The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-31 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lord William Lennox is, it is said, the author of the new
novel under the name of the " Tuft Hunter."
Dr. Daly was to be consecrated Bishop of Cashel on Sun-
day last.
A ditch is defined to be " a place in which those who have
taken too much wine, are apt to take a little water."
A parish constable at Tenbury, Worcestershire, has, with
an accomplice, been committed for trial for theft !
The Duke of Sussex completed his seventieth year on
Friday last.

EARLY BlRDS.—There is at the present time, in a barn
at Horbury, Yorkshire, a nest of young sparrows.

One of the Wesleyan ministers stationed at Halifax has
been suspended in consequence of some improper conduct.

The Roman Catholics of the whole diocese of Achortry
have refused to pay their clergy either Christmas or Easter
dues.

The French Academy of Sciences have offered a prize of
6,000 francs for the best essay on the " heat disengaged
during chemical combinations."
Archdeacon Magee is likely to be appointed to the rectory
of St. Thomas Dublin, value £9OO a-year, and vacant by the
death of the Rev. A. M'Guire.

We are glad to state that the Postage Convention between
France and England has been signed and exchanged in Lon-
don.—Morning Chronicle.

The Lords of the Admi*lty have assented to the plan
proposed by the Commissioners of the River Wear, for con-
verting Sunderland harbour into a floating dock.
We understand that the address to the throne in the
House of Lords, on the opening of Parliament, is to be
seconded by the Earl of Eglintoun and Winton.

Two tons of contraband tobacco were seized by the custom
house officers at the London docks, on Thursday last, from
a steam packet arrived from Sunderland.
The Manchester Town Council are considering the pro-
priety of erecting a new gaol ; the New Bailey being quite
inadequate for the number of prisoners.
The Hereford Protestant Association has been discontinued
in conseqnence of the bishop of the diocese having stated
that he could not give his sanction to its existence.
A bust of the Duke of Newcastle has been placed in Eton
College. There are three scholarships in the college of £5O
per annum each.
The Earl of Auckland. late Governor-General of India, is
expected to take his seat in the House of Lords on the first
day of the ensuing session. The noble lord has not sat in
the house since he has been created an earl,—Standard.
One of the curiosities of the Marquesas Islands is said to
be an enormous tree, in all its freshness and perfection, 108
feet in girth, and which was probably flourishing before the
flood ; another is an intoxicating spring of water.
GRAVEYARD NolSANCES.—Petitions are lying for signa-
ture through the •various districts of the metropolis against a
continuance of the custom of interring the dead in the urban
cemeteries hitherto appropriated to that purpose.
The Dublin Custom-house docks were set up again to
auction on Wednesday, when, after a smart competition, they
were knocked down to Messrs. Scovell, at an annual rent of
£2,800, being an increase of £790 over the last letting.
The Gardener's Chronicle has an article, demonstrating that
in fruit-trees, the flower and then the fruit are formed of
leaves. The pear, for instance, consists of thirty-five leaves,
which may be seen in the early stages.

Mr. Joseph Zanetti, picture frame maker, of Manchester,
was found lifeless at Little Bolton, on the road-side, on
Friday last, under circumstances that lead to the supposition
that he was deprived of life by some murderous hand.
A cow, belonging to Mr. Joseph Hardy, of Sinderland,
Davv-hulme, near Manchester, has produced a calf with two
bodies and eight legs. It has been presented to the Natural
History Society.

It is stated in a letter from Xeres, that the quantity of
Xeres (Sherry) wine made in 1842 was 9,000 skins less than
in 1841. The average quantity contained in a skin is not
stated ; but it is probably five or six gallons.
The Morning Herald says, that the quantity of lumber
which has been accumulated at Quebec, during the past
season, is enormous, and the market at home is virtually
closed against it by the late tariff.
ALLIANCE IN HIGH LlFE.—Rumour states that the Lady
Elizabeth Grosvenor will be led to the hymeneal altar shortly
after her ladyship's presentation at court, by Sir Watkins
Williams Wynn, Bart.

As the Fin M' Coul steamer was on her passage from Liver-
pool on Friday night, one of the sailors was struck with the
winch handle on the head and immediately expired.—Drog-
heda Journal.

In China, taxes are laid upon the land, partly in grain and
partly in silver. The soil is rated by a scale, according to its
supposed productiveness, and the taxes range from the tenth
of id. to 2s. 6d per acre.

Mr. Kelly's potato starch mill at Sligo, was attacked on
Monday night, by a number of persons, and the machinery
destroyed, and a notice put up, that if he would attempt
grinding any more potatoes he would be shot!

At one of the late appeals in this county against the pro-
perty and income-tax, a farmer being asked on what ground
he appealed, replied with great simplicity, " On seventeen
acres."—Brighton Gazette.

There has been a vast increase in the consumption of
whiskey within the last quarter, in the Limerick excise dis-
trict ; and in the same period there has been a great falling
off in the consumption of tobacco.

One of a boat's crew who had been out fishing off the Lur-
rawlY, was unable to leave the boat with the
whenY she grounded near Bartra point, and was in
otherga n coast,
m an Tyrawly,
some time after found dead from cold and exhaustion.

SHIP FOR HONG-KONG.—On Wednesday morning, the
armed barque Possidone, of 395 tons register, Captain Va-
lentine, sailed from Hong-Kong and Macao. She carries
out for our lately acquired settlement a full cargo of general
merchandise and several respectable passengers.
AFFAIRS IN llAyTi.-it is stated that the Haytien
Government has indemnified the captains of the Spanish
brig and felucca which had been carried in by the Haytien
corvette, and that they had sailed for Havana. Thus the
war between Cuba and Hayti has ended.—New York paper.

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At a meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of White-
chapel, London, to consider the propriety of erecting another
turnpike on one of the roads, it was stated that no less a sum
than £B,OOO had taken place in the receipt of the road trusts
since the railroads were opened.

Some miscreants entered the garden of one of the consta-
bles at Dewsbury, near Halifax, on Saturday night week, and
cut down seven fine apple trees and a number of plumb and
gooseberry trees. They likewise turned over four bee-hives,
kicked out the combs, and trod them under their feet.
Frederick Verner whose name appears in the list of
sufferers on board the ill-fated Conqueror, which was lost off
the coast of France, in the late dreadful gales, was nephew
to Colonel Verner, and youngest son of his late brother,
David Verner, Esq., of Gurosey. It was his first voyage.

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The Constitucional of Barcelona, of the 16th instant, states
that a few days previously a woman of that city was brought
to bed of three children. One was still-born ; it had six
fingers on one hand and seven on the other. The two other
children were born alive, and were doing well.

BLASPHEMOUS PUBLICATIONS.—At Bow-street Police-
office, on Friday, Thomas Patterson was brought up under
four warrants, issued some time back on the prosecution of
Government, charging him with exposing certain blasphe-
mous publications in Holywell-street. Patterson was partly
defended by his counsel,
Mr. Thomas, who took some
technical objections that were overruled ; and he partly de-
fended himself, reading professedly for that purpose some
papers which are said to have been outrageously blasphemous,
Ind they were eventually taken from him. In three of the
-lases he was fined 40s. ; and, refusing to pay the fines, was
.lornmitted to prison for one month. The fourth case was
ostporied till Tuesday.