The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

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has a cow with three

I of Llangarren, Herefordshi:

Calves—two bulls and a heiff
old, and all doing well.
A WOMAN CHoKEI).—On Monday, an old woman
named Hannah Smith, residing at Clayton, accidentally

They are now a fort

A man named Dufield died at St. Bartholomew's Hos
pital, last week, from lock-law, resulting from a sligh

wound in his leg, caused by a boy trundling a hoop agaiiis

The wheats on the light soils in the neighbourhood o'
Lincoln have suffered much from the late severe gales o'
wind. One field, of forty-four acres, of wheat was coin•
pletely destroyed, as many tons of soil were blown off it
At this season of the year, young nettles, when boiled
are a most excellent table vegetable, and as a purifier o
the blood they are unequalled ; they are more nutrition!
than most of the greens in common use.

A large meeting—has been held in Hull, to press on till
Town-council the desirableness of having baths and wash
houses established in that town for the benefit of the la

batwing classe

COINCIDENCE.—On Sunday week, in the absence of
the Rev. H. Dawson, three different ministers officiated
at Westgage Chapel, Bradford, each of whom selected

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POOR RATES.—Justice's clerks are now called upon to
roish government with a return of all persons sum-

mooed for poor rates, where they were assessed not ex-
ceeding £6, and how many of those were excused from
payment during the past year.
Mr. Bunn has offered to take the £2,000 offered by
Jenny Lind, on condition that she will give him her
written assurance that she was not deterred from appear-
ing on the Drury-lane stage by any other motive than
the one assigned in her letter of October 17, 1845.
On Sunday, a blind man, named Blackarn, was married
to a blind woman, at Belper, Derbyshire. Much curiosity
was excited by this wedding at Belper, where the bride
and bridegroom are well known, and some hundreds of
persons assembled to witness the ceremony.

DIMINUTIVE MERCHANT VESSEL.—On Saturday last,
a small smack-rigged foreign vessel, named the Louise
Nicoline, arrived at Hull from Ripen, with a full cargo of
the weight of which was only 20 tons ; the vessel
5 tons register, and her crew consists of two men.

The dignity of knighthood has been conferred upon
Mr. (now Sir William) Snow Harris, whose lightning
conductors have been so generally adopted in the navy,
and have proved the means of preserving not only much
national and private property, but many valuable lives.
Mrs. Butler made her reappearance in London, at the
Theatre, on Monday, in her original character
hback." The house was well
d her entrance was greeted

of Julia, in

filled, though not crowded

by loud and-prolonged applause.
A few days since, a blind man missed his way near
Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, and wandered about the
country for several hours, before any one heard his cries
for help. At last he fell into a stone quarry, about fifty
feet deep, whence he was rescued, unhurt, by a policeman.
Total abstinence from intoxicating liquors has become

so common in the ricighbourhood-of Horneastle and
Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, that it is difficult to obtain
kin bread, and it has been necessary to

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bring a supply from London.
SALE OF A FIVE-SHILLING PIECE.—A five-shilling
piece of Charles 11. was sold at Colonel Durrant's sale on

trial-piece, with the inscription on the rim, and the iden-
tical coin presented by Simon himself to Lord Chancellor
Clarendon. It was bought by a Mr. Bale.
RARE COINS.—At the sale of Col. Durrant's rare
coins on Wednesday week, a penny of Egbert, first sole
monarch, coined in 830, realized £l5 ss. ; a shilling of
Henry VII., the first coin issued in England under that
denomination, sold for £l9. Time improves coins more