The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

Incr. 1 Decr

X
501,619

18,652,552 18,150,933 ....
12,069,215 12,251 932 182 717
6,961,370 6,983,129 21,759
4,228,221 4,238,560 10,279
5,127,126 5,332,157 205,031
688,01,0 802,000 114,00(
145,000 115.000 ....
902,910 1,324,548 421,581

Taxes

I 30,600

_l_____

955,3741 531,619 48,774,504 49,198,259!

406,619 I 224,747

1,323,760) 1,172,141

181,872

153,619

Total Income.. 150,506,883 150,595,147 1 955,3741 867,110
Deduct Decrease.. 867,110

Increase on the Year £88,264

QUARTERS EN

Customs
Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Property Tax
Post Office
Crown Lands .
Miscellaneous

4,848,363
3,955,106
1,780,175

Total Ordinary
Revenue....
Imprest&other
Moneys
Repayments of,
Advances ..

DEB OCTOBER 10.

5,310,835
4,]51,926
1,774,364

201,279
1823,883
209,000
30,000
465,102

13,312,908

209,940
1,972,128
217,000
45,000
405,554

,14,116,717 869,198! 65,359
33,815 9.224 ....

24,591

A medley lot of " Reformers" held a preliminary meet- .
ing on Friday at the Hall of Commerce, for the purpose
of establishing a society, under the title of "The Na-
tional Alliance," with the view of organising all political
parties to effect a reform in the House of Commons. It
is proposed to establish a fund, to be raised on the plan
of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and tracts and mission-
aries are to be disseminated all over the country, in order
to accomplish the end proposed.
'Dap commissioners for the encouragement of the fine
arts have given notice that, with the view of selecting ar-
The personal estate, in England, of the late Lord Met-
tists skilled in oil-painting to decorate the new houses of
n..1£0. has been estimated for duty at £lOO,OOO. parliament, three premiums of £5OO each, three pre-
It is stated that between seven and eight thousand jour- miums of £3OO each, and three premiums of £2OO each,
neymen tailors are now out of employment in London. I will be given to the artists who shall furnish oil-paintings
The Bank of England pays £30,000 per annum as in- which shall be deemed worthy of them. The paintings
come-tax. are to he sent, in the course of the first week in June,
A project is on foot for placing a small steamer on Co- 1847, for exhibition to Westminster-hall.
niston lake by next summer. FOOT RACE.—On Tuesday a match between J. Sher-
Eliza Lawrence, the Swiss giantess, drowned herself in don and R. Manks (both of Saeffield) came off in the pre-
the Thames, on Tuesday, in a fit of despondency, induced sence of at very large assemblage of persons. Sheldon
by want. staked £l2O to £lOO of his opponent. The ground cho-
Sir George Grey, Bart., Secretary of State for the sen for the occasion was from the second mile post to the
Home Department, has suffered the penalty of disfran- i first on the Doncaster and York turnpike road. The
chisement. The flaw in Sir George's claim was clerical betting was 5t04 on Sherdon. Manks gave up about
An explosion of fire-damp took place on Monday at a , 400 yards from home, and Sherdon went in the winner.—
pit connected with the Clyde Iron works, by which six 1 Doncaster Gazette.
persons lost their lives. i A FLAW !—A rather curious flaw, not in the indict-
The import duty on wheat is now 7s. per quarter. It l went but in the " improvement" act, which, it is said,
is expected to be 4s. (the lowest it can be under the pre- , cost the citizens of Hereford some £l5OO, has just been
sent law) in the course of a week or two. I discovered. In the marginal note to one of the clauses a
The French newspapers state that almost all the fish i penalty is prescribed against parties who wash carriages in
have this year quitted the ccast of France, and betaken ! tae public streets, whereas, on reference to the clause
themselves to that of Scotland. itself, the fine is for making carriages in this odd work-
PAPERING A PLACE OF WORSHIP.—A novel mor'e shop, to which it is not likely any handicraftsman would
of decorating a place of worship, has been displayed in , resort. The clause is. therefore, not merely useless but
the papering of Bridge-street chapel, Bristol. ridiculous.—Hereford Journal.
On Monday, a riot took place between some labourers Miss Strickland accuses Lord Campbell of stealing from
on the Newcastle and Berwick railway, in which one of 1 her " Lives of the Queens of England" to fill up his
the Irish labourers stabbed a man, who died irnmedi- " Lives of the Chancellors," and the editor of Dolman's
ately. The perpetrator was secured. afayazine accuses Miss Strickland of stealing frcm Dr.
The body of a man named Richard Green, of Rowley i Lingard's notes in his " History of England, in order to
Regis, has been found dead in a pond, under very euspi- i fill up her biography of the Queens. But as the learned
cious circumstances of having been foully murdered; I all of them, stolen, or at least mere
but no evidence of the offender has yet been traced.doctor's notes are,
I transcipts and translations from old chronicles, we think
Lord Napier has written a letter to Captain Napier, in I it will require all the editor's acquired jesuitry to bring in
reference to a discussion in the India House. His lord- I Miss Strickland guilty.
ship declares " his entire approval of Sir Charles Na- I DISMISSAL OF CADETS.—Notwithstanding four gen-
pier? s conduct." Omen cadets were expelled from the Royal Military
FALSE PROPERTY RETURNS.—The government are Academy, Woolwich, under the command of Colonel B.
prosecuting some parties in the neighbourhood of Not- ! Parker, C. 8., some days ago, for an outrage upon the
tingham, for having made false returns under the pro- j person of mother cadet, who was compelled to go to the
petty and income tax acts. hospital, yet it eras been found necessary to expel four
A correspondent of the Mornin_o Chronicle is of opi- I more on charges of intoxication, &e. The gallant Lieut.-
nion that in the highlands and islands of Scotland 50,000 Governor is determined not to allow the least impropriety
families have to maintain themselves on less than ss. a of conduct degrading to tire service.
week. SELF-STARVATION.—Thomas Miller, 39 years of age,
Last week, a baby was suffocated in London, whilst at of unsound mind, was committed to the Westminster
its mother's breast. The mother fell asleep on-the sofa, I House of Correction, on the 10th of last month, from
Marylebone Police-court, for creating, a disturbance in
with her infant in her arms, and when she awoke, the
child was black in the face. I the street, and in default of finding sureties. From the
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.-011t of seven men killed and moment he entered the prison be obstinately refused to
four injured at the lamentable accident at the Aberdeen take any food, and, although a small quantity was forced
Railway, " Alexander" was the Christian name of seven down his throat, be died on Monday morning. A con)-
of the unfortunates.
, ner's jury found that "he died from disease of the brain."
SHOCKING EXIIIBITION.—A few days ago, a man 1 THE STAGE.—The theatre is declining. Twenty years
named Beckett, hostler in a village in Yorkshire, died in
! ago, the hivher arid middle classes numbered many pro-
consequence of having attempted to drink two quarts of ' fessed admirers and patrons of the drama. Kemble and
ale in one draught a few days previous. Kean, Matthews and Macready, had their myriads of ad-
It is announced by a contemporary that Mr. Pnein has
been looking at Mr. Crockford's shut-up hell, and it is miters, and the stage was a common topic of conversation
in general society. Now, Covent-garden is given up to
surmised that it is to be converted into a Roman Catho- i musical promenades, and Drury-lane to an Italian opera.
lie chapel. Mr. Braham sings at taverns, Mr. C. Kernble lectures I
Mr. Braham, it is said, is about to retire from profes- and reads Shakspeare in mechanics' institutes. Mr.
sional life, though previous to doing so he will make a Macready is acting at the Surrey Theatre!
tour of the provinces. The death of his daughter's hus- DEPRESSED STATE OF THE PRINTING BUSINESS.—
band, the Earl of Waldegrave, without issue, renders it The scarcity of employment which has prevailed for a
no longer necessary that he should pursue his labours. considerable portion of the present year amongst the prin.
FATAL FIRE.—t )n Friday night a dreadful fire took tees of the metropolis has scarcely ever been equalled.
place at the bookseller's shop of Mr. Sharpe, Southwark. I During the last six months the compositors of London
The premises were comp'etely destroyed, and Mr. Sharpe's I have disbursed towards the relief of their brethren out of
eldest daughter, aged 19, was unfortunately burnt to death work a sum exceeding £l2OO. Each person has received
during the conflagration. 6s. a week, the number of recipients ranging from 160 to
THE CORN AVERAGES.—It appears by the weekly re-
230. Even at the present time, when trade in former
turn of the general averages of grain, that the sales of years has been considered good, their number amounts to
wheat have amounted to the very large extent of 18-1,300 210.
quarters, and of barley to 15,147 quarters. The duty upon News have arrived of the total wreck of the ship Active,
foreign wheat is on the decline. of London. the property of Messrs. Wilson and Cooke,
On Tuesday week, as some workmen were putting in a merchants, of Bermondsey, on the coast of Coramandel.
new window at Carlisle Cathedral, a stone weighing four The greater part of the passengers were saved, but nine
cwt., fell into the choir, within a few seats occupied by of the crew were drowned.
ck The
as vessel and her contents
were totally lost. The wre h circled considerable
the clergyman, the precentor, and singing-boys, all of
whom escaped unhurt. attention from the fact of the charts by which Captain
Renant steered being incorrect to the extent of fourteen
The poll for the election of the Lord Mayor of London
was closed on Tuesday, when the numbers were—Car-
miles. The value of the ship and cargo is computed at
roll, 1,653; Wood, 1,641; Hooper, 321. Sir George
between £30,000 and £lO,OOO. The owners are under-
Carroll has since been chosen Lord Mayor by the Court stood to be fully insured.
of Aldermen. IRRELIGION OF THE DAY.—There is nothing too
Last week, an incendiary fire took place on the, pre-
sacred now to escape the fate of going into Punch. As
the Herald says, we may soon expect a Comic Prayer
miser of Mr. James Watson, of Wandley, in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, by which fourteen stacks of wheat
of Occasional portions of its comicality, as "My
Book; and then Punch laughs at the Herald,—the ob-
and hay were destroyed. The value is estimated at jeet
morality, their loyalty, and their religion. Tile regions of
grandmother. alk eak people are laughed out of their
On Sunday, the wall of the esplanade at Weymouth
£2,000.
folly arc surely wide enough without these invasions of
away a portion of the carriage road, and the spray broke I
ribaldry. No subject of the day offered finer materials
1
Association ;' and yet they
for ridicule than, some of the proceedings of tine " British
Was much injured by a violent storm. The waves carried ,
were carried to the least ac-
es high as the bed-room windows of the opposite houses. 1
The amount of damage is estimated at £l,OOO.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY LADS.—On Wednesday eve-
the Hon. Captain Forrester. ar_d Captain M'Donald have,
The Earl of Chesterfield, Prince George of Cambridge, 1
during six days in Nottinghamshire, killed 18'34 head of I ning, betwen six and seven o'clock, astGeoree Leman, a
count.
l !act thirteen years of age, in the employ of Mr. Levy, the
-am tine toll• este in, the
game ; sport scarcely to be equalled, but not to be stir- 1 ,

Total Income

Deduci

473,881

199,882

i 273,999

14,350,444 878,4221 339,358

339,358

Increase on the Quarter.... £539,064

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

passed upon any estate in the siogu,,,..
CAUTION.—We have frequently called attention to th
dangerous effects likely to result from
bottles after cleansing. The Medical
an instance of a terson having been recently
after having drank liquor in which it
proved two pellets of shot bail deposited enrbonat,:i: of
lead. The individual recovered after having buGred
violent pains.

actor wag pr.,ceedin:: t

-road, ti

,ette Inc

Aed him dov

his pockets, f

one of which they took a brown perm parcel containing
ab:att 1:8 in gold and Fiber, which ho was entrusted to
carry to the Kcasington-gate, RA got dear off. A police-
man ileard the cries of the boy and hastened to the svo;.,
but by the time he reached the thieves had escaped.