The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

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adventure itself

; but Eiliston, wht

ved, took the earliest opportunity of search.
ing.out the unhappy patient he had rescued, discovered that
he had originally been an actor, and frequently a fellow. la-
bnnrpr ~A,ith the ateat Macklin. Indiscretion, and conse.

;ploy, had brought on this state of mental
retchedness. Elliston continued his kind-

=The Elliston Papers in Ainsworth's

4aPfiziO,

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thousands of poultry sent in the Christmas week from
Holland to London were putrid before reaching the market.
Forty-seven thousand pounds a-year is paid by the Cor-
poration of London to the Lord Mayor and Magistrates.
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The Christmas boxes to bankers' clerks in London are
sufficient to pay the whole of their year's salaries!
No doubt appears to be entertained in Paris that ministers
will command a considerable majority.

A wasp was killed in the neighbourhood of this city on the
28th• ult.— Worcester Journal.

The manufacturers have advanced the price of cloths at
Manchester and Leeds.

The Leicester Herald (against the editor of which Mr.
Baker, of Cottesmore, lately obtained a verdict for libel,) was
discontinued no Saturday week, after being in existence 15
years.—The Staffordshire
Examiner, another high-flying
Liberal paper, has also stopped-

A RAILWAY AT RontE.—An English engineer, accom-
panied by an English general are now in Rome, treating with
the pope for the construction of an experimental railway of
three miles, on a principle which they say will be unattended
with danger to passengers•

SALFORD.—In the year 180, the assessment of'the hundred
COUNTY RATE ASSESSMENT ON THE HUNDRED OF
of Salford to the county rate, amounted to £918,397. The
lest assessment, that of 1841, reaches the enormous sum of
£2,703,292.

The ecclesiastical commissioners have recommended aug-
mentations to the amount stated, to the following arch-
deaconries :—Nottingham, £160; Richmond, £130; Salop,
£150; Sarum and Sudbury, respectively, £l4O. The scheme
has been approved by the privy council.
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An old rector, writing in a metropolitan paper, with pro-
priety condemns the very prevalent practice of giving the
clergymen, as presents from their congregations, such pieces
of plate as are either useless to them or unsuitable to their
station, and recommends the adoption of presents of books.
The numbei- of presents sent by the different coaches from
Norwich, to London during the Christmas week, amounted,
by the Ipswich mail, to 400; Newmarket, ditto, 400; Phe-
nomenon, 250 ; Telegraph, 346 ; Magnet, 1,400 ; Muck's
van, 280. Total, 3,076.
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Bridget Pilkington, a pauper, has been refused admission
to Ennystimon workhouse, because she is a Protestant, the
guardians conceiving if she were received, they should be
burthened with £2O, the salary of a Protestant chaplain, as
the inmates of the workhouse• are all Roman Catholics !
Limerick Chronicle.

On Saturday last, in the shop of Messrs. Hart and Leslie,
a loaf of excellent light bread was exhibited, six feet in
length and seventeen inches in width, made from half a sack
of flour, and weighing 1411 b. The price named was one
guinea. It was baked in Moulsham by Mr. Charles Craske.
—Ewa' Herald.

It is a melancholyfact, but not less true, that there is no

lunatic asylum for' the reception of the insane throughout
Wales,
although it has been ascertained that there are up-
wards of 1,000 lunatics and idiots in the principality. Surely
the clergy and magistracy will not' allow this crying evil
much longer to exist.
An order has been issued that the Roman Catholic clergy
shall be at liberty to bear the confessions of the convicts at
the hulks at Deptford, in their cells, and to administer to
them all the rites of their church ; and that, in future, the
Roman Catholic convicts shall not be obliged to attend the
service of the Established Church.

Dr. Welsh, the moderator of the General Assembly, has
received a communication from government in answer to the
memorial of the commission. Various rumours are in circu-
lation on the purport of it, but the letter has not yet been
made public. We have sufficient reason, however, to believe
that the answer is unfavourable.—Glasgow Guardian.

•
The butter trade is declining rapidly in Limerick, and the
condition of the coopers, in consequence, is said to be most
deplorable. The exports have fallen off lamentably since the
brand of the chamber of commerce was removed, and the
coopers have sent memorials to the chamber to take the sub-
ject into their consideration.

The renowned John of Tuam has taken the field against the
poor-law commissioners for Ireland, and a meeting of the
inhabitants of the union of Tuam is convened for the purpose
of petitionirlg the legislature for the utter repeal of the pre-
sent " unwise, cruel, and oppressive enactment, denominated
a law for the relief of the poor."

A newspaper, of " liberal" politics, that has been published
during the last four years, at North Shields, under the title
of the Port of Tyne Pilot, ceased to exi,t last week. The
proprietor, in a parting address, intimates that he has been
deceived, and that, as a commercial undertaking, the paper
has been unproductive.

The Railway Times states that in consequence of the re-
commendation of the jury in the late accident on the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction. Com-
pany have determined on placing a luggage van between the
tender and the front
Passenger carriage, and that orders have
been issued to prepare the requisite number immediately.
A dreadful thunder-storm passed over the town of Mac-
clesfield on Wednesday night last, during which the .electric
fluid took effect in a field near the town, tearing up the soil,
but doing no other damage. Another discharge fell on three
houses, and though it tore down brick work, and penetrated
solid walls, did not injure any persoa
The presidents of the various Jewish synagogues in Great
Britain have been requested to
proceed immediately to ap-
point delegates from their congregations' and to intimate
rtloloeimrnpf theam
names
late
epr. H ir
Mr. Simeon secretary of the
great synagogues, preparatory to their assembling in London
to elect a chief rabbi of the Jews of the British empire, in the
We have sufficient reaisou for
s cheOL ppenheim, the
believing that the statements
convert is now an
made last week, contradicting the alleged conversion to
popery of the Rev, Bernard Smith, late rector of Leaden-
ham, were not correct. Little doubt of the fact now exists,
and we further understand that the popish
inmate of the college of St. Mary's Oscott, near Birming-
ham.

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE,---A. little bantam hen laid
eight or ten eggs lately,
and sat on them till they were
hatched, when she died' ininindiately after her death, a
chicken of the same hen,
which had never laid an egg !
espoused the young brood
and is now tending them exactly
as her and their mother would have done, had she lived.—
Belfast paper.

states that the Hereditary PERILOUS SITUATION.--A Berlin letter, of the 25th ult.,
before out at ,4 boar hunt, wounded one of these animals of
an Unninslly large size. The beast turned upon the
Prince, threw him down, and, in all probability, would have
killed him, had not 'Oneof his suite fortunately come to his
Prince of Prussia being a few days
rescue. - . ‘• .p

A meeting a Glas ,Railway pom-
pon), was held last Fgriadway'.P
the half-year affords a balance of £7.281 •'the
.revenue of
9s. 2d., out of
which the directors recommend that a dividend of r0..0n the
old shares, and 2s. 2d. 2.sths on the new or half shares, be
declared, (payable on the 27th inst.') and the residue of
aTi silleeyli report.G e et
hilaotc:.ie,
£2,401 9s. 2d. be carried forward to the credit of revenue."

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING

SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sre.
Blair, Ft L Oldham, 333 Calcutta, Watson & Co
AFRICA.

Cleofrid, C M'Donald,
Cora, J Smith,

261 Africa,
234 Africa,

H Smith & Cc
II Smith & Cc

WEST INDIES, 8(c.
Theodosia, J Cushing, 209 Kingston, Jamaica, J Holt & Co
Wanderer. J Hinds; 115 St Lucia J Scott
La Relle Rarberie; J Banks, 174 Trinidad, J Logan
Traveller, Vickerniap, 146 Trinidad, Imrie & Tomlinson
Penelope, C Ward, 273 Trinidad, ' Reid, Irving &Co
SOUTH AIIIERICA.

Brooke, D M'Conochie, 258 Buenos Ayres, J Poole &Co
Norma, J Dixon, 143 Vera Cruz, Jeffryes & Meek
Wanderer, J Dixon, 165 Maracaibo, J Poole & Co
UNITED STATES.
Cumberland, D Power, 402 Apalachicola, The master
Woodside, F5l Walsh, 7,4 New Orleans, Fitzhugh &Co
Sylvanus Jenkins, B Seymour, 525 Mobile, W H Gilliat
Granada, VV Hammond, 593 New Orleans, Fielden Brs & Co
Eben Preble, W B Hinckley, 586 New Orleans, Fielden Brs &Co

BRITISH AMERICA.
Charlotte, G W Andrews, 502 St. John, N.B. Fielden Brs &Co

EUROPE.
George IV. W Cornelius, log Gibraltar, G Yates & Louthean
Agenoria, J Ham, 126 Leghorn, G Yates & Louthean
George Henry Harrison, S Reed, 135 Lisbon, Cotesworth & Wynne
Carlotta, C Lagana, 200 Naples and Palermo,

Vianna, Jones & Co
Especulador, Ni J Antonis, gg St. Übes, T Martin & Sor
Encore, Ede Gruelv, • 251 ,Cadiz and Valparaiso, Dean & Mills
Grecian, R Rowett, 179 Civita 'Vecchia and Cephalonia,