The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-14 00:00:00

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on Friday, was a me

Ilf-yearly meeting of the 'West London Railway, held
The contracts for

the works on the line are stated to have been let upon very
advantageous terms ; and as this was satisfactory to the
shareholders, the proceedings were made one of compliment
to the directors and the secretary for the great exertions they
have made in re-animating this project, and not allowing it
to be abandoned with the capital already expended upon it,
as once threatened to be the case, for want of necessary at-
tention to it.

A LITTLE TOO EARLY.—A laughable affair occurred says
the Journal de Commerce of Antwerp, one morning last
week, at Merxem, in Belgium. The beadle of the church
having heard the diligence pass, which had been delayed
several hours by the snow, thought it was that usually ar-
rived at six in the morning, and, fearing he had overslept
limself, rose from his bed, and began to ring the Angelus.
['his being the ordinary signal for the people of Merxem to
d open their shops, they rose, and' cot:n-
ary occupations, although in a drowsy
:lapsed before the mistake was discovered.
as only half-bast two in the morning !

Instead of six, it s

GREAT MATCH ON BLACKHEATH TO PICK lIP3OO STONES
AT A YARD APART.—On Monday the veteran Townsend and
Bill Gazley, the star of Kent, met at the Ship and Billet
Tavern, Blackheath, to perform their novel match to pick up
300 stones a yard apart each; the distance, of course, was 51
miles, 540 yards, and was to be performed between them in
four ht

Gazley took the long length at the begining of
the match, Townsend having to drop on his knee and pick up
his number with his teeth. Gazley continued cheerful, con-
fident, and hearty, until about ten minutes past five, leaving
twenty minutes more to do. He bad then, it was computed,
done 30 miles out of the 51; but Townsend might be said to

f two hours, he, nevertheless,
as seen to be impossible that his

on until it

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more sprightly associate could make the deed accord with the
will. and they were compelled to cry "enough," with 35
stones on the ground, at irregular distances, which baffles
calculation. The match was for £lO.
A meeting of the London publishers was held on the 3d of
March, to make arrangements for carrying into effect the
provisions of the Copyright and New Customs Act, which
comes into operation on the Ist of next month. All reprints
of English works are totally prohibited, on the condition that
authors and publishers give the notice required by the act.
Travellers, however, would act wisely in not trusting to the

negligence of either party, as works of this kind will probably
be seized at the custom-house, whether due notice have been
ziven or not, and there tray he some difficulty in recovering
them. All works of value to a certainty will be stopped..

This is a just regulation, and will form some remedy for the
system of plundr on English authors so long carried on by
continential publishers, but chiefly by our countrymen on the
other side of the Atlantic. Every valuable English book is
published in America at a trifle compared with its original
cost, and has hitherto been sent back to this country, to the
great injury of the author and the publisher. This freeboot-
icg system is now at an end, and all except thieves will re-
juice.at the result.—Sun.

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AFFLICTING DEATH.—On Thursday last, an inquest was
held at Wandsworth-road, on the body of Mrs. Isabella
Jones, aged 6.1. the relict of Lieutenant Jones, R.N., who
was killed on board the Victory in ever-memorable battle of
Trafalgar. Miss Sarah Burrows stated that the deceased,
who was subject to fits of epilepsy, and occasionally unwell,
had been. placed under her care for the last six years. On
last Monday week, about eight o'clock in the morning, wit-
ness was alarmed by loud moans proceeding from the parlour,
and on going down stairs she found the deceased's body in
the middle of the room with her clothes on fire, and the
servant attempting to extinguish the flames, which she at last
succeeded in doing by wrapping a quantity of drugget round
the unfortunate lady. The deceased was dreadfully burnt in

parlour, but how the clothes of the
!d the unfortunate lady herself could

not explain. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally
burnt to death."

EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF RECOGNITION IN A TIGER.
—One day last week a singular circumstance occurred in

Wombwell's Menageric,corroborative of the retentive memory
said to be possessed by this most vicious of the forest tribe,
the tiger. A sailor who had been strolling round the exhi-
bition, loitering here and there to admire and identify some
of the animals with those he had seen in far distant climes,
was attracted by the strange noise made by a tiger. who

seemed irritated beyond endurance. Jack, somewhat alar-
med, sought the keeper to inquire the cause of so singular
a display of feeling, which, he remarked, became more bois-
ierous the nearer he approached the animal; the keeper
replied, that the behaviour of the tiger indicated that he was
',net'', flier/end or annoyed : UDOII this

tes, du

his tail a

utterance

11 the t

!sial care
urn to be

to to do: the iron door was opened and in jumped Jack to
he delight of himself and striped friend, and the a stonish-
Dont of th. Innkers-on. The affection of the animal was

z add licking the

:o welco-me with th

ieartiest satisfaction,

nd when th

lest tar left the den, the anguish of. the
most insupportable.--Deronport rapper