The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

THE CHASE.

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet this day Friday, 14th,
at Weaver; Saturday, 15th, at Somerford-park ; Monday,
17th, at Manley-mill; Wednesday; 19th, at Cholmondeley•
castle; Thursday, 20th, at Wrenbury ; Saturday, 22d, at
Windmill-ou-Ravensmoor.—At half-past ten o'clock.
Mr. LECHE'S FOX-HOUNDS will meet on Saturday, .15th, at
Gallantry-bank ; Tuesday, 18th, at Carden ; Thursday, 20th,
at Bryn-y-pys; Friday, 21st, at Chorlton-hall.—At hatf-past
ten o'clock.

SIR THOMAS STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet on Saturday
Dec. 15th, at Hawarden ; Tuesday, 18th, at Bromboro' Old
bridge.—At half. past ten o'cloc-ic.

A great,quantity of additional warm clothing► will be sent
out to Canada, by the first packet, for the troops in that

country.

During the last severe gales, upwards of 100 lives were
lost on the Dorsetshire coast, between the adjoining ports of
Bridport and Weymouth.
RA I uwity.—A few days ago, a meeting was held at Mans-
field, regarding the proposal of a railway from Nottingham
to Sheffield, and a committee was formed.
A memorial from the Bankers of London has been pre-
sented to the lords of the treasury, against the delivery of any
letters at the general post office on Sundays.
One of the gin palaces in London has actually its bar
furnished with glasses which hold one farthing's worth of gin,
and that small quantity is sold to dram drinkers.
The commanding officer of a cavalry regiment has, we
understand, refused to receive into his corps any married
officers. The matter is now likely to come before the autho-
rities at the Horse uGards.

SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY.—We are in-
formed that, from the Ist to the 30th November last, inclu-
sive, 37,644 passengers have been conveyed on the above
railway, averaging more than 1.254 persons daily.
HEART OF OAK —One of the piles used in the foundtion
of the old bridge at Lancaster was taken out a short time
since, and found to be "as sound as an acorn," although it
must have been under water at least 900 years.
STATE OF TRADE.—The demand for yarn continues very
dull, and spinners find great difficulty in obtaining an ad-
vance at all commensurate with the increased price of cotton.
In goods, too, there is rather less business doing, though the
demand for printing cloth continues fair, and at tolerably
good prices.—Manchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 10.—
There is little or no change to report in the flannel market
to-day. During the last month, the demand for low-priced
goods has beets more than usually brisk. and there is no
abatement in that demand to-day. The wool market remains
steady and prices firm.
COPPER CAPS.—A few days ago, as a clergyman's son, in
the neighbourhood of Rotherham, was shooting, a fragment
of the copper cap was driven into his eye, were it still remains.
Mr. Overend, of Sheffield, under whose care he is, gives very
little hopes of the sight of that eye being saved. Great care
is necessary in the selection of copper caps.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The special general meet-
ing of the company is to be held in London on the 20th inst.,
for the purpose of receiving and considering the reports of
Mr. Wood and Mr. Hawkshaw, who were appointed by the
directors to give their opinion on the manner in which this
railway has been formed.
LONGEVITY OF WEAVERS.—There are now living at
Tottington-lower-End, near Bolton, six persons, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Bridge, manufacturer, whose united ages amount
to 478, viz. :—Robert Booth 72, John Hill 88, John Barlow
84, William Rosthorn 78, and John Greenhalgh 72. The
above persons all live within a mile of their employer's
residence.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A correspondent states, that
as Mr. Longton was out shooting, at Horuby, on Monday
last, he was greatly surprised, hy coming upon two hares: each
with two heads and six feet. He took aim, and was fortunate
in shooting one of these remarkable animals, which is now,
we understand, lying at Mr. Abbott's, flatters' Arms, Bridge
Lane; where it may be seen by the curious.—Lancaster
Guardian.

PENZANCE MYRTLES.—These plants thrive in the open air,
and commonly attain the height of ten or twelve feet; they
may be seen trained on the front of some of the houses in Pen-zarce to double that height. A sufficient quantity of cuttings
was obtained from a tree of this description, covering one of
the houses, in the course of six weeks, to supply the oven with
fuel for three months.—Dr. Paris's Guide to Mount's Bay and
Land's End.
AN IRISH DuEr..—Mr. O'Connor relates an instance where
the parties in "an affair of honour" had actually agreed to
put the muzzles of their pistols (so inveterate were they) into
each other's mouths! "and yet would you believe it?'" said
he, "one of them escaped:: * * * * Just as one sec-
ond was about to give the signal, the other said to his princi-
pal, "Jack, look hither." Jack turned his head, and just
in time, for the hall passed out through his left cheek, doing
him little hurt, while his opponent was killed.
The fact of matrimony or bachelorship is written so legibly
in men's appearance that no ingenuity can conceal it. On
the tops of coaches, in the coffee-rooms of inns, nay, in pews
at church, there is some inexplicable instinct that tells us
whether an individual (name, fortune, circumstances totally
unknown) be or be not a married man. Whether it is a cei-
tain subdued look, such as that which characterises the lions
in a menagerie, and distinguishes theta from the lords of the
desert, we cannot tell; but the truth is so, we positively affirm.
—Blackwood

EARTHQUAKE.—On Thursday the 15th ult., a smart shock
of an earthquake was sensibly felt at Kington, at eight o'clock
in the morning. It was also experienced at Titley, Presteign,
Knighton, the vale of Radnor, the Forest Llanfihangel,
Penybont, Llandrindod Rhayader, Builth, Glascwm,
Golva, Gladestrey, and intermediate country. In several
places the rocking was so severe that many persons leaped
out of bed, expecting their houses to fall. A rumbling noise
like distant thunder accompanied the concussion. There was
a great calm, previously and after the shock. The wind was
east; dense fog; therm. 35; bar. 29 8. The sensation was
felt from north to south.

DEATH FROM COLD.—On Tuesday week a poor woman,
about sixty years of age (supposed to be a Welsh woman,)
lost her life through the inclemency of the weather. She was
on her way from Sheffield to Glossop, and called at the Snake
Inn, in the Woodlands, where she had a basin of broth given
her. She went from thence about two O'clock in the afternoon,
along with a man and two boys; and when about two miles
from the Royal Oak Inn, near Glossop, she became so be-
numbed withcold that the man who was with her could not
get her along the road; and in a short time afterward the
Reaulatur coach from Sheffield overtaking her, she was put
inside; but when the coach arrived at the Norfolk Arms, and
she was taken out, it was discovered that life was quite ex-
tinct.

Mr. Murphy, nothing disconcerted, has brought out his
Weather Almanack for 1639; which is rather more explicit in
its prognostications than his first, as well as more flatterit,
in its prospects of fine weather. The coming Christmas wilf,
according to Murphy, be a bitter one ; we are to have a storm
on Christmas day ; frost sets in three days before the new
year, and lasts a fortnight, and after a week's intermission
returns for a few days more. The general character of the
weather is, however, favourable, for our climate, during the
vear. February, March, and April, have many days marked
" fair ;" May is very "changeable," and June looks lower-
ing; but July and August wear a smiling and sunny aspect,
and there is a good proportion of fine days in September; the
next year's October, too, may match with the one just passed;
while the November is a great itnprovement on the present
years's, and even dreary beceutber shows a fair face.

PORTUGUESE WOMEN.—It is not uncommon in some of the
provinces to find women who have not a shoe to their feet,
ornamented by necklaces of gold, some of great value.—
Mrs. —, the -lady of a merchant of Oporto, related to us
an odd anecdote of a servant whom she had obtained from
the country. The girl entered upon her vocation with every
appearance of being quite competent to its duties, and in-
deed, she proved so; but to the great annoyance of the Eng-
lish prejudice of her mistress, she wore no shoes. The lady
mentioned the circumstance to the girl as usual in English
families, but was answered by the domestic that. she wore
stockings, which was more than servants in the country did,
and that she deemed that a sufficient concession to the fasti-
diousness of a foreigner. '['he lady perceiving that inde-
pendently of the want of shoes the domestic's wardrobe was
deficient in what her mistress judged to be essential articles
of dress, and conceiving that the want of funds on the part
of her new servant was the cause of their not being procured,
kindly volunteered an advance on account of wages. The
offer was, however, received with some marts of indignation
by the domestic, who opened her box, and displayed a wealth
of jewellery. in the shape of necklaces, which quite astonished
her mistress, and which was produced as iirefragable proof
that if she was not provided with the articles that were deemed
necessary to her equipment, it was not for want of means of
purchasing them.—Landscape Annual for 1839.
INOFFENSIVENESS OF THE WHALE.—Not only does the
sperni whale happen to be the most timid and inoffensive
animal, readily endeavouring to escape from the slightest
thing which bears an unusual appearance, but he is also quite
incapable of being guilty of the acts of which he is so strongly
accused. The formation of his teeth, and the size of his
gullet, are quite sufficient in themselves to prove that he is
incapable of devouring the balmnopterm (black-finned whales)
and halmnm (common black whales) ; for it would be quite
impossible to swallow such monstrous victims, as his throat is
scarcely sufficiently capacious to admit the body of a man,
and aieo from t6o fact of hid teeth not pooecnoing the power
of separating, or of masticating his food, but merely pos-
sessing a prehensile or holding power; for, being provided
only with a row of widely separated, short-pointed, conical
teeth, in the lower jaw, and none in the upper, except in a
few instances, in which they appear wholly rudimentary,
scarcely projecting beyond the gums, he is totally unable to
wound seriously, much more to tear to pieces and devour the
body of such an enormous animal as a balmna, even if it
were not an adult, or one of the balmnopterae, in which is
included the giant fin-back. As for the dolphins, seals, and
sharks, which he is made to chase with ravenous voracity,
until they hide themselves in mud, or dash themselves against
rocks in attempting to escape ; I can only observe, with re-
gard to such tales, that the sperm whale is never, or very
rarely, seen near sand, mud, or rocks, and therefore would
not be likely to run his victim so hard.—Beale's Natural His-
tory of the Sperm Whale.