The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-21 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.


The Archbishop of York has given a second donation of
£2OO to the York Diocesan Education Society for the Chil-
dren of the Poor.

In London, the legal profession consists of 1500 barristers,
100 conveyancers and pleaders, and 3000 solicitors and attor-
neys. In Dublin there are 700 barristers; and 1800 solicitors
and attorneys.

Mr. Parker has given a formal contradiction to the rumour
that he was about to retire' from the representation of the
Southern division of Devonshire.

A white, or Albino woodcock, was shot at Westwood
Park, the demesne of .1. S. Pakington, Esq., M.P., last
week, by one of the shooting party there assembled.
Our readers will regret to learn that the amiable and ve-
nerable poet of Bremhill, the Rev. Canon Bowles, is in a
very declining state of health.—Bath Chronicle.

An expedition, under the orders of Capt. Trotter, R.N.,
in which three iron steamers are to be engaged, is, we un-
derstand, about to be fitted out to proceed up the Niger.
The Augsburgh Gazette quotes the following from Co-
bourg :—" Prince Albert, on marrying the Queen of Eng-
land, will preserve his title of Duke of Saxe, which his an-
cestors have rendered so illustrious. Our ducal house is on
the point of contracting another high alliance, which will
shortly be officially made known to the public."
' Lady Sarah Villiers, the daughter of Lady Jersey., has
been selected by her Majesty as one of the Ladies in Wait-
ing at the ceremony of her marriage. Mr. Bradshaw, of
Canterbury notoriety, is, we understand, on a visit at Mid-
dleton, the seat of her Ladyship, with several other distin-
gnished fashionables.—Cupid.

An enormous water serpent was killed on the 2d inst. by a
boatman on the Mississippi. It measured eight feet in length,
was of the thickness of a man's leg, and was landed in
M'Cracken county, Kentucky, just below the mouth of the
Ohio, and taken to Wilmington. The Lexington papers call
it a young sea serpent. It was a Ault brown colour.

PAYING DEAR FOR YOUR WHISTLE.—II is well known
that the Shrewsbury News, for several months, inserted
(weekly) " Nicholas Nickleby”—in fact, the whole of that
work appeared, without a single omission. An action NVas
commenced against the publisher, and on Monday last Mr.
Ford, solicitor, ex-mayor, and a reputed shareholder in the
News, went to London and compromised the action with
Messrs. Chapman and Hall, the holders of the copyright of
that unequalled work, by paying a sum of more than X5OO.—
Dublin Evening Mail.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The house was lighted up on
Tuesday evening to try the effect of Mr. Gurney's Bude light.
There are 14 globular lights—namely, seven over each of the
side galleries, and two scarlet blinds have been affixed to the
ceiling. The benches for the members have been re-covered,
and the backs re-polished with French polish. The seats of
the strangers' gallery have been set apart for the Speaker's
orders, and the gallery will now not contain more than about
100 persons. Workmen were employed up to a late hour last
evening in completing the alterations in the house.—Stan-
dard.
CONVERT FROM ROMANISM.—II is known that the first
wife of Don Carlos died during the residence of that prince
in England, and that she as buried at Gosport. A Spanish
priest, Don Barnabas Rodriguez, was stationed in that place
by Don Carlos's desire, whose chief duty it was to say masses
for the repose of the soul of his diseased wife. This gentle-
man, has, we understand, lately become a convert to protes-
tantism, and has published his reasons for abjuring the faith
in which he was educated.— lierks,Chronicle. -
THE POSTAGE STAMPS.—We learn that the. construction
of the stamps is advancing with all speed ; the several artists
to whom they are entrusted being actively engaged upon them.
In the stamp for letter paper, and the adhesive stamp, a pro-
file of the Queen is the principal ornament. The letter pa-
per stamp is being engraved by W. Wyon, R.A. medallist to
the mint. Charles Heath is engraving the drawing taken from
Wyon's City medal, by H. Corbould. intended for the ad-
hesivestamp. W. Mulready, R.A. has furnished the design
for the cover and envelope, which is in the hands of John
Thompson, for engraving.—Morning chronicle.
RUMOURED INDISCRETION IN HIGH LIFE.--The un-
fortunate separation of anoble lord from his lady is just now
a topic of leading interest, and the circumstance has thus been
represented in the fashionable circles :—lt is stated that the
lady was discovered in a situation of very proximate famili-
arity with an illustrious personage who was on a visit at the
time at the hospitable mansion of a noble friend, where the
unfortunate couple were also staying. A marriage now on the
tapis, so singularly mixes up some of the individuals con-
cerned, as to give a very painful novelty to this unfortunate
affair, and to involve-a noble lord and his intended bride in a
position of the greatest delicacy.—Morning Post.