The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

At the Middlesex sessions, a lad prosecuted for stealing
cigars, escaped conviction because the things stolen hap-
pened to be cheroots.
It is a curious fact, that at the present season no less
than 600 to 800 hands are temporarily employed at Co-
vent-garden market in shelling peas.
The price of gas is to be reduced from the 30th instant
to 7s. per 1,000 cubic feet by the leading gas companies
in London.

PARKER AND SHORE'S BANKRUPTCY.—It is reported
that the assignees have somewhere about £40,000 in
hand—a sum that will enable them to declare a further
dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound.
The express train, with the sentence on Mr. O'Connell,
travelled in two hours from Birmingham to London. The
sentences passed upon the traversers in Dublin at half-
past four on Thursday afternoon, were published in the
London papers on Friday morning at eleven o'clock.
GUANO.—The Bristol Journal of Saturday announces
the arrival at that port of a cargo of guano from Peru,
consigned to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. A local
paper also notices the arrival at the port of Gloucester of
a cargo of the same valuable commodity.
Mr. Croal, of Edinburgh, is about to recommence the
running of stage coaches betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow.
They 'are to be large vehicles, capable of carrying 21 per-
sons each, and Ere expected to perform the distance regu-
larly in four hours.

It is said to be in contemplation to revise the whole
system of licensing inns and public-houses during the
next session of parliament, so as to place it on a similar
footing to that now in practice on the continent, by which
means the revenue will be greatly increased.
" REBECCA " COMMITTED TO PRI SON.—On Monday
week, David Evans, farmer, of Penlan, in the parish of
Llanfihangel Yeroth, was committed by J. L. Davies,
Esq., to Carmarthen gaol, for inciting persons, by threat-
ening letters, &c., to destroy Llanfihangel gate, last sum-
mer, and acting as Rebecca on the occasion.
A man named Joel Fisher, who kept the Devonshire
Inn, High-street, Weston-Super-mare, Gloucestershire,
has been taken into custody for murdering his wife, Mary,
on Wednesday morning, by striking her on the head with
an iron bar, and afterwards cutting her throat with a
carving knife, as he subsequently said " to put her out of
life as quickly as possible."
THE GUANO TRADE.—OH Thursday last, the John
Gibson sailed from this port for the Cape of Good Hope,
in ballast, and on Saturday the New Brunswick sailed
direct for Ichaboe ; their united tonnage as per measure-
ment being exactly 600 tons. They may be expected to
return in due time with about a thousand tons of African
guano.—Hull Herald.

SUGAR.—By the new Government measure free grown
is to be admitted at the duty of 34s and 5 per cent. on
the 10th of November next ; but in sugar, the produce of
slave colonies; no alteration is to be made in the duty.
Siam sugar is to be excluded. Certificates of produce
will be required. The Custom Duties' Bill has passed
the House of Lords.

ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE.—A. gentleman named Bagshaw.
residing at Borough, near Hope, in Derbyshire, was found
strangled to death, near a bed-post, in his sleeping room,
under circumstances which showed that he had only in-
tended to put himself in that position, to frighten his
family, and to obtain money from them to buy drink, but
he had miscalculated the length of the cord. The Coro-
ner's Jury, however, found that he did it in a state of in-
sanity.
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HEIR TO THE BRIDGEWATER PROPERTY.—The eldest
son of Lord Francis Egerton comes to age on Sunday,
the 16th instant, when great rejoicings are expected.
Banquets of a most extensive scale will take place both at
Runcorn and Worsley, at the former place on Saturday,
the 15th, and at the latter on the 17th. A marquee is
about to be erected in the Old Quay Yard to dine one
thousand persons, and the day's amusement to be wound
up by a grand display of fireworks.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE AT SANDBACH.—A re-
markable funeral took place on Wednesday week at this
place,—an old lady of independent property residing in
Sandbach, and her gardener ; they were each 75 years of
age, both born in the month of May, and came to Sand-
bach at the same time. The gardener lived with her 45
years. She died on the 25th ult., and he died on the
27th. They were carried to the churchyard together, and
interred in the same grave.

Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., Governor-General of
India, has been unanimously appointed by the Court of
Directors to succeed to the office of Commander-in-Chief
of the Company's Forces in India, in the event of the
death, resignation, or coming away from India, of Gen.
Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.B. Sir Henry Hardinge was in-
vested by the Queen, on Saturday week, at Buckingham
Palace, with the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the
most honourable military Order of the Bath.
SAVAGE ATTACK BY A BEAR.—On Friday week, the
bear belonging to the Zoological Gardens, at Wakefield,
made its escape from its den ; and in attempting to drive
it back to its place of confinement, Mrs. Haslegrave, the
' wife of the proprietor, was attacked by the beast, and
severely lacerated. Her sister, on hearing her cries, came
to her assistance, when she was immediately set upon by
the infuriated animal, and dreadfully mangled with its
teeth and claws. The bear was with great difficulty beaten
off, and was afterwards destroyed.
FATAL CAROUSE:A married woman, named Gray,
just out of her accouchement, was, the other night,
drinking and making merry with some friends at the bar
of a public-house, in Goswell-street, London, and had
with her the infant, less than two months old. The party
became rather excited from their potations ; and attention
being at length directed to the child, which the mother
pressing closely to her breast, underneath her shawl, the
covering was removed, and the poor infant was found
dead, having been suffocated by the want of air and the
pressure.
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