The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

THE MINISTRN
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—On Monday, in the Lord., a Minis-
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on Tinsday nidA, in the Commons, the numbers were
eqnal on a motion relative to the Bridpoit ction, and
nonisters were saved only by the casting ,ort, of the
sneaker. On Friday night, the recntirl ',riding of the
F,etory Bill Yas negatived I y a ni:j-rity of only trn, in a
house of neatly four liiin•'red members, ministers nous•
tet inc all their force avii, at it.
SEA GOING SPARROW..—Last week, on the Aurora

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discovered if: the rigjtig, but he birds eid not choose to
accompany th,ir nest. on ihat occasion, to the Green I-le
tri the return of •he vessel, however, the sp-irrowa
visited their former Oxide, which had not been disturbed
by the voviige. and deposiied an e g in it, which attached
them so much to it, that they valorously left their
land, and sailed vtith the Aurora for Ireland.—Gluvo7
Cbroteicle.

Nine weeks agn several Iriennen created a
in Nt w-Ftieet, Waktfi Id, by ptradi

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s!re• t sinneci

kt rs. apparently deter

(Elio dto murder some one. In their course they met
with a man named Barry Skelton, occompanit:d by three
men from Stanley, whom they art: eked and heat very
severely, especially Skelten, who lingered until Wedni
day, alien he died from the wounds he had received. At
the inqu, s" a verdict was returned of "Wilful Murder

against J. 114 Searon end othe,s at ptesent unknown."
THE CORN BILL IN THE HOUSE OE LORDS.—TIie or.

of Lrbrds has been, we believe, c nipileterl. The number
of pests acitiafty phliped rieainst tie Corn 1311 is said to
be 170 ; these; it is coi fidently expected, will be rein'orced
to shout 210. The nun ber believed to be committed
the mini-ter is stated 156; ten of the bishops we regret to
say are included in this mad) r. A grnwer uuu.ber of the
right rev. lords, however, will certainly oppose the ;
the opinions, or rather, the rrobable votes, of five or six
prelate. ave still unknown.—Standard.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Pullen, Veauctioneer, sold by pub.
lie auetion the Church of St. Benet Fink, Ttneatineedle•
street, the interior futir.gs of %%Hell at re some !hue s;rieg
di.posed of. The church was erected by Sir C.
Wren, in 1673. and is to be removed for the purpose of
forming the spurt aches to the Royal Exchange. The six
stone column's wilt carved cap'tals, placed al. ng tie t,o
side of the building. and slit p.•rting the I:AA, realised
18, 61.?. ; and tile :liar windows a: ti e east end, hav-
ing in the centre a c—it of t:rius in stained glass, with the
date 1695, brought £2. _

At the Mansion Hcuse, on Saturday, a pror girl named
Glenn, was hr. light up by one Bennet, charged with rob-
bing his family ; tuan's d ughter and nephew attend-
ing to substantiate the charge, but it came our the accused
had been cruelly seduced by the nephew, and she informed
the ruagist, ate (Alderman Gibbs) to their faces that they
were worthless characters, tie former, as she said. keep-
ing a rile house arid the daughter superintending it, and
that this bumped up charge was only a device to get rid
.of her. The complainants cut a sorry figure, and the
worthy Alderman dismiss d the charge.
DREADFUL SHIPWRFERS.— On Wednesday last, two
ship% reeks occur,- d Harwich, in which fifteen or to enty
persons have perished. One of the vessels lost is the Alert,
of Whitby, Eskdale, master, hound from Oporto to Lon-
don. At ten • o'clock on Tuesday night she struck on the
Long Sand. and capsized at six on the following morning.
The master awl five others saved themselves in the boat,
but seven passengers and two seamen were drowned. The
ocher vessel, name unknown, bat apparently of a-init.,'
hu Id, and laden with oats, was wrecked on the Gutifleet.
It is fcuiid that the whole of her crew are lost.
POTATO DISEASE.—As a proof that there is no
naturid disea-e in potatoes, hut that Ihe visitation of last

hoar frost, we may mention the results of an exp'eriment
tried by the gardenfr to Robert Wrigh', , rf Castle
Head, near Windermere. lie took a quantity of potatoes
in a very b-id state, cut out the woist part,, and planted
them in two melon pots it► the hot-hou•e. They came
Ind produced an exilllent crop, perfectly

tale string

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sound and abundant in quantity. Thev wr re m
I, at kidney description. This quite fal•ifies the
that the disease had been Bpi ri aching for years.
On Saturday a endow; case occurted in the Court of
B tt,' orro, to a cruntry bankrow

senior'

_..Kruptcy, to tO.
apreared the solicitor to the assignees was un4hle to leave
Snuthompion, arid sent uu the grounds of opposition
through the medium of the electric telegraph. It was
reduced il.to writing ar the Nine Elms stari.,o, and f.vr-
warded by express to Mr. Smith, of Serjeatit's-ibn, who
atturWed before the commissioner and read the commu-
nication, and the eis,s was aviiirtird. Mr. Smith said
that on our oceasiciv he had a message from Sou !ham p-
ion reduced to writing and delivered at his office in 17
minutes after it was dispatched fir m Southern; ton.
SMOKING IN LONDON.—TI .P. number of tobacco pipes
used in London Itovt vcar was 364.000 gross, 52,416,000
pipes ; it requ'r, s 300 men, each man making 20 gry ss
four doz, n per week. -fcr one year, to make them, the
cost of a hii his 1%16,950. The average lem:th of these
pipes is twelve end a half inched, and if laid down in a
horizontal positit n. end to end together, they would reach
to the extent of 10 340 miles yards ; if thvy were

!Wed (q.e above twottur perpenuictuariv, hey w..uiu
reach 135.136 times as high as St. Paul's ; they would
weigh 1137 hats 10 cwt., and it would rtquire,lo-1 tons

9 ct.r. Ir, .of tobacco to fi

HOPS —We had shout HO pockets of hops weighed at
the public scales on Seurday, which realised a small ad-
vance upon Ihr roes of the previous week. There were
snine considerable transactions 'between merchants
and desk's; and upon the whole the market was lively,
with a ;:rospect of advancing rates. The duty is set at
£lB,OOO, and f,,r the kingdom £170.000 is namel. Pre-
sent prices :-1845, £4 10s. to £7„ choice, £7 10s. ; 1841,
£5 to £6 bd.. choce, £6 155.; old hops, £2 ss. to £5.
choice, £5 12s. per cwt. The reports from all parts of the
plantations represent the pine as growing, most luxuri-
antly, and at present there is no attack of fly to cause any
apprt hr nsion of injury to the crop.— Worcester Jon. no!.
THE DEBATE IN THE LORDS.—With regard to the
dur.ttion of the debate in the Lords on the second reading
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of the corn

ustudlv well.informed London correspondent of the Dub-
lin Evening Mail says,—" The bill, as stated a forth ght
since wo.vd be the ca.e, is to be read a second time on
Mondo, next. It is said that the debate will last for se-

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at-qui nights. The llowe of Peers never. sit on Wednes-
day, and the Restoration of King Charles (always kept as
a iioiithly) ial!s en Friday'. It is, therefore, possible that
the debate may go over the Whitsuntide holidays—in fact,
such must be the case if the protectionists choose to pro-
long the discussion. But lam bound t,) tell you that it is
also said that Lord Stanley's purpose is to close the
de-
t,a+e on Tuesday night, and that several peers are remain-
ing in town, and.orue coming Aver from Ireland under

tiiAt intj.. ESSiOn."
VERY STRANGE IF TRUE.—John Digsby, a cottager,
of Bux.on, in Norfolk, and the grower of four crops I
pi tat,,e- in one year, in a letter to the Noriolk Chronicle,
says, " I have discovered a berry, which 1 will gather
from tLo binks or beclites, and which will produce the
tihert p .tato or potatoes in quality that ever were grown.
title quirt of these berries will produce as much as a
Lusi,,-1 of our common po ato. T+•ese berries are if a
s pat! sub,tnrce, and are to be planted whole. They
thirst to through a regular process in the course of the
winter. which scarcely any trouble, and of no expense
I How have in my possession a quantity of potatoes raised
trom these berries last ear, and it is my intention to grow
c►op after crop ibis year, until the fourth crop. The size
of the potatoes raised from the berry tlie first year are
shout that of a duck egg. The berries are 60 numerous
thin all England can Ins upplied.

THE CUT CURIOUS.—A funny reeontre took place in
Palace-yat d, the other day. Dan O'Connell was wending
his weary steps to the house, along the pavement in front
of Canning's monument, and Lord Brougham wascoming
in the opposite d,rection, on the same pavement. There
was no escape. Dan, seeing who was approaching, turned
up his nose a little mere than usual ; Lord Brougham
seemed to think for a second, and deliberately " bonnetted"
himself, th•.t is, beat his hat fairly over his eyes, and ran
post O'Connell as if he were bewitched. O'Connell
laughed heartily, which was heard by Lord BroughaM,
who afterwards c,,mplait ed of the "rudeness."—Corres-
pondent of the Chronicle.

MESMERISM.—THE £lOO NOTE.-The six months
during which the I.ICO was to lie in the Messrs. Ball's
bank, Dublin, to become the'property of any clairvoyant
Atio should read the number, date, &c., of the note with-
out breaking the envelope, expired on the 18th April,
when the envelope was opened in the presence of persons
connrced with the bank. The note proved to be a
printed cheque (No. 1.), issued by the house of Messrs.
Ball and Co., for 1:100. payable to Edipus or bearer, and
dated the Ist of October, 1845. The English words
(written on a separate pike of paper) were, "To CEdipus
alone." To most people the above fact will be conclu-
sive on the subject of the alleged faculty called clairvoy-
ance.

THE BURDENS ON LAND.—The committee appointed
by the Huse of I ords in the early part of the seas on to
inquire into the peculiar burdens, if any, which land has
to bear, have just presented their report. They recom-
mend an improvement of the law of real property ; that
counties and boroughs should he exempt from the portions
of expense which they bear for criminal prosecutions and
maintenance of prisoner, ; that owners of houses under
the value of £lO shall be made liable for the rates at which
they are assessed ; that the expense of supporting pauper
lunatics shall be borne by the public generally, as well as
some branches of the expenditure for the maintenance
and relief of the poor ; that the militia rate periodically
cast upon the land shall be borne by government ; and
that the experiments for testing the process of malting
barley for the purpose of fattening cattle shall he repeated,
with the co-operation of persons of acknowledged skill in
agriculture.
THE ROPE-MAKING TRADE.—We understand that a
hill has been brought up before the House of Commons,
for the purpose of exempting the rope-making trade from
the Factory Act, on the ground that the business is con-
ducive to the health of the workers; and the using of
steam or water power on the premises is the only reason
assigned by the inspectors tor placing rope-works under
this act. Also, that those roperies where manual labour
or horses are employed do not come under its meaning,
although manufacturing the same material, and on a simi-
lar principle. The pttition also sets forth the injustice of
the private manufacturers being placed under the act ;
while the dock-yards at Chatham and otherwise, although
equally harsh, are exempt from it: operation. A deputa-
tion from London. Liverpool, the Clyde, and Leith, had
an interview with Sir James Graham, on the subject, who
was understood to say that government would nut oppose
the passing of the bill.

FATAL EFFECTS OF JESTING.—On Fritlnv. an inquest
was held at Lincoln, touching the death of Sarah Tustin,
aged 28, who bad died from the elf cts of taking oil of
vitriol. She had been cook at the Lincoln As% lum. and
left there on Tuesday, having hired herself for the next
year (after the usual May Day holidays) as conk in the
family of a respectable solicitor in that city. It had been
arranged that she was to bate the company of her suitor,
a young man named Earn.ihaw, for the holidays. and she

went ti; the house of his sister on Maui's Hill: On Wed-
nesday morning Earnshaw was prevented from going to
Lincoln, and a fellow-servant of his, who had accompanied
his master to Lincoln fat stock market, had the croe:ty
and falsehood to tell her that she need not exneet E,rn-
sitaw, as he was gone to spend his holidays at Boston with
another young woman. She immediately procured a quan-
tity of oil of viteol, under pr etence that it was for clean4ng
brass utensils, and swallowed al out an ounce and a half.

A surg.-tn was promptly called in, but medical aid wa
vain, and she died the following night. Not nr

eowniirting the ra-h act, Earnsliaw arrived at his

he purpose of s

I found her in that d

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