The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

An-insolvent in a late chzette describes himself as a
'`` Matrimonial Alliance Conductor."'
The day of election of a candidate for the representation of
the borough of Penryn and Falmouth is fixed for this day.

Lord Howick and 14r. Charles Wood, on the opening of
the session, took their seats•UpOn the form in a line with the
treasury bench below the tirt. gangway.
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FRAN KING LETTERS•—'Ine franked letters, under the
old: system, amounted to nine millions per annum 1 This at
even,a penny each, amounts to £35,000..
The Nottingham, relief committee last week distributed
1,000 stone.of bread and 2,100 • peclis of potatoes : 475 men
are still unemployed on the forest. . •
The loss to the Exchequer consequent on the existing state
of affairs with China will amount, it is said, in the year, to
no less a sum' than four-millions sterling.
The Earl of St. Gerinan's has, in consequence of the un-
favourable harvest in Cornwall, returned his tenants £lO per
cent. of their rents.

A. few days since, two potatoes were dug out of the garden
of Mr. T7wist, Anchor Inn, Rhuddlan, weighing 71b. 10oz.
PARCEL CARRIAGE BY THE POST.—A gentleman, who is
acoustoL3ed to employ a silversmith at Birmingham, broke a
silver sailt spoon at his breakfast table on the morning of the
10th ins t. It was despatched by a penny letter to Birming-
ham to t e repaired, with a request that it might be returned
by the sane means.
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Cumtrism.—While the northern districts and the neigh-
bouring towns are placed in a state of alarm by the infatuated
Chartists, it is most highly gratifying to find that at no for-
mer period of public excitement has Huddersfield ever been
so 'perfectly tranquil. We hope the Huddersfieldians will
still persevere in the same line of conduct.—Halifax Guar-
dian.

It is rumoured that certain ladies of the Royal household,
whose influence is supposed to have been hitherto para-
mount, do not feel quite confident of its continuance under
approaching altered circumstances. Even Mrs. Smashem
herself doubts whether her counterfeit coin will pass current
under a husband's eyc.-,—Argus.
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Normanby is. coming " the jail liberator" freak in Eng-
lantl. He has commenced at Cierkenwell. There is nothing
like accustoming oneself to.all positions. His lordship's pa-
tronage of Jack Sheppard is now easily accounted for. On
leaving the New Prison the other day, his lordship whistled
my Dolly ; pals, fake away."—Age.

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It is a circumstance not generally known that the three
last pretenders of the dethroned family of the Stuarts have
recorded upon their tomb-stones, in the Cathedral Church of
St. Peter, at Rome, their pretended titles of Kings of Great
Britain and Ireland, under the names of Charles 111, James
'III; acid Henry IX, the last being the Cardinal who lived and
died a pensioner of George 111. ,
REPRESENTATION OF CtiEsHIRE.—An active canvass has
for some time been going on in both divisions of this county,
on the part of the supporters respectively, of the Hon. E. J.
Stanley and George Wilbraham, Esq. ; and of their oppo-
nents, on behalf of George Cornwall Legh, Esq., and J.
Tollemdche, Esq. Our contemporaries have positively main-
tained the certainty of the success of each party, according
as they have been moved by their political biases, thus prov-
ing, if their opinions were honest, that their means of infor-
- tnatiori were very defective. We cannot pretend to speak
but, if the conservatives are true to themselves,
wedomot'think there is much doubt as to the. result.—Mac-
clesjield Courier.

OPENING or A NEW Portsu CHAPEL AT OVER. DAR-
WEN.-011. Thursday last a, new' Popish Chapel was opened
at Over Darwen : as we did not witness Otte perfOrinances
wlirch took place on the occasion we cannOtiratify.ourread-i
ers with an account of them. It may be 'opAerved..tlmt Darr,
wen has heretofore been remarkable for pncity, from` lid
man hereSy, bathe ROniaiiists, who are '"'cunnings as, ser-
rents," act on a princiOle which our Protestant government
would d d well to ithitate, anderect mass-houses around which
converts may gather: Ail Ireland our Nivfivt Ministers, out of
their- extieditiglk. high regard 'for .tlidlititefeSts of the Na-
' tional Church, would fain deitrey that Church-in every parish
where a certain'iiitintiiHtlf'Protestantibi'not already exist.
Fitrestrittrfrartriforert—is-a-hrtek flied motto, which w,t5134.9-,
testants.,woutdlyvvellte:pay some attention to.—Btackbtirnj
Standard:—
AstoximaiNwSrEnn,+r• The A011147',Z one of the inoi4:fiow!-.-
effullOpAno,tive pnttbe ;Ore* -Western Railroad, vas.
envtoyeil. to bringUp the,.7).lBpatek expres'S'an Saturday night
from Monmouth.. The ..7Eqq..i: having waited the.arrival Of
the express boy at the TWyenrcl,#ation, the engineer imme-
diately set the machine in motion, and completed ten miles
in seven minutes'; he then (knowing that there was a train
about three quarters of an hour in advance of him, and that
the JEo/ns would overtake it) lessened his pace, but, never-
theleis, performed fifteen miles in fourteen minutes. The
speed was again slackened; and. the iEo/us approached the
terminus.at the same instant with the train! Ilad there been
no impediment, the whole distance, thirty-two miles, would
have been done in twenty-five 'minutes. In point of speed,
the Diiiateh express haS never been surpassed, and we doubt
whether it has been equalled,
THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.—The following sentiments upon
the subject of marriage are extracted from the Socialist,
whose author, Mr. Owen, was lately introduced to the Queen
as one of her loving subjects, by her Prithe Minister, thede-
fendant in Norton v. Melbourne In social communities
the irrational sounds of husband and wife, parent and child,
will not be heard. In the new moral world there will be no
public worship, vo forms and ceremonies ! no public prayersl
no gloom ! no mortificatiouof the -tiesh or. spirit i"., .
Marriage is- the sole cause of all prostitution ;it SitT
tanic device of the priesthood to keep mankind withih tlletr
slavish superstitions. There is, however, no hope for you
whatever until you acquire sufficient strength of mind to over-
come this evil, and openly denounce it both in principle and
practiceuntil you put away from among you and your chi],
dren this accursed thing, you will never know what real. hap-
piness is."