The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

Fanny Kemble, Fanny_ Ellsler, Miss Stephens, (n

Dow;ger Countess of Essex) Miss Shirreff, and Cosily
others, have accumulated large fortunes by their -pro-
fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage at

present is Madame Celeste.
On Tuesday week Edward Powell, of Cargwell, was
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grinding a knife. on a new stone, weighing about 10 cwt.,
when too much power was applied to the wheel and the
stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor-
tunate man, and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He
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d~ti in a few minutes.
Gova:NG'...
—Mr. Bingham, the magistrate, recently
sorry to see that the horrible
most barba-
-ttlements of America, was rapidly
roes part of the back:
try; and that he was deter-
gaining ground in this (0t,.7 that came before him, to
mined, in every case of the kino.

check such brutality as much as LC,'
The Times of yesterdeky week was pa
supplement the full size of the principal sheet, In
tamed 1,941 advertisements, the duty on which would
£145 Ils. Gd. ; which, added to £125, the stamp duty on
30,000 conies, the average daily _ circulation, gives

with a
' ^on-

£270 Ils. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester-
day week to the revenue of the country.
THE SQUADRON or EVOLUTION.—Ort Wednesday last
the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth
and proceeded to sea, accompanied by numerous yachts
and steamers, filled with curious spectators. A sharp
squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the
latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost

from sight

A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned
against Eliza Clark, who threw ber children into the river
over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has
been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court,
the unfortunate woman was found not guilty, on tie
ground of insanity. She will be confined during her
Majesty's pleasure.
Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row-
ley, was brought up at Bow-street, on Wednesday, having
been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck-
ingham Palace. lie stated that he only went into the
garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted
to lie down o❑ her Majesty's sofa. The prisoner was re-
manded.

At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert Henry Leigh-
ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier
and Thomas Fairclongh, seamen, and Thomas Wallace,
an apprentice, part of the crew of the schooner Helen, of
Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge
of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while
on her way to the Baltic.

CARNA AVON IiEGATTA.-At the preliminary meeting
for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined
that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th,
and Friday, the 28th August neat. The Hon. Colocel
Douglas Pennant, member for the county, will be pre-
sident. Three superb pieces of plate stand over from the
contests of last year. . . .

Within the last ten days no fewer than eighty of the
water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna-
mental water of St. James's Park. It was determined to
watch ; and it was found that a pair of Egyptian geese,
which had not long been placed in the park, were in the
habit of attackit g the smaller birds, and that one bite was
sufficient to cause death.

CH F ESE.-It acpears from a parliamentary return that
for the year ending the sth January last, the importation
into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ;
from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337
cwt.; and from the British possessions, 234 cwt., making
the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year,

267,824 cwt

A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village near
Chesterfield, was thrown into a state or unusual wonder-

►rent and .urprise last week, through a tercale resinent
there having given birth to one of her own species, an
event which had not occurred in the above village for the
last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two
families.

Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mortality," a
worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who rernern-
/IPTP(I frllloll n (~Mein-or wridi thp acrri-

ceding centuries; died at his place of residence. Balmac-
lellan Village, on the 30th ult., at the ripe age of ninety-

one years

During the case of an application, last week, to Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce, respecting the infringement on
a patent right to pencils, a question arose as to the num-
ber of gross that had been sold, when his Honour, after
apparently weighing some knotty point in his mind, said,
"I am ashamed to confess my ignorance, gentlemen, hut
I do not know how many dozen make a gross." The diffi•

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cults having been solved, the case was proceeded. with.
The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week
receded to 16s. per quarter. There has been a fall in the
price of grain throughout the country, and no one can
doubt that under the influence of fine weather, which
prevailed last week, and the measure now pending in
Parliament, the price of wheat, ere the lapse of many
weeks, will be at ruinously low rates to the home pro-
ducer.