The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

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The Town Council of Edinburgh have approved of the
government education scheme.
At -Gateshead on Tuesday, 11r. Hutt, h 1.1"., spoke of
the general election in July as fixed and certain.

The decline in the wheat markets of the French de-
partments still continues.
DEATH FROM ANGER.—Two little children, last week,
in Merthyr, quarrelling for an orange, one, a girl, became
so excited, that she fell into a fit and shortly expired.
As Mr. Frewen has made kaown his intention to retire

_ sentation of East Sussex, Lord Cantelupc
has announced his intention of coming forward.

from the rei

Among the performers in an Oriental spectacle, now
being represented at Drury-lane Theatre, are sixty horses,
twelve camels, and several elephants.
The Admiralty have afforded G. F. Muntz, Esq., M.P.,
an opportunity of testing his patent metal by sheathing a
man-of war with it.

An Edinbugh bookseller announces that D'Aubigne is
about to publish a volume on Cromwell. It is entitled
" The Protector. ; a defence from the latest documents."

A few days since a postoffice order for one penny was
issued at Brighton, and the applicant having paid three-
pence for it, posted it to Chester.
Six hundred poor persons last week received Queen
Anne's Easter bounty. The amount given to each reci-
pient was ss. in new half-crowns.

large sales are made at 1031 for sterling, and 545 on 4 Insurances on sovereigns, about to be sent to New
Paris. A large amount of paper, good mercantile notes, 'York, have been effected to the amount of £1,000,000,
sixty and ninety days to run, were negotiated to-day at 7 for the month of May.—Morning Post.
per cent. The following is from a correspondent of the Last week a field of dry grass, near Derby, was set on
New York Courier and Enquirer:—"At Syracuse the fire by a spark from a passing train, and entirely con-
teams have been turned away from the depot by hun- sumed.
dreds, because there was no longer room for the reception Major Beniowoski was on Friday tried and found guilty
of the grain, the provisions, the endless variety of the of assaulting Mr. Urquhart, (the latter having called him
productions of a western land, that hears of famine and a Russian spy,) at a meeting lately held at the Free-
knows only of abundance. The quantity, large at Buffalo, mason's Tavern, on the subject of Cracow.
increases rapidly as the line comes eastward, so that the The Mining Journal has published its usual quarterly
amount awaiting transportation at Utica is of a magnitude statement of the sales of copper ores in Cornwall, which
that defies the forwarder. The markets at New York and compared with the previous return establishes an improve-
at Boston are sought for by thousands, who before the ment of £33,192, on a diminished quantity of 1887 tons.
completion of this iron link never dreamed of attempting The Tweed increases the catalogue of losses sustained
to reach them. The present condition of Western New by the West Indian royal mail steam ship company to
York affords the most impressive call for railroad facilities five, including the Isis, the Medina, and the Solway, all i
that ever has been made. I believe now, what once I large vessels, and the Actmon La small vessel.
doubted very much, that the Hudson River road will be POTATOES A HALFPENNY EACH !—On Monday four-
thronged with business. The grain trade of this city since pence per quartern was asked for potatoes exposed for
the last fall of snow has been enormous. It is a positive sale at Hereford. This is about a halfpenny for each
fact that, in a city of 45,000 inhabitants, such has been
tat°
the quantity of farmers arriving with the products of their po
Aneum!erous meeting of the Birmingham Unitarian
farms that no stabling could be had for the horses. Every Brotherly Society was held on Sunday week, when it was
tavern and inn was more than overflowing, and it became unanimously agreed to petition both Houses of Parlia-
necessa.ry to go for miles out of town to find the necessary ment in favour of the Government plan of education.
convennaces for the teams." A BLOW TO WHITEWASHING.—It has been decided by
Mr. Commissioner Balguy, that an insolvent who a second
time presents his petition for protection is bound to give
notice to all his creditors under his previous insolvency.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—A gentleman called last week at
The railway calls for April will amount to between three Messrs. Herries and Co., in St. James's-street, and left,
and four millions sterling. under the initials Z.Z.Z., £5OO in aid of the funds of the
A guard on the Great Western Railway has written a k Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's-inn-road.
tragedy, called " Athelstan," which has been published A full bench of magistrates, at Norwich, have decided
by subscription. that all Wesleyan ministers, whose names are upon the
The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station for the circuit plan, are exempt from toll, when going to their
Caledonian Railway, was laid on Friday, amidst great own Sabbath appointments.
rejoicings, by the Duke of Athol. It appears now that the Wesleyan body have withdrawn
Messrs. Brassey and Co. have commenced operations their objections against the education plan, in consequence
in the neighbourhood of Warrington, in good earnest, in• of explanations made to them as to the intentions of
connection with the Cheshire Junction Railway. government.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICR.—The traffic to Morpeth The Edinburgh Witness, and the Scottish Guardian—
is satisfactory, upwards of 2,000 persons having travelled the free church organs—are divided in their opinions as to
on the line during the first week of opening. • Another the government education scheme. The former is in
portion of the line—that from Berwick to Chathill—w ill favour of it, and the latter against.
be opened within a month, and whole line early in May. The impression that parliament will be prorogued some
CHEAP TRAVELLING.--On Thursday the Eastern time in June gains ground, and it is confidently said that
Counties Railway started a fourth class train of open car- the dissolution will immediately follow. Are the Conser-
riages, for the purpose of conveying passengers to the vatives of Liverpool ready for a general election ?
different stations along the line at the cheap rate of one ETHER SUPERSEDED.—The German newspapers state
halfpenny per mile. that Professor Schonbein, the inventor of gun-cotton, has
.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A negotiation is said to be in progress between the I discovered a new composition, which proiTuces the same
Northern Counties Union and the Glasgow, Dumfries and effects as the inhalation of ether, without causing any
Carlisle for the purchase of the former by the latter ; the danger. The nature of the new invention is not described.
object being to have an independent connexion with the BODMIN ELECTION.-Mr. Wyld, the map-seller, at
east coast of England. _ _ - Charing-cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin, in

At the-SurreyAssizes, on Monday, Mr. William Chad- anticipation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Mr.
wick (Chairman of the Richmond Railway Company) got Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are
a verdict, with £5O damages, against Mr. Herapath, pro- also spoken of as candidates.
prietor of Herapath's Railway Journal, for a libel that FREAK OF NATURE.—At the Lion Inn, Quatford, near
had appeared in the columns of that journal, imputing to Bridgnorth, is to be seen an egg with two distinct shells
Mr. Chadwick a misapplication of the company's funds. with a space between each of about half an inch, such
FORGED SCRIP.—The directors of the South-Western space being filled with what is commonly called the
Company announced on Friday a discovery, made only on white.
the previous day, of certain forged scrip of the issue of JENNY LIND.—A letter dated the 31st of March an-
November last. These scrip purport to be under the nounces the arrival of Mr. Lumley the previous day at
hands of two of the directors, and the treasurer of the Munich. The opera chosen by Mademoiselle Lind for
Company; and, as far as the directors are at present her de'bett has been put in rehearsal, in order that she
aware, the forged scrip are confined to certificates of one may appear as early as possible after her arrival in London.
share each. FAMILY DISCORD.At the Sussex assizes, last week,
SUNDAY TRAINS.—From the Railway Chronicle of there were no less than four actions springing out of family
the 3rd instant, it appears that the receipts of the Edin- feuds, viz., one by a father against his son, one by a son
burgh and Glasgow line, from the beginning of the pre- against his father, one by a son against his mother, and
sent year to the 27th of March, were £42,280, whilst one by one brother against another.
during the same period last year they were only £3.1,011, It is said the Committee of Privileges of the Wesleyan
the number of miles open
(namely, forty-six) being the body have been in communication with the Committee of
same both years. This will be found a very interesting Council on Education, and the explanations and assu-
fact, if compared with the receipts of other companies for rances they have received have, it is believed, secured
the same periods. The apprehended loss, by honouring their cordial acceptance of the Government plan.
God, turns out to be even a pecuniary gain. On Monday evening last, a soldier, of the Coldstream
At the meeting of the London and North Western Rail- Guards, fell from one of the Greenwich boats into the
way Company, on Friday, for the purpose of sanctioning Thames, and was drowned, together with his comrade,
the bills at present before Parliament, Mr. Glyn, the who leaped overboard and perished in trying to save him.
chairman said that he believed the pressure on the money The former had been married that morning, and the bride
market would be really of a very temporary character. was on board.
This opinion, coming with the weight of authority which A gentleman, of the name of " William Chadwick, Esq.,
belongs to everything connected with mercantile matters of Ardsey, near Doncaster," has actually published a
to which the sanctioo Of Mr. Glvn may be given, found a pamphlet. with the title " The whole retail trade of the
ready echo within the walls of the meeting-room, and United Kingdom is endangered by the proposed govern _
will, no doubt, carry consolation and confidence far went measure of EnucATioii." Surely the force of folly
1)-eY0144 its precincts., can no farther go.