The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

The musical festivals of the approaching autumn will be at
Hull, Birmingham, and Hereford.

Upwards of seven tons of flint glass is manufactured
weekly in Manchester.
Potatoes were last week sold in Whitehaven at twopence,
half-penny per stone.

A detachment of the 79th Highlanders left Stockport, on
Wednesday morning last, en route to Gibraltar.

A very fine specimen of the hoopoe was shot, on Thurs-
day, on Skircoat Moor, near Halifax.
The United States government have been experimenting'
with success upon a 130-pounder (cannon) at Boston.
The list of subscriptions to the monument to the memory'
of the late Earl of Durham, up to Saturday last, exceeded
£2350.
Combustibles, such as lucifer matches, &c. are prohiNP'd,
by sec. 62 of the last postage act (3 and 4 Vic. c. 96), from
being forwarded by post.
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Three hundred excise officers have been discharged within
the lust mouth, in consequence of dispensing with permits
with tobacco.
The occupier of land may shoot or destroy rabbits without
a game certificate : there is no penalty for shooting wild
ducks without a certificate.
JOHN THOROGOD.—A paragraph has been golug the
round of the papers, stating, that the rate and costs tad been
paid, and Mr. Thorogood released. The statement is al-
together erroneous.—Patriot.
A PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.—A fine stag, a present
from the Marquis of Breadalbane to her Majesty, was, last
week, forwarded by the mail to Windsor.—Perth paper.

The Adelphi Theatre, which is now in ruins, is expected
to be rebuilt by the close of the ensuing month, when it will
be opened for the season, under the management of Mr.
Yates.

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An elderly young lady, in Boston, has sued a schoolmas-
ter in that city, for a breach of promise. She inferred the
contract from the fact, that he had taken tea at her house
twice a week for ten years.

Last week, in the pariah of Gulval, on the farm of Mr.
John Samson, innkeeper, Penzance, no fewer than 174 pota-
toes were found growing from one stem, the greater number
of which were saleable.

An immense number of meteors, known in the northern
parts of Europe, by the name of " st. Lawrence's Tears,"
were observed to dart along the sky over the Pnited States
on the usual anniversary, viz. on the night of August 10.
A physician at Bath advertises for a wife, and says he
adopts these means " to avoid the tedium of courtship !"
Mrs. Trollope is about to become a permanent resident in
the neighbourhood of Carlisle, having purchased a little man-
sion called Eamont Lodge.

One evening last week, as Mr. Whitehead, constable of
Bilston, was endeavouring to take his seat on the mail whilst
leaving Wolverhampton at a rapid rate, he missed his hold,
and fell with such violence upon his head that he was ren-
dered insensible ; he expired in the course of a very short
time,

Considerable sensation has been excited among the en•
gravers in the Potteries, by experiments that are now being
made by a gentlemen from London, in transferring designs
and patterns from lithographic prints to earthenware. Ap-
prehensions arc entertained that it will supersede engraving
altogether : the effect is really beautiful. Staffordshire
Gazette.

The Staffordshire Gazette expresses a confident opinion,
that if there be an election for the borough of Walsall under
the forthcoming registration, the Conservative will he re,.
turned.
A workman in the iron foundry of Mr. Thornwill, at Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, was killed on Wednesday, by an immense
quantity of iron falling upon him.
The differences between the colliers in the neighbourhood
of Stourbridge and Dudley and their masters, on the subject
of wages, have been adjusted, and the men have resumed
work.
A joiner named Halliwall was kill@sl in a cotton factory at
Wigan last Wednesday, by a mallet f
,-4-r*Eit from an upper
room upon his head.
In the neighbourhood of Lancaster nearly all the grain is
cut,
sample is generally good.
The
commissioners of excise have determined that apothe-
caries are not liable to prosecution for selling spirits of wine.
This decision was elicited by an attempt on the part of the
non-licentiates of Drogheda to prosecute the licentiates for
vending a few ounces of that article. ,
The Great Wostorn has crossed the Atlantic 28 times
during the period of the 1.4 months just elapsed without ac-
cident, maintaining an almost uniform spatscl, of which the
average time was I 6 days going, and 13 to It days coming
back ; the last voyage was even accomplished in eleven days
and a half.
The quantity of sulphur now warehoused in the Tyne is
immense, and the demand for it next to nothing. The ma-
nufacturers seem determined to dispense, as far as possible,
with his Sicilian Majesty's assistance, by obtaining their sup-
plies, in future, in the shape of pyrites, from the hills of
Wicklow. A considerable quantity has already been re-
ceived,—Gateshead Observer.
At an early
hour on Thursday morning, an elegantly dressed
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tics r-b ri
attireddge, andin a was m
female threw herself into the river from the middle arch on
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insta..y carr,,c, away by the
tide.
black satin" dress and white silk
bonnet.—Times.
In
existed Manchester,for two
yaeanrisg, has
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night asylum for
productiveth
eof much
destitute,uch
has
—no fewer than 20,335 individuals have been relieved during
the last year—, at an expence of £365, or £1 per day.
About ten days since a woman called at a country post-
office, not a hundred miles from John O'Groat's, with a
letter which she wished posted, and tendered four eggs as
prepayment of the postage of the same I ?—John Groat
Journal.
PaAntric GRAIN.—Last March Mr. Bakes, of the Malt
Shovel Inn, Idle, showed a single oat grain in a small plot
of, ground by itself, This single grain has produced 55 stems,
many of which are of unusually large dimensions, and
upwards of 2,000 grains.—Leeds