The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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Green peas were on sale in Hull on the Bth instant.
An Edinburgh paper mentions that a lively butterfly
was found at Leith last week.
On Saturday night, a powder-mill, at Kendal, ex-
ploded, and blew two men, who were within it, to pieces.
The total number of ministers in the Wesleyan connec-

tion is 1,174

Mr. (jostler has challenged Mr. Bright to a public dis-
cussion on the ten hours' bill question.
The London Licensed Victuallers, on Thursday, ad-
vanced the price of gin ls. 4d. a gallon.
The penny omnibus system is about to be put in opera-
tion, by a company, in Bristol and Bath.
The customs reeenue for Gloucester for 1846 amounts
to very nearly £116,000, an increase of about £10,500 on
the return of last year.

HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.—The Edinburgh subscrip-
tions for the Highland destitution amount to upwards of
£9OOO. At Glasgow, the subscriptions-amount to £5OOO.
PRICE OF BREAD.—OR Wednesday the bakers on the
Surrey side of the river made an advance of one halfpenn,
on the 41b. loaf.
I -..veral Cambric'-

_a several villages near ..tge, the wages of la-
bourers of husbandry have been raised ls. and 2s. a week,
in consequence of the rise in the prices of provisions.
The Conde de Montemolin visited the Times office on
Wednesday. One hundred papers were printed in his
presence in one minute.

Mr. Stephen Bowles, of Stilton, who died on Christ-
mas-day, has bequeathed ten thousand pounds to the
Stamford and Rutland Infirmary.

The customs receipts of the port of Glasgow for the
year 1847, exceeded those of the previous year by up-
wards of £44,000.

At a public meeting held in Glasgow, on Tuesday last,
the Lord Provost in the chair, the sum of £4,575 was
contributed towards the relief of the destitute in the
'Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
GREEN PEAS FOR THE MILLION.—A hawker stood
with his barrow close to Temple-bar, on Tuesday, selling
green peas, just arrived from Holland, at 6d. per quart,
shelled. They met with a ready sale.

The Directors of the Bank of England, at the
meekly meeting on Thursday, resolved to advance the
minimum rate of interest to 31 per cent. for bills not
having more than 95 days to run.
DEATH IN A CHURCH.—During the early 4.--
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pans _lurch of Kensington, on-Sunday:an old;;;;Of
80, named Charles Fisher, a regular attendant in the free
seats, dropped suddenly on the floor of the aisle, and
expired.

THE LATE HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.—On Wednesday,
the inquest on Catherine Welsh, who was killed by being
thrown over some stairs by her husband, on Saturday
week, was resumed at the King George Tavern. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter.
Lord John Russell has granted £lOO from the royal
bounty, for the children of

the late Thomas Hood, and
it is believed that the pension so briefly enjoyed by the
mother, will be renewed to them in June next.

MAN !

Mr. Dyce Sombre has petitioned the

that £6O per week is not enough for his comfortable
support. We must add that Mr. Sembre only asks for

ILI J I mone.
"Yes," said the Child, laying his hands upon the elbows SucW
hII was they great quantity of wild fowl in the metro-
of his little chair, and turning the old face towards Mr. politan poultry markets, that, on Wednesday, wild ducks
Dombey s, " what is money ?" Mr. Dombey was in a were sold at ls. a couple, teal at 10d. a pair, and snipes at
difficulty. He would have liked to give him some expla-
-4d each; while partridges were as low as Is. &a. a brace,
nation involving tha terms circulating medium, currency,
and hares Is. each.
depreciation of currency,paper, bullion, rates of exchange, Amongst the novelties in the shape of joint-stock com-
value of precious metals in the market, and so forth ; but panies is one for insurance against theft, the company,
looking down at the little chair, and seeing what a long for a premium of 205., undertaking to guarantee all loss
way down it was, he answered: " Gold, and silver, and from peculation to the amount of £5O.
copper; guineas, shillings. halfpence. You know what TEMPERANCE TROPHY.—The floor of a new temper-
they are ?' "Oh yes, I know what they are," said Paul. ance hall, opened at Cirencester, is composed of the staves
" I don't mean that, Papa. I mean what's money after of demolished beer barrels—part of the property of a
all ?" Heaven and earth, how old his face was as he defunct neighbouring brewery.
turned it up again towards his father's! " What is money On Wednesday, a Court of Directors was held at the
after all!" said Mr. Dombey, backing his chair a little, East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir Wil-
that lie might better gaze in sheer amazement at the pre- loughby Cotton, G.C.B. was appointed commander-in-
sumptuoDn.us. atom
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mean, rapa, wnat can it no r returnea ram, mining nil ment. . .
arms (they were hardly long enough to fold), and lobking A MoNSmß.—One night recently, a knacker, at East
at the fire, and up at him, and at the fire, and up at him Henningfield, was discovered in the act of strangling a
again. Mr. Dombey drew his chair back to its former horse. The wretch thrust hay into the poor creature's
place, and patted him on the head. " You'll know better nostrils, and then choked it with a halter. Several vain-
by-and-bye, my man," he, said, `.Money, Paul, can do able horses in the neiolibourinf, ri.citurpq have. of late.

anything." He took hold of the little hand, and beat it ;lied very mysteriously. The knacker is is custody.
softly against one of his own as he said so. But Paul got OBSTINACY.—On Monday, an inquest was held at
his hand free as soon as he could ; and rubbing it gently Ware on the body of a man who was run over by a train
to and fro on the elbow of his chair, as if his wit was in at the level crossing near the station. The constable at
the palm, and he were sharpening it—and looking at the the gate tried to prevent him from crossing the line, as a
fire again, as though the fire had been his adviser and train was in sight ; but he struggled away, was knocked
prompter, repeated, after a short pause : " Anything, Pa- down by the engine, and killed.
pa?" "Yes. Anything—almost," said Mr. Dombey. The youthful Lord Bernard Howard, third son of the
" Anything means everything, don't it, Papa ?" asked his Duke of Norfolk, died suddenly at Cairo on the 21st ult.
son : not observing or possibly not understanding, the of congestion of the brain. He had been making arrange-
qualification. "It includes it : yes," said Mr. Dombey. ments for a trip to Thebes, and on returning to his hotel,
" Why didn't money save me my mamma ?" returned the ran a little, and at the hotel-door fell down dead, and the
child. "It isn't cruel, is it ?" ' Cruel," said Mr. Dom- surgeon said his death occurred before he reached the
bey, settling his neckcloth, and seeming to resent the
ground.
idea.' " No. A good thing can't be cruel." "If it's a BULLION FOR THE BANK OF FRANCE.-With reference good thing and can do anything," said the little fellow, to the increase of bullion likely to appear in the next re-
thoughtfully, as he looked back at the fire, " I wonder turns of the Bank of France, we understand that the
why it didn't save me my mamma." Mr. Dombey having amount of silver already purchased in this county does
recovered from his surprise, expounded to him how that not exceed £430,000, and that of this only a very
money, though a very potent spirit, never to be disparaged
on any account whatever, could not keep people alive small proportion has as yet been sent forward. The
balance, however, will most likely be despatched in a day
whose time was come to die : and how that we must all die, unfortunately, even in the city, though we were never or two. It is understood that the directors contemplate
so rich.—Dombey and Son.
obtaining from Messrs. Baring 10,000,000 f., in addition
to the advance lately agreed to.