The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

We learn that Lady Wilde, wife of the Solicitor-General,
is very seriously indisposed.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been elected a Fel-
-1 low of the Royal Society.
Tl 6 10th Hussars have been quartered in Birmingham, in
the room of the 4th Royal Irish.
Baron de Stein, Minister of State, died at Berlin on the
14th instant, in the 70th year of his age.
Father Mathew has been invited by the Bishop of Norwich,
and other leading members of the British and Foreign Tem-
perance Society, to visit London.
Earl Grosvenor has purchased the Dolphin selioSner yacht,
of 214 tons,- of. Mr. Aekers. His lordship intends to go
afloat this season.
The Empress of Russia is expected at Berlin by the 31st
instant. The Emperor would accompany her as far as
Warsaw.

Among the British claimants on the Portuguese govern-
ment, it is understood, the Duke of Wellington and Lord
Beresford appear for the largest sums.
The Duke of Cleveland has completely recovered the effects
of his severe indisposition, and is now in the enjoyment of
excellent health.
Jiarkaway is in training at Flintoff, Hcdgeford, and is as
well as ever he was in his life ; it is not improbable that he
will carry off another Goodwin Cup.—Bell's Life.
A suit relating to property between the noble families of
Nettancourt and Larochefoucauld is still pending, which was
commenced 86 years ago !
On Saturday last, fine new potatoes were taken up in Mr.
John Robinson's garden, at • Harrington, many of which
measured 41 inches in girth, and were considered to be the
largest in the ueighbourhood.—Carlisle Patriot.
INFINITESIM ALlsm.—lt is an extraordinary, but tolerably
well authenticated fact, that down-east they have a way of
curing the most obstinate lameness, by administering crutches
in small doses of from one to fifty.
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, with a praise-
worthy liberality of mind, at his recentaudit returned to the
poor cottage tenants of Stowe and Wotton six months' rent.
SIMPLE REMEDIES:—For the gout, toast and water; for
bile, exercise ; for corns, easy shoes ; for rheumatism, new
flannel and patience.; for tooth-ache, pluck it out.
There is now living at Treffort, in the Ain, a widow named
Bernard, who was born in 1735, and is now in her 105th year.
She is in the enjoyment of all her faculties.
It is understood that the first recommendation of the com-
mission of inquiry into the bankrupt and insolvent laws, will
be the immediate and total abolition of imprisonment for
debt.
A third dividend of 2s. in the pound is now in course of
payment to the creditors of Messrs. Fogter, the bankers at
Carlisle, who stopped-payment three or four years ago.
The Chundreeka, a native newspaper, speaks of Lord
Auckland's munificence in the mattet of the Bindrabun tem-
ples, as having "immersed the Hindoos of Bindrabun and
Calcutta in an ocean of happiness."
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.—AII orator holding forth in
favour of " woman, dear divine woman," concluded thus:—
" Oh, my hearers, depend upon it, nothing beats a good
wife." " I beg pardon,", replied one of his auditors, "a
bad husband does. '

The necessary instructions for commencing the new survey
for the assessment of the window tax have been forwarded
by the government to the commissioners of taxes in various
parts of the country. The survey will commence immediately.
A famous physician practising in Permsylvani, having pre-
scribed- a strong dose of nitre to a patient labouring under a
severe cold, it caused so profuse a perspiration during the
night that he was found drowned the next morning.
In the year 1693 there was a standing order of the House
of Commons, directing that'll° member of the house do pre-
sume to smoke tobacco in the gallery, or at the tables of the
house sitting in committee.
An honest farmer living near Norwich, was asked why he
did not subscribe for a newspaper ? " Because," said he,
my father, when he died, left me a good many papers, and
I hav'nt read them through yet."
A letter from Rome on the 13th states, that the Pope
seriously contemplated the conversion of Great Britain, and
that he had with that view divided the country into eight
apostolical vicarages, for each of which a bishop or apostolical
vicar had been provided.
The works of the Great North of England Railway between
York and Darlington, are in so forward a state, that the
directors of the company have employed Mr. Green, of
Darlington, architect, to furnish designs for depots upon
the line.

FORWARD FRUIT.—We had. yesterday evening, brought
to our office, some ripe cherries, grown by Mr. Richard
Smith, of the Marsh End. The cherries bad been grown in
the open air, and had no protection from the weather.—
Preston Chronicle.

CAUTION TO TRESPASSERS.—A gentleman in Kentucky
has obtained a patent for a pocket telescope, that will bring
the furthest object so near as to enable him to give any fellow
a sound licking who may be seen trespassing in a field of
buck wheat twenty leagues off.
We have learnt that the Queen, on hearing of the -death
of Captain Otway, immediately wrote in her own hand a
most kind and feeling note to Sir Robert and Lady Otway,
expressing her own and Prince Albert's deep and sincere
sympathy in their affliction.
We understand that a new singer, of the name a:Harri-
son, a native of Birmingham, and a member of the Lichfield
choir, will shortly make his appearance in London. His
voice is said to be a tenor of goOd compass and richness, and
possessing also a fine falsetto.'
A PRECIOUS GENIUS.—" Where is the east?" inquired
the mistress of a school of one of her young pupils, whom
she was questioning on the situations of the points—north,
south, east, and west. "In the jay answered the little
geographer."
Southwick House, near Portsmouth, a very splendid man-
sion, the seat of Thomas Thistlethwayte, Esq., was destroyed
by. dm' on Saturday morning week. The damage is estimated
at £20,000, of which £13,000 is insured.
RE-OPENING OF EATON HALL AND TILE GROUNDS.—
We are happy to learn that our noble neighbour, the Mar-
, quis of 'Westminster, with his known liberality allows visi-
tors to Chester the privilege of seeing his grounds, and the
interior of his splendid mansion at Eaton during the summer,
.excepting Saturdays and Sundays.—Chester Gzette.
A gentleman dining once with a member of the society of
friends, who was also a scion of Elwcs' school, after having
eaton enough for tour moderate visitors, re-helped himself,
exclaiming, "You see it's cut and come again with me!" to
which the sectarian gravely replied, " Friend, cut again thou
may'st, but come again thou never shalt."
The earliest voyage to India by 'the Red Sea (says the
Polytechnic Journal, quoting the. Saxon Chronicle) was
performed in the time of Alfred the Great, by Sighelm,
Bishop of Sherborne, who took presents from the King to the
shrine of St. Thomas, and brought back spices and gums
from the East.

BEAN FLOUR.—There is none of the many pulses which
so nearly approaches wheat in quality and wholesomeness as
the small horse bean ; and it is quite notorious that millers,
aware of this, when wheat is dear or scarce, mix bean flour
largely with that of wheat. Nor would there be any great
harm in this, if the consumer were allowed to partake of the
profit • but when it is seen that beans are from 10 to 15 per
cent. Cheaper than wheat, and that the price of bread is regu-
lated solely by that of the latter, the whole of this 10 or 15
per cent. must be looked upon as an unfair and illegitimate
profit.—Hull Times.
A Puzzi.E.lf any person or persons will send us an ex-
planation of the following sentence which appeared in the
last Manchester Times, he or they shall he well rewarded.
We. copy verbatim at literatim :—" Men, who have been
tories during the whole period of their political life—not tory
rats mere turn-coat politicians; not men who have worn the
• white and green,' and declared on their return from London
after a parliamentary inquiry into electioneering bribery, that
they could not have believed that their tory friends would
have acted so basely, and exhibited such a want of all prin-
ciple as to induce such a wholesale demeoralisation of the
WIGAN LAW AGAIN.—We are most heartily sick of
re-
marking on the conduct of the Wigan bench of magistrates,
and the. fantastie tricks played by them in the exercise of their
judicial functions, but there are cases which, if not demand-
ing remarks, at least are worth recording. Not long ago, the
governor of the workhouse was brought before tne magistrates
charged with an assault on a pauper, and bound over to keep
the peace. A few minutes afterwards a paupix was placed
before the magistrates and proved guilty of an assault on a
relieving officer, but was discharged on promising to refrain
in future. The former was a respectable man ; the latter is
an incorrigible idle fellow, who had been frequently before
the bench on former occasions. Need we say more ! ! !
Wigan Gazette.
PoULTON.—Since our last report of the crops and weather,
we have had a specimen of our fickle climate, the thermo-
meter last week being within a few degrees of freezing point,
viz., 34 degrees. The latter end of last month it stood up-
wards of 70 degrees, making a difference of nearly 40 degrees.
We are now enjoyingsa genial season, and corn (except some
wheat) is looking remarkably well, also grass and all the pro-
ductions of tl:e earth, look beautiful.—Preston Pilot.
The two missing sylphides of her Majesty's Theatre,
Mdlles. Albertini and Fifine, are said to have winged their
flight to Florence, they having been under a written engage-
ment not to return to Paris for two years. The reason for
this clause is, that the young Prince de J is an ardent
admirer of Mdlle. A. The sum of 80,000 francs is to be
paid the fair sisters if they comply with the articles which
were drawn up in the diplomatic form before they quitted
the French capital.
CANNIBALISM.--At the Rotherham Petty Sessions on
Monday last, five brutes habited as men, were fined £5
each;or in the alternative two_ months' imprisonment, for a
ferocious assault upon Thomas Hague, of Greasbro.' The
parties had gone to Scholes feast on Sunday week, and about
ten o'clock at night met in a beer-house, where Hague had
gone to look for company home. Hague gave the following
account of the transaction :—John Butterworth came in,
and struck me while I was looking the opposite way. While
I was down, he got hold of my cheek with his teeth, lifted
me up by the hold, and bit. part of my nose off. He then
jumped upon my chest, and immediately ran out. While he
was gone, some one in the room took my coat off, because I
was bleeding, and was taking me into another house. As
soon as I got out, Win. Butterworth came and knocked me
down again. The other defendants came up, and beat me
all the way from one house to the other. Barker called out
" kill him." I was covered with blood and sludge. In re-
examination, it appeared that John Butterworth had bit the
complainant twice before, but that he had forgiven him,
although advised not to do so.—Leeds Intelligencer.
TAKING TfIE RESPONSIBILITY.—The Louisville (Ky.)
Journal says :—" The Wolverine girls appear to be danger-
ous customers. The Adrian (Mich.) Watchtower says that
a preacher, at a late religious meeting in that town, pub-
lished the names of several young ladies, who had on a
previous occasion disturbed his proceedings by whispering
and laughing. On the following evening the aggrieved ladies
provided themselves with raw hides, went to the clergyman's
house, and belaboured him until he had the rawest hide in
the company." These young ladies may well be called
Wolverine girls."
QUEBEC AND MONTREAL.—The signs of progression and
and of stationary habits are nowhere more strikingly con-
spicuous than at Quebec and Mon6eal ; and nowhere,
perhaps, the dothestic contrasts of almost every kind exhi-
bited in more varied shapes. Side by side are seen the mo-
dern commercial store and the ancient secluded convent.
Here appears the harbour enlivened by an array of British
shipping ; there, the lingering remnants of primitive inactive
life. Jostling each other on the narrow causeway, or grouped
in the wider square or market-place, are the red-coated sol-
dier of England, and the cowled priest of France; the anti-
quated habitant of the country in his homespun suit of gray,
and the spruce denizen of' the town attired in the latest Eu-
ropean fashion ; the swarthy aborigine of the soil enveloped
in his blanket, with his squaw carrying her papoose at her
back (the little creature not'always exhibiting in lineament
a purity of race), and the British artisan or labourer in his
peculiar garb ; while, to crown the whole, the alternate sound
of two conflicting languages breaking on your ear at every
step you take, leaves you momentarily undecided as to whe-
ther you be not in some provincial town of France or Eng-
land ; the first impression, moreover, being strengthened by
the general appearance of the streets and houses, and the
last by the British designation of many of thoroughfares, and
the preponderance of British names along their line of front-
age.---Preston's Three Years in Canada.