The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

A rat which measured 20 inches in extreme length, and
weighed lib. 20z., was taken a few days since, on the pre-

ole, be.
mring, his captors found half a peck of
potatoes, besides a large:quantity of beans and grain.
The Birmingham Journal mentions that, on Thursday
week, a little boy, three years old, the son of Mr. Dawes,
of Smethwick House, who was playing on the lawn of his
father's residence, endeavoured to climb an iron hurdle,
which fell upon him in such a manner that one of the
crossbars compressed his windpipe, and thus killed him.
The Ermina, schooner, Royal Yacht Club, sailed from
Portsmouth on Wednesday morning, with her noble
owner, the Earl of Ellesmere, and a party of five gentle-
men, who accompany his lordship on a voyage to the
Mediterranean, whither he is gone for the benefit of his
health.

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armouth.

The Newcastle Journal records the piscatory exploits
of a young lady, who has recently been almost daily occu-
pied in fly fishing in Coquet between Hepple and Roth-
bury, and who .has been so successful as to be able re-
peatedly to show a basket containing nearly five dozen
trout.

The Derby Reporter says, that, a short time since, a
nailor, living at Belper, returned home in an intoxicated
state, and placed:his legs on each side the fire place. The
fire roasted the flesh off the hone, and he was not aware
of his condition till aroused next morning by the inmates
of his house.

A young lady, of Inverleithen, after suffering great pain
in her head, had a bent pin extracted from her ear the
week before last. She died shortly afterwards, in great
suffering, from the inflammation which had taken place
within the ear. She swallowed a pin twenty years ago,
and the one extracted is believed to be the same.
An oak tree forty feet high, with three tons of soil on
its roots, has been transplanted at Graisley, near Wolver-
hampton. The tree was mounted on a timber carriage,
and, with its branches lashed to prevent damage to win-
dows, passed through the streets, a singular but beautiful
sight.
It has become a custom in London for little urchins,
professing to sell oranges, to hold up their baskets as
high as they can before respectable females, with an ap-
parent desire to induce them to purchase, and to press
heavily against them, and, whilst doing so, to pick their
pockets.

SCARBRO'.—A splendid silver cup will be given by the
Right Hon. Lord Londesborough, to be contested for at
the ensuing races by horses, the property of his:lordship's
tenantry, having never been in a training stable, and for
six months in the possession of any farmer holding land
under his lordship up to the day of the race.
The weekly average price of wheat for the whole coun-
try has fallen to £1 17s. 10d. per quarter. In the north-
ern district the range is much lower, with no prospect of
improvement. Barley stands at £1 2s. Bd. and oats at
15s. 3d. Fat prices these for thrifty, industrious farmers,
under a system of taxation " too great to be borne." The
importations of grain at all our ports continue large.
On Monday two gipsies known in the varied tribes as
Bill Ibbeson and Grace Leeds were married at St. Mary's
Church, Barnsley. After leaving the church the wedding
party adjourned to the Station Inn, where they were met
by thirty others, and there partook of an excellent dinner,
after which they spent the remainder of the day in a jovial
manner.

" A clergyman in the West of England" is advertising
in the London papers a caution against receiving five
several promissory notes for £l,OOO each, and dated the
13th March last, and which have been obtained by a per-
son using the name of Gardiner, without any value or
consideration whatever. It is strange that, after so many
warnings, people can be taken in.

SHOOTING PIKE.— On Thursday week, a pike weighing
141 b. was shot by Mr. Stewart of Forfar ; on Saturday,
another, weighing 221, and on Monday another, weigh-
in.' about 221 b. When a pike shows its tail above the
water,r Mr. Stewart instantly fires one of the
barrels of his gun. The fish, on being struck, leaps
almost entirely out of the water, and while in this posi-
tion receives the contents of the other barrel.

IRON FROM CHINA.—TWO importations of iron have
just taken place from China. The vessel, Robert Small,
arrived in London from Canton, has brought 5,170 par-
cels of pig iron ; and the Charlotte Too:ie, from Canton,
has brought five tons weight of the article. It is said that
the iron was originally shipped from Wales to China, and
that it is a mere re-shipment to this country.
ANOTHER TENOR.—A fourth Mr. Braham, brother to
Mr. Charles and Mr. Hamilton Braham, will shortly be
heard in public as a singer, possessing (adds rumour) an
admirable tenor voice. The want of singers, as distin-
guished from voices, was never greater than now,—mean-
while any son of Mr. Braham's father must be cordially
welcomed ; and comes before us armed at once with an
advantage and with a motive for thorough preparation.—
Athen ceum.

On Monday, a " happy couple" were making their way
to Deptford Church, Bishopwearmouth, when the bride.
groom was blanked by the apparition of the bride's
brother at the porch. Warm words were first exchanged,
and then half-bricks; and the brother, being the better
man, ran off with his sister and locked her up. She,
however, made her exit at the window ; flew into the
arms of her beloved ; and the next day they twain be-
came one flesh at Houghton-le-Spring.
SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A GlRL.—About ten years
ago, a little girl, who lived with her father and mother
in the immediate vicinity of Perth, was sent into the city
upon a morning with a milk pail, to serve some customers.
She did not return. Search was made for her, but she
was no where to be found. On Thursday evening week,
the long-lost called upon a cousin in the city to learn
tidings of her parents. Her mother recognised her and
swooned away. Strange to say, in all the ten yeras the
wander(r was no farther than Dundee and Blairgowrie.
A childish indiscretion prompted her to run away ; having
a few half-pence of :milk-money in her pocket, she was
tempted to purchase some sweetmeats, and after eating of
this forbidden fruit, could not make up her mind to face
her father and mother. She had been engaged for these
ten years principally in the factories of Dundee and Blair-
gowrie ; and has returned from the land of work, a good-
looking and a good young woman.