The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

GUANO TRADE.—During the past week this port has
sent out three shins—the Inte;rity, Johnston, of 459 tons;
the James and Thomas, Forest, of 383 tons ; and La
Bonne Mere, Dove—for Ichaboe. The Atomic!:, of 3-11
t nos, and the Indus, are preparing to follow. These will
make twelve sli;ps from Hull, ten of which are gone to
load tho precious manure.—Hull Herald.

LADIES IN THE STOCKS. —On Saturday, market-day
at Newport in this county, the aten' ion of Her Majesty's
lieges was attracted to the Town•h4ll,- in consequence of
the stocks being occupied by two young ladies, Miss
Ann Bullock, and Miss Harris, who with a gentleman,
named Jones. alias Girdier, hail the pleasure of rust'cating
in the above enviable position for six hours.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle.

GUANO.—The West India Islands do not appear to
offer a market for this now important article of commerce,
as the following fact affords sufficient proof:—" The brig
Lerwick, Captain Jones, arrived at Cork on the 23rd
instant, with a cargo of African guano, having been to
Barbadoes, and remained there four days, without being
able to dispose of it, at, it is presumed, remunerating
prices. "
Roe and Blatchford, the Isle of Wight bankers, passed
their final examination on Friday at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, when the proof of the Isle of Wight Joint Stock
Bank for £63,000 was admitted against each of the sepa-
rate estates of the bankrupts; it appearing that when Sir
Richard Bassett died, the firm was insolvent, and was
nevertheless carried on by the bankrupts till they fa.led
with a deficiency of £60,000 or £70,000.
QUICK TRAVELLING—The splendid new coach, Quick-
silver, from Edinburgh to Newcastle, in uninterupted
communication with the Newcastle and London Railway
(just opened,) by Darlington, in one day, on Wednesday
performed her first journey f-om Newcastle to Edinburgh
in nine-and-a-half hours, with th 3 greatest ease, safety,
and comfort, and having a full complement of passengers,
thus anticipating the London mail by nearly four hours.—
Glasgow Courier'
STATISTICS OF CAB-DRIVERS, &c.—From some docu-
ments recently prepared for the Home Missionary So-
ciety, it appears that there are in the metropolis 347
watermen employed upon the various cab-stands, 1,793
omnibus conductors, 1,662 drivers of cabs, and 4,546
drivers of hlckney-coaches and otnnibusses, making a
total of 8,348 men, or, with their families, 20,000 persons
living by the conveyance of passengers in and around
London.

POST-OFFICE EMBEZZLEMENT.-011 the morning of
Thursday, Miss Sarah Kay, late the receiver of letters at
the Glossop Road branch Post-office, in Sheffield, under-
went an examination at the Town-hall of that place, and
was fully committed to York Castle for trial on three
charges of stealing letters, one containing two marked half
sovereigns, another containing a silk handkerchief, and
the third a piece of bride-cake. The punishment for this
offence is transportation for life.
SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Since the second reading of
the Dissenters' Chapels Bill in the House of Commons,
the trustees of Dean-row (Unitarian) Chapel have held a
meeting, which was attended by several very wealthy and
influential gentlemen of the neighbourhood. They have
determined on making a school-room from one end of
the chapel, altering the galleries, and thoroughly repair-
ing the build:ng and premises throughout. They have
ample funds at their disposal.—Stockport paper.
EXTENSION OF THE COTTON TRADE.—We have now
almost weekly to report fresh extensions of the cotton
trade in this town. This week Messrs. W. Shaw & Co.,
corn-dealers, have p rchased about 5000 yards of land,
belonging to the Greenbank estate, on which to erect a
weaving shed, and, probably, hereafter a mill. Mr. J.
Paley is about taking down buildings adjoining the works,
and extending them considerably. We hear of another
party about erecting a new mill.—Preston Guardian,
Radical paper.

THE Loss OF THE MANCHESTER.—By the Vivid
steamer, which arrived on Tuesday evening from Hull,
we ascertained that the Transit steamer made that port
on Monday from the scene of the late heart-rending oc-
currence, and the additional particulars brought by her
confirm the melancholy fact that ❑ot a life was saved.
When the Transit left the Elbe on Saturday, the wreck
of the Manchester could be seen to the northward of the
harbour, but the crew were unable to gain any tidings of
any bodies being washed ashore.—Morning Chronicle.
MANCHESTER THEATRICAL RELIEF FUND. —The
fund for the relief of the sufferers by the destruction of
the Manchester Theatre-Royal amounted, on Thursday
last, to J. 761. The salaries of the company were paid in
full from the time of the conflagration to the opening of
the Circus; the artisans were paid for the loss of their
tools, and the orchestra for the loss of their instruments;
after which a surplus of £370 remained, which was dis-
tributed, on Saturday, among the theatrical corps and
those necessary servants of the theatre who are wholly
dependant upon it.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—There are at all the sta-
tions of the Ayrshire Railway shifts or switches, placed
betwixt the two rails for the purpose of removing carriages
from one rail to the other. Under the shaft of Lochwin-
noch station, a bird of the " wagtail " species has built a
nest, and is now sitting on five eggs. Although there is
scarcely an hour in the day that there is not a train pass-
ing over it, and the wheels of the engine and carriages
running within two or three inches of the resting place of
the little bird, it goes in and out as fearlessly as if it were
out of the reach of danger.—Western Watchman.

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colour warehouse of Mr. Slator. Shortly afterwards a
violent explosion took place, a quantity of gunpowder
upon the premises (about 100Ib.) having ignited. At this
time the whole of Mr. Slator's house was a mass of flames ;
the effect of the explosion was to blow out the whole of the
front. A large corn warehouse in Spain-lane next took
fire, and became a prey to the flames, together with the
offices of Mr. Lewins and their timber-yard. The amount
of property destroyed is estimated at £lO,OOO.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 28.—We have a
steady sugar market; the transactions since our last are
not large, owing to the buyers having previously supplied
themselves, but about 400 hhds. have found buyers at the
previous currency. Brown 565. to 575. ; middling 58s. to
605.; good and fine 61s. to 675. In Bengals and Mauri-
tius a moderate business has been done at the quotations.
Rum is not in much demand, but the samples of those
parcels lately arrived are not yet ready for the market.
Molasses very dull. Gazetted average price of sugar,
June 25, is 345. 41d. per cwt.
EFFECTUAL ;METHOD OF PRESERVING FURS, &C.
FROM MOTHS.—Wash the fur on both sides with a
mixture of twelve grains of Corrosive Sublime dissolved
in half-a-pint of Spirits of Wine. To make it dissolve
more readily, the corrosive sublime should be reduced to
powder in a marble mortar. If the moths have harboured
in the lining-wool of muffs, it must be replaced by new
wool that has been well saturated with the above prepar-
ation. The mixture is colourless, and will not injure the
most delicate fur, feathers, or woollen articles of any kind.
The same method of treatment is also efficacious for the
preservation of stuffed specimens in natural history.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—An old man named Thomas
Archibald, aged 84, together with his wife, aged 81 years,
who had resided for a long period in the neighbourhood
of Ballanarahan, in this Island, died on the same day,
having buffeted the storms of life together, as man and
wife, for the long period of 60 years. These aged pil-
grims, who had so long " clamb'd the hill tegither,"
" slept tegither at the foot," were not divided even in
death. They were " waked" in the same room, con-
veyed in the same vehicle, and finally interred in the same
grave in Peel churchyard, in presence of a large concourse
of spectators.—Manx Liberal.

SUICIDE BY A YOUNG GIRL.--On Tuesday last Emma
French, a very lively girl, aged fifteen, drowned herself in
the Grand Junction Canal, near Kensal Newtown. The
deceased was in the habit of saying she would drown her-
self when corrected for a fault. She called on her sister
on Monday, and told her she was going to drown herself,
and on the following day she wrote the following letter to
her mother : " Good-bye, mother : I have drowned my-
self by the house. Pray take me out; I am dead. My
dear mother, good-bye." Her body was found in the
canal, behind her mother's house, on Wednesday morning.
She had left her bonnet and shawl in the adjoining hedge.
POPERY IN BRISTOL.—The Roman Catholic Chapel,
which has been for many years in progress of building,
near Meridian-place, Clifton, and is still unfinished, is
now offered to the best bidder, together with a small chapel
adjacent, used for some time as a Roman Catholic place
of worship, and other premises and land. We very much
doubt if the purchase of St. Mary's Chapel, on the Quay,
and the premises in Brunswick-square, intended as a
house for Sisters of Mercy," has been in either instance
completed. We hear glowing accounts of the progress of
Popery elsewhere ; but certainly in Bristol and its neigh-
bourhood it is at a stand-still, if not retrograding.—Bris-
tol Journal.

THE MYSTERIOUS POISONINGS.—An inquest has been
held on the bodies of the aged couple, living at the village
of Long Sutton, near Wisbeach, who as stated in our last,
had died from the effects of arsenic. At the inquiry it
was clearly proved that the poison had been put into the
tea-kettle by a strange woman who entered the house
while Mrs. Crosby was preparing the breakfast, and who
requested permission to rest herself for a short time,
which was granted. The woman has not been discovered,
although a reward has been offered for her apprehension.
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IMPORTS OF FRUIT.—The Princess Victoria steamer
from Antwerp, on Monday morning, landed 542 baskets
of cherries, averaging 501bs. each, making a total of about
27,2001b5. ; she also landed 20 baskets of fine white cur-
rants. The Emerald Isle, Rotterdam steamer, the same
morning landed 933 baskets of the same fruit, averaging
251bs. per basket, and making, with the Princess's supply,
upwards of 50,0001b5., which were immediately distributed
amongst the buyers from the West Riding and Lancashire.
This supply is ten times the amount of the preceding
week. The fruit is in extraordinary fine condition, and
appeared, on examination, to be entirely free from un-
soundness and waste. The Emerald Isle brought a fur-
ther consignment of 635 bushel-hampers of new potatoes.
—Hull Herald.