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

we presume,

England, ire -and Spain are all claiming the honour
of having given birth to Lola Montez;_tho dancing lady
who has so fascinated the king of Bavaria.—The Rhenish
Observer announces that the Signora•. has been created
Countess of Sternheim, and that the patent of creation is

) her on her birthday.
t the late Derby assizes, it was deemed

During a trial

ry to obtain the evidence of

ing at Chesterfield. Recourse was had to the electric
telegraph, and scarcely five minutes elapsed from the time
of sending the message before an answer was received,

saying that the witness would come by, the next train.
Mr. William Leman Rede, so well known to the public
as the writer of many successful dramatic pieces, and
ually admired as a contributor to the weekly and
ied .of apoplexy, en Sa-
Southampton-street,

Monthly literature of the c
turday morning, at his house, 32,

Strand

THE INDIAN OVERLAND ROUTE.—The Augsburg
Gazette says, that " The Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company-have just concluded an agreement
with the Sardinian Government for experimental trials
fr.. 14,n nrcrtvovnripe of the nverlend "India mrtila hir

They are to commence in April*"
A MisNomEn--The other day, au eklerly country dame

came to the shop of a stationer in Truro, tnd inquired,—
" Please do you sell something_ by the name of grog 1"
The question was a poser ; but Mr, Netherton promptly
hit on the solution by asking another—" Is it Punch you
mean ?" " Aye," replied the old lady, " that's what 1

was tould to ax for." -
PROMOTION FFLOM THE RANKS.—It appears from a
Parliamentary paper, just issued,. by order of the house of
Commons, that, in the year. ended 31st December 1846
there were 9" officers appointed t

.-.c 41b non-cu—
commissions. We have been told, that officers who hav,
risen from the ranks are seldom "blackballed" by the

DUTCH CATTLE.-A: small sailing vessel, of less than
35 tons burden, has arrived . at the Brunswick-wharf,
Blackwall, from Flushing, with an entire cargo of sheep,
205 in number, the produce of- Holland, the whole of
which arrived in safety, and were delivered at once to their
1-^ considered as a renewal
fully effected last year.

Ofti;;Tlr:ffic which w

English Government is about to fortify the island of Al-
derney, situated atnthree leagues from our coast, and

Gibraltar. It is intended to-construct four forts, united
by a railroad, and to establish on the culminating point of
the island a high tower. of, observation, from which a wide
view may be obtained over the sea and on our coasts.

:MOLITION OF THE OLD HOUSE OF LORDS.-OD

early hour, a number of wort

April 6,1547.

AMERICAN notrn.—The vessel Lady Hilda, arrivedin
the London docks from Barbadoes, has brought, in addi-
tion to a cargo of West India sugar, 100 barrels of Amen..
can flour. This is the first occasion, to our knowledge, of
the arrival of American flour from one of the We-3t Inds!
Islands.—London Times.

Mr. Savile Ogle, it appears, does not intend to Mire
from the representation of South Northumberland at the
ensuing general election, as has been rumoured. It
understood, however, that the step was contemplated, bui
is not to be carried out in consequence. we are glad to
state, of the improved state of the honourable member's
health.

TRH FACTORY BILL.—Lord Ashley has addressed a
letter to the short-time committees of the counties of
Lancaster, Chester, and York, in which lie. says—" It it
impossible that I should omit to congratulate you on the
glorious victory obtained by your friends, yesterday, in
the division on-the Factory Bill, when a majority of 78
affirmed the limitation of labour to ten hours in the day,
66 members only having been found to vote against it.
We cannot be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for
this important progress towards the full attainment of
measure so indispensably necessary to the moral and phy-,
sical welfare of yourselves and your childret,"

SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A SNIPE.—A dead snipe
was found lately in one of Ow Castle meads by Mr. W.
C. Tisoe. it had evidently ben starved to death with
food in its beale. The upper part of its long bill we*
jammed into a- piece of hollow reed about an inch long,
and in the lower part of the bill towards the point was en-
closed a small beetle. The bird had no doubt been
boring into the reed for the beetle, and the stump of a,
reed had broken, leaving a portion fitting so tightly round'
the upper part of the bill as not to be removed by any
efforts the bird could make. The bird has been stuffed.
by Mr. Knight with the beetle within, and the reeds
around its bill, as a curiosity.—Hertford Mercury.
PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OE GRAIN FROM TURKEY.
—Official intelligence has reached this conntry stating'
that in six weeks from the March, owing to information-
received by the Ottoman governthent that the interior of
the country will have to suffer from the scarcity of grain,
the exportation of grain from the ports of Adrianople,
Tilistria, Nidisi, Canini, Avlonio, Delvino, Sirhala.
fto-
dosto, Salonica, Pachalic of Bmussa, Sarouhan, Aiden,
Corria, Trebivonde, Castamoum, Nicomedia, and Smyrna,
will be prohibited—the delay of six weeks being fixed in
order that parties who were under contract to receive'
freights at any of these ports may be enabled to execute
them.

EMIGRATION.—A memorial, numerously signed by in-
fluential peers and gentlemen, was presented to Lord
John Russell on Wednesday last. The main propositions
which it embodies, and to which those who have signed
it consider themselves pledged, are, - first, the necessity of
systematic colonization, on a very large scale, from Ire-
land to Canada, and of the assistance of the state to pro-
mote it ; secondly, the necessity of making religious pro-
vision for the emigrant? ; thirdly, the advantage of enlist-
ing private enterprise, in the form of agency, to carry out
the plan, and, fourthly, a willingness to accept an income
and property tax for the purpose of defraying the cost of
the emigration.

It mist have been a proud day for the Marquis of
Anglesea and Field Marshal Grosvenor, when the Duke
of Wellington, attended by the Head Quarter Staff, pre-
sented to those two veteran officers the batons so de-
servedly-bestowed upon them by their Sovereign in the
last Brevet: Only one feeling of regret is associated with
this gratifying event—the absence of Field Marshal Sir
George Nugent, whose advanced age and indisposition
prevented' his attendance to receive a similar 'reward for
his past meritorious services. We sincerely trust, how-
ever, that he will soon be sufficiently recovered to come
to town for that purpose ; and we are certain that the
Commander-in-Chief participates in our wisir.---United
Service Gazette.

COST OF THE GENERAL SURVEYS.—AMORg-the Par-
liamentary returns issued on Saturday was a very singular
one containing-an item of most startling magnitude. It
is entitled, " Abstract of the aggregate amount paid in
each year on account of the survey of counties and the
trigonometrical' surveys ; distinguishing the amount for
England, Ireland and Scotland, since the commencement
in 1791, up to January 1847, and the total amount for
each kingdom.and for the United Kingdom." And 'under
the head of Ireland we find the prodigious sum of .£Bl7l
512. 14s. fild. as the cost of the survey, and the engraving,
and printing, though the first expence was not incurred
till the year 18251 Out of this there has been received
no account of maps and surveys sold to the public, nearly
£25,500, better than one-third of the latter amount-being
derivable from the railway mania of 1844-5.

AEROSTATION. —On Monday Mr. Gypson ascended
from Londoil in his new improved balloon, accompanied
by .Mr. Coxwell; The flight was continued for sixty
miles to Sandhurst, in, Kent, where a safe descent: was
effected, near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the
illustrious astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross
the Channel, but a. shift of the wind suggested' the pru-
dence of altering their original determination. Lady Hers-
chel and some of her family having witnessed the deseent,
Mr. Gypson and Mr. Cozwell were induced to pay their
respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial cha-
riot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been hos-
pitably received, the merits and probable utility of acres-
tation were discussed with enthusiasm and with conside-
rable competency and knowledge of the science on the
part of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers at o.o'l
period of their lengthy journey attained an elevation be.
three miles, and some ingenious machinery, invented
Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the balloon without 1.0-'
of gas or ballast, was worked with advantage.
A DANGEROUS- LUNATIC.—On Wednesday night an
Irishman of the name of Barney
Pitzatrick, who had
formerly been confined in Hanwell V.--,;„

and en

voured to appease him and
quietly, but without avail.
the Catherine Wheel public.

Brunswick in a very

isturbar

Sergeant

. persuade him to go homy
Mr. Millard, the landlord of
Whrs 1,,, ......01l

had tried in irain, when Fitzpatrick instantly rushed upon
him and assaulted him very severely, the whole time
threatening his life ; and there is no doubt that he would
have carried out his threats to the fullest extent had not
Sergeant Gibson ably assisted Mr. Millard in defending
himself, but it was not until the assistance of five police-
men had been abtained that Fitzpatrick was overpowered
and conveyed to the station-house. On Thursday he was
taken before the Brentford magistrates. The Beach
were at first disposed to commit him for trial for the
but it was eventually considered that
would be to send him again to Hartwell

munie

the best c,our.
Lunatic Asvlt

DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MYSTERIOUS MURDER
COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SlNCE.—Saturday's Go-
vernment Police Gazette contains -the particulars of
supposed murder, under most mysterious circumstances,
committed eleven years since. In the month of August.
1836, a mare was found tied in a coppice at Sedgberrow.
"Worcestershire, She was of the following description,.
viz., dark brown with switch tail, star in the foreheadr
long in the back, about fifteen hands high, three or foil.

,
years old, and a fast trotter. She had on a bridle and
saddle, the latter a good one, with two new stirrup leathers
and girths attached, maker's name on the saddle, "C.
Reeve, Malmshn,,, e.,,...cionliPTlPP of human bones

_ . having been recently discovered 1_,....
wmauldfoeureud, ndh
d,
aitistthaotught that the owner of the mare was
he was a dealer. A person suspected
of the murder has given away an antique double-linked
silver watch chain, and affixed to the chain is a watchkey,
;- +l,- h"-• ^e —1" -1- '-- - • . worked in silver the

to wht

to mare

[eyed that

in and key belonged to the de-
vour is being made to, ascertaifl

IJIFPERENT YATEs OF MR. COBDEN AND-, HIS POR-
TRAIT,—WhiIe Mr. Cobden, M.P., the great apostle of
free trade, is in Rome, endeavouring, it may be, to per-
- his holiness the Pope to drain and. cultivate the
al morstips of the. Tiber--

Where Campania's plain forsaken lies
ig to the skies."

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