The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-17 00:00:00

that France has made

but that they have been rejected, as lirunow was en-
ga4ed in London in endeavouring to bring about an alliance

ingland, and was in hopes of succeeding

The distress at Stourgridge is stated to have become so
alarming that numbers are subsisting on turnips alone. From
a field belonging to Thomas Pargeter, Esq., as many as from
five to six tons a week have been taken for several weeks
e think it expedient to attempt to put a stop
to the peculation.

past ; nor dot

The first appearance of the Prince of Wales as a public
benefactor was made last week, when his Royal Highness's
name appeared as a contributor of £lOO to the fund now being
wised for the purpose of erecting a Lunatic Asylum ih the
ience he derives his premier title. Her Ma-
-3 Albert are also donors of £5O each to the
same benevolent object.

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Professor Hansom, of Gotha, has announced to the Royal
Astronomical Society, his discovery of a method of deter-
mining the perturbations of one planet on another, by simple
and rapidly couvexing lens, whatever he the eccentricity and
inclination of the orbit.- Hitherto, except by a sort of ten-
tative process, this could only be done when the eccentricity
and inclination sere small. •

We have been made acquainted with a fact, as it now ex-
ists in the domestic establishment of Thomas Clifton, Esq.,
of Lytham-hall, which is without any parallel in our own
experience—it is that of eight female servants, who can each
claim a sister by relationship. We may explain the very
singular circumstance by stating that each two, not the whole
eight, are respectively sisters.—Preston Pilot.
COST OF THE STOCKPORT UNION WORKHOUSE.--We
have, at length, ascertained that this gorgeous edifice, with
all its decorations, marble chimney-pieces, its clocks and
bells (one of which cost £52) has already cost the several
townships within the Union the enormous and almost in-
credible sure of £14,0001 !! So much for the economy of
the economists!—Stockport Advertiser.
DEVIATIONS OF THE COMPASS.—The Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty have ordered, that. in future, con-
structions of her Majesty's ship* and vessels, all iron works
on board are to be kept at a distance of at least 14 feet from
the compass; and, in the repairs of the vessels, any iron
work that may be found within that distance is to be removed,
in order that the compass may not be affected by it.
It is the intention to send home this year from India, be-
sides the 41st and 44th' the 3d and 13th regiments. These,
with the 49th and 26th (in error for the 55th), to return to
England from China, will leave the force in India nearly what
it was in 1837-8. Reductions are already spoken of in the
native army, but to no great extent.—Naval and Military
Gazette.

A general meeting of the Cheltenham and Great Western
Railway Company was held at Cirencester, on Tuesday,
when a resolution was unanimously carried, authorising the
directors to treat with the Great Western Company for the
sale of the whole line, on the basis of the Great Western
Company's proposal. A number of shareholders from Liver-
pool were *sent. _ _

. . .
An anonymous correspondent of Saturday's. Morning
Chronicle announces the death of the.notorious Richerd Car-
tile.
Withie the last ten years his ellinioll9 had been rutty
modified, and in religious matters reversed. He died at his
residence, in Bouverie-street, London, on Friday, in his 534
year, and in very indifferent circumstances. He had just
completed the fourth number of a new periodical, the chrit,
tian Warrior

We understand that the 26th regiment has, by a strange
mistake, been ordered from China to England, instead of the
55th ; and though counter-orders have bees sent by the over-
land mail, it is generally thought that the 26th will have
sailed, agreeable to the orders which were sent with the rati-
fication of the treaty, before the counter-order can reach
China. The 55th lett England in 1821,
Naval and Military Gazette. the nth
NEW GOVERNOR OF THE WINDWARD AND LEEWARD
--• • •

IsLANDs..-Ger;eral IVI havin--a.p-plied—t-o- be re-
lieved from —Lien
the command ofai thester Windwgard and Leeward
Islands, in the course of the approaching spring, his request
has been acceded to, and he is to be replaced by Lieut.-Gene-
ral Middlemore, whose appointment will, no doubt, prove
not only gratifying to the army, but equally so to the colony
of whi,ch be is to have the militaryjurisdiction.—United Ser-
vice Gazeite.

Miss M adyerrisement appeared in the Times
of Tuesday, soliciting subscriptions Iny Mary Russell Mit-
ford. The Times says in an article alluding to the subject—
" She is in severe distress, owing to expenses necessarily in-
curred, and labour as necessarily foregone, is a protracted
attendance upon a dying parent. But we feel confident that
this privation will he alleviated soon, as it can be easily, by
the contribution of the smallest mite from every one who has
derived entertainment and instruction from the authoress
of Our Village.' "
Qn Wednesday morning week, at one o'clock. some villains
went up the Brown Toll-bar, near
Rotherham, and shouted "gate."
No sooner had the gate-
keeperlla v i having
appearedstojen a
thanhorse,
4e was knocked down and seized by
two men, who held him while tho other part of the gang ran-
sacked the house, and found £2 in silver, whiph They t4,*
and decamped. At half-past two on the same morning, the
Aldwark bar gate-house, about two miles from Rotherham,
was robbed in a similar manner, and £4 taken—no doubt, by
the same gang.

YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL BANK.—A meeting of this
company was held last week. The committee of investiga-
tion appointed reported altogether a gross system of mis-
management. The amount of bad debts was stated at
£277,536, of which about £214,347 would not be realised.
The assets were put down at £108,910, the liabilities at
£193,304, leaving a deficiency of £84,330 to be made good
by the unfortunate shareholders. This bank bought the
business of the Manchester Northern and Central Bank at
4epds, and, like its predecessor, was most liberal of its ad-
iikiAceS topr rig ht and to the left.

Tle report of the siirectors of the Commercial Bank of
Eugla"' (Mambeztr,)*llo' been published in a circular,
which has found its way into the Lincashire papers. By
this it appears that the board bas ben enabled to reduce the
liabilities during the last six months to £73307. Oi• 4cl”
of which £15,911. 98. ld. is owing to strangers, and the
balance to such of the shareholders as have advanced loans
Many circumstances have concurred to reduce the assets,
the surplus after payment of all liabilities, is not estimated
at more that £8,957. 4s. Bd. ?he Will loss by bad debts
will be £246,547. 15s. 4d. ?he possibility is still held out
of an inability -to realise the securities without a ruinous
sacrifice, in which case some plan is to be adopted for levy-
ing contributions on all the shareholders to meet the

ANNIII, MOYEAIENT OP THE POPULATION.—The fourth
gunnel reperfof Of* rigiFtrar•general of births, deaths and
arid marriages, in anglend and" Wales, exhibits the following
summary of the numbers of eaCll; registered in each year
(ending 30th June), for the four years during Whicl}the §fs:
tem has been In operation : _ _

Years. Births. Deaths. Marriages.
1837-38 399,712 ...... 335,956 ...... 111,481
1838-39 480,540 .....
350,101 ...... 124,329
,331,007..•••.121,083
1839-40 501,589 ....
1840-41 504,543 . ..... 355,622 .... . . 122,482
..
It appears from this, that the number of births in the yeir
ended June, 1841, exceeds that of the preceeding year by
2,954 ; that the deaths of the latter exceed the former year
by 2
in ,521 ; while there were 1,847 fewer marriages in 1840-41
than 1839-40.

NIFETINGS or CREDITORS you LIVERPOOL.
FKLIRVARY. Noun

17, John Casson, (2dd)

District Court, 11

17, Thomas Jones, (2nd)
17, Highfield Brothers, (proof & div.) Dist. Court, Manchester, 1
17, William Denver and William Nixey, (Ist) District Court, 1
20, Benjaihin Jasper Wood, (proof and div.) Ditto, 11
21, Henry Chapman, (proof). Ditto, 11
21, Robert Boag, (2dd)
_ .

24; Richard Shepherd, (Ist;