The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

WORSE AND WORSE.—It is said that the new census will
cost the country about £300,000.

At a late breaking up of a Dudley teetotal party, they are
described as retiring from the temperance festival full of
spirits!

A woman of the name of Laycock came to her death at
Keighley on Sunday week, through taking a large quantity
of arsenic, which had been given her, by her daughter, in-
stead of carbonate of soda. She only survived the draught a
few hours.

Sir Robert Peel was honoured by her Majesty with an in-
vitation to be present at the grand concert, at Buckingham
Palace, on Monday night.
BIRTH ON A RAILWAY.-011 Thursday last, as the six
o'clock down train to Hull was on its way between Castle-
ford and Selby, a poor woman, a third class passenger, was
safely delivered of a child. She was left at Selby, where, we
understand, herself and child are doing well.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has stated to Mr. Bell,
M.P. for Northumberland, that he intends to give up the
present passenger tax on railways, and to substitute a tax
on the gross annual receipts on passengers, at the rate of five
per cent.

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ALARMING DECLINE IN WOOLLEN EXPORTS.—The
quantity of cloths exported last year was 215,746 pieces ; now
the export the year previous was 392,8.54 pieces ; showing a
falling off of 177,101 pieces, or 45 per cent. l This is a
striking proof of the extreme depression under which the
Yorkshire trade has been and is still labouring.—Leeds Mer-
cury.

The North Midland and other connected railways are mak-
ing arrangements, by which they will be able to convey pas-
sengers from London to Edinburgh in about two hours less
time than thex can go by the western routes. They will also
be able, by the starting of a coach from Newcastle, at half-
past five in the morning, to take passengers from that town
to London in a single day.
BRISTOL TEA• SALE, Thursday, May 20.—At this day's
tea sale 1,504 chests of tea were offered, consisting of 74
half-chests of congou, 913 chests of ditto, 40 chests of sou-
chong, 11 chests of flowery pekoe, 54 chests of twankay, 122
chests of ditto, 15 half-chests of hyson, 132 chests of ditto,
51 half-chests of imperial, 54 chests of ditto, and 8 half-
chests of gunpowder. The sale was well attended, and al-
though the biddings were not very animated, yet the greater
portion was sold, and at higher prices than were anticipated
by the trade—viz., congou, Is 8d to 3s sd; flowery pekoe.
3s 7d to 3s 9d ; twankay, is 8d ; hyson, 2s ld to 2s 4d ;
imperial, 2s 10d to 2s lld ; and gunpowder, 3s 2d.
INNOVATIONS OF DISSENTERS.—The period at length ar-
rived when, in 1829, the dissenters gave the right hand of fel-
lowship to the Irish Papists. The committees of the three
denominations, and the Society for the Protection of Religi-
ous Liberty, petitioned for what was falsely denominated
" Catholic emancipation"—and Baptists, Socinians, Inde-
pendents, Arians, and infidels, signed the same rolls of parch-
ment, calling upon parliament to destroy for ever the Protes-
tant constitution of these realms. This fatal measure was
passed. This panacea for all the woes of " old Ireland" re-
ceived the royal assent ; the victor on a thousand battle-
fields was vanquished by petitions ; and Sir Robert Peel, who
had once fought for the cause of that church to which he had
devoted his best and earliest years, lent the weight of his
name and example to a measure which was " to be at once
healing and final." But both the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert Peel have been deceived and disappointed. The
dissenters are more clamorous and the Papists less satisfied
in 1841 than in 1829, and still the cry against the Protestant
church is loud and reiterated—" Raze it! raze it! even to
the foundations."

A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.—Schweighause Forest, near
Rotisbon, has, for a considerable time past, been infested by
a band of robbers, headed by a daring fellow, named Leopold
Hansel, a native of Steinsberg, and notwithstanding the most
active researches on the part of the Bavarian authorities, he
and his followers always escape. The reason is, that many
of the inhabitants of the surrounding country, from fear or
participation, favour him, and render every pursuit of the
police abortive. On Sunday, the 2d instant, during the time
of divine service, two of his followers came to the solitary
farm of Stegweis, in the district of the Regenstauf. All the
family were absent, except the farmer's daughter. The rob-
bers knocked at the door and demanded victuals and leave to
rest themselves within. Their suspicious appearance and
behaviour made her cautious, and instead of opening the
door she handed out a good large luncheon through the win-
dow. This did not satisfy her visitors ; they called for more,
and insisted on being admitted. As the woman firmly re-
fused to open the door, they threatened to break in and to
put her instantly to death. The brave girl was not dismayed,
but taking an old musket which was at band, she pointed it
at one of the robbers, who had already smashed the window.
The gun, however, was not loaded, and the robber did not
move from the window ; then, gathering up her strength, she
made a run at his head in the manner of a bayonet charge.
The muzzle of the musket struck him with great force on
the temple, and he fell bleeding and apparently lifeless to
the ground. The other ruffian did not think it advisable to
continue the contest with such an Amazon, and carried off
his wounded companion to the wood.—Ratisbon Journal.

FEMALE BEAUTY PREVALENT IN AMERICA.—The wo-
men, moreover, are much handsomer than the men. They
are almost uniformly good-looking : the greater number are
what would be called in England " pretty women," which is
something between good-looking and handsome, in the nice
distinctions of beauty. This uniformity extends also to their
figures, which are almost universally slender, and of good
symmetry. Very few large or stout women are seen, and
none that we should call masculine. A more than usual de-
gree of feminine delicacy, enhanced by the general paleness
of complexion and slightness of figure, is particularly cha-
racteristic of American females ; and the extreme respect
and deference shown to them everywhere by men, has a ten-
dency to increase that delicacy, by making them more de-
pendent on the attention and assistance of others, than
English ladies of the same class usually are.—Buckingham's
America.

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Barks was watched in his visits to his favourite, and it was
discovered, about ten days ago, that he was in the habit of
sucking milk from the cow with all the ease and relish of an
infant calf, to which her cowship yields with the affection of
a mother nourishing her own offspring! While the nurse is
standing, he raises himself on his hind-legs to suck, but when
she is lying down he " takes it easy." She fondles and licks
him as if he were but a little one of her own produce ; and if
another cow ventures even to look frowningly at her adopted,
she " looks daggers" in return, and threatens fighting in his
defence. The cow is of the Alderney breed, and the dog is
spaniel.
The steam-boats of America differ very much from those
of England, both in external. appearance, and in internal ar-
rangement. Instead of having, as with us, the engines be-
low, and the cabins for passengers beneath the main deck, it is
the custom here to devote the lower part of the vessel to the
stowage of the cargo ; and on the main deck are placed the
engines, one on each side, with a large chimney rising from
each, so that the operations of the machinery are visible above
the deck. The after-part is laid out in sleeping-cabins for
passengers ; and above this, on another
deck, generally the
dining-room in the centre ; besides this, there is usually a
separate saloon for ladies, and one for gentlemen, as drawing-
rooms. rooms. In some of the larger steam-boats, there s yet
another deck placed above this, called the hurricane deck,
because of the wind being more felt there than below. This
makes the fourth deck from the kel, Stanchions Is enerally a mere
elevated platform, supported by, or wooden pil-
lars, from the deck below ; beng perfectly unobstructed
above, and out of the way of all the operations of the crew,
so that passengers seated along its sides, or walking in its
centre, may enjoy undisturbed the most extensive prospects
on all sides around, and the fulness of the sea and river
breeze.—Buckingham's America.