The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-21 00:00:00

A child with two heads was recently born in the United
It died shortly after birth.

Lord Congleton preached,
on Sunday week, in the Baptist
Chapel, at Teignmouth, which is at present occupied by the
Plymouth brethren in that town.

Within a comparatively short time, four dissenting chapels
in this city have been purchased by the rectors of Bath and
Walcot, for the service of the Church of England.
In Monmouthshire the whole of the colliers still continue
on strike, to the number of about 5,000, and continue meet-
ing on the hills.

A meeting of the proprietors of the Ulster Railway Com-
pany was held on Thursday last. The balance of nett
profits on the half-year was £5,336, 75. 10d, and a dividend
of ten shillings per share was declared.

Mrs. Peck, the wife of Mr. Peek, a grocer at Stowmarket,
died last week, very suddenly in cousepenee of having
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accidentally taken a dose of prussic ' dministered by a
respectable surgeon in mistake for an. ne draught.
It is stated, on good authority, that ds of one million
sterling per annum is expended on the turf. It appears that
upwards of 1,000 horses were in training during the last sea-
son ; that 1,050 races have been contested, and £150,000 dis-
tributed among the winners

A Mr. Conatty has been convicted at Tours of playing
foul at cards. It was proved that all the " kings " in two
packs were marked with a nail. Of this Mr. Conatty denied
all knowledge. He was sentenced to ten years' surveillance
and for five years to be incapable of giving evidence in a
court of justice.

A man named John Flitcroft, who was discharged from
the New Bailey, Manchester, on Thursday, has been dis-
covered to be heir to property worth upwards of £lOO,OOO.
It is stated that £60,000 of the fortune will be paid to him
in ready cash, and the remainder in landed property in the
neighbourhood of Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge.
The shipping companies, and private shipowners of Stock-
ton, have resolved to lay up their vessels, rather than
employ them in the coal trade at the present very low
freights. A great number of ships are already laid up in the
River Tees—more than has been known for a number of
years. [These companies three or four years ago divided 30
to 40 per cent.]

On Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Carter,
a respectable cattle dealer, residing at Burwartoh, near Ten-
bury, as returning from Birmingham market, where he had
been selling a quantity of fat cattle, he was met in the forest
of Wyre, in the parish of Rock (commonly called Bewdley
Forest,) in this county, and robbed of nearly £7OO.
IMPORTANT TO SHOPREEPERS.—It will be seen from our
report of the Recorder, to the grand jury, at the Sessions,
yesterday morning, that, in prosecutions, he will not allow
their expenses to any more shopkeepers, who may have put
temptation in the way of the thief by exposing goods outside
their doors and windows, as is too much the case.
WINE FOUND AT SEA.—One of the mackerel boats, on.
Tuesday se'nnight, picked up at sea thirteen hogsheads of
wine, which they brought into the port of Plymouth, and de-
livered to the custom house authorities. It is suposed to be
part of the cargo of some Dutch vessel. The casks are va-
riously marked, end pont4in, We understand, claret.—West
Briton.

The usual half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Bank of England was held on Thursday, at which a dividen
the rest was stated
at the rate of 3i per cent. for the half year was declared i d to be £2,87,424. A decrease in this
item since March, 1841, has tos be observed ; it is now less
by £5,864 than in September, by £11,860 than in March,
1842, and by £4,642, than Sept., 1841.

TIDE TABLE

iltrn. I Lutz. 1 Height

Sundays, Holydays, ,-c.

u. 3.1. 1 g. Iv

Tuesday

Wednes. 22
Thursday 23
Friday.. 23

246 F. I. I
2 Spring commences.l2 340 u
14 8 A.lars rises 41a 44m morn
12 447 12 6 imaitOr rise 5.4 h" 59m nine, ~

Saturday 25
Sunday.. 26
Monday. 27

5
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7 3 744 11 3 Lady Day.
821 800 12 0 4th Sunday in Lent.
915 937 13 3 Saturn rises 3h 45m morn.