The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

A monument is about to be erected in Kensall-green
Cemetery to the memory of the late Sir W. Alacnaughton.
The notorious Joseph Ady was on Friday committed

ge of fraud.
3e deaths recorded at Sheffield during the
past quarter, is one of a child, one day old, from jaundice.
The House of Lords will adjourn on Thursday for the
Whitsuntide holidays, till the Thursday following. The
Commons will adjourn on Friday, till the same day.
In 1835, the number of pairs of boots and shoes imported
into this country was 89,302, of which 78,267 pairs were
imported from France. _ _

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An inquest jury, on Friday, returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against the youth Graham, for shooting Blewett

The foundation stone of a monument to John Knox. in
Edinburgh. was laid on Monday. Dr. Chalmers and Dr.
Candlish were among the speakers on the occasion.
Captain Gladstone paired off on the. second reading of
the Factory Bill (in favour) with Mr. Ludlow Bruges
(against).

'Mr. Ferrand, M.P., has just allotted 140 roods of
waste land to the combers and weavers, in the villages of
Harden and Cullingwortb.

Mail says that very alarming accounts have
een received as to the health of Lord Lincoln. A violent
attack of gout in the heart had assumed a very dangerous

The Dublin

Joseph Carter, a shoemaker, is in custody in London,
charged with having attempted to murder another shoe-
maker, named Oddv, by stabbing him. The latter lies in
a moot dangerous state at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Lord Heytesbury, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has re-
ceived an official summons requesting his presence in
London to vote in the Lords on the second reading of the
corn law bill.

On Tuesday, the " Octlands" estate, the well-known
estate of the late Duke of York, was sold at public auc-
tion, for £64,496, exclusive of the timber, which sold for
£6.142.

The Gardeners' Chronicle remarks that we may rely on
being pestered with wasps this summer to a great_extent.

vigorous as in June. and as plentiful as in July.
At the High Court, Edinburgh. on Tuesday, ten rail-
way labourers, charged with rioting, fire-raising, and as-
sault, at Fu•ie Bridge, on the 2nd of March, pleaded
guilty, and were sentenced to varirus periods of impri-
sonment from two years to eight months.

The Egholm Park races are to he discontinued till
1850. The reason stated is, that Lord Eglinton's en.
gagements in public business, during the period specified,
do not permit his lord-hip to devote that attention to the
meeting nhich is necessary for its proper existence. _

Five hundred guineas and a splendid t, liver tankard
have been presented to Tom Spring, the ex-champion, at

general urbane conduct out of it.
The m►ners of South Staffordshire, who were out on
strike, finding that their employers were indifferent as to
their rerurnine work at present, though willing to re-
t' •t to their pits.

...)em on former terms, have returneu
TI e rate of wnges paid iN about 3s. 9d. a day.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A verdict of mati.laughter was re-

lury, on view o

the body of a female who died in childbjd. of itiflin,ma-

tion, produced by the alleged treatment of the midwife.
New COINAGE. - Some time ago, the Rev. Mr.
Adams, of Ilere'ord, suggested to the mint the propriety

declined to act upon his proposal at the time, but within
the last few days have deiermitied to take his advice.

John Weeks, who murdered his brother in August,
1844, at Buxley, and afterwards absconded, committed
snieirie last week by drowning himself in a pond near
Tunbridge wells, where he has been residing under an as-
sumed name.

On Wednesday, as the Duke of Wellington yr,s cross-
ing the entrance into Hyde Park, a hack cab ran agab,st
him, and but for the presence of mind of a gentleman who
puled his grace suddenly back, he must have inevitably
been knocked down and run over. His hand appeared

About a yrar ago it was determined to raise a testi-
monial to Dr. Je•phson, the distinguished physician at
Leamington. Several thousand pounds were contributed,
a por.ion of which has been expended in the purchase of
These were oFened

gardens

MASON, THE INNOCENT CONVICT.—Sir James Gra-
ham bas conferred a gratuity of £25 upon Mason, as a
small token of the misapprehension ur.der which he
suffered. Mr. Hudson has given lost rations for the em-
ployment of Mason, if he choose, at the earliest oppor-

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SUICIDES.—On Friday week, a young: woman, named
Mary Hall, living at Worcester, hung herself to a nail in
her bedroom, at the 'White Horse Inn, where she had been
living as bar maid fur some time.—On Wednesday. a man
unknoa n, threw himself into the river Severn, at Kemp.
sey, near Worcester, and was drowned.
A young gentleman, named Bennet Bather, an assistant
at a sch,td near Brhtnl, was drowned in a bath in that
town, last week. He bad gone to the deepest end,
where tie water is seven feet deep. and bring enable to
swim, was chow,,ed. His companions tried to help him,
but d'd not sue. eed in saving him.
E CTORS.— By a return recently printed it is stated
that there are 553.132 persons on the reciter for Great
r/..; 11...iner....P.A.hfi. 468.258 ; Wales,

on Air
37. i 92

111.111111r15 uritig—r.rapr7 r 7
awl Scotland, 48,182. In the sest•it.n of 1844 a
return wss i,sued prom which is appears that in 1839-43,
the numb, 1.,. were 941.782.

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