The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HIGH STEWARDSHIP,

CAMBRIDGE, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—This being the
first day appointed for taking the poll, the doors of the
Senate-house were '' -

Ilrown open at

From a much

earlier

arrive with the supporters of each candidate, and an-i:l"airth—e
bustle usually attendant on a contested election it was inte-
resting to observe, as the time of polling approached, the
vast concourse of members of the Senate in their academic

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years had evidently long left the University, yet still takini
as lively an interest in the contest as their younger brethren
STATE OF THE POLL THE FIRST DAY.
10 O'CLOCK.

Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst
Lyttelton.,

11 O'CLOCK

Lyndhurst
Lyttelton..

12 O'CLOCK

Littelton

1 O'CLOCK

Li ttelton

2 o'CLocK

Lyndhurst
Lyttelton.

i o'CLock

4 O'CLOCK

Lyndhurst
Lyttelton
When the poll closed for the day,

Amongst those who voted for Lord Lyndhurst, we noti,
the name of Cressw•ell Cresswell, Esq. The roll was ai
journed until yesterday morning, and we hope to be able
announce the result of that day's polling from our corre
pondent in a second edition.

The New York Star undertakes to derive the words
" King Jeremiah" from a cucumber, thus:—" Cucumber—
'gherkins—jerkins—Jerry King—King Jeremiah.'
• The Philadelphia Ledger says, " Every lady who runs
away from her husband is beautiful of course, as every
woman who is hung has a remarkably interesting appear-

A new paper called the Musquito, has been started at
Houston, Texas. The Picayune says it is the only mus-
quit° they ever saw that was worth anything.
" Why, Tom, my dear fellow, how old you look !" " Dare
say, Bob, for the fact is, I never was so old in all my life."
Mr. J. W. Long, editor of the Southern Crisis, asks
" When will the editor of the Louisville Journal learn to tell
the truth ?" To which Prentice replies, " There's no doubt
that we shall tell it before Long."
The editor of the New Orleans Picayune, in describing the
launch of a grand steam-boat, says, " She dipped into the
wave as gracefully as Widow Green could make a courtesy."
FALL FASHIONS.—Last sabbath morning, a young lady
was seen wending her way to church with Elssler buttons on
her wrists, and a hole as big as a ninepence—in the heel of
her stocking T says the Providence Republican Herald.
A COUNTERFEIT.—A fellow pretending to be in a fit, was
carried from the street, in New Orleans, into a grocery store
and laid upon the counter, where brandy was poured down
his throat, and he recovered. A wag, happening to be pre-
sent, said the fellow was a rogue, and the fit was a counter-
fit

AN Excuse.—Miravaux was one day accosted by a sturdy
beggar, who asked alms of him. " How is this," inquired
Miravaux, " that a lusty fellow like you are unemployed ?"
" Ah " replied the beggar, looking very piteously at him,
"if you did but know how lazy I am !" The reply was so
ludicrous and unexpected, that Miravaux gave the varlet a
piece of silver.
The Marquis of Waterford seems to be gaining golden
laurels on his estates in the county Waterford, where his
arrival has been hailed with every mark of esteem and
respect. On his arrival at Thurles, his lordship received an
address from the inhabitants expressive of their joy at his
arrival amongst them. Rockwell and its neighbourhood is
in future to be called New Melton, and the extensive stabling
recently erected eclipses that of our hunting metropolis in
Leicestershire. The " eccentric marquis," as he was once
called by his aristocratic friends of the west, is spending his
princely fortune, with true Irish freedom, amongst his fellow-
countrymen.

EXTENT AND POPULATION OF ICELAND.--Of the thirty-
eight thousand square miles of which Iceland consists, only
a ninth part is inhabited, and even over this the houses are
very widely scattered, with many black and dreary intervals,
sa that man and his dwellings seem like something foreign to
the land. The hamlets are always so inconsiderable that
they never become the principal object in the landscape, and
even the commercial towns seem lost amid the rocky defiles
in which they are placed. Assuming the population at 50,000,
which it has rarely exceeded the avrage will be about 11 to
the square mile ; and if ve ' exclude the central deserts, rather
more than seven, that is, about a third of the number found
in the thinnest inhabited of our Highland countries.—His-
torical and Descriptive Account of Iceland.
MODE OF BURIAL IN GREENLAND.-11l Greenland the
dead are buried in a sitting posture, dressed in their best
clothes. As the earth is shallow or foreign, they build tombs
of stone, and cover the body with plates of mica slate or clay
slate, to preserve it from carnivorous animals. The kayak
and hunting instruments of the deceased are placed at the side
of the grave, and they put a dog's head into that of a child,
in order that its spirit may guide the helpless infant to the
land of souls. On their return to the house, they continue
their lamentation in a sort of monotonous howl, at the con-
clusion of which some refreshmentis taken, and each departs,
to his own dwelling.—Historical and Descriptive Account of
Iceland.

The flag of Lord Exmouth, which was supposed to have
been destroyed, with other valuable relics, in the conflagra.
tion at the dockyard, has been discovered on board a barge
where it was thrown with other things during the confusion
Plymouth Journal.