The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

Several locusts have been taken as far north as Helms-
dale, in Sutherlandshire.
Mr. Allen, the architect, destroyed himself last week
by shooting himself with a pistol.
On the 22d ult. a splendid Roman Catholic chapel was
opened at Skenfrith, Monmouthshire.
UNUSUAL CtßcUarsTANcE•—The London Gazette of
Tuesday contains but three notices of bankruptcy.
During the night of Wednesday not fewer than five se-
rious fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis.
On Tuesday a new Roman Catholic chapel was opened
at Eckington, near Sheffield.
A Greenock print declares, concerning a certain Perth
sculptor, that, " not a touch of his chisel but has subse-
quently touched a heart."
The Duke cf Wellington, it is said, will shortly go to
the islands of Guernsey and Jersey to inspect the fortifi-
cations of those dependencies.
The Royal Agricultural Society of Guernsey have for-
warded to her Majesty two beautiful cows, of the breed so
celebrated in that island.
John Hilliard has been sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment and hard labour for causing the deaths of two
children by selling them poisonous berries.

• A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by the
coroner's jury. at Bath, against two boys who, in a frolic,
pushed a female down from the step of a door.

Sir Charles Wetherell' s personal estate has just been
administered to by Lady Wetherell, and a stamp duty
paid on £250,000.
The aggregate amount of the Cobden testimonial is
now £75,000, of which Manchester has contributed
£28,000.

The import duty on wheat is now Bs. per quarter. As
prices are still on the advance, the duty will doubtless
fall still lower.

Abundance of mackaret have been caught lately on the
Welsh coasts. They have been sold at Bangor eighteen
for sixpence, and at Beaumaris thirty for sixpence. _

A young lady, named Pratt, aged 21, residing with her
uncle, iu London, died on Saturday week, from the effects
of laudanum, which she had taken to procure sleep.
At Harefield, Middlesex, on Saturday, two canal boat-
men quarrelled and fought. One of them on attempting
to rise to rt new the contest fell backwards on the grass,
and died in a few minutes.
Parliament is not to be summoned in November. The
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland strongly urged its assembling,
but the majority of the cabinet overruled his lordship's

decision

Sir Montagu John Chomeley, Bart., will be the new
candidate for Lincolnshire, and the hon bart will be sup-
ported by the influence of the Earl of Yarborough and
the Duke of St. Alban's.
Another cabinet council was held on Friday, at the,
official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing-street.
Previous to the council, several of the ministers had in-
terviews with the n-ble lord.

The London sheriff's inauguration dinner took place on
Wednesday evening. Lord John Russell was present and
made a brief speech in reference to the distress in Ireland,
and the want of general education.
On Sunday week Mr. E. Jones, tailor and draper, of
the village of Gresford, put an end to his existence by
shooting himself with a horse pistol. He had been in a
desponding state of mind for some time.
There are now in the port of Douglas no fewer than
In vessels ; 73 of which are of large tonnage, varying
from 500 to 50 tons, and the remaining 122 are employed
in the herring fishery.
Mr. Halliday opened bis new hotel, Fort Anne,
Douglas, Isle of man, on Tuesday, with a splendid ball.
About 150 were present, among whom were, the Earl of
Orkney, Lord Ranelagh, the Hon. Miss Jones, &c.

RISEIN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—O❑ Friday the fib
loaf of wheaten bread was raised to Sd. by the cheap
bakers, and 91d. by the best bakers throughout the me-
tropolis.

On thursday morning Mr. George Child, the superin-
tendent of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, put a
period to his existence by hanging himself, at his resi-
dence, near the Rochester terminus.

The Firefly, 220 horse-power, and the Shearwater, 160
horse-power, are employed on the west coast of Scotland
in consequence of the distress now prevalent there. Ad-
ditional vessels will be granted by the Admiralty, if re-
quired.
A Welsh paper states that, at Waingbrolch, Mon-
mouthshire, a deadly warfare has been raging among the
bees and wasps, whole clouds of them, to an immense ex-
tent, contending together in the air, completely covering
the ground with killed and wounded.
Mr. Blunt, of St. Luke's, type-founder, one of the
large creditors against a printer named Masson, of
Bethnal-green, who had become bankrupt, applied, last
Saturday, to be appointed assignee, but was rejected.
because he professed himself an atheist.
Lord Metcalf, it is stated, was unknown to Sir Robert
Peel when he was promoted to the Governor• Generalship
of Canada, and he met the late Premier by accident in an
ante-room at Windsor Castle, where the strangers were
respectively awaiting an audience of the Queen.
Many of the farmers of Dorsetshire and Somersetshire
have commenced the autumn planting of potatoes, in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of many agriculturists
and eminent chemists, who assert that this is the best, if
not the only method of checking the prevailing disease.
A drunken man was found in the streets of Leeds, last
week with the body of a dead women in his arms. The
deceased was a prostitute, and being in company with the
man, dropped down dead, from the effects of a disease of
the heart.
RATS.--A red herring firmly fastened by a string to any
place where rats usually make their run will make them
leave the place. his said to be a fact, that a toad placed
in a house cellar will have the effect of expelling those
noxious intruders.—Bangor Mercury.
RENT OF FARMS.—The Duke of Richmond has inti-
mated to his Scottish tenants that he is willing, since the
repeal of the Corn-laws, to take their leases off their
hands at Martinmas next, and to remunerate them for
improvements.
DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—SIX LIVES LOST.
—On Monday morning a dreadful accident from explosion
of fire damp, whereby six lives have been lost, occurred
at a pit connected with the Clyde Iron Works, Glasgow.
About four o'clock on Monday morning five men and a
boy went down in the course of their ordinary occupations,
and immediately on the lights which they carried coming
in contact with the foul air, the explosion took place, by
which the whole have been deprived of life.

Mrs. Wilson, aged 60 years, the wife of Thos. Wilson,
park-keeper, Carr-house, at Stalnton, near Tickhill. was
killed by the accidental discharge of a loaded gun which
she was removing in her own house on Saturday. She
died instantly.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, last Saturday,
a barrister at the Temple was indicted for an indecent
assault on a girl, in Hyde-park. It transpired, that the
whole charge was a fabrication, having been concocted by
the mother of the girl!
The Wellington statue was on Tuesday removed from
Mr. Wyatt's studio, in the Harrow Road, to the site

selected for its reception, temporary or permanent...
case may be, at the triumphal arch, Ilyde Park Corner
The removal was accomplished without any accident.
The match at chess between Mr. Staunton and Mr
Harrwitz is virtually decided. In the 19th game Mr. S
gave the pawn and two moves, and yet won in ad,
style. Thus the English player has in point of fact car-
ried the day, having won two matches out of three.
The scullers' contest between Thomas Coombes (the

Inirable

brother of the champion of the Thames) and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, for £5O, came off on Wednesday after-
noon, and resulted in favour of Coombe, who won by
about 250 yards.

Throughout the Isle of Man the crops may now be said
to be safely housed. Wheat and barley are said to be
average crops ; but oats are extremely deficient and light
in weight. Grass was never more abundant at this
season, and turnips are good every where. Potatues, as
a mattar of course, are very bad.

A child, named George Chapman, on Wednesday week,
was found hanging from a beam in an out-house at Dray-
cott, Cheddar. He had wished to visit Draycott fair that
morning, but was requested by his parents first to bait
the horse. He was afterwards observed crying, and with-
in a short time was discovered hanging, and quite dead.
The harvest-home of the hop-pickers has been gene-
rally celebrated in Herefordshire, and it is a pleasing sight

to witness waggon-loads of industrious women and girls
returning from the scene of their labours with hop-poles
for flag-staffs, and handkerchiefs for colours floating in
the breeze.

A few days since, two butchers, at Cambridge, depo-
sited stakes of £l5 aside. He who could scald, dress,
and clean two 10-stone pigs in the best style, in the short-
est space of time, to be declared the winner. The pigs
were killed in fifteen minutes and ten seconds by the