The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-09 00:00:00

BRIEF CHRONICLE.

Preparations are making at Kensington Palace for the de.,
parture of the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, on
a tour through Scotland and the northern counties. The
heiress presumptive cannot quit the kingdom to visit the conti-
nent without the consent of both houses of parliament.—
France, Hungary, and Germany, are nearly exhausted of
leeches, and the trade is now supplied from Moldavia and
Wallachia ; depots are established at Bucharest, whence they
are brought to France in the post carts. In , 1825, France ex-
ported more than a million, and now, as above stated, is
obliged to import.—The managers of the patent theatres in
the metropolis are in treaty with Mrs. Stirling. All the thea-
trical caterers appear anxious to secure the services of this
fascinating actress.—An old man, sixty years of age, named
Phillips, the clerk of Beckford Church, near Chester, was
found on Wednesday last, hanginf.7, in the bell ropes. Life was
extinct: He had been drinking the whole of the preceding
week.—A rhinoceros, bought by Mr. Wombwell for £l2OO,
about six weeks ago, has since (lieu from ineammation of the
lungs. It is to be skeletonized and stutied.—lt is very re-
markable that at Paris, precisely the same sum which was for-
mally prodigiously wasted in the lotteries, appears as an in-
crease upon the amount received by the savings' banks.—
Parliament is expected to be prorogued about the .18th or 20th
instant.—Plymouth has been (teured a free port for the re-
ception of East India goods. It is the intention of his Ma-
jesty's ministers this year to renew the grant in aid of the erec;.
tion and establishment of schools tinder the National and
British and Foreign school system.—Mr. Bunn finally con-
cluded a lease of Drury-lane Theatre, for the next three years,
with the committee iu full meeting on Monday.------The
sittings of the British Scientific Association commence at
Bristol on Monday, the 22d instant, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
president, in the chair.—Last week, a cartel employed at a
mill in the vicinity of Bradford, eloped with the wife of the
wring-turner employed at the same place. The carter has left
eight children and the woman seven.—The Chester Courant of
Tuesday states, that about 50 dead bodies were washed ashore
on Monday, between Rhydlan and Abergele.—The Acade.
mie de Medicine at Paris, has decided that the system of rthre;.:
nology ought not to be adopted until it is established on more
solid bases.—The repot tas to the total failure of the wheat
harvest in America has been very generally contradicted.—
The potato crop in Scotland Luis failed, but oats, barley, and
other grain are looking well.—The Rev. Mr. Otter, principal
of King's College, is to be the new Bishop of Chichester.—
So late as 1802, the King of Sweden engaged some British sus.;
geons to serve in his ships of war; their perplexity and morti-
fication may be imagined, on finding that they were expected
to shave the whole ship's company as a duty belonging to their
station.—United Service Journal.—An American paper, the
Nantucket Inquirer, in describing the festival of sheep shearing,
expresses its regret at the bad state of the weather, which, it
says, considerably impeded the amusements of the day, and
concludes by informing its readers that "Providence had set
his face against the whole matter," and that the winds and the
rain evinced the greatest flatulence and fluciosity.—At the
sale of the corporation property of Coventry last Tuesday,
among other articles was an elegant four-gallon china punch
bowl, given to the corporation by Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, who once
represented the city in parliament. It was sold for 11 guineas.
—Mad. Vestris's age is a subject of frequent dispute. She was
born in 1796, and is now in her 41st year. She was married in
1812, at St. Martin's Church, and appeared the same year, at
the King's Theatre, in II Ratio di Prosperpino. She has, con-
sequently, been on the metropolitan stage 24 years, a circum-
stance that sufficiently Accennts for the strange stories as to her
age.—Vipers have been propagated to such au extent in the
forest of Fontainbleau that the magistrates have offered a re-
ward of five sous 'for evert one, killed--In some parts of the
west of England, when a blaCk pudding is' boiling, an old wig is
much coveted to bang up the chimney as a preventive against
its bursting in the itot.7—The mansion and estates of Ribstone.
park, the prOperty of the late Sir H. Goodricke, Bart., have re-
cently been purchased of the present baronet, by James Brown,
Esq, of Harebills Grove, near Leeds, for £lBo,ooo.—Mr. Al-
fred Waddington, an Englishman, accompanied by fourteen
persons, made on the 7th and Bth ult.. a new ascent of Mont
Blanc. The travellers quitted Chamouny on the 7th, at a quar-
ter past six, in the morning, and attained the summit of the
mountain at a quarter past ten the following morning. At nine
o'clock in the evening they returned to Chamouny. The intre-
pid travellers met with no accident on the journey, but-one. of
the guides had his foot frozen, and two others their noses.

THE BEERSELLERS AND THE WATCH COMMITTEE.—The
Retail Beersellers residing within the Parliamentary I,eundaries
of this borough have addressed a memorial to the Chairman and
gentlemen of the Watch Committee, complaining of the " op-
pressions" to which they have for some time past been subjected.
They deny that they have ever encouraged any such immorality
as should bring down upon them those terrible visitations of the
law of which they have been the victims. The memorial states,
that by the 5 and 6 Wm. 4, chap. 85, passed 15th August, 1834,
Magistrates were empowered to fix the hours during which
Beersellers might open their houses, with an extension of the
privilege to eleven o'clock at night, for which indulgence the
charge for licences was increased from two guineas to three.
The memorialists complain, that while they have been compelled
to pay the extra guinea, they have never yet been allowed the
advantage conferred by the act. • The hours, they say, have, in
fact, been curtailed in Liverpool two hours, and in the surround-
ing districts four hours per day. Much stress is also laid upon
the circumstance of such severe restrictions being laid upon the
sale of beer, while more intoxicating liquors, as rum, gin, whisky,
&c. may flow in profusion then and for hours after. A princi-
pal portion of the annoyance to which they are subjected is at-
tributed to the circumstance of half the fine going to the infor-
mer, which custom they pray may be discontinued, the Magis-
trates having power to order the payment of the whole penalty
to the Treasurer of the County, for the benefit of the rate: The
memorial concludes by expressing a wish, that the officers of
police be directed to discriminate between a wilful and accidental
offence before they lay an information, and that the said officers
should when a case is brought forward, let it rest upon its own
merits, without displaying an anxiety fur conviction.
THE BALTIC TEA DE.—Theßussian government has publish •
ed a ukase, by which foreign ships
proceeding from one part of
the Russian provinces on the Baltic to another part of the same ;
province to complete or take .11 their cargoes, shall be free from
the double navigation duty imposed for the benefit of the 1 rea-
sury and the Custom-house officers, and shall pay duty only in
the first port which they enter, iike ships with a cargo.
Report speaks confidently of the resignation of Sir C. Greville,
ireekqU in consequence of impaired
requisition from the conservatives
thehea
Irtehp;r representative tiat tiis v e
added for Warwick,
theta Vaw
will be handed to Mr. Canning„ (son of the late Right Hon-
George Canning,) requesting him to offer himself for the bor-
ough in case of a vacancy.
At the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, held last week, the
Rev. Jabez Bunting, D.D., was elected president of the Confer-
ence for the ensuing year by a very large majority of votes—
the numbers bein,e for Dr. Bunting, 209; for other candidates,
24. The Rev. Robert Newton re-appointed secretary.
LEEDS AND SELBY RAILWAY.—The annual meeting of the
shareholders in this undertaking was held at the Railway-office,
on Friday, the 29th ult. The report of the directors stated that
they had not yet been able to surmount all the difficulties inci-
dent to the commencement of the undertaking, and that the ex-
penses of working the line had been considerable, chiefly owing
to a deficiency in the number of engines employed, and the diffi-
culty of obtaining new ones owing to the great demand. The
remedy for this, however, was stated to be in progress. The
maintenance of the way also has been very expensive by the
subsiding of the embankments, extending to one-quarter of the
whole line. In the meantime the traffic in every department is
steadily on the increase, and the prospects or trade are geed.
The dividend for the year was declared at £1 10s. per share.
The four direCtors retiring by rotation were, John Wilson,
Esq., James Adus, Esq., Robert Harrison, Esq., and Benja-
min Gott, Esq., and a letter of resignation of his office from
Edward Baines, Esq., M.P., on the ground of his inability to
attend, owing to absence, was read to the meeting. The va-
cancies were supplied by the re-election of Mr. Gott and Mr.
Audus, and by the election of Win. Catliff, Esq. and D. W.
Nell, of Leeds, and Matthias Whitehead, Esq., of Bradford.—
Leeds latOligeneer.
THE BEER TRADE.—The number of licensed brewers in
England is 2009, who consume 16,412,410 bushels of malt; of
victuallers 54,551, of 56,962 brew their own beer, and consume
9,521,797 bushels of malt. There are 36,536 persons licensed
to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, of whom 14,84 t) brewof own beer, and consume 3,/0.2,417 bushels of malt; and
pre-
-987 who brew their own beer consume 218.616 us
the 4,118 licensed sellers of beer not to be drunk ott.
rinses,
aswheton hilies- was time, 880 bushels of
malt.—ln Scotland 242 brewers consume 988, .
33n who brew
malt; and out cif 17,0'26 victuallers there are
In Ireland there
' their own beer, and consume 140,380 bushels: 4822,587
°heels of
are 245 brewers, whose consumption of malt is
bushels.—Parliamentary paper.
NTITy.--A respectable
ExTRAORDINARY MISTAKE AS TolNDyEery mortifying situation
tradesman of Bath has been p
Pesisseen by a lady and her ueice,
Browingstolacedoinnaal identity. He went to
had him apprehended
who after following him for
tesooin a charge of having sold their,
l
and taken before a magistrate too
on mistakeS
it y ,
some worthless shawls fora considerable sum of money. He was
kept in custody, 1.4'
and at last liberated
his great inconvenience, for nearly 18
hours,only on a bail Of a thousand
pounds.
3
The individual 1
• in a very different line of business from the
person ewhom he is mistaken, and is prepared with indispu-
tablevidence to prove that he was not in Bristol On the day
. e
hen the alleged fraud was perpetrated.—Morning Herald.
MURDER AT BLAcKBURN.—An inquest was held on 'Thurs-
day, at the Eagle and Child Inn, in Blackburn, on the body of
Edward Murray, who had been stabbed by a • • t
priva e in the 48th
regiment, named James Elliot. It appears that the soldier,
while in a state of intoxication, accused the deceased of being a
deserter, and that he should accompany him to the barracks.
At this strange demand the deceased became alarmed, and ran
away, but he was instantly pursued by the soldier, and stabbed
by his bayonet. He lingered from Sunday until the following
Wednesday. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against
Elliot. Who was thereupon committed to Lancaster Castle to
take his trial at tha Assizes, which ceinmenced'on Saturday.
We have seen a specimen of the die intended to he used for
all newspapers under the new act. The Stamp-office will be at
the expense of the die, which will have a cavity at one side to
admit the insertion of the name of each journal requiring stamps.
The moveable tablet bearing the name of the journal will be of
a specified size.—Sunday paper.