The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

A pea, which had accidentally taken root among the
cabbages in a garden at Appleby, was found to have pro- 1
duced 108 full pods, thus giving, at an average of five
peas in each pod, a return of 540 for one.
As a lady was playing on a piano in Roxbury, a canary
bird struck up and sang very loud, as if inspired by the
lady's music. The bird sang with such z?al and force as
to split its windpipe from top to bottom, and immediately
died.
DROWNED IN WlNE.—George Davis, aged 27, in the
employ of Messrs. Bishop and Son, British wine-mer-
chants, Finsbury, was found, on Tuesday last, drowned
in a raisin wine vat. It was supposed that he had com-
mitted suicide in consequence of domestic troubles.
A statue of the late Marquess of Londonderry is now
being executed in marble by Mr. Evan Thomas, the
sculptor, which it is intended to place over the late mar-
quess's tomb in Westminster Abbey by the side of his
great rival and contemporary statesman, Canning.
At a meeting of the Moravian Missionary Society at
Birmingham last week one of the speakers said that two
years ago the field negroes of Antigua contributed, in col-
lections after sermons, no less a sum than £144 sterling
for the relief of the starving Irish.
Mary Hardwicke. a married woman, aged eighteen, de-
scribed as quite a girl in appearance, is in custody at
Leeds, on a charge of having attempted to poison her
husband by taking to him, while at his work a can of
poisoned coffee.
ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.—On Thursday night, after or
during prayers, six convicts in the York hulk, moored off
Gosport, effected their escape in a boat belonging to that
ship, and got away steering up the harbour, where the
boat was found next morning near Portchester Castle,
about three miles from the dockyard.
The Darlington Times reports the laying of the first
stone of a Roman Catholic chapel, at Wycliffe, (a pretty
village on the Tees-side between Richmond and Greta-
bridge, Yorkshire), the birth-place of Wycliffe, the ear-
liest or at any rate the most famous of the early English
religious reformers.
A fatal accident occurred at University Hall, near
Gower-street, London, on Saturday. Four workmen, by
some defect in the scaffolding, were thrown to the ground.
One was killed on the spot ; another was, it is feared,
fatally injured ; whilst the third and fourth were severely
hurt.

At the wedding of Mr. E. B. Roche, M.P., to Miss
Boothby, which was performed last week at Twyford
Abbey, Middlesex, the bridesmaids, in compliance with
sn old charm for insuring good luck, threw a farewell
shower of old white satin shoes after the carriage in which
the pair took their departure.
Last week, Mr. Goold and his nephew, Master Gore,
son of Sir R. G. Booth, Bart. Lissadell, went out in a
small row boat to the channel at Boyle, where the boat
upset and Mr. Goold perished. Master Gore struggled in
the element till rescued by a fishing yawl, whose crew
witnessed the catastrophe.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Friday night,
as the steam-boat London Pride was passing Brook's-
wharf, on the Thames, a female passenger, named Ann
Tranham, took up her child, apparently about five years
of age, and jumped into the river. A waterman rescued
the woman, but the child was lost.
UNPOPULARITY or THE POPE.—In the drawing-room
of an Italian gentleman, residing in London, where many
of his countrymen are in the habit of meeting every week,
was a statue of the Pope. At the last meeting of the
Italians the head of this statue was removed, and there
was substituted for it the head of a boar !
DEATH OF COLONEL BAlRD.—Colonel Baird, the gal-
lant officer who was injured at the recent accident on the
London and North-Western Railway at Newton-bridge,
expired on Tuesday morning. At the time of his decease
Colonel Baird was attended by Colonel Nicols, his sister,
and several other attached friends.

In the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, a num-
ber of humane ladies have generously undertaken to im-
part instruction in reading and writing, every Monday
evening, from seven to nine o'clock, to females upwards
of twenty years of age. The court-room of the vestry-
house has been kindly placed at their disposal for this
purpose.
THE LEEDS SHARE MARKET.—We are informed that
at one meeting on the Leeds Stock Exchange this week,
the whole value of the stock and shares bought and sold
amounted to less than eight pounds. In 1845, when the
members of the Exchange were crowded into a small room,
transactions of more than as many thousand pounds were
daily entered into. What a contrast !—Leeds Mercury.
THE RIOTS AT DONCASTER.-0a Saturday, the trial
of the railway labourers who had maltreated some Irish
reapers in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, some time
ago, took place at the West Riding sessions, at Sheffield.
After a short hearing, the magistrates, considering the
affair only as a drunken row, discharged several alto-
gtther, and passed sentences of three or four months' im-
prisonment on the remainder.
REFUSING INTERMENT.—OD Saturday a communica-
tion was received at Lloyd's, stating that one of the crew
of the Helen, Captain Easter, having died from cholera,
on Southwold. Kent, the master took the body ashore for
interment ; the authorities, however, ascertaining that
the man had died of cholera, positively refused to allow
the body to be buried, and the crew consigned their de-
ceasd shipmate to the deep.
A Shropshire lady lately went before breakfast to take
a walk, and after proceeding for a considerable distance
along a public road, met one of her husband's labourers,
who astounded her by asking her if she knew that she was
without a bonnet. The lady immediately raised her
hand to her head, and discovered to her confusion that
she had indeed forgotten to put on a bonnet, although she
wore a ruche, and carried a parasol.
One hundred and fifty surgeons, chemists, and druggists
of the eastern and various other localities of the metropo-
lis, with a view to abridge the general hours of business
on the Sabbath day, commenced on Sunday last between
the hours of eleven in the forenoon and six in the even-
ing, to keep their shops closed, and during that period to
supply nothing but what may be urgently required in case
of sudden indisposition, or under professional direction.
DERBY-SWEEPS ADVERTISEMENTS.—At a petty ses-
sions for the district of St. Anne's, Westminster, on
Saturday, both the magistrates, Mr. Whiskin and Mr.
Rose, whilst disapproving of these lotteries generally,
condemned the Attorney-General's plan of declaring the
publication of advertisements respecting them to be
illegal, while the sweeps themselves were left untouched.
They thought that such an unjust system would rather
aggravate than diminish the evil.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—There were 200 young
women embarked last week in the Shannon steamer for
Plymouth, en route to South Australia, under the charge
of officers appointed by the Poor-Law Commissioners.
They will be sent out free, and are comfortably clothed,
and provided with suitable necessaries for the voyage.
They have been selected from the union workhouses,
principally in the north of Ireland ; and it is intended
to extend this system of emigration.—Plymouth Times.
Mr. Bailey, poulterer in Mount-street, details the large
sums paid annually by London salesmen for poultry. He
states that one salesman alone sold every year £lOO,OOO
worth !—that he had himself paid £Bl,OOO in the course
of the last year, and that £15,000 was received annually
at Aylesbury for young ducklings ; but to this last item
he added the somewhat humiliating fact, " that, in Bucks,
the wives are in the habit of driving the children from the
hearth that the ducklings might get the benefit of the
fire."
A GOOD CUSTOMER.—Last week, as Mr. Hylton's
menagerie was entering Rhayader, Wales, the elephant
was regaled at a baker's. He carefully " surveyed" the
premises, and about two o'clock the next morning broke
out of his temporary lodging—forced a way into the
baker's shop—and in no time put out of sight fourteen
quartern loaves. He then demolished the bottles con-
taining the sweetmeats ; and, but for the timely appear-
ance o the keeper, it is not known what freaks this huge
beast would have committed before daylight.
HIGH FLoons.—The river Towy has been much
flooded, in consequence of the very heavy rain that has
recently fallen. The flood has, we are sorry to say, done
considerable damage, as very large quantities of valuable
corn have been swept away, which has proved very ac-
ceptable to many of the fishermen in Carmarthen, who
on Monday last might be seen in all directions collecting
it. Some cattle also have been lost ; two cows and a calf
were drowned, and a number of horses were nearly sac-
rificed close to Abergwilly Bridge. Some of them were
floating about at the time they were extricated.
Although the weather has taken a somewhat more fa-
vourable turn, the agricultural reports from the provinces
continue to be of a satisfactory nature. In the midland
counties the grain crops are all nearly secure, and the
yield of wheat is stated to be much better than was ex-
pected a week ago. The oat crop is abundant, and the
failure of the potato is represented as being only partial.
Of the latter other accounts are not so cheering: but up-
on the whole there is no reason to suppose that the sup-
ply of food this year will not be very nearly equal to the
last.
PROPERTY OF THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY.—The mem-
bers of the Orleans Family have made several attempts to
recover the effects which they left in the Tuilleries in Fe-
bruary. The ex-Queen has demanded a part of her ward-
robe, which was deposited in a private room. It has been
sent to her, with the exception, it is said of some valuable
lace, which has been cut from it and retained. No deci-
sion has yet been come to respecting the revenues of the
Orleans family. The Government desired to sell wood
for the liquidation of a part of the debts, to which Louis
Philippe at first consented, but afterwards retracted.
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND TIIE COMMITTEE Of
Pawl( COUNCIL.—The Rev. G. A. Dennison says, it is
generally understood that the negociatinns between the
Committee of the National Society and the Committee of
Council have failed principally, if not altogether, upon
this point, that the local founders of schools shall, if they
desire it, have their Bishop for arbiter upon all points
whatsoever connected with the management of their
schools, upon which a difference of opinion may exist
among the members of the managing committee. This,
t is understood, the Committee of Council have posi-
ively refused to accede to.
THE SALE AT STOWE.—The sale of the collection of
plate was continued on Wednesday. Lot 283, an eques-
trian statuette of the Duke of 'Wellington, designed by
Cotterell, and executed by Gerrard, weighing 160 ounces,
was bought by Mr. Rait, of Glasgow, at 13s. per ounce.
Lot 323 was described as " Napoleon's Supper Tray." It
consisted of a soup tureen, cover, and ewer, four dishes
and covers round it forming a circle, with a classical frieze
chased round the edges. With it were sold eight plates.
and six knives and forks, and the same quantity of spoons,
the whole being described to weigh about 360 ounces.
The lot was put up at Ios. per oz., and sold at 255. per oz.
Lot 326, " a superb chalice and cover," as described in
the catalogue—in reality, the christening cup of the pre-
sent Marquis of Chandos. This lot was bought by a gen-
tleman named Harvey at 38s. per ounce, it is understood
with the view of restoring it to the family. The whole of
the plate sold for considerably more than it could have
originally cost, some of the silver gilt articles realising as
much as 40s. and 455. per ounce. The " Chandos
Testimonial" was bought in at the auctioneer's valua-
tion, £772, to be re-presented to the duke's family.