The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Metcalf is improving since his arrival in London.
Primroses were gathered the other day, in the neigh-
bourhood of Doncaster.

The G•eat Western Railway Company have subscribed
£3OO to the Ascot Race Fund.

Upwards of 600 sail of vessels put into Milford Haven
for shelter during the late gale.
The Oxford and Cambridge Review has an article by
Lord John Manners, advocating free trade.
MINING IN FortwEss.—A valuable discovery of it on
ore has recently been made on a range of bills called
Ricket Hills, by Messrs. Town and Rawlinson, of Dalton.
Toe Rev. W. Gresley has pronounced the glorious re.
volution of 1688 to be a transaction, "false In principle
and pernicious in its results !"
It is generally believed that in the event of a dissolution
of Parliament, John Bowes, Esq., does not intend again
to offer his services to the electors of South Durham.
lt is said that Mr. Cardwell, at present Secretary to the
Treasury, is to succeed Mr. Hope, as Under-Secretary to
the Colonies.

A fine dish of white currants was gathered on Christ-
mas-day in the garden of William Ford, Esq., of Yeo,
near Yealhampton.
The wheat plants are looking very promising, and there
has seldom been a better prospect at Christmas for the
ensuing harvest than this year.
Mr. S. E. Cayley, M.P., says :—" That a duty of 15s.
per quarter on wheat only adds one farthing and 1-16th
to the price of a quartern loaf."
O❑ Saturday evening a young author, Mr. J. Christian
Ross, destroyed himself at a coffee-house in Aldergate-
street, by taking prussic acid, in consequence of the re-
jection of one of his articles by a popular magazine.
A " High Change," similar to those of London, Liver-
pool, and Manchester, has lately been erected at Bristol,
which has heretofore been deficient in this convenience for
merchants. _ _

The driver of the Portpatrick and Dumfries mail having
slipped, the other day, as he was about to mount his box,
the horses started off without attendant, and ran upwards
of three miles without accident.

The good service pension of £3OO per annum, which re-
verted to the Admiralty on the death of Admiral Sir C.
Rowley, Bart., is conferred on William Hotham,
Admiral of the White.
On Thursday last a chimney was blown down at Bal-
last Hills, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The bricks fell
throbgh the roof and killed an infant that was sleeping in
a cradle.

A short time since a dog, at Cardiff, seeing his portfait
exhibited to some gentlemen, sprung at the painting in
rage, and, before he could be prevented, partially defaced

An American ship arrived in St. Katherine's Docks,
last week, with a large cargo of potatoes from the United
States. The potatoes appear to be of excellent size and
quality.
It is a curious circumstance, that, during the five days
that Lord John Russell was supposed to he in power, not
a voice was raised in the " famine cry," nor a word said
upon the " potatoe disease."
The duty on the importation of foreign wheat has this
week advanced to 15s. per quarter. The grain markets,
generally, have become animated, and prices have ad-
vanced in a moderate degree. _ _

QUICK JusTicE.—ln✓the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-
square, London, on Friday, at the commencement, the
Jury were sore four times, four causes tried, and four
verdicts recorded in twenty minutes.
The Reverend Librarian of Lambeth Palace, Mr.
Maitland, at one time acquired the soubriquet of the
Clerical Fox-hunter, from his zeal to pick out every error
to be found in the ponderous volumes of the honest
martyrologist. _

Mr. Pugin, the Romish architect, lives at Ramsgate,
near to the spot where St. Austin is said to have first set
his foot on English ground. He has commenced, at an
estimated cost of £lO,OOO, the erection on this spot of a
church, school, and cloister.
NOVEL IDEA OF INDEPENDENCE.—The English
Churchman, in announcing itself to be "in an indepen-
dent position," suggests to its subscribers the doubling of
their annual subscription, by which means, it says, " the
loss on the paper would be entirely got rid of.
STOVES IN CHURCHES.—On Sunday week Stanwix
church was nearly burnt down, owing to the fire in the
stove communicating with the woodwork of the pews. The
pulpit, with several pews in the neighbourhood, was de-
stroyed, and the organ materially injured.
Dr. Polli, of Milan, known to the medical world by bia
lity
remarkable researches on the blood, has just commun k :-'
cated to the Scientific Congress at Naples, a proceed
to render salt water drinkable by means of electrici4
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Medical Times. .
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A well-sinker has been suffocated at Rlarket liir4! , ,
by incautiously descending a well without having . - rst
tested the state of the air by means of a candle. In the
course of the previous hour a stratum of carbonic acid gas
had formed for a depth of thirty feet; and as soon as he
went down, the man fell senseless.

disposing of their corn at injurious pric
_uch accommodation as may be necessary
enable them to hold their stocks. The noble lord a
ti;:.t the present reduced price of wheat is tharesnli

the recnit political changes, but that prices are certain to
L:o up again ; and if his tenants cannot pay th,ir rents now
clue, they have only to apply to his agent, and time will be
I•:(Forded to enable them to .retain their c..,rn until the
markets resume their former :stability. .

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—The Duke of Buccleuch
will succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as President of the
Council. Lord Ellenborough will return to office as First
Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Haddington has accepted
the Privy Seal in room of the Duke of Buccleuch.—Times.
AMAZING UNANIMITY.—The Leeds Mercvry states
that in the village of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, there
are twenty-four houses and seventeen county voters, all
of whom signed the requisition of Lord Morpeth. So it
seems the very stones cry out to be represented by his
Lordship.
Great Protectionist meetings have been held during the
week, in Susses, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Es-
sex, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and other
parts of the country. At a meeting at Chichester on Wed-
nesday, the Times newspaper was gibbeted and burnt, in
presence of the chairman, the Duke of Richmond !
Men are collecting their thoughts after the alarm of a
Whig-Radical Government, and with such symptoms of
returning confidence, that the Three per cents. have risen
from 92 to 95k, in the short space of nine days ; a testi-
mony to the confidence which the fundholders lately
placed in a free-trade Government.—Morning Herald.

DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL.—
On Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was
visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected
the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive
mill at Scarrs Pont, near the above town, the property of
G. and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the
course of erection.

LORD GREY.-It appears that one strong expression
was omitted in Mr. Macaulay's letter, which appeared in
our last, relative to these noblemen. It is said that the
original letter contained some very strong expressions of
Mr. Macaulay towards Earl Grey ; one sentence particu-
larly was to the effect that the noble lord, in Mr. M.'s
opinion, is "the most arrogant, most capricious, and
most wayward of mankind." _

EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND PASSlON.—Yesterday
week, a woman named Thorpe died at Bradford from the
effects of arsenic. The deceased had quarrelled with her
husband on Thursday, on a slight matter, and went to
live with her brother-in-law. On Saturday morning a
meddling neighbour told her a tale of her husband's infi-
delity, and in a fit of passion she procured the poison,
and died soon after taking it.
A MAN SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR A WILD DUCK.—On
the night of Tuesday a person named Gooderson, while in
his fowling skiff in Cowbit Wash, fired at what be consi-
dered to be a group of birds ; but was horror-struck when
he discovered as the object of his aim his old comrade
Jackson, who, like himself, was in pursuit of birds : but
faint hopes are entertained of poor Jackson's recovery.—
Lincoln Chronicle.

THE BIRDS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This collection,
which belongs to the Ornithological Society, at the pre-
sent time contains upwards of three hundred birds„ in-
chiding twenty-one species, and fifty-one distinct varieties.
Although some of the specimens occasionally wander to
some distance, but comparatively few are lost, as they
generally return, even after a long absence, the secluded
plantations and islands being quite congenial to their
habits.

How TO MAKE A CHURCH.—A service took place on
Tuesday, December 23d, in the Adelphi Chapel, H ackney-
road, to organise a Christian Church in this newly-erected
place of worship. After suitable exhortation and prayer,
the members received the right hand of fellowship, and
were recognised and declared to be a Church of Christ.
The recognition was then confirmed by a participation in
the ordinance of the Lord's Supper with the ministers
and members of other Churches.—Nonconformist.
SUICIDES OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—On Saturday
week Col. Gurwood, the distinguished officer and author
of "The Wellington Dispatches," destroyed himself at
Brighton by cutting his throat with a razor. The medical
gentleman gave it as his opinion that the act was induced
by the relaxation of the nerves consequent on the comple-
tion of the work above referred to, and on which the mind
of the deceased was intently fixed.—The last intelligence
from India details the distressing suicide by poison of
Ensign Wm. Miles of the sth regiment Bombay Light
L• .ry (Nati"

aur.. ...e.)
PROBABLE INCREASE OF THE INCOME-TAX.—We
hear on good authority that orders have been issued from
the Treasury for official returns to be made of the rea-
pective amounts that would be realised by the different
beads of " lands," " professions," " salaries," &c., on an
income tax of five per cent. instead of the present rate of
sevenpence in the pound. This would seem to countenance
the rumour that it is in contemplation to charge some
branches of local taxation on the Consolidated Fund.
Britannia. [This, it will be remembered, corroborates
pro tauts our announcement of last week. The New-
castle Journal seems to think our information will be
found correct ]
NOVEL INTERMENT CASE.—On Monday last, pursu-
ant to advice given by counsel, the Board of Guardians
caused the child, to which the Vicar of Leigh had refused
interment, to be prssented at the church-yard for burial.
An order had been served on the vicar, and on his 'refus-
ing, notice of intention tc bury the corpse was served on
the vicar, the clerk, and the sextoness. Several hundreds
of persons assembled on Monday afternoon to witness the
proceedings, and at four o'clock the funeral procession
arrived, and, as was expected, found the gates locked, and
their admission refused. They stood at the gates half an
hour with the child, and afterwards returned to Bedford
with the corpse.
POISONING—A man named Farrar, a butcher, near
Tadcaster, died on Sunday week very suddenly. He was
out at dinner with his sister, Mrs. Prout, and, before the
cloth was removed, Mr. and Mrs. Prout, Mr. Farrar' and
other members of the family became alarmingly ill. Me-
dical assistance was promptly obtained, and in the case of
the several individuals of Mr. Front's family the treat-
ment was successful in averting any immediate fatal re-
sult. Mr. Farrar died in two hours from the time be sat
down to dinner. It appears that a boy had been sent in-
to the garden for some horse-radish, and in mistake ga-
thered some portion of the root known as Monk's Hood,
with which strong poison the gravy had become impreg-
nated.i—Leeds Paper.,
CURIOUS.—WhiIe a gentleman was looking at the
salmon essaying to pass Powick weir the other day, his
dog (a bitch of the Newfoundland breed) discovered a
very curious magazine. She began scratching and snift-
ing violently at a rat-hole situate under a beam at the ex-
tremity of the weir, and some couple of yards from the
water ; guessing there was something extraordinary there,
it was examined, when it was found to contain nineteen
lamperns all alive and in good order, which some fisher-
men insisted had been stored there by the rats. As the
water bad not reached the spot" for a long time previous,
the lamperns clearly had been carried there by some
means, and the fishermen say that the rats are continually
in the habit of robbing their putcheons.—Hereford
Paper.
SOMNAMBEFLISM.—REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.—
About five o'clock on Friday morning as constable Parry
was on duty near Eign-brook Chapel, in this city, he
heard something fall heavily, and immediately made
search, and in the street, close under the shop-window of
Mr. Algood, discovered what he thought was the body of
a man with nothing on but his night-dress. Upon raising
it up, however, he found that it was an aged female, in a
state of utter insensibility, or as he at first thought quite
dead. She was taken into the house, and placed in a bed,
and it transpired that her name was Mrs. Evans, and her
age between 70 and 80 years. The solution of the occur-
rence is, that she had risen in her sleep, and that, getting
out of the window, she first fell upon the ledge of the
shop-window of the house where she lodged, which broke
her descent to the ground, a height of many feet, or she
would certainly have been killed. We are happy to learn
that Mrs. Evans is going on favourably.—Hereford Jour-
nal.

DICKENS'S NEWSPAPER.—The first number of the
Daily News will appear in a fortnight. Its peculiar feature
will be, that the literary body, so long second to the com-
mercial in the daily press, will be in the foreground.
They are committing a great mistake in avowedly starting
on the extreme Liberal interest. Bradbury and Evans
are the proprietors. Dickens, it is now said, will not be
the editor, as stated in a paragraph going the rounds of
the press, but Foster, the literary editor of the Examiner.
They have decided on giving their reporters seven instead
of five guineas a week, for their annual engagements.
The proprietors of the Morning Herald, which has lately
been drawing an enormous revenue from advertisements,
the price of the column formerly £l2, being now £3O,
intimated the other day, to their Bombay and Calcutta
carrespondents, the increase of their salaries from £l2O,
which is paid the former. to £4OO, and flout £lOO, the sa-
lary of the latter, to £3OO per annum. The foreign cor-
respondents of the morning journals are paid from five to
ten guineas a week ; and the express India mail, fort-
nightly, stands the Times and Herald each £BOO a month.
The principal editor is paid at the rate of 30 guineas a
week, and the subs., of which there are six or seven to
each paper, (not to speak of the managing editor, whose
services are recompensed with 12 guineas per week,) re-
ceive from eight to ten guineas weekly. The parlia-
mentary reporters to each paper vary from sixteen to
twenty, at the salary above stated, irrespectively of
which there are nine law reporters, at from three to five
guineas a week, nine others who attend the police offices,
at no fixed salaries, besides supernumeraries, who pick
up a trifle in the accident and occurrence line.
_ _

B AN KRUPTCY.—The total number of bankruptcies that
have occurred in and up to a late period of the expiring
year is, 1,028 and, it appears that there were 7 apothe-
caries, 1 attorney, 9 auctioneers. 7 bakers, 5 beersellers,
18 booksellers, 21 shoemakers, 14 brewers, 'll brick-
layers and masons, 3 brickmakers,lB brokers, 33 builders
19 bu'cbers, 15 cabinet-makers, 4 calico printers. 10 car-
penters, 1 carpet manufacturer, 7 carriers and carmen, 3
carvers and gilders, 8 cattle-dealers, 7 cheesemongers, 21
druggists, 2 clothiers, 2 cloth manufacturers, 1 cloth
merchant, 3 coach makers, 3 coach and omnibus pro-
prietors, 19 coal merchants, 18 commission agents, 2 con-
tractors, 1 cook and confectioner, 15 corn merchants, 6
cotton manufacturers, 2 cotton spinners, 12 curriers, 3
cutlers, 4 dairymen, 5 dealers, 33 drapers, 11 dyers, 3
earthenware dealers, 3 coffee-house keepers, engineers,
1 engraver, 8 farmers, 4 farriers, 4 fell-mo .fish-
mongers, 2 fruiterers, 6 glass merchants,- 14,4,
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letters, 11 hosiers, 44 innkeepers, 8 irto it' -..,
Ironmongers, 2 jewellers, 2 lacemen, 31tta, - ' .1=
litneburner, 18 linen drapers, 1 liv.eiii:**/ ' .--* ... ,
lodging. housekeeper, 7 niachiniste;,3'tnallee ..'l' -. .1:;;
ket gardeners, 4 mercers, 40 meolaitt,f4i4.._iiijitiO ,:p
m;llers, 6 money-scriveners, 5 olusinalinstilithent mikers',.'
8 oil and colourmen, 5 painters,- 4 -papcihingers„ 6 paper'
makers, 1 pawn broker, 20 plumbers and glaziere,-B.priri
ters, 2 print and musicsellers; 8 kovilsion,dertiers; 2 fades
dlers. 1 sailcloth mantanter-ef, 3 '-sliip.b.-Qk-crs, 3 ship-

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Memel l6 10 19 0
Gothenburg l6 10 -. 17 0
Wyburg ,17 0 - 17 10
Petersburg 17 0 - 19 0 •
FLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. 1.4'1 18s. Der
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British American Pine
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'4Danzig, 4 feet 7 10 - 0 0 ,E 2 Os
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Cuba - I 0 }Free.
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BIRTHS.
On the 17th October, at Calcutta, the lady of the Hon. Fred.
Millett, member of council, of a son.

On the 17th Nov. at Strawberry-hill, Jamaica, the Hon. Mrs
Price, of a danghter.

On the 17th ult. at Heligan, the lady of J S. Trelawny, Esq.,
M.P., of a son.
On the 21st ultimo, at Florence-court, the Countess of En•
niskillen, of a son.

On the 26th ultimo, at Plumpton-terrace, Everton, the lady
of Mr. James B. Marsden, of a daughter.
On the 2; th ultimo, at the family residence, in Portland-place,
London, the Counters of March, of a son and heir.