The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

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in the usual way.

'BIRMINGHAM CANAL MEETING.—A meeting of the
proprietors of this canal (now united with the Dudley)

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the preceding half year
It is now confidently anticipated that the Sugar Bill
will be carried through all its stages in the House of
C-mmons in the course of the ensuing week ; and, allow-
ing for all contingencies at present foreseen, Parliament
will probably be prorogued before the 251.11 instant.—
Globe.
A glass-manufacturer at Sunderland has obtained
damages, in the Court of Common Pleas, to the amount
of £657 6s. Bd. against another person in the same trade
at Gateshead, for enticing away workmen. And also, by
consent, a similar amount, in A second case ; total
£1314 13s. 4d.

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Tom Thumb the other day visited Stamford, where
Daniel Lambert died in 1809. Mr. James Dixon, of St.
Martin's, produced a suit of the giant's clothes, with
which General Thumb was highly delighted. He passed
through one of the sleeves of the coat, and got into one of
the stockings.

On Sunday, a female infant, not quite twelve months
old, fell from the third floor window at 11. Langley-court,
Long-acre. The child was being nursed at the time by a
juvenile sister, when it sprang from her arms ir,to the
court bolow. It was taken up in a frightfully mutilated
state, without any hope of recovery.
An Irish gentleman having a pair of new boots sent
home to him, proceeded to try them on ; but after a good
deal of labour, and pulling and straining, too, from the
blisters on his hands, lie could no longer continue the vio-
lent exertion, he desisted, declaring that he perceived
very clearly that he should never get those boots on " till
he bad worn them a day or two.'
ENGLISH BANKRUPTCIES. —The number of bank-
rupts during the last year amounted to 1025, comprising
nearly all trades and professions. The highest number
was that of victuallers, which was sixty-three. and the
lowest number the class of attorneys, there being one
only. The only business excepted from that of bank-
rupt's list was that of undertakers.

At the Henley-in-Arden Petty Sessions, last week,
Edward Birch and John Starkey, servants of Mr White-
house, of Eardington, and John Page, Henley-in-Arden,
were summoned before the Magistrates for mowing, hay-
making, and carrying hay in a meadow at Henley on Sun-
day, the 21st of Jute last. The parties admitted the of-
fence, and were ordered to pay
.§3. 6d each for,costs.

TR'E " TIMES" AND THE UINISTRY.-Of course the
press is convenient, if not indispensable, as an occasional,
or even frequent channel for announcements designed to
prepare the public mind, and soften the approaches to
startling alterations. A more regular connexion does
not suit the genius of English journalism ; and to the best
of our information and belief, the present ministry intend
to act on that opinion. At least we can answer for our-
selves.—Times. _

VV
IMPORTANT TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.—In the
Court of Queen's Bench, last week, in the case of Toomer
v. Gingell, the same law lately adjudicated by Mr. Palmer
in the Bristol Court of Requests, was adopted, when it
was argued that the final order was changed by the sta-
tute, and the plea in bar taken away : and Mr. Justice
Maule, in giving judgment, said, `• I have read the statute
through very carefully, and it seems to me to have been
the intention of the legislature that the final order should
no longer operate any further than as a protection to the
person:" • • - • -. .

At York Assizes, yesterday week, John Rodda, an Irish-
man who lived at Skipton, was tried for the wilful murder
of his daughter, an infant twelve months old. The child
died from vitriol or some such poison having been given
to it : the man had bought some vitriol ; he had been left
with the child just before it came ill and vomited a corro-
sive substance ; and he had remarked to people that he
would get a sum of money from a burial society if the
infant died. Rodda had other children entered in such
societies, and used to talk of what he should get if they