The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Dr. Southey died at Keswick on the 21st instant.
A subscription is going on in London for the relief of the
sufferers by the earthquake at Guadaloupe.
Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett passed bis final
examination as a bankrupt on Monday.
The manor of Cheltenham has been purchased from Lord
Sherburne, by J. A. Gardner, Esq. for £39,000.
COLERAINE ELECTION.—The petition against Dr. Boyd
has been abandoned.
On Friday last, a boy about four and a half years' old, was
killed by becoming entangled in some cog-wheels, at the
works of Mr. Armstrong, stonemason, Manchester.
The addition of a pint of peas daily, to the usual run of
pasture, has been found an economical and effectual mode of
fattening sheep.
Miss Phillips has given the munificient donation of £lO,OOO
to the Welsh Society of Ancient Britons, which supports up-
wards of two hundred orphans;
A letter from Naples, dated March 6, says, " We have here
just now a group of ex-ministers—Marquis of Normanby,
Lord Lichfield, Lord Gleneig, and Sir John Hobhouse."
A deputation of clockmakers had an interview with the
Right. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, on Monday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.
No less than 85 insolvents are to be heard at the Court-
house, Cork, on the 3d of April. Out of this number, 34
are set down as farmers, and one ai " farmer and dancing-
master.

Mr. Burgess, late commissioner of police in this borough,
has been appointed by Sir E. Wilmot, the Governor of Van
Dieman's Land, to an official situation in that colony.—
Birmingham Gazette.

The United Service Gazette states that a serious misun-
derstanding has arisen between Vice Admiral Sir W. Parker
and Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane. The authority is a pri-
vate letter from Hong Kong.
A gentleman of the name of Shea was shot at on Sunday
last near the town of Kilkenny, whilst driving to church in
an open car. Mr. Shea was not wounded, though his hat was
riddled with balls.

The commission nominated to examine the ministerial pro-
ject for abolishing the beet root sugar manufactories in
France, have come to a final decision adverse to the minis-
terial project.

The Bishop of Down and Connor will be the fourth prelate,
at least, who, after having become a patron of the Cambridge
Camden Society, has found it necessary to withdraw his
countenance from that Institution.

There has been a heavy shower of ashes in Missouri, and
a lighter one near New York. These are supposed to be the
ashes of burnt prairies, or of far-off volcanoes (perhaps in the
Andes), carried thither by the late furious storms.
DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.—It is said, that the disease
among cattle, so general and prejudicial recently, may be ef-
fectually cured by bathing their limbs iu warm water—warm
as they can bear it, and as high.

Mr. Isaac Cohen, proprietor of Holland-house Academy,
Hammersmith, and highly connected amongst the Jewish
persuasion, committed suicide last week by banging himself
with a silk handkerchief, and taking a dose of laudanum.
FIRE.—On Tuesday night last, a destructive fire took
place at Little Saughall, Cheshire, on the farm premises of
Mr. Tilstone. Several head•of cattle and some outbuildings
were destroyed. It is supposed to have been entirely acci-
dental.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The Scottish Guardian says,
" the Church of Scotland is now as good as dis-established,
and that although two to one of the Scottish members voted
on her side. Twenty-five of the members from Scotland
voted for the motion, while oily twelve voted against it."
A short time ago, a country gentleman wrote a letter to a
lady in town, and sent it through the general post, with the
following address :—" To the 25th of March, Foley Place,
London." The postman duly delivered the letter at the house
of Lady Day, for whom it was intended.

The town-council of Glasgow, by a majority of 18 to 13,
have passed a vote of censure on Sir James Campbell, the
Lord Provost, for privately negotiating with ministers to have
the city placed under a system of police regulated by govern-
ment, and obnoxious to the inhabitants generally.

HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.—There are
in the United States just one hundred soldiers of the revolu-
tion on the pension list over one hundred years of age. The
oldest man on the list is Michael Hale, of Union county,
Pennsylvania, who is in his 115th year.—New York paper.
It is a remarkable fact, that not one solitary epistle in the
handwriting of George the Second is known to exist. This
circumstance is the more extraordinary if we refer to his gal-
lantries and intrigues, so severely commented upon and re-
corded by Walpole and others.

The quantity cf water ejected by the Artesian well at Gre-
nelle, in 24 hours, has just been ascertained to be 89 water
inches. As water is paid for in Paris at the rate of B,ooof
the inch, the above quantity can bring in 712,000 f a-year,
almost double what the boring of the well has cost.
SHIPBUILDING IN DUBLIN.--On Tuesday last was
launched, at Kingstown, a fine vessel of 272 tons burthen,
to he called the " Duchess of Leinster." She was chris-
tened by that noble lady, and is the first of Irish manufac-
ture launched for many years on the waters of the Dublin
Bay, and the only one which has been built in Kingstown.
An unpleasant affair transpired on Monday regarding a
gentleman connected with the Stock Exchange, who had been
intrusted with £3,000 to invest for a client in the New Three-
and-a-half per Cents. which he omitted to do, but handed
his employer a fictitious receipt for the amount, and, fearing
the discovery, has disappeared.—ltforninq Chronicle.

The Miller delusion, about the near approach of the end
of the world, has lately produced a deplorable tragedy in the
United States. Airs. Leverick, of Newark, near New York,
while in a state of religious frenzy, partly caused by listening
_..g doctrines, prophecies, and addresses of Miller and
ins adherents, poisoned herself and two children with arsenic !

to excitin

JOHN BuivyAN.—We understand it is proposed to raise
£5OO, by subscription, for the purpose of erecting a suitable
monument over the place where the remains of this extraor-
dinary man were interred, in Bunbill-fields burying-grOund.
The tomb and tablet that once marked his memory are now
crumbling into dust.
THE DRAMA.—It is rumoured among the lovers of the
drama that a highly educated lady; distinguished by her lite-
rary talents, is shortly to try her powers in one of our finest
old tragedies. We heard that her first appearance on the
Dublin boards will be on Saturday next, in the character of
Isabella, a part in which Mrs. Siddons was so famous.

THE TEA TRADE, March 20.—The deliveries last week
were 455,5601 b., being a falling off as compared with our pre-
ceding report. The public sales of Tuesday last went off
flatly and at lower rates, nor has the market been at all buoy-
ant since, as no less than 70,000
packages are to be offered
to-morrow, a large proportion being young hyson. Up to
December 16 the exports from China were 5,489,2531 b.

ATHLONE ELECTION.—On Tuesday Mr. Sergeant Wrang-
ham relinquished the contest before the Parliamentary Corn-
mittee as to this election on behalf of the sitting member.
The room was then cleared and the committee, after remain-
ing a short time with closed doors,
agreed to resolutions to
this effect, that Daniel Henry Ferrall, Esq., had not been
duly elected to serve in the present Parliament for the bo-
rough of Athlone; that by himself or his agents he had been
guilty of treating ; and that the election was void. •

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BAPTISM AND REGENEDATION.—A correspondent of a
London paper gives an extract from a pamphlet by the Rev.
Thos. Brock, M.A., rector of St. Peter-Du-Bois, stating
that " there exists a printed Latin correspondence between
Calvin and Cranmer, wherein the former tells the latter that,
though he well understood his (the Archbishop's) meaning
in declaring, in the Office of Baptism,
the infant to be rege-
nerate, he might be assured that the time would come when
that expression would be misconceived, and received as im-
plying that baptism absolutely conveyed regeneration."

YEOMANRY.-4 parliamentary return, just published, of
the number and expenses of the
effective yeomanry of Great
Britain, in the year 1842, states the number of troops to
totalsB,thus expense
showinghave been 247, containing 831 officers and 13,358 men ; tl la
connected
ttehe d
excesswith
of whose
£101,831 Bs. Ild. The amount voted by parliament was
x 2 ,45
vote of parliament to have been expenditure beyond the
£19,373 Bs. 11d. The
maintenance was
reason of the excess arose from unforeseen charges on ac-
count of corps called out in aid of the civil power. Six
yeomanry corps, containing six troops and 472 men, now
serving gratuitously, are to be placed upon the permanent
establishment from the first of next month ; and several
additional corps, to consist of 16 troops and 935 men, are
expected to be raised for the year 1843.