The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Thomas Reddington, Esq., M.P., and Mr. Morgan John
O'Connell, son of Mr. D. O'Connell, M.P, were brought
before Mr. Long, charged with having rung the bells at the
doors of a number of houses in Jermyn-street.
The police stated that they saw the defendants walking
through Jermyn-street, at two o'clock that morning, pulling
the bells of every house which' they passed. Bishop C 72,
and another constable, set off in pursuit, and after a smart
run, overtook the defendants, and lodged them in the station-
house.

Both the defendants denied having rung any of the bells.
They admitted having attempted to straighten the wire of
one bell, which had been pulled out, and then forcibly bent. -
The police deposed that they saw the defendants ring seven
or eight bells in succession.
Mr. Long said he could not doubt the united testimony of
three policemen. He was sorry to see gentlemen amuse
themselves in a manner so unbecoming their station.
The fine of 40s. was inflicted.

THE ANATOMICAL VENUS.—WC observe, by an adver-
tisement in another column, that this astonishing work of
tart will be exhibited for a short time longer. The propri-
etor announces that, in consequence of a wish expressed by
several ladies for a more detailed anotomical explanation, a
competent person will deliver a"lectUre in the room this
evening, provided a sufficient number of names are obtained
for the purpose. We feel assured that our fair readers will
not neglect so favourable an opportunity of becoming ac-
quainted with the wonderful mechanism of the human frame,
especially as the exhibition is conducted with the most scru-
pulous regard for delicacy.

EXAMINATION OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE MECHANICS'
INSTITUTION.—Yesterday commenced the public exatnina-
tion of the several schools of this excellent and extensive in-
stitution,—to be continued this day. There was a very nu-,
merous and highly-respectable attendance of ladies and gen-
tlemen, who were much gratified by a visit to the several de-
partments. The pupils acquitted themselves in the various
branches of study in a manner highly creditable to their ta-
lented and pains-taking instructors, and to their own appli-
cation and anxious desire for improvement. Many of them
exhibited rare abilities and attainments in the several branches
of learning to which they had devoted themselves, and wilt
doubtless become in after life useful members of society, and
ornaments to, the age in which they live. Their respectful
deportment, the neatness of their attire, and their happy
countenances in their ardour of intellectual advancement,
were the general theme of admiration—we may say, of sur-
prise. Much merit is due to the officers and teachers of the
institution for their excellent management in every point.
On Saturday the result will be declared in the lecture-coon,
and we shall recur to the subject in our next publication.
THE ARCHIMEDES.—On Wednesday last, while this ves-
sel was rapidly passing George's pier, without paddle-wheel,
sails, or other apparent mode of propulsion. a native of the
sister isle was heard to say to a brother Pat—" Luk there
Tim ! There's a smart stamer for yez. I think she belongs
to Cork." " Stainer! do ye call ur? The 'liver a paddle-
wheel has she got to sind ur slung, and how can she be a
stamer ?" " But, resumed Pat, " luk at her chimney--pipe
smoking, and the two vir ould no close agin it stamen away
—the first white and the t'other black " Oh !" was the
reply, " you foolish spalpeen, don't ye see the ladies and
gintlemin crowdin' her decks, an' isn't thim there only the
smoke and statue o' the cook-house, where they're bilin' the
beef and the taties, good luck to them !" They were finally
puzzled to account for her speed, when another son of the
sod who had overheard them, exclaimed—" She's a stonier,
sure enough, and it's drawn by a screw under the water."
" Drawn by a screw, is it ?" said one one of them, " did'nt
I tell ye she was a Cork vessel, else why should she have a
screw to draw her ?"

One thousand six hundred and sixty-six passengers ar-
rived in New York between the 16th and 21st of April.
The New Orleans Picayune says, that every thing in that
city is so dull, it is impossible to find a razor sharp enough
to cut off a man's beard.

Among the British claimants on the Portuguese govern-
ment, it is understood, the Duke of Wellington and Lord
Beresford appear for the largest sums.
FRIGHTFUL.—A confirmed tobacco chewer, says the SI.
Louis Gazelle, for five years, chews one mile and a quarter
in length of tobacco in that time.

One of the most ordinary evils of tight whalebone stays is
to make the right shoulder of women much larger than the
left.

The learned judge of the Consistorial Court in Dublin, has
pronounced a decree of divorce against Edward Ruthven,
late M.P. for Kildare county.

The King of Denmark has abolished the use of the whip in
his colonies, and published an ordonnance, allowing slaves to
purchase their freedom.

The late Mr. Morison, "the Hygeist," took fifty of his
own pills on the day of his death, and refused to see a phy-
sician, alleging that if the pills did not cure him nothing
would. They were enough to kill him at all events.

Mr. Brindley, the anti-socialist lecturer, was presented
with a purse of forty sovereigns, at Leicester, in acknowledge-
ment of the services rendered by him to the cause of
christianity.
Mr. Lawrence Peel, who has been appointed to the lucra-
tive post of Advocate-General of India, is cousin of Sir
Robert Peel and nephew of the late baronet. Mr. Peel is a
barrister in Tanfield-court, Temple, and goes the northern
circuit.

There is at present in the grapery of Col. Conolly, at
Castletowu, a vine, measuring the extraordinary length of
100 feet ; and in order to thin the crop, the gardener, Ali-.
William Kelly, cut away 2000 bunches of grapes, leaving to
ripen the prodigious quantity of 3500 bunches. This is the
largest and most productive vine in this country.—Dvtliti
Paper.
The Thames Tunnel is driven to within 33 feet of a wharf,
about 25 feet long, which the company have permission to
make.

A circumstance, unparalleled perhaps in the annals of
cricketing, occurred on the Manchester ground on Friday
last. A whole side was put out by a single player.
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey is ordered to Quebec to
preside at a court martial on Commander Drew, on charges
preferred against him by Captain Sandom.—Hampshire
Telegraph.

The evening sky is at present highly attractive,—the
stupendous rings of Saturn being this year at their widest
extent; whilst Jupiter, the largest planetary body of our
system, affords an object of peculiar interest, both on account
of its belts, and its beautiful train of satellites.

Her majesty has recently presented to each of the clergy
engaged in the ceremony of the royal nuptials, a copy of the
Holy Scriptures, magnificently bound in purple and gold, as
a token of her gracious favour. There is an inscription in
each declaratory of the origin of the present in the autograph
of the Bishop of London.

Communication has been made to the Royal Antiquarian
Society of Copenhagen of some curious discoveries wade 1)"'
a Danish antiquarian near Bahia in Brazil, where lie I-0"
found several Runic remains, the foundations of boose,4 Pre-
cisely similar to those of the ancient Icelanders, and a statue.
of the Danish god Thor. This gives a final proof that South
America, as well as North America, had 'peen visited by Eu-
ropeans many ages pre.,,ious to the re-discovery of that con-
tinent by Columbus.
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