The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

SHORT PARS. ABOUT MANY THINGS.

A wealthy manufacturer now occupies Powderham Castle,
the princely seat of Earl Devon.
When a man is tipsy in Worcestershire, he is said to be
"market pert." _ . -

An importation of several packages of asparagus has taken
place by a steamer from Belgium.
The Earl of Eglinton has given the liberal sum of £2OO to be
run for on the last day of Doncaster races.

From 50 to N new accounts are daily opened at the Bank of
England by foreign investors in English securities.

While a kentleinan living at hull was working in his garden,
last week, he turned up a guinea of the year 1813.
Last week, four monster pieces of coal, weighing about 4
tons Bcwt. each, reached Newport from the Ebbw Vale Works,
to be shipped abroad._ _ _

The inhabitants of Merthyr have commenced a subscription
for building a new town-hall. Sir J. J. Guest headed the sub-
scription list with the munificent donation of .4'looo.
A Capt. Morris was attacked by an ox in the streets of Swan-
sea on Monday last, when literally adopting the old adage, he
"seized the bull by the horns" and mastered him.
The orchards in Somersetshire having been but slightly in-
jured by the frosty nights, are now in beautiful bloom, and
there is a prospect of a good crop of apples.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against three
mien at Newport, Gloucestershire, for having waylaid and so
beaten a respectable farmer, that he died.
The University of Oxford has voted £2OOO towards the Colo-
nial Bishopric fund, and £lBlB for the institution of a prize in
connection with the college, to be called " The Arnold Prize."
M. Saint Amant, the celebrated chess-player, has just ar-
rived in London. M. Saint Amant was governor of the Pa-
lais des Tuileries during the revolution of 1848.
On Monday last, a handsom ely-modelled barque, was launched
from the Baths building-yard, Douglas, the property of James
Aiken, Esq., of Liverpool.
The Manx Liberal records a brutal murder, committed at
Ballaugh, by a lunatic. The deceased was a little boy, whom
the murderer killed by sticking a pitchfork through his bead.
Samuel Langley, in a letter to the Daily News proposes that a
poetess laureate be at once chosen from amongst the poetesses
of England.
There are now living in Kent, within a quarter of a mile of
the place of their birth, three sisters, all widows, of the re-
spective ages of 89, 87, and 25.
Two gamekeepers have been fined 20s. each, at Perth, for
throwing into a pond three youths whom they had found bird-
nesting.
Upwards of £1,700 has been subscribed towards the fitting
of the branch expedition to proceed in search of Sir John
Franklin under the command of Capt. Forsyth.
On Thursday night Mr. Fox Maule presented to the House
cf Commons a petition against the Marriages Bill, signed by
46,893 women of Edinburgh.
H. M. Steamer Cuckoo struck on the Oyster Rock on Tues-
day night, on tier entrance into St. Helier, laden with troops,
rnooners, and invalids. The prisoners had to be taken out by
main force.

Sir W. N. Younge performed the arduous task of running a
mile and leaping 100 hurdles, 3 feet 6 inches high, in 18 minutes
and 30 seconds, on Monday (the time specified in the agree-
ment being 25 minutes).
The manufacturing operatives are determined not to accept
the government compromise on the ten hours' bill. Lord
John Manners will move an amendment to the government
proposition.
. A letter which passed through the Burnley Post-office last
week, bore the following address James Riley New-ton
icoaller with A Donkey And cart on death• with mud] speed
who is Dlin4 of one eye.".