The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Sinclair, the celebrated vocalist, arrived at Glasgow on
Monday, by the Adam Carr, from New-York.

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The Great Western steamer has been purchased by the
Southampton Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Com-
pany, for £32,000.

The Commisssioners of Northern Lighthouses have in.
timated to the Provost of Wick their selection of Sar-
clet Head as the site of the erection of a lighthouse for the
coast of Caithness.

There were no fewer than 113 couples appeared at the
altar of Hymen. on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday last,
at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, and who, on those
occasions, took each other for " better and for worse."

Since the penny-postage was introduced, the weekly
numberofletters hasincreased from 1,586,000 to 4,212,060.
For every 100 hundred letters written under the old sys-
tem, there are 270 under the new.

Large and enthusiastic meetings in favour of the Ten
Hours Bill are taking place in Yorkshire. Bradford and
Huddersfield have followed in the wake of Leeds. Mr.
Oastler has attended all.

The first salmon caught this season in the Ribble was
taken on Tuesday week, in the fishery of Sir Henry Bold
Hoghton, Bart., in " Walton Deens." It was sold at 2s.
per lb.

Dr. Pusey, the head of the Oxford Tractarians, is
grandson of the Earl of Radnor ; and Dr. Hook, also a
leader of the high church party, is nephew of the late
Theodore Hook.

AFRICAN GUANO.—From_.official enquiry it appears
that there is no ground to be apprehended of interference,
on the part of the Portuguese government with the trade
now carried on in African guano.

DURHAM.—We regret to state, that no agreement has
been come to between the coalowners and their workmen,
nor is there any prospect of so very desirable a consum-
mation being effected ; and as the bonds expire this day a
cessation from labour seems inevitable.—Durham paper.
The Market for metals improves, British iron being ful-
ly £5. for cargoes in Wales, and copper is held for higher
rates. The stock of other articles is reduced, but prices
tend upwards in consonance with the improvement of
manufactures in general trade.
The Bury and Suffolk Herald records no fewer than
five incendiary fires or firing in that county within one
week. Several prisoners have also been tried and acquit-
ted at the present Suffolk assizes on charges of incendia-
rism.

The Newcastle Grammer School, in which Lords Col-
lingwood, Eldon, and Stowell, received their education, is
now numbered among the " things that were." The
edifice has been wholly taken down, to make way for the
proposed new street.

A confirmation of the juvenile nobility and gentry was
held last Thursday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's, by the Bishop of London. About fifty of the
younger members of noble and distinguished families were
confirmed by the noble prelate.

THE POLKA.—It is reported, in " wheel about" cir-
cles, that Lord Brougham has visited Paris, in order to
ascertain whether the new and fashionable dance, " La
Polka," contains any steps that might led to the Chief
Barony. It can be danced either with or without garters,
the great object being to bend the knee.—Morning Chro-
nicle.

EARLY SHOP-SHUTTING IN EDINBURGH.—A numer-
ous and respectable meeting was held in the Waterloo
Rooms, on Wednesday night, for the purpose of encou-
raging an abridgement of the protracted period to which
shops are at present kept open. A resolution in favour of
abridging the present shop system of labour was carried
by loud acclamation.
Yesterday week, atPreston, a boy named Middleton
was killed by being struck with a quoit on the head in a
quoiting.ground, into which he had run for his ball. Two
soldiers were playing, and one of them bad thrown the
quoit before deceased run in. The detachment of the
regiment to which the soldiers belonged subscribed
£4 16s. 6d. for the parents of the deceased.

POST.OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—Under the new ar-
rangement for the delivery of letters in London. there
will, instead of seven, be ten deliveries daily. Up to two
o'clock, p.m., they will continue as at present ; the first
at eight, a.m. ; the second at ten; the third at twelve;
and the fourth at two, p.m. From two o'clock the deli-
veries will be made hourly, until eight, p.m., inclusive.
The new arrangements are expected to commence this
week.

SUlClDE.—Dickenson, the husband of the unfortunate
lunatic who lately murdered her two children at Deptford,
was found dead on Thursday morning, having hung him-
self to his bedpost. Before doing the deed he wrote let-
ters to several friends, from which it plainly appears that
his misfortune had upset his reason. He appears to have
swallowed poison previous to his hanging himself, and a
razor was found under his pillow.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—On Wednesday week the
wife of a gardener, residing near Pontefract, placed a piece
of wood on the fire, but, being shortly afterwards alarmed
by a report from it, she took it up with the tongs and put
it in the yard. She had scarcely left the spot when a
louder report took place, and the wood was shattered to
fragments. On examining the pieces, it was found that
a hole had been made in the wood and about five ounces
of gunpowder inserted.

ADVERTIZE, 1 ADVERTIZE!—ReIy upon it, notoriety is
the way to succeed in life. Ask the late Mr. Day, if he
had not made his liquid as black in the newspapers as
white upon the wall would he have died with half a million of
money. People do not know their wants till they are re-
minded of them ; advertising is as healthy, and wholesome
as quick circulation of the blood ; —all therefore who de-
sire to sell, should appear in the highway which the co-
lumns of a newspaper afford to the public.

THE " SHANNON AND T.HE CHESAPEAKE."—The
name of the brave old Shannon, 46, is to depart from her,
but its glorious association with that of the Chesapeake.
and one of the brightest pages of our naval history, will
be perpetuated in another crack frigate ordered to be laid
down. We heartily hope the bantling will add as much
honour to her country in time of need as her gallant an-
cestor. The Shannon, now receiving ship at Sheerness,
is in future to be called the St. Lawrence.
Those outlay portions of the county of Durham called
Norharnshire and Islandshire are henceforth to form parts
of the county of Northumberland. This change is to be
effected by a Bill now beford the House of Commons,
the first clause of which enacts that wherever any detach-
ed portion of any county is entirely surrounded by the
main body of another county, or by such one other county
and the sea, such detached portion shall henceforth be
incorporated with and form gut of the county by which
it is surrounded.