The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. O'Connell will not leave Ireland to attend his parlia-
mentary duties before the 10th of June.—Limerick Chron.
The best wheaten bred is selling at Jersey for fourpence
the 41b. loaf, good brown sugar at twopence per pound, and

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tea at eighteetipence.
The whole of the ships belonging to the Commercial Ship-
ping Company of Stockton, were offered for sale by auction,

it the Vane Arms Hotel, in that town. They were all
bought in, there being scarcely a bid to any amount.
CITY OF DURHAM ELECTION.—The Whig-Radicals of
the City of Durham have determined, it seems, on petition-
ing against the return of Lord Dungannon on the ground of
bribery.

Sir Frederick Tyrrell, the eminent surgeon, died suddenly,
on Tuesday, nt the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, where
he had gone for the purpose of bidding fur a lease of freehold
property. Sir Frederick was in his 46th year.
In the church at Lydney a pair of robins have built their
nest between the pipes of the organ. There are now five
young ones in it, and the birds carry food to their young
while the service is proceeding.

If the expense of converting the Penelope frigate into a
steam-ship of 700-horse power be successful, we may have
forty sail of the finest steam frigates from extant hulks, for
£2,000,000 less than the building of them would cost.

A recent return gives us the exact details of the success of
the voluntary system. Out of 1,222,137 children receiving
daily instruction throughout the kingdom, 48,470 only are
found in the schools of dissenters.

The total number of grammar schools in England and
Wales is about 450 ; of which no fewer than 150 were founded
in the 16th century, out of the spoils of religious houses de-
stroyed during the reformation.
Among the various establishments kept up by the king of
the French for the improvement of the useful arts and sci-
ences is a collection of silk-worms, at Neuilly, where, at this
time, his majesty has a great quantity of their eggs in a state
of incubation.

An Irishman, some time since, found a sovereign in the
street, which proved to be light, and he could only obtain
19s. for it. Soon after, chance threw another in his way,
but Pat exclaimed, " By the powers, I'll have nothing to do
with you, for I lost a shilling by the last one I found."
Cornelius Donovan, a wood-turner in Mallow, has re-
ceived £9 from the Queen and Prince Albert for a present of
toys and a diminutive spinning wheel, his own manufacture,
sent to Buckingham Palace. One of the toys was a top for
the Prince of \Vales.
On Thursday last, at the Salford Sessions, Mr. John
Molesworth, son of the vicar of Rochdale was found guilty
of an assault on Mr. Jesse Hall, the publisher of a periodi-
cal in which were inserted some remarks offensive to the
vicar and his family.

Da GUSTIBUS, &c.—A Paris letter says. "At a sale of
autographs, the property of a valet-de-chambre of Napoleon,
on Monday evening, an autograph of Napoleon affixed to an
order given in Cairo, sold for 5 francs, 10 sous (about 4s. 4,1.
sterling), while one of Madame Laffarge brought 9 francs !"
THE IRON TRADE.—We hear that several large iron-
works in Staffordshire have stopped working, and a greart
number of hands are, consequently, thrown out of employ-
ment. The inhabitants of Dudley. Tipton, and the whole
country in that direction, are under serious apprehensions
for the result.

An application was made is the Vice-Chancellor's Court
on Thursday, on behalf of Mr. Alaric Alexander Watts, for
an injunction to restrain Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode and Mr.
Charles Hyde from interfering with the management of the
United Service Gazette. The application was ordered to
stand over, and will probably come on next week.

At the meeting of the Free Presbyterian Church Assembly,
last Monday, Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, M.P., said he was
commissioned by the most noble the Marchioness of Breadal-
bane to state, that she had ordered the sum of £l,OOO to he
placed at the disposal of the assembly for the benefit of the
free presbyterian church.
As a circumstance of interest at the present moment, it
may be mentioned, that the accounts from the continent
upon the subject of the weather and the growing crops read
very satisfactory, and that, as far as present appearances go,
the probability is in favour of a good harvest. It is worthy
of remark, however, that in Belgium provisions continue
very dear, agricultural produce being, in fact, higher than
for years past, while in England the reverse is the case.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT !!!—On Friday afternoon, during
the parade of the 8-Ith Regiment, P.M., i❑ Third-street,
near Green, the officers were assaulted and insulted in the
most shameful manner. Flour was thrown over them, and
other acts committed too scandalous fora decent community.
On Saturday George Griffiths, one of the party, was arrested
at the instance of Colonel Lazelle, and bound over by Alder-
man Boileau in 300 dollars to answer at court.—American
paper.

DIE LATE MR. ARKWRIGHT.—On Wednesday the pro-
bate of the will of Mr. Richard Arkwright, late of Willesby,
In the county of Derby. deceased, passed through the hands
of the seal keeper of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
The personal property of the deceased is sworn to exceed
£1,000,000; the stamp duty on the probate was £15,000,
being the highest duty, when the personal estate of the tes-
tator is £1,000,000 and upwards. The executors are the tive
sons of the deceased, who are also residuary legatees to a
very large amount.

THREE SUICIDES BY THE Wives OF vie HUSBAND.—
On Thursday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Seymour
Arms, Seymour-place, Bryansten•square, London, on the
body of Mary Salmon, aged 44. Evidence was gben to
prove that she had separated from her husband, and had
since lived a dissipated life, and that she had committed sui-
cide by taking laudanum. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
One of the jury stated that the deceased was the fourth wife
of her husband, and that two of them exclusive of her, had
also committed suicide.
TFIE TARIFF : FIRST IMPORTATION OF PORK,&C. FROM
Naw ORLEANS.—On Tuesday morning the barque Pearl, of
400 tons register, Captain Brickley, belonging to New Bruns
wick, arrived in the London Docks, from New Orleans, with
a perfectly full cargo of provisions, &c. ; namely, 1,042 bar-
rels and 227 tierces of pork, 127 barrels and 3 boxes of bacon,
2 barrels of hams, 3,421 kegs and 1 tierce of lards, 124 bar-
rels of tallow, 11 half-barrels of tongues, 230 casks of oil-
cake, and 50 barrels of flour. The Pearl is the first vessel
having a full cargo of this description of articles from New
Orleans since the passing of the tariff.
GOOD NEWS FOR HAMPERED WIDOWS.—Sir J. K.
Bruce gave judgment in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, last
week, on a point respecting wills. A testator, in 1834, made
a will, by which he gave a share of his estate to his daughter
and her issue ; but by a codicil added in 1836, he provided
that this property should pass over to other persona if his
daughter should ever marry. The daughter did marry, and
the " other persons" stepped forward to claim the money.
The judge said, that all such restraints upon marriage were
void by the English law ; and the declaration of the court
was, that the lady should keep the money.

THE PETITION MANUFACTURE.—The Manchester Guar-
dian of Saturday last informs us, that the petition from that
town against the education clauses of Sir James Graham's
Factory Bill, as amended to meet the dissetating demands,
" received in the course of only three days and a half NINETY-
ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FITE SIGNA-
TURES ! Taking the entire population of that town at 300,000,
it would thus appear that nearly one-third of that population,
including women, children, and infants in their cradle (!)
have signed the petition in question ! The dccument, we are
further informed, weighs fifty-five pounds, doubtless owing
to the deposits of grease and dirt from the unwashed fingers
of the various urchins, whose eacorthes scribendi its getting
up has gratified. Verily, we shall begin to think soon that
petitioning is indeed " a farce, when a fraud so palpable as
this oan be deliberately practised upon the legislature,