The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

GEN ERAL MISCELLANY.

Several fields of wheat and barley, in the county of
Durham, are already shot into ear.
The cost of stationery end printing for the two houses
of parliament amounts to nearly £250,000 a year.
William Henry Norman, the self-accused thief, has
been sentenced to seven years' transportion.
Saturday was the ninth anniversary of her Majesty's
accession to the throne.

In London, on Tuesday. inquests were held on five
persons drowned while bathing.

- A man has been killed at Bakewell, by sheltering under
a tree during a thunder-storm.
There.is no truth in the report of the cholera having
visited Hull.

Thursday last was the anniversary of the victory of
Waterloo.

On Tuesday, a child, four years old, residing with its
parents at Clapham. was killed by a sun-stroke.
Mr. Ackers, M.P., has announced to the electors of
Ludlow that it is no; his intention again to offer himself
as a candidate for their suffrages at the next election
The total amount of money run for in Great Britain
and Ireland, over 152 different racecourses, in the year
1839. exceeded in value the enormous sum of £143,204.
The total number of bathers during the last week in the
Serpentine alone were nearly 45,000, out of whom one
lost his life.

At Southampton, on Friday week, a prize fight for 30s.
came off between two " navvies," one of whom died on
Saturday from the injuries he received.
In a garden at Worksop there is a pear-tree which a
few weeks ago was laden with fruit; the peals have all
fallen off and the tree is now again covered with blossom.

On Trinity Sunday Mr. Newman was ordained deacon
by Dr. Wiseman. Mr. Newman's wife, it is said, will
enter a convent.

Lemon's rose in Mauchester to sixpence each, on Whit-
son week, in consequence of the extraordinary demand
for Lemonade.

A true bill has been found against Mr. Dunn for per-
jury, committed by swearing in the Court of Bankruptcy
that Miss Burdett Coutts owed him £100,000!
No less than three separate fires took place in London
between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Wednes-
day night.
During the year 1845, the number of. pictures imported
into the United Kingdom. according to the return of the
customs, amounted to 14.901 I _ _ _

On Saturday week, an explosion of gss took place in
New-street, Dunfermline, by which two houses were
blown up and several persons severely injured.
The premises of Messrs. Bayley and Son, sailmakerF,
Bermondsey-wall, London, were, on Tuesday, com-
pletely gutted by fire, and the stock consumed.
The romantic Miss Smith, whose intereit,rig letters to
Earl Ferrers created such sensation a short time ago, has
had to pay the sum of £1563 6s. as law expenses.

At the Marylebone Vrstry, on Saturday, a vote of
thanks was passed to Sir Robert Peel for his zeal and in-
dustry in carrying the Corn Bill.
The Marquess of Normanby left town on Wednesday
for Florence—not a proof that, in his opinion, there
is much prospect of the Whigs regaining office.
Messrs. Dryden, the great printing rnsetine makers of
London, have set up a machine at the Times office, which
prints the enormous number of 5,670 sheets per hour ! _

A motion is to be brought forward in the House of
Commons, to-day, by Mr. Spooner, for leave to bring in
a bill for the more effectual suppression of trading in
seduc.ion and prostitution.
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Two young men were drowned in the river at Wor-
cester last week whilst bathing. One got out of his
depth, and the other, in attempting to rescue him, was
drowned also.
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.—The subscribers of the Clif-
ton Zoological Gardens, at a meeting last week, decided
by a majority of 71 votes to 37, that the gardens should
not be opened to the public on the Sabbath.
FATAL FIGHT.—A pugilistic set to 8t 13wslern, between
John Woolams and John Simpson, was brought to a sud-
den termination on Saturday, when the former received a
knock-down blow, and instantly expired.

AN EFFECTUAL CURE.—By the ancient laws of Hun-
gary, a man convicted of bigamy was condemned to live
with both wives in the same house. The crime was, in
consequence, extremely rare.
At Lla.gollen, on Sunday, during a thunder storm, the
electric fluid fell in a plantation, which ignited—but for-
tunately there were parties present who commenced dig-
ging round it, and thereby prevented much damage.
A fire origi•lated lust week in a shop in London through
a number of patent wax lights, exposed for show in the
front window, becoming ignited from the intense heat of
the sun.

In the Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a verdict of
guilty was recorded against a person named Dew, for cor-
ruptly bargaining for an office in the service of the Hon.
East India Co. Two others pleaded guilty.
Joseph Carter, shoemaker, who lately stabbed John
Oddy in the stomach with a knife, was tried on Wednes-
day at the Central Criminal Court, and being found guilty
of manslaughter, was transported for life.
A boy named Benwell, aged 16, drowned himself last
week, in a pond at Dulwich, after having tied his hands,
and fastened an iron weight, a quarter of a cwt., round
his neck.

Two men have died at Leicester, after suffering most
excruciating agonies, from having been affected with the
glanders, obtained in their coming in contact with a dis-
eased horse.

In the year 1215_ 11 raga wan A 54,1,6 th. ...let of
session, Holm which it appears that the city of Glasgow.
the seat of a university, was considered too narrow afield
for more than one bookseller.

On Monday, a tradesman in Old-street, London, found
his shop boy (whom he had discharged), on the roof of
his house, with a large quantity of arsenic on his person,
with which he doubtless intended to poison the cistern.
He was taken into custody.
SHEEP KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-011 Tuesday week,
two sheep were killed by lightning in a field upon the farm
of Little Swinton, and it is also stated that a sheep was
killed by lightning the same afternoon upon the farm at
Swinton Quarter.—Netrca.vile Advertiser.
Two MEN DROWNED.—Some time during the fore-
noon of Sunday week a number of labouring men were
bathing in the Keer on the Warton side, when, for want
of a proper knowledge of the locality, two of the party
got into deep water and were drowned.--Lancaster paper.
LOCALITIES FOR BIRD'S NESTS.—A correspondent of
a IVlanchester paper notices the fact of a bird's nest hav-
ing been built in a load of coals, and another in the mouth
of the lion forming the dexter supporter of the royal arms
over Kensington barracks. _ _

Voters in counties must send in their claims on or be-
fore the 20th of July ; and voters for cities and boroughs
must pay, on or before the 20th of July, all poor-rates
and assessed taxes due for the last twelvemonths next be-
fore the 6th of April last past.
Farmers are this year obliged to make a considerable
advance in the rate per acre paid for mowing, owing to the
difficulty of obtaining mowers. We hear that in some parts
of Middlesex is. per acre is being paid for cutting meadow
grass, which is 2s. 6d. above the average rate paid last
year.

GUN-svocxs.--The large number of 13,600 gun-stocks
and 120 stocks for pistols were brought over from Ant-
werp a day or two since by the vessel Tyne, which arrived
off the Tower of London. These stocks are manufac-
tured from the wood of the walnut tree, with which
Belgium abounds.

THE CHOLERA.—It is confidently rumoured in the
best informed medical circles. that the labours of the
Commission of Sanatory Inquiry will be rendered perma-
nent, by the appointment of a Board of Health, to sug-
ge,t and enforce precautionary measures against the visi-
tation of the Asiatic cholera.—Globe.
DEATH FROM DRINKING COLD WATER.—On Wed-
nesday, a labouring man, named Thomas Pearson, who
was at work in a hay-field, near Edlington, drank some
cold water, and almost immediately afterwards was ob-
served to reel and fall down upon the ground. He died
about tei m.nutes afterwards.—Doncaster Gazette.

Owing to a piece of impertinence to the Earl of Stam-
ford the other day, in Dunham Park, the privilege of re-
sort to the park for the public has been already very much
circumscribed, and there is some reason to fear that, ere
lots;;, the park will be wholly closed, and the public ex-
cluded.

A gentleman of Yarmouth, who had a pint-and-half
bottle of castor oil, asked his servant to bring it to him,
when he told him it had been used at table for salads, he
having from time to time filled the dinner castors with it,
believing it, from the label, to be intended for that pur-
pose.

IRON SHlPS.—During the last three weeks three iron
vessels were launchA from the building yard of Mr.
Coutts, at Walker—a large brig and two schooners. Mi
Coutts has also a number of other vessels nearly ready
for launching on their destined element.—Gateshead Ob-
server.

DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—AS five colliers
were descending in a corfe to their work in a pit near
Cheadle, Staffordshire, on Monday week, the rope broke
and they were precipitated to the bottom. They fell up-
wards of 100 feet ; three were killed, and the other two
were seriously injured.
The steamers bring, every voyage, considerable quan-
tities of vegetables and fruits from France, Belgium, and
Holland, particularly from the latter country, whence
cherries, melons, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables
now form a principal part of the cargoes of the numerous
steam vessels which pass between Rotterdam, Ostend,
the French ports, and London.
A SENSIBLE EXPLANATION.—Lord Mount Edg-
cumbe hiis thought proper to imitate the example of the
E4rl of Essex, by the publication of "an apology for
raiting." The noble earl begins by confessing,
.though in
soft terms, that the measure which he supports is a bad
measure, and ends by acknowledging that the minister for
whose sake he supports it is a bad minister.
John Graham (aged 16), was tried at the Central Cri-
minal Court Ses,ions, on Thursday, before Mr. Baron
Rolfe, for killing and slaying Thomas Blev.itt, in Drury-
lane, in London. by shooting bim with a pistol, on the
25th of April. The jury, after relring for more than five
hours to consider their verdict, found the prisoner " not
guilty."
ALLEGED ASSASSINATION.--A man of the name of
Hannan, the father of the child who has been for some
time playing as General Tom Thumb, at the Adelphi
Theatre, is now in custody, charged with attempting to
murder his wife, in Drury-lane, London, on Thursday
night last. The woman had a large cut in her neck, and
she declares her husband stabbed
Boi LER EX PLOSION.—THR EE LIVES LOST.—On
Tnursday week, a boiler suddenly exploded in the Tow
Law Iron Works, near Wolsingham, Durham, by which
two men and a boy were killed, and several others more
or less injured. [be shock of the explosion was felt to a
considerable distance, and the houses around shook. One
half of the boiler was carried several hundred yards from
he place, at.d the end of it was blown over a house top.
The accident was caused by a deficiency of water, as part
of the boiler was red hot. The damage is estimated at
£5OO.

William Farr, one of the most successful of the Garratt
clan of depredators, has pleaded guilty to four indictments
of railway robberies on the South-Eastern and Birming-
ham lines, prosecuted by Mr. Nash for tae company.
The female Newland, who is included in the same indict.
ments, is to be tried next sessions.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Florence
Leary, aged 44, a t ilor, was found guilty of pouring boil-
ing water on the stomach of a person named Tuthill, by
which he was severely scalded, and confined seven weeks
to the hospital. Ile was sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment, having already been several months in pd.
son.

SUMMARY JUSTICE.—The penalty of rolling the
in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, for any
quency in plucking the flowers, has been twice en
witbin the last ten days. This regulation, optioi

those who wish to avoid legal punishment, has bad
salutary effect in diminishing the offence of purloini

flowers.—Morning Post,

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domed
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THE IRON WORKS AND THE BEAT.—Most of the iron
works in the manufacturing districts-have been standing
during the last few days, the heat being so intense that
the puddlers, in particular, cannot work. Several in-
stances have occurred of men being carried out of the
works, baying fainted from excessive heat and exhaustion.
—Birmingham Advertiser.

Ma. SMITH O'BRIEN.—It is stated by the Morning
Advertiser, that Mr. Smith O'Brien has resolved on dis-
puting the authority of the House of Commons to com-
mit its members for contempt. The form in which the
question is to be tried is, by an action of trespass and
talse imprisonment against the public officers of the
house—the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms.
MEAT AND FRUIT.—On Thursday the warerooms of
Messrs. Kreling and Hunt, London. contained an inter-
esting exhibition of no less than 102 sorts of Spanish
meats and fruits brought over from Corunna. The meats
also comprised nearly every variety of poultry preserved
in its natural state, and in the made dishes of the country,
with several kinds of vegetables, prepared in the most ap-
proved Spanish fashion. An interesting portion of the
collection was that consisting of fruit, containing, in high
condition, strawberries, egg plums, and cherries, which
are particularly interesting, as opening a new source of
supply in the event, as anticipated, of a deficiency in th-
cowing crops. As another instance of the increasing ex
tent of commercial speculation, on account of the diminu-
tion of the duties, there was also exhibited a large assort-
ment of orchidaceous plants, consigned for sale from Rio
Janeiro.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—A painful case has occurred at
Sheffield. Some lightermen quarrelled at the White Horse
Inn, at Bigglestvade, and a fight between two of them
afterwards was the result. After the fight, a young
man of the name of Gray, one of the combatants, was
leaving, when his adversary gave him a brutal kick in the
abdomen, and caused instant death. His bladder was
burst. After killing ;him, the brute was about to throw
the body in the locks, but was prevented.
A CURIOUS MEETING.—When Ibrahim Pacha visited
the Society of Arts, on Friday, by one of those singular
accidents which now and then occur, who should fate pre•
sent as chairman but Sir Edward Codrington, the man
who knocked the Turk's fleet about their ears at Navarino.
It is possible that Ibrahim may have secretly vented a
" Barikallah," on the occasion, but his natural saroir
faire piloted him very safely through the misadventure,
notwithstanding an unlucky allusion which the gallant
admiral stumbled upon in the first rencontre.

SINGULAR rHENOMENUN.—On Tuesday, about half-
past 2 in the after noon. a sudden whirlwind carried away
several waggon-loads of hay from a field belonging to
Miss Clay, on the Osma:ton-road, Derby. The hay was
held suspended in the air for nearly half an hour, and gra-
dually fell, spreading over the neighbouring fields and
gardens. With the exception of this particular locality,
not a breath of air was stirring.—Notts Mercury.—The
Manchester Guardian notices a somewhat similar pheno-
menon in that lown.

SUDDEN DEATH BY DRINKING WHILE HEATER'7,
We last week reported a death caused by drinking too
much water, and we are sorry to record a similar occur-
rence. On Saturday week an Irish labourer, residing
.in
Love-street, while engaged in hoeing potatoes neat Raslint
on the Greenock road, had been so thirsty, owing to the
great heat, that he went into a public-house, and got a
bottle of porter, but not feeling his thirst quenched, he
next drank half a Scotch pint of buttermilk, which caused
Rigby
I voteslr Vw aitshntt
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the ensuing governmentsomees uingti me
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almost instant death. —Renfrewshire .Reformer..
retired from the representation in consequence of engage-
has also expressed relative
Westminster, has again addressed the
his determine-
intionbtßhe
tion of contesting the representation of the borough. A
electors,
Vincent,is w.
itilhe— solicitingc "li .t
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meeting of liberal electors was held a few evenings since,
mt
o eimprovements ntB
entered
when it was resolved that they could not consistently sup-
port Mr. Vincent in the forthcoming struggle.
MRS. FRY'S TESTIMONIAL.—On Wednesday, a meet-
ing was held in the Egyptian-ball, for the purpose of
securing a testimonial to the memory of the late Mrs.
Elizabeth Fry. The Bishop of Norwich moved :—" That
this meeting, in common with Mrs. Fry and her fellow-
labourers, the visitors of prisons, have long had to deplore
the want of places of refuge, where penitent pi isoners, on
their discharge, may be sheltered from the temptations to
the re-commission of crime, by which, in the shape of
cold, hunger, and evil associations, they are too often suc-
cessfully assailed." The testimonial will, consequently,
consist of the refuge above-named.

NOVEL IMPORTATION FROM HOLLAND. All along
the coast, during the last few days, there has prevailed a
smell of turf smoke; a circumstance which occasioned
considerable surprise, because thelneighbourhood around
us produces but a comparatively small quantity, and cer-
tainly not enough to produce such an effect. For some
days the phenomenon was regarded as unaccountable,
until it was suggested that it came over from Holland;
the wind lying in the right direction, and the state of the
atmosphere being peculiarly favourable to the floating of
the smoky vapour across the German Ocean.—Yarmouth
Advertiser.

ON DITS.--It is confidently stated in well informed
circles, that Her Majesty has expressed her desire that
Sir Robert Peel should not abandon his post. We also
hear that this has been accompanied with an intimation,
that in any case, before the resignation of her ministers
will be accepted, there must be an appeal to the country.
We think there is great probability of the truth of these
rumours ; and for the last few days the impression has
become prevalent, that after all there will be no immediate
change

It is also rumoured, that Her Majesty has ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction, with the manner in which
Lord John Russell failed in the task assigned to him last
December, and there is a strong reluctance to allow of
ar.other attempt to constitute a Whig Cabinet.
EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. Admiral Sir Hyde
Parker has it is said been a martyr to the gout during the
whole cruise, and confined to his cabin for half the time,
and compelled to carry on his observations under intense
suffering; but, had he known of Blair's Gout and gbeu•
matic Pills, so serious a calamity to himself and inconve-
nience to the public service would have found a full and
speedy -

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COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, AND WHEEZINGS Olt
THE CHEST CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—When
other medicine wiil afford the least relief in coughs and
colds, Holloway's Pills will almost immediately effect a
cure in every case however desperate ; and, what is more
extraordinary, Astbmas and Wheezings, even if of several
years' standing, may be completely got rid of by folios'
ing the directions which accompany each box of this CI:
lebrated medicine. Many who were nearly at death
door, not being able to lie in their beds, fearing to °:
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choked with phlegm. have had, by their means, asibmBt
tic complaints so effectually eradicated that not the lea
symptoms remained.

Star, Thomas; Ulventone, El is; Grecian Queen, Sterry,
and Chinango, Snow, hence at Rio Janeiro
Mauney, John, sailed from Rio Janeiro for Monte Video
Village Girl, Woof, hence at Bahia
Wm. Russell, Falethorp, sailed from Bahia for this port 2nd
ultimo
Columbus, Green, and Vesta, Shearer, hence at Pernambuco
George, Durzaid, hence at the Texel
Drie Kiuderen, A.wyn, hence at Helvoet
Queen of the West, from New York, off Cape Clear

SATURDAY, JUNE 20.—Wind S.E. moderate,

SAlLEO.—Wilhelmina, Bulkeley, and Water Lily, Payne, for
Alexandria—Harriet Humble, Bevis, for Calcutta—thasely,
Weighill, for Bombay—Munro, Potts, for Havana—Nile. Ken-
nedy, for Lima—Diadem, Lakeland, for New York—Ocean
Queen, Warren, for Quebec—Harmony, Jameson, for St. John,
N.B.—Donebad, Gronnegaard, for Bergen—Gilbert Jamieson,
Harris, for Corfu—Rainbow, Totham, and Albion, Standtord,
for Dordt—Reliance, Pentreath, for Leghorn—and Maria, Kron,
for Stettin.

Sapphire, Miller, hence at Hobart Town, and sailed for Syd-
ney 2;th Feb. _

Science, Williamson; Zephyr, Durk, and Saudbach, Dellis,
hence at Demerara
Martha, Longygg, hence at Port-au-Prince
Camill 1, hence at San Bias
Laurina, Edwards, and Victory, Lowdy, hence at Trinidad

Rapid, Nyman, and Elizabeth Wood, Crosbie, hence at Bar-
badoes
Reis, Effendie, Sutherland, hence at St. Lueia
Lady Bassett, Carthew, and Isabel, Griffiths, hence at Antigua
John Brooks, Lockhart, and Pauline, Jantzen, hence at St.
Thomas

Jupiter, Matthews, hence at Jacmel
Murray, Hughes, and Jamaica, Bailey, hence at Jamaica
Henrietta, hence at Cuxhaven
George, Durants, hence at Harlingen
United States, hence for Boston,ulY Cove

James Moran, Morrison, hence for Quebec
Jane, from London fur Liverpool, at Penzance. with loss of
bulwarks, stanchions, &c. having been in contact.
Catherine, Tweeoie, sailed from Laguira 7th May; John
Patchett. yth ; Joseph Anderson, 12th, and Minerva, 21st May,
all for Liverpool

Invoice, liollings. from Puerto Cabello, at Laguira, and sailed
for Liverpool 21st May . _ _

Lady Combermere, Ashcroft, from Gaboon, at Fayal, and
sailed for Liverpool 4th June__

Fulfoid, sailed from Malaga for Liverpool 23th May
Aurora, Henderson, sailed from Demerara for Liverpool 14th
May
Derwent, Steele, sailed from Barbadoes I4th May; Camlla,
Jackson, 15th; Alecto, Anwyl, 18th, and Alice, Ayshford, 23rd
May, all for Liverpool

Ryrie, sailed from Antigua for Liverpool 23rd May
Fairfield, Abbott, sailed from Jamaici ltth May; Camoena
17th ; E. Taylor, 20th; Lavinia, 21st, and Bideford, 2,Jrd May,
all for Liverpool
Ivanhoe, t,impson, from Batavia, at Bremen
Malcolm, from Bahia, at Adelai6e

SUNDAY, JUNE 21

SAlLED.—Gnisachan, Phillips, for Bombay—Columbiana, Pol-
lard, for Boston—Conqueror, M'Au?ey, for New York—Ward
Chipman, Hilton, for Staten Island Island. &c.—New Zealan
Frye, for St. John's, N B —Brandenburg, Gattschild, fur Danzic
—Ocean, Brooks, for Genoa—Wilton, Wilson, for Gibraltar—
Juliane, Hain, for Iceland—Wanderer, Manning, for MaiSeilles
—Clementhe, Pyke, for Messina—San Guiseppe, Trapani, for
Naples—Arethusa, Baxter, for Nava—Farewell, Borsch, for
Pillau—Sea, 11' William, for St. Petersburg.

Hindley, Dickson, sailed from Madras 2nd May, for Coringa
And Mauritius, and Grindlay, Parkins, 3rd May, for Liverpool
Bleng sailed from Shaughae 18th March; Marmion, 23rd
March; and Gardner, 29th March, for Liverpool

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Chatham, sailed from Hong Kong 31st March; Bengalee, 11th
April, for Liverpool—Euphrates, 2ilb April, for London

Challenge, Shea, from Africa; Lynher, Strachan, fern Con.
atantinople; an Royal William, -, from (iirgenti, at Cove
Courtney, Jones, fm St. John, N. 8., at Bangor, waterlogged
Jessie, from Calcutta, at St. Helena
St. Nolan, from Naples, at Newfoundland
Templar, Brown, sailed from Adelaide, for Sydney, 12th Jan.
Xsme:alda, from Shanghae, at Hong Kong
Prihce of Waterloo, and Monarch, from Bombay, at Hong
/Song

Argaum, Tait, from Clyde, and Duncan, Fawcett, from Cadiz,
at Calcutta

Jane, and Elizabeth. hence at Newfoundland
To/Latin, hence at Shanghae 13th March
Zemindar. Pardon, hence at Calcutta
Elul Yowls, hence at Hong Kong
Adam Lodge, Joy, sailed from Saugor 23rd April ; Jumna,
Rerr, 21ith April, and Lintin, Gillman, 28th April, all for Liver
Pool