The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, JULY 3

Off Point Lynas, at 6 a.m., No. 4601, Prompt, B. Bk.
Two schooners, inward bound, aground in the Rock Channel, at

Off Holyhead, at 5 a.m., a ship, with No. 1572 flying, without
any distinguishing pendant
Off-Holyhead, at 8 a.m., No. 1319, B. 8., from Guayaquil
Off Point Lynas, at 8 30 a.m„ No. 1572, Fairlie, ship
Off Holyhead, at 9 a.m., No. 1088. Elizabeth, 8.8.
Off Great Ormshead, at 9 a.m., No. A.S.

a7O, r airfiela,
The two schooners which were aground, got off at ro ss a.m
and are inward bound

Off Point Lynas, at 12 noon, in want of pilots, No. 1319, Pearl,
B. 11.; and No. 1088, Elizabeth, B. B.: have not telegraphed where
from.

MISCELLANEOUS

HORRORS OF INDECISION.—A judge down west was lately
so equally and strongly divided in opinion upon the question,
whether robbery was cheating or borrowing, that he fell in
two.

Trout are so plentiful in Granville, Massachusetts, that
while one man is fishing for them another is obliged to stand
by the hook, with a club, to prevent more than one from
biting at a time !—American paper.

Compositors in a printing-office are curious chaps. They
love bread and cheese, turkey, ham, veal, porter, julaps,
cigars, and in fact every thing good, except pie—they hate
that as they do the—lack of copy.

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EXPLICIT DIRECTION. A gentleman lately travelling
through a certain village not many miles from Halifax, in-
quired of a person whom he met in the street " the nearest
way to Littlebro," and received the following simple answer,
" Yo tnun goe as far as yo can see, and then turn to yor left.';
His Grace the Archbishop of York is causing great pre-
parations to be made at Mincham Oxfordshire, for the re-
ception of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who intends
honouring his grace by a visit of a few days in the course of
next month.

LETTING OUT.—An Irish tailor, making a gentleman's
coat and vest too small, was ordered to take them home and
let them OW . Some days after, the gentleman inquiring for
his garments, was told by the ninth part of an Ipishrnan, that
the clothes happening to tit a countryman of his, he had let
them out at a shilling per week.

It has been stated lately that there are still hopes that an
operation will restore the sight of the Crown Prince of
Hanover.

Dr. Cummin has resigned the Professorship of Midwifery
in the University of Glasgow. The appointment is in the
crown.

SUBTERRANEAN GARDEN.—We understand there are
now growing in the 214 fathom level of Wheal Vor mine
fine kidney and pod beans.— West Briton.
MORE PROOFS OF IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND.—At
this moment there are 342 persons in Clonmel gaol, of which
129 are for trial at the assizes. Sixteen are charged with
murder.—Limerick Chronicle.
Some persons would have us believe that a Chinese war
will cut us off from a supply of rhubarb as well as tea, but
the former, of the best quality, has hitherto always come
from Turkey.
There are ninety-five colleges in the United States, con-
taining about 9500 students ; twenty-seven medical schools,
with about 2800 students ; and eight law schools, with 350
students.

The epidemic, which of late has been so general amongst
cattle, in several parts of the country, is now very prevalent
at Knaresborough. Numbers have fallen victims to this dis-
tressing malady.

We regret to hear that Lord Brougham, since his last re-
turn from abroad, has laboured under a depression of spirits,
which is confirmed by his altered voice and manner in the
House of Lords.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—We understand it
has at length been resolved that the foundation-stone of the
Scott Monument is to be laid with masonic honours on the
15th August. The site, we may remind our readers, is in
the East Prince's-street Gardens, at the foot of St. David-
street.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

The Taunton Courier says that the apple crops will not
prove so bountiful as from the early indications was ex-
pected, and that the shears of grass have been everywhere
uncommonly thin.

Lord Chesterfield has ordered his splendid hunting stud,
consisting of sixty horses, to be brought to the hammer at
Tattersall's. His lordship's extensive stud is at Brixworth,
near Northampton.—lpswich Express.
A greater quantity of rain fell in Boston on Sunday night,
than during any night since August last; the depth exceeded
three-quarters of an inch, as shown by a rain guage kept in
the town.—Boston Herald.

A TOUGH MORSEL.—According to a recent traveller in
the extreme northern regions of the Russian empire, the
spring rarely passes over without some of the population be-
ing reduced to the necessity of subsisting on the leather of
their clothing.

The Earl of Sefton has purchased one of the splendid new
mansions in Belgrave-square, next door to Mr. Grenfell's.
The price paid by the noble earl is £22,000. The mansion
is still unfinished, and his lordship will not take possession
until next season
The waters of the Seine in Paris are so low that they have
only to fall a few inches more to be down at the lowest point
ever known, which was in 1719. The navigation of the river
above Paris, and also that of the Marne, is interrupted.
A grand musical performance took place at Aix-la-Cha-
pelle a few days ago, in which 550 instrumental, and 441
vocal performers, were engaged. Among the pieces per-
formed were Mozart's oratorio of David penitent, Spohr's
Lord's Prayer, and a grand symphony, by Beethoven.
A few days ago, a large pike, measuring 3 feet 10 inches in
length. 20 inches in girth, and weighing 21i lbs., was caught
in the lake at Capheaton, by Simon Simmons,
,boatman to
Sir J. E. Swinburne, Bart.—Newcastle Journal.

There is now in the museum of the Huddersfield exhibition
a serpent alive, which was found in a hole in a block of log.
wood at Dewsbury, a few days ago, while sawing it to pieces.
The reptile appears quite healthy, and must have been em-
bedded many months, but how it exists is a problem that
must be left to the naturalist to solve. It is about eighteen
inches long.
As we anticipated last week the present one has been pro-
ltihfiec
retail
nhtaeits supply of fresh herrings, to the heartfelt satisfaction
If both the fishermen and the poor inhabitants of the town.
this cheap
market has continued to be abundantly supplied with
substituteiallapriee m ay n foowr ab
e beef-steak
quoted
at through
twenty-fourthe
for week, s andhi
in g• —Manx Liberal.

LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT,

Montreal, Pot.
Pearl, new .

AL% D cwt,
23 OLD 25 0 Dutch, crop
j3l 0 —3l 0 Ombro

s. d. s. d.
7o 0 —SO 0
50 0 —65 0

U. States, Pot.. none. I Gamene 32 0 —4O 0
Pearl none. if Mull
BARK, Quercit. .. 12 0 13 0 i French, S.F.
Oak, 1.). ton ..£ 5 0 610 S.F.F 48 0 —52 0
German 3 10 4 15 / E.5.F... 54 0 —5B 0
BRIMSTONE, if., ton E.5.F.F.63 0 —66 0
Sicily, &c l2 10 •
.. 40 0 —5B 0
Tuscany l2 10
CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d.

13 0 i Spanish
13 0 MOLASSES, o Cal
S. (Id Trinidad, /k,c