The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The net amount of the Incline Tax receipts, deducting
till expenses, up to Saturday, the 26th ult., was £4,854,518.
About 2,500 persons have taken out game certificates
in Yorkshire for the year 1843.

The tradesmen of Bradford have agreed to close their
shops at 8 o'cloek every evening during the winter.
The revenue returns were made up a few days ago :
the increase on the quarter amounts to nearly a million
and a half.

Mr. Tidd Pratt, the certifying barrister, has refused to
enrol the rules of the chartists passed at the late Birming-
ham conference.

The estates and property of an iron company, which
cost them £1.641.626 15s 4d,. and which were valued in
1841 at £1,078,667, are now offered for £200.000.

The arbitration courts are in the course of constitution,
very generally, throughout the south and centre of Ire-
land.

By the Mutiny Act of the last Session, it is declared
that the army shall consist at the present period of "one
hundred thousand eight hundred and forty-six men.
It is stated that so far did the demand for labour in
southern Lincolnshire exceed the supply during the har-
vest, that the reapers in some instances demanded and
obtained the enormous price of 7s. 6d. a-day.
In the Times Sir Robert Peel acknowledges the receipt
of a bank-note for the sum of £lOO, which has been sent
under cover to him " for the Stamp-office," and which
will be forthwith paid into the Exchequer.
LIGHTHOUSE ON THE CAITHNESS COAST.—Mr.
Stevenson, engineer, has been visiting several places with
a view to ascertain the best site for a new Eghthouse,
much wanted between Wick and Nosshead.

The tide was so low at the mouth of the Tyne, on Sun-
day fortnight, that William Younz, a pilot, waded across
Tynemouth Bar, from the north to the south side, a feat
never performed by any one within the memory of man.

Trade in Sheffield is, we are glad to hear, decidedly im-
proving ; the hest proof of this is the fact. that the ex-
penditure of the poor-law union, which reached till lately
the enormous sum of £6OO per week, has fallen to £4OO.

A new steam-ship, 180 feet long, which is to have Stem
and stern exactly alike, and a rudder fitted to each, was
laid down last week at Chatham. One upon a some-
what similar plan was launched lately from the yard of
Mr. Laird, Woodside.

DISTURBANCE IN IRELAND AND WALES.—The Man-
chester and Salford Peace Society, on Friday night unan-
imously resolved to petition the cabinet to resort to other
means for the settling of the present differences than those
which involve the shedding of human blood.
ARMORIAL. BEARTNGS.—According to a recent deci-
sion of the judges, the impression of a thistle on a com-
mon pencil-case, with the motto " Dinna forget," are
chargeable as armorial hearings when used, and subject
the party to a duty of £2 Ss.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE ARMY.—The projected new cap
for the Infantry is likely to be abandoned, as the Duke of
Wellington has submitted to the Queen that another cap
be substituted, and her Majesty has been pleased to accede
to His Grace's recommendation.—Globe.

COTTAGERS' PIGS.—Two of the cottagers' pigs ex-
hibited at the Leyland agricultural show have been killed,
and the following are their respective weights :—Mr.
Samuel Walsh's, 25 score 124 lbs. ; Mr. James Clarkson's,
26 score 6 lbs.

The Northern Times furnishes a catalogue of no fewer
than fourteen vessels stranded or wrecked on the coast
near Shields on Thursday. It does not appear that many
lives were lost. The scene was most appalling on the
coast. The body of one seaman has been washed on
shore.

CUSTOM House.—Owing to the dismissals and sus-
pensions at the London Custom House, in consequence of
the frauds committed there, several of the officers of the
customs at Bristol have been removed for a time to the
metropolis, to do the work until these vacancies are filled
up.—Bristol Mirror.
We have much pleasure in announcing, that H. M.
Feilden, Esq., son of Joseph Feilden, Esq., of Witton
House, near this town, has returned from the Continent,
along with his youthful and lovely bride, after their mar-
riage excursion. Mr. and Mrs. H. Feilden arriv-d at
Witton House on Wednesday evening last.—Blackburn
Standard.

REDUCTION OF RENTS.—At the Marquis of West-
minster's rent-days during the past and present week
a reduction of 10 per cent. has been made from the last
half-year's rental; and 15 per cent. to such tenants as are
willing to expend the amount returned in procuring ar-
tificial manure for their lands.—Chester Courant.

THE MOSTYN TESTIMONIAL.—The splendid cande-
labrum, value one thousand guineas, is to be presented to
the Hon. Mr. and Lady Harriet Mostyn, at Mostyn Hall,
on the 31st instant. The committee intend meeting at
Whitford, at eleven o'clock in the morning.
INCENDIARISM AT MOLD.—During the last fortnight
three different fires, supposed to be caused by incendiaries,
have occurred in Denbighshire. In one case the parties
supposed to be guilty have been committed for trial at the
ensuing assizes, at Ruthin ; and there is reason to think
that facts connected with the other outrages will be
speedily brought to light.

CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—At the Chester October
Fair, held yesterday week, a large quantity of Cheese was
piled for sale, and business, we are happy to state, was
very brisk, nearly the whole being cleared off by eleven
o'clock. Prices ranged from 455. to 555. per cwt, accord-
ing to quality : being an advance of about 3s. per cwt.
on the prices obtained at our last fair.
It is gratifying to state, that the hosiery trade in the
Leicester district still continues very brisk. The cut-up
hosiery branch, as well as cotton, and worsted, and
lan.bs'-wool, still keeps in an active state. The glove
manufacture is still finding general employment for the
hands. The fancy trade is in the same fair state of de-
mand that it has been in for some months past.
ICE AT SEA.—The Camilla, from Rotterdam to New
York, and which arrived at the latter place on the 24th of
of August last, reported the falling in with, in lat. 41 37,
long. 494, a number of icebergs, and one large field of ice
of several miles' extent. It is extremely rare to meet
with ice so late in the summer between Europe and Ame-
rica.

NEW ACT FOR REGULATING THEATRES.—An appli-
cation was last week made to the magistrates of Ashton
in this county on the part of a Mr. Grandy, proprietor of
the Victoria Concert Room, for a license to perform plays.
After a consultation amongst the magistrates, the appli-
cant was informed " the majority of the magistrates, after
a full consideration of the act, and Mr. Grundy's applica-
tion, believe that they have a discretionary power to erant
or refuse the license; and conceiving they would not be
justified in granting such license to a person who was a
licensed victualler, the application is refused."

THE IRON MARKET.—The iron trade, in this neigh-
bourhood at least, maintains its advanced position ; and
to use the words of our informant (an eminent ironmaster)
is considered to be "in a Lea;thy state." There is no
likelihood, we are informed, of any decrease of price, nor
is an advance considered probable. Wolverhampton
paper.

THE LATE FATAL DUEL—The Commander-in-Chief
has directed Lieut. Munro's immediate return' to his re-
giment. It is generally supposed that Lieutenant Munro
will not surrender at all to take his trial for the murder
of Colonel Fawcett ; hut that his second, Lieutenant
Grant. will give himself up at the next sessions of the
Criminal Court.

THE WEATHER.—Wet, cold, and tempestuous weather
has prevailed during most of the week, and the fineness
of the season appears to have entirely gone, and the dark
and stormy days of autumn to have succeeded. On Wed-
nesday it thundered and lightened. Yesterday there was
hail, rain, frost, and snow. At present there appears no
signs of improvement.—Preston Chronicle.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday. at half-past two o'clock, p.m..
John Caunce. a tailor. from Clifton, deliberately walked
into the Ribble in the presence of his wife at Ashton, and
was drowned. He had come to Preston for medical ad-
vice, and was in a low state of spirits. The body was got
out in about half an hour afterwards, but life was extinct.
—lbid.

CHARITY SERMONS.—On Sunday week, two sermons
were preached in the National School, Symonstone, near
Padiham,—that in the afternoon by the Rev. J. Groom,
8.A., curate of Padiham, and that in the eve.iing by the
Rev. Walter Allnut, B A., curate of Habergham Eaves;
after each of which a collection was 'made in aid of the
school, amounting to £ll 135., being the largest sum
ever collected there for a similar purpose.
Mr. Macgregor of the Board of Trade, who is at
present in this city, had a meeting on Wednesday with a
number of our leading merchants and bankers. Although
the communications with Mr. Macgregor are not of an
official character, it is generally believed that his visit is
intended as a means of feeling the pulse of the com-
mercial community regarding certain changes supposed to
be in contemplation.—Glasgow Mail.

THE SEASON.—We have striking signs of the approach
of winter here. At the Laund, near Cockerbam, (the
residence of J. Clarke, Esq.,) some woodcocks were seen
last week, and this week, Mr. Atkinson, gunsmith, brought
a fine one to our office. It was shot near the town. A
large flock of wild• gee,e nave also flown over the town.
The snow is on the hills, and for two days past the wind
has blown sharply from N.E. The frost on Thursday
night was keen.—:Carlisle paper.
LANCASTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of this society was held on Tuesday last, on which
occasion there was a very good show of cattle, &c. The
company assembled in the field was very large, and in-
cluded all the leading agriculturists of the neigh bourbood.
The usual dinner did not take place, do person in autho-
rity having given the necesstry directions—so that the
business of the day would finish rather flatly.

ALARMING FIRE.—On Friday night last the inhabi-
tants of Rathmell Moor, near Settle, were into a state of
consternation in consequence of a barn in that locality
being observed to be on fire. The whole of the hay con-
tained in the build'ng was destroyed, and the walls level-
led to the ground by the devouring element. No cause
whatever can be assigned as to the origin of the fire, and
it is supposed to he the act of an incendiary.

SINGULAR DFATH.—A short time since Mr. R. Rich,
farmer, of Ridley Court, accidentally scratched one of
his fingers (supposed by a thorn) ; inflammation took
place arid spread over his frame ; it was followed by mor-
tification, which shortly terminated in death. The de-
ceased, who was 56 years of age, was much respected and
lamented by his family and numerous friends. He was
many years the confidential bailiff to Mr. Nicholas Ray,
of Franks, in this couny for his estate at -Ridley. .—Maid-
stone Journal.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.—A
correspondent informs us of the shipwreck of the Mary
Anne, of Arbroath, about six miles from Islay, on Wed-
nesday night last, with the loss of all hands on board,
except a young seaman, named John Purvis. She sailed
last from N wcastle, for Strangl'ord Lough, on Tuesday
week, with a cargo of 95 tons of wheat. 15,tsides the
Captain, whose name was David Cargill, her crew con-
sisted of five sailors—one of them a boy. The Mary
Anne foundered off the Runs of Islay;—Londonderry
Sentinel.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.-Our raw stig,ar market
has been rather less animated this week, still the sales
amount to 600 hogsheads West Inda, at prices fully equal
to the former quotations; fine 66a to 675., good bright
625. to 655., middling 59Q. to 615., strong pan qualities
58s. to 615., low brown 565. to 575. Scarcely anything
done in 13engals or Mauritius. For rums there is rather
more demand, and about 50 puncheons have been disposed
of since our last at the previous quotations. Average
price of Sugar, Oct. 10, is 335. 94d. per cwt.

THE TIDES AT LElTH.—Another singular phenome-
non of the tide took place at Leith on Friday evening,
the 6th current. At eighteen minutes past seven, being
low water, the tide, in the course of ten minutes, rose to
she height of eighteen inches, where it remained for
nearly fifteen minutes, it then receded about six inches,
where it continued to stand for twenty minutes, and then
suddenly rushed in (and with great rapidity), and in half
an hour rose to the height of three feet. During the
spring tides at Leith, if the) recede a great way, they
have bad ebbs at Burntisland, and vice versa.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.

PAISLEY AND ARDROSSAN CANAL.—The swift passage
boats on this canal, which have done so much to decom-
pose all the ►,reviously existing hydrodynamical theories,
without as yet giving anything in their place, are now
removed to another sphere of action, or rather traction ;
a change occasioned by a compact between the hitherto
competing canal and railway modes of conveyance. Two
of the five were recently shipped at the Bromielaw, Glas-
gow, to he sent to Wolverton, and two for the Sheffield
Canal. The breaking-up of the establishment has occa-
sioned the sale of 60 horses. The canal company receive
£l4OO per annum as a bonus, in consideration of their
relinquishing the passenger traffic.
SMALL DEER.—Captain Robertson, of the Monarch,
which arrived at Leith on Saturday from Hong Kong,
with a cargo of tea, brought ho-me with him—out of a
variety of other animals intended for our Zoological
Gardens, but which unfortunately died on the passage—
a pair of Napu Musk Deer from the Island of Java. and
which he has liberally presented to this institution.
These deer are not much larger than a hare, and are the
smallest of the ruminating animali. They are very
beautiful, with large eyes like the Gazelle, and legs not
much thicker than a tobacco pipe. Mr. Al.-xander, of
Gourock Castle, Gaurock, has also presented the Gardens
with an Emu, brought by himself from New South Wales.
—Edinburgh Evening Post:
SUICIDE.—In our police intelligence will be found a
paragraph headed Singular Case.' It will be seen that a
young woman, named Mary Duck, was brought up before
the magistrates for leaving her infant child unprotected.
On that occasion Mr. Marshall treated the woman with
considerable contempt. Had be given her a severe repri-
mand and examined into her real guilt, no one could have
complained. The woman evidently felt the treatment of
this New-Poor-Law-Advocating-Magistrate, and which,
added to what she had suffered from being taken into cus-
tody and exposed to the wide world, has caused her to
commit suicide. On Wednesday last her cold and lifeless
body was taken out of a pond between this town and
Horbury,—A CORPSE.—Wakefield Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY ROD FISHING IN THE TWEED...-.
On Thursday last, Mr. Denistoun, Springwood-park, had
singularly good sport in the Tweed, at the Scurrypool, in
Sprouston Water, having killed no fewer than 17 salmon
with the rod. The salmon killed were of the following
weights :—one 201 b., one 181 b., one 141 b., one 91b., two
51b. each. and the remainder between 71b., and 81b. each.
What renders Mr. Dennistoun's sport upon this occasion
the mere extraordinary is, the low state of the river, from
the long-continued drought, and that scarcely a single fish
has been taken with the rod for several weeks. The
only mode by which salmon have been taken in the Tweed
for some weeks past has been with the leister or spear,
and in th's way a good number have been killed.—Edin.
burgh Witness.
IMPORTATION OF COAL INTO LONDOM.—The follow-
ing is an authentic account of the importation of coal,
culm, and cinders, from the Tyne, Wear, Tees, &c., to
London, for the month of September:—From Newcastle,
112,889 tons, in 354 ships ; from Sunderland, 86.530 tons,
in 263 ships; from Stocton, 47,496 tons, in 188 ships;
from Blyth, 10,944 tons, in 52 ships; Scotch coals, 1,380,
tons, in 19 ships ; Welch ditto, 6,281 tons, in 29 ships;
from Yorkshire, &c., 4,763 tons, in 51 ships; total-
-260,540 tons, in 956 ships. This import, co./Tared with
that in September, 1842, which was 221,865 tons, shows
an Increose for the September in this year of 38,675 tons.
The imports in last year, from January Ist to September
30th, amounted to 1,902,828 tons, 6,864 ships; the im-
ports in the present, during the same period, is 1,860,965
tons, in 6,958 ships ; decrease in the present year 41,842
tons.

Goon OLD HOSPITALTTY.—On the evening of Thurs-
day week our respeeted neighbour, Colonel Rawstorne,
summoned together the whole of his tenantry, and enter-
tained them at his residence, Penwortham Hall, to a good
substantial supper. After the entertainment, the Colonel
addressed his rustic guests in courteous and encouraging
terms, and expressed his intention of establishing for their
use an agricultural library, at Hutton village school,
This is the first and chief step to advance agricultural im-
provement: first eradicate the weeds of ignorance, and
there will be a greater disposition on the part of farmers
to root up and clear the soil of vegetable weeds, and to
reduce it to a better state of tillage. Then, and not till
then, will they appreciate the beauty of a well cultivated
field, than which, as the Roman orator observed, " No-
thing can be more delightful."—Preston Chronicle.

ARRIVAL OF TUE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—Thig illus-
trious Prince of the house of Bourbon has arrived in this
country from Germany. His Royal Highness, or, as hie
partisans in France call him, Henry V. of France,
landed at Hull on Friday week last from Hamburgh, at-
tended by the Duke de Levis, Count Loemarin, Marquis
de Chambannel, and Captain Villaret de Forgeuse. His
Royal Highness embarked at Hamburg!' on Wednesday
morning. at half-past ten o'clock, and the steamer reached
Hull in 49 hours, after encountering strong head-winds
throughout the passage. On Saturday his Royal High.
ness and suite, in three carriages, left Hull for Leeds and
t.th He iigultmenes intention
departed
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brief York, in which city the Duke stayed to go over the Mins-
ter and view the different objects of interest in old Ebora-
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his
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that city
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Highness
for
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our at Durhom and Newcastle, and en route his
Royal
Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle. His
Royal Highness seems to suffer even now from the effects
of the accident he met with some time ago.