The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Lords of the Treasury have refused to make Fleet-
wood a packet station for Belfast.
The Duke of Sutherland has contributed £3OO to the
South Staffordshire Hospital.
Sir James Graham, the Times says, is to withdraw his
medical bills.

The duty upon the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 16s. per quarter.
The Rev. Mr. Newman was making a short sojourn at
Stonyharst last week.
A man at Huddersfield died of hydrophobia last week.
He was bitten five weeks since on the thumb by a dog.
It is said that Government intend to propose this ses-
sion the abolition of the Scottish University tests.
The Messrs. Darby, Coalbrooke-dale, have given
£2,000 to the League Fund.
The article on " Parliamentary Privilege," in the
Edinburgh Review, is by Lord Denman.
Lord John Manners has given notice that he will to-
morrow move for leave to bring in a bill for amending the
bequests' act.
On Friday, at Bow-street Police-office, a surgeon,
named Cobb, was committed to Newgate on a charge of
bigamy. . _ .

A vessel last week discharged a cargo of iron'at New-
port, Monmouthshire, from France. This is like sending
coals to Newcastle.

Without an order of council the militia cannot be called
out till the 10th of October, and it is highly improbable
that it will be called out at all.—Glasgow Examiner.
As a proof of the mildness of the season a jargonell
pear tree was in full bloom on Sunday last, in the garden
of Mr. R. Richardson. Bridge-end, Elland, Bradford.
It was stated at a meeting of magistrates for the county
of Norfolk the other day, that fifteen incendiary fires had
taken place in the county during the last three months.
A Goon CDANGE.—The committee of the Wakefield
Church Institution have taken the room in Crown-court,
formerly occupied as a Socialist Hall.

There is at present in the garden of William Moore, at
West Lavington, Wilts, a sparrow's nest with four eggs,
upon which the hen bird is sitting.
The vessels in the Wet Dock at Leith are lying three
and four tier deep at present, which speaks well for busi-
ness, and is rather unusual at this early season of the year.
Mrs. Partis, founder of " Partis College," near Bath,
for the widows and daughters of clergymen," and for
other gentlewomen." has just expired.
A new literary publication, to be called The Literary
Herald, comes forth next month. Its avowed object is
to introduce and encourage unknown authors.
The total number of militia regiments in the United
Kingdom is 127, of which 61 belong to England, 14 to
Wales, 14 to Scotland, and 38 to Irelaed.
Persons at Leeds throwing orange peel on the footpaths
are to be taken up by the police and are liable to a fine of
405., under the local improvement act-.
The Glasgow Constitutional asks, " is Lord John Rus-
sell, the new-made citizen, bound, like all other burgesses
of Glasgow, " to grind his corn in the town's mills"?
IDENTICAL.-1n the Quebec shipping-list for the 10th
of December, we find the following :—" Sir Robert Peel
in the mud, but supposed to be safe."
A servant woman in London, on Monday week, burst
a varicose vein, and although the aperture was not larger
than would admit a pea, she bled to death.
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned, at Han.
ley against Sarah Bowyer, for having starved to death her 1
illegitimate child.
Mr. Isaac Cohen has left £15,000 to the various chari-
ties in the metropolis; £3OOO to the Jewish school, and
£3OOO to the synagogue to which he immediately belonged.
DISTRESSING Sc ICIDE.—Mr. Evans, smith and bell-
hanger, of Newport. Monmouthshire, a very intelligent
tradesman, destroyed himself on Saturday by firing a
loaded pistol at his temple. Verdict, insanity.
It is said that Mr. Bright will offer himself as a candi-
date for Wolverhampton, on the dissolution of parliament,
to replace Mr. Villiers, who is to stand for South Lanca-
shire.
Mr. Miles, of Freeleigh Court Farm, near Tiverton,
a few days ago, was charged with wilfully pushing Mr.
Butt, of Telbury, into the river near French Weir, with
intent to drown him.
John White, retailer of beer at Chatham, was last
week convicted in the penalty of £lO, a mixture of sugar
and salt, which is sometimes used for adulterating beer,
having been found on his premises.
A public meeting was held in Birmingham, on Tuesday
evening, " to petition Parliament against the proposal to
call out the militia, and in favour of introducing an arbi-
tration clause in our treaties with foreign powers."
The Hon. James Stuart Wortley has been appointed
Judge Advocate. A vacancy therefore ensues in the re-
presentation of Bute. In all probability, however, the
hon. gentleman will be re-elected without opposition.
On Monday, a labourer, who bad been previously ob-
served desponding, threw himself down on the Great
Western line on the approach of an engine, which passed
over him, and killed him instantly.
The other day, as a flock of pigeons flew over the house
of a gentleman in Locharran, he shot one of the birds. It
dropped down the chimney into a pot of soup which hung
over the fire !—lnverness Courier.
In consequence of the non-publication of the state of
the pole at Carmarthen, on the next day but one after the
last municipal election, as required by the act, Justice
Patteson has, on application, decided that there must be
a new election.