The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

inity College, Perth-

shire, has contradicted the rei
graduates had been rejectr.d at an examination for ordina-
tion on the score of deficient scholarship. He had offered
his resignation for reasons not stated, but he subsequently
withdrew it.

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A BLIND FLOIUST.—Mr. R. Welch, of Totnes, who is
totally blind, cultivates and rears, with his own hands,
the varieties of flowers in their seasons, distinguishes the
most beautiful from the inferior, and points out their
different qualities to astonished beholders. His pinks,

tulips, &c., are the admi

a active

, by stratagem
7. The prison

rious Joseph Ady

, in capturing the noto-
er was lodged in the Gilt-

spur-street Compter, on a warrant for £l9 3s. for postage
on upwards of 2,000 " returned" letters, the " property
of the Pcs.:master;General "
Simi*

BY A LOSER ON THE ST. LEGER.—Thursday
g an eating-house keeper in Charlotte-street, Fitz-
roy-square, London, was found drowned in the water-butt.
He had lately become addicted to betting upon races, and
had been heard to say that " if Voltigeur won the Ledger
he should be a lost man."

The committee of the Court of Aldermen have reported
in favour of Mr. J. Stuart Wortley's claims for the re-
cordership of London. He is brother to Lord Wham-
cliffe. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Crowder, and Mr. Page
Wood have refused the office. The election will take
place to-day.

It is stated that negotiations are now on foot with
Government for the establishment of a submarine tele-
graph over the 60 miles of sea from Holyhead to Kings-
town, and on to either Cork or Galway, to be thence con-
nected by steam-ship with the nearest telegraph station
ln the other side of the Atlantic.
AL H • .

_ .JAYNAU.—The Chartists of Manchester,
copying their compatriots of the.metropolis, intend to hold
a public meeting to-morrow evening, at which the beim-
viour of the London draymen on a recent occasion will, no
doubt, meet with unmeasured praise, and the name of
Haynau in a corresponding degree be insulted.
SUICIDE BY A Boy.—Last week, James Chapple, aged
13, employed in looking after pigs, was missed. at night,
and not found until the following Tuesday, when he was
discovered in a standing position up against the boughs in
the hedge, quite dead, and strangled by a handkerchief.
It is supposed that he was experimenting, and went too
far.—London paper.

A fearful accident occurred on Saturday at the convict
establishment at Portland, the whole of the framework
of a ponderous crane employed at the stone quarries
having fallen, by which three of the convicts were killed
on the spot, and fourteen others seriously injured ; of the
latter three or four are not expected to live. The num-
ber of convicts at present in the establishment is 825.
SPORTING AT ENVILLE. —The Earl of Stamford had a
shooting patty at his seat, in Staffordshire, on Saturday
week, the result of the day's sport being as follows :—Earl
of Stamford killed 146 partridges, 10 hares, and 6 rabbits.
E. L. Gateacre, Esq., 156 partridges, and 1 rabbit. The
Hon. S. Lyttelton, and H. W. Foley, Esq.. 157 par-
tridges, 19 hares, and 5 rabbits, making a total of 449
partridges, 29 hares, and 12 rabbits. The Shooting did
not commence till eleven o'clock.

Liverpool may decide the Directors of the'BriiishScrewi
Steamship Company in favour of the Mersey as the cen-

tral station of th
ouestionnhi

his port is un-

uperior to the Thames or Southampton

Report on the Si

)ING Sono°Ls.—ln Mr. T'uffnell's
ols of Parochial Unions in the Metro-
of the acquirements which
nerally

politan Districts, in speakin,
reduced gentlewomen of the middle cl
bring as their qualification, the following passage occur
" If the examination of these mistresses may be taken as
a fair test—and I think it may—they would prove that
the education commonly given in the female schools for
the middle classes is often worse than that which is im
parted in such as are open to the poorer. I have some •
times had to examine a schoolmistress who has been re-
duced by misfortunes from a superior station to accept
the office, having been brought up in a respectable hoard-
ing-school. She will be able to sing, to play the piano,
and speak a little French, but will not be able to spell
decently—will scarcely be able to answer the most ele-
mentary scripture question, and be utterly ignorant of
every arithmetical principle."

VIE SALE AT ComsnEAn.—The sale at the princely
mansion at Conishead, commenced on Monday. On
Wednesday, tha best bedrooms and the drawing-rooms
were brought forward. An old carved oak bedstead, with
needlework hanging (lot 372), sold for 44 guineas. A pedes-
tal bookcase (456), 51 guineas. An oak sofa (464), 30 gui-
neas. An oak centre table, with carved edges (475), 30
guineas. A writing table (476), 26 guineas. A 'small
buhi table (481), 17 guineas. A beautiful portrait bust,
by Nollekens (483), a gem, 120 guineas. A fire screen
(486), 13 guineas. Total of day's sale, £1,452. On
Thursday, the state bedrooms and the dining-rooms were
knocked down. Lot 504, a carved old-fashioned press,
with figured panels, 26 guineas. Lot 557, a modern oak
bedstead, 30 guineas. Lot 594, the carved oak cabinet,
with the four seasons in high relief, 28 guineas. Lot 597,
a superb old oak cheval glass, in magnificently carved
frame, 31 guineas. Lot 600, the state old oak bed, with
yellow brocade hangings, 100 guineas. Lot 608, an old
carved writing table, with morocco top, 12 guineas. Lot
615, the dining-room sideboard, in elaborately carved
oak, 130 guineas. The sarcophagus, 30 guineas. Four
carved brown oak corner lamp pedestals, 80 guineas. Two
sideboard tables (lots 620, 621), 40 guineas. The dining-
tables (lot 622), 80 guineas. The Utrecht velvet window
curtains, 85 guineas. The 21 dining-room oak chairs,
138 guineas. Total of day's sale, £1,500.

Mr. LAYARD'S LATFST DISCOVERIES.—A few weeks
ago we announced (says the Literary Gazette) Mr.
Layard's return from his expedition into the desert, and
the rescue of some of his larger antiquities from the mud
of the river, and their embarkation for England. We
have since. however, received further particulars of his
most recent discoveries at Koyubjik, which are extremely
interesting. He found, as has been stated, a chamber
which is completely filled with terracotta tablets, the in-
scriptions on which, we now learn, are stamped in, so that
though Major Rawlinson thinks it very probable these
tablets may be records of the empire, it is still not unlikely
that many of them may, in fact, be duplicates of, or a col-
lection of manifestos for issuing to the people or their
immediate rulers,—in short, a sort of Assyrian official
printing-office. We believe that no fewer than twenty-
five cases are on their way to England. In the pyramid
at Nirnroud, also, a unique statue has been discovered. It
is from four to five feet in height, in gypsum, elaborately
carved, and very perfect. There is also a high relief of
the king, very beautifully executed, standing in an arch
eight feet high, and covered with minute inscriptions.
Mr. Layard's last communication is dated Akra. July 17.
where, we are sorry to say, he had been confined by a
severe attack of fever. The inefficient assistance he has
received has caused him to over-exert himself, and thus
he has been stopped for awhile on his way to Van to se-
cure inscriptions. He hopes to pass great part of the
winter in Babylonia, and to return home in the spring.
The very important discoveries he is now making render
it imperatively necessary that his exertions should net be
stayed for wait funds.