The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

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Londonderry claims the honour of being the birthplace
Sir Robert Sale, and Belfast a like honour with regard

:o Sir Henry Pottinger

Mr. Tomlin, of Richmond, solicitor, was found dead
near Reeth, on the 27th ult. It is supposed that by some
accident he had been thrown from his horse.
The total number of letters despatched through the
Post-office in 1838 was seventy7frve millions; in 1843,
upwards of two hundred and thirty millions.

On Tuesday last, a man on horseback gallope
limekiln, near Sheffield, which he did not see in CE
quence of the fog. Both he and the horse were killed
Au. explosion took place in a coal-pit belonging to
Messrs. Grundy, at Pilkington, on the 26th ult., and
two men received injuries, of which they have since died.
The Marquis of Londonderry.is about to enlarge his
port at Seaham harbour, by the construction of a new
dock of 12. acres, in extension of the present south dock.
Mr. Wakley, at an inquest, a few days since, mentioned
the case of a woman who, when dying of excessive drink-
ing, required to have a sponge saturated with brandy con-
stantly- held to her lips.
On Wednesday the Royal Exchange was opened for
business. The arrangements appeared to give satisfaction.
It is proposed to erect a marble statue to Prince Albert in
some part of the building.
On Tuesday last a verdict of manslaughter was returned
against a London chymist, for having sold to a cab driver,
in mistake for. Epsom salts, a quantity of tartaric acid, in
consequence of taking which he died.
Frances Wilson, aged 45, an inmate of Byle's private
lunatic asylum, Middlesex. died on Tuesday se'nnight, of
starvation, having resolutely abstained from all food, under
the idea that it was poison.
DEATH. FROM FIGHTING.—On Sunday week, a quarre
arose, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, between two boys, aged re-
spectively 11 and 15 years, and they fought above an
hour, encouraged by 60 or
_7O others, till at length the
elder one fell, and expired shortly afterwards.
NOVEL IMPORT.—Some candied peaches have been re-
ceived from Sydney, which are said to be the first which
have reached England from our Australian colonies.
They are quite equal in flavour to French dried plums,
and a much finer fruit.

AN UNSOPHISTICATED WM/MlSS.—During the ses-
sions at Wakefield, on Wednesday last, a witness was
asked if he was not a husbandman, when he hesitated for
a moment, then coolly replied,, amid the laughter of the
court, " Nay, sir, I'se not married."
A CHRISTMAS Burrsturt.Y.—On Monday last, Miss
Fletcher, of Upper Northgate-street, caught a beautiful
coloured butterfly in the window of one of the bed-rooms
of their residence, having a northern aspect. The little
flutterer still remains domiciled in the house, and is re-
markably lively.--Chester Chronicle.
John Pltunmcr, Esq., the owner of Alice Hawthorn,
has generously proposed to give the whole of the money
which this celebrated mare may realise in 1845, to the in-
habitants of Easingwold, provided they will construct a
branch railway from that town to the great North of
England Railway.

TRAGICAL. EVENTS.—A few nights since, a young man
at York received such injuries from a fall that he died
soon after and was taken home, when his mother, who
was 70 years of age, was so much shocked by the death of
her son, from poison. as she supposed, that in about an
hour from that time she herself expired.

On Monday, sundry inhabitants of the Chelmsford
workhouse were brought before the magistrates charged
with riot and insubordination. No less than thirty-one of
the able bodied men refused to attend morning service on
Sunday in the chapel, and during dinner three of them
forced their way into the women's room, and sate down
by the side of their wives, and would not retire.

STAVES.—An official statement appears in the Glasgow
Herald, from which it may be Fathered that the duty on
staves from the United States being equal to fifty per

and as these staves are the only Ones fit for casks
sf at to the West Indies, we are excluded; the supply is
derived almost exclusively from America, such supply
being admitted duty free.

NECESSITY FOR CORONERS' INQUESTS.—At an in-
quest held a few days since before one of the coroners for
Bucks, that gentleman remarked, that since he had been
coroner he had held two inquests on bodies which were
about to be buried without one, and on the inquisitions
being held it was ascertained that each of them bad been

murdered

LONDON DocKs.—At the meeting of proprietors, on
Friday, a dividend was declared of 21 per cent—the same
as on the last occasion

The stock of goods in the dock
hows an increase of 30,100 tons, as compared with the
corresponding half of last year, it being returned now as
166,426 tons. The surplus of profits, after paying the

)e appropriates

to new works, to increase facilities for business

FORF IGN PRODUCE.—During the last week large quan-
tities of game, consisting of snipes, teals, woodcocks,
partridges, together with 500 geese, were imported direct,
by way of Hull, from the Netherlands, and ordered for
sale in our market. The week previous a quantity of
American grouse, in excellent condition, were brought
over, and met with a ready sale at :Is. Gd. per blace.

Thus the new tariff enables us to obtain fish, ii
and eggs and fowl in abundance from the
13irminpham Journal.
METROPOLITAN MORTALITY
that the deaths within the bills

lesson,

—We regret to observe
last week were 1249—
been 946. The in-

the average for the past year having
crease of mortality from infectious diseases

ntinues to

be observed, as compared with the averages of past years,
but it has not advanced, and, indeed, appears less than it
has been recently. The deaths from diseases of the lungs
were last week 415, upwards of 100 more than the five
years' average, or than the number some month or so
back.

EXECUTION.—The murderer, William Kendrew, un-
derwent the extreme sentence of the law on Monday fore-

noon in front of the county gaol, for the murder of Mr,
Inchbald, on the high road near Knareshorough. Tht

unfortunate man mounted the
step. _ He was preternaturally p

shop-lad, who was in

Esq., senior, the distinguished head of enter, and on go
brated banking house of Jones, Loyd, and C 0.,. with great preci

lying on the desk imm

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k apartment, h
g into the shop, saw a boy leaving i
tation. The bank-notea were found

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