The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

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returns to government

Total. Weekly aver.
1845. January to Jnne 3,141,672.... 120,833
- July to December 3,398,913.... 130,727
1846. January to June 2,694,479.... 103,633
July to December 3,234,482.... 124,403
1847. January, four weeks 546,690.. 136,672
The town of Yarmouth is bound by ancient charter to
send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred herrings, which
are to be baked in twenty-four pies, or pasties, and then
delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton, who is
to convey them to the Queen.
AN ENCYCLOPIEDIAN NEWSPAPER.—A project has
been started by Mr. Luke Hansard, (a gentleman who
has proposed many very benevolent schemes, but which
have never been carried out, we apprehend, to the extent
of his wishes,) to bring out a newspaper, which isiths
verproperly to be called The Spirit of the Times, f
con-
tents are to embrace no less than sixteen distinct heads of
information, to each of which a whole page is to be devoted.
The publication, it seems, is first to appear in two sheets
equal to the Times, and next in a separate form, in octavo.
The price for both forms is extremely moderate ; and if
the projector may only be enabled to realise his vast con-
ceptions of the moral uses to which a newspaper may be
made to subserve, there can be no doubt that a new era in
journalism will take its date from the appearance of his
paper. _

FOOD
.RIOTS IN SCOTLAND.—The north of Scotland
is nearly in a state of insurrection. At Burghend, two
vessels laden with meal for export were deprived of their
cargoes. At Lossiemouth and Findhorn several carts were
seized, and the captured victuals lodged in storehouses.
The other places in the neighbourhood being in a similar
state of excitement, forty soldiers from Fort George have
been stationed at Elgin ; and a company from Aberdeen

has been sent to Port Gordon, into which the inhabitants
of Keith, an inland town, are said to be pouring in large
numbers. Passing over intermediate districts, the food
riot folly has also reached the south. In Stranraer, dis-
turbance was raised because two meal-dealers would not
sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves
were also stolen, but the promptitude of the authorities
prevented them reaching any great height. The Edinburgh
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think that the Highlanders are by far 'too indolent, and
that the distress, although severe, has in some instances

DUE OBSERVANCE Or THE SABBATH.—A numerous
meeting to promote this important object was held at Bir-
mingham on Tuesday. The evils resulting from the beer-
house system from Sunday traffic on canals, railroads, &c.
were ably pointed out by the various speakers, and also,,
the injurious consequences to the working classes pro-
duced by late payments on Saturday evenings. A memo-
rial was read to the meeting, signed by 1,298 tradesmen
of the town of Birmingham, (who had long opened their
shops on Sundays,) expressive of their desire that an end
should be put to all trading on that sacred day : they
asked protection, declaring " that they would gladly leave
off trading on the Sabbath, and enjoy its-rest, did they
not fear being ruined by loss of custom, if others were al-
lowed to carry it on." This is, no doubt a very prevalent
feeling in all towns ihroughout the kingdom, and
calls for
attention from the legislature, as well as the public in ge-
neral. We understand that some tradesmenin a small
way of business in this city incur loss rather than wound
their consciences by keeping their shops open on tbe Sun-
day ; such persons claim protection.—Worcestfr Journal.
MURDER AT DERBY.-011 Tuesday evening last, a
horrid and brutal -murder was committed by a person
named James Cross, a gardener, living up in a court in
St. Peter's-street, Derby, upon his wife. It appears that
Cross and his wife were in the house alone, and that,
from some unexplained cause, probably the result of a
quarrel, he attacked the woman in a furious manner, al-
most literally cutting off her head ; that being the condi-
tion of the unfortunate creature when the premises were
entered. We deeply regret to state that the diabolical
conduct of the man Cross was not confined to the murder
of his wife. It appears that Mrs. Osborne, baker and
flour dealer, in Peter's
-street, who resides very near to
Cross, hearing screaming, ran into the house, and that, on
seeing her, Cross plunged a knife into her throat, and
stabbed her in three different places. She now lies in an
exceedingly dangerous state, with, we fear, but a slight
chance of her recovery. Mr. Osborne, who as at home,
immediately followed his wife, and was horror-stricken at
the sight. The murderer, on an alarm being given,
wiped his bloody knife and endeavoured to escape, but
was taken into custody.