The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

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pa BE LET, with immediate possession if requiied, the
HOUSE, No. 46, CHURCH-STREET, BIRKENHEAD;
now in the occupation of John Platt, Esq.. containing Three
Sitting-ronms and Eight Bed-rooms, &c. &c., Coach-house,
Stable, and Shippon.
Apply on the Premises, or to Mt. LOCKWOOD, 110, Lon-
don-road, Liverpool:

TO be LET, for the Summer Months, a completely R-
RESIDENCE, situate at Woolton-hill',' with
good Stables, &c; well-stocked Garden and Green-house.
The situation is -exceedingly healthy, commanding most
beautiful views in every direction ; and the Liverpool Om-
nibuses pass below the Garden about twelve.times a day.
For further particulars apply to Messrs. SAMUEL and
JAMES HOLME, Seel-street, or to Mr. GORE, Builder,
Woolton.

Mr. J. W. Henniker Wilson, of Chelsea Park, has ad-
dressed the electors of Canterbury on the liberal side.
The Kent magistrates have decided against the adoption of
the rural police system; the number of votes was 26 to 23.
The courier who took out the Quadruple treaty to Con-
stantinople accomplished the distance in 14 days.
The lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland are full to
overflowing with tourists and students from the Univer-

Four acres of potatoes, on the estate of William Robin
Eon, Esq. at Ryhope, in the neighbourhood of Sunderland
were lately sold for £lOO.

An advance in the price of Welsh iron has just taken place
and a similar rise of 10s. per ton has occurred in Stafford
shire iron.

NoßwicH, AUG. 22.—We understand that the new wheat
which had been brought to mill is particularly fine, weighing
on an average eighteen stone per coomb.—Norwich paper.
The repeaters throughout Ireland are known by their dress
—a pepper and sale coat, velvet collar, and repeal buttons,
which garb Mr. O'Connell has already adopted.—Tipperary
Free Press.

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BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The cuttings through
Puriton-hill, near Bridgwater, are now nearly completed, and
the bridge over the river Parrett is also rapidly progressing.
Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt left Cowes, ISle of
Wight, on Thursday last, for a cruise in the Mediterranean.
It is the intention of the noble viscount to visit Constantino-
ple and Egypt before returning to this country.
CHEAPNESS.—Fine herrings have been sold here this week
at forty and even forty-eight for a shilling, plums at twenty-
pence, and pears at five-pence the peck.—Hull „Rockingham.
EATON HALL—This splendid edifice is now full of paint-
ers, gilders, and artists of eminence ; and the exterior exhi-
bits the same scene of bustle in consequence of the erection
of new wings.

An active enlistment for sailors is going on at the Welsh
ports. These men are intended for manning the vessels now
getting ready at Pembroke, &c., for the royal navy.—Courier
of Wales.

In various parts of the country the public road commis-
sioners have found it necessary to reduce the duty on stage-
coaches in consequence of their business being so severely
injured by railroad travelling.
You may meet with twenty men
.in the day who stutter ;
but you never heard of a woman who had an impediment in
her speech.—American paper.

THE SHOOTING SEASON.—We hear an excellent accoui
of the game—the covies of the partridges and nides of phea
sants are strong in numbers and on the wing—hares are al,
abundant, and rabbits a nuisance everywhere.--Brish
Journal.

The statement that the noble owner of Hafod intends to
dispOse of that fine property, is, we understand, incorrect ;
the Duke of Newcastle is now at his fine seat at Hafod, with
several distinguished visiters for his guests.—lbid.
Mrs. Fitzwilliam is engaged to perform at Liverpool next
week ; thence she will proceed to Edinburgh and Dublin,
then return to the Haymarket, where she will perform for a
limited number of evenings previous to her departure wi a
Second trip to America.
The system of travelling is now so much improved that
persons can travel from Paris to London, via Dieppe, in 27
hours, and can get down to Leicester in five hours more,
making in all 32 hours. Ten years ago they were 36 hours in
going from Calais to Paris.
The iron trade in Staffordshire and South Wales, which
was so much depressed a month ago, is now partaking of the
general improvement of the business of the country. Front
Birmingham it is stated that some of the merchants have
more orders, and things are in some degree looking up.
Grousing on the Welsh hills has afforded but moderate
sport this season. Three gentlemen went out from Oswestry
on Saturday last, and returned in the evening, having bagged
half a brace between them.
The Earl of Radnor has subscribed .£.50 towards the sup-
port of an anti-corn law lecturer. We may append to the
record of this new proof of the noble earl's political wisdom,
the remark, that the extraordinary fineness of the present
harvest, both in quantity and quality, will prove a powerful
antidote against the amiable offorts of hislordship's lecturing
protegOs to excite discontent amongst the people.—Dorset
Chronicle.

C.ESAREA.N OPERATION.--A poor woman, called Mary
Ann Jones, residing in Rathbone-street, Chorlton-upon-
Medlock, was delivered, rather more than a fortnight ago, by
means of what is termed the Caesarean section, which was
performed by Mr. Whitehead, of Oxford-street. Both mo-
ther and child are doing well. This, we believe, is the second
operation of the kind performed with success in this country.
A MODEST HERO.—While the funeral car, with the re-
mains of the victims of July, was passing along the Boule-
vards, a national guard reproved a man near him for not
taking off his hat, as all around him had doue.—" Sir," re-
plied he, " I cannot do honour to myself. One of my legs
is among the victims, and modesty forbids me to salute it."
On looking down, the national guard saw that his interlocu-
tor had a wooden leg.
HERRINGS.—There was a very great quantity of herrings
taken by the Cullercoats fishermen on Tuesday night. The
shoal was found close in with the coast. One boat caught
16,000, and was obliged to give up three nets to some other
boats. The take on Wednesday night seems also to have
been considerable, as they were called through the streets
here on Thursday at six for a penny.—Netveastle Journal.
THE CROPS.—The weather, throughout the present week,
in the county of Northumberland, has, upon the whole,
been highly favourable to the operations of harvest. There
has been occasional rain, but a bright sun and a genial atmo-
sphere have preponderated, and, in consequence, a great
breadth of corn has been cut down. During the ensuing week
it is expected that harvest will be general in this district, and,
as we have before intimated, the prospect as to quantity and
quality is satisfactory. So far from the wheats having been
injured by the late rains, it is admitted that they have been
benefitted, whilst the turnips and other green crops have im-
proved prodigiously. A great many Irish labourers have
arrived this week in the North to assist in the corn harvest.
—Newcastle Journal.
IMPORTANT To SHIPMASTERS.—A shipmaster at Banff,
having brought up two of his men for desertion of their ser-
vieb and vessel, an objection was taken, that the articles were
not signed in terms of the act of parliament, which requires
that they shall be signed by the master in " the first in-
stance ;" whereas it appeared, that he had either not signed
the articles at all, or put his name to them after they had
been subscribed by the men. After a long hearing and de-
bate. the justices, acting on the opinion of Sheriffeorrie,
held the objection to be fatal, and dismissed the case.—
Aberdeen Constitutional.
DR. SOUTHEY.—Rumours have for a considerable time
been current respecting the health of Dr. Southey, the po'
laureate. Delicacy no longer requires the withholding of '
melancholy fact, which gives the greatest grief to every love
of literature, that, through overmuch intellectual labour,
Dr. Southey's fine mind has been so much prostrated and
shattered, that it is very unlikely that be will ever again
appear before the public as a writer. Our information on
this subject is derived from a letter written by Mrs. Southey
to a friend in this city.—Bath Chronicle.
NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—It has been well observed,
that, if the receipts of the most prosperous railways in the
country had been published weekly at their opening, as is
now the case, the shares would probably have been as much
depressed as those of the North Midland have been. T)
following statement serves to prove this :—The gross re-
of the Grand Junction Railway, which opened on the
July, 1837, were for the first six months, £116,740, or £4,490
per week. The length of the Grand Junction, including the
rails to Manchester and Liverpool, is 112 miles. If the North
Midland, the length of which is 72 miles, only produced
£2,900 per week, it would be at the same rate per week as of
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An anecdote has been told me, the authenticity of which
I have no reason to doubt. When the northern ambassadors
lately paid visits to Louis Philippe, after his return from Eu,
the king is said to have received them with the greatest cool-
ness, and to have made set speeches at what he called the
ingratitude of their masters. " What !" said he, with bit-
terness, " is it come to this that Metternich has become the
satellite of Russia? The treaty is directed, not against
France, bat against me—me personally—l, who have pre-
served peace at such risks, and, in despite of your ingrati-
tude, will do so still. The king is said to have been equally
emphatic in his language with the Prussian Ambassador.—
Parsian Correspondent of the Morning Post.
Professor Ehrenberg has made some remarkable discoveries
in the course of his various experiments on chalk. He found
that a cubic inch possessed upwards of a million of micros-
copical animalcules • 'consequently a pound weight of chalk
contains above 10,600)00 of these animalcules. From his
researches it appears probable, that all the strata of chalk in
Europe are the product of microscropical animalcules, most
of them invisible to th&naked eye.
BRIGHTON .—WEDNIISDAY.—II is generally circulated that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert will arrive in the course of
the-ensuing week to inspect his regiment, and, as it proceeds
from quarters likely to be well informed, there is probably
some foundation for the rumour; but, as I stated in a pre-
vious letter, it will be, whenever it takes place, a flying visit,
for the prince will depart in the evening as he arrives in the
.morning. 'I have beard Thursday will probably be the day
fixed for his royal highness's arrival. There is no prospect
of her Majesty and court coming.—Morning Herald.

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