The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

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arrived at this port in one day, from foreign parts. This
is a very unusual number, and it was caused chiefly by
several arrivals of vessels with grain, and other articles
of food, both from Europe and America.
THE RIBBON TRADE.—A document, declaring the de-
termination of the ribbon manufacturers of Coventry not
to depart from the imperial standard measure of thirty-
six inches to the yard, has been signed by all the principal
ribbon-manufacturers in Coventry.

On Thursday last, Mary Johnson, a maid-servant in
the employ of Mrs. Ellis, at Harrogate, went to an old
brick-pond for the purpose of fetching water for some
domestic use, when she accidentally slipped in and was

It is understood that a commission to inquire into the
special means requisite for the sanitary improvement
of the metropolis is about to be issued, consisting of Lord
R. Grosvenor, Mr. Chadwick, Dr. S. Smith, Professor
Owen, F.R.S., and Mr. L. Jones.
WINDOW DUTY.—We believe it is now pretty certain
that from the 6th of April next, when the current taxes
year ends, the window duty will either be entirely repealed
or the present number (eight) now chargeable altered.—
Sun. _

On Monday night, a carrier, residing at Bath, dropped
a spark from a candle in a drawer, containing £3OO in bank
notes. He shut the drawer without perceiving the mis-
chief, and on opening it the next morning, found all the
notes destroyed. , _ _ _ _

The Edznburgh Courant says that such was the vio-
lence of the waves at Bell Rock, on the night of Saturday
the 21st ult. that, at the lighthouse mussels were thrown
up from the bed of the sea into the windows of the sleep-
ing apartments of the lighthouse-keepers, a height of no
less than seventy feet.

LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.—Two of the largest of these
establishments in the metropolis, the Western Literary
Institution, Leicester-square, and the Eastern, in the
Hackney-road, have been broken up during the past week,
and their extensive libraries, museums, and collections of
philosophical apparatus, are to be sold by auction.
On Saturday, the occupants of upwards of fifty houses
in Wheeler- street , Patmin-street , Bell- alley , and Garthing -
street, Spitalfields, received noticq to quit their premises
forthwith, the ground they occupy being required for the
extension of the Eastern Counties Railway to Guildford-
street, Brunswick-square, London.
CHEAP TRAVELLING.—The Irish reapers are returning
home from this neighbourhood ; all go by railway in large
bodies ; from Lincoln to Liverpool they are carried. in the
cattle carriages for 6s. a-head. Independent of the saving
of time, this is a less sum than it would cost each for food
and refreshment in walking from Lincoln to Liverpool.—

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The Times. of Monday has a sharp att

on Lord

Mountcashel, who had talked about the Irish landlords
not paying their debt contracted with England,—because
they " could not do it ;" the thunderer stating that such
an example would lead to the denial of the na•
tional debt ; and endanger all the hereditary broad acres
of the aristocracy : an argument held up in terrorem.
Mary Ann Hunt, convicted at the Central Criminal
Court, of the murder of the poor old lady, Mrs. Stowell,
with whom she lodged in Marylebone, has made a full
confession of her guilt, of which, indeed, there could be
no doubt. She is enciente, and will not be delivered for
four months, till which time the sentence must remain in

abeyance

Her Majesty having been in-
formed that John Maclean, of Inverness, known was as
" the Highland Historian," was in great distress, and at
the advanced age of one hundred peon and eight months,
sent the centenarian a cheek for £lO, in a letter written
by Colonel Anson. On receiving the amount the High-
land patriarch was overwhelmed with joy and astonish-
ment.

MUNIFICI

A monster banquet, at which 700 journeymen carpenters
partook of a substantial dinner and its accompaniments,
took place on Tuesday last, in the large room of Cremorne-
uardens, London, to celebrate the compact just entered
en the master builders in London and the
,urneymen or operatives, by which tho
ed from labour at four o'clock on

and enabled to enjol
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,f all Reformers," s

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acting " the real
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on Wednesday.

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