The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

Tag lIVERPOOL STANDARD.

It is said that the Bank of France has already male
arrangements for the repayment to Messrs. Baring and
Co. of the loan of £BOO,OOO, due at the end of the present
month, by credits upon St.. Petersburg, and it is antici-
pated in some quarters that some bf the gold then may
find its way back to England through that operation.
It is stated that the ministers were to assemble in town,
yesterday, for the purpose of considering the proposition
made by the Irish landlords, for an extensive scheme of

emigration. Some of the ministers,
favourably disposed towards it; but it

be adopted

1., has

,d the most at-

Letters from Scotland advise of a most extraordinary
event. The lord-lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a
member of the Scotch peerage, has suddenly absconded,
leaving behind-him a mass of bills and securities bearing
the forged names of his own son and other relatives. The
signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties.
It is reported that large amounts of charity funds are in-
volved in the wreck of the party in question.—DailyNews
... •

At Fareham; on Tuesday-, Charles Wolfe, a footinan in
the service of Mr. W. Thresher, was committed for trial
for attempting to murder his fellow-servant, a young wo-
man named Elizabeth Ayling. The prisoner made no de-
fence. It appeared from the evidence that he followed
the prosecutrix into her room, there struck her on the
head, and then attempted to kill her with a razor. The
prisoner afterwards attempted to cut his own throat.
From one portion of the evidence it would appear he was

ncited by jealousy.
REDUCTION IN THE DUTIES OF FOREIGN TIMBER,
&c.—From Thursday last the duties on foreign timber and
deals undergo the following reduction :—Timber from
£1 ss. to £1 the load of 50 cubic feet ; deals from £1 12s.

to £1 ditto ; staves from £1 Bs. to £1 3s. the great hun-
dred of 120 pieces • handspikes over 7 feet from £2 to
£1 12s. ditto ; handspikes under 7 feet from £1 to 16s.
ditto ; lathwood from £1 to 16s. the fathom ; and deals of
fall lengths, thickness, and breadth 20 per cent. on the

indred of 120 pieces

of the number of ships, laden with foreign corn, entered
inwards in the year ended sth January, 184

we learn

ays the Standard) that the grain and flour imported ir

1710 British ships was—
Grain, quarters ......

1,348,529

Grain and flour imported in 2927 Foreign ship

Flour and meal, cwts

Grain, quarters

. . 1,744;506
1,938,948
ORKSHIRE BARRISTERS.—A barrister of the Northern
Circuit had, occasion to attend the Reading Assizes, the
other day,
_in the capacity of a witness in a horse case.

The learned judge (Maule) suggested that barristers gene-
rally were not supposed to know much of the 'Merits of
horses. The witness thereupon replied—" But _ your

lordship plus
this ti.

it recollect that I am a Yorkshireman

Counsel engaged in the cause added, " Yes, my
lord, the Yorkshire barristers know a great deal more
about horsgs than they do about law."
Ma. JUSTICE MAUER'S I
for the judges at the Readir
Mr. Justice Maule r

The accommodation
issizes is extremely meagre.
inded the authorities of this the

other day, in rather a humorous manner. Coming into
court in the morning, with the little three-cornered hat

ship, turning

round to the under-sheriff, addressed him in alOud tone

On Sunday se'nnight, during the morning service at
Powick Church, a young lady was observed to be in a
fainting condition, and the same symptoms also imme-
diately afterwards affected others of the congregation, to
the number of about twenty. They were conveyed into
the open air and to the adjoining houses, And after some
time and trouble, they all recovered, having apparently
suffered severely from incipient suffocation. It was found

on investigation, that the alarming occurrence was caused
by the sulphureous vapour evolved in the process of
e..--. 44.- 41-10 vvrov,,,,,c. _

THE NEW COMET.—This object, discovered on Feb. 6,
has, during the last 20 days, been visible to the naked eye
in the constellation Andromeda, shining as a star of the

fourth magnitude, with a tail extending, on March 2U,
about four degrees from the nucleus. On the 30th of
March, at noon, it was calculated that the comet was dis-

took place

,bout 6 o'clock in the evening.
tin nebulosity is about 65.0410

The diamete

of the more condensed central part 8000 ; the tail extend!

THE In

TRADE

es from

to maintain the pre-
ent prices of iron during the ensuing quarter. At Dud-
ley, on Tuesday, it was resolved to resist any further
attempts on the part of the men to exact an advance in
the existing rate of wages, the present rates bearing a
ratio to the price of iron very much in favour of the

,een resolveC

ie iron-

he Birmr

workmen. k Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, the
meeting was well attended. It was reported that iron
is at present in great demand, and many good orders on
hand. There was consequently no attempt to reduce the
prizes, which stand ag follow :—Pig iron, £5 to £5 10s. ;
railway iron, £lO 10s. ; and bar, £lO.
TIIE FACTORY BILL.—Lord Ashley has addressed a
letter to the short-time committees of the counties of

Lancaster, Chester, and York, in which he says—" It is
impossible that I should omit to congratulate you on the
glorious victory obtained by your friends, yesterday, in
the division on the Factory Bill, when a majority of 78

66 members only having been found to vote against It:
We cannot be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for
this important progress towards the full attainment of a

welfare of 3:ourselves and yoir children."

SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A SNIPE.—A dead snipe
was found lately in one of the Castle meads by Mr. W.
C. Tisoe. It had evidently been starved to death with
food in its beak. The upper part of its long bill was
jammed into a piece of hollow reed about an inch long,
and in the lower part of the bill towards the point was en-
closed - .mall t --"- ' ' I had doubt been

a Jeetle. The biro,
ooring into the reed for the beetle and the stump of a
hrnt-on Ipavincr a nnrfirm fiffino- en Ha,

upper part c

effork

fr. Knight with the beetle within, and the reed
around its bill, as a curiosity.—Hertford Mercury.

The Kent and Essex wharf was burnt to the ground on