The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

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The Daily News states that the lA-monthly Indian
mail, via Southampton, will shortly be re-established.
Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell have each sub-
scribed £lOO for the Irish.

Tt is statccl that Lady Lincoln, daughter of the Duke of
Hamilton, has conformed to the Romish faith.

Charles Dra';e, belonging to the Essex county police,
has been committed to take his trial, charged with incen-
diarism.

On the night of the 14th, Lord Cardigan's reeimentals,
worth £l2O, were stolen by some person from the Houns-
low Barracks.

The vessel Colonist, from Hobart Town, has brought
672 bags of wheat, as a portion of her cargo, of Australian
produce. She had also on board 3,800 hams.

Fresh cases of cholera, but not very numerous, con-
tinue to occur in London. At Dublin the epidemic is on-
the decline.

A call of £2O per share, in addition to £3O already
called, is about to be made upon the shareholders of the
North of England Bank by Master Farrer, under the
Joint Stock Companies' Winding-up Act.
The General Assembly of the Scottish Establishment
has accepted, by a large majority, the Government scheme
of education. It was opposed by Dr. Muir; and, after
the resolution of the assembly, he tendered his resignation
of the Convenorship of Committee.
The Bishop-Wearmouth question is likely to be arni.
cably settled; and an income of £l2OO per annum
being retained for the incumbent of the mother-church,
a surplus of nearly £2OOO per annum will remain, to be
distributed among the poor chapelries of the district.
It is stated that Mr. Wombwell'S death occurred in this
way :—Two elephants in the same compartment began to
fight. Deceased went into the den and pricked one of
them with an open knife which he had in his hand, upon
which the infuriated animal struck him with one of ite
tusks, in the lower part of the abdomen.

BUILDING SET ON FIRE BY THE SUN.—On Friday
week, the rafters of a coal shed in Malling-street, Lewes,
the property of Mr. George Molineux, caught fire by the
concentration of the sun's rays upon it, through a sky-
light, the panes of which having a slight convexity in the
centre, acted as a lens in bringing the rays to a focus.

CONSOLATION FOR FARMER.S.OIIe of our corn millers
having purchased fifty sacks of French flour, on an
observation being made to him of the strangeness of a
Yorkshire miller buying French flour, replied that he
could buy it for less money than he could buy wheat for
and grind it in his own mill.—Hull Packet.

AN IMPUDENT IMPOSTER.—A corn doctor was sum-
marily ejected from Dudley last week for gross imposition.
He was seen to purchase a pennyworth of green wafers at
a stationer's, and these he palmed off upon the simple-
tons in the market as a wonderful compound of Chinese
vegetables, certain to eradicate corns root and branch.
" TUE PENNY PUNCH."--A new candidate for public
favour has just appeared under this title, and professes to
be. on the abdication of old Punch, a veritable chip of the
old block. If it sustains itself with one-half the vigour
which the old publication has exhibited,it will soon realize
a large share of popular encouragement. The specimen
number is a very fair one.
A serious accident lately happened at Nigg, Kincar-
dineshire, to a young lad who had been shooting birds,
and who thoughtlessly put the loaded pistol which he was
using into his pocket. It went off, and the contents
lodged in his thigh, producing a fearful wound ; and,
erisypelas having since appeared, he now lies in a critical
state.

A clerk at the Bradford house of the well-known firm
of Messrs. A. and S. Henry, merchants, has recently
absconded, taking with him nearly £lOOO in cash, the
property of his employers. The money was obtained from
the Commercial Bank, Bradford, by means of a forged
cheque upon the Leeds Branch of the Bank of Englend,
with whom Messrs. Henry do business. _ .

AN ESCAPE FROM BURIAL ALIVE.—The cholera is
raging in the Niliege of Arlingham, Gloucestershire. A
singular incident occurred there on Mohday last. A child
named Phillips, who was supposed to be dead, was laid
out with her mother, who had died of cholera, and the
bodies were about to be buried. The father, however,
while bearing some burning tar through the house, said
the child moved; it gradually recovered, and is now
living.
A man bought a gownpiece at a sale by auction in
Louth, Lincolnshire, on Thursday week, and jestingly
cried that the first woman who would give him a kiss
should have the dress as a gift. A woman,—whether
young or old, fair or ugly, is not said by the Stamford
Mercury, which relates the story,—immediately stepped
forth, kissed him, and carried off the gownpiece, to the
utter discomfiture of the confounded joker, who vainly
protested that he had never meant to be taken at his
word. _ _

At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Monday,
James Winch, bookseller, was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment for publishing and selling the infamous
Sam Sly, containing a libel on the Rev. Robert. Liddell,
vicar of Barking. Coffin, another publisher, and his
shopman Smith, were also sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment each for a like offence ; the former, in addi-
tion, to pay a fine of £lO, and both to enter into recog-
nizances of £lOO to keep the peace for three years.
A FASTIDIOUS BENEDICT.—Died lately at Castor, aged
97, Mr. Thomas Tomlinson, ladies' shoemaker. The
deceased was very eccentric. He was thrice married, and
his eccentricity was manifested particularly iu the dispa-
rity of his wives' ages. His first wife was sixty years
older than himself, the second twenty years younger, and
the third (who survives him) sixty-three years younger
than himself, she having been born about the battle of
Waterloo, and the deceased about the Battle of Culloden.
Glasgow Mail.
On Thursday, a commercial traveller, from Stafford-
shire, who had spent the evening with five respectable
inhabitants of Halifax, at an inn of that town, suddenly
declared that he had been robbed of £2OO by them, or
one of them. The police were consequently summoned
to make a search, when they discovered the purse, with
the missing money, under the pillow of the accuser's bed,
where he had himself placed it, and had afterwards for-
gotten what he had done. The accused were naturally
very indignant, but ultimately agreed to accept the obli-
vious traveller's apologies, on condition that he should
present £5 to the Halifax Infirmary.
LIFE-BOAT FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.--• The Court
Circular of Saturday announced the construction of a
beautiful life-boat on a peculiar principle, for the Prince
of Wales. The following aro the dimensions of the boat :
—Length over all, 20 feet ; length on the keel 17 feet 4
inches; breadth at the main thwart, 3 feet 24 inches;
breadth at the backboard thwart, 2 feet 11/ inches;
breadth at the row lock, 3 feet 71. inches ; depth 111
inches. She is constructed of bird's eye maple, thelinings,
saxboards and thwarts being of Spanish mahogany; her
keel band, stem bands, and rudder hangings are of
bronze, the rudder of maple, with a carved yoke, gilt, and
silk lines of tassels of crimson and gold colour. She is
also fitted with an elegantly carved chair, the seat of which
is covered with crimson satin damask, with an elaborate
pattern in raised velvet, of the same colour, the back be-
ing supported by the Prince of Wales's feathers, carved in
maple, and heightened with gold. The rowing mat is of
the same material as the cushion of the chair, and there is
a small foot ottoman, of Utrecht velvet. The ocelle are
mahogany, and are very light.: