The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

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The Queen of the French forwarded some splendid arti-
cler for a grand bazaar at Cheltenham, in aid of the Irish.
During the trials at the late Nottingham assizes, the
pockets of several persons were picked in the court.
The original manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's " Rob
Roy" was sold in London, last week, for £B2.
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The water doctor, Pries'snitz, has recovered, by means
of his watery remedies, from the effects of the fit of
apoplexy with which he bad been seized.
A large subterranean cave has been discovered under
Bell-street, Birmingham. When, or for what purpose it
was formed, is yet a mystery.
The sentence on the private of marines, ordered to'be
hung at the yard-arm of one of the Queen's ships, for
striking a corporal, has been commuted to transportation.
It is stated that Mr. Alvin, of Calcutta, will come for-
ward for Berwick at the next election, in the conservative
interest.

The Bedfordshire election took place on Tuesday, when
Lord Charles James Fox Russell was returned without
opposition.
A WINDFALL.—A farmer at Dover has discovered thir-
teen sacks of potatoes in his fields which were left standing
last August, and are said to be excellent.

At twelve o'clock, on Thursday, at Derby, Platts paid
the last penalty of the law for the murder of Collins, at
Chesterfield. The concourse of people was immense. _

REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD.—The Hon. T. E.
Sonor, son of Lord Camoys, is to be brought forward on
the Liberal side at the next election for this city.

The Old Bridge of Dumfries, after standing 600 years,
hae begun to give way. Last week a lad tumbled through
a hole in it into the river.

A Tra,ctarian weekly journal, in an articl=e on education,
says :—" As it is, the education of the country is one of
those things that will probatly never be set straight, till
we have had a Revolution and a Restoration!"
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.—The official return of
deaths registered in the London districts during- the past
week indicates a steady improvement in the state of pub-
lic health.

A meeting of the teachers and other supporters of the
Church Schools in the borough of Leeds will be held in
the Assembly Rooms this evening, to consider the Govern-
ment plan of education.
A gentleman, who has lately travelled through= the
eastern and southern midland counties, states that the
extent to which agricultural improvements are being made
is beyond all precedent.
Several gentlemen from Whitby, says the Yorkshire
Gazette, attended a- greyhound course at Harwood Dale
on Wednesday, when they killed the extraordinary number
of ten hares and twenty sheep.
The pretty village of Hunningbury, near Leamington,
has been devastated by fire. Fifteen houses were de-
stroyed, and many others greatly injured, so that half the
place is ruined.
REPRESENTATION OF EAST SIISSEX.—Lord Cantalupe
has announced himself as a candidate for the eastern divi-
sion of Sussex, in place of Mr. Frewen, who has signified
his intention of retiring from the representation.
Mrs. Nisbett (Lady Boothbyl has resolved to return to
the stage, and will re-appear at the Haymarket imme-
diately after Baster in her original character of Constance,
in the " Love Chase."

The North Wales Chronide records the recapture of
Richard Evans, alias Evan Richards, a Wesh Jack Shep-
pard, who has broken from five different gaols, and whose
last escape was from the county gaol in September, 1843.
In• the Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary, on Satur-
day, week, Elizabeth Yates was-sentenced to death for
having, on the 2d of February last; thrown her infant son
into the Union Canal, whereby he was drowned. Extreme
poverty is said to have been the cause of the criminal act.
TEN HOURS FACTORY BILL.—The Central Short Time
Committee of the West-Riding of Y-orkshire have issued
an address, calling upon the factory workers to imme-
diately petition the House of Lords in favour of the Ten
Hours Bill.

The military schoolmasters who are about to be trained
at Chelsea) are to be amenable to martial law, and will be
enlisted as-soldiers. They will be mustered monthly with
the corps; but their occupation will be confined to their
scholastic duties.

A patent has been granted for the manufacture of iron
coaches. An omnibus, carrying nineteen persons, besides
the driver and cad, is said to weigh •only ll cwt., and can
be drawn by two ordinary horses, at the rate of ten miles
an hour.

A few days ago, the wife of the Rev. J. Rider, vicar of
Nuneaton, near Coventry, was safely delivered of four
children, who were all living. About ten months ago
this lady had three children at a birth, who are still living.
—WorCester- Chronicle.

FOREIGN CATTLE.—The imports of foreign cattle for
the past week-have been—from Hamburgh 378 oxen and
COWS, and 15calves ; from Antwerp, s.calves ; from Bre-
men, 28 oxen and cows ; and from Rotterdam, 8 cows,
and 15 calves.

EAST SOMERSET.-Mr. H. G. Andrews and Mr. N. J.
Hingmore are both in the field on the• Tory interest, in
the room of the late Colonel Gore Langton. Mr. William
Pinney has appeared as Whig candidate.•.. The nomination
is fixed for the 10th of April.

The Duke of Wellington completed his 60th year in
the army on the 6th instant, having joined the 63d regi-
ment, as an ensign, on the 6th of March, 1787. He is,
soldier in Europe actively and
t the present time.