The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

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packet Company, on Tuesday, a dividend of five per cent.
was declared. •

After a hard contest, Mr. Pruen has been elected coro-
ner for Cheltenham. He polled 1655 votes, giving him a
majority of 99 over his opponent, Mr. Lovegrove.
It is said that the Great Britain steam-ship has been
1 for £25,000, and that she is to run with pas-
sengers on the Pacific between Panama and San Francisco.
At Maidstone assizes, on Tuesday, a man was found
committed perjury, in giving evidence in
Court. He was sentenced to seven years

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Lately, a very tine cuckoo flew into a printing-office at
Lincoln, for some time hopped about on the presses and
type, not at all desirous of flying away again, and was
eventually caught by the workmen.

The Cheltenham magistrates have decided that parties
sweeping their pavements (at any hour of the day), with-.
out first sprinkling the same with water, are liable to
penalties.
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A Cheltenham magistrate decided, last week, that it
was an obstruction of a highway to erect a stile on a foot=
path so high that it was inconvenient for ladies to get
over it. and a fine was inflicted.

I [On Tuesday application was made at the Lambeth Po-
lice Court, to prevent Mr. Green's balloon ascent on
horseback. A. veterinary surgeon and other parties de-
clared that there was neither danger nor cruelty in the
experiment, and it was accordingly allowed to take place.
A little girl about eight years old, the daughter of a
house-painter living in Glasgow, found a bottle of whiskey
in a cupboard, on Sunday week, and drank so much of
the spirits that she became insensible, and died in the
course of the night.

On Saturday,-as a train was returning between Birth-
waite and Kendal, a bull which had strayed from a field•
adjoining the railway near Ings, was unavoidably run over
by the train, and literally cut in two. The train happily,
was not thrown off the rails.

While some boys were throwing stones at the ducks
swimming in a pond near Little Driffield, Yorkshire, on
Monday week, one of them, named Burton, about nine
years old, cast a pebble which struck another boy, named
Train; on the head. and killed him on the spot.
EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE.—A youth at Little
Glenharn, confined to his bed now nearly eight years, and
with the entire loss of the use of one arm, has, during the
last four months, with the other hand, completed a correct
model of the parish church upon a large scale, with the
interior fixings of its beautiful altar piece, monuments,
and admired modern transept; also desk and pulpit, font,
gallery, and pews, with the moveable seats, all perfect in
view through the door-ways and windows.
CANINE SAGACITY AND AFFECTION.—A tradesman in
the town of .A.ltrincham is the owner of a terrier dog,
which displays great abilities of " head and heart!' Mr.
—is subject to fits, and when unfortunately he is seized
by one, the animal runs off with all speed to the house of
a surgeon, not a great distance off, and makes all efforts
to get admission into the surgery, if the door be fastened.
After an attack Mr.
is generally confined to his bed
for several days, and the animal then scarcely ever leaves
his bed-side ;, in fact, it would be a difficult wetter to
eject him from the room.

A correspondent of the Tablet is extremely anxious
that the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, which are offized
for sale, should be purchased for the Benedictines of
Downside and Amplebrth Colleges, with a view to the
restoration of the Abbey.
The clerical and lay guardians of the Isle of Thanet
have taken (from Michaelmas) ten acres of land : this,
with the present two acres of garden, will make twelve
acres to employ inmates of poor houses, young and old,
upon out-door industry.

During a thunderstorm on Monday week, a farmer, 80
years of age, named Evan Thomas, of Blaencwmpridd,
Cardiganshire, who went out on horseback to see tor his
cattle on the uplands of his farm, was killed by lightning,
and his horse was at the same time struck dead.
A BRIDE DROWNED. —A young lady, Miss Ashton, of
London, was married on Sunday week, She went that
day with her bridegroom ana a party up the Thames in
a boat. By bad management the boat was upset. All
were rescued, however, save the unfortunate bride.

COMPETITION IN G:ts.— The Sunderland Subscription
Gas (the old) Company having reduced the price of their
gas to 33.6 d per 1000 cubic feet, the Sunderland Corpo-
ration Gas (the new) Company have lowered the price of
their gas to 3s. for the same quantity. The old company
has since reduced also to 3s.

A meeting convened by the mayor was held at Leeds on
Monday to further the erection in that town of a monu-
ment to the memory of the late Sir Ror)ert Peel. Wm.
Beckett, Esq„ M.P. was present, as were several clergy-
men and gentlemen belonging to all shades of political
opinion.

At Durham Assizes, on Saturday, several persons
pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with keeping
houses of ill fame, and were hound in, recugnizances to
appear for judgment when called on, which it is under-
stood they will he the instant they resume the prosecution
of their unlawful calling.

Reaping has already commenced in some favoured spots
in th s county ; but there eems little prospect of its
being general for the next fortnight, A piece of wheat
has been cut this week at Cane Hill, near Devizes, and
again in the neighbourhood of Alelksham. We regret to
say that complaints of the red rust are very general.—
Devizes Gazette.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRISTOL.-01'1 Mon-
day, at the School of Industry for the Blind, at Bristol, a
number of the arches of an arcade were in course of being
pulled down, when one of them suddenly fell in and
injured three men. One of them, John Burke, received
a severe wound on the bead and internal injuries, and
expired on the following morning.

A whirlwind passed over the town of Sunderland, about
noon, on Wednesday last, raising a pillar of dust about 60
feet high, which passed over Bridge-street, and for about
ten minutes carts and carriages were completely at a
stand, being enveloped in a cloud of darkness, which soon
passed away without doing any particular damage, and
was speedily followed by a shower of rain
A girl named Catherine Casterton, aged 16, has been
convicted at the Lincoln assizes, before Baron Platt, of
administering poison to an aged bed-ridden woman, her
object being, as stated by herself to a witness, to get a
suit of mourning from the family upon► the death of the
poor woman. Sentence of death was recorded against

The Dublin steamer Royal William, on her way up the
Thames, on Saturday morning, about daylight, ran down
the brig Union, in ballast, bound to the north, about half
a mile below Grey's-pier, where her wreck now lies sunk.
One of the crew of the Union was thrown from her top-
zallantyard by the collision upon the deck of the Royal
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DISINTERESTEDNESS.—The Times of Friday contains
an advertisement announcing the names of gentlemen
who, it is stated, have " disinterestedly consented to act
upon the committee for relieving the public"' from the
new Sunday postal arrangements. Out of thirty-three
names on the list, thirteen have a direct pecuniary interest
in newspapers published on Sunday or Saturday.
EXTENSIVE FORGERIES.-A man of gentlemanly exte-
rior, named Hill, was on Monday, after considerable
trouble, apprehended by the Birmingham police, charged
with forgeries upon the Austrian bank to the extent of
£15,000. The prisoner was taken at one of the most

respectable hotels in the town, and had in his possession
forged notes, printed in Birmingham, of the amount
stated.

A lad named Noble, a servant to a farmer at Glead-
thorpe. Notts, was sent to a chemist's shop at Worksop,
on the 15th ult. to purchase a bottle of aquafortis and
quicksilver, to be used as a remedy for a disea,e. in the
feet of his master's sheep. He put the bottle in his
trowsers' pocket, where it burst, and he was severely
burned and subsequently salivated, so that he died of
litwerintr till the 234 ult
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REV. War. PAnsorts's CASE.—Last week we
we the leading particulars of a charge of a serious nature
ought against the Rev. Wm. Parsons, Roman Catholic
Priest, of Sheffield, by a young woman, his servant, whom
he is said to have seduced. Mr. Parsons denies the elle-
eation, and since then the case has been fully entered
into, ecclesiastically, by Bishop Briggs and his episcopal
council, at four different meetings. The result is a decla-
ration by the bishop that the charge is not substantiated.
In the last number of the Dublin Review there appeared
a lengthy article relative to Dr. Achilli, most seriously
impugning the learned gentleman's moral character from
what purport to be official documents, police reports, &c.
It is said that legal proceedings having been threatened
against the publishers, a distinguished divine of the Roman
Catholic Church at once acknowledged the authorship, in
order to afford the most ample opportunity for a legal in-
vestigation.
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