The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

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The apples in Somersetshire and Dorsetshire, although
attacked by blight, are expected to be good crops.
The British Association will meet at Oxford on Wed-
nesday, the 23rd instant.
The Earl of Cathcart left Montreal for England via
Boston. on the 11th of May.
The importation of flour from Havre to this country
has again commenced.
Milton's house, in Horton, Bucks, was put up by auc-
tion on Tuesday. £2,700 were offered, but this was
beneath the reserved price.
It is rumoured in well-informed circles that Mr. J. C.
Adams, the eminent astronomer, will be created a baronet
by her Majesty at the ensuing installation at Cambridge.
General Sir Harry Smith, at the review on Thursday,
wore his uniform as Colonel of the Riffle Brigade, and
was mounted on an Arabian which had carried him through
the dangers of the Sutlej.
A LARGE TURTLE.--The Lady. Prudhoe, Charlton
master, arrived at Swansea last week, bringing several
large turtles from the Crooked Islands, and one of them,
on being killed, was found to weigh upwards of three hun-
dred pounds!!
DEATH OF CARTER, THE LION. KING.-This celebrated
individual, who obtained some notoriety for his daring
exploits with wild animals, expired at his residence in
Arundel-street, Strand, on Friday. He had been for some
days past exhibiting his Mammoth horse.
The name of the female who threw herself beneath a
railway train at Wandsworth is Frances A. Arney. She
belongs to Gosport ; and it appears she has been incited
to the unfortunate act by the false accusation of having
robbed her mistress.

It has been resolved, on the motion of Sir Culling E.
Smith, that females be admitted members of the British
organisation of the Evangelical Alliance now sitting at
Edinburgh—but they are not to be allowed to speak or to
act on committees.

Major General Sir George B. Pollock, C.C.8., arrived
in England on Tuesday by the Marlborough, at Margate,
and immediately proceeded by rail to London, where
apartments had been taken for him in Alberrnarle-street.
The gallant general is still suffering from great indisposi-
tion.

A singular skeleton, seated cross-legged, with a piece
of iron by his side, has been found in the tomb of the
De Brougham family, in Westmoreland, supposed-to be
Udard de Brougham, governor of Appleby Castle, and a
crusader in 1174.
MYSTERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT.—We are glad to hear
that a noble duke, having property in a county near the
metropolis, has arranged his affairs to the satisfaetion of all
parties, in the attainment of which he has been mainly
aided by the disinterestedness of the noble marquis, his
son.—Globe.

WORTH TRYING.—A Pittsburgh paper states that a
field of potatoes was wholly destroyed by the rot, but was
permitted to lie over to this season without culture, and
it was discovered to have produced a fine crop of potatoes,
without a single symptom of disease. Let this fact be
looked into.—New York Herald.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—The office of inspec-
tor of corn returns for the week ending last Saturday was
for once a sinecure, not a bushel of any kind of grain
having been returned as sold during the week ; a circum-
stance which, we should think, is unprecedented in the
annals of our market.-14roreester Chronicle.
PORTUGUESE PnonucE.-7-The arrival of a vessel from
Portugal, laden, with one exception, entirely with articles
of food, is a novelty and a circumstance which was for-
merly of rare occurrence if it ever took place. One has
recently arrived, having 481 bags of beans, 29 barrels of
eggs, 117 boxes of onions, 21 barrels and 30casks of pota-
toes, and 25 casks of, beef, the produce of that country.
The vessel alluded to arrived at Liverpool.
SPOTS ON THE SUN.—There are at this time a number
of very fine spots on the sun. On Thursday, the 17th
inst., not fewer than fifty appeared when I viewed the sun
through a powerful telescope, four of which were very
fine, and surrounded with large brown margins. The
remainder were in clusters, or groups of small spots
crowded together, and appeared very like the perforations
of small shot—Letter from Mr. Holden, the astronomer.
The Salt Chamber of Commerce had a meeting at
Northwich on Saturday, to promote a total repeal of the
East India Company's salt monopoly. The chairman was
directed to enter a formal and energetic protest against
the continuance of the manufacture and sale of salt by the
East India Company as being inconsistent with the terms
on which they hold the government of India, unjust to
the natives and a serious impediment to the trade and
manufactures of this country.
An immense beam, for the engine at the lead mine of
Latkill Dale, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, has been cast
at the Milton iron-works, and weighing, with the waggon
which conveyed it, 24 tons ; It was drawn by 24 horses,
and ten men were in charge of them, and another. waggon
behind, of smaller dimensions, drawn by five horses. '
The latter vehicle contained all the necessary ropes and
tackling for safe delivery ; and above them a sufficiency of
hay and corn for the horses on their journey.—Sheffield
Iris.
On Monday night, the most public streets of Paisley
were perambulated by a cart, drawn by about half-a-dozen
working men, on which large placards were displayed with
the words, " Starvation—Money or Bread for the Unem-
ployed." The cart was followed by hundreds of persons..
The crowd conducted themselves in an orderly and peace-
able manner, only stopping at the principal provision-
dealers' and merchants'-shops, for the purpose of procur-
ing food and money. This mode has been adopted by the
destitute individuals, as a resort to procure the immediate
means of subsistence. On
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE.,
Friday evening an accident occurred in London, upon the
works in connexion with the London and Gravesend Rail-.
way, in consequence of the falling of an arch passing
over Great Russell-street, at its northern end. Several
lives have been sacrificed. During the latter part of the
afternoon, it appears that several of the men employed in
the erection of a viaduct were engaged in removing the
struts and centrepieces from the brickwork forming the
permanent way for the new line. But a few minutes had
elapsed after the removal of these timber supporters
before a cracking was heard overhead, and before it was
possible to warn the parties who were passing under the
bridge at the time, the whole of the new work came down
with a tremendous crash. As soon us it was possible
men were set to work to remove the rubbish, and in a
short time three persons were found all very seriously
injured. In prosecuting their further search, the men met
with the body of a respectably-dressed man, who was
literally smashed to a mummy, scarcely a trace of his fea-
tures being discernible. Soon after the body of a middle-
aged female, frightfully mutilated, was found. No other
persons have been found, though it is said there are two
boys beneath the rubbish.
THE GRAIN MARKETS.—The corn markets are again
rapidly lowering, and everything else is more brisk in con-
sequence. At Mark-lane on Monday, the decline in Wheat
was Cs. to ls. per quarter, and at Liverpool and Leeds on
Tuesday, as well as at Wakefield on Friday, the market
was equally dull and drooping. The weekly imports from
abroad are now very considerable, and further reductions
may therefore be looked to. The quantities of grain and
other provisions, with which hundreds of ships now on
their passage, are freighted, are believed to be Immense,
so that the holders of grain will look to what may be the
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rates. They should bear in mind that new potatoes will,
in the course of another fortnight, be in pretty general
use, which must greatly relieve the consumption of farina-
ceous food.