
have been more select than numerous, and this the trades-
men assert to be in consequence of the predilection for Bou-
logne and the French coast. The theatre is closed, and
there is a want of some place of public resort.
Lord Deerhurst, we deeply regret to say, has for several
days been lying in a dangerous state at his residence, Bourton-
on-the-H ill. His lordship is, however, we are glad to hear,
somewhat better, although not yet out of danger. Lady
Deerhurst is constantly with him.— Worcester Journal.
GAME CERTIFICATES.-It is not, we believe, very gene-
rally known, that by a recent act of parliament persons taking
or killing game, or assisting therein, without previously ob-
taining a proper game certificate, subject themselves to be

surcharged in the double duty, (£775,) and that the act ex-
pressly denies all power to the commissioners or others to re-
mit or mitigate the double duty besides the double duty on
the game certificate. Parties so offending are also liable,
under the original game certificate act, to a penalty of £2O
for each offence, and which can only be mitigated to one-
half, at the discretion of the magistrates or commissioners
before whgm they are convicted. Owing to the numerous
complaints from all parts of the kingdom of the prevalence of
those offences, we understand the various officers in this de-

partment of the revenue have received strict directions to put
the laws into full force.
A WORD FOR THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—We understand
that the deputation from the town-council, who went to Lon-
don about the gaol assessment bill, were greatly astonished,
as well as pleased, at the pains taken by the peers to ascer-
tain all the bearings of the ease, and give effect to the rea-
sonable views of the parties. Those who suppose that the
members of the upper house make their duties a sinecure,
will learn from the following anecdote that they have been
mistaken, at least in regal(' to some. The deputation had
occasion, one forenoon, to call upon a noble duke connected
with Scotland, and found him busily engaged with the gaol
bill, which they observed lying in shreds on his table, with
numerous notes and alterations in his grace's own hand-
writing; and he told them he had been so engaged since
seven o'clock in the morning without having tasted breakfast.
—Dundee Courier.

DOGS PHYSIOGNOMISTS.—Whenever speaking to a dog,
whether encouragingly or reprovingly, the sportsman should
endeavour to look what he means, and the dog will under-
stand him. The dog will understand the look if he does not
the words. The sportsman should never, with a smile on his
countenance, punish a dog; nor commend him when he
has done well but with an apparent hearty good-will: the dog
Will then take an interest in obeying him. Gamekeepers and
dog-breakers are often odd fellows, and seldom natives of the
place where they follow their avocation. Many of them are
particularly loquacious to the dogs. Should one of these
queer specimens jabber in a Yorkshire or a Cornish dialect
to a dog trained on the Grampians, the dog will understand
from his look whether he is pleased or o&nded, but nothing
more. The dog has not the gift of tongues, but he is a La-
vater.in physiognomy.—Oakleigh on Shooting.
CHURCH RATE AT HALIFAX.--011 Thursday last, a nu-
merous and highly respectable meeting was held in the vestry
of the Parish Church of Halifax, for the purpose of laying a
church-rate. The Venerable Archdeacon Musgrave, D.D.,
the chairman, opened the business of the meeting by briefly
stating the object for which they had assembled. Mr. Pollit,
one of the churchwardens, read over the items, amounting
together to the sum of .£lO2 4s Bd. It was then proposed and
seconded that a rate for that sum should be laid. Mr. Foster,
a delegate from Sowerby, moved as an amendment that the
sense of the meeting should be taken upon each item, which
was readily acquiesced in by the worthy chairman, although
the amendment was not seconded. And, upon each item
being put, for and against, not a single hand was held up in
opposition, and the rate was consequently carried unani-
mously. There were very few of the anti-church party pre-
sent. When a church-rate was asked for last year, the town
was placarded with bills, calling upon the Dissenters to be
at their posts, notwithstanding which they were then out-
voted in number. This year they have acted more prudently.
—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE COURTENAY Ric:amts.—On:Friday morning last the
sentences on the Courtepay rioters were received at the
county gaol. They are as follow:—Thomas Mears, other-
wise Tyler, and Wm. Willis, to •be transported for life;
William Price, to be transported for ten:years ; and Edward
Wraight, Alexander Foul, Edward': Curling, Thos. Griggs,
Richard Foreman, and Charles Hills, to be imprisoned for
one year and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction,
one month in solitary confinement. We are happy to state
that the government has allowed a pension of £4O per annum
to the widow of the constable Mears, who was shot by Cour-
tenay in the execution of his duty.—Maidstone paper.
DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Wednesday last, a person of
the name of William Pearson, of Halifax, butcher, was
found in a field adjoining Elland Wood, with his throat cut.
The deceased, when found, had nothing upon him but his
shirt, his clothes being about a hundred yards distant; a
pocket knife was found by his side and two others in his
pocket. About three months ago the deceased made an at-
tempt to hang himself, and at times he has been seen in a
state of derangement, brought on by excessive drinking.
An inquest has since been held, and a verdict returned ac-
cording_to the above facts.—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE CHIMPANZEE.—We have been very much interested
by a visit to the chimpanzee now exhibiting in this town,
which is, beyond all comparison, the nearest approach to the
human being that we have seen in any of the ape tribe.
Perhaps the resemblance is greater on account of the extreme
youth of the animal, who exhibits all the wayward humours
Of a child, frolicking and gatnbolling about, and playing
with a dog, his constant companion, just like a boy of two
years old; but performing all his odd tricks with a gravity of
countenance and of manner which make them exceedingly
ludicrous.—Manchester Guardian.
On Saturday week, Mr. Robert Stephenson (principa
engineer for the London and Birmingham railway), with a
party of friends, performed the journey from London to
Birmingham, by the railway, in four hours and a half, the
great work being now nearly completed. They left London
at six A.M., and breakfasted (with Mr. Gandell, one of his
engineers) at Castlethorp. The distance from Coventry to
Birmingham, 181 miles, was performed in 29 minutes. Mr.
R. S. entertained his friends at dinner at the Stork Hotel,
and returned to Coventry, where he left the party, who then
proceeded to London, where they arrived at 10 P.m., without
meeting the slightest accident.
VERDICTS IN CIVIL ACTIONS AT THE ASSIZES.—Amidst
what are now proverbially termed " The glorious uncer-
tainties of the law," we have seldom known so fortunate an
assizes as the one just terminated for that generally losing
party in an action—the defendant. It is not usual to have
more than some half dozen verdicts given at these assizes fur
the defendant; but on the present occasion, there have been
no fewer than sixteen—nearly one-seventh of the whole num-.
her of causes in the list, more than one-sfth of the number
tried, and nearly a third of the number in which verdicts
were given for the plaintiff. Of the 117 causes in the list,
there were verdicts in 54 for the plaintiff, in 16 for the de-
fendant, 13 were referred, in one the plaintiff was non-suited,
and 33 causes were withdrawn, or not tried.—Manchester
Guardian.

BANK OF IRELAND.—ISSUE OF NEW NOTES.—The Bank
of Ireland are about to issue notes of a very different appear-
ance from those now in circalation, and which in point of
style and execution, arc a great credit to the present advanced
state of the arts in these kingdoms, and will considerably in-
crease the difficulty of imitation. At either side of the note
there is a figure of Hibernia, leaning on a harp, which stands
on a pillar bearing the banking motto, Bona fides Reipubliese
stabilitas. These figures are sufficiently large to occupy the
entire sides of the note. Along the top is a most elaborate
scroll, exquisitely engraved, formed by an Egyptian head,
full face in the centre, but gradually declining until it ter-
minates in profile at either end, The inscription of the note
is as usual, and the same ingenious and unerring system of
numbering is adopted as with the present notes. The man-
ner in which the new notes have been executed, though
simple and graceful in design, must have cost the designer,
Mr. Oldham, an infinity of labour and time; but he is amply
compensated .by having produced a piece of work which will
reflect credit upon him in the minds of every one having
sufficient taste to appreciate his deserts.— D üblin Evening
Mail.