The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

ransported for seven years

At a recent. meeting of the British- Archaeological So-
ciety, specimens, discovered in a recent excavation in
London, were exhibited, of rings which, in the middle
ages,' had been used as charms and preventatives against
various comp Taints and . diseases. .They were inscribed
with the names of the three celebrated kings of Cologne,
Jasper, Melchior' and Balthazar.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.-Mr: Charles Hooton, formerly
editor of the Leeds' Times, and author of " Bilberry
Thurland," " Colin" Clink," &c., (lied a few :days ago, at
Nottingham, from taking an overdose of morphia. He bad
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been irregt

shivering fits, caught during his residence in Texas and
New Orleans.

Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe, on their
way from Carlisle to Newcastle-on Wednesday week, were
delayed about an hour near the Rosehill station, in copse-

quence of the . special train by which they were travelling
having been thrown off the line. No nerson was seriously

hurt, but some of the carriages were much injured. A
broken rail wag the cause of the accident.

SINGULAR PREVENTION OF A ROBBERY.—We have
given in another paragraph an account of several robberies
st Ditonduring the week. In addition to thise an attempt

)arrot belonging to •tl
.o)bers decamPed. NV

le rector gave the alarm, and the
know of no other instance of a
—Cambridge Chro-

parrot acting the part of house-dog--
nicle.

one of the Leeds policemen, who was passing, asked, out
of curiosity, to
.see the `‘` deceased." His wish was corn-

iceman proceeded up stairs, and
Another surgeon was called

plied with, and the po
found her actually breathin,

In; sne was tnen removed to the Infirmary, and was on
Friday very satisfactorily recovering. Had the policeman's
curiosity not led him to desire to see the unfortunate fe-
male, she would no doubt, in her exposed state, have been
starved to death, if she had not expired from loss of blood.
7. 1..."

CORN STATISTIC.S.—Aceounts of wheat, wheat flour,
Ste., imported into the united kingdom in the year 1840,
&c., have been laid before the House of Commons on the

amounted to 2,351,907 quarters' and the quantity entered
for home consumption to' 2,962,832 quarterz., of which
2.594;448 quarters were foreign, and 369,384 quarters
British colonial produce. The quantity of wheat and
wheat flour imported from Canada, under the act 6th and
7th of Victoria, cap. 29, amounted to 320,451 quarters,
and the quantity entered for home consumption to 338,959
quarters. The, quantities of corn of Irish' growth exported
to Great Britain from Ireland, in the half-year ended the
sth of January 1847, were as follows :—namely, 73,865
quarters of corn, 47,757 quarters of barley, 477,913 guar-
-186,600 cwt. of wheat-meal or flour, and

if oats

r - T —On Friday, an accident of a

mcosi—iieplWalole7l;iacier took place on board the Star-
light iron steam-boat. A person named James Hunt,
about fifty years of age,
and a companion of his, were
travelling by the boat from Vauxhall to London-I;ridge.
Hunt's companion expressed a wish to go into the cabin,
but the deceased refused, when his friend, while standing
on the top of the stairs, laid hold of Hunt's hand for the
purpose of pulling him down. He, however, resisted,
and the other having let go his hold rather suddenly,
Hunt fell backwards and pitched headforemost4.l;r:

hold into tue engine-nouse amongst the machinery. 'When
he. fell his bones were heard to crack as the levers of the
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the en-

r'mu, auu zsa boon uy pussime tile poor fellow was got out,
ilood streaming from all portions of his body. lie was
immediately taken to Charin,g,eross Hospital, out before
be bad reached that institution he had ceased to breathe.