The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

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The Ten Towns Messenger, a paper published at Kid-
derminster for thirteen years, has ceased to exist.
On Friday week a young lady, Miss Davis, of: Ely Rise,
near Cardiff, drowned herself in the Taff river. No
cause is assigned for the rash act.
The Patriot in alluding to the recent trial of " Nottidge
v. Ripley," heads the article, " Agapemone'--Last New
Offshoot from the Establishment."
Madame Tussaud has cleared £lOOO by the exhibition
of Rush in wax, in her " Chamber of Horrors." Green-
acre and Courvoisier did not realize one-fourth so much.
A CURE FOR DEAFNESS.—Mr. T. H. Wakely reports
in the Lancet several cases in which deafness has been
cured or relieved by the use of glycerine.
The first stone of the Olympic Theatre has been laid
this week. The old house, it will be remembered, was
burnt down a few months since.
The Stamford Meacury mentions some really remark-
able rhubarb grown at Wythorpe, some of the stems being
nearly six feet in length and of proportionate thickness.
Two collectors of Land Tax, in the metropolis, have
been arrested for defalcations—one for £782, and the
other for £2OOO.
A fire burst out at Arnold'S-farm, Shooter's-hill, on
Friday. A cottage, barn, cart-shed, carts, and two pigs
were consumed. The damage is estimated at £700:
Freights continue to be very much depressed in the
northern and eastern ports, and the prospects for British
shipping are far from encouraging.
The magistrates of the county of Kent have, by an
overwhelming majority, rejected a proposition for the ap-
pointment of a county constabulary ; out of 100 justices
present, only 20 voted for the proposition.
The Banffshire Jour3al mentions a lad of thirteen,
named John Livingstone, of Sunderland, as preaching
sermons, and conducting a regular service, and states
that he preached his first sermon at 6-1 years of age !
On Tuesday week, a crew of six men, engaged in the
herring fishing at the Lews, were drowned off the Butt of
Lews, North Scotland. They belonged to the West
Highlands.
The Hermann, from New York, arrived on Wednesday
at Cowes, with mails and 68 passengers. She brought
one day's later news than the Europa, but none of much
importance.
On Saturday the Countess Rossi—now become once
more Madame Sontag, the glorious artist—made her first
appearance in Linda di Chamouni. Time, that has spared
her beauty, has improved her voice.
A farmer near Portantwn, Carmarthenshire, last week,.
bad several men engaged in mowing a field when he ob-
served a crane pass over, and considering this a bad omen,
he ordered the men to desist. The weather continued
favourable notwithstanding.
The life of the Rev. J. T. Symonds, vicar of Trevalga,
Cornwall, has been nearly sacrificed. The rev. gentle-
man partook of some broth into which the servant had
put an ounce of arsenic, intending, it is said, not to. poison
the master but the mistress.
Lord Fitzclarence has given orders for two statues, one
of Nelson and the other of the Duke of Wellington, to
be placed on Southsea common—the former on the spot
Nliere the original trod his native land for the last time,
and the latter upon the place where be first stepped again
on British ground, after his last great triumph.
The Tablet states that the Popish Bishop Wiseman has
set the example of toasting the Pope's health, at public
' dinners, before the Queen's. At an entertainment given
for the benefit of the Italians, says our contemporary, the
bishop " broke through the unhappy custom into which
we have unhappily fallen."
Many tourists who have made a point of visiting the
field of Waterloo since the battle, will be sorry to hear
that the gallant old soldier who for so many years has
been the guide over the field, Sergeant Major 'Cattan, late
of the 7th Hussars, who had served in the memorable
battle as a private in the 7th Hussars, died on Sunday
week.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The committee of the Bath
General Hospital have come to a determination to dis-
continue the interments in the burialground belonging to
the hospital, situated immediately opposite to the Com-
mercial Rooms on the north side of the old borough wall.
The ground has been covered with a stratum of concrete
five inches thick.—Lancet.
FORCE OF CONSCIENCE.—Mr. Smith, fishmonger, in
the Bath Market, has received the following letter with
stamps enclosed :—`• Sir—Once I took an oyster from
your fish-shop, in Green-street, in fun. Many years have
since elapsed, and, as I do not consider the act altogether
honest, I beg your acceptance of six postage stamps 14
payment. Yours, obdt., B. S."