The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The conservatives have a clear gain of eleven on the re-
gistration for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
The Queen held a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on
Monday week, when parliament was ordered to be pro-
rogued from the 19th instant until November.

The lawyers of Stockton, one and all, without exception,
have agreed to close their respective offices at six o'clock,
both winter and summer, for the benefit of their clerks.

A NUNNERY IN SUNDERLAND.—The whole of the ar-
rangements are now completed by the Rev. P. Kearney,
for commencing this establishment.
In Birmingham £30,000 is said to be saved to the in-
habitants by having the gas lighting of the town in the
hands of the Corporation.

The committee of the London Wood Paving Associa-
tion has offered a gold medal, with thirty guineas, for the
best machine for cleaning the streets.—Artizan.

The revision for North Cheshire has terminated. The
conservatives succeeded in sustaining sixty-eight objec-
tions, and the radicals only eight.
Mrs. Wood (ci•divant Miss Paton) with her husband,
attend Chapelthorpe, near Leeds, every Sunday, and
render the choir the most efficient of any in the district.
COTTAGE ROBBERY. —On Sunday, the 24th ult., the
cottage of a labourer named Cudmore, at East Donyland,
was broken into, and £B, the hard-earned savings of in-
dustry, stolen therefrom. Two men are in custody.
CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.—Several new discoveries of
frauds were made at the Custom-house in the course of
the last week, and parties before unsuspected are, we
hear, implicated in them.
A circular has been sent to the creditors of Messrs.
Dixon and Dalton, of the Dudley Bank, informing them
that a dividend of 6s. Bd. in the pound will shortly be
paid.
The Great Yorkshire Stakes, to be run for at York
Angust meeting, 1846, has closed with 117 subscribers ;
and the Competition produce, for the same year, with 27
subscribers.

Mr. J. B. Smith, a leading member of the Council of
the Anti-corn-lam league, offers himself a candidate for
the borough of Kendal, vacant by the sudden death of
Mr. Geo. Wm. Wood, M.P.
Mr. Slott, of the Edinburgh Town-council, has given
notice of a motion "to petition parliament to remove
from the land the established church, and apply its re-
venue to a useful purpose,"
MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM.—The bazaar for the pur-
pose of paying the debt on this institution, was held last
week. Up to Friday night the sum paid into the bank
on account of the bazaar, was £1,600, but the debt
amounts to £3,000.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Mr.
Thomas Baring (conservative) has accLded to the invita-
tion of a numerously-signed requisition, and offered him-
self as a candidate for the vacant seat. Mr. Pattison
(radical) is the opposing candidate.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Friday, Mr. Waller,
morchant, at St. Mary-at-Hill, London, was in his count-
ing-house, when his clerk, Thos. Rowe, about 75 years of
age, drew a pistol from his pocket and shot him in the
left side. The effect of the wound is at present uncertain.

The vicar of Ware, which parish has been so much dis-
turbed by contentions respecting Church matters, has
advertised for a curate on account of his health. The
curate is required to be " in full orders, of sound church
principles, good judgment, and calm temper."
The Chartist Convention, lately held in this town, have
started the notable project of raising a fund of £lOO,OOO !
They say the money is to be appropriated in the purchase
of 1,000 acres of land to be divided into small allotments.
—Birmingham Advertiser.

On the fells between Kendall and Shap, Westmoreland,
on Friday night week, the mist was so dense, that the
drivers and guards of the mail and other coaches say,
they never encountered such great difficulty and danger
in getting along that terrible road.
A VERY IMPUDENT THIEF.—Last Monday evening,
some persons obtained access to the bench-room at the
Town Hall, Brighton ; and, whilst the officers and the
police were about the ball, they broke open the poor-boa,
and carried off its contents, amounting, it is supposed, to
about £3.—London Paper.

YORKSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION.—The Earl of Mex-
borough has consented to take the chair at the great meet-
ing of chess-players to be held in Huddersfield on the Bth
of November next. This has given great satisfaction to
all the members of the association, and a large muster is
expected.

THE WIFE OE THREE SUICIDES.—On Monday an
inquest was held on the body of David Mason, aged 48,
a coal-weigher, of 23, Lower Shadwell, who had destroyed
himself, leaving his family in great distress. His wife, who
was examined on the inquest, stated that this was her
third husband, all of whom had committed suicide!
FALL OF A HOUSE.—Two PERSONS KILLED.—On
Tuesday afternoon a house fell in the village of Westfield,
near North Weildham. There were seven persons in the
house at the time. Two of them, a bedridden old man
named Prosser, and a poor woman named Wilkes, were
buried in the ruins, and when their bodies were dug out
life was extinct.—London paper.