The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke of Wellington will complete his 71st year on
Friday next, May 1.
Sir Hugh Gough, our distinguished countryman, will
certainly command the expedition to China.—Cork Con-
stitution.

The removal of the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena
to Paris is said to be the subject of a negotiation between M.
Thiers and Lord Palmerston.

Excellent new potatoes and rhubarb, from the neighbour-
hood of Castletown, were exhibited for sale in our market on
Saturday last, and were readily disposed of at Is. Gd. per
pound.—Manx Liberal.
Madame Vestris was married to Armande Vestris on the
27th of January, 1813, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields ; the
lady was not then sixteen—they passed their honeymoon at
Bath.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Lady Louisa Cadogan,
sister of the Earl of Cadogan, and Marchioness of Anglesey,
was married on Tuesday last to the Rev. Wm. Marsh, D.D.
Her ladyship is in her 53d year.

The late Secretary Drummond got with his wife, the
daughter of Mr. Kinnaird, a North British merchant,
£120,000, and since his marriage he placed in the funds from
his savings £16,000.

LARGE WHALE.—A whale was thrown on shore on the
21st inst., near Flimby, of a prodigious size. Its length
was 58 feet, breadth across the tail 14 feet, height 8 feet, and
girth, 26 feet.—Carlisle Patriot.

At Keutraugh, the seat of E. M. Gawne, Esq., the gar-
dener has been cutting white cabbage since the 13th inst. ;
and on the 17th, gathered a fine dish of asparagus, and a
cucumber 14 inches long, the first, we believe, in the island.
—Manx Liberal.

LARGE PIKE.—A pike was captured in Windermere on
Tuesday last, by Mr. George. Robinson, of Bowness, which
measured forty-two inchus'in length, girth round the body
twenty inches and three-quarters, and weighed twenty-seven
and a half pounds.—Carlisle Patriot.
A pension of £445 devolves to the civil list by the death of
the Right lion. William Gregory, of Coole, county Galway,
ex-under secretary for Ireland, and brother-in-law of the
Earl of Clancarty, to whose sister, Lady Anne Trench, he
was married in 1789.

We clip the following good hit from the Baltimore
Clipper:—" Let no man find fault with an editor for writing
foolish things, for there are so many papers now-a-days, that
all the good sense there is in the world would not half fill
them."

A dreadful casualty happened at Gibralter to the nephew
of Sir Charles Sullivan, R.N., an ensign in the 46th, who had
just joined his regiment, arising from the dangerous amuse-
ment of a steeple chase. lie was thrown from his horse, and
died in a few hours afterwards from concussion of the brain.

VULPINE AFFECTION.—In drawing the cover at East
Gordon on Saturday lust, the Duke of Buccleuch's fox-
hounds unkennelled a fox bitch, which, on breaking cover,
was obaerved .to be carryials-ono a her cubs in her mouth.
The fact having been stated to the huntsman, the pack was
immediately whipped off.

Qoicie WoRK.—On Wednesday week Henry Armstrong,
of Branthwaite, .undertook for a small wager, with the as-
sistance of a striker, to forge twelve horse shoes in forty
minutes, and accomplished his task with great ease and in a
workmanlike manner, within thirty-five minutes, and conse-
quently won his wager.—Carlisle Patriot.
Great agitation prevails at this time in Leicestershire, par-
ticularly in the neighbourhood of Market Harborough and
Melton Mowbray, from a prevalent and fatal disease in oxen.
It has shown itself especially in Irish beasts, and is so serious
that some large graziers prefer letting their grass grow to
purchasing stock to eat it, with the hazard of their dying.—
Leicester Chronicle.

DR. LAnnNIM—A memorial, it is said, is being got up by
some of the principal members of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science to present to the council, to
pray them to remove the Rev. 1)r. Dionysius Lardner from
his office as one of their members, on account of his late dis-
graceful conduct in the elopement from Brighton.
ANOTHER EFFECT OF THE. HARD TIMES.—The young
ladies who sue for breach of promise cases, complain that they
don't get half as much awarded them as formerly when the
times were brisk and money plenty. One lady in particular,
whosays
sfollows
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It makes it very bad again—don't it girls.—Savannah
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directions'to the summoning officer not summonwtoorna
m a rr
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future.—Courier.
MARRIAGE. EXTRAORDINARY._
A husbands at the same time and place, by the Rev. W. H.
Schwabe; curate of Keighley. A couple were arranged at the
altar table at Keighley Church, on Monday, the 20th day of
ufi
book, April, for the purpose of being married. After having got
placed in order by the sexton, the minister proceeded ; when
they came to that part of the service where the ring was wanted,
no ring was to be found, and the real intended husband had
gone to buy it. Shortly he
which was put upon the actaidmaeiterwd afterwards upon
proe
duced ring,nger
of the bride, by the person intended to give iker
away ; they
then proceeded business,
to complete the the man who had
*
been regularly published standing by. The ceremony being
upon the person married to sign,
noone a me, that's 't
and lo ! he answered, saying, "It's
complete, they went into the vestry to register; the minister,
having entered them, called
fello' !" The minister, not half pleased, finding out his mis-
take, returned with the party to the altar table, and remar-
ried the woman to her proper lover.