The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

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PORCINE VORACITY.—On Saturday last one of the
cattle waggons on the Sheffiphi n

tiallway,
was loaded at Ardwick station with a small number of
sheep and lambs, two cows, and six pigs, of the Irish
bread. On the train arriving at the Glossop station, it
was found that the pigs had nearly devoured one of the
sheep, and were fighting for that portion of the carcase
which iemained. They had also succeeded in killing

a lamb

ral Tom Thumb has met with brilliant success at
1, but, unfortunately, the admiration of some
‘riknown has been extended to a portion of his
lso: for, the other day, a v.luable diamond pin,
and other rich presents which had

several beautiful rin

ividuals in

England, were abstracted from hii "cabinet of gifts,"
whilst he was exhibiting in the great room of the Phi(-

Society

The Quarterlv Review, just published, contains an ar-
ticle upon the Irish policy of the present government, in
which the writer mainly insists upon the position, that a
date endowment of the Roman Cathofic clergy is pro-
perly a corollaiy to the late enactments; and that it is a
measure safe and necessary for the empire. The reviewer
thinks it useful " to familiarise the public mind to.a state
provision for the Roman Catholic clergy," but charac-
terises the proposed endowment as a " last and desperate
reAource."

The shoal off' Limehouse reach is now been blown up.
It was upwards of a mile in length, and was an accumu-
lation of gravel mixed with stone, consolidated in greater
or less degrees by what was conjectured to be the action
of numerous petrifying springs. It was of so hard a cha-
racter, that it defied all efforts to remove it by dredging
rriachit es; consequently it was determined to attempt its
removal by a series of submarine explosions, effected by
placing mines in cavities bored in the shoal, and fired by
galvanic power.

FATAL. STORMS.—On Sunday and Monday week the
thunder storms in France were very destructive. A man
and a horse he was riding were killed at Honflear. At
Gonneville, near Rouen, another man and horse were
killed. At Aurinville, near Paris, a man employed in
Lino. and one of the two horses he was driving were
steeple of the church of the favourite
Trouville, near Honfleur, was destroyed,
'schin, in Bohemia, was struck at one
-ing in five different parts. Forty-
ve barns were reduced to ashes.
A woman and a boy were found in the ruins.
TERRIFIC STORM IN BIRMINGHAM.—OR Sunday
nigsht this town and neighbourhood were visited by one of
the most terrific tempests which has occurred in the
recollection of the oldest man living. The lightning,
Is!lowed by crashes of thunder, was of the most awfvl
description ; while the rain fell in torrents. Some of the
streets, in consequence of the height of the flood, were
rendered altogether impassable. In many of them the
water was middle deep, and in more than one instance
life was endangered in attempts to preserve property.
It is calculated that some of the tradesmen, in the lower
parts of the town (in particular grocers) must have lost
to the amount of hundreds of pounds by the sudden and
destructive inundation. The devastation occasioned by
this awful tempest was not confined to Birmingham. It
extended miles around the town.

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