The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

CHARLES SPENCER LLOYD, Esq., has been appointed a
Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Salop.
THE DERBYSHIRE TENANTRY of the Duke of Devon-
shire have presented their noble landlord with a portrait
of himself.

VANDALISM.—The old churchyard of Alloway, the
scene of Burns's "Tam o'Shanter," has been levelled,
and all the gravestones removed.

THE FARM LABOURERS in South Wiltshire have struck
for an advance of wazes from 7s. to 93. per week. The
farmers have offered Ss., which the men refuse.
PROFLIGACY.—Harriet Welch, a Yorkshire woman,
30 years of age, attended at the Thames Police-office on
Tuesday, and affiliated a child on her own nephew, the
mate of a vessel.

AT A PUBLIC DINNER, in a little Ayrshire village, the
other day, on the health of Lord Eglinton being given,
the local band in attendance struck up " Paddy, my boy,
take care of yourself !"
BRYSON NELSON, an engineer in a bone-crushing yard
at Nottingham, while drunk, slipped from a plank into a
copper of boiling water, and was so severely scalded that
he died the same night.

THE Dumfries Courier states that a quantity of tallow
recently cast ashore on the Galloway coast is supposed to
be part of the cargo of a vessel which was wrecked off the
Isle of Man about 50 years ago.

THOSE interested in the shipping trade of Troon,
one of the safest harbours on the west coast of Scotland,
are agitating to have it changed from a creek of Irvine
into a separate and independent port.
A SPEEDY FORTUNE.—A young gentleman of Glasgow,
who has shipped for Australia these last four years, now
finds that he has made £40,000, by successful consign-
ments of rough goods to that quarter.
THERF, is now living at Tolleshunt Major, a labourer,
named Joseph Bateman, who has reached the age of 102
years. His wife has been dead many years, but he has a
son living SO years old.—Essex Herald.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A young man, named King',
who was employed in stacking straw in a barn at Page's.
ham, Essex, a few days since, fell from the stack upon the
points of a pitchfork, and was killed on the spot.

THE STAMFORD MAGISTRATES sentenced a drunken
platelayer to 14 days' imprisonment, but doubled this
term when the prisoner " hoped that tl►e magistrates
might stop on the bench till he came out again."

SUSPICIOUS JOKE.—Two men, who were found
secreted in a bed-room in a hotel at Kingston-by-sea,
have been committed respectively for one and three
weeks. Their defence was that they only did it for a joke.

AIRS. SLOANE, whose case has excited so much public
interest, and whose husband (who was imprisoned with
her) died some time back, was on 'Wednesday morning
discharged from Newgate. She was in a bad state of
health, and looked very weak.

THE very large sum of £43,000 has been paid into the
Savings Bank connected with the Sailors' Home in Well-
street, London, in the last year. The government has
resolved to establish Savings Banks at the different ship-
ping offices throughout the country.
DiQTRDER.—A man named Thos. Mockett, a bricklayer's
labourer, is in custody in London, charged with the
wilful murder of Eliza Lea, aged 26 years, by thrusting
her into the Regent's Canal. The deceased had lived
with the prisoner upwards of six years.
THE GREENWICH BRUTALITY.—Mary Ann Oldham,
the woman who caused the death of John Gaywood, aged
six years, in the Greenwich Union Workhouse, by placing
a piece of red hot coal in his hand, has been committed to
Ncwgate for trial, on the charge of manslaughter.
SUNDAY TRADING.—Mr. Harris, chief constable of the
county force, has issued a notice stating that the police
are everywhere instructed to proceed against all parties
who shall exercise their worldly callings on the Lord's
Day after this warning.— Worcester Journal.

PUFFERY.—During the examination in the London
Insolvency Court, on Wednesday last, of an insolvent who
had kept a pie-shop in Marylehone, it was stated, that on
the first night of opening his shop, ha put some fourpenny
pieces into his pies, in order to attract customers.

THE LATH STEAM-SHIP AMAZON.—The directors of
the Royal West India Mail Steam-packet company have
determined upon erecting, in the chapel of the South-
ampton cemetery, a monument to the memory of the pas-
sengers and crew who lost their lives in the bay of Biscay,
in January last year, through the destruction of the above
steam-ship by fire.

A SPANIARD and his lady, the latter speaking English
fluently, have been in Ayr, during the past fortnight,
engaging a sore of young needlewoman to go with them
to Spain, to introduce the style of Ayrshire needlework
into that country. The couple are quite unknown in Ayr,
and all the girls solicited are very good-looking. The Ayr
.Advertiser hints that all is not right.
GREAT REJ DICING took place in the towns on the Tyne
during the past week, on the return of some more of the
crews of vessels blown away on Christmas Day. In one
instance, in the case of the missinz crew of the John
Burrell, so hopeless seemed any prospect of their being in
the land of the living, that some of the wives of the crew
were preparing mourning for themselves and families.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.--One of the most extra-
ordinary freaks of nature hsppened, a few days ago, in
Berwick-street, Oxford-street. Mrs. Emma Echert, the
wife of a wealthy tailor, of No. 65, in the above street,
was confined, and brought into tho world a full-grown
female child, with two distinct heads and necks. It is
said the lady dreamt, a fortnight ago, that her child would
have two heads.

A STRANGE LITTLE WOMAN.—The Scottish papers
announce the death, at Cowroading-street, Stevenston,
on the 30th ultimo, of Barbara Cowan, aged 89 years.
Deceased was in height only three feet six inches ; she
was very active, and a good hand at the needle; she never
saw the town of Kilwinning or that of Ardrossan, having
never been out of the parish in which she was born. A
sister of hers is living, also advanced in years, and a little
less in height than deceased.
ROMANCE OF ADVERTISING.—The Times of Friday
contains the following advertisement :—" To M. L. L.—
M. L. L., you have chosen your own lot: may it be a
happy one ! and if it be so, I would not have you think of
the desolate heart you leave behind; but, oh ! my
if sorrow should ever overtake you, if you should find,
when too late, that you have been leaning on a Woken
reed, then, my Maria, come back to her whose heart has
ever cherished you ; she will always be ready to receive
you."
A LONDON FOG.—London was visited on Tuesday by
one of the densest fogs ever known boys with links made
a considerable sum of money to guiding people in
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street. Numerous accidents occurred in h
not any of a serious nature. An engine, going to a fire
at Walworth,thofitiagmhi?letaguhxte,drabnylestfftwrtoahnse road into the
moving
strong lamps, and aided
necessarily
on the way with
Ele-
phant and Castle public-house.
slowly, instead of its usual pace, or the damage might
lave been lerioui.