The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

ward voy

and two-third

in fact, about sixteen days

TRAORI

RY HONEY PALI

- ue •• natives " of
Widmerpool, in this county, were much astonished the
other day at discovering on the floor of their church some-
thing very curious in the shape of a round brown cake,
Its suspicious colour and extraordinary
1r a time kept them at bay, but at length the

very soft withal

effluvium arising ti

,frOm being anything but in(idorous

—nay, being " sweet as honey or the .honey comb," seve-
ral of the more venturesome and less delicate were induced
not only to approach but also to taste it ! To the astonish-
ment of all it was found to be real honey ; but how did it
come there ? To solve this problem was a puzzler for a
long time ; but at length the secret was found out greatly
to the delight of the whole village. For some time past,
had made their homes

unknown to any one, a hive of be

ing nnea their waxen
lance had broken the

ten store to

nearly 100 lb. of ho:

oor to create the astonishment and
ve have described. Altogether pretty
iey fell to the lot of the fortunate dis-

q Guardian

EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF INSECTS.-011 Friday,
the whole of the coast around Scotland was visited by one
of the most numerous flights of insects on record. They
consisted of at least five species of lad

bird, and they
fibers as for miles along the

during hiving.

The sea

,ns of them, the grass and hedge-
that afforded shelter from the

hails the appearance of these insects, as they are known
to be the destroyers of aphides, a race of flies the most in-
jurious to vegetation. At an early hour in the morning,
the whole of the line of Kentish coast was found to be
th them, to the annoyance of all parties ; and,
• e the reader a correct idea of the extent and
welcome settlers, five bushels were
;ate pier, and nearly the same from
bour.—Essex Herald.
At the recent meeting of the Yorkshire
Agricultural Society, Lord Feversham, after giving an
account of the manner in which he had drained an exten-
very large and deep drain, a mile and-a-
- He wished to impress upon landowners
sity of throwing down their fences—not
for the sake of gentlemen riding after the hounds, but
for their own good. By having so many hedges they had
less land on which to grow their produce, and in a dry
season sparrows and other birds took up half the seed.
Mr. J. Outhwaite, speaking on the same subject, said,—
" That he was the occupier of a farm of 485 acres, and
since the year 1839 he had, by the consent of his land-
lord, Mr. Sackville Fox, taken down eight miles of old
fencing ; and he could assure them that it was the interest
of every tenant-farmer, if he could get the consent of his
landlord, to adopt the same plan, for he was satisfied that
hedges were nothing more nor less than a great nuisance,
and an obstacle to all improvement in agriculture. They
broughtcould not have good cattle without green crops ; and if
turnips
in particular would not, as they undoubtedly
fence or large trees, surely
t essential to the welfare

ble to walk without crushing numbers
The insects evidently came from the
wind having veered round to that point during
ery true friend of agriculture, however,

burgh, and doomster to the High Court of Justiciary,
was standing at the bottom of the Fishrearket Close, in
the Cowgate, a person named Edey, a broker, came up to
him, and, after some altercation, gave him a severe blow
upon the breast, which stunned Scott so much that he
fell insensible to the ground. He was immediately carried
into a shop adjoining the spot, but he did not survive the
assault many minutes. Edey, who was drunk, has been
arrested, and committed for trial.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—The ratepayers of the
united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, above bars, and
St. George the Martyr, have determined to resist the
proposition for erecting baths and washhouses within their
boundaries. A proposition for their establishment was
brought before the parishioners on Monday evening, and
was rejected by a large majority. Mr. John Robert Tay-
lor, the proposer, then demanded a poll, which termina-
ted on Thursday afternoon, when the clerk to the union
announced the state of the gross poll to be as follows •
Mr. T

covered

quantity of t

FENC

.msgate

aylor's resolution 189, against it 554'; majority
gainst the resolution 365. (Well done dirt.)
An ingenious attempt at smuggling has been detected
at the Custom-house, London, last week. Six casks of
arsenic were consigned by a Hamburg steamer to " Henry
Brent." An officer examined the casks. One was filled
with the mineral ; but each of the other was fitted with
an outer tin case containing arsenic, while the centre was
filled with tobacco, packed round with pigs of lead to
give the requisite weight. The value of the tobacco, with
the duty added, was £545. Henry Brent was
up in custody at the Mansion-house on Monday, and or-
dered to pay a penalty of £lOO, and to be imprisoned till
paid.

sive moor I
half long, s

would not, grow near_a gr

—On Saturday

%lATRIMONAL DISAPPOINTMENT
arren. and 16, last birthday, and Christiana

doptioii of this plan was

ichd. I of ti
FATAL FULFILMENT OF A DREAM

farmer

A fatal accident

•
21, presented themselves at the parish church of St. Just, curred near Fronie, on Thu
in Penwitb, for marriage by license. The vicar, however, the wife of a man, na
was too prudent to be imposed upon ; prod:ucing from the of Downhead, had 2

;twice is connected, 9c

.eamt that

.y last. It appears that
3, carter to Mr. Perrett,
;, while engaged in„his

_
vestry the lad's mother, a highly respectable widow, who
work, the waggon had gone over her husband and 10pe....
eldest daughter
ethauegv,htiefer
with
denied that her consent had been given, and a family bible, him. This dream she told him, and seemed to feel thav,
which contradicted, in his father's writing, the age of 18, it would be fulfilled, and they were both very low spirited
ni Having
gt
are g o
theirto
o
as stated in the license, the reverend gentleman declined
to act. The fearful guilt and consequences of an affidavit
before the surrogate, so opposed to the facts, having been in
nuaTlend ehqeure n 1
icues.b a
him for the sake of company, which he did. Nothing
pointed out to the misguided Benedict, the disappointed particular occurred during the journey thither, add- air
ced, and had to tread their steps through 'clo
had returned as far as Ammerdown, at about seven. o
-Wing, when the horses started off, and ill"bbs at-
-nn -,13 out and stop them, but his smock-froc ..
-1 in liberating himself he pitched heal- _c".
-is passing over him, caused a me
- of the wife's dream. "-I-°;
after the accident, but din;
sad as it was, did not enc,
her father fall,• jumped out_
ad the wheels passing over
,ot. A widow and eightu
to the care of a merci

pair were ells

uth Journal

Monda

elderly man I

an I c-

torenw
of Skye, who was in Glasgow on a visit to his daughter, lanchol
residine at No. 53, Catherine-street, And erston, in a fit Door fe

I literal

a the window' of the apartment in

which he w

ht of three

When

street, a
vered by t
ts, of the

men, he was Insensible from the effE

two pa
fall. /

were broken although he was

rum
hoi
cie imsfortui