The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Stanley, it is said, is to " keep house " during the
vacation ; it being necessary that one of the principat
secreteries of state should be a the seat of government.
We understand that Lord and Lady Francis Egerton
are passing the antumn at Worsley Hall.
The Stingo Brewery, situate at Paddington, London,
was partially consumed by fire on Friday morning last.
The damage is estimated at many thousand pounds.

Espartero, and the members of his late administration,
have been admitted honorary members of the Reform
Club.

The average price of Wheat for the last six weeks hav-
ing reached 58s. 4d. the duty on the importation of foreign
grain last week receded to 14s. per quarter, below
which amount it is not expected to fall.

The Presbytery of Edinburgh have refusfA to consider
the proposition of the Town Council, to reduce the num.
ber of ministers in that city in consequence of the late
secession.

The Rev. Robert Aitkin commenced his labours at St.
James's Church, Leeds, on Sunday week, when he
preached twice to crowded congregations with his usua►
fervid eloquence.
We understand that Mr. J. W Allen, who has been so
popular with the Art Union purchasers, bas gone into
Yorkshire for designs for his next year's landscapes—
Atlas.

REORGANIZATION 'OF THE CHARTISTS.—A new Char-
tist convention, similar to that which existed in London
in 1839-40, is about being formed, which is to hold its
sittings in Birmingham.
MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—The Anti-Corn-Law
League have served about 2000 of the conservative elec-
tors of Middlesex with notices of objection to their votes,
most of which are utterly frivolous and vexatious.

During the past week a venerable lady in the 97th year
of her age, of Epworth, was seen shearing in the Wryest
field ; she cut two sheaves of wheat, aad tied them Op in
a workmanlike manner.

Mr. Andrew Doyle, the barrister, who last week mar-

ried the youngest daughter of Sir John Easthope. Bart.,
M.P., is the new editor of the Morning Chronicle, (vice
Dr. Black,) of which the Hon. Bart. is a principal pro-
prietor.

The Rev. H. Caswall, author of the "History of the
Mormons," late of the Amercan Episcopal Church, having
been ordained under the provisions of a special act of Par-
liament recently passed, has been licensed by the Bishop
of Salisbury to the curacy of Downton Wilts.

On Saturday week in what is called a ladder pit, in
Moss Lane, Swinton, belonging tq the trustees of the late
Duke of Bridgewater, a boy was suffocated by the car-
bonic acid gas generated there, and several others were
drawn up insensible, but recovered.

There is now growing in a most prosperous state a crop
of oats, beans, and potatoes, sown and set 12th of May,
upon a window sill in the Queen's Bench Prison, in a due
north aspect, forty-four feet from the ground, without a
particle of soil beyond tea leaves.
A regatta will take place at Lancaster, on the 12th of
September, under the patronage of Lord Stanley and J.
W. Patten, Esq., the members for North Lancashire, and
Thomas Greene and George Marton, Esqrs., the repre-
sentatives of the borough.

EARLY HOURS.—ne linen drapers of London have
commenced closing their shops at eight, exact time, and
are about to make arrangements for closing at seven
during the winter months—November, December, Janu-
ary, and February.

The MARKET for METALS is generally firmer, but no
advance has been ascertained in any article excepting bar
iron, and it is only certain that a sale of 400 tons has
taken place by one of the great Welsh establishments at
£4 2s. 6d. per ton.—Birmingham paper.

A LONG SHEET OF PAPER.—MT. Limbird, of the
Strand, has a sheet of paper four feet seven inches wide,
GOO yards long, and weighs 1371b5. It is of fine texture,
and has been made expressly for the purpose of taking im-
pressions of monumental brasses.

The sum of £l,OOO has been granted by government, at
the request of the British Association, towards defraying
the expenses of printing the reduced catalogue of stars of
Lalande and Lacoille, purposed under the superintendence
of Mr. J. Baily and Professor Henderson.

THE LATE SESSION.-It appears, from a parliamentary
return, that from the 2d of February to the 17E6 of Aug.,
the house sat 119 days, and three Saturdays ; the hours
of sittings were 9864, and it sat 1054 after midnight;
making the average time of sitting on each occasion 8
hou'rs and 17 minutes.

COLLEGE HONOURS.—At the recent commencement
of Transilvania university, the degree of D. D. was con-
ferred on the Rev. Beverley Waugh, Bishop of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, and the Rev. James Dixon, of
England, late president of the Wesleyan Conference.—
New York paper.

At the Central Criminal Court, London, bn Monday,
Mr. Bernard Gregory, of the Satirist, was arraigned at
the prosecution of the Duke of Brunswick, and having
withdrawn his plea of " Not Guilty," was enlarged on
bail on two sureties in £2OO each, and himself in £4OO, to
come up for judgment at the beginning of next session.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—The Congreve manuscripts, valued
at £2,000, were sold by auction on the 19th inst. at Iscoyd
Park, Salop, to Mr. Andrews, of Bristol, for £3 13s.
they were lotted in the printed sale catalogue " about 80
MSS. and black letter ditto, in vellum."—Keenes Bath
Journal.

THE TEA TRADE, Aug. 28—The market has been quiet,
but steady as regards the prices realized ; and the public
sales of about 35,000 packages to-morrow will probably
give it a tone. The deliveries were large last week, being
538,0551 b. Next week we may anticipate the arrival of
Overland express.
FIRST POCKET OF NEW Hops.—The interesting event
to the hop trade of the arrival of the " first pocket" tosk
place on Wednesday. The price at which it was inarne_
diately sold was £8 per cwt. It was grown by Mr. Reay,
of Birling. The duty is called £140,000, and business is
dull.—London paper.
On the night of Friday week, at Woodburn Terrace,
near Douglas, Isle of Man, Mrs. Stephen, wife of Mr. j.
Stephen, draper, was accidentally burnt to death by her
clothes taking fire from a lighted candle, which she held.
A servant who heard her screams, thought that the house
was on fire, jumped out of the window, and was severely
injured.

ANOTHER CONVERT TO ROMANISM.—We can state it
as a fact, that the'Rev. Daniel Parsons, curate of Marden,
Wilts, long known as a Tractarian, has seceded to the
Church of Rome. Private reasons will for the present
prevent his becoming a priest, but he is to assume, as we
are informed, the office of teacher in some Popish esta-
blishment.—London Record.

IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPi CABLES.—Amongst the pa-
tents granted in August s one to James Brown, of No.
2, High-street-place, White-horse-lane, Stepney, Esq.,
engineer, for certain improvements in tackle and apparatus
for working and using chain cables in ships and otherwise ;
and also certain improvements in the tillers of rudders of
ships and other vessels.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—Two terrible accidents happened
on the works of the Newcastle and Darlington Junction
Railway, near Darlington, on Wednesday last. In the
morning a boy was killed by some waggons running over
him ; and in the evening a married man of the name of
John Wright, who has a family, was killed by some earth
falling on him whilst at work.

The Bank of England has given notice that they will
" receive applications for loans upon the deposit of ap-
proved bills of exchange not having 'pore than six months
to run, Exchequer-bills, and East India Bonds ; such
loans to be repaid on or before the 19th of October next,
with interest at the rate of £3 per centum per annum, and
to be for sums not less than £2,000 each."
SINGULAR SIGN OF THE TIMES.—The clerk of the
Wakefield Gas Light Company tendered his resignation
to the directors of that body recently because he was un-
able to obtain the payment of their outstanding accounts,
without resorting to harsh measures which he was unwil-
ling to do. His resignation was not accepted.—Leeds
Mercury.
The Emigrant Ship Catherine, of Belfast, which sailed
from Scotland about six weeks ago with some 300 High.
land emigrants, after being many days at sea was obliged
to put back, and has recently arrived at Belfast. Such
was her leaky state that after the crew had been knocked
up it became necessary to order both men and women
passengers to the pumps to keep the vessel afloat.