The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

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battle was over. Guns, prisoners, ammunition, wag-
gons, baggage, horses, successively fell into our hands.
Night and fatigue compelled us to halt. We halted on
each side of the Genappe road, and in a short time nu-
merous columns of Prussians came pouring along in pur-
suit of the enemy. Each battalion cheered us in paksing.
The officers saluted, and many embraced us. Never was
witnessed a more enthusiastic moment. We felt amply
rewarded for the exertions of the day. The Prussians
continued the pursuit without interruption. Lord Hill
and staff retired to a small cottage where we now are.
We have but one room between nine of us, including his

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It cost the Duke of Cleveland, last year. £5,000 in the
conveyancing of an estate of £7,000 or £B,OOO a-year.
Professor Wilson has published a letter disclaiming- all
present connection with Blackwood's Magazine.
_...,• they paused ; On Wednesday, the London bakers lowered the price
_..menced firing from the of the four pound loaf a half-penny.
and attempted to extend their The East Tndia Company have granted an annuity of
du £lOOO to Major-General Sir G. Pollock.
1 i There were no fewer than twenty-five tankrupts in
1 l Friday's Gazelle.
The Rev. W. S. Monck, one of the curates of the
•
At parish church, Leeds, has fallen a victim to the fever at
tncir courage useless, present raging in that town.
,as already fled, unsup- On and after the Ist of August next, all paragraphs in
) were already beaten, the newspapers, referring to advertisements, are to be sub-
trd gave way, and fled in ject to the usual advertising duty.
eons and almost painfully A curious race was run lately in Hyde Park, Sheffield.
''--- victorious ranks of A man, in regular Lancashire clogs, ran against another
---Iq. officers,

in pumps, for a mile ; clogs won easy.
A few days since, at a late hour of the evening, a lumi-
nous globe appeared in the sky, near Brighton, expanded
itself to a considerable size, and then suddenly vanished.
The Belfast News Letter says that Mr. Sheridan
Knowles indignantly declined the offer of Lord John
Russell" to settle on him a pension of £lOO a-year.
The seventeenth. list of subscriptions to the General
Committee for Highland destitution records the sum to
be £109,978 Ils. ld.
An electric telegraph has been fixed in the House of
Commons for the purpose of transmitting communications
between the lobby and the committee rooms.
GOOD SPORT.—Three young men, the Messrs. Macgil-
livray, of Lochcarron, killed four hundred lythe- fish,

in one evenin,

lately at

Le,9h Register. -
The Royal College of Chemistry has offered a premium
of £lOOO for the discovery of a means by which iron, when

applied to ordinary purposes, may be rendered impervious
to rust.

The statue in marble of Prince Albert, subscribed for
by the merchants to commemorate his having laid the
foundation-stone of the Royal Exchange, has been placed
in the vestibule of Lloyd's.

Mr. Albert Smith has addressed a letter to the Times..
deprecatory of night balloon ascents,in which he describes
himself as " one of those who joined in the perilous

foolery."
It is the general opinion that if the weather continue
fine, the wheat harvest will be commenced in this neigh-
bourhood about the 9th of August, and, in some very for-

IVilts Independe;it

A gardener residing near Doncaster, lately gathered one
hundred doze's of apricots from a single tree, upon which
he left about two hundred dozens to grow to their full

A JUST REWARD.—At Hornchurch, Essex, a few
nights ago, a thief, who was busily engaged robbing a
s killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol

ho were surrounded by the tide and drowned

between