The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

to have an id

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has been on
Bishop of Wort(

Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Cottenham,
visit to his Right Reverend brother, the
r, at the Episcopal Palace, Hartleburv.

Jenny Lind will leave England for llamburgh, en route
for Berlin, at the beginning of October. She will spend
the winter in the bosom of her family at Stockholm.
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have sent £3O to the
)n subscription for the purchase of

treasurer
Shakspear

Since the act was passed which allows letters of any
weight to go by post, a leg of mutton, and a basket of
grapes, have gone through the Darlington Post-office !
The sentence of death passed on John Connor, a seaman
on board the Victory, for striking a midshipman, has been
commuted to two years' imprisonment
There were no fewer than twenty flu
, Tuesday's Gazette. In Friday's Gazette then

bankrupts in last

re fifteer.

vs that on Friday a I

•ge quantity

by the

'lgt
i bakers were cons

quently

compelled to lower their -prices

Last week, an Irishman was detected, in a field near
Huddersfield, stealing potatoes. He first pulled up the
plant, cleared it of the tubers, and then planted the stem

-The Inverness Courier says that at the end of the
Highland sports at Ardverikie, on Thursday week, Prince
Albert amused himself by " putting the stone," and ac-
quitted himself with much dexterity.
A respectable farmer of Somersetshire brow
horses to Bristol fair on Wednesday, which he

ght some
sold for

his pocket before he quitted the fair.
A match at cricket was played at Sheffield between ele-
ven of All England and eighteen of Sheffield when the
_ _

latter won with 17 wickets to go down. Lord Milton and
the Hon. C. Fitzwilliam were among the Sheffield players.

A man in attempting to ford the sands at 111o;eca.:mbe
Bay on Sunday week, below the regular place where the
guide attends, was surrounded by the tide, and before as-
sistance could be sent to him -he was drowned.

Captain Henry Mangles Denham, R.N., F.R.S., having
been appointed by the Admiralty to inspect arid report
upon the lighting and buoying of the Firth of Tay, has
proceeded to Dundee for that purpose.
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The Morning Chronicle states that the mansion of a
noble duke is in the possession of bailiffs for the satisfac-
tion of debts. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham is
supposed to be alluded to.

SUNDAY CRICKETING.—On Sunday week, a boy named
Charles Morse, aged 13, met his death by a blow from a
cricket ball, while playing with two other boys at Stan-
well, Middlesex.

ACCIDENT AT THE PEEBLES HITSTINGS.—
One of the gentlemen who fell at the Peebles hustings has
died in consequence of his injuries, and it is said the con-
tractor is to be tried at the ensuing Jedburgh Circuit.
Mr. Constable, publisher, of Edinburgh, has given the
large sum of £lO,OOO for the manuscripts left by the late

Chalmer

Amongst them is a commentary on the

s far as the book of Jeremiah

At the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, last week,
Mr. Joseph Garner, spinner and manufacturer, of Brad-
ford, on appearing to pass his final examination, stated

his good debts to amount to £4 is. Sd. and his bad debts
to £2OOO.

Mr. Massey, of Altrincham, found, last week, a chicken
coming chirping from the horse midden. An egg is sup-

posed to

lave been

id there by some

.en, and to have
The chicken is

been hatched by the heat of the manure

alive and doing well.

A NOVEL PAUPER.—In the stomach of a cod caught at
Kishorn, the other day, was found part of one of the go-
vernment meal bags, containing an order attached to 141 b.
of meal. The inspector was a good deal nonplussed at
such a claim.—Rossshire Advertiser.

The Kendal Mercury says that last week a shepherd's
dog furiously attacked a locomotive engine which was
proceeding along the Furness Railway, and was so maimed
by the wheels of its steam enemy that its owner was com-
pelled to kill it.
BRISTOL.—A few days since, no fewer than 25 vessels