The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lord and Lady Stanley, and their eldest son, have arrived at
Knowsley Hall, from their annual visit to his lordship's estate
at Bally Itiston, county Tipperary.
The Brussels Chambers are summoned to meet on Tuesdavi
the Bth of November; when the King, it is announced, will

open the session in person.
THAMES TUNNEL.—It appears that eighty feet have been
added to the tunnel since the work was resumed. Its length
is 679 feet, and it is beyond midway of the breadth of the river.
RAILItoADS.—Since its opening nearly three times as many
persons have passed on the railroad between Brussels and
Antwerp, as have gone in the same period on that between
Liverpool and Manchester.
" Stand up and vote," says one of the council last Tuesday
to his next neighbour. Up the worthy rose, and did- his was-
ter's bidding, and then, with inimitable simplicity, inquired
what it was about he had voted.—Cut entry Standard.
An immense mushroom, weighing 13 ounces, and measuring
28i inches in circumference, was gathered from a spontaneous
bed in the garden of Mr. Cannon, Wutobbauk, Gerard's-cross,
in the begginning of last month.
Lord Hawardeu has been elected an Irish representative peer
in the room of the late Lord I)ufferin. The numbers were--e
for Lord Hawarden, 86; for Lord Lismore,
An Irish murderer was acquitted In the teeth of evidence,
The counsel fur the prosecution was envious as to how the thing
could have happened; and the next day addressed himself to
one of the jury, who, he was iuformed, had stood out for " loot •
guilty." His inquiry was thus answered:—" Arrah, Mr.
do ye think I'd be after hanging the last life in my lease?"
CUNNING.—A short time since, High Constable Hays went
to search a house, where a man had been robbed of a £lOO bill.
After a strict search, he was about to leave the premises with-
out success, when he suddenly turned to the old woman in at-
tendance, and giving her his handy wished her good bye. lu
so doing, the crafty officer drew a tailor's thimble from her
finger, in which was hidden the identical note.—New York Ex-.
press. -
Ito AD TO RCIN.--According to the Cincinnati Mirror, a matt
who was hanged lately in a neighbouring state, for burglary
and murder, cunfessed under the gallows that this career of
crime began by stopping a newspaper without paying fur it.
THE CITY IF ItreoN.—The creation of the new Episcopal
See, iu this county, has elevated Hipou to the distinction of a
city. Manchester has not yet attained that honour, belt, the
Man-
chester is gazetted.
new designation will be confirmed when the Bishop of Man-
\ Theatre diehri;
n animal mnynetism. This effect is produced by
ldham,
Transcript says they have begun. to fatten hogs, at
and
swt
sthli.:l34,:tiu, thehena work-.h
ohn Thursday morn-
snea'srraihtillnog:)totluitair backs with iron hoops.
generallT OyFwiethlidfr:SthPe"tiNo}t'ipitteisis' which °sicaLtntolley had to eviously
ate sorry
weekgiven to leave their employment; and several of the mills
stopped e‘lc. cottoncoviie,ri
e%,ilec.
ints. to learn, owing to
s_sh differences or to the want of a thorough understand-
some r
t the time the notices. were withdrawn, a renewal of the
Mg a
urn-out has taken place in one or two
cases; and fears were
etntertained )esterday that the turn-out \view! become general.
'Trap-OUT AT OLDHAM.--On Monday morning the operative
cotton spinners, at twenty-eight mills, in Oldham, turned out
for an advance of GI per tuousand hanks. DirWedieslay and,
Thursday the masters and men had meetings--the men wanted
to go to work at the old twrices. The masters refused•to allow
them to work this week. l'he ptites which have been given at •
Oldham have been 3s. 91. for 50-s. and 3s. 10th fur 6.J.,5. per
thousand hanks.—Baltan Chronicle.
THE FUSTIAN_ CUTTERS.—The turn-out of Moo ft-11,n still
continues. It will be seen by advertisements in our first page,
what are the views of both masters and operatives in this (rigs
pute.—A meeting of the fustian cutters was held at Zara-street • •
preaching rooms on Thursday, the 31 instant, which was at-
tended by thirteen or fourteen hundred persons, and was con-
ducted with the greatest decorum. Resolutions were agreed
upon to the following effect —That the list of prices offered to
the manufacturers at their general meeting, held at the York
Hotel, on Wednesday, the 2nd instant, should be the standard
list of the trade; and that the sincere thanks of the meeting be
given to those gentlemen who had kindly acceded to that list.—
Afanchester Guardian.
Coa es.—ln consequence of the high price of coals, an attempt
is about to be made at Leicester to ',pen a mine e hich is sir jit to
exist there, and which, it is presumed, will render that neigh-
bourhood independent of the north. At Northampton a shaft
has been sunk to the depth of 215 feet and of these 150 feet
have presented what is termed blue clunch, which in all previous
cases has been found the precursur of coal, and the speculators
are confident of finding a good vein of coal. In London, too,
the old legend is revived that as near town as Blackheathat"
an
excellent field of coal exists, which has hitherto been
un
tended to.
r:
lem azette
Two curious circumstances are related by the Sa
present season.
as evidence of the dryness awl coldness of the pr,.;l
on the
A peat meadow, back of Chapman's tavern, in
S‘seeveral acrc•s
old Boston road, has been nearly a fortnight, untilbatl been planted
have been consumed. A part of the meadovsn
with potatoes, which have been destroyeadd
rdi)asted,cinin'aidsul'a'te'
they have been taken from the g
t e"o“ki place front the Irurn-
perfectly fit for eating.
The
firef the Ineucloc.---13uston Trost-
lug of Some bushes at the edge o
script. h• (Waned at Parisi Who has L6A
A dwarf has lately made i!ttfTeo le
of in
that
eit
come an object of interest the
'tier from Trieste, where he was born,
e.
He conies from Itlyria,
of called Gulia. The peculiarity of
hi respectable parents,
case is, that up
areits, and
t'o the age of five he was a child of ordinary
proportions,
his growth then suddenly ceased, and he is
now, at 22 just
but
size he was then. His height is exactly
,
three feet; he Watheret re, not horn a dwarf. His figure is
d 1
'moue , ant he possesses mind and intelli-
beautifolly Prot', h v• -
rnmon to ot er Ile speaks fluently five
gens..e not co
s the two which are common upon the Ad t. • G
language., ria er-
lien He is, be
men, French, and Ica lien, . ziceomplished, plays
the violin, and mounts and manages a nurse with considerable
grace. The check to his development at tire age of five, and
his invariable good health ever since, are, however, circum-
stances worthy the attention of physiologists.
THE LAST DAYS OF MRS. ITEMANs.—We are told by Mr.
Charley, in his new work, the " Memoirs of Mrs. Ilemans,"
which is written in an excellent spirit, that towards the close of
her exemplary life, " she spoke often of the far-away friends
whom she valued, and world send them messages of liminess
and comfort. Slit was aneisus that one (Miss Milford) should
be told of the delight which her country ti:enes and sketches
had given her; that another, the cern pan ion of her graver
hours, should be assured that 'the tenderness and ;iffectiiin of
the REDEeeett's character, which they had often contemplated
together, was a source, not merely of reliance, I lot ?t. positive
happiness to her,—it was the sweetness of her couch."