The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

New butter was so low as 5d to id per pound, in Edinburgh
market on Saturday last.

Low fever, influenza, and colds, are very prevalent, part
cularly the first disease, in Glasgow, at present.

QUEEN'S PitisoN.—Captain Hudson, R.N., has been ap.
pointed keeper of the Queen's Prison. The salary is £BOO.
At the Castle of Exeter, on Monday, Wharnford Stanley
the king of the gipsies in that district, was committed fo
trial on a charge of horse-stealing.
The number of deaths in the metropolis in the week endin

Juue 10, amounted to 848, being 27 fewer than those of the
preceding.

A report is current in Gloucester that a public building
is likely to be erected on the site once occupied by the Old
Bank, and the adjoining property, belonging to Sir Matthew
Wood.

M AESTEG.-At a sole that took place in the parish o
Llangonwyd, some few days ago, five milch cows worth al

least-132- each, were knocked down at £3 55.! An exce

lent mare worth eight guineas went for £3 2s. lA.!

—Weis

On Saturday a public meeting was held in the Exchange,
Chester, for the purpose of adopting the necessary measures
with a view to induce the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land to hold their meeting for 1845 in that city.
HONEST ANNOUNCEMENT.—The usual weekly publica-
tion-placard issued from the Leeds Times (radical paper)
office of Saturday week last, commenced as follows :—" The
Leeds Times of this day contains ELEMENTS of MISCHIEF."

DRY ore WET SUAINIER.—AR old proverb says—when the
oak puts out its leaf before the ash, a dry summer may be
expected, and vice versa. This proverb has been Much talked
over of late, and it is remarked that the oak has universally
preceded the ash this year.
Sheridan Knowles, Robert Bell, Douglas Jerrold, and
Mark Lemon, with pen in hand, are said to have already
started as competitors for the £5OO offered by Mr. Webster
of the Haymarket Theatre, for the best comedy that shall be
written before next new year's day.

A deputation, including Mr. Pendarves, Lord Eliot,
M.P., Sir S. Spry, M.P., Sir C. Lemon, M.P., Mr. Tre-
awny, Lord Sandon, M.P., and :Sir H. Douglas, M.P., had
an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Friday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
SEEING DOUBLE.—If a person hold the fore-fingers in a
line from his eyes, to that one be more distant than the other,
by then looking at the nearest, the more distant finger will
appear double; and by looking at the more distant, the
nearer will appear double.
A. Nonr.r EXAMPLE.-011 Monday last, Wilbraham
Egerton, Esq., of Tatton-park, Knutsford, returned to all
his farm tenants the extraordinarily handsome sum of five
and twenty per cent. on the amount of their last halt year'
rents.

We have been assured, upon_undoubted authority, that the

amount of treasure in gold, diamonds, &c., captured by Sir
Charles Napier at Hyderabad, falls little short of three mil-
lions of money. The share of the gallant general is esti-
mated at not less than £200,000.

the Kentish Observer states, that Mr. Majoribanks, the
member for Hythe, is about to retire from Parliament, and
that the Hon. Mr. Bouverie, the son of the Earl of Radnor,
is likely to be his successor. The Tories have issued a no-
tice that a Conservative will take the field in opposition to
Mr. Bouverie, but they do not give his name.

HAMPDEN TESTIMONIAL—The arrangements for Mon-
day next are now fully complete, and a very large party is
expected. Should the day prove a fine one, the proceedings
will be highly interesting, us many of the well-known friends
of liberty flow this county and Oxfordshire are expected to
attend. Chalgrove is four miles from Wallington, and ten
from Oxford.—Aylesbury News.

Earl Spencer, at his estate at Wormleighton, for some time
past, has kept all the poor in the parish, so that the inhabit-
ants ore not troubled with poor rates. Ills lordship allows
his labourers in the winter nine shillings a week, if out of
einpioy ment. The men ate employed on his lordship's estate
hedging, ditching, &c., with a house, for which he pays a
nominal rent of Is. per annum.

EMIGRATION OF PROPHET WROE.—This High Priest of
the Johanna Southcotonians, whose doings at Ashton-under-
Lyne caused him such unenviable notoriety a few years ago,
has recently left his residence, near Wakefield, where he
lived in considerable style, and emigrated to New South
Wales. His wife and family still reside near Wakefield, and
the fact of his having left this country was sworn to by his
wife !before the magistrates, at Wakefield, on a question of
disputed wages, on Monday last.
WORSE THAN EVER.—We have often complained of the
hardness of the times ; but the following is an extraordinary
case. On the 3rd instant a person named William Russell
was brought before the Durham magistrates on a charge of
robbing a printer of a composing slick. Such an offence
`could not be overlooked. He was hard pressed by the po-
lice, and on being locked-up, the magistrates determined if
psssible to make a good impre&vion. He was sent to the
treadmill for three months.
ROBBERY BY A' BANKER'S CLERIC—On Saturday in-
formation was received in the metropolis of an extensive
robbery having been committed upon
,the East of England
Bank, at Lynn, Norfolk, by one of the clerks, who ab-
seonded on Wednesday last, with Bank of England notes
belonging to his employers, amounting to the large sum of
£3,263, the numbers of which are known. The name of the
delinquent is William Henry Sangar,
,who is described as
being 21 years of age:

A SHARK.—A crew of the Burnbank fishermen (says the
Aberdeen Constitutional), hauled one of these monsters of
the deep to shore last week, in their great lines, by which it
got entangled. It was found to measure the enormous size
of 15 feet and a half long, 9 feet round the body, the tail
fin being 3 feet across. In its stomach were found two large
turbots, also two salmon, one of which was very large—all
of which were whole. The liver alone filled a herring barrel,
and will produce from 30 to 40 pints of oil.

RAJAH RAMOHUN Roy.—The remains of this individual,
who, it may be in the recollection of our readers, died at
Stapleton Grove, the residence of Michael Hinton Castle,
Esq., about eleven years since, and vvas buried in the grounds
adjoining the house, were removed on Monday week to the
Cemetery, at Arno,s Vale, and interred in that portion ap-
propriated to the use of the dissenters. We understand
that a sum of money has been forwarded from India, for the
purpose of erecting a stately monument on the spot. I will
be in the Hindu style of architecture, and upwards of thirty
feet in height—Bristut Paper

MALIGNANT INFLUENZA ANIONGT CATTLE.—We are
sorry to hear of the severe losses which this malignant dis-
ease has produced in this country, more particularly in
Shropshire. Mr. Taylor, of Tibberton, near Newport,
occupying a farm under his Grace, the Duke of Sutherland,
has lost or been obliged to kill, since July last, upwards of
50 head of cattle through this complaint, exclusive of the
loss he has sustained by forcing others into the market
through fear of contagion. The skill of the most experi-
enced veterinarian seems to be completely baffled in many
instances by this destructive disease. Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

On Tuesday a desperate case of suicide occurred in the
Infantry barracks. A private soldier named Marshall, who
was acting as servant to one of the officers, put a period to
his existence in a very cool and extraordinary manner. H.
had taken off• his shoes and stockings and laid himself dov n
on his back; he then put the muzzle into his mouth, and
pulled the trigger with his toe. It is supposed the gi,
charged with more than one ball cartridge, as a window in
the room was shattered by the concussion. It is needless to
say that the poor man died instantly. No cause can be as-
signed for the dreadful act. A very short time previous to
its commission he seemed in his usual good spirits.--New-
castle Chronicle.