The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lord Saltoun is to be a Knight of the Thistle, in the
room of the late Viscount Melville.

A pair were married at Hereford yesterday week. The
bridegroom was 73, the bride 70.
A chapel has been erected in connexion with the
Diocesan Training School, at York, at a cost of 1,000
guineas. _

An old woman, 80 years old, was suffocated last week.
at Barnsley, while taking dinner, a piece of gristle having
got fixed in her throat.

It is rumoured that Sir Grey will be made speaker next
parliament, and that Lord Clarendon is going to the Home
office.

The Carlisle District Farmers' Club have decided, after
an animated discussion, that under ordinary circumstances
the scythe is preferable to the sickle.
The Bombay papers state that a nephew of the late
Dwarkanauth Tagore has been converted to Christianity
and baptised at Calcutta.
A French paper mentions that the Town Council of
Orleans has granted a salary of £2O a year to a lecturer
on the art of grafting and pruning fruit trees.
The Speaker's writ, authorising a new election for the
East Riding of Yorkshire, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Mr. Broadley, will be issued on the 14th.

SPANISH BONDS.—The dividends on the Bonds under
the new conversion will be made payable in sterling money
and francs in London and Paris.

Exchange between England and America is nominally
0.42 per cent. in favour of England, leaving scarcely any
profit on the importation of gold from the United States.
G. P. R. James, the novelist, who is now in the United
States, has been severely injured by being thrown from
his carriage while driving an unruly horse. His injuries
are not considered dangerous.
A boiler on the' premises of Messrs. Crabtree, Brad-
ford, exploded on Monday, and killed two young men,
named Welsh and Atkinson. The calamity spread wreck
and ruin in all directions.
A,

cloth-dressing mill belonging to and occupied by
Messrs. James Holroyd and Son, cloth-finishers, Carlton-
hill, Leeds, was completely destroyed by fire last week,
together with the machinery it contained.

It is an extraordinary fact, stated on authority, that
there are at the present time more of an Irish population
in the United States of America than there is in Ireland

Two more convicts, one of whom is named Baker, and
the other Griffiths, succeeded in escaping from the Dart-
moor prisons on Wednesday week, and have not hitherto
been retaken. _ _

The relics formerly preserved in the conventslwhich
were suppressed a few years ago in Switzerland, have been
bought by the Pope, and have already arrived at the
Vatican.

The Town Council of Glasgow have adopted a report
recommending one uniform rate of assessment for the re-
lief of the poor throughout Scotland, or in other words,
to make the entire country into one parish.
The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental
steamer Sultan, an extra vessel dispatched. for India,
amount to £41,800, the chief portion consisting of bar
silver and dollars for Bombay.
It is stated in the Bulletin de Paris that both the
French and English governments are watchfully observing
the large purchase of arms and accoutrements now making
by Russiat