The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

Mr. Edwin Landseer, is gone to Germany for the
recovery of his health.

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The subscription for erecting a monument in honour of the
[ate Earl of Durham amounts r.o £2OOO.

Mr. 'lMurchison.has arrived in England, after an extensive
geological survey of Russia. He is now on a ♦isit to the
Archbishop of York, at Bishopthorpe.

A man died the other day in the prison at Ghent, who
had been confined there 42 years, having been condemned in
1798 for robbery with violence on the high road.
VENERABLE TABBY.—A cat, belonging to Mr. Herbert,
a baker, residing in Charlton, near Cheltenham, died a few
days ago, at the advanced age of twenty-five years.

There is now growing in the garden of Mr. Bowes, Kes-
wick, an apple tree in full bloom. The tree was one of the
earliest in leaf, and the blossom only made its appearance
last week.

ANTI-MALTHUSIAN.—Died, on the 3d of September, in
the 87th year of his age, Mr. Marmaduke Aspinall, of Stain-
land, stone-merchant. He has left behind 250 descendants ;
viz., 12 children, 97 grandchildren, 138 great grandchildren,
and 3 great great grandchildren.—Halfax Guardian.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—There is now growing on
the farm of Mr. Lewis Prosser, Trodyrhue, in the parish of
Llanthetty, Breconshire, 60 stalks or straws produced from
one grain of oats, and each straw carries 80 grains, yielding
in all 4800 grains. Height of stalk, six feet six inches.—
Merthyr Guardian.
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A PROLIFIC BRAN.-Mr. Jarvis, of the New Inn, on the
Hitchin road, has in his possession a bean, grown in his field,
only three feet long, which has the immense number of 170
pods on it, and there is no doubt it would have had many
more if it had been left in the field as one part of it is in full
bloom.—Cambridge Chronicle.
On Thursday one of the workmen on the railway near
Howwood, of the name of Nlathieson, attempted to cross it
near Elderslie, immediately in front of a train which was
running eastward. He had, however, miscalculated his own
agility and the speed of the train, and was struck by the
buffer of the engine, thrown backwards and killed.—Glasgow
paper.

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One day last week, while the workmen on the Glasgow
and Ayr railway were blasting a piece of rock near How-
wood, one of their number, supposing that the match had
been extinguished in consequence of the explosion not taking
place so soon as usual, approached the spot to ascertain the
fact, and at that moment the rock blew up, and the unwary
workman was killed on the spot.

CONSERVATIVE DINNER.—Arrangements have been made
for holding the Cheltenham annual dinner on the dth Octo-
ber ; the industrious and staunch conservative member for
'the eastern division, C. W. Codrington, Esq., will take the
chair on the occasion. We say staunch, because it gives the
lie to the various reports which have been circulated by the
paid hirelingi 'of the whit press, that the Duke of Beaufort,
who is the father-in-law of Mr. Codrington, was turning a
whip, and that he was likely to accept the office of Viceroy
of Ireland?—Cheltenham Chronicle.

Two.concerts of rather a novel description were given at
the Literary and Philosophic Institution, on Thursday and
Friday week, by a blind gentleman named Watson, who per-
formed on no less than five different instruments at one time,
by the aid of his mouth, hands, and feet—namely, two her-
monicons, two first violins, and a violoncello, the bow of the
latter being fastened to his right foot. He also performed
on the psaltery and musical glasses. Mr. Watson's perform-
ance was at once curious and interesting. Cheltenham
Chronicle.

THE CLYDE AND LONDON WATERMEN.—We have beard
no more of this anticipated match ; it will be recollected that
Coombes and his party challenged the Clyde to row them oa
their own river, £250. to £200., and when we were at Liver-
pool there appeared some hopes of the match being made.
We bear, however, that a copper four oared boat is being
built for the Clydemen, and there is some talk of a London
waterman being engaged to show thorn how the Thames men
manage to " pull through" a race triumphantly. This looks
like business, and it is not too late for a match.—Bell'a Life.

Among the particulars which are to be ascertained by the
persons appointed to take the Census of 1811, are the ages
of all inhabitants of both sexes. We expect that the indivi-
duals to whom this duty is to be entrusted will meet with
some rebuffs in the course of their inquiries among the
ladies. We confess that we do not envy them this part of
their job: In reference to this matter, it may not be amiss
to quota the following paragraph from an American paper :
" The man appointed to take the census of Pawtucket, Mae-
sachussets, experiences the greatest difficulty in asoertainbig
the ages of the girls, none of whom plead guilty to over
twenty-four. In one family he found no fewer than nine,
all between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-four !"
IMPORTANT, TO AGENTS AND TRADERS.—By the 49th
section of the statute 7 and 8 Geo. IV. c. 29, for amending
the laws relating to larceny, &c., it is enacted, " That if any
money, or security for the payment of money, shall be en-
trpeted to any banker, merchant, broker, attorney, or other
agent, with any direction in writing to apply such money, or
any part thereof, or,the proceeds or any part of the proceeds
of such security, or any purpose specified in such direction,
and he shall, in violation of good faith, and contrary to the
purpose so specified, in any wise convert to his own use or
benefit such money, security, or proceeds, or any part thereof
respectively, every such offender shall be guilty of a misde-
meanour, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the
discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for
any term not exceeding fourteen years nor, less than seven
years, or to stiffer such other punishment by fine or impri-
sonment, or by both, ris the court shall award."
VALUABLE EXCHANGE.—A surgeon, residing between
this town and Manchester, took his pony to Turton fair with
the intention of selling it, or making an exchange, as it did
not exactly suit his purpose. The pony was worth 432, and
shortly after lie had arrived at the fair, a bargain was struck,
and lie paid a sovereign in exchange for "a prime un as ever
run afore a tail ;" nay, so excellent was it that the parties
could not even afford to give the gentleman a shilling out
" for luck." In a few minutes afterwards, two men came up
to him with the astounding information that the horse had got
glanders, that they "never seed one wur blondurt," and it
he did not take it out of the fair they would shoot it, because
they could " ston to do it by law." He felt quite alarmed,
and whilst ruminating upon his misfortune, two other men,
no doubt of the same party, came up to him, and also threat-
ened to shoot it, but if he liked, as he had made such a bad
bargain, they would give him the price of the hide for it.
This was ultimately agreed upon giving them a shilling out
of a sovereign " for luck ;" so that the gentleman returned
home minus his pony and a shilling by the two bargains.
Ex.TaAouniN.oty friend in Fortrose has kindly
given as information of a very extraordinary wonder of the
deep, that was lately caught in that neighbourhood. We feel
ourselves quite unable to describe the monster without the
aid of a cut, but subjoin the observations of our friend :
" The fish made its way through the Water
,quite on edge,
and, as you will sOOO perceive, must have invariably required
about seven feet depth of water to swim in: When caught
it weighed exactly two InpAred pounds-,is of an oval.shape.
The length, from stern to stevn, if I may use the expression,
was four feet ; the breadth, at the broadest part, two and a
half feet, and eight inches thick. The colour of the skin all
over is a darkish grey, and of the sea-dog-tail roughness ;
the fleshy side pure white, and when cut through with a
pen-knife, has the appearance of the finest polished ivory,
apparently nowise oily—neither is the fish when boiled ; it
is as white as chalk, but not quite so dry, which induces me
to think it belongs to the family of turbots. I can get no
one to give it a name. The head and mouth small • the eyes
and entrails as large as those of a horse, and not unlike them.
Theia is a small fin behind each eye; but what is most re-
markable, is a Arsal fin, two feet high, and a corresponding
one opposite, on the owe side, also two feet, and no tail ;
termination quite round. These, v4th }hp breadth of the
body, make 6/ feet, and when at full play, innst require that
depth of water to swim in. It struggled a long time before
it died."—For the gratification of the curious, we are ena-
bled to exhibit a piece of the marine gentleman's hide at this
office. It is more than an inch thick, possessed of a beauti-
ful polish.—lnverness Courier.
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A DOMESTIC Vraior.--In Silliman's Journal there is au
account of a frog, in a perfect state of domestication, in the
possession of Dr. William fools, of Kingston. It appears
that the lower offices of his house are what are called under-
ground, on the banks of the Thames. This little reptile
accidentally appeared to his servants emerging from a hole in
the skirting of the kitchen, and for the first year withdrew
on their approach. From their kindness, however, and from
their partaking of food given to him, he gradually acquired
habits of familiarity, and during the following three years
regularly came out every day, particularly at meal time, and
partook of the food given to him by the servants. One of
the most remarkable features of his artificial state of exis-
tence was his strong partiality for warmth, as during the
winter he regularly (contrary to the coldblooded tendency of
his nature), came out in the evening, and directly made for
the hearth, in front of a 'good kitchen fire, where he would
continue to bask and enjoy himself until the family retired
to rest. There happened to be, at the same time, a favourite
old domestic cat, and a sort of attachment existed between
the two incongruous inmates ; the frog frequently nestling
under the warm fur of the cat, whilst the cat appeared ex-
tremely jealous of interrupting the comforts and conveni-
ences of the frog.—Ameriian.

THE ARCHIMEDES.—This vessel, which has created so
much public attention, from her being propelled by an Ar-
chimedean screw, was on Thursday hauled into the King's
Dock at Rotherhithe, to undergo repairs. It appears that,
during her recent voyage off the coast of Holland, she struck
a shoal of rocks, which caused a large break in her keel: She
was got off with great difficulty, and the hole ternpararily se-
cured with canvass. The repairs will only occupy a day or
two, when the Archimedes will be again ready for sea. Her
performances during the last few months have given the ut-
most satisfaction to the proprietors and those who have in-
terested themselves in this invention, the superiority of which
to the paddles now in use is apparent to the most casual ob-
server, and must ere long induce its being generally used in
riyers and small stream.

SINOULAR DIRECTIOZ4S,—A few ijears ago a letter with
the following directions actually passed through the Newent
post-office. It was from an old woman in Newent to her
niece in the Forest of Dean, whose name after marriage she
aid not know--2" To nun Nanney Zindrey, as wuz wen a wuz
singul, but now a his married to-a mon in the Cfclepita and
livz at the lee bola Bayby Yqung lady, a friend of
the writer of this paragraph, a few years ago? was spending a
short time at a farm called ``the Razes" in the parish of
Bosbury : a butcher, from Ledbury, who had been buying
some stock from the farm, drunk tea at the house. The
young person alluded to, asked the butcher for the loan of
some books which she knew he had. He was too modest to
enquire her name, but observed that she did not take sugar
n heir tea. Accordingly, on the morrow the books were sent,
directed as follows :—" To the young lady at the Resses that
du,supt Shuggat.l in har Tay."—Glouaester Journal.
PaisoN Disetet,lNE.—The act of the V and $d Vic., c.
56, " for the better ordering of prisons?" has been altered iy
an act passed last session. By the former act, priioners were
directed to be divided into classes, of which debtors were to
form the first, and rules were to be made with respect to them,
besides the rules and regulations then existing. The present
act repeals those provisions as to debtors, and declares it to
be expedient " that such of the rules and regulations only be
observed and applied in regard to the first-class prisoners as
;hall be made by the persons authorised by law to make rules
and regulations for the government of the said gaois and psi-
sons, and approved of by urle of her Majesty's principal se-
cretaries of state." By this change in tbe law a great many
inconveniences which debtors in county gao s were put to, on
the coming into operation of the former act on the Ist January
last, will be removed. The 3d section, in the following
words, gives, it will be seen, the judge before whom a pri-
soner is tried the power of ordering him to be confined with
a particular class ; and be it enacted, that in every prison in
which debtors may be lawfully confined, the persons autho-
rised by law to make rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of such prison, shall, with the approval of one of her
Majesty's principal secretary of state, make such rules,
orders, and regulations for the management of the debtors
pp/stilled therein as shall by them, from time to time, be re-
garded as fit and necessary ; and that in every gaol, house of
correction, bridewell, and penitentiary in England and Walps,
prisoners convicted of misdemeanors, and net sentenced tO
hard labour, shall be divided into at least two diVisione, one
of which shall
gcuailteiondts shehall first division,' and that se-
parate
rules be made for each diVision ;
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and that the rules flouted by the said act for the said last ses,
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shall not tiPPI7 to the said first division;
and
person convicted of ini4lewilogr
lithat a t Parliamentwhenever` any
shall be sentenced to imprisonment without hard labour, it
shall be lawful for the court or judge before whom such per+
son shall have been tried, to order, if such court or judge
shall think fit, that such person shall be confined with the
prisoners of the said first division ; and no prisoner respect-
ing whom no such order shall be made shall be confined with
the prisoners of the add first division."