The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

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A royal commission has been appointed to enquire into
the live and dead meat markets of London. _

A statue in memory of Lord Nelson is about to be
erected at Norwich, Norfolk being his native county.

At present there is not a single prisoner in the -Ripon
House of Correction.

Last week, five sheep and two pigs were imported into
London from New York.

Lady Seaham gave an elegant ball to a distinguished
circle of the aristocracy at Bryn-y-pys on Wednesday.
The lucifer-match manufactory of Mr. Smith, at Charl-
ton, near Dover, has been destroyed by fire.
Several orders for spears have been received in Sheffield
from the Austrian government.

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On Sunday night. the shop of Messrs. .M`lsrab, of Perth,
was robbed of watches, &c., to the amount of £5OO.

It is reported that in a garden in Hampshire, the tem-
perature of the soil has been raised fifteen degrees, by
draining heavy land four-and-a-half feet deep.
The Marquis of Dalhousie is expected to return home
from India, on account of his health, before the hot
weat her.

Mr. Frank Foster has been appointed " principal en-
gineer" to the Metropolitan Court of Sewers, at a salary
of £l3OO with £2OO travelling expenses..
At Banbury, the painful operation of firing has been
performed on a horse when under chloroform, with perfect
success.

An incorrigible soldier of the 50th Foot was drummed
out of the regiment with the usual ceremonies, at Dover,
on Friday.

Mr. Spark, of Daventry, has been appointed organist of
the parish church of St. George, Leeds, vacant by the
elevation of Dr. Wesley to Winchester Cathedral.
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Professor Dick recommends to farmer:; to wash all roots
before giving them to cattle, stating that he has seen a
hundred weight of earth taken out of a horse that had
been killed by it.

A sum of -X2OO, in twopenny subscriptions from the
private constables of police, in London, has been realized
for the widow of constable Walsh, who lost his life in the
sewer at Pimlico.

A young man named Gibbs, employed by a Spanish
merchant in London, hung himself last week in conse-
quence of being suspected of a theft, and being watched
by policemen.
The Hull newspapers are calling out for a stipendiary
magistrate to be appointed for that borough. A slight
fracas between Ald. Thomson and the Mayor has revived
the cry.
A Sheffield paper relates that an old Irish woman,
living at Barnsley, lately cut two leeches into pieces, and
forced her daughter to swallow them, as a surgeon had
ordered two leeches to be applied to the girl's stomach.

The Board of Admiralty- has issued orders to all the
dockyards, that iron vessels lying near ships that are cop-
pered are to be removed, in consequence of the galvanic
action likely to arise.
Correspondents of the Builder and Daily lketva advo-
cate the propriety of reviving the ancient custom of burn-
ing the dead, as the most reasonable and expedient mode
of disposing of our mortal remains.
Turnbull, the man in custody as being concerned in the
murder of Thomas Dairdson, game-keeper to Sir James
Graham, committed suicide in Carlisle Gaol on Wednes-
day last. The other parties concerned are still at large.
A grocer living at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, was returning
home on Wednesday night, when he fell head foremost
into the cellar window hole of an inn, and was found quite
dead on the following morning.
upAn active business has been done in Spanish Bonds,
on the information that the government at Madrid is
likely to accomplish a saving of 44,000,000 per annum in
the state expenditure.