The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

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Friday's Gazette contained no fewer than twenty-eight
bankruptcies.

Eighi packages of potatoes, the produce of South Ame-
rica, have just been landed in London from Lima.
Mr. Henry Scott, trainer of Ascot Heath, was found
dead in his sitting-room, on Tuesday morning last.
Mr. Alderman Walker, proprietor of the Gloucester
Journal, was, on Tuesday last, elected Mayor of that
city for the third time.
Mrs. Huskisson has presented the marble statue of her
late husband, by Gibson, to the Committee of Lloyds.
It will be placed in the vestibule of the new rooms.

Baths for the use of the public have been recently
erected in West Bromwich, by the munificence of the
Earl of Dartmouth.

Mr. G. H. Moore has sold Wolfdog to Prince Lichten-
stein for 1000 guineas ; the Prince has also purchased Lord
Chesterfield's Cherry.
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Mary Ann Hunt, the convict, has been reprieved ; to
what punishment her sentence will be commuted will not
be made known to her till after the birth of her infant.
The Rob Roy is expected to arrive in Hull from St.
Petersburgh to-day, with specie to the amount of
£300,000. _ _

The collection for the relief of the Irish, in St. Andrew's
Church, Wakefield, in obedience to the queen's letter,
amounted to 41d.
Chicory is now grown extensively in the neighbourhood
of York, and in some parts of the North and East Riding
of Yorkshire.
A singular hare, of which the head and shoulders are
white, while one eye is brown and the other white, was
lately taken at Sandbeck, near Doncaster.
By a fire at Durham, on Tuesday, goods to the value of
£4,000, the property of Mr. O'Neal, -cabinet-maker; were
destroyed.
The magistrates at Birstall have fined a Mr. Harptman
£l,OOO for having several hundred weight of gunpowder
stored in his possession.

The mortal remains of the late Archbishop of York
were removed on Friday from Bishopthorpe Palace, near
York, to the family burying-place at Stanton Harcourt,.
Oxfordshire.

A society has been established at Edinburgh called the
Sabbath Alliance, one of the principal objects of which is
to take steps to oppose and prevent the running of railway
trains and other public conveyances on the Lord's day.

The Earl of Dalhousie, the newly-appointed Governor-
General of India, left Portsmouth on board her Majesty's
steam-frigate Sidon, for Alexandria, en route overland to
the seat of his government, on Thursday.

The Times of last week has an advertisement for a lost
dog, which " readily answers when spoken to in German."
We have heard of dog-latin, but this is the first of dog-
German.

NEW MAYORS.—London Alderman Trooper; Chester,
Dr. Jones ; Warrington, W. Beamont ; Wigan, John
Lord ; Preston, T. Birchall ; Manchester, Elkanah Armi-
tage. _ _ _

Oranges and lemons are now being imported in such
quantities from Sicily and elsewhere as must have the
effect of bringing them into general consimption at a very
early period of the season.
A surgical operation was successfully performed while
the patient was under the influence of ether, upon one of
the sons of the Right Hon. W. Y. Peel, by Mr. Hodg-
son, assisted by Sir Benjamin Brodie and Mr. Boddington.
The corporations of Worcester, Gloucester, and other
places have appointed committees to act in conjunction
with the medical gentlemen in the immediate removal of
all nuisances, and the promotion of ventilation and clean-
liness, as precautions aguinst the approach of cholera.
SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Under the head of ‘` Barter,"
two advertisements appear in the Birmingham Herald of
Thursday last, the one offering leasehold premises in ex-
change for a ten-horse steam engine, and the other
'• piano-fortes for nails, ironmongery, or carpets."
CHARGE OF MATRICIDE.—A young man of gentle-
manly appearance, named William Sheridan, is in cus-
tody in London, upon suspicion of having caused the
death of his mother, Mrs. Frances Sheridan, the widow
of a captain in the army, residing in Mare-street, Hack-
ney, by administering to her some poisonous drug.
NEW SHERIFFS.—Henry Brooke, Esq., of Grange, is
the sheriff elect for Cheshire; G. L. Fox, Esq., for York-
shire ; Sir R. Barden for Derbysaire ; J. D. Maclean,
Esq., for Cumberland ; Sir W. Eden for Durham ; Sir H.
D. Goring for Anglesea ; S. York, Esq., for Denbighshire
and Sir W. H. Clerke for Flintshire.

Our Scottish neighbours seems quite unequal to the
completion of the Scott monument in their capital-
Twenty-four figures are still wanting to the execution of
its design. One more effort, is, however, :to be made for
raising £2,000, the remaining sum required—another
Waverley Ball being projected for that purpose.
A most curious accident, resulting from gross careless-
ness, took place on Saturday, at the works of the Dowlais
Iron Company, at Gellifaelog, near Merthyr, by the ex-
plosion of a quantity of gunpowder, whereby two unfor-
tunate persons lost their lives, and many others (it is
reported 1I) were shockingly burned and injured.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT A BONFIRE.—On Friday week,
some boys made a bonfire at Bedminster, near Bath, and
a child three years old, named Alfred Lane, went to them
when they, in a mischievous prank, kicked about the
burning fuel, by which Lane's clothes caught fire and he
was so burnt that he died soon after.
A monument to the late General Sir J. Jones, father of
the new member of parliament for Cheltenham, has just
been erected in St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a work of very
superior merit, from the studio of Behnes, and comme-
morates the achievements of this gallant officer during the
Peninsular war.

FOOLHARDINESS.—A seaman was last week charged
before the district justices, for leaping out of a carriage of
the Glasgow train whilst in motion Dear the Greenock
Station. The penalty was mitigated to 15s, but Mr.
Drummond, the presiding justice, intimated his intention,
in all future cases of the kind, to inflict the full penalty
of £5.

Mr. Grantley Berkeley seems fated never to get out of
hot water. In his present trouble he is threatened with
legal proceedings, in the shape of a criminal information,
at the instance of Mr. Fonblanque, of the Examiner,
whom Grantley is charged with libelling in his speech
lately delivered at Wickwar.
Meetings have been held of the creditors of all the prin-
cipal firms which have suspended during the present pres-
sure. It appears that out of 20 firms there is an aggre-
gate of liabilities of £4,598,284, which would give an
average of £229,414 for each firm. The average dividend
furnished by the above eatimates may be stated to be
about 13s. 6d. in the pound.
ADVANCE OF POPERY.-It seems that the Romanists
are about to have a great " demonstration" in London at
the height of 6' the season," on the opening of St. George's
Cathedral." Two Cardinals are to assist at the ceremonies,
and tickets of admission, like Jenny Lind's, are selling at
a premium of five guineas. About the same period, and
to give still further eclat, a great secession is (so runs the
report) to take place from the Church of England.