The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-23 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The contest for the city chamberlainship has cost Sir John
Pirie, Bart., not far short of 1:3,000.
SIGNIFICANT.—The troops in Cork are now supplied with
the war complement of ammunition, GO rounds per man.
For the first time since the Reformation, mass was publicly
celebrated in the town of Aylesbury on Sunday week.
Charles Mackey, the murderer of his wife, was executed
a Glasgow, on Thursday. He left a letter acknowledging
his guilt.
J. L. Ellis, Esq., senior clerk to Col. Wyndeham, was
drowned whilst bathing in the Thames, near Petworth, on
the Sth. instant. He was only 22 years of age.
Small flitches of dry dairy-fed bacon were sold last week
at Alarlborough at 4d. per lb., and retailed at sd. This is
but little more than half the price that was charged a few
years ago.
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Herr Friebe, a celebrated blind flute-player, of Berlin, has
just arrived in this country, bringing with him several letters
of introduction from Spohr to the members of the musical
profession i❑ London.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—At the recent distri-
bution of prizes for the winter term, 1842-3, the gold medal
and first certificate in the class of anatomy and physiology,
were awarded to Mr. Robert Dawson Harting, of Chester.
The May registry session for the city of Dublin closed on
Saturday. The numbers registered were conservaties, 139 ;
radicals, 19 ; majority, 140. The registry may now be con-
sidered as abandoned by the repeaters and radicals.
By a treasury order of the 28th ult. the island of Ascen-
sion is to be treated as a British possession, for all purposes
of trade and revenue.

We are informed that a requisition to government for a
military force on 11th June has been forwarded by some per-
sons in Mallow.—Cork Examiner.

In consequence of the low price of malt and hops, the inn-
keepers of Trowbridge have lowered the price of strong beer
2d. per quart ; it is now selling at
South Down mutton is now selling at Winchester, at sd.
per lb, and the primest parts are selling by the first-rate
butchers at 54d. ready money, and Gd. credit price.
There were no fewer than 300 pieces of English woollen
cloth smuggled into Oporto last week, and the contrabandists
both there and at Lisbon engage to smuggle in any quantity.
THE MURDER AT BURY.—A verdict of " wilful murder"
has been returned against James Howarth, and other persons
at present unknown, for the murder at Bury, and the former
person has been committed to take his trial at the next Li-
verpool assizes.
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The ceremony of churching the Queen took place at twelve
o'clock on Fr:day, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace.
The Archbissop of Canterbury officiated, assisted by the
Bishop of London, dean of the chapel.

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ODD THINGS.—The newspapers at times have odd things
in them ; amongst the advertisements in a late London paper,
we read tlat " Two sisters want washing ;" and that " a
spinster, particularly fond of children, wishes for two or
three, having none of her own, or any other employment."
FIRST FRUITS OF THE GOVERNMENT RESOLVE.—Mr.
Hanlon, ordnance clerk of works at Enniskillen, has been
dismissed for attending a repeal meeting at Kells. Mr.
Hanlor, is replaced here by Mr. Kilby, from Derry.—Fer-
nianagh Reporter.
The decision of the stewards of the Jockey Club on the
Leicester cup race was forwarded, per post, the same night
to the clerk of the course, and the amount of stake paid into
the Leicester Bank forthwith. On the following day it
stopped payment.
Another paltry attack upon the Earl of Cardigan is going
the round of the papers, having originated in the Dublin
Mercantile Advertiser. There is not a syllable of truth in
it, and we are glad to see that Colonel Chatterton has very
manfully grappled with the calumny.
MASONIC.—The Londo❑ Sun of Thursday, announces that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge would be initiated into Free-
masonry on Saturday last, in the Royal Alpha Lodge, Ken-
sington Palace.

PaovisioNs IN THE PRINCIPALITY.—Fresh eggs are now
selling at seven for 2d. or 42 for Is. ; salmon trout, nine for
6d. ; best fresh butter retail, 10(1. per lb. ; potatoes, 61b. for
; a quarter of veal costs only 2s. Gd. Rent is at the same
low rate as living, and clothes of the native manufacture
cost next to nothing.— Welchman.

TRAMPLING ON THE PRAYER BOOK.—Mr. Bew, the
chairman of the meeting at Bilston, at which " Bishop
Bonner" trampled on the Prayer Book, has written a letter
to the editor of the Staffordshire Advertiser, confirming the
accounts given of that transaction, at the same time ex-
pressing his disapprobation of it.
The projected Artesian well at the Brighton Chain Pier,
after approaching to what appeared a successful completion,
has been again abandoned. Water was procured in abundance;
but it was brackish, and, from the fact that it arose and fell
with the tide, was supposed to communicate with the sea. It
is doubtful whether the attempt will be renewed.
IRON LIGHTER FOR THE THAMES.—An iron lighter is
building at Hull, calculated to carry fifty tons of goods, but
so buoyant, that with forty to fifty passengers with their lug-
gage on board, she will not draw more than eighteen inches.
She is intended, we understand, for the gratuitous use of
passengers by the Hull and London steamers using Custom-
house-quay.

BIRMINGHAM LYING•IN HOSPITAL.—It appears that
within eight months of the establishment of this charity, not
less than two hundred and ninety-five cases have received
assistance from the institution ; although we understand that
this number scarcely comprises one-tenth of the applications
the usefulness of the charity being necessarily circumscribed
by its very limited fund.
SCOTLAND.—A correspondent states—" The Glasgow re-
pealers intend to muster in tens of thousands next month,
and have invited John O'Connell, M.P., Mr. O'Neill Daunt
(Head Repeal Warden for Scotland,) and Mr. Steele to a
public entertainment. The two former gentlemen have ac-
cepted the honour conferred on them ; but Mr. Steele's pub-
lic duties will detain him in Ireland."
AWFUL EFFECTS OF Passios.7-9n Monday week a man
named M'Clenaents, a farmer, living in the townland of
Ballycross, parish of Magherallo, on going into one of his
fields, observed, some poultry in his oats. Having discovered
to whom the fowls belonged, he became so enraged, that, on
entering his house, lie fell down in a fit, and soon after ex-
pired.—Belfast paper.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES AT THE COLLEGIATE
CHURCH.—We understand, that the number of banns or
" askings" published during divine service on Sunday morn-
ing last, was larger than was ever before known, amounting to
no fewer than two hundred and forty couples, or four hula •
dred and eighty candidates for Hymen's rites and bonds !
This would seem to indicate the approach of better times
amongst us.—Manchester Guardian.
If we are not mistaken, Mr. Sheridan Knowles has written
no fewer than 16 dramas, beginning with Virginius and end-
ing with the Secretary. The last met with a very untoward
fate owing to the cirturnstances under which it was brought
out, at a time when it could not be consecutively represented,
arising from the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex. It has been said that the author gained no more
than £l5O by it, but we believe that that sum is heyond
what he actually received.—Morning Chronicle.
Two unfortunate labourers, named Buckley and Holland,
were drowned off Alderman's stairs, on Thursday last, whilst
coming ashore from the Dublin Steam Packet Company's
boat, on board of which they were employed. The accident
was caused by a fellow named Hoskins jumping suddenly
into the boat from an adjoining barg3, and thus swamping it.
Nine others narrowly escaped a similar fate. Hoskins has
been committed for manslaughter. He was mate of the
steam-ship Duke of Cornwall.
A miser of the name of John Tolkerton died in Castle-
street East, London, on Saturday week. He had attained
the age of 81 years, and at the former period of his life was
a hair-dresser, but of late years he had been miserably penu-
rious. The attics of his house were crammed with paintings
and other valuable articles which were deposited with him as
security for money, and he had allowed them to become
valueless through damp and dirt. He accumulated upwards
of £60,000, though he scarcely allowed himself the necessa-
ries of life.

The daily pay of a private soldier (foot) is Is. with Id. for
beer. That of a life-guardsman is Is. 11-id., and the an-
nual cost is £74 4s. 11d. per man, besides horse and allow-
ances, or £1 Bs. 6d per week. Dragoons, £56 lls. sd. per
annum, or £3 Is. 9d per week. Foot Guards, £34 65., or
13s 2d. per week ; infantry, £3l, per annum, or Ils. 10d.
per week. A regiment of horse soldiers, of about three hun-
dred and sixty men and officers, costs about £25,000 per an-
num. The wages of seamen in the royal navy are £2 12s.
per month, or 13s. per week, and £1 125., or Bs. per week
more, are allowed for their provisions.
Loss OF LIFE.—ISLAND of ISLAY, MAY 6, 18.13.
Yesterday morning, as one of the fishing boats belonging to
this place was returning home from the fishing station—the
morning being exceedingly stormy—when approaching a
dangerous place called " Bogha-ant-Saoir," where two cur-
rents meet, the swell broke in upon them, and the boat im-
mediately sunk. The crew, consisting of four young men,
were all drowned. To-day all the boats on both sides of the
Loch were sweeping for the remains of the unfortunate men,
but without success.—Corryspundent of Glasgow Saturday
Post.

TH e GREENWICH PIER.---On Friday morning one of the
beams of timber, called land-ties, which lie horizontally
under the water-mark, and are clamped and bound to the
piles, gave way with a crash, letting all connected with it
loose, and occasioning a still greater sinking of the parade.
During the day several practical men on behalf of the diffe-
rent parties connected with the pier, minutely examined what
may he correctly designated the " ruins." After the survey
they expressed an opinion that the unfortunate occurrence
was the result of the false foundation, and that no substruc-
ture would be safe unless formed of arches, so as to permit
the tide freely to ebb and flow.
BOY KILLED WHILST AT PLAY.—On the 26th ult., several
lads were playing a game at ball in Parliament-street, in
Nottingham ; the game is called " Chuck i' th' hat," and is
conducted as follows :—The hats of the party are placed in a
row, and the ball being thrown by one of them, the owner
of the hat into which it falls runs up as quickly as possible,
and seizing the ball, throws it at the others, who run as far
off as they have time ; if the thrower misses all his play-
fellows it counts as a point against himself, but if he succeeds
in his aim, a point is scored against the one struck. On the
occasion in question, the ball (which was a bard quilted one)
fell into the hat of Joseph Ball ; he took it out and threw it
at Thomas Tigube, who was six or seven yards off. The
missile struck the poor little fellow with great violence on the
back, and inflicted an injury which brought on locked jaw, of
which he died on Thursday the 11th instant. The deceased
was six years of age. An inquest was held on Friday, on view
of the body, and a verdict of accidental death returned.
IMPORTANT TO WELL SINK/Ms.—ln the Court of Ex-
chequer Chamber in Error, on Wednesday, a judgment of
considerable importance was pronounced by Lord Chief
Justice Tindal, in the case of Acton v. Blundell. Within
twenty years before the commencement of the action the
Plaintiff had sunk a well, and the water which it collected
was sufficient to work his mill ; but in 1837 the Defendant
dug a coal pit three quarters of a mile distant, which even-
tually drained the well dry, and therefore an action was
brought to recover compensation. On the trial the judge
told the jury that if the defendant had dug the pit in the
manner which was usual in working and winding a mine, he
was justified by law in what he had done ; and the jury found
for the defendant. A bill of exceptions to this charge was
presented, which had subsequently been argued, but the
Court now decided that the summing uP was correct. The
Court were of opinion that the case should be decided on the
principle of the rule which gave to the owner of the soil every
thing under the surface of it ; and that if the plaintiff had
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