The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

The reports from the fisheries on the north coast last week
were very satisfactory.—Glasgow Courier.

UNFORTUNATE NAME.—A popular itinerant preacher in
Sussex possesses the not very env►able cognomen of Scamp.
WIESBADEN, AUG., 6.—lt is reported that his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambidge will come and make a long stay
here.—German Paper.
THE TEA-TRADE, MONDAY.—The deliveries of this article
amounted last week to 421,7001 b. The trade is not quite so
brisk as previously.
GitousE.—All accounts concur respecting the birds in
this neighbourhood as being remarkably wild, and much more
scarce than usual.—Carlisle Patriot.

A party on pleasure from North Shields to Warkworth,
witnessed on Monday last, an extraordinary take of salmon

THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—The brig Argus,
Captain Bell, which has arrived at Swansea, from Quebec,
after a passage of 33 days, passed the steam-ship Great
Western, on the 29th ult., i❑ lat. 46 20, long. 41 8.
The steam-ship Sirius, which sailed from London on Wed-
nesday, the first inst., reached Cronstadt on the Btb, having
performed the voyage in seven days, including a detection
of 24 hours at the Sound.

MINISTERIAL ECONOMY.-With the exception of Lord
Holland and the Marquis of Lansdowne, there is supposed to
be not one of the present ministers who does not live within
his official income, a vet); rare occurrence, as Mr. Pitt and
others knew to their cost.

BOROUGH OF WARWICIC.—A report is rife in Warwick
that Mr. Collins, M.P., is about to retire from the represen-
tation of that borough, and that Mr. Bolton King is to suc-
ceed him. Considerations have been named for this change.
—Northampton Herald.

Lord Melbourne will leave town in a few days for the Isle
of Wight.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will leave town this
week for Mount Treuchard, in Ireland.
Five ladies of the Sisters of Charity institutions sailed
from Dublin last week for New South Wales, to found a
branch of their order in Sydney.
DENBIGIISHIRE YEOSIANRY CAVALRY.—The Lord Lieut.
of the county has appointed Captain W. Lloyd to be Major-
Commandant,'vice Fitzhugh, resigned.

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.0u Monuay morning the Duke of Montrose broke ground
on a small section of his Fintry Moors, (Stirlingshire,) and
bagged twelve brace in a very few hours.
,Moons.—James Duff, Esq., M.P. and a friend, shooting
together, bagged on the 13th 70 brace of grouse, and on the
15th 114 brace, on the Earl of Fife's moors at Braemar.

The riband of the order of St. Patrick, worn by the late
Marquis of Ormonde, will be given, it is said, to the Marquis
of Headfort, one of the Lords in Waitipg, or Lord Ofanmore.

EXTENSIVE VIA-num—We perceive that in the works on
the line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which is
just commencing, it requires a viaduct of 682 feet long and
60 feet high, to cross the Almond Water Valley.
THE GUN STOnx.—The new and easy recipe for polishing
gun stocks now (1838) is to varnish them precisely like the
panels of a carriage. Hawker's Instruction to Young
Sportsmen.

OVERFLOWING OF THE RIVER AlRE.—Owing to the con-
tinued rain of last week, this river overflowed its banks
between Utley and Steeton, and caused serious damage to the
hay crop, the hay-cocks in some instances being barely
visible above the water.

PROLIFIC STOCK.—Thomas Pye, of Waddington, near
Clitheroe, has in his possession two broods of chickeus, all of
which are in full feather, amounting to thirty-five in number,
nineteen of which were hatched by one hen and the remain-
ing sixteen by another.

REMUNERATION TO ENGLISH COMPOSERS.—For "Cherry
Ripe," one of the most popular melodies, not only in this
country but on the continent also, Mr. Horn, the composer,
received ten pounds; and Mr. Barnett, for "the Light Gui-
tar," the prodigious sum of two guineas!

STATE OF TRADE, Mornay.—Several buyers attended on
Monday, but prices are so depressed that little business was
done. Stocks are light, attributable in a measure to the du-
ration of the hay harvest, and the employment of many hand-
loom weavers in mills. A little firmness on the part of the
seller would inevitably raise the value of the hand-loom
fabric in the market.—Blackburn Standard.

PHENOMENA.—On Thursday week the people of Jedburgh
were astonished during the storm of rain which occurred on
that day, by the fall of a large quantity of small salmon fry
from the clouds, some of which are yet alive. It is conjec-
tured that they must have been caught up into the clouds by
a whirlwind, and this is the more probable as about that
time, this neighbourhood experienced several very severe
storms.—Glasgow Courier.
There was good sport on the Northumberland Moors on
Monday last, the first day of Grouse Shooting, and fine
birds are selling in this town at five shillings a brace. On
account of the influx of strangers, the demand is very great.
—Newcastle Journal.

A complete collection of the minerals peculiar to Russia
and Siberia, comprising nine hundred and eighty specimens,
have been presented by the Emperor of Russia to the Natu-
ral History Society of this town, to be delivered here free of
all charge.—Newcastle Journal.
ENORMOUS PEAS.—Last week a few pods of early peas,
of unusual dimensions, were sent to our office : they were of
the early sort; measured in circumference, 2i inches—in
length, 64 inches ; and contained from six to eight large
grains. These gigantic specimens of the pulse tribe were
raised in the garden of Mrs. Boswell, Sandgate..—Ayr Obser.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.—Wednesday week was an-
nounced by Mr. Murphy to be a day.of high temperature,
though the. thermometer in the pulse of it was below 50;
and on Friday "a storm" was foretold, while the whole of
the day there was not wind enough to ruffle the leaves.—
Herald:

RUMOURED MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.—Sir J.d'Urbau,
the present commander-in-chief at the Cape, will, it is said,
succeed Sir John Keane at Bombay; and there is great pro-
bability of Sir Jasper Nicholls, who has just sailed for Madras,
succeeding Sir Henry Fane as commander-in.-chief at Cal-
cutta.

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The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Newcastle
Commercial Banking Company, was held at the Banking
Office, Bridge End, on Friday the 10th, when the report of
the Directors was read, and the balance sheet laid before the
shareholders, which gave great satisfaction. A dividend at the
rate of 5 per cent. Was announced.—Newcastle Journal.

WORTHY OF IMITATION.—A few weeks ago, Mr. Ward,
gardner to the Earl of Lonsdale, at Lowther Castle, had a
severe apoplectic stroke, which has incapacitated him from
fulfilling the duties of his situation; whereupon his lordship,
with his wonted benevolence, has settled upon him the ample
sum, we believe, of eighty pounds per annum during his life.
Mr. Ward is a middle aged person.—Carlisle Patriot.
THE MOORS.—Sunday last, being the 12th inst., moor
game shooting did not commence till Monday, on that day
the Hon. Colonel Lowther, and Sir James Musgrave, from
Leicestershire brought down forty brace between them on
Shap Fells; and on Tuesday the same gentlemen bagged
fifty brace on Birkbeck Fells. Birds are plentiful, though
small, but at the same time strong on the wing and wild, and
the 'nom are very soft and wet.—Carlisle Patriot.

STEAM CO.MISIUNICATION WITH INDIA.—The first of the
intended line of steamers between,London and the East In-
dies arrived at Falmouth on Friday last. She is called the
Madagascar, and is commanded by Capt. M'llougal, late
Commissary-General of the. Queen of Spain's marine. The
vessel is rigged with topsail yards, and otherwise calculated
for sailing when the wind permits. She left on Monday for
the Mauritius and Bombay, but had no passengers.—Cornwall
Gazette.

Mr. O'Connell says lie owes the defeat of his petition against
his return for Dublin in a great measure to the talent of Mr.
Byng, the member for Middlesex. Now, that Mr. Byng is a
very respectable old gentleman, and a very consistent old'
whig, nobody doubts; but of his extraordinary talents we never
heard before: while we heartily pity Mr. Byng that at the
eud of a long public life he should come under the disgrace of
Mr. O'Connell's praise.
THOUGH STRANGE, YET TRUE.—There are six individuals
at' present living at Lanark, among whom there are no less
than three wives, three husbands, ►wo fathers, one son, two
fathers-in-law, two brothers-in-law, two sons-in-law, two step-
mothers, two daughters, two step-daughters, two sisters, one
brother, two cousins, one uncle, oue niece, and two sisters•in-
law, forming, altogether, twenty-nine distinct relationships
from these six individuals.—Glasgow paper.

Pt A TINA Wtatis.—A musical composer, named Fischer,
has proposed the substitution of platina wares for those of
steel or brass. It is, he says, more elastic and ductile, and
the sounds produced by this metal are sweeter; air and damp
do not act upon it, and as it combines with iron, cords might
be made of a composition of the two, which would present the
advantages of each.

PARLIAMENTARY DURATION.—The session of parliament
which has just expired, which began in November last, met
nominally for about nine mouths, calculating from November
to August; but the number of actual sitting days, in which
list is included the " no houses" were, fur the lords 144 days,
and the commons 173 days. The bare enumeration of the
matters brought before them occupy, for the lords 980 folio
pages, and for the commons, 1,580 folio pages, exclusive of
appendices, supplements, &c.

DREADFUL CASUALTY.—On Monday evening week, a poor
woman, named Kate Duane, residing in Pump Lane, near
Moyderwell, left her infant child in the cradle, while she went
out of her cabin on some business, leaving nobody in the house
to take care of the infant, when, shocking to relate, on her
return she found the poor baby nearly devoured by a hungry
pig—the eyes and face, with many parts of the body, having
been .lacerated and eaten. The poor innocent must have
suffered dreadful torture before death put an end to its agony.
—Glasgow Courier.

THE BAR IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—The recent act of their
honouts the three judges, in proposing to institute a course of
educational training for the future supply of the colonial bar
from the ranks of our native youth, is one of the most import-
ant in its probable consequences upon the colonial mind that
we are aware of for a long time past.—Colonist. 'The
"gen-
tlemen of the long robe" then, in future, will be of home ma-
nufacture—one way of improving the profession, and ensur-
ing unifirmity of the practice of English law. We did not
know barristers were so scarce.l

MURDER AT ECKINGTON.—A most atrocious murder was
committed at Eekington, some time in the night between
Tuesday and Wednesday last, on one of the workmen of the
North Midland Railway, named Richard Sanderson, sup-
posed to be a native of Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire. The
inquest will not be held in time to allow of our giving au-
thentic details of this horrible deed. The following, how-
ever, are the leading circumstances :—On Tuesday evening
the deceased was at the sign of the Bear, in Eckin"ton,
drinking with some others, and rather late left the house in
company with them. It does not appear that any serious
quarrel had taken place, though some angry words passed at
the Cross; and they afterwards walked forwards along, the
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Guest, to a narrow alley, called Rotten-row, where
Guest, one of the party, resided. What passed there remains
to be inquired into; but it is quite certain that Guest went
into the house and brought out the blade of a sythe, with
which he struck Sanderson on the head. The blow divided
the scalp from the corner of the eye, across the- top of the
head, almost to the neck behind; and completely sesobred a
large portion of the skull, and the projecting part of the
brain. The sequel is yet involved in obscurity, but several
persons were taken into custody early in the morning, and
from their own statements, Thomas White, a sawyer, of Barl-
borough, and John Turner, the son of publican in Eckington,
were so seriously implicated, that, together with Guest, they
were sent to Chesterfield to await the verdict of the coroner's
inquest. After Sanderson had received his death-blow, he
appears to have staggered back into the street and repeatedly
fallen; for in the place where he fell there was a pool of
blood; and in one spot the detached portion of his skull,
some inches in extent, was found on the pavement, no doubt
torn off from the flesh in his agony. He afterwards dtruggled
amongst the wood in an adjoining wheelwright's yard, the
blood still streaming ftom him, and there must have become
completely exhausted. After daylight, the poor creature was
found under a tree in Lady Sitwell's school-yard, but he never
could have walked thither; for it is nearly 200 yards from the
spot where the last trace of blood could be seen; and so com-
plete was his exhaust ion, that Mr. Askant, surgeon, who stood
for some time talking with a person between 2 and 3 o'clock
(certainly after the sufferer had been deposited there,) and
within a few yards of the spot, heard nothing to indicate his
being near. Every possible attention was paid to him; but
though he lived till 3o'clock on Thursday morning, he never
spoke or showed the least sign of consciousness. On stripping
him, it was discovered he had also received a severe wound
in the loins from some sharp instrument. An inquest was
held yesterday before Mr. Hutchinson, coroner, and a most
respectable jury, and after thelexanaination of witnesses, it
was adjourned until Friday next.—Derbyshire Courier: