The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-24 00:00:00

ner's Jur

EXTENSION OF TRADE.—In the interval between 1827
and 1841, a great increase has taken place in shipping. A
gentleman, who is a member of one of the great dock com-
panies, has compiled a statement, from which it appears that

ng oar ports from foreign part
e of 110 per cent., and in foreign v
r cent., in 1841, compared with 1827
the value of the imports into the United Kingdom there has
and in that of the total ex-
me period, Of the exports,

seen an in(

8 per c

,t. within the

. .
and manufactures was 95 per
al merchandise 49 per cent.

a foreign and colo

KTRAORI

,cutiey, was going over his
~erved two foxes playing in an adjoining field to
be was walking. On watching their movements
minutes, one of them suddenly sprang up an old
tree covered with ivy, and was immediately followed
-r. Mr. Cousins, under cover of the hedge, made
s way up the tree, and before reynard and his companion
---,lre of their enemy, he was within arm's length of
One jumped from the tree, and was soon
-•- and the other Mr. Cousins succeeded

the ott

both of them
safe in his na

in capturing.—

.h Express

BAND OF SMUGGLERS SHOT.—The custom-house
cers of Grandreng and Faurceulx, in Belgium, last week
mired a band of dogs laden with brandy, which their

to introduce in this way into
glum without payment of duty. The men were made
inners, and the dogs were taken into the yard•of a tanner,
ere they were shot. During this operation, the windows

avouring

_ .._,....„
of the tanner's house were broken by a mob, and the custom-
house officers, on leaving the premises, were so roughly
handled, that if the burgomaster had no interfered they
would probably have been killed.

DESPERATE OUTRAGE.—On Wednesday evening last, as
Mr. Forde, son of Captain Forde, of this town, was walking
towards the Knather, he was attacked by three or four fel-
lows, who beat him in a most shocking manner, and left him
apparently lifeless in a field, where Messrs. Bidwell and
Feely of this town providentially happened to pass shortly
afterwards, and, hearing some moans, looked over the ditch,
where they found the young gentleman lying weltering in his

C., c, ...
blood, speechless ; they rendered him every assistance, and
had him conveyed home. Drs. Kelly, Welsh, and Stephens
were sent for, who are still in attendance on him, and, we
understand, entertain much fears of his recovery.—Bally-
shannon Herald. A

Avnvosi-BANKS.--A well-known abuse connected with
ngs'-bank system is that of putting in the names of
t, or even names altogether fictitious, and thus con-
to place much larger sums than that which the act
fixed as the limit for a single depositor. Some impedi-
have been thrown in the way of this practice by an
ssued by one of the London savings'-banks, which
deposited in the names of children shall
y attain the age of 21 years unless on
fur the child's benefit,

childre

f that it is i

nt of death it will be paid, at a month's
rest relative. The facilities for evading the
!se institutions, afforded by the very acts of

nt under which they are conducted

'e so numerous,

that there can be little doubt of this abuse having very ex-
The rule above quoted affords perhaps

ely prevailei

but an imperfect rer

COLLIERY LABOUR.-

Mr. C. Bruce has given notice of a
1, which a correspondent of The Times states is " for
f repealing or evading Lord Ashley's
it says that