The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Her Majesty's accouchment may be expected about the
beginning of July.
Sunday last was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
of the MarqUis and Marchilness of Westminster.

Swallows have made their appearance, and the cuckoo's
notes have been heard in various parts of the country.
The Marquis and M rchinness of Westminster are not
expected to visit London this season. The family will
shortly leave Eaton Hall tor Halkin.
IRON TRADE.—PRICES ON THE CLYDE, APRIL 20.—
Pig iron, No.-1, £3 10s.; bar iron, £6; nail rods, £7 :
boiler plates and sheets, £9 : 10s. per ton.

Mr. Sergeant Merewether, bas been elected recorder
of Devizes, vice Mr. Ludlow firops, now one of the
memb,rs of parliament for that town.

The dock company are canvassing the borough for sig-
natures to a petition in favour of their hill for making
additional docks at this port.—Hull Herald.
Cirpenters' wages at the Cape of Good Hope, an
f lig,iole colony for emigrants, are 30s a week.—Lirnerick
Chronicle.

The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Colonel
Thomas Francis Wade to be an assistant commissioner of
poor-laws.

The property sworn to under Sir Francis Burdett's will
is under £160,000. The personal property under Lady
Burdett's will is under £lO,OOO.
Prince Albert has made a donation of £5OO to the funds
of Christ's Hospital, and has become a governor of that
noble institution.

It is said the Poor Law Commissioners have adopted a
resolution that, wherever a union workhouse exi,ts, a paid
chaplain shall officiate, whether the guardians approve or
not of the appointment.

The Marquis of Bute wil', we hear, be again requested
to represent her Mjesty as Lord High Commissioner at
the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of
Sootland, for the third time.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
Mr. Charles Kemble. had the honour, on Wednesday
evening, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at
Buckingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline,
slightly compressed..
DEAL.—The atmosphere was, on Tuesday, so rarified
that. Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye.
vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without the
aid -of a glasi.—Dover Chioniele.

It is said, that a hair violinist is about to make her
debut in the metropolis, her genius and talents are com-
pared by connoisseurs with those of a Paganini and a

Sivori.

The Board of Tiade.has intimated that it considers the
statements or the Bristol Dock Company, in reference to
the Great. Britain steamer, perfectly, sati-factory, an,l that
the Great Western Company ought to give the guarantee
required.

MORTALITY IN THE LINE.—Of nearly 600 young
active men, who composed the gallant regiment of the
22nd Highlanders, when it left this country for fore gn
service nearly two years ago, only 143 have returned.—
Fife Herald.

THE PoTATo Patifle.—The Greenock Advertiser al-
ludes to the avidity with which potatoes were, some time
since, boughrup, and announces, that after all the out-
cry, it is found that potatoes are not scarce, in conse-
quence of which prices are rapidly fal:ing.
As a proof of the early season, and the effects of the
beautiful weather during the last four weeks, it may be
noticed that several broods of young thrushes were last
week discovered to have left their nests in various parts of
this neighbourhood.—Neu;castle Herald.
CROP OF GRASS.—At Heaton Mersey, near this town,
there is a field of Italian rve grass, of about an acre, be-
longing to John Moroiley. so extraordinary in its growth
as to be at least two feet high at the present moment.—
Stockport Advertiser.
Out of the ten millowners at .present in the House of
Commons it is said that eight of them are in favour of
the ten hours bill for regulating factory labour. This fact
speaks volumes in favour of Lord Ashley's humane mea-
sure. . .

The letters and despatches of Nelson areat length about
to be collected and published, in a form corresponding
with Colonel Gurwood's celebrated work, " The Welling-
ton Despatches." The task has been undertaken by Sir
Harris Nicolas.

The soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment, who bad
deserted his post in the barracks at Sunderland, and when
in the guard-house committed a violent assault upon Ser-
geant M'Alligott, was tried by a general courtmartial in
the barracks in this town, a few days ago, and sentenced
to transportation for life.-Netvcastle,Herald.
The Palace of Holyrood, so long tenantless and dreary,
has for the last few weeks been in a sense restored to its
former grandeur by the presence and occupancy of Her
Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas
and his amiable bride the Princess of Baden, the lovely
Countess of Lincoln, and their respective attendants.
Earl Howe gives a grand entertainment to-morrow
at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
are expected to honour the noble earl with their company.
The Archbishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other
distinguished personages are invited to join the circle.
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JAHLEEL BRENTON.
BART., K.C.B.—It is with much regret that we announce
the death of one of the most gallant and distinguished flag-
officers of the British navy, Viee-Admiral Sir Jahleel
Brenton, .Bart., K.C.8., who died at. Leamington Spa, on
_Sunday afternoon last, in the 74th year of his age.

fkr, a yerrlcy
dog, belonging to Mr. Richard Dixon, farrier, killed a rat
in one of the stables of Mr. Bagot, of the old Sir Simon's
Inn, which measured, from the
.snout
.to
.the tip of the
tail, twenty-two and a half inches, As Dominic Sampson
would have said—" Prodigious! "—Lancaster Gazette.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—Ori Monday last a man
named Yeomans, living at Belper, Derbyshire, doubting
his wife's fidelity, struck her several "fillies on the head
with a poker, from the effects of which she died on the
following day. The murderer cut his own throat after-
wards, and expired in a few minutes.
We understand that at a meeting of the Iron trade,
held on Wednesday (17th inst.) it was unanimously re-
solved, unasked, to advance the wages of the colliers and
miners in the Monkland district sixpence per day, on con-
dition of the absurd restriction by the miners to two-
thirds of their output being given up.—Glasgow Mail.
THE WELSH COLLIERS.—The -colliers who struck
some time ago are now all at. work, and exhibit evident
signs of their folly, having 'suffered severely during the
strike, and at Mold sessions two of the ringleaders, named
Parry and Hopkins, were brought up to take their trial,
but on their tusking a public apology and acknowledge-
ment of their error, they were discharged.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Sunday evening last the
dwelling=houie of Mr. James Dearlove, Bar holomew-
terrace, London, was broken open, and property to the
amount of £lO,OOO, consisting of bonds, bank notes,
leases, plate, &c. stolen. Daniel Dearlove, nephew of
Mr. Dearlove, hes been apprehended, examined, and re-
manded. _

LORD ASHLEY'S NOTICE.—The last notice of the noble
lord the member for Dorsetshire stands upon the order
book exactly as follows :--" On the third te3ding of the
Factories Regulation Bill (No. 2), to move the addition
of clauses to limit the hours of labour, on and after the
Ist day of October of the priisent year (1844), for al
young persons, to eleven in the day, or fifty-eight in the
week."

MEETING OF COLLIERS,--A. meeting of the colliers
of Wigan and its rieighbourhooe, with a large number
from Chorley, &c., took place on Monday afternoon last
on Amberswood Common. Several thousands were pre-
sent. Mr. Roberts, the attorney to the miners' m•socia-
lion, was present, and the principal sp,akers of the as-
sociation. They were very orderly, and quietly disperSed
at the close of the meeting.
CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.—Tbe Benchers of the
Inner Temple having resolved upon "a more strict course
of examination of its younger mernhers. with a view of
securing a greater degree of efficiency for the bar, have
appointed, in addition to two of its previnus examiners,
several others. The present Lord A hingvr was one of
the examiners at the same time with Mr. Molphus and
Mr. Bullock, but his lordship resigned upon his succes-
sion to the peerage.

EXPORTATION OF COALS SUSPENDED.—M. Dillon,
the French Consul at Newcastle, has written to the Com-
missaire-Geneqd of Havre, to say, that, in consequence
of the turnout of the collieri in the. North of England
(Northumberland and Durham), there is every, reason to
believe that, for the next month or five weeks, all ex-
portation of coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, Stockton,
Hartlepool, Seaham, and Blyth must be of necessity sus-
pended. M. Dillon prays him to communicate this fact
to the manufactPrers of his arrondissement.
RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists,
named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robt.
and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House
of Correction on Thursday week, about four months be-
fore the expiration of the term of their imptisoment.
These parties were tried before Lord A binger, at the Ches-
ter Assizes, 1842, on charges of sedition, &c., arising out
of the part they took at various meetings near Hyde
during the great turnout of factory operatives.
Mons Vanvolsum, from Belgium, has been staying at
Darlington for the last few weeks, and has purchased 50
head of short-horned bulls and heifers from the eminent
breeders, Messrs. Maynard, Crofton Wood, Shornton,
Lawson and others. Mr. Thornton, of Stapleton, sold
him two bulls and five heifers. The famous breeders in
the county of Durham annually have a considerable de-
mand for their young stock, for exportation to Germany,
Belgium, and France.—Newcastle Herald.
PAPER-MARING.—The Glocester Journal says, "that
a most important patent has been taken out for the manu-
facture of paper on Anew principle, and from an entirely
new material. If carried out to the full extent of the
wishes and expectations of the patentee (one of the first
engineers in the kingdom), there is little doubt that it
will shortly supersede the use of rags, as the paper made
from the new material will be quite equal to the finest
Indian paper, and not so costly."
CHEESE.—A return of the quantitiesof cheese imported
into the several ports of Great Britain in reach month of
the year 1843, distinguishing the European, United Stites,
and Colonial produce, has been printed on the motion of
Mr. Colvile, the member for Derbyshire. The aggregate
importations from all parts during the year ending Jan. 5,
1844, amounted to 179,389 cwt. From various countrie.,
in Europe, there were imported during the year, 136,998
cwt.'froonmilly 79 cwt.
Unitedt States of America, (whence very
rich, fine flavoured cheeses are now being constantly im-
ported), 48,312 cwt. ; and from the British possessions
abroad

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock.

THE DUBLIN TRIALS.

Yesterday (Monday) the Solicitor General resumed his
address on the part of the crown, and was left speaking
when the mail was despatched from Dublin last night.
The learned gentleman commenced his arguments by re-
plying to the fourth ground of objection specified in Mr.
O'Connell's notice of motion, viz., that no evidence bad
been given of any material or evident fact having taken
place within the venue laid in the indictment. He then
proceeded at great length to reply to the statements put
forth about what was termed the "fraudulent" suppres-
sion of names from the jury list, and went through the
objections of the traversers seriatim, and argued that
there was not the slightest reason for granting a new trial
on the grounds relied on.