The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND EDUCATION.— Official notice
has been published that the first general examination of
schoolmasters who are candidates for certificates will be
held in' Easter week next.
The United Presbyterian Congregation of North Leith
hove presented a house ard garden, of the value of £1,250,
to the Rev. Dr. Harper, as a proof of the esteem in which
they hold him as their pastor.
Madame Mendelssohn Bartholdy, widow of the cele-
brated composer, has received letters of condolence from
the Queen of England, the King of Prussia, and the King

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PIPER.—Among the latest vic-
tims of the fever at present raging in Edinburgh is J.
Bruce, or "
_John of Syke," for some years he Highland

piper at Abbotsford.
In 1813 Robert Duncan was wounded in the American
war, at Chippeway by a musket-ball in the left knee. It
could noL then be extracted, and it remained in his
knee bone until last week, when Dr. Guthrie of Montrose
took it out, as it caused the old pensioner great pain, in
consequence of shifting out of the bone into the flesh.

JOSEPH ADY CAUGHT.-At Bow-street police-office
on Wednesday, Joseph My appeared to a summons issued
at the .instance of the Post-office authorities, for the
recovery of £1.145. Bd. being the amount due for postage
on 208. unpaid letters which had been returned to the
Dead Letter office, and which purported to have been
written and sent by the defendant. He will have to pay

ion of railway worl

s has caused a great fall
in iron, and in consequence, ruin amongst the iron mas-

Scotch t

which, during the late mania, went up
ie bought at £2 7s. ! The article cannot

to 40. can nov
wed under £3. Co
wovv in t'

le prod

ble orders from America
which will help to clear off old
and this once accomplished, like all other trades,

mmeree will survive.
While the fishing boat

Miss Birch, the celebrated singer, has written to the
papers to say that she did not keep her engagement wits
the French Operatic Company in consequence of "air
insurmountable terror having taken possession of lid on
account of the imperfection of her French pronunciation."

At the general rehearsal she was the victim of the laughter
and jokes of the company. She adds, "You can imagine
with what alarm I was seized on finding how easy it was
for a public, so fond of a joke as the people of Paris,
which mat ract name. of ovprufhincr inrindinn iteplf fn find

in my accent a perpetual subject of pleasantry.PI
Jenny

thony, Esq., one of the most remarkable men of his day.
He was of a very ingenious turn of mind, and effected
many improvements in watchmaking, and other mecha-
nism : 30 years ago he joined in 'a patent for the applica-
tion of steam-power to passenger vessels in the Thames.
In 1823 he singly resisted an attack of burglars on the
house, where he had a consignment worth £2OOO .of
watches for exportation. In 1825 (the bubble year), he
engaged in many of the schemes then afloat, and lost con-
siderably ; but his love of speculation still led him to in-
vest large sums in exhibitions in the metropolis, and in
chemical works in Clerkenwell. He was also one of the
earliest shareholders in the Manchester and Liverpool

line ; but his speculations resulted in great losses. He was
engaged for nearly 20 years in a disputed reference of
partnership accounts, which cost him above £30,000. He
has left some freehold property to "his nearest of blood,

' and in c
Mr. Charl
—Four years ago,

aiming within 12 Months,
len to his first cousin's son,
FAMILY FREAKS

alt of nearer

Notting-

ham Journal, a young couple—the bridegroom twenty.
the bride eighteen—took each other " for better for worse"
in Nottinghamshire, and returned from church to a com-