The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

A general meeting of the members of the Leicestershire
Agricultural Society, and others interested in the retieal
of the malt tax, was held at Leicester, on Wednesday, and.
resolutions condemnatory of the malt tax were unani-
mously agreed to. It was also determined that petittOns
against the tax should be sent to every parish in the dis-
trict, and afterwards presented to parliament.
BRINGING TO BOOK.—A military officer having,,got
into debt with a bookseller in Glasgow, and paid no 'at-
tention to repeated applications for payment, after' hie
removal to England, the creditor at length wrote 'to 'the
Horse Guards, and in a few days received a satisfactory
letter from the military secretary to the Dul;e of Wel-
lington, which was soon followed by a remittance from
the officer, but without a word of explanation.
PEDESTRIANISM.—A foot race for £2OO (one mile)
came off over the Lansdowne Course, Bath, on Monday,
between Maxfield an Davis. Davis was declared the win-
ner by thirty yards.—Another rate for £5O (130 yards)
was run on Wednesday on the Lichfield Road, near 'Bir-
mingham, between Boulton Phillips, of Stafford,. 'and
Jones, of London. Phillips won the race by two ye!'ds.
only.

DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT FROM FIRE-ARMA.—INAI3
EERTENT MATRICIDE.—A melancholy accident occrtried
at Milverton, on Friday last. A person of the name of
Cross had been out shooting, and on returning neglectO
to draw the charge from his gun, which he placed near
the clock. His son, a little boy, took up his gun and
snapped it, when unfortunately it went off, arid the whole
of the contents were lodged in the mother's head, who
fell dead on the spot, leaving several motherless children.
The anguish of the father on hearing of the accident
cannot be described.—Dorselshire Paper.
FACILITY OF COMMUNICATION.—A correspondentnf
the Builder directs attention to certain social improve-
ments which have been recently introduced in London.
These are: Ist. The penny post and hourly deliyeries..in
London. 2nd. The Parcel Delivery Company, Parcel
Mail Company, and Post Parcel Company. 3rd. The
halfpenny, penny, and twopenny steamers. 4th. The
twopenny, threepenny, and penny-a.mile omnibuses.
sth. The Economic Brougham and Cabriolet Company,
limited to 6d. per mile, and guaranteed against impo—
sitions.

EXTRAORDINARY RISE IN TAE PRICE OF BREAD."...
On Tuesday a very simultaneous rise in the price of bread
took place throughout the metropolis ; the household
quality being advanced from 7d. to Bd., and the best
wheaten from 9id. to 100. In the market on Monday,
flour rose 3s. per sack ; and it is stated among many=--of
the most experienced bakers that before the expiration of
the week, the 41b. loaf will reach the price of Ild. So
much for the League's bellweathere about cheap bread

It is a tale

Told by an idiot. full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. _ _

A VILLAGE IN DARKNESS.—This has literally occur-
red within the last few days at Filey, on the Yorkshire

coast, which has recently been brought into closer rela-
tionship with the more populous parts of the country by
means of the railway from Scarborough, but the inhabit-
ants, probably trusting implicitly to the new and more
speedy means of communication, had this year neglected,
to lay in a great store of either coals or candles prior to
the late snow storm. Railway communication was, how-

ever, cut off by that storm, and a very old-fashioned
winter was experienced under the lack of these means of

beat and illumination.—Hull paper.
NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS.—A number of the bakers%
Edinburgh took it into their heads, the other day, to ad-
vertise in the Courant, Scotsman, and North itisk

Advertiser, that they were going to di-continue the ord
practice of making presents of currant buns, short-bread,
&c., and that nothing of the kind was to be expected at

the approaching holidays. This was a sore rub to many
an expectant youngster ; but there was a good deal of

chuckling amongst them, when it became known that the
Stamp-office authorities bad charged du'y for every baker
who signed the document, the ex vense of inserti 41 in the

three newspapers. being just thirty sir pounds sterlinV

CONVERSIONS TO ROME.—Mr. F. A. Paley, whose
name has been connected with the conversion of his pupil,
Mr. Morris, to the Roman Catholic Church, has made
his public profession of the Roman Catholic faith. The
Rev. John Gordon. M.A. curate of the Rev. William

Dodswoith, at Christ Church, St. Pancras, has resigried

his curacy, with the intention of embracing the Roman
Catholic religion. Letters from Rowe state that Mr. New-
man, after having spent a few days in visiting some of the
principal objects of ecclesiastical interest in thot city, had
entered the College of the Propaganda as a theological
student, with the view of preparing himself for receiving
the sacred orders of his church.--Morning Post.
EXCHANGE OF COMPLIMENTS BY ELECTRICITY.--..