The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

On Friday last her Majesty completed her twenty-fifth
year.

On Wednesday next the Cheshire Yeomanry will assem-
ble at Chester for their annual probation of duty.
The guano trade is still thriving, and no less than 300
Briti-h vessels are now engaged in a business that was
not thought of two years ago.
That ornament of the peerage, William Lionel Felix (!)
Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, figures in the list of
insolvents in Tuesday's Gazette.
Mr. Crockford, of gaming-table notoriety, expired
between nine and ten o'clock on Friday night. His death
will add to the difficulties of the settling on the Derby.
LAUNCESTON ELECTlON.—Yesterday week, Admiral
Bowles was returned member for this borough, in the
room of Sir Henry Hartlinge.
Several agricultural villages have petitioned the House
of Commons to re-inflict the punishment of death on
persons guilty of the crime of arson.
STRANGE FOSTER MOTH ER.—There is now to be seen
at Mrs. Norton's, the Mexborough Arms. Inn, Hunslet,
near Leeds, a cat that is suckling six young rabbits.
A DESTRUCTIVE PAUPER.—On Friday week, a pauper
in the Devizes Union workhouse, who was dissatisfied
with his supper, demolished four hundred and thirteen
panes of glass.
CONVERTED MEMBER.—On Monday, in the Commons,
Mr. Scott Murray, having embraced the Roman Catholic
religion; took the oath prescribed for members of that
persuasion.
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.—On Friday next, the 31st
instant, there will be a total eclipse of the moon. The
eclipse will commence at fourteen minutes after eight in
the evening, and terminate at twenty-six minutes after
one o'clock the following morning.
PATENT MEDICINES.—We learn from a parliamentary
return just printed. that the amount of dote on pattirt
medicines, in the 10 years, ending sth January, 1844, was
on an average, nearly £30,000 a year. This shows an im-
mense consumption.
A short time since, a poor woman of Colchester, having
scratched her hand, and afterwards brought it in contact
with a corpse which she had been engaged to lay out, the
member became inflamed, and the disease increased to
such a degree as to cause death a few days afterwards.
THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—It appears by a re-
turn made to the House of Commons, that in 1838 the
Lords of the Treasury limited Mr. Barry's remuneration,
as architect of the Houses of Parliament, to £25,000 to
be paid at intervals in proportion to the advance of the
works.

In the gambling-houses broken into by the police last
week false dice were found anon; the gambling imple-
ments seized. The brass divisions of the roulette tables
are in most of these dens so formed as to present an ob-
struction- to the entrance of the ball at the will of the
manager of the table.

Negociations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of
'the two countries have been opened by the English and
French governments, and will be prosecuted with greater
activity during the interval of the session. Persons
engaged in the Ve ine and Brandy trade must not, accor-
dingly, lose all hope.
A synagogue, in a style of splendour surpassing any-
thing hitherto attempted in England, is about to be elected
in the west of the metropolis. Sir Moses Montefiore has
contributed £5,000 towards the building, on the under-
standing that the worship is to be according to the usages
of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
DEATH OF THE HON. MR. WORTLEY.—WC regret to
state that the don. Charles Wortley, youngest son of
'Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, expired on
Wednesday morning last at the house of his brother in
-Grosvenor street. The deceased gentli man 'was thirty-
- four years of age, and married to a daughter of the Duke
of Rutland, by whom he has several children.
DEATH PREFERRED TO SLAVERY.— Short ly before the
royal mail steamer Trent left Cuba, a fine-looking black
slave went on board, but on being informed that he must
return on shore, he drew out a knife and nearly severed
his head from his body. On his person were frond 200
dollars, which he had saved, three boxes of cigars, and a
copy of Gil Blas. He belonged to an unkind master, from
whom he had hoped to escape.
:LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL.—We are enabled to
give the roost po-itive con•radiction to the report current
in the legal circles—viz., that the learned and excellent
Lard Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas con-
templates, or has expressed a wish to resign his high
office at the expiration of the present term. His lord-
abip at present does not entertain any intention of retir-
ing from public life.— Standard.
GUANO.—The market is better supplied, and holders
are more inclined to sell; the tendency of prices is deci-
dedly downwards, A cargo of Peruvian, which has been
nearly three years in London docks, bar been sold from
£l2 103, to £l3 per ton. For arrival cargoes of African
are offering at prices varying from £5 10s. to £8 10s. per
ton, according to the month.—Landon New Price
Current.

THE PRIZE COMEDY.—The Committee appointed by
Mr. Webster to award the prize of £5OO to the best prose
comedy illustrative of modern British manners and cus-
toms concluded their labours on Saturday, by adopting
the piece entitled Quid pro quo, or the Day of Dupes.
Of the author.hip of this production, we are not at liberty
to say More:than it is by a lady, known to literary fame.
There were 98 competitors.

A BLIND CARPENTER,—Near Cheddar Cliffs, in
Somersetshire, stands John Cooper's cottage. This ex-
traordinary man b' s been quite blind for forty years,
during which period he has learned the trade of a carpen-
ter, and may be seen making a cart, waggon or some other,
implement in husbandry, without the least assistance, his
mortices and mouldings being truly accurate, and he can
distinguish any kind ortimber.

NOVEL IMPORT.—A new trade has sprung up in Hull,
•to the benefit of the sister isle. On' Friday morning, a
•stranger from Ireland arrived'by railway, at seven o'clock.
with a thousand and forty docks, which were in Liverpool
at seven the preceding evening. He sent them out in
droves of fifty, in various parts of the town, and by Mon-
day evening had disposed of the whole (executing the odd
forty), at ls. a couple. The speculation was so success-
ful, that he immediately sent for a further supply.—Hull
paper. _

'1 HE APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Th's establishment has
just issued a report of its proceedings since 1815. when
penal enactments were passed against any unlicensed
person practising. From the report it appears that, from
August, 1815, to January, 1844, there were 11,564 appli-
cants fbr admission, of whOm 1531 were rejected. and
10,033 admitted. In the years 1836 7, the applications
were 622, which, in 1812-3, were reduced to 396, Toe
report stated that the hall had succeeded in almost every
prosecution against unqual:fi3d practitioners, and that
each prosecution cost £320.

A foot race for the championship came off on Tuesday,
at Smitham Bottom, neLr London. 'The competitors
were Georrgiiinairiisvniesilii,awtieoffotr-lnaminersmith, and Benjamin
Butler, o
inches, and the latter
fi.atter:t two '.a-setro ea pi :e in man of 5 feet 8
t rsc.n.
umeasuring 6
feet 2 inches ;
the
minutes,tierfor
vary
.ilet,,
weer can in
the fist six miles in 53 militates. Both were tog,t
eight miles, when Boiler took the lead, and Bradshaw,
having a violent pant in his ride, gave in at. the 15th mile.
Botl-r p' formed the.2s miles very comfortably in four
hours and a half.
DEATH kaOAl VOLUNTARY STARVATION.—On Mon-
day afternoon, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Blur
Anchor, Club-row. Bethnal-green, on the body of James
Beasley, aged 51 years. It appeared by the evidence that
the deceased was a weaver : that he lived by himself ;
kept three large cats, which were in fine condition ; but
he had himself wasted away for want of food, from which
he had voluntarily abstained. It was ascertained, by
post mortem examination, that Vie intestin s were quite
empty, except a little water. Verdict—" Natural death,
accelerated by exhaustion and starvation." The real fact
is, we suppose that the poor fellow was a lunatic.

REFUSING TO ASSIST A CONSTABLE.—On Monday
last, Mr. James Wade, of Wakefield, shopkeeper, was
charged before the magistrates at the Court-house in that
town, by Mr. Thomas Hsieh, one of the constables ap-
pointed under the Parish Constables Act, with refusing
to assist him to quell a disturbance after being charged so
to do. Wr. Wade said he had a shop to attend to which
he could not leave. The Bench infortned him that he was
liable to an indictment for misdemeanor, and liable to be
punished by fine or imprisonment or b3th. Mr. Haigh
did not wish to press the charge, and Mr. Wade was or-
dered to pay the expenses.

ROBBERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—On Thursday,
at Bow-street Police-office, two sisters. named Lindsay,
the one a housemaid, and the other a linenwoman, em-
ployed at Buckingham Palace, were brought up on the
charge of stealing a quantity of blankets, counterpanes,
&c., the property of her Majesty, and James Lindsay,
their brother, a surgeon residing at 25, Upper Eaton-
street, Pimlico, was charged with receiving the same,
knowing them to have been stolen. It appeared that the
females carried off the articles at various times, and de-
posited them with their brother, who afterwards removed
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them from his lodgings. They were all remanded.
SPECIMEN OF FREE TRADE.—A Mr. GOSS, who has
carried on the drapery business, at Davenport, twenty-one
months, having commenced operations without a farthing
of capital, has contrived to incur debts to the amount of
nearly £30,000, and he, the other day, went before the
Commissioner of Bankruptcy, at Exeter, with little or
nothing to offer to his creoitors. For postages of letters
he had set down 6s. per week ; twenty-one monthly
Journeys to London, £lO each ; string, brooms, brushes,
&c., 2s. per week ; clothes, washing, medical advice,
and pocket money, £122. The charge for gas was enor-
mous. He had twenty-eight assistants, for whose weekly
board he charged 10s. each. He confessed that he had
sold several hundred pounds' worth of rods to parties in
London at a considerable reduction from the cost price,
and made no note in his books of such transactions.

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THE DERBY--PIGEON EXPRESSING.—Ex ress e s
rb
are
by
generally now pet formed by steam, on rail or
horses; but the Derby was done. by pigeons, which' o
nei-
ther stop for water nor turnpikes, i
npiturnpikes,es, but shoot along their
straightforward course, rejoicing n the blue serene! It
is with pigeons as with horses—th.t as a horse will always
come hone faster than begoes cut, so will the pigeon •
and to increase this feeling in the bird, advantage is some:
times taken of natural causv i
s. For nstance, a pigeon
that left young ones at home will travel much faster than
an indifferent bird. If "money makes the mare to go,"
instinct is sure to make the Mid to fly—and fly with in-
creasing joy at its nearer approach to home! It was so
on the Derby-day. Our private extraorchn
wary express
beat our public one so much that the Sun as delivered
on 'Change and all over town bs,fore our public one
reached the office. We had thus the exclusive pleasure,
not only of " distancing" our rivals, but the satisfaction
of beating ourselves!—Sun.