The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCI

Col. James Hamilton, the British vice consul, died at-An-
ustura, in South America, in the month of July last, after *

The harvest of 1f440 is acknowledged to be the finest with
which Europe has been blessed for half a century.—Stamford

Mercury

The population in Upper Canada, which in 1820 ‘vAs
165,190, is now about 450,000. The population of Toronto
is about 13,000.

-lane theatre, *-
I character of

Mr. Hammond, the late lessee of Dru
peared at the Strand last week in his celebrate
Bill Buzzbottle, in the Bill Sticker.

The handsome corporation hall at Stockton is expected to
be opened on the Ist of October next.
Trentham Hall, which, is now rebuil

ill, when finish-
. The calcula-
it will take ano-

ed, one of the most superb edifices in Euror
tion is, that although 300 men are employed
ther year to complete it.

pt. Thorntbv

:e, of Flimby, near Maryport, has a pea-
garden, which measures 5/ inches in cir-

talk growing in

cumference

Thcre is at present growing in the garden of J. Jefferson,
Esq., of Hawkrigg, near Wigton, seven holyoak plants, well-

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surfing separately, . thirteen feet in length. The flowers on
each are double, and of different colours on each plant.
The Earl of Zetland, deputy grand master, has been AP-
pointed pro-grand master of the freemasons, in the place of
the late Earl of Durham. The Marquis of Salisbury
is to
succeed to the office of Deputy grand master.

AD TRADE.—We learn that (
received within the last fe
lase of lead, the execution of whit

Iderab
days fro►n

orders have
_ France for the
has already had the
eftect of causing a rise in that article of nearly £2 per too,
and some large orders remain unexecuted in consequence of
the limits being too low.

_ _ A requisition is now
.n course of signature in this borough, and has received be-
tween 400 and 500 burgesses names, requesting Edmund
Buckley, Esq., of Manchester, to offer himself as a candidate
at the next vacancy. Mr. Buckley is a conservative.—Staf-

SENTATION 0

NEWCASTLI

ford Advertise

HIGHWAY R

3BEILY.—About one o'clock on Tuesday
lmed Leech, residing at Rcchdale, was re-
e was attacked at Buersill,
y four men, who robbed him
scape over the fields.

turning fro

between

lOs and then made thei

s :nary Smythe, who died at Deer Park,
near Houiton, on Thursday last, was eldest daughter of the
late and sister of the present Earl of Wicklow. The deceased
was born on the 2d of November, 1791, and in August, 1815,
married Mr, William Meade Smythe, by whom she had no
family.
_

Lady Isabell

EXTRAOLIDINAILLY- DRAUGHT CIF 'Fisses.-A few days
ago, Mr. John Mounsey, of Buckholm Lodge, the well-
known dog slipper and gamekeeper to the Earl of Lousdale,
t one draught, in the Lake 01
three dozen of perch, and four
Carlisle Patriot.

nts, captured

'eswater,

dozen of trout

LACONIC ADVlCE.—Mr.llyard, who for twenty-one
years has been the president of the Northamptonshire Farm-
ing and Grazing Society, the annual meeting of which WO
held on Wednesday, in presenting a prize cup to Mr. J. C•
Elliott, gave him the following laconic piece of advice
" Now, young man, take this cup, and remember always t°
plough deep and drink shallow." •

THE MILITIA.—it may not be unimportant to the persons
composing this portion of the army to know that the staffs
are about to be inspected for the purpose of removing those
who are found unfit for active duty. This is a preparatory
step to the consolidation and placing this force on the most
efficient establishment, the clothing of which having been
brought to one and the same period comes due next year.
A gardener near Newbury has adopted the following hovel
mode of protecting his fruit from the ravages of the wasp'

He destroys the blackbirds by catching them in an ingenious
little trap for the purpose, and hangs them up in rows in front
of his fruit ; the wasp immediately fixes on them, and leaves
the fruit untouched. This may be seen by the peach, apricot,
and plum being without a bite.— Wilts Independent.
• -

NZWARK.—William Ewart Gladstone, Esq., and Frederic
Thesiger, Esq., will be the conservative candidates for Newark
at the next election. Mr. Gladstone has been visiting big
constituents during the past week, and Mr. Thesiger is ex-
pected to arrive in the course of the coining week. It iS
stated that the Solicitor-General, Sir Thomas Wilde, (106
not intend to offer again for the borough, as the recent exP°-
sure of the hocussing system adopted by the leading members
of his committee has damaged him beyond redemption.
There is no truth in ,the report that Mr. Gladstone intend
to offer for Liverpool.

Francis P. Smith, Esq., of Loudon, the patentee, has pub-
lished a challenge, for 1,000 guineas, to run the Archimecle6
against any paddle-wheel steamer in the kingdom, the power
of which is not superior. The trial must take place on the,
open sea, over a distance of one or tve hundred miles, 90
before the 15th of next month.

NATURAL G

ms Gas Company

but withot

ed pioject

. ,
ay fuss) prosecuting their unprecu'
are casting ; and, ere many week'
Newcastle and North Shields Rill;
y, be lighted from the great flatus"
end.—Gateshead Observer.

MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.—"Tbde
patent aquatic life hat now exhibiting on the Serpentine, an
daily at the Polytechnic Institution, is calculated to become
extremely fashionable in the distressed manufacturing dig-
tricts, and not less so with her Majesty's ministers, as it pro'
fesses to be an infallible remedy for keeping the head above
water

IMPOr.TAN

FAT AND FAIR.-There are now exhibiting at Bradford
.wo children which are rodigies. The eldest is seven yeah
old, and weighs list. 91bs. His flesh is very muscular, Min,'
and fair ; for shoulders and legs he may compete with 1102.
man in the town. The other is three years old, and weig'
upwards of

veu stone weight. They are of Irish parentage'
LONGEVITY.—One of those fine old specimens of " 9
healthier age," named Violet Harkness, at present residiag
at Cleator, and whose venerable head has been whitened 11
the snows of one hundred and two winters, turned out into
the harvest field one day last week, and cat no less than 14
,
stooks of grain, which, at three half-yence a stook, amounted
to Is. 9cl.—Whitehaven Herald.
A WELCOME INTRUDER.—On Friday night last, about
seven o'clock, as Mr. Baxter, grocer, Netherby-street, Long'
town, was, assisted by his wife, buoy scrwing.EUSlOnierb
g came flying
I
....... shop and into a back room. I'
Baxter immediately followed the self-invited guest, and „°1;
covered it to be a good plump well-grown partridge. it a
supposed that the partridge had been chased by a hawk, ew
was attracted by the light from the candle burning in
shop.—Carlisle Patriot.
CURIOUS RACE.—On Thursday last, at a tavern in thist
town, a sovereign a-side was bet between a coal merchanf
and a bricksetter, and a race was to decide the ownership
4).
the two sovereigns. The preliminaries were these, that the
bricksetter should he allowed a yard at start, and that thef
should toss for choice of ground. The bricksetter won tbn
toss, and immediately took up the chimney, and went to the
top ; and as his antagonist, the coal merchant, did not choose_
to follow him, it was decided by the company present deg'
the bricksetter had won the race.—Preston Chronicle.
STRANGE PHENOMENON.—Within the last four or fide
months a rather strange phenomenon has occurred in t_l36
Severn, close to the little harbour of Lydney, where a laT.
sand-bank, of very many acres in extent, which interfere-
with the navigation of that side of the river, suddenly disart
peered, leaving the river deep enough for ships of the largen,,
burden, as it was some forty years before. This kernels'
body of sand does not appear to have merely shifted to sorry
other part of the channel, but has been entirely swept all
it is thought, by the violent storms and rain in January 813
February.— Wilts Standard.

hop, to their great surprise sornethiu

BILL SWINDLERS.—We have had sent to ns this week,
circular from an apparently new firm of dealers in fictitiou,'
bills, calling themselves T. and W. Thornton, Free Schoo_,'"
street, Dock-head, London, who very kindly offer temporal,
assistance to persons in want of money, and at the same di°
tender their assistance in the sale of goods for ready one
Of course, there are not many persons who need to be tolue;
that, if their goods, their money, or their bills, get into el
hands of these people, there is very little chance that the.l.
will see them again,—except, indeed, in the case of th,ele
own bills, which will no doubt come back for payment. "„
find from another circular, that the old firm of bill-traffic:
ars, originally established by John Kinnear, and carried 0'
by other parties since he had the misfortune to be trao
ported, is now called " A. and T. Smith, Albany-road, Lor
don."—Manchester Guardian.
A SOARING ARTIST.—On Wednesday last, much alari*
and curiosity were excited in the neighbourhood of the
Strand, and hundreds or persons were attracted to the 111,e;
nue that leads to Hungerford Market and its vicinity, guZ
with fear and wonder upon an adventurous wight, who lit
contrived to mount into the belfry of St. Martin's churl
and had lowered himself by means of a single rope, fastedjde
from above, into the very narrow space between the two db:
facing Pall-mall and the Strand ; and there he remained at:,
height of at least 150 feet from the ground, upwards of thry"
hours, making sketches, with as much composure and apps;
rent unconcern as it he had been using a crayon in his 0*
atelier.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE DONCASTER BETTING ROOSSi
—On Wednesday evening last, Mr. William Tomlinson,
this town, an individual well known on the turf, was plaYill3
at hazard, in the upper betting room at Doncaster, and bt,
just won £l5, and was again shaking the dice, when his arm
was observed to move slowly and feebly. He threw seed
and, immediately turning to a friend, said he was ill, ano
requested to be taken down stairs. This was done, and tilt
or three chairs were placed together for him to lie upon ;
ba-
he expired in two or three minutes. His friend then es
mined the deceased's pockets, and, finding the £l5, wraPPhe
it up in paper, and (somewhat indiscreetly) replaced it in "
deceased's waistcoat pocket. As might be expected, the reoi
port of Mr. Tomlinson's death soon attracted a crowd A
persons round his body; and some dexterous thief contrive,:
to abstract the £l5 from his. pocket, and the-deceased,
' " Macintosh " coat, with which booty he escaped undetected'
—Manchester Guardian.

CURIOUS CASE OF BURGLART.—About two o'clock S°
Friday morning, a female servant to the house of Mr. R. v:1;
Slack, No. 3, Cecil Terrace, Greenheys, was alarmed E,
hearing, as she thought, some person coming up stairs.
immediately called out " Who is there?" and, in a amulet,
afterwards, a loud crash was heard on the staircase, and 14
the lobby at the bottom, as if some heavy bodies had fao°,
7
down stairs. This noise alarmed the family ; and aso o 4
Mr. Slack's sprung out of bed, and went down stairs. ti f
his way he was conscious of some hurried movement
parties in the sitting room below ; but before he could ren
that room, they had succeeded in making their escape out °
the window, which stood open. When alight was procured{
it was found that the unbidden visitors, after packing up 3'
the property they could lay their hands upon, had been pre
paring to enjoy themselves, for three chairs had been placed
at the table, and a whisky bottle, with three glasses partially
filled, were standing upon it. It would seem that, in orck:
to enjoy their carouse in security, they had placed chairs re
the landing of the stairs in such a manner, that if any of On
family had been alarmed, and had attempted to come door
stairs, they would be sure to fall over the chairs, and there,by.
give warning to the topers, and enable them to provide I°l.
their own safety. But the wicked are often taken in tbeilie
own snare • and so it proved on this Occasion, for one of the
robbers who had gone up stairs, and had been alarmed by
calling out of the servant, had evidently tumbled over one
the chairs in making his retreat, and rolled headlong to t,
bottom, together with the chair, which was broken to Pietie
by the fall. This had caused the loud noise that alarmed tr''
family, and which was considerably increased by the fall of ‘
poker with which the ma • had no doubt armed himself wben
he went up stairs. Although a number of articles had bee,
packed up in a table-cloth; and even the chimney-glass takendown, ready for removal, nothing had been actually tine
From
away. Fro the appearance of the premises, no doubt,he
entertained that one of the robbers had been concealed la 70
house prior to the family retiring to rest, and had afters
admitted his accomplices at the cellar window, which 17:0
properly secured the preceding evening, and none of ,t'st
fastenings had been broken or forced. It is quite clear tr}i,
the robbers were no novices in their profession ; for, altb°lse
Mr. Slack had an excellent little house-dog, it never lea it
any noise during the night, and, after the robbers had tied'
r,
found shut up in one of the cellars, in a state of stoP°l;
having evidently been drugged by some means ; and that who
also the case with a dog belonging to Mr. Drummond, 1°."„
resides at the next door. We understand, that several
stances of patties endeavouring to secrete themselves
houses, during the evening, have recontly been detected;
it therefore behoves all parties to be, on their pland ag
—lgg!"
that mode of committing robberiec —Manchester Guar--lis.