The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

MR LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Archbishop of York is now the oldest member of
the House of Lords ; being 87 years of age.
A beautiful phenomena of the conjunction of Mars and
Venus appears now every evening in the west.
The Lords of the Treasury have authorised the Com-
missioners of Customs to admit prussiate of potash at the
duty of 2d. per pound.
The Queen has graciOusly signified her intention to
give a series of brilliant state balls at Buckingham Palace
during the present season.
THE SEASON.--The weather continues exceedingly fa-
vourable, and both field and garden culture go on ad-
mirably.—Lancaster Gazelle.
A considerable quantity of foreign wheat has been re-
lieved from bond at Gloucester, on the pa! ment of 16s.
per quarter duty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to acknowledge
the receipt of £25 enclosed to him in a blank cover, which
he has paid into the Exchequer.
Earl Howe has liberally consented to give a sufficiency
of land for the intended new church proposed to be
erected at Oldhain ; also ground for the site of a school
house in connection with the church.
We rejoice to state that the wheats on the Cotswolds
present a remarkably vigorous and healthy appearance.
The oldest fanner never remembers a better prospect.—
Gloucester Chronicle.
A person on Bolton-moor, named William Flitcroft,
received, on the 24th ult., the following additions to his
family, within the space of two hours : two children,
eleven pigs, fOur whelps, and three kittens—in all twenty.
An immense number of very clever counterfeit crown
pieces have been recently manufactured in Birmingham,
and many sharpers are at present in several towns in the
kingdom endeavouring to pass them on the unwary.
Her Majesty has been pleased to grant a gratuity of
fifty pounds to the widow of the late Henry Solomon,
Superintendent of the Brighton Police, who was mur-
dered a short time since.
In the United Kingdom upwards of £20,000,000 is an-
nually expended in gas; in London alone the sum paid to
the several gas companies has exceeded £2,000,000 an-
nually.
The Bush coach office, in Bristol, where an extensive
business has been carried on for, we believe, more than a
century, was last week closed, in obedience to the giant
power of steam, and the absorption of its business in the
great vortex of railway monopoly.
MESSRS. FIELDEN BROTHERS. —SEIZ URE UNDER THE
INCOME TAX.—During the week government has iwaiir
distrained on Messrs. Fielden for the second year's in-
come tax. There is no doubt but the law will be per-
mitted to take its course, as in the previous instance.
The governor of Knutsford gaol has been dismissed.
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for 1111 d in
his , and
own
purposes.
The state of things in reference to the colliers "on
strike," in the Potteries and neighbourhood, is daily as-
suming a different aspect, and it is evident that unless
something extraordinary occurs, the turn-out will soon be
at an end.
Mr. Wilson, the celebrated singer, has, during the last
ten weeks, travelled upwards of 5200 miles, and given
sixty-five entertainments, in London, Manchester, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Bath, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, and
other places.
The annual amount of duty paid by the wholesale hard
confectioners of the United Kingdom for sugar used in
the trade, is about £2.000,000. The enormous quantity
of from 3,000 to 4,000 tons of sugar are used in the me-
tropolis alone.

Ten services of communion plate are ordered to be sent
to each dock-yard, to be placed in charge of the store-
keepers, who are to furnish each ship to which a chaplain
is appointed with one service of plate. It is to be given
in charge to the chaplain, who will be held responsible for
it.

MASTER AND SERVANT'S BILL.—A petition from the
Letter-Press Printers of this town, against the Master and
Servant's Bill, was on Monday evening transmitted to
William Birkett, Esq., M.P., for presentation to the
House of Commons. The petition was signed by 89 ope-
rative printers and 2 masters.—Leeds Intelligencer.
GOOD FRIDAY AT HAMPSTEAD.--Th the archives of
the register of this parish, there is a singular bequest of
100 loaves, to be distributed every Good Friday. The
testatrix was a lady who contracted a fatal disease, which
was supposed to originate from her fasting too long on
Good Friday.
BLACKPOOL.—AIthough so early in the season, the re-
cent fine weather has induced several families to repair to
this delightful watering place. Great preparations are now
being made at the various inns, boarding houses, and cot-
tages; and several additional houses are also in course of
erection, for the reception of company.
Mr. Daly, the celebrated steeple-chase rider, betted a
wager with Mr. Sefton, of Grantham, that he would jump
the rails and dike in front of the Lincoln stand with the
reins in his mouth and the stirrups over the saddle ; and
this he cleverly accomplished after the second race, on a
horse be bad not crossed before.
PROPOSED ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS IN GLASGOW.--A.
proposal has been issued for the establishment of a Zoo-
logical Institution in Glasgow. The suggestion is,. that a
joint stock company should be formed for this purpose,
with a capital of £20,000, divided into 4000 shares of £5
each.

STEAMER ON THE SEVERN.—The Shrewsbury News
says that a steam-boat is the next novelty meant to be
introduced into Shrewsbury. A party of gentlemen in
the town have purchased a small pleasure-boat, with an
engine of fou: and a half horse power, which, in course of
the next fortnight, will be placed on the Severn, and ply
about for the amusement of its proprietors and the asto-
nishment of the fish.
THE SMOKE NUISANCE. The Town Council, by one
of its committees, has made another effort to abate the
smoke nuisance in this Borough. Mr. Thomas Cockshott
Rusher has been appointed to inspect the furnaces of the
170 mills and manufactories in the Borough, and to report
how far the law is obeyed with a view to its more perfect
enforcement.—Leeds Intelligencer.
A noble example has been set by Edward Woodcock,
•
Esq., of Springfield-house, Wigan, who, during the past
week, has appototed out a field of about two-and-a-half
acres, in Gdlow-lane, in allotments of 384 square yards
each, to such industrious poor people who wish to occupy
their leisure hours in spade husbandry, at the rent of ss.
per annum each.

INTERCOURSE 'WITH FRANCE. —ln the week from the
2d to the 9th instant, the number of persons who passed
between England and France was as follows :—by Bou-
logne, 1,183; by Calais, 369. At the corresponding pe-
riod last year the numbers were :—by Boulogne, 754 ; by
Calais, 316. It thus appears that the opening of the
railroad has conferred great advantage on Folkestone and
Boulogne.

NAVAL UNIFORM (PORTSMOUTH).--There is a report
in circulation at this port that another change will take
place in the naval uniform. It is said that the present
epaulettes are t,) be entirely abolished, and in lieu will he
substituted elaborately embroidered collars and cuffs.
There is ►►o special authority quoted for the report ; but
naval men seem to think that it is possible such a change
may take place.

ANCIENT SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER.—The late Mr.
Hartley. book4ell,-r, of Rochdale, was probably the oldest
Sunday-school teacher in Lancashire, perhaps in England.
He commenced a Sunday school in the year 1785, in a
garret, and laboured in that vocation up to the time of
his death. The la t time he was at the school, which was
but a few weeks aa,o, he delivered a very earnest address
to the children, exhorting them to read and study the
scriptures.

Notwithstanding the strike of the pitmen, great quan-
tities of both round and small coals continue to be brought
every day down the Durham and Sunderland hallway for
shipment at the latter port. It is understood that the
stocks at bank at many of the collieries will supply the
demand for a short time, and it is fully expected that
measures will be speedily devised to get some of the prin-
cipal collieries set partially, if not fully to work, as men
can be obtained who will gladly go to work on the terms
proposed by the coal owners.—Newcastle Herald,
STATE OF PUBLIC FINANCE.—The Gazette of the 12 t h
states that the amount of builion in the Bank of England
on the 30th of last month, amounted to the large sum of
sixteen millions three hundred and twenty-two thousand
pounds sterling. This, then, is the present financial po-
sition
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of the country :—the revenue having improved-at
in gold and silver in the cellars of the Bank of England.
ART-UNIoNs.----It appears by a treasury notice, dated
12th instant, addressed to the secretary of the' Art-
Union or New Association for the Promotion of the
mFiinneedAtrots
suipnprSesesotltabnersle, thatbodeigsovernment have deter-
infringing the law
against lotteries. It is to be hoped, as
however, that some
remedy may be found for the injury thus inflicted upon
the public and the professors of the fine arts, either by
these associations, or investing oernment with
iopf....t.hmosre
legalising
a °discretionary power to permit the existence
which are calculated to benefit the public.
CHARGE OF WILFULLY DESTROYING ASH
Wm. Read, the eminent ship-builder of Ipswich, was •
in-
dicted on Wednesday, at the Central Criminal Court,
The case mainly rested on the
fervoiindetnhcee
for having incited and procured William Simpson to
cast away the brig Colina, with intent to defraud the un.
&c. The
o had pleaded guilty to the charge of being
aodnfersawiemrcietpsesosroso,ry
his cross-examination he acknowledged that he sank the
vessel, 61 miles from Rotterdam, by boring holes in her
pATaplieatiOn of
CHARD_
bottom ; he had previously when in Glasgow, threatened
etoombemreenvdengoefd oennoMtbre.rEsebaidp,.forTdbiesmjisosriyngoleigimuitted
Mr.
Read ; and Simpson was sentenced to be transported for
life.
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guano as a dressing for potatoes has been attended with
STGOCUICA,NNOE:AAR
• ing results. In a piece of billy ground where the
surprising
soil is poor and stony, but clean, were planted two rows of
of
f potatoes,
half
e eewatc.hpoe occupying caueprye i, n
mg
it
d perches.w i
tb o Guano,moderate
, manured
of coal ashes, was hand-sowed over the first of these rows,
while none was applied to the second row, D wring the
Fut rcvs,
uroirbout
growth of the potatoes a manifest difference was observa-
ble in the luxuriance of the two rows, and on taking up
guano,
239 lb. Extra produce from guano, 2001b.—Dorsel
wthietbcrgoopsotoh,eprreosduolteewda4s37lbf.o.llsoewesoo:—d
County Chronicle.