The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Fanny Elssler has returued to Paris from America.
Such was lately the scarcity of water at Cirencester, that it
was sold at twopence the pailful.—Worcester Journal.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has forwarded £5O. to-
wards the erection of the monument to the late Sir Walter
Scott, Bart.
A project for a local college or university at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne is at present receiving great encouragement in
that bustling and spirited town.
i The learned Dr. Lardner prophesied some time since that
It was impracticable to cross the Atlantic by steam. The
earned Theban has lately found it not only practicable but
convenient.
ROYAL MARRIAGE.—The Augsburg Gazette states that
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar is to marry the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge. The Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess of Augusta left Munich for Italy on the 26th ult.
The receipt of the customs revenue at the port of Water-
ford, for the year ended the 10th October, 1840, was close
upon £200,000.; the increase over the previous year being
upwards of £31,000.
The Morning Herald contains the following announce-
ment :—" Mr. William Lardner, late a surgeon to the First
Regiment of Lancers, British Legion, the only brother of
Dr. Dionysius Lardner, late of 9, Great Queen-street, West-
minster, is requested to send his address to his deserted wife."
FRUITFUL POTATOE.—Mr. Thos. Parker of Great Single-
ton, in the Fylde. has gathered from his garden fifty potatoes,
(the produce of one potatoe, called the Guernsey Blue) which
weighed 251bs. The seed was purchased from Mr. John
Taylor, seedsman, of this town.—Preston Chronicle.
Mr. Porter, the English commissioner charged with the
negotiation of the commercial treaty between France and
Great Britain, has returned to resume his duties at the Board
of Trade in London, and to assist at the sittings of the rail-
way commission,, leaving the conclusion of the treaty in the
hands of Mr. H. Bulwer, who is the other commissioner.

BUDE.—EXTRAORDINAR DREAM AND MELANCHOY
ACCIDENT.—On Monday week a man named John Cock, L a
labourer at the breakwater at Bode, while engaged in blow-
ing and raising large masses of stone, was relating to his
fellow-workman his dream the night before, saying that he
dreamt being near the spot they then stood upon, and that
the rock went off, and he was blown up in the air. Suddenly,
as he spoke these words, the rocks above him gave way, and
he was crushed to death by immense stones falling on him,
as much as 30 men could remove from the body in an hour.
His remains were followed to the grave by 60 of his fellow-
labourers, walking two-and-two. What makes it more dis-
tressing, he buried his wife a short time since, and has now
left two small children unprotected.
PENNY POSTAGE.—A modified rate would have answered
every purpose, as thus :—Within the bills of mortality, Id. ;
under 100 miles, 2d. ; under 200 miles, 4d. ; and exceeding
200, 6d. ; limiting the weight in all cases to one ounce. This
would have been a reasonable reformation ; one that would
have secured a revenue, and given satisfaction to all parties.
Or, if the clique who demanded the measure from the go-
vernment had any personal vanity to gratify, perhaps the fol-
lowing plan would not have been objectionable, had some of
our wise legislators happened to hit upon it :—Making, as
now, all distances equal, the letters to be paid according to
the distinction of the receiver, as thus :—John Snooks, ld. ;
Mr. John Snooks, 2d. ; John Snooks, Esq., 3d, ' • and there
are many of the family of the Snookses that would be glad
to pay the 3d. and be the esquire.
CAUTION TO PARENTS.—On Saturday last a fine little
boy, two years of age, the son of an idustrious labourer at
Keswick, named John Cartmel, lost its life in the following
shocking manner. The little fellow had wandered into a
neighbouring house, where a teapot full of boiling water,
standing on the fire-place, attracted his attention, and in-
stantly seizing it, he drank a portion of its contents. The
child was so dreadfully scalded that death put an end to his
almost indescribable sufferings on Sunday afternoon.—Car-
lisle Patriot.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.
(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, arc.
Melton, J Alexander, 242 Cape of Good Hope and CG
alcutta,
J White

AFRICA.
Magistrate, W Turner, 518 Africa, WA & Maxwell &Co
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Themis, F Le Bas, 377 Cape de Verds and Monte Video,
Eshelby, Rowett & Co
161 Trinidad and Maracaibo,
W Rose & Co or J Poole & Co
Jessie Ritchie, D M'Lachlan, 159 Hayti, Campbell & Rudd
Higginson, NV Hogg, 453 Barbadoes, Barton, Irlam &Co
Isabel, W Griffiths, 352 Antigua, C W & F Shand
Mary Willie, W Miller, 130 Hayti, R Sheil

Lord Glenelg, R Simpson,

Douro, R Bale,
Traveller, '
Apparition, J R Greetry,

SOUTH AMERICA.
tog Valparaiso, W & J Tyres
140 Pernambuco, W & J Tyrer
137 Monte Video and Buenos Ayres.
H Smith & Co

UNITED STATES.
Lehigh, Plummer, 565 New Orleans, G Brown &Co
Chester, 580 Savannah, Gibbs, Bright &Co
,
Burlington, A Thing, 56t New Orleans, G Brown &Co
Samuel, M Fleming, 558 Mobile, Gibbs, Bright &Co
Brooklyn, 16 Richardson, 465 Apalachicola, G Brown &Co
John Bolton, J Teulon, 992 Mobile, D Gibb
Rochester, Woodhouse, 585 New York, G Brown &Co
Robert Fulton, S Procter, 586 New York, G Brown &Co
Queen, C Forrest, 650 Charleston,D Gibb
Ruby, J Paul, 573 New Orleans, Gibbs, Bright & Co
Charles Humberston, J Marshall, 640 Savanna
Cannon, Miller & Co

BRITISH AMERICA.
169 St. John, Nfld,
EUROPE.
Effort, J Orfeur, 160 Naples and Messina, Vianna & Jones
Andrew M'Kean, F Thompson, 221 Ilambro', Bahr, Behrend & Co
Despique de lnveja, J Jda Cruz, 89 Lisbon, Cotesworth & Wynne
Livramento, JM de Santa Anna, 103 Lisbon, Vianna & Jones
Ebenezer, J Adams, 59 Seville, J Glynn & Son
John & Edward, T Melhulsh, 86 Lisbon, J Glynn & Son
Voluntario, M J Galherdo, 100 Lisbon, Cotesworth & Wynne
Enchantress, J H Newson, 189 Malta and Sm y
ahrna,
Br, Behrend & Co
86 Gibraltar, G Yates, Louthean & Co
152 Syra and Constantinople,
M & A Wilkin

W Tarbes

Trusty, J S

Martha, G Buddeley.
Jos. Cristall, J Broad,

Lelean, T Lelean, 90 Lisbon, .1 Glynn & Son
Ruby, T Arming, 93 Lisbon, T Hampson
Diadem, B Ellwood, 96 Messina and Palermo, J Bothwell
Adriana, J De Jonge, 128 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Anna Elizabeth, E G Boekhout, Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Bell, J Menzies, 83 Gibraltar, Eshelby & Co
Flamer, P Binet, 103 Guernsey and Jersey, A Kincaid
Brothers, S Lewis, 114 Leghorn, .1 Bibby & Sons

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LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, Nov. 9.
Our Butter market continues much depressed, the top price of
brands of the first character being 96s to 98s. Pickled Butter
92s for seconds. Beef in Ireland this season will be unprecedentedly
large. This circumstance in some measure accounts for the present
excessive dulness of the market, and the inclination that prices
have downward. The currency of Pork is better sustained than
that of Beef, although the trade is very lifeless. Prime Bacon
is tolerably saleable at 55s to ads, being a decline of about 2s per
cwt,